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,THE MIGUS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 190G. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island, I1L En tered at toe postofflce as second-class ' matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally. 10 cents per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must bavo real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. si"1 W&ssW Monday, Feb. 26, 1906. The robin is reported to have arrived but indications are that for a few days at least he will wish he hadn't. Ray Dart, a student of the Univer sity of Minnesota, has been blind for years, but pursues his studies by proxies, doing his writing on a type writer whose keyboard he has mas tered. His father is State Senator Dart of Litchfield. The' young man does not carry a cane, yet Le walks about alone with freedom. He is a clever pianist, an expert carsman and takes much delight in fishing. for our goods. ( Moderate and well-directed tariff re vision to relieve the American con-1 sunier of the onerous tribute now paid to specially protected interests, and to curb the monopoly taxing power of the great industrial trusts is likely, also, to be prominent in democratic platforms and in democratic discussion between now and the November elections. The protective system was not built in a day, and it cannot be torn down in a year, nor, perhaps, in a decade Discriminating duties and export bounties by other nations may make it necessary to approach with circum spection the complicated task of cut ting out the robberies of the Dingley act; but the task must be performed and the democratic party is ready to undertake it. DAILY SHORT STORY THE LITTLE REPORTER. RATE BILL IN SENATE (Continued From I'.'ige One.) merceand to prohibit companies from directly or indirectly contributing money to any political committee or to any candidate for political office. Cromwell Kxililu. Washington. Feb. 2G. William Nel son Cromwell appeared before the sen ate committee on interoceanic canals today and made a lengthy statement regarding his relations with the Pan ama canal. He asserted his participa tion in its affairs since the purchase by the United States had been by invita tion. The only compensation he had received from the United States was that as attorney for the Panama rail road, a position he held before the United States acquired the road. Andrew Carnegie, who is at present Fojjurning in Feruandina. Fla., is busi ly engaged there in writing his auto biography. He ifcasraircAdy.vwrittwi the first two chapters of it. This", it is said, will in all likelihood be Mr. Carnegie's last book, and he will de vote much of his spare time to the writing of it. He selected Fernandina chiefly because he was assured of get ting peace and quietness there. Mrs. Carnegie and their daughter are with hin. Representative Rodenberg of the 22d district is a fair specimen of the willy nilly congressman. When the repub licans under the lead of Representative Babcock went into opposition to the omnibus statehood bill, Mr. Rodenberg was one of them. He declared that Arizona and New Mexico were not ready for statehood and objected to their admission even as one state. But when the persuasion was applied he backed down, deserted the ranks of the insurgents and like a good Indian, lin ed up with the machine. The fury and indignation of the peas ants in Italy over the fact that W. K. Vanderbilt's automobile rant-ever and maimed a boy while tearing through the country, is not only natural but justifiable. That this spirit should have been intensified almost into mob violence when the nabob of the ma chine in which he and his wife and chauffeur were touring the country, at tempted to brush the people aside by saying something to the effect that the damages would be taken care of all right was likewise reasonable. It was just as human as Vanderbilt's remark was Inhuman. He should be very well con tent that he escaped with his life. WAR ON CREVE COEUR CLUB Mothers of Peoria Denounce "Wild Or gies" of Recent Banquet. Peoria. Feb. 20. The Mothers' club of Peoria is after the Creve Coeur club and has risen in protest over what is termed the "wild orgies' which were indulged in at the Washington blrta day banquet, when Thomas Lawsou failed to make his speech on the "sys tem." The mothers declare that the "carryings on" at the Lawson banquet were disgraceful and must not be re peated. They have appealed to the clergy and those whose husbands be long to the Creve Coeur club have promised to hold star-chamber inter views with them and to refuse to al low them to attend the next banquet unless the cocktail is left off the menu. Shcot and Burn Negro. Shreveport. La., Feb. 2G. A mob of 500 men shot to death Wiltze Page, negro, aged 30, and afterwards burned the body near Bienville Saturday af ternoon. The negro was captured dur ing the night and was identified by Sarah Grant, a 11 -year-old girl, as the man who attempted to assault her. Vanderbilt Goes Free. Pisa, Italy. Feb. 2G. William K. Van derbilt, Jr., left yesterday for Monto Carlo. His chauffeur followed in the motor car. Mr. Vanderbilt did not make any statement concerning the automobile accident at Ponte Dera, Friday. German Tar in War. The passage by the German reich- sragoi h.mperor Williams special tariff bills postpones for a year and four months the tariff war which Germany . nal announced her intention to begia upon our products on the 1st of March. These bills authorize the Gtrman government to go on until June 30, 10. admitting our products at the same tariff rates which Genua nv as sesses upon imports from countries wan which she has reciprocity treaties. The arrangement leaves our commer cial relations with Germany in the same unsatisfactory and threatening condition which called- forth the pro test and the warning of the recipro city convention in August. We maintain unabated the Dingley tariff bojeott on German trade and Germany only postpones her threat of reiauauon until another and final ses sion of the present congress shall have been he!d and a new congress has come Into being. Readjustment, for mutual benefit, of our commercial relations with Ger many, and with other nations which stand toward us In the same position as Germany, was rendered impossible in the present session by the narrow, selfish ana stiff-necked opposition of Dingley standpatters in the senate and by a pact between the president and the speaker to choke off tariff dis cussion in the house. In the short session of next winter the republican congress will do no bet ter than It has already done. Relief can come only from the Sixtieth con gress, to be elected in November of this year. The issue so sharply rais ed between the interests represented in the reciprocity convention and the standpatters in Washington will ne cessarily, therefore, be fn.,h the polls in- the election of the new congress. During the campaign democrats will of course, aggressively attack, the trade-killing excesses of the . Dingley schedule, pledging themselves to in itiate and support such reciprocitjr ar rangements as will open wide the ports uaiiuua io American pro-, ducts and extend American markets in ! ev-xf quarter where a demand exists FOLLOWED WIFE TO PEORIA Edward Kabo, Colored, Gets Himself Behind the Bars. According to Peoria newspapers, Ed ward Kebo, a colored man whose home is in this city, has been held there un der $300 bonds for drawing an ugly looking knife on his wife and threaten ing to kill her. The woman, it seems. fled from her husband and took up her abode in Peoria, whither she was fol lowed by her persistent spouse. Flyer Crashes Into Freight. The California flyer of the Rock Is land road collided with a Milwaukee freight in the Muscatine yards Satur day afternoon. No one was seriously injured. Traffic was delayed several hours. WANT AND NEED. There's a big difference between what a baby wants and what he needs. Deny him the one, give him the other. Most babies need Scott's Emulsion it's the right thing for a baby. It contains a lot of strength building qualities that their food may not contain. After a while they get to want it. Why? Because it . makes them comfortable. Those dimples and round cheeks mean health and ease. Scott's Emulsion makes children easy; keeps them so, too. 6COTT & BOWSE, 409 Tearl St., Sew Yor.' The Averton II It' AligniIJ tjr eorr.c UrU.- .tired comfort and durablv quality. I It's tba choice of careful dreaaera. CEO. P. IDE & CO.. Frooii 2? m. I I I Tror. til Y. J rWL: 1J in. 11 Original. It was Saturday night in St. Peters burg. Oh the morrow the subjects of the white czar were to march to Lis palace to present a monster petition. In the office of the Fatherland the managing editor sat alone. The night force had not yet reported for work. A footstep was heard climbing the stairs, and presently a boy not mon than fourteen years old came Into the office. "Are you the editor V" he asked. "Yes. sonny. What can I do for you?" "I thought that since there's to be trouble tomorrow you might need extra help." "You think that you'd like to march at the head of the petitioners and re ceive the flrst fire of the troops?" "The 'Little Father' will not let his soldiers fire on his people." "Sonny, the people are deceived. This time tomorrow our streets will be drenched with blood." "Well, my mother needs food, and 1 must make It for her any way I can Shall I march with the petitioners to morrow and send you copy?" "You have worked in a newspaper of fice before." "Yes." "Come around in the morning, and I may find work for you to do in the of fice." The next day the name Ivan Ivano vkh was entered on the rolls of the Fatherland. It was Sunday morning, and the excitement In the office was intense. The managing editor was iu no good humor. Kvery reporter on the paper had sent in some excuse for not appearing for service. L.ittle Ivan while carrying copy upstairs to the composing room, passing the sanctum heard his chief threateningto discharge every mother's son of them. The boy went in. "Why can't I go out to report the march of the petitioners?" heasked "fiet out of here!" snarled, the editor, "Am 1 reduced to sending children out on assignments?" The boy went on his way, .and the editor went on growling nt his re porters. An hour later the ehildrenof the Little Father" commenced - their march. With a priest ns their Header without the slightest show of' force like a flock of sheep, they werei going" as humble suppliants. Walking 3n the throng was Ivan Ivanovich. I13e had taken a pencil and paper and, leaving the office without permission, , hurried away to fill the gap left open! by the nonappearance of the reporters. On marched the people, unopposed for a time, but presently n row of brfestling baronets appeared in the distance,. and an officer was sent to order the pet! tioners to halt. We are goiug to see the "Little Fa ther" to tell hirn of our wrongs. He doesn't know how his subordinittes treat us. We are going to tell him." The people, consisting of men, wom en and children, kept right on in the face of death. The little reporter, who had fallen behind while writing his re port of the march, saw a boy about his own age running toward -the rear. Ivan called to him and asked 'where he was going. "I'm going to get outlof this. The troops will fire with ballfcartridges. "Ilold on a bit," said ilvan. and he wrote a few more woriTte. "There it is." he added, " 'with ball and car tridges.' Since you are going, please take that to the office off the Father land." The boy grasped the message and sped away. Ivan crannmed his pad aud pencil in his pocketuuid pushed through the crowd to the front. Just as he wriggled between those facing the troops there was if sound of many ex plosions, and a moment litter the crowd where the boy stood loaked like the edge of a field of (grass over which the first sweep of a arg-the had pwssed. Half an hour hiter a surgeon took hold of the limj (figure of a boy and, holding him up, asked: "Are you hurt? "Yes, I am. I fear I shall not be able to get my copy ; in to the office. I haven't even wriLfrn It out." "Never mind your copy. If I can save you" "You can't, and; since you can't you might save my copry for me." The surgeon looked at the boy In amazement. "I've sent an account of the march and had Just comeup In time to be In at the firing. Ivewritten some, notes for them to fill in -at the office If 'I can only get them there. Can't you find a messenger for me, doctor?" Meanwhile theimanaging editor of -the Fatherland had picked up hearsay re ports as the petitioners began to march and was sending them through the presses. A boy carme In and. laid a pa per on his desk. "What's this?" he asked. "Ivan said It wtas copy." And hettold how It had been given him by the young reporter. The editor listened, astonished, then sent the copy upstatrs. with the order to "kill" what had gome Hefore. Later a man came In. with an other batch of copy, or, rather, blood stained notes, on the firing on the peo ple by the czar's troops. The editor, filled It out himself and sent it to the printers. Fathetic as was the story, more pa thetic was the last arrival from the f font at the office of the FaUierland. It was the body of the' little reporter on a pushcart. Bent In by the surgeon who had picked up Ivan. It was carried up to the editorial sanctum and laid on a writing table. There, covered with flowers. It was visited by hundreds irho had heard of the boy's heroism. MARY T. .WINSTON. THE IDEAL WIFE Shapes the Destiny of Men Tlje Influence of a Healthy Woman Cannot Be Overestimated. Seven-eighths of the men in this world marry a woman because she is beautiful in their eyes because she has the quali ties which inspire admira tion, respect and love. There is a beauty in health which is more at tractive to men than mere regularity of feature. The influence of women glorious in the possession of perfect physical health upon men and upon the civilization of the world could never be measured. Because of them men have attained the very heights of ambition ; because of them even thrones have been established and de stroyed. What a disappointment, then, to see the fair young wife's beauty fading away before a year passes over her head 1 . A sickly, half-dead-and-alive woman, especially when she is the mother of a family, is a damper to all joyous ness in the home, and a drag upon her husband. The cost of a'wife's con stant illness is a serious drain upon the funds of a household, and too often all the doc toring docs no good. 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