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Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Obituary.

Mrs. Margaret Foley, aged 81, died
at her home in Moline last night.
Mrs. Eta Blass died at her home in
st Joseph, Mo-, Monday. Beside her
husband she leaves three sisters, Mrs.
l. j. Dillon, Mrs. Laura Crosley and
Miss Dora Plought, who live in this
city.
Jonas Milestone, former resident
of Bowling township, died at his
home six miles northeast of Daven-
port, yesterday, of general debility.
He leaves wife and one daughter,
aged 6 years. The remains will be
Inferred in McConnell's chapel bury
ing ground in Bowling, beside those
of the deceased's first wife, funeral
services to be held at the chapel at
D. m. tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
GRAND JURY ECHOES,
j. p. Ament, the Pawnbroker,
Indicted For Con.
spiracy.
OTHERS CHARGED WITH HIM.

Accused of Working or Cheap Jewelry
on Various Persons, Employing False
RepresentatiOns-C to Hold a Night
Session on the Downey Damage Suit
other Matters.
Thorough investigation of the man.
ner in which local pawn shops are
operated was made by the September
grand jury, which aside from sug-
gesting stringent measures on the
part of the municipal authorities to
prevent the purchase of stolen arti-
cles, caught j. p. Ament, who con-
ducts a secondhand store and pawn
shop on Second avenue, in the net,
returning an indictment against him
and three others who have not been
arrested as vet, who are accused of
assisting in the alleged crime, in the
capacity eff agents, for conspiracy.
Mr.. Ament was in court today and
made arrangements to furnish the
required $500 bonds to insure his ap-
pearanee when wanted for trial.
Ament and his accessories are
charged with palming off inferior
iewelry on various persons, represent
ing to them that the articles were of
OOOu Ndlu0 anu HSil bGCh paw ~
people who could not redeem them
within the time stipulated on the
ticket.
Among those who claim they were
victimized are Robert Connolly, Louis
Laeseke, George Schefer, Henry South
ard Harley CLANCY, John McDarrah
and Robert Cox.
Ed Peterson and Ben Cundiff, in
dicted for robbery, and Jacob Muhle-
man, indicted for wife abandonment,
entered into recognizance before
Judge Gest.
A Night Session.
Court is to hold an evening session
today in hopes of winding up the trial
of the Downey damage suit against
the Rock Island road.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
To Be STARTED TODAY
Every Prospect of the Reorgani.
zation of the Rock Island
Club.
LEASE OF THE LYNDE MANSION.

This Will Mean Association Which
VIII in the Highest Sense Promote
the Social and General Welfare of
the City and Get Things on the Move
Again.
The Rock Island Club will be put
on it's feet again at the meeting being
held at the Harper house at O'Clock
this afternoon. As stated in yester-
days ARGUS, the fresh opportunity to
secure lease on the the Lynde man.
sion together with the many evidences
that have come to light of late en-
phasizing the need of the organiza-
ton, induced those prominent in the
organization to make final move to
get the club going. This has every
appearance of having been successful.
At all events the old officers are in
session. These are: f. w. Bahnsen,
Charles McHugh, p. L. Mitchell, Will
liam Jackson, c. j. Searle, Z. H.
Guyer, Mayer Rosenfield, w. H. Mar
shall, A. C. Dart, f. w. Hurst and h.
w. Dusinberre.
Mr.. Bshnsen is president, but it
will be necessary to select a new sec
retary in place of Mr.. Dusinberre,
who has moved from the city. AS
soon as the directors perfect the lease
with Cowden & Holmes-the terms
having already been agreed to-the
meeting will be called of those orig
inally signing the membership roll
and of citizens generally to complete
the organization.
Much to Do.
There is a vast field of usefulness
for such an organization in Rock Isl
and at the present time. These are
some of the objects that may be
enumerated:
To secure new theatre.
To encourage city hall.
To extend the park system
To bring about union depot.
To take steps to effect a permanent
organization such as will give to Rock
Island an annual attraction of the
nature of street fair or exposition.
To not only encourage more factor
les, but bring them here.
To have a standing committee that
will cooperate with similar commit
tees from Moline and Davenport to
work with Maj. S. Z. Blunt in making
Rock Island arsenal what it is capable
of being made.
To give to the city administration
the encouragement it should have
when it deserves it as now, in further
ing public improvements.
To leave nothing undone that will
promote the social, commercial, in
dustrial and business welfare of the
city and community at all times.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
That JOYFUL FaeIinr

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
illness, which follows the use of Syrup
of Figs. is unknown to the few who
have not progressed beyond the old
time medicines and the cheap substi-
tutes sometimes offered but never ac-
cepted by the well informed. Buy the
genuine. Manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
You invite disappointment when

You invite disappointment when
you experiment. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers are pleasant, easy, thor
ough little pills. They cure consti-
patton and sick headache just as sure
as you take them. L. II. Thomas,
A. j. Riess and NJ. F. Bahnsen, drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Police Points.

j. n. Snyder was arrested this af-
ternoon by Sergt. Archer on a charge
of incest.
Officer William Ryan today resumed
his duty on the central beat, after a
short illness that confined him to his
home. Capt. Frank Ekhard is also
laid up, a sufferer from pleurisy.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Democratic Committee, Attention.

All democratic ward and county
committeeman are requested to meet
at Turner hall at O'Clock Friday
night. All active democrats are also
invited to be present.
j. w. CAvANAUGH,
Chairman County Committee
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Fur Repairing.

Should only be entrusted to expert
workmen- We give all work our
personal attention Richter & Sons,
furriers. 2l9 West Second street, Dav-
enport-
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14

Quality first, price last" is the
motto applied in the preparation of
IT. & t. brand coffee For sale by
all grocers.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
voodmen AttentIon.

The next regular meeting of c. W.
Halves Camp 1850 will be held Satur-
dav evening. Oct. 10, 1898.
TB. REIDY, V. G..
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Cloth Jackets.

Complete assortment. lowest prices
at Richter's, PIG West Second street,
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14
Manufacturing Prices

Our sealskins, collarettes, jackets
and furs at Richters', furriers, 219
West Second street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-10-14

Court is to hold an evening session
today in hopes of winding up the tria
of the Downey damage suit agains
the Rock Island road
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02

ergetic action and manual work, and
when machine work tends to make even
human movements mechanical.
"A slight expense will equip a room
for fifty or sixty boys to work at draw
ing, designing, modelling and carving.
The boys from the street get so inter-
ested in this work that usually there
are a dozen waiting for every vacancy.
They unconsciously begin to realize
their capacity, while the making of
original and beautiful things influences
them morally as Well as mentally and
manually. Hundreds of self-respecting,
earnest and successful young men to-
day will testify that they owe their
start to the night schools for art and
manual training, but for which most
Of them might have developed from
nothings, if not worse. So successful
have these nights schools been, which
were first started by the Boys Guild
of st. James Episcopal church, w. w.
Frazier, jr.. treasurer, that the city is
now introducing the work in it's vaca-
ton schools and truant schools"
All that vas said by this remarkable
man was more han confirmed by a
visit to the Philadelphia school of in
dustrial art, to the Roman Catholic
high school, and to the private night
schools. These new methods are rap
idly being adopted elsewhere, in Bal
timore, st. Louis, Los Angeles and in
many other cities and towns; also in
England and on the continent. One
can but be fascinated by the simplicity
of these new methods and the results
they accomplish in the children. And
they are free to all, like nature itself,
unrestricted by proprietary rights.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02
An Old Fashioned Remedy.

They were two dc boys with scanty
silver locks, and they had many other
things in common, memories and a host
of chestnutty old stories, from which
they brushed the mold whenever they
met.
Their jokes also had an ancient fla
vor, but they never wearied of telling
they acknowledged as superior to the
inventions Of the olden time, for the
most part they bewailed the decadence
Of the world and human nature.
Then one Of them became ILL.,, And
nothing pleased him-not even the best
see him. He wanted old-fashioned rem
edies that had not been heard of in two
generations, and 1amented the good old
practice of phlebotomy and other pass
ed away specifics of materia medica.
When he was at his lowest his old
chum called, bringing a small, mys-
FERROUS looking package, which the sick
mar put under his pillow. 49,.
Where did you find ito" he asked
fecbly.
I'm an ol~d-fashioned place in a back
street, where some nice people have a
little shop. It's the very same we used
to buy when we were boys. I felt that
it would cure you as soon's ever I
saw it,"
1--WE got stacks of things I don't
want said the sick man, "but nothing
thatll set me up like this" and he
mumbled something between his lips,
not forgetting to say: Have a bite,
too. Maybe you need it as much as l
do
II got some for myself said the old
chum, and it too me right back to
when I was a boy, and.
Here the nurse sent him away. but
from that hour the sick man revived
and in a few days was up and about.
I'D like to know what that other Old
chap brought him. the doctor said to
the nurse.
Nothing but some pink and white
sticks of old-fashioned peppermint can
day-they couldn't have helped him
any," responded the nurse, looking at
fably over her glasses. All, she was
too young to know.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02
Smallest Church in England.

Where is the smallest church in
America? 1t would be interesting to
know. The smallest church in Eng
land has been discovered at Lullington,
in Sussex. The village itself is on so
small a scale that theminiature church,
some sixteen feet square,. is quite large
enough to supply it's needs. Built in
medieval times upon a slight emf
hence within a short distance of Alfris-
ton, the church is reached by a path
which passes through charming seen
cry. The present structure stands upon
the site of the chancel of the building
destroyed during the Cromwellian
struggles, and at the same time the
church records disappeared, SO that
ven the name Of the patron saint is
not now known. Some idea of the di-
minutive appearance of the building,
which accommodates only about thirty
w~orshipers, can be gathered from a
glance at a picture of it. Inside the
small sanctuary the large pulpit COM
pletely dwarfs the scanty sitting ac-
commodation. The belfry is more for
ornament than use, and the birds are
allowed to retain undisputed posses
sion.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02

JeWeled pins such as men wear ars
now adopted by women to fasten their
laces, and the jeweler sells them in
sets, six in a tiny leather case, each pin
glittering with a different colored head.
These little pins look very pretty, nest
ling amid the frills and tufts Of the
point d'Alencon and point d'aguille
lace ties, and they are also useful for
the delightful jabots n neck bows
OF plated lace and mousseline worn
with satin stocks. Pretty French ties
OF white lawn, the end cut in fantastic
scollops n embroidered or delicately
pointed with flowers or tiny butterflies,
are novel and dainty. Sets of fine
French muslin collars and cuffs, en-
oider and trimmed with lace, are
pretty for silk or cashmere blouses.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02
TRADES ARE NOT TAUGHT.

You don't teach the trades?"
mo, sir. But our pupils possessing
this manual dexterity and understand
ing of fundamental processes by eye
and mind quickly master a trad Or any
of the mechanical pursuits. That is
why you find many of these boys, at
quite an early age, in responsible po-
SitiOns in the factories of Philadelphia.
On the other hand, those whose bent is
at the Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art at the Penn
sylvania Academy of Fine Arts"
do you mean to say that your meth
DDS bring GU the natural bent or ca
pacity in the Individual, so that he or
she can be trained in the line which one
is naturally best filter to pursue?"
Just that" Mr.. Tadd replied with
convincing confidence. This is one of
the most valuable features of the work.
pick out from a class that has been
getting this training for two or three
periods weekly in the grammar or high
schools those most likely to succeed in
the fine arts, or in the trades or pro-
fessions."
This method. then, does not involve
a lot of special apparatus of patented
surplies"" .
MAIN THING IS THE TEACHER.
THAT is right. The main thing is the
teacher. Hundreds of teachers in the
common schools have mastered the
method and apply it successfully in
their own schools. Some clay and
OGDEN modelling tools, pencils and
paper, brushes and water colors and ink
can be a anywhere for a few dollars.
a few benches and tools for carving,
with h wood to be carved, are also
inexpensive.
THE idea throughout the whole
method is to make the children use
their own minds and hands, instead OF
blindly following any set exercises or
formulated system that obliges the pu-
pill to follow fixed rules instead of think
ing for himself. The energetic spirit
thus created by working out ones own
ideas is a great thing in these days,
when the tendency Of too much book
study is to give a Discrimination for en-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02

Chapped hands are the result of care
lessness, as a rule. If one, after bath
ing his hands, will dry them thoroughly
before going out in the cold air he will
never have his hands to chap. After
the mischief is done, no preparation
will prove any better in correcting the
evil than cold cream, which can be
bought at any drug store.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02
PROFESSOR TADD'S METHOD
FOR TRAINING OF CHILDREN

they can not only call up in the mind
the mental picture and all it's parts,
terms, etc, but be able to draw it COR
rectly with a few master strokes, I can
see how this may wonderfully help ones
learning power"
Exactly So" replied Mr.. Tadd with
enthusiasm. 1T is this correlation
Of art, manual training and nature
study that is the great thing in educa-
ton today. 1t is coming rapidly, and
will prevail in all branches of work
from the lowest to the highest. You
see, also, that his all around special
training of hand and eye not only helps
to make study easier. more attractive
and more useful, but it is a great help
in every day life. 1t makes the artisan
an artist, the mechanic quick, clever
and accurate in his work. The bust
ness man is all the better for having
another mode of expression besides
speech or writing, for he can make
diagrams or sketches quicker and bet
ter than he a describe them. The
same is true Of the professional man.
1t is a great thing, also, to have the
eye educated to see the beauties all
around us, even in the commonest of
things. Many Of us go through the
world more han half blind. thus being
deprived of much that would expand
our minds and increase our power Of
| oninNpooof urhotoyor o,,r vocation ot
the same time that our earning power
has increased"
MACHINERY DISPENSED WITH.
II don't see any machinery in your
manual training school. Is not a ma
chine shop essential I" this training?"
mot at all. We tried the various
forms of carpentering work, lathe work
and b~lacksmithing, plumbing. mechan-
ical drawing, etc, but oun that be-
You'd a very limited range of trade
processes they did not impart the fun
d~amentals-the sure hand, the artistic
eye, the balanced mind, the firm will,
the desire for work. More than twenty
years experimenting with thousands
of pupils and teachers in public
schools, private and parochial schools,
night classes and vacation schools, re-
formatory institutions, hospitals for
the insane, etc, has resulted in per-
fecting the elementary methods in art.
manual training and nature study, of
which I have but briefly spoken, SO hat
without any material expense the mass
es can be trained in the fundamentals
mentioned. You will find hundreds of
our grammar pupils have. more actual
dexterity Of han and eye than most
of the graduates of the manual train
ing high schools, who have only had
the usual instruction in a few trade
operations. Dur pupils having acquir-
ed this dexterity, they quickly become
experts in all kinds of mechanical
drawing, and in constructions in wood
made from such plans. These construc-
tons, joints, patterns, geometric forms.
etc, are all made by hand. No lathes
or machines are used. but the hand be-
comes so cunning that it makes all the
constructions With ease.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-02

a teeth are responsible for fully
half the ear troubles. When the teeth
are bad h affection spreads to the
ears and dire results are likely to fol-
low. An liberated tooth is in close
touch with the ear tubes. Most alb
scesses OF the ear result from troubles
that had their origin in bad teeth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
TAX ON BANKS.
An Important Ruling by the Com
missioner of Revenue.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE COM
missioner of internal revenue has held
that in estimating the amount Of spe-
cial tax required TO be paid by bank,
based as the law requires upon capital
and surplus. the amount invested in
United States bonds is not to be de-
Quoted. 1t is held that there is no pro-
vision of law which warrants such de-
duction inasInuch as the tax is not up
on the bonds, but upon the business of
banking, the capital and surplus which
may include bonds is taken as a basis
for fixing the amount of the tax.
The commissioner has also held that
receipts used as checks to draw money
from banks are subject to the stamp
tax. 1t is said that several banks in
order to avoid the stamp tax are &C
ceptfng receipts for cash which, ac-
cording to the letter of the law, are
ernpt. The commissioner, however, has
decided that under those circumstances
receipts to all intents and purposes are
checks, and therefore must be stamped.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
STOCKS WERE NEGLECTED.
Lower Prices Prevailed DESPITE
the Victory at San
tfaSO.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
Bar silver, New York. 1914 59A
Call money, New York. IA 1AQ11a

NEW YORK. July 16.-Wall street appa-
rently remained unconvnced today that val
ues of securities had been Increased by the
capitulation of Santiago and prices stub
oorniy refused to advance in the face of
that event The upward tendency of Ameri-
cans IN London was viewed with apathy, and
the rev advances at the openeing hour were
not up to the London parity. The accumu-
lated orders in commission houses were Of
very small volume, the outside pubic be-
than speculation in stocks. The bears were
confident and aggressive and were prompt
to take advantage of the absence of buying
demand to attack the market. Sugar was
the hrsf point of attack, and the price Yielded
quite readily. but only snail quantities of
stock were dislodged by the decline The
weakness of the coalers. which had persisted
al week continued a marked feature. There
is no doubt there has been liquidation of long
STOCK in these companies on account Of ac-
cumuiated troubles of trade. There is but
put, and the companies find themselves at
odds over the maintenance of prices and d.
vision OF territory. The plans for the con-
seracaion OF new road from the anthracite
region to the tidewater had further unset
Jung erect. Delaware C Hudson was easily
FORCED down 212 points. and Reading list pre-
lerred snd New Jersey Central also suffered
with Manhattan. There was obvious in
crease in the short account. and no apparent
ei1ort to cover it over Sunday. The bank
'NNN~N-AASii1
crease in cash of S4,0499 900 is practically all
accounted for by the gains of the subtreas-
ury during the week account of the bond
subscriptions. The governments gains on
TINS account are not reflected in the dep,sti
average OF the banks, as was the case last
week The loan expansion Is considerably
curtai!ed but still reflects good business
situation: The legal reserve requirements is
very little changed by reason of the small
decrease in deposits. SO that the decline in
cash Is almost all reflected in the decrease OF
surplus.
The government crop report caused some
depression, owing to declines in condition
compared with the previous month. In spite
OF high average compared with former
Years.. ana on estimated crop exceeding 800
O00.0cO bu of wheat. The hesitation of the
stock market is due in no small Dart to the
enormous exports and the high prices of asst
year. with which comparisons for this wear
will have to be made. United States old As
coupon declined IL: the new As, coupon. /:
the IS. coupon, q; the IS registered. and
new As. registered l. and the old as regis
tered. in the bid price
Total sales Of stocks today were 1o3 Sf,o
shares Including OSLO Atchison pfd S97S
burlington; $3.50 Manhattan; 6OG5 MetronoiiO
tan: 7,29O Reading pfd; 1920 Rock Island.
.l15 st. Hau.: $3.50 Sugar.
The following were the fluctuations Of tb,
leading railway and industrial shares fur.
nlshed by c. II. F. Smith C Co.. members
of trade: o'aiu
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-18
EARLY BREEDING OF SHEEP.

As young lambs bring more in winter and
early spring than even they or mature sheep
bring at any later age, it is an object 10 bresd
early, says DR.. Gaen Wilson, in Farm and
Fireside. The general time of breeding sheep
is in the fall; but this brings lambs 100 lat
for best prices. July and August are the
months to mate the sexes. Ewes to be So
lected are those which are in excellent con-
dit.on. and which have nursed lamb for a
month or two. Then let them be KEEP. Oh
good pasture where there is plenty of shade
and cool drinking water convenient. Turn
with them strange vigorous ram. But with
all OF these precautions share OF these
ewes will not breed until late. unless they
have previously been accustomed to breed
early 1t is natural for sheep to breed at
year from the time they are last bred. A
good way to get early breeders is to grow
them. Keep the eve lambs of this spring
from breeding until July or August Of naxt
year, and then there will be little trouble
about it. and one will have flock of natural
ly early breeders. Some claim success in
early breeders by feeding grain in summer.
until bred; and others sfarve their sheep a
day or two just previous to mating; but from
observations l can sayd neither is reliable.
The early lamb business is worthy the atten-
ton Of every farmer wher keeps shesp, unless
he grows sheep for breeders. One can man
age to get twice as much for q two months
lamb as he can for lamb or the mature
sheep for mutton any time after the age Of
two Notwithstanding Wisconsin.