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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Danger to Democracy.

On the question of Imperialism it is
the Democratic party which stands on
particularly solid ground. The funda-
mental principle in the American sys-
tenn lies in the declaration that gov
eminent has no right to exist save by
the free consent of the governed. That
principle is violated when American
rule is forced upon the Philippines
against the will of the people of the
islands. Moreover, it is but a step
from justifying the exercise of arbi-
trary power over a dependency to a
justification of the same system at
home. A nation continue which is
half slave and nalf free.
The principle of democracy is en-
dangered in the place Of it's birth when
the men who administer the machin
cry created by it are permitted to en-
force arbitrary rule over conquered
territory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
College EIaas.

College flags are quite simple to make
for Christmas gifts, but require care
and much precision in putting the let
tiers on as we'll as in cutting them.
A good plan is to cut the letters from
stiff cardboard and trace around them
on the felt. afterward cutting with a
sharp knife.
In mounting on the felt background
paste them on with u very thin coating
Of photograph paste and couch around
all edges with many strands Of silk
caught down at regular intervals with
a single strand of the same color.
COUGHING means to hold the heavy
cord or many strands of silk along the
edge of the thing to be outlined and
stitching across it and through the ma
terial with the single thread in the
needle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
ATEnALS REQUIRED.
One small linen dolly.
Flo embroidery silks.
Sheet Of cotton waddins.
Ten cents worth Of sachet powder.
Three yards Of baby ribbon
MISSION PHOTOGRAPH FRAME.

inside the cover to hold couple Of
bodkins and pair of tiny scissors.
A ribbon covered glove case is equal
ly simple of construction. 1t should
be interlined with perfumed cotton
and fitted with soft silk lining. \
pretty finish is to turn back one cor
ner, holding down with a bow of rib
bon.
Another acceptable present that can
be made by the artistic girl is set
of name cards, hand painted. These
are sure to give pleasure If given to a
woman who entertains largely.
Those in the form of floral wreaths
cut out so they slip on over the edge
of the tumbler are new; also dainty
figures of women copied from some
old painting and provided with paste
board backs so they stand. These fig
ures can carry big muffs as reticules
that can be lifted and show a blank
space for the name underneath, thus
making them available later for fran
ing when pasted to fiat surface and
surrounded by gilt mat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Remove the Lumber Tariff.

In a well considered article on the
tariff the st. Paul Pioneer Press in
sists that lumber should be placed on
the free list. Declaring that the heavy
duty on lumber is largely responsible
for the destruction of our timber re-
sources, it says:
There has been no more powerful
stimulus to rapid destruction of the
American timber supply than the enor-
nous profits accruing in a market. pro-
tected from competition. Not only so,
but the whole force of the national de-
mand for lumber has, under the pol
our forests. With billions and billions
of feet of timber standing untouched
in a contiguous country inhabited by
only some 100000 people, the S5,-
100000 people of the United States
have been compelled to draw their
supplies of timber from a rapidly
dwindling forest area which all told
was never probably much greater than
that of Canada today. Is it any won
der that havoc has been wrought? Is
it any wonder that the land has been
flayed by the AK of the woodsman?
What right has congress to impose
a tax upon every home owner, every
tenant, every industry, and to obstruct
a fundamentally important social de-
velopment and all Industrial develop
p,aut for tho hanofit of a mara hand
full of individuals who have not even
built up in the face of foreign compe-
titiOn new industry, as have the
wooden and cotton and many other
manufacturers; who have not even
planted and nurtured crops, as the
have done; but who found their prod
uct ready for harvest, the growth of
centuries, who entered upon and con-
verified to their own enrichment a do
main which the public now realizes
too late ought to have been held in
trust for the whole people. For &C
cepting the opportunity afforded by
short-sighted laws, so long as they
kept within-the law, the lumbermen OF
this and previous generations can be
accused of no legal or moral wrong
The blame rests primarily on the state
and federal authorities, who not only
have not realized their responsibility
but who have even encouraged the
policy of destruction. But the time
lpeople realize it, and from one end Of
the country to the other are demand
| ing that it be stopped, that the ancien
wrong be righted. and that as the frs
step to that end the lumber of the
vast Canadian forest are admitted fire.,
to this market to supplement the nat
ural supply and to preserve it. Ant
even with free lumber at our gates, tht
Ilumberman the advantage and to en-
liable him to make handsome profit
He needs no protection and SHOULD
lhave none"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
The Argus Daily Short Story
PHOTOGRAPHIC AILEEN---BY LITTELL McCLUNG
Copyrighted: 1908, by Associated Literary Press:

"HOw did l look?, she questioned,
with an alluring glance.
How did you look?" he repeated.
"Why, you were-but please don't ask
me such questions, for the first thing
you know Ill be telling you more COM
plimentary things than would be good
for you-or ME either"
"Oh, very WELL" she laughed, shrug-
ging her shoulders prettily. Now
what am 1 to do for picture No. %"
Lets have this one sitting down"
he requested.
She assented by seating herself on
the slope and gazing at him seriously
with her chin poised on her dainty
little fist.
Don't look so solemn" he protest
ed you're not posing as a tragedy
queenr'
'WeH, then, how's this?" she asked,
resting her chin between both hands
and smiling radiantly.
He suppressed reply and cOncen-
trated his attention on catching that
bewitching, tantaliZing smile.
give surely got itr' he thought as
he withdrew the second plate pro-
tector
That was prettier than the other II
comparisons are not distasteful." he
opined "Now If you will
But of sudden something caused
him to rivet his glance on the plate
holder side Of the kodak Then he
pulled out one Of the thin protectors
and peered more closely at the box
like arrangement With look Of dis
gust he shook the camera savagely.
''Well, am prize goose" he NUT
tered.
''Why, what's the trouble, Marvin p
she questioned, coming up close and
looking at the camera.
"What's the trouble?" he echoed.
"There's trouble a-plenty. All your
posing has been for naught. There's
not q single solitary plate in this
blooming thing! Look at it!'
"Oh, how funny!' she gurgled
''How did it happen?"
1T happened because that forgetfu
clerk failed to put In the plates after
sOlemnly assuring me that he wouldv
he answered. well, there's nothing
to do but come out here again some
time. Let's go over and sit down un
der that big tree and chat awhile and
| try to laugh off this fiasco''
l She readily agreed, and they sa
down on a rustic bench and comment
ed on their failure.
"JuSt to think those poses had to BIZ
lost on an unappreciative camerar
she complained, with little pout
| "Yes, 1t was pity" he agreed
"But, after all. they weren't lost on nj
unappreciatlve photographer
"Really, weren't they!" And hel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Hunnor ans Philosophy
BY DUNCAN n. SMITH
DID YOU EVER NOTICE.

That after you have listened over
and over again in sympathetic mood to
the woes ola friend you begin to feel
like hypocrite?
That by and by the slow conviction
is forced upon you that you are hyp-
ocrite every time you give the sympa-
thetic ear?
That inevitably a point is reached
when you feel most unhOly desire to
say to your companion that you don't
know Of anything that he needs half
as much as good beating up?
That the more you feel So the deeper
the wretch goes into the details OF his
misery and the more desperately he
claims your sympathy and your back
ing?
That the deeper grows your own hui
initiation In listening and the more he
takes 1t as salve to his wretched-
ness?
That you get a reputation for being
a good CONSIDER and for giving sweet
comfort when all the time you are
boiling over with the determination to
make an end of it and put in some
good lick in the interest Of common
sense?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
ATTRACTIVE TRIPLES.
Artistic Gifts That Take Little Tim,
to Make.

Artistic Gifts That Take Little Tims
to Make.
The mission photograph frame Is
carried out in heavy green linen crash.
The colors used in embroidering the
conventional design are the dark shades
of green and the bronze browns.
Pretty opera bags are always a wei.
come gift, and half yard of hand.
some ribbon will make up into most
desirable receptacle for glasses.
Candle shades covered with pale
pink baby ribbon in little crinkly loops
are attractive and as presents would
please most housewives.
Perfumed coat and skirt hangers are
popular, and so are the ribbon cases
that contain the glass tube hatpin
holder.
Really beautiful utility cases that can
be hung upon wall or rolled for
travelling are made from ribbon. Ia
make such an article get half yard
Of ribbon that is six inches In width
Turn down an inch wide hem at the
top and along the bottom gather and
sew on Inln piece OF SILK the same
size. This is then divided into pockets
and the upper edge shirred. Runners
the length of the case, dividing it into
sections, should then be put on the in.
side.
Through these articles of the toilet
such as shoe hornsbutton hook, mani
cure implements, ETC., and sewing
outfit with pockets for needles, spools
of thread and silk, scissors and al
such necessaries are put. A little pin
cushion is set firmly at one end, The
pockets receive bolts Of baby ribbon
buttons and all the tribes that go t,
furnish a workbasket.
Cardboard boxes neatly covered will
ribbon and furnished with three spool
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Handkerchief Case,

A handkerchief case is pretty gift
that can be made from ribbon by first
cutting two pieces of cardboard into
heart shapes. These hearts are covered
on both sides and form the bottom and
the cover, respectively.
The broad Powered ribbon used is
gathered on both edges. one of which
is sewed to the heart at the bottom
Then lining of plain soft silk is SET
in, and the edge of the ribbon is con
nected to the upper edge of the lining
A ruching of narrow ribbon trims the
cover and bow acts as hinge. A
loop answers the purpose of a lid litter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
VIM. c. GOODWIN
A WITNESS
FOR MUNYON
Tells How He Was Cured O
Rheumatism
BY ONE BOTTLE
Of Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy


See Mr.. VIM. G. Goodwin 1000 Green
street, Philadelphia, who says: Il suffered
long and painfully with rheumatism and
could find no relief 1 was induced to try
Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy and at the
very start it helped me. used but one
bottle and it cured me entirely. l GER
tainly recommend it to all suffering with
rheumatism.--WM. G. GOODWIN.
: I want every chronic rheumatic to throw
away all medicines, all liniments, all plas-
tiers, and give Munyon's Rheumatism Rem
edy e trial. No matter what your doctor
may say, no matter what your friends may
say, no matter how prejudiced you may be
against all advertised remedies go at once
to your druggist and get a bottle of Nun
yon's Rheumatism Remedy If it fails to
give satisfaction will refund your money.
MIINYON =
A few doses will take away all aches
and pains. and q cure generally follows
before one bottle is used.
Remember this remedy contains no salt
cylic acid, no opium, cocaine, morphine or
other harmful drugs. 1t is put up under
the guarantee of the Pure Food and Drug
Act. For sale by all druggists. Price, CSC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Gifts For Fifty Cents.

For the young man of the family
sleeve buttons, silver pencil, coat hang
err. sofa cushion cover, penknife, cigar
cutter, leather collar box, satchel tag,
linen table cover or photograph frame
for his room.
For little girl, dolls, games, workbox,
skates, string of beads or music roll.
For small boy, baseball, games, studs,
face mask, penknife, stamp book
skates, books or box of paints.
For smaller boy, train Of cars, loco
motive, skates, transparent slate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

tariff that enables manufacturers
of food products to sell their goods
cf eaper in foreign countries than they
db-at home, and make them multimil-
lionaires in short order, while the con-
snmers in this country are barely able
to make their wages secure for them
the necessities of life, should be re-
yised and revised quickly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Colds and Group in Children.

"My little girl is subject to colds, !"
says Mrs. William H. Serig, No. Al
Fifth street, Wheeling, w. Va. Last
winter she had severe spell and a
terrible cough, but cured her with
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy without
the aid of doctor, and my little boy
has been prevented many times from
having the Group by the timely use OF
this syrup. This remedy is for sale by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The fact that news print supply is
running low, is but another evidence
of the evil schemes Oh the paper trust.
The combine manufactures barely
enough to meet the demand, in order
to keep the robber prices boosted.
Consequently there is nothing in store
for rainy day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

the burden on few people instead of
spreading it over all like butter over
bread
Van Vlissingen's horizon was too
narrow to let him into the higher
sphere, but the enormity of his
transactions give him rank as easily
tbs greatest of his class.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
eyes flashed pleasurable surprise.

eyes flashed pleasurable surprise.
II should say not" he affirmed can
nestly, his voice unsteady. "For q long
time shall remember them, Think
She was silent as she looked at him
Questioningly
"Aileen," he continued, his tone low
er, don't you know that somewhere tn
my mind there Is a camera that always
has plates ready for use? With it'll
have taken a thousand pictures Of YOU
Aileen, In all your moods. Often, day
and night, go over this lovely picture
gallery Of my memOry-one that all the
money on earth could not buy!
"SOme Of the portraits are blurred .
little, but the rest are as bright %
when they first appeared. Somehow I
think none of them will ever fade en-
ttrely. Many show you laughing and
happy. Others depict you smiling and
wistful. Some are vivacious, some de-
mure, others coy and quaint, a few
stormy and revengeful, but all are
precious to me. Ons-must tell you
Of that?-shows you with a young man
in the moonlight. It's beautiful gal-
lery. my dear; the most beautiful, 7
am sure, in all the woridr'
She was gazing at him now with q;
new look in her eyes-the look Of ten
der appeal. Her hand rested gently on
his arm.
Marvin, dear boy" she whispered,
II do SO hope your picture gallery will
| always be bright; that none Of the pic
fr,rao vx,fll fado q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The Chicago Record-Herald sug-
gests that in case the lady who does
her Christmas shopping early can find
no other convenient place in which to
secrete the presents she is getting for
the. children she might hid them un-
der her hat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Saw a Resemblance,

Saw Resemblance.
"Pfrates used to infest this coast"
explained the summer hotel keeper.
''YesT' said the guest languidly.
"Rumor has it that they buried treas
ure near here
"Were they any relation to your"
asked the guest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

or course Joe Cannon will be re-
elected speaker. 1t was all part of the
gigantic scheme planned IN the White
House, perfected at the Chicago con-
vention, and perpetrated at the polls
Nov 3.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The ,Carrollton Gazette says the re-
publicans in Greene county polled
folty-five- more votes at the recent
election than in 1904, and the dem
ocrats polled $40 more.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

Charles Francis Adams divides
those who clamor for a still higher tar
if into hogs and thieves. The Phila-
celphia Evening Times thinks some
body ought to protest in behalf of the
hogs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Late lamented.

Late lamented.
Foreottant
CantIy
PM To sIeen
And hurled
Fortv-savan faet daan Y
Much daa5ar
Really
Thao tho man ,
Who novar uaa "
An also ran
Behold -
The former a..
Candidate
Who ran
A honeful raco 4
And straight -
yVbo hod
Tha o@ca
NaotIv ~ ,
nv L.
Eafora
Tha 5aea uas dor>
who had
Announcements
Al, corn,,Ia,a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

When a farmer has good crops,
money in the bank. and ic putting TIE
boy Jake through college, isn't it quite
natural that he should resent these
Rooseveltian attempts to "uplift'' him?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

looking for?" ask
ed the flip stran-
ger Of the man
who was feeling
up and down his
door.
Trouble" re-
piled the fellow
who was search
ing for the key
hole.
Yes. he Is mar
ried," unused the
amateur Sherlock
Holmes as he
passed on.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

AS the Balkan peninsula is rather
cold region in mid-winte-, there is in
that guarantee of peace till next
spring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The czar OF Russia must have made
d wry face when the kaiser took his
medicine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

1t is said that one of President
T&ft's first moves will be to put the
rollers under Speaker Cannon. So far
SO good
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

Age and youth look upon life from
the opposite ends of a telescope; it is
exceedingly short-it is exceedingly
long.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The Philadelphia Record says
philadelphia is being robbed Why
that was known ever so long ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

And then, besides, it is great pleas
ure to do your Christmas shopping
early
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

Mr.. Roosevelt formally announces
that It is his belief this republic will
endure for many centuries" With
out him?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

The Pullman company reports sur
plus of 100000 for the year 1t
doesn't have to pay its porters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

True friendship is not latent but
patent, and consists not in words but
in actions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

Thank heaven we haven't many
"benefactors" like Rockefeller.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

A Potential Rascal.
Any man is half a sinner
Till he gets his daily dinner.
II his stomach acts we'll after,
Then he yearns to be a CRATER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23

To Cure q Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab.
let's. Druggists refund money II ID
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature,
lis on each box. 25c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
THE ARGUS.

~ THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-11-23
Mind Reader.

what are You
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-05-07
Look Up BOYS; Don't Look Down.

LOOK Up Doysi Ion LOOK boWH
BY ExGov Hoard.
To the bright, plucky, earnest boy,
poverty &c no hindrance Indeed when
we see how the sons of rich men go to
the devil we believe poverty is a bless
ing. Most of the rich men of today,
who are cursed by such children, start
ed as poor boys. They had to work,
had to educate themselves, had to stand
up like good fighters and take blows
and keep cheerful Hence poverty
was a blessing. Ebert Hubbard in his
Philistines says this:
Decide on what you want to do and
what you want to be and go after it.
You'll win and when you are forty,
these fellows who chase the genus-chip-
pee, manipulate the pasteboards, inhale
cigarette smoke and cram for exams,
will be coming to you for advice, to
borrow money, to have you operate on
them for appendicitis and for passes to
the bJor house. Get eight hours sleep
every day, work, smile, study, and
health, happiness and success await
you. Ask Cortelyou.
Now that is splendid advice There
is a world of truth in it, 1t applies to
the farm boy who is, we hope, going
to be farmer just as well as to the
town boy. Whatever you are going to
be, look up! Make up your mind to be
among the best Whatever you are
doing, if it is only for a week or a
month study it hard Don't let any
man be deceived in you. Consider the
trust that your employer puts in you,
the sacredest thing on earth. 1t is the
poor boy that wins earth and heaven.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-05-07

To measure American farmers by the
census is now an outgrown method, for
the reason that each farmer works with
the power of FIVE men. The farm has
become factory. Four-ffths of its
work is done by machinery, which ex-
plains how we can produce one-ffth of
the wheat of the world, half of the cot
ton, and three-fourths Of the corn, al
though we are only per cent Of the
human race
The genie who built Aladdin's palace
in a night was the champion hustler Of
the fairy-tale countries But he was not
so tremendously superior to the farm
laborer, who takes a can of gasoline and
cuts fifty cords of wood in a day, or to
the man who milks herd Of sixty cows
in two hours, by machinery.
To-day farming is not a drudgery.
Rather it is a race, an exciting rivalry
between the different States For years
Illinois and Iowa have run neck and
neck in the raising of corn and oats.
Minnesota carries the blue ribbon for
wheat, with Kansas breathless in sec
ond place; California has shot to the
front in the barley race; Texas and
Louisiana are tied in the production of
rice; Kentucky is the tobacco champion,
and New York holds the record for hay
and potatoes. From THE New Amer
lean Farmer by Herbert ~ Casson,
in the American Review Of Reviews
for May.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-05-07

was $50, 600 or over. The great mass OF
the other convictions was for the steal
ing Of sums ranging from 500 to $1,000.
Your big thief, even where the law
lays its hands upon him, gets off; your
little thief is likely to go to Jail But
even the little offenders chances are
good - better than two to one. For of
II, 037 cases of grand larceny reported
by the chief clerk of the district attor-
ney of New York for the seven years
ending Dec. 81, 1906, there were 6,637
cases acquitted, discharged or dis
missed, and there were only 4,400 con-
victions
The fact that there have been few
more convictions for embezzlement in
1907 than in the previous year in near
ly all the large cities is merely the re-
suit of there having been a much great
er number of embezzlements, and does
not mark growing tendency to prose
cute, as some misinformed writers
seem to think. Bailey Willard.