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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
THAT THIRD CONSECUTIVE" TERM

was that only the third consecutive
term" was the thing that troubled him.
II he meant that why didn't he say so?
In this connection the New York
Sun has made comment directly in
point. The exact words are not at
hand. but The Sun points out that "the
wise custom which limits the president
to two terms is also a custom which
forbids three terms, it is a custom
which has said all along that presi-
dent shall not have three terms" be
they consecutive or otherwise. The
wise custom" has to do with limit
ing president to two terms, under
no circumstances allowing him three
terms.
The custom fixes the number of
terms at two, and cares not whether
they are consecutive or otherwise. We
have had about century and quar-
ter OF the custom, and in all that time
no president has been given a third
term, consecutive or nonconsecutive
The wise custom says two terms al
the most and stops at that When
the colonel in 1904 spoke of this wise
custom" he made reference to some
thing that has become historic and
that everybody understands. By this
time it is part of the unwritten con
sutution of the country, and it will
/ play a big part in this campaign
whether or not the colonel spurns al
constitutions, written and unwritten
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER.

Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, March 5.-Nothing in
the history of American tariff making
has so thoroughly demonstrated the
fallacy of the high protection principle
as the testimony of the Lawrence,
Mass, strikers before the house rules
committee.
The wooden trust is the especial pet
of the high protectionists. In order
that this trust may enjoy immunity
from foreign competition, every man,
woman and child in the country pays
tribute. All along this trust has said:
we must have a high tariff in order
to protect our workmen. We can't
pay American wages if we have TO
compete with the cheap labor OF Eu-
rope"
STRIKERS TELL THEIR STORY.
/ The rules committee of the house
summoned some OF the strikers TO
Washington, and in the same room
where Carnegie and Perkins told how
| they juggled millions, this committee
heard fathers, mothers and children
| tell how whole families were forced
to live on S. and Sc a week paid by
the highly protected wooden trust. The
Witnesses told how they were forced
to work ten hours a day; how they
had to use "a sort of molasses" as g
substitute for butter; how children
had to go into the mills at an early
age in order to keep the family from
actual starvation, and how the con
slant demand of the mill owners wa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
D4,

Charity is the characteristic virtue
of the age, not because all are alike
in the practice Of it, but because all
are alike in admitting that it ought
to be practiced."
Dear Mrs Thompson: ~ Is 1t pro-
per to send wedding gift when only
an announcement is received? o.
When a woman has been married be-
fore and has a child five years old is
it right for the child to take the step
fathers name? l do not think so.
What. do you think? A READER.
DIT is not customary to give
presents when there is no wedding
and announcement cards are sent out
after the marriage. (2)-In such cas-
es the child often takes the name of
the stepfather. 1t is better for the
child and the mother to have the same
name.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Please tell
me how to take lemon juice as a med,
icine for biliousness. H. NJ. n.
Take the Juice of one, two or three
lemons in as much cold water as
makes it pleasant to drink without
sugar before going to bed. In the
morning, at least half an hour before
breakfast, take the juice Of one lemon
in a glass of water. This will clear
the system, without the weakening eff
fects of calomel or mineral waters. Dc
not irritate the stomach by taking
lemon Juice clear. The powerful acit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
"oLD GUARD" NOW READY.

United States Senator Boise Pen
rose OF Pennsylvania, who is the
spokesman IL not the leader of the
old guard In the senate, has an
nounced that the senate will not &C
cept the democratic tariff reduction
bills.
''As to the sugar and steel bills, -
said the senator, 1T may be stated
that the senate will reject them. The
Eenate positively will not accept hap
hazard OF slipshod tariff legislation. +"
II is well known in Washington
that Senator Penrose and his allies
among the senate reactionaries are
great sticklers for orderliness and
precision IN the framing of tariff leg
islation. For instance. II the dem
ocrats learn, partly through their
own investigations. and partly
through the Investigations OF the tar,
IN board. that the people are being
forced to pay excessive prices fol
wooden goods, and II the democrats
then propose q reduction in the wool
en- duties. Senator Penrose and hi:
kind Immediately brand such pro,
posals as "hsphazard" and "sliT
shod." Inasmuch as such bills pro
pose to destroy the monopolies thai
are exacting tribute from the people
there must be something radically
wrong with them. Hence they are
branded as ''haphazard" and "slir
shod."
Senator Penrose has other ideas
about tariff bills. He wants. FIRST
order and precision. For this pur
pose he would have q committee dom,
mated by regular standpattsrs. Il
n is then shown 70 the committe,
that the tariff trusts are gouging 81
OF even 100 per cent prohts out OF
the consumer. good %nd well. The
trusts have been making that prof.
in the past. so why ehangs3 Lett
do everything IN order, Ecoeding &C
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
MAKING A FISH POND PAY.

A Warren county. n. Y, farmer two
years ago laid out a fish pond for the
purpose OF furnishing his own table
with fish. Il was such a success the
FIRST season that he broadened the
scope OF his enterprise and now raises
fish for the market. With little ex-
pense and practically no labor. his
profit the first season was $3.50.
Fish-raising has been neglected be-
cause the waters Of the country were
SO well stocked that until within the
last few years the nation had not re-
allied that the day would come when
fish would be practically exterminated
from our lakes, rivers and streams.
However. the day is not far off when
fish-raising promises TO be a highly
profitable industry. Kansas is one OF
the FIRST states to recognize this fact.
In Kansas nearly every farmer has his
private pond for fish culture. The
state game warden of Kansas, L. l.
Dycke, has published a statement in
which he says, that II every farmer In
the state will raise enough fish to sup
ply his own family with one mess q
week. there will be added $1,25O,OOC
TO the annual value Of farm products
OF the state.
II the farmers raise in addition
some fish for sale the revenue can b'
increased by from three to FIVE million
dollars a year. Mr.. Dycke adds tina
half-acre pond. kept well stocked
with fish, will yield larger revenut
each year with less work than an.
Eve acres Of titled land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

John Mitchell, who lectures at the
Illinois theatre tonight, is one OF the
ideal labor leaders of the country.
Brainy. fair-minded, logical. fearless,
and firm for the cause OF the working
man, he stands today as the champion
of the rights Of labor. enjoying the con-
fdence alike OF the men who toll and
OF the employer. The vexed questions
between labor and capital would al
ways be adjusted upon an equitable
and mutually advantageous basis If
John Mitchell was the arbitrator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
CAPITAL COMMENT

for more and more speed and less
and less pay.
In the committee room sat some Of
the mill children. They we're fresh
from the mills, and a mere glance at
them told more than spoken volumes
could tell All had pinched faces. All
were poorly dressed, some of them
having only a cheap sweater in lieu
of coat and overcoat. All had dull,
eXpressionless faces, in which there
was no trace of color or animation
All of them, moreover, were slightly
deaf, because of their work amid the
fearful clatter of the mill machinery,
SO that at times the committee mem
bers almost had to shout to make
themselves heard.
STORY OF LITTLE GIRL.
Among them was one little Italian
girl-Camilla Teoli by name-who had
caught her hair in a shafting, and had
scalp. She was unable to work for a
year. during which she received not
a cent in damages or compensation
When at last she was able to get out
of her bed she went back into the
mills at a reduced wage, because she
wasn't as strong as formerly.
All the children looked worn and
old, as though they had been speeded
up beyond the limit of endurance
These children revealed, as nothing
| else could reveal, that protecting
American workingmen' is the las
thought of the wooden trust. They
stood as living proof that the motive
in seeking a high tariff on wool wa.
greed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Heartafld
HOft0
Problems
b4p
MDS EIIZAHEIH THnMR,
MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON

of the juice, which is always most
corrosive, invariably produces infam-
nation after a while, but properly dill
luted, so that it does not burn or draw
the throat, it does it's medical work
without harm, and when the stomach
is clear of food has abundant oppor-
tunity to work over the system thor
oughly.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-How can the
odor be extracted from rose leaves?
ROSES.
Gather the roses while free from
dew and put them in a glass jar three
quarters full of pure olive oil. After
"a hours turn them out in coarse
cloth, and squeeze all the oil from
them. Throw away the old flowers and
repeat the process with freshly gath
cred ones three or four times accord
ing to the strength of the perfume de-
sired. The oil being thoroughly i'm
pregnated with the volatile particles of
the flowers is then mixed with an
equal quantity of pure rectified spirits
and shaken every day for two weeks.
1t may then be poured of, when it will
be found scented and fit for use.
Dear Mrs. Thompson-Please tell
me what to do for sore gums.
MOTHER.
Take equal parts of borax and LOAF
sugar. Sprinkle on the gums and they
will soon be well.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
March z in American
History.

1907 Stephen Hopkins. one Of the
signers Of the Declaration OF indie
pendence, born at Scituate. r. l.;
died 1873.
1774-British parliament closed the
port of Boston. The Boston tea
party" of Dec. 16, 1873. led to re-
taliatory measures as soon as news
OF the affair reached parliament
1S64-Mator General Z. S. Grant com
missioned lieutenant general in the
United States army.
1S74-MiIlard Fillmore. thirteenth pres
ident of the United States. died;
born 1900.
1877 Matilda Heron, actress noted for
her Camille, died; born 1880.
1911-Rear Admiral John G. Fremont,
u. S. N. son Of the late General
John c. Fremont, q. S. A. The
Pathfinder, died In Boston; born
1915.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

ed because she made disbursements,
assumed obligations and took other
measures concerning her property and
employment in the expectation that
she was about to be married In con-
clusion she claims that she has sus-
tanned damages to the extent of $685.
GOO.
She says she still is willing to marry
the man she is suing, and is unwilling
TO marry any other man; but that
Schumann-Heink refuses to make her
his wife. No answer TO the complaint
has yet been filed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
False Hopes,

False Hopes.
Once I ran for Office
In a little place.
Every one was certain
I would win the race.
In my ear they whispered,
You are to the good;
You will be elected"
And thought I would.
Men who had been strangers
Met me every day,
Said that I had nothing
But a walkaway.
All their friends and neighbors
Were FOR me, they said,
And I never doubted
would be ahead.
Others came and touched me
For an X or V;
Said that they would use it
Where results I'd see.
Some judicious treating
Often pulled one through,
Though I didn't need it,
And l thought so too.
Why can't one forever
Go on dreaming thingsS
Why must an election
Come and clip his wings?
People came and promised
Till the air was blue,
But the things they told me
Never did come true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

II il much easier and much more
pleasant to boost than 1t is to knock,
and It is much more advantageous
and profitable. Get the get-together
spirit and boost all along the line.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
On an Eight Dollar Salary Too.

ct do hope it
will rain this
evening"
But l thought
you were going
to the d a n C 9
with Charley"
That's why I
wish it would
rain.
But you will
just ruin your
new party dress
getting on and
Off the street
cars!"
Goose! Char
ley will Just
have to get a
taxicab If it
storms"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
The Ely In the Ointment.

81 don't think I'll go to any more
Of my wifes parties" said Mr.. Cum
rox
Don't you enjoy yourselfr'
Yes. Only some one always mis-
takes me for one Of the guests and
starts In making remarks about bow !
made my meney."-washington Star
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

Whether in self abnegation or self
advocacy, do you not think the
strenuous one is doing a lot Of talk
ing for a man who is not a candi-
date-except in a receptive sense?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Good Example.

Good Example.
"That autoist is likely to be arrested
for speeding"
"WhoT
"That fellow who goes at the rate
of forty miles an hour
"Oh, of course not: that's Blinks."
who's hep
President of an accident insurance
company"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

ST Paul-St. Paurs objection to
paekinghouse stenches and the fight
against the establishment Of a packing
house and rendering plant near New
Brighton, suburb made in 1908, are
the basis of a petition fled in the dis
triot court Tuesday By Armour & Co.
for a change OF venue In a $4,000
damage suit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Useful Sort.

Speaking of queer things, have
an uncle that has three hands"
What is he-museum freak q
"Nope. Western farmer"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

Roosevelt says the issue is shall
the people rule" Seems as If that
phrase sounds familiar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

II the Taft managers can manage
to keep Teddy talking that will be
all there Is to It.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Misc Billy.

Wise Billy.
"Why don't you go home, Billyf
"'Cause."
But it's supper time"
81 amt going home till bedtime"
"Why notP'
"'Cause pas got a toothache."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Hurnor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
~ DUNCAN ~. .snsrH

THE under dog gets the sympathy
and nothing else. Perhaps that's
the reason why he's the under dog.
The days are often too short for the
work that we want the other fellow
TO do.
The man who talks a great deal real
ly can't be expected to keep all of his
word.
Keeping busy is the way a rumor
works so much damage.
Take care of the present, and the
past will never arise to assail you.
Being artistic is picturesque, but be.
ing efficient is desirable.
People who do nothing finally come
honestly to think that there is nothing
to be done.
A pessimist is a person who doesn't
see why and refuses to consent to any
one else trying.
1t is easy to be good when we have
been as bad as we want to be.
You never can tell what a fiatterel
wants, but you'll be safe in surmisinl
that it is something you value.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily ana weekly at 1874
seconi avenue. Rock Island. Ill ZEN
tered at the postofice as second-cisss
matter.1
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Jumped at the Conclusion.

"Where's Jobson?''
''Gone to the country for his health"
~ believe that the doctors do think
country air is more sanitary than the
jail's."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Exclaimed,

''Truth is stranger than fiction"
81 wonder why"
Because It is shier and more mod
est"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
Might Have Helped

81 can't make my expenses"
81 don't see who does make them II
you don't"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
ArtIess.

Artie went a-calling.
They sprung on him q Joke
A lemon for an orange
And that made Artie choke.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

A pessimist is person who doesn't
see why and refuses to consent to any
one else trying.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMs.-Daily. 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year IN advance.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made to the circulation department.
which shonld also be notified in every
instance where It is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority in the premises.
AL communications Of e-gumentative
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles viii be printed
ever fictitious signatures.
Telephones in all departments: Central
Union, West 145 and 1145; Union Eleo-
trio. b1l5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07
A Vital Point.

p Vital FONT.
as Mary going to the Monroe dance
Thursday"
mo"
"Why?"
"She's so fastidious. She said that
the ink used in addressing the invita-
tons was in horrid taste"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

People who do nothing finally come
honestly to think that there is nothing
to be done.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

1t is easy to be good when we have
been as bad as we want to be.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

You never can tell what a fatterer
wants, but you'll be safe in surmising
that it is something you value.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

THE under dog gets the sympathy
and nothing else. Perhaps that's
the reason why he's the under dog.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

Being artistic is picturesque. but be
ing efficient is desirable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

The days are often too short for the
work that we want the other fellow
TO do.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

The man who talks a great deal real.
ly can't be expected to keep all of his
word.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

Take care of the present, and the
past will never arise to assail you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-03-07

Keeping busy is the way a rumor
works so much damage.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-09-07
GOOD JOBS ARE WAITING.

The world is full Of good places for good men. We arc vcry sure ihat iI is true. In the past week mon have spoken of positions that they have open and wc have been unable tO suggest the man for the job. We know men who want places, but we didn't know the men who could fill these places.
 We have heard men say, "I can do ev rything that that man is do- ing" and it. was true, but unless they could do moro, there was no reason for the employer to change. There is a thought in this for the man who wants to hold the place he as; there is a thought for the man who wants a better place. Obviously if there are 1000 men who could do your work, and are ready to do it. at the same salary, you are not so sure as you would like to he of holding your job. You want 10 do little more than it takes to keep inc place.
 If you want better position than you have, learn enough about it. Co be at least a little better than the average man who will apply when the place Is vacant. There is good deal of chance in filling places. Everyone knows that. That makes 1t only the more sure that every bit of added prepara-
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-09-07
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER :. 1912.
PINCHoT'S VAGARIES.

The seattle Post -Inlclligrnccr trims off the nature fakcr in the following article:
 ''Thc Pinchdt theories, upon which the whole structure of the federal conservation movement has been built up. and on the strength of which the government of the United States has spent many millions more, have become the subject of steady attack by scientific men in various parts of inc country. The whole structure "f the forestry service of the country is built upon tlIr theory that the drfnrrStaliun of lands results in decreasing lhr annual rainfall and increasing the de- >truclion done by floods. Yet scientific men ;bcst qualified tn pass upon lhiS question deny that either result if all of the drforcSt- "d lands were again in timber, other, of course, than the mere ly commercial matter of the val uc Of timber.
 "A recent elaborate bulletin of the University of Wisconsin con- sists of an article by Prof. Daniel Webster Meade, of the university, professor of hydraulic and sani- tary engineering, on The Flow of Streams and the Factors that Modify It, with Special Reference to Wisconsin Conditions
 There are 19i pages in this bulletin, with elaborate tables showing rainfall and stream measurement taken in Wiscon- sin for the past 90 years, during which time the greater portion of the merchantable timber of the stale has been removed As a result of his elaborate invcstiga- lions and study. Prof. Meade ar rivrS at conclusions identical with Those given by Gen. Chiitcnden in an article by him in the Engineer ing Magazine. that destructive floods are lrsscncd ralhrr than enhanced by drfnrrstation, an ar ficlr which Prof. Meade quotes with unqualified approval.
 Among other conclusions reached by inc professor are these: That in general the de- fnrcsiation or cutting of timber in Wisconsin has had no mater- ial effect, either favorable OF ad- verse. on the high water, mean water or low water flow of the streams. or on the regularity of such flow: that SO far as all evi- dence examined is concerned. ihcre is nothing to show that the planting of forests in Wisconsin would in any way add tO or lake away the quantity or regularity "G stream flew or decrease the fl' Od heights.
Valdez daily prospector., 1912-09-07
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ON PE-
 TfTI0N TO SELL LAND.

In the United States Commission
 CTS Court for the Territory oI
 Alaska, Valdez Precinct-sIn Probate.
 In the matter of the guardian shin of the estate of Nels Oscar iSall, q mentally incompetent per son.-Order to Show Cause on Pe- tItion to sell Land.
 The United States of America to N1lS Oscar Sall, Charles G. Sail. Lewis Sall. Albert Sall and Marie Watson, and to all persons in- trrested in the above-named es- tate or in the sale of lands be- 10 said estate:
 The petition of Charles C.. Sall, as guardian of the estate of the aborc-named Ncls Oscar Sall, a mentally incompetent person, being duly filed in ihis court, r,p- resrnting that it. would be for the benefit of the estate of said in- competent person and of all per- sons interested therein that cer- Jam lands and mining property of said mentally incompetent person described therein be sold. ana praying that license be granted t' tllt' SUhl NIHtEltS VI. Null, as guardian, to sell the same;
 Now, therefore, you and each of you are hereby cited, ordered and required tO show cause, if any you have, before this court, al the United States Commission CTS court room in the court house in the town of Valdez. in the above named precinct in the Territory of Alaska. on the 7th day of Oc- toJer, 1912. at ? o'clock p. m., why the prayer of said petition should not he granted.
 Done in open court at Valdez, Alaska, thi$ 26th day of August, 1912.
 THOMAS R. SHEPPARD. Judge of the United States Com-
 misSinnrr'S Court in and for the
 Valdez Precinct, Territory nf
 AlaSka.-ln Probate.
 Charles Loring and F.. F.. Ritrhir.
 Attorneys for peliiinnrr.
 First pub. S"pl"mbcr :. !"l2.
 l.HSi pub. Orinh"r ,. 1912.