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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

'I LOOK LIKE wHAT?" DEMANDED BEN.
II got 'em over to Hampden, and the
clerk there said he'd pick out color
scheme for me-"
ITS a scheme. all right, Benny, If
you bought that hat and necktie at
Boomers"
II did"
WAS the clerk black haired fellow
with a narrow faCe?" asked Timothy
with interest
Sure Do you know him?"
mo, but l guess Flora does" Tim
othy's tone was significant in its en-
phasis.
Ben Redeemed deeply. further devel-
oping his "color scheme" "You mean
he goes to see her?" he asked in a sur
ly tone.
1--WE seen him taking her to ride In
Hampden rig" explained Timothy
And his putting that color scheme on
you makes me think he did it to make
you look like fool before Flora Mills.
Ben stopped short and faced about.
I'm going back home to take these
Of" he choked. pulling at the offend
ing orange scarf mo fellows going
to make a fool out of me-not IL
know it," he fumed.
Its getting late" suggested Tim
othy. I'VE told those girls we'd stop
| for 'em at T:30. and it's that now. If
we want TO get to the moving picture
| show on time we got to take the T:45
/ ferry across the river"
| ooh, well"' growled Ben. now quite
/ dissatisfied with his appearance. and
ne turned and walked on beside his
companion.
On the front porch of the Mills house
| the two sisters. Flora and Dora. were
/ awaiting them. Both were dressed in
white. and they were equally pretty.
Only Timothy and Ben disagreed about
that Timothy thought that Dora was
the lOveliest. and Ben, contended that
Flora's beauty was superior in every
way to that Of her younger sister.
When the two young men came up
the walk very queer look came into
Flora Mills gray eyes In one fash,
| ing glance she saw the green hat. the
red feather. the orange necktie. the
flaming hair and the freckes. Ben
Marshall had always dressed quietly in
grays or browns. What strange fFeak
had prompted him TO array himself as
go self respecting peacock would have
lone:
Perhaps the ansv er to that question
was in Flora's heart. for all at once
lovely flush tinted her cheek and the
queer look in her eyes changed {,
something softer. Without apparently
noticing the vivid attire OF her escor
she talked commonplace all the wa!
down to the ferry landing.
Timothy and Dora. walking behind
smiled once as a vRgrant breeze liftes
the green hat from Ben's head to Leaf
him a merry chase before be recov
cred it and once more placed it on hi
head.
What possessed Ben TO do it," whis
pered Dora. her eyes trimming wit
mirth..
You know Willie Perkins!" aske
Timothy. by way Of reply.
4 Dora nodded scornfuIly. Il detes
him and | believe Flora does. too
Don't see why she permits bis after
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
Better Than Medicine,

His temples were beginning to be
gray and he was old enough to have
a fully developed case of dyspepsia.
He looked at the slice of roast beef,
and then tried to eat it, after which
he signaled to the waiter. Here,
take this back, he said, 81 can't eat
meat that's roasted until it's like a
piece of leather. | told you l wanted
it rare. Do you call this rare?"
Young man" replied the waiter, If
I give it to you any rarer than that it
would have to be raw. Look here.
You c.n squeeze the blood out of it.
After finishing a good, hearty meal
the man with the dyspepsia handed
the waiter quarter as a tip and
went out saying to himself:
81 wonder if he called me young
man just from force of habit or be.
cause he really meant it,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

ed, II years ago. The territory last
year spent s5s2.536 for education, and
the counties themselves s47,799 addi-
tionaL Jlese figures are exclusive of
expenditures for the College of
Hawaii, which now occupies a perma-
nent site in the suburbs of Honolulu
and has graduated its first class.
The Hawaiian schools are up TO the
American practice in length of the
term; their school year is 80 weeks.
Attendance is compulsory from tc
II years of age, the maximum age
having been raised from Is year
ago. Good attendance records are
the rule; the average last year was So
| percent OF the enrolment.
In this and other respects tbs
schools of Hawaii compare favorably
with the best in the United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
THE CITY OR THE VILLAGE.

It is difficult 20 reconcile with
progressive inclination the idea OF pre-
ferring to go into village organization
rather than to become part of a city
with all its conveniences in improved
streets and walks, school facilities.
police protection. etc.
or course, it is all matter OF taste
and disposition. and II is much to be
deprecated that in South Rock Island
township there should have arisen a
division OF sentiment over the ques-
ton OF consolidation. II is surprising
that any part Of the township should
seek the village idea Of government
rather than the city.
II is sincerely to be hoped the peo-
pie Of the township who are possessed
Of both the neighborly spirit and the
progressive spirit that should exist IN
all the relations TO Rock Island will
prevail and that the part OF the town
ship under discussion will become q
part OF Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

Timothy Brooks paused before Ben
Marshalrs gate and whistled shrilly
for his friend.
Ben thrust shirt sleeves and a rum
pied head through the window of his
room. Wait minute-Ill be down."
he called. Timothy heard his spasmod
ic gurgles as Ben's whistled melody,
was interrupted by struggle with the
"eheker" his sunburned throat re-
scented.
At last he appeared. flushed of face.
rather wrinkled as to choking collar,
with brand new scarf of brilliant
orange streaking down into his vest.
Timothy's watchful eye saw the scarf
and marveled. for it was OF the same
hue as Ben's orange hair and few
shades lighter than his freckles. On
top of the brilliant hair was one of
those little green hats. tipped rakishly
over one eye and cooked aggressively
upon the opposite side with foolish
little red feather stuck in the band.
AS they went down the street Ben
Marshall was acutely conscious OF
Timothy's inspection.
''Well?" he asked sharply. Whats
the matter with you?"
What's the matter with your" ex
ploded Timothy wrathfully. "You
look like-look like, He stopped and
searched for happy simile.
II look like what?" demanded Ben.
"Just like yellow carrot with a lit
! tie bunch of green on top" finished
/ Timothy scornfully.s
81 suppose they do look kind Of
! new" admitted Rem rather sheeniShlv
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
CAPITAL COMMENT

the sugar companies ordered their en- !
ployes to copy, sign and mail to Wash
ington. This letter does not speak for
the sugar company, but is all for the
poor farmer and the poor wage Garner.
After instructing the employees how
to direct the letters, the instructions
were: "A letter to Hon. Woodrow
Wilson, president of the United States,
Washington, D. c., will do lot of
good If you are democrat, tell them
so. 1t will carry more weight"
In this way thousands of employees
Of Colorado sugar mills have been
Influenced" to write to their senators
and congressman, urging them to vote
against free sugar Senator Thomas
charged that similar campaign was
carried on among the sugar beet grow
ers and with banks and commercial
/ associations. all of whom have been
adding their letters to the food now
pouring in upon the Colorado legis.a-
| tors.
These companies have made an
! enormous amount of money, not only
upon their capitalization, but upon
their oyercapitalization," declared Sen.
ator Thomas. 1.-TWO of them operating
in Colorado represent collectively a
capital of s50,OO0,O0O, s30,0OO,00O of
which is water, pure and simple. Yet
they have paid dividends constantly
upon their preferred stock, and for
a large part of the time on their
watered stock, and one of them has a
surplus in the treasury in excess of
S1O,00O,000.
This fight merely means that these
hugely overcapitalized industries want
to retain their franchise to rob the
people by taxing the necessaries of life,
to the end that they may pay profits
upon the capital that they have invest
ed, and upon the capital they have
manufactured with printing presses
= and fountain pens"
Senator Thomas ringing challenge
to the sort of public opinion these
bloated corporations have manufac
tured deserves to be read in the public
schools an an example of the new
rugged patriotism which now has con
troll OF congress. He said:
: Mr.. President, while l have the
S most profound respect for petitions
/ sent to myself while l am a member
: Of the senate, | want to say here enc
: now, and | think / speak for my col
: league (Mr. Shafroth) as well as my
| self, that | was sent here by the PEG
i pie of my state, by the producers anc
c by the consumers, by men and womer
who are not organised, who have NJ
:. lobby, who are possessed with no grea
+ fund TO go out through the highw:.y :.
+ and byways of the state, seeking ant
Y obtaining favorable action in their be
I half by the great banks and associa
r tions.
5 They are the toilers and the tax
payers, the common people, as Mr. Lin
S coin called them. 1t is their ineeres
;, and their welfare, their wants ant
: their desires that | propose to repre-
r sent and promote in the senate of tn
y United States to the best of my abil
ity. They look to us for relief, and w
shall not disappoint them"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
MIR. HITCHCOCk's FAKE ECONo
NV


Former Postmaster General Hitch
cock did not put the postoffice depart
ment on a paying basis, notwithstand-
ing widely advertised announcement
to that effect
This is the conclusion of a commit
tee Of postoffice officers which has
made a thorough investigation into
the service and embodied its findings
in a report to Postmaster General Bur
Lesson which has now been made pub
lie
THE general morale and efficiency
of the postal service" the committee
reports, "ard the efficiency Of the pos
tai service were sacrificed to a ruth
| lessly enforced policy of false econ
omy for the sole purpose of present
/ ing a showing of self maintenance;
and after the attainment Of this end,
/ inst before the Inauguration of the
new administration, the policy was re-
! versed. Long-standing vacancies wer1
! filed and postponed promotions made;
/ commitments TO fixed charges were
assumed in such a way as to saddle
the new administration with the great
~ increased expense during months,
if not years, to come"
There is an interview with an old
railway mail service employee on an
other page Of tonight's Argus that is
interesting in this connection.
In order to ascertain the true cost
of the service, the various administra-
tive officers Of the department having
Jurisdiction over the service were call
ed upon to submit statements showing
the obligations incurred by them for
the service of the fiscal years 1909 to
1912, inclusive, Irrespective Of the
time when payments of the obligations
were or are to be made. lyon COM
pilation of these statements il was
found, the postmaster general states,
that the cost of the service for these
years, as compared with the expendi-
lures reported for those years by the
Hitchcock administration, was as fol
lows:
= 1909 Expenditures shown in re-
ports of department, 1921, 004, 1929;
cost of service as determined by pres
ent inquiry. 1921, 238,624.21; discrepan
cy. $234,521.32.
1910. Department report, S229.977,
) 224.50; shown by inquiry, S2S0,237,
: 0479O; discrepancy, .s259,S23.40.
I 1911. Department report, $751;
64s.926.6S; shown by inquiry, s23S,
= 623. 350.37; discrepancy, s974,423.69.
1912. Department report, S24S,525,
4500S; shown by inquiry, $24S,624,
94O29; discrepancy s99,O4s.21.
The report Of the committed
throughout is a severe arraignment o
= Mr.. Hitchcock's administration. The
/ economies he did effect are declared
to have been unwise in most instance
! and at the expense of efficiency in tht
service. One, turns from a reading o
the committees report with a feeling
, that the former postmaster genera
, abused the confidence of the people o
the country and that his administra
, tion was lacking in the very virtues h
+. claimed for it in exactly the degree
/, was alleged TO possess them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

HE.
Why do you sigh so sadly?
I still am fondly true;
Ny heart ne'er beats so gladly
As when l am with you.
While we may fare together
l shall be filed with glee,
No matter what the weather
Turns out to be.
How fondly and how gravely
In former blissful days
You have declared that bravely
We'd fare in fowery ways
Where 1 should have no duty
To ever make me sad,
Where l might keep my beauty
And just be glad.
Why are you sadly signing?
What doubt is plaguing you?
Still I am bravely trying
To keep my promise true.
Through season after season
I've tried to do my best;
Impart TO me the reason
For your unrest.
SHE.
Think not, dear. that I chide yo3.
Or wish to cause you pain:
I've kept my place beside you
In sunshine and in rain:
serve you at the table
And cook what there is laid
All. when shall we be able
To keep a maid?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

- NAAS Wv o0c
trust to manufac-
ture false and arti-
fetal public senti-
ment against the
tariff bill, Senator
Thomas of Colora-
do, has performed
a public service
second only to
that of the presi-
, dent in calling at
tention to the in
siduous tariff lob
by; the most pow
erful which ever
operated in Wash
ington.
Senator Thomas
speech gives the
public some idea
of the pressure
national legislators
must with S [ an {
when they at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

labor, yesterday in what she called
her first interview.
las matter of fact, Washington
society bores me, though I should not
say so when / have been there such
a short while.
Unfortunately, / had TO quit work
as my fathers secretary when he re-
ceived his portfolio. Ny mother is
unable to perform the duties of host
ess and must serve in her place.
q like Washington, however Its
such change from Blossberg, Pa. a
little hamlet of $500 where our home
is, or indianapolis, where / had been
working Nth my father"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

Byron Newton, the ex-nepspsper
man who has been acting as secretary
to William G. MeAdoo, secretary. Of
the treasury, is named as a very prob
able successor TO Assistant Secretary
Sherman Allen, a no-doyer in the
treasury department from the last ad-
ministrston- Allen was also a news
paper man and was appointed by
President Taft after he had served for
some time as an assistant secretary
at the executive Office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
His Hanpiest DAYS.

"Ah, my good man. said the mil
lionaire, addressing the horny-handed
son of toll, 81 envy you. l never have
been as happy as l was when l had
10 carry dinner pail"
What wages were you gettin'
them"
Wages? I wasn't getting any
wages. Ny father had put me TO work
for the purpose of learning the bust
ness from the bottom up, and was
getting the experience l needed to fit
me for the important position to which
| was promoted two months later"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

Tokio-No legal action TO test the
California anti-alien land ownership
legislation can be instituted by Japan
until August, when the measure goes
into force, according TO Baron Nobu-
ak Makino, Japanese foreign minis-
ter, IN replying TO inquiries made by
japanese members Of parliament
Meantime, he said, negotiations be-
tween Toxic and Washington would
continue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
ARE ON A HUNGER STRIKE

Ten Members of Industrial Workers
Of World Refuse Food at Peoria.
Peoria, Ill, June 4.-Ten members
OF the Industrial Workers of the
World, who have been confined in Jan
here awaiting trial on charges of con-
sptracy and riot in connection with &
threatened strike, have gone on a
hunger strike" They have destroy
ed all dishes and food given to them
and have refused to take nourishment
from their jailers for more than 72
hours. Some have tainted, but the
strike" still holds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

President Wilson is getting that glib
bet of exposure ready for the lobby
lists of privilege who are woreing IN
Washington TO thwart the vii. Of the
people. The people applaud.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

The resolutions committee recommend
ed. that all these be tabled.
The election resulted as follows:
President-Edward A Evano, Chi
cago.
Vice Tesident-Lieutenan Colonel
]. NJ. Eddy, Chicago.
Secretary-Major Charles P. Sum
mers, Springfield.
Galesburg was selected as the place
of meeting next year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

An English engineer predicts that
traffic through the Panama canal VIII
reach 5O.0O0,OOO tons in five years
after the opening and that for this
and other reasons it will be necessary
to change to a sea level waterway. II
business increases like that there will
be no trobule about desirable alter
ptions
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
June 4 in American
History.

iI26-Phiip William Otterbein. noted
pioneer preacher and founder Of
the sect known as the Otterbein
Methodist. born: died 1913
17j2-John Eager Howard. Revolu-
tionary soldier. born; died 1927.
1s63-President Lincoln revoked the
military order suppressinS the Chi
cago Times.
1912-Eliza Archard Conner. social re-
former and writer. died In New
York city: born 1910
All the news all cthe time - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
The Genial Cynic
l MANS REAL FORTUNE.
By CHARLES GRANT MILLER.

The jantor of New York fat building has come
fortune of $4,000 put declines quit his hum
bic work.
my family wants me to stop working he says,
"but don't want to-. I'd die within year if I'd stop
work"
1t is possibly true that the who stops work is
likely die Anyway, it is that he might just
well. Nature abhors the superfuous. To sit down is
to rust away
Nine people in ten, perhaps. would allow sudden
acquisition of We alth to end their usefulness.
They might give little of their money, and, there
fore, imagine themselves benefactors
But of themselves they would give nothing. They
would isolate themselves in idleness and exclusiveness.
and their human sympathies would soon be damned
I'D for want of outlet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
impossible.

Did you send for me?" asked the
new reporter.
Yes replied the city editor.
Don't you know that this is not A
sensational paper-that we endeavor
to conflne ourselves strictly TO facts?
Yes, you told me that when / came
to work"
What do you mean, then. by saying
at the beginning Of this story that the
man was a native of Pittsburgh and
was born of rich but respectable par
ents?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

A Paris paper. referring to the trou-
bles Of one railroad system. remarks
that American securities are undesir-
ables." That depends on circdm-
stances. French securities can not be
Judged by what happened TO the
Panama enterprise before this coun-
try took hold of II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
CAPITAL SOCIETY BORE;
PREFERS STENoGRAPHY

St Louis. June 4.-''Td far rather
be back atmy work as stenographer
than be active in Washington society,"
said Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, daugh-
ter Of William B. ] Ilson, secretary Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

"I'n hungry" complained husky
husband the other day.
But you just had breakfast" ar
gued his wife
Il know it, answered the husband,
but as soon as finished / drank a
glass Of water, and all those flannel
cakes shrank right down to nothing. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
Getting Along.

Getting Along.
How young Mrs. Branscomh
looks"
Yes, but she makes no secret of the
fact that she is getting pretty well
along in years. / heard her say the
other day that she was old enough TO
go to the theater even before Maud
Adams had become a star"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

Colonel Roosevelt will have some
trouble popularizing a spoonful of
brandy in a glass Of milk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

S oil his work for its
what of
animal subsistence
O service malkind.
divides
honestly
e o side that line?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
HELLO BILL"

President Wilson has neither a big
stick nor a smile, but he gets there
Just the same.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
THE ARGUS.

Published daily ct 1924 Second ave-
sue. Rock Islsrs. all Entered at the
posto1Bce ae second-class matter)
Rock Island Member Of the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04
By CLYDE Il. TAvENNER.
CONGR FRESHMAN FROM THE FOUR
TENTH DISTRICT.

4LtNl n L'Lb fIO1'
Especial Correspondence of The Nrgus.)
Washington, D. c., June BY his
recent speech in the senate exposing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

It's Good for q Man.
To leave off grumbling
When he can
Is good for almost
ANY man.
To just look hopeful
Day by day -
Helps any man
Along the way,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

TER3iS-Ten cents per week. By car
rier. in Rock Island.
Complaints Of delivery service should
Re made to :ho circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where Il IS desired 70 have
rSper discontinued. as carriers have 40
authority in the premises.
All communications OF argurnentative
character, political o. religious, must
have real naui attached for publica-
ton No such articles viii be rrinted
Srsr dcd"3Es signhtureA
Telephones IN all departments: csL-
trsl Union. West l45. Il45 ana 2145.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-04

BY THE J. w. POTTER co.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-10-10
To Grow Hair on
A Bald Head
BY A SPECIALIST.

Thousands of people suffer from badness
and falling hair who, having tried nearly
every advertised hair tonic and hair-grower
without results, have resigned themselves to
badness and its attendant discomfort. Yet
their case is not hopeless; the following sim
pie home prescription has made hair grow
after years of badness, and is also unequalled
for restoring gray hair to its original color,
stopping hair from falling out and destroying
the dandruff germ. 1t will not make the hair
greasy, and can be put up by any druggist;
Bay Rum, ounces; Lavona de Composee, 2
ounces; Menthol Crystals, one-half drachm.
If you wish it perfumed, add half to one tea
spoonful of To-Kalon Pefume, which unites
perfectly with the other ingredients. This
preparation is highly recommended by physi-
clans and specialists, and is absolutely harm
less, as it contains none of the poisonous wood
alcohol so frequently found in hair tonics.