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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-09

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-09
TOBACCO Proves FATAL
TO SEVEN-YEAR-oLD LAD

OWINGSVILLE Ky, Jan. s.
One big cigar and two ''chews" of
green tobacco today proved fatal
to Thomas Donaldson, aged seven,
OF this place. today. His parents
found him semi-conscious and suf-
fering severity from nicotine pois-
oning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
The Argus Daily Story
A Scheme That Failed-By F. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau

Phoebe and I having become engag-
ed. considered it the proper thing for
us to call on my aunt TO receive her
congratulations. My aunt never made
calls herself and was double the age
of either of US. Besides, it was I'M
derstood that I was down in her will
for the principal part of her fortune.
Phoebe said that she would rather
take whipping than go to be inspect
ed, but there was no way out Of 1t, and
she consented.
We had not long been settled before
my aunt said to us: There is pro-
tege of mine, Mabel Maryweather,
whom 1 have brought to visit me for
the season, and L wish to see her en-
gagged before her return to her coun-
try home, where she seldom sees a
man and consequently has no matri-
monial opportunities. Tom Singleton
has been attentive to her. and believe
that for some time they have been on
the border of an engagement. 1 wish
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

4. Don't stand near the tracks and
cause the car to stop when you do not
wish to get on.
3. Have proper change ready when
you enter car.
6. Be ready to leave the car by the
time it stops il physically able to do
SO.
Z. Ring bell at least half a block
before you want to get off so motor.
man can gauge his speed accordingly.
s. If car is crowded step to front
and make room for your neighbors.
9. Don't be offended if conductor
asks for fare twice, as he is human
and may make a mistake.
10. Don't ring the bell and STOP
car two or three times before you
come to the right street. If you dc
not know the exact location of your
street, ask the conductor.
II. Don't ask a car to wait for you
to run across the street to get a grill
or a cigar.
II. Give the conductor and motor
man friendly nod, it helps to break
the monotony of long hours.
IL. Stand on the side of the cross
ing where the car stops, so the cal
won't have to wait for you to wall
across the street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
public Service.)

A unique meeting, to promote a
better understanding between a street
railway company and the public was
held recently in Wichita, Kan. The
meeting was held by the st. Paul's
Church Bible class and the topic under
discussion was How Can Citizens and
Street Railway Employees Cooperate
for Efficient Service?"
The discussion was led by Tom
Blodgett, the director of the class, and
w. R. Morrison, superintendent of the
street railway company. Mr. Morrison
was attended by special car of fifty
Of his employees, a great number of
whom took part in the animated dis
cussion that was opened up by this
very timely and vital question.
]. Z. Cook, a member of the class,
was appointed special secretary to
note the various suggestions made by
the best possible service, and the fol.
lowing interesting ideas were suggest.
ed:
l. Be prompt in getting on and OFF
cars.
2. Don't rawhide the conductor or
motorman for mistakes over which
they have no control
3. Give motorman ample notice
when you wish to board car.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
FIagler,s Great Triumph.

The travelling time between New
York and Cuba has been shortened by
20 hours by the completion OF Henry
NJ. Flagler's wonderful railroad from
Miami to Key West-a distance of 156
miles. The first train went over the
new line a few days ago, carrying Mr.
F1agler. who is so years old This
achievement crowns for him remark.
able career. In fact, he has had two
remarkable careers. He is probably
as well known as a Standard Oil multi
millionaire and an early partner of
John ID. Rockefeller as he is for his
indefatigable work of developing the
Florida coast.
The Flagler palaces at ST. Angus.
tine. the railroad with its many
branches to the fashionable resorts
along the white sands farther south
are portions OF a dream which has
been Undertaking. during nearly q
quarter Of a century. eliminating in
the work just completed, considered
TO be one OF the greatest engineering
feats ever accomplished Mr. FlagleI
began to plan for the Key West ex
tension soon after the Spanish war
The road has cost $4,000 a mile
Eighty ships were used TO carry rocl
for the roadbed and 5000 laborers
were employed I'm the work OF construc
ton. Furious tempests sweep ovel
this attenuated strip OF American ter
ritory, and during hurricane in 1906
many workmen lost their lives by this
wrecking Of the construction vessels
But the road has been built to rests
the severest storms. The railroad
Jumps by concrete arches and embank
ments from island TO island Fully Il
miles OF II is over the ocean itself
Generally the coral limestone connect
ing the keys is only a few feet below
the surface OF the water. but at othel
places the ocean is deep enough 70
the passage OF great steamships.
At Key West a great dry dock anC
nine whArves are already built ant
the day may be close at hand when on,
Will be able to get into a Pullman il
New York and get out OF 1t in Havana
Freight shipments are soon TO be car
rled the 80 miles between Key Yves
and Havana in train ferries.
The Key West railroad is a fittinl
monument to the man Who made
possible. and it has a national I'm
portance in that It brings this oountr
closer 20 that sister republic whic
may become our ward If it does nc
behave.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
The Presidential Outlook

logic, has demonstrated to his own
eminent satisfaction that Mr.. Hearst
is bad astronomer.
Mr.. Harmon has stuck a rrssiden-
tial lightning rod down his back and
invites the bolt. Mr. Bryan is betting
that the lightning will not strike.
Meanwhile, despite the crepe on the
door bell OF Wall street and notwith-
standing the means and groans of
some wholesale tobacco dealers and
oil peddlers, the country is doing
very we'll, thank you.
This years prize pumpkin beat the
worlds record. There's enough wheat
for our daily bread and sufficient to
spare for market. We have a few
more hogs fattening in the field and
We have invested in and additional
| prize Hereford or so. The neighbor
hood isn't suffering for automobiles
and the bank hasn't raised our rate
of interest.
So, let the others guess.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

the average slothful city man is going
to bed. Taking his lantern in hand, he
saunters jauntily downstairs, humming
the latest joke from the Hagerstown
Almanac. and, going into the kitchen,
prepares to light the fire. AS the wood
on the back stoop is usually a little
damp, this takes some time. but not so
long as it takes to crack the fee in the
tea kettle. The fire going, the farmer
does his regular morning setting-up
exercises at the woodpile, after which
he plows through the snow TO the barn
and feeds the stock, milks the COW,
turns the horse out in the lot and
drives the hogs out Of the garden, after
which it is time for breakfast, which
his wife has prepared while he was
lolling around. After breakfast he
thaws out the pump, splits some more
wood, catches a horse and rides two
miles to his letter box to get the mail
! from the R. F. d. Returning. he splits
some wood. breaks q road ,0 the
meadow and spends IN ncvr 81 iva
/ throwing snow off the fodder neck
/ for the cattle. BY his time ne feels
so strong and healthy hat he has an
other bout with the wo5dpiie, sharpens
his ak, feeds the chickens, milks, puts
the stock up for the night turns out
he cat. winds the clock and is ready
or bed along about 1880.
But the farmer is a bashful man
md a crafty citizen, to boot. He i:
adverse TO giving the snap away. And
so the fellow who was born in a fla
and has spent his life swinging around
in front Of mahogany desk has to d.
all the talking Naturally, he doesn'
make an entire success.
The back-to-the-farm movement
needs a boosting up from the inside"
Obviously the Post editor has no
been away from his desk to visit {
modern farm. He ought to go out ant
look around little and see how thing!
have been revolutionized since he OBJ
tanned his early impressions.
Today the farmer has at his dispose
the monograph TO delight him witt
"ragtime" or grand opera during hi
evening hours. He has an automati
piano player to lull him to sleep. H
has a gasoline engine to grind his corr
prepare feed for the stock and to d.
much Of the other work which re
quired much manual labor some year
ago. In fact, on the modern farm tc
day and in the farmhouse, there ar
many convenience.
Times certainly have changed an
of all the changes made none ar
greater than that in life on the farm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
(Woman's WORLDLY

II We knew one-half as much about
the present political outlook We might
say twice as much concerning it, but
out job Is that OF an editor, not a
soothsayer.
Were We the seventh son of a sew
enth son, We might be able to dis
cover through divination what we
can't CLEAN through observation.
The friends of each potential candi.
date insist upon his invulnera bility-
both the republican and democratic
parties are rent into factions, and the
factions are split into fractions.
Mr.. Taft refuses to worry or hurry.
Mr.. Roosevelt refuses to think (tc
HIMSELF.
Mr.. La Toilette maintains that he
is the only avilable Rock of Ages"
Mr.. Hearst proclaims Mr.. Clark as
the bright sta- OF hope
Mr.. Wilson, with much classical
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
TslgIl.RS z<vA
Our
O11agNkIE,N
8EA1llsIRS

of these days they're going to drop in,
and that'll be the beginning.
Il learned a lesson too, that even
ing, and that is not to pass by kitch'
en- light. 1t isn't always the lighted
up parlor that has the best kind of a
welcome for a visiting minister. And
if you want to find a man in recep-
tive state of mind get him when he's
comfortable, in his shirt sleeves, his
pipe in his mouth, in a congenial COM
pany, sitting around a good old kitchen
range-if he lives in a home blessed
with such a thing"
A man is comfortable in kitchen,
if it's the right kind of kitchen.
don't mean the hole in the wall that
serves for so many kitchens, but a
big, bright, airy room, with bit of
rag carpet on the clean swept floor,
solid deal table in the center, on
which he can lean his elbow, a beam
ing lamp on the table and a shining
stove with glowing cheeks-a stove
that he can tend
The right kind of kitchen goes to
the heart OF man. 1t is reminiscent
of good things in the past, of good
things to eat, of all his Joys and his
woes, from lickin' out the cake pans
to seedlings for muddy feet
The time isn't so far distant when
the average kitchen was the family's
| living hn
room in the house during the winter;
the one room where all the good
smells congregated, where the neigh
bors dropped in" and had their
gossip; where mother sewed in the
evening and father read the paper
where the children studied their les
sons; where sisters beau helped
clear the table and wipe the dishes.
The right kind of kitchen-and Il
still exists, in spite of the modern fla
will keep man loyal to his home
when all other wiles have failed. AnG
it will keep the family together better
than good many of the modern meth
DDS that are recommended.
Despise the kitchen? Never! It!
too close to the heart of humanity
the sunny kitchen, with it's fuchi;
and geraniums and begonia in tn,
south window; it's yellow canary pip
ing away; it's fat cat sharpening IT.
claws on the table leg; it's apologize
} dog sneaking il. with the guilty hop
that his muddy tracks won't be discoy
cred; its singing teakettle. its shining
pots and-best Of all-Mother, wit
! pink cheeks, bossing the whole thing.
, When woman abandons the kitchen
she loses more than she knows-bu
: the men and the boys know.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
w EpN1AKM6Ux

81 started out to make an evening
call recently" said the little minister
with a Scotch accent.
I'D like to make more calls in the
evening"" he continued. An evening
call takes you right into the family and
you get better acquainted all around.
But what with prayer meetings and
young peoples meetings and Boy Scout
meetings and other meetings, min
listers evenings are pretty we'll ocu-
pied. Besides, he owes a little duty to
his own family and ought to try to
spend at least one evening a week in
| his home.
However, am trying to make some
evening calls among the people in my
parish. and the other evening l started
down a street with the idea of calling
at the first home
Arrived there l found the house
dark except that back in the kitchen
window glimmered light.
WELL thought l, I'd better pass
on. They probably don't want com.
pany tonight
But the next house was entirely
dark and plainly showed that nobody
was home.
SO back l went to the house with
the lighted kitchen window and
there stood and ponderod a mo-
ment. Then 1 saw the shadows OF
two heads against the window
shade.
Tim going in anyway said I tc
myself. So l marched boldly up the
front steps and rang the doorbell
Well sir, as the front dool
opened could look right through
the hall into the kitchen and l tel
you it looked warm and coy in there
The man of the house came to the
door. told him who l was, and mean
time marched on into the kitchen.
There l not only found the fam
lily gathered, but l also found foul
men besides the host-men of neigh
boring families; and l hadn't beer
there long before another neighbol
dropped.in, making six men in all.
Now / want to tell you that
never had a better time in my life thai
had in that big, comfortable kitchen
Moreover, it was perhaps the only wa.
could have met those men and got S,
we'll acquainted with them. Not on,
was church-goer, but they were al
glad to see me, and | found that al
they needed was to know what we ar
actually doing in our church. Mayb
they won't start going to church RICH
away, but they're interested, and on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
Auto Men Attack Frauds.

Bloomington, Feb. 5.-A call has
been issued for a meeting of Illi-
nois automobile dealers here Feb. %
to perfect an organization designed
TO combat cooperative supply associa-
tons and "illegitimate methods of
settings cars" Mutual protection
against irresponsible car buyers"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

Senator La Toilette feigns to be-
lieve the newspapers Of the country
are controlled by the interests while
the magazines and periodicals are
free The very opposite to what the
senator assumes is true. The average
newspaper is independent, and, hates
above all things a fraud, while the
magazines-or at least some of them
are now controlled by J. Pierpont
Morgan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
Philosophical.

Philosophical.
Let us take the weather
As it comes along.
Whether bright or frowning,
Greet 1t with a song.
II perchance it's raining,
Doesn't make a hit,
We may know that some time
Even rain will quit.
Take 1t on an average.
Sizing it with care.
We will own, I fancy,
1t is pretty fair.
Though some days are offiish,
Really what OF that?
Too much milk and honey
Stale would grow and fat.
Constant little changes,
April mixed with May,
Lend but spice and flavor
To the checkered day.
Were it always soothing
AS a lullaby
From the dreadful sameness
We would want to fly.
Knowing 1t is fitful
Then let come what will
And be truly thankful
That it sends no bill.
For without the weather,
Good or bad or worse,
As a steady topic
How would we converse?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
Evidence of the Express Overcharge

Evidence of the Express Overcharge.
At the express companies hearing
now in progress in Washington, be-
fore Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Lane. it was shown that one
company (the Adams) had made 1000
overcharges, amounting to several
thousand dollars, in a single day. 1t
was shown that this company, in one
year, had placed $4,000 in its treas
ury as a result of overcharges. Com
missioner Lane himself told of one in
stance, within his personal knowledge,
of a friend having prepaid an express
charge OF $3.50 on a package on which
the company collected an additional
$3.50 at the other end. The commits
sioner said:
1T has been conclusively shown
that the express rates are unintelligi-
BILE even to their own agents, and the
commission is going to prosecute IN
less there is a decided change. If we
would undertake to prosecute every
overcharge We would bankrupt and
put out of business every express com
pany in the United States. / will war
rant that if there is one letter of pro-
test against these overcharges in our
| files, there are 10000 You have got
to have some system by which any
body can tell what the rates are.
myself have had three rates quoted
to me by the same agent on the same
/ package on the same day"
These statements bear out the con-
tention of Nathan b. Williams of Fay
etteville, Ark, an investigator en-
ployed by the house committee on ex.
penditures in the postofice depart.
ment, that the express monopoly is
the greatest obstacle in the way OF
an efficient and economical admins
tration of the postofice department.
"A great deal has been said about
the word packet in postal law" said
Mr.. Williams. "Mr. Hitchcock knows
that this law and this word make ex
press company carriage OF mail mat
ter unlawful when the packets weigh
less than four pounds. Yet he urges
increases in rates on publications
such as newspapers and magazines
and advocates government ownership
Of the telegraph, while at the same
time opposing anything which will
hurt the express trust.
The express companies divert L
their own bulging pockets $5O,0Ot
every day in the year by doing morl
which legitimately belongs To th'
postoffice department. The express
companies carry upwards of 100000,
600 pounds of mail matter annually
il was shown by investigations con
Quoted by the Ashbrook committee
and while this enormous total is car
rled in cars right next to the mai
cars, at the same cost, the rate on i
is one-half cent per pound, while III,
mail rate Is one cent.
THE law expressly forbids the car
riage by express companies of thi
mail matter, yet under a classification
OF merchandise it is carried anyway
IL direct competition with the posi-
Office, and this fact causes a loss t
; the government Of upwards Of $4,000
900 a year"
And yet the express trust goes RICH
along doing business at the old stan
t. and will for all the interstate con
mission will do.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
Back 90 the Farm.

In the Washington Post of recent
date is an interesting discussion on the
subject OF The Back to the Farm"
movement. Among other things the
Post says:
in the country. at this season, the
farmer rarely arises before s O'Clock
In the morning, or at about the time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
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Weekly 81 per year in advance

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Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
Complaints of delivery service should
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which should also be notified in every
instance where II Is desired to have
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authority in the premises.
All communications OF e-gumentativs
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
tion No such articles will be printed
ever fictitious signatures
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

An attack of the grip is often fol-
lowed by a persistent cough, which
to many proves great annoyance.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been extensively used and with good
success for the relief and cure of
this cough. Many cases have been
cured after ali other remedies had
failed. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

With Cook county turning a deaf
ear to the Rooseveltian plea, not
withstanding the strenuous exertions
of the Chicago Tribune and with the
st. Louis republicans reversing
themselves in their former attitude
of favor toward him, it begins to look
as If the mania had subsidized.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

The campaign of the turkey COB
bier, La Toilette, for the presidential
nomination ended ingloriously. as was
anticipated, with a vile and malicious
and lying SANDER on the press Of the
country which was promptly and prop
erly rebuked by the chairman Of the
meeting before which the Wisconsin
fourhusher delivered himself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
Nothing Doing.

INUtIIIFl9 DUIIIYs
81 do so love to be charitable"
"How?"
"Giving the poor little children toys
and candy, don't you know"
But that sort Of thing is so COM
mon"
Common
Eyes. The papers take scarcely any
notice at all of it now
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

The announcement OF Governor
Deenen's candidacy for reelection
lifted an awful load of anxiety from
the heart OF one DR.. Joseph De Silva
of Rock Island. but the doctors
relief is OF but temporary duration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

Circumlocution.
Where are you going?"
"To meet an old friend"
'Who is hep
"He's joker"
"Why didn't you say you were going
to the vaudeville show?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

Although he goes west, he will be
delegate from the Rock river confer
ence to the general conference of the
Methodist church at Minneapolis
next May.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05

Describes His
Symptoms.
81 hear your
husband is sick. "
Yes, he Is all
ing con slider
ably"
NV b a It's the
m a ter w / t b
him?"
HE hasn't read
the patent medi-
cine adv ertise-
ments in today's
paper yet, so he
isn't quite GER
tain"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1923
Second avenue. Rock Island. Ill Ten.
tered Mt the postofHce as second-class
matter.l
Rock IsIand Member OF the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-05
New Stunt,

New Stunt.
81 went to new play last night"
Anything new except the name?"
Eyes. A drunken man came home
and found that the keyhole had not
been removed. He was so pleased
that he called the attention of the
audience to it."