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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

gal,". and many others. The costum-
ing of the large and lively chorus is
said to give the best of limitations
of the brilliant tinting of the autumn
nal forests, and the large chorus IL
self'is credited with having the typ
ical Klaw & Erlanger dash and
brightness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
DONALDSON TOMORROW.

The dramatic critic of the Fort
Wayne (Ind.) News on April had
the following to say of the star and
attraction to be seen tomorrow, mat
inee and night, at the Illinois: BE
fore large audience Arthur Donald
son presented for the first time to-
night new play by d. B. Sorlin, en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
ILLINOIS THEATRE.

Second avenue and Sixteenth street.
April 17-Arthur Donaldson in ''The
Norseman,o matinee and night.
April 21-"wudire," matinee and
night.
April 24-EsThe Flirting Princess
lattnee md night.
April 26-.SThe Lid Lifters."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
Bank Statement

New York, April 16.-Reserve in
crease $4,449,35O. less U. S. decrease
S4,450,3 800. loans decrease $15,795,-
600, specie increase s397,4O0, le-
gals increase $276,60O. deposits de-
crease $15,1O1, 400, circulation in.
crease $1,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
BEWARE OF FROST
Better Put Firepots in Garden
or Bring Latter Into the
House.
WINTER WITH US AGAIN
Snow, Sleet, 3O-Degree Temperature
FREDERICKSBURG for DAM
age Are Unusual.

Better get busy with the firepots in
your gardens and orchards tonight. To
be sure of results, however, bring the
gardens and orchards into the house
and build up a good rousing fire.
Records of the weather Office show
that along about the middle of April
usually comes the last killing frost,
and from evidence which no one will
dispute that same frost is very near us.
With the thermometer hugging 80
degrees and the snow and sleet falling
during the day, it looks as though moth
ing can save us from freeze tonight
unless it be the comet Inasmuch as
the latter has been loafing on the job
thus far, it is hardly worth while to
look for relief from this source.
Can Do Much Harm.
Seriously, the possibilities of damage
from sharp freeze are greater now
than they have been at any time in the
spring when freezes are wont to oc-
cur, for many years. Practically every
thing that the farmer raises, except
corn and late potatoes. is out of the
ground and we'll advanced, while fruit
trees are generally in full blossom and
garden truck has reached the stage
when the early products are being
brought to market. If sharp freeze
comes, fruit will suffer severely and
tender plants will be frozen to the top
Of the ground. necessitating in some
cases replanting. Leaves on some var
ieties will be blighted and the leafing-
out process will have to be started
over again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
THE FAMILY.

Second avenue, between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets. Vaudeville at
B, and 9:I5. D. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
THE HOPP.

Eighteenth street, between First ana
Seconds avenues. Vaudeville at 2:SS0
and d. z,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, April 16.-Following are
the wholesale prices on the local mar.
ket today:
Live Poultry - Hens. per pound
lac; spring chickens, per pound, 15c;
ducks. lie; geese. lie.
Butter-Dairy, csc; creamery, sSc.
Fresh Eggs-19c.
Potatoes-35c to 40c.
Lard-15c.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn, 6S-66c: oats, 47c.
Forage-Timothy hay, $1S; wild hay,
SIS; straw, SO.
Coal-Lump. per bushel. 15c: slack.
8 cents.
Weod-$4Ee psr loaa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
September, 1920, 1925, 11.95, 1877.
Ribs.
May, 1890, 1890, 1900, 1897.
July. 1910, 1926, 11.SO, 1I.90.
September, 1877, 1905, 11.SO, 11.S7.

Receipts today-Wheat 26, corn
1875, oats 11s, hogs 5000, cattle 800,
sheep $500.
Estimated receipts Monday-Hogs
$4,000.
Hog market opened SC lower. Hogs
left over $500. Light 300 1905,
mixed and butchers 100000,
good heavy 9.7O@10.OO, rough
heavy go q $50.
Cattle market opened weak.
Sheep market opened steady.
Omaha-Hogs $500, cattle 100.
Kansas City-Hogs $500, cattle
200.
Hog market closed weak SC low
er. Bulk sales $50 995, light
$50 a 1000, mixed and butchers
$50 q 9.95, good heavy 9.6O@995,
rough heavy 9.60@9.7O.
Cattle market closed steady.
Sheep market closed weak.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets assist nature in driving all
impurities out of the system, insur-
ing a free and regular condition and
restoring the organs OF the body to
health and strength. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16

Liverpool closing cables-Wheat u
to Is lower, corn unchanged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-16
New York Stocks.

New York, April 16.-Following are
he quotations on the market today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03

cursion by rail, he found himself seated
with her In the car. I'm fact, l could
see that before we started.
"One of these days. perhaps, you'll
willing to credit me with being at least
passed assistant seer when it comes To
forecasting this kind of dope, and then.
maybe, you won't fall so easily for mani
acal expeditions of this particular kind.
Huh, They're cattle cars. just as l
knew they would be- | had a perfect
mental picture Of these Sunday eXcur-
sioning cattle cars, with the faded. hot.
red plush seats. before we started on this
fool trip, and il ! didn't happen to say
anything about 1t. why. it was merely
because l didn't, want to you screw
your countenance into knot of disap-
pOintment and grief and misery and de-
spair and things.
II knew very we'll how you'd set your
mind upon coming upon this idiotic jour
ney, and so / knew there'd be no use
trying to flag you by pointing out what
a horrible. dismal time we'd be bound TO
have of 1t.
this Internal smelly beef-trust car. and
there's only one window on q side that
could be opened with dynamite. and
we're a mile away from that window.
What's that? You don't feel SO very
warm? Oh. sure you don't. You wouldn't
feel warm to oblige me. All I've got to do
to have you nudge in the assertion that
you're freezing to death is to venture the
humble remark that it's Just bit warm
ish. Anyhow. it isn't to be expected that
you'd ever feel like inhaling a breath or
two of fresh air. the way you moon
around the fiat with all of the windows
shut tight when / don't happen to be
around. If i didn't happen to be a joint
occupant Of the fiat with you it's dollars
TO doughnuts that you'd keep all Of the
windows nailed or screwed down all the
year round.
Say, look a-here, IL you're not warm
as YOU say. then why the dickens are you
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sit. Grand lot for man of sense to be
ierded up with on the day before Easter
Sunday. What are you grinning about
Positively. you look as if you're enjoying
it. But then that's not it at all. You re
tickled to death, as matter of fact.
simply because you see that i am in a
state of acute discomfort. If there's any
one thing on earth that raises you to the
eighteenth heaven it's to see me having a
punk time of it.
That's the only way 1 can view the
matter in the light of your grinning and
chessycatting. OF course, too. there S
more than chance that you find your
self in congenial atmosphere in this
reeking car. I'm not saying whether
that is the case or not. but I am bound
TO view it as mighty singular that you re
able to squat there in your seat wearing
grin from ear to ear when the condi-
tons by which we are surrounded are
not appreciably different from those Of
the Black Hole of Calcutta.
well, there's the beginning of the
wailing chorus How many infants in
arms are there In this car, anyhow
Bout ninety, 1 should judge from the
hideous chorus of bawling.
Now they're all going at it at once!
AS soon as one shuts up three or four
more begin. and-oh, well, I'm in Dutch,
that's all there is to it. l s'pose they'll
all bawl and yelp and shrek all the way
there and back.
Did you bring any cotton batting
along with you. SOS could stuff some of
it in my ears and partially shut off this
vile discord? What, you didn't bring any
cotton batting?
We'll. then. why didn't you? Don t
you ever think of little things of that
sort when you start off on a journey?
Or did you expect me to remember to
stick some cotton batting in my pocket?
What? Cotton batting isn't generally
considered an Indispensable article of
travel? Oh. never mind arguing the
point with me. / didn't come on this in
sane expedition to be argued with. l
don't know why l did come, but 1 do
know that it wasn't to have you pick
my words to pieces as soon as / get
them out of my mouth. / get enough of
that around the fat, heaven knows.
What's that? It's only natural for
babies to cry? Oh, that's your point OF
view. is it? You've got your mind all
made up to pick and nag me, have
you?
Say, who in the deuce said that it
wasn't natural for babies to cry? Dye
think I think that when they feel bad
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park system. for though it has but one,
it usually keeps it clean.
1t is true that numerous poles have at
tached to them metal boxes with direc-
tions that they are receptac les for papers
or Feelings, as the case may be. but al
though all who run may read. unfortu-
natelv not all do SO. partially covered
can. painted dark green. and placed by
a clump of shrubbery, with neatly let
tered request, would do much to improve
the condition of our parks, say the wom-
en- busy with this civic spring house
cleaning Their efforts are most pointed
Nv directed toward ash barrels and front
wards They ask that the first be Kept
covered and the second be kept clean.
In Commissioner JohnstOn's office there
now hangs a map of the city, with dl-
vision into the several districts and pre-
cincts. Orders have been given to the
various policemen that they shall exer-
else especial care TO see that papers and
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>5N1M6mene1v,gvt1g husecksadne

Upward of 15.oOO of the cards have al
ready been distributed, and the ladies OF
the committee. as well as all OF those as
ISOLATED in the movement. are we'll salts
fled with the results of their work.
Said one of the workers when asked az
TO the length of the campaign:
'.Our first effort has been directed TO-
ward the caring for of garbage. But just
as soon as we get this in shape some
other point will be taken up and just as
insistently urged.
I've want TO know that We have the
moral. IL not the actual. support of the
whole CITY on this matter. Could we get
every one to feel that he has no r.gnt
to drop refuse in the parks or the streets.
could we go further and get every one 10
demonstrates when he saw any one else
doing that, then the problem of cleaner
Washington would be an easy one 70
solve.
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help preserve the health of herself and
her neighbors if she would put top on
her refuse barrel. Who could resist such
a request?
significant air to a somewhat Uttered
front yard. and suggested that a little
work there would not be out of the way,
what could one do?
After the committee had been formed
and cards printed. the next move was to-
ward the women'S clubs. The Twentieth
Century Club. of which Mrs. Coville is a
member, was the first approached Every
member agreed to stand back of the
movement. In fact. the $50 members of
this organization alone have taken upon
themselves the responsibility of the de-
livery of 5000 of the request cards. The
Collegiate Alumnae Club whose member
ship is somewhat akin to that Of the
University Club in nature, was the next.
1t was not hard to convince these lately
graduated young ladies of their duty 10
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they ought to go have a highbalI or take
snuff or stake themselves to hypodermi,
injections of hasheesh or something like
that? I'm not denying the brats their
lnalienable right to bawl their heads OFF.
any more than I'm denying you the right.
seeing that you enjoy it so much to sit
there with vacuous grin on your face,
nagslns Inc.
But what I'm trying to find out is
what the devil I'm doing in this situation.
surrounded by carload of yowIing
youngsters. That's the prize puzzle that
has my goat. I've known all nv life
that brats howled upon the slightest
provocation or upon no provocation at all.
but it's sort of a new one on me that
to place myself in a position where I've
got to listen to the believing complaints
and repinings of about half the infants
in the District of Columbia
Huh. This train must be making all
of nine knots an hour. and at this rate
Wen about reach that Internal excursion
place along toward shutdown and then
Now. look at that big lummox of a
piano mover mooching up and down the
aisle. brushing against people. If he
brushes against me again m going to
swing him for luck, that's what I'm
going to do.
Huh? Hows that? Don't make any
trouble! Well, I'm not looking for any
trouble, but if that big lout thinks he's
going to sway against me, why
What? Wouldn't take chance on
starting an argument with such big
man that? Look a-here, dye mean to
intimate that I'm afraid to tackle mutt
of that kind just because he's big and
husky looking? Is that the kind of a
crack you're trying to wedge in?
Because, if it is, why Well. it's a
good thing he's taken his seat, that's all.
I'd hand Linn an uppercut in a holy min
ute if he brushed against me again.
But, shucks, what am l mumbling
about? 1t serves me perfectly right. the
huh business. Here 1 might be in my
comfortable fiat, smoking pipe and look
ing out of the windows watching the
robins dance on the grass, with decent
meal in sight and all that sort of thing.
But, shucks some more. the hull bust
ness serves me perfectly right, too.
deserve it all and more. I'm going out
TO the smoking car. And try and get
yourself in at least a halfway decent sort
Of a humor while I'm gone, won't your"
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urging or being urged to lend her aid to
further this movement Women's clubs
of every sort-social, literary, college or
suffrage, are all busily engaged in send
ing out cards, passing resolutions and
what not.
In fact, Washington is up against a
genuine old-fashioned spring cleaning
day. And, IL the efforts of the women
interested in this movement are not in
vain, 1t will be thorough one.
The movement is of more than passing
Importance. Washington is blessed with
more miles of paved streets than is the
usual municipality: it has more parks
than any other city. but with the wealth
of riches comes loose regard for their
state the women claim. Squeezeville.
with it's one town square," they further
insist goes Washington one better on the
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humanity and the world, and they. too.
were well supplied with cards and sec
tons of the city TO cover For the Equal
Suffrage League but hint was needed.
Finally some one Of the committee re-
membered that she had heard a maxim
about child's being trained In the way
he should GO So they We're of TO the
schools, and Supt. Stuart's support
was enlisted. Each child. big or lit
tie. thus went trudging homeward. care
fully preserving precious card for
mamma. Then the front yards were
remembered. So the Social Purity Club.
made up OF a membership of colored
women, was called into the plan. They
gave their support. and through the dis
tribut;on of the cards about their dis
tricts the success of this branch of the
work is we'll assured.
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Rome and the orient. for in this lana
snow and ice have transformed the sea-
son into time of daily carnival ana
nightly gayety. Here every snow and
ice sport from every country has been IN
PRODUCED. and the lovers of each meet to
test their skill in earnest rivalry. as Well
as in the social pleasures thus made pos
sible.
In this Alpland the Bernese Oberland
has always been a favorite meeting place
for the English speaking people. AS
Herr Hartmann. director of the ODER
landscher VerkehrSverein in Interlaken
said in an interesting lecture upon Inc
Relations of England to switzerland In
the Past these relations had actually
begun in the first century, st. Beatus,
after whom the famous Beatus cave. near
Interlaken is named, being the hrst
Briton to set foot in Switzerland. At the
end of the seventeenth century prominent
English speaking people occasionally
visited the country, even going to remote
Grindelwald to view the glaciers. BY the
middle of the nineteenth century English
tourists had increased i'm such numbers
that Thun and lnterlaken in summer be-
came like English villages.
Since Grindelwald was opened, the Ber-
nese Overland has added place after place
to it's winter list, and now has ten leading
places, in which all the winter sports and
social gayeties can be enjoyed, the heavy
snowfall this year greatly enlivening
long spell of glorious weather. and
though the sun has shone out delightfully."-
warm. the night frosts have been hard
enough to keep the Kinks in fine condi-
ton and fully occupied by devotees OF
curling, skating and ice hockey.
The programs, drawn up by the sports
clubs. have provided such a round of
pleasure that. it is difficult to see how the
visitor could get a breathing spell Ger
tain Oberland centers furnish their Wis
itors with the rare sport of ski-joring,
which every place cannot do, as con-
siderable extent of fiat ground is neces-
sary. In this sport a horse draws the
ski-runners along; naturally not only fiat
ground. but expert ski-runners and well
trained horses are required. Beatenberg.
Kandersteg, Saanen and also Gstaad are
all able to include this in the list of
sports. which to some people is the most
fascinating of the Alpine pastimes
One of the most beautifully situated
Oberand resorts is Beatenberg now in
its second season. The skating rink has
been enlarged threefoId and a pavilion
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which gently filter

which gently filter through the highly
rarefied atmosphere.
There is an absence Of humidity. and
the air can be inhaled in deep, exhilarat-
ing draughts All around the old familiar
places are robed in soft garmenture of
ermine. Twig and branch are white
deep, grateful snow.
A magician's wand has been waved
over this realm and wrought the weave
of snow into charming fantasy. Ma
ture has taken her rest, and looks on
smilingly through the sunlit atmosphere.
Everything has conspired to make this
Alpland a perfect paradise for the sport
lively inclined. The cold is comfortable,
for one can go about without wraps or
overcoats. Sweaters and caps. Knockers
and hose are the regular toys for the
men, while the women dress comfortably.
Winter is a season of continual delight.
Every face is merry and every eye Is
sparkling bright with the joy of life.
There is q suggestion of understandable
frolic in every attitude and motion, its i'm
pulses as innocent as a child's. Such is
the peculiar influence of the subalpne
realm in it's sunbathed atmosphere, bring
each one with the suppleness and exuber-
ance of youth in the enjoyment of the
snow and ice sports that lure them to
the lively energies of the ut-o-doors.
1t is for the enjoyment of such life
that people flock to the little republic of
the Alps from everywhere. They HE
from New York London, Berlin, Paris,
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often alluded to as 'privateers. Now
privateer is an armed vessel sailing I'M
der letter of marque and belonging TO
A firm CIR individual. but in no sense a
government ship. The Alabama, the
Georgia and others were regularly COM
missioned men-of-war, belonging to de
facto government which was recognized
as a belligerent. Therefore they were
in no sense privateers-pirates, If you
insist, but not privateers.
The statement is made too, even in
histories. that the crew Of the Alabama
particularly consisted chiefly of English
men, many of whom had been gunners in
the British navy. Sometimes the VIC
tory of the kearsarge over the famous
Confederate cruiser off the port of Cher
bourg, France, is alluded to as exempli-
fying the superiority of American over
English gunnery. Now. this assertion
that the crew of the Alabama consisted
largely Of Englshmen / personally know
to be incorrect, as can be proved by Dr.
Gait. Lieut.. ST. Clair and Midshipman
Anderson, who served on the Alabama
and who are still living.
In the Georgia / joined the Alabama
in the port Of Bahia. Brazil. That was
in the month Of May. 1863, and we fol-
lowed her down the Brazilian coast max
ing digressions for her occasionally, which,
as l have explained, was the reason that
she was heard of in SO many different
places at the same time. 1 not only saw
her crew. but her officers told me that
at that time 1t was composed princi-
pally of Yankee whalers' who. after the
capture Of their vessels, had enlisted. The
New England sailor at that time was
probably the most reckless human being
deviltry Of the peculiar duty to which
the Confederate government had assigned
the cruisers. or commerce destroyers as
they were called by, their friends Some
other people called them by a harsher
name. and we were generally regarded m
foreign ports into which we put. as pi-
rates. with price on our heads In fact
the United States government had posted
proclamations in these ports setting
forth the information that upon our cap
ture. we should inevitably be hanged
The boys in the streets would shout after
us:
Pirates. pirates. you're going to be
hanged now. There's Yankee warship
voluntary information. with such addi-
tons as the imagination of our inform
ants could supply.
Now. Englishmen, we found, doubtless
Influenced by these public proclamations
which were posted up in conspicuous
places. distinctly baked at the idea of
being hanged If captured. Indeed. the
crew whom we had taken from England
for the Georgia refused to go with us
when we met that ship Off the coast Of
UShant.
THE first prize we captured relieved us
OF our perplexity in not having been a BILE
to obtain a sufficient crew. The vessel in
question was the Dictator, big clipper
ship bound from New York to Calcutta
Her entire crew, some twenty-seven men,
with the exception of the captain and the
first mate, volunteered to ship with us,
and this was the nucleus of our compile
~'@nt as We did not possess, even then,
~ any means an adequate fighting
orce. We afterward shipped picked men
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tanning yourself with that newspaper?
Oh, just to give your hands something to
do, eh? Well, say, if you wanted to give
your hands a job, why didn't you bring
along your crocheting-or why didn't you
fetch along the materials and make a
cocoanut cake In the ear?
you don't have to sit there elevating
the temperature of this beef on the hoof
car by forty degrees with those terrific
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ELL. It's going to
be one of those
sure-enough rail-
road excursions, all
right, / can see
that grouched
Mr.. Grump Satur-
day last. when.
after having in
sisted upon Mrs.
Qrump's accom-
panying him on an
over-Sunday eX-