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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

The Incidents leading up to and those
following the marriage Of Edward
Fitzgerald, translator OF the Omar
Khayyam," were Of ludicrouS and at
the same time somewhat serious char
acter. Mr.. Francis Gribble gave the
facts in the FortnightIy Review:
The Lucy Barton story is very pitt
full, but it is also rather comic. She
was q Quaker's daughter. who had
joined the Church Of England as q
means, one imagines. Of climbing the
social ladder. and she was Just the
sort Of person whom Fitzgerald would
esteem, but detest-prim. piouS, me-
thodical. fussy. not quite a lady and
yet in a-weird provincial way world
ly, the sort of person to whom it seems
equally important to teach in the Sun
day school and to be a leader of So
ciety.
Fitzgerald and she had known each
other for the greater part of their
lives and were both nearly fifty years
of age when marriage overlook them.
He did not even know that he was en-
gagged TO her. But she told him that he
was, and he was too polite to contra
dict her.
"Pollteness only broke down when.
after the ceremony, she assumed pro-
pictorial airs and insisted that her
husband should pay afternoon calls
with her and dress for dinner. That
was the last straw, though very likely
it was also the first.
Fitzgerald supposed apparently that
in marrying Lucy Barton he haSd mere
~ acquired n housekeeper who would
know her place, who would confine
her new dignity to her housekeeper's
room, leaving him as free as of old to
slop about in slippered ease, unkempt,
unshaven, enveloped in a dressing
gown until the evening. with books
all over the floor, pipes all over the
manteIpiece and tobacco ash all ever
his clothes.
'It would not have mattered, of
course. if he had married for love and
If his bride had been a woman of
grace and charm. Such a one would
have changed all that like a fairy wav-
ing magic wand. But Fitzgerald had
only married to oblige.' and Mrs. Fitz-
gerald was not in the least like fairy.
She was more like a female drill SER
geant, conventional, stiff and starched,
yet with pretensions.
Her flow of fussy small talk was a
nuisance, and her interruption Of FitZ-
gerald's meditations with the demand
that he should shave and wear clean
linen assumed the proportion of a
tragedy in his eyes.
"He stood it for a fortnight and then
fed. leaving the honeymoon unfinished,
going of to stay with friends, boiling
like a rabbit for its burrow.
There were q reunion and an at
tempt at reconciliation, but in vain.
Fitzgerald's letters TO his friends at
this period are Ike the letters home OF
a boy who is being bullied at school.
81 believe he writes to Professor
Coweil. there are new channels fretted
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

Justice Demanded for MIR. Cavanaugh
1t was hoped the injustice done ]. w.
Cavanaugh in his removal from an
ordinary position in connection with
the installation of the new filter plant
would be adjusted without involving
the bitterness that has since arisen.
Mr.. CavRnaugh is the former superin-
tendent of waterworks. He is a man
of undoubted skill and experience as
an engineer and expert mechanic. He
was employed by the contractors put
ting in the Pittsburg filter plant in
Reservoir park, but for some reason
was removed either through political
influences or petty jealousies on the
fimsy pretense that he does not carry
a union card.
Every one who knows Mr.. Cavan-
augh or knows of him is familiar with
his standing in the ranks of organ
ICED labor He is a veteran union
labor man, and has been SO identified
for 25 years or more. No one stands
higher in this respect and no one has
been q more honest, consistent advo-
cate Of union labor principles.
1t is natural, therefore, that Mr.. Cav
anaugh should resent the imputations
involving his removal and demand to
know the ground for his discharge on
such representations He does not
care for the job but he does care for
justice and vindication.
He has a right to insist upon both
and persist until he finds who is at the
bottom of the injustice done him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
The Scales on the Hair.

If you look at Il human hair unde3
the microscope you will find that its
surface is formed of successive over
tapping scales. The bristles of the hog
bear much resemblance to the human
hair, though their diameter is greater
and the tileiike scales are much finer.
Sleeps hair has much coarser scales.
1t is owing to the existence of these
scales that one is able by peculiar
process to tell which is the tip and
which the other end ofsa hair rolling
it between his finger and thumb. Thus
manipulated the hair always travels
in the direction of the base because
the edges of the scales prevent it from
going the other way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Back to the Grind.


School days, Oh. yes!
Hot STUFF
And well enough
For the Jay
Who sees them from far away
And traces
Only the high places
Where he hit
On his fit
From entrance time
To the heights sublime.
Where on the rostrum proud he stood
And sawed wood
Right In the public eye,
High
Above the common herd,
And spoke the word
That. needed. would set things right
On graduation night
The petty troubles he forgets.
Let's
Them slip away into forgetfuineSs.
And lays no stress
On the weary day.
Now far away.
When he almost went into decline
Trying 10 prove that four and thres
were nine.
And. say.
Locating Bamn's bay
is no snap
If you can't find it on the rsapi
And getting grammar right
Is pure delight,
Provided a pretty girl is near
To whisper in your ear
II she can look
In the book
When the teachers eye
Is watching Johnny Jones XIII ~.
Yes. we praise
School days
When toward the hazy past
We cast
A Retrospective eye: but ike as not.
It's different on the spot.
Ask the kid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

rupts others, and that will bring ruin
to the republic.
But there are many good bosses or
leaders, who are patriots, whose sagac-
ity helps their state and aids the ma
ton. Such are unusually more mod
est than the corrupt bosses and try to
lead their fellow citizens instead OF
buying them with money or political
favors. The honest citizen must use
his wits to distinguish between the
two classes of bosses, and above all
not follow the demagogue unless he
produces evidence beyond reasonable
doubt that the boss of good repute
whom he denounces is actually a ras-
cal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Corrupt Bosses and Good Bosses.

In all the present political excite
ment we must remember to be sensible
and fair, and not be carried off our po-
Iitical feet by the blatant demagogues
that always force their way to the
front at such times. One of their
favorite plays-is to denounce the politi-
cal boss. probably because present
and past bosses have refused to honor
or notice the demagogue as he thought
that he deserved.
A corrupt boss deserves all the de-
nunciation that even the demagogues
can find words to express, and no one,
but those who are the tools of the cor
rupt boss, will defend him. Some hon.
est men may say that the corrupt boss
stands by his friends, and others may
declare that his family life is ire
proachable; but they must not dc his
bidding; because the corrupt boss cor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

In view Of the attitude of the present
forces at the sheriff's Office in declin-
ing absolutely, in more than one in
stance, to give aid to township officers
IN the serving Of warrants on notori-
GUS gambling establishments, it is very
proper, in view of the approaching
election, that all candidates for the
Office of sheriff be put on record as to
how they will conduct the Office in
this particular respect In the event of
election.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

Let Teddy and Taft disagree about
the details of conservation for po-
Iitical effect; the democrats will at
tend to the matter later in the in
terest Of oil the people without asking
the railroads or the Guggenheims for
their consent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Married q Count.

"why are you looking 50 doN-ncast.
EthelT'
II have a lot of domestic unhappi-
ness, Maud"
"Have you"
Eyes. and 1 hear that you have the
same"
mot quite the same"
"No?'
mo; mine is foreign"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
cREMATE CASH WITH INDIAN
Yumas Bride Fire God For Suicide
Who Loved White Girl.

Two thousand dollars was sacrificed
recently to the God of Fire by poor
Indians at the cremation OF the body
of one of their tribe. Jose Esca!ate, in
the Yuma district.
Escalate, who was a teacher in the
government school at Old Fort Yuma,
loved a white girl and was spurned.
At sunset he sat upon the steps Of the
school building and shot himself
through the heart.
At the close of the following day
his people laid his boo on a richly
made pyre, together with all his pos
sessions, which included 81, 800. Many
Of his friends threw rolls of currency
in the flames as a final tribute. One,
a servant girl. sent the whole Of her
savings. $500. to destruction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
No Handicap.

"Are you going 10 the beaches this
summer"
mo. my deah fellah."
Aren't your
"No."
"Why not?"
"Deah me. Don't you know / come
of an old and aristocratic family"
"Oh. we'll they won't hold that
against you there"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
ave tho
Some compIiment.

GLOW deep are the falls?" asked the
inquisitive woman.
'T don't know, madam; I never fell
over them"
'I should think there would be an
easier way than that for a muscular
person like yourself TO find out"
How would you suggestT"
"You might swim up them"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
CENTURY LEFT TO INDIANS.
Assisinnilated by Whites In That Time,
Asserts Ethnolosist.

AssisimiIated by Whites In That Time,
Asserts EthnoIosist.
within a hundred years it is like
" the Indians will be no more" as
serted Fred A. Barker Oc Washington
at the convention OF Indian supervi-
sors at Denver.
"They will have been assimilated
by the white people" Mr. Barker con-
tinued "Of course there will be a
few tribes IN inaccessible places. who
will continue in their present state.
but virtually all Indians will be ANAL
gamated with the. CaUcasians. The
amalgamatiOn is going on rapidly in
Oklahoma among the Five Civilized
Tribes"
Mr.. Barker said. however that the
common notion that the Indian race
was dying out was erroneous.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Korea Developing Fast,

Korea has IL population of $4,000, 600
It's area is nearly "a, 600 square miles
Under japanese control and manage
ment Korea is beginning to Develop
marvelously. The great Korean hos
pital at Seoul is a magnificent building
we'll eouinDed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Cold Storage.

You say be is a very religious
MANI"
Very"
81 never noticed any religion about
him"
Didn't you;"
NO: ! wonder where he keeps IT,"
"At the church"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Sept. 20 in American
History

l9O0-GeneraI John Alexander McCler-
mand, noted leader in the civil
war. died; born 1912.
1906-Robert Hit. former congress
man closely associated with Lin
coin. died; born 1884.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
A Man of iron Nerve.

Indomitable will and tremendous en-.
ergy are never found where stomach,
liver, kidneys and bowels are out OF
order. If you want these qualities and
the success they bring. use Dr. Kings
New Life Pills, the matchless regulat-
ors, for keen brain and strong body.
twenty-five cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

The colonel visited Boss Cox in Gin
cinnati and the Guggenheims in Den
yer, but wouldn't stand for Lorimer in
Chicago, which was an Inconsistency
at least. But the colonel is nothing If
not inconsistent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

Down in Connecticut a man has
been arrested for pulverizing old
cigar boxes and selling the product
as pepper. He should have stuck to
the wooden nutmeg business.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Smelled a Mouse.

sour civilization is founded on the
accumulated wisdom Of the ages
cit amt no such thing"
"Ah. il isn't. isn't it? Pray, then, GO
what is il founded?"
"GaSoline."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Tuesday, September 20, 1910.

An instrument which is being used
In London hospitals enables a doctor
to see the interior of patients stom-
ach. Being a London doctor must be
disRgreeable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Cautious.

The price that we the storeman pay
Is high enough. it's safe 10 say.
He does not aim 10 lose, we hope.
A million on a cake of soap.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
Indians Powerful Swimmers.

Some of the Indians of South Amer
lea are powerful swimmers and use
the stroke popularity known as the
trudgeon. or double oversTm. which.
however, they discovered for them
selves
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
When Conversation Laos.

7FIFSss Ea9Ss
The reason some people don't talk
more than they do is that they can't
think of anything else TO say about
themselves.-Ch Chicago Record Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
DO Self Coneeit.

AAA S1h
do one thing TO
make people hap
py."
Are you p
81 am deter
mined upon IT,"
wv hat is itF'
Live 10 a
great age"
Huh! Nothing
conceited about
you.''
NO; just think
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily ana weekly At fs2A
Second avenue. Rock Island. Ill Inn
tered ut the poasefnes as sscend-class
natter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20
HuIT1Or and
Philosophy
3| DUNCAN n. SMITH
PERI PARAGRAPHS.


A NYBODY who can't understand our
way of looking at things is sure TO
have some sort of a kink In the run
ming gear Of his thought machine.
The thinking people who don't tell
what they think are often very kind to
us thereby.
man may be fond OF n fool when
it is himself. but hates to be told of it.
Small troubles are the sort that other
people have.
II you want TO know just about how
much ice you really cut. get an esti-
mate from the man who doesn't like
you.
The disturber OF the peace is the one
who always gets attention.
If you don't like TO do II. don't make
the mistake Of thinking that you do It
well.
The man who doesn't enjoy being
ashamed Of himself is likely TO keep
out OF touch with questionable things.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

|. how happy they will all be when
finally shuffier
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

BY THE }. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

The disturber OF the peace is the one
who always gets attention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

A man may be fond OF n fool when
it is himself. but hates to be told of It.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

Small troubles are the sort that other
people have.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-20

If you don't like TO do It. don't make
the mistake Of thinking that you do It
well
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
Makinu a Ianuuaue.

An alleged improvement unon the International language, "Esperanto.' ; Is the result of the lahors of a sub committee appointed by the interna- tional committee on artificial Ian guages which met fin Paris. under the presidency of the famous chemist. Prof. Ostwald. in 1907 This new "in- ter-language' is called lido" It has its dictionaries. grammars and read CTS. prepared for the use of readers Of eight or nine existing languages. It has been described as 9 "ouintessence of European languages, asd it's advo- cates claim that it is simpler and easier to learn than Esperanto" and that many are adopting it. Prof Otto Jespersen says 1t is purified Esper. anto, freed from the arbitrary word coinages and word-clipping of that language, it's illogical and insufficient rules of word-formation and it's clumsy alphabet. Youths Companion.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
ELECTRICITY IN BIBLE TIMES
Some Have Offered an Explana- tion for Miracles by supposine
 It's Use.

An electrical engineer of Munich named Stadenmann makes an ingeni- ous argument to prove that the Jews in the time of Moses had an advanced knowledge of electricity, using pas sages from the Bible to enforce his claim
 His theory of the famed serpent of bronze is that 1t was a lightning con ductor; and he also says that the tenn pie at Jerusalem was protected by metal points connected with the ground
 The most ingenious speculation is in regard to the work of the covenant, which was made of walls of wood GOV cred on both sides with metal. If this were connected with metal teeth on of leyden jar charged by the electricity of the atmosphere. and would give shock to anyone touching it.
 MT. Stadenmann presumes that Moses gained his knowledge of cleo tricity from the Egyptians. This an cient race certainly had a knowledge of many branches of science that it took the rest of the world thousands of years to learn. But the only proof that they were electrical engineers Is one recently advanced by an arche- ologist-that they must have had cleo. tric lights because their underground temples show no traces of smoke.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
Jewish Longing for Palestine.

As long ago as 1666 Sabati Zevi set the Jews of Europe preparing fer a return to Palestine. Not only the poor CT brethren. but even the rich mer chants of Venice and Leghorn were seized by the excitement and for whole century the great bulk of the people refused to be disillusioned It was not until the appearance of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda" that the Jewish nationalist movement re- ceived another stimulus so strong as this; but in the meantime many schemes were propeunded. including an attempt in 1854 to float 8 company ''to enable the descendants of Israel to obtain and cultivate the land of promise Various famous people have been interested in the idea of estab- fishing an independent Jewish king dom, not necessarily in Palestine The Dutch West India Company tried the experiment in Curacoa. and Oliver Cromwell did the same in Surinam
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
WITH THE ELEPHANT FLEET.
Indian coastng Steamers That Trans
 port Largest of All Animals.

Its elephant fleet Is one of the strangest and most deadly depart ments maintained by the British gov ernment in India. It is large fleet Of coasting steamers specially built for the transport of elephants.
 Ipdia's population is one-fifth that of the entire globe. All these people use elephants They use them for draught work and for tiger-hunting, and in the arenas of the native states they even pit them against one another and against wild beasts The elephant fleet transfers the animals from Dacca. the trapping and training headquar- ters, to the various districts whence comes the demand.
 To get an elephant aboard ship is a difficult and dangerous task. The ami nal must wade through the surf to stout raft, and this unknown surf so white and tumultuous, often terrifies and maddens him. If in his fury he daughters a mahout or two, he can not be greatly blamed.
 Once on the raft. his legs are tied to pegs, and the slow sail to the ship is uneventful. But now great band must be arranged under the elephants belly, and a crane must hoist him up some twenty or thirty feet to the deck. Here again the elephant cannot be set down as intractable if, losing his head in that unprecedented aerial journey, he murders some more mahouts.
 Very prosperous, albeit stained lit tie with mahouts' blood. the elephant fleet for many years has piled up and down the Indian coast, embarking and disembarking its heavy 'ulmanageable freight.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

behind us. but when I kissed her again she protested that we were not really engaged
 1 turned to look down at her ''It is terrible thing" l said exultantly. to love girl the way 1 love you and to have only one arm." Then I closed the door
 From across the street there came sharp crescendo whistle and vaguely familiar figure separated it. self from the park railing.
 Say he called. in hoarse whis- per. shall 1 throw the key down the elevator shaft?"
 THE END.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

We do not laugh enough. There is nothing more pleasant to the ear than the merry laugh of a happy, joyous person, and nothing drives away gloom and care like good, hearty laugh. Laughter and good humor make a happy, pleasant home and cheerful bright home is the greatest safeguard against the temptations for the young. Parents should guard against this and spare no pains to make home a cheerful spot.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

The farmer who owns farm is the particular person who IS fixed Banks may fail and factorles close, workmen strike and mines suspend, merchants fail and towns burn, times may be panicky and even crops may be short put the farm CT who owns his acres will get along. He will live in comfort and quiet. with plenty to eat drink and wear. He is the most independ- ent man on earth. Yet there are lots of them who do not appreciate their situation.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

An exchange gives an incident that illustrates the impossibilty of telling where the trouble resulting from a mortgage will end. A man mortgaged his farm to buy his wife a pair of earrings. The wife took in washing to pay interest on the mortgage, and the first day lost one of the diamonds in the suds, and tried to hang herself in the barn, but the rope broke and she fell on a $150 Jersey COW breaking it back.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
CHAPTER XXI.
And Only One Arm.


 Hotchkiss was the first to break the tension.
 "Mr. Sullivan" he asked suddenly. twas your sister left-handed?' Yes"
 Hotchkiss put away his notebook and looked around with an air of tri- umphant vindication. It gave us a chance to smile and look relieved. After all. Mrs. Curtis was dead. It was the happiest solution of the un- happy affair. Mcknight brought Sul- ljvan some whisky and he braeed up little.
 q learned through the papers that
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

Sheets of postage stamps car ried in the pocketbook frequently sticks together. When this hap pens do not soak them apart, but lay them on a smooth surface and pass a hot flatiron over them. This separates them without de- stroyng the gum.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27
 X Local News of the Week.

needle aganst the wall to get it half way through and pulling it through the other half by hanging on to it with the teeth.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

Cards received from Mir. ard Mrs. c. s. Watkins. who are re- 'uperating at Mineral Wells, Tex IS, state they will be home the latter part of the week.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

From a letter received from Mrs R. w. Cargill, who is visiting wit relatives at Wilmar. Texas, it is learned that her grandmother died at that place on August 19. ageo 85 years.
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

T changed the numbers of the berths, and it worked we'll I got into the other mans berth, and he came back to mine. The rest was easy. I dressed in his clothes-luckily, they fitted-and jumped the train not far from Baltimore, just before the wreck"
 There is something else you must clear up," I said Why did you try to telephone me from M, and why did you change your mind about the message?"
 He looked astounded
 You knew l was at M" he stammered.
 Yes, we traced you What about the message?"
 We'll, it was this way: of course, I did not know your name. MT. Blake ley. The telegram said: Man with papers in lower ten, car seven. and after I had made what I considered my escape, I began to think had left the man in my berth-in a bad way.
 He would probably be accused of the crime. So, although when the
The Huttig news., 1910-08-27

The Woman Home Mission so- oiety of the Methodist church will serve luncheon on Thursday eve hing. September l at the church, beginning at 6:5O o'clock. Every resident of Huttig should attend.