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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
OF PARK PROJECTS.
Citizens Talked at the Harper
Yesterday Afternoon.
0. O. s1HoHDs GIVES HUB VIEWS

The Best Plan y to Acquire ~ Noel
Land ~ Possible, Assist Rather THAI
to Destroy Natasss Advant6gss an
Bald Fer the Hature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

E'os RENT s.ROoM HOUSE AT Az
- Twelfth street. Apply to J. d. Beecher,
500 Seventeenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

cine. Its great cures recorded in truthful,
convincing language of grateful men and
women, constitute its most effective ad-
vertising. Many of these cures are mar
volous. They have won the confidence Of
the people; have given Hoods sarsapa-
rilla the largest sales in the world, and
have made necessary for its manufacture
the greatest laboratory on earth. Hoods
sarsaparilla is known by the cures it has
made-curos Of scrofula, salt rheum and
eczema, cures OF rheumatism, neuralgia
and weak nerves, cures Of dyspepsia, liver
troubles, catarrh-cures which prove
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

LNOR RENr-A FURNISHED BRICK RES.
II ideuce. eight large ROOMS; rent reasOna-
BILE. Apply a. 2s5s Filth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
FOR RENT.

ENoR RENT-A Broom COTTAGE, 1917
II Eighth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
WANTED.

"ATED-SALESMAN SALARY PAID
w weekly; experience unnecessary; perma-
nsnt. Brown Bros Co., Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

r .oST-A DARK RED WALLET CONTAIN.
- ing s. bill and some valuable papers.
Finder please return wallet and papers to
Reidy Bros and keep the money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

T OST-A LADY'S GOLD WATCH ON
II Twentieth street or Twelfth avenue.
Finder return to this ONCE and be rev rded
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

WANTED-To LOAN MONEY ON Ola.
w rnonds, watches, iewelry, hardware,
moEcA Instruments, bicycles. clothing, dry
goods, furniture, etc. Highest cash prices
paid for second hand goods of all kinds also.
The above goods for sale ut half the usual
store prices. An bosiness transactions strictly
confidential. His new number and location,
1921 Second Avenue. Don't forget It. J. W.
Jones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

LNOR SALE OR RENT-A HOUSE OF 10
II rooms ut 1910 Third avenue; contains al
modern improvements and u In good re pair
Apply 70 h q. Frazer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
FOR SALE.

ENoR sALE-TwO HOTELS. GORDON q
II Bowman.
ENoR sALE-SIoRE BUILDING ON SEC.
II ond avenue: will net per cent on invest.
ment; has not been idle for 20 years; title per-
feet. Address box si9, city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

LioR RENT-FOUR ROOM FLAT ON TWEEN.
n tieth street; $40 per month. Apply to T.
VI. Stafford, Masonic Temple block.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24
Cures

"Curcs talk /" in favor
OF Hoods sarsaparilla,
rs for no other medi-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

"ANTED-GOODS TO STORE IN CHEAP,
W clenn and light storage rooms with eie-
vasor at 1913 Second avenue Johnny Jones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

LNOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-A GOOD
II paying bakery business ut iiOS Third ave-
nue.. Owner wishes to engage in other bust
meas. VIII sake real estate In exchange Can
~ above number for particulars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

WANTED-LADY TO WORK AT HOME
w who oan furnish good reference. This
II steady positi On to abe right party; no books
or Sanvasslng. We furnish work and teach
you free. Send 10 cents for simple and In
ssruotions Paul NJ. Fest q Co., Ill Arch
street, Philadelphia, PA.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

LNOR RENT-A NEW GROOM HOUSE
~ with modern conveniences ut S37 Tw enty-
sooond street. Inquire ut 25O5 Sixth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-24

"AETED-cDA AGENTS FOR HANDLING
w q necessity that is used In every house.
Can ns 170o Second avenue between o. m.
70 9 p. N. Inquire for Mr. Underhin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17

mother and his sisters and his aunts of his
valuable affections when he bestows love
elsewhere, for it is said that man shall
leave father and mother and cleave unto
his wife; and there is a common doubt as
to the divisibility of the masculine affec-
tions expressed in the saying, "A sons a
son till he gets him a wife, it is even con-
sidered the proper thing that he shall
marry whether he is able to support a
mother or not. and the mother who pre-
vents the carrying out of her sons matri-
monial intentions is apt to be regarded as
an unnatural creature. This is the woman's
century, however, as we are frequently told
by self-congratulatory women, and if the
mother-in-law or prospective mother-in-law
sees fit to assert herself, who shall wondef?
1t is period when queer things happen,
and the wise person is he who looks on
without excitement and notes developments.
1t may turn out to be the mother-in-law' S
century for all any one can tell. 1t is a
time for the downtrodden to rise, and if
Mrs. Bridget Johnson wins her case they
will rise with bounce, and, as before re-
marked, the path of the young woman who
beguiles the man away from his mothers
apron strings will be paved with powders.
Inasmuch. however, as Judge and jury are
of the male persuasion it is reasonably safe
to assume that they will stand up for their
fellow-man and that Bridget will be con-
strained to let her son go to the triumphant
defendant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17

ter. Natural gas is used in practically all
the private residences of indianapolis and
in a majority of the business blocks and
factories. The general use of this fuel adds
UNNECESSARILY to the pleasure and comfort
of life here. The convenience of it and the
cleanliness indoors and out that follows its
use are among the city's great attractions
and the cause of bringing many desirable
residents here. Unfortunately it suits the
convenience of several owners of blocks in
the center of the city to use bituminous
coal instead of gas, and the consequence is
that vast clouds Of black smoke and SCOT
issue from those chimneys in cold weather,
vitiating the atmosphere penetrating other
wise clean buildings in the vicinity, and
hanging like a pail over the town. To say
nothing of the injury and discomfort caused
to individuals by this condition of affairs,
damage is done to the city itself through
the destruction of it's reputation for clean
illness. 1t is unjust to the majority of citi-
zens that their pride in their city should
suffer and that they should endure smoke
and SCOT because of the neglect of the few
to comply with a reasonable regulation.
Cold weather may begin any day, and with
it will come the nuisance which went una
ton cannot be regarded as a new broom,
but if it wishes to do something to show
why it should be in existence it will see to
it that the smoke ordinance is enforced
without fear or favor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Archibald Forbes has written a biog-
raphy of Napoleon III. 1t is work for
which he has some special qualifications.
Miss Susan B. Anthonys biography, writ
ten by Mrs. Ida A. Harper, is more than
half finished now and may go to the pub
fishers during the winter.
volume of poems-which may be ex-
pected TO be graceful and dainty-is an
nounced by Mr.. F. w. Bourdillon, the au-
thor of that famous little gen. THE Night
Hath Thousand Eyes" He calls his book
"MinScula."
The author of 1.-THE Silence of Dean Matt
land has ready new story with the sug-
gestive title of "Swethearts and Friends .
and F. Anstey, the author of Vice Versa
announces volume entitled "Baboo Hurry
Bungsho Jabberjee, B. A."
The pretty and pathetic story about two
pet squirrels which Mr.. w. ]. Stillman pub
lished in the Century some months ago has
been reprinted in little volume in London.
Its profits are to go to a home" for poor
children requiring surgical treatment.
There is one word which excites the
wrath of Rudyard Kipling. 1t is colonies .
II dislike the word colonies " he writes.
land if you look through my verses you
of date and misleading, besides being
provincial"
w. S. Gilbert, the famous humorist is the
proud possessor of one of the most beauti-
full homes near London. Giim's Dyke was
originally built by the well-known architect.
Norman Shaw, for Mr.. Goodall, the land
scape artist. The author of the "Bab Bal
lads always works in his library seated
not at a desk. but in a comfortable arm
chair, with writing pad on his knee.
The family and friends of the late Sir
John Millais have placed at the disposal of
John Guile Millais, a younger son of the
former president of the Royal Academy. a
great number of drawings, which he will
use in his fathers biography now In
respondence with interesting friends and ac-
quaintances of the dead artist will be in
Guided in the work.
Mark Twain's book has been named for
the third time. and is now called Follow
ing the Equator The book was at first
called THE Surviving Innocent Abroad"
the author saying. as already reported
that though there were other survivors he
was the only one who had remained inno-
cent. IT is not so well known however.
that Mrs Clemens objected to the title or
rather this Interpretation of IL, as she
thought it savored too much of conceit on
her husbands part. Following the Euua-
tor viii net Mr. Clemens $4,000 in advance
of publication. II will be sold by subscrip-
ton only, and will be illustrated by Mr. A.
b. Frost. McClure's Magazine will publish
a few chapters in advance of book pub
lication.
The work on ALFRED Tennyson: A
Memoir by His Son., HallaHi Lord Ten
nyson which has appeared on the fifth an
niversary of the great Iaureate's death. Is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
sHREDs AND PATCHES.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as
in a pcture-Haztt.
Conviction is worthless till it converts
itself into conduct.-Carlyle.
"Al ones life is a music if one touches
the notes rightly and in time" -Ruskn.
A man can hardly fail to get rich when
he fails to get rch-Roxbury Gazette.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to
women and the first it takes away.-Mere.
The weakest spot in every man is where
he thinks himself to be the wisest.-Em-
mons.
The part of boarding that man most dis
likes is having to plank down.-Yonkers
Gazette.
He that knows not and knows not that
he knows not is a fool-shun him.'-Arabian
Proverb.
Lots of women talk about themselves so
as not to expose their ignorance of other
topics.-Philadelphia News
Every man who has been engaged before.
tells his fancee how glad he is he discovered
his mistake in time.-Puck.
There is nothing more disconcerting than
TO know that some one else knows that we
don't know what we ought TO know.-Puck.
When a girl is in love with big man it
always makes her feel funny to see him
get babied by his parents.-New York Press.
When girl begins to wonder what a GER
tain man will think of her new hat she
isn't far from wondering what he will think
of her heart.-The Bachelor.
An Atchison man who was in a dry goods
store with his wife for an hour yesterday,
dreamed last night that he had died, and
had gone to decentralization Globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17

Yesterday should be signalized in the
memories of all liberty-loving people as the
ending of the career in this part of the
world of Governor General Weyler, of
Cuba. He was appointed Jan. II, 1896, to
succeed General Campos The latter had
the reputation of being SPANS greatest SOL
der and also a man of conciliatory spirit
and methods. He was sent to Cuba because
it was believed. that by judicious mingling
of liberality with firmness, prosecuting the
war with one hand and establishing re-
forms with the other, the instruction could
be suppressed. He failed, and was succeed
ed by Weyler. The latter's reputation pre-
coded him, and he was introduced to the
people of the United States as Butcher
Weyler. He had gained this sobriquet by
his remorseless cruelty and frightful bar
barity during the Carlist war in Spain,
and in the Spanish war against the Moors
in Africa. He was heralded as a great SOL
der, but it was believed at the time that he
was appointed on account of his reputa-
ton for cruelty He announced that he
would meet war with war, and that reforms
were none of his concern. A few days after
his arrival in Havana he received the
American newspaper correspondents in a
body and among other things said: Mot
withstanding the reputation which has been
built up for me by the filibusters, you
can tell your people that whatever L may
do, the United States would do under SINH
lar circumstances" He must have had a
queer conception of the American char
acter His career in Cuba has been con-
spicuous for military incompetence, bonn
bastic proclamations, lying dispatches and
cruel treatment of non-combatants. He has
done nothing that really great soldier
should be proud Of, and much to confirm
his reputation for atrocious inhumanity.
His reputation in this respect is equaled
only by that of the Duke of Alva, another
Spanish general, whose bloody career in the
Netherlands is historic. In addition to
Weyler's failure as a soldier, it has been
openly charged that he has become enor-
mously rich by corrupt practices. In the
nature of things such charge is hard to
prove but one can easily believe it. The
atmosphere of the Western hemisphere will
be the purer for the recall of Butcher
Weyler.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17

fever mcrobe, the consumption microbe
the CHAMBERS, the leprosy and many others
whose mission is to make business for the
doctors, but there are others which operate
on very different lines. BY their power of
causing chemical decomposition they render
important services in many practical arts
and manufactures Industries involving
the investment of hundreds of millions of
dollars are founded upon the products of
bacterial life and on the assurance of their
incessant activity in producing unerring &C.
suits. Thus thousands of artisans and
manufacturers have bacteria for working
partners without even knowing that such
thing exists They are rot wicked partners,
either. They perform an important part in
the making of butter and cheese. In fact,
their services in certain phases of dairy
work are so valuable that there has been
placed upon the market in Europe a variety
of artiicially cultured bacteria, called pure
cultures" for the use of dairymen. They
are used to ripen cream some what as yeasr
is in making dough. Their action in the
ripening of cheese Is 50 distinct that hac-
teriologists believe the time will come when
the cheese maker will be able to produce at
will any particular desired flavor in his
cheese by the addition to it of particular
species of bacteria. Finally, they are
potent factor in the publication of nature,
in the fertility of soils, in the sprouting of
seeds in the growth of plants, in the form
alton of coal beds, in the assimilation of
food and in many other beneficial results.
The human race could not exist without
them. Those which propagate disease are
vastly outnumbered by those which confer
benefits and dispense blessings. Some of
them, a few hundred thousand millions a
day develop poisons and produce epidemics
but several hundred thousand million times
as many others are friends and allies of
man and his constant benefactors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17

pronounced by the critics to be a fitting
tribute to the gentle. noble spirit that It
seeks to commemorate. The son has per-
thetic manner. For my own part" he
says in his preface. Il have generally re-
Trained from attempting TO pronounce iudg-
ment either on his poems or on his personal
qualities and characteristics. although more
than any living man | have had reason to
ness his varied creative imagination and
love of beauty, his rich humor. his strength
of purpose. the largeness of his nature and
the wide range of his genius
The November Century will contain what
is practically the authoritative statement OF
the Sultan of Turkey regarding the treat
ment of the Armenians by his government
1t is in the form of an interview with the
Hon. A. w. Terrell lately United States
minister at Constantinople. During con-
versation which lasted more than two hours
the Sultan told the story of his relations
with the Armenians, desiring that it
should be made known to the people of the
United States. In accordance with this de-
sire Mr. Terrell contributes this article to
the November Century. Mr.. Terrell confirms
the opinions of Gen. Lew Wallace and his
other predecessors in Constantnople that
the Sultan of Turkey is a ruler of great in
tellectual ability. In citing evidences of the
favor and partiality extended TO Armenians,
the Sultan gave Mr.. Terrell a list of more
than hundred Armenians in the employ
ment of the Turkish government in the
civil list
The Saturday Review mourns over the
stationary talent" of Bret Harte. Thus the
English critic He had learned one charm
ing little trick, and he did 1t over and over
again. He does It still. and we hardly give
our attention any longer to the neatness and
prettiness of it. because we are so perfectly
familiar with the mode in which
it it is performed 1t is all a
great pity because Mr. Bret Harte
has individual gifts which even
his recent carelessness and insincerity can
not conceal. But the fatal cause of his de-
cline is that his psychological powers, al
ways primitive, have now, by habitual
abuse, sunken to nothing at all. Such
marionettes as Jack Hamlin the mysteri-
Gus saint-sinner of this book, or as Steptoe,
its one irredeemable villain are childish
enough to make an angel weep. Yet the
story itself, in its conventional construc-
ton, is as skillfully conducted as ever: IL
speeds on to its Touchdown and mechanical
finale without a hitch. We have every
thing we could expect the dartings into
mountain hotels and out again. the saint
ly blackguardS'' who do marvelS of unset
fish Quixotsm at moments of crisis, the
violent fluctuations of financial luxury and
Catholic mission, all the familiar mods and
quips of the now wearied Snowman, whose
ease and rapidity in evolution really begin
at last to add to our discomfort, so entirely
is he seen to lack a sincere interest in his
own manipulatons. And yet--so excellent
ly did he learn his trade some thirty years
ago-one precious quality sticks to Mr..
Bret Harte. Stale as his stories are, they
are still invincibly readable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
CARDINAL AND FREETHIN1ER.
The Two Newmans, Who Were Reared
Alike and Thought SO Differently.
Philadelphia TelegTaph.


A. stranger story of real life has surely
seldom, if ever, been told than that of the
Newman brothers--the great Cardinal New
Brother. Prof Francis William Newman
the 'free-thinking' author and philosopher.
We reported the death Of the latter yes,er-
day. and gave an outline of one OF the
most remarkable and affecting examples or
conflicting love and duty that has ever been
recorded Wonderful indeed, is the power
of religious conviction in some natures we
hear constantly that il is a weakening,
merely perfunctory, influence IN our DAY,
that dogma is no longer powerful and that
the Nominations of the church have lost
their terrors but now and again we are
made to realize that, even here ana now,
the, spiritual law supersedes all others, con-
trolling and compelling men with force
so resistless that no other agency Is worthy
of being named in comparison.
What else can we say or believe in view
of the lives Of the Newman brothers? AS
Some TO say, no doubt that he was not
a religious man at all. But the thoughtful
observer, whatever his own convictions,
manner mar eg. The professor was religious ac-
cording to his own conscience and ideals
of life. and no man who eyer walked this
earth lived more purely and devotedly UNI
der the rule of the higher law. Yet, con-
slider how faith and sense Of duty led those
brothers-who loved each other as brothers
have rarely loved, and who were inspired
with equal fiery zeal to uplift mankind
apart! Starting at Oxford with equal de-
sign of entering the Established Church,
one became a Prince of Rome, while the
other wholly abiured Christianity, and de-
veloped into what the world calls an
s.infdel" Such infidels as Professor New
man may be called precious at the last
day, but here is the strange and overwhel n
ing fact: these once devoted brothers, still
and always devoted to what each
considered the essential good OF
the race. did, under convictions
which some of us esteem so lightly,
travel this unreasonable distance apart
and lived so in a dreadful estrangement for
forty years, without ever exchanging
word AS old men they came together
again but each retained his convictions,
and they never spoAe about religion.
The Robert Elsmeres' and ''The Chris
tians'' seem petty make-believers after such
a thing as this: as why should they not,
being flights of fancy, while the other is
an absolute record of life2 Yes. religious
controlling force in the world. Despite all
weaknesses all contradictions, all evolu-
ton the fact remains; the story Of the
Newmans but illustrates it, every man deep
in his heart knows 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

The Kansas City superintendent of build
ings has returned from a visit to st. Louis
where he went TO examine smoke consumers
as a preliminary to enforcing the smoke or
dinance recently passed. He will recon-
mend the trial of three makes of consumers,
each of which. he says will satisfactorily
consume a large percentage of the smoke
issuing from any chimney or smokestack.
If the test by the city confirms his state
ment and the consumers are found to an
swer the purpose, owners of factories, hotels
and other buildings having Objectionable
chimneys will be required to use them.
If it were the custom of the Taggart ad-
ministration to enforce city ordinances it
would be worth while to urge indianapolis
officials to take pattern by Kansas City. A
smoke ordinance was passed by the Indian
apolis City Council last year. but no effort
was made to enforce it. 1t was semi
officially and feebly asserted. by way Of
explanation, that no satisfactory smoke
consumer was in existence though no proof
was presented in support of the claim. and
there is nothing to show that the slightest
effort was ever made to investigate the mat