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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09

have no business at all while their
expenses we're going right along.
Egg dealers make their purchases
in the spring and summer and fall,
and place the surplus in cold storage.
The storage charges are 1 cent a dozen
80 cents a case-for eight months
from April 1 to January. After Janu-
airy there is charge Of cents per
case per month.
"An egg that is perfectly good when
put in cold storage will be just as
good at the end of six months, but no
egg will keep for longer period than
a year.
Perhaps 1t may be of interest to
state that any consumer can store his
own eggs in the cold storage plants
upon the same terms the dealers pay.
Eggs in as small quantities as 10 cases
will be accepted for storage.
This last year the average \cost Of
the storage eggs, when taken out, was
"a cents per dozen. The average sell
ing price, wholesale, was 2115 cents.
On the face of these figures there is
a net loss of 21s cents per dozen. The
total loss for the year was not that
much, however, as there was a good
profit upon about 10 per cent of the
stored eggs, and the dealers about
broke even on another 10 per cent"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
DUKE TO SEE MISS ELKINs
Abruzzi's Proposed Visit to America
Raises Protest in Rome.


Washington, March s.-Marquis Gu
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the new italian am
bassador, who will assume his new
duties this month, viii arrange the de-
tails of the visit to this country this
spring of the duke of the Abruzzi, ac-
cording to letter received from Rome
by an official who will be one OF the
dukes hosts In this city. The duke
viii visit New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Boston, where he will
tell the story of his ascent OF the
Himalayan ranges In Asia. Plans
have been tentatively made for lee
ture at the White house. He viii
visit Miss Katherine Elkins, who is
planning a stay with her mother at
their home il West Virginia some
time after Easter. News has also
been received from Rome that certain
court people have strenu0esly opposed
the dukes visit, it being opens- -
serted there that the lectures before
the National Geographic society are
only pretext, and they fear it may
mean the engagement of the duke to
Miss Elkins Dowager Queen Mar
gherita leads the opposition
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
Mr.. SKINNER TONIGHT.

Otis Skinner, who comes to the ILL
nois this evening under Charles Froh-
mans direction with his latest New
York success, is delighting overflow
ing audiences everywhere with his
new play. Your Humble Servant"
created considerable discussion in
New York because of its unconven-
tionality and its novel theme and
treatment your Humble Servant" is
SO radically different from Mr.. Skin
ners' past offerings in recent years
that il is sure to delight many people
here who do not know that Skinner
is as fine an actor of comedy as he is
of serious drama and tragedy. For
three months the Garrick theatre in
New York was taxed to its utmost
capacity. as Mr.. Skinner now one
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09

ed the English literature of our time.
The story has been transplanted to
the stage by Philip Lttell in a man
ner that retains all the interest and
charm of the original and makes a
knowledge of the book unnecessary in
order to enjoy the play. Harrison
Grey Fiske, under whose direction
Mr.. Arliss appears. has given Ehe
play beautiful production and given
his star a supporting company of ex-
ceptional ability.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
NAPPY WEEDS NURSE.

]. E. Rosen, who plays the part of
Kid Napoleon in the Newlyweds COM
pany, which appears at the Grand, in
Davenport, tomorrow night, and Miss
Esther Macovitz, who plays the part
of his nurse, were married Monday in
Des Moines, where the company is
playing. The ceremony was performed
by Rabbi Farber, and came as COM
plete surprise to the rest of the COM
pany.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
K2SSElhEl!eatre

Of the established idols of the metrop-
oils, and his new play makes an es-
pecial appeal to the feminine portion
of the community because of its ro-
mantle interest and numerous love
episodes. No actor before the public
can make love on the stage more
gracefully and fervently than Otis
Skinner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
PAINTING YOUR HOME
TO BE MORE COSTLY.
Advance in Price of Oils and Lead
Adds About SO to Average
Bill.

Many people who had intended to
freshen the appearance of their homes
with a coat of paint this spring will
probably have to change the cost fig
ures when they let their contracts.
AS is the case in everything else, the
prices of the materials used in mixing
paint have advanced in price. Nova
days, we pay just twice as much for
meat, produce, clothes and the other
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
PUNISH WITNESSES FOR
FAILURE TO REMEMBER
Imprisonment for Contempt in Such
Cases Will Help Stop Bank
ruptcy Frauds.

Washington, March 9.-That a judge
may summarily punish witness VINO
answers 81 don't remember" to most
of the questions that are asked him
and commit him to jail for contempt
Of court instead Of holding him for a
jury trial on charge of perjury was
the decision of the United States cir.
cult court of appeals yesterday in an
opinion written by Judge Coke. Law
yers say the ruling is one Of the most
important decision in the interest of
creditors of bankrupts since the en-
actment of the bankruptcy law. In the
case Of Schulmans & Goldstein, bank.
rupts, Schulmans' refusal to explain
apparent shrinkage in his assets arous-
ed the Merchants Protective associa-
ton, whose counsel made a certificate
to the effect that he was committing
perjury. Judge Holt committed him
to jail for six months. Judge Coxe's
opinion of yesterday, concurred In by
Judges Lacombe and Noyes, holds that
the commitment was proper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
RAILROAD NEWS

An order for 1000 freight cars has
just been placed by the Rock Island
management. OF this number $50 are
refrigerators, S25 box cars of $4,000
pounds capacity each, 500 automobile
cars, 400 ballast cars and 25 cabooses.
All are to be with steel and frame con-
struction. This company is going into
steel construction for freight as well
as passenger.
81 want to correct a misstatement
which appeared in the newspapers. l
did not begin railroad service as
track laborer and never did such work
My first position was as a railroad
clerk, and thereafter continually held
more important positions" said John
T. Harahan, president of the Illinois
Central railroad, on his return to Chi
cago yesterday from the New York
directors meeting. 1t appears to be
the custom, when referring to railroad
men who climbed the ladder of sue
cess in their work, to refer to them as
lowly places. Sir Thomas Shaugh-
messy, president of the Canadian Pa
cif1c, is continually called upon to cor
rect similar assertions. Sir Thomas
says he never had anything to do with
the shovel or brake, or anything in
that line, but came up through the
clerical department entirely.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
Licensed to Wed.

Elmer ]. Patterson. :. Buffalo Prairie
Miss Ida NJ. MacGinnis Buffalo Prairie
Carl A Nelson Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
THE HOPP.

Eighteenth, between First and Second
avenues. Vaudeville at $3.50 and r. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
THE FAMILY.

Second avenue, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets. Vaudeville at 3,
and 9:15 ID. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09

Miss Annette p. Freeman Rock Island
Michael Welsh. ..... Rock Island
Miss Viola Baumgartner. East Dubuque
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
ILLINOIS THEATRE.

Second avenue and Sixteenth street.
March 9-Otis Skinner In 'sYOur Hum
BILE Servant"
mus.o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09
GRAND, DAVENPORT.

March and 1.-THE Travelling Sales
man."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09

Medicines that aid nature are al
ways most successful. Chamberlain
Cough Remedy acts on this plan. 1t
loosens the cough, relieves the lungs
opens the secxetions and aids nature
in restoring the system to a healthy
condition. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-09

-All the news an the t,.ne-THE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
A Good Start.

Springfield Register: The COM
mission plan of municipal govern
ment law made q good start yester-
day. The senate committee on mu-
inequalities, by an unanimous vote,
approved the Barr bill of last ses-
sion as revised, and by an unanimous
vote, ordered it reported to the SEN
ate with a favorable recopmenda-
ton That the bill will pass the SEN
ate by a nearly unanimous vote is
practically certain. The Barr bill
passed the senate at the regular ses-
sion, and had it not been held up
in the house committee, would un-
doubtedly have become a law.
1t is understood the house COM
mittee will act upon the measure
soon. and will report it to the house,
whether favorably or without rec
ommendation is not known. This
committee should report the bill
favorabIy and assist in it's passage
through the house. The people of
the cities of Illinois are asking that
this enabling act be passed Wheth-
er members of the committee ap-
prove of the commission system or
not, should not affect their vote on
the proposition. The proposed law
does not require it to be applied to
any city unless the people Of the city
want it. 1t is merely an act permit
ting any city that wants the COM
mission plan to adopt it.
Some IL or 5 states have enacted
similar laws, and wherever adopted
they have proved satisfactory ILL
noiS cities should net be deprived of
the advantages of the commission
plan. The house should cheerfully
join the senate in passing the law.
The law got a good start yester-
day. Keep the ball rollingl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

not able to bring back all the photo
graphs 1t expected TO obtain of this
wonderful stairway of ice. The work
of crossing the creyasses was too diff
ficult to allow of being recorded by
the camera carried by the party. With
the aid, however. of the map published
by the Royal Geographical society and
the accounts which have been made
public by the expedition at various
times it is possible to reconstruct a
general view of the main portion of
the Beardmore glacier (as it was
named by Sir Ernest Shackleton).
To give an idea OF its size one has
only TO recall the fact that the biggest
Swiss glacier. the Aletsch, is only 10
miles in length, whereas this huge
glacier of the Antarctic cap is certainly
more than 120 miles long in it's main
section, and if all the upper crevassed
area is included it measures fully 22o
miles from the plateau to tie barrier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY
How to Save So on Cough
Medicine by Making It at Home

Cough medicines. as a rule, are
mostly syrup. To make the best syr-
up, take a pint of granulated sugar.
add one-half pint warm water, and
stir about two minutes.
Get two and one-half ounces of
Pinex ESQ cents WORTH put it in a
clean pint bottle, and fill up with
the granulateo sugar syrup. This
makes a full pint of unequaled
cough syrup. for about 81 cents.
Keeps perfectly. You couldn't buy as
much ready-made cough syrup for
$3.50.
This home made remedy is pleas
ant to take, and usually stops even
the most obstinate cough in "a hours
1t is splendid. also, for colds. whoop-
ing cough, bronchial ailments, etc.
Take a teaspoonful every one, two
or three hours.
The sugar syrup is an excellent
sedative. The Pinex is the most val
liable concentrated compound of Nor
way white pine extract, rich in all
the healing clements of Norwegian
pine. Be sure to use the real Pinex
itself Your druggist has it or can
easily get it FOR you.
Strained honey can be used instead
of the syrup and makes very fine
honey and pine tar cough syrup.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

In the maroon haze which always in
the late summer enwraps the rugged
slopes of Deer Fork canyon Faith Aus
tin was gathering wild red raspberries.
A young man in miners garb who
was prospecting behind the powders
on the opposite slope saw her and had
just made up his mind to cross the
stream that zigzagged down the can
yon and join her when he saw man
swinging along up the trail toward
her.
It's Nick he said to himself. 81
had forgotten for the moment what he
told Inc last night. 1 meant then to
leave the canyon at once. and 1 must,
for l can't bear to stay and see her
throw herself away on such a fellow
as Nick Sanders" And Howard Olney
turned and walked away that he might
not witness the meeting between the
two.
The girl did not. need to turn her
head to know who was coming. There
was an unmistakable individuality in
the shutting steps, and recognition
brought a look of annoyance to her
face as she continued her work.
"Pickin' berries, be you. Faith?
You're lookin' sweet as a Injun pink.
What's the use of your workin' so
hard for them boarders when you
know I'm ready for you?' he asked.
But you ought to know by this time
that Pm not ready for you," she
flashed back.
The man Redeemed to the roots of
his sandy hair, but, controlling his
anger, replied:
I've got enough to keep you from
slavin' here. boardin' miners, as you're
dom. There's no use in your stayin
single for Howard Olney. He left for
good this mornin'. He's goin' to keep
books for Mr.. Owen, the superintend-
ent of the High Tone mine"
The tellfale color mounted to Faiths
cheeks. but she bent forward to cap
ture a refractory vine. thus hiding her
face from her companion.
You think I'm not good enough for
you" he went on. as she took no no.
tice of his insinuation.. You think
Olney's better'n me cause he's been
a schoolmaster back east and can use
lots of grammar. But if you'd lived
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
Hur11or and
Philosophy
THE RESTLESS.
BY DUNCAN n. SMITH

TN hope OF doing better
i How we jump from town 20 town
Looking for a pleasant prospect
TO annex and settle down.
Always trying something different,
Taking fiiers on the way.
Looking for some newer projects
That will mean a larger payl
In far and distant city
or a splendid job we learn
That will pay US so much money
That the surplus we can burn,
And we rush TO make US ready
Like n person quite insane
As we pack our small belongings
And proceed TO take the train
II the Job is there as painted
And we land IL in a bunch
We remain a month of Sundays
Till we get another bunch.
Till we hear of something better
Up the road a little piece.
And the old one couldn't hold up
With the aid OF the police.
Thus. like pioneers who 1ourncyed.
Singing out, pixies peak OF bustF'
Here and there we move responsive
To the calling wanderlust.
In response 10 hope Elusive
Going on from town 10 town
Till our joints get 80 rheumatic
We're obliged TO settle down.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
The Waterways.

In an article in the January Review
of Reviews on "The Waterways Cam
paign,' William F. Saunders says that
| the national rivers and harbors con.
gress which met last month in Wash
/ ington had an attendance of 5000 dele.
gates, and was addressed by President
Taft. The convention declared for a
| bond issue for the waterways, phras-
ing the request positively but prudent
1y, saying that the bonds must be is-
sued if current revenues would not do
the work. The waterway men do not
believe that the current revenues will
suffice to build the waterways that
the merchants say are absolutely
needed for the traffic, and that the
engineers have already declared feast
ble-the projects which are on the
books The greatest and the best,
known OF these projects is the pro-
posed lakes and gulf deep waterway
from Chicago to New Orleans, which
President Roosevelt called the trunk
line of the waterways, and on which
he tried to get work begun. Sixty mil
nun QOAIS1lo LS1o dlISd USGE SlJGHI ny
Chicago in building this waterway.
Illinois has voted S20,O00.000 more.
Congress is asked to spend S10,000,000
a year in completing this water high
way down to st. Louis and thence to
the gulf. The total cost of the project
from Lockport, where the waterway
now stops. to Cairo, will be $4,000, 600
The deep waterway from Cairo to New
Orleans will cost SIS, 900, 900 more.
This part of the work, however. con-
gress must do. it is admitted, as
conservation measure.
The Ohio river improvement is the
next in point of importance. Nine feet
of water is wanted here from Pitts
burg to Cairo. The whole work will
cost a little more than So, 900 900.
President Taft seems to prefer this
project, differing with President Roose-
welt on the point.
The upper Mississippi river. from st.
Louis to st. Paul, demands $4,000, 600
for a six-foot channel all the year
round, and the Missouri river is in
such good condition that $5.00O,000
would make it well navigable, at least
from Kansas City to st. Louis. This
of course, should not
stop here, but the river must be i'm
proved so as to restore it to naviga-
ion as far up as Fort Benton, where
the boats used to carry freight. In
my judgment the congress will at this
session put at least three projects on |
= continuing contract basis, and will |
also provide for beginning the work |
IN several other important inland pro- |
ects The harbors and the lakes will |
-eceive more wise attention and ju- |
licious appropriation than they ever
lave got. The days of the pork bar
'e1' and the influencing of votes by |
rival appropriations are gone, and the |
money appropriated will be spent On |
hese meritorious projects
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
An EeonomIcaI Vacation,

Round trip tickets at figures but
slightly in excess of one way fares to
a hundred or more resorts in Canada
and New England, also to New York
city and Jersey coast resorts will be
placed on sale on various dates after
June 1, 1909.
Full particulars Of dates OF sale,
limits, stopovers and descriptive lit
erature can be obtained by writing
w. S. Cookson, A. G. P. A., Grand
Trunk Railway system, 1875 Adams
street, Chicago, II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

commission of $1,000 each on every
submarine of certain type that the
government purchases while they are
on the job. (No charge for this no
tice).
When the Standard Oil company's
chief product was under discussion IN
the house of representatives, during
the making Of the tariff bill, Speaker
Cannon abandoned the speakers perch
temporarily and made a fine speech on
the floor of the house in favor of
duty ron oil. Now comes Superintend-
ent NJ. S. Poulson, head of the Anti
Saloon league for Nebraska, with the
statement that John D. Rockefeller'5
representative offered to subscribe a
substantial sum to the anti-saloon
league if we would promise to stop our
men who, with him, have been holding
up temperance legislation" Selah!
President Taft can show his friend
ship for the south and at the same
time help good cause along by urging
upon congress in his special message
on conservation, the drainage of swamp
lands in the SOUTH said prominent
member of congress. Thirty million
acres of land with as rich and produc-
tive alluvial soil as can be found any
where await the attention of the gov
eminent in Arkansas, Alabama. Flor
da, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The retaining of this land would have
a direct bearing on the increased cost
of living problem. The president will
score a national hit if he will make
this subject one of the prominent feat
ures of his conservation message"
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette of |
Wisconsin sits with the democrats, |
votes with the democrats, and talks |
like the democrats. Uncle Joe" says !
he is a democrat. The standpatters
who represent the big business" in
the senate hate and fear La Toilette;
the democrats love him. What's The
"Ballinger's acts will be approved by
the investigating committee" remark
ed one Washingtonian to another
Washingtonian.
HUH" was the rejoinder. Cook
might have had his polar records
D. KID if he had submitted them to
committee composed entirely of his
own friends
Mrs. Taft has decided to add to the
sxclusiveness of the White house card
receptions by pruning the lists. The
average attendance at the receptions
Turing the Roosevelt regime was 1000.
The list has been ordered cut to 1000
Theodore Roosevelt entered politics
0y joining a ward club.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
The Greatest Known Glacier Found
Near the South Pole.

Near the South Pole.
The Shackleton sledge expedition to-
ward the south pole discovered after
marching many days over the fat bar
rier ice that its way was barred by
what seemed to be the end Of q great
glacier. ct seems as though the bar
rier end had come, and that there is
now going to be change in some gil
gantic way in keeping with the vast
ness of the whole place" That
changes did come, and in gigantic
fashion, for the crunnpled pressure
ridges which confronted the little party
of four were but the outer ripples of
the most tremendous glacier yet dis
covered on the worlds surface.
If one measures it from Mount Hope
TO Mount Darwin it Is some 126 miles
In length, but this appears to be only
the portion more precisely confined
between mountain ranges. The lice
falls" connecting with the glacier ex-
tend for another 81 or 60 miles. and
It is not until point 220 miles from
Mount Hope at the barrier end of the
glacier that we ready Yesterday we
passed our last crevasse.' This was
On Dec. Is. 1908
Owing to the extraordinary difficult
hes which attended the march up the
glacier and the shortness of food on
the return journey the expedition was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
Jan. Is in American
History

1493-First battle between white men
and American Indians; incident of
Columbus settlement in Hispa-
nfOla.
1690-George Fox. founder of the sect
commonly called Quakers, died;
born 1924.
1908-Rhoads Opera House disaster at
3oyerstown. Pa; 1T3 deaths
caused by fire and panic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

"What is Scroogs in such a hurry
for:'
Maybe be has just got a wireless
from his wife"
Wireless nothing. You can bet
there were barbs on it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

Mr.. Taft, after rebuking the insur
gents of the republican party for not
submitting peacefully to the lash of
the Aldrich-Cannon tyranny, stands
ready to assure them that he is not
warning upon them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13
Sounded So Like Kim.

Ibid you think of me. dearest. when
/ was away?'
Il certainly did" replied the dutiful
wife.
And did you miss me much?"
"Well. fortunately an automobile
broke down in front of the house
nearly every day. and the way those
men talked made it seem SO home
like"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

Buffalo Bill is so old that he has a
married granddaughter, but we may
be sure that Henry Gassaway Davis
continues to regard him as a mere
STRIPPING
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

The president would apparently like
to have the republican party redeem
its platform pledges, provided it can
be accomplished without offense to
Nels Aldrich and Joe Cannon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-13

President Harris of the Burlington
says he has not resigned, nor has he
any intention Of doing so. According
to railroad usage, this is a sure sign
that Mr.. Harris is about to retire