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THE ARGUS. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1907. . THE ARGUS, Published Dally and Weekly al 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island, I1L En tered at the poatofflce .aa second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. . TERMS Daily. 10 cents per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must "v real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. Saturday, December 14, 1907. DO IT NOW. The drlay of the Christinas shop, pioa; to the font moment meana n heavy strain on the nervea and strength of the young girl clerks and other employes of the stores how great a strain Is little realised br those who father around the Rlitterlnic Christmas trees. That this condition may be chang ed Is the ardent Tiish of every char- Itably Inclined person. It can be rhanKed by the buyers of Christ mas presents doing their shopping early. They Trill not only benefit the clerUs anil employes ot stores by an doInK, but will also greatly benefit ' themselves by avoiding; buying; la' a hurry and s:eitiiiJ;"Th pick of the holiday Hoods. The Atcum advice to Christmas hoppers Is to do It now. Next week will Christmas hustling. witness the real Admiral Evans' big fleet of ironclads sails Monday. Here's Godspeed and good luck. Chelsea, Mass., voted the saloons back after they had been gtaie a year. That was long enough experience with "blind tigers." The man who said he looked throrgh a glass and saw a flame snu.ouo miles leaping from the sun, should not touch another glass. ; (-lance through the columns of The Argus Merchants' and Shoppers' edi tion before going out on your, holiday errands. Talk about appropriateness. A game of football was played in Kansas City the other day for the benefit of an emergency hospital. " : ' ' A Bos Con woman who has just turn ed out her millionth doughnut wants a pension. She ought o have it; isn't her occupation quite as deadly as war? The first thing we know, Charts J. Bonaparte is going to walk right out In the middle of the big road, grab the crisis by the scruff of its neck and shake its teeth out. Tho gypsies, William and Alzina Jones, who kidnaped little Lillle Wulff from Chicago and spirited her away in a covered wagon to Momence, 111., where they were captured and the child recovered, are facing life impris onment. They deserve the full penalty of the law and then some. The supreme court of the United States has finally decided not enly that ticket scalping is illegal but, also, that every sale of a non-negotiable ticket constitutes a separate offense. The decision is great victory for the railroads which have suffered greatly from the practices of scalpers. It ought to help reconcile them to the enactment of 2-cent fare laws. A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung gives a de scription of the marriage of Sinjawski, one of three young men who were tried by court martial for attempting to assassinate the czar, and Kit Pur kin. The marriage took place in the prison in the presence of' the wardens and was celebrated by a regularly or dained priest The young man's re quest to have the ceremony witnessed by two men who were excuted with him a few hours later was denied. As an act of mercy the thrqe men were allowed to be together for a little while, and the newly made husband was placed where he. could see his wife and she could see him. At 3 o'clock the next morning the young men were taken in a closed wagon to a point on the seashore, where they were, executed. The feelings of the people of this country have become blunted by horrors, but a shudder ran through the whole community when it became know that these suspects, against whom no case had been estab . llshed. had really paid the dreadful penalty. ' Turkeys Galore. -About 14,000 pounds of Vermont turkeys have been ordered Into cold storage for Christmas' dinner for the ' "jackmen" (sailors) who t make the costly cruise from New Yprk to 'Frisco, rounding the cape. Of this amount of turkey, each enlisted man will get about a pound. Nothing Td said in the telegraphic dispatches as' to the officers' shares. But what's the dicerence? We want to show the other nations of the earth that even a financial squeeze doesn't hinder the United States from "blow ing in" millions of dollars for a pleas ure trip from coast to coast. Save the Mother Songs. . With the Christmas holidays ap proaching, Chicago has a new fad the collection of mother songs. The time and affection that used to be lavished by society matrons on old 'china and toy terriers is now being spent to bet ter purpose in rescuing from oblivion the old familiar lullabies whleh were sung to cradled children by genera tions of American mothers in long past winter twilights. Some of these are known to everyone, but many of the most beautiful are fast being forgotten and might be lost forever if they were not noted down, together with the mel odies, in the dainty note books of the collectors. Foreign songs are being re served in the same way, some of them very rare and beautiful, but the prime , favorites will always be the familiar ones such as the German "Schlaf. Kindlein. schlaf, Dein Vater hut' die Scnaf, v . Dein Mutter schiittelt's Baumelein, Da Fallt herab ein Traumelein, Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf;" Or the Swedish. "Rida, Rida, Ranka, Hasten heter Blanka," in which the boy is told to ride his rocking horse while he may, for when he grows up tho happiness of youth will have de parted. Less known melodies of Nor wegian and Italian and Russian and Bohemian mothers have found their way into the collections even some of the American Indian cradle songs chants that were first heaid in the lodges of the Algonquins and Sioux and Dakotahs in the forest clearings of Michigan and Wisconsin and along the banks of the Missouri. An Evanston woman was the first to open np the new field, and she has made it her life work. If her efforts bear fruit, future babies will owe her a debt of gratitude that they will find hard to repay. Tli" Oldest and 1 lie Youngest. Maryland enjoys the distinction of having the oldest, as well as the young est, member in the COth congress, which is now in session, and not the least remarkable circumstance of "this coincidence is the difference in their respective walks of life, cays Ladies' Weekly. Senator William . Pinkney Whyte, Maryland's "grand old man,' is a grandson of William Pinkney, per haps the ablest lawyer of his day, and one who served his statu and country in many responsible positions. Sena tor Whyte, now in his 84th year, is still vigorous in mind and bojrty, and during the recent campaign in Maryland stumped the state with the same inten sity of feeling and brilliance of ora tory as he did 50 years ago. In his long public career he has filled with I honor every high office within the gift of the people of his state. Harry Wolf, the infant of the house of representatives, was born and rear ed under conditions just the opposite. Compelled in early Hie to make his living, ycung Wolf sold newspapers; later he oecame an office, boy, and finally studied law. This was accom plished enly through privations which would have subdued the ardor of a less resolute character, but this ambitious young man plodded on with energy, pluck and ability, and when a little more than 25 "years of age be carried district which for many years had been represented by a republican. The distinguished grandson of the illustrious Pinkney reached out his fatherly hand to the once barefooted .Wolf, guiding the boy along the lines of a useful and honored public servant MoKHairoH Too Iiontr. The list of newspapers printing the president's annual message in full this year is , very small. The only New York naner which printed it entire appears to have been the Tribune. Pa pers like the New York Times and Sun cut the message down one-half or more. The World, Herald, and other metropolitan journals printed a "still smaller fraction. It used to be that no daily newspaper of high standing would ever fail to present these annual mes sages in full to Its readers. It is only since Mr. Roosevelt came into power that the practice has started and be come quite general of cutting down the official deliverances of the president, and this Is due simply to the inordinate length of his deliverances. Their de mands upon newspaper space have be come simply intolerable. This should not be. and a president cf the United States ought to recognize tne fact. No matter if he himself cares not whether or no his messages are I given full newspaper circulation. This is a government by the. people, and the people have a right to oe, and should be, kept informed of the official out givings of the chief magistrate; and the newspaper is the only medium by which they can be kept informed. Rheumatism Cured in a Day. Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheuma tism and neuralgia radically cures iu one to three days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents and 1. Sold by Otto Grot Jan, 1501 Second avenue. Rock Island finer j Schlegel. & j Son, 20 , West Second street, Davenport. Stye Jlrgus Daily gfoort Story "Personally Conducted." By Arthur Boltonwood. (Copyrighted, 1907, by J. G. Reed.) "It has been very much like a dream," the girl was saying earnestly., "Of course" I had pictured it all out to! myself, but I never imagined it would be anything like this. It has been"- she paused as if seeking a proper ad jective -neaveniy,' sne snm at lengin, with a little reminiscent sigh. "Thei , ., v, ... ... , ,f I only trouble is that it ends all too soon. Day after tomorrow we sail.for home." ( Lancaster looked at the pretty, eager . face beside him, and the pathos of it J touched him. He was trying to imag-J Ine how the word "heavenly" could ; apply to the dull, colorless wanderings of these "personally conducted"' tour ists. He glanced through the door luto the next room. There they were, gath ered about a tired looking guide who was using his umbrella as a pointer while he explained nasally, "This, la dies and gentlemen, is an excellent ex ample of Rembrandt's later work." They were a weary looking but eager "ARE YOtr'ooiNO HACK TO IOWA TO TEACH ... SCHOOL ?" - group, anxious evidently mat norning should escape them. They lifted their tired-eyes to the picture indicated by the umbrella and stared at it dully while the droning . wice reeled off its stereotyped phrases like some school boy reciting a well learned lesson. . ' "We must, go back,", said the girl, glancing uneasily jit a tiuy silver watch. "We are missing a lot." "You had better rest awhile," Lau caster counseled. "We'll take it all in by and by. I think. I know this gallery quite as well as the guiife does. I'll show you a Vandyke that they .will miss entirely. We'll take our time and go back to the hotel leisurely." The girl looked at him narrowly. "Then you've been here before?'' she asked. Ijuioaster nodded his assent. - "Pvt. Ieen watching you siuce you joined us al Cologne," she said. "Most of the time you've been very, much MINORITY IN NEW (Special Washington Correspondence of The Argus.) The. Sixtieth congress opened k. witn the best Imaginable opportunities for the Democratic minority. It is prac tically a unit on all issues. In the caucus of the house of representatives there was not one voice raised against the re-election of John Sharp Wil liams as leader. Hon. Champ Clark, a veteran representative with seven terms to his credit, said the day before this letter was written: "The Repub licans are now divided on the sort of legislation that should be passed, espe cially iu regard to the currency. On the other hand, the Democrats are united. Because ofUhe much smaller majority held by the Republican party in the house we shall have more chance of outvoting it ion Important measures. The truth of the matter is that the Republicans have been found out. For ten years they have been preaching that the Dingley tariff was responsible for all our wonderful prosperity. The Dingley tariff Is still with us, but the prosperity has been given a blow. If things go on the way they have been going, Mr. Bryan will le elected president of the United States as sure as you are "born." Evidences of Republican Distension. Mr. Clark has beeu somewhat ridi culed for describing the Democratic party in congress as anited and the Republican party as split into factions. Let me take up the case of the latter party first. President Roosevelt Insists that he Is not a candidate -, for the presidency. About half his party are trying to force a renominatiou upon hlra, the other half plotting secretly to avert what they rightly think would be a fatal blow to their party's success. The president writes Secretary Cor telyou that there will be prompt cur rency legislation In v this congress. Senator Al!tsda;Speaker Cannon and ail the prominent leaders of the party announce that theV probably be no currency legislation, or If any is completed it will at the very last moments of the sessVMi. T- . ' ' .'. xwunasrer. .tienefai aieyer recom - bored. I conciuaea you Niad seen it all before." , Lancaster said nothing. He was wondering if some sudden intuition aa given nor an l I tr you nau laugui muwi m i as many terms as I have," said she. .,if you nad KhlVP!l an,i payed and look- . i , . ., , , .. .. . ed forward to this, perhaps you would cnjoy k ag j But youTe aw. fully kmJ yjU-ve joined us. You've shown me lots of things I wouldn't have missed for worlds and that I'd never have seen but for your thoughtf ulness. Oh, I knew you must , nave Traveieti mis country quite ci tensively." ' She looked at him with an intent ness that was rather diseoncertinsr. ' I "Tell me." she said, "why should you, knowing all these things as you do. care to travel with us?" j Lancaster regarded her for a time in thoughtful silence. Dare he tell her the truth? He looked into her clear gray eyes and decided to risk it. "Shall f tell you the real reason?" he asked. ., "Why, yes, of course," she replied, with a little note of surprise- in her voice. "Well, then," said Lancaster fcturdi ly. "it was because of you." The color deepened in her cheeks. "Oh!" she said, with sudden compre hension. Her eyes fell. She was ab traOtedly pulling her gloves to cover her embarrassment. "You remember that evening at the hotel In Cologne," Lancaster went on. "when you and I were partners a'. whist? I joined your party the next morning. : I wanted to bo with you just to lie near you." "I I rather wish you hadu't told me, she said uneasily. "Would you rather I had fibbed po litely?" he asked. "No-o," she replied slowly. "You see," Iiucaster explained, "I'd been poking about the continent all by my lonesome, and, to tell the truth, I'd not been having a very hilarious time of it. And that night at Cologne" II paused. "Yes. that night at Cologne?" she prompted. "It seemed," he said very gravely, "as if you fitted into a uiche In my life that had been made for you and that had always been waitine '. for you." She was still 'nervously pulling her gloves. 'The' personally; conducted lloek,' headed by the guide, swinging his umbrella like a shepherd's crook, were tiling out- of j the room beyond, bouud for the hotel, :. "Are you goiug back to Iowa to teach school?" asked Lancaster.. "Yes," she said quietly. ; There was a. rather painful silence tor a time. . .' "!s teaching school iu Iowa some thing very, very desirable?" he pur sued. "Not always," she confessed. "I was thinking," said he. "that aft er we got home I should like very much to come to Iowa if you'd let me, and then I'd like to bring you back here for a little personally conducted tour all our own just yours and mine. I haven't snowed you. a tenth part of CONGRESS UNIT mends the establishment of postal sav iufes names ann a parcels post, speaser Cannon assures an interested public that neither measure can secure at tention. Tariff revislonls demanded by one third of the Republican members of congresn and probably four-fifths of the constituents of all. but the speaker and two-thirds of the members of house and senate, being tied to the protected industries, bitterly oppose it. The president's admirable plan of Interior waterways lias the opposition alike of the speaker and Mr. Roose velt's personal candidate for mayor of Cleveland, Mr. Barton, who holds the commanding position of chairman of the committee before which the propo sition must le brought. It is fair to say that the clash be tween the divergent forces in the Re publican party would better be de scribed as a growing hostility among the men at the capitol to the man at the White House. Speaker Cannon has his forces well In hand. There will not be much apparent divergence of opinion between Republicans in debate unless the president is able to find oppe stronger spokesman In house or senate- than he now possesses. The general impression now is that the pro Iframme of legislation for this session will be dictated at the capitol and that it will be as brief a programme as pos sible. As for the Democrats, they are, of course, because of - their small num ler, impotent to accomplish any legis lation, though they can block some. They will be ridiculed as beiuz a party of negation, opposing everything and accomplishing nothing. But what else can the party of opposition be? They will oppose almost as a unit the pro jected asset currency law: They will press as a unit a demand for Immedi ate revision of the tariff. At least three representatives on the Democrat ic side will Introduce bills of the great est importance to the newspaper pub lishers of the United States, providing for the admission free of duty of all materials entering into the manufac ture of print paper. The measures won't be passed. v: '" . U Is characteristic of the timidity of I . . A . , . .. . ; the Keauwieans in loucgimr.. ajxv sub-. Ingalls' Gift Shop Christmas Buying at Its Zenith E w hat I'd like ur siiow you' men when just you -and I are In the party." ' lie. leaned nearer her. "I want that personally conducted tour to go on forever." he added. He spoke quietly, but with such ear nestness that the hot blood -crept even to her .temples. He noticed that her bauds were trembling and that her breath had quickened. "It would 1k no end better lhau this tour," said he. "What do you thiirk of it?" Very deliberately her eyes were lift ed to meet his. He read in their depths an answer that set his pulses bounding. "Oh. it would le" she began. "Heavenly," he suggested, with a gay laugh. "Yes, heavenly." she said softly as his hand closed over hers. If you cannot obtain wtiat you want the most, be as happy as you can with second choice, which Is perhaps the best you can get Manchester Union. ON ALL ISSUES ject which by any 'possibility might af fect the tariff that.President Roosevelt, who has posed as a revisionist In the days of long ago, explaiued that he would recommend only the abolition of the duty on wood pulp in order to Fave our forests, which were rupJdly lef&g destroyed. In other words, he eeems to think that his happy hunting grounds are of more importance than the newspaper business of the entire nation. It is fair to admit, however, that the president's point of view is not without 'some plausibility. Even now, with the duty in existence. I learn from the bulletin of the forestry de partment that Wisconsin paper mills are buying pulp wood iu Quebec, 1,200 miles away. Canada itself is appte hensive of the exhaustion of its sup ply. Newspapers all over the United States are either reducing their ex penses or Increasing their prices. It Is easy to say that much of the increased cost of white paper is due to the trust, but the scarcity of tho raw material makes the paper truat possible. Still. if the 15 per cent daty does not protect the American pulp manufacturer its abolition ought not to hurt him. Why 'cumber the statute book with a useless law? f Colid South and Solid West. Looking the other day at a map fbowing that the Democratic congres sional strength was confined almost en iirely to the south and to New York city, I was Impressed with the fact that it wus high time that the Deinoc mcrv .ceqsed to. allow ijself to be called Occident Flour Coats a Little More Than btherj. WORTH IT Sold by all dealers In Che trt cities. Retail price now $1.75. per sack. If your grocer won't fill your order for OCCIDENT, telephone Noitb. 102 4-Y, and we will see that I ou are supplied.. Russell-Maicr Milling Co, Room 8, MasrAic Temple, Daven- VIDENTLY the Ingalls idea is understood and approved. It has never been our expectation to revolutionize the jewelry busi ness, but to regenerate the word quality, to instill into the hu- man conception a fuller understanding of things that ARE instead of what SEEM to be. In obedience to the laws of perfect justice, INGALLS' GIFT SHOP is enjoying a vote of confidence that is indeed gratifying to the fourv. der of the business, and in this solicitation for your continued favors, we simply renew our promise of adherence to the boundless and im mutable principle of conducting a jewelry business entirely open and above board, a perfect devotion to the idea of giving Rock Island a jewelry store that will command recognition as a formidable competi tor of the metropolitan shops. If You Are in Doubt What to G ive We offer the experience of many years, and a personaT service which is intended to make-Christmas shopping a real pleasure. If you find the store crowd-d when you come, be patient; we'll do "our best." N I7fjj 2"- AVE Rock Island. III. sectional. 1 recalled also the fact that Republican newspapers haw? been In clined to scoff at the Democratic party because, while 'it got the majority of its electoral votes from the south, it had never selected a southern man as its standard bearer in the presidential battles. The hitler fact is true, yet there are some people who know that if eight months ago the south had de sired to rally about a truly southern man, and a man who had shown un failing loyalty to the principles of the Democracy of today, such a man might easily have been nominated. I have some reason to believe that Mr. Bryan himself would have looked with favor upon such a nomination, but in per sonal conversation with uistinguisuea senators from Virginia, from South Carolina, from Alabama and from Texas, two of whom at least might have been considered as possible candi dates, anil from correspondence with certain Democratic governors of south- ern stajes I learned that the south it-, ington eud to this story. Only a few self did not feel that the time was ripe days ago those Washlngtonians who for a southern candidate. I are accustomed to play the game of "The Democratic party should elect golf were cheered on the links by see one more president from the north," , ins Mr. Justice Harlan, now seventy-' said one senator to me. "before it goes J four years old: Mr. Justice Brewer, south for a candidate." , seventy years old, and Chief Justice But what of Republican sectional - ism? Abraham Lincoln was the near est approach fo a western man the Re publican party has ever nominated for the presidency. The party has never looked west of the Mississippi river for a candidate and does not now. The I vigor and with accuracy. Justice Ha r history of the real westerners who 'an. a little the oldest of the three, con sougiiW Republican nominations has ! fessed that he was progressing less been au uninterrupted record of dis aster and defeat. Today the only man among the list of those striving for the Republican nomination who Is near the liorders of the Mississippi is Speak er Cannon. Indiana has oue. Ohio has two. New York has two. but frxrni that great territory which gives to the Re publican party the bulk of its electoral rotes not one candidate has appeared. It may at least le said for the Demo cratic party that, with Nebraska. Min nesota, New York and Maryland all having possible candidates for Its na tional candidate. It cannot be accused of sectionalism. And speaking of the geographical distribution of votes recalls the fact that a New York newspajer which seemed very much distressed lest any Democrat should be nominated for the presidency with a show of winnlnir .Las been finding great comfort in the daily publication of a map showing the gradual loss of the west and the north to the Democratic party. Daily it lays stress upon the fact that in 1802 Mr. Bryan worked and voted for Weaver in Nebraska, the ropulist uominee for the presidency. It carefully, however, refrains from mentioning the fact that he- was ask ed to do so by the Democratic nation al committee and that largely as a result of bis efforts, the electoral vote of the state was given to Weaver In stead of to Benjamin Harrison, a re sult by which Grover Cleveland profit ed greatly. Was that bad service for the cause of Democracy? It emphasizes the truth that Mr. Bry an has not carried Nebraska either for himself or for any other candidate since 1896. It Ignores the truth that the only Democrat who ever did carry Nebraska was Mr. Bryan. And it has not expressed any. horror or indigna tion over the fact that Judge Partter did not carrv New York.' It . fiuds ' wimetliing exquisitely hu morous in the unquestioned truth that Mr. Bryan did not carry his own ward or precinct. Probably there Is no one connected.. with' the publication suffi ciently Interested to look up the facts to know that It is the exception when a presidential candidate does carry his precinct aud "his ward. Why that is I don't know, but the Instances have been repeated. : . " ' . Pedestrianism end Politics. . The newspapers for a few days past have !een filled with stories of the tri umphant progress of a seventy-year- old jtedestrian. Edward Parson Wes ton, who at that advanced age walked from Portland, Me., to Chicago In rather more than twenty-four hours' less time than he consumed in making the same journey forty years ago. It was a good stunt well done. But. after all, it is not only the professional ath lete who holds his strength and vigor to the last. There is a certain Wash- ' Fuller, seventy-four years old. playing what in the jargon of that game is called "a threesome." These veterans of politics, of the bar and of the bench went gayiy over the course, covering many miles and driving the ball with rapidly than the others becanse he was caving his strength for two speeches he had to make, one of which involved a midnight trip to New York. Washington, D. C. WILLIS J. ABBOTT. DeWitt's Little Early Riser Pills are sold by all druggists. LARSON & LARSON Grocers Corner Seventh Avenue and Fif teenth Street, Rock Island. Old Phone 741-L." New Phone 5535. If you spend a dollar here you have the satisfaction of knowing you get your money's worth. A trial will convince' you. "A PENNY SAVED IS A PEN NY EARNED." Trade with us, and you will cave dollars by sharing In our dividend plan, and you will earn' satisfaction in the quality of our goods. The dividend plan is as fol lows: With every cash purchase we will give the customer a receipt issued by our new National Cash Register showing the amount of the purchase. Return $10 worth of cash receipts and get 25 cents in trade or cash free. . Yours truly, : LARSON & LARSON 1 '