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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-23

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her husband. She had foolishly agreed
to marry him privately. and Anacleto
had witnessed the ceremony. Within
month she regretted her choice. There
We're quarrels and threats. Ultimately
an agreement was made that they
should separate. Her father knew and
approved of the arrangement. He
could not afford to break openly with
Ventana, and 4 must have been a
dreadful shock to him when he learned
that the scoundrel had plotted not only
to destroy the ship. but to murder his
wife at the same time
$50, you see," she added. with a wan
smile. II did not give serious thought
to your troubles, Elsie Nentana coulG
never have married you while | was
alive"
Elsie's cheeks redeemed.
II never told you he asked me to
marry him. she said. ut would have
A been just the same had he done so.
| AS 1t was, i feared the man. Now
you know why ran away from Chile.
1 If l permitted another impression to
| prevail, / acted for the best But the
] unhappy man is dead. Let us endeav-
or to forget him.
| His memory haunts me with an en-
| during CURSE cried Isobel bitterly.
Among my papers ! had some letters
/ of his, the marriage certificate and his
i written promise not to modest Inc. On
that awful night when the ship was
disabled went to my cabin and Sc
/ cured them. or thought ] did. At any
i rate, could not lind them when we
landed ON White Horse island, aud
from hints dropped by that wretched
little adyenturer De Poincilit | feel
sure they have fallen into his hands
when / helped him TO steal the boat"
"Steal the boat. What boatY'
"Has not Captain Courtenay told
you?"
n.Not word" ~''
"Ah, he is true gentleman. But you
forget. You heard what he said to Dc
Poincilit before he went to the Guam
AGO canyons"
Il "Yes; l did not understand. Oh, my
poor Isobel, how you must have sui
fered, while l have been SO happy!"
IF only could recover my papers,
MAY l ask Arthur to help?"
He knows the worst of Inc already
One more shameful disclosure cannO
add to my degradation
'Isobel, how little you know him!
Thus spoke Elsie after fourteen days
| to, IN
a hug!
NJ. lie Comte Edouard de Poincilit
to his intense chagrin, found that ;
| ships captain has far reaching pow
ers when he chooses to exert them
Rather than enter Montevidean Jail
where people have died suddenly o
nasty fevers. he not Only restored tn
/ missing Documents hut submitted to
close scrutiny of his own belongings
which resulted in the pleasing discoy
cry that he was not a French count
but a deniZen of .Martinique-mos
, probably a defaulting valet or clerk
: No one troubled to- inquire furthe
about him. His passage money wa
4 refunded, and he was bundled ashor,
Courtenays view was that he ha
heard by sonic me.tns of Isohers il
tended departure from Valparaiso an
deemed it good chance Of winning he
!, approval of his countship, seeing tina
5 such titles are not subjected to seriou
! investigation in South America. Suf
] rez took his Fuegian bride up countr.
\ where Mr.. Barring and DR.. Christobi
] established them on small ranch.
= Isobel renewed her voyage som,
e what chastened ip, spirit. but her vol,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-23
"A 20 Year Sentence !, ,

II have just completed a 20 year
health sentence, imposed by Bdcklen's
'Arnica Salve which cured me of bleed
ing piles just 20 years ago." writes
o. 8. Wooleyer OF LeRaysville. N. Y.
Bucklen's Arnfca Salve heals the worst
sores, sboils, burns. wounds and cuts
in the shortest time. 25c at all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-23
By LOUIS TRACY,

COPYRIGHT. 1900 BY EDWARD J. GLOBE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-23
Short and Out.

"Where is Mr.. Middleman?" asked
the caller at the brokers' Office.
II think he's out on little matter
Of wheat" replied the bright clerk,
S "Out longT
Certainly not. II he had been long.
he would have been In. It's because
he was short that he's out.'-Philadel-
phia Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-23
What Shalt We Haye=for pesert!

Try yStL.-o. the dainty. appetizing,
economical dessert. Can be prepared
instautly-simply add boiling water and
serve when cool Ffayored just right:
. sweetened just right; perfect in every
way. A l0c package makes fenougii
dessert for large family All grocers
sell 1t. Don't accept substitutes JELL-
o complies with all pure, food laws; z
havors.iemon. orange. raspberry. straw
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
CHRISTMAS

~ ANITA CLAUS is looking forward
~ to his visit to Los Angeles with
~ even more interest than usual, on
account OF the young folks festivity
which has been arranged by his spe-
cial steward and representative,
Los Angeles Herald. Many friends are
uniting with The Herald in making
arrangements for the great Merry
Christmas tree and entertainment.
Every day we are hearing from friends
who are contributing and planning to
contribute to the festival. To all we
say what we have said before, but
cannot say too often: Do not think
because you can afford only a small
gift you must not give anything. No
matter what you give, it will be appre-
ciated, and The Herald will aeknowl-
edge promptly all gifts, and will print
the names of the givers, or their ini-
tials or "holiday Names" if they dc
not care to see their own names In
print.
We believe The Herald,s Christmas
festival Will be the greatest success OF
it's kind in the history of Los Angeles
That may be regarded as a large prom
Use, but our readers are enthusiastic,
kind hearted and generous, and we
know with their help the promise Will
be kept.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
PANAMA

TIT is gratifying to American patri-
otism to read of the progress of
Il the Panama canal, it is doubly
gratifying to citizens of Southern Cali
fornia to learn of the success of the
great work which will make San Pedro
a bi-oceanic as we'll as a Pacific port.
Health conditions have been greatly
improved, and there does not seem to
be any reasonable excuse for building
the canal with the labor of poems and
serfs.
The only possible reason why a white
or an American force was not put to
work on the canal was that conditions
were insanitary, and the mortality
among American workmen was un-
usually high. To remedy this condi-
ton, the work of sanitation was taken
up under the direction of Chief Engi-
heer Goethals, and war was made on
the mosquito and other agencies of
disease or death. The logic of the re-
formers was admirable. They said:
''If we fight the causes of disease,
We won't need to fight disease" 1t
Is logic that might well be adopted
throughout the United States. with re-
gard to moral health as well as ply
steal. There has been a large decrease
in the death rate, especially among ne
groes, who are being better cared for
and better fed than In the earlier days
OF the big ditch-digging.
Since it can no longer be urged that
sanitary conditions are such that it
would not be advisable to expose to
them white Americans and their fami-'
lies, why continue to dig the Panama
canal with foreign cheap labor, prin-
cipally Europeans?
An official report says: There are
approximately 500 more Europeans and
1000 more West Indians on the work
previous fiscal year. To cover this
increase and to fill vacancies caused by
the departure of employees from the
isthmus, Also West Indians and 1850
Europeans were imported. AS the total
increase of immigration over emigra-
ton was nearly $4,000, the labor prob
lem may be considered as solved"
Yes BY CONTRACT LABOR, for
the most part imported from Europe
and the British dominions! Not long
ago American unemployed workmen
were holding hunger parades in the
streets of eastern cities. But the Re
publican government, with millions of
dollars worth of crown lands in Ha-
wall, and with one of the biggest con-
struction enterprises of modern times
under way at the isthmus, preferred to
let the lands go to waste rather than
sell them and use the money for the
benefit of starving Americans: and this
same government hires West Indians
and Europeans to dig the Panama
canal! The exalted honorary member
OF the Steam Shovelers' union who is
president-elect of the United States
ought to call a general strike until
labor conditions in the isthmus are
remedied.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
SAYS AVIS" PREDICTION is
NATIONALLY UNWARRANTED

Los ANGELES, Nov. 29.-[Editor
Herald1: Avis" writes: Look 3
at misleading and disappearing ar
guments used on platform, pulpits and
in the press" He might have cited
specifically The Herald Letter Box.
and his own letter. He quotes abuses
that have their rise and raison d'etre
wholly In the conditions of capitalism;
their roofing in the exploitation of
others for private gain, and their bud
ding and Towering in a system that
has well nigh perfected the machinery
of graft; and he absurdly and alto
gether irrationally and unwarrantably
prophesies a similar crop of abuses out
of the entirely different soil of a CO.
and industrial exploitation will be I'M
known and in the very basic condition
of things impossible; where the people
themselves will be their own govern
ment, where the officials will serve,
not rule, and be subject to immediate
recall. And Avis is reckless and
fatuous enough to imply that a COM
munity that has developed (slowly and
all too cautiously wisdom enough to
inaugurate a cooperative common
wealth, and to throw off it's back the
burden of oppression by individual and
bureaucratic exploitation. will not
know enough to avoid DEPRESSING
ITSELF out of sheer "cussed" wrong
headedness. From mere force of habit,
ii will graft for peanuts, from the
right pocket to the left; and Cypress
and injure itself for pleasure. 1t Will
set it's alarm clock so as to call itself
up hours too early on frosty morn
ings, SO as to give itself the pleasure
of cursing the tyranny of clock-makers
and the iniauity of Socialism, which
allows men to be the slaves of time"
VAL STONE.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
HERALD EXCURSION

m EACHERS of Southern California
can look forward to a pleasant
n sequel to the long, hard school
years work. Twelve of their number,
selected by readers of The Herald in a
fair voting contest, will visit the
Alaska Yukon-P Pacific exposition at
Seattle. No more delightful tour has
ever been planned than The Herald's
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition tour.
1t will be personally conducted and will
provide two weeks of amusement, re-
creation and instruction that will give
pleasant memories to the fortunate ex-
curslonists which will remain with
them as long as they live.
No other Los Angeles newspaper may
offer these Alaska Yukon Pacific trips
The Herald has exclusive rights for Los
Angeles, and The Herald is glad tc
have this opportunity of testifying pub.
licly its appreciation of the most hare
working and most useful class of citi.
zens In the nation-the school teachers
We know our readers will be glad t.
nominate and elect the candidates fol-
the excursion. 1t is easy to save voting
coupons and forward them to The
Herald office; and if the friends OF any
teacher unite in organized effort and
display enterprise and genera1ship there
is a reasonable certainty they will be
able to vote their favorite into the
charmed circle Of the round dozen who
win mako this trip.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
GrafterS and Gamblers Are
United in Close Fellowship

THE close bond of fellowship, If not
of mutual self-interest, between
Il grafters and modern race track
gamblers is illustrated by the prompt
ness with which Tom Williams, chief
promoter of Emeryville, went on Eu-
gene Schmitz' bond. Williams is down
for 100000 of the bail which opened
the doors Of the county Jail at San
Francisco for Abe Ruefs chief boodler.
Men do not ordinarily pledge them
selves to the amount of 100000 with
out good reason. Williams course in
this instance was scarcely dictated by
spirit of generosity or mere sym
pathy.
Gradually the people are awaking to
the fact that all the wrongdoers of the
country who have become such pow
erful factor in politics are acting as a
unit. At San Francisco, for example,
the dives and the groggeries are al
ways found on the side of candidates
whose nominations have been secured
by the chief political agents of what
have become known as corrupt public
service corporations.
We have fallen into the habit of
speaking of the Southern Pacific ma
chine, with w. +. Herrin at its head,
as the source of most Of the political
corruption of this state. But we lose
sight of the fact that the Southern Pa
cific Is not the only corporation inter-
ested. That the public service COR
porations at San Francisco which de-
iiberately bribed the Schmitz board of
supervisors are as much part of the
machine as the Southern Pacific Is
patent to all who have studied the sit
uation.
AS a matter of fact, corporations
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
REJoIcES THAT AGAIN HE
CAN SHAKE FOR THE CIGARS

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 0.-[Editor
Herald: So now I can shake the dice
for cigars again, Councilman Wallace
obiecting. Why on earth should not l
do so? Whom am 1 injuring? Upon
whose sacred rights do trespass?
But we are told, if the saloon men
permit me to shake for the drinks their
license will be in danger. Again ask:
Whom do I injure except possibly my
self? And who is the proper guardian
over myself except myself?
1t was meditating on the fall or
Rome. after she had vainly tried the
most elaborate and complicated system
of laws ever known to mankind, that
her celebrated historian, Tacitus, wrote,
with profound conviction: 'The more
corrupt grows the state the more the
laws multiply" And it was one of her
most noted philosophers of the same
epoch who exclaimed: "Who shall guard
the guardians?
Advocates of repressive ordinances
are blind to the teachings of history, or,
rather, they are crassly ignorant of the
summing up in favor of liberty that we
have received uniformly at the hands
of the worlds greatest historians.
STUDENT.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
SAYS POWER NOW HELD BY
The MAJORITY is MISUSEp

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.-LEditor
Herald: Accurate thinking is an ac-
complishment that is rarely acquired.
Valid facts and correct logic are the
only accessories necessary. Val stone
insists in The Herald of November IL
that made an analogy between the
proposed Socialism and present day
conditions that is not true. The false
analogy" is Mr.. Stones inference and
not the conclusion offered. l insisted
that no one would have access to the
tools of production and distribution eX-
cept on the terms prescribed by ma
jority rule. The '1oose argument by
false analogy is deplorable. Now let
us have some definite and accurate
arguments controverting that conclu.
sion. Also some logical justification OF
majority rule, some genuine defense OF
authoritarianism. Mr.. Stones "Pshaw'
won't answer people who seriously
question these matters.
If silence is consent, then the ma
iority does rule today. There is no
force used to prevent the majority from
dissenting if 1t desired and 1t is III thus
sense that they rule. cannot see thar
an active or passive majority AFFECTS
the principle. The difference is between
tweedledum and tweedledee. Power IS
now in the hands of the majority and
II misuses it. Even with intelligent
representatives under Socialism, their
power will be misused unless perchance
they decided to abolish their repre-
sentatives and no longer interfere with
the non-invasive individual.
IA Farmer on the 10Th claims that
find justification for my argument
that compulsion is inevitable under
Socialism by quoting a book. Not at
all. Just reason for yourself and see.
CASSIUS V. COOK.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
SUGGESTS COMMON SENSE BE
USED IN THE CANAL WORK

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.-[Editor
Herald: 1 notice from paragraph
in The Herald this morning that
Gatun dam, on the Panama canal" 1t
seems to me the greatest mistake and
folly that can be imagined in carrying
out the canal work in the manner 1t
has been decided on.
The immense cost of six locks and
the yearly maintenance, If the cost of
building the locks is not quite so much
as digging the canal to q tide water
level, yet the yearly saving and abso-'
lutte safety would more than compen-
safe for extra cost; then there would
be no fear from settlements or earth
quakes. These are liable at any time
to put the canal out of commission for
some time; besides the continual de-
lay to vessels passing through the
locks.
All the locks that are needed are
tide water locks at La Boca, Panama:
much less yearly expense and no risk
As to the Chagres river 1t can easily
be diverted in a line in the direction OF
canal to the Atlantic, without any
danger or damage to the canal.
If the canal Is finished on the plan
now being carried out, the day will
come when we shall see the folly of it.
Put the cost of the six locks into dig
ging the canal, and save the yearly
expense, then we have the canal for
all time to come, and no risk of being
put out OF business. Common sense is
common law. AMERICAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01

seeking undeserved privileges from the
public which they are prepared to bride
It's servants to secure, work as a unit
in selecting venal men for places of
public trust. The fact must not be lost
sight of that the public service cor
porations of San Francisco elected the
Schmitz board of supervisors. Nor
must We forget that in 1905, when the
disgraced Schmitz' supervisors were
elected their opponents were in the
main men who had been selected by
George Hatton and other of the lesser
bosses of the Herrin machine. In other
words, the corporation stood to win, no
matter how the election went To
bring about a state of affairs as suited
to their interests, the corporations en-
ployed the worst element of the San
Francisco tenderloin. The good citi-
zens who wish to see the laws inn
partially enforced were given no voice,
but the men who were interested in
seeing lax enforcement of the laws
Joined with the public service corpora
lions to secure the election of the
weddings who could be bribed or ca
joled With the tenderloin element, of
course, are included the rack track
gamblers. Tom Williams no doubt sup
ported his good friend Schmitz. We
assume this because Mr.. Partridge, who
was Schmitz' opponent in 1905, while
scarcely of mayoralty timber, is an
hosest man who had been put up as a
mere figurehead. The corporationists
who had control of the majority of the
so-called reform supervisors, even be-
fore nominations had been made, did
not want to see Mr.. Partridge elected.
For this reason, the tenderloin element
supported Schmitz and dragged into
office with him the entire Ruef NUM-
clpal ticket.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
MIND BUT AN ATTRIBUTE OR
MANIFESTATION OF MATTER

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 30-[Editor
Herald: What's the matter, Mr.
Editor? Well, never mind, it is only
this: That your printer (may the sun
shine ever on the graves of his ances-
tors), either thinking 1t didn't matter,
or that wouldn't mind, left out of my
letter matter that was much on my
mind. But if he will mind and get 1t
right next time the whole matter will
be more to my mind. The fact is that
a whole line of type evidently slipped.
My question-upper third Of second
aragraph-should have read: IF mind
is something quite separate from, ante
cedent to and independent of matter.
how is it that mind only evolves and
develops as the physical body of the
creature evolves and develops from the
lower forms of life upward?" That Is
the question 1 would like to have an
swered in language that is really ex-
planatory. v. >.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
POWDER AND HOMES

IN HE good people of Hollywood ap-
preciate highly the action of the
II supervisors in preventing the es-
tablishment of a powder factory in
that city or at any place where it
would be within half mile of any
building. The sensible and well-ad-
vised action of the supervisors is ap-
preciated all the more highly because
of the erroneous report published in
a morning paper to the effect that OPP
position to the establishment of a pow
der factory in Hollywood had died out,
a statement that was manifestly out
rageously untrue. It conveyed an i'm
preston which was Numerically OPP
posed to the truth, which was that
that, as the time drew near for finding
a site for the proposed powder factory,
the people of Hollywood became more
and more alarmed over the prospect,
and in their opposition to the project
were a unit.
The action of the supervisors has met
with universal approval from every one
in the district, whether property own
err or renter" The citizens felt that
apart from the danger attaching to
it's existence in a residential district,
a powder factory would be highly det-
rimental to the interests of the city.
There never was anything but opposi-
ton to the powder factory plan. Con-
sequently, there is nothing but appro-
baton for the action of the supervisors.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

IA SELFISH CHRISTMAS" sounds
n paradoxical, yet some of the
IA finest people in the world,
some of the kindliest people in the
world, are also some of the most
thoughtless and needless people in the
world; and at Christmas they exhibit
a spirit of selfshness that makes the
angels weep. No, we do not mean
you, madam, and we do not mean you,
sir. There is nothing personal in this
editorial. 1t is addressed to Christ
mas shoppers, and its object Is to try
to persuade all citizens and citizenesses
(as Artemus Ward called them) to do
their Christmas shopping early, and
thereby avoid causing unnecessary in
convenience to the Christmas workers
the men and women and boys and
girls who are on duty In the stores. It
is not any wonder that with many
workers, especially those employed in
stores, "Christmas' has come to be a
word of horror and dread and not of
happiness.
Think of conditions which make it
1.-THE most natural thing in the
world" for a store girl to utter a
speech like this: well if 1 live
through this Christmas rush I'll per-
haps be able to talk to you again. But
from now on we'll hardly have time to
think"
Much misery, much sickness, and we
dare say even deaths could be avoided
if the Christmas shopper would be con-
siderate of the Christmas employee and
would shop early. Do your Christmas
shopping now. Do not put off until
tomorrow the shopping you can do to-
day. Don't think you will be able to
get any better bargains by waiting
until the last few days.. because you
won't.
If you put off your Christmas shop
ping you will not only get less for
your money but win cause incon-
venience and hardship to the employees
of the stores.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-01
THE BONDS

T1I spite of the opposition of Super
visors Manning and Alexander and
II over the protest of the Southern
Trust company and the Farmers and
Merchants bank, the bid OF z. H. Roll
Inns & Sons of $50,1s7.5O premium upon
;-,O50,OO0 of the s35OO,OOO good roads
bond issue was accepted yesterday by
the board of supervisors. The solid
three conducted the transaction against
the advice and vote of the members of
the board who are generally supposed
II represent the public and public in
terests. BY the professors, the legality
Of the sale is called in question. There
is nothing more certain than this, that
the people of Los Angeles wish to see
clean sale of the bonds effected in
order that the important public work
which will be financed by the issue
may be carried on.
Good roads are of Importance to
Southern California for many reasons
which have been stated over and over
again in these columns and need not
be repeated now, because in voting the
bonds the people Endorsed the good
roads project. 1t is greatly to the in
terest of the people that the will of the
people with regard to building good
roads should be carried out without
any unnecessary delay. It is deplora-
bic that up to date proceedings have
been retarded and interrupted by
bitches, snags and Irregularities, which
can only be explained by an unfortu-
nate distrust of some of our public
officials which has been fostered by the
conduct Of the officials themselves.