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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
The Harvest Maids.

-Four society girls of WallawalIa,
Wash, are helping their father harvest
his wheat.-Press Dispatch.1
You can talk about your bridge whist
girls
And those who love pink teas.
Or the girls who drive their motor boats
Right through the foaming seas,
But give to me the western maids,
Pure grit from head to feet,
Who sally forth in summer time
To help dad harvest wheat.
Oh, the girls of Wallawalla.
Who wouldn't follow, follow,
When they don the jeans and Jumpers
and start out to work, b'goshl
The boys flock from the city
To view these girls so pretty
When they wallow in the whipping wheat
at Wallawalla, Wash.
They cannot drive the horses straight,
And they fear to swing the scythe,
But they look well in the scenery,
And they carol songlets blithe.
They're advertised from east to west,
And they've every chance to wed,
For DER such pretty harvest maids
Mere man will lose his head.
Oh, the girls of Wallawalla
Their hearts are hollow, hollow.
II they do not wed some fellow who is
too lovesick to JOSH
The fence is lined with suitors-
All enthusiastic rooters
For each goddess of the harvest fields at
Wallawalla, Wash.
Denver Republican.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
A Lighthouse For the Plains.

For the first time perhaps in its his
tory, Pixies Peak was transformed a
few nights ago into a lighthouse of the
plains. and practically every night dur
ing the remainder of the season the
dazzling rays from the 100000 candle
power searchlight will pierce the hori-
zon with bars of light. says the Colo
RADIO Springs Telegraph. Owing to the
fact that the machinery is not yet
properly adjusted. the fun current was
not turned Oh the first night, but when
it is turned on the rays may easily be
seen in Denver and Pueblo. the. Cripple
Greek district and as far east as the
Kansas line. The searchlight produces
some weird and wonderful effects when
the white light plays like sheets Of
summer lightning upon banks of cum
ulous clouds. and occasionally bursts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
HENDRICK HUDSON QUEEN or RIVER

Irc CratC5 ~ has II feet inches
depth Cf hold Tho"e are six decks, tho
hull is of steel ana every part Of tho
boat H. Suffered and held rigid by steel
framework.
There are observation rooms both at
the bow and stern. q woman's lounge,
a barber shop and smoking room for
the men, dark room for the use Of
amateur photographers, an emergency
hospital with a surgeon in attendance
and several other decided innovations
ia river steamboating.
In finish and in interior decoration
the Hendricl1 Hudson stands alone in
the artistic treatment of the various
saloons. Mural paintings by well known
artists are set in the walls and the
Japanese bronze fountain in the main
saloon brought TO this country for tho
new boat is n beautiful specimen OF
eastern art.
For the instruction and edification OF
the passengers the engine room is In
closed in glass and the paddle wheel
boxes have glass panes at the top from
which on the inside the great wheels
can be seen turning.
The dining room is surrounded al
most entirely by plate glass, making
the room appear like a glass inclosed
veranda. There are sixty large win
dows. each OF which can be raised or
lowered to suit wind and weather. The
views from every part Of the dining
room, which contains sixty tables and
will seat 252 persons, are unObstructed
on all sides.
The main saloon, on the second deck,
is one of the most beautiful apartments
ever built on steamboat The series
of day parlors on this deck is a feature
that will appeal to those who desire
privacy and yet wish to view the
scenery.
The Hudson is rs remarkable under
water as above. While she towers five
high stories above the water and over
shadows the Grand Republic and tho
New York, she goes down only seven
and one-half feet into the wNer. Her
great height is the result OF new
methods In construction. for the Hem
drick Hudson is n skyscraper steamer.
Built with steel framing, she is With
out the hogbacks of other days. Her
engine. CT three cylinders, direct con-
nected to the side wheels, is a similar
novelty, for no walking beam mars
the "sky line or the new boat. The
Hudson marks an epoch in the Hud-
sons history. even as did the coming
of the first Hudson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

eign consuls have their residence near
the port.
A close comparison has been drawn
between Valparaiso and San Francis
co. Both have Golden Gates, but from
the sea Valparaiso is the more invit-
ing. Behind San Francisco the hills
rise brown and bleak, while behind
Valparaiso they rise in brilliant green.
Entering Valparaiso bay the city
streets appear In rows like the lines
of seats in a theater. The city actually
is built on twenty hills, and so steep
is the land in places that public ele-
vators have been installed.
Some Other Big Earthquakes.
The total number of earthquakes or
which historic record has been kept
reaches the enormous figure of 131 ,29S,
although the records were very incom-
plete until recent years. Data con-
corning all shocks, even the insig-
nificant earth disturbances, are now
being preserved however, by scientific
societies in all civilized countries of the
world and accurate observations being
taken for the use of future students of
the earthquake subject.
Earthquakes have been one of the
most terrible enemies of man in all
times, and the number of persons killed
by quakeS reaches an appalling figure,
says the Chicago Record Herald No
human foresight, no human science or
learning can guard against or fOretell
an earthquake. and by reason of the
very powerlcssness of man against this
tremendous natural disturbance the
earthquake takes rank with the most
frightful forms of calamity
By the use of the most delicate in
struments the least tremor of the earth
is now recorded, and the modern instru-
ments now used show that quakes are
of surprising frequency. The Japanese
Seismological society, for instance, re
cords almost thousand earthquakes
annually. OF course these quakes are
for the most part so slight as to be I'M
noticeable except through the extreme
" delicate scientific instruments, but
the fact remains that in the realms Of
the mikado alone the earth'S surface is
disturbed by quakeS almost three times
day. year IN and year out. In other
portions of the world in the earthquake
zone minor tremors of the earth are
proportionately frequent.
Earthquakes vary greatly in nature.
duration and character. The number
of shocks in a quake and the length of
the time interval between them varies
between wide limits. The cities of Ca
racaS, in 1872, and Lisbon. in 1876, were
destroyed in few minutes apiece
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

I slight shocks in the night of March 80
| in the Raucagua district. Prolonged
and severe shocks were felt in Val
| dina in April. africa was shaken on
| May Z, dispatch from Valparaiso say
ing that much damage had been done.
| The British steamship Guatemala,
| lying at anchor in the harbor of africa,
was violently shaken and her anchor
cable was snapped. On May 30 sub
| terranean disturbance threw a tidal
wave along the Valparaiso shore line,
but little damage was done. This was
| followed in q few hours by a fearful
gale, in which the Chilean bark Anto-
fogasta was hurled against pier and
| smashed to pieces in five minutes. The
Valparaiso harbor has been swept so
often by destructive gales that a
project to make it absolutely safe is
now under way. A breakwater, at
cost of $12,000,000, is being construct.
ed. The contract was let only about
month ago.
Near Cause of War.
Valparaiso became an object OF
great interest to Americans in October,
1891, when the incident occurred there
which almost plunged the United
States and Chile into war. Some of
the populace attacked sailors from the
United States cruiser Baltimore, kill
ing two of the American bluejackets.
The diplomatic exchanges led to Pres
ident Harrison sending a message, on
Jan. %, 1892, to congress i'll which he
set forth that 1.-The communications of
the Chilean government have not at
any time taken the form of q manly
and satisfactory expression of regret,
much less of an apology" A United
States squadron was being fitted out
on the Pacific coast when finally Chile
made complete apology, and the incl
dent closed.
Ships from all parts of the world
trade with Valparaiso, which is the
terminus of important lines of steam
ers from Europe by way of the Strait
of Magellan. The city is also the CEN
ter of the South American coasting
services. There is great custom
house wharf, alongside of which large
steamers can moor. but most Of the
freight is handled from lighters.
The harbor IS defended by modern
batteries The first defense works
We're erected in 1866, after a Spanish
fleet caused great destruction by a
heavy bombardment. The forts mount
40 guns. most of them from Germany
and England. Valparaiso is the favor
lite spot on the South American coast
for foreign warshiDs. Most Of the for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
CANES FOR FAIR SEX.
Several New York Women As1Opf
Fashion of Carrying Sticks.

Several New York Women As1ODf
Fashion of Carrying Sticks.
In a jewelry store in Columbus ave
nue., New York. this advertisement Is
shown in display type half a foot long:
Ladies' canes, 30 cents to SIS
do many women carry themT re-
peated the dealer when questioned
about the fad by reporter of the New
York Sun. Yes, a good many. The
fashion has not taken such a hold upon
the women here as was expected, but a
few New York women who wish to be
thought strictly up to date are begin
ming to adopt it. The cane habit Is
ton.
81 don't believe that 1t originated in
vanity or a desire for notoriety To my
mind it is the outcome of principle of
human nature. 1t is impossible to eX-
perience Il more distressing, one sided
feeling than to go along the street with
nothing in the hands.
''There are many times when one
doesn't want to carry an umbrella, the
folly of carrying a pocketbook in the
hand on all occasions has frequently
been pointed out, newspaper becomes
soiled and shabby, while neither let
ter nor a handkerchief gives feeling
of security as though properly bal
anced. And right there the utility of
the cane becomes apparent, for what
else is so appropriate"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
CAMP FOR CLERKS BY EMPLOYER

wild Sunday night ride on = lake boat
which adds the finishing touch to a
fortnight of sleeplessness. idiocy and
hilarity. Then they try TO sleep it off
during working hours. Even if they
have the will to work they can't get
back into shape for days
Its not only the physical but the
moral effect of these Willie boy va
cations against which l file a protest
a young fellow of steady going nature
often loses this quality after contact
with the fiighty, overdressed youths
whose fathers are paying their board
bills. / never allowed my son to start
that way. That artificial, near coun-
the gilddus kiddus shines, and the
working youth is apt to be awed by
his clothes, his chatter. his extrava-
CANT habits and his attraction for the
summer girl. He's n mighty poor
model TO set up before a young man
with his future in his own hands.
IF the chap on vacation succeeds in
equaling his model, he meets another
evil in female adulation. Hero wor-
ship by the women and girls at sum-
mer resorts Is settled state of affairs
Two weeks of that sort of thing ought
to make even the most level headed
young fellow useless for honest labor.
Yes; l have placed high hopes on
the results Of my experiment in ship
ping the boys to the deep woods. far
from girlish giggles and necktie safety
DinS"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

the busiest thoroughfares giving I'm
mediate relief to horses and other ami
mails needing assistance, says a cable
to the New York Sun. She applies
salves to sores, binds injured limbs and
renders first aid when horses are over
come by heat or hurt by fall. One
day recently she treated thirteen horses
and two dogs. The drivers We're at
first suspicious and antagonistic, and
the woman bears mark on her fore
head from stone thrown by a drunk en-
cabman. She is gradually overcoming
all opposition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

After a lapse of 800 years the valley
of the great North river gave welcome
recently to Il second Hendrick Hudson;
gave different welcome TO far, far
different Hendrick Hudson from that
ga turnine adventurer who for Dutch
gold dared the upper Businesses of the
stream in n rowboat. The new Hen
drck Hudson. six stories tall and 400
feet long. is n giant of Il river steamer
the biggest and finest of daylight
steamers afioat-and the reception that
was hers from Il downtown pier in Man
haitian TO railroad wharf in Albany
the Day Line route-was properly that
of a new queen of the river.
1t was almost twenty years since
such a triumphal progress had stirred
the Hudson's banks; not since the New
York made her first trip in 1887 had
the folk of the river towns had such OPP
portunity to cheer Il steamer whose
christening robe was still white, says
the New York Press. Other fine new
boats had sought the plaudits of the
valley people, but all had unfortunate
" passed in the night. The coming of
the Hendrick Hudson. Il daylight event.
was made a sort of holiday from
Spuyten Duyvil to Albany. For eight
hours the big boat passed banks lined
with cheering folk. Yonkers had thou
sands of its folk waving welcome to
the new liner. Haverstraw and Nyack
We're fringed by crowds that made u
sort of Fourth of July effect. New
burg turned out practically all Of its
populace, Fishkill did the same on the
other side, Poughkeepsie dropped work
to see the big boat land, Kingston
crowded down to the Catskill railroad
wharf, and Albany was stirred into
building bonfres, waving torches and
firing skyrockets.
New York's welcome was in the ma
ture of a nautical celebration, for the
footing of steam never ceased from
Desbrosses street to One Hundred and
Twenty ninth street. The Hendrick
Hudson was ushered into the sister
hood of the river with a noise that be-
gan in the diapason of a liners below
off Greenwich village and came to a
brief halt in splutter of steam from n
tiny ice tug far up the river. TO each
and all, steamboat, locomotive, saw
mill and launch, the Hendrick Hudson
answered courteously with three deep
whistles.
The enthusiasm that lined even the
vineyarded banks Of the Hudson's
Rhineland with cheering throngs was
deserved. The Hendrick Hudson is an
ocean liner river boat-that is, she is
as much like an up to date ocean liner
he fnn fc
inside with the good taste and the lux
ury of the newer Atlantic greyhounds,
and she carries more passengers than
any of these boats.
With accommodations for 5000 pas
sengers and carrying no freight all the
space on the Hendrick Hudson is given
over to. their use and comfort The YES
sci is 400 feet long, 50 feet broad over
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
SCHOOL FOR INFANTS.
Chicago Woman Opens Institution
For TwO-ycar-Olds.

Chicago Woman Opens Institution
For TwO-year-Olds.
Miss Helen Todd of the Henry Booth
House recently returned from Europe
to open a maternity school, at the
settlement. says the Chicago Post.
Miss Todd said that the new enter
prise is made necessary by the fact
that the child of two or three years is
showed to one side when the new baby
comes to the tenement. The two-year-
old is neglected in a physical way. and
it becomes stupid and sullen. For its
benefit Miss Todd has opened the ma
ternity school, which is u large, sunny
room, well equipped with toys of all
kinds, where children between the
ages of two and five are cared for from
early in the morning until late at night
In France, Italy and Germany such
schools have been maintained and have
proved very successful
Miss Todd spent much of her time
while abroad in investigating social
conditions and settlements and was
much impressed with the maternity
schools
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

In the final week of summer vaca-
tons for Chicago workers local man
ufacturer and employer proposes to in
troduce an innovation in the matter of
vacation granting, says the Chicago
News. He plans to induce his young
men clerks TO pass up" the summer
hotel during their fortnight of pleasure
and to devote themselves to roughing
it in camp life. He declares that the
sporty life at the typical resort I'M
fits men for strenuous work when they
return and that outdoor living and Wig
orous exercise would have an opposite
effect
THE regulation summer hotel or re-
sort cottage life is ruinous TO young
men," was the statement recently
made by the man whose huge Chin
neys strain the spirit OF the smoke or
dinance. My young men clerks, as
likely a bunch of chaps as can be gath
cred anywhere, are addicted to the
annual habit. They return to work at
the end OF their two weeks with an
Indifference to the firms welfare that
Jostles my nerves.
Tie cogs in the Office machine that
ran faultlessly through the winter and
spring suddenly become in need of oil
in the shape Of harsh call downs. Let
ter files get out of whack, card in
dex systems go wrong, and the com
plant desk man gets lines under his
eyes. The blame 1 place on the sum-
mer hotel system.
LAS a matter of saving dollars and
cents 1 contemplate starting Il sort of
miniature summer resort bureau,
through which / hope to encourage my
young men TO get out into the wilder
ness just as I do. I'd like to see them
hacking kindling for a campfire and
tramping with heavy packs through
regions which the foot of the steam
roller never has penetrated. As n
matter of inducement 1 may hold out
half rate railway fares and loans from
my personal stock of fishing tackle
and camp equipment.
''Over at the factory the men, with
few exceptions. pass their vacations in
this way. Some of them attend the
encampments of the local national
guard regiments, as does one of my
OhCc Heh- III NASli tSi III VI SOluIeilhS
they get weeks vacation at prac-
tically no cost, and the discipline and
exercise are valuable to both them and
me. But the Office men, as a rule, flock
to the dancing pavil:ons rHd the sum-
mer hotel porches. I'm gig to wean
them away from it.
when the young fellows return
from the usual sort of vacation they
imagine this latest time Of their lives
has done them good The oriental
complexion from finger tips to elbow
and forehead to necktie line they take
to be an indication of a section hand
state of health, but they overlook the
plainly apparent loss Of useful weight.
Lots of times they show up blinking
and gaspipg Monday morning after a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

or Il SIN. II II is 4 G.sease the victim
is an object for compassion. and the
cure lies atsthe door of the physician.
If it is Il sin the transgreSsOr is 4 sub
ject for reproof and punishment, and
the duty of his moral regeneration is in
the hands of the clergy. If intemper-
apce is both a disease and n sin the
legislators share with the physicians
and the clergy the task of healing and
controlling it,
Again. which is the true place for
the habitual drunkard, the hospital,
reformatory or the prison? On the an
swer to that question the welfare of a
vast proportion of the human family
seems to depend
The authors conclusion is that
neither the law, the church nor medical
science has yet been able to answer
the question.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01
RatIroad Has Many Bridges.

\ railroad with IDS bridges has just
been opened in Austria by the Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand. The reason for
the multiplicity OF bridges is the
mountainous country through which
the railroad runs. 1t connects Trlest
with Assing, passing through the Tyrol.
1t is the first section OF n new railroad
which is to connect southern Germany
with Triest, passing over the Alps.
Besides the 72S bridges there are forty
seven tunnels on this wonderful road.
The bridge over the IsonZo river. one
of the forty-nine largest bridges. has
4 span Of 30 feet and is the biggest
stone arche1 railroad bridge in the
world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-09-01

der .Almagron, Spanish voyager and
soldier of fortune, sailed into the cres-
cent bay where the city afterward
stood in the wear 1882. He was struck
by the beauty of the spot and imme-
diately ehristened this new bay on the
little explored western coast by the
name that 1t has borne through much
tribulation since. Pedro de NaldlVla
visited the place in 1913 and formally
affirmed the choice of the name given
the then struggling colony by Its roster
father. Don Luis de Ayala. one of the
early governors of New Spain, made
the settlement Il municipality under
royal charter in 1901 after 1t had been
sorely tried by many years OF misfor-
tune.
In 1878 Sir Francis Drake sailed into
the harbor of Valparaiso and lombard
ed the town. afterward sacking it of
its treasure and putting many of Its
inhabitants to the sword. Sir John
Hawkins, gentleman slave trader ana
pirate, visited the Spanish settlement
later. and again the town was given up
First Shaken in 1870.
The year 1870 witnessed the hrst
great earthquake that shook Nalpa-
raise. Practically the whole town was
DESTROYED in this CONFUSION and only
after many years OF slow progress did
Ii recover. In 1922 q second earth
quake came to shake down what had
been rebuilt. In this catastrophe many
lost their lives. A great fire swept the
city in 1913. destroying S1,O00OOO
worth of property. Hardly had the
fortunes of the community begun to
mend when second fire licked up five
times as much wealth as had the first.
This was In 1853.
When the Spanish made the last
futile attempt to destroy the republic
of Chile in 1896 they sent fleet into
the harbor of Valparaiso and the town
was mercileSSly bombarded- What
with the damage wrought with the
shells and the fire that followed $1O,-
600. 900 was the loss counted up. The
last great disaster preceding the one
which the Chilean city has just suf-
fered came in 1883, when a large dam
back of the city burst and n portion
of the business district was washed
away with great loss Of life. The city
had at the last census a popula ton of
142, 900.
For more than six months there were
January there We're many shocks,
which created alarm in Valparaiso and
other coast cities. There were thirty