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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

She was extremely fair to look upon.
To Nat Gregory the realization Of
this fact was nothing new. But some
how just ut this particular moment 1t
was borne in upon him afresh and at
a novefangle.
Her hair was blue black. 80 wers
her lashes. and her eyes were won.
times. turned to an equally wonderful
violet.
The last time that Nat had looked
into them his own had been full Of
singing unshed tears. How could he
stand six months in Panama with the
light of those blue Cor were they violet
eyes denied him?
But her notes had been so brief and
unsatisfactory that even In hot, lazy
Panama he had caught himself read
| ing between the lines and finding there
selfish soul, the small narrow soul of
| the girl given to personal conquests,
the soul STEPPED in admiration and fed
on compliments.
She was smiling at him now across
the cars broad aisle and above a great
| granny" muff of gray squirrel. That
i huge mass Of fur made her face look
all the more piquant and dainty.
Occasionally the man on the right
intercepted the friendly glances which
Peggy Barton shot at the newly re-
turned Gregory. and he glowered. Nat
Gregory knew just how the chap felt
He had intercepted thel same sort of
glances, end they had made him
squirm too.
She simulated tiny cough and In.
stantly raised the muff again. The
cough was good excuse for q fetch
ing pose, but somehow the absurd little
deception annoyed Nat Gregory. 1t is
SO sometimes with men who have had
their minds and souls opened and
broadened by travel and contact with
men Of affairs.
So he let his glance wander to the
girl next to Peggy. She smiled at the
returned traveller. too, but 1t was a
different sort Of smile. wholesome
friendly smile. without any vague
sense Of ownership behind it. Peggy
Barton always assumed that air with
member sister Janet. never.
For, you see. Janet was the ugly
: duckling Of the Barton family. famous
for its pretty daughters and the goot
matches they made Janet was the
youngest, and she might no. have beer
: considered homely If Peggy had no
/ been SO brilliantly. scintillatingly beau
tiful by contrast
!, There were those. principally womeI
and young men without prospects. VIII,
said that Peggy Barton always drag
i ged her younger and less attractive sis
ter around with her as foil.
Something of this was passin.
through Nat Gregory's head as he sa
watching the little comedy, The othe
chap would be furious II Nat crosset
the aisle and talked with Peggy, an,
Peggy would be furious IL he did not
So he would strike happy medium
; He would join the party and talk t
Janet.
How well he could remember thei
many trips together-Peggy, Janet an,
himself-to. the links. where he ant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
THE LOCAL PROHIBITION
QUESTION.

to get the glass, the more they will
consume"
What the prohibitionist needs is to
open his vision to the facts of ex-
perience and the workings of the
human appetite, and, he will see that
he is seeking to attain his end by
methods contrary to the very struc-
ture of the human mind and that by
" hich nature is governed. All ma
lures methods are gradual, and the
uplift of humanity is taking many
centuries to accomplish.
The essential difference between
the license system and prohibition is
that the former does not seek to con-
tiol mems freedom to exercise their
right in a matter of personal taste.
IE fact, it affords every man so in
'clined an opportunity to enter a de-
cent orderly place of refreshment and
get his drink without hindrance.
Naturally, under such conditions,
some men will make hogs" of them
selves because there are SO many hogs
among them, but experience teaches
that the effort of the prohibitionists
to make a gentle lamb out of hog
is ever failure. 1t is not contended
that under license the dream of the
prohibitionist can be realized any
more than the irridescent vision of
any other theorist. who sees only the
end and takes no note of the inter.
vening steps to attain it.
DID ECC CnMNaITvrU,ur ANTI ppnrrT
BITION LEAGUE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
A Chinese editor says that his DC

A Chinese editor says that his PEG.
pie are getting ready to drive all
Europeans out of China, but they have
not the same feeling toward Ameri.
cans, as they have learned the United
States is not the only nation with a
conscience. 1t would be rather diff.
cult to imagine any of the others let
ting go slice of tempting territory
or a large part of collectible indem
nifty. They would look on it as uIpar
donable folly, if not generosity, of the
most pernicious type.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

1t is nothing to the credit of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to insist that the
kaiser accept as the ambassador from
this country man who is personally
Objectionable. Nor can 1t be said
with truth That the wishes of the
American people have sustained the
president in his attitude. Back of the
whole proceedings is the purpose of
the president to save DR.. Hills pred
ecessor, Charlemange Tower, the
American representative at the Berlin
court. The German emperor has done
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
ELECTION NOTICE.

ANOtiCC 40 uCiCUy given budI ou uoS-
day, the seventh day of April, A. D.
1908, in the city of Rock Island ILL
nois, an election will be held for the
following officers to-wit:
City Omcers.
One alderman in the First ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Second ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Third ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Fourth ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Fifth ward fol
two years.
One alderman in the Sixth ward
for two years.
Ore alderman in the Seventh ward
for two years.
Town Omcers.
One assessor for one year.
One collector for one year.
One supervisor for two years.
Three assistant supervisors for two
years.
One constable to fill vacancy.
Questions of Public Policy.
Shall this city become anti-saloon
territory?
Proposition as to the annexation to
the city of Rock Island, ILL.,, of a por
ton of South Rock Island.
| Which o1ooftnn will h. o-o- :
o'clock in the morning and continue
open until o'clock in the afternoon
of that day.
Places Of registration and voting
will be as follows:
First ward, first precinct-No. Il:
Fourth avenue
First ward, second precinct-No. Coz
Seventh avenue.
Second ward, first precinct-No. 101.
Third avenue.
Second ward, second precinct -
Barn, No. 919 Sixth avenue.
| Third ward, first precinct-Count,
Jail, Third avenue and Fourteenth
street.
Third ward. second precinct, 142:
Seventh avenue.
Third ward, third precinct, Ullemey
er's drug store, corner Eleventh ave
nue. and Fifteenth street.
Fourth ward, first precinct-Frick'
livery, No. 1914 Third avenue.
Fourth ward, second precinct - M
I-evy's carriage house, Nineteentl
street, between Sixth and Seventh ay
lenues.
Fifth ward. first precinct = Hos
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward, second precinct =
Schmidts grocery, No. 1923 Twentiet
lstreet.
Sixth ward, first precinct = Hos
house on Twenty-sixth street.
Sixth ward, second precinct-A.
Reiss' barn, No. 709 Twenty-sevent
lstreet.
| Seventh ward, first precinct - M
I3110 Fifth avenue.
| Seventh ward, second precinct-Pt
terson's carpenter shop, No. $40 Fo
lty-fifth street.
Seventh ward, third precinct-A
bert Olson's barn, Forty-fourth stree
between Seventh and Eighth avenue,
M. T. RUDGREN.
City and Town Clerk.
Rock Island. Ill.,, March z, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
This is the Ticket to
Vote Election Day.
DEMOCRATIC TOWNSHIP NOMINEES.

SupcrvisOr-C. NJ. Cannon.
Assistant supervisors-L. N. ;:ourde"u
Mack w. Glynn, S. A. LaVanwny.
.AssessOr-J. G. Aud.
COllectOr-M. NJ. Briggs.
ALDERMEN.
First ward-F. w. BlOchlinger.
Second vard-William A. Eckermann
Third ward-C. j. Smith.
Fourth ward-Charles l.. Thompson.
Fifth wnrd-Wil1am ID. Cochran.
Sixth ward-Frank Lawler.
Seventh ward-JOhn A. Hill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Frightful as was the bomb incidel

Frightful as was the bomb incident
in New York Saturday, the most sig
nificant phase of the entire proceed
ing was the explosion of the republic
can full dinner bucket cry. Twenty
five thousand people had gathered in
Union square to emphasize their hun
ger and plea for bread, and were then
scattered by the police, when the wild
eyed anarchist blew himself up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Humor aue Philosophy
By DUNCAN N. SMITH
THE OLD STANDBY.

Dear old constitution,
Bulwark of the state.
Framed to guard the people
And to keep things straight.
Are you made of rubber
Or some kin to 1t,
For sometimes they stretch you
When you do not fit?
When the fathers formed you
From their fertile minds
In their wise opinion
They put up the blinds
That were meant to guard us
From the despots grip,
That would let no tyrant
Get us on the hip.
Are you always standing >
With a watchful eye
For the weak and lowly
Who of wealth are shyf
Are you every moment
Careful as can be
OF the man who cannot
Raise a lawyers feet
OF your good intentions
There can be do doubt,
But sometimes we wonder
AS We try you out
II there are not places
Slightly out Of plumb
Where judicious patching
Would improve you some.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Would that every bomb might prove
a boomerang in the hands of the man
who uses it, for there are a whole lot
of people who ought to be blown up
by their own dynamite for the good
Of the community in which they re-
side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

President Roosevelt wants the trust
laws modified at once. This will fur
nish congress with something to do in
order that the members may give ac-
count of where that 500 a minute
goes they cost the nation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Walter wellman. the Chicago Rec

Walter Wellman,- the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald staff correspondent, having
succeeded. as he imagines, in deter
mining the republican presidential
nominee, has apparently turned his
attention. to making the democratic
candidate. What wonderful advan-
tage it is to have a man like Well
man in the country, to be sure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Best Healer in the World.

Rev. F. Starbird of East Richmond
Maine, says: 81 have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for several years, on my
old army wound, and other obstinate
sores, and find it the best healer in
the world. l use it too with great sue
cess in my veterinary business" Price
Is cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Not That Supple.

Here is fellow who goes behind
the monkeys and says we are all de-
seconded from plants"
"What 10 you think of the theory"
81 giye it up. I'm not descended from
tie rubber plant"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Wise Guy,

"You say you are inexperienced In
the work?"
Eyes"
"But advertised for experienced ap-
plicants."
cat Sc week."
"Yes."
eff 1 had experience wouldn't be
here"
What would you be doingw
advertising for suckers at So .
week"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Up to the present time nothing has
come from Governor Deneen that
would really indicate he still maintains
his residence at Springfield.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

The only way the people can save
their own necks from the clutches of
monopoly is to prevent that monopoly
from strangling competition
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

One can stop Indigestion instantly
by dose of Kodol. The pain and ir-
ritation are ended at once. 1t is sur
prising how quickly the stomach re-
covers when given the help of this
perfect digester.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Vote for territorial annexation. 1t
is an essential element in Rock Is.
lands growth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

The Pullman company pays it's port
ers $25 a month. The travelling folks
pay the rest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Attorney General Stead is very
cautious man. He won't even tell in
advance what the supreme court will
do.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Vote the democratic city-township
ticket.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Good will was never an asset of a
bad name.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

A man named Wadd is a candidate
for Office in Massachusetts. He will
need lot of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Do all you can to expand Rock, Is
land-not to shrink it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

The reference to Uncle Joe Cannon
as Illinois favorite son" is mirthful
to say the least.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Vote for every democratic alder
manic candidate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Be for Rock Island, first, last, and
all the time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island. Ill lEn-
tered at the postomce as second-class
matter.]
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

The republican party in Illinois
went out of business with fireworks
all right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Which Was lt7

Which Was lt7
"Who goes there, friend or foe" call
ed the timid householder as he saw q
figure cropping about his back steps In
the early dawn.
Back up there! 1t is just the ice.
man." replied gruff voice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Very Ordinary.
"Her husband is professor"
veterinary or hairdressingT
ooh, no; nothing distinguished. Just
modern languages"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Smelied Loud.

SmeIied Loud.
A silence deep
Is wooing sleep.
The night is cold and dark.
A husband bold
Stands in the cold
He's been out on a lark.
The clock strikes three.
In silence he ,sss.
The stair post tries to win.
His wife's remark
Comes through the dark
''I heard your breath come In"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Register tomorrow.

Vote for territorial annexation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Must Have Been Lawyer.
''He is a promising youth"
ayes"
'And she is a suitable girl"
~ see only one objection"
"What is it?''
conditions might be favorable for q
breach of promise suit"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Never Judge man by what his wife
says about him. She is apt to be not
only biased, but sometimes ruff1ed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
Announcement.

Announcement.
Having been nominated as candidate
for alderman of the Third ward on the
democratic ticket, ask the support of
the voters of the ward at the approach
ing election. April Z. 1908.
CHARLES ]. SMITH.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Be charitable, but don't think it alb
solutely necessary to enter into a long
explanation of the reason you are 50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Put not your
trust in dollars,
but put your
dollars in trust
if you can get
in right.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Some men don't marry because they
can't afford to and others don't I'M
marry for the same reason.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

TERMS-Daily. 10 cents per week
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
N1Eb s5lHN>
tTRAoEs ISses coTNcT
IECcIIZ
Monday, March 80, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

Inc fat man ought to be compelled
to earn every cent he pays for food b.
the sweat Of his brow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-30

No really self respecting hobo is
house broke, but all are dead broke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
Fool JOURNALISM.

Plainly there is what may properly
be called a fool side to American jour-
nalism, and in nothing is it more dis
gustingly evident than in the habit
that some of the sensation-mongers
have of exploiting everything done or
said by those temporarily or perma-
nently occupying prominent position.
Any one in the class of rich. fashion
able or officially prominent Americans
can hardly enjoy such a thing as pri-
vacy. even when publicity and no.
toriety are repugnant TO them
A notable instance of this snobbery
is seen in the case of young Theodore
Roosevelt who, so far as is known, is
not noted for any great gifts or per-
formances. He may be a well-bal-
anced young man, no better or worse
than many thousands of others, and
who is only of interest because he is
the son of a president. A short while
since he went to work in large car
pet factory in New England, and this
was the occasion for a general ex-
ploitation of yellow journalism. Just
why he should have taken up that line
of work is not known. nor is 1t ma
terial why he did so, and that is suffl-
cient on that point, but just why many
of the large newspapers in the east
should make a great ado over the
event it is not possible for sober
minded people to see, except that 1t
was to crafty the fool side of these
newspapers.
Why should the newspapers in that
section imagine that young Roosevelt's
going to work at an honorable bust
ness is of unusual interest to all the
population? Yet these newspapers
sent special reporters, camera opera
tors and all other modern reportorial
paraphernalia to let the world know
what the young man had done, was
doing and was going to do next. One
reporter gave out the momentous in
formation that there was no demon
stration," either when the young man
went to work in the morning or when
he went out to dinner and returned
1t is not known whether he expected
the mills and stores to close and all
the citizens of the town to turn out
or what sort OF a demonstration the
reporter was holding his breath to
witness, but certainly he was looking
for a record-breaker of some kind or
nature.
One newspaper in speaking of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
QUAKER MEDTTATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The clock salesman should never
talk against time.
Powder doesn't necessarily blacken
a woman's character.
woman is prone to exaggerate
everything except her age.
It's the easiest thing in the world
to make a bad matter worse.
In spite of the fact that he has no
hair, the rooster always carries a
comb.
Anyone can pick a quarrel. but it
takes certain amount of skill to pick
lock.
The fellow who is satisfied to take
things as they come evidently doesn't
expect much.
1t is doubtful if the match-makinfI
mamma would consider a baseball plays
er good catch
The fellow who plays the races may
boast that he never goes broke, but he
may come home that way.
The pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow is just about as accessible az
the silver lining to our clouds.
Nell-"Maude always refers to Jack
as an old flame of hers" Believes,
and he seems quite put out about it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14


matter informs its readers that the
president doesn't object to his son
working in the factory-and that's
more news. Why should he object?
Working at making carpets can be as
thoroughly. respectable as working at
being president, and the business of
itself can be no discredit to either
rather or son. Besides, as young
Roosevelt has passed his twenty-first
birthday he can adopt and follow
such occupation as he may choose,
whether the father likes It or not, and
the world doesn't care a snap what
sort OF work the boy does or what the
president thinks about it. In short,
-he whole business is a shining ex-
ample of fool Journalism when it is
borne in mind the extent to which it
has been carried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
THE FARMER IS KING.

Edgar Allen Forbes, in the Worlds
Work for October, has an exceedingly
interesting article on the value of a
years farming to the United States.
The statistics are taken from the an
nua1 reports of the government for
1907.
The acreage in corn last year was a
scant 100 900 000-three times the
area of the state of Wisconsin. The
wheat acreage was in round numbers
As, 900, 000-more than the entire area
Of the New England states. Hay was
gathered from almost as many acres
as wheat; $4,000 square miles were
planted with oats, and as much more
yielded our cotton crop. The Ameri-
can farmer grows four out of every
five bales of the worlds cotton. and
seven out of every eight ears of corn
II last years tobacco crop had been
made into cigars. 'the supply would
have lasted $4,000 men for SO years,
each man smoking 10 cigars day."
If all of last years corn crop had
been shipped to Europe. it would
have required 4,12S express steamers
of $4,000 tons register to deliver it.
If the wheat crop had been sent to
the Far East to save it from famine.
the largest fleet in the world. with its
3sS vessels of all sizes. would have
required IS round trips to move it"
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe. I


A boy soon dis overs that stating
his side of the case is talking back"
A man suddenly becomes awfully po-
lite and considerate for the public when
an opposition business is started in his
town.
Even when person tries to under
stand, he can sometimes but dimly
realize the true Importance of thor
oughbred bulldog.
One of the meanest things about
people is that after they have been
acquainted a long while, they begin to
tell stories on each other.
A boarding house young man is
better pleased with an invitation to a
homemade washday dinner than to a
hundred yellow or pink luncheons.
Elderly women can remember that
when they were little girls. their moth
ers bought dress goods by the bolt
and dressed all the children alike.
An Atchison county farmers wife
brought four dozen young ROSTERS to
town the other day. Not a pullet in
the bunch. These chickens will be
fried. Do the ROSTERS get a square
deal? The BOOSTERS are fried, and the
pullets live. Isn't life as precious to "a
rooster as to pullet?
A private citizen the other day
bought a. candidate a cigar. The cam
didate burst into tears. mo one has
been that kind to me- he said, ''since
the campaign. I am compelled to buy
all the cigars, and laugh at all the
jokes. 1 am never permitted to tell a
joke, and generally they treat me as
though I were a servant"