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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
c. M. G. St. p. Excursion Rates.

Homeseekers' tickets on sale the
first and third Tuesday in each month
to points in Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and to other home
seekers territory. For further infor-
nation phone or call at any c. NJ. &
st. p. office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

At IIinois TonigEt.-LaSt season
was Il notable one in the theatrical
world for the production of new come
dies and no less than I25 preJentious
productions We're made by. producing
managers during the season. but none
of them. however. reached more pine
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
At the Theatre.

haps than i'll the graduates of any, 9th
err American institution, it is of
scarcely less interest to anyone who
boasts an alma mater
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
Low One WAY Rates.

On Nov. and 20. Dec. t and Is. the
Rock Island will sell one way tickets
to points i'll southwest Missouri. Ar
kansas, Oklahoma. Indian Territory.
Louisiana. Texas. New Mexico. Old
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
RIVER RIPLETS.

The Valera. Ruth. and Prescott
were north and south The Helen
Blair was up from Muscatine.
The stage OF water was l.2O all day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

Mexico Kansas, Nebraska. Eastern
Colorado. Wyoming and South Dakota
at One-half fare plus two dollars. For
full Information call at city ticket Of
flee. 1929 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
Homeseekers' Excursions.

To points on c. NJ. & st. p railway,
every Tuesday. April to December,
1906. Also to Alberta, Manitoba, Mich
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
RIVER FORECAST

y falling tendency in the Mississippi
Will probably continue between Du-
buque and Muscatine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
Dedication Illinois Monument, Vicks
burg. Miss.

Oct - and -. the Rock Island will
sell tickets 10 Nicksburs and return at
S1945. Limit u days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

Brown of Harvard."-Henry Wood
Davenport. on Wednesday Oct. - III
Brown of Harvard" the bright and
breezy college play which ran for 100
nights in New York and over a nun
dred nights in Chicago. This college
play. which. in New York and Chica-
go. more than duplicated the success
of The College Widow" and Strong
heart" is the first play supposed 10 be
a faithful reflection OF daily life in
Americas oldest and most famous uni
versity- While appealing particularly
To Harvard men in whom college ira
ditiOns are more deeply rooted per
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

music by the choir. including vocal
solo by Miss Alma Shaw was included
in the service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

Advertised List No. az.
Following is a list of letters remain
ing uncalled for in the Rock IslanI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

New. 4-"The Shop-Lifter."
Nov. ga Thorn in Her Heart"
Nov. Gland of Nod
Nov. 11-"Humsn Hearts"
Nov. 14-"The Umpire" Fred Mace
Nov. 17-HoWe's Pictures.
Nov. 1s-"The District Leader" Ma
bel Harrison.
Nov. 1e-'"Way Out FOUNDER, AIDE,
laide Thurston.
Nov. 2o-.'Wizard of o."
Nov. 22-"James Boys"
Nov. 23-Stetson's "UncIe Tom
Nov. 24-"Nettie, the Wait"
Nov. 25-"The Yankee Consul
Nov. 26-"The Home Seekers"
Nov. 2e-"The Show Girl
Nov. 3o-"The Smart Set
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
BOOKINGS AT THE ILLINOIS.

Oct. 22-"The Arrival of Kitty"
Oct. 26-"The Four Huntings."
Oct. 27-"LittIe Johnny Jones'"
Oct. 28-"A Sisters Sacrifice"
Oct. 3o-"At Cosy Corners"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

igan. Minnesota, North and South Da-
kotas. Ontario, Saskatchewan and Wis
cOnsin homeseekers' territory, every
Tuesday rate: One first class limited
fare plus 81 for the round trip. For
further information call or phone. any
c. NJ. & St. p. ticket office. Both
phones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22
RIVER BULLETIN.
Torments of letter and Eczema
Allayed.

J. NJ. SHERIER. Local FOrecastcr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

AT Cripple Creek-"-For those who
reveI in melodTama last evenings bill
at the Illinois. AZ Cripple Creek fur
nished fair entertainment An abund-
ance of frontier life was served up i'll
approved style.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

acres: one sparrow to = acres: one
cOwbird to q acres; one meadow lark
10 Il acres; one dove TO 1G acres; one
robin to 20 acres; one thrush 10 %
acres and one horned lark To 2G ac-
res. At this rate there would be 42G
bIackbirds to the square mile and -
horned larI-u
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

HOmendl degree of success than The
Arrival of Kitty" which proudly
boasts OF its record the past season.
The dialogue Is bright and snappy, the
action is lively and the theme plaus-
ible. and is rightly calculated 10 dispel
the blues" and Is easily classed
among the few really brilliant success
ses. and few productions have attain
ed such popularity as was accorded
this clever mixture Of melody. mirth
and song. At the Illinois tonight
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

Instrumental Music Good Vests
Ministries appeared at the Illinois Sat
urday evening before a fair house.
The production was deliberately staged
and cOstumcd. but the instrumental
music was the only saving feature of
the performance itself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-10-22

a total OF 81 kinds of birds were
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
RICHES IN CORN coss.

The Missouri corn cob is pushing
the Missouri mule for international
popularity and the once-despised cob
was of sufficient Importance to attract
the attention Of the Grain Dealers
National association in session at Chi
cago recently.
Farmers in the "Show Me" state get
as much for their corn cobs as they
do for the grain. Tobacco pipes made
from these are in use in every civil.
lied country. They are on every IRON
tier, and dignifed statesmen and mil
lionaires smoke them in the seclusion
Of their homes-according to the en-
thusiastic cob raisers of Missouri.
This cob industry is one Of the re-
suits of modern daring and energy.
1t was about fifteen years ago when
a Missouri man, smoking homemade
cob pipe of the type familiar to all
countrymen, conceived the idea OF
making them for commerce. He lived
at Washington, Mo-, and the idea re-
NAMED with him until he materialized
IL, established great business enter
prise, added hundreds of thousands O.
dollars to the value of farm products
by using corn cobs, which were then
Of no commercial value, and made his
home town famous.
AS the business grew the demand
for larger and better cobs developed.
Farmers saw possibilities, and as a
result the course of nature, as it af-
fects growing corn, has been changed.
Hundreds of corn fields in Missouri
and Illinois now are devoted to rails
ing a peculiar grain, developed in fit-
teen years.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
THE ksokuk DAM.

If the enterprising people of Keo-
kuk succeed in the big enterprise Of
Harvesting the Mississippi at that
point, they will have constructed a
plant exceeded in size only by the AS
souan dam in Egypt, built for irriga-
ton purposes. 1t will be the second
water power plant in the world, gem
Grating over 100000 horsepower,
slightly more than half the volume
generated by Niagara Falls largest
plant.
1t will cost from $6,0OO,OO0 to $10,-
100000 and will be completed in two
years from the time of the commence
ment of the work of construction.
Though financed by private capital,
the government has agreed to aban-
don its locks and canal at Keokuk so
that the plans of Mr.. Cooper and his
associates may be carried out without
hindrance.
There will be only one dam and lock
where there are now three, and the
government will save $4,000 year
in river transportation operations.
1t will be constructed of stone, re-
inforced by steel appliances, and will
be 5000 feet in length. The power
house will be a magnificent structure
of pressed brick and steel, which will
be 1868 feet long and eighty-twc feet
wide.
There will be forty-seven immense
generators of 1880 horse power each,
working on a vertical shaft, like the
generators at Niagara. The power
house will begin at the lower end of
what is now known as the lower lock
and extend upstream 1868 feet. 1t
will be erected just outside the canal
embankment, which will then be re-
moved to give the water access to the
wheels.
Beneath the floor of the power
house will be series of forty-seven
passages conducting the water to the
turbines. These passages VIII be all
formed in solid concrete. constructed
SO as to offer the least obstruction to-
the water.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
THE MEAT INVESTIGATIONS.

Editor Herald:-From the tone Of
the press, the packing house inyestiga-
ton has stirred up hornets nest
and when awakened public conscience
begins to act, 1t is high time for the
other conscience to act also. When
once general investigation OF labor
conditions is begun, it will never end
until every employer, whose ideas run
contrary to decency, is forced to ac-
knowledge workers are human. The
loss Of the careless is going to come
In loss of business, just as it is COM
ing to the Chicago packer where can
eelled orders are going in on every
mail, amounting already to several
millions of dollars. 1t should be un-
derstood that business once lost Tor
such reason will be very difficult, II
not impossible, to regain. Just now
the Chicago packers are spending hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars in news
paper advertising inviting the public
to call and see how immaculate are
their establishments, and with what
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
NO LAW AGAINST NOISE.

A wrong impression has been Great
ed throughout Iowa by the fact that
Representative ofirs bill to stop the
sale of cannon crackers and toy pts.
tolls passed the shouse at the last leg.
islature. The bill did not pass in the
senate and is not a law as many sup.
pose. Iowa people can have all the
noise and fireworks they want this
Fourth of July, the impression to the
contrary Notwithstanding. The fun,
however, must be confined to the
Fourth, as the use of fireworks any
other day is Illegal and subject to a
heavy fine.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

Ten years ago there was a man
with rough sack suit, SLOUGH hat
and tragic air who was supposed to
represent the great democratic party.
Today we are told that certain gen.
tleman in dress suit and a silk hat,
hobnobbing with kings and banqueted
by millionaire clubs, is the proper rep
resentative of the great democratic
party. Well, there is nothing out of
the way in that. Ten years of repub-
lican prosperity have transformed the
old clothes into new ones, and the
silk hat is but one of the signs of bet
ter circumstances.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
TRAINED WILD BEASTS.
In Performances That Make Humans
Look to Their Laurels.

In the enlargement of the new Carl
Hagenbeck Greater Shows, making Of
them an all-embracing triple-featured
enterprise, the trained wild beast per
formances, upon which the fame OF
Carl Hagenbeck was originally found
ed, have not been lost sight of by any
means. In the general scheme OF
augmentation the animal perform
ances were given the personal atten-
ton of the famous tutor, with the re-
suit that the present exhibitions of
the brute artists are far and away,nor
only greater in the number of present
atoms, but more wonderful and awe
inspiring than any previous triumphs
Of the wizard of the animal world.
The foregoing statement may tend to
yellicate the credulity of the thousands
upon thousands of people who wit.
messed the Hagenbeck animal perform
ances either at the st. Louis Fair or
when presented en- tour, for Carl Ha-
genbeck was then believed to have
reached the limit of possible accom-
plishment in his wondrous works.
The sceptically inclined will be con-
WINGED to the contrary when these
greater shows exhibit in oskaloosa.
Tuesday, July 10. They will have pre-
sented, to their amazement. and for
their delectation and enlightenment,
wondrous new groups, sensations and
surprises-really marvellous perform
ances that will live in memory when
the recollection OF other things seen
has become hazy and indistinct.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
BUTTER IN STORAGE,

Last summer about 5000 pounds OF
butter was made in Kansas and Iowa
by Mr.. c. E. Gray, a dairy expert of
the department of agriculture, and
placed in cold storage In Chicago,
where it remained until this spring.
This butter was examined and scored
at intervals by Prof. G. L. McKay,the
head Of the dairy school of the Iowa
State college, and Mr.. P. H. Kieffer,
assistant dairy commissioner of Iowa.
Some interesting things were revealed
by these tests, and while some of the
old ideas were sustained, others were
practically reversed.
Some of the questions as to which
these tests were expected to give re-
suits were % the effect of pasteurlza-
ton, (2) the amount of salt 60 be
used, go temperature of storage
rooms, az the use OF cans hermetical-
ly sealed for storing butter, co. the
keeping quality of good compared
with poor butter, and (6) the action OF
air in contact with butter in storage.
The butter was made from five lots
Of cream, three of which were sour
when received at the creamery and
two sweet. From each lot of cream
two lots of butter were made, one pas
teurized and the other unpasteurized,
and part of each lot of butter was
lightly sailed and part heavily sailed.
The butter was packed in tubs and
cans, some of the cans being only
partly filled, so as to test the effect
Of air. 1t was then stored at temper.
atures minus 10 degrees, plus 10 de-
grees, and plus 80 degrees Far, and at
variable temperatures, part of each
lot being stored at each temperature
The butter remained in storage about
eight months.
The results showed that butter con-
tanning low percentages of salt kept
better than butter Of the same lot con-
tanning higher percentages OF, salt.
Butter in the full cans and tubs at the
lower temperatures scored about the
same. At the higher temperature
lu0LS was q SllShI uihSlCuCO III ldfOl
of cans. Butter in full cans kept bet
ter than that in cans only partially
full. On the whole, butter held at the
lowest temperature kept best, both
when in storage and after removal
from storage. Butter made from
cream received sweet kept well while
stored at the two lower temperatures,
and also after removal from storage,
giving results wholly satisfactory. But
ter made from cream received sour
also kept we'll at the lower tempera-
lures, but deteriorated rapidly after
from storage, giving, on the
whole, results which were very unsat-
isfactory. The conclusion is that light
sailing and low temperatures and the
use of cream received at the creamery
in a sweet condition give much the
best results for storage butter.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
The NEW LANGUAGE

The new language known as Esper-
anto is all the craze on the Pacific
coast just now. Practically every
body is either learning it or teaching
tor singing it. Everybody Works
But Father" is a favorite IN Esperanto,
and this is the way the FAMOUS ode to
paternal Incidence reads in the new
language:
"Cut labores sed patro,
Ii sidas cirkau clio tago,
Kun liza piedoj sur des fjaro,loco
Fumiant liza argila pipo,
Patrimo emprenas des lavo,
Tiel faras filino Anne.
Clio laboras en- mia domo
Sed mia maljuna viro."
1t is claimed that the orthograpny
OF Esperanto can be learned in half
an hour, its sixteen rules in another
half hour, and that the language itself
can be mastered in six weeks. This
information should be OF interest in
view of the probable extension OF the
craze eastward AS yet even the pre-
monitory symptoms are wanting in
this part of the country, but it will
doubtless hit us in uue time. AS the
st. Joseph News-Press says, we OF the
middle west were slow with the bicy-
Gle, slow with the auto, slow with the
tan shoe and the peroxide hair, slow
with appendicitis, but we got there
just the same. And so it viii be with
Esperanto. In time we may expect
to have our Esperanto teas and con-
versaziones, Esperanto progressive eu-
chre, Esperanto trolley parties, etc.
Apropos this expression Of opinion it
is worth while to note that the paper
voicing it is not favorably impressed
by the Esperanto version or the famil-
lar song reproduced above. 1t re-
CARDS the English version as better
and more direct. For instance:
Take the sentence which depicts
the old gentleman seated in front Of
the kitchen stove, its ash pan open so
that he may discharge the surplus
saliva without exertion, his feet at
ease so that they may receive the
comforting warmth. The sentence. or.
part of sentence, reads simply: Feet
up against the fire." pronounced in
this case fy-er). What is it in Esper-
anto? Kun liza piedoj sur des fijaro-
loco" No, not on your life.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
A. WASTED LIFE.

There is a man in Pennsylvania VIII
lever saw a baseball game. Tempo d
ortitude.
He never saw a baseball game,
Nor on the bleachers sat;
He never saw a good home run,
Nor sluggers at the bat.
He never called the umpire down,
Nor never tried TO root;
He never was fan at all,
And full of wind to boot.
He never saw the local club
Rise up and tie the score;
He never saw a finish that
Made visitors feel sore. ..
He never saw southpaw work,
Nor backstop throw to third;
Amid the cheers that rent the air
His voice was never heard.
He never hustled for car
To take him to the park;
He never wendell his way back
At night or nearly dark.
He hasn't had much fun, wis,
His life has been blank;
A dreary place, this world, to him
Who's not a baseball crank.
Birmingham Age.Herald.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05
EMIeRANTs IN MAY.

( The total number of immigrants
from all countries arriving in the
United States during May was 15O.Sz7,
which was an increase of 23,292 over
May, 1905. The countries from which
the number of immigrants exceeded
5000 were: Italy, 1886; Russia, u.s.
OF; Hungary, 1850; Austria, 16,525;
Ireland, 711O5 England, 1854, and
Germany, $50. The number of i'm.
migrants arriving at New FORK dur
ing May, 1906, was 12o,195; at Boston,
9,O66; at Baltimore, sos. Immigra-
ton from all countries for the six
months ending May 1906, was 616,5OS,
an increase over the corresponding
six months of 1905 of 4S,SOS, and an
increase over the corresponding peri.
cd OF 1904 of 23S,646.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

Veterans of the civil war are dy.
ing now at the rate of ten day, &C.
cording to the records of the United
States pension office. The monthly
reports for several months pasn have
shown the death rate among the old
soldiers to be in the neighborhood of
5000 month. Pension office officials
who have watched the figures closely
and know the tendency of the death
rate are of the opinion that the mum,
Der of civil war pensions has reached
the maximum and that hereafter each
succeeding month will show a de-
crease.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

.
mugwump newspapers and the Cum
Minis newspapers as corporation rid
den," the Iowa railroad law is being
used as a model by every state in the
union which desires good railroad reg
ulation. A LaFollette committee from
Wisconsin copies the Iowa railroad
law, and vet LaFollette assists in
making the world believe that political
opinion in Iowa is controlled by the
railways!
This entire campaign is so unjust,
so unfair that it will take years to
give the other states an understanding
of our political conditions.
Iowa has always been honorabiy rep
resented in the United States senate
Yet Iowa is moving In regard to the
senatorship question as If we were
represented by Burtons. Platts ana
Depews!
Even the Kansas newspapers are
mounting pedestals and giving us pity
The country will need ''men Of the
Roosevelt type" No one win say.
however, that LaFollette is OF that
type. La Follette's whole political ca.
reer indicates that he regards any
thing that will win as being fair in
politics.
We say again, the country will need
men Of the Roosevelt type; but such
men must be real and not pretenders.
In the senate Roosevelt has found
his champions in Allison, opooner and
others who are able and conservative
not sensational. La Toilette can do
Roosevelt no good. He cannot even
secure the adoption of an amendment,
because his associates have taken him
upon trial to ascertain whether or not
he is sincere. At present they doubt.
There is but one man standing be-
tween the republican party and har.
mony in this state.
And do we owe enough to that one
man to destroy the party for his sake2
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

results? The general opinion win be
they only cleaned up for the occasion
and the effect is right opposite to the
one intended. Had the packers in
vited inspection before the investiga.
tion.-or hit it this way,-had the
packing houses been decent and clean
from the beginning and the public
been aware Of the fact, it would have
been something different. Trumpet.
ing it to the world now is suspicious.
1t is plainly a case of
When the devil was sick,
The devil a saint would be-"
In this case it looks as il the devil
were to be forced to continue, though
only how much goes against the dew
lis gain can only be imagined. All
hail the Roosevelt investigation.
-R. W., Bolton, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

Knoxville Express: The talk OF
another republican paper in Knox
vile has a familiar ring. Somewhere
along about 1896 solitary pioneer ar
rived on the present site of Knoxville
and announced to the Indians that he
was going to start another paper, and
they tomahawked him on the spot.
Since that time there has been more
or less talk Of another newspaper"
every season. But newspapers must
have better reason for birth and ex.
istence than politics, or they will die
a.bornin'.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-07-05

. The New Sharon star says that
the newspapers which assert that
Cummins is certain to be renominated
as well as those claiming as positive
ly the contrary, all are lying about it.
"As a matter of fact" continues the
Star, sit is neck and neck race not
yet finished, and may easily result in
nominating dark horse, which would
likely be happy ending of the most
stupendous lying campaign ever wit
messed on earth"