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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
AS MILLER SEES SARATOGA.

Like "12 O'Clock and n sunday" Says
. Poet of the Sicrras.
cit is all IL O'Clock and Sunday"
is Joaquin AIiller's- description of Sara
toga as it is today. The poet of the
Sierras'' is spending the summer with
his wife and daughter in their cottage
at Saratoga, says special dispatch
to the New York Herald. Il have
been in Saratoga often" said Mr.. Mil
Ter. Never before has it been so
beautiful, so clean, so sweet, and the
people so well dressed and all so quiet
and orderly l was here i'll 1876 with
Frank Leslie, who took me TO his coun-
try place to write Il poem on the death
Of Custer. 1t was Il very bad poem.
1 did not publish it. The subject was
too horrible to write about.
Il remember the town as 1t was
then, so noisy, so much dirtier. 1 lizard
people shouting and brawling in the
streets like Il western mining camp-so
much drinking. All this is SO differens
now People here are of much better
class. No drinking, no brawling in the
streets. 50 much better clothes; and,
above all. no wretchedness-a most
wonderful thing. Everybody appears
to be happy and nobody miserable.
Nothing wretched here except the hand
organs. Hand organs are the only
wretched things 1 have known here.
No. 1 have not seen the races. The
other night l took a walk in the streets
and l saw the great crowds OF people.
No. did not 90 into the hotels. 1 do
not like hotels. | have lived in too
many. L like woods, trees and the
birds
IAN my publications We're burned in
the fire at San Francisco. l am glad
of it. shall rewrite them. 1 can write
them over much better. That is what
L am working on now. / do not need
to work any more. l am going to write
each day little until they are done
overfagafn. L was i'll Oakland, Just
across the bay from San Francisco,
when the first earthquake came. My
bed shook like boat hitting a wharf.
l jumped up and went out.
There has been an earthquake
said my Japanese boys. We saw the
cattle coming out of the woods into
which they had run.
1t is all over said my boys. They
knew. In Japan they have earthquakes
every day. Before the earthquakes come
over there the cows run into the woods.
where roots of trees keep the ground
from cracking. When it is over they
come out again. all frisking. 1 looked
over at the city and saw smoke in
many places from the fire-air all still
and so quiet except Il queer noise for
half an hour like New York Central
trains going through that subway.
Soon a column of black, jet black
smoke rose and spread out fiat in the
upper air Underneath were flames.
and then the top of the cloud took fire
and burned-two fires, one below, one
above the cloud. Later l saw three
layers of fire, one above the other, with
a black cloud between.
Papers wired me to describe the
scene, but paid no attention to the re-
quests. No one could describe it-all |
very solemn and SO still. / am glad to
be here, where everything is so lovely
and everybody is so happy"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22

There is no s;.ch thing rs gratitude
upon this earth replied the serpent,
''and if | We're now to spare thee
either thou or another of Thy race
would kill me. By Allah, 1 shall bite
thee
IF thou hast sworn by Allah, will
not cause thee to break thy VOW" said
the prophet, holding his hand to the
serpent's mouth. The serpent bit him.
but he sucked the wound with his lips
and spat the venom on the ground.
And on that very spot there sprang
up plant which combines within it.
self the venom of the serpent and the
compassion of the prophet. Men call
this plant by the name of tobacco
Conte Arabe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
GERMAN GLEE CLUBS.
EARLY Days of the SaenEcrfests In
This Country.

In the early days of saengerfests in
this country they were held annually.
The third saengerfest was held in New
York in 1852, and many Newark Ger
mans attended. Below are given eX-
tracts from the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser. printed at the time:
June 10, 1852. - The German glee
clubs of New York will celebrate the
third annual festiYaf in New York
tbs year on the 10Th to 22d of June.
The New York Journal of Commerce
states that the glee clubs from abroad
will be received by the New York
clubs and honored with torchliSht
procession. The principal performance
will take place at the Academy of
Music, Fourteenth street, when the
choruses will he sung by over 1000
male voices. accompanied by an or
chCstra of 100 pieces. On the 22d will
be held Il picnic on the Bloomingdale
road, opposite Strikers bay
June 22-Thlrd musical jubilee of
German singers. Saturday to Tuesday,
10Th to ODD. The execution of the
Magic Flute" overture by 1000 voices
was very uncommon and surprising by
the New York clubs and was received
with great applause. The Eintrachts
of Newark sang "Wallisischer Schif-
fergesang" in distinguished manner.
But the most marked performance WAS
Martin Luther's Elm FeSte Burg Ist
Unser Gott," arranged 10y FinEe. We
felt Immediately what religious music
really is-how grand solemn and sub
&c
by 2 large orchestra and hundreds of
voices 1t was something to be re-
membered long. Kossuth was present
during an intermssion and was cheer
ed.-Newark News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
Foods That Make You Fat.

Potatoes, peas, baked beans. fats,
sweets-such as buildings, pies and
cake-ale, beer, sweet wines and even
water, when taken with meals, all
conduce to obesity. But in lieu of the
foregoing flesh producers one may sat
isfy hanger with a moderate amount
Of lean meats. poultry, fish; with fruits
Excepting figs. dates and baranas) and
with vegetables, such as spinach. string
beans, eggplant, celery, beets. etc. L
would recommend also that thoss
overfat from a too rich and too aener-
Gus diet abstain from much liquid at
meals, but that they drink copiously of
water between meals to flush their sys-
TENS. Water, be st remembered, is an
excellent purgative.-G. Elliot Flint in
OufiDo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
Cost of Living and Tariff.

The whole tariff issue turns on
whether the people of the United
States will decide TO continue paying
high prices for all they buy and con-
;inue 10 add TO the enormous profits OF
the protected trusts There can be no
DISPUTE that the cost of living has ris-
en- IS per cent since the present tarlh
law was enacted. Every housekeeper
knows that this is true from personal
experience: it does not require Dun s
Index figures TO verify this large in
crease in prices. Ii is also BOW &C
knowledged by the republican leaders
that the trusts sell their products
cheaper abroad than to our own PEG
pie 1t is also certain that wages and
incomes of workingmen. small trades
men. clerks and wage earners general
" have not increased in like proper
ton TO the increased cost of living, for
whereas it now takes S1.4S to buy what
cost 81 in 1897. incomes have only in
creased on the average IA per cent, so
that if a wage Garner was getting in
1897 SIS a week. he now gets S1710,
if he has received the average in
crease. The increased cost of what he
buys is nearly half as much again, not
including rent. How much rent has
increased can be settled by each indi-
vidual himself In most of the large
cities rents have kept pace with the
increased cost of living. and the cost
of building materials has followed the
general trend of prices. In small cit
les and in villages rents have not in
creased in the same proportion, but
wages there have also not increased so
much.
The voters of the United States in
each congressional district will have
to decide. when they vote next fall,
which party best represents their in
terests The republicans stand pat and
will not revise the tariff in any par
ticular They point TO trust high
prices as an evidence of the prosperity
the tariff has produced and they keep
discreetly silent about the much less
increase of salaries and wages. The
democrats are pledged to revise the
tariff by greatly reducing the excessive
rates that now shelter the trusts. That
void result in a reduction of high
trust prices, because if the trusts did
not redroe prices, importations of for
e.gn ouEs would come in and compete
with the products of the trusts. TIL
reduction in the cost of living would
virtually be an increase of salaries and
wages, because the money earned
would buy more, or it would take less
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
THE ARGUS.

BY TIE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
The End of the World

OF troubles that robbed E. II. Wolfe of
Bear Grove, Iowa, of all usefulness,
came when he began taking Electric
Bitters. ne writes: 1.-TWO years ago
kidney trouble caused me great suffer
ing, which would never have survived
had l not taken Electric Bitters. They
also cured me of general debility"
Sure cure for all stomach, liver and
kidney complaints, blood diseases,
headache, dizziness and weakness or
bodily decline. Price. SO cents Guar
anteed by Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22
THE SERPENT'S VENOM.
MOhammednn Legend of the Origin
of the Tobacco Plant.

lIilEuNh It-ttlU OF TIC VTIfs
of the Tobacco Plant.
The prophet was taking a stroll in
the country when he saw n serpent,
stiff with cold, lying on the ground.
He compassionately took it up and
warmed it in his bosom. When the
serpent had recovered it said:
''Diyine prophet, listen. l ON now
going to bite thee"
why, pray?" inquired Mohammed.
Because thy race persecutes mine
and tries TO stamp 1t OUT
But does not thy race. too, make
perpetual war against miner was the
prophets rejoinder. How canst thou,
besides, be so ungrateful and so soon
FORGET that saved Thy life?'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22

money to provide for the necessities
of family or person.
The wise voter. who investigates the
tariff issue, unless he is one of the pro-
tected class, is certain to decide that
the democratic policy is best for his
pocketbook.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22

The official weather prognosticator
has been doing his best 10 pull down
the temperature for three days. though
falling so far. Let us hope he will
stick to the task. until he is indicated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22

More indictments have been found
against Standard Oil. Fined and re
fined about express the recent troubles
OF Standard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-22

When Russian women begin to throw
bombs the innocent bystander had
better change places with the target
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
Illinois Judicial Elections.

st. Louis Republic,-The call for a
republican convention to nominate a
candidate for judge of the First Su-
preme Court District of Illinois is the
opening move in what promises 10 be
a very interesting series of political
contests in the state just across the
| Mississippi river during the coming
year.
There are seven of these Supreme
| Court districts in Illinois and elections
are TO be held in five of them in June
next The First District. lying wholly
in the southern part of the state. is
strongly democratic. but the stay-at-
home vote last year gave it to the re
publicans by larger majority than it
is pleasant to remember
In the judicial election of next June
the democrats of the district are eN
pected TO come a-running TO the polls
to cast their votes for Judge Carroll
c. Boggs. who is a democrat after their
own hearts, as they have testified by
twice electing him to the honorable
position for which he will in all proba-
bility be a candidate again in the COM
ing election
election will not be complicated with
any other politics. Judge Bogg's admir-
able record on the bench during eight
cen years making any other platform
unnecessary. But it is already init
mated that the senatorial contest will
be an element in the republican judic-
ial convention adherents of Senator
Cullom and of Ex-Governor Yates be-
ing already mentioned among the riv-
ais for nomination
But the democrats of southern Illi-
nois are not going TO pay much atten-
ton to the republicans in this June
election; they are just going to get
out and run over them. The republi-
cans have been having their own way
too long in illinois, and now comes the
time to begin stopping them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

States were valued at nearly as large
a sum as were the oats The pro1uct
OF tobacco plantations was estimated
TO be worth $35.579.225. Cotton. the
dethroned king of staples, could show
only $259, 161 $40, as against the mag
nificent earnings of its feathered rival.
The crops of flax, timothy, clover. mil
let and cane seeds. broom corn, castor
beans. hay. straw and so forth, could
not, all told, come within measured
BILE distance of many millions of the
poultry earnings.
The hens eggs produced in this
country annually would fill 43,127 900
crates, each of the latter holding $50
eggs; also train of refrigerator cars
to carry these eggs would be nearly
nine hundred miles long. Furthermore.
it would take 107,S1S such cars to make
up this train.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
Russia's Reign of Terror.

Moscow dispatches tell a story of
carnage and bloodshed, of the people,
blind, impotent, furious. seeking TO
crafty hate and all the spirit of re-
negotiating up arms in the western
provinces. and heaping up barriers only
to fall like lead from a shot tower be-
fore the sweeping fire of the czar's
troops, surprisingly loyal. The torch
of rebellion is now fairly lit and wheth-
er it will burn until its light has shone
in the farthermost recesses of the
kingdom. or be shifted out. remains to
be seen.
The possibilities of the torch and the
gun are enormous. III Poland shall
follow the example of the western
provinces. then may it be seriously de-
bated whether the cars kingdom will
survive or perish. Poland in arms
would mean a rebellion which il would
take hundreds of thousands of troops
to put down and these the car can not
spare from Russia while the rest of his
army. whose loyalty TO him is suspect
ed. is in the far east.
The leaders of the insurrection move
ment are shrewd men and they have
seized upon this moment as the one
most likely to bear results.
And this despite the fact that the lat
est dispatches from Russia are of the
most cheering nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
The American Egg Crop.

According to the report of the asri
cultural department the egg and poul
try earnings of the United States for
one recent year amount to S2S0.00O, 900.
Such amount is sufficiently amazing as
il stands, but you do not get it's full
significance until you study the rela-
tive financial value of other indus
trials"
Ii is found. for instance. that the
total value of the gold, silver. wool and
sheep produced in America during the
year in question was $372.434. 315. says
Success. The sugar production of the
country the same year was only $780,
00O.GCG. The part of the wheat crop
used at home, which many consider
the mos ~aluable of all our agricul-
tural products. was worth 1929 100000.
The great American hog. as consumed
at home and abroad. brought $780,
529, 035. - -s
The value of. the eats crop, WAS. l5yssf
9S4,s00. PotalQs gIQ Nalin -thka Enited
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
InGnfteximulM easureme

In recent science nothing is more re
narkable, says the London Standard,
than the refinement which has been
made in instrumental measurements.
DR.. L. f. Shaw recently explained to
the Royal society an electrical micrOm-
eter which, it is stated. can be made
to measure the two-milliOnth OF mil
limeter, or the fifty-milliOnth of an
inch. This measurement, the smallest
ever yet made, was in connection with
the movements of = telephone dia-
phragm. The problem was to find what
movement of the diaphragm produces
a sound which is only just audible.
The measurement was effected by
means of an electric current connected
with the micrometer and telephone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
WANT AND NEED.

There's a big difference
between what a baby wants
and what he needs. Deny
him the one, give him the
other. Most babies need
SCOTS Emulsion-it's the
right thing for a baby. 1t
contains a lot of strength
building qualities that their
food may not contain. After
a while they get to want it.
Why? Because it makes
them comfortable. Those
dimples and round cheeks
mean health and ease. SCOTS
Emulsion makes children
easya keeps them SO, too.
ssorr 8 EoMSE, 4os Pearl ST., New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Judge Murray F. Tuley, who has
just died at the advanced age of IS,
had long been recognized as the nestor
of the Chicago bar, and was frequent
~ spoken of as the city's grand old
man." No more honored name than
his has been connected with Illinois
Jurisprudence. He was for &c years q
judge of the circuit court. whose deci-
sions came TO acquire great weight,
and were seldom Overruled by higher
courts In politics he was a staunch
democrat. He and the late Senator
Lyman Trumbull whom, it is said. he
resembled in many ways. were great
friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

sylyania Railway company is prepar-
ing TO do away with steam engines
and to use electric motors exclusive
~. throughout its extensive system.
presages the end of the age of steam
and the coming triumph of electric
ity. The statement may seem start
ling at first, but as a matter of fact
the railroads have been experiment.
ing with electric engines for some
time, and their eventual use was a
foregone conclusion. Not only in the
matter of speed but in every other res
pect electricity has the advantage over
steam power as a motive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

IL is the hope of the Chicago Inter
Ocean that William ]. Bryan will also
keep quiet about the Philippines when
he gets home. Imperialism naturally
breads discussion. and here is an open
confession of the fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Uncle Tom Platt says that the re-
port that he will resign from the sen
ate is absurd. OF course it is. A re
publican has seldom been known to
resign an office, and then again. Mr.
Plat tried that many years ago. and
once was enough for him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
Methodist preacher at Allmon

A Methodist preacher at Allmon,
o. T.. holds the record for the longest
prayer II was a petition against time
and lasted three hours and half.
There was a contest for possession OF
a school house between the preacher
and a holiness exhorter At the close
of the prayer there wasn't time for
anything else
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Charles VI. Schwab ate his Christ
mas dinner in his new S5,000.000 home
which does not necessarily mean that
Charles got any more pleasure out OF
the eating than many people who took
their dinners in $4,000 or $500 homes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
c., M. G. ST. p. Excursion Rates.

Home seekers tickets on sale the
first and third Tuesday in each month
to points il Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and to other home
seekers territory. For further infor-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Walter Wellman. the journalist-ex-
plorer is to attempt TO find the north
pole in an air ship. is it possible. after
all. that that is where it will be To-
Gated?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

The United States no longer pines"
for isles. The Isle of Pines is therel
fore TO remain part of the Cuban ter
ritory. at least until this nation is
seized again with an acute attack of
land hunger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

The c.. M. e St. p. offers first class
train service to Chicago and Kansas
City, from the tri-cities, sleeping car
reservations made TO any point desir-
ed, for further information phone any
OF their Offices
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

TERMS - Daily. 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications Of argumentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
zion. No such articles win be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from svsry
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Oregon might do well to lock up the
man who suggested a 10-cent subscrip-
ton to buy wedding gift for Alice
Roosevelt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

With six and a half billion dollars
TO their credit. the American farmers
probably realize the meat combine did
not get all the money in the country
last year after all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
RAILWAY TIPS.
One-Way Second Class Colonist Rates
to the West and Southwest

Via the c., NJ. & St. P. railway.
Dates of sale. Jan. and 10 and Feb. 6
and 20, 1906.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly 1t 1894
Second avenue. Rock Island, Ill rEn-
tered at the postoface ~ second-class
natter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Via the c.. NJ. & ST. p. railway
Dates of sale. Jan and 16 and Feb.
and 20. 1906.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

nation phone or call at any c., NJ. &
st. p office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
Monday, Jan. I, 1906.
Write it 1906.

May the New Year begin right, con-
time right, and end right with YOU
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01

Special HomeseekerS' Excursions tt
the West and Southwest.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-07-18

matter of fact, what are commonly re-
garded as the petals of the dogwood
are no part of the floral structure at
all, but merely four large white leaves,
which, during the winter. served as
protective wrappers to the flower buds.
The real tiowe Is are about the size of
shoe-pegs, of greenish color and are
punched several together in a small
cluster in the midst of the four white
leaves, and if observed at all by the
average wild flower gatherers, are
mistaken for stamens.
So, too. with the flowers OF the
pretty painted cup" which when 1t
blossoms in May frequently makes
whole meadows rosy with brilliant
color. Plucking one. we may think we
are looking at a pike of gorgeous,
fiame-colored flowers, while the fact
Is that the striking effect is produced
entirely by numerous REDEEMED leaves
intermingled with the real flowers
which are as plain as Cindere 8
sisters and practically hidden from
sight.
Indeed, so fond is Mother Nature of
befooling her unobservant devotees
that she has caused one whole family
of plants to be given over to this make
believe habit of Towering. To it be-
long that favOrite little preacher OF the
April wood-Jack-in-th -the-pulpit; the
arrow arum that shares with the