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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Promotion Schemes.

The state banking department of
Kansas has undertaken the work of
gathering information concerning all
sorts of promotion schemes, and espe-
cially those in which the effort is
made to sell corporation stock to Kan
sas people. 1t is the purpose of the
banking department to investigate
carefully every concern which solicits
Kansas people, either by mail or by
agents, and to report concerning the
organization Of the concern, the work
1t is doing, and its financial standing
This Is a splendid thing to do, and
the example Of Kansas could be fol-
lowed by other states. Millions of dol
lars have been taken out of the peck
cts Of the central west by promotion
schemes OF one sort or another, most
of which have been either fakes pure
and simple or of such a visionary
character that there is no hope of
profit to the investor.
Illinois has been overrun with con-
Germs Of this kind, and there are at the
present time active solicitors for many
such concerns at work. Why should
not the state use the machinery of its
banking department to prevent the
citizens from being defrauded or hum
plugged?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

who was following him up with
clinched fists. Tom hurried on and
heard Potter hiss between his teeth:
sissy
whats the matter betweea you
two?" asked Blake.
None of your business" said Pot
ter.
What is it, RussellY'
HE sits next me In mathematics
and wanted me to pony him this
morning at recitation. couldn't. The
teacher was looking straight at u.s.
You lie.' said Potter.
Russell, instead of answering the
insult with blow, shrank back, His
face was scarlet. and his eyes were
wet.
81 wouldn't stand that If I were
you, Russell said Blake. Its better
to get thrasaed than to take the lie"
81 don't want to fight any one" re-
piled Russell in a trembling voice. II
only want to be let alone.'
well. take that for parting gift"
said Potter. and he slapped Sherman's
face.
Blake. who had been curling his in
dignation. could no longer stand this
bullying of the strong over the weak.
Making a rush for Potter. he tried
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
The Suspicious.

Oh. when a fellow comes along
And hands you out a little song
About plan ne has In mind
Designed TO elevate mankind
And wants your help to come hin way
1t isn't very nice to say,
Whats In II 70
He has a great and noble cause
That ought TO win the worlds applause
That ought TO be the very thing
In life to soften down the sting.
But on II you cold water dash
By bringing In the hint of cash
What's in IL
he may. this man who only dreams.
Re poor in purse. but rich In schemes-
You who are practical suspect
That he would with your purse conneo
Or that IL will not bring you gain,
And so you ask him to explain
WHAT'S in it?'
Alas. the schemes that rise and fade
And with the dead are lowly laid
That might had they been given a show
Have put a crimp in pain and woe
Did not the man who would unmask
Some subtle scheme rise up and ask,
What's in it7"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
MURDER VICTIM is
BURIED IN CLINTON
Ray RingsOn, Brother of Killed Girl
Employed in Local Business
House.

Miss May Ringson, murdered Sat
urday in her home in Clinton, Iowa,
by Elmer Lipston, a bartender, who
was jealous of her and whose advanc-
es she resented, was buried today.
Her brother, Ray Ringson, employed
in the carpet department of L. S. Nc
Cabe &c Co, attended the funeral. He
was notified Saturday morning that
his sister had been shot, but did not
learn the facts in the tragedy until at
ter his arrival in Clinton. Miss Ring
son was % years of age. Lipston is
married After his arrest he said that
Miss Ringson had promised to accom-
pany him to Morrison. Ill, Saturday,
and that when he met her at O'Clock
in the morning, she had changed her
mind Miss Ringson was on her way
to her work when she met Lipston.
He was driving. She ran back to her
home when ipston tried to induce her
TO get into his buggy. Her home was
nearby. Iipston chased her into the
house, following her to her home on
the second floor, where the shooting
took place. Death was instantaneous,
the bullet passing through her mouth
and penetrating the brain. Lipston is
80 years of age. He has a wife and
two small children. Miss Ringson
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Ringson, and was a girl high
ly respected in Clinton. Lipston is in
Jail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
The Argus Daily Short Story
Russell .Sherman-By Olive Edna May.
Copyrighted. 1910. by Associated Literary Presa

to strike him. but Potter was too quick
for him and. avoiding the blow. plant
ed its mate on his cheek. number
the fracas and. running forward, sur
rounded the combatants.
"a ring, r1ngr'
Blake and Potter stripped TO the
waist.
whats it about?" asked one of the
boys.
Hes fighting for Sissy Sherman"
said Potter
The eyes of all were turned toward
Sherman, who was vainly endeavoring
TO repress tears. He started to go
away; then. as if ashamed to leave a
fight that was on his account, he turn
ed back and stood on the outer edge
of the circle.
The combatants were between six
teen and seventeen years old. Potter
was heavier than Blake, who was
rather tall and slender. Blake had the
advantage of a good cause, while Pot
ter soon learned that he was without
the sympathy of the spectators. Rus
sell Sherman, though not physically
strong or manly, was respected as the
head of his class, and the head of the
class is class property to be treated
and respected as such. Therefore
Blake, who was defending Sherman.
was considered TO be fighting for the
honor of the class. Besides this, many
Of the boys had been buliied by Potter.
and they would be glad to see him
downed.
Half dozen rounds had been fought
when Blake. just as Potter was aiming
a well directed blow at him. slipped
and fell. Potter fell with him and.
getting his knee on him. began to ham,
mer him with his fist, when Sherman
rushed at him. seized him by the hair
and pulled him over. Some of the lar
ger boys interfered. and the combat.
ants got up. Then. after a brief rest.
they began another round.
Stories of schoolboy fights usually
give q victory for one or the other Of
the fighters, but in most cases they
continue till both are tired out. Such
was the case in the battle between
Blake and Potter. About the time the
spectators We're thinking of stopping
the fight teacher was seen in the
distance coming toward the scene OF
the struggle, and in another minute
not boy was to be seen on the
campus.
After this Russell Sherman kept 10
himself more than ever. if that could
be. He had the respect of his fellow
students in everything except pluck.
He was not considered manly-that is,
so far as fighting his way was con-
cerned-but with the decline Of the
old military spirit that for centuries
gave first place TO the strongest and
bravest respect for brute strength has
dwindled. Sherman had brains. and
the pre-eminence of brains over mus
Gle is fully recognized in the twentieth
century. But he possessed a certain
kind of pluck that no other boy in the
school displayed. lie was the only boy
there who>was earning lis 0wn edu-
cation.
EThe day after the fight Tom Blake
saw Russell Sherman coming across
the campus toward him, but Sherman
whet he reached fork in the cement
walk turned aside. going in another
direction. Blake saw plainly that the
boy be had fought for shrank from
meeting him. At first he didn't Ike
this action on the part OF. nrntege-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

that he was tried in southern Illinois
where the public prejudice is greater
agaDcS the horse thief than in the
northern part of the state.
On the date of Jan. IL, 1907, two
prisoners were received at the Ohio
state penitentiary at Columbus. One
of them was a woman, who had stol-
en- S1,00O,0O0-and almost gotten
away with $1O,O0O,000 more. The
second prisoner was man who had
broken into a country grocery to
steal a duck for his Thanksgiving
dinner. = The woman, had she lived,
would have finished her sentence in
the year 1912. The mans term ex-
pires January IS, 1911. One was
given FIVE years for stealing a mill
lion dollars. The other was given
four years for stealing-a duck!
The question is, have we built our
government too fast? We have done
in a century what it has taken other
nations 10 centuries to do--and not
so we'll At least this is what we
say to ourselves, when we stop a
little while on the Fourth of July
to pat ourselves on the back. But
when all is done and said, has not
the very fact OF American swiftness
and American strenuousness given us
the danger which we are facing in
our machinery of justice today?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

p ONDoN. At the West India
g docks preparations are being
"a rapidly completed for the expedl-
ton which Capt. Robert Falcon
Scott is to lead in search OF the south
pole, and it now seems likely that
start will be made early in June
Painters, carpenters, smiths and other
nautical filters are swarming over the
Terra Nova, the ship in which the
antarctic explorers will sail, and the
good vessel is nearly ready. Captain
Scott. who is an officer in the royal
navy, has been overseeing all this
work and selecting the extensive out
fiji that he viii take with him. He
has given especial attention to the
matter of motor sledges and finally
has picked out one which it is hoped
viii be OF the greatest assistance in
getting over the great ice cap which
covers the southern extremity of the
earth 1t is so constructed that the
Gfiving wheels do not touch the
ground, but rest on an endless chain,
and thus, as it were, travel along
road carried by the car. Sir Ernest
Shackleton also took a motor sledge
with him, on his ''furthest south" ex-
petition, but it was not complete
success, though of considerable use at
times. Captain Scott will make his
actual start for the south pole from
New Zealand. -, - -.s..--..---- ..4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

Governor Hughes of New York has
signed the Murray night messenger
bill, a measure prohibiting the use
as messengers of boys under 81 years
after 10 o'clock at night or before
in the morning. While not all it
might be the new law will undoubt-
eddy do much toward abolishing the
evil of night messenger service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
A Reaular ION Bow

was Susie-climbing trees and fences
jumping bitches, whiting, always
getting scratches, cuts, sprains,
bruises, bumps, burns or scalds. But
laws! Her mother just applied Buck
lens Arnica Salve and cured her
quick. Heals everything healable-
bolts, ulcers, eczema, old sores, cOrns
or piles. Try it. % cents at all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

the interior to even the corporation
land-gTabbers has been destroyed. 1t
is anticipated that as a compromise
the investigating committee will not
only whitewash BGllinger, but viii en-
amel him as white as the lady of
spotless town, and that in acknowl-
edgement of this courtesy he will hand
in his resignation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

The memorial days awaken not only
the most tender and most sacred, but
the most stirring emotions that mark
the dreary journey of life. The
thoughts of these occasions come from
heart and hearthstone as well as from
the affairs over which are celebrated
the festival of a nations noble dead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
May 80 in American
History

lS6S-FlrsT general celebration of Sol
dierS' Memorial day.
1SS7-Major Ben: Periey Poore, jour
.nalist and author. died; born 1920
19OS-The emergency currency bill
passed and signed by the presi-
dent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
A Man Wants 70 Die

only when a lazy liver and sluggish
bowels cause frightful dependency.
But DR.. Kings New Life Pills expel
poisons from the system; bring hope
and courage, cure all liver. stomach
and kidney troubles; impart health
and vigor to the weak. nervous and
ailing, rs cents at all druggista
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

The splendid work of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily
coming to light. No such grand rem
edy for liver and bowel troubles was
ever known before. Thousands bless
them for curing constipation, sick
headache. biliousness, jaundice and in
digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Kept Her Busy,

Kept Her Busy.
every busy did you say she isl"
"Very."
"And clever. too. understand"
Extremely clever"
"How does she occupy herself most
ly?"
Drawing alimony from a number Of
former husbands"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Explained.

"That man is a monster Of wicked,
ness
HE is?"
Eyes"
Mercy me. What did he doY'
"He is a bride taker.'
"What is a bride takerT'
"ODe who confesses TO taking bribes.N
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Kncw Him Of OLD.

Knew Him Of Olo.
"IIe has a most remarkable stock Of
common sense"
"Who-BrownY
"Yes"
as that 500"
''Most remarkable"
"Now. | wonder where he has been
stocking up
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

The fact that Bailey of Texas is
voting with the standpats on the
railroad bill, indicates that it is the
railroads bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

The democrats in the legislature
who voted for Lorimer accomplished
one end at all events-they split the
republican party wide open.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Rnvor-a Arnumcnt.

Reverse Argument.
"ais argument isn't left with leg
TO stand on
THAT doesn't make any differences
to it"
'Why notT'
at looks as well standing on its
head
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
In the Distance.

Back TO the land. they tell US,
To rise at five a. IN.
To curry down the chickens
And feed the sitting hen.
1t really sounds alluring.
But please 10 mark this down;
Just two weeks of this pleasure
And. Oh. you job In town.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
So Simple.

"He has n scheme 10 abolish war"
"Ie VIII be known as n great world
benefactor. How is he going to do it?''
"aave nations quit lighting"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Noticeable.

Speaking of honesty
"Yes.'
there is one thing have often no
ticed."
What is thatY'
'The man who talks most about IL IS
generally willing to dispose of what he
has left for a consideration"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

Stenographer Kerby told the truth.
OF course his dismissal by Secretary
Ballinger followed. Republican en-
ployes ought to know better.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Al~,aua The Ereuss.

st don't see what causes my hair to
come out So
you need wife"
what forf"
ITO charge it up to-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

THE Payne-Aldrich tariff law is a
betrayal of party pledges. "-Beveridge,
republican senator from Indiana.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
Substitute For Coal.

''How is the weather in your couD.
try"
I'VE have cold waves to burn
by the way, what kind Of fuel do
they maker"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

The exposure of Ballingers secret
relations with George W. Perkins of
j. P. Morgan & Co. in Alaskan mat
tiers has started reports that the use
fulness of the present secretary Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

When a woman thinks she is pretty
she is certain that every other woman
knows she is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

Billy Lorimer succeeded in stirring
up the animals at any rate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

II isn't easy to cheat ourselves un-
less we are dead willing 10 be cheated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

You may put your best foot forward,
but you can't keep 1t there. IL has TO
be back half the time IL you make any
Roadway
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

There is no excuse for ignorance In
married man. What be doesn't
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

A rainy day is a
great dampner 10
the enthusiasm OF
picnlckers.
= efng able to
foresee unexpect-
ed conditions is
W b ere the good
guesser gets the
start OF the rest
of US.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
x = - =
5 HunaOr and
} Philosophy
D BY DUNCAN ~. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

SOME people give you the impression
that they are going around with
canned sunshine that is all OF Two
years old trying to make you believe
that it has been but just plucked from
Old Sol himself.
II time were money you couldn't get
the penurIous TO stop a minute TO ssve
their lives.
Our failure to inherit money ac-
counts for the poverty of most Of NJ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

Continued from Page One.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30
THE ARGUS.

sY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

the Taft administration, which Is
spending more than twice the amount
used by Cleveland to run the govern
ment, the cost of living is 80 per cent
greater than under the Cleveland ad-
ministration
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-30

Here is a little table which speaks
for itself. 1t compares the expendi-
lures on the army and navy in a per
iod of peace with amounts expended
for maintaining civil establishment:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
A Careless Pedestrian.

EVEN the oldest inhabitant will lose
II his bearings If he tries to find his
way through that dim country which lies
over against the north side Of the Union
station. Last week an old resident OF
the city, who is employed in the new Sen
ate building, tried a short cut across the
tracks north Of the station to his home
on North Capitol street He was walking
with gaze bent upon the ground before
him when a gruff voice called:
Here, come down Off there, what're
you doing on that roof?'
The old resident lifted his eyes to find
himself looking down over the brink OF
q pfecipice at a man standing in a street
twenty feet below.
II thought I was going home" he said
confusedly. but ] don't seem to be on
my way
Come on down through the trap door"
interrupted the man In the street. I'VE
don't allow trespassers on that roof
well, you ought to have a sign to tell
a man when he's on the ground and when
he's on a roof" retorted the old resident
"All dirt looks alike to me-"
He found, on descending, that he had
walked from the tracks
onto a fiat gravel roof built flush with the
track level. 1t covered one of the many
built up against the retaining
wall OF the great causeway that carries
the tracks northward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

He located the dismantled team up the
road, but after getting his vehicle back
on all tours he missed roll OF green
backs from the pocket OF his waistcost,
which had rolled out from under the seat
and fallen upon the ground. Then he
waXed exceeding wroth and promptly ac-
cused an innocent onlooker OF the theft.
The onlooker pointed to goat, which
stood creamily by the wagonside, licking
its chops, and promised 10 pay for the
animal IL the missing wad was not foun-
in Its stomach. So poor Billy was led to
slaughter and in exchange for a green
lump found somewhere within his d.
gestive apparatus the Treasury handed
out $50 In clean money.
Dog notes" form a class by themselves
in the annals of the redemption Office. A
man in Spring Valley, Ohio. dropped a.
$50 note, which his dog. in a playful
spirit. chewed up and swallowed. This
man did not hesitate long. He killed the
canine, cut him open and recovered the
fragments Of his money, Which the ami
mails gastric juice had nearly bleached
out. Patching It up. he sent 1t to the
subtreasury in Cincinnati, where il was
forwarded to Washington for redemption.
More recently dogs stomach inclosed
in jar was received, together with a.
letter explaining that poor Fritz had
playfully swallowed $50. but. not being
worth that amount, had been painIessly
killed. The chewed-up greenback was dis
covered by the experts after a most m
pleasant search. and new silver certtf-
cate was returned to Fritz's master.
Such cases give you an idea as to whe
may happen to our paper money before
IT becomes useless. In only extreme cases
Hike these, where its inscriptions are dis
figured does IL necessarily halt at the
Treasury. In thousands Of other In
stances it re-enters circulation after hay-
ing history as bad or even worse than
that of any OF the aforementioned spsci-
mems Of filthy lucre.
JOHN ELFRETH wATKINA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
If We All Had Money.

CARUSO. promenading the deck OF the
~ Kaiser Wilhelm II on a morning or
glorious sunshine. talked to an editor dis
contentedly.
Il have no future. nothing to hope for, ."
he said. II have climbed as high as it
is possible to climb. Since I am at the
top my next move must be down HILL
The editor laughed.
Think Of the money you make. Mr..
Caruso!' he cried enviously.
But even this thought did not comfort
the tenor.
Money is nothing in ITSELF said he.
suppose We all had money. Suppose
every man jack of US had forty or fifty
thousand year. Then we'd all have to
wash our own clothes and black our own
boots
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26

whose money handlers sometimes have to
go SO far as to fumigate notes sent in by
persons desiring new money in exchange.
This had to be done in the recent case
OF a man drowned In the Potomac river
and whose body was not recovered until
four months later, when some bills found
in his clothing were sent into the Treasury
for redemption. In another instance a
box of money was brought to the Treas
ury from Cuba by government under
taker who had recovered it from the boo
les of dead soldiers. On still another &C.
casion steamboat explosion on Lake
who had SEQ in bills on his person. He
f1oated about for some weeks. at the end
of which the cash was recovered and sent
through a bank for redemption at the
Treasury. Then there was the case of a
German tramp who died in a barn up in
New York state. He lay buried in the
potter's field until letter from his
brother in the old country led to his ex-
humation and 5000 in paper money was
found in a secret money belt hidden be-
meath his underclothing. These notes, like
those recovered in the preceding cases,
had to be handled at the redemption Of
fee
A note worn In a tramp's shoe during
a seventy-five-mile hike through Mime
sofa was another specimen received re-
Gently at the Treasury. This man started
from Mankato to Minneapolis with
twenty-dollar bill secreted in each shoe rs
a protection against hold-ups, but at the
end OF the two-day trip he was Mortified
to discover that one of his notes had been
worn to shreds. but some one told him
to send the remains to the redemption or
flee. which after sub5ecting them to the
microscope issued crisp twenty dollar
silver certificate in their stead. The other
bill that served the tramp as an .nsole
he cashed at Minneapolis bank, and per-
haps you or ! carried 1t after it went
back into circulation.
A bill worn as a plaster came in for re-
demption within only the past week. 4
man had spread a porous plaster out on
then had left the room. turning down the
light. Enter then his wife, who picked up
a ten-dollar note and then dropped 1t on
the plaster. Exit wife and enter husband,
who applies the plaster and tumbles into
bed Two weeks later the husband is
amazed, on removing the plaster, to find
the long-lamented greenback sticking
to it.