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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
The Longest Continuous Double Trac
Railway in the World

under one management is the Grand
Trunk Railway system from Chicago
to Montreal and to Niagara Falls.
The Grand Trunk-Lehigh valley
double track route via Niagara Falls
reached from Chicago to New York.
Descriptive literature, time tables,
ETC.. will be mailed free on applica-
ton to w. S. Cookson, A. G. P. A -,
Grand Trunk Railway system, 135
Adams street. Chicago, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

His wife keeps things in a constant
turmoil
"Still. she has one good point"
what is it?'
''She doesn't talk in her sleep"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
The Usual Way.

''They always get into an argument
"Over what?"
Anything or nothing"
"Ard how do they come out7"
'Fall OUT
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

When Roosevelt returns from Africa
he will find his policies neatly buried
in the national cemetery. And, worst
! of all, Bill Taft served as one of the
pallbearers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

Forester Pinchot denies that he sent
an ultimatum to the president. If he
had, it would have contained a cour-
] teous resignation at the last paragraph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
An Important Advantsoe.

'rDo you think a college education
affords a man an important advaE-
tage?"
''Oh. yes. One has to have it In or
der to get into a university club."-
Chicago Record Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

Whoop it up for the interurbans, and
in the meantime do not let the. belt
line slip.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

If President Taft is to keep up his
jaunts, it would be economical to put
The White house on wheels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

The natural law, that which goes up
must come down, doesn't prevail in
the cost of living.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

"She claims she can hypnotic pso>
pie"
81 don't believe it."
"Nhy not?"
"She isn't married"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island. Ill IEn-
tered at the postonice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

A honely girl doesn't have the faint
est glimmering of how perfectly idiotic
any man can be.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

Man appreciates a clean house a
great deal more than he likes the
process of getting it clean.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

"What beautiful hair.'
Whose? Mrs. Erown'sY'
Eyes"
''IIcr taste and selection in sucn
things arc perfect"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

Lewis Single Binder - the famous
straight cent cigar, always best
quality.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

There are people who seem born to
do nothing. and they do It with such
grace and smoothness that one can
see they are glad Of IT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

The holidays are coming. Shop
early.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

BY THE J. w. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

There is a jar in pickle for the man
who has a job he thinks he can't lose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26
HurnOr and
Philosophy
Pert PARAGRAPHS.
BY DUNCAN n. SMITH

DEOPLB who marry for money and
l. work hard at the job still have to
be classified as nonproducers.
The ordinary kitchen girl knows how
TO make herself intolerably disagree.
able and at the same time render her.
self Indispensable.
It is often said that money is plenty.
but nobody ever seems to have ac-
CURED enough of It,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-26

People who get on our nerves and
send us to the rest cures ought to have
action fer damages brought against
them.
The before taking description Of a
young man about TO be married re-
sembles nothing so much as the after
taking description of the just divorced
individual.
Nothing fails so beautifully as q re-
form ticket in a really live political
field.
We could bear with a great deal
more patience the things that we don't
like if they didn't cost so much money.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23
An Actors Poetic Ideal.

"They have been telling me-" said
John Mccullough, the tragedian, 'that
Walt Whitman is a poet, and they
have been reading some Of the spav-
ined stuff that he has written. 1t Is a
proclamation to talk of such a writer as
a poet" Then, blazing with emotion,
he launched into a panegyric of poetry
and a description of the poetic prov
ince-the ministry of beauty, the inter
pretations of nature, the alluring re-
vealment of high ideals, the ~exaltation
of the human soul. "a catalogue is
not a poem" he said. "There is no
such thing as poetry in mere animal
life. The name Of poet is the grandest
name that can be applied to any hui
man being. Shakespeare was a poet.
Shelley was a poet" He 0 S as he
spoke, and he repeated, with amaz-
ing huency and delicious meditation,
many passages of Shelley's "Epipsy-
chidion." Art could do NJ more. THAT
is poetry" he said, and all that he thus
said is true.-From "Other Days." by
William Winter.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23
First PretzeIs Made In America.

According to information furnished
by an old historian, the Rauch family
of Lancaster county, Pa, Is given the
credit of having baked the first pref
zels in this country in the year 1910.
1t is said that the first pretzel bakery
established on the banks of the Schuyl-
kill Tin Reading) was owned by Lich.
tenthealer, who was born in Litit7
March IT, 1917.
1t is said that one John William
Ranch, by trade a weaver and a maker
by the Moravian congregation to take
up baking, as the town of Lititz was
in need of such help. He consented to
do so In connection with his trade.
One day an old German happened to
call upon John Rauch and in return
for material assistance offered to teach
him the secret of making what he
small way at first for local trade.
Ambrose Rauch, the sol of John,
was peddl'ng brooms through the
country at the time and prevailed upon
his father to allow him to offer pref
zels to the trade. They took imme-
diately, and the fame of this particu-
lar make soon spread throughout Ian
caster county, where today it is the
custom to serve the salty titbit with
ice cream, with little Dutch lunches,
with a tasty cold snack in connection
with cheese, frequently with a cup OF
hot chocolate, often with soup or bouil-
lon, and in that section it may take
the place of nuts In chocolate fudge
Bakers Weekly.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23
Ole
D.. Il. Jones
Log Drive.
By FRANK H. SWEET
Copyright, 1909. by American Press
Association.
By FRANK H. SWEET
1909. by American Press
Association.

0URING a big log drive there Is
no time for anything but JUS
D keeping the logs in motion. es
pecially If the current be swift
and the river narrow, for then there i;
always danger of a jam. The river
men must be quick Of eye, alert and
with little fear for life or limb. The
drive must be kept compact and NOV
ing at whatever cost and the more sc
IL the spring flood be on the wane OF
Of less volume than usual. A ground.
ing or hopeless jamming of the logs
would mean great loss and perhaps
ruin to the lumberman.
So when q log here and there is
drawn away from its fellows, caught
by an eddy or counter current, and
drifts into a cove or inlet or against q
bank 1t is left behind for later recov-
cry unless the river gang Is strong
enough to detail some one to hurry
forward the laggard.
The ID. II. Jones Lumber company
had an unusually big drive that spring
for various reasons, chief among
nulCA WIS ld1h VI Az abo 49,
quent water the spring before. This
had left many of that winters logs
high and dry on the bank, all of which
had been 1oated by the present big
flood. Moreover, the I'D. II. Jones
drive," as it was called, was unusually
short handed for the reason that small
pox had broken out In camp, and the
gang was not only obliged to do with
out the services of the sick ones, but
also of the men who had volunteered
to look after them. So now as the
huge raftlike mass, covering q half
mile of the river length, went sweep
ing down on the flood 1t required every
man of them to control the broad,
tempestuous surface. Sometimes for
rods together, when the river ran
smooth between straight banks, there
would be scarcely a culver among the
logs. Then a bit of rapids or a mar
rowing sweep around a curve would
seem to quicken every individual log
into life, and they would twist and
turn and jump end On end, each APP
parently determined to make the jour-
ney In its own way without regard to
Its fellows. Then the river men would
have to risk life on the q%uickness of
their eyes and feet rs they sprang
from log to log, twisting and swaying
with the tossings of their mad foot
holds and thrusting their poles here
and there with strong, desperate pre-
cision to steady the curse of a log or
avert a threatened jam.
d. II. Jones had been at the logging
camp most of the winter, watching
and stimulating the men at the work,
and when snow fell on snow, cover
ing the land deeper and yet deeper,
although 1t would retard the chopping
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23


lake now and is wearing the very over
coat and pair of boots. You can &c
and see for yourself"
ID. II. Jones looked at his daughter
with troubled face.
"I'm half afraid young Brown is tell
ing the TRUTH" he said slowly, "and
that Barker was a rascal all the way
through, though l didn't know till aft
erward. I'm afraid
Afraid" echoed his daughter. "Why
you mean glad, father"
"Yes, yes, of ourse / ought to have
said that" He looked across toward
the young man. The space was widen
ing between them.
"Oh, look here, Ike" he called, you
keep on with the logs just as you are
doing, and If things turn out as you
say m give you $50 for the JOB and
will get you steady employment with
the man who buys me out. And, oh,
yes! Tell your father I'll make it all
right with him too. I'll send a man
over to Coon lake this very day"
He did, and it was just as Ike said,
and then-which proved a very good
thing for Ike-D. H. Jones did all he
had promised and a little more.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23

M ~ OOW&N OA $500 @@OO0s
somewhat, his scanned face had ex-
pressed more and more his increasing
satisfaction, and then when a sudden
thaw, followed by a warm rain, had
come In the spring, just as the last
log was skidded to the river bank, his
satisfaction wa complete. 1t was an
open secret that this was to be the last
winter of a lifetime of numbering and
that when the logs were sold he and
his only daughter, Florence, would go
to Europe for a long rest.
But d. II. Jones was an old man,
and when the winter snow began to
melt into the stream by a thousand
rivulets his strength gave out, and he
had to leave the direct oversight to
his foreman. He only went down the
river twenty miles or SO, however, and
there took rooms at a cottage on the
bank, from which he could watch the
drive go by. The next morning his
daughter, Florence, Joined him.
Much Of the old mans time was now
spent In a rowboat, and usually Flor
ence accompanied him, sometimes
rowing herself, but more often leaving
Ter father to manage the oars, for his
mind seemed most at rest when his
hands were actively employed.
The trips were always in m direc-
tion-up the river-and the second day
were repeated a dozen times. They
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-23

suddenly, what are you doing witt
my logs?"
FLOATING EN-" the boy answered
grimly. Cant you see?'
what fort"
another fool question. To follow
your drive. of course l haven't been
able to get any work, thanks to the
way you turned of my father, so I'm
looking after the logs. I've started
down 26S SO far. l can't stand seeing
good logs wasted, even If they do be-
long to somebody / don't like"
Are you telling the truth" sharply,
"and not
Stealing them, do you mean?" In
~dignantly. mo, sir, my people don't
steal. 1t was your own foreman took
the things my father was turned off
for. Barker is working over by Coon
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30
De ath of Mrs. Geo. E. Abbey.

IyfMrs Geo. E. Abbey died at her home
ION Weybridge street Monday morning
from complication of diseases from
which she had been sufferer for long
time, at the age of AZ years. Mrs Abbey
was member of the Methodist Church
Ladies of the Grand Army, and of Mid
dlebury Grange, No. 3l5. The funeral
was held Wednesday afternoon from the
house at $3.50 o'clock, Rev.S DR.. G. H.
Dickinson. officiating. The following
acted as bearers: DR.. w. H. Sheldon,
Carl Frost, E c. Severance, w. NJ. Jack
son, G. +. Rich, and Solomon Lapine.
The burial was in the West cemetery.
AT the grave the rtualistic services were
conducted by the ladies of Russell Circle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30
Wins College Professorship.

President Thomas of Middlebury col
lege announces the appointment of
Thomas G. Brown as assistant profess
sor of geology in Middlebury college.
Mr.. Brown is a graduate of Amherst, in
the class of 1904, and has taken graduate
work in geology in Columbia university
Recently he has been employed as geol-
ogist for the New York city board of
water supply. He was born in Fitch
burg, and prepared for college in the
Fitchburg high school. He will be one
of five new men to be added to the fac
ulty of Middlebury the ensuing year
F'itchburg (Mass.) Sentinel.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30

Fred MAYHEM of Burlington was Wis
itor in town the first of the week.
Frank Harrington of Brandon was a
recent business visitor in town.
Fred Briggs of Brandon was in town
Wednesday,
Dr. and Mrs. Washburne left Wednes-
day for their new home in Rupert.
Mrs. Charles Hooker is in Pittsburgh
for an extended stay.
L. H. Day of Ripton was business
visitor in town the first of the week.
Mrs. E. II. Thomas has returned from
visit with her niece, Anna Thomas. in
Brandon.
Mrs. E. P. Cushman was visitor in
Vergennes on Tuesday.
Miss Myra Bagley will go to her home
in Rutland today to pass Saturday and
Sunday with her parents at the Brock
House.
MIR. and Mrs. William Mccoy have re.
turned from visit with her parents
MIR. and Mrs. E. l.. Miner in Bridport.
Miss Grace Buttolph has returned from
three weeks visit in Boston, Worces
ter, Northampton and Brattleboro.
The Ladies' Association for Home ant
Foreign Missions will meet with Miss L
Mabel Merrill Tuesday, May 4th, at
o'clock. Mrs. w. II. Brewster, leader.
Lake Dunmore lodge, l. O. o. f,
worked the second degree on severa
candidates at their regular meeting
Wednesday evening.
Miss Julia Carroll has returned from
Wilton, N. H., where she has been dur
ing the winter.
Miss Carrie Harris, who has been il
Mary Fletcher hospital the past wee
undergoing an operation for appendi
citis, is doing nicely
Thomas Campbell of Proctor has enter
tered the employ of the Brandon Italia
MarblesCompany
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30

Pure drugs-Dutton's.
Mileage Books at Marshalps.
Expert matchmaker, Brough.
Sweet potatoes at Woods Market.
Direct teas and coffees at buttons.
Home cured hams at Piper's market.
Large Pineapples at W ood's Market.
See the Leather Goods at l. 8. Waughs.
Suits that suit are sold by L s. Knight.
Fresh Strawberries every day AT Calvfs.
Buy your tobacco and cigars at Taylor's.
New Hats and Flowers at Miss Goodrlch's.
Try Kidders Orangeade at the lunch room.
Rain Coats, military collars. Ives Sham
DO.
Apollo chocolates-the distinctive. Shell
don's.
Base ball score cards free at Ives & Sham
bo's store.
Call at Piper's market for choice cuts OF
western beef.
GO to Taylor's restaurant for a.lunch or
square meal.
aighest cash price paid for beef hides at ]
K Piper's market
Cut flowers at all times at Hunts Green
houses 42tf
Call into Joe Calvi's and get milk shake
8 cents.
FOR SALE-seed oats and seed barley. J
w Fertig l4tf
Burpees Sweet Pea seeds AT SC per ounce
at Sheldons.
Seed corn for sale. S. j. Demo, liz. F. D. 6
MiddIebury, Vt. l7tip
Precautionary medals 10 cents AMI 25 cents
at 5heldon's
Slab stovewood; lowest prices in town
Dickinson Seeley.
Sheep Dip Kreso-Kills 'em. By gallon OF
In bulk Sheidon's.
Finest strains OF Aster seed grown and for
sale bv e G. Hunt.
Value received for your money here every
time. X. =. Benedict.
All kinds OF rough and finished lumber a
Dickinson l. seeley's.
Baled hay for sale Inquire of f. g. Bost
wick, West Salisbury. lst2p
FoUED-On North Pleasant street. a gooC
fur robe. Jerry DeGray. lst2
WAHTED-Woman to do washing in tn,
laundry. The Addison. 48tf
Honest Tea is the best policy Our tea
give satisfaction. r. Benedict.
FOR SALE-A lumber box wagon. IDQuir,
Eugene Eldridge, Middlebury. lst2
WAETED-An experienced dining room CIR
at Hotel Sargent. J. j. O'Connell. 5tf
Twenty five pounds OF tripe for 90 cents
cash. at the ]. X. Piper market.
Misunderstanding at my home in East Corn
wall. Mrs. WIN M. Manchester. ,st3p
Everything In the meat line at shackett'
Market. at live and let-live prices
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30
MlDDLEBURY LOCALS.

Mrs. C. l. Button visited in Brandon
his week.
Frank Winans, a former business man
here, was visitor in town Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Taber spent Sun
day in Vergennes.
Miss Georgia Bump returned Monday
after brief visit in Salisbury.
John Sears visited in North Ferrisburg
last week.
Miss Ellen Kelley visited her sister in
Monkton over Sunday.
Dean Cady spent Saturday and Sunday
in Monkton.
Miss Anna Thompson of New York
city is visiting relatives in town.
Mrs Henry Hammond entertained a
small bridge party on Wednesday after
noon.
Miss Eleanor Ross of the Rutland High
school visited old friends in Middlebury
last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Silas Wright of New Haven visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. b. F, Wales during the
week
Mrs. A. S. Hartman was called to her
old home in Maine last Tuesday by the
serious illness of her father.
At the regular meeting on Otter Greek
lodge, X. of P, the second rank was
worked on two candidates.
DIR. and Mrs. Dickinson gave a recep-
| ton at the parsonage on Tuesday even
ing to the students and young people of
the Congregational church.
Mrs. A. j. Taylor and daughter, Miss
Bertha, and Miss Proctor returned We'd
nesday to Burlington after short visit
to Miss Emma Meeker.
| The Woman's Foreign Missionary SOC
iety of the Methodist church will meet
with Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Severance
Wednesday afternoon, May 8, at o'clock
The annual meeting of the Woman't
Christian Temperance Union will be held
with Mrs. Asa Hemingway Friday after
noon. May 7, at o'clock.
The insurance people have adjusted
the claim of g. w. Ross and repairs are
being made on the Ross block, which
was quite badly damaged by fire.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30
FLOW Err

Now is the time to arrange
about your FLOWER BEDS, you
can make them as large as you
like, for Hunt has a very large
supply of nice Geraniums,
Coleus and all kinds of Bed
ding Plants, also Pansy, Yer
bena, Aster and other Seed
lings. CUT Flowers AND De
SIGN Work A SPECIALITY.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30
Business llotices.

Notices under this head ten cents per line
first insertion i've cents per line succeeding
insertions. Count seven short words to line
or six long ones.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-04-30

Thursday, clear; Friday, fair; Saturday fair
Sunday showers; Monday, clear; Tuesday
fair ;Wedn esday, fair
Highest 90; lowest, p.
Record kept by II. A. PECK.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-12

past. Father Connery was born in
Ballylanders, Co. Limerick, in 1851,
the eldest of a large family. two
others of whom are priests in the
Archdiocese of Cashel. He was or.
dained in 1877, and accepted a Mission
in the Diocese of Down and Conner,
where he remained for seven years,
winning for himself respect and esteem
of his Bishop and the affection of
priests and people. Recalled to his
native diocese in 1854, he ministered
successfully in the Parishes of Hospi-
tai, Co. Limerick, and Annacarthy, Co.
Tipperary. from the latter of which he
was promoted about a year ago to
the Passionate of Boherlahan.
Waterford.
Thomas Linehan, Chief INSPECTOR
,, for Munster of the Estates Commits
sioners. was present on May II, on the
Rock Lodge Farm, which has been pur-
chased by them from NJ. j. Murphy
for the purpose of dividing up among
some evicted tenants, and an AMIGA
ple arrangement is being made, and
those present were highly pleased with
Mr.. Linehan's suggestions.
Westmeath.
On May IS very influential meet
ing was held in the church. Eden-
derry, to take the initiative towards
the erection of a suitable memorial
to the late Father Kinsela. p. p,
whose ministry went back for more
than generation. and who was iden-
titled with every progressive move
mcnt for the material well-being Of
the town.
Wexford.
meeting of the Committee in.
trusted with the distribution of the
fund for the evicted tenants in the
County Wexford will be called in a
few days to allocate the money. This
fund was started in 1900 at the in
stance of Cardinal Logue for the pur-
pose of finding farms for the evicted
tenants. Seven hundred and fifty
pounds As. i'd. was collected, and of
this amount over 7S5 pounds was dis
tributed. Cardinal Logue has recently
sent 4s1 pounds 15s Sd. to the Trus-
tees Of the fund, which will bring the
amount to be divided among the ten
ants 1856 pounds las. lid
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-12
The Door,.

The Door.
Her hands were not soft as Won touch.
ed them.
Nor were they Of delicate hue;
They were hard and labor had
snutched them
She had always so much to do!
Others might idle in pleasure
The lingering hours away:
She never had a moment of leisure
Except when she knelt to pray.
She was lowly Of race and no beauty
Nor riches she ever could boast:
The Pathway to good she thought
duty.
And that was the way she loved
most.
So unto the sad and the weary
The touch of her hand was as balm.
And the words of her comforting,
CHEEKY.
AS sweet to their ears as a psalm.
To those that were burdened with sor >.
row.
She came like an angel to bless,
With hope Of brighter tomorrow.
When comfort should Danish dis
tress.
So she lived only known to her neigh
bors.
Remote from the worlds busv
And when she had ceased from her
labors.
There were few to mourn her or
praise.
But into the mansions Of glory,
Who can doubt of the welcome she
From the Master. who knew all her
story.
How she labored and loved and was
Aubrey De We're.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-12
Erin's Elao,

~"
unroll Erin's flag, fling its folds to the
breeze!
Let it float DER the land, let it flash
DER the seas!
Lift 1t out of the dust-let It wave az
OF yore,
When it's chiefs with their clans stood
around it and swore
That never! no. never! while God gave
- them life,
And they had an arm and a sword for
the strife,
That never! no, never! that banner
should yield
AS long as the heart of a Celt was its
shield:
While the hand of celt had a weapon
to WELD,
And his last drop Of blood was unshed
on the field.
Lift it up! wave it high! it's as
bright as of old!
Not a stain on its green, not q blot IN
its gold, IS
Tho the woes and the wrongs of thr.e
hundred long years
Have drenched Erin's Sunburst with
blood and with tears!
Though the clouds Of oppression en-
shrined it in gloom.
And around it the thunders of Tyranny
hoon