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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
WAR DEPARTMENT HONORS BRAVE

In the Twenty eighth infantry Que or
the sergeant5 of Company ! in Febru-
airy OF last year was Bishop l.. Nor
row. Morrow won his certificate by
going TO the assistance of wounded
comrade who had been attacked by
three Moros near Pantar. on the IlO-
gan-Lake Lanao road. Had he been
a minute later the comrade would have
been killed, but once Bishop got there
he quickly fired three well directed
shots. He had no reason to fire a
fourth.
Otto Herter was a private in the hos
pital corps, when in an engagement in
which the Americans were hard
pressed by LadrOnes. near Bago- Bun
tay. in Luzon. he stopped attending
wounded dashed 10 the firing line,
grabbed the rife Of a wounded soldier
and began TO shoot. The general order
awarding him his certificate OF merit
says that "he was cool and brave, set
ting an excellent example to the other
men IN the command"
John T. McSweeney was a member
Of the Fighting Ninth" when he won
his award. It was in China, and il
happened near Tientsin. An officer OF
his command had been desperately
wounded and was lying in an exposed
place directly IN the line of fire OF the
Chinese sharpshOoters. Insolvency.
went 10 the officers assistance, ban
daged his wounds and was dragging
him TO safety when a shot put him out
Of action.
In the Forty-third United States vol
unteers there was a private named
Schottler-Charley Schottier. SchOttler
was fighting IN Samar, p. l. In action
he saw Moro lift a bolo to kill an
officer. Running forward. he reached
the side OF the insurgent in time TO di-
vert the blow. He received Ii himself.
He afterward got well, and the GER
tificate Of merit was his reward.
IL was at Cabanos, in GuImiras, Z. l.,
that George Moreland. private az the
Fifth infantry. voluntarily took upcl
himself the duty OF nursing a conrad q
striker with the conta gious Asiatic
fever. The comrade died and WIS
buried by Moreland. none OF the other
troops in the meantime having been
exposed 10 the contagion. Moreland
caught the fever, but he lives to tell
the story.
In February. 1904. one officer and
two privates on duty near Bacoor. T.
l.. were attacked by fifteen insurgents
and were In desperate straits when
Sergeant Fred Harrison Of the Sixth
cavalry came up and began TO show his
Workmanship. Ten minutes later the
only insurgents TO be seen were those
who had stood In the line OF Hsrrison's
fire
These are only few OF the mer who
have been awarded the certificate OF
merit since Jan. /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
MORRISSEY DEFENDS THE RAILROADS

better than the shipper. wcrr i'm
p. essed with the disadvantages result
ing therefrom. We had to handle de-
fective cars and attempt TO move
trains with locomotives which needed
repairs. At times and on some rail-
roads we went for months with but
part of our pay, and we know how dis
astrOus and disorganizing such sit
uation is.
In the past ten years we have seen
the railroads rebuilt ana rc-cquiPped.
We have assisted, IN fact, 1 do not
think il Is too strong to say we have
forced better wages for the men
and the employment of II better class
of men, aud during this time the pub
lie has not suffered. because rates
have not been increased.
Because railroads have been able to
find the money with which u rebuild
tracks and buy new ears and loco
motives without raising the rate is no
argument that If the rates be- reduced
they will be able to continue 10 do So
We are In constant touch with and
know all the patrons OF the railroads.
We know the shippers and the travel
ers, and We know the patrons of the
railroads which we serve are satisfied
with the present passenger and freight
rates. The Determinations which we
hear about. the alleged rebates and
things OF that kind. come principally
from the greedy trusts. and we are not
UvcTanXiOus to assist them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
The Rate of Human Growth.

I'VE grow 1T 4 uniform rate" said
physician. There are rules OF
growth that uncOnsciously we all obey.
Take the average man. He grows
as follows; First year. eight inches;
second year. six inches; third year.
five inches; fourth year. four inches:
fifth year. four inches; sixth year. four
inches From the sixth on the growth
is slower until the sixteenth year-it is
only one and half inches year. The
seventeenth year has n growth oc two
inches. The eighteenth year has 4
growth of one inch. At eighteen the
average man IL five feet eight inches
high. Thereafter he grows no more -.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

Ter Iacnr cIuD earned the right to san
for the cup and defeated the defender,
Beaver. In 1901 the Royal Canadian
Yacht club sent n return challenge
and after trial races Cadillac OF De
troit was selected by the Chicago
Yacht club and Invader by the Cana
dams. Invader was successful and
took the cup back across the border.
Last year the Rochester Yacht club
challenged for the Canada cup with
Irondequolt, forty fOOter designed by
Gardner & Cox. StrachconO, an Eng
lish built yacht, was the defender and
the races were sailed Off Toronto. 1t
was the hardest fought Of all the CON
tests. The Canadian boat won the first
two races. after which a change was
made in the captain of the Irondequoit.
and she was put I'm charge of Addison
q. Hanan, owner of Aspirant. which
last summer won the Astor cup for
sloops of the New York Yacht club
The American boat then won three
successive races and the cup.
The racing yawl Sltarah Is just now
the subject of much comment in Chi
cago. She was taken to Chicago by
II. A. Alger, Jr, from Newark, y. J.,
where she was the envied beauty Of
eastern yachtsmen.
The Sitarah Is Of the auxiliary type,
ketch rugged, with power developed
by twenty horsepower engine. Her
over all length Is seventy six feet and
her beam width seventeen feet six
inches
The Sitarah measures Gftytwo feet
on the water line. Her mast is Il YER
liable skyscraper. 1t is the most i'm
posing feature of the crafts makeup.
The development OF the small yacht
club, now so conspicuous about the
large cities. has all come within
twenty. and considerable of it within
the last ten, years.
To the small yacht club is due in
large measure the popularity Of the
small boat as a cruising or racing prop
OsitioD. As rule the clubs location
is OH body of water not suited To yes
sells Of considerable size. and it's mem
bership consists largely Of men who
are able To buy and keep a small YES
sci. but have neither the means nor
the desire TO become responsible for
"A large one
Through the encouragement offered
by the small yacht club To men Of mod
crate means to take up the sport the
small boat has developed from the few
old fashioned rule of thumb built craft
Of twenty years ago into score Of
excellent types. upon which a. much
thought and science have been expend-
ed as upon the largest vessels.
Today. In fact, effort tends in that
direction almost 10 the exclusion Of
other building. The main idea at the
bottom of the small yacht club has
been to get together men Interested
in informal sailing for pleasure pur
poses. but races have naturally been
introduced TO add zest, and some Of the
best filed and most closely contested
regattas are now held by the small
clubs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
BY gibson WILLETs


ZINE men command the king
dom Of Standard Oil Eight
u OF them are controlled by the
ninth-not Rockefeller, but the
one addressed by his intimate friends
as III. H" Rockefeller abdlcated two
years ago. He was succeeded by one
who long was the power behind the
Standards throne. who today is actual
monarch of the kingdom OF oil, who is
the one man above all others whom
Lawson is attacking
The Office door of this ruler at %
Broadway Is Iettered merely: Nation
al Transit Co. II. II. Rogers. Pres!-
dent" Those words mean the famous
pipe line OF Standard Oil, 10000 miles
of underground pipe across twenty
states, through which flow billions OF
gallons OF oil. occupying twenty huge
refneries. What elsci Ten refineries
abroad, for the kingdom zigZags around
the earth: then 1000 tank cars. 200
steamships, 10000 miles Of railway,
5000 delivery wagons and 1000 oil
tanks holding half a billion gallons OF
oil, employing 10000 hands receiving
100000 a day.
You enter the kings throne room In
New York-by appointment only Mr..
Rogers points to a big, comfortable
leather chair beside his desk That
chair is low. in II you face the light
Mr.. Rogers chair Is high. the light is
behind him. Thus In two respects.
physically and psychologically, Mr..
Rogers has you at disadvantage To
become a victor in business Mr.. ROg-
ers must vanquish. Many man In
a battle OF millions sitting In that low
chair facing the glare has known de-
feat. Many a Wall street magnate in
that room with Rogers has stood
through the Interview rather than sit
in that big. low. comfortable chair
First Worked n Chores For NeighbOrs.
Mr. Rogers began his working life
doing chores for the neighbors after
school for 90 cents a week. Now he's
worth over fifty millions, rises every
morning twenty thousand richer than
when he went to bed, aCcumulates two |
thousand while going from his office |
10 his uptown house, gains 90 cents |
with every tick OF his watch His sue
cess IS gagged. however. by achieve |
ments other than the building OF Him |
aluyas Of cash. Yet Of money he says: |
MY rule is 10 make everything count |
In money. TO succeed. get ahead. |
You can't get ahead II you go into |
financial ventures indscrminately-
gaining today, losing TOMORROW. You
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
His InnnneHR.

A correspondent i'll Manchuria writes
as follows to the Chicago News: "a
Russian and a Japanese were found
locked in q hand To hand struggle The
japanese was taken prisoner, and the
Russian was found 10 be severely
wounded. The Russian refused to be
taken TO the ambulance unless the Jap
anese was taken with him Together
they We're put into the same hospital
train. The Russian refused TO be sep
arated from the japanese and spent
his time looking after him. tanning his
head and telling ell visitors that he was
my japanese
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

hours recently or the way to Duluth.
In an interview she startled the re-
porter by dropping as many verbs as
possible says a Cleveland dispatch to
the Chicago Tribune. She said:
Queer thing about Cleveland. Must
he rich city. More automobiles than
in New York. So many women drive
them, the big ones. Cleveland women
Of more rugged type than New York
women New York women content to
amble about in little electric rum
abouts. No dash, no go. Great diff
ference here. BY the bye. what about
the poor horse? One this morning
hitched to a dirt wagon. Only one 1
saw. Poor, bOny animal. Sorry fo-
him, honestly"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
FAILURE OF A CLEVER RUSE
How Inventive Genius of Telegraph
Operator Awakened whole Town.

How Inventive Genius of Telegraph
Operator Awakened Whole Town.
The inventive genius of a night oper-
ator on, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad the other morning
aroused and frightened the residents Of
Hartwell, o., almost wrecked his sta
ton, offended an engineer and caused
detectives 10 be detailed whose inves-
tigation resulted in a ten day vacation
for the operator, says n Cincinnati dis
patch.
For three hours after midnight there
are no trains, and the operators along
the line Try To get In little sleep. The
great anxiety is to wake up ia time 10
give the morning fiier the block
Failure to do this would mean suSpen-
sion.
The Hartwell operator strung n rope
between two telegraph poles, many
yards below the station. extending
tSem over spools TO his desk. On these
he hung a coal bucket loaded with
rocks. He figured that the train would
cut the rope and the rocks fail with
din.
The rope used was too heavy 10 be
cut The bucket of rocks was jerked
out of the operators window. taking
sash and all. II then swung into
residence. crashing the glass in q door.
and took up its Gathering way down
the ties.
Half the town was awakened in
fright The engineer pulled up after
eight miles of the din. and. finding a
can tied TO his pet No. 30 made a
loud and long complaint. Detective
Hart. the railroad sleuth. with the bat
tered bucket and frsyed rope. located
the inventor OF the effective alarm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
HENRY H. RODGERS THE REAL KING OF STANDARD OIL

/ must gain always" Of his only son.
H H, Jr., Mr.. Rogers says. Il am not
teaching him to make money, but how
to take care of IT"
Now aged sixty-fve, Mr.. Rogers left
school before he was sixteen and went
| 10 work in the Union grocery store in
| his native town, Fairhaven, Mass. He
was paid dollar a week and found :"
! He took the job because it was the
| first that offered and because he
wasn't lazy. Later he drove the gro
Gerry delivery wagon at 50 a week. also
found In 1853 be went into bust
ness for himself as a newsboy In 1861
he became q baggage master on q New
England road at S1.16 a day As an
independent news merchant and as
baggage master he saved $500. With
that money he left Fairhaven TO make
his way further in the world With
Charles Ellis. a school friend, he went
to the oil fields of Pennsylvania and
opened an Office for the buying and
selling Of oil on commission. You at
tend 10 the Office. I'll learn OIL" he
said TO Ellis. And In overalls as
by-the-day hand he labored first at a
tered the Office OF Charles Pratt & Co.
oil refiners, New York. as a clerk and
bookkeeper at SO a week Soon he be
came a member OF the firm. When
Pratt & Co. began the manufacture of
kerosene by the then new patents
Rogers ascent TO fortune began.
A MInuteman Who Gets There "Fust."
He often speaks of the answer Gen
eraI Forrest gave when asked why he
always won his battles. II get there
frst" That Is one OF Mr.. Rogers
dominant characteristics. getting there
"fust" He's a minuteman. For the
detective who guards lne portals or
me Standard Oil building Mr.. Rogers
Is chronometer. one morning as
Mr. Rogers stepped upon the rubber
doOrmat marked IS .. Co" the de-
tective looked at his watch. then put
1t forward five minutes. Mr.. Rogers
always arrives exactly at 1870; hence
the detective assumed that the 1925
of his watch must be wrong A watch
might lose time. Rogers never. Mr..
Rogers never says the words good
morning." says the detective. yet
he always bids me a CHEEKY good morn
ing like this" and he moved his hand
after the manner OF n music teacher /
beating march time. 1
Charming Companion Socially.
Socially Mr.. Rogers Is charming
companion, mild hammered greeting
his personal friends with. genial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
Yachting Talk.
Canada Cub Contests on Lake
Ontario, lug. I2---Tbe
Sifarah.

The Rochester q. V Yacht club has
accepted the challenge of the Royal
Canadian Yacht club for the Canada
cup, and the competition will take
place ON Lake Ontario off Charlotte
y. Y, the home of the Gzrmer club. the
series starting Aug -.
The trophy Is for thirty footers and
out Of five races.
The Canada cup is the gift of the
Toledo Yacht club and was first raced
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
Nan of Many AttaInment..

Doc Cowley. editor Of the Cowgirl
Chief, 81 now rural route carrier and
IS IN love with his job. says the Kan
sas City Journal. COwley IS editor}of
a newspaper. physician. farms some. is
a member Of the pension board. sec
rotary Of the county Republican com
mittee, town poet rurEl carrier and
several more things
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

Baron Masano Masudaira, a Jap
anese nObleman, has been travelling in
Texas. which he declares TO be. a great
country for rice. lie regards To.Ias rice
as almost Oh a par with the product OF
his native country and feels snre that
~ can be raised there with good profit.
The baron IS Of opinion that In a rea-
sonably short time many japanese OF
wealth and standing viii become resi-
dents Of the Lone Star State.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
single md Double.

This" said the man who was show
ing the stranger around the city. as he
pointed to Il broad stretch of beach.
belongs TO old BigspHd. It's all made
land. That's his house back there on
the left
rs that Oh made land, tooT' asked
the stranger.
NO. That's on married land. He
got II with his wife. Chicago Trib-
me
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

His passion is to control. When a
schoolboy with his fellows. If he sug-
gested playing tag and the others as
scented. all right If they dissented
and played bali instead. Henry would
have nothing to do with the game He
didn't rage. didn't sulk: merely held
aloof
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
Cold Finder. NOW U.e Au,o..

As horses are too slow for the gold
finders IA the west. an automobile
seating fifteen passengers has been put
In operation between Bull Frog and
Las Vegas, one Of the new mining
towns In California. II covers tho 80
miles Of bad roadway about four times
as fast as was ever done By horse
drawn stages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

warmth ana a kindly light in his eyes.
In business. the stern warrior only, for
TO him business is war. the reward
going TO the hardest fighter. He is
two men. y man who knows him in
timately only in a social way describ-
ed him ID one who knows him init
matelv only in business. The descrip-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
To Collect IL Vile OF Cents.

The Ladies' Aid society Of Trinity
Methodist church of Jersey City has
undertaken the contract TO collect
mile of cents by next December. 4
string OF cents a mile long. one woman
said. would count up $40. and nobody
seems willing to question IL. The
money will be used to furnish a new
parsonage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

for in that city in 1896. The competing
boats were Cencedor Of the Lincoln
Park club Of Chicago and Canada Of
the Royal Canadian Yacht club Of To-
ronto. the latter boat winning. The
cup was then turned over 10 the Royal
Canadian Yacht club as a perpetual in
teTnational challenge trophy for yacht
clubs bordering on the great lakes
The Chicago Yacht club was the first
challenger under the new decd In
the trial races Genesee OF the Roches-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

non mus gwen ny the one VINO knew
only the DR. Jekyll was not believed by
the man who knew only the Mr. Hyde.
One described the amiable, hospitable,
domestic. art loving man of feeling.
the other knew only the merciless,
cold, close listed, barely civil man of
dollars
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

gave hours II 4 mock session Of the
old village school. from which he holds
the reward of merit" himself reading
an essay on The Hen" Many a
summer evening he sits in the drug
store At Fairhaven enjoying his ice
cream soda like any lover ANA his lass
and swapping yarns with tawnSmen
who drop in. At one Of these drug
store sessions he was asked concerning
n college education. Education ruins
some men" he replied. Just as an at
tempt 10 polish sandstone results in a
crumbled mass" one evening one
of the high school boys asked him The
old. old questions regarding how 10
succeed. Never make Il promise"
said Mr.. Rogers. "anI always keep
your secret.
He is woefully sensitive. some years
ago he rented 4 safe deposit vault in
n bank. wherein he stored papers that
arrived in six large sheet iron boxes
The clerk in writing on the receipt the
required personal description of Mr.
Rogers wrote Hair. white" oh
no." protested Rogers. Not white
not yet. Make Il black. When my
hair is properly brushed you can't see
the white" Being 50 sensitive. il is no
wonder his friends say that the Law
son attacks are wearing him down"
and that he shows outward signs Of
the strain on his nerves" He is not
now the perSonitication OF health he
used to he. Recently he came 10 his
office only one day in six. then only
for an hour. His physician pleads
with him TO take the long vacation he
has postponed for years.
Drives to Mothers Grave Once a Week.
Once week in Fairhaven he drives
10 the grave of the mother he SO loved.
In that mothers cottage in Fairhaven
he put long distance telephone. Then
every morning in his New York Office
he dropped the whole battle of dollars
to telephone mother" Near her grave
he has built his own last palace.
He has seldom been interviewed \
besieglng army OF reporters waited
foTlorn the other day without his office
walls. Mr. Rogers is too busy" said
his secretary, woman who receives
a bank presidents salary. Just then
"A waiter came with a tray bearing the
oil kings modest luncheon. surely
we can see Mr.. Rogers now-he's only
eating" said the army. But" the
secretary replied. he works while he
eats"
EnIr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

Jeanette GiIder's Cut on verbs
Jeanette l.. Glider. editor Of the
Critic WAS at Cleveland %. q few
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

Opinion in good men Is but knowledea
In the maklng.-MiIton. Al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

CaLeVvaIk on "a Skyscraper.
More than thousand persons stood
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29

ZINE men command the king
N dom OF Standard Oil Eight
u OF them are controlled by the
niDfh-not RockefaIier huf tho
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-07-29
Charming Companion Socially.

Socially Mr.. Rogers Is Il charming
companion. mild hammered. greeting
his personal friends with. genial
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-12-26
Groom-Elect Suicides.

Wilmington, Specializing i'll a
pool Of his own blood in front Of the
fire place in a room at the home of his
tiansee in this city, Lee Rivenbark, sc
years old, employed i'll the Atlantic
Coast Line shops, was found dead
early Friday afternoon, his throat cut
from ear to ear with a razor which
he held in a death grip to his neck
until life was extinct. 1t was clearly
a case of suicide, prompted by a
diseased mind. Rivenbark is the
young man who was recently rescued
from negroes who are said to have
threatened him with mob violence at
his home in the northern part of the
city about six weeks ago. Since that
time owing to poor health. he seemed
to have been pursued by the haluci-
nation that negroes were after him.
Early Thursday night he called at
the home of Mr.. M. J. Merritt, on
Campbell street, to see a Miss Welker,
whom he vas to marry Sunday night.
1t was dark when he started to leave
and the h~alucination that negroes
were after him seemed more prononn-
ced than usual. He asked a member
of the household to allow him to stay
all night and the request was granted,
He sat up until II O'Clock and COM
planned of feeling umwell. When be
did not awake, the family decided TO
allow him to rest as long as he chose.
At dinner time, however, Miss Walker
went to his room and, receiving 20
reply in answer to a call threw the
door open. The CHASTITY spectacle of
the man lying on the. shearth met her
vision and the men Of the house were
quickly summoned. The coroner in
vestigated the ease aud gave. a YER
diet Of suicide. Young Rivenbark
was for several years steward at The
Briggs House, in Wilson. Lately he
had worked as a carpenter in this
city. He leaves a widowed mother
and several brothers.