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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Fixinq the Blame.

The young man had returned from
his wedding trip and was again at his
desk in the office. 1t was the day after
lis return that the junior partner call
cd him To his desk and said:
Now that you re married, Mr.. Quilts.
/ trust you will be considerable in your
treatment of me-"
Il don't quite understand you. sir
exclaimed the young man in surprise.
"Oh, it's little early, l know" ad-
mitted the junior partner, but there's
nothing like taking time by the fore
lock. l suppose you haven't been out
late at night yet
Certainly not, sir"
"And it's none of my business if you
have. But when you do stay out some
night be considerate. Remember that
IL have reputation for fairness and
humane treatment of everybody in
this office that would like to retain
Don't tell your wife that you're sorry
you're late. but that that slave driver
, at the office piled work upon you to
such an extent that you had to work
right into the night. Don't tell her
that the tyrant you work under gave
you Is. Cd. for dinner and told you
I that you would have to post all the
| books in the office before leaving fol
the night Just invent some other ex.
cuse, you know"
The young man thought the matter
over for minute or two and then
asked anxiously:
"Well. if should be late what shall
F., I say?"
"Oh, put it on the senior partner, as
l do. He can stand it."-London An.
swers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Mr.. Moore as a Candidate for Judge.
The announcement made by w.
r. Moore of Moline. democratic can
didate for circuit judge, appearing
in yesterdays Argus, of his purpose
in the event of his election, to ad-
minister the Office with a view to the
speedy dispatch of business so far as
possible, and to give as much time
as can be crowded into day to that
end, has met with general approba.
ton.
The fact that the Rock Island
county docket is far behind many OF
the other counties in the state, is
admitted by all familiar with the
situation, and it is becoming further
behind yearly. Mr.. Moore's propo
sition to devote extra hours to clear
ing up delayed cases meets or should
meet with the approval both of liti
giants and attorneys.
The standing of Mr. Moore as
lawyer is shown in the fact that ht
is at the present time, president O
the Rock Island County Bar assoc
iation. His ability is unquestionet
and should he be elected will dis
charge the duties in a manner tina
will prove advantageous both to tn,
administration of justice and the in
terests of the tax payers of tn,
county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

own bitter sorrow to find that her sis
ter was suffering also. Then she had
opened her eyes. so long blinded TO all
save her own bitter grief, and looked
for the cause of her sisters TO find
that Emily's lover, Stephen Loring,
came to see her sister no more.
Questioned, Miss Emily had replied
proudly, with swift flushing checks,
that she did not wish him TO come,
and Miss Rachel probed no further
Scarcely year later Stephen married
q girl of rcighborinG village. and
Emily. growing paler and gentler day
by day. gave all the love left in her
heart to Rachel. which Miss Rachel
silently but deeply reciprocated. all
the more tenderly that Miss Emily so
often seemed inwardly shrinking be-
fore her, as if in shame at her fate.
With true New England rcticence,
mingled with Unborn delicacy. neither
ever spoke of the others love and
loss, but when Stephen Loring some
twenty years later had come to live
beside them Miss Rachers wrath rose
high against this destroyer of her gen.
tie sisters happiness in life.
Rachel
! Miss Emily stood at the door peer
ing into the now dark room.
I ''Old Mrs. Clayton is dying, and
they want you right away"
Miss Rachel rose at once. not even
closing the lid on her little box OF
keepsakes.
I At the door she paused, speaking
gently:
+; you won't need to go until morn.
ing. You are too frail for such
things"
And before Miss Emily could reply
she was gone on this. one of her many
deeds of mercy.
Alone. Miss Emily entered the room
and went TO the window. where she
| could watch her sisters tall form
through the fast deepening darkness.
y lamplfghier came by as she stood
there ard lighted the lamp in the
street below. Just in front of the win
dow. AS she moved from the window
the audacious g!eam of light pene
ira, d past her. falling directly on The
opened box of keepSakeS.
Drcamily. yet half startled, Mis-:
Emily moved toward them. She knew
well enough what they were-th,
package of letters tied with narrow
black ribbon were Andrew Arnold:
letters of love TO Rachel; the little DO,
beside them held well known tur
Guoise ring. but the picture that LAY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
The Egg Strike.

In Chicago 400 egg inspectors have
gone on a strike for Saturday half
holiday. These inspectors are experts
who sort the whole product and classi
fly it into half a dozen varieties. The
investigations into the subject brought
about by the strike show that no egg
is wasted. There is sale for all from
the fresh laid product for the table of
the rich man to the absolutely putrid
sample which goes to the tanner. The
dealers announce that pending the
strike all eggs will be shipped in by
express and will be fresh, but will
cost more to the consumer The strike
has suspicious of being agreeable to
the bosses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Rooseyelt's Slaughter of Animals fol-
Pleasure.

Pleasure.
Professor Long, the naturalist. crit
icises Roosevelt with considerable Sc
verify for his purposeless slaughter of
animals in African jungles The hui
name professor believes that the influ-
ence of Roosevelt's examples is bad. es-
lpecially upon youth; that it encour-
ages the disposition and habit of shoot
ing, manning and killing animals for
sport-for the satisfaction of seeing
them fall, victims of the rifle and shot
gun.
Professor Long is right. Man has
no natural or moral right to kill n
creature merely for pleasure. People
are not objecting to the killing of an
imals for food, nor are they question,
ing the right of man to kill them to
protect himself from danger or injury
or even from the annoyance of their
presence. 1t is not the mere destruc-
ton of life that is condemned, for
that the safety and the interests of
man often demand. And the sacrifice
of the lower to the higher is inevitable
and often necessary to progress.
What, as the Quincy Journal says the
people object to as immoral and bane-
| full in its effects is the destruction of
| life for the mere pleasure that such
| destruction affords. No argument can
| be used in its defense. The killing of
beasts and birds for the qualification of
seeing them die tends to brutalize the
slayer, tends to blind him TO the mys-
terry and miracle of life, which not all
the science, art and ingenuity of man
have yet been able to initiate; tends
to destroy his sympathy with the world
of life below him, so keen in the poet
Burns, and tends to make the hunter
heartless, selfish, cruel and inconsid
lerate of the rights of others.
Mr.. Roosevelt and those generally
who kill for pleasure believe that all
creatures are brought into existence
| by Infinite intelligence for wise pur.
poses; that nothing is created in vain
| that all beasts and birds and reptiles
are so many marvellous evidences of
the Makers unapproachable power OF
design and decoration, which should
impress us all with sense of the
greatness of God and of the wonder
full skill manifested in His works
And yet, believing all this, the man
who hunts for pleasure, shoots down
these creatures as if they were made
| by malevolent being. and he delights
to see them fall dead as if they were
made for him to Stay and for him to
find pleasure in Staying whenever he
feels thirst for blood.
Is youths moral nature developed in
any way by the sport of shooting crea
lures to death? Are not child's sen
sibilities blunted and his heart hard
ened by the ruthless destruction OF
life? And what possible good infiu
ence can such destruction have upon
the young?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Back Again to the River.

Leslie's Weekly: The Mississippi is
as deep as it ever was, but the boat
builders have not kept pace with mod
ern demands. Economy in the ship
ment, the transshipment, and the
handling and housing of freight at the
terminals has been neglected. This
lack is now to be supplied w. X.
Kavanaugh of st. Louis. president of
the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway
association, has invented a boat of
light draft, but of large capacity, which
is expected to revive transportation on
the Mississippi and it's big tributaries.
The Business Mems league of st.
Louis is at the head of movement
which is expected to result in the rails
ing of capital and the formation of a
company which will finance lines of
boats of this type running between st.
Louis and st. Paul, and others travers-
ing the Missouri TO Kansas City, New
Orleans. Memphis, Cairo, Pittsburg. st.
Paul and other cities on the Mississippi
and its important afiluents are also
taking an active interest in the scheme.
The river revival scheme contemplates
the erection, at strategic points on the
stream, of warehouses within easy
reach of the boats, to be equipped with
devices for handling the freight expe-
ditiously and economically. AS the
cost of transportation for long dis
tances is naturally cheaper by water
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
BIG TESTING MACHINE.
Bridges Made Safe by the Use of New
Device.

Bridges Made Safe by the Use of New
Device.
According to civil engineers, the YER
teal compression test machine of 49,
100000 pounds capacity, which is be-
ing built by well known firm in Phil
adelphia for the structural material
testing laboratories Of the United
States geological survey, will revolu-
tionize the building of bridges in the
United States, making such an occur
renee as the collapse of the Quebec
bridge with attendant loss of life Inn
possible.
This machine, with gross weight
of more than 200 tons and an extreme
height above the foundations of about
eighty feet. is by far the largest test
ing appliance ever constructed. En-
gineers seen recently said that the rea-
son there is always so much uncer-
tainty about the strength of a great
bridge is because no machines have
ever been constructed of sufficient
power to test the great columns of
steel used in them.
1t was pointed out that every piece
of steel used was subjected to a speci-
fled test. the engineers knowing the
quality Of the material used and bas-
ing their calculations on the strength
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Hurnor and
Philosophy
LOST IDEALS.
D. DUNCAN ~. SMITH

How our ideals fade away,
Zen vanish like the dew.
As down the shady side of life
The gliding act we do
The things that once we looked upon
AS all the cake and pie,
The only objects worth our while,
No longer catch our eye.
How earnestly we longed to be
In childhood's happy day
The man who stood outside the tent
And took our change away.
But greater still had been our Joy,
Our pleasure more profound.
Could we have been the man inside
Who pushed the freaks around.
Then. growing older and bit
Discerning in our likes.
Our hero was the pitcher then :
Who put out men on strikes.
But quite above him in a class
Respondent. all alone.
The pugilist who held the belt
Like some bright planet shone.
And then the cashier in the bank
Who turned our checks TO cash
And next the one in high finance
Who seemed to cut a dash.
The congressman. the governor,
Then for a time held sway.
But now in sliding down the hill
We watch them fade away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

on top. surely she might see that again
after all these many years.
Half guilty she lifted it and held it
in the light, eagerly scanning the face.
Then, with little sob, she sank on
her knees, the picture still clasped in
her hand, her hidden face resting on
her arms.
Silently thus the minutes passed. yet
Miss Emily took no heed. And so
Miss Rachel. coming home to dark
ened, unlocked house, found her a lit
| tie later.
For a moment she stood in the door
way, lost in wonder at her sisters still
form in the lamplight: then she ad-
vanced swiftly to her side.
emily" she said-"Emily, dear, are
you ill:"
Miss Emily sprang to her feet as If
suddenly walked from a dream. One
hand still held the photograph, but
after an instant she dropped 1t on the
desk. and, clasping her hands, she
cried in low, passionate voice-a new
voice to Miss Rachel:
"Oh, Rachel, Rachel, forgive me-.
He did not know; he never. never
dreamed it. You, you only, had his
life and all Of 1t. and, oh. l could not
help it. Surely have suffered enough,
and / never, never meant to wrong
you"
Miss Rachel stood so still she might
have been carved of stone. too terribly
bewildered for the simplest form of
thought. But her sister went on with
her passionate pleading.
Cant you forgive me, Rachel, when
he never. never knew and you had all
his loveg"
Miss Rachers voice trembled.
"But Steve-Stephen LOringT'
"He caught my girlish fancy, Rachel.
But when l found out how l felt
about-your Andrew sent Steve
away And the next week Andrew
died so suddenly-his heart all yours
to the last. Oh, Rachel, sister, you
cannot forgive me, 1 know! 1 will &c
away-alone"
flush, child" said Miss Rachel
sternly 81 have nothing to forgive
have always been. But go away fol
awhile. / want to be alone"
Next morning the sun had scarcely
dried the radiant dew when Miss
Rachel opened an unused gate ant
went over to her neighbours. In bel
hand she held the tiny package of SEED
l she had placed last night on her desk
! Next year two rows of sunfiower:
! nodded across the fence-the same low
l picket fence-not by any means si1
i feet high.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

AS one of the striking results of
Senator Lorimers election all the
daily newspapers in Chicago are in
eclipse. with the exception of the
Inter-Ocean. which is standing knee
deep in political clover. The Inter.
Ocean has been a cinsistent champion
of Congressman Lorimer for years and
is therefore entitled to all the glory
and credit it can get out of the Lori
mer triumph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The trouble with a get-rich-Quick
scheme is that it so often seems as
IL it were the other fellow who gets
rich.
Friends are like money-you first
have to know how to make them and
then how to keep them.
Being interesting often depends upon
who your audience is.
Most anybody can be peaceful, but
it takes grit to fight.
Some seasons beautiful spring does
seem to be afflicted with old fashioned
fever and ague.
In the practice of kindness some
people always include themselves and
sometimes none others.
Anyway, the man who knows 1t all
doesn't have to be shown.
The niRn who knows enough to keep
his mouth shut generally draws health
ful breath as well as good salary.
>.
A good disposition is more to be Il.
erred than pull with the police.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

than by land, and as, under these con-
'ditions, it could be made sufficiently
regular for most purposes. 1t is eX.
|pected that the Mississippi and its
navigable branches may become impor
tant competitors of the railways. And
this, too. without waiting for the elab
crate scheme of river Improvement
which is being pressed on the atten
, tion of congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
letter Cured,

A lady customer of ours had suffer
ed with letter for two or three years
1t got so bad Oh her hands that she
ties. One box of Chamberlain Salve
cured her. Chamberlain's medicines
give splendid satisfaction in this com
munity.-M. II. Rodney & Co., Almond
Ala. Chamberlain's medicines are fol
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Democrats should not permit the
judicial erection of next Monday to
go by default. They have two candi-
dates on the ticket who are worthy
of the support of every member of
the party in W. r. Moore of Rock
Island and C. c. Mcmahon of Full
ton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Aldrich has come down off his high
horse long enough to apologize to the
German government. but he has not
yet seen fit to do the honorable by his
own country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

An expressman at Muscatme was
fined 500 yesterday for hauling
beer to nenry Bierman. Wonder
how the latter has escaped with that
name
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Picked Up a Few.

"What are you doing in New York."
"Just getting impressions"
did you get any?"
"Weli. l fell off a street car and was
run over by an automobile"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Perhaps this will be the last sum-
mer in which We can enjoy view of
the deep blue sky unobstrcuted by
airships
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
The Amateur.

Oh. i would HE
Without a sigh
And get the best that could be bought
OF rod and reel
II fish and eel
Would only let themselves be caughti
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
His Difficulty.

''That man just can't keep out OF
Gebt."
"Can't hep
"No.''
"Well, he is different from me-"
You can. l supposeT
"Well, you see, just can't get in"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

The gold production of the world
has increased IS per cent since the
year 1896, although a great many of
us nave not noticed it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
All One way.

There are two sides TO every ques-
tom
"Are there?"
'There certainly are"
MAY be so in theory. but 1t doesn't
work out that way when l have dis
pute with my wife"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Texas is to be the headquarters of
great onion industry. This should
make the Lone Star state stronger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Utility.

'His table manners are something
frightful"
"Yes. but there is one good thing
about them
whats thatT'
"They produce results"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
THE ARGUS,

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island. Ill. [En-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

The Fourth of Fully will be safe
and sane this year. 1t comes on Sun
day. Monday, the 9Th, will be wild
and woOlly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Moral Support.

WordI support.
you think well of Miss Scadds?"
swell. I'm conspiring to marry her."
"It takes two to make conspiracy"
II have help"
"Her mother?'
"No, herself"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
His Profession,

"But why don't you work"
ION account of not being able to find
anything in my line"
What is your liner
Being the European titled husband
Of an American heiress, madam"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

PROFESSIONALLY congress will adjourn
by July 1. There are all those chau-
tauqua lecture dates to be filled.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

A tree appears TO be to an airship
what an uncharted rock is to an
ocean vessel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

tected from foreign pauper labor. and
he isn't supposed to be funny, either.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Mr.. Hartman has gone to Europe in
search of health Africa was already
in use.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

naval aid 20 MI Roosevelt to the time the
of
is bateshp
to MAKE this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Favored the Chef.

"Are you fond Of art, Mr.. BrownT
Eyes. indeed"
(Which branch do you preferT'
"The culinary art"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
His Reason,

"He doesn't believe in divorce"
"Why?"
'Says he has tried 1t three times,
and it doesn't render him immune at
ALL"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

Remember the judicial election
next Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04
Explained.

Explained.
"What is having plenty Of money"
"Just having more'n the rest of the
bunch"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-04

~ THE J. W. POTTER co.
The Washington times., 1909-01-28

Jesse H. Wilson, trustee, has trans
ferred 10 Thomas c. HOmlller part OF
the HOmilIer home place at -la- Wlsc0u-
Sin avenue northwest, the consideration
naine 3 60.
The Washington times., 1909-01-28
MORE CARS WANTED
TO ORANDLE HIGHLANDS

RaudIs Highlands and Congress
Heights Citizens Associations have
made complaint TO the District Railway
Commission OF the car service TO those
sections OF the city. The Eaudle High
lands people want q better service over
the T. and Q streets line. claiming that
they are not given equal rights with
the citizens who have access 20 L-e
Navy Yard line. Six cars 10 one are
being Ojerated In favor or The latter
service. they assert. which is serious
discrimination
TEe Congress Heights Association
wants a service of through cars, which
would eliminate the present Unsatlsrac-
tory system OF having 10 transfer al
Auacostia. Lack of proper transpCrta-
lion facilities over the Eleventh street
line. smoking and CTOWding on platforms
were the substance OF other complaints
AS vet. The street railway OTlrlal5
have not answered the inquiries Of tho
comm .sei0u with reference 10 various
cornDIaIuLs. Members OF the commission
refuse 10 intimate what action may be
taken. in the event the companies do
not recognize If as e. legitimate branch
OF the Interstate Commerce
The Washington times., 1909-01-28
REAL PRINCESS GETS
A NEW YORK DIVORCE

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S-supreme Court
Justice Hendricks sat in Judgment on
tile marital troubles Of a prince and of
IDS princess. He lid not know this at
tine time. and probably will not until
this morning. The case was down on
the divorce caIenCa ar as Just '.PaIeo-
lOgue VS.. PaleoIog Ie-"
The defendant vas Prince PaIeoIogue,
who says he is a prince of the blood
royal of Greece. On the calendar he
was plain John Pa-eologue" His wife
is a good looking woman or something
over 40 years of age and was dressed
smartly fin furs. BY her side sat her
witness, NJ Rudolph Mailer. OF Paris.
The princess on the sJand said they
were married in London on November /.
1888. There are no children Of the mar
riage she tesides. PaleOlOgue made no
answer or appearance and Justice Hen
bricks gave judgment in favor OF the
plaintiff
AT the conclusion Of the trial the
The Washington times., 1909-01-28
ENDS HUSBAND DEAD.

GEORGETOWN. Del, Jan. 28.-Hear-
Ing her husband make O. slight noise in
the middle Of the night and fearing that
he was having a nightmare, Mrs. Handy
Belts. Who lives near here. reached
over and shook him, but he did not
answer her. or lighting lamp she
was horrified to find him dead. Belts,
who was about sixty years old, was
a prosperous farmer.
The Washington times., 1909-01-28
FLEET GATHERING
IN MOROCCAN BAY.
All Warships Headed for
Tetuan, Whence They
Will Sail for Home.

TETUAN, Morocco, Jan. 28.-FrOm
Algerian, French. and Turkish waters,
the great fleet OF American battleships
is now headed for Tetuau bay, where
1T will assemble prepat0ry to sailing the
last leg of the reC0rd-breaking cruise
around the world.
To this little town on the North
Moroccan coast has fallen the honor Of
seeing the sixteen battleships and the
auxiliary feet riding together In The
10 welcome the fleet. as the task is toe
big. but nearly the whole population of
Tetuan and the surrounding country
viii gather on the shores TO get a
glimpse Of the silent sea fighters.
The feet is scheduled TO be at Glib
raltar on February 6.