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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18


the reinstatement of such members of
the 25th infantry as will make affida-
Wit to their guiltlessness of any COM
plicity in the Brownsville outbreak,
shall be passed, he will veto it, and,
furthermore, that If it shall be passed
over his veto he will give no attention
to the directions of congress. These
letters, it is said, have been seen by
many members of the senate.
Roosevelt, it seems. stands on the
claim that as the commander-in-chief
of the army and navy no action by
congress relative to the army and
navy can affect his prerogatives or
determine his action. He accords to
congress the power to make or refuse
appropriations for the support of the
army and navy, though only recently
he threatened to veto all public build
ing bills unless congress appropriated
the $4000O,000 he wanted for the four
battleships OF course, if Mr.. Roose-
welt can discharge three companies of
soldiers and refuse to reenlist them
even at the command of congress, ne
might discharge the whole army. II
he can discharge the whole. army, he
holds the livelihood and professional
career of every man in the army at
his mercy. 1t sounds very much like
a modern Cromwell come to the White
house.
And. again, there is the. mysterious
case of Colonel Stewart. This officer
was colonel in the coast artillery
service. For some reason not explain
ed he was suddenly transferred to a
deserted army post in the center OF
Arizona. a long way from any coast
or any artillery. There is no garrison
there, and he was allowed but one en-
listed man to look out for his comfort.
The post is &c miles across the desert
TO the nearest village. He was told
that if he would allow himself to be
retired his application would be &C
cepted. but as he had four years more
of active service he refused to retire
unless made brigadier general. IS he
will be if he sticks. On a protest from
his friends he was transferred to ST.
Augustine, Fla. He had not unpacked
his goods there before he was CURLY
ordered back to the Arizona desert.
Now the point of this incident is that
no public charge has been made
against Colonel Stewart Any officer
can be retired for cause-and it has
been shown that three companies of
plivateS can be dismissed upon mere
suspicion of cause. If the commander
ir-chief of the army and navy in the
White house has reason to believe that
something Colonel Stewart has done
lays him open to punishment, he can
demand court martial or court of
inquiry. Neither has been ordered.
though Senator Rayner of Maryland,
in a resolution recently, demanded
that the latter course be adopted.
What Stewards sins are no one knows.
But the president insists that as com
nander-in-cnief he has the right to in,
fiict discipline arbitrarily, without in.
Ivestigation and without publicity. upon
any one wearing the United States
| uniform.
Both the Brownsville case and the
Stewart case suggest that the mutual
admiration of the emperor of Ger
many and Theodore Roosevelt fol
each other is based upon a similar be
lief in their own infallibility and theiI
superiority to law made by the plain
ordinary, common people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Two Illustrations of Roosevelt's Ar.
bitrariness.

The existence of certain letters from
the president to three senators bear
ing upon the discharge of the negro
soldiers of the 25th infantry without
honor, and his action in banishing
Colonel William f.. Stewart TO an
abandoned military post in Arizona
have been subjects of no little com
ment. The president is said to have
written to Senator Smith of Michigan,
and to Senator Stewart of Vermont.
letters in which he declared that if
the Foraker bill, which provides for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

There are three branches to the
United States government: The ex-
ecutive, Theodore Roosevelt; the judi.
cial being the supreme court, and the
legislative being Joe Cannon of Dan
vile. Needless to say the executive
cannot execute and the judiciary exer-
else judicial power until the legisla.
tive legislates. Uncle Joe smokes on
OF course, there are large number OF
senators and other members of the
house, but they can't get past the Dan
vile sage, either.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Our Guarantee

porch. ard his heart bounded toward
her in mighty yearning.
1T is time now to tell me where you
have been these two long years, Elsie.
Don't you think so:"N
Elsie continued looking out on the
endless stretch of prairie lawn before
them.
Right here" she said at last, sigh
ing happily.
"Here?' questioned Gilbert in amaze
ment
Wei. in Texas" Elsie amended
teasingly.
please be serious, Elsie"
Il am, perfectly. For two years I've
been teaching in district school down
here"
I'm the name OF heaven, whyY de-
manded Gilbert
But Elsie would not let her hand be
forced. She must know first how the
game was to end
1T is my turn to ask a question"
she said. You have succeeded here
wonderfully. haven't you, Giibert?"s
As he looked down at her his smile
had so much pride and pathos in it
that Elsie longad to throw her arms
about him and to tell him that she
knew-she understood.
Pretty WE'LL" he admitted, ''for a
perverted young lawyer"
Don't" begged Elsie. 81 can't bear
to hear you speak like that
why, bless your sympathetic little
heart" exclaimed Gilbert. noticing the
tears in her eyes. I've no kick COM
ing over the law business. Am l not
healthy brute again? What else counts
beside that:''
The joy that leaped in Elsie's heart
as Gilbert spoke these words sent the
lor~fiyiug to her cheeks. That Gil
bert might not observe her agitation
she jumped up and pretended to be
training Il vagrant honeysuckle vine.
But if you are really well again
you'll go back TO law. won't you?"
Perhaps. some time" answered Gill
bert thoughtfully. He was pacing up
and down the porch now. You see,
I've been ont of it now for over two
| years, and it would take some time to
| get into the running again. Down
here I'm making my way far better
| than l hoped. | think there's big
chance fov success. And Pm we'll
here-gloriously WE'LL He stopped
| speaking a moment, then added, look
| ing wistfully into the little home and
lowering hi; voice: 1.-THE hardest thing
is having my sister go back. She's to
be married this fall, you know. She's
| been brick"
Emotion checked his further speech.
| The next moment, with little bro
| ken sob, Elsie was in his arms, aud
| the lovers gave themselves up to the
| ecstasy of their emotions
| Suddenly Gilbert held her at arms
length from him, nearly crushing her
slender hands in the agony of his re-
nunciation.
j mo, Elsie,'' he said hoarsely, Il can
not, I will not let you. l have no
4 right. 1t would be asking you to sac
! rifice too much for me. You would
die of ennui down here"
i But Elsie's eyes were shining; her
face was radiant with happiness.
i You forget, GEAR" she said gently,
''that I've made it my country. too
that i have no sacrifice to make. You
are my ALL Besides" she added
roguishly. .ft's leap year. and you've
no right to refuse me. Gilbert"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Too Small Game.

\ 90 Smali tame.
HE Is indignant. He is fairly boil
ing with rage
what is hurting him?"
"He has been accused of bribing a
city council"
HE wouldn't do a thing. like that,
eh?"
II should say not. He may have
when he was young and getting his
hand In. but of late years he hasn't
bribed anything less than a state legis-
latpTe."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Hunlor ans Philosophy
THE BUSY STATESMEN.
By DUNCAN N. SMITH

Nothing doing"
Recognize
The description?
Do the fateful words
Picture to your mind
Anything?
Second cousin to nothingf
Look sagain
And you will see
The whole thing
Just as natural
AS though all of the words
In the dictionary
Had been used
In making it plain.
Why, sure.
Now, you see,
It's congress.
Plain as day.
Any one with half an eye,
And that half shut,
Could recognize 1t.
Soon
1t will wake up,
And on the stump,
Demanding reelection,
II Will be as active
As a Panama mosquito
With all of the forces
or the United States
After him.
Previously
And subsequently
To election
1t doesn't look
Like the same bird
Before taking
The congressman
Is as active
As windmill
In cyclone.
With the office
Safely landed
For two years more
The sweet repose
Looks like four men sleeping al
at once.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The Manufacturers association is
about to organize business mems po-
litical party to take hand in the APP
preaching campaign. After the battle
is over, they will have more expert
ence and less money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The president and Mr.. Carnegie do
not seem to be able to get together on
a peace program, but the latter says,
when President Roosevelt is as old
as | am he will take a more roseate
view of coming peace"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
His Mistake.

II have eternally queered myself with
Jones'"
whats the matter?''
HE was wheeling the homeliest kid
1 ever saw, and l went up to him and
admired the baby and said how much
1t looked like him..
THAT ought to have pleased him
even if the kid was fright"
"But it belonged to one of the neigh.
bors."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Mr., Roosevelt finds a marked anal
ogy between views of senators who OPP
pose his policies and that maudlin
sympathy for murderers which mani
tests itself in various communities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The petition of all the democratic
members of congress and Mr.. Parker
OF South Dakota, republic. to Speaker
Cannon, asking for consideration of
the bill to put wood pulp and print
paper on the free list will receive
about as little attention as other re-
form measures.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The president has assured the Pros
perity association that nothing serious
will happen to the railroads before the
election. Mr.. Hartman may now pro-
coed to raise another $250,OOO corrup-
ton fund for the g. o. p. He and
Teddy are practical men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The republican leaders in congress
profess to be anxious to lay bare the
immaculate record of the republicans
on campaign fund contributions and
expenditures, but they refuse to allow
the bill for publicity to come to a vote,
so that inquisitive people might in.
spect the dough bags"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The republican members of congress
at their conference adopted the modi-
fled Vreeland emergency currency bill
by vote of 12S to 1G, but it is expect
ed TO emerge from the conference COM
mittee very much in the form of the
Objectionable Aldrich bill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

President Roosevelt says the real
malefactors of great wealth, have been
pilloried Which one, Mr.. President?
Even that practical man" Hartman
has not been indicted, let alone pillor-
led
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Regardless of how much republicans
may attempt to disguise the fact Ted
dy is on the front seat of the heavily
laden band wagon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Is the president independent of con-
gress in the command of the army and
navy? This is the newest issue in
politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

The real fight in the democratic con-
vention at Denver will be over the
abolition or retention of the two-thirds
rule.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

1t begins to look as if Uncle Joe had
been so busy protecting the print pa
per trust that he has neglected his
own little presidential boomlet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Not Exclusive.

Nellie (aged five)-Our family Is aw-
fully exclusive. Is yours? Bessie aged
four)-No. indeed! We haven't any
thing to be ashamed of.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Congressman Burton Harrison of
New York is being pushed. by his nu-
merous friends for the democratic
nomination for vice president
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Kodol is the one perfect digester.. 1t
contains all the digestive elements
not mere part of them. 1t relieves
Indigestion instantly, and the stomach
promptly RECEIVERS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

A New Jersey man. aged 81, had his
wife. aged Go, arrested for spanking
him. Another mollycoddle!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Monday, May 10, 1908.

Just because man doesn't get to
the front. does it prove that he is
back number?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

Competent, but Not Appreciated.
Experience IS a great teacher"
Eyes. But I've noticed one thing"
Wonderful! What is it?''
ut doesn't always draw a large sal
lry."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

slant It even begins in the mouth-by increas-
ing the flow of saliva
in the stomach out of it.
Eat what you need of the food that you want.
and take Kodol. Note the absence of pain and
gas. You know to certainty that the food u
digesting
Or you can see it digest food in a test tube.
under proper conditions. In these laboratory
tests. Kodol digests every whit of the food just
as it does in the stomach All other digesterS
digest but part of the food just they do in the
stomach
Don't employ halfway measures. for the stom-
ach needs complete relief Any undigested food
will through irritation, interfere with the cure
Nothing but Kodol does all that must be done. No
other digester can digest all foods.
Our Guarantee
We ask you to prove these statements at our
risk Buy dollar bottle of Kodol, and ask for
the signed guarantee If the results not
claimed, take the empty bottle back with the
warrant and your druggist will return your
money.
This offer applies to the large bottle only, and
to but one in family. This is sufficient to prove
how much Kodol means to you
If you need relief, won't you learn how to get it
on such fair offer that?
Kodol is prepared at the laboratories of E. G.
Dewitt & Co.. Chicago The $1.00 bottle contains
2k times as much as the soc bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Judged by His Thirst.

Brown appears to be very popular"
"Yes; he is a great social lion.'
''The night l was out with him
thought he acted more like social
camel"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Good Scheme.

81 have lost all my friends"
Advertise for them
"Just how?" r.
Spread rumor that you have in
herited fortune."N
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18

If lying is a
fine art, it is a
good thing for
the race that
few of us are
artists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
THE ARGUS.

sY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-18
Has to Keep at Il.
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The spring beauties do not all grow
In the woods and by the streams, but
the kind that doesn't is a delusion and
q snare.
The Monticellonian., 1908-11-05
TYPHOID LlNoERs is YEARS.
Recent Outbreak at Georgetown Is
Traced to Woman Mixer.

Washington.-One of the most re-
markable discoveries in medical his
tory in connection with the source of
the spread of typhoid fever has just
been brought to light as the result of
en- investigation made by officers of
the public health and marine hospital
service into a recent outbreak of that
disease in Georgetown, or West Wash
ington. ID. c..
The investigation disclosed the fact
that a woman mixer at a neighbor-
Ing dairy who had had typhoid fever
is years ago still throws OF in her
dejecta virile typhoid fever bacilli and
was the responsible agent in spread
ing the disease. With one exception
this is the first considerable outbreak
of typhoid fever in the United States
traced through virile to such a car
rier.
A peculiar phase in connection with
the case in the examination developed
sarge number of bacilli in the dejecta
" the woman. although she apparent.
The Monticellonian., 1908-11-05
Sell What the World Wants.

The cotton Journal wants farmers
to hold all surplus cotton above the
worlds needs. and discussing this
proposition, says:
The production of the south's cot
ton crop is being variously estimated
at the present time from 1850. GOO to
1850, 000 bales. The leading authori.
ties on consumption estimate that the
worlds need for American cotton dur.
ing the next twelve months will not
fall short OF l2.590. 900 bales Admit.
ting for arguments sake that in the
supplies of raw cotton available for
spinning purposes on the first day of
September there was carried over from
the past gear 500 000 bales OF Ameri.
can cotton. this would have to be ship
ped from the present growing crop
12.000 000 bales. If the present crop
would ultimately show a production of
1,5ee 000 bales more than actually re
quired for consumption. then the only
way to prevent too low prices is for
farmers to hold over this surplus them
selves. rather than throw it on the
market and depress the price of the
entire crop. There are in round num-
bers about I.500 600 head of pillow stock
engaged in the south. 1t would not be
a great hardship on the growers to
hold back one bale of cotton per pillow
this winter and cut down the acreage
next spring two acres to the pillow.
from which the 1.500.0 bales held
back from the crop of 1908 was pro-
dneed. Let us do little figuring and
see how it works out:
Twelve million bales at lie, or s55
per bale, will amount to $3.50, 600 600;
IS 10000 bales at sc, or s45 per bale,
will amount to s607 500, 600. This caleu.
lation shows a net loss of $50 600, Quo
and 1900. 900 bales of cotton thrown
in by marketing surplus of the crop
the actual needs of consumption will
show that it is much better to sell
eight bales for s445 than sacrifice
nine bales for $405 Each man
would not only get more from tie few
er bales sold, but would be in better
financial shape to hold the extra bale
per pillow.
The best way to put this plan into
operation is to market only onetwelfth
of the years production each month
and refuse to sell any more. This will
force the mills actively into the mark
ct. prices will advance to good levels
and the average price demanded for
what is sold TO the mills within the
next ten months will be secured. BY
next March the exact production of
this years crop will be positively
known, and under the system of slow
selling each grower will know just
what part of his crop should be carried
over, if any, and the acreage next
spring, correspondingly reduced.
The Monticellonian., 1908-11-05
The pun1rer-Prohlen1.

The bumper is one who sells his
grain right from the field or his po-
tatoes right from the patch or any 9TH
er crop without regard to market con-
ditions. The bumper therefore is a
problem. He ma. be compelled to sell
IN order to pay his bills. He may not
have storage room. He may be in
elined to believe that a bird in the
hand is worth two in a BUSH
Whatever MAJ be the cause of sell
ing. the fact that there are so many
who do sell upon a glutted market
makes it one of the most serious prob
lens before the American farmer to-
day
The bumper who sells on a glut-
ted market. or at time when con
sumers do not want it. not only suf
fers loss of price but all others who
do hold are more or less affected by
his acts. The grain or prodce gam
blers are always ready with cash to
buy up all they can get cheap. They
are fixed TO hold the stuff and sell on
rising market. In most cases they
can make the rise in price. The one
who holds his grain gets the benefit
of this rise but he would get better
prices had there been no early glut of
market.
Take for example the egg trade
Eggs used to sell for five cents a
dozen in summer and for 80 or 40
cents in winter The refrigerator en-
abled the merchants to hold eggs for
a long time and that equalized the
price because they were distributed
through the season as was the demand.
Thus 1t is when the farmer can hold
his grain, tobacco. or cotton and sell
along as the market tempts him to
sell. Instead of the middle-men get
ting all the profits, the producers get
their share.
But the bumper will not cease to
exist until the conditions that make
him a bumper cease to exist. There
has got to be some means of tiding
him over his great need of money
There must be cooperative storehouses
and elevators where the poor man can
put his grain and stuff He cannot af-
ford to build them at home. There
must be a cooperative system of mon
ey loans that Will enable him TO have
ready money and still hold his crops
in the cooperative warehouses. There
must be cooperation among the pro
dueers just as there is among the mid
dlemen who gamble on his products.
Whatever be the name of the crgan-
ization that brings this about most
effectually for your needs. get in line
and all pull together to get the gam
llers share and some OF the middle
mems profts-Successful Farming.
The Monticellonian., 1908-11-05
LIVED ON TEN CENTS A WEEK.
Bill Doolittle's System a Good One,
But Not Attractive.

''D'y'u find smoking hurts y'u?"
asks Hi Biddle. a Yankee lawyer. in
Willie Brooks story. The Solar Ma
chine" in Harper's.
1t probably doesn't do me any
good" said; but I'd have trouble
quitting it,"
NO, y'u wouldn't. Smoke this"
He took from his vest pocket the fell
low TO the stogey in his mouth and
tossed it across the table TO me. Ever
hear how Bill Doelittle lived on ten
cents a week."
/ confessed that Bits economies
had never been brought TO my atten-
ton.
WAL" said Biddle. he took dinner
with a friend on Sunday. an ate
enough to last i'm till Wednesday.
Then he bought ten cents with o
tripe. an he hated tripe so like thun-
der that it lasted i'm the rest o the
week These seegars work a good
deoI like that tripe. You take to
smokin' 'em, an y'u won't want more'n
one or two 4 day"
The Monticellonian., 1908-11-05
Farmers Educational
AND
COOPERATIVE Union
OF America
Good Country to Live in.

oOS0 SOotsiJ ~ GiFS w.
The German emperor and l
Within the self.same year were born,
Beneath the self-same sky,
Upon the selfsame morn:
A kaiser he Of high estate.
And | the usual chance Of fate.
His father was q prince: and mine
Why lust a farmer. that is all.
Stars still are stars, although some
shine,
And some roll hid in midnight's
pail
But argue. cavii all YOU can,
Ny sire was Just as good a man.
The German emperor and l
Eat. drink. and sleep in the self
same way;
For bread Is bread, and pie is pie.
And kings can eat but thrice a day,
And sleep viii only come to those
Whose mouths and stomachs are not
foes.
I rise at six and go 70 work,
And he at five and does the same.
We both have cares We cannot shirk
Mine are for loved ones; his fe-
fame.
He may live but cannot tell:
I'm sure | wish the Kaiser well.
have q wife, and so has he;
And yet. if pictures to not err,
As far as human sight can see.
Mine is by long odds twice as fair.
Say, would I trade those eyes dark
brown
Not for an empress and her crown.
And so the Empress and |
On this one point could ne'er agree;
Moreover. we will never try.
His frau suits him and mine suits
me,
And though his son one day may rule,
Mine stands Al in public school,
So let the Kaiser have his sway.
Bid kings and nations tumble down,
have my freedom and my say,
And fear no ruler and his crown;
For !, unknown to fame or war,
Live where each man Is emperor.
Boston Globe.