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The Irish standard., 1899-12-23
The First Christmas.

Oh, to have dwelt in Bethlehem
When the star OF the Lord shone
bright
To have sheltered the holy wanderers
On that blessed Christmas night;
To have kissed the tender, wayworn feet
OF the Mother undefled,
And, with reverent wonder and deep
delight,
To have tended the Holy Child!
Hush! such glory was not for thee;
But that care may still be thine;
For are there not little ones still to aid
For the sake of the Child divine?
Are there no wandering Pilgrims now
To thy heart and thy home to take?
And are there no mothers whose weary
You can comfort for Mary's sake?
Oh, to have knelt at Jesus feet,
And to have learned his heavenly lore!
To have listened to the gentle lessons
He taught
On mountain, and sea, and shore!
While the rich and the mighty knew
Him not,
To have meekly done His will.
Hush! for the worldly rejects Him yet
You can serve and love Him still,
Time cannot silence His mighty words
And though ages have fled away,
His gentle accents of love divine
Speak to your soul to-day.
Oh, to have solaced that weeping one,
Whom the righteous dared despise!
To have tenderly bound up her scat
tered hair,
And have dried her fearful eyes!
Hush! there are broken hearts to
soothe,
And penitei1t tears to dry,
While Magdalen prays for you and
them,
From her home in the starry sky.
Oh, to have followed the mournful way
OF those faithful few forlorn!
And grace, beyond even an angels
hope,
The Cross for Our Lord have borne!
To have shared in his tender mothers
grief,
To have wept at Mary's side,
To have lived as child in her home,
and then
In her loving care have died!
Hush! and with reverent sorrow still, q
Mary's great anguish share;
And learn, for the sake of her Son
divine,
Thy cross, like His, to bear.
The sorrows that weigh on thy soul
unite
With those which thy Lord has
borne,
And Mary will comfort thy dying hour,
Nor leave thy soul forlorn.
Oh, to have seen what we now adore,
And, though yelled to faithless sight,
To have known, in the form that Jesus
wore,
The Lord of Life and Light!
Hush! for He dwells among us still,
And grace can yet be thine,
Which the scoffer and doubter can
never know
The Presence of the Divine.
Jesus is with His children yet,
For His word can never deceive;
The Irish standard., 1899-12-23

Vice Pres.-D:. r. Doyle.
Rec. sec.-!hiIip Ryan.
Fin. Sec.-Thos. Curley.
Trens-J. W. Clcnry.
ms. Sec-Dnniel Brennan
Meet every Monday evening at A. o. 81.
hall. In Grand Opera House building.
Daughters OF Erfn.-Co. President, Mrs.
vice rres.Mra 7. conno H;
BE- Re s scc:-Mrs; \. ! Do1 Sa,,'.
Treas.-Mrs. Geo. Gowa1.
Meet second .na fourth Friday evenings
MORRIS, STEVENS COUNTY.
Co. Pres.-Wm Riordan.
pres.-D. Hennessy.
Vice Pres.-I. 8. Walsh.
FiS s SET: + +: se si,s.psSS:
Treas. and Ins. sec.-Tlmothy Murphy.
Meet nrst Sunday of month.
Ladies' Auxiliary.-Co. President. Miss n.
vice Pres.@Mrs. Alice sse. ' ''
Elm. sec.-Miss Nellie McHn9h.
Treas-Mra. ElIxaheth MahOney,
Meet at Morris. MINI.
DAKOTA COUNTY.
Div. No. 1. Hastings. President. Patriek
Vice Pres.-D: Mcnamara.
Rec. aec.-J. y. Stevens
Fin. Section. McShane.
Treas.-W. e. Fahy.
Ins. Sec.-J. r. Cavanaugh.
Meet second an fourth tuesdays a
month.
Ladies' Auxillary.-co. President, Mss
'f E?s:.@M ss': 4hsrs.. ccn..z.
Vice Pres.-Mias Julia ThoFno.
Rec see.-Niss Anna AeHhenA
Fin. sec.-Miss N. MolampAy.
Treas.-Ars. J. J. Currief.
ms. sec.-Ars. J. Pettlpgill,
the enc month III at az + 20 Z. X EN- EN- 1'aas' .
Div. No. 2, Rosemount.-PresidsHt, Il, 2,
Moran.
vice Psss.-. Q. Ryas-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
Congressman and the Trusts.

If it is true, as rumored, that the
republican senate industrial commits
sion, of which Senator Kyle is chair
man, will report that trusts are not
detrimental to the peoples interests
there is not 4 man in the United States
who is so ignorant as not to know
that declaration j. a lie. No one of or
binary intelligence believes anything
of the kind or believes that the COM
mission believes it. Nor is it because
the constituents of congressmen are
favorable to trusts. They are not.
The greas majority of people are OPP
posed to trusts and would gladly see
them suppressed.
ANY man, says the indianapolis
Sentinel, not directly or Indirectly in
the pay of trust, would be a simple
ton if he were not opposed to trusts.
They hurt him personally and they
hurt the country. Hundreds of men
would refuse to vote for a legislator
who was favorable to trusts if it were
not for party pressure. The congress-
man who favors trusts does so know
ing that his constituents do not favor
them. and if they reelect him it will
be in spite of his action. ard not in
consequence of it. The people are not
in favor of trusts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
TAKES A HIGH PLACE.
Stands Well In the Estimation of
the People.
Attention is Naturally Excited When
Anything is Praised by People
Whom We Kuow.

A thing that stands high in the EST
nation OF the public, and which is
especially recommended by Rock isl
and people, naturally excites our at
tention more than ii our own people
did not praise the article. Such q
thing is going on right here in Rock
Island every day, people are praising
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids, because they
cure. There is no deception, no hum
bug, they do positively cure, and we
furnish the evidence.
Mrs. Agnes Mcdonald, 523 Eighth
street, Rock Island, says: Il was at
tackled with severe pain across the
small of my back caused from disor-
cred kidneys, also with spells of nerv-
business. Learning about Nor row s
Kid-re-oids procured package and
took them according to directions,
and was soon entirely relieved of all
my troubles -
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills,
but yellow tablets, and sell at sc
cents box at all drug stores and at
Bahnsen's drug store.
Mailed on receipt of price. Manu-
featured by John Morrow 81 Co.,
Chemists, Springfield, Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
Human Ignorance.

A child was asked to name the principal or
gans of the human body, aud this was his re-
ply: The organs of the body are the heart,
lungs and other utensils" The ignorance OF
many adults about the human body T. actually
app Illing Constipation is considered nothing
Inoiges ion i noyiug but nothing serious
BiliDusn mess brings melancholia. but then luck
is b AIMED and not the liver. a dos of Hos
letters Stomach B.tters would quickly show
these people where they stand This is the
me dicine which has been known as the dys
pepsia-conquerer for the last fifty years. 1t
will cure your stomach trouble quickly and
easily. Get it and see for yourself. See that
private revenue stamp covers the neck OF
the bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
MEAT FED TO HORSES.

animal food, unless mixed with at
least four-fifths of vegetable products,
is apt TO produce irritable temper and
chronic restlessness. Wherever eX-
pe riments have succeeded in accus-
toming horses to a diet of flesh food,
the results were attested by torn bril-
dies and smashed stable doors. Car
nivorous men begin to Prowl to
ease the feeling of gastric
discomfort. and if deprived OF
that remedy, become fretful and
vindictive. especially when the causes
of nervous arrangements have been
complicated by other stimulants, "
writes DR.. Felix Oswald.
Like produces like; therefore, the
nervous dyspeptic should seek food
from the peaceful and nutritious
grains of the field.
Grape Nuts made of wheat and bar
ley most skillfully blended and manu-
featured, furnish a food, fully and
perfectly cooked; and supplies the
highest form of nourishment com bined
with delicious flavor. Grape-Nuts are
sold by all tirst-class grocers, and
made at Battle Greek. Mich, by the
Postum Cereal company, limited.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
CITES MANY FOR CONTEMPT
Judge Scott of Omaha Summons Batch of
Alleged Recalcitrants-

Judge Scott of Omaha Summons Batch of
Alleged Recalcitrants-
Omaha, Neb.. Dec. 16.-Judge Scott
is finishing up his term on the district
bench with n brilliant display OF legal
pyrotechnics and contempt cases. The
first thing in the morning he cited
Frank Harris of the Chicago Wreck
ing company, which is tearing down
the exposition buildings, for contempt
for dismantling building in the face
of an injunction. With this for Il
starter he took up the Dodd habeas
corpus case. Judge NJ. X. Hopewell.
who preceded Scott on the equity
bench, was first cited and Il deputy
sheriff sent after him. The charge
against Hopewell is that he advised
his client, who has one of the children
in controversy in his keeping, to pay
no attention to SCOTS order to pro-
duce it in court. The other parties
wanted are persons who are alleged to
he concealing the children and keep
ing them out of the reach of the sher-
if. In all there are nine persons in
volved in the proceedings, but only
the two preachers already fined have
been brought into court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
LOSS IS TERRIFIC.
Continued from First page.

the Kreuz Zeitung, which says: ''This
fighting power of the third column is
destroyed and the campaign against
the Beers is disastrously ended.
What, however, means more, is that
England's decadence, long ago appar-
ent 10 far-sighted statesmen. has
thus become visible before the whole
world The Vossische Zeitung says:
The English yesterday met the
greatest defeat in this campaign, it
was so productive of disappointments
and losses" The National Zeitung
SAYS: The second chapter in this
war is now also ended and is much
worse than at first. Its effect upon
the Afrikauders in Natal and Cape
Colony must be very unfortunate for
the English cause" The Semi-otficial
Post, after making merry of the English
pretensions in this war, says: Eng
land had better not count upon
her colonies, citing New South Vale 8
lancers as specimens of colonial
troops" The Deutsche Tages Zeiss
tung calls it the beginning of the
end. The Boersen Courier says: the
attitude of the English people in
view Of these hard knocks deserves
every praise, and the paper adds tha5
in any case England's position as a
worlds power is secured by her
navy Iageblatt compared Gen.
Buffers defeat with that of the 1tal-
i'm general, Baratieri, at Adowa- The
Lohal AuZeiger says: Surely a
>everer trial in the world, The British
empire never had to meet, for as
| things are now. England Will have
to thank the other powers for their
~incere love of peace. Only if she
| emei ges from this war with VIII ple
s.in and more loss of prestige.
Vienna, Dec. 16.-TGe Friend blatt
fears the developments in South AT
RIGA will bring the Beers fresh auNil-
iaries from the Dutch Cape colonist 5,
| but adds: Yet it is to be seen
whether the Beers know how to fol-
low up victory
Buda Pest, Dec. 16.-Hagyar Neusel,
commenting on the British check in
South Africa, expresses the warmest
sympathy for the British army in its
misfortune, and adds: Every liberal
nation in the world would deeply re-
greet if the position of Great Britain,
the standard bearer of civilization,
were shaken. Austria-Hungary would
sorely feel the consequences of any
loss of power by England
Rome, Dec. 16.-Gen. Buffers re
verse produced a profound impress
sion in all circles here, where it is re.
garded as most serious for the mill
tary prestige for England. The after
noon papers devote long articles to
the subject.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
RUNAWAY RAILWAY TRAIN
Two Engineers and Two Firemen Killed
in the Wreck.

Lewiston, Ida. Dec. 16.-Piled up at
the bottom of Kendrick hill, OH the
Northern Pacific branch, are two en-
gines and nineteen ears loaded with
steel. In houses nearby are the dead
bodies of Engineer Arthur r. Balm
and John y. Ogden. Fireman Earl
bradshaw and Brakeman y. Bulge,
all of Spokane, and the fatally in
jured body of John Peterman, also of
Spokane.
The train was an extra with Il load
of steel for the Northern Pacific eX-
tension. The rails were covered with
ice and snow and in descending the
long grade leading into Kendrick the
train got from the control of the train
men and dashed madly down the steep
grade y mile and Il half east of Ken
drick four cars were ditched and the
track torn up for Il quarter of mile.
When the rest of the flying train
struck the yards the engines and all
the ears We're ditched and completely
wrecked and the track torn up for 200
yards.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

SENATOR CARTER. of Montana,
walked down. the isle of the senate
arm in arm with Mr.. Clark, mem ber-
elect from that state, when the latter
appeared to take the oath of Off re.
Then he filed protest against Mr.
Clark's title to the seat on the ground
that his election was procured by
improper methods. Theu Sena-
tor Carter and Senator Clark went out
and took lunch together. All of
which, says the New York Mail and
Express, shows that senatorial cour-
tesy has lost none OF its gracious
elasticity aud good cheer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS.

TIE agricultural department reports
the United States wheat crop at 04I,-
100000 bushels.
The stockholders in the Erie Tele-
graph and Telephone company unani-
mouSly voted to increase the capital
stock of the company from $5,O0o,00O
to S15,0OO.OOO.
Peter Studebaker, grandson of the
Indiana carriage manufacturer, Is
dead i'll San Francisco.
Henry Lands. secretary of the Bal
timore Board of Trade. committed sui
eide at the Union Protestant infirmary
by jumping from Il third-story window.
Wild boars still abound in some
parts of Morocco, one hunting party
having lately killed over 100 i'll one
week.
The National league passed resOlu-
lions asking that soldiers and sailors
be supplied with implements to play
base ball.
Prosecuting Attorney Williams of
Pawnee county. o. T., while arguing a
case in court, fell dead with heart dis
ease.
\ new glass roof is being put on the
Sydenham Uondon) Crystal palace at
Il cost of 100000.
Frank Walker. colOred. was hanged
at the west NlfSlnla state penlten-
tiary for the murder of Thomas San
ders, saloonkeeper in Fayette
county.
The unknown young man who COM
mitted suicide at San Francisco by
jumping from the ferryboat San Rafael
was undoubtedly Howard futile, ~
years of age, whose father now lives
in Paris.
John z. Squire * Co. pork packers
of Boston, have failed: assets, 5000
600; liabilities, $3,OOO,OOO.
DIR. f. G. Rainer, n physician of
Fort Scott, Kan, was accidentally
killed by his own shotgun while hunt
ing with a party of friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

THE element of Inconsistency char
acterIstic of the republican party has
broken out at the outset of tine prePa-
rations for the next national cam
paign in the selection of the Puritani-
cal city of Philadelphia as the place of
holding the convention which Is TO
reaffirm allegiance to Hanna and
Quay. gold, trusts and the additional
evil of Imperialism. 1t will be con-
vention with outcome not difficult of
forecast that will, Assem- BILE in the me-
tropOlis of Pennsyl vania June 10 next.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
Question Answered.

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of using
anything else for indigestion or bill
iousness. Doctors were scarce, and
they seldom heard of appendicitis,
nervous prostration or heart failure,
etc. They used August Flow
er to clean out the system and stop
fermentation of undigested food. reg
ulate the action of the liver, stimulate
the nervous and organic action of the
system, and that is all they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches
and other aches. You only need a
few doses of Green's August Flower,
in liquid form, to make you satisfied
there is nothing serious the matter
with you. Sample bottles free at 7. II.
Thomas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

What a ridiculous farce it is for
President Mckinley to recon mend TO
congress the passage OF stringent laws
for the restriction of trusts.
Mr.. Mckinley knows that both he
and the members of congress consti-
tuting the majority of that body are
the beneficiaries of trust com binaJions
to Hanna's Doodle campaign fund
of SO.
Mr.. Mckinley knows that the party
in power does not dare to interfere
with the gigantic jobbery in which the
trusts are reveliug
Mr.. Mckinley knows that more
trusts were organized under his adj
ministration than under all other ad-
ministrations combined. More than
this, Mr.. Mckinley knows that there
i compact rivited with bolts of steel
between the trusts and his political
manager. Marcus a. Hanna, by which
these great combines are to cap the
reward of their muniiicent contribu-
tions to the repu blican campaign fund.
and that as evidence of good faith on
the part of Hanna, he had Mckinley
appoint a trust attorney from the
trust-ridden state of New Jersey at
torney general.
AIR. Mckinley and his party have
been in full control of the legislative
and executive departments of the gov
eminent for the past three years. Can
anyone point to a single act which
could disturb the plans of the trusts.
or retard them in their purpose Of
suppressing trade competition?
Mr.. Mckinley mistakes the intelli-
gence and temper of the American
people when he supposes they will be
caught by such chat as constitutes
that portion of his message devoted
N frr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
California;.

Now is the time to commence figur-
ing on California trip. The C., r,
L. Il P. railway is in a position to sell
you tickets by number of different
routes and give the privilege of going
out one way and returning another.
Through tourist cars from Rock Island
to San Francisco via either Colorado
Springs or Fit. Worth. Round trip
tickets good for nine months with
stop-over privileges both going and
returning, now on sale. For full in
formation call or write to 5. +. Boyd,
general agent. Davenport. or F. III
Plummer. ticket agent, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

A HOLLAND farmer of this countr '
has received information from his ma
tive land to the effect that the people
of that country have raised $500 900
and equipped two vessels to 60 to
South Africa loaded with Red Cross
stores, nurses, etc, for the Boer ar
my. Also that funds are being raised
to build and endow n home for depend
ent widows and orphans of those
Beers who will fall in bottle during
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

OK the front page of this issue of
THE ARGUS appears an engraving of
the adopted design for Rock Island s
proposed new theatre building. As
will be seen it is to be a handsome
structure. of metropolitan appear
ance, one that will from any point of
view prove source of credit to the
city and to all in any way connected
with the enterprise which is to make
it a reality.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

.'SNITCHn is newly invented word
used to designate an individual who
scans the newspapers in search of
items concerning matters upon which
law suits may be founded. The snirch
closely follows the daily casualty
columns, hunts up prospective liti-
giants and directs their business
into the hands of the pettifogging
lawyer with whom ne is in collision,
and from whom b = draws a commits
sion -Keokuk Con acknowledgements
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to 8
days. Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. IS cents.
Sold by Otto Grotjan. 1901 Second
avenue, Rock Island; Gustave Schle-
gel & Son, 220 West Second street,
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
TO HONOR FRANK p. BLAIR.

Banquet to be Given HIM by Davenport
Business Mems Association.
The Davenport Business Mems as
sociation is to give complimentary
banquet in honor of Frank L. Blair,
the former energetic promoter Of the
Terminal company. Mr.. Blair is now
in New York. He has been
telegraphed to come to Clinton,
Iowa, where the arrangements are
for delegation of Davenport citizens
to meet him aud take him TO Ddven-
port on special train. The officials
of the D., Z. & Z. will be asked to
participate in the event.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
BOSTON BANK FAILS.
The Broadway National in the Hands of
the Comptroller.

the Comptroller.
Boston, Dec. 16.-The Broadway Ma
tiOnaI bank has failed. The directors
are John X. Graham, Henry l.. Law
renee. Frank o. Squire. Roswell c.
Downer, Frank W. DOwner Frank
o. Squire is connected with the firm
of John Z. Squire ~ Co. which as
signed Friday with $3,OO0,0OO liabili-
ties.
The Broadway. bank was incorpOr-
ated in 1853. Its capital stock is $780,
900. News of the failure became
known when the bank failed to open
its doors in the morning. and a notice
posted ut the entrance. read: In the
hands of the comptroller of the cur
rency. u. G.. Wing, receiver"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
BANQUET FOOTBALL BOYS
High School Team Entertained by the
ENrlS

High School Team Entertained by the
Girl Students.
The members of the Rock Island
High school football team were ban
quoted at Carse hall Friday night by
the young ladies of the school. The hall
was decorated in the colors of the
team and the national cOlors. Music
was furnished by Ogden's orchestra.
Seventy-five couples were in attend
ance. Incidental to the repast there
were appropriate remarks by Princi-
pal j. F. Darby. DIncing followed.
The teachers of the school acted as
patronesses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

A MISPLACED comma has got a
Greeley county (Kan.) paper into a
peck of trouble. The journal in ques-
ton recently published an item in
which the following sentence occurred:
Two young men from Leoti went
with their girls to Tribune ID attend
the teachers institute, and as soon as
they left. the girls got drunk" The
comma belonged after the girls. -
and the latter are making it hot for
the editor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

for the gold standard, for the elimina-
ton of silver and the retirement of
the greenbacks. 1t is well known
that Senator Chandler and other lead
ers, and even MIR. Mckinley himself,
believe it would be the worst kind of
politics to force these issues upon the
party next year. but Wall street is
impatient to have the necessary legis-
lation to tighten its grip on the cir
culating money medium of the coun-
try, and Wall street must be obeyed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

THIS is the proper season to buy
your Christmas presents Don I
wait until the last day-you may be
crowded out. and the very article you
would prefer to select might he sold
By consulting the advertising columns
of THE ARGUS YOU will save worry
and money The merchants an
nouncements will give you valuable
assistance in deciding what TO give
and where to get it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17

mas Time The Engineer. MY
Partner" Two Little Faces" HAT
ties Wedding" There's a Face, :"
Down in Old Mobile" Music of the
Mills" The Tin Wedding" The
Fast MAIL ION the Mississippi, :"
and Carnations" The collection of
poems is dedicated Ito the merry
group who sit before the open CRATE
and watch for faces in the IRE at Cat
alpa Lodge"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-17
GERMAN-ENGLISH
SPECIALISTS.

Hundreds of hopeless cases have
been cured by them. If you are
chronic sufferer, no matter what the
nature of your ailment. it will pay
YOU to see them, because they have
tor wears devoted all their time to the
study and care of the diseases they
treat.
Because their offices are furnished
with every appliance and curative
agent known by the worlds greatest
spe cialists to be of service in the dag
no>is and cure of the disease.
Their Berlin system of curing deaf
ness. ringing noises in the ears, ca
tarrh of the nose, throat and stomach
and diseases of the lungs, is curing
cases that have formerly been regard
ed US almost hopeless.