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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

at is wonderful this sense of motion in the air
smooth is our onward course Wonderful too is
my sense of security. have looked down
mlsgivings. Here l skinnling the air at the
thing Of nIsnes rrdders and y,;re bTac;ng IN tbe
building of which ounces had to be saved and yet
| have no fear of falling Ny feeling of security
is engendered by the very speed Of our motion.
springs up, seem detached from the earth, supe
rior to the action of gravitaon. 1t hard TO
the whirring propeller to which it is attached halt
we must inevitably sink The machine, Mars and
stasy of flight
"And then something happened Mars had run
the machine against the wind all the way down
flight and now he must around TO land else
angle of fifty degrees, with me on the upside
On this leg of the flight we went still higher and
| realized how like box kite were our movements
/ have kites of this mechanism make just such
darts and turns But the at the wheel
his hands with four wheels under it. After short
circling fight we landed safely and it all
But when we landed felt as if were in a run
away automobile with the steering gear busted"
But M; Caruthers can lay claim to breaking an
other and more important record than that of
being the heaviest man who ever made such as
cent
He devised and perfected all the arrangements
Tor the hrst Geographic message ever to be sent
by wireless from aeroplane. 1t will go down in
ment of the art of aviation. Mr. Caruthers, who is
the highest salaried idea man" in the newspaper
world, has originated many clever newspaper enter
prises Of his fertile brain that have attracted
attention the world This message sent
Saturday. August 9th. from the swiftly moving
aeroplane of ]. A. D McCurdy to Harry NJ. Horton,
an operator stationed the roof of the grand stand
at Sheepshead Bay, n. Y.
A field instrument attached to one of the bipanes
connected with several batteries, which were
swung in cradle below the aviator's seat. AS Nc
Curdy rose from the field he kept one hand on the
telegraph key and at favorable moment he began
to click off the first letter in the message which had
been prepared by Mr.. Caruthers.
The receiving station the grand stand caught
every letter.
The message read follows:
Horton: Another chapter in aerial achievement
is recorded in the sending of this wireless
from an aeroPlane.-McCurdy, in flight"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22
The Little Common People, "
By Nancy Byrd Turner

The little common people-they in shining
bands,
But take them and scatter them around with
careless hands
Till some live the bureau and live the
shelf
And now and then lives alone in a corner by
HIMSELF
Anr some stay in the workbox tthey're most con-
tented there,
And some the children for play, and they live
anywhere
Oh, it isn't nice to think Of and it isn't good to
tell
The way we treat the little folk who work for Us
well!
They help the buttons hold in our frocks and
pinafores,
They keep our dollies' dresses on and mend our
toys by scores;
They're hinges for boxes and fshhooks for our
strings
They make potatoes animals, and do hundred
things
And we lose them and abuse them and drop them
into cracks,
We End them lying all around and leave them or
their backs;
We break them and bend them-Oh, I am
ashamed to tell
How treat the little common folk who work for
well!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

any hitherto made in the world of aviation for he is
man who weighs hundred and ninety five pounds
and heavy as he had before made ascent
in aeroplane.
AS Mr.. Caruthers tells it, he went to the old
Sheepshead Bay Race Track at Coney Island to be
simply of the spectators of a private aviation
exhibition given there. He has been very much in
terested in aviation ever since the day when the
Wright Brothers had demonstrated that man had
added the air to his former domnions of earth and
sea, but he had never aspred to becoming an air
man himself. Certainly the day he went down
to Sheepshead Bay he says, he had thought
whatever OF leaving the solid surface of the earth
BUD Mars was making some experimental flights
and Mr.. Caruthers with few other favored spec
was watching the aviator with great interest
as he circled the track assembled, descended,
ed here and there, testing his aeroplane in .syegx
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22
Frank Dancy Caruthers
Tells Our Boys and Girls
How It Feels to Fly
and Girls
Bows

then alight more earth the spot from
which It
And when boy, girl, man wonders how
it feels to fly their fancy instincvely pictures IN
At first thought it would that if it were
desired learn from another's experience how It
feels to fly" the proper one to ask would be an
experienced aviator, professional arman.
If desired to acquire technical knowledge Of
the art of flying, such would be, by all means,
the best from whom to seek 1t.
But when boy or girl wonders how it feels to fly
that IS the thought that is in mind.
What he she wishes to know in exactly what they
say how it feels. what the sensations expert
when for the first time he is swiftly carried aoft and
fara bove the surface of the air finds himself actually
flying, do the birds.
Naturally the from whom to seek such knowledge
has this is who has mself newly experienced such
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22
"NEIGHBORS."
By Malcolm douglas.

Sez Mrs McCaferty to Mrs. O'Raferty
AS plisnt lady could be-
Wild all hands the tub in, an a-shcrubbin' an a.
rubin
THE top av the mornin to yel"
SEE Mrs ORafferty 10 Mrs. McCafferty.
Wild the clock half-pasht twilve. do ye see
An the washn' a-dryin, an happin an hyiu,-
The middle the MONDAY TO ye"
SEE Mrs McCafferty to Mrs. O'Raferty,
A-pullin' in the lines afther tea
Wild the skates an the piy-cases, an pima
shtuck in their faces
The bottom the avening TO ye"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

:" VERY boy is interested IN the new art of
flying, the birds do, will through the
- air. And among the girls also is found
interest as keen, although there may be
8A yet few of them who nope almost every
boy does, that they too may enjoy the
strange sensation of speeding dizzying heights far
above the earth.
But every boy and girl wishes to know how it
feels to fly. how it feels to rise with the speed or
far above the earth and like arrow
speed directly forward through the air toward some
chosen point or circle in the air like a.brd in broad
sweeps directing hand and foot may guide the
aeropane in which the airnsn IS perehed
For it is the aeroplane the imagination OF the
boy or girl who dreams of flying instinctively
hers. They may not be versed in arguments pro or
con as regards the respective merits OF aeroPlane
and dirigibe balloon air ship but it IS the former
that naturally appeals to them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

it as an achievement impossible of attainment, has
always been associated with the birds.
Ever tantazingy present before eyes the
birds possessed undsputed their Kingdom of the
Sky, and whenever man boy thought of flying
1t fly the birds fly.
This the aerOplane enables man 10 do.
Like the birds the aeroplane is heavier than the
air, and like them possesses its innate power
conquer the force of gravitaton rise aloft and
maintain its poise there, speeding where its pilot
will, rising, descending, swiriing here and there as
the will that guides it chooses.
A. carrier pigeon, the aeroplane can speed its
fight with arrowlike precision through the air; as
the eagle it can swoop down earth from greatest
heights and with more than eagle swftness; as the
swallow it can skim earths surface with its wings,
rise suddenly to highest flights swOop down to mid
air. and swirl in circles graceful and joyous. and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

Some eve I'd like to plant myself
BY boyhoods long-negected shelf,
Once more TO ope those volumes worn
Which modern pages make forlorn;
Once more to let the moments speed
With Optic, Castlemon. Mayne Red,
The "Boat-Club" set, The White Chief" there
All, these were books, l do declare!
Jack Hazardw Joyi Again we meet
BY grace of Trowbridge lines repicte
And pom my word, here's "Cudj6's CayeI-
(Was CudJo not a dandy slaveD
The Scottish Chiefs" in this. guess.
And this q loaned IT Ger iand o'er)
Is Stephens Left Labrador"
Pass by that dog-eared treasure? Mol
It's SCOTS enhancing "Ivanhoe!"
Chow often, OF its glamour taught.
Have Tom and in tourney foughtD
And here, imploring boybood's eyes,
The Last of the Mohicans' lies!
Hail! Hawkeye, Uncas, Chingachgooki
CDeerslayer' IS that next old book)
Come, "Crusoe"; pretty ragged you
a hundred times read through and through
y our woodcuts blurred. While this oneself
The far-marooned Swiss Family
And look! Their consequences confessed.
Aladdin "Sinbad' and the rest
Peer forth from covers stained and DIM
Awaiting-cheek by jowl with Grmml
Upon this faded back discern
The tempting. wizard OF Vernei
The titlee Must be Field of lee
Or no; some trip" of strange device
Munchausen, here; that CULVER;
This, Coffin-truthful chronicler.
(The other three, of course bricks,
But can't beat Boys of 76!O
And you. oh, gift of gentler pen:
Louisa Alcotts Little Mem"
And you, whom kindred soul creates:
Hans Brinker; or The Silver SkatesF'
But Duty warns---lite mothers dread:
stop, my SON. time to go bed"
L, o.
Farewell, dear shelf Of boyhood's lore.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

way TO that it in proper condition for the
public exhibition of the following day.
When Mars at last alighted Mr.. Caruthers
among those who stood around the aeroplane and
he was introduced to the airman by mutual friend
Bud suddenly asked Mr. Caruthers
do you to rider"
ers in speaking Of it afterwards. took my breath
away, but almost before l had time to think the
yes came to my lips and was spoken.
How much do you weight" was Buds" next
One hundred and ninety-fve pounds" was the
You will be the heayiest man l, ever taken up as
'fWell" continued Afr Caruthers almost dazed
with the suddenness OF it ALL l did climb in. The
arrangements for the accommodations of passengers
in aeropanes still pretty crude. The airmcn up
to this time have had things to look after that
more important to them than Is the comfort OF
passengers. A little canvas seat wire to rest your
feet. and for your hands, why it is of
hold of. ''''' '"'' VIII" 1''y'''''S you '1 az
Two, men spring forward and grip the machine
sputefs moment len Then WhrTFr and the P Pro
Peer IS revolving at the rate OF 100 revolutions
flight and you will have t -
Across the field races the aeroplane for some $50
earth that is miracuously sinking beneath us The
strongest sensation was the absence of sensation
It required thought to realize that 1 was actually
flying; that above the earth and in the air
What sensation there was seemed calming rather
senses as looked down at the ground to see how
the people looked VINO scattered here and
"A COW outside the fence. turning her head up
ward to see where the noise came from, presented
a face that looked perfectly fat if painted
board The ground looked like enlarged edition
OF Typographical map had seen once somewhere
The houses around the outside fences of the track
looked strange The view the aeropanist gets of
the earth is intimate Not like the balloonist, who
must be up great distance before he moves
onward l getting a view of things.
Higher, higher went, or, rather, lower, lower
sank the earth. The earth to fall away very
fast We gliding up No longer the
ground flickers past in verdant blur. Our in
creasing height robs of all sense of speed.
There as only the consciousness of motion, nothing
moro. We must be up 500 feet according to the
barometer Houses, fields, trees drift away more
slowly now, so slowly that can tell from an
other and pick out two that recognize,
E-aR
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

The dirieibIe air ship is too much Ike the balloon
with which we all have been familiar However
great facility it may give to its pilots to guide It
choose, it always to be mere floating gas
bag at the mercy of the winds to blow 1t whittier
they will.
With the aeropiane It is different The idea Of
aeria1 fight through the many centuries in which
have vanly striven to achieve It or looked upon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

sensation for the first time. His sensations still
vivid, his memory Of his flight still fresh and
And It was from such a one we sought to learn how
it feels to fly
Heis Frank D Caruthers, Assistant Business Manager
of the New York World and in the picture this
he is shown seated for the first time aerOpane beside
Bud Mars, the professional aviator.
It but week two ago Mr.. Caruthers made this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-22

RsvAOr>-
Another chapee=4i&
Of ''''"'+''s'- -'''-'s1+-'" 'H=es='s'sos ~ "
9et h(G4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
GOTELAERE ON TRIAL
IN CIRCUIT COURT
Charged With Causing the Death of
Leaven Van Hecke, Whom He
Kicked in the Head.

The circuit court convened this
afternoon after recess lasting since
reported for service. The first case
that will come to trial is that of Cyriel
Gotelaere who is under indictment for
manslaughter. He is alleged to have
caused the death of Leavan Van
Hecke, whom he kicked in the head
in saloon brawl early in February.
Arthur Burnwood, indicted for lar
ceny in connection with his having
stolen a bicycle, was arraigned this
afternoon and he entered a plea of
not guilty. Richtmyer and Franklin,
charged with larceny, were arraigned
but they deferred pleading until they
secure counsel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06

member. The widow sued, but settled
for $3.50.
Another member died. had ask
ed Frankel several times If the man
was paid up Frankel said he was,
but when he died within a few days
Frankel insisted that the man had not
paid dues for six months, and the pay
ment on the policy was held up.
Resigns ms Lodge Secretary.
by this time my suspicious had
been aroused and I resigned as SEQ
rotary. Before the American Home
Circle was merged with the Fraternal
Tribunes the order had $1,000 in the
vaults of one OF the trust companies.
After the merger Frankel asserted that
the order had no money and that he
was out of pocket. AS we had given
him s42 with which to pay the rent of
our hall and other expenses, we had
him arrested when we learned that he
had not used the money for the pur-
pose intended"
Fraternal Tribunes Garnisheed.
Peoria, June 6.-Behind the simple
and formal action of Mrs. Lena Smith,
in garnishment, against the Fraternal
Tribunes, turks legal battle which in
way is the outcome of the frauds
and defalcations recently discovered
in the accounts of national officers of
the order BY her solicitor, Joseph A.
We'll, Mrs Smith filed suit in the cir
cult court of Peoria county yesterday.
The present action is conceded to
be a part of the tangled state of af
fairs of the Fraternal 'Tribunes, the
American Home Circle and several
other fraternals at Rock Island. J. F.
Smith, husband of Mrs. Lena Smith,
originally held a policy for $4,000 in
the American Home Circle. Action
was first brought against this frater-
nal shortly after Mr.. Smiths death
year ago on refusal to pay the pol
icy to Mrs. Smith. Judgment was rem
dered by default in favor of Mrs
Smith, but in the meantime the Home
Fraternal Tribunes and all efforts to
cash the policy were futile.
Now that the special grand jury at
Rock Island has discovered gigantic
shortages in the treasures of both the
Fraternal Tribunes and the American
Home Circle, affecting thousands of
people. in this and many other states,
the action brought by Mrs. Smith, if
carried out, means direct reference to
the alleged defalcations of the officers.
1t may necessitate the presence Of At
torney We'll in Rock Island at some
later time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
PERSONAL POINTS.
H. B. Hayden is in ST. Louis

H. B. Hayden is in st. Louis.
Francis Wheeler of Rockford arrived
here this morning for a visit.
Mrs. j. F. Lidders will leave Rock
Island tomorrow morning for Seattle,
Wash.
Ross Carney of Dixon is spending
a few days in Rock Island visiting
with friends.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Francis J. Lewis and
son Joseph have returned from an ex-
tended trip through Europe
Martin Lungren arrived in the city
this morning from his home in Kansas
City. He will remain a week
Miss Bertha Jonassen is registered
at the Hotel Woodstock, New York
preparatory to sailing for Europe.
George A. Harding arrived in Rock
Island this noon from his home in Chi
cago. He will visit a month here.
William Barth has arrived home
from Evanston, where he has been
attending school for the past year.
L. A. Wilcox, who has been spend
ing the past few days in Rock Island,
left this morning for his home in South
Bend, Ind.
Cyrus Waite, who has been attend
ing Leland Stanford university in Cali
fornia, is at home to spend the sum-
mer vacation.
Norman French, formerly of Rock
Island, but who is now attending
school in California, has arrived in the
city for visit.
]. H. Meehan, 929 Second avenue.
arrived home after spending the past
few days as the guests of relatives in
Peru and Tiskilwa.
DR.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Sala will leave
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
Give Your WasherwomAn Fels-Naptha,
Says Anty Drudge.


Mrs Gossipe-"Goodness but Mrs. Werlich must have
lot of work in that big house. I've heard she had four
doing the washing"
Mrs. Cottager-"I have had than dozen doing my
washing, though only one at a time"
Aty Drtdge-'f you bought Fels-Naptha SOAP you could
keep your washerwoman longer do the washing
yourself Washing is small job for any woman if she
uses Fels-Naptha in cold lukewarm water, and lets
1t take the place of boiling and hard rubbing"
Dirt is the home of germs. You gather
them in the dust that settles on your
clothes, in the mud of the streets, from
soiled car seats and in many other places.
You want to kill these germs in the
weekly wash,~or they may cause trouble.
Fels-Naptha soap is germicide. With it,
boiling is not necessary either to destroy
germs or wash the clothes In cold or
lukewarm water, Fels-Naptha makes short
work of dirt, and disease germs cannot
live in the same tub.
Be sure and use Fels-Naptha soap i
Fels-Naptha way-no hot wafer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
OBITUARY RECORD.
Mrs Mary Olsen.

Mrs. Mary Olsen, 261s Seventh ave-
nue., passed away at her home this
morning at 5:15 from an attack of
heart failure. She had been confined
to her bed a few days only and pre-
viously had enjoyed the best of health.
She was born March 4, 1880, at Chris
tiana, Norway, where she was united
in marriage to Christian Olsen, May
8, 1852. Soon after their marriage
they came to America, first settling
in Kansas. In 1860 they moved to
Rock Island. Her maiden name was
Miss Mary Alfsen. Her husband died
in March, 1906. She is survived by a
son, William. at home, and four grand
children.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock from the home,
the services being conducted by Rev.
w. G. Oglevee, assistant pastor of the
Broadway Presbyterian church, with
burial in Chippiannock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
Advertised Iist No %

For week ending June 4, 1910: Mrs.
Sarah Brown, Howard Britt, John
Bradley, William Carney, A. ]. Craw-
ford, Frank Cooke, Brose & Dick, Fred
Freeman, B. J. Griffin, Guy Griffin,
Jerry D. Herliky, R. G. Hull, Lins A.
Johnson Miss Pearl Jaxon, Bessie
Jones, John Johnsbury, Frank Llaytos,
Mrs. L. L. Meyers, Ed Mulligan, Miss
Mae McKinnon, Charles Mattson.
Henry Mars, Miss Naomi Magnuson,
e. Mccullough, Hare McLane, Albert
Nevergool, Mrs. Beulah Potter. Mel
vile Russell, Mrs o. ]. Smith. Miss
Gertie Steeb, Ed Salyard. Andrew
Smith, William Schroeder, Mrs. c. w.
Sheldon, James Stay, Rea L. Taylor,
John H. Temple, Ben Untersinger.
Adolf Vantunhiste, J. Vasel, DR.. w. T.
e. Warren, John c. Webb. Foreign:
M. Myers. H. A. ]. MDONALD,
Postmaster
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
WILSON COMING
FOR BATH HERE?
Leaves Capital to Tell Jury
Story, but Heart Fails Him
at Peoria.
HEADED THE TRIBUNES
James II. Is. yam Cleave Returns
Again With Essential Records
Not Allowed to Tell Story.

A representative of the Office OF
States Attorney Edmund E. Burke of
Springfield is authority for the state
ment that Thomas w. Wilson, who
was head of the Fraternal Tribunes
during the looting of that society's
funds, left the state capital yesterday
headed for Rock Island with the eX-
pressed determination of requesting
permission to go before the grand jury
and confess his part in the dealings
that resulted in the collapse of the
Fraternal Tribunes. Wilson rode from
Springfield to Peoria in company with
James r. B. VanCleave and Lorin E.
Wheeler At Peoria Wilson changed
his mind-Burke representative de-
scribed it as cold feet''-and left the
train. He has not been heard from
since. Wilson was head of the Amer
lean Home Circle, and it was in his in
terest that at least one of the officers
of the Fraternal Tribunes resigned
that he might become supreme tribune
of the merged order. During Wilson 3
administration about $4,000 of the
funds of the Fraternal Tribunes disap-
peared
VanCIeave Still on Outside.
Another interesting development to-
day before the grand jury reconvened
at 2 o'clock this afternoon, after hav-
ing been on adjournment since Satur-
day, was the temperance of James
r. 3. VanCleave and Lorin E. Wheeler,
the latter postmaster at Springfield.
Wheeler was before the jury last week.
and he was recalled to testify to facts
that came to the surface after he had
given his testimony. Mr.. VanCleave
came here last Friday as a volunteer
witness, but he was denied the pris-
ilege Of telling his story to the jury.
He remained until Saturday, when he
was informed by States Attorney l.
NJ. Magill that there was but one means
of his getting before the jury, and
that was by producing records which
he claims to have clearing him of any
shady connection with thS handling Of
the $57, 900 reserve of the Fraternal
Tribunes. Mr.. VanCleave has got to
show his authority for drawing the
$4,000 from the Chicago Title &
Trust company and depositing it in
the Lincoln National bank, Spring
field, of which he was at that time
president Mr.. VanCleave returned to
the city today, but he failed again to
bring the records with him that he in
sists to Mr. Magill that he has in his
possession. The states attorney re-
iterated his position to Mr.. VanCIeave,
and whether he gets before the jury
with his testimony depends on whether
he fulills the instructions of the
states attorney. If he has not the rec
ords he claims to have, he may have
further explaining to do later on.
Mr. Wheeler was ordered by States
Attorney Magill to make another trip
back home, he having not brought
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-06
FORGERY CHARGED
G.. T. Taylor Arrested for Pass
ing Two Worthless Checks
in City.
THEY ARE FOR s1s EACH
Same Individual Deals in Phony Pa
per Several Months Ago but
Case Is Ignored.

The police have arrested G. F. Tay-
lor and lodged a charge of forgery
against him as the result of his having
passed several bogus checks at saloons
Saturday night.
The checks were on the state bank
and both of the two that were passed
were for SIS. One was given to the
bartender at the Budweiser saloon on
Second avenue between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth streets and the other to
the bartender at the Luchman saloon
on Market square. On his person
were found several other checks of
similar denomination all signed will
liam Huber"
Taylor was putting up story that
the check was his weeks pay. He was
suspected, however, and the matter
reported to the police.
He's a Repeater.
Several months ago he passed a
check at another saloon for a small
sum and signed it with the name of
Thomas Rosenfield, the plumbing in
spector. His case that time was ig-
nored by the grand jury, but the police
hope to hold him on this one. He will
receive a preliminary hearing before
Jolice Magistrate c. ]. Smith.