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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-04-13

But we deny that these boilers
should now ASH the Democratic Jarty
to truckle at their feet and give them
the best positions at its command N,
man who refused to vote for the De
mocratic nominees in 1896 and 1909
sho-,d ne nominated for the pfesi-
dency 1.or should any man be sent
as = delegate to the national Demo
cratic convention who has not been
loyal TO his party nominees. Traitors
to the rarty should be made to feel
the Nervousness Of their Offense. Loy'-
al soldiers should receive the reward
# constancy and zeal in the country's
cause. Put none but Democrats on
guard.
In the approaching presidential
campaign the Democrats will not try
to make any political capital out Of
the fact that five Republican Justices
Of the Supreme Court upheld the anti
trust law while three Democratic and
one Mugwump justice voted to knock
it out. On the other hand. the Repub-
licans will not be anxious to direct
attention to the other fact. that after
getting the decision. Roosevelt called
a halt on putting it into force against
the syndicated millionaire breakers
Of the law-Bee.
Senator Burton, of Kansas, has beel
sentenced to six months imprlson-
ment and & fine Of $4,000 for having
used his influence with the Post Once
Department, for pay, in behalf OF the
Rialto Grain and Securities Company.
But the disgraced Burton is not IN
jail yet, He has appealed for ANEW
trial, and pending the disposition Of
his motion he remains a member Of
the United States Senate. there to
vote with his pai-y in support Of the
trusts and against all such DANCE
GUS" measures SIS the eight hour day
on government work and increasing
the pay Of the letter carriers.
The President removed from Office
the United states District Attorney
who dared to prosecute the charges
against Senator Dietrich C Nchr2y
Ka. What form Of executive punish
mont viii be melted out to the fclcr#
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-04-13

Russians have anything that looks
more like an explosion Of the alpha
bet we want 70 know t.-Washington
Post.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

ming races up cocoanut trees as we may see the
Gikuki African boys doing.
House building as a pastime among children appears
to be universal. Even in the cannibal villages of
central Africa you will see the children building tiny
huts of waffle and daub' which are faithful repro
auctions on a small scale of the houses that they were
born and bred in.
The waffle is simply a kind of wicker-work, and
the "daub' is the stuff wherewith the chinks are
stopped. This most curious of mortars is made from
the earth of the ant-heaps; and with this primitive
material the children in the villages of the great lakes
construct whole villages of tiny huts.
The Papuan child of New Guinea naturally con-
structs her dolls house on piles, or stills, in the water.
reproducing faithfully the wonderful pile built village
of Port Moresby in the British section of the great
island continent.
Again, the Eskimo child will construct igloos of
snow plastered around small whale bones; and of
course the Indian child will construct the tepee of
her ancestors as the only rightful and legitimate place
of repose for her dolls.
One great game of central African Children is to
suspend a plantain or other fruit or vegetable from a
branch by means of some strong creeping plant. At
this mark they will then throw spears with wonderful
skill-much as the children do in their mimic oorr0-
borees among the aboriginal tribes of central Aus
tralia. The little black fellows of Australia, however,
suspend a small ring as a mark instead of a vegetable.
All savage children, too, seem to have an Unborn
love of drawing; and they will reproduce crude and
comic pictures on the interior bark walls of the houses,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

prepare the toys and dolls. together
with the dolls dinner and tea services.
Next morning Little Plum and Cedar
quickly dressed in their best red crepe
and figured silk, but could not eat
much breakfast, so great was their
anxiety to see the dolls.
Would it be believed that they had
over a hundred of them? For Japan
is above all other nations the country
of dolls. And they seem to be handed
down from generation to generation.
Certainly some of Little Plum'S were
two or three centuries old. There We're
mikados and mikados' wives and
tycoons and -tycoonesses, ladies and
gentlemen of the courts. boy babies
and girl babies.
Then there were all kinds of fur
niture for these grandees, together
with travelling boxes and trunks of
sandal-wood and camphor-wood.
Boys the world over naturally turn to
warlike sports and games. and more
particularly practice with the bow and
arrow. Away up in the wildS of Alaska.
there is a mission station called Anvik
where there is a Christian school for
Eskimo boys and girls. The disturb
ances of the studies of these young
people are due to causes that strike us
as strange, such as the sudden on-com-
ing of w~alrus, seals, polar bear or
other good food or fur.
The school "breaking-up" time At
Anvik is marked BY a most curious
shooting competition. Each OF the
boys chooses a little girl much as in
the days of chivalry when the tourna-
ment knight had the eyes OF his mis-
tress upon him and then the eager lad
mmence 10 shoot at kerosene cans
lore or less unerring. In the event of
title Eskimo lady whose champion he
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lt NdNC vi illtIth IL a
countries, however, while it is true that the childre
may have more time for play, they are also WORKED
excessively hard. and cruelty prevails to a frightfu
extent. either by reason of long-eStablished custom
as in the case of the bound feet of Chinese girls am
the child widows of India. or else by reason of tn
operation of savage instincts on the part of the parents
Talking of ch1ld-widows, would it be believed that
according to a recent census of India. out of thirty
eight million girls under the age of fifteen. twenty-fOu
millions are widows. of whom seventy-eight thousand
are under nine years of age;
Miss Clark, a woman missionary, writing from the
Jagraon district of India, said: Ignorance among the
mothers is terrible. They asked me if it was wrong
to strange their girl babies"
Indian children are expected to care for and drive
the dogs. cut logs in the forest and haul them home.
afterward splitting them into stove-wood. Their
time is also pretty fully occupied in trapping fur
bearing animals. helping with fish traps and nets.
sailing boats and padding birch canoes. Their
little sisters cook. sew and embroider. They also
cut and dry fish and tan skins. \
Among savage races it may be accepted as a \
broad fact that only the strongest children are
permitted to grow up; and these do contrive to
have a good time in life. Having no school to
attend. and being racially opposed to all work,
they turn naturally to devising what seems to
us curious sports and games-pastimes entirely \
unknown in civilized countries-if it is only rum y
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

in China is the
hre-cracker. which at
the time of the Chi
nese NewYear makes
the day a time of
wearisome unrest
and the night hide
Gus. Then again.
kite-flying is univer-
sal in China and
probably originated
there. The most
comic thing is that n
small boy may be
flying one kite. and
his grandfather. a
patriarch of ninety.
gravely flying an
other by his side.
The Chinese boys.
and also his breth-
rem of Siam and the
states of Indo-C China.
also has his fighting
crickets, big fellows
several inches long.
To HI long leg
of each cOmbatant
a string is tied by its
owner. The insects
fight to the DEATH
as do the gold fish.
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Chinese children appear to be born gamblers, sad to
say; they will gamble with cash" morning. noon and
night; and among their sisters dolls are practically
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

I ICMAN nature is much the
n same the world over, and
this is particularly so in
Al-.-- LII L. -nn-nrA
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

with an aim more or less unerring. In the event of
success. the little Eskimo lady whose champion he
is comes ministering unto him with-lumps of sugar.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08
1illiam c. FITZGERALD

and even on their own bodies, representing birds,
beasts and reptiles. both natural and unnatural.
In China the children are in their element during
he fairs which are held by their elders in the Buddhist
ernples. when a few cash" are given to them
nr frriif aud candy
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

unknown-even in the treaty
ports where one would think
that missionary and general West
ern influence would have intro
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08

even III the treaty
re one would think
nary and general West
.ce would have intro
l%Stituuon. II Is q fact
r ~ideographs repre-
nifty foreign babies
the case in Japan and
dolls IS one of the
two great far-E Eastern
When the writer was
knew two little girls
.es translated meant
Plum and Cedar"
ight eagerly were they
forward to the
Fat Feast of Dolls
comes once a year
on the third of March.
1t is the greatest day
of the year for the
little girls. OF
course. the boys
. don't care much
Y about it because
their great day,
N Y known as the
. Y Feast of
\ Flags comes
in May.
On the eve of
h great
feast, Little
Plum and
u Cedar washed
II all the ink off
Y their n S
~ hung up their
4 c~opybooks and
4 put aside their
Y ink-stones with
more than CUSTOM
airy satisfaction.
And the two sisters
were soon in bed
with their heads on
the funny little pill
lows made of pieces
of wood with cush-
ions on top
The moment they
were asleep their
mothers began to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26

Tri-city union gospel meeting. j. C.
Cook, chairman. Exercises at p. m.
at Cooks hall over Benefits store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26

II is serious thing to break up the
home and go to town to educate, the
children The retired farmer in town
whites boxes. He has been accus-
toned to an active life on the farm,
and now he has nothing TO do. Life is
dead easy in town. The children
don't know that the home is broken
up. but it is. This moving to town
TO educate the children is an internal
and vicious practice. The country
child should be educated in the coun-
try The country homes cannot be
broken up every generation without
the most serious consequences to
agriculture. The retired farmer is q
nuisance in town: he can't do himself
much good and the city people don't
want him; he is against taxes and bet
ter schools; he pays taxes at both
ends of his bargain and don't get
much out of il.
One thousand country schools in
Michigan in 1901-1902 had an average
attendance of 8: 81 had two pupils
or fewer and held no schools; but you
have in right to abandon small
school Eighty-three schools had five
pupils or fewer and their average at,
tendance was three. The cost per pu-
pill in these 1000 schools was s41.60
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
STAY AT HOME AND CENTRALIZE THE
COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

pay out annually over q million dol
lars for tuition and other expenses to
send their children to city schools for
higher learning. This is tremendously
costly and awfully useless. We are try
ing to support more institutions than
there is any use for; we need more wa
CONS and less houses. We can haul
cream and milk over our roads, why
not children? Some people have OBJ
jected that transportation of pupils
would be too hard on the team in bad
weather. Let this never be seriously
mentioned. If it's too bad for the team
to go, its too bad for the child to
walk. Which is of the greater conse
quence, the child or the animal? II
might be worse for the child's health
to walk a half mile than to be hauled
two miles.
The bulk of country children take
their dinners to school anyway, and
this would be little different in the con,
solidated school than in the present
system.
In consolidated districts farm values
have raised, rather than fallen.
II child is taken sick at CONSOLE
dated school, one team is kept at the
school that such a pupil may be taken
home.
In the transportation system there is
obliterated these offenses to decency
that commonly occur along the road as
the children walk to and from school
in the present system.
In the first consolidated school in
Illinois, at Seward. Winnebago county,
the attendance was raised the first day
to 1913 from 70 the year before. The at
tendance will be increased from Is to
20 per cent in the consolidated school,
To have a consolidated country
school is the only way we can success.
fully put agriculture into our country
schools.
There has never been case in the
United States in which a consolidated
school has gone back to the old plan
and they have have had consolidated
schools in Massachusetts for 20 years
The consolidated school settles once
for all the present problems of the
country school.
The health of the children is better
when conveyed in wagons and landed
warm and dry at school than when sit.
ting all day in wet feet and dragged
clothing after tramping through all
kinds OF roads in all kinds of weather
The health is especially better as re
CARDS colds.
The attendance is larger, more regu
lar and hardness unknown.
IL equaliZes the cost of schooling
making it no more per capita for an
outlying thinly populated district than
! for any other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
In The Churches.

Services at 10:45 a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Morning subject. AN Old Testament
Illustration of Spiritual Growth and
Development" Evening. THE Gospel
Flooding the Earth.
South Park chapel. Presbyterian,
Elm street and Fifteenth avenue, Rev
w. s. Marquis, pastor. Sunday school
at 2:30 p. m.
Broadway Presbyterian. corner of
Twenty-third street and Seventh ave.
nue.. Rev. w. s. Marquis, pastor.
Sunday school 9:15 a m. Young PEG
pies meeting at GAS p. m. Services
10:45 a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Aiken Street Union Chapel, South
Rock Island Sunday school at p
m. Services every Tuesday at 1880
p. m.
Bethel Presbyterian Chapel. corner
Sunday school at 2:s0 p. m.
United Presbyterian. Third avenue
and Fourteenth street: Rev. d. l.. Nc
Nary. pastor. Sunday school at 8: SO
a. m. Y P. c. II. at GAS p. m
Services at 10:45 a. M and 1880 p. m
Morning subject. "A Problem in Prof
IL and Loss" Evening, The One Who
Reveals God to U.s. Will johnson
of Davenport will sing at the evening
service.
First Methodist, corner of Fifth ave
nue. and Nineteenth street; Rev. r. B
Williams, pastor. Sunday school al
9: 80 a. m. Epworth League at G: 80 p. m
Services at 10:45 a. M and 1880 p. m
Services in morning conducted by the
pastor. Rev. R. B. Williams. Subject
1.-The Two Hemispheres of Life" II
the evening at annual thankoffer,i
service of the Women's Home Mission
airy circle, Mrs. Mable Hilbish, of Chi
cage, general organizer of the Won
ems Home Missionary society. VII
deliver an address.
| Spencer Memorial Methodist church
corner Forty-third street and Seventh
avenue; Rev. J. b. Rutter. pastor. Ser
vices at 1O:45 and 1880 p. m. Sunday
school at $50 a. m. Junior league a
$3.50 D. m. Epworth League at 6:3(
| p. m.
German Methodist, corner OF Sixth
avenue and Fourteenth street; Rev. r
l.. Litzrodt, pastor. Services at 10:4s
a. m. and 1880 p. m. Sunday schoo
at 9:15 a. m. J. J. He!g. superintend
ent. Epworth League at Z. Junior
League at 2 p. m.
! Free Swedish Mission. corner O
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
DON'T MOVE TO TOWN TO
EDUCATE CHILDREN.

per year. while their cost per pupil
per year in the city schools was only
1910. So 1000 country schools in
Michigan were maintained at a cost
per pupil more than double that of
the most expensive city schools.
Indiana had in 1900, los schools with
an attendance of five pupils or fewer.
ten of which had but one pupil; 4S7
had between five and ten. and 1858
had between ten and fifteen, or in all
1.S4S, with an attendance of Is or few
err In 1897 the cost of the city schools
in Indiana was S7.4S per pupil, and in
the country schools it was S621 per
pupil but that in 1899, twenty years
later, the cost of city schools had drop
ped to $7.O7. while the cost of country
schools of all sizes had risen to an av-
erage of $1,000, showing that the cost
of elementary education in the country
is over 4S per cent higher than the cost
of education in the city including the
higher school course.
In Iowa in 1901 One-half of the inde-
pendent districts and three-fourths of
the sub-districts had an average daily
attendance of less than 90. and 500 in
dependent districts and 2.7O5 sub-dis-
tricts had an attendance of less than
ten.
The better teachers go from the
country to the city schools. There are
not enough teachers to fill the country
schools. 1t is well known that GER
tificates are granted to fill the schools.
Set these small schools together and
that will secure better schools and bet
ter teachers. Say, put three adjoining
districts together. Wagons are cheap
er than school houses and drivers and
teams are cheaper than teachers. One
good instructor is better than three
poor ones.
The school should be for country peo-
pie on the plan of a country school.
This movement to consolidate country
schools has gone past the experimental
stage in Ohio, Indiana. Massachusetts,,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Iowa and Kansas. We can't stop
the movement If we would and we
wouldn't if we could.
One-fifth of the country schools are
taught by inexperienced teachers.
There are many who have never re-
tSCASta ohy oShOOlih6 OatoiuC tAC uiS-
trict in which they teach. This is in
breeding of the worst kind In the con-
solidated school there will be at least
one experienced teacher, and the mex
perienced teachers will get along a
great deal better than they would
alone. They will get good experience.
The cost of transportation has been
found to be about $3.50 per pupil per
month.
| Consolidation has been found to be
cheaper for the same grade of schools !;
at the same expense much better
schools can be provided. Frequently
the people in the consolidated districts
build modern school house and have
better equipment and surroundings than
was ever possible before. make high
school and do better work.
Besides the greater cost of the pres
ent country school In Michigan. the
state superintendent there estimated
that the country people Of that state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
The Best Liniment.

"Chamberlain's Pain Balm is consid-
cred the best liniment on the market -
write Post & Bliss. of Georgia, VT. No
other liniment will heal cut or bruise
so promptly. No other affords such
quick relief from rheumatic pains. No
other is so valuable for deep seated
pains like lame back and pains in the
chest. Give this liniment a trial and
you will never wish to be without it.
Sold by all leading druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
Not a Sick pax Since.

81 was taken severely sick with kid
ney trouble. l tried all sorts of medi
cines, none OF which relieved me. One
day / saw an az. of your Electric Bit
tiers and determined to try that. After
taking few doses I felt relieved, ant
soon thereafter was entirely cured, ant
have not seen a sick day since. Neigh
bors of mine have been cured of rheu
matism, neuralgia, liver and kidney
troubles and general debility" This i:
what b. F. Bass, of Fremont. N. C.
writes. Only so cents at Hartz & Uile
meyers, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26

Services in the various churches will
be held as follows tomorrow:
Trinity Episcopal church, Nineteenth
street and Sixth avenue Sunday
school at 9:15 a. III. Morning ser
vice at 10:45.
Trinity chapel. corner Seventh
street and Fourth avenue Sunday
school at 2:30 p. M Even song at
$50 p. m
| Swedish Baptist. corner of Twenty
first street and Fifth avenue. Preach,
ing at 10:45 a. m.
Emanuel Baptist church. 4i7 Forty.
fourth street. Rev. II. w. Reed. pastor.
Sunday school at $3.50 p. N.
Mckinley Baptist. Sixth avenue and
Tenth street. Services at 10:45 a. IN
and 1880 p. IN. Sunday school at IL: 80
ID. III.
| First Baptist. corner Third avenue
and Fifteenth street, Rev. H. w. Reed
pastor. Services at 1O:45 a. m. and
1880 p. m. Sunday school 1T Q, Is n. m
German Lutheran. corner Twentiet,l
street anu Fifth avenue: Rev. c. A.
Mennicke. pastor. Services at 10 a. m
and 1880 p. m
| Grace English Lutheran. corner For
ty-fourth street and Seventh avenue
Rev. c. E. Hoffsten. pastor. Services
at 1890 a. m. and 1880 p. m
| Swedish Lutheran, corner Four
tenth street and Fourth avenue; Rev
J. A. Nyvali, pastor. Services at TO-: 50
n. m. and 1880 p. m.
Zion Swedish Lutheran. 1924 Sew
enth avenue; Rev. j. G. Dahlberg, pas
tor. Services at 10:45 a. m. and 1880
p. m. Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
German Evangelical, Ninth street
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
Rev. Ed Z. Klimpke, pastor. Sunday
school at 9:15 a. m. Services at 1913
4. IN. and 7:30 p. III.
First Church of Christ. Scientist,
Twcnty-third street, between Seventh
and Ninth avenues. Services at 10: A
4. IL. Sunday school follows morning
service. Reading rooms in London
building on Second avenue. open daily
except Sunday from / to p. n. Sun
day subject. God the Only Cause ant
| Creator"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26

1ue. between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth streets: Rev. William Torrance
pastor. Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Young Peoples meeting at GAS p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26
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Quarries IL miles from Rock
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Trains No. and 10 will stop and
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BRIDGE, STONE, CORN CRIB
BLOCKS AND FOUNDATION
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Samples of stone and photos OF
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Address:
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Rock Island or colona. iii.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-26

Sunday school at p. m. Services at
$3.50 D. m. Prayer meeting Wednes-
day at p. n.
wyman A. NJ. E. Mission. Thir-
teenth street and Fifth avenue; Rev.
d. w. Brown. pastor. Services at
10:45 a. m and 1880 p. m. Sunday
school at 1 p. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at s.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic. cor
ner Second avenue and Fourteenth
street; Rev. Thomas Mackin, dean and
pastor. Mass at a. m. and 1880 a.
m. Vespers at p. m. Sunday school
at 2 p. m.
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
Twenty-eighth street and Fifth ave
nue.: Rev. ]. F. Lockney. pastor. Mass
Vt and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school
at 2 p. m. vespers at 1880 p. m.
St Mary's German Catholic, corner
of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second
street: Rev. Adolph Geyer. pastor
Mass at and 1920 a. m. Mass and
sermon at a. m for the Belgian par
ishionerS.
Salvation Army barracks, 1909 Sec
ond avenue. Services as follows:
Holiness meeting. 1880 a. M; junior
meeting. p. m: Christians praise
3 p. M; evening praise, s p. m.
Y. NJ. c. A. building. corner OF Third
avenue and Nineteenth street. Boys
meeting at 2:15 p. m. led by L. L
Mcdonald. boys secretary. Men!
meeting at $3.50.
Memorial Christian, corner of Third
avenue and Fifteenth street: Rev. 0
w. Lawrence, pastor. Sunday school
at 9:15 a. m. Y. P. S. c. e. at 6:3(
p. m. Services at 10:45 a. IN. and 7:3(
p. m.
Tri-city union gospel meeting. j. c
Cook, chairman. Exercises at p. m
at Cooks hall over Benefits store