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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-25
PAVEMENT.

$500 80. yds. old brick, stone block
or other pavement removed.
AGO GU. yds. concrete bushinE,
2,420 so, yds. 6-inch concrete founda-
$500 sd. yds. asphalt pavement.
7,7O0 50, II, 6-inch concrete water
s25 lin. H. old curb removed and
stored.
1900 50. It. concrete sidewalk, heavy
specifications, removed and relaid,
S25 lin. II, 6x20-inch granite curb, fur
nished and set,
$50 lin. II, 6x2O-inch circular curb,
furnished and setS
500 lin. II, granite curb reset.
II sewer manholes adjusted to grade.
Steps along curb.
RECONSTRUCTION DRAINAGE.
Lump sum bid on following;
Tearing out old brick arch,
. $500 steel fabricated,
70 Gu. yds. reinforced concrete.
Lowering inlets, building new inlets,
Specifications and p~rofiles governing
the above work may be seen and OBJ
tatned at the office OF the city engineer.
Bids must be submitted which are not
contingent upon use of municipal
asphalt plant or equipment, although
| the city OF Memphis expressly reserves
the right by ordinance to do any or all
OF above work with its forces and
equipment,
The right Is reserved to reject any
and all bids,
Bidders are warned that the contract
for the Service mentioned herein and
the written instruments referred To
| therein, shall constitute the sole and
entire contract between the city and the
successful bidder. Verbal arrange
ments, interpretations and understand
ings will not be recognized unless re
duced 70 writing and made to accom-
pany the proposal,
A certified check for two hundred and
| fifty t$250, O0l dollars, payable to the
order OF the city of Memphis, or a bid.
der's bond for a like amount, condt-
toned on the bidder executing the con
triet, " awarded to him, shall accom-
pany the proposal.
Orders on future estimates under ex
listing contracts between the city ant
the bidder will not be accepted In liel
of bond or certified check, unless sam
shall be Endorsed by the surety on sale
contract.
Said check, bond or order, as the cas-,
may be, win he returned to the IN
successful bidder upon awarding tn,
contract and to the successful hidde
when he makes approved bond for tn,
faithful performance OF the contract.
Cash payments for this work will b.
made out OF the special improvement
funds of the city of Memphis,
BY order of the board of commits
Nioners OF the city OF Memphis.
Il. L.. MONTENEGRO, Mayor.
Attest; G.. G.. PASHBY, City Clerk.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-25

1.S0o Gu. yda excavation. al
80 cents .sf,44O.OO
6.635 "a. yds. 5-ineh concrete
foundation. al si.-25... s,543.75
6.Ss5 50. yds. 2k-lnch tar mac
adam top, az Zoe. ........ 4,784.5O
BOSS 50. H. 8-inch concrete
water table. at 25c........ 1,272.00
$50 In. It. e-inch concrete
curb replaced, at 75c.... 1880
60 lin. Il. 6-tnch circular con-
crete curb, at &i.i0..,. $500
80 lin. H.. 4x20-inch granite
header, at $LO0 ........ 5000
/ ever NJ. II. 10 be ADJUST
ed, at $500 .........+.... 500
2 trees to be removed, at $50 100.0 90
Adjusting water and sewer mains
and connections ............. 10000
$1s,57S.T5
10 per cent for possible excess
OF cost allowed by statute
over estimate ...,.".,...... 1,651.S7
$1s.236.s2
10 per cent statutory unltemized
charge for supervision and
general expense ..."-.,.... 1,s2S.66
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-25

10 per cent statutory unitemized
charge for supervision and
general expense ,.......,.... IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Political Undertaking.

President Lincoln, as everybody knows, was
the most persistently maligned executive that
this country ever had. He rose far above the
average stature of his time and many envied
him. He thwarted selfish designs of others,
who hankered for revenge His was the one
dominating mind which drove through to a
successful issue a war which a great many
believed unnecessary and which imposed I'M
told heartaches and hardships upon the people.
Lineoln's memory is with US, but his enemies
where are they?
President Wilson has become the target fer
the same kind of abuse that was heaped upon
Lincoln. The powerful resources of the Re-
publican party have been marshaled to dis
credit him and all his works. There is a ma
tional election next year and the opposition
has no other issue. Congress is going to make
use of its opportunity to delve into every angle
Of official connection with the war, not to find
better ways of doing things next time and not
to right wrongs done under the enormous pres
sure of the last two years, but to discredit
the administration and to drive away its ad-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20

DR.. Cyril G. Hopkins, head of the depart
ment of agronomy of the University of Illi-
nois, is over in Greece making study Of the
soil types there. For the sake of authority and
standing he has annexed the title Of major and
now the Greek government, a reward for
his services, has conferred upon him deco
ration known as the golden cross of the Royal
Order of the Saviour. The doctor was the first
to demonstrate the amazingly simple PROPOSE
ton that one from one leaves nothing, in terms
of soil fertility, as in everything else Illinois
long has looked upon him as the leader in his
field of research, but unfortunately we have
no golden crosses to confer upon him in recog-
milton of his greatness
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Heart 9oHO1n0|
11,!IDHODIO111c.C
by TEMPLE

Dear Mrs. Thompson: % My hair
is black and very oily. ] have Il
loose white dandruff and my hair =
very thin. Can you give me tonic
that will aid the growth of my hair
and yet remove the oil without
bleaching it?
(2) Also, am a grass widow. Is
it proper for me to wear my engage
ment ring? If so, on which hand
should I wear it? A READER.
ID The following dandruf rem
edy for dark-haired people mas
given satisfaction to many: To an
ounce of sulphur add a quart of soft
water and during intervals of sew
eral days agitate the mixture re-
peatedly. After the sulphur has set
tied to the bottom of the recep-
tacie use the clear liquid. Saturate
the head with 1t every morning, and
in a few weeks every trace OF the
dandruff will have disappeared. The
hair will become soft and glossy,
and there will be no return OF the
old trouble. When the dandruff is
gone, the growth of the hair Will IN
crease.
For the oily condition, there IS
little you can do except to wash the
hair when it needs it,
~ II is all right to wear the ring
on your right hand.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am
married woman with grown chill
drep. have a farm of two hundred
acres that came to me from my
fathers estate.
My husband and have never
been eengeniaL He il what would
be termed a sport. 1 have always
worked hard, and have had hard
time to keep the farm that was left
to me. OF course he oversees the
farm and uses all that he makes. re
gives me no share at all.
| am supposed to make enough
out of the butter and eggs to keep up
the table and other expenses. That
would be all right if he we're good
to me, but he has always been IN
sanely jealous and without cause. /
never go anywhere unless he goes
with me, and have never given him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Federal and State Cooperation.

S. E. Bradt, state superintendent of high
ways. has been named as member of an ad-
visory committee of state officials to cooperate
with the federal bureau of public roads in car
rying out provision of the federal aid road act:
Let US hope that federal and state ceopera-
ton will give more satisfactory results than
state and county cooperation have thus far
given in this locality. Five or six years of
diligent cooperation with the state have given
Rock Island county a couple of samples of
concrete road somewhere out in the country
and contract let for four miles of road built
OF earth"
II federal cooperation does no more for the
state. relatively speaking, than state coopera-
ton has done for this county the present gem
Grafton will scarcely live long enough to en-
joy any substantial benefits while future efforts
to finance highway improvements are likely to
bump up against serious opposition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
PLAIN TALK TO MR., BOLSHY.
philadelphia Bulletin.

Just a little plain talk with you
Mr.. Boishy, if you please.
You have been complaining
about everything and everybody
till it has got on my nerves. You
objected to Baker, you objected to
Daniels, you objected to Wilson go
ing abroad and to what he did
when he came home. you found
fault with everybody that has done
anything recently.
America also seems to you a
bum country, and the only true
democracy is in Russia.
You don't like the league of ma
tions nor the Victory loan. Gov
eminent control of railways, tele-
graphs and express companies is
the bright particular target for
your sneers.
And so on.
Now listen,
We don't have an ideal govern
ment in this U. s. A. We don't
claim to have one And the rea-
son is that we don't want one.
But we've the kind of govern
ment the people voted for. Please
get that. We don't know every
thing. We have not arrived at per-
lection, and our government is like
us-just muddling along doing the
best it can under the circum-
stances.
That, my friend. is democracy
doing the task in hand as best we
can, meeting crises not with ex-
celient theories but with practical
intelligence.
You rail at the government be-
cause it has not made any money
running the railroads. 1t did not
take over the railroads to earn
money, but to win the war.
1t had a certain definite purpose.
to transport men and supplies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Brad's O. Verse
PRIZE WINNERS.

A city farmer owned a hen He
kept her in a stately pen and stud
led all her whims and moods, and
fed her on choice breakfast foods.
He washed her face and curled her
hair and manieured her nails with
care; he starched her feathers ev-
cry day; yet not a bloomin' egg
she'd lay. The neighbors watched
him brush and rub, and joked him
for a silly dub. He went his way
in calm repose, and patronized the
poultry shows. He took in every
cacklefest, mis- speckled beauty did
the rest; she never failed to cop
the prize, and people saw that man
was wise; his bank account to
thousands grew, he lived in clover
and in dew. ! hear the adage, old,
absurd, that feathers do not make
the bird; yet many fowl of good
intent, or plain and honest duty
bent. has seen the prize pass by
her coop because she left her feath-
ers droop; and / take notice more
and more that starch adds figures
to the score. The tailor does not
make the man. But be as nifty as
you can. Brush up your clothes
and get shine, hold up your head
and buck the line, now the alfalfa
from your face, walk like n man
who sets the pace, keep neat and
sweet and clean and wise5 and for
tune holds for you a prize.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
The Inconsiderate Mr.. Wilson.

If you were a member of the Republican
majority in congress. with national election
coming OF next year and had political mines
laid to blow the Democratic president and all
his administration sky high. wouldn't it peeve
you If the president away off in Europe and
supposedly engrossed with other affairs, got
on the wire and touched OF few high exple-
sives of his own right under your feet?
The Republicans had let it be known that
they intended to return the railroads and wires
to private owners, abolish the luxury war tax.
impose duties to protect American industries
created during the war insist upon maintain
ing adequate means of defense and again bring
up the woman's suffrage amendment. The
president. malieiously, they no doubt will
believe, has asked them to do all these things
and a good many others that they had under
consideration. He went even further and pro-
posed the lifting of the restrictions upon the
manufacture and sale of wine and beer, which
would postpone the period of national drouth
till Jan. l. when it will go into effect under the
prohibition amendment. Secretary Lanes plan
TO reclaim land for the soldiers also was again
endorsed.
e If the opposition hopes to get any political
nutriment out of the situation it will now
have to revise it's program considerably, and
the time for revision is short. In fact con-
gress will be reasonably busy for several
months if it accomplishes all that the execu-
tive has laid out for it do so without taking
anything else upon its shoulders. 1t cannot
take either horn of the prohibition dilemma
without creating good deal of opposition and
it cannot well afford to neglect the obvious
needs of the country to which its own action
in caucus, as we'll as the presidents message
have drawn attention.
Perhaps the most significant recommends
ton that Mr. Wilson made was that respecting
tariff changes, because it blasted away the
remnants of the rock upon which the Repub-
lcan party grew and waxed strong and to
which its feet always insinctively returned
when the treaeherous political sands began to
yield under them.
The party of Blaine and Mckinley and Cam
non has reached a pretty pass when it cannot
exploit the policy of protection without sharing
the glory with Democratic president!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Today's Anniversaries

1775-Presbyterians of North Car
DINA formed the Mecklen-
burg convention, which an
ticipated the declaration OF
independence made at Phila-
delphia.
1s44-The Morse magnetic tele-
graph from Washington to
Baltimore was completed.
1894 meteor of great size and
remarkable brilhancy was
observed in the eastern
states and Canada.
1S75-Jesse D. Bright, the Indiana
member who was expelled
from the United States SEN
ate on a charge of disloyal-
ty, died at Baltimore. Born
at Norwich, n. Y, in 1912.
1854 public meeting was held
in Dublin to protest against
the interference of the pope
in political affairs in Ire
land.
1915-Berlin reported Russians
again defeated north of Pro-
emsyl
1916-England put the daylight
saving" plan into operation
ls17-Vigoreus lighting along 10
mile front in the AFras re-
gien.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
Changing Value of the Dollar.

The saying has come up from the dark ages
that the way to make money is to buy Cheap
and sell dear,
AS the government of Canada and Great
Britain are pointing out to their citizens, one
way to do this is to buy standard securities
when general prices are high and hold them
for redemption when prices are lower Cana
dian w. S. s. posters urge investors to use
the present 'flow power" dollar to buy govern
ment securities and to receive in redemption
at later period high power" dollars Here
is how it works:
Before the war you earned, say So a day
Now you earn, say, SIS for doing the same work
But you can't buy any more with your five dol
lars than you could with your three dollars
other prices have gone up in proportion to
the price of your labor
Today you pay about $S3 for 20 war saw
ings stamps with par value of 500 at
turity. What you actually give for this Sc
curity is about sixteen and half days labor
If, some years after the war is over, prices
and wages decrease somewhat you may, for
example. be earning and spending 81 per day.
Your war savings stamps become due and the
government gives you back your $50. or the
then value of nearly 81 days labor, plus your
SIT interest. In terms of days labor the gov
eminent is giving back over four days more
than it received from you besides your SIT ill
terest This changing value of the dollar has
made many persons richer and others poorer
without their knowing exactly how it hap
pened. Now is the chance to join the class of
those who are going to be made richer. and
one safe way to join is by buying the con-
venient government security-the war savings
stamp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

delicacies to him. and for two days
I've driven him and her around the
parks"
A sensation of being disturbed, of
dawning mystery afflicted Bartiey
as he went in scare 'hof Vivian. He
found her in the library. She greet
ed him with unusual warmth and
tenderness.
"Oh, Bartley!" she spoke, I'm
going to ask a great favor of you. l
want you to ind a position for a
young man"
Named Drury?" dryly observed
hartley.
why, how did you know? Yes,
that is the person. He has Just re-
covered from fit of sickness and
don't frown, dear, until you have
heard my story. Yes, two stories"
And then for the first time Vivian
told of her visit to Miss Travis and
of her discovery of the man sne
loved. And a great glow of tender
ness came into the soul of Bartfey
Peyton, as he listened to her con-
fession.
Il don't know which to most ad-
mire, you or Miss Travis" he SAID.
You are both heart members, it
seems. So my loyal little wife is
plotting to bring those two togeth-
er? Very well. my darling, ] will
help you in that"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
The Sniff and Run Game,

1t takes a good modern chemist
to prove that there is no proof in
eating the puddihng.
OF all the unreasonable argu-
ments put forth in this contentious
column, the most unreasonable, ac-
eording to numerous valiant cor
respondents, is the insistent asser-
ton that there is no such thing as
taking cold from exposure to foul
weather, drafts, wet feet and the
like. And the reason why such an
outrageous assertion is unreason-
able is that so many people do
take cold almost instantly when
exposed to a draft or sudden
change of clothing or a bath or
something. Since this is an every
day occurrence within the observa-
ton of all men it is rather puerile
to deny it. All this our valiant
correspondents tell US. But are
they right? l don't think so.
Every intelligent physI clan, ev-
cry hygienist, every valetudiparian
knows that the primary cause of
the respiratory diseases vulgarly
called "colds"-is a too successful
" oNOA0 Liz NC4J
which the old women of both
sexes consider responsible. And
as matter of simple everyday
observation it cannot possibly be
denied that those individuals and
classes who are most exposed to
cold, wet, drafts and the like are
least susceptible to the respira-
tory diseases, whereas infants,
children and adults who are most
coddled, both by excessive clothing
and excessive artificial heating of
the indoor atmosphere, are the
most susceptible.
The notion that one can OF does
Immediately take cold" from sit
ting in a draft or from going out
without his chest protector or his
coat collar turned up or his over
shoes on or his ears stuffed with
cotton. hinges On q misunderstood
ing and a toe intimate aequaint-
ance with Ole Doctor SpoofeI's Al
manac. If you are already a suf-
ferer from some chronic low grade
disease of the nose or throat or
bronchial tubes, as a result of your
years OF mollycoddling and in
consequence of which you go on
mollyeoddling yourself as the years
slip by, / would indeed be unrea-
sonable to deny that you sniff and
run when you are exposed to a
draft, for l can see you doing it
even If you say nothing. But 1
would be unfair if were to acqui-
esce in your belief that you have
caught a cold; for I know. as we'll
as you yourself know, that you
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
THE HEART MEMBER.
BY RAY K.ILBOURNE.

4 s1Copyr1ght, 1919, by western News
paper Union.)
"Oh, dear Miss Travis, you are IN
deed a member of hearts,"
Vivian Moore spoke with fervoI
and her eyes gIowed with the SIN
cerest gratitude and devotion. she
sat on a stool at the feet of heI
hostess. her hands resting in her
lap, looking up into a face that
bore a winning, patient smile OF
gentleness.
why do you say that, Vivian?'
Inquired Ora Travis
because they all say it. There
isn't a girl in our set who hash
you to thank for good advice and
kindly deeds. And oh, to think of 1t !!
Just from what you said got over
my wicked tin at BARLEY Peyton.
was proud and unreasonable and
should have died Of a broken heart
IL BARLEY had gone away. And now
I've had my lesson, and we made
sc ali up, and we're engaged, and
am so happy," and the tears came
Into Vivian's eyes, and she kissed
|0ra's hands, and then snuggIed
closer to her. Miss Travis SOFTLY
strokea the golden hair. A far-away
look came into her calm, Thoughtful
eyes.
aafT DEAR she said, 81 count 1t a
blessing If have been helpful 10
you. ftsds, pridesoF jealousy that
esver many souls that otherwise
would have Essanshappy and united
Aany7a heaA1aaa. girl wrecks. her life
Nv sMlozziuz- some epekfy ftxif1a 10
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20

any reason to doubt me in any
way.
My health is not good and I am
working too hard. / never have any
money TO get medicine and he thinks
there is nothing the matter with
me. But l am simply a nervous
wreck.
There is an orphan boy, a friend
of the family's, who has been with
US for a long time. He has a home IN
the west. He knows how things are
in my home. He left here last VIM
ter. Now he has written to me and
offered me a home with him. He mas
always called me mother" and said
he would take care of me in my old
age. He is as near TO me as one or
my own sons.
Please tell me what is best
DISCOURAGED.
/ do not consider it best for you
to be imposed upon any longer.
Tell your husband that you must
have more money or you will get rid
of the farm and leave. You could
rent Il TO some one or sell it. This
would give you the money to use
for yourself. When your father pro-
Vided for you in his will he did not
intend that you should suffer while
your husband reaped the benefits Of
the farm.
Unless your husband gives you
what you need, put the farm IN
the hands of some one else, or sell
it, and go to the orphan boy who
wants you in his home.
Dear Mrs. Thompson We are two
sisters eighteen and twenty years
old.
We are in love with two soldier
boys overseas. They have asked US
to marry them. They will be homo
shortly. We have met two other sol
der boys from camp. They have
also asked us to marry them. What
shall we do, wait for the boys over
seas or marry the two from camp2
l. c. @, AND NJ A II.
Neither of you are in love or You
would not be in doubt, Do not marry
until You are older and know what
true love means.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20
WITH OTHER EDITORS

! needed to lick Germany, regardless
of expense.
The U. s. A. has been doing eV-
erything regardless of expense
since it jumped into the war. And
that is why we won We were the
nation that did not have to count
the cost. We were ready to put up
our last man and our last dollar,
and do it quick.
You complain of taxes and ex-
penses now. Just think back a
few years! Would you not then
have mortgaged your farm and
pawned your watch to fend of a
Germany victory?
You are getting out of it pretty
cheap, friend Boshy. You are sit
ting in peace under your own vine
and fig tree and the kaiseF's lieu
tenants are not bossing you. The
power of the Hun is broken and
the world breathes free. Isn't it
worth the price?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-20

one afternoon, and the repairer
from near garage, whittier it was
towed, advised BARLEY that ii
would take three hours to mend the
break BARLEY ordered the man to
return the auto to the flats when
ready, and suggested that Vivian
hired to look atter.the tenants while
he went to the office and came back
to drive her home.
The lady in question welcomed
Vivian to her apartment and soon
interested the young wife in telling
of the people who lived in the
house. She had some Cruel on the
kitchen stove and finally, after a
glance at the clock, arose and said
it was time to visit a young man on
the next floor who was very II.
Il feel very pitiful towards Mr..
Drury." she explained to Vivian,
''for he seems to have no friends or
relatives in the city"
At once Vivian was struck by the
mention of the same name Miss
Travis had pronounced. Wont you
let me accompany your" she asked.
81 will be interested in seeing how
these poor people live"
It was three weeks after that
when BARLEY by mere accident
overheard some gossip between the
chauffeur and the heusemaid- The
former was telling of the strange
interest of his mistress in a Mr..
Drury who lived in the Gresham
apartments.
You'd think he was an own
brother" said the chauffeur. Every
day she has taken fruits and