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;4 THE ARGUS, FRIDAY. MARCH 22, 1007. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island, III. En tered at the postoffice as second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cents per weeK. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. . make of arch supports. Mr. Simmons said his attention was first called to rch supports through an advertise ment in a trade journal. He ordered a few pairs and had one of his clerks familiarize himself with their virtues ' proper fitting, etc., and advertised them. The ads were written so as to appeal to persons suffering from fallen nsteps, broken arches, etc. It was only a day or two before inquiries be gan to be made concerning them, and before long he was selling scores of nstep supporters. In many cases. also, instep support was the cause of selling a pair of shoes- where the cus tomer was convinced that the kind of shoe he or she was wearing was not he proper sort to obtain the best re sults. This all came through news paper advertising, without which no etail business can be made the great est success. Friday, March 22, 1907. Krnirnikrr II. It. ItejnolilM rnndlilacy for counfr JmlKe. lie In experienced, capable, and worthy, nml noli I be f- 11 re only on lil merlin. Kollunlnit are the trnlht deninerntic nltlenunule enmlldateM: Flrt mini, John llol.limiimer; Second wanl, Henry '. Welillinj; Third vinrd. V. -. Mniiek eri Fourth nnril, Vnlentlne Dnuher; Fifth ward. AVillium Trefz nnd JiiiueN Van ArMilel; Sixth mini, t'. ('. WIIhou. "Is the wagon still in the alley?" Yes, indeed, municipal (redemption the paramount duty of the hour. It is evident that the Teddy hears got the best end of it in the Wall street bear scare. The Chicago professor who urges school of courtship probably gets rake-off from the hammock trust. We do not know of anyone who could find any excuse for knocking this weather unless it be McCaskriu "Genius needs good healtiiy exer cise." says William Dean Howells, and the government needs a few good healthy geniuses in the Panama canal zone. The mayor and city council of Nash ville, arrested for speaking their senti ments about the legislature, probably will have their doubts about the boast f d freedom of the country. To advance Rock Island, eomme cially and industrially, it is necessary that the moral standard and status of the city should be uplifted. This can only be accomplished by a new deal in municipal politics. The crier of the San Francisco Uni ted States circuit court had to go out into the corridor the other day and call on Loudovic Daldagiovanni to come Into court. He tried three times and then wished to resign. Rut he was encouraged to persevere, and succeed ed, to the great joy of an interested bench and bar. In the death of Count Lamsdorff Russia sustains the loss of one of her most brilliant diplomatists. As niin ister of foreign affairs lie guided the czar's ship through many perilous plac es. He did all of the delicate work which preceded the meeting of Rus sian and Japanese peace commissioa ers and got scarcely any of the glory. Every week or so of late Secretary Taft's brother, Charles P., the Cincin r.at! editor and former congressman drops into Washington and circulates among leading men. He never broach es the subject of presidential politics but when acquaintances bring that topic forward he carefully notes wha they say. It is assumed, of course, that he and the secretary go over these interviews in private. Another broth er in Xew York and a third in Con necticut are believed to be engaged in the same original method of boomin DAILY STORY FALSE WITNESS. mm Adminihit ration in (lie Colonies. We, as a nation, have reached the point in our administration of the Philippines when we are about to' give the Kinpinos the idea that they have a voice in the government of themselves, something congress provided for in the bill creating the Philippines commis sion, i - The, Philippines congress will come into existence in September next. The ower branch, corresponding to our house of representatives, will com prise SI members, apportioned on the basis of one representative for each 90,0(ii) persons. The upper house f the congress will comprise the Phil ippine commission, made up of Fili pinos sufficiently disloyal to tne spirit of independent government as to co operate with this government and ac cept places along with the gentlemen who have political pulls at home and are given a chance to go tliither and earn a living. Any enactment of the lower house can not become law unless the senate concurs. In other words, it our genteel carpetbaggers think the bills passed by the Filipinos are good for them, they will become law; oth erwise, they will be killed. The theo ry of the act constituting the assembly is that the Filipinos need a guardian and that their judgment of what is best for them is not to be trusted. At the elections of the assembly, tr be held in July next, only males .52 years or age or over, citizens of the Philippines, may vote, and must fa'.l within one of these classes: (1). Those who held offices under the Spanish government prior to An-. 13. 1S9S. (2). Those who own real estate valued at 500 pesos or annually pay 30 pesos of the established taxes. (3). Those who speak, read, and write English or Spanish. Violation of the oath of allegiance to the United States non-payment of taxes since 1S9S. sen tence of a court of competent jurisdic tion, the taking up of arms against the United States since May 1, 1901 and rendering aid to those who have opposed American authority. arc among the acts which disqualify vo ers. Members of the assembly will hold office for two years and elections will be held regularly in odd numbered years. Provincial governors and municipal officers will be elected at the same time. Docs Advert ini ng Iay? It has come to he recognized as a fact that the merchant who does the best business and enjoys the most prosperity is the one who does the most and best newspaper advertising. It stands to reason that this is so. It is the logical conclusion of an admis sion that it pays to advertise. As prov ing that newspaper advertising pays, we find in an exchange a couple of in cidents related by W. A. Summers, a shoe dealer jof Hartford, Conn. The in cidents, which are from his own ex perience, Mr. Summers referred to in an address before the Associated Re tail Shoe Dealers of New England in session in Boston. About three years ago one of his salesgirls made a belt of shoestrings. The belt was a novelty and quite at tractive, and Mr. Summers had her make up a dozen or so with the idea of selling them. He put a line or two In his ads calling attention to them, with what result he told in the fol lowing words: "The first dozen was sold the follow ing day and in the next three months we sold between 12,000 and 15,000 of these belts' at a good profit. It also gave our salesgirls an opportunity of making quite a little pin money afte hours. This was accomplished just through newspaper advertising." William .JeiiiiingK lSi-jJin. W. J. Bryan, who is to be in Rock Island next Tuesday, was given a rous ing reception at a banquet in Boston. Mass., last week. Mr. Bryan in an ad dress touched upon the various points in the democratic doctrine, which he declared had been vindicated by recent events. "Ten years ago they called our ideas insanity, yet on no question that w.? ever discussed have we been more vindicated than on our idea that more money would make higher prices and better times. The republican party has been in power for 10 years with undis puted rule. If it has not done anything that ought to have been done, it is its own fault." Taking up the story that he was the author of the democratic platform oi 1S9C, Bryan declared he wrote but lit tle of that platform and deserved little credit for it, but that he had had more to do with the platform of 1900. "I think," said Mr. Bryan, "that i1 we had had the vote unpurchased and unintimidated in 189G, I would have been elected by an overwhelming ma jority." No one rejoiced more than he in the vindication that has come to demo cratic ideas, for dearer to him than any office was the triumph of the things for which he had been fightin he said. And I rejoice so much," said M-. Bryan, "that I never lose an oppor tunity to thank the president for what he has done. The president's attitude may change during the coming cam paign, but it is certain he cannot take back what he has said about our ideas." Mr. Bryan declared there is only one man whom the republican party re gards as popular enough to be a candi date for president. "Why is it the pres ident alone has escaped the paralysis that has fallen upon all the rest?" he asked. "There is only one explanation and that is that his popularity is due to his following the democratic doc trine. f ft Mr. Bryan charged that the slump in the stocks of which men In high finance complained was caused by th very men who are now complaining We pointed this fact out many times and it is to the credit of Mr. Roose velt that he has had the good sense io see the strong points in the policy ;1 the democratic party. DeWitfs Little Early Risers scattei the gloom of sick headache and bilious- Most shoe dealers now handle somejness. Sold by all druggists. Original. One evening during the early part of the last century a man wearing a Scotch cap and a plaid waistcoat en tered the country place of Archibald Hastings in England and asked if he might be taken in for the night. The only member of the family at home was Miss Amy Hastings, aged twenty, to whom the matter was referred. She took a look at the visitor and saw that he was in evident distress, but whether it was from weariness or Lunger or both or from' some unexplained trouble she did not discover. She was not in clined to turn him away. So she order ed that a supper be given hira and afterward that he be shown to a bed room in the attic. It was 9 o'clock in the evening when the sound of horse's hoofs were heard without, and In a few moments a young man in riding costume, bespat tered with mud, hurried into the house. Miss Hastings, wondering who could be coming in such a hurry, met him iu the hallway. "Clarence Paget, where did you come from?" "Amy, the bailiffs are after me for debt. I'm in the toils of the money lenders, and if they get me I'll be shut up within stone walls, and Lord knows if I'll ever get out." "Oh. Clarence:-' "I don't know whether to nsk you to hide me here or to go on farther. They know I'm on the road and may know of my relations with you. I fear they will search the house. If I could get a disguise it would lie better for me to go on." Miss Hastings pondered. Then, tell ing her lover to wait a bit, she went away. Presently she returned bearing a suit of man's clothes. She had direct ed her maid to go into the room occu pied by the stranger nnd purloin his apparel. Giving them to Paget, she sent him upstairs for a change, and when he returned he was arrayed in a suit in which a Scotch cap and plaid waistcoat were conspicuous. Then, tak ing a parting kiss, he left the house. The next morning the visitor of the night before found in his room, instead of his own clothes, a riding suit. Then? was nothing for him to do but put it on, and, having done so, he went downstairs to be met by Miss Hastings with an apology for having appropriat ed his clothes, though she did not ex plain why. She dropped a couple of guineas in his hand. He pocketed them and departed. The man had not gone an hour when a messenger came with a note from Clarence Taget announcing that he had been arrested, but not by the bail iff !t who were after him for debt. He had met a party coming from the opposite- direction, who, seeing him dressed in :i Scotch cap and plaid waistcoat, told him that he was the man they were looking for and arrested him for high way robbery. "For heaven's sake," the note concluded, "let me know to whom the cap and waistcoat belong." Miss Hastings was appalled. Unwit tingly she had got her lover into a more serious trouble than imprison ment for debt. She sent out manserv ants to find the visitor, but no trace of him could be found. The case of the crown versus Clar ence Taget excited a great deal of at tention. A bfsliop had been riding in his carriage on the highway when he was stopped and robbed by a man wearing a Scotch cap and plaid waist coat. Taget, dressed in his borrowed costume,, was taken lief ore the bishop nnd identified as the man who had robbed him. There was one chance for Taget. That was the testimony of Amy Hast ings and the servant who had changed the suits. This might have saved him had it not been that the bishop swore positively that he was the robljor. Taget was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. Miss Hastings, who blamed herself for the unfortunate consequences oi her hasty act, determined to be mar ried to her lover and share, so far an possible, his exile with him. The day licfore Taget was to be transported. while she vfas preparing to go to the jail for the marriage ceremony, she received a note in a handwriting she had never before seen. It was from the owner of the cap and waistcoat. The writer stated that he had been arrested for robbing a coach on the night he had slept in her house and begged that Bhe would give her evi dence to prove an alibi. Miss Hastings at once sent word to the lawyers that the real owner of the cap and waist coat vras forthcoming, and a stay for her lover was secured. Then she vis ited the man who had caused the trou ble and found that he had long been a highwayman, but had been arrested for an offense he had not committed. Taget's case was reopened, with the result that he was acquitted. The highwayman was not tried for the of fense for which he was arrested, but was convicted for robbing the bishop. News did not get about in those days as it does now, and the bishop was not apprised of his mistake when one morning it was announced to him that a couple were in his waiting room who wished him to marry them. His lord ship was writing a sermon on the text, "Thou shalt not bear false witness," and did not appear till he had finished It When he saw the man who had robbed him he started back. Paget handed him papers showing bis error and after the bishop had read them asked that he would atone for his too great confidence in testifying against htm by marrying him to the girl who had unintentionally put him la Jeopardy. The bishop consented with a humble apology. . - . FLORENCE GILBERT. IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE FINEST Display of Spring Clothing VISIT THE G. ? H STORE TOMORROW This invitation is general and applies alike to the artisan and the millionaire. - It includes you and your friends. We want all the people of this vicinity to visit the store during this and the next week and view the finest display of good clothes ever shown in the three cities. g.qh. Special Suits and Top Coats Range in Price From to They Fit. ma i j ::'v' -' - yJ'V - v ' ! , . i i : : -.-1. i : ? . . S . :i m V ' i ;ij - w J7 1 5 !, . I 4J ' J 2? I d &" 1 if HS.M Suits and Kuppenhie mer&Co. Top Coats and Cravenettes Range in Price From to Fit & Quality the Best GUSTAFSON AYES mm mm AGED PAIR IN DIVORCE CASE Husband, 72 Years Old, Asks Separi tion from Wife. 65. Ottumwa. Iowa, Marcli 22. .lames Wall, 72 years old, lias started suit for divorce against his wife, aged !r. H? names William Wagner. 75 years old. as co-respondent. Wall declares 1-y was forced to dispose of his property and then excluded from his home nnd compelled to go to the pour farm. The woman declared she married Wall II years ago and that for the last six years lie had never spoken a kind word to lit r and took her property. Worked Like a Charm. D. N. Walker, editor of that spicy journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va., says: "I ran a nail in my foot last week and at once applied Uucklen's Arnica Salve. Xo inflammation fol lowed: the salve simply healed the wound." Heals sores, burns, and skin diseases. Guaranteed at W. T. Hartz's drug store, SOI Twentieth street. 25c. 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