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4 THS ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER J, 1913, ui If K) THE ARGUS, Published daily at 162 Second ave rue. Rock Island. III. (Entered at the t prtofflc second-class matter.) e ' ft Rock Island Mrakrr at the Amortate l: l! Preaa. ii' ' BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. -Ten cents per week by ear lier. In Rxu.k Inland. , ! Conr.plainfs of de;ivery service snould lijbe made to the circulation department, .:whlrh. should ' also' be.notlfled in erciy ij Instance where It is desired to have j;-paper discontinued, a carriers ha-.e no n'authorit7 la the premises. !: All communications 'of aririimentatlv , chur.icter, political or religious, must Jha real ranm attached for putilca- ji tion. . Xo suc-h articles will be printed ycwr fictitious signatures. ; Telephones la all departments. Cen- ;t;tral Union, Rock Island 145 1145 and a- ' X C TRADES frlj COUNCIL - 20 Saturday, October 4, 1913. ) That was some quake In Panama, !but the canal 1h still there. r.ven arter the currency nni passes one dollar bills will not grow on trees, ty The Chicago man who murdered a tango teacher may have to dance in r; the air, I! "J. The poet who sang of the rare days -of June evidently never lived where jthey have Indian summer. It is reported that Secretary Hons . ton of the agricultural department will do some weeding out in hi section of the adminli-tratlon, after which he 'hopes, it is understood, by intensive cultivation to produce better crops. A French engineer rises to announce ' that the Panama canal is too small. ' And yet it proved too big for the . French company which tackled the job and gave it up. Billy Sunday has sinned up for a ser 5fs of revival meetings at Des Moines jiext September. Hilly has outclassed about all the old favorites of the base ball wor!d except Comtiikey, Jennings ' and "Muggfy" McGraw. Sensational ' pitchers come and po, but the debate on the question of whether Rilly's sen . satior.al methuris as an evangelist are , ljiitimaie must rnr.Uiuie as Ion:; as! . ' Hilly himself. 'nce individual taste ia The only criterion liy which these Tiiethods may be judged. , THE WW W OH 'I'll WIIIIH Hie mun worth while Is the man Vho is ready at all times to give his Jiesrty assistance to the men who are helping to build this city. He is 'he man who is not deterred by slight and temporary reerses. He is the man who speaks a word for the good cf his city whenever the occasion reseti's, who will lieip wherever he " can to j.rouiote his city's interest, vho coiiM's up cheerfully to give his nervlces when they are in demand. TT The man who isn't, worth while for a town is the man who knocks on the first and also on each and every occasion presented. The man worth while Is the man vho makes the town. The uiaa not . worth while is the man who makes It harder for the man worth while to boost his home city. MOl. I'KTl II H KMHMUP. The mayor of Denver proposes a board of censors for moving picture shows, the board to be composed of two men and one woman. Immodest pcenes are to be excluded, also brutal ones, such as the killing of animals, and representations of drunken men are to be forbidden. This is about as far as the public rensors could go. Yet the main evil of the moving picture shows is its sub ordination of the instructive to the riraniatlc. Rather it is the free use of cheap, false sentiment to produce dramatic effects and the glviug over of a w'hole evening to purely artificial productions with reproduction on the moving picture film as the essential purpose. These have their attractions for many. Indeed some make it a i point lo dodge the moving picture Fhow on the night given over to pic tures of what is actually going on la the world. So the practical thing is not censor ship, but competition that will give the public opportunity to choose be tween sloppy affairs and represen tations of things worth seeing. iiik voRia ii.i.io. The J. ricrront Morgan estate ha3 paid an inheritance tax of t2,5v0,0". the estate having bevu appraised at j $t'..".o(n.iMiii. This Is exclusive of the art collection, which will be exempt! from taxation if it goes to the city. The II.ciOO.OoO was paid for the purpose cf takin; a discount of 6 p"r cent on iahcrliance taxes raid w'.thia six months of death. Mr. Morgan died March 51. If the csta'e inventories over $65,000,000. an additional inheri tance lax will be ra;d. The confidence cf ethers in hi in tegrity, j'idgment and experience was indispensable to the accumulation of Mr. Morgan's f'-rtune. Hut this is not the tole nor the chief explanation. Other business men cf ability and character who commanded general confidence have failed to accumulate a tni'Ucn. Mr. Morgan owed his success primarily to his control of credit. This gave him power to determine whether this or that particular enterprise hou!d be financed or not and how it f-hculd be financed, if at ail. lie usea ins power as otners mignt have used It had they possessed it, to control the market in hie own interest j and to enrich himself. i legislation that would destroy such j control without impairing credit gen eraliy would be a triumph of stateman THE EXPECTED HAPPEXS. What was feared, what The Argut repeatedly warned would prove the Inevitable consequence of. permitting an undesirable element of the colored race to be harbored in Rock Island, has happened another tragedy in the black belt district. The murder of the Mexican laborer whose body was found in an alley be tween Second and Third avenues and Twenty-second and Twenty-third street early yesterday morning, 6hot and beaten, has been traced by the police to a bad negro who has been captured and who has made a confes sion. A few weeks ago, following a series of exposures of the conditions existing in Rock Island as a result of tolerat ing the worthless and depraved of the colored race, there was a hasty exodus of the gang, men and women, from the city. The Argus stated at that time only constant vigilance would prevent a return of this element. Whether or not the vigilance has been exer cised is not known, but at all events some of the bad ones came back. ' The result of It all Is another crime a cold blooded murder, and the natural inquiry that will now come is whether i trans-continental boulevards joy the city will be rid of the element once rider roads." he calls them. The gov and for all. The only way to accom-J ernment will do nothing of the sort, plish this is To suppress the dives j if congress adopts the Shackleford where these negroes congregate, and policy. Mr. Shackleford contends that 'make Rock Island an unattractive to improve the roads of this country place far them to stop. They are of no use in any community and sooner or later they will commit depredations, such as have so often happened In Rock Island. Included In Rock Island's legitimate population are plenty of law respect- Ing. decent colored people who are as anxious to see the dangerous and ua rul of their race driven out, and kept out, as the white people are, and the best thing for the authorities is to heed the warning aflorded in what haa oc curred and clean up the city. And keep it clean. SOCIALISM IX (iERAM. Socialism la Germany has under gone a wonderful change in the last li) years, as was thown at ths recent annual convention of the social demo cratic party ut Jena. The radicals in troduced a resolution in favor of a uni versal strike for the purpose of ex torting franchise reforms from the government, but it was dr-feated by a majority of nearly two-thirds of the official representatives of the party. Tim moderates declared that such methods would only retard the prog- ress ot socialism and that the social ist would be playing into the hands cf their enemies if they attempted to introduce the methods of Freoch syn dicalism, such as the universal strike, into their program. This conservatism wa-s most unex reded, but can probably h explained by the fact that for several years past the Germans have prospered and the socialists are not as discontented as thry formerly were. They are not ready to take the bread and butter out cf their own mouths and those of their families by inaugurating a universal strike. The social-democrat Ic party of Ger many appears destined to undergo a et ill preater transformation in the fu ture and we mar expect it to reject a good many more of the visionary tin crleB on which socialism was found ed. In fact. It seems destined to be come a people's party, working con servatively for the betterment of the working clashes and for more democ racy in the form of government. When it reaches that stage it may acconipliih some good. It would be a blessing for the world if all Its so cialists would follow the example of those of Germany. HITTIXi THK KOI FADDISTS. une can scarce. y take up a news-1 paper "hese days wi'hout glancing at advice as to what one shall or shall not eat. The United States depart ment of agriculture has done some thing In this line a' times, but now it sends out a bulletin warning peo ple to beware of fakers calling them selves food experts end encouraging all to eat whatever they p'.ease as long as it is wholesome. Can i; be that ail the erudite treatises cn sci entific ft-ediug are pure rot? If so, a great deal of gray matter has been wasted. "The truth of the matter is," says the bulletin, "that man's chances of health are best when he eats wih moderation a diet made tip of clean, wholesome, ordinary foodF, prepared In the usual ways." Well, that Is what our ancestors used to do, and they seemed to thrive pretty well on the diet. The department sharps hit the mark when they add: "If the de ductions of many food faddists ac cepted as facts were really operative, it would be difficult to explain how the human race had survived." This knock at the food faddists is timely snd deserved, but at the same' time there is some'hing la the teach- ing of the relative nutritive va'ues of j Standard foods ' The denartnent i would be doing a good work if it is sued a reliable statement along these lines, for there is no question that thousands cf families in this coun try whose incomes are limited could thrive as well on a diet that woud cost very much less than what they are accustomed to. SAVE A TOWN FROM FIRE Young Women Form Bucket Brigade in Winnebago, 111. Rockford, II!., Oct. 4 A bucket brigade cf young women saved the business district cf Winnebaco, near here, from belcj destroyed bv fire i;re wes coancea to, he Baa ce-n obliged to mortgage his rroperty, but she guessed it didn't two buildings by the exertoa of prao-J amount to much as he said it was just a second mortgage. Capital Comment BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER Congressman from ths Fourteenth District. " (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) ' Washington, D. C Oct. 2. A mil lion miles of good roads in five years. That is the goal set by Representative Dorsey W. Shacfc leford of Missouri, chairman of the new house .com mittee on roads. That the roads committee is to be one of the most important commit tees of the house no one who fol lows the trend of affairs can doubt. And now for the first time Mr. Shackleford, after a long study of the subject, gives his idea of what the general road poll cv of the govern' merit should bp. UAVtNntH . Mr. shackleford Is opposed to the 'idea of the government building great 'on that plan would cost billions of dollars, and by the time the living generation is in its graves, not more than two per cent of the people of Ue United States would be receiving any direct benefit from federal good roads. "No. the government will not build road," says Mr. Shackleford, "it will stimulate the construction of them. Some of the states are doing it now w ith phenomenal success. If the gov ernment as an incentive to road build ing should agree to pay an annual maintenance appropriation of $15 per miie of good roads, it would cost the government $15,000,000 for aid to 1,000,000 miles of good roads." And Mr. Shackleford says that congress will not appropriate more than $25,000, 000 per year for roads. That would give aid to the building of 2,500,000 miles of good roads, the total road mileage of the country, he-says. "Those who want the government to build 'national highways' are rich automobile owners reinforced by man ufacturers of road machinery and road materials who regard Uncle Sam as 'good pay,'" said Mr. Shackleford. "Those who believe in business roads, for cheaper transportation and lower cost of living, believe that the proper function of roads is not to connect antipodal oceans, nor the distant cap itals of far away states, but to make easy communication between the farms and the towns and railway sta tions to the end that the farmer may market his crops at less expense and the town dweller may get farm prod ucts more easily and at less cost "The 'national highway' scheme is a dismal delusion. It would require 40 years to complete the construction of the 50,000 miles of boulevard proposed by the National Roads association. It is not a road, nor yet a few roads that we want. What we must have Is a general system of good roads extend ing throughout the length and breadth of the land. "Road construction and road main tenance are problems for the states tically the entire male population who were kept supplied with buckets of water by lines of women. The Rock ford fire fighting appartus made a teu-mi':e cross-country run and ar rived in time to aid in saving the town. "The Young Lady j I The young !adr across the wav I :ji and-their civil subdivisions. - The con trol of roads should remain with, the states. Where the states "construct roads of such degree of perfection Ja to supply the federal government with highways over which to perform its functions with reasonable facility. then the government should contrib ute to their upkeep. Congress should provide general standards of roads. for which contribution would ' be made. The government could then protect itiself by inspection and a refusal to make payment for any road falling be low specified standards. Such- a sys tem would not require much federal machinery to administer Jt" Speaker Champ Clark received a tre mendous ovation when he closed the tariff debate preceding the vote on the. tariff conference report. He was cheered on both Bides of the house. Speaker Clark i3 the idol of the house of representatives. There is no doubt about that "There has been a good deal of talk first and last about President Wilson's action with reference to this Din, declared the speaker. "I congratulate him for the part that he has taken in this legislation. If I had been elect ed president 1 would have gotten a good tariff l.il through this house sure as you are alive. He has simply dis charged his duty in the open. "One great thing that this bill will do, and 1 congratulate the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Hull) on that most cordially, is that it will intro duce into' the taxing system of this country the proposition that we will tax what a man has instead of v-hat he has to buy to live on. I refer to the Income tax. 1 win debate mat propr-oi-tion with any man living, with the absolute certainty of coming out on top. "I believe as firmly as that 1 am living that on a sealed ballot, so that nobody could ever find out how you gentlemen over on the republican side would vote, nine-tenths of you would vote for the inome tax proposition in this bill. "I will tell you what else I believe, I believe if you had a plebiscite, as Louis Napoleon used to call it, or secret vote, 95 per cent 'of the people of the United States would vote for the income tax proposition in this bill Just as certain as you live that is coming to stay, and the people will magnify the name of Hull in the days to come. If you gentlemen on the re publican side ever get into possession of the government again, you will no more dare to repeal the income tax than you would attempt to Jump off the top of the capitol. The people will not have it. Some people seem to think it has never been tried. The English have tried it, and except for two years they have had the income tax ever since the Napoleonic wars, and they have worked it out with mathematical nicety. I do not be lieve there will ever be another high tariff bill enacted into law in this republic. "We stand today justified by our works. The old rule, 'By their works ye shall know them,' is wholesome. We are willing to be judged by it. For 16 years we wandered in the wilder ness. We were demoralised and dis heartened. Gaining one victory after another gives us courage, and I believe this day is the beginning of a quarter of a century of unbroken democratic supremacy in this country." New York Edward J. Nally, for merly vice president and general man ager of the Postal Telegraph and Cable company, has been appointed to the same position with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company of Amer ica. Across the Way' itvi she nnrhoi.H k rarvir. . ? that wm HENRf HOWLAND We dream of peace and we plan for peace. For peace we pray when we kneel at nlg-ht. Apd not for a day, do we ever eease To watch for a fair excuse to fleht; We agree that war 1 a thing to dread. Its cause a crime and Its cost a shame. But w-e place a wreath on the captain's bead, And we grant the conqueror deathless fame. We speak of the useless waste of blood, Of the bitter woe and the sinful strife, ; But we mount our guns by the roaring, flood And devise new schemes for destroying life. Our envoys linper In foreign landt ' Inspiring trust and allaying hati But our ships are manned, and with ready hands We Krasp our weapons and watch and wait. We hear the sighs of the ones who bear The terrible cost of armament Who toll and give but who never share The glory for which their years are spent : We shudder when Innocent blood Is shed. War Is the world's most ghastly shame; But we twine a wreath for the captain's head. And we grant the conqueror deathless fame. It Has Its Use. "Papa," said little Arthur, endeav oring to correct the head of the household, "you mustn't say "busted. Our teacher told us the other day that there was no such word, and w-hen we mean busted we must al- wayr say 'burst! "Oh, she did. did she!" the child's father exclaimed. "Well, the next time she says there Is no such word as busted, you tell her for me that if the water pipe ever freezes up in the basement and floods things for her she'll discover that there is 6uch a word, and that no other word'U fit In where it belongs, either. ' , The Count's Mistake. 1 Tou should feel highly honored. count," said the beautiful heiress' mother, as she looked significantly at the glass beside the nobleman's plate. "As an especial mark of favor for yourself and out of respect for the" manners of your country, I have permitted wine to be served upon my table this evening for the first time in all my life." "Ah." replied the count, "eet eez ze gr-r-reat honaire. tou cau heem wine? I sought he was ze what you call heem wataire zat you have boll." Another Cry for Reform. The kidnaper frowned. "'What's the matter?" asked the old pal whom he had not seen for years. "I expected," the kidnaper answered, to find $25,000 in the sack I had hung by the chimney of the deserted cabin. but all I got was a note saying the boy was only a step-son. Curses on the man who declines to be a father to his wife's other husbands' children! We must move to have our divorce laws amended 1" Revised Opinion. "Johnny," said the teacher, "whom do you consider the greatest man In the world?" "I ust to think It was pa," he re plied, "but since ma held him up In the hall when he got homo from Un cle Tom's stag party last night can't help thlnkln' she's it." Then She Had to Explain. "How does It come," she asked "that you haven't named any of your eons after a great man? Tou have no George Washington or Henry Clay or V. S. Grant In your family, have you?" "N-no," he answered," but you know our oldest boy is named after me." 8o It Is Setsd. A lady who deftly eroched. A horrible Urn per dlspleted On finding, when through That a dropped stitch or twough. Had spoiled the contrivance she's meted. Appearances Against Him. "He has great gifts a, a money maker." "Tou snust be mistaken. He has) eenaparativfcly few friends." mow many kinds of fairy irere there? A good many. For an elf dif fers from a troll, who rniist not be confounded with a pixy. Then In ad dition there was the kelpie, the gnome, fae brownie, the kobold. the nl and the Brisk a hairy Scotch rpiritj. Chi :ago News. M fr-J&l-iZ L '"'V m".1 '.'' 1 The Daily Story ON THE LONG TRAIL BY CLARISSA MACKIE. Cfepyrlcnted, 11. toy Assoclatel Literary Bureau. Betb Cushman was riding borne by i way of the long trail. It was a yield ing to sentiment that Beth herself de spised, but she could not help it when she came to the crossroads. The long trail had been her favorite ride with Miles Hill, but that hand some cowptincher had ceased to call upon Miss Cusboiin. From the trail she could look down Into a little canyon through the middle of which rushed a frolicsome stream. On the bank of the stream there stood a horse and rider, a girl on a cream colored pony. Betb drew a Jealous breath, for she could see that the girl was lovely In a blond, golden haired, pink and white way. v As she gazed down there, the white pony lipped the stream and, out from the rocks of the canyon, there dabbed a horse and rider. It was Miles Hill, riding black Poncho. Beth caught her breath aa the man rode rapidly to ward the girl, bent swiftly to kiss her aud. with his arm around her slender waist, the two forded the stream and rod rapidly np the canyon and disap peared from view. rnt4.Al hao.tol,1. Hilt T - i t V, m hrftTA smile on her lips. Beth sat down to ' 1Kb, Her uncle, a morose, taciturn man, ate silently and swiftly, and rising. went away on some official errand, for he was sheriff ot the county. Mrs. Colt and her two daughters breathed a t little easier after his de parture and began to talk to the two cowboys who ate with the family. Pa hasn't said anything, but I reckon he's off on that Tlnkerman case," observed Mrs. Colt I reckou he is," returned Link Pat- er6on, buttering another biscuit. "Some one snid Miles Hill had dis appeared from the range," went on Mrs. Colt, with a side glance at her niece. "Jameson hinted that Miles was mixed up in the Tlnkerman raid," put in Louise Colt eagerly. Jameson better try again. There ain't a squarer fellow nowhere than Miles Hill," muttered Link. "Where is Miles, then?" demanded Cora. "Miles? Why, I can't say exactly. It's sort of a secret, you know, ma'am. Link grew very red and looked at Beta's pathetic, face. Beth lifted her head haughtily. Her eyes flashed splendidly. "I don't know why his whereabouts should be a secret," she said nervily. "I saw him today." "Oh, you did?" queried Link, reliev ed, and Sammy Smith asked quickly: "I reckon It 'twan't far from Little canyon. Miss Beth." "It was right there. He was riding with a girl, a very pretty girl," said Beth bravely. There was nothing more said con cerning Miles Hill, and after supper Beth went to her room and rested her weary head on the sill, letting the cool, sweet air caress her flushed cheeks and dry the tears on her lashes. Link and Sammy rode away, and from the overcrowded bunk" house came talk and laughter and song as the cowboys prepared themselves for some merrymaking In the town, five miles distant. After they. too. had clattered away and Sam Soy had ceased to rattle dishes in the kitchen silence fell on the ranch house and Its inhabitants. From the veranda below Beth caught the drift of voices now and then through the confusion of other sounds, but after it grew very still the voices came up sharply penetrating. "I think your pa was too severe with Miles Hill." said Mrs. Colt "He sure was plumb eet after Beth, and It showed he was honorable to speak to nenry about it first" "Miles Isn't poorer than any other cowpnncber around here, and plenty of them marry and setttle down," agreed Cora, who was fond of her lit tle cousin. "I heard him tell pa that if he'd name the sum he thought he ought to have before be asked Beth to marry him he said he would have It" put In Louise. "now much did pa tell Miles he must raise?" asked Cora. "Five hundred dollars." Ianghe4 Louise. "L heard poor Miles telling him it would take him a bole year to do that out of his pay and then bis clothes would be so shabby Beth wouldn't look at him by that time!" "What did pa any to that?" "He just laughed, and then Miles got angry and said he'd show him a thou sand dollars before he'd ask him, and he went off In a rage, and I haven't seen him since." "Beth, poor child, said she saw him with another girl," worried kind Mrs. Colt "It's a shame!" cried Louise. "I'll Just scold Pa Colt when I get hold of hlra! See if I don't." Beth withdrew from the window and went to bed. There was a singing in her heart because Miles Hill bad loved her. whatever his wandering heart was doing now. He had asked her oncle for her hand, and Cpcle Henry had refused, but there was a measure of comfort in the thought that lilies had not been deliberately faitniess. lie had been turned away, and the blond girl had tempted him. The girl fell aa'eep to dream of her lover and the pretty girl who had waited for him In Little canyon and who bad received hU kiss upon her lips with airy nonchalance. It was perhaps a week after that Beth Cushman oner .more rode home by the long trail. This was not from desire. Stern necessity demanded the change of route because during a severe windstorm there had been sev eral trees uprooted along the short trail and a landslide bad completed its destruction. Bo It happened that Beth rode slow ly along the familiar way. her eyes fixed on the Utile space between Bon nie s crown enrs. . ... . . ; She bad passed Little canyon with out a glance into its green depths and was climbing the hill when she sud denly came to the top. where a thrill ing scene was taking place. Riding straight toward her. was a roost villainous looking Mexican, and la the curve of his left arm he carried the slender form of the - beautiful blond whom she had seen with Miles. Shoutiug down the distance camo Miles, bending over his horse in vain pursuit of the Mexican. While she paused there, startled at I the scene, a shot rang out from the bushes bordering the trail, and Miles threw up his bands and fell to the ground. The horse cropped the grass undisturbed by the still form of his master lying so near. All this happened in a breath. When Miles felli the Mexican' was still com ing toward Beth. A great rage filled her soul with a mad desire to kill, to avenge the life of her old sweetheart. A word to Bonnie, and Beth dibed into the scene, her revolver thrust into the face of the frightened Mexican. "Give her to me! Let go! I ll kill you if you donH" she screamed in his car. He released his hold on the girl, and Beth clutched her in strong arms and swung her across her saddle; then she dashed past the Mexican and guided Bonnie to where the prostrate Miles lay on the ground. "You're safe now," assured Beth as she helped the girl to the ground and then dismounted. To her surprise the girl stared at her rather impudently until a smile crinkled the corners ot her rouged lips. "Say, Miss Buttinsky. what do you mean by queerin? this picture?" she asked siiarply. "Walt until old Fen nell gets up here. I guess you've spoiled thirty feet of perfectly ripping film." "Picture?" faltered Beth. "Film? I don't know what you mean." The girl laughed gleefully and clap ped her hands at a stout, red faced man who came panting toward them. "Don't have a fit. Fennell." she said saucily. "It's only another tenderfoot taking a movie picture for the reut thing." But Mr. Fennell was grinning with enthusiasm. "It was great great Flora!" he cried. "Young lady, I must have you in this. What say? Could you do that stunt again?" Betb looked at blm in a bewildered way, and her blushes deepened when she noticed that Miles Hill had risen quite unhurt and was regarding her with grave interest in his brown eyes. "Perhaps you will explain it to me. I've . never been called a tenderfoot before." Beth smiled at the girl called Flora", and the girl nodded back in a friendly way. The Mexican had np proached and was nonchalantly rolling a cigarette, while from the underbrush there crawled another actor ef the cowboy type. It was this worthy who had fired the blank cartridge from ambush at Miles Hill. Mr. Fenuell explained all about bis company. of moving picture actors and how this particular film was to be a star production if it turned out well. And he wanted Beth to help them out by repeating her rescue of Flora from the dark browed Mexican, who In real life was her husband. So the camera man threaded up his machine again, and the scene was re peated to the great satisfaction of Mr. Fennell and all concerned. At last the company separated, the actors going back to their headquarters at Bed Ford and Miles Hill riding slowly home with Beth, who bad so unexpectedly come into her own again. "You thought I was dead, honey?" be asked after awhile. She nodded. "And I saw you and Flora in the canyon the other day," she added. "You mean where I kiss her and ride upstream?" "Yes I er believed it was true, Miles." ' He laughed tenderly. "It couldn't be, dear, because there's only one girl in the world for me, and she's so line that when she saw the girl she thought was mine being carried off . by a no 'count greaser she Just naturally would not stand for it but rushed In and res cued the girl for me." Betb blushed botly, but ber eyes were very happy. "I beard about your asking uncle," she snid. "Is that why you are acting In this moving picture company, so that yon enn raise a thousand dollars?" "To marry you at once," he smiled down at her. "You see, I'll have the money saved up In three months. Fen nell's going to get out fotr more of these wild and woolly western plays, and I'm going to be In every one of them. I guess you might as well be gin on your wedding clothe, dearie." "And I thought it was the blond all the time. Miles," she whispered tear fully. "Don't pin your faith on blonds, honey." be cautioned. "They always do the contrary things. This time It was not the blond: It was all for you." - Oct. 4 in American . History.' 1777 Washington's army defeated by British at Uermantown. Pa. The Continentals lost 1,(XX men and the British tiOO, including prison ers. 3822 Rutherford . Birchard. Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States, born in Delaware. O : died 1SU3. 1904 Frederick Angnste BartboldL sculptor and donor of the statue "IJberty Enlightening the World" In New York harbor, died: born 1KM. AH tne news aU the. time-The Argus,