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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

these Enthusiastically warm-hearted
and sympathetic letters were written
to one who was little more than
school girl at the time. they reflect
typically his beautiful thoughts and
sentiments An important contribu-
ton is the fourth of Joseph NJ. Rogers
momentous series of six papers on
What Is Wrong With Our Public
Schools" This is entitled Some Re-
forms Suggested" and those readers
who have been asking, well, what
are you going to do about it?" will
find their pertinent query satisfactor-
lily answered. Another striking spe-
cial article is Grand Opera in the
United States" by "a Musical
Critic" '"The Prosperity Disease" by
Ellis o. Jones, and "Procrastination,
by Ralph Bergengren, are two
sketches brief but worthful Delight
full poetry by Madison Cawein, Johl.
Kendricl1 Banks, Clinton Scollard, e.
Nesbit, John Northern Hilliard and
Charles Wharton Stork; and the usual
big humorous department, "Walnuts
and Wine,'' complete the number,
which is in all sense praisewortht.
Woman's Home Companion for
April.-As spring comes around again,
the Woman's Home Companion lifts
its own standard another degree with
its Easter issue. The cover design, by
Fanny Y Cory, strikes a true April
note which is faithfully carried out in
the magazine. A full-page painting by
Balfour Ker is one of the tenderest
subjects ever attempted by this artist,
and "Old-Time Gardens in the Connect
icut Valley" by Charles Edward Hoop
er, with illustrations by Herman PEI
fer, is an unusually artistic feature.
The Campaign of Hope" the tireless
fight against tuberculosis, is waged
with undiminished enthusiasm and is
awakening people throughout the coun-
try. "The Empty House" story in
two parts, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
has its first enthralling installment in
this number 1t is a story for every
woman with a busy, self-sacrif1cing
husband to read "The House Of Heal
ing" by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, is
gaining new friends with every chap
ter, and short stories of unusual hui
NOR and charm and power fill out the
list of fiction. Never was the house
hold so well taken care Of: Margaret
Woods Hutchinson, M. D,
Kate V. SaintMaur, Doctor Jean Will
liams. all give their best work MAY
Pole Dances, ''Wood-Block Printing
"a Perfume Garden" Happiness
Chest Miss Farmers Recipes, Evelyn
Parsons Summer Embroideries, Mu-
sic. Art-these are just some of the
contents of this surprising magazine.
The regular departments, Miss Gould's
big fashion section, and the pages de-
voted to the younger reader, are all
better than ever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Did you ever see a political boss
who was an insurgent?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

The water cart got around last
night, but It didn't run on car tracks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30
No Relation.

No Relation.
"Seen anything
OF a stray dog
around here7s
Yes. Lost a
dog?"
II have. What
did this one look
likel"
ooh, he didn't
look anything
like you"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Paying the penalty doesn't look such
a trivial matter the morning after.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

REATING the other fellows game
may be exhiIarating in the at
tempt, but it is apt to be woefully so
bering in the outcome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30
Early Hours.

Early Hours.
"Does your wife allow you a pass
key?"
mo; she gets up and lets me In
when stay out late"
Doesn't she object to getting out
of bedI"
"Oh, MOI She has to get up about
that time anyway to take in the milk"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Bring up a child in the way he
should go and when he is grown he
will want you to buy the right of way
and give It to him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

One reason why all men are liars is
because we always expect them to be
interesting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30
suraieaI Operation.

How is the head bookkeeper.
"He isn't head bookkeeper
more"
whats the matter?"
'rHe has lost hts head"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30
TERMs.-Daily. 10 cent. ner weel

BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

The thing that costs you nothing is
apt to be worth less than you gave
for II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Trouble doesn't know enough to keep
its distance; otherwise fits all right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, the 5th day OF April, A. D. 1910,
in the city OF Rock Island, Ill, an cleo
ton will be held for the following Of
hcaa f0-wit-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30
Defined.

Defined.
PA"
Yes, my son."
"What is q race riotT
"a race riot?"
Eyes"
"what occurs when the bookmakers
get into trouble among themselves"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

Doubtful.
HE says he had the pleasure OF
meeting your wife last summer"
"He looks Ike a bright man"
HE is"
'Ts that what he calls pleasureT"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-30

The Needful.
'Lots Of persons haven't sense
enough to take care Of themselves"
do you think so?'
81 know it."
Seems to me II is dollars more than
cents that are required"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

out to become the master in some simple
thing, his purpose may glorify the simple
duty, but great cause imparts its breadth
TO the endeavor Paul was large with the
uplift of the Christ ideal and gospel. lie
hitched his wagon to a star. He threw his
life into a calling that taxed the Son Of
Man to realize its largeness. lie could not
be small in spirit. Each duty was weighted
with momentous issues.
Livingstone concentrated his energies
upon Africa, but he was consecrated to the
Lord Jesus Africa was only a part of the
program. The thought that drew him from
forest to lake and down forest way again
in the unknown land Of the blacks was
this, The end of the geogra phical feat is
the beginning of the missionary enterprise"
Whoever did so many things in modern
life? Explorer traveller geographer, as
tronomer, zooogist, botanst, physician, lin
gulst, missionary, all by turn he was. The
breadth of the life is the fact that it fell
upon the plans of the Masters life. Super
imposed triangles that coincide are alike
in breadth. A life consecrated TO Jesus
Christ cannot be narrow, for His line goes
out to the ends of tho earth, falling ever
where the true, the noble, the pure abide;
where light always CLEANS and darkness
never comes.
Life for self is the spinning of the web
out of self, spider like. In all things 1t is
by eagerness and upward straining and Its
determination to advance that human life
wins aught Of praise. Only by positive
progress and achievement does life become
worthy. Life for Christ is weaving the
golden threads which come from divine
hands, and following the plans he gives we
raise the figures that delight ourselves and
| satisfy the heart. The world is startled by
the reach and projectile power of life for
Christ. The upward calling of God in
Christ Jesus will make life worth while,
or there is no purpose large enough so to
do. The mists of the gathering ages wrap
| in slowly thckening folds of forgetfulness
other events and other names in history,
and make them ghostlille and shadowy, but
no distance has dimmed or can dim that
| form at the end of the, journey. Other
| landmarks sink below the horizon as the
tribes of men pursue their solemn march
| through the centuries, or are like stars
that blaze awhile and then fade into COM
pete invisbility, but our light shall ever
beam, never consume, but will illuminate
every face and purpose that Is turned to-
ward him. With the face turned down the
way of power without the thought of the
ideal purpose, there will steal upon the
dull gray of the frozen north. Toward the
Christ in the high calling the flush Of the
warmth and life of the southland will
spread above and within. Concentration
alone is a frowning cliff fronting some
polar sea, white with ice and black with
bleak rocks Conservation, a life lived tC
the Christ, is like the limestone walls that
keep back the Mediterranean, green and
flowery to. the very edge, a barrier com.
plete, unmoved, but draped with beauty
touched with sunlight, crowned with fruit
w. w, LAURANCE.
! Lincoln, Neb.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11


Philippians 313-14.
The ideal life in religion, politics, busi-
ness, is a life that is concentrated, for IL
only grants peace to the toiler, and 1t only
scores deep enough TO preclude effacement.
Others may leave shapely foot prints upon
the sands of time. but it leaves them in
the cooling rock which grows more re-
tentive as the years die Disslpated energy
may be spectacular but condensation is
force and increases in proportion to the
condensation.
Properly understood narrowness is power
and breadth is weakness. The stream that
wanders lazily through the countryside
breathing under lily pads, toying with the
fringlng sedges, only succeeds in filling the
district with malaria. Send the waters
down the narrow channel and they are
purified, turn them into the flume and they
speed away to minister to the parched low
lands, or dropping into the great turbine
they send belts and wheels flying, beneath
light created by its power. Light and power
take the place of disease germs. The sun
light falling in mellow spray over the
world, begets a flame when focused. The
air is charged with electricity, but the
world trembles only with the crash of a
thunderbolt Gunpowder exploded in open
might please child with its flash, but
confined it skaters a granite boulder.
In us there are mightier forces, moral, in
tellectual spiritual. but they operate ac-
cording to similar great laws. Wreckage
strews all the coast line of life since lives
are not compressed, concentrated Lofty
ambitions are vital in the problem, but
they come to nothing till work pins them
down to earth
Exuberant life must be harnessed to some
one calling before the work-a-day world
gets any relief with it's burden.
We feel sorry for the broad minded man
who sees so much good in all forms of re-
ligion that he refuses to adopt any. He is
so we'll disposed toward ALI that he refuses
to open his shop and see about his business.
There are many good things about this be-
lief, and so much to be offered in favor OF
that, so he permits the shole to pass away
as some sort of a collection gathered for
his inspection. Need he be surprised when
he comes to the end of his years that he
finds himself envious of the bigot who, at
least, accomplished one thing. His ability
may be marked, his knowledge extensive,
his charity world wide, but heart and
hands are empty.
Over against such efforts the heroic life
of Paul stands in perpetual rebuke. Where
gained he the power to mark the ages as
the great ice cap has engravd our counti-
| nent? He answers back through the CEN
turtles in his simple creed, "one thing l
| did,
Across the vision swings that great Paul
inc life, and it's message is, narrowness,
"one thing do" Facts of life, are seers of
God.
Viewed on the outward side, there never
was such busy life certainly: Born at
Tarsus, educated at Jerusalem, converted
at Damascus, preaching at Ephesus.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
WOmens Calling Cards are to be Almost Square This Year

larger than that for a man should be
avoided.
Cards for married women are almost
square, being three by two inches. Paste
boards bearing the names of both Mr. and
Mrs. are half an inch larger each way,
the proportion remaining the same. Since
cards as thin as a piece of writing paper
were carried several years ago. the quality
has slowly but steadily grown heavier, I'M
til now it is of appreciable thickness, with
out being actually stiff. 1t is pasteboard,
however, and not bits of paper
An address of some kind should always
be in the lower left hand corner, save
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

To possess always visiting cards of COR
rect size and quality requires close obser-
walton, for so slight Is the difference from
sason to season, that a woman who is
indifferent to such matters may easily con-
tinue to use the same she ordered three or
four years ago. This spring, for instance,
visiting cards have undergone a trifling
change and are the merest shade smaller
than those which were the ne plus ultra
last winter. This difference is noticeable
in mems cards, which have shrunk about
one-half an inch in width. AT present they
are q fraction under three inches long and
one and one-half inches wide. Anything
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
Types We Meet Every Day
The Tennis
Girl

When; with a mild, inqulring air,
Raising racket here and there
Her partner looked at her and said,
All, forty, lover her cheek grew red.
1t seems he must have told some sort
or truth upon the tennis court
When Jared Green, our hired man,
While we're at lunch tries II he can
Play at the game-first thing we know
A tennis ball at Jareds blow
Breaks through the window loops the loop,
And lands with splashes in the soup.
Says Jared, Guess ] hadn't ort
To do that on the tennis court
when father plays the game with me
It's always on a wager-see7
He's sure TO lose and I'm content
With gloves or candles. When I've spent
My months allowance 1 am glad
To play a winning game with Dad.
Who murmurs sadly We'll my rorSs
Is not upon the tennis court"
Copyright, 1910. by the N. Y. Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

.
Presbyterian Church, Lincoln, Neb.
Athens Corith all the great centers Of
the east dying at Rome. He traversed the
great forests, visited the nations, sailed
the seas. lie stood before the polished phil
osophers, he reasoned with little COM
panies in synagogues, he caused rulers to
tremble with the declarations of the truth
His hands ministered into necessities knot
ting the tent threads. He felt the chill of
the Roman prison. He knew what it was
to be sick and troubled. Writing letters
that live for ages. From Tarsus to Rome
his life was made of many threads. and
few men have played so many parts.
Viewed on the inward side, few have
risen to much heights or sounded deeper
depths. To the Corinthians he said, II am
not one whit behind the chiefest apostle"
and few pages further he writes, II am
not meet to be called an apostle" In con-
fidence he exclaims, II know that he is
able to keep that which l have committed
unto him against that day." but his hour
comes when he declares, II buffet my body
lest after have preached to others 1 my
self should be castaway. In the Philip
plans his heart thought is rejoice, but in
GdldtldIS IL Is weep IOr your SINS ne
wrote a sharp reproof to the Corinthians
and then regretted the epistle. He was
caught up to the heaven in spirit, and yet
landed heart sick and discouraged at the
seaport of the imperial city. He sounded
all the notes of human life. Unified by
doing common things in an uncommon
fashion with a new spirit, under the spell
of heaven-born purpose.
! The cause must be reckoned when life
is estimated Shutters are only snuffers al
though they be made of gold and set with
precious stones, but they are named when
they relate to the Punishment of
the tabernacle horseshoe nail is a
small thing, but when it loses kingdom
as Greasy declares, 1t becomes matter
of great moment. 1t is difficult to build
a mansion upon a twenty foot frontage.
A man may be strong in character setting
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

developed sufficiently to engage in harder
work he found employment as section
hand. After working out on the road all
day Murphy studied telegraphy at night
and finally got job as telegraph operator
and filled that place SO well that he was
made train dispatcher.
When he was not engaged in plotting
the routing of trains in Missouri he was
studying law and was admitted to prac-
tice in 1894. Murphy still finds use for the
fighting qualities which made 1t possible
for him to desert the railroad for congress,
for his district is SO close that he considers
himself lucky IL he gets a majority of
200 or 800.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

is because Mr.. Murphy has some decided
views about the propriety of the great
American public being called upon to pay
toll to the walters after it has paid
fancy price to the hotel proprietor
Mr.. Murphy's convictions on this subject
are so deep seated that he has been trying
for years to get a bill through congress
making the practice of tipping unlawful
Members of the committees to which these
bills have been referred usually have lot
of fun with them. but they never get within
a thousand miles of being enacted into law.
Mr.. Murphy's antagonism to the tipping
system is said to be due to his knowledge
Of the value of each and every penny
which comes into his possession. He has
reached his present position only because
Of a bulldog determination. He began life
on a farm and worked as a farmland
from sunup until shutdown. When he had
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

hustle down to the station and catch the
through train for Boston and the next
morning he would be back home getting
first-hand information as to how his re-
marks were received in his district. Jump
ing back and forth between Washington
and Boston was quite as ordinary a jour
ney for him as for the members who go
back and forth between Baltimore and
Washington every day"
Mayor Fitzgerald while here disclosed
plan for a combination between the demo-
Gratis and republicans of Massachusetts
with the avowed purpose of trying to bring
about the defeat of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge next January by swinging demo-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

member of that body. incidentally he was
the most energetic and he had the repu-
tatlon Of being able TO get more news
paper space than any other member OF
congress.
''Fitzgerald's visit" said a member of
the house, reminds me of the days when
ha was member here He was the most
remarkably busy man 1 have ever seen in
congress. He always had something on tap
that made good newspaper copy and when
the correspondents were IN a bad way for
news they always could count upon Fitz-
gerald TO give them something worth
while
1.-THE present mayor Of Boston was the
greatest hustler 1 have ever seen. I re-
member a story he told me once about the
way he kept his constituents guessing as
TO hts whereabouts. He would deliver a
corking good speech in the afternoon,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

when the day also is used. In the latter
case the address should be placed in the
right corner, the other being used for the
day
When a woman lives in a small town
and all her friends know the exact spot
where her house is located an address is
still imperative. This is obvious when one
remembers that women go away to visit
or travel, almost every year, and during
that time will require cards with home ad-
dresses. The street is not necessary for
the resident of a village or small town, only
the name of the city. The name of the
state is not necessary
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
TfEfftf!f|fqf] lI|I|2|I11 kRS|.l
MnmI,nrr stenIk.

This name is commonly given to mex
pensive cuts, of beef chopped. seasoned a
little shaped into small balls, or into one
large thin cake. and quickly broiled in the
way that a tender steak woud be. Owing
to the quick cooking much of the natural
flavor Of the meat Is developed and re-
tanned. The fact should be kept in mind
that Hamburg steak should be made from
<rresh, well ground meat. 1t 10 much safer
to chop the meat at home. as chopped
meat spoils very quickly. Much depends.
too, upon browning 1t sufficiently to bring
out the flavors. Many cooks think that
Hamburg steak is improved If the meat is
mixed with milk before It is cooked.
In some parts OF the country, and par
ticulariy in some Of the southern states.
two kinds Of beef are on sale. One Is inn
ported from other parts Of the country and
is OF higher price The other, known To-
cally as native beef" is sometimes lacking
in flavor and In tat and 10 usually tougher.
Southern native beef such as is raised in
Florida Is almost invariably, however. of
extremely good flavor. due presumably to
the feed or other conditions under which II
is raised. BY shopping such meat and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
nY 1AFAYETrE PARKS.


'Td like to go to an old-fashioned picnic
again this summer" Brightside announces
with note OF sentimental yearning in his
voice, as the autocrat OF the Harlem flat
strolls languidly in.
zone word TO Mother and she'll do the
rest" replies Son, prylng loose a cork tip
from his cigarette case.
'Tt means good deal OF work for the
women folks TO prepare food for an OUT
Ing" thoughtfuily continues Father.
The angel cake, pickles, stuffed olives
and other near-food the skirts tuck into
shoe box for the picnic eats viii never
give 'em heart failure from overwork,"
growls Son.
when 1 was n boy" reminiscently re-
marks Father. 'my mother always had
fried chicken. three or four kinds OF cold
meat. half a dozen homemade pies and
cakes ana so many other things no one
could begin to eat them all"
Those happy days have gone by for
ever" pessimistically laments the First
Born. eff gink at one of these modern
picnics can pry loose q couple OF feather
weight sandwiches. a slab OF store cheese
and bakery bun. he's pretty close to the
limit
'"rhe home-eooked vituals were always
the chiet charm In tho old style outing"
says Father. my mother would be busy
over the cook stove for q week before the
great event, baking and roasting the vari-
pus good things"
'If you can find one little wife In any
six-room flat IN Greater New York who
won't buy her picnic supplies In the corner
delicatesssn store . handsome reward will
be paid and no questions asked" retorts
Son.
Il fear the average city woman doesn't
q take the same delight IN the wildwood
excursion that we used to-" is Fathers
opinion.
~ on the home made grub PROPOSE.
10 nr the danes nthls little old town."
asrees Son. They can't see any fun In
tanning a bunch of fifty-sevsn varieties
Of eats together. until they ali taste alike
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
Don't Mary the Man

Who is secretive and constantly covering
up his tracks and on his guard lest he
betray his real self.
Who bosses his sisters, and does not
think 1t necessary to show them the same
consideration as other girls,
Who Is always talking about what he
will do when the old man" is dead and
he gets control OF the property.
Who let's women hang on TO straps in
the street cars while he keeps his seat
and hides himself behind q newspaper.
Who regards his cigars drinks and other
diasipations as necessities, but who would
consider his wifes meager allowance q
luxury.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
ALONG
WASHINGTON BYWAYS

Well, this certainly looks like old times"
remarked Representative James f. Mann
Of Illinois as he observed Mayor John F.
Fitzgerald of Boston in a corridor of the
capitol, surrounded by newspaper corre-
spondents.
Right" chimed in Representative
Roberts OF Massachusetts as he Joined the
group and shook hands. Stll talking,
FitzT'
When Mayor Fitzgerald was member
OF the house in 1897 he was the youngest
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11

BY BoBBIB BABBLE.
Says Trivia, ''Other play seems tame
Beside this noble outdoor game,
Which years ago, ere time took wings,
Was brought in vogue by queens and kings
And when betimes the royal spouse
In sulky mood stole from the house
His wife might follow, and. in short,
Might beat him-on the tennis court
''They play the game the same way now,
With tumbled hair and dripping brow.
There's Tommy Dolt-he falls, they say,