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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Bobby beamed his professional salts
faction. Il thought you'd like it," he
said confidently. she makes nicer
cakes than that sometimes. I'll bring
you another when she makes fruit
cake"
Don't do it." advised Brant smil-
ingly. IF the fruit cake is as good as
this I'm liable TO abduct her and force
her to bake cake for me for the rest of
her life
What's abduct:" demanded Bobby
When the word had been explained to
him he wrfnkled his pudgy brows. But
If another deep idea had come to him.
as that contortion would seem to de-
note. it remained secret in his fat
breast Give us an Indian story" he
demanded
All right. SON. said Dick as he
stretched himself out i'm his easy chair
and prepared to entertain his small
guest with the story of how Chief
Spotted Panther carried off his Indian
bride from the camp of hostile tribe.
He was unusually graphic in his
story telling. for as she went on he be-
gan 10 imagine that he was Spotted
Panther and Miss Mayling was the
Indian maid. Thus sadly had the I'M
principlcd suggestions of the scheming
Bobby contaminated Dick Grants good
manners. But it must be admitted in
his favor that Ii was not the cake, but
the memory Of her womanly sweet
ness. that fired his thoughts and lent
eloquence TO his tongue
1t was Il deeply impressed small boy
who climbed down off the chair arm
when the tale was done and regret
fully announced that he would have to
h" going homo. The very, next day
he went to visit Miss Mayling With
the more or less peremptory request
that she bake him fruit cake.
Going to have tea party. Bobby ?'
she asked sayly. But Bobby shook
his head solemnly and declined to be
drawn into trivial conversation.
Il want il for some one-some one
who doesn't get nice cake" he con.
descended at hast. examining Miss
Mayling shrewdiy as he spoke.
IF you don't tell me who it is
Won't bake it for YOU" she leased. an
licipating the revelation of some new
love affair Bobby WAS us popular as
he was tickle. and Miss Mayling. hard
med by experience with the young
man. supposed that only the power OF
love could have induced him to forego
| the eating of her cake the day before.
Have got to?" he asked anxiously
| fearful that Il premature explanation
| might destroy the success of the alb
| duction.
Certainly" insisted Miss MaylinR
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Chief Tariff Duties.

Z Twelve articles or classes of ar
ticles pay three-fourths of the $500,
10000 per annum collected as tar
iff duties by the government of the
United States. The duties collected
under the existing tariff law have
averaged $3OO,O00,00 per annum
during the past three years, the
largest sum being in the fiscal year
1907, when the total collections
amounted to 329,O00,000. In that
year, 1907, sugar paid 100000, 900
duty; cotton manufacturers, S39,-
100000; leaf tobacco, $4,000, 900;
manufacturers of fibers, $4,000
900; manufacturers of silk, ,000,-
900; manufacturers of wool, 500
100000; raw wool S16,50O, 900;
spirits, wines and malt liquors, $16,-
900, 900; manufacturers of iron and
steel, $12,0O0,000; earthen and
china ware, $8,000,000; chemicals,
drugs and dyes, S7,5O0,000; and
fruits and nuts, $1,000, 000-the to-
tai for these II articles or groups of
articles being $3.50, 100000, or just
three-fourths of the 100000 of
tariff duties collected in that year
These figures are a standardization
of an elaborate statement published
partment of commerce and labor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Cutting Red Tape.

Recently a pOstoffice money order
forger was arrested in Chicago and
in as hours was sent on his way
howard Leavenworth, Kan, for a
two-year term. Such speed, without
a miscarriage of justice, could
scarcely be hoped for elsewhere than
in the United States court for the
northern district of Illinois. In this
mans case every end of justice was
satisfied. He was caught red-handed
by the postal inspectors. District
Attorney Edwin w. Sims Office was
notified. In a few minutes a legal
specialist on postal violations con-
fronted the prisoner in Commission
er NJ A. Foote'S Office, across the
hall. The process then was: pris-
oner valves examinations; held for
grand jury; grand jury, then sitting
on the same floor, indicts; indict-
ment written and argument prepar-
ed; case heard by Judge Kenesew M.
Lands; prisoner sentenced; commit
ment papers issued; transportation
secured; train boarded Time, As
hours.
The thing that made this record
possible without disrupting a whole
Office force. was the modern legal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Bobby was dismayed. But the cake
must lie secured at all hazards,
Its for Mr.. Brant." he explained.
HE said II you baked him a fruit
cake he'd come with hfs pony and hit
all the chiefs on the head with TOM
myhawk and carry you off and make
you bake cake for him IL the rest OF
year life. You'll have to live In a tent
and cook with hot stones instead of
gas range. d-and-anyhow. he says
he'll do it If you tempt him with fruit
cake
Miss Mayling leaned over and kissed
the earnest little face.
II think" she said softly, that I'll
bake two little cakes next week, Bob
by. so that you and your friend shall
each have one"
Bobby looked into the serene face.
into which there had crept something
he had never seen there before-a ten
der curve to the even lips. new
light in the brown. eyes that made
them glow and sparkle and film with
tears by turns.
He had. always thought Miss May
ling almost as pretty as his mother,
but now lie was disloyal for a mo-
ment and thought she was more beau
tiful than anybody he had ever seen.
His moist little fingers clasped her
slim, cool hand. and he looked up into
her starry eyes.
II wish | was big enough to duct
YOU" he said enviously. Il bet Mr..
Brant wouldn't get that cake"
Alice Mayling bent over and pinched
his chubby cheeks.
Bobby. my dear, you remind me OF
Il certain little god without whose aid
Tochinvar himself would have failed
And then she looked up suddenly to
see passing her window tall, straight
fgure, with his glance firmly fixed
| ahead
"Of course he wouldn't be so or
| binary as to stare in here" she said
softly. But he's the sort who'll find
a way-ana l don't think I'll make il
very hard for him.
Bobby cuddled closer to her soft
silken frock
| What makes grownups say thing!
that don't tell anything" he demand
ed. But she did not answer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
NATIONAL HEALTH BUREAU.
Nathan Straus Urges President Taft to
Consolidate Aoencies,

Consolidate Agencies.
Nathan Straus, who was president
Of the Democratic Business Mems
league in the late campaign and who
is widely known in philanthropic cir
cles through his efforts to supply pas
teurized milk to the children Of the
poor. has ADDRESSED a letter to Presi-
dent Taft strongly commencing his
project for the consolidation and en-
largemcnt of the health protective
agencies. Mr.. Straus says in part:
The combination of these admira-
bic agencies in one national health bu-
reau would be an achievement for the
public good such as would surpass in
its ever increasing and lasting effect
any other benefit that you could con-
fer upon the nation that has placed
the powers of government in your
hands
There Is no way in which greater
good can be done to humanity than by
protecting health and saving lives, by
warding off disease and preventing
death. The recent disclosure Of the
decline in the birth rate in America.
as wildly shown in the shortage Of
25,000000 births in the past century.
adds urgency to the cause that you
have taken up in your instructions to
Surgeon General Wyman"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
WOMEN TO SAVE BASEBALL.
Wife of Manager Chance Tells Then, 70
Quit Playing Bridge.

At the opening of the baseball season
Mrs. Frank L. Chance of Chicago. wife
Of the worlds champion leader and
manager Of the Chicago Nationals. is
out in an interview declaring that 1t
Is upon women-not the Eighty. vola-
tile kind. but the steady home variety
that the future of the national game
depends. To prevent the game from
becoming rowdy pastime. one only
for bleachers full of men to watch.
she believes that more women should
occupy seats in the grand stand.
"If more women would forsake
bridge whist and pink teas. sofa cush-
ions and kimonos and turn out to
watch the cleanest sport in the world
there would be more robustness and
fair mindedness among our SEX" Mrs.
Chance said. IF women would only
come out and expand their lungs to
the fresh air by roofing for the home
team there would be less work for the
doctors''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Envy Not.

Oh, envy not your brother man
Because his coat is seedy
Or rave about the list of cares
Missed by the poor and needy!
His life may not be all a dream
OF peaches. cream and honey.
His troubles may be fierce as though
He had lot of money.
We know the worries of the rich
AT times are quite pathetic:
That they must ever be alert.
Resourceful. energetic.
For pitfalls lie along the way,
And there are schemes in plent,
Designed to make them loosen up
And drop a ten or twenty.
You see man without a cent;
Ideal seems existence.
No schemes are laid for him that cali
For firm ard strong resistance,
No taxes and no charities,
no social dues 20 shatter
His nerve reserve and keep him glum
With everything the matter.
True. he may sometimes wonder where
He'll find a quarter growing
Or maybe even less than that
dime TO keep him going.
So do not envy him because
On STOCKS he is not tripping,
For there are worse things in the world
Than tedious coupon clipping.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
HuIr1Or and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
D. DUNCAN n. .sssSrH

Some people aren't satisfied to have
you pay as you go. They want you to
pay before you come.
1t is said that 1t is best to be just
before being generous. but in that case
q lot Of people who might be disposed
to be generous would have nothing to
be generous with.
The man who likes TO hear himself
ralk is generally the whole Of hope
less minority.
Birds of a feather flock together be-
fore a killing, but come apart with
much feather pulling afterward
There are lots Of people who don't
ike to work. but comparative few
who make good with their inclinations
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
letting Him Know.

''What is committee. pa?"
"a committee" replied the old man,
swelling up. lis small number ap.
pointed to do specific thing"
"And what is a specific thing?"
That" replied mother. breaking in,
is any old thing that will serve as an
excuse for men to go downtown even.
ings"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

hamilton Holt, one of the editors
of the New York Independent, was
born in Brooklyn and is a graduate
of Yale. Yet when offered Il glass
of buttermilk by E. W. Howe, in
Atchison. Kan, he said he had never
heard of buttermilk and did not
know what it was.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
BILL INCREASING BONDING
POWER OF CITIES PASSED
CONTINUED from Page one.)

Continued from rage One.j
bill 639) regulating the size OF head
gear that may be worn by females.
The house committee on fraternal
insurance reported the bill prohibits
ing underwriting of fire insurance
and barring all pools, trusts and
agreements to regulate or fix the
price to be paid for insurinS property
against fire or lightning. Penalty for
violation is loss of charter. fine OF
from $500 to $1,000. one years i'm
prisonment, or both. The bill car
ries an emergency clause.
Summary of House Session.
The board of review bill (hOuse
bill Bad, which prohibits members
of the board of review or any asses
sor from engaging in any other than
his official business during his term
of Office, was reported in from the
revenue committee by Chairman
Fieldstack yesterday with recon-
mendation that it do pass.
The following bills were introduce
ed:
BY Browne, authorizing the SUI
preme court to appoint a reporter
for the appellate courts to prepare
the opinions for publication.
BY Beckemeyer, amending the cir
cult court act.
BY Robinson, providing for the
ventilation and sanitation of foun-
dries.
House bill, No. 81 (Fieldstack) ,
extending the laws Furnishing lar
ceny.
House, bill No. 40 (FultoI), pro-
viding for the addition of names of
| Illinois soldiers and sailors to the
| tablets on the Illinois monument at
Vicksburg.
House bill No 249 (HollenbecR
authorizing the appointment of a
marshall by the justices of the SUI
preme court at a salary of $1,000
! per annum.
mouse bill No. 1914 (Murray) max
: ing final on all questions of fact the
| finding of juries in common law
suits.
|
providing that the terms of the APP
! pellate court in the Fourth district
+ at Mount Vernon begin in March and
! October of each year instead of Feb
ruary and August.
! House bill No. As (Briscoe), max
! ing it unlawful for any person to
! sell horses or mules afflicted with
l oil. nln infAnt1nnC
eases.
House bill No. sc (Hutzler}, the
chiropodists' bill creating board OF
chiropody.
The Senate Session.
Senator Humphreys bill Is. B
$50, for the use of special safety de-
vices in elevator cages, was lost by
and made special order for Thurs
day.
| Catherine Waugh McCulloch's bill
for equal suffrage was ordered tC
third reading.
Senator Hanson's bill regulating
the size of train crews was passed.
The senate also passed Senator
Cldl n uiil dSdihSI piohuco Soai
Other bills passed were:
S. B. 1913, by JUL, providing tha
no registrar of titles shall act a!
4 attorney.
S. B. 419, by Daley, amending the
library law.
S. B. 1854, by Jones, for inspection
of private employment agencies.
S. B. 373, by Potter, allowing per
sons under age to secure marriage Ii
cense in the county where either OF
them resides, providing consent O
parents is obtained.
| S. B. 249, by Womack, for tn,
sterilization of habitual criminals
imbeciles and others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

The more Sheriff Kittilsen demon
strates, as his second raid last night
tends to show that his crusade
against dives and disreputables
is not to be flash in the pan, but
is to be persisted in until real re-
forms are accomplished, the more he
will find public sentiment back of
him. But get them all, Mr.. Sheriff.
Let no guilty ones escape.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Thomas Erskine, British consul at
St. Louis, thinks Chicago will within
40 years be the biggest and grand
est city on earth. Consul Erskine
may expect to secure very poor ac-
commodations the next time he has
occasion to stop eff in New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

machine just completed by District
Attorney Sims, after two years of
constructive work. This machine has
destroyed all red tape procedure
common to government offices and
replaced it with that thing called
system
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

If that cornstalk paper process can
be perfected, Illinois can furnish the
material for the worlds supply of print
paper and they can keep their old tar
if on wood pulp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Taking a Chance,

81 have an invention that will make
L shoe last twice as long as usual"
"What are you going to do with itY'
"Show 1t to shoe man."
"Is your life insured?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

The Associated Press is following 50
closely on Mr. Roosevelt's trail that
there is little chance of his doing any
thing in Africa that will escape public
notice
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

A South Carolina negro has been
jailed for cruelty to animals because
he twisted a mules tail. He ought
to have got a Carnegie medal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

which comes by privilege kills. The
curse of justice on those who will not
recognize injustice is the sodden mind,
the dulled vision, the unfeeling heart"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Now that Sheriff Kittilsen has
started something, the public Nope
is that he will go through with it
and get them all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

An Iowa man has an unusual name
for his wife; he calls her Gasoline. be
cause she flares up so easily
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Publicity cures many evils, but the
evil doer finds it exceedingly I'M
pleasant medicine to take.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Plainly.

"All the worlds stage"
"You bet. and the ballet is some
thing fierce
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Might Be Few Days Slow.
"Come out to my country place" a..
"WhenY
"At the week end"
Does the week end there the same
time as in town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
Not Necessary.

''Is the family across the way re.
iigious?'
Not now: they are in pretty good
circumstances
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Aldrich is reported to have a hal
Nelson on the tariff bill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28
THE ARGUS.

~ THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-28

Argument Enough.
"Clara has invested in a gold mine.s
Does she know anything about itr'
mo. but the man who sold her the
stuck had lovely mustache.s
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-23
ARMY'S NEW TELESCOPE.
Gunners Can See Enemy While Re
naming Invisible Themselves. K,

Gunners Can See Enemy While Re.
naming Invisible Themselves.
After years Of patient experimenting
Dana Dudley of Wakefield, Mass, re-
Gently had the satisfaction Of having
his ''pan angle" telescope adopted by
the war department Of the United
States.
The invention is simple In its con-
struction, yet, it is said, may revolu-
tionize modern warfare. 1t consists
Of rejecting lenses so arranged at an
giles in a tube that persons or objects
above or below and on all sides may
be viewed from a place OF conceal
ment. -.
The device as constructed for use In
warfare is arranged SO that even on
disappearing guns or guns used In
trenches and fired from any point In
visible from the exterior the operator
may ascertain the location Of the enc
my target or other objective point
without exposing himself. y. :.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-23
Uniform Laws Would @ .sgss.
Improve Conditions.

National
HERE than business involved in the question
uniform laws. There moral side to it. What is good
~ for BUSINESS INTERESTS AFFECTS EVERYBODY
AS 1T AFFECTS EvERYBODY's POCKET-t the man
wages well the who the shop But
all that the consideration of what right In the difference
the laws different there great deal that not
right and adjustment of the differences would be profitable to
every state and an injury to Of them ..G,
SINCE THE PUBLIC BECAME &C.
oUAINTED NECESSITY FOR THE REGULATION OF
RAILROADS FOR PROTECTION AND SINCE WE GOT A
NATIONAL RAILROADS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT ON
THE WHOLE, BEST FOR THEM TOO BUT AL PEOPLE
KNOW DIFFICULT IT FOR THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE
COMMISSION TO THOROUGHLY EFFECTIVE BECAUSE OF
STATE NOT CONFORMITY WITH THE UNITED
STATES STATUTORY LAWS ''~" e.
The pure has be backed by all the states order
TO STOP COMMERCIAL CHAOS. 1t DEGREES that thing
contain less than certain cent Of Ingredient and
one state follows provision that law while another state raises
the percentage and declares that percentage will not do
for sale of the This shuts the goods Of the
state that follows national law There end to this kind Of
confusion BUT WITH THE UNIFORM LAWS THIS AN
NOYANCE AND HAMPER TO TRADE WILL BE REMOVED
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-23
OFFERS $4,000 TO AvIAT0Rs
Paris Newspaper Would Encourage
Practical Voyages.

Paris Newspaper Would Encourage
Practical Voyages.
The Matin, in view Of the results at
Rheims, which have shown the aero
planes capabilities as never before
realized, even by aviators, believes the
time ripe for these. machines to leave
the race track and make real voyages
from town to town. 1t therefore Of
fers prize Of 100000 francs 10000,
to be awarded to the owner Of the
machine which makes the fastest time
I'M circuit from Paris to Dijon, Bel
fort, Nancy. Lille and Paris before
Aug. 81, 1910. e .,es ~ a3z.ys&#
All the French newspapers are en-
thusiastic over the great success OF
aviation week CAST week., holding that
it constitutes the greatest landmark in
the history of the conquest Of the air.
They praise the enterprise and daring
Of the aviators, paying special tribute
to the American, Glenn II. Curtiss, as
a modest, consistent and patient work
er, whose efforts have been crowned
by the blue ribbon of the air.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-23

American Filler Who Has Broken Speed
Record at Rheims Aviation Meet.

American Filler Who Has Broken Speed
Record at Rheims Aviation Meet.
Glenn H. Curtiss has again made the
world sit up and take notice of Amer
lean ingenuity, daring and progressive
ness. His record breaking exploits at
the great aviation meet at Rheims,
France, will live long in the fast in
creasing history of the air. His VIC
tory in the contest for the prix de Id
Vitesse, value 10000 francs $4,000,
was splendid climax to his week Of
endeavor. He covered the course IN
this thirty kilometer race In % min
utes 40 seconds, corrected time.
Curtiss, now the lion Of Europe, Is
really gasoline engineer. Aviation Is
merely a side line with him, In which
he differs from the Wrights, who have
given their lives to it. Curtiss eats
lubricating oil and drinks gasoline. He
began life in Hammondsport, N. Y,
about thirty years ago and became a
newsboy because he needed the money.
One day he traded lot Of old junk for
an old bicycle. Oddly enough, that
trade made his fortune and determined
his vocation. It has never been stated
that Glenn Curtiss Is lazy, but the
fact remains that Hammondsport is
mostly on edge and that he got cramp
in the calf from pedaling his rusty old
machine up and down hills. Then he
caught sight of one of the early edi-
lions of the gasoline engine.
"Why not tie that engine on my b.
cycle and save me all this trouble"
he reasoned. He collected more old
junk. When he had enough, he traded
it for the parts of an antiquated gaso-
line engine. A few weeks Of seclusion
In the paternal barn followed, until
one day Hammondsport was almost In
terested by seeing young Curtiss fly up
and down its angular street on his old
bicycle, propelled by gasoline engine
he had in some occult manner attached
to the frame. He kept on at that en-
terprise until by and by he began to
build motorcycles. Eventually he had
a factory that employed several hum
bred men, which made him rich man.
When our best aerialists began wear
ing dirigible balloons some OF them
went to Curtiss for motor that would
push their gas bags. It naturally fol-
lowed that the trying out process took
place at Hammondsport, and Curtiss
in time became identified with the
manufacture of flying machines of one
sort and another. Then he tried his
hand at it for himself and produced
the June Bug. that famous pony built
little contraption that won the first
prize offered in America for a flying
machine that would really fly.
Mr.. Curtiss is gasoline engineer
first and an aviator second. He Is
chiefly interested in the performance
Of the motor. As the motor is the
very heart, Of the aeroplane, his Amer
lean friends and French rivals may be
pardoned for the interest with which
they watched his performances at the
international flying races at Rheims.
And the joke of it all is that It started
when he traded for that old two dollar
bicycle twenty years ago.-New York
Globe.