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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
FORGOT TAX LEVY
Illinois Senate Failed to Pass
Measure Providing for
Coming Year.
OVERSIGHT Is SERIOUS
Will, However. Have Chance to Rem
edy 1t May 81 or at Special
Session Later.

Springfield, Ill, May IS. - The
legislature forgot to pass the state
tax levy bill, providing for s19,500,-
900. When the lawmakers departed
Saturday morning, the senate left the
little item reposing in the appropria-
ton box in the filing cabinet-over-
looked, neglected and forgotten in
the mad rush of the windup hours.
1t was discovered there af-
ter Elmer Hill, an attache of the
secretary of states office, had
checked up all the bills dispensing
and providing funds and had missed
the greatest bill of the lot.
The forgotten measure provides
the necessary revenue for state pur-
poses for the next two years, ST.
100000 a year for general and So
100000 a year for schools.
MAY PASS MAY 81.
Relief Is in sight, however. The
bill either will be passed May 81,
when the assembly comes back for
sine die adjournment, or it will go
over to form an item in Governor
Deneen's call for a special session.
No one is worrying, and the oversight
is regarded as feather from for
tunes cap for the governor, as it af-
fords additional reason for a special
session.
Just now the legislators on the
ground are trying to determine the
victim upon whom the $19,5O0,0O0
lapse Of memory is to be hung"
The bill was reported to the senate
from the house May 16 and was re-
ferred to the appropriations commit
tee of which Senator Charles F.
Hurburgh is chairman, May II or
two days before business was wound
up. Senator Hurburgh is not in
town, but the general theory is he
was so engrossed in joint conferences
the one over the omnibus bill last
ing until 5 o'clock Saturday morn
ing-that he forgot all about the tax
levy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

avenue to Twentieth street: north on
Twentieth 70 Second avenue; west on
Second TO court mouse square, where
the following program will be pre-
sented:
Bugle call to the assembly.
Patriotic selection-Bleuer's band.
Song. School children, directed by
f. L. Philbrook.
Prayer-Chaplain H. c. First.
Song. Flag Without a Stain
Mrs. ]. w Crandau.
Introduction-E. H. Bowman
Oration-Rev. Frank c. Bruner,
Song. My Country, It's of Thee
Quartet.
Services conducted at monument.
Nusic-Martial band.
Song, THE Red, White and Blue
Audience.
Grand Army service-John Blu
ford post.
Salute to the dead-Company A
squad.
Reading, Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress-Lewis Wilson.
Song, America
Taps. last bugle call-Ed Bleuer.
Music-Bleuers band.
CHTPPIANNoCK CEMETERY, $3.50 p. VI.
Captain J. NJ. Beardsley, master OF
cerem monies.
John Ohlweiler, marshal of day.
Bugle call to the assembly-Ed
Bleuer.
Patriotic selection-Bleuer's band
Song, Boys of the Old Brigade
Quartet.
Decoration Of soldiers graves.
Prayer-Rev. W. G. Oglevee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

All the news all me time--ne Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

Introduction-Captai ]. NJ. Boards
ley.
Oration-Rev. H. ". Reed.
Song The Gray and the Blue
Quartet.
Grand Army service-John Buford
post.
Salute to the dead-Company A
squad.
Song, Brave Hearts Sleep
Quartet.
Reading, Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress-Lewis Wilson.
Song, merica''-Audience-
Taps-Ed Bleuer.
Benediction-Rev. w. G. Ogievee.
Patriotic selection-Bleuer' band.
FOR THE NAVAL DEAD.
Services in memory of the dead
sailors will be conducted by the Wo-
mans Relief corps in the morning
at the foot of Seventeenth street.
Commander P. F. Cox of Buford post
will deliver the address.
At the conclusion Of the exercises
at court house square luncheon VIII
be served in Memorial hall by the
Womans Relief corps.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
DECORATION DAY
PLANS COMPLETE
Memory Of Dead Soldiers and
Sailors to Be Honored by
Buford Post.
PARADE is SET FOR $50
Ceremonies at Court House in Morn
ing and at ChippianDock in
the Afternoon.

John Buford post, No. 243, G. A.
R., today announced the completion
OF the official program Of the exer-
cises to commemorate Memorial day
IN Rock Island. Captain J. NJ.
Beardsley, P. F Cox and z. H. Bow
man compose the reception commit
tee, and George E. Bailey, Thomas
Campbell and William McConochie
the cemetery committee. E. H.
Bowman will be master of ceremon-
les and John Ohlweiler marshal of
the day. The days ceremonies will
begin with a parade at $50, the
line 20 form at the south side of
court house square between Four
teen and Fifteenth streets. The
line of march will be east on Third
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
Notice Of Dissolution.

I hereby give notice to the public
that G.. c. Trent and Gus Fisher of the
Illinois Mosaic Tile company have dis.
solved partnership, and be it known
that 1 will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by Mr.. Trent under
the name OF said firm from this date
forward.
Mr.. Fisher VIII continue In the cement
and tile business for himself and will
greatly appreciate any orders which
can be given him.
(Signed) GUS FISHER
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

All the news All the ume-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

the fresh water clam. to artificisliy
the forming of pearls. Grown clans
are being treated through the inser-
ton of foreign matter in the tissues
in the hope that pearls will be formed
around the particles so placed. Should
the experiments succeed a new indus
try would be created and the price of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
The splendid work of Chamberlain

The splendid work Of Chamberlain s
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily
coming to light No such grand rem
edy for liver and bowel troubles was
ever known before. Thousands bless
them for curing constipation, sick
headache, biliousness. jaundice and In
digestion Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

CATION of 400, headed by a 4O-pieee
band, to take part in the opening
parade Of the Rock Island Moose
trade week celebration. The Daycn-
port boys are enthusiastic over tie
plans in this city, and say they viii
contribute their share towards max
lug it a success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
MACHINE
SPEEDER ARRESTED
Davenport Physician, Picked Up on
Ninth Street, Fined SO and
Trimmings.

DR.. Thomas Bynes Of Davenport was
arrested at an early hour this morning
by Ofhcer George Banker, while driv-
ing his automobile north on Ninth
street. He was fined so and costs for
exceeding the speed limit. He paid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
Eugene FIeId School leads.
IreIand's Population Less.

London. May 26.-Ireland has a pop
ulation OF 4.3s1. ISL, according TO the
census. This is a decrease of 1924 in
10 years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
TRYING TO GROW PEARLS
Z. S. Biological Station at Fairport
Experimenting.

Experiments are being conducted at
the biological station near Fairport
established by the government within
the last year for the propagation OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26

pearls would undoubtedly in time be
greatly reduced.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-26
DAVENPORT IS TO BOOST

Moose Lodge VIII Have 400 Mem
beers in Parade Here.
Davenport lodge, at a meeting
last night, promised to send dele
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
IDA LEWIS.

The Grace Darling OF America Is
dead
Do you remember among the eXhib-
it's of interest at the Worlds fair in
Chicago the rowboat used by Ida Lew
Is in her work of saving lives in New
port harbor?
The boat was presented to Miss
Lewis by the people of Newport.
She was the daughter of the keeper
of the old Lime Rock light, off New
port, and no seaman could better han
die boat or battle with the waves
as an expert swimmer.
And she was brave with the BRAY
cry of a woman
Her record as saver of human life
those rescued was a score of men.
hardy sailors and toilers of the sea.
Personally Ida Lewis was a most
gracious woman. but modest and seem
ingly unconscious of her heroic en-
deavor
Her womanly qualities no less than
her intrepid spirit and daring gentle
ness made her the pride of Newport.
The cadets CT the Naval academy sim
ply adored her.
AS some one has suggested, had she
been born before Grace Darling the
latter might appropriately have been
named 1.-The Ida Lewis of the old
world
And now she is deadi
Old Lime Rock still holds its beacon.
and pilgrims go to visit the forts and
the war college and the station and
the barracks, but the brave spirit OF
Ida Lewis has departed.
And the memory of her is blessed.
What, after all. is the one thing that
| makes mortals greenland long belov
ed?
Is it not unselishness?
Whoever would build a monument
| in the heart of humanity must forget
| self and live for others sake.
Whoever would become great mus
| be least; whoever would minister
| must be a servant; whoever would bt
loved must lend a strong hand to the
perishing.
So long as the great Lime Rocks shall
abide so long will the heroic evange
OF Ida Lewis be told for memoria
of her.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
rAY YOUR MORTGAGES.

A recent writer speaks OF mortgages
on character
Which is a fne figure.
You may have mortgage. say. on
your home or your household goods.
These .'piasters'' are common, They
represent needed loans and IL we'll ad-
vised are helps to ownership.
You bend your energies toward pay
ment OF principal and interest But
The mortgage chat most distresses
mortals is fhe mortgage voluntarily as.
sumed and without sufficient consid-
eration-of bad habits. the mortgage on
character That mortgage is-
A lien on body and soul.
You may or may not be able to pay
the mortgage on your property before
you die. Nevertheless you Will have
been successful IL you have kept your
self free from the lien on yourself
The mortgage on self. together with
the mortgage on property. makes .
double mortga double debt and dou;
BILE interest.
There's fhe tobacco mortgage.
The habit Of chewing OF smoking III
1uleed q excess and alnost any -
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
Dwarfina the Giant,

Apropos Of woman's inability to fore
go the last word. the late Professor
William FL. Brewer of Yale was wont
to tell an incident which occurred in
California several years ago.
The wonder of the immense dimen-
sions of the redwood trees always ap-
pealed to him, and he was ever delight
ed to show these forest giants to his
friends. The trees do not look so enor-
nous when one is riding among them.
and Mrs X was not properly awed by
their stupendous proportions.
Really. professor" she argued. they
are not so very large, after ALL
They were riding along in single file,
and the professor halted.
MY horses head is just at the edge
of this tree, isn't it:''
She nodded.
And your horse is behind miner
Again she nodded.
Following you is Professor Y. and
behind him Mr.. T., whose horses tail
is at the farther side Of the tree. That
means that the diameter OF this tree is
the length Of four horses standing bead
to tail in a straight line"
Mrs X. turned In her saddle and
viewed the. tree and the horses. For
several seconds she said nothing; then
her face lighted up and she smiled a,
him asfshe exclaimed
"Oh, but. professor, these are very
small es"'-Youth's Companion.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
THE BLESSING OF DEBT.

Are you in debt?
Most persons are And with most Of
us 1t is good thing to be under obli-
CATION to creditors.
/ A debt is load that holds one
steady
We are ike horses who need not only
the load, but the spur. The debt Is
the load; the creditor is the spur.
Debt is often blessing in disguise
that makes for winning.
Balzac would write only when he
was in debt And usually he was in
debt; therefore his long shelf full Of
books.
We. like BalZac, need sometimes to
feel the spur in our tanks,
Who can say what treasures of Sir
Walter we might have missed had not
Scott been under the necessity of pay
ing his debts?
Goldsmith. who wrote like an angel
and talk'd like Poor Polf' and who was
always borrowing?
And our own Mark Twain.
Mr.. Clemens says by nature he was
lazy But at the age of sixty he felt
the spur His publishing house failed,
and. though he was not under the legal
necessity. he felt morally bound to pay
the creditors in full.
In paying that debt what delight
f,l hnrifa ua xx-ac loft uSt
1t is no disgrace to owe debt
The disgrace consists in negleeting
or refusing to pay.
| You may reach an honest man in no
more tender spot than to send him his
bin marked please remit or to have
the collector call more than once.
He wants to pay. 1t hurts him to
lisappoint or fail. He will do bis
best
IL the debt is made with likelihood
of payment and the desire to meet the
obligation it is blessing. because
Lacking capital the average man
would get nothing ahead. But by go
| ing in debt he buys something. buckles
down to the JOB and pays out, becom-
| ing By so much capitalist.
1t is hard sometimes. but
When the load is landed at the end
OF the road the sting or the goad is
| forgotten
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
Enulish Abroad.

AS the most delightful example she
has ever seen of the English the Eu-
ropean uses in his correspondence n
woman who has just returned from
the other side is showing her friends
a letter that she declares to be her
most interesting souvenir.
after we left Amsterdam. sue ex-
plains. s'my daughter discovered that
she had left her cuff links in our room
at the pension. So j wrote back to the
proprietress. whom knew spoke Eng
lish, asking her to look for them. Here
is the reply"
Then she shows it, And this. word
for word, is how it reads:
Dear Mrs. Thomas Grant
Immediately upon receiving your
lettre am going at once TO looking in
every drawer, and found this two but
ton in the table near her bed. Can it
be this two things what your daughter
lost?
In that way I am very glad to
found it.
$50 not, be so good to send it me
back, for it might be of another per.
son who perhaps will write me he lost
something. New York Times.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
He Named Gaze Cod.

On March &C. 1902. Bartholomew
Gosnold sailed from Falmouth with a
company of thirty-two persons, OF
whom eight were seamen and twenty
were to become planters. Taking a
straight course across the Atlantic
instead OF the indirect course by the
Canaries and the West Indies. which
had hitherto been pursued in voyages
to Virginia. at the end OF seven weeks
he saw land in Massachusetts bay
probably near what is now Salem
harbor. Here boat came. bark
built manned by eight natives. OF
whom two or three were dressed in
European clothes, indicating the pres.
ence Of earlier foreign voyagers in
these waters. Next he stood to the
southwark. and his crew took greai
quantities of Goldfish by headiand
called by him for that reason Cape
Cod. the name which it retains. Cos
mold. Brereton and three others wen,
on shore. the first Engiishmen who are
known to have set foot upon the sol
OF Massachusetts,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19

In excess is. as every well informed
person knows. draft on vitality. a
shatterer of nerves, depleter of vital
forces.
And the liquor mortgage.
The drinking habit is a mortga &c that
demands tremendous interest rates. It
ruins the stomach Innings, benumbs the
brain cells. hardens the nerve tibers,
paralyzes the power of mind and body.
Other mortgages?
Plenty OF them. The mortgage of ex-
cess in eating, of sleep loss, OF ex-
cesses. of lust. of dishonesty, of all
unrighteousness.
Pay them off.
Else. principal and interest, they will
absorb you soul and body.
The sooner you pay the better. be
cause the interest on these mortgages
is not merely compounded. as in real
estate loan. semiannually.
1t is compounded daily.
By and by it will be impossible for
you to pay the accumulations.
Pay the mortgages now.
Stop the interest
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19

and under the earth. on the water ano
under the water and through the air.
Wonderful conquestS. But
Mans greatest conquests are over
the animal life Of the world Long
ago he conquered the big elephants
and the wild horse. And now science
is breeding and using insect life 10 de-
stroy mans most pestiferous enemies.
For instance:
Since it has been discovered that the
mosquito is one of the most dangerous
OF the microbe carrying insects war
has been declared The agricultural
department is breeding the darling
needle insect with which TO destroy
the predatory mosquito.
Swat the fly" is a national slogan.
We are just beginning to discover
what the fly does to US. And so our
government is breeding a certain spe-
cies OF wasp that is able to sting the
household fly and destroy that disease
bringing pest
And then there are the good mi
crobes.
One sort OF bacteria is being cult.
waited that is used to enrich the soil
and thus help the husbandman.
Another kind of microbe is being EN-
ployed in antiseptic tanks to purify
city sewage Great tanks filed with
these little scavengers, invisible to the
naked eye. make way with the refuse
that is drained into the receptacle.
Man is having dominion.
He is using the good insects and mi
crobes to destroy the bad-doing indi.
rectly what he is unable to do directly
TO be able to go from Chicago to
New York in eighteen hours is great
feat, but thousand times more i'm
portant is that sort OF dominion that
frees man from the dangers of conta
gion and disease and prolongs human
life
Some day man shall have conquered
the animal pests as he has conquered
the beasts Of the wild.
Man was made to have dominion.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
Heart toHeart
Talks.
TEE wIrE.s DEcAaOGuE.
By EDWIN A. NYE.

First.-Thou shalt have no other hus-
band than him whom thou hast we'd
ded
Second.-Thou shalt not prefer be-
fore the home where thou lodgest thy
literary club. nor thy sewing circle. nor
thy missionary society.
Third.-Thou shalt not waste thy
husbands substance nor his wages on
vain apparel and glad raiment while
thy husband goeth abroad in patched
trousers,
Fourth. Thou shalt not regaie thy
back door neighbor. neither thy fam
lily. with the vain gossip of the sew
ing society, nor with the scandal that
neth under the tongue Of the tattler.
Fifth-Thou shalt not nag thy bus
band in his own house. Nor shalt thou
utter thy much complainings in his
ear. lest UNHAPPY he may prefer the
corner saloon 10 thy company.
Sixth.-Thou shalt not envy thy
neighbor's house. nor her automobile,
nor her millinery Nor shalt thou pout
thy lips because thy husband doth not
buy thee a sealskin sack.
Seventh. Thou shalt not serve punch
with a stick in it to the guests of thy
reception nor offer high stakes OF
sheckles at thy whist club. lest thy
sons become gamblers or thy sons-in
law drunkards.
Exhibition shalt not talk deceit
fully over the telephone Nor shalt
thou say to the unwelcome guest. Il
| am so glad to see thee" nor pass thy
fourteen year-old child at half fare.
Ninth.-Thou shalt not go dressed fiji
| to kill on the streets and slatterniy il
thine own house lest thy husband
have no comfort in thy appearance
And thou shalt not be gracious and
sweet in the church aisle and a shrew
in thy home, lest thy children prove
deceitfui.
Tenth.-Thou shalt not give ths
teaching of thy child over to thy hand
maiden or to the Sunday school teach
er, but thou shalt train up thy child
in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord. Nor shalt thon permit the fires
of thy fathers and thy mothers reii
! gion to die out on the altar of thy heart
for verify there is no adornment Of
woman's life that is like to that of spir
| itual raiment
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
TIE HusBANp,s DECALocuE.

First.-Thou shalt have no other wife
before thee than her whom thou hast
legally welded.
Second. Thou shalt not put the home
where thou lodgest and thy wife lodg-
est before thy lodge or thy club or
any other place.
Third-Thou shalt not be 8 ladies'
man abroad, genial spirit among the
fellows and likewise crouch In thine
own house.
Fourth.-Thou shalt give of thy mon
eys that which is due thy wife, lest IN
haply thy wife should search thy trou.
sers pocket when thou art asleep IT
the switch
Fifth.-Thou shalt not complain OF
thy wife's victuals at thy table, but
brag thereon. Neither shalt thou be
slow to wipe the dishes OF the table OF
thy house nor to sweep the porches OF
thy residence
Sixth.-Th0u shalt not lapse the pre-
MUM upon thy policy OF life insurance
nor withhold the price thereof, lest thy
wife borrow money to bnry thee or
thou goest to the potter's field.
Seventh.-Thou shalt not let thy chill
dren stay from school land work to
feed thee Except thou be ailing), for
when thou art old thy children may
despise thee and let thee go over the
hills to the poorhouse.
Exhibition shalt not smoke Ha
vana perfectos, nor sit in the seat Of the
gamblers, nor daily with the cham.
payne when it stirreth itself. and lei
thy wife's millinery bills go unpaid
and see thy seed begging bread
Ninth.-ThouA shas not leave the
teaching Of thy chiEiren to thy wife
nor to thine bandnTiden. nor to thy
manservant. nor to he sunday school
teacher. but thoq ST alt train them W
In the way they5shduld 60. and when
they are old they she'll not depart from
Il.
Tenth.-Thou shalt behave thyself as
a husband and father and as a citi
zen of the republic. and thou shalt vote
at the primaries and also at the cleo
lions in order that thou shalt live long
In the land and be able to swat the
grafters at the ballot box and save
thy country.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19

If it is a question Of being suited
we would like to have a chance to
try. Our prices right Phone 1000.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-19
INDISPENSABLE.

$50 you have position in an Office.
/ hope you viii succeed in making
yourself Indispensable to your employ
er.
II think hare. aunlie. We are to
be married next month Louisville
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