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4 THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Sf-ond avenue. Kock Island, I1L " En tered at the postofflee as econd-elass matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TKKMS Pally, 10 centa per week. Weekly. $1 pr year in advance. All -mmiinieatinn: f argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached tor publica Oon. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township in Rock Island county. Wednesday, May 9. 1906. H. II. Hosiers is talking in a loud ton of voice, and as if something were hnrtins hint. It will be useless to try to keep Tom i.awson from rising at this point, to offer a few remarks. Tillman's pitchfork and I .a Follette's harpoon will be relegated to the junk pile when the Hon. Jeff Davis of Ar kansas takes his seat in the United States senate. I.os Angtks has pulled off a prize light for the benefit of the San Fran cisco sufferers. This is what might properly be called charity straight from the shoulder. lSx-tJovernor Morrill of Kansas is part owner of an Sun-acre apple or chard in Wallula. where 50.000 .trees are expected to bear this year. Mr. Morrill confidently looks forward to making an average of about a dollar net from each tree provided the sea son shall prove a good one. The steel trust has performed mira cles in the last lo days. Since bills were introduced in congress to admit structural steel free for San Francisco the trust has pushed nine months' ad vance orders out of the way and de clares itself ready to let San Francisco have all the steel it wants at Ding- ley prices, of course. tion a bad example, hut should prac tice what it preaches with respect t.o taxes. Washington is the physical em bodiment of the proposition that peo ple must pay taxes, and there seems to be no good reason way the country at large should pay Washington's taxes. of the great national parties. Prior to 18G0. said the informant, the campaign fund at the command of any national committee has never exceeded $23,000. In IStIO and the subsequent years the national funds of the two parties were as follows: Republican. Democrat. Year isr.o 1S4 IStIS 1ST2 is; 100.000 75.00(1 liio.OOO 200.000 750.00O 50.000 50.009 75.000 ,50.000 ftoo.000 r.oo.ooo 1.100.000 1.250.000 1.35O.0OO 973.000 400.000 1,250,000 The memoirs of General Kuropatkin a voluminous work covering the Russo lapanese war. are being published at Moscow under ihe supervision of the author. The volume gives a defense for Kuropatkin's strategy in all the im portant battles of the war and criticis es so frotly the lack of support given he general in high quaiters in St Petersburg and the conduct of certain of hi? subordinates that, the author thought seriously of publishing the work only posthumously. Speaker Cannon paid a visit to the minority room in the capitol at Wash ington the other day to see his ol friend. John Sharp Williams. It is a bright, cheery, cozy room, and as the seaker settled into a big chair and looked on .the surroundings in which Williams does his work his eyes light ed with pleasure. "John." he said "this is a mighty fine room you've got here." "Glad you like it. Joe." said John. "For jou'll be occupying it next year." Thomas McCarthy, a bartender at the Lincoln hotel. New Castle. Pa., has just learned that he has been a mil lionaire for six years. So is his broth er. Michael McCarthy, of Wampum foreman of a Pittsburg & Lake Erie section gang. Six years ago their un cle. who left long ago and made a for- nine in Australia, died in Denver, leav ing Thomas and" Michael Jl.0o0.009 each. However, neither knew of this until a day or two ago, when they learn- d it accidentally. If the truth was fully known, it would be found, probably, that the president keeps right on inviting Sen ator Tillman to such official functions and dinners of the White house as the senator's official position and commit tee assignments entitle him to. And evidently the senator keeps right on ignoring them. Last week it was re ported there was a Tillman invitation to dine with the officers of the French squadron, but the senator, as usual failed to obey the "command." This sort, of thing will probably go on as long as Mr. Roosevelt remains in the White hoiixe. Why Fay Washington's Kxpeniek? Congressman Gillett. of the subcom mittee on appropriations for the Dis trict of Columbia, informs the country that Washington has become a verita ble paradise for tax-dodgers. The dis trict's lax rate Is fixed arbitrarily by law at $13 a thousand, and the valua tion at :; per cent of market prices. But the personal tax is practically nil. Household goods above a certain val'ie are taxed, but securities are al lowed to escape altogether. The na tional government pays half the exist of the .!::rlct's administration, an the result of all these conditions is an alluring invitation to persons of great wealth to ' flock to Washington and rent safety-deposit boxes. Washington should not set the na- 1SS0 1.000.0(H) 18X4 1.100.000 isss i.::5o.ooo 1S!2 1.S50.000 lS!i; lc.noo.noo lfloo :t,5(io,ooo HUM 4,50o.ooo The figures sustain the contention of Mr. Sulzer that providence in presi dontlal elections has been on the side that controlled the heaviest money bar rel. They show, as the Philadelphia Record has remarked, that politics in this country have become a cold-blood ed game in which lavish expenditures are the main features. When it is re membered that the legitimate expenses ot elections are nearly all borne by the public authorities, the conclusion inevitable that the private contribu turns constitute a vast corruption fund The condition is scandalous and tne call for remedial legislation cannot be disregarded without involving the law makers in a partnership with crime Public opinion in this state has exert ed itself and compelled a reluctant ma chine legislature to set a limit to the amount of election expenses and to close up the main source of this risin flood of corruption money, i. e.. the treasureries of the corporations, if the present congress shall fail to sup ply the remedy, the people will elect a house that shall more accuratelv re fleet the revived civic spirit. National Campaign Funds. Nobody except those on the inner most inside knows with any degree of accuracy the amount of money con tributed to the two great parties in national campaigns. Possibly the in siders themselves could not tell with any degree of exactitude. The ac counts of political committees are not kept as carefully as those of a bank. Mr. Sulzer of New York has given the house of representatives "some infor mation" on the subject, and while he may have merely guessed, his guess is probably as good as any other.' The member from New York was speaking on the bill prepared by the National Publicity Bill association, the purpose rf which is to provide a par tial remedy for the evil of unchecked election expenses by compelling polit ical committees to file statements and submit to accountings in court. It is quite possible he got some of his in formation from the gentlemen who drew the bill hi question, several of whom have been members of the na tional committees of one or the otherf- The doctor held a test tube before a Too Much Government. The superintendent of schools of New York City, carrying his authority to ridiculous extreme, embraced the following in his instructions to teach ers: "Pupils should be required to carry their books on the right side on even days of the month, and on the left side on odd days of the month." The adoption of this policy, in his opin ion, will promote ambidexterity in the pupils. An exchange naively suggests that lie should also require the pupils to put the left foot forward first on even days of the month and the right foot on the odd days. It is this nonsense that brings law into disrepute and makes this a nation of too-much government. It is small wonder that fads should run riot in the system of education when a man holding a position of such prominence links his name in serious mind with such instructions. As well require that the pupils write with their right hands one week, and with their left hands the next week, al ternating throughout the term. MOTHER AND CHILD. Let the mother take Scott's Emulsion for the two; it never fails to benefit them both. One can eat for two, but nourishing- two is a different thing. It calls for a de gree of internal strength that the average woman lacks. People of luxury are not very strong by habit ; overworked people are weak in some func tions from exhaustion or theirsurroundings. Scott's Emulsion can be depend ed upon to overcome such conditions. It is a won derful food for a mother and child. SCO IT & IiOWNE, 4oy Pearl, Street, Nw York. light and observed particles floating iu a liquid it contained. The speaker went on: "Before Ellen became an invalid we drifted together as other lovers drift together. At that age I held a girl as something holy, something far above what I regarded man's coarse nature. 1 reniemlter one evening when we were walking together she slipped her hand within my arm. and it seemed as If I had been touched by an angel from heaven. That touch alone was enough to decide my fate. "You remember how I took all the prizes, in college, and you and father and the rest had great hojes for me. The career you predicted tired me with a desire for success. Then 1 cut a brilliant figure at the law school, and six months after graduation won the Springer claim in court. It put me at once at the head of the junior bar." "I well remember." said the doctor. It was just at this time that Ellen met with the accident and you told me that she would I au invalid for life. I knew then all you said about her be ing a drag on me as well as when you mention it today. I had a long strug gle between the career ahead of me. which would need a ceaseless devotion, and the care of an invalid wife, aud I made a clear case in favor of the for mer. Ellen needed a mother, not a husband. It was not a case of wheth er I loved the career ahead of me or her the more; it was a case of inex orable common sense. 1 confess I shrank from breaking my decision to her, but. kuowing it was the turning point of my life, I served myself by a supreme effort. "I well remember the night I called on her for the purpose. It was among the first warm days of the season, and she was lying on a wicker lounge on the porch. A wistaria vine hung down from above and was in bloom. From within the bouse came the fragrance of roses. Ellen looked up at me loving ly from her great flaring invalid eyes. I maintained an inward stoicism. Aft er a few irrelevant words I told her that I had come to announce something of deep import to us both. Beginning with our duty to each other and to our selves, I led gradually to the final an nouncement. It would uever have been possible for ine to make so able an ar gument in court. No woman could fall to see that under her mother's care alone could she hope for comfort. As to the effect of our marriage on me, I drew a graphic picture of a lost career. but told her that were it best for her I would give it up in order to devote my Self to her." The speaker ceased and there was a brief silence. "She released you?" asked the doc tor. "She neither released nor held me. She listened without a word. I could see at times her bosom heaving, then repressed, by an internal struggle not apparent on the surface. I finished with the words, 'I shall never become reconciled to that inexorable fate which has forced us apart. Then I .waited for her reply." The speaker paused. lie was think ing. , " "It was?" "A tear." There was a silence while the doctor was rumbling with his test tubes. And your reply to it?" he asked pres ently. "An embrace." The doctor turned and faced his vis itor. "And you don't regret your Inde cision .' ' "No." There was a longer pause, during which the doctor looked out of the win dow. Then he turned and said: "John, 1 am, as you know, at the head of my profession in this city. But I am forced to admit that you stand In a far more eminent position." That afternoon the doctor drove nr to the home of the Invalid with fruits and flowers and spent an hour enliven ing the household. Never again -did he question the ac tion of his friend. And who shaJI gay that the happiness of a man who was denied the world's laurels that he might devote himself to au invalid wife was less than it would have-been had he been free to win what the world calls success? When his term of service was ended he realized that he had uot only chosen the better but the happier part. What was his re- rd to coine. of course, no man kndws. AMAZA J. BABKElt. i )wa kn DAILY STORY. , THE TEAR. Original. "Doctor, I reckon you'll have to come around aud see Ellen. I know you can't, do anything for her, but you cheer us all up." The doctor was pouriug something from a vial into a liquid contained iu a test tube. IJis expression was uot cheerful: it was serious. John." he said, "you sowed the wind and are reaping the whirlwind. Your marriage was a very unwise one both for you aud for Ellen. Without it she would have remained with her mother, who now lives a thousand miles away from her. As for you, the drag of a nick wife upon you has been your ruin." "In one sense, dortor, jour words are true; in another 1 question if they are. The great Creator has placed us in a world iu which our better nature is al ways struggling with our selfishness. If we lived here always there would le but one criterion for our judgment success. But we know not what cri terion will take its place in the exist ence to come. The poet tells of a peri who gained admissiou to paradise by offering a tear of a repentant sinner. Well, if I am ever admitted to heaven I shall have gained my place there by a tear, though not of repentance CLAIMS TU BE OLDEST WOMAN Clinton Dame Says She Was 16 During Revolutionary War. Mrs, Abbie Perhani. a Clinton wo man, claims to have seen General Washington and his troops. pass her father's cabin during the Yevohnlonary war. She says she was then KI years old. That would make her Up years cf age and probably the oldest woman In the world. She has no reeorrtsto prove her claims, but looks the parr. There is negro and Indian .ood in ier v ins. A CLEANLY AGE. Twentieth Century Ideas Incline To ward Sanitation and Preventatives Nowadays scientists believe that in cleanliness lies the secret of preven tion of diseases. To prevent a disease, remove the cause. Just as unclean habits breed many diseases, so careless habits will breed dandruff. Improper use of another's brushes, cohibs, etc., will surely cause dandruff, and, in time, will jusr as surely cause baldness. 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