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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-14

Trinity DISQUALIFICATION guild
will meet tomorrow afternoon at .
o'clock in the choir room.
Trinity guild will meet with Mrs.
J. A. Wendell 527 Nineteenth street,
Thursday afternoon at 2:30.
Rev. Chapman S. Lewis. rector Of
St. Johns church. Kewanee. will oc-
cupy the pulpit at the services
Wednesday evening.
First Baptist. - a concert will be
given by the boys choir tomorrow
evening under the auspices of the B.
y. P. L. The concert will be under
the direction of Professor Earl Baker
The regular mid-weeI prayer serv-
ices viii be held Wednesday evening
at 100
The monthly thimble bee will be
held at the home of Mrs. First and
Mrs. Bailey. 1115 Twentieth street,
Friday afternoon.
The choir will meet for rehearsal
Friday evening
Spencer Memorial. - A business
meeting of the Epworth league will
be held this evening at the home of
Andrew Olson, Eighth avenue and
FOrty-fourth avenue
The bible study class will meet to-
morrow evening at 7:3O.
The monthly business meeting of the
Ladies' Aid society will be held at the
home of Mrs Henry Bowes, 907 Forty
fourth street, Thursday afternoon.
The regular prayer services will be
held Thursday evening at 7:3O
The Young Mems class will meet
. at the parsonage. S27 Forty-fourth
street. Friday evening at 30
The choir will meet Friday evening
! for rehearsal.
Broadway Presbyterian.-Mrs. Mar
quis will be hostess tomorrow after
noon at the regular meeting of the W.
/ c. T. [. The meeting will be held in
the Sunday school rooms of the church
and viii be open to the public This
is TO be a scientific temperance in
struction meeting and the essays writ
ten by pupils of the seventh grade
will be read and prizes will be award
ed. A musical program has also been
arranged for the meeting.
The regular prayer services will be
held Wednesday evening at 1880.
Mrs. c. o. Woodruff. SIS Twenty
third street. will entertain the mem
bers of the Ladies' Aid society Friday
afternoon at 8 O'clock
South Park Chapel.-An entertain
-ment will be given by the girls of Miss
Ramser's class this evening. The pro-
gram is under the direction of Mrs
COrcoran.
Junior prayer services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
Beyond Heading OFF.

Our local democratic contemporary
seems 10 be laboring under the impress
sion that it can head off the filing OF
the petitions being circulated to put
Mr.. Bryan's name on the democratic
primary ballot as candidate for United
States senator 1t evidently has an
idea that its preferred candidate would
fare better II Mr.. Bryan could merely
turn deaf ear to this popular upris-
ing and stand by his alleged promise
not to run.
But these petitions are beyond head
ing on. They must be filed with the
secretary OF state in due time, and Mr..
Bryan must by his own act respond, or
refuse to respond. to the demands OF
the petitioners In other words, the
petitions cannot be smothered or
thrown into the waste basket like Mr..
Bryan's letters TO the dollar diners,
without mourning the penalty of the
law. The primary election law OF Ne
braska in its penal provisions declares
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
Need for Sanity and Honesty.

Governor Hadley of Missouri told
the graduates of the University of In
diana that the performance of political
and official duties is a practical and
not theoretical proposition, and that
the country needs no parlor politicians
nor idle theorists today. He was
speaking on the duty of citizenship
and he might have added that useful
citizenship today demands nothing
more than sane, sober thought and
judgment, an honest and fearless con-
viction and an unselfsh motive.
The peril of any nation that under
goes social or political changes in
marked degree is the clever mounte-
bank and the ignorant demagogue rad
icalism. Against both of these the
United States has to guard, for both
are broad enough today. Governor
Hadley puts it mildly when he calls
them parlor politicians and idle theor-
lists. False prophets are generally
shrewd persons, intrenching them
selves behind some popular reform
sentiment, secure in the knowledge
that it is hard to attack them without
seeming to assail the cause that pro-
tects them.
But such periods of political unrest
have come and gone in this country
more than once and the people in the
end have generally been able to sepa-
rate the wheat from the chaff. 1t has
cost us dearly at times to find the
truth and to hold to it, to keep our
heads amid the whirl and din of the
fake crusaders, but in the end We have
come back to safe ground
If commencement day orators would
pursue the line of thought which Gov
ernor Hadley has and try to lay on the
young collegian the prime Importance
of individual honesty and effort as a
prerequisite to good citizenship and
seek to show him the danger of the
political charlatan, they would be do
ing a real service, not only to the grad
yates going out to meet the world,
but to the old world as well.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
A Law that Makes New Homes.

A law enacted by the Sixty-first con-
gress which is Of the utmost import
ance to the people Of this entire coun-
try is that providing for the agricul-
tural entry of the surface Of coal land
while reserving all mineral rights to
the government. Under it's provisions
6O,OOO,OOO acres of land will be
thrown open to settlement, which
means thousands of new homes in the
great west and a tremendous lifting
of pressure from certain congested
areas of population. This land is
chiefly in Montana and the far north
west, where the climate and soil are
adapted to robust life and good crops
of grain and fruit, conditions that in
vite most appealingly the man with
energy and small means who is look
ing for a chance to establish a home
and acquire a competency.
This is one of the conservation laws
which the president urged upon con-
gress and one whose benefits 1t Is i'm
possible to measure or estimate. APP
parent upon it's face, however, is that
fact of it's far-reaching advantages
which will be available very soon.
This land is not only fertile for agri-
cultural purposes, but Is believed to be
prolific of mineral wealth, chiefly coal,
and it is much more desirable for coal
production than the coal land of
Alaska because of its proximity to the
market and the comparative cost of
production. Nor will the present set
Element and farming or the land in any
way hinder its exploitation when the
time comes for coal; rather it will
facilitate it, for it will tend toward a
general settlement of the country and
the establishment of new towns or
communities and shipping points.
This act and the one clearly defining
the power of the president to with
hold from settlement any land for the
conservation of water rights are two
of the most important conservation
measures passed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
Prevention Better Than Cure.

With all due respect to William Krug,
who lost his life as a result of an auto
mobile accident" we do not think the
cause of his death Is any more criminal
than was that OF the domestic who was
so unfortunate as to be accidentally
killed last year at Sixteenth and Far
nam. The automobile madmen will go
on killing one another and the public
without police interference until we
have one big, grand lynching bee.--West-
ern Laborer.
Correct so far as the culpability for
the killing of a domestic being equal
to the culpability for the killing OF a
prominent business man. Prevention
is better than cure, and what is wanted
is not vengeance, but security against
repetition. We do not want any
lynching bees in Omaha, but we do
want automobile drivers and owners
to respect the rights of other people
and to desist from reckless oyerspeed-
ing, The thing to do, as already
pointed out by The Bee. is to make
every automobile driver take out a
license subject to limitations Of age
and competency and suspend or forfeit
the license for every violation of the
law.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
A Pike to Pixies Peak.

The pathfnders who blazed the
trail from the middle west to Pixies
peak fifty or sixty years ago could
scarcely have dreamed that a half CEN
fury later their path would be made
into a smooth, shaded boulevard over
which automobiles, vehicles of which
they had no conception, would be glid-
ing from the Missouri river to the sum-
NIT of the Rockies. Yet that is an
achievement of twentieth century
progress now in process of realization.
From Kansas City to Pixies peak a
rolled, stone-dressed boulevard, shaded
and beautified will be constructed; in
fact, is being constructed, for the
work is already under way through
Kansas. When completed it will af-
ford right-of-way to the autoist, who
may speed to his hearts content along
the historic trail which the pioneers
of the frontier made in their pixies
peak or bust crusade when all this
land was wild prairie and Indian
fighting common part of travel.
The New Santa Fe trail will be fol-
lowed for some distance and road
from Kansas City to Newton, Kan,
will form another link. The state of
Kansas is giving generous support to
the enterprise and in the western part
of that state the work is we'll along.
No doubt is entertained that Colorado
will join with Kansas in bringing the
turnpike to a successful completion.
Neither of these states could well hest
tate to balk at such a task, the most
severe part of which had been done by
those sturdy torchbearers of civiliza-
ton who mapped out the path so many
years ago. 1t will not only be tribute
to their early work, but token of
what the good roads movement means
to this country and of what 1t may yet
hacome
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
among other things which are pro-
claimed to be unlawful:

among other things which are pro-
claimed to be unlawful:
Any person, who. being in possession OF
nomination papers entitled TO be filed
under this act or any act OF the legisla-
tiire. shall wrongfully either suppress,
neglect or willfully fail to file or cause to
be filed at the proper time in the proper
office. shall on conviction, be punished by
imprisonment in the county Jail not to ex-
coed six months. or by n fine Of not to ex-
coed five hundred dollars $500, or both
such fine and imprisonment, in the discre-
ton of the court
Whoever may be in final possession
of the petitions that have been signed
up to put Mr.. Bryan's name on the pri-
mary ballot will, therefore, have to file
them before the expiration OF the legal
time limit, and Mr.. Bryan will have to
say yes or no" The theory of the
law is that anyone who procures sigma
lures to such a petition in the number
required is the trustee Of the signers
and legally bound to perfect the nomi-
nation process. This obligation is Just
as great IL only twenty-five signatures
are attached as If $4,000 are affixed.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
PASSING PLEAsANTR1Es.

"YO' isn't never stopped at de Palace
hotel befo' is yo Boss3" inquired the col
ored man who was plotting n just-arrived
traveller from the railway station to the
hostelry.
OF it7'
"Uh-kase 20 swine dar now. sah."-Puck.
You never saw man more delighted
than Flutterby isl'
What's the cause?"
Hes going TO get q public hearing
for his poems at last"
In printY
mot exactly He's been sued for breach
OF promise and all his poems are to be
read In open court."-CleVeland Plain
Dealer.
II thought surely you'd sell that lot of
sausage" declared the grocer. You praised
Il praised il too darned much," said his
assistant. ut overheard me and wagged
Its tail"-Courier Journal
THE fortune teller told me that my hus-
band would not die a natural death"
We'll l never thought that he would"
Yes didnt7"
Nope; I've always thought that you
would stay at home some day and have
his supper ready when he got home, and
he would drop dead."-Houston Post.
ITO illustrate the point i am making
said the lecturer on The Wonders of the
Human Body" some women have such
perfect control of the muscles OF their feet
that they can turn the great toe straight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

The sultan of Sulu, coming with $4,000
worth of pearls. has successfully inter.
viewed the silent oyster.
Nevada is the haven Of the prizefighter
the chosen home of the divorce hunter
the habitat of the Jackrabbit, and its
name may be utilized for an imposing bat
tleship.
Those Barnard college girls who demand
husbands with brown eyes and sense OF
humor Will find that the buff pay envelope
with just plain common horse sense also
has its attractions.
York, Pa, boasts of hailstone weigh
ing fifty pounds, this seasons crop. The
ice harvest must be short in that section
or the town is competing for the general
headquarters of the Ananias club.
Homer Davenport, the discoverer of the
world-famous Roosevelt teeth, was COM
plimented by Mr.. Roosevelt on the trip
over. The finder OF these political nuggets
was not aware OF the quality of the ivory
he pictured when he first drew them at
Cooper Union meeting during Mayor
Strong's administration.
Dayton, o., an Industrial city unsur
passed for its size, tops its achievements
with a journalistic plunge that will bulge
the eyes of boastful metropolitan publish
ers. Two hundred and two pages comprise
the one hundred and second anniversary
number of the Dayton News. The occasion
was the occupancy of a handsome news
paper home, fully equipped for expanding
business as is shown in the quality and
quantity of the boom number. The
publishers have warrant for claiming the
number to be the biggest newspaper ever
published in the world" and may also
credit themselves with producing a splen-
did article of its class.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
Our Birthday Book
Suna ~. 1910.

jefferson Davis, United States senator
from Arkansas, was born June q, 1862. He
is a native OF Arkansas. and was attorney
general and governor OF that state before
going to the senate, where he is In the same
class with Ben" Tillman as a fire-eater.
Frank Dewey, deputy county clerk, is As
years old today. lie was born in Cedar
Rapids, Ia, and is a bookkeeper and ac-
countant by profession. He has been handy
man around the county clerks office for
many years.
George f. Bidwell formerly general man
ager of the Northwestern railroad at Omaha
and now retired, was born June "a, 1S47, at
Danvllle. N. Y. He commenced railroad
work as a common laborer in 1869 and kept
steadily going to the top until compelled
10 quit four years ago because of failing
health.
Charles G.. Mcdonald, attorney -at-law In
the Brandeis building, is just 90. He was
born on a farm in Spencer, Ia, and gradn-
ated at Oberlin college. He studied law
at the University OF Michigan. and has
been practicing in Omaha since 1900.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27

1t is all very we'll for manufacturer
to advertise his goods or his trade
mark-he gets all the benefits, but the
retailer can't advertise that way.
So say many retailers.
Take Lord'& Taylor, in New York
they are retailers. they don't manufac-
ture a single stocking, yet Onyx
Stockings" and Lord & Taylor" are
synonymous.
1t is a good stocking-Lord & Tay-
lor see to it that it is kept up to their
standard of quality. 1t is advertised
constantly and consistently, and it is
backed up with the name of high
class dealer.
Now, Mr.. Retailer, what have you to
sell that you cannot advertise and back
up with your own reputation?
Select any article in your store and
you can advertise it and reap the bene-
fits if you are willing to back it up
with your own trade-mark-your own
name and reputation.
1t is the goodness of the article
itself, and constant reiteration Of its
qualities in your advertising that sells
it.
An advertisement in The Bee will
reach 10000 readers daily. A four
inch space will cost you 1892 per day
and we will furnish the copy and illus
trations to make your selling argu-
ments complete.
Is this worth your consideration?
Phone Douglas 23S.
THIS FRIG1D SUBJECT MADE VITAL
What the newspapers can do for small
expense has been splendidly illustrated by
an advertising man occupying an ordinary
salaried position on a New York news
paper.
The New York manager of the refrig-
orator concern which makes the Bohp
Syphon advertised extensively in the maya
zines had occasion one day to insert
want" ad.
He was then seen on display advertising
and it developed that, like most men, he
wished to increase the business-the sales
in his territory.
1t was further developed that he was
willing to spend $1,000 Of good. hard
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
inc President,s Waterwnv polinv.


The president hits the nail squarely
on the head in his suggestions to con-
gress as to future rivers and harboTs
appropriation. He has affixed his sig
nature to the bill setting aside S52,-
600, 900 for a miscellaneous lot Of
waterway improvements, which has
been characterized "piecemeal" legis-
lation, but he accompanied his APP
proval with a statement expressing
disfavor with this method of legisla-
ton which combines such variety of
enterprises over such a wide section
of country. He does not believe the
appropriation is exorbitant for the
work to be done, but rather that too
much has been undertaken to bring
any of it to the successful completion
1t should reach. He suggests, there
fore, that in the future congress should
submit to a commission Of experts the
matter of determining what projects
should be prosecuted and appropriate
the moEey necessary to finish them in
the proper manner.
The president is undoubtedly cor
rect in assuming that this piecemeal
system will lead to continuation of
demands for money to finish these va
rious projects, which are to run along
for ten to twenty years before COM
pleted. They are very likely to in
volve waste and unnecessarily heavier
expenditures of money than IL the
more comprehensive system which he
has all along favored and which he
now proposes were followed. To de-
termine definitely just what is to be
done and to set about doing that and
persist in the work until it is speedily
concluded would mean much more for
waterway improvement than this sys-
tenn of a little here and a little there
can possibly mean.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
Talks for people who sell things

, money II he could see the additional orders
coming his way.
The advertising pioneer got him to 10
into the newspapers with his 81 600, and,
with keen foresight, persuaded him to
tell the story of the Bohn Syphon refrig-
orator in his own style-''just like talking
it."
so without any trace of anxious Eng
lish, without apparent thought of logic
or of climax, in rugged. homely language,
the human interest side of refrigerators
in general and the Bohn Syphon refrig-
orator in particular was given to the
people Of New York city through the
newspapers.
The first ad was three columns wide,
full length, set In twelve point caps, writ
ten throughout in a personal style and
giving a lot of first-hand information of
the making and selling of refrigerators,
and told why the Bonn Syphon had an
ticipated the health, convenience and daily
requirements of its users.
1t was a mighty interesting advertise
ment, partly because it gave a lot of in
teresting facts and principally because it
had honest conviction in every statement.
This ad was followed by six short
talks" each engaging about 200 lines
of the Refrigerator" In which the stories
went right into the routine and problems
OF every day home life. They showed
practically, the dangers of the Ice box and
visualized the Bohn syDhon refrigerator
in active service right there in the kitchen
or pantry, ana the writer of these stories
gave the reason in each case why what
he said was so.
The plan sold the refrigerators? Il
couldn't help 1t. Telephone calls and let
tiers were received at the newspaper office
from people who had mislaid the address,
asking where the Bohn Syphon refriger-
ator store was located. A single order from
an apartment house builder paid for the
whole campaign
All of which goes to show that news
paper advertising, rightly conducted, is
Immediately responsive There are cases
other than this which have been conducted
with equal success. ,,..sl1a-. .f5-t a.--
The occasional manufacturer here and
there is seeing a great light he is having
some pleasurable business experiences with
the neswpapers-but just here and there
Deep down in every manufacturers heart,
and frequently on his lips is the profound
wish to know his public and to have his
public know him.
And it is the business, the mission and
the duty of newspaper men to show him
how to do it.-Newspaperdom.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27

Talk about your democracy of pleas
hre and sorrow! Here is a set of St
Louis policemen gathering up a wagon
cad OF men for splitting on the side
walk and when they line them up at the
,tatiop they find an actor, a railroad
cashier. a physician. reformed news
kaper reporter and preacher. And
rhey were all standing gazing at base
All senra board.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27

what are you going to do with the
populist9" asked delegate in the
Fourth district democratic convention
and added, Without the populist
votes We cannot elect congressman. f"
The answer is easy. The democrats
are going to steal the populist votes
again by misbranding their candi-
dates, just as Mr.. Bryan purloined the
votes belonging to Tom Watson by
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27

The Lincoln Journal seems dis
tressed because The Bee ventures the
opinion that those who expect the
political millennium from the federal
campaign publicity law are likely to
be disappointed by the same short
comings as have been disclosed by the
Nebraska campaign fund publicity law.
That does not mean that The Bee OPP
poses the law. Quite the contrary, AS
this paper has always advocated and
upheld it. Everybody knows that the
publicity law in this state has been
fagrantly ignored or evaded. ana most
fiagrantly by the Bryan political
family, which makes the lOudest noise
for reform.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
No Return Ticket for Hasers.
Baltimore American.

Congress win not reinstate the nine
cadets who were dismissed from West
Point for haEing. With more of this
unfolding of discipline and of the mill
tary academy's authorities, the practice
can be stamped out. AS long as cadets
and midshiDmen feel that there is easy
appeal 10 the sympathy OF congress-. dis
cipline, the most essential point TO he
supported at the naval and military ma
tional academies. will be az the mercy
Of their own sweet Wills. and they can
afford to snap their fingers at their
superiors who attempt to enforce it
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27

up and the next toe straight down at the
same time"
ANY woman can do that" shouted tho
married men in the Rudience.-Chicago
Tribune.
Husband Ito wife, packing trunh)-But
how am I going to get my things in?
Wife, don't see that YOU need to take
much, my dear You look very well as you
are.-Life.
What makes Mrs Flipperty look so
dreadfully discouraged3'
Haven't you heard that all the Reno
divorces may be declared invalid
vorCeG
Mercy she's had twoi"-Cleveland Plain
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-27
ACCORDING TO THE CYNIC.

Trust no man, however pleasant,
You have never seen before;
Trust tho men you know at present
Less as you may know them moro.
Tender smiles and ardent glances-
Who would put his faith In theseY
All too fragile are romances.-
Shun the one who strives to please
Peoples actions all remind us
Life Is but a hollow sham,
Divide us up ana you Will lind us
Half the wolf and half the lamb.
For we live to work each other.
Gain our way by honied phrase;
And also for that poor brother
Who knows not the old worlds ways
Il. j. MAY