davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1911.

Here's something from the Dassel
Anchor to jar your old-fashioned
ideas: -
The Anchor has been wondering
how long it will take our local people
and others to take up the idea of start
ing a municipal laundry; laundry
that will work for the whole COM
munity? An outfit of tubs. ETC., for
the average family costs about $40.
and then the overworked housewife
has to do all of the hard work. 1t
has been figured out that the average
cost of weeks washing at munich
pal laundry can be done at cost of
about 25c per family. 1t might be
we'll to scrubup little on this subject.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
Wheaton Gazette-Repo.

The Wheaton Gazette-Reporte
has got new viewpoint for the re-
apportionment proposition. and gives
a new statement of the position of the
Elbow Lake Herald and Morris Tri-
bune as follows:-
Somehow, since the reapportion-
ment problem has been all worked out
the proposition does not look nearly so
inviting to the country district as it
did when the question was one of
transferring the unfair representation
held by the south counties to the
northern counties that had so greatly
increased in population since the state
was last redistricted. AS the plan
works out, the south counties lose. as
was expected, but what they lose is
mostly swallowed up St. Paul. Mime
apolis and Duluth. while the north
counties gain so little that it is hardly
worth mentioning. On the basis of
population the cities are entitled to
the bone which the north and south
counties have so long quarreled about.
The large cities already WELD a
powerful influence in legislation and
it is a question if the state at large
will profit by giving them a stronger
hold. Ten years from now the same
conditions will exist, unless the
constitution is changed, and. on the
basis of population, it is only ques-
tion of time when the cities will
WELD absolute control. We doubt if
the north counties are as enthusiastic
for reapDortionment now as they were
before election.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
ENGINE A GOOD INVESTMENT
Can Perform Variety of Services on
the Farm.

Can Perform Variety Of Services on
the Farm.
Many farm supports an extra
horse, the value of which, put into
gasoline engine, would yield the farm
er several times as much revenue as
he gains from the use of the animal;
while to keep the engine running
costs little If any more than to main
tain the horse. And the engine can
perform a variety Of services imprac-
ticable to the horse 1t can run an
electric lighting plant sufficient to IL
Illuminate house and barn. It can sup
ply both buildings with running water.
1t can run the grindstone, the fam
ning-mill, the separator, the feed-mill.
the corn-sheller, the churn, the wash
ing machine-often several of these
at once; and when it is not running it
Is costing nothing; while the horse
must be fed working or idle.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
THE MORRIS TRIBUNE
J. C. MORRISON,
Editor and Publisher.

SUBSCRIPTIONS 81 so per year in ad-
vance, 75c for six months, 40c for three
months All papers are continued until
an explicit order is received for dlscon-
tinuance and until all arrearages are
paid. The date following the subscribers
name shows the date to which the subs
cription is paid.
ADVERTISING RATES-Eight cents per
inch per issue fiat and five cents per inch
additional for composition.
Local notices, five cents per line.
Card of Thanks, twenty-five cents.
Lodge resolutions, 90
Legal notices at legal rates.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17

Governor Eberhart is to be con-
graduated on vetoing the bill provid-
ing for amending the anti-pass law SO
that policemen and firemen may ride
on the street cars on passes. The
anti-pass law has proved very satis-
factory piece of legislation, and to
amend it even in this slight respect
would be to. start an entering wedge
and invite further exceptions to the
law. Every municipal corporation
should pay for the transportation of
it's employees the same as any other
business organizations does.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17

quickened, is recommended as a prom
Using beginning of the annual warfare
against various insect pests. By its
application thus early, the best re-
suits are secured, while the damage
is avoided which the lime-sulphur
would otherwise inflict on fruit, flow
er and foliage. A bulletin giving full
information about spraying is soon to
be published by the Minnesota Expert
ment Station.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
Lacked Atmosnhere.

81 did hope for an artistic career,
said the disappointed looking man
"but met with difficulties could not
conquer What I needed was atmos.
phere."
"I see! The same old trouble. What
were you-an author or painter"
Neither l was learning to play the
trombone. but | was naturally short of
breath Chicago Record Herald.
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
DIRECT LEGISLATION.

Not many people without some ak
to griad are opposed to the initiative
and referendum. 1t is generally ad-
mitted that direct legislation should
have toning effect upon the work
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
BEGIN WARFARE ON INSECTS

Spraying System Recommended for
Early Application.
The spraying of fruit-trees, rose
bushes and grapevines, with lime
sulphur solution-fifteen pounds lime,
fifteen pounds sulphur and fifty gal
Ions Of water-on one of the warm
days of March, before the buds have
Morris tribune., 1911-03-17
Brazil Nuts.

Brazil nuts grow in such profusion
wasted every year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
Colonel James Hamilton Lewis.

In an address. magic in it's diction
eloquent in delivery and logical in its
conclusion and philosophy, Colonel
James Hamilton Lewis electrified the
members of the Rock Island County
Bar association and their guests, at
the annual banquet given ar the Mo
line club last evening. Those who had
not heard Colonel Lewis before were
entranced and held by the powerful
charm of his manner and the philos-
ophy of his conclusions. while those
who had sat in his presence before had
fresh cause for their admiration of
the man. It was the address of a
statesman. an historian, a gentleman
and a scholar.
The learned and distinguished Chi
cagOan made ii plain at the outset
that what he would have TO say on
questions of governmental policy.
should not be construed as for poIiti-
cal effect, despite the fact that he
was candidate for public Office, and
that he would not so violate the prin-
ciples of prOpriety or offend those who
had done him the honor TO make him
their guest, as 10 descend to political
discussion on such an occasion. And
while there was not a word or syllable
or intimation in all that he said that
might be construed as for political
effect. ne impressed all with the fact
that a more ideal representative of
the great state Of Illinois in the halls
OF the United States senate could not
be found in the length or breadth of
the state. Nor could one fail TO CON
trast the qualifications Of Colonel Lew
Is with those of some of the men who
have been sent TO Washington by the
Legislature of Illinois since the DAYS of
Logan.
While the colonel preached demo
cratic doctrine. he spoke as an Ameri-
can for Americans and not as q par
tsan. He talked from facts. drew I'M
answerable deductions and sounded q
warning. His address was one of pol
ish and finish. with apt illusions and
references. the conclusions reached
We're based on conditions rather than
theory, and his reasoning could not
have failed 10 appeal 10 all within The
sound Of his voice
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
Ialk5 viii
ezr\>br11,o1,
LeoderSS

"She went down next day and
bought it. And she got the guaran-
ty all right Oh. yes, she did! She
brought me home a written agreement
from the agent, stating that he would
keep the machine in repair for so
days.
Il want to tell you that there was
Mt a day In that 30 days the. the
pesR machine wasn't in the repair
shop. There wasn't thing in 1t that
didn't need renewing. 1 congratulated
myself over that written guaranty for
80 days, can tell you.
But at the end of the month didn't
get bill for SIS? I did.
Il went down to see the agent.
" Here said I What's this bill
for?'
" For repairing your automobile
said he, with a grin.
But I've got some kind of a pa
per- said 1, that says you'll keep that
machine in repair for so days after
purchase
'Sure!' said he, with another grin.
I'll keep it in repair 60 days, or a
year, as long as you pay me for it
And that's the kind of a guaranty
my wife go., finished the husband.
with a teasing glance il SAD spouse S
direction.
well, we managed TO sell the old
thing" giggled the chubby one. I'VE
sold it TO a minister. too-for $500
and he was glad II ct It.
The last We saw OF the minister
he was starting out for a 30-mile ride
into the country in that machine. He
looked real joyous when he started. L
haven't seen him since so l don't know
how he made the trip. But I'd like
to wager all my Christmas presents
that he never rode so miles in that
machine-not all at once.
THE only way that machine ever
accomplished any mileage remarked
the husband, was when it was hitched
to a mule"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

Two fools il Geor-ia quarreled over
Is cents and both were shot dead.
There can he no protest against call
ne them fools The Httleness Of the
amount Involved. rs measured a-alast
life. or even against peace and order.
is too striking. Yet, If all the men who
put their lives up against trivial
things were 10 be called fools. there
would De Tor or them.
What 8 hos of people are dead "
manned ali over this and other lands
just because they were YIuckT or fool
ish- Physical COURAGE. commonly &C
cepJed q one Of the oobIes- qualities
may become one OF rhe basest Like
any other virtue, IT. can become a
fault
An army OF good men have been kill
ed in defense Of things not worth q
cGousa1dth part of the cost. Among
them are those who. from mistaken
notions OF courage. set up IN the dead
Of night TO face the armed burglar
that is sure 10 be ready and desperate
There is hne courage in this. 10 be
sure. But there is far finer courage
and better sense in quietly suffering
the loss of the sackful OF baubles d
burglar may carry of. which are OF
= lie value at all when life is gone.
The world has been almost dapop-
U.-,rd Of its best and bravest men at
times by wars ever opinions which
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
THE REAL SANS GENE.

Story Of Her Adventurous Career In
the French Army.
Every one knows the washerwonan
who was so familiar with Napoleon in
Victorien SardOn's play Mime. Sans
Gene" but the real Sans-Gene who
lived at that time was a dragon in
one of the great Corsican's armies and
spent twenty years in camps and bar
racks, in campaigns and battles over
Europe. In the Musee de LArmee in
Paris there IS a special case inside
which stands her equestrian statue.
Her real name was Marie Therese
Figueur. and she was born in Bur
gundy in 1774. When ten. at the
in cavalry regiment commanded by
one OF her uncles and soon acquired
the nickname of Sans-Gene.
Nine. Sans-Gene fought in Germany
with the French and Batavian armies,
charged at HOhenlinden. took part in
the siege of Toulon. was in the Italian,
Spanish and Austrian campaigns and
fought at Austerlitz and in Russia.
During the hundred days the emperor
conferred the Legion of Honor upon
her, and she charged at Waterloo for
the last time.
With the restoration she left the
army to get married. She was then
thirty In the course of her marital
career Sans-Gene had FIVE horses shot
under her and was wounded eight
times in different enga gements. She
died IL hospital in lS61.-London Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
And an in One Township.

One Of the Montana townships exam
tons of phosphate rock, the net result
Of the surveys work showing an ap-
proximate tonnage Of $500, 600, 600 long
tons with 70 per cent phosphroric acid.
Nor does this include the tonnage Of
the Montana phosphate Withdrawals
which aggregate nearly $4,000 acres.
Mr.. Gales report Is brief descrip-
ton of his discovery last year OF the
Montana deposits near Melrose, with,
dTawals Of which were Immediately
made by the president. The surveys
tests of a number Of samples collected
by Mr. Gale show the rock to be high
grade, approximately equivalent to rs
per cent phosphoric acid. The thick
est beds are or 8 feet In thickness.
4 6-foot bed would contain approx
mately 21,0OO long tons to the acre.
'One OF the most important consid-
erations in connection with the dis
covery Of phosphate rock in western
Montana" says Mr.. Gale, 'is its sig
nifcance as to the probable extent Of
the western phosphate fields, for it
now appears probable that similar de-
posits may extend over q large part
Of western Montana Their nearness
to the large copper smelters is i'm
portant. for these smelters produce
great quantities Of suIphuric acid and
suiDhurCus acid fumes which are usu-
ally allowed TO go 20 waste through
the smokestack Of the plant. Reduc-
ton Of phosphate rock by means Of
suIphuric acid appears to offer what
is perhaps the largest commercial use
for these waste products Of the smelt-
ers"
Mr.. Gale quotes a report showing
the daily loss al the Anaconda smelter
alone Of about $500 tons OF sulphuric
acid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
Roosevelt at His Worst

useful purpose in the present stage or
the worlds development when there is
no force behind them; and, finally,
not merely the folly, but the iniquity
of making treaties which there is no
real intention of putting into effect.
If that be the point, it is impossible
to understand what Mr.. Roosevelt is
raging about.
Unbacked by force! Did not Mr..
Roosevelt see and even eXUlt in the
miles of battleships in New York bay
this week. comprising an armament
second only to the naval strength of
the greatest sea power in the world?
No. il cannot be said that if the Taft
treaties should be ratified they would
not be backed up by force" for the
United States, Great Britain and
France have three of the most fOrmi-
dabIe navies in existence. Under less
solemn circumstances the suspicion
might arise that Mr.. Roosevelt was in
dulging in some form of humor.
But he is tremendously in earnest,
Of course He feels the awful iniquity
Of paper treaties" when there is no
force behind them" and of making
treaties which there is no real inten-
ton of putting into effect" 1t is
pity that he feels SO. for there is no
doubt whatever that the three powers
concerned not only have force" in
superb bundance to put behind these
treaties. but also intend very seriously
to respect the obligations incurred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

When 1 was eighteen years oIu
was walking one day in the country
BY a river. The weather was hot and
the cool water tempting. I took or
my clothes and jumped in for a bath.
After swimming around for awhile 1
was about to come out when 1 saw a
youngster near my own age putting
on my clothes. called to him to stop,
but he kept on till he had completely
dressed himself in my apparel, when
he turned to me and said hurriedly:
I'm an escaped jailbird This is
the first lawbreaking act 1 ever COM
mitted in my life. 1 was falsely &C
eused of burglary. 1t was case Of
mistaken identity, the real burglar re-
sembling me, and a woman who swore
against me was dead certain 1 was
the man she had seen leaving her
house. 1 was sent up for ten years and
have served nearly one. Just now
found an opportunity TO walk out Of
Jail unobserved, an opportunity that
wouldn't happen once in a hundred
years. An overcoat lay on a chair,
and 1 put it on. concealing all but the
stripes on my trousers, which rolled
up. L We DCSn OdI Ohiy n AC" AAAlAANCSs
I'd rather die than go back. If you'n
not peach on me I'll make it up to you
some day"
1 was young, and the fellow seemed
honest. 1 asked him what he wished
me to do, and he said to stay where
was till some one came to hunt him,
then tell him what had happened and
send his pursuer off in the wrong d.
rection. he looked at me so appeal
ingly that couldn't resist. 1 told him
to go ahead and to communicate with
me later as to what success he had.
had only time to tell him where to
write me when We heard a horse gal
Looping, and the jailbfrd darted away.
Presently a man in buggy dashed
by, and he saw me and refined in. He
asked me if 1 had seen a man in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
THEIR FIRST Alto.

81 shall never forget the first auto
mobile we owned remtnisced the
chubby little matron.
NOT Z" remtnisced her husband,
with q sigh
1T was one OF those back-to-back
seat affairs she eiucfdated. 4 guess
it was one Of the first made, 1 know
We were about the first people to own
one and We felt ourselves some pump
kins But that automobile! It never
went worth a cent. And the noise 1t
made! And the way it joggled and
tiggled,
when we started to go anywhere
in 1t We never expected to get there,
Something happened to the machine
every time. Or if it didn't happen, it
just stopped and rested. We never
could figure out what was the matter
with it.
81 remember one time we went out
to the farm with II, and while there
We thought we'd bring in a supply of
fresh eggs. We packed several dozen
in the back OF the machine. When we
got back to town, I wish you could
cry one of those eggs had been broken
by the EARRING of that wretched ma
chine
THAT automobile was my wife's
selection" remarked the husband, with
that bright and interested air that
a husband always has when he tells a
good one On his wife.
"She went down and looked at au-
tomobiles and that evening she said
to me:
on. John I've seen the incest lit
tie automobile It's just g dear and
only $3.50 with the wire wheels, with
800 more with the wooden wheels. l
90 think we ought 20 get it
" Well said 1. IF you want it that
bad. got it with wooden wheels But
see that you get a guaranty Of some
kind with It, so We don't get soaked
too hard on the thing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
PYRAMID OF CHEOPS.
II Would Take Hundred Millions TO
Duplicate Il Today.

II Would Take a Hundred Millions to
Duplicate It Today.
One of the most familiar questions
asked by personally conducted" tour
lists visiting Egypt and the great pyra-
mid built by CheOps is. II wonder how
much it cost to build itY' A building
contractor with 2 head for figures and
building estimates has estimated that
the Cheops pyramid could not be dupii-
Gated today for less than $1oo, 200
With modern machinery and the en-
ployment of 10000 stonecutters. haul
ers. oUarryInen. masons and laborers
a duplicate OF the pyramid could be
erected in two years.
1t has been calculated that the work
really required the services of 100000
men for thirty years. The Cheops
pyrd mid occupies q space OF 12& acres
and is T46 feet high and contains 49,
$4,000 cubic yards of stone and gran
lite. The material alone represents an
item of $3G. 100000. while the labor
would increase this about by T2,OOO,-
OO0 To this must be added So. 100000
for tools. transportation and similar
items. The pyramid Is built on solid
rock 80 feet deep. and to build foun
datiOn of this character would add to
The cost 20 the extent of making the
total of 100000, O0O-New York World.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10
(springfeid Republican,

(Springfeld Republican,
With every prominent statesman and
every influential journal in Great Brit
ain and France unable to see the wick
edness' of the Taft arbita ton treat
les. and with those two great countries
solidly in favor of the ratification of
the treaties. Mr.. Roosevelt again dis
tinguishes himself by railing against
them.
He bids US contemplate the revOlu-
ton in China and profit by the lesson
it teaches. After no little Contempla-
ton, we can see nothing in . civil war
in a country like China that forbids
arbitration treaties between the United
States. Great Britain and France. Nor
can Mr. Roosevelt. Then he sum
mons one to consider the TurkO-Italian
war over Tripoli. Again must it be
said that the case has no bearing upon
the opportunity. the duty and the obi
cation of nations so circumstanced as
the United States. Great Britain and
France. It happens that they are not
in the class of either China or Turkey.
They are in a class by themselves.
"But this is not the point" declares
Mr.. Roosevelt. What, then IS the
point? Listen:
The point is that this war proves
the utter -inefficiency of paper treaties
when they are unbacked by force: the
utter folly of those who believe that
these paper treaties accomplish any
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

MY goodness she says, with a
pretty scowl. u think a girl would
feel dreadfully foolish if she proposed
10 q man"
i should think so, too" replies the
d5EGout youth.
Put then I suppose there are some
girls who are just simply compelled TO
Do the proposing" she signs.
After an hours consideration Of
that remark he realizes what she
really meaBs.-Woman's World
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

stripes go by, and 1 told him 1 had
'Pm interested in him." 1 added, 'since
he has taken my clothes"
(which way did he go?"
81 was swimming about in here. You
can see it's a mighty hot day and
Never mind that. Tell me where he
| has gone"
while 1 was swimming saw fell
low putting on my clothes
And throw away his stripes?
81 didn't see him do that, but sup
pose he did"
Tell me the way he went. Hurry
up" J....
You can't get him"
"Why not?"
"There's no bridge"
did he cross the TiverT"
"Why, you see my clothes were on
the other side. He pulled of his
stripes, swan across and took my
clothes from over there"
The man uttered a grunt, whipped
up his horse and drove on. There was
q bridge a little farther up, and in a
few minutes / heard his horses hoofs
sounding on its floor. Others from the
penitentiary, which was near by, fol
lowed, but I hid under some over
hanging trees, with only my head out
of water, and they all passed without
seeing me. Finally a boy came along,
and / paid him a quarter to go to my
home and tell my mother to send me
a full set OF clothing by him.
a month after this l received letter
from my tailbird. He said that 1
must have kept my word, for had I
not misdirected his pursuers he would
certainly have been taken. He said
he regretted he couldn't send pay for
the clothes, for he hadn't the money.
He couldn't send the clothes, for he
had no others.
was just double the age had been
when 1 laid myself liable to prison By
helping q prisoner 20 escape when one
morning, while l was sitting at my
desk waiting for a sheriff to serve an
execution on my office furniture, a
man came In and asked for me.
I'm your man." 1 laid. Are you
the sheriff."
The visitor looked at me curioUsly.
Sheriff" be said. "What does tn
sheriff want with your
ITO take this furniture Everything
else has gone, and this goes today"
what do you over
81 owe the nan who has levied on
this STGj."
Ny visitor took out a pocket check
book, wrote a check for the amount
payable to me and handed 1t to me.
Whats this fcr?" asked.
"A suit Of clothes and interest"
Explain"
do you remember going swimming
eighteen years Ggo?"
Ind losing Ly clothes? OF course
DO"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-11-10

time has proved not worth holding let
alone dying for.
Either of these Georgtans. now shot
to death, would have laughed to scorn
the idea OF sacrificing his life for so
paltry a thing as Is cents It was IN
controllable temper and misappsfed
courage that carried them to their de-
struction.
The best courage Of all is the cour-
age to control ones temper