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4 THE ARGUS, SATURDAY, JANTJABY 18, 1002 THE ARGUS. Puauaaed Dally ut Weekly at 18S4 Seeosd Avenue, Bock .Island. CI. Entered at the Poatofflee as Seeond-claas matter.) BT THE J. W. POTTER CO. . TERMS-rOelly, to eenta per week. Weekly, Sl.00 yer year la advance. AU communications of poUtleal or argumen tative character. poUtleal or rellsloua, must have real name attached for publication. No such articles will be printed over Betlitoua sig natures. Correspondence solicited from every town ablp In Roek Island county. UNIONLABEL Saturday. Jan. 18. The czar wears a rinf in which he believe is embodied a piece of the true, cross. It was originally one of the treasures of the Vatican. Ilanna and Krye have advanced their ship prab to the point where it is to ix reported favorably to the senate. It is about time fir the subsidizing influence of the measure to become manifest. The British war ottiee is considering- the advisability of supplying false teeth to soldiers in Soilth Africa. It . 'was evident that the British had bit ten off a larger hunk than they could chew when they started that war against the Boers. "Oh. Mr. Heed," pushed a young woman to the ex-speaker, the other day, when he was in Washing-ton, "I would so like to hear you make an epigram!" "Excuse me, madam." he replied, "this is my day for compos ing epic poems." . I. Kawai. a Japanese newspaper man. is at present in St. Joseph. Mo., buying1 part of a newspaper plant, which is to be shipped to Tokio, Ja pan, to form the nucleus of a Chris tian daily. He has consulted Itev. Charles Sheldon, of Topeka. Kan., on the subject. The senate committee on commerce has authorized its chairman; Senator Frye. to report favorably the long jjcnding' ship subsidy bill. It now re mains to le seen whether the iniqu itous proposition will Frye any ice when it gets before the august body from whose innermost circles it emanates. mnn rr ttiA Ai'hirpnipnts for wliif-H - - t-t redit belongs to newsnjjper ra,dvcr tising is the erection of a' new" Con gregational church building in Xew York and the organization of a large congregation. A man who thought there should le church in this neighborhotnl adytrtised in the news papers for other people to join him. On Sunday last the fine edifice was dedicated. dent McKinley shall be held in the hall of the house of representatives in the presence of both houses, Feb. 27. Secretary Hay will pronounce the eulogiuin. and the president pro tem of the senate and the speaker of the house are requested "t( invite the president and ex-president of the United States, ex-vice presidents, the heads of the several departments, the judges of the supreme court, the representatives of foreign govern ments, the governor of he several states, the lieutenant general of the army and the admiral of the navy and such officers of the army and navy as have received the thanks of congress who may' then be at the seat of government, to be present on the occasion, and such others as may be suggested by the committee.' The house has passed the resolu tion, which needs only the approval of the senate which will be given to become effective. The ceremonies promise to lie of a most fitting nature in all respects. Hon. Cialusha tJrotr. of Pennsyl vania, a member of the present house of representatives, was in congress before many of his present colleagues were born. He took his seat on the lirst day in Decemler. 1351. Among his colleagues then were Klihu B. Washburn. John A. Logan. Thadeus Stevens. John .1." Crittenden. Daniel W. Voorhees. C. I.. Yallandigham. Sunset Cox anil Boscoe Conkling. Surely to this venerable man must the house of representatives seem like a haunted chamber. Carnegie has. developed into quite an .orator. He has recently made several' very logical addresses, one of them liein.fr an address to the members of the IJailroad Y M. Cj. A. at the 26th anniversary celebration of tjhat organization in New York the other evening-. He advised the men to striye to secure competence. He said there was no satisfactiop in wealth'oiher tfian a competence, be yoiI the opportunity it extended to help ; others." ' These -' statements should bejbornejn mind by -men of all; classes and . callings. 'To 'strive for the ends pointed 'out by Carnegie in getting- a competence and having a home brings greatest happiness. Xo man in congress knows better the value of a dollar, and how hard it is to get a start in the fortune making line and how easy the golden stream pours in after it is once started, than Senator Keams. of Utah. He dug- the nucleus of his great fortune from the earth with a pick, and although. he received many hard knocks himself, his friends say that there is not a bigger-hearted or more generous man to his fellow men in the world today than Senator Keams. Some . senators were discussing- great fortunes in The cloak room before the session adjourned i n 1 th. faikt ti o t o- man rf irront m . .... m . ... i v . wealth had received $75,000,000 in cash as his share of the sale of stock in a great corporation. ?What would yon do with $75,000,000 in cash. Kearns?" asked a fellow senator, who counts his fortune in the money that rents in his wallet. "Well," re plied Mr. Kearns, " that is a little too much money to spend in a few min utes" conversation." The McKinley Memorial Kxercise. According- to resolutions of con grrs it is provided-that the memorial exercises in honor of the late Presi- An American Woman and Aguinaldo An American woman named Mrs. John Coffee had a recent chat with Aguinaldo. the Filipino imprisoned president. She says he is one of the most gallant men she ever met. It seems Aguinaldo asked Mrs. Coffee if she was married and when she re plied that she had a husband and also a child, the Filipino chieftain put on a surprised look that any American gallant might have assumed, and ex claimed: "Impossible; you are so young!" No wonder the lady was charmed by Agiiioaldos "graces of person and mind. The husband of the lady was in Ma nila installing the Gamewell fire alarm system, of which he is the agent, and his wife- accompan3'ing him, with a commendable woman's curiosity, sought out Aguinaldo ami sent in her card and was admitted, and talked with him through an in terpreter. She says in an interview- that Aguinaldo understands Knglish fairly well, but prefers to s)eak Spanish. Mrs. Coffee says: "Aguinaldo speaks the most per fect Spanish imaginable, and his manners are exquisitely polished. He is rather good looking. He told me he wanted very much to go to Wash ington and see President Uoosevelt. He said that he did not intend to take his wife and children when he went to Washington, as he could bet ter understand conditions if he were alcne. He said that he did not like Manila at all. "After we had talked for a while he asked me if I would play him a game of checkers. I did so. and found him a master of the game. He did not sweep my men off the board but hemmed them in so ;hat I could not move any. I spent two hours in his company and found him a delight ful conversationalist . .nJlhongli ; he wouldn't speak of his past." All of which ges- to show that Aguinaldo is a typical representative of a race of people who are quite ca pable of taking care of themselves. Mr. Shaw and His Money Ideas. William J. Bryan is not awed by the majesty and wisdom of the new sec retary of the treasury that is to lie, and trains his guns with serious ef fect upon his vulnerable sides. In! the current number of the Commoner Mr. Bryan refers to what he aptly terms Shaw's "ignorance of the con stitution," inasmuch as the ex-Iowa executive once declared in a speech at the trans-Mississippi congress in Omaha in 1898 that the constitution made no specific mention of gold and silver. For a public man on a pub lic occasion to publicly expose his ignorance as Shaw did. justifies his being held up. to public critics on all suitable occasions. Bryan says: "Mr." Shaw's error illustrates the shallowness .of many of those who advocate the money question from the financier's side. Mr. Shaw is a money lender and it is too often as sumed that a man who handles mon ey must necessarily understand the principles that govern the money question. But it is a false assump tion. Knowledge of the money ques tion comes from an understanding of the principles involved not from the possession of wealth, or from the counting of dollars. It is to Ik hoped that Oov. Shaw 'has made a careful examination of the consti tution since his Omaha speech." THE DAILY SHORT STORY. Wedding Journey of Glory "Ann. Proper Dishing Up ofSnobbery. One of the secretaries of the en voys appointed by the president to attend the "coronation of - the Eng lish king-, "the man who rules hy di vine right." is J. Tierpont Morgan, Jr. This is a singular appointment. Young- Morgan resides in London where he represents his father's banking- house. He is in no respect a rep resentative American. He represents nothing- but wealth unearned. He fellowships with the titled snobs of London and long ago ceased to take any interest in his native country. A young- man possessing- unearned millions, a snob and aristocrat, having- no , knowledge of a republican form of government is not the proper person to send abroad to represent this country even 'at a function of snobs typifying snobbery. If the president had selected some young man who had reached emi nence through hia own exertions, who. to use a" homely phrase, had hoed his 'own row, such a person would truly represent tis. But the naming of young Morgan is simply a sop to lazy, useless idlers, who force their way to the front only because they are the sons, of inordinately rich fathers. Kockfortl Star. Tears to me," said Phllury Corwln to her Invalid sUter. Ithody Ann "'pears to me as If sot Liu' uuusual like was a-goin' ou to them Carterscs. I seen the greatest lot o' Asia's a-goin" lu there these last two days, an I Learn they got Mis' Darney up from King's Holler a-sewiu. Ad' Mis' Carter bought two silver plated iiapkiu riugs down to Collinses. I think I'll jest run across an, inquire. It you will watch them pies, I am that fierce to know If tllory Ann be really a-goin' to marry that Phlletus Antrim." With a startling admonition concern Ing the pies, Philury started her tour of Investigation. "How be ye, Mis' Carter?" she in quired as she paused before the kitchen door and looked at that lady, who was busy making 6weet smelling cakes. Mrs. Carter looked up and, waving her flour covered arm toward a chair, said: "Set, riillury. I be feelinr fair to mld dllu'!" "I seen ye was havln quite a lot a-go-In ou. Be It tliat Glory Ann I really a-goin' git married? I heard some talk of It when I was last down to the Holler. Be she, Mrs. Carter?" And Phllury repeated her question in an Insinuating manner as she put the teacupful of tea ou the table. "She be, Philury," said Mrs. Carter laconically. "About when. Mis' Carter?" "About Sunday, rhilury. if notldn don't prevent an these cakes are plena- in'." ' A wedding In the community was an event of no small occurrence. It was second only in importance to a funeral, and no right minded person would think of missing "Glory Ann's wed-din'." By 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon the road In front of the red farmhouse was full of carriages, hitched to every available tree and fencepost. 1 The bride elect was proud in the pos session of a tableful of presents, which were displayed under the kitchen win dow, outside of which was hitched to one of the shutters a yearling calf, the gift of her father. The gifts were varied In style, ex tending all the way from a brass lamp, sent by the city lady, to a paper of gold hairpins, given by Carter's hired girL The ceremony progressed well. Ev erything went smoothly until the sup per was about half over, when Mrs. Carter said: - "Where be ye goln for yer tower. rhlletus?" "Waal," he said slowly, "I 'lowed that me an' Glory Ann would tower to Glenhaui an' back. My sister's hus band's child, Alphonso, lives there. I 'lowed 'twould be as good a place to tower to as any." Then Glory Ann looked up quickly. and her checks glowed so that her hair seemed pale In comparison as she said. with withering emphasis: "I 'lowed to tower to King's Holler an' see Uncle Elbetus. I 'lowed I should tower there au to no other place else, I did." "Seems ' to me." 6aid Mr. Carter, speaking up quickly, "that Glory Ann's tower Is the best. It only seems to me to be Jest proior In yer to go an' tower to yer Uncle Elbertus', for I hear Mlrandy ain't very well." "Well, ye set an dally till I git ready to go on any other towerf" said the bride complacently as she passed her plate up, saying casually. "Please give me some more o' them cakes, pa." Hereupon Philetus grew very angry. Eising, he said fiercely: "Glory Ann, I'll take back that salt cellar, an' ye don't come to Glenhaui." "An you. Phlletus, can take back yer salt an' yerself both too fresh for me an' go to Glenham or where ye will, for I'll tower to the Holler or I'll tower none." And Glory Ann arose and passed ma jestically up stairs carrying a glass of cider and "them cakes" with her. After supper Mr. Carter said, turn ing to his new son-in-law: "Seems to me, Thlle. that if ye ain't goin' to tower none 'twould be as well to onhetch them horses an get ready for milkln'. It's artcr 5." "I 'low to tower to Glenham yet." said the groom as he arose and vanish ed up the steps in the direction the bride bad disappeared. Slowly the time passed. It was al most dark when Philury, who had out stayed all the guests in order to help Mrs. Carter, had returned home to Im patient Ilhody Ann, who sat In the kitchen waiting for her. "Well." she exclaimed, "rhilury. where did they tower to or ain't they towered?" They towered,", ssfTd Phllury, then added: "Ye see, It was this way: 'Long 'bout half past 5, after Phile had been 'most half hour with her a-coaxln', the parson went op an prayed with her. an' Pbile's ma went up an' exhorted ber. an' I quoted from the Bible to her, an' at last she said she'd go, as obeyin' seemed to be the heftiest part o' the marryln'. Then we all went down to let her put on her new brown alpacky. WaaL In about ten minutes she came down, with the saltcellar In her hand, leanin' on Phlle's arm. a-smllin' like a basket o chips, an' he was a-grlnnln too. Jest as she passed out. very ma jestic like, her purple feather a-stream-In out behind her, she paused an' said. It's King's Holler.' "An' it was too," added Philury. '.'Well. I cuess .Glory Ann trill set off T 5 HE Fiftieth Anniversary of the ARGUS Will.be celebrated next month with a handsomely illustrated historic edition. 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