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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23
ADVOCATES USE
OF WATER METER
Commissioner Bear Gives Out
Communication for -Bene-
ht of the Public.
HAVE MISTAKEN BELIEF
Consumers Gain Idea That Automatic
Measures Restrict the Use of
City Supply. .

In most fields of commercial en-
deavor, ignorance and prejudice have
always wrought great harm TO all pro-
gressive movements. For many years
they were slow to appreciate the ad-
vantages Of the water meter system.
All antagonism towards the meter sys-
tenn is diminishing year by year. In
all parts of the country new instances
are continually occurring showing the
benefits which both the city and the
consumer secure from the adoption Of
the water meter system. The errone-
GUS impressions which have existed
during the past in the public mind re-
garding the merits Of the water meter
are responsible for any prejudice
which remains against this valua BILE
and necessary factor Of modern water
works equipment
The public is quick TO advocate and
endorse the water meter system
wherever an intelligent understanding
of the true qualities of the water
meter exists. In cities where meters
were strongly opposed at the com
mencement proved to be of great saw
ings to the communities. Therefore
am advocating the installation OF
water meters.
HAVE MISTAKEN BELIEF.
THE most common errors enter
tanned by the public concerning water
meters are: First, that meters restrict
the use OF water; second, that meters
increase the cost of water.
The most efficient remedy which
can be employed to correct the first
error is to educate the public up to
the advantages Of the water meter
system. The water meter does not
operate to restrict the legitimate use
Of water In most cases where the
meter system is in operation, a mini
mum water rate is charged for a slip
ulated quantity Of water ample for all
the necessary wants OF the consumer.
The water meter operates to prevent
water waste, which is vastly different
from water consumption. In discharg-
ing this function It has proved itself
to be of great value IN hundreds Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23
A. B. Maple.

penses where work should begin in
the near future, $4,000
Ohio-ToIedo harbor. $4,000;
Port Clinton harbor, $500; Cleveland
harbor, $4,000; Ashtabula harbor,
s250,00O; Conneaut Aarbor, $780,
1913.
Kentucky river. $685.
600.
Wisconsin.-Lake superior and
Mississippi river canali $4,000;
Port Wing harbor. $1,000; Ashland
harbor, $4,000; Green Bay harbOr.
$4,000; Kewaunee harbor. 10000;
Two Rivers harbor. 1880; ShebOy-
gan harbor, $4,000 Pprt Washing
ton barbor, $500; Ke1osha harbor,
SIS, 900
s24O.OOO FOR CHICAGO.
Illinois.-Waukega ss5, 900; Chi
cago harbor, $4,000; Illinois riv-
er, below Copperas creek $4,000.
Indiana-Menomiee harbor and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23
FAIR EXCHANGE.
A New Back for an Old One-How 1t
Is Done in Rock Island.

New Back for an Old One-How 1t
Is Done in Rock Island.
The back aches at times with a
dull. indescribable feeling, making
you weary and restless: piercing
pains shoot across the region of the
kidneys, and again the Ioins are so
lame TO stoop is agony. No use to
rub or apply a plaster to the back
in this condition. You cannot reach
the cause. Exchange the bad back
example of this Rock Island citizen
J. Z. Pierce, Sl3 Third avenue,
Rock Island. Ill, says: Il suffered
from kidney complaint for a long
time and was often in a bad way
My back ached almost constantly, I
felt stiff and lame and was bothered
by, a frequent desire to pass the kid
Doan's Kidney Pills and deciding to
try them. l procured a box at the
Harper house pharmacy. My exper-
fence with this remedy has been so
satisfactory that ! am glad to recon-
mend IL TO other kidney sufferers. +
consider Doan's Kidney Pills a fine
kidney medicine"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster MiIburn company, Buff
falo. y. Y. sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23
Ferry Still Giving Service.

Although the going is bad at times,
due TO the heavy foes of ice which are
coming down the rI-er nevertheless
the ferry boat is giving regular service
and will continue TO DO so until the ice
absolutely forbids Tie Davenport has
been replaced IN thu service by the
Rock Island, the later being a side
wheeler and a stauncher boat and bet
ter fitted for contendlng with the ice
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23

river, $4,000; st. Joseph harbor,
SIS, 200; st. Joseph river, $500;
South Haven barbor, 5000; Sauga-
tuck harbor and Kalamazoo river.
$4,000; Ludington harbor, ISL. 500;
Manistee harbor. $4,000; harbor OF
refuge at Portage lake. $4,000; st.
Mays river at the falls, $1.95O,0OO;
Mackinas harbor. $35, 700; Saginaw
river, $4,000; Clinton river,
$4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23

An open oTeaA between the Kaiser
and Crown Prince Frederick William
of Germany Is regarded as possible
as result of the crown princes
demonstrative hostility TO Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg. shown in
the Reichstag when the chancellor
spoke in defense of the settlement Of
the Moroccan controversy. 1t is pop
ularly believed the prince is heading
a lingo party that sooner or later
Will launch Germany into war with
England. The Kaiser continues to
manifest hearty sympathy with the
chancellor and his policies.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-23

Publish your joys and conceal your
grjefs.
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
SPORT.
WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING.

Young Bruce Of Denver and Trooper
Grimes of Fort Russell. Cheyenne. are
negotiating for match at Fort Rus
sci at 122 pounds ringside.
The Terrible Swede of Telluride.
Colo. We the world championship for
drilling and the $500 prize. He drilled
thirty-eight inches In solid granite.
Uncle Joe Cannon is the latest con-
vert to golf. He is being initiated into
the mysteries of the game at the Brae
Burn Country Club at Newton. Mass.
Louis Disbrown, driving Pope,
Hartford, made a new worlds automo-
bile record at Old Orchard beach.
Biddeford. Me-. going 20 miles In Is
minutes. 25 seconds.
Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the
dead aviator, John B. Moisant, ascend
ed in her monoplane at Hampstead.
n. Y. to height of nearly 1000 feet.
1t is believed to be the greatest alti-
tude ever reached by woman avia-
tor.
After eleven rounds of slam bang
srilling at Victor, Colo. in which he
had shade of the best of it all the
way through. Charlie Pierson. the New
York newsboy. won the decision over
Jimmy Macdonald OF Denver. when
Referee George Wayland stopped the
contest and awarded the prize to the
Easterner.
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
"WHY SHOULD | USE
CUTICURA SOAP7

There is nothing the matter with
my skin, and thought Cuticura Soap
was only for skin troubles" True. 1t
is for skin troubles. but its great mis-
sion is to prevent skin troubles. For
more than generation its delicate
emollient and prophylactic properties
have rendered 1t the standard for this
purpose, while its extreme purity and
refreshing fragrance give to it all the
advantages of the best of toilet soaps.
1t is also invaluable in keeping the
hands soft and white. the hair live
and glossy. and the scalp free from
dandruff and irritation.
While its first cost is few cents
more than that of ordinary toilet
soaps, 1t is prepared with such care
and of such materials, that 1t wears
to a wafer. often outlasting several
cakes of other soap. and making its
use. in practice. most economical.
Cuticura Soap is sold by druggists and
dealers everywhere. but the truth of
these claims may be demonstrated
without cost by sending to "Cuticura."
Dept. 23 L, Boston, for liberal SAM
pie cake, together with thirty-two
page book on the skin and hair.
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EI6N COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNoo AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN.

The authoritative announcement is
made at Austin. Texas, that Senator
Joseph w. Bailey will not be candi
date for reelection.
Lincoln Western League Club has
been sued for $4,000 damages by
Ralph A. Hanson who was injured by
club employe.
Secretary of the Interior Walter L.
Fisher has returned from tour oil
Alaska and will visit several points
in the West before returning to Wash
ington.
There are in Kansas forty-nine coun
ty superintendents, five county clerks
five county treasurers, ten registers
two probate judges. one mayor-al
women.
Because Miss Mary Chamberlain. q
young school mistress of Shady Bend
Kan, had talked about" other wo
men, she was tarred and feathered by
a mob. Eight men have been arrest
ed.
Hunnewell, kans.. has learned that
it must not play cards on Sunday
while Mrs. Wilson is mayor To dis
cover this fact four young men paid
$40 each. Mrs. Wilson said they
played cards on Sunday without even
closing the front door.
The jury In the case of Miss Alice
Bowes of Topeka. Kans.. against N.
W. Sly, a claim agent of the Union
Pacific, in which she asks $4,000
damages for breach of promise. rem
dered verdict assessing the damages
at 100000.
AS the result of heavy rains which
have been falling almost increasingly.
many small streams throughout east
ern Kansas and western Missouri are
out of their banks and thousands of
acres OF bottom lands are submerged.
At Troy, Kans., $50 inches of rain has
fallen.
Unless the vice president and di-
rector OF maintenance of the Harri-
man lines, Julius Kruttschnitt. Of San
Francisco, recedes from his absolute
refusal to recognize the federation of
shop workers or its committees, on
these lines, he will be confronted with
q strike.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher. at
a dinner given at Seattle in his hon
or declared Controller Bay in Alaska
to be neither the only. nor the best.
harbor for the output of the Behring
river coal fields; pronounced the eX-
tent and character of these fields
grossly exaggerated"
Separate indictments. accusing Ma
than Allen OF Kenosha. Wis. and John
r. Collins of Memphis. Tenn. reput-
ed millionaires. of smuggling gems
valued at thousands of dollars into
the) port of New York, have been
brought to light in the offices of Unit
ed States District Attorney Wise.
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
DEATH BEFORE 100
YEARS IS SUICIDE
Prof. Munyon Says Ignorance
Of Laws Of Health Explains
Early End Of Life.
NOTED SCIENTIST HAS
ENCOURAGING WORD
. FOR DESPONDENT
MEN AND WOMEN

Death before 100 years of age has
been been % reached Y nothing more or less
dss isw =, sn sse1 .as Z .py aao
rant Of the laws Of health"
Such wa. the oriEinai and rather
James Il. Manyon. the famous Philadel-
phis health authority. who 4. establish
cities of the world for the purpose OF get
ting in direct touch with his Thousands
Professor Munyon is = living embodi-
Virile, well poised, active and energetic.
'HSss sSs e. limit Mh:s
clare. is the normal aai. one He said; said: =.
my .as opnIonsD on OF the .usjses S
health. which are the fruit Of a fife: time
dsyo,ed to healing the .Sd people Gs
this State % alone who vi have found Reslth
roush .hroush there hey e1Hp' ~ens Be- SI SSi,s,ns IS
enough to house my cured patients In
u want. most of all. to talk to the sic.
ones the victims of nerve. RYE wearing. body.
hope which I bear viii bring the great.
Il want 10 talk to tho rheumatics. tho
spmerefs In,e. @ from so ,tomaeh trouble: the ones
women who have become chronic In
valids as a result Of nervous troubles.
want to talk to the men who are all run
down. whose health has been broken by
overwork. improper diet, late hours and
other causes. and who feel the creeping
clutch of serious. chronic illness.
ITO these people bring a story of
hope. can give them a promise of bet
ter things. / want to astonish them by
showing the record of cures performed
through my new system of treatment.
IT have taken the best of the ideas
from all schools and embodied them in
a new system OF treatments individually
adapted to each particular case. ! have
no cure alls. but my present method of
attacking disease is the very best thought
of modern science. The success which
have had with these treatments in this
city and all over America proves its eff
cacy. Old methods must give away. to
new medical science moves. know what
my remedies are doing for humanity
everywhere. I know what they will do
for the people of this CITY,. Let me prove
nv statements-that's all ask"
The continuous stream of callers and
mail that comes to Professor James NJ.
Munyon at his laboratories. Fifty-thlrd
and Jefferson streets. Philadelphia. Pa.
keeps DR.. Munyon and his enormous
corps of expert physicians busy.
Professor Munyon makes no charge for
penny to pay: Address Prof. j: N Nun.
yon, Munyon's Laboratories. Fffty-third
and Jefferson streets. Philadelphia, Pa
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
AIDS FOR THE
HOG BREEDER
Two Pastures Better Than One
Vicious Animal Should be
Killed
Shelter.

The breed of white hogs Is rapidly
disappearing from this country.
Free range for hogs does not mean
that they should be allowed to run
over our neighbor's farm
With good fence wire as cheap as
1t Is today 1t is an easy matter to d.
vide up the hog pasture into convenient
lots.
Two pastures are better than one,
because while the hogs are feeding
In one field the other will be recover
ing and later furnish much more at
tractive feed than as II both pastures
are used as one.
The vicious hog that is forever
breaking out and causing trouble for
ones neighbor cannot be killed too
quickly.
1t is a good plan to provide sum-
ner shelter for the hogs on a high
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
FOR ElGN.

The restaurant connected with the
Eldorado. the largest theater in Nice.
France, collapsed, burying two score
people.
No word has been received from
the foreigners who gathered at Cheng
Tu China. for safety from the savage
mobs some days ago.
One hundred miles off the Mica
ragua coast. when the schooner
Whisper" with cargo of mahog-
any, burned to the waters edge and
finally went to the bottom. fourteen
men were drowned. An explosion of
a gasoline tank on board caused the
disaster.
The first flying postal service for
England, has been inaugurated under
the auspices of the British postoffice.
The points of departure and arrival
were respectively the Hendon aero
drome and Windsor castle, the dis
tance being something under score
of miles.
The Chilean steamer Lucapel has
been wrecked near Lima and is a to-
ldl lDSS. -OIlt were
drowned
Capt. Matthew Webb's feat of swim
ming the English channel thirty-siv
years ago was duplicated by William
T. Burgess, a native of Yorkshire, Eng
land, but now a naturalized French
man 1t was Burgess sixteenth at
tempt, he having first essayed the
task in 1904. He made the trip o.
twenty miles in twenty-seven hours.
Heliodorus, the mad monk of
Tsaritsyn." Russia, has publicly de-
clared that attacks on Jews and the
Russian intelligent classes would be
commenced after the holding of the
Forthcoming congress of the Black
Hundreds. The declaration of the
parish priest, whose fantastic meth
ods have startled the whole volga re-
gion, has created a panic in Tsaritsyn.
Talk of probable massacre of Jews
Is current at the bazaars.
The famine riots in China are
spreading, and the American Baptist
chapel near Quinsan has been sacked
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
tpy c. c. powsF1ELp. Illinois, !,

(By Z. L. BOW ST lELD. llllnoisD
Every farmer. who raises as many
as 100 hogs In a year. ought to divide
them into spring and fall herds. By
this means he will be able to distrib
ute the labor to suit his convenience.
economize In room, sell when the mar
ket suits him. and furnish his custo-
mers on short notice. any kind Of pork
desired. from suckling-roast to prime
bacon.
The thoroughly practical man can
turn hogs into money very rapidly.
extensive enough to enable him to
properly divide his fields and build
ings, and to make thorough expert
ments. with different types. and differ
ent kinds of food.
have observed two or three bad
failures recently. which were caused
primarily. by the. old and erroneous
idea that hogs do not require much
ground room or forage.
In raising pork for the market. the
farmer ought to keep In mind these
vital points: Cost of feeding. danger
Of disease or sickness. and range OF
market prices.
Starting the season with so to 100
pigs just weaned. the owner should
provide pasturage of some kind.
would give this lot of young animals
one mess per day. of brain and shorts
moistened with slops. skinned milk
or whey. This Is ample in a grass-lot
OF five or ten acres.
Glover is excellent for forage. but
artichokes and rape are better. A
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
CONVENIENCE OF DIVIDING
FALL AND SPRING HOG HERDS
BY VIII be Able Distribute HIS
Equally, Room Sell When
Furnish Customers
O Desired.

| rushed through the month OF NO
vember. or until conditions are right
for marketing.
The clearest profit is made in ten
months. at which age. the hogs ought
to average $50 pounds. Animals that
get good pasturage. and about such
diet as have described. are pretty
sure to escape disease. 1t is essential
to have plenty OF pure water in the
hog lot.
The farm should include three or
four small fields. securely fenced. SO
that one kind of forage could be
rested. while the other was used. Then
again. II the owner detects fever or
other sickness in the herd. 1t is easy
to segregate those animals which are
affected. Prompt action along this
line. may prevent heavy loss.
Dipping is another essential. and as
1t is neither difficult or expensive. 1t
| summer. With this kind Of hog farm
ing. cholera will not be known. and
the stock will get steady growth.
from beginning to end.
II the weather be severe. when 1t
comes to the last month Of feeding.
the hogs should be kept in clean.
roomy pens. but even to the last day.
they should have some succulent for
age-plant to eat. Glover or alfalfa is
suitable for this. and carrots are ex-
cellent, in connection with the corn.
or peas.
1t is for the good of the animal. and
Of course for the owners pocket. that
a program OF this kind be marked out.
Feeding 50-cent corn. for six or eight
months. will not do. Farmers must
learn that forage is natural to the hog.
and that It will give the growth at
small cost.
Allowing full rental value for the
land. the cost of all food supplies. and
the wage value of the time taken up
in the care Of the stock. from the date
of birth, to the marketing 100 hogs
10 months old averaging $50 pounds.
can be turned of. at cost not ex-
ceding $700.
1t may be done for a little less. but
IL 1t is to be business proposition.
let 1t be figured as a business man
would count the expense. With care
full experimenting and observation. for
several years. l get no figures very
far from 81 for a marketable hog
weighing $50 pounds.
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15

little corn soaked in water Is good
when the pigs begin to show growth
What they need above all else. how.
ever. Is the range. with Just about
such a line of food as would be re-
quired to give young cattle a steady
and rapid growth. Field-peas ought
to be available toward the end OF
summer. The hogs can be allowed to
do the harvesting themselves.
This will give firmness and sweet.
ness to the flesh. and could be used
right through the fall. instead of corn.
My preference would be to give the
final month to dressing up with
corn. This crop being ready in Octo-
Der. the fattening process can be
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
A Reply Was Revised.

They have grown very touchy on
Alaskan matters In the interior depart
ment since the trouble of the Cunning
ham claims" said coal man the 9TH
er day.
II had occasion some time ago to
write to the department about an
Alaskan subject that had no bearing
on the situation. ! have just received
an answer that does not commit any
body. but 1t had on it the initials of
at least six persons, showing that tho
reply had been thoroughly considered
and revised before it was started In
my direction. l CUES they are on the
lookout for bombs"
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
ALFALFA PEST
WORKS INJURY
wssviI is Not Native to America,
But Introduced From
Europe. Asia and
Africa.
tBy F. M. wEBsTER.)

The alfalfa weevil is not native to
America. but has been accidentally in
troduced from Europe. western Asia.
or northern Africa. where It is very
common. and where. while more or
less destructive to alfalfa. 1t is prob
ably prevented by its natural enemies
from working serious and widespread
ravages.
The insect winters entirely in the
beetle stage. seeking shelter. before
the frosts of autumn commence either
in the crowns Of alfalfa plants. close
to the surface OF the ground In the
The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15

attack the young growth of alfalfa as
soon as there is sufficient food for
them.
In ordinary seasons they appear in
March and the egg-laying period usu.
ally lasts from March or April until
early July.
Some idea of the abundance Of
these eggs and the extent to which
the pest may breed In vacant lots and
other waste lands where alfalfa has
escaped from cultivation and grows
as a weed may be obtained from the
fact that In one case a single plant
has been found to contain 127 of these
egg punctures in the midst of the egg
laying season, with the punctures
fresh and new. AS one puncture may
contain anywhere from a Few to over
80 eggs, probably 10 or 15 on the aver
age. this single plant presumably con-
tained between 1900 and 1900 eggs
at the time 1t was observed. II these
hatched and half of them developed
into female beetles and so per cent of
the latter passed the winter, this plant
might in year give rise to over $780,
900 beetles.
The alfalfa weevil has no natural
enemies. except frogs and toads. both
of which are by far too few in mum.
bers to greatly restrict the ravages Of
the pest.