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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS,' FKIDAY, -JULY 8, 1910. a i It 4 i : !? i i THE ARGUS. I i Published Dally and WeUy at ! fieoond avenue. Bock Island. Ill- Kn- tared. at the postofflce as second-class natter.l BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. ji TERMS. Dally. 10 cents per week. g .Weekly, 1 per year In advanoe. All communications of argumentative r haraeter, political or. rellg-toue, must bare- real name attached Tor publlca- : j t tion. No such, articles wlU k printed ' i i over flotitious elrnaturee, Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. Friday, July 8, 1910. , .That fellow -who ran against Diaz ' 1 Tor president of Mexico ought to be !' assigned the Job -of getting the mule off the tract. i If ,what the archbishop of York says : . - Is true, that English public school , if children are "mamma's darlings," Mr. ; I Roosevelt overlooked an opportunity j I '. tor - revamping, his - "milk-sop" speech. The president of the National As- ' soclatlon of Manufacturers demands corporations. Owing to those pesky insurgents, the old one rather fell down on Its Job. The -republican party is spending 72 ' I per cent of all the revenues collected j by the government the present fiscal j year for wars past and wars anticl- f : pated and only 2 per cent for agricul ! ; tare. The farmer who does not like . this should vote the democratic ticket :i this-fall. , "I voted" against the tariff bill be cause It was framed more with a view of benefitting certain manufacturing interests and monopolies than of con tributing to the general welfare of the American people. I protest against the republican party being made the handmaiden of the special interests of the country." Senator Bristow of Kansas. The American people annually con sume $1,500000,000 worth of lumber. By reason of the - tariff the Weyer- j; haeusers, Hlnes and other lumber i: magnates, who own the pine forests ' i of America, are enabled to levy atri- 1 ' bute of $120,000,000 upon the consum- I ; ers of lumber in this country. If you i believe that lumber should hje placed s on the free list, vote the democratic . 1 ticket this fall. '. The 1310 census shows that the . population . of ..the United Slates has Increased 18 per cent in the last 10 years. During the same time the taxes from all sources for the support of the government have increased 22 per cent, while the expense bill has increased 54 per cent. In other words republican extravagance is outrunning the growth in population 3 to 1. Turn the rascals out! St. Louis lays claim to the distinc tion of having the oldest beginner in the ministry. He is Colonel F. J. Hart, C5 years old and a veteran of the civil iwar, who was ordained and installed pastor of a Congregational church last week. Having made a good deal of money in mining and having been interested in Y. M. C. A. and church work for many years, Colonel Hart says he wants to end his days with the title of reverend. The proof of Roosevelt's attitude relative to the present status of American politics is indisputably presented in the announcement that the" former president' will do all he can on the stump and otherwise for fSecator Beveridge for reelection. The young Hoosier is one of the most se vere critics of the Aldrich-Cannon methods and measures and Roosevelt might just as well support Cummins or Dolliver whom Aldrich and Can non want read out of the party. How does Taft like that? The workingman, tired out with the toil of the day, drags his weary feet Into his cottage at eventide, hangs up his hat, taxed 85 per' cent, puts his tin dinner pail, taxed 92 per cent, on the shelf, pulls off his coarse work gloves,, taxed 66 per cent, walks over a carpet, taxed 127 per cent, to an easy chair taxed 42 per cent, takes off his shoes, taxed 2S per cent, and box, taxed 86 per cent, gets out of his worsted shirt, taxed .135 pr cent, throws oft his suspenders hitched to buttons taxed 127 per cent, slips off his trousers taxed 76 per cent, gets into his cotton night shirt taxed 96 per cent, crawls Into a bed taxed 68 per cent, draws a blanket over him taxed 165 per cent, and before he falls asleep thanks the Lord jthat salvation Is still free and firmly resolves to whack the republican standpatters at the first opportunity. Indirect Light. "Illuminating Engineering" of the of- nce or tne sergeani-ai-arms ri me house of representatives In Washing-, ton shows the room lighted with lamps so arranged that their direct radiations do not reach the eye. The light Is thrown upward and rejected from the ceiling. A few years ago a similar experiment was tried in a big English factory where powerful electric arcs were in use. The em ployes complained that the light was so dazzling as to be uncomfortable jt -not to 'say; painful and yet the 3 machines at which" theVworked were ' not so distinctly visible as could be iHetsircA. ' Everv . time light la rp- Sleeted a little is absorbed and lost. - However,' experience has led to the discovery that in many cases.. less electricity or gas is required to per form a given service if the source of the light it. generates is concealed and a judicious use is made of re hectors. The real , value of illumin ation, it now appears, is not always proportionate to its intensity. It'is often feasible by the right procedure to secure better practical results and yet reduce consumption. Sometimes the saving would not offset the cost of the reflectors. In other cases ground glass or cor rugated globes might so diffuse the light as to serve the purpose. But architects would do well to keep the matter in mind when advising the in stallation of artificial lighting sys terns. The World's Railways. Statistics of the railways of the world have been gathered recently by a German publication, the Archivfur Eisenbahnwesen. The figures are brought down to the end of 1908, or, in some cases, only to June SO, 1908. The grand total of the world's total mileage Is 611,478 miles, an Increase of 61,505 miles in the last five years. The Increase for the year 1908 was 16,445 miles, 2.8 per cent over 1907 The railway mileage of the six con tinents in 1908 was as follows: Europe 202,109 Asia 58,913 Africa 19.211 North America 274,372 South America 39,013 Australia 17,960 The (figures show that Australia, of all the new countries of the world, Is most backward In railway construc tion. Railway construction n Asia, especially in China, has increased re markably. At the end of 1903 China had 4,998 miles, four times as many as it had in 1904, and only 37 miles less than Japan. In the year 1908 Russia, the Euro pean country which needs new rail ways most, built only 2S5 miles. Rus sia still has 102 miles less than Ger many, though its area is 10 times as great and its population nearly twice as great as Germany's. The statistics of capital show that in Europe the average capitalization per mile is $121,393. Capitalization Is much greater there than in the United States where, according to the last Issue of Poor's Manual, the railroads are capitalized at 74,8S9 a mile. Canned Goods. Lincoln C. Cummings of Hyannls port, Mass., In a communication to the Xcw York Tribune touches several buttons with a good deal of ingenuity and force. ' . It Is stated that Alaska is the"Iarg est consumer of canned goods per cap ita in the world. They eat canned (almost) everything. When the na tions first heard the human voice in the gramophone, they at once ex claimed "canned man!" Mr. Cum mings, taking this for a text, says: "We are also familiar here in the United States with canned man. "It is notorious that men have sold themselves for a seat in congress (even in the senate), and have there after been wound up by their masters, and whenever they have since spoken it has been canned man. "It is evident that the body politic has been suffering from national indi gestion of canned politics, canned standards and canned ethics as well as canned men. Some of the great and small quasi-public corporations are canned and the poor and widowed investor has often and pitiably found the can empty. "The common citizen has discovered that the 'equal privilege' and fair play preached him on Sunday and bought on Monday by fruit of hard toil is but canned air. "We have had great policies framed up and enacted into law for the citi zen which were conceived in the 'soul of corporations composed of many canned men. "The policies have had all the Jus tice and mercy that was ever in them squeezed out. "Canned eihics have caused men to shrink from speaking aloud or acting by the power of truth and righteous ness until he who dares ia as 'the voice of one crying in the wilderness.' "Canned standards have made men ashamed to be called servants' of others, even of their own country, state or city, as jurors, mayors, even goverrcrs, legislators and presidents. when to serve others Is of the highest historical type and to be served of the lower civilization! "The character of the service counts. It must be unselfish and faithful. There are two signs up In Washington. One reads, 'Wanted, patriotic citizenship;' the other, 'Com mon sense legislation for the common good.' " July 8 in American History 175S GeiiL'iiii AL)t?ivroiul)ie"s attack on Fort Ticonderoga with 15,000 Brit ish repulsed with a loss of ti.OUO. 1778 Frencli lleet arrived In Delaware bay to aid the Revolution. 1792 Congress voted to make Wash ington the seat of government. 1SS7 Beu Holliday. pioneer of the fa mous pony express, died at Port land. Ore.; born 1819. 1897 Senator Isbam G. Harris, noted Tennesseean. died; born 1818. , JEWS AT K1EFF TERRORIZED Mob Becoming Dangerous and ' Is raelites Are Often Attacked. Berlin, July 8. The situation -ot the Jews at Kieff is becoming worse. According to dispatches to the Jew ish Aid society here the mob is be coming dangerous in Slobodskoi, a suburb of Vyatka. Organized bands frequently at tacked the Israelites. Many have been severely Injured and a larger number slightly, injured,, but no deaths -are PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE IN BUENOS AIRES i UEN03 AIRES. Everything la In readiness for the fourth Pan American conference, which opens hers Saturday and will continue In session for four weeks. All Argentina is proud of the fact that its capital was chosen for the big event, and the city, the most beauti ful In South America, Is In gala at tire. Delegates from every American republic already have arrived and are taking advantage of their opportunity to see the sights of Buenos Aires and to visit the international exposi tion with which Argentina Is cele brating the centenary of Its birth as a nation. The delegates from the United States came on the army trans port Sumner, "which was especially lit ted out for the trip. They Include Henry White, former ambassador to France; Professor Shepherd ofColum bla university, secretary; John Bas sett Moore, Col. Enoch Crowd er, Lewis Nixon, Prof. Bernard Moses, Lamar C Quintero, Prof. Paul S. Reln lsch of the University of Wiscon sin and Dr. David Kinley of the University of Illinois. reported. The Jewish population Is terror ized in all quarters by threats and abuse. - A WARM GREETING. She Overcame tha Rules and Met Him at the Station. She was rushing through the gate past Bill Gibson, the gate man, like a passenger train by a flag station, but Gibson stopped her. "Let's see your ticket, lady," he asked politely enough. 'Oh, I have no ticket," she said, "but won't you please let me through. I want to" "It's against the rules, cut In Gib son. "Yes, but I want to be there on the platform" all this breathlessly "I'm so anxious to meet biin." "Well, go on through," Gibson told her. "1 guess it'll be all right." Then to himself he soliloquized: "Why not? Perhaps she won't always be so keen to meet him; probably hasn't been married but a month or so; mebby isn't married yet af all. Far be it from me to Interrupt ber in such nice little attentions." The train came in. Gibson sort of looked out of the tail of his eye for a chance to witness the happy re union. Such sights illumine the dark recesses of the dingy old depot. In a moment he caught sight of ber. But her husband or sweetheart if she had one or the other was not with ber. However, she was not alone. 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It is there that the emperor when a young man. having gone to propose for the band of Elizabeth's older sin ter, saw a girl in short dresses run ning about the grounds, fell in love with her and asked her hand instead. The change was reluctantly granted by the lather of the two girls, and Franz Joseph took Elizabeth back to Vienna. From that marriage sprang Rudolph, crown prince of Austria. It was he and the Uaroness Vetsera who gave the world probably the most tragic love affair that has ever in volved an heir to a throne. There is another story of a royal lover whose ladylove lived on ,Lake Stanenberg. This was Kiug Louis of Bavaria. His affair did nor end in a tragedy, but caine near being one. Louis, who iu bis youth was especial ly handsome, was of a peculiarly fiery disposition. lie was betrothed to the Princess Sophia, and the match, ac ceptable as it was for reasons of state, was. in addition, a lovers' mating. The royal pair were often together at I'os seuhoffen. frequently sailing over the bosom of the lake iu view of the snowy peaks of the Tyrolean Alps. While in Munich the king met a very beautiful actress. This woman, whom we shall call Gretchen. was captivated by the handsome young king, falling desperately in love with him. She knew that he had recently been be trothed to Sophia and that his heart went with his hand. Gretchen formed TH7TEW HER nfTO THK WATER. a plan to withdraw the monarch's love from the .princess and win It for her- I selfl ' To carry out ihis plan it was necessary for her to leave the stage. This she did aud retired to private life. fler nest move in order to be brought in contact- with the king was to enter the service of the princess. Gretchen's career on the stage had given ber an acquaintance with a num ber of prominent persons, and to these she applied for their intiueuce to se cure the position she desired that of reader. The duties of reader are. as the name indicates, to read aloud for the amusement or instruction of the employer. Gretchen was appointed to the place she coveted aud in this way met Louis ou occasions when be vis ited bis betrothed. Hut neither the beauty nor the wiles of the actress could draw the king from his allegiance. A breach must be made between th two before Gretchef could hope to effect an entrance to hi heart. The many presents the king had given th;. princess werp not kept so securely but that the reader had ac cess to them. Ou day when a oppor tunity occurred she took from these gifts a half hoop of turquoises shaped like forget inenots, intending to make an especial use of it. There was among the officers of the king's bodyguard one whom we shall call Carl. He had been struck by the bwuity of the princess' reader, and she for a purpose had enrered into a mild flirtation with him. She gave bim the turquoise half hoop as a mark of ber favor, asking him to wear It for her sake. The young man. proud of his supposed conquest, was not slow to exhibit the proof of it before bis royal master, and Louis was shocked at see ing In possession of another a gift he had given his betrothed. It Is only In real stories that people violate every doctrine of probability. One would suppose that any man in his senses, seeing his present in posses sion of another, would have made an investigation. Louis did not even ask ihe guardsman how came by the trinket. Perhaps the doctrines of prob ability do not apply in cases of jealous lovers. At any rate, there are many in stances to show that ordinary sense and common prudence do not. King Louis, furious at the apparent evidence that bis h-!nvil hnrt iotn untrue to him. wrote her a scathing letter break ing off their engagement. The ietter fell like a bolt froa heaven. It is a question whether dis appointment, wounded love or indig nation at the unpardonable treatment for which no explanation was given most affected the girl, who from hav ing loved and received the love of a king was suddenly cast off. Such misunderstandings usually become more complicated and less explainable at every step. The second scene in the drama wjis eveu more deplorable tban the first. The princess was as tounded to learn that her reader bad fled from her and taken up ber abode within the limits of the royal park. This begot another error. As the king believed that the princess bad given the guardsman his present, mo the princess believed that the reason the king had broken with her was that he might possess the actress. This led to' a third complication. So phia returned Jto the -iing a.11 the presents be UaU sent her except the half hoop of turquoises, which she could not fiud and supposed bud been lost. ' The evening after the receipt of his gifts the king and the -ex-actress-ex-reader were out on the lake. The boat, shaped like a swau, was fitted up in royal style. The moon shone down upon them, its soft light in tensifying the girl's beanty. That they' might be alone the oarsmen bad been left on shore, the king having himself pulled the boat out on to the lake. But Louis mind was on tbe prin cess, with whom he had been sc wroth and who. Instead of suing for forgiveness for tbe offense of which be had accused her. had broken the last link of tbe chain that bad bound them together by returning his gifts. Moreover, be had noted that the half loop which bad made ail the trouble was not among the gifts be had re ceived. He spoke of this to bis com panion. Gretchen came to a sudden resolu tion. What influences people is not always known even to themselves, much less to. others. It seems singular that the woman who had brought about this rupture of a fiery king with the girl he loved should while he was still hot have determined on a confession. But it must be remembered that she bad gained whatever sway sbe held over ber royal lover by the senses. Doubt less she could not endure ber secret forever, -and if she was to confess and throw herself on his mercy bow could sbe hope for a more advantageous situation than this moonlit scene? If she was to succeed in winning a par don no better time or place could be hoped for. Throwing herself at Louis' feet, sbe told tbe story of her crime. Not only were ber hopes of forgive ness dashed, but death stared ber In the face. That fiery nature which the king bad already often displayed and which doubtless presaged the insanity which fell upon him later flashed out as from a demon. Seizing tbe kneel ing girl by the waist, he raised her above tbe gunwale of tbe boat and threw ber Into the water. Then, tak ing up the oars, regardless of her cries, he pulled furiously to the shore. Fortunately for Louis, be was not doomed to live under tbe stigma of murder. Some gamekeepers heard tbe cries of tbe drowning girl and. jump ing into a boat, pulled out ia time to save ber. As soon as she bad reached tbe shore she fled from Bavaria. The king hurried to Possenhoffen. burning to undo the wrong be bad done bis betrothed. It was to be ex pected that be would have some diffi culty In winning her forgiveness. But was Dot her lover a king? Reaching tbe chateau, be sent word that he begged to see ber in order that be might explain and ask forgive ness for his treatment of her. Word came back to him that sbe would not see bim; that she would never be the wife of a man who had turned her away without a bearing and insulted her by supplanting ber with tbe wo man who had perpetrated the decep tion. There are few cases where a king has been sent about bis business by a woman who has really loved bim. aDd It is not likely in such affairs that the indignant fiancee bad long refused to be conciliated, but Sophia maintained the position she had assumed and nev er became tbe wife of Louis, king of Bavaria. Aud yet this episode which separat ed a pair of royal lovers turned out a blessing in disguise for the Princess Sophia. Louis' outbursts of temper were but the precursors of Insanity. Later his mind gave way. and anoth er took charge of the government of his kingdom, while the legitimate sov ereign was confined under tbe care of a physician. . The kiug was not violent and was permitted to take walks with bis at tendant doctor. One evening while they were out together near the lake which Louis had loved so well and which had been the scene of past episodes In his life he made some ex cuse to leave bis guardian for aTfew moments. He seemed in such good mental condition that consent was given. Presently ihe doctor heard a splash. Hurrying to the lake, he saw his charge In the water. Jumping iu. be seized the king, but the latter was too strong for him and. getting him under water, held him there till life became extinct. Afterward the dead bodies of the king and the physician were fonnd In the lake. Another tragedy involving the death of one born at Possenhoffen was fhe assassination of the Empress Eliza beth of Austria at Geneva by an an archist.. Indeed, the place and the pe riod were full of remarkable happen ings to the royal bouses of Austria and Bavaria. mi ii , 4WU01S CRAio rtizi V IT.tCOIJ i voursrua I904 'Makes? Lightest Whitest; Finest Cakes; MAKES Delicious Angel Food and other cakes for Weddings, Entertainments and all Social Functions. Good all the year J 'round,. 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A million of the stare's wealth Won't bring to him a crumb Or flag tbe milkman on bis way Or buy a stick of rum. Liberal Education. "IIave .you a diploma from law BQbool?" asked the examining Judge. "No. your honor," replied th candi date for admission to the bar. "Ever study law?" ' "Not exactly." I "Then on what grounds do you ask jfor admission to the bar?" j "It's Just this way. Judge. I was th 'only witness who knew anything shoot tbe case In a trial, and the lawyers read all of tbe lawbooks that were ever written before they would let me testify, and I concluded It would ba a pity to let so much Information go to waste." "You pass." Hardly Ideal, "Do you have plenty to eat at your bouse?" asked the prospective farm 'band. "Enough to feed two men after we are through." "And plenty of work. I suppose." "Sure. That Is what X want yoa for." "There is always some drawback." SHe Knew Him. Tie wants to marry bis stenogra pher." "And won't she have him?" ' "On one condition." "What is that?" "That sbe shall pick his stenogra phers for him." I Heroic j T can only work under pressur. ' "That Is ail foolishness." ; "No: it is a fact." ! "I suppose you have a steam, roller back of you when you want to produce something very fine." ! Fine Lin of Lisa, j T always tell the truth." "Yes." "What do you tell?" "Anything that enters my head" Some Substitute. 'JUST LIKE fOulTv FATtttR ETC.IK IK "Do you use natural gas In your bouse?" Must what my wife furnishes." "But you can't burn that?" "No, but it keeps us warm." Sure Winner. He couldn't get her coddled To rive him her consent. Be had an ample fortune. Hut all for naught tt went. He had an inspiration That made Ms Joy complete He bougnt an Ice cream parlor And laid It at her feet. PERT PARAGRAPHS. " It is well that some people are self satisfied, because it often happens that trripv rp the onlv ones in any state or satisfaction concerning themselves. 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