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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
John w. Daniel Reelected.

Richmond, Va, January 25.-John W. Daniel of Lynchburg was today formally for the fifth time reelected by the gem eral assembly of Virginia to the United States Senate. The vote of the republic an minority was given to Congressman Slemp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
Death of Robert chappeII.

Robert Chappell. an old and respected citizen of Pratt City, died this afternoon at the residence of J. F. Benson on Booth street
 Mr Chappell has resided in Pratt City for the past IS years and was na- tive of England. The interment will take place today at l o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
At the sijou.

A stunning woman, handsomely sowned in a series of eight costumes, all rom Paris, heads the big production of "Wine' Woman and Song," at the Bi1ou this week. Bonita is a great favorite every where and the Bijou here promises to re- peat the Bijou experiences everywnere else-crowded houses. There is mati- nee Thursday and Saturday and perform ances nightly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
Enslev Land Company.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ensley Land compahy for the elec- ton of directors and the transaction of such other business as may come before 1t will be held at the office of the com pany in Ensley, Ala. on Tuesday. the 1st day of February, 1910, at F o'clock noon.
 l.. T. BEECHER, Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
JuDcE OF CITY CoURT.

hereby announce myself as candi- date for reelection as one of the judges of the city court of Birmingham, subject to the action of the democratic primary on May 2 1910. c. w. FERGUSON. } I am a candidate for judge of the city court of Birmingham, subject to the ac- ton of the democratic primary to be held on the 2d day of April. 1910.
 JOHN T. GLOVER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26

FOR SALE-One almost new, five-foot golden oak roll top desk and chair. Apply U- 96. care AgeHerald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Fvo SHERIFF.

MADORY-I hereby announce as a can- didate for sheriff of Jefferson county, sub ject to the action of the democratic pri- mary May 9, 1910.
 1-1S-tf WALTER K MADORY.
 The Age-Herald is authorized to an- nounce Judge Samuel Weaver as candi- date for Sheriff of Jefferson county. sub- ject to action of democratic primary.
 hereby announce myself candidate for sheriff of Jefferson county, subject to democratic primary to be held on May ?. S. F. TEAGUE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
The Argus Daily Short Story
A Long Romance-By Richard G. White.
Copyrighted. 1870 by Associated Literary Press

themselves at the end or the little
strait. where they were tossed on the
waves.
Then came a test of endurance. War
rington was strong and a good swim
mer. but by 'this time the girl was
clutching him so as to impede his eff
forts. At that hour few were on the
beach and none within call. Warning
toms efforts were having less and less
effect, and he was about TO give up
hope both for himself and his burden
when he heard the sound Of oars. Max
ing an effort, he got his head as far as
possible above the surface and shouted:
Help
The sound of oars ceased, then re-
commenced with a quicker stroke, and
in less than minute the dark body Of
a boat appeared on the crest of wave
above the drown ug couple. Then a
hand was extended. and Warrington
put out his own hand and grasped the
glnwale 4. the boat. Between the new
conner am Warrington the drowning
girl was into the boat. Then War
rington W helped in by the boatman.
While ! Warrington was passing
in memory over the scene that had oc-
Cured me than thirty years before a
woman v lose white hair contraSted
with her comparatively young face
came up aud stood with her hands on
the piazza rail. looking out upon the
simmer that was beginning to extend
itself from the rising moon. She turned
and was about TO go away when she
noticed the man sitting near her. There
was something in his appearance, his
Wrapt attitude, to tell her that be, like
herself, possessed the gift of apprecia-
ton of the beautiful. She felt i'm
PEELED to address him
Isn't it charming?'' she exclaimed,
half to him.
"Say, rather. infinitely grand" he re-
piled, rising and uncOvering.
eve women are apt to see the beau
tiful, you men the grand" she contin-
ued. "a child once said. God is a
beautiful painter While the state
ment places the lesser above the great
er, it is still a beautifully expressed
thought"
"Indeed 1t is. But the most absorb
ing effect Of this scene to me is not
that 1t is a picture. but a combination
OF infinite material forms. It is the
wonder in IL that fmpresses me-"
The lady having assumed the privi-
lege Of her sex 70 first address the
man, he assumed tbe privilege Of pro-
ceeding further by asking her to be
seated.
'eThIs is the first time in years." she
said, that l have been to the sea-
shore. love it, yet fear it. 1t is to
me like the serpent that charms the
bird to destroy it. Fancy this tranquil
scene transformed by a tempest. There
is nothing in nature that is to me so
miraculous as those waves. See that
ieviathan out there rolling in. True,
bis name is gilded by the moon. but
his body is black. There is a terror in
his very silence. There. 1t breaks,
How it pounds the beach!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Reforming Congress.

CONGRESSMAN Victor Murdoch OF
Kansas furnishes to the New York
Times a statement of the demands OF
the insurgents so far as the pro-
ceedings of the house of representa-
tives are concerned Various changes
of the rules, some of which the demo
Gratis and insurgents have already
forced, are enumerated, the result OF
which is and will be to give the min
ority-meaning the minority of the
majority party as well as the political
minority-a little more chance to In
f1uence legislation. But the most es-
sential feature set forth by Mr.. Muir
dock is that the speaker shall not have
power to appoint the committees. One
candidate or another is supported by
members according to the most ad-
vantageous dicker they can make for
chairmanships.
The successful candidate rewards
his friends with the most desirable po'
sitions. He Furnishes his enemies by
obscurity. He has nominated all leg
islation. because he was a part of the
committee on rules, and he selected
the other members. This has been
changed. 1t has hitherto been neces-
sary for a member to get the speak
er's permission to call up bill or to
make a motion. This has also been
changed in part. Mr.. Reed thanked
God that the house of representatives
was no longer deliberative body. and
under Mr.. Cannon it had ceased to be
a representative body.
Cannon may be beaten, but, as Mr..
Murdoch says, Cannonlsm can only be
prevented by further amendments OF
the rules
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

An elderly gentleman sat on the
broad piazza of a summer hotel over
looking the ocean. Beneath him the
waves were curling in on the beach,
casting line of foam over the smooth
sand, and receding with an effervesc-
ing sound. There may be people who
can sit and watch this incessant roll
ing in and recession of waves with a
stolid Indifference. Not so George
Warrington. whose Spiritual part was
made of finer stuff than that of the
average man or woman. To him the
pillows told stories of infinity. More
than that, they brought him memories.
There was a tinge of sadness in it all,
for he was alone in the world, without
wife or child.
The waves were recalling to him
picture of his youth. + had seen 1t
from a hotel window. The hour was
between daylight and dark. Far, out
on the horizon full moon was rising,
a belt of cloud across it's center. Near
er black hulk was rising and falling
monotonously. Nearer still lay a point
of rocks At low tide it was little
DChlUSuld, Ut ldlI llNiC an 4oioAd I'LL
bracing q few square yards, at full
tide submerged. On its face, looking
out upon and absorbed in the beauti-
full scene, sat a girl. Since she had
gone there the sand behind her had
been covered by the rising waters, and
she was unconscious that her retreat
over dry land had been cut off.
Quick thought shot through the brain
of the young man looking out of the
window. The tide his fancy transfig-
ured to a savage in the wilderness
with raised tomahawk stealing on his
prey. Again it was a serpent enctr-
cling the girl and drawing its coils
closer and closer about her. 1t was
really an inanimate ocean uncon-
sciously surrounding a girl unmindful
Of all save the beautiful scene before
her.
In that region the tide runs with
great rapidity. Warrenton knew this
and, rushing down several flights OF
stairs, dashed over the sand toward
the girl. AS he ran he looked to see II
a boat were lying anywhere near on
the beach. None was in sight. Reach
ing the strip Of water closing In behind
the rock, he plunged In and swan
across.
The girls reterie was broken by look
ing up and seeing a dripping figure be-
side her.
Come, quicki You're cut off by the
tide"
Turning, she saw the swirling waters
behind her. Her face lost its color, for
she would be helpless in that quick
current She stood paralyzed.
Come" repeated Warrington. But
he did not wait for her to move. Seiz-
ing her hand, he drew her. supporting
her at the same time. to the margin Of
the torrent. She shrank back. Forci-
bly, dragging her into it. encirchng her
with one arm, he swan with the other
The distance across the current was
not long. but it ran so swiftly that the
two were. carried along till they found
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Watch and WORK.

According to the statements con-
tanned in an interview appearing In The
Argus with an active member of the
Law and Order league, the work which
has begun looking to the moral cleans
ing of Rock Island is to be of perma-
nent nature. 1t is not to prove merely
a flash in the pan, to blow over when
public sentiment has subsidized. In a
word. the Law and Order league, hav'
ing been formed for definite purpose,
is to make its work thorough and last
ing. And, Furthermore, the league has
the sinews of war with which to fight,
and will continue to have the essential
where-with-all.
This is good news. The trouble has
too often occurred that where a cru
SADIE is inaugurated it dies a-bornin', to
apply a homely expression. The way
the lawless and their representatives
only can expect to win is by firing out
the opposition. Eternal vigilance is
the price of every form of success. The
lawless have been schooled in this idea.
The gamblers have been taught it.
Gust watt is what is preached to
them by those who are in league with
them. Be persistent, that is the doc
trine they go on, with the consequence
that while the unwary are asleep the
lawless are up and doing business.
They stop at nothing The grand
jury indictments will go a long way
toward accomplishing the ends so
much to be sought.
1t is only necessary now for the Law
and Order league to stick to its task
to watch and work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Die Late, But Not Often.

It appears that many persons die too
early. not in the sense which Shake
speare put into the words of Caesar
in that they were towards, but it
seems a fact that a lot of us get off
the earth much earlier than is neces-
sary. For this information the public
is indebted to Professor Irving Fisher
of Yale, who prepared a paper on the
subject for the International Associa-
ton of Accident Underwriters. taking
into consideration data furnished by
all the life insurance companies.
1t seems that each year there are
$4,000 unnecessary deaths. This is a
large number. It is almost 1000 per
day. and one hates to think there is
such an unnecessary shuffling off OF
this mortal coil by people who might
live. Most of US do not value life
by figures, but we are assured that
this causes a loss Of $1,000, 100000 a
year from productive industry. This
is certainly a huge figure. II the
people who die unnecessarily would
live a year and give their gross profits
to the government, we should be able
to pay Off the bonded indebtedness oil
the country in twelvemonth.
But worse remains behind. Unnec
essary sickness causes about 100000.
900 expense and as much more could
be avoided by those who are sick be
cause they cannot help it. On the
whole, 1t seems that we are two
billion country on the wrong side oil
the health ledger. We are paying doc
tors and undertakers and dentists and
a lot of others who ought to be idle
jwhiIa- !. Q0e. 900 people should be walk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
ing around just to save funeral expen

ing around just to save funeral expen-
ses.
Such statistics as these, however, are
more fantastic than impressive. They
can be produced at any time. If human
beings lived like clockwork and accord
ing to the best known laws Of hygiene,
doubtless a lot of money and pain
would be saved, but would be about as
interesting as it is to a mule. 1t is the
variety of life, the liberty to choose
ones own career, the freedom which
comes from consciousness which gives
zest to life. OF course, many persons
make a bad use of the opportunities
which are offered them, but civilization
doubtless is better off now or, at least
more agreeable than if all lived like
automatons,
It is appointed all men once to die,
although as Shakespeare says, all
men think all men mortal but them
selves. AS a fact, we live happier
lives because we think so little OF
death. Those who think of it die often
in their fear of dissolution. If we tried
to live according to a formula we
might survive longer and be much dis
liked. Life is what We make it; we get
out of it just what we put into it and 1t
matters not in the long run whether we
are called early or late, so long as we
do the best that is in us while we are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
The Event.

BY every sign and token. ..
BY every working law.
BY warm and friendly greetingD
From men you never saw.
BY chaps who pour molasses
And honey in your ear.
You know that an election
Will very soon be here.
The true. the wise and noble,
The grand. the pure and great
Are running after Office.
You get IL from them straight
You wouldn't have believed II
Had Il not come first hand
That there was so much merit
In all the blooming land.
Some men you wouldn't fancy
Or cling 20 as a fad
Are running for positions
Just like a run Of shad.
Had you the names been picking
To grace the party slate
You'd let them know how noble
And fine It was 20 walt.
But here they come in punches,
The lean. the fat, the tall.
For something paying money
They thought they heard a can
In Iegions and battalions
They come from near and far
To offer you a friendly
But very fSnk cigar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

For the promptness with which
States Attorney Magill and Assist
ant States Attorney Schriver have
put the case of the Law and Order
league through the grand jury, they
are being commended on every side,
If the officers of the law are on the
side of the law there can be no such
thing as fail. If they are on the
side opposed to law the law becomes
a farce instead of a force.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
DENIES PRIMARY RECOUNT

Bloomington Judge Declares New
Law Makes No Provisions.
Bloomington, H., Oct Judge c..
D. Myers yesterday handed down a
decision denying the petition of Seth
Noble for a recount of the vote for
candidates for the legislature in the
recent republican primaries in this
district, holding that the new law fails
to provide for such a contest. A SINH
lar decision will be handed down in
the Kankakee district, where contest
has been filed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
champlaln stoekea With Salmon.

champiain Stocked With Salmon.
An effort is being made to stock
Lake Champlain with Pacific coast
tsalnon. 10000 young fish having al
ready been put out. Anglers claim
that these fish are going to furrish
most of the sport in the future and
that they Gill grow rapidly in eaStagn
lo;-pS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Hoarseness in a child subject

Hoarseness in a child subject u
Group is a sure indication Of the ap
proach of the disease. II Chamber
lein's Cough Remedy is given 40
once or even after the croupy cough
has appeared it will prevent the at
tack. Contains no poison. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

The machine republicans of New
York who are high-class federal Office
holders are mostly lined up for Mr.
Roosevelt as delegates to the conven,
ton, and civil service traditions have
been thrown to the winds. The colonel
is, of course, civil service reformer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

1t is in time of sudden mishap or
accident that Chamberlain Lini-
ment can be relied upon to take the
place of the family doctor, who can
not always be found at the moment.
Then it is that Chamberlain Lini-
ment is never found wanting. In
cases Of sprains, cuts, wounds and
bruises Chamberlain Liniment
takes out the soreness and drives
away the pain. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Oct. / in American
History

17S1-Captf.iE' ".-se- i..t"rvncc. naval
hero. born: died of wounds, 1918.
on the Chesapeake.
1799-Rufus Choate. noted New Eng
land lawyer and orator. born; died
1859.
1S9S-First joint conference of the
American and Spanish peace COM
missioners at Paris.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Harmon is starting his campaign
in Ohio on the extravaganza of gov
eminent, the tariff Of denominations,
and graft in his home state, protect
ed by the republican legislature. How
will the standpatters meet him on any
of these issues.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Republican politicians soon lose all
interest in politics if patronage van
fishes All the pretext Of patriotism is
based on "the old flag and an appropri-
alton" or the equivalent of a good, fat
ONCE with little or no work. Member
ship in republican clubs is but hoped
for stepping-stone to Office holding.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
It's the Worlds Best.

No one has ever made a salve,
ointment or balm to compare with
Bucklens Arnica Salve. It's the
one perfect healer of cuts, corns
burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils,
ulcers, eczema, salt rheum. For sore
eyes, cold sores, chapped hands, or
sprains. it's supreme. Infallible for
piles. Only rs cents at all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

A board of army engineers is to dis
cuss Missouri river improvements a
Omaha. When the jury has reached
its verdict the Missouri likely as mo-
will wash it off the docket
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Then.
when a woman Is happy

al wonder when a WOMAN Is happy
anyway"
do your
81 can tell you"
"When?"
when she can make some man be
ueve that she is perfectly miserable"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

A New York druggist thinks rattle
snake poison is a cure for consump'
ton. Consumption is also a cure for
rattlesnake poison. But who gets the
first bite?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Jim Tawney, the standpatter Mime
sofa congressman, has met his fate al
the hands of an unknown young lawyer
with insurgent proclivities, who, in
turn, will be beaten by a democrat
Buck of Winona.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Swnet Rauanoa.

'T am just dying to get even With
Brown"
"Why don't you"
"Don't know how"
"Can he singT
"Not bit"
"Then get him to take vocal les
sons"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
What Made Him ouitf

do you think Shakespeare didnt
write those plays?"
"Of course not. A simple rustic like
him could never have penned such
sublime and lofty sentiments"
well, If he didn't there IS one thing
I can't understand. Why didn't the
fellow who did write them tear or a
few after Shakespeare's deathT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

The Quincy Herald says Brookins
has demonstrated one way Of getting
out of Chicago that a whole lot OF
people would like TO be able to adopt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Reno, too, has driven out the gam
blers and according to press dis
patches they are headed east. They
cannot light in Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

If P. T. Barnum we're alive there
would be no more asking what we
should do with our ex-presidents.
He would have them for press
agents, and they would earn their
money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Quite a number of republic

Quite q number or republican Tame
ducks" standpatters - gathered In
Washington while the president was
there. What a flock of them there will
be after election, and what a job it will
be for President Tart to mend all their
broken political bones!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Hard on Women.

'T don't see how a woman ever hears
any gossip"
Why"
Because she talks all the time and
never listens"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Saturday, October /, 1910.

The action OF the Rock Island
county grand jury will go a long
way toward cleaning up the local
situation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Nothing to IL.

"He is honest with himself"
"There's only one reason, though"
"What is thatT'
HE can't figure out how he would
win by cheating himself"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

The c., B. & @. railroads operating
revenues show an increase of $9,250,-
goo this year over last year-added
proof that higher rates are not needed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Just as Easy.

In passing through this vale Of tears
Those with a level head
Will take brace and make the place
A vale Of smiles instead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

gallery O pictures broad and long
nothing
Some Of them heavy price. and others had Free
fair they
bold that shoudeng the skies,
white
blue like flung between
Another that ~vanders hills.
gentle whisper fills
The air when gazing its shadow and its shine
ectotag the overhargfng branch and
a street-n
it'll A welcome,
path
halfost the beneath the
soaked bossounscent that
neither
has nc nO
ut m gold.
the pCtures-en these memories of
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
Still a Mixer.

"Water and oil won't mix"
THAT may be, but 1 know another
thing about OIL"
"What is it,"
sit mixes up with money q good
deal"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01
HumOr and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
By DVNcAW m. .SHFITH

Pc civil to your mother-in-law. She
is a convenient person to have
round when the rent falls due and
your purse is Fat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

The car that never comes is the one
that you are waiting for in the cold
rain at 10 o'clock at night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Every family has a skeleton In ita
closet, but some are not content 20
leave it there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Never despair. If the sun doesn't
shine the rainfall will make garden
sass grow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

When a girl tells her chum a secret
she gets awfully mad If the chum
doesn't break her word and give the
secret away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Most boys get their religion from
their mother and their cussedness from
their father.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

If everybody minded his own bust
ness what a dull world it would bel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

Findin's is keepin's, as the small boy,
discovers when he runs into the mea-
sles.