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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-27

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

of the last administration in his live
wire article, 1.-THE Falling Apart of
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft. Fur
thermore, Mr.. Lewis makes an an
nouncement in this issue of tremen-
duous import and interest to the
reading public. There is a capti-
waiting royal love story by Vance
Thompson in this issue, of a present
day prince and princess whom a
cruel fate has parted for many years.
my first lesson in individual dress
ing I learned from our cook" is the
astonishing admission of Grace Fill
kins, the charming actress, in her
article. MY Philosophy of Clothes.
George Russell Stratton most enter
tainly sketches the caree. of Asher
c. Kinds, who will be a candidate for
congress this fall from Thomas B.
Reeds old district in Maine; and
Edna Heron relates, in a racy way.
the story of the rise of Chicago's mo
Vote, No Tax league. Half dozen
other departments offer a varied and
tempting menu, while the number
and variety of the illustrations add
~ little to the attractiveness of
this issue.-Human Life Publishing
company, Boston.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
The Weeks News.

President Taft spends today in PITTS
burg, attending the Founders day exer-
cises at the Carnegie institute in the
forenoon and speaking at the annual
banquet of the Americas Republican
club in the evening. Tomorrow he
will go to Cincinnati TO attend the
May music festival in that city and to
speak at the unwilling of a bust of
Theodore Thomas. From Cincinnati
the president will Journey to ST. Louis,
where he is scheduled to address a
meeting of the National Farmers con-
gress called TO discuss needed state
and national legislation of Importance
to those engaged in the agricultural
Industry.
The cases Of Governor Haskell of
Oklahoma and four other defendants
charged with conspiracy to defraud in
handling Muskogee town lots with
come up for trial Monday before the
United States district court now in ses-
SION at Tulsa.
Former President Roosevelt will
spend the week in visiting the north
srn capital cities of Copenhagen, Chris
tiania and Stockholm, in each of which
elaborate preparations are being made
for his reception and entertainment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Can You Ask
More?

We are so confident that we can
furnish relief for indigestion and dys.
pepsia that we promise to supply the
medicine free OF all cost to every one
who uses it according to directions
who is not perfectly satisfied with the
results. We exact no promises and
put NO one under any obligation what
ever. Surely nothing could be fairer.
We are located right here where you
live, and our reputation should he suf-
f1cient assurance of the genuineness
of cur offer.
We want every one who is troubled
with indigestion or dyspepsia in any
form to come to our store and get a
box of Rexal Dyspepsia Tablets. Take
them home, and give them reasona-
bic trial, according to directions. They
are very pleasant to take; they soothe
the irritable stomach, strengthen and
invigorate the digestive organs, pro-
mote healthy and natural bowel ac-
ton, almost Immediately relieve nau-
sea and stomach irritation, produce
healthy digestion and assimilation, and
promote nutrition. Three sizes. rs
cents, so cents and 81. Remember
you can obtain Rexall Remedies in
Rock Island only at our store-The
Rexall Store. The Thomas Drug COM
Dany-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Gets the Business.

A man who has had experience with
all kinds of advertising mediums, and
finally pitched upon the live daily
newspaper as the most profitable of
the lot, says in Newspaperdom: eff
a concern has something to sell that
has merit, and its price is right, and
If this concern, through newspaper
advertising day after day, with lib
eral amount of space, tells the people
= straight, unvarnished tale of good
goods, good service and low prices,
that concern is bound to get business"
Failure, with these conditions observ-
ed, is possible only through unwise
selections Of the newspaper spokes-
man.
The choice of the right newspaper
Is an essential part of the program.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
The Exposure of Corruption in the
Illinois Legislature.

The Exposure of Corruption in the
Illinois Legislature.
If the information Representative
White of the Illinois legislature has
given the Chicago Tribune, anent
corruption in the general assem- oly
in connection with the election of
Lorimer as United States senator is
reliable, a great service has been
done the state.
There are those, OF course, who
viii; question the sincerity of Whites
motives, in view of his having been
self confessed bribe taker. In this
respect it may develop that he occu-
pies much the same position as one
who has turned states evidence and
the result will be a gain for the peo-
pie if the case is proven, whether
the act is prompted by public well
fare or the thought of gain for the
informant
In any event the Tribune has prov
en- vehicle for information of a SEN
sational If not altogether surpris-
ing nature. At the same time it has
taken upon itself responsibility that
it cannot lay by until the truth and
the whole truth comes out and the
fraud is placed where 1t belongs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
FIELD OF LITERATURE

Human Life for May. - Not more
swiftly and sure does spring start
the sap running in the trees than it
does the baseball fever in the veins
of young America. Human Life's
cover for May is a baseball scene to
warm the cookies of every fans heart
and the opening story-on the great
Garry Herrmann-is three-base hit
Alfred Henry Lewis draws the cur
tain aside and gives the public for
the first time, a real good look be-
hind tha scenes in the closing drama
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

my name In your testimonials" Mrs.
II. w. MITCHELL, Box 8, Sabattus, Me.
Another Woman Helped.
Graniteville, VT. ~ was passing
through the Change of Life and suffered
from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored my health and
strength, and proved worth mountains
of gold to me. For the sake of other
suffering women / am willing you
should publish my letter" - Mrs.
CHARLES BARCLAY, RID, Granite
vile, VT.
Women who are passing through
this critical period or who are suffer-
ing from any of those distressing ills
peculiar to their sex should not lose
sight of the fact that for thirty years
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, which is made from roots and
herbs, has been the standard remedy
for female ills. In almost every COM
munity you will find women who
have been restored to health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable COMPOUND.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
The Consumption of Beer.

The department of internal reve-
nue. reports that the barrel tax on
beer for the month of March amount
ed to s4,993,793, as compared with
S4,079,222 in March 1909, this be-
ing an increase of 22.4 per cent. The
beer sales for March last beat all
records for the same month in any
previous year. They show an in
crease of nearly per cent over the
largest March sales previously re-
corded, which occurred in 1907. The
following table shows the amount
of beer sold in the month of March
elusive:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

In Christiania he will deliver an ad-
dress before the Nobel peace prize
committee and will receive a doctors
degree from the university. At the
end of the week Mr.. Roosevelt will
proceed to Germany.
Commander Robert E. Peary will be
entertained at luncheon tomorrow by
the Royal Societies club in London,
and on the following day will receive
the gold medal of the Royal Geograph-
ical society, before whom he win lee
ture at the Albert hall.
Another event of the week in Lon
don will be the opening of the Japan
British exhibition at Shepherds Bush.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

affect the treasury? is asked. These
figures tell US:
Since June 80 1907, the total bal
ance in the general fund has dropped
from $272, 061 ,445.47 to SS2,0O3, 557.61
/ With an average daily deficit eating
/ its way into this remaining eighty-two
million dollars, but short time can
elapse before the government will
have to sell more bonds to secure more
money to meet more extravagances
Outstanding bond issues are national
debts.
How does all this concern the aver
age citizen? This is how:
The per capita appropriation by con-
gress jumped from Sc in 1890 to $12.40
in 1909. Since the government raises
the bulk of its revenue at the custom
houses and internal revenue offices,
you, Mr.. Reader, are paying for repub-
lican extravaganza in increased prices.
There is no use of your correspond
ent reporting further on the proposed
investigation of the sugar underweigh-
ing frauds, or the alleged illegal sale
of rich Philippine sugar lands to the
sugar trust. The trust has shown
itself powerful enough to prevent
probe by congress- Just how it was
able to protect itself from an investi-
cation the writer does not pretend to
know. All that is known is that nine
resolutions providing for a probe of
this thieving trust have been intro
duced in this congress, and every one
of them has been chloroformed. The
brother of President Taft was the at
torney for the sugar trust, and Attor-
ney General Wickersham was former
law partner of this brother The at
torney general says the sugar trust
should not be investigated, and the
president sustains this view.
I'VE expect that the customs receipts
will fall off from now on" said a high
official of the treasury to the writer.
1.-The recent increase in the customs
receipts was largely if not wholly due
to the interruption of business while
the tariff bill was in the making. I'M
porters held their orders because of
uncertainty of what the new rates
WOulQ US AS oOOA dS Tue Ic14iA OAll
was passed, these delayed orders were
sent abroad and the increases in the
customs receipts of the past couple of
months are merely temporary and do
not by any means indicate that the
new law is to be a much better rev.
enue producer than the old one"
"Aldrich is not a candidate for re-
election and therefore is no longer an
ISSUE" is what the republicans are
preparing to say from the stump in
the approaching congressional cleo
tions. But such progressive republi-
cans as Senator La Toilette expect to
see Aldrich in the next congress,
heady and eager to serve the big inter
ests, as usual There is nothing TO
prevent the Rhode Island boss from
changing his mind after the fall cleo
tons are over.
On April Is, 1910, Vice President
Sherman made speech at st. Louis
in which he intimated that the new
tariff law was bringing in so much
money that it might possibly be neces-
sary to revise the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law upward. On that day, according
to the report of the United States
treasurer, the expenses of the govern
ment exceeded the receipts from all
sources by $1,274,553.23!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

The standpatters are about the sad
dest and most discouraged men in the.
United States at this time-and well
they may be. The party has drawn
away from them, and left them strand
ed with the big captains of indus
try and the big trusts and great cor
porations. For these predatory con-
Germs and their official tools. the hand
writing is on the wall. The people
are going to turn them under.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

only when lazy liver and sluggish
bowels cause frightful dependency.
But DR.. Kings New Life Pills expel
poisons from the system; bring hope
and courage. cure all liver, stomach
and kidney troubles; impart health
and vigor to the weak, nervous and
ailinR- % cents ar all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
NO USE LOOKING FOR 1T YET
Astronomers Say HalIey's Comet Is
Too Dim to Be Seen.


Too Dim to Be Seen.
While we are not having good COM
et-viewing weather and, according to
the weather man, are not likely to
have that variety for several days,
at least, astronomers say that even if
there were no clouds in the way these
mornings the comet would not be
visible to the naked eye. In short,
Halley's visitor is not coming up to
expectations, and here within two
weeks of the time when it will be
nearest the earth its light is so dim
that it is invisible except through pow
erful lenses. There will be little
hope of getting a peep at the sky
tramp till about May s, when the
moon will pass out of the morning
sky.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

C m pound an d
Liver Pills before
child birth, and we
ARE all surprised to
see how much good
lit did. My physi-
clan said Without
doubt it was the
Com pound that
helped you /
thank you for your
kindness in advising
me and give you fun
permission to use
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Legislator White paints himself
pretty black at the outset-regardles
Of the service he is doing to the state
by his exposures.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
A Regular Tom Bow

was Susie-climbing trees and fences
jumping bitches, whiting, always
getting scratches, cuts, sprains,
bruises, bumps, burns or scalds. But
laws! Her mother just applied Buck
lens Arnica Salve and cured her
quick. Heals everything healable-
boils, ulcers, eczema, old sores, corns
or piles. Try it, % cents at all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Lest you forget, we say it yet-did
the census taker get your name before
turning in his books? There is still
an opportunity to get in, if he did not.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
EXPLAINED.

as a shipping clerk one who works
IN a ship"
mo; in our store he is one who gets
shipped every little while"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Her Reason.

''wouldn't you Ike to be an angelo
'sNo."
"You wouldn't?"
mot a bit"
"Why?"
''It seems to me it would be such
hard work Besides. l don't think the
pose would become me-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Ballinger has made CLAWS a fellow
member of the Ananias club.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Although cotton seed has gone VI
in price, olive oil is useless for pur
poses of replanting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Cuba is finding it advisable to sup
press its uprisings with it's own hand
instead of calling in the neighbors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Our Visitor
Heipl Helpi
The comet
Treads the skis.
A great
And wondrous sight.
About as big
AS forty worlds
And forty
Times as bright,
That
Were II looking
For a lunch
Could eat ua
At a bite.
And will II DO
The awful
Deed,
Or viii it
Proudly eail
Across our path
And barely let
Us photograph
Its tail2
This comet
That by measurement
Is OF
Such wondrous size
Is not aware.
You may be sure.
That we
Are in the skies.
How can we
For a moment think
So large a mass
Would stop
Or swerve
So much
AS half an inch
To blight
Our
Cabbage crop7
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

WY HILE the outbreak In the negro
HA republic of Liberia, on the
w west coast of Africa, IL Of q
purely local character. It has
caused sorae disturbance IN official
Washington because Of apprehension
that the warships of some foreign
power might intervene, and thus give
such power a foothold In the little ma
ton that was founded and has beep
protected mainly by the United States.
The present trouble is confined to
the Grebos, native traders who have
refused to pay their taxes, with the
result that the Liberian government
sent an expedition to enforce the laws.
The men of the revolving tribe fired
on the factories at Cape Palmas and
the Liberian troops shelled the en-
emy's position. The German gunboat
Sperber offered to clear out the rebels,
but the offer was declined by Presi.
dent Barclay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

II the census enumerator has over
looked you, report it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

''Will you love me when I'm oIdT'
"Yes. II necessary"
What do you mean by thatT
'If you should ever get Old
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
May 2 in American
History

I74o Elias Boudinot, soldier and
statesman of the Revolution. born;
died 1921.
1904-Edgar Fawcett, novelist of New
York society life, died; born 1888.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempests.-Epicurus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
WouIdn't Let Him.

Wouldn't Let Him.
"a man never forgets his first sweet
heart"
81 can't forget mine"
That's what said"
''I married her"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

that the man who wants his lager is
going to get it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Ir Mr.. White of O'Fallon was simply
looking for MOTORCYCLE has got it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Dire Result.

"Are you taking gymnasticsr
mo"
"Why notY"
81 mentioned the subject to my wife
and she discharged the man who takeB
care of the furnace"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Her
PHYSICIAN
APPROVES
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Sabattus, Maine" You told me to
take Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

The fellow who has money 70 burn
Is assured of warm reception and a
hot time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
No Choice Left.

No Choice Left.
"Do you live to eat or eat to liver"
asked the one who was organizing a
new cult OF the wayfaring man who
had paused TO listen.
81 don't do either since the price az
food has got beyond me-" replied the
sad eyed man as he turned away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Many a big BLUM makes good and 90
ceases to be a blur.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

The hole isn't greater than any Of
the parts when it is a pinhole In q silk
gown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
prua Store Aid.
A Man Wants to Die

$50 she has decided to be a blond
Yes: the dye Is cast"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Has the census enumeration
omitted you? If so, address
William Schaarman, assist
ant supervisor of census,
1714I2 Second avenue,
city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly &C 1894
Second avenue. Rock Island III IEn-
tered at the postomce as second-cIass
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

1t is queer how a man seems 70 be
all at sea when he is up In the air.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
=
Hu11or and
Philosophy
By DUNCAN N. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

TT is tossup as to who looks the
worse, the man whose wife cut his
hair or the man who has no wife TO
perform that very necessary operation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
Easily.

"How can he AFFORD to owe such
large amounts"
"Afford top
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Philosophy is nothing bnt discretion.
--Selden.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

TERMs--DaiIy.. 10 cents per week
Weekly. 81 per year in advance
All communications of argumentative
fharacter. political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ZION. No such articles viii: be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondents solicited from every
township In Rock island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Scandal can't circulate unaided and
alone just by its own ability.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

There are people who couldn't take
a hint If It had handles ON both ends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

Perhaps IN the fourth dimension we
may be able to eat our cake and have
Il too.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

1t may be cheaper TO move than to
pay rent; but. like most cheap things,
it isn't so comfortable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02

HE doesn't have TO afford st."
'Doesn'tT
"No. His creditors do that"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-02
SOME REAL LIVE
GOSSIP FROM THE CAP
lTAL OF THE NATION

Continued from Page one.)
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-08
NTTbE MBbGSee THE
MSlNe|V6UNG NAN.

as a Present Asset. but as a Future
Possibility. He looked ahead and
tried to Figure Out what he would
have when he was Forty. 1t seemed
10 be Worth Going After-so he went
To II.
He looked at himself in the Mirror
Of Self-Analysis and decided. to the
best of his ability, just What Line he
was Fitted For. Then he Doped Out
the knowledge. Experience and train
ing in that line he didn't have that
he Ought to Have to succeed. Then
he Went After those Minus QUAINT
ties. In other woras. he Settled Upon
His Lifework, He made up his mind
that he was going to BE Somebody.
and then he Concentrated all his en-
orgies and talents Toward That End.
His Present Income was TO him
Present Position merely Means TO
An End. The Present was Already
Here-and he couldn't change it be
cause il became the Past almost In.
stantly-but the Future was Ahead
and was His to Make or Mar. There
fore he plodded. He was building on
the Rock, not on the Sands, and-he
was the Architect of His Own For
tunes.
Both these chaps are still only
Rising Young Men.
Both are giving satisfaction to
their respective firms.
But one is Dissatisfied at times
with his Job and is always on the
lookout for a Better One-the one
Big chance of his Life.
The other is Standing Pat and Saw
ing Wood.
Both may Get There eventually.
But one is Making Sure of Coping
the Coin-the other is Taking a
Chance on doing so.
Drifters never have Accomplished
Anything. Plodders always get What
They Go After-just because they
Keep Hammering Away at it till they
DO.