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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
WILSON SETS EXAMPLE

l never suspected before that Senator
Beverage was a humorist because if
he didn't know that was a joke he
ought to have known that it was a
Joke. When did he ever hear that I
had changed all my habits?"
At Minneapolis the governor re-
feTred to President Taft in these
terms:
1 want to pay my tribute of per-
sOnal respect to the president of the
United States. | don't believe that
any man who knows the facts can
question the integrity of purpose of
the man who now presides in the
White House."
This was joined with a criticism. of
the presidents party associations. bur
the speaker resolutely abstains from
campaign vituperation. Whatever may
be thought of his own party or hi
politics, the tone and style of his pop
ular addresses deserve the heartiest
commentator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

This letter J. Roger Rees quotes in
follows:
"Sir-I have the honor of acknowl-
edging the receipt of your letter and
do myself the pleasure OF replying TO
it without delay.
I'm affairs Of this kind the partners
ought to meet upon equal terms. But
to esta blish the equality between you
aud me there are three things which
ought to he done. ana then a fourth
also becomes necessary before I can
meet you on the ted
"First--iOu must marry and have
four children. Please be particular
in having them all girls.
Second. must prove that the
greater part Of the provision which
you make for them depends upon your
life. and you must be under q bond OF
$4,000 not To be hanged. not to com
NIT suicide and not to be killed in
duel, which are the conditions upon
which | have effected an insurance of
my own life for the benefit of my
wife and daughters.
Third must tell three direct false
hoods concerning you upon the bust
ings or IN some other not less public
assembly. and | shall neither be able
to Go this nor to meet you afterward
in the manner You propose unless you
can perform the fourth thing. which
is:
THAT you must convert me from the
Christian religion.
Till ali this is accomplished our dis
pute must be carried on without the
use Of any more iron than is ueces-
sary for b,ackenins our ink and mend
Ing our pens or any more lead than
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
TIE GEEAr HARVEST.

The wheat crop promises a yield
u zoo, 000. 900 bushels This has never
been exceeded but twice. In 1906
the yield was 7S5.o10.olo, and in 1901
there was yield OF 74S,O00.00O
bushels.
This Is supplemented by the ire
meadows yield CT oats. while the hay
crop is far in excess OF previous years
The result Of this tremendous posi-
bility is causing a great deal Of IN
easiness to the railroads They are
already predicting a sJringency in
cars. The cotton crop has fallen off.
The predicted yie.d is only 1900 GOO
bales. bu, the west will more than
n-Sc up the deficiency. What is re-
n--.l.able is, that in spite OF the large
IN -ccce OF production. wheat is 10
c~"t5 hushel higher ia Chicago than
!. Eas year ago, and corn is six
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Yazoo, Miss. Sept. Ex-senator John
Sharp Williams Of this state has come
out with a strong endorsement of Co
lionel Roosevelt's suggestion that the
Panama canal equipment be transfer
red TO the Mississippi river valley for
The purpose OF improving that great
artery OF commerce. He says:
1T would be madness to throw upon
the dump heap the machinery at Pan
anna. which can be so easily transfer
red TO the Mississippi valley for a still
more useful work. and il would be al
most equal madness TO sell it at such
a price as could be obtained for it,
My heart is with the project. 1t is
time the great Mississippi! river prob
lem was taken up just as the Panama
canal problem vas, as a thing To be
gone at from every viewpoint and TO
he completed as one great overshad-
owing commercial and agricultural ne
Cessity.
instead OF dribblinC away from
100000 10 s6.O0O.C COO a year. a large
part Of which is wasted and another
pare destroyed whenever foods come,
the machinery which is now al Pan
ANA ought, upon the completion Of the
canal to be moved up the Mississippi
valley and utilized in dredging the
river TO a IA foot channel, beginning
at the lowest point where Il lacks that
depth. and extending northward TO the
lakes
Senator Williams further expresses
the opinion that the national govern
ment should spend at least 10000, 900
a year for two years in raising the
leveCs and revetting the banks where
needed as q further protection against
floods
II it should be said" declares the
Mississippi statesman, that $50. OO0,.
600 is a large amount Of money. 1t can
be replied that the Panama canal will
. cost US about $500. 100000 before Va
are through with it. and the improve
meut OF the Mississippi river will add
10 the commerce and wealth OF the
. American people in any year II it is
+ completed ten times as much as the
1 Panama canal can ever add"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
The Argus Daily Story
A Crisis-By Ellen T. Armstrong
Copyrighted. 1912 by Associated Literary Bureau

Edward Ingersoll married when ne
was twenty-five and lived happily with
his wife for eleven years, when she
died without having borne him chill
dren. In three years he married Sec
ond wife. who was the same age as his
first AT the time Of his first marriage.
Whether the second Mrs. Ingersoll
was more Maynard than the first had
been at the time of the first marriage
Is question. Perhaps if lngerSon had
remained twenty-five he would have
got on more easily with the second. As
il was. she seemed very FESTIVE To him.
He realized that she was young and
needed to be carefully handled. But
with all his patience and gentleness
she showed an increased disposition to
be fretful. This led TO occasional up
braidings on her part, which were met
with efforts TO soothe her on her hus-
bands part.
He came home one evening from
business TO find her gone. He was as
tonished. disappointed.
After the first shock he began to con-
slider what course 10 pursue i'll the
premises. He had little faith in sever
ity. realizing that it would be more
likely TO widen the breach than to heal
II. On the other hand. if he begged his
wife TO return TO him he would prob
ably be obliged to continue to be Il beg
gar. And yet there did not seem to be
any middle course unless he should
leave her to see her error and return
to him Of her own accord. This last
course he determined upon. but re,
solved to take advantage Of any cur
rent they might drift into whereby he
might facilitate their reunion. He wait
ed few days for her TO return, or al
least communicate with him. but she
did neither. He knew she was Mt heI
former home. in which she had been
born and was row petted and sympa
thized with by all her family, being
admirably situated TO stand long
siege.
He wrote her that in consequence OF
her having left him with no housekeep
er it would be necessary for him t
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

procure one. Since she would doubt
less not care to have a woman come
into the house to find her effects eX-
posed he suggested that she come and
put away such articles as she would
prefer should not fall into other hands.
If she. did not care to come herself she
might send some one to act for her.
If Ingersoll intended to get her back
with a view to keeping her the rHse
failed. she wrote him that she would
send her sister Edith and asked when
1t would he convenient for him to
have her come He replied that as
soon as he could find a housekeeper
he would let her know. Then Edith
might come. put away such things as
were to he put away and turn over the
house to the new manager.
The words new manager had an
unpleasant sound to Mrs. Ingersoll,
but as she pictured some elderly
woman of low degree taking care of
the house of which she had been the
mistress she managed to swallow the
pill In due time a note came stating
that q housekeeper had been engaged
and would enter upon her duties the
next evening. Mrs. IngerSoll sent her
sister during the afternoon Of the day
mentioned In order that after she had
put the things away she might have
a look at the hOusekeeper and report.
When Miss Edith Martin had locked
up everything according to her sisters
Instructions she sat down and waited
for the new housekceper. ostensibiy
to give her certain information. but
really to see what kind of a creature
she might be. Presently she heard a
latchkey at work in the front door and
going into the hall met a woman.
Pardon me-" said Edith. Il thought
II was the new housekeeper."
II am the new housekeeper."
Your
Eyes. You are Miss Martin. sup
pose. Mr.. Ingersoll told me l would
probably find you here"
Miss Martin gasped for breath The
housekeeper was about twenty eight
years old and a very beautiful woman.
Her hair was a soft glossy chestnut:
her eyes were large liquid ones: her
mouth is best described as kissable.
Her manner was fully as attractive as
her person. She smiled sweetly en-
Miss Martin and said that if she had
not finished her work she would gladly
help her and If she found anything
left out that should be locked up she
would notify her or Mrs lngersoll.
In snort she sauf Mig Marin ayra L
charmed with her IL spite Of the lady S
disposition TO quarrel with her on her
sisters account.
When Mrs. InGersOil was informed
that the Eousekeeper was an attractive
woman she sank down in a heap. as ii
she had been shot The family gath
cred round her to brace Eer up. tbs
stimulant used being repFoaches casi
upon her husband. Brute, monster
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
AW0MANVO OBSERVATIONS
KMGaey

hope; TO hope against the lessons of
past experience, to hope against rea-
son, TO hope against certainty-to
hope, anyway Its a kind of hollow
comfort TO which she clings-a COM
fort that is her cross, too.
And so a woman may be persuaded
tc try again, even against her better
judgment, because of that little for
lorn hope in her that ''thfags may be
better now" while a man, whose ma
ture is more practical, judges of the
future by the past and refuses to be
coerced by any chimera Of maybe
Still another reason for woman's
forgiveness is her economic depend
ence upon man, which has been bred
in the bone one might say.
Even the woman who was a wage
Garner before marriage finds herself
fearing to face the world alone again
after few years of married life, par
ticularly if she has a child or more.
She will bear insults and injuries.
and forgive again and again, rather
than have the home door closed be-
hind her, even at her owa bidding.
She will tolerate much, for the sake
OF companionship to which she has
| become accustomed. After she has
once slumped into a martial frame
of mind, she always finds it easier TO
return TO it than 10 make an entire
break. II is a truth that marriage
has a oneness in it which even d.
vorce cannot earirely eliminate and
woman once married is never en-.
! tirely divorced from her husband, no
matter how legally free the courts
have made her. nor how much she
may despise him.
! Last, but not least, the good Lord
made an extra little corner in a wom-
ans heart where she cherishes the
! erring, and loves them and forgives
them times without number-not for
any reason at all, but just because
she is woman, the possible mother
| Of little children who must needs
make many missteps, and the COM
fort OF big men who after all are
very like little children, but whose
mistakes are not so easily overlooked
by hard world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
lChicago Record -HeraId.l

Chicago Record HeraId.)
If there is sincerity in the denun-
citation of the mud-slinging politics,
there should be general and grateful
recognition of the fact that Governor
Wilson is giving a bright and shining
example of the other kind. He seldom
INDUCES in references to persons, and
when he does they are courteous and
good humored.
When at Logansport, Ind, he re-
piled to Senator Beveridge's assertion
that he was depending on the dem
ccratic bosses and the intimation that
he would be helpless before them, he
said:
Il understand that in q speech made
last Saturday nigh a very much es-
teemed friend of mine, namely, Sela-
tor Beverage, said that he entertain
ed a very serious fear about NE, name
ly, that if were elected president I
would be controlled by the bosses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
OUR "pAUpER" FARMERS

difference prevailed in the price of
barley.
In a word, wheat sells in the amer
lean market from four cents to 10
cents cheaper than in the Canadian
market. Yet there is a duty of %
cents per bushel on wheat which tries
to get into America from Canada.
Why doesn't the American farmer
get the advantage of that duty?
Because We export wheat, instead of
importing it. An import duty does
not and can not help the price of ar
article of opportunities the produc-
ers of that exported article are in
trust that is strong enough to fix
prices.
The farmers have never formed a
trust
II is now in order for some lingo
paper over the border to ask for a
high tariff on wheat to protect the
free and manly Canadians from the
'pauper product" of American farms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
An UNFOUGHT DUEL.

And the Reply Southsy Prepared For
Byron's Challenge.
Lord Byron once sent a challenge to
Southey. the poet. The quarrel which
led to the challenge had sprung from
a severe criticism OF Byron's work by
the future poet laureate. 1t happened
that the friend to whom the challenge
was intrusted. Douglas kinnaird. was
TOO sensible to deliver it. and so the
duel never got beyond the merest pre-
full expectation OF the challenge, had
prepared letter to send in reply.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Chicago JourualD
Here is an instance OF how the tariff
helps the farmer:
Aug. %, the wheat known as No.
northern sold in Winnipeg, Canada,
for s1.0f'a per bushel.
On the same day, the same grad.'
of wheat, called here No. ! hard, soiu
in Minneapolis for $1,000.
Aug. q, No. 2 northern wheat sold
in Winnipeg for s1.O21a per bushel.
On the same day, the same wheat
sold IN Minneapolis for 92A cents
per bushel.
No. 3 northern sold in Winnipeg
that day for 50 cents.
The same wheat. differently named,
sold in Minneapolis on the same day
for Se44 cents.
Oats that sold in Winnipeg for
42A cents, sold in Minneapolis the
same day for 80 cents. A similar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

womea?
One clerk of court says they are.
Women who bring divorce suits, he
declares. may often be persuaded TO
forgive and forget and try life over
again with their husbands; but sell
dom is a husband willing 10 dismiss
a divorce suit which he has started.
Women ought TO be forgiving, heav-
en- knows. They've been well trained
to it through past generations.
From babyhood q girl has had it in
stilled iato her that men must be for
given their frailties, while on the
other hand, even the infant boy knows
that he can cut up about as he pleases
and be always taken back TO the bos-
ON of some good woman, from his
mother on Also, he soon learns that
though he may shatter all the virtues
and still be received in good society,
the woman who makes the slightest
slip must be frowned down and her
misstep always kept in mind as an
unforgivable matter.
It's our double standard of morality
implanted in US by ages Of man rule
which is part of the reason why di
vorce-seeking wives often are willing
to 'try it over again" and divorct,
seeking husbands won't.
Thea, women have been bred tc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Wealth Among Treasury ser,os.

"SS'tH among treasury scraps
Unique among government Jobs" is
that Of the two women who sit side By
side down in the basement of the
treasury department and spend the en-
tire day going through the contents
OF the department wastebasket- They
are searching for stray bonds. checks
and bills that may through some mis-
hap have fallen into the basket The
positions of the two women are more
important than their place on the treas
ury rolls would indicate, for some time
back ore Of them fshed up a $4,000
United States coupon bond. The two
women have been doing this work for
years and have saved TO the govern.
ment the amount OF their annual saIa.
ries a hundred times over-PhiIadel-
phia Record
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
aurnor and
Philosophy
By DUNCAN -. SMITH
INDEPENDENCE.

THE man who works without a boss
Is ne who makes the killing,
Who doesn't need a whip or spur
To make him keep on drilling,
Who doesn't feel that il would mean
Starvation and disaster
For all his folks II he should try
To work without a master.
The man who cannot turn his hand
Unless he has direction,
Who cannot with a simple task,
Cnguided, make connection,
Can never be the captain grand
OF simple deals the scorner,
Who organizes big combines
Or run a steel trust corner.
1t isn't holding down a Job
Which keeps a man in bacon,
That makes him strong financially
BY heavy winds mistaken.
1t isn't sticking 10 a task
That pays him steady wages,
That serves TO make his name adorn
The heavy tax books pages.
'Tis he who dares TO make a strike
And keeps the strike a-going,
Who wins the money, marbles. chalk
And makes the bravest showing,
And if ne tumbles once or twice
And fails in many venture
He will succeed as wen as those
Who never did adventure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

One Of the notable organizations Of
this campaign Is the Wilson ana Mar
shall club of OskGloosa, Iowa. This
club already has a membership OF
over 600, 100 Of whom are each more
than 20 years Of age, indeed It is re-
ported that the most enthusiastic and
energetic vorkors for Wilson IN Cska-
loosa are these fin, old democrats who
have attained 20 the allotted three
score and 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

cents higher. This means Increased
activity ali along the line
The railroads are trying 10 prepare
for the demand by greater output Of
cars, and The steel corporation shows
that The orders for the month, while
as is wei known, tons in excess of
the deliveries for the month. the mills
have bee4 WORKING ct virtr-a-ly full
normal capacity 20 meet urgent de-
mands for early deliveries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Ear AIihi-

Much to the curious little girls dis
gust, her elder sister and her girl
friends had quickly closed the door OF
the back parior before she could
wedge her small self in among them.
She waited uneasily for little while:
then she knocked No response. She
knocked again Still no attention Her
curiosity could be controlled no longer.
"Dodor' she called in staccato tones
as she knocked once again " Tain't
ne! It's mamma r--Lippincott's-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Sept. 20 N American
History.

1920 Daniel Boone. pioneer hunter.
founder and defender OF Kentucky.
died: born lI2J
1DG1-.Iobn g Nirolay. bio=rapLer ot
Lincoln. died born 1877
l9OJ-Charles James Barclay. rear ad-
miral L s y retired an author
ity on torpedDes. G1Innery and ord
nance. died: born lS43
19I -Geur;ai &. + ,.u~Ierson. former
United STATES sraaiai and noted
civil war veteran. died II sea; boru
1s2L
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

The bull moose boss is directing all
his ammunition at the New Jersey
governor. He has declared that Taft
is "a dead cock in the pit" and he
doesn't propose 10 waste his ammuui-
ton on q dead COCK The colonel will
find. when he blazss away al Wilson.
that the gun will kick back and hurt
the blatherskite more than it does
Wilson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

The more Thomas w. Lawsoa i'm
plores the people to smash the New
York stock exchange the more the
suspicion will deepen that the ex-
change may have given Thomas causG.
to wonder whether it was going 10
smash him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Zapata saws that II the United
States iuteryenes in Mexico he will
kill every American in that country
But, really. Mr.. Zapata, most Ameri-
cans have a decided antipathy 10
being Killed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

There can be no social Justice"
which the third term party advocates
50 vociferously, until there is eco
monte and Industrial justice. Until
the tarinf has been revised downward
and the great monoDolistic interests
have been shorn OF their power there
can be no peace or plenty for the plain
people Of this country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Proof IL still. lacking that Italian
troops have penetrated Tripoli-and
stayed there-fartLcr than the range
Of the biggest guns on Italian bat
tleships of the coast Nothing over
hasty about that kind OF conquest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

enters into the composition of the Eo.
inburgh Review.
Il have the honor to subscribe my
self. sir, yours. with all proper consid.
GRAFTON, ROBERT SOUTHEY."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Keir Hardie says that when social
ism is established In England King
George will naturally find his place.
but he fails TO meHtion whether IL
will be in the grand stand or the
bleachers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Next In Command.

'Pm looking for the man who runs
this office"
He is out just now"
But have big deal I want to put
over"
You might see the Office boy"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Desired to Know.

DESIRED 70 KNOW.
what on earth are you talking
about?"
~ don't know"
''Then why do you talk?"
'To find out"
Find out?'
Eyes. You seem to know 1t all, SO I
thought perchance you could enlighten
me-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
Histnru Rsn.at. Its.if

Cant say that the world is getting
a bit smarter" asserted gran'pa. My
grandson asks me the same silly ques-
tons that bis father asked at his age"
-Lippincott's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Still the question awaits an an
swer al the hands OF Judge Scare
il he a bull moose or a standpatter?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

The great majority of the pay as you
90 set are of the stay at home variety.
The Don't Worry club is the greatest
dispenser Of worriment to those peo-
pie connected with its members on
record. The humane society should
investigate them and order their sup
preston as public nuisance.
Warmed over affection is about as
pleasant to its recipient as a second
hand bath would be.
The man who complains that he finds
temptation too strong for him is sell
dom willing TO take a tonic
When a man is polite to his wife the
neighbors may be surprised. but il is
nothing TO the shock that the woman
gets.
Doing as you please sounds fascinat-
ing. but it doesn't take into account
the bill for damages.
When father is IN bad hunor II is
a sign that mother isn't going to ask
him for money that day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Stopping and Starting.
IT'S money makes the auto go.
A dollar you can drop
And hardly know that it is spent
A tack will make one stop.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Taft and Roosevelt will have a com
mon bond after the eleCtion-both
defeated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

TERAis-Ten cents per week. b. car
rier. IN Rock Island
Complaints .: delivery service should
DC made TO the circulation department.
which should also be notified in every.
Instance where II II desired 70 have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority IL the premises.
All communications or argumentative
character. pclitics' Or religious. must
have real name attached for publ:cE-
tion No suck articles VIII De printed
over ficritinus signatures
Telephones IN Pill departments: ecu
tai luton. Vest I45. has and 2l45;
Triton Electric 5I45
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26

Fortunately for the country, jobs
are hunting men in trade and indus
try II not in politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-26
a Careless Remark.

"Well. sad to say. I'll bave to tear
myself away"
"That'll be rippin' won't it,"