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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Fine Opportunity Embraced.

Leigh F. Maxcy of Sangamon county
has attended the Corn Growers and
Stockmen's convention at the Univer-
sity of Illinois about ten years, and he
said at the recent meeting that he re-
garded the day when his father insist
ed on sending him to his first conven-
ton as a turning point in his life
IAN opportunity presented and embrac-
ed" He finds by little figuring that
in these years he has actually spent
40 weeks in time and $3.50 in money
for this work in agricultural education.
This is more than an entire college
year
He says: There is a strong inspir-
atfOn and broadening effect upon the
individual in the associations and ac-
quaintances formed and the exchange
of practical ideas in this convention. -
Mr.. Maxcy urged the young farmers
at the short course to read and re-
read the agricultural bulletins upon
the subjects that related to their
lines of farming and to plan their
operations in harmony with the best
judgment thus developed. And he
made the point that it was great
help in understanding these bulletins
and circulars to have personal touch
with the authors and the buildings
and the equipment of the college and
experiment station, the conditions
and atmosphere of the men and the
place where the facts were worked
out The men from the farm get
this personal touch at the two weeks
short course in January.
In mentioning the spread of i'm
proved farm practice resulting from
agricultural education he related that
"a year ago after corn husking was
finished farmer who had ceased the
practice of burning his corn stalks
began blowing the stalk under to re-
tain them for the improvement of
the soil. At once five men on adjoin-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Would Relieve Merchants,
Publishers. Farmers. Con-
. sumers and Manufacturers
of Incubus OF Express Com
pany Domination, Says John
Brisben Walker. :: . ::
~ JOHN BRIsDBN wALKrR.

~ JOffN bt(LS16N "lALAENs
W. WHILE the German postal
AA service is carrying packages
W for one-third of cent a
pound. transporting them, If
necessary, from one end OF Germany
DO the farthermost town in Austria
Hungary, carrying all sorts OF parcels
up to hundred pound trunk, the pres
fdent OF the United States in his mes
sage to congress and the postmaster
general In his annual report are arous-
Ing the attention of the country to a
loss of $1,000 600 per annum incurred
In transporting periodicals at 1 cent
pound.
The actual cost OF these periodicals
has been accurately measured by the
postmaster general down to the one
thousandth part of a cent. He says
that for each pound of one cent mail
expense OF 9.235 cents.
II any one suggests that Germany
md Austria Hungary and pretty near
ly all the countries Of Europe are car
rying parcels at a fraction Of cent
per pound. the United States post
office department retorts that they are
all small countries, thickly populated
But Canada is a country as wide as
ours and sparsely populated. While
we have been losing S.235 cents per
pound on periodical mail Canada found
that her profits on such mail at one
half cent a pound were excessive. Ac-
cordingly the rate was reduced to one
quarter of a cent per pound, and at
this price the government report for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Talks Cattle to Illinois Farmers.

ans SdhNiC IL iltlnOIS dTn1GTS.
John Campbell, a farmer of On
tario, had earnest words for Illinois
people at the recent meeting of the
live stock breeders in Urbana Be-
low are a few of his ideas:
1 have never known a country
where live stock was neglected and
principal attention was given to grain
products without lessening the value
of the land. l know by experience
on a worn out farm that it is very
much easier to maintain the fertility
on a good farm than to get farm
back to profitable production after
it has become over cropped. Doubling
the production of many a farm in the
United States in ten years. has been
done by keeping the farm full stocked
and turning back to the soil every
thing that is grown on it.
1 could hardly believe that the av-
erage production of corn in Illinois
this year was only 26 bushels per
acre. Something is wrong and should
be righted. You people here and we
in Canada are not making the best
use of the soil. When we note Eng
lands results from tillage we are
only beginning to know the A B C of
agriculture.
The men who produce good steers
on good soil should be the fnishers
every time. Why are you raising so
many hogs? Why don't you carry it
all the way through and raise good
bullocks?
You young men have the oppor-
tunity to learn more about live stock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

were not interested in the work. Blu
last spring by much effort ne got a
man who was interested in hogs ano
let him devote all his time to that
business. He needed the instructions
given him, fed and watered the hogs
regularly, provided them good places
to sleep and looked after them care
fully and constantly. This man wa
on such familiar terms with the pigs
that they would pull at his shoe
strings when he came in the yard
and when he picked them up they
thought it was part of the game.
The results have been very salts
factory and 100 fall pigs were car
ried through this cold winter in as
good condition as the spring pigs
were kept They had a warm slop
every day. Mr.. Grout says that his
former failures have been simply be
cause the men neglected those little
things that are Absolutely necessary.
and that if the farmers of this state
are going to make a success of grow
ing hogs they must get right down
to details and see that this business
is attended to as strictly as any
other. He said, Il wish that such
meetings as these could be held out
on the farms where we could get tho
fellows who are doing the work to
hear and see what is going on. We
have got to have the men, interested
in the work they are doing or else
it will not be done properly"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
READ WHAT THE CURED SAY:

Nervous Headache Cured in
Five Minutes Free of
Charge.
Mr.. Emery Taverne, a
well known Belgian bust
ness men, who resides at
613 Fifth avenue, Moline,
Ill. says: lone day 1 suf-
fered a severe headache and
being in perfect misery, my
wife urged me to go to
Rock Island and see DR..
Bartz. and try his electrical
treatment. To my astonish-
ment in less than five min
utes after I commenced his
treatment the headache was
all gone"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
How erout Made Money on Hogs.

A. P. Grout of Scott county made
more money in the hog business this
season than ever before and the rea-
son he gave for it at the farmers
short course in Urbana may be of
vital interest to any owner of
large farm who has to entrust his
hog business to a hired man. Mr..
-Grout had taken much pains to learT
the right way to feed hogs and teach
his men, but through their neglect
and lack of business method, raising
hogs had proven expensive. They
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Some Bits of Agriculture
And View Convention
UDivesty-NIany Informed.

ing farms began the same thing and
not one of them had ever been to the
agricultural college" He also said
that drudgery and discomfort are re-
moved from farm work when we
know why we do a certain task in a
certain way"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
FREE OF CHARGE
REMEMBER

circumstances will DR.. Bartz accept profess
patient applying between and March 81
Are you nervous dyspepc in stomach constipated?
floating before the papitaon OF the
breath headaches neuralgia shooting
hips ankles? Is blood i'm
pain from rheumatism lame back scatca
Iumbago or Kidneys! catarrh of the
the and strength
youth? fretful and gloomy? Is
physical strength and
standard? Have bladder trouble? Do
ringing noises in ears? Is hearing diff
Do which
vigorous II will ind electrcy-prop-
erly appIied-one natures grandest remedies
Dera and March 81 The only
,es will be of his friends
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
His Lungs Now Feel Good.

His Lungs Now Feel Good.
Mr.. c. o. Granere, the librarian
at Augustana college. who resides at
1911 Thirty-eighth street, Rock Is
land, says: About the first part of
last November I contracted a cold
which settled in my bronchial tubes,
it made matters very unpleasant for
me, in fact, there were times when 1
coughed a great deal. Gradually as
the cough subsidized it left my lungs
in bad shape. in fact. there seemed
to be a constant ache present. One
day l read about DR.. Bartz's system
of treatment and 1 concluded to in
vestigate it. l certainly am pleased
l did so, for now my lungs feel good"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

you have ever lost on a good animal?
1t is a rare thing.
l don't know of any line Of work
that should be so attractive TO the
young people of Illinois as life on a
farm nicely stocked with a good class
Of stock. Young men. set your stan
dards high. Do not be satisfied with
being an average farmer.-Reported
by Arthur J. Bill for the Illinois
Farmers institute.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Why Articles Cost More.

The only cheap transportation today
is in bulk. This puts it out of the
power of the co. sumner to secure his
food supplies fl any way except
through combinations formed for the
purpose of squeezing the last cent from
those compelled to buy. The consumer
and the little storekeeper are COM
pletely at the mercy of these combina-
tons. AS a consequence milk that on
the farm fifty miles from New York
sells for 315 cents per quart is given
out by the combination, with part of
the cream removed, for cents in New
York.
A cent a pound rate would break
these combinations in a month. Every
man would have 1T in his power to get
into direct touch with the producer.
who must now let his fruit and vegeta-
bles rot on the ground or accept the
cut rates OF the combinations.
What is the answer? There is but
one. Buy out the express companies
at any price. Their most extravagant
capitalization in total would not equal
the sum which the country loses in a
single year by the present vicious sys-
tenn of distribution Then put the
ablest experts in transportation and
delivery Of merchandise at work to de-
wise a system for handling parcels at
the minimum OF labor and expense.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
Hasn't Lost Minute Since Using DI
Bartz's Treatment.

Hasn't Lost Minute Since Using DR..
Bartz's Treatment.
Mr.. w. NJ. Bredt, who resides at
1924 Seventeenth avenue, Moline.
says: ION and on for FIVE or six years
my back gave me a lot of trouble,
at times it was so bad ! could hardly
get up out of a chair. Discouraged
after trying so many different reme-
dies, / finally concluded to see DR..
Bartz about ii. To my complete sur
prise / never lost a minute at my
work since I started his treatment.
Before taking the treatment there
we're days and days I couldn't work.
Take 1t all in all DR.. Bartz's treat
ment is simply wonderful"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

the vast loss to commerce by the cost
ly and cumbreus channels into which
it is forced
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

liberal offer call %en nod t March 81 IN
you ecurd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

All the news all the time The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01
SPECIAL NOTICE
Dr. Barz Extends His Great Offer to the Sick and Weak
FREE TREATMENT UNTIL cUREI

Of the great rush of patients
received asking
the fact they only recently
realize marvellous results
electricity when properly applied being
adding least rs testimonials
extend his
everybody calling, for thirty days longer.
Dr. Bartz true OF successful
everybody
of introducing it than offering
ed absolutely
FREE OF CHARGE
all calling between II. Many of you
who taking medicines and
will absolutely cured applications
applied. Very chronic
time, but 1t makes difference
be treated free until say II cured"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-01

w WHILE the German postal
A~ service is carrying packages
VI for one-third of a cent a
pound. Transporting them. If
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
FINE LIMOUSINE CAR
FOR BISHOP O'CONNOR,

When Bishop John J. O'Conhor came
to the porch of his South Orange home
yesterday to welcome prominent lay
men of his diocese who had driven up
in a fin new automobile, he was sur
prised to be told hat the machine was
int nded for him.
1T is simply a little Christmas-time
testimonial from the laity of your do
cese," said Congressman James A.
Hamill IN making the presentation.
The bishop, in a neat speech OF
thanks, declared he had got just what
he wanted. The car is a limousine.
Among the members of the committee,
besides Congressman Hamill, were e.
NJ. Waldron and Martin Conboy, of
Newark; Supreme Court Justice James
Minturn, Of Hudson county; Mayor
Mcbride, Of Paterson; John O'Leary,
of Passaic, and DR.. ]. P. Riley. OF
Elizabeth.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
The Quickest. Simplest
Cough Cure
Easily and Cheaply Made mt
Home. Saves You g..


This recipe makes a pint of cough
syrup-enough to last a family q long
time. You couldn't buy as much or as
good cough syrup for $3.50.
Simple as it is, it gives almost In
slant relief and usually stops the most
obstinate cough in "a hours. This Ia
partly due to the fact that it Is slightly
laxative, stimulates the appetite and
has an excellent tonic effect. It Is
pleasant to tal1e-children like 1t. An
excellent remedy. too, for whooDing
cough, sore lungs asthma. throat
MIX one pint of graduated sugar
with u pint of warm water, and stir
for 2 minutes. Put 2h ounces of Pinex
(ifty cents' WORTHY in a pint bottle
and add the Sugar Syrup. 1t keeps per-
fect!y. Take a teaspoonful every one,
two or three hours.
Pine is one of the oldest and best
known remedial agents for the throat
membranes Pinex is the most valu.
able concentrated compound Of Nor
way white pine extract, and is rich in
Euiaicol and all the other natural heal
ing elements. Other preparations will
not work in this formula
The prompt results from this recipe
have endeared 1t to thousands of house,
wives in the United States and Canada
which explains why the plan has been
Initiated often, but never successfully
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction
or money promptly refunded. goes with
this recipe. Your druggist has Pine1
or will get 1t for you. If not, send r
The Pinex Co.. Eft. Wayne. Lad,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
SON FINDS BODY
OF SLAIN PARENT
LAYING IN DOOR
Jersey City Business Man
Stumbles Across PROSTATE
Form of Father.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 20.-Ambrose
Wilson, a young business man, re-
turned to his boarding place in john
son avenue early today, after a belated
evenings visit with friends, and
tumbled headfrst over the body of his
father, Frank Wilson, in the hallway.
The aged mans body was cold, and
he had been dead apparently for sew
eral hours. Examination showed that
he had been terribly beaten with some
heavy implement and finally killed by
a stab in the neck which severed the
jugular vein.
The police, after a hurried investi-
cation, arrested August Miller and his
wife, Jane, owners of the house. The
two Wilson's, father and son, had
boarded with them for several years.
The police lodged a charge of murder
against Miller and directed that the
wife be held as a witness.
According to the police, the Millers
had quarreled with the elder Wilson
during the evening, and a fight ensued,
Mrs. Miller taking Wilson's part. Mil
Ter, it is alleged, was worsted in the
preliminary encounter, and returned to
the fray with a broom.
He knocked Wilson down with this
weapon, the police say, breaking the
broom across his head. Then he took
the Jagged, slivered stick and showed
it into the older mans neck, severing
the jugular vein.
The police are of the opinion that
after Miller found that Wilson was
dead he carried the body from the up
per floor, where the fight took place,
to the bottom of the stairs, in an effort
to give the impression that the man
had fallen downstairs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
pRIETH RESIGNS FROM
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Benedict Prieth. who was reappointed
to the Board of Education last year
by Mayor Haussling for a two-year
term, has rendered his resignation, TO
take effect January l. Mr.. Prieth
states that business arrangements will
event him continuing in the board,
IT being his intention to assume the
active gem of the New Jersey
Freie Zeitung.
The terms of Lesser Lehman, James
Taaffe and John Breunig will expire
on January /, and their successors for
q three-year term will be appointed by
Mayor Haussling in a few days. 1t is
believed that at least two Of the re-
firing members will be offered reap
pointment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
CANCELLED CONTRACT
LEADS TO $1OO, 900 SUIT.
Gray=Mandeville Company Acts
Against Commercial Casualty.

A great array of counsel on both
sides is preparing today for the 100000
suit which the Gray-Mandeville Com
pany, of Is C''-4on street, have brought
against the Commercial Casualty Com
pany.
The direct cause of the suit is the
cancellation by the Casualty Company
of the contract by which the Gray
Vaudeville Company was made gen
eral agent of the concern with a mo-
nopoly of the hand'e , of its business
In New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A short time ago, however. the Casu-
atty Company decided hat 1t wished
York State. The superintendent of in
surance, however, refused to permit /,
to enter as long as it continued it's at
tachment to the Gray-Mandeville Com
pany, there being a general rule to thai
effect in vogue.
The Casualty Company thereupo,
held a meeting and with but one dis
senting vote ordered its contract with
Gray-Mandeville Company cancelled
The negative vote was East by William
A. Gray, brother of a member of the
Gray-Mandeville firm. When he re.
ported the abrogation to the Gray
Vaudeville Company the latter started
suit.
The present directors and officers Of
the Commercial Casualty Company
are: President, C.. w. Feigenspan,
vice-president. David o. Watkins, for.
mer commissioner of banking and In.
surance; yice-president and genera.
manager, William ]. Gardner; secre-
tary-treasurer. George w. Jagle; Johr
F. Conroy, Winton c. Garrison, Johr
Howe, Lesser Lehman, George ]. Rob.
erts, Abraham Rothschild, former Gov.
Lernor Edward c. STORES.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
OUTLINING PLAN FOR NEW
YORK CITY COMMISSION

NEW YORK, Dec. Pot is an
nounced that the New York City Board
of Estimate and Apportionment will on
January l appoint a suitably equipped
commission on city plan. the duties of
which will be to lay out a scheme for
the entire future development of the
city for many years to come, similar TO
the plan of Haussmann, to which all
construction in Paris still conforms,
1and that of Major L'Enfant in laying
out the city of Washington.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
AND COUNTY
PROBE DEEP INTO
CENTRAL HORROR
Handful of Sand Would Have
Prevented Death dealing
Explosion.

NEW YORK, Dec. ADMINISTRATION
of the causes of the explosion in the
New York Central power house yes
terday. which resulted in ten deaths.
persons and a money loss estimated
at upwards of $4,000, 900, was continued
with zeal today by city INT county au-
thorities.
Although the exact source of the dis
aster has not been determined, it may
be found that a handful of sand, OF
the different placing of a timber pile
would nave saved the city from the
shock and Tremendous damage of the
explosion. 1t is generally conceded that
the first cause of the upheayal was a
runaway train of electric cars in the
Central cut near Fiftieth street hi
Lexington avenue that crashed over a
bumper against the power-house, broke
a feed pipe and caused a large guam
tity of gas to accumulate in the power
house basement. A few grains Of sans
would have enabled the motorman to
hold his train and a better arranged
bumper would have saved the gas main
connections.
Spark starts Explosion.
This was ~detonated, possibly by an
electric spark from a short circuit. The
motorman Of the train, Albert Sea-
groatt, was unable to stop the cars In
time to avoid their disastrous crash
into the bumper. The whole trouble
may be decided to ave been due to
slippery rails or to some other ap-
parently trivial cause.
Investigation by Coroner Holtzhauser
and the other authorities who are
making independent inquiries Is pro-
ceeding with a view to developing the
circumstances of the first break In the
feed pipe, the time which elapsed be-
tween this rupture and the explosion,
the preventive IA employed to
avert an explosion, and all other de-
ails.
Meanwhile search of the ruins pro-
Iessed for other bodies.
John B. Guthier, an electrician, died
! a hospital during the night. adding
ne to yesterdays list of Iii known
lead.
All during the night hundreds of
borers were kept busy in clearing
way the twisted iron frame work and
eavy beams. Portions of the wrcck-
ge was not touched, being set apart
y the police officials and representa-
yes of the district attorneys office to
Q photographed.
Officials of the railroad company SUI
erintended the work. and no one
ouched the derailed train which is
elieved to have been the cause Of
ne disaster.
Dead Mmy Numbe Eleven.
The authorities believe that the num-
er of deaths will not go over eleven.
en- are known to be dead The off,
ials think nat perhaps one man may
e dead in the ruins. This man. whose
anne cannot be learned, has not been
ccounted for. and he is supposed to
ave been working near the scene Of
he wreck. Ths total lumber injured
$ estimated at 800.
Workmen were given a scare this
forming when there was an explosion
4 the wreckage. This was 1ue to q
uantity of gas, and the shock knocked
own two iaborers who we're working
in the debris. They were not hurt.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
COUNTERFEITERS SEEK
COME-ONS IN NEWBURGH.

NEWBURGH, N. Y, Dec. 20.-Ital-
ians of this city have received circulars
from Erie, Pa, in which they are in
vited to buy special territory for the
distribution Of counterfeit 81, Sc and $40
notes. Copies of the circulars have
been turned over to the police, and Sc
cret service men will make an investi-
cation.
The circulars are in Italian n sug-
gest that if the recipient al BUSH
ness he should communicate with a
man whose name the police did not
disclose. but whose address, they say,
is the New Marine Hotel. 226 State
street. Erie. Pa
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
OPERATES WIRELESS IN BIpLANH.

PARIS, Dec. 2O.-Maurice Farman,
carrying a wireless apparatus aboard
his biplane, lowered over Buc for more
than an hour and transmitted distinct
messages to Versailles and other
points, more than fifteen miles distant.
The government has ordered the aero
plane corps to hasten M carry out
experiments in this line.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
BIG SPECIALS IN
ADMINISTER RUGS AND CARPETS

Smiths Best Quality or
Brussels Carpet, reg. 05C
$1.l5 per yard -. oOS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-20
MIKE HARMON DEAD.

NEWCASTLE, Pa, Dec. 20.-Michael
Harmon, manager of the famous Me-
shamrock baseball team of this city
that in 1876 defeated all the baseball
teams OF the country. died at his home
here yesterday of locomotor ataxia.