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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28

set the sea dancing and flashing with
white caps.
A Philadelphia syndicate has leased
for a long Germ the sulphur baths at
Coamo and the hotel and large estate
which go with them. Coamo was once
the West Indian Monte Carlo. 1t is
high up in the mountains east of
Ponce. The site of the old hotel built
nearly 100 years ago is exceedingly
beautiful. The Philadelphians are re-
modelling the hotel and bringing it up
TO modern standards. The old stone
bathtubs used by the Spaniards are be-
ing removed and better ones substi-
tuted, a swimming pond is to be built,
and an electric plant will light the
house and grounds.
Still another winter resort hotel is
planned. This will be ON the north
side of the island on a point of land
jutting into the sea about five miles to
the east of San Juan There is cliff
% or 80 feet high ana a hard beach,
and the bathing is better than that on
the coast of New Jersey, because there
is no undertow. The northeast trade
winds strike here with full force. The
fishing is superb, and the breeze is so
steady that an international yacht race
could be sailed every day in the year
New Workers are back of the plan to
build n hotel on this site, but the en-
terprise has not as yet taken definite
form.
A syndicate from Chicago holds the
water power privilege in the hill coun-
try a few miles to the southwest of
San Juan. The river Bayamon and
the north branch of the Rio de la Plata
have numerous small tributaries, which
come roaring down the mountain sides
over deScents almost as steep as a
toboggan slide. The power they are
capable of supplying is practically I'M
limited. The Chicago company pro-
poses to furnish electric light and troll
ley power for San Juan and all the
country for miles around.
These are a few of the enterprises
already under way in Porto Rico.
There are many others in contempla-
ton and only waiting to see the spirit
with which congress takes hold of the
problems incident to fixing the status
of the island-its tariff, its currency
and its relation to the Union.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
A NEW PHOTOGRAPHY.
Now 1t Is a High Relief Photosculp-
ture They Are Making.

From Berlin comes the report that
Herr Selke, n German inventor, has
patented n new Photographic method
of forming high relief photosculpture,
which is described as wonderfully eff
fective. The model is seated on 4
chair, surrounded by a mysterious
looking apparatus. AT a short dis
lance away there is an arch of electric
lamps, one above the other, the light
being softened by the use of light blue
glass; Nearer the model and rising
over his head is second arch of
Photographic plates a few inches wide
and connected by joints.
This nearer arch can be moved for
ward by n mechanical contrivance con-
nected with the Photographic appara-
tus put in front of it and is Intended
to throw n shadow from all three sides
on to the model, says the Baltimore
Sun. AS it moves forward the long
sensitive film used for instantaneous
photographs is moved behind the glass
of the apparatus by the quick turning
of n winch in the dark interior of the
camera. This shadow produces an I'M
broken series of so called photograph
ic cuts of the model from which con-
tinually decreasing undarkened parts
are fixed on the film at the rate of
about 30 within n few seconds.
When that has taken place, the sit
ting is at an end. These photographs
are enlarged ON cardboard, each being
then accurately cut out with a fine
saw. They are laid one upon anoth-
er at the same distances as the first
profiles and firmly fixed, so that the
whole series of all the photographs of
the model are pasted up one upon an
other stepwise. As these steps are
very low and fiat they are hardly per-
ceptible in themselves. and the whole
gives the impression of a relief similar
to the original model. This is then
covered with viscid, stuccolike ma
terial, and the mold is ready for slight
finishing touches with the modelling
tool
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
New Floating Reu Buov.

A. l. Woodwork of Norfolk is the
inventor of a new form of bell buoy
which is expected to displace all those
now in use. 1t is being tested by the
government lighthouse board. Bell
buoys constructed after the ordinary
pattern are only operative when the
sea is somewhat rough. In perfectly
calm weather they float on the smooth
surface of the water and give no warn
ing of their presence or of that Of the
reef or other danger to mariners which
it is their function to announce. Mr..
Woodworth's buoy will ring its bell in
the calmest weather. says the Chicago
Tribune. Its distinguishing feature is
n long fin. which sticks down into the
water for several feet and is affected
by every current, no matter how slight
it may be. The body of the buoy con-
sists of two water tight compartments,
so that it is practically unsuitable.
1t will ring from four to u times a
minute. depending on the strength Of
the current. The bell can be heard for
a distance of 2Is miles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
Beers Respect star. and s.ripe..

4 letter was received recently from
Mrs. George Dickman, formerly of
Hazleton, Pa, now a resident of South
Africa, where her husband is interest
ed in gold mining, says the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger. Mrs. Dickman
says that everybody in the Transvaal
is preparing to resist British invasion.
and that even the small boys are going
to the front. When the Beers set out
for the border, she says, and confiscat-
ed the cattle and property of many for
commissariat purposes, they did not
disturb the Dickman estate, because
Of the display of an American flag,
which undoubtedly saved their prop
erty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28

Pa senger trains leave c.. r L x L. (Molue
avenue) depot five To- minutes earlier than
time given. Trains marked daily all otner
trains daily except Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
DE. RICHARD ]. GArL1Na.

ing purposes, says the New York
World. With it he expects to super
sede the moldbOard plow that is now
in general use for the preparation OF
land for cultivation.
The machine will be built on the
principle of The automobile, with disk
plOws so arranged as to do the work
of the implements now in use with
greater facility and rapidity and at q
greater saving. He promises to build
the machine so that it can be operated
by a single man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
Invested $4,000. 900 In standing Tim

Frederick Weyerhauser of Chippewa
Falls, Wis. the greatest lumberman
in Wisconsin and Minnesota, is just
closing another deal which more than
clinches his title as the most extensive
manipulation in lumber and logs in the
world, says the Minneapolis Tribune
His latest deal is the purchase of
100000 acres of timber lands from
the Northern Pacific company. This
timber is located on the Pacific coast.
The price paid for this timber is &c.
100000. This is the greatest timber
deal ever closed by a single individual
in the history of the numbering and log
ging industry. In speaking of the deal
Mr.. Weyerhauser says that it is sim
ply an investment. He believes that
timber is bound to advance out in the
western country and that he will real
lie handsome profit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
HORSE SHOW NOVELTIES.
Boas and aIuGs of Real ViOIets Two
of the Floral Conceits.

Horse show flowers were never more
attractive than they are this year. The
floral novelties seen at the Madison
Square Garden are wonderfully beau
tiful and show that the florists are
proving themselves dangerous rivals to
the modistes. Judging from what they
have made for the show, ii is EF no
means improbable that they will some
day conduct = millinery business in
addition to their present work of dec
orating and bouquet making and make
bonnets of natural blossoms.
The violet boa is one of this seasons
novelties, says the New York Journal.
Hundreds of violets make it, falling
like feathers around the wearer's neck.
The effect of this cascade of flowers
is charming, for no matter what color
her gown may be this scarf of sweet
scented flowers will harmonic. In
terspersed with sprigs of green. it is
graceful itself and in the distance
looks like soft fluffy lace or feathers.
Another novelty in flowers is the
muff of violets and chiffon, relieved
with sprays of delicate ferns. 1t is an
immense spray of violetS, so shaped
that it fits perfectly over the curve of
the mutt, almost concealinS the fur.
Knots of pale violet chiffon fasten it
to the muff, ferns mingling with the
gauze bows and tracing a lacelike
background over the fur for the flow
erS.
stock of violets and violet MORE
ribbon is one of the seasons prettiest
flower conceits. \ band of violetS
and ribbon passes round the wearer's
throat, the ribbon extending half way
down the bodice, knitting to it a large
horseshoe bouquet of violets. 1t makes
a most effective corsage trimming.
These violet horseshoes may also be
tied with violet ribbons to muffs with
admirable effect.
Smaller horseshoes come for men.
They are used as bOutOnnieres and are
tied with narrow violet ribbon to the
lapels of their coats.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
Want. to he a Citizen.

Emma Yamoda, a Japanese woman,
took out her first citizenship papers re-
Gently. She expects to return to her
native land shortly on a visit. but has
declared her intention of returning to
the United States again in about two
months, says the Spokane Spokesman
Review. Emma has been a resident of
Spokane since the fire. 1t is one of the
first cases on record of a Japanese wo-
man being naturalized in the United
States
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
AN AUTOMOBILE PLoW.

Novel Machine Invented by DR.. CAT
ling, of Gun Fame.
Dr. Richard ]. Calling of Chicago,
who revolutionized methods of war
fare by inventing the rapid fire gun
that bears his name, has invented an
automobile pillow. 1t will do the work
of eight men and II horses The pro-
pulsion power will be either gasoline
or oil.
In addition to its primary use in the
field, the machine can be used in driv-
ing a thrasher, Smelling corn or haul
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28

The sharpest criticism that has been
launched against our army in the Phil
ippines hOyers in the declaration that
many OF the FiIipinos believe they stin
are fighting the spaniards-New York
Press. ~ - .z.....s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC
Railway,Tickets can :, be purchased or
depot or C.. p l. & 2. depot, corner Fifth ave-
nue. and Thlrty-frst street Frank II Plum
rner agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
]. L. BURKHART, NJ
MRS HADA n. BURKHART, n.
DIS. BURKHART & BURKHART,
Physicians .

once Treruann block once hours 70 oo ~
70 ) and to o. m. Phone No. 4O9z
Rock Island, III. Night calls answered from
once.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28
rtred of Pink Tea

Wood saving contests are the latest
diversion among the young women at
Idaho Springs.-Denver Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-12-28

sArriyal. departure daily, except Sun
sDaily except Saturday. All others daily. Tel
ephone 1913.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07

1t was presently followed by an
other, and then again by others
in twos and threes, which show
ed that the prediction of a great
shower was likely to be verified.
AT this time the Earl of Rosse
joined me at the telescope, and,
after O brief interval, we decided
to cease our observations Of the
nebula and ascend to the top OF
the wall of the great telescope,
from whence a clear view of the
whole hemisphere to the heav-
ems could be obtained. There
for the next two or three hours
we witnessed a spectacle which
can never fade from my memory.
The shooting stars gradually in
creased in numbers until some
times several were seen at once.
Sometimes they swept over our
heads, sometimes to the right,
sometimes to the left, but they
all diverged from the east. AS
the night wore on the constella-
ton of Leo assembled above the
horizon, and then the remark
able character of the shower was
disclosed. All the tracks of the
meteors radiated from Leo. Oc-
casionally luminous trains would
linger on for many minutes after
the meteor had flashed across,
but the great majority of the
trains in this shower were evan
escent. 1t would be impossible
to say how many thousands of
meteors were seen, each one of
which was bright enough,to.have
ELECTED a note of admiration of
any ordinary night"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07

Morong has been captured
twice and abandoned twice.
Santa Cruz has been captured
once and abandoned.
Pagsanjan has been captured
once and abandoned.
Longos has been captured
once and abandoned.
Paete has been captured once
and abandoned.
Novaliches has been captured
twice and abandoned twice.
San Mateo has been captured
once and abandoned.
San Jose has been captured
once and abandoned.
Norzgaray has been captured
once and abandoned.
Mexico has been captured
twice and abandoned once.
Bacolor has been captured
vice and abandoned once.
Macabee, the only town friend
" 10 the Americans, was taken
add deserted and allowed to be
burned by the natives.
Quinga was taken twice and
abandoned once.
Guagna was taken once ano
abandoned.
"What sort of warfare is
this ?" asks the Louisville Cour.
ier-Journal. what good does
it do, at the cost of men anC
money, to march out and take
strongholds of the insurgents il
we are Immediately TO abandon
them to the insurgents ? II
would be as profitable, and Ger
tainly less expensive, to order
General Otis to pass his time by
sticking his thumb in the oceal
and taking it out again. /
should be remembered that dur
ing the period when our troops
were capturing and abandoning
these towns General Otis was
assuring the authorities at Wash
ington that his force was ample
needing no additions. How Cal
he explain this ?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07
How Can KHe Explain It 2

If there is any doubt about the
frditlessness and wasted efforts
of the Otis plan of campaigning,
the following statement by the
Chicago Record ought to settle
it /:
Pasig has been captured three
times and abandoned twice.
Guadaloupe has been captured
four times and abandoned three
times.
Martiquina has been captured
six times and abandoned six
times.
Canita has been captured twice
and abandoned twice.
Antipolo has been captured
once and abandoned.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07

gesture of esteem, the reverent
ewes made rich with honest
thought, and holding high above
all other things-high as hopes
t~hrobbing star above the dark
ness of the dead-the love OF
wife and child and friend.
'"Then locks of gray and grow
ing love of other days and half
remembered things-then hold
ing withered hands of those who
first held his, while over dim and
loving eyes death softly presses
down the lids Of rest.
"And so, locking in marriage
VOWS his children's hands and
crossing others on the breast OF
peace, with daughters babes
upon his knees, the white hair
mingling with the gold, he journ-
eys on from day to day TO that
horizon where the dusk is wait
ing for the night. At last, sit
ting by the holy hearth of home
as evenings embers change from
red to gray, he falls asleep with
in the arms of her he worshipped
and adored, feeling upon his
paid lips loves last and hottest
kiss"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07
Philosophy of Life.

One of the most remarkable
products of ~Ingersolrs pen was
his essay on Life" a piece of
prose poetry, in which follows a
human life from the cradle to
the grave. 1t is as follows i:
"Born of love and hope, of &C.
stacy and pain, of agony and
fear, of tears and joy-dowered
with the wealth of two united
hearts-held in happy arms, with
lips upon life's drifted front, blue
veined and fair, where perfect
peace finds perfect form-rockep
by willing feet and wooed 70
shadowy shores of sleep by siren
mother singing soft and low
looking with wonders eyes wide
and startled eyes at common
things of life and day-taught
by want and wish and contact
with the things that touch the
dimpled flesh of babies-lured by
light and flame and charmed by
color's wondrous robes-learn-
ing the use of hands and feet,
and by the love of mimicry be-
guiled to utter speech-releasing
prisoned thoughts from Grabbed
and curious marks on soiled and
tattered leaves-puzzling the
brain with crooked numbers and
their changing, tangled worth
and so through years of alternat-
ing day and night, until the cap
tive grows familiar with the
chains and walls and limitations
of a life.
"And time runs on in sun and
shade, until the one of all the
world is wooed and won, and all
the lore of love is taught and
learned again. Again a home is
built with the fair chamber
wherein faint dreams, like cool
and shadowy wales, divide the
beloved hours of love. Again
the miracle of birth-the pain
and joy, the kiss of welcome and
the cradle song drowning the
drowsy prattle of a babe.
"And then the sense of obliga-
ton and wrong-pity for those
who toll and weep-tears for the
imprisoned and despised-love
for the generous dead, and in the
heart the rapture of a high re-
solve.
"And then ambition, with it's
lust of pelf and place and power,
longs to put upon its breast dis
tinction's worthless badge. The
keener thoughts of men, and
eyes that see behind the smiling
mask Of craft-Aattered no more
by the obsequious cringe of
gain and green-knowing the
uselessness of boarded gold-of
honor bought from those who
charge the usury of self-respect
of power that only bends a
towards knees and forces from
the lips of fear the lies of praise.
Knowing at last the unstudied
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07
A Great Shower of Stars.

luLSC nnOWtl VI AitUCClo IL
their calculation be correct,
watchers all over the earth may
at the time named see a splendid
display of the heavens fireworks.
Clouded skies can cut out any
view, and as the moon will be
very nearly full on November
18th full moon occurs on Nov
ember 17th) her light will cer
tainly obscure the faint trails of
many shooting stars.
The sight may come a little
earlier or later than November
14th or 10Th, and some unknown
effect of the planetary pulls may
so disturb the motion of the
swarm that it may decline to put
in an appearance at all this year.
If so, the astronomer is quite
certain that he will see the dis
play in the last year of the pres
ent century-November 1900.
In 1899 Humboldt saw from
the Andes mountains a grand
star shower, and in 1888 there
was another great metoric dis
play. Many thousands fell in
the course of a few hours. Prof.
Newton, of New Haven, investi-
gated the matter, looked up old
records of star showers, and
showed that there had been a
large number of star showers
occurring thirty-three years
apart and coming in the fall of
the year. He prophesied that
the next return would be seen
November 18th and 18th, 1866.
The shower came as was pre-
dicted, but was best seen in
Europe. In 1867 it was repeated
and the observers in the United
States were treated to a magnif-
cent spectacle.
There is moving about the sun,
as a center of attraction, q great
bunch of moving meteors. This
group takes thirty-three and one
quarter years to make acomplete
cicuit. The enormous stream
has a small breadth in COMPARE
son with its length. In 1866 the
earth took five hours to go
through, moving at about. the
rate of eighteen miles a second.
In 1867, when the earth returned
to the cross roads, the meteor
stream was still going by, and
America, especially, had a splen-
did view. Even in 1868 the
stream had not gone by com
pletely. There are meteors
scattered all along the orbit
path of the group, but there APP
pears to be only one group or
bunch. We therefore see met
eors every about November 18th
to the 10Th, but the grand
shower comes only when we
strike into the punched stream.
Astronomers r making great
preparations at the observator-
les to witness the display, and
attempts will be made to take
photographs.
This is Sir Robert Balls de.
scription of a shower !:
1.-THE night was fine; the moon
was absent. The meteors We're
distinguished not only by their
intrinsic magnifcence. l shall
never forget that night. On the
memorable evening l was en-
gagged in my usual duty, at that
time, of observing nebula with
Lord Rosse's great rejecting
telescope (at Parsontown, Ire
land). | was, of course, aware
that a shower of meteors had
been predicted, but nothing that
had heard prepared me for the
splendid spectacle so soon to be
unfolded. II was about 10
O'Clock at night when an excla-
nation from an attendant, by my
side, made me look up from my
telescope, just in time to see a
fine meteor dash across the sky.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07
ssSurnmer Time I'm Dixie.o
BY HATTIE NEVADA.

BY HATTIE NEVADA.
copyrighted, 1899
o Use wandered far away from home, an de
ole folks loved so true,
Lef' my dear ole Nanny weeping, lef' my dear
ole Daddy LOO,
But Use nebber seed a spot on earth whar 1
would rather stay,
Than my happy home in Dixie whar the birds
sing all the day.
CHORUS {:
When de blue birds swing up high In de willers,
An de roses bloom again around de door,
Den l know dat it's Surnmer time in Dixie,
Yes it's summer long d Louisiana shore.
AT de Quarters MANY a night we'd dance till de
chickens crowd fer day;
Oar was good old uncle Sambo an he made us
mighty gay,
When he'd fiddle up an ole-time tune an den
we'd hear him sing,
o it's summer time in Dixie an de blue birds
on de wing.
Choru.-
o Use dreaming OF de cabin old, an dem happy
49, 80
Oh de scrapin' OBJ de tiddles an de dancin' on de
shore,
Tho Use feeble now, I longs to go an hear dem
datkies sing:
D it's summer imc in Dixie an de blue BIRDS
on de wing.
Chorus
The MESSENGER is permitted
to print the above copyrighted
words, which have been taken
from the 1%899-1900 season Min
strel Song, composed and writ
ten by Hattie Nevada, known to
the musical world as''The Queen
of Song Writer'S" The songs,
1.-The Letter Edged in Black"
"While the Leaves Came Drift
ing Down." ''On the Old Mis-
souri, Shore" "Ill Come Back
When the Hawthorn Blooms
Again." and Just the Picture
of a Girl l Used TO Know" by
the same author, are being sung
in every country of the globe,
and this song bids fair 10 out
shine them all. 1t is set to a
negro melody of exceptional
sweetness as we'll as simnlicitv
This song is published by the
Kansas City Talking Machine
Co., of Kansas City, Mo-, who
are also manufacturers of origin
al records for graphophones and
monographs and issue the larg-
est catalogue in the world. Their
list will be sent to any address
on receipt of &c stamp to cover
postage.
Summer Time in Dixie" can
be had of any up-to-date music
dealer, and if your dealer has
not the song, and will not get it
for you, it can be had of the pub
fishers at half price, by remit
ting them 25 cents in coin or
stamps.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-11-07
ChalIis School for October.

Following is the report of the
Jhallis Public School for the
month of October, 1899
*Beatrice Bradbury,
*Ruth Cameron,
Mabel Darlington,
*Julia Falls,
*Julia Jensen,
*Dora Jensen,
*Mary Jensen,
Mabel Jose,
Georgia Meyer,
*Myrtle Morrison,
*Della Morrison,
*Mamie Rowles,
*Ethel Thompson.
Birdina Tennell,
May VanCamp,
Myrtle Wilkinson,
*Dora Barracks,
Guy Bradbury,
*Allie Baxter,
*Ethel Chivers,
Bessie Erickson,
*Arthur Gayle,
Maude Jose,
*Stella Jarvis,
Julia Peck,
*Donald Rowles,
Ellen Tennell.
Clyta Bradbury,
*Lulu Calhoun,
John Calhoun,
Theodore Cameron,
William Chivers,
Roy Chivers,
Halle Dodge,
*Maude Ebberts
*Flora Falls,
Sadie Horton,
*Efie McKendrick,
@Gertrude McKendrick,
Hazel Paul,
*Felix Paul,
*Grace Rowles,
Eta Sullivan,
Lizzie Thompson,
Josephine Westerholm,
Ludwig Westerholm,
Ralph Baxter-47.
MARGARET KEENAN,, Teacher,