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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-15
GRIT OF A WESTERN WOMAN.
Long Ride of Mrs. West, of Seattle,
with u Broken RIB and Knee.


Few men possess such grit and de-
termination as Mrs. West, Of Seattle.
Wash, is endowed with. Recently
while riding her wheel she met with an
accident in which she sustained
broken rib, split kncecap painful
wound ON the face ard the loss of four
teeth. Thus sorely disabled she pluck
lily remounted the bicycle and rode 20
miles to her home.
1t all came about from being too am
bilious to ride down hill. She was an
expert bicyclist and had coasted down
so many hills that she had long since
ceased trying to keep any account of
them. 1t is claimed she would bow only
TO the noted Mrs. Rinehart, of Denver,
as her superior in the conduct Of the
wheel. The road near Lake Washing
ton where Mrs. West and friend were
taking n little spin had been hit in the
middle with a stone of considerable size
and the stone had remained where IL
had struck. Mrs. West dismounted
when she reached Che crest of the hill,
but the prospect of coasting was too al
Turing to be foregone for the safer, but
more laborious, alternative of walking
down. She again bestrode the wheel
and started back-pedaling down the
grade.
Unfortunately she failed to observe
the rock in her pathway, with the result
that the front wheel of the bicycle col
lided with it and threw the rider over
the handle bars several feet forward
into the road. She lay unconscious for
some time. Her friend, upon reaching
her, found her injured as above de-
scribed and was hopeless of getting her
home or to a place where relief might
be summoned. 1t was n desperate sit
uation. Then II was that true western
grit came to the rescue. Rising to her
feet, the disabled heroine painfully got
upon her wheel and, almost fainting
and covered with blood, rode slowly
back to her home, a distance Of 20 miles.
She is progressing favorably, but 1t is
doubtful whether she will ever be able
to ride again.-Chicago Chronicle.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-15
winning HIS Good VIII.

"Why were you so anxious to be pleas
ant to that man2 One would think yop
were under sorne great obligationgto
him."
"IIe Is my dentist and expectto have
tooth filled tomorrow. Chicago
Daily News.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-15

As a matter OF fact. nobody believes in o
hell except for his neighbor.-Ram's Horn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Democratic County Convention.

All democratic voters and those who
favor the Chicago platform, are requested to
send delegates to 4 county convention to be
held ut the court house in the city of Rock
Island on the 18th day of May, lsgs, at o'clock
p. m, for the purpose Of electing %
delegates to the democratic congress
sional convention, and to select - del
egates to u senatorial convention and IL It
be the pleasure Of the convention to express n
preference for u candle ate for minority repre-
sentative. To nominate candidates for county
officers, Judge, clerk, sheriff, treasurer and
superintendent of schools; also to select a
chairman of county central committee. The
representation will be one delegate for each
y votes and one additional for every major
fraction the eof In each ward of the cities.
town or voting precinct OF the county at the
presidential election Of 1925 for Bryan and
Sewall
The caucuSeS are advised to be held Friday
May ~. 1898 ut : o'clock ON, In Rock Island
and Moline, South Rock Island and South Mo
line Black Hawk. Coal Valley. Port Byron and
Cordova. and in all other towns at : pm. of the
same day Al caucuScs In each ward of the
cities and voting precinct of towns those
present should select precinct chairman to
be ex-onico "a member of the county central
committee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
William HIS Toad Talisman.

The house of Hohenzollern possesses
a family talisman. Since the time of
the Elector John Cicero, who flourished
toward the end of the fifteenth century,
each ruler has, when possible before
dissolution, handed to his successor q
sealed packet. This contains a ring in
which is set black stone said to have
been dropped by huge toad on the COW
erlet of princess of the family just as
she had given birth to a son. Frederick
the Great found the ring in an envelope,
which also inclosed a memorandum
written by Frederick l, stating it's value
and its mode of transmission. Schnei.
der, the librarian of William /, declares
that he saw the packet handed by Cell
ing, the treasurer, to his royal master
On accession, and further asserts that he
read his account of the talisman to the
emperor, who fully confirmed it.-St.
James Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
DANGER INDOORS ON a SHIP.
Steamship ind Battleship Bulkheads Not
| Worth rs Much rs They Seem.

Steamship ind Battleship Bulkheads Not
Worth rs Much rs They Seem.
On all first class passenger steamships
and on all large warships a great per-
centage of the total cost is spent direct
Il and indirectly on bulkheads or ON
what these bulkheads necessitate. No
passenger would willingly make voy-
age in liner which was not known to
have cellular structure, and no gov
eminent would think of building bat
tleship or cruiser without bulkheads.
Yet it is fact well known, at least to
all seafaring men and shipbuilders, that
these bulkheads, strong and perfect in
themselves, are precisely as safe and
efficient as the doors in them and not q
whit more SO.
The doors as at present constructed
and operated are VIGOROUSLY bad and
dangerous. They have been the direct
and known cause in the loss of many
Lives and many good ships and are
doubtless chargeable with many more
ships on the list of "missing and unac-
counted for 1t is astonishing to the
expert to zee the general public and
even seafaring men so ready to accept
| the prevailing superstition about the
safety Of bulkheads. The best possible
bulkheads without equally good doors,
operated on safe system, are about as
good as chain with a link missing.
The history of marine disaster has
taught us this if it has taught us any
thing, and yet we 60 on crossing the
Atlantic in liners of much vaunted safe
ty and Dragging about invulnerable bat.
tleships, apparently with implicit con-
fidence in this bulkhead fetch.
There should be as few doors as DOS.
sible, and some very able experts con.
tend that there should be none. On the
other hand, most captains and chief en-.
gineers say they mast have doors: Man.
lfestly the only way out of the difficulty
is to get safe doors, safely operated.
The number of watertight doors and
matches on q first class battleship is ovel
300, and there are nearly 300 valves anG
gates connected with ventilating, drain
ing and flooding the hull and involving
the safety of the ship. 1t will there
fore be seen that the systematic contro
and operation Of these devices is a mat
ter of no mean Importance.
1t takes about ITO men to look aftel
these details alone in response to col
lision alarm under the present condi
lions, and it is matter of very gray,
doubt on the part of those best Informed
as to whether the supreme efforts O
these ITO men can attend to doors
matches and valves quickly enough Il
save the ship.-Cassier' Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
The Military Ideas OF WOuld-be General

What admirable discipline Gov
Tanners antics. in view of his own
political military disappointment.
will have tendency to establish
among the troops of the Illinois Ma
tional Guard! The Indignation which
Tanner attempted to create in the
military camp which has honored his
name. because he was turned down in
his own aspirations, went no further
than the resignation of Tanners next
friend, Van Cleave, man utterly
unfit for military duty in any capa-
city. The governor evidently looks
upon the Illinois soldier BOYS. which
an unkind fate has placed under his
command. as destined to do his bid
ding. just as political organizations are
to exist for the sole end and aim of
elevating himself into undeserved
prominence. As far as Gov. Tanner
seeks to hold the Illinois National
Guard intact heis right, but the posi-
bilities of this intention failing is not
what is disturbing him now. It's
purely selfish disappointment that is
at the bottom of the spirit he is man.
ifesting and the natural outcome OF
such procedure would be to create
discomfort and endanger the dis
cipline of the troops were they. not
possessed of broader ideas of patrio-
tism than their commander-in-chief.
The camp of the soldier is not the
place to vent personal grievances OF
to resent imaginary personal wrongs,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

A man Cf bushes slike aspect invaded
down town shoe shop yesterday morn
.ng and said:
81 see you claim to do invisible
patching. Can you put an invisible
patch on this shoe:"
eyes, sir, replied the proprietor.
"Sure? l don't want it done unless
you can, because this is one of my swell
shoes and cont want it to show"
IF don't put an invisible patch on
1t, went ,I1rge you anything for the
job"
"All right. Go ahead"
The shoemaker took the shoe, and in
about fifteen minutes brought it back to
him neatly repaired. ..
"H'm" calculated the customer. 81
think the bargain was that if you
didn't put an invisible patch on it you
wouldn't charge anything, wasn't it,"
That's right.
"This is the patch, isn't it,"
Eyes"
well, it's perfectly visible. What
you meant was, presume, that you
could make the evidences of its being a
patch invisible. but you ought to have
said so. A bargain S a bargain. Let this
be lesson to you. Good morn
Hold on. / can fix that all right, "
said the shoemaker.
He took the shoe again, ran sharp
knife under one edge of the patch, ap-
piled a pair of sharp nippers, dexterously
ripped it off, threw it behind work
bench and handed the shoe back again.
"There," he said. ''is your shoe, and
the patch, as you'll notice, isn't visible
now. Let this be lesson to you. Good
NOR Oh, he's goner'-Chicago Trib'
une.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
A Confusing Order.

"We get ridiculous letters from Gus
toners sometimes" said bill clerk in
one Of the big wholesale houses. Here
is fair sample of the manner in which
some rural retailers send in an order:
Messrs. - Please send me 600
pounds of sugar as quickly as possible.
"'P. S.-Never mind sending the
sugar. i have just found some in the
back room. Sioux City Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Ages of the Worlds Charmers.

Miss Browning dilates on a most
consolatory fact. The women who inf1u-
enced the destinies of nations were none
OF them actually young" Well, what
does Miss Browning call actually
young?" Nineteen is not old, and she
who saved France from returning men,
beers to British parliament was 10 at
her death. There is q tendency in the
male sex to like them young. Helen of
Troy was, it is calculated, about 1870,
but she was the daughter of god.
Cleopatra is put by Miss Browning at
about 30 when Antony reckoned the
world we'll lost for her. In any case
her medals make her a plain woman,
with a very long nose. Mary Stuart had
turned things upside down before she
was %, and Diane de Poitiers was AZ
and Nine. Scarron As before they cap.
tured royal lovers. These veteran charm.
ers had health and intelligence, but
Lady Hamilton was fat. as well as 40,
when she fascinated Nelson. London
News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Our Fleet Abroad.

Much interest is taken in the i'm
minence of battle between Commo-
dore Dewey's fleet in Chinese waters
and that of Spain. Dewey's squadron
consists of the flagship Olympia. a
steel protected cruiser. with uni
form speed of 20 knots: the Baltimore,
4, 800 tons; the Raleigh. 3.1S9; the
Boston, $3.50; the Concord, LOO; the
Petrol, $50. These ships are light in
draught, swift, with extremely heavy
batteries for their classes. Their
commanders are all young men, as
the service goes. The Olympia is
commanded by Capt. c. V. Cridley;
the Baltimore by Capt. n. NJ. Dyer, a
son of Gen. Dyer, chief of ordnance,
United States army, during the war;
the Raleigh by Capt. j. b. Coghlan,
the Boston by Commander p. b. Lam
berton. the Concord by Commander
Asa Walker. and the Petrol by Com
mander +. p. Wood. These officers
will give good account of them
selves when Spain tackles them.
Though Spain has two vessels to one
of the Americans, they are all of old
models. small and armed with old
fashioned guns. The largest, the
flagship, is about $500 tons. incapa-
BILE of more than 10 or II knots, and
one of the few equipped with modern
puns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

AT this early stage of proceedings
politics begin to cut figure. Gov
Tanner fired Gen. Wheeler from the
Illinois National Guard and made ;
place for Gen. Fitz Simons and now
it is said that Fitz Simons may be dis
lodged by orders from Washington tt
make room for better Mckinley maj
Gen. McNulta. Until the Ian,
troops get into real fighting, whicl
may he far hence, if ever. the gam,
of politics is likely to be industriousl,
and skillfully played.-Bloomingtol
Bulletin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Piles! Piles, Piles!

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
will cure blind, bleeding and itching
piles when all other ointments have
failed. 1t absorbs the tumors. allays
the itching at once, acts as poultice,
gives instant relief DR.. Williams
Indian Pile Ointment is prepared only
for piles and itching OF the private
parts, and nothing else. Every box
is warranted. Sold by druggists OF
sent by mail on receipt of price, 81
cents and 81 per box.
WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING Co..
Proprietors. Cleveland Ohio.
Sold by NJ. T. Bahnsen, Druggist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Startled the Old Man,

The acoustics of Statuary hall in the
capitol at Washington are matter of
wonder to tourists, and many are the
tricks played upon them. An exchange
tells of youth employed in one of the
departments who was visited by his
father recently and took the old gentle
man to Statuary hall. There is block
about the center of the circular hall
where, if one stands and faces the
north, a sound uttered from the door,
way, 40 feet in the rear, seems to be
Immediately in front of this block. The
youth managed to get his father ON the
block and, attracting his attention to-
ward statue i'll front, slipped to the
rear and said: "What time have you!
My watch has stopped" The father
drew out his watch and was halt
through giving him the time when he
looked around and saw that be was
standing alone and that the son was
nowhere to be seen. He was bewildered
and looked like the man from beneath
whose coat collar the magician has just
extracted live goose. Presently the
son stepped forth from the pillar where
he had been in hiding, but it required
many explanations to restore the old
gentleman S serenity.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Tests Patience.
The Most Patient People Must Show An
noyance at Times.

nOyance AT Times.
Nothing spoils good disposition
quicker.
Nothing taxes mans patience,
Like any itchiness of the skin.
Itching piles almost drive you crazy,
All day it makes you miserable.
All night it keeps you awake.
Itch. itch, itch, with no relief.
Just the same with eczema.
Can hardly keep from scratching it.
You would do So. but YOU know it
makes it worse.
Such miseries are daily decreasing
People are learning that they can be
cured.
Learning the merit of Doan's ONT
ment.
Plenty of proof that Doan's Oint-
ment will cure piles, eczema or any
itchiness of the skin.
Read the testimony of Rock Island
citizen:
Mrs. F. SCHNEIDER, of 2021 Fifth
avenue, says: In the spring of 1897
| was troubled with an irritation of
1
the skin in very aggravated form. |
saw Doan's Ointment advertised and
so highly recommended as a specific
for this complaint that | was induced
to get box at the Harper House
drug store The very first applica-
ton gave me immediate relief and the
continued use of this remedy for a
short time removed all traces of the
distressing complaint. 1t is just d
grand ointment for any form of itchi.
ness of the skin. / will rely on it fol
future use if should ever be troubled
in similar way again
Deans Kidney Pills for sale bv al
dealers. Price 80 cents. Mailed b,
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. n. Y.
sole agents for the United States
Remember the name. Doan's. ant
take no substitute. For sale by Mar
shall & Fisher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Before Yon Ride Your Vince,

BE sure YOU shake into Your shoes
Aliens Foot-Ease. a powder for the
feet. 1t keeps your feet cool and
comfortable. prevents sweating feet.
and makes your endurance ten fold
greater. Over 100000 wheel people
are using Aliens Foot-Ease. They
all praise it. Ladies. insist on having
it. 1t gives rest and comfort and
prevents smarting. hot. swollen ach-
ing feet. At all druggists and shoe
stores, 20 cents. Sample free by mail.
Address. Allen 5. Olmsted, Leroy.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Not Much to Be Proud OF.

Clara-I wonder how Mrs. Young.
ling can have the face to always keeI
boasting about her family.
Gladys-Why? l thought she pretend.
ed that her ancestors were good people.
Clara-So she does, and yet she ad
mits that one Of them came over with
William the Conqueror. I've just been
reading about that crowd, and, good
ness, but they were a hard lot!-Chi
cago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

Who can fail to take advantage Of
this offer? Send 10 cents to us for a
generous trail size or ask your drug.
gist. Ask for Elv's Cream Balm. the
most positive catarrh cure. Full
size 80 cents. Ely Bros.
30 Warren Street, New York CITY.
suffered from catarrh of the worst
kind ever since boy. and | never
hoped for cure, but Elv's Cream
Balm seems to do even that. Many
acquaintance have used it with ex.
cellent results.-Oscar Ostrum, A.
Warren avenue, Chicago, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

LIEUT.. FREMONT. commander of the
torpedo boat which has been hugging
the Cuban coast for several DAYS and
showing the Spanish warships in what
contempt they are held by our navy,
has the blood in him that represents
the best there is in American man.
hood. He is son of the Pathfinder
and a grandson of Thomas ii. Benton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Hot Water.

Much suffering might be avoided if
people could only be made to realize
that cupful of hot water, hot bath
or hot applications Of any kind arc
among the most useful forms of medi-
cation known to the human family, and
il resorted TO. will almost Immediately
remove any Of the violent symptoms of
disease
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

To the delegates OF the democratic conven-
ton for the nomination of candidates for
county ofnces at the coming November cleo
ton: Gentlemen-After Is years successful
teaching as principal Of graded schools, and
having been chosen by the democrats in other
counties at two different times as nominee for
the once OF county superintendent OF schools,
1 hope you will not think me too presumptuous
in asking such nomination at your hands,
which do. Respectfully,
W. Fl. SHERMAN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

HANNA's prosperity has struck Can
ton, says the Ohio Patriot, and it re-
lates that John c. Deuber has post
ed notice that the wages of his en-
ployes will be cut from 10 to 90 per
cent in all departments of his watch
factory. Gen. Sherwood says that the
average wage in that factory is now
only 80 cents per dav."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

Democratic Congressional Convention.
Public notice Is hereby given that demo
cratic convention is called to meet at the
court house In the city Of Rock Island, Illinois,
at IL O'Clock noon OF the 18th day of
June A. D., 1893, for the purpose OF nominal
ing democratic candidate for the ONCE OF
representative for the Tenth Congressional
district, and to transact any other business
that may come before said convention.
The basis of representation at such conven-
ton shall be one delegate for each two hun
dred (20O) and excess OF one hundred or more
democratic votes cast for Bryan and Sewall
In the election OF 1896 The number OF dele
gates allotted to each county In said Tenth
Congressional district is as follows, to-wit:
MERCER. liz
ROCK island. 20
Wmteslde ............ ...............l4
hnox
Starkl N
henry. ....'.,,,.' 10
Total. SO
County conventions In said Tenth Congress
sonal district will govern themselves accord
ingly.
A. ID. HUEsING, Rock Island, Ill.
r. II. HINNAN, Cambridge, Ill.
GEORGE M. EAMEs, Aledo, Ill.
d. w. Ross, Lafayette, Ill.
c. CRAIG, Galesburg, ILL.,
GEORGE BANsAU, Fulton, III.
Committee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
To Cure a Cold In One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. % cents. The
genuine has l.. b. Q. on each tablet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

BILLY MASON appears to have
brought his automatic disappearing
carriage into use now that war is a
stern reality.-Quincy Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

The undersigned wishes to announce hin
self candidate for the democratic nomina
ton for sheriff OF Rock Island county, and Sc
licits the support OF his friends.
BENTON DAVIS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
EII!l!I!E2llI!lZ

Have you Sore Throat, Pimples, Copper
COlored Spots, Aches, Old Sores. Ulcers In
Mouth. Hair-Falling? Write Cook REMEDY
Co., go Masonic Tempe. Chicago, ILL.,, for
proofs OF cures; capital, $500. 900. Worst
Gases cured IN Is to IS days loe-paSe
book freA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Announcements.

thereby announce myself Is . candidate
for the once OF county superintendent of
schools, SUBJECT 70 the decision OF the demo
cratic county convention.
d. ". MATTHEWS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
BENTON DAVIS

hereby announce myself o candidate for
the once OF sheriff OF Rock Island county, sub
jcct to the decision OF the democratic county
convention. NJ NJ. BRIGGS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

Yielding to the wishes OF my friends have
consented to become q candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination for sheriff subject to the
decision OF the democratic county convention
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29
Glad Tiding. to Asthma sufferers.

Foley's Honey and Tar gives buick
and positive relief in all eases. Sold
by L. L. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

I hereby announce myself as . candidate
or the democratic nomination for county
superintendent OF schools, subject 10 the de.
cssion OF the democratic county convention.
CHARLES c. SwIsHER
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

The United States seems to be caus-
ing run on the banks of Spain just
as it is on the banks of Cuba.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

Acouiesins to the requests OF number OF
my friends, hereby announce myself candi
date for the shrievAlty nomination, subject to
the decision OF the democratic county con
ventior. A. d. HuEsING
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-29

Having determined to become q candidate
foe the democratic nomination for county su.
perintendent OF schools, hereby solicit the
support OF my friends looking to that end