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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27

trive WAYS and means to get them.
That good roads are in every way
desirable is a general proposition that
admits no argument. That Rock Is
land is in especial need of well mail
talned highways leading into the ad-
jacent country because of its peculiar
location. is perfectly apparent.
The farmer has been told by experts
that good roads will enable him TO
haul from one and One-half TO three
times as much at load as he can over
poor roads. and travel faster, and that
he can thereby reduce his cost per ton
mile from about % cents to 10 or u.
The price of farm property advances
as the roads are improved, and attend
ance at church and school grows bet
ter. The farmer believes these things,
because they have been demonstrated
over and over again.
The resident of the city, especially
the business man, knows that good
roads increase the trading area and
help meet the competition of other
business centers. He knows that we'll
kept highways attract automobile tour
lists. who are a growing factor in the
creation of business and of spreading
the reputation of a town. In short,
the city dweller and the country dwell
er fully realize that it is TO their mu-
tual advantage TO have better high
ways. What puzzles both is to devise
an effective method of cooperation that
will bring about the desired improve
ment.
OBJECTS TO BURDEN.
The farmer properly contends that
the burden of highway building and
maintenance should not rest upon him
alone. Others use the roads nearly as
much as he. especially those who have
automobiles, and there should be some
way to apportion the costs among the
beneficiaries. Unfortunately, the sys
TEN OF raising revenue for road pur
I poses is not only inadequate. but works
many hardships Individual districts
commonly have more work than they
can provide means for. The only ulti
mate remedy seems TO be help from
the state or county. or both.
The Illinois Highway Improvement
+ assoc alton. which met recently at Fe
oria, advocates the issuing cf state
bonds, the money TO be expended for
the benefit of the whole state upon the
highways. These bonds, paid by the
state, would virtually tax all property
for road purposes, and. in connection
with the regular system of revenue
would bring about a more equitable
distribution OF the burden, and at thI
same time get immediate results.
MATERIAL Is LACKING.
Rock Island county is less fortunate
than many others, in that It has little
good road-making material ready fol
use. There are comparatively few
gravel beds, while the rock tina
abounds in certain parts is not thu
best. However this county has cart
roads that rs q rule, can be made mucl
better than they are now by prope
draining and grading, and that at com
perativly low cost.
Illinois, though fourth in commercial
| Importance in the union has roads m a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27
BY q. S. CABLE.

MORE than any other one thing,
N cities depend for commercial and
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Arctic Marine Plants.

The inhabitants of the ocean, like
those of the land. are affected by the
climate. Arctic land plants cannot
flourish at the equator. and in the arc
tic and the antarctic oceans marine
plants are found that are unable to
survive in warm water. Among the
most remarkable of these cold water
plants are the laminariaceae, a kind of
seaweed, which sometimes attains
gigantic size, exceeding in length the
longest climbing plants Of the tropical
forests and developing huge stems like
the trunks Of trees. Investigation has
shown that these plants flourish in the
coolest waters Of the polar seas and
that they never advance farther from
their frigid homes than to the limits
of summer temperature" in the ocean.
The genial warmth destroys them just
as polar blast shrivels tropical flow
erS.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
The Decline of Winchester,

Winchester for FIVE centuries was
the active rival Of London. and for 400
years English parliaments occasionally
sat in the castle, which contains the
round table Of King Arthur 1t was a
city with great temples and the site Of
the first Christian church in Britain.
It's buildings were Of the most magnif
icent character. and pilgrims flocked
from far and near to the magnificent
cathedral which contained the body Of
st. Swithin and where many miracles
were worked.
William the Conqueror and Charles
II. had palaces here, and within the
monastery were buried King Alfred
his queen and two sons. Winchester
has indeed fallen upon evil days. for
at the present time its population Is
only the same as 1t was in the days Of
Henry II.-Shefield (England) Tele-
graph.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
The End of the World.

Although our eatth cannot In any
vital sense last longer than the sun. 1t
may last less long for intrinsic cause,
Life is dependent not only on the sum-
but on the presence Of air. When this
air departs life will depart too. Now
the earth's air is going slowly. but
surely. evaporating into space, Ii 1t
all goes before the sun becomes ex-
tinct the earth's surface life will
lapse while the sun still shines. Both
processes-the evaporation of the air
and the cooling of the sun-w1ll re-
quire long eras Of time. but the second
process will be much the slower or the
two So we may expect the last IN
habitants of the earth to die OF lack
Of breath rather than from want OF
warmth -Percival Lowell In YOUTH
Companion
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
DR., HAzzARB GUILTY
OF MANSLAUCHTER

Seattle.-Mrs. Linda Burfield Haz-
zard, the Seattle starvation DOCTOR"
was found guilty of manslaughter by
a jury in the Kitsap county court at
Port Orchard for having caused the
death by starvation of Miss Claire
Williamson, an English heiress who
underwent Mrs. Hazards fasting
treatment.
Mrs. Linda Burfeld Hazard was
arrested August S, 1911, on a charge
of murder in the first degree, on an
information filed in Kitsap county, the
complaining witness being Miss Doro-
thea Williamson.
The Williamsons were English wom-
en- of means who were on a tour
around the world and who consulted
Mrs. Hazard concerning their health.
Mrs. Hazard soon had both the wom-
en- in her starvation sanitarium at
Olalla, where, on a diet of orange
juice and asparagus broth, Claire died
May 8, 1911, and Dorothea was wasted
to a skeleton.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
ABSTRACTORS
Bids Wanted

Seventy-two thousand dollars of Pend Oreille
county funding bonds. County of the nine
teenth class. First bond issue.
Pursuant to resolution of the qualified and
acting Board of County Commissioners of Pend
Oreille county, state of Washington, regularly
passed at an adjourned regular meeting of said
board, held at Newport, the county seat, on the
18th day of January, 1912, notice is hereby
said Board of County Commissioners at the
office of the treasurer OF said county, in the said
town of Newport, up to 10 O'Clock a.. m. of the
fifth day of March, 1912 for the purchase of all
of a seventy-two thousand dollar $72,OO0,OO
issue of Pend Oreille county funding bonds.
No bids will be received for portion of such
bond issue
Said bonds are styled Pend Oreille County
Funding Bonds, and are to be issued by said
county for the purpose of funding indebted
ness evidenced by outstanding county war
rants drawn on its current expense fund.
Said bonds are in denomination of one thous-
and dollars 81 600 90 each; bear date of May
1st 1912; are payable twenty years after date,
but are payable at the option of said county at
any time after ten years from date; they bear
interest at the rate not to exceed four and one
half AZ per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually; both principal and interest are
payable either at the office OF the treasurer of
Pend Oreille county, at Newport, Washington.
or at the Office of the state treasurer at Olym-
pia, Washington. or at the fiscal agency of the
state of Washington in the city of New York,
place of payment to be fixed in the bonds No
bids can be accepted Cor less than the par value
of the said bonds and accrued interest. All
bids, except the state of Washington, must be
accompanied by certified check tor fifteen
hundred dollars, payable to the order of
treasurer of Pend Oreille county. The sa
Board of County Commissioners reserves II
right to reject any and all bids,
Dated this 22nd day OF January, 1917
County Auditor and Clerk of the Board
County Commissioners of Pend Orei
County. 81
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
st. Andrews Bottle Uunqeor.


81. Andrews is perhaps the most dis
hncdve Of the old castle towns Of
Scotland. 1t was built early In the
thirteenth century. and 1t was here
that Bishop Kennedy showed James
IL. how to break the power of his no
bles by taking "a bundle of arrows.
separating them and Shaping them
one by one. In Stewart Dicks THE
Pageant of the Forth" the author says:
Under the sea tower, In the heart of
The rock where 1t juts into the sea. Is
grewsome dungeon known aa the
Bottle dungeon so called from its
shape. In the floor Of the lower room
In the tower Is hole five feet In d.
ameter Down it goes for nesrly
twelve feet. The neck of the bottle
then widens out to form chamber
nearly twenty-four feet in breadth.
There Is no light, no ventilation. no
exit Of any kind but the neck Of the
bottle. A prisoner there had no more
cnance Of escape than a crab has in
creel"
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
A Hindu Dinner PARTY

A Hindu ladies' dinner begins at II
O'Clock and lasts two hours. But the
guests begin to assemble some time
before the dinner, for the simple rea-
son that they have to go into the gar
den and choose their own fruit and
vegetables. Meat. by the way, is for
hidden. The chief dish at a dinner
party is composed of rice and maize.
The guests sit on the floor in two
rows. facing one another, and eat with
their fingers. The most esteemed wild
ow lady present hands round the dish
es. and this service Is considered a
great honor. Cocoanut milk and va
rious kinds Of sherbet are drunk.
When the meal is over the ladies take
a small portion of betel nut wrapped
in pan" leaves. Pan is a green leaf
something like laurel and Is prepared
in no fewer than eighty different
ways. Each Of those ways is sup
posed to give a different emotion to
the eater.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
CONFIDENCE.
we Back Up Our Statements With Our
Personal Reputation ard Mo,a.

PERSONAL Reputation and Money,
we are SO positive that we can re-
neve constipation, no matter how
chronic 1t may be, that we offer to
furnish the medicine free of all cost If
we fail.
we THINK that 1t is worse than use
less to attempt to cure constipation
with cathartic drugs. Cathartics NAV
90 much harm. They may cause a re-
action. 1rritate and weaken the bowels,
and make constipation more chronic.
constipation Is often ACCOMPANIED
ana may be caused by weakness of
the nerves and muscles of the large
intestine or colon. To expect q cure
you must therefore tone up and
strengthen those parts and restore
them to healthier activity.
The discovery Of the active principle
OF our remedy involved the labor of
sk1lful research chemists. This RENE
dy produces results such as are ex-
pected from the best Of the best
known intestinal tonics, and it Is par
ucularly prompt in its results.
We want you to try Rexall Order
lies on our guarantee. They are ex-
ceedfngly pleasant to take and are
ideal for children. They apparently
act directly on the nerves and muscles
OF the bowels, having, it would seem,
neutral action on other organs or
glands. They do not purge or cause
inconvenience. If they do not posi-
lively cure chronic or habitual consti-
patton and thus relieve the myriads of
associate or dependent chronic all
ments, your money will be refunded.
Try Rexall Orderlics at our risk.
Three sizes Of packages, 1Oc., Csc,
and 5Oc. Remember, you can obtain
Re1al Remedies In this community
only at our store - The Rexau Store.
The Tulles Drug Co.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Slips of the Tongue.

In case tried before a magistrate
In Glasgow the defending agent maze
reference to a verbal agreement be-
tween the parties. Lets see yer yer
bal agreement" the magistrate said
Hand it up here"
At a parish council meeting, when
petition for some increase of wages
was under consideration, the chairman
said peevishly: "a Gamma max held nor
tail O. this dockyment It's jfst ike
Alphy and Omegy-it's got neither De
kinning nor end. "-Glasgow Herald
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Notice of Sale of Bonds

Take notice that School District No. 5of
Oreille county, state of Washington, he.
offers for sale twenty-five thousand dol,
SIS, 10000 worth of its bonds, payable
ten and fifteen s. 10 and 10 years after d.
with interest not to exceed six per cent
annum, payable annually said bonds to be
deemable as follows: FIVE thousand dolls
5000 in five years; ten thousand doll
100000 IN ten years, and ten thousand d.
lars 1000 in fifteen years after date theret
said bonds and interest payable at the Office
the treasurer OF Pend Oreille county. Was
ington.
Sealed bids for the purchase of the above-C
scribed bonds, naming price and rate of int
est, are solicited; and all such bids receiv
prior to the hour of 10 O'Clock in the lorenzo
of February II, 1912, at the Office of the tres
urer of Pend Oreille county, at Newport. Was
ington. will be opened and considered.
Dated at Newport, Wash, Jan. Is, 1912.
E. E. REID,
Treasurer of Pend Oreille County. Wash
81.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
NAME WOMtN ASSESSORS
Spokane Official Aims to Get Levy
on Feminine Adornments.

Spokane, Wash.-Seven women will
be appointed deputies by Glenn R.
Creighton, assessor of Spokane coun-
make a cleanup of property hitherto
unrevealed. He sees no reason why,
when there are women jurors, bail
ifs, policemen and clerks, there
should not be women assessors and
will assign them to the sections where
the more wealthy live, so they can get
on the taxrolls at proper valuation
the diamonds and other jewelry, laces,
rugs and expensive frippery of their
sisters.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
The Steeplechase.

The first steeplechases were literally
'chases to a steeple." The earliest we
can discover was a match in 1852 be
tween Edmund Blake and MT OCal-
laghan over four and half miles OF
stiff country between the church OF
Buttevant and St. Leger church spire-
London Taller.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
$4,000 Judoment Sticks,

Olympia, Wash.-The judgment Of
the Pierce county superior court
awarding Thomas A. Lynch, Of Ia
coma, $4,000 for injuries sustained
in collision on the Northern Pacific
road, was sustained by the supreme
court.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Citizens Ticket Proposed in Milwaukee

Citizens Ticket Proposed in Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wis.-Plans have been
completed for the first citizens ticket
in the history Of Milwaukee politics,
the occasion being the decision of
Democrats and Republicans to COM
bine in an effort in what they believe
is for the public good, to place in the
field a non-partisan ticket that will
rid the city of the present Socialist
administration.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Woman is Victim of Internal Machine

New York.-Mrs. Howard Walker,
wife of a travelling salesman, living
at 103 West Seventy-seventh street,
under her stage name of Grace Taylor,
was killed in her apartment by an
Internal machine handed to her at the
door but a moment before by uni
formed messenger or delivery boy.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Naxt Thind TO It.

She-Kind words can never die. de
Maybe not. but a whole lot OF them
seem laid up and not working.-Boston
Transcript
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Seattle

Seattle
Wheat-Bluestem, $50; club, SIC;
red Russian, S4c
Barley-$40 per ton.
Oats-$30 per ton.
Butter-Creamery, SIC.
Eggs-31c.
Hay--Timothy, s1s per ton,
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
The Other Nav.

TTV OlTIST way
What on earth's the matter? Gut
yourself while shavingw
moo should say that / shaved
myself while cutting"
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
THE MARKETS.
Portland.

FOTII&nOs
Wheat-Track prices: Club, SIC;
bluestem, $50; red Russian, Sc.
Barley-Feed, $40 per ton.
Oats-No 1 white, $32 per ton.
Hay-Timothy, valley, SIS; alfalfa,
e14.
Butter-Creamery, 33c.
Eggs-Ranch, Sic.
Hops-1911 crop, 43c; 1910, nomi-
nal; contracts, 27c.
Wool $500 Eastern Oregon. 961sc.
Willamette Valley, 15Q17c.
Mohair-37c.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08

A smile Is an asset. frown iiaon
lty.-New York Press
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
n-WS FROM OUR
RATIONAL C.PITAL
l7on and Steel Tariff Goes to
Sen~.e Commit lee on
finance.

washington, D. C.-The senate COM
t'lttee on finance began hearings
aesday on the house bill revising
the iron and steel tariff. Members
OF the committee generally express
the belief that the hearings would be
completed within two or three weeks.
The committee now consists of
eight regular Republicans, six Demo
Gratis and Senator La Toilette, pro
gresslve" Republican, making Is mem
bers. Even if La Toilette should unite
with the Democratic members in SUD-
port of the bill, the regular Republi-
cans on the committee would outvote
the combination unless the senate
should adopt the Newlands resolution
providing for the addition of one
Democrat and one progressive" Re-
publican to this. committee Some Of
the regular Republicans express ap-
prehension that this course might be
pursued
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-02-08
Professional Cards
ATTORNEYS

Alva S. Sherlock E. l.. Sheldon
SHERLOCK & SHELDON
LAWYERS
Practice in State and Federal Courts.
Abstracts Furnished and Examined
NEWPORT, WASH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
SURE OF ELECTION
Three Virginia Representa-
tives Are Unopposed.
DISTILLERIES AGAIN RUN
Several Closed by Court Orders Said
to Be in Operation.
PHARMACY GRADUATES FAIL
Only Three Out of Thirty-Three
Taking State Board Examina-
ton Manage to Pass.
PHARMACY GRADUATES FAT
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star
RICHMOND. Va, October ~, 1912.
Three democratic candidates for Con-
gress in Virginia can read their titles
clear to their places for another term
opposition to them having disappeared
They are William A. Jones, in the first
district: Carter Glass in the sixth. and
G. c. Carlin in the eighth. The fact Mr.
Glass has no opposition on the ticket is
due to negligence on the part of James
5. Browning. republican, of Roanoke
who did not get to the secretary of the
commonwealth in time to get his formal
notice Of candidacy on the ticket He
will be voted for. however, and will have
rubber stamps made and sent to the yari.
Gus polling places so that his name will
not have to be written on the tickets. bu,
merely stamped
With the exception Of the third and
fourth districts. the democratic delegation
in the next Congress will be unchanged
In the third district Representative Lamb
a veteran OF some sixteen years will eiys
way to former Gov. Montague and In the
fourth Representative TurnbuIl. whc
succeeded Representative SouthalI viii
be succeeded by Judge Walter A. Watson
Of Nottoway. The nomination of the
latter was one of the most spectacular
and exciting for years. Out Of 5000 bal.
lots, the returns favored Judge Watson
by a majority Of eight. A recount was
demanded by Representative Turnbull,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
Little Stories for Bedtime.
SAMMY JAY THINKS HE'S GOING CRAZY
By Thornton w. Burgess.

for his eyes are made for daylight. not
far darkness, like the eyes of Boomer the
Nighthawk and Hooty the Owl. But
they didn't seem to think of this and in
sisted that almost every night they heard
him down i'm the alders along the Laugh
ing Brook, yet every morning when he
awoke Sammy would find himself just
where he went to sleep the night before.
safely hidden in the thlckest part of a big
pine tree.
IF they are not all crazy then I must
be-" said Sammy Jay TO himself As ne
turned away from the breakfast which
he could not eat. Then he had happy
idea. why didn't | think of il before ?
I'll sleep all day and then III keep awake
all night and see what happens them
he exclaimed.
So Sammy Jay hurried away TO the
darkest part of the Green Forest ana
tried to sleep through the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
Likes Women in Business.
From the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
The invasion of downtown offices by
women has had at least one pleasant
result 1t has trained a type of woman
peculiarly interesting and companion
able to men of affairs. Less romance
illumines the life of the woman i'm BUSH
ness than that of her domestic sister,
but more comprehension of the condi-
tions under which liVings must be
earned. She has learned that this pIir-
suit engrosses most Of the waking
hours of the man. and she therefore
avoids placing the petty affairs of the
day on a personal basis. In business
transactions she is generally brisk.
accurate and reliable. AS companion
she is able to converse Of things which
interest men not from acquired infor-
nation, clever wives can learn TO
do, but from an experience often
equivalent to the mans And, rarest
of all. she has outgrown forever the
notion that every man who accords
her a deferential civility is a possible
sutton and a potential husband. Your
typist. your secretary. your bookkeep-
err. your professional woman-and pro-
fessionaI women can nowadays COM
plete their equipment as young as pro-
fessional men-have had much of our
old fashioned sentimental folly edu-
Gated out of them. without being less
they are not SO womanish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
Only Three Pass Examination.


Thirty-three graduates in pharmacy ap-
peared here few days ago for examina-
ton for license to practice in this state
as registered pharmacists. The examina-
ton was declared to be comparatively
easy, but when the papers came in it was
found that just three men in the class
had passed muster, the others being sent
back to take another course and to come
up again. Some of the men did well
enough to get in as assistant pharma-
cists. Four colored men took the exam
nation, some of them for the third time
ana one OF these managed to pull through
as an assistant pharmacist. The state is
making the laws tighter and more strin-
gent each year and there is a demand on
all sides for registered pharmacists
1t Is not expected that the appeal in
the cases of the Aliens (Frloyd and
c!aude) will come to the supreme court
OF appeals hare until after the court has
hesun its, fall term. That will be during
the nrst ten days of the coming month
Nothing could be gained by having the
matter presented at this time as it will
nave to be presented to all the judges
The record is long one: there are fifty or
more exceptions which have been noted
and in each of these the defense will
seek to present authorities to sustain
it, etsE*entionS. Popular opinion Is
that the court will not interfere with the
verdict. the decisions of Judge Staples
who presided in the cases. having been
generally affirmed by the court i'm former
cases. However what hope there may
be for the men to escape the death chair
will be IN the supreme court of appeals,
for Gov. Mann will not grant any Glenn
ency and he will not commute the sem
fences to- life imprisonment.
Jennie Johnson and Mary Bishop the
names given by two alleged shoplifters.
failed to appear when their names were
called in the police court. The women
gave cash bail and were released Mary
Bishop said her home is in Washington,
and the other woman said she lives in
Fredericksburg. They have not been seen
since they were bailed