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THE ROCK. ISLAND ARGUS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2.5, 1910. THE ARGUS. Published Dally and Weekly at 1624 (f Second avenue. Rook Island, 111. fEn- tered at the postoffice as 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 have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles -will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township in Rock Island county. TRADES COUNCIL ft 20 Tuesday, October 25, 1910. Clyde II. Tavenner has been a faith ful representative of the people as a newspaper correspondent at Washing ton, lie will be a faithful representa tive of the people as a member of con Kresa at. Washington. The trade reports show that busi ness in all classes of goods Is slow ex cept in dry goods. Evidently whether times are bad or good the ladies will have finery, and will pay the high tar iff tax on It without a whimper. "Deneen pledges reform" is the heading of a newspaper account of a speech delivered by the governor at Peoria. Seems to us that expres sion sounds familiar from the De neen standpoint, but the goods have not been delivered. Minority Leader Champ Clark and United States Senator Thomas P. Gore, the leading democrats cf the country, are strong for Clyde H. Tav enner, the progressive candidate in the Fourteenth Illinois district on the democratic ticket. What better evi dence of standing could be desired. Wnen men like Champ Clark and ITnited States Senator Gore give Tav enner such unqualified endorsements, the people of the Fourteenth district are surely taking no chances in send ing him to congress to take the place cf James McKInney, who voted for Cannon and the Payne-Aldrich tariff. The republicans waited twelve years before they would attempt to revise the tariff, and then the revision was such a palpable aid to many of the trusts that now they are forced to promise further revision. The fact that the average price of necessities has Increased during those past twelve years over 60 per cent may not all be chargeable to the tariff, but most of It is. R. K. Maclea, chairman of the Wholesale Drygoods committee of New York, has just submitted a report showing that the Payne-Aldrich tariff is higher on cotton good3 than was the duty under the Dingley law. For instance, the Dingley duty on white Madras was 3 5 per cent while it amounts to 44.61 per cent under the present law. The duty on Madras waistings was Increased from 3 5 per cent to 57.56 per cent; shirting Ma dras from 40 per cent to 49.62 per cent, and so on. Senator Gore, the blind statesman of Oklahoma, rushed Tavenner a tele gram as soon as he heard of his nomi nation, congratulating him upon hav ing been chosen to oppose Congress man James McKInney, who voted for Cannon and the Payne-Aldrich bill, and who voted against the attempt of the Insurgents to Improve the house rules. Senator Gore declared he was hopeful of hearing of Tavenner's election, because Tavenner had demon strated his friendship for the people while a newspaper man in Washing ton. T. It. and Cost of Living. In answer to the remarks which Roosevelt had dropped relative to the tariff and the cost of living, the New York World also drops one. The World calls attention to the fact that the total value of all the gold pro duced by all the mines of the United States from 1792 to 1908 inclusive was $3,063,787,000. The appropriation bills signed by Theodore Roosevelt during his sec ond term as president aggregated $3,522,982,816,87. All the gold that the United States produced in 117 years fell short by $459,000,000 of paying the cost of four years of Rooseveltism. Does Mr. Roosevelt think this un paralleled extravagance has no re lation to the increased cost of living asks the World. The American people think so. The Klectricians .Are Here. Ever since Benjamin Franklin snatched the lightning from the clouds, man has marveled at the won ders of electricity. And yet the uses to which the genius of the human be ing has applied the forces of nature are so manifold that it has come to pass that one does not hesitate to believe that anything is possible under heav tn. Electricity has become the one great agency that moves the world. In means of communication in illumina tion and in power it is that upon which we most rely. Next to that way which none has traveled, it is mankind's greatest mystery. It has brought all the corners of. the earth into almost instantaneous touch. It has made light almost as fierce as the rays of the sun. It has moved the universe. Its power Is incalculable. What it has done may be hut an index to achievements yet to come. It is with a full knowledge of all those wonders that Rock Island extends greeting and welcome to the dele- gates of the Illinois Electric conven tion. They are bidden to make them selves at home because they are the men upon whom dependence is placed in every avenue of life; because they are representative, intelligent men and because they know a whole lot that the average man does, not know. The Empire State. According to the latest official figures the total value of taxable pro perty in New York state is $9,821, 620.555. Of thi3 quite respectable sum New York City has $7,042,339, 104, leaving for the rest of the state only $2,779,281,451. New York county, containing the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, has real and personal property of the value of $5,262,388,703. The increase in the value of taxable property in New York City has been enormous since 1870, when the total was a little be-' low the billion mark. The annexation of territory in creating what Is Greater New York accounts to some extent for the phenominal increase in values, but the natural growth in itself was tremendous. In 1880 the total value was $2,637,869,238; in 1890, $3,683,653,162: in 1900. $5, 461,302,752; in 1909. $9,666,118, 618. It is only natural that in a state of the enormous population and the fabulous wealth of which New York can boast, all statistical figures are upon a large scale. An example is furnished by the figures concerning the number of insane persons in the state of New York and the cost to the state of providing for their care and maintenance. -The latest statistics show that there are 30,490 insane persons in the various state hospi tals of New York, not including those in private hospitals and the 1,127 inmates of the two hospitals f-.-r te criminal insane. The twenty-three private hospitals have in all only 1,049 patients. The total amounts to a little more than 31,500. enough to populate a good sized city of the third class. The figures, although official, are By no means complete, however, as there are many thou sands of lunatics in New York City and In other parts of the state, who are not confined in any public or pri vate hospital. Only a year ago a cer tain authority on diseases of the mind made the statement that in New York City alone there were at least 100.000 persons of unsound mind, who should be placed under medical care. Cynics - are inclined I to consider this estimate as altogether too conservative. Faithful Public Servant. Wherever democratic reformers have been elected to high office they have been confronted with opposition by those whom they succeeded in power. Judge Gaynor in New York has to fight for all the reforms he has inaugurated. Governor Harmon of Ohio has met with similar hostility, and is still discovering more rascali ties the remains of the republican ring that controlled the state. Another democratic reformer who ts having trouble when he opposes questionable interests that have long been entrenched is Governor Austin L. Crothers of Maryland, whose antag onists are politicians within his own party. He takes his Job seriously and look3 at the conduct of official matters from a business as well as a political standpoint. He gives his whole time to the public business, and since his inauguration he has regu larly worked more than labor union hours. "After he Rot the sfate appoint ments out of the way," says the Balti more Sun, " he started out to be gov ernor. He had ideas and plans and he had a policy. He 'consulted' about places, but he did not 'consult' or 'submit' about anything else, and credit will be given him for being his own man as governor. "At the legislature of 1908 his first session three measures of great im portance to the state became laws through his influence. One of these was the corrupt practices act. This was in the democratic platform, but it had been in previous platforms and failed of passage. It was Governor Crothers, aided by Attorney-General Straus, who put this bill through and prevented Its emasculation." He fathered and put through his plan for good roads; he recommended and saw enacted a bill doubling the collateral inheritance tax; he vetoed items aggregating nearly half a mil lion dollars in the omnibus appropria tion bill, but did not cripple a single institution by so doing; he forced through a direct primary law for state officials In spite of the strenuous op position of many of the democratic leaders in the legislature. When he tried to prevent the pad ding of the legislative pay-rolls with a large number of unnecessary em ployes, the legijlature defeated hl3 program for economy; but Governor Crothers has appointed a commission of investigation and will not be satis- ! fled until he stops this useless drain on the pockets of the tax payers. The legislative ring haa been attack ing the work of the state road cora mirsion, and are back of the defiance of the Baltimore police commission to resign pending protection of crimi nals by the police. This matter is now in the courts. This brief story of a reform demo cratic governor fighting for honest and efficient government against the poli ticians of his own party Is an example of civic righteousness that Is unique. It's the World's Best. No one has ever made a salve, ointment or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one perfect healer ol cuts, corns burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, eczema, salt rheum. For sore eyes, cold sores, chapped hands, or sprains, it's supreme. Infallible for piles. Only 25 ' cents at all druggists. GONDEMNS THE SPOILS SYSTEM President Capen of Civil Ser vice Reform League Speaks at Galesburg. CAUSE OF ASSASSINATION Says Exposures in Illinois Politics Touched Only Surfaces of Rottenness. Galesburg, 111., Oct. 25. A strong address on civil service was delivered i last evening before the Illinois confer-1 ence of charities and corrections by Charles L. Capen of Bloomington, pres ident of the Illinois Civil Service Re form association. Mr. Capen blamed the spoils system for the assassination of every public official since Lincoln's time, and declared that the shameful conditions revealed by the recent ex posures of graft in the Illinois legisla ture formed only the surface of a state of thorough political rottenness that runs all through the state service wherever civil service does not exist. "The spoils system." he declared, "is a corrupt and corrupting influence. Illi nois has become infested with bosses, struggling for selfish purposes only; bossism is impossible without patron age. Dry Rot of Politics. "Since Lincoln's, every assassination of public men has been occasioned by the spoils system, the dry rot of our politics. It offers bribes more subtle and dangerous than those of money. Its workings are in secret, and every thing having any relation to elections except the ballot itself should be in full daylight. "It destroys loyalty to the state and to its instrumentalities, and substi tutes for it servility to the party leader upon whose breath the employe de pends for a livelihood; it is wholly bad from every point of view. Asks Public to Aid. "This conference is considering im portant problems for the betterment of these institutions, bnt I tell you that before any of your plans can be con summated we must get away from this spoils system. If by resolution you can strengthen the hands of the civil service commission you will do a great work. "These reports about the deeds un der the spoils system in the state in stitutions come often to the ears of the commission, but are not authoritative, those giving the information not desir ing to be brought into notice. I think that It would be desirable to permit the commission to make a public In vestigation when such charges are made, to have stenographic accounts made of the evidence and then give it to the public. If the reports are false the investigation will show it, and if true the way will be clear to correct the evils." White I In bub Discussed. Considerable interest centered in the dinner by Secretary Frank E. Wing to all interested in the treatment of tub erculosis. At this there was earnestly discussed the question of having the convention declare for the establish ment of a state sanitarium for con sumptives. DEMOCRATICJWMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS. (Foortfnth District.) Clyde II. Tavenner, Rock Island county. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. (Tlilrty-third District.) State Senator Peter Rungdahl, Mer cer county. Representnlve Henry L. Wheelan, Rock Island roynty. COUNTY. For County Judge Albert Hnber, Rock Island. For County Clerk W. D. Hall, Port Hyron. For Probate Judge Dudley Mnrsball, Rock Island. For Probate Clerk Tfeomas K. Cole, Andalusia. For County Treasurer Edward Fo rm, Mollne. For Sheriff Cornelius Donovan, South Rork Island. For County Superintendent of Schools Meigs Hays, Andalusia. Oct. 25 in American History 1S0O Generil Henry Knox. Washing ton's secretary of war, died at Thomaston. Me.: bora 1750. 1S12 The United States frigate United States, under Commander Stephen Decatur, defeated and captured the British frigate Macedonia In a . desperate battle off the Canary Islands. 1S04 Commander William E. Ilopkins, U. S. N., retired, died in San Fran cisco; born 1822. YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO EXPERIMENT when the stomach Is out of order and everything you eat causes you dis tress. Don't do it. There is one ab solutely safe and sure remedy for such Ills one that has been endorsed by thousands and that Is HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS No matter how long you have suf fered one bottle will surely help you. Try it today. It Is for Poor Appetite, Indigestion, Headache, Costiveness, Colds and Grip. Avoid substitutes. FRANCE RESTORES TnTTTSsssMiiii!sMswis i iiiii I mil ill i sill I 1 1 1 1 I li I I ill ii iiiiir -sni Minn'-ri I j MEXICO CITY. One of the most interesting of the minor features of the centennial celebrations now going on in Mexico was the return of the ancient keys to the City of Mexico. They had been held for nearly half a century by France, and the representatives of that country at the celebrations brought them back from exile and gave them to President Diaz. The head of the republic then restored the key3 to the municipal authorities. The Argus Daily Short Story Mr. Webster Copyrighted, 1910. by The revolution of 184S had collapsed. At one time it had looked as if all Europe would b'coine republican, but the democratic cause was not destined at least then to succeed. Those who had been prominent in the endeavor to shake oT royal authority were fly ing from the scene of their operations with a view to saving their lives or themselves from an Infinitely long Njm of imprisonment. One evening at that hour when the day Is not quite done and the night not yet begun a woman, unattended, entered a cafe on the Boulevard de Capucin in Faris and took a seat at one of the tables. That was at a time when a lady could not w It h propriety walk alone on the streets of the French capital, much less enter" a cafe in the evening unattended. At a table near by the one at which the lady sat a man of a distinctly Ger- "OITB ME TOUB ORDEit OB HIS BEL.KA8K." man type was dining. He, too, gave evidence of being of the higher class one who was used to giving orders rather than receiving them. In his buttonhole he wore the rosette of an order of the kingdom of Prussia to which none who could not at least write "ron" before his name might be admitted. He had finished his repast, rinsed his fingers in a glass bowl, care fully wiped them and his Hps with a napkin and lighted a cigar. Then he leaned back in his chair and began to look about him. There was something in the unat tended lady that was familiar to him. For some moments he scrutinized her features. "I have seen her some where," he said to himself, "but where or when for my life I cannot tell." While the. gentleman was thus try ing to place the lady and musing upon her social position, his eyes constantly fixed upon her, she .was nerving her self for a coup of which he was the 0OrS especial object, suaoenly sne arose and with flashing eyes and raised voice said in French, bnt with a for eign accent: "Is there no one here who will pro tect a woman from insult? I have al ways heard of the chivalry of the French. And yet here am I, stared at by that man (pointing) as a common outcast, and no man present comes to my defense." A gentleman sitting at the next table : the lady arose. "Parbleu, madame! But where is your escort?" "Monsieur, I am an American. In America a woman may go anywhere safe from Insult." '"In that case, madame, permit me to offer you my services." "Thank you, monsieur. I accept them, but only as a matter of form. Will yoti kindly arrange a meeting with the m&n who has insulted me and my hus band to take place tomorrow morning at C o'clock in the Bois de Boulogne." Meanwhile the object of this attack had half risen from his table and at this moment began to stammer an apol ogy. "Pardon, madame," he said in Ger man. "I had no intention' KEYS OF MEXICO By P.A. Mitchtl. Associated Literary Press. Your inventions are your own af fair,"' interrupted the lady. "Your in sult .i my husband's to avenge." Then, turning to her partisan, "Will you ex change cardi with the gentleman and with me?" The an last addressed drew two cards from bis case, banding one to the ilady. the other to the Germnn, who- reluctantly produced one of his own! The Frenchman's bore the name of Gaston de Curier, the German that of Count Herman von Ilollub. "I may be found." said the lady to her champion, "at the Ilotel Maurice, in tSie P.ue de IMvall. Call for Mrs. Webster. I bid you good eveuing." "May I not act as your escort?" ask ed De Curier. "I will thank you to cail a carriage." replied the lady, "and if you will ride with me to my hotel yoa may meet the : man whose challenge you Lave consented to bear." Having secured Von Ilollub's address, De Curier rode wiiti Mrs. Webster to her hotel. Leaving hira in a waiting room, she told him she would go up stairs to find her husband. Presently she returned and said: "Mr. Webster is away. He has left a note saying that he will be detained on a matter of importance till near morning. Hut I will engage that he shall be on hand. I shall not go to bed, but await your coming after you have seen the other party to this af fair." De Curier went away in a bad humor. "This is a very strange affair," he said to himself, "in which I have be come entangled. I am the bearer of a challenge from a man I have never seen to a man he h:is never seen and who has i-vor seen him. the vbok matter being started by a woman I have never seen before tonight and because she enters a public dining room alone and is st.irrd at for doin? so. I wonder If she rt filly has a hus band or if she is going to get ine kill ed in her behalf. , Ponf! ,1 don't iike this condition at all." Nevertheless he visited Von Ilollub and arranged the meeting, as the lady had desired the weapons to be foils. Then he returned and reported the matter to the lady. "And now, madame," he added, "hav ing arranged matters for you, I pre sume I may be excused from further participation in this affair." "If you so desire It, but my husband and myself are strangers in Paris, and when he goes on to the field he must go unattended." "In that case, madame. I shall serve 7 All Cakea, biscuits, Hot Breads 1 re Tasty, Economical, ui I Absolutely Healthful him. I wii! c-!l at o'clock." De Curier left her more than ever dissatisfied with his position. Every thing indicated that Mrs. Webster was what she pretended to be she was stopping at a first class hotel, a favor ite hostelry for Americans, and this partly explained her presence unat tended in the restaurant, but not sat isfactorily. Though American women hod grout privileges in their own coun try, they did not usually avail them selves of them in foreign lands. Well, the morning would bring developments. He would fro home and snatch a few hours' rleop before going on to the ground. At half past 5 in the morning he call id nt the Hotel Maurice and gave the sleepy concierge his card for Mr. and Mrs. Webster. The man brought him a note signed by the lady saying that Mr. Webster h.sd gone to the rendez vous and that fshe was so overcome by the painful episode that fche was un able to leave her bed. De Curier was astonished. "Ma foi!" be exclaimed.' "What a marvelous con dition! This man, my principal, whom I have never seen and whom bis oppo nent has never seen, is so eager to avenge the insult to his wife that he has no patience to wait for his fcond. Mon Dieu! I must see the end of this affair or I shall die of curiosity." Jumping into his jparriage, be told the driver In take him as quickly as possibte to the Bois de Boulogne. Ar rived at the place of meeting, he saw Von Ilollub standing with a foil in his hand, while a figure, also armed, wear ing a long, flowing cloak, was approach ing him. De Curler sprang from his carriage and advanced toward them. As he reached them the cloaked figure threw off the outer garment and ap peared ia a costume usual to women who practice fencing. Astonished as De Curier was. he was still more so wJitmi he recognized Mrs. Webster. "Ah, monsieur," she said, glancing at the newcomer, "you are late. My bus band not returning in time, I am obliged to take his place." Without waiting for preliminaries, 6he attacked Von Ilollub. Now. Count Herman von nollub, who was a trusted servant of the king of Prussia, had spent his life in diplo matic work, ignoring those martial practices that have always pertained to the nobiiity of that kingdom. He knew very little about the art of self defense in any form. Astonished and chagrined at seeing the woman who had the grievanre against him come to fight him instead of her husband, be lost his head. All he could do, all Le tried to do, was to avoid the thrusts of his opponent. In a few seconds his weapon had been wrenched from his grasp and. flying in an arc above his head, landed a dozen yards away from him. The woman then put the point of her foil against his breast. "Count," she said, "you do not know me. I am the wife of Carl D.. one of the leaders of the lute revolution In Prussia. He married me iu New York shi'rtl3- before the revolution, and I have lived in your country. Ycu have come here to secure the consent of the French government to take my husband back to Prussia to be tried for treason. You have him iu prison and were to start today with him for r.erllu. Give mo your order for his release and your written word that you wiil not proceed further against him or I will kill you." The count looked into the woman's eyes and saw a determination to act upon her. words. 'Will he return to Prussia?" he asked. "No. rie will find a home in Amer ica." "Then I consent." The contract having been signed. De Curier rode with Fran D. to the prison where her htisband was confined, and the revolutionist stepped forth a free man. "Having borne a challenge on yonr behalf." said De Curier, "never hav ing seen you. to a man I had never seen. I am happy to make your ac quaintance." Ilerr D. went with his wife to Amer ica. He became a Germnn American citizen nd a dozen years later took part in the great American struggle for government by the people. HfDER Humor and Philosophy By M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. TF some captains of industry were to preach what they practice they might be in danger of losing their Jobs os Sunday school superintendents. A man likes to have bis wife always dressed ready to go out with blm whenever he asks ber. but he expects three square meals a day Just the same. Giving advice is an excellent thins. It affords the giver much satisfaction and frequently amuses the recipient. Nothing makes a man more right eously Indignant than to be acensed of doing a thing that he iaasn't yet found time to perpetrate. The man who declares that holdups would cease If people had more sand to resist the marauders finds it con venient to snore loudly If he bears a strange noise downstairs after mid night. Many a man ha started in life with 15 cents and has died with as much as $14 to his credit. A Woman's Rss sen. "Are you fond of boating. Miss Ethel ?" "I should say I am." "What do you like best about itr "My perfectly stunning yacht ing coctume." Needed a Good One, "Oh. dad!" "What Is it, my son?" "You have given roe a dollar watch?" "Certainly:" "What good will it do me? "It keeps excellent time." "What do I care about the time? I can't raise a cent on It when I am broke," Tragic. Jack and Jill Went up the hill To get an orange Ice. When they came down Jill wore a frown Jack didn't have the price. Needed It. "That man is a walking university." "He is?" "Yes." "Well, I declare."' "Surprised?" "Yes. If he knows so much I'd think he would not walk, but use a motorcar and get his hair cut." Didn't Look It. "See that lady?" "Yes." "She knows all about raising chil dren." "Does she?" "You bet 6he does!" "Doesn't look like a spinster aunt either, does she?" Had a Choice. "Dogs make up with me right away." "That is a ign of one of two things." "Whnt are they?" "Either that you are a good man" "Yes." "or else that you look like a saa age." Quite Young. "lie is very young." "Do you think so?" "I know It." "How young is he?" "Well, he knows absolutely every thing." Ideal Clime. "We have 305 days of sunshine," eald the land boomer. "And doesn't it ever rain?" "Sure at night" Miraoulous. "What has become of the boy who 05ed to spit 1etween bis teeth?" "He grew up." Attained at Last. Above the crowds the aeroplanes Like eagle go a.-flying. Man toward the eun hie alrahlp train. And almott without try Ins, Into the modern echetne of thin re A an attachment nttlns" As on the air he spreads his wines And leisurely a-oea flltttn. Reward of years of patient toll And echemlnr and endeavor. Man aeemed bound tichtly to the swO Forever and forever. For many a poor Darius Green, With labor, pain and trouble. Appeared a moment on the eoooa. Then went up aa a bubble. And many a young Inventive mind With old umbrella cover Toyed with what trapping be could find The eecret to discover. And many a limb waa out of Joint And many a heart vu broken Before they reached that happy point Where worda of praise were spoken. IIow much they owed to thoae old chaps Who early fault uncovered And showed how not to fly perhaps Will never be discovered. These modems who have really flown Up, up. where men may view them Take all the glory aa their own. Perhaps it's coming to them. Hoarseness In a child subject to croup Is a sure Indication of the ap proach of the disease. If Chamber Iain's Cough Remedy Is given at once or even after the croupy cough has appeared it will prevent the at tack. Contains no poison. Sold by all druggists. J.