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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21
CITY COUNCIL CHAT,
Old System of Collecting
Bridge Tolls Abol-
ished.
TICKETS TO BE USED HEREAFTER

story of . Resos tuition lntrodueed By Aid.
Lohse a~a Claim ed to He iu the Hsnds
81 thc ss.-.s and Alley Committee
Rubb.r usts Ter the Fire Laddies ana
M,rs Hsss Os5e,sd Bousht.
The city council held its semi
monthly meeting last night.
The old system Of collecting tolls
at the Rock river bridges 10 to be
abolished. For years il has been the
custom to collect full fare on the first
trip, whether the traveller intended
returning or not. The toll collector
had no other means of distinguish
ing those who had already paid than
his memory. aud very often. NO
doubt, he made mistakes, for the
traffic on the bridge has reached
such proportions in recent years that
it is said to be- an utter impossibility
to keep track of the vehicles. A
remedy Inns been determined in the
form OF Communication tickets. The
clerk read an ordinance amending
the bridge ordinance so that a 10 per
cent reduction will be given to pur-
chasers of IS worth of tickets. Aid.
Bleuer, chairman Of the bridge COM
mittee, moved immediate considera-
ton Of the ordinance. This was car
ried. Then the ordinance was upan-
imously adopted. Sirgle tickets will
be sold. too.
Aid. Concsnnon said that he had
heard complaints against the con-
tractors on the Seventh avenue i'm
provement, who were said to have
been using the surplus macadam in
stead Of hauling it TO nearby thorough.
fares for filling purposes. as required
by the specifications. Aid. Kennedy
replied that there was very little sur
plus, and that the complainan IS
anyway, were people who were looA
ing for something for nothing. The,
did not have property fronting the
Improvement. he ventured to state
and wanted their streets fixed up a.
the expense OF others. Let them
pave. ne said. like the others.
Aid Lohse brought in a resolution
q few months sgo for the repairing
OF street in his ward. The matter
was referred 10 the street and ale!
committee, Of which Aid. Dauber i:
chairman. No report was made AM
Aid. Lohse became uneasy. and tool
she street and alley committee chair
man to task at recent meeting 70
failure to give consideration TO tn
resolution. Aid. Dauber gave a Joe
ular explanation, and led the Secon
vsrd gentleman to believe that b
would attend to the matter as 500
as he could get around to It. Aid
Lohse has been calling for a repor
at every meeting since. 1t has be
come standing joke. Now Aid
Dauber Insists thai he las no sue
: resolution in his possession, an
what is more, he never had it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

The purchase of coo feet of hose.
30-foot ladder and rubber hats for
the firemen was ordered. Aid. Pen.
der. chairman Of the fire and light
committee. made particular refer.
ence TO the rubber hats, stating that
nearly every department in the cour.
try outside OF Rock Island WAS equip
ped with them. Aid. Fender has
shown great deal interest and pride
in the department, and it is not his
fault if everything is not up-to-date-
that is, provided the necessary cash
is available.
The mayor stated that consider
able trouble was brewing over TO-
called private sewers. the people who
constructed them challenging the
rights OF the city in the premises.
He suggested that the question Was
becoming a serious one, and the
quicker the municipality asserted it's
rights the better for oil concerned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

o. c. Eversoa is the authorized So
licitor for ads for the Industrial
Home Fair program, and he will call
on the merchants in few days.
g KIoYZ Pros
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21
Prices from l27c Up to $3.50 Per Yard

One lot heavy ingrains, choice colorings. at
22Hc yard
One lot of union extra superior Ingram worth
45c. for 3oc yard.
One lot of half wool ingram, a good wearer of
the latest and tasteful designs worth 45c for
$50 yard.
One lot heavy all wool filled extra superior in
grain, worth Coo at 4oc yard.
Five frame body Brussels from 75c per yard I'D,
and all other grades in proportion.
Rugs of all descriptions and sizes and uses
Room Rugs, Hall Rugs. Parlor Rugs, etc. Prices
always guaranteed on Carpets as we'll as on Furni
ture ETC. We do not buy job lots or old patterns,
but from carpet mills direct and only the newest
designs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

No need to fear the approach Of
Group II You have DR.. Thomas Eclec-
trio oil in the house. Never WAS q
case that it wouldn't cure il used at
the outset. For sale by Marshall &
Fisher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

"Since l have been taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla have improved greatly
in health. 1t has given me better
appetite and has strengthened me
more than any other medicine that
have ever taken. and believe that it
will do more good as q blood puri-
fer than any other medicine" WAL
ter E. Roberts, Metropolis, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

No family should be without 70
ley's Collie Cure, for all bowel com-
plants. For sale by T. II. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

Just try 10 cent boz of Cascarets
the finest liver sDd bowel regulstoy
ever made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21

Hoods pills cure nausea. sick
headache, indigestion, biliousress.
All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-21
3 sassss a -

Has barrel and action Of
smokeless powder rifles.
regular and Take-Down.
also short range cslibres
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
WARFARE oF BRAINS.
Guarding New York's Approaches wit
Electricity.

GuardlnB New AOrk's Approaches with
Electricity.
During the past few years the United
States engineer corps at Fort Wads-
worth have been engaged in accurately
plotting the approaches to New York
harbor, 80 that the positions of all
buoys and landmarks are accurately
known. The elevation of each gun re-
quired to drop projectile upon any
one of the plotted points would, there
fore, in the case of war be no longer a
matter of experiment, and doubtless
the same is true of other harbors
abroad.
With electromagnetic sentinels ju-
diciously placed in the approaches to
harbor at distance too great for the
invader to reach the city with shells,
almost the exact position of an invad
ing vessel, the direction of its course
and its speed would be known during
the darkest night as we'll as in the
brightest day.
With the increased means of intelli-
gently following the movements of the
enemy which electricity alone can af-
ford, future warfare will be less a con
test of brute force than one of brains.
In such contest the United States
has little to fear.
In the next general war the most ef-
fective forces will be brains and cleo
tricity. Armor plate and projectiles
will be of secondary Importance
Electricity.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

To-day is the famous Paseo de las
Flores, custom which is said to date
from before the conquest, The Yiga
canal will this morning, from an early
hour, present an animated appearance.
1t will be crowded with the canoes of
Indian women bringing in their flowers
and vegetables. Each Indian woman
in her canoe looks as if sealed in
floating flower garden, and all Of them
are crowned with garlands of poppies.
II is probable that this festival was
held in Aztec times in order to cele-
brate the return of spring, but the
Christian priests converted this day
into a commem Grafton in honor of our
Lady of Sorrows, Nuestra Sonora de
los Dolores.
To witness the animated scene ON
the Yiga canal and its banks at its
height, it is well to go early, not later
than seven, and to stay about two
hours. The scene is one of the most
picturesque that can be seen in Mexico.
The surface of the canal is alive with
hower-laden canoes gliding swiftly
along. The banks are crowded with
men on horseback, people in carriages
and pedestrians. Indian women oc-
cupy every available spot, where they
offer food, drink, or flowers to the
passers-by, OF course, the ubiquitous
ratero is there, and a careful vigilance
over ones watch and pocketbook is in
order. Herald,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Ichthyol is recommended by Der
Stein der Weisen as n much better
remedy for insect bites than ammonia.
Astronomers say that 1000, 600
shooting stars" fall into the sun for
everyone that comes into our atmos-
phere
The Paris Fire Brigade authorities
are said to be quietly carrying out
some trials with hose van propelled
by means of petroleum motor.
Aluminium helmets have not proved
entirely successful in the German
army, the saving in weight being more
than Offset by the metals storing heat
even TO blistering the foreheads of the
wearers,
A remarkable invention has just been
made public which promises to revolu-
honize the problem of rapid telegraphy.
1t is called the synchronograph. aud the
inventors claim that speed of 5000
words a minute can be attained. The
inventors are Professor Crehore, of
Dartmouth College, and Lieutenant
Squier, of the United States Army.
Java has thunderstorms, on an aver
age, ninety-seven days in the year;
Italy thirty-eight, Belgium twenty-one,
Holland eighteen, France, Austria and
South Russia sixteen, Spain and Port
ugal fifteen, England and the high
Swiss mountains seven, Norway four,
Cairo three. In East Turkestan, as
we'll as in the extreme north, there are
scarcely any thunderstorms known.
In pressing wooden fabrics, in order
to give them smooth, even appear
ance, both q uniform pressure and uni
lorm heat are required. To attain this
end recent experiments have been made
with electric heating, which have been
markedly successful The fabrics are
placed between metallic plates, through
which sufficient current is passed while
under hydraulic pressure to heat them
slightly more than the temperature of
boiling water,
The tuning fork, struck and applied
to the crown of the head, has been
found by DR.. N. E. Malioutine, of
Moscow, Russia, to transmit its vibra-
lions to the vocal chords, causing them
20 vibrate in unison. In this way he
mas cured, with vocal exercises, case
Of hysterical loss of voice that had re-
sisted all other treatment, including
suggestion. He believes that the pro-
cess would aid in training and improv-
ing the voices of singers.
Bacteria, as one might infer from
their simple structure, seem to have
appeared with the first life on earth
In study of the early rocks M. B.
Renault has found indications of the
presence of microbes in bones, teeth,
scales and coprolites, as well as an
abundance in vegetable tissue, espe-
cially in the spores and sporanges of
ferns. The coccoid or globular form
appears to have been earlier than the
bacillar or rod-shaped, the species, as
rule, having been different from those
now living.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

:, - Mexico has adopted the theory that
every citizen is bound to defend the
soil, the interests and the honor of his
country as a soldier. Thus in future
a wealthy Mexican will have to serve
in the army, at least in case of war, as
well as poor one. The constitution
has to be amended for this purpose,
'but there is little doubt that all the
Estates of the great Central American
federation will give their consent
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
HUMoR OF THE DAY.

She-"You have broken the promise
Tou made me- He-"Never mind,
NY dear; don't cry. I'll make you an
,ther. Comic Cuts.
Smith-"Is young Flyiugwedgo
practicing law?" Wilhnm-'I think
not He was called to the bar, but
think he is practicing economy. N.
ustrated Bits.
80, Dorothy is not going to marry
Mr.. Scrymser?" 'No; she kept talk.
ing TO him about books he hadn't read,
and he got irritated and broke the en-
gagement. Puck.
Don't cry!" he entreated. Then
he perceived that her handkerchief was
edged with the most exquisite lace.
Don't weep!" he said, correcting him
self.-Detroit journal.
EAn old bachelor says: "It is all
nonsense to pretend that love is blind.
[ never knew a man in love who did
not see ten times as much in his sweet
Aeart as l did standard.
First Tramp (scanning paper)-
Here's bloke wot says one of the
pictures at the academy lacks repose "
Second Tramp" "Well, Denny, he orter
oe here an see us. Judge.
Mrs. Hornbeak-" "Ezry, why do
these city hotels have their bills-o'-
iare in French?" Farmer Hornbeak-.
Because they wouldn't git their
warmed-over vittles eaten if they
didn't. Puck
Wiggins-'I never argue with a
woman. In the first place it's bore,
aud then, again, it never does any
good" Mrs. Henpeck-"Ah, but you
forgot how much Joy it gives to the
woman. Truth.
Little johnny Smiths
mother has and bad cough, a the doctor
.old her to go to Florida" Little
Brother (bitterly)--'And when I had
bad cough he told mama to send me
70 chool!"-Puck.
81 never go to sad play" said the
Foung woman who poses. 'It is
almost sure to make me cry, and then
It is bad for my eyes" Eyes, " replied
Miss Cayenne, 'and sometimes for the
complexion. Washington Star.
Husband-"Y don't try to make
aome attractive. Look at that table
now; no luxuries to tempt the APP
petite" Wife-"Why, you provoking
hing! You told me only last night
hat you didn't have any appetite. -
Boston Transcript.
Lawyer 49, Did you kill your
cousin only, and no other member of
your family?" Prisoner" "Yes, only
my cousin. Lawyer-"What n pityl
Had you but murdered your whole
.amily might have got you off on a
plea of emotional insanity"
Robert-"So you were not accepted
by Miss Vellum? What did she say?
Did she tell you how sudden it was?"
Richard-"Oh, dear, no. She's liter
ary, you know. She merely replisd
that she was very sorry, but | was not
available. Boston Transcript
Employer-"John, you were drunk
last night. / have waited till you
were sober before inAicting the penalty
in order that you might know what you
we're punished for. You are dis
charged" Servant Don't you think
you are making a mistake, sir? 1t
seems to me that you ought to have
discharged me when 1 was loaded. -
Boston Courier. II
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

The London World thinks reading
Scott's novels is what makes Ameri-
cans so title crazy. 1t says The de-
basing effect of Scott's lords and ladies
is nowhere stronger than in young la
dies colleges in the United States.
Girls there imagine that persons who
live in old castles and sleep in rooms
hung for hundreds of years with tap
.estry must be far above the ordinary
level. Their dream is to become,
through dollars and feminine charm,
mistresses of these imposing abodes,
and bear the titles connected with
them. An American lady married to a
prosaic British nobleman with a eu-
phonious title had filled her imagin-
alton with thoughts of Kenilworth.
She was more than disappointed to
ind that earls were not belted, and
that Howard could be matter-of-
fact burly person, fond of plain food,
and plain in all his ways.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
Protecting Iron'AgaInst Rust.

A new process for the protection of
iron against the injurious action of rust
has been suggested by NJ. Deninger, a
Dresden chemist. 1t consists of treat
ing the iron with a solution of ferro-
cyanide, which forms coating of
cyanide of iron, uniform and imper-
meable to water, and of such a nature
as to protect effectively the iron COW
cred. The operation, applied on a
large scale, has already given good re-
suits. The following is the method
adopted in practice: The solution is
mixed with a fax-seed varnish, to
which has been added a little turpen-
tine or benzol, so as to cause very
homogeneous emulsion, which can be
applied without difficulty. The eyap-
oration of the alcohol leaves the fax
seed varnish, which forms a coat pro-
tecting the cyanide Of iron which is de-
posted upon the iron. There is no
necessity, says the Industrial World,
of previously preparing the iron be-
yond the removing of beds of rust too
thick to admit Of the action Of the ferro-
cyanide.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

According to the last regular census
taken by the Government, the gain in
wealth made by the North Atlantic
States, including Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York and Pennsylvania, amounted to
less than two per cent for the entire
decade preceding. Against this show
ing, however, says the Atlanta Consti-
tuition, the former slave-holding States
Of the Union disclosed a gain of twen-
ty-seven per cent. during the same
length Of time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
A Coupon of 1776.

Cornelius Holton, of 435 Fifth ave-
due, this city, called upon Mayor
Strong in New York yesterday and pre-
sented for payment coupon clipped
from an old water bond issued by New
York City on March 3, 1776. The
coupon called for the payment to bearer
Of four shillings and was signed by
Benjamin Blagge as clerk. Mr.. Hol-
ton said that it was through his wife,
who was formerly the widow of DIR. A.
Barnes, of Greenwich, Conn, that he
got the coupon. She had received it
from her grandfather many years ago.
Mayor Strong said there was no fund
from which the coupon could be hon
orCd, so he referred Mr.. Holton to the
City Chamberlain. General McCook
knew of no fund from which payment
could be made, so the holder was in
turn referred to Controller Fitch.
There the question of the city's liza
bility was raised. Deputy Controller
Lyons said that the issue of bonds in
question was authorized by the COM
mon council four months before the
Declaration of Independence was
signed. He expressed the opinion that
the successors of King George were
the responsible parties from whom in
terest should be collected. So Mr..
Holton returned to his home without
his four shillings Brooklyn Eagle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

More sweets are sold in New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago than In the
whole of France. In each of these
cities the delicacies are turned out by
the ton. The United States contains
more than 1000 manufacturers of con-
fectionery, whose combined capital
amounts to over $40, 200, 900, and who
employ 10000 hands. The amount
paid in wages and for materials is close
upon $3O,O0O,OO per annum, while
the yearly value of the products is half
as much again.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

In recent inquiry in the celebrated
Fair will case it transpired that none
Of the dying mans children was pres
ent at his last agony. The only ones
about him were hired servants, A
physician testified that Fairs valet
was drunk and incapable of being of
any assistance. Fairs bookkeeper
and collection agent stood outside the
door, and seizing the drunken valet
whenever he emerged from the cham
ber exclaimed; SIS the old man dead?
How much longer will he last?"
When, at length they learned that
the breath was departing from their
masters body, they rushed in, heed
less of the pitiful, dying creature, and
gathered up all his papers and per-
sonal belongings and rushed out, even
carrying of the physicians instru-
ments in their rapacity. Or
leans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

Philatelists will be both interested
and sorry to hear that the well-known
stamp dealer and expert on postage
stamps, Decker, of Hanover, is reported
10 have decamped, He was an ac-
knowledged'authority, both in and out
Of Germany, as regards the genuine
ness of fpostage stamps. Since his flight
accusations are said to have been put
forward to the effect that in his exper.
tises he replaced genuine stamps with
counterfeit ones aud great uneasiness
and indignation are manifested by large
private collectors in consequence. -
New Orleans Picayune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

The immense importance Of the
newly-invented telegraphy by which
5000 words a minute can be sent con-
tinuously can best be appreciated by
noting what it could accomplish in
single example of business. Between
New &hk and Chicago, where about
40,0 letters are carried daily, it
would require but two lines in contin.
nous operation to handle the entire
business. At present it takes three
days to receive business reply be,
tween New York and Chicago. This
transmission by machine telegraphy
could be accomplished easily the same
dav
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
She Would Not stnY.

"The situation of your house suits
me, mum" said Norah McCarty, who
had visited the home of Mrs. Tenspot
with view of inspecting the induce
ments offered for her to assume the
position of help-lady in the house
hold.
81 am glad you like it," replied
Mrs. Tenspot, with becoming humility.
'"The pay you offer is satisfactory
too, and the number of people in the
family. The room your help-lady
occupies is pretty good too, but must
ask you few more questions before |
make mp my mind to remain in your
service.
Certainly" replied Mrs. Tenspot,
humbly. "Ask all you like. ="
"Do you ride a bicycle2"
"Yes."
"AIr. Tenspot too?"
"Yes."
''Do you provide bicycle for your
cookP"
eyes, certainly. We have one for
her exclusive use"
81 am glad of that. Some people
seem TO think that cooks ought not to
ride a wheel.
"Oh, we would not think of de-
priving our cook of that privilege"
"What make is the wheel?"
''The same make rs Mr.. Tenspot's
and my own-the Ripsnorter.
"Then, ma'am, I'm sorry, but | can't
come"
"Why not?"
81 don't know that make | couldn't
think of ridin' anything but the jim
dandy make of bicycle, Good-by,
mum. "-Harper's RaZar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

Is it right to make a dog work in
harness? Belgium answers yes, Eng
and no, the United States is indiffor-
an, and France is deliberating The
French law against using dogs as beasts
If burden is often violated in some of
he provinces, and movement has
)een started for a repeal. Belgians
say their draught dogs are quite jolly
but if the dogs could vote on the sub
act, they would be apt 10 approve the
English view.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

3 On the authority of one of the lead
ing statistioians of Europe, DIR. Lip
sins, of Berlin, it is stated that the
Turks have massacred 100, 900 Ar
menians, destroyed $500 Armenian
towns and villages, sacked sos churches
and compelled 282 towAs to embrace
Mohammedanism within the last two
years. DIR. Lipsins, says the New
York Mail and Express, is fair wit
ness, and has made careful inquiry.
He began it with serious conviction
that the Turks had been maligned and
misrepresented, but as he went on
with the work he discovered that the
story of their infamies had been only
half told, and that the full truth of
their butcheries would not bear repeti-
tion to the ears of the Christian world.
His dreadful statistics of the devasta-
tion of Armenia shed a vivid light
upon the character and purpose of the
nation whose hands the European
countries are now supporting in war
Of subjugation against Greece.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16
LIKE SHIPS At SEA.

like ships at sea, that side by side
With idle sails at eventide
Upon the unruflsd waters lie,
So, for an instant you and ]
Drift here together on life's tide.
Our port, our venture, and beside
Our course, to each 90 servo as guide.
Across the narrow space we cry,
Like ships at sea.
With swelling sails we swifter glide,
And soon across the distance wide,
One scarcely hears the faint good-by;
And so, to meet no more for ave.
Upon life's main, our paths divide,
Like ships at sea.