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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
The Bankers and the Guaranty Sys
tenn.

The bankers federal legislative CON-
on the question of guaranty of depos-
its at the Denver convention of bank
Iers. The report says that a guaranty
fund would be "a function wholly out
side of any purpose for which the state
or federal government was organized
that now the depositors of bank "are
guaranteed primarily by the character
of the assets in which the depositors'
money is invested, margined and forti.
fed by banks capital and surplus"
Indeed! Is il not of the first i'm.
portance that the depositors be saved
from loss through bank failures? And
is it not within the just province of
government, state and federal, to pro-
tect the millions of depositors from
the effects of incompetent and dishon.
est banking methods? The govern.
ment secures its own deposits from
loss Why should it not insist upon a
system under which individual deposits
would be safe? If you go to the post
office and get a postal order, the gov.
eminent is liable for the full amount
of the order drawn. Express com
tpanies, even, are liable for the value
/ of the money or articles which they
receive for transportation Why should
not banks be held responsible?
But we are told that depositors are
guaranteed under the present system
Are they? Then why was the loss or
assets in this country from 1863 tc
1907 s93,44s.S61? Why were the stock
holders assessed $36,246,3 $50, less thar
half of which was paid?
The cost of settling the affairs of de
funct national banks amounted to Sill,
460,G05, and the annual loss to credi
tors from 1904 to 1907. was $1,114,223
The controllers reports show that tn,
nominal assets at the date of suspen
sion of the ATS national banks tina
failed from 1863 to 1867 were as fol
lows: Estimated good, $S4,734, 026
ESTIMATED doubtful, s73,745,393; est
mated worthless, $49,634,122.
i Do these great losses indicate any
thing like complete guaranty unde
Jour present system? For a deposito
to wait four years. the average time o
Isettling up dead banks accounts, an
then to get perhaps but fraction Q
his deposit, is so unjust, SO oppressiv
to thousands that the government
should adopt measures to prevent it
possibility.
l
u The Fowler financial bill was endor
led by the American Bankers associ;
:tion, and it was claimed by its adhe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
The Argus Daily Short Story
Copyrighted, 1908, Literary Press

music, SO just went on cooking. After
all, don't know, but its just as wofsl
while to be a good cook as q bad
artist
Indeed it isl" said Peggy heartily.
II paint some myself. But / wish :!
could make cake like this
'Oh, do you paint?" cried Miss
Brownlee. "Some time / am going to
get you to make Il picture of the cot
tage."
In the morning Peggy set her easel
up on the bluff, but the magic of the
lake eluded her. and when she came in
she lad nothing to show but sketcl,
of Sally
She gave it to Miss Brownlee
"Well. WE'LL said that delighted
lady, Its just like Sally. I'm going to
have it framed. BY the way" she
added. ''it's time for that young man
to come. And there he is now" And
she hurried to the door.
| He was handsome young fellow,
with gray cap on the back of his
head.
Il wanted to ask about my cottage.
| Where is it z"
There" said Miss Brownlee. point
! ing to the one next TO Peggy's.
That? Oh, by George" the young
man calculated, and Peggy laughed 10
| herself.
Its the one 1 told you about in my
! letter" Miss Brownlee went on.
"Yes," he murmured feebly, "you
told me-"
This young lady and her mother
have the one next to it." And Miss
Brownlee stepped back and showed
Peggy behind her-Peggy, whose blue
eyes danced wickedly.
The young man rocked at her, taking
in with appreciation the grace of the
slender girlish figure.
Il think l shall like-the cottage" he
said slowly. and when they had talked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Kumor ano Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
SELECTED HISTORY.

Napoleon crossed the Delaware
Or was it Buffalo Bill
The Delaware or Hudson,
The Rhine or some such rill.
I get so mixed on rivers,
Locations, names and dates,
But still / know that some one
Crossed something. history states
And Washington, the hero,
You know he scaled the Alps
When out one pleasant morning
And red hot after scalps,
Or was it Marco Polo
Who crossed the Andes high?
I know there was some crossing.
For history cannot lie.
Columbus crossed the OCEAN
/ feel quite sure of that
And all the folks COMPOUNDED
Who said the world was fiat.
He crossed it in a vessel
Quite small, but rather trim,
Because, as you may reckon,
1t was too far TO swim.
This crossing and recrossing
Make up a lot of life,
Though one might find hero
Who never crossed his wife,
And there was bluff King Henry.
The eighth, turtledove,
Who. as the records tell US,
Was never crossed in love.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Advertised List No. 40.

For week ending Oct. 5, 1908:
Frank Allen, Mrs. Anna Anderson
Ed Alling. Ben Bensinger, M. Baur
Mrs. William Cook. Rev. and Mrs. Ber
E. S. Ely, Will e. Graves. Mrs. NJ
Gaffney (2), Mrs. F. H. Gaffney. Miss
Doris Gehrig (2), Miss Ethel Hamp
ton, Miss Iva Hall, Harry Katz, Mrs
Fanny Kemmerling, Mrs. Charles F
Kelly, E. E. Long, Jens Lorenson, Ed
ward Morse, Mammoth Catalogue
company. David Mazzettie. n. P. F
Nelson, A. J. Richardson, Mrs. Otto
Rosvall, Mrs. Kitty Riley, Mrs. Make
Redding. S. Rosenture, Fred c. Stein
I. S. Whitley.
Foreign-Johann Kruss, Jules Mar
tens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Ever Felt It.?

The goldenrod. the goldenrod-.
Atchoo. Cached
Upspringing from the prairie sod
Oh. my! Oh, me!
Its golden spikelets fill the air
Atchoo. Atchooi- -
With spicy perfume rich and rare.
They do! They do!
1t bends its head of purest gold
Cachee, Cachee,
] gather all my hands can hold
For heavens sake take the stuff -
the back yard and make a bon.
fire of it and send for the doctor!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

President Roosevelt announces, so
dispatches say, that he does not in
tend to reply to Mr.. Bryan's Rock
Island letter, as it was personal. This
is well. 1t would have been better
for Roosevelt's reputation If he had
not "butted in" at all. The people
do not admire his big stick style; and
besides, the president of the United
States has no business to make him
self an Offensive partisan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Nick Longworth-but who cares any
thing about Nick Longworth? A man
who is willing to appear as the tail to
Sunny Jim's' kite will never be of
any special interest to people of this
country. Take Alice away from Nick,
and the people would forget him in a
fiay
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Tor lew minutes Peggy went BACK TO
her mother.
''He is very NICE" she remarked,
"and his name is Meredith" And with
that she took her portfolio and started
for the bluff
Look here said some one over
her shoulder two hours later, you
ought not to try that sort OF thing"
asked Peggy.
Il saw your sketch of Sally he told
her. You do it better than water
things. Your lake and sky aren't
right"
Peggy flushed. oh she said, 81
don't want TO paint pussy cats! l
want to paint the silver water and the
silver trees and silver spirit of the
woods
''Silver tommyrotw said the young
man. "You ought to do things like
! the studies your mother showed me
! just now
| ''Pot boilers.' Peggy murmured.
'This is the way water ought to be
handled and he opened his portfolio
and handed her sketch.
"Oh" Peggy said as she looked at
it, and when she had handed it back
to him there was real humility in her
tone.
Il have never seen anything so Won
derful"
1T is no more wonderful than
yours he told her, "but / have stud
led longer-abrOad and all that"
"Oh, have you?" said the eager Peg
gy, and they sat there and talked until
the shadows fell.
That night Meredith said to Miss
Brownlee, Il think it is beautiful
here" and Peggy, watching the moon
light through the small square win
dow of her room, smiled in the dark
ness as she thought how deliciously
Mr. Meredith said by Georgew when
he looked at her best work.
The next morning she took his adj
vice and slSetched the six curly tailed
pigs, Sally over a saucer of milk and
Miss Brownlee among her pots and
pans.
"That's the best thing you have done
:, yet" Meredith told her as he examined
the sketch of Miss Brownlee. 1.-The
light of the fire and the sunligh,
through the window give a chance fol
values"
> 4 wish / knew as much as you dc
about such things" Peggy sighed.
1--WE will work together for awhile,
he said, land will teach you all
know"
But he taught her other things thar
art as their easels stood side by side
on the bluff, and the white gulls dipped
to the sapphire lake, and the wind ruff
fed the curls on Peggy's forehead
l And one morning as Peggy finished /;
lake beyond he looked over her shoul
der.
You are getting Oh wonderfully" HI
said, "but you ought to have yea
abroad"
> But l can't" Peggy told him.
"You can if you will marry me-" wa.
his unexpected proposition.
And "Ohn' said rosy Peggy
"And to think" said the radiant Mis-
Brownlee when they told her. that
should have a romance right here fl
my tin cottages
Dear cottages" murmured Peggy.
And as the lovers went down tn
path the moonlight touched the littl
gray houses with magic light and mad
Of each of them castle of dreams.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

1t is good thing that some of these
campaign bosses were investigated be-
fore they got higher up. Just think of
a man in a cabinet position who had a
special contract obligating him to fetch
and carry for the Standard Oil COM
panY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

TRY, for big machines Among those
who are interested in it are the Van
derbilts and Astors of New York. and
several of its directors are also direc-
tors in the United States Steel corpor-
alton 1t maintains an open shop"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Chauncey NJ. Depew is not taking
an active part in the speech making in
this campaign. Chauncey hasn't been
asked. Chauncey is only one of a con-
siderable group whose political and
business sins have found them out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Looking Higher Up.

Gle fell in love with his school.
teacher, who was five years his SEN
ior.''
81 suppose she let him down easy"
'She was as considerate as possible"
promised to be sister to him?"
''No; she said she would do her best
to be a stepmother to him."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
, Would Mortgage the Farm.

A farmer on rural route 2, Empire,
Ga, w. A. Floyd by name, says:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the two
worst sores l ever saw: one on my
hand and one on my leg. 1t is worth
more than its weight in gold. l would
not be without it if / had to mortgage
the farm to get it" Only % cents, at
all drug stores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

The Standard company is trust and
controls the roller ball bearing output
of the country. They make the small
steel ball bearings used on children's
roller skates. and also the $4,000 ball
bearings, the largest made in the coun-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

What a caterwauling there is in the
republican family in about As states
in the union. And the democracy is
united Hurrah for Bryan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

In the old days Taft used to "sit on
the lid" latterly Roosevelt his been
sitting on Taft so as to completely
efface him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Which

"What have they named the baby y
"Bnl''
"Bill?"
eyes"
Cautious parents, aren't theyT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
Not Up to Date.

81 don't have much hope for Henry.
You see. he is twenty-three years old
now"
"But he earns his own living"
eyes. but he has never yet invented
q flying machine"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

= Is it possible that Father-in-Law
Teddy has called Son-in-Law Nick il
off the stump for that Rock Island
break?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

No wonder there has been nipping
froGt in the northwest. Taft has been
touring it and making speeches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Hitchcock appears to be Mr. Taft's
Loeb. Every republican organ is
charging all the trouble in the party
up to Hitchcock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
AS a Handicap.

Ellis is what they call squaw man."
''Married an Indian woman, did hep
well, he married fine half section
of land. 1 believe an Indian. girl was
thrown i'm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Gee but isn't it easy to beat Daven-
port. whether it be at baseball, fire,
department races or expositions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

If this weather-well it didn't, SO
what's the use.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Hurrah for next years Rock Island
Exposition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

There is one phase of the campaign
worth praising. The campaign cigar
is not in evidence
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

The news from Germany is that
Germans are turning from beer TO tea
On what grounds?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Send this advertisement. together with name of
paper in which Il appears. your address and four
cents to cover postage, and we will send you
Complete Handy Atlas of the World" :: .:
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4O9 Pearl Street. New York
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Facts are sensitive things: when fc-
ton gets busy they get so ashamed Of
themselves.
Some people lie simply because they
feel the need of keeping in practice.
Probably your neighbor's sins will
eventually find him out, but don't aid
and abet him in it.
The best guarantee, of mans hon.
esty is his need of wOrk-and your lib
crafty of payment
Probably the reason it is hard for
some people to concentrate their
thought is because it is so difficult to
find space small enough to bring
pressure TO bear.
Some stories are hard to helieve-un-
til belief becomes necessary.
Some people esteem themselves SO
necessary to the progress of the world
that they can do nothing but assert
their claim.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

No Place For
Him.
"Ee'll have to
quit the police
force"
Doesn't he like
the work 2"
Eyes, but the
DOR m n ] 8
troubled with in
somnia."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

This weather feels pretty good any
way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

Are you coming to r. next year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue Rock Island, Ill. IEn-
tered at the poNoffiee as second-class
matter,l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

The Exposition escaped without SC
much as a frost bite at that.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-05

BY THEzJ. w. POTTER CO.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

When the mammoth Hudson ter
minal is ready for use next spring,
New York will possess what is at
once the most gigantic structure Of
its kind and by far the largest ONCE
building in the world. The grand cen
face transportation lines and tunnels,
connecting by them with every rail
road entering the city, it will cover
two blocks, with four stories below
the street level and FL above. Besides
its terminal facilities it will have in
its q acres of floor space more than
1000 Offices and will accommodate
more than 10000 workers.
The 100000 cubic fee. of this
enormous structure makes it two and
a half times as large as the largest
existing Office building, the Broad Ex-
change, which has only 1000, 900 cubic
feet Into the construction of the
terminal will enter 113 miles of cleo
.trical wiring. Is miles of plumbing
pipe, 20 miles of steam pipe, IS miles
of conduits, 100000 feet of tile par
titions, $500 doors, 5000 windows,
10000 square feet of glass, Sc miles
of wood base, IS miles OF picture mold.
ing and 10000 electric lights. = !
For the construction of the building
above the street level alone 1890, 900
bricks are necessary, which, if laid
end to end, would stretch across the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Every winter for years a pair of
duck hawks has used the tower of
the postoffice department building on
pennsylvania avenue as a place of
refuge. The birds are in their winter
quarters again this year, and from
their safe retreat high above the
street they make daily trips, to the
Potomac. where they pick up many a
luckless coot and grebe which are
forthwith sacrificed to appease the
seemingly never completely satisfied
hawk hunger.
The duck hawk is cosmopolitan
bird. 1t appears in slightly varied
form in most parts of the world. The
extent of it's range has given it the
name of the wandering falcon. 1t is
a true falcon, and in it's life it typifies
nature at it's widest, and it may be
said, at its fiercest 1t is impossible,
of course, to tell whether the pair of
falcons that is in the tower of the
postotfice building this winter is the
same pair that has lodged there
during the cold weather in seasons
past.
Three or four years ago some of the
postoff1ce authorities sought permits
sion to shoot the hawks, for they were
In the habit of carrying their quarry
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Any one with liking for club life
and 1T the same time laundering
to get rich quicker than the savings
banks will let him should hustle and
join the very latest thing in Fifth
avenue clubs before it is too late. Not
only has this club got Fifth avenue
home but it has founder and presi.
dent, who says that he was amanuen-
sis to James G. Blaine for not less than
forty years, and, therefore, ought to
know something about stocks.
"Roach's Ten Dollar club" is the
name of this latest idea in clubs. Hen.
ry N. Roach is the name of the found
er. Besides being head of the club,
Mr.. Roach is a financial agent with
an Office on Fifth avenue where the
club also is. From the club windows
one may catch the CLINT OF. the Jewels
IN Tihany's, across the street, as an
inducement to give Mr. Roach more
money to invest
Although Mr.. Roach has been a
Fifth avenue financial agent since
April last only, he had been many
things before that, including a Com
stock miner, amanuensis to James G.
Blaine. government employe, and last
but not least, hermit. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Soldier In the Field

and not only issue perfectly clear and
pleasing to the eye, but absolutely safe
as well. Through most ingenious ar.
rangement it is discharged almost a.
cold as when it entered.
Clear, sparkling water, by the way.
is in the majority of instances far
from being pure and safe. For ex.
ample, the best filter working under
good conditions will allow from one to
five per cent. of bacteria or more to
escape, and only one per cent. may
mean that tens of thousands of these
health destroyers are contained in a
single glass of water. Sterilization is
the only proper precaution, and this
feature is recognized to such an ex-
tent that the sterilizer described has
been adopted by the United States
government and placed in universal
use in the army, marine corps, coast
and geodetic survey, isthmian canal
commission, etc. The sterilizer ban.
ishes typhoid fever and all of the
multitude of water-born ailments, in
Guiding dysentery, cholera, and the
minor. though quite important, com.
plants which induce a state of lazi-
ness or indisposition or lack of snap
and energy disappear almost altogeth-
er. Government statistics show that
even under the most sanitary condi-
lions it has repeatedly reduced the
average sickness from six to five per
cent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
East Side Fights for Lower Rents

tlon on Allen street north 0: Grand,
Rutgers, Essex, Ludlow, Hester, Mon
roe and Jefferson streets-th most
densely populated section of any city
In the world. Seventeen languages or
dialects are spoken within this area,
and the proselyters were selected with
especial reference to their ability to
impress upon tenants in their native
tongues the necessity of standing by
their pledges.
Where landlord succeeded in evict-
ing one family the other families were
pledged to. take the, dispossessed;
household into their own flats and
care for them as boarders until the
landlord saw the futilfty of such los
ing game and surrendered. All the
east side was being flooded with
placards preaching war on the de-
mands of the landlords.
The real leader in the struggle
which has a following of 10000 is
frail factory girl. Her name is Pau
line Newman. This child of the
Ghetto is not frenzied, excitable
girl, who wildly breaches revolt. but
Is quiet, determined, highly iptelli-
gent leader of well-organized, en-
thusiastic band. She works daily in q
shirtwaist factory. Well educated for
one in her station of life, deeply
thoughtful, and fully cognizant of the
horrors of poverty, she is eminently
fitted to direct the east side tene-
ment jewellers in their fight for re-
duced rents.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Prohibition at the national capital is
dead issue, at least during the pres
ent congress, and, Notwithstanding the
vigorous campaign the temperance
advocates will wage this winter, there
will be no legislation which will make
Washington dry" city.
In appointing the committee on the
District of Columbia. which formu-
lates legislation for Washington,
Speaker Cannon selected a large ma
jority of members who live in the
large cities so as to secure men with
liberal ideas, and whose experience in
the government of municipalities will
be beneficial to this city. ~
When the speaker selected this com
mittee it was done without regard to
the temperance question. but the mem.
bers were chosen solely for their quail
flcations :$., 49, 81
But canvass of the committee dis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Only few days before the recent
operation on Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
she and her husband were at the thea
ter here as guests of Mrs. Roosevelt.
The party occupied the box which the
presidents wife always takes-the
stage box at the left of the auditorium.
Mrs. Roosevelt always takes the chair
in the front of the box in the corner
furthest from the stage.
She seems to do her utmost to for
get the attention which is always
given to the presidents box by even
a Washington audience accustomed
to the sight of Official personages. She
rarely looks toward the audience.
During an act or a concert number
her attention to the stage is absolute.
In the intervals between these she
turns from the house and devotes her
self to talk with the other occupants
of the box. There is no hint of super.
ciliousness in her action, but rather a
shrinking dislike of publicity.
But to 60 back to Mrs. Longworth-
or rather to her husband. 1t was a
strictly family party in the box that
day-Mrs. Roosevelt, the Longworths,
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Miss Hagner
who is Mrs. Roosevelt's private sec.
rotary, and, in the back of the box