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outlaw 1t. "The Scarlet Shadow would H'ake a good fertilizer.

'Altars to Mammon,' by Elizabeth Nef.
 Fred A. Stokes company.
 In her new book Mrs Neff has taken for her theme the idea that we do not In our churches and outside of them show the dividing line in our worship be- tween God and Mammon. Her book at tempts to show that our churches are subsidized, that wicked men use the churches and other religious organizations simply to cloak their meanness. Mrs. Neff does not write in any declamatory spirit, she simply attempts to show the life described as she sees it. then leaves
 her impressions for us to accept or not. The story itself, with love theme running along with it is very simple. It only tells of young minister who was sent to take charge of his first church right out of the seminary. The young minister goes ato his new charge full of great hopes to do great good and so soon as he begins his work, as the book says, he finds the best, the most truly relig- ous people outside of the church and the Pecksniffian wicked ones in it. In this special church was a rich man who had lby crushing an honest inventor gotten very rich. Now was the rich man busy giving money to churches, say Tn this , case s30000, if the church would raise the same amount. Of course this rich man has a beautiful daughter; '-that Is
 
 stays. When the young minister dscov- CTS what a disgusting old wretch the rich father of his sweetheart was, he refuses to be a party to accepting his tainted money" with the result that the minister has to find another sphere of usefulness Of course, the lovers after wards get together. Mrs. Neff could not have found a publisher without the much silly "happy ending" to her story. Side lights on the saloon question, it's ef- feet on men, women and children are shown and the book stating plain facts as it does without any preaching" to it at all--will give pleasure and profit in the reading Some of the charges against churches are rather hard, but like ev- erything good in this world, there is bound to be something bad, so Mrs. Neffs s plain statements are not unpleasant, for in them we can find basis of hope for the future. The book is light and we'll written and no doubt will be greatly dis cussed. It ought to be, for some of the things stated therein as facts, if true, should be changed or at least an attempt made at it anyway.
 "rhe Wife of Narcissus," by Amulet An drews Moffatt. Yard & Co.
 Amulet Andrews, who is Mrs. Joseph K Chl, formerly of Atlanta. has written ; story that has given the Now York Times something of pain The Times says that ''The Wife of Narcissus" is an 'impos- sible book and in the same issue of 1coS reviews goes on to recommend an- otEer book as one that could not be pos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05

money, buys a ranch and puts the Orphan in charge of it and the latter of course makes good and wins and marries tEe lovely Helen. Around this plot there is laid a splendid story. The description of the fight when the Orphan saved inc stage coach in which was Helen is very fine. The western types shown are very good. Those men in this book talk ;L great deal more than we are accustomed to believing by experience that they do in real life on the western desert. It is not an unusual thing to see 10 or 15 cowboys come into camp or ranch house after long day in the saddle. eat their supper sit and smoke around the fire and never open their mouths except to ask for to- bacco or a match. Yet most of the west ern stories are filled with long -winded conversations from cowmen. Great open places like high mountains and deserts create a severe economy of speech. But with all that MT. Mulford has written a first-class story and one that it IS a pleasure to speak a good word for here with.
 "The Scarlet Shadow" by Walter Hurt
 The Appeal to Reason
 '',rhe Scarlet Shadow Is a book sent out by the publishers with the empha sized recommendation that it is just the
  paper wrapper to the book shows a red scaffold with a hanging moose, on q black background. It is the last book on earth that one should select for any one unless he cared to make that person angry And the stuff in the book is eveh Xorse if possible. than the cover. It is written with the purpose to show tha. Haywood, Mover, Pettibone and others out in Colorado among the Western Fed eration of Miners never had a wicked thought That the miner operators killed 23 independent miners at the little sta tion of Independence, Col, in order to cast calumny on the Western Federation of Miners. Just like Senator Foraker says, the citizens of Brownsville, Tex. killed off some of themselves to cast re- rroach on the negro troops station there It is to laugh. There is no excuse what ever for "The Scarlet Shadow" It is not interesting. it is badly written; it is full of all kinds of bad things, and more than anything else are innumerable errors of fact The book has an Introduction by MT. Ralcy Husted Bell dated Paris, France. just as if he waited until he got safely out of this country before he would say a good word for the utterly worth less book "The Scarlet Shadow" should he taken out to beyond the three-mile limit on the Atlantic or Pacific ocean either one would do-and buried deep. Or q good hot stove would do as well if one could stand the bound to come foul smelling fumes and smoke With the talked of scarcity of good wood pulp thera surely should be some law to prevent its use for such putrid production as The Scarlet Shadow" Maybe there is, but no one will dignify fhe book sufficient to
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The Orphan, by Clarence E. Mulford.
 Outing Publishing Co.
 The Orphan is a first-class western story. The book stores shelves are full of the other kind. Most of the western stories are nothing but tales which might just as well be laid in New England. France or Italy. The only idea being to dress the men in the ordinary so-calied western story up in chapparals and som- breros and make him use profanity. Mir Mulford has no doubt lived out west and like Stewart Edward White. Franl, Spearman, M. M. Bower and only a few others knows what he is talking about The west has a great big area There are just as many kinds of west as there arc different portions of the south and north In this book, "The Orphan the author has described the Texas, northwestern part and New Mexico and Arizona, of say some 30 years ago. '"rhe Orphan" Is really an idealized picture of Billy the Kid that notorious criminal of whom nothing earth could be said to his credit. The Orphan" though is de- scribed before his falling in love and ref ormation as just such a man as Billy was. '"rhe Orphan" had no other name; ie went around, as it afterward proved, with Q purpose-killing people and cattle and raising sand generally. The sheriff went
 
 ing himself from the Apaches To save his own life the sheriff was compelled to join the Orphan in the fight. A hun dred or so, more or less. Apaches were killed and the Orphan and the sheriff hay ing fought bled and nearly died together, shake hands. The sheriff believes that there is lot of good in the Orphan if anybody would use diamond drill to locate it. Soon after this meeting the Or phan saves the lives of two sisters of the sheriff on a stage coach coming to visit the former at Ford's station. The young CT sister binds up the Orphans wounded brow. Do you see the ''answer?" It's there. for the Orphan fell in love with the sheriff's sister. Helen, and Helen was willing to say the least. The book IS filled with the Orphans eseapades; it is afterward shown that the Orphan had usually shot other men only in self-de- fense, so the sheriff, having lot of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
MORPHINE

and otber drug habits are positively cured by 41RITINA. For hypodermic internal use. sample sent to any q drug % ha9tgs sa,.,s by Free man, nnr drrreggist or bv mail fin plain wrapper
 Delta Che micns Co.,, St. Louis. Mo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05

starvation, no ex-
 erc!sing, no nau-
 seating drugs or
 sickening pills that
 ruin the stoIna ch. am 8 regular practictn ph ysici an uA irt fla uIiRQRaatul
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
AMERICANS CONSUME HALF THEIR
OWN WEIGHT IN SUGAR EACH YEAR

Washington, d. c., Dec. 21.-Figures
gathered oy the bureau of statistics
show that the average American con-
sumes half of his own weight in sugar
every year, and Uncle Sans sugar bill
averages, a million dollars day. The
consumption in the United States dur
ing 1907, the latest year for which
statistics are available, reacheds7,0S9,-
G67,975 pounds.
Calculating this total at the average
retail price of 1-2 cents per pound,
gives a,totaIof 1912, 100000 as the cost
to the consumer.
It is shown that 21.3 per cent or
1.5t1 .OO0, ,OGS pounds of the sugar con-
sumption of the country was of home
production; III per cent, or 1.254.0O0.-
poi,nds. was brought from the insular
possessions, and the remaining 81 per
cent, or A, ,367, 100000 pounds came from
foreign countries. ,Forty-three million
mounds was the aggregate of the expor.
fation of sugar from this country.
For 1907 the quantity of sugar i'm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
PULITZER ON WAY
TO SEE THE CANAL?
posed Trip to Proiosa Roosevelt
Fight.

Newport News, Va, Dec. 21.-Joseph
Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
World, accompanied by a party of
friends AMI several staff writers, ar
rived off OLD Point yesterday on Mr..
Pulitzer's yacht Liberty. It is stated
he is on his way to Panama to investi-
gate conditions prevailing in the canal
zone and probably to secure evidence
in connection with the purchase of the
canal property by the government.
1t is said, the publisher desires to
reach Panama about the time set for
the arrival there of President-elect
Taft
Mr.. Pulitzer's trip is of especial in
terest on account of the attitude of
President Roosevelt in demanding that
congress have him and other publish
ers prosecuted for criminal libel in
publishing articles attacking the ad-
ministration in connection with the
canal purchase
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21

ported from foreign countries was
larger than ever before. The quantity
brought from the island possessions
was larger than in any previous year.
The quantity produced at home ex-
ceeGed that of any other year, and the
quantity exported was larger than in
any year of the last decade. The per
capita of consumption was S2.6 pounds
for each man. woman and child.
{ The production of beet sugar for the
first time exceeded the production of
cane sugar, the figures being: Cane
sugar, 544, 100000 pounds; beet sugar,
967, 100000 pounds.
; The worlds product has practically
doubled in the last 90 years, having
grown to $4,000, 100000 pounds in 1907
While the United States consumed
about 1SAper cent of the total worlds
production of 1887, it consumer 20 per
cent of the greatly increased produc
'tion of 1907. Beets now supply one
half of the grand total produced, while
20 years ago they supplied but one
third.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
ALBANY, ILL.,, Man
IS BURNED TO DEATH
Lighting Fire with Kerosene when Ii
quid Explodes and lgnites
Clothing and Home.

Albany, ILL.,, Dec. 21.-(Special)-
Charles Meyers, aged 80, was fatally
burned at his home here this morning.
His wife and child escaped from the
house by jumping through a window.
Myers attempted to light a fire in the
kitchen stove, using kerosene to do
so. A live coal caused the liquid to
explode, igniting his clothing and set
ting fire to the house Mrs. Meyers,
who was in the bedroom adjoining,
seized their child and leaped through
the windo VITO safety. The husband
fought his way out through the flames
and then collapsed. His clothing was
burned from his body and he died in
agony two hours later. The house was
destroyed. Mr.. Meyers was clerk OF
the village trustees and held in high
esteem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
Andrew Carnegie, Before
Ways and Means, Ridi-
cuIes Gary.
NO NEED OF TARIFF NOW
Also Says Iron Ore Supply in
America Will be Exhausted
in 40 Years.

Washington, Dec 21-Andrew Car
negie, whose published views on the
tariff question caused considerable
comment, took the stand before the
house ways and means committee to.
day
Carnegie testified in support of state
ments he made in his magazine article
declaring persistenly the facts show
the steel industry needs no protection.
Proves Most Interesting.
AS witness, Carnegie proved the
most interesting who has appeared be-
fore the committee, interspersing his
testimony with humorous epigrammatic
remarks and praising the genius of
Charles M. Schwab. Carnegie suggest
ed congress should extend a vote of
thanks to Schwab for his work in i'm
proving methods of steel making in
this country.
POkes Fun at Gary.
Speaking of the testimony of Judge
Gary before the committee, Carnegie
said: You should not place any real
value on the testimony of interested
parties. Gary said the United States
| Steel corporation could stand for re-
duction in the tariff on steel, but that
| the smaller steel manufacturers could
not survive with lowered duties That's
like one of Aesop's fables. Gary is
like the monkey who desired chest
nuts. but-wanted, the cat to pull them
out of the fire.
supply Gone I'm 40 Years.
Carnegie asserted at the rate which
iron ores are being extracted the sup
ply would be exhausted in 40 years.
He based the statement on the best
expert opinion he could obtain and
also said England would be in the
same condition in seven years.
He said the statement by Judge Gary
that the duty on steel could be taken
off as far as the steel corporation Is
concerned should be accepted by the
committee as true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
PROGRAM FOR DAY
Committee Completes Arrangements
for Knights Of Columbus
Adoption Sunday.
DES MONIES MAN SPEAKER
Jerry B. Sullivan to Give Address at
Banquet in Evening-About 81
Candidates Ready.

The committee OH arrangements for
the class adoption which the knights
of Columbus are to hold on Dec 81 has
completed program for the day. In
the morning the candidates and the
members will meet at the K. of C. hall
and go in a body to ST. Joseph's
church to attend high mass services.
In the evening at o'clock banquet
will be served at the skating rink and
large number of members and their
friends will be present. AS the con-
fering of the first degree upon the
candidates will have been completed
before the date set for the adoption
the ceremonies of initiation into the
second and third degrees will be held
at the rink The first degrees was
conferred upon most of the Moline
candidates last evening and the same
will very likely be done for the Dav
enport candidates next Saturday even
ing. There are % candidates from
this city and counting. those from.Na
line and Davenport there will be about
81 to initiate at the general adoption
Dec. 27.
Jerry Sullivan Speaks.
The program at the rink following
the banquet will be presided over by
Grand Knight F. Nj. Burt, who will act
in the capacity as POSTMASTER. The
comforting of the degrees will be in
charge of State Deputy James MaheI
of Chicago. The program includes the
following:
Invocation-Rev. j. S. Kelley, Mo
line.
Remarks-Dean ]. J. Quinn, Rock
Island.
Song-W. S. Clancy, Davenport.
History We Have Made'-Jerry B
Sullivan, Des Moines
Quartet-The Misses Murphy of Mo
line.
Our Church,. J. Lamb, Daven
port.
"The Other Wise Man" w. A
Kannally. Sterling.
Song-A. A. Burt.
"The American Citizen" - James
Maher, Chicago.
Impressions of the Day"-H. L
Wheelan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
SOLDIERS ARMED TO Teeth
GUARD WITNESS IN COURT

his home in that city early yesterday
morning by sending a bullet through
his brain. His wife was visiting her
parents in Kansas City at the time.
Kelley's Office has been undergoing a
periodical check-up by the auditor for
the past week, but Union Pacific Off
cials yesterday declared that so far as
the auditor lad gone Kelley's accounts
were in perfect condition.
Kelley left letter to his wife which
indicated that overwork had perhaps
unbalanced lis mind. He was 2S years
old, and Superintendent Ware declared
he had no bad habits. Kelley was a
son of w. r. Kelley, former general
solicitor of the Union Pacific road
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
BURNED IN x-RAY EXPERIMENTS:
OHIO PROFESSORS BONES DECAY

Wooster, Ohio, Dec. 21.-Professor
William z. Bennett, 25 years in charge
of the department of chemistry at the
University of Wooster, has been taken
to a hospital in Cleveland in the hope
of saving his life. He is suffering
from disintegration of the breast bone
and others, it is feared, the result OF
injury while experimenting with the
X-rays eight years ago.
Although the distinguished scholar
has suffered much, the fact that h
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
BIGGEST COMPANY
WeYerhaeuser Interests in Largest
Lumber Concern in World.
Capital $40, 600, 600.
TAKES NAME FROM HINES
Controls 2,ooo, COO, 900 Feet of White
Pine in Rainy Lake Region
of Minnesota.

The biggest lumber comp1y I'm the
world was organized Saturday after
noon in Duluth. Through the eonsoli-
dation of the five largest lumber in
terests in the Rainy lake region OF
Minnesota and Canada, Edward Hines,
president of the Hines Lumber com
pany of Chicago, becomes the unques.
toned lumber king of the United
States.
Two billion feet of white pine are
involved in the transaction. The cap.
ital stock is $20,000,0 ,000, all paid up.
No other lumber company in the
United States or Canada has such ia.
cilities for marketing its finished prod
uct The whole Rainy lake region is
by the consolidation made easily ac
cessible to the principal markets, par
ticularly that of Chicago. The deal
embraces tht following:
Weyerhaeuser interests.
Cooke & O'Brien interests.
Edward Hines Lumber company.
Virginia Lumber company.
Seine River Lumber company oi
Canada.
Hines Chosen President.
Mr.. Hines was elected president
Other officers elected were:
w. w. O'Brien, vice president.
Fred E. Weyerhaeuser, treasurer.
Fl. P. Hornby, secretary.
1t is announced also that William
Mckenzie and D. d. Mann who contro
the Canadian Northern railroad are in
terested, though not officially, in the
consolidation.
The Hines avenues for marketing
finished lumber are conceded to be the
best in the United States. They reacf
all of the large cities i'm the middle
west and extend east and west to th'
coast. With plenty of lumber back o
Them the amount Of business they viii
be able to handle will be immense.
The other interests involved in thu
merger have heretofore been handi
capped to some extent by lack of mar
keting facilities. The consolidation viii
therefore be extremely profitable to al
parties concerned.
| The company has 20 vessels and f1v,
lumber mills, two at Duluth, two a
Virginia and one at st. Francis.
| The deal was predicted several day
Iago when it was announced that tn
Weyerhaeusers, Cooke & O'Brien an
Hines had reached a working agree
ment' under which their respectiv
/ lumber fields were to be worked t
mutual advantage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
STEEL TRUST WANTS THE
CHESTNUTS PULLED OUT

Haute, Ind. Later he bought the Elk.
press of Terre Haute, removing the
paper in 1878 to Chicago. In 1882 he
founded in Chicago, the American
Press association and from that time
until his death was its active head.
Major Smith was born on a farm
near Terre Haute, Ind, June IA, 1912,
of Vermont ancestry. BY his writings
on religion, philosophy, and econo-
mics he won high place among think
ers. His works have attracted atten-
ton in three continents, where they
were hailed as original contributions to
the worlds thought.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
Is Another Form.
ANOTHER STOPPED
AT REVOLVER POINT
Charles Roberts, Member of Bayside
Athletic Club, Testifies at Hains
Murder Trial.

Flushing, n. Y, Dec. 21-Charles
Roberts, a member of the Bayside
Yacht club, was the first witness to-
day in the trial of Thornton j. Hams,
charged with completely in the killing
of William E. Annis. He testified af-
ter the first shot fired by Captain
Hains at Annis he (Roberts) attempt
ed to cross the float, when Thornton j.
Hains stepped in front of him, point
ing a revolver in his face and said:
Keep off or will kill you"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
PLANS NOW TO CUT
ROCK ISLAND OUT
GaIesburg, Aledo e. Northwestern Pro
poses to Make Muscatine Its
Northern Terminus.

Galesburg, ILL.,, Dec. 21.-The Gales
burg, Aledo & Northwestern 1nterur-
ban Railroad company, for which con-
siderable of the stock has been sub
scribed and behind which are the
wealthiest and most progressive men
of Galesburg, has changed its plan,
and now proposes to build from Gales
burg to Aledo and then to Muscatine
instead of to Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21

was never without pain was known
only to his wife and sister.
Rather than experiment on others,
Professor Bennett used the X-rays on
himself and was burned. The wound
never healed.
Surgeons believe the disintegration
of the patients breast bone may be ar
rested by removing the affected por-
tion or possibly the entire bone may
require removal to save other parts of
the sufferers bone structure. Profess
sor Bennett is 53 years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21

Toner, suffering from typhoid fever,
clad only in night clothes, standing
barefooted in the snow to his knees,
was vainiy trying to break a pane of
glass in the window of the room where
two of his children were being con-
sumed Assistance came too late and
the charred bodies of the children,
Mary, aged ). and Lyman, aged 3, were
found after the fire had burned itself
out. The wife and baby narrowly es-
capped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
TEACHER MAY USE THE ROD
Kentucky Attorney General Finds
LEGAL Right fer Punishment.

Frankfort, KY, Dec. 21.-The con-
troversy relating to the legal right of
the school teacher of the common
schools of this state to whip disor-
derly pupil was ended yesterday when
Attorney James Breathitt handed down
an opinion to State Superintendent of
Public instruction Crabbe in which it
is held the teacher is given the au-
thOrity to whip if it is necessary to
maintain discipline. A recent opinion
of Judge William Carroll of Newcastle
that the teacher had no right to whip
has partly disorganized the common
schools and almost made it necessary
to close some of them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
TAFT FAMILY IN OWN HOME
Remove from Thomas Residence al
Augusta, Ga.

Augusta, Ca, Dec. 21.--The Taft
family took possession of the Territt
cottage at noon today, moving from
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas,
where they have been guests since
their arrival here. Judge Taft will
have no visitors from outside the city
today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-21
Frank Fehringer Goes on
Stand to Turn States
Evidence
AGAINST NIGHT RIDERS
Gives Form of Oath He Took
When He Joined the
Organization.

Union City, Tenn, Dec 21-Sur-
rounded by a detail of six soldiers
with shotted rifles and revolver hol.
sters open, Frank Fehringer, the men,
ber of the night riders who has turned
states evidence, was brought into
court this morning to testify against
his former associates. At the court
room door the soldiers with rifles halt
ed. Four other soldiers, armed only
with revolvers, took him in charge and
led Feringer to the stand The wit
ness, a diminutive man, seemed COM
posed, but pale.
Gives Form of Onth.
Fehringer was one of the first mem
bers of the band. He went on the
first ride of the band. The oath he
took was: ~ solemnly swear l wish
to join the society of night riders !;
that l will never write, tell or talk
about anything that happens upon
rides or in conference"
Is Another Form.
This is the shorter form of oath.
The larger and more blood-curdling
one was administered to the others
This will be recited by another wit.
ness.