davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
The Healing
Power of Pine

If you have ever taken walk
through a forest of pine trees you will
remember how, almost unconsciously.
the head was thrown back and lungs
expanded as you inhaled with long,
deep breaths the glorious pinelads1
air. How invigorating it was-how
healing.
The medicinal virtues Of pine have
been recognized in medical practice for
many years. For coughs and colds the
mixture of two ounces Of Glycerine
with a heif-ounce of virgin Oil of Pine
compound pure and eight ounces IF
pure Whisky is highly recommended.
1t is claimed that a teaspOonful of this
mixture four times day. viii break
cold in "a hours and cure any cough
that Is durable. The ingredients are
not expensive and can be bought in
any good drugstore. the genuine Virgin
Oil of Pine compound pure being put
up for dispensing only by the Leach
Chemical Co., Cincinnati
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
CoreIess Annie.

Are we to have the coreless as well
as the seedless apple?
Now don't laugh. An authentic mes
sage from Spokane conveys the inter
esting information that such fruit has
been taken from a single tree of I'M
known variety in an eight-acre orchard
at Moran Prairie, five miles north of
Spokane, owned by B. K. Short, a
rancher. The largest of the fruit, nc
cordinS to the message, is three
inches in diameter. the color being a
yellowish green, streaked with rel,
and having cheeks of pink, firm flesh
and excellent flavor.
AS you laugh, your mouth waters Of
course.
A number Of the apples were
brought before a board of inquiry at
the Spokane apple show, quartered,
and to the amazenent Of the inquisit-
ors, found to be just as represented.
1t Is the intention to graft the scions
on other trees during the coming
spring. Expert pomologists say if the
process is successful, the discovery
will DE Of greater commercial import.
ance than any yet credited to Luther
Burbank and other plant wizards.
And so it would, but great heavens,
what would be the distress when two
boys have but one apple between them
and there is no core?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

old world. both in their manner of life
and their manner Of speech. The dis
corning reader will see at once the re-
lationship that exists between the peo-
pie of Goshen and the people of Dorl-
cote Mill. And the public that still
remembers and reads 'The Mill on
the Floss" and adam Bede" will well
come aunt Jane of Kentucky and
''The Land of Long Ago"
Woman's Home Companion fer No
venber-The city of Pittsburg, the
life of an actress, the franchise for
women in Denver. all these are most
entertainingly discussed in the Wo-
mans Home Companion for Novem-
ber Special Investigators who have
gone to live in Pittsburg, and who have
had rare opportunities to observe its
social life, say that ''Pittsburg may be
likened to a huge pie, with upper and
lower crust a-plenty, but a noticeable
lack of what the good housewife real
ICES is the chief feature-the filling"
AS for the stage, the actress who tells
her story here has found that 20
pounds of weight and good digestion
are but two of the things she paid for
her experience. But women will no
doubt still venture on the stage-just
as women will still struggle for the
ballot-in spite Of the fact that in Den
yer according to an article by Den
yer woman politician in this issue) the
much-prized privilege has crumbled to
dust in their hands. These women es-
pecially will be interested in the story
Of a club-woman, who resigned alb
ruptly from all clubs and will never
go near them again. Yes, women will
continue to venture-and successfully
AS witness the experience of Lillian
Todd, the first woman to build an
aeroplane, who tells her remarkable
story in this months Woman's Home
Companion. A very different woman
is Queen Elena, ideal mother, whose
story is told by Kellogg Durland. A
new detective story by Anna Kathar-
inc Green in this issue begins well.
There are stories also by Kate Doug
las Wiggin, Alice Brown and many
others. And there is another chapter
of Edward Everett Hale's popular rem
iniscences.- So much for pure enter
tainment. For practical use there are
the 16 regular departments. Especi-
ally interesting are the two for moth
ers. Fashions in furs, an article on
hammered brass, "a Three-Thousand-
Dollar House." are a few of the inter
esting, useful subjects covered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
In the Acute Stage.

The question of inland waterway i'm
provement is now in its acute stage.
Like all great public questions involv-
ing the expenditure of money from the
national treasury the principal object
in view has been overlooked in the dis
cussioa of the question of cost. Today,
thanks to an awakened public senti-
ment in and among public officials. 10
| less than in the great body of citizen
ship, the question of cost has become
secondary because of the demonstra-
ton Of the benefits that would ensue
to all classes of trade and commerce
and, inevitably, to the great body If
commemorative benefits far exceeding
the cost, fact that is now admitted
as freely as it is admitted that the
grossly inadequate.
If there has been delay in the
awakening of public sentiment on the
question of inland waterway improve
ment and if there has been delay in
the awakening of the Official mind, it
is none the less true that when the
American people make up their minds
to the doing of any great work, the
work is done. The recent trip of
President Taft down the Mississippi
showed, as no other object lesson
could show, the determination to form
ulate policy and to pursue that policy
without halting-with the pork barrel
for all time eliminated and with pro-
jects determined on their merits and
not on extraneous influences and car
ried on to completion for the public
good and the advancement of the trade
and commerce of the whole country.
That feature Of the new policy which
has grown to proportions of active life
and perfect strength through the ac-
tivity and persistence of the National
Rivers and Harbors congress, was
made plain by the president in his ad-
dress at st. Louis. 1t is a policy in
which all who favor inland waterway
Improvement for the general good will
unite with the utmost heartiness.
Another showing of the demand for
improvement of the inland waterways
of the country is in a recent exceeding
1y well timed editorial in the Memphis
Commercial Appeal in which that
paper, from the banks of the Missls-
sippi, demands the Improvement of the
Ohio river to nine foot stage not for
the benefit Of the people Of the Ohio
valley states alone, but for the trH
mendous impetus it would give to the
development of the great Mississippi
valley. The Commercial Appeal took
a broad view of the question. In the
Improvement of the Ohio would be the
improvement of trade and commerce,
with the benefits not confined to one
section but extending throughout the
country. 1.-THE people want this i'm
provement," said the Commercial APP
peal, mot because Of the money the
government will spend but because it
will be tremendous benefit" 1t was
a comprehensive endorsement OF the
platform Of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress-'A policy, not a
project'-under which alone the policy
outlined by President Taft and de-
manded by the whole people can be
carried out
There is no further doubt Of the de-
mand. The need Is to impress 1t On
the congress to the point Of action.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
~ stand much more disappoint.

can't stand much more disappoint-
ment"
Crissy stared at him coldly; then she
addressed Mr.. Barney:
Tell me all about your case. ana
will write at once"
The old man deIightedIy plunged into
an inexhaustible account of battles,
marches. hospitals. prisons and so
forth Meanwhile Crissy's pen was
scratching wildly over the paper.
"See If this will dog she asked.
NV Dear George-You once said that
there was nothing in the world that you
would refuse 20 do for me. L want some
thing very much now, and know that
you will do II for me because i ask you
to There is an old soldier in our city
for whom fathers firm has been trying
TO get a pension. and after all their red
tape they have failed through some tech
nicaIity His name Is Leartus f. Barney,
and he served in Company A. Twenty
fifth Illinois, as private. corporal and SER
Reant He served a full term and re-
enlisted. was wounded at Fair Oaks and
was afterward taken prisoner. VIII you
get his pension through BY special act?
7 remember that you did this for a SOL
dier last administration. Do you remem-
Der telling me about 1t one winters night?
Get 1t as quickly as you can and L will
believe everything you said to me. AS
ever your devoted CRlSSY.
"That will fetch 1t" said the old man
gleefuIly.
Now will address it, Hon. George
I. Ouackenbush, NJ. O., Washington,
d. g. Now we will so together and
mail it,"
Later. when the judge came back.
Dumont asked him if he could be put
on the GridIey case and make the
western trip.
Indeed, you may, Dumont," replied
the Judge. 1--WE will all be too glad to
shift the case off our hands TO you"
Crissy looked crestfallen and disap-
pointed when her father told her the
next day that Dumont had gone west
and would be gone for a month.
"He might at least have said good
by she thought.
Her buoyancy vanished day by day,
and she grew pensive and pathetic.
"1'T never trife again." she thought
sadly.
In a months time Dumont returned
and reported his success in the Gridley
case.
How is Miss Marsh?" he asked
stiffly after they had discussed the
case.
"Crissy hasn't been very well lately,
but she's positively happy today. near
" as happy as old Barney. He's got
his pension. $12 per month, and good
bit of back pension. 1t came through
special act. 1t seems Crissy wrote to
a friend of hers who is a congress-
man."
Eyes; 1 know she did," be replied.
with a bitter recollection of the day it
was written.
George Quackenbush married Girls
sy's most intimate friend" Informed
the judge.
HE is married. exclaimed Dumont
jOyfully.
YES" replied the judge; che wouldn't
have been If 1t hadn't been for Crissy.
She patched up a lovers quarrel be-
tween him and the girl he married.
and in the joy of reconciliation he Of
fered to do anything she ever asked
him. BY the way, hadn't you better so
and see CrissyT'
But the young man had already
started toward the door
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
Japanese Mushroor GROWING.

The japanese have an interesting
method of growing a kind OF mush-
room known as the wood mushroom.
Agaricus shitake. This species, which
is much priced as a food in Japan, Is
related to the so called honey fungus.
n species'very destructive TO the roots
Of trees and woody plants. This latter
species. II may be noted. is one of the
causes of phosphorescence in decaying
wood. The Japanese method of grove
ing their mushroom seems to consist
IN preparing the ground for it. A cop
pice Of red oak, beech or chestnut of
some twenty years growth is cut down
Just after the fall of the leaf. The
wood is then left lying for n hundred
days. II is then cut into lengths OF
three or four feet. and the logs are
lacerated with large pruning knives
Spores settle on the wounded parts.
and the n;ycelium of the fungus
spreads through the tissues of tho
wood. Next year a crop of mushrooms
springs mp. The production OF mush-
rooms may so on for six years, but the
main crop Is gathered the second year
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
KiIIs Her Foe of 20 Years.

1.-THE most merciless enemy 1 had
for 20 years. declares Mrs. James
Duncan of Haynesville. Me. was Dys-
pepsia. l suffered intensely after eat
ing or drinking and could scarcely
sleep. After many remedies had failed
and several doctors gave me up, l
tried Electric Bitters, which cured me
completely. Now I can eat anything.
am 20 years old and am overjoyed
to get my health and strength back
again." For Indigestion, Loss Of APP
petite, Kidney Trouble. Lame Back,
Female Complaints, its unequaled.
Only SOC at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
The Argus Daily Short Story
BY Special Act-By Belle Maniates.
Copyrighted. 1903. by Associated Literary Press

'Well. Crissy. what can 1 do for
your" asked the judge of his fail
young daughter as she stood in the
| doorway of his outer office.
"You know" said Crissy gravely. 81
filed an application with you several
weeks ago for an increase in my dis.
bursement fund. called to see what
you have done with my claim
The judges eyes twinkled. He look
ed at his watch.
II am so sorry. but 1 have a press
| ing engagement Pll turn your case
over to Charles" glancing at an ad-
joining desk.
| The brown, manly face flushed boy
ishly as he met the dancing eyes.
II refuse to be turned over" said
Crissy dippantly II applied to you,
and 1 shall await your pleasure-at
your desk-until you return
Very well," replied the judge. al
leave you in possession
WheE he had left the room the two
| remaining inmates were conscious of
the silence. The girl cast surreptitious
side glances toward the young attOr-
ney. but he kept doggedly at work
The first day that Charles Dumont
had entered the law firm as junior
partner he had seen a wonderful vision
"a very lovely face. with eyes of heav-
ems own biue-hovering near the
judges desk. He was conscious, with
rush of blood to his face. that his
heart was no longer his own. Crissy
was too much of a coquette not to see
the effect she produced. and thereafter
she proceeded to make life miserable
for him.
One day she was gracious and charm
ing to him; the next she scarcely
deigned him a glance. He stood the
treatment heroicalIy for awhile; then
he rebelled. Quietly and manfully he
told her of his love and demanded her
hand and heart.
But Crissy's young heart was not
yet ripe for love, and she said him nay
merrily. Then be accused her OF being
hirt. She resented the accusation.
They had not been on speaking terms
for two days. and Crissy found the
silence almost embarrassing.
Presently the door opened and an
old man far beyond the threescore and
ten limit entered. His cheeks were
round and rosy. and his eyes twirkled
good humoredly.
$50 the Jedge amt in,'' be said re-
gretfully.
"A1r Barney" began the young man.
""your case
Crissy saw a way now to make him
speak to her.
II am filling the judges place this
morning. Mr.. Barney" she said sweet
~. as there anything 1 can do for
your
The young man Redeemed angrily.
but the old man came forward, smil-
Ing.
Bent you the jedge's daughter?
You look just like him."
THANK you. Mr. Barney. Yes. am
his daughter. If you will state your
case will lay it before my father
well. ron see. your pa has been try
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
why Not Let Them Know?

The Granite City Press tells story
that POINTS a moral to business men
everywhere. Merchants complain
about the increase of business of mail
order houses IN their localities. News
papers inveigh against the policy of
patronizing the mail order houses. But
still these vampires keep right on
doing business and selling goods that
ought to be purchased of local mer-
chants. Why is this so? The Granite
City Press explains it, in the story It
tells, as follows:
"a merchant in a small town who
saw farmer receive a bill of goods
at a railroad station from mail order
house told him he could have sold the
same goods for less money and saved
the freight besides. The farmer asked
why he didn't let the people know.
Though he had taken the home paper
regularly for years, he never saw a
line that such goods were to be had.
The mail order house came after the
trade and got it. Merchants and
manufacturers who fail to advertise
what they have should not expect to
compete with those who do The very
best articles at the lowest prices will
be passed by when the people are un-
aware of their existence. Probably II
the merchant had advertised and the
farmer had bought from him be
wouldn't have known that his adver-
hsement had brought the business,
anyway, and so wouldn't have given
It credit. Publicity often reaches much
further than Is outwardly perceptible."
The mail order houses understand
the value Of publicity and use it to the
limit. and that is the secret Of their
success. They don't sell the same
quality OF goods any cheaper than the
local merchant can and frequently
hoes. But they let the people know
what they have for sale and persuade
purchasers to deal with them by adver-
Using their goods and their prices,
which they make attractive. Local
merchants by pursuing the same pol
Icy can extend their business and
their profits.
But local merchants must let the
people know if they expect them 20
buy their goods.
Advertise your goods 3udiciously and
attractiyely, ana customers win re-
Bpond
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

victim of the competitive system. She
was poor, hunger famished, distrought.
Then came the tempter Offering Iuxur-
ious comforts and freedom from want
for a price, OF course, the great price
which she paid. She had great tai
ents that, stimulated by opium, made
her writings wonderful.
Most of the commercially sinful wo-
men in the world were made so by the
force of what they conceived to be
necessity, as all the statistics collected
by societies for the promotion of moral
purity tend to show.
The Russell Sage Foundation for
the Investigation of Social Problems
found in Pittsburg. the steel city. great
immortality, great drunkenness, great
concluded that these conditions were
the result of the circumstances in
which the poor were forced to live,
and from which they could not escape,
and over which they had no control.
The competitive system is responsible
for them.
By the term competitive system IS
not meant the competition of laborer
with laborer alone, but the competition
of necessity with avarice, which COM
pels men to work II hours day seven
days a week, which herds a family
and boarders in one, two or three
rooms destroying modesty and open
ing the door to vice; which drives men
to the saloon for comradeship and to
drink for relief from fatigue and
troubles: which drives girls from
home and puts them on their wits N
cities; which proselytes for evil,
breeds disease germs and spreads con-
tagion.
The institutions of government FORE
doomed Vasta Herne. She might have
had chance If the influences of her
home had been good, If she had been
equipped there with moral strength,
but the institutions of government
never permitted her this aid
what is a hungry man TO do who
can't set a job?" one of his auditors
asked Mr.. Taft last fall And the
answer was God knows
What is a woman to do?
For the man there is theft. For the
woman, "the easiest way"
: Stern and horrible truths are these
that have their origin in the institu-
tions of government which buttress
avarice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

was divided between pity for him
and anger toward the young man for
checkmating her. A bright Inspiration
came to her. A tiger-Iike spring of
her memory showed her how she could
help one and discomfort the other.
"Mr. Barney" she said sweetly. IF
were you ] wouldn't try to get my
pension through lawyers"
'How would you get it?' he asked
aagerly.
ard get 1t through by special act OF
pngress.''
Il don't know our congressman from
this district, and lie wouldn't help an
old Teller like me nohow"
maybe not" said Crissy. "but I
know a brilliant young congressman
who Is very influential. and he would
do anything / asked him TO do. Iii
write him now and tell him all about
you
Dumont had been watching the old
mans hope iIlumined face while she
spoke. He came up TO her resoluteIy
and said In low tone:
"Crissy. don't raise false hopes. He
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
FIELD OF LITERATURE

A George Eliot Of the New World
Eliza Calvert Halls 1.-THE Land OF
Long Ago." just published by Little,
Brown q Co., Is calling forth criti.
,cismH which could not fail to delight
the heart OF any author who has an
appreciation Of good literature. The
book has made tho same impression
on several leading reviewers, who com.
pare 1t with the work of George Eliot.
The country folk Of the new world are
singuiHriy like the country folk Of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
crownina Feast.

oh. the watermelon,
Hidden in q pool
Where the running water
Makes It fresh and cool.
Gathered in the moonlight,
Didn't cost a cent?
What a feast OF riches
For a colored gentl
Right across the open
Lies a tempting patch
That for size and sweetness
Hasn't got a match.
And the sleepy owner
Doesn't keep a gun.
Sides, he has so many,
Wouldn't miss just one.
Rich and ripe and luscious,
Mellow to the core.
And so good you eat IL
TIL you'll hold no more.
Just as sweet as honey,
And a stolen kiss
That a fellow gathers
Has no edge on this.
oh, the watermelon.
Large and red and ripe.
Not the kind you purchase.
But the kind you swipe!
Doesn't seem so wicked
When you test the treat.
Cause the waternelons
They were made 70 eat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

ing to get me a pension for quite u
spell. and some way it don't seem TO
get through. and I'm getting on. If 1t
don't come pretty soon L won't be here
to enjoy it,
"Of course you want it now. I'll
make father push it right through"
"Bless your kind hearth said the
old man delightedly.
"Mr Barney said Dumont. coming
forward determinedly. I'VE heard from
Washington this morning about your
case. and L am sorry to tell you that 1t
has been rejected. There is a missing
link In the evidence. Unless you can
supply this the case is hopeless"
The old mans round. apple-like face
seemed suddenly to shrivel. CriSSy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
knew the Sound.

Ting-a-ling went the doorbell.
Inside o heart huttered in unison
with the tintinnabuIations ard a pair
of small feet battered toward the door.
"Ethel must know that ring" said n
caller who suspected something.
"Sure. 1t is her engagement ring"
replied the irrepressible small brother.
who wasn't supposed to know what
was going on.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
SPECIAL EXCURSION FARES
Via Grand Trunk Railway System,
Summer, 1909, Chicago to

Corresponding fares to over one
hundred other places in Canada, New
England and on Jersey coast. Tickets
good thirty (30) days. Liberal stop
over arrangements. st. Lawrence riv-
-er and rapids included at slightly
higher fares. Time tables, descriptive
literature, etc., can be obtained by
mail from W. S. Cookson, A. G. P. A,
1876 Adams street, Chicago
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
Vasta Herne.

vasta Herne. the character imper-
Bonated in the three cities this week
by Mrs. Leslie Carter, was victim of
The opium habit and when she quit
the drug the reaction OF her nervous
system killed her,
But first Of all Vasta Herne was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
YOUNG SIC hre Vietlma

Of headache. as well as older women.
but all get quick relief and prompt
cure from Dr. Kings New Life pills,
the worlds best remedy for sick and
nervous headaches. They make pure
blood. and strong nerves and build NJ
your health. Try them. 25c at all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

'Did you find a good doctorY
Say. he is wonder. He cured me
in two days.
HE must be mighty young and mex
perienced."
He didn't act like it."
Didn't act like IL. Well. when he
gets a little older in the business he
will know enough to cure you in two
weeks"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

Run out the gamblers and confidence
men. Their presence IS not essentia
to live town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05
< HurY7Or and (
} Philosophy I
5 By DUNCAN n. .Sn1fTa
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

THE man whose conscience never
gives him trouble may be upright
and honest, and then again he may be
a dope fend.
Second thoughts are best II the
thinker has good follow-up system.
Time flies. but the Wright kind OF
awaiting machine is after It on the
wing, with odds on the wing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-05

Boost the belt line. II it slips Rock
island, will witness the day when the
fact will be regretted.