davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08

OIoCiOh u ~ LACdSu, IAuolCldlI, Ad-
Dor Council; P. W. Myers, machinist,
Labor Council; j. F. Leonard, cleo
trician, Labor Council; J. Williams,
master plumber;~J. J. Henry, steam
filter, Labor Council; John Nc
Cracker, department store clerk;
Charles L. Berry, printing pressman,
Allied Printing Trades; Charles Har-
court, blacksmith, Labor Council. All
have accepted, or will do SO.
Mayor Schmitz made the following
comment on the municipal situation:
~ am exceedingly sorry to see this
Supervisorial tangle, for it is likely
to cause a deal Of litigation for the
city and county Of San Francisco
for years to come. My own course
is clear. Acting upon the advice of
my attorney, which | believe to be
absolutely legal, hold that l, as
mayor of San Francisco, have the
sole power Of appointment to vacan-
cies in municipal Offices, and that the
appointive acts of Mr.. Edwin B.
Taylor are void and incapable Of
legal support. "
Schmitz complained that his pri-
vate mail is b5ing opened by Mayor
Taylor. He showed letters address
ed to "Hon. Eugene E. Schmitz,
San Francisco. Personal" which
had been slit open and marked in
indelible pencil, "Opened by Edward
B. Taylor"
''This is something that no man
will stand for," he said.
"I shall take it up Immediately
with the authorities at Washington
and press the complaint TO the limit
against Mr.. Taylor"
Coney Island Fire Swept.
A fire that wiped Steeplechase
Park practically out of existence and
destroyed 200 buildings, with a loss
Of 81, 100000; that sent 1000 per-
sons, screaming and panic-stricken,
into the streets homeless and penni-
less; that for time threatened the
life of the entire amusement city,
swept through Coney Island Sunday
morning between the hours Of and
6 o'clock. The origin of the fire is
: ascribed to a smouldering cigarette
in barrel of waste paper stored for
The night beneath the Cave of the
Winds in Steeplechase Park. Coney
Island has been singularly unfortu-
nate in the matter Of confagrations.
In the last thirteen years the amuse-
ment city has suffered ten fires with
a total loss of $4,OOO,O0O.
To Protect Bondholders.
Alarmed by notice by the new man
agement of the Central Railway of
Georgia that no interest will be paid
to the holders Of income-bearing
bonds on the second Monday in Au-
gust, when the next instalment of in
terest is due, but that the income will
be used to improve the road, a bill
oiUiuor tba honJLo IL o,.e H. -.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08
PAGE FIVE

were Capt. John Shelton and a posse
of armed men, overhauled Reed about
9 o'clock. The negro jumped over
board and tried to escape by swim
ming, but he was finally captured.
AS the boat bearing the negro ap-
preached the wharf crowd gathered
rapidly. There were angry exclama-
tions and soon some one struck Reed
a blow with his fist that knocked the
negro senseless. Immediately those
In the crowd pounced upon the pros
trate negro and beat and kicked him
to death.
A rope was then tied to the BODY
and it was dragged to the scene of
the shooting and hanged to a tele-
graph pole.
Mercury at 179 in Texas.
The most terrific heat visitation
ever known in Texas occurred Sun
day at M 'Gregor, continuing about
an hour and twenty minutes. The
thermometer registered 179 degrees
In the sun and III in the shade. An
area of three miles long and two
miles wide was affected. The heat
was accompanied by peculiar haze
which moved over the area affected.
Scores of people were overcome.
Horses, cattle, hogs and poultry drop
ped dead.
Negroes in Bloody Fight.
A dispute over thirteen cents at
a colored church camp at Seaford.
Del, resulted in five negroes being
mortally wounded and more than
twenty others shot and cut with ra-
zors. More than one hundred were
In the fight, and the blood which
flowed made a small pond.
Accuses King Leopold.
Major yLemair, who served eigh-
teen years in the Congo in command
of native troops, and on return to
Brussels, Belgium, was notified that
he would be prosecuted for cruelty.
is retaliating by publishing sensa-
tional exposure of revolving condi-
tions in the native army.
He asserts that the scientific expe-
dition he led in 1904 into the Barrel
ghaza region on the northern from
tier was an expedition for conquest
IN disguise, and that King Leopold
gave him personal orders to defeat
Anglo-Egyptian forces coming from
the Soudan at any cost. "I cannot
be held accountable for these acts, -
the major writes. "I only fully car
rled out orders. "
In the three years and two months
the expedition lasted he says he
caused native soldiers and even their
wives to be hogged. He penetrated
regions never before reached by a
white man, inhabited by wild tribes
and cannibals, and he says nothing
but fogging could preserve the dis
oi,N1;,o
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-08-08
Schmitz Still Appoints.


Eugene E. Schmitz, the convicted
mayor of San Francisco, made APP
pointments to fill the vacancies ere
ated by the forced resignation of
the members Of the Board of Super
visors, claiming the right of appoint
ment on the ground that he is the
lawful mayor. He says the appoint
ments Of Mayor Taylor, who was ap-
pointed to succeed him when he was
sentenced to prison for grating, are
void.
Schmitz's appointees are William
Cole, carpenter, Building Trades
Council; T. J. Tierney, cement work
er, Building Trades Council; Thonl-
as Maxwell, carpenter, Amalgam-
ated Carpenters; Henry Sheehan,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.o.O.O.o .O.O.O.o-o.o.o.o.O.O

country to Europe for safe keeping by
suspicious immigrants would stay
here in general circulation.
There are In round numbers $4,000
money order postoffices. with about
$4,000 others. The suggestion of the
chief of the department is that all
money order offices be made places of
deposit, with such other offices as may
be designated. according to the local
conditions. Practically everybody is
in touch with a money order postof1ice
The temptation to hand spare cash to
the postmaster would make savers out
of millions of persons who at present
never save solitary ducat. Thus, in
addition to transforming the useless
secret hoard into career of usefulness
in the channels of trade. the postal
savings system might transform mil
lions of impecunious persons into
thrifty citizens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
gENEEN SPENDS THE DAY
IN CARROLL COUNTY
Goes Back and Forth Many Times.
from Family Reunion to Meet
ings and Reception.

Savanna, H. Dec. 17.-Governor De
neen, who spoke in the opera house
yesterday, arrived in Carroll county
Sunday and, accompanied by Mrs De
neen, spent the day in Mount Carroll,
where a family reunion was held at
the home of his wife's father, j. 5.
MalCney.
In the evening the governor and
Mrs. Deneen returned TO Savanna and
remained at the home Of DIR. II. l..
Maloney, leaving in the morning at .
O'Clock for Lanark. where the governor
addressed large gathering. He then
went to Mount Carroll and spoke in
the afternoon, returning 10 Savanna
at 6 O'Clock. and addressed another
meeting in the opera house. \ num-
Der were turned away.
Although he had spoken at two
previous meetings, Governor Denceu
showed no fatigue. At the conclusion
of the address reception followed in
the opera house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17

ropean countries under the parcels post
carried at about onefourth the price
eXacted by the American express con-
Germs for the same weight and dis
lance. Consequently they have fought
this proposed innovation tooth and
toe NAIL With Thomas c. Plat. of New
York. president of the United States
Express company. in the national SEN
ate, the parcels post has had one in
veterate enemy in a high place for
many years.
The other opposing interest is one
which is stronger today than ever and
constantly growing still stronger. The
retail merchants of the smaller cities
and towns are dead set against the
parcels post. They are just as en-
thusiastic in opposition as are the big
city mail order houses In advocacy Of
it. The retailers hold that with pack
ages up to twelve pounds carried
through the mails at q nominal rate
the mail order people will greatly in
| jure the local retail trade. Already,
without a general parcels post, local
merchants have suffered greatly be-
cause of mail orders delivered by ex-
press. With the mails open both to
/ the order and to the delivery of the
goods and with rural delivery routes
being extended day by day, the mer-
chants in small towns fear that disas-
ter would overtake their business
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
large lot of extra fine
GnafnlnIu dIIu IUUuIdl.

When the president made several
changes in his cabinet last March he
called Ambassador Meyer to assume
the portfolio of postmaster general.
The Meyers, 1t was said by the social
exquisites at Washington, would make
most welcome additions to the society
of the national capital. Their wide
experience not only in Boston's Back
Bay district, but in the circles where
kings, queens and princelings move,
would lend distinction" to the cab
met circle, all of which has turned
out to be true. The Meyer ladies are
charming and popular. European court
experience is by no means to be sneez-
ed at In our democratic Washington,
for the families of foreign diplomats
may be inclined to prefer the near
European to the all American brand
of social etiquette.
As to the head of the Meyer house
hold, these stories of his wealth and
his family's social training were not
conducive to the qualification of his
reputation with the masses. In fact,
there appeared to be a set purpose on
the part of some Washington CORE
spondents to deny to Mr.. Meyer the
place of honor at the head of his de-
partment and to make Frank Hitch.
cock, the first assistant, postmaster
general by brevet. 1t was said that
| Hitchcock did the work and Meyer
drew the honors.
| Postmaster General Meyer now
seems TO have gained his bearings in
the postoffice department and to have
become the pilot of the ship. The To-
| cal postoffice Is the average citizens
most intimate bond of acquaintance
with the national government. To the
most of us proposed change, for bet
ter or for worse, in the postoff1ce de
partment is a matter Of personal in
| terest. Just how the innovations pro
posed by Mr.. Meyer of Beacon Hill
will suit the denizen of Hillside Cor
ners, should they be approved by con
gress, remains to be determined.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
TRACK SCALE CASE RESUMED
!. H. Wayne Brings Additional
Charues Against Road.

The cases being brought against the
c.. r. |. & p. Railway company by
Charles H. Wayne of Reynolds for
failure on the part of the company to
install track scales at Reynolds were
resumed in Justice G. Albert John
sons court yesterday afternoon, when
Judgment was entered against the
company for S100 for Dec. 6. 1906. One
charge will be taken up each day this
week excepting Saturday for additional
days on which the company did not
have scales installed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
BY ROBERTUS LOVE.

VERY civilized nation viii
~ sooner or later possess Il par.
H GELS post" wrote j. Henniker
Heaton, member of the Brit.
ish parliament, few years ago. Well,
the United States shows signs of be-
coming a civilized nation, according to
that standard. Postmaster General
George Won Lengerke Meyer in his an
nual report TO the president strongly
recommends the establishment of such
an institution. President Roosevelt in
his annual message to congress sec
onds the motion. But still stronger
recommendation made by Mr. Meyer
and seconded by Mr.. Roosevelt is that
a system of postal savings banks be
instituted. The new postmaster gen
eral, who was described in some quar-
ters when he took office last March as
"a society fOp." seems to be trying to
get things done. While the postal saw
ings bank system and the parcels post
are by no means new notions. no pre-
vious postmaster general has urged
them with such emphasis.
The recommendation for postal saw
ings banks comes in what might be
called the nick of time. The financial
stringency, otherwise the lack of cold
cash in circulation, is due in large
measure to the boarding of money by
persons who are afraid to trust 1t TO
the banks. Mr.. Bryans proposition to
have the national government guaran-
tee the safety of bank deposits as a
preventive of boarding is really
though perhaps uncOnsciously. reiter-
ated by Mr.. Meyer in his recommends.
ton that the people be permitted to
deposit their money in postoffices. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
Opposed by Powerful Interests.

But the postmaster generals recon-
mendation for an extension of the par
GELS post service is reasonably sure to
find itself confronted by a wall of op-
position built of re-enforced adamant.
That has been the experience of the
past. Postmaster Generals Villas,
Wanamaker and Bissell each urged
this extension. In each instance the
proposition ran up against a blank
wall in congressman fell down. There
are two widely different interests, each
powerful in its way. which oppose the
carrying of packages by the postal
service above the present maximum
weight of four pounds. The great ex
press companies constitute one inter
est. They are we'll aware that in Eu-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
PEANUT CHAMPION LOSES
Or. Allen Finishes Dietary Stunt, Then
Is Downed by Wrestler,

Chicago, Dec. 17.-Dr. T. J. Allen,
the Aurora dietary sage who has i'm
mortalized the peanut by making it
his sole food for two months, finished
his stunt before a crowd in his home
town last night Then he offered to
show the invigorating effects by out
wrestling any man in the house. Bull
Olson of Chicago took the doctor u.
and tossed him over the ropes into
the crowd.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
|eNoR4AIsf COST
I4fInois Farmers Slow to Adopt
Method of Keeping Record
Regarding Land.
MUCH WORK DONE AT A LOSS
Simple System Would Obviate Useless
Activities and Increase the
Profits.

One of the things that Illinois farm
ers know the least about in definite
terms is any carefully considered
method for determining the item of
cost in the production of any crop, yet
as in any other business, an accurate
knowledge of such cost is very neces-
sary to. economic production and safe
ty and success in the undertaking.
Joseph r. Fulkerson of Hazel Dell
stock farm, Jerseyville, ILL.,, has figur-
ed out for three different years the
cost of producing an acre of corn, and
he told about it as follows in address
ing the Grout farm encampmeE, near
Winchester:
1t is not always the man who knows
the most who makes the greatest sue
cess, but the man who thinks. 1t is
necessary to read and as rule the
one who reads the most thinks the
most. The day of haphazard farming
by plenty of Drawn and no brains has
gone by. No two farms are exactly
alike. Every farm is a separate and
distinct problem to be worked out by
itself. So much depends upon the
man.
Knew Every Item of Cost.
A man said the other day, Lumber
| is high but a lumber dealer replied
that lumber had been too low and now
simply had advanced along with pork
corn and wheat. He was able to tell
to penny the cost of the timber, the
labor. and the freight rates; what il
cost him to haul and skid the logs, tc
put them over the saw, to stack an(
load the lumber, and to deliver it to
the market, and what per cent of culls
had to be reconed upon. That was {
man who thinks. He Anew exactly
lwhat it costs to produce the lumber he
was selling.
l wonder if boy here knows wha
lit cost per acre for seed corn las
Iyear; what it cost to pillow the ground
to work it down, to cultivate it, ant
what, from a previous record. will bt
the probable cost to husk and delive
this corn. 1t is necessary that the
farmer keep accounts and know tn,
|cost of production, that he may be abb
to figure out methods of cheaper pro
lduction. The man who finds that thert
lis mo money in farming" and say
Tim going to quit doesn't think, D
he doesn't keep accounts.
Finding the Cost Per Day.
i We will first study what man ant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
Will Visit Fleet,

New York. Dec. IA Berlin dis
patch says the German cruiser Bre-
man. which is stationed in American
waters, has been ordered to visit the
American battleship feet i'll some
South American port as a mark of
courtesy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
New York cabbies Strike.

New York, Dec. 17.-One thousand
cab drivers struck today to enforce a
demand for, increase in wages and
shorter hours. The firms affected
supply cabs for many of the leading
hotels. the patrons of which were
greatly inconvenienced by the strike
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
GkRST OUT FOR GOVERNOR
First to Enter the Field in Republican
Campaign in Iowa.

Des Moines, Dec. I.-Lieutenaut
Governor Warren Garst of Carroll
county has announced his candidacy
for the republican nomination for gov
eTnor al the primary election TO be
held June 2. 1903. He is the first as
pirant TO enter the field and repre-
sents the progressive or Cummins
faction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
G. q. SIS Market Value.

( George Bernard Shaw, writing In the
London New Age, says: Milton took
f5 for Paradise Lost because he could
not get any more. 1 should ask $4,000
for the same quantity of pen and ink
work Because l need not take any
less"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17

anniversary of the birth of John Green
leaf Whittier today was marked by
commemorative observances III many
schools and literary societies in many
sections of the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
MYSTIC WORKERS ELECT
Choose Officers of the Lodge for the
COMING Year.

Cunning car.
Rock Island lodge. No. 80. Mystic
Workers of the World, last evening
elected the following officers for the
coming year:
Prefect-JOseph Grotegut.
Monitor-Mrs. +. Cox.
Secretary-Lillian Davis.
Banker-Mrs. +. Butler
Marshal-Mrs. NJ. Beck.
Warden-MTs. +. Green.
Sentinel-Mrs. c. O'Neil.
Supervisor, three years-Mrs. E.
Borell.
Pianist-ROse Cramer
Physicians E. NJ. Sala. F. ID.
Paul. e. Bradford, Joseph DeSilva and
Hada Burkhart.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
Founder of Phi Delta Theta Dead.

Mt. Vernon. Ohio, Dec. 11.-Profes-
sor John F. Lindley. founder of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the
University of Missouri in 1S4S, died
of pneumonia today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17

iesfre to be able to send or receive
Through the mails at a nominal rate
such parcels as they now are COM
PEELED to send by express at an ex-
orbitant fee. The merchants do not
love the express companies, nor do the
common people adore the mail order
magnates. But this peculiar situation
makes strange bedfellows.
There Is one recommendation in the
postmaster generals report which all
of us. particularly in the cities, will
approve. Mr.. Meyer suggests that slot
machines be installed at points of pub
lie access for the automatic selling of
stamps and postal cards. Anybody
can appreciate the advantage of stamp
slots who has wanted a postage stamp
and wanted it badly, but, being miles
from the pOstoffice, has been compelled
to brave the scornful drug clerk lion
In his den and timidly> request that he
sell two cent stamp at the govern
ment price.
Postmaster General Meyer, whose
recommendations have set people to
thinking and talking, is a unique fig
ure in the cabinet. He was born on
Beacon Hill, Boston, in 1858, with
whole set of golden spoons in his
mouth. Ever since then he has been
adding to his family plate-in other
words. getting richer. He is one of the
wealthiest men who ever sat at the
cabinet table, though great wealth is
not new to the presidents department
tai advisory group. There was Wanna
maker. President Harrison's postmas-
ter general. and there was Whitney
President Clevelands first secretary of
the navy, to name two multimillion-
aire cabinet officers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
Excellent Presiding Officer.

Mr.. Meyer was graduated from Har-
ward in 1879, just year before TheO
dore Roosevelt received his diploma
from the same institution. Mr.. Meyer
went into business. With his family
backing and prestige. not forgetting
the accompanying cash, his way was
easy. AS a merchant and as managing
director in dozen big concerns Mr..
Meyer pursued a fowery path. He
married q charming woman, Miss
Alice Appleton. was a brilliant figure
in Boston society and might easily
have become a Newport exquisite"
giving monkey dinners and cutting
other monkey shines, but he didn't.
He was different. Early in his TWEEN
ties he got himself elected Boston
alderman. Then he was called higher
and became a member of the Massa-
chusetts legislature for several terms.
In 1894 the young legislator was elect
ed speaker of the house. He made an
excellent record as a presiding officer.
1t is said of him that he expedited
business with unusual ability and tact.
After his long service in city and
state legislative bodies Mr.. Meyer was
selected by President Mckinley in
1900 to go to Italy as ambassador His
wealth and his wide experience in So
cial functions among the upper ten
rendered him uncommonly fit to hold
his own and maintain Uncle Sans
dignity in the company of kings and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17

will not work. 1t took me three years
to figure out the cost of horses
work. | found that the average price
Of farm horses was S125. and figured
that they were good for 10 years
work, and worth $50 when Is years
old. You know what corn, oats and
hay you feed the horses. | gave them
the usual amount of hay and then
took it out of the managers and
weighed it. A certain amount must
be counted for the horses feed in the
stalk-feld or pasture. In Massachu-
sets or Pennsylvania the cost of the
horse is figured at. 40 to 80 cents a
day. Here the horse costs about one
half that, as horses, feed and pasture
are cheaper. The horse includes the
use of the harness and the repair
bills. | found that it cast % cents 1t
day to keep a horse. and figured the
man at $1,35-s1.S0 per day for man
and team. That is the cost to us. 1t
may cost more or less upon other
farms and under other conditions. 1t
lis almost impossible to get the exact
cost but if We make an effort to do SO
we will soon come great deal nearer
to it than by guessing.
/ By running over the work book at
the end of the season.. we can easily
| get the number of days spent IN work
| ing each field, and with the price per
man and per horse, can figure the
cost of the crop grown in that field.
There is certain labor on the farm
which must be charged to the place
as general expense and not per acre
to any crop; for instance, a 49-acre
field of corn may have four sides
fenced; this fence is not for the bene.
| fit of the corn, but for the purpose of
keeping live stock, and it should be
charged to the live stock. We found
it was more expensive to rake and
burn stalks than it was to disk the
land.
| Cost of Producing Acre of Corn.
We have found by careful figuring
of every item, the average cost fol
three years of growing an acre of corn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-17
Peculiar Situation.

Here We have pretty fight. On one
side are ranged the big carrying cor
porations and the multitude of small
merchants, while on the other side are
the mail order folks and that vaster
multitude of individuals who naturally