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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-10
4 Fair Proposition.

The manufacturers Of Meritol Rheu-
matism Powders have so much conf
dence in this preparation that they
authorize US to sell them to you on a
positive guarantee to give Tou relief
IN all Gases Of rheumatism or refund
your money. This is certainly FAIR
proposition. Let us. show them 70
you ". L Dewoody & Co, exclusive
agency.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-10

Telephone Us and our wagon VIII
call for your laundry. Cur service
is prompt, our prices economical. and
our work is inceIligently adapted to
your requirements. American Excel
sior Laundry. Phone lag. l-lb tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-10

queen Bread. the Bread Of Quail
ity. It costs no more. Il
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-10
TiMMtNY CANDIDATE FOR
MAYOR OPP N> fav


New York. Oct. a.-Edward
Mccall, Tammany candidate to
or, opened his campaign lasl
with a speech. i'll which he \
to the rate OF taxation and ii
way contracts as the paramq
sues faced by the city The
situation he described as IA
minor feature.
Get the habit and ask for
Bread.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
THE SECOND AVENUE PAVE
MENT

There have been numerous criti-
cisms and many complaints of the ap-
pearance of the Second avenue pave
ment-in spots. Attention is frequent
ly called TO the fact that in certain
sections the surface under the summer
heat becomes spongy and mushy, and
that impressions from heavy vehicles
and the calks of horses shoes are left
The contractors say that time will
remedy all these apparent defcts, and
that after the surface of the pavement
is sufficiently baked it will iron out"
all right.
Let us hope the statement Of the
contractors will be substantiated by
future developments, but at the pres
ent time the appearance of the pave
ment, not as a whole. but in sections,
is anything but satisfactory.
II in the course of time there is no
improvement and the contractors do
not see fit TO remedy it, the city doubt
less will adopt measures to insure re-
laying of the bad places according to
specifications.
The defects complained OF do not ap-
ply TO the entire job. but merely to
certain sections of it along Second ave
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
BY MARY AQuIN.

The ideal is the practical One is
accustomed to hearing a good deal of
jest rallied. at sentimentalists in an
evident desire to separate the term
from that of sentiment more widely
than does the dictionary. 1t is an ideal
condition we are aiming for when we
agitate methods of hygiene withal it is
the most practical undertaking. The
cure Of tuberculosis as an instance
rests not in turtle serum but in nour-
ishing food, cleanliness, freedom from
worry. These are ideal conditions
deemed practical by students of econ
omics who can readily compute for
us in actual figures that the tariff is
a slight tax compared to that imposed
upon all by the prevalence of prevent
able disease.
The old-time doctor used to pre-
scribe quinine and calomel for rag
weed" malaria and ague-the modern
school physician sends out the man
with the scythe, agitates the drainage
of stagnant pools and lectures the
community on Swat the Cockroach."
Probably no greater good has been
done than the wholesome behind the
scenes" magazine articles of Dr..
Woods Hutchinson and his imitators
in unprofessional language. He mas
demonstrated that community health
is an investment that pays big divi-
dends. One hundred children taken
from the slums and placed in good
home surroundings and we may feel
certain of saving the major portion
TO longevity and respected citizenship.
Transplant the same number of chill
dren from good homes into the slum
districts and the ratio becomes minor
ity.
Our elaborate processes of law
police courts. jails, delinquent homes,
a formidable list Of after effects in
barn door closing-sll will be mate
rally reduced in number and cost of
maintenance when We attain to this
substantial ideal Everywhere a safe
place for the child" An increased in.
telligence demands the abolition of IN.
healthful conditions, instituting great.
er cleanliness and more OF beauty.
One of the pleasing indications OF
aroused civic responsibility is the
move on foot in nearly all cities to in.
crease the beauty of surroundings.
| Civic clubs, such as has been formed
in Rock Island, are springing into ex
/ istence and will become permanent
working forces cementive in great
achievements
Robert Louis Stevenson says in "vir.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
sCHOOLHOUsES By PARCEL
POSI-

Sending cardboard models OF school
houses by parcel post is the latest
device of the United States bureau
Of education for arousing interest in
attractive school buildings at low
cost for rural communities. The
models are made TO fold fat and are
shipped by mail to local authorities.
normal schools and their agencies, for
use during a limited period. a num-
Der have already been sent to points
in the west and southwest.
Models for one. two and four-room
schools are provided. The buildings
are planned especially for rural COM
munities where low cost is the first
essential. They represent the very
latest ideas in school architecture;
they are usually attractive to look at;
they are up 10 the minute in hygienic
arrangements; yet they are within the
means OF the smallest communities.
The buildings were designed by DR..
F. B. Dresslar, specialist in school
hygiene of the bureau of education,
and then worked over by two =eI.
known firms OF school architects, Coop
er and Bailey Of Boston, and W. B.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
THE BALLOT FOR WOMEN.

The women's suffrage bill has pass
ed both houses of the Illinois legisla-
ture and Governor Dunno says he will
constitutional features, and he be-
lieves there is none.
The first opportunity afforded by the
new law will be in Chicago in the al
dermanic contests. Bath House" John
Coughiin, an alderman who is a con-
siderable politician if not a statesman,
says that now lAat the women have
the vote they will pay very little at
tention to it. This may possibly prove
true after the novelty has worn of,
but ct the first election there is sure
TO be a good sized vote and possibly
one determining the result.
AS 10 the competence Of the average
woman to vote as compared to the
average man there can be no question,
and the extension of the right to vote
destroys the familiar argument OF
government without consent of the
governed or taxation without represen'
tation. II the women eventually do as
the Chicago alderman predicts, cease
wanting to vote when they get the
privilege. then the passage of the Law
will have cut no figure. II they turn
out as near unanimously to the polls
as do the men then there will be gov
eminent by the people in the broadest
sense.
There is a grave possibility that
thousands of women who believe theil
first duty is in the home will not e.
out to the polls, and the voting will bt
! largely done by or under the direc
! ton of women engaged in riding hob
/ bies and regulating the affairs of 9th
ers and not very much will be accom-
plished beyond experimenting tn,
power Of male politicians of that type
The women's suffrage experiment
in some Of the western states ha
hardly gone far enough to determin,
TO what extent women will persist il
| the exercise of the right.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
PURE" NEWS.

The newspaper publicity law, which
the supreme court of the United
States has just upheld, provides among
other things, that paid for reading
matter must be labeled advertising, to
avoid deceiving the reader.
This provision is altogether fit and
proper and The Argus has been one of
the newspapers even during the inter
We. of the test of the law that has ad-
herred TO the postal requirements.
Newspapers not heretofore following
the policy now made mandatory upon
them, have been influenced not by
desire, but by necessity. If they
wouldn't accept the advertising on the
basis of having it appear as unmarked
reading matter, their competitors
would. Many of them consequently
fell in with the crowd.
Recognition Of the value of public
ity has led TO the purchase of space
by special interests seeking to shape
public thought, and which have con-
cealed their own identity in the pa
per's, so that when it appeared it was
the paper talking to the reader, it
was in fact a special interest.
No reputable newspaper permitted
this use OF its columns, but there are
several not reputable, and protection
Of public confidence and service of
the truth seemed to demand that paid
for reading matter be published with
the word advertisement" identifying
it. This insures pure" news and an
end TO the paid for canned editorial"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL

ginibus Puersque,' anything that tends
to keep a man in his back or front gar
den whether it be the care of a few
prize chickens or giant geranium bed
tends toward domestic happiness. If
this be true it is a comforting sign
for in neighborhoods a reasonable"
number of other halves may be seen
these evenings taking advantage of
the last rays of light in descending
twilight plucking the trust-like dande-
lion, shaving the lawn, or watering the
pansy beds. The best feature about
these individual civic improvement"
ventures is that they carry a follow
up system. No one backslides and
decides not to be bothered with plants
next year.
A woman removed to a street in a
neighborhood little given TO care of
premises. Though a working woman
the day away, she carried home to an
ash-heaped yard few flower seeds of
the kind not asking much of Mother
Earth but more of sunshine, and a
dozen plants of ever faithful geran-
iums. To her sorrow that first year
the seedlings were plucked during her
absence as soon as they bobbed UP
and the plants left in wilted testimony
on the walks as a. tip that identifying
didn't go in that community.
BY the wheel of aSother spring our
friend had found favor with the chill
dren of the neighborhood and when
she next planned a garden she took
them into her confidence and made
them joint owners and custodians of
the nasturtiums, morning glory and
sunf1ower yield. Not much later the
seeds Of larskpuT. blue and pink. fut.
tered, into the yards beyond. The tin
can piles suTreptitiously disappeared
the alley hollows were filed and now
this particular street has its narrow
sidewalk curbing filed with cooper
alive petunia stretches.
A nursery man down south wrote q
letter to Ebert Hubbard and he added
this postscript: in districts where the
open saloon has been abolished, l find
my business much improved" Hub
bard contends. you cannot success
| fully mingle flowers with either strong
drinks or woman's tears. Only happy
people have flower gardens and plant
/ trees This is because only happy
people love, and flowers and trees vii
not grow in gardens unless you love
them"
The ideal becomes the practical
/ The higher the star OF civic improve
ment the more far-reaching the diYi
dends in healthy happy citizenship.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
The Daily Story
do YOU WANT WIFE by SARAH G. TREVOR.
Copyrighted 1913. by Associated Literary Bureau,

The town OF Aberaeron, on the coast
of Wales. looks ont westward on the
waters of the Atlantic. Here lived s
young man just coming of age who
dissatisfied with the limited opportuni.
ties afforded him in little Welsh
town. purposed TO emigrate 10 Ameri
ca The Welsh language is renowned
Tor being unpronounceable by any other
nationality. and Welsh names resem-
BILE a lot of type knocked into pL
Therefore / shall have TO give the
characters of this story English names.
j shall call this young man John.
John. despite his ambition to i'm
prove his fortunes in new fields. was
much attached to his beloved Wales.
His neighbors loved him, and be loved
them. In the house next to his home
lived a family with whose younger
members be had been brought up.
There were two boys. one about his
own age. another few years older,
and at the time this story commences
a little girl-we will call her Mary
about eleven years of age.
John spent some time trying to make
up his mind to go to America and
more time raising the money to take
him there. Then he went about bid
ding his neighbors goodby, and by the
time he had finished 1t seemed to him
that 1t would be impossible for him to
go after all. But he was stout heart
ed young fellow and, having made up
his mind, would not turn back. Little
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
THE TRAFFIC POLICEMAN.

The decision Of Commissioner of Po-
lice Archie Hart TO install a traffic Do
liceman In Second avenue will receive
general commentator. While the
exigoncies Of the situation in the bust
ness district demand such a precau-
tion and safeguard. and the advantage
is one that both Davenport and Mo
linc have been enjoying for some time,
Mr. Hart has attempted through the pol.
icy of moral suasion to defer the taking
OF such steps for the time being. He has
felt that in the interests OF economy
he might possibly get along without
assigning one man TO traffic duty sole
ly. To that end he has appealed and
warned the owners OF automobiles and
motorcycles in vain until il has come
10 pass that little regard is shown for
public safety on the business streets
OF Rock Island. Every provision of
the traftic ordinances IS not only re-
peatedly but defantly violated by Rock
Island people and by those OF Daven-
port and Moline who drive here.
So that altogether, Commissioner
Hart is acting the part of wisdom in
his purpose TO install a traffic police
man whose beat shall be in the center
Of the street between Nineteenth and
Seventeenth streets, and who will also
keep a watchout for Twentieth street
as far south as Fourth avenue until
another year, when a traffic policeman
will likewise be assigned there. And
Fl is not going TO be an experiment or
q temporary arrangement. The traffic
policeman has come TO stay.
He will have absolute charge OF the
use OF the streets and the regulation
OF all vehicles. II IS not to be the pol
icy TO make arrests unless IL is abso-
lutely necessary, but 10 see that prop
er respect is paid for public safety.
II IL not an uncommon thing for an
automobile driver or a motorcycle rid
er 10 dash through q crowd of people
entering or leaving q street car. This
will be stopped. II is not unusual for
all kinds OF vehicles TO run up TO curb
facing the wrong way, thus precipitat-
ing confusion and possible accidents.
( This will be regulated. II is an every
day occurrence for automobiles and
motorcycles to tear around corners
needless Of who may be In the way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

cost OF living and adding to the COM
fort and convenience of the popula-
ton?
William G. Sharp of Ohio, who is
being prominently mentioned as the
next chairman of the democratic con-
gressional committee, Is one of those
who has intense faith in the future of
human fight He believes that the
flying machine is still in its crawling
infancy and that it's future develop
ment will be as amazing as that Of
the automobile. He is convinced that
scientific discovery and invention will
in time make the aeroplane as safe
and as widely used as automobiles and
motor boats are now.
Aviation is Sharp's legislative hob
by. He has shown this by the many
bills and resolutions he has introduced
looking to government encouragement
Of aeronautical invention. While
Sharpe is dreamer, he is a very sci
entif1c and practical one. His whole
life has been practical, his business
success is proof Of that. His mind has
been keen to grasp the possibilities of
invention as is shown by the success
of the chemical manufacturing bust.
ness out in Ohio of which he is the
proprietor. 1t is the largest industry
of its kind in the world.
While Mr.. Sharp realizes that it is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

easiest to secure government encour-
agement of aviation by appealing to
the patriotism Of the people-that is,
by emphasizing the need of an aerial
fleet for use in war-yet he believes
that the greater use of human fight
will be in the pursuits of peace, in sci
entific investigation, in improving
transportation.
Think what opportunities for sci
entific research our aviators OF today
are missing" said Mr.. Sharp to me
recently. After each altitude record
is made, the aviator speaks of the
fact that the higher he goes ip the
air the blacker the clear sky becomes.
But he observes this merely as an IN
teresting sight and that is all.
| But let a scientist ascend to that
great height, and there is no telling
what profound results in human life
his expert investigations may have.
/ There never has been a study made
of the higher strata of the air. There
is a most wonderful substance in
| space-we call it ether 1t is the me-
dunn which carries the wireless mes
sage, and which conducts the suns
light and heat to the earth, yet man
knows little or nothing about it.
II believe that aviation is going to
make possible the study of ether by
scientists. This study may result in
revealing to the human family won
derful new force of nature and make
possible its practical use by mankind
There are tremendous possibilities
for the flying machine in transports
ton. The free air above US may fur
nish the commercial highways Of the
future. Greater speed and cheapness
in the transportation of passengers
freight and mail-these the public de
mands, and the craft Of the air may
furnish both"
Congressman Sharp has introduced
measures looking to the delivery Of
: mail by aeroplane to inaccessible re
gions, such as exist in Alaska and the
mountainous regions of the west This
project is regarded favorably by the
: postoffice department He is an en-
! thusiastic advocate of a government
; bureau and laboratory for the scien
; tiic study of aerodynamics. He be
lieves that by such study the govern
) ment scientists may discover new
: principles on which the Edisons o
2 fight may base inventions which viii
2 rob human fight of danger and MAKE
it the most useful agent devised b.
) man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

1OI MAI Hmm ME BULL, bE BAH.
Mary was the last one to whom be babe
adieu. and when he kissed her goodby
he said:
when l have made my fortune in
America l will send you something
nice for gift"
The child. seeing the sadness In his
eye, chung to him. winding her arms
around his neck, loath to let him go.
Aren't you ever coming back" she
asked.
I'm afraid not-at any rate. not till
I've made myself independent"
The parting over. John went up to
Liverpool. where he took steerage pas
sage for New York. In due time he
landed and went TO work at his trade.
Eight years passed. during which
there were great changes among the
friends John had left in the little town
Of Aberaeron. Little Mary's father and
mother had died and left her in pow
erty. She was now nineteen years old
and willing to work, but what could
she do in little seacoast town in an
old country where no improvement was
going on? She remembered the depar-
ture of John for America. 1t had been
quite an important event in the quiet
place and had made an impression on
the chiId's mind. America had then
been so far distant that she fancied
John would be a year or more in get
ting there. She knew now that the
fastest steamer crossed the ocean in
. o.. IL, .,g
lea, where women found opportunities
for all kinds of work. got into her head.
I and after many days debate with her
self and seeking Information from her
neighbors she determined to undertake
/ the trip-that Is, If she could get the
necessary funds.
| Among other things. she learned
that paupers would not be admitted
/ into the United States; that every emf
/ grant would be required TO prove that
he or she would not become a burden
/ on The government. This seemed to
/ Mary to be the most important barrier
| in her way. The most money she could
( hone to control was the amount requi-
site 10 pay her fare across the ocean;
when she reached her destina ton she
mist rely upon getting work at once.
| This she learned would not satisfy the
emigration authorities.
John had from time to time written
20 those in his native town stating
that ne was doing well and was be-
coming satisfied in his new home. He
had not forgotten them and II any of
them ever designed coming TO Ameri-
ca as he had come he would be glad
TO assist them on their arrival SO
| Nary wrote him 10 ask II there was
any way by which she might procur,
admission into the United States with
out having any visible means of sup
port
For some reason unknown to be
Mary received DO reply 10 this letter
Whether John had moved from wher
he had last written or whether hi
letter in answer to hers had Iniscar
ried she did not know. She hat
raised the money TO take her, and
friend of hers. whom we will cal
Charlotte. was about TO start for New
York. She persuaded Mary TO go witt
Der. trusting TO luck for some way o
overcoming the immigration restric
tons. Mary. fearing that If she re
manned in Wales the money she hat
for her passage. would dwindla AM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

The little one who waits, for me,
Whose face is pressed against the pane
Peers through the darkness eagerly.
But he must watch and wait in vain
He cannot know that I no more
May hurry from my desk at night
To greet and kiss him at the door.
To hear him shouting with delight
He does not know that she and
Have started on diverging ways;
Perhaps he often wonders why
The ones who pass so strangely gaze.
o God, protect him where he stands
And eagerly looks down the street
May pleasing tasks be for his hands
And may his dreams be ever sweet
And when the knowledge comes at last
That he must gain. IN spite Of fate,
Oh, may he hold the old love fash
And keep mis- proud heart free from
hate.
A little one who waits for me,
Whose face IS pressed against the pane,
Peers through the darkness eagerly,
But he must watch and wait in vain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

charge Of kidnapping Dorothy Holt for
ransom. Before the twelfth juror was
accepted 225 had been examined, 1872
OF whom were excused for cause.
Twenty-seven we're peremptorily ex-
cused by the defense and fourteen by
the state. When the last four jurors
were accepted Judge A NJ. Rose at
once proceeded 10 instruct the jury on
its conduct during the intermission Of
court from yesterday till mex. Monday
morning at II o'clock, at which time
court will reconvene and the trial
proper entered upon
The twelve jurors are all farmers
and men OF families They are:
Amos Wilcoxen, Walter Bass and
F. L. Curry, Omega; W. D. Cozad
Frank Meredith, Alfred Gerrish, Car.
rigan; Homer Gargas, H. C. Bauer, G
". Gordon, Philip Vending, Iuka /:
Albert White. Alma; H. W. Beckmey-
er, Foster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14

Ittner of st. Louis. The models show
all the details. within and without, and
they are constructed to scale. Full
directions accompany them.
II is believed that these models will
be Of great assistance to school author
tiles IN small rural communities who
can not afford TO engage a school ar
chitect, yet are ambitious to have their
schoolhouse up-to-date in every partic-
ular. With one Of these models TO work
from, DR.. Dresslar asserts, any carpen-
ter will be able to build a school
house for his district that will meet
every modern requirement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-14
June IA IN American
History.

l771-FIag day: first form OF the ma
tionai Gag decreed by the Continen-
tai congress.
1sS3-Seeond assault upon the Confed-
crate works at Port Hudson. IN.
by the army under General Tanks
The Federals were repulsed after
losing 1900 men.
IsSS-Nary y. Prescott. author. died;
born 1S49
loos-Frank e. Bangs. actor. long IS
ISOLATED with Edwin Booth. Char
lotte CusIuian and Laura keene.
died; born 1881.