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THE ARGUS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1004. THE ARGUS. Pufclisheflt Daily and "Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Kock Island, 111. En 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 bave real r.ame attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township in Rock Island county. Tuesday, November 8, 1904. Tbe Democratic Ticket. Here is the ticket that every demo crat in Rock Island county should vote Nov. 8, and vote straight: For President Alton B. Parker, of New York. For Vice President Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia. For Governor Lawrence B. String er, of Lincoln. For Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Ferns, of Jersey county. For Secretary of State Frank E. Dooling, of Springfield. For Auditor R. E. Spangler, of Chi cago. For Attorney General Albert Wat son, of Jefferson county. For State Treasurer Judge Charles B. Thomas, of McLeansboro. For Trustees of the University of Il linois Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, of Chicago; Fred B. Merrill, of St. Clair county, and Theodore C. Loehr, of Car linville. For Congressman David W. Mat thews, Rock Island county. For Member State Board of Equaliz ation F. M. Guthrie. Mercer county. For Representative George A. Cooke, Mercer county. For State's Attorney William C. Allen, Moline. For Circuit Clerk Thomas J. Nay Ion, Rock Island. For Coroner Dr. George F. Johnson, East Moline. For Surveyor Charles A. Kyte, Black Hawk. canvass their total vote would bav gone up to a very respectable figur?. In 15to4, these parties, as in 19'o, have separate organizations and tickets. Candidate Debs has made this year as active a canvass as he made lour years ago. vith the advantage that his sect has undoubtedly grown in the in terval. In the Rocky mountain region the socialists made a particularly energet ic canvass in 1004. The labor trouble? in Colorado, Idaho and other states ir. that section in the past few years are expected to help Debs" party. C II. Corrigan, the candidate of the so cialist labor party, has also been on the stump in the mountain states and on the Pacific slope. He. too. looks for a big poll this year. The Western Fed t rat ion of Miners, which conducted the strike of ir":j-04. which ended disas trously in Cripple Creek and othei parts of Colorado, Is active in propa gating socialist sentiment, it is re ported that ex-Go v. Adams, the dem ocratic candidate for governor in Colo rado, has surrendered to the socialists this year, although in his first can vass for governor he condemned . - cialism even more emphatically t!i a did his republican rival. The social ist vote in the election returns prom ises to be worth glancing at in 1'j"4. It will bo hut a f-w hours until each one as before will pursue his favorite phantom. The most surprising thing alnxit the cruise of the Kaltic. fleet is that it has not yet been sighted off Host on. Tbe Knocker. "Instead of knocking the town would it not be better to help build it up?" This bit of advice comes all the way from Tennessee and appears in the col umns of the Memphis Commercial Ap peal. It is a chunk of wisdom that might well find its way in the columns of every American newspaper. Every city, town, village and hamh't has its growlers and fault finders. !n the parlance of today they are knowu as knockers. The knocker is a "no good." He does nothing but to help decries every effort to upbuild and is only content when he can destroy the work of others. He is an icono clast, a di si ructionist and an obstruc tionist. The knocker is found everywhere He would rather kick than shove: rath er pull pack than push. Enterprise gives him that "tired feeling" and progress makes him weary. Kock Island has grown and thrived and will continue to thrive and grow despite the knocker. Hut why can not these kickers stop their Jeremiah-like lamentations and climb into the ever passing hand wagon? This vehicle though always full has room for mor; Jump in. shout for everything thai helps your city and your neighbor, push along every improvement, shove along every enterprise and aid every public project. This is a sure cur. lor dyspepsia. It kills the blues and make- life well worth living. Gold has again been discovered in Ohio, this time through a farmer's dream. Too bad he will have to wake up. All that can be expected of anyone at an election time, is to follow the dictates of his conscience and do his best. The experiences of the campaign just closed may mean the permanent exit of the spellbinder from the stage of politics. The Tobacco Heart. George K. Nash, former governor of Ohio, who di'd recently, was an ex iravagant smoker, using from six to n dozen strong black cigars daily. He was a man of rare ability, great popu larity and his future was full of bright promise. Hut he could not conquer the tobacco habit. and this brought about his sudden demise in the prime of life. "Heart failure" was the verdict of the family physician, "brought on by excessive smoking." Injurious as cigars are when used to excess, they pale into insignificance when compared to the damages wrought by cigaret s. The sheriff of Cleveland county, Okla.. for the last year has been keeping a complete record of his prisoners, in which he recorded all their likes, dislikes and personal hab its. During that time he has had in his jail over 'Mnt prisoners, and he says that 7 per cent of the prisoners are nddicied to the cigaret habit. An illustration of the effect of cigaret smoking may be found nearer home. There are a thousand boys in the state reformatory at Pontine, and of this number fmly so per cent smoke cigar cts. There is something about the cigaret that deadens the moral senses. The habit demoralizes and degenerates. Either the tobacco is drugged or the paper wrapper is poisonous. Be this as it may, there is no doubt that the cigaret is destructive of the finest im pulses. Parents who value the well being of 1heir sons cannot too forcibly impress tijHtn them the degredation that is sure to follow the cigaret habit. It has be conip a plague whose spread threatens the morals of the American youth. RIVER RIPLETS. DAILY SHORT STORY THE DESERTED HOUSE. O 8 8 The C. V. Cowles. Zulus Davis. Mac and Winona were down and the I. Hershey, Phil Scheckel. Mac and Wi nona were north. The water was stationary at 7. to. RIVER FORECAST. Siowiy decreasing stages in the Mis sissippi will continue between nuhu que and Muscatine. RIVER BCI.LETIN. D ng r Hgt Line. Feet. Change S a.m. 24 hrs. Feet. Feet. St. Paul U u.i Red Wing 14 r..o ::2 Reeds Landing 12 I S o J La Crosse 12 f..7 0.5 P. ilu Chien IS s.2 o.-j Dubuque IS s.s 0.2 Le Claire lo .".1 -01 Davenport 1" 7.4 - - o.l Dos Moines Rapid.-.. .. ".! n.l Keokuk ir ;.; o.o St. Louis ::o s.!i - a 1 Kansas Citv 21 0." o. i Advertised List No. 45. following is the list or letters re maining uncalled for at the Rock Isl and postoffice for the week ending Nov. r.. 1!"H: Mr;-. Elizabeth Bailey. Mr. and Mrs Fred Barlow. Mrs. And. Burbank Chas. Crane. James Dabler. William Downey. John A. Evans (Dep. Coll.) M. Fater. J. H. Foster. Miss Rose Griffiths. Edward C. Glazer. Frank Gregg. Walter Gregg. Win. Hathaway Miss Julia A. Johnston. P. Kraft. R F. Lairtg. Miss Mamie McBiiniie. Gus Miller, Chas. Meyers. Rudley Meyers. Charles Nader. C. E. Nelson. Miss Ei. a nor Russell. Clinton Kindles. Miss l na Snider. Miss Lena Smith. Fred Thomas John Wilerson. Wendell & Passtnore M. L. Weinbey. T. H. THOMAS. I. M. The Growth ofSocisUara. KustiK- V. Debs, the presidential candidate of the social party, says he will poll l.rtno.uort votes today. This looks p bluff, hut it is well to bear in mind that socialism as a political creed has been growing with great rapidity ; m the United States in rcent years. Debs had a vote ot Ss.fK'O in Uoo, and Mallony. the candi date of th" social labor party, had a roll of 40.0o.t. if these elements of the socialists had been united in that Tacoma. ttea mship tails of a Flccds in China. Wash.. Nov. S. Advices by from Tretnoni give the !-di.-a.-trous t'.xd at Chang Chow-, north of Amoy. China. The mi i mous watershed and heavy fall of rain make til" iVod the highest water known in three centuries at Chan-; Chow. Three thousands houses were destroyed and many hundreds of p- pie carried away in the flood. American Kil'ed in Cuba. Havana. Niv. S. A dispatch Pinar del Rio states land, an American. then1 by a policeman been received. that J. T. has been No detail from Cleve kille.l have Bura'ars Interrupted at Work. IVs Moires. Ia.. Nov. S. Two men wearing yellow sweaters, attempted to blow i:; the safe of the savings bar.1.; at Walford. Ia.. near Iowa City. Thr.v were driven ofT by citizens, and made their escape in a buggy, leaving behind rhem a complete set of burglars' tools. fOrlplnal. A light far away in the valley shone blood red in a background, of darkest green. Used, as I bad been for weeks, to the uninhabited forest where I bad been hunting, I wondered what could cause fire where there were no human beings to kindle it. Then I thought it a burning building. Suddenly It oc curred to me that it was thf red Octo ber sun shining on window glass. I Lad not slept in a bouse sineeset ting out on my hunting trip, nor had I exchanged a word-, with man or wjnian. I was tired and fewrish. My ibones ached, my skin wasdry, and mj pulse beat high. I would) go to the, house, where some kind f woodsman 'ovould give me a bed. Half an hour later I came to the bouse I songht. It was a neat cottage, surrounded by a fecce inclosing half an acre of ground, rbe twilight was near gone, but enough) was left to show that nothing grew inf the garden, nor was there animal or ttwl on the place. No lamp was lighted within. Indeed, the closing of most of'the shutters de noted that there were no occupants. Moving the slat.s of the blinds so that I could look into the living room, I made out in the dim light tbat it was furnished. Whai; tempted n.e most was a heap of logs resting on andirons in the fireplace, beside which a com-, fortable lounge stoodt ready to receive my worn body. It was not difficult vto effect an en trance. All I had to do was to break a pane of glass, put in my hand, uu lock the catch and throw up the sash. I did so and, crawling in. inspected ev ery room in the house. Though it was completely furnished, the closets and bureaus were empty. There were some supplies in the lanfrr, but they had evidently been there a long while. Lighting the fire in the diving room, I drew the lounge directly before it and lay down. The crackling of the wood, the genial warmth indeed, all the surroundings doubly uppreciated by one who had slept so long sheltered only by heaven's dome, caused me in a measure to forget my. pain, and I sank, to sleep. Tom:" The word sounded like a woman's wail. Starting up, I looked about for the speaker; but, seeing no one, Ilay down, thinking I had dream!. Hut sleep did not come again. I turned my face to the fire, now a heap of glowing embers, emitting a flickering llaine, and gave myself up to deliberat ing whether the voice I hud heard wms real. Happening to turn my eyesto wurd a window, I saw between 'tho Blats of the blind a pair of eyes. My first impulse was to seize my rifle, leaning against the mantel, but I felt sure tbat a woman was without. I sat up, my eyes fixed on those peer ing through the slats. "It can't be you, is it. Tom?" There was a world of sadness In tha. words. "No. Iam not Tom." The only reply was a sob. In a few minutes I had gone out and brought in a woman and, throwing a few sticks ou the fire, by the renevKnl light looked to see what manner- of creature she might be. Her age was about forty. She had evidently been born and bred in the country, and there were traces of a faded beauty. I drew a comfortable chair to the fire and when she had seated herself asked for an explanation. "I was a fool." she said. "I wrecked my life and Tom's. I was like a young colt, wild in doin' what I reckoned on doiu". just like the cuitll run ngin a barbed wire. Twenty year ago to night Tom Griggs and I was to oc cupy this bouse after our weddin'. The day we was to have been married we had a spat.and I hitched tip my father's mar':: nd drove to my aunt s over In the next county. There I got shet o' my freak, but thought I'd wait for Tom to come j;:id bring me back. He never came. I was too proud to come back till be did. so I stayed on and on. Mother she tried to bring me back, but It wasn't no use. I was set in my ways. Then I beered that Tom had shet up the bouse he'd built and fur nished for us and gone uo one knew where. "S'.iKe then every anniversary of what w.;s to have been the weddin night I've come, thinkln Tom might come to lAt It too. When I saw you 13-iu' on the lounge tonight I thought for sure it was him. I've been here twenty times, and he hain't come. He'll never come.'' 1 tpoke some words of comfort, but I saw that they bad no effect. The woman had given up hope. Thinking that perhaps her lover might have visited the place and left some clew. I hunted the house over, but found nothing. 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