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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08
DOCTORS
GAVE Her UP
Mrs. Stuart Finally Saved By
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound-Her
Story Interesting.

Elmo, Mo. 81 think your Vegetable
Compound is wonderful for it has helped
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Plan New chureh.-A proposition
for the erection Of a new church
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-08

Obituary Record.-Mrs. J. o. John
son, resident of Moline for many
years, died at the home in Lakefield,
Mimi, yesterday morning, according
to a telegram received by a son,
Emil Johnson of 1885 Third street.
Mrs. Johnson came to Moline with
her husband from St. Louis 81 years
ago. She was born in Sweden and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-10

Foilke, Richmond, Ind, re-elect-
ed president of National Munich
pal League. Jane Adams, Chi
cago, elected first vice-president.
New York" Kid" Shaffer,
young pickpocket, said he follow
ed Roosevelt around because
Colonel drew largest crowds.
Washington.-Postofice dept.
has issued an order that no carrier
need stop at houses where vicious
dogs are allowed to run free.
Washington.-James P. Haw-
kins has given UP position in
Louisville, KY, postoffice and an
nounced candidacy for president
of U. S. on Republican ticket.
Headquarters in future will be
Washington asylum hospital.
New York.-John w. Russell,
head of Matteawan asylum, de-
Iivered blow to Thaw defense by
saying that if slayer of White
were set free he might again COM
init murder.
Topeka, Kan.-Over 200 en-
ployers in Kansas face arrest be-
cause they ordered employees to
give up unions under penalty of
being discharged.
Milwaukee.-Lillian Brownert,
20, Chicago, and Charles Chin, 80,
Chinese, obtained marriage Ii
eense.
Kewanee, Ill.-City council has
passed ordinance forbidding for
tune-telling in any form.
St. Louis.-Aviator Korn badly |
hurt when he wrecked aeroplane
to avoid striking woman Specta-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-10


school. Distance 1000 miles. Ex-
poets to finish Sept. 9.
Boston.-Rose Pitonoff, young
swimmer, sailed for England.
Said she would swim English
channel or die in attempt.
Milwaukee.-M. Nattsky, Mar
inette, Wis, caused panic on Pere
Marquette steamer when he leap
ed into lake, crying that ship vas
sinking. Drowned. Believed de-
mented.
Pittsburg.-Citizens of Lyon
ier, where big wreck occurred last
Friday costing 10 lives, investi-
eating report that Engineer
Frank McConnaghey, who was
killed, had love trouble and short
time before had cut throat in at
tempt at suicide. .
Corning, N. Y. - Charles
Klapproth, saloonkeeper, Elmira,
N. Y, testified that Engineer
William Schroeder, who drove
40 persons to death on Lackawan-
ma road, July 4, was SO drunk he
could hardly be aroused to make
run.
Trenton, N. J.-Samuel Com
pers, American Federation of
Labor, after conference with
Wilson, approved of Democratic
platform.
Cumberland, Md.-Sand Patch
tunnel, 1000 feet long, B. & o.
railroad caVed IN instant after
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
Voice Of the People
Taft-I,ooscvelt Jingle.

President TAFT and Roosevelt, so, N
And at the start neither said any.
thing.
And II they both had persisted IN
Our country would have been saved
from much r!diculc:
su' THIS rule OF dignity did no. su't
And he soon cried out. Taft. have
All eyes were then turned on Presi-
dent Tart.
While Roosevelt, reyiling. said you are
guilty OF graft:
Then mud began 10 ny both thick
and fast,
But all the while the country stood
aShast.
Taft refused to Stub. and so increased
hooseyelrs Ire.
SO to bring on fight. he said.
ra,. TAFT You are liarV
mence replied.
IT is not /, Roosevelt. but you who
have lcd.'
And then, asionishingly. to the coun-
They carried mud and slime in a heat
cd campaign.
And now, sadly, to conclude this ii.tlo
ditty
They took their cases to the national
committee.
The committee sat at Chicago and de-
But Roosevelt cried the more you are
guilty of graft
And tried 70 intinidatc the chairman,
Colonel New:
But the chairman manfu!ly said II
am up TO YOU"
SO the degrading fight becomes dark
and strong.
While the whole country IS saying,
This Is all wrong
Recall OF Judges. and all such insane
Republican. socialistic and autocratic-
To save our great country we will 20
Democratic.
We will give no man or men such
kinEiy powers
And will have no third term In this
country OF ours.
Chester. CIIAS y. FRIEND.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
VOTE Is TO RREMovAu..
Raleigh VIII Lose Home Office of In
sUrnnce COMPANY.

Especial TO The Times Dispatch.
Raleigh, y. c.. Iunc 2l.-Thc stock
holders OF the Jcffersou Standard Lie
Insurance Company in special session
here to-day. voted to change the To-
cation of the home office from Raleigh
TO some other North Carolina city, to
be selected ny the directors. the OBJ
ject being to move the office to Green's
boro. movement. principally Of Raj
eigh stockholders having blocked plans
10 effect n merger with tho Green's
boEo Life Insurance Company.
There were 4,64S shares of stock
represented in the meeting and the
vote stood ASH for removal and 2.277
against removal. n majority Of ninety
nine for removal The vote followed
which many Raleigh stockholders in
sisted that Raleigh should not be
banned for the action OF the policy
holders committee in blockingi the
merger. and holders OF big blocks OF
shares. including Colonel Walker tTay-
Tor and III. c. Mcqueen. Of Wilmn 5 on.
insisted that the opposition was de-
Veloped here and Raleigh must bc
planned and take her punishment and
that tho vote should be for removal.
The stockholders elected two new
direotors. Frank II, Stewman, OF Fay
etteville. and NJ II, Weitner. OF IIick-
Later at n meeting of tho director
three other directors were elected as
toiiewsl DR. r, p, Graham. Waildcoi
s III Anderson, Wilsoni J, W, Johnson,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22

might rake more muck. He has bull
lied, shocked. overr,dden. denounced.
thundcrcd platitudes. revampcd the
Zen tournaments into slang. won tho
hearW OF the people b. his incarna-
tion of their own reStless energy
and all OF this has been needed and
Reality medicine upon moribund
POLITICAL quicsccnce.
lie has done nothing more because
tEe sum OF his spirit was action. lie
mad no constructive craftsmanship to
offer: he preached no fundamental re-
form. He believed in himself like the
lightning bolt and he purified the
air, but generated no power Now
the country has gone ny him. He is
no longer needed. In the SPACE that
mis- reckless burning has cleared. must
come the builders, who. with slow wis
dom and firm principles, will create
nobler and finer nation. This is
what he mas failed to realize For
ten years he held the public
charmed by his gyrations. His fame
scorched. but it gave light.
lie created insurgency. but he gave
IL no foundation. HES defeat means
not the triumph of Taft and the Stand
Fat Conservatives. but the relentless
march of progress nearer tho promised
land. II his nature had been different,
he could have seized upon a great page
of history by helping the new dcmoo-
raccy without trying to overturn it. He
could have been the Only useful ex-
President. But he was what his own
soul made him. Now his day is done.
The impersonal hand of destiny used
MN to arouse. like a loud trumpet. Now
the same hand lays hin, aside to take
up tho tools OF builder He had only
the sword to offer. and the time has
come for the plough an6 the spade.
History will give him a share of
glory as the Apostle of the Strenuous
Life. And It Is not without high
tragedy that his own strenuous life
SHOULD have ended In passionate pro
test of futility. He has served. us IN
strange ways. Let him rest in peace.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
"yirE1nia."

Down in Old Virginia. the dear "Oid
Mother State"
a land with pride. where sons and
daughters dwell;
Her very sod is sacred. as history does
relate.
or her many noble sons. We need
but tell.
From the mountains to the seashore
in the valleys and the dale,
Her hospitable people live and dwell
can prevail
That's just the same TO those who
know her we'll
Let these who live within her bounds
protect and shield her name,
And love her as the days shall pass
away:
For no place could I.fe be dearer or
just the very same.
And within our hearts It's pleasant
memories stay
We dedicate this poem to this great
and grand Old State:
We love her very sod on which wa
tread
How could we hut be loyal and Just
tho facts relate
That this grand "Old Mother State"
A. r. TUCKER
Carson.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
CLARK ON CLEVELAND.

Grover Cleveland was the only
Democrat who carried the country
in ffty-two years. and no carried it
twice by sweeping maJoritics The
leading aspirant for the Democratic
nomination at Baltimore is Champ
Clark, who is recorded as having on
the floor of the House of Representa-
tivcs compared Cleveland to Judas
lscariot. The speech was delivered on
May 3, 1898. at the hciEh, of the Span
ish-Amerisan War. and In the course
of 1t Clark said. according to the
Congressional Record
There are but two men in the
hoarY registers OF time that Clcvc-
lands name ought to he associated
with-Judas lscariot ana Benedict
=: Arnold. Shades Of Arnold' Forgive
the proclamation He at least. did not
have substitute to dp his lighting
tpon reflection. think really / ought
10 beg the pardon of IuFds 1scariot,
because after his treason he did have
the grace to 20 out and hang him
self"
Nor was this Clark's only dcnuncia-
ton of Cleveland. On March 90. 1891.
Clark discussed In the House tho mis-
fortune Of tho country in coming un-
der Republican rule as a result of the
election of 1886. The present Speak
er was smarting under the attack
upon the Democrats by Republican
lSdcrs of Congress who sought to
place thc b2amc for Tho panic OF
1898 upon the shoulders of Cleveland.
CLARK then said, according to tho
Congressional Record:
MIR Speaker once for all want
to unload from the neck OF tho Dem
o[r",le party that dreadful old man
oil the sea Grover ClevclandO Grov-
or Cleveland is not Democrat AS
q Democrat bred and born. under
standing it's traditions, ready always
ana everywhere 10 battle for its ira
H'ions solemnly declare that lie
never was a Democrat We rcpudi-
ate him and all his WORKS. win
not ABUSE him. He is not worth it"
The National Democratic Convention
OF 1905 took a different view OF
Cleveland from Mr. CIark's. BY a
rising vote tina, was unanimous that
convention adopted resolution dc
clarins that in Grover Cleveland it
recognized
one or the strongest and
ahlos+ characters known 10 the worlds
staiesmanship. who possessed to am
extraordinary Gegrce the elements OF
leadership, and by his able conscicn-
t!ous and forceful administration of
public affairs, reflected honor upon
his country and his party"
Tic convention then adjourned out
Of respect to the memory OF tho only
Democratic President the country has
known In more than half a century
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
According 10 I,ncIn Ahns

1t hents all what an Interest som,
People take In their youngsters hap
piness along about circus day.
Mrs. TANK Purdy was kickin. on,
IN front OF the post-oiiice the other
Way because she bad !been waitin.
Tor her husband putty nigh an hour
ana Miss Amy Rinslc said that it
MIS-. Hank had waited for n man as
long as She had She would have r
real kick coming
Ame liiiliker went to sleep while
on his suiky plow the other day and
me moss piowed furrow clear down
70 INC Golden Nugget Saloon through
force OF habit, ana Anne has been
plnched for rippin' up the rud.
one good thing about the aero
plane VII! he that the delicious bou
quet OF the gasolcne Will rise in tho
air Instead Of Illnsertn' around on
.hH Srounn 20 1t does after the oat-
Uncle Ezra Harkins ~ thinktn
some OF tak!n' lessons In cartoon
work, as there is q few politicians
around here that he wants Ia got
even with. but the probability Is that
about all Uncle Ez will ever be able
TO draw VIII be his pension
Dromldcs.
Say, Hortense. have you an, ,da
fall?" '"' '"d last
You're the limit. Blanche You
want me to paint this house a DIFF
iercht color every spring. Do YOU
think I'm made OF money!"
Where is my thin ones? know
/ mad about ten union suits Lass
oh, thunder! mat two-piece suit
of mine is so full of mots hole :,
looks as though It had gone through
the battle OF Gettysburg.
You worry the life out of a wo
man hubert. How in tophet do
Know where you put the lawnmower
oil can last fall
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
No DEMOCRATIC NARROWER.

Inc Baltimore sun heeds the lesson
OF past experience in warning the
-, ''o''''lc party that 1t is confront
'.' win t"e peru OF overconfdence. ana
'i''' ine "rangles and divisions in
'' H'pNol'7n party may be moro
'iF"1''ous no the Pemocra'ic party
.'"" 10 'he HePuolican party" If the
o'4e'e at baltimore that
guy "'''' OF 'e'nocra5 can win. be
we l'eru"l'can party Is split
"' "'''"oe VIII spell defeat. The
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22

There is to be no walkover. The
Democrats can succeed IL they nomi-
nate strong man, but they VIII fail
Democratic host in this fight must be
not simply mealymouthed professor
OF platitudInous principles. but Il man
whose record Joined with his prin-
ciplcs will constitute a platform OF
proved efficiency. He must be able to
swing the independent vote. or the
day is lost. He must attract Rcpubn-
can strength, or the day is lost. The
supreme consideration Is the nominal
ton of such n man. and personal popu-
lerity. logrolling and personal choice
must give way to such n consideration
mere record will not win u cam
paign for the Democrats. 4 .lerc plat
form. however high and praiscworthy.
cannot carry the country for the
Democrats. y man with a record who
stands for principles, which hts re-
cord has shown he stands for is the
party cannot afford to rely on divi-
sion in the Republican ranks to carry
the country for the Democracy. The
Republican party has shown in the
past that. however It may be d.
viGcd. it can be united on election day.
In 1872 1t was badly split Some OF
It's ablost leaders deserted 1t. among
them sumner and Greeley. the strong
est men in the party. They boltcd and
put an Independent ticket In the field
That tickct was supported by the
Democrats. The Republican party was
split. 1t had TO go to the country be-
smirched with the rcdit-Mobilicr fraud
and with enormous corruption written
en- ta record. Yet 1t won, and it won
by great majority.
Overconhdence has lost numb erless
battles 1t carries Indifference in its
train, and Indifference IS the mother
of corruption and machine control If
overcontidence lulls the Democracy
into lotuslidded Aip. the Democratic
hope will turn to ashes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22

Discussing Yesterday the Paving
MIDDLE" The Times Dispatch inciden-
tally and in general and tentative
way made reference to the use oil
wood blocks for paving in other
cities. and the satisfactory results
thereof ConcidenEally we find an
interesting and informatory article
bearing on this subject in Wednes-
days issue OF the Birmingham News.
That contemporary article relates
TO no question OF particular contract
or issue OF local street paying or i'm
provement. 1t is broad exploita-
ton of the value of the yellow pine
OF the State as source or paving
supply. In support however. of It's
argument, that Alabama has a mine
OF wealth in her yellow pine growth
and in urging the further develop
nent Of the yellow pine paving block
industry. which, it says. Is as Vet in
its incipicncy. the News cites some
convincing instances of the satisfac-
tory and enduring character of the
material One experiment is illustra
tive OF many, and may be said to have
afforded a thorough test.
1t has. notes the News. been less
than ton years since indiana polls
placed the first important order for
long leaf yellow pine paving blocks
with Birmingham hrm-an order
which is said TO have inauGurated the
one of paving with this well known
Southern staple In 1903 Delaware
street Indianapolis. was paved with
the MATERIAL. and no pavement In
the city has given greater satisfaction
or cost less for maintenance So we'll
pleased, It Is added. have the people
become with the innovation that dur
Ing the past six years the city has
made large use OF pine paving. The
News goes on to state that employ
mcnt OF the material has spread from
from which. it implies. similar graft
Tying reports come. and thinks expert
oncc establishes that thcfe can be- no
better, more lasting, moro sanitary.
and, in the long run. any less expcn-
sivc paving than yellow pine blocks.
when they are thoroughly creosoted
and properly laid
Whether other woods would make
equally good and economical paving
we arc not prepared to say. but. on
the evidence adduced by our Alabama
contemporary rs to tho yellow pine
block ii might he we'll for our au-
thoritics to give consideration 10 that
material and to the whole subject
Of wood paving before making fur
Their paving contracts.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
irirst Confederutn Killed.

VINO WAS The first soldier OF the
Confcderacy killed in battle: when and
where was he killed? a. NJ s.
Henry Lawson Wyatt born in Rich
mond. Va. tclatmed. of course. by
North Carolina); killed June 10, 1861,
in the skir-m!sh known as the battle
of Big Bethel, some five miles west
OF Hampton. Captain Mari had been
killed In the sk!rmish at Fairfax on
June ! {; several persons had been killed
before that In Baltimore. and Jack
son. OF Alexandria. butchered by Ellis
worth's Zoauves. But the more formal
circumstances of battle connected with
the death of Wyatt have been regard
cd as sufficient to constitute that the
earliest fatality on stricken field"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
On the Spur ofthe Moment
By Roy X. Moulton
The Picnic scnsop.


oh JOY. OH rapture, children dear,
The picnic season now is here.
80 telephone and set the hunch
And pack the old dyspepsia lunch
Din pickles, houghnuts. hard boiled
cGgs,
Cold por" and Seans and chicken
legs,
Potato salad. cottage cheese.
Let all the folks bring what they
please.
or course, they surely VIII all bring
Again the same old sort of thing.
Get on an interurban car
And ride, it matters not now far
And see If you can find place
Where trespassers they do not chase.
Desert your hot and sultry flats.
Get out among the flies and Inats,
MOSQUITOES. chggers and the like,
The bugs that never so on strike.
Get all the rest that YOU can take
By pulling kids out OF the lake
y mile away or some such thing.
Ana long before the hour of ten
Begin to long for home again
participate In family jars
And run four miles TO eaten the cars
AZ midnights hour or thereabout,
Get home hot. cross and tired out.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
Division of Ink,

have just bought a farm In vir-
GINA. Please tell me what part Of
the taxes for the curren, year must
pay. J. D. W
Taxes for any year are due by the
person who was owner by record on
the hrst day of the preceding Fcbru-
airy. The person who sold you the
land is liable for the taxes until Feb
ruary 1913. 1t is common for buyer
and seller TO make such division OF the
tax for that year IN which sale takes
place as snail be equitable to both,
dividing the amount into parts proper
Tomato TO the length Of cach mans
tenancy. But the State has no con-
Germ with such arrangement and It
is solely one OF agreement between
tho parties, or perhaps of local Gus
tom. You might buy Il farm on the
last day Of January, paying the owner
IN cash, and lind that YOU would have
10 lose the amount OF the taxes for
the year just past. II the late owner
had not paid the taxes. tho land would
be bound for II, your title would be
secondary to that az the state, ard
YOU might not be able to recover the
sum from the seller.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
Dutch Auction.

Please toll mo what q Dutch auc-
ton" IS MISS y. r, THOMAS
Auction IS Latin. augoo. to increase,
tho prico OF an arttclo increasing with
oach bid From about 1850 datas tho
English tendency TO usn tho adjective
Dutch" In tho sense OF "unus,tal
queer. contrary TO rommon usage. etc.
and wa have Dutch COURAGE" Dutch
unole," etc, 20. IN England, that auc-
ton In which tho seller started with
u high prioe and came down by degrees
until h6 found a buyer. heinz exactly
contrary to tho usual auction, was
called 'Dutoh." although it seems to
have been praoticei long before this
adjective Was applied to- 1t, Tho me tn
ed of placing q piece of goods consptau-
mh!oh Is dImihashea every day untI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
TWENTY-NINE LIVES LOST
Passenger Steamer ON the Danube Is
DPstrONPu by Fire

Vienna. June 2l.--Twenty-nine lives
were lost in the destruction of pas
sengcr steamer by tire to-day on the
Danube. The hungarian passenger
steamer Queen Elizabeth was carrying
party Of eXcursionists lrp the historic
river whom the boat was discovered on
fire. The flames spread with surpris-
ing l-ap!dity. and a panic ensued among
the passengers. Many jumped over
hoard. while others tried to get out
lifeboats. Some managed to swim
ashore. but twenty nine were drowned.
ono passenger. seeing that death was
!nevttable shot himself
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-22
She Fixed Him Al; i,Isht.

The lecturer waXod eloquent upon
nature How beautiful lis nature
he exclaimed. "how powerful. how
grand how poetic. How much She
has done for all OF US. What has
she done for You. brother. and you
ana YOU" continued the speaker
pointing out various members OF tho
audience.
fina"y he pointed TO tail gen
And what has nature done for YOU.
brother?"
The man rose painfully and Walk
eu TO Inc platform. turning ami fac
ing the audience. He was knock
kneed' had fiery red hair. and was
cross eyed and had hare lip
wen. he said. Il Eueth you can
me. Thee fixed me all right"