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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
\ BROADER V|GW'

I used 10 think the
working man q
rather st q p ! q
chap
who had q sneak
ing liking Tor q
beer mug and q
scrap;
7 used to think ne
was inclined to
soldier" when
he could.
But now I love the
workingman ana
think him brave
ly good
I used to think the
farmer was an
u n e n lightened
clod
BY nature fitted FOR
no more than
stirring UP the
sod:
I used to think his
worth was small.
his manners I'M
refined.
nrt now he has my
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
A MATTER OF HONOR.

IF you were
married to a wom-
an who had Sc
cured a. divorce
from another man
would you per-
NIT her to keep
on drawing ALI
mony from him."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
A W;lIina Worker.

Mrs. Subbubs Ito tramp)-Out of
work, are you? Then you're Just in
time. I've a cord OF wood TO be cut
up. and was just going to send for a
man 10 do 1t. Tramp-That so. mum;
Where does he live? i'll so and get
him.-Boston Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
What Becomes Of Them,

What becomes of all the actors who
drop out of sight, after they have been
on the stage for ten or a dozen years ?"
Most of them sit around in the
dark corners OF barrooms and talk
about the good old days of the drama
when they were supporting Booth and
Mccullough"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
Profit

We'll, made $3.50 today"
Fine. How did you do it?"
by declining to buy 1000 shares Of
mining stock which a promoter in
sisted would be advanced from 20
cents to 40 cents a share at ten o'clock
next Thursday"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

warm regard. for have chahseo my
mind.
I used to think the hoi pollot dull AFRO
giant and Grass.
I looked upon the man VINO mao
schooling as an ass;
I used to think the man VINO sara uo"e
Il" and has came.
AS one who lacked Intelligence ana hao
no sense of shame.
But have gained a oroeoer VIC" o
now I understand.
Tn happy IN extending to the man WIN
works my hand:
The worthiest of men is he with sweat
upon his brow;
Ny friends are busy urging me-po run 1'-
office now.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

. Luis Terrazas. who is held for ran
som by General villa is the father OF
~ children II remains TO be seen
Rhether or not this is an unlucky num-
her
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

They are now having a revolution
in Brazil This IS the country where
the nuts come from, but II is quite evil
dent all of them have not been ex-
ported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

n TERMS-Ten cents per week by car
rIer. Sn Rock Island; SO per year By NAH
IN advance.
= Complaints OF delivery service should
be made to the circulation department
which should also be notified in every
Instance where Il f. desired TO have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority IN the premises.
= All communications OF argumentstive
Character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
Hon No such articles will be printed
ever fictitious signatures
Telephones In sll departments. Cen
Trail Union. Rock Island 145. 1145 and
2145-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
The Kind Word.

"A kind word is never spoken In
vain"
Did you ever speak a kind word to
a cross dog that was rushing at you
when there was not a tree or a tele-
graph pole near?''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

1t IS given out that comparatively
few single men have filed income tax
schedules. Perhaps more bachelors
are taking a chance on evading pay
ment. feeling that they have better
opportunity TO cover up evidences of
wealth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
Not AlwaYa.

1t is not always safe to decide that
a man has passed the age OF useful
ness merely because his .fifteen-year-
old son can beat him at billiards.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

A Chicago paper says that Senator
Sherman sees a union of republicans
and progressives TO beat the demo-
Gratis. To be more accurate Senator
Sherman would like TO see such a
=nion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

= II you have not had hint by this
time that you are to be picked as one
OF the men TO put the new banking
system into effect, it will be all right
for you to go ahead and hunt for an
other lob
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
Put Out Of Business.

you poor man." said the kind-heart-
ed lady, what brought you to your
present condition.
THE development of civilization"
replied the mendicant 81 used to have
a business that paid we'll"
What was it?''
4, "Buildin' cigar store Indians"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

NO, sir; / should not think Of
countenancing such a thing-unless
the amount was sufficient to make It
possible for me to give up my job"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

~ The women bOuncers in London are
no more effective than the police
women OF Chicago in dealing with
militant members OF their sex.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

Especial Correspondence Of The Arsus>
washington, d. O., March L
Whether congress. in spite of the sim
cere desire of it's leaders. VIII be aole
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

II this threatened baseball war lives
up to fits advance notices IL may make
gettysburg. Waterloo and Mukden
look like church sociabies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
Cynical SxmnathY.

She CsentimentaD-Three years I was
engaged to hirn-three beautiful. happy
years-then IL was all over. he (sym-
pathetically)-Oh. I suppose You mar
ried him then ?-FliecendP RlnttPr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

Ferdinand Pinney Earle has finally
found a wife who is unwilling TO bear
with his infirmities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
An Ever Present paroe

Il believe in giving the devil his
due"
Yes. but you generally overdo 1t"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09
THE ARGUS.

y Published daily at Is2s Second ave.
cue Rock Island. III. entered at the
postornce as second-class matter.)
Rock IsIaad Member OF the Associated
Press
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

BY THE ). w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-09

A st. Louis clergyman and a ST
Louis newspaper have recently ex-
pressed the wish that good actions
might receive more publicity than bad
ones. saws the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat, which adds:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-07

patriot. l might go to France and be-
come French patriot. But would
still be /. And think would be just
as happy as a Frenchman, German
or any other kind of fag-man as an
American flag-man. Certainly l
wouldn't be more or less of man in
one place than in another.
Birds fly across state lines and ma
tional boundaries and never know OF
their existence There is no difference
in the trees, flowers, the fruit or the
earth on opposite sides of the line.
Fish swim freely over the imagi-
nary line in Lake Erie between Can
ada and the United States; and they
don't know the difference. To them
there is no difference. They are not
Canadian fish or American fish; they
are just fish.
Men and women can love, even
though neither understands the Ian
guage ,of the other 1 mean the word
language. The eye language is uni
versal. .....
can talk in but one language, but
can drink in several; and think
the same thoughts, undoubtedly, that
men think in every corner of the
globe. ....-
There is but one human family.
There can be but one patriotism that
isn't selfshness. l wish there were
but one country all over this earth,
and that we had but one flag.
And would have that flag have no
lesser significance than the brother
hood of man.
If we lived the Golden Rule every
where under that flag we could have
glorious bonfire, burn up all the
man-made law books in the world
and be happy.
Unions and Granges.-I noticed a
news item in the papers the other
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-07
ONE MANS OPINIONS
BY N. D. COCHRAN.

am what you call a patriot. lam not
sure that l know what patriotism is.
There are various kinds of patriots.
There are German patriots, French
patriots, English patriots, Italian pa
triots, Greek, Turkish and other ma
tional patriots.
l said English patriots instead of
saying British patriots, because there
are many kinds of British patriots if
there are any British patriots at all.
There are Scotch patriots, Cana
dian patriots, and at least two kinds
of Irish patriots just now j.,
So the British patriot divides up in
to lesser patriots, including the Irish;
and the Irish divide up into Ulster pa
triots and other patriots. When fac
lions develop among the factions
then there will be lesser patriots still.
suppose we could reduce every
man until finally his patriotism would
be confined to his own freside.
like that kind of patriotism. After
that would jump over all the kinds
between and shout for the patriotism
of the United States of the World.
That's my country.
suppose there are men who would
call themselves Illinois patriots. Then
there are Cook county patriots, Chi
cago patriots and even ward and pre-
cinct patriots.
Somewhere there is an imaginary
line that separates Illinois from In
diana. Walking along a country road
or travelling on a railway train, the
line isn't visible to the naked eye.
There is no difference between hui
mainly on one side of the line and
humanity on the other side. The man
who is an Indiana patriot today can
move across the line and become an
Illinois patriot tomorrow Yet there
is no difference in the man. He's the
same man.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-07

Unions and Granges.-I noticed a
news item in the papers the other
day about some getting together of
labor unions and farmers oranges to
resist applying the Sherman anti
trust law to them.
There is significance in that item.
/ don't know how far it will go now,
but l will feel kindly toward those
who have tried to use the Sherman
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20
ShipT0an Hospital Notes

Hilme Hill, Wilmette Petherick,
Nick Marchel, Everett Ellefsen,
Mrs. Martin Casperson, Alma
Peterson, George Peterson, Frank
Skradsky, Carl Erickson and Tony
Skradsky recently had tonsil and
adenoid operations at the hospital.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dorgis of Winton was recently
operated on at the hospital.
John Markovich of the Savoy
location underwent an operation on
the skull and brain at the hospital
this week.
August Saari was operated on at
the hospital this week for a bone
trouble.
F. M. Johnson recently under
went a bone operation at the hos
pital.
Mrs. Frank Shemi was operated
on at the hospital this week for the
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

SIXTEEN years ago last Sunday
night at 9:15, the battleship Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor.
Accompanied by so veterans of the
Spanish-American war, Ralph H.
Barker, department commander of
Spanish War Veterans, placed a
wreath at the base of the Maine
monument at the entrance to Cen
trail Park in New York at o:15
O'Clock Sunday night. Gone,
but not forgotten.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

yes, except what came later.
All three were read once, rules
suspended, read a second time,
which means the clerk mumbled a
few words to which nobody listened
and they were made special order
for April 10, four days later. That
gave opportunity for members
to examine the bills and go fall on
the members of the committee to
tell the committee what they would
not stand for. And if they made
it strong enough the committee
raised the bars. So when the bills
came up four days later, the chair
man of the committee moved to one
of the bills four amendments, to
the second, one. and to the third
seven, all of which were agreed to
without dissent. Some member
wasn't satisfied and introduced
two amendments to the third mea-
sure, They were tried out by roll
call and lost.
Without further ado the bills
were put on final passage and
adopted without dissenting
voice.
Something like the same thing
was done in the senate at the same
time, and on the same day the bills
came back to the house with a sin
gle change. The house consented
to it, the bill was repassed and that
was over.
Except that few items amount
ing to 81, 200, 900 came in at the
last minute. April %, the next to
the last day, bill was introduced
by request of the governor for a
supplementary list. Before that
several separate levies were sprink-
led in. One was levy for armor-
les. Another is a levy for state
forests. A third is an item for a
state historical building.
Comes now to the last day.
Rules suspended, second reading,
rules suspended, put on final pas
sage, zim-zim-zim m-zim, ayes ziz-
ziz-nays none-adopted. And that
is how that was done.
The committee method being the
only way an appropriation bill can
be prepared, it is of Importance
to have it predigested as much as
possible so the committees can
deal intelligently with the requests
that come to it.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

WILLIAM HAYWOOD, at the head
of the 1. w. w. (I Won't Work
bunch of grafters and cut-throats,
twin brothers to the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, recently made
an address which was applauded
by his band of followers and shows
just about what this class of citi-
zens amount to. Haywood said:
I'VE don't care for the flag, and
we are against patriotism. We
have learned that the American
flag is not our flag. There is only
one flag in the world for us, and
that is the red flag, If William
was to sail far, far away from the
shores over which waves the Stal
Spangled Banner and take with
him the balance of his anarchistiC
bunch there would be no tear:
shed. We are of the opinion thai
the city councils of several town:
in which there is a surplus of thi:
class of citizens would gladly pay
for tickets to help VIM. remove hi:
unsavory diciples from thei
municipalities.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

THE Go to Church Sunday"
movement is nation wide and not
only for Ely. The movement is a
good one and many people will
probably avail themselves of the
enthusiasm created and visit an in
stitution they did not know existed
The result will be that many will
get the habit and attend regularly
1t makes no difference " hat church
you go to, but Go to Church Sun
day."
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

AFTER God had finished the rat
tlesnake, the toad, the coyote and
the vampire, he had some awful
substance left with which he made
knocker. A knocker is a two
legged animal with a cork-screw
soul, water logged brain and a
combination back bone made of
jelly and glue. Where other peo-
pie carry their heart he carries
tumor of rotten principles. When
the knocker comes down the street,
honest men turn their backs, the
angels in heaven take percipitate
refuge behind their harps and the
devil barlocks the gates of hell.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20
WHAT MOTHER THINKS

Whilst walking down a crowd
ed city street the other day,
1 heard a little urchins to a COM
rade turn and say "
Say, Chimney, lemme tell
youse, I'd be happy as a clam,
If I only was de feller dat me
mudder thinks l am.
"She thinks 1 am a wonder, an
she knows her little lad
Could never mix wit nuttin dat
was ugly, mean or bad.
Oh lots O. times l sit and t'lnk
how nice 'twould be-gee whizl
If a feller was de feller dat his
mudder thinks he is. -
My friend, be yours life of toll
or undiluted joy,
You still can learn a lesson from
this small un1ettered boy.
Don't aim to be an earthly SAINT
with eyes fixed on the stars;
lust try to be the fellow that
your mother thinks you are"
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

PAUL F. DEHNEL, who also ran
last election for Congressman at
Large owns the distinction of being
the first man to file as Bull Moose
candidate in this state. He wants
to be Congressman from the Second
District. Paul is a persistent cuss
and might get votes enough to
dirty up some nice, clean tally
sheets providing the voters of the
Second District don't see him first.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

LET us think. This fellow
Remington at Hibbing who expert
ly juggled coal weights aud bills in
his own interests while member
of the water and light board, was
he not the same man that wanted
the legal printing done in Duluth
because the local pepers were get
ting legal rate and were giving
too much publicity for the money!
He is getting some publicity just
now for which the papers are not
charging legal rates. How does he
like it?
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

THE combination of a newspaper
man and an undertaken, never ap-
pealed to us until we learned that
the new proprietor of the White
Bear Life. H. J. Keller, is an un-
dertaker. If he can secure the job
of burying all the dead ones"
that are bound to show on his list,
at regulation rates of undertakers
he will have the high cost of living
pushed back so far that it will
never appear in his family.-Still-
water Gazette.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

Il NOTICE that all the pious old
hypocrites of the country are loudly
condemning the split skirt" OBJ
served brother editor, after he had
quit rubbering at flash of green
petticoat that fitted by the win
dow, Personally" he said, the
sight of graceful ankle is more
pleasing sight than the bustles and
hoop skirt the ladies once wore,
and for the life of me, I can't figure
out why the sight of a lady's
shank should retard civilization.
The new tangled skirts, at least
don't encrauch on the street sweep
er and make the fine collection of
microbes and street sewerage that
the long skirts the women used to
wear did. AS near as 1 have been
able to figure out, the fashions in
feminine clothes were started in an
imbecile asylum and it has only
been in late years that old Mr..
Commonsense has had anything to
do with them. Despite the knock
ers, none of whom, incidentally,
ever shut their eyes at the turri-
BILE" sight, contend that nothing
as graceful and pretty as feminine
ankle was ever meant to be cover
ed up and deprived of sunlight
and ventilation. The slit skirt,
in fact, is but another step in my
humble Judgment, towards the
glorious day of woman's emancipa-
ton, now so near at hand.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

SAM IvERSoN spent last week on
the Mesaba range for the state and
incidentally to repair several of his
political fences. He failed in the
latter part of his mission Judging
by the gossip at Hibbing and Vir-
ginia. He probably left with the
assurance that the iron country
was not an Iverson stronghold.
Sam is working out the elimination
problem in his own way.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20
ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY
rwre
In neresing
BY JOHN S. PARDEE, Sec,

Getting an appropriation bill
through the legislature is one of
the most difficult feats of the law
making body. 1t is getting harder
and harder all the time. Because
there are more and more things to
be taken care of. Important men,
bers of the appropriation commit
tees are worn one-sided bong be-
fore the close of the session by
people siezing them in the corri-
dors and hotel lobbies and on the
streets and pulling them two or
three directions at once.
Early in the session some of the
principal estimates are laid before
them. The board of control, the
university and other big budgets
are in order right on time. The
departments seId in their requisi-
tions; some of them way behind
time. Private associations come
urging this or that measure. Ar
lists, beekepers, Gamers, dairymen
and all the rest of the alphabet
including. the women, bless 'em-
press on the committee the need OF
this, that and the other interest
If they were bad people the legisla-
ture could be virtuous and tell
them to go away. But they are
not bad people; they are good peo-
pie and the legislature must listen
to them.
From week to week the appro.
priations committee of the senate
sit together and work in close
touch. By the end of the session
it is pretty we'll agreed between
them what they will report to the
two houses. By threats, persua
sion, compromise and trading
they have worked out a, measure il
which every member of the two
committees has got what he want:
or is satisfied he can't get it.
The experience of the last ses'
sion is about the way it utually
runs. The date of adjournment
was fixed April "a. With one
week yet to run the bills were in.
troduced April IS, as emergency
measures by request of the COVER
nor; three big measures; one for
the institutions. one for the educa-
tional system, which is nearly one
half of the total, and one to take
care of everything thing else. Oh,
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

GOVERNOR EBERHART is not
the only writer of importance.
While he produced words and
music for song, County Auditor
Halden has just issued a popular
story entitled Financial Statement
of St. Louis County" The Audi
tors work is the sequel to that
touching ballad entitled, Our
Taxes and Where they Co." 1t
comprises % pages of nonpareil in
the Duluth Herald and cost several
dollars or more to produce without
illustrations. The story has as
particular heroes, The writer, ]. P.
Johnson. Geo. Vivian, Chas. CALI
gan, John Meining and S. w. Gil
pin and sundry other leading men
and heroettes. Get copy and
read it.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

NEXT Wednesday is Ash We'd
nesday and the beginning of the
Lenten season. For forty days
the split skirt will Civ e way to
sackcloth and ashes and the tango
is tabooed. A meat diet will be re-
placed by fish in many families and
the bridge whist and 800" festiv-
tiles will be passed and prayers will
take their Places No, Gwendolin,
you are exempt from the lenten
observances because you are in the
society swim.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

No Doubt Virginia will just ma
turally fall all over itself to act on
the suggestion of the Biwabik
Times that Lafayette Bliss be a
candidate for the legislature. Bliss
has the ability if used in the proper
channels but his pernicious radical
ism will get him nowhere.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

AND now Jake Preus, who last
week announced himself as candi-
date for state auditor is accused of
being a part of the Eberhart ma
chine" AS Henry Rines of Mora,
the other candidate for the auditor
ship was recognized as the legisla-
tive machine engineer in the last
session of the legislature, this
machine" twadd1e is purely
bunk" Politics is all machine"
the only difference being in the
name-just like automobiles. The
politician who gets into a ma
chine" that is working with good
gears and pressure, gets there.
The other fellow maybe just as
good Chauffeur but his machine"
don't run. 1t is policy to get a
good machine" before getting
into the race. The bandwagon
has them all cheated in the political
parade and those seated thereon
have the lead in the procession.
The race with Rines and Preus in
their respective machines" will
be good one as both are well
supplied with gasoline, and air to
mix with it, besides being popular
and capable.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

A MEETING of the Democratic
state central committee has been
called by state chairman Martin
O'Brien to be held in Minneapolis
at the West Hotel at O'Clock on
Tuesday, Feb. "a, for the purpose
of conference. Following the
meeting of the committee a ban
quet will be served at $50 p. m.
at the West Hotel by the Democrats
of Minneapolis to which all Demo-
Gratis of the state are invited
Speakers of national prominence
will deliver addresses at the BAN
quet, as we'll as local Minnesota
democrats. No invitations will be
issued and all are welcome, but
those intending to attend should
notify Hon. E. A. Purdy, chair
man of the local committee on ar
rangements, care of Western Archi-
tect, Minneapolis.
The Ely miner., 1914-02-20

removal of a needle from her foot.
The needle was located by an x
ray picture.
Ray Tonkin and Adolph Man
ninen who recently underwent
operations at the hospital returned
home this week.
Steve Roskovich, Fred White,
George Lowry, John Hakorak, Jas.
Allen. F. M. Johnson, Emil Rop-
inski, Isaac Peterson, Pat Donahue,
Elmer Nelson and Ed. Weidenhoft
of the St. Croix camps are sick at
the hospital.
Tony Klun is at the hospital.
Mrs. Isabelle Young. of Winton
is still sick at the hospital.
John McKaskel of the Swallow
& Hopkins camps is sick at the