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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

ignorant, the adventurous and the I'M
principled. When the prevalent and
growing practice of the withdrawal
from politics of our best citizens be-
comes universal. then may We look for
the wild orgie of revolution. or the
slow Crumbling of the nations stabil-
ity.
OFFICE AWAITS MAN.
I'VE haven't reached that point yet.
We are still far from it, in spite of dis
couraging reports. We still have men,
thank God. men of honor, who will risk
their private peace for their city's or
their country's name, and will lead the
forces of righteousness to splendid vic
tory.
at is incumbent upon us now to
choose such a man for the head of our
city government, TO force him out of
his seclusion, if need be, for the sake
of the public good. and to back him
up with the same devotion and loyalty
that the cohorts OF sin will give to
their chosen candidate.
This is an old conservative church
of ours. She doesn't try to run even
local city government. Her pulpits do
not OltSH ing WITH pOliliCSs Out Ju6Te
are times when silence is a sin. When
Sisera at the head of his wild warriors
comes swooping down through our val
legs. invading our rights and endanger-
ing our heritage, surely We may with
as much justice as Deborah cry to the
scattered children of our people: To
the help of the Lord: TO the help of the
Lord against the mighty.
BETTER MORAL CONDITION.
In a general way Rev. w. G. Ogle-
wee. pastor of Broadway Presbyter-
ian church, in his sermon to his con-
gregation yesterday morning talk
ed of the present moral conditions
of the city and of the place where
the blame for the conditions right
fully belongs He said that prob
ably it would not be possible to elect
TO office in the coming election under
the new form the proper men to
bring about right conditions in this
city, but that through united effort
the people of the church could Sc
cure a betterment OF conditions now,
and it would be a matter of only
few years till the conditions were
right again morally. He said that
by united effort the men, women and
children of the church could bring
men to the church and to God and
so aid in setting things Alright
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Chr 1l9rrk tn thr City Gl:1rrl1rs

Trinity Episcopai.-Triniity guild
will meet Wednesday afternoon at $50
with Mrs. j. NJ. Kaiser, 1116 Nine
teenth street
Services will be held Wednesday
! morning at $50 and Friday morning
at $50 and in the evening at 7.30.
Central Presbyterian.-This evening
at 1880 the special finance committee
Of 20 will meet at the home OF the
paster, Rev. Marion Humphreys.
There will be prayer services We'd
nesday evening at 730.
Wednesday afternoon from 8 80 to 6,
the Ladies' Aid society will serve cof-
fee at the home of Mrs H. S. Cable,
91S Second avenue.
Friday afternoon at O'Clock the
Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
airy society will meet with Mrs. o.
Leonard, PLY Twelfth street.
Broadway Presbyterian.-There will
be the monthly business meeting of
the Young Peoples society tomorrow
evening at the home of Miss Rosabel
Stewart, s21 Nineteenth street.
Prayer services will be held Wed
nesday evening at 7:30.
The choir will meet Thursday eve
ming at 1880 for rehearsal
The Womans Home and Foreign
Missionary society will meet Friday
afternoon at O'Clock with Mrs. J. T.
Montgomery, 931 Twenty-second
street.
The Progressive Bible Study class
will meet Friday evening at 7:45 at
the pastors study in the church.
South Park Presbyterian.-Junior
services will be held tomorrow after
noon a. O'Clock and prayer services
will be held tomorrow evening at 100
The Woman's guild will meet Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. ]. A. Cordell,
3012 Tenth avenue
United Presbyterian.-The Kate Hill
Missionary society will meet tomorrow
evening at the home of the Misses
Frederick. 1926 Nineteenth street.
Mid-week prayer services will be
held Wednesday evening al 7:30 The
session will meet at the close of the
service
Grace English Lutheran.-The For
.Get-Me-Not society will meet tomorrow
evening at O'Clock with Miss Clara
Claussen. 222 Railroad avenue. Moline.
The confirmation class will meet
Wednesday evening at { o'clock and
PRAYER services will be held at
o'clock.
The Reliance club will meet Thurs
day evening al o'clock at the home
of G F. Nelson, go Forty-second
street.
First Swedish Lutheran.-The choir
will meet Friday evening at
O'Clock for rehearsal.
The confirmation class will meet
Thursday afternoon from TO 6 O'Clock
and Saturday morning from $50 TO
II: 30
Thursday evening at the church,
Rev. ]. Torell of Lincoln, Neb., travel
ing secretary of the synod in the in
terest of missions in China. will deliv-
er an address.
First Baptist-Prayer services wills
be held Wednesday evening at 1880
and viii! be followed by a meeting of
the Sunday school teachers
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
Friday afternoon in the church parIors
for work. At $3.50, the annual election
of officers of the society will be held.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Certificate Is FILED.

Springfield. Ill. Jan 23.-(SpecIaD-
The Rock Island Sash & Door Works,
of Rock Island certified today TO the
secretary Of state to an increase I'm cap
ital stock from 100000 10 100000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
GOOD men IS The
CRY OF THE HOUR
Rev. @. n. Sherwood Uses De-
spised Town of Meroz in
Making Comparisons.
PRESENT DAY CHANCE HERE
Withdrawal Of Solid and Honest Cit
izenship from Public Services
Seen as National Peril.

Rev. Granville H. Sherwood, in his
sermon at Trinity Episcopal church
yesterday morning. touched upon al
fairs of the nation, state and city in
cidental to the discussion of the weak
ness of Meroz, town in Palestine
mentioned but once in the scriptures,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
NEW MEAT MARKET
Yours for Business.

J. T. Moore will open a first class
meat market at 1880 Thirtieth street.
Tuesday, Jan. "a. with a choice line
of fresh and salt meat, poultry and
game fish and oysters in season
Your patronage solicited. Orders
promptly delivered. Phone West 1886.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23
Notice 10 Public

After Jan. 21st. Sittig & Stahmer,
corner of Seventh avenue and Seven
teenth street will be located at SIS
Seventeenth street with a full line Of
fine groceries and delicatessan. Two
phones, West 80 and West II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

All the news all the time-Ths
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

Swedish Baptist.-Prayer services
will be held Wednesday evening at
100 at the Delaney residence, 1906
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

First Bsptist.-Prayer services wills
be held Wednesday evening at 1880
and viii be followed by a meeting of
the Sunday school teachers
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
Friday afternoon in the church parIors
for work. At $3.50. the annual election
of officers of the society will be held.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

Trinity Episcopai.-Triniity guild
will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:3O
with Mrs. J. NJ. Kaiser, 1116 Nine
teenth street.
Services will be held Wednesday
morning at $50 and Friday morning
at $3.50 and in the evening at 7.3O.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

Aiken Street ChapeI.-The Ladies
Sewing society will meet Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock at the home of
Mrs H II. Robb, S31 Thirtieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

some 5pinnat2T! Letters.
Battle Greek. Mich. Jan. :. II.
II. E. H Pratt.
Suite 1902. 100 State ST.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-23

But know also this. that there is
no one thing that augurs more peril to
our nation than the withdrawal from
public life of our best men. the clean.
the honest, the educated. You can talk
about the tariff till you are black in
the face, you can talk the price of high
living till even the poorest laboTer
tires of your harangue, you can talk
about public extravaganza and private
greed and the trusts and the corpora
tons. you can talk about the liquor in
terests and the scourage OF the drink
traffic and the increase of the white
plague. you can multiply their terrors
IO0-fold. and you will still have loom
ing up on your political horizon q
blacker and more threatening cloud
than any or all of them. and that is
the willing surrender Of the best men
of the country TO the dominance Of the
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
No More Room,

The elevator slipped rapidly by one
moor after another. while many In.
mates OF large office building rang
the bell and demanded to be carried
TO the street. 1t WAS the noon hour
and every one at the elevator shaft
Was anxious to get luncheon.
The elevator seem. to be only half
nlled Actually there were three girls
and man In 1t who had got on at the
dftee nth floor
Filled up" shouted the operator.
as he sped by the angry crowd At the
door
Finally he reached floor whore
one OF the officers Of the company had
his office, and the man was there and
wanted to go down. He shouted to
him. Filled up" and the man said
something positive.
: Then the operator added:
"Filled up with hats"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
STATE PRISON STATISTICS

The report of Warden Maxwell
gives the following interesting
prison statistics:
In January, 1909. there were
ZIG convicts in the state prison
and in January, 1911, there were
l39, During 1909 there we've
SO ad led. making 299. and 80 we're
loosed for various reasons, mek'rg
eco in January 1910.
During 1910 go new convicts
were imprisoned making 2S2, but
90 were. loosed, bringing the
number down to ,l89.
In 1909 four were discharged
and 10 paroled by the board of
pardons.
In 1910 two were discharged and
81 paroled.
Elko with %, Esmeraida with
81 Humboldt with 80 and Washoe
with sc led in contributing convicts
in 1910. Storey county failed to
send up a man. ....-
Burglary is the most fashionable
felony 35 cases being found among
the convicts in prison in 1910, then
comes murder in the second degree
with 81 and forgery with 20. Grand
larceny II and robbery ID Dire next.
Nineteen prisoners are in for
life. one for so years, one for
81 years and three for 80.
One hundred and thirty-eight of
the prisoners are native and 81
foreign born. One hundred and
eighty of the convicts can read
and write. Nine are illiterate.
Fourteen say they do not use
iptoxicants.
Marriage seems to be great pre-
tentative of crime, for lac of the
convicts are single, only 35 being
married. while eight are widowers.
From the age of ID to 25 there
are 48 convicts. a class only
exceeded from &c to SO, when
there are SO.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
BL0TTER is NEAT CALENDAR
Easily Made and One o. Most Useful
Articles on Young Lady's Desk
Things Needed.

One OF the most useful things a girl
can possibly have for her desk Ia q
calendar blotter. How often when wri.
ting letter does one have to stop and
think what day of the month It 10, and,
although there may be calendar in
the desk there are surely many times
when 1t cannot be found Mt the mo-
ment 1t is needed. And the plotting
paper Is often old and nearly worn out
before one remembers to get a new
piece. Both Of these little troubles are
done away with by having a calendar
blotter.
The blotter can b. made with either
IL sheets Of plotting paper or six. &C.
cording to whether it's owner writes
much or little. and also whether she
uses up blotting paper quickly or not.
There Is very great difference be-
tween people on this question. The
sheets of paper may also either be
large enough to nearly cover the desk.
or there may be small pieces that are
picked up and laid over the writing to
blot IL. If the large sheets are used
they must be kept in a drawer OF the
desk at one end and one taken out as
II Is needed but the small ones can be
fastened together at one end, the
whole pad kept on the desk and one
sheet torn of when wanted.
To make the blotter all that is need.
ed Is pad calendar, and tho right
quantity of blotting paper Choose tho
latter by the color Of the decoration Of
your room and the calendar slse by
whether your blotter is to be large or
small. II there are. to be IL sheets OF
the paper paste one page Of the calen-
dar on the upper left.hand corner OF
each piece OF paper. n there are to be
only six pieces Of paper paste the jan
unry pages Of the calendar in the up
per left.hand corner and the February
page In the upper righthand corner.
and so on through the years.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
OPEN EYES OF KANSAS GIRL
Young Lady Finally Awakens to
What Her Fate Would Have
Been With Stlnuy Man.

There was a~Gkcn I'm Atchson re
Gently an engagement OF two years
standing between girl and stingy
man. II was tho first engagement she
had ever had. and consequently tho
first she had ever broken. and she
felt that she must follow the custom
that In arbitrary Of such q time and
return all tho gifts the young man
had made her. ..J
Search was made Of the house from
garrett to cellar. with the result that n
messenger boy next day carried Ia
the stingy man a..cook book which
had been given away to advertise n
baking powder. 81 which represented
what no had spent on her for thcater
tickets, and u narrow band engage.
ment ring which had cost him moth.
ing. for II had belonged TO his mother
She wrapped the articles up. with
tears In her eyes. that also being an
established precedent but when the
boy had gone and she had neglected
no detail due tho sad occasion. even
watching the boy depart through
binding tears, a grcnt light burst up.
on hor. She saw what IL would have
meant To marry man so stingy, and
burst into such loud hosnnna be.
cause Of her escape. that she ava.
kcnod the babies three blocks away
Atchison Globe.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
SURPRISES III OIL INDUSTRY
Since Time Of Brakes Discovery Ev.
cry New Field Has Added
Something New.

Since the oil industry began It has
boon succession OF surprises. brakes
discovery well was a surprise to most
persons. Since that time every new
field has added something new. For
several years every individual well
was revelation. PeculiAzities were
observed not found in their predeces.
sorS. Then the new things were found
In localities. II IL the same way yet
OIL refuses to abide by the rules and
freak" wells persist. The drilIer OF
long experience IS constantly expect.
Ing something different from anything
he has ever encountered. II Is this
novelty that makes the oil business
30 fascinating. but the same thing In.
creasss the hazard.
The latest reported oddly ia the
discovery Of heavy oil In the Caddo
deep sand. The opening of a high
grade oil field in that locality was q
surprise 10 all and to many dis.
agre cable one. But when that grade
OF crude had come to be the expected
thing from the deep sand there, a well
is drilled in alongI'de the field that
produces oil Of 30 degrees gravity
from the same sand that yields the oil
Of high gravity. A few days earlier
we'll found the light oil in a shal.
low sand and then caved In and WINS
spoiled. So II will! probably go to the
end OF the CHAPTER Science can guess
at the probabilities below the surface.
but until means Is devised to see
into the earth for several Thousand
feet. as tn" X.ray enables us to see
through sheet Of steel. the oil bust.
ness will be uncertain and full of
surprises. It is hazardous In all IT'S
branches and will continue to be.-OiI
City Derrick.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
JUDGE JAMES RUTLEDGE

Judge Rutledge, one of Carlin's
most prominent and best citizens,
died Thursday forenoon. In the
early part of the year he suffered
a stroke of apoplexy and since then
he has lowered in tic shadows.
Yesterday forenoon the summons
came and his spirit passed from
earth to the unknown land.
James Rutledee was born in
Ireland in 1929. In 1868, he came
10 the United States, He worked
at odd jobs in Boston until 1877,
when he went to Ca, lin. Shortly
after his arrival he was made
section foreman of the Central
Pacific railroad. He held this
position for several years. In 1896
he was elected justice of the peace
of Carlin and held the office
continuously until forced to resign
in February by his continued ill
ness. -
Judge Rutledge was a sincere,
Icnorable man. He served the
people faithfully and left an
honorable record behind A few
months ago the wife of his youth
passed away. Today both rest in
the shade of the trees on the other
ihore.
A large family of grown children
survive him. They have the
sympathy of everybody in their
bereavement.
May his tired spirit find eterna!
rest.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03

Saturday night and would have
been with them next day. In fair
ness to the posse in general il
should be stated that the mislead-
ing message sent to Sheriff Lam b
was by one of the members of the
State Police. This unfairncss
toward Sheriff Lamb is ccnsured
most strongly by Sheriff Smith
and the Eagleville boys, who were
extremely anxious to have Hum
boldt county's intrepid and fearless
Sheriff with them at the finish.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
Whom Eranknens poe,n4 paw.

Frankness Is one. OF tire virtues that
are better in theory than In practice.
TO go in for frankness blindly is as
foolish as TO buy bonds from q glow.
Ing advertisement Before Yielding to
tho impulse to speak ones mind, or
TO tell ones affairs. study tho prob.
able cost to yourself and the other
eide. No one ever likes us the better
for telling them what they should do
nor are those doings altered in con.
sequence. Tho less one tells OF his
private affairs tho easier life will be.
Personal reserve Ia trait every oue
should try and acquire. There 40
plenty Of big things to discuss. II
you are not equal to them, then make
yourself talk less.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
MORE DANGEROUS Than JAPAN

When the Naval appropriation
bill as before the house. Congress
man Hobson Of Alabama m ade a
long speech in which he predicted
an early war with Japan and urged
the building of more battleships.
In the course of reply to Hobson,
Judge Adamson OF Georgia said:
THE gentleman from Alabama,
has kept me so perturbed and
nervous with his annual direiul
representations of invasion and
destruction by Japan that l have
been unable to compose my mind
and feelings sufficiently to prepare a
speech on this bill.
1T is my opinion, however,
entertained constantly during the
eleven months of thu year when he
does not try to keep us scared to
death that Japan can not whip the
United States, that she knows she
can not, and that she will never
try. If that island empire should
ever ue misled by the hysterical
statements of the gentleman from
Alabama inoto making war upon
us under the delusioon that she
stood any chance of success, it
would be hard on the gentleman
from Alabama. after we had
thrashed her to a finish. Her
frazzled and dismembered remains
would reproach the gentleman
from Alabama all his days for
deceiVing and deluding her into the
belief that she could stand any
show in war against us.
eff red-handed war does come,
we will have to trust under Provi-
dence in our device, ingenuity,
courage and patriotism, which has
never yet failed and which will
put to ruin any nation which dares
arouse us to resentment.
Il am opposed to building battle
ships fast enouh to take the entire
output Of the steel trust. would
rather leave some margin for COM
petition to play on in the hope OF
some slight reduction in cost. Ir
fact. relgiously believe that the
steel trust is much more power.
full and a much more danerous
enemy to Ithe American people
than is Japan"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
Ruby Loses Caste.

There was time when the ruby was
next TO the diamond in the estimation
Of lovers Of precious stones. Now II
has fallen from It's high estate The
reason II that the ruby. like the SAD
phire can be Initiated so closely that
even experts cannot discriminate be.
tween the real gem and the imitation.
The grsatest sufferer by this Il said to
be the Gear OF Russia. who owns the
finest collection OF rubies in the world
The st. Petersburg court jewelers. esti.
mate the loss in value Of the Cars
rubies at S4.000.000 Some time ago
he tried to take out q policy of insur.
Nnce on them. but no company would
accept the risk
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
A Misunderstood oenIus.

Mischa Gilman. the boy violinis,.
told on bis last visit to New York a
storr OF Ills early childhood.
When was very :nr indeed he
said ~ played at reception at a Rus.
sian princes. and. for an urchin of
seven. ! Gatter myself ratified of
Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata finely.
This sonata. you know. has in It sew.
eral long and impressive rests Well.
IN one OF these rests a motberly old
lady leaned forward. patted my shout
der, and said:
'"Play something you know, DEAR"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-03-03
BUREAU OF MINES ISSUES
OON'TS ON EXPLOSIVES

The bureal of mines has issued
a list of "Don'ts concerning the
handling of explosives which fits
in rather timely when one considers
the recent explosion IN New
Jersey, where something like
twenty tons of dynamite were
accidentally discharged with a bi G
loss of life.
The report contains first the
names of the permissible explosives
tested By the bureau at it's Pitts.
burg station and gives precautions
as to their use. Permissible ex-
posivcs give short and relatively
cool flame that is less likely to
ignite int1ammable gas or coal dust
than is the longer and hotter flame
of dynamite or the longer and much
more lasting flame of black powder.
Because they can be used with
greater safety, permissible en-
plosives have taken the place OF
other explosivesin many coal mines
in the United States during the
last two years, and their use is in
creasing rapidly.
To reduce the risks in storing,
thawing and handling explosives
at coal mines. the following" dont's"
are uged by the burea of mines:
Don't open packages of explosives
with nail pu!ler, pick or chisel.
Don't store explosives containing
nitro glycerin so that the
cartridges stand on end.
Don't repair magazine until
all explosives are removed from
it. Don't use permissible
explosives or other explosives that
are frozen or partly frozen.
Don't thaw frozen explosives
tefore an open fire, in the stove,
near a boiler, near steam pipes, or
by placing cartridges in hot water.
Don't put hot water or steam
pipes in magazine for thawing
purposes. Don't carry detonators
and explosives IN the same
package. Don't handle detonators
or explosives near an open flame.
Don't expose detonators or ex-
plosives to the sun for any length
of time. Don't open package
until ready to use the explosive;
then use it promptly. Don't handle
explosives carelessly. Don't use in
gaseous coal mine any fuse or
other device which emits flame or
sparks.
Don't use a metal tamping rod.
A copper tipped rod is not to be
recommended. Wooden rods are
safer.
Don't use two kinds Of explosives
in the same drill hole.
Don't return to the face until
at. least five minutes after a shot
has b cen fired.
Don't breathe the gases from
the shot.
Don't return to the face after
misfire for at least one-half hour.
Don't attempt to draw the charge
in case of a misfire.
Don't leave any decorators or
explosives in a mine over night.
Don't charge or load any hole
which has not been properly placed
or has bppn 1riIlp1 CON fbr enI;J -