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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-31
DR.. S. II. MILLER,
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist.

All diseases of horses and cattle treatgd on
approved principles Surgical operations per
formed in \ scientific manner. Dogs treated
All calls promptly attended to. Residepce
g2o Fifth avenue. Telephone on 1907. once
and infirmary. i6l5-l6i7 Fifth avenue (Jame:
Mouckers $ alb e., opposite No. nre house.
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THE MARKETS.

Chicago Grain and Produce.
Chicago, Aug. 80.
blowing were the quotations on the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-31
PHYSICIANS.
f. Ii. FIRST, NJ. d.

Physician and Surgeon.
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THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND g. PACIFIC RAIL
~ way-Tickets can be purchased or baggage
checked at r / d Twentieth street depot, or
c b P depot. corner Fifth avenue and Thirty
erst street, Frank II PlumneI. Agent
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Passenger tr aiRs leave O r I D p Moline
gvenue) depot Eve (6f minutes earlier than ttpn0
given. Trains N mixed daily, sI other trains
daily except e1ndAy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-01
TO SUCCEED AS A JOURNALIST
Editor Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Bobe Thinks Hard
Work is the Secret--Points for Young Men.

How to succeed in life is very hare
question to answer. | think that hare
work has been the chief reason for sue
cess in the lives of most men and wo
men. Good looks, attractive manners
circumstances, friends-each or all may
help in the battle of life, but earnest
honest, hard work secures most of the
results. There may be such a thing as
luck in the world, but / have noticed
that as a rule the people who do the
fighting, the workers who are struggling
early and late to get ahead and make
progress are those who find what luck
there is. The man or woman who waits
for luck to come to him or her will be
sadly disappointed.
The best rule for success in life that
have ever found is to do a little more
than is expected of you.
Whatever your position in life may be-
whether in an Office. factory, store or
workshop, under any and all circum-
stances, do a little more than is expect
ed of you, and you viii never be over
looked be the establishment large or
small. It is the people who begin about
noon to look at the clock and commence
TO feel afraid that they will not be
washed up" and dressed and ready to
rush through the door ut the exact min
ute when the clock strikes or the bell
rings who usually fail to win any sue
cess.
In my own case / owe my entrance
into Journalism wholly to the fact that
| was industrious and wiling to work
/ naturally had that ambition, hence
TO not state it as quality for which
am entitled to any great credit. 1 was
employed as a boy in an Office where
had very little to do, and got very little
for it. to wit. 81 80 q week. 4 school boy
friend of mine was at work in a Boston
newspaper Office. where he had to work
through the day and four nights in the
week until 10 O'clock For his service
he was receiving S3 per week. As he
was always grooming because he was
overworked. and | was complaining be-
cause ] did not have enough to do, i
proposed to nm that we exchange
places. | introduced him to the firm for
which / worked, and then went and APP
piled for his position, and secured it.
was willing to work TO get on. and he
!. was not. | worked long hours then, and
did for many years afterwards. For all
kinds of success one has to pay q
price equal to the result. At one time,
for period of more than five years,
worked in my present office from $3.50
a. m. till 11.30 p. M. without single va
cation. Perhaps the reader may get an
impression that / am pressing home this
point about work little too strongly
but it is the basis of substantially all
of the success which has been achieved
by men and women in all lines of life
and in all positions of power and infu.
ence from the beginning of the world.
One of the most successful men have
ever known won his position and large
fortune because he possessed certain
qualities which would have attained
success in any profession or occupation
He possessed industry, ambition, ne was
economical, he was honest and truthfui
and he was always just and helpful to
others.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-01

To succeed in journalism one needs
about the same qualities that are re-
o,,ircd in the other professions, or most
any kind of business Men who are
horn journalists, like those who are
born physicians. or poets, or preachers,
or mechanics. or great traders, find it
much easier TO succeed than men who
have not great natural aptitude. Jour
nalism offers three distinct careers,
literary. business and q mechanical.
Men can be trained for either of these
divisions. The measure of success when
can be secured depends upon the ambi-
ton, the industry and the fighting quail
ties of the individual. There is no royal
road to success. 1t is hard to tell eX-
actly what special lines of study and
investigation are required for each of
these divisions. Men who have natural
qualities and special tastes will easily
excel in that for which they are best
fitted The abest and most successful
men and women will work out their sal
walton in their particular field.
| might sum it all up by saying, as
Rudyard Kiplng said the other day in
reply to n question by young author
Keep on trying till you either fail or
succeed.
1t may be- however, that when ] was
asked to write this article on How to
Succeed as Journalist it was eX-
pected that l would give some practical
hints to that large class of young Amer
cans whose ambition it is to become
efficient writer's for the daily press, and
eventually graduate to editorial posi-
tons. That is to be sure, only one
branch of journalism, but no doubt it is
the one that is most attractive to young
men just starting out in life. To such
young men. | may offer, perhaps, u few
helpful suggestions.
To begin with, a young man who pro-
poses to enter the wide, yet keenly
competitive. field of reportorial and edi-
torial work for the daily press will do
well to be quite sure that he has an
aptitude for such work. 1t is true of
every profession and trade that some
men who are in il are peculiarly we'll
fitted for its duties, while others are
not quite so well fitted. and still others
are not fitted at all. There is doubtless
place for every willing and capable
man somewhere in the busy world but
it is also true that many men never find
the place which is truly theirs Henry
| Ward Beecher once remarked that a
| large part of the misery in the world
was due to the fact that too many
! square men were in round holes, and
vice versa, and that he had known
many poor musicians who might have
made very superior carpenters.
! The idea / wish to convey is that
the highest success as reporter or
editor is not to be hoped for by any man
whose temperament and abilities are
not well suited to the peculiar work
| which newspaper reporters and editors
have 70 do. There is such thing as
| ''the' journalistic temperament" There
/ is such thing as ''the nose for news. .
| by which term is meant the quick,
practically instantaneous appreciation of
what is news, and how much value one
AZ
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
SIGNAL SERVICE.

Recruiting Station Established at Des
Mofncs.
Dies MONIES. June 16.-An order has
been issued by the war department for
the recruiting of signal corps in
Iowa. Captain Frank Lyman. Signal
Corps Q. S. ", at this place has been
made recruiting officer, and he is on
the lookout for telegraph operators and
expert electricians who can pass the
physical examination. This branch Of
the service is to a great extent the
most interesting in the army. y com
pany of signalmen is attached to each
division and corps headquarters and its
duties consist Of keeping up communi-
ton between the different commanders
the base of supplies at the rear and
other points. To do this telegraph
and telephone lines are used, both fly
ing and permanent, photographs, flags
and torches, searchlights, etc. The sig
nalmen are all mounted and are armed
with sabres. carbines and revolvers.
As the pay is better than in infantry
and cavalry it is to be presumed that
there will be little difficulty in filing
up the ranks of the company. Those
who wish to join should communicate
with Captain Lyman at once.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17

does his work we'll gets a good dinner
and Kind treatment, but the unfortu-
nate brute that does otherwise gets
very little dinner, but plentiful dose
of stick or strap.
In the French army the chief dogs
used are barbets and Pyrenean sheep
dogs. The former are used because Of
their great intelligence. Their train
ing as war dos commences when they
are eight months old, and it is nearly
a year before they are proficient.
The sheep dogs are chosen chiefly
because Of their strength, one of them
being able to carry 500 rifle cartridges.
However, they are very difficult to
break to fire.
The barbets are used chiefly to carry
messages, and during the French
maneuvers last year experiments were
made to ascertain the relative speed
with which cavalry, cyclists, pigeons
and dogs could deliver messages. The
whole five were given message and
started off at the same time, but, alas,
the dogs came in last, the pigeons COM
ing in first with the greatest ease. 1t
may interest cyclists to know that the
horesmen and cyclists ran dead heat.
The Russian dogs are chiefly trained
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17

to assist the medical corps in their
work, and to help in the humane task
of bringing aid as rapidly as possible
to the wounded soldier. Big, strong
dogs are selected for this purpose, st.
Bernards by preference, as being the
most intelligent when left to their Gtyn
devices, and also the most faithful.
Attached to the collar around their
necks is small flask containing
brandy, or sometimes strong, nour-
ishing broth. A little roll of bandages,
of which the wounded may avail them
selves, is also tied around their necks.
The dogs are especially trained to seek
out wounded men lying in out Of the
way places, where it is possible they
may be overlooked by the regular staff
attached to the medical branch of the
Russian army.
If they discover wounded men lying
in bitches or behind bushes, they al
low them to help themselves to the
brandy, and bark necessarily to attract
attention and bring help. They are
sometimes used to pull small cart On
which couple of wounded men can be
carried off the field of battle.
These war dogs have been tried in
actual warfare, and the French, in
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
A REMARKABLE FIND.
Island In the Pacific Full Of Wonderful
Archa geological Remains.

Island In the Pacific Full Of Wonderful
Archa Biological Remains.
Prof. Alleson, of the Berlin Geo.
graphical Society, in describing his re-
markable discoveries in Dawson's
Island, a lone island in the Pacific, says
it is one of the most wonderful places
ever visited by man. stretched out
before us was a broad tableland, prob
ably three miles in extent, and utterly
devoid of vegetation. For the most
part it was as smooth and fiat as if
leveled by the hand If man, and upon
it were strewn masses of wonderful
sums in all stages of decay. Here were
the remains of buildings that had prob
ably once been well-formed structures,
and the last crumbling remains OF
walls of which only few feet now re-
main standing. Far in the distance
rose hugh pile that crowned the ex-
IRENE edge Of the plateau and looked
majestically out over a deep volcanic
ravino that extended for hundreds of
feet below. Around this on all sides
could be seen the ruins of structures
In the last crumbling stages of decay.
The natives took us around to the side
of mountain, where they said the
workshops of this long-dead people
had been located. This side of the
mountain was of hard volcanic rock,
which rose in series of lodges Of from
ten to fifteen yards each to peak sew
eral thousand feet high. Upon each
ledge was a number of gigantic stone
heads. Some were cut off at the neck,
while in others the whole bust was
shown. They ranged in size from ten
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
IOWA CONDENSED.

Judge Remley, at Iowa City recently,
sentenced George S. Smith to 3 years
and Gmonths in the penitentiary. This
is the elimination of a lengthy trial,
in which the said Smith was convicted
of shooting with intent to kill.
At Creston recently Robert Wood,
who struck George Munger over the
head with a neckyoke, the blow prov
ing fatal. had his preliminary hearing
ana was held to the grand jury. Wood
was unable to furnish the $4,000 bail
required. Hisplea will be self-defense.
Waterloo dispatch: The sash, door
and blind factory of the Cedar Valley
Manufacturing Company was almost
totally destroyed by fire at o'clock a.
IN. The loss is $50, 900, with insurance
of $1,000. This is the second large
manufacturing plant of the same char
acter to be destroyed in Waterloo
within a week, and there is an increas-
ing belief that the fires are of an
incendiary origin.
At Des Moines recently the friends Of
Companies A and H, the Dcs Moines
companies of the Fiftyfrst regiment,
met at the Y. w. c. A. rooms. Miss
Mary Z. Right, chairman of the COM
mittee to raise funds to send Miss Della
Weeks. trained nurse. to the Philip
pines to care for the Des Moines boys.
reported about 500 pledged. The
committee was instructed to 60 ahead
with the soliciting and Miss Weeks
was authorized to leave for San Fran
cisco at once. 1t was decided to have
permanent organization, with d. Il.
Patterson as president. Mrs. C.. Il.
Worthington secretary, and Miss Mary
Z. Right secretary.
The war tax paid the first year by
Dcs Moines business interests will
amount TO sl6s,25O. This estimate is
reached after investigation and extern
size interviews with men and concerns
affected by it. Below is a table show
ing the amounts which, it is expected,
the tax will raise from the different
classes of business given. the first
year it is levied: Banks, $780,
600: commercial brokers. 10.OO0:
brokers, including pawn, 81. 600; inner
itance tax, $1,000; recorded instrr,-
,nents, 1000; medicine, $4,000; beer,
$4,000; railroads, bills of fading. So. 600;
railroads, sleeping car tickets, 500:
express companies, lading alone,
$500; telephones, $500; kilograms,
$1,000; insurance, $1,000; theaters.
$500; billiards, $3.50; tobacco dealers
head tax, $500. Total, $l6s,25o.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17

to undergo this warlike training, no
special breed is selected. Scotch col
lies are perhaps more widely used than
any other, because Of their wonderful
intelligence, and in most cases cross
breeds are preferred. All the dogs 60
through such an elaborate course that,
when their training Is completed, they
carry out their duties almost auto
matically.
It is admitted now Stat the best sort
of employment, for these dogs is out
post duty, conveying ammunition to
the fighting line, delivering messages
and searching for wounded soldiers in
battle. This has been recognized after
several years Of practice with them,
and although they have efficiently car
ried out every other duty they have
been put to slow work, such as drawing
wagons, ETC., is not, as has been proved,
quite suitable.
diers are conveyed off the field, and
which are drawn by the dogs, require
attendants, and it Is claimed with rea-
son that the attendants might just as
we'll carry off the wounded men them
selves.
In discovering the wounded on a
field of battle the dogs are at their
best. The qualities required for this
work are inherent in the St. Bernard,
the breed mostly employed for this
special duty.
What better dog than a trained
bloodhound or bulldog, too, could SOL
der have to accompany him when on
duty at lonely outpost, and to give
him timely warning of the approach Of
an enemy? Both breeds, properly
trained, as is well known, make the
best watch dogs in the world.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
IOWA CROP CONDITIONS.

Bureau Reports Show They Are Unusually
Good.
Des Moines dispatch: The annual
report OF the Iowa Weather and Crop
Service, compiled by Director Sage
from the reports of correspondents in
nearly every township in the state.
has been issued. This report gives the
acreage of the various crops raised in
the state as we'll as statement of
their conditions on June l, the date on
which correspondents are instructed
to close and forward their reports. 1t
is made in the form of a comparison
with the report for 1897. The report
shows a wonderful increase in the
number Of acres of wheat sown. There
is a small falling off in the acreage of
winter wheat. but that of spring wheat
shows an almost unprecedented III
crease. due undoubtedly to the ruling
high prices of this commodity. Corn
shows decrease, but it is SO small
that with Il continuation of the present
excellent corn weather the loss in acre
age will not figure in the yield Oats
have also lost in acreage, but the con-
dition now is SO much better than
year ago that the decrease in acreage
is more than accounted for. Practically
all the crops are in much better contli.
ton now than they have been at this
time in years. Wheat, corn and oats
are all rated at over 100 per cent.
Rye, flax and barley are not SO good,
but hay is over 100 per cent and pota-
toes are % per cent, despite the wet
weather. Since the returns from
which the report is made were received
the weather has not been wholly
favorable to the small grain.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
to thirty feet high, and were hewn Oil

to thirty feet high, and were hewn out
of solid volcanic rock. Some of these
images were thrown down upon curi=
Gus platforms, that looked as if they
had been specially constructed to hold
them, and upon which they probably
had once stood. Others, again, were
broken, and some had tottercd so far
over that they seemed ready to crash
down upon those below. All the faces
bore striking resemblance, and the
expression was most sinister. In each
case the head was long, with protrud-
ing chin and expanded nostrils, and all
Of them appeared to be the faces of
men. The whole place is full of the
most remarkable archaeological re-
mains"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
An Assisted PROPOSAL


DR.. A. Toomer Porter says in his
autobiography, that some of the scenes
connected with the Charleston earth
quake in 1886 were exceedingly funny.
One, especially, led to romantic con-
clusion. A certain young man had been
visiting an attractive young woman
for a long time, but without being able
to ask her to become his wife. He
could not summon the necessary cour-
age. When the shock calne they were
in the parlor together The house was
on the battery facing the bay, an ex-
posed situation If anything was to be
feared from the sea. 1t was only rea-
sonable to expect tidal wave with
such shock, and when the earthquake
came, the young man at once rushed
to the window and put out his arms.
Sure enough, he plunged them in water
to the shoulders. He ran back, and
threw those arms about the lady.
Come, o darling!" he cried; 'let us
die together" So they stood, dying to-
gether, and the water stood also; for
it did net come in at the window,
After time the father and mother
appeared, and found the pair in this
alarmed embrace. They asked it's
meaning and were told, the story be-
ing illustrated by the young mans
dripping arms. Then the older people
had an explanation to add. Their
prospective son-in-law, said they, had
not thrust his hands into the sea, but
into an aquarium outside the window.
Nevertheless, he did not regret the
shock, since it completed an uncertain
business, and he and the lady had not
died, but lived, together.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-17
THE NEWS in IOWA
FOUR BOYS DROWNED.
They Went Bathing In Pond and Could

They Went Bathing In Pond and Coaio
Not Swim.
OTTuMwA, June 15.-Four young
bows. all sons of prominent citizens,
were drowned in II pond near Ostdeiks
brick yard, north OF Ottumwa. Inc
dead are: Fred Jopson, aged Is; Kay
Teeter, aged II; Johnnie Whitaker,
aged 10; Darwin Wilson, aged 10. The
bodies We're recovered. The boys had
gone out to the pond to battle. Re-
cent rains had swelled the pond to
twice its size and the water was IN
places ten feet deep. None of the boys
could swim. All started off together
on an old raft. 1t capsized with them
and the boys went down together.
One other lad with them managed to
come to the top and he was pulled out
bv men who were attracted by the
cries of the drowning lads. Physicians
were hastily summoned from the city
and they worked for several hours over
the bodies as they were recovered, but
could not resuscitate them.
OsKALoosA. une l5.--trank Nc
Glumphy, Jr, was carried ovei the
dam in a boat and was drowned. "
companion was fortunate enough to
escape.
MARsuAL1TowN, June 15.-James
Nelch, aged IS. was drowned i'll the
Iowa river while in swimming. lie
was taken with cramp and drifted
into a WHIRLPOOL