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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

Christian Science.-The weekly tes-
timonial meeting will be neld Wednes-
day evening at 1880 in the church The
library is open daily except Sunday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

les Aid society Of the church will
serve a turkey dinner in the basement
of the old Central Presbyterian church
on Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

Spencer Memorial Methodist.-The
Epworth league bible study class will
meet this evening with Miss Jessie
Ekhart, 1112 Thirty-eighth street.
Mrs. Boomers bible study class will
meet in the church tomorrow evening.
Prayer services will be held in the
church Wednesday evening at $50
O'Clock
The choir will meet for rehearsal
Friday evening in the church.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

First Baptist.-This evening at 7
O'Clock at the parsonage the trustees
will meet. AT 1880 O'Clock the church
clerk, deacons and financial secretary
will meet.
Prayer and covenant meeting will be
held in the church Wednesday even
ing at O'Clock.
Thursday evening the Ever Ready
circle will meet with Mrs. n. p. Tucker
1914 Sixth avenue, to watch out the
old and welcome the new year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

German Observation-Disclosures eve
ming the official members will meet at
the parsonage to hold the monthly
business meeting.
Thursday evening a watch night ser
vice will be held at the church, be-
ginning at $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

United Presbyterian.-The Kate Hill
L. Vance, 1O14 Fourteenth-and-a-hai
street, tomorrow evening.
Prayer services will be held in the
church Wednesday evening at 1880
O'Clock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

Broadway Presbyterian.-The Junior
association will meet in the church
Wednesday afternoon at 4 O'Clock.
Prayer services will be held il the
church Wednesday evcniIg at 7:30
o clock.
The Ladies' Mission society will
meet with Mrs. C. ". Halves, 11l2
Twenty-first street, Tuesday after
noon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-28

Aiken Street Presbyterian.-This
evening the Christmas festival OF the
Sunday school will be held in the
church. A cantata THE Road to
Christmas Land" will be given.
The Ladies' Sewing society of the
chapel will meet Wednesday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. J. A.
Reid $40 Sixteenth street.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09

county in the year 1909. I prefer
the Williamson plan of planting, fer
tliizing and cultivating, although
contestants may use their own plans.
The conditions of the contest are
that each contestant shall take to his
field on any day from the LIST to the
10th of October two freeholders and
a justice of the peace or notary pub
lie and measure off 20 yards square,
gather the corn in their presence,
weigh it dry and slip shucked and
have them certify in writing to the
number of bushels, allowing 70
pounds to the bushel; then seal and
bring or send the certificate. together
with three ears of the corn tagged
and the contestants name on it. to
my office, and on October 25th I will
open the certificates and mail checks
to the winners.
For the benefit of those who may
wish to try it will, at an early day,
have printed in The Dawson News
the Williamson plan of planting and
cultivating corn. Look out for it, and
read it when it appears. Respect
fully, JOHN R. MERCER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09

II was the man who had IN MT =
wi On MS house. The man wbo
puys the roofing said he imno+ioat
h. b,, uoeS not know anything about
DurIap. He might have added that
IN about nine hundred and nipnf t't
thousand cases out of every mil1ion
Tue man who buys roofing for bis
muse does not know that he ic nov
ing a tariff on burlap, and that .
smaller proportion than that Of tbo
men VINO buy bags for their cotton
I tHeI gram or their produce of anv
i know that they are paving q
oonus 10 the men Mr.. Phillips ranra~
SenIS lot making these bags Jndgo
pllSss uttered a too little Forgotten
ruin when he observed in ra1Iv 10
thls remark of Mr.. Phillips:
The Man Who Has to Paw
=. VI course, we have to REPRESENT
'nese fellows, and you folks have oot
people here who are not onIv stats
IIclans, but experts, and when wo
ask a question that carries the mat
ter a little further towards the NH
nIale consumer you say: There is
another gentleman standing here
VINO stands closer to the ultimate
consumer than /, and I ask Won the
question now: Is it not true that
Iie ultimate consumer is the man
VINO mas TO pay that difference?"
me man had to answer that mas
tlon yes; but he had evaded II no.
Iore, and he kept up this tactics of
eYaoihg tor the whole time he was
teStltying. Judge Griggs did not let
up though, nor get tired. Apparent
~ ne enjoyed putting Mr.. Phillins
INTO mole. AT one time while oues-
uonlng he observed another very
palpable truth, which because if was
SO true was considered humorous
MT. Philips said he, suppose our
friends at the other end of the bench
were determined to make a specific
uuty. You understand we on this
slde have nothing to do with This
thlng except to examine witnesses +"
ana Lnat is the truth, which rec
ognlzing so thoroughly the demo-
Gratis, what few there are of them
are determined to make the most of.
Ihey continue from day to day to
examine witnesses, and to make some
OF them sweat to skillfully evade, for
eVade they always do, until they are
caught in a corner, when knowing
that they are going to be sustained
by Payne, Dalzell & Co. thew inst
answer out boldly and admit practi-
cally that they are merely trying to
get more graft.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
DEFENDS The LOVE PIRATE
METHODIST MINIS
TER'S INTERESTING VIEWS.
Says Question of Affinity Is Vital
Truth of Nature. Is Instructing
His Congregation on Love.


ST. LOUIS, Mo.-"Love pirates
are not always consciously culpable.
They are sometimes peculiarly sub
jected. The question of affinity is
strange and dangerous thing, but
is nevertheless a vital truth of ma
ture. There is such a thing as two
answerable souls responding spon-
taneOusly without effort or will on
either part. When such natures
come together there is danger and
perhaps consequent suffering to in
nOcent parties.
In nine cases out of ten there was
no wilful wrong perpetrated or in
tended by the guilty ones, but only
lack of strength to overcome one
of the most powerful and masterful
forces of the universe-the call 'of
nature to nature"
These convictions were expressed
by the Rev. Philip Cone Fletcher,
pastor of the First Methodist church,
south, in lecture on Vital Lessons
in Love"
DR.. Fletcher is instituting one of
the most original methods ever used
by a minister to instruct the men
and women of his church on love,
cOurtship and marriage. To this end
he has sent out printed cards to his
members, declaring that counting
couples are especially invited and en-
cOuraged to attend To further ia
cilitate their suits he has inaugurated
a social hour" to follow the Wed
nesday night services, at which they
can make time"
On the question of love pirates, !"
or the great problem recently raised
by wives who declare that business
girls usurp their husbands, Dr..
Fletcher declares this danger is.
greater than is realized. He takes
the blame away from the business
girl by declaring that her sisters in
other walks of life would be Just
as dangerous were they as peculiarly
subject to the contagion. The bust
ness woman comes into contact with
her employer in very close way.
She enters his business life, a part
that the other woman does not, and
if the dangerous community Of ma
lures arises there is trouble for all
concerned.
On the question of courtship DR.,
Fletcher names three things which as
an ardent lover he would not do. Il
would not visit her too often, not
oftener than six time a week. l
would not stay too long on my even
ing calls, not later than II o'clock.
[ would not propose until I knew by
the flash of her eyes, the flush of
her cheek and the clasp of her
hand.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
WAS HEARD ONE MILE AWAY
NITROGLYCERINE PLACED IN A
STOVE CAUSES DISASTER.
Noise Heard Mile Away and the
-Four Walls and the Interior of
the Building Badly Damaged.

At Bee Branch, Ark, while AS
sistant Postmaster Cargile was at
work in the postofFice, which is To-
Gated in a store, there was terrific
explosion which shook the town and
was heard for a mile. When it
cleared away the stove in the store
was spread over the ceiling, and the
four walls and interior of the build
ing were badly damaged. The ex-
plosion was that of bottle of nitro
glycerine, which had been put into
the stove and forgotten. When a
fire was built the wreck followed.
The nitroglycerine was left in the
postoftice a few nights since by yegg-
men, who blew the office safe and es-
capped with 5000.
Beyond being terribly frightened
Mr.. Cargile sustained no injury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
MIR. TAFT HAS LATE
LY ISSUED A SWEARING
OFF BULLETIN.

WASHINGTON.-Taft may swear
off drinking, but that does not mean
that the white house will be loaded
on the water wagon. That is the
way Washington takes the news from
Hot Springs that Taft is turning
down his wine glasses at dinner.
There has been no teetotaller regime
in the presidents house since Mrs.
Hayes kept wines and liquors off the
table during the administration Of
her husband. That was a serious
affair and the capitol was glad when
it was over.
The diplomats dreaded the Hayes
official dinner and the example had
a subduing effect throughout official
society. 1t was also great for the
jokesmiths Since then there has
been no non-drinking presidents, al
though President Mckinley confined
his "nips" to glasses of whiskey
when he was cold or tired and almost
not any at his meals. Mrs. McKin-
ley in her private home served no
wines, but made no objection to their
being used at the white house.
1t is understood that Taft quit
drinking because even slight uses of
alcohol made him take on flesh. "
Condition Is Not Serious.
'Taft's swearing off is not a seri-
GUS matter so far as the rest of us
are concerned" said a good liver
at the Willard hotel.
OF all the men who have been
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
SOUTH GEORGIA DRoUTH Raj.
Thousands of Cattle on Ranges in
Danger of furnishing.

Va SdbtlG on Ranges in
Danger of furnishing.
A Valdosta special to the Macon
Telegraph says the drouth through
that section of the state is getting
to be quite serious. The streams
are nearly all drying up, the bays
are dry as chip and the cattle are
suffering. There are thousands of
cattle in the larger ranges of south
Georgia that are in danger of fam
lsnlng for want of water, and owners
are having the problem of furnish
ing water supply for these cattle
put up to them. The crops, of course
are not suffering, but the dust ON
the roads and in the towns is very
great. The biggest trouble, however
is with the creeks, water courses and
pays, where the cattle get their wa
ter and where the moisture which
reeds the section is held back. When
the country gets as dry as it is now
II takes whole floods of water to fill
up the basins and preserve the eoui-
ilDrlum, The outlook is that the
winter will be a very wet one. as
rainy winter usually follows such a
great fall drought.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09

the chief complained of feeling i'll
from the motion of the boat. and the
engineer advised him to go to the
stern where it was cooler. A little
later Murphy looked toward the stern
OF the boat and saw the chief leaning
over the side vomiting. When he
looked again the chief had disan-
peared. Murphy reported at the har-
Dor station that the chief had fallen
overheard and was lost. A party
searched all night without result.
Blggy was appointed to his posi-
ton In September, 1907, by Mayor
Taylor.
Since the suicide of Morris Hass.
the assailant of Assistant District At
torney F. j. Heney, there had been
much hard feeling between the chief
OF police and the graft prosecution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
DOG EATING is NOT so BAD
PROF. STARR MAKES A RRIEF
FOR THE PHILIPPINE DISH.
Says Nice White Dog Is Not as In
clean as Swine Meat and
Raw Oysters.

Frederick Starr, Professor of An
thropology at the University of Chi
cago, in a church lecture on the
Philippines said:
In all the islands there is not
tribe that is not capable of self
government. There can be no doubt
in any ones mind as to the Chris
tian tribes, but even to the savages
think the words of the great re-
publican apply: No man is good
enough to rule another man without
that mans consent.
Oh, you say, but they are head
dogs. Why should the idea of eating
hunters and dog eaters They are,
but | never could see why dog
should not make good food They
eat only clean, white young male
a dog give us the shivers, while the
actual consumption of swine does not
turn the stomach of the daintiest
lady?
"Why, do you know that I have
seen people in this country who
would eat raw oysters. l have done
it myself. Think of a person who
eats raw oysters sneering at people
that eats clean cooked dog.
LAS to the head hunting, that is
over now; but when it existed it was
a religious ceremony, and does not
compare unfavorably with some re-
ligious ideas prevalent in the United
States"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
MANY WILL TRY FOR THE CORN PRIZES
l ne $loo OFFERED BY MR.. MERCER FOR THE
BEST YIELDS ON AN ACRE

Inc offer through the last issue of
Inc News by Hon. John R. Mercer
OF 500 in cash prizes for the four
largest yields of corn grown on one
acre OF ground in Terrell county at
Cracted much attention, and we I'M
uerstand that a number of our pro-
gressive farmers will contest for the
prizes. This contest, as can be
readily seen, will be of untold value
to the farming enterests of the coun-
ty IN educating the farmers by prac-
tlcal tests in the best methods of
planting and cultivating corn.
For the benefit of any who may
not have seen Mr. MERGERS offer
when 1T was printed before, and may
be interested in it, we reproduce it
below:
To the Farmers of Terrell Coun-
ty: l will give cash prizes for yields
of corn on one acre (seventy yards
square, as follows:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
NO WATER WAGON FOR WHITE HOUSE

mentioned for the Taft cabinet not
one is total abstainer.
Senator Bailey of Texas does not
smoke, drink, chew or swear, but adj
mits that his example probably had
no influence upon Judge Taft.
Senator Cullom said he would
rather have good pumpkin pie at din
ner than champagne, but he did not
hope to have the white house put pie
on the menu for the diplomatic din
neTs.
Cha.s p. Taft said it was not a
family trait, and he did not under
stand that the swearing off would af-
feet him
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
NEGRO COMMITS SUICIDE.
He Shot Himself Because His Wife
Had Quit Him.

Had Quit Him.
1t is no unusual thing for a Negro
to kill another man about a woman,
but it is rare for one to kill himself
because his wife quits him. Under
such circumstances, usually, he loses
little time in securing another com
panion to keep house for him.
Evidently George Davis was a pc
culiar negro, for one day last week
he shot himself with pistol because
his wife refused to live with him.
George lived on the place of Mr..
Fl. w. Peavy, three miles from She'll
man. He lived only about half an
hour after putting a bullet into his
side with cheap reyolver. Before
expiring he told Mr.. Peavy he had
shot himself because his wife had
left him, and asked that she be
brought to him This was done, but
George vas too near death to talk
to her.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
The Way to Do Bushes Is to
Do Business and Do 1t Now

Look prosperity. The that looks as 'housn
" doing business the that will do business ne Que ~
s dead depended to be all that II oA
er talk dscouragngly customer Not over Sixty ua aS
W proprietor largest furniture houses IN ONO e
personal lesson him forever prosperous @e
and his had selected furniture amounting $500 me
etor himself be waiting on them @ @
ne pleased the sale was the Hist
some time, business dull and money LEI m
discussion the financial conditions eXSuI5'
d the buyer turning and saying Mary guess
'ad better take these goods today. -, ~
III YOU WANT RESULTS MORE BUSINESS ADVERTISE IN
me DAWSON NEWS
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
JOURNEY OF COTTON
from Time It Leaves Field Until
It 6OeS on Consumers Back.
HAS HALF DOZEN ONNERSHIPS

Frequently Makes a Journey of q 0oo
Miles After 1t Is Picked. United
States Imported From France Last
Year Fourteen Million Dollars,
Worth of Cotton Goods.
The Memphis Commercial-AppeaI
calls attention to the journey that
cotton takes from the time it leaves
the plantation until it goes upon the
back of the consumer in the shane
OF French lingerie. 1t is noted Incl
dentally that during the year 1907
the United States imported from
France twelve million dollars worth
OF cotton goods and two million dol
lars worth of cotton clothing. A
pound of cotton may be grown in the
bend of the Mississippi river not
twelve miles from Memphis, and be-
fore it is transformed into clothing
and sold it makes a journey of eight
thousand miles and passes through
haIf dozen ownerships, the story
OF which is told by the Commercial
Appeal as follows:
After the planter picks the cot
ton he sends it to Memphis. At
Memphis it may be bought for shin
ment direct to France, or it may 60
to France via England. Or the
Frenchman may buy the cotton
through an English firm and order
III shipped direct. In France it goes
TO a spinner, and from him it goes
to the dealer in raw cloth Then the
wholesale dry goods man gets it. and
from him the wholesale dress maker
buys it. A New York importing
house buys from the Paris dress
maker, or possibly the Memphis mer-
chant buys direct, and back to within
cannon shot of its birthplace comes
the cotton for consumption. The
cotton rags which the dress will de-
cline into may take a second trim
abroad and come back to us in the
shape of imported paper"
This is all true enough, and there
is a lesson in it, says the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun. It is that the south
should be equipped with such facili-
ties as are needed to manufacture all
the things into which cotton enters.
To do so would make the south the
richest section of country in the
world. 1t should not be necessary
for the people Of the south to pay the
freight upon raw cotton to France
and then pay freight on the manu-
featured cotton goods back to this
country These goods should be
manufactured in the south Every
condition favorable to such manu-
facture is here and capitalists are
losing fire opportunities to increase
their wee tn by not establishing fine
fabric mills here-right in the cot
ton fields.
In the south there is abundant wa
ter power for turning the machinery
of the factories, and should a resort
to steam be necessary at any point
coal is readily obtainable for this
purpose. The cotton may be trans
ferred from the field to the factory,
and every condition is most favora-
BILE
1t is true that "the law of barter
makes it necessary that there shall
be a circulation of commerce from
one nation to another" and yet it
appears that the south should pro
duce at least enough of such fabrics
as would supply the home demand,
allowing the expectation of such
quantities Of raw cotton as foreign
countries may need for their own
people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
FIELDER DEFEATED LANE.
Americas Has Had Very Warm
Municipal Election.

]. B. Fielder for mayor was the re-
suit Thursday of one of the most
hotly contested municipal elections
Americas has ever seen.
Mr.. Felder defeated w. 7. Lane,
a prominent attorney by SO votes,
he receiving $50 votes to Lanes 254,
]. e. Poole, c. J. Clark and c. c..
Hawkins were elected aldermen, and
r. n. Hawkes. city clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
Engine and Boilers.
DROWNING OF 'FRIsCo's CHIEF
He Had Been Criticised Since Hass'
Suicide.

He Had Been Criticised Since Hass'
Suicide.
William j. Buggy, chief of police
of this city, was drowned in the bay
last night, says a San Francisco dis
patch. His body has not been re-
covered.
He was returning to the city from
Belvidere in the police launch Patrol,
and when the boat arrived it was
discovered that he was missing. En-
gineer William Murphy, the only 9TH
er occupant of the boat, says Buggy
crossed the bay in the launch to Bel
videre, where he went to the home Of
Police Commissioner Kiel and spent
some time in conference with the
commissioner.
After the return trip was started
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
TAYLOR HELD UNDER ROND
The Man Who Shot the Milford
Minister.

The preliminary trial of E. f. Tay-
Tor for the shooting of Rev. e. Nor
rls' the Methodist preacher at Mil
ford, was held in Newton before
Justice o. the Peace Adams, who.
after hearing the evidence, bound
Taylor over to the superior court un-
der a one thousand dollar bond for
MS appearance at the next term or
Baker superior court to answer the
charge of assault with intent to muir
der Taylor alleged that Morris at
tempted to assault his wife.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
ACTORS sHUCKING CORN.

Their Floating Theater Is Stranded
on a Sand Bar.
While their floating theater is
stranded on a sand bar in the Wa
bash river near Jimtown, the mem
bers Of the theatrical company on
board the showboat Lone Star have
temporarily left the stage and are
at work helping shuck the big corn
crop in the Wabash bottoms near
Jimtown.
When there is enough rainfall to
make the river navigable the strand
ed Thespians will again take to their
old occupation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-12-09
Lost: Seven Million children.

The birth rate in the United
States in the days of its Anglo-Saxon
youth was one of the highest in the
world In the course of a century
the proportion of our entire popula-
tion consisting of children under the
age of 10 has fallen from one-third
to one-quarter This for the whole
United otaes is equivalent to the loss
of about $7000,000 children.