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THE AltGUS, WEDNESDAY. .TTTEY 17. 1007. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1G24 Second avenue, ltoc-k Island, 111. En tered at the postoffloe 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 have real name attached for publica tion. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township in Kock Island county. I hat the law in 'Question is uneonsii tutional opens a most interesting sub ject lor debate on which there is a for midable array of arguments for both sides. Unless a higher court sustains the law it is clear that the reform sought in New York state will have to be worked out through the force of public opinion. Wednesday, July 17, 1907. The man who puts a burglar alarm on the chicken coop only adds perplex ity to the race problem. It's astonishing what effusions tome f n mi a creature with a grunt a giudge and a grouch. can aii'l The lid ought to be put on that pop iilar beverage, carbolic and. 1 lie cup of sorrows needs no chaser, anyway. it will not be It-kind hears tin t u i its liom its fund. long now until Kock 1 hist substantial re- Greater Kock Island Not a Matter of Ambition. The current issue of William .T. Bryan's paper, The Commoner, con tains the billowing leading article un der the heading "Not a Matter of Am bition." it is not only timely, but sen sible and true. Every democrat in th land ought to indorse it. and act in ac cordance with its declarations. KeM it carefully: "Those who urge the nomination of a 'conservative" candidate by the dem ocratic convention studiously ins'st that .Mr. Bryan's triends sav he dors iiot want the nomination. But is this the real issue? The presidential nomi nation ought not to be regarded as a compliment to be handed to some on-'1 because he would be pleased to have it. A candidate should be selected be cause the rank and file of the parly WANT HIM NOMINATED not mere ly because lie wants the nomination. First, what will the party stand for? Second, who can best represent these principles in the campaign? These Questions ought to control the selec tion. Men's ambitions ought not ;.i count for much in a presidential co l li St." ' several netghhoring states gave puDiiet- ty to bis announcement. The even 10o applications flowed Into lits Clayton oltiee In a steady stream. Half the applicants sent photographs. Many of the others told the superin-j tendent they cheerfully would travel hither for r.ersonal inspection. All the portraits, said Audrne, -were those of women handsome enough to have good chances in a beauty contest. When he plumed the pictures to the venerable school trustees each of the officials be trayed new Interest in his duties. SALVATION ARMY COLONY. A Biooklyn woman who has attainel the age of 107 years is reported to be l-assiotiatt ly fond of autoinobiling. An cther proof of the ott asserted fact love of life disappears with the coming of old ape. Dulliver and Tillman have a press aent who is entitled to a blue rile boll. The story of the challenge to a duel was well timed -with the Chautan Qiie season for both of the principals ecming on. This latest report of the interstaie commerce commission is something it. the nature of an advertising booklet. The commissioners have become ex cellent press agents for K. II. Harn man anil bis consolidated lines. The Creston (Iowa) American en dorses Governor Johnson of Minnesota as. a good man and a sound democrat, but declares that the man who is back 1 for the presidency by Koger Sulli van and his crowd has no show in the l'.tUS race. St. i.ouis Kepuhlic: othcials oi the United States and Canada are now go ing over the boundary line between tlx two countries and replacing the oil monuments with a series of new ones Too bad they can't pull down the old Dingley tariff wall as they go along. The C ostly Tariff'. Woman t it he a line Hung it every man could have a tariff of his own. or an Aladdin's lamp, or something of that f.oit. to skin the consumers with? But it is only trust magnates who can a! lord to have a tariff. It. is a costly thing. In the McKinley campaign of 1VUJ it cost its possessors a large par of the $l;.r,(M i.nno republican campaign mud ami nas been costiv in the same direction ever since. DAILY STORY HOW SHE SNARED HIM. Free Farming Lands For Deserving Families From Large Cities. The ruining fall will witness the in auguration of a new colonization plan by the Salvation Army, says the Phila delphia Berord. Deserving families from the large cities will be directed to carefully selected districts in the northern part of the south, where land owners are willing to provide not only land nnd houses, but also Implements. horses and even seed, and where" ad- vam-es for necessary groceries can be obtained on the security of the ten ant's share of the crops. A thousand families are now ready to go from the cities into the south as fast as the army can arrange for them. In locating families in the south two plans will be followed. In every in stance where possible the arrangement will be such that at the end of a cer tain number of years th" tenant shall have the option of purchasing the land upon which he is located. Where this not possible the newcomer will lo cate on the strictly tenant plan, with out option of future purchase. Even in this case he has the advantage of be ginning as a farmer, and with -what he can gather together as a tenant he will be able to bay some land on his own account. Tie part of the south in which the new colonization won; is to ne carried on will be largely in the Carollnas and Virginia. Those sections are compara tively near to the congested east, and good farm land l.t cheaper in the south than in any other part of the country. Tle arrangement w hich can be made with landowners, who also furnish houses, implements, horses and seed. Is us.uilly that the tenant shall keep one-half of all he produces. An officer of the Salvation Army will meet till families upon their arrival in the dif ferent districts and for a time at least will visit them each week to give ad vice and help them to get started. The slogan of the Salvation Army m fill Its great colonial work Is "The landless man for the manless land CALLING IN PARIS. The Conrierge la a Peculiar Institu tion In Several Ways. You leave your card at the door of the person to whom you desire to pre sent yourself, and there it is taken In charge by that peculiarly French func tionary, the concierge, says Professor Barrett Wendell in Scribner's. At least In Paris, the greater part of French people live In large houses con taining a number of apartments with a common en trance and staircase. Close to the entrance door, on the level of the street, are some stuffy little rooms inhabited by the concierge, or porter, with his family. Their duty, among other things, is to keep strict watch on whoever goes in or out, and at least one of them, often the porter's wife or half grown (laughter, is always at band. The chief peculiarity of their temper ament seems to lie Insatiable appetite. At whatever hour of day or evening you call on a concierge you are sure to find somebody eating or just risen from table, and the atmosphere Inhab ited by this bustling personage seems Immortally laden with the fumes of something recently boiled. No matter whether you call on a friend who lives In some unpretentious out of the way place or on one who Inhabits something like a palace, the concierge is always nlxmt the same. You can detect little difference be tween those in charge of important doors and of insiguiiicaut. They are as like as house tlies. Of course there are private bouses In Paris, with regu lar domestic servants such as you would find anywhere, but these, grand or simple, are so unusual that you re member the concierge as everywhere standing between you and further hu- man intercourse. In response to your card, which the concierge duly sees delivered, comes a card, often with a note, in return. If. as is generally the case, this ncknowl- dgnient of your existence contains tin intimation of when your French ac quaintance may be found at home, ei ther habitual or for vour special bene fit, you make your second visit at this appointed time and thus enter Into real personal relations. Otherwise, your intercourse has limit ed itself to a polite exchange of cards. Generally speaking, you never expect or attempt to see 1-rencb people socially except when they have asked you to one of their regular days of reception or have made a definite appointment. To call on a person tit any other time to do more than leave your card with the concierge would be an intrusive pretense to iutimacy. BEAUTY BEST BRAIN FOOD. An A jmk i j phal Statement. Governor Vardaman declared in a Joint debate on July 4 with lion. John Sharp Williams that Mr. Bryan said in a Wall street journal in reply to Sena tor Money and others that he did not want to make government ownership of lailroads an issue. The governo", however, was unable to produce a copy of such statement or name the paper in which it appeared or the date of its publication. Governor Vardaman will find that in debating with Mr. Wil liams he will have to confine himself to facts or be called to account. Gov ernment ownership is unpopular in the bouthern states and Governor Varda man himself repudiated it as an issue. Why Missouri Superintendent Reaches Out For Pretty Schoolteachers. Seeking ostensibly to lead the yout'j of the St. Louis educational instittv tions to love their studies more, but in realitv. it may be. to make himself popular among the community's gray beards. Professor J. lllz Anilrae, su perintendent of public schools of St Louis county, recently revealed a plan to bring to St. I.ouis a round hundred pretty schoolteachers f rom other cities savs a St. Louis correspondent of the Kansas City Star. lie divulged that he had five score applications from youn women in Missouri and from Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, each of whom be lieved herself comely enough to meet the reipiiremeuts of the public school pupils. Superintendent Andrae recently as- Berted that the average of attractive ness among teachers in his jurisdiction was not high enough, lie believes, he said, children would learn more rapid ly from pretty teachers than from wo men with "wry faces nnd bad tern pers." Applications would be received cludly. he added, and newspapers in Woinen'M i:iht to Work. The New York court of appear-, passing on the validity of the state law prohibiting the employment or women in the night time later than ! o'clock holds that the law is unconstitutional i . . . . . . . . . tor inc icason mat it seeks to abridge the right of contract of women. The court reaches its- conclusion by as suming the general acceptance of th. premise that women and men sta-i 1 equal before the law and that the measure in question would produce an inequality. W Idle assuming that the decision of the court undoubtedly may he correr as a matter of law. critics of the ir tision assert that the broad ground of the wtlfare of r.ociety as a whole -is entirely Ignored, and it is because em ployment of women at night is likely to injure ineir neann, on wiuen not alone their own happiness hut that of future generations was seeking to ac complish, a reform for the general CHURCH RUNS ROOF GARDEN. Novel Method of Raising Funds to Pay Off a Mortgage. In order to pay off a vuortgage of $4,500 on the Central Christian church at Columbus, Ind., held by Willis I.. Barnes of Charleston. Ind., the congre gation of the church, bended by the Kev. S. S. Oft'utt. pastor, will open a theater in the roof garden of the church, snys a Columbus dispatch. This church is the only one in the world built with a roof garden. Ar rangements are being made to Install a moving picture machine there, and moving pictures and illustrated songs will be given, while patrons of the gar den eat lee cream or drink soft drinka Nervy Boy Aeronaut. Cromwell Dixon, fourteen years old. said to be the youngest aeronaut in the world, made a flight early the other night at Columbus, )., In his new "sky cycle"' and became stalled when 2,h0 feet above tle earth, says a Columbus dispatch. He left his saddle, climbed along the light framework, opened the gas bag and let out enough gas to give the machine perfect ballast and. crawl ing back into his seat, began to pedal and descend slowly. He lundiil safe ly a short distance from where he had started amid the cheering from thou sands of throats. The spectators all agreed that the boy's escape from ueath was remarkable. Ills nerve alone enabled him to adjust the "sky cycle" and land in safety. Faint 'You know the old proverb, heart ne'er won fair lady.' " "Yes, but this lady Is a brunette." Tick-Mc-Up. A Woman's Remedy There are times when a woman feels nervous, irritable, and blue. These symptoms are the result of peculiar conditions which indicate the need of a safe and dependable remedy to assist Nature in her efforts to establish healthy action to the organs which directly affect woman's health. may be safely employed whenever backache, weakness, a feeling of nausea, f aintness, nervousness, lassitude or other disagreeable sensations foretell derangements that need righting and regulating. Beecham's Pills improve the digestion, brine back the appetite, purify the blood and clear the complexion. They have been used by women o every land, with uniform success for nearly sixty years. They are universally re commended as a mild laxative, an ideal conditioner and A Safe Correetive In Boxes with full Directions, loo. ond25o. 1 IOriginal.1 We were- sitting in the arlor undei the grapes, which were quite ripe. We plucked and ate a number of huge bunches; then she asked what we should do next. "Oh. I know," and she run into the house nnd brought out a book. On the left page were a number of printed questions; on the right, blank spaces In which to write the an swers. It was impossible to determine which were the more stupid, the ques tions or the answers that had been written In it. The look was about half filled, the writers having been both masculine and feminine. I ran my eye down the column of questions, such as "What is your fa vorite color? Your favorite proverb? Your age?" When I came to the last I paused and asked if the women an swered that question. She said only fine bad, but she didn't count; she was a practical creature and earned her own living. I went on down the list. "Is life worth living?" Think of that to be answered by people from )-ixteen to twenty-six, as most of those who had filled in the answers were. "W hat is your present thought?" 1 paused again nnd began to write, "That the man who" She stopped me. "Iton't write anything disagreeable. I won't have my book spoiled " I bad intended to write, "The man who got up this book did so for Idiots nnd to fill his pocket at their expense. Instead I wrote. "The man who Is asked to write in this book should feel highly complimented." "That's very nice," she said. "I know bow cynical you are, and I feared you were going to put In some thing horrid." My second thought was that I had narrowly escaped making an ass of myself. I went on down the list and paused at "What is your ambition?" These questions were goading me to ruin, and again I came near making a slip I started in to write "To drink all the champi'gne there is in the world," but caught myself when I bad written "To drink" and finisla-d "dew from your sweet lips." I bad no sooner written this, which I had considered a high flown compliment, when I real ized that it was tantamount to a decla ration. She was looking over my shoulder, and to get a glimpse of her face I turned my bead. My beard came In contact with the almost Invisi ble down on her cheek. "Oh:" she exclaimed. "Excuse me," I said. The glimpse I got satisfied me that bad stepped off the river bottom aud must swim. I was startled at the dis covery, had never been before beyond my depth aud an Indifferent swimmer at that. Still I confess I bad been pad dling around the girl who was about to well, to drown me. She says I'm cynical, and I suppose I am. though I am somewhat excusable in this in stance, for the word "drown" carries out my simile. I struck out w ildly. That won't do," I said, "in a book to be seen by any and every body. They might think I mean -while It's true It's shall 1 scratch it out?" "Oh:" This was no reply to my question. but it expressed a lot. Others may not understand what it meaut. but I did. I was rattled. I made a dash for the next question and read aloud, "I)c you consider marriage a failure?" I wanted to write as I felt. "I wish I knew which it will be for me if I settle this matter now." but of course I couldn't write that, so I temporized and a man who temporizes with the girl he courts is lost - that is, if mar riage is a failure. I wrote, "It depend" upon whether one gets a good wife." It's a wonder she didn't laugh when she saw what I had written, but she didn't. This was a serious business. "Don't you think that a one sided view to take of it?" she said iu a soft voice. "I'pon my word:" I exclaimed. I was getting more and more rattlinl every moment. "I'll lis it," and I wrote on "but in this case" I stopped again. "What case?" she asked in Hie same soft tone. "Why, the case we were talking wcren t we talking about a case? So we weren't. How stupid 1" "Oh!" nat a convenient word and how a girl cuu use it! I've since tried It my self, but without the slightest effect. Think of a man using it nnd with out the softness of voice, the surprise in the eyes, the injured look about the mouth. One might as well expect a woman to produce an effect Ivy the use of a swear word. And yet this girl was snaring me with It. "Yon seem to think" I began and paused. Yes. she thought, and she hud a right to think, but what I was about to say wouldn't help matters. She didn't say "Oh!" I wished she would. or anything to start me afresh. I turn ed to the book for a way out. "What is your favorite method of proposal?' The question must have been put In for the women, and women who were flirts at that. - A man might have favorite beverage, but never a favorite method of proposal. But wllh me all nad depended 'on the nature of this next question, and It had gone against me. I surrendered at discretion, wrote deliberately: A man should simply say: I love you. Will you bo my wife?" Then turned and looked her square In the face. She's got her question book yet, bu teepa it tinder lock and key. EDGAR T. EVAXS. Iowa FurniKire and Carpet Cos Rousing SLocker Sale 12 good patterns sold below cost of production. in our north window Monday. See the line i ' ' ' rlV A DOZEN KINDS A DOZEN BARGAINS. READ WHAT THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY ARE One lot Sewing Hookers, QC were $1-25, are now OOC One lot Sewing Rockers, 1 IK were $1.75 are now I I J One lot (Jooil Arm Hookers, -f QC were fl'.oo, are now lCJ One lot Oooil Ann Hookers, j A Q wire $2.50, are now ITTJ One lot Fancy Ann Hookers. q HC were $5.ut. n-e now OitO One lot Fancy Ann Hookers, -l Cf were $-", are now I'VlU One lot Fancy Arm Hookers, were $::.50, are now One lot Fancy Ann Hookers, were $:!.0ii, are now One lot Fancy Arm Hookers, were $-.75, are now One lot V were $:;.!' unoy Arm Hookers, ". are now One lot Fancy Arm Hookers, were $4.5ij. are now One lot Fancy Aim Hookers. were are now 2.10 1.85 1.70 1.90 2.48 3.75 IOWA FURNITURE ft CARPET CO. 324-326-328 Brady Street, Davenport POINTED PARAGRAPHS. You can waste a gooil deal of time telling how reliable you are. You never say a man won't listen to reason if he agrees with you. A boy is liberally abused if be isn't polite, but bow many say "Thank you" to a boy? No one seems to have as hard a time earning money as the woman who mar ries for it. The average man's idea of religious liberty is the privilege" of staying home from church. Having g.Md judgment and being "a fool for luck" are frequently the story of a simile financial success told by different parties. How poor are they who have no patience! What wound did ever heal tit by degrees?" Who is the author of the above"; It is not important wheth- r you can remember the author if you an soberly accept the lesson taught. .Vtehison Olobe. Hi A Happy Man Amos F. King, of Port Byron. X. Y., (S5 years of age); since a sore on hi- , which hail troubled him the great er part of tns lite, has been entirelv healed hv Bucklen's Arnica Salve: the world's great healer of Sores. I'.urn-. 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