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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
Jan. IA in American
history

17S4-Colonial congress ratified the
Paris treaty of peace with Great
Britain: end OF the Revolution.
1SS7-Abby Kelley Foster. pioneer so
cial reformer. died: born 1911.
1S92-Randolph Rogers, sculptor, died
in Rome; born 1925.
190S-James Ryder Randall, author Of
the famous war song My Mary
land" died; born 1888.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Governor Stubs of Kansas has ask
ed for q law that shall provide that
the supreme court shall remand only
snch cases as are found to have had
vital error in trial. Well, that might
be good thing, too, and save a lot of
trouble
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

a church board Of North Hacken-
sack. n. Y. has decided that Deacon
J. Vroom Roscoe of the Reformed
church at that place was not guilty of
an offense requiring expulsion from
Office because he INDUCED in the game
of pinochle with the modest stake Of
cents a point. How would the board
stand on the great American game of
poker az cents a corner?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Speaker Cannon gave Washington
a shock Thursday by appearing in
one OF the capitol Hobbies smoking
corncob pipe. He said it was a
gift from Champ Clark Maybe the
old Indian customs are to be revived
in Washington
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

A man in New Jersey wrote a re-
buke TO the Kaiser for riding a horse
with docked tail. 1t is not feared
that international complications will
result, or that q German phantom
feet will born bard our deferseless
seacoast ports
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
no rake ths tieaIth AIonn.

"Where have you been, Jackf"
ITO n health resort. Finest place
ever struck"
"Why did you come away, thenT
"Oh. / got sick"
"Are you going back?'
You bet, just as soon as get well"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

'ew'hat would yog Judge --osnar
bv>"
81 wouldn't judge her by anything"
WHY
"She would reverse the decision II ]
did. 50 what's the usef'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Frank B. Kellogg. special prosecu-
tor for the government in the Stand
ard Oil cases calls the slippery trust
the peril OF the nation. Is that sup
posed 10 be up-to-date information?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

a big ocean liner came into port
the other day, at New York, without
its wireless outfit. 1t has been car
ried away in storm. And so, as
the dispatches put it, "all commun-
ication with the shore as the vessel
neared port" was cut off How
quickly the wonders of this age be-
come its matter-of-course necessar-
les
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Rochelle in the northern part of the
state has adopted the commission plan.
That will make a new Rochelle and
then it will be only 10 minutes from
the broadway of a big town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
Why It Pleased.

Why IL Pleased.
II had "A fine
car ride today"
Scenery goodT'
"Notespecially 4"
"Seats easyf''
Just ordinary. +"
Then W her e
did Il sinner
"The conductor
missed me in tax
lug up the fares "
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
No Tse 60 Dodge This.

The electric eye" is said to be
the latest wonderful invention in the
field of electrical development
The inventor is Professor Rosing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Horse racing in California is
threatened. It is getting so that a
man can gamble hardly anywhere
without encountering difficulties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
peor Mini

"Wby does BHTkins have such
harasseJ lookE'
His wife insists upon reading all
ne suffrage news 20 him"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
Snuarinn thu Miaaua.

Brown lost a lot of money on poke
last week"
"Who told your ~
Nobody"
"Then how do you known"
"His wife has a new set OF furs"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

In Clevela,Id an engineer has been
made a pre-Sat of a locomotive. This
is better than a white elephant, as
it consumes no hay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
Have - q 80 throal? n Il

4IdF" IT q WIZ Ut ID 1T -
yoU cannot be 700 careful You can
net begia treatment too early. Eath
cold makes you mare liable to anoth-
er and the last is always the harder
20 cure. II you will take Chamber
iains Cough Remedy at the outset
TcE VIII be saved much trouble. sod
b. all druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Newspaper readers have so much
graft purveyed to them every day that
they no doubt feel that common hon
esty is quite q distinction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
MALAY Rich In Tin.

About So per cent of all the tin used
I'm the world is produced in the Malay
States. which last year exported more
than $40 500, COO worth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
No Wait For sprina.

The height o. aaiuencc would be-
II can get This past the printer
Would De r" nave. "Ou must agree
TE2t ti-nl collins in firp winter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

The senate committee on elections is
being revealed in an unsavory ligG1 as
a result OF a closer examination of its
report by pTosTessives ian was al
first made. Senator CraB BIRD OF South
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
Rather.

"Ie runs "a skin game"
"Wheicf''
up Ou the eighteenth foo-."
That's what you might call high
finance. Isn't ~"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
HumOr and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Br DUNCAN ~. SMITH

\ FTER all. there is heap Of excite
mcnt in a grafter's life. 10 say
nothing OF the investigating commit.
tee.
The man who never makes mis-
take Invariably has underlings who
do.
There are women who just seem &c
nave been born natural widows.
What an discontinued man needs
more than anything else Is 10 employ
3 small boy 10 run his thought home.
A man may not love his mother-in.
Law. but lie Is mighty glad to see her
whom the baby has measles.
The paradox about pin money "a that
Il is the kind that never sticks.
II Is shoes 20 n man when his local
paper refers TO him FOR the FIRST time
as zone Of our old citizens"
While we do not rejoice in our neigh
bor's misfortune. we are apt to view
it with resignation.
The man who tells all he knows IL
easy TO understand. 10 IS the man
who says nothing who has you guess
ing.
From the way some persons disre-
gard their doctors advice you'd think
it was u free sample.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
SENATORS MAY DUMP
LORlMER TO SAVE
SELVES IN PRIMARIES

Ccontinuea from Page one.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

Come in you candidates, the ice is
fine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
IN BAD LIGHT.

where senators are named in the pri-
maries are against LorimeT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

What an abscntmindcd man needs
more than anything else Is 10 employ
3 small boy 20 run his thought home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

A man may not love his mother-in.
law. but lie - mighty glad to see her
whom the baby has measles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

There are women who just seem &c
nave been born natural widows.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

The man who never makes n mis-
take Invariably has underlings who
do.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

The paradox about pin money Ia that
Il is the kind that never sticks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14
THE ARGUS.

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

It IS a shock 20 n man when his local
paper refers 10 him for the lirst time
as zone Of our old citizens"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

TERMS.-Daily. 10 cents per week
Weekly. 81 per year IN advance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-14

While we do not rejoice In our neigh
bor's misfortune. we are apt to view
il with resignation.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12
PLEADS FOR LIFE
OF You've DEATTiE

Chesterfield c.. II, Va, Sept. =
For five hours in a hot and murky
court room, Hill Carter, with a plea
full Of pathos and argument, today
sought the hearts Of y jurynlen in
an effort to secure the acquittal of
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for
the murder of his wife on the Midlo-
THAN turnpike last July.
At sunset Mr.. Carter concluded, and
tomorrow the great battle of the trial,
the clash between Harry N. Smith,
Jr., of the defense and A. L. Wenden-
burg of the commonwealth is schedul-
ed. A verdict is expected some time
during the night.
From the depth of an argument in
which he unsparingly denounced Paul
Reattie, cousin of the accused and
principal witness against him, as a
veakling and falsided, Mr.. Carter at
times fairly shouted to the jury as
he leaned over the bar, but when the
day was drawing to a close his voice
sank to a whisper of impassioned ap-
neal
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12

execution in which to file his appeal
for a new trial. Prosecutor Wenden-
burg objected and sentenced was pass
ed.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12

Pulaski Lodge, No. 20, L 0. o. F.
Pulaski lod ge, No. 20, I. O. o. F.,
will meet Friday night, September 1,
at 8 o'clock In Klettner's Hall.
]. Y. Jones,
VIC Peterson, Noble Grand.
Secretary.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12
Closes With Appeal.

eff you, gentlemen of the jury he
said in conclusion, "can, within the
sanctity of your oath, prevent the
pressing Of the poised chalice to the
lips of this aged father, his heart al
ready bleeding from the stab of the
dagger which took away a life, if
you can, I say, spare him the son
within mercy to bring in a verdict of
whom he loves, so dearly, 1 ask you
not guilty.
The lean man of wrinkled brow and
sunken cheeks who sat beside his ac-
cused son dropped his eyes and rails
ed his fan to conceal the trembling of
his lips. Young Beattie, stared hard
at the jurymen. For a moment there
was silence in the court room. Then
Judge Watson without comment ad-
journed court until 9 o'clock tomorrow.
Instructions to Jury.
The day began with the reading by
Judge Watson of the instructions to
the jury. In these attention was
drawn to the frailty Of the alleged
confession of Henry to Paul and the
manner in which it came. Other
points in the story of Paul which re-
lated to the conversations or meetings
of the two cousins alone, unsupported
by witnesses, were held up as requir-
ing careful scrutiny.
Asked Women to 60.
When court convened at 1890 o'clock
Judge Watson declared that counsel
in the argument today might refer to
portions of testimony mot fit for Ia
dies to hear" and requested all. wo-
men in the court room to leave.
Judge Watson then read the 81 sep
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12

HV4O4VS.
Guilty." answered. Burgess, but
his voice was swelled by the shout of
eleven others. Cnversed in law or
the forms of murder trial, the jury
men had not decided what degree Of
murder had been done. It was in
cumbent upon the jury to fix the de-
gree, so Judge Watson addressed the
iurymen to confer again on this point
and seven minutes later they conform
ed, this time with the verdict of MUIR
der in the first degree.
The prisoner stood erect and mo-
tionless. His face, in color a yellow
ish green throughout the day, was
immobile.
The light of a lamp, cast dreary
shadow on his upturned chin as he
faced the jury. His eyelids sagged,
but did not blink. In steady gaze he
fastened his eyes On the faces of the
II men who had pronounced his pun
ishment as if to per citrate their
minds. It was not resentful express
sion, however, and wnen the court
asked if the prisoner had anything
to say, he answered:
''Nothing to Say"-Beattie.
ct have nothing to say" and sat
down. The perfunctorv motions for
a new trial we're made by counsel for
the defence. The usual granting OF
permission even to argue the point
was denied as Judge Watson in a stern
voice declared that all rulings Of the
court were On comparatively unim-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12

Attorney Wendenburg showed the
shirt that the prisoner had worn and
stated that if the wife's ifeless body
had lain against this shirt there would
be blood stains upon it. He referred
to the clothes as mute testimony to
the prisoners guilt. He ridiculed the
idea of a bearded unknown giant
highWayman and laughed at the idea
of this little STRIPPING of 15S pounds
(Beattie) disarming a man such as
described. Mr.. Wendenburg said that
young Beattie on the night of the mur-
der put on the Oldest suit he had.
"He Was too Cheap"
"He was too cheap" he said, "to
soil any but the oldest suit he had
with the blood of his wife"
The prisoner nervously fingered a
denial-two fingers denoting that he
11cO HO1 IL LllC Sull LW1CG UGlOIC.
The arguments were concluded at
5.08 p. m. Judge Watson had the jury
exercised in the open air for fifteen
minutes or so. When the prisoner
also was given brief airing on the
lawn, big crowd surged around him
and he asked to be taken to his cell
soon he resumed his seat at the bar,
Judge Watson promptly delivered his
address to the jury
At COS p. m. the jury returned to
the court room and announced its YER
dict of murder. It was sent back tc
fix the degree, and after being out
about nine minutes returned with the
verdict Of first degree.
Attorney Carter for the defence, al
once asked for ninety days stay Of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
Does This Cause You No Alarm /?

The cotton crop of 1910 was 100000
bales, in round numbers. It did not sell for
an average of Is cents pound, but we will
suppose that it did.
The total value, therefore, was 1926 100000
assuming that the bales averaged 500
pounds each.
The annual expense of running the Federal
Government has swollen to the sum of ST.
00O,OOO0O0.
Therefore, the gross proceeds of every bale
of cotton produced in the United States falls
far short of the cost of ONE, Of oar th0uS-
0nds Of governments.
We have Al State governments, we have
three Territorial governments, we have thous-
ands of town governments-and we have the
Panama Canal and the Philippine Islands
1t takes the whole of the cotton crop to
finance one ust one of these; and the en-
tire qche0t crop does not bring enough to pay
for the. others.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

they got, Nv NET PROFITS, during q bad
gear, S9,125, 100000.
From whom did they take that immense
amount of money?
From what source of supply was the stag
gering sum drawn?
Not from the annual increase of $1,000 ,OO0,-
600: we have already distributed that
Then where did the $3,125,oOo,ooo, gained
by the corporations, come from?
From the corpus of the national estate:
from the accumulated wealth piled up by the
people in former years: from the property
0ooned By the unprecedented 92,OOO,OOO people!
There are strong reasons for believing that
the corporations did not report one-half Of
their net earnings.
They had every motive to conceal the truth.
Yet, by their own admission, the startling
fact is disclosed, that unless there is a change
in our laws, the corporations will soon absorb
all the wealth of the country
This IS inevita6ze-if we do not repeal the
laws which give them such Irresistible od0an-
t0geS.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
A COnundrum for You, My BrOthe,

The yearly increase in the wealth of this
country is not more than $4,000O00,OOO
Four thousand millions of dollars!
That is a stupendous sum of money, the
result of the industry of 100000 people.
What goes with that mountain of gold?
The Federal Government, alone, spends q
M0usorod million dollars Of 1t every gear!
The expenses of governing the States and
municipalities consume another fifteen hun
dred million dollars of it.
This leaves $1,5OOOOO,OOO. Out of this
must come the cost of maintaining thousands
of churches, thousands of schools and colleges
thousands of private charities to say moth
ing of the $16OOOOOO sent to Foreign Mis-
sions, and the huge sums that go abroad to
pay interest on stocks and bonds held by for
eign investors in American securities.
Are you prepared to reject the opinion that
the entire remainder of the $4,0O0O0O,00O is
sucked up by the institutions and the cap
italists mentioned?
| dare say, you are not.
Well, then, ne haze disposed Of the entire
increase Of qoea7th, and haze not given q cent
to the 100000 corporations that saOore
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
The Ice-King and the Dying Babe

Three years ago, Charles w. Morse was
the Ice King of New York AS such, he was
the NEST pitiless monster that ever assumed
human shape.
He not only put up the price to unprece-
denied heights, but he enforced new rule
which forbade the selling of less than block
costing ten cents.
To diminish the supply and strengthen his
monopoly, he sent boats up the Hudson, to
break up the natural ice forming on the river.
Independent dealers, that had gone up the
Hudson to collect the nature made ice, looked
helplessly on, while Morse's boats prevented
the formation of the frozen fields.
Instead of using revolvers or shot-guns on
these Trust-tools, the Independent dealers sat
impotently on the river bank, weeping!
When summer came to New York and New
Jersey, the sitting tenements were human
SHAMELESS The heat was suffocating: no
breath of air relieved the sick woman, or
painting child. They died like flies.
"Ice! Ice For Gods sake, lump of ice !"
The vail rang all over the stricken cities,
as the poor and the sick underwent their tor
ments. Every newspaper took it up, and the
Ice-king was piteously beseeched to haze
mercy on the sick, on the poor, on the perish
ing babe
Thousands were shut out by his exorbitant
OI1C6. OUI1cI UuOuSduOS W0Io 0ACIuO0Q ny HIS
ten-cent rule Thousands who had a nickel,
did not have the dime.
Did Charles w. Morse relent? Did the cry
Of dying women, the wall of dying babes
soften that stony heart?
Not in the least.
AS infexible as law of nature, as unyield-
ing as adamant as merciless as fate, as cruel
as the grave, he held his mastery Of the mar
ket with a grip of steel, heart of granite.
Just how many lives he took as he raked
in his profits, God only knows.
Later, he wrecked bank, and violated the
law in so doing. He had incurred the enmity,
and perhaps jealousy, Of Morgan and Ryan:
and they may have had hand in sending him
to the penitentiary they themselves
ought to be.
At any rate, Morse is in the Atlanta peni-
tertiary. If he had had his just deserts, he
would have been hanged, long ago.
In glancing over Seely's paper, The Ge0r-
gian, of January II, [ find long editorial
advocating Morse's pardon. I a0onder hooo
much Seezy got for defending Morse!
More than he got for defending HoEe
Smith
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
PAGE THIRTEEN.
The New Jersey Situation

Is one Of the most hopeful signs of the
times. The Scholar in Politics, this time is
a Peoples man.
The Massachusetts iceberg Henry Cabot
Lodge, had put bad taste in mouths
politically speaking and Roosevelt added to
it, rather than took it out
But Professor Woodrow Wilson is show
ing up, in a very different light.
[ haven't had a favorable opinion of the
gentleman, as historians; but [ am taking
to him, right along, as political leader.
The manly fight he is making for cleaner
men and better methods and better laws, in
New Jersey, refreshes ones soul. He is not
afraid to buck the Pennsylvania railroad, nor
its wOuld-be Senatorial representative, James
Smith, Jr
And I was impressed by the fact that
Woodrow Wilson, like Foss, of Massachu-
sets, initiated oar Georgia campaign. That
is, he kept on holding meetings after the cleo
NOns acre all OUer.
That was never done, until after re did it,
in Georgia.
But you can readily understand how it
serves the politicians to quiet down for two
years, after they have done something ras-
cally.
People forget and new issues are sprung;
and by the time the next campaign opens, the
situation has undergone complete change.
[ long to see the day when political meet
ings, for the intelligent, non-partisan discus
sion of governmental affairs and economic
questions, will be held all over the country,
IN the 0f-ye0rS, when there are no candidates
up, and no passions burning.
The most beautiful and satisfactory meet
Ings | ever saw, were those we had, III this
state, after the office-seekers had abandoned
the field, and Old Man Peepul came out
accompanied by Aunt Jane and the country
cousins-to give a fair hearing to public is
sues.
And we will have some more of them. be-
fore many weeks roll round. We are not
near done, yet.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
Why Not Watch the Most Important
of Your Servants

D1llgent about your private affairs, Sir,
you watch your servants with lynx-eyed vigil
ance. You not only require them to be hon
est, but to earn their wages.
The field-hand the mill-hand, the clerk,
the book-keeper the wagon-driver, are all
subjected to close observation. They must toe
the mark and fill the bill, or out they 60.
The school-teacher must be energetic and
capable; the doctor must be punctual and at
tentive; the lawyer must fight the case like
fighting fire; and even our beloved pastor
must mind his p's and as.
Yes, Sir, we want 'em to do what we pay
'em to do; and we not only want the thing
done right, but we want the quantity to show
up, according to specifications.
Well, that's all correct: it is as it should
be-
But now, HEAR meas eloquent Evan
gelist Bass would say:
What yOu accumulate, by watching and
driving the clerk, the feld-hand and the
house-servant, yoW lose, By NOT qoatcAing
those Of y0ur SERVANTS q0h0 make and admin
lister yOu" 7Ga0S.
While you have been toiling and moiling
and planning and striving to make money,
IN yOur private business, you have let your
public servants increase taxes, salaries, offices
and appropriations to such prodigal extent,
that the total yea1zy produce Of all the in-
deest'y Of 9@,000,OOO people, IS barely suf-
fcient to meet the cost Of maintaining the
0fce-hozders and the sazaried class!
That statement ought to rouse you.
Why not watch y0ur servants, in the State
legislatures?
Why not watch your SERVANTS in the Fed
eral Government.
These are the most important. Their OPP
portunities to do you injury are infinitely
greater than those of any other servants
whose wages you pay.
Y0ur cook can only pIfer q triRe-yOu"
Congressman cam steal millions!
Your clerk can only hit you for few dol
lars: then you catch him, and turn him off,
and that's the end of it.
But your Congressman, away off yonder in
Washington, can feather his nest by selling
his vote and enabling Special Privilege to
get law that will plumber you for years, and
to a ruinOus amount.
Your ield-hand's lazyness, or mistake is
soon corrected, and the consequences are sell
dom fatal: but your Congressman's neglect
or error or villainy may reduce to beggary
tens of thousands of innocent, helpless people.
For your own sake and for that of your
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1911-02-04
VasarIes Of Finance.

Il understand you have paid the
mortgage off your place"
Yep" replied Farmer Cortossel.
Then why do you complain of hard
times?"
"All the neighbors have done the
same thing. That leaves me with
money on my hands that nobody
wants to borrow"
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1911-02-04

Diphtheria, Quinsy and Tonsilitis begin
with sore throat. How much better TO
cure a sore throat in day or two than TO
be in bed for weeks with Diphtheria
just keep Hamlins Wizard Oil in the
house.