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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
CHIvALRY OF SAVAGEs.
Many BarbarOus Tribes Are Exceed
inEIy DeferentiaI to Women.

Many BarbarOus Tribes Are Exceed
inEIy DeferentiaI to Women.
Untraveled people commonly sup
pose that savages always treat their
women badly, making mere slaves and
beasts of burden of them. This is
true in some cases, but many bar
barians are exceedingly chivalrous to-
ward women.
The Maoris of New Zealand always
treat women with the greatest defer
ence and respect, so much so that the
Earl of Ranfurly once called them
1.-The trueSt gentlemen on earth" They
will not permit woman to do any hard
work if they can do it for her, and
their boys are taught from earliest
youth that rudeneSs and unkindness
toward women are crimes only second
to lying and cOwardice.
A young English lady named Ger
trude Bell travelled alone among the
Druses of Syria. She was everywhere
received by them with the greatest
courtesy and hospitality. Special tents
were assigned to her use, and the
sheiks We'd with each other in being
her humble servants. No we'll bred
more chivalrous," she said. land they
were just as courteous to their own
women as they were to me-"
The Fijians so TO extremes. They
are so deferential and polite to their
womenfolk that they let the latter
rule the roOst" entirely. a woman's
word is apt to be law in the Fiji is
lands.
AS rule. women occupy a sub
ordinate place in the east, but Kali
ristan is an exception. The Kaf1rs are
of Aryan origin and to all appearances
are white race. They claim Alexan-
der the Great as their ancestor and
have a lofty code of chivalry. Their
women, lovely creatures with fair
compilations, blue eyes and fiaxen hair,
are treated far better than most wom-
en- in civilized society.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
WHEN BURGLARS CALL.
The Proper Thing to Do and the
Proper Way to Do 1t.


Proper Way to Do 1t.
events that are apparently trivial
IN the daytime assume an immense i'm
portance in the dead of night A slight
noise, out of the ordinary, will some
times have its bearing on the married
lives of two people," says Tom Mason
in Life.
when, therefore, your wife wakes
you up with that intensely nervous
movement that indicates Il brooding
horror do not lose your presence Of
mind. Keep from shaking if possible,
and while secretly your heart may be
in your throat do not betray yourself.
Above all, do not wake up too soon.
Begin by groaning slightly. and roll
over. At the second pull on her part
it will be entirely proper for you to
start slightly, rub your eyes and NUT
ter any unintelligible sentence. Then,
as you gradually wake up and she be-
comes more persistent you may allow
yourself to say. oh, nonsense"
Remember that up to this moment
the formula for n husband walked up
by his wife who hears noise is al
ways the same and should only be va
ried later. Now, however, is the time
to act.
'Dash quickly from the bed and
either reach for your revolver, or if
that isn't handy take the first thing
that presents itself-fire tongS, curling
irons or q chair-and rush madly to the
door
eff you have acted your part correct
" and courageously you will find your
wife there before you, barring the en-
trance.
'By this time, if you have made noise
enough, the burglars, if there were
any, have without doubt departed, and
when you have persuaded your wife
that the thing must be done you can
search the house at your leisure and
ever afterward pose as n genuine hero
who was thwarted in his purpose at
the critical moment"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
0r'14Gf ZION HIS 6OoT.


nee Is looked upon as an honor wisely
bestowed.
The careers of both Mr.. Schwab and
Mr. Corey have been almost identical.
Both began at the lowest round Of the.
ladder and by hard work with hand
and head, neglecting no opportunity to
add to their knowledge and usefulness,
soon attracted the attention Of Mr.. Car
negie. who, like them, also began with
his hands and an ambition to succeed
as his only capital.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

With the recent retirement of G. n.
Schwab, president of the United States
Steel corporation, from the active du-
ties of his position and the appoint
ment of w. L. Corey as his assistant,
with full powers, another of that group
of young men who helped Andrew Car
negie build up the great steel works
which bear his name became a COM
handing figure in the steel trade of the
world.
The new executive head of the steel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

William Collins Whitney, ex-secre-
tary Of the navy. multmillionaire and
street railway magnate, who retired
from active work year or SO ago after
being for more than a quarter of a cen
fury conspicuously powerful figure
in business and political life, is now at
sixty-two enjoying a well earned rest
from the toll of former years.
Mr.. Whitney is one of the. few very
rich men of the country who take
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
Grim signs.

Rain during a burial is considered an
excellent sign throughout the West
India islands. If one measures his own
height with rod which has been
used in measuring a corpse for the
coffin he himself will die within the
year. A stroke with the hand of a
CORPSE is believed by the West Indian
to be a sure cure for all pains and
sWellingS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

mechanism of the clock as to cause it
to sound signal later in the day. At
all events, whatever his plan, it mis-
carried. And he himself fell a victim
to his own temerity and want of knowI>
edge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
SKILLED IN SURGERY.

Sir Frederick TreVes, who Operated
on King Edward of England.
Sir Frederick Treves. the famous
English surgeon who has just retired
goes into private life with the unpar-
alleled record of having performed over
a thousand operations for appendicitis
without n death.
1t was Sir Frederick who, as surgeon
to King Edward, was called upon to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

''Your little brother seems like a play
full boy"
eyes, he is. He's very playful. When
sister was married he stopped up the
chimney, threw pepper in the fire, put
brandy in the lemonade and turned the
garden hose on the minister. Oh, he's
playful all right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
The bad with the Good.

Visltor-Why don't you open your
windows and let in some fresh air?
Flatman-Because as sure as we do
Wen let in some stale air that cOrnetist
next door starts playing about this
time of night.-Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
FavorabIe Indication.

'Aiiss Char1nington says she is very
fond of animals" remarked BliggenS
sister.
Perhaps there's hopes for me, Their"
said Bliggens. "She called me a brute
the other ay."-Syracuse Standard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25
A Follower of Precept.

Simpson-You blow your own horn a
good deal.
Jenkins-Well. if you want thing
well done do it yourself.-DetrOit Free
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

Of sound mechanical principles and
mathematical facts to the mechanical
aspects of the ear as an organ"
Miller Reese Hutchinson is a native
of Mobile and ten years ago, when
but sixteen years of age, began work
ing on the problem, which even at
that age had engrossed his attention.
He was educated in the public schools
and at the Alabama Polytechnic insti-
tute, graduating from that school as an
electrical engineer. After his gradua-
ton Mr.. Hutchinson applied himself
to the perfecting Of two instruments
by means Of which, 1t is said, persons
who have never heard sound In all
their lives have been enabled to hear
with distinctness music played on a
piano and the tones OF the human
voice in ordinary conversation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

Laziness travels so slowly that pow
erty soon overtakes him.-Franklin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

rotary OF STATE Rays daughters. ane
his oldest daughter is Mrs. AlmerIc
Paget
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

perform the delicate abdominal opera
ton on his majesty last summer just
prior to the coronation.
The great surgeon, who is but fifty
years old, was educated in London and
won his reputation in the London hos
pitfalls When the Boer war broke out
he threw up his practice and went to
South Africa as consulting surgeon Of
the army. On his return to the British
capital he was knighted and later was
appointed sergeant surgeon to the king.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-25

A terrible lot of money is spent on
parlor scenery at a wedding that is
longed for to buy kitchen scenery later
on-Atchison Globe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
low A EW S.
PAPERS = = =
WANTS VOTING MACHINES.
IStar-Clinner.l


Let us have voting machines by all
means. The New Jersey rumpus in
spires this remark. In that state they
are to be tried at eighty-one places
as a test of value. The Secretary has
authority TO say where they shall be
used. He is republican. He has as
signed the machines exclusively to
democratic precincts for the admitting
purpose of preventing frauds. Now the
democrats are kicking like Texas NAV
erieks and we do not blame them. They
say there ought to be a division of dis
advantages. That is not fair or decent
that only democrats should be barred
from the high privileges of ballot stuff
fing, repeating and counting out or
counting in while the republicans are
allowed full swing in the good old way.
In view of all the conditions we sympa-
thize with the mavericks. 1t was not
nor is not, fair deal The democrats
can right the wrong by getting the uni
Versal use of the machines ordered by
the next legislature. By all means let
the machines come in.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
THE VISITING COMMITTEES.
Spirit Lake Beacon.


1t is stated that in the next general
assembly there will be movement in
favor of reinstalling the old legislative
visiting committees. 1t was for many
years the custom to send out near the
opening of the session a committee
consisting of one senator and two
members of the house to look over each
of the state institutions with view
of determining institutional needs in
the way of appropriations, and getting
in legislative touch with these great
interests. OF course there was rarely
any discovery of Importance, and the
sum Of ignorance, or transformation In
the possession of the committee yet
amounted to a great deal. but there
was much of advantage to legislative
work in these hasty trips. The en-
tire outlay to the state was about $500.
The time counted for little because it
was at the period when legislation had
to wait upon the house organization.
There was good deal of joshing over
these so-called junkets, but they were
worth to the state much more than they
cost
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
A SUFFICIENT ANSWER.

AS will be noted in the news columns
of the T.-R. today, the increase OF as
sessment against railroads made py 'he
executive council Is the largest ever
made compared with the assessment
preceding. This year the assessment Is
raised s3,229,S47; last year the increase
amounted to s4,236.6s2, total increase
in the two years of nearly nine ana
une-haif millions in the two years. This
Increase is recommended to the study
Of those newspapers and politicians
who fecried the railway assessment is
sue upon which Governor Cummins was
first elected and sneered at Mr.. Cum
MINIS as its exponent Nearly ten mill
ions of increased assessment seems a
sufficient answer to the derogation OF
The principle and the candidate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
The sunday Horse.

A correspondent writing from Ger.
many says one sees there many
wagons designed for two horses, but
drawn by but one. 1t gives the vehicle
the appearance OF being cut on the
bias. Il inquired once why they did
not have two horses, or else use shafts.
and was charmed to learn that as keep
ing two horses was naturally more ex-
pensive people generally drove but
one during the week and rented an
other horse on Sunday, when the en-
tire family could drive out in style. It
was touching thought to keep the
Sunday horses place for him all week.
but reminded one sadly Of the vacant
CHAIR
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
OnIx a Grip. Purse.

Poems and stories used to be written
about the infinite variety Of articles to
be found in boys pocket. Girls do
not have pockets-so much the worse
for them-but the things they stow
away in their pocketbooks would put a
boy to the blush.
A girl einptied her purse the other
day. 81 have to clean it out" she ex-
planned, every once in awhile, just as
I do my bureau drawers" These are
some of the things that were in it: Two
one dollar bills, a fifty cent piece, two
quarters, a five cent piece Qead) and
ten pennies, "lucky" Italian coin,
japanese pocket piece" two receipts,
three bills, a parlor car check, four
street railway transfers, five mutilated
stamps, q pencil stub, matinee coupon,
three keys, newspaper clippings and
cleaners check for gloves. That was
not at all an unusual case. Almost any
girl can match it.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
Altar Of Roses.

In trade the rose is very valuable, a.
the affairs of India and Persia sell at
q very high price, and there are large
districts of rose gardens in which men
and women are employed, the harvest
months being March and April In
Turkey also rose farming Is largely
carried on, and very fne star is got
from the rose grown In Kashmtf..yI
Even rosewater is a luxury which II
by no means to be despised GO to price,.
but the altar Of roses IS Immensely
costly, and it takes an enormous num-
Der of flowers to distil even a few.
drops.
The altar is said to hnve been first,
discovered by the favorito wife OF
Jehan Jeer, through whose garden ram
a canal of rosewater, on the urface OF
which the begun found few drops
of the precious altar or oil Coating. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
Words of Wisdom.

People who are anxious to get even
with the world feel that they must
have some kind of pull.
The first drops of rain are the ones
that have the fun with the dust.
1t is always slow job to remove q
lot of dirt.
A puppy dog on first acquaintance is
not sure that fun is intended.
The shapely arm will hide itself from
the sun, but an umbrella is most in
favor.
Some men can lift more with their
voices than they can on a wheelbar-
row.
The hurt of useless quarrel is the
memory of it.
The more a man works at bossing
the less qualified he is to handle a
shovel
Some girls sing only for their own
amusement, while others have to be
pressed.
Nearly all second hand information
Is shop worn.
1t sometimes happens that a man
whose features are regular is regular in
no other respect.
IF js better to have a wide aisle In an
excursion car, than seats into which
three may crowd.
The worst thing about August is that
sentember is a school month.
It is easier to work on hot day than
it is to lie down.
1t it we'll not to be so intent on or
ganization, as to forget to oil ones own
machinery.
A bird in the tree is better than a
bird in the hand.
The hansomest flowers, like babies
are home grown.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
white men quite as much on account of

white men quite as much on account or
their color as their capacity
If most white men are. as appears
evident. doomed TO eat their bread IN
the sweat of their brows, there is noth-
ing higher for an inferior race to look
forward to. The negro must work and
await development. He will not become
''as good as white man" until he can
hold his own in literature. mathematics
and general intellectual culture with
the dominant race. Until then compe-
tition will disprove his equality no mat
ter how loudly it may be proclaimed as
an abstract proposition. But in the de-
sire which lay behind the assault upon
Mr.. Washington lies the hope of the
negro race.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
Thru Cars to c. a. r. Encamp ment.

The Iowa special train to the G. A..
r. Encampment at San Francisco will
run via the Chicago, Milwaukee G ST.
Paul. Union Pacific, Denver &. Rio
Grande, and Southern Pacific railroads.
Thru sleeping cars will leave on Mon
day. Aug. 10, as follows:
Sheldon, Mason City, DEBORAH. Cedar
Rapids and Perry, one tourist sleeping
car each.
Dubuque, Winona and Faribault,
one standard sleeping car each.
These cars will be consolidated. run
ming thru as a speEial train for San
Francisco.
1t is advisable to make reservations
as early as possible, thru the nearest
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul railway. or John r. Cook, West
Union. Iowa. e. NJ. Stablein, agent,
Pickering, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
a Record Breaker,

1t is said that the greatest and quick
est permanent advertising success on
record is that of Cascarets, Candy Ca
thartic, which have been persstently
advertised in every way, but chiefly in
newspapers, for about six years. In
that time the sale of Casearets has
grown from nothing to over one million
boxes month. This wonderful rec
ord is the result of great merit sue
cessfully made known. Those who tried
Cascarets as a direct result of adver-
Using were pleased and recommended
the article to their friends, until its
fame was spread to become universal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
DIES MONIES VS.. CURTIS.

The Register and Leader takes mild
exceptions to the remarks Of the Times
Republican aren't the Curtis letters, but
seems to have entirely Inexperienced
the point. The Register and Leader Is
talking over the heads of It's auditors
Neither the T.-R. nor the people OF
Iowa care greatly what Mr.. GURUS
thinks of the insurance laws OF the
state. Further than that Mr.. Curtis has
not criticised our laws, except in so far
as they make the organization OF IN
surance companies too easy. What Mr..
Curtis really has done is to expose the
methods and contracts of certain insur-
ance companies located N Des Moines.
He saws they are fraudulent, and he
shows why they are fraudulent. Surely
this may be done. and the acts of cer-
tain so-called insurance men in Des
Moines be criticised without assatling
Iowa. her people or her laws.
1t appears quite certain that nothing
was further from Mr.. Curtis thoughts
than to assail this state or its institu-
lions. Des Moines is not bad because
It happens to be the sect Of several In
surance companies doing 4 disreputable'
business. Des Moines IS only bad
when she undertakes to defend them or
resents justified criticism of such COM
panies and their methods. So far as
concerns the alleged reputation of the
interview by Commissioner Dearth that
may be true OF the headlines, but 1t is
not true in fact. Commissioner Dearth
nowhere repudiates the interview, but
expressly admits 1t. He does say that
Mr.. Curtis got some of his figures
mixed and in other respects misunder-
stood him. This is all there is to it.
The Register and Leader would make
q better showing if it would admit that
Curtis charges are in the main true. II
will do no good to set up men of straw
ana then proceed to kick them to
pieces. Let the Des Moines gentlemen
who are so anxious to get rich quit
their nefarious practices and Mr.. Cur
it's win have nothing to write about. II
they don't quit, public opinion thru
the legislature will make them quit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
A SOLEMN QUESTION.
One of the Franks Artemus Ward
Played Upon His Brother.

In the days when Cyrus Browne and
his brother, Charles Farrar Browne,
better known as "Artemus Ward"
lived in Waterford, ''the little Maine
village that nestled among the hills
and never did anything else but
nestle" Charles delighted to play prac-
teal jokes on Cyrus. Charles came
home one freezing night, says the mar
rator of the following prank in the
Boston Herald, at an hour that would
be thought early in metropolis, but
was not SO considered in Waterford.
The family were sleeping soundly in
the warm comfort Of their beds when
the future Snowman halted under the
window of Cyrus, and raised an alarm.
icy! oh, Cy! Come out here, Cyl"
After a time Cyrus appeared at the
window. What do you want?' he
demanded through the crack he had
opened.
81 want you to come DOWN. with
great earnestness. 81 want to ask you
q question, Cy."
"Oh, go 'wayv said Cyrus, his teeth
chattering In the aWful colo. lCs
only one of your Jokes"
"Really, Cy, it's very important
question: persisted Charles with in
creased earnestness. Its solemn
thing, and 1 want you to come down,
Cy; want you bad"
Finally, after grumbling and expos
tulating, Cyrus slipped on some clothes
and came reluctantly downstairs and
out into the arctic cold. "Now what
in the world is it that you want?" he
asked.
Charles came up close, laid his hands
on his brothers shivering shoulders,
and in that voice of plaintive solemnity
which in after years moved so many
people to mirth said:
81 want to ask you, Cy, If you thiRk
slavery is wrongs"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-03
BEING "as GOOD AS A WHITE MAN"

There Is a certain large percentage
OF negroes who resent Booker T. Wash
ingso.l's plan Of industrial education.
This IL the class who insist on being as
sood as the white man and aspire to
the professions instead OF the trades. OF
these were the negroes who attacked
Mr.. Washington in Boston, where alb
strAct theories are more considered
than common sense ard expediency
The black mans tendency toward a
professional life is one extremely natu-
raj and is not peculiar TO his race. Ig-
norance envies learning, the man In
oyeralls wishes for broadcloth. The
prestige Of the professions appeals to
the average American, white or black.
As q people we make much Of our pro-
fessional men. 1t is then perfectly
natural that the negro In his desire to
be as good as white man" should
lose sight of the possibilities within his
reach and aspire to become doctor,
lawyer or preacher. From the negToA
point of view the professions appear
scft-handed, lucrative and socially SUI
preme. Mr.. Washington breaches
gospel of hard work and voluntary
servitude. No wonder that members of
his own race in their optimistic igno-
rance resent teaching which appears
to take away their highest opportunity
and assault its author in the streets.
Mr.. Washington's is a case of casting
pearls and being rent. The incident.
however will scarcely Lessen his activ-
ity in behalf Of his color and should be
charged to the ignorance of his race
clinatIon. The truth is that the use
fuiness of Washington's theories of in
dustrial education are not bounded by
color lines. but adaptable to all man
kind without racial distinction.
The negro fails to understand his
own limitations. Whatever we may adj
NIT In the abstract, practically the
black man Is not as good as the white.
He lacks IN intellect. energy and initia-
tive az O race four centuries from bar
barism must when compared with an
other whose history stretches over five
thousand years Of civilization He can
not hope to compete with white men in
those professions which call for the
greatest exercise of intellectual power.
The few greater men OF his race have
been sporadic productions as much
white as black. and prominent among