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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
HEAR! { HISTORY
OF: INSANITY
Members Of Tri-City Press Club at
Monthly Meeting Are Addressed
by Or. WE. Taylor.
SHOWS PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
Treatments Employed Now Are Same
as Taught in 400 B. c., But Aband-
oned for About 1900 Years.

The regular monthly meeting and
dinner of the Tri-City Press club was
held last evening at the Harper house
and the club members enjoyed very
Interesting talk by DR.. w. e. Taylor,
superintendent of the WATERFOWL hos
pital, following the excellent dinner
served by Manager Shuler. Dr.. Tay-
lor first stated that he is expert in
nothing but farming, but he is able TO
raise 456 bushels of potatoes in one
acre, scientifically treated, while in
the adjoining field of the same size.
not specially treated, produced ~
bushels. He urged that the press give
great encouragement for the move
ment for scientific farming.
History of Insanity.
DR.. Taylor's remarks were largely
in discussion of the care of the in
sane He pointed out that since the
beginning of the world there have
been insane people. but until about
the fourth century, 3. c., insane per
sons were not regarded as afflicted
with a disease, but were thought to
have been sent by god either as a
curse or a blessing In 400, b. c.,
Hypocrates first taught that insanity
was mental disease, and he taught and
practiced the cure of insanity by
scientific treatment much the same as
is now in use. The elements OF me-
dicinal baths, music. employment, and
Kindness, all had a large part in his
treatment of the disease. He distin-
guished between hysteria, dementia,
and other forms of insanity. For 500
years the treatment of the insane fol-
lowed along the course he had taught.
but after that, for 1,SG0 years, there
was a horrible period. Insane per-
sons were treated as wild beasts, and
even as late as 1882 there were cases
where insane persons were loaded with
chains, cast into dungeons as wild an
inlals, and were exhibited on payment
or a fee In 1896 Philip Pencil began
teaching the scientific treatment of
insanity. and the knowledge of insan-
ity and the proper treatment of men,
tai diseases grows better every year.
In the last two decades great strides
have been made by science along this
line.
Is Not Increasing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
It Does the Business.

E.. e. chamberlain of Clinton,
Maine. says Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve:
1T does the business: l have used it
for piles and It cured them Used il
for chapped hands and it cured them.
Applied it &c an old sore and it healed
1t without having a scar behind" 25
cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27

what seems to be an increase is SIM
ply an increase in the treatment OF
the disease in public hospitals This |
Is the result Of the realization by the
public that patients are given the best
possible care and most scientific treat i
ment in these places.
DIR. Taylor gave a description OF
Watertown hospital in the treatment
of the insane, including the scarlet
rays, the ultraviolet rays, hydrothera-
peutic treatment, amusement, employ
ment. and music Some of these mod
ern methods. he stated, were in use
1000 years ago
The Actual Results.
DR.. Taylor gave some very interest
ing facts to show the actual results
attained in the treatment of mental
disease. He stated that last year 1888
per cent of the patients were discharg-
| ed as cured, and of this number 80 per
i cent were cured without the use of
medicine The state of Illinois, DR..
Taylor added, has spent S125,000 in
the installation of these "fads and
fancies' in the treatment of insanity
in the last year.
Dr. Taylor concluded his remarks
with a strong argument for strict laws
TO prohibit the marriage or persons af-
fiicted with mental diseases, or with
diseases that form predisposition to
insanity. He gave an outline of the
development of different forms of in
sanity, and showed the effect, of dis
ease in the parents on the mind of the
insane person.
DR.. Taylor stated that Is of the IA
carpenters who built the tuberculosis
building at Watertown have since been
discharged as cured. There is now
only one shoemaker in the hospital
The results show conclusively the sue.
cess of the treatment of the disease
by the baths, employment, ray treat
ment, and the other methods employ.
ed at WATERFOWL.
Think Ii Prison.
On the conclusion of DR.. Taylor's
talk. g. +. Tillinghast of Davenport.
former president OF the Press club
made few remarks. in discussion OF
DIR. Taylor's address. He expressed
the clubs appreciation of the talk
and declared that it was somewhat in
the nature of a revelation. Many peo
Iple, he pointed out. have the impress
lsion that the hospital for the insane
lis nothing more than a prison, to
which the afflicted person is sent, to be
left in his despair. The advance OF
science, and the percentage of cures
he said, was in the nature of a sur.
!prise 20 one who has not made study
Iof the subject Mr. Tillinghast sug.
gested that the Press club owes it to
the people of the tri-cities to have DR.
Taylor give public lecture. and this
he suggested, would serve to correct
many OF the wrong impressions which
exist in, the average mind regarding
the WATERFOWL hospital, and the ordin
iafy hospital for the insane.
| TIE club adjourned, after transact
ing the usual routine of business.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27

Only One "Bromo Quinine."
That is Laxative Bromo Quinine
Look for the signature of E. w. Grove
Used the world over to cure a cold In
one day. Csc.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
AS STRAIGHT MEN SEE HIM.
The Dead-Beat Is Probably the Most
Dcspised Creature That Walks
the Earth.

No man is wholly free from sin, but
SO many lesser evils are tolerated that
man should hesitate long before be-
coming dead-beat. Criminals are de-
spised and abhorred, but to the dead
beat all that is coming, as well as the
contempt of his fellow men. There is
something at once so mean and so lit
tie in taking advantage of the conf
dence which comes with friendship
that the hand of every man is turned
against dead-beat as soon as his
reputation is we'll established. The
dead-beat may fondly. imagine he is
living easy and making money with
out work, and, of course, he takes no
account of the confidence he violates
and the hardships he infiicts on 9TH
ers. But, that aside, he really has a
harder time than the man who is
honest and fair He is compelled to
move good deal, and peace of mind
he knows not. Like other types of
crooks, he doesn't prosper. and his
finish is more unpleasant than the be.
ginning.-AtchiSOn Globe,
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SYNOPSIS.

Murray Sinclair and his gang of wreck
ers were called out to clear the railroad
tracks at Smoky Creek. McCloud, a
young road Superintendent, caught Sin
the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded in
nocence, declaring 1t only amounted to a
small sum-a treat for the men. McCloud
discharged the whole outfit and ordered
acquainted with, Dicksie Dunning, a girl
OF the west. who came to look at the
wreck. She gave him a message for Sin
Clair; Whispering" Gordon Slnith. told
President Bucks OF the railroad, OF Nc
crazed miners and that was the reason
for the superintendent appointment to
his high office. McCloud arranged to
board al the boarding house of Mrs. Sin
CLAIR, the ex-foremans deserted wife.
late Richard Dunning, who had died OF a
broken heart shortly after his wifc's
demise. which occurred after one veal. of
Glars shop and a fight Between en- him and
McCioud was narrowly averted. Smoky
Creek bridge was mysteriously burned.
McCloud prepared to face the situation.
President Bucks notified Smith that he
days and finally got the division running
in fairly good order He overheard Dick
sic critIcising his methods, to Marion
Sinclair. A stock train was wrecked by
was held up and the express car robbed
Two men of posse pursuing the bandits
were killed McCloud was notified that
Whispering Smith was to hunt the des-
proposed that Sinclair and his gang be
sent to hunt the bandits, stranger. ap-
parently with authority. told him to go
ahead. Dancing was told the stranger
w nroacne Wh sppea h ea to sm by $
off but failed
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Suggestion Of Sherlock Holmes Found
Useful by Girl Who Likes to Re
Well Dressed,

Apparently, the room was comfort
able, but it had one insurmountable
drawback.
There is only one place to keep the
bureau" said the tall girl; therefore
cannot live here. ! must have a
room large enough to permit hauling
the bureau around. Here it will have
to stand always SO the light from the
window will strike my left side while
dress. That would be detrimental to
the small share Of good looks now pos
sessed by my right side.
Sherlock Holmes put me on to the
necessity Of switching my looking
glass around every little while. II
wish to preserve a uniformity of good
looks. He pointed out that the side
Of the body that the light strikes most
directly while dressing will always be
best groomed. The hair will be curled
more artistically. the powder be laid
on more smoothly. and even the
clothes will be arranged more becom-
ingly. This being 50. it stands to rea-
son that the side that gets most at
tention constantly is going to improve
In the same ratio that the neglected
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
CHILD HAD SIXTY BoILs.
And Suffered Annually with a Red
ScaId-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by cuticura.

when my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later humor broke out be-
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half COW
cred. The humor looked like scald,
very red with sticky, clear fluid COM
ing from it. This occurred every
spring. I always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that 1 was dis
couraged. But continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resell
vent until she was we'll and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. schwerin, GA Spring Wells
Ave-, Detroit, Mich, Feb. "a, 1908"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props.. Boston.
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Like ar Earthquake.

Former High Sheriff Chesterfield c..
Middlebrooks, whose bungalow at
Highland lake stands partly over the
lake on stone and cement foundations,
was awakened at four o'clock the
other morning by loud noises which
he says shook his bungalow like an
earth tremor
He says that after the household
had been shaken out of sound sleep,
he, not waiting to dress, went outside
to ascertain the cause of the noise
He found, he says, that monster
frog had it's bed directly under the
bungalow. The frog weighed fully
six pounds, he says, and every time it
croaked the bungalow cracked and
shook.
Mr.. Middlebrooks bought an anchor,
strong rope and enough red flannel
to bait 100 hooks, and will try to save
his property by capturing the bull
frog.-Winsted (Conn.) dispatch to
New York World.
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| ing ranch. Right-of-way men had been
working for months with Lance Dun
ming over the line and McCloud had
been called frequently into consulta-
ton to adjust the surveys to objec-
tons raised by Dicksies cousin to the
crossing Of the ranch lands. Even
when the proceedings had been closed
strong current of discomfort set
from the managing head of the Stone
dissatisfaction often reached the rail
road people. Vague talk of an extern
sive irrigation scheme planned by Sin
clair for the Crawling Stone valley
crept into the newspapers, and 1t was
generally understood that Lance Dun
ming had expressed himself favorably
to the enterprise.
Dlcksie gave slight heed to matters
as weighty as these. She spent much
Of her time on horseback. with Jim
under the saddle; and in Medicine
Bend, where she rode with frequency,
Marion's shop became her favorite
abiding place. Dicksie ordered hats
until Marion's conscience rose and she
practically refused to supply any
more. But the spirited controversy
on this point, as on many others
Dicisie's haughtiness and Marion's re-
straint, quite unmoved by any show of
ispleasure-ended always in drawing
the two closer to each other.
One March afternoon, coming home
from Ma6iTino hn
distance before her party of men on
horseback. She was riding trail
leading from the pass road that fol-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
The Erudite Barber

Il don't see." said the erudite baf.
Der as he stropped his razor, why our
customers complain that men Of our
profession are exceedingly loquacious.
All who enter the modern BARRIERS
place Of business should know what
to expect. Every barber shop is a
'tonsorial parlor' nowadays. The word
'parlor' literally means talking room,
just as parliament means an Assem-.
bly, OF takers. Parlor and parliament
have the same root Us the French
'parlez. which means to talk. and then
there Is the English 'parley,' to ex.
change words Moreover"
Moreover" gasped the victim in
the chair. I am In very parlous
position
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"cousin Lancet"

ton laws will protect our rights
Il certainly can't put grade in be-
low the flume, and you refuse to talk
about our crossing above it."
II certainly do
why not let us cross where we
are. and run a new level for your ditch
that will put the fume higher up?"
you will have to cross below the
fiume where it stands, or you won't
cross the ranch at ALL
McCloud was silent for moment.
Il am using a supported grade there
for eight miles to get over the hill
within three-tenths limit l can't
drop back there We might as well
not build at all If we can't hold our
grade. whereas it would be very sim
pie to run a new line for your ditch,
and my engineers will do it for you
without dollar of expense to you,
Mr.. Dunning."
Lance Dunning waved his hand as
an ultimatum. Gross where l tell
you to cross, or keep off the Stone
ranch. Is that English?"
ut certainly is. But In matter OF
fact we must cross on the survey
agreed on in the contract for a right
of-way deed.'
Il don't recognize any contract OBJ
tanned under false representations"
do you accuse SIC of false repre-
sentations?"
Lance Dunning tipped the ash from
his cigar. who are you?"
Il am just plain, everyday civil
engineer, but you must not talk false
representations in any contract drawn
under my hand"
Il am talking facts. Whispering
Smith may have rugged the joker
don't know. Whoever rugged 1t. 1t has
been rugged all right"
ANY charge against Whispering
J Smith is a charge against me. He i,
not here to defend himself, but he
needs no defense. You have charged
me already with misleading surveys
was telephoned for this morning tt
come over to see why you had helt
up our work, and your men cover me
with rifles while am riding on 4
public road"
You have been warned, or you
men have. to keep on this ranch. You
man Stevens cut our wires this morn
ing
AS he had perfect right to do OF
our right Of way"
II You think 80. stranger, 80 ahead
again"
''oh. no! We won't have civil wa,
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until long detour brought her around
the corrals and in at the back of the
house Throwing her lines to the
ground, she alighted and through the
back porch door made her way unob-
served to her room From the office
across the big hall she heard mems
voices in dispute, and she slipped into
the dining room, where she could hear
and might see without being seen.
The office was filled with cowboys.
Lance Dunning, standing with cigar
in his hand and one leg thrown over
corner of the table, was facing Nc
Cloud, who stood before him with his
hand on chair. Lance was speaking
as Dicksie looked into the room, and
in curt tones: my men were acting
under my ORDERS
"You have no right to give such or
ders," McCloud said, distinctly, nor
to detain me, nor to obstruct, our free
passage along the right of way you
have agreed to convey to us under our
survey"
Damn your survey. ! never had
a plat of any such survey. l don't
recognize any such survey. And if
your right-of-way men had ever said a
word about crossing the creek above
the t1ume l never would have given
you right of way at ALL"
There were never but two lines
run below the creek; after you raised
objection l ran them both, and both
were above the flume'
We'll, you can't put a grade there
| and some of my neighbors are going
to dam up that BASIN and the irriga-
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lowed the hills, and the party was
coming up the bridge road from the
lower ranch. Dicksie had good eyes,
and something unusual in the riding
of the men was soon apparent to her.
Losing and regaining sight OF them at
different turns in the trail she made
out, as she rode among the trees, that
they were cowboys of her own ranch,
and riding, under evident excitement,
about strange horseman She rec
ognized In the escort Stormy German,
the ferOcious foreman of the ranch,
and Denison and Jim Baugh, two of
the most reckless of the men. These
three carried rifles slung across their
pommels, and in front of them rode
the stranger.
Fragments of the breakfast-table
talk of the morning came back to
Dicksie's mind. The railroad graders
were in the valley below the ranch,
and She had heard her cousin say a
good deal on point she cared little
about, as to where the railroad should
cross the Stone ranch. Approaching
the fork of the two roads toward
which she and the cowboys were rid
ing, she checked her horse in the
shade Of q cottonwood tree. and as
the party rode up the draw she saw
the horseman under surveillance. 1t
was George McCloud.
Unluckily, as she! caught glimpse
Of him she was conscious that he was
looking at her. She bent forward to
hide q momentary confusion, spoke
briskly to her horse, and rode out Of
sight. At Marion's she had carefully
avoided him. Her precipitancy at theil
last meeting had seemed, on refec
ton. unfortunate. She felt that she
must have appeared to him shockingly
rude, and there was in her recalling o.
the scene an unconfessed impression
that she had been to blame. Otter
when Marion spoke Of him, which She
/ did without the slightest reserve AMI
with nd reference as to whether Dick
sic liked It or not. 1t had been in Dick
| sizes mind to bring up the subject o
the disagreeable scene. hoping tina
Marion would suggest q way for ma
king some kind Of unembarrassini
A amendS. But such opportunities hai
slipped away unimproved, and her,
was the new railroad superintendent
i whom their blum neighbor Sinclair
never referred to other than az til,
college guy, being brought apparentl,
I - ! prisoner to the Stone ranch.
Busied with her thoughts, Dicksi,
strode slowly along the upper trail
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
CHAPTER XII.
The Quarrel.

The beginning of the Crawling Stone
line marked the first determined effort
under President Bucks, while under
taking the reconstruction of the sys.
tenn for through traffic, to develop the
rich local territory tributary to the
mountain division. New policies in
construction dated from the same
period. Glover. with an enormous
capital staked for the new undertake
ings, gave orders to push the building
every month in the year, and for the
first time In mountain railroad build.
ing winter was to be ignored. The
older mountain men met the innova.
ton as they met any departure from
their traditions, with curiosity and dis.
trust. On the other hand, the new and
younger blood took hold with con.
fidence, and when Glover called, "Yo
heave ho!" at Headquarters, they bent
themselves clear across the system fol
q hard pull together.
McCloud. resting the operating on
the shoulders Of his assistant Ander
son. devoted himself wholly to for
warding the construction plans and
his first clash over winter road-build
ing In the Rockies came with his owl
sright-hand man, Mears. McCloud pu
~ switch below Piedmont. opened !,
material yard and began track laying
toward tho lower Crawling Stone val
ley, when Mears aaid It was time d
atom work TIL anrfng. When Mc(slana
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DESIGN IN SHIFTING BUREAU

side deteriorates. and that the person
who dresses for months before glass
that always stands in the same posi-.
ton as regards the light is going to
get really lopsided SO far as good
looks are concerned"
The top-foor girl sighed refectively
Il wonder" she said, IF that is tbs
reason my hair is so much thinner OF.
the right side. I'm going right straight
home and move my bureau"
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Then He Moved On.

"Hello!" said the bore, leaning over
the office railing, whats new this
morning?"
"That paint you're leaning against"
gleefully replied the busy man.-Cale-
DOMAIN.
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Too often when the heart is willing
the purse is weak
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umpor,an. to motners.
What Did He Mean2

The MAORI saved that rose you
gave me last week. Miss Antique; for
though it is withered it still reminds
me of you!
Miss Antique-Sir!
The sun., 1909-05-17
DIDN'T talk TO STRIKERS.
Secretary Brayers Invitation to Speak
Fails to Appear.

Secretary d. II. Brayer. .of. the East Side
Boss Bakers Association expected to re-
ceive an invitation yesterday from the
striking bakers to address them at their
central headquarters at l27 Delaney
street. and waited until late in the after
noon.. but no message came for him.
1t was learned that the bakers whom he
had addressed on the previous evening
had sent committee OF one to the strike
leaders with proposition that he he in
yited TO give the employers side OF the
question, but the committee was turned
down. No regular meeting OF the strikers
was held yesterday, but they gathered at
their headquarters for a good part OF the
day. Max Kasimirsky. the strike leader,
said yesterday evening:
IF any OF the strikers on Saturday
evening invited Mr.. Brayer to address
them and give the employers side OF the
question they acted without authority. MIR
Mr.. Brayer could only address the strikers
by going through the same process that
any other outsider would go thr ough.
He would have to bring ere dentials from
his association and ask for perm lssion to
take the floor with proposition from the
bosses association. This would be taken
up by the meeting. and il it was voted
to let him have the floor he would have
the floor. That is all there is IL it
Secretary Brayer said that before the
meeting OF the strikers he had addressed
in Avenue & on Saturday asked him to
address a general meeting OF the strikers
he had been visited by the lawyer Tor the
strikers. who suggested some kind OF
meeting to see il the strike could not be
settled. The lawyer was told. according
to Secretary Brayer. that the employers
were willing to meet representatives OF
the bakers but not OF the union. he con-
tinued:
Il could not go to address the strikers
on the invitation Of number Of them
unless l had been asked by the strike
leaders. They did not want to ask me.
because ! should have showed there was
no merit In the strike. As far as the boss
bakers are concerned they have nothing
against the union and never had. but
they will not employ any one except on
the open shop basis. and this strike is
for the recognition OF the union. 1t is
settling itself. as far as the downtown
bakeries are concerned. by tho strilers
returning to work.