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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
ming old servant hobbled away Wa.

ming old servant hobbled away va.
alacrity.
Down the village street glided the
great Russian sleigh, Benjamin guild
ing the handsome bays and Mr.. Tim
othy Scott muffled to the ears in furs
sitting in the back. People stared aft
er the sleigh curiously, for the sight
of the master of Scott house recalled
to their minds that he was responsible
for the fact that few people in Beech
cove had received valentines that
morning.
Through the great bronze gateway,
which he had not passed since that
other day so many years ago, they
dashed up the broad avenue, sweeping
in front of the colonial house, and he
alighted with brisk agility. The long
wait in the familiar drawing room, the
parting of the velvet curtains, the COM
ing of diminutive figure with snowy
hair piled high, soft black eyes and
white dress, with knots of violet rib
bon, and then, Timothy" she said
gently, 81 knew you must come some
day.
The minister married them that aft
ernoon-Violet Allen and Timothy
Scott. Then the newly welded pair
entered the sleigh and were sped down
the avenue and up the street to the
Scott house, where old Hetty baked
and brewed In a whirl of mad excite
ment. Benjamin was sent on fifty err
rands about the village, and when
evening came there was merry gath
ering of people in the old house. Every
man, woman and child who was able
to be afoot was there. The walls of the
fine rooms were hung with gay valen-
tines. The tables were covered with
them. They were pinned to the dra
peries and suspended from the chande
Tiers.
Timothy Scott and his beautiful bride
received their neighbors cordially
There was a banquet in the huge din
ing room, music in the hall, and then
the bride gave to each departing guest
valentine as souvenir of the occasion
Timothy" said the bride when they
stood alone before the hearth fire. ''w,
must repeat this every year when Val
entine's day comes around-the recep
ton, the supper, the music, the giving
of valentines"
1--WE WILL" said Timothy solemnly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Harrow Etiquette.

Harrow is not strong in customs,
but even the school on the hill has a
few peculiar to itself.
One of the most singular is that
which strikes every visitor-the hug
ging of the wall in the street by small
boys, whether they are in fiannels or
out of them, whether they are covered
with mud or Immediately clean and
smart, whether other and older pedes-
TRANS are elbowed into the gutter or
not.
Never do you see the younger Har-
rovians walking in the road. Why?
Because that is ''swagger," crime of
the first magnitude.
No; custom prescribes that the place
for any boy who is not "three-yearer''
is as close to the wall as he can posi-
bly, get.-London Chronicle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
English Liquor Restrictions.

The new British licensing bill abol-
ishes 10000 bars, provides for the an
nual renewal of licenses and the police
inspection of all places where liquor
is sold, social clubs included, and it
reduces to three hours during which
public houses may remain open on
Sunday. 1t invests the licensing au-
thority in justices of the peace, who
are empowered to exclude children
from bar rooms and who may decide
whether women shall be employed as
bartenders. 1t allows compensation for
liquor sellers put out of business, who
are to be reimbursed for II years by
the assessment of the surviving Ii
cense holders. After that period the
granting of new licenses is made de-
pendent on local option. and the theory
of property in liquor licenses will
cease.
To American liquor interests, accus-
toned to frequent regulation, the meas
ure will seem less drastic Indeed, it
would doubtless prove acceptable as
the alienation of absolute prohibition
contained in the provision of the local
option laws now being agitated and
adopted in this and other states. The
British plan of saloon control restricts
the sale of liquor to conditions of much
less harm and offensiveness than have
heretofore prevailed
1t may be that laws on similar lines
will be a logical outcome of the far
reaching temperance citation in this
country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Docs Like Like Like?

They were at supper During the
meal the young man with the vOra-
cious appetite discoursed eloquentIy on
things in general.
DO you know, Miss DASH he re-
marked. Il think there is a very init
mate relation between our food and
our character. 1 believe. don't you
know, that we grow like what we, are
most fond Of"
The fair girl smiled sweetly.
How Interestingly she murmured.
May l offer you some more ham. Mr.
Blank?"
She stretched her hand out to take
a chocolate cream. but he removed the
tray and passed her the acidulated tab
lets.-London Tit-Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Both
Agreeable and Effective,

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has no
superior for coughs. colds and Group,
and the fact that it is pleasant to take
and contains nothing in any way in
furious has made it a favorite with
mothers. w. S. Pelham, merchant
of Kirksville, Iowa, says: For more
than 20 years Chamberlain Cough
Remedy has been my leading remedy
for all throat troubles. 1t is especially
successful in cases of Group. Children
take it and my customers who have
used it will not take any other" For
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Great Minds Have Opposed
Policy of Prohibition.
GBY PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE
ANTI LEAGUE.l

GBY PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE
ANTI PRoHIBITION LEAGUE.I
1t is interesting to present what
some of the great minds of our timer
and of earlier times have decided. re-
garding prohibition:
Horatio Seymour: 'Intemperance
cannot be eXtirpated by prohibitorv
laws; they are not consistent with
sound principles of legislation. All
experience shows that temperance.
like other virtues, is not produced by
lawmakers, but by the influence of
education, morality and religion"
Herbert Spencer: Beyond the en-
enlargement of fraud lying, contempt
for law and CONSPICUOUS crookedness.
multitudinous other evils were caused
or augmented by the law of prohibit
ton, and indirect decentralization was
added to the direct increase of the
vice aimed at"
Buckle in History of Civilization"
''The laws enacted to restrain personal
liberty, especially relating to mtox-
icating drinks, uniformly increased in
temperance.
Bishop Charles d. Williams. of De
troit: 81 do not believe absolute pro-
hibition is possible at the present time.
Take the saloons away from the man
and you leave a big gap, which there
is nothing ut the present time to FILL"
Hon. A. E. Wilson. governor of Ken
lucky: Real sane temperance, with
no fanaticism, is what l stand for"
Daniel Voorhees,: THE Holy Scrip
ture and the history of the church are
alike without warrant for the prohibit
| tIonists. And looking to the history
of civilization from the days of Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob down to the
present hour. where can a nation be
found of strength and progress whose
people could not be trusted to regu-
late their personal daily habits for
themselves?
Roger Q. Mills: 81 oppose the adop-
ton of prohibition because it violates
a fundamental principle of free govern
ment"
PRESS COMMITTEE ANTEPROHI-
| BITION LEAGUE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
BOTH SIDES OF THE PROHI-
BITION QUESTION
Claim Second Victory.
lBY THE PRESS COMMITTEE OF THE


LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE.I
The city clerk has declared his in
lention to grant the prayer of the
local option petition and put the ques-
ton on the ballot shall this city be-
come anti-saloon teTr:.ogy?"
This denies the protest of the IA
citizens who branded the petition as
illegal. 1t is the second victory for
the local option forces. The first was
in securing 1,463 names on the petit
ton, 237 more than the number re-
qUired by law. The liquor trade
laughed and said we could not do it.
But we did These 1 ,463 citizens want
this question settled where it ought
to be settled-at the polls, and the
Opposition cannot do local option a
Better service than to try to defeat
the will of these voters. Why not let
it go to vote and be settled for two
years?
A citizen who was once a resident
of Champaign, informed me last week
business man and a personal friend
of his from that city, passed through
Rock Island. In answer to a question
chow has the closing of saloons af-
Ifected business in Champaign" the
citizen of that place said, There is
absolutely no doubt but that business
conditions are better since the saloons
were closed. We merchants are now
getting the money that before went
| to the saloons" The agent whom the
liquor league sent to Champaign con
lGesses he found two merchants who
said business was better. Here is a
third. and we are satisfied that any
friend of local option could find many
more.
Let it also be said that the testi
mony in that article from the labo
unions. has no real force, for the same
labor conditions exist here in Rocl
Island. Davenport and Moline. 1t i:
due to the general financial depres
sion which affects labor employment
Everywhere The Champaign man de
,clared that only as they heard it from
outside did they know that bushes:
was bad in Champaign.
LOCAL OPTION PRESS COMMIT
| TEE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

righteousness of the presidents poll
cies or the righteousness or upright
eousness of the acts on the part of Mr..
Taft which produce these political con-
ditions. 1t simply presents two indi-
gestible political facts as they are.
''On account of these facts the Inter
Ocean apprehends that Mr.. Taft, if
nominated, would be defeated by Mr..
Bryan. Therefore, the InterOcean re-
CARDS Mr.. Taft as the least available
candidate in the middle western field.
THE InterOcean requests the reader
of this statement to cut it out, and if,
by any chance, Mr.. Taft should be
nominated, to paste it in his hat"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

in it's place wooden block bearing
the name of the borrower and the date
of the loan. Many were the anathemas
leveled by collectors against those who
would borrow or steal their volumes.
Sometimes these were macaronic
rhymes written by students-as. for eX-
ample, the following. which was in
scribed upon Latin book used in Alb
erdeen university:
81 quisquis furetur
This little I.ibellum
Per Phoebem, per Jovem
I'll kill him. III fell him;
In ventrem ILLS
I'll stick my scalpellum
And teach him to steal
My little Libellum.
In the library of a famous Glasgow
collector there was recently the copy
of SCOTS ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border" which belonged at one time
the poet had inscribed the following
verse:
William Motherwel says the work is his
Who shall gainsay him?
He that dares do il
May the meikle dell fay him!
Even more violent denunciations
were written against the book stealer
in the sixteenth century. when books
were more precious than now. Yet
even the modern poet finds it needful
to mathematics politely:
To the lost books my fancy clings;
Ger them my memory grovelS.
swear in spirit when 1 see
The gaps among the novels.
The Thackcray | loved and lost
l mourn with sorrow tender.
Whoever has il also has
The curses of the lender.
The lady Bessie Craigmyle) who
wrote these lines expresses her graft
tude for the fact that mo one Dor
rows poets" though that is not the
opinion of Charles Sayle, who thu:
threatens the possible thief of 9Th,
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche"
Cursed be he who robs me Of this book,
With all his race. Let 1t be desolate
And brought allow if so be it was great,
FOR that he wickedly. impiously took
That was another's. Let great serpent
look
At him a-sleeping, with dull eyes of hate
And let him. waking. be compelled of fat
To cast his corse within the neares
brook.
| This is as comprehensive curse a
| that which overlook the fated Jack
daw of Rheims"-and as Intellectual
| Dundee Advertiser
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Mrs. Potter Palmer Outwits Her
Rivals.

Cut"AaS
Rivals.
Chicago society has made many
vain efforts to depose Mrs. Potter
Palmer from her position as leader,
says the Delineator. One sum
mer, a large number of the young
or society women, under the leader
ship of Mrs. Joseph Griswold Coleman,
announced a Streets of Paris fete,
whose date antedated the Palmer ball,
already announced for the next win
ter by one month precisely. The fete
ran for four days and nights at the
Coliseum. on the lake shore, where
national political conventions are held,
and the expenses alone, incurred be
lore the doors We're thrown open, were
said to be $4,000. The net gain was
reported somewhere in the neighbor-
horhood of 100000. but behind that
enormous sum, as the result of a sin
gle fete, lies many whispered story
of feminine graft.
Two weeks before the Streets Of
Paris fete opened, Mrs. Palmer
SdLIS W lOWI WIFI JuS fGeu-
erick Dent Grants and the Prince
end Princess Conference.-The latter.
as the world knows, is her neice-and
answered all the swirling conjecture
by announcing that the charity ball
would be given on New Years eve. as
usual. Then with her party, she left
for the west, and returned only in
time to be present one night at the
fete. A few days later, in the charity
ball announcements, Mrs. Joseph Girls
void Coleman appeared fifth in the
list of eight names which made up the
executive committee, and all was out
ward peace. but the undertow was
strong and treacherOus. The one fact
that stands out clear as crystal. against
the smoke Of battle, is that Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer is still. indisputably, Chi
Cages social dictator
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Source of Information.

Singleton-You seem to know a lot
about women.
WedderSy-You bet I do.
Singleton-Got wise by studying the
ways of your wife, eh?
Wetslerly-No; I listen to what she
says about other women.-Chicago
News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
The Lucky Quarter.

Is the one you pay out fora box of
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. They bring
you the health that's more precious
than jewels. Try them for headache,
biliousness, constipation and malaria.
If they disappoint you the price will
be cheerfully refunded at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

Senator Hopkins this week distin-
guished himself for the first time dur
ing his career in the senate. He made
a speech for the Aldrich currency bill
that everybody is opposed to.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

1t is announced that Judge Nc
Even has retired from the race for
governor and will back former Gov
ernor Yates. Judge McEwen's boom
was never visible to the naked eye,
hut is said to have been interesting
rnder the microscope
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Eats EN- Alive,

"Does this dog like strangersY'
Loves 'em, ma'am."
"Well, must have dog that does
not like strangers
GAS l was about to say. ma'am.
when you interrupted me, this dog
loves strangers an has eaten several
Of 'em, ma'am. Yes. ma'am, thank
your'-Houston Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

Let the democrats put good, clean
men on the ballot for aldermen, select
representative delegates and commit
teemen, and their choice will be APP
proved by the people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

How She Won HINTS the pretty,
winsome face that's leading most men
to the altar. Girls get wise, take Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea and get
that clear. sweet look happy smile
that wins them Begin now 50 cents.
tea or tablets. Harper House phar-
macy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

The death of Senator Redfield Proc
tor of Vermont takes away another
statesman of the old school, of which
there are altogether too few in these
laNS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. LEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

Technical innocence of crime and
moral hypocrisy are the side arms OF
the common enemy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

Democratic ward primaries Saturday
night
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05
Call For Democratic Primaries and
Convention.

Notice is hereby given that primary
elections for democratic voters i'll the
city of Rock Island will be held in the
several wards of the city of Rock Is
larpi. between the hours of I and p.
m, Saturday, March :, 1908, for the fol-
lowing purposes: To nominate can
didate for alderman for period of
two years in each of the wards, to Sc
lect delegates to the democratic city
township convention, and TO select
ward committeeman, two from each pre-
Cinct.
The places ofSholding said primary
elections will be as follows:
First Ward - NoIds barber shop,
Fourth avenue and Fifth street.
Second Ward-City barn, Sixth ave
nue. between Ninth and Tenth streets. .
Third Ward - SherifIs office Third
avenue and Fourteenth street
Fourth Ward-Frick'S livery stable,
Third avenue. between Nineteenth and
Twentieth streets.
Fifth Ward-Old hose house, Twenty
second street, between Sixth and Sew
sixth Ward-Old hose house. Twenty
sixth street. between Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
Seventh Ward-Allars' restaurant.
THE ratio of representation will be
one delegate for every Is votes or frac-
ton thereof cast for Alton b. Parker
for president in 1904. which entities
the different wards to delegates as
follows:
First Ward .....-......... delegates
Second Ward .......... II delegates
Third Ward ...............l5 delegates
Fourth Ward ............. delegates
Fifth Ward ............... 10 delegates
Sixth Ward ....-..........1O delegates
Seventh Ward ............. delegates
The delegates elected will meet at
Turner hall in the city of Rock Island,
at s p m. Tuesday. March 10, 1908. for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for township offices. as follows:
one assessor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. one year
one collector ......... one year
one supervisor lNp Ntttl =
Three assistant supervisors. two years
one constable (tO fill vacancy two years
Also to elect a chairman of the city
township committee, and to transact
such other business as may properly
come before said convention.
JOSEPH GROTEGCT,
Chairman.
Ralph w. Lamont Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

All the news all the time-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

TERMS-Dally, 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-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-05

Ralph w. Lamont. Secretary.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15
Fire Department

New Tim, Mimi, March 81 1908
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council, City of New Tim, Mimi
& Gentlemen: / have the honor to sub
nit herewith the annual report of the
Fire Department for the year ending
March 81. 1908.
The Department responded to alarms
of fire during the year. as follows:
April 2. Box 50, false alarm, 1:3o
April 5. BOX Il, false alarm. 12:45
p m.
May /. CORTLAND Mimi, 2:3O p. M
MAY 81. Box liz. VIM. Themlitz' barn,
struck by lightning, 1915 p M
Sept. 16. Box 15 Northwestern line,
$40 p. M, railroad wreck.
Nov. s. Box 80, Louis Guemmer resi-
dence 1910 p. m overheated stove.
Dec. 30. Box So, Chas. Blocks resi-
dence $40 p. M, Christmas tree
candles.
There were also five practice calls and
the members and teams responded
promptly.
The Department consists of fifty of
ficers and men.
Respectfully submitted
RECEIPTS.
AS per City Clerks statement S4,9S1. 80
DISBURSEMENTS
AS per City Clerks Statement S347O.95
W. E. KOCH
Chief.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15
ANNUAL
Financial Statement
of the City of New Ulm,
New Uln, MINI, April Cd, 1908.
Bromu County, MINI
For the Fiscal Year Ending March 81, 1s

New Ulna, Mimi, April I'd, 1908.
To the Hon. Mayor and City Council
of the City of New Ulm, MINI.
Gentlemen: l herewith submit my
annual statement showing the financial
condition receipts, expenditures and as
sets and liabilities of the city of New
Ulm, for the year ending March S1st,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15

Oldl $o l4O.Uf
STATISTICS.
The total number of transformers now
in use is 20. The total capacity of
these is 227 K. w.
Total number of consumers March 1,
March 1, 1908, 615 A gain of Is con-
SumerS.
Total Connected Load.
The total number of incandescent
lamps connected is 1e,5O0 These are
equivalent to 9,3SS-16 c. D. lamps
Commercial NernSt lamps, 81.
Street ares, 81.
Motors, 33 of an aggregate capacity of
107 horse power.
Small motors connected: u II. p;
lathes; 1 forge blower.
Fan Motors: 4s 12-inch; IA 16-inch;
5 ceiling fans.
Flat Irons: 8 tailors irons; 2os fam
lily irons.
Heating Apparatus: curling iron
heaters; 1 glue pot; disc heaters; IA
heaters; 8 quart heaters; / shaving
mug.
Output of Station.
Commercial 252,122 K. w. Hours
Street Arcs .....s. .104,521 K. w. Hours
Total .....#........5... $50, 643 K. w. Hours
arcs was 2.3S7 hours. 81 minutes. At
the beginning of the year the rate for
commercial lighting was reduced from
ten to eight cents per kilo-watt hour.
The above report for the years business
show that the plant can be successfully
the service.
Respectfully submitted.
ADOLF WAGNER.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15

New Ulm. Mimi. April 9Th, 1905
To the Hon. City Council of the City
of New Ulm.
Gentlemen: We the undersigned Fl
nance Committee beg leave to report
that we have examined the books and
accounts of the City Clerk, City Treas
urer, and Superintendent of Electric
Light & Water Works for the fiscal
year ending March, 31st, 1908, and find
that the same are correct and neatly
kept.
Respectfully yours,
FRED PFAENDER,
JOHN p. GRAFT,
HERMAN sNAGEL,
Finance Committee.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15

STATION SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS.
In stock March L. 'O7 s126 90
Bought during year ;. 743.34
1859. "a
In stock March |, .os s1s5 .s5
Sold OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $40
- --- 199. 95
Used during year j. 500. 80
Water Meter Repairs.
In stock March l, OF $1,000
Bought during year 1888
-- $121. AZ
n stock March /, 'os ss5 90
SIP. 50
Cost for year ...... So. 90
f During the past year the water mains
were extended by 1850 feet of six-inch
pipe. The total now is 4S,047 feet or
81 miles of mains.
-Four additional fire hydrants were set
during the year. The total number
of MIGRANTS is now "a.
Number of consumers March l. 1907. .457
Number of consumers March 1, 1908. .489
Gain of consumers for the year,. 80
342 gallons.
OF this was used as follows:
To extinguish fires 10000 gallons
To flush sewers. ........ 100000 gallons
To flush mains $4,000 gallons
Sold at station $4,000 gallons
To sprinkle streets. ...., 2,0s4,950 gallons
Leaks Observation-Disclosures. $4,000 gallons
To test pump ........ $4,000 gallons
Flood skating rink 80. $4,000 gallons
Respectfully submitted,
ADOLF WAGNER,
Superintendent.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15
Water Works Department

New Ulm. Mimi. March 81, 1908.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of New Tim, Mimi.
Gentlemen have the honor to pre-
sent to you herewith a report relating
to the Water Works Department, Civ
ing the cost to date. and the operating
expenses and receipts for the past fiscal
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-15

Excess of assets over liabilities$134 al 10
Respectfully submitted,
ERNST WICHERSKI,
CITY Clerk