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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-08

EGGS from prize winning Brown Leg horns $1 per 13. 140 Logan St.
 U 5 d*p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS

FOR SALE-Single bed, complete. Columbia disc graphophone and records. 425 East Main St., up-
 stairs. U bFp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-08

6 ENTS', LADIES ANIl CHILDREN clothing bought and sold Miss C.
 Myers. HAY Main street T $" p
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Dealing With Dummies.

Talking on Sept. 23d, to a represen-
tative of the New York Evening Post,
DR.. Woodrow Wilson, democratic can
didate for governor of New Jersey, de-
voted most of his discourse to the ne
cessity of bringing home the Illegal
actions Of corporations to the individ-
ual men who commit or direct them.
Fines, he said, fall upon the wrong
persons, more heavily on the innocent
than on the guilty.
"If you dissolve the offending cor
poration, you throw great undertake
ings out OF gear. You merely drive
what you are seeking to check into
other forms or temporarily disorga-
nize some important business alto
gether, to the definite loss of thou
sands of entirely innocent persons and
to the great inconvenience of society
as a whole.
Il regard the corporation as in
dispensable TO modern business enter
prise. l am not Jealous of its size or
might, if you will but abandon at the
right points the fatuous, antiquated,
and quite unnecessary fiction which
treats it as legal person; If you will
but cease to deal with it by means of
your daw as if it were not only q sin
gle individual, but also-what every
child may perceive 1t is not-a re-
sponsible individual.
Corporations do not do wrong. In
dividuals do wrong. Guilt is always
personal.
You will say that in many in
stances it is not fair to pick out for
punishment the particular officer who
ordered a thing done, because he
really had no freedom in the matter
that he him self under orders, exer
cises no individual liberty of choice
is a dummy manipulated from with
out. 1 reply that society should per
nit no man to carry out orders which
are against law and public policy; and
that, if you will but-put one or two con
spicuous dummies in the penitentlary
there will be no more dummies for
hire. You can stop the traffic in dunn
mics, and then, when the idea has
taken root in the corporate mind that
dummies will be confiscated, pardon
the one or two innocent men who may
happen to have got into jail. There
will not be many, and the custom OF
trade will change"
To this Harper's Weekly editorially
adds that it will be seen that there
exists in Dr. wilson's mind a clear
idea of a way to make the corpora.
lions attentive to the laws enacted to
control them. 1t is very much the
same idea that is in the mind of Gov
ernor Harmon. 1t is definite and it is
practical.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
The Argus Daily Short Story
A Russian Marriage-By William Aired Corey.
Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Literary

marriage negotiations Maksim came
home from his work and, as usual.
placed his weeks wages. twelve good
American dollars. in his fathers hands.
"Maksim." said the old man. speak
ing in Observation-Disclosures. my son. i;
has been arranged between Elder Shu-
ben and myself that you and the fair
Natasha are to be married. YOu are
both quite old enough. You are to De
married one week from tomorrow.
trust you are happy at the prOspecy.
my SON.
Yes" assented Maksim. 'T want 70
marry Natasha. but And he hest.
tated. his eyes on the floor.
But WHAT" demanded old Evan.
How are we to be marriedY' tenta-
lively asked Siaksim.
How married? By the elders. or
course. Natasha's mother. Katga. is
already preparing the feast"
But" objected Maksim. hesitating.
for he we'll knew the storm be was
about to call down upon his head-"buI
Natasha and l don't want it that way.
We want to get married. with IA pa
per. by a justice or-or Mr.. Lowell. in
the American way 1t is our wish"
The effect was as he expected. The
whole communal family-Evan aud
Olga. his wife. and the four older sons
and their wives-who had gathered
about. were inexpressibly shocked !,
Old Evans long gray beard swept his
breast in his agitation.
What" he Numbered. ''You viii
A. III, 81
ways-the heather whom the LORD
promised were TO be scattered or be-
come our servants when we entered
this our Canaan? You will take up
with these unclean pork eaters" And
he rallied on amid a general family
chorus of lamentations.
In the meantime n similar storm ha0
broken out in the family Of the Shu-
bens. a storm that beat about the de-
voted head Of poor Natasha.
And the next day the news spread
quickly over the whole Of Eden" as
some newspaper wag had facetiousiy
named the Molollan quarter. that the
expected marriage was not to take
place for the good and sufficient rea-
son that both the prospective bride and
groom were possessed of devils. There
was busy gossip; there was a fermeBS
Of excitement; there were wild ru-
mors.
at bottom the trouble was a contest
between two modes of life.
Hour by hour the boy and girl real
lied more and more the seriousness
of the situation. They were both IN
der tremendous pressure of public
opinion. How to get married in the
American way and not split the Molo-
kan community wide open ane york
thes< ew<H FciA was q problem too big
IS the peasant lovers. They could
- Sese. az Americans might. They
We9Ss aliens in an alien land.
Slowly an idea shaped itself in Max
Sims mind. He would lay the whole
matter before Mr.. Lowell. who was in
fallible, would surely have solution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
stimson, Roosevelt's candidate fol

Stimson, Roosevelt's candidate for
governor Of New York, was Roots law
partner. "Ryan's CThomas Fortune)
success Hartman wrote in complain
ing mood. 'in all his manipulations,
traction deals, tobacco combinations,
manipulation Of the State Trust COM
pany. the Shoe and Leather bank into
the Western National bank and then
again into the Bank of Commerce
thus covering up his tracks-has been
done by the adroit mind Of Elihu Root,
and this present situation has been
brought about by a combination of cir
cumstances which has brought togeth-
er the Ryan-Root-Rooseve element"
So the wheel revolves. Mr.. Hartman
owned a governor in Odell. Mr.. Ryan
seems in way of securing title to one
with the aid of Theodore Roosevelt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Republican Factions.

Using the steamroller in politics
has it's advantages at the time, but
those who are fattened out do not
bear any love for the machine-man
in the future. Mr.. Roosevelt has
used the ordinary republican MAJ
chine methods at Saratoga, and hav-
ing dictated the platform and the
candidates he now has the bigger
task of carrying the election. The
"old guard" is down and out as was
to be expected. for they are a lot
of political freebooters who hold
power by virtue of spoils and cor
ruption. When Mr.. Roosevelt was
governor he did not reform them,
and when he was president they
still thrived. But now that his per-
sonal political fortunes are at stake
he has ridden over them roughshod.
Will the old stalwarts help Mr..
Roosevelt to power, or will they
knife his candidates at the polls?
will be the all-absorbing question
until election day. Insurgency is a
game that both factions of the re-
publicans can play, and democrats
can heartily say "a plague on both
your houses"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
COMMITTEE AT KEWANEE
Support of Three Propositions on the
little Ballot" Asked.

Kewanee, Ill, Oct. advocating
support of three propositions to be
submitted on the little ballot" at
the November election, Raymond
Robins and Herbert Z. Fleming of
Chicago addressed a large audience
on the street in the business district
here last night. They represented
a committee of seven, appointed at
the Peoria conference, and urged the
organization of a little ballot" club
here to advance interest in, the move
ment.
They spoke in the afternoon at
Spring alley.
Mr.. Robins quoted the vote of
Henry county on the initiative and
referendum when it was submitted
in 1902, and urged that an even
larger majority be given now when
the question is less academic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Eugenie.

Ex-Empress Eugene OF France,
who for 40 years has made her
home in England, paid one of her
periodical visits to Paris last month
in order to purchase presents for
the coming wedding of Prince Ma
poleon Victor Bonaparte, the pres
ent head of the house, and Princess
Clementine of Belgium. According
to 1.-The Paris Journal" the ex-em-
press patronizes Partisan shops al
most exclusively, giving the prefer
ence to those establishments that
served her in the days of the en-
pire. During these visits she lives
in the strictest retirement at the
Hotel Continental, overlooking the
Tulleries gardens, under the name
of Countess of Plerrofonds. She re-
fuses systematically to see the lead
ers of the Bonapartist party, has lost
all interest in French politics and
has become utterly Indifferent to
their course.
She never refers to the past, her
encourage being forbidden to do so,
but Paris. Notwithstanding the
memories it must awaken remains
her favorite city, the Kingdom,
as she is reported to have said, "of
those who have lost their crowns"
Ex-Empress Eugene is now in her
Saith year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

always voted for the lowest possible
duty on luxuries.
In his eagerness to have the tariff
revised upward. Senator Root took the
remarkable position that the senate
had mo Guinness to seek to know why
the house had raised certain rates. he
declared that if the house had revised
a certain Dingley schedule upward, it
was not the business of any senator to
ask what considerations had led the
house to make the advances. This
was equivalent to saying that senators
must vote a schedule without knowing
whether its rates were justified or not.
Brings Motley Crew.
Roosevelt" declares the Des
AIoines News. bringing with him
Taft, Ballinger, Wickersham, Root, j.
p. Morgan, Tawney. Lurton, Hitch
cock, and all the motley crew of pluto
Gratis, the Hessians of privilege, can
not list in the army of insurgency"
Since Colonel Roosevelt has indoors
ed Taft and thus become his sponsor,
the republicans who have 1nsurged
from Rooseveltism wonder how the
former president will be able to an
swer the following questions concefn-
ing his protege:
1. Why did Taft cooperate with Al
drich, Smoot, Lodge, Guggenheim and
other senators representing the spe-
cial interests, and refuse the counsel OF
men like La Toilette and Clapp?
2. Why did Mr.. Taft continue to
eulogize Balliuger after he had been
exposed and discredited in testimony
taken by a committee of the senate?
8. Why did Mr.. Taft interfere to
prevent Speaker Cannon from beins
dethroned?
4. Why did Mr.. Taft as candidate
promise tariff revision downward, and
as president sign bill revising the
tariff upward?
5. Why did Mr.. Taft seek so in
dustriously to bring about the defeat
of La Toilette? Was it because La
Toilette sought to regulate the rail
roads or because he favored real revi
sion downward?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
So Odd.


One day succeeds another
In constant, steady flow
It's Sunday. Monday. Tuesday,
All standing in a row.
With weeks and months together
All added make a year
Without a bit OF trouble.
Now, doesn't IL seem queerf
Some twenty toes and fingers
Are tackled upon a man.
You simply can't explain IT.
It's part of natures plan.
And arms and legs are needed
To make the man complete,
So he can tend 20 business.
Now, don't that frost your feetr
The sun shines in the daytime,
We have the moon at night,
And when there isn't either
We're mighty shy on light
It's just a little better
II several stars are there
To scatter feeble ficxers.
Now, don't that scorch your hairy
We marvel at the wonders.
Our mouths are open wide.
So that a person standing
In front could see inside.
We float around on water,
We walk abroad on land
And eat when we are hungry.
Say, don't it beat the bandG
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Long campaigns must be fought to de
eide policies which are capable of
easy solution, If only an impartial
court existed before which such is
sues could be tried Just as technical
questions require technical experts,
technical issues require a technical
court
The administration at Washington
favors the establishment of court OF
commerce. Why should there not be
a court of science to determine Ques-
tons of scientific truth. the applica-
ton and the feasibility of issues based
on scientific knowledge? We may rest
assured, If the supreme court of sci
ence impartially decided on the evil
dence in accordance with a regular
procedure, that the truth would pre-
vail with far greater dispatch than I'M
der the present system of countless
movements" Many OF these associa-
lions have an income just about suffl-
cient to make the wheels go round
in the office and the surplus available
wherewith to grind is a very small
fraction of the funds required to keep
the wheels In motion.
Under the billing system for small
dues from hundreds of members and
new membership capaigns, often IS to
100 per cent of the funds are consum-
ed. Instead of wasting so much cap
ital in beating the tom-toms and in
asserting and defending from attack
alleged scien life knowledge, one-quar-
ter Of the energy would be sufficient to
settle these scientific questions for all
time if expended in bringing the evil
dence suitably before an impartial sci
entif1c tribunal whose decision would
command respect.
With the same decision, the Quincy
Herald wisely suggests, much agita-
ton and annoyance would be saved
the good people, who are wearing
themselves out trying to form intelli-
sent opinions on all kinds of techni-
cal questions without proper evidence
presented on either side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Representative Payne declares that
he has mo apologies to make" for the
tariff bill; but a good many other re-
publicans by force of public opinion
think it requires amending.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Oct. 8 in American
History

1S3o-Harriet Hosmer. noted sculp-
tress, born; died 1908.
19O7-Mary ]. Holmes, popular novel
list of the romantic school, died;
born 1928.
19O9-Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell In
augurated president of Harvard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Surely the cup of sorrow Of the
queen mother of Portugal is running
over. Regardless of how people may
feel on the crisis that has developed
In the unhappy kingdom, the world
will not withhold sympathy from the
once proud woman who has been over
taken by awful tragedies, grief and
Woe She is but human, after all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
A Court of Science.

Professor J. Pease Norton of Yale
university would have court of sci
ence established He says that many
of the issues which divide the coun-
try. in fact all countries, into opposing
camps are scientific in their nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

ard like TO see anybody who knows
how to manage a woman"
"You would, eh?"
al certainly would"
"Then look at me-"
"How do you do it,"
"Ask her first what she wants done
and then do exactly as she says"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Heartbreakino.
Not Iona.

"Does he drink"
"Yes; he is a regular drinker."
81 wonder how long it viii ber'
"Tow long what will be-"
SBefore he viii be irregular"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Since France increased its protec-
tive tariff the cost of living has great
ly increased, and the number of trusts
or combines is being rapidly aug
mented
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Once.
"Did you hear what sloboy did?'
mo; what was itY'
event up in a balloon"
"Ah, that was one time that he
did II. wasn't itT''
did WHAT?
"Rose TO the occasion"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Hesseeness IN child subt=aN =
Group is "a sure indication Of the ap-
proach of the disease. If Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy is given at
once or even after the croupy cough
has appeared it will prevent the at.
tack. Contains no poison. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Postmasters Close MEETING.

East st. Louis, Ill, Oct. 6.-The
two days session of the fourth an
nual convention of the Illinois Post
masters association closed yester-
day with a banquet after electing the
following officers:
President-D. A. Campbell, Chi
cagO.
Secretary-A. c. Hemmens. Elgin.
Treasurer. B. Messick, East St.
Louis.
LaSalle was selected as the meet
ing place next October.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Enplained.
people fall in lover"

"How do people fall in lover
"Any old way"
"And how do they get out OF it?''
"Some of them hire an expensive
lawyer TO get them out"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Query.

"She keeps him under her thumb"
docs she?'
That's what they say"
81 wonder where she keeps her
thumb"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

1t is in time of sudden mishap or
accident that Chamberlain Lini-
ment can be relied upon to take the
place of the family doctor, who can
not always be found at the moment.
Then it is that Chamberlain's Lini-
ment is never found wanting. In
cases of sprains, cuts, wounds and
bruises Chamberlain Liniment
takes out the soreness and drives
away the pain. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Maksim NagaroT ard Natasha Shu-
ben we're TO be married. 1t was high
time. for Maksim. big and broad
shouldered. was nineteen. and Nata-
sha. buxom and pretty, was fifteen. o.
Notwithstanding Maksim and Nata
sha had themselves nothing to sag
about their marriage they were ne3-
Their of them averse.
Yes. Maksim and Natasha loved anG
were going to marry. So far so good.
But how were they going TO be mar
ried?
By the church. of course, spake the
elders of the MOlokan sect. No license,
no newfangled legal frivolities in
theirs, please. These things belonged
to the heather. the pork eaters, the
unciean.
But Maksim thought otherwise. He
wanted the knot tied in the Los An
geles way. In America, it seemed TO
him. you should get married as the
Americans do.
Maksim worked in a lumber yard,
One by one he had seen the young
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

There is to be an eclipse of the moon
In November. And undoubtedly 9th.
ers, not of the moon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
More Conventional.

HE swears by his mother-in-law."
at IS different with Bronson"
"In what way?'
"IIe swears at his"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Congressman Boutell says he won't
run as an Independent. How can n
champion of the interests be indie
pendent?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Watch Him,

The frosty days and nights have como.
The saddest OF the season.
The plumber comes around to plumb
And charges out OF reason.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

So far no one has been accused o.
mortgaging the home to buy an aero
plane.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
HunOr and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
ny DUNCAN n. SMITH

THAT a rich man may not enter the
kingdom Of heaven was never
known to deter a man from amassinG
all the wealth he could.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

The insurgent movement has spread
to Europe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

An American has named pig after
Z prince. Poor pig.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

The woman who boasts that her hus.
band is a genius is conscious that she
is complimenting her own choice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
QUITE Sc

isn't the country romanticT'
"That depends"
upon what?"
whether you have to live in It on
not"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
Cafe s. Par.

as hE aFssonest man.
%A h has 8AvNS beeG fnvestgaI
e6~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

THREW HIS LONG ARMS OVER HIS HEAD.
men who worked with him absent
themselves temporarily on mysterious
errands and be good naturally rallied
by the others on their return. Little
by little he had learned the legal steps
TO marriage-when and where and how
TO obtain the license and the cost, then
to whom to go and what to do and the
final cost. And with this knowledge
had come the idea, dim and haZy at
first. that this was the best way to do.
Besides and above all. Rev. Mr.. Lowell
stood for it-Mr. Lowell. the head of
the Good Samaritan Settlement House
on Del Mar street, to whom all the fog
eign quarter looked up and whom
Maksim almost worshiped.
Natasha was like minded and for
quite similar reasons. She worked in
a cannery. She had gone to school s
little, and in numberless indirect wayA
she had reached the conclusion tbs \
while the Molokan marriage was well
enough in Russia. it would never do in
the United States.
The Saturday night following the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
About Half Truth.

This is only half the truth. Senator
Root is the recognized messenger boy
of Wall street in the senate. Once a
great corporation lawyer of New York,
he. is now serving big Business" in
the congress of the United States as
effectively as he did when he repre-
sented plutocracy in the courts.
While the tariff bill was being made,
Root could always be depended upon
to speak for the imposition of the
greatest possible duty on woolens, cot
tons and those articles most neces-
sary to the common people. And he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06
'As the apple tree among the trees of the
Song of Solomon, Ii, 3.

AS the apple of the
wood"-The O i, 3.
A vete are
hat sedate dtsnthed-
and patrarChal trees
Whose frefshted arm opened
a though gave friendly
apples, should please
To reach hand. yours and mine.
Across grass
waYward paths the boys have made.
AND the shine and shadows
In endless CaValCade.
fallen apples, ruby red
bright newly polished brass.
Smile fellows overhead
Here, too go roaming pirete bees
the winesap with its bryfse
And drain its honey to the lees
the horneward cruise
Each odroring its stated
IN drowsy keys
Are pulsing through rnidafernoon-
In the old orohard
That al
Arise a train of happy dreams
olcien smiles and tears
Just the sunshine and the rain
la blent into the ripened spheres
And made with honey
G0 .Is20
Copyright by W Chapma
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Modern business methods to a man
up a tree sometimes look strangely
like medieval robber methods.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

All the news all the time-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

Reforms may come and reforms may
go, but graft goes on forever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-06

in the foregoing class to admit its mis-
take.
After branding Taft as the "politi-
cal assassin of Pinchot," the News
says: Roosevelt selects as his perma-
nent chairman, Elihu Root, who is the
incarnation of the doctrine of dollars
in politics.