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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

held at Springfield the next day Would
probably take action in support OF Mr.
Cookies candidacy.
When Mr.. Kmde was shown copy
of the Record-Herald containing the
alleged interview. Kundc read the al
legged interview and then he wrote
these words along the margin Of the
newspaper: There is positively no
truth in this statement" To which
Kunde signed his name.
When the State Liquor Dealers con
vontion was held Tuesday of this week
Roy Vests daring scheme got another
jolt.
Among the delegates attending the
convention was Joseph l.. Haas OF
Rock Island. who WAS a candidate at
the Macomb republican convention for
, the nomination for judge of the SUI
preme court.
Mr.. Haas introduced into the State
| LIQUOR Dealers convention rcsOlu-
! ton which referred to and condemned
the West Shields effort to drag the as
sOciation into the judicial campaign;
condemned the Shields letter for urg-
| ing voters of the district to vote for
! the republican candidate, and the res
! olut ions declared that the office of
Judge of the supreme court should be
held in too high regard to be cOnsid-
cred open TO the bid of any faction or
| element for partiality and sympathy
that the only platform on which I
Judge. particularly Il judge of the high
| est tribunal of state. should stand is
that of absolute impartiality to all,
| without favor or bids for or against
any person. and the resolution held
/ that a candidate for judge should not
! be endorsed by any faction or element
The resolution was unanimously
adopted by the 800 delegates in the
| convention.
/ 1t stands TO reason that convention
! that would adopt such a resolution
never had any thought of taking part
in the judicial election, and no one
knew this better than Roy o. West
| despite the West Shields letter and The
bogus Interview in the Chicago Record
| Herald
The only effect of Vests scheme tC
inject local option into the campaign
! in which ii could not by any POSSIBLE
ity be an issue, will be to make George
a. Cooke stronger than ever
The people despise above all things
political tricllery and deception.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Coal Nanishcs Rapidly.

For every man, woman and child i'll
the United States about three tons of
coal are burned every year. In the
last quarter OF century over five and
oue-fourth billion tons were consumed.
comments the Philadelphia Press.
This coal includes bituminUus ana
anthracite, and it represents not only
what disappears in the family furnace
and stove. but thar which goes INFO
locomotives, steamships. factories and
mills of every kind.
Here is Il natural resource that S
disappearing as fast as the pvimcval
forests. but. unlike the forests. coal
cannot by any possibility 10 replaced.
When it goes it is lost forever and
coal has been one OF the rea! causes
of Americas greatness.
Having had whole mountain ranges
of coal the people have used up the
precious fuel with wanton hand All
engineers knew that a very large part
of the coal consumed is a dead waste
from which no heat whatsoever is de
rived
As matter of fact but a small part
of the potential energy of coal. as now
burned, is utilized Some genius may
come who Will tell the world how 10
get all the heat or electric power ont
OF coal which it is known % possess,
and to show way to reduce greatly
the amount consumed.
Necessity makes inventors. so that
the country needn't fear a coal famine
Just yet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Lcavcs Cookie Stronger Than Ever.

Score another conspicuous failure
| by Roy o. West, chairman of the re-
publican state committee, chairman of
the Cook county board of review, at
tOrney for over 200 Chicago corpora
tions-ROy O. West, Dencen's bosom
friend.
Roy Vests lightning change trick,
by which he has sought to represent
Mr. Cooke in the farming communities
as being identified with the liquor in
tcrests and in the cities as being an
tagonistic to the liquor interests, has
proved to be the fiasco of the cam
paign.
Mr.. Mcclure must surely be convinc-
! him by Roy West has proved the re-
verse of beneficial to Mcclure.
Every trick undertaken by West has
left George a. Cooke stronger than
ever with the people.
The most conspicuous of all OF
| Vests failures has been his effort to
| inject local option into the campaign
! by means of the Shields letter, which
| has proved to be a veritable boom
erang to the Mcclure committee.
! After West had approached Shields
and the latter had sent out his letter
which West had published in the Chi
cago Record-Herald, West made an
other move to add color to the Shields
letter.
} The very day following the publica
ton of Shields letter, the Record Her
ala published a bogus interview with
ernest kunde, president of the Hi
hols State Liquor Dealers association
this bogus interview Kunde wa
t made to leave the impression that tn,
r liquor dealers state convention to b,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
The Bi-Partisan Policy.

Not only is the idea of keeping the
supreme court of Illinois bipartisan,
fair proposition politically: the bi-pat-
tisan policy applied to the supreme
court would benefit the court.
\ little reflection VIII make this
clear:
The decisions and rulings of Il court
having more than one judge. would
have less weight with the people gen
orally if all OF the judges were of one
political party. than if the judges were
fairly divided politically.
If the supreme court judges fairly
represented the leading political pay
ties this fact would eliminate any
claim or suspicion of par,isanship by
the court.
On the other hand. if the supreme
court were composed wholly. or almost
wholly. Of men of one political faith.
however non-partisan the judges might
their decisions. there would be the fact
that the court represented but one po-
litical party.
The work of the supreme court al
fects every county in the state; it
deals with cases involving all kinds of
business. including many corporation
cases.
Nor can any one say when the SUI
premC court may have to pass on 20
litical cases.
How important then that our SUI
prCme court should not be compos"
wholly of judges of the same political
party.
The election of George y. Cooke
would prevent that grave mistake
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Cannot Buy Happiness.

Mabelle Gilman Corey is not happy.
SO it is reported by the Milwaukee"
Sentinel. For her sake the multi-mil-
li5naire steel magnate divorced the
wife of his youth, the faithful littla
woman who had stood by him and
helped him in the days of his poverty
and his struggles up the ladder Ct
lame and wealth and power
He laid a Erincely fortune at the
1eet of his actreSs-wife. She can go
INTO the shops and buy whatever she
pieaseS, gowns, jewels. anything. ,
She can have horses and carriages
ana motor cars. She lives i'm a
palace, but can have a bigger one if
she wants it.. But stin she is not
happy. She has been socially ostra.
cized. She is a social outcast. She :
alone in the world. Such is her 20
ported complaint
With bursting heart she confides e
a friend of former days the story o
her disappointment and misery "AI
| can do with my money is to buy
buy. buy-things that l really don
want. Oh 1 don't mind the money
Money is a good thing, but it can
buy happiness and lot of othe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

me read zi2zaSE-tu oll4'-' "l'" "'71'
down the hillside Ia," The cool $h"oc
of the village where il changed Ia
mellow brown under the wide SPREAD
iro. oI,,s. ,,,d r,,,l....
1 g.. '''', - -, -.. 49,. .....
-.
VI i''' ''''''' 49,
luh! up inc 'ouT N'''''' '""''' ~ S'''~
would come rluIhI down 'iHI c'""!''u
white road from the village beyond
the hill. ana when the Sct;in" sun
flashed ON the satiuv coat of hi, cream,
horso shn wor,Id Gv heel, =. tlir porrn
ona IL do,,,,roI,. tr,.r,, until ba h.d
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
The Argus Daily Short Story
Her Awakening Clarissa Mackie.
Copyrighted 1903. by Associated Literary Press.

Tor the mIG voice Vas not Robert >.
That YOU. olive" Twas Frank
Wintou'S deep bass.
Yes" she said rather TREMENDOUSLY.
Father home
NO: he. and mother have gone to
IIoctiuE
Tel your father if he's still of the
same mind aboU: his twenty acres Of
woodland he'd better stop in ard see
n-a in the morning. I've found a pur-
chaser for IT,"
VERY WELL" said Olive, Il Will tell
him
"Watiu- for Rob-" his voice came
iCcoSely uUt OF the darkness.
Olive hcsitatrd. No she said curt
y.
That's all right. then remarked
MI WiUton checrfully. because ! met
Rob OH the mountain road driving to
ward the Heights; had Matte Ryder
with him. and Snowhird was just
shimmin~ ov@' the ground. Pretty
good horse that. Nisht. Olive. Don't
forget to tell your father"
Good night" said Olive rlcChIniCai-
Is.
When the hoUC heats nad died away
she went up the steps and sat down in
big chair on III" porch. All ut once
she felt queer and strange and very
cnoky about the throat. ard suddenly
great warm drops sElJshcd on her
ciaspcd hands.
she vas crying Iccausc Robert Win
ton, her bctro'hed lover. bad failed to
boon his auD,fDfmpnt with Ipr but
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
The Road to Success

has many distractions. but none so
desperate as poor health. Success
today demands health, but Electric
Bitters is the greatest health build
err the world has ever known. 1t COM
pels perfect action of stomach, liver,
kidneys. bowels. purifies and en-
riches the blood. and tones and in
vigorates the whole system. Wig
oTous body and keen brain follow
their use. You can't afford to slight
Electric Bitters if weak, rundown OF
sickly. Only soc. Guaranteed by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

According to the Jacksonville Jour
nal, a republican newspaper Mr.. Nc
Clure said iii his speech in Jackson
vile: Some one has charged that I
was not Roosevelt republican, and
years ago l may have expressed the
fear that Roosevelt was little too
impulsive. but later. when he became
president, he had no more enthusiastic
supporter than | was" 1t is well
known all over Cass county that Nc
Clurc's fear of Mr.. RoOsevelts impul-
siveness" was so great that he voted
against Roosevelt when he ran for
president III 1903. The incident is
merely reheased now to show that
those who have cOntended all along
that Mcclure voted for Roosevelt are
mistaken by Mr.. McCIurcs own words.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

President Taft includes silks among
the luXuries on which, he says, the
duties were properly increased i'll the
Payne-AldTich tariff. They are lux
uries only when a high tariff makes
them such. Even among the women
of China they are not luXuries. But
the high tariff. aggravated by tlic,
Payne-Aldrich edition. makes the
silken Sunday dress, loaded with jute,
a dear luxury to the American working
girl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Differences of opinion Of the tariff
do not interfere with the personal re-
lations between the president and lead
ing Insurgents" Senators LaFollettc
and Clapp have been very cordial TO
him, and he has treated them as if
they were his dearest friends, and he
breakfasted with Senator CummiIs, a.
though Cummins' newspaper CX-
pressed vigorous disapproval of his
speech championing the tariff
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Mized.

"You don't do what. you ought TO
do
well. / ouEhtn't to-"
'Wby ouGhtn't YOU TO do what you
ought to-
Cause ought to have somebody
who ought to tell me 10 do what ought
Ia do. and rs haven't ouGhtn't 10 do
what ! ought 80 do without being told
that / ought 10 do it,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Chanue For Both.

She goes away
For change Of scene.
So night and day
And IN between
Where husband man
Is left alone
It's cooler than
The tTlg.d zone.
She hates TO leave
Her OWucSt own.
For he Will grieys
When left alone.
That creature sly.
What can ne DO
But say he'll try
10 1--we 10 through?
He goes about
On leaving wife
Where boys are out
AMI seeing life,
In giving vent
70 his distress
And to his pent
Up loneliness.
When things to see
Are getting good
And hubby ne
Is "a Wig wood
The wires mum
\ message not
That she VIII come
10 cheer his lot.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
PROLONGED Draw.

'I hear that Simpson and his wife
don't get along as well as they might"
''AlI they need is one thing TO make
their home happy"
what is that?
"a referee"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Sad Case.

"YOU seem sad
81 have lost my income"
"'rhIt is too bad. Lose your Job"
"No."
''!;aul break"
No
well. how did it happen?"
My wife SAYS she won't take in an
other washing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Usual Result.

''She threw a plate ~ me. Judge"
did she hit you with it,
40: she didn't"
Then how do you know she threw
Il at you:"
didn't it smash n mirror on the far
side of the hOuseT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

at is fright the way the necessi-
ties Of life are advanced in price,
'Bu; tina: isn't all. See how the lux
uries are going up"
Il don't know so much about that
"Well. there are flying machines"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Enr H. GirIs

By strolling in the moonlight
You can't acquire tan.
But there is something better,
For you may catch a man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Her Opinion,

"If were to tell you that am poor.
what effect do you think it would have,
Maud?
well. think it would give Cupid Q
black eve, Jack"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

things. | know by heart the things
that l haven't been able to purchase,
and the list is long one. I'm so ua-
Ihappy''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Made II PAY.

"He looks like a prosperous man."
HE has failed in everything he has
undertaken"
THAT is strange"
.But he only undertook the clothing
business"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill. CEn-
tered at the postoffice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Having passed the autumnal equinox
it is safe to tell the ice man to 30
hang. but lift your hat to the coal
dealer. 1t is the weigh of the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Extracting the teeth from your mouth
or extracting the money from your
pocket. any way You take II. a dental
operation is Il painful one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Half o. K.

Grin and bear IL is the worfE
All the wise declare IL.
'NouEh sight easier 20 grin
Than u Is TO bear IL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
SS$S@S~S ~ - y - =
< HumOr and
} Philosophy
\ nv DUNCAN ~. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

WOMEN are said to be great match
makers, but some Of them have TO
do considerable in the way Of match
breaking too.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Vote for Cooke.

Vote to maintain the principle OF bi-
partisan representation in the supreme
court of the state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

There may be some girls as pretty
rs the picture on the magazine cover.
but If 50 only the artist knows where
they live.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Doctors give a man up quite easily
if they see no way of successfully col
lecting their little bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Much depends
on the owner
ship of the ar
ticle whether n
woman e q I e $
very much about
a stunning gown
or not.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
Niaht on Bald Mountain.

On a lonely night Alex. Benton of
Fort Edward, \. Y, climbed Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor,
tortured by asthma, bent on curing
him with DR.. Kings New Discovery,
that had cured himself of asthma.
This wonderful medicine soon re-
| lieved and quickly cured his neigh
Dor. Later it cured his sons wife
of a severe lung trouble. Millions
I believe it's the greatest throat and
lung cure on earth. Coughs, colds,
Group, hemorrhages and sore lungs
/ are surely cured by it. Best for hay
fever. grip and whooping cough. soc
and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guar
Your complexion as well as your
temper is rendered miserable by a
discorded liver. BY taking Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets you
can improve both. Sold by all drug
giSts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

Many a man makes big failure
before he makes n success. ana some
times that is why lie makes Il big sue
cess.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24

There is n o
more use in be-
ing afraid of the
truth than there
is in being at
tached 10 IL. IL
will go rig h {
along irrcspec-
tive OF any likes
or dislikeS that
we may h av G
anyway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-24
BY THE J. w. POTTER co.

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 river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29
Zinc Plant Near Helena.

HELENA, Dec. N.-Plans and ,inan.
cial arrangements have beeG com
pleted for the erection near Helena Of
a 1OO.ton unit of &c electrolytic plant,
with az ultimate capacity of 500 tons,
which will treat custom zinc ores. &C
cording to M. L. HeUett, who recently
returned from the east, where the az
engagements were made. Work will
be started as soon az the weather per-
mits in the spring.
The plant will be built by the North
western Metals company. which has
acquired the Baker. Barwell patent
rights for the e~tectrolytie process. II
is declared that the test plant, which
was erected a year and a half ago at
Elkhorn, was q complete success and
that the values saved from the ores
which were treated were greater than
had been anticipated. This test plant
was of commercial size.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29
Famous Artist Is Dead.

BR1DGEFIELD, Conn.,, Dec. 26-Fred.
erick Remington, the artist. died here
today of appendicitis after q brief
illness. BE was operated on last
Thursday.
Frederick Remington went after a
short apprenticeship as IN Office clerk
aad became q cowboy. 1t was in this
western life that he found the subjects
for most of his creations with pencil
and brush. Cuban scenes also were
favorites with him. He was q member
of the National Academy and Design
society, and he attained much success
at sculpture and author of severa
books on western life. He studied Or
at Yale and later in New York.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29

one OF the most noted landmarks in
Montana, had been inclosed. the fat
table top being used for pasturage by
Toman's stock.
Joseph s. Lee and bis son, John
Lee, charged with counterfeiting,
pleaded not guilty today. Their cases
have not been set for trial.
After Joseph S. Lee left the court
room he informed a reporter that he
was guilty Of having made the coun.
terfeit coins, but that he alone was
guilty and not his son. He said he
pleaded not guilty so a. to be with
his son when the tcia al came of. The
money was made, he said, for the
benefit OF the other son, Harry, now
serving a sentence imposed II Idaho
for passing worthless money.
Twenty Helena saloon men indicted
on q charge Of selling whisky to In
dians pleaded lot guilty this morn.
ing. with the privilege Of Withdrawing
the plea and substituting q plea IL
abatement, which, If sustained, would
make the indictments worthless. 1t II
alleged that the two Indians to whom
it is alleged liquor was sold, had re-
ceived their sllotments and were thu
same as any other citizens.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29
MONEY IN JUNK.

The Stuff ls Always In Demand, and
tho Profits Are Large.
Up and down tie dirty back alleys
drives the junkman. singing his mourn
full. nasal cry. loading his rickety
wagon with broken scraps and pieces
Of cid iron, an object Of pity or OF ridi-
cule to most Of the uniformed public.
Let him be admired or envied. rather.
for If not he himself, at least his en-
plcyer, is probably making more money
than nine out Of ten professional men.
Few things are more depressing and
unsightly than a little pile Of junk az
high as a two story building. One may
see such piles in every city. and, so far
as the casual observer can determine.
none of the stuff is ever moved. The
piles increase apparently from month to
month and grow rustier and rustier,
but the men in the business keep on
buying.
How r they able to keep so much
money tied up2 Where do they get the
large amount Of capital which seems to
be necessary?
They borrow from the banks, like
any other business man, on the secu-
rity of their stock in trade.
mo better security" the president Of
almost any bank will declare. 1T can
neither burn nor blow away. 1t can't
be damaged by water or smoke. Where
is there a collateral like that: 1t Is
absolutely safe. The foundries and the
nut and bolt works and the stove fac
tories can't get along without it. 1t
pays the largest profits Of any business
to which we lend money. and these
profits 1uctuate very little. Junk is al
ways In demand. The men in that
business are excellent customers."-
Technical World Magazine.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-29
A CHANGE OF HEADS.
The Trick q Dusky Ruler Wanted {
Magician to Perform.

The Trick 4 Dusky Ruler Wanted .
Magician to Perform.
Thurston, the magician, had many
Interesting experiences during his pro-
fessional tour Of the globe several
years ago. He went to ali sorts Of
outlandish places and appeared before
rulers Of many strange lands and COM
munities. On one occasion his man
ager had arranged that Thurston
should give an exhibition before the
ruler Of a province called Pagopago,
In the Fiji islands. In the crowd that
saw the exhibition were many of the
black and yellow slaves Of the chief
tain. All the spectators were amazed
at the many strange manifestations Of
the black art that Thurston offered,
but no trick appealed so strongly to
the assembled retinue and to the chief
tain as that in which a white duck
was made to appear with a black head
and a black duck, after a moments
manipulation, with the head Of the
white duck. The trick had to be re
peated. and then the chieftain engaged
in a long whispered conversation with
the interpreter.
what is desired?" queried the oblig-
ing trick player.
The interpreter coughed apologize.
ally and then responded: RESPECTED
sir. our honored sire wishes you to
take two of his slaves and put a vel.
low head on a black man and the
black head on the body Of a yellow
servitor. Our honored sire thinks II
would be very funny"
"Tell his royal 'higness," Thurston
replied. that I could give a yellow
man a black eye. but I would not like
to attempt to make his entire head
ack."-Philadelphia Record.