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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. TIIE ARGUS. Published dally at 1624 Second ave- jtoi-test between John K'.rl y, Jr.. for-; nut, Rock Inland. 111. (Entered at themr president of the National Asso- P'Atofflc as second-class matter.) rk Island Member of the Associates;! Prrna. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERM. Ten cents per week ty car-, rosired Mulhall, Interrupting his testl rler. 'a Kock Island. mony and pointing at Klrby. "I can- CoapLiints of delivery service should.jnot testify while he sticks out his be. ma5 to tM circulation department, which should a'.so be notified in every , Instance where It U desired to have paper discontinued, as carriers have noj j authority In the premises. All communications of argumentative $ character, political or religious, must 't have real r.amo attached for rubllca- tion." ICo such articles will be printed,' I over nctitious signature. Telephones In an departments: Cen- tral Union, West 145 1145 and 2145. I -! Friday, September 5, 1913. The Projects to Be Voted For Following are the propositions to be I voted for at the special election Sept. 11, which separately and collectively i promise for Rock Island's Improve t ment, development and expansion, and ? every one of which Is entitled to the ? approval of the voters: Purchase of Island City baseball f park, 11 acres, $20,000; eight-year bonds. Construction of elevated tank at reservoir station, $22,000; 10-year bonds. v Flooring of Rock river bridges with concrete, $5,000; five-year bonds. Installation of police alarm sys tem, $10,000; 10-year bonds. Extencion of water mains along Eighteenth avenue from Twenty fourth ta Fifteenth street, and in newly annexed territory, $17,00C; eight-year bonds. Erection of new fire station In new'y annexed territory and ex tension of fire alarm system In that district, $16,000; eight year bonds. Annexation of a further strip of territory In South Rock Island, running from the city limits to Brashar street, south, and from Twelfth street west to the Missis sippi river, exclusive of the trjfct already made a part of the city. I Bear In mind that the bonds for ji waterworks extensions, including ele- vated tank on the bluff as well ac the mains on Eighteenth avenue and out ! Into the newly annexed territory, ag " gregating $39,000 all told, are not to " be paid by general taxation, but out of the earnings of ths waterworks de partment. Enforce the traffic regulations. En- force them an they apply to everybody. Every proposition on the special election referendum ballot to bo sub mitted to the people next Thursday should carry. Remember, the special election oc curs Thursday of next week and not Tuesday, as Is the impression erron eously prevailing in some sections of the city. Vote and vote right. If you want Rock Island to expand and develop Into a first class city with all ttie advantages of a first class city, vote affirmatively on all the proposl tlons to be put up to you in the special election. President Gomes and the Infiara matory Castro have come to terms In Venezuela. The terms are not stated, but it may safely be presumed that Castro is to retain his sword, spurs, ieggings ana ouier maruui Dnc-a-orac. The youth who fed his discarded love letters to a goat may have fig ured, remembering how one of the fcpecios who had cleaned a clothes line saved its own life by coughing up a red flannel shirt and flagging a train, that he will be able to get them back again. KCEP UlT THE CVHHHS. fit Intruders should be barred from the camp of the Joliot honor prisoners who are working on the highways of ': Illinois. Feop'.e have no right to let .', their curiosity prompt them to Uie ex tent f annoying men who have been i placed on their honor and who, as it is presumed, are now trying to do right. ;. Governor Dunne has the utmost, con . fidence in the success of the plan ' i.ow in progress and if by this means ' men who have been condemned and i punished learn to realize what liberty means and how to win it, Illinois may row be teaching the world the best moral lesson on how to govern and direct the lawless that it has ever known. Cooperation is what the state needs j In Its experiment and people who are muiru a o.vy nu 0'.iv i pnsoueisun i'iiif euumu urvruvitu, like the loiterer ou the corner, to move on. THE I t H L It t' HEAT Kn, . Chairman Garrett of the Mulhall In vestigating committee Wednesday pre rented what promised to be the most picturesque and pleasing part of the proceedings pending In Vrtishington to date. Colonel Mulhall desired to pull the nose of his former employe, Mr. Klrby of the Manufacturers associa tion and the latter would hav no doubt ewunk upon the colony's ja-A', and as a good thrashing is about what ' both deserve, the publ's lui3 been cheated out 'of its Just due. Accnid-f itipr to the dispatches a njse pulling l elation of Manufacturers, and Martin M.- Mulhall, one time lobbyist, was threatened before the house lobby com mittee, but was prevented by Chair man Garrett. "I protest against that man sitting ibver there and making faces at me" tongue at me. He did the same thing when I appeared before the senate committee." "You will have to restrain your self," admonished Chairman Garrett. "I can't do it whUe he makes faces at me," shouted Mulhall. "If he Is a gentleman and will m';t me outside, squarely, 111 pull his nose.' Chairman Garrett ordered Kirby to Change his seat out of the range of Mulhall's vision and quiet was re- stored. MINHIPAI, GOVERAMEXT. At last there seems to be t, move ment toward amalgamation of pro gressive forces in the great municipal ities of the United States for govern mental reform. Party lines have been erased in many cities with 200,000 or 300,000- population and less, but the party bosses have been able to retain party lines in the metropoli tan centers. Great cities like Chi cago, New' York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Baltimore have long been, held In the grip of the partfssm bosses and their allied interests. Efforts toward erasure of party lines in mnnicipal govern ment have been nipped in the bud by the bosses. Republicans and dem ocrats with progressive tendencies have been divided into warring groups, opposing their mutual Interests and playing constantly into the hands of the ward-heeling bosses because they were labeled democrats and republi cans when going to the polls to decide questions which have no more relation to parties than a franchise has to the shape of the moon. It has been absolutely amazing how long the party ward-heelers have been able to control enlightened communi ties and to array cne group of patriots against another group oPpatriots with a fake party cry and make them fight over the election of so-called "demo cratic" or "republican" alderman who know no party relation when "deliver ing" to the bor.ses in return for hav ing been "put over" by them. But the light of hope is shining. New York City is in the midst of a bitter municipal election fight. Party lines are being swept aside. In Phil adelphia the progressives of all parties are combining against the old Penross machine. People are asserting inde pendence in municipal affairs. People In the cities of the United States are realising that they must combine to protect their own inter ests. They are beginning to realize that in municipal elections there should be but two divisions the pub lic-spirited on one side and the self seeking on the other. It seems safe to prtdict that In an other decade there will not be a city in the country where municipal elec tions are held along party lines. The issue everywhere will be service as against self: public progress as against partisan self. I)OIG HIKM TO JUS OWN CAI.LIXG. Listen, ye who hear it 6aid that what we need In our affairs is Judicial calm and poise and sanity. It is Judge John E. Humphries of Seattle speaking, and his reference Is to those who criticise his recent aourse in Seattle as contemptuous of the consti tution: "They can't get rid of me. I shall be a straddle of their necks for a long time to come. The only way they can get rid of me is to impeach me befort the legislature of the state of Wash ington for high crimes and misde meanors. The legislature doesn't meet again for nearly two years. I tell you the only to get rid of a judge is by impeachment, and they can't Impeach me. I am not a violator of law. I am I not immoral. I am not a itmnl-iirit I never took a drink of whiskey 'in my life, so they can't Impeach me for drunkenness. I never gambled in my life. I am not connected with any cor poration, so they can't charge me with Irrigating ditches like they did Han ford, and there is not crookedness of any kind or description they can charge against me." Here is insolent contempt of public opinion putting Judge Humphries on a par with Commodore Cornelius Van derbilt, who said: "The public be damned," and with Boss Tweed in his halcyon days. It Is easy to understand how a man of such temper would for bid peaceable street metlngi and sub stitute his personal will for law. It is easy to understand, from hig utterances, why there is a widespread demand that all judges be elected bt the people instead of placing federal jurists in the life tenure job by ap pointment and this notwithstanding that Former President Taft has just said that all Judges should receive office by appointment Fortunately all Judges are not of the Humphries type, but his attitude and the helplessness of the people to reach land oust hira constitute a sufficient ; cause for thinking that there ehouid some ineuoa ot making men of uin class answerable to the people 1 WIRE SPARKS Point Burrow, Alaska The whaler Karink. with the Stefansson exploring expedition, arrived here after haviti; been stuck in the Ice for several days. New York John Schrank, who shot Theodore Roosevelt and is now In the insane asylum In Winnebago, Wis., is to be fcerved by publication with notice of a foreclosure suit cn a house , in this city which is Inherited from bis Capital Comment BY CLYDE H. TAVENNEF. Congressman frcm the Fourteenth 0 (strict. (Special Corresgondence of The Argus.) "Washington. D. C. Sept, 3. The1 bill introduced by. Representative Robert L. Crosser, of Cleveland, i Ohio, providing for the municipal ownership of the traction lines of i Washington, . D. C, deserves a bet ter fate than to die in a pigeon hole. The house ' and the senate both ought to have the oppor tunity of express ing themselves ou this important subject. Mr. Cros ser is confident that his bill will be reported out of committee for consideration CUYDE ri, by congress, and TAVENNER . it is to be hoped that this confi dence is Justified. No large city In the United States has public service corporations so in solently contemptuous of the public as those in Washington. And the street car companies stand at the head of them. Their whole attitude is one of the public be damned. And they have good and sufficient reason for feeling secure in the face of any popular criticism. The peop of Washington have no voice in their hand-me-down government. The pub lic service corporations have to deal only with appointed city commission ers, and appointed pubiic utilities board, and behind both of them the district committees of congress and congress Itself. In the past these agencies who exercise their paternal istic watch over the voteless public of Washington have been only too pliable In the hands of the bloated corporations. Eut now a new Bpirit has crept into congress, and the public service cor porations would do well to look at such measures as the one introduced by Crosser and read the handwriting cn the wall. Before the vested inter ests of Washington were aware of it uncle. The property, wprth $15,001 is mortgaged for Jl'3,000. Washington Chile may decline to participate in the Panama-Pacific ex position, according to a report to the state department from Henry P. Fletcher, American minister in San tiago. Salina, Kan. A national officiaj paper will be established by the Na tional Farmers' union to disseminate information regarding the progress of legislation in which farmers are con cerned. C. S. Barrett of Union City, Ga., was reelected president. Galesburg, 111. Mrs. rence, Btate regent of G. A. Law- fho Tlaiichtprs oi me American nevoiuucn, announc ed that all chapters in the state are expected to take part in the presen tation of a flagstaff and flags at Starved Rock tomorrow. St. Louis Robert Charles Greer. who came here from Stroud, Okla., was informed by an officer of the Chil; dren's Home society of Missouri that he is the son of William and Amelii Greer, who died in Mississippi coun ty. Mo., 15 years ago. New York As a result of the long shoremen's etrike at Hoboken the Hsmburg-American liner President Lincoln was Eent to South Brooklyn to "The Young Lady ! r - 4 The young lady across the may says she doesn't see how Shakespeare had time to write so many complete works whea he contributed to many short stories to the Book of Familiar Quotations. the present district committee of the house was filled wtth young men bringing a new ideal for Washington the ideal of having the national capital not only the most beautiful city in the world from the artistic standpoint, but also the model city of the United States In its civic institu tions and government. Crosser is one of the new members of that committee, and he comes from Cleveland, which is famed for having the most enlightened city government in the United States. In Crosser the spirit of the late Tom L. Johnson veritably goes marhcine on." . John son was the great municipal crusader of this country. He exhausted his health and his wealth in a victorious struggle to restore to the people of Cleveland the ownership of their streets. The Crosser municipal own ership bill may be regarded as the continuance of Tom Johnson's fight In Cleveland transferred to Wash ington. While Johnson was battling for the control of the Cleveland street car lines Crosser was a flery-souled young lawyer following in his train and attracting little attention at the time. Since then Johnson has died, and Crosser has arisen. He wrote the initiative and referendum-amendment to the new Ohio constitution. And when the people of the Buckeye state elected him as their representative-at-large last fall, it was a tribute to his services and his ability. Although he has been silently observing things in Washington since he took office on March 4, In the intimacy of the cau cus room members have been seeking him out and marking him for one of the coming strong men of congress. Crosser may be relied upon to push his municipal ownership bill with all of his energy and ability. He has a number of good friends on the dis trict committee who will stand behind him in his fight. But whe'her he suc ceeds or fai'.s. his bill iscertain to ac complish some. good. It will be a notice served on the street car com panies that their hold on the people's streets is not absolute, end they may respond with some consideration for the public's wishes. unload and, on the way back to Ho boken to receive passengers ran aground off Bay Ridge. Brooklyn. Six tugs towed the ship off a high tide. Providence, R. I. In a report to the Rhode Island Medical society Dr. Harry Lee Barnes', superintendent of the state sanitarium,' declared that the 120 sufferers from pulmonary tuber culosis treated by Dr. Friedrich Fried mann last April with his turtle vac cine "have shown none of the wonder ful results reported by Friedmann be fore the Berlin Medical society." A Notable Improvement Rock Island, Sept. 4. Editor The Argus: Knowing the reputation of The Argus for noting the improve ments that are made in our city, I am surprised that you have failed to record the erection of the palatial building that has occurred on the cor- uer of Nineteenth street and Fourth! avenue. As this property has for years been a disgrace to the city this improvement Is more pronounced, es pecially in view of the fact that Dr. E. M. Sala is making extensive and cost ly additions to his flat building just across the street, and that the public library is directly across Fourth ave nue. CITIZEN. Across the Way" V HENRY HOW1AND BUHS IN MI Look out for opportunity, and when It conies rusci In; Don't wait because you fear you may not have the strensth to' win; There may be others who could do your task with far more skill Than you can do it never mind so at It with a will: They cut but little figure who remain In doubt immersed. The world gives all the credit to the man who butts In first. Old Galileo probably was not a whit more wise Than many another of his day who gazed up at the skies; Columbus may not -have been blessed with special gifts that sent Him where no other might have gone to find a continent Cut they who miftht have won the fame remained in doubt immersed. The world gives him the credit who sets forth to butt in first. Old Howe's machine was but a poor con trivance at the start, McCormick's work has been Improved In every Joint and part; The boat that Fulton ran would be a funny thing today: What Morse did we have bettered, but his fame Is on to stay They did not wait for others who stood back in doubt immersed. The world gives all the credit to the man who butts in first. Making Allowances. "It is said," he began, "that Napole on's secretary was too minutes late once In keeping an engagement with the emperor, whose only comment was: 'Either you will have to get a new watch or I will have to get a new secretary- It is needless to say that the secretary was always on time af ter that." "How unreasonable," she replied. "As if two minutes were a life and death matter!" "But let us not be too hasty in draw ing conclusions," he said. "We don't know all the circumstances. Perhaps he had had an engagement before that to meet his wife at a certain time, and, in consequence, was a couple of hours behind in his work." Evidently an Exaggeration. She had been away to college, and belonged to several literary and scien- tlflc cluDS- "Father," she asked with a most startling suddenness, "did you ever stop to think that the people on this globe consume nearly 160,000,000,000 cubic yards of oxygen every year?" "Great heavens, no!" the practical old man replied. "But that must be a mistake. I never heard of anybody who controlled the output of oxygen." REVISED OPINION. "Do you consider him a man cf his wordr "Well, yes, I do." "What reason have you for do ing so?" "I called him a liar once and he said he would lick me. I sent word that he couldn't do It. We met a few days later. Yes, I consider him a man of his word all right.". Fortune and Men. To some she brings her sweets and lay Them at thtir paltes: from tome Bhe hurries off through crooked ways And fights o'er every crumb. Tet through hr strange perversity Bhe works her own defeat. Since every fought-for rramb that she Must yi!d is doubly, ev.eet. Improvement. "I'm glad to 6ay," said the strorc- ! minded lady, "I've cured my husband of smoking around the house." "Indeed!" her neighbor returned. "Atid has he given up the habit alto gether?" "Oh, no. That would be too much to expect of a mere man. He goes down to the saloon on the next corner now and does his disgusting ruffing there." Villain Out of a Job. "It is said that the villain is disap pearing from our modern fiction." "Yes. but wait. It is predicted that we will have a return to realism la fiction before long." Another Maxim Mangle "Success will come to any one who perseveres." "I am not ao sure abont that I have been married for ten years now. and rcy huslmnd hi n't liked anrtHnz that j I have had for dinner yet" Pittsburgh I Tost mm m kwum 1M v Wl I Wm The Daily Story PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT BY DONALD CHAMBERLIN. Copyrighted. ;13. by Assoclatel Literary Bureau Teter Tolizoff and Alexis Alexandra-1 vich were students at the university I at St Petersburg, Russia. They were bosom friends and both members of a ' revolutionary circle; Indeed, Aloxnn- j drovich was its president and the con ductor of its secret Djovements in be half of the revolution. rolizoEt was two years younger than his friend and of a far less rugged nature. His con fidence in Alexis was absolute, aud hit affection for him was supreme. This was at a time when the revo lution was brewing and when those instigating it were straining every nerve, taking every risk, to bring it about On the other hand, the gov ernment was aware of what was going on, the police were hunting them down, and, when caught in their work or in formed upon, they were hurried off to Siberia without even the semblance of a trial. One night at a meeting of the circle to which the two friends belonged Alexandrovich addressed the mem bers: "We are like n;en in a frail boat passing down fierce rapids. At any moment the hand of the government may fall upon any one of us or all of us. Wo cannot even trust one another. I would not be surprised to see that door broken in by the police, they hav ing been directed here by some one looking at me at this very moment For there is one thing we cannot guard against that Is, emissaries of the gov- "WILL SOU GO FOB MY SAKE?' eminent joining our circle under pre tense of being revolutionists for the purpose of betraying us. "There is another matter to which I desire to call your attention. It may be necessary for some one or more of us to be sacrificed to save the others. For the work of the circle may go on without . a part, whereas If the whole is crushed, bo far ns this organization is concerned, its efforts will cease. Be prepared, then, for that which you will not understand. If any one of you Is betrayed suspend Judgment as to the guilt or inuocence of the be trayer, for you cannot know, mny never know, whether you are betrayed to serve the purposes of the govern ment or the circle." Alexandrovich spoke the words with evident feeling, for he had got wind of the fact that they had a government spy among their number. He hud formed a counter plan by which to save the mnin body of the circle by betrayinjr to the government two or three of its members, including the spy. it being necessary to betray real revolutionists in order to make good his assertion that the spy, though pre tending to work for the government, was really working for the revolution ists. The plotting and counterplotting lasted longer than j was expected, ami Alexandrovlch's scheme was delayed. Most of the members who had heard his warning either forgot it in the con stant dangers to which they were ex posed or looked upon it as a remote possibility. He never referred to it again, considering once enough. His whole being was enlisted in the cause. He had an iron will and was able to suffer any evil himself or inflict any evil on another lu the service of civil liberty. Alexandrovich had a younger sister, Katia. The Polizoff and Alexandro vich families had been friends for years, and Peter Polizoff and Katia had grown op together. From play mates they bad become lovers. Katia lived In terror for her lover and her brother, knowing that tbey were both revolutionist and liable to suffer what she considered worse than death that Is, beteg sent In chains to work In the mines in Siberia. One day Katia ran breathlessly l;tc t the home of her lover and found hira ! at his studies. She was as white as 1 ashes. i "What la It?" exclaimed Peter, start ing up. She tried to spenk. but failed. lie clasped ber In hU arms and caressed her till she found ber voice and said la broken sentences: "Go away from here, for baton's sake for gjj auite! Go at oatqP "Wfeyr "You have been bctWfd!" i "By whom?" "I cannot tell." "1 must know." "True; If yon remain in ignorance- rthat yon have been betrayed by a rain 1 imj jjjjjjff ij rnena you are likely to fall into his Stands," "I? T.ctrayed by a friend?" "Yes." "What friend?" Her head foil on his breast She trial to speak the name, but could not At last barely audible. It raise: "My brother." "Alexis?" ."Alexis." "Katia. yon can never make me be lieve that." "Then you are lost" "I would rather go to the mines, a -slave, than lose my faith in my friend." "I know that he has betrayed you." ! "How?" "A man Is now with him whose ap pearance I did not like from the mo ment 1 saw him. Dreading always some trouble for Alexis, I feared the vlsuor Intended no good. Alexis took hira up to his room. There is a door bet. .cen It aud the adjoining chamber. I went into this apartment lay on the floor and put my enr to the interval, between the door and the lintel. I heard Alexis tell the man that you and several others were members of a rev olutionary circle." This Information coming from his betrayer's sister and his own betroth? ed stunned Polizoff. Katia was now obliged to sustain him instead of be ing sustained by him. When he had regained something of his composure he nsked: "Do you know your brother did this?" "I do. I heard his voice, which I know only too well." "Was anything said about my ar rest?" "No. but the blow is liable to fall at any moment, tlo nt once A min ute's delay may be fatnl." "No; I will remain. There has been some mistake. I ennnot believe Alexis is base. He is all that is noble." "Will you go for my 6ake?" He looked into her eyes and consent ed. He was holding her in a parting embrace when there was a knock at the door. Kntla pushed her lover through on opening; he entered a rear garden, crawled through a fence and gained a street Katia remained where she was, tak ing up a book and pretending to read. A servant went to the door, opened it, and a police, officer, attended by sev eral assistants, stepped Into the hall. He did not ask any questions, but, sending a man through to the garden in the rear to shut off escape in that direction, with the others proceeded to go through the house. After a thor ough search, not finding the object of it, he withdrew. ' Alexandrovich had Informed on three other persons, including the spy. His testimony was weakened by the escape of Teter Polizoff, who was known to be his friend, but since he was kept under surveillance by the government from the time he gave the Information to the attempted arrest it was not be lieved that he had warned the man he accused. Indeed, as soon as the ac cusation was made a party was sent to arrest Polizoff. As soon as the officials who bad failed to find Teter retired, Katia. who was not known to them as Alexandro vlch's sister, left the house and later In the day went home. She found her brother there, but the man to'wbom he had betrayed his friends had gone. Alexis looked at his sister eagerly and asked where she had been. Between a brother and a lover a woman will stand agains't the one and for the oth er. Kntln, with Are In her eye. accused him of his treachery and showered imprecations uKm him. Then, reuiem- ' bering that her brother had degraded himself, she burst luto a passion of tears. "You warned him?" asked Alexia. "Yes." "And he escaped?" V" ' "He did." "Thank heaven! I did not Intend that he should; It was not in the plan. But 1 doubt if I shall be believed to have warned him." "What do you mean?" asked Katia. Her brother told ber tbut a spy bad got Into the circle and was ready to betray every member. Playing gov ernment spy, Alexis hnd gained the confidence of the government by de nouncing his best friend and two oth ers besides the spy, who, with the rest, would be sent nt once to Siberia. "And now," he concluded, "comes the second part of my plan. I must rescue the Innocent members of our circle on their wsy to Siberia." The record of the attempt to rescue the revolutionists on their way to Si beria, an attempt thnt wns partielpat-, ed In by Peter Polizoff and In which Katia played the part of an arch de ceiver, forms n story by itself. ' The spy went on to the mines. Whether he ever succeeded In convinc ing the .government that they bad made a mistake In bis case is not known. But one fact is certain not one of those concerned In the plot that sent him to Siberia ever afterward dared lira in lliiKsia. Every one of them today Is living in the United States. Sept. 5 in American History. lS12-Indinn allies of the British a. tacked the Americans at Fort Woyne. Ohio; Fort narrison, Indi ana, and Fort Madison. Missouri. The forts withstood siege three days and repulsed the assailants. 1892 Daniel Dougherty, lawyer and noted orator, died; born 1SUG. ftf&fceaaK& ttoterul Arthur Ms. Arthur, C. . A, Mttmd, vetaran of the civil war and the campaigns in the Philippines, died at Milwau kee: born 184.1. All the Argus, news all the time Th