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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
She Hrgus Daily Short Story
Fate and the Seashe11-By Ina Wright Hanson
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Literary

boats and pleasure yacht, its white
sails cleaning silver in the sun. Near
er the shore showed the dark hulk of
the buoy. and nearer still the sea birds
diving and dipping
All this was on the sea. On the sand
was lone figure. Il woman in a faded
green dress, its skirts held ungraceful-
ly up from the kelp as she walked the
damp sands gathering seashells.
Patricia. watching her drearily. saw
her pick up one. look at ii carefully.
then put it in her jacket pocket The
next she threw away. perhaps because
of flaw or break or lack of luster
Dreaming" said voice very pleas
ant to Patricia's ears, and Wentworth
sat down beside her
1t only made it the harder to have
him kind to her. Did crumb ever do
n particle of good when one was starry
ing for the whole loaf? Poor Patricia
Still, as he was there. and as he was
not saying anything more, she must
| make talk. Any kind of talk was bet
ter than silence. SO she spoke of what
she had been thinking
''Yonder is fate" She pointed to the
shell gatherer. Choosing. rejecting;
blessing. cursing. oh, poor little thrown
away shellst'
She had tried to make her words
sound light. but the man heard the note
of pain. He bent toward her. and his
voice was very kind.
Il have known YOU q year." he said
| land never saw you morbid before
But you are morbid now. You are
tired. The excitement this morning
was too much for you
Yes she acknowledged. Il was o.
| the pleasure pier wheu Jeanette wes
down. 1 had a wild desire to plunge in
and save her and have my picture IL
| the paper afterward l wanted to bt
the star of the matinee, you see. an(
this creation of board and pad woult
not let me-
She smiled whimsically down at til,
crutch and up at him. She was gla,
he could not read her thoughts. Sh,
would be very gay-if he did not sta.
too long
Perhaps Wentworth could not reat
her thoughts, but he could see that he
eyes were tired, and he looked at then
and at theesweet. Sensitive mouth I,
the way that a lover looks.
i Patricia, / know Of a golden cour
try In which lives golden lady-no
golden haired, for her hair is dark a
yours. but having heart of gold and
: spirit of tried gold Her eyes are darl
too-let me see how dark. PATRICIA
Il The caress In his topes made he
tremble. He meant only TO be kind 4
, he could have known the anguish bu
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Copyrighted, 1908,

Just before the lunch hour there had
been great excitement around the ca
sine at Santa Cruz. Jeanette Wash
burn had been last of the bathers TO
leave the surf and in her usual reck-
less manner had started to swim TO
the raft after she was tired enough TO
leave the water. She made the raft all
right, but halfway back she went I'M
der.
Patricia, on the pleasure pier, had
given the alarm, and two men put out
in Il boat. Before they bore their drip
ping harden up the pier steps Il crowd
had gathered from all directions. The
beach policeman had come running to
press them back and allow the men to
hurry through with the half drowned
girl.
Then the crowd dispersed. except
Patricia. who had given the alarm.
When one walks always with crutch
it is better not to walk in Il crowd So
she waited till the pier was deserted
and she had found that Jeanette
would recover. Then she went home.
Usually Patricias slow steps We're
not wearisome to her, for the beauty
of the hills kept her company. the
| flowers along the way We're her friends.
and the voice of the ocean said to her
| many things, but today she saw neither
| hills nor flowers. and she heard moth
| ing but her own hearts cry, Ernest
Wentworth loves Jeannetter'
She had heard it yesterday, and a
| glimpse of his white face in the crowd
| today confirmed the rumor that he
| was going to marry Jeanette Wash
burn. She had said it over and over In
the night watches. waging war with
be ashamed for giving its love un
| asked
| When she saw Jeanette near tC
drowning she was wild to plunge in
and swim out to her and save her, and
not for Jeannette's own sake.
Even in her impulse she recognized
4 her motive-not for Jeannette's sake
premest sacrifice of her unrequitet
love, and she would do heroic deei
because of it. But even this was de
MED her.
Everything is denied cripple" sh'
thought with unwonted bitterness a
she reached her fathers gate. IF
were like other girls he might hav'
chosen me-
Late in the afternoon, in the brie
hours between dinner and the gay lif
of the evening. when she knew the ca
sino would be almost deserted, sh
4 went back TO sit on the steps and loo
silently seward.
j Away to the horizon were fshin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Humor me Philosophy
By DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
A SORE AFFLIcTIoN.

OF all the bores that try mems souls
And cause them to repeat
Some very wrong and naughty words
With vigor and much heat
The one big bore that takes the prize
And matches any two
Is. If you are a judge of bores,
The one that troubles you.
You can be quite resigned to those
Who meet you once a year
And pour for one brief afternoon
Their troubles in your ear.
It's those who follow you about
And every moment spoil
With stupid, stale and pointless wit
Who should be boiled in oil.
You know the kind-the one who
thinks
OF you as his one friend.
Who always wants to hang around
His leisure time to spend,
And who you wish you could suppress
Or blot him from the view,
Yet cannot quite insult because
He makes so much of you.
Like dripping of a constant rain
That wears away brick
The steady bore gets on your nerves
And reaches to the quick.
Though you may hint about a gun
That's lying on the shelf
Or grow sarcastic when he calls,
He VIII not chase himself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
GREAT PHOSPHATE BEDS.
latest Find on Pacific island Sur.
passes Any Vet Discovered.

passes Any Vet Discovered.
Nothing in recent years has contrib
uted so much to increase the economic
Importance to the ocean world as the
discovery here and there of great beds
of phosphates. These series Of new
finds among the islands began about
welve years ago. when British sur
vey vessel. dredging in the tndiap
ocean. brought from the depths piece
If phosphate that was traced 70 the
habited rock where some hundreds Of
men now find employment IN the phos-
Dhate works
Then came even more noteworthy
surprises Large beds Of phosphate
were found on Ocean island, over
which no country had taken the trou-
bic to raise its flag; on the German
island of Nauru, west of the Gilberts.
and on Maiden island British rock
FAR south of the island of Hawaii.
All these little islands had been I'M
considered trifies In the ocean world.
WI nv" AWAY '>hip "a ''N
nff their shores and the hustle of j
mining camp on their small surfaces.
The latest find surpasses everything
yet discovered, says the New York
Sun. Makatea, only four and half
miles long and one and a half miles
wide. is just now the most talked of
bit of land in the eastern Pacific. u
stands in the Paumotu group. about
l2O miles northwest of Tahiti. The
engineers who have been studying its
phosphate beds estimate that it con-
tains at least 30,OO0,00O tons of the
richest of phosphates. the analyses
revealing from 65 to So and even 80
per cent of pure phosphate. The island
rises to go feet above the sea, has Nc
lagoon. and the work of prospecting
| for more beds is not yet completed
Preparations are now being made at
an expense of 100000 to extract the
deposits at the rate of 100000 tons a
year.
Phosphates have also been found on
Niau and some other atollS of this
archipelago. Such discoveries of great
natural wealth in the Pacific are GER
| tain to stimulate more thorough eff
| forts to ascertain the extent. of the
natural wealth which the myriad is
lands have to offer the world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

~leveland's running mates were all
like himself, great democrats-Thomas
A. Hendricks of Indiana, A. G. Thur
man of Ohio, and A. E. Stevenson of
Illinois. OF these the last named
alone survives. The living former
members of President Cleveland's
cabinets are: Secretary of State Rich
ard Olney, Secretaries of the Treasury
John G. Carlisle and Charles S. Fair
child, Secretaries of the Interior D.
r. Francis, Hoke Smith and w F.
Villas Attorney General Judson Har-
mon, Postmaster General Don NJ Dick
inson, Detroit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

while While weighing each appli-
cant's qualifications for rapid assim.-
lative reading he inquired carefully
into his mathematical requirements.
He finally chose the man who was
most skillful at untangling arithmetical
problems ION the surface that seems
an unnecessary accomplishment in this
case" he said, but experience has
taught me that anybody who is expert
in figures can read any kind of litera-
ture put before him with greater ac-
curacy and speed than the person lack
ing in mathematical acumen." - New
York Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

The Peaceful Bill" and Sunny
Jim" clubs which republicans expect
to organize should be reversed. They
ought to be Sonny Bill and Peace
full Jim" Taft certainly stands in the
same relation to Roosevelt that a cal
low youth stands TO his father, while
Sherman must be man of peace as it
has never been told that he was a
member of the rough rider band, and
as he has been appointed to no high
Office it must be so.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Yates and Chicago Papers.

Former Governor Yates is raving
mad at some of the Chicago papers
some of them, not all. The reason for
1.-THE distinction is that some of them
are opposing him, not all
Among those most aggressive in an.
|tagonizing "the man of the hour, y
Richard Yates, are the Chicago Tri
bune. the Chicago Record-Herald, and
the Chicago Daily News Dick has
invited them to ''go the limit" in op.
posing him by calling all three OF
those newspapers liars" and that's
the word he used in his red hot speech
in the Chicago Coliseum, Monday
might.
1t was a red hot speech of course
because the temperature in the hall
was about 100-F.
Dicks most remarkable character
istic is his gameness. He knew be
fore he called those three big news
papers liars" to their teeth, that they
would get after him all the harder
They'll set upon him their corps OF
brilliant political writer's who have the
faculty of coloring articles until they
have all the hues of the rainbow. Car
toOnists have already started after him
under strict orders to ''hand Dick the
| limit" The Tribune in its
first page cartoon caricatured Richard
as cheap artist who was trying tC
paint himself as the MAN of the
Hour" Nearby him stood a sickly
looking cur dog labeled His Record. /,
The Record-Herald cartoonist hit Dicl
hard on the Illinois Central railroad
pass proposition, enlarging upon the
story that the l. c. road sent passes
| by the wholesale down the state tC
take Yates boosters TO the Chicago
| meeting. And both of those newspa
pers yesterday devoted first page
leads" to making Yates look as ride
uious as possible.
Yates comes right back at them by
shouting liar" louder than before. and
declaring that from now on until the
primaries there will mot be one wore
of truth about him in those papers"
So, anything that appears IN those
papers henceforth about Yates is /;
''lie" whether it is the truth or not.
Yates attack upon the trio of pa
pers followed the publication of tn,
railroad pass story. which those paper.
insist is true. giving the names o
some of the men holding the |. c
irasses.
Thus an interesting gubernationa
tsituation is presented. Yates say!
Deneen is unworthy of reelection. De
neen attacks the Yates administration
and says Yates ought not TO be gov
ernor again. Some republican papers
ldeclare Yates is unworthy and othe
republican papers declare Deneen, i
unworthy
| Therefore, granting that what Yate
says about Deneen is true, and tina
what Deneen says about Yates is true
and that what the republican paper
say in antagonism to both Yates an
Deneen is true, neither of those can
didates deserves reelection.
Republicans are giving conclusiv
proof that Illinois should spurn bot
Yates and Deneen and elect a demo
cratic governor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

Fave required no political engineering
70 working over by man.
The republican party is as power
less to stem the current of wrong and
injurious legislation as it is to bring
fertility to<the sandy deserts of Africa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Aimed at Her.

"Here is doctor who says that the
drunkard is a victim of auto intoxica-
ton
That's right; blame it on the auto"
said Mrs. Coaxhard, who was trying to
induce her husband to buy her one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
The Good Old

The Good Old
When summer comes
With weather hot
The skeeter huns
And lays a plot.
The chap astute
Presents his bill.
With hot salute.
And drinks his fill.
When summer has
At last arove
Such good things as
The heating stove
We shun and to
The firemen shout
To come and put
The summer out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

President Roosevelt gave up his trip
to New London to attend the college
event in order to pay tribute to a
former executive. How about Taft
who aspires to the same high office?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

Quincy Herald: Cannon was dane
ing attendance on the committee meet
ings last week at Chicago. Judging
by the way he was fired it must OF
been a Cannon ball.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

The collapse of Governor Cummins
and the iowa idea" fills The hearts of
the Protective Tariff league with Joy
not unspeakable-but very loudly ex.
pressed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

A crouch costs more than you spent
the night before acquiring It, and that's
always plenty In itself.
The person who really expects to be
disappointed isn't.
You need to have plenty of friends If
you have perpetual crouch, and then
you can annoy them III relays.
The man with rollers isn't the only
fellow on skate.
Why is it that last seasons hat is
always so horribly unbecoming 10 my
lady?
There are plenty of people who know
how to earn an honest dollar who hate
like the mischief to do It.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

Grover Cleveland, the citizen-presi-
dent. is to be buried at the close of
the day with the solemn simplicity
becoming the great Office he held
and the man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
The Mathematical Mind.

A literary worker who wished to do
a large amount of reading by proxy
advertised for an assistant capable of
dfgesting the contentssof tremendous
quantity Of books in a very shor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Not Their Doinqs.

Il hear the president is going to
shoot big game in Africa"
Has he been invited?"
"Well not by the game"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Beer That L. Beer.

II you want to drink good beer. order
the Davenport Mating company's pale
export. Delivered anywhere in Rock
Island. Both phones, north 16s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

Nominations by direct long distance
telephone beat direct nominations by
the people these days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
reNsS YOUR

Keeping up appearances is undoubt-
edly necessary until disappearance
becomes Imperative.
He Is great man who can always
please woman and himself at the
same time.
sunburn would be dreadfully painful
If it were not fashionable.
Don't feel SO bad when the other fell
low gets what you want: It makes hir,
feel SO good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

When the republican nomination for
governor is made, will all the republi-
cans ratify?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Tribute to Her Skill.

"The disguise
W a S perfect.
His clio S e S t
friends didn't
know him."
How did he
make up?"
Had a lady
barber cut his
hair. T"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26
Thinks II Saved His Life.

Lester M. Nelson of Naples, Maine,
says in recent letter: 81 have used
DR.. Kings New Discovery many years,
for coughs and colds, and | think it
saved my life. l have found it re-
liable remedy for throat and lung COM
plants, and would no more be without
a bottle than l would be without
food" For nearly 40 years New Dis
covery has stood at the head of throat
and lung remedies. AS a preventive
of pneumonia and healer of weak
lungs it has no equal. Sold under
guarantee at all druggists. so cents
and 81. Trial bottle free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-26

1t adds spice to dreary life, encour-
ages the human heart, lifts the sou,
happiness. That's what HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea does. So cents,
Tea or Tablets. Harper House phar-
Macy 49,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-13

ron ot q rlomeut above Ir GRIMM $ coffee cul'
Aroused by the remark Mr. GRIMM glanced
round Oh thank YOU. be apologlzed hastily
didn't near YOU AT first Thank YOU
The newcomer nodded. smiled. and passed on
taking seat two or three tables down
Apparently TINS tr1tilng courtesy had broken the
spell OF reverie. for Mr.. Grimm squared round 70
the table again drew his coffee cup toward hn ana
dropped il the single lump OF sugar. Tie idlE stirred
II Tor moment as his ewes turned again toward the
open window. then be lifted the TINY cup ana
enptled II
Again he SAT rnotionless for long time. and thrice
the newcomer only few feet away glanced al nm
NARROWLY And now. Il seemed. peculiar dToWS-
ness was overtaking Mr.. Grimm. Once he caug nj
himself holding and raised his head with a jerk
Then ne noticed that the arc lights II the street
were wabbing curlously. and fell 70 wondering
sleepilv Iust why there should be a Eght-a single
light-in the apeZ of the Capitol dome. lhIfSs
around HIM grew hay. vague. unreal. and then. as
if suddenly realizing that something was the matter
with hin Mr. Grimm came 10 his 1eet-
H.. took one step forward into the space between
the tables. reeled. attempted 10 steady himself pE
holding on chair then everything gre" black
about him and ne pitched forward on the floor
His face was dead white his fingers moved little
nervousiy weakly then they were still
Several persons rose at the sound OF the falling
body and the newcomer hurried toward Mr. GRIMM
His coat sleeve caught the empty derntasse as ne
stopped and swept II OF 70 the floor where II was
shattered. The head waiter and another came pei
nell and the diners that had risen came more slowly
What the natter" painted the head waiter II
a panic.
Grimm $ head On his knee and Ticking water III ms
face Nothing serious. / fancy. he answered
shortly He IS subject to these little attacks.
What are they, Who Is he.
The stranger tore AT Mr. Grimm collar till
c172e loose IL his hands then fell chatting the still
hands He IS d Mr. Grimm. a Government en-
ployee / know hmm he answered again. 1
imagine nothing more serious than little attack
If indigestion
offers of assistance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-13
" There Is Only One
Course. SAID My Lady
Destroy the Compact

seat beside him the -abtv touched his horse with
a whip and the vehicle fell into the endless moving
line
WTHEN the light OF returning consciousness finally
w pierced the black lethargy that enshrouded
him. Mr. Grimm mind was chaos OF Vagrant
absurd fantasies then slowly. slowly realization
struggled back to its own. and he came to know
things First was the knowledge that ne was lying
flat on his back a couch It seemed then that ne
in the dark,-an utter ablect darkness And
finally came an overwhelming sense OF silence.
For awhile he lay moronless. with not even the
movement of an eVelaSh indicate consciousness,
wrapped in delicious languOr Gradually this
passed and the feeble utter of his heart into
a steady rhvthmic beat The keen brain
awakening. he was beginning TO remember What
had happened He knew only that III some manner
a drug had been administered TO hun 4 bitter dose
tasting Of opium: that speechessly he had fought
against 1t that he had risen from the table in the
restaurant and that he had fallen All the rest was
blank
With ewes still closed and nerveless hands inert
at his sides he listened while ne turned the situation
over IN speculative mood The waiter mad admins
tered the drug OF course unless unless It had been
the courteous stranger who had replaced the news
-,.rar on the table That thought opened fields
of conjecture Mr. Grimm had no recollection OF
ever having seen him before and ne had pad only
the enforced attention OF Pollteness to nm. And
why had the drug been administered Naguely m
coherently Mr. Grimm imagined that IN some way II
had 10 do with the great international plot winch ne
had blocked momentarlly "a few days DetoTe.-the
alliance Of the Latin races OF the world against me
kngHSn speaking t1tt9- tilS t'' -
Lady of Mystery "a~ So delicate ana vital an III
strlment.
Wher. was he Conjecture stopped there. kYl-
IDENTITY ne was where the courteous man III the res
+arr.trt wanted HIM to be \ prisoner Probably
In danger. Long careful attention to detail work
in the Secret Service OF his country had convinced
Mr. Grimm that ne always III danger hat
was one reason and the best. why he had lam
-1orionless without so much as lifting finger, since
that first glimmer of consciousness had entered ms
brain He was probably under scrutiny, even IN the
md he Fat~
-on1nlodate any chance watcher by remaining I'M
conscious "
And SO Tor a long time he lay listening Was
there another person III the room MI Grlram
ears were keenly alive for the Inadverent shutting
Of a foot or the sound of breathing NothIngl Even
he night roar OF the clty missing, the silence
was oppressive Al las he Fentured TO open ms
ewes ! pail II gloom eulowpas-ed him, pail
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-25
Patrick Caldwell.

A wedding that will be Of interest
to many of the Ardmore people is
that of Miss Ella Patrick to Mr..
j. c. Caldwell, which was quietly
solemnizod at the home of the brides
parents in Pauls Valley, Sunday after
noon at o'clock in the presence of
the immediate friends and relatives
of the contracting parties. Rev.
Reaves of the Missionary Baptist
church acting as officiating clergyman.
Immediately after the ceremony a
choice wedding. dinner was served.
The bride is one Of Pauls Valley S
interesting and lovabe young ladies
and the groom is one of Ardmore's
substantial business men. The young
couple took the afternoon train for
this city where we extend to them
a hearty welcome, They will be at
home to their frinds at 1924 West
Main street.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-25
FIRE BOYS INDUSTRIOUS
HAVE CONSTRUCTED AN ADDl-
TioNAL BED ROOM IN THE
PAST TWO DAYS.

The fire boys of this city are a very
industrious set of young men and
spend but little time in idleness.
During the past few days the young
men Of the fire department have con.
structcd another bed room in the de-
partmcnt aside from the big room,
which will be used by the chiefs
driver and a member of the force
who is usually on watch during the
night to prevent one of the horses
from getting out.
The room is located up stairs
above the feed room just in the rear
of where the apparatus is kept. The
boys constructed the door and win
dow and did all of the carpenter
work, also the papering. The job is
Il neat one and would reflect credit
on any carpenter.