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THE ARGUS, FRIDAY. JANUARY 24. 1908. THE ARGUS, Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Bock Island, I1L En tered at the poatofflce 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 nave rutl name attached tor publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. TRADES Mm COUNCIL Friday, January 24, 1908. The republicans have solemnly prom ised tariff revision in VJV'J. The fellow who blows' only his own horn, invariably conies out at the little end of it. Make a note of this. It is at last announced that Gover nor Charles Evans Hughes of New York woultl accept a presidential nom ination. How astonishing! ' The appropriation committees are trying to cut down the department estimates as a deficit is feared. The republican panic has struck congress at last. There is always a day of reckoning for the bully, the blackguard and the blackmailer. Justice, like hope, is sometimes long deferred, but it is as sure as the stars. The Pennsylvania supreme court has knocked the 2-cent railroad passenger rate law. Another ruling of Judge Technicality with the hot end of the poker left in the hands of the people. How closely the administration has nestled up to the Wall street financiers Is indicated by the reported offer of Morgan to Cortelyou of the presidency of the reorganized Knickerbocker Trust company. It is announced from New York that Leslie M. Shaw is mentioned in same breath for president, for vice president and United States senator. And yet they- say the standard of American statesmanship is looking up. At St. Joseph, Mo., a preacher has abandoned the pulpit for a job as con ductor on a rapid transit road, claim ing that there is more money in the latter avocation. You will never see Hilly Sunday ringing up fares in a street car. Tiie proposed railroad from Miama. Fla., to Key West will, when com pleted, be one of the most remarkable pieces of engineering ever accomplish ed. For 81 miles the railroad tracks will rest on concrete arches, whose base will bo the bed of the ocean. Trains will travel above water all the time, the only land being the liitle coral keys which dot the waters of that portion of the Gulf of Mexico. There are approximately, 100,000 words in the English language. CO.noO being of Teutonic origin. Do.OuO from the Greek and Uitin, and lo.OiV) picked up from other sources. Out of this number of words the average man Uses less than 1,01)0 in writing and speaking. Milton used about S.O00 Tn composing his "Paradise Lost." Shakespeare, who possessed the copious vocabularly known, wrote all of his great plays with less than a third of the words in the dictionary. The person after whom you inquire that is to say, the person who knew all the words of the English language never existed. The head big enough to carry within itself the whole Eng lish language is yet to be found. Federal Power in Party PolUic-s. The criticism of the" president for using the United States government as an engine for pushing Secretary Taft's candiddcy finds pointed expres sion in Moorfield Storey's letter. As suming the facts to be as the presi dent's critics state them. and all the available evidence indicates that Mr. Taft is the "administration candidate" in an exceptional sense, the force of Mr. Storey's observations cannot easily be nullified by anything that may be said to excuse Mr. Roosevelt's perfor mance, says the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. It Is not only absurd, but mischiev ous, to judge the president by a moral standard different from the one by which other presidents and other pub lic men have been judged. Mr. Roose velt's high ideals in public life are not for use on some occasions and merely for spectacular show the rest of the time. If they are intended for the guidance of his conduct, then his con duct should be guided by them and guided all the more consistently and constantly because these ideals have been so heavily capitalized by his ad mirers for his benefit, in urging his claims upon the people for their whole hearted support. If such a. man adopts methods which have been sharply con demned In the past, when presidents making far less pretension than Mr. Roosevelt to a loftly public virtue have used them, it is idle to seek an explan ation creditable to his actions or to ex- nlore his emotional usvcholocv for a justification that would "excite merri ment in the case of any of his con temporaries. It is easv to hold a man whose ideals have been tremendously advertised to a standard even higher than that by which ordinary politicians are indied. It is not necessary, however, to insist upon that. Let Mr. Roosevelt be judg ed as other men are. And so judged. what must the verdict be In the matter of his use of the United States govern ment, in so far as he controls it, for the purpose of malting a member of his cabinet the next president Here again, let us not insist upon the impossible. Let us not be extreme in our demands. Let us acknowledge that even if ex treme claims have been made for Mr. Roosevelt as a statesman of the loft iest motives and the rarest kind of moral courage, he is indeed very hum an in reality. His temptation is great, for undoubtedly the one desire of his soul today is that his successor should be thoroughly in sympathy with his nolicies. Rut having made every allowance the use of federal patronage, the mob pmi officeholders, the wholesale round-up of southern dele gates in the support of the administra tion candidate are no less open to crit icism when President Roosevelt does these things in behalf of his secre tary of war than they were sixteen years ago when President Harrison, flesiiinc a second term, did them tor himself. It is a specious plea that a president is also a citizen, and as a citizen, may be concerned in the selec tion of the next president. To be sure, but no citizen, as a citizen, may em ploy the power of the United States, which is properly the attribute or the possession of no individual, but rather the sovereign expression of the author ity of the whole people, to promote his personal aims within a political party. Such a course is a mock of democracy. The fault of Mr. Roosevelt as of all predecessors who have been open to the same crticism, is that he uses the iower of the office of president, which is not his personal asset, to thwart and nullify opposition to his personal win and to force upon his party's conven tion the ratification of his personal de cree. It is understood that Mr. Roosevelt denies that he is open to these criti cisms, but Mr. Roosevelt has never yet admitted that he has done anything Questionable or wrong. Yet his pres idencv has embraced not a few chap ters which were distinguished by the use of questionable means to attain desired ends. A generous view may fairly be taken of the president's incon sistencies and lapses, but they cannot be dismissed as the negligible by-product of greatness. The State Treasury, The legislature has passed a law requiring the state treasurer to turn over the interest on the state funds n his hands to the state, and in lieu of this his salary is increased mate rially. The new salary is to be $10, ooo per year, while the former salary was $:.5ft(, but it is confidently as serted that the treasurer easily clean ed up ?lfWMK) out of the perquisites of the office. While this figure is probably too high, yet the responsi bility assumed by the treasurer in de positing the state funds is no small matter. The amount of nioney passing through his hands in a year is? a very large sum, and the state takes no risk whatever in its care, his bond being sufficient to make the commonwealth safe in ..case of loss, as it generally aggregate, some $lo,o-an,noO. At least, the people will know what a man gets for being state treasurer, anyhow. l-'oul Play SiiKpM;tel. Relative to the Oglesby primary bill, ihe Chicago Tribune says it was "rocked to sleep." The Danville Democrat r says it "looks to us like knock-out drops" were used. The Springfield Register says, "the fact of the matter is, the infant bill was thrown into the hopper of the po litical machine by a, bunch of boss governed legislators, and the child was thus ground to death." The voters of Illinois should "pre pare to sit on the jury next fall at the trial of the republican party respon sible for this primary bill crime, i Qualified. "And is Willie Yanfeller really study ing medicine?" "Yes, and lie's getting on famously. He told me yesterday I was looking well, and, by Jove, I was!" Harper's Weekly. Accounted For. The Lecturer Did you see that fel low walk out in the middle of my lec ture? Committeeman Oh, yes. He walks in his sleep, you know. Lr ceumite nnd Talent. Industry is fortune's right hand and frugality her left. German Fioverb. Moderate Price Oajumet 1 Powder ij, tl.000 00 will be Rlrra for MaW Phanyubrtn injariotwto TjjL , health found in Calumet. a SMrgus Daily gljort Story "Nor Any Other Creature." .(Copyright, 1907, by Looking up. from a long drawn reverie boln K0ing because you, said you before the unfinished picture on my t w-0uld." easel, I saw Iolanthe beaming at me I ..j WOuld do anything or go nny from the doorway. I w here to please you. little girl," I "Come on!" she cried. "Put up your, answered with so much meaning that num ouu wtuc " "- t try, I believe you don't even know It i ly day. TJon't you remember 'the is May month of May." when the air Is so full of sweetness and love that even one shaving begins to feel an affection for another shaving? Come, let us a May ing go.", "I can't," I answered. "I'm up against it. I'm crowded to the wall. I'm broke." Iolanthe laughed the sweetest sound in this wise old world. "I had an intuition so. but that doesn't matter. This is my treat. You see, Isabel Dory took me to dinner yes terday, so I have enough to take us pic nicking today. Come, brave knight, put on thy helmet and hasten." I hastened. ' No one could resist Io lanthe. I took her little covered bas ket, and we Went along the hall and down the stairs, with mock-doleful messages following us from our fellow workers, who were not going out Into the blosoming May day world. "What car are we going to take?" I asked as we reached the street. Iolanthe blushed deliciously. "We are not going to take a car. You see, I got so interested in buying a 'scrumptious lunch that I forgot about the car, and" "I see," I said gravely. "And you don't know how glad I am that we are to walk. It is so much healthier. Then we won't have to mingle with the plebeians on a common car. When rich aristocrats like us Slolanthe glanced up at me rather sharply, I thought. It couldn't be that she knew of course she couldn't know. Xo one knew but my uncle's lawyer and myself, and maybe my uncle. I wondered If my uncle did know in that unknown country he had lately entered. By and by I should tell Iolan the that, when the preliminaries were over, I should have enough money to buy her everything she wanted, even if on this blithe day. I had not a pen- WE ATE OUB "SCKfcMFnOUS" LUXCH. uy, and all due to a never known rich old uncle, now dead. But Iolanthe was proud, so first I would win her prom isewin it while she believed me poor as herself. Purity and courage and. gentleness and beauty that was my Iolanthe. Mine? Ah, when our May day was over, should I be calling her mine? "Who are you today?" she asked, stopping to till her Jungs with the buoyant air. We had a habit of playing we were other folks when we went on these ex cursionschildish no doubt, but we were never going to grow old, we said, so it was best to be children a long time. "Why, I am King Cophetua," I an swered promptly, with a great inflat ing of my kingly chest and throwing back- of my kingly head as we walk ed on. "Her arms across her breast she laid; She was more fair than words can sajr. In robe and crown the king stept down To meet and greet her on her way." " . "Who are you today, Iolanthe?" "It's a pretty story," she mused, not answering my question, "but suppose it were turned around. Suppose that it were Queen Cophetua and the beg gar man. Would be be good and let her love him? And would be be will lng to sit on the throne with her?" "Oh, that's different!" I said. "Of course a man could not take favors from a woman. The beggar man would have to go out into the world and win bis fortune. He couldn't take It from his queen. You know he couldn't, don't you, Iolanthe?" "No, I don't know anything about it," she said a bit crossly. But Iolanthe never could stay cross long enough to make it pay, so in a moment she was talking merrily again. Tresently we reached the spot ve were bound for, a spot of sun and Bhade and ; running water and new spring flowers. We ate our "scrump tious" lunch, and then we sang and talked and had long spells of social 6llence, and all the while I was won dering how I should make her say "yes" if at first she' happened tosay "no." "I am going to tell you a pretty tory," she remarked after one of these silences. "It's a true one too. I am invited and so are you, and you'll go, won't you?" "Oh, sure!" I answered recklessly. "Where?" "A reception tomorrow evening to meet the richest girl you ever saw. She has so much money she doesn't know what to do with it all. but folks have just found it out She has pre tended .to be poor for reasons, We're By Ina Wright Hanson. C. II. Sutcliffe.) joiuiuue nusneu anu ner uear eves wavered lefore my gaze. 1 quite how it happened, but don't know but suddenly 1 had my dream in my arms my unre sisting, perfect, red lipped dream aud I was quitoCmad with delight. Then presently she cried out that I must never let anything come between US. ' " 'N'or height nor depth nor any other creature,' " I said reverently. " 'Nor any other creature,' " she re peated after ine and made me say it every little while all the rest of that wonderful day. and I did not tell her about my fortune after all. though 1 had intended to. When you come to think of it. money is a sordid thing to discuss when two folks are quaffing nectar and nibbling ambrosia. The next evening I went to the re ception and was presented to the lady of riches. It seemed to me that all the room hushed its breath and waited while we two went through what was required of us. It seemed to me that I lived an eon before we were free from the great eye of the room and in some place where there were a splash of water and quiet and heavy perfume of flowers. There in the dim light she stood, slender as an English laburnum tree, swaying in her yellow silken robes toward me. Her hands, weighted with jewels, were held out to me. Her mouth that I had kissed was smiling at me was saying: " 'Nor any other creature!' " I stood there staring r.t this wonder ful new Iolanthe. and all I could think of aud all I said was: "Barefooted came the becrprar maid. Before the king Cophetua!" Which, considering the circum stances, could hardly have been morp absurd. Iolanthe's laugh rang out; then she came closer to me, and her eyes grew very grave. "Dearest," she whispered. "I was too rich to be happy, and so I ran awayljj rrom everybody anil went to work in the studio. I wanted to nccoinnlish something. I wanted folks to say. 'She ' is a great painter,' not 'She is the rich-' est girl In the country.' Then I found you, and and I didn't care any more for fame, because I wanted something greater, love your love and you said 'Nor any other creature,' you know you did!" "And meant it. too, my angel!" I ex claimed, coming out of my trance nnd taking her hands" in mine. "You shall i give me all the money you think I need, and I will sit on the throne with you like a good little man." "I am so glad you are going to be sensible!" she said fervently. And then I had to explain to her why I was laughing. lit Field of Literature Success Magazine for February. Success Magazine for February con tains Robert Maekay's account of the struggle between the" two great opera houses of New York city. The work ings of Galveston's new form of gov ernment are described by H. S. Cooper. Frank Fayant continues to lay bare the stock operations of Thomas v. Lawson, and Samuel Merwin. the opium curse of China. "From the Press Gallery," by O. O. Sealey. con tains anecdotes of well known men at Washington. The fiction consists of "How It Happened," by Porter Emer son Browne; "The Bear and the Bomb," by Louis August in; "Mulhol land's Victory," by William Hamilton Osborne, and "Lentala," by W. C. Morrow. .1. c. Leyendecker contributes the cover design. What's In McCIure's? For variety of interest the February McCIure's is in the lead. Miss Milmine resumes her "Life of Mrs. Fddv." erivinir tho history of the schism in the early' church, professor William James of! Q HarirQrl r. .... .1 .1 . 1 .... 1 . . . . 1 , iW nuuuua a uauiL-vi j uj me col leges in his article, "The Social Value of the College-Bred;" George Kibbe' Turner's article, "The Men Who! Learned to Fly," describes the experi-j ments of inventors who have made better wings than a bird's and are of-1 fering for sale an aerial war ship; ; William F. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological gardens, cour-j ageously enters the arena with an ar- tide on "The Psychology of Wild Ani-! mals;" Ellen Terry continues the ab-! sorbing story of her interesting life. To. all these good things is added the spice and flavor of fiction. Mary Stewart Cutting's serial novel. "The Wayfarers," continues its delightful course. . "Wilkinson's Wife" is an amusing tale by May Sinclair, author of "The Divide Fire." "The Twisted Cord" is a remarkable story of adven ture by Edith Macvane. "Mrs. Mc Clanahan, the Chinese Iaundry, and Beller." by Mary Heaton Vorse; "A Pair of Diamonds," by Will Adams; "The Night Nan Grew Up." by Marion 'Hill; "A Book for Mothers." another ofLucy Pratt's Ezekiel stories;" "The Forts? of Example." by Frances Bent Dillingham, and "Tne Pomp and Pano ply of Var," by Frederick Walworth, complete he entertainment. There are poems by Willa Sibert Cather, Theodosia Garrison and Homer E. Woodbridge and pictures by Alice Bar ber Stephens, Eric Pape, Frederic Dorr Steel and others, the .cover design is "Henry Reuterdahl's. 1L All we ask .-rrvrr ttTCITJT tt ttpw Sale now . . , fBuLuilLlB , . ( is invest!- lZcrane ' ' m full . 301-1803-, 2nd. 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In court and, being roughly hustled by the police, resisted then? and was in stantly arrested nnd placed in the dock. The magistrate, in entire ignorance-of the identity of the unusual looking prisoner, asked Morris who ho was. nnd lie replied, "I am William Morris, artist and poet; pretty well known throughout Kurope. I believe." This bad the effect of bringing about his Immediate release, but Morris said afterward that it was the only time ho bad had to bounce about himself, and be would never do it again. Walter Crane's Reminiscences. Didn't Matter Much. Would IV Passenger (out of breath from running) When does the hatf past T train leave? Torter Five thirty. Passenger Well, the church clock is twenty-seven minutes past, the post office clock is twenty-five minutes past, and your clock is t.hlrty-two minutes. , eoooocceecoooooocoooccoooo 1707 Vf AVI Rock Island. Ilu WHY WE ADVERTISE. Many people wonder at our ad vertising persistency. It's sim ple. 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