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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Increase in Telephone Calls.

There were more than 1900, 900, 900
conversations by telephone in the
United States in 1907, according to es-
Inmates in the census bureaus report
now being printed This shows that in
five years from 1902 to 1907 the use Of
the telephone in the United States more
than doubled, to be exact, increased
124 per cent, for only ,00O,OOO,00O con-
versations were reported in 1902.
This huge increase in the use of
telephones was accompanied by an as
tonshing growth in the telephone in
dustry and wonderful ramification of
telephone wires in every part of the
country. The miles Of telephone wire
in use in 1907 we're 12,999,369, or more
than one and a half times the 1900, Ash
miles strung in 1902. The number of
employees of telephone companies near
ly doubled in the five years. The av-
erage number of wage earners in 1902
was 64,62S; in 1907. 11S,S71.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

nothIn. Then ~erganO's horse was
a-makin' the same efforts.
"PacQuita turned pale. for she knew
that both her lovers had struck the
quicksand, and once III il there was
10 chunct for either of EN- Ia get out.
She made her horse do her best. usin
whip and spur. but she was ridin
across country. with no, road. and the
goin' was bad. The two men were
sinkin' lower and lower and shoutin
like mad for help. Pacqnita was the
only person TO hear 'em. and there was
little prospect she'd reach 'em before
they sunk ont q sight. She was only
a gal anyway.
when she rode up to EN- their
horses heads was the only part of eli
Their critter above the sand and both
men had sunk 10 the waist. Alsron.
bein' the heaviest. bad sunk a little
lower than Serrano. Pacquita wrung
her hands for moment. wild at not
bein' able 70 help EN-. each of 'em
lookin' ut her pitifully. Then she re-
membered her lariut. Quick as flash
she unwOund aud poised il ready 10
throw. Each man was up to his arm
pits. Even if she had time 10 save
one on 'em she wouldn't have time 10
save the other
This is where the time come ] was
tellin' you about at the beginnin' o this
yarn, where the gal had 10 decide
which one of the two men she loved.
or. rather. the love for one o 'em that
was in her decided the matter for her
Swingiu' the loop around three or four
times. she let it go and il shot out
over the quicksand.
(which O them two fellers do you
suppose the loop fell on? Why. the little
Mexican. When 1t come to the pint
the child love that had growed like a
young twig was stronger than the
new thing that had come when Pac-
quita was growed.
The rope fell true and in a moment
was around Jose's shoulders under his
arms. Pacquita bad the other end
fastened TO the pommel of her sad
die, and, startin' her horse gently. so
as not TO break the rope, he pulled the
Mexican out. Then she fell I'm a faint
but Serrano didn't waste no time Oh
her He threw the lasso to Allston.
who caught it in his hands. Serrano
was tuggin' away. tryin' to pull the
Britisher out. when horseman ap-
peared and. coming up. lent a hand.
Together they hauled Allston on TO
firm ground.
That was the end o. the rivalry be
tween these two men. Allston went
back to England and married the
daughter of u lord Serrano married
Pacquita. All of which goes to show
that if a gal is in doubt between two
lovers she kin find out which one she
wants by havin' a chanel TO save the
life of only one of EN-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
ILLINOIS ENGINEERS
TO OBSERVE JUBILEE
Next Years Meeting VIII Be 18th
Annual and 1t Will Be Held at
East st. Louis.

One of the active professional assoc
Citations of this state is the Illinois So
ciety of Engineers and Surveyors,
which has issued its volume of pro-
ceedfngs for 1910, with an announce
ment that the 25th or jubilee ami
versary will be held at East st. Louis
in January, 1911. The society was
organized at a meeting held at Cham
paign, in January, 1886, and has
present membership of about 226. The
members are engineers engaged in all
kinds of work throughout the state.
They include city and municipal enGi
neers, consulting engineers, civil en-
gIneers of steam and electric railways,
drainage engineers, professors of en-
gineering colleges, city and county
surveyors, etc. The society has COM
mittees which report on roads, pave
ments, sewers, water supply, railways,
land drainage, surveying and other
subjects. Its work has so much rela-
ton to public comfort and public
health that it is DESTROYS of giving 10
the public some information as to its
proceedings.
The society holds a meeting in Jan
nary of each year, and meets once in
four years at Chicago and at the Uni
versity of Illinois, one of the special
AIMS being to keep in touch with the
engineering work at the university,
and also with the young engineers
who graduate therefrom. Its 1910
meeting was held at Cairo in January.
II occasionally recommends or en-
dorses legislative measures related to
engineering matters and in the public
interest, but it has no political aims.
AS stated in its constitution its OBJ
jects are the encouragement of pro-
fessional improvement and of good
fellowship among its members.
The officers for 1911 are as follows:
President-A. n. Johnson, state high
way engineer, Springfield
Vice PRESIDENT. W. Dappert, city
engineer of Taylorville
Trustees-Edward Barlow. director
of the state water survey, Urbana; Ju-
Illus G. Gabelman, division engineer of
the board of local improvements, Chi
cago; George c. Habermeyer, instruc-
tor in municipal engineering at the
University of Illinois, and A B. Alex
ander, city engineer of Decatur.
The last two past presidents are
Charles r. Burdick, hydraulic engineer
of Chicago, and John B. Hittell, chief
engineer of streets of Chicago.
The secretary is E. E. r. Tratman,
1886 Monadnock block, Chicago
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
The Argus Daily Short Story
Her Choice-By Sarah Bryce Vaughan.
Copyrighted 1910. by Associated Literary PresA

why it is" said the ranchman,
that some wimmen can't make a
straight deal with lover.
I'VE had case ont here onct where
a gal KEEP two fellers danGlin' after
her till she pretty nigh set both on
'em crazy. AT last she had to decide
all on a sudden. and il didn't take her
a second to show which one on 'em
had her heart. Mebbe she didn't know
herself before that which did have
it. and mebbe she did know. Least
Always there wasn't no hesitation when
the time come TO make a show down.
She was Il little Mexican gal Her
father had belonged TO big family in
Spain, and sence most o the big fami-
lies there are down at the heel and
Herrara bein' the youngest o twelve
children he went TO Mexico. married
and come up to this here territory to
raise sheep. He had n daughter, Pac
Quita. born on his ranch. From the
time she was able 10 walk she was
ont o doors all the while. climbin'
fences and trees. and when she was
four was ridin' the horses TO water.
when Pacquita was sixteen she
was Il terror 10 her father and mother.
She could shoot. ride. swing a Iariat.
do anything a cowboy could do. I've
seen her toss her handkerchief on the
ground. ride by it at full speed and
with one spur hooked TO her saddle
reach down and pick it up. AT that
time she used to wear her hair fiowin'
ont like a comets tail-same as little
gals do-and it was topped by a SOM
brero. Her jacket and skirt were
Mexican. with lots o gold braid. Her
eyes were black and her complexion
almost us dark as a quadroon's. She
got that from her mother. who had
Aztec blood in her
There was Il Mexican boy whose
father owned ranch near the Her
rara property that was brought up
with PaCqnita. He was just the same
age, and they were just like brothers.
Leastaways it seemed TO me that
Pacquita was more like a brother to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Rubber Plantations.

It Is singular fact that the average
man and woman is ready to be per-
Buaded to invest money in prospects
and the higher colored they are the
more numerously and more rapidly
people will "bfte." Too frequently
they don't stop to consider at all and
scarcely ever do they realize what
should be a patent fact that if the pro-
ject or scheme, or whatever the prOpo-
sftion may be called, the syndicate
handling it would keep it all them
selves, and wouldn't be peddling the
gilt-edged stock around at a few or
many cents on a dollar OF course
it takes all kinds of people to make
up world, but the kind who will
tumble over themselves to put up their
money on a swindling proposition are
too innocent for any use at all in this
sad and wicked world, except to fur
nish the wherewithal for slick and I'M
scrupulous promoters to wax fat at
their expense.
The latest special swindle is the
rubber plantation All one has to
do is to invest few hundred dollars
in rubber plantation for sale at a
bargain and gold galore will flow into
his Golfers in no time at all
Some time ago the deal was in cof-
fee. People were told there was a
mine of wealth in coffee. All that was
necessary to do was to put out a few
plants and within a year or two go
down and harvest the crop. Com
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

panies were formed and not infre
quently a coffee plantation Of five
acres was sold to credulous buyers for
5000. But the coffee gold mine has
been worked out-worked to a fragile
as the saying Is. Now the agile, YER
satile, smooth talking agent of a
Syndicate" is batting his hook with
rubber" There are millions in it,
of course-for the syndicate.
Beware of the rubber man! This
rubber scheme has been on the boards
for quite while, but it is declared to
be mo good" According to Ernest
Hill, a New Yorker. with considerable
interest in Mexico, and especially in
the state of Vera Cruz, declares that
most of the men who have been per
plantations in Mexico with the hope
of making a great deal of money in
very short time, will be sadly dis
appointed. Mr.. Hill says:
THE fact Of the matter is that rub
Der does not pay as well as would most
other crops. My observations are that
a rubber plantation will not return a
cent for many years after it has been
started
THE trees are planted about 22O to
the acre, and before the age of six
they produce practically no rubber at
all. After that they may be tapped
profltably as far as the expenses of
tapping are concerned. After six years
of age every healthy tree will give
about one ounce of rubber twice a
year, this being about 80 pounds to the
acre. With the highest price ever paid
to the producer of rubber in Mexico
this would amount to about $25, Amer
lean, to the acre per year"
But not every company and syndi-
cate which has taken up rubber lands
in Mexico Jared as we'll as here out
lined, and many, according to Mr.. Hill,
have now decided to turn their hold
ings to better account, most of them
having taken up the cultivation of
sugar cane, cotton, and other crops.
Mr.. Hill is of the opinion that rubber
as a cultivated crop will never amount
to much and that would-be purchasers
of rubber company stock had better
keep their money.
NO matter what socalled rubber
lands in Vera Cruz and other parts
may cost" said Mr.. Hill, "the return
on them under rubber is not great
enough to warrant any man putting big
money into them. The best return per
acre that will ever be made even with
the present fancy prices will not ex
coed $50, gold, per acre. Take from
this sum all working expenses, losses
and possible damage to the trees, and
there is very little left that would JUS
tify the glowing pictures painted in
the literature OF the rubber plantation
promoters The man with any sense
In his makeup will leave the rubber
business alone
Land down there is very cheap and
very good for almost any purpose,
but not for rubber. In my opinion rub
Der can be cultivated, but the trouble
is that the land on which it could be
cultivated successfully is located in
what is called tierras calientes, or hot
lands, districts absolutely unsuited as
the habitat OF white men. For this
reason the Wild rubber forest will for
a long time yet be our principal supply
of the commodity"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Changing the Bible.

Harper's Weekly: The tercentenary
edition OF the English authorized edi-
ton of the bible, over which there was
a conference Of learned men in Prince
ton last week, is to have some changes.
Where the meaning Of words has chang
ed, the text is to be changed so as not
10 be misleading; where the old YER
sion is obscure it will be changed in
the interest of clearness; where il is
iufelicitous in choice of words that will
be set right; and for words that have
become obsolete others will be substi
tuted. Damage could be done on all
of these lines, but happily the work is
in the hands of men Of taste and judg-
ment, who will make no change for
the mere sake of change.
As to obsolete words, it may be said
that no word that is in the bible can
become obsolete. The bible words live,
and undoubtedly the English bible has
done a service to the English language
in keeping some good words in use that
might otherwise have passed out of it.
Let" in the sense of hinder is said to
be condemned of the revisers, and per
haps rightly. but it was a good old word
in that use of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Jose Serrano than a sister. But /
reckon they was more like lovers from
the very first.
They was always together till one
day young Englishman come out
here to be a rancher. He was the
sleekest looking Teller 1 ever see. Ed
ward Allston was his name. and he
was a thoroughbred and no mistake. /
didn't see him ridin' about with Pac-
quita till some time after his comm
here; then l used to see 'em together
often. 1t didn't seem to me that if the
Englishman wanted her the little Mex
lean would stand a ghost Of chaDct
But, while she was with the Britisher
. good deal. she didn't drop the Next
can. She appeared to be just as fond
OF him as ever But what kind of
fondness it was. now that Allston had
come along. l didn't know. II seemed
to me that sooner or later the little
chap would find out that he was no
where and the Britisher had the right
o way.
Il used to meet Pacouita ridin' fust
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
COURT HOUSE RECORD
Real Estate Transfers.

Richard Smitken, ct al. to Adolph
Roeland, lot IL, block l, Alday's Third
addition, Moline, $1,7O0.
E II. Guyer to Nicolaus a. Beck
strom, lot 6, block 8, Third addition.
EdgewoOd Park, Rock Island. $3.50.
Jerome D. Skidmore to Josephine E.
Ziegler, part outlot 2, Ryder & Read 5
addition, Moline, $1,000.
William Day to Henry H. Kuehl. lot
5, block 2, John Hits addition, Mo
line 81.
Daniel D. Hays to Frank Warfield,
lots and 8, block As, Lower addition,
Rock Island, 81.
Gust Dralle to Mary NJ. King, lot C,
block III, East Moline, $1,000
E. H. Guyer to Ransom L. Wilder,
lot II, block 1S7, East Moline, $3.50.
Julia Ida Carson to Raymond \.
Campbell, lot Il. block 2, Columbia
park, Moline, $500.
Frederick and Pauline 3. Applequist
to Carl F. Nyden, lot ., block >, Oak
Hill park, Moline, s775.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Governor Harmon Doing Right.

Governor Harmon of Ohio has shown
admirable promptness in taking steps
to dispose Of the sheriff and mayor Of
Newark, because they failed to enforce
the law against a mob of lynchers,
and in further insisting that those
guilty of the atrocious crime of lynch
ing should be prosecuted and pun
ished.
Governor Harmon evidently believes,
with Mayor Gaynor of New York, that
this is a government by laws, not
by men, In this he is democratic and
right.
Mob law and lynching is to be at
all times deprecated. There is no JUS
LITIGATION for rioters taking the law
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Policemen all over the world use TIZ.
Policemen stand on their feet all day
and know what sore, tender. sweaty.
swollen feet really mean. They use
TIZ because TIZ cures their feet right
up. 1t keeps feet in perfect condition.
Read what this policeman has to say:
81 WAS surprised and delighted with
TIZ for tender feet. hardly know how
to thank you enough for a.. us super
for to powders pIasters. I can keep
my feet in perfect condition. Believe I'm
my cnrncBt gratitude for TIZ. 4 am "a
policeman and keep my feet all
day.-,-ETIzy HarreII, Austin. Texas.
You never tried anything like TIZ
before for your feet. 1t is different
from anything ever before sold.
TIZ is not a powder. Powders and
other foot remedies clog up the poreg
TIZ draws out all poisonous cxudationS
which bring on soreness of the feet.
and is the only remedy that does. TIZ
cleans out every pore and glorifies the
feet-yOur feet.
You'll never limp again or draw up
your face in pain, and youll forget
about your corns. bunions. and cal
louses. You'll feel like new person.
TIZ is for sale at all druggists at p
cents per box, or 1t viii be sent you di-
rect If you wish from Walter Luther
Dodge & Co. Dodge building, Chicago,
Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

in their own hands. However aggra-
waiting the circumstances may be there
is ample law in the statute books OF
every state to punish the guilty and
protect the innocent.
The mob at Newark were grossly
violating the laws of Ohio; and the
sheriff and mayor failed in their duty
to prevent the mob from carrying out
its frenzied purpose.
The deposing of these officials, there
fore, by Governor Harmon and his
prompt action in dealing with the case
is to be heartily commended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
HuInOr and
Philosophy
By DUNCAN n. SMITH
MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

WE think we would enjoy the heat
w And revel III July
When winter loafs around the job
It's features TO supply.
Quite certain that IL couldn't bring
So neatly baked a bluff
That II could overdo the thing
And make US cry Enough"
But when it's Johnny on the spot.
On all the spots 10 boot.
1t in the fun. minute details
Does not exactly suit,
And lucky we may call ourselves
II we have got the price
When II is running unrestrained
To trim II Off with ice.
When snowballs in the air are thick
Wherever boys are near
We do not quite appreciate
A ripe one on the ear,
But when it's ninety in the shade
And humid is the air
We feel at such a time as that
Wed take II anywhere.
Around the sulky winter stove
We sit and have a chill
And think that August and it's kind
Would surely fill the DILL,
But when II comes with all its force
With heat blasts unconhned
1t doesn't seem exactly then
The thing we had in mind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

The protected cruiser Boston, offered
for sale at public auction by Secretary
of the Navy Meyer, was a member of
the original white squadron in the
days when William c. Whitney was
secre+ airy Of the navy, and Is years af-
ter its launching it bore a great part
in the battle of Manila bay. Some
memories will go with the old ship.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
NapOIeon's Grit

was of the uncOnquerable. never-say-
die kind, the kind that you need most
when you have a bad cold, cough or
lung disease. Suppose trOches,
cough syrups, cod liver oil or doctors
have all failed, don't lose heart or
hope Take DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry. Satisfaction is guaranteed when
used for any throat or lung trouble.
1t has saved thousands of hopeless
sufferers. 1t masters stubborn colds,
obstinate coughs, hemorrhages, grip,
Group, asthma, hay fever and whoop-
ing cough and is the most safe and
certain remedy for all bronchial af-
fections, so cents, $1.00. Trial bot
tie free at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
July Is in American
History

lit A!:,u .AtulutA ~ dNIc = force
captured Stony Point. ON the Hud-
sou.
1SS3-Charles Haywood Stratton (Tom
Thumb. famous dwarf. died; born
1898.
l903-Mrs. James q. Blaine, widow of
the famous statesman, died; born
1927.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

When the stomach fails to per-
form its functions, the bowels be-
come deranged, the liver and the
kidneys congested causing numerous
diseases. The stomach and liver
must be restored to a healthy copdi-
ton and Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets can be depended upon
to do it. Easy to take and most eff
fective. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Work % Hours a Dav.

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Every
pill is a sugar coated globule of
health, that changes weakness into
strength, languor into energy, braiS
flag into mental power; curing con-
stipation, headache. chills. dyspepsia.
malaria. % cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
He Had Faith.

The Office boy had been mixing up
the signs on the door until he had one
reading: Gone to Europe. Be Back
In Twenty Minutes"
''Sit down and wait. Mariah." said
Uncle Ben after he had spelled out the
sign through his glasses. He must
have taken one OF them there new
tangled airships."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Women shareholders in the New
York, New Haven G Hartford railroad
outnumber the men by nearly two
thousand. But this doesn't mean that
the women control the railroad. The
majority of shares doubtless are held
by men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets gently stimulate the liver
and bowels to expel poisonous mat
ter, cleanse the system, cure consti-
patton and sick headache. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

The federal court, through Judge
Kenesaw NJ. Lands of Chicago, has
struck a blow in the beef trust proseCu-
lions in demanding that the individual
packers involved in the combine be
indicted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

The Legislative Voters league seems
TO be as partisan in its preferences as
the prosecutors of the members who
voted for Lorimer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
And Still Has Than

And Still Has Them.
els he financially soundT
Il should say So
Got the money, eb?"
You bet He has served a term in
the penitentiary for misrepresentation
Of funds"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

1t is charged that Aldrich juggled
with the tariff to help the rubber profits.
Perhaps the senator has a trust-made
conscience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

The people who 60 round saying that
money will not buy happiness are sell
dom in position TO put up the material
TO prove their proposition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Unpromisina.

''She is going to sing in grand
opera"
with that voice?"
why uot?"
People can understand every word
she sings"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Being thin skinned may be aristo-
cratic and dainty. but there can be no
doubt that IL is also uncomfortable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

There lies a vast and quiet plane be
tween the condition Of being always
right and being never wrong.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

We don't care TO reckon on our list
OF friends the fellow who is always
short when we are flush.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

Probably some pessimist will finally
succeed in inventing a dOughnut that
is all hole.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Fatal Mistake.

"Wby is be in jail:'
For trying to be one Of the criminal
rich"
"Ah. ] see: Didn't steal enough
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
In These DAYS.

"Grocers ought to be happy people"
"Grocers?"
81 should say So"
"WhyT'
Every one Of them seems to have
his own weigh
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15

If all the people that you know
Were honest. kind and true
And always dld things UP just SO,
What would the gossips do?
Don't fear their lives would be 50 fat
II perfect were each brother,
For II II ever came TO that
They'd talk about each other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-15
Query.

"What's a kiss or two WORTH
Expert or amateur?'