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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03
CORDOvA CulLuNss.

Cordovs, Dec. The river IL
closed at this place.
Frank Heany, OF Blue Island, Wis.
tied friends here last week.
Miss Nellie Sallows spent Thanks.
giving with friends at Fulton.
j. j. Reach, Of Rock Island, spent
Thanksgiving with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Newton, OF
Moline, spent last week with friends
here.
James Sallows, Jr., left Tuesday
for . weeks stay with friends nj
Chicago.
j. II. Buckley and daughter.
Mary. have returned home from Salt
Lake City.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller. Ct
Port Byron, visited last week With
relatives and friends here.
Belle. the little daughter Of j. r..
Smith, has nov entirely recovered
from q severe attack Of diphtheris.
Tho insurance adjuster for THE
British American Insurance CON-
pany Of Toronto, Canada. called ON
ID I. Pinneo the 25th. and ad justed
bis loss from the burning II his
canning factory, at sI,325; there be-
ing many things damaged but little.
Mr.. Pinneo was insured with Hayes
& Cleveland, Of Rock Island.
While coming home from q gospel
meeting. held at the stone school
house. four miles east OF town,
Thursday night. the team driven by
Charles Kenyon collided with Q
team driven by Frank Clark, taking
of one wheel and throwing Miss
Chattie Marshall out. Mr.. Ilenyo q
ponies became frightened, broke
from the buggy and after running o
short distance struck o cart contain
ing Mr.. and Mre. A. ID. Ege. MIS-.
Eye was thrown 30 the ground. and
. few minutes later was picked up
in IN unconscious condition. She
was badly bruised about the side.
One OF the ponies ran the shaft OF
Mr.. Eyes cart through its nostril.
tearing the muscles so badly that IL
bled to death o short time after.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03

Hoax-Miss Scrihbles has had :. -,o.y
accepted by New Yo,k publisher.
Joax-lndesdl That's "a step toward
fame for her.
Hoax-Yes. BY the way, her mother
has married again.
Joax-Ah. That's a step father for
her. -Philadelphia Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03

Very cheap round trip rates for
hunters to points in Arkansas, Lou.
isiana and Southwest Missouri, via
the Chicago. Peoria & St. Louis rail.
way. Tickets good 80 days. For
particulars inquire Of local ticke,
agent, or the undersigned.
w. j. MCLEAN,
G. z. & 7. A., C. r. & St. L. E. K.
Springfield, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03
Time For Theorising Past.

Bloobumper-Before you were mar.
ried you had a theory that two coald
live rs cheaply as one. What is your
opinion now on that subject:
AcBride-lt is a condition, and not q
theory, which confronts me now. -
Waterbury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03

When chickens dress their feathers,
expressing oil from their oil bags with
their bills and distributing it over the
plumage, rain is almost certain within
n few hours
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03

The person who disturb bed the con-
gregation last Sunday by coughing is
requested to to call on II. r. Balm
sen and get . bottle Of Foley's Honey
and Tar which always gives relief.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03
Wssanasas~ Cured b . Dag.

Mystic Cure" for rheumatism
and neuralgia cures In ] 70 3 days.
Its action upon the systsm 10 70
markabls and mysterious. Il ~
moves ct once the cause, and the
disease Immediately dissppears. The
first dose greatly relieves, Is cents.
Sold BY Otto Grotjsn. druggist. Book
Island, and Gust Schlegel . Son, 10
West Second street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-03

The Rock Island Bakers sssocis-
ton has decided that hereafter all
bread will be sold 1t cents per loaf.
q Srsss<Ey. john FLupcKI.
Monroe DE RUE. fsApoaE vxRarLsI
Jo1y PoIzIS, ElcuoLAs MARI,
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Anti-Pyrine as q Poison.

The British Medical Journal does
great service in calling attention to
the dangers which attend the admins.
tration of anti-pyrine by amateurs.
It describes case in which dose of
ten grains produced very alarming
effects. Anti-pyrine is undoubtedly a
dangerous drug, which has very
severe effect upon the hearts action,
and the careless way in which the or.
dinary amateur prescribes it for him
self and his friends without the slight.
est compunctions, is an ever increasing
source of danger. Anti-pyrine should,
in the light of recent discoveries, be
scheduled as poison, for to some
people it is nothing short OF Q poison,
and we are inclined to think with the
writer of the article in question that
it should only be dispensed after the
order of duly qualified medical off,
Ger has been obtained.
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of Spain's remaining possessions.
Nearly three times as large as Cuba.
100000 of her 10,000,000 colonial
population live in the islands. The
first news Of the outbreak came on
August 21, when conspiracy" to
obtain complete independence from
the Spanish crown was discovered.
The news was cabled to Spain that
1000 insurgents had already armed
themselves for the conflict. A warship,
the Isla de Cuba, was ordered to the
Asiatic islands and 1000 troops were
detailed. This was followed a week
later by an insurrection in Manila,
the chief city Of the islands. A state
of siege was proclaimed and another
outbreak in the fortified town of
Cavita, in the Island of Luzon,
was averted. The insurgents, who
have constantly increased in numbers,
also besieged the garrison of San Idro,
IN the province of Nuevs Euis, but
were driven back. Meanwhile the
colonists, under General named Gan.
tollano, have made other successful
eorties. Thousands of natives are
focking to his standard, and signs of
insurrection are apparent in Bulacan,
Pampsnga and Batangas. More troops
have been requested from Spain.
Twenty thousand have embarked and
others are to follow.
Tho conditions in $hof con nfrv are
even more favorable for guerrilla war.
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THE QUEER.LOOKING PANGOLlN.
Head Like a Rat, Tail Like a Bear
and Claws Like a LOBSTER.

and Claws Like a LOBSTER.
Dame Nature has devised many
curious forms Of mammalian life, but
she surpassed herself when she de.
signed the strange creature which has
lately found home in the London
Geological Gardens. 1t is unlike any
other animal to be found at the Zoo,
yet it has parts which remind one of
several. Its general shape is that of Q
cross between on armadillo and SER
pent. 1t has head like a rat, claws
like bear, tail not unlike that of
lobster and general resemblance to
gigantic woodlouse.
The name of this new arrival is the
pangolin, and it belongs to the family
of dasypodidae, which includes, also,
those other remarkable animals, the
armadillo and the platypus. This is the
first specimen which has been brought
to the Geological Gardens, and its
treatment is therefore at present in the
experimental stage. 1t is covered.swith
bony plates, each having keen edge,
and this coat of mail serves not only
for purposes of defense, but for Of
fense as we'll. For the animal can
bring up its tail with ferocious jerk,
and as this part of its anatomy is
studded, like the rest of it's body, with
razor edged plates, it constitutes a
weapon by no means to be despised.
The pangolin's claws are large and
powerful, and are designed to tear
down the great nests of the termites,
or white ants, for let it be known that
the popular name of this freak of ma.
ture is the Scaly Ant Eater. Sir. EN-
erson Tennant found the animal in
Ceylon, where it represents the only
example of edentstes, or toothless
mammal, in the island. But if it lacks
teeth it has long. glutinous tongue,
with which it can slsy its thousands.
The creature is seldom still, but occu.
pies it's time in moving forward and
backwsrd-that is, literally tail fore
most it's scales are 80 horny that
they rustic and crackle against each
other with q noise that can be heard
many yards away from the cage.
Sir Emerson Tenant says that the
word pangolin is indicative of the
faculty which the creature has "for
rolling itself up into q compact ball,
by bending its head toward its stom-
ach, arching its back into circle, and
securing all by powerful hold of its
mail covered tail. When at liberty
they burrow IN the dry ground to a
depth of seven or eight feet, where
they reside in pairs, and produce an
nually two or three young. "Of two
specimens which I kept alive at differ
ent times," he continues, zone from
the vicinity of Candy, about two feet
in length, was gentle and affectionate
creature, which, after wandering over
the house in search of ants, would at.
tract attention to its wants by climb
ing upon my knee and laying hold OF
my leg by its prehensile tail. The
other, more than double that length,
was caught in the jungle hear Chilaw,
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THE PHILIPPINES.
REVOLUTION IN SPANS MOST
IMPORTANT COLONY.
Eow the Spanish Possessions Have
Dwindled Away-The Bold and
Intrepid Malaysia Glance
at Manila.

~ FAIN, which, when the United
~ States were born, was mistress
| = of the seas, owner of one-halt
the world, which poured gold.
en- tribute in her lap, now lies hum
bled and decrepit, torn by internal dis
sensions and engaged in hopeless ef'
fort to retain as her subjects the few
remaining colonies of her once enor-
nous possessions.
Cuba has almost gained it's inde'
pendence, there is an outbreak in the
Philippines which threatens to be
equally aE successful, and the smolder-
ing fires of patriotism in Puerto Rico
which have flashed up now and again
threaten to burn the ties that loosely
bind her to Spain.
One hundred years ago, says the
Chicago Times-Herald. ten million
square mills of American territory
yielded to Spain's dominion and toiled
and suffered that she might squander
wealth on wanton luxuries. Half of
North America, nearly all of South
America and the West Indies were a
part of the rich colonies which paid
tribute to Spain. To-day Cuba and
Puerto Rico alone remain, two small
islands with only 45, ,205 square miles
of territory, and one Of these islands
has nearly won its freedom, while in a
month or two Puerto Rico will attempt
to obtain the right of self-government.
There were then also possessions in
Asia and Africa, with innumerable ISL
ands that in every sea acknowledged
allegiance to the Spanish throne. To.
gether the area of the Empire was IT,
900, 200 square miles, twice as great a
territory as is ruled by the Gear of
Russia, and six times as great as Rome
ruled, while Great Britain's flag flies
to-day over less than two-thirds as
much ground.
From the magnificent Spanish EN-.
pire of a century ago more than one
hundred different commonw ealths
have been carved. More are now be.
ing made.
The first of the colonies to emulate
Cuba's example is the Philippine ISL
ands, the largest and most important
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Germuny, was with her and attempted
to pour out the tea for the coachman,
the Queen took the cup away from her
under the pretext that she did not
know ''how Thomas liked to have his
tea sugared and creamed," and fixed
it for him herself. Thomas is very
fond of relating this story as an illus
tration of his mistress kindness and
consideration for her old servants.
Both he and the state coachman are
decorated with the silver medal con-
ferred upon them by the Queen Oh the
occasion of her jubilee, and they wear
it on the left breast on the coat OF
their livery.
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able to civilization. These, who num-
Der less than 10000, are called ne.
gritoes, or little negroes.
But the other 6,O00,00O natives who
furnished the pirate captains with
their crews were the most powerful
'savages in the world. They are phys
ically brave and fear no consequences,
when in battle fighting like the all
conquering Arabs who fought under
the standard of Mahomet. They need
only good officers, in the opinion of
military experts, to make them excel.
lent troops. Their prowess was proved
in the Tonquin war, when contingent
of Philippine troops rendered valuable
service to the French. The necessary
officers will be supplied by the eau.
casians, who live in Manila. These
are of Spanish, German and Mexican
descent. with sprinkling of English
and Spaniards.
Manila has 100000 population, OF
which one.third arc Europeans. Very
few of these are Spaniards or bound
by any tie to the mother country.
That they are ready to lead the ma.
tives has been sho Sn by the fact that
one of the first town to rebel was Ma
nilla. This city is strongly fortified
town on the Island of Luzon, inclosed
by line OF ramparts. and because OF
it's strategetical Importance was for.
merly regarded as the bulwark OF
Spanish power in the Eastern seas.
The Governor. General. who is the
ruler of the island, lives there, and
receives reports from the forty.three
governors and alcaldes who rule the
other provinces. The town is divided
by a river into two parts, on one side
of which live the officials and on the
other the merchants, between whom
there is little friendship.
Philippine merchants suffer many
hardships at the hands of their Span
ish rulers. and, like other colonists,
are overtaxed. Heavy import and e1.
port duties averaging 100 per cent. Of
the cost are levied, and, in spite of
the complaints of the traders, no relief
has been granted. They believe that
if the Spanish restrictions on trade
were removed Manila would become
one of the greatest ports in the world.
As center of trade the city has
every natural advantage, including a
harbor large enough to accommodate
all the navies of tho world. The Philip
pines lie off southeastern Asia, and to
its other advantages is added the fact
that Manila is in q commanding posi-
tion on the main routes of eastern navi-
cation. Travellers assert that the capi.
tai occupies the finest commercial posi-
tion of any city in the world, and un-
til 1911 it served as the chief inter.
mediate station for the trade between
Spain and her colonies. 1t is of great
Importance to Spain, which has held
it since 1921, when Magellan discov-
cred the islands. Only once, in 1852,
did it pass out OF her possession. Then
England held it, but surrendered it
shortly afterward.
Spain has often trembled lest she
might lose the Philippines. Japan has
recently regarded them with covetous
eyes. The islands are at least as large
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Aneedo to Of Congressman Alien.

Last session while John Allen. Of
Mississippi, was making speech in
Congress, a member on the opposite
side of the chamber sought repeatedly
to interrupt him. Mr.. Allen paid no
attention to him whatever. Finally, in
a desperate and stentorian voice, the
member on the other side called out !:
"Will the gentleman from Mississippi
allow me to interrupt him for mo-
ment?" sis it for applause?" asked
Mr.. Allen, "the gentleman from Mis-
sissippi allows no Interruptions except
for applause.
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A POLICEWOMAN.
The Only One In the World Lives In
St. Paul.

ST. raul.
The first woman to be made O mem
ber of police force, and the only one
in the world authorized to wear q
police star, lives at St. Paul, MINI.
Her name is Mrs. Edwin T. Root, and
she has just been created full-fedged
officer of the law by the Mayor of st.
Paul. Mrs. Root may not walk beat,
but no representative of the law in the
city has any more authority to arrest
people than she. Hers is not q
Especial" appointment, but the same
as that of the man who wears blue and
brass and swings club. The cause OF
Mrs. Roots ambition is not a desire
for notoriety, but to enable her to
better aid young girls who have fallen
into evil ways. She has long been en-
gagged in this work, but found herself
seriously handicapped by lack OF
authority to investigate. So she
applied to the Mayor for the appoint.
ment she has received.
Mrs. Root is President of the Ham
line Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, which under her management
has doubled its membership since
1894 and became the largest organiza-
ton of it's kind in the country. She
made persistent war on saloon where
Young girls were in the habit OF
assembling, and after great deal OF
trouble secured the proprietor's con.
yiction. 1t was in connection with
her rescue work that she needed the
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500 Reward. G100.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at ielSt one dreaded disease
that science has Deen able 10 cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh beinga consti:
tutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter.
naIly, acting directly upon the blood and nu.
cous surfaces of the system, thereby Destroy
ing the foundation Of the disease, and giving
the patient strength BY building up the con-
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Its curative powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure
Send tor list Of testimonials. Address
FL. CHESEY G. Co., Toledo, q.
Sold by Druggists, .jc.
Halls Family Pills are the lest.
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Glowing Fungus.

In the vicinity of Vile de Nativi-
dade, Brazil, says the St. Louis Re.
public, there are whole mountain sides
covered with species of palm which
supports only luminous specimens OF
fungi end lichens. The fungus growth
is in the semicircular shape SO well
known to those who have seen such
excrescences on the sides of old logs
and stumps in this country. They
average from one to five inches across
the disk, and one not more than two
inches in diameter gives out light suf-
6cient to read by on the very darkest
night. The light emitted is of pale
greenish hue, similar to that seen in
the ftful flesh of the freely, or light
ning-bug. The luminous species of
lichen which grow on the same tree
are wonders of the vegetable kingdom.
They are of the branching variety,
with cup-shaped receptacles at the ter
mination of each branch. On dark
nights, especially during spells of
damp weather, these branching lichens
wave in the air and appear to initiate
every zigzag ramifcation exhibited by
chain lightning. The display is, of
course, on much smaller scale than
that seen in q storm.cloud, but the
similarity is always noted by an OBJ
server gazing on the beautiful sight
for the first time. The only other
species of phosphorescent fungi and
lichens which the editor of Notes for
the Curious remembers of having read
about grows in the Savan River Coun-
Try, Australia.
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the employment Of modern military
tactics.
The population consists chiefly OF
natives, mostly Malays, bold and inter
PORT OF MANILA CHIEF CITY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,

pid, the race which supplied the buc-
cancer of old with the Malay sailors
and fighters who are familiar to oil
readers Of fiction.
While retaining their fighting abili-
ties, these descendants of pirates are
the most civilized men in the extreme
east. They still, however, affect the
savage dress, except in the most pop
ulous districts, little clothing being
worn beyond loin cloth by the men
and short skirt by the women. They
live in huts OF pine branches and till
the land. Very few of the ancient race
survive, and they alone are unamen-
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panies her during her annual visits to
the Continent, is an elderly man OF
the name of Thomas Sands, and is q
great favorite of Her Majesty, in
whose service he has been a long
while. The Queen is exceedingly kind
and considerate to him and greets him
always with a friendly "good day"
Frequently when the drives are long
the Queen causes the carriage to be
stopped and the tea equipage, which
she generally carries about with her,
to be extracted from the rumble. Tea
is thereupon brewed by means OF a
spirit lamp, and in partakine OF this
gentle stimulant with her ladies in at
tendance, the Queen does not forget
her coachman, but invariably makes a
point of pouring out cup for him,
too. On one occasion, when her
daughter, the widowed Empress of
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as Japan. and under her rule would be
rs prosperous. They are within con-
venient reach, and had not Russia
checked the Mikado's progress as all
Asiatic power they might have fallen
into his hands.
Should the revolution in the Philip
pines prove successful, similar at
tempts would be made in Spain's other
Asiatic island possessions. Cuban
agents are said to have persuaded the
Philippines to revolt, and it is said
they are already at work in the Salu
Islands, Palvas, the Carolines and the
Marianne Islands. These are SIN aller
in extent, with an aggregate of 1880
sq"are miles and 125, 900 population.
By themselves they are powerless. but
they would Join the Philippine Repub-
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fare than in Cuba, and the natives are
as brave and make excellent soldiers.
While in Cuba the Spauiards must ira
verse marshes, in the Philippines they
must traverse the sea. In the archl-
pelago there are 600 islands in chain
which stretches nearly 100 miles from
north to south, and at the widest
point is almost 700 miles in width.
The Spanish soldier must journey from
island to island and conquer each one
in turn, tedious undertaking, which
would cost Spain hundreds of thou
sands of soldiers, and the flower of
her young manhood has already died
in Cuba. Each island is mountain
fortress, which can be easily held
against attack. There are few
plains which furnish open ground for
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THE PANGOLN.

and brought to me in Colombo. I had
always understood that the pangolin
was unable to climb trees, but the last
one mentioned ed ascended a tree in my
garden in search of ants, and this it
effected by means of its hooked feet,
aided by an oblique grasp of the tail.
The ants it seized by extending its
round and glutinous tongue along
their tracks. Generally speaking they
were quiet during the day, and grew
restless as evening and night ap'
nroached.
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Three Hundred Species Of Palms.

Tho great botanic garden at Buiten
zorg, in Java, has the richest collec
tion OF palms in the world. There are
three hundred determined species and
a hundred which appear distinct,
although they are yet unnamed, be.
sides varieties of known species, 80
that it may be said that there are at
least four hundred different palms
cultivated there.
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SarsaparilIa
Foods Pills ceastDssen esslss Psiso9a IS ses esnss
New American Building in Paris,
The best-In fact the One True Blood Purifier.

new American Build1ng IN farlS.
Word comes from Paris that the
American Chamber of Commerce of
Paris will next summer begin the
erection of large structure to be
called the American Chamber of Com
merce building. 1t will be $50 feet
front and 200 feet deep and eight stor-
les in height, with Msnsard roof. The
first floor will be occupied by the
Chamber OF Commerce, consisting of .
library, committee rooms, members
Injecting room and large hall capable
of holding 200 persons.
From the first floor up the rooms
will be arranged either for business or
residential purposes. The officers of
ehe American Embassy and the Amer
Fcan Consul, and those of the repre-
,entatives of the United States
Treasury Department, will be On the
econd floor. The building will he
lighted by electricity and heated by
team, and contain two modern eleva-
prs, capable of holding ten persons
= b each.
The structure will be near the Place
e POpers, and will cost about $146,.
100. New York Press.