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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-15

Grotjan, 1901 Second avenue, RocE
Island; Gust Schlegel & Son. 220 West
Second street, Davenport.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
WOMAN IDEAL AT 28,
SAYS SOCIETY LEADER
Romance of Sweet Sixteen Shattered
In Address of Prominent Chi
cago Club Member I

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-Mrs. Henry Jaf-
fray, society woman, told the West
Side Coeducational club today that
the ideal age for women is twenty
eight; moreover, that he poetic vision
of "sweet sixteen" was but romance,
and that womanly beauty and grace
were idealized at the age of twenty
eight.
There was general agreement among
her hearers, however, that "old maid
hood" under present Cay ideas of life
was not reached until the thirtieth
year.
"An unmarried woman of twenty
eight is an important factor in social
and business life," said Mrs. ,affray,
"and she probably is better looking at
that age than at any other. At one
period of our civilization she hight
have been an old maid But that time
has passed. She doesn't have to marry
now unless she wants to. She can go
into business, take up a profession and
do many other things, but she is not
an old maid.'"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
W"00a~N~I12
BOY SECURES EDUCATION
BY LIVING DOUBLE LIFE
Samuel Diamondstein Could Not GET
All He Wanted at Day
School

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-It took a dual
to get all the education he wanted.
School such as other boys know was
not enough for him. He lived double
life on the rolls of the schools-he at
tended so that he might take courses in
both the day and night classes. He is
in trouble now, for he has violated the
board of education rule against too
much learning-a rule that boys have
seldom tried to break.
Sam is II years old. He lived at 1926
West Hastings street, where he eats
and sleeps with school books still before
him, under his pillow and in his
pockets.
At the John w. Smyth school Sam
was Samuel Diamondstein. He took ali
the studies Principal w. r. Hornbaker
would permit. So hungry was he for
knowledge that he also attended night
school under the name of Samuel Dee
mond. Sam said he did not change his
name to escape the rule limiting pupils
to one education at a time, but just
wanted a new name and tried it on the
night school first.
His teachers, however, give Sam
credit for a good deal of ambition and
cleVerness, and they are wondering il
Superintendent Ella Flagg Young Will
not allow Sam to, enter the Medill high
school. He has been refused his gradu-
alton certificate at the Smyth school
for his violation of the rule in getting
his day and night education, and until
he gets it his double barrelled educa-
tion is stopped.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
GIRLS HOLD UP
AND ROB MAN
M. STUMPH REPORTS LOSS
OF $50
YOUNG WOMEN INQUIRE WAY TO
p. E. STATION
One cIinos to Him Occupying His
Attention While other Goes
Through His Pockets, Se-
curing Gold Coin

Held ND and robbed of $50 by two
GIRLS was the novel experience reported
at central police headquarters last
night by NJ. Stumph, 52S Gladys ave-
nue.. Stumph stated that shortly after
II O'Clock last night he started for hrs
home and at the corner of Central and
GLADYS avenues he was approached by
two young girls. One of the girls is
said to have asked to be directed to
the Pacific Electric station and the
other girl, throwing her arms about
Stumph's neck in an apparently JOSH
ing manner, began to make love to
him.
when the girl had obtained a hold
about Stumph's neck her companion
went through his pockets and took
three twenty-dollar gold pieces.
Bidding him good night, the girls
started north on Central avenue and
It was several minutes before the
dazed victim realized that he had been
robbed. A call was sent to police
headquarters by Stumph with
meager description of the girls.
One, he stated, was a negress, about
Is years old, five feet, four inches tall,
and weighing about 120 pounds.
Stumph stated that she was the girl
who held him, while the other took the
money.
The companion of the negress was
described by Stumph as about 16 years
old. five feet, two inches tall, and
weighing 125 pounds. When the report
was received at police headquarters
number of patrolmen were detailed on
the case by Lieutenant kriege, but
at an early hour this morning the
youthful female robbers had not been
apprehended.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
POSTAL CARDS USED IN
ANTI-MEAT CAMPAIGN

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Neither the
anti-m meat campaign nor the general
crusade for lowering of the high cost
of living showed any signs of exhaus-
ton today.
A woman's mass meeting was held
this afternoon in Madison square.
Tuesday night meetings of club women
will be held to help push the postal
card campaign which the Gotham club
has inaugurated.
The cards already are in wide circu-
lation, going to all parts of the country
and making direct personal appeals to
stop using meat.
Preparations were under way. it was
announced today, to have the Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs of America take
up at its convention here on Friday
next a concerted movement to ask
every woman in the country to send a
post card to President Taft asking him
to take measures against monopolistic
control of meat prices.
Meat prices held stationary today.
Retailers are showing a strong dispo-
sition to resist further cuts.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
PURE AIR IMPERATIVE
IN CHICAGO STREET CARS
Chicago Board of Health DeVises
Means to CurtaiI Proportion
of Carbon Dioxide

CHICAGO, Jan. 91--A new code to
be adopted for the regulation of cars
is declared by Health Commissioner
Evans to herald street cars that will
be the finest health resort in the world.
There shall be introduced into every
car $50 cubic feet of air every hour for
each passenger.
THE minimum amount of air to be
introduced into loaded surface or ele-
waited coach shall be $4,000 cubic feet
each hour.
There shall be at no time in excess
Of one-tenth of 1 per cent of carbon
dioxide gas in the atmosphere which
passengers have to breathe.
1.-THE air shall be conducted into the
car through the floor
Exhausted air shall be conducted
out of the car through overhead venti-
lators, but no air shall be allowed to
enter by that route.
During cold weather the air which
is admitted shall pass over heating
coils and be warmed as 1t comes in.
'In any car or part Of a car where
smoking is permitted the supply of air
shall be at least one-third greater"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
POLICE AT DOOR
OF BOARD ROOM
MAYOR MCCARTHY NAMES OWN
MEN
FORMER HEALTH COMMISSION
ERs BARRED OUT
Several Appointments to other Mu-
nicipal Boards Made, Although
Not Preceded by Res
lgnations
Associated Pressl

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. S1.-At 2
o'clock this morning Mayor p. H. Nc
| Carthy, in the office of his attorney,
Q. L. Dam, removed the members of
the board of health, the park commits
sion, the fire commission and the civil
service commission, appointed by his
predecessor, former Mayor e. r. Tay-
lor, and at the same time filed the
commissions with his own appointees.
All of the municipal commissioners
appointed under the late administra-
ton have been removed with the eX-
ception of the members of the board
of education, who at a late hour Satur-
day procured an injunction restrain
ing the mayor from proceeding with
their removal. The new commissioners
were sworn in and had filed their COM
missions with the county clerk before
the men who they displaced were out
of bed.
When the members Of the board of
health reported at their offices today
they were met by a detail of police
and forcibly prevented from entering
the board rooms.
The new appointees to the various
municipal boards are;
Fire commission-James E. Dillon,
Max Goldberg, John Donohue.
Park mission-Edward Kelly, W.
H. Metson, w. H. Banis.
Civil service commission-George H.
Bahrs, c. NJ Levy.
Board of health-George Lee Eaton.
DR.. T. B. Roche, Arthur M. Sharp,
Dennis j. Murray, G. p. Pouchan, F.
j. Klimm.
Members of the old Taylor board of
health who were removed from office
today by the mayor announced this
afternoon that an application would
be made in the courts for an injunc-
tion to prevent the members of the
new board appointed by Mccarthy
from performing the functions of
office.
F. w. Dohrmann, one of the Taylor
appointees on the park commission, ad-
dressed a letter to the mayor today in
which he said he did not intend to
resign. Dohrmann and Mccarthy were
members of the board of freeholders
that framed the present city charter,
and the provisions of this instrument
relative to the dismissal of commits
sioners are called to the attention of
the mayor. Dohrmann concluded his
letter by reminding Mccarthy of the
promise made before election to the
effect that if chosen mayor he would
give the city the best government
within his power.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
TELLS HOW HE
WASTED FUNDS
WARRINER SAYS HE GAVE
WOMAN $4,000
PRICE OF SILENCE $1,000 A MONTH
FOR SEVEN YEARS
Mrs. Stewart=Ford Weeps as Letters
to Former Big Four Employe
Are Read in the Court
room
ASSOCIATED Pressl


CINCINNATI, Jan. 1.-Eighty-four
thousand dollars was the price Charles
L. Warriner, defaulting local treasurer
of the Big Four railroad, paid for a
womans silence.
Fearing an exposure of his shortcom-
ings he gave Mrs. jeanette Stewart
Ford an average of $1,000 a month for
seven years, the payments stopping
only when the exposure came from
other sources November last.
Such was the substance of the testi-
mony that Warriner gave today at the
trial of Mrs. Ford on a charge of
blackmailing him.
Mrs. Ford sat through the recital
with immobile countenance. Twice
only during the day did she allow her
feelings to show. The first instance
came before Warriner appeared, when
Judge Swing ordered her two children
removed from the court room.
They had entered with their mother,
but when attorneys for the prosecution
objected they were sent to another
room in charge of nurse.
Mrs. Fords second ordeal came at
the end of the proceedings. Just be-
fore adjournment letters were intro
duced by the state which she had writ
ten to Edgar S. Cook, formerly an
employe of the Big Four offices here.
The missives mentioned visits she
had made to "W." and were couched in
the most endearing terms.
Her infatuation for Cook was clearly
revealed in them, and as her declara-
tions Of affection were read to the jury,
Mrs. Ford shook and tears streamed
down her cheeks.
Warriner testified that the initial in
the letters referred to him.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01

Mrs. Knowland's first Washington
teas, luncheons and dinners, but she
has nevertheless not neglected the
more serious side of the citys life. In
addition to exchanging calls with
official hostesses, Mrs. Knowland has
made many friends among the all-the-
year-round Washingtonians.
A high place among the younger
matrons and hostesses must be ac-
corded to dainty Mrs. Edward H. Lof-
tus, the wife of the first secretary Of
the Siamese legation as an organizer
of entertainments where no one ever
fails to have the pleasantest kind of
a time.
Like Watteau Figure
Mrs. LOTUS has won the admiration
of older and more experienced host
esses, as well as the fervent gratitude
of those to whom invitations have been
extended. Just the sight of pretty Mrs.
Lotus in one of the many dainty
frocks which her wardrobe boasts is a
pleasure for which one could not fail
to be grateful. Her lovely complexion
and hair give her much the appearance
of a Vatican figure and this is ac-
centuated by the skill with which she
is gowned. Mr.. and Mrs LOTUS have
apartments at the Arlington, where the
Siamese minister and his two mother
less children also live. The two Siam
ese youngsters are devoted to Mrs.
LOTUS and the three are often seen
together, the young American matron's
fairness contrasting prettily with the
black eyes and hair and brown COM
plexions of her little Oriental friends.
Mrs. LOTUS is fond of bridge and
dancing, but she also finds many ways
to entertain those who care for neither.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
DUCK FULL OF YEAST
EXPL0DES; MAN LOSES EYE

DIES MONIES, Jan. 31.-Rhadaman-
thus. a prize-winning duck at the re-
cent poultry show, is no more, having
exploded into several hundred bits, one
of which struck Silas Perkins in the
eye, destroying the sight. The cause
of the explosion was the eating of
yeast, which was placed in a pan upon
the back porch, and tempted his duck
ship, which was taking a morning
stroll.
Upon returning from church Mr.. Per-
kins discovered his prize duck in a
somewhat loggy condition. Telltale
marks around the pan Of yeast gave
him his clew.
He was about to pick up the bird
when the latter quacked and exploded
with a loud report and Mr.. Perkins
ran into the house holding both hands
over one eye. A surgeon was called,
who found that the eyeball had been
penetrated by a fragment of flying
duck and gave no hope of saving the
optic.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
CLUBWOMAN WILL ACT
AS CENSUS ENUMERATOR
Training for Position Consists in Co.
ing to Texas from ST. Louis
and Resting

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.-Mrs. Murray
Foristell, clubwoman and president of
three patriotic organizations, the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
the Daughters of 1912 and the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, will take the
census of, Culver township, st. Charles
county. Mrs. Foristell says she wants
the experience and an opportunity to
study human nature. She believes her
automobile will be useful.
To get in training for the census TAX
ing Mrs. Foristell has gone to Texas
to take a complete rest before enter
ing upon her duties as census taker.
Mrs. Foristell says she will not keep
the pay for the work, but will give II
to some fund
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
JOKES ABOUT DEATH;
GRIM REAPER APPEARS

GLASSBORO, N. J., Jan. 31.-Wesley
Sweet told a clerk for Eugene A.
Doughty, merchant here, that if he
was alive he'd come around to pay a
bill of 3S cents, and failed to show up
Il guess Sweet must be dead" said
Walter Wilson, the clerk, to Mr.
Dougerty.
Next morning Mr. Dougherty and his
wife were at the Reading depot, when
in walked Mr.. Sweet.
''Why, hello!" said Mr.. Dougherty
81 thought you were dead"
"Why, no, I'm not" replied Sweet
But you are" jokingly replied Mr.
Doughty. You are man of your
word. and you said last night that If
you were alive you were coming in to
see me; so you must be dead"
Just then a friend of Mr.. Dougherty's
came in, and as he turned to greet
him Mr. Sweet reeled suddenly and
fell dead
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
Troops on VoYane

BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Jan. 81
General Estrada, General Matuty and
500 of the provisional troops sailed last
night on the steamers Ometepen, Pio-
neer and Blanca for point north of
Greytown, where 700 of the govern
ment troops are reported to be en-
trenched. Yesterday was devoted to
loading ammunition and testing the
guns with which the Blanca is
equipped. The United States cruiser
Des Moines sailed for Greytown this
morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
BOATSWAIN OF REVENUE
CUTTER BEAR ACTS AS
"M0THER" TO ORPHANS
Method Perfected by Sailor Man May
Save Hundreds of Seals Each
Season and Has Made
Him Famous

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-"There
they are, and If you don't treat 'em
right you'll hear from me-" said
rough voiced sailor man as he care
fully put down a Slated box in the
bureau of fisheries this morning. In
side were the only two fur seal pups in
captivity The man who gave them
this defiant introduction was Boat
swain Judson Thurber of the revenue
cutter Bear. Thurber is believed by
the government to have solved the
problem of raising orphan seals.
It has been many years since as in
teresting a combination as BoatsWaln
Thurber and his seals has reached
Washington. Every effort of science
has failed to hit upon a method for
feeding the seal pups orphaned by hun
dreds through the killing of their moth
ers in Alaskan waters by Japanese
sealers Boatswain Thurber found
these two starving. He got some milk
and found and rigged up the accesso-
ries of a nursery. The seals tried but
could not get the milk. They seemed
to lack something of the equipment Of
the milk-fed animal.
Right here Thurber seems to have
stumbled upon something which science
in trying to bring up baby seals has
overlooked. He investigated the mouths
of the seals and found their tongues
held down by ligaments which he
thinks kept the animals from getting
the milk. Then the rough sailor put
his big forefinger in and remedied the
difficulty. The two baby seals straight
way began to get the milk out of the
bottle and began to thrive.
When the Bear came south last fall
for the winter the commanding officer
reported Thurbers success to Wash
ington. Mr.. Nagel. secretary of the
department of commerce and labor,
asked Mr. MacVeagh, secretary of the
treasury department, under which the
revenue cutter service comes, to have
Thurber bring his seal pups east.
Meanwhile the proteges had passed the
milk stage and began to call for
something which they could chew. Here
Thurber found another difficulty. He
threw fish down on the deck and the
babies swayed their heads from side
to side and looked at him hungrily with
big brown eyes.
sDrat ye! Can't We eat?" asked
Thurber as he picked up one of the
fish and shook it in the face Of the big
gest seal. Snap went the little jaws,
and Thurber had discovered that seals
do not pick their food up off the floor
like other animals. A little hought
convinced him that the seal catches its
fish from below, and after that the
pups were fed from the hand and
seemed to enjoy the fish better if they
had to jump for them.
At the bureau of fisheries they be-
lieve that the hundreds of baby seals
orphaned outside the three-mile limit
protected by the United States, where
they go to feed, can be saved by Thur
ber's method Thurber is famous and
he does not like it. Born a whaler So
cial Washington appalls him. He
wanted to start back tonight but they
ordered him to stay ten days.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
SUES KEENE FOR $4,000

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-James r.
Keene was named today as a defendant
in a suit for the recovery of $4,000,
brought by Howard NJ. Taylor of
Brooklyn, who claims to have lost that
amount as a result of the Hooking coal
pool. Eight defendants are added to
the number named in the original sum-
mons which Mr.. Taylor filed last week.
Mr.. Keene heads the list. The others
are firms which Mr. Taylor, through
his counsel, declares were in the pool.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
AIN1 AL IMPEACHMENT

GUTHRIE, Okla, Jan. 31.-A hint of
Impeachment of Governor Haskell and
other state officers is made in a reso-
luton introduced in the lower house
of the legislature here today by Rep
resentative Humphrey of Washington.
The resolution demands an investiga-
ton of the Columbia Bank & Trust
company, which failed at Oklahoma
City last fall, and calls upon Attor-
ney General West to bring before the
legislature matters which he had prev
iously stated were being considered by
the grand jury at Oklahoma City when
that body was discharged recently by
order of Governor Haskell.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
MINER FATALLY SHOT

DENVER, Jan. 31.-While resisting
arrest this afternoon, John Martin, a
miner from Globe, Ariz., was probably
fatally wounded by policeman. The
latter was making a roundup of
vagrants, and when he started to
search Martin the miner, according
to the policeman, made an effort as
if to draw a weapon
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
ROCKEFELLER EMPLOYS
SEVEN MEN TO ACT AS
GUARD AT BIG ESTATE
Report of Plot to Kidnap Oil King
Causes Uneasiness at Po-
cantico Hills Estate of
John D. Rockefeller

NEW YORK. Jan. 91.-To guard
against any possible attack that might
be made upon him, John D. Rookie
feller had seven men, most of them
said to have been formerly in the
United States secret service, sworn in
as deputy sheriffs of Westchester
county, with jurisdiction within the
bounds of the Rockefeller estate at
Pocantico Hills.
Hereafter it will be impossible for
anybody to get anywhere near the new
palace at Pocantico Hills until these
men have found out all about the Wis
itor.
Ever since Harold Sawyer Smith, a
lumber millionaire of Minerva, o., said
he had heard men plotting to kidnap
or kill Mr.. Rockefeller, the latter, it
is said, has not been free from anx-
iety. AS a result. it is said, he de-
cided to employ on his estate men
trained to handle cranks or criminals
With this end in view he hired the
seven men. who, it is said. are en-
ployed about the estate at Tarrytown
in the guise of coachmen, buffers, gar
deners and footmen. He then asked
Sheriff Scherp of White Plains to make
them deputy sheriffs. Their commits
sions empower them to carry arms and
make arrests only within the bounds
of the estate.
The Story of Plot
The story told by H. S. Smith of
Minerva was that while walking along
the railroad track in Alliance, o., he
overheard two men talking about the
money they would get either for kid
naping or killing Mr.. Rockefeller. Mr.
Smith went to Canton, O., and told
the chief of police what he had heard
On the chiefs advice he went to
Cleveland and told his story to Mr.
Rockefeller.
That night it was reported that Mr.
Rockefeller's home in Cleveland was
guarded by police and the next morn
ing the Rockefeller family left for
Pocantico Hills. On the trip Mr.
Rockefeller's private car was guarded
and a squad of policemen and detec-
tives met the family at Tarrytown.
A man who said he was the Count
de Vries of Holland made three un-
successful attempts to see Mr.. Rookie
feller in Cleveland. Twice he was
turned back from the gates of the
Rockefeller home, but the third time
he dashed past the guards in an auto
mobile and arriving at the house,
opened the front door and walked in.
He was stopped by a butler and was
elected. The count said he had come
from Holland to interest Mr.. Rookie
feller in a scheme to drain the Zuyder
Zee and turn its bed into a land of
gardens and homes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
UNIONISTS WILL CONTROL
WITH A SMALL MAJORITY
British Parliament Completed-FlnaI
Total in England Gives Tariff
Reformers 239 Seats j

LONDON, Jan. 91.-The reelection
of ]. G. Hancock, Labor candidate for
the middle division of Derbyshire, an
nounced today, completes the elections
for the new parliament in England
The remaining constituencies TO
make returns are Scotch and irish.
The final total in England alone gives
the Unionists tariff reformers 200
seats the Liberals and Laborites COM
bined 227 or a Unionist majority Of IL
compared with a Liberal-Labor ma
iority of 211 received in 1906.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
EVIDENCE

Patience-Do you know that squir-
rels love music.
Patrice-No, I do not.
"Well the next time you start the
monograph watch the squirrels and
see if they don't run away!"-Yon-
kers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
WILL ISSUE BIG LOAN

TOXIC, Jan. 31.-It was stated au-
thorltatively today that the cabinet
had decided to issue 4 per cent do
nestle loan Of $50,000,000, redeeming
outstanding per cent bonds to a
similar amount. The issue price is to
be 95 The government will convert
gradually other domestic loans, until
all have been placed 'on 4 per cent
basis.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
LovELoRN MEXICAN KILLS SELF

NOGALES, Ariz., Jan. S1.-Enrique
Encinas shot himself through the brain
yesterday at Nogales, Sonora, at the
same hour his former sweetheart was
married at Magdalena to another man.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01
POLISH WRESTLER WINS

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Jan. S1.-Zbyszs-
ko, the Polish wrestler, tonight threw
Yankee Rogers of Buffalo twice in
a6Jb and 21 minutes
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-01

You can buy IT, perhaps at many places, but
there's one BEST place to buy it-and that
place adyertises