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New-York tribune., 1911-01-08
LITERARY NOTES.

An edition Of Edmund Spenser,,
minor Poems" has been prepared by
Mr. Ernest de Selncourt and win bs
printed in the oxford University Press,
series of English Poets. The editor
has colated for his text all the edtlons
published during Spenser's lifetime. with
the folio of 1911 containing his complete
works.
"Sixtine Rome Is the title Of forth.
coming volume IN which the lie and
times Of Sixtus will he described. II
was an interesting period, one that saw
order restored to the states OF tina
Church and the Inauguration Of excel.
lent works Of public utility. II IS to
this sixtus. however, that the world
owes the destruction or mutilation OF
many Of the precious pagan monuments
Of art. ~'re
A forthcoming work dealing exhaust
lively with the modern methods of book
and periodical Illustrating Is entitled
THE Process Year Book" Its many
articles treat important matters az
theory and practice i'm process work.
printing. photography. etc. The text .s
accompanied by quantity Of illustra-
tive plates.
Mr.. Rudyard Kiplng has lost his
mother. who died the other day In a
little country town I'm England She was
| in her maiden DAYS Alice Macdonald. the
daughter of a Wesleyan minister One
of her sisters married Burne-Jones. the
artist.
! Mr. Eyre Grove. who as factotum
! friend and amanuensis. accompanied
! Thackeray on his lecturing tour in
this country, has just died IN Lon
don i'm his eighty-sixth year He was
a Royal Academician. a painter Of
historical and genre pictures Many OF
his paintings were Of scenes i'm the lives
OF the famous English authors OF the
eighteenth century. He published two
books. Homes and Haunts Of Thack-
cray" and With Thackeray in Amer
ica." The latter is a more or less lively
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
The EIgin Death WhirI.

Peoria Journal: Fifty years ago
we fought our Bull Run and Manassas
Last week We fought our battle of Ell
gin. Three persons were killed out
right; 80 persons from Chicago and 81
from other cities were seriously injur-
ed. while 5000 others escaped injury
or death by a mere freak of fortune.
Shall this murder be repeated next
year, and for all years TO come? Shall
human Iife,-the most precious thing
on earth.-be thus juggled 10 tickle
the fancy and satisfy the gluttony of
our modern Neros?
If there is any subject to be found
throughout the length and breadth OF
Illinois that demands immediate legis-
lstion, that subject is the Elgin Death
Whirl. Who cares a continental for
the hat pin law or some of the other
time-killing. Tind-jabbing laws that
are enacted every year at Springfield?
What are they IN Importance com
pared with a law that will knock the
Elgin death whirl higher than a kite.
We want every member of the state
legislature 10 read the magnificent
records that have just been made on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Criminal CareIessnees.

The accident at the Elgin road
races which jeopardized the lives OF
several hundred spectators. should
serve as a good object lesson TO those
who take il upon themselves to care
for the public. Those who entertain
the public for profit should pc made
10 furnish safe arrangements for
their guests. They should be reached
by the criminal Law. Prosecutions
for damages have little effect and, in
the end, bring little 10 the injured
or the relatives Of the victims.
When the General Slocum burned
70 the waters edge in the Hudson
river the captain Of the ship was tried
and sentenced 20 the penitentiary for
a term OF years. In fact he has just
been paroled, after serving half Of
his sentence.
This sentence led to a general
cleaning up of the steamboat dangers
IN New York harbor and did more 10
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
{ ulIoIn.

At last your Uncle Shelby has been
freed. He has now a difficult job on
hand. The Deneen men want to know
where he stands as regards the Lor-
inner men. and the Lorimer men want
10 know where he stands as TO the
Deneen men.
Uncle Shelby can sing how happy
would be with either were the other
dear charmer away
But the charmers will not be away.
They are both strictly on the Job and
they want TO know where Uncle Shell
by stands.
In the past he had very good luck
N escaping Logan and Oglesby. but
he cannot depend on his luck now.
If Uncle Shelby was sure each fac
ton would have a candidate he would
tell both OF them to go to the devil,
and he and Charley Hitch and William
Northcott would try TO carry the day.
But there is no certainty Of each fac
ton having a candidate and there is
no cert9inty they will not come 10
gether in the end.
Shelby is very suspicious OF the Chi
cago crowd and he would give several
postoffices If he was out OF the woods.
IL looks as though he was in a little
the tightest hole OF his officeholding
experience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Ransom Holbrook called her that, for
he had never seen her except at twi-
light, when the timid little bats came
forth to wheel in and out of the glare
Of the arc light on the corner. From
his window he would watch the flying
bats. now plainly discernible in the
white light. then suddenly vanishing
beyond a black shadow.
She came around the corner into the
light, a swift moving gray l4eae fig
ure, and as suddenly she vanished in
the tall shadow cast by his house. Be-
yond his house she seemed to melt into
the gray shadows that interviewed be-
tween his own arc light and the next
one two blocks away.
miss Flittermouse.' / wonder where
you come from and whittier you are
going" unused the young man as he
drew back into his firelit room and
paced to and fro with thoughtful eyes
fixed on the carpet. Let me see; it's
three months since 1 first saw her
stealing past in the twilight like the
little gray fiittermouse that she is
Every Sunday morning Ransom va
ried the monotony of his daily Office
grind by arraying himself as one of
the lilies of the field and goiag forth
TO church. He went to a particular
church because he liked the preacher
and because the sermons did him good.
1t might be a monotOnous life for
a young man who was a stranger in
a big city. but of course there was
an occasional evening at the theater.
a concert or the opera, and. then back
again to the study of law in the Of
fee OF Laidlaw & Black
The next day being Sunday. Ransom
went TO church, and, finding his own
particular seat occupied, for 1t was a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

the death whiri and ask himself,
How do you suppose this old world
Of ours has ever kept going this long
without these superb records?
Then We want everyone Of these same
Legislators to forget all about the card
board grandstand that folded up Ike a
shutter. manning a hundred persons
and importing the lives of thousands.
Let them forget all about Ralph Ire
land and Samuel Jacobs as they rest
In the long, long sleep.
Let them hurry with Mrs David
Buck to the bedside of her husband
and stand in reverent silence as she
bends to kiss his pale lips and
to touch his clammy brow. Let them
step aside a moment for the rhysi-
clans to take one look and murmur,
TITS all over. He has only few min
utes to live" Let them bow their
heads In prayer until the truth dawns
upon the woman and she throws her
self PROSTATE on the dead body of her
beloved and means between her stiff
ling sobs, 20 Dave, Dave darling, it
can't be true. it can't be true."
But it is true. Dave is dead, but
the racers speed on and on round the
Elgin death whirL
What are you going to do about II,
Mr.. Legislator? Are you going to al
low this battle TO be fought again
netx year? You have the power to
stop it. You hold in one hand the pts-
toI TO start the racers and you hold
in the other the flag to stop them.
What are you going to do about 1t?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

day of special music and the church
was filed, he was led to seat far in
the front OF the edifice.
From the row of people in front OF
his he picked out at once the girl who
was wearing violets. He smelled them
first, and they seemed like Whit OF
his boyhood. so fresh and sweet they
were. He could see an upward wave
OF golden hair disappearing under the
wide brim Of gray hat trimmed with
some soft gray stuff in which was
tucked a pink rose The trim tailor
made gown was OF gray. and he had q
glimpse Of soft gray little glove turn
ing the leaves OF prayer book
'-She Is as small and gray as Miss
Flittermouse." thought Ransom. with
a little whimsical smile at his own
conceit IN comparing this daughter Of
the rich 10 the girl who went so faith
fully past his house every night. No
one but a working girl could keep such
regular hours. he concluded
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

prevent disasters than all the damage
suits that have hung in the courts
for years.
The captain OF the ship il no more
guilty than the man or men who care
lessly constructed a grand stand, or
had It constructed. just for the pur-
pose of collecting more admissions to
speed carnage
1t il time that someone was made
an example of.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Steel Trust TrickerJ.

That the steel trust is taking adven
tage OF It's monopoly Of the steel indus
try Of the country, not only By excortins
arttnciaIly high prices, but By turning
out an inferior product has been re-
vealed by the coroner's investigation
OF the recent wreck at Manchester, n
Y, IN which % persons were killed
and so injured
This investigation developed that
the wreck was caused by a defective
steel rail-, and that this rail, on the
strength and quality Of which the
lives Of the railroads patrons depend.
| ed, was so carelessIy made and tested
that the weight of the heavy train was
more than IT could bear. The rail-
crumbled into II pieces, and the cor.
oner. in his preliminary report, stated
that it seemed brittle He express
ed surprise that 1t hadn't caused q
disaster long before II did.
When yudson c. Clements, chair
man of the Interstate Commerce com
mission, learned that this defective
output of the steel trust had caused
the most appalling wreck In the his
tory Of the Lehigh valley railroad he
expressed himself as being disguised
with the constantly deteriorating quail
ity OF those trust products on which
the lives of the people depend.
1T is exasperating." the commission
er said, Ito think that the millions of
persons who ride on the railroads of
the country have no insurance against
defective equipment beyond what the
steel makers choose to give them. The
poor quality of railroad equipment, as
revealed in numerous wrecks recently,
amounts To an outright fraud. and
powers of the commission to require
the most exacting supervision over all
products entering into the equipment
Of railroads.
Commissioner Clements sent a num-
Der of inspectors TO the wreck TO make
a report, with a view TO urging con-
gress to enact laws requiring a closer
watch over the manufacture of rail
road equipment.
The presence of this defective steel
rail in the Lehigh roads equipment
corroborates what many members of
congress have said about the growing
inferiority of trust made products.
Representative Haugen. Iowa repub-
lican, made the statement in a speech
on the floor of the house that the cor
rugated steel sheeting used by the
French in their canal building opera
'tions at Panama was in better condi-
ton today than the same material sup
piled the American builders by the
steel trust after the latter product
had been in use only a few months.
Mr. Haugen also said that the barbed
wire that he had strung on his Iowa
farm 90 years ago was in better shape
than the steel trust output that had
been on his fences less than Two years.
Representative Murdoch, of Kansas,
has a bill in congress providing for
punishment for wool and cotton
frauds" il being his contention
that the products of the wool and cot
ton trusts are for large part shoddy
and inferior. He thinks 1t should be
just as much of a misdemeanor to de-
fraud the people with inferior and
shoddy clothing as it is to cheat them
with bad food products.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
The Woods Are Full of Them.

You can't fool Tom Thompson of
the Howard, Kan. Courant. He
says: The fact that I have received
an invitation TO come to Topeka to
meet President Taft and sit on the
platform doesn't pun me up very
much.
The same day 1 got ii I found
two or three of them blowing around
on the street where other folks had
thrown them away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Taft Must Decide

Mr.. Taft must decide against the
attorney general and the secretary of
agriculture or else antagonize all the
pure food sentiment in the country.
He has also got to decide between
the secretary OF the treasury and the
attorney general.
He has already had to unload a
secretary OF the interior. His cabi-
net selections may have been of cap
able men. but they are deficient in
good team work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Aug. 81 in American
History

1S79-General John B. Hood. Conred-
crate leader, died; born 1881
over a wide area
of the country east of the Missis-
sippi river. 1t caused 100000
property loss in Charlestown, 3. y.
Sixty-one lives were lost.
1910-Former President Roosevelt pro-
claimed the new nationalism."
Bronze statue Of Thomas B. Reed
was unveiled in Portland. Me.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Humor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

A BOY never can see why a girl Is
willing 10 spend time doing fancy
work when she might be learning all
about prize bulldogs.
The man is yet to be born who can
thoroughly enjoy listening to q joke
on himself.
Genius viii excuse carelessness IN
dress in s. man, but nothing but mon
ey will excuse It in q woman
Don't expect to make much OF n hit
with a pretty girl by complimenting
her views on art or her tastes in dress.
The man who goes around with q
chip on his shoulder seldom has time
TO engage in the arduous task OF saw
ing wood.
Optimism rs like praying for rain
most likely to be successful when the
signs arc right
The man who has half q dozen young
men in his ONCE can't AFFORD the lux
ury Of q pretty stenographcr.
Some men inherit millions, some
squeeze them out of others. and some
buy automobiles on credit.
The handy man always MAKES n hit
with the women who are running an
ice cream social.
A young man may marry on his good
looks, but the aged or middle aged duff
fer must produce the cold cash.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Our presidents now find It neces-
sary 70 travel about explaining the
merits of their particular brands of
legislation TO the voters of the coun-
try. Just think how the world has
progressed. Once it would have cost
a man his head 10 have questioned a
king
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Take Soldier as Horse Thief.

Ottumwa, Iowa, Aug. 31.-Company
z of Centerville, in camp here with
the saith regiment, Iowa National
Guard, is short one member as a re-
suit of the arrest OF Private Bert
Shepherd. charged with horse steal
ing. Shepherd was taken back TO Cen
terville by an officer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Breaking the Meastony.

Breaking the Moaotony.
Take your wife and babies.
Pack the family grip.
Once In every season
Make a little trip.
With your vision widened
From your pleasure ride
Home VIII be the brighter
When you homewArd slide.
Do not maize excuses e
That win breed delay.
II you can't AFFORD II 90
Do II anyway. -
what's q little backset.
What's a little debt,
To the rest and pleasure
That the bunch win Eetf
Life takes on n dreary
Sort OF monotone
When your range In ever
One restricted zona
SEQ the ways and manners
or a distant state.
That will reconcile you
Better TO your fate
Take n little journey,
Round the mountains walk
Give you something different
For your table talk
Let your business vanish.
Care to windward Ming.
Strike for a vacation
It's the only thing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

The Illinois insurgents who are
planning TO start a new morning news
paper in Chicago will find it a game
OF millions. Better buy advertising
space for a while and see what the
people think OF the cause fractional
newspapers. like men with one idea,
soon snuff out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Stanton, Va. is governed by a
city manager. who hires experienced
aides for all departments wherever
he can find those best suited to the
jobs. He has done so we'll that last
year at an election his salary was
raised from $4,000 to $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Smart Girl.
'She IL learning to cook"
~Going to be married, l suppose"
wrong again"
''What's the secretP'
"Going after the good money dad
pays the hired girl"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Cheap Romance.

Cheap Romance.
There's no romance In real life to-
day"
do you know Brown
''That sport2 Yes"
~There's real life in him, isn't thereTF
Guess there is"
''Well, you should hear him tell
about the salary he gets"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Improve the streets. Improve the
entire business section and the out
lying districts so far neglected. And
do IL now.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Once Mr.. Bryan invaded the east
as the enemy's country" Now Mr.
Taft is to face the wrathy insurgents
of the west on a similar mission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

In buying cough medicine. don't be
afraid 10 get ChamberIain's Cough
Remedy. There Ia no danger from f.,
and relief is sure TO follow. Espec.
Tally recommended for coughs, colds
and whOoping cough. Sold By all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly At 1884
Second avenue Rock Island. III LEn-
tered at the postoface as second-cIass
natter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

William George Jordan, editor of
note and secretary of the House OF
Governors, is busy preparing for
the next session of the governors,
TO be held at Spring Lake. n. j.
September IL TO Is. Jordan, who
was the one TO first suggest the
organization, hopes it can be mod
eled into a great state cooperative
movement that will be Of inestima-
BILE value in making the United
States more united.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Upton Sinclair keeps on the first
page wonderfully we'll. for one who
has so little to offer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Champ Clark has lost none of his
ability as a writer and speaker of
clear and vigorous English
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

THAT man has perfect genius foI
getting into trouble"
"How does be get outT
"Oh, he never gets out"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Parcels post Is coming surely, but
slowly. The express company infiu-
ence dies hard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Enough For . Start.
HE is trying to break into the auto
mobile class"
with an autoT
mo; just with q pair Of goggles and
q quart OF gasoline"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Running the
Bluff.
Els the doctor
doing a general
practice stillr
mo, he is an
expert now"
How did be
get to be an ex-
pertT
BY doubling
his charges"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
The Field of Literature

! A Record First Edition.-Harold Bell
Wright. author of That Printer OF
/ Udelrs" and other popular novels. has
no reason to complain Of his publish
ers' lack of faith. The Book Supply
company announces his new novel
The Winning of Barbara Worth" as
the biggest novel ever issued from any
/ American press" and proceeds conf
IDENTIFY to the printing Of a first edition
OF 100000 copies This printing of
| 25O, 900 copies without lifting the forms
from the press is believed to be the
largest printing ever made of any new
novel in advance of publication. The
advance sale two weeks before publ
cation day is 225.000 copies. Two
presses running day and night since
June 40 gold layers laying the gold
On the covers-shipments to booksell-
ers at the rate of $500 copies day.
The Western News company has plac-
ed a single order for $4,000 copies.
This and other rather staggering or
ders have caused the publishers to
make immediate plans for half mil
lion copies. This confidence is per-
haps partly explained by the figures
of Mr. Wright's previous sales. his
first novel THAT Printer of Udelfs,"
running to 100000. The Shepherd of
the Hills" TO 100000 and The Calling
of Dan Matthews TO 100000 copies.
The new book is described as a stir
ring tale of love and adventure in the
west. with even greater elements Of
popularity than its predecessors.
Mr.. Wright was born in Rome, \. Y,
80 years ago. When he is not an auth
or he is a rancher For the last four
years he has lived in the great Colo
RADIO desert and has engaged actively
in the work of reclaiming the Imper.
ial valley.
The September Success.-The Mel
lenizing of New England is the sub
ject OF an interesting article by Ed
ward Hungerford in the September
number of Success Magazine and
The National Post" with which it
recently has been combined. "Mellen
Transportation Overload OF New En-
gland" is the title of the article,
which tells a romantic story of rail
road battles which have been waged
since 1872 and shows the determined
methods of J. Pierpont Morgan and
his lieutenants. Sloane Gordon is the
author of "Ohio Wakes to Shame" in
the same number, a careful report on
the conditions leading up to the re-
cent bribery scandals of the legisla-
ture of the Buckeye state and of the
sensational manner in which evidence
against accused Legislators was OBJ
tanned. Ernest Poole has written of
David Nannes-Apostle of Music,
and the number also contains good fic-
ton, including stories by George Fitch,
H. D. Couzens. William Justin Harsha
and Bailey Willard, together with a
continuance of Richard LIE Gallienne's
Travels with a Junk Man in Arcadia"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Explained
EVERY man has his price"
what does be do with itr'
"grom reading the accounts II II 70
be concluded that most OF them accept
it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

President Taft is planning a 49,
ooo-mile swing around the coun-
try this fall n an effort to strength
en- his chances for the renomina-
ton. the longest trip ever taken
BY a political candidate. He will
speak in many cities on the way.
and expects TO make hundreds of
back platform addresses In addi-
ton. He will start from Boston.
September Il. stopping first AZ
Syracuse, y. Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Quite Natural

Quite Natural
81 hear he 10 on the stage"
"Oh. yes; he has a think part"
"what does he think aboutf'
"Pay day, Of course"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
kaapina u DARK.

Keeping u Dark.
Say, you. why doh't you work."
81 have no license"
you don't need license to work"
Now, don't you tell my wife that"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
Anrd 20 Kan La

"Chariie is always in a bury
"Of course"
why Of courseT'
HE belongs to such a rapid set
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31
BY THE ]. W. POTTER CO.

TERMS-Dai1y, 10 cents per week
Weekly. 81 per year Ia advance.
All communications Of argumentative
character. political or religious, must
have real name attached for pubics-
ton No such articles VIII be printed
over fictitious signatures
Telephones in all departments: Central
Union. West 145 and I145; Union Elec-
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So H1@
IRAosS s G 1ssssf council -
ET
Thursday, August 81, 1911.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Genius VIII excuse carelessness IN
dress in s. man, but nothing but mon
ey will excuse It in a woman
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

The man is yet to be born who can
thoroughly enjoy listening to q joke
on himself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-08-31

Don't expect to make much OF a hft
with pretty girl by complimenting
her views on art or her tastes in dress.