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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
The Harvest Moon.

1t is seldom that the heavens bathc
the old earth in such splendor as on
the glorious nights of September.
This is. indeed, month for lovers ans!
astronomers. With Halley's comet,
the nearness of Mars, and the glorious
harvest moon all engaging the atten-
lions at the same time, all people who
find interest in affairs beyond this
earth and ethereal in their nature may
revel in delight.
These are the nights of the harvest
moon Famed in poetry and romance
it nevertheless is a shining reality
during one period of each year. The
brilliancy of these moonlight nights
should assure everyone that something
unusual has affected the moon TO make
the lunar disposition gloriously good
natured. The harvest moon after all,
is not so different from other moons.
Its sole fame rests in the generosity
with which it sheds its lustre upon the
earth. 1t rises early and sets late: (
makes full evening of moOnIit glow.
other moons grow weary from NIGHT
70 hlSht and each evening finds them
rising about So minutes later until
hhaily they have completely waned
The harvest moon. however. continues
for several evenings to rise at the
same time and not until the earth u
its movements shuts out the moon
with its liberal light does it wane like
the moons of other seasons. The har
vest moon is that which comes abou
in its travels at the time of the an
tumnaI equinox. So it is with us now
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Hurnor and
Philosophy
POSTPONED PLEASURES.
By DUNCAN m. .srfTTH

I'D like to in a flying ship
Il Go gayly awaiting
Above the people who below
Were with their fears debating.
I'd like to sail above the town
And say. "Ah. there. my hearty!
Come up today. The air is fine"
To some fat, ancient party.
I'd like to circle in the clouds,
Around, above and under
A summer storm that i might see
Just how they made the thunder,
And to discover how and where
Its noise. ear splitting. matches,
And with the lightning light my pipe
When l ran out OF matches.
Above the housetops I would dodge
And round the windows fiutter
To hear the screams the frightened girls
On seeing me would utter,
And then ia pick pretty one,
Behind n curtain hiding.
And ask her TO put on her hat
And come with me joy riding.
It's me to thread the Milky way,
Where cream is for the asking,
To skip around among the stars.
In first hand sunshine basking.
But. as ! haven't got the price
Nor friends who stand for touches,
I'll wait until they rig the thing
With patent safety clutches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
AN ORDINANCE
An Ordinance Relating to the Keeping
of Chickens and Other Fowl.

An Ordinance Relating to the Keeping
of Chickens and Other Fowl.
Be 1t Ordained by the City Council
of the City of Rock Island, H.:
Section l. 1t is hereby declared a
public nuisance TO suffer any yard, pen
or premises where chickens. geese,
ducks. turkeys, peacocks. pigeons.
guinea fowl or other fowl are kept or
maintained, to become filthy or nau-
seous to any person or family in the
neighborhood or become deleterious to
public health.
Sec. 2. Every violation of this ord
nance shall subject the offender to Il
fine of not less than So or more than
800.
GEORGE w. McCASKRIN.
Mayor
Passed Sept 90, 1909.
Approved Sept %. 1909.
Attest: NJ T. RUDGREN,
City Clerk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The Chicago gang is starting out al
ready to discredit the primary law to
be passed by the coming legislature
which will be called in extra session.
Yet the primary laws. poor and make
shift as they have been. have been
good returns on the investment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

Mr. Rockefeller's new pastor in
Cleveland brings with him what he
calls Essential accessories including
one fast trotting horse. one thorough
bred collie dog, one set of golf clubs.
one set of tennis raequets, one set of
handballs, one set of fishing rods and
one set of fowling pieces 1t is not an
orthodox equipment, but its seven di-
visions will attract at least more at
tention than would the firstly TO
"seyenthly" of an old-school sermon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Outlook Dark.

1.-THE young man sat by the roadside
the picture of despair. His elbows
were on his knees. and in his hands
rested his chin. and Il more forlorn
looking object could not be imagined.
Whats the matter. pard:" asked
friendly passerby.
Occupation gone. thanks to these
autos and flying machines"
And what is your occupation-a
stock breeder?"
Nav; a horse Ihief."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Rural Acumen.

"Have you any dollar caps for go
cents:" asked the bright city chap.
rushing into the crossroads store ana
waiting for some one TO smile at bis
pleasantly.
NO" replied the easy going clerk.
"but we have some thirty cent caps for
Il dollar How many shall / wrap I'D
for vou?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
CARRY 1T TO PRESIDENT

Frisco Delegates Take Mine Congress
Resolution Home With Them.
Goldfeld, New, Sept. 30.-Carrying
a resolution adopted by the American
Mining congress now in session here
calling upon President Taft TO urge
federal recognition of the mining in
dustry in the United States, the San
Francisco delegation started home TO-
day to deliver the resolution to he
president upon his arrival in San Fran
cisco.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The United States last year produced
only $4,000 worth of precious stones,
hardly enough to make a conspicuous
tiara for the first night at the horse
show: but it imported nearly s11,000,
600 in diamonds alone
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

Now that the football season is
about TO be ushered in, fond parents
should take a good look at Willie's
nose and eyes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

"The trouble with some people IL
that courting ends with marriage"
Except divorce counting"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
In the Match For Points.

Tie parenthesis said to :Ee comma
your luck as a short stop ne'er
swerVes.
I'm afraid I'm not in 1t much longer.
For the dash has got on TO my cUEyeS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The Arkansas judge who allowed the
litigants to come into court armed with
rifles must have had doubts about the
efficiency of the justice to be handed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Enouuh.

''1obn. yon know that jerks baby is
handsome child. You ought TO quit
knocking it,"
but l was praiSing it,"
''PraisinG it: You said ii looked just
like its father
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

Wasps in a Georgia meeting house
broke up the services and brought 10
mind the good old story of the preach
err and the corduroy trousers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Evening Things Up.
-. 49,. -. n..1I,.... -

"Yon owe me an apology"
"Do IE'
You do"
"Then apologize. You owe me SO"
do IL"
You certainly do"
"rhen ! also apologize"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
second avenue. Rock Island, III. tEn-
tered at the postotfice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The Chicago professor who says the
world is tending to polygamy has an
other guess coming. One family is all
any man can support these days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
OUGHT to Know

What is that farmer doing?"
Making hay"
Looks to Inc as though lie was cut
ting corn"
Il asked him. aud he said 'HeyY"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The New York World says: In AT
RIGA the elephant is shot. In New York
IL names the fusion ticket.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

Many an artist has gone to the wall
before his pictures have.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
Judge Cookies Opportunity Shown by the Com
of Democratic NEWSPAPERS. Anent His Election

even after the Hon. Judge Milton Nc
Clure was nominated by that commit
tee
Now all this is history. Henceforth
it will be Judge George a. Cooke,
state of Illinois.
1t is a high honor, indeed-an honor
which comes TO but few men in this
day. Il remains to be seen whether
his election is or is not democratic
victory. 1t will be Il democratic vic
tory t. lie hJnors the Office by leaving
al craftsmanship behind. This done he
viii have buildod monument TO his
name and fame. boon of service to the
s, ate ard faithful servant of the
people
SUPREME COURT JUDGE IN 1912.
Quincy Herald: George \. Cooke 81
Aledo, Mercer county. is elected to sue
ICED his old partner. the late Judge
Scott, as Judge of the supreme count
n this Fourth district for tao unex-
,ired term, now of about wo yeas
md nine months. In June. 1912. We
must again elect a supreme Judge for
he long term of nine years. With
he good record he promises 10 make.
Cooke can be then reelected And
912 is the year of the next national
ampai9n, when we elect the presi-
lent The signs are favorable for de-
nocracy. that it will be a year of =
campaign for tariff reform, and OF
'arty success on that issue. as in 1892.
{ is ONLY every &c wears that we elef.t
supreme judge in a national cam
paign year-the last time being in
1876, when Tilden was elected presi-
dent and counted out by supposed
non-paFtisan commission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
HY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMS.-Daily. 10 cents per week
Weekly, 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
E11;zsss1lM
afEz1Es Sss2s [[cogNsES
Thursday, September 80, 1909.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Some people seem TO have bad chill
dren from Il laudable desire 10 keep
their neighbors from. suffering from
ennui.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

The shorter some people are the
longer their faces grow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

a man is usually dead anxious to
pay what he owes TO himself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-30

Thursday, September 80, 1909.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-20
COAST WEEKLY SCOFFS
AT F0RTiFiCATIONS
Thinks Panama Canal Will Alone
Save Us From Conquest.

San Francisco Wasp.-Congressman
Barth6ldt Of Missouri, who aecompa-
MED the Hawaiian junket, is quoted
as saying that, with Notifications at
Pearl Harbor and Fort Sehofeld, the
"Islands will be well protected, and
we need have no fear that any nation
will ever take them from u.s. ssShow
me- is evidently the motto of this
Scion from Missouri. He would be
shown very convincingly if the Japs
steamed over from Yokohama in two
weeks and took the whole works while
Uncle Sam was getting his feet ready
on the Atlantic coast.
Without large feet in the Pacific
we might as well have an old pension
er Of the Civil War with his ancient
Springfield musket guarding the Is
lands as all the modern artillery at
Pearl Harbor and Fort schofield. The
same is true of California Neither tbs
coast nor the Islands viii be safe till
the completed Panama Canal gives our
fleet rapid access 10 both oceans. These
wise ideas on the subject, I might
add, are not my own. They were given
to me by a very clever military Off
Ger who has studied the art Of war
and may become a noted general some
day if given an opportunity to dis
play his knowledge and talents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-20
SERVICE FOR
SECRETARY SUPER

All the members Of the executive
committee of the 7. H. C. \. building
fund campaign were at lunch at the Pa
cife Club yesterday. As an express
sion of the personal appreciation of
the committeeman of the services of
Mr.. Super, they surprised the young
man by presenting him with beau
tiful silver service. This was entirely
a personal matter with Messrs. Carter,
Trent. f. c. Atherton. Geo. f. Davies
and J. P. Cooke, who felt that Mr..
Super s splendid work deserved ae-
acknowledgement at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
Another present has been ordered
for Mr.. Ebersole, who was associate
secretary during the campaign. Mr..
Ebersole s experience was OF great as
sistanee throughout the campaign.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-20
Letters rom
the People
WHERE WATER IS WASTED

Editor Advertiser;-In a recent issue
OF your valued paper I notice an in
'efVieW Of the superintendent of water
works, in which he complains that 81
much water is allowed To go to waste
through the earelessness of some of the
housekeepers Of Honolulu. [ can report
OF waste in public grounds that NAV
De noticed any day IN the year. Pass.
ing through Thomas Square today I
observed as many as three faucets run-
ming at fun blast, turned on by little
children who do not realize the waste
they are thus causing. As a pnb1ie-
spirited person I always make it a
practice to turn the water off If i
does not take me too far out of NV
way.
Ny suggestion IS that it is a mistake
to have these faucets 50 arranged that
anybody can turn them on. They
should be provided with a detachable
key so that only a person properly
authorized could turn them on. The
expense Of making this change would
be amply geeompensed by a more
abundant water supply.
A MALIHINI.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-20
WILCOX TO TALK ON
RUBBER AND COTTON
Public Invited to Attend Open Meeting
Of Chamber Of Commerce.

DR.. E. V. Wilcox, director of the
e. s. Experiment Station, will make
an address at three O'Clock this after
noon before the Honolulu Chamber of
Commerce, at the rooms of the chamber
on the third floor of the Stangenwald
building. The talk will be highly in
teresting inasmuch as Or. Wilcox has
just returned from a trip TO the main
land where he made a careful study of
cotton culture and of other crops like
" to be of Importance to Hawaii He
believes that Hawaii has a big field
before it in cotton, especially; while
he reports the outlook for rubber most
encouraging.
An invitation is extended to the pub
lie generally who may be interested,
to attend the meeting.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-20
TEACHERS WILL DISCUSS
EFFICIENCY or SERVICE
Pedagogues Will Gather on Friday
Evening to Talk Shop.

Evening to Talk Shop.
The first meeting Of the Teachers
Association will be held IN the MeKin-
ley High School on Friday evening at
half past seven.
The meeting viii be in the nature OF
symposium TO discuss the general
question of teachers examinations and
certificates, with reference to the eff
ficieney Of the service. Good speakers
have been chosen, and there win be
opportunity for a general discussion.
it is hoped that all the teachers who
can will attend this meeting as the
subject is one Of vital interest to the
teachers themselves and for the general
good OF the schools.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
HEN "CHEWS" TOBACCO.
She Is an Ohio Fowl, and Is Particu-
lar About the Quality.

A Youngstown, Ohio, dispatch to
the New York World says:
The saltiest old salt that sails the
sea does not love a chew Of tobacco
better than does a hen owned by
Burt Miller, a lawyer of this city
For more than year the hen, which
was always industrious and remun-
erative, has refused to lay her GUS
tomary egg each day unless her sys-
tenn is toned by tobacco. So each
day Mr.. Miller sets before her a can
of chewing tobacco and she takes a
chew.
The word Chew" is fgurative
for, of course, nothing is rarer than
hens teeth. This hen pecks at the
tobacco in the can, plainly with great
enjoyment, and, after holding it in
her mouth a while, elects it,
The love of tobacco must be an
acquired taste for hen, just as are
taste by eating tobacco guilds which
caviar and olives for a man. Mr..
Miller thinks his hen acquired the
she found on his grounds after his
man of all work had no further use
for them. The hen will chew only
the best fine cut of one particular
brand. She has refused to taste
samples of other brands sent to her
by their manufacturers, who may
have had in mind the value of an
advertisement reading: Even hens
are not happy until they get our
baccy."
Mr. Miller tried to cure his hen
of the habit by giving her a tobacco
cure 1t had no effect on her, how
ever eflcacious it may be on humans.
This hens eggs have not the
slightest taste or ordor of nicotine
but are "strictly fresh"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17

To put the brake on the wagon 60
ing down the hill is a help to the
horse, when the wagon is heavily
loaded. But what driver would think
of applying the brake to a loaded
wagon going up hill? If he did his
sensible horse would probably balk.
Many a man is in the condition of
pulling a load up hill with the brake
set against him. When his stomach
is out of order, and the allied organs
of digestion and nutrition impaired
in their functions a friction is set up
which has to be overcome in addi-
ton to the performance of daily du-
ties. A foul stomach makes a fOggy
brain, and the man with disOr-
dered stomach has often to grope
his way through the days business
like a man in a fog. He forgets
appointments. Problems seem pre-
scented to his mind wrong end to-"
This condition is entirely remedied
by the use of DR.. PierCe's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t puts the stom-
ach and digestive and nutritive sys-
TEN into condition of perfect
health, and gives a clear brain. a
steady hand and a light step for the
days duties. Dr.. PierCe's medicines
do not contain alcohol or other in
furious ingredients; they are not
patent medicines" because their in
gradients are printed on the label of
each bottle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
BODY ALIVE AFTER DEATH.
Here Is Something That Mighty Few
People Know.

In the February McClure's Burton
J. Hendrick describes the expert
ments in transplanting animal Or
gans conducted at the Rockefeller
Institute by DR.. Alexis Carrel Dr.
Carrel preserves animal tissues in
cold storage for many weeks.
ITO the unscientific citizen it is
something Of surprise to learn that
large parts of the body are alive and
useful after the phenomenon popu-
larly known as death has taken place
Few of us suspect, for example, that
our kidneys and hearts, after we have
died ourselves, can in most cases be
resuscitated, and that if by some sur
gical miracle they could be trans
planted into another body they
would quickly resume their func-
tons. This, however, IS a we'll de-
monstrated medical fact. The hui
man heart has been removed from
the body more than thirty hours
after death and made to beat again.
DR.. Carrel himself has taken the
heart from one dog and inserted it
in the neck Of another, connecting
the aorta with the cartoid artery of
the new heart, and the yenacava with
it's jugular vein. In a few moments
the live dog had two hearts rythmi-
cally beating, one recording a pulse
of SO and the other 100.
Science has yet framed no pre-
else definition of death The human
body teens and quivers with life,
only a small part of which becomes
part of individual consciousness.
The healthy man hardly realizes the
numerous and complex activities of
his internal organs. The alimentary
canal is the abiding place Of millions
of heterogeneous, the activities of
which only occasionally influence our
daily life. Bodily tissue everywhere
is constantly breaking down and con-
stantly building up; and yet it is
only in the last few years that even
science has begun to understand the
beautiful chemical reactions involved
in the process"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
COME TO AMERICA TO MARRY
A HUNDRED MAIDENS ARE SEEK
ING HUSBANDS AMONG
THE HERDERS.

NEW YORK-"The Girls of Wur-
Itemburg," might be the name of
play written around the maidens who
arrived on the Hamburg-American
liner, Graf Waldersee. There were
about 400 of them, one-fourth of the
.steerage travellers on the ship.
They are ruddy-cheeked, healthy
and hearty. The immigrants, stand
ing forward on the steamer yester-
day, seemed to be nearly all young
women, and one of them, Mrs. Frieda
Walberg, was asked about it. Mrs.
Walberg is the wife of an Oregon
sheep herder.
She turned and asked the ques-
ton: Girls, why are you coming to
American"
'Zu heiathen" (to marry they
answered almost in chorus. Mrs.
Walberg herself came over here a
few years ago a peasant girl in home
spun clothes. She went to Oregon,
soon found a husband, and became
so prosperous that she went back to
Wurtenberg to make a visit last fall.
She told about the glories of the
golden west and the manageable OPP
pOrtunities. Her talk and her fine,
stylish clothes, and air of ease stir
red the hearts and ambitions of the
girls for miles around. The move
ment became quite general, and Wur-
temburg sent her fairest maids to
the new country where men abound,
but where manageable women are
negligible quantity.
The girls of Wurtenburg are going
to Oregon to see if they can yoke
up" with some thrifty, lonesome
sheep herders also.
The steamers are coming in full
now. Commissioner of immigration
WatchOrn admits that the tide has
turned, and 1909 will be the biggest
in the annals Of his department. He
says that so per cent. of these aliens
who are now arriving have been here
before. Most of them went back to
Europe in 1907 or 1908. Their re-
turn shows that good times are
knocking at the gate.
The Cunarder Carmania is coming
from the Adriatic and the Mediterra-
mean with 1000 passengers.
A brisk passenger movement has
also begun across the North Allan
tic, and steamship companies hope
to recover some large losses which
they suffered last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
COSTS 1881 A HEAD TO RUN IT.
Washington the Most Expensive of
Any American City.

The pending appropriation bill for
the cost of running the District of
Columbia one year carries $11,974,-
O33, being at the rate of $35.21 for
each inhabitant. This does not in
clude the cost Of new buildings for
the government itself or the mantle
nance of such as now exist, except
ing the appropriation Of 100000
for new buildings for the district.
The 1908 population of Washing
ton was $4,000. The latest figures
obtainable from the census bureau
show the cities nearest Washington
in size to be Buffalo, Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New
Orleans, Newark and MINNEAPOLIS.
In none of these does the per capita
cost of maintenance equal that of
Washington.
Milwaukee, with a population Of
317908, has a corporate expenditure
Of IS, 548,143 the rate per capita
being $27.45.
Minneapolis, with 273,825 inhab-
itants, spent, according to last re-
ports, only $5,021,530, a per capita
Of 1884.
Buffalo has a population of over
100000. In 1906 she had 381,819.
She spent in 1906 only $76O9,O61-
1898 per capita.
Detroit spends $7,846,305 a year
for population of 353,535. Per
capita, $1,000.
New Orleans spent $6,575,945 for
year Of city government for a pop
ulation of 314,146. Per capita,
$2O93.
Newark, N. j., with a population
of 289, 1914, had a budget of $685.
1913 for 1906; per capita, $3.50.
Pittsburg, with a population of
.375, 1882, spent $1O,935,733; per cap
tia, $26.16.
Cincinnati has 345,23O inhabi-
tants, and her total corporate pay
ments were $1O,676,482. The per
capita of $3O.93 is the highest Of
any city in the Washington group
except Washington itself.