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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
TOWN TOPICS.

Hynes sells skates.
Lees Little Gem is the best broom.
State Senator H. v. Fisher. of Gen.
eseo. was in the city today.
The so-called $40 beaver ovsrcosts
are only $7.19 ct the II. & K.
When in need Of . timer call on
h. 7. Siemon. 1916 Third avenue,
The ice bridge ct LIE Claire il 90
strong - to permit the crossing Of
teams.
New line OF neckwear and shirts ut
Richter's. 2l9 West Second street,
Davenport.
Furniture and stoves sold ON
monthly payments at Robert Wallis,
Davenport.
Jacob Menner, an old citizen, was
sent to the county infsmary today
by Poormaster Lidcers.
IL can see my finish." unused the
rabbit on arising this morning and
gazing on the seasons frst snow.
fall.
Money to loan on real estate e.
curity, terms reasonable, and no de-
lay. Apply to George F. Roth at
jackson & Hurst's Office.
The largest stock and undersell-
ing all competitors on mandolins.
guitars and violins at Totten's music
house, 1909 Second avenue.
The N. W. O. u. club will give q
dance at Pipp's hall. Moline, Satur.
day. Dec. 4. Music by Freed's Mando.
lin orchestra. Admission, IS cents.
Ladies free.
Furs. Buy only Of reliable furri.
ers. Then you will not DO deceived.
We are manufacturing furriers. T.
Richter & Son. 2l9 West Second
street, Davenport.
They are talking of An election
among the republicans of Davenport
as q means of settling the postofiice
candidacy there. Congressman Cur.
tbs is completely at seq a. to the Sc
lection of the proper man from
among the aspirsnts.
Maj. ". 7. Chsnnon has been au-
thorized to drill what will be knowr
a. 1.-THE head camp team" to exsm
pity Woodcraft ritualistic work.
The team will be selected from Camp
1850 and will be apt to distinguish
itself il Msj. Channon has his way.
Another striking evidence of the
advantage of The ARGUS want col
umn has been presented. A few
days ago lady lost . gold watch
She advertised the fact in the ARaU,
want column. The next day the los
treasure was returned to her, through
the means she employed to recover it
Observer Hunts meteorologica
summary for November shows th'
mean temperature to have been SO
the highest u on the goth. and the
lowest 2 on the 29th. There were !
clear days, 6 partly cloudy, and II
cloudy days during the month
Thunderstorms occurred on the 14tl
and 18th.
Monday, Dec. 6, both Afternoon
and evening. AN excellent opportu
nifty to purchase something uniqu,
and beautiful will be afforded every
one who attends the sale of fancy
work given by the ladies Of the NJ
E. church at the residence of Mrs. c
L. Walker, III Nineteenth street
Everybody come.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03

One size smaller after using Aliens
Foot-Ease, . powder to b shaken
into tho shoes. 1t makes tight OK
new shoes feel easy; gives Instant
reliet 70 corns and bunions. It's the
greatest comfort discovery Of the age.
Cures and prevents swollen feet,
blisters, callous and sore spots.
Aliens Foot-Ease 10 . certain cure
for sweating. hot aching feet. At
all druggists and shoe stores, IS
cents. Trial package free BY mail.
Address. Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy,
IN 7.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
sARKEEPs HAVE A BALL
sven, Prize Hasq1srs ss Afnsry Hal
LAs1 HDgAt.

swell. Prize nasqss rsAs es Arnsry Hal.
Lase night.
The barkeeps held their annual
soiree at Armory hall last night.
No one who attended anticipating a
swell affair was disappointed. Every
thing Was carried out - advertised
on the bills. All the boys and girls
Who have become famous for their
terpsichorean maneuvers were on
deck. The Davenport folks did not
arrive until after midnight. They
were showed II, and did not consid-
er il wise to venture ont until the
elements subsidized. But they came,
anyway.
The committee in charge of the
bali wore red badges. The men who
collected the pssseboards at the On.
trance had prepared against . Siege
Of drouth and secured . "growlsr'
before the dance began. The ..growl-
er" Was ON duty all during the night
and faithfully pasrolled the territory
between the hall and one Of the neigh.
boring withdrawing establish
ments.
Bleusr's orchestra played for the
gay masqueraders. who began to
glide over he wax at 8 o'clock. and
kept on tho move until this morn.
ing. 1t was an unusually orderly at.
fair. There WAS not even an interest.
ing "chewiDg match" Several over.
estimated their booze-haudlipg ca.
pscity, but they dill not make any
trouble. The costumes were dccid.
edly noisy. The boys mostly Ill
represented conical characters, and
hey were really funny. The Ger
man with the bogus front, the Irish
man with the green sponges. the
bum with the checkered vest, and
every other old hind Of character wal
there. And the girls-they were
dressed just lovely. Golden curla
and abbreviated skirts aud low.neck
gowns were numerous. The re-
moval Of masks revealed an array oil
familiar fsces-some that have seen
better days, and others that hav.
not. ~
Four prizes were awarded. The
FIRST was captured by . Davenport
woman. who represented "Klon
dixie" The committee. realizing tina,
. severe winter was approaching
wrote her out an order for Q pair q
rubber boots. ,"Klondike's" daugh.
ter, was given second prize
The consolation, . sleigh rid,
next July, the date to be fixed BY
future weather prognostigstions
went to another damsel.
One Of the girls who was . contest
ant for the first prize was NEAR
enough to say that ''Klondiks" was
frost.
The dancing was artistic. On &C
count OF the large crowd many Of tn
boys and girls "chinned up" ant
moved slow while the spelling wa
in progress, to avert collisions. Thi
explanation is made by request o
some Of the girls, that people nigh
understand the reason for this ap
parent affection.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
Philosophsr Ksner.

Here 10 the way Editor Kiner, Of
the Geneseo News, consoles his town
on the snub il has received In the new
railway that Rock Island thought
was coming this way. Rock Island
will. however. take the new road
every time and trust to consequences
With the email towns: "The sur
voyors Cor the new railway from the
southeast through Henry county to
Clinton, Iowa, CROSSED the Rock lei
and railway one and 0 half miles
east OF Atkinson. Bewail not, 0,
Geneseo! A north and south road
through Geneseo would mean about
three towns between here and Ke-
vance, and about three moro between
here and Erie. Two Of these towns
north and two o! these towns south
would be bloodsuckers on Geneseo.
Cciopa has two railways. It hiss
BsYetow and Hlllsdale on one side,
and Briar Bluff ON the other. And
Colona is zoo dead to skim"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
Fer over RSlsy Year,

Mrs. wiaslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for chiidrea teethiag. Il
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allsys all paia. cures wind collie, and
10 the best remedy OK diaErhoea.
Twenty i've cents . bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03

The person Who disturbed the con
grcgation last Sunday By coughing
IL requested to call on T. b. ThomsG
and get . bottle Of Foiey's Honey
and Tar. which always gives relief.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
Anoshsr Cus.

Only 81 to Sc. Paul or Minneapolis
via the Rock Island route. The only
line running through trains without
change Of cars Of any class.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03
E}llIIIlElIElllS|

Have yoa Sore Throat Pimpiss, Ooppa-
Colored Spotk Aches Old Sores. Uleen b
Ao0aA. Hai-HAllingf Write Cook RBMRDY
Co, go Masonic Temple. Chieaea IN. fr
proofs q cures; capital $50, Loo. Wont
eascs cured IN Is 70 IS dayA 1eo-paep
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-12-03

Just ~ . 10 can't boz Of Casearsss.
Tie aasst live and bowel regulates
evOg 0Ado.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
where pumios stone Come. a..


we often hear IL remarked, and No.
tcularly after the eruption of a voloa~.
that pumice stone ought to be nlon,;sO,
and cheap, as quantities must have ha'u
elected during the volcanic distnrho 1uou
As a matter OF fact, however. nopa !,
the white stone in general use is obta;nos
from active volcanoes. 1t comes s-s
the deposits of the article discoverod An !.
one or two quarters of the globe tta
best of which is at present to be touns
in the island of Lipari, situated in tha
Tyrrhenian sea. The island is morn
famous in character and consists :,
tufts and lavas, and of highly siicooua
volcanic products. The district wboro
the stone is found is called CAM
Blanco or Monte Petalo, 1000 Zoe,
above the level of the sea.
After riding considerable distan.o
partly along precipitous paths sufficient
ly dangerous to be interesting and nartlc
through vineyards and over pr.ssr
plains, one almost comes suddenly unon
a seemingly snow clad valley, inclospa
by hills, also quite white, and the wbolo
glaringly bright on a sunny day. Into
those hills workmen are unceasinolv
digging deep burrows, working within
by candlelight. In their excavations
they come across many Jumps of pumjce
stone, which are placed in baskets, sub.
sequently being conveyed along the val.
ley to the seashore, where small boats
are loaded and sail to the seaport near
by, where the stone is sorted, packed
and shipped to distant parts either BY
way of Messina or Leghorn. POPULAR
Science News.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
Electricity and Vegetation.

AS there are great many references
in our scientific exchanges of late to
the influence of electricity on germinat-
ing seeds and growing plants we viii
state that such experiments are not
new. Researches in that line were car
ried on away back in the fifties. In 1858
II. L. Baxter of Scotland wrote as fol-
lows in The British Botanical Review:
"As it may be considered law in
vegetable physiology that all plants
have a tendency during the termination
Of their seeds to develop in two diamet-
rically opposite directions, the root and
the stem, the question arose, Night
not this direction be influenced or coun-
tcracted by submitting the terminating
seeds to current of electricity? Accord
ingly, series of experiments were UNI
dertaken which were carried out with
elaboration of detail. After months of
patient experimenting 1 feel justified in
announcing that no definite conclusions
were drawn from them as to the rela-
tive effect of the electricity, although
each series of experiments was varied
and multiplied. st. Louis Republic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
A Leg. a Crutch and a Wheel.

The wheelman. had only one leg, but
ne was riding with all the assurance
and ease of an expert, and he evidently
could have "scorched" had he SO de.
sired. He had on tasteful, quiet bi.
cycling suit, and his one leg was neatly
incased in half pair of knickerbockers.
Across the handle bars Of the wheel Law
a crutch. At Twenty sixth street he
alighted easily and gracefully, leaned
his wheel against the curbing, adjusted
his crutch and hobbled into a cafe.
When he came out, the people who had
seen him dismount had gathered in o
little crowd in the interests of science
to sec him mount his wheel again 1t
was a very simple performance. He
gave u glance of mingled amusement
and triumph at the crowd, put his foot
on the step of his machine, grasped the
left handle bar firmly with one hand,
gave vigorous push with his crutch
and glided easily away. '"That' seasy,"
he shouted back over his shoulder to the
crowd.
The people looked at each other VI
establishment. "Welll welll' said tte
Sat man who had been one Of tho 'fnOst
interested observers. 1.-The cripple may
throw his crutches to the winds. That
scheme discounts a wooden leg New
Yori- Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
Wedding Postponed.

Sharp Dame-I must frankly tell
you, Mr.. Meek, that my consent to your
marrying with my daughter has been
wrung from me under protest
Mr.. Meek-Eh? Protest?
Sharp Dame-Yes, sir. l knew that
if did not consent she would disgrace
the family by an elopement. When she
wants anything, we all have to give in
to her or take the consequences, and
long experience has taught me that l
might as well try to fan off cyclone as
reason with her when she gets mad,
especially if there is flatiron or a roll
ing pin handy, and so j just give right
up at once. Has the wedding day been
get yet, Mr.. Meek?"
MIR. Meek-Um--er--n yet, and,
in fact madam, Im-I'm little
afraid can't afford to marry very soon
anyhow Goo-good day. York
Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
THE BREEcNLoADLR.
Inpro,. nents In Guns That Conduce to
Rapidity of Firing.

Let us examine a breechloader and
see what improvements have been made
which may conGuce 10 rapidity OF fire.
We see that in the older pattern three
motions were necessary to open the
breech. First the bar which is fixed
across the base of the block had to be
removed, then half turn had to be
given to the block to free it in its bed,
and then it had to be pulled forward.
Lastly, it had to be thrown back on its
hinge, so as to open the gun from end to
end. We are shown that in later pat
terms the cavity or bed into which the
block fits is made in the form of cone,
so that the breech block itself can be
turned outward without any preliminary
motion forward. In artillery work time
is everything, and any one motion OF
the gunner's hands and arms saved is
point gained.
Now let us look at the mechanism by
which the recoil or backward movement
of the gun is checked at the moment OF
firing. The gun slides into its cradle,
and its recoil is counteracted by buffers
which work in coil, something in the
fashion of the coil springs which we see
Oh doors. Iron spiral springs push the
gun back again into place. Another in
teresting piece of mechanism is the cleo
trio machinery by which the gun is fired.
When the recoil has taken place, the
wire, along which runs the electric cur
rent, is pushed out of place, so that 1t
is impossible to fire the gun, even though
it be loaded, until it has been again
fixed in its proper position on the cradle
Truly modern cannon is a wonderful
machine, and yet it is only develop
ment from the sort Of iron gas pipe which
was used in the middle ages.
Hard by is gun which has come to
grief. In experiments which are carried
on at Shoeburyness guns are charged to
their full, or, as i'll this case, more than
their full strength. There is an ugly
cash running down the outer case OF
Jacket, as il is called, Of the gun, and
the latter has broken and nearly jumped
out of its cradle. Nursery phraseology
certainly comes i'll strongly in the tech
nical slang of gunnery when we have to
do with Woolwich infants.
Journal
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
The Suez Canal.

A letter, recently published, from
Bonaparte to his friend Paul l. the en-
peror of Russia, shows that but for the
assassination of the latter in 1901 the
Suez canal might have been cut many
years before 1869. Napoleon wrote that
the British threatened to invade Egypt
and that their pride and insolence
should be rebuked. He added: 1.-THE
Suez canal, which will unite the Medi-
terranean and the Indian ocean, is sur
veyed 1t is work which can be fin
ished within short time and which
would prove TO be of incalculable bene-
fit to Russian commerce. 1t Is inter
esting TO note that the diplomatic rep
resentative of France in Egypt at that
time was NJ. de Lesseps, the father OF
Ferdinand de Lesseps, who finally &c
complished the great undertaking.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
wANreo-rARse THOUSAND WIVES.
A City ev Vancouver Island Where Women
Are at u Premium.

Are at u Premium.
There Il city in the western part OF
Canada, close TO the Pacific ocean,
which is named by all who visit 1T the
most desolate spot upon the face OF the
earth. Its climate is good, its natural
resources excellent, its houses fair, its
streets we'll paved, yet within this town
there is an air of forlorn detection that
strikes the most careless traveller that
comes within its boundary.
II is on Vancouver island--a sweet.
fair spot. And the desolation is caused
by one thing-one only-the lack OF
women and girls.
This particular town is scarcer OF the
product than others of its locality.
There are many towns upon the island,
but this one lacks women so sadly that
in "a recent census of the place 1T was
found nearly 5000 short. This number
included IA count of serving women,
women TO do the work of the house,
cook and wash and iron. 1t also included
working girls and women who are not
expected to marry. And, of course, 1t
took in the queens of the city. the fair
matrons of the homes and the mistresses
of the pretty establishments.
Today the doorsteps of these houses
yawn vacantly and the vines fiuttering
over the portals seem to say, "She comes
not yet.
The greatest bargain sale OF wives
ever known took place upon a recently
opened domain few years ago. A
frantic call was sent to the cities for 100
women. And poor girls, out OF fun and
curiosity and willingness to have
home, went out there. The men met
them at the station. The girls looked
them over shyly. By evening all the
girls had found boarding places III the
wooden shanties of the "town. And
by Sunday the parson was kept busy ty-
ing the nuptial knots The prettiest
girls and the richest ones got the
wealthiest men. A girl with 500 was an
heiress and q man with 500 prince.
The plain girls took up with poor fel
lows, with hopes and chances. 1t was
quick, natural selection.
One very handsome fellow, with
blond curls, got n very pretty girl,
though neither had cent. 1t was case
of beauty. The rude courtship was car
ried Oh in the three evenings between
the time the girls arrived and Sunday,
and within week there were nearly
100 small wooden houses going up In
the town.
There is no name for this peculiar
state of society where women are want
ed to make homes and where money is
laid down for them and paid to them to
queen it over home. A glaring head
line in an English paper once called it
1.-The Barter of Women In America
But among those who see the satisfac-
tory after workings it is merely the
good natured consent of the girls to adj
Just themselves to their country, which
is yet new enough not to be as evenly
distributed as it will be when the TWEEN.
ty-first century man and woman come
Inst. Louis Globe Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
Finger Rings In the British Museum.

The large and varied collection OF fin
ger rings includes some splendid speci-
mems of Roman rings and some remark
able early Christian rings. Historically
interesting is the gold ring of Ethel
wulf, king of Wessex, which was found
in a cart rut at Laverstock, Hampshire 4;
as also one found near York which be-
longed to his daughter Ethelswitha, the
sister Of Alfred the Great Nor must
we forget the gold signet ring OF Mary,
queen of Scots. On the face is engraved
the royal arms and the supporters OF the
kingdom of Scotland, with the motto,
"In Defens" and her initials, IN. X. "
Good Words.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
He Enjoyed 1t.

Old johnson was very much given to
"tippling, not wisely but too well,
and would spend all his spare time at
his favorite pub, says Spare Moments.
His house was so situated that it was
necessary for him to 60 through the
churchyard to reach it. One night, be-
ing bit fuller than usual, he managed
to fall into newly made grave. He fell
without hurting himself, and being tired
went off to sleep. When he awoke the
next morning. he couldn't make out
where he got to, but after a struggle
managed to reach the top Of the grave
and look around.
A broad grin spread over his face as
he muttered to himself:
Dear, dear, it's resurrection day,
and I'm up first"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
PIN HISTORY.
The Useful Articles Were Known In Early
Times to Egyptians.

Pins are, as the saying goes, as old as
the hills. In some form or another they
have been in existence ever since our
first parents clothed themselves in fig
leaves, which grew wild in the garden
of Eden. AS matter of fact, pins claim
q very high antiquity, the earliest form
being the natural thorn, which is still
used to some extent by the peasant
women of upper Egypt. In prehistoric
times pins were also made of the small
bones of fish and animals.
Among the remains Of the lake dwell
ers of Europe have been found bronze
pins and bronze brooches, in which the
pins form the prominent feature, many
of which are highly ornamental and
very beautiful A few copper and one
iron pin have also been found. 1t is es-
timated that 10, 900 pins have been col
lected at the lacustrine station of Swift
zerland alone. A few of these have dou-
BILE stems and were probably used as
hairpins. There have been found at
Peschiere pins which are exactly the
same in form as the safety pins of the
present time. Among the single stem
pins are many ingenious devices for
preventing the spike from passing en-
tirely through the cloth or other ma
terial it is used for fastening together.
Many of them are so formed that they
are thicker in some places than in 9TH
ers. A large number, both of bone and
bronze, had the head formed of loose
ring passed through an eye in the pin.
A few of them have the appearance OF
the scarfpin now in use. In Egypt pins
with gold heads have been discovered
while in ancient Rome bronze pins an6
bone hairpins with ornamental heads
have been discovered among relics Of
Pompeii. -Philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-12
X RAYS CAN BE SEEN.
Their Effects on Different Parts of tho
Human Eye.

Human Eye.
DIR. Brandes of the University of
Halle has succeeded in rendering directly
visible the X rays discovered by Pro
fessor Roentgen. The observation made
by Professor Salvioni, an Italian physi-
cist, that lenses are in very slight de-
gree penetrable by Roentgen's rays,
suggested to Dr. Brandes the idea that
the invisibility might be due to circum-
stances connected with this fact. He &C.
cordingly resolved to test the effect OF
Roentgcn's rays ON lcnseless eyes.
There are many people who have had
the lenses of their eyes removed as q
remedy for extreme shortsightedness or
for cataract. A girl who had had this
operation performed on both eyes, but
III whose right eye a remnant Of the lens
had been lett, allowed the experiment
to be tried upon her.
Professor Dom, whom DR.. Brandes
had interested IN the investigation, sub
jocted the girl quite Unexpectedly TO the
rays, and, when the strong current
passed through the tube which had been
totally darkencd, she declared that she
saw light with her left eye. Professors
Dorm and Brandes at first thought it
possible that q spark had leaped across,
but, when this had been rendered impos-
sible, the girl continued to declare that
she saw light.
On further trying the experiment the
two savants saw the light too. They
then continued their Investigations and
ascertained that Roentgen's rays really
affect the retina If we place our head,
completely inclosed in an entirely
Opaque vessel, near the source Of the
rays, we see light even with the closed
| eyes, and we see it most clearly at the
periphery. Moreover, we continue to see
it even when a large aluminium plate,
which would completely exclude electric
rays, is placed between a Hittorf tube
and the eye. Utter darkness, ON the
other hand, results if thick pane of
| glass, which, as is well known, is only
in very slight degree penetrable by
Roentgen's rays, is placed between the
tube and the closed or covered eye
Berlin Cor. London Standard.