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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

SHE RAISED A STARTLED FACE AT HIS
KNOCK.
eonification Of youth and beauty. The
real woman was worn, and there was
something in her face that checked
the boy more than even her slatternly
attire. The door closed, and he fled.
AS he CROPPED his way through the
darkness of his sitting room he tred
on the pages of his latest manuscript
that had fallen to the floor, but he did
not heed. Throwing himself into an
armchair, he leaned against the table
and buried his face in his arms.
For long time he sat in the dark
ness. He thought of his violets now
only with feeling of self disgust.
Suddenly the soft strains of annie
Laurie" fell on his ears. played and
sung by the girl across the hall. He
raised his face and listened. A sud-
| den contrast rose before him-the hard
features he had seen and the sweet,
modest face Of his little neighbor. He
obeyed a sudden impulse that brought
him ITO his feet and sent him across
the hall. The door was ajar.
The strains Of the old song had
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Poets Centennial.

The one hundredth anniversary IF
the birth of Elizabeth Barrett Brown.
ing, who is conceded throughout the
Enblish-speaking world to have been
one of the greatest of woman poets.
was observed in London and Boston
Sunday with commemorative exercises
held under the auspices of numerous
literary societies.
Elizabeth Barrett AS she was be-
fore her marriage to Robert Brown
ing, the poet, was born March ).
1909. Her genius was evident from
her earliest girlhood. and was fos-
tered by her devoted parents. She
began to write at 8 years of age. At
10 her father prin,ed for her her
epic poem, "The Battle of Mara
thon." At II she wrote learned
essay on Mind" AT &c her poems
were already mature in thought and
in art.
In 1876 she was married to Robert
Browning and the greater part of her
life thereafter was passed in Italy.
Among her best known poems are
THE Rhyme of the Duchess May"
Lady Geraldine's Courtship." ''The
Cry of the Children" and "Sonneis
from the Portuguese"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Hurnor ass Philosophy
DEVELOPS HIS CAUTION.

In China when the banker man.
By very pressing debts assailed.
Shuts up the bank and says. Alas.
I'm sorry. but the bank has failed"
They lead the banker to the block.
And then they settle up the score
BY cutting OF his head. and so
He cannot use 1t any more.
They do not stop to try the case.
They think 1t makes the matter worse
To let the lawyers wag their chins
And talk around the universe.
With no appeals and no delays,
No waiting for q higher court,
They mend the matter then and there,
And he is shortly one head short.
The evidence before their eyes
They think will hold him for q spell.
AS soon as he has closed the bank
The incident Is closed as well.
They whistle. and the ak man comes
And sees at once the work in hand
And hicks the culprit in the neck
With all the force at his command.
1t seems a crude and cruel way,
But we are told II works cure.
He'll never break a bank again
OF that they may be very sure
The banker knows what they will do.
He doesn't like the headsman's stroke,
And so. in China, we are told.
He doesn't let the bank go broke.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Spells the Old way.

Commenting on the fact that Pres:-
dent Roosevelt showed Inconsistency
in his last message to congress, as re-
gard spelling, the Philadelphia Ledger
has the following:
Advocates of 'simplified spelling re-
ceived shock when it was learned
that the president had abandoned its
use in his latest message to congress
The message was sent in yesterday
accompanying the report of the navy
reorganization commission.
''In the first paragraph of the mes
sage he said he had expressed to
Justice Moody and the Justices asso
ciates on the COMMISSION his thanke
for their work Only short time age
Mr.. Roosevelt would -haxe 'exprest' his
satisfaction.
I'm the second paragraph the presi
dent prescribes for what he terms
thorough preparation for war. 1t i!
believed he meant 20 point out the
sthoro' essentials.
in the closing sentence of the mes
sage Mr.. Roosevelt uses the wore
throughout He has always write.
through thru and throughout his con
version to photographed simplicity
has ever been turnout The wore
thru he has defended against all at
lacks and he has waged war agains
those of the simple spoilers who be
tlieved that this change was i'll ad
vised''
The return to the spelling of hi
lforefathers leads the simple" speller
| in Washington to fear that they hav,
| lost their greatest convert. When MI
Roosevelt became convert to tn
Carnegie school of photography he In
sisted upon setting an example for tn
American people by having the sim
plified words used in all public-docr
ments and the Congressional RECORD
For little while this was done The
congress passed resolution compel
ing the government printing Office .
lobserve the usual forms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Tasting the Climate.


The summer climate Of Alaska is
often described as possessing a charm
and fascination which cannot be de-
scribed in words. Nevertheless in
Alaska, the Great Country" Ella
Higginson tells Of an old Klondiker
who declared that one could "just
taste Alaska climate"
1T tastes different every hundred
miles," he declared, with that beam
Of the eye which means love Of Alaska
in the heart. You begin to taste 1t in
Grenville channel. 1t tasted different
at Skagway, and there's a big change
when you get to White Horse.
II golly! AT White. Horse you'll think
you never tasted anything like it. but
1t don't hold candle there to the way
1t tastes going down the Yukon.
IF you happen to get into the ar'tic
circle, say, about 2 in the morning, you
address yourself and like out on deck,
and you can taste more'n climate. You
can taste the ar'tic circle itself Say,
can you guess what it tastes like?"
1 could not guess what the arctic cir
Gle tasted like and frankly confessed
1t.
"Well. say, 1t tastes like icicles made
out of them little blue flowers you call
voylets. l picked some out from un-
der the snow once and eft 'em. There
was moisture froze all over 'em, SO I
know how they taste. and that's the
way the ar'tic circle tastes.>
"Just you remember when you get
to the circle an say, straight goods, II
Cyanide Bill amt right"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Remarkable Reasons For pueI..

Colonel Montgomery was shot in a
duel about a dog, Colonel Ramsey in
one about servant, Mr.. Featherstone
in one about recruit, Sterne's father
in one about goose, and another gen.
tleman in one about q bottle OF an
chovies. One officer was challenged
for merely asking his opponent to
pass him a goblet. Another was COM
PEELED to fight about pinch of snuff.
General Barry was challenged by a
Captain Smith for declining wine at a
dinner on a steamboat, although the
general pleaded as an excuse that
wine invariably made him sick, and
Lieutenant Cowther lost his life In a
duel because he was refused admit
lance to club Of pigeon shooters.
In 1II1 a duel occurred in New York
between Lieutenant Featherstonehaugh
of the Seventy-fifth and Captain Nc
Pherson of the Forty-second British
regiment in regard to the manner Of
eating an ear Of corn, one contending
that the eating was from the cob and
the other contending that the grain
should be cut off from the cob before
eating. Lieutenant Featherstonehaugh
lost his right arm, the ball from his
antagonists pistol shattering the limb
fearfully. so much so that it had to be
amputated. Major Noah lost his life
in 1927 at the dueling ground at Hobo
ken in simple dispute about what
was trumps in game Of cards.-Lon-
don Chronicle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Seeking New Forage Plants.

Professor Niels Ebbesen Hansen of
the South Dakota college of agricpl-
ture has just returned from remark
able journey which he took under the
direction of the department of agri-
culture at Washington in search for
plants. grains and grasses suitable for
transplanting in the colder and in
some of the semi-arid regions of this
country. Professor Hansen spent near.
ly a year in Northern Russia and pen.
etrated beyond the Arctic circle in his
searth for wild grams, grasses and
plants suitable for demonstration IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Indigestion
All Stomach Troubles

All are the result of undigested food
remaining in the stomach and putting
the whole system out of order-as it
surely will. Kodol digests the food the
way it does, because it contains all the
digestive elements. If it contained only
one or two of them such as pepsin, etc.,
it could not be of SO much help to the
stomach as it is. And there is no ques-
tlon but that Kodol digests all food
anywhere, at any time. When it will
digest every particle Of all kinds OF food,
in glass test tube, it should have no
difficulty in dgesting food in your stom-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Now that Roosevelt has little leis-
ure, his attention is called to the fact
that the population of France is in
creasing only at the rate of $4,000 n
year. while in Germany the population
is swelling at the rate of million a
year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

This startling contrast is somewhat
qualified if one considers the compar-
ative wealth of these cities as repre-
sented by the assessed valuation of
real and personal property subject TO
their taxation. In 1908 the total as
sessed valuation of all taxable prop
erty, personal and real, in the city of
NeY York was $7.15S, 1870, 400, IS
against $6.036, 1s5,691 for the other
10 cities taken together.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

A man in New Jersey who died
lately has left will in which he be-
queathed all his property. including
his gold mines and castles in the air:
to John d. Rockefeller. providing the
latter could find them. 1t will soften
the blow to the legatee that he hap
pens himself to be member of the
American Humorists' association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Manchester Press: Ex-Secretary Shaw
has been elected president of large
trust company of Philadelphia. and
will remove his family to that city
soon. We wish the secretary success;
but why Philadelphia? 1t was of the
Quaker city that the jocose traveller
said the other day: 81 spent a year in
Philadelphia last Sunday, and had a
very pleasant time"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat pub
fishes an attractive group of pictures
under the caption, wives of the pres
ident, and members of the cabinet
But for the fact that the faces are ex-
clusiyely those of representatives of
the nobler sex, one might possibly be
inclined to ask if the new chief execu.
tive Is sympathizer in act as well as
in word with the senator from Utah.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Being gregarious. we always want i
what the other fellow wants for the
same reason, although We may be to-
tally ignorant OF his reason.
! Courage Is the ability to misiead peo-
pie into thinking that Jon are not the
least bit scared. .ss
/ When woman gives you i piece Of
her mind It doesn't add 70 the peacs.
OF You're ~s--tfss -sisZ-a 5ss-fs1S = &,
Il knowledge Il power. why not at.
tach the universities q the eaectric
motors1
II It b necessary for some to weep
: We would IKE to pick the weeping Ut.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

A Boston woman, we are told. has
embraced % different religions" 1t
may be that up to the present time
she has not found any that recipro-
Gated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Roll-top desks are said to be losing

Rolltop desks are said to be losing
their popularity, a result of the stead
lily accelerating pace of business life
consequent upon shortening hours
and improved methods. The inviting
pigeon holes offer too seductive a
place for business to slumber in. The
flat-top desk is franker and shows
more readily how matters stand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Chinese in the fiowery kingdom, hav-
ing been forbidden to smoke opium,
are said to be turning to cheap whisky
A local option. movement in China
seems to be about due.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

puffs.x The boy gazed- at Ter with
startled eyes. With horrible sink
ing of the heart, he recognized the
celebrity.
Gone were the rosy visions; gone
was his golden haired ideal whom he
had worshiped from afar as the per-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
May start Boat March. %.

While no definite announcement has
been made by officials of the White
Collar line as to the date of starting
a packet between here and Burling-
ton, it is believed that it viii be March
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
A New Gardener.

II want some garden seed"
"What kinda?
"Small ones"
"Small what?"
aust for small garden"
"But what do you want to raiser
"a garden, Of course. Think want
ed to raise Oil wellsT'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Debts of Big Cities.

The magnitude of New York's
present funded Indebtedness stands
out strikingly when compared with the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

20, or the last Monday in March, this
having been the day chosen for the
opening of navigation in other years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

After so much dampness in Wash
ington, it is necessary to wiring out the
new as well as the old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Amid the excitement of the hour
Uncle Ike Stephenson of Wisconsin
managed to slip in unobserved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Standard Oil has been accused of
everything except inattention to bust
ness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

BY the way, how did the Washington
climate ever escape legislative action
SO long?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

ach. The next time you have indiges-
tion or dyspepsia, sour stomach, pain in
pit of the stomach, belchings, headaches,
etc., will be an excellent time to prove,
to your entire satisfaction, that Kodol
will do just what is claimed for it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Cincinnati begins to feel that it is
quite as important as Oyster Bay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Business Head.

"My wife went shopping today with
So"
Did she bring any Of it backr'
Eyes, So"
'MarvelousP'
at wasn't enough for a starter. %
she had the goods sent up c. o. D."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Patriotic

"Waiter," said the man with the
newly acquired million, "a bottle Of
wine." s..sf- =
ayes. sir. Imported, sirT'
Il don't care just so 1t - home
grown" :.....
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

To Cure Gold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab.
lets. Druggists refund money IL Il
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
is on each box. Csc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
UnproGtabla

ut is hard to be untruthful."
Eyes; 1 find 1t so-that is
"Whatg"
with any degree Of success"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Having, somebody to blame for our
mistakes is satisfactory, but often cost
ly.
The only way to be happy is to be
happy. but 1t is too inexpensive to be
popular.
1t is good for ones self esteem to
keep still and listen to what people
are saying-or not saying-about one:
The best thing about the nonworry-
ing habit is that no one Is begging you
to break yourself Of II. /,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08
Informed.

"Par
Eyes"
'What Is q blessing1'
Anything that you don't want or
can't get"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Now the constitution may rest easy.
Mr.. Taft has promised to support it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

The only annoy
ing habit some,
people have b
the habit Of ny-
ing.
Sometimes q
Q o It q n 5 " el
gives you a rep
utation formush.
mess.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

When you find you have crouch
chase it up tree and use it as mark
to choot at until your success puts you
in q good temper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Last Masonic Dance.-The last o.
the winter series of dancing parties
given by Trio lodge No. 81 and Rocl
Island lodge No. 65S, A. F. G A. M.
will be held at Masonic temple Thurs
day evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-08

Ever Ready circle.-The Eve
Ready Circle of the First Bapti:
church will be entertained by class l
in the church parlors Monday, Marc
is. The drill team will meet for pra
ftice March Is instead of March 8.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-21

vatives into single force was due 70
Lis wonderful diplomacy.-that diplo-
macy by means Of which he was able 10
secure the support OF Castelar, and Of
the Republicans. OF whom he was the
acknowledged chief.
But since Ssgasta's death no one
among the Liberals has shown the same
aptitude for the management OF men.
the same statecraft in reconciling
petty differences and N the attain
ment Of objects Of national Importance.
and although the new Premier. Senor
Aioret. is wonderfully progressive and
enlightened. lmbued with the best priu-
ciples OF consti.utionalism. and pos
sessed OF SO profound a sense OF JUS
tice that he has been on several occa-
SONS invited by foreign governments
10 assume the role Of arbitrator in their
differences. vet he has never made any
success in the management Of political
parties. or even Of individual politicians.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-21
BRIEF LIFE PREDICTED.

The new administration IS committed
O. the enforcement Of the law and 10 4
policy of extensive restriction Of the re-
liEious orders. and stress has been laid
upon the Urgent necessity Of this re-
fulm by S-Dcr Moret But II is veTy
doubtful whether he win be able 10
carry his intentions into effect For those
who know Spain best predict a relative
Is brief life for his Cabinet and an early
return 70 Office of the Conservatives
under Sehor Naura.
There are a number OF reasons for
this. one II the most important being
that the party which brought about the
overthrow OF Maura. and OF which Moret
IL the nominal leader. is not by any
means homogeneous II is split up into
any number Of dissident factions. which.
while they may A. a given moment join
hands IN order 10 turn a Cabinet out OF
ONCE, have shown, al any rate IN re-
cent years. that they are quite incapable
Ct working together for any length CT
time.
The only one who ever managed 10
keep them together in a team for ld-
ministrative purposes was old Ssgasta.
the most shrewd and astute statesman
that Spain produced in the ninenteenth
century. and whose success in welding
al the various enemies OF the Conser-
New-York tribune., 1909-11-21
He BRONX PARK ZOO

worried friends. but more strongly so by
the news that the yacht Varuna. owned
by Eugene Higgins. of this city and al
most as large and sturdy a craft as the
Nourmahsl was pounding 10 pieces of
Funchal, Madeira Islands, and that it,
occupants had been obliged 70 abandon
IL. The MADEIRA Islands are hundreds Of
miles away from the West Indies. but in
the path Of the same storm cf Novem-
Der %
one hundred and one lives we're los,
have gone down during the terrific hurri-
when the mail steamer seyne. Of the Mes
Java and Singapore. came into collision
sageries Martimes service. running between
with the steamer Onda. OF the British
India line. and sank within two minutes
Selim Hahih. a wealthy Turkish diamond
collector, was among the passengers
drowned in the wreck. and IL Is said the
famous Hope diamond. which has brought
disaster 20 all who have owned il. went
with him 10 the bottom.
Another report says this noted stone
was among the ss.01o0o0 plunder taken
from the Yildiz Kiosk after the rise Of the
Young Turks and the retirement OF Abdul
Hamld II seiim HabIb did get posses
sion OF IL interested persons would like 20
know how.
Speaker Cannon charged that Herman
Ridder offered him the Presidency on
silver platter. with the compliments OF
the metropolitan newspapers. II he would
repeal the duty on print paper Ridder
denied Ia.
II looks. said Busy Man, as II Uncle
Joe had decided TO help TO the best nf
HE ability the many people who want To
see an end put TO his political career"
Following the receipt or report" con-
tinu>d Constant Reader that two Ameri-
cans. Leroy Cannon and Leonard Groce.
had been shot IN Nicaragua rebels. the
State Department made peTemptory de
mands upon President zelsya for an ex-
rlanation pr Hszsrs, the newly appoint
ed minister plenipotenuary, vas informed
that be would not be received by President
New-York tribune., 1909-11-21
a YOUNG MUSK OK,

who has been under fire for some weeks
on charges OF cruelty 20 boy inmates. was
expelled by the board Of managers OF the
institution.
ghe President has decided TO appoint
Judge Horace r. Lurtcn. Of Tennessee. 10
the Supreme court or the United States IS
successor 10 Associate Justice Rufus W
Peckham.
Clark Williams. State Controller. an
ncunced the appointment Of Edward Ten
Brock Perine. of New York as First
Deputy State Controller 10 succeed OTTO
Kelsey.
The Court OF Appeals Of the District Of
Columbia granted q stay until November
e Of the issuance of the mandate sending
President Gompers. Nioe-President Mitchell
and Secretary Morrison OF the American
Federation OF Labor 10 Jail for contempt
OF the Supreme Court OF the District OF
Columbia in the Bucks Stove and Range
case
Ninety days Imprisonment Mas i'm
posed upon Joseph r. shipp. ex-sherin Of
Chattanooga. Tenn. by the Supreme Court
OF the United States for contempt Of court
IN falling 10 prevent the Iynching OF d
negro. under sentence Of death. whose eX-
ecution had been stayed bv the court.
He viii have time" snsrled Busy Man
10 decide what Once he wants 10 be
elected 10 by bis sdmiring white fellow
citizens when he gets OUT
Archer Christian. jr.. eighteen years
old a University of Virginia football
player. who was Injured In q game with
Georgetown University died" continued
Constant Reader. and the Georgetown
faculty ordered the diseontinusnee Of the
game of football until such time rules
shall 10 so framed a. 70 exclude all pos
slbii.ty OF danger 70 life and limb.
search was begun by the United States
government and private individuals also
for Colonel John Jacob Astor's steam yacht
Nourmahai. "a being feared that the vea-
sci with Colonel Astor. his son Ninceat
and tVo other passengers aboard. may
cane 81 isst .Wtek ia the Caribbean Sea
TIE search was partly inspired By