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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
WEAVER WILL PROBATED
Widow Is Named as Sole Heir in the
Instrument.

The will of the late William H.
Weaver of South Rock Island was
admitted 10 probate this morning by
Judge B. S. Bell. 1t directed that
all the property of the deceased, both
real and personal. be given TO Mrs.
Mary Weaver, the widow. and it also
requested that she be appointed ex-
ecutrix. which was done. The instru-
ment was drawn and dated Nov. 16.
1910
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
Chi1dren's Goats Is Off
an. Mrs. Taylor was"

gan. Mrs. Taylor was
Mother knew we were in love, -
interrupted his bride. She knew
that nothing could stop US from get
ting married. and, although papa
thought l was too young, she thought
this was the best way
Both were of age apparently and
wanted to get married, so l married
them" said Rev. Mr.. Rowe. MIR.
Taylor said he was %. and the Ii
cense stated he was 90 Miss Hall
said she was 1S, the license. stated
she was l S and she looked to be IS"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
IWOLTMANN is PRESIDENT
Also Receives High Score Prize of
krakeeI Bowling Club.

krakeeI Bowling Club.
At the annual meeting and ban
quet of the Krakeel Bowling club,
held last evening at the Harms hotel,
Fred w. Woltmann was chosen pres
ident. Mr.. Woltmann was also pre-
sented with a handsome STEM. the
prize given to the member of the
club with the highest average for
the past season. B. c. HartZ, re-
firing president, acted in the ca
pacity of POSTMASTER and during the
evening called upon each of the %
members of the club who were pres
ent for a brief talk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12

Island high school, announced this
morning that there would be post
ponement of the annual game be-
tween the high school and alumni
teams because of the death of Riley
Canty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
HORSES DASH DOWN HILL
Wagon Overturned on Forty fourth
Street This Morning.

Yesterday afternoon one of the
teams hitched to a wagon used in
delivery of the Woodmen artesian
water dashed down Twenty-second
street hill and finally landed in the
Lincoln school yard at Twenty-sec-
ond street and Seventh avenue. The
back wheels of the wagon were
broken in collision with obstacles
along the street. This morning one
OF the wagons was overturned while
water was being delivered on Forty
fourth street. The upper part of the
wagon was damaged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
Bank at Bishop Hill.

Announcement is made that a new
bank will be opened at once at Bishop
Hill. Henry county, by Jacob Jacobson.
Y. A. Wigren, and A. F. Deem. All are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
Game POSTPONED

The officers of the athletic asso-
citation and the manager of the bas-
ketball team, Jay MacManus OF Rock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
CITIZENS LOAN COMPANY
Free Art Studies in Color
BY John Cassel, the Distinguished
Young New York Artist.

Through the courtesy OF Newman
Bros. company. for many years famous
for their sweet-toued high grade pianos,
we are enabled TO offer our patrons
FREE a series OF four lovely art stud
les in full color as a calendar for 1911
for only a little service-1ust the names
of three friends who are thinking Of
buying pianos, or OF seven families who
have girl children who ought 20 study
music. Adults only must call az our
display rooms AMI leave addresses on
special cards.
EBERHART'S PIANO HOUSE
2224 Fourth Ave. Rock Island, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
Potatoes DUO by Machine.

Potatoes Dug by Machine.
A potato digger which an Indiana
farmer has patented loads the tubers
into the wagon TO which IT is attach
ed by an endless chain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12

connected with the First National bank
of Galva.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
THREE-EYELETS.
Continued from Page One.)

in the superior court of Cook county
but the judge did not give decision,
stating that he would do so Monday.
President Tearney is quoted as saying
he is confident the league will win out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-12
CLIMAX OF PRETTY ROMANCE.


Mr.. Taylor, the young man concern
ed i'll the romantic Chicago wedding
is a son of DR.. W. E Taylor, former
superintendent of the Watertown hos
pital and now soil expert for Deere &
Co, Moline. The young man and the
girl first met four years ago in Cali
fornia He spent the Christmas holt
days at her home in Boston. The par
ents of the girl were not opposed to
the match, but they wished their
daughter to wait a few years-it is
said she has just turned Il. Young
Taylor was in the San Francisco earth
quake. For the past year he worked
as a surveying engineer in Canada
with railroad crew.
GIRL WIRES SHE'S COMING.
Taylor last Monday received a mes
sage from Miss Hall stating she was
leaving on the Twentieth Century linn
tied for Chicago and requesting him to
meet her in Chicago Taylor obeyed
the command. When he met Miss Hail
he suggested that she come on TO Mo
inc with him to remain at the home of
his parents until he communicated
with her father in Boston 10 gain the
latter's consent to the marriage. Miss
Hall opposed the idea, and so they
looked up minister.
Mr. Taylor expects to bring his bride
TO Moline for residence.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29

1t is true we labor under many H.
Iusions. but II these were to be done
away with we should hardly deem 1t
worth our while to labor at all.
Almost none Of the things which
man so ardently pursues in the belief
that they will make him happier Is
really capable of doing so, and yet Il
is needful that he keep up the pursuit
for the sake Of what he incidentally
achieves in behalf of destiny.
The illusions we labor under par.
take. in fine. Of the nature of sanitary
conditions. though they chiefly affect
the health of the spirit. and by that
have no municipal functionary ap-
pointed to look vigilantly after them.
Nor in fact, do they need any such,
since providence has been so kind as
to see to 1t that illusions we shall al
ways have.-Puck.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29

open arms. With youth of his pro.
cllVltles and inherent weakness the
outcome was inevitable. At no time
overload of study, he regarded resi-
dence in college as a most desirable
emancipation from the restraint of
home life. The love of books he con.
sldered a pose and he scoffed at the
men who took their reading seriously.
The university attracted him mostly
by its most undesirable features. its
sports, its secret societies, its petty
cllques, and its rowdyism. The broad
spirit and the dignity of the alma
mater he ignored completely. Directly
he went to Yale he started in to en-
joy himself and with the sophisticated
Underwood as guide, went to the
devil faster than any man before him
in the entire history of the university.
Reading, attendance at lectures, be-
came only convenient cloak to con-
ceal his turpitudes. Poker playing,
automobile joy rides, hard drinking
became the daily curriculum. In
town rows and orgies of every descrip-
ton he was soon a recognized leader.
Scandal followed scandal until he was
threatened with expulsion. Then his
father heard of it and there was a
terrible scene. Jeffries, Sr, went i'm
mediately to New Haven and there
followed a stormy interview in which
uouard DrOuisad IN rofOrm hut opra
the parents back was turned things
went on pretty much as before. There
were fresh scandals, the smoke of
which reached as far as New York
This time Mr.. Jeffries tried the plan
of cutting down the money supply and !
Howard found himself financially en-
But this had not quite
the effect desired by the father, for,
rendered desperate by his inability |
10 secure funds with which to carry .
On his sprees, the young man started .
in to gamble heavily, giving notes for
his losses and pocketing the ready
money when he won.
Then came the supreme scandal
which turned his fathers heart to
;teel. Jeffries, Sr., could forgive much
n a young man. He had been young
himself once. None knew better than
lie how difficult it is when the blood
s rich and red to keep oneself in
.ontrol. But there was one offence
which a man proud of his descent
ould not condone. He would never
orgive the staining Of the family
ame by a degrading marriage. The
ews came to the unhappy father like
thunder-clap. Howard, probably in
drunken spree, had married secretly
waitress employed in one of the
sporty" restaurants in New Haven,
nd to make the mesalliance worse,
he girl was not even of respectable
arents. Her father, Billy Delmore,
ne poolroom king, was a notorious
amber and had died in convict
-ripes. Fine sensation that for the
elbow press. Bankers Son WEEDS
onvict's Daughter" So ran the '
scare heads" in the newspapers. G
hat was the last straw for Mr.. JEFF I
es. Sr. He sternly told his son that b
2 never wanted to look upon his face v
rain. Howard bowed his head to b
~ decree and he had never seen his v
ther since. a
All this the young man was review b
. IN his mind when suddenly his re- "
,ctions were disturbed by friendly n
H. 49,. u
"Hello. Jetrries, old sport! Don't Il
u, know q fellow frat when you see a
MI" - -
bIetic build. with q pleasant frank 81
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
Beinu Natural,

Can you. IL you be the gentler sex.
walk down the street behind an ele-
gantly gowned woman and restrain
the impulse to initiate her poise OF
head. her carriage and the fascinating
ways she possesses? Have you ever
been in crowded room where one
woman was the center of attraction
and seen someone trying to initiate
her? A woman is most charming
when she is natural. A woman who Is
natural. even in her erratic moods.
does not give offense. One cannot ini.
tate the ways. manners and style OF
another without appearing ridiculous.
The incest women we meet are those
who do not pose or seek to initiate
some one else.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29

| 49, ShoaolhS al tue news stand
under the Park place elevated station,
Quickly Howard extended his hand.
Hello, Coxe!" he exclaimed. What
on earth are you doing in New York?
whoever would have expected ia
meet you in this bowling wilderness?
Hows everything at Yale?"
, The athlete grinned.
Yale be hanged! I don't care ,
d. You know graduated last June
IN IN business now-in a brokers' of
nee IN Wall street. Say, it's great
we had semi-pauic last week. Prices
went to the devil. Stocks broke 20
points. You should have seen the ex-
citement on the exchange floor. Our
football PUSHES were nothing to it. l
tell you, fits great. It's got college
beaten to a frazzle!" Quickly he
added: What are you doing?"
Howard aVerted his eyes and hung
his head.
Nothing" he answered gloomily.
Coke had quickly taken note of his
former classmates shabby appear.
ance. He had also heard of his es.
capades.
Didn't you hear" muttered How.
ard. Row with governor, marriage
and all that sort of thing? or
course" he went on, fathers damn.
ably unjust, actuated by absurd pre-.
1udlce. Armies a good girl and
good wife, no matter what her father
was. On it, this is a free country!
man can marry whom he likes. All
these ideas about family pride and
family honor are old world notions.
foreign to this soil I'm not going
to give up Annie to please any one.
I'm as fond of her now as ever. I
haven't regretted a moment that l
married her. OF course, it has been
hard. Father at once shut down
money supplies, making my further
stay at Yale impossible, and l was
forced to come to New York to seek
employment. We've managed to fix
up a small fiat in Harlem and now,
like Micawber, I'm waiting for some.
thing to turn up"
Coke nodded alphabetically.
Come and have a drink" he said
cheerily.
Howard hesitated. Once more he
remembered his promise to Annie, but
as long as he had broken it once he
would get no credit for refusing now. |
He was horribly thirsty and de-
Another drink would cheer |
him up. 1t seemed even wicked to |
decline when 1t wouldn't cost him
They entered a bar conveniently
close at hand, and with a tremulous
hand Howard carried greediIy to his
lips the insidious liquor which had
undermined his health and stolen
away his manhood
Have another?" said Coke with a
smile as he saw the glass emptied at
| gulp.
Il don't care if do" replied How
lrd. Secretly ashamed of his weak
less, he shutfled uneasily on his feet.
We'll, what are you going to do,
I'D MANI" demanded Coke as he
pushed the whisky bottle over.
I'm looking for job" stammered
Howard awkwardly. Hastily he went
N: 1T isn't so easy. If it was only
myself 1 wouldn't mind. I'd get along
omehow. But there's the little girl,
The wants to go to work, and l won't
ear of it. I couldn't stand for that.
GU know"
Coke feared touch" Awkwardly .
e said: 1
CTo BE CONTINUED.)
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
President in His Day.

A scientist has discovered that in
1921 A. d. the earth will cease to
turn on its axis. But II it shouldn't
he will be spared the humiliation OF
hearing the people denounce him as q
ltar.-Memphis News.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
Soul the Abode OF Truth.

Truth Where is truth but in the
soul Itself? Facts. objects are but
phantoms; matter-woVen ghosts OF
this earthly night at which the soul
sleeping here in the mire and clay OF
matter shudders and names IT'S own
vague tremors, sense and perception.
Charles Kingsley.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
woman's aserfdem."

A half-grown man is. OF course, a
tyrant. And so It has come about
that tho rule Of man in the world has
for many ages meant the serrdom Of
Carpenter.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
pIseourtesy Resented.

l would as soon shake hands with
soft mackerel as with a man who
offers two nngers.-Sir Francis VAn@
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13

s.. ike 'Milla and add those ex-
pensivciJoling, traily, dignihed get-ups, and
fellow d no more think of bullying her than
he would of getting personal with the God
dess of Liberty" .A
Sue rolled the ball about in her tilted
racket.
81 suppose that's more or less true" she
admitted. "The only one of us that isn't
impressed by her elegance is the Babe-he
didn't even know she tried to snub him"
Pen smiled. ".
"That's right,-he-" The sentence
stopped so abruptly that Sue looked about
at him. He was staring straight at her,
mouth open, eyes narrowed an expression
of incredulous hope and shrewdness Lighting
his face. She dropped the racket.
open! You don't mean you've thought
-" He held up hushing hand.
"Wait! don't know, yet, whether it's
an idea or lunacy But-by my suffering
IL believe it's" Again the sentence
hung suspended. But all at once, SO sud-
denly that Sue jumped, he thumped the
ground, scrambled up, started off at trot,
came back and pulled her to her feet with
an excited tug.
care you game?" he Kissed. evil you
do as say? Will you love, honor and obey
me this once, and give it a try2" Sue wrig-
gled.
"Will you stop being a silly and tell me
what? Of course L"
"Well, see you don't go back on your
word. Pm going to take Boy down where
she is and leave him for her to"
"Penfeld-"
"There you go! What is woman's word
good for? Listen till I'm done. I'll tell
Jane we'll take care of him for a time. I'll
tell 'Milla that Jane is-oh, something, that
the maids are busy, that we've got to be
away for an hour, and in sheer decency
she'll have to take care of him. I'll put
Cliff on and have him oversee the business.
What want is to get her mad enough so
she'llStalk Do you begin to see? Babe
doesn't know her kind from any other
woman-slave-yet; and he'll give her a
reason for being!'
"But it's almost his nap time, Pen. If
he-if she-should slap him"
eff she tries that" said Pen grimly, II
shall have it arranged that Cliff is to inter
fere and beat her. He's about ready to.
Only he's as impressed as am-except that
he doesn't know it-with her superiority.
What they need is good, human, impolite,
married experience. Now yon needn't do
any lying-just go get ready and have the
car round
She was waiting, resolutely quiet, when
Pen ran down the steps, jumped in beside
her and took the wheel. They were mile
away before she turned an apprehensive eye
toward him. From chuckling Pen laughed
outright.
eff YOU could have seen her face! |
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13

swered no longer. With great sigh of relief
she said goodnight, after the gifted anna
teur and music-loving others were sped, and
fastened up to Camilla. She had not ex-
pected to get in easily; but she was admitted
at once to the hot, briliantly-lighted sitting
room where tragic figure was pacing. So
she had heard him! She whipped her white
draperies about and showed an Jelly furious
face. -.... r.. ..-.l
"Will you tell me" she demanded, "what
this latest humiliation means?"
Sue stopped short. Humid
eyes, humiliation! Insult! Outraged"
Camilla began pacing again. 81 sent down
for a car-station cart-anything! to take
me to the eleven-thirty train, only to find
that Pen had given orders that neither car
nor horse was to be taken out without his
knowledge. Fancy hearing that from my
maid-my maidl" Sue missed the point of
the complaint.
"Do you mean you really meant to run
away, 'Millal"
"Do you think mean to stay under the
roof with him?" Camilla flashed. "This
action is indecent in Pen-detestable, cow
ardly@"
Camilla" Whether or no a reminis-
cence of that long ago slap was in Sues
amazing tone, it had effect. Camilla tossed
her beautiful head, but was silent. Sue re-
Tented.
"Some day you'll be glad you couldn't
go, dear. 1t isn't safe, in matter SO ter
ribly important, to hurry one step. To-
morrow, when we're all rested, we'll talk
things over. It's dreadfully hot in here,
with all these lights on and the windows
closed, 'Milla"
81 shut them," said Camilla, "to keep
out his singing That shows how deeply he
cares,-he could singi want the lights to
keep out the moonshine,-it creeps in under
the shades. hate i'll"
But she did not protest when Sue snapped
off half the lights and opened the windows.
Goodness and moonlight and flower scents
flooded in, with the pleasant tang of cigar
smoke from the veranda below, where Pen
was talking, very low. There began the
velvet blinking of Sues guitar, that Stor-
rington had picked up from her chair there;
and softly he began to sing La Mia Let
zia"-"Thou and l, Sweetheart" Camilla
dropped face down on the couch and COW
cred her ears.
By afternoon of the, next day, however
Sue wasn't at all sure that she hadn't
dreamed that little scene, for Camilla had
withdrawn into shell OF silence, chill sweet.
ness and placidity that de6ed the penetra-
ton of any mere human. In her basket
chair with book she read and waited the
tea hour-an enigma that apparently didn't
wish anyone's solving. The duke, his early
morning optimism lost behind thunderou:
cloud of sullen endurance, smoked too many
cigars on the veranda. Pen and Sue in des
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13

self so fascinating that two motors were
kept waiting for an hour after the rest had
gone so that certain gifted amateur, Wis
itor in the summer colony, might try over
her songs with the duke. 1t gave Sue bad
hour, for he sang love songs after such
fashion that even the heart he had estranged
must have ached with regret that it an
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13

peration took themselves to the tennis
court, played a set with almost vicious
energy, and sat down, somewhat relieved,
to weigh chances. i
"I'm willing to bet that if she would wear
short skirt like yours, could talk to her, !"
said Pen rnoodily. "What is it about just
clothes that impresses man SO! Take a
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-13
HE duchess had delicately

he duchess had dellCateIy
expressed a desire for a
quiet afternoon" Just
ourselves for tea, if it
could be managed" -but
the qualification of that
whim seemed to afford
I'LL Qualification.
The evening world., 1911-03-18
now LESLIE LOVED.
Aud How Hugo opens the Door
After u leigh of Grief.
EsLlE ID, alone m the dark. WAN

r ESLlE lies Elone IN the dark, with
such a heartache as she never
has known before. She has no
Intention OF recovering from her grief.
10 Is awful 20 suffer so, II passes tears;
She canno shed one. Leslie thinks OF
an tie men who would have gone TO
any amount OF trouble to make her
only n little happy. Yet Hugo Guilford.
whom she loves, has been willing 10
break her heart IKE this!
Leslie has gone 10 bed early with her
grief. she reflects that she viii never
buy that 'ca-gown at L.lberty's now.
or a. least, Or she buys Il, she will
never take am" Interest IN wearing II.
She vI' never any more take pleasure
100 wearing anything. And this thought
does what heavy grief has been In
capable ~ doing. II brings tears, a
shower OF them.
Weeping iu its turn brings relief. Les.
DE- begins 20 wonder about the mail
which tho butler has arranged on hei
iltting-room table, She goes langr!dly
out .u her blue dressing gown. lined
with SIX. Then, >hlyIng sat down IN tn,
easy chair by tho FIRE % read her mail
she Is suddenly aware OF hunger. 4
Nttle cold pheasant, somo hot choco.a,,
and some ~nNings-well. even sorrow. /
appears, must be fed,
After her supper Leslie accepts Lad,
Rlilingham's invitation Tor a week zen,
al the Prtory. Also Mrs. Levels iny!
The evening world., 1911-03-18
THE vow.
John Gaunt bargains With God for
the Life of His Wife.

SSr HAVE made a bargain with
God says John Gaunt. And,
= trembling, he rises from his knees
TO walt the word as 10 whether or not
ne Is to be called upon to keep his side
OF tho covenant.
That word must como from the room
wherein lies his wife, SO III that a
famous doctor has said he can do no
more for her. John Gaunt. so loving
Lady Mildred, has made a prayer
which IS a promise. thus:
Give me the life of my wife and I
vow the rest OF my life TO Your service.
Every action OF my life shall be de-
lIberate!y thought out and shall be in
accordance with the teaching of Christ"
And It r. THIS promise which gives
the title, THE Vow" TO Paul Trent's
new story. U'rederick a. Stokes Coz
Hardly has Il been spoken when the
nurse reports Lady Mildred suddenly
better. A few hours later the sick
woman Is OF danger and her nus
band rises 10 the fulflment OF his OBJ
legation.
Now, John Gaunt IL more thar n mill
ionalre IN London. and his wealth has
been founded on the West African rub
Der Industry, Ills first business under
his vow, therefore. Is 70 right as far as
may be the wrongs perpetrated in the
name OF against tho natives
Of the Congo region. Plunging fever
ishly into his crusade, he Incurs the
The evening world., 1911-03-18

tation for "a real English Christmas
Also the Gptiin Won Morgcnlicht's in
vitation to stay as long "a she pleases
at her Schloss In Germany. SO the
shadows are east ahead. but family, OF
events to come In How Leslie Loved
Itttle. Brown & Coz, the latest book
OF Anne Warmers humor and omance
Things move briskly and sometimes
not unpleassntly with the assistance of
Capt. C!caca-:y. Capt. Melton, another
man. Maurice Benedict. the Bnon Won
Dienstag. Hew L~iebesthal and others.
To be sure. there Is a plague or acous-
tics at Lady Rillingham's. and the real
Christmas" turns out a frost in more
ways than one--being spent at a fireless
country inn-desplte Mrs, Lewes's abl-
ity 10 keep everybody IN hot water.
But Maurice really hold ones hand very
nicely. and tho welcome at the Morgen-
lioht Schloss Il not to be questioned.
and q little later, at Berlin. the door
Just opens and Hugo iust walks In.
Leslie IL an American widow, very
young. very af~fectionate. very impress
Ionable. But Mrs. Lewes has no bus-
ness 10 open her kilograms.