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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
rheumatism Cured in Three Days.

N. B. Langley, Madison, Wis, says:
81 was almost helpless with rheuma-
tism for about five months. Had it in
my neck so | could not turn my head,
and all through my body. | tried
three doctors and many remedies
without any relief whatever until L
procured DIR. Detchon's Relief for
Rheumatism. In few hours the pain
was relieved. and in three days the
rheumatism was completely cured, and
was at work. Sold b. otto Grotjan,
1901 Second avep" ItOrk Island;
Gust. Schlegel & u ~ Nc;s Second
street, Davenpol'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Paw Taxes

The taxes for 1907, both personal
and real estate. are now due and pay
able at room Is, M. & L. building.
Hours, to II a. m.,1 to 5 p. m. Open
Wednesday and Saturday evenings
from z to 9 p. m. Bring your last
years receipts with you.
WILLIAM BRASHER,
Tax Collector.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
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. | use it too with great sue
cess in my veterinary business" Price
25 cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

If you think the Central Union is
competent to handle all the telephone
business of the three cities, make a
practice of calling up Davenport. Then
take note of the number of times you
hear that "all the lines are busy now"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Colonel William Jennings Bryan is
rs years old; Roosevelt became presi-
dent at AZ, Grant at 40, and Cleveland
at AZ, so Bryan is just about ripe for
the job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

1t takes just $4,000 incandescent
lights to illuminate the capitol, be-
tween 1900 and 1000 alone to light
the roof of the house of representa-
tives. About one ton of coal an hour
is used during the busy hours to run
the engines for lighting the building.
Congress might really furnish its own
gas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
BOTH SIDES OF THE PROHI-
BITION QUESTION
Local Option Notes.

LBY PRESS COMMITTEE OF LOCAL
OPTION LEAGUE.l
The women of the city are invited
10 mass meeting for women only at
tle United Presbyterian church at 3
2. IN. tomorrow. Matters of special
interest and importance in the cam
paign are to be presented. Mrs. J. l..
Vance, Mrs. Fred Titterington and
Rev. w. NJ. Story of Moline will ad-
iress the meeting, the Sylvan quartet
will sing, and Mrs. G. E. West VIII
give a temperance reading.
A mass meeting OF the Young Peo-
ple's societies and Sunday schools of
ali the churches will be held in the
Memorial Christian church at ) o'clock
sharp tomorrow. Rev. F. e. Shut of
Spencer Memorial Methodist church
will preside and Rev. Charles A
Moore, d. d., of Edwards Congrega-
tional church, Davenport, will deliver
the address. Large blocks of sittings
have been spoken for by many of the
Young Peoples societies, and there
is every prospect that the church will
6e crowded. There will be special
music and congregational singing.
Next Monday evening at s o'clock
there will be local option address in
Armory hall. John Cunneen, chief sir
knight of Father Matthews Total Alb
stinence society and first vice presi-
dent of the Catholic Total Abstinence
lnion of Illinois, will speak. He is a
skilled mechanic, and eloquently rep
resents the laboring man and his own
church in this cause. The meeting is
open to both men and women.
Thursday evening Hon. c. w. Trick
EFT, assistant attorney general of Kan
sas, whose work at Kansas City, Kan.
| in fighting the saloon has been her
aided over the United States and be
yond the seas as the most remarkable
struggle against the liquor power
which this generation has seen. will
| speak at p. IN. Thursday at the
| Broadway Presbyterian church to the
women of the city, and at the Illinois
| theater in the evening to men only
| Mr. Trickett comes to Rock Island
and Moline at great personal sacrifice
&c help us in our cause and defend
his own and his city's good name, ana
every citizen of Rock Island who de
sires to get at the facts in regard tt
the betterment of city by banishins
| the saloon, should hear him.
LOCAL OPTION PRESS COMMIT
| TEE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Senator La Toilette is promised
presidential nomination by influential
Kansas populists. but it may be well
for him to remember that not long
ago the national chairman of the
populist party indOrsed President
Roosevelt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Makes blood and muscle faster than
any other remedy Gives health.
strength and vitality. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea towers above all
other remedies for making sick people
well, and well people weller" 80
cents, tea or tablets.-Harper House
pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
''Drunkards' Graves"
IBY THE PRESS COMMITTEE OF TIL

IBY THE PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE
ANTI PROHIBITION LEAGUE.l
The assertion is freely made by
those who would prohibit all trade in
alcoholic liquors. that untold thou
sands yearly go down to drunkards'
graves i'll the United States, and on
this assertion is based, in part, the
appeal for prohibition in one form or
another.
If this assertion is in any considera-
bic degree founded ON fact, it deserves
grave consideration. In this connec-
ton, therefore, two inquiries are of
prime Importance, first, to what ex-
tent is this assertion true, and second
what effect has prohibition, after suffi-
cient trial, had on the death rate
caused by the abuse of alcoholic slim
ulantS? The best available source of
information on the subject is the cen
sus reports of the United States.
On page of Bulletin S3 of the cen
sus of 1900 is found table, or list of
the diseases or causes principally re-
sponsible for death. In this list we
search in vain for alcohol, or disease
growing out of the use of alcohol II
is only by referring TO the tables of
minor causes of death, on pages 6 and
"a of the same bulletin, that we find
any mention of alcohol as Il cause of
death. From the table beginning on
The latter page. we find the following:
TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS IN
THE UNITED STATES IN 1900
From all causes. 4. g39, 094
From alcohol ............ 2,S11
, The number of deaths from drink
| was. therefore, instead of "untold
| thousands" 2,S11, or about one-fourtf
Of l per cent of the total number OF
deaths. By a comparison of the mum
Der of deaths from this cause with the
number from other causes recognized
as minor, a truer idea of the relative
Importance of alcohol in producing
death is gained. In the same year We
find that in the United States the tota
number of deaths were:
From railroad accidents. G. 93t
From burns and scalds. GIT:
from poiSoh O,oJ'
Railroads and fire, therefore. caused
nearly two and half times as many
deaths as drink, while suicide ant
drowning each caused nearly doubl,
az many, and poison caused 20 pc
cent more deaths than alcohol. Re
grettable as the death rate from alec
hOl is, the assertion of the prohibition
list in this connection cannot, in char
ity, be taken as other than gross, i
well intended, eXaggeration.
But what effect has prohibition haC
on the death rate caused by drink
Docs it offer a remedy? If so. The
rate caused by alcohol should hav,
diminished in those states which have
given prohibition long trial, ant
should be smaller in such states thai
in license states. From the census
bulletin of 1880 and 1900 we find tina
the number of deaths from alcohol TO
every 100000 of population was as fol
lows:
4 1880 1S9
Maine ...-...... Los III
New Hampshire ..2.02 FL
Vermont ..2.23 80
/ Average for the three states. 157 "a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Captain Ingersoll, Admiral Evans
chief of staff, makes the startling an
ruuncement that the battleship fleet
can go TO any part of the word if
coal is provided" Well, why not?
In former days warships went any
where if the wind held out
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Reason Enotidh-

"Did you meet Blinks coming down
the sreet?'
"If | did l didn't recognize him."
"That's so; he has lost his money"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
She Knew.

"He has written the most popular
book of the year"
when was it published|'
ION, 1t hasn't come out yet"
"Then how does he known
HE has talked about 1t with the
young lady he is going to marry"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

The man who INDUCES in the ex-
petition of Transforming a sows ear
into silken purse cannot consistently
evince amazement if the public smiles
at his predicament.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Every place that Billy Sunday goes
he breaks the record. He got $4,000
in Decatur-$2, 900 more than in Bloom
ington. He made 5000 conversions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

When mans wife is away he plods
hopelessly through the chaos that he
had erstwhiie called home and wonders
how he ever could have imagined that
he was boss of the job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Judge men by the company they
keep and the associations they make.
1t is criterion as old as the world
and never faileth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Prudent.

Be kind to all you chance to touch
In crowded street or field or lane.
For you can gamble overmuch
You'll want to retouch not in vain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Hunor aua Philosophy
By DUNCAN M. SMITH
SPRING BREEZES.

Blow, winds of March. 1t is your trade
So have nausht 10 say.
] freely give you my consent
You'd do 1t anyway. I
Pile up the rubbish in the yard,
Set all the shrubs askew
And tear the shingles from the barn
That you may whistle through.
Yank down the washing from the line
And send it through the air.
The laundry lass can follow up
If it goes on tear.
Send plug hats flying down the street
Or roll them in the ditch,
That men, both fat and digniied,
The language may enrich.
Try to restrain your merry mood
When ladies walk along.
Should you their shapely ankles show
That would be very wrong.
But to the husky grocer boy
No tender mercies show.
Get busy, winds! 1t Is your trade
To blow and blow and blow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, III. LEn-
tered at the postofiice as second-class
Inatter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

The business career of the individ-
ual is necessarily short lived. That
of the trust is perpetual.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Announcement.

Having been nominated as candidate
for alderman of the Third ward on the
democratic ticket, l ask the support OF
the voters of the ward at the approach
ing election, April Z, 1908.
CHARLES J. SMITH.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

You can't always tell about ap-
pearances. Many narrow minded
man is quite chesty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Why is the county "broke?"

The creature who throws bouquets
only at himself is certain to go broke.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

A woman will forgive a man for be-
ing fond of her If he will only keep it
to himself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Cold cash may sound like chilly
proposition, but it usually receives a
warm reception.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

DeWitt's Little Early Risers, small,
safe, sure little liver pills. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Quite So.

"He is the busiest man in town"
81 have noticed it. What is his busf
ness?"
"Everybody's."
''What do you mean"
"What / say. He runs the universe"
ION salary?"
NO; gratis"
"How does he make his living?"
"Oh, he's married"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
The hand that
darns the stock
ing is the hand
that keeps ex-
penses down.

A boy that has good sense is In an
alarming condition and should receive
immediate and careful attention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Being a wild
ow keeps some
women so busy
that they don't
have time to
think of remar-
rying.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
TERMs-Daily, 10 cents per wee

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.
[nnEo eEE5Et0c>
SfRAbEs G HS1f coUNclEs !.
IRGeILZ
Saturday, March 81, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21
Couldn't Take Chances.

>ot tonight"
thought you liked them"
do, but this is leap year"
The Modern Novel.
a little smile,
A little sigh,
A little flirting
On the sly,
A little laugh,
A little glance,
A great big lie,
A small romance,
A little ride.
A little lark,
A little plotting
In the dark.
An angry wife,
A husband mad,
A little going
To the bad.
A million dollars
Set things right,
And all the rest
Is out of sight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

A certain way for girl to become
beautiful is to go out and make noise
like an heiress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

Average for the three states. 1.5I 2.41
In the 20 years from 1880 to 1900,
during all of which these states had
prohibition, the death rate in them
caused by alcohol increased SO per
cent.
PRESS COMMITTEE ANTI-PROHI-
BITION LEAGUE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-21

II men were inventive and observing
creatures they might learn something
from the reflection that they never
saw baldheaded woman.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17
A LAND AFFAIR.

There's q land of which we often dream
In the hush of the twilight hours;
But afar Ger many an ocean stream
Are its happy wales and bowers.
Its singing birds are a merry crew,
And their songs are sweet and clear;
No shadows darken its skies OF blue,
And no winter is in its year.
Oh, happy it were to wander there,
Where the fadeless roses blow;
Where the lilies sway in the scented air
In their robes as white as snow;
Where no ruthless breeze strips the FULL
leaved trees
In wood or in vale or grove;
Where the sunbeams play on the silvery
That are calm as the skies above!
But, ali me! no crafts are anchored
In it's harbors safe and wide;
In it's meadows broad, with verdure
spread,
But the misty phantoms glide.
For that land affair Ger the trackless main,
Where the boughs are ever green,
That our storm tossed barques may seek
in vain.
Is the Land of Might-Have-Been.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17
Truth
and Quality

appeal to the Well-Inforned IN eSs''
walk Of life and are essential TO -
nansat success and creditabis s1as.
hg. Aceerdingly, II II not e'a''
that Syrup q Figs and Eli1lr =
SIENNA u the oaly remedy OF NOV.
value. but one Of many reasons w
4 II the bsst Of personal and ian~
hxatives II the fact that It caean
svestena and pslisves the iau
organs "a which It acts without
Aslt1Itatinx after Effects and Wiz
haviag to increase tho quantity
t1lAe to t1mo.
Il aSts pleasantly and naturally
truly . ! laxative. and IT. con !,
parts aro known = and appro' n
5y1jG4ans. q Il h Tree no :.
sn3eeeissanalls Substances. To -
bensAelai s1sscts always purchas'r -
euaufbe aaaufaetursd b inc :.
$3.50 ~ oyrup c.. only. anu
~ ~ - leading drusstA
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17

hold in her brain. They lowered afar off,
like navies crippled in the roadstead.
Breen's ready answer was a sterling de-
tense.
"Let us hurry" she painted.
They turned and faced the empty cliff.
To the left was an open door, and the
form of woman was carved in the light.
The woman in the doorway spoke wo:ds
warmed and vitalized from her very heart,
and Breen answered and took her in his
arms. Lara brushed past the two and
into the shop.
The huge figure hunched forward upon
the table had not moved. Lara stepped
forward and touched his shoulder. He
stirred uneasily, muttered as if in pain,
but did not lift his head. She pressed
her hand more heavily upon his soiled
coat.
Eyes, yes-what is it?' he said in a
quick, frightened way.
The haggard face turned up to her. The
jaw dropped a little. His eyes, though
fixed upon her own, seemed to have lost
their direction. He gained his feet slow
ly, clutching the table with his hands.
Il have come to go with you-to your
ship!'' she declared brokenly.
"Breen, come here to me-" he called,
brushing his face roughly with his hand.
Its not a dream, Peter" Breen an
swered cheerfully. Il found Der waiting
for you at the plantation house.
mo. 1t is Lara !"
He put his hand forth to touch her.
She caught it in her own. Pere Rabeaut
entered the rear door.
"And now," Breen was saying, you
two must not forget that Pelee is still
alive, and that my part is still undone
while you are here-even tho Ugh togeth-
er." He spoke in English, which neither
Soronia nor her father understood.
But are you not going:" Lara asked.
"Oh, no, Miss Stansbury. Peter I'M
derstands. have told him that Nicholas
Stembridge ceases to compromise him af-
ter this night 1t really is the better, the
only way"
He turned to Pere Rabeaut and added
lightly in French: ''Our guests are going.
Let us all start a last sunrise of Eper-
nay"
But you know that I do not feel az
the others do, but-as your friend does.
Really, am not afraid of you," she said
unsteadily. There were tears in her
eyes.
ut is a beautiful ending" Breen an
swered.
II want you to know that l shall al
ways remember your coming words
when l would have failed" she finished.
There was a moment in which Breen
and Constable stood close together. Lara
and Soronia were whispering, and strange
it was, but out of their whispers was
evolved kiss.
Look, Peter-the lily and the tiger lily
bend together" said Breen.
The door was shut behind them. They
faced the harbor and started down the
sloping way.
But you-T' she whispered.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17
Novelists and Love.


"What do you think of an old Iellow
of IS having three fine women in love
with him at the same timer
Il think it is absurd"
"Well, 1 think so, too; but then you
and l, thank fortune, are young. And
when Henry James was young he
agreed with us. When, in his youth.
Henry James was writing Daisy Miller
and THE Portrait Of a Lady, he didn't
have his fine women falling in love with
some old grandfather, and he didn't
take old grandfathers for his heroes.
But he does so now. In his 'Ambassa-
doris there are three women In love
with the fascinating Strether, and two
of them propose. Yet Strether Is SIS.
James, you see, was little over 90
when he wrote that book, and he there
fore believed that man of that age
could inspire passionate love in wom-
ans heart.
"This is a sad commentary on human
nature that we never grow too old to
think we can still love and be loved.
Writers unconsciously prove this COM
mentary. The older they grow the
older they make their fascinating
heroes. Marion Crawford and all the
old hands now write books wherein this
lady killers far and away the most sue
cessful are Invariably 60 or so-that
Is to say, about the authors own age"
New York Press.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17

telephone attachment by which the re-
ceiver is supported on brackets extend.
ing from the phone. AS shown In the
accompanying illustration these brack.
cts are pivoted at several points,
making it an easy matter to adjust the
receiver to any position desired. The
person talking on the phone can thus
quickly adjust the receiver to rest near
the ear, allowing him the free use Of
both hands and eliminating the objec
tionable feature Of holding the receiver
in the hand.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-17
CHAPTER XIII.

Constable's mind was slow to inform
this great concept. The day had left be-
hind in his brain a crowd of unassimilat-
ed acts, and into this dull, formless COM
pany swept the climacteric joy. Figura-
lively speaking, he had to grope about
until lantern and matches were brought
together, before he could adjust and meas
'ure and proportion. He halted at last in
the empty street, seized the girl by her
shoulders, saying, as one would evoke
the heart out of miracle:
Lara Stansbury! Lara Stansbury !"
"Yes, Sir Peterw
Don't laugh at me: don't grow impa-
tient for must ask questions"
Begin. shall be very good"
"Are you the little girl who handed
me a newspaper this morning?"
II am that little girl grown up, sir"
She revelled in the Joy she was giving
him, and thrilled under the Tightening
pressure of his hands upon her shoulders.
"And when you grew up-you came to
me?"
please, sir, you said you would take
me sailing"
Lara, as I looked down the fiery
throat of that dragon to-day, everything
grew black and still like a vacuum.
thought it was death then. Tell me, did
l come back, or are we two hurrying
shapes in twilight land-in no mans
land'?"
'I'm sure you must have come back,
sir, because l didn't die to-day, and we
can't be talking together on different
planes-with your fingers impaling my
shoulders !"
Lara Stansbury-are you mine?"
The huge fellow was lost in his laby-
rinth of happiness. The doubts that had
smothered her answer were lifted now,
and he heard his victory without breath
of its expression hampered. The shop
had INDICATED her daring. With all the
eagerness of trimming womanhood, which
bursts the bonds OF. repression for the first
time, she gave him her heart of hearts.
She was like q queen who summons q
man of her people into her inner sane
tuary and bids him rule herself and her
kingdom. Resistless, trembling, whisper
ing, she was drawn into his arms.
ITO think didn't know you when you
first came !" she was saying family. But
when l was a little girl knew you-used
to be frightened because you were 50 big !!
Always then I knew you would
come some time to taks me away for
your lady, and l thought would cry
when you came, because would be 80
happy. That part didn't come true, did
it, Strongheart7 They were all
dreams, baby dreams, N if left over from
some other betrothal with you! And
when grew into big girl, Sir Peter,
was ashamed. and put them away, with
other baby thoughts and things! :
All, listen to old Pelee !"
The volcano had lost his monstrous
rhythm and was ripping forth irregular
crashes. Rue Victor Hugo was alive
with voices, aroused by the hideous rat
Ting in the throat Of the mountain. The