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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
A POEM TO OKLAHOMA.
.'Lsnd of My Dreamfng," the Title o.
Nerser by George n. Hall.

LAND of My Dreamfhg," the Title of
Verses by George n. Hall.
Since Oklahoma has been changed
from a territory to atstate George X.
Hall. editor of the 'Henryetta Free
Lance. has written these stanzas,
Land OF My Dreaming" says Guth-
RE (OklaJ correspondent of the Kan
sas City Star:
Land OF the mistletoe. smiling in splen-
Out from the border land. mystic and old.
Sweet are the memories. precious and
tender.
Linked with thy summers of azure and
gold.
o Oklahoma. fair land of my dreaming.
Land of the lover, the loved and the
lost,
Cherish thy legends with tragedy tenn
Legends where love rreckoned not of the
cost!
Land of sequoyah. my hearts in thy
keeping!
o TulIedega. how can forget?
Calm are thy wales, where the silences.
sleeping,
Wake into melody tinged with regret.
Let the deep chorus OF life's music. throb-
bing.
Swell to full harmony born of the
years,
Or for the loved and lost tenderly sob
bling,
Drop to that cadence that whispers Of
tears.
Land of the mistletoe, here's to thy glory:
Here's to thy daughters as fair as the
dawn:
Here's to thy pioneer sons. in whose story
yalor and love shall live endlessly on,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
OHIO GOVERNORS WIFE.
How Mrs. Harris Views Her Position
In Official Society.

The wife of General Andrew Harris.
who by the death of Governor Pattison
of Ohio has become governor, is very
domestic in her tastes and much at
tached TO her home, says a Columbus
(O.) special dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press. She is not at all pleased with
the proposition of life in Columbus.
When interviewed at her home at Ea-
ton, o.. recently she was canning cher
ries and expressed the opinion that a
man with three farms TO look after
hadn't any time to give TO public af-
fairs.
She is Il sprightly little woman, sixty
one years old, but active aud strong.
Every morning she polishes her cook
stove. washes her own dishes and
scrubs her kitchen She finds time to
work I'm her kitchen garden, too, and
declared that she did not propose to
come to Columbus to live until she
had pulled her onions and laid them
away for the winter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
Statue to California Soldiers.

4 fine bronze statuary group has re-
Gently been completed by a company
in Chicago for Golden Gate park in
San Francisco in honor OF the First
regiment OF that state on its return
from the Philippines at The close of
the Spanish-American war, says the
Chicago Chronicle. The group is after
a model designed and executed by
Douglas Tilden, the leading sculptor
of the Golden State. Its group in
cludes a figure of the war goddess
Minerva, mounted upon q winged
charger, with drawn sword and way
ing flag, leading the forces In battle.
At one side strides an American Off
Ger, and underneath the horses hoofs
is a soldier, shot and dying. but still
defiant. The statue is eighteen feet
high and will be mounted upon a pedes-
tai of California granite twelve feet
high
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13

"Before i wrote to you, telling you how
felt, l had doctored for over two years steady
and spent lots of money on medicines besides
but it all failed to help me. My monthly pc
RODS had ceased and suffered much pain
with fainting spells, headache, backache and
bearing-down pains, and / was so weak
could hardly keep around. As last resort
decided to write you and try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and / am so
thankful that did, for after following your
instructions, which You sent me free of all
charge, / became regular and in perfect
health. Had it not been for you / would be
in my grave to-day.
al sincerely trust that this letter may lead
every suffering woman in the country to
write you for help as did"
When women are troubled with ir-
regular or painful periods, weakness,
displacement or liberation of an organ,
that bearing down feeling, infiamma-
ton, backache, f1atulence, general de-
bility, indigestion or nervous prostra-
ton, they should remember there is
one tried and true remedy. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once
removes such troubles.
No other female medicine in the world
has received such widespread and I'M
qualified endorsement. Refuse all SUBJ
stitutes.
For 25 years Mrs. Pinkham. daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, has under
her direction, and since her decease.
been advising sick women free Of
charge. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
CITY IN A SKYSCRAPER
Preachers Scheme Build One
Along Christian Lines.
WILL BE ERECTED IN CHICAGO

| Rev. DR.. George F. Hall Plans a
Church, University, Hotel and
Stores, All In One Building, For
Ambitious Young FOlks-To Provide
Good Society For Poor Workers.
Undiscouraged by the foreclosure
proceedings against his ChicagoTexas
George F. Hall, pastor of the indie
pendent congregation which worships
In the Bush Temple theater, promises
to carry the enterprise to successful
issue and to build in Chicago Chris
tian temple at cost of $5,00O,OOO
says Chicago special dispatch to the
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
At his offices in the Security building
DIR. Hall spoke enthusiastically and
confidently of both propositions.
The christian temple" is to be an
eighteen story skyscraper on the North
Side in the vicinity of Lincoln park.
DIR. Hall, who is the originator Of the
idea, has planned a complete Christian
city under one roof. The main pur-
pose is to provide good society for the
working young men and women OF
Chicago who are now compelled to
live in cheap rooms and are deprived
Of all social diversion.
Five floors of the temple are to be
devoted to a university which will &C
commodate $4,000 pupils who must
obtain their education at night, If at
all.
In the building there will be $500
rooms, and each room will be rented
to two young men or two young wo-
men at Il rate. per individual, of So
a week. The young people will have
their clubs. lodges, societies, parties,
etc, all under one roof.
The auditorium will be one of the
most splendid in Chicago if DR.. Halls
plans are carried to ful6llment 1t will
seat 1900 at one time. and will be
SO arranged that the stage will be in
the center of the auditorium.
In the eighteen story temple there
will be banquet halls. restaurants. laun-
dries, rooms for servants and attend
ants. bank. chapels. recreation rooms,
people need not go out of the temple
to live q complete life.
Dr. Hall declared he was in New
York recently and talked with a bond
ing firm, and was assured that the
money with which to finance the Chris
tan temple would be forthcoming
whenever he decided to launch the en-
terprise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
FOR RENT

A new seven-room house at
1928 18th street; gas and city
water; big lot; rent will be
made low for a desirable
tenant.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
Rutser. Professor on Long walk.

Professor Edwin Bell Davis, profess
or of romance languages at Rutgers
college IN New Brunswick, \. j., ac-
companied by his son Donald. started
the other morning on a walking tour
to the Adirondacks, where he will re-
main until the reopening of college in
the fall. says the New York Tribune.
Last winter Professor Davis had Sc
we're attack of typhoid fever and thinks
this way of passing his vacation Will
build him up for his fall work. For the
last FIVE years Professor Davis has
taken long walking tours. The tramp
ers took with them guns. fishing rods
aud tent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
A Miracle.

Joe Kelley has reformed He Is the
most docfle Of men with the umpires.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13

dance, play the hero in a one act melo-
drama, go in for a burlesque comedy
turn and box four rounds.
I'm fact. 1 had to adapt myself to
any circumstances that arose, and the
excitement attending the performances
was such that / was constrained to do
my level best in each.
Il got into habits in those days of
doing anything that came to hand, and
If l have attained any success in my
naturer work L ascribe 1t largely to
that
Il could not be happy doing the same
old thing over and over again. Such
a thing as playing the same part 1000
times would be a physical or nervous
iu'possibility for me.
Il was raised in variety and vari-
ETY. 1 must have"
ROBERT BUTLER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
HOW TO PITCH CURVES.
Expert Describes Execution of Lead
Ing TwirlfnE Twists.


Ing TwirIfng Twists.
A well known National league pitch
er describes the delivery of various
curves as follows:
The incurve is pitched with a side arm
motion. the ball being released over the
tips of the first two fingers. the arm be-
ing swept around with lateral motion.
Some pitchers throw incurve by
grasping the ball with all four fingers
and permitting IT to slip over the tips.
The outcurve is produced usually by
grasping the ball with the first two fin
gers and the thumb. with the back of the
hand turned downward The fingers are
pressed firmly against the ball. which is
sripped tight
When delivering the spit ball the first
and second fingers are mOistened on the
tongue. and the ball slips over the ends
OF these fingers
In the drop the ball rolls over the side
OF the first finger. Some pitchers give the
hand a snap as the ball leaves II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
1T SAVED MY LIFE"
PRAISE FOR 4 FAMOUS MEDICINE
Mrs. Wiliadsen Tells How She Tried Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound lust
In Time.

Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
81 can truly say that you have saved my
life, and cannot express my gratitude to
you in words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

stones we had heated in the fire. 1t was
simple enough.
''Whalin' days was great days" said the
captain Some folks think whaiin was a
nasty business Just because they've heard
that blubber smet a little. Maybe some OF
1t did If It was left in the blubber room too
long. but blubber itself is sweet and whale
Oil pure and sweet ana clean as olive
oil. / dunno but what I'd rather have 1t.
''Of course. if blubber was left in the
blubber room too long 1t would get rancid,
and when we had to stop and kin and cut
up another whale before the first one was
stripped and the blubber room emptied, the
blubber at the bottom would get SOS 1t
would smell a little. But We used TO fry
dough cakes in the tryin' kettle when
we could get the flour to make EN-. Smell
never bothered US none. In fact, they
warn't none scarcely.
II sailed with one of the best Shippers
that ever went out of New Bedford He
could smell the whales. and he came homo
full when other whalers had hardly
barrel.
Boy he used to say. for every thou
sand barrels OF oil there's a barrel OF -four
rolled on the forehatch.' Then we'd hustle
some. / tell you.
They'd roll the barrel on the hatch ana
bust in the top and then we'd take Hour
and fuolasses and make up a dough that
we'd drop iIto the boiling kettle OF oil We
was trying out. Let EN- cook IN the grease
just like doughnuts. Sailors dougbnuts,
we used to call en-, and they We're good.
too | JUS wish l could get something
that tasted half as good now. But in them
DAYS after comm back from a boat trip
after whales. we could eat a pine board.
The doughnuts would cock well. too. IL
was just the same cooking them In lard.
only better, for the oil was cleaner. And
smellg No smell to 1t at all. L tell you
whale oil was clean-and sight better
than lard We never bothered none because
we had TO cook them doughnuts In the oD-
the only thing that bothered us was because
we couldn't get enough -four to cook all
we wanted.
Then we ate blubber. Now. you needn't
quicker up your face II you'd been there
you'd have eaten II. too. and been glad 70
get IT. There's place under the throat or
the whale where the blubper's hard and
white, ard when you cut that up into little
square pieces and drop IL into the tryln, out
kettle for a few minutes you could bitndfoid
q man and feed that to him and he'd
swear he eating chestnuts. II Is that
fine and good
There's some little meat down at the
fukes OF a whale that's good to eat, too.
but It's strfngy and apt to be tough. But
ar that, we used to eat II. When you've
been to sea for two years and a half, WITH
not much but salt horse In that time and
10 fresh meat az all. I tell you you'll take
whale and be mighty glad TO get IT.
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waited with panied apprehension, but quite
In vain for the people of the steamship
10 find 'It"-.it" being the thing that
swent off, exactly on the minute and hour
for which 1t was set by its ingenious maker,
although the poor disappointed man never
knew 1t, because it didn't go Off in the
designated place.
And the steamship line held seventy enor-
mously heavy cases marked FURNISHED
copper until It was evident that nobody
was going to call for them Then they
found on opening them, that they were
full of cast-iron junk.
While they were in the midst OF their
suspicious wonder about this queer thing,
the detective called on them and told them
what he had learned.
Investigation showed that the stuff had
been insured at $4,000 valuation; and that's
all that the investigation ever did show.
The gentle-hearted persons who had tried
the strenuous get-rich-quick scheme had
vanished. Even IL they hadn't, 1t would
have been next to impossible to prove any
thing.
The Internal machine had exploded so
very successfully that the most careful
search failed to disclose and fragments big
enough to identify.
So the net result OF the inquiry was that
the defrauded truckman said angrily:
I'D just like 10 know the bloke that got
them apples
Those Liverpool longshoremen might
have told him. but then they didn't know
what a very important barrel of apples 1t
was that had furnished them with their I'M
expected feast.
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the three men read the line among the
other shipping items that announced her
arrival and two of them said to the third
We'll. your old contraction didn't work
Now they'll find it aboard and Wen have
to lay low
The third man shook his head dolefully
and said:
IF that don't beat me, I would have
sworn that the thing was as sure as a
chrouometer and I'd give something very
much right now TO know what did happen
to stop IT,"
Al that same time two detectives in po-
lice headquarters. not many blocks away,
reported TO the chief that they had been
unable to discover anything about the
mysterious explosion In the fiathouse and
that it was most likely another BLACK
Hand outrage"
There had been a good many Just then
and the explanation was accepted.
So the detectives went on looking for
the dynamiting blackmaiiers who blew up
houses whose owners refused to pay black
mail levied anonymously under the sign of
a Black Hand. And tho three men dropped
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25
HaaMAGhETIC OBJfRATORlE5
J rT WEATHER

is its compactness that it weighs but two
pounds and occupies a space no greater
than that Of an ordinary hand camera. To
procure an ink which Will not freeze, how
ever will be rather difficult problem, as
at an altitude of only seven and three
quarter miles the fluid in the registry pen
of the thermometer carried by an un-
manned balloon sent UP by the French
scientists. Hermite and Besancon. became
a mass of ice. This balloon. by the way
seems to hold the present record for high
ascents. having reached an insignificant
fraction less than ten miles. The Their
mometer showed 81 degrees below zero,
Centigrade when the ink froze
The selection of a balloon capable of
ascending twenty miles, and therefore
doubling the feat of the Hermlte- Besancon
craft, Is. of course, the most difficult prob
lem TO be solved at Mount Weather. What
would seem to be the lilleliest type Is a
Para-rubber balloon, lately invented by
Assmann, a German, who has already de-
signed one to carry Self-reCOrding inStTu-
ments up twelve and a half miles. 1t is
from five to seven feet in diameter filed
with pure hydrogen and closed. When
allowed to rise it increases It's volume and
bursts, as a result of the decreasing pres
sure of the atmosphere. and the explosion
occurs after It's diameter has been Increased
two and half times, or when its volume
has multiplied about fifteen and a half
times.
Its texture and filling are nicely regu-
lated to cause the explosion just when
thc air pressure corresponds to height OF
twelve and a half miles. The self-register-
ing apparatus hangs from the cords OF
parachute. spread over the rubber envelope
Of the balloon like mantle, and after the
explosion the parachute carries the appara-
tus slowly and unframed TO the ground
Tho parachutes are made in gaudy colors,
that they may be easily seen. For lower
ascensiOnS a Hight spring valve Is inserted
in the filing tube of the balloon, and 70
this valve is inserted a cord traversing the
rubber envelope inside. When the balloon
has expanded until its diameter equals this
cord the latter pulls the valve open. the en-
tire device sinking slowly to the earth,
and since the balloon does not burst there
is no need for Il parachute. For asceHtS Of
twenty miles II might be preferred to send
up IN tandem two balloons filled 10 different
degrees with gas. 50 that after the bursting
Of the larger The Ojher-Weighed down by
inc exploded cnvclopc-would bring the APP
paIltus TO earth. serving as a signal for lis
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the watery sea below him. In the mariners
case, however the top of the sea is within
view and he may observe its sweeping cur
rent without extraordinary pains. Were he
at the bottom of the ocean. however, he
could not judge its direction flow and its
general conditions from the confusing ed
dies about him occasioned by the irregular
tiles of the ocean floor, hence he would
have to send up floats Of some sort to carry
recording instruments to the main currents
at the top. We dwellers upon earth are in
exactly the same position with respect to
the great ocean Of atmosphere above us as
would be with respect to the the mari
ner at the bottom of that body of fluid AS
the Irregularities of the earth's surface are
approached air currents like those Of water,
Geyiate from their general direction and be-
come more and more serpentinc. Other dis
tracing elements also ensue. wherefore, In
order to learn the true conditions of the air
above us we must hereafter rely upon OBJ
servations in the main currents far above
the disturbing mountains and valleys. Wea-
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Mount Weather. and simultaneously. from
many of the weather stations IN distant
parts of the country, others will be libe-
rated for cooperative observations. II Will
lie the purpose of these simultaneous flights
to regularly ascertain. from day TO day.
the precise condition of the atmosphere
above the land up to the greatest attain
able height, especially during the passa ge
of storms and cold waves
Sounding balloons" is the term applied
by the chief to this peculiar category of
aerial flyers and by exploding them in
many parts of each great storm that enters
the continent from the gateway of storms
In the northwest, his meteorologists will
sound the troubled ocean of atmosphere
above u.s. very much as the mariner sounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

knew the truckman was safe.
The truckman took the barrel home and
carried it down into the cellar he didn
notice that one side of it was marked with
an A in triangle, and that under 1t was
IS. S.
It happened that he was busy delivering
goods late during the next five days. At
the end of that time he drove homeward
early. and said to himself:
Tonight me an the kids and the old
woman'll get our teet' into them apples.
you bet" But when he got home there was
only nasty mess of brick and mortar and
earth where the cellar had been.
About the time that the truckman OF
Babylon recovered his barrel from me
steamship pier, the three men net III the
Office in the skyscraper.
One was a Russian, and his picture was
IN more than one art gallery. BY Strah5e
coincidence all these art galleries happened
to be located in the police headquarters Ca
diff rent cities.
she IS going 10 work beautifully.
sure" said he. stroking his black peaIu
Dcmpously she Is the best enc as ever
made and she Is set to go off in Hi hours
from now That will be about In midsea.
and / guess that no one VIII ever near OF
the more
ond man He was an Italian. whose picture
IN the art galleries of Rome was markeo
anarchist" But you know most or them
that you have made don't work except at
the wrong time" He was A man plainly
OF a pessimistic temperament, as becomes
an anarchist.
We'll. let's hope that she will go off right
| this time" said the third, and he was
| fat man, plainly English IF she does.
| we'll clean the underwriters out of seventy
| thousand good dough. and that's pretty
| nice money for seventy cases or old IRON
scraps"
1T is little hard though. hey. on those
| people in that ship when she goes down or
| up, whichever it is, hey7' said the Russian.
.'Pahi" said the Italian. They are Eng
| hsh, and what Is a few like that2 They
| hunt us down and try even TO hang US.
| WE'LL Let them have their share of it.
| 1T seems to me that it's pretty bad tasee
| to talk about such things" said the tat
Englfshman with griinace. You'd better
| keep your gabby mouths shut up tight,
! even among ourselves You're not in any
| blamed idiot anarchist or nihiiist meeting
| now, where you can talk and talk and
blow. Just shut up. and stay shut up, Will
| your"
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recovery if falling On land, or as float If
descending upon water None of these types
have been definitely accepted by Prof
Moore as yet.
One of the interesting adJuncts of the
Mount Weather observatory viii be an in
stallation for the manufacture. by the cleo
trolytic process, of all hydrogen gas for the
use of the balloons. For some reason the
generation of balloon gas has ceased to be
an industry in this country, and this fact
has hindered the army's experiments with
it's great war balloon. bought some five
years ago in Germany Ii has even been
necessary for Prof. Moore 10 prod the man
ufacturers of India rubber, in order TO
secure a material that will retain its elias
ITCHY at the tremendously low temperatures
To which his balloons must be exposed at
the great attitudes anticipated.
X
At given hour each day of the year
one Of these balloons viii be sent up from
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In a Babylonian skyscraper, spoke In whis-
pers half In great fear and nalf in evil
10y of a tragedy which was then due in
longitude so, latitude II. or thereabout. in
the North Atlantic
At the very same moment of time, there
was a dull roar I'm the heart of Babylon $
tenement section. and the cellar wall of
the cheap flathouse In which there lived u
certain honest truckman OF Babylon burst
outward and brought thousand people
living within sound OF the explosion to The
spot.
And again at that same moment big
red giant OF "A freighter. rolling along at
twelve knots an hour, crossed the fatal
latitude and longitude and went on steadily.
with all on board quite ignorant of the
fact that they were topside up because of
an explosion in house in New York. 400
miles away.
Six days afterward the big steamship
made her British port.
In the handsome office In the skyscraner