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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-24
THE PLAN.

Any customer buying merchandise
for cash at one time amounting to
So or over any time during the re-
naming DAYS of this month will be
presented with one of these special
privilege tickets. Remember your
purchase must be made and the tick
ct secured before June l. You have
been waiting long time to get some
thing for nothing. The opportunity
is before you.
Heavy advances are being made in
the linen market on all classes of lin
ems. Well aware of this fact our
wideawake buyers have been scour-
ing the market for bargains while
they were yet to be had.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-24
A BARGAIN FOR SOME ONE.

BARGAIN FOR SOME ONE.
We have 15Iots in College Heights
Aa'''Ion, one-half block from Flee
~ street Railway which we will
-''.' II taken AT ONCE, at from $500
~ f''o each-they will go fast-so
trace the present opportunity or
you viii be too late.
LIST our Property with Us
and we will fed VOC u buyer,
Ollce Masonic Temple Block
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-24

Dinner Sets, This Week.
offer for this week new line
of decorated 100 piece dinner
sets, ranging in price from $500
up. They are all guaranteed to
be first class ware in every way.
On Saturday only. bread and
butter plates at cost.
G.. NJ. LOOSELY.
China, Glass and Lamps.
1909 Second Avenue
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-24
SIS for Your Pick

Remember this is for four days only.
four, ending with Thursday night at
6 o'clock. Take your choice for So.
Another great stock reducer and
sale maker will be the one price put
on a round of blazers and Jackets.
They were S2.6S. So, 1918. 1925.
So. so, 1915 and 81; nearly $50 gar
ments in the lot, AT The One Price.
$1.94-for four days.
GOING. GOING, GOING,
until o'clock Thursday night. when.
the key turns in the door.
At S1.94 Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. but of
course the earlier in the week the
more choice will be the assortment.
Many other markdowns will be
found in this department which we
are bound to make the liveliest place
in town for at least four days.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
Remains Poverty.


Contrary to what is supposed by many,
II. Ernest Renan left little private for
tune to his family. So much so is this
the case that Nine. Renan intends to
sell the library Of her deceased husband
while awaiting the national pension
which parliament viii make no difficulty
in granting her. NJ. Berthelot, the life
long friend of Renan, says that the latter
left the world almost as poor as he was
on the day when he quilted Saint-Sulpice
in order TO face the struggle for exist
ence Renan had the same disdain for
money, per sc, towards the end of his
career that he had when he said to the
imperial minister who offered him a
lucrative post, ''Sit tecum tua pecunial"
An he wanted was sufficient TO enable
him TO pursue his studies in ease and
comfort.
As q professor Of the College of France
Renan had 10000 francs, or e400 a year,
from which per cent. was deducted in
order TO form pension. As director Of
the establishment he had ESQ yearly and
rooms, $50 also as fees for attending
committees and SEQ for attendances at
the Institute of France. On the whole,
II. Bertlslot estimates that Renaa's Of
fetal emoluInents amounted to 1890,
francs a year, or eG00. He had sold al
rights in his literary works to his pub
fishers, and had TO live for many years
on what he earned by writing. These
revelations about NJ. Remains private
means are made by N. Berthelot in or
der 10 do away with the notion that as
a writer and functionary his friend
had made a large fortune.-Paris Cor.
London TELEGRAPH.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

The recent purchase by Mr.. c. P.
Huntington Of Mrs. CoIton's costly man
sion on Mob hin, in San Francisco, has
given rise TO r7lInors that Mr. Hunting
ton and his family intended 10 make the
California metropolis their permanent
Mace Of residence. a report has also
been freely circulated that Mr.. Hunting
ION had Offered his new house, at Fifth
svenue and Fifty-seventh street, for sale.
These reports, with gossipy celebrations.
have been the talk of certain clubs and
cafes for the past few weeks, and the
names Of two or three milliOnsires have
been named as the probable purchasers
Of the unfinished Huntington palace in
this city. When Mr.. Huntington's at
tentioa was called 10 the manner IN
which Dame Rumor was dealing with his
affairs. he authorized denial of the re-
port that he contemplated going TO San
Francisco to live.
he proposes TO stay right here, and
when his new house Is completed he vii
move into 1t. There has been no inten-
ton on his part TO sell the place. Mr..
Huntington bought the Cotton house in
San Francisco because he is obliged to
spend several weeks each year in Cali
fornia. and he is not particularly fond Il
hotel life. He thinks that he can afford
to maintain two residences-one IN New
York and one in san Francisco.-New
York Times.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
m. r:.e.. sl-hl In the world.

This fair Of ours, in its general aspect
and judged from the artistic point OF
view, is not only much more successful
than two years ago we believed II could
belt is much more successful than any
that has ever been created IN this or anoth-
er land It is notonly comparable to the
beautiful Paris exhibition of 1889, and
aot only equal 10 it-it is greatly supe-
Nor. And it sexcellence is not an iInita-
ton or even an adaptation of any prec-
edent, but has been achieved upon en-
tirely new and original lines. 1t is per-
fectly certain that every one who goes
TO Chicago next summer will be aston
ished, no matter how much he may have
heard and believed in advance; and Il is
just as certain that he viii be charmed,
no matter how good or how captious his
taste may be.
Only those who know how hard it is to
produce a high degree Of beauty ON a
vast scale and in complicated ways viii
fully appreciate what they see at Chica-
go. They, and only they, will fully un-
derstand that they are bC holding one Of
the most beautiful Of sights, and, consid-
ering its genesis, distinctly the most
wonderful sight, in the world-a sight
the character of which, am not afraid
to say. has not been paralleied since the
Rome Of the emperors stood intact, with
marble palace, statue, terrace, bridge
and temple, under an Italian sky no
bluer than our own.-Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer in Forum.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

Judge Iurney, governor OF Tennessee,
though he has been on the supreme bench
for twenty-five years, is a farmer. He
has magnificent old typical southern
home in Franklin county known as
VOLTS Crag. He is sixty-fve years old,
feet inches tall, has broad shoulders
and weighs 260 pounds. He wears a full
short gray beard. With the exception Of
a slight rheumatic affection he is hale
and hearty. His rheumatism has caused
him TO abandon deer and fox hunting, Of
which he has been a great lover. At
Wolfs Crag he has his pack of dogs and
the horses which have carried him on
many fox hunt.
For years he has been noted as the
best deer shot in the state. Men who
have been with him on the hunt say he
can bring down a deer running at fun
speed 100 yards distant. He is one of the
people. All over the state he is known
as .'Old Pete Turney.' II was his county
under his leadership which first seeded
from the Union. Before the state Of
Tennessee had seeded he had organized
the first Tennessee regiment and gone to
the front. Though many times offered
promotion, be declined to leave his regi-
ment and went through the war as col
onel Of the First Tennessee. At the bat
tie of Seven Pines he was shot through
the e.-New York World.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
A Strange Death.

Thomas Odell, a young man Of twen-
fy-twO years, living seven miles back Of
Greenup, KY, has met death IN a strange
manner. he had been a puzzle 10 ply.
sicians for several years. He was affected
by what he ate TO such an extent that
when he indulged in beef eating about
an hour afterward be would become
restless and wander cut in search Of
cattle and below as an OK. and would
get down on his hands ard knees and
eat grass like a COW. When he partoOk
Of mutton his actions were those Of a
sheep, and he would plainfively bleat
like a lamb. When he ate chicken lie
would 20 out and scratch for worms.
which he wonld devour with apparent
relish.
After eating fish he would wander TO
the creek and 90 IN swimming. One day
his father killed several squirrels. Of
which the son ate heartily for dinner.
he left the house shortly after and WIS
followed by the father. The father saw
him enter an oak grove, and sOcn saw
his son jumping nilnbly.from limb to
limb, at the same time barking like a
squirrel. He called for him 70 come
down, but this only seemed 70 make the
boy want 10 escape, and he attempted to
jump from one tree 10 another, but
missed and fell TO the ground. a man
gled, breathless mass Of humanity, and
expired in less than Eve minutes.-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
Rough Experiences.

David Christie Murray, the novelist,
writes: Eight or ten years ago | was
sitting in the Savage club in the com
pany Of four distinguished men Of let
tiers. One was the editor of London
daily, and he was talking rather too
humbly, as / thought, about his own
career. I do not suppose he said,
that any man in my present position
has experienced in London the priva-
tions knew when first came here.
went hungry for three days, twenty
years back, and for three nights slept
in the park One of the party turned
to me. You cap that, Christie? an
swered, -Four nights on the embank-
ment, four days hungry Ny left hand
neighbor was a poet, and he chimed in
laconically, Five In effect ii proved
that there was not one of US who had
not slept IN that Hotel of the Beautiful
Star which is always open to every body.
We had all been frequent guests there,
and now we were all prosperous and
had found other and more comfortable
lodgings.'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
A Balloon for the Kaiser.

The sum of sc, 900 marks % 600 which
the German emperor has just presented
to the German Society for the Promotion
of Aerial Navigation for the advance
ment of this science is to be devoted TO
the construction and equipment of a
giant balloon. This balloon viii be as
high as four storied house, will be fifty
six feet in diameter and it viii contain
no less than {, $50 cubic meters of gas.
1t viii be made Of Egyptian cotton stuff,
and viii be coated with vulcanized gum,
which is considered better than varnish.
A rather interesting feature of the bal
loon viii be the provision of a special
valve OF new kind, which viii keep the
gas pure for longer time. and therefore
sustain the balloon for longer period.
1t is proposed TO make within year no
less than fifty journeys with the bal
loon and to ascend as high as possible,
up to $1,000 feet if necessary, with arti-
fetal respiration. Over e400 viii be ex-
pended in purchasing scientific apparatus
for this balloon. Experiments viii, if
possible, be simultaneously made with
two other balloons to further inyesti-
gate the physical conditions of the at
mosphere.-Pall Mall Budget.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
superstitions Of scotch Fishermen.

Some still existing superstitons among
fishermen are communicated by resi-
dent. At the beginning Of the herring
season the crew all try to seize the her
ring first on board 70 see if it be male
or female. II it is a male their fishing
may be expected TO be poor one; if a
female good one. Sometimes, how
ever, the skipper secures it and Slides il
away. sailing it and laying it aside for
the season. The boat must not be turned
against the sun.
Certain animals considered of i'll omen
must not be spoken Of in the boat, and
ministers in this respect occupy the same
place rs rabbits, hares, and pigs. Fish
ermen DO not like to lend anything to a
neighboring boat lest their luck should
20 with it. II they lend match they
viii contrive-secretly if possibie-to
break it and keep part, hoping thereby
to retain their luck. Their dislike to
have anything stolen is increased by the
fear that the thief may have stolen their
luck with it. To ask the question,
Where are you goingY of any one who
is going on board is equivalent to de
stroying all his chances for that time.
Persons with certain names are held to
be Of bad omen. the dreaded names be
ing different in different Villages
Fraserburg free Press.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

What is undoubtedly the strongest
natural gas well ever found IN the In
diana belt is a roaring monster north Of
Muncie, Ind, which cannot be gotten
under control A few days since Wal
ley & Spellacy, contractors, drilled IN .
well on the Spilker farm. Next day II
was discovered that the pressure had
raised TO an enormous degree, and it has
since increased until it has become In
possible to anchor the well or do any
thing with it. 1t Is impossible TO force
q sledge hammer, cr0wbar or anything
into the hole, and the gas roaTs until q
mans voice cannot be heard within sew
oral hundred yards Of the well. The
earth trenbles in a frightful manner.
A great deal Of fright is entertained as
10 what the result will be. The well Is
estimated at over 10,000. .000 feet, and
the apparatus used to anchor the mon
ster Jumbo vel at Fairmount is useless.
Great caution IS being used to prevent
the gas from becoming ignited.-Cor.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
CALIFORNIA PERMITS.

i.en Passing Their Lives in IdIe Solitude
on the Mountain Tops
Is man essentially o social animal: The
scientists say 50. But in the mountains
If California there are almost enough
laen who for years have led life Of ut
Ter solitude to disprOve the generaliEa-
lion. These mountain he-Inits can be
tound scattered through the Sierras and
lhe coast range from one end Of the state
o. the other. They are particularly nu-
lnerous through this region, centering
shout the Yosemite valley and extend
ing far back into the high SisTras. Some
td them were once guides IN the valley,
Idhers have been ,sfiners, and some
again seem 10 have taken up the hfe Of
eolitude simply because they Ike II.
To this class belongs old 2. r. Gibson
-"Old Glib" as he Is generally called
who lives on a mountain raEch. He is
sevenfy-fTe years old. but is possessed Of
as much physical strength and endurance
sss the average man Of half his age he
came thirty years ago from Tennessee,
where he left wife and a large family
of children. One of his sons came TO see
linn recently and tried to induce him to
visit his former home. but "Old Glib
eteadfastly refused 10 leave his little
ranch and solitary cabin. BE has never
sseen a railroad, and the stage drivers
from the nearest station Try their utmost
70 persuade him to 20 to town and at
least look at a train Of cars. But his in
variable answer Is; DO yOu think I'm
going down there to be blowed up by
one Of them there blamed engines; Not
much.'
Nearly all the men who I've this life
of solitude very long get a bit queer IN
fhe head, and ''Old Glib Is no exception
70 the rule. BE has a rig1narole descrlp-
non Of himself which declares that he Is
.'the best lran in the United States or
adjoining territories. either directly or
indirectly. financially. commercially, &c
Realistically or unchurchifed. The o .
man Is a hard worker, and when he l.
not busy on his ranch be IS working
energet.c1ry making shakes that Is,
eiapboards split and sawed by hand from
big pine trees.
Old man Lambert, who has a cabin in
the high Sierras some thirty miles back
Of the Yosemite. is another Of the Inoun-
tain hermits. He has neither ranch nor
mining claim, but lives by what he
shoots and by an occasional few dollars
earned from camping parties. He has
lived alone IN that same spot for years
and years, and VIII III all likelihood stay
there until he dies. There are months
at a time that he does not see another
human being. A party Of campers one
summer found him making a huge stone
wall that seemed TO have no purpose
whatever. In surprise they asked him
what he was piling up those stones for.
Why" he said, - a mans got to do
something, up here alone. or he'll go
wrong, sure. ."-Cor.Augu GA Chron-
icle
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

Arthur C. Moreland, who played the
role Of Colonel Risener, the tricky Indi-
ana politician, IN the play of "Blle
Jeans" last season, was on Friday night
the victim Of an accident that may end
his stage career. When on the road
Moreland has a companion, Perry, hy-
brid dog which appears in the play.
After the third act of "Blue Jeans" az
the National theater IN Washington,
Moreland picked up and fondled the
mongrel. Perry's face was side by side
with the actors. The sawdust used in
the mill scene was being swept up at the
time. 1t caused the dog to sneeze, and
his teeth came in contact with More
lands LEFT eye, destroying the sight. Yes
terdsy morning the eye had swollen TO
twice its normal size, and Actor More
land is now confined in a darkened room,
with the prospect Of losing the sight Of
the other eye.-New York Letter.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
Trimming Them out.

A new device for plucking stranger;
has been invented by the keeper of a bil
Clark street restaurant. He didn't want
to frighten regular customers away by
raising prices on the bin of fare, and vet
felt that il was shame to be behind
boarding house keepers, saloons and no
tells IN oyerclarging. Yesterday a bright
idea struck him and he promptly put il
III operation. A waiter gave the snaI
away. I've eaten there for six months. =
said well known merchant, "and sci
dom had cause for complaint. Last nigh;
ordered a sirloin steak, as / bad ofte.
done before 1t was much thinner thar
usual, but was not particularly hungry
and did not complain. This morning
was served with n still thinner one and
kicked. Then the waiter told me the
steaks were all being cut thinner this
week because so IL any strangers were in
town. and the boss wanted to get more
for meals without driving away the reg.
ulars. It's the same way everywhere
else. The pies are smaller; so are the
pats Of butter, and the proprietor has &C.
tually run in a lot of new coffee cups that
hold considerably less than the old ones.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
rrpen.e Of tne Pearr Erpedlllon

The total expense of the Peary and the
Peary relief expeditions was within S25,-
600. or, approximately, within one-tenfh
Of the amount that was involved in the
very much less successful British north
pole expedition of 1906, and barely
more than one-fortieth Of the expense Of
the Austro-Hungarian expedition under
Payer and Weyprecht Of 1874.
The contributions Of knowledge OBJ
tained IN either one Of the departments
of geography OF ethnology alone can
nationally be considered 10 repay the
moderate outlay Of these two expedi-
tions. q cost considerably below that
which in modern times Is sometimes paid
for a painting.
1t Is interesting to place here by way
of comparison the cost Of previous ex-
ploratons. One Of the earliest-that OF
oughby-conducte 800 years ago,
required for its expenditure $4,000; that
Of Moor, in 1916, El0.0o0; the second
German north pole expedition was coy
cred by an appropriation Of l20, 900 thalers,
or ell, GOO. while the Franklin expedi-
ton and the variOns ones sent out TO as
certain his fate TO 1854 cost eS33, ,S3S, or
over $4,OC0, ,O00.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01
The Queen's statuary at BaimoraI.


Her majesty proposes to place a statue
Cf the Emperor Frederick in the grounds
Of Balmoral, which are crammed with
memorials of the queens deceased rela-
tiyes and friends, while every hilltop in
the neighbo-hood bears a cairn. There
are only three statues-one the prince
consort. by Theed representing him in
highland dress; the jubilee statue of
the queen. which was presented to her
by her Scottish tenantry and servants:
and statue of JOHN Brown, by Boehm.
which occupies conspicuous position
ON wooded bank near the garden.
Princess Alice is commemorated bv a
Celtic cross Of granite, and the Duke of
Albany by a seat Of polished granite.
The memory Of Sir Thomas Biddulph is
recalled by granite fountain. The
bronze statue of the prince consort in
the grounds is an exact copy of his white
marble statue in the corridor Of the cas-
tle.-London Star.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

Uncle Sam was not so hard worked as to-
day. The mail carriers were few. the post
age upon single letter vas 25 cents When
one was received, tie family ali gathered
around the father to hear the news. Oa q
memorable occasion the letter read as fol-
ows: Tue demJohn oft' Prince Regent is
empty, please send me another Onr friend
Daniel Webster was with Us when it came,
and considers it the finest he has ever tasted.
We are happy to know the 25 cent postage
is gone. SILL happier to know the whiskey
Webster praised is to be bad at McCul-
lough's Half Century House. 523 Liber. '
street, foot of Fifth avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
send registered letter orposioffoe order fer
the medical wonder Prince Regent
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

Say, these things are mighty funny
afterward, said the baggageman, but
when they happen lis nothing 10 laugh
about When we bumped into that
freight just out Of Chicago three years
ago was sitting back in the car checS-
ing up. X threw me down and then
started 10 crawl for the back door. The
tender telescoped and came through at
me. II didn't stop till was within four
feet Of the back Of the car, and sat there
waiting for It to catch me. ! remember
it had 'ss7 in red figures. and as it came
grindin through at me every figure
looked ten feet high. When IT stopped
/ could reach out and touch it. Chicago
News-RecOrd.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01

More money has already been paid
out in creating the Worlds fair than til,
directors thought would be necessary t.
complete it when congress voted 20 send
the exposition to Chicago. Ten million
dollars was thought TO be the limit then
Auditor Ackerrnan's report shows that
the expenditures to Dec. have been
$l2 .46O. .2S6.6i. The receipts have been
81. S.22e,45l.9S the available balance
on hand Dec. was $936. .06s. SO, about
enough 70 last two weeks at the presen;
rate Of expenditures. but the souvenir
COINS are coming, and the directors have
nearly s, ,o00, 600 yet in exposition bonds
from which 10 capital has been received.
Chicago Letter.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-02-01


However moderate the expenses Of a
student Of the present time may be they
can hardly reach the extremely modest
sum which sufficed for Jean AaTmontel,
French poet, during the reign Of Louis
XV. for a years schooling. In his
Memoirs he speaks Of his school life
as follows:
was lodged, as was the custom Of
the school. with FIVE other Aholars at
The house Of an honest mechanic.
Ny provisions for a week consisted
of a large loaf of re bread, a little
cheese, a pieceO Of bacon and two or three
Iounds Of beef. Ny mother had added
10 them n dozen apples.
This was the weekly provision Of the
best fed scholar Of the school. The mis-
tness Of the house cooked for Us, and for
Ter trouble, her fire, her lamp, her beds.
her hOuseroom, including even the vesa
tables Of her little garden which she used
for our soup, each OF Us gave her twelve
pence halfpenny month.
Reckoning everything except my
clothes, cost my father between four
and five pounds 4 year. TINS was much
To him and an expense Of which was
very anxious 20 see him relieved.