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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

QUESTIONS.
mings he had laid down a rule for his
guidance which he preferred not on
any account to break through. This
rule was that he would not make any
but formal visits to the women of his
congregation and all spiritual instruc-
ton must be administered at the
church. He did not explain why he
had made this rule. He simply stated
the fact.
A few weeks later the Cummings
family physician, DR.. bingham Treat,
was called in to see Dorothy. He look
ed at her tongue, felt her pulse and
stuck little glass thermometer in her
mouth. Then he took out the prescrip-
ton blank with which doctors invari.
ably end call, especially a first call,
and wrote a prescription. This done.
he left her. stating that the trouble
was not serious. As soon as he had
gone Dorothy threw his prescription
into the fire.
being no better. her father called up
DR.. Treat by telephone and was in
formed that he had gone to Smiths
drug store. Mr.. Cummings phoned the
doctor there and asked him to call on
Dorothy, since she was no better, and
he cher father was worried about her.
Treat, having forgotten what medicine
he had recommended the girl and not
wishing It to appear that the case was
not constantly on his mind. asked
Smith. who sold the Cummingses all
their drugs, to look up the prescrip-
ton and tell him what he had ordered
Smith discovered that no prescription
mings family had been recently filed.
On his way to visit the patient the
doctor was stopped by the Rev. Mr..
Fordham to inquire about Miss Cum
mings. He wished to know whether
Dorothy was very sick and gave con-
fdentially as reason her request that
he should call to administer spiritual
advice, his refusal. according to his
rule. stating further that IL she were
In danger he would not hesitate to go
to her at once.
! The doctor promised the clergyman
that II Dorothy should become dan
gerously I'll be would notify him and
Grove on. But on the way he did some
I thinking. He was nobody's fool. and
/ iutting the information he had de
rived from the clergyman with that
OF the druggist and having suspected
that his patient was perfectly well,
| he began to see through her little
scheme. Having arrived at the Cum
mings home. he went through the usual
/ formalities of professional call and
1 on departing Informed the fSmily that
his own health was breaking down
| from overwork and be was about to
| give mp his practice for at least year
He would. however. write out q state.
/ ment OF Dorothy's case. so far as be
] had observed 1t. which might be OF
service to any physician who should
nexf treat her. Sitting down In tbs
library. he wrote:
Gy diagnosis Of this case Is that Their
| is cordial affection There are freauen
heart gatherings followed by depression
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
CRockford Starr

tRockford Starr
What is the chief source of your in
conner" a reporter asked Mr.. Bryan
when he was in Kansas recently. MY
lectures and the Commoner, the week
~ paper | own" said he. THE most
ever took in for a lecture was at
Wichita, where the contract was that
! should have certain percentage of
the gate receipts. My part was about
81 SEQ. Generally, however, / get from
$500 to $500. must add. though. that
much Of my speaking and lecturing is
done free. For political speaking, /
have always paid my own expenses.
Charity lectures are numerous and
those for patriotic purposes. Count
ing political speeches, lectures for
charity. for libraries. for patriotic pur-
poses and the like, over one-third of
my addresses are made without price. "
II is said Mr.. Bryan is worth $780,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Talking Of paving material, leather
pavement has stood a successful trial
of year near Birmingham. England.
4 he material Is leather waste. shred
ded almost TO pulp. and treated with
oitumen and tar. The road is not az.
fected by heavy wheels, gives on little
dust, resists wear. and is not infiuenc.
I'D by weather. Its noiselessness and
springiness give a novel kind of com
fort to horses and drivers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

What is presumably the largest sign
In the state of Washington or the world
was recently constructed on the east
bank Of the Columbia river. just above
the town OF Beverly. From the win
dows OF passing trains It catches the
eye Of the traveller and may easily be
seen for a distance OF several miles.
The sign is nearly a quarter of a mile
long; the letters are 40 feet wire and
leo feet high.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Montreal is to have a costly railway
terminal. A subsidiary line of the Can
Gdian Northern has completed plans for
effecting an entrance into the heart Of
the city OF Montreal by building a
three-mile tunnel under Mount Royal
The total cost Of the tunnel and ter
minal together will be S25,OOO,OOO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

General Reyes is said to be loose in
Mexico again. How can Mexico be a
real live civil rights government when
there is always some one driving it to
the necessity Of being headed by a
military dictator? Madero may have
10 become another Diaz in spite OF him
Veif
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Colorado potatoes are sold at fancy
fruit prices in New York. The plebeian
tuber is hand cleaned, wrapped in It's
sue paper singly and finds a market at
five cents q pound.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Ten provinces IN China have adopt
ed a constitution modelled on that of
the United States. But will it last as
icng as the model?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

If you are suffering from biliousness.
constipation, indigestion. chronic head
ache, invest one cent in a postal card,
send to Chamberlain Medicine COM
pany. Des Moines. Iowa, with your
name and address plainly on the back,
and they viii forward you a free sam
PIE of Ghamberlain's Stomach and Liy-
ct Tablets. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island. IL IEn-
tered at the postofnce as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Member of the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Maybe Teddy is not working the
press mill for all IT is worth Just at
this particular moment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

A blooming idiot is often plucked
green.
Because a man belongs to a good
government league is no sign that he
pays any more taxes than the inquisitor
compels him to pay.
You can't make man good by leg
islation, yet many a man has made
good thing out of it.
How times have changed! Our grand
mothers made clothes for the heather;
our daughters make heather Of them
selves for clothes.
girl never knows how ugly a hat
can be until a girl she doesn't like
wears ii.
better when she is selecting a gown
that her husband should cooperate
with her only as far as signing the
check.
Lots of women act like towards be
cause they think it is mannish not to
be afraid.
A man can get more fun out of dog
fight than a woman can get out of a
bargain sale in half day.
When you notice girl taking an in
terest in the high cost Of living you are
not surprised to see her hemstitching
table linen.
What does it avail a man to win an
election bet and have to use the money
TO pay a debt that he had thought was
outlawed?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
So Similar Perhaps.

30 Similar Perhaps.
"Some Of our greatest statesmen
couldn't be president"
"Who, for instanceT
Henry Clay for one"
"What was the reason Clay's name
was mud?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
Fall Varietv.

Yes, summer, winter, spring or fall
Or anything you care to say
The weather man supplies them all.
And often In a single day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

One Way Of Looking at It.
'ewhy do you appear so happy?"
81 have Just been disappointed in
love-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Be a good fellow. Be a Santa Claus
to poor children.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Her Curiosity.
"She always asks her husband to
wait minute"
ITO powder her noseT'
. mo; to see if he will wait"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
DEC. Is in American
History

1s14-The famous Hartford convention
tanti-war met at Hartford. Coan.
1S73-Louis Agassiz. celebrated nat
uralist. director of the museum of
zoology at Cambridge. died; born
1907.
i908-DonalG @. Mitchell Ok MarveI>.
noted esseyist and novelist, died at
Edgewood. Conn. born 1922.
Mrs. Pinhead-Yon SaiS @efore va
were married that my word should be
law Mr. rinhead-That was before
found out that the law was uncon-
stitn PhiIadeiDhia Bulletin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

On the Chain Gang.
whats Bill been doingY
Painting the town."
"Where is he nowT
"Paying for the paint"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

"Say."
"Yes."
'What would you suggest as being
the first requisite to success in the
chicken business?"
ct think a man would better acquire
a rich wife and while he is about 1t a
wealthy father-in-law."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMs.-Daily. 10 cents per week.
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made 10 the circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where II is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority IN the premises.
All communications OF argumentative
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Telephones in all departments: Central
Union, West il5 and 1145; Union Elec-
trio. BIAS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

Good Suggestion.
"He has an uneasy conscience"
"And you say he Is hard upT'
Yes"
"Why doesn't he hire his conscience
out as a burglar alarm and make
enough so he won't need to work."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

A blooming idiot is often plucked
green.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

You can't make a man good by leg
islation, yet many a man has made a
good thing out of 1t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

What does it avail man to win an
election bet and have to use the money
TO pay a debt that he had thought was
outlawed?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-15

How times have changed! Our grand
mothers made clothes for the heather;
our daughters make heather of them
selves for clothes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
BILL VINES ON MEXICO

full of holes it would look like Mir. AL cocks justly celebrated porus plasters.
 A wah with Mexico, If it should be so dignifyed, would not amount to as much as a plane case Of assault and battery Tn Breatht county, Kentucky. What they need is a good spanking; it's cumming b them, Mistur Edditur, beleeve me. cant say that I beleeve in taking there coun- try away frum them just cause we can, tho I am free to say that it will cum to that for they have no native suns capabul of running it. but at least we ought to see that the common peepul in Mexico, and that's 120 per cent of the populasion, get a square deel. There's no use of us setting up and throwing fits ovver the esteemed Munroe doctrin. whatever 1t is, and then let the half-baked little coun- tries ovver on our side of the branch mutulate the scenery, and sass us besides. The Mexico situason demands the care full attension of demmercratic congress. and they should give it there attension only with the view of suppressing a new sance, but when the suppressing con- dun In a thorough and emphatic man. her. The quicker you harpoon one of these Castle Soapy gentlemen when he gets too gay. the moor respect he'll have for you in the future, and they should be told one time, and only once, to make 8 noise like a fade away, and those that didn't should be maid the feeding attrac- tion at a mllitery funeral.
 Sum day before long we have got to do 1t. and it will cost sum mummy, and In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
Mistur Edditur:

Mistur Edditur:
 Don't you think it is about time a poliseman was sent to tend to that lit- tie toy fite down south of us? Not that we give a durn what happens to eether one of the greezers, but, they air be- ginnig to get rite up in our back yard and keep us awake at mites with there eternal din, and they tell us also that a stray bullet or two has punctured one or two of our kids. Fire arms air dangerus in the hands of such peepul and the next thing we know they'll kill a COW or sumthing.
 Mexico needs streightenig out enny- how. The insurrecters have insur- rected and insurged and manifestoed and got into the news papers and made noise like they weer going aftur old Dyazs bacun, but, it looks like a long drawn out joke rum where we stand and in the meen time, the ignorant serfs for they air nuthing else of that un- fortunate country air the reel sufferers. They have no moor yoise in there tom fool government than Champ Clark would have at republican caucus, and have newer had. Dyaz runs the thing like he owned 1t, and If enny body dares to make fase at him to the bastile he goes, and there he stays till ne gets @ transfer ticket to the grave yard. Mexico is naturally ritch country, Sonora where all the rumpus
 Is going on. Is the wealthyest spot on the globe in silver and copper. and tn e
 land under irrigasion yeeids immense crops, but, what does it amount to? Nuthing, and newer will so long as the depotic inflewances of Dyaz and his henchmen air permitted to control. There is not country under the sun so thoroughly ruled by one man, and yet he blinds the nations of the world by the name of Republic to his bloom
 Ing outfit It Is Just about as ap- propryate as Snow Balp' is to little pic -niny whose fase would make n dark spot in barrel of tar. The riter was down in Sonora in 1908, and about 15O Yacky Indians had the whole pop ulasion huddled up in few towns, and the Government had ovver 1000 all iedged soldiers in the state to suppress them. and this state of affares had ex- isted for oyver two yeers. Most of the soldiers weer working on the ranch of the Guverner of Sonora and the guv- Srnment paid there wages, l was told. And I wish you could see a Mexican sol dier of the regular army.
 He looks like the heavy man in comic opera, and is moor of a joke. I'll bet a seesun ticket to the ball game that Il single division of United States soldiers can march rum the Rio Grande to Mex leo City. take old man Dyazs tobacco away frum him and kick him into the Gulf of Mexico, and get back home in time for supper. And yet our jelly spined President says 1t may meen long wah, if we insist upon these heethen staying off the grass. Oh. for 90 days of Teddy in the White House. Long wah, nuthing. If Mexico has enny respect at all for her valued tocsin of wah, she had better not give Chipmunk county, Texas, evven whack at it. for she would shoot 1t so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

a 0 D. n of n e "A per Famont lots will bring this figure too and that very short time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
A School of Regring

The police authorities at Homei have arrested a notorious character named David Kotchmel, known throughout Rus sia as the king of the beggars. Kotchmel had founded in the principal provincial towns schools of mendacity, where he had organized veritable course of in- struction for his pupils in the art of whee- ding money from the charitable, and which in turn he made his pupils hand over to him
 Tt is not this which has brought him under the law. He seems to have been Q bigamist, or rather polygamist. for he was possessed of 20 wives, each living in a. different town. In addition to hfs mendacity and polygamy, his mendacity included the production of forged papers of identity as the preliminary to his many marriages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

nerve, but I don't give a damn for his judgmentl'
 Yet, Mountain Terrace made good" And one big job bred another, and so it has gone on.
 MT. Jemison was chairman of the com mittees which financed and constructed the Chamber Of Commerce and the Elm pire buildings. His company acts today as rental agent for these great office buildings. MT. Jemison served as pres ident of the Chamber of Commerce in 1906 and the following year as president of the Alumni association of the Univer- sity of Alabama
 He has been identified with nearly every movement of public importance set on foot in Birmingham-is distinctly a man of public spirit.
 His office today is about as busy a place as you can find in town.
 When in all the wide world do you ever get time to think any, MT. Jemison7' Young Bob'' is asked and he smilingly replies:
 "Why, do all my thinking at home in the evening It makes me-" he says, 'in- teresting to my familyl'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

~but to do something! To do something worth while in your community to make your name honored and respected while you are living and after you are gone: to try to have some influence that will reach out in some big results for other people-thats the thing
 What Corey Stands For
 Take simply the ideal of which Corey is an expression today, that has caught like wild fire' over-town. Other real es- tate concerns are engaging the same landscape art and effect in the devel opment of their properties, many resi- dence owners are making their grounds garden spots; the city parks will be given impetus. All Birmingham will reap benefits from Corey.
 To trace the evolution of the Jemson Real Estate company is a volume in it. self.
 When young MT. Jemison was at length able to realize his hopes, leave college and buckle right down to bus mess and nothing else excepting bus mess. he got him desk room in some bodys office, and started in as a real estate agent. Now he will soon have him skyscraper His first lots sold were up in New Jersey.
 Although back of him was his fathers name, influence and wealth. Young Bob"' did not trade on being his fathers son. Not bit of it.
 He hood his own row.
 He had harder job than most people think he had. Very few rich mems sons have eyer worked as relentlessly as Rob- ert Jemison, Jr. Then, too, he had cer- tain original ideas of the real estate business. That 1t should be conducted as department store is run was one of them.
 He reached out farther than most young business men dare. When he undertook the making of Mountain Terrace, and his engineers were encountering about ev- cry species of geology known in the everlasting blasing of that everlasting road, many a conservative shook his head.
 MT. Walker Percy relates himself how when once he was out there taking @ look at the awful job, he turned to his colleague of the golf links. and said:
 ''Well, I like young Bob Jemison's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
The Gentle Hint


 north country collier, anxious to pop the question to a girl whom he honestly admired, but unable to sum up courage to ask her the question outright, adopted a method of sounding her as. to her idea of matrimony.
 "Jenny, ma 1ass," he said nervously. "Ah've insured my life" ] 'IIas ta, lad?" said Jenny. indifferently. Aye, and Ahm silly for doing so."
 ''Iow's that?"
 Why, suppose An get killed t pit, where dost think [ money go?"
 Why, to thy fevther, for sure"
 True enuf, an it isn't fair, 1t ought to be paid to ma wife.''
 "To thy wife; why. tha hasn't got one!' That's just it," said Bill; but thou's a nice lass, Jenny, and I want thee to hey that money
 "why couldn't tha say so at f1rst?' cried Jenny, .joyfully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

order to get it back we will just make a b-divission out of Sonora and Chiwawa. We'll live to see this dun. Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

I haven't any of them yet" said friend sarcas- ically s'point out of them.'
 ''heyre in the trees explained s'The birds are still singing There's nothing radically wrong with the weather when the birds unefu We don't like this cool spell ourse but it makes the day aborer task easier and md mules are not kicking against it."
 ou are in good humor because work the boulevard Norwood Place progressing well suggested friend
 Thinking about Norwood Place and it's grand future will out anyone in good humor, reorted. .Iry it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
"The Woods Are
 Full of Them.'

"1t would take thirty-third degree optimist to see any good in the abnormally cool weather we are having now," said a friend.
 r "There are plenty of thirty third degree optimists then,'' we
The Delta independent., 1911-09-29
DELTA TAKES EVERYTHING
WORTH WHILE AT PUEBLO

Continued from page one)
The Delta independent., 1911-09-29
Kansas for Taft.

AS President Taft continues his
tour westward it becomes more and
more apparent that the so-called
dissatisfaction in certain narrowly
confined quarters with his admins
tration and the bugaboo of opposi-
ton to his denomination are only
myths, enlarged through a handful
of dissatisfied officeholders and Of
flee seekers. 1t also becomes more
evident with each succeeding lap of
the presidents trip that progressive
Republicans regard him as the gen
uine type of progressive.
There is cause for deep satisfac-
tion in the reception given Mr.. Taft
in Kansas Sunday. There, a gener-
ally accepted insurgent state, the
president was given a hearty re-
ception. OF course this was not un-
looked for. 1t would not be even
in a community where the most bit
ter feeling existed. AS the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation he would be
bound to receive much attention.
But it is significant when men held
up to the public as insurgents" in
its broadcast sense, engaged in a
movement to oppose Mr.. Taft to
the last ditch and as assailants of
his administration, will meet on an
equal footing and shower upon that
man so much attention as was ac-
corded him in Kansas. And furth-
ermore, a straw which indicates
which direction the wind is blow
ing, was the assurance of the nat
ional committeeman that Kansas
would give to Mr.. Taft, a solid dele
cation at the next national conven-
tion.-Pueblo Chieftain.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-29
Hans and Fritz on the I<irmcss

Vhat.you don tgo in dem Kirmess'
Fritz? You not see all der shyp-
sizes mid tamborines vich go dis
way und dot way round, und der lit
tie butterflies and roses-ach, Fritz.
Schoer! schoer! You not see de
Swiss milk maids vot skip schust
like fairies. und sing about dot leet-
lie barefoot poy? Fritz. you not see
de vimmens all in white mid lights
all blue. red and pink What fall und
kneel all schust like Heimmel.
Dose little Shonny Slump ups
What make you cry and iaugh-any-
thing else? Fritz, / say. peoples
from der garden NIT Eden What move
like valves from der sea. Und what
you call it? boys ind girls NIT sticks
und make love, looks so! You go
init dot Kirmess in und laugh, cry
and grow young.
The Delta independent., 1911-09-29

We hate to knock but daily pa
pers are pretty bum when they
don't print the news of the imme-
diate vicinity for their subscribers.
The Grand Junction papers didn't
mention the fact that Delta county
took sweepstakes on fruit and all
the individual prizes that were worth
while. We haven't any idea why
they should be so reckless as to
overlook such an important news
item. Why, either of them could
have a big scoop on the other, any
day for the past week but they
just don't seem to care. There was
a little six-line local in the Senti-
mel one day, saying that Delta coun-
ty had won sweepstakes on pota-
toes, but nothing has been said of
fruit. Before this time next year
they will be hollering about how
they made Delta county draw in
her horns at the big fairs and ex-
positions in 1911. Another thing
we are wondering, is whether or
not the Sentinel is fully convinced
that Delta county will ship half
as much fruit as Mesa as it stat
ed short time since that we would
not? ?