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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

"ANTED-A COMPETENT YOUNG MAN
Wv for general ONO work in this city. Ad-
dress &c. W. A RGUS office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

AT THE ROCK ISLAND
w Sash and Door works. Must be over
II years of age.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

WANTED - IMMEDIATELY, A GOOD.
w middle-aged laundry woman. Good
wages and permanent job. 30l0 Fifth avenue,
Rock Island. G. T. Pemble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

DIOR RENT-DOUBLE STORE BUILDING
II ct 1515-15l7 Second avenue Inquire OF
Henry Carse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

TFD-ONE'DINING ROOM GIRL AND
w two kitchen girls AT irkmanS reStaur-
ant, Soi5 + fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

w general homework. Easy work; small
family of four; washing. good pay. Call
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

MEN COLLECTORS AND
w solicitors for Rock Island. Permanent
positions. 80 Mitchell & Lynde building, be-
tween and p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

WANTED-A HOME FOR BABY BOY.
w Inquire at Sos Fourth avenue, Moline,
Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30
FOR RENT.

nor RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS OVER
Il W. c. Maucker's grocery store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

Il OST-ON TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET
IL between Eight-s.nd-a-half and Ninth ave
nues. pair OF gold spectacles- Finder VIII
please return to THE ARGUS office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

T OST-ONYX WATCH CHARM. WHITE
IL on one SIDE and black on the other. initials
J. p. on t7e band Suitable reward viii be
paid II eft at the Boston Shoe Store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

L OST-A Pc ri STICK PIN on SEVEN
lLteenih street Finder return to ARGUS
Office and receive liberal reward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30

III gage loans by W. h Eastman. I7I2 Sec
ond avenue, without publicity removal He
also makes colections-haro ones a specially
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-30
At Your Toes,

DQUCCICT Cotner OF Fourth Avenue and
DhUuuioib Twenty-third St, Rock Island, III
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31

Madison county popuIls's fay.
or putting out candidates for ev,
cry office for constable to presi-
dent.
An explosion of the rock bot
tom OF Hickman creek occurred
at AlexaEdria, causing much eX-
citemeut.
John Miller sold pearl in
New York for 81, 200 that hr had
found in the Duck river near
Columbia.
The Riverside Planning null at
Kugsport had TO stop work on
account OF a new dam obslruct-
ing the HoIstou River.
Extensive ARRANGEMENTS are
being made for the West Tennes-
see Farmers convention which
meets at Jackson Sept. 5.
Editor Goddard of the Mary
vile Times has az interesting
letter written by Sam Houston,
on the war, November 20, 1860.
Granger county people are
aiding members Of the Noin-
chucky Baptist association in
hooking an interesting meeting.
The contract has been award.
ed tor the arrangement of fair
ground at Coal Greek. The first
exhibition will be held in the
early tall.
A strange incident occurred at
Tavern. Lightning struck u
large tree near the door of the
Melton school house. At the
same time another tree was
truck in the yard of the Oak
wood school. Both trees are
DlhCk OhiNs, DOln strokes occurred
at the same school distrlc', auC
both teachers board at the same
place.
VIM. Warren, co ored, regis
tered at the court house at Gal
latin. He gave his age as SO
said he had been married twelve
times, thirty children having
been born, twenty of whom ar,
living. When asked about tht
Whereabouts Of his numerou
wives he replied that some hat
died aud had been divorced from
the others.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
STATE NEWS.

Joreph Cruson captured "A
snow white raccoon near Cross
vile.
Lumber shipments at Shelby
vile are heavier than ever
known.
Indications point to the cons
struction of 150-ton furnace at
Kingston
Pearl hunting has been resum-
ed at Clinton with consider able
success.
A new kind of tobacco worm
with two tails has been found
near Paris.
During barbecue near Dcca,
turville, there were several fights
but no one killed.
MaryviIle people have placed
a missionary in New Mexico to
work among the indians.
Contracts have been let for
the construction of several new
business houses at Paris.
The national camp meeting al
London has commenced with al
unusually large attendance.
Heavy shipments of sheep are
being made from Johnson and
Curter counties to Baltimore.
Crockett county has a va'ua-
ble coal deposite, a large vein
being discovered on a farm near
Bells.
There Is an extra demand fol
dried apples at Sparta. A ship
ment to the German army i.
talked OF.
The Brownsville Tribune OF
fers years free subscription Il
every rewly married couple IL
Hay wood county.
An election will be held Sep
TENDER Is at Gallatin 10 deCid,
upon IA proposition to speuc
$4,000 on water works wlant
Frank Durham who killed 4
half duztn people IN Chicago
two years ago. mud for whom
there is reward Of eleven thous
aud dollars was recently seen a
GAINESVILLE, escaped before hi;
crimes were remembered.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
ROBBED THE GRAVE.

A startling incident of which Mr.
John oliver of Philadelphia, was the
subject is narrated by him as follows:
81 was in a most dreadful condition. sly
skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken,
tongue coated. pain continually IN back
and sides, no appeJits-gradually grow
ing weaker day by day. Three phystc-
ians had given me up. Fortunately O.
friend advised TRYING Electric liitters;'
aud 10 my great joy and surprise, the
first bottle made a decided improve
mpnt ] continued their use FOR three
weeks. and ana now a we'll man.
know they saved my life and robbed
The grave OF another Victim" No one
should til 20 trv them. Only SOC guar
ante, d. at W. r. Ketuer's WhitNtll, and
all other dealers. -
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
INMAN.
Special to the News.

Special to the News.
William TIamic took some very nice
pictures for the boys Sunday.
We learn that VIII Trimar and broth
er, John have taken a two years con-
tract from Mr.. Nixon at this place.
There were several people from JAS
per at the stockade at preaching.
We are sorry to hear that Green
Layne has beon sick and hope he will
DO up in a few days.
There is lots of counting over here
these days. Several parties are dead
stuck" on one another.
Anderson Layne was thrown from his
horse Sunday at LoOney's Creek but was
not hurt.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
A THOUSAND TONGUES

Could not express the rapture of An
ME e. Springer, of 1928 Howard St.,
Philadelphia, Pa, when she found that
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consum-
ption had completely cured her of a
hacking cough that for many years had
made life a burden. All other remedies
and doctors could give her no help but
she says of this Royal Cure-'it soon
removed the pain 10 my chest and can
now sleep soundly, something | can
scarcely remember doing before. feel
like sounding its praises throughout the
universe" So will every one who tries
DR.. Kings Now Discovery for any
! trouble of the throat, chest or LunEs.
Price SOC and Sl.OO. Trial bottles free
at Ketner's Drug Store, Whitwell; every
bottle guaranteed. 8
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
HoIbrOOk Normal COLLEGE,
NEAR KNOXVILLE, TENN.

an ideal location city with the quiet and health of the
country mountains Five large buildings almost 1t has PRE-
PARATORY and COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENTS, CONSERV Alto.
RY of MUSIC ART and ELOCUTON and BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Faculty strong representing leading Colleges and Unversr
and four prominent Normal Schools besides specialists in Music
Eocuuon the leading schools Of America Europe
Expenses organized accommodate the pupils instead
the old plan of letting the pupils be with those they
the public least years time their
For illustrated catalogue address
Fountain CITY Tenn
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-31
OUR CLUBBING LIST.

We club with the following pa
Ders at the following low rates, but
only for cash i'm advance:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
A Good Place to Leave.

"The Indians OF Mexico" says a cor
respondent Of Forest and Stream,
"know nothing of the laws of cOnta-
gion. They display an apathy toward
certain loathsome diseases which sur
prses foreigner.
"In a recent hunting trip in the Sier-
ra of Pueblo our party of eight was
descending toward Zacapoaxtla. We
rode leisurely, for the trail was mar
row and hemmed in by Indian huts.
At the door of one of these stood a
woman and a little girl. We stopped
to inquire the way, when the follow
ing conversation took place:
"'Good morning, sonora
ga very good morning, at your or
ders. senor.'
"'This is the road to Zacapoaxtla, is
it not?
"'You are quite right. senor.'
"'And is it very far?
ION the contrary, it is very little
ways
GA thousand thanks for your kind
ness, sonora
"'There is nothing for which to offer
them, senor.'
SIS the little girl sick, senora?'
"'She is little sick, senor.'
"'What is the matter with her?'
"'She has the smallpox, senor.'
"'Ah, good day, senorav"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
The Mat Melting Pot,

Eyes, we receive lots of things that
we Late to see go into the melting
pot" said an old mint attache Folks
In financial stress bring Uncle Sam
all manner Of heirlooms which are
bought over the counter for their max
ed weight in gold or silver bullion.
Art or antiquity don't count at the
mint, and u candelabra by Benvenuto
Cellini himself wouldn't bring more
than a lump Of raw metal fresh from
the smelter. We get plate of every
description. old watch cases, rings,
chains, snuff boxes, spectacle frames
and jewelry mounts without number.
"In this section Of the south there
are several spectators who make 4
business of travelling through the rural
districts and buying up all the old gold
and silver they can find. They are ex-
perts in judging of the fineness Of
metal, and they pay as little as they
can, so there must be a big profit in
the trade. AS a rule, the stuff they
bring us and that finds it's way here
through other channels is old and bro
ken and uninteresting, but now and
then something of rare artistic value
turns up in the lot, and we would be
only too glad to take it out land make
good the coin value, but the law for
bids.
''That, by the way. is no doubt the
very reason why we occasionally get
such articles. People who are poor
and proud would rather have the iden-
tity Of their relics lost forever in the
melting pot than run the risk of ex-
posing their straits by leaving them
with the pawnbrokers. New Orleans
Times-DemOcrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
Hard to Get Out.

An English woman who has been
travelling in Russia seems to have found
it easier to get in than to get out Of
the czar's country. She sent her pass
port to the authorities before starting
in order to have it vised and then
blithely made for the frontier.
Arriving there, she was immediately
detained and taken before the powers
that not only be, but also do, at the
Russian frontier. Here she was in
formed that her passport did not per-
nit her to leave the country and that
she would be obliged to make herself
comfortable while the police found out
all she had done while in the country
At first she was rather pleased at
the thought of how she would tell her
friends about it when she got home.
But when she found that she had to
pay not only for her room, her meals,
service and all that sort Of thing, but
also for long kilograms which the au-
thorities were, exchanging in regard to
her case, her pleasure dWindled as rap
idly as her funds did.
She finally got off, however, but
without receiving any apology or any
reimbursement.-N York Sun.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18

Professor Wrightson writes as fol-
lows in The English Agricultural Ga
zette:
''The pleasure of dairy farming has
been somewhat marred by the idea of
unsoundness in so large proportion
of our COWS. 1t is to be hoped that ere
long our knowledge will at least be
sounder than it appears to be, and
probably our COWS are sounder than
our knowledge. The seeds of disease,
alas, are sOWn broadcast, even in the
fairest scenes, but no human measure
can eradicate them. There is such a
thing as knowing too much, and life
would not be worth living if we could
see the approach of disease and death.
1t is we'll no doubt to eliminate, as far
as possible, all predisposing causes,
but to detect, in Il manner which may
be termed prophetic, the germs of q
disease which has not declared itself
and which may remain latent until
death intervenes from totally different
causes is going q step too far. If an
animal is diseased, by all means iso-
late it or destroy it, but to do so be-
cause an animal reacts to q reagent
and thereby exhibits a tendency is, l
repeat, going q step too far. All ami
mails have this tendency, for it is evil
dent that although an animal does not
react today it may react tomorrow, or
at least shortly. The test to be effect
i've should be constantly used. \ COW
free this summer may not be so in the
autumn, and hence q system Of month
~ testing would be necessary.
Animal food, bacon, cheese, butter,
cream and milk have always been re-
garded as wholesome foods, and they
are as wholesome now as ever. Why
should we terrify ourselves with Won
dering whether animals used as foods,
or their products used as food, may
have the seeds of disease or death in
their bodies (Which must be the case)
when they are apparently healthy,
thriving or yielding large quantities of
good milk? AS we'll might we question
the WhOleSomeness of hares, rabbits
and poultry, and have every chicken
subjected to q tuberculin test before
we wiring it's neck. To such prepOster-
GUS lengths might we be led but for
the strong common sense which happi-
~ rules
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
The Dunn dunn Buffet.

The dumdum bullet secured it's
name from the Indian arsenal by
whose officers it was devised, and the
name should not be spelled in two
words or even hyphenized, as a great
many people appear to think. Dunn
dunn is a town and a military station
about four miles northeast of Cal
cutta.
1t was the experience in the Sudan
and also in the Spanish war
that the new magazine rifles, whose
small calibers give them greater &C.
curacy and greater carrying power
than the old weapons, were faulty in
one important particular.
The small caliber bullets have slight
effect on those struck by them, and it
was to obviate this difficulty that the
dumdum bullet was devised This bull
let is one from which part of the
nickel or copper covering is removed,
so that the force of the impact spreads
the soft lead, making a missile that
inficts severe, SCATTERING wound.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
1t ShrUuk.

There is a learned man in Michigan
who would rather have a rare speci-
men from the animal, vegetable or
mineral kingdom than high political
office. Working for him is a sympa-
thetic son Of Erin who processes as
much interest as though he knew al!
about these things, a bit of shrewd-
ness that nets him many favors. The
other day he went rushing to his en-
ployer with a letter stating that it was
from his brother Mike, a coal miner
in Ohio, telling how they had dug out
serpent turned to stone SO feet long
and as thick as barrel.
The savant never stopped to read.
He took the first train and reached the
little mining town by the shortest
route. The next evening he was back
and only grunted when his eager en-
ployee greeted him.
did yez find the schnake?" ventur-
ed his man.
eyes. The snake in the case is that
brother of yours. He's the greatest
liar unhung. His serpent so feet long
and as thick as a barrel was the
petrified root Of tree Is inches in
length and half an inch in diameter"
"There's no loirs av our name, SOL.
1t must be the thing shrunk, sor, after
they put it in the sun" -Detroit Free
Press
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18

The best way to salt COWS is to leave
some rock salt under a covered place
where the stock can lick it at will.
They will then never get more than is
good for them, but will go up and lick
a small quantity once every day or
two. We know farmers who make it
their practice to salt COWS every Sun
day morning. It is not breaking the
Sabbath to any serious extent, and the
owner Of the stock has the pleasure Of
noting it's condition and whether there
are any animals in the lot that appear
unthrifty. We have often sailed the
COWS Sunday morning by throwing
fine salt thinly over grass while it was
covered with morning dew. Some of
the salt might be lost, but we thought
from the way the grass was eaten that
not much would be wasted that way.
When we sailed sheep by throwing
salt on wet grass, they ate the grass
down to the root.-Boston Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18

'In the papers of the late Charles
Lanman," says the Washington CORE
spondent Of the Chicago Record, "there
is an autobiography of Mr.. Lincoln
written in his own hand. Mr.. Ian
man was editor Of The Congressional
Directory at the time Mr.. Lincoln was
elected to congress and, according to
the regular CUSTOM forwarded to him
as we'll as to all other members elect
a blank to be filed out with facts and
dates which might be made the basis
for a biographical sketch in The Di-
rectory. Mr.. Lincoln's blank was re-
turned promptly, filled up in his own
handwriting with the following infor-
nation:
Born Feb. IL, 1909, in Hardin
county, Ky.
Education defective.
Profession, lawyer.
Military service, captain Of volun-
teers in the Black Hawk war.
"'Offices held: Postmaster at a very
small office, four times a member Of
the Illinois legislature and elected to
the lower house Of the next con-
gresS'"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
Aluminium Clock Hands.

zone of the finest and lightest ma
terials that are now largely used for
making clock hands is aluminium"
said leading clock manufacturer re-
Gently. Until recently the pointers
of big clocks, when not made of wood,
were composed of two thin strips Of
copper, which were capped or hollow
ed and then brought together, edge to
edge, with the rounded sides out, thus
giving strength as we'll as lightness.
The aluminium clock pointers are
made just in the same way as the
copper ones, but they possess the mer-
it Of being twice as light and are far
easier to balance.
''It isn't unusual on large clocks to
see projecting from the base of the
long pointer and in line with it a rod
with a ball at the end this rod be-
ing perhaps a third as long as the big
pointer. This rod and ball act as q
counterweight for the big pointer,
which, without a counterweight, would
in it's movement around the dial bear
unevenly upon the arbor or shaft which
carries it. On great clocks and often
On big timepieces indoors this counter
poise is placed inside the dial out of
sight on the arbor.
''The heavier the pointer the greater
the weight required in the counter
poise; the greater the weight the more
friction on the arbor, and the more
friction the greater the power requir-
ed to drive the clock. By the use Of
aluminium pointers these drawbacks
are reduced to a minimum. "-Wash-
ington Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
Quality Counts.

Dairymen should not forget that the
discrimination between choice and or
binary grades Of butter is becoming
more clearly and sharply defined each
year. It is only the best that is always
in demand and will sell at good prices
when there is surplus of the inferior
grades, that either are not wanted at
all Or else must be sold at sacrifice
We can hardly expect that under these
circumstances this order of things will
be changed or improved upon. It is
merit that is going to win, and if the
dairyman expects to come out satisfac-
torily at the end of the year it is of
the greatest Importance that he start
right. To try and do a little better
than before should be the watchword
Of the day.-Live Stock.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
He Needed q Shave.

He had been out SO late the night
before that he did not know at what
hour he had come home. When he
awoke, he was curious to learn just
how rocky he looked. He accord
ingly reached out for the silver backed
hand mirror that lay on the table be-
side his bed.
Instead Of the mirror he got hold of
the silver backed hairbrush. Not rec
ognizing his mistake, he took the brush
up and gazed at the bristles for a
moment Then he felt Of the silver
back and then stared back at the bris-
ties.
Good heavens" he murmured at
last, ''but I need a shave!'-San Fran
cisco ArgOnant.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
Danish Cattle Stables,

Danish cattle stables are kept al
ways snOwily whitewashed without
and within, and between the two rows
Of stalls is a central gangway for the
passage to the managers. Large stalls
accommodate two COWS each, the ami
mails being prevented from access,
however, to each others food. In q
trough above the manger clear water
runs from end to end, and the yenti-
latiOn and light are excellent. The cat
tie have two or three feeds daily of
mangel WurtZel, a midday feed of hay,
and night and morning are fed with q
mixture Of rape cake and bran. In
summer they are turned out to grass.
The calves are equally cared for, and
also the multitude of pigs, which fat
ten on the dairy waste, making bacon
of such superior quality that it is in
great demand abroad, 132,O0O,O00
pounds having been exported last
year.-Phiiadelphia Record.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18
A Matter of Allowances.

Smith-What's the trouble with
Brown and his wife? They are always
quarreling.
Jones-Oh, it's the old, old story
Each declares the other is at fault
Smith-Well perhaps they are both
at fault. Each should make some al
lowance for the other.
Jones-But that's impossible. You
see. Brown hasn't got penny Of his
own. while his wife is quite wealthy,
and she makes him an allowance of
Sc week.-Chicago News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-08-18

Ely's Cream Balm has completely
cured me of catazlh when everything
e Sc failed.-Alfred W. Stevens. Cald-
well, Ohio.
Ely's Cream Balm works like charm;
it has cured me of the most obstinate
case of cold in the head; would not be
without it.-Frank Fries, 203 Hart St..
Brooklyn, n. Y.
A 10c trial size or the SOC size of Ely's
Cream Balm will be mailed Kept by
druggists. Ely Brothers, Sc Warren St.,
New York