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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
The Primary Law Mistake.

The provision in the primary law
relating to. the filing of nomination
raEers needs amending The law
carries out the old rule of FIRST come.
first served" the first person who pre-
sents his petition heading the list of
candidates on the ballot.
To be first the candidates sit up all
night in order to first catch the eye OF
the important official who receives the
papers in the morning.
The Wisconsin method is the better
one and should be adopted in this
state. That is known as the rotation
plan. This gives each candidate {
square deal. For instance If 10000
ballots are printed John Does name
appears first on 10000, Richard Dot
ion 10000 and John Smith on 10000.
This system is fair to all and will
prevent the foolish scenes witnessed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

manufacturers of paper set up as one
count in their defense that the wages
paid their employees were better than
the average wages of tradesmen EN-
ployed on newspapers. This conten
ton was untrue, but true or false, the
International Paper company has an
nounced a reduction of 10 per cent in
the wages of its employees. There has
been no corresponding reduction in the
price of paper to publishers, so the
presumption is that the International
greed increased by 10 per cent. and
fearing to satisfy it at this time out
of the publishers pockets, it resolved
to take it out of its employees. The EN-
ploye is afforded occasion to ruminate
on what benefit the tariff secures him
since with the tariff on paper and
wood pulp unchanged, his wages are
cut 10 per cent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Hurnor ane Philosophy
By DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
HunoR WITH A LITTLE 81"

No, Clara: humor is not dead.
Although you have been told
That modern wits do not compare
With those in days of old.
Just watch couple newly wed.
And you will notice wit
Done up in old shoes trimmed with
Until your sides must split.
In looking out for something fresh
It cannot be denied
That it is quite a killing joke
To throw things at the bride
Back number, rough and moldy shoes
Are all the testers need.
These, striking her across the back,
Should give her joy indeed.
Why can't fellow take wife
To honor and support
Without attracting idiots
Out after frenzied sport?
Why don't the law or the police
Or some one call a halt
On humor that should be described
AS unprovoked assault?
Rice should be fed to Cinnamon,
Not thrown at blushing brides.
It's cruelty to tack signs on
The rig in which she rides.
The man who cannot wish her Joy
End properly behave
Deserves the treatment mother dear
Gives with barrel stave.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Cream Soda.
How do you
manage to keep
a girl 2"
"On icew


Women should be careful how they
remain in the same room with spider.
Their only safety lies in fight, and if
there is table in the way the proper
thing for them to do is to jump over it
and not take chances.
Spiders, although they appear to he
small in size, are really desperate crea-
lures. They have been known to eat 4
lady up at a single mouthful and, not
satisfied with that, to begin at once
looking for more.
When a lady sees one of these dan
gerous monsters in the far corner of
the room ready to spring on her and
devour her right then and there, il
there are Lo police in sight that she
can call she should steal stealthily from
the room and wait on the front porch
until her husband arrives. He will
save her. Spiders, being particular in
their taste, do not'eat men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The Jersey "skeeter" is back on the
job, and there are more of him than
ever before Under the direction of the
state entomologist the state expended
100000 in a three years war for the
determination of the mosquito with a
resultant abatement of the pest. But
1t didn't kill them all, and the sur.
yiyors bred with greater rapidity than
guinea pigs, so that today the mosquito
pest is worse than ever. The failure
is not failure of science and by nc
means proves the inability of human
agency to be rid of the mosquito. The
state entomologist blames the munich
pal governments of the state for the
condition, saying that the drainag,
bitches dug by the state and which
were to be cared for by the cities hav,
become clogged, the breeding place.
are no longer drained, and the littl,
fishes which feed on the larvae can n,
longer get to the surface to get thei
prey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarfhoea Remedy Would
Have Saved Him $4,000.

In 1902 l had a very severe attack
OF diarrhoea." says R. N. Farrar of Cat
Island, La. For several weeks was
unable to do anything. On March IS,
1907, | had a similar attack, and took
Cfamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy which gave me prompt
relief. | consider it one of the best
medicines of its kind in the world,
and had used it in 1902 believe it
would have saved me hundred dollar
DOCTORS bill" Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
II Can't Be Beat.

The best of all teachers is exper-
fence. c. M. Harden, of Silver City,
North Carolina, says: Il find Electric
Bitters does all that's claimed for it.
For stomach, liver ana kidney troubles
il can't be beat. | have tried it and
find it a most excellent medicine
Mr.. Harden is right; it's the best of all
medicines also for weakness, lame back
and all run down conditions. Best too
for chills and malaria. Sold under
guarantee by all druggists. soc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Still at II,

There has been a great advance in
medical science. The doctors have
given up bleeding and many of the bar
barous practices of the past.pna
"They don't believe in bleeding any
more?"
"Of course not"
''Those have bumped against do.
only they confine their bleeding to the
pocketbook.''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
TT takes good management to re-
i duce expenses without lowering
efficiency, but it takes the
ersdlAdding Machine

to reduce expenses while increasing
efficiency. Its use in your Office would
tighten the cares of your Office force,
increase their efficiency, enhance their
earning power and save the time you
have spent heretofore waiting for trial
balances, statements, etc.
The Universal has a carriage that
permits the printing of regular or
irregular columns, any distance apart,
on the same sheet. 1t prints totals
and subtotals in red, has individual
correction keys, light lever pull and
a host of other advantages.
We solicit the opportunity of
demonstrating to you on your
work, in your office, at our eX-
penSe, the proof of our claims.
Write today.
Forest II. Montgomery, District Sales
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tional Bank Building Chicago Ill.
Universal Adding Machine company,
st. Louis. Branch offices in all prin-
cipal cities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Bad Burn Quickly Healed.

81 am so delighted with what Cham
berlain's Salve has done for me that
feel bound to write and tell you so,
says Mrs. Robert Mytton, 457 John
street, Hamilton, Ontario. my little
daughter had bad burn on her knee
| applied Chamberlain's Salve and il
healed beautifully" This salve allay:
the pain of a burn almost instantly
1t is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

at1a Springfield Wednesday when
scores of candidates besieged the of
flee of secretary of state in an en-
deavor to be the first to file.
The next legislature should amend
the primary law by borrowing tn
Wisconsin idea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
The fact that Alfred soderman O,

The fact that Alfred Soderman of
Worcester, Mass, has succeeded in
growing potatoes and tomatoes on the
same vine may be looked upon as an
argument in favor of his pronunciation
theory by the man who decently
wrote: IF it is correct to pronounce
the "a in tomato as in large why
nounced as it is in larger ("
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Best She Could Do.

what is the matter with Mrs. Spicy?
I saw her sitting on her porch as 1
came by gritting her teeth and looking
daggers into vacancy"
Her husband is a half hour hte.
and she is giving him absent treat
ment."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Best the World Affords

at give me unbounded pleasure to
recommend Bucklen's Arnica Salve,''
says ]. w. jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N
G. 81 am convinced it's the best salve
the world affords. 1t cured felon on
my thumb, and it never fails to heal
every sore, burn or wound to which it
is applied. 25c at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
1t is state bat James B. Weaver of
fowa ps 80 to attempt to incor-

1t is state pat James B. Weaver of
fowa p to attempt to incor-
porate iakk in the Denver platform
demanding national prohibition. The
scheme, of course, will fail, as it
should. The attempt to make the
question of saloon regulation phase
of partisan politics is inexcusable
folly. The whole record of the ma
ticnal political prohibition party
proves that the American people will
not turn their backs upon, all other
vital questions for the purpose of ar
ranging a general solution of a prob
lem concerning which sentiment is
governed by local conditions. The
democratic convention at Denver will
not commit the supreme folly of
adopting a plank favoring national
prohibition. Temperance is still a
moral and religious question and
should not be made political
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

1t has been observed that a man will
wait on a bank for hours for a fish
that doesn't intend to bite; but he
won't wait five minutes for his wife
to get ready for church
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The republican papers will have a
whole lot more to say about Guffey
from now on than they do of the legit-
innate proceedings of the democratic
national convention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

A shower of frogs is reported to
have fallen in eastern Illinois. Ii
looks as though the temperance wave
in tina! section is not complete sue
cess, after all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The roof of the nave of Salisbury
cathedral in England, which is being
repaired, is covered with sheet lead
that contains large percentage of
silver, and to prevent fraud the work
men are obliged to melt it on the
cathedral premises.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

1t Is pretty nearly time that both
telephone companies in Rock Island
had recovered sufficiently from the
storms of last week to give their pa
irons good service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

Watch the Denver convention re-
solve in favor of publishing accounts
OF receipts and expenses of political
campaigns while the warfare is go.
ing on and before election That
was what was voted down in Chi
cage
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

Judge Alton B. Parker says that
when the ticket is nominated at Den.
yer united party will stand behind
1t. That's sensible talk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

J. Pierpont Morgan, LIZ D., being in,
terpreted by the Houston Chronicle
means love lure Tor loot?) devotedly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
Gets a lar

"Why doesn't a man write poetry in
the summer same as he does in the
spring."
HE has heard from the critics by
that time"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The more Boss Guffey can say in
abuse of Bryan the better for Bryan
and the democratic party.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

You bet, it is the get together con
vention. TO be followed by the pull to
gether campaign-and Bryan's cleo
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The opposition to Bryan in the dem
ocratic party has passed Pixies peak
and is still going up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island. III. I'm
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

If you can't be reconciled to your
fate. try to get stay of proceedings.
1t is wonderful how many influential
friends you can discover when you
have some favor TO confer.
There is such difference between
being nice fellow and being good
fellow.
If the dollars you've spent foolishly
could suddenly contrive to rehabilitate.
how comfortable your declining years
might be.
The only kind of investigating COM
mittee that stands any show of popu-
larity is one that doesn't
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

When the publishers petitioned con-
gress without success) TO remove the
tariff on print paper and wood pulp,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06

The great convention opens tomor.
row.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-06
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.


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-
tion, No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
NuEn EHHzm
97RApIs1 Issas COUNCIL
<HEcIZT
Monday, July 6, 1903.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
Having a smooth bottom and sides

Having a smooth bottom and sides
and a good drop, this spillway will
care for a tremendous flow of wa
ter as will Locust street, which is 20
feet wide from curb to curb. The ar
rangement will only be required dur
ing and Immediately after an unusu-
ally heavy rainstorm. While the alley
north of Eighth and Locust street it
self will have been transformed into
a channel for Biddle creek, yet there
will be water in this channel only few
hours during the entire year, as the
eighteen inch drain in the step at the
beginning of the spillway will care for
the ordinary flow of the creek with
ease.
Really there was no other practical
way to take care of this troublesome
creek. The channel of Biddle creek
from the Eighth street bridge north
has low banks and flows through a
low, flat section. After heavy rain
this creek floods a dozen blocks of
the residence district clear down to
the Lafayette school,
Locust street looks very bad at this
time, as 1t is graded for the paving
and a rather deep cut appears at Fifth
street, but when the high curbing is
put in and two courses of brick laid
in the street it will not look so bad.
The lots on both sides will be terraced
free of extra charge by this improve
ment.
Inc Gust Oh the subway proper was
about $500. and this includes the
rip-rap work in the bed of Biddle
creek for a block south of the Eighth
street bridge in a most thorough man
ner. At this point the creek he'd was
nothing more or less than a mud hole
and very unsanitary. 1t has been rip
raped with limestone from bank to
bank clear through the center of the
channel and has a bed now nearly as
hard and smooth as the spillway itself.
All that section of Topeka from
Locust street east and lying between
Eleventh and Fourth streets will be
greatly benefited from this improve
ment Of paving, spillway and rIp-rap,
and the results will be apparent when
the work is entirely finished and the
spring floods come.
The councils only objection to Mr.
Rodgers plan of the spillway was the
apparent impossibility of getting the
elevation necessary to carry the flow
of Biddle creek into Locust street,
but he overcame this difficulty by put
ting in the eighteen inch lift or step
in the bed of the creek at the very
beginning of the spillway and at the
same time secured his drainage of the
ordinary flow of the creek by means
of the eighteen inch pipe which runs
directly west to Shunganunga instead
of north as in the case of the overflow
carried by the spillway and Locust
street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
WATTERSON HEARD FROM
How the Alleged Cleveland Letters Ex-
cited His Friends.

Louisville Oct. 24.-In answer to
the statement from Dayton, Ohio, by
the attorney for Broughton Brandon
burg, that Colonel Watterson an
nounced before the Cleveland letter
was published that it must be discred-
tied by any means" Mr.. Watterson
last night said to a representative of
the Associated Press:
Il never heard of the alleged
Cleveland letter until i read 1t in the
New York Times of Sunday. August
80. 1t impressed me at once as fraud
ulent. knew that Mr.. Cleveland had
never had any official dealings with
Judge Taft except in a single instance
involving a disagreement I knew that
Mr.. Cleveland was in no condition to
write such letter at or near the date
OF its alleged composition, and l
thought 1 knew enough of Mr.. Cleve-
lands working methods and habits of
mind, to know that he would put forth
nothing so important in such a way
The general text furnished matter for
farther discredit, since it treated of
events which had not come to pass,
and could not have been so confidently
anticipated by a man as painstaking
and careful as the late ex-president
Coming to town the next day
learned who the literary agent was;
that his screed had been refused as of
doubtful authenticity if not wholly
spurious. by the New York Herald and
the World, and that the very name of
Mr.. Cleveland's executor was mis-
called, 1t being Frank S. Hastings and
not Frederick S. Hastings, as it had
been printed.
Then I went directly to Carlisle
and said to him:
"'Mr. Secretary, Mr.. Cleveland's bit
terest enemy would welcome this and
could ask nothing worse to be used
against his memory. You know that
was not Mr.. Cleveland's enemy
though 1 never claimed to be his
friend-but you are his friend, his
nearest living friend. and you owe it
as a duty to the dead to run this down
and expose it,
"Mr. Carlisle thought with me that
Mr.. Cleveland had written no such
letter, and felt, though wholly with
drawn from politics, that it was his
duty to see justice done to his old
chiefs memory.
1.-The next day I left New York and
came home, where I have remained
ever since urging forward the investi-
cation, though apart from it. merely
advising the public of the facts"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
Gives Bond for Good BEHAVIOR.

London. Oct. 24.-The case of Will
liam James Thorne, social Democratic
member of parliament against whom
writ was issued last week. charging
that he had melted to a breach of the
peace by making a speech in which
he advised the unemployed to rush"
the baker shops rather than starve,
came up in the Bow street police
court today. Thorne was ordered by
the magistrate, to find sureties for his
good behavior for year, or to go to
Jail for six months. Peter r. Curran
and James O'Grady, fellow members
OF the house of commons, furnished
the bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
HASNEW CHANNEL
Biddle Greek DETECTED From
Former Course.
Now Flows Through Spillway
and Down Locust Street.
AN is INCH DRAIN.
Carries Ordinary Flow of Creek
West to Shumganunga.
John Rodgers Has Completed
Ingenious Engineering Feat.

The Biddle creek spillway, planned
by City Engineer Rodgers. to save the
east part of the city from the overflow
OF the creek during the rainy season.
is one of the most unique and ingenious
feats OF engineering to be found in any
municipality in this country.
The creek channel is filled up just
north Of Eighth street and its course
DETECTED from a northeasterly direc-
ton to the northwest. and is carried by
a cement channel twenty feet wide and
$50 feet long through the first alley
north of Eighth street to Locust street,
down which it is carried by a two-foot
drop clear to Fourth street where it
is emptied into Shunganunga creek
Locust street is to be paved with two
course brick and three-foot cement
cutters and the curbing will be higher
than usual
Beginning right under the bridge
over Eighth street a seven foot cement
wall eighteen inches thick at the base
and nine inches thick at the top has
been built up the sides of the banks
of the creek. This wall starts north
ward and curves to the west and
makes a half circle in a space Of
twenty feet north of the bridge. cut
ting directly across the old channel of
the creek and turning the water due
WEST llAlO the dliSN just nOTLn OF
Eighth street. The heighth of the wall
drops as it enters the alley until 1t
becomes only an unusually high ce-
ment curoing. Thus this alley is paved
with cement and has curbing its en-
tire length to Locust street.
Just at the point where the bend is
made is a lift or stair step eighteen in
ches high to give the east end of the
spillway the necessary elevation to car
ry the water west into Locust street In
the face of this step at the south side
is an opening eighteen inches square
which connects with an eighteen inch
pipe. This pipe runs directly west to
Shunganunga creek and will carry the
flow of Biddle creek during an ordi-
nary heavy rain without resort to the
spillway at all. which is designed for
use only during a very heavy rain or
flood time. The flow of the creek dur
ing the recent rains was cared for by
this drain pipe with ease. the water
only rising half way in the pipes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
MERGER IN EFFECT.
Rio Grande Road Files Mortgage for
$50 Millions

Denver, Colo, Oct. 24.-The merger
of all the lines of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad was made effective
yesterday by the filing of a mortgage
for $50 million. The mortgage Sc
cures new issue of bonds The
sum of $9O.OO0,0O0 will be used for re-
funding outstanding Indebtedness,
$25, 900, 900 to aid in the construc-
ton of the Western Pacific railroad.
now building from Salt Lake to the
Pacific coast. and the remainder for
extension of old and construction Of
new lines.
Coincident with the filing of the
mortgage came the denial of the re-
port that E H. Hartman would as
sumo control of the Western Pacific
road. The statement was made that
the Rio Grande owns two-thirds of
the Western Pacific stock and that 1t
would be impossible for Mr.. Hartman
to take over the Western Pacific
without at the same time purchasing
the Rio Grande.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-24
JUSTICE, NOT OFFICE.
What Laboring Man Wants, Says Mr..
GomperS.

New York, Oct. 24.-National Chair
man Mack made public the following
telegram from Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, received by Mr.. Bryan upon his
arrival in Jersey City last night:
Washington, D. c., Oct. %, 1908.
Hon. w. ]. Bryan, Jersey City, N. J.
Just saw President Roosevelt at
tack I deem it my duty to advise you
that 1 am prepared to answer. Some
newspapers are trying to embarrass
you by declaring that you will appoint
me a member of your cabinet If you
are elected president. You may say
that 1 have publicly, emphatically. and
frequently declared that under no cir
cumstances would 1 accept any public
office either elective or appointive, and
this declaration is irrevocable The
contest of labor is for justice and not
for office.
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
Mr. Mack said the Democratic COM
mittee was receiving reports that the
Republicans in West Virginia We're en-
ticing Democratic workmen out of the
state into Ohio on the promise of work
to keep them out of West Virginia un-
til after election.