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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-10
Judge Anderson's Ruling
Leaves but Two Counts
Pending.
GOVERNMENT IS LOSER
Case in Which $29, 1000, 900
Fine Was imposed is vir-
tually Ended.

Chicago, March 1O.-Judge Ander-
son today instructed the jury in the
Standard Oil case 10 return a verdict
of not guilty. This means that all
but two of the pending indictments
against the Standard Oil company are
void, and will be abandoned by the
government.
Involves Indiana Shipments.
The two cases not affected by to-
days decision are the cases involving
the Shipment of 1,915 carloads of oil
from Whiting, Ind, to Evansville Ind,
via Dolton Junction over the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois railroad.
Holds Rate Superseded.
The question of whether or not the
celebrated case should be continued
hinged on the introduction as evil
dence of tariff "a in it's application
to the Illinois classification issued in
1899, making the rate Is cents on
oil from Whiting, Ind, to East st.
Louis and which attorneys for the
oSiChoC SohlChuCo Hdu UCcA super.
seded by later classification
Would Set Verdict Aside.
Judge Anderson in a 15 minute
discussion of the case to the jury ex-
F: planned his position and announced
if the case was to go to the jury and
! a verdict of guilty was returned he
| could do nothing but set aside the
! verdict.
There is absolutely nothing on
which conviction in this case could
stand, before any court in this coun-
try" the court said in conluding his
charge to the jurors.
Coup Is Hinted.
| Washington, March 10.-The under
standing here is an appeal will lie
from Judge Anderson's court to the
circuit court of appeals, and also an
iappeal would lie from the circuit court
of appeals to the supreme court of the
United States, in the event that the
decision in the former tribunal g ould
be against the company. In fact. that
is the best reason for stating the whole
issue will come before the supreme
court of the United States very soon
through an unexpected and novel move
by the department of justice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-03-10
MEET NExTATEDWARDsvILLE
Farmers Institute, Directors Pic:
Place for State Catherine.

Place for State Gathering.
Springfield. ILL.,, March 10.-Besides
selecting Edwardsville as the location
for the next state meeting the Illinois
state farmers institute yesterday
elected officers as follows: President.
]. P. Mason, Elgin; superintendent,
Frank Hall, Aurora; treasurer, A. p.
Grout. Winchester; Secretary, H. A.
McKeefe. Springfield; auditor, Frank
III. Mann, Gilman.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Lazy Men Power Generators.

n. Y, says: Lazy men have a right
to live" Our lazy men are our most
potent. History shows that as a rule,
with a rules exceptions. our greatest
men had either indolent Or shiftless;
fathers. as fathers of Shakespeare.
Lincoln, Napoleon, Bismarck and other
worthless indicate. On the other hand
great mems children are few and
far between. Power in a lazy man is
accommodating, as in a coiled spring
but the great man has little or nothing
left for offspring.-New York Times
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

still wearing the clothes of civil life: Which do
you think is the greatest man Gen George Wash
ington Gen Ulysses S. Grant?"
Fred's answer blunt and quick, Washing
ton may have been the greater man, but my IA
ther was the grea er soldier
Mr.. Grant, said the upper classman, TO com
pare your father to George Washington In any
sense, is like unto the comparing of plucked hen
to the American eagle"
Then there followed fight, but it stopped
almost instanter by first classmen because
the place too public.
Gen John NJ. Schofeld artillery officer.
The army has it hat Schofeld had distaste for
the infantry branch because of an experience which
he underwent during his first week plebe at
the military academy.
Some yearngs chased schofed up ladder from
the cock loft of barracks to the roof. The future
hero of Franklin clad only in a night shirt
When the rof was reached the cadets gave Scho
field rifle, marked out sentinels beat on the
tin roof and started the future artieryman on his
walk back and forth with the musket his shoul-
der. They kept him at 1t with few intermssons
from taps to reveille,
Edgar Allan Poe was cadet at West Point only
for a short time. Army tradition holds nothing
corning the hazing Of Poe The academy, however
is the custodian of of Poes first poems which
Is nothing short of striking example of the boys
wit.
While Poe was at the academy Lieut. Joseph
Lock was stationed there as a tactical officer Lock
was the strictest kind of a dscplinaran and he
was constantly reporting Poe for offenses, reports
which brought their natural consequence some
heavy punishments. Poe had his revenge in a poem
which the curious may find in a volume called
Tic Tacs," which was published years ago by the
cadets:
John Locke a great name,
Joe Lock is greater. In short,
The former Is well known to fame.
The latter we'll known to report.
There Is. or was, one form of hazng at West
Point which has in 1t the essence of cruelty This
consists in making plebe read with appropriate
gestures and the proper infections. all the nice
Things which the newspapers of his home town
printed about him when the announcement of his
appointment to a cadetship made. Imagine il
you WILL the feehnss of a green youngster, he
stands upon barrel, reading to an assemblage OF
possibly SO yearlings. the editorial the
local papers. that Henry Smith doubtless will be
made corporal as soon the eyes OF the super
intendent of the military academy fall upon his tall
and manly figure. Henry has in him the making
OF great soldier. We shall hear of his deeds on
the field of battle leader of his countrys hosts
In case dread war shall come"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Alcohol and tuberculosis.

The most prominent tuberculosis
specialists in the country agree that
alcohol will not cure consumption. Dr..
S. A. knopf says: Alcohol has never
cured and never will cure tuberculosis.
1t will either prevent or retard recov-
cry" DR.. Frank Billings of Chicago
and DR. Vincent Y Bowditch, eX-presi-
dents of the National Association for
the Study and Prevention of Tubercu-
losis; Rr Lawrence +. Flick of Phila-
delphial land DR.. Edward L. Trudeau of
Saranat Lake, the founder of the anti
tuberculosis movement in this country,
are all of the same opinion.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
The Earth and the Moon.

That the earth must shine on the
moon even as the moon shines on the
earth is obvious. To detect this light
from the earth c. the lunar surface
and scientifically prove its existence
is another matter. 1t is interesting to
find that a recent number of French
Astronomical paper contains two pho
tographs of parts of the moon illum-
mated by earth light. They were
taken by NJ. Quenisset at the Juvisy
observatory
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
HANDS RAW AND SCALY.
ltched and Burned TerribIy-Could
Not Move Thumbs Without Flesh
Cracking-Sleep impossible.
cuticura Soon Cured His Eczema.

AN itching humor covered both my
hands and got up over my wrists and
even up 20 the elbows. The itching
and burning were terrible. My hands
got all scaly and when l scratched, the
surface would be covered with blis-
ters and then get raw. The eczema
got SO bad that l could not move my
thumbs without deep cracks appearing.
l went to my DOCTOR but his medicine
could only stop the itching. At night
! suffered so fearfully that I could not
sleep. l could not bear to touch my
hands with water. This went on for
three months and I was fairly worn
out. At last l got the Cut.cura Rene
dies and in month l was cured. Wal
ter H. Cox. 16 Somerset St, Boston,
Mass, Sept. 25, 19GS.'
Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Solo Props., Boston.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

In an elder day at the academy, and it may be
to-day, the mail bag into which the cadets
dropped their letters hung with wide distend-
ed mouth just inside the door of the guardhouse.
Until the first call for breakfast. the guardhouse
"of limits" The instant the drums rolled
the cadets could enter the building and drop their
letters. One morning cadet stood without the
door. holding his letter in his hands. The drum
mers sticks poised tremblingly, waiting to
fall for the pounding out of the first call for
breakfast
The cadet saw the poised sticks, entered the
guardhouse and dropped his letter Just as the
first note of the call sounded. He had passed
through the doorway just one-sixteenth of sec
ond too soon. An officer saw him mail his let
ter and report of "of limits went in which
caused the unfortunate letter mailer to perform
extra guard duty for 16 long hours-not consec-
utive hours, however.
On the first hook the wall of his alcove the
cadet must hang one specific article of clothing;
the second hook another article, and on.
If, perchance the youth hangs his dresscoat
the nail sacred to the overcoat. he can bid fare
well to release from quarters for two Saturdays
at least and If. perchance the shell jacket hangs
on the hook given over to trousers, he may add
three more days of confinement to those which
have accrued from the crime of the misplaced
overcoat.
The methodcal cadet runs yardstick along
the toes of the extra shoes which under regula-
tion, must be placed in regular order beneath
the foot of his bed If the toe of one shoe pro.
trudes half an inch beyond the toe of its mate,
the cadet gets demerit mark. If more than
pair of shoes shows symptoms of irregular
ity in the matter of toeing the scratch the cadet
will receive a sufficient number of demerit marks
to enable him to realize thoroughly the beauties
of a right line as applied to something besides
geometry.
1t is "a beastly grind the English clergy
man said, but it is grind that has its uses and
the proof Of it is written in all the records of
service.
Hazing is in sense an hereditary habit The
army officers who have been asked in the years
that past, and who being asked to-day
to root out the practice of "devilng" the pebe
at West Point, did not, and have not all of them
their hearts in the work. for were they not hazed
themselves, and were they, not n turn hazers?
Nine out of ten of the hazed will tell you to-day
that they profited by the experience
When Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant entered
plebe camp, first classman who noticed the
boys strong build intimated to him that 1t would
be pleasure to have him call Immediately at the
seniors tent Grant went. There Is rule at
West Point. which rule in Grants day as
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
An Irish Bull.

After Boyle Roche's famous bird
comes the County Cork veterinary sur.
geon. At the last meeting of the Dun
manway rural council member of
that body complained of the inatten
ton of the official veterinary surgeon.
There was" the rural councillor ex-
planned, "a case of swine fever in this
place recently, and, though the doc
tor got the order to go there, he
never turned up until the following
Tuesday, and even then it was an
other man who came to represent
him."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
The Marital Grasshopper,

What Is a grasshopper? The latest
definition comes from western Aus
tralia. Domestic servants are almost
unprocurable there, and wives have to
do nearly all their own household
work. The consequence is that they
are compelled to recuperate at the sea-
side in summer In their absence the
husbands have to prepare their own
meals and do domestic duty generally
Husbands so engaged have come to be
locally known as ''grasshoppers.' No
doubt the word is the husband of the
more familiar grass widow. Lon.
don Chronicle.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

you show erudition beyond your
years. VOW if you will look at my
water bucket you will see that 1t Is
as dry as a chip. BY the further ex-
ercise of your knowledge and observa
ton. Mr. Grant, can you tell me by
what means | may prevent the warp
ing and leaking Of my bucket?'
Have it filled" said Grant
Very good, again, Mr. Grant; but
pray note what you said: have 1t
filed not fill it. That necessarily
means. Mr. Grant, that some one must
All 1t for me. You have shown SO
much acumen that l fear to violate
the terms of your prescription either
In letter or in spirit, which | should
do If l presumed to carry the bucket
to the water tank myself"
Grant filed the bucket.
A member of the West Point class
OF 1870, now an officer OF high rank
in active service, tells this story about
the first day in plebe camp of Fred
erick Dent Grant, son of Ulysses
An upper classman, bent on nothing
else than having some fun with the
son OF the famous general, asked him
on his advent into camp while he was
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

ache. rheumatism, dizzy and fainting
spells, urinary disorders. dreadful
bloating of dropsy and finally a com
plete prostration that detied medical
skill and caused her to be given up
Through the use OF Doan's Kidney
Pills Mrs. Kessier is well woman
and is willing to tell about her case
to anyone who cares to inquire.
Sold by all dealers so cts. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N Y.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

school. Infractons of regulations NAV in a
sense be termed disobedience. but they are never
so regarded in any of the worlds schools. Boy
nature would needs be remade if the rules of any
institution were to be kept to the letter of the
law
Discipline at West Point is rigid to severity
As far as disciplinary methods are concerned the
school never changes 1t is the same to-day as
1t was in the days of Grant and Lee.
Take Gay at the academy and compare its
duties with those of any other institution, mat
ter of what country and it will be that in
comparison to the cadets labor the work of stu
dents at other schools is but play. During certain
months of the year there is little play at West
Point. Drill in the open air gives the requisite
exercise to keep the physique right. and for rec
reation apparently there is no need.
The routine has changed little with the pass
hAg years, but in general way the days pro-
vIfam at the academy is like this:
Reveille at o'clock; roll call at 62o; break
last at 6:25; guard mount at 715; recitations
and study hours from until 1; dinner 1 until
jE40; recitations and study from until 4; drill
-om until 5:20; parade at $50; supper at g.
ftudy from Z until $780,; tattoo, then taps and
leep.
y There are no recitations at the United States
military academy Saturday afternoons. and the
cadets are given what is called release from
quarters, with permission to visit one another in
barracks or to roam about the reservation, ta-
king good care, under pain of dismissal, to keep
from going off limits.
Release from quarters never comes for some
cadets The breaking of some small rule means
confinement to quarters the walking of extra
guard tours The boy who unwittingly puts
a pair of white trousers having iron rust stain
on them and them at drill at dress pa
rade, will know release from quarters for
days.
Should speck Of rust be found on his rifle at
Sunday morning inspection he will shoulder that
rifle and walk two more hours up and down
the area of barracks sentinel without
CHARGE" while his more fortunate comrades
experiencing the ecstasy which comes from per-
mission to ramble about the parade ground and
to view the hotel and other delights Of civiliza-
ton from a distance
Upon occasion the cadets are given permission
to call upon friends at the little hotel the
ervation. If, however, boy commits the
nous offense of leaving the main paror OF the
hotel to Wit his father mother in another
room, and the act should be discovered he will
never see the inside Of that hotel again until
many weeks have rolled by and he has expiated
!, Il, crime by many extra tours Of guard duty in
the broiltng sun or zero weather or Highlands
winter.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
RHNJIcH brill LlxDER Arms

GERS mess and there in response to
a question from the superintendent
of the academy, he summarized his
opinion of the days duties of the
cadets by paraphrasing the remark
of the Frenchman on one of the Cri-
mean battlefields: It's magnificent,
hut it's beastly grind
Lord Roberts not long ago declared
that the United States school on the
Hudson is the greatest military insti-
tuition in the world. The hero of Kan
dahar doubtless had made some study
of the records and of averages, for
history shows that in the number OF
soldiers entitled to be called great,
West Point has turned out more than
all the military schools of the con-
tfnent combined.
Obedience and discipline are the
foundation stones of the success OF
soldier, according to all the authori-
ties who judge solely by results OBJ
tanned. Disobedience of orders means
dismissal from the military academy
IDfsobedience of direct orders Is
ching practically unknown at the
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a Youthful Idea

See, my son" said an enthusiastic
parent. anxious to impress the beau
ties and resources of nature, what
beautiful green dresses sof leaves the
trees have now, when in winter they
are quite bare"
Il guess, said the youngster
thoughtfully, that when winter comes
they pack these pretty green dresses
in their trunks. don't they?"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

sell. that any cadet who
asks another to perform
any menial work for him
shall be dismissed from the
service. The first classman
knew too much to ask his
visitor outright to do any
thing of the kind, but here
is the way which veracious
academy history says that
he went at it:
Il presume, Mr.. Grant.
that you have lived on q
farm, and such being the
case you undoubtedly have
had rare opportunities to
note the effect of the suns
rays on certain objects.
Now. If you had left In the
sun a water bucket that was
innocent of the retention of
a single drop Of the fluid,
what do you think. sir.
would have been the partic-
ular effect of the sun upon
that particular water
bucket"
Il think" said Cadet
Grant, that it would get
warped and leaky."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Why Actors Wear Iona Hair.

Why do actors so often wear long
hair? Perhaps this is the reason:
There once was statute in England
under which actors found wandering
We're liable to be branded through the
right ear. The long hair concealed
the decoration and thus the custom
WAS started.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Should Lake His Medicine.

"A feller shouldn't stand in the mid
die of the street to talk pessimism,
declared the Plunkville philosopher.
why not?''
"Fust he says life amt worth living
and then jumps when he hears an au-
tOmObile honk"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Serial No. 7C1.

When Uncle Sam went ont after ia Lle drugs
,rni pateet medicines; Dr. Mltehell's Eye.
Satvc With never a change III formula or
'-hel ut once registered and received Sc
al No. 1al. The influence of DIR. Mitch
|Es lye SaINe has ever spread through
orert merit. nialllng cnrr for sore
ral, and -. 'rH . B-jea - cents
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Placing the Bother.

They say we are not to be bothered
by the big hats much longer
But. really, we don't care how much
much longer they are-t's the height
and width that bother us.-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

were endured by
Mrs. Caroline kess-
ler of w. Main St,
Paw Paw, Mich. Well
and strong again,
her case is thought
a miracle by her
friends. What Mrs.
X e S S er w g II t
through makes a
long story - back
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
Leave II to Him.

A Wichita man was fussing because
of his aching teeth. Why don't you
go to a dentist?" asked one of his
friends.
"Oh, I haven't got the nerve.' was
the reply.
Never mind that" replied the
friend, "the dentist will find the nerve
all right t'-kansas City Journal.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
NATURE STUDIES.

The Phunnibeak Bird-Hello, who
are you?
The Other Bird-Don't you know
meo Why, I'm The harp that once
through Tara's Halls"
The Phunnibeak Bird (shortly) oh,
tut; tut. You're Tyre! That's what
YOU are.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

Skill to do comes of doing, know
ledge comes by eyes always open and
working hands, and there is no know
ledge that is not power.-Emerson.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10
HER FRIENDS WONDER
How Mrs. kessier Was Rescued from
Almost Certain Death.

Few have lived through such trials
and suffering from kidney disease as
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-07-10

Sometime clergyman of the Church England
visited West Point He wished get knowledge of
the drill, the he discplinary
methods of the institution and
made the cadet day his until taps sent the
STRIPPING soldiers their blankets.
The clergyman after seeing lights out to the Off
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-04
"Futch," Not Fudge
 Saved Minstrel Show

Al c. Fields new originality an ness were conspicuous for their ab- sence in the minstrel performance of J. A. Cohurn's minstrel aggregation at the Elks Theater last night. \ goodly number of admirers of burnt cork were out to see the show, but they were sadly disappointed In the performance as whole. The Corbin aggregation numbers only twenty-five people, and while quantity is not featured there Is some quality in tho company It may be taking advantage of MT. Coburn to compare his per
 formance to that of the great Field and Dockstader productiosn. but con siiering the many opportunities Of
 fered in this the inaugural year and the days of the Panama Canal. scan dale in American politics and espe- c!ally in Washington, Coburn is over
 looking an excellent chance to im- prove his show. The Coburn show Is not a bad one, however, for there are two comedians, new ones to Pine
 Blufians in burnt corkology, who save the show from the roast pan% They are Reggie Tutch and Joe Dun levy. These two funmakers are there with the comedy legs and some really good and eccentric comedy work. They are the life of the Coburn show and Futch ought to be featured over Gov Bowen. who has had years of experience and never seems to i'm prove. Futch's song, Take Your Time" was one big scream and the audience wanted more and more oi it. Nobody ever heard of Futch in
 black face circles, but there Is a bright future awaiting this young min strel star. Local theatergoers have heard fudge" used often, but Futch Is new thing to them. The aero batic work of the DeVere Brothers is
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-04

resentations were false and fcionious and made with the intention 70 de- fraud.
 J. G. Kile and Mrs. Elizabeth Kile, of Cisco I.l.; Sheriff Burt l.. RoDerts, ;, Deputy Si1eriiIs J. ]. Hawkins and Louis Reichardt: c. M Mccain, Den. yer; J. $. Swenson and C. s. Ranger, postal inspectors; Deputy Marshal W. (. Akers, J. E. England, the banker who cashed the S1o.o0O draft for Kile, and Homer Scott are the witnesses recognized in the cases against the men.
 The speedy return of the inlict- ment will probably be followed oy the announcement on the part of the government that Mabray will be the only one taken to Council Bluffs, as the state courts have here more direct evidence than could be found else where, and the charges are of such serious nature they will hold them until evidence can be worked Up else where.