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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
8he Hrgus Daily Short Story
1.-The Care of Miss Hartnett. BY Madeline Lewis.
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guardian. AS matter of fact, no re-
port was ever mailed, as such action
might have resulted in financial loss to
the school. but the threat had always
proved very effective weapon.
1t came to be whispered about as the
regular quarter day drew nigh that
Miss Taylor had been saving up many
complaints against Miss Fanny and
that there must be many tears and
promises to keep a report from the
hands of the deacon.
Much curiosity and considerable anx-
iety We're felt. save by the delinquent
herself. She giggled and whistled and
bribed the grocers boy to smuggle in
gum, and when the fatal day at length
arrived she went smiling TO the sacri-
flee. Miss Taylor kept her on pins and
needles for three or four minutes to
let the scare strike in and then soberly
began:
Miss Hartnett, have received sew
eral complaints against you and have
grouped them under the term counts.
l will read them to you:
"'COunt 1. That on the Sd of Sep
TENDER, two days after your arrival
here, you tried to tear board off the
fence in order to look out. 1t Is believ-
ed, but not absolutely proved, that
there was a young man on the other
side of the fence at the time.
"'COunt .. That on the second week
/ of your arrival you made use of such
terms as "hully gee" come off" too
| thin" etc
"'COunt 3. That on the third week
you were chewing gum and eating car
amels.
"'Count 4. That while going to and
returning from the poStoffice in charge
of Miss Lee you refused to cast your
eyes down or look in another direction
on meeting various old and young men.
| "'COunt 5. That on certain night in
while you were supposed to be asleep
in bed you were as a matter of fact
sitting up in bed and singing about an
old darby whose name was Uncle Ned.
| "'COunt 6. That on one occasion you
mounted to the roof of your dormitory
by way of the stairs and scuttle and
waved your handkerchief at some
young men playing baseball.
"'Count Z. That 1t is believed, though
not proved. that an epistle of a senti-
mental nature was tied to a stone and
thrown over the fence and that it was
meant for you. and you received 1t and
boosted that Uncle Sam didn't run all
the postoffices in the country. There
are reasons for believing that on the
next night you threw n letter over in
response.
"'Count s. That at various times
you have argued that there was moth
ing wicked about the circus or the the
alter and that you have said that you
lpitied old maids; also that you have
S.ggled when my name and condition
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

reach S150.OOO.00O if the present regime
Of extravaganza continues. The Roose-
Welt administration closes its existence
in the midst of a financial panic which
has checked railroad building all
through the United States. which has
closed down factories in every city
where there is a factory. which is
throwing men out of employment all
over the land and which has subSti-
tuted for that full dinner pail of which
we heard so much when he was a can
didate for office the broken bank and
the worthless bank book.
Mr.. 5ryan's Washington Visit.
The presidents sensational message
seemed to be timed with some political
purpose 1t was published immediate
~ upon the heels of Governor Hughes
first public utterance as to his position
upon national affairs. An official of
the United States senate told me that
Mr.. Roosevelt had said in giving out
the message that Hughes would not
have the first page of the newspapers
that day. In fact. the conversation as
reported was that the president made
sneering reference to Governor
Hughes which it is not necessary here
to repeat. The message also followed
hard and fast upon the heels of Mr.
Bryan's visit to Washington. That
visit has done more to cement the Dem
ocratic party into one harmonious
whole than any recent event within
the party lines. Mr.. Bryan spent -four
or five days in Washington. He saw
| practically every public man of impor
| lance within the Democratic party
! His plea was continually for harmony
| and not one woryl was said to him
| which suggested that this year we
| would not have substantial harmony
| There was much talk prior to his visi
| in the newspapers, though as far as
| known it was not authentic TO the eff
| feet that there would be a systematic
eudeavor on the part of his friends t.
| persuade him to voluntarily withdraw
from the presidential race. Mr.. Bryan
was here, he met all the public mel
| of his party, both his avowed and hi!
| pretended friends, but no one suggest
ed his withdrawal, no one questioned
his present right to leadership. As b,
remarked good humoredly before leav
ing Washington. the committee which
was to request him to withdraw ha,
failed to materialize. even though h
had himself gone to seek for it.
One incident, however, of Mr. Bry
ans visit deserves, in view of tn
Roosevelt message, some special atten
ton here. The day before the presi
Dental message appeared New Yorl
newspaper printed with great promi
hence story to the effect that Nj
Bryan had declared that he. wOul
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

ey per capita on deposit in the banks
than have the people of the great state
of Illinois.
1T may be that some may resent
my comparing Kansas with Illinois. If
so, let me compare Maine with the
great state of Ohio. Maine, they say,
in 1855, when it adopted prohibition.
was the most drunken and poorest
state in the nation Ohio was a rich
state. In 80 years of prohibition Maine
has organized and has today more
banks and has $22,000,000 more on de-
post in those banks than has the
wide-open state of Ohio with six times
her population. Booze and bankruptcy
go hand in hand!
Let me bring you another statement
from Kansas They sometimes make
the statement that prohibition does
not prohibit in Kansas. that it doesn't
lessen drinking. | will read you "A
statement by the governor of the state
of Kansas quite recently and published
over his signature. Listen:
''Of the LOG counties in Kansas only
Il nave any paupers. Only % have
poorhouses. Thirty-five have their
jails absolutely empty. Thirty-ive have
no criminal cases pending upon the
dOckets of their courts
rs there county in Illinois that
can make statements similar to this
last? Kansas has the smallest nunr=
Der of paupers of all the states in the
union. Kansas spends more money for
education in proportion to population
| than any other state in the nation
poor old prohibition Kansas
"Listen.r One hundred and five news
papers are published in Kansas, of
which number only 20 will carry an
advertisement for liquor house Poor
old prohibition Kansas
i /. VANCE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

When Deacon Joab Whitman called
at Miss Taylor's select and highly NOR
al and refined school for girls ito ar
range for the attendance of his ward,
Fanny Hartnett, aged seventeen, his
attention was called to the fact that
the school buildings were surrounded
by a fence eleven feet high; also that
all windows above the first story were
frosted and impervious to masculine
gaze. Further, no pupil was allowed
outside the fence without chaperon.
Miss Taylor, who had barely turned
forty-seven and carried the idea that
it was twenty-seven instead, then went
on to speak of the lectures she gave
every Wednesday night, of the care
taken to keep newspapers and novels
from her pupils, of the early hours for
bed and of the fact that the only man
about the institution. except couple
of servants, was Professor Balch. who
had charge of the higher mathematics
and was an old bachelor of the most
incOrruptible principles.
Then she had number of questions
to ask about the young lady, and the
deacon had to admit that now and then
the latter giggled, she also chewed
gum, she. had been caught reading
novels, she had had a beau, and she
loved to go to a circus.
'In fact" said Miss Taylor, 'she Is
what you would call flip?
"Y-e-s, guess so. Not too flip. but
a little flip"
Il see. Well, while this is not re-
fOrmatory, we do now and then take
In pupil in order to cure her of flip
pancy. The fee is little larger, but
we warrant a perfect cure" .
The deacon was willing to pay lit
tie more and the financial end was
soon settled. A week later the new
pupil arrived. Perhaps Miss Fanny
was flip. At least, she was in good
health and spirits, inclined to look OF
the bright side, and she could sins
some and whistle more. In the village
where she had been brought up she
was considered something of a tom
boy, but the phrase was not used t
her detriment.
She was given to understand by Mis-!
Taylor what was what and sent to he
dormitory. She offered no protest o.
argument, but from the way she Sc
her jaw and compressed her lips Mis-
Taylor anticipated rebellion at no dis
tant date.
One of her methods of compellin;
the young ladies to walk the chall
line was quarterly reports. Ever!
three months each of the girls wa:
called into the private lecture room
and her derelictiOns announced to he
and recorded on blank.
1t depended upon that girl to max
immediate Improvement, or the repOr
would be mailed away to, father o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE IS HELD A BID FOR THIRD Term

what every intelligent observer not
blinded by partisanship knew at that
time-that the silver cry was but the
expression of deeper humanitarian
purpose: that it was the expression of
revolt against the growing power of
what today Mr.. Roosevelt is pleased to
describe, and properly so, as predatory
wealth. 1t was the cutlery of Il strug
Cling people, and about the issue it
named they rallied because they saw
the wealthy malefactorS" and the rich
criminals whom Mr.. Roosevelt now de-
nounces aligned against it, He then
stood with the men WHOM he now de-
nOunces. His dcnunciation today of
these men is no more bitter than was
his denunciatiOn in public and in pri-
vate in the campaign of 1896 of the
men who were then attempting to
drive them out of power. He has prof
tied by long silence, and one wonders
whether he hopes now to profit by
sudden speech.
Yet whatever one may think OF
Roosevelt. the keencst. shrcwdest pol
itician the country has ever known, o.
| whatever construction may be put
| upon his motives for sending this mes
sage at this critical moment, the fact
remains that all he said was true; that
| his demands for legislation in behalf of
| the masses of the people. his insistence
that action should he taken to bring
wealthy malefactors to justice, his at
| tack on government by injunction, his
| urgency for the correction of the con-
stitutional weaknesses of the employ
ers' liability law, his request for an ap-
| praisement of the physical properties
of the railroads of the United States
Indeed. all his concrete propositions
are to be applauded as they were APP
plauded by the Democrats only in the
house and senate
Preaching and Performance.
But, accepting the righteousness and
che business of his preachments. care
fJl student of public affairs will look
back TO discover what have been his
| performances. He has had absolute
| control of the government of the Unit
ed States for almost eight years. He
has welded the big stick and express
ed himself In a big voice. but thus ia:
he has accomplished nothing or next to
nothing for the masses of the people
He helped to settle the coal strike. and
the settlement has not profited the
miners little. though it has profited
the operators and coal railroads enor
mously. No step toward the reduction
of tariff taxation has been taken under
his strenuous administration. and none
is promised. Under no president have
the expenditures of the country beer
so great proprotionally as under his
and today the treasury department
faces a deficit already estimated a
'$S5,000,0 900 and whieh.will undoubtedl!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

addresses but all the same the orator
hit the nail squarely on the head.
When the man or men who, under
the forms of law, tariff law or laws
secured to permit kid glove stealing,
takes that which is not "his'n," the
public demands that he go to prison
The quotation original or amended
strikes popular fancy. 1t directs to
better private and public conduct. 1t
triteIy tells of the determination of the
people to have national house-clean
ing, to insist upon honester conditions
not only in all public stations, but fol-
all who do business with the people
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
Special Washington Correspondence Of
The Argus.)


The Argus)
OF course the message of the presi-
dent to both houses of congress created
sensation in Washington. OStensibly
urging new legislation on the employ
erS' liability law which was recently
declared unconstitutional. but practi
cally putting forth political pro
gramme which makes the Chicago
platform of 1896 look like a conServa
tive document. it rOuSes some wonder
in the minds of those who do not for
get that he should ever have said that
his opinion of the Oklahoma constitu
ton was unfit for publication. Per
hapS the lesson which Mr.. Roosevelt
learned by the Oklahoma election has
led him somewhat to change his views
as to what the people of the country
desire. At any rate this latest message
of his OutdoeS Oklahoma and found its
most joyous champion in the person of
Hon. Jeff Davis of Arkansas. who leap
ed into the arena with an instant de
mand that 10000 extra copies of the
message should be printed for general
the btSI lptllOtldtlC uDt-
trine that had ever emanated from the
White House. Probably Senator Davis
was right. We haven't had much Dem
Ocratic doctrine from the White House
since the first days of Mr.. Cleveland's
first term. Some of the Republicans
are now wondering whether Mr.. Roose-
welt should be nominated at Chicago or
nj M III flN,,f tINs
was a bid for nominate ton for u third
term and that what he sought by Ii
was Democratic support.
The Politics of the Message.
1t is true enough that most of what
Mr.. Roosevelt said in his message has
been expressed at various times, but
in much more temperate language, in
| cratic leaders. Much of what he said
might well go into a Democratic cam.
paign text book provided the charac
| teristically abusive expressions were
left out. The Democratic party began
| in 1896 its fight against exactly the
same forces of predatory wealth thai
Mr. Roosevelt has thus belatedly dis
CoNereu. III lHdt year he was dS pil
terly hostile to the Democratic party
and to all it stood for as today he is
| delighted to take its doctrine to his
| bosom. l remember well a colloquy
which 1 had with him, which he has
never denied, in which he bitterly at
tackled such men as Altgeld and Till
man and sneered at Bryan because Of
the views they then held. In that con
versation 1 urged upon Mr.. Roosevelt
who was then police commissioner il
New York, my belief that the silvel
movement meant something of fa
greater Importance than the mere FREE
coinage of silver at IL to 1. l told hin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
Morgan VS. Labor.

j. Pierpont Morgan, the New York
financier, was interviewed few days
ago by Alexander Ular the editor of
LIE Petit journal of Paris, where Mr..
Morgan was at the time. He told the
editor of the Paris newspaper that
labor is to learn that it cannot control
industry, but must accept wages that
will make honest and profitable bust
ness prosperous. He declares labor
declarations will be powerless to pre-
vent wage reduction because work is
partly stopped-thinks the present de-
preston is very useful and does not
care to see it relieved just now. The
editor suggested that the wage worker
might strike, to which Morgan re-
Piled:
Strike! They (the workingmen)
have got no jobs now. There are no
stocks on hand, you know. We do not
want to take up work again now.
so what can they do? They will
have to submit or they will starve
The question is to be settled They
are to learn that they cannot control
industry.
1--WE want wages that will make
honest and profitable business posi-
BILE"
Mr.. Morgan may find that he is not
the whole push" If he undertakes tc
crush the wage workers. he will find
he has bigger job than he imagined
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

Within one year of century ago
today the immortal Lincoln was born,
with each succeeding year since his
tragic death has the reverential love
o. his name deepened in the hearts
of the American people. His great
heartedneSs and his tenderness of ma.
ture, his purity and plain honesty, and
his charity for all mankind, no less than
his craftsmanship, contributed to the
firm establishment of his fame among
the greatest men who ever lived.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
Campaign Expenses.

Replying to the New York World S
last rhodomOntade against Bryan,
charging that the silver kings" of the
west financed his campaign in 1896. the
Atlanta Constitution calls for light
on the Parker campaign. which will
disclose "the names of the wealthy
New York contributors to Judge Par.
ker's fund the men who stood spon
sor for his candidacy and whose ''laud
able efforts the World so enthusiast
ically commended and supported
The Mobile Register concludes that
the World, because of its position in
the last campaign ''is in bad place
to publish strictly authentic but tot
tally unverified reports regarding the
Bryan campaigns"
1t might further be said that the en-
tire contributions to the Bryan natiOna
campaign of 1S9G-frOm all sources
was less than 100000. and much Of
this sum was contributed by the plain
people of little wealth, but great pat
riotism. 1t is not probable that the
mine owners of the far west consist
ing of scores of wealthy men. gave
more than one-third of the total con
tributions.
The republican national committee
in the campaign of 1896 is alleged tC
have expended from 100000 t.
100000.
In comparison with this vast sum
the democratic expenditures were ex
tremely modest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

in life have been discussed. Further,
that you have said that you would be
married before you were twenty-one.
Further, once more, that you have re-
ferred to Professor Balch as lopshoul-
dered and squint eyed
There are the respective counts,
Miss Hartnett, just as they have been
prepared to go to your guardian, and
now you may tell me what you have
TO say in Offset-that is, L don't suppose
you have anything to say"
"Oh, yes, have." replied Miss Fan
ny as she drew paper from her peck
ct. Yes, l have something to say, and
| have also grouped it under the term
counts. l will read them, if you
please:
Count 1. That upon my arrival at
the school l was told of about 500
things | mustn't do.
Count .. That / was sent to q
dormitory about as bare and poverty
stricken as our old garnet at home.
Count 3. That l have had about
half enough to eat up to date and
want to get out and steal raw turnips.
Count 4. That one evening | got
out into the yard, and while shopping
! around / passed Miss Taylor's room
and looked into the window and saw
Professor Balch holding her hand in
one of his and patting it with the
| other.
"'Count ). That the night in Octo-
Der when 1t blew such q gale a lot of
papers were blown from the profess
Or'S window One of these he didn't
| recover from the yard next morning
was Il half sheet on which he had writ
ten two verses of poetry to Angelina
eyes. There is only one Angelina con.
nected with this secluded school, and
| she is hot a teacher.
"'Count 6. That we don't have blan
| kets enough on the beds to keep us
warm.
"'Count Z. That the only three girls
who get sweet cake are the three who
keep asking the principal when hel
| twenty-seventh birthday will arrive.
count 8. That this secluded anG
highly moral and refined prison 70,
| girls -
"Just one moment, Miss Hartnett,'
interrupted Miss Taylor in her sweet
est tones. II think we are at cross
purposes"
Yes, ma'am."
"When l come to look again Mt the
record l read you it appears to appl!
to Miss Harker instead of Hartnett
| Similarity of names, you see.''
Yes, ma'am"
"And when you come to look agair
at your record
at seems to be couple of verse
of poetry that l scrubbed off las
night l hope it is not against TIL
rules to write poetry, ma'am?"
well, no. not If you submit it to tn
teacher You may leave this, if yo1
will. and l will look it over and see
your meter Is correct. You may &C
my dear Please tell Miss Vaughn t
step in here 1 must tell her that sh
doesn't seem to have the interest ;
her studies to be expected of her"
Il When fortune favors, the world Ii
ivors.-German Proverb.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

That staid old republican organ, the
Globe-Democrat of st. Louis, says: "a
policy that tends to throw the honest
and industrious, out of employment
cannot be accepted as the only way
in which to vindicate the necessity of
honesty among men, Nor can the
policy of throwing the honest and in
dustrious out of employment for the
purpose of frightening those who
would vindicate the necessity of hon
esty among men be freely com
mended
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

1t is interesting to note that the
negro vote is the balance of power
in Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Mon
tana, Oregon and Washington and that
If it had been cast solidly democratic
four years ago, these states would
have been democratic rather than re
publican. Should the negro break away
from republcanism, Ohio, New Jersey
and Nebraska would at once become
doubtful states.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
. Every Day Truths.

idents recent message, Representa-
tive Slayden of Texas, quoted the fol
lowing sugges i've if not classic verse:
"A man who takes what isn't his'n
Ought to bust and go to prison"
The crude editor of the New York
Tribune, while indorsing the Texans
conclusion declares the quotation runs
thus:
Him what hooks what isn't his'n.
When he's cotched'll go TO prison.
Accuracy may be essential in public
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

DR.. Detchons Relief for Rheuma
tism and neuralgia radically cures in
one to three days. It's action upon the
system is remarkable and mysterious
1t removes at once the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. rs cents
and 81. Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901
Second avenue, Rock Island; Gus
Schlegel e Son, 20 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
Skin Disease of 20 Years STANDING
Cured.

! want you to know how much
Chamberlain's Salye has done for me.
1t has cured my face of skin disease
of almost 20 years standing. | have
been treated by several as smart ply
sicians as we have in this country and
they did me no good. but two boxes
of this salve have cured me.-Mrs. Fan
ME Griffin, Troy. Ala. Chamberlain's
Salve is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

The Illinois congressman have to
be for Cannon for president. but some
of them are having a hard time squar-
ing their constituents into the belief
that Uncle Joe is the favorite son and
the whole thing in Illinois. If the
Taft boom gets to the bandwagon
stage. it will be difficult to keep the
Illinoisians from vaulting into the We
hicIe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

a news dispatch says that Harry
Thaw has found a warm welcome in
the ward i'll which he is incarcerated
and the inmates have chosen him
their chief. 1t beats all how honor
is sometimes thrust upon poor fel
bats around in tie belfry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

The Woodmen camps of the city
have adopted a praiseworthy and a
public spirited undertaking in reviv-
ing the convention hall project. 1t is
an institution of which Rock Island is
greatly in need.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12

The big manufacturers of the
United States were in Washington a
few days ago. ostensibly for tariff re-
vision. but they were anxious to put it
off for while by advocating the COM
mission route