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By mere coincidence, of course, just at this moment
the girl tells her friends that she is surely going to
the plaza Sunday, there is to be such an
cellent musical program
And SO for months, perhaps, they see each other
continually without ever speaking directly. They
understand and love from afar.
One joyful night the club gives ball, and he is
introduced to her Verbal love making begins at
once Next day the young screws up his
courage and speaks to the girls father, asking per-
mission uisitar His character and posi-
ton proving satisfactory, he visits the house that
evening and is allowed to converse with his love
in the presence of the whole family. This inter
mediate stage, which is regarded almost as an en-
gagement may last for an indefinite period. During
the whole time they are never allowed to see each
other alone for instant About two weeks be-
fore their marriage. invitations sent out, and
that is the first intimation their friends have that
an engagement exists. No more privileges are &C
corded the young man now than before. Until
he is her husband he her only in the pres
ence of others Only by the gentle pressure of her
hand arriving and leaving may he express his
heart whole devotion. Kissing is regarded
brazen American custom and one that must on no
account be INDUCED in before marriage.
Thus is a Panama courtship conducted, or rather
thus it until few years ago. Nowadays there
are so many Americans the lsthmus, and the
best diplomatic circles of both nations mix so much
in society," that modern ideas are beginning to
prevail Occasionally, now, young men visit girls
houses without having any serious intentions
In the park too, they may be walking with
the girls Sunday evening without being robbed
of their characters. Engagements are now an
nounced months before marriage, and on
moonlight night loving couples may be discerned on
the balconies-and Por Dios!" | believe they kiss.
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of OIL especially this current year when oil
SO necessary for making certain political toboggans
slide down hill Mr.. Rockefeller, in telling the story
of his life will doubtless forget to mention that for
every barrel of oil he has pumped he has wasted
gas equal to precisely ten other barrels of OIL
Where Are Our Cedars
HOW about own cedars of Lebanon? We have
IL the place where they once used to be. We
selling stump lands to the men of Europe. We use
from six to ten times much wood per capita IS
used in Europe. In that country production equals
USE In tbs country each year three times
much as grows each year. The garden of the great
Jehovah is slow. We doing what can to de-
vastate that garden. Each and every year we burn
as many trees as Yes, have money to
burn in America. They once had in Tyre and Sidon.
Last Sunday when l should have been employed
in the argument whether Battling Nelson was per-
rnanently better than Joseph Cans of Baltimore was
instead interested in certain pail of acrid smoke
that hung above the city of Chicago At that time
many of better families along the Lake Shore
gave the of their trousers extra roll because
indeed it seemed that at last we had acquired the
typical London fog. We exulted-until Cleveland,
Detroit, and other envous lake ports also declared
that they as we'll had that same fog That acrid,
pungent fog which made mist for thousand miles
across this country, the smoke of forest fires
north and south of Lake Superior. Our London fog
was costing us more than million dollars day at
that time Three hundred. four hundred, miles 1t
travelled somber omnous. bodeful, full OF gloom.
1t should have been lesson. But had read 1t, we
must perhaps have taken valuable time from the
study of the lineup of Yale and Princeton.
We have cleared most of the cedars OF Lebanon
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C O II r T S HIP I n

0UR interest in Panama is so largely centered
~ in the canal that few think of the sthmus
otherwise than as the site of great enterprise.
We are satisfied to dig the ditch to partci
pate in one of the greatest works of the century,
and still to know nothing of the home life and social
customs of the people who, PRO Mnndo Benefcio,
as their coat of declaims, sold strip of their
country to us.
The typical Panamena is petite in build. Her
slight trace of the high checked isthmian Indian
may be detected. She is fond of elaborate dress,
and may be seen starting out for an afternoon call
attired in delicate silk or lawn material Re-
CARELESS of the mode prevailing elsewhere, in
Panama important feature of the gown IS the
train which the Panamena loves. 1t must be adj
mtted that she manages 1t very gracefully and
successfully, and shows to advantage high French
heeed shoes, size I-B thereabouts Her hat is
always large and usually white and plume laden
She proceeds with small gliding steps, and is IN no
hurry. Her black eyes, vivacious and dreamy by
turns, and Unanswered with much dexterity as
her train, take in everything and everyone as she
moves along.
In order to reach the house she is going to visit
she must pass the bank. Evidently the bank is not
too busy just then; for group of four five clerks
lettering about the doorway watching the
passersby. The girl glances at them apparently
casually; but in instant her quick eye examines
each critically. One whom she has often
noticed is especially handsome, so he seems to
her He is of medium height, slender, with Hay,
que ojos!" (Oh, what eyes, AS her eye meets his,
she reddens, and the touch that was lacking to
her beauty is supplied The young man is evidently
not blind to her beauty; for she feels his wonderful
eyes still following her long after she has passed,
companied by the admiring murmurs of his compan-
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road which in its day paid very handsome
dividends-and alimonies 1t was named after a
mountain of iron ore which forty years ago was
thought to be exhaustless. To-day it is evscer-
ated mountain The entire deposit has been used
Iron does not grow again. once it has been used.
In all the United States have ten thousand
million tons of iron In twenty years we shall
be buying ore from Northern Sweden. In thirty
wears half of good grade will be gone. There
will remain only the lower grade which will cost
much more to handle A few others got to the cream
before YOU and / thought about it. All, the cream
we had in this America And not in the forests
of Lebanon near Tyre and Sdon in the old days did
SO many canaries sing upon the boughs waiting tor
CAPTAINS of industry to eat them with smile.
Last year we produced fifty million tons OF iron.
Each wear we use over half ton of iron for each
man. woman and child in the United States In
1910 the Lake Superior regon-whlch has made SO
MANY milonaires and prima donnas-wll be gone,
will be as dead as Iron Mountain. This is an excel
lent land. Or was
lanes T. Hill once in awhile astonshes us by telling
how many thousand miles of railway we need for
the swiftly growing freight OF country that is set
Ting faster than we building railroads. The
amount of iron required for the railroads enormous
OF course we could use water transportation, II we
had as much sense as Tyre and Sidon: but we have
not We make scattered River and Harbor ap-
propriations for country Congressmen but we let
each nation of Europe give us cards, spades, big
and little casino trurnps, all the aces, the entire
deck and still beat when it comes to canal build
ing for the actual carrying of freight Yet no coun-
try of the world ever SO well LAID OUT 1or water
freighting as this -
have been wondering whether Mr.. Lajoie or Mr..
Comiskey is the greater baseball general? That IS
far more important than all this ancient and modern
history is it not!
Now about gas Leaving out Mr., Addicks and Mr.
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By Vida c. Lindo

ions: Que bo,ita!'-'Ay, que linda! -" Preeiosa!
Passing through the Plaza de la Cathedral on her
return home she finds the young waiting with
a group of friends Panama boys always WOO in
parties Each one of these SWANS is probably
awaiting some special girl. Again she experiences
killing glances and compliments directed at her.
At length the young lover follows her home but at
respectful distance. She disappears into very
nice house, which, however, is built over grocery
store for in Panama the residence and commercial
district are one Presently minus her hat she re-
appears on the balcony This is what her endnorado
was hoping for He stands there at the street cor
ner twisting his little mustache and staring at his
lady, while she sits rocking and flirting her fan,
pretending all the while to be of his presence
The Swain Becomes Bold
THIS silent form of balcony Irritation continues to
be practised daily, until the young man. growing
more daring, appears afternoon accompanied
by a group of friends and allies The girl is
vivaciously entertaining few of her chums on the
balcony
The that now ensues would be funny II
there something pitiful about such restr1c-
tons being placed twentieth century girl.
The Young man. standing beneath the balcony
with his friends, poses in graceful attitudes and
makes audible and laudatory remarks about the
object of his affections She bushingly smiles, and
in like manner informs her companions that some
Young men are very silly An animated converse
ton at each other follows, and the lover at parting
tells his coudeute that he is going the Plaza de
la Cathedral Sunday evening. He wonders,
always aloud, if anyone worth while will be there
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In time, our land will be as bare as theirs What
damage accrues to through floods and droughts?
There is no Solomon who estimate it. We do
not know. 1t is not caculabe.
But at least, some optimist will say, our land is
left. An optmist a who is always ready to
spend your money for you. Let us about this
optimism.
And the Land Is Going
WE have now less than one hundred million
w which even in the livelest imagination of a
land boomer could be called public agricultural land
We farm land now that ten years ago we would have
scorned. Our young men are gong to Canada IN
thousands in totals. What have to offer
young men? Poor land, high priced land, wasted
land This, out of all the countless millions of
of splendid land whose like never lay beneath the
sky! You can figure it out. Your share in all the
public land remaining is just about one acre. Be
careful or the other will get to it first. Uncle
Sam has nothing left to give his sons
But at least you say, this land must be owned
by somebody and it will not run away. All, will
it not? That is precisely what it does do. We lose
quarter million dollars each land that runs
away There goes out of the mouth of the Mississippi
River each wear block of land as large that which
will have been taken out of the entire Panama Canal
very best land have. Do we undertake to save
it from this waste, Not in the least. We read
about the winter racing book at New Orleans. 1t
takes three hundred wears to make real pine tree
but rather longer than that to make foot OF soil
The soil is four feet thick in OF valleys 1t
took forty thousand years of hard working geologic
processes to produce that solalmost as long as 1t
will take to revise the tariff But in ten years an
ignorant farmer can ruin that four feet OF soil
But YOU shall not easily persuade US that We
have nothing left How about our water! NO nation
in the world has devised great use for water as
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Lawson, we waste one
thousand million feet of
gas each and every day
in the United States.
We dig gas, or we man
ufacture it. In the first
case it can be exhaust
ed. In the second case
the material of which it
is made can be exhaust
ed. We make it of
things that do not grow
again, which cannot be
planted.
But maybe this is not
so grave a question as
whether Capron should
have been fired from the
Minnesota team this
fall.
Take the case of oil.
There is in all likelihood
no topic SO vital as that
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OulS, dIld III lIiS iilooI
part we have been able
to grow up to our
watered stocks at least.
We have grown up to
our water nowhere else.
We have thirty million
horsepower of water
more than all the en-
gines of this busy
country can produce in
power,-but we do not
value it. We let it run
away. 1t takes one
thousand tons of steel
to move one thousand
tons of freight ten miles
by rail. One-tenth that
weight of steel will move
it by water. and save
Continued on page IA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
RECORD OF COURT HOUSE
Real Estate Transfers.

Ellen S. Andrews to Bernard Rec
ecker, part southeast quarter section
of Rock river Except 80 acres) section
21-17-2w $4,510.S0.
Central Trust & Savings bank to {
A. Bopes, lot in unrecorded plat il
southeast northwest section 6-17-1w
$25.
George e. Bailey to Laura H. Nc
Neil. lot Z, George e. Bailey addition
Rock Island. $3.50.
Evangelical Lutheran church, Hamp
ton. to Edward Stotmeister, lot il
northeast northwest quarter section
15-1S-1e $40.
Emma M. Barthel to Julia Living
ston, part outiot 46. part southeas
quarter section Sc, section 35-1S-2w
So 600
Joseph A. Blocklinger to Joseph w
Blocklinger, part lot 1G, Brashar's sub
division north one-eighth section II
17-2w. 81.
Louis Livingston to Emma NJ. Bar
| tbel. part outlot 46, part southeas
quarter section 35-1S-2w. $4,000.
| County clerk to Sheldon H. Walker
part northeast northwest quarter an
part southeast northwest quarter SEE
ton 11-17-2w.
| Julius Mermuys to Emma Mermuys
| lot 2, block 1, Greim's First addition
Moline. $1,000.
q. H. Stafford to Eta Bechtel, lie
so. block 9, town of Silvis. $500.
Louis R. Williams to Charles +
Durmann, lots 5, 6, C. H. Durmann
addition, Moline. 81.
| Charles H. Durmann TO Minnie 4
Williams, lots 5, 6, C. H. Durmann'
addition, Moline. 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
Flying Machine That Flies.

In the early part of this year very
successful test was made with large
aeroplane over circuitous route. |;
rose, dipped and turned just at the op
orators will. but notwithstanding this
degree of perfection, this mode of trav
eel still seems a long way off. Man!
successful tests have been made witt
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters during the
past 81 years in cases of stomach, live
and bowel disorders. In fact, it ha'
cured so often after other remedies has
failed that it Is looked upon by prom
inent physicians as a very superio
medicine. 1t cures and prevents sicl
headache, belching, heartburn, poor ar
petite, dyspepsia, indigestion, costive
ness, biliousness, kidney ills and ma
laria, fever and ague. Don't hesitate
about trying it because we guarantee
every bottle to be absolutely pure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
Born in Iowa.

Our family were all born and raised
in Iowa. and have used Chamberlain:
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remed!
made at ,Des Moines) for years. W.
know how good it is from long expert
ence lin the use of It. In fact, whel
in Ell Paso, Texas, the writer's life
was saved by the prompt use of this
remedy. We are now engaged in the
mercantile business at Narcoossee
Fla, and have introduced the remedy
here. 1t has proven very successful
and is constantly growing in favor
Enpis. Bros This remedy is for sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22

these broken wires was the cause of
an accident in which a livery horse
owned by Alderman Henry J. Frick,
and being driven by E. H. Stafford,
was killed. Mr.. Stafford and lady
friend were in the buggy at the time,
but fortunately escaped without COM
ing in contact with the electric cur
rent. The accident occurred at Third
avenue and Eleventh street, where one
of the telephone wires had been blown
down across a light wire carrying a
heavy current. The wire was pulled
from the insulated peg on the cross
arm. AS Mr. Stafford turned on Third
avenue the horse suddenly stopped,
and the wire was discovered along the
buggy shaft
Mr. Stafford endeavored to back the
animal away from the wire, but it
stepped mo pool of water, and the
deadly current was connected through
its body. The horse dropped dead in
stantly. The Occuapnts of the buggy
succeeded in, getting out without in
jury, and the police were notified and
removed the animal.
Trouble on River.
Both of the excursions from this city
to Muscatine encountered the storm
some miles down the river The Col
Umbia. which took out a large COM
pany under the auspices of the Broad
way Young Peoples society, was struck
by the storm mile or two above An
dalusia. The boat was without a
barge. and continued on it way without
much difficulty, although a panic on
beard was narrowly averted when
lighting hit tree on the shore but q
short distance from the boat TIL boat
reached Rock Island at II o'clock. The
w. w. was but a short distance below
the Columbia, and was towing a barge.
IL had somewhat more difficulty than
that experienced by the Columbia, but
10 damage was done and order was
maintained on board. The w. w. made
1.-THE trip under the auspices of the
Pythian Sisters of Davenport. Both
steamers carried large crowds, and
the popularity of the Saturday after
noon ride to Muscatine and return was
very clearly demonstrated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
DAMAGE BY WIND
Trees and Wires Are Blown
Down in Gale Accompanying
Saturday Evening Storm.
HORSE HITS A LIVE" WIRE
Animal Driven by e. n. Stafford is
EIectrocuted-Excur
Have Exciting Time.

The storm that struck the city Sat.
urday evening caused considerable
damage, and created great excitement
The streets were thronged with the
largest Saturday evening crowd oil
shoppers that has gathered down town
this summer, and confusion reigned
when the temperature suddenly drop
ped and the wind began to blow gale
The streets were sweeped with clouds
OF dust that dimmed even the electric
street lights.
Horse Hits Live Wire.
Trees were blown down and broken
off in all parts of the city and wires in
several places were broken. One OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
NO Need of Suffering from Rheuma
tisn1.

1t is a mistake to allow anyone to
|suffer from rheumatism, as the pain
can always be relieved, and in most
cases cure effected by applying
Chamberlain,s Liniment. The relief
from pain (which it affords is alone
worth many times its cost 1t makes
lsleep and rest possible. Even in cases
|of long standing this liniment should
| be used on account of the relief which
liz affords. Do not be discouraged un-
ltil you have given it trial. For sals
| by all druggists.
All the news all the time-THE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
SMALLPOX AT THE
COUNTY INFIRMARY
-Four Cases Develop and 1t Is Likely
That Other inmates Will
Take the Disease.

Smallpox has broken cut at the
county infirmary and Stewart Swank
and his assistants are having their
hands full to prevent spread of the
disease. There are four cases and it
be effected before the scourge is
checked. The institution is under
quarantine. The infection was secured
from a tramp who was given shelter
at the farm Tor a few days and was
later sent to his home in st. Louis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
IN THE CHURCHES

Spencer Memorial MethodiSt.-The
bible study class will meet tomorrow
evening in the church.
Wednesday evening prayer service
will be followed by meeting of the
Sunday school teachers.
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock the
primary department of the Sunday
school will meet at the church and
march to Zion hill where picnic will
be held.
The choir will meet for rehearsal
Friday evening.
First Methodist.-The probationers
classes will meet Tuesday, the young
people at o'clock and the adult class
at 1880 in the pastors study.
Wednesday evening prayer service
and Sunday school teachers meeting
will be held in the church.
The choir will meet Saturday even
ing at 1880 in the church.
Memorial Christian.-The teacher
training class will meet Monday and
! Thursday evenings.
Tomorrow evening the young people
of the Christian Endeavor will go to
Davenport to hear International Secre-
| tary William Shaw at the Presbyterian
church.
The Queen Esther class will be en-
tertained Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. Maud Booth Altz, Mo
| line.
| Friday evening the Junior Christian
Endeavor society will give an ice
cream sociable at the church.
| Central Presbyterian.-Prayer serv
ice will be held Wednesday evening in
the church.
Thursday afternoon at o'clock the
Ladies Aid society will meet with Mrs
A. l.. Morris, 1918 Second avenue.
Friday afternoon at 8 O'Clock the
lWoman's Missionary society will mee
with Mrs ]. G. Hazard, 1921 Four
teenth street.
United Presbyterian.-The Woman.
Mission society will meet tomorrow
levening with Mrs. Martha G. Bogue
1924 First avenue.
Prayer service will be held Wednes
lday evening in the church.
The Kate Hill Mission society will
hold it's annual outing at the Watcl
Tower Thursday evening.
Il Services preparatory to communion
next Sunday will be held in tn
church Friday evening at 7:45.
First Baptist.-The annual churc
land Sunday school picnic will be hel,
at Campbell's island tomorrow. Car
will leave the church corner at 1
o'clock.
Prayer service will be held Wednes
day evening in the church.
Friday afternoon the Ladies' Aid sc
ciety will meet in the church parlors.
Grace Lutheran.-The Forward 81
ciety will meet this evening with Mis-
Olga Ross. 1886 Seventeenth avenue
Moline.
Tomorrow evening the Acme societ
will have its annual outing at tn
Watch Tower. Supper will be serve
at the inn.
4, Prayer service will be held Wedne:
day evening in the church.
The Reliance club will meet Thur.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
Iune u In History.

174S-Thomas Gay. author of Sand
ford and Merton" born; died 1879.
Second and final abdication of
Napoleon: Waterloo was lost by
the French June IS.
IS9S-General Shafter's corps made the
first landing on Cuban soil at Dali
quiri
1906 King Haakon VII. of Norway
crowned at Trondhjem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
TO HOLD PARISH PICNIC
Trinity Church Will Have Outing at
CampbeIPs Island.

The annual parish picnic Of Trinity
church will be held at Campbelrs is
land Wednesday. A special Car for the
children will leave Third avenue and
Nineteenth street at . o'clock in the
morning and returning will start from
the island at in the evening. The
adults will be expected to find passage
on the regular cars. A general good
time is planned with a basket dinner
the leading feature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22

Temperature at "a. M, IS; ut :s:30 y.
M, 81. Maximum temperature i'm last
I'd hours, 81; minimum, "a. Velocity of
W ind mt : n. M, = miles per hour. Stage
of water ia feet, u rise OF 4 foot in
last Is hours. Precipitation, none.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
THE " E4THE Il.

Generally fair weather except with
probably local thunder storms tonight
or Tuesday; cooler Tuesday.
}. VI, SHERIER, Local ForecaSter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets T:31, rises 4:25; moon rises
1:19 a. M; moons age n days; 3 p. m,
planets Venus and Mars in conjunc
ton; 0 p. m, all of Jupiter's moons
west of nlanet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-22

All the news all the time-THE
ARGUS.