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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-05
BY WILL SEAT.

T each end OF the dune
]. !. | !. !. 4 ]. J !:
Tm~~a sat a young person.
E8ESh EpJ At the precise points
k5lES$A X& where sand and
A4HAE4 beachgrass ceased to
L054EAE be part of this par
EsS1RAK ticular dune. they be-
WmNAH gan the construction
Fk1F OF other dunes.
wa Their backs were
~ toward each other
though they were
manifestly very conscious OF the pres
ence OF each other and might easily
have seen each other by turning
their heads little.
They had quarreled, and were not
ready TO make up again. What they
had quarreled about does not mat
ter; 10 was some trihe.
Most Horseneck dunes face south
cor west, because the wind blows oft
enest from these quarters. Now and
then one faces due north. To the
south. indeed. lies the ocean, and
where ~ has TO stay It's work Of de-
structive gnawing, the salt wind
takes IL up, and worries the sand
away from every spot not protected
by vegetation, until the whole neck
IL series of fantastic guilies and
Nights, patched here and there by low
lying cranberry boys, fat as q carpet
One such bog. very much neglected
and with grove OF young pine trees
wading into II, lay at the foot OF
the dune. The dunes northern as
pect prOsecutes an unbroken expanse
OF beach grass, climbing to the very
edge OF the dune and waving q fringe
against the sky.
The girl leaned forward and begar
TO SCOOP up handfuls OF damp sant
and mold IL into balls, which sh,
aimed with indifference success at {
tuft OF Hudsonia I'm the gully below
At length one bal, went very wild,
OF the mark. and the young mar
laughed laugh OF boyish amuse
ment, quickly checked as II he haC
forgotten for the moment that b,
was supposed 10 be sulking.
The girl tossed her head and stiff
ened. Her hands dropped to her lap
There was silence again.
Suddenly the stiffness was broker
by a far-off shout.
Toward the beach could be seeI
the figure Of a stout man, very small
On the summit Of = dune. Eesticulat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-05

sat a young person.
At the precise points
where sand and
beachgrass ceased tC
be a part of this par
ticular dune. they be
gan the construction
OF other dunes.
Their backs were
toward each other
fhonpb fhay Wers
The Pleasantville press., 1912-07-31
The Twelve Points Of the Scout Law

l had hoped my boy would be all
these things, and had so admonished
him. But these are Scout laws, mind
you, not advice and admonitions, not
hopes backed by maternal pleadings
and fears, but laws, self-imposed
when the Scout takes his oath; for in
taking the oath he promises to obey
these laws. That settled it. If the
Scout movement stood for these
things, and inspired and exacted
them, was with it, heart and soul.
/ have not told you that the "gang"
had by this time joined. Well, of
course they had. They were Scouts
now. believe they joined the organ
ization very soon after the Boy re-.
ceived the Manual.
1t took some little time for them
to get things going. The right Scout
master was not easy to choose. The
boys found it hard to agree. Finally
their choice rested on a young fel-
low who was working his way
through law school. He had some
Indian blood in him, and the boys
thrust on him the honor and, it may
be added, the labor of being their
Scout-master. From then on the
Scouts met twice a week. From the
start the whole thing was a great
success. The Boy, for one, benefited
immensely by the association. It
would take me too long to tell you
how much. 1t only tell you humbly
that some of the faults in him which
/ had worked with for years, such as
selfishness, shiftlessness, occasional
cowardice, and sometimes irreverence,
began to disappear, and without fret
or friction. A good Scout had none
of these faults: they are against the
Scout law. He was trying to be a
good Scout; that was all.
Have you a boy of your own? If
you have, ! think you cannot do bet
ter than to look into the Scout move
ment. He is sure to hear of it, and,
if he is anywhere near twelve, or thir-
teen, or fourteen, he is pretty sure to
want to join it. beg you, too, not
to put anything in his way; and then,
further, beg you to keep your hands
of. Your part is to listen when he
talks to you about it; to approve; to
have a good supper waiting for him
when he comes back from his Scout
tramps, and to continue to say your
prayers at night for him.
For those who do not know and
who wish information, take the lib
erty Of quoting without permission
from the Manual:
The Boy Scouts of America is q
corporation founded by group of
men who are anxious that the boys
Of America be built up in all that
goes to make character and good cit
The Pleasantville press., 1912-07-31
INSECT BITE COSTS LEG.

A Boston man lost his leg from the
bite of an insect two years before. To
avert such calamities from stings and
bites of insects use Bucklen's Arnica
Salve promptly to kill the poison and
prevent Inflammation, swelling and
pain. Heals burns, boils, ulcers, piles,
eczema, cuts, bruises. Only 25 cents
at All Druggists.
The Pleasantville press., 1912-07-31
The Boy Scouts
and My Boy
A True Story for Mothers. by Mother

er DelOre,-anQ SOmeInlng, Zoo, aDOuC
good citizenship.
l pored over it, but / did not let
the Boy know this. On the contrary,
I gave it to him the next morning
with little show of interest. Here
is a pamphlet that was sent me to
advertise the Boy Scouts" / said;
"but you will probably understand it
better than / do"
saw his eye run over the lines.
In moment he was absorbed in it.
Here was something to which his fin
gers felt familiar. He turned the
pages a good deal, as you or might
feel a piece of silk or linen to Judge
Of the quality.
That afternoon when he joined the
gang" there went with him the
pamphlet concerning the Boy Scouts.
| told you that am generally con-
sidered clever woman. In vindica-
ton of the term now tell you that
/ never so much as mentioned the
Boy Scouts to him, and / kept my
hands off.
Shortly after that the Boy sent
thirty precious cents to Scout head
quarters for a Scout Manual. 1t was
with him day and night. I am mod
erately certain he slept with it under
his pillow. sent for one myself,
taking care the Boy should not know
l had done so, and / read it with a
critical eye.
There were places in it that seemed
to me a good deal claptrap, kind of
playing at make-believe; something
here and there which, to my way of
thinking, is forced or cheap and use
less; something which lacks sense and
sincerity. Maybe this is merely a
woman's native misunderstanding and
misapprehension of a mans world,
but I am telling you frankly the i'm
preston the whole thing made on me.
II did not like the "dramatics" of it.
l found, about that time, quite lit
tie in the magazines, too, about the
organization, and / remember reading
with a good deal of disgust how the
Scout-master sometimes pretended to
be badly hurt and pretends to faint,
so that, thus fooling the boys, he may
better give them genuine (!) lesson
in first aid to the injured. | read
that one leader pretended to be lost
in some big stretch of woods, so that
the boys would get the genuine lost
in-the-woods scare, such as the will
derness pioneers had; and there were
other such accounts.
All of this, as well as many other
minor details of the Scout movement,
/ disapproved of, do still disapprove
of thoroughly. / thought them then,
and L still think them, cheap and un-
worthy; but in that Manual, as / read
it, there were pages, too, that glowed
with the light from boys own world.
Also, there was the page of Scout
laws, reading which, something in me
got to its feet and saluted as cadet
salutes superior officer.
On page 10 of the Scout Manual
there is to be found the following:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
SAN FRANCISCO TO HAVE HALL OF FAME
Such a Temple Is Being Built By the
 Native Sons

San Francisco. Aug. San Fran cisco is to have a hall of fame. There in y,e tweaty native sons and daugh- te.s of California that have done most to reflect glory on their State, are 70 be glor fled in arJ. glass and sculp- ture.
 The temple is being erected by the Native Sons organization. In yhe main hall are twenty oval frames, garlanaed with laurel wreaths. In each will be placed the art glass ef- figy of one who has helped make hls- tory in California. Three daughters of the State-Gertrude Atherton, Sybil Sanderson and Mary Anderson have been selected for the honor. The public s invited to name the ie- maining seventeen.
 On the temple walls will be placed portraits of many, who though not natives of California, have been iden- tifiel with the State.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
WILSON AID MARSHALL
 MEET AT SEA CIRT
RINNING MATES ON DEMOCRATIC TICKET TO TALK OVER
 THE CAMPAIGN
Indianan Goes To New Jersey To At. tend the Wilson Notification
 Ceremonies.

Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 5.-Govcrnor Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana wi Il arrive at he New Monmouth Hotel, Spring Lake, mile from here, to- morrow afternoon. He will be ac- companied by Mrs. Marshall. Coy ernor Wilson will call upon Covert or and Mrs. Marshall tomorrow morn- ing. If Mrs. Wilson, who is suffer- ing from cold, is sufficiently i'm proved, she will accompany the governor. This will be the first meet ing of the two governors since the pre-convention campaign when Gov ernor Wilson was entertained b. Governor Marshall at Indianapolis The running mates will take this opportunity of discussing plans fol the campaign. Governor Marshall comes to attend the Wilson nosifi cation ceremonies, plans fer whicf have been perfected.
 The notification ceremony will be gin at o'clock sharp with Senate James notification speech. Governo Wilson will immed ately deliver hi speech of acceptance. The entir proceedings should not take nor 1 than two hours.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
PROHIBlTlONISTS WANT
 A JUDGE AND CLERK
EIRiE LIFTING PETITION TO GET EiEt IiDN CUMNESSIONERS
 TO GIVE THEM REPRE-
 SENTtTlNN AT POLLS
Movement Started In the Churches sunday Night Will Be a Gen.
 eral Movement.

After remaining qu ct on the sub feet for several weeks the Jefferson county glohibitonists again engaged in thetr work fer slate wide prohi- btion Sunday when petitions were rculated shrouga congregations of several churches in | e city, and freely signed, requesting the Jeffer- son County election commissioners to permit committee of three. named by the anti whiakey clement, to name judge and clerk for each precinct in the neX, state election at which t me the Questicn of barring whiskey from the boundaries of the state will be referred to tse people.
 The ac ivities will not be confined to church members alone but it was stated las night by a prohibitions that the. petitions W Il be circulated throughout the county. It IS planned to select a committee to name the prohibition election officers if the request is granted by the electior commissioners.
 "TAis $ not a church movement though of course many members o fha different de- ominations are bacl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
HOUSE PASSED
 NINETEEN BILL ::
Army Officers Engaged in Ayia ion Will be Given Double
 Pay.

Washington, Aug. 5-The House to- day under unanimous consent pass ed nineteen bills. Among them was a bill doubling the pay of army Oi- f cels engaged in aviation, measure amending the pure food law with respect to the sale of drugs so as to make the use of decoctions more diff ficult than at present; resolution requesting the president to issue in- viations to foreign powers to attend the four h annual congress of hy- giene at Buffalo next year and q bill to preserve Fort McHenry, MO-, as a m litary post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
Continued on Page Four.
We Want Your Business

We are always on the lookout for something or some way to please or help you thereby ourselves.
 We have put in busy little elec- tric machine to sharpen your old Safety Razor Blades. Price 25 for single and 35c per dozen for double edge. Saves you 25 to 65c per dozen. We have Eastman lkodaks and Sup. plies all kinds of sundries from tal- cum powder at 15c per pound to $1.25 for small can. A full line of Brocard Imported Russian Perfumes. Pow ders and Toilet Waters. We have laid you about our new fountain the neat est cleanest in the city and every drink or cream made of the highest quality we keep. Four delivery boys with wheels delivering as fast as they can in the city and we have 8 great many friends outside of the city that send us all their orders, even if they need something we don't car- l ry we will send our buyer out and buy it for them. We have bought everything from meat to knitting needles. Come in to sec us and make yourself at home.
 ICITIZENS DRUG STORE
 .We Deliver 1t Qnicker.. Most the time)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
MARYLAND MOB
 LEADERS UNDER ARREST

Baltimore, Aug. 5-As the result or six months investigation by William J. Burns at the request of Governor Goldsbcrough, of this state, four men were arrested here today chaf@sea with being leaders of the moo 'ha' took King Johnson, negro,s ron the Brooklyn, Mi., jail last Christ mas eve and f endishly murdered him. 7 The men under arrests,tonaght are Frank ,sschwab, Thomas Gleasun, and John Gleason, while, and Howaro Herring, colored.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
Decisions By Interstate
 Commerce Commissions,
Suspends Advance Lumber Rates on Cotton Belt From Arkansas Points
 To Des M0ineS, la.

Washir gton, Aug. 5-Interstate commerce commission decisions: Commission suspended advance Tn lumber rates .on St. Louis South western railroad from points in Ark acsas, Texas and Mississippi to Des Moines, Ia., and increases over S'. Louis, San Frarc sco from polh's Ill Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ana Nebraska to Chicago until November 30. Over 5000 rate increases asked by $50 railroads are now perd ns.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
LANGFORD IN NEW
 INTERURBAN COMPANY

Photographic dispatches received by the Graphic last night from New York told of the organization of a company in that city by w. H. Lang ford. former president of the Citizens Bank here, to build an interurban railroad from Little Rock to Mem- phis. It is stated that the company plans to operate it's cars by electri, city and gasoline. with both freight and passenger service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
SAYS NEW SENATE BILL.
 WOULD ENLARGE BUSINESS

Washington. Aug. '-The introduc- ton in the House by Representative Stanley, chairman of the Steel h. vestiga.ing committee of his new bill for the regulation of corp srations, brought critic sin from Representa- tive Gardner, ranking minority mem of tae committee. The good parts, he said, were ideas advanced by the Republicans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06

The nnquestionedly and unrecorded "eleSa1es seleefed Beyeridee as the very man for the ioh and with him all the rest Of the temporary officers that Wefe named.
 BeVeridse's speech, though lone was raight from the shon1der epigrammatics vigorous and made q tremendous lit. If the Colonel opt- does it ill Erogressiveness he will have 10 5e | Progressive.
 Senator 5eyeridee took u3 one by one every issue that is before the people, the trust question, he oQes- tion of child labor, the tariff oues- ton, tae woman suffrage question and took the progressive view of each.
 Tn the beginning when he was say ing something about crooked Doliti- clans man who had cried amen to the prayer shouted lustily Go to hell with the politicians, Whereupon a man on the stand observed any body Who can say amen to d prayer and what that fellow said just now will be some fighter"
 What awakened the enthusiasm of the crowd more than any other ut terance in the Senator's speech was this "Neither Democrats nor Repub- hcans can sWerye us from our course. We are free of both, and We fear neither.
 This bold declaration that the men who owed their renown to a political organization had left indefinitely and forever, got the crowd on their feet and they stayed there for almost a minute.
 Again when he declared that votes for women and their natural rights and that those who bear the nation S soldiers are as deserving Of consider ation as their sons who fight for the nation. there came a flutter of femin- inc handkerchiefs from the gallery | from the floor and galleries alike. i It was half past one when Bever- idge began his speech. It was 3 when he concluded, perspiring but still in vigorous voice and immaculate save for his widered collar.
 It had been intended to hold an i experience meeting" after the Beyer- -4idge speech, but after hasty word With the Colonel this was abandon. { ed
 Therefore an adjournment was talk .en until o'clock tomorrow when the Colonel will be escorted to the hall by fifteen Bull Moose governor, sena- tors, congressman and distinguished from which the platform will be talk en.
 Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of Denver was selected as permanent chairman of the convention at an eleventh houl congress tonight. John M. Parker who was slated for the position, de cided that he did no1 want it and SC notified Senator Dixon. After hur ried consultation with Colonel Roose welt, Lindsay, who is a Democrat
 was selected.
 It is announced lay the few wh;
 were permitted to see Colonel Roose
 welt late tonight that he had express ed decided preference for Col. Johl M. Parker. of Louisiana, as a runnin! mate. Senator Dixon and the othe
 of the leaders, however, were dispos
 ed to favor Governor Johnson a
 strongly as ever and that latest in timation was that the Colonel ha yielded to their views.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
FOR SALE

40 h. p. Overland 3-passenger Auto.
 mobile, good condition, two tires practically new, other two In fair condition. The car originally came twO.seated but traded real seat for ramble seat New Magnetic and coils. Cost $l,5OO.OO. Will. sell for only $4OO.OO. Reasons for sell. lug have q 5 passenger Maxwell aud have no use for Overland. Excep' tiOnal opportunity for impediete sale. Apply JnO. D. Speers, Citiseni Bank. 7-25 s8t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
HIS STATEMENTS
 ARE BOOMfRANCS President Collier, of Tax payers, Cannot Keep Up His Figures and Mud
 dies Totals.
THOSE REPEATERS {?
What WOuId-Be Political Boss Would Have You Believe Ky Using
 Unfair and t'ntru.hful Methods.

Under the head of Forgery, Dead Men and Repeaters." T. J. Collier, the Self Protesting, president of the TaXPayers League, published an ar tic!e in local papers Saturday and Sunday. II which he attempts to con- vey the impression that the petitions in favor of the free bridge contain 'I'orgeries, Repeaters, and Dead Persers," and after citing five or six instances proceeds to say that he will show that instead of ther being 2SS0 petitioners, he will if given enough time cut the number down to less than one thousand.
 We do not believe it incumbent upon us to refute the insinuatiOns made by MT. Collier, in his article, who attempts to accuse by inuenoo, the Bridge Commissioners, while in the same breath he eulogizes them and states, for the first time, We do no mean to cast any reflection on i any member of the Bridge Commits sion We consider them honorable, stra ght, upright gentlemen etc" But in order to once more show how l very unfair MT. Golfer has been, not { only to the Bridge Commis sioners, but to his own friends and followers, We submit the followings facts:
 Repeaters
 There will be found possibly fif- teen CT twenty of duplicate petit ions to which the attention of MT. Collier and both his attorneys was directed, when the commission were listing petitions. They ocured in this man. new: Take, for example, MT Meyer Solnlson.s petition, when filed with the commissioners, the value of the property was ncted thereon. Some time later, in examining the assess ment books. it was discovered that Mir. Solmson was the owner of other property not included in the first pe- titiono. When this fact was discover ed by MT. Solmson he reported t to the persons having the bridge peti- tions in charge, and asked that it be listed on his petition. It being hard to find his original pet t'tion, in the absence of an index, they took a blank petition and placed thereon the name of Meoyer Solmson and the val. ue of the property owned by him anG not listed n the first petition, mak ing the following memorandum thereon "see original petition O , Meyer Solmson. count this far valu' but not for numbers
 Now this explanation was plain, made to Messrs. Collier and his at torneys, Carmichael and Oracle, whe1 listing the petitions. They yer, agreably stated That's all righ gentlemen in order to save time ain not compel the stenographers t
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
At Tulsa, Okla.

TnIsa. Okla, Aug. 5-The low tem- peranre- -tpep,d fer Eastern Oklaho- ma for tae month of August was broken last night, when the ther- mometer dropped to 5S degrees, ac- cor,lng 10 the local wea her bureau.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
|II[ MOOSE, !.!!!! ,,,!|'!!!.!!,,'!... PARTY HAS BEEN BORN ,ynote Speech is Delivered Dr Senator Beveridge, Who Was Elected Tenn
 porary Chairman.
 pME PROGRESSIVE ..o Rooseyelt Gets "Glad Hand From Big Delegation on His Ar-
 rival in Chicago.
owr PRCGRES ESSIVE
pr James !. Montague

NhicagO, Aug. D. 4ie iiloo VI 'iiS I,,o mingled with the melody or ! Rattle Mymn of the Republic |tbe coliseum this afternoon as the |egfsssslye party was formally usher into being. Theodore Roosevelt I,d all about it in his room at k Congress, but he took no part in locking the skids from the under } new ship of state. His will he } duty of putting her into commits hp with a 21,00O word speech to- brow,
 Twelve hundred delegates and sev- thousand spectators witnessed the kinning of the Progressive party d helped with the song service and cheers for Senator Beveridge's trng keynote speech. But while e Coliseum was not filled with kmbers, its was more ..han filled N enthusiasm. From the reading he call to the motion to adjourn was vociferous accord. And yet man in whose name the entire eeedings were held stayed in se- sion all day, apparently nursing a tEls and denying hmiself to all e his most intimate and contiden- lleutenants.
 Some of the delegates said it was gouch at all; that the Colonel lpy had to have quiet in order to the finishing touches on his con- klon of faith. But others admitted newspaper men, backing the big Moose about the negro question got him out of tucker and kept out of tucker all day.
 pu 10 return to the regular order eolonel got in at 9::30 and was Os big delegation of which all McCormick and Candidate N who is the Progressive choice s0ernor of Illinois, were tn, WITS He was catapulted througi sfowd by policemen, tried an( 10 shake hands with the en H and went into conference a 'onsress Hotel with Senator Dix u'aord Pinchot, James R. Gar
 sllllam Allen White and oh his staunch supporters.
 aoon no Colonel appearing t s'a lne crowd with his steel blu
 'ae delegates began trailing to ue Coliseum and by o'cloc! 'a three-quarters filled.
 la'Or Dixon, chairman of tn
 'lal progressive party starte
 ,.'' uy outlining the purports C
 pi'lcal gathering and rappin
 s ola parties rather sharply | Y A. Davies, provisional sec
 2 read the call.
 \, pixon then introduce
 N esefldge as a choice of tn
 'ual committee for temporar
 NOW curious thing hal
 Deseridge was not electe
 M '' chairman; he was merel
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06

cold snap when the mercury dropped 10 56. equaling tAe August record for Il years.
 Only TWO years before has the mark been touched.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06

of i,' said Rev. w. C. Davidson last night. Tt is an effort of the prohi- bitionis5s of Jefferson County to get a square deal at the next state elec- ticn. l believe taat nine people out of every ten will sign these petitions. There is no reason why they should not. It is only asking for recogni- ticn that s.aould be ours"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
FOR SALE CHEAP

One half block of ground, with modern cottage on Chestnut and 18th street. Apply to Mrs. Essie Wilson, Frcug's Department Store. 7-15-et
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-06
LOW TEMPERATURES
 FELT OVER SOUTH
Nashville, Tenu, Reports As Low As
 5S Degrees.

Rockville, Tenn, Aug. 5--The tenn perature at Nashville today is some what higher, following yesterdays