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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
A SCENE ON TIE 500.
the King of France Took Possession OF
the Land Two Hundted Years Ago.

Che King of France Took Possession Of
the Land Two Hundred Years Ago.
In st. Nicholas there is az article on
"The Great Lakes by ". S. HARDWOOD
MIR. HARDWOOD says:
While waiting for my steamer to be
carried through canal locks OF the 500,
stood one summer day near hill on
which now stands Fort Brady, over
looking the rapids of the 500 as they
flow from Lake Superior down into the
st. Mary's river and so ON to join at
last the waters of Huron. On the top of
this hill, as nearly as / could decide
from the topography of the country,
was witnessed two centuries and a quar-
ter ago one of the most remarkable, one
of the most significant, scenes in the
history of the new world. 1t has been
brilliantly described, and l may but
mention it.
On June IA, 1871, strange body of
men was assem- bled on this hill. 1t was
composed of four classes-the official
representatives of the king of France,
the Catholic missionaries, the voyageurs
and the Indians Weeks before word
had been sent out to the chiefs of IA of
the different tribes of Indians in the re-
gion TO meet at the 500 on the date
mentioned. All llnIlSISe CROSS Oh WOOQ
was made and carried to the top of the
hill overlooking the swift flowing
rapids. \ stout timber with an en-
graved plate on it was set up near the
deep hole in the ground which was to
hold the foot of the cross.
When all had assembled, st. Lusson,
the representative of the king, lifted in
one hand a clod of earth and in the
other his naked sword and in the name
of his most Christian majesty the king
of France took possession of the land,
embracing in his assumption "all the
region from the north TO the south sea
and extending to the ocean on the west. :"
The cross was then raised before the
motley throng-the representatives of
the government in their most gorgeous
suits, the priests in their rich vest
ments. the voyageurs in their hunting
garb of skins, the Indians in their most
fantastic feathers and paint. As the
cross assumed position the priests in
toned stately chant of the seventeenth
century. Then the French exclaimed
''Vive lie roi - while, as one historian
puts it, 1.-the Indians howled in con-
cert
The plate upon the smaller timber
bore an engraved inscription denoting
the kings possession of the land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
Ice water versus Hot water.

The drinking of ice water is pro-
nounced by scientists to amount to a
real crime, and DR.. Brubaker has de-
clared this question one CT the utmost
interest in typhoid fever. He says that
if all water should be boiled and filtered
there would never be case of typhoid
The temperature of the stomach at
the moment the ice water enters it is
about 105 degrees; the water is 30
degrees The chilling Of and con-
tracing of blood vessels is therefore
great, and to the ice water is ascribed
the catarrhal condition of the stomach
so often suffered from. DR.. Brubaker
says water should not be taken with
meal to any great extent. but that hot
water taken before breakfast prepares
the stomach for action, stimulating the
gastric juices and washing away the re-
mains of the last meal Another glass
of hot water taken between breakfast
and luncheon Will befound beneficial
and better than all drugs for curing in
digestion, since in passing into the
blood the food products are carried along
with it. Exercise, too, is necessary to
help On the action of the stomach.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
The Meanest Man.

A mean man on the south side agreed
early in the week to meet a girl at
luncheon down town last Saturday. and
after luncheon they Were going to the
matinee. The girl kept her part of the
contract. She wore a new silk waist
and n new bonnet. and was in the
lunchroom as the clock struck I. After
she had waited about FIVE minutes there
came a note from the mean man. 1t
said:
1.-The inclosed cards viii show you
why 1 can't keep my engagement
The Enclosed cards" announced that
he had been married TO a chum of hers
that morning -Chicago Inter Ocean
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
A SCENE IN SALONlCA.
The jews and Jewesses That Inhabit the
Heart of the Town.

The Jews and Jewesses That Inhabit the
Heart of the Town.
In the true ghetto, in the noisomo
heart of the town, where the cobbled
streets run Shiny and the people chatter
with the butchers for the refuse of the
slaughter house and chicken block, you
see the unchanged Jew of the middle
ages. Be he bearded grandsire or tiny
boy, ne wears long loose gabardine to
his heels and the feZ of his masters. If
he is we'll to do, the garment may be
fur bordered or it may be of silk, but it
could not more surely be soiled and
greasy if the law required it so. With
marriage this survivor of the dark ages
grows beard full and thick and griz-
zled in the old men, wiry and black>and
very sparse i'll the younger heads of FAM
lilies. This is as it is in East Broad
way and Chicago and Berlin, but when
you look upon the wives and daughters
in Salonica's ghetto you see medieval
characters who have staid in the east,
but sent no representatives abroad.
These Jewesses love display and court
admiration. They are much fairer than
the men, milky skinned, with pale
pink flush, as if they were dollhouse
bred. Their clothes are gay, red, green
and blue being their favorite colors,
and the married women all wear decol-
lete bodices fashioned very low in front
and showing fancy shirt of embroidery
and lace, which either reveals the mold
of their forms or makes startling ex-
posures of the forms themselves. Their
chests are always quite bare. This in a
land where the other women expose
nothing but their eyes is all the more
astonishing. On their crowns the jew
ish matrons wear very snowy, often
beautiful, headdresses, composed of
cap of red, green and yellow silk or
cloth, that is carried down the back of
the head in a bag that envelops their
tresses. Often these bags are finished
at the bottom with heavy gold braid
"In the Wake of q War;" by Julian
Ralph, in Harper's Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
Whx He Waited

A hungry traveller, a stranger in Red
Bank. y. j.. entered a restaurant in
that town and ordered ham and eggs,
as that seemed TO be the only available
dish After he had waited half an hour,
staring impatiently at the bottles in the
caster, he summoned the proprietor.
whom he questioned regarding the de-
lay. "The ham is all cooked, was the
reply. ''but my little girl is still out in
the yard waiting for the hen to lay an
other egg %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
Appendicitis.

Appendicitis is not the surely fatal
disease it has been often regarded Pro-
fessor Nothagel of Vienna finds that
not less than so per cent of the cases
run a simple course and recover under
purely medical treatment He states
that opiates should be given, but no
purgatives. There need be no, uneasi-
ness if the Patient has no movement of
the bowels for six or eight days--Cin-
cinnati enquirer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
A New Road Found.

"Oh, John. dear, isn't your Uncle
George dreadful?''
.'What's up now?'
"Wby, l called at his Office today.
and he was talking to one Of his clerks
mp stairs. "
Nothing unusual in that
"And, John, he told the poor man to
go to-you know where-through the
speaking tube. Pick Me Up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15

II have received more benefit from
one bottle of Foley's Kidney Cure than
from months of treatment by physi-
clans" writes V. B. Conklin, of Bow
ersville, Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15
An Emp1oxer,. FauIt.

sour typewriter is going to leave "
whats the matterI''
''Sbe says she wants a position with
an employer who has sense enough to
see when she's fixed up to go to the
matinee Chicago Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-07-15

Brazil is Portuguese term derived
from braza. "a live COAL" relative &c
the red dyewood, with which the coun-
Try sbounds-
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
Cows Eat Dynamite.

Henry Frost, prosperous farmer liv-
ing about five miles west of town, near
Dunn's Chapel, lost two valuable COWS
last Friday through over indulgence in
dynamite as an article of diet. That
evening his five COWS were noticed act
ing in very queer manner. They were
rolling around on the ground and seemed
unable to stand up. DR.. 8. r. Howard,
veterinary surgeon, was Immediately
summoned from Hillsboro and admins.
tered sntidotes to the three that were
alive when arrived and they have since
recovered. Mr.. Frost had quantity of
dynamite covered up in fence corner
in the pasture field in which the COWS
were, and it was afterwards found
chewed up and scattered around. Dy.
Mantle is composed mostly of nitro
glicerine, which is heart stimulant,
and one-tenth of drop being the usual
dose administered to human beings. Dr..
Howard reported the pulse Of the ones
he examined at 120, while the normal
beat should have been only 55.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

Democrats are growing wildly over a
Democratic victory in Democratic dis
trict in Missouri, the Eighth district.
Haunting the fact proudly that the vote
shows clear opposition to expansion. The
country at large, the administration and
the Republicans generally are not, how
ever. worrying unnecessarily. The
Eighth district has usually been on the
side of the fence which time and expert
ence has proven the wrong side. 1t is
usually against" diztrict. 1t is opposed
to sound money and a protective tariff
upon both of which policies depend the
business property the industrial life and
the home market Of the Republic and
the fact that this district now shows it.
self opposed to expansion merely exem.
plifiies its usual preference for the
wrong end of a question.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
Real Estate Transfers.

John M Waddell to Joseph L Cald.
we'll, Greenfield, lot, ST. and other con.
siderations.
Flora A McCannoughey to H A Col
burn. Washington tp, 27a, 2Op, $l75.
Hester A Colburn to Carrie F Col.
burn. Washington tp, 27a, 2Op, 81 and
other considerations.
Amanda M Woodrow to James L Dur
nell, Liberty tp, $23OO.
Mary v Caldwell to Elmer W Cow.
man, ! of 163a, 3Sp, $500.
Fay Baldwin to Samuel M Matthew,
Greenfield, lot, 81 and other considera-
tions.
R L beaverton, admr, to Sarah H Nc.
Laughlin, Leesburg, lot, 1886 81.
Sophie M Boyer to Flora McOon-
naughey, Hillsboro, lot, $3.50.
JOS A Head to Alexander Farren,
Hillsboro, lot, 1925,
Macy L Tedrow to Miranda Moore,
Jackson tip, 6O4a, $500.
Henry @ Price ct al to L B Boyd, trus.
tee, Hillsboro, lot, $4400.
JIM lawson to Mary Bobb, Brushcreek
tip, l6a, $500
NJ E Fullerton to Martha Fl Brakefield,
Greenfield, lot, SO $50.
A L Beatty to Noah Storer, Adams
and Highland counties, lola, 81, ,425.
Nicholas Carper to George E Oreb augh,
New Petersburg, lots, 5000
Charles Fox to William Fox, Union
tp, 1S43a, $4,000.
William Fox to D H Fox, Union tp,
1863a, $1,000
Lottie B McKeehan to Jacob B and
Deborah Long, Sinking Spring lot, $500
ALT Clark to Dorsey F. Runk, 145a,
SOP, $1,000.
Lew Woods to Francis B Boosveld,
Lynchburg, lot. $500.
Louie M West to Benjamin and Anna
h Wilkin, Liberty tp, 35a, 1875
Charles A Ayres to W F Ayres, Hills
boro, int, in lot, $3.50.
Joseph earlier to A e earlier, s,lem
pit, 75a, 81 and other ccnsi' raticrs.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The general agent for the Empire
Grain Drill tells us that wherever he has
exhibited at county fairs this fall he has
taken first premium. Carthage, Hamil.
ton county Boston, Clermont county;
Urbana, Champaign county; West
Union, Adams county, and various other
places. Our agent, Mr.. Tobias, has been
exhibiting the drill at county fairs, and
in no instance has he failed to secure the
"red." Thirty.seven men bought the
drill last year in Hillsboro and the fol-
lowing is partial list of parties who
have purchased this fall Abe Vaughn,
Louis Connsll, Nathan Larkin, Annie
Clever, Frank Michaels, Billie Overman,
Charlie Weller, ]. L. Lucas, A. Williams
Henry Fender, James Fenwick. Henry
Fenwick, Frank Welty, Squire Sweeney,
J. O. Caldwell, William Burley, Judge
0. h. Hughes. Most of this years buy.
ers have consulted those who bought
last year. What stronger evidence is
needed as to the best drill to buy?
ROADS, LUCAS q MILLER.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The New York Journal, an ardent ex.
pansionist, fully supports Colonel Bry-
an. It says, however, that all Demo
Gratis are united for expansion and then
makes the surprising announcement that
Mr.. Bryan will before the next nomina-
ton learn the difference between expan-
sion and imperialism. This is the
Journals first admission since 1896 that
Mr.. Bryan could learn anything.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
Reunion Army Of West Virginia, jack
son, Ohio, September 27tb,
2Sth and 29th.

For the above occasion the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern Railroad will sell
excursion tickets at one fare for the
round trip, tickets good going Septem-
Der 9th, 2Sth and 29, good returning un-
til Septem Der 30th Train leaving Hills
boro at 7:45 a. m. reaches Jackson at
4:3O p. m. For further particulars call
on or address J. E. Sands, agent, Hills
boro, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The revolving Kentucky Democrats
were willing to keep silent last year
when Goebel was laying his plans for
counting out Republicans, but now that
he has undertaken to count out oppos-
ing Democrats as we'll, their virtuous in
dignation breaks the bonds Of silence
and they are making very interesting
disclosures of Kentucky Democratic
methods.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

No company that we have ever heard
of has ever come to this city with such
favorable comments as "a Wise Woman" "
They have the unanimous endorsement
of the press, and this you may rest as
sured will be your only chance to see
this superior company, as they make but
few stops going from Chicago to San
Francisco. We have no doubt of their
success here,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

Secretary Root has promptly adopted
one of the recommendations OF the Porto
Rican Commission by directing the COM
missary general to buy Porto Rican col
fee for use in the army. A large part OF
the product will be Immediately pur'
chased and the money for it will go to
those badly in need of it.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

G. w. Stevens, the bold and brilliant
newspaper correspondent who went with
Kitchener to Khartum, will contribute
to McClure's Magazine Tor October de-
scription Of the important scenes and
actors in the recent Dreyfus trial, which
Mr.. Stevens attended personally from
its opening to its close.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The imports of manufactures in the
fiscal year 1899 we're nearly $l00,000,.
600 less than in 1890, while exports of
manufactures were nearly 100000, 900
more in 1899 than they were in 1890.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
COUNTY TICKET.

For Representative
JAMES Fl. WICKERSHAM.
For Probate Judge
CHARLES F. ROGERS.
For Sheriff
JOHN G. WILLIAMSON.
For Prosecuting Attorney
IRWIN Med. SMITH.
For Treasurer
FRANK W. NORTON.
For Recorder
JOSEPH Z. FERNEAU.
For Commissioner
WILLIAM G. LARKIN.
For IDfrmary Director
O. T. MULLENIX.
For Coroner
]. P. GIBSON.
For Surveyor
B. o. PRATT.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

The London Times, which, like all
Englishmen, would like to see free-trade
in America, fear that our protective
tariff has been found to be too good a
thing to forego. This fear is we'll
grounded,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
Executors Notice of Appoint
m0nt.

Notice ia hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointed and qualified as Exec
utor Of the viii Of James h. Barker, late Of
Highland county, Ohio, deceased.
WILLIAM g. BARKER.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
DISTRICT TICKET.

For Senators
THOMAS W. MARCHANT,
OF Fayette county.
ARTHUR W. MADDEN,
: OF Clinton county.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28
Farmers.

We are ready to make cider. Bring
in your apples. J. E. WALKER,
Manager,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

Before you buy wheat drill see the
Oswego and Buckeye at Wolfe and Os,..
vert's.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

Blair Boyd left last Wednesday after
noon to enter Cornell University.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-09-28

You can see some Of the latest tints
in box paper at Garrett & Ayre
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18

never know how to take you, Amelia.
Two years ago you were crazy for that
hat and now I've bought it for you
you don't like 1t at all!-Fliegende
Batter.
Let me sea," said the editor to new
acquisition, a graduate of the College
of Journalism. ''I hardly know what
to put you att Until you decide re-
Piled the men, "Tll sit down and write
few leading editorials. Life.
Being EXact.--"Do you mean to tell
me that the members of our legislature
will be ruled at the bidding of any one
man?' well" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, they're getting rather particu-
lar. The mans got to bid pretty llber
al. Washington Star
Jumps-"What is Bigghedd looking so
glum about?" Bumps-'W by, the gyp-
sy fortune teller just told his wife that
she would have two husbands, and that
the second one would be a very fine
sort of man." Jumps-"Ha! ha! And
Bigghedd thinks that a reflection ON
him, suppose?" Bumps-"Oh, no! He
thinks his wife must have been mar
ried before and never told him."-Tlt-
Bits
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18
4 pIAns1nLE rHEoRY.

Unless our esteemed though far-off
contemporary the Matabele Times is
! mistaken it knows where the ancient
land of Ophir is. 1t is in the Mono
matapa region, in Rhodesia. The gold
mines of the ancients are now rediscoV-
cred and the gold ingot molds recently
discovered in Rhodesia are Identical,
says the Times with the tin ingot molds
used by the Phoenicians in Cornwall.
1t is believed that the Phoenicians
worked the South African mines 1000 Il.
c. Scripture tells us, says the Times,
how Hiram, the Phoenician king.
brought enormous quantities Of gold,
ivory and slaves for King Solomon;
and where could all these have
been discovered together, and in
such large quantities as described
in Holy Writ, if not in this por
ton of Southeast Africa? Jobs refer
of Soomon's wealth in these parts, and
certainly neither the ivory" nor the
Slaves" nor the apes of Bible his
tory came from India; for Africa, as Is
well known, has ever been credited in
history as the ivory" slave" and
APE" producing country. Further,
there is considerable doubt whether any
other country, India included, could at
that period have produced the quanti-
ties of gold mentioned in Chronicles
and Kings Scattered throughout this
country are colossal ruins of fortresses,
temples of distinctly Phoenician origin,
identical with the ruins now seen in the
land of the Phoanicians, and built by
the same race as erected Stonehenge on
Salisbury Plain, and later built the
rounded towers Of Ireland. Here is the
herring bone style of building, as In
Arabia, Sardinia and the British isles.
There, too, are the gigantic monoliths,
cloven stones and stone circles, with al
tars and sacred Enclosures.
This is certainly q plausible theory.
Old Ophir was a shining place but the
new Ophir will perhaps outshine the old
one when it gets into full operation.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18

greatly on the increase in prisons in the
South Taking his own state, he quoted
statistics to show that in sixteen years
the percentage of convicts to die from
consumption had risen from II per cent
to nearly 81 per cent, while during one
year-that of 1885, '96-above so per cent
of the deaths in the penitentiary had
been from that disease. Nor is the rec
ord of Alabama exceptional. DR. Blake
quoted figures from Mississippi, Texas,
Georgia, Virginia, and other states, 60
ing to show that consumption has stead
lily increased among the prison popula-
tons. In Texas, in 1896, two-thirds OF
the total number of deaths of convicts
were caused by consumption. The trout
BILE, according to DR.. Blake lies in the
fact that tuberculous and non-tubercu-
lous convicts are herded together Es-
pecially is the herding marked in the
winter months, when the greater num-
Der of convicts are crowded into the
smallest possible space. in order to
economize fuel and blankets.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18
4 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CASE.

Perhaps the legal status of Christian
Science healing will be tested in Mas
sachusetts. The wife of Colonel Charles
C. Rivers assistant surveyor Of the
port of Boston, was stricken with paral-
ysis. and her husband called a regular
physician, who prescribed for her and
left her. The next morning the physi-
clan was informed that "other doc
tors" had been called, and his services
would not be needed so, of course, he
kept away. The treatment he had pre-
scribed was discontinued, and Chris
tan Scientist said to be a graduate Of
Mrs. Eddy's Boston school took charge
of the case at Mrs Rivers request The
same day the patient had a second
shock, and on Saturday the regular
physician was again summoned, but
Mrs Rivers died that night. The ply
stefan then refused to sign the certifi-
cate of death, as any practitioner might
naturally have done under similar cir
cumstances, whether the second physi-
clan called had been Christian Scien-
fist or of some other school. The duty
then devolved upon the assistant medi-
cal examiner, who certified that death
was caused by neglect" and referred
the case to the district attorney for
Suffolk county.
The laws relating to medical practice
in Massachusetts are pretty liberal, |
and the probability is that if this case
comes into court the Christian Scien- |
lists will not suffer from it's outcome. |
1t is hard to draw the line in medical |
practice. There was a time when no.
meopathy wasn't considered "medi- |
cine"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18
.TNDTC1TfONS.

The average academic degree indi-
Gates at least that the man who has it
has forgotten more than the man who
hasn't it.--Detroit journal.
Fogg says that should anyone ask
him the meaning of the word "ambigu-
Gus" he would point to this sentence:
1.-THE merchant failed to make money"
Boston Transcript.
Jones-It is said that Dame Fortune
knocks once at every mans door.
Smith-Wel, it was her daughter
Miss Fortune, who called on me.-Co-
lumbus (Ohio) State Journal.
Ready to Negotiate-"Can any lady
of gentleman in the audience lend me a
ten dollar gold piece?" asked the pro-
fessor of magic. ION VOTE" eagerly
shouted pawnbroker in the front row.
Puck.
Professor Ito his wife, provoked)-I