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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
The Streets Are AGAINST Him.

Arkansas is divided as TO its est.
mate of jeff Davis. The division is
strictly along rural and urban lines.
The woods and the hills and most OF
the swamps are for film, while the
streets are against him. The little
schoolhouse at the foot of the noun
tain. where the circuit rider breaches
the first Sunday in the month and the
''protracted meetin'" is held every fall
after corn is laid by, is for DaviS-Jeff
Davis. Hurrah for Jeff! The high
school with the ornamental windows
and the church with stained glass in
the city are against him. Rural Ar
kansas says Jeff is a man of the peo-
pie. zone of u.s." friend of the farm
er and the worker. Urban Arkansas
says JEFF is all sorts of things that
wouldn't sound well as applied to a
member OF the august senate.
Mr. Davis is very young in the SEN
ate. Let us remember that Abraham
Lincoln used to be called a baboon by
large contingent, of the American
people when he first came into national
life. There are those in Arkansas,
and, for that matter, in other states,
who describe the new senator as "a
political curiosity On the other hand.
there are those who aver that he will
develop" Well, many things are liza
bic to happen to a man in the senate.
That is sort of finishing school. But
whatever happens TO jeff Davis of Ar
kansaw pronounce 1t saw, for that's
officiaD it is q mighty safe gamble that
he will never eat fodder out of the
hands of John d. Rockefeller. for, as
he declared In the senate the other day,
he hates the very smell Of petroleum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

affections of Miss Helen Trayley The
terms of will make it imperative.
says Bloomington QndD dispatch
Morgan's grandfather, Ralph Nor
gan, well known politician OF Bloom
ingtOn, knew that his light hearted
handsome nephew loved the dainty
girl student, and he opposed the match.
The old man was Il farmer. Young
Morgan would naturally succeed to
the estate. and the elder man did not
think that pretty, fragile college girl
could make a farmers wife, SO he
formed the will SO that should Dink
Morgan ask Miss Trayley 10 wed the
young man must forfeit the estate.
While Morgan has not as yet com
mitted himself, it is said that he Is
strongly of the opinion that the girl is
worth more than the farm lands which
the grandfather has said will belong
to the young man if he follows out the
terms of the will.
In the meanwhile Miss Trayley is
the idol of her classmates. She is rel
ferred to as the $4,000 beauty" Her
popularity increased at bound with
the coming to light of the eccentric old
politicians Will All the college awaits
with bated breath the decision of Nor
gan, and the betting is generally with
the girls side of the question.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
DETERMINATION OF DEER.
Wealthy New Hampshire Man Advo-
Gates IL on Ground of Humanity,

wealthy New Hampshire man Advo-
Gates 1t on Ground of Humanity.
Elisha b. Brown, one of Dover's
wealthiest men and president of two
banks. in an open letter advocates the
abolition of the closed season for deer
and their Immediate extermination ON
the grounds of humanity unless the
game laws are changed to permit the
use of rifles In hunting them and the
prohibition of ShotGunS, says Il Dover
On. H. dispatch to the New York Trib-
une.
Mr.. Brown, who is agent for the
New Hampshire Society For the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals says
that many pitiful cases are reported
to him of mutilated and MANNED deer
seen in the woods and fields suffering
from gunshot wounds. He has repeat
eddy been asked to interfere and says
that under the law he is helpless to
act, though he knows of deer with
broken legs, jaws shot away and with
other frightful wounds living for days
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
LIFE MADE EASY.
Just Eat Peanuts and Drink Lemonade,
SAYS Illinois Doctor.

Just Eat Peanuts and Drink Lemonade,
SAYS Illinois Doctor.
DIR. T. j. Allen of Aurora, H., re-
over sixty days, during which time he
lived upon peanuts and lemonade,
nothing else, says Il Chicago special
dispatch to the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
The Aurora savant says that he has
solved practically the whole scheme of
peanuts and bananas. Eat 'em and
thrive. Don't bother about working
too hard, for you can live on - cents
day and wax fat. If you love to
work, go ahead. as on peanuts and
bananas twice as much work may be
done twice as easily.
DR.. Allen was in fine physical con-
dition when he ended his novel sixty
day test. 1--WE solved the servant girl
problem" said he, "by eliminating
the servant girl. l am more than salts
fed with the test l feel better than
when I started in, and could live and
thrive on diet exclusively of peanuts.
l will now start on sixty day test
of bananas, which, combined with pea
nuts, have already discovered to be
the ideal food.
"My plan now is to find some one
who is a heavy eater of meats and
other ordinary foods willing to enter a
sixty day contest with me, so that it
can be seen at the end of twelve
months who is in the better condition.
1t is certain that 1 shall win.
IF people lived on peanuts and ba-
nanas, it would cost them not more
than Is cents day, and they would be
saved all the trouble of cooking, all
the expense of servants. 1t takes an
hour to eat meal of peanuts, but you
can eat the COOLERS at your desk or
bench-while you are at your work
anywhere"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

torney for his district. Then he was
attorney general for the state. Then
for three successive terms he was gov
ernor Then two weeks after his re-
tlrement the legislature elected him to
the national senate.
Eight years ago the present writer
had occasion to attend a conference of
governors and attorney generals In st.
Louis. A tall. large, round faced young
man in gray suit came over and en-
gagged in conversation. In substance
he said:
MY names Jeff Davis. I'm attor-
ney general of Arkansas. I'm going
to run for governor of Arkansas, and
I'm going to be elected. Then I'm go
ing to run for United States senator
from Arkansas, and I'm going to be
elected. That's my programme"
This somewhat remarkable pro-
gramme was announced in a modest,
unbragging, but quite confident tone.
The young man in the gray suit has
carried out his programme. with two
extra elections to the governorship
thrown in. He is now forty-five.
In 1900 jeff Davis first stunped his
state as gubernatorial candidate be-
fore the Democratic primaries. He
carried seventy-four counties. One is
not expected to remember who carried
the other county. To stump the state,
according to the Davis Interpretation,
means something. 1t means making a
speech in every election precinct in
the state. 1t is asserted upon relia-
bic authority that. Jeff Davis has done
that. He began his stamping ten years
ago, when he ran for attorney gen
eral, and has kept 1t up every election
since. Now he knows everybody and
everybody's wife and children by their
front names. 49,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
Hn1erjcdn
Surety
Company
~ Dam Vn-EJ
Of nesp xesltl

Capital and Surplus -. 900. ooo
Ludoiph 4 Reynolds, Att.su, NJ
FORD block, Rock Island. JOh. !
Goodmanson, AEent, 1z17 Fiath
Ave. Moline, IN, ,. n. 4 III.
Oakleaf, attorneys, moline, La
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
Methods That Won Votes.

Frequently III HOl weather Tue cdii-
didate would jerk his collar loose and
fling it to the floor as he arose to
frenZied heights of eXhOrtative ora
tory In the backwoOds of Arkansas
the preacher and the politician supply
the only public speaking or entertain
ment to be had. Jeff Davis grew up in
a farming district. His father was
country preacher and farmer. Jeff
learned early the methods of the ex-
horters. His oratory still smacks some
what of the camp meeting style. That
style vastly pleases his good friends,
the hill billies 1t is to them con-
vincing style. 1t gets their votes.
In the few cities and big towns
there was always much opposition to
Davis. Practically all the newspapers
strongly opposed him. The candidate
usually referred to the newspaper men
as these squirrel headed editors" In
the rural districts the description
squirrel headed always made a hit
With the press, the churches and the
progressive element of the state for
the most part against him, jeff Davis
always wins in Arkansas. Why? Be
cause he is political genius, able to
adapt himself to his environment. He
knows his constituency. During his
gcvernorship the Second Baptist
church in Little Rock expelled him
from fellowship because of charges
brought against him. This would have
crushed an ordinary candidate beyond
recovery. Davis made political capital
out of it.
"Those high collared ROSTERS in the
Little Rock church." he told his rural
constituents, turned me out for po-
litical reasons, but my little church at
Russellville, where | was raised and
where l was a member for twenty
years, sent for me and welcomed me
back to membership"
During his second term as governor
an attempt was made to impeach him
for alleged misconduct in Office. The
impeachment failed 1t was the first
time any attempt had been made to
impeach an Arkansas governor. No
other governor had held office for more
than two terms. Because of this at
tempt at impeachment Jeff Davis bold
~ announced his candidacy for third
term.
II know 1t Is undemocratic," he said,
"but want yindication"
On the vindication platform he was
triumphantly reelected. He used the
plea of persecution with his rural con-
stituents to fine effect
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
A Mans
Duty

IS to his family first, then to
his friends.
What obligation requires a
man to give personal security
tor his friends, and thus imperil
his family's welfares
Corporate Bonds, as furnished
by the American Surety Com
pany Of New York, are ii
every way superior to Personal
Sureties, and are rapidly su-
perseding them.
Don't assume an unnecessary
risk because Of a mistaken idea
OF friendship.
When asked to sign 4 bond. do
your friend a service by putting
him IN eommunication,witht the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

the red stockings of Colonel Rector
as the candidate sat on the platform
jeff Davis would reach down, pull up
one leg of his trousers, yank a cookie
bur from the thick white yarn sock,
homemade, which he wore for the oc-
casion, and proceed to express his joy
because he was one of the common
people. When Mr.. Davis was cleo
pioneering in the country he invariably
referred to the city people as those
high collared ROSTERS" He always
wears a low collar, with string tie,
such as the backwoodsmen wear when
they have on their Sunday clothes. A
high collar on his neck would cost him
any county In which he might speak
Rode an Ancient Mule.
During his first campaign Davis
went into a back county in that
part of Arkansas where, according to
facetious phrase, ''they don't know
the war is over" There was no rail-
road to carry him, but he might have
hired modern livery rig. Being po-
iitiCdiiy Wise, lie uiu OtuerWiSe. ne
found an ancient mule, had it branded
&c. S, A" and rode this apparent sur
vivor of the civil war through that
county.
In other counties, where the OK team
Is still in use, the candidate procured
a yoke of spotted oxen and drove
around, making speeches and shaking
hands. 1t is related that at one coun-
ty seat In this mountain region into
which he drove the OK team he found
at the hotel letter from Mrs. Davis,
who was at the executive mansion In
Little Rock. The governor was read
Ing his wife's letter when a noun.
taineer acquaintance dropped In.
Hello, Jim"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
Hello, Jeff."
Flows all your folks, JimY'

q "Fair to middlin'. How's your'nT
''All well but my wife," replies the
governor of Arkansas. shes been out
in the back yard maxim soap, and
she's all tuckered out" "a.
OF course Mrs. Davis does not make
soap. She buys store soap. But the
soft soap story makes votes, and Gov
ernor Davis knew that it would win
him Jim's vote and the votes of all
those to whom Jim would tell the sto-
ry about the governors wife making
soft soap just as they did.
On his speechmaking tours JEFF Da-
Wis was wont to proclaim loudly that
he belonged to the lone gallused De-
mocracy" He has been known to jerk
Off his coat in the heat of debate and
display a single suspender extending
diagonally across his manly chest.
More yotesl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
A Startling Act.

One of the sensational acts of Gov
ernor Davis was to pardon a negro
prisoner from the state penitentiary on
the condition that he emigrate at once
to Massachusetts. Upon a recent trip
to the old Bay State he had heard CON-
plants that the south mistreated ne
groes, he said, and he wanted Massa
chusetts to have such negroes as Ar
kansas didn't want Once the gov
ernor entered the penitentiary and
sampled the food served to the in
mates. ue threatened Immediately to
open the doors and let every prisoner
out unless better food was provided
Improved food was provided at once.
A sample of the jeff Davis brand of
campaigS argument is supplied by a
little incident that occurred when
Judge Carroll ID. Wood of Hot Springs
was his opponent for the governorship.
Judge Wood had reversed lower
courts decision awarding $4,000 to a
child named Esther Warren, whose
hands had been cut off by railroad
train. On the platform where the can
didates We're in joint debate Governor
Davis turned to his opponent and cried:
"Oh, Judge Wood, l pray that when
you get to the, better land little Esther
Warren will have been supplied with
hands and that you will not hear her
screaming: Where are my hands.
mamma? Where are my hands?'
Judge Wood, this case ought to burn
your conscience and soul at night. 1t
ought to haunt you in your sleep. II
ought to visit you in your dreams.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

this little child streaming for its
hands,
In Arkansas Senator Davis is known
as one Of the original trust busters.
This may account for the fact that
he introduced an antitrust bill as soon
as he reached the senate and delivered
his first speech In support of that
measure Through his efforts both the
ld1.senators from Arkansas are now
in private life. First he retired Sen
ator James X: Jones, who as chairman
of the Democratic hational committee
managed the two BRYAN campaigns.
He charged Senator Jones, with own
ing stock in q trust, made state
stumping campaign and caused the
election of Ex-Governor Clarke to the
senate
Senator James H. Berry, the man
whom Davis defeated in his own be-
years. He succeeded Augustus II.
Garland, who became attorney general
Ia Cleveland's first cabinet. Senator
Berry lost one of his legs at the battle
of Corinth when Jeff Davis was but
three months old. He was a Confed-
crate officer, a southern gentleman OF
the old school. Through the efforts of
Governor Davis the state Democracy
adopted the rule that United States
senators should be nominated by the
people. Davis and Berry We're the
candidates at the primaries. In the
speechifying campaign Davis made Il
point of telling his rural constituents
that Berry had voted in the senate
against certain bill which, according
to the Davis argument, was in their in
terests. He would hold up copy OF
the Congressional Record and say,
pointing to spot on the open sheet:
And here is Berry's name right at
the top of the list-the very first man
to vote against this bill"
The mountaineers of course were
unaware that senators vote alpha
beticauy. Candidate Davis did not en-.
tighten them. Why spoil good point?
Why, indeed? That little explanation
of parliamentary procedure might have
cost him five counties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
About Digestion.

1t is not the quantity of food taken
but the amount digested and assim-
Hated that gives strength and vitality
to the system. Chamberlain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets invigorate the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30

stomach and liver and enable them to
perform their functions. The result
is a relish for your food. increased
strength and weight, greater endur-
ance and clear head. Price, % cents.
Samples free For sale by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
By RoBERTUs LOVE.

HEFF DAVIS has made his maiden
speech in the United States sen
O D ate. His full name is jefferson
Davis, but he never signs ii that
way. When he was governor of Ar
kansas, his official letterhead bore the
words Jefferson Davis, Governor"
but the signature ut the bottom of
each letter was plain jeff Davis. In
Arkansas there is magic in that name.
In the United States senate of course
there's a difference. Though Senator
Davis smashed to smithereens that
ancient custom that new senator
shall sit still for the first year, to be
seen and not heard, he failed signally
In his purpose to carry that august
body with him. There are Seventy-tive
counties in Arkansas. but the United
States senate is not one of them.
Jeff Davis always carries everything
in Arkansas. There are two reasons
for this. One is because he IS jeff Da-
Wis, and the other is because it is Ar
kansas. In order to understand JEFF
Davis and his political success you
must first understand Arkansas. I'm
doubtedly Mr., Davis-begging Arkan-
sas' pardon for calling him mister-is
the most successful eAmerican politi-
clan now alive. Let him carry the
palm. 1t is his. Let him wave it aloft
and fan with it this great nation from
Florida to Maine, from San Diego to
Seattle.
How did he win the palm? Well,
Al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-30
YOUTHS TRYING POSITION.

Which Will He Take, the Girl or $50, 1000
Farn17
Few men have been placed in a
more trying position than Dink Nor
gan, student at the Indiana univer-
sity, who will sooner or later have to
elect between $4,000 farm and the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-04
BONES OF DEAD MEN.

lions under the direction of the Royal
society of Cornwall, and now 1t lis pos
sible to tell the complete story of the
research and the valuable. relics dis
covered, as the result of which the
Harlyn Bay museum was founded by
Mr.. Mallett for their accommodation,
although large nuUber. Of them
were removed to the Truro, museum.
But the discovery of new cists con-.
tinue to be made. The Scientific
American is authority for the state
ment that only few weeks ago the
present proprietor of the place; Col.
Boilers, discovered a new cist, be-
sides finding a. number of ancient
slate implements and other relics.
The burial ground has the appear
ance of an untidy garden, with here
and there number OF glass.
covered cases. 1t is through these
that one can inspect the cists.
or tombs with the skeletons In them.
There are some six in all. some con-
tanning only one skeleton, and others
two and more They are In sitting
posture, with the knees almost up or
down. In every instance the graves
are in straight lines. one head to an
other, all running toward the north or
south. There were many lines of
graves side by side. about three feet
apart. Beneath these were other
rows of graves. In every instance,
too. the graves were lined with great
slate slabs. 1t Is not without interest
to note that in one grave the skele-
tons are fattened. They must have
been fiattened before they were placed
there. That is an indisputable fact. 1t
is supposed by many that this is q
proof that the people of those days in
dulged in human sacrifice. After the
feast or religious rite. the remains, or
rather the bones, of the sacrificed one
were purposely flattened by some
heavy instrument and then inferred.
Then in another grave the skull is
broken in several places. and the
nasal bone severed by clean cut
across the front. There are three
teeth out of position projecting
through the side of the left ramus of
the lower jaw, beneath the normal row
of teeth. This is supposed to show
that these people were in the habit
of fastening the end OF dying per-
son by killing him either in the grave
or on the naked rocks by breaking
his head with a stone
AS to the age of these prehistoric
remains, there would seem to be now
no doubt that they belong to the neo-
lithic period. and anthropologists are
virtually agreed that the skeletons re-
Gently found must have been buried
$500 years ago. Itsmay even be earlier
still. One popular writer has stated
that the cemetery must have been
| founded at the time of King Solomon,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-04
INDIAN SCULPTURE IS LOST.
Action of Water Destroys Relic Priced
by Antiquarians.

One of three known examples in the
United States, the famous Indian
sculpture" on two of the immense
rocks which form the great falls" of
the Connecticut river at Bellows Falls,
has been entirely obliterated, not a
trace of the marking which recorded
some important event in the history
of the aborigines being left.
The sculpture was favorite subject
of discussion for antiquarians, and de-
veloped much controversy as to the
manner and time in which 1t was
made. When first discovered 1t con-
sisted of group Of sixteen or eight
cen variously ornamented heads
plainly cut into the rocks. The main
piece of work was shown on a fiat
space about fifteen feet wide and six
feet high, and consisted of four heads
each surmounted with pair of rays
and numerous heads without any dec
Grafton. On the other rock was one
large head with at least eight rays.
this head being fourteen inches in
depth and ten inches across at the
forehead. There may have been orig
inally also an inscription, but If so
1t had become obliterated by the &C
ton of the water years ago.
The markings are supposed to have
represented victory at or near Bel
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-04
THE CAUSE OF kLEProMANIA
II Is Said to Result Sometimes from
Close Study.

Kleptomania is occasionally induced
by continued and close application to
the study of a particular subject. A
singular case was recently reported
from Germany
A well-known professor was found
to have transferred to his own private
collection many of the valuable but
terfiies of which he had charge in his
official capacity.
The existence of mental derang6-
ment was clear from the facts that
came out in the course Of the investi-
cation afterward made by the museum
authorities.
1t was found that the professor had
often sent his wife out all day to catch
butterflies, SO intense was his passion
for these insects. On one occasion the
professor, while hunting q butterfly,
was nearly run over by an express
train; at another time he fell into a
rivsr, and once both he and his wife
fell into a pond
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-04
cosTLIEsT OF ALL EGGS.
Those of the Extinct Aepyornis Worth
Much Money.

The costliest of all eggs is the
largest as we'll. 1t is the egg of the
extinct aepyornis, and it is big enough
to hold two gallons of water.
The aspyornis is supposed to be the
roc that is made famous in the nara
tive of Sinbad the Sailcr. Sinbad, the
reader of the Arabian Nights" will
remember, tied himself to the leg of
roc, and the bird few down with
him into a valley full of diamonds.
In Madagascar a number of aepyor.
mis- skeletons have been found. These
prove the bird to have been over 20
feet in height. 1t had long neck and
long legs. 1t looked like an. ostrich
several times enlarged.
There are half dozen aepyornis
eggs in existence. They are worth
from 5000 to 5000 apiece. They are
a foot long, yard in circumference
and in capacity equal to 1876 eggs of
the modern hen.