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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
J. P. Wallace of Rock Island
Writes letter which may be Of great
to skin sufferers Of this city:

interest to skin sufferers Of this city:
Rock Island, Ill
think your ID. -. u wonderful and
one that stands alone In its class. j suf-
ferrd seven years with chronic eczema.
try ing most everything / could hear Of.
without results. I finally purchased "A
bottle or -. -. -, and thought it made
me worse at first. but by the time ] got
the bottle used up ] could see the ecze-
ma drying up; the itching entirely
made me permanent cure.
] also call IL matches for cleansing
the scalp and aiiaying Itching. scalp
humOrs, Graduating daudrun and re
moving obnoxious doors and prevents
falling out Of the hair. I gave ID. -. II.
trial on my scalp and find II just a 3
you say and cannot recommend IL too
highly to my friends as an article OF
true merit
Should you ever want TO put this In
print. you may do 50, At VIII be the
cause OF doing someone else good
J. =. WALLACE.
Twentieth street and Third avenue.
So many convincing statements, si.n-
liar to the above. have been made to
US privately by sufferers from agra
waited skin diseases 10 whom we have
sold the d. d. ID. Prescription, that we
feel bound to give it our unqualified
endorsement
Harper House pharmacy. corner
| Nineteenth street and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17

RESULTS IN WATERFOWL.
d. Y. Allsbrow was elected presi-
dent of the village board of Water
town to succeed DR.. J. H. Filings
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
PINPLES CURED IN 10 DAYS

Or Your Money Back.
Anyone who has Pimples, Black
Heads, Liver Spots, Open sores and
Eruptions, should know II is because OF
bad blood. The circulation has become
contaminated with matter that has dis
eased the blood, which is being forced
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
Licensed 70 Wed.

Every family ana especially those
who reside in the country should be
provided at all times with bottle of
Chamberlain's Liniment. There is no
telling when it may be wanted in case
Of an accident or emergency. It Is
most excellent in all cases of rheuma-
tism, sprains and bruises. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17

CORSETS
You've probably read OF the
great corset sale going on here
this week.
The unusual bargains are caus-
ing tremendous inroads into our
usually large and complete assert
ments You1 find about a dozen
styles especially priced, from the
dollar corsets at &c TO O. *
the $500 ones for go. DC.( -
They include low bust, girdle
tops. medium long sorts and very
long ones, for women Of average
or slender figure. and for large.
plump women.
Sale continues till Saturday
night az $50. Remember about
the early bird
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
SEARS.


The peoples ticket at Sears was IN
opposed and the % votes cast were all
for the following incumbent officers:
Town clerk, F. F. Fiebig; trustees. E.
d. Fisher, w. ]. Spencer and F. Engle-
bracht. The present is the seventh
consecutive term as clerk for Mr.. Fie-
big.
At Milan, +. H Harris on the indie
pendent ticket was elected town clerk
over the peoples candidate, W. F.
Nichols, the vote being IS TO 60. On
trustees the vote stood: Independent
W. L. Eddy 20, ]. II. Criswell 70, g.
R. Brown 60. Peoples-Thomas VIII
hite II, H. D. Canaan 73. Daniel F.
Fitzsimmons e. The three highest of
these are the winners.
COAL VALLEY.
The citizens ticket was the only one
in the field at Coal Valley, and accord.
ingly the town officers for the ensuing
year are: Mayor, Hugh r. Martin
trustees. Ed Nightingale, Robert Som
erson and Herman Nitz-
ANDALUsIA.
At Andalusia the citizens ticket was
unopposed and was elected as follows
| Clerk, B. c. F. Heinze; trustees, Henry
Tompkins, Charles Hayes and William
| SteWarL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17

out of the system through the pores of
the skin This condition cannot be
cured unless you remove the cause Bin
Ter Complexion Tablets purify the
blood, strengthen the system and make
your skin healthy, thus restoring your
complexion to its clear. youthful appear
ance. Under the purifying and tonic
effect of Bin-Ter Complexion Tablets
the system will be built up and your
skin cleared, usually In about ten days
Sold by
THOMAS DRUG COMPANY,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
SURPRISE IN PORT BYRON.

A surprise was sprung in Port Byron,
where only one ticket, the anti-license,
was placed in the field AT the polls
voters wrote in the names of three men
and they succeeded in electing one of
them. J. S. Norman. The candidate in
the anti-license ticket 10 meet defeat
was Charles Leslie The vote:
FOR CLERK.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
FOR SIS. 900 BOND ISSUE.
FOR ALDERMl
ONE TIE IN CoRDOVA

In Cordova there were two tickets
license and antilicense-the returns
showing the anu-license party success
full, except that there was one tie. E.
J. Curtis and w. J. Forsyth, candidates
on opposite tickets for trustee. polled
"a votes each. and the winner will
probably be determined later by lot
The vote for trustee:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
CARBON CLIFF RESULTS.
ANTI-sALARY IN HAMPTON.

In Hampton there were two tickets
in the field, peoples and peoples
anti-salary. the anti-salary forces win
ming all Offices for which they pre-
scented candidates. In several in
stances, where the following tabula-
ton OF votes shows one or two cast
for anti-salary candidates the names
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17

East Moline yesterday voted over
whelmingly in favor of a S25. 900 bond
issue for improvement of the water
works system and elected three trus-
tees on the citizens ticket. The only
other party presenting candidates in
the municipal election was the social
istic. The vote:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17
FOR CLERK.
EAST MOLINE VOTES BOND ISSUE.

vassed by the board of trustees in res
ular session last evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-17

were written in on the ballots, the
men named not being avowed can
didates. The vote:
FOR VILLAGE CLERK, 2-YEAR
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
1.-THE DeEiuht of Mankind."

Titus. the Roman emperor. was enti-
tied 1.-The delight Of mankind" Titus
benefcence was unbOunded, and it so
happened that during his brief reign
there was the most urgent need of its
exercise In the first year occurred
the great eruption of Vesuyius. over
whelming Herculaneum and P0mpeii
and running numerous other towns and
villages. The next year a fire broke
out in Rome, which ragged three days,
causing great destruction, and in the
tracks Of these calamities followed Il
dreadful pestilence. Titus dealt out
gifts with lavish hand to the houseless
and ruined sufferers. He even desD0iI-
ed the palaces of their valuable orna-
ments to obtain money for distribu-
ton and ,schemed and planned to fur
nish occupation for them. He was now
the idol of his subjects, the love and
delight of the human race" but. Gnfor-
tunately for that part Of the human
race over which he ruled. in the COM
meneenent of the third year of his
reign he became suddenly i'll and died
at his patrimonial villa in the Sabine
country.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28

Considering its length, the Volga is
the most sluggish river. In 1895 miles
1t falls only 665 feet, or slightly over
three inches per mile, while at one
point about the middle of its course
the bed is fully fifty feet below sea
level. Thus all the water to that height
above the bottom must be still save
when stirred by floods.
The NOlga also is singular among
great rivers in having no mountainous
course. 1t rises among marshes and
lakes and is so sluggish even then
that dam has been erected, which
makes it navigable from its siXty-fifth
mile onward Almost within the his
toric period it must have been an off
shoot from the Caspian, which then
stretched far into the interior Of Rus
STA, drying up into a series Of river
connected lakes. The Volga has taken
the place of these, along with many
of their characteristics, including a
general sluggishness..
The Scheldt is proverbially SLOW
river and is practically lost in a MAJ
of canals, but it's fall from source t
sea is about fourteen inches in its to-
tai length of 249 miles.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
PAT AND HIS EoDs.
Now. listen.

NOW. listen
A bill has been introduced onto the
Hungarian parliament to pay men
wages according to the size of their
| families!
| Fact!
The measure under discussion di.
N9des all government employees, IL
Guiding railroad men. into two genera!
classes, known as the upper and lower
The upper class will get an allowance
Of $40 per year for one child, $50 for
two children and 1925 for three of
more. The lower class will get one,
half these amounts.
Which Is paying men according to
their needs-a new principle.
Undsr our present economic system
men are paid according to the value
Of their work, but
One employee Is unmarried and has
no one but himself to support. This
bachelor may spend all his money on
himself. and everybody says that Is
all right. Another has a wife and six
children, and his wages are the same
as the bachelors. He finds his wages
will not decently support and educate
his family. And every body says he Is
merely unfortunate"
1t is the way Of the world.
But the Hungarian parliament says
the system Is wrong and entails suffer
ing. It says the best asset of gov
eminent is its people and especially its
growing children. citizens Of the fu-
ture.
Owning its own railroads, it is pro-
posed the government shall give the
married railroad employee and his kids
a little of the advantage of the I'M
patriotic and selfish bachelor, who pro-
vides no children for citizenship. And
SO Of all government employees.
Should the bill become a law Pat
with his six children would get as
much pay as Maurice, the we'll dressed
office man who has no children.
That would even up things.
However,
Pat should not get his hopes set
upon such a Christian-like. arrange
ment during his lifetime. The bill has
not passed the parlia ment yet. And if
1t should it is a long step from Hun
gary to this country.
Now
Of course, if we were running this
world according to the way the NaZa-
rene would run it We're he here. we
would do the very thing proposed in
Hungary. We would pay men accord
ing to their needs. and we would not
let women and children suffer because
the husband and father lacked the
brains or the luck to earn good wages.
But we are not running it that way.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
were held accountable for the welfare

were held accountable for the welfare
Of the pet he would learn how to treat
a wife and there would be fewer di-
vorces."
Surely.
The time to begin training a husband
is before he begins to walk And when
be Is old he will not depart from it.
Much is being done in the schools:
and by the humane societies in teA' IL
ing children the lessons OF kindness
and gentleness to animals, but that
education should begin in the family
Mrs. Enrich makes this further star
ting statement:
Nine-tenths of the convicte in tie
penitentiary never had a pe'
Poor fellows.
They were denied the transforming
power that resides in tile afe,ti0ns IT,
the child who owns something IL lI3F3
love. Education is Of little value I.
1t does NOT touch TIE heart
See that your child has some sort Of
pet and carefully watch its treatmen:
Of the pet.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
SAVING ONES OWN.

At the risk Of his life a fathe.
named William Burns saved a child
from drowning He did not know
whose child it was.
Half a dozen children were playing
by the side Of canal as Mr.. Burns
drove by. Suddenly there were screams
and little hands pointed to the water
Jumping into the canal. Burns encoun
tered swift current caused by near
by sluiceway. By great exertion be
reached the drowning child and brought
It ashore.
my God, it's my boyr' exclaimed
Burns.
You say the conjunction Of the mans
heroism and the rescue Of his own
flesh and blood were mere coinci-
dence.,
Perhaps, but the moral remains.
He who saves the child of his day or
generation may be saving his own
child.
When a father insists as patron Of
the public school upon proper lighting
and ventilation and reasonable school
hours he may be saving his own child
from contagion or. illness.
When he demands an atmosphere of
moral purity in and about the prem
Uses of the schoolhouse he may be saw
ing his own boy or girl from the faint
of impurity.
When he declares that the saloon
keeper must obey the law respecting
the sale of intoxicants to minors and
takes the personal pains to see that
the law is observed he may be saving
his son from drunkenness. 1,a..-
When he helps to create a public
sentiment that prohibits gambling he
may be saving his boy from tempta-
ton.
And SO on. -
Fathers should realize that the in
terests of the child are ineYtricably
bound up with the interests Of the
community. Communal concern is con,
Germ for the individual
The veal or woe of the child is
largely dependent upon the disposition
and willingness of fathers to plunge
into the waters to save child, no
matter whose child it may be.
If in the sequel it should turn out
that the willing citizen hes saved his
own flesh and blood thrice blessed is he
No man Iiveth to himself. .
We are all tied up together in the
public concern, and there is no way to
undo the tangle. - $780,.
The only thing to do is to jump in
when the occasion shows itself and
save the child-anybody' child.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
the husbands labor ana also the chill

the husbands labor and also the chill
dren.
What of QUO sweatshop women wbe
get paltry cents dozen for max
ing overalls? The Prague women WORK
about eight hours a DAY, while oue
sweatshop slaves toll far into the hours
of the night
Besides, the Bohemian women WORK
in the open air. They are strong and
lusty When you note how easily they
do their tasks, laughing and chatting.
you feel that your pity is wasted. The
sweatshop workers live in cheap and
filthy tenements where the air is foul
and the surroundings noisome and in
sanitary.
Or
Compare the women of Prague with
the wives OF some of our own day la
bOrers.
Forty cents a day is 50. 20 Il week
which seems a pitiful sum for the Ia
Dor Of woman for week. But
How many wives of Workingmen in
this country get that much money per
week for their household labOrs, their
child bearing, their scrimping econo
mies-the most trying and nerve rack
ing Of all employments?
Or
Compare the pay and hours Of labor
of the Bohemian women with the re-
Enumeration of the average busy wife
and mothS Does she get an hour of
rest at noon? Does she quit her days
labor at o'clock?
Some such wives and mothers get
'pin money" but thousands do not re-
ceivS so much as $40 per week for
their exhauang labors and nervous
strain.
The rough employments Of the
Prague women seem to us uncalled for.
If not cruel It Is true, nevertheless.
that by comparisda Of hours and pay
many American women do more and
receive less
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
THE WOMEN OF PR AGuE.

ITyou have ever been in the city of
Zrague you viii have seen the women
s6 I6as city doing much of the rough
worR THAT usually is done by men.
In Bohemia women mix mortar.
They carry hods up long ladders,
They shovel sand and coal
TAe spectacle is new and unusual to
afiaan eyes, and the tourist is apt
- lty the lot of these hardworking
wNn8 The toll is arduous. and to US
81 IS ansRemly.
And yat-
tlot' OF American women are as de
eFrrings of sympathy
The. women Of Prague get 80 to 40
eents a day. How do they keep soul
md body tegether? In most instances
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
~ 49, $500. =.
THE BETTER WAY
English jack is dead.

EuSllSQ JACK Is QedQ.
Ana thereby hangs real romance
English Jack" known as the Craw-
xsrl hermit, lived back in the woods
NJ north Conway, where he had many
tz5szT of his life has been revealed
Ksgce his death. ."
u HE was born in London, where be
zEzs left an orphan when small boy:
HEfs became a street urchin, living on
sxss town One day while wandering
zdsut he encountered little maid Of
sfre years who had lost her father
Ee helped the girl to find her home.
zaa that day was red letter day fer
Aaza MaEy,s father, named Simmonds,
adsgted Jack, and from that time be
aikad home
Nmmonds was ship master and
Haund a place for Jack on board bis
Eaic AT tie close of each voyage he
made his home with Mary and her
Aaiaer.
e. was, natural that he and Mary
akDGld grow to love each other, and ii
vsRasagraed previous to his last voyage
atzar the two should marry on his re-
aRR-
BHt, afas!
He was gone a little more than a
wear. and GU his return when he went
~ tie school where he had placed her
NE found that Mary had died.
His heart was broken.
Earning his back upon the world, be
ageeHt the remaining thirty six years of
lis life In aimless, hopeless solitude
Kzs built shack one story and a half
Ghe ground floor serving as sitting
ss0sn and kitchen. from which lad
dsE hook him up into bare garnet
where he slept.
There he lived his life. lonely and
zssolate to the end
And the lesson of the tragedy?
While there is a touch of tenderness
1ah the sad story, one may well depre
cGte such a withdrawal from the world
Se men. How much better to have
aRsfrfned the memory of his loved and
lAss and gone on working and helping
sRln smiling to the end.
There is no place in this busy world
fr hermitage
Tie time is past when men could
hope 20 forget sorrow or atone sin
by living the solitary life.
Atonement is by way of helpfulness
Eprgetfulness of sorrow is by way
ut forgetfulness of self.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
Heart toHeart
Talks.
HIS EDUCATED WIFE.
~ EDWIN a. NYE.

~ DO not see why he married her
He is a very brainy man. and she is
Bes al educated woman"
Which was the comment of a friend
% mine respecting a mutual friend re-
ssatly married.
l. Joined issue.
said: You are mistaken, | think,
Ny friends wife is not college edu-
sated woman but she is educated
3tse is a fine housekeeper, as | happen
- Know, and she is a very capable
CONAN in many respects"
Educa ton is more than mere book
gsar1ing.
an true education is a process Of
Aawing out of one the best that is in
one. Education is expression of self
Cow
MY friends wife is admirably pre-
snred for wifehood and motherhood,
sdQcation sadly neglected by many
vel schooled women of our day
And she has, in addition to her good
Do0s and vivacity health, poie, pa
4enee and a sweet disposition. And.
Roxeover. she Is much in love with her
8z3band and is determined to make
his home happy one.
What would you?
But. her critic says, she is not
"sEafnE."
Rl6 m that also she is mistaken.
Mentally she is as strong as her
clever husband. but along different
knes> And l am greatly mistaken if
Esze does not succeed in managing her
aassand' as we'll as her household He
VII not feel the harness. but she will
Aosa the lines just the same.
BSatny?
intellectually Is not confined to a
eextzin sort of culture. As much brain
4asne is required for successful home
management as for bookkeeping or
usrueing. law.
Tue world, indeed, could get along
nfxsD well without lawyers and ed
aRs and architects, but could it get
aaang without mothers?
Kaaeated?
sasre ARE other educated people than
ahase thatare college trained And as
heeween mere mental gifts and intel
hesuafity of the heart the latter is in
9aiaeiy to be preferred. 49,.
End so thinks my friend respecting
Adg fine little wife.
<a-e>~--s.s ...z
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
CHILDREN AND PETS.

eff boys were trained to be kind to
animals there would be fewer brutal
husbands"
Thus says Mrs. Ehrlich of New York.
And within her statement lies a great
truth. ST
The other day l watched youngster
who was tantaliZing and mistreating
pet dog. The child pulled the tail Of
the animal, held it up by one leg and
pinched its ears The little canine
velped with pain, sometimes swapping
at the child, who betrayed the highest
glee when it was able, to torture the
beast into protest.
The savage that was in that boy
that is in all of us-was being devei
oped SO that when he is grown up he
Is likely to become a brutal husband.
Now .@ - --.
Strange to say, the mother of the lit
tie imp paid no attention to him when
he thus abused the dog. Did she real
lie what sort of barbarian he might
become? ...--.
1 thought of another mother, a wiser
mother.
When her boy teased the household
cat and pinched its ears she promptly
pinched the child's ears. And when
the child cried out with the pain she
would say:
''That is the way kitty feels when
you pinch its ears Poor kitty! You
should be kind to it. and it will love
you''
The lesson, was saiutary.
Says Mrs. Enrich. Every child
should have d pet II every little one
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28

Give US chance at your nest sta-
tionery order. Phone 1000.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-07-28
Notice to Stockholders.

A meeting of the stockholders OF
the Etchison Drilling Company will
be held at the office of the company
in Shreveport, Louisiana, on the
goth day of August 1912, at 10 o'clock
am, for the purpose of dissolving
the corporation and electing llqui-
Gators to wind up its affairs, as pro-
viGed by its charter. By order Of the
board of directors.
WHEELER SHROPSHIRE,
Secretary
Caucasian, July i6, 1912.