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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
TAvENNER RIGHT on THE jog.

Evidence has been reaching the dis
trict that Congressman Clyde H. Tav-
enner OF Cordova is on the job in
Washington. It is now being further
confirmed.
He is using the same tireless energy
that he has always devoted 10 his
private business, to the public welfare.
When his Germ began March 1, he
faced a discouraging outlook so far
as the Rock Island arsenal was con-
cerned. II was the intention OF the
war department on that day to re-
duce the work in all departments Of
the arsenal
Tavenner was discouraged for a mo-
ment But he did not lie down He
went to the war department time and
again
Every step of progress that ne has
ever made was in the very face Of
discoura cement. He has always found
some way Of getting around what al
first appeared % be a hopeless block
ade
And he did il in the arsenal matter.
The Rock Island arsenal is not going
10 slow down. but boom. Approx
mately a million dollars OF new funds
will be expended through Rock Island
arsenal.
No one contends that Tavenner can
do everything; but it is evident that
he is far from being a dead one
The Fourteenth district a. least has a
man on the job in Washington thai
is not going 70 do any soldering
Unless he completely revolutionizes hi!
habits OF a life time, he will devote
anywhere from 10 to IA hours a day
10 the welfare of this district.
And the poorest man will get just
as square deai az his hands as vii
the richest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

board then borrowed $4,000 more
against the taxes then levied, which
was he last dollar that could be
raised in this manner.
The codury's books show thai the
floating deb, has been growing almost
weary. u s now estimated that by
Dec. / next year. the county will be
owing G least &s1.oou. Where it owed
but $4,000 last December.
IT, as mas been asserted by those
challenging The Argus figures. bU,
500. 600 IS needed 10 square up the
county's acgoun s, why it is tina, the
people were askei az the last Novem-
Der election 30 approve Of p special
hve-mHl tax. which wo-ld have added
0yt~ StsU.uoa 20 the county's revenues?
In the light OF these facts who is
doing the preyaricat.ng2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29


You promised once that you would guide
Ne where the fields were fair;
You said you gladly would provide
Protection for me there;
You vowed the path I trod should be
a pleasant one and clear,
How have you kept your faith with me
Along the way, my dear?
You promised once that I should claim
Your never cessing trust:
You vowed that you would never blame
Nor cease 10 think me just;
Ny inspiration you would be
From peaceful year to year.
How have you kept Your faith with ma
Along the way. my dear?
There vas SO much 7 did not know
And could not understand.
i fancied that the winds which blow
Might cease al your command
But I have learned along the way,
And ! will cease 10 chide,
The price was not TOO much to pay
To journey by your side.
HE.
There was so much 7 had not guessed,
So much I had TO learn.
But while your hand In mine may rest
would not, dear. return,
Oft have I needed on tho way
The courage YOU supplied:
Come. ley US start anew. today,
The journey, side by side.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
An Actors Emergency Shirt.

As for paper fasteners touring &C.
tor writes 10 point out another OF their
utilities: There is. at times. In a
small company especially. scarcity
Of starched linen. And shirts. like
King Johns treasure. get lost or mis-
laid IN the wash. You are playing a
dude part. say. with nauEht but fan
mel shirt 10 go with your dress coat
Take sheet OF note paper or foolscap.
prod 1t under your vest. and where the
central stud should be insert a round
beaded brass paper tastpuer,' Neces-
Eity mothers invention. London Stand
ard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Lieutenant Goveror O'HRra states
that certain persons operating sweat.
shops in Chicago have iutima.e ed that
they would be willing 20 pay TO have
the investigation OF the wage and vice
question stopped The Lieutenant gov
srnor says he Is going to make them
repentant. Yet hey cannot be so
much blamed FOR supposinE the thing
possible For years that was the way
such matters we're handled in the Illi-
uois and most other legislatures. In
vestigations we're threatened or laws
framed for the sole purpose OF fright
eninE corporations into paying hand
some hush money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Washington, March 27.-One Of the
most picturesque Of the democrats who
have come 10 Washington under the
new regime IS James K. Vardamsn,
the new senator from Mississippi.
He has his hair long and brushed
back sharply from high forehead. He
never wears any hs; but q big black
SLOUGH felt In the summer he wears
white linen clothes.
Yet. whatever his garb. his appear
aEce il so commanding ana distin-
guished THAI everyone turns 70 look
a. him SIS he passes.
He IS a former governor Of ais state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Records OF OF the county board are
being cited 20 show that when the in
vestigatiuE committee. after being ap-
pointed and having started work. Went
before the board tur authority 1t was
unanimously voted power 10 act"
This I'm itself was a direct violation o.
the boards rules These rules contain
the following no question shall be
left with a committee with power 20
act unless the amount of expenditure
by such act is previously passed upon
ny the board No mention is made IN
the records OF any limit having been
placed upon the expenditure in this
particular case
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

\ Chicago paper draws q very good
lesson from the Omaha storm disas-
Ter and tina, IS the Importance Of nav
ing VIII, ess telegraph 10 reserve. The
purpose OF the suggestion is no. 10
promote the publication OF the news
in the papers. but To bring aid TO a
stricken city u is pointed out that
had a yonfagra ion broken OUT. Omaha
might have been completely wiped ou'
because ~ inability To- call for outside
aid until hours had elapsed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
Favor Apnreciated.

Il have come TO inform you," said
the young man who thought the firm
would have to go out of business if he
went away. that unless my salary is
raised ! shall have to sever my con-
nsction with this establishment"
Thank you" replied the general
manager.
Am l TO understand. then" the
young man asked, that you accede to
my demand"
No. ! thanked you because you
had relieved me of an unpleasant
duty. I always hate to discharge a
man who will be unable to hold a Job
anywhere else"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
Grateful.

All" said the doctor. Judging from
the promptness and willingness with
which you have paid this bill the med
icine I prescribed for you must have
helped you great deal"
No doc, it didn't help ne any; but
I'm glad to say it wasn't specially bad
70 take and didn't seem 10 DO me a
Bit Of harm"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
March 20 IN american
History.

1890 Birth of John Tyler. truth pTr.>i-
dent ~ thr United States. died 49,
1877 General Humphrey Marshall.
noted Confederate. header ia Ken
lucky. died. born ISi2
19lU-Alrxundtr A.aS>iZ. noted nat
uralist. son of the celebrated I.nIIis
AgaSSiZ Gf Harvard university
died ut sea. iJuru lS.!I
19Il-Sir CH~IHr PUrduu Clarke for
mer dir,.cior of Tia. Metropolitan
Museum Of Art. New York. died tn
I.nndnn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Tax payers Of Rock Island county
will not begrudEe the expenditure OF
any reasonable sum for a fair, impair
tial Investigation OF county affairs and
the prosecution OF those against whom
convicting evidence is found, but they
are not going 10 fall over themselves
al the polls To approve Of the use OF
county funds iu carrying on a dubious
warfare between republican politicians
or party factions
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
How He Found Out.

We'll Bobbie." said his sisters
beau, Il am going to have the pleasure
Of eating dinner at your house next
Sunday What do you think of that"
"Oh. I knew about it all the time"
You did? Who told you?"
Nobody; but sis and ma have been
busy two or three days trying to find
the finger bowls"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

For the first time since the civil
war there is a Dir Of actual free trade,
the government having under Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary McAdoo
suspend the tariff against any and all
Canadian products sent TO the relief
Of the flood sufferers in Ohio
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

The county boards inner circle has
been merely washing the republican
linen At the publics expense and pref
ty dirty linen 1t is, Judging by what
the public has been permitted to see
and the amount OF soap so far consum-
p in the operation. Wonder If they
are refraining from hanging the rest OF
II out because OF modesty?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Clarence barrow has bee ninvited 10
speak before the Caliloru q legislature
and some thoughtless persons are dis
posed 10 Jest No man now before
the public is better informed or more
capable OF giving a broader opinion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

This is republican matter" said
Chairman George Richmond in speak
ing Of the investigation, from partici-
patton in which all democrats, even
the states attorney, we're so effectively
barred. Bur the tax payers, Of course,
we're expected TO foot the bill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

his cave and his lack OF buildings TO
be blown over or swept away.
More in keeping with facts than BY
ron's apostrophe 20 the ocean was the
homely prayer OF the sailor in the
storm: Lord, pity the lubbers ashore
with the chimney pots a-fallin"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
"ASHORE.

Man marks the world with ruin.
His control stops with the shore.
II stops short OF that, as well saws
the Rockford Star Against such vista
lions as the tornado az Omaha and the
Dayton catastrophe, the goth century
man 10 as helpless as the cave man.
As 20 the effects OF such storms. the
modern man may envy the cave man
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

II is the nour OF need for suffering
humanity in the devastated regions.
VIII Rock Island respond as has al
ways been the custom under similar
sorrowful circumstances or will she
neglect the duty OF the hour? Give.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

And what l. your uccupatlon:" ask
ed the accident insurance agent
I'm 3 woodman. During the hunt.
ing season ACT a. q guide"
oh. I'm SOrry. bur my company
won't write policy on your class"
Why not: Surely I'm good risk IS
My dear sir. yuur r. not risk: you're
= rAr1GIntH "--nGtrnit Fra PrasS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Uncle Sam will now hire a lot Of
experts for several months 10 count
his money-but he knows just how
much there ought 10 be in the till
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
Her Experience.

How long have you been on the
stage Miss Lovelace?"
Three divorces and an application
-er-that is I mean nearly four
years"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29


the Just
abe Of a hugep which she threw after him.
the hard
hadse n
So ALI her right
me- 4 e
be useless The warning
a before
sgung Il sweetd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
BY THE j. W. POTTER co.

TERMs-Ten cents per week. by car
rier in Rock Island.
Complaints of delivery service should
he made TO the circulation department.
which should also be notified in every
instance where Il IS desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority in the premises
All communics lions OF srgumentative
character political OF religious. must
have real name attached for publics-
tion. No such articles will be printed
Svsr fictitious signatures
Telephones in oil departments: ceL-
tral Union. West 145. Il45 and z145;
Union Electric. 5l45
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

After a mans wife finds that II is
useless to try TO convince him that
smoking is an expensive habit she be
gins to be afraid that it hurts the
babys throat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
He Would Show Her

The hen-peoked man is always brag-
ging about the way he would put his
foot down il he were in some other
mans place
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

There is a better angel in your ma
ture that Is calling upon you TO act in
the thought OF the afflicted food suf-
ferers. Respond.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Troubles with the oats crop are be-
ginning early this year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
What He la

Many a man who thinks he is a
child Of misfortune is merely a little
brother 10 Incidence
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

This should be fruitful time for
agents TO mention tornado insurance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

and well known not only throughout
the south, but all over the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
For Decorative Effect

Il went through town last week
which had a lot of suspended ba alls q"
What was IT. a financial panicr'
No; they were only banks of bunt.
Ing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
The Genial Cynic
TALKED IN HER SLEEP.
BY CHARLES GRANT MILLER.

BALTIMORE divorce the other day and
testified that while his asleep his side
tendery talking whom she address
ed Billy"
Since his own name Billy" he attentivey
heed ans learned that least loved anoh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
Only Two Wsys.

One must either be famous or a
rogue 10 get photographed free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29

Ali the news all The .lme-Thc Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-03-29
THE ARGUS.

Published daily at 1924 Second ave-
nue.. Rock Island. III. Entered at the
postofics a. second class matter.)
Rock Island Member sf the Associated
Press.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13
MONROE COUNTY FRIENDS SEND
GENEROUS AID FOR DE-
TENSE

Dear Mr.. Watson: We the I'M
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feel a deep interest in your efforts
to expose the tyrannies Of the Catho-
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY.

I am making a fortune selling
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person can do likewise; so if you
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l made $1,000 the first day, so can
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13
Little Boy Steals Bottle of Soda Water and
Gets Eleyen-Year Sentence

Farm until he was Fl years old.
The Supreme Court made no COM
ment on the sentence, it being held
that such a matter rested with the
trial Judge. In this connection the
decision read:
"The slight value of the article
stolen is matter to be given weight
by the court imposing the sentence,
but it does not nullify the sentence,
once it is passed properly"
Chief Justice Fish and Justice
Atkinson of the court dissented from
the majority opinion.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13
TEXAS FRIENDS FALL IN LIME.

Dear Sir: I enclose $1.50-50c.
sent by Mrs. Lou McGufin, and $500
sent by myself, to assist you in your
great fight to equal rights to all.
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Eden, Texas.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-03-13

TLANTA, GA, March Am
IN eleven-year sentence for the
In theft OF a five-cent bottle of
soda fountain drink was af-
tirmed here yesterday by the Geor-
gia Supreme Court against Ollie
Taylor, 13 years old. The decision
ends 8 three-years' struggle by 0.
F.. Taylor, father of the boy, to have
the decision set aside.
The lad pleaded guilty three
years ago to stealing the bottle. He
was only 10 years old then, and was
sentenced to the Fulton Industrial
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-22
TEXAS AND BEE INDUSTRY.

Washington. ID. c.. Feb. 22.-Texas
ranks first ana1g the states Of the
unions in the beekecping industry, ac-
cording to the report of the thirteenth
federal census recently issued. The
actual production III 1910 was 3,093,09
pounds of honey, valued at $30S.4SS. and
IS, l02 pounds of wax. valued at $14.310
or a total valuation of $500. 79S for the
product.
The average yield per colony for the
state Of Texas was p to 30 pounds of
comb honey and 40 to 30 pounds Of ex-
tracted honey, the former bringing the
producer from - to % cents per pound
when sold directly to the consumer. The
quality and flavor of the Texas honey
produced in 1909 was uneXcelled and the
last decade shows Il great expansion and
marked improvement in al phases of the
industry in the Lone Star State. About
nine farms in every hundred reported
bees in 1910, but during the last two
years this average has been increased
as the tendency of all apiarists has been
to keep more bees and for others to en-
gage III the industry.
The following races of bees are found
in Texas: Italian, Black. Cyprian, Pal
cstine. Carniolan, Banat and Caucasian.
Beeswax is a valuable by product of
the apiary. bringing 20 to 30 cents per
pound to the producer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-22
WASHINGTON.

1t is now a century and fourteen years
since the man whose birth we celebrate
today passed into the great beyond. His
fame is brighter today than it was at
the hour Of his death. Much brighter,
for now we look ut him calmly by the
light of history, and not Historically
through the distorted medium of pOliti-
cal prejudice. And so looking at him we
find him to be, altogether, the noblest
figure in modern history.
1t would be absurd to say that his
greatness is grounded i'll the fact that
he was always right and always success
full in peace and war. He was not al
ways right, but often-very often
wrong i'm his theories of government. He
was not always successful in politics and
he was sometimes beaten in war. Yet
o looking at him in the light Of the
history of his own time, in its bearings
upon the events of our Owl times, we
must admit that when wrong he was
sincerely wrOng-wrong in a %high-mind-
ed, noble way; and we also perceive that
when he was beaten he was still hero
and a patriot at the end of the battle.
He did not pose as a great man or as
a great statesman. He did not pose at
any time or unde any circumstances.
To the end of his life he remained a sim
pie, straightforward. upright, downright
country gentleman, with all the virtues
of his class and-possibly-some of
their faults.
When we think of the tempests that
beat about him in all his public life;
of the fools who sat in Judgment upon
him; of the incompetants who wished
to direct him; of the scroundrels who
deliberately tried to betray and thwart
him; of the honest men who failed to
agree with him; of the days when the
heavens and the earth seemed arrayed
against him; when he fought the best
equipped, the best drilled and bravest
veterans of Europe with the worst
equipped, the worst disciplined, the most
d~isOrganiZed army of ragmuflins ever
seen under arms Oh earth; when famine
and fever and frost and snow slaughter
ed his poor army between battles; when
we think of all this and remember how
steadfast he was. how self controlled.
and how not all the forces of nature.
the ill-advised entreaties of friends. nor
the. venOmOus tongues of slandercrs,
ever provoked him into a rash and fool
ish action, w begin to realize our mar
Vicious good fOrtune-or rather the won
derful prOvidential arrangement that
placed him at the head of affairs both
during and after the end of the war for
independence. 1t is no untrue if we as
sert today that he is still to us First
i'll war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.' 4.