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THE 'ARGUS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1009. '4 It L ffltE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 162 Second avenue. Rock Island, I1L En fered at the postofflce aa second-cla' matter. . Y THE J. W. POTTER CO. ' " TERMS. Daily, 10 cents per week Weekly, Jl per year In advance. All communications of argumentative .. character, polltieal or religious, mus ' bave real name attached for publlca 1 tlon. No anch articles will print' over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from ever? township in, Rock Island county. Friday, August 20, 1909. The n?v tariff measure begins its r existence without a single sincere . friend. nennris are constantly heard ol those who are to profit by the tariff, bin no instance has yet come to light of iho consumer reaping any benefit. Making fun out of a convention culled to nominate a candidate for state supreme justice will be found a serious joke before this campaign is over. Chicago has a nlan for making n garment workers settlement, with clul houses, baths, parks and other public features. Are we so far from socialism as we thought we were? Now it appears that the moneiarv commission must wait until it hear: from Senator Aldrieh. How would you like to have as much to say abo.it running the country as Aldrieh? Mr. Harriman's plan to plant tres along the route of his 12.000 miles of lailroad is a big and worthy under taking, though it makes tire travel very monotonous from the car window view point. On ncr iTrnlil- Although .inn" David E. Mack was not an avowed can fiidate for the nomination for supreme judge, his nomination will necessarily he under suspicion for some days. Any thing which apparently originates wih C E. Snively and O. F. Berry is bound to be under suspicion. We will have to wait and see. Public Kuting. Kansas City Star (republican): These Aldrich-Payne republicans, who voted for revision upward and then about peddling the miserable apology lhat the tariff bill is "the best th could be secured under the circuui stances." really rate themselves a lit tie hit lower if possible than Ihey are rated by the people. It I'ays to l Right. Brvan's Commoner: When Senator Dolliver returned to his home at Fo Dodge, Iowa, after his unsuccessf i fight for some measure of tariff re form, he found 15,000 of his constitu ' ents waiting to greet him with cheer3 Senator Cummins met a similar receo tion at his Des Moines home. These men may not just now stand high in the favor of the trusts that provide ' the republican party with its cam paign funds, but it is enough for them to know that their patriotic efforts ar. appreciated by Americans of all poI tical parties who have no ax to grind It pays" to take one's stand for the . right, it pays to work for the public welfare. Reckoned in dollars and cents men who serve special interest may win what seems to be large profits but real recompense comes to those mho. doing their duty as they see .t render real service to their folio men. Federal Judges. It is generally understood that when It comes to filling the vacancy on the federal bench caused by the death of Judge Bethea, the president will exer rise his own discretion that is to say lie will make the appointment for meritorious reasons and not at the dic tation of corporations or politicians, aa ' too frequently has been the praciice in the past. It is a notorious fact that the fel oral bench, especially in the west, has a number of occupants who would not bo prostituting the machinery of the law were it not for the act that tliey were appointed judges in payment of political debts or else in discharge of obligations created by the contribu tion of large campaign funds by cer tain corporate interests. The result may have been favorable to the cor porate and political interests, but not to the public whose rights have more ihnn once been jeopardized by the 'ir bitrary decrees of these judges. It may be set down as a broad ru , that a trained corporation lawyer re mains a corporation lawyer, even when placed on the bench, and that the pro fessional politician remains the pr fessional politician, even after he be comes a judge. This is especially true when the appointment comes from political or corporate sources. Judges are only human, like the rest of us. and few of them have the courage o rise above their previous condition r.f political or corporate -servitude. Some of the men whose names have been mentioned In connection with the vacant judgeship are no more fitted 'o eeupy .the beach than Ihey ue quail ed to "Occupy ha presidential chair i.t Vashington. Others may -he qualified rom a legal standpoint, but their cor- orate connections render them totnllv mfir to sit in judgment upon matters n which the corporation and the in- lividual come in conflict. Experien-e las also shown the folly of appointing udges in payment of political favors ind newspaper support. If President Taft Is disposed to do he fair thing he will change the exist- ng method of filling the federal bench nd appoint a judge who will owe a!- egiance to nobody save the govern ment' and the whole people. The Broken Promise. President Taft having said that the ariff law "is not a complete com- )liance with the promises made, strict- interpreted," and, that he signed it ecause he believed it to be "a sincere ffort on the part of the republican arty to make a downward revision." he Xew York World rebukes him in his fashion: "The republican party promised not in attempt, but an act; not purpose. nit result. It had and has the power; t was and is responsible. Its candidate "or president and the interpreter of its oolicies did not promise 4a sincere ef 'ort to make a downward revision.' That would not have satisfied the peo- le. He interpreted the platform to nenit 'revision downward within th imitations of the protective principle.' He was the party spokesman; his was he official reading of its pledges. "It was for 'revision downward' that he people voted. They have instead a sincere effort at downward revision.' There are those who fear that Mr. Taft's good nature misleads him even s to the sincerity. "The bill, by the confession of the man whose personal pledges the voters accepted and honored, is 'not a com- WANT TO KNOW WHAT PELLAGRA IS? JUST READ THIS Pellagra, the skin disease that is attracting so much attention since ;u a n .t i.ut . cases were found at the hospital for the incurable insane at Bartonville. 111., is being found elsewhere. Two cases have been discovered at the El- gin hospital. I Dr. Lavinder of the public healvh and marine hospital service of Wash- ington, in speaking of pellagra, has and small ulcers form. The diar this to say: . t hoea is often freouent and watery, "Pellagra, a disease which has been known and described since 1735 and which has proven a' veritable scourge to certain countries or me old world, has. during the past two or three years, been rather exten- J sively reported in the United States, It is, in consequence, becoming m- creasingly important for the Ameri-'. can medical man to become familiar with its systeruatology and diagnosis. II lis a att matuiuc, j n n uiohuqi.7, only that he may be able to rec- not only that he may be able to rec- oemze it in inaiviuuai cases, uui that he may be able to report its i mav be able to report its i Drevalence in his community, so that the distribution in our country of so serious and important a malady may be definitely known. "The disease is of an endemic-epidemic nature, and where once it oc curs it is likely to remain and spread, involving large areas of territory and many individuals. It is not, how ever, regarded as a communicable disease, and quarantine and isolation of cases are not practiced. "The cause of the disease, while obscure and doubtful in many re spects, is attributed by most author ities to the use. as food, of Indian corn, which has been damaged or spoiled. The corn is thought to have been harvested in an immature state perhaps, and stored without due care as to d'ng. In consequence, moulds and bacteria develop on the grain and produce certain toxic sub stances which are thought to cause the disease. The nature of the toxic substances is involved in doubt. In other words, pellagra by most stu dents is regarded as a chronic food poison. In this sense, its analogy J to ergotism and beriberi is evident, i "So far as its symptomatology is concerned, pellagra is varied in its manifestations, but is characterized by three groups of symptons cu taneous, gastro-intestinal and ner vous (or mental in some cases). It may terminate in such serious condi tions as grave cachexiaor insanity. It is periodic in its manifestations and usually appears with the begin ning of spring (sometimes fall), ameliorates during summer, and or dinarily, in winter many of the symptons disappear. "The disease usually begins with gastro-intestinal disturbances and general malaise, followed shortly by the erythema of the skin and in a brief while there is more or less in volvement, of the nervous system. It is a slowly advancing toxaemia, the brunt of which in the end is Uorne by the nervous system and each annual reoccurrence leaves a deeper and more indelible mark or the mental and nervous condition ol the sufferer. "The erythema is the characteris tic sign of the disease, although there I are mentioned cases without it (pel lagra sine pellagra.) It appears us ually in spring, is symmetrical, se lects uncovered parts of the body, especially backs of hands, also face, neck and dorsal surfaces of the feet. There is at first diffuse redness and some puffness, with burning and itching. The erythema . may then slowly fade and the skin falls in small flakes. At times It noa.irQQ dull purple or plum color. Bullae niivo a r - 1 piH compliance." -promise.1' - It is a broken . Soup' Without a Spoon. Soup without a spoon seems even harder to negotiate th.iu meat without a fork, and ve can sympathize with the complaint recorded in the diary of Felix Platter. a young Swiss, who went to Moiitpellier in 15.V2 in order to study ruedieiue. He lodged In the house of I' Is professor. Catelan. one of the greatest doctors of his time. a:id yet. writes Plotter, "we were compelled to cut our stew In the usual French fash ionthat Is to say. picking tbe meat nut with our fingers nnd then drinking the broth. In vain we begged our hostess to Jet us have spoons, but not a single one was to be found in the house, the only Implement on the table being a large knife fastened wjih an Iron chain. Xo one here petms to have ever 'hoard of spoons, which we at home find so useful." Montaigne was astonished when lie visited Switzer land In l.'SO to find that "at nil meals they put on the table as many spoons as there are people present." West minster Oazette. About to Make a Changs. "What Is be going to do now?" breathlessly nsked the agitated young woman, with her eyes on tbe daring aeronaut who wns clinging to tils para cltlte. "Tie la nbout to sever bis connection with the balloon," replied her escort, "to accept n position a little lower down." Exchange. Youthful Kansas Financiers. Some young boys near Alma. Kan., save been practicing high finance re cently by gathering crow eggs and putting them in a hen's nest to be hateVed. In Kansas a bounty of ! cent Is allowed for crow eggs, bn! ther.- Is a bounty of ." cents on erowa. and a sitting hen charges no commla ston. N ' FROM DR. LAVINDER may form and the epidermis peel. -"e iiiSr 'ihS sin me.es. Sometimes the epithelium is cast in . 1 ..The gastrointestinal symptons usually consist of stomatitis and diarrhoea, more or less profuse."" The tongue becomes often a scarlet red with prominent reddish papillae, and buccal rauscosa is likewise reddened with very offensive stools, which at times may contain blood and mucus, It is usually painless. Emaciation is ie '' The nervous symptoms are very varied. They are usually increased knee Jerks, sometimes they are lost. sometimes unequal on me two sides, There is much muscular weakness. Station is commonly negative. The gait may be spastic, but is ordinarily a - . that of nuiscujar.xeaknfiss. that or.ALuseujarWA&ness. The.pu- "i " s.inr muui ges and uu:4uuui.j. un me iwu sines is oo- unequality on the two sides is served at times, bkin reilexes si show little changes. Mental symptons supervene in a certain percentage oT cases and the insanity is usually of the depressed type. In addition marked vertigo, epileption convul sions, hemiplegias and paraplegias may occur, usually cramp-like in the extremities. Burning in the mouth and stomach is a common complaint. ine disease is often afebrile or else there is a low evening rise. Sometimes high temperatures occur; and there is described a typhoid type of the disease. "Diagnosis in marked cases is us ually easy, but in many it is often very difficult. Excursion. Steamer Columbia to Muscatine ev ery Saturday at 4 p. m. CENTRAL TRUST & SAV INGS BANK. ROCK ISLAM), ILL. H. E. CASTEKL, Pres.; M. 8. IIEAGY,. V. Pres.; H. B. SIMMON, Cashier. - One Half of Is "IF" Life When a rnan Is past the earning HK in life and lias not nceumuluted anything, lu; always looks back and thinks of the dollars that have slip ped through his lingers, and Bays: "IF". I had only saved some of them no I could enjoy lire during- my de clininsr years. Moral: Start n ttav. Llnsr account and enjoy the fruit of your en on when your earning' power has stopped. )1 a week opens an account. , CENTRAL TRUST & SAV INGS BANK. 4 Per Cent Paid ml)epositi WENDELL W. ' t I . i vy I vti J The New Assistant Secretary to the President. The Argus Daily Short Story Pure Metal By Copyrighted, 1903. j ne i ;i in came u;vn in siiceis. 1 no wet pavements glistened as it" with a recent and thorough polishing, lu the wide front window of the club Ul.ikc and Join. sou burned good tobacco uml listened, Willi a feeling of supreme con tent, lo the Inviting of the rain :ig.iint the panes. "1'iii sorry." said Johnson slowly, a if he had weighed the words with ex treme care before uttering I hem. "Sorry V" I'.l.iUc repeated, with a sur prised stall. "Why. look here, 1 thought you'd be tin- lirst to congrat uluie me." "1 don't congratulate you." saiJ John son Uatly. Blake's face suddenly hardened "Why not?"' he demanded hi cris;' tones. Johnson studied thoughtfully for a moment the cigar he was twirling in bis fingers. Thou he smiled. "It's all too obvious," said he. "Don't speak Ut riddk's." said Hlake sharply. '" "Well, then." rhf-other went on. "if you want me ;t . be . plain I will be Knit ally plain." 1 can't congratulate you. Tommy, because It's all so ghast ly apparent thatJyou've been played for a good thing. 1 haven't a doubt her mother is gloating over the match. Tommy, you're deserving of better things. You. with your good nature and your big heart, ought to marry a woman a woman" lie paused suddenly, evidently a bit surprised at his own temerity. "tio on." said Tommy IJlake coldly. "Well. you ought to marry some on who would care for you for your own sterling qualities. Can't yon see the length of your nose, boy? What show would you have bad with her if you hadn't been the catch of the season? None, sonny: not a ghost of a chance. They've played you for a good thing. Tommy a good thing. That's why my congratulations on your engage ment to Ktbcl ' Carrington aren't forth coming." - "You're mistaken." said r.lake. "Am I?" said Johnson quietly. ,-I '.vlsh to heaven I were." "You are," said lUake In the same tone. "You are. Why, confound it. BHK TORR THK l.tTlKK INTO HITS AND FH73fO.1T I't.OM nF.ll. man, I ought to give you an everlast ing good thrashing for even hinting such r. thing. The girl's my fiancee, and and" "Thrash away, if you like, Tommy." said Johnson calmly. "Pnly remem ber you asked me not to talk in rid dles." - "You blamed old misanthrope!" said Klake. with some show of temper. "Yon-yoti-hard shelled ld cynic ! I suppose you'd swear any girl 1 got engaged to had an eye only fr my money." Johnson shook his head slowly. "Vii I wouldn't, and VOU kllOW it." lie Jlf) fflm f o 1 declared. "But the Carringtous, I i,,,,., she read it through with deepen Tommy well, I'm afraid J know them jU;j Colot; ajid aij .angry .light lu her MISCHLER COnillGHT PAWCtTT WftCM Richard Baker Shelton. Associated Literary PTeas. a bit better than you di." Klake sat silently watching the stream of passcrsliy on the gleaming sidewalks for a time, then suddenly throw away bis half burned cigar and pushed back bis chair. "CoikI night." said he curtly and stalked stiit'.y out of the room. There wasn't a word of truth in what Johnson had said. "lie told him self over and over again. Johnson was a woman hater anyway. He would have said the same of any woman. It wasn't Ethel Carrington in particular. Yet. despite all his men ial arguments on the matter, Klake was vaguely disturbed in his mind as be called aeab and drove uptown to ids apartments, for. more than he would admit to himself. Klake was prone to rely on Johnson's judgment. Kut Johnson was off in this case !re!y. be was way off! Ethel Carrington was the f.ncst, the truest woman in all the world, and Johnson was a dyspeptic croaker. U'here the matter must end. Two weeks later Klake again sat be fore, the window in thelub. Again it was a rainy day. and again the Vave inonts gleamed in tbe wet mist. Klake was iuite alone in the room. His face was drawn and haggard. Great rings showed around his eyes. He turned as be beard a step behind him and saw Johnson coming towfird him. "You were right." said Blake. "O IiOid. you were right." Johnson verv quietly drew a chair beside the distraught man ana down. "Maybe you'll feel a bit better if you tell ine about it,"Tommy." be said. lHake smoked lurionsiy lor a mo ment. "When the crash came," he said at length. "I was almost glad at lirst. 1 told myself it woiiUl disprove all these things you bad said. Ol course 1 was intending to release the girl. I was in honor bound to do it. Kut I thought 1 was fool enough tc think she cared as much for me with my fortune wriod off the boards as she did before." ) Johnson said nothing. "If was yesterday morning that the Knows of the wiping out' of all I had in the world was published," Klake went on. "At 10 o'clock I got a letter from Mrs. Carrington a special delivery let tor. mind you. She said that Ethel was too broken up to write personally, bin under tbe circumstances O Iord, you know well enough what it was with out my going into all the horrible de tails." "This may prove a blessing in dis guise. Tommy." said Johnson, but I'.lake. with drooping head, was shut tling out of the room. Klake, moping In bis apartment an hour lately was summoned to the otliee by a message that a lady was waiting for him. lie went down to rind Ethel Carrington, rather wet and very white, in the reception room. "You!" he cried in dazed surprise. "You!" "1 I couldn't be hedged in by con ventions when I wns-so worried about you." she said hurriedly, "so 1 came straight here. What i. wrong? Why have you stayed away for two days without sending me a word?" Klake stared. Then u light of under standing came into bis eyes. "Irow much has your mother told you?" he asked. "Nothing." she said, looking at him with widening eyes. "Ethel," he said slowly, "! have committed the unpardonable sin uu pardonable in tbe eyes of the world to day. 1 have lost' every cent of my money." "Is that all?'' she .said in relief. Klake stared. "Why didn't you come and tell me, then?" she demanded. Silently Klake drew her mother's let ter from his pocket nnd handed it to eyes. As she finished she luriu.il to him. and at the look she flashed ujhmi him his heart began to pound madly. What is left frota the wreck?", she asked steadily. Nothing." , She tore the leter Into bits and liung it from her. "My cab Is wait ing."' said, her face crimson, but her eyes bravely meeting his. "We'll drive down and get the license first and then to St. Luke's rectory. You'll need me more than ever new." J.lukc would have demurred, but a look ill Iter eyes y.tr jir u )m. 'In the fill he tiu.icd to her with u smile of complete triumph. "Afief we come from the rectory I want to utop at the club for a mo ment," be said. "There's a certain old misanthrope there that's got the shock of his life coming." Worked the Collector. M.. Cham-hard, the groat French picture collector, was always adding to his picture, and the higher the price the more anxious he was to se cure the painting. A dealer one day offered him the "Vtcbe Blanche." 1,'y Tryoii. M. Chauc'iard was told hi; could bave it for Xl.ikio. 'It must be an Imitation," he said. "Take It away." Tlx dealer told sunn. f ..l leasrues. and they itroinised to i?et him iSKK) for the same picture if he would split thP difference with" them. '(Jo aneau, lie replied. A few days later a Hnssi III rtrineft (?) visaed M. Ohauohard'x galleries and remai'Keo on leaving that he was delighted, but it wns a pity the col lection did not include a a example of Trvon's work. M. Chaucliard. whose vanity was wounded by the remark, wrote to the denier. "Bring me the 'Vache Blanche.'" . Tbe reply was it was too late: it had been sold to a collector. Tbe millionaire counoissenr said be must have it at anv inii-e He finish. i by securing if. but it cost him i'lO.Ouo. St. James lia.oue. Betrayed by His Disguise. In one of the principal western cltle; the proprietor of a large jewelry store reportinl to the chief of police an ex tensive diamond robbery. He wjt nski-d by the" chief if be suspected any one. , "Yes. sir," hesitatingly answered the merchant. "Although we have no proof. But a mfcn whom I have known for twenty-five years was in the store a day or two before the robbery, look ing round and appearing to be ill at ease. . He has since disappeared." "What kind of looking man was he?" "Dark ooroplexioned. tall, with long curly hair and a heavy mustache." "Well." said the chief after a mo ment's thought, "I hope to lie able to give you some news of him soon." TIn he sent this telegram to the po lice authorities of several other cities: "Arrest tall mau with close cropped head and white upper lip. Diamond thief." . The next day he received this dis patch from a town in Missouri: "Got diamond thief. Have recov ered goods. Am holding him subject to your order." Youth's Companion. An Economical Vacation. Round trvi tickets at figures but slightly in excess of one way fares to a hundred or more resorts in Canada and New England, also to New York city and Jersey coast resorts will be placed on sale on various dates after June 1, 1909. ' Full particulars of dates of sale, limits, stopovers and descriptive lit erature can be obtained by writing W. S. Cookson, A. G. P. A., Grand Trunk Railway svstem, 133 Adams street, Chicago, II. HER PHYSICIAN ADVISED Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound CnliimVinc rttitsk "T lviva tal-on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound d u r i n change of life. My doctor tojd me it was good, and since tamng it l reei so much better that I can do all my work again. 1 thin Lydia E. FinKham i Vegetable Com pound a fine remedy tor an woman troubles, and inavAr fckTtrat. irk t pit my inenas what it has done ipr me." Mrs. E. Haxson, 304 East Long St, vuiuiuous, UlllO. Another Woman Helped. - OranitPvilla Vr- T was tviaoinv through the Change of Life and suffered Frnm nax j : "iTuusness ana otntr auuovmg SVUlDtOmq T mi;.. 17 PfnlrKnm'a Vorfo strength, and prayed worth mountains 8Utl6riIlfF WnnrtAT f am TCillinrv vmi should publish my letter." Mbs. ('UAH T.VS RlDT-i-c TJ t? T Hvonito Womenwhn a critical period or who are Buffering jiiuiu any or those distressing ills pe culiar to their sex should not lose sight I ,f "f that for thirty years Lydia i .,knam's Vegetable Compound, , wnicii is made from roots and herbs, has been tv ,t-nAn.A -nri iernaie Ms. in almost every commu mty you vdll find women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. finkhana's Vegetable Compound. 7 Humor and Philosophy 9r WMCAJ I.' SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. -V JT all depends. The worklngman li iauaea ror trying to avoia povertv. and the burglar la jailed for the sama thing. . . . ' Probably If we were permitted to choose and approve our neighbors they would turn out about the same. Our friends - are rarely seriously " , alarmed until we seem to be needing tbe loan of their pocketbooks. The stay at homes don't have to worry over vacations anyway. The fellow whom it irritates when he doesn't get what fie is entitled t has a lot to worry about. Some things are so bad that If they were worse they would Ie belter. 4 Kven when looking for something fresh one doesn't care to have it blow - in in the shape of a young man. We don't mind unpleasant things an long as they take their unpleasant way 'emote front ours. When yon see a scared man watch ing an angry one it Is a sign that some thing is aloiit to lie doing. There Is nothing like having a lead pipe cinch to make a . mau brave enough to tell (lie truth. 1 Peace. No rude alarms are In the land; No bands set up their blare; No orators are on the stump And beating up the air: No torched processions fill the strtt Our troubles to increase; From politics we get a rest This is the year of peace. Cur congressmen have got a bold Cpon their lovely snap. They do not have to break their necU Or mingle in a scrap. -The president need not arise To settle up his score. He sits securely in the chair At least tor three years more. And up and down the pleasant land. In city or on farm. The f-ili campaign romes not this year To spread its wild alarm. We do not have to work our braitts Or shed In haste our, coats While trying to determine how It's best to east our votes. In some few states indeed they hold A sideshow, to be sure. Though by the big three ring affair It's very small and poor. We go upi our way In face, No hint of any pest. This is the off year in the game, , And so we get a rest. Back Numbers. Ir was hard for man to conceal his smile when he saw the first steam car riage. Lookins back over the stens from the original collection of strap iron and springs to the present day lo comotive. It is hard to believe that the one evoluted out. of the other. Henry Hudson's Half Moon doesn't seem more than a second cousin to the present ocean liner, and the tirst auto mobile looks alKiut as impossible as a wheelbarrow for a family carriage. It will be thus with flying machines when the air is at last full of them. Those that we admire now will have au honored place in the museum, and the aviators of the future will only wonder lhat auy one ever had I be nerve to go up iu the air in such a crart. . Clever. "He always makes a good begin ning." "Kvery time." "Considering that well begun is half done, why then do you say that he is no good?" "Heeause he always does somebody on the strength of his beginning and skips." Nothing Doing. "He proposed to her tbe first time he saw her." "And, to make the story interesting, he married her the second time, I gup pose?" ' ,-u. "Oh, no." i '- "No? What then?" "There wasn't anysecond time." Economical. "Gone back to the old pipe, senator?" "Yes; I am getting ready for a Tisit home." "Constituents like it?" "Not especially, but it comes cheap er to.- offer them a pipeful than a cigar." Only Possibility. 1 "Jones Is growing handsomer tTerjr day." - -., "I haven't seem him lately." i "Neither have I,' but 1. hear he got smashed In the face with a baseball, and it must have made some change" The Fcrch Flier. Blerlot may not be so much, '. But If not truly great , ' Tie beats the record and thftiDutoh, Invading while you w ait. J (. 0