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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-01
For Rent--HOueee,

TOf nGut-aOuSCS.
FOR RENT-Six-room house; inquire
420 Fourteenth street.
FOR REM Modern houses: in9uir,
q at 500 Seventeenth street.
FOR RENT-Six-room house; partly
modern. Inquire 2502 Fifth avenue.
FOR REN?-All modern six-room
house New furnace. Inquire 1431
Seventh avenue.
FOR RENT-Six-room modern house,
80 Fourteenth street; Just remod-
eled. Phone 4614L.
FOR RENT-Modern four-room cot
tage. 1923 Sixth avenue. Inquire
536 Twelfth street
FOR RENT-After Jan. I, south side
of double house; all modern; inquire
1872 Fifteenth street.
FOR RENT-Five-roo strictly mod
ern house; rents s25; ITO Twenty
fifth street; phone 3923-L.
FOR RENT-New five-room cottage,
1917 Sixth street; modern except
bath; inquire 1900 Sixth street.
FOR RENT-Five-room strictly mod
ern apartment; lower floor. Phone
3923L; 1873 Thirty-fourth street.
FOR RENT--Six-room house, 251h
Sixteenth-and-a-half street; inquire
E W. Robinson. phone r. l. 466S-K.
FOR RENT-Five-room house with
water and gas at 515 Fourteenth
avenue. Inquire 523 Fourteenth
avenue.
FOR RENT-Six-room house, 1923 For
ty-second street Inquire C. c.
Coyne, 2317 Fifth avenue, Moline
Phone Moline 242.
FOR RENT-Desirable home, with
modern improvements, 1900 Second
avenue, city. Address Connolly &
Connolly, attorneys.
FOR RENT - All modern eight-room
house, Fourteenth nd-a-half street
between Ninth and Tenth avenues.
Inquire 1924 Ninth avenue
FOR RENT-Two five room cottages;
three six room, one seven room and
one eight room house. e. E. Law
yer, 1714h Second avenue; Phone
1895.
/ FOR RENT-Strictly modern seven
70, ,. cottage, facing Augustana col
lege property; large yard. 724
Thirty-flfth street. Call Moline 270s
ring 2.
FOR RENT-Six-room m ndern house
1920 Sixteenth avenue; rent slS.o'
month; also fve-room modern 'Nlng'
allow, at 402 Eighteenth avenue; rent
$500 month. Inquire 40S Eigh-
teenth avenue. phone 2454.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-01

FOR SALE-Lats in John G. Scheur-
mann's Sixth addition, from Fifth to
Seventh street and Fourteenth ave-
nue. to Eighteenth avenue; payments
S. down, 50 per month. Inquire
100 Sixth street. Phone Rock Is
land 1895.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-01

girls, one for dining
room and one silver girl. Apply
James restaurant.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-13

WANTED Al ONCE Nice cIcuu
cotton rags VIII pay Sc per pound,
World Publishing Company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
The South Is Going Dry

Lay the jest about the julep in the camphor
balls at last,
For the miracle has happened, and the olden
days are past.
That which made Milwaukee famous does
not foam in Tennessee,
And the lid in old Missouri is as tight locked
as can be-
And the comic paper Colonel and his cronies
well may sigh,
For the mint is waving gaily, and the South
is going dry.
By the still side on the hillside in Kentucky
all is still,
And the only damp refreshments must be
dipped up from the ril;
Nawth Calinas stately ruler gives his soda
glass a shove,
And discusses local option with the South
Ca'lina guy
1t is useless at the. fountain to be winkful of
the eye,
For the cocktail glass is dusty, and the South
is going dry.
1t is water, water, everywhere, and not
drop to drink!
We no longer hear the music of the mellow
crystal Clink
When the Cunnel and the Major and Gen raj
and the Jedgs
Meet to have little nip to give their appe-
titles an edge;
For the eggnog now is nogless, and the rye
has gone awry,
And the punch bowl holds carnations-for
the South is going dry.
All the nightcaps now have tassels, and are
worn upon the head.
(Not the nightcaps that were taken when
nobody went to bed;
And the breeze above the bluegrass is SOL
emn as is death.
For it bears no pungent Glove tang on its
odorifc breath;
And each man can walk the chalk line when
the stars are in the sky,
For the izz glass now is fzzless. and the
South is going dry.
Lay the jest about the julep meath the chest
nut trees at last
For there's but one kind of moonshine and
the olden days are past;
The water wagon rumbes through the
! Southland on its trip,
! And il helps no one 10 drop off to pick up
the drivers whip:
For the mint beds now are pastures, and
/ the corkScrews hangeth high:
All IS still along the hill side. and the South
is going dry, W. NORMAN NORRIS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
NOT LIKE OLD DAYS
When $50 Was the Highest Price Paid
For a Dead Indian.

Science is an extrayagant jade. 1t invents
all sorts of luxuries for mankind and then
taxes mankind to pay dearly for such inven-
tions.
Take this business of killing men-the
Philadelphia Ledger finds that the price has
risen enormously. When the thrifty Quak-
ers under the old Penn regime controlled
the Pennsylvania assembly the highest price
this colony ever paid for a dead Indian was
$3.50. Many scalps were bought at from
$50 to SIS.
At that time the quotation for an Indian
corpse was only about so times the rate fixed
for panther carcass. Now, contrast those
modest prices for a dead Delaware with the
sum which England is paying for a dead
German or Turk.
Assuming that England has inflicted as
heavy losses upon the Teuton and Turk as
the Teuton and Turk have inflicted upon
England-the latter being officially announc-
ed-King George has paid about $40, 900
a head for all the enemies he has bagge1.
One homemade bullet fired from a 500
Springfield rifle sufficed the frontierman
when he was engaged in Ills amiable game
of hunting savages. Now nations must gun
for their foes with SIS 10000 dread
noughts or with cannon that cost from So
to 81 900 every SINE they are fired.
That's how science has taxed Civilizations
chief occupation ut the present moment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
PLAYING No FavoriteS.

That the mob spirit, when aroused, plays
no favorites and draws no color line is shown
by the lynching of white man at Boston,
Texas. The victim of concerted fury was in
Jail awaiting trial on a charge of having
killed his father, mother and brother.
That the mobs action was ill-advised and
hasty, as usual in such instances, is to be
seen from the fact that Mayfeld, the man
slain by the mob, had already been tried in
one of the cases against him. and the jury
reported a disagreement His guilt must
certainly have been a matter of grave doubt
and, besides, not only law but common JUS
tice and the essentials of fair play entitled
him to a verdict in court.
Mob violence is now, as it has always been
and will always be, sudden surrender to
violent prejudice and an unwillingness to
abide by the lava greater crime than the
one the lynchers would punish.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
A PEACE BELL
Southern Children's Projected Gift to the
Union May Hang in Capital.

When, next year, the Confederate veterans
assemble as guests of the G. A. R. encamp-
ment at Washington, D. c., it is proposed
that peace bell, a gift of the Southern
states OF the union, shall be dedicated.
The Southern Commercial Congress has
unanimously Endorsed the idea of Benjamin
Altheimer, prominent st. Louis banker and
philanthropist, which is to obtain through
popular subscription especially among ch..
dren, who will be asked to contribute PEN
ny EACH a large bell upon which will appear
the following inscriptions
Peace on earth, good will to men
Gift of the people of the South to all
the people of the United States in COM
memoration of so years of reace be-
tween the North and South, and as
token of love and affection.
This peace bell, it is planned will hang
in the national capital and will serve as a
fresh symbol of unity A committee of 16,
with President Wilson as honorary chair
man, has been appointed by the Southern
Commercial Congress to carry the project
through.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
For Biennial Sessions



In forty-one states sessions of the legisla-
ture are held biennially, in one quadrenni-
ally, and in only six are they held annually.
Georgia is one of the six, and does not ap-
pear to have any better laws or any better
enforcement of laws than any of the forty
one. 1t is a safe deduction, then, that while
annual sessions cost more they do not give
the people any better legislative service Or
have any better effect upon the people than
biennial sessions. A session of the legislature
costs a lot of money and stirs up the state
with discussion of and worry about propos-
ed legislation. 1t seems common sense that
the sessions should be as infrequent as is
compatible with the best service.
Evidently there is strong sentiment in
Georgia for biennial meetings. Supporting
the sentiment, along with the Morning News
are the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News
Triton Gazette, Darien Gazette Albany Her
aid, Americas Progress, Dawson News, DELLA
Star, Dublin Courier-Herald, Rome Tri0 inc
Herald, Columbus Enquirer-Sun, Nash Vile
Herald, Waycross JOurnal-Herald, Macon
County Citizen, ST. Mary's Southeast Geor-
gian, Lee County Journal and others. A
part of this list was compiled by the Hawk
insyille Dispatch and News.
The Georgia newspapers that favor bien-
NAL sessions make a formidable array. They
represent the sentiment of a very large per
cent of the population and indicate clearly
that q majority of the voters desire the state
to avoid the cost and worry of holding ses-
sions every year instead of every two years.
1t may take some time to get all the poll
ticians around to this point of view. but they
will come to it eventually.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
Into the Depths.

Troops doing duty in the area in southern
California devastated by floods are going
to shoot down looters-shoot them down as
if they were dogs-say reports describing
conditions in that stricken section.
1t hasn't a nice sound. The deliberate
taking of human life doesn't carry with it
an appealing feature under any circum-
stances.
Human decadenece and retrogression OF
type is capable of sinking to an almost UNI
believable level but it is well nigh incon-
ceivable that man can descend much lower
than when he ghoulishly preys upon desti-
tute victims of Gods yisitations. There is
no niche in the worlds plan for the individ-
ual who does it. He is a menace to the
safety and stability of the social fabric. for
his degeneracy is innate.
His untimely taking off is a heroic rene
dy 1t is as vigorous as a preventive meas
ure could be. The dynamiting of a few sky
scrapers in order to stop a confagration
threatening an entire city. the major sur
gical operation essayed as a last resort. the
torch applied to the haven of a fugitive
criminal-these things are done because
human judgment believes them essential
and the plunderer of the foods starving
woe-enveloped victims is an animal of s.
unspeakably low calibre that has no RICH
TO expect mercy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
Millions On Highway Betterment

Nowadays it is hard to find any reasona-
Bile being to deny that good roads will help
to increase prosperity.
Last year $250,O0O 600 was expended N
highway construction and maintenance with
out much of kick.
One-fifth of the work was done under the
state aid system, the various state highway
departments paying $24,220,OOO and the
counties and townships $25,193,000. State
aid laws are in effect in "A states
Thirteen states spent $25,605, 900 during
the year in the construction and maintenance
of state roads solely at their own expense,
making a total of almost 100000 paid
directly out of state funds. The proportion
for repairs and maintenance was one-fourth
This shows the enormous loss resulting
from the building of types of roads whose
surfaces are not durable under present con-
ditions. Many states have paid as much out
of their public treasures for maintenance as
for new construction.
There are now 247,94 miles of hard sur
faced roads in the United States out of
total of 2273 900 miles of public roads, or
1O.9 per cent Last year 6,SO5 miles of state
aid roads were built making the total of
new roads built with such funds to January
1st 50 Az miles.
1t is very gratifying to know that no state
in the South and but few in the Union have
made as much or more progress in building
good roads the past few years as has Geor-
pia
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
An Insult. and Dangerous.

Our usually level-headed contemporary,
the Macon Evening News, thinks it small
wonder that the entire Georgia congressional
delegation, irrespective of their personal
feelings or political interests, protested in a
body to the attorney general against the
proposal to indict Thomas E. Watson, of this
state, in another state for an ofense alleged
to have been committed in Georgia If the
attorney general decides on this plan OF pro-
cedure he will put the world on notice that,
in the opinion of the higher government Of
ficials, Georgia citizens, despite their oaths
and their intelligence are Thoroughly unre-
liable and disreputable."
Irrespective of the merits of the Drosecu-
ton of Mr.. Watson, in which we are not
concerned, the very proposal, as our Macon
contemporary says, is an insult to the state
of Georgia, and the vigorous manner in
which the Georgia congressman have resent
ed it does them credit.
There is another reason, perhaps the
strongest that has yet been advanced why
the editor of the Jeffersonian should not be
indicted and tried in another state The
New York Times, which certainly cannot be
accused of favoring Watson in any sense
or of approving his methods, thinks that
If the precedent is established that edi-
ors may be tried anywhere in the coun-
try, at the demand of the complainant,
the grossest injustice may be done, and
the freedom of the press which the con-
stitution guarantees will fail of due pro-
lection"
Undoubtedly there is justification for this
in SO far as it may affect
Legitimate publication, by giving some one
the power to harrass public journal of val
ne and merit 1t would set dangerous prec-
edent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
VIII You Be Missed?


Some of these days you who are read
this article are going to die and pass On
your reward-whateyer that reward
be. But will you leave a void behind?
Will you be missed?
The Creator has ordained that man
carve out his own career in this world
when he journeys to the great unknown
leaves behind him record founded upon
own acts. You may leave behind you N
or children, or other dependents. As \
deal by them in life so will their grief
gagged and tempered at your death.
Will they miss you?
In this town you have friends and busina
associates, and perhaps many acquaintanca
They know you as you are, as you have bel
for many years. They have judged you Il
ing, and they will judge you dead,
VIII they miss you?
In the banks, and the stores, and the
fees, and out upon the farms, are peOI
who have known you in the past and
know you today. AS you have been 50
you known to them now.
Will they miss you?
In the house of darkened windows, wht
sweet-toned music soOthes the tired bF
and the minister tells the ways of bet
life, are many people who know you for u
acts and your deeds-for that which
have performed or have left undone.
Will they miss you?
In our homes are many little children
know you, who have passed you on
streets, who perchance may have been gr
ed with a kindly smile or with a frown. l
will remember you.
But will they miss you?
Even your faithful animals or pets Kl
you as you are, and as you have been
them.
VIII they miss you?
There is no place you may go, no p
of the compass to which you may turn,
what people have known you or will k
YOU, and by all of these you will be Ju(
when you have passed away. AS you 81
your career in life so do you write the
ord by which you will be known after dt
Your family, your associates, your acqu
aaces, even your dumb brutes, will rem
Der you after you have passed on.
But will you be missed?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
TRUTH ABOUT THE STATE ROAD.
From the Dalton Citizen.

From the Dalton Citizen.
The North Georgia Citizen, up at Dali
ton, says there is a very strong senti-
ment in favor of selling the state road,
and declares that it pays only two and
tenth per cent on the investment. The
politicians have used it as a political
pawn so long that there are great
many thing the people do not know
about the state road.-Dawson News.
Exactly so, and the newspapers are largely
to blame 1t is easy to find out the truth
about the state road, and for one we are
finding out some of it, and we are printing
it, We are not near through yet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

Senator Tillman is getting old. He is los
ing much of that yirility which character
lied his speeches in the earlier days; but the
''pitchfork" war horse of South Carolina has
not entirely lost skill in jabbing his favorite
weapon, and he gave former Secretary of
War George Won L. Meyer a verbal rawhid-
ing which reminds one of days gone by. 1t
is doubtful if the former secretary, who is
proud to an inordinate extent that he be
longs to the arfstocracy of New England,
enjoyed the things Mr.. Tillman said about
him on the floor of the senate. But almost
everyone else enjoyed them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
A REMARKABLE FEATURE
OF THE TRIAL OF JIM KEITH

From the Savannah News.
The remarkable feature of the trial of
Jim Keith for the murder of Sheriff More
land of Lee county was that the jury recon-
mended mercy. The negro thus got a life
term instead of having to pay the death pen
atty Two things may be said about this.
One is that it is very seldom, that a negro
has escaped death after killing a Georgia
sheriff. The other is that the jury may
have been influenced to recommend mercy
by the fact that five negroes already have
been hanged. though illegally, for Sheriff
Morelands death. Keith was looked upon
as the principal in the killing, and yet he is
not to go to the scaffold, while the five men
who had a smaller burden of guilt than he,
if guilty at all, were put to death How
aptly this illustrates the results of arousing
the mob spirit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
BURNING UP LJE
Physical Decay Is Rapidly Overt,L!
American PeopIa

industrial supremacy is sapping
gies of the American people -
surely, we are sinking into nbv.i,
because of the overtaxing of orr Nv
nerves. We are burning out rania,
So says DR.. Eugene Lyman FfsI
York, director of hygiene in the
tinction Institute, Inc. He e.ivas 6.
facts to show the extent of the i1aN
mortality in the United States from
of the heart, blood vessels and kidn.
Il feel justified" he SAYS. in
that the evidence of widespread NM
physical decay, which is suggpsta5 1
vital statistics, is to a considera6.
confirmed by actual examination
groups OF supposedly healthy yoml
pie. 'Oai
Thousands of people are SLOWLY i
eVitably preparing for physical bro1
or premature death, and there can
more important work for modern NJ
than to bring such cases, as early s"1
Bile, under proper hygienic or medrsI
ance."
DR.. Fisk bases his conclusion on er,
tions of two selected special groUns ~
workers each, one consisting of forAm,
skilled employees in a motor pIant .
troit, and the other group made IN ot
in banks, trust companies and com,
houses in New York city.
The average age of the Detroit gro
32.7 years, and that of the New York
81 years.
In the Detroit group not one man
1000 turned out perfect at the exam
The number advised to seek medical
ment was $50, and of those only 10 n
were aware of any physical impairme
The chief serious troubles with Il
troit group were:
Organic heart disease, 35; thicken
teries, $50; high or low blood pressur
kidney troubles, 1922; nervous. rs: Il
pairment, 81; social diseases, 10.
In the New York group the numb
ously out of gear physically were:
(organic), 1862; thickened arteries, 4.
blood pressure, 260; kidney, 39S; n
II; lungs, 20.
One of the curious things shown
examination was that the New York
were almost as subject to thickened
as were the Detroit handworke
though doctors have always suppose
thickening of the arteries was largely
unusual strain and exertion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

The administrations snip purchase bill
met with such formidable opposition in the
last congress that all effort to pass it at that
time was abandoned. In the present con-
gress the opposition seems to be as deter
mined Among the democrats who have
tomahawks out for the measure, and wait
ing to whack it in a vital place is Senator
Hardwick, of Georgia, who is consistently
opposed to government ownership of any
public service utility. The senator's views
on the principle of government ownership
are sound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

News comes from Chicago, where the
Forthcoming republican national convention
will be held, that the party is disposed to
go to almost any reasonable length for the
sake of harmony, the one proviso being that
MIR. Roosevelt shall not be the candidate.
This would seem to just about end any
chance for the colonels political preferment
at any time in the immediate future. The
party of his own creation, the progressive,
has not quite died, perhaps, but it is engaged
in that very serious process at the present
time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
IMPORTANT AS THE OTHER ISSUES"

From the Augusta Chronicle.
Governor Harris denies that he issued a
challenge to Dr.. Hardman to meet him in
joint debate what he said, in his Macon
Speech being that he would make as many
speeches as DR.. Hardman and travel over as
much ground in his campaign, by automo-
bile or train, and that he would do this to
prove that DR.. Hardman's attack upon his
physical fitness for the office was unfounded.
Come to think, why not make it a walking
match instead. anyway?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16
ALL DO TOO LITTLE OF II.

From the MOultrie Observer.
The Dawson News thinks that a smile is
a good thing. 1t wants everybody to smile a
good broad, deep smile. 1t says:
rs your lip cracked? Are you afraid
of wrinkles? Are you suffering from
an ingrowing crouch? None of them?
Then, why don't you smile? smile
is the cry of the soul. AIS well.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

Farmer Frank Williams. of Lowndes
county. besides making on his ffve-mule
farm enough bacon, corn, hay oats, pota-
toes, peas and forage crops to last him. gath
cred fifty-one bales of sea island cotton,
which he sold at 81 cents pound, bringing
him about $1,000, counting what he got for
his seed. If, as the Augusta Chronicle says,
all the farmers in the country were like this
one there would be no need for a farm loan
system for the United States
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

The farmers of the BrOnwood section are
setting those of the other parts of the coun-
ty an example that might well be followed.
They are preparing against the siege of the
boil weevil by planting tobacco, groundpeas
and raising their home supplies. It's pol
lev that will lead them to independence.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

1t is said that Editor z. V. Blanton, of the
Lee County Journal, will probably be can
didate for the state senate from that dis
trict Since he became a resident Of our
neighboring county Editor BlantOn has been
an enthusiastic champion of its advantages
and possibilities, and has done much to
bring that splendid section favorably before
the public He deserves well at the hands
of his people.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-02-16

More law God save us exclaimed the
Savannah Press when it read of possible
plan to have the legislature pass more laws
to put down lynching. Georgia has plenty
of laws. As the Press says the Legislature
cannot help things by passing additional
measures, and we would probably be better
off if the legislature did not pass new law
in ten years. What is needed is for the
people to have proper respect for and enforce
the laws they already have