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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

ence.. City Solicitor Nichols OF Haver-
hill told a story of money economy
under the commission plan, as COM
pared with expenditure and results
under the old plan, which surprised
You win ask, how did this hap
pen Did you have a crowd of graft
ers who were robbing you? l have
never seen anything that, could act
his listeners. He stated, for example,
that just about twice as much work
in street paving, etc, has been done
by the commission government as was
done with the same amount of money
under the old government. He added:
usIly put my finger on, in the way of
stealing. Il was not stolen, it just
went, just as any mans money will
leak out of his business, and he will
assign. if he does not attend to his
business or if he has no sort of bust
ness management. The change has
been brought about by personal super
vision
IF Haverhill can keep this up few
years longer there will not be city
left In the state without commission
form of government"
The same wholesome condition IS
found in Houston, Texas. Mayor Rice,
head OF the commission OF that city,
says:
by the strictest economy we re-
deemed in the first eight months Of
our term s3O6.202.47 of the old float
ing debt, besides paying our monthly
bills promptly as well as the salaries
of all employees. Credit was restored,
not only at home, but abroad. In four
years of commission rule the city of
Houston wiped out all floating DEBT
and it has given to the taxpayer out
Of the treasury without the issuance
of a single bond, many permanent inn
provements, aggregating in value the
sum Of s701, 026.74. This represents
permanent improvements, besides the
elimination of tho floating debt. 1t is
the first time in the history of Houston
that a sinking fund has been created.
While these improvements have been
going on, the tax rate has been re
duced 20 cents on the 500.
when the present commission as
sumed charge OF the city the price of
gas was $3.50 per 1000 feet. Now il
is $1.15 per 900 feet, the lowest rate
Of any city in Texas. In July, 1905,
the price of arc lights for city lighting
was $50 per year. Now they are SO
per year. These reductions have been
made without friction of litigation.
The commission believes that all pub
lie utility corporations have a right
to earn a just and fair dividend on
their legally issued stocks and bonds.
We regulate, but do not Cypress them;
in fact, We encourage capital to come
TO Houston"
The same spirit appears wherever
the commission plan has been adopted.
That it is the wisest system yet con-
ceived, must be admitted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

statesmen and politicians who sue
cseded in abusing official power, were
finally found out, and ultimately sent
reeling into Oblivion and obscurity.
Uncle Joe" will not soon reel into
oblivion. He win long be remembered
as very picturesque speaker of the
house. He has some good points. All
speakers must have these TO become
speaker. If they didn't have some
good qualities they would never OBJ
tain such high Office, but "Uncle
Joe's" abuse of his authority has
caused whole lot of patriots and the
vast majority OF the people to lose
sight of his good points.
He has so forced his autocracy AMI
'gavel rule" tactics upon the country
as to have assumed the form of a ma
tional menace.
Back of his luxurious growth of
whiskers, the curling smoke of his
tilted cigar and the sublime smile
which always wreathes his cartoon
Inspiring visage has long since been
discovered the Cannon who knocks
down mercilessly those who have the
temerity IN the national house to rise
and differ with his methods and 20
offer suggestions for conditions falrer
to the people.
So defiant. SO bold, so relentless
has Cannon become in his gavel rule
power, condemnation of him has
ceased to be sectional. Several con-
gressmen say they are receiving let
ters from all sections Of the country
demanding Cannon's retirement as
speaker In the interest OF good gov
eminent.
He was a national issue in the last
presidential campaign, but the issue
did not then stir the interest it has
since the recent tariff fight, which
more than ever emphasized the fact
that Cannon stands between public
and private interests, that he strikes
down with the boldness Of a tyrant
any one who dares oppose his domi-
nation over the lower house of con
gress. and that great public measures
aimed at predatory wealth fail OF pas
sage in the republican house because
Cannon shoots them full Of holes and
stands as a barricade to progress.
Let the skids be placed, creased we'll
and the sliding made as pleasant as
possible.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
CONSERVATION CURRENT EVENTS

leans Nov. 1. The annual convention
of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water
way association will then be in ses-
sion, and 1t is expected that conserva-
tionists will be on hand in large num-
bers. On Nov. 1916 the Mississippi
Atlantic Inland Waterways association
will hold its annual convention at
Jacksonville, Fla. This association
advocates a band of unity cementing
the interests of the Mississippi val
ley, gulf and Atlantic coasts insepara-
bly, together. An inland waterway
connecting the Mississippi and Apa-
lachicola, thence across the Florida
peninsula to the Atlantic" While the
United States is discussing plans for
the systematic development of its wa
terways, Canada is forging ahead upon
plans for extensive improvement of
the rivers of the Dominion.
While the Americans have been mere
ly talking, the Canadians have been
at work. In all, Canada has
expended about $100,00O,00 in the de-
velopment and improvement of its
canal system, with the result that
nearly 100000 tons of freight origin
ating in the United States have been
carried in Canadian bottoms. But
Canada is not satisfied with this show
ing of success. More ambitious plans
are under consideration. 1t is proposed
to enlarge the Welland canal, and the
route on a scale adapted to the larg-
est of lake vessels, is seriously con-
templated. In a recent report the min
lister of public works says. I'm view
of the fact that the grain trade Of
Montreal has now grown to be more
extensive than that of New York, 1t
is patent that Canada's waterways
must be still further improved in or
der to maintain the supremacy of the
st. Lawrence route over all its COM
petitors. The belief is becoming more
general that the grain of both the west
ern states and western Canada must
find its outlet via the great Canadian
waterway. "-Washingt Post.
In future the congressman or legis-
lator who expresses a belief IN conser-
walton and then neglects to put that
theory into practice when the oppor-
tunity affords bids fair to be reminded
of his dereliction in a most unexpected
manner and from unlocked for sources.
Always alert when the nations inter-
ests are at stake, the Daughters of the
American Revolution have taken up
the cause of conservation, and in each
and every state throughout the union
a campaign will be waged in behalf Of
conservation Of the country's natural
resources. There will be no blare and
buster about the movement The
Daughters Of the American Revolution
are not given to doing things IN that
manner. But while the crusade viii
be lacking in pyrotechnical effects, IL
bids fair to accomplish far more good
than would be the case IL noise con-
stituted the main factor.-Detroit Free
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
The Comet Comes.

Outside the circle of astronomers,
Halley's name is known because it is
attached to a comet whose orbit he
calculated and whose return he pre-
dicted. This was in 1852, when Haley
computed its parabolic orbit, and COM
pairing this with the imperfect obser-
vations OF comets which have ap-
peared in 1886, 1881 and 1907, con-
cluded that each was the same body
returning from the outer region of the
solar system beyond the farthest
known planet. He wrote: Wherefore,
If it should return according to our
predictions about the year 1853, i'm
partial posterity will not refuse to &C
knowledge this was first discovered
by an Englishman." This was not
only q great advance in astronomy and
important in its relation to the theory
of gravitation, but was a forward
movement in the conception of the or
derliness Of the universe. Comets had
been portents of war, pestilence and
famine. It was indeed Halley's comat
which appeared in 1906 at the time Of
the invasion of William the ConQuerer.
and again in 1856 when Constantinople
was besieged by the Turks and the
crescent-shaped tail was a mighty
omen. Halley's comet duly appeared
in 1859. somewhat retarded by the at
traction of Jupiter and Saturn, fits per-
turbations having been accurately cal
culate1 by the French astronomer,
Clairaut.
1t appeared again IN 1896, and is
now once more rapidly approaching
the earth and the sun, having passed
the orbit of Jupiter in April last.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

The material for this column has
been supplied by the conservation COM
rnittee of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. Mrs. Frank w. Balm
sen, Mrs. Charles II. Deere, Mrs. ]. H.
Kaufman, Mrs. Frank Mixter, Mrs. A.
e. Stevenson, Mrs. William A. Talcott,
Mrs. Carl Vrooman and Mrs. Frank L.
Wean are the members Of the national
committee from this state. Address
any communications in regard to ma
terial for this column to Mrs. Amos G..
Draper chairman D. A. r. conserva-
ton committee, Washington. D. G.
"Facts, which I cannot gatnsay, force
me to believe that the conservation Of
our natural resources is the most
weighty question now before the peo-
pie of the United States.'-TheodOre
Roosevelt.
"Our land, our forests, our waters
and our minerals are the sources from
which come directly or indirectly the
livelihood of all of US. The question
of the conservation of our natural re-
sources is the question Of fundamen-
tai Importance to the United States"
William Howard Taft.
Conservation is the application of
common sense to common problems
for the common good."-Gifford Pin
chot.
Forester Pinchot publishes as a
Farmers Bulletin the declaration of
principles on conservation adopted by
the governors at the White house con-
ference in May, 1908. 1t is supposed
that the farmers read bulletin No. $40
of the United States department of
agriculture. But what If they do?
What If every man. woman and child
in the whole country would be con-
WINGED OF the need of a vigorous con-
servation program? Would they get
it? Not in a thousand years If they
didn't organize the fight. The forester
has been at work to organize that
fight for 10 years. The administration
tells us it is doing all it can to the
same end now. James j. Hill
has hit the conservation nail on the
head. There will never be any prog
BT6SS, JnlnhS ludL dbIulS eulIlfS Du1Iu-
er, until the plan of waterways devel-
opment is made solely in the light Of
the greatest good to the whole coun-
try What ought to be done by the
friends of the conservation movement,
and done right away, is this: ''The
fight should be focused. There ought
to be as nearly as possible unanimous
demand upon congress for one thing.
That one thing should be a commission
to lay general foundations for future
appropriations as to the further pur-
chase of national forest lands, the de-
velopment of mineral resources in the
public lands, the protection of soils, as
well as to digging channels and build
Ing dams, II that can be accomplished,
then there is some hope for the whole
cause of conservation. Somebody
ought to send out farmers bulletin
on the need of getting together
Washington Times.
Clifford Pinchot, chairman OF the
Joint committee on conservation, and
national forester, held a confer
ence with members of southern state
conservation commissions at New Or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

The sim girl, busy in the garden
patch, Strengthened suddenly as sne
heard her name called softly and anx-
iously.
Here 1 am. Sammy" she answered
clearly.
A little fellow shot from round the
corner of the shed. his eyes wide and
fearful. He swung himself on his
crutches close to where she was stand
ing and whispered hoarsely:
Mary, they're going to shoot Jim
tonight heard them say so.''
With a low cry she dropped the
trowel in her hand and grasped the lit
tie cripple's shoulder. Sammy. where
are they?' she asked.
They're In the back room Of the
barn." was bis answer. And she was
gone.
Word had come among the mountain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01


MRAN?' BE CRIED.
people that the government was send
ing spies among them in an attempt to
discover where they were carrying on
their Illegal distilling. and Mary had
known for some time that Jake EN-
mons, whom she and the cripple knew
as their father. was trying to direct
the suspicion of his friends toward
tho fine looking stranger known as Jim
symons, who had recently come among
them.
Symons In his ready, friendly way
had made friends with her, and he
often came to the little cabin to see
her. She had warned him of his dam
ger. but he had careiessIy told her not
to worry.
Now, as she slipped softly down the
walk to the she'd. her heart beating
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Success OF Commission Plan.

The demand for the commission
form of government is being agitated
in New England. The Springfield Re-
publican, referring to this agitation,
says:
Lowell is becoming interested in
the commission plan OF city govern
ment. One of the mems clubs there
called over several of HaverhilPs Of
ficials one evening last week, and
heard strong arguments in favor of the
change based upon HaverhilPs expert
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Locking Backward.

In four and forty summers
When children gather near
And say TO you, Dear grandpa,
A story we would hear"
Just tell them TO be seated ~
And hearken unto you
And say, II well remember
When aeroplanes were new"
When every one is soaring
Athwart the startled sky
And women, men and children
Have but TO rise and fly,
Just think how all the people
Your name viii hold in awe
II you can say. 81 saw them
When they were new and raIlS
And you will be regarded
Wherever you may stray
A person of importance.
An ancient on display,
And men of rank and standing
VIII come 20 where you are
And listen to your story
And give you a cigar.
They'll want to know exactly
Just how the first one looked
And II folks were not shaky
When passengers were booked.
So husband your resources.
Don't die, beg OF you,
For youn be widely honored
In nineteen hfty-two.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

table. / will never be without this
medicine in the house. Mrs. SAM'L
LEE, 1923 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky.
Another Operation Avoided.
Adrian, Cal suffered untold
misery from female troubles, and my
doctor said an operation was my only
chance, and l dreaded it almost as
much as death. Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound completely cured
me without an operation. 81 LENA V.
HENRY, r. +. ID. 3.
Thirty years of unparalleled sue
cess confirms the power of Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound TO
cure female diseases. The great vol
ume of unsolicited testimony constant
ly pouring in proves conclusively that
Lydia +. Pinlham's Vegetable Com
pound is q remarkable remedy for those
distressing feminine ills from which
so many women suffer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Missouri democrats are laying plans
for rousing Jackson day celebration
Gratis Of Missouri should rally around
the old flag bearing the motto, Equal
Rights for All and Special Privileges
for None,' and they doubtless will.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

"Aso Iovea and is
nethe a
ina anything that 5 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
It not what be-
But is 1WE1at
who lived uncounted years ago
wise strong lived IN honors glow
the shifting sands Of time
accounted sublime
Of beats and
the Wanted
Though throne seek remembrance with.
eyes pass becomes myth.
be he King a
Needless feet Will
hatred his his and his pride.
-
clown,
him grass silent myrtle
that for fame is dust the plain,
grave but sinks into the field again.
Of life that all the ages tell
their shall
founcIed basis safe and
They strength better
they but what such
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

If it be true, as 4 missionary assures
us, that the unmarried girl in Turkey
is looked upon as an old maid at the
mature age of IA, the unspeakable
male persons in that land need the
Christening influences of the bachelor
maid and the suffragette to indicate to
them in no uncertain tones the cen
fury in which they find themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

ta1nly QODc HE u
world of good and
/ cannot praise it
enough. / suffered
fromirregularities,
dizziness, nervous
ness, and a severe
female troub lie.
LydiaE.P inkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has restored
me to perfect
health and kept me
from the operating
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

A year ago the daily ration of
soldier cost Uncle Sam 1G.G5 cents,
today 1t costs 21.5 cents. At this rate
Uncle Sans market bill for his soldier
boys VIII be s1,54o,2O0 bigger than
last year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Hoarseness in a child subject 70
Group is a sure indication of the ap-
preach of the disease. If Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy Is given at once
or even after the croupy cough has
appeared, it VIII prevent the attack
Contains no poison. Sold by ali drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

The price of buggies and other vehi-
cles is going higher, they say. Well,
what of it? AS the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette says, it costs no more to walk
than it ever did.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
sktds Under UncIe Joe.

The slids have been placed under
s'Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the
national house OF representatives.
They have been creased, and it looks
very much like your s'Uncle Joe" was
about to join that great army OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

AS another evidence of returned
prosperity the ST. Paul Pioneer-Press
points to the fact that Mr.. Cannon's
profanity foundry is working overtime.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Cinch bugs cost Kansas from $4,000
coo to $25,O00O00 every year, consti-
tUting one of the few things that are
still the matter with Kansas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Whenever you read of men using
beer bottles in q fight, close reading
viii show you that the bottles are
emptied before the fight begins.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

The interstate commerce commits
sion has ruled that cake is as much a
necessity as bread. That makes it al
most as much OF a necessity as pie.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

officials of the Standard OIL com
pany say they would never seek TO
control the central bank should it De
established. No, nor congress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Rock Island needs clean water, and
needs it badly, but not at the expense
Of an unclean transaction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Being a summer girl is pleasant, but
she finally gets to be an autumn girl
no matter what the time of year II
she keeps at it too long
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
tFND~SS-|-S-|'N-11- 1''N3~~|1NoF@SN
( HurIaOp and !
} Philosophy )
y D1 DUNCAN ~. SMITH \
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

THE folly OF putting your money ON
pony lies I'm the paradox that II
IT doesn't run fast enough it runs away
with your coin.
The wife he didn't get is any mans
ideal wife.
1t takes lots of hattery In addition to
love and money TO keep the world In
its accustomed whirl.
Many a man Is loved for bis money,
slugged aud left for it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Every move that looks 20 the better
ment of the moral conditions OF Rock
Island is to be commended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Weakening Effect.

"TIe is lost II thought"
"Will we have to organize a refer
''No; just ring the dinner bell"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

FROM AN
OPERATION
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Louisville, KY. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has GER
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Hard Practice.

"Has the young doctor much of a
practlce?"
"Yes, considerable"
''In any special lineT"
ECONOMY"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Third Alternative.

Third Alternative.
"Give me liberty or give me 1eathT'
shouted the orator.
"And which did they give himP
Neither"
"And what did they give him."
'rhe hook"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

BY the way. keep the belt line pro-
5ect moving.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
The Only Way.

The Only Way.
"What is an exaggerated egoT
"a man who needs a surgical opera
ton"
"Whatg'
"Yes, decapltation."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
ANYBODY who can invent a cook

Anybody VINO can luNeII a COOK mat
will neither blow up nor blow out will
be entitled TO be presented with FIRST
class Kitchen TO keep her In.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Puzzled.


'The quality Of my work i5 second
to none"
81 should not think of giving it that
rating"
81 knew you would appreciate IT and
gauge its true value"
'Well, as TO value ] am a little bit
puzzled
"Puzzled7"
Eyes; l shouldn't know whether TO
class it sixteenth or twenty-third."
Shock.
''There certainly is something queer
In dreams"
"But that isn't the worst"
''Eo?'
mo; II IS the awful suddenness Of .
them that gets me-"
"Suddenness?"
eyes, when you wake up"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
No. Snh1tantinI

They had a feast OF reason.
OF course the price came iitgss.
He said that he enjoyed Il.
But still he yearned for pic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
Somewhat Near.

Somewhat Near.
81 don't think that pilot knows his
business"
HE said he was well grounded In
IT"
Doesn't act that way"
Maybe the ship will be well ground
ed, then"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
10 Mistnke About It.

No Mistake About It.
81 am looking for new joke
"a really new joke"
New"
'Do you expect TO find itT
"Sure"
''rhen you are IT,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island. Ill. EEn-
tered ct the postofice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

Chemberlain's Cough Remedy has
become famous for its cures Of coughs.
colds, Group and Influenza. Try it
when in need. It contains no harmful
substance and always gives prompt
relief. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

BY THE ). W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01

TERMs.-Daily, 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.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-12
MN|R

CAUSE and cure
of cancer is the
most difficult and
now the most ur-
gent problem ever
imposed upon the
healing profession
for solution. More
than a dozen the
cries have been Of