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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23

centerS have been Appealed to for aid.
The same dearth of labor exists there
as Is experienced in the western cities.
Thousands of men who might have
been counted on have gone to San
Francisco, attracted by the fancy
prices for common labor said to obtain
in the demolished city which is now so
energetically rebuilding
AS in recent years, much store is set
by the sturdy college men who are
finishing their year of study. Hun
dredS of these men who have worked
in the wheat fields are coming back
this season. Those OF athletic training
are hardened for the most exacting la
Dor in the fields, and they are much
sought after by the farmers. During
the cutting and thrashing season many
of them will make money enough to
sustain them during half the college
year.
The fat had gone out unofficially that
there must be no idle able bodied men
in Kansas at harvest time. The street
loafer who can work will be obliged to
work or leave the state. Local authori-
ties in cities and towns hitherto have
co-operated with the agriculturists in
enlisting the whole available force for
field work. They Will do so again this
year
A movement of that kind is already
on In several of the famous wheat
producing counties of the state. like Sa-
line, Benton, Stafford and others, farm
ers have made arrangements by which
men confined in county jails and city
prisons for Unable offences may be re-
leased, provided they give their word
TO accompany the farmers to their
homes and work in the harvest fields
ct remunepative wages. This system
will save both the state and the farmer
q vast deal of money, and it will give
the prisoner a good chance TO regain
his liberty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23

When the late Harry y. Pi1iSbury,
the American chess master, was child
he would content himself for hours
planning mimic battles with regiments
OF gaudily got up tin soldiers, says
a correspondent of the Boston Globe.
He delighted in forming his fighting
men In all sorts of positions and then
moving them together until with a
grand sweep of his baby hands both
armies were annihilated in an indis-
eliminate charge.
When he was fifteen years old his
brother Ernest taught him the first
moves In the game Of chess. Ernest
was not an expert, but could play a
very fair game. Harry learned quickly.
So Fascinating was the game TO him
that II actually interfered with his
studies. He WAS then in the high school.
1t soon came to pass his brother was
no match for him, and. there being a
local club in East Cambridge, Mass,
Harry Joined that and began at once
To make a reputation for himself.
Some years ago Pillsbury gave an
extraordinary display of his ability at
the Metropolitan Chess club in London.
says the London Mail.
He played bllndfolded against six
OppOncnts at chess, against two at
draughts and at the same time took
hand at whist. Seated at a table at
one end of the room. he coolly manip
ulated the cards while promptly call
ing his moves in reply 10 the teller"
Mr. Michel who announced the moves
of his oppoflents at chess, and to James
Hill. who performed a similar Office
for the draughts players.
Play proceeded rapidly. for the Amer
lean was a quick thinker and kepthIs
opponents very much alive.
Once he paused at one of the ORA lights
games and said. Il guess I'll make
few moves right along at this board"
and then dictated six moves in rapid
succession, which sacrificed n piece,
but left him with a winning ending
After eighty minutes play he scored
his fist win at No. chessboard. fol-
lowed ten minutes later by the resig-
nation Of the draughts player referred
to.
One of his chess opponents next gave
up, and the applause had scarcely sub
sided when the second draughts play
er had to own himself beaten. After
this it was a procession. and the result
was that Pillsbury won every game of
chess and draughts notwithstanding
the fact that all engaged in the con-
tests were strong players.
OF the whist the first rubber went
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23
wireless Telegraph 10 save Birds.

Sportsmen in France ere becoming
furious advocates of wireless telegra-
ply. says the London Chronicle. 1t
appears that after cargSI!ly watching
for three years a kllometer' = Ilength OF
telegraph wire In a district not over
populated with birds an Interested OBJ
server has proved that one and Il half
head of game, such as partridges.
pheasants. quail and 50 on, is impaled
yearly on every, wire of this length in
France, which means a total all over
the country, or 10000 annually. Many
of the victims, especially of the migra-
tory kind, lose their lives through noe
turnal flights. SO unless these can be
induced to travel 10y day wireless te-
Biography seems the only French game
law in future worth supporting. 1t
would he Interesting to find out If in
England also bird intelligence is still
Of the Dretelegraphic Derfod.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23

one of the mental marvels of the age.
his memory being simply prodigious,
as may be appreciated from the fact
that he established n worlds record
never before approached and likely to
remain untouched of playing without
sight of boards or pieces as many
as twenty-five games simultaneously
against as many different opponents
of strong caliber.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23

In addition TO the above there are
great quantities of intrenching tools,
pouches, signal rockets, copper and
iron wire and numerous other articles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-23
PAGES 8 TO ii.

Port Arthur; al Maxims, 1888 ammu-
milton wagons. 624 wagons of other de-
scriptions, 1852 gun cartridges and Il
balloon captured at Port Arthur. or
course these are not all the trophies OF
war secured during the late campaign,
as the great guns and othGr exhibits
at Kudan and other places show But
partial as they are it may not be too
much to say/that such a display OF cap
tured arms in one place as souvenir
Of one war will not be easily found
elsewhere in the world, and we believe
ii is a sight worth seeing for any
body
1t is now possible to give accurate
statistics Of the spoils OF war that fell
into the hands Of the japanese IN the
war with Russia. AS will be seen. not
all the material is exhibited I'm the park
in Tokyo. The figures are as follows:
Swords 6292
Lances ......................... lob
Rifles Observation-Disclosures. Il0,548
Rife ammunition, rounds ..........24. 7l3.766
Field pieces OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1863
Garrison artillery
Twenty-three centimeter ........... 30
Fifteen centimeter .................. "a
Twelve centimeter etc........... 3Os
Machine guns ........................ ~
Wagons and carts .....~........... $500
Heavy gun ammunition, rounds. 1881
Light gun ammunition. rounds. 2i2.ClS
balloons ...-........... -..............
IypeWrlters ..--..............
buBles ...............-e ............... ~
Drums ............... p................ u
PISTOLS -............ S................. SyB
Fuses of sorts ...-...................
IelepnOneS ......-s ................... u
Portable telephones .................
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
LABRADOR.
Its Fascinating Procession of COIOs-
sal, Fantastic IcebergS.

Its Fascinating Procession of CoIOs-
sal, Fantastic IcebergS.
1t is the icebergS that make Labrador
fascinating. They greet you when you
steam out of the strait of Belle isle,
the northern gateway of the gulf Of
st. Lawrence, and mead northward up
the coast of Labrador. They come
floating from the north, an endless pro
cession, all shapes, fantastic, colossal,
Statuesque, even grOteSque-a magnifi-
cent assemblage of crystal dOmes and
turrets and marble fOrtresses. Your
steamer picks it's way carefully among
them lest they be jealous of her intru-
sion and fall over upon her. And in
the midst OF this glorious company you
come to Battle Harbor.
The settlement is on an island per-
haps 200 yards in diameter, which is
the outpost Of a larger island, and
plOws the waves Of the ocean like the
Prov of some gigantic ocean liner. In
storms the spray leaps almost across
its ledgy surface. A cove hides behind
the bluff sea wall, and on its rim mes
ties tiny village of whitewashed cot
tages. You climb the hill to the look
out Away to the north and south
spreads out the vast procession Of the
icebergS. They come out of the north,
the fog surrounding their tops and
streaming like smoke from their pin
nacles. They move slowly southwark,
perhaps three or four miles day.
Some go directly south down the New
fOundland coast, some turn west as
they approach the strait and are swept
by the tide into the gulf of ST Law
renee
Day by day from the hilltop you note
their slow progress. Each day sees
new forms emerging on the northern
horizon, while old, familiar bulks are
lost to view in the south. Each months
icebergs are natives of more northern
region. Hence the bergs of the late
summer, though fewer in number, are
individually larger than those of the
earlier part of the season, because they
have been longer in the making, COM
ing from farther north.
June's icebergs are Labrador's own
product and have broken off from the
ice field that has filed the bays and
extended far into the ocean in the pre-
vious winter. July'S bergs come from
Batfin Land, while the huge bulks of
August are natives of Kane bay and
the far northern rim of Greenland,
where man has never been-W. 3.
Conant in Boston Transcript
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
THE HUMAN BRAIN.
It's Capacity to Receive the Impress
siOns of Lifetime.

It's Capacity to Receive the Impress
siOns of Lifetime.
Authorities differ as to the capacity
of the average brain to receive the i'm
pressiOns of Il lifetime. 1t is pretty
we'll believed that there is in the brain
center of conservation distinct from
the center of perception. We Of course
know nothing as to the nature of the
relation of brain cells to precepts and
conservation, but we do know that
there must be relation. The re-
searches of Hammerberg and Thomson
show that the number of cells in the
brain is 9,200,000.000. All stimuli, ex-
ternal Through the five senses) or in
ternal Through processes). must leave
some trace upon these cells, chemical,
physical or dynamic These stimuli
are composed of all sorts of precepts-
words and sounds heard; things and
words seen: objects felt, tasted, smell
ed; sensations perceived in our own
bodies; thoughts pushing upward into
consciousness. And little reflection
will show how innumerable such i'm
prints must be in the course of single
waking day.
Even without reading, the resident of
a city must receive an incalculabIe
number of impressions upon his brain
every twenty-fOur hours. The reading
center of the brain occupies compare
lively small area in the back of the left
hemisphere and consequently must pos
sesS Il very small portion Of the 9.000,-
100000 cells referred to above We can
only guess ut the number. but fair eS-
innate would he about Il twentieth. or.
say, 500000.000. which in lifetime of
sixty years would allow us about %
$50 GETS Il day for the perception and
conservation of words and sentences
read. These figures may have no
scientific value, but at any rate they
emphasize Il very important fact, and
that is that our brain capacity is limit
Ell and that we should be sparing of
the cells we daily squander.-Dr. Fred
erick Peterson in Golfers.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
THE TACON THEATER.
HRVuna's Famous Playhouse Has an
Interesting History.

HRVuna's Famous Playhouse Has an
Interesting History.
The history of the Tacon theater of
Havana is very interesting In the
year 1885 Francisco Marty, who was
then the leader of a band of pirates
which infested the island of Cuba and
who had price of $4,000 on his head,
was captured and ordered to be put to
death. Seeing there was no hope for
him, he asked leave to see General
Tacon, who was then governor general
Of Havana, and told him IL his life was
spared he would denOunce his entire
band and assist him in Kidding the is
land of the number of pirates which in
tested it at that period. Accordingly
General TaeOn gave him two weeks
parole, and inside of week Marty had
denounced his fellow pirates and turn
ed them over to the government. Foe
this service he was parlOned. :.
In 1886 Marty asked for the c0nceg-
sion to build q national theater on the
site OF Parque Central. 1t was granted
TO him. General Tac0n went further
and allowed him the privilege of the
use of forty conflicts who were then
confined in MORO castle to assist him
in the work, each convict receiving the
sum of 20 cents a day. In 1888 the
theater was finished, and Marty, as q
proof of the gratitude lie felt toward
General TacOn for sparing his life. nam
ed it FL TeatrO TacOn During the in
SurrectiOn in Cuba many exciting incl
dents took place here. In one instance
a regiment of Cuban insurgents barri-
caded themselves in the theater and
held it against the Spaniards for three
days. Finally they were starved out,
and as they were making their escape
all were shot
The theater is built Of white stone,
with decorations of marble, and faces
Central park, being in the center of the
fashionable district Of Havana 1t is
one of the largest theaters in the world,
seating over 5000 persons.-Cuban Re-
view.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12

Nut Boy, the winner of the Transyl-
vania Stake, at Lexington, considered
probably the championship event of the
year for trotters, is one of the most re-
markable figures which has ever ap-
peared on the harness turf. He is the
only horse to attain championship
honors that had never raced until he
was nine years old. He has also won
every race for which he has started,
his victories including this year the
$4,000 Massachusetts Stake at Read
vile and the famous $4,000 Charter
Oak Stake at Hartford, September 8
reducing his record to 2:O71, which
equals the fastest time in that event.
made by Georgeana six years ago. He
also won the Ohio Stake at Oakley and
purse of $4,000 at Buffalo.
The trotting at the Lexington track
this week will be as fine as ever seen
over any track in the world. Every
day will be record breaking day by
the fastest horses in the country.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
AS Mark Twain Saw II.

When Mark Twain was city editor Of
the Virginia City Enterprise, back in
the seventies he used to brighten up
the columns of the paper with comic
paragraphs setting forth the advan-
tages of advertising. These para
graphs were based on all kinds of odd
facts-on murders, on crop reports, on
kidnapping, on the weather. One para
graph ran like this:
Germany has just discovered a
buried forest in her midst, supposed to
be 10000 Years old. If the man who
lost it had advertised in the Enterprise,
the chances are that it would have
been returned to him that night
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
st. Napoleon.

Many people ignorant of the true his
tory of the church will be scandalized
when they read the title of this article.
Let them read it to the end. There
was in Corsica some hundred years
ago very pious family called the b.
naparteS. Their first child was born
on the 10Th Of August, Assumption
day. and as he looked very small and
feeble they wanted him 10 be baptized
without delay. Their priest consented
TO perform the ceremony, but as it was
customary TO give to child the name
of the patron saint of his or her birth
day the good priest could not and
would not call him Assumption Bona
parte." In his embarrassment he look
Ell carefully over the Lives of the
Saints" and finally found the name of
saint martyr who i'll the first centu-
rieS of the church had been stoned to
death Oh that very day of Aug. 10. OF
course neither Mr.. nor Mrs. BOnaparte
objected that their tirstbOrn child
should be named Napoleon, having
thus the high patronage of Il brave
martyr Of the early Christian church,
Letter to Philadelphia North American
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
DOG DoN'Ts.

Don't take the dog calling on a
friend who owns d cat.
Don't make his life a miserable bur
den by taking him shopping.
Don't permit him to jump on caller,
wiping his dirty paws over her best
gown.
Don't take him calling at all, to have
him run around friends house chew
ing UP rubbers. etc
Don't permit him to salute you with
his tongue and then say rapturously,
See how he kisses me-"
Don't let him hop up on the chairs.
so that the next person who sits there
will acquire Il coat of dog hairs
Don't tie him up and go off for the
day in order that he may make the
neighbors miserable with his bowling
Don't expect outsiders TO have the
same admiration for him and accord
him the same indulgcnt treatment you
do.-Exchange.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
The Ruling Passion.

No self respecting actor will admit
that his show is not drawing full
houses every night One of the profess
sion who plays juvenile parts recently
met leading man on the Rialto The
leading man was dressed in deep
black. There was a wide band Of
Grape on his hat, and he had discarded
the patent leather shoes an actor loves
for others of subdued polish that
spoke of grief.
What's the matter?' asked the iu-
venile.
MY father is dead" answered the
leading man in a heartbroken voice.
The Juvenile expressed his sympathy.
when did he die?" he asked.
last week. We buried him today
a nice funeral" answered the heart.
broken one.
Large attendance?" asked the ju-
venile.
A. smile OF enthusiastic delight fash
ed over the mOurners face Large
attendance he cried. ''1Iy boy, we
turned 'em away.'-New York News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
Cuba'S Big Business.

The Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and labor at
Washington has issued a bulletin on
tie foreign commerce of Cuba, show
ing that it aggregated over 5000, 900, 900
per annum,. the actual figures being
given as follows:
Imports S95, 900, 600 and exports S11O.-
600, 600. Of the imports As per cent.
were IN 1905 drawn from the United
States, and of the exports SO per cent.
were sent to the United States. 1t is
stated that there has been a steady
gain in the share of the imports drawn
from this country, while the share
of exports sent to the United States
in 1905 was sc per cent.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
THADDEUs STEVENS.
His Sense of HumOr and His Unosten-
tRtfOus Charity.

Many joke is credited to Thaddeus
Stevens. who led the Republicans in
congress during the civil war and the
trOublous times after.
One of the very keenest of his jests,
which is undoubtedly authentic. is SO
commonplace in sound that one might
easily be forgiven for failing to take
in its meaning. In his last days David
Reese and John Chauncey, two en-
ployees of the house of representatives,
used to carry him in a large armchair
from his lodgings across the public
grounds, UP the broad stairs of the
capitol
Who" he said to them one day, will
be SO good to me and bear me in their
strong arms when you two mighty men
are gomez"
Such question implied nothing short
of a sense of intellectual immortality.
When he had taken to his bed for the
last time visitor told him he was look
ing well.
''Oh, john" was the quick reply. at
is not my appearance, but my disap-
pearance, that troubles mev'
One day member OF the house of
representatives, who was noted for his
uncertain course on all questions and
who confessed that he never investigat-
ed a point under discussion without
finding himself a neutral, asked for
leave of absence
MIR. Speaker" said Stevens, Il do
not rise to object but to suggest that
the honorable member need not ask
this favor, for he can easily pair off
with himself.'
One anecdOte always remembered in
connection with Stevens illustrates his
transformations charity. A beggar wO-
man met him one morning as he was
limping to the house.
ooh, sir" she said, Il have just lost
all the money had in the world!'
''And how much wds that?"
ooh, sir, it was 70 cents
"You don't say sou he replied. put
ting five dollar bill in her hand "And
how wonderful it is that should have
found what you lostw = Philadelphia
Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12

Pineapple" and love apple Gomatoy
are instances of the manner in which
the apple has been habitually taken as
the typical fruit, the name of which is
naturally borrowed in naming all sorts
Of fruits and vegetables that only re-
motely resemble it. Dr. MUIrray's die
tiOnary gives an imposing list of them
Jews apple. DEVILS apple, Kangaroo
apple, and so on. A writer Of the sev-
enteenth century speaks of the fruit
or apples Of palm trees" and a four
teenth century man says that "all
manere aples that ben closyd in an
harde skinne, rynde, other shale. hen
callyd Nuces" nuts. In the year 1000
apparently, earth apples meant not
potatoes. but cueumbers. And even
Ewes apple is believed to have been
citron.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
One Side of the Month.

Did you ever meet Il stranger who
talked from one side of his mouth
usually in an undertone and With his
eyes wandering while talking? The
mans manner is not an Indication that
he is weighing his words or has some
thing important to tell. 1t is almost 4
sure sign that he has spent years in
Jail. This manner of talking is ac-
Quired in prison, where conversation
among prisoners is prohibited and
where the men have to talk out of one
side of their mouths in order TO prevent
the keeper from noticing that cOnversa-
ton is going on The habit sticks to
the cOnvictS for years after they get
Out-NeW York Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
If Yon Try

Father Williams Indian Herb Tea,
or Herb Tablets and do not find them
the best medicines you ever used for
Constipation, Torpid Liver, Sick Kid
neys, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache,
Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Billiousness, Malaria, Dizziness and
Bad Breath, we will refund the
money.
They work day and night and you
get up in the morning feeling like a
new person.
Try them 20 cents, Tea or Tablets.
For sale by W. T. Brooks.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-10-12
BOLIVIAN PETTICoATS.
They Are Numerous and OF All the
COIOrn of the Rainbow

OOAOIA Ol tue h0AnDOWoa
The priced possession Of the Bolivian
Indian woman and her chief pride also,
whether she is pure Indian or chola, is
her petticoat. Her dowry is in this
garment. Like the Ditchwoman of
tradition, she carries her wealth about
with her. These petticoatS ;Jre of all
colors of the rainbow and divers
other hues not found therein l first
noticed them at Nazarene and re-
marked the love of color. which must
be inboru, for the garments were of
yellow, purple, violet, fiery red, Grim
son, scarlet. subdued orange, glaring
saffron. blue and green. They were
short, reaching barely below the knee,
and no difference was observed be-
tween childhood, maidenhoOd, matrOn-
~ middle life and wrinkled old age.
CHANGING from my window in Tupiza,
thought it was parade of perambu-
lating balloons.
These women have habit which the
bashful traveller does not at first I'M
derstand. When he sees one of them
calmly LClAONiHS DCtlGOob IC 10 &p4
to turn away, but lie need not do SO.
1t may be that the advancing heat Of
the day has caused the wearer to dis
card the outer skirt, but more likely it
is the vanity of her sex and the desire
to make her sisters envous by showing
what is beneath, for each new vesture
disclosed is more brilliant than the one
which Overlapped it. | sat in the plaza
at TupiZa and watched two Indian wo-
men try to make each other enviOus.
The first one removed the outer petit
coat. which was of purple. This dfvest-
ment disclosed another garment. of
blazing red and after that came a
brilliant yellow. The other woman
started with green petticoat and
gradually got down to mixture of
blue and yellow. BY that time / had
begun to fear for the consequences and
made pretense of turning my back by
strolling to the National Geo
graphical Magazine.