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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
TO NAME TAG SELLERS
Final Arrangements to BE Made at
Tonight's Meeting at Harper.

At tonights meeting AT the New
Harper Of the Associated Charities
and Kings Daughters. The names "i
the ladies who will sell tags SaturGs g
viii be announced The city is to he
districted, and each division will be in
charge Of a chairman and as many ss.
sistants as will be needed 10 properly
look after the work All citizens in
terested i'm charity work are invited
to he present at tonight's meeting,
which is to be called promptly al 3
O'Clock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
HOW TO SPEND
DECORATION DAY

Take the steamer Helen Blair Mon
day at $3.50 p. m, arrive in Burlington,
Decoration day at 9:15 a. m, all day
in Burlington, home Wednesday
morning at 1890 a. m. Round trip
81 90 including meals and berth. Tel.
1SS and reserve berth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

on complaint of Peter Fleming. detec.
tive of the Rock Island road, charged
with trespass. His hearing was con
tinued till May 81 at o'clock. Coils,
is alleged, though not in the employ OF
the Rock Gsland, has used the sleep
ing quarters of the sections hands FOR
some time, and has refused to vacate
when ordered to do so.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

Arrested for Trespass.
Theo Coils was arrested YESTERDAY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
YEARS CLOSING SESSION
Social Service Club to Meet Tonight
at Association House.

The Tri-City Social Service club
VIII meet this evening at the Associa-
ton house. on Seventeenth street, for
the closing session of the year. The
program will follow supper. served by
the ladies OF the Associated Charities.
Judge Olmsted viii speake on the ju-
veuile court WORK. The nominating
committee viii report. and the officers
viii be elected for the coming year.
Reports are TO be given by members
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
Kerler Rug company, cleaners.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For express. call Spencer & Trefz.
Vacuum carpet cleaning; west 1117.
Wall paper, the best for the money,
at L. S. McCabe & Co.
Let William Johnson do your tin and
furnace work; 1916 Third avenue.
H T. siemon wants your tin and
furnace work; 1526-152s Fourth ave
nue..
Loans on real estate security. AL
bert Huber, Peoples National bank
building.
The ladies Of the Central Presbyter-
ian church will serve supper at the
chapel, Eleventh avenue and Twelfth
street. Thursday evening. from $50 TO
S p. m.
Moonlight excursion on steamer ".
W. and barge Friday evening, May
26. Leave Rock Island p. m. Gents
so cents, ladies % cents.
The ladies of the Central Presbyter-
ian church will serve supper at the
chapel. Eleventh avenue and Twelfth
street, Thursday evening, from $50 to
s p. m.
The Ladies' auxiliary of Rock Is
land Eagles will give a bazaar at the
Eagles home commencing Thursday,
May 25, and continuing Friday and
Saturday, afternoon and evening
Admission free. refreshments Is
cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

or graduation gift as
they are always to be
desired. We have been
fortunate in securing
some very fine stones
and it will pay you to
call and see them. Be
low we quote a few
prices:
Acarat diamond, perfect cut,
blue white stone. COZ M
h-carat diamond, perfect cut
b blue :Ds whi st stone, $1,000
Other pieces accordingly,
large assortments in all weights.
Don't fail to see these.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25
TO ADDRESS CONVENTIONS.
Street Walkers Fined,

Four street walkers were arreste1
during the night by Captain jane
Reynolds and Officer Sidney Pearson.
The women, Helen German. Grace Al
len, Hazel Smit and Cora Newman,
plead guilty to disorderly conduct and
each was fined S. and costs.
W. j. Burke was fined S. and costs
this morning for disorderly conduct
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-25

from the three cities, appointed at the
April meeting, as to conditions in pub
lie amusement places. Rev. T. z.
Newland has been invited to make a
statement as to the social service part
Of the work Of the men and religion
movement
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

wrote to Mrs. Plnkham for ADVICE. In
a short time l had gained my average
weight and am now strong and well"
Mrs. SALLIE STEVENS, r.. Il. d., No.
3, Box 81, Waurika, Okla.
Another Grateful Woman.
Huntington, Mass.-"I was in ner-
vous, run down condition and for three
years could find no help.
Il owe my present good health to
Lydia z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Blood Purifier which be-
ieve saved my life.
M doctor knows what helped mo
and does not say one word against IT.
Mrs. MARI JEANETTE BATES, Box
1874, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia X. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound a trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
Illumination, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing down
feeling, and nervous prostration-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
GOV. WILSON'S MISTAKE.

Governor Wilson of New Jersey
thought he was entitled to pension
under the rules of the Carnegie foun-
dation. SO after he gave up the pres
idency of the university to take the
position of governor of New Jersey he
s-slSed to be pensioned. He was how
ever, mistaken in this view The pen
sions are not awarded automatically
in accordance with length of service.
The trustees of the fund exercise their
discretion in granting or withholding
pensions and the request of Governor
Wilson was refused
In reference to his application for a
pension Governor Wilson has made
this explanation: "A man who goes
into politics bound by the principles
of honor puts his family and all who
may be dependent upon him for sup
port at the mercy of any incalculable
turn of the wheel of fortune, and /
felt entirely justified in seeking to
provide against such risks"
However honest and deserving Gov
ernor Wilson may be, his political en-
emies will not neglect an opportunity
to work this attempt and failure
against his becoming a nominee for
president and none are likely to make
more of it than the democrats who
do not want to see him made the
leader of their party in 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
WEATHER PROPHETS.

The people of Connecticut appear
today to have more faith in Horace
Johnsons weather predictions than in
Chief Willis L. Moore's, although the
latter has all the government machin-
cry back of hin-for Uncle Horace
struck it right against all competi-
tors when Taft was inaugurated.
The chief weather man of the ma
ton surprises us by claiming that
81 per cent. of the predictions are
right; but no one will believe it. The
prophet is never thanked for fair
weather. but he is Unexpectedly cursed
every time he goes wrong.
The weather bureau is maintained
upon the supposition that It is right.
1t knows more than any private OBJ
server could ever know just where the
winds are blowing most vigorously,
the rains falling and the sleet and
knows all these and the directions they
are taking. But where the weather
bureau makes mistakes is in guessing
wrong as to speed and carrying power
of storms and aerial upheavads. In
other words, it can measure what a
storm does, but not always what a
storm is going to do. If a slip is made,
then the weather bureau hasn't justi-
fed its existence.
Chief Moore can look with disdain
upon an unbelieving public and shake
his own hand in a congratulatory way
over his proud record
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
WARNING AGAINST OPIUM.

mere IS an opium war on in Califor-
MA as we'll as in China and that state
Is determined that the use of this
drug shall be suueIched.
Statistics given out from San
Francisco show that so per cent. of the
habitual criminals of that state and
40 per cent of the insane are what
is commonly known as dope fiends. .
OF are addicted TO the use of opium.
II would be interesting to know how
these percentages run in other states.
The crusade has begun TO show sat
lsfactory results. That state through
its state board Of pharmacy, is attack
ing the evil on the side of the traffic
in opium, morphine and cocaine. and
thus far has brought to conviction in
san Francisco alone ] 30 persons and
is prosecuting its work vigorously In
Its net u has caught druggists. drug
pedSlers. physicians and, of course.
many Chinese
These three evils ought 10 be fought
IN every state in the union persistently
and the traffic in these drugs be put
under the strictest control
China from which the drug and
the habit were brought to this coun-
Try. is, itself. making effective head
way in a similar national crusade.
china, under the spell of American
influence, largely. awoke several wears
ago to the deadly destruction this evil
wrought among its own people and to
the realization that If China ever came
INTO possession of its natural powers
IL would have TO shake off this leech
OF vice first. We certainly must wish
nina every success in It's crusade.
r-t We cannot afford TO be outdone by
nina.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
HE'LL NOT BUY

make the purchase. Then he takes
his family into his car and makes
triumphant getaway, but before he has
gore a block a thingumbob breaks un-
derneath, or his gasoline tank explodes,
or a tire willis and he has to charter
a span of mouse-colored mules to haul
his junk heap to the foundry FOR re-
pairs The next time he runs oyer a
COW, and it turns out that the animal
is a pedigreed creature that took the
gold medal at the worlds fair in 1898,
and he has to cough up 800 bones or
be defendant lawsuit
Mrs. Hathaway took me for a little
drive in her surrey this afternoon.
and she says they want to sell their
horse and vehicle. as they are moving
away. It's beautiful horse, so gentle
child can drive il, and the surrey
was new last spring"
There you go againi You're never
willing to leave pleasant taste IN
my mouth. L thought you had re-
you made your remark about the au-
tomobiIe, but it was merely because
you have become a horse fan The
next time ] see Jane Hathaway III
accuse her of conduct unbecOming an
officer and gentleman in putting such
an idea into your head.
That horse of Hathaway's is the
same one that Paul Revere rode at the
outbreak Of the revolutionary war
It's so old that it ought TO be wearing
slippers and eating Cruel. Half a doz-
en- times / have been called upon to go
over TO Hathaway's and help lift that
dotard nag to its feet. But even II
il was young and full of ginger /
wouldn't have it around, for a horse
will eat man out of house and home
quicker than d procession of poor rela-
tions.
Come out of it, Mrs. Jamesworthy.
Try TO remember that we are poor but
respectable. Let US 1deavor 10 put
some kaie into the bank instead of
throwing it al the kingfshers. Chi
cago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
WOULD HAVE coNFEDERATES
PENSIONED.

The Daughters of the Confederacy
are feeling quite elated because Mrs.
"Stonewalf' Jackson has added her
name to their petition to congress to
have the eX-confederates pensioned by
the government upon the plea that
since they are taxed to help pay pen
sions they should share in the benefits.
1t is rather a novel sight to see
those who would have destroyed the
government asking it to let its old
foes share in the rewards for good cit
izenship and patriotic service, and to
be doing it with all the sincerity of
persons who are engaged in advance
ing a good and rational cause
A democratic contemporary, refer
ring to this matter. says:
Nationally We have not reached
that yet. Perhaps We never shall
But the very fact that such a prop
osition can be received calmly and dis
cussed nationally shows how vanished
into the misty past are the rancors of
the old strife
The petition might be endorsed;
NO hope" and returned.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
PEOPLE ARE LIVING
TOO FAST, SAYS TAFT.
Given Rousing Reception by Young
Republicans of New York.

New York. Dec 20.-President Taft
left New York at midnight for Wash
York declaring in the last of several
addresses which he made here that one
OF the chief faults of our a0o is that
people are living too fast.
The presidents last speech was be-
fore 400 members and guests of the
New York Young Republican club at
dinner given in honor of the chief eX-
ecutive. He appeared at the dinner at
a late hour just Senator Borah Of
Idaho was scheduled to speak. Nocifer
Gus cheering and a toast to his health
marked the presidents entry. With
language which the president after
ward described as having great force,
imagery and poetry, Senator Borah
flaYed '1awlesS big business When
the speech was ended the president
modestly compared his 'prosaic" re-
marks to the force with which the
previous speaker had stirred sense of
patriotism, love of right and faith in
institutions.
The president agreed that the coun-
try had defects and that it was the
business of the people to overcome
them. THE chief of it's defects" he
said, lis the loss somewhat of Il at
respect for law which we inherited
from across the sea. We have strug-
sled with conditions and in prosperity
have met harder tests than the Purf-
tan met. 1t is true we do not hold the
law as sacred we should. L don't
t4ilIlB we lolu any IillIlB quite DIS SdCISu
as we should"
The president cited the tendency of
the age toward faster living and pleas
ure, and from this he turned to the
necessity of improvement of criminal
procedure. Whatever the machinery
is it does not have the backing of
public opinion" he said. so long as
we have headlines that make heroes
of murderers, We are not going to have
the Improvement we need"
L am a profound believer in party"
he said. Nothing has come in the way
of real Improvement in the history of
our country that cannot be placed to
party organization. AS 1 look into
your faces 1 still have hope for the
redemption of the republican party
We have a curious condition in
Washington which, 1 hope, will work
itself out in such a manner that when
the national issues come up next No
vember things will have shaped them
selves so clearly that everyone will
know the principle which he can sup
port
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
OPPRESSIVE POSTAL RATES.

This is what the New York Tribune
C1lls our present parcel schedule for
rates to foreign countries: and as the
department has made a surplus of
s2I2, o09 perhaps it may find it con-
venient To let up a little.
The Tribune says on this subject:
The activities of the Christmas sea-
son have once more brought into un-
pleasant relief the deficiencies and I'M
just Determinations of the govern
msnt's parcels post service. Hundreds
of thousands of Christmas givers who
wish TO send packages to a distance
turn 10 the postoff1ce TO escape the
eXsctiOns of the express companies.
But unless they want to despatch par
cells to Europe, Asia, Africa or South
america, instead of to some less re-
mote points of delivery within the
borders Of the union. they are met with
an exorbitant rate and an unrea soma
BILE limitation on the weight of the
package. Not only does the United
states charge it's own citizens much
more for a natural governmental sery-
ice than foreign governments charge
theirs, but il makes concessions in
carrying mail to and from foreign
countries which it denies to persons
using the postal service within its
own boundaries.
The postal authorities will carry to
or from a foreign country packages
weighing as much as eleven pounds.
But the American who sends a Christ
mas present from one state to another
or from one town to another is con-
frOnted with a four-pound weight linn
it, Moreover. he finds that he is re-
quired TO pay Is cents a. pound for the
transportation OF a package which may
travel few miles or a few blocks.
while the government is willing to
provide for the carrying OF an eleven
pound package all the way from San
Francisco TO st. Petersburg for II
cents a pound The illogical quality
of such an arrangement is enough to
cause peevishness and irritation, even
in the midst of the season of universal
good cheer.
The domestic charge of 16 cents
a pound for parcels is the highest in
the world In Germany. Austria Italy
and the United Kingdom domestic
four-pound packages are carried for
a total charge OF u cents France
charges IL cents. Belgium charges 10.
Japan and Switzerland 5. Mexico
charges "a and Russia from 90 to
A. 1t is left to the United States
TO exact 81 cents-more than five
times as much as is held to be reason
able by the postal authorities of other
leading nations. The Christmas mail
users have a right to feel that thew
are being made sport of by ahe dis
Limitations Of tho domestic parcels
post law"
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
GoMPERs SAYS THERE
is NOTHING TO HIDE
Organized Labor Ready to Help Agents
of the Law.

washington. Dec. Cove have
nothing to hide. We are ready at any
time for the agents of the law to be
Gin Investigating" declares President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in an editorial on
'Iabor's Position Lawful and Progress
sive," which will appear in the Janu-
airy issue of the American Federation
ist Mr.. Gompers pledges his full CO.
operation in any inquiry which may be
made.
Continuing his declaration that or
ganized labor is ready for the agents
of the law TO begin the investigation,
Mr.. Gompers says:
Files, records of all kinds, account
bool&s-everything in documentary
Shapes open to them All that has
been printed, or spoken or written to
our correspondents is subject TO their
inquiries. Every act of every official
may be freely looked into. No one is
going to dodge or run away What
ever can be done to aid the law will
be done at these offices.
This is our reply at headquarters
of the American Federation of Labor
to the clamor to get at the men higher
up, to the repeated announcements in
the press of a nationwide investiga-
ton by federal officials to the asser-
tons that behind the McNamaraS were
men standing high in the councils of
labor"
In conclusion. Mr.. Gompers speaks OF
the concentrated effort and bitter ami
mostly of the enemies of organized
labor, ito crush out the spirit of the
toilers," and he gives this parting ad
monition to his constituents
Crit your teeth and organize
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

4 have come to the conclusion that
! was wrong in urging you to buy an
automobiie.r said Mrs. Jamesworthy.
wei. I'm glad you're enjoying a lu-
cid interval" returned her husband,
as he backed up to the fireplace. 1t
gave me spiral pain in the thorax TO
hear yoU ranting around about buy :
ing on automobile, when you know
that / couldn't buy d wheeIbarruW
without nrst going into bank and
chloroformng the cashier.
"Old Mrs. PulsIfer pushed herself
around here in a motor one afternoon
and cut wide swath in this secluded
street, and ever since then you've been
saying that if the Puisifers can afford
to buy an automobile we can Pal-
sifer bought that machine on the IN
stallm-nt plan frnm a second hand
dealer and at 8 O'Clock every Monday
morning the collector calls on him and
he has to shell out fifteen simoleons,
and if he ever misses a payment he IL
forfeit the machine. for it's so writ
ten in the bond.
1T viii take him twenty seven Years
to pay for that automobile. fol the
interest keeps on pIlins up very
time he takes the machine out for an
airing he breaks something. He told
me this morning that most of the
machinists in town are working on
repairs for il, and he'd have TO mort
gage his house unless somebody act
ed The part of a. real friend and stole
the blamed old thing before he goes
broke entirely.
If man has a large bundle in the
trust company, and doesn't care three
WhCops what anything costs, he'll
have good luck with an automobile,
and get all kinds of enjoyment out of
it, Nothing ever will go wrong with
that machine But its different with
d poor man.
'sWhen a Ppoor man buys a gasoline
wacon he has everything figured out
down to the last decimal, and knows
just how long it will take him to pay
back the money he had to borrow to
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
Creditors Discover Bic SHORTAGE.

Cincinnati, Dec. 20.-What is al
legged to be an apparent shortage of
$693,000 ir the finances of the Platt
Iron works company of Dayton, Ohio,
was disclosed today by attorneys for
a number of creditors. The revelation
was made at a meeting of creditors
held before Bankruptcy Referee Nc
ConnOughey in Dayton yesterday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
By the Evidence.

Donald. aged 4. had been to school
with an older friend and had seen
the teacher put star on the cards of
each child whose conduct had been
good. That evening while walking out
with his parents. he remarked after
looking at the starry sky. ''There'Ve
been lots of good boys today"
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

a n q S o nervous l.
could n o t do any
thing. The doctors
treated me for diff
ferent things b u {
did me no good. i
got so bad that /
could not sleep day
or night. While in
this condition j read
of Lydia X. Pink
hams V e ge t a b g
C o m pc u n d, and
began it's use and
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
What Men Escape.

or course mon haveftheir little wor-
ries and troubles. but they don't have
to go to bed night after night with
their faces smeared with complexion
Observation-Disclosures News.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The Chicago Y M c. A. has or
ganized flying-s squadron of early
risers. Such movement might not
come amiss in Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Most men gaze in wonder at the lit
tie boxes built to hold five IS gold
pieces, and cannot imagine who dis
tributes them.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The weather man scared us almost
10 death by his predictions on the first
OF the week, and we are glad they are
among the per cent. that proved
false
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The young man who told his girls
father when he kicked him out of the
house, that IL wasn't the house he was
after, knew how to make a strike
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The Main man who found $4,000 in
an old hustle banks on that style of
attire. He sees no necessity for a
new style, or a postal savings bank.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

paris is to try camel meat for
Christmas If it will check thirst it
might become popular fodder in dry
states.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

China in its opium war and revolu-
ton has been showing the rest of the
world that she is willing to sacrifice
a great deal for the sake of being bet
ter.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The Rev. Sanford. who has gone to
prison for ten years. is accredited with
having taken $4,000 out of an audi
ence that looked like so cents
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Winsted.-Several experienced chair
makers have decided to incorporate as
the Winsted Chair company with a
capital of $4,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Grass widows do not believe in idea
husbands-the man able to pay ali
mony suits them.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

To lose a wad of money in the
Christmas holidays is to lose heart If
it keeps a dishonest person warm all
winter it will have done no harm
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Newport. r. J., is setting the exam
pie o. having \ new charter once in
six wears Progressive communities
may find this necessary By and by,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The London suffra gettes broke 81. 900
worth of plate glass to wake London
UP. The court records show they sue
ceeded.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Miss Adams believes gossips are Z
benefit to society. They may be quite
a restraint
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The boy with a poor memory makes
no mistakes in making a list of the
presents he wants.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Colonel Roosevelt protests, but he
| is bound to be in every ones mouth
| whether he likes it or not
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

The ghost walks but once more be
fore Christmas; but that means d
large distribution. of coin.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Colonel Bryan proposes to talk by
the book next year on Panama. but
that will never defeat Taft
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Happy thought for today: A man
who cannot set the pace fails as a
leader.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The home-run of Christmas trade is
on. And may it be satisfactory to all.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-22

Vaccination is voting qualification
in Norway.