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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Our Trade Holders.
AMERICUS SALE PRICE,

AMERICUS SALE PRICE.
A nickel alarm clock, CSC.
A 1-burner oil stove, 49c.
A glass lamp, complete, 1Oc.
Chopping bowl. large size, well
worth 25c, 15c.
fellows complexion powder, SC.
Genuine Albatros stove mats, Sc.
Pearl sleeve buttons, pat. lev. 1Oc.
Genuine bristol hair brush, &c.
Shaving brushes, 2Oc quality, Sc.
Wire fly traps. others ask csc, 13c.
Cucumber complexion soap. Sc.
Pure Cream complexion soap, three
in box, 17c.
Hall lamp. assorted colored shade,
$l.39.
Tubular lanterns, 3Sc.
No. s coppcr-bottom wash boiler,
Csc.
One-half bushel measure. japanese
wood bottom, 15c.
Elastic for carriers, per yd, &c.
Ladies' waist, ruffled lace trimming,
49c.
Ladies' wrappers, three rufiles with
NohS INV anu puShs iuCS VI AlHN,
Csc.
Null ties, fancy embroidered. worth
csc, our own Importation, 13c.
IL cedar lead pencils. 4c.
Cotton garden hose, soft, ain 3-ply,
best quality, with couplings, per
foot, go.
Ladies' percale waist. ruffled yoke.
front and back, belt, high full
sleeves, CSC.
56-piece tea set, $2.49.
100-pc. dinner set. decorated, $6.9S.
Surprise egg heater. Sc.
Pint Mason jars 4c each.
Quart Mason jars sc each.
l-gallon Mason jars &C each.
Jar rubbers, best quality, per
dozen Sc.
Jar tops. PIC.
Jar rubbers, per dozen, Sc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
Business Transacted 1T Last Nights Reg
ular Monthly Meeting.

The board Of education met in reg
ular monthly session last evening,
all the members being present except
F. M. Sinnet. The minutes of the
previous meetings were read and APP
proved.
The following bills were allowed,
on recommendation of the finance
committee:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Cotton Flannel.

It is little early to talk cotton,
flannel. but it will pay strangers
who visit us to lay in their winter
supply. We have Just received
100 Yards of extra heavy ilannc!
worth 15c yard-and always
brings that in season--Americus
sale price only 1lc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Young
e MCCOmbS

to give 1000 tickets one to take
tasc this great sale and wonder of wonders
Special sale in all departments Space will not permit MS
all bargains. - r "'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15

department and to advertise us far
and near. we will give our Ameri-
Gus visitors a chance to buy black
dress ut a great cut. Call and in
spect our fine line and prices, as
space will not permit US to quote
prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Ribbons.

40. ALL silk ribbon 1c per
ya-i.
No. 5-All silk ribbon &c per
ward
No. 22-All silk ribbon 13c per
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Chenille Covers and ORA
peries.

Heavy 81 chenille covers with
fringe. assorted patterns, worth
double people wonder how we can
.ell them at such ridiculous prices.
Americas sale price only 47c each.
Chenille Portcrics. extra long,
double dado fringe and border on
each end. the 1915 quality. Ameri-
nm. salc price $2.i9.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Lamp Stoves.
The Globe Incandescent.

For heating bath rooms, din.
ing rooms. sleeping apart.
ments, etc. Combustion per-
feet, no smell. no coal. NO
ashes, no smoke - Just the
thing for light housekeeping
tea kettle will boil in ten min.
utes; costs two-thirds OF q
cent an hour to cook and
heat. Price $4.s7.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15

Parks Cough Syrup cures coughs,
colds and consumption. Mrs. Cath
crime Black. of lie Roy, N. Y, says
IL took one bottle OF Parks Cough
Syrup. 1t acted like magic. Stop.
ped my cough and am perfectly
well now" Sold by Hartz & Ulle-
meyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
MCCabe Bros.

lot Sc q yard. Checked ssd
Striped Goods, worth - high
rs 1sc, your choice for SC.
These two lots are great values.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15

The secretary reported having col
lected SO. the balance due on stoves.
and having turned it over to the
librarian. as per her report.
The president and secretary were
instructed to issue q duplicate
order for 95 cents to David
Don in place of one stolen
from him numbered 1901, issued
July 26, 1898. On motion the libra
rian and her assistant were voted a
2-weeks' vacation each, to be taken
at their earliest convenience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Gents Over Shirts.

Always on the lookout for bar
Gains, He have purchased from one
oi the largest jobbers their line of
sample ovcrshirts which will be
placed on sale ut less than whole
sale priccs-shirts that usually sell
a, soc to $3.50 now offered at from
l... ., uSr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
THE LIBRARY BOARD.
Regular Monthly Meeting Held Last Eve
ming.

1HC TX uIu1 1HUHtHIy IHeetIHT OF
the library board was held last eve
ming, the members present being: W..
johnson, c. j. Larkin, &. l.. Walker.
Thomas Smart and j. w. Welch.
The minutes Of the previous meeting
were read and approved. The finance
committee presented the following
bills, which were allowed:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-15
Chimisettes.

Ladies' white and fancy colorcd
rhimisettcs, stand-up and lay
down collars. worth 35c, Americas
.alc price, 19c.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
A LITERARY oANARD EXPOSED.

Literary and archaeological frauds are
always occurring No wise person be-
lieves any astonishing thing he sees
stated unless inherently probable, until
there has been time for investigation.
Many of our contemporaries wasted
valuable space upon supposed life of
Christ discovered in India, and one con-
cocted an elaborate theory to account
for it's being found there.
F. Max Muller, in an article written
on this subject for the Nineteenth
Century" quotes a letter received not
long ago from an English lady travel
ling in India
Yesterday she writes, 1--WE were at
the great Himis Monastery, the largest
Buddhist monastery up here--300 Lamas.
Did you hear of a Russian who could
not gain admittance to the monastery in
any way, but, at last, broke his leg out
side and was taken in? His object was
to copy Buddhist Life of Christ which
is there. He says he got it, and has pub
lished it since in French. There is not a
single word of truth in the whole story.
There has been no Russian there. No
one has been taken into the monastery
for the last fifty years with a broken
'eg. There is no life of Christ there
at alls The monasteries, one and all,
are the, most filthy places. The Lamas
are theS dirtiest of a very dirty Face."-
Christian Advocate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
WEALTH IN A FLOWER.

1t is difficult for one who is not edu-
Gated to know their fine points to real
ize how it is possible to find the value
of $4,000 in a single Towering plant.
That is the kind of plant, however,
that Mrs F. L. Ames of Boston has
brought out to the exhibition. that has
been lately seen in Horticultural Hall
of that city. To those who are educat-
ed to it this elegant plant possesses as
many fine points of value as does thor
oughbred trotter to the horseman who is
looking for that channel in which to
invest his money. 1t is known as the yell
low cypridum insigne sandorme, and is
the only specimen of it's kind in this
country In the same case are two
seedlings from it. which are also of
rare beauty.
The James Comley chrysanthemum is
another remarkably beautiful flower
which comes from the land of the Mi
kado It is called the Japan chrysanthe-
mum, and was transplanted to the coun-
try by James Comley, head gardener for
Francis Brown Hayes. It's color is just
now the latest fad, being of that peculiar
shade of magenta which is so much seen
on the latest style of women's hats and
bonnets. The bloom, which is slightly
shaded with a darker tint. is perfect
in symmetry and has luxuriant foli
age--Ilx hange.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
sWINDLBR's ROMANTIC STORY.

ONEONTA, N. Y, Dec 6, 1S94.-A man
with many aliases, among them Charles
w. Schultz, Charles Mueller and Lewis
C. Mixer, who says that he is a former
resident of Oneonta, is victimizing law
yers throughout the country. He claims
that he was formerly employed here on
the Delaware & Hudson Railroad as
foreman, that hesis heir to a $4,000 estate
in Germany, and that he has box in
the Wilber Bank of Oneonta containing
valuable papers and $400 in money. The
story is utterly without foundation. He
has no money or box in the bank and
is unknown here The bank has received
at least fifty letters and kilograms from
lawyers in Boston, Worcester, New Bed
ford and Fall River, Mass, New Haven,
Conn, Newark, Nj, and Buffalo, New
York, inquiring whether Schultz, Mueller
or Miller was known and whether he had
a deposit in the bank. He was in Buff
falo on December l. A few of the law
yers admit advancing him money. The
mans description is as follows Weight,
about 175 pounds; height, about feet 10:
complexion and hair, light; age, about go
years; receding forehead, full smooth
face, fluent speaker, and is apparently
German-American.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
ROW IN THB RBICHSqAG
Idiotie Socialist Demonstrations
Evoke Equally Foolish
Rebukes.
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

BERLIN, Dec. 6, 1S94-The first sit
ting of the Reichstag in it's new build
ing, on the east side of the Koenigsplatz,
was held today. President Won Levetz-
ow delivered brief address in honor of
the completion of the building, conclud-
ing his remarks with call for cheers
for the Emperor.
All the members present, with the ex-
cepHon of the Socialists, responded.
rising from their seats and cheering
heartily. Upon seeing that the Social
lists retained their seats, the other MEM
bers were greatly excited, bowling and
shouting at the Socialists to get out.
These cries, however, had no effect
upon the Social-Democrauc members, who
remained seated Fully five minutes
elapsed before the tumult could be quell-
ed and order restored
The Socialists during the disorder re-
torted, calling the other members rowdies,
and making use of many other invec-
tives. The bell was rung for order and
President Won Lovetzow eventually sue
ceeded in his efforts to quiet the angry
members.
When order was restored balloting for
secretaries was begun. The Socialists
claimed the right to the third secretary
ship, and nominated for that position
Herr Fischer. This nomination was re-
ceived with many protests from mem
bers of the other groups
Herr Won Lovetzow sternly censured
the Socialists for not responding to the
call for cheers for the Emperor. He said
he was sorry he did not possess the means
of Furnishing the members who had re-
manned seated when the cheers were pro-
posed and declared that their action was
unworthy of German men
His remarks were received with vocifer-
Gus applause from all but the Social
Democrats.
Herr Singer, the Socialist leader in
reply to the President, said he would
never join in cheering for a man who
told his soldiers that at his command
they must fire upon their fellow-citizens.
This declaration, which was drowned
by cries of ''Turn him OUT was applaud
ed by Singers followers.
President Won Lovetzow then declared
that he would not allow his Majesty's
name to be dragged into the debate, and
Singer retorted TT is a pity that I
have not the means to characterize the
attitude of the President"
When the uproar had subsided the
House proceeded to debate the Socialist
motion to suspend the proceedings
against certain Socialist members on
charges of lese majestic Herr Singer
speaking in defence of the motion.
Herr Won Manteuffel was heartily
cheered when he declared that Herr
Singers scandalous words and the re-
voting actions of the Social Democrats
would result in the House making the
inquiry into the charges of lese majestic
more strict than ever.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
NO ORDER FOR A CUP DEFENDER

BRISTOL, r. l., Dec. 6, 1894.-The re-
port that the Herreshoffs had received
an order for cup defender, TO be built
in the event of the acceptance of Lord
Dunraven's challenge, is denied by Mr..
John B. Herreshoff, who says that GER
tainly no order had been placed even
conditionally, and that there had been
no talk of a large racing yacht since
last spring, when James Gordon Ben
nett talked of building.
AS to the reported extension of the
works for the building of cup defender,
Mr. Herreshoff said that the report TO
that effect undoubtedly arose from the
hiring by the firm of land in the Cove"
to the southwark of the works, and the
securing of permission to build a marine
railway The land would give a chance
for the hauling out of small yachts, and
the railway would be only a light one,
with such an end in view. About ten
feet of water could be had in the cove
at high water, but not more. A cup de-
fender, if ordered, would be built in the
north shop, from which the 130-foot
steamer now building there will be
launched.
In the shops the frames of the 20
rater for Howard Gould are bent on the
moulds and the yacht will soon be set
up in the south shop. The 20-rater
for parties in Germany will be a dupli-
cate of the Gould boat.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
FINE SPECIMENS OF HOG.

A stylishlydressed man and woman,
who by their manner evidently consid-
cred themselves two very large sacks
of the salt of the earth, got on Pacific
avenue car this morning at Lafayette
street and Pacific avenue.
Every seat,was apparently taken, and
as the woman entered a man in garb
of a Salvation soldier arose and, touch
ing his cap politely offered her his seat.
The woman threw him a look of disdain,
anG, without venturing to thank the
soldier, swept into the seat with the air
of an opera bouife queen
Just then she saw opposite a vacant
seat. She quickly called her companion's
attention to it, and he squatted down,
leaving the Salvation Army man to stand
until they left the car at York street.
And yet people wonder why women are
more polite than men in street cars.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
TALKS WITH A MANICURE.
Cold Weather Advice for the Hands,
Lips, Nails and Hair.

AS cold weather approaches women try
and lips from chapping. An excellent
remedy to prevent chapp1ns is cold
cream
The manicure said that it whitens the
skin morer than any prepartion. 1t has
taken the place of the old-time remedy
mutton suet.
It should be we'll rubbed into the skin,
The palms of the gloves should be slit
in several places to allow the air and
prevent cramp of the muscles and the
finger tips clipped off.
Vaseline should never be allowed to
touch the hands. 1t turns the skin yell
low and leaves stain on the nails that
is very hard to clear away.
In winter cold water should be used
sparingly. It's action roughens the skin
unpleasantly. Tepid water with a very
few drops of household ammonia and a
good lather of CASTLE or borax soap is
advisable. If the hands are inclined to
redness, the trouble lies inthe way of
circulation, and slight gymnastics will
To remove stains from the skin OF
nails use a few. drops of oxalic acid in
water, making the solution extremely
above the nails with a tiny ash stick,
which comes for the purpose at the
cost of five cents.
Many women are worried hy q con-
stant tendency to perspire freely in the
palms, which ruins their gloves. This
is an extensive distemper for there are
women who spoil new gloves simply In
one wearing
For this use magnesia. Get it in
square blocks and rub it thoroughly into
the skin before pulling on the grove.
Vigorously adhered to, the effect is en-
tirely desirable.
There are small diseases of the nails
also to be considered. One is ridges,
These form lengthwise on the nail quite
spelling the shape. This is due to weak
ness, and can be "amateurally' treated
by constant use of the nail polisher
dipped in pink enamel powder, for the
cause is due to weakness and this
method strengthens.
Another trouble is an aggravating
splitting of the nail. Just 10 run it
piece of cloth tends to take the entire
edge off down 10 the level of the finger.
For this the friction of chamois skin
is the most helpful Ex-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
PATRIOTIC GEIssENHAINER
New Naval Committee Chairman
Favors Wore War Ships.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, lS94.-Represen-
tative Geissenhainer, of New Jersey, who
will be the new Chairman of the House
Naval Committee, expressed himself to-
day as being fully in line with Secretary
Herbert's recommendations for ma
terial Increase in hghting ships and
torpedo boats.
ut all depends said Mr. Geissen-
hainer. upon the available funds in the
Treasury. If we have the money l, per
sonally. shall strongly support an ap-
preparation for several battle ships and
certain number of torpedo boats. What
ever money we shall appropriate in our
bill this session will not be needed for
q year subsequently, and my expecta-
ton is that the Secretary of the Treas
ury will have sufficient available funds
at that time to meet any draft we shall
make upon him for new ships. The senti-
ment in favor of a navy is growing.
If we had country like Chill, lying
parallel to the ocean, we would have the
finest navy in the world. Unfortunately,
only small fringe of our people live on
the sea coast, while the great majority
inhabit the interior where the necessity
of a navy is not so well understood.
feeling in support of this arm of the
service. The batleship at the World
Fair did much to educate the people
in this direction. 1t was. a splendid OBJ
ject lesson. 1t was revelation to the
visitors from the interior, and it gave
them for the first time in their lives
some intelligent understanding of what
a fighting ship is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
OUR AWFUL PENSION LIST.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 1s94-The pen
sion appropriation bill, as reported to the
House today by Mr.. O'Neil of Massachu-
setts, carries an appropriation of $1411,-
581,570 being 100000 less than the esti-
mates and $10,2o0O00 below the appropria-
tion for the current fiscal year. The re-
duction is made in two items, in the
payment of pensions and in the fees Of
examining surgeons For pensions, the
bill allows 40,OoO, O00-a reductions. of
s10oO0,000 from this years appropriation,
and for the surgeons fees, 100000, being
a reduction of 100000 under the amount
allowed for the current year
In the report accompanying the bill
is a table showing that in 1879 the num-
Der of pensions was 242,755; the annual
value of the pensions, s25, 493, ,742, and the
disbursements on their account, reported
by the Treasury, $35, ,121, ,4S22. In 1894 the
number of pensions increased to 969.544,
the annual value of pensions to $19O120,-
1853, and the disbursements by the Treas
ury to S141. III 2S4
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
TIMBER DEPREDATIONs.
insufficient Money 10 Prevent the
Ruin OF Our Forests.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. 1s9i-SpeaEing
of the increase of timber depredations
and the insufficient appropriation by Con-
gress to provide special agents to pre-
vent and punish them Commissioner
Lamoreaux of the General Land Office
said today:
"The timber depredations reported dur
ing the past year involved over $1,000 900
and there are eighty-five civil suits pend
ing in the courts for the recovery of
nearly $1,5OOooO, the value of the timber
alleged to have been unlawfully cut.
There i no more important branch
of the General Land Office than that
which is conducted under the special
service division. Its labor is to pro-
tect the public lands and the timber
thereon. The sums appropriated for this
service are more than returned to the
Government by the actual values of
moneys recovered from cash forfeited
on entries cancelled by the action of the
special agents and from the prosecn-
ton of timber trespasses. During the
four fiscal years from 1885 to 1883, in
service amounted TO s6S0000, and during
the same period the cash recovered from
these two sources was Sl,o7,4l4 Whlcn
would have been lost but for the activ-
lty of the special agents.
1T is the desire of the present adminis-
tration vigorously to protect the public
interests represented by the public lands
of the United States, and it is believed
that competent force can more than
return into the Treasury the expense in
Cured by their employment. Yet the
greatest value of this service lies in its
tendency to check the initiation of fraud
ulent land entries and the commission of
timtier trespasses. 1t is also on ac-
count of the small appropriations for
special agents that it has thus far been
impossible to detail any of them for the
protection of the forest reserves, which
have, from time to time, been created,
and which now include some 1900, 900
acres of land
It is also necessary to detail agents to
determine the questions between the
Government and States as to lands
claimed by States as swamp lands un-
der the act of Congress of 1S49 and 1851
for a determination by this Office as to
whether they are agricultural or swamp
lands and it can only be done by special
agents detailed for that purpose. and we
have now only twelve agents for all
of three different services"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
BROKE A PLATE GLASS WINDOW

Andrew vogen. u years old, of No. 127
Garden street, and Harry Clayton, 13
years old, of No. 2O7 Washington street,
Hoboken, two schoolboys. were arr.
yesterday afternoon by officer Redmond
of Hoboken Police Headquarters, on
complaint of Henry Icke of No. 153 Third
street, Hoboken. Icke charged the boys
with breaking a $40 plate glass window
in his store. The boys said they were
fooling, and IL was an accident, and that
they didn't mean to-" Recorder Nc
Denough didn't seem to think they did
either, and discharged them. Icke went
away mumbling something about not
being able to get justice, and threaten
ing to sue the boys parents for the
amount of the window.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
HOBOKENs MYSTERIOUS ANIMAL
HI Is Four Feet Long, Two Feet High
and Can Jump Twenty Feet

One of the employees of Butcher Theo-
dore Hagen, of Clinton and Seventh
streets Hoboken, visited the latter's
stable yesterday on Clinton street. While
there one of the stablemen came running
up out of the cellar with his eyes bulging
and pale as a ghost. When the stable
man had caught his breath he said that
he had just seen an animal that was at
least four feet long, two feet high and
could jump twenty feet.
The butcher and several other bystand-
ers laughed at him, but none would go
down III the cellar when the stableman
dared them to go and see the strange
animal AT last three of them went
down together, one of whom was the
butcher. He said they encountered the
animal, which appeared to him to be a
large overgrown cat with a bushy tail
After repeated efforts to catch it, the
animal eluded them by disappearing into
a large drain pipe. They will try to
catch it again tonight
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-06
TRILBYIsM-A NEW FAD.

A fad over across the sea is to have
your foot photographed, as well as your
hand or face-that is, if you are lucky
enough to possess one blessed with artis-
tic curves and outlines. A prominent So
ciety woman, on her return from Paris
several months ago, exhibited to a room
full of adniring friends the sweetest
daintiest little plaster cast of foot,
which, she declared, was counterpart of
her own. made by sculptor of world
wide fame She was at that moment
having a life-sized one carved in marble
to be mounted on cerise velvet and sew
eral small ones, one-half the size, struck
off in different shades of pale pink, blue
and old rose. The extraordinary popu-
larity of "Trilby'' has helped to direct
attention to our humblest member, and
now the women of New York are eX-
perimenting to see whether they have
insteps that water will flow under''-a
sure sign of blue blood-Exchange