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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1912. THE ARGUS. I Published DaUy ana weekly at im Second avenue. Roc laiane. Ill En- na lered at ths postofnce aa second-class natter.l Iwk laUad Hntn of tae A tale4 BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS. Dally. 10 cents per week. Weekly, f 1 per year In advance. Complaints of delivery service should be made to the circulation eepartment. srhlch should also be notified In every Instance where It Is desired to navel,. paper discontinued, as carriers have bo authority In the premlsea All communication! ot argumentative character, political or rellcioua, must Lava real name attached for publlca- Horn. No such articles will be printed aver fictitious sirnaturea. Telephones In all departments: Central Colon. Weat 14$ and 1145; Union Elec tric 1145. Thursday, January 11, 1912. The bar of justice is becoming a veritable confessional. We haven't heard of a speech by Bob La Follette for two days. b'ai'oodrow Wilson wrote and may h,J regretted. That makes him , lan, like the rest ot us. ,Ths man who keeps on saying that r. Bryan Is politically dead, may aa .veil be ready to retract at any time. Baltimore thinks the privilege of nominating the next president of the United States is honor enough for one city. It la about time that high toned as well as low toned criminals were made to understand that "murder Is murder." People would think more of La Fol- lette'a progressive ideas if he would cet out of the party intrenched in tandpatlsm. If a man asks for something to eat and a place to warm his hands on days Mke these, he's entitled to the benefit of any doubt. Lots of ice being put up this win ter, but will ice cream be any cheaper next summer, or will larger portions be served for a dime? Every country that has tried boy- cot ting the goods of another country has found it a costly business and has bad to drop it or resort to subterfuge to eet what It needs. Russia will prove. to exception it it ventures upon the experiment. The parents of a Missouri bride un- der age have required the prospective bridegroom to give a $5,000 bond against divorce and to insure her sup- port for five years as a condition to their consent to the marriage. The stipulation is in line with the Missouri policy of "being shown." In an Unenviable Pooition. United States Senator Robert La Follette, who last week made a politi cal scouting trip through the state of Illinois, may be making a courageous fight for certain fundamental princi ples, and one may admire nlni for his enthusiastic advocacy of the initia tive, referendum, recall and the direct election of united States senators, but while be Is around lambasting Taft and Roosevelt he Is placing him self in a rather unenviable position from a partisan point of view. Per haps be lias decided to hue to the line and let the chips fall where they may, but what's he going to do after the republican party nominates Taft or Roosevelt? LaFollette cannot be nominated. The convention will be dominated by the special interests. So, after the convention. LaFollette will probably find himself supporting those very in terests which he is now bo vigorously opposing in big pre-conventlon cam paign. That is what makes his campaign seem inconsistent. It is a situation which explodes his theory that the re- publican party is a better and surer agency for the application of demo- crauc principles than the democratic party. Senator LaFollette had better come over to the democratic party where he will flnd lees opposition from the special interests and where his ef forts to promote democratic principles will be more effective. Stranded Actors and the Cause. The report that there are 1,500 ac tors and actresses stranded in Chicago does not mean, necessarily, that the theatrical profession Is being over crowded. So observes the St. Louis Times. A very large majority of players of recognized standing are hard at work; if they could be In two places at once, there would still be work for thera to do. Even the more meritorious of the obscure performers are safely placed. Of course, there are a few people with talent to sell who have trouble in finding a manager who needs them, but this Is the case every season. The truth appears to be that the Inflated popularity of the musical com edy in all parts of the Unked States for nearly a dread has brought Into the profession, or to the outskirts of the profession, hundreds of people who have made their living on the stage for a few seasons, but who very certainly are not actors or actresses. They were trained to take a part in the pictures which constituted a good part of most musical comedies; tut their Talus was very limited. row tnat ins moving picture stage caugnt me eye ot tne puoiic. blch cares for entertainment consist- Ing mainly of nervous movement. many musical comedies of the legiti mate piaynonses nave, a naro row to hoe. There will continue to be thous ands of "actors and actresses" out of work until the men and women con cerned discover that they were tem porarily useful in a second grade spe cies of entertainment, and return to their normal occupations again. For the real actor or actress, as for the real expert In any line, there i. Protection and Immigration. Hlgn protectionists always address their appeals to farmers and working- men. "High tariff,"- they argue, "means high nrices for farm products an(j nlj;n wages for the workers." Last year 145,000 American farmers all of whom were supposed to be en joying the fruits of a high tariff, left this country and went to Canada. In the same period approximately a mil lion laborers came to this country from abroad, 81 per cent of them com ing from the south of Europe, where wages are low, education almost noth ing, and standards of living primitive and filthy. These laborers are taken in by the trusts at wages but little better than they get at home, and under conditions of employment un thinkable to American worklngmen. Thus the high tariff drives out good American farmers, and brings in what? ILLINOIS NEWS For New Drainage Law. Springfield, Jan. 11. Revision of the state laws governing drainage of farm lands was demanded at the sec ond annual meeting of the Drainage and Levee District association here yesterday. About 60 engineers, land owners and drainage district attor neys were in attendance. The asso ciation was divided on the question of complete revision of the existing statutes. T. D. Masters of Spring field led the forces which advocated a codification of the laws, which D. E. Worthington of Jacksonville and others opposed. Officers elected for 1012 were as follows: President H. J. Puterbaugh, Mackinaw First Vice President Louis Low ensteln, White Hall Second Vice President H. B. Ad- kinson, New Canton. Secretary-treasurer Guy Shaw, Beardstown. Directors Edward Boyle, Chica- go; Eugene Brown, Peoria; H. B. Adklnson, New Canton; C. W. Brown Jacksonville; W. M. Sides, er sallies; W. F. Rogers, Meredosia; George Skinner, Princeton; C. J. Lumpkin, Carlinville state pair is neia at a loss. Springfield, Jan. 11. The 1911 Illinois state fair was held at a loss 0f $13,421.93, according to the re port of J. N. Dykerson, secretary of the state board of agriculture, which is in annual session in this city. A change of policy In premium awarde and a number of other reforms were advocated by George A. Anthony, president, in his annual report. Man Robbed, Cast Into Creek. East St. Louis, Jan. 11. After taking $69 and a watch valued at $60 from Albert Foebel, two high waymen carried their victim half a mile to the Cahokla creek and threw him into the icy water. Foebel spent two hours at the bead of a posse searching for his ausailants before he reported the matter to the police. Judicial Election la Ordered. Springfield, Jan. 11. Governor Deneen has ordered a special election in the 13th judicial district for the purpose of choosing a successor to the late Judge Richard M. Skinner of Princeton. The primary will be held March 12 and the election April 9. Colonel Wiley Dead. Peoria, Jan. 11. Colonel Lemanuel Wiley, 6S years of age, veteran of the civil war and for the last eight years Ian assistant doorkeeper of the house of representatives at Washington, died from the effects of a second stroke of paralysis which attacked him last month. He is survived by his widow. Low Fare for Troops Upheld. Springfield. Jan. 11. In an opinion given out by Attorney General Stead it is declared to be no violation of the law for railroads or interurbans to give special rates to members of the Illinois National guard going to and from attendance at drills. The interurban road between Kewanee and Galva is willing, should there be no violation of law, to grant the guardsmen a reduction in fare. To Reduce Inspector's Force. Springfield, Jan. 11. The recent de cision of the superem court sustaining the law directing that all fees of the grain inspector's office in Chicago be turned into the state treasury and that an appropriation be made to pay salaries of employes in the office, re sulted in a decision by the Civil Ser vice commission to reduce by two the force of men in the Chicago office. Town's Coal Famine Broken. Sterling. 111. Jan. 11. The Hoopoles coal famine was broken yesterday when a dummy engine on the tracks of the Dixon, Rock Falls & Southwest ern, which have been closed by legal process, hauled three carloads of coal Into the town. Gaurds appointed by the mayor apportioned the coal to the sufferers. HE4RT aiicl HOME Problems "When out of sight the poor arej often out of mind." Dear Mrs. Thompson I am 45 years old and I am engaged to a girl of 20. Her parents object be cause they say I am too old for her. Do you think J. ought to disregard their wishes. BACHELOR. The question is one entirely for you and the young woman and u you are both willing there is no more to be said. Thousands of hap py unions have taken place where there has been a great difference in the ages. e e e Dear Mrs. Thompson I am a girl 17 years of age. My hair comes out by the handfuls. Please tell me what to do for it. A friend of mine told me alcohol and castor oil mix-1 ed was a good remedy, but I have used it without success. BLOND. To stop the hair from falling out, take a bottle of two-thirds sweet oil and one-third pure ammonia. You can get it at the drug store. If the scalp is tender, use more oil and less ammonia, rne ammonia causes a smarting sensation, which makes the scalp' more healthy, while the oil prevents It from Injuring the hair with the fingers. Castor oil and al cohol are used as an invigorator with other ingredients, as follows: One quart bay rum, one pint alcohol, one Comment From Capital BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER.. . (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) Washington, Jan. 7. President Taft has just taken an action which is worth millions of dollars to the paper trust, by refusing to permit the free entry of print paper and wood pulp from Germany, Sweden and other countries justly entitled to that con cession. When the reciprocity bill was pass ed a provision was tacked to it pro viding for the free admission of print paper and wood pulp from Canada. It was so arranged that this provision became law whether the reciprocity act was agreed to by Canada or not. Therefore print paper and wood pulp are now admitted free from Canada. MADE STRONG ARGUMENT. As soon as this provision became a law, Germany, Sweden and other countries asked to be allowed to also send print paper and wood pulp into the United States free of duty. "We have treaties with you," de clared these nations to the United States, "Providing that you are to ex tend the same concessions to us that you extend to any other nation. There fore, since you allow Canada to send in these articles free of duty, we, under the most favored nations' clause, are justly entitled to the same rights." Obviously, this argument is un answerable. However, the president has just an nounced, through the treasury depart ment, that duties will be collected as heretofore on all print paper Imported from any other country than Canada. The announcement was made after Mr. Taft had consulted with Secretary of State Knox and Attorney General f,'5A,y yj -iff ' - - MRS CrfLBOST M. HITCHCOCK cuspvnlft . Mrs. Olbert H. Hitchcock, wife of Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, haa become decidedly popular in the brief time she has lived In Washington. She Is a beautiful woman, with charming manners and a pleasing personality. ...r-.vji. , .. J s. V ' 4 Uka ELIZABETH THQMRX2J ounce castor oil, one ounce tincture canthatldes and one pint sweet oil. Have this prepared at the drug store and use two or three times a week after you have stopped using the first. e e e Dear Mrs. Thompson I am a sensible man, 35 years old, and work in a factory. I have a chance to go to Victoria. B. C. where I could have outdoor work and opportuni ties I could never have here. My friends are here, so I am undecided, What would you advise me to do? WAITING It is your duty to make the most of your life and if you will be hap pier in the fields of a great colony than you are likely to be cooped up in a factory, you should start with' out delay. No one succeeds in place where he works under a con stant sense of wrong. Go speedily to that part of the world where your energy and enterprise are more likely to be rewarded than here. Wickersham. The president advises the European nations to the customs court of appeals, which, it is declared, is only a subterfuge. YET CONCEDES JUSTICE. President Taft has declared he ia willing to concede the justice of de mands for cheaper paper, but when the opportunity offers, his act refutes his words and promises and shows that he is against giving even the slightest concession to free trade. The tariff on print paper is to all practical ends a tax on Intelligence, because in this day and age the great mass of the people receive their edu cation on public questions through the newspapers. With print paper practi cally controlled by a trust, the price has been systematically boosted, so as to work hardship on the prosperous publishers, and to make print paper nigh on to prohibitive to many of the small country publishers, whose earnings are not any too great at best. BILL. WORTH NOTHING. Meanwhile there is pending a bill introduced by Senator Heyburn, which proposes to repeal the Canadian reci procity act. Having been rejected by Canada, the law is dead without be ing repealed. But if the act is repealed the live added section providing for free print paper and wood pulp would also be repealed, and the old tax on paper even from Canada would be re&tored. Since the tax on Canadian print pa per and wood pulp has been repealed more than 80 independent paper com panies have started up in opposition to the trust, which fact explains the reason of the joker in the "Heyburn repealer." Mqdlp ryew 4 f ' ' VlV" 'fly -if It if v a. r. a.v '.- riyA '. 4 vtrif-lf J aat t.rv : : a Humor and Philosophy "r M. SMITH MODIFYING. A T aweet sixteen a Rlrl la not A creature any one can please. She haa her grand ideas formed , And man In large perspective sees. His hair must be exactly so; Ilia necktie must be warm and straight She doesn't think about the cash. That comes In at a later date. At twenty as she comes along Her taste Is somewhat modified. She wants a poet or a man Who to the wheel of art Is tied. An actor of the tragic sort Attracts her as be stalks the stage. A man who's reckless with a car With her is something of a rage. At twenty-flve she settles down And In her mind begins to plan To capture. If he cornea her way. A good, substantial business man. A lawyer with a finished front Perhaps might win her eye and heart. Or she might take a doctor In If he could show he had a start. At thirty, then it is a case Of reason and of so much per She wants a man to pay the bills And one who will be good to her. Not any dub who comes along With sweet, romantic eyea will do. She's after substance, coupled with A manly heart that's warm and true. Proficient. "He can't make a living, can he?" "Oh, yes." "That so? I didn't suppose him sMll ful enough in anything to make a live lihood at It." "Sure! You should see the ease and facility with which he is able to bor row money." Costs Something. "I see dressed chickens cost more than undressed." 4 "Naturally." "But why should they?" "Why shouldn't they? With the present price of eggs they could afford to dress In the latest Paris styles.' Her Trouble. "What is the matter with Stella ? She looks as Tas a ghost and as thin. "She ate some of Bell's wedding cake Halloween to dream on, and now she Is worrying for fear she will marry the man she dreamed about. Different Check. "He says he will keep a check on his wife's expenditures." "He isn't married yet?" "No, but he soon will be." "Yes, and he will keep a check book on them." Hard on Her. "He never told a lie In his life." "Ia he a married man?" "Yes." "Then he hasn't mnch consideration for his wife's happiness." The Way of a Maid. "She doesn't expect to be married.' "Why, what in the world has come over her?" "She prefers to be surprised." Something of a Liar. "He doesn't believe half he says him self." "Well, I don't believe the other half." Hazardous. Truth travels by the longest way If It gets on at all. While error takes the aeroplane, But often has a fall. PERT PARAGRAPHS. Good advice is given away, and that Is just about what it is worth. ' It is all right to be willing, but Just that plants no potatoes. The Lord may love a cheerful giver, but we often wonder how he stands on the cheerful would be receivers. When a woman gets busy with her Imagination there are going to be things doing In her vicinity. Some persons lire for those they love, but more live for what they can pet out of them. A diplomat is the man that embodies the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful liar. Getting satisfied and remaining sat isfied are two separate, and distinct conditions that spell the difference be tween temperamental person and the other kind. The man who never gets into trou ble is exempt because he hands some body else over to do the diving act. The woman who thinks she is beau tiful and the man who expects to get rich were perhaps created for the pur pose of dislllusionizine each other. Have you a weak throat? If so, you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another and the last is always the harder to cure. If you will take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the outset you will be saved much trouble. Sold by all druggists. I v I The Argus Hi3 Avenger- By Clarissa Mackie. Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau. The men of the Lone Bull ranch bad finished supper and were gathered about the long table over newspapers and cards. Moat of them were smok ing, and the air was blue with the ex halations from ripes and cigarettes. The Chinese cook flapped into the room noisily. He addressed the com pany impartially in a high, complain ing voice: "Him, Hally Bally, no come eat chow; him sabe I keep chow velly hot till him come alound!" Harry Barry's seven comrades fixed piercing eyes on the cook. Gnbriel spoke, smothering a yawn with one lean hand before he did so. I guess he sabe you'll keep his sup per hot for him, Lee. If you don't" he paused significantly, and the wrath ful Chinaman found seven blue muz sled revolvers focused upon different parts of Ms anatomy. "Understand?" snapped Gabriel. Lee's straw slippers flapped restless ly on the bare floor. His frightened, beady eyes roved from one to another of the stern faces, ne nodded his head like a toy mandarlu. "Yes, yes, I sabe velly, velly much!" You will keep Mr. Barry's supper hot for him?" Velly hot!" said Lee forcibly. "As hot as" And he named the hottest place there is. The seven were still shaking witn silent laughter over the episode when there came the rapid thud of small hoofs and the Widow Clancy slipped from her saddle at the door and stood before them. "Where is Harry Barry?" she de manded In a low. Intense voice. All the pretty color had fled from her face, and her pallor was enhanced by the vivid auburn of her lovely hair. "Where is Harry Barry?" she repeat ed as they arose and clustered around her. "We've been expecting him every minute. He oughter been back long ago," drawled Gabriel. "Mebbe his horse went lame," sug gested the Crane from the background. One or two others offered suRgestions as to the probable cause of Harry Bar ry's absence even while they expected to witness his dashing arrival at any instant. At last they stood mutely be fore the pale widow and waited for her to speak again. "You're a clever lot of fabricators!" she sneered. A look of concern came into Gabriel's face. "You don't think he's got into any trouble, Mrs. Clancy?" he asked quickly- "As if you didn't know!" Her voice trembled with grief and anger. "As if you didn't know! What has he done that you the men that he called his mates, his friends yes. every one of you what has he done that you should string him to the tallest cottonwood at the springs?" "What!" thundered Gabriel, pushing forward. "Harry Barry hanging where did you say?" The seven who loved the merry hearted comrade whose grave danger had caused them alarm on another occasion listened with white faces while Mrs. Clancy explained in a shaking voice: "I saw biru myself. His horse was staked under the tree. I was a qunr ter of a mile off when I happened to see him dangllnjr up there in the tree." She hid her face in her hands and shuddered. "I was looking for a lost critter and had my fleldglasses." "Mrs. Clancy," said Gubrlel heavily, for he loved narry like a younger brother, "there is some mistake. You can count pn the seven of us to avenge Harry If harm has come to him." "I am his avenger," said Mrs. Clancy coldly. "I want you seven to come along with me." The seven silently obeyed more from pity for the agitated woman than be cause they were fearful of her threats. narry Barry's comrades were grief stricken at the dlsnster that hod over taken their friend'. What could he have done to have merited the severest penalty of that unprotected country, where Justice is swiftly meted out wherever it is outraged, with the dome of heaven for a courtroom and the vic tims for Judge and Jury? Crane, who was leading the file, turned and spoke to Gabriel, who was next. "You remember once before we was hauled out to save Harry, the time when we got the letter about the Last Hope?" "Sure," returned Gabriel, "and we found thnt the Last nope was the na me of a mine he'd discovered. Mebbe there ain't anything in this either." ne smiled hopefully. . The Widow Clancy's voice came nervously shrill from the rear. "Laugh, will yon?" she cried. "One of yon laugh again and I'll p-put a a b-bul-let through y-y-you!" She sudden ly broke into tears and bowed her head on the neck of her pony. Gabriel was beside her in an instant. "You're mistaken, Mrs.' Clancy," he said soothingly. "We was only re membering that narry scared us once before. You rememler we've told yon about the Last Hope mine and how we rode all night chasing that boy, only to find him alive and well at the end of the trip, and we can't help but think there's some mistake now and that Harry can't be done away with." "But I saw him!" cried jthe widow plaintively. "I saw him there, his head drooping. Oh, it was awful!" "We think we're sure that he wouldn't do one of the things he'd have to hang for," was Gabriel's ear nest assurance. "Of course lie wouldn't!" Mrs. Clan cy lifted her tear stained face and turned drenched blue eyes upon him. Gabriel was relieved. To see the spuiiky little widow giving way to grief was so foreign to her disposition that be was alarmed. "Mebbe you'd like to wait here while we go and investigate." be suggested, but the widow was firm in her deter mination to be on the soot. Daily Story "You ain't used to such scenes, ma'am," protested Crane mildly, for they had paused to discuss the quea tlon. "I may as well get used to it if it kills me," declared Mrs. Clancy, and then, fixing glowing eyes upon each in turn, she said earnestly: "I want yon to understand I appreciate you've been good friends to me ever since I came from the east, and I know you've al ways been good friends to Harry, but if I'm convinced that his being up there is your fault why, why, the whole seven of you will bang for it if I have to do it myself!" The widow looked per fectly capable of engineering any num ber of lynohlngs at that moment. Absurd as was the situation from one point of view, there was the tragedy in the background, and it was a grave ly preoccupied party that swung around the last hill as the sun dropped its lower rim below the horizon. A yellow shaft of sunlight struck the cottonwoods, and from the tallest one something dangled from a stout upper limb. "Don't you look, ma'am wait tin we come back," commanded Gabriel with endden authority, and he pressed a flask Into her hand. The brave hearted little widow sud denly lost courage and bowed her head once more on the neck of her pony. When the seven pounded to a stand still under the cottonwood tree they slipped from their saddles and hesitat ed. Harry Barry's roan horse whin nied sharply, and then, apparently from the air above them, came a fam iliar voice, peevish, as if from long waiting. "Don't stand staring like Idiots! I'm plumb tired out hanging up here!" it said. The seven turned awed looks upon ene another, and as by one accord the youngest and strongest, the two Lew ises, Jim and Tim, sprang toward the tree and fairly spurred their way up into the lower branches, from which they mounted higher. Then there came the sound of several voices raised in inquiry, explanation and direction. After awhile three men came down the tree instead of the two who had climbed np. The third man was Harry Barry, and the others were helping him, for his limbs seemed stiff and his face was quite pale. He smiled as cheerily as ever as they gathered around him. "Another one on me," he grinned sheepishly when they had administer ed restoratives to him. "I was coming back from dosing the sick critter, when I took a notion to climb that there tree and look around the land and see if there was anybody I knew sashaying around laugh if yon wanter!" he said as a knowing smile went the round of the group. "I went up in the tree, and I looked, and I thought I saw way off an old friend of mine" (he showed all his white teeth), "and so I was in a hurry to get down, and my heel caught in a crooked little branch, and I fell ker plunk till a handy little stump of a broken limb caught hold of my belt, and there I hung as fine as silk. That was all beautiful and nice, only, genta, it was so that there was a sharp little prongy branch sticking out of the tree right behind my shoulders, and I couldn't move hand or foot with out ketchlng It like a knife, so there I hung till I went to sleep a while back. When I woke up I was all numb and cold from banging there. I'm feeling better now, thanks. Next thing I knew I heard you fellers coming and seen you out the corner of my eye." They examined the small ragged tear in Harry's shirt between his shoulder blades, and they saw that the flesh was red and bruised from the tortur ing branch that had pierced it. "You had a narrer escape," said Gabriel Hoberly. "I guess you won't get to breaking no laws now," Joked Hem Wayland. "You've somehow got a taste of what a necktie party feels like when you're the guest of honor." Crane had ridden ahead to break the good news to Mrs. Clancy, and Gabriel suddenly vaulted into bis saddle and wheeled about. "We chaps better be making for the Lone Bull. Lee's keep ing your Bupper hot for you, narry!" "And there's a lndy waiting around the corner for you," ndded Jim Lewis over his shoulder as he followed Crane. "A lady who ah!" The question died on narry Barry's lips as the Wid ow Clancy's little pony dashed toward the cottonwood tree, bearing a slender, erect figure, with an aureole of au burn hair and dancing blue eyes. There was no lack of color in her cheeks as she saw the stalwart form of narry. "Gosh! Let's gpt out of this!" gasped Jim Lewis as he followed the rest of the seven in their mad dash to escape the tender scere that would follow. "Let's go home and see Lee has sup per plenty hot for them," suggested Gabriel, and soon the faithful seven were dim dots on the twlllt plain. Following them In the mystic light tame narryBarry and his sweetheart, riding slowly, hand in hand. Jan. 11 in American History 1757 General Alexander Hamilton, soldier and statesman, secretary of the treasury under Washington, born; killed by Aaron Burr 1804. 1825 Bayard Taylor, author, born; died 1S78. 1844 Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star Spangled Banuer," died In Baltimore; born 1780. 1902 Horace E. Scudder, noted au thor, died: born 183$. The man who Is delighted with bis Christmas gift from his wife exists largely In magazines advertisements.