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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

They have about settled the COM
ing elections" said he, as he parted the
tails of his brown jeans coat and sat
down. Don't believe 1 ever saw an
election comm that want already
settled. And it would look like there
wan'n't any use of havin' but one side;
but, yet, somehow the other side al
ways does putty well when the votes
are counted. The man that under
stands arithmetic is bad in politics.
He likes to figger. and a man that
does usually f1ggers too much. It's
an old sayin' that figgers don't lie,
and that may be true, but sometimes
they are found in the wrong place.
Both OF the great political parties
are wise, for they always nominate
the right man. And what a fine pres
ident he would have made If he had
only been elected. And the minute
the other candidate is elected he
ceases to be politician and becomes
statesman. But death has made
more statesmen than Office ever did
In this life a great reward is offered
to rascality, and that's the reason
there are so many politicians. Enough
votes would make any man great, but
not enough will turn the wisest man
into a fy-up-the-creek When a man
that is looking for an office begins to
tell me that he's sincere American l
believe him. 1 believe he wants the
place, and in this way the lives of
some men illustrate an eternal truth.
They eternally want something. Run
ming for office is hard habit to break,
but when a man has been beaten q
time or two for president he cools
down nightly. Some of our smartest
men have been defeated for president,
and among them was Henry Clay, but
he oughtn't to have expected the Of
flee when old Andy Jackson and the
Lord were against him. And it is
| naturally to be supposed that the
Lord still has good deal of influence
durin' election time, but it is ques-
ton whether or not He always uses it.
| Ever since I can recollect. the
country has been goin' to ruin It
| seems that the constitution was born
|
| ever since. But it is a mighty hard
thing to tear to pieces. But If the
right man isn't elected this time not
only the constitution but the whole
country will have to go on crutehes.
| Old Uncle John Moss is the oldest
man In the county7and he says that
the world is a failure, and If this is
true America must go along in with
the general no accountness of 1t all
But / noticed that last year my bot.
tom field raised more corn to the acre
than for several years past, and as
long as this continues to be the case
amt in a fifteen frame of mind to be
lieve in all the bad news hear. Nc
matter how much good news you get
bad news is sure to follow. Some time
ago old man Joyner threatened that II
his candidate want elected president
he would pick up and move out of the
nefghborhood. His man want elect
l cd and be mayed oyer ACROSS the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

: Why, / almost gasped for breath.
He 10 worth millions, and I wondered
how he could have heard of me. who
owe the dollar and a quarter that
call my own.
Now. IL ever anybody made his
money sinfully he did. He stands
high up among the Standard Oil men
and yield to no one in contempt for
his methods, although I will admit
that his manners are perfect and he
certainly. seems to know people out
side of his world.
He congratulated me ON a story of
mine that he had read. 1t was one
satirizing plutocrats, but he had
missed the satire and had taken it
as a compliment
! Said he: II wish to help people in
all the rats. I wish to seek our ar
lists and give them rolls of money.
] want to find struggling musicians
and help them to an education. And
] particularly want to give you a
house and lot and some shares of rail
road stock that will yield you an in
come of $4,000 a year."
Well, you may imagine I did not
know what to do. However the man
may have come by his money, he was
certainly moved by kindly feelings in
wishing to share with me.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

then do you call him up and say, Il
entrust my bark to your keeping. We
want to sail as long as the boat lasts
and we want you to guide us among
pleasant places. If storms come up we
do not wish to evade them, only see
to it that we weather all gales; and
whatever you do. see to it that we do
not strike on the rock Of divorce"
And Love will shake his curly head
and say with merry laugh:
81 have acted as helmsman to many
a couple, but never yet have I struck
on rock Of divorce. Now, over there
is well dressed sailor named Gold.
His boat is bigger than this and is
furnished better. but If I do say it,
he cannot mind helm as well as l, for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25
TO USE DYNAMITE.
Former Governor ofKansas Has
Unique Plan to Aid Farms
of That State.
WOULD BLOW UPIHE HaRDPAn
Contends It Would Help Give Porosity
Aiding Greatly in Absorption
Of Moisture.

Experts in the agricultural depart
ment at Washington are now wres-
thing with new idea to conserve mois-
ture and to prevent foods. 1t was sug-
gested to them recently by former
Governor Samuel J. Crawford of Ran
sas. who is a practical farmer. 1t SIM
ply involves loosening the subsoil.
Governor Crawford calls attention to
the fact that the soil most everywhere
Is undertake at IL depth of from one to
ten feet with streak of hardpan.
through which it is almost impossible
for water to penetrate. AS result in
case of heavy rain the only soil that
can absorb the moisture is that above
hardpan. When this takes up all it can
hold there is nothing left for the re-
mainder Of the water but to run off on
the surface. causing the floods. After
the foods the heat of the sun draws
the moisture out of the thin soil and
sooner or later gets it out of the deep
er soil. The governors plan. says a
Washington correspondent of the st
Paul Pioneer Press. is to break up the
hardpan with dynamite and let the
water down into the soil under it.
at has been demonstrated that un-
derneath this hardpan is nearly always
| a porous soil or gravel" said he. land
it is capable of holding vast quantities
| of water. provided the water can ever
get to it. If the hardpan is broken up
| it would seem that more water would
| 60 in the ground than does now"
Demonstrated to His satisfaction.
This fact already has been demon
strated TO the governors satisfaction ut
least. He discovered it by accident on
his own farm. He started to bore a
we'll and after sinking the drill about
| six feet In the ground abandoned the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

eliminate that strident quality.
The other day / was sitting in the
seward end Of the ferryboat when
Jane came in from the slip. The boat
was full and every one was talking.
but James voice rose above all the
others and almost every one looked
up.
I'll venture to say that most of
them were reminded Of q beautiful
macaw.
For there is no denying that Jane
is handsome girl.
And she's a bright girl and she says
bright things, but they are all
screeched at you.
II Jane marries let her pick out a
phlegmatic man, unless she uses file
on that voice. 1t would be cruelty to
animals to let her marry a sensitive
soul, say painter or a writer. be-
cause to be shut up in the same cage
day after day with the most beautiful
macaw imaginable would be to have
ones nerves de-insulated.
She may be disobedient and out
grow it; she may be- disrespectful and
outgrow it.
But If your daughter has an unpleas-
ant voice she won't outgrow it unless
you keep at her all the time.
Copyright. by James Pott & Coz
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

many and many . couple has he
spilled out on either side Of the rock
of divorce. Are you ready. sir?
Shall cast OF?
Cast of, my hearty" say you. I'VE
are in for long and perhaps an ad-
venturous voyage, but with you and
with her on board I'll be bound it will
be happy one"
All of which IL q pretty little ALE
CORY and I made It up out of my own
little head.
And it's true, every word Of It
n ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

The forum Of old Linn Jucklin's wis
dom was the horseback in front of
the crossroads store. In the rural
south age means wisdom. Merely to
have seen the seasons come and go
Is knowledge, and when age talks not
only youth but middle age must be
content-to listen. Cultivation is mere
book-learning, hearsay, the rumor of
an unsubstantial truth, as If the book
were not the experience of mans
mind. The well-read and travelled, il
not yet out from under the contempt
of Immature years." must sit respect
ful-dumb while an old man who may
never have crossed the line of his
county consents to give an hours
homily upon the affairs of the world.
But with age there sometimes comes
mellow and a sweet ripening~ of that
half philosophical humor which musty
books bound in the hide of some
ancient fatted calf delightfully."- tell us Is
almost wholly an Anglo-Saxon heritage.
But old Linn had been out of his
county. He had travelled into the
for himself In Chicago he had
bought a pair Of "gold-rimmed'' spec
tacles which some clergyman must
have lost, and in modest little trans
action he had permitted a Michigan
fruit farmer to pluck off patch of
his well-seasoned skin. And while
these transactions were reckoned
feb 20
turned somewhat pale when compared
with the fact that he could come near
er guessing the weight of hog or the
height of mule than any man in
North Carolina. 1t is on record that
he was a believer in the Book from
"kiver to kiver," and in his neighbor-
hood It is known that once he wal
Hoped one Of the Harvey boys for tit
tering at baptising. He furnished
the oak slab that had been fashioned
into the mourner's bench at Sloan
meeting house. His wife gave to the
circuit rider more pairs of wool socks
than any other woman in the com
munity. And the old man himself had
been known not indeed to shout dur
ing camp meeting, but afterward tc
call hogs with more fervor than was
his accustomed habit. Yet. notwith
standing these unfnistakable tokens Of
pious life. he gave to game roosters
devotion that smacked of fanaticism
Through the wind-howI of winter:
night-through the icy thicket III
would shoulder his way. mile aftel
mile, to be present at contest. HI
lamentedfhe fate OF the defeated. bu
gToried over the victor. But he never
wagersd penny. That would have
been irreligious.. With others thu
fghting Of chickens was a sport
With him IL was an emotion. So. witt
his moral establishment well know
and with ais wisdom unquestioned
whenever Of a Saturday afternoon h
took his seat on the old horseback
there was always an audience wait
ing, not out of respect for his years
but looking for mans natural rewar,
lepnmusomept.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25
letter Cured.

A lady customer of ours had suffered
with letter for two or three years. 1t
got so bad on her hands that she could
not attend to her household duties
One box of Chamberlain Salve cured
her. Chamberlain's medicines give
splendid satisfaction in this communi-
ty.-M. H. Rodney & Co., Almond, Ala
Chamberlain's medicines are for sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

creek, and four years afterward when
his man was again beaten, he moved
back. So, have noticed that about
all there Is to the average mans po-
litical disappointments is that in his
revenge he thinks he has done some
thing notable when he hasn't
About the worst Iickin' I ever got
was shortly after had cast my first
vote. There were two men running
hot for constable. I halfway prom
ised to vote for one of them, fellow
named Henk. The election was held
by word of mouth, and when the time
came I couldn't remember Henk's
name and voted for Jones because it
was easier. And that is about as
much intelligence as some people
show in their voting now. They vote
the way that looks the easiest What
did Henk do? met him at a sawmill
and he took q piece of scantling to
me, an by the time 1 made up my
mind what to do he had me whipped.
A man ought always have his mind
fully made up as to what he will do
when the worst comes I managed to
tell him that I didn't fully promise
to vote for him, that / had only half
made up my mind. and he lowed,
Yes, and that fs the reason I only
half kill you now
"If you see fight coming it is bet
ter to make up your mind to run than
not to be firmly settled on some par
ticular mode of action. The bravest
man may appear like coward il
he's unsettled in his mind, and while
he is still unsettled the other fellow
may overpower him. It is mind that
fights. AS long as a ROSTERS mind
is steady his head is steady, but the
minute he begins to look around he
discovers chance to run. II he had
fully made up his mind not to run he
wouldn't have found the opportunity.
| Some one thought to be wise said
| that good run was better than a
! bad stand, but 1t Is not true AS long
| as you think It Is good to run you'll
keep on runnin'. And when you run
| once it is an easy matter to make up
your mind that to stand is bad When
| ever a man is branded as coward all
the other towards want to take a
whack at him. Therefore It Is better
to be whipped every day in the week
than to run once, for with the comm
Of the next week the situation is
mighty apt to undergo change. Bad
stands stood get better all the time.
But when man has once been
whipped he is never the same after
ward. It is better to have broken
head than a broken spirit. Without
| spirit the; strongest man is but q
| worm.
Success may after a while enable
the candidate to tell the truth, but IL
seems that when man breaks into
politics he. breaks in as liar. II
may be almost unconscious on his
part, but 1t amt long till he's sayin'
things that he don't believe. And
what appears to grieve him Is the
fact that other people don't either. II
your son-ip-law il hesitating between
| politics and the penitentiary, remem
Der that If he goes to the penitentiary
you won't have to take care of him
Many an honest man has had chance
to become a politician and didn't. A
politicians smile may be bright, and
so is a sunbeam when It falls ON q
puddle where the hogs have been wal
lsrin'."
copyright, by Opis Ready
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25
FL KNOW it is non,

600
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

HE other day I
had been going
on at a pretty
rapid rate, de-
nouncfng the i'll
gotten money of
the Am e ri C a n
"robber barons,"
8 a ying that I
would rather die
poor but honest
than be as rich
as-I can't think
of his name, but
he is respected
by the unthinking
everywhere.
Suddenly a man
who Is KIN o W n
from end to end
of the world came
up to me-yes, to
me, and asked me
how l was getting
along.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

KNOW It Is none
of my business.
but are you go
ing to let Jane
grow up with
t h at unpleasant
voice?
H av en- { you
read the praise OF
southern women's
voices to some
advantage?
I don't suppose
that James speak
ing voice could
ever be made real
ly melodious, al
though, strange to
say, her singing
voice is not at all
unpleasant.
But you could
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

F you do not care
to wreck your
bark on the break
ers of divorce, see
to it that Love
stands at the
tiller when you go
aboard.
Love suffereth
long and is kind"
A very pleasant
fellow to have at
the h e | m, you
must admit.
When you go
down to the pier
at which the lit
tie boat Is moored,
you and she, be
sure to it that
Love, the dear lit
tie fello W, is
s t a n d ing some
where near, and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-25

/ hesitated and hemmed and hawed
and thought of my family and Of the
good uses to which l might put the
money.
And then I remembered that my an
cestors were Puritans, and that not
one Of them In all the nine genera
lions ever told lie or did anything
wrong in any way whatsoever. and l
took a long breath and said: "Thy
money perish with thee. I'll have
none of it."
And then woke up.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12

The County Beacon has powerful attack on the subs
way how does the County Beacon manage it? ].
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CONTINUED from Page Four,

tax County $95O74s
against
property balancing
apparent but months
against Income belonging
ected Honolulu 1907
to $30sS6,71 income 0 $179,53684
Including month";
of leaving
balance attthe first of the $9649 besides which there
road tax fund Of $12SS1 for division between districts
Since the Conrt Land Registration established December 81
1907 there l94 applications for registered titles and M DEGREES issued
Petitions filed pending and 81
pending of the
Including country property. The
is
Of favor with which the Ten registering land titles with
this Territory where it il about old
GENERAL ITEMS
More complete than the annual
exhibitions the Poultry Association which has been
held in Honolulu Not but residents been asoned at
domestic hed diversified grcu
agricultural
Board of Agriculture of Fresno
California exhibits.
John oudErk library for Oahu College, which
to be of island ground with stack
ord,e etc.
Eleven connecting Oahu line Ka
huku viii this year. extension is
having stimulating the agricultural development OF that side
of production projected
by companies individual starch factory maoea the base in
operation pineapple extensive scale cannes
fruit certainty growing well in that section
citrus fruits vanilla beans and kitchen garden products
generally.
Washington approval by
Congress by last Legs
some of the plantations
parcel onges gathered island
in town has possibility Hawaiian industry
Ocean Francisco
the Buford from
Nagasak and the Miow Colonies been the China
the Columbian Kaana Nevada for Francisco and the Mowe
for Vancouver.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12

Legislatures asking bread
for one
AM your petitioners will pray.
licenses that could
- ~
Honolul
Johnson the
to
nobility
Chinese for
dollars And relays military kept
garden
of
would be h~sn of negng work. spending public credit for drink and
grating clothes himself supervisor whom thought
would take the glad raime thankfully and him through his troubles
u ~
Prohibition wildbut Woo1ey.
~ -
nothing
dsigates Hlo
is located the solar
a budding
station could deliver
Honolulu is apparently
authority of
place
Sans
subsidized press
how does the County Beacon it?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12
ANOTHER ROBBERY

CONTINUED from Page One.)
of Kawaihapai. AS soon as Joe L.eal
and the others who had gone to Eva
had been notified of this and the posse
collected together again, the whole
number moved off for Kawaihapai on
the fresh trail.
The Information secured at Waialua
proved to be misleading, however, no
trace of the robbers being found by the
police at Kawaihapai nor as far as the
house, where two armed lepers have
been living for years, defying capture.
The posse rode as far as this place
but made no attempt to modest the
lepers, returning to Haleiwa last night,
having received word from Porto
Rican that their men had been seen
near there. This Porto Rican guide
promised to lead the police to where
they would find their quarry.
After dark the posse set out again,
Taylor and the guide ahead and the
others strung out on tired horses be-
hind. Some time before it was ex-
pected that the Porto Ricans would be
found, Taylor was Startled by someone
looming up in the road before him and
| suddenly plunging off into the cane.
/ This was nearly at the end Of the cane
fields on the Kahuku side Of Haleiwa.
Calling for his men to follow, Taylor
hotfooted after the fugitive. but lost
him in the darkness. The rest of the
force had caught up to him in the
meanwhile and the field was searched
back and forth. The footsteps of the
man, whoever he was. We're found
where he had left the cane land and
struck off towards the mountain.
BY this time the police officers were
tired out and the hunt had to be given
up for the night. They Returned to
Haleiwa, where their headquarters will
be today being prepared to strike out
again at daylight this morning to scout
the surrounding country.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12

number Of cattle and, in order to avoid
a collision with them, the notornan
had reduced his speed and was barely
crawling along. AS he reached the
curve he released his brake and though
he had not turned on the power, the
car began to pick up speed. Then he
saw the automobile, with Richardson
and three ladies, less than fifty feet IN
front Of him.
Richardson saw the car at the same
time.-but could do nothing. If he had
tried to turn, the machine would have
been tipped over the three foot bank.
There was nothing to do but stop, and
then try to reverse, which he did. The
motorman reversed his power but
could not avoid collision and the au-
tomobile was thrown hack.
Just as this occurred two of the
ladies, Mrs. Lansing and Mrs. Fife,
jumped and the injuries which they re-
ceived were due to the fall. They
We're taken to the house of Mr.. and Mrs
]. #. C. Hagens, the superintendent
Of the fertilizer company, who lives
nearby. and cared for there, then be-
ing taken to their homes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12
WRISTS AND ANKLES SUFFER
IN, AUTO MIXUP WITH CAR

Another automobile accident occurred
yesterday afternoon and it was only
through the greatest of luck that there
were not some deaths as the result
AS it was. Mrs. Lansing, of this city,
received a broken wrist and Mrs. Fife,
the sister OF Mrs. Frank Richardson,
whose husband was driving the car,
had her ankle sprained. ar. and Mrs.
Richardson, who were the two other
occupants of the car, were painfully
bruised
The accident occurred near the end
of the Kahauiki line and was caused
by collision between Rapid Transit
car and the automobile which Richard
son was driving. Richardson was off
the road altogether and was careering
along the Rapid Transit track, at a
point where there is a I'LL, bringing
the track about three feet above the
carriage way. The car was coming
down grade just past the slaughter
house lane and was moving slowly at
the time. or the accident would have
been tragedy.
1t happened that just before coming
around the curve the car had met a