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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
COMPASS RECORDER.
Lake Sailor invents Device For Tabu-
latina Vessels Course.

.dNS SSioI tHNeHtS IevlCe or anu
lating Vessels Course.
John Schuette, formerly of Menomi-
nee, Mich. and well known lake sea
man. who for several months past has
been experimenting with his new com
pass recorder. has announced to Me
nominee marine men that the device
has been pronounced perfect by ex-
perts and that he will soon have it on
the market.
The instrument the first of its kind
to be brought TO perfection. is said to
be able to record the course of a
steamship or sailing vessel every mo-
ment the boat is in motion. BY means
of electricity and series of disks and
keys long strip OF paper marked by
the points of the compass and hours of
the day is traced by thin stream of
ink. so that the captain from his pri-
vate room can without moving see ex-
actly the course of the vessel.
The device also serves to keep tab
on the wheelsman. for it is impossible
for him to disobey orders without be-
ing detected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

as to make a delusive appearance OF
legislation But after all is said and
done the schedules will be practically
where they are now. The sooner the
consumers of the country make up
their minds to this the less disap
pointment will they suffer.
THE surest prophets of tariff legis
lation are the custom house reports
and the stock market The heavy and
sustained increase of imports in1i
Gates expectation of general increase
iof duties. But it may be explained
otherwise.
General prices are low in the stag
nation of trade waiting for tariff leg.
islation They should be higher when
1t is over even without much increase
of duty. Shrewd importers may be TAX
ing advantage of this. If so they are
only acting like other business men.
Whether duties are to be higher n
lower, whether actual business condi,
tions are to be worse or better every
body expects some improvement when
they are settled.
This being so. the sooner it is all
over the better for the country. The
Dingley schedules themselves are bet
ter than prolonged uncertainty with
small hope of anything better at the
end of it. When the people expected
some benefit from tariff legislation,
everybody was willing to endure pc
Rod of business uncertainty and sus.
penSe.
Now that nearly everybody has
made up his mind that no improve
ment is to be expected and that the
country will be lucky if We do not get
worse tariff, the chief anxiety
everywhere is to get the thing over
and send members of congress back
TO settle with their constituents
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

YEARLY dragging by and the tariff that
was to be revised Immediately is a
long way from being settled. The
great haste is forgotten. The final
coup is not yet divulged. The senti
ment of the people is not sufficiently
developed. The man who can unite
all factions must be selected. When
all is ready. the grand farce will lie
enacted, and the supreme court will
preserve the old regime Not single
burden will be lifted from the people
but the people will forget, and with
the extra currency of national certifi
Gates, the country will be treated tc
an era of prosperity on debt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

| That evening was the happiest Dave
had ever known. and he felt as If he
had known Bob's sister all his life.
Soon after that he made second
visit TO the city. And this second time
when he returned to the ranch it was
with wild happiness surging in his
heart that turned earth into paradise,
for Bob's sister came with him as his
wife.
Rosemary was delighted and bewil-
| dered with the novelty of the hills and
far stretching ranches and the great
rowing herds of cattle and the abso-
lutely different routine of life. For the
first six months Dave tasted the cup of
| happiness to the full.
Then little discontinued look grew
| in Rosemary's eyes and dimmed their
happiness.
Born and bred in the city. 10 the
city's tastes and ways, the life on the
western ranch became to Rosemary
wearisome ordeal. Dawes eyes caught
the shadow in his wife's. and. though
no word was spoken. each was aware
| of the cloud.
Suppose we take little trip, Rose
mary" Dave suggested one evening
| when they had been married scarcely
year. Rosemary threw down the
pen she was writing with. and her face
lit up. Back homer" she suggested
tremuously. BACK home" replied
Dave. and sore hurt came into his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
A Republican Opinion.

The following editorial appeared IN
the Minneapolis Tribune, republican
paper:
1T is pretty well understood that
there are to be no material changes
from the Dingley law. The men who
manage republican campaigns have
buncoed the country and the party
again. Duties are to be put up by the
house and down by the senate or down
by the house and up by the senate, so
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

anguish at the look of absolute despair
that came into his wife's face.
Il think Ill leave Rosemary with
you for awhile" he continued, with a
forced smile. You see, the ranch Is
pretty dull as steady diet, and Rose
mary might just as well stay on a
little longer"
look of glad relief came into Rose
marys eyes. to be chased away by one
Of uncertainty and something akin to
fear
Dave babe his wife goodby cheerful.
~ and took the train with a pain at
his heart that almost stifled him. The
emptiness of every room, of every
nook and corner, at home made him
like one demented in his first grief.
He fought it all out at last, and under
the stars he faced the heart tragedy of
his life
Her letters came regularly. chatty
and full of her life, and he answered
as regularly. with no hint of his real
feelings.
at the end of the year came a great
decision. He would sell the ranch.
The little note of pathos in her letters
toward the end of their year apart
touched him and caused a new hope
In his heart.
I'D never ask her to come back
here he told himself. In every letter
she was asking why he did not come.
Couldn't he get away? Had he forgot
ten her? She was tired of waiting?
Yes. l must go to her," he acknowl-
edged to himself one cool autumn night
as he sat before the fire.
outside the leaves We're fast falling
in the dusk. and the baroness of late
fall threw a somber sadness over the
plains and hills.
Another year would kill me-" he
said YEARLY. looking around the room.
God. how I have missed her-my lit
tie wifer' He threw out his arms I'm
longing. She had always run to him
In those first days and climbed up on
his knees, cuddling her brown head
into his neck
Then came the old rancorous taunt-
she hadn't loved him; she had wearied
In the first year of their paradise. No:
oAeNA XII, hG Scuiul 20 10 ueT, TOT
she did not need him, and his head
sank with almost cry on his breast.
The gust of wind that swept through
the room did not disturb his grief. 1t
was glad. inarticulate little sob of
fear and longing that made him start
and cause his head to reel as he saw
dainty. wind tossed little figure hold
ing open the door.
Just one little second. and then, be
fore he could rise, she threw herself
Wildly. passionately into his arms, cud
ding her brown head into his neck.
kissing and caressing him in a very
delirium of happiness.
"Oh. why didn't you come. dear
why didn't you Gomez" she sobbed in
paroxysm of grief He soothed and
petted and fondled her as he might
an infant until her emotion had spent
itself. Then when he had become
master of himself they talked 1t all
out in the big chair by the fire while
night crept on over the silent. shad-
owy hills and the cattle lowed from
affair."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
THE MODERN MIDNIGHT OIL.
Two Remarkable Jersey Boys Caught
In Studious Devotion by a Cop.

In Studious Devotion by Cop.
Patrolling the streets of South Or
ange. N. j.. about ! o'clock the other
morning. Policeman Matte came upon
sight that made him stop and rub
his eyes. There under the glare OF
the electric light at the corner of
South Orange avenue and Bailey
street were two lads. Oblivious of their
surroundings. porting over a school
book. 1t brought back his old school
days. and Matte thought that he was
in dream. He approached the lads
and touched one of them on the Shout
der.
what are you doing here" he
asked
Then he heard story that made
him marvel and write down the
youngsters as the most praiseworthy
he had ever heard of. They were be-
hind in their studies. they said. and
after tending a sick mother all the
day and into the night they had at
last. after she had fallen asleep. de-
termined to make up for lost time and
prepare their studies for the morrow
Afraid of disturbing their mother.
they went out of doors looking for a
bright light. The brightest is at the
corner where they were found by the
policeman
Matte took the boys to the station
house, and they were taken in charge
by their father. The boys are William
and Alfred Papke, twelve and fourteen
years old. of SOP Twelfth street. South
Orange. They are dutiful sons. the
father said. with touch Of pride, as
he led them away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
The Noisy WAY.

Kick up your heels. lift up your voice
And show you are alive.
Let 1t be patent who's around
The moment you arrive.
Make noise enough for any one
About three times your Size
Don't sit around the house and b.
A dead man In disguise.
Be on the job. alert and fresh,
Eight hours a day or more.
Work overtime IL thus perchance
You fatten out your score.
When things are growing stale and dat
little dash of red
Daubed on the landscape with q brush
Will prove you are not dead
An ounce or two OF energy
Results in hand will show.
While brains that never are applied
Don't gather in the dough.
The man who turns his warwhoop loose
Strikes vocal blows that tell,
And when the chicks come homo n
roost a So ..-s....
That chap has eggs to SELL
To settle down before your time
In some secluded nook.
With nothing filling out your days
Except a pipe and book,
Is not the program piping hot
For one who cares to be
A factor In the things that go
To make the live one. See?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
fioer at the first meeting or the League

floor at the first meeting or the League
Of Cook County Clubs.
MAKE the criminal dread the Jail
sentence less and crowd the prisons?
Not in the least" said Mrs. Ide in de-
Tending her plan. 1.-The criminal is not
tunity to support his family under
compulsion as an inducement to go to
Jail.
Il have had the idea in my mind for
many years and hope to see it in prac-
tice. believe there is remedy for
every evil If we can only find it,
Chicago Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Now that a Baltimore man has
erected monument to Adam in the
form of statue it may be hoped that
some grateful descendant of the origi-
nal pair will pay equal honor 70
Mother Eve. who was fully as good as
Adam, if not little better
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
New Alaska Yukon POSTAGE stamp

Postmasters of the various Offices
throughout the United States have
been notified officially from Washing
ton that new postage stamp of spe-
cial design will be ready for issue on
June / to commemorate the develop
ment of the Alaska ukon-Pacific ter
ritory. This stamp will be rectangular
in shape. red In color and of two cent
denomination only. In the center ap-
pears portrait of William II. Seward.
who, as secretary of state, negotiated
the purchase of Alaska from Russia.
The new stamp will not be issued in
book form.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

An admiring biographer of Aldrich
says he was a poor boy when he went
to Providence. Evidently Providence
has favored him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

The Illinois legislature came dan
gerously near disgracing itself yester-
day when it permitted Hopkins to get
within a dozen votes of reelection as
Urited States senator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Government reports that the stock
of gold coin has increased IS per cent
in 10 years. Few people except the
statistcians have noticed it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

The people of Illinois want tariff re-
vision downward. but the congressman
from this state are voting to make it
upward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

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folks ask her when ~ 10 com,na oTn
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"Why?"
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mouth agape. offertng a sure shotn
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w,...v 49,.
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Willie.
fght?"
"Jobnny Ever, cola h,s ,4,,..,. -.
e0 us nav
eos. .hofe 'han yours
hope you gave the little scamp .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Anyhow, says the Terre Haute Star.
Senator Root is not just now in need
of course at Muldoon's for his nerve.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

1t will be interesting to watch Sen
ator's Cullom's vote on the income
tax
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

About 1000 women have been ad
mitted to the bar in the United States
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Men may come and men may go
but Standard Oil flows on forever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
TIE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island, Ill. [En-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Il will get the and
Ho. all you mighty ones of old.
Who lived your little day,
Who dressed in purple and fine gold
And proudly held your
Aye, Saul unwise, and David bold,
Hear what our great ones sayl
Wake Syrians and men Of Tyre,
Call to the land of Uz
Where job was driven to inquire
From whence and what he was:
Where Bildad sang the vain desire
In all man dreams or does!
Rise Joseph. who knew the truth
~ That sleep may bring and show.
Who stood with confidence of youth
To teach the Pharaoh.
And call that king. for now in sooth
Our great men say they know.
Come. Sheba's queen in jeweled crown
And raiment like the dawn,
Who on your tablets noted down
The words of Solomon,
And marveed at his puzzled frown
When life you talked upon.
Belshazzar. king of Babel come,
And mighty secrets learn
The reading of the mystic sum
That you saw fiercely burn,
When sickened. frightened, stricken dumb,
You saw your fortunes turn.
Come all you mighty ones of old
And WondrOus knowledge win.
Our great men will the book unfold
OF what is and has been.
What pity that you did not hold
The truth OK good and sin!
What you? That you did know
This wisdom in your day;
That bndly must do
Upon your lotted way,
And crowns and robes must crumble 60
Upon your trodden clay!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

At least the glass schedule got
broken in the debate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
Complex Man

Complex Man.
Listen to the patient pariey
OF the men about the laws.
Now. II they were only women
They would simply sap 'sBscaueas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Don't tribe with worries; the atten.
ton and exercise may cause them to
expand and grow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21
Hu111or and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
~ DUNCAN n. ssesrw

The worst nui-
Sance q woman
can have about
the house Is q
man who "a in
love.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

No matter how hard he tries, flnan
cial failure can't remain social sue
cess for long.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-21

Copyright. 1863. by W. C. Chapman,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06
Hard to XIII,

A distinguished entomologist, J. G,
Warburg. writes: when I was still
new to collecting, in the south OF
France I discovered one day, to my
great Joy, a large female of Saturnia
pyri hidden away In some bushes. The
specimen was the first l had ever
caught, and I decided, on account of
Its large body, to stuff 1t Ca quite un.
necessary operation; I have kept doz-
ems since unstuffed). The moth was
first apparently killed by being forced
into cyanide bottle where 1t was
left about an hour. The abdomen was
then emptied and the cavity filled
with cotton wool soaked in saturated
solution Of mercuric chloride. The in
sect, pinned and set, was discovered
next day attempting to fly away from
the setting board"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06
Aooooooooor

"a man Is as old as his arteries u
was said some time ago by French
physician; and the saying, like SO
many Others of the phrase-loving
French, has good deal of truth in
1t and not little error.
There Is many man, old In years
but young in spirit, whose arteries
are like pipe-stems. So brittle do they
seem, indeed, that the physician hard.
ly dares feel the pulse, lest he crush
the friable artery under his finger;
yet these old people are active In
mind and body, and seem often much
younger than men of but two-thirds
their years.
Again, one meets old and feeble folk
whose lives seem to flicker danger.
ously, like candle fame in draft
whose arteries are as soft and com.
pressive as those Of child.
In general, however, the saying is
true, and especially in premature old
age 1t will usually be found that the
arteries are hard, with flbrous thick
ening, If not already more or less cal.
Gifted. Hardening Of the blood-vessels
-arteriosclerosis is the accepted med.
ical term-consists in a f1brous over.
growth of the walls Of the arteries,
usually following more or less degen-
Grafton Of the normal tissues of the
vessels. AS to Just how this comes
about, physicians are not entirely
agreed. 1t is probable that the change
occurs first in the very minute vessels,
those that run through the walls Of
the larger vessels supplying them with
blood for their nourishment. When
these are hardened by the deposit Of
flbrous tissue they carry less blood
and carry 1t more slowly, and so the
nutrition of the walls of the larger
vessels is reduced. This leads to soft
ening, and then Nature tries to repair
the damage by the only new tissue at
her hand-namely. fibrous tissue.
Later, these fibrous and thickened
walls of the larger arteries may be
hardened still more by deposit Of
lime salts from the blood.
The arteriosclerosis 80 common in
old age is the result Of wear and
tear" An elastic tube dilated by hy-
draulic pressure and then contracting
ten thousand times day will have
done much work by the end Of seventy
years. In younger life arteriosclerosis
is most commonly caused by intem-
perance-not in drinking only, but In
eating. especially meat-eating, without
enough exercise to consume the ex-
cess Of nutrient material. Overwork.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06

It is said that one Of the depositors
IN an American savings bank will ac-
oept no interest, for he Is Mohamme-
dan. and his religion forbids 1t. 1t is
part Of other ancient religions, the
Jewish among the rest, that interest
is not right. "Usury" has come down
to us with bad sense, not because 1t
originally meant excessive interest. as
1t does now, but because our ancestors
disapproved all payment of premium
for money lent. Antonio, In "The
Merchant Of Venice" was not an ex-
ceptionally generous man in lending
money without interest, but merely
followed the custom of his time; Shy
lock, on the other hand, even II he
had exacted only a low rate for his
loans, would have been regarded from
the point Of view of an Elizabethan
as a social outcast. The business of
banking was chiefly In the hands Of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06
STORY OF GENERAL GRANT.
Incident of Their Globe Tour Told
by the Great Soldiers Wife.

Incident of Their Globe Tour TOla-
by the Great Soldiers Wife.
Gen. Grants birthday recalls to
mind many characteristic anecdotes of
the silent man." One that Mrs.
Grant used to delight in telling was
an incident that happened when they
made the famous trip around the
world, as they were going through the
Mediterranean, the Washington Post
says. She told 1t apropos of story
that was widely published Of how the
general, during the Civil War, hap
pening into the home Of unionist
In the south, quieted colicky baby by
walking 1t up and down the floor and
singing to 1t while the mother pre-
pared some chicken for his luncheon.
Now, Gen. Grant could neither sing
nor whistle; in fact, he could not turn
a tune, and the story, therefore, was
made out Of whole cloth. When they
were sailing through the Mediterran-
can on the United States man-of-war
Vandalia they passed the island cele-
brated in Homer's verse as the home
of the sirens, whittier Ulysses was de-
coyed by these seductive ladies.
AS their ship neared the island a.
number Of the officers abroad went to
Mrs. Grant and told her that she
should look to it that her husbands
ears were stuffed with cotton, lest he,
too, be enticed and led astray by the
singing of those same beautiful crea-
lures, whereupon Mrs. Grant laugh
ingly informed the alarmists that the
general was immune to the influence
of singing, since he did not know one
tune from another. But they insisted
that these creatures were so beauti-
full that their faces, II not their voices,
would win him. Mrs. Grant, however,
with brightness with which she was
not always credited, replied that
Homer's Ulysses had been deluded be-
cause he had left his wife, Penelone,
at home, while she, on the contrary,
taking warning from that old tale,
had accompanied her Ulysses, whom
she felt sure would be protected by
her presence even from the allurers
who ensnared the classic Ulysses.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06

DR.. Grant CLANCY of Portland, Ind,
will have large bill to pay for re-
pairs to his auto because of the unwil-
lingness Of COW to move out Of his
way quickly. The doctor was re-
turning from country call and his
machine was going at a good clip,
when with suddenness that almost
threw the doctor from his seat, the
machine struck the COW. The animal
was not hurt physically, but her feel
ings must have received an awful Jar.
Regaining her usual stand, with a
doubling up motion readily recognized
by any one who has ever come in con.
tact with cows, she unbent and did
things In the way of bucking, horn
Ing and kicking to the automobile that
must have brought delight subsequent.
ly to the heart of the repair man. She
kicked the lamp, the h-everything
that was within reach. Every time
she kicked she left dent or a break.
Finally she permitted the auto to pro.
ceed on Its way. The doctor says he
VIII In the future regard COWS along
the highway as certain danger sic.
nails.