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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24

The lovers Of track aid field ath-
letics have been waiting patiently for
Spa ding's Official Athletic Almanac
that is just published. This is the
goth year that James E. Sullivan, sec
retary-treasurer OF the Amateur Ath-
letic union, has adited the Almanac,
and It is larger and more complete
than ever. II contains valuable data
that will be of great interest to the
lovers of amateur sport throughout
the world The important feature Of
the book is. an usual, the All-American
teams that have been selected by the
editor Following are his selections:
ALL-AMERICA ATHLETIC TEAM, 1917.
20 Yards Run-H. P. Drew, Spring
field (Mass) high school.
100 Yards Run-Ralph Craig, Detroit
Y. NJ. c. A.
900 Yards Run-A. T. Meyers, Irish
American A. c.
44O Yards Rune. D. Reidpath, Syr-
acuse university
COO Yards RUM. W. Sheppard,
Irfnh-American A. c.
$50 Yards Run. E. Meredith. Mer-
cersberg academy.
! Mile Run-A. r. Kiviat, Irish
American A. G.
2 Miles Run-T. S. Berna, Cornell
university.
120 Yards Hurdles-F. W. Kelly.
University of Southern California.
22O Yards Hurdles. ] Eller, Irish
American A. C..
Running Broad Jump-A. L. Gutter
son, Boston A. c.
Running High Jump-G. L. HORNE,
Olympic club, San Francisco.
Pole Vault-H. S. Babcock, New
York A. c.
Standing High Jump-Platt Adams,
New York a. c.
Standing Broad Jump-Ben Adams,
New York A. c.
Three Standing Broad Jumps.
Goehring. Mohawk A. c., New York.
10 Miles RUM. ]. Smith, New York
City.
Marathon Race-Ganton Strobino,
South Paterson IN. j. A. c.
/ ] Mile Walk-R. B. Clifford, McCad-
! din Lyceum. Brooklyn, n. Y.
: Running Hop, Step and Jump-C. E.
Brickley, Harvard university.
Shot Put-P. Mcdonald, Irish-Amer-
lean A. c.
/ Shot Put. Both Hands-Ralph Rose,
! Olympic club. San Francisco.
sc Pound Weight for Distance-P
Ryan, Irish-American A. c.
Hammer-M. McGrath, Irish-Ameri
can A. G.
Discus. H. Duncan, Bradhurst
Field club.
Javelin-H. G. Lott, Mohawk A. c..
New York.
Miles Run-H. L. Scott, South
Paterson A. c.
All-Around-J. W. Thorpe. Carlisle
Indian school
Cross Country-W. J. Kramer, Long
Island A. C.. Brooklyn, y. Y.
ALL-AMERICA COLLEGE TEAM, 1912
100 Yards Run-R B. Thomas
Princeton university.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24
COL0RED SLAYER OF
WIFE SENTENCED

Samuel Green, coloTed, was this
morning sentenced 20 the state peni-
Tertiary under the Understandable sem
tence law, this action following his
pleading of guilty to manslaughter yes
terday in the circuit court before
Judge R. w. Olmsted. The fellow, it
viii be recalled, killed his wife with a
razor Nov. IA. He will commence
serving in the penitentiary as soon as
he can be taken there and he hopes
to behave so well that a pardon will
be granted him before many years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24

afternoon for Aledo where tonight they
will battle with the Drury academy
team of that city. The team has been
some hard practice during the
past week and have been drilled up to
the high school standard of ability,
which has won many games in the
past Signals have been taught to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24

members of the team and they hope
to bring back the scalp of the Drury-
ties. The team will probably line up
as follows: Forwards, Kip and Chalk;
center, Tremann; guards, Whistler and
Glass. Subs, Hippler and Mcneil.
All the news all the time The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24
Notice to Contractors.

Bids will be received at the office
o' the mayor at a. m, Feb. 3, 1913,
for the paving of Fourth avenue from
Twenty-fourth to Twenty-seventh
streets and of Twenty-seventh from
Fourth to Fifth avenue. Plans and
specifications on file in the office of
the city engineer. Contractor to be
paid in bonds bearing five per cent
interest. All bids must be accompan-
led by cash or certified check in
amount of 10 per cent of bid.
H. NJ. SCHRIVER,
President board of local improve
ments.-Adv.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy never
disappoints those who use it for OBJ
st:nate coughs, colds and irritati0ns of
the throat and lungs. 1t stands IN
rivalled as a remedy for all throat and
lung diseases. Sold by all druggists
lAdv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24
SENIORSTO WEAR
CAPS AND GOWNS
High School Glass Which Is to
Graduate This Year Decides
to Adopt Innovation.

After an hour of debate, the senior
class last evening by vote of AZ to
81 decided to wear caps and gowns
during the commencement week. There
vas a great deal of opposition to the
project as was the case last year, but
there were many who were willing to
adopt the innovation in order that
they might have the distinction of hav-
ing been the first class of the high
school of this city to graduate with
the college regalia, caps and gowns,
Other matters. in preparation for the
graduation, were brought up at the
meeting and President Glenn Reid ap-
pointed committees to select the class
pins, the class play and arrange for
the caps and gowns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24
AlI-America Track Team

22O Yards Run-C. P. Wilhon, Coe
university
40 Yards Run-C d. Reidpath,
Syracuse university
$50 Yards Rum. P. Jones, Cornell
university.
l Mile Rum. S. Taber, Brown uni
versity.
Miles Run-T. S. Berna, Cornell
university.
12O Yards Hurdles-F. w Kelly,
University of Southern California
22O Yards Hurdles. B. Craig. Uni.
versity of Michigan.
Running High Jump-G. L. HORNE,
Stanford university.
Pole Vault-M S. Wright, Dart.
mouth university.
Putting 16 Pound Shot-R l.. Beat
ty, Columbia university.
Discus-H X Thatcher, University
Of Missouri.
Hammer-Carl Shattuck, University
of California.
Running Broad Jump-A. L. Gutter
son, Univeraity Of Vermont
ALL-AMERICA SCHOLASTIC tear.
| 100 Yards RUM. P. Drew, Spring
1 field high school.
| Running High Jump-W. NJ. Oler
/ Jr., Pawling school.
! 22O Yards Run-C. A. Rice, Powder
Point school
| l Mile Run. Windnagle, Washing
ton school, Portland.
: 440 Yards Rum. T. Howe, Boston
English H. S.
$50 Yards Run. E. Meredith
Mercersburg academy.
/ Putting u Pound 'Shot-A. NJ Mucks
/ Oshkosh high school.
! 120 Yards Hurdles-H. Whitfield
Citrus Union school.
2 Miles Run f. Wenz. Jr., Ro
selle IN j. high school.
Hammer - T. Pearce, Palo Alto
school
900 Yards Hurdles-W H. Meanix
Legate school
Pole Vault-C. Borgstrom, Ventur;
high school.
Running Broad Jump-H. T. Worth
ington, Exeter academy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-24

Annoy, China-Disorderly elements in
the province of FUKien have become
so formidable the authorities are I'M
able to cope with them. An American
oil company's junk was boarded by
pirates and the captain killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
AYHAWKER .OTS

According to the Osborne County
Farmer, automobile etiquette demands
that the guests on the back seat in an
automobile ride shall do the treating.
At the top of the first column on the
front page of the current issue of the
Toronto Republican is this teaser: A
job of shoveling snow would look good
now.
Related by the Osborne County
Farmer: A young man asked Her
father for her hand. What salary are
you receiving?" the stern father ask
ed. Ten dollars a week" the young
man replied. why, that wouldn't keep
my daughter supplied with handker-
Chiefs" the father said. well, if she
has a nose that runs that much
don't want her. the young man
answered.
Once in a while is a man with an
ear for big words and faculty for
using them regardless of fitness, writes
Editor Kelley in his Toronto Repub-
ican. Back yonder Ben Judy was that
man. He even coined words. He built
new house and to a visitor, as 1t
neared completion, said: 1T amt done
yet. I'm gofn' to build a miranda along
the front SO 1 can maintain my guests
in a hostile manner" When the first
self-binder was shown at the county
fair he looked it over and pronounced
this ultimatum: It's a pretty good
convention but seems to me it's 100
burned expensile." And Ben was the
man on whom I heard the following
originally told: a guest at his home
had complimenttd the custard pie
whereupon Ben generously offered his
piece as a second helping to the guesr.
Why Mr.. Judy" said the guest "I
would not deprive you of your pie for
anything" It's no depravity,'' Ben
CALAMITY assured her, mo depravity
at all, ma ann
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l

From the Philadelphia Record.1
Old age is a sprinter that overtakes all
of
You can seldom buy experience at a bar
gain sale.
There are lots of dishonest men who
have never been in politics.
IT is perhaps better to be half-cracked
than to be altogether broke.
Some people tell the truth only when
they want to shame the devil
The man who gets in on the ground
floor usually gets out on top.
It's all right to take things as they come
If they don't belong to some one else
man either has more money than he
needs or else he needs more than he has.
It's a poor rule that won't work both
ways, and a poorer one that won't work
at all.
Blobbs-''rve had nothing but hard luck
since I've been married. and yet my wife
Is a jewel" SlobbS-"An opal, perhaps"
In public life some men set the razzle-
dazzle because they don't know enough.
while others because they know too much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09

Miss Valenza, and they went crazy
on that last CALL
Il wish it were my last, joe" she
said, bitterly. 1T doesn't seem to taste
good to me any more someway.
She heard him call to her again as
she turned up the stairs to her dress
ing room, but she did not answer, ana
once there she opened the letter from
Stratford. 1t was brief. 1t merely
stated that he was there, in the same
town, that night, and would be at the
theater waiting for her. She looked
at the postmark. 1t was stamped
right there in that little, lazy, manu-
featuring Jersey town, and he, Stan
ton Stratford, was waiting for her
downstairs. She closed her eyes for
minute, trying to think clearly, but
out of the flood of memory there was
only frantic thankfulness that some
how fate had dealt her the ace of
hearts. Joe tapped at her door, and
she opened it a crack.
Gentleman below waiting to see you,
Miss Varenza."
Thank you, Joe. Tell him I'll be
right down, and-and listen, Joe." She
slipped a bill into his hand, laughing
softly. Tell them I've been taken
fearfully i'll, very suddenly, Joe. Wire
the office I'm down and out for good.
I'm going west tonight, and 1 won't
be back. I'll never, never be back, Joe,
understand"
Gee" he said regretfully, st wish
you'd taken that last call on EN-
I'm taking it now, joe said Zoe.
copyright, 1913. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09

within the city limits; that there were
approximately $500 business houses IN
Minneapolis, employing 5000 wagons
whose loss from bad roads was $4,000
for the year.
The combined loss of the farmers,
merchants, and manufacturers for one
year was 81, sis, 600. AS there are about
5000 miles of roads in the district.
which could have been kept in good
condition for $1,000 year. If properly
constructed, in order to ascertain what
amount could profitably be invested in
good roads, the committee deducted
this amount from the total loss, leav-
ing s1,2O0,o00. Capitalized at Az per
cent, or per cent, which is more than
bonds would cost. the principal is $22,-
100000. If this amount were invested
in good highways at $1,000 a mile, the
district would still break even on the
investment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
EVENING CHAT
Courtesy, the Flower of Love.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Courtesy, the Flower of Love.
There is certain home, at which love
seeing the husband stand behind his wife's
chair until she is seated at the table.
Nor are these two pair of newlyweds
who will soon drop this gracious custom.
They have been married many years and
this is but one of the graceful little cour-
tesies which they have observed all the
days of their married Hfe.
Many people have an idea that home is
pre-eminently place where we should
thoroughly relax in manners, in clothes
and in temper, and be as unmannerly, as
slovenly and as disagreeable as we please.
What's the use of having family"
queries someone, "unless you can be dis
agreeable to them when you feel like it?'
And in a newspaper contest for the best
definition of the word home" one man
with your knife if you want to and put
your feet ON the mantelpiece." His def
milton was but one of many which eX-
pressed similar pleasing notions of home.
Now if good form were only an artificial
code of laws with no foundation but the
whims of society, we might have reason
to slough off our company manner in
the home as if it were an uncomfortable
garment or a tight shoe. But good man.
ners are much more than that The ac-
cepted ways of eating, the polite manner
of addressing people, in short almost all
the proprietiesand courtesies are crystal
lizations of the ideas of many generations
as to the most suitable and kindest way
to do things.
With the majority of US, home is the
gathering place of all those whom we
love best in the world. Surely then We
cannot want to be less kind to them than
to those who are comparatively Indifferent
to us!
True courtesy is the flower of the plant
love. plant may exist without flower
ing, to be sure, and have very firm, deep
roots and d fine foliage, but is it not
much more lovely when it flowers? Even
so the love for own which has not
only firmly established roots and a sturdy
growth but also the fair flowers of kind
acts loving words, and graceful courtesies,
is much more beautiful and more to be de-
sired.
How about the love plant that grows in
your heart? Is it the species that flowers
not?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
SAYS UNCLE CIV

A lie may be merely smart, but it
is seldom wise and never splendid.
The habitual liar is never a big man.
No man who is forced to practice de-
ception to make his way ever is. Ly-
ing is a confession of defeat-the poor.
bald subterfuge of those who are not
capable of playing the game accord
ing to rule. Where a little man lies,
the big man makes the truth serve the
purpose better. When this difference
in policy isn't a matter of morals, it is
a matter of brains. No man who
thinks fast enough and correctly
enough has to depend upon lies.
Let no man arrogate to himself SUI
periority because he succeeds in de-
ceiVing his neighbors. He merely
spreads a net for his own feet. This
is the peculiar vice of little minds in
which animal cunning takes the place
of reasoning power. The loud-mothed
salesman, selling shoddy goods and
making a spectacle of himself to the
shame of men of worth and dignity
who live by craftsmanship: the fakir,
the mountebank and the charlatan: the
pirate who steals other mems ideas and
for a time wakes fat upon ILL gotten
gains; the confidence man. the common
thief-all these are of type. They
belong to that beStia1 and repellent
company that lives by crooked wits
and fancies itself to be superior be-
cause other men persist in falling into
their snares through a little lingering
faith in human kind. They are thick
skinned and do not feel their shame.
They lack sufficient straightforward in
tellectuality to realize that they are
pariahs. poor miserable weaklings, who
lack the strength to play the part OF
men.
Don't lie. It's poor business. If you
come face to face with a situation in
which the truth promises to damn you,
look it up one side and down the other
until you have found a way to make
your own interests coincide with con-
ditions. There is always one way in
which to preserve your integrity and
your dignity if you refuse to tell the
first lie. The strong, clear-headed man
finds this way and avoids future COM
plications. The weakling lodges the
issue, lies, equivocates or practices to
deceive and finds himself presently a
confirmed liar, with every mans hand
against him.-(Copyright. 1918, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
AN INvEsr1GATIoN NEEDED.

If there ever was a matter that de-
manded prompt and thorough in
vestigation at the hands of congress,
it is the flat charge made by Senator
Borah that agents of the department
of justice, during the past four or
five years, have maintained a sys-
tenn of espionage over federal judges
for the purpose of influencing their
action in cases in which the govern
ment was interested.
Both branches of congress are now
rivals with Investigations into the &C
tiVities of a lobby that is alleged to
have welded a pernicious influence
in the shaping of federal legislation.
But here comes an accusation that
the government, or some of it's Off
Gals, has been doing a little lobby
ing on it's own hook, as it were, and
for the purpose of getting judicial
decisions to it's liking. 1t is too seri-
Gus a charge to be dismissed by gen.
eral denials from any source. 1t
should be sifted to the bottom.
Up to this time, whenever the in
tegrity of the federal courts has been
assailed, it has been by those OBJ
sessed with the belief that their
judges, or some of them, We're sus-
ceptible to such material influence as
can easily be bestowed by the big cor
poration, and other vested interests.
The charge has always been that the,
judges, because of such influence,
have generally decided in favor of
predatory wealth." as against the in
terests of the people. But now the
shoe goes on the other foot, and the
government itself is accused of using
s,,f ~, ri
If anything this puts the government
in a worse light than would be occu-
pied by any other agency that might
attempt to tamper with justice.
And there will be some persons, no
doubt, who will see something of
coincidence between the actIvi-
ties which Senator Borah alleges and
the fact that it is really only during
the past few years that the govern
ment has made much of a showing
in the important suits that it has
conducted in the federal courts. But
were any of these government vic
tories worth while if judges had to be
coerced in one way or another to win
them?
1t is to be hoped that Senator
Borah is misinformed. Such a stigma
on the American Judiciary and the
government would be a blot on the
nations history that would hold il
up to the scorn of all honest men
of this and succeeding ages. 1t
would be a travesty on the claim that
these United States form the great
est republic that the world has ever
known. The charge, therefore, must
be Investigated and proven false or
true In the latter event, an effect
i've reform of the present federal
court system will become mandatory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
GLOEE SIGHTS
81 THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Charity so often begins at home, and
stays there.
Every boy regards a watermelon patch
as his legitimate prey
Some men devote most of their time to
awaiting developments.
Lodge attendance is pretty fair, consid-
erfng the other attractions.
Race suicide will never impress us until
1t commences to cut down the school tax
Americans are so busy they are the
principal patrons of European summer re-
sorts.
Isn't it easy to go into a store and have
1t charged? That's the worst thing about
credit. y.
Trust your coin to the man with an
irish brogue rather than the one with
Wall street accent.
man is anxious to have the children
go to Sunday school SO his wife will have
time to wait on him.
One of the funny things about a woman
IS that she feels conplimented If she Is
told she looks like an actress.
The thinner the skirts become the more
family skeletons come to light. And some
of the skeletons are hardly worth a
glance.
bride thinks it important to be dolled
up when He returns from work, but eX
perience will teach her that it is the din
ner that should be ready.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
Uses for Old Uniforms.

Black cloth clothes purchased by
second hand dealers provided they are
too far gone to be revived" are sent
to France, Russia, and Poland to De
made into caps, which the working
people of these countries wear. The
castoff red coats of the British SOL
dierS almost all go to Holland, for in
that damp country the people have a
notion that red cloth keeps off rheu-
matism; therefore, all careful Dutch
men of the laboring classes wear red
cloth waistcoats next their skin. These
are made by cutting off the sleeves of
the British soldiers red coats and al
tering the shape a little.
The snowy uniforms of the guards
and the full dress liveries of the lord
mayors footmen and the royal SER
wants come into the hands of the old
clothes dealers, and go chiefly to the
south coast of Africa, where they are
sold to the native chiefs
Travellers are som etimeS amused at
being received in full state by a
swarthy chief on his throne dressed
out in footman's livery or a rifleman's
uniform
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-09
KANSAS COMMENT
THE DEcADENT DRAMA.


The other day we read how
process server walked into the mead
quarters of Buffalo Bills Wild west
show. He was armed merely with a
pallid instrument of the law. DID
the heirs and assigns of Buffalo Bill
treat him with drawing contempt ana
allow he'd better retire "pronto" ere
his body was perforated into a corpus
deficit? They did not. On the craven
contrary, they tremblingly acknowl-
edged the officers presence and were
as polite and decorous as you your
self would have been under similar
circumstances. And now comes an
other exhibition of the same blanched
kidney. 1t appears that wild west
show invaded Oregon City Sunday
morning with the announced purpose
of making the day a festive one in
that metropolis. But while the small
boy was still gazing in pop-eyed adj
miration at the warriors who moved
leisurely about in puttees and rusty
spurs, enter the governor of Oregon
at the head of an army of five peni-
tertiary guards. There shall be no
show in oregon City today" postu-
lated the governor in calm. convinc-
ing manner. "Why?" whispered a
bronzed plainsman in an almost in
audible voice. Because I said So"
replied the executive. "And who may
you be?" inquired our hero, not in
solently, but rather as one seeking
Inc SONeTHOT VI IRE
gon. There was no parley. There
was no remonstrance. Instead, as
soon as a banner could be painted
and flung to the breeze, with the in
formation that there would be no per-
Torrance today, the same was done.
The wild west show, manifestly, is not
what it was In the brave days of
old an Oregon governors attempt to
close the entrances would have been
resented fiercely. With deadly lariat,
whizzing bullet, or iEerrant knife, the
presumptuous official would have been
disposed of, and the performance
would have gone on as per the origi-
nal schedule. Oregon might have had
no governor, hut Oregon City would
have had its show. We do not object
to closing a wild west show on Sun
day, as the superficial reader might
perhaps infer. 1t is not to exploit a
personal opinion, but to call attention
to a brace of important truths that
those theatrical incidents are discussed.
1t is evident that the modern coun-
terfeits of border characters and pio-
neer times are but feeble present.
ments of the reckless spirits they as
sumo to portray. And the drama.
whatever its form, is a decadent YER
sion of the real thing.-St. Louis Re-
public.