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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04

movements, and ready to row out into
the stream in the waiting boat the mo-
ment plunge is taken, 1t IS seldom
indeed that the would-be suicide is
drowned at Waterloo bridge, "Only
the other night we noticed a man walk
ing up and down on the bridge above, -
said the same official. "We knew at
once by his movements that he was a
candidate for suicide and surely enough
n few moments afterwards we saw him
step on the parapet Our man shouted
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04

tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
For the first eight mics from Gatun,
going toward the Pacific ocean, there
will be no excavation ut all. In fact,
save the cutting off of a few hills
there is little excavation until the
ficult engineering work between the
Gatun locks and Culebra cut has been
the control Of rivers which would -jyc
two or thSke feet higher than the canal
excavations.
The Titan task Of the Panama
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
Zulu Cllicf ct Liberty.

Special Cable 10 The Triounc,
CAPE TOWN Dec. 3.-DiniZulu. the
Zulu eX-chicr who was Imprisoned for
treason, has arrived AT MiddieburS.
Transvaal. where he will live on farm
with his wives aud personal attendants.
enjoying reasonable liberty and an al
lowance OF E5O0 year.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04
Extend Brazilian Railroads

RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 3.--'rhc federal
railway system OF the state OF Bahia
has been leased to group OF Paris
bankers. and various extensions are to
be made About 1875 miles viii come
under French administration. Tho cost
OF the extensions is estimated ut ST..
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04

blood Poison can never be cured With uereufH
or potash. You might ms we'll know this aTss an
last Medical authorities say 80 The most tneee
drugs can do is 10 drive the blood poiaon oack
Into the system and smother IL sor several years.
Then when you think you are cured, pitirui ner.
curry symptoms will break out, and you md that
your bones have been rottlng all the while Your
teeth viii begin to loosen and your tissues.
glands. brain and Vital organs Will sno" tnS
terrible destructive power OF the mercury ana
potash. Locomotor AtaIia. Paralysis. lmoecii-
i,y and Premature Death are then almost ines.
liable. Auy medical authority Will corrooofeie
these statements. Tho remarkable vegetable
Obbac Treatment does not drive in the
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03
The Hon. Frank Clark. of Oklahoma,

The Hon. Frank Clark. of Oklahoma,
and various other places, now represent
ing the second district in congress, is
taking considerable pains to take up
the fight for Senator Taliaferro. Dur
ing speech he made in Tampa a few
days ago, ne was very much worried
over the way Ex-Governor Broward had
done while in the chair of the Governor
He seemed to think that Mr.. Broward
was using the peoples time to work
his land schemes. This is bright re-
mark for Mr.. Clark to make when he is
now taking up the fight for Mr.. Italia
ferrO and has left his seat in Washing
ton to do so. He takes occasion to say
that he has no personal profit coming
from his friendship for Mr. Taliaferro.
and we have no data at hand to show
that he has, but it would be wise for
Mr.. Clark to go back to Washington
and earn the large salary the people
are paying him as congressman instead
of accepting the pay and going off on
personal canvass for another man.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03
THE EAST COAST TO BIZ
REPRESENTED IN OHIO

The Florida East Coast will be rep
resented at the Ohio Valley Exposition
where the Florida East Coast Railway
Company have arranged to have a large
exhibit IN charge of E. Y. BIackman'
editor of the Homeseeker magazine
This company are taking special pans
to have this exhibit complete in every
detail so that the visitors to the expo
stion will have an opportunity OF see
ing what this section has 10 offer to
the prospective homeseeker and settler
Il 200 square feet of floor space has
been assigned to the railroads OF the
south upon which to make collective
display of the best products, industries
and natural resources Of the Southland,
assures to the Ohio Valley Exposition
which will be held in Cincinnati from
August 20 to September "a, tine most
comprehensive exhibition OF southern
commodities ever shown at any expo
sition The representatives OF all the
roads in the south now are engaged IN
assembling the best manufactured and
natural products along their lines all
of which will be passed upon by experts
who will select the best samples ami
use them for exhibition purposes, no
matter what section of the south they
NAV come from. The desire to have
the south so extensively and perfectly
represented at this Exposition is born
of the fact that the promoters OF the
enterprise. in all their arrangements,
have manifested a decided inclination
to favor the south in every respect
1t is to be an exposition primarily for
the Ohio Valley and the southland, so
that the commercial and industrial in
terests of these sections may be brought
in closer touch with each other than
they are at present so that the Ohio
Valley may know what commodities
Tic SOulIl HdS w oIlCi, dHh 'iif' wv
south may become better acquainted
with the products of the Ohio Valley.
1t is expected that new commercial re-
latiOns will be established as result
of this Exposition, and that the Ohio
Valley will turn to the south for much
of the merchandise and products for
which she now goes to outside markets
The Exposition will be marked by nu-
merous special features, such as river
pageants, industrial parades, night
pageants gorgeous spectacular oper
attic productions, and the like. Presi-
dent Taft has promised to spend week
at the Exposition, and other noted Wis
tors will be the guests Of the EXPOSE
ton Directors from time to time.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03

Mrs. Mia Whitby, of Fort Lauder
dale, was admitted to the friendly Sc.
ciety Hospital at Miami last week suf,
fering from two bullets in her right
arm, one in the hand, the other near
the elbow. The patient was accident.
ally shot by her husband.
Last week wound up the celery shin.
ping season for Manatce county. The
season has not been as profitable as
former seasons. yet the shipments were
the heaviest In the history Of the county,
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03
The Biz Head

is of two kinds -conceit and the big
head that comes from sick headache
Does your head ever feel like gourC
and your brain feel loose and sore!
You can cure it in no time by acting OF
your liver with Billiards. Herbine
Isn't it worth trying for the absolute
and certain relief you'll get? Sold b,
st Lucie Drug Co.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-06-03
Ends Winters Troubles

TO many, winter is season of
trouble. The frost bitten toes and
fingers, chapped hands and lips, chill.
blains, cold sores, red and rough skins,
prove this. But such troubles fly be-
fore Bucklen's Arnca Salve. A trial
convinces. Greatest healer of burns,
bOils, piles, cuts. sores, eczema and
sprains. Only 25c at St. Lucie Drug
Co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23

rant, where he ate a good meal and
took a desperate fancy to the cashier.
who was n very attractive young wOm-
an of twenty. Having scraped an ac-
Quaintance with her, he invited her TO
go to the theater with him that even
ing. an invitation she accepted.
1t should be noted here that Omnium
on entering the world rs n COmbinG-
ton man obeycd the two most impor-
tant natural laws. The first thing he
did was to satisfy his hunger, the sec
ond to make love.
Miss Mabel Thompson, the young
lady to whom Omnium paid his adj
dresses. found him a very puzzliug per
son. Instead Of having few charac-
teristic traits he had Il hundred. The
first clashing of idiosyncrasies she no
ticed was between those of Il spend
thrift and Il miser. Il portion of whose
brains had been cE=rIfted within his
Uranium. Instead of engaging seats at
the. theater he took a whole box. This
was embarrassing to Miss Thompson,
who was a very modest person. What
was her surprise when after the play
he took her to supper and ordered one
herring for the two.
This episode, though neither OF them
knew it showed from the first that,
though # was possible to produce a
perfect physical combination man. the
matter Of those elements that are to
be classed as mental opened up n new
field for the scientists. 1t demonstrate
ed that to place in the same skull two
such discordant clements rs the brains
Of a miser and n spendthrift is to
make bad combination.
But Miss Thompson was doomed to
further surprise and disappointment.
While going home after the apology
for supper-half a herring for each
Of them-suddcnly the strokes Of
bell fell upon their ears At the first
stroke Omnium stopped stock stiU
There were three strokes. then nine.
On the ninth stroke a hook and lad
der truck passed. Omnium left the
lady standing on the sidewalk. dashed
to the truck, stood on the footboard
and was whirleG away
Can It be wondered that the poor
girl was astonlshed. disappointed. IN
the man who had so recently come to
her to kindIe those hopes Of marriage
and home which are born in every
woman? Omnium called upon her the
next day and was colby received.
Had the two heard a remark Of Pro-
fessor Sweigler when Omnium was be-
ing put together they would have un-
derstood the strange action. This is
a portion of the BRAIN the professor
had said, "of Sam Tucker, TIE most
daring fireman in the department He
has taken twenty medals for bravery
at fires" And the professor inserted
some gray matter in the Uranium be
fore him.
UmnIum explained to Miss Tnomp-
son that when he heard the fire alarm
and saw the truck dash by he felt an
unconquerable impulse to get on the
truck and so to the fire. He regretted
leaving her alone. but could not help
it. Whereupon she forgave him.
demonstrations are always danger
Gus. and it proved so in this instance.
Omnium told 10 that he loved her.
clasped her in his arms and begged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
Making the Law a Terror

One by one. as serious effort attends
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
law, the fangs of the statute are be
ing unbared to view.
1T is not essential" said Attorney
Genearl Wickersham last April, TO
American progress or American pros
perity that one group of men shall CON
troll the entire business of the United
States in oil. in sugar or in iron or any
other commodity. and no sound pTinci-
pie of economic law Is offended by
striking down all such artificial COM
binations."
More than any other attorn ey-gen-
eral of recent times, Mr.. Wickersham
is striking at those who seek monopoly
of the market place of the country.
The Supreme Court of the United.
States last week held that the sugar
trusts conspiracy in restraint of trade
ard competition was continuous, that
the statute of limitations could not be
pleaded in bar, and that the indicted
officers and directors of the trust
therefore must stand trial for their al
legged criminal wrongs in the Pennsyl
vania Sugar Refining company's de.
struction of a rival and competing con
Germ.
This the New York World recalls,
''is the case in which George H. Earle,
as receiver for the wrecked refinery
tried in vain to induce Mr.. Roosevelt
10 proceed against the trust With
the evidence that Roosevelt's admins
tration refused to consider, Mr.. Earle
in a private suit compelled the trust
TO admit its violation of the law and
restore 100000 AS a result Of Mr.
Earle's proceeding, the Taft admin
istration brought about the Indictment
of the individuals concerned, but
owing to the Roosevelt inaction the
issue of the statute of limitations was
at once raised This is now disposed
of by the Supreme Court.
THE courts decision holding that
such a conspiracy is continuous places
another powerful weapon in the adj
ministration's hands. Not only is guilt
personal, but guilt does not cease with
the mere signing of a contract to re-
strain trade. The offense goes on, and
if the law has been violated the men
who violated the law can be punished"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
They Died for Duty.

In one of the most terrible fire dis
asters in the history of Chicago
Fire Marshal Koran and 80 of his men,
including one of his chief assistants,
gave up their lives YESTERDAY No
band of men. ever died more nobIy for
duty They had gone into the jaws of
death to fight the flames. Undaunted
by the peril, they knew too well, they
died like heroes. The fate of the head
of the department of one of the great
est of the worlds cities showed that
his office was not merely perfunctory
one. Having risen from the ranks. he
was man who was not afraid to stand
on the firing line. Where he would
not lead, he did not ask his men to
go. He did not stand off a a safe dis
lance and boss the jobs He went in
to the thick of it, and died, as the
saying goes. with his boots on. What
an inspiration there is left in the
death of such a martyr, to the men en-
listed in the fire fighting service not
only in the smaller communities but in
the large cities as we'll In the whole
wide world of human struggle Chief
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23

missioners; streets paved, water
works improved; business methods
installed; politics relocated; net re-
duction of $4,000 in bonded in
debtedness; county Indebtedness for
which the city was responsible in the
sum of $119,750, paid off. People
enthusiastic in approval of the com
mission plan.
Des MOines, Iowa-City's net loss
in the last year of aldermanic gov
eminent was $134,510; net gain in
first year under commission plan
was S4S,439; total relative saving
of S182.949; tax levy for city pur-
poses reduced; public improvements
to the value of $357,755 made under
first year of commission plan: mu-
nicipal expenditures kept strictly
within the revenue; city hall graft
ing stopped; vast Improvements in
all departments; citys growth IN
precedented; people almost unani-
nous for the commission plan now;
professional politics eliminated from
city's business.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-Bonds retir-
ed and interest paid thereon TO a to-
tai of $4,000; public works on
large scale done We'll; city's health
and credit improved; business meth
DDS substituted for political wire
pulling; civic pride awakened: il
proposition to return to aldermanic
form of government was submitted,
people would vote unanimously for
the commission plan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
Life Lines
by BASILEUS.
OPPORTUNITY.
Copyright, 1910.

Why shed tears for they are Of no
avail when opportunity has been vast
ed: if your viii is still undaunted and
your conscience be not haunted you
will yet arrive if you only strive.
Opportunity is ever on the wing and
fits by mans habitation day and
night; but opportunity is game and
hard 70 tame. and when its got II is not
always what man expected il to be
DO not take a mean advantage Of n
good man at critical time: il is your
opportunity TO help and not to harm
It's best TO win through work and
you should be thankful that you can
work TO win; work is opportuni-y's
open door.
If man does not make for himself
his own opportunities then pray who
does; judgement. decision and preci-
sion are the three steps man takes
to opportunity's door, where he knocks
and always gets in.
Opportunity does not always come
with smiles for sometimes she seems
TO frOwn; see her as she is and take
whatever she brings or you will find
that she has wings-to ny from you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23

Koran has set an example rather than
a warning of what it means to do and
dare. He has paid the price of his life
for the cause of duty.
And beneath the surface of this
great man battered and SCARED by
years of devotion to hazardous occu-
patton there beat noble heart. This
is set forth in an interview he gave
out to the Chicago Record-Herald the
night before he met his death, for pub
LEGATION in next Sundays issue OF that
paper, in answer to the question, do
you believe in Santa CLAUSE" Chief
Horan's interview, containing his last
public message to the city of Chicago,
is one by which his family may well
be proud to remember him. Here it is:
Someone has said God bless the
man who first invented sleep l say,
God bless the men who first invented
Christmas This is the one season
of the year when all mankind is kin,
and there is no man who has heart
who does not feel some brotherly feel
ing for his fellow men. Laying aside
the practice of giftmaking, there is no
season of the year in which the wan
derer from home feels a longing to re
turn such as he feels at Christmas
time
THE practice of gift-giving and the
childish belief in Santa Claus breeds
in the child a spirit of unselfishness and
tends to make him think of the less
fortunate. At Christmas time any man
who has the least bit of sentiment in
- -,
the home of his boyhood, and this can
do no one harm.
by trying to keep in the children
the belief in Santa Claus have contin-
ued to believe in him myself. and if
there was ever justified fake the
Santa Claus fake is the one I be-
lieve in Santa, and am proud to say
that l do"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
The Commission Plan

Experiences of cities that have in
augurated the commission form OF
municipal government:
Galveston, Tex-MunicipaI i'm
provements made aggregating $4,-
100000; annual budgets exceeding
the city's revenue by an average of
about 100000 have given away to
budgets kept strictly with in the mu-
nicipal revenues; a floating debt of
S204,974 paid off out of current rev.
enue; bonds to the amount of 1882
900 retired; city wrecked by food
rebuilt and era of unprecedented
progress instituted to the delight of
the people.
This was where and how the COM
mission plan of government had its
birth Notwithstanding the enor-
nous extension of municipal activ
tiles and the increase of efficiency a
tax rate of $3.50, the lowest. of any
large city in Texas, was not in
creased.
Houston, Tex-City Indebtedness
to the amount of 100000 retired;
city's credit restored; waterworks
purchased for 1901. 100000: every
department of public service vastly
improved; business methods substi-
tuted for political wrangling of the
aldermanic form.
Leavenworth, Kan.-Professiona
politicians driven from power; cit
liens of the highest standing were
induced to be candidates for COM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
The Commission Plan to Have Op-
position.


The 1889 good citizens of Rock Is
/ land who signed the petitions for Il
vote on the commission plan had d
right TO expect an intelligent discus
sion of the merits of the proposed sys-
tenn of municipal government such as
The Argus has attempted from time TO
time to present Had The Argus not
/ been inclined to advance an argument
either for or against the adoption by
the people of Rock Island of the plan
which has worked out success
fully in other cities where it
has been tried, its duty as a newspaper
to the 1850 citizens who signed the pc.
titiOn would, nevertheless. have requir-
ed that it give some attention to the
subject This The Argus has under
taken to do, feeling thai, regardless OF
the ineffective recall issue clause of the
present measure, which it is proposed
to remedy on the emergency plan at the
coming session of the legislature. the
effect of the operation of the commits
sion form, together with the provisions
of the Illinois bill, would be of interest
anyway.
But there is another side to the sub
ject IF those 1889 citizens of Rock
Island who signed the petitions insur-
ing the special election to be held Jan.
B, knew what they were doing and
meant what they were doing, there is
something else for them to do.
And that is TO get out and hustle.
II they imagine for one moment that
the commission plan is to be adopted
in Rock Island without opposition and
that the default of a few votes at the
polls viii not make any difference. thew
are nightly mistaken. There is to be
opposition to the commission plan in
Rock Island. There will not only be
opposition. but there is opposition now.
1t has been on for several weeks. It
IS organized opposition. political and
otherwise. 1t is systematic opposition.
and opposition that will be heard from
and may count at the polls Jan. 8.
This much on the subject now NAV
be taken either as a reminder or an
argument Its chief object. however is
to impress upon the people who favor
the new order of things that the mere
signing of petition does not accom-
plish the main result
And that Indifference and neglect
never won battle for any cause.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23
SMALL CITIES SIGHTED

Government Census Figures Show
That Large Cities Attract People.
Washington, Dec. 23.-Of the o.
100000 in the United States more
than 2S,5OOO.O0O reside in cities ex-
ceeding $4,000 in population, as
shown by a recapitulation issued by
the census bureau. There are 22S
of these cities, - of which have
population exceeding a quarter of a
million and 80 Of which exceed 1907
600. The exact popslation of the
228 places is 2S.508,O07. OF this
number 2O,3O3.4O7 reside in the
larger cities iof more than 100000
population. The rate Of increase in
the large cities for the decade be
tween 19OO-f910 was 1915 as against
32.5 during the decade 189O-190O.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-23

clerks can dawdle from 9 to 4 and
call it a day"
Too short hours and inefficient work
in government Offices partly explains
the enormous growth of governments
expenditures. There are 10000 depart
ment clerks. and the shortening Of
their period of diurnal employment
from the customary eight hours to six
and a half means a daily loss of 45.-
600 hours to the government.
Al % cents per hour this means in
the course Of one year loss of $3.50.
900. Il is only a spigot leak, but it
ought to he stopped.