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I . 5 THE ARGUS, SATURDAY. MARCH 13, 1909. (.V: I i -I-;, H. li THE ARGUS. , i ; Published Dally and Weekly t 1114 Cacond 4Tbt, Reek Island, S3. IEn tored at the poitofflce aa second-class laatter. . the policy of levying a tax at a specific somebody who does not treat us, with - aie tor scnooi purposes wag auanu- rwnat we can proper, respect. DY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10. cents per week. ICVeekly, $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 fee printed over fictitious signatures. .;! Correspondence , solicited from every township in Rock Island county. TRADES (yggy) COUNcTl - Saturday, March 13, 1909. Rockefeller evidently considers the machinery of justice well oiled. : The latest gown for milady contain BOO buttons, and hub is expected to button them every cold morning. V The New York Sim summed up its Idea of Roosevelt in the shortest edi torial ever written. Its title was Thru." ' : Carrie Nation says she likes Eng land, and will stay there. Nov we are getting even with John Bull for fitting out those privateers. France is preparing to tax incomes. A week in Paris has long been taxa tlon amounling to confiscation of the ; average American income. . J . No matter how high prices of bricks may be boosted by a combine of nianu facturers, it is not probable that (he practice of throwing them will be ren dered less popular. The Indiana legislature has finished its business and adjourned. The llli nois legislature has just begun. There's a reason. The Indiana legislature is democratic the Illinois legislature is republican. . It is the irony of fate1 that the New York legislature has delayed measures for, the relief of stranded actors tinti now, when shoes are expected to be come cheaper by reason of a revised tariff on leather. oned and instead the lump sum of 1,G00,(MM) a yearwas set aside. !t was the intention that this amount should grow as the state grew in pop ulation and wealth. The annual ap propriation for school purposes Is still J1.O00.C00 a year, thouga t".ie wealth of the state has ' quadrupled since 1S73 and its population has doubled. A continuation of the tax rate for, school purposes which was in effect up to 1873 would give at the present time a school revenue of over $2,500,- 000 a year. The rate in effect in 1825 would give now an annual revenue of $25,000,000. In other words, this "com monwealth- in the days of the early settlers did more in proportion to its means to assist education than it does at the present time. All progressive communities recog nize that education is not a matter of local concern Only, that 'the state should encourage and strengthen the public school system by direct grants of money, fn this way it can help to set the standard for backward dU tiicts that are especially in need of outside stimulus. Of the money ex pended on the public school system of Illinois the state supplies only 3 per cent. The proportion in other states is much higher. In New York it is 41 per cent; in Wisconsin it is 20 per cent and in Indiana it is 21 per cent The state education commission is rendering useful service in bringin these facts prominently before the public. r . If we cannot boast . that the sun never sets on the American flag, we can boast that the sun never sets on American philanthropy. If one of these foreign .. mission schools. sends out one" great teacher,1 it j will' be worth all the money the col leges' cost. - - There are nd self-made men. We are what we arejnade by others. . If I can touch one human heart for good, I have, not spoken'ln vain. (-The man who stops to calculate how much good will come to him out of the good he does," will never do any good. A noble life ' cannot be built upon an arithmetic. You cannot ; escape difficulties by avoiding religion. Man has a mind and soul, and the! mind is greater than the man and the souHs greater than the mind. Love and peace accomplish far more than force. Mystery doesn't bother us in the dining room, it is only In the church. People who worry most about what they can . not understand spend -the least time living up to what they can not help but understand. E4M0US PEOPIB ,c BY FANNIE M LOTHROP Sk lt is not quite clear whether it was -the Missouri rate law that was con fiscatory or the computations of the railroads. However, any investor who Isn't getting per cent will feel at lib erty now. to call on the courts for re ' . Klngdon Gould, age 22, has .been made a director of one of his father's railroads at the start, thereby avoid ing the obnoxious publicity given to sons of transportation magnates who begin as engine wipers or $G-a-wei?k clerks, and perhaps spend all of two years working their way up from the bottom. How . Federal Employes Earn Their Salary. The Chicago Record-Herald thus re bukes the Illinois federal machine that is putting in time, for which the gov ernment pays, laboring for Hopkins: "Following is a list of federal office holders who have shown a lively in terest In the senatorial contest at Springfield: -"Daniel A. Campbell, postmaster. Chicago. John C. Ames, collector of customs, Chicago. "Edwin W. Sims,- United States dis trlct attorney, Chicago. J. H. Wilkerson, assistant United States district attorney, Chicago. : "Luman T. Hoy, United States mar shal, Chicago. i Charles P. Hitch, .'United States marshal, eastern district. - imam E. Trautmann, United States district attorney, eastern dis trict. . "William A. Northcott, United States district attorney, southern district. , ioren . li.. w heeler, postmaster, Springfield. "F. L. Smith, internal revenue col lector, Dwight. ."Percy G. Bennich, internal revenue collector, Peoria. "The activity of these gentlemen is . of the pernicious sort, no matter what candidates they have supported or may support. '.. . ' "They are paid for their time and labor, not by the candidate, but by the United States government, which is to say, the people of the United States. "The presence of these federal office holders at Springfield every time a 'crisis' occurs in the senatorial ballot ing constitutes a national scandal. : "President Taft cannot too soon in dicate to them that they are paid to work for the United States govern ment and that It is no part of the .bnslness of the United States govern ment to select a senator for Illinois." An Opportunity, Worth Considering, The proposition of W. C. Lawson of Chicago to bring a new railroad into Rock Island, possessing all the advan tages of interurban communication between this city and the territory in the lower end of Rock Island county. and the towns and cities in the ad joining county of Mercer, is one wor thy of serious consideration and co operation on the part both of the coun cil and the representatives of the In dustrial commission and the Booster club, already enlisted in the enter prise, as well as business men and citizens generally. - What is sought, now is to secure a feasible route, one that will be accept able both to the citizens of Rock Is land and the promoters of the railroad project. The difficulty, as it presents itself at the present moment, is not in determining' an entrance Into the city that will be agreeable to Mr. Lawson's enterprise, but one that the citizens may be inclined to offer him by which he may reach the junction of First av enue ana seventeenth street. "It makes no difference to me how Iget to this point," Mr. Lawson has ' re peatedly said "so that I get there. The shortest route will, of course, be the most desirable." : The right of way outlined In the ordinance which was laid before the council ;last Monday night, was, as heretofore stated in The Argus, not one of Mr. Lawson's choosing, but one that was suggested by a number of business men who have been working with him to bring his road into Rock Island, and who were anxious to direct the interurban into the business part of town. When Mr. Lawson first dis cussed his plans with The Argus, he spoke only of the First avenue route, and when later the line over Fifth av enue and down Seventeenth street was mapped out, The Argus expressed its doubts to him of such a proposition embracing the privilege of carrying freight meeting with approval; but it was suggested that there would be no harm In putting it up to the prop erty holders, making plain all that the ne,w franchise would mean, and then seeing what they would say about it. It went up to the property holders in its formal presentation to the council, and met with serious objection, solely on the . freight carrying part of the proposition. The' property holders protesting made it plain that they were not ap pearing in the light of obstructionists, or as opponents of the road, but mere ly as opposing the transportation of freight cars in trains on Seventeenth street. In this stand they appear to be uncompromisingly determined. In two respects the proposed line promises to supply what for years has been the chief essential to Rock Is land's advancement -competitive track facilities In the new manufacturing district in the west end and railroad communication with the south on the Rock Island side of the river. -It is therefore up to the respective committees of the council and the rep resentative bodies of the city to en deavor to find a route that may be practicable to - bring the new road, which undoubtedly means much for the business and industrial develop ment of Rock Island, into the city. OBITUARY. 1 Donlin. The funeral of little Myrtle Donlin. the th res-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Donlin. 221SeconJ avenue, Moline, was held Thursday afternoon from the home. The. services were conducted by Rev. F. E. Schult of thj Spencer Memorial church. Several musical numbers were rendered by Miss Sadie Dillon and Mrs. Leverlen Burial took place at Chippiannock cem etery. The pall bearers were little friends of the child. Lena Tropp, Mamie Bohman. Hazel Roadstrom and Viola pstrand. Funeral of Mr. Moran. The funeral of James M. Moran was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Yhe St. Joseph church. The ser vices were conducted by 'Dean J. J. Quinn. Burial took place at St. Mary's cemetery in Davenport. The pall bearers were Edward Shields, John McSlmne Daniel Lawler. John An- thonv. Phillin Schikan and Frank Meenan. Funeral cf Miss Runge. The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Runge of Milan was held this morning at the Sacred Heart church in this city, the services being conducted by Rev. .1. F. Lockney. Burial took place at Chip piannock cemetery. PllOtO bv Klldoluh Eiclu-nwu, Tr GERTRUDE ATHERTON Hewviu TTr T IfpOI,T c, ...... w. ONE of the most successful of American women novelists is Gertrude Ather ton. Her work has strength, individuality, life and color; the work ol one who has lived intensely and studied the world. Dr. Nicoll, the eminent English critic, whose specialty is discovering the greatness of writers befor the general public wakes up to the angels it has been entertaining unawares, says of her: "Mrs. Atherton is, in my judgment, the ablest woman writer ol fiction now living. Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco, the eldest daughter ot Thomas L. Horn and Gertrude Franklin who was greatgrand-niece of Benja min Franklin. When a mere child at school, she planned her life and dreamed of the days when she would be a great author. It absorbed her whole thought; she wrote stories and even ventured upon a play and shortly after her marriage, which was when she was but a young girl.-sne published her first novel, "What Dreams May Come." She now asserts it was trash and It would be generous courtesy to dispute this estimate. .Trashy, too, was her next book "Hermia Suydam"; but both revealed evidences of talent, rough. raw and rudimentary; but the untrained struggling toward expression of ona who had not yet come to herself. ' - She has dealt courageously and fearlessly with social topics in her novels and they reveal a vitality and purpose that"is unusual in current fiction. Like many of our best American writers Mrs. Atherton won recognition in England before the real value of her work was justly appreciated here. She is a lover of travel, finding the restrictions of conUnued life in one place irritating.. Her novel "Senator North" was written in ten weeks, though the story was a-orking itself out in her mind for more than a year. Every day for three months she sat in the Senate Chamber, listening to the debates. studying character and growing familiar with legislative routine. She even waded heriocally through many months of the Congressional Record, the dryest periodical printed in the English language. Of the dozen or more books written by Mrs. Atherton her favorite is "The Conqueror" In which Alexander Hamilton proudly holds the centre of the stage, and In the writing of which Mrs. Atherton made an exhaustive Btudy of all that had been written of her hero and also spent much time in personal researches, making the book in reality an historic biography seen through the roseate glow of fiction. CwnliH trUKfcma to Wjb. C HmcX. xooS, PERSONAL POINTS. to Miss Augusta Storr has gone Chicago for a ylsit of two weeks. Miss Maude Bourne will leave Mon day for Peoria, where she will make her home. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clarke of Rey nolds will leave tomorrow for Los An geles on a visit. Rev. Frank Bruner of Chicago is in the city for a week's visit with rela tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McRoberts of Port Byron have gone to Butte and Deer Lodge Mont., on a visit. M. Bollman left this noon for Chi cago to attend the state laundrymen's convention, to be held there next week. Rev. D. H. Leland of the Edgewooc Baptist church will leave this evening for Eau Claire, Wis., called there . ij the serious illness of his mother. Announcement of Millinery Opening. - Miss Charlotte Rosenfield win op en her splendid new millinery estab lishment on next Wednesday and Thursday, March 17 and. IS, at 117 East Second street, Davenport, Iowa. Miss Rosenfield, formerly of Gales- burg, where she was a member of the firm of Delaney, Rosenfield & Co., is recognized by the ladies of the tri ckles as a beautiful .designer, having few equals in the west. She has crea tive Ideas that brings her into greater favor among the wearers of fashion able millinery, as her patrons come so know her better. She has spared no trouble nor ex pense to make this millinery store the leading, one in the tri-clties, and has a wide circle of friends In this vicin ity, who will wish her success In he new undertaking. Besides a large stock of Parisian models. Gage hats and other up-to-date styles, she has an able body of assist ants, who are, ready to execute exclu sive original designs, under her direc tion. ; ; I Mrs. Fannie Spencer of this city will assist her in the sales department Mrs. Spencer, from the fact of her con nection with the Brandenburg estab lishment of Rock Island and later with Harned & Von. Maur of Davenport, is thoroughly fitted for this work, and would be pleased to see, all her old friends and customers. A Plaguo of Rats ..Whore Illinois Is Backward. ' : Chicago- News: in the matter of assistance rendered to the cause -of uiicutun ..Illinois, must rank as a backward state, proof of .this has been gathered and, ma Je public by Profes sor; I.:. W. Howerth, secretary of ths strife education commission. ' . 1 In the early days Illinois mad ith. eral appropriations of state money for xue support or public schools. In 1873 . Bryan Epigrams. 'The Denver News prints the follow ing epigrams from William J. Bryan's speeches delivered In Denver: Love is the weapon for which there is no shield. ' , v A man can live up to the teachings of Confucius and not reach 'a very hih . plane. - ' - , ;U'a:man waits until he himself is Everybody Sboold Join la Fight periect beiore Helping . others he-will I $ ,-.i;:UlO. toe Pests. never iln nnvhnrtv . ...; 4 ' l! ': ." - ttVi,0n wKnn wr'' t. ' i Kstg hive ffTowo rtTj numerous 6t Ute.beinsr W r help ourselves when we help wren indoors by the oold weather. od this has otners. - J. - , . . , resulted in attacks on children and la some iu- MiBslOnaries are less HfeeTv tn mt n on grown persons. Into trouble w th nothing to give but ,ETerTbod h0tt,iv,0,j? aertoy,n 55 IniL. ih.. ' ' , . Ungerous pests. .The best way to vet rid of love than the commercial man,,' who ibem is with Steams' Electrio Rat and Roach gets what he can and is not scrupulous Pute. which drives them out of he house to about how he gets it '.' ; . ? Bd ta bt1 reliable. n .v - If we. tench r-hria onA il "Stearns Eleetrle Paste is sold everywhere; or 11, C 3t and peace to for- xmt rxvrn, prepaid on receipt of price, s os. box pie can protect, ourselves ,. w os. box tun. far better than threatening- to whip Stearns.' Xleetrto Paste Co, Chicago. IU. The Argus Daily Short Story NATURAL GAS AND MIRANDA-BY MARY AiDINE. Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Literary Press. we're ' got a nre .rein? to Mr. Samuel I'crLIu.-. a.;- L;trd by tw; Italians, all with their xat.i av.d ve;:t off and perspiring profusely, was lrr lng an artesian well 0:1 his farm. Suddenly the drill wns forced out cl (he ground. There followed a prcat puff of vapor that had the cdor cf bud eggs and sulphur ndscd together. Mr I'crklns had struct a nutural ens vv-cll. A month Inter Mrs. Toi-kins was say ing to him: r 'Samuel, remember tht we spell our nume r-a-r-k-l-n-s: aljo th:it n month hence' we sail for Europe. We ve got money, and daughter Miranda. We give her a chance." "A chance for what?" asked the bus band, who was try ins: t- got used to wearing a collar and a coat arcund the house. , 'To get polished up and to marry some one worthy of her. You necdirt sit there thinking that a. few weeks ago Miranda was hanging out the clothes. We've struck natural gas. and that makes a difference. We sail in four weeks." 'I did kinder think we might go to Niagara Falls for a week or 130" be gan Samuel as he rubbed hi?, chin. 'What's Niagara Falls to people with money? What are they to Miranda? Samuel Tarklns. can't you realize that you struck gas?" "I know 1 did. "We are climbing for the top of the ladder. We can't be kept down. Haven't you got it through your head yet? It's Europe and polish. It's Eu rope nnd a husband for Miranda. If them Chicago butchers can take their j daughters to Europe and marry them off to lords and dukes, why can't we? 'Isn't natural gas Just us high toned as pork chops? You keep a cent on and your shoes black and get used to . looking like somebody and leave the rest, tome." 'I Mr.jTarkins would rather have sat' on the steps of the village and related : for' the five hundredth time what his emotions were when he struck ga3, but he was dragged off to Europe. ' , : ; Miranda betrayed a surprising lack of Interest, but Mrs. Parkins did the !thlng with all her might She had na tive wit and observation. By sitting in a corner most of the time and hav ing as little as possible to say the hus band and father made out" after a fash ion. : "-.. -. In due; time he even became Inter ested in things. - lie tjeeanie so inter ested that .one evening after they had been In London for a fortnight he ask ed his wife: " . I "MaiTf are we hitting the pike all right T' . . . w "Hitting the piker she repeated In scornful tones. "Samuel, cut the pike land other things out. Miranda and me are watching ourselves every minute, .and you want to do the same. Don't brou lea the sjX.on4a the cuo.-wben you drink your co.Tce. nn-.l don't tuck your table napkin clear up under your .ears. If yu hioII Miranda's chancers I'll never fcrglvo you." . .. "But what I want to know is has any feller come arour.d yet':'" persist ed the husband. ' "No, not exactly. . But I've noticed different ones looking at her and sorter edging around. You leave that part of lit to us, and you tend to yours. .When ever you can, you just drop ia a word about natural gas and millions." "Oh. I won't spoil nobody's chances. I dida't want to come at first, but ,uow that I've got over here I raythcr like it. Makes a feller feel as if lie was somebody to have a boy ready at every turn to brush ofT his coat. "I guess I'd be pror.d to hare a lord or a duke for a son-iiHaw. " That's Mi randa lowest figger, hain't It? She hain't coming over here and then take up -with no h:yseed?'' It was Parjs after jfour ..wf-eks in iLondon, and there was n continual lui .provcyieiit iu 1 the family. Miranda and her mother picked up aa much as one I'renr-h word n day. and the husband- an J father left his fecrs behind 'hi in and assumed a little swagger and a palror.Iziiig air that sat well o'n him. He ,hnd struck natural gas at home Elns'ply ly aocideri. He reasoned that he mteht strike a husband for Miranda abroad In tin same way. Therefore whenever l:e '-nme across any one who would listen to him and' who could ppeak En."!!'-h he Introduced gas wells into the conversation. It was always In the plnral. It wa never one ga well, but half a dozen, He nlfo tried his best to mate -ths head waiter understand the pas quos tlon, afld if lie did not succeed entirely he sit lrast elicited the exclamation:. "Gas from the ground, mou dion And each well $1,000,000! How you must suffer with' so much money!' . "Yes. a heap of suffering, but I grit my tfeth and stand it." When Mrs. rYrklns annomccd that they were to leave Taris for a resort in the Alps, Mr. farklns had his op portunity to ask: "Anr feller In sl?ht vet?" "Samuel, hain't yon got no polish In these last two months?" demanded the wife. ' "Of course I have." . Then phow some of It. No gentle man would epeak in that brutal man ner. I'm glad Miranda was not hers. "Well, has any lord or duke been making up to lier?" . " "Making up! Making up! DTumph! Mr. rarkinr, are you In -Europe- or flTexas? My daughter MUracda cannot be made up to. I catch your mean i lng, however, and in order that you may not use any more such expres sions let me eay that I'm ilot worry '-. lng.' v "You mean"- . 'I mean that wo are gcing to Swit zerland to ttop fcr a mouth or more at the rame hotel vrltli a lord." "By Oec-rge. but you don't mean it!" exclaimed the husbar.d. "How In thuucZcr did you Lring It about?" "Samuel!" "Yc. tut t!?at'a a cute triple cf yours. You'!l have him per.ntid rlpbt up." "Piinmel rv.rkh'.s!" cried the wife as she flushed up. "Oh. well. I won't say nothing more. You'n Miranda go rlrrht rhesd. and I'll bnck you with natural gas enough to run all Fract-e. 1 guess it hain't for me to mix in." Just hew Mrs. Tarklns located the Icrd doesn't matter. For a five franc piece I'r.rislan chambermaids have beca known to lipnte a wboln duke. He wasn't registered as a lord, but that wasn't expected. He wculd be lr.;o?. Mr. I'arkir..-, toe!: it that any of the fory men' r.rmir.d tho hoteL mhfht be hh lordship, but the wife, wUh the keener Intuition of her sex, spotted the right man within twenty four hours. - Then Mr. Parkins came to the front like a man. He introduced himself to the victim r.nd talked of America and gas weils and dollars. There was en thusiasm In bis voire as he talked of the gas that would continue to pour out of the earth for ceaturic; to come, and he worked up considerable pathos over the admission that . he hadn't tnausb wells to supply over half the United States. Mr. Parkins had done his full share. The rest devolved upon other shoulders! A day or two later his lordship strolled up a mountain path by him self. A little later Mm. Parkins find Miranda strolled up the same" path, nis lordshjp was overtaken just In time to rescue Miranda from walking out on an overhanging rock that would have surely jjiven way with her weight and dropped her into the valley a mile below. ' The half fainting girl and the shat tered mother were assisted down the path to the hotel, and Mr. Parkins found them In bod to recover from the shock. He heard the. story and then rushed downstairs. .WJ'.cn be.amred Humor and Philosophy By DUNCAN N. SMITI ', WORTH , TH PRICE, fj One thing; la free. And that's advice. Tou need not pay For It a price. It meets you. turn Most any way. And not a cent . ' You have to pay. For groceries And bread and meat -And everything To drink and eat The bill conies In. 'No item free. And oft they send It C. O. D. . . Not so with hints - About the way Tou should conduct Tour work or play. Advice that's free Will never fall By word of mouth v And oft by mail. Advice wherever Tou may go! And do you take ltf Oh. no, no! -Tou chuck it and To others hand Tour own self made And patent brand. ... ( - .1 'Hi Soma People. YOU have WHAT A1 i 1 vVhen some people are good they rrant the entire community to throw lwuquf.ts, but when they go . wrong they resent the scrutiny of one lone policeman. ' Prompt. "Why don't you answer my 16116? "What letters ' "Those 1 meant to write you,, "Oh. 1 did." "You did?" "Yes." ' . T "Whenr ' i- "When I received them. Of Course. "Why are some men such fools? ""That's easy." "Welir "Because It Is their turn." Recognized the Name. "Are you going to. hear tne celebrate ed Irish pianist?" "Irish pianist r "Yes; Paddy Boosky." . (Continued on Page Ten.) If You Can. When trouble . comes trooping - like t.rs through the town. Forget it. t she whom you love goes around with a frown, . Forget it. It's easy to Bay, v , . But it's harder to do. With mischief .to pay And your temperature blue, But still, for all that. It's the wise thing to do Forget It. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Voting yourself the whole thing doesn't elect unless yon also control a majority of the votes. We always think that we are entitled to our 8 ha re ot even handed Justice whether there Is enough to go round or not, Why a man with a load voice and blustering manner isn't the most effi cient man on the job Is bard for him to understand. Judging from the grownups, there must have '.been a tremendous crop of babies during the year of the big wind. The only Baking Powder I made from , ' Royal Grape Cream of Tartar I i alttnu 1 Altim haJfezpo7dtts ate the (pcatcst j I menacs tip bcalth of the ptcszat day- - . -. . . ..." ,' . ' " Other' people have prejudices; wt lave convictions and opinions. ., When yon send good money, aftet bad It never catches np. " ' If we could have what we v want, no doabtedly. a great dlfflculry woald arise In wanting. "S