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The Springdale news., 1909-04-20
ALUMNI BANQUET.

The closing eXerclses of the % term of school were brought to a close with the alumni banquet at the high school building Friday night. There were about fifty guests present, and the banquet was under the management of the ladies aid society of the Christian Church. It was a pleasant affair, which did not end until Saturday morning.
 The annual election of officers resulted as follows: President, Guy Stafford; vice president, James Marks; secretary, Miss Pearl Hewitt; treasurer, Miss Bess Graham.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

The bill by Mir. Guilliams to prevent the sale or manufacture of liquor in Washington County has been amended by the Senate so as to make 1t unlawful for li- quor to be given away in the county, or for any person to in any way be interested in the manufacture, sale or giving away of the liquor.
 A blll was introduced in the House Thursday prohibiting the circulating of literature advertis- ing liquor in dry territory. and also the publication of liquor ad- vertisements by newspapers printed in dry territory.
 Mr. Combs bill requiring the Frisco to build depot at Dutton, Madison County, passed the House Tuesday.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

Rev. Loc khart, pastor of the Christian Church at Fayetteville, will deliver his illustrated lecture, Ben Hur," at the Christian Church in Springdale tonight (Tuesday) under the auspices of the ladies aid society. Admis- sion Is and 25 cents. The lec- ture is said to be very fine, both interesting and instructive, and worthy the patronage of all.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

Let us have good attendance at the Horticultural society Sat urday the 24th. Everyone inter ested in Strawberry Day celebra- tion should be present.
 SECRETARY.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20
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The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

National Socialist party will be Spingda April will lecture Saturday afternoon he Necessity Socialism, Will lecture Newkrk school house Saturday night 7:30, and Monitor school house Sunday night at 73O
 any opponents Socialism Mr. Clark will the Local making their
 Clark Socialism sbreak up you divide with the fellow won't will interfere with your religion will enable all home, give children
 thorough education and worship God dictates
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

Slight rain yesterday morning and considerably cooler.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

A. s. J. Daugherty of Fort Smith came up Sunday afternoon to visit with his sister, Mrs. s. w. Clark.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

. ! l $ Rogers--l s 0 o "A. Springdale 1 0 0 } 0 1-16 Errors were numerous on both sides. Umpire, Guy Stafford.
The Springdale news., 1909-04-20

Mir. Gam of Benton County in- troduced a bill in the House Thursday prohibiting the play
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
The Old Time Album.

'The terrors of the autograph al
bum must have been more general in
the middle of the last century than
they are now. The volume had en-
bossed pages Of various colors and
showed alternate literature and art
original verses and drawings Of ruins
and bridges heightened with white
chalk. Girls presented it for contribu-
lions so universally that Charles Dick
ems was on one occasion much aston
ished to find none Forthcoming. He
had actually brought with him some
verses addressed to a beautiful maid
en-. on whose parents he was calling.
and he carried them away again.
Sending them TO her by post. he wrote.
81 had meant to put these lines into
your album, but you. who do nothing
like anybody else, did not produce
Standard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
The Argus Daily Short Story
Princess Susette and the Sentry-By Harry G. Carr
Copyrighted. Literary

and softly nozZled the plump, heaving
shoulders of the unhappy little Prin-
cess Susette.
The light of an inspiration came in
TO the tear stained face of the prin-
cess. She sat down in the middle Of
the road and peeled off her shoes and
stockings. The little barelegged maid
IN stiff white lawn presented queer
figure Of krincess as her highness
padded back to the sentry
"AIr. Soldier" she began tentatively.
but the speech died on her lips. She
had Just discovered that making fig
ures In the dust with ones bare toe is
the most fascinating amusement in the
world. She was recalled from her alb
sorbing occupation by the distant rat
tie of pony hoofs. Her nurse was in
pursuit.
The princess looked up eagerly at the
sentry.
mfr. Soldiers" she said.
The sentry looked straight out to the
front and center and paid no heed.
"Mr. Soldier" this in a breathless
panic.
Still the sentry would not look, so
size gave his leg vicious pinch.
The sentry's saber flashed again to
present arms"
"Can go now?" asked the Princess
Susette
Nobody can pass" said the sentry
grufliy.
The princess looked up at him slyly
"Air. Soldier, nursy wouldn't let me
60 barefooted because she said only
little nobodies went barefooted. I'm
nobody now"
And the Princess Susette held I'm
her shoes and stockings for him te
see.
On one side the sentry could hear
the hoof beats growing louder. and
through the shrubbery he caught 8
glimpse Of pony cart driven hard
On the other side he heard the splash
of water and the happy shout of the
lodgekeeper's children. The lips OF
the lonely little princess were begin
ming to CULVER again when the sentry's
saber flashed defiant gleam as it rose
in salute.
Pass" said the sentry shortly.
The Princess Susette, barelegged, ran
down the road and shyly made hel
way into the bakery business with the
lodgekeeper's children. The sentry
glanced out of the corner of his eye to
the right of him, to the left of him
No one was nigh.
Then he called cautiously after the
Princess Susette: Build dam across
the creek. That's more fun than max
ing mud pies"
When the pony cart came dashine
up In hot haste, with a groom and q
frightened nurse. the sentry. without
a trace Of expression in his face. was
staring at the gatepost opposite.
"Where is the Princess SusetteT
gasped the white faced nurse.
The sentry sat in stern silence. II
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
The History Of a Book.

Following is the story of the first
edition of Fitzgerald's celebrated trans.
lation Of "Omar Khayyam." The
book was issued anonymously and
found no buyers. Accordingly tile au-
thor went to Bernard Quaritchs shop,
dropped a heavy parcel of 200 copies
Of the "Rubaiyat" and said, 'Quaritcb,
I make You a present Of these books"
The famous bookseller offered them
first at half crown. then at shilling,
and, again descending, at sixpence, but
no buyers came. In despair he reduced
the book to penny and put copies
into box outside his door with a
ticket, Call these at 1 penny each.
At that price the pamphlet moved. In
a few weeks the lot was sold, and in
this way one Of the finest gems of
English literature was dispersed among
a not overdlscerning public.
The legend has it that Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Swinburne and Burton were
among those who discovered the "hid-
den treasure in the penny box" Years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23

is ample opportunity for the immi-
grants to engage in farming on their
own account and this is not confined
to the west.
The report of the New York COM
missioner of agriculture shows a de-
crease of 1883 farms in that state
in the last 20 years, and that this
is not accounted for by consolida-
lions is proved by the great decrease
in farm products. The same condi-
ton exists all over the east and the
farmers explain it as due to lack of
labor to till the land. The farmers
sons have gone west or to the city
and immigration has not supplied
their place.
The New York commissioner of
agriculture recommends that bu-
reaus be established to acquaint the
immigrants with the opportunities
in agricultural sections, both for the
salvation of the farmer and the good
of the immigrant who under present
conditions has no means of knowing
the opportunities on the farm, while
the agents of industrial enterprises
are ever active. This recommends
ton is endorsed by the commission
of immigration, which has been in
vestigating the whole subject for the
state of New York, and appeals to
us as offering one of the most prac-
tical ways of attacking the chief evil
of our congested immigration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Farms for Immigrants.

One of the greatest problems in
the United States is the assimilation
of the immigrant and this is compli-
Gated by the tendency of the new
corners to settle in congested labor
centers. Here they are largely
grouped by nationalities and often
compelled to live in surroundings
neither healthful nor uplifting. This
is particularly true of those from
southern Europe, who seldom seek
the farms, though many of them at
home lived in rural districts. I'M
migration statistics show that over
100000 of that class have arrived
in this country since 1901.
The reasons impelling the fmmi-
grant to remain in the city are var
led, but it is not because the farm
does not need them. From one end
of the country to the other there has
been a demand for farm labor, even
when stagnation prevailed in the in
dustrial centers. In addition there
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Russian Nenaeance,

The Russian revlutionaries have
absolutely no mercy on those who be-
tray them. 1t is well known that Ia
the year 1903 traitor caught at
Odessa was bricked up alive in a GET
lar.
Regnier. a French spy in the pay Of
the Russian police. for long time
eluded the vengeance Of the revoiu-
tionaries. But they caught him at last.
and that just at the moment when ne
fancied himself safe. His body was
found in his cabin on ship which
reached Antwerp. He had been suffo-
Gated by fumes Of sulphureted hydro
gen. How this was done was never
discovered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23

There was Il vivid dash in the sup
shine as the sentry by the palace gait
raised his saber in salute to the PriE-
cess Susette.
Her highness had run away from her
nurse and stood peeking out curiously
into the great world beyond the gates.
The children Of the lodgekeeper We're
making mud pies in the creek that
skirted the palace grounds. The Prin-
cess Susette wished that she, too,
might make mud pies.
The fash from the sentry's saber
caught her eye The Princess Susette
meditatively sucked one little pink
thumb and surveyed him with round
eyed wonder. He looked big and ter
rible on his great gray troop horse.
what makes you do that?" inquired
Princess Susette piaintivety. for tn,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Cheaper Telegraph Service.

II the new telapOst system. now in
use betweeIN New York and st. Louis
and few other prominent cities
proves in efficiency what it's promot-
ers anticipate, America is soon to be
relieved of the high priced telegraph
service, at the same time improving
the efficiency of rapid long distance
transmission.
Messages are being received by the
new corporation for transmission any
distance at the uniform price of 20
cents for so words. So rapidly are
the messages disposed of that it is
claimed large profits can be made
even at so low rate.
1t is a well known fact that at the
present time the telegraph service OF
America is far below that of Great
Britain. Germany or any other pro-
gressive European nation, both in eff
ficiency and per capita volume, while
the charge for messages is greater.
When the new method of trans
mission becomes general the volume
of business Is likely to be greatly in
creased by the lower, rate and i'm
proved facilities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
THE RHIN0CEROs.
This Malicious Brute Is the Assassin
of the Jungle.

This Malicious Brute Is the Assassin
Of the Jungle.
If the genius of hell used up all his
mental energy making devil for the
animal kingdom, he could not have Gre
ated more uncertain. malicious and
ugly brute than the rhinOceros. This
animal has buried more hunters than
all other big game combined. 1t seems
to be the hired assassin of the jungle.
Its success as homicide is not due
to the fact that 1t seeks its victim, but
because its victim falls over it. If the
rhino knows that there is an enemy
about. 1t will try to get away without
being seen. If. on the other hand. il
thinks that by keeping still it will be
passed unnoticed. it stays as silent and
motionless as Gibraltar. its little hog
eyes watching the direction of the
noise and It's nose smiling the air.
Should an enemy show up suddenly
in the jungle the rhino charges like a
flash, nose down and horns leveled like
swords for the thrust. it's huge bulk
crushing through the brush like an ex-
press train. 1t is always a fight to the
death, for rhinoceros. once in fight.
wins or dies. and 1t mostly wins IL 1t
is not confronted with an express rife
in the hands of a cool. good shot
Hampton's Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
DIR. Eliot's "Five Foot Shelf"

Having declared that all the books
necessary to give any man the essen
tials of liberal education could be
placed end up on five foot shelf, Dr.
Eliot accepted the invitation of pub
Usher to name the books. A partial
list issued the other day, includes the
following:
Autobiography of Benjamin Frank
lin."
journal of John Woolman."
Fruits of Solitude" by William
Tenn.
Bacon's Essays and New At
lantis.''
Millions "Areopagitca" and "Trac-
tate on Education"
Sir Thomas Brownies "Religo
Medici.'
Plato Apology "Phaedo" and
Critic
Golden Sayings of Epictetus."
"Meditations of Marcus Aurelius."
Emerson's Essays"
Emerson's English Traits
The complete Poems of Milton.
Johnson's "Volpone"
Beaumont and Fletcher's THE
Maids
Webster's Duchess of Malfi."
Middleton's 1.-The Changeling."
Dryden's 'All for Love-"
Shelley's "Cenci"
Browning's Blot on the Scutcheon.
Tennyson's Beckett"
Goethe's Faust"
Marlowe's DIR Faustus."
adam Smiths Wealth of Nations
Letters" of Cicero and Pliny.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress"
Burns Tam o. Shanter.''
Walton's Complete Angler" and
Lives" of Dome and Herbert.
Autobiography of st. Augustine
Plutarch's Lives" ........
Dryden's "Aeneid." ..........
Canterbury Tales" ..........
limitation of Christ" by Thomas A
Kempis.
Dantes Divine Comedy
Darwin's Origin of Species"
ARABIAN Nights"
The absence from the first list of the
bible and Shakespeare, of Hugo's Les
Miserables," of any of the works o.
the democratic Swinburne, the lyrica
Moore, of Keats, Byron, Wordsworth
Stevenson and Thackeray, of Dick
ems 'Pickwick Papers," of Robinson
Crusoe" suggests its incompleteness
Surely DIR. Eliot cannot be so lacking
in appreciation of the humorous as tC
eliminate it wholly from the shelf
More than 100000 copies of Henry
Georges Progress and Poverty" have
been sold, and familiarity with it is
essential to education in economics
yet "the little bible has no place OF
the shelf.
Nevertheless Dr. Eliot's list will be
accepted generally as the most author
itative issued in a quarter of cen
fury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
In Morocco.

In Morocco the prevailing tone Is
grayish white, mems clothes and
houses. towns, bushes. tall umbelii-
ferae. uodding like ghosts in autumn
all are white; white sands upon the
shore and in the Sahara and over all
white and saddle ming light, as il the
sun was tired of shining down for
ever on the unchanging life. In no
part of Morocco l have visited does
the phrase gorgeous east" have the
least meaning. and this is always noted
by the wandering fasteners, who find
the country dull and lacking In color
compared with Asia. or. as the Arabs
call it, "Blad Els Schark. IA Journey
to Morocco"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Pennsylvania Reserve Forests.

A deed entered at Somerset, Pa, the
other day conveys 1892 acres of de-
nuded timberland in Lincoln, Jeffer-
son and Jenner townships to the COM
monwealth Of Pennsylvania. The land
purchased will be replanted with tim
Der and will become part Of the pro-
posed state reserve forests. Negotia-
lions are pending for additional thou
sands Of acres for this project. and 1t
is said the reserve to be established in
this section will assume gigantic pro-
portions. Hereafter no county tax on
the land described in the deed will be
assessed, but the state will pay road
and school taxes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23

HER RICHNESS.
long saber at present arms was glim-
mering with little hot flashes of light.
Because you are a princess" said
the sentry briefly.
A wave of discomfort swept over the
face Of the Princess Susette.
II don't want to be a princess" she
walled. 'They won't let you do nossin'
when you are princess"
The sentry sat in frozen silence.
The eye of the princess wandered
back to the lodgekeeper's children
making mud pies by the creek.
81 wish 1 could made mud pies" said
her highness wistfully.
The Princess Susette came timidly
out from the gateway and touched the
sentry's hussar boot with tiny dim
pied hand.
"Mr. Soldier" she said softly, II
wish I could make mud pies
1.-THE orders are that nobody can
pass the gate" growled the sentry.
The sweet lips of the Princess Su-
settle quivered, and the big blue eyes
of the Princess Susette filed with
tears.
"oh, Mr., Soldier" she eobbed.' I'm
such lonely little girl! wish l had
some one to play wiz"
The heart of the Princess Susette
overflowed with woe. Her highness
leaned heavily against the shoulder of
the big war horse and wept bitter
tears ON the sabertaehe of the sentry.
The boot of the sentry was streaked
with royal tears. and the black fronf
the sentry's stirrup strap begrimed the
face of the princess.
The sentry glared straight out to
the front and center through a
strange mist that dimmed the outlines
Of the gatepost opposite.
The gray troop horse bent his head
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
was against his orders to talk.


Where is the Princess Snsettew de-
manded the nurse in sudden terror.
The sentry stared on at the gatepost
opposite. but beyond the gate came a
childish treble that the nurse knew.
The Princess Susette was shrieking
with delight over her first mud pie.
The nurse grabbed the lines from the
groom and urged the pony forward by
Jerking the lines backward after the
manner Of women. The sentry's horse
moved majestically out from the gate
post and blocked the way.
Get out of the way" ordered the
nurse furiously.
"You cannot pass!" said the. sentry
coldly.
II want the Princess Susettew cried
the nurse wildly.
She jerked the pony's head and tried
to turn by the sentry, but a great
gauntlet caught the pony's bride and
held it I'm wise. The pony, be.
wildered by the whip behind, began to
plunge. and the. groom had to run to
his head.
The distracted nurse scrambled from
the cart and ran with flying skirts to-
ward the gate. but the gray troop
| horse felt the dig of sharp spurs and
plunged desperately out to head her
| Off. Crowded into corner by the pal
ace gate, the nurse called to the groom
| 10 drive on and get the Princess Su-
settle.
The troop horse wheeled. and the
sentry whipped out cleaning pistol
from his saddle holster.
Halt he Numbered, and the order
rang in the ears Of the groom like a
| pistol shot The pistol looked big and
black. and the gaunt soldier by the
gate with his bearskin hussar cap and
| the scarlet dolman over his shoulder
was terrible to look upon.
| The groom skunk back, and the nurse
wept in despair.
1t was the best time the Princess
Susette ever had in her whole life.
When she came back the hair had
struggled down into her highness' face
and there was smudge Of blue black
mud across the tip Of her highness'
little snub nose. Her highness' stock
ings. wet as a dish rag, were slung
around her highness' neck in a lovely
way that the lodgekeeper's children
had shown her. The princess carried
one shoe I'm her hand; the other had
floated off down the stream after a
tempestuous career as an ocean liner.
| plying across the creek and carrying
pebbles. The princess shifted with a
cold in her head. but the heart Of the
| princess was glad.
| The nurse. on the verge Of Mysteries,
waited on the other side Of the sentry
| line. like q football player ready to
| tackle.
| But the Princess Susette turned back
10 the sentry.
"Mr. Soldier" she said
The sentry was staring fixedly at the
gatepost
MIR. Soldier" she said. Juggling at
his boot-"Mr Soldier. fink would
like to kiss you"
The sentry looked down out Of the
corner Of his eye at the sweet little
flushed face. The sentry sheathed his
drawn saber with clang. The sentry
reached down his two big gauntlets to
the Princess Susette.
The nurse and the groom were horri-
fed at the spectacle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Notice..

To the Honorable George w. Nc
Caskrin, mayor of the city of Rock
Island, Hive the undersigned here
by make application for license to
conduct a dramshop for the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors at $50 Twenty first
street, sub lot number Is, in block
number seven in the part of city of
Rock Island known as and called
Spencer and Cases addition of said
city to w. H. Healey's place of resi-.
dence of Rock Island, Ill. We submit
the names of signers:
W. II. HEALEY.
J. w. ,CAVANAUGH,
G. KLOTZ,
THOMAS ILLS.
CHRIS LANCE,
MISS ELLA DAILY,
ED MURRIN,
a. ELLICA ROSENFIELD,
VICTOR Won TIEGHEM,
c. SERVEY,
JOHN RUSSELL.
MRS. E. M'MAHON.
JOHN BLAKE,
CHARLES OSWALD,
ALBERT MEYER,
NORRIS & LEWIS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23

Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont advises the
suffragettes to adopt the battle cry,
mo ballots, no marriage" Unmar-
ried women will sniff and remark
that this is easy enough TO say, COM
ing from a woman who already has
a rich husband.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23

Canada paper mills are at a disad-
vantage of $40 a ton as compared
with domestic mills, yet the Aldrich
bill purposes a retention of the duties
en- paper and wood pulp imposed il,
the Diugley bill When a tariff is not
Tor the benefit of the American work
iEgman it is for the benefit of the
manufacturer. But never, it is super
fuous to add, for the consumer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
Humor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
D. DUNCAN ~. SMITH

In housekeeping time the man OF
experience expects neither food. raj
ment nor attention.
There is no use In being concerned
about it even If a burglar is in the
house. He probably understands his
business and would much rather not
be disturbed.
If the sultan Of Turkey lost a couple
Of wives in moving he viii never know
the difference.
The flowers that bloom in the spring.
tra-la, have everything to do with the
price.
Some men know more than their
wives. but they keep it strictly to
themselves for obvious reasons.
Happiness often consists in a Judi
cious choice of the things to be for
gotten.
There are plenty Of people who like
to work other people.
1t is easy to discredit yourself by
crediting others overmuch.
The man who hesitates may be try
ing to lose his chance. Who knows?
Is a man lucky because he is happy
or merely happy because he is lucky3
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-23
suckIen's Arnica saIve Wins.

Tom Moore of Rural Route l.,
Cochran, Ca, writes: 81 had a bad
sore come on the instep of my foot
and could find nothing that would
heal it until | applied Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve. Less than half of 25
cent box won the day for me by
affecting perfect cure" Sold under
guarantee at all druggists.