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Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Bucklen's Arnica SaIye,

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum,
fever sores, letter, chapped hands,
chilblains, corns and all skin erup-
tions' and positively cures piles or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction or money re-
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For
sale by Hartz & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Attention, Old Soldiers.

The manufacturers have instructed
I. II. Thomas, druggist, to give a
bottle of 25-cent size Of Foley's Collie
Cure free to the first soldier of tho
civil war who applies for same. 1t
is the great remedy for chronic diar-
rhoea. cramp colo and all bowel COM
plants.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Meets Your Needs.

When you feel tired, languid, ner
'ous and are troubled with pimple.
and eraPtions, you will find Hood.
Sarsaparilla exactly meets youl
needs. 1t purifies and enriches tn,
blood and imparts to ID the qualitie.
needed to tone the nerves and nour
ish the whole system. 1t cures al
blood humors.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04

More than twenty million free sam
pies of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
have been distributed BY the manu-
facturers. What better proof of their
confidence in its merits do you want ?
1t cures piles, burns. scalds, sores. in
the shortest space of time. T. H.
Thomas, A. j. Riess and NJ. F. Balm
sen, druggists.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Munyon's Headache and Indi.
QeSti0n Cure

is the only remedy on the market
that will cure every form of Headache
in to 10 minutes, correct indiges-
tion, stimulate the nerves and build
up the system. 1t should be in every
home and every travellers gripsack.
At all druggists. rs cures, 25o.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04

The total area Of the Sandwich, or
Hawaiian. islands is about the same as
New Jersey.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04

Arnold's Bromo Celery cures head
aches; 10, 25 and so cents. Reiss
drug store.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Scarcity OF Work the Cause.

The failure of unions to select dele
gates is attributed to the poor season
which the trade has experienced in
many of the cities. especially the
larger ones, the expenses Of each dele
gate amounting to over 500, which
has to be paid by the members of the
union.
A Rock Island stonecutter said to-
day: The members of our union
have reason to congratulate them
selves this season. Nearly all of
them have had steady employment at
home, while our fellow-tradesmen
throughout the country have been
compelled to knock about from place
to place in search o'work. Many Of
them have come here for employ
ment.''
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04


Meeting Rock Island Disappointed.
The biennial convention of the Jour
neymen Stonecutters' Association of
North America was to have opened in
Rock Island yesterday. but owing TO
the failure of enough of the branch
organizations to select delegates sulii-
cient to constitute a quorum. the
convention was postponed by order
Of James +. Mcllugh. of Washington.
ID. C.. general secretary and treasurer
Of the association.
The Rock Island union. of which
William Stephens is president. had
preparations under way for the en-
tertainnent of the delegates. of whom
no less than one hundred were ex-
pected. snd was greatly disappointed
at che announcement postponing tn,
convention. which will not be held. il
is supposed. until next year. and iher
Rock Island may lie denied the honor
which was 30 have been hers. But thi.
is matter which lies entirely in tn,
hands of the executive board.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Licensed to Wed.

Burdock Blood Bitters gives man
a clear head. an active brain, a strong
vigorous body-makes him fit for the
battle of of life. For sale by Marshall
x Fisher.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04

Hoods Pills cure sick headache
nausea, biliousness and all liver ills.
Price % cents.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
Quality Has Ever
Been Kept in Mind

af this store, and high grade goods have
not been sacrificed to get the price away
down. Irs knowing how and When to buy
and buying and selling for cash that
fends 10 keep things along In the right
lines at
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
While Memory Lasts

'HE Spaniards will remember the drub.
bings that have been administered to
their fleets by the American navy, and while
memory lasts those who have profited there
by viii remember the full blown bargains that
Shields Cash Grocery. Unlike many who
have endeavOred to sell at low prices,
Rock Island Argus., 1898-08-04
FAILED TO CONVENE,
Biennial Session Of the Journey.
men Stonecutters of North
America Postponed.
NOT ENOUGH DELEGATES SELECTED

Scarcity of Work Among the Trades
men of Other Cities Given as the R-e-
son for the Subordinate Bodie. Not
Sending Representative to the National
Meeting-Rock Island disappointed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

huge gray shapes that whisk in ana about the piers along the coast line and are called wharf rats are. as a rule, considered beyond the power of the rat catcher 10 drive away or annihilate. In this Ohio hunt, however. the big broth CT of the wharf rat or a rat that was big enough to be that was very largely in evidence.
 As to the actual size of the rats the story is told that the biggest of them all measured II inches from tip to tip. The total weight of the entire catch was between 55,0O0 and 60,o00 pounds. Think of 50,o00 pounds of rats being killed in ten days, and an idea of what the granaries and grain of the farm CTS around about Washington Court House suffered will be aptly conceived.
 \ curious fact in connection with this conflict is that never until within the last two seasons have the rats be- come so great pest as to require ac- tion of the nature just described to sue cessfully cope with them. Why they should so suddenly increase in num- bers seems mystery. Rats breed very rapidly, to be sure, but when they al- most triple in number in a single year it would indicate an extraordinary birth rate or wholesale rat immigra- tion from some less favored locality.
 As matter of fact, rat of Ohio and a jacllrabbit of Missouri may well be placed in the same class so far as their relative position toward the farmer are concerned. Both have become such nui- sances that it seems very likely here after that the annual rat hunt will be quite as much the vogue in Ohio as the jackrabbit hunt is in the state whose eastern shores are washed by the placid Mississippi.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

4ef It is in California that this won ssf IS to be seen, down at Asti, by the nussian river valley. The wine is a ss.s x or the product of what is called sl 4s swiss-Italian company. and the as i'self is the blending of the juices
 grapes from a thousand vines. As ,.. system of blending wine it is in this 4 ,tspset as much a wonder as in point Y rqaantity and place of keeping.
 ,'s ~ another proof also that necessity sos s4e mother of invention. for if it had peen that the colonists could find ss.s. as aay to dispose of their wine in a asaai aa'apie manner, owing to its abun- pss u IS probable the lake would V,s5 nave been created, and another as. ssaer thus lost to the world. The il- ts''alion tos accompanying is q reproduce tb,. 4 ol ?. photograph taken expressly sss ss me readers of this article might ,bIs ior themselves just exactly what jl'oks like. = "sHs is'ls sst 'an of Heidelberg. which the ms.ag. n generation and even some of the ay, ssue learned 10 think of with won- na0 ' 's s put child beside full-grown
 - when compared witt this Califor.
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can boast of even a greater growth than himself. Thus far his inquiry has been fruitless.
 This remarkable beard is an exempH- fication of one of the strange freaks of nature which no one has ever been able to explain. Ii used to be said that such q growth was abnormal and indicated an unhealthful developments of those properties of the body which force the growth of hair. Physicians have care fully investigated the matter in the case of MT. Larow and there is nothing about the skin to show that it is differ ent from that of any other man whose growth of beard is purely normal.
 Mir. Larow himself says that, aside from the discomfort of his luxuriant whiskers he has never been able 10 ob- serve that the growth affected him one way or the other. Why nature has thus been generous in this strange fashion no one can tell. It is puzzle to med teal science.
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average of his race; but a kennel made especially for his use is much better, and it can easily be built in half day. The drawing shows such an affair, very neat in appearance. which any body can construct from few boards with tongued and groved edges.
 It's size will depend, of course, on the size of your dog; but for canine of medium size q box 36 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 32 inches high from the ground to top of the roof peak, will give ample room. If it is made larger or smaller, the same relative proportions should be maintained.
 First make the front and back with peaked tops, then the sides and bottom. in the front cut the entrance hole, and be sure to have it large enough; don't force your dog 10 squeeze and scrape every time he erawls in or out. This opening should be marked with a com pass and cut with keyhole saw to ob- tain the curved line. Above it, in the peak, bore four holes, and with the same saw cut away the wood between them as shown in the picture, so as to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

track to within about 100 feet of the grand stand.
 The focus is so arranged that the light covers the track and the whitened walls erected on the outer edge of the track. Lights are also hung directly over the stretch, and up so high that with the shade reflector adjusted the rays of the light will not come within range of the spectators in the grand stand.
 The principal object is to make the track us light as day and at the same time have the lights so arranged that they will not be reen by the spectators; that is, so that the spectators will not be bothered by the light shining in their eyes. Throwing the light against white surface doubles the amount thereof. and then no strain on the eyes of the spectators. Again, in the ease of horses trotting, pacing and running, there are 10 shadows to bother ths horses, because it is steady light sim- liar to sunlight
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

make a ventllator; for dogs as we'll as other animals need pure air. The back can be treated in a similar manner, so that u circulation of air can be had.
 Now nail the sides 10 the bottom. and the front and back 10 the bottom and sides. Between the two peaks nail q strip of wood to form ridge pole, against which the upper ends of the boards forming the roof are to be nailed. Next put on the top, mailing it securely to the ridge pole, the top edges of the front and back, and also to the upper edge of the sides. Under
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

the front and back tail piece of joist to raise the floor of the kennel from the ground; when this is done look inside and see that there are no nail ends visi- ble to tear the dogs skin or stick into him when he lies down.
 A staple with a chain, attached to the end of which may be snap. can be driven in at one side of the front. if it is desired tc keep the dog fast ened. If necessary, d door may be fit- ted to close the hole in the front at night, so as to keep the dog warmer in winter, but you must never forget to open it in the morning, as it would be very disagreeable for dog to be shut in so small a place when he is awake. If it is thought desirable 10 paint the kennel, the nail holes should be puttied up and the entire outside treated to several successive coats; a light colored paint is best.
 Always place plenty of straw on the floor of q kennel to make soft bed for your dog; be will be more grateful to you in his canine way than you have any idea of.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30
even the shingles having been steamed

even the shingles having been steamed and split in Lawrence.
 I large driveway through the base ment rendered the handling of the grain, the flour and meal, wonderfully convenient for the time in which the mill began to operate, in the early eos. A cord attached to bell announced to the miller at work in the third or fourth story above that a customer was waiting below. A speaking tube think of a speaking tube in wind nill-helped the latter to make known his wants, a table of current market prices and charges for grinding enabled him to tell at glance how much cash or grain he must pay and how much grist he would get in exchange. A large elevator was lowered to the farm CTS wagon upon which he unloaded his grain and from which he received his flour, meal or bran.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

walnuts there are stuffed in his cheeks. Time was when this remarkable beard measured 71s feet, but this was past the limit and from time to time Mr. Larow broke off an inch or so until the present proportions were reached.
 The beard is by TO means bristly, but soft and silky even to the ends. MT. Larow has no idea why lie is thus made the object of natures peculiar generosity. but ever since the day, mem orable to him. or rather his friends, in 1853, when he was born, he has been noted for the same characteristics by which nature distinguished Esau.
 Up 10 the time he was 25 years old, Mr. Larow shaved every day, but even the most steadfast shaving failed to keep his face clear of all sign of beard, and so in despair he made up his mind to let it grow and see what it would do. The green bay tree was as nothing be- side it and it has grown and grown as its years increased until it is more
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

the type known as the Mogul, and with i'll a few weeks will be running on the Lu Han railway of China. The gauge Is standard, and with the exception of the six-wheel tender the design strong ly resembles an American locomotive of the latest pattern. It's water tank holds 4,000 gallons and the tender is big enough to hold seven tons of coal at once.
 Its makers say there is no reason why it should not equal in speed the famous 900 of the New York Central. and 1t is believed that this engine will really establish new speed record in China and give the population of that far-away land another opportunity to wonder at the multitude of the crea- tions of the foreign devils.
 The combination car and engine. which is not going to China. but will
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

built it in the most careful manner. Nature gave no aid, for the lake is an excavation, cement lined. So perfect ly has it's interior been glazed that the properties of glass are all there. This might not seem so important to one who knew little of wines, but. as mat ter of fact, the wine blends and reaches higher standard far more easily if such conditions exist.
 This is how the tank was really builti First, an excavation was made in th rocky hillside Next. wal of col crete two feet in thickness was put in the floor and sides. Then came the lay ing and glazing of the cement. This was not all. Had the lake been left open at the top impurities must have found their way into it. not to mention the deluge that comes in what Califor- nia knows as the rainy season.
 All around the sides big steel girGars were put in place, and on these rests the sectional cover of the lake. This is so constructed that not a ray of lighA can penetrate into this vast quantity of wine, and it mellows and ripens just as if it were in the most deep-down vault that can be found anywhere.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

While the old mill itself has led a comparatively calm existence it wit messed the occupation of Lawrence by Quantrelrs guerillas and it's hgg2 arms have looked down upon cyclones that swept away adjacent buildings but left it unharmed. Itwas originally built by Swedish workmen imported di- rectly for that purpose and the quality of the work they accomplished is shown by the fact that the interior framework of oak is to-day as strong and sound in it's position as when it was first placed together.
 Of late years it has been play ground for children and it's sails have Tapped emptily as if mournfully ask ing again to be set in motion and to give the power for grinding as of old.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

or in the dominions of the queen, un- der the flag of freedom or where slav- cry still exists, there are engines that if they lived could vow allegiance to Uncle Sam.
 The improvements in locomotives have been very great within the last few years. The accompanying illustra- ton indicates this. The regulation en- zine that is seen coming eastward from China is reproduced from photo- graph taken of a machine" that has just been shipped to the orient with eight companions. The other affair which plays the opposite part to the locomotive is a combination engine and car of brand new design. It also is re- produced from photograph.
 The first locomotive mentioned is of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30
LIGHTING RACE TRACKS.
An Omaha Man Who Claims to Have Solved the Problem.
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One of the greatest problems with which the racing world has been forced to wrestle is how to be able 10 con tinue racing to a convenient hour when the darkness gathers fast in the early afternoon. An Omaha man, E. C. Solo mon, claims to have solved the problem and has justpatented plan. the trial of which will be among the interesting features of the coming Trans-Missis- sippi exposition at Omaha.
 The object of the invention is the lighting of race tracks and other tracks in a manner that will plainly show any object that may be on any part of the track at night. The searchlights are on pole in the center of each turn Of the track, high enough up, prefer ably 50 feet. so as to be out of the way and observation of the spectators, throwing steady light all around the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30
Merxousnesa.

This term was not first used by the
 present prime minister, but by min ister who affected to ridieule the
 warnings of those who were con stantly drawing the attention of the two houses of parliament to Russia's steady advance toward India. The term was happy one in it's way; but time ere long proved that the alarmists were correct. and the said minister, so far as 1 remember, deprecated it's be ing constantly brought up against him. This word was coined by the duke of Argyll. who, in q speech in the house of lords, was deriding the well-founded apprehensions of those who feared that the Russians would make themselves masters of Merv, in Turkesfan. They took | in 18s3-1554.-Notes and Queries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.
They Can Re Found In Nearly All Countries of the Globe.
 rCnnvrioht 1898

How many people know that one- quarter of all the locomotives built in the United States are shipped to other countries? When you stop to think and investigate you also find out that for 40 years we have been constructing engines for use in other lands. Aus tralia uses the American locomotive and so do Spain, Japan, China, New Zealand, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, near ly all South America through which the railroad has ever penetrated. and a lot of other places beside.
 Whether you are in the orient or the occident you are quite as likely 10 ride as any other. In the land of the czar
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30
HUNTING RATS IN OHIO.
Over Eleven Thousand of the Rodents
 Killed in Ten Days.
[Copyright. 1898.

LCopyAiSnlt 1854
 There is work for a Pied Piper of Hameln out near Washington Court House, O., or perhaps it would be more truthful to say there was work of that sort. So great pest did the rats make of themselves that 300 men banded themselves together and devoted ten entire days to the slaughter of the TO- dents
 And slaughter it was with venge- ance, for when the hunt was over and the results were all tailed up it was found that 11,672 rats had come to a sudden end. They were hunted in the highways and byways, driven out of barns and from hiding places in the fields. Many was the hand-fought bat tie and many hunter learned to his sorrow exactly how it feels to be bit ten by rat.
 Tremendous rats many of them, some as large as an ordinary eat, if the hunt CTS are to be believed, while the sizes decreased until the wee baby rat, no larger than a mouse, was killed, large iy because it could not run fast enough. It may be thought that the best aids to the rat hunter would be the cats, but the famous cat of Bubastes himself would have hardly been a match for some of the gray-whiskered, yellow-toothed rodents that snarled de- fanee as the yelping dogs bore down upon them.
 So far as records show, this is the only rat hunt ever inaugurated anywhere in such a fashion. There are in the cities professional rat catehers, and the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

stay in the United States, is intended as practical means of meeting the en- croachments of the electric roads upon what the railroad men call the local and short trip business, meaning that where people used to ride on the steam cars from suburban places in, they now, when possible, take the trolley.
 Really it is a steam motor car. Water is carried in long tanks under the cars body. The fuel used is coke or an- thracite and the car will run 60 miles without replenishing its stock of fuel. The car seats 60 persons and two men can easily operate it.
 Before very long this car is to be given a thorough trial, and if success ful may prove a formidable enemy to the electric locomotive.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

than foot taller than he is. He is far from proud of his beard, but says it would be such nuisance to shave that he has not the courage to cut it off, although he does not think it of any benefit to him whatever so far as his existence is concerned.
 Tn the accompanying illustration the beard appears in full. but this is not the way it's owner wears it. Under or dinary circumstances he braids it care- fully each day and then winds it about his body beneath his waistcoat. Mir. Larow's one amusement is to communi- cate with any person he hears of with an unusually long beard in the hope, he says, that he can find some one who
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nia creation. One could go boating on this lake very comfortably, although it would be but short ride. A steam launch would find room enough to steam back and forth and possibly turn around. The passengers might re- fresh themselves with quality of wine that comes high after it leaves California, and, as for wine bath, it is a big swimming tank indeed thi.+ can boast of the size of this contrivance or give equal opportunity for plunge.
 The owners of this. lake guard if with exceeding care. In the first place, they
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Mammx wns sntirned.

Good morning, nanny! Where is that old man of yours"
 He right yer in de cabin, sah."
 '.How was it he didn't come around to see me yesterday, as he promised?"
 ..I hain' know de reason, sah, lessen it was cause he tuk de notion ter go gunnin'."
 "oh, he went gunning. did he? Well. l suppose he was prompted with de- sire to provide for his family. Did he have any luck ?''
 "Accordin' ter my idee he done hab de bes' days gunnin' wat ebber happen ter i'm
 "What did he shooto"
 .He done shoot 'imself, sah, an he ,boun' ter stay home fo' a mont'."-Bos- Ion Courier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-30

Ntures of it's sort that might well
 Pinspired Don Quixote himself, and
 .btless the undeveloped Saneho Pan
 Of the nineteenth century then
 Eed at it with the same feeling in
 way that aetuated his prototype
 ong az. The mills machinery and
 ted the whole plan are a wonderful aiuct of human ingenuity and skill. smmense wheel, so feet in diameter. Fsfag great canvas sails ten feet de is said to have furnished a force |llaltoan so horsepower engine.
 The building itself is octagon shape |Hd fire stories high, the basement |E5 being of stone 40 feet across with 4 foot walls. The revolving dome is feet in diameter. All the super |seture was of hard native wood.