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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

DR.. F. c. Paul was in Polt Byron
today.
Thomas Adelman spent Sunday in
Peoria.
George Martin spent yesterday in
Clinton.
c. Il. Walker is back from Vogue
tonsing.
Miss Catherine Quinn returned to
Peoria today.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Crubaugh are
visiting in Chicago.
Mai. W. L. Channon and Walter
C. Croker returned today from Lake
Nebaganon, Wis.
Mrs Rud Miller, of Peoria. is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Phillip
Heffernan.
j. c. Pugh, who has been seriously
| i'll of Intermittent fever, is reported
improved today.
j. d. Collier and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
n. Hynes and Miss May Collier are
camping at Boston Bay.
Mrs. Z. Langan, who has been WIS.,
iting relatives in the city, returned to
her home at Paducah, Ky.
George b. Russell, night clerk at the
Rock Island house, has returned from
the north much improved in health.
Rollin Sturgeon and sister, Miss
Jennie g., have returned to their
studies at the Northwestern univer-
sity.
Mrs. VIII Frederichsen and Miss
Mary Roehr are visiting in Spring
Hill with their sister, Mrs. Henry
Kulper.
Mrs. L. A. Brotherton, of San Fran
cisco, who has been the guest of Mrs.
T. j. Buford, left for Springfield today
to visit her sister.
Miss Alice Smith has returned home
to Chicago after visit with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel
Scully, on Fifth avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. W. Grafton, of Des
Moines. were in the city Saturday WIS.,
itlng MIR. Grafton's brothers, Rev. L,
w. and DIR. c. w. Grafton.
A birthday party was given Satur-
day evening at Roche's hall by Mrs.
Henry Bleuer. Mic Bleuer's orchestra
furnished music for the dancing.
Mrs. Phil Mitchell, accompanied by
her son, Ben, left this morning for
Pottstown, Pa, where the latter will
resume his studies at the Hill school.
Justice and Mrs. w. F. Schroeder and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hill have re-
turned from their trip to Philadelphia
Brooklyn, New York City and Wash
ington.
Christian Schatz, son of Mrs Mag
dalene Schatz, residing at 91S Seventh
avenue, was taken to St. Anthony's
hospital yesterday. He is suffering
with typhoid fever.
Florence Stella. little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Thomas, $50
Fourteenth street, died last night aged
81 weeks. The remains were laid to
rest at Calvary cemetery this after
noon.
a delegation CT eastern freight
agents enroute to their annual conyen-
ton at Denver passed through the
city last night on special over the
Rock Island. This train consisted of
six Pullman sleepers, a diner and a
composite car.
Gov. Tanner has named Mrs. Mary
f. Metzger, of Moline, as one of the
commission to purchase statute to
Miss Francis +. Willard, to be placed
in statuary hall in the national CAPT.
toll at Washington. The other com
missioners are Mrs. Anna f. Gordon,
of Evanston, John j. Mitchell, of
Chicago, w. r. Jewell. of Danville,
and Mrs s NJ FREY of ChicapO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
L. 8. MCCabe C CO.
Autumn Dress Goods.

Pointed and money saving sugges-
tons for prompt buyers.
10 pieces basket weave school plaids
and checks, value 124c to csc. Come
quick if you want any at 74c a yard.
At 25c yard wonderful values in
bright wool plaid fancy mixed suit
ings, pure wool plain suitings. in
grays, navies. etc. All wool. 36-inch
serges. etc, judge of their value when
you see them. 25c yard. All, All.
All csc.
so Inch Oxford suitIngs.
The seasons most desirable tailor
suitings, 56-lnch all wool cheviots.
80 inch heavy rainy day skirt ma
csc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
HORSE AND BUGGY GONE.
Murrin Bros. Rent an Outfit Which Is Not
Returned.

Murrln BIOS. Kent an Outht " hich Is NOT
Returned.
A stranger, who is described as a
medium-sized man, with a sandy
moustache and wearing light brown
soft hat, rented horse and rubber
tired buggy at Murrin Bros. liv-
cry stable, Saturday. and Meth
er man nor the rig has been
heard from since. The police
have secured the surrounding
cities without avail, and now notices
are being sent out offering a liberal
reward for the apprehension of the
fellow. The horse is bay, Is hands
high and weighing 1850 pounds. 1t
has a white star on one side of its
forehead and has two white feet, one
front and one rear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

Miss Jessie Teska, the efficient and
accomm odating operator for the
ferred to the Moline office-a more
lucrative and responsible POSITIONS
assistant to the manager. She is sue
ceeded here by Z. II. Potter, of Elgin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Torpedo Explodes.

o. NJ Rough, AS Forty-fifth
street. narrowly escaped serious
accident Saturday in experiment
ing with railroad torpedo which he
found on the tracks Young Rough
knew not what the torpedo was until
it exploded. grazing one side of his
face and taking away part of his ear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

Several wills were probated in the
county court today. among them that
of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Harper,
who bequeaths her entire holdings,
both real and personal property, the
latter including the Harper house, and
Harper's theatre, the homestead on
Nineteenth street, tract of land near
Augustana college and land in Chica-
go, for equal division among her
children, Thomas R., Stuart and Fay
Harper, and Mrs. Lucy Lowrey and
sons are named as executors. The
Will was drawn in June, 1898. and
was witnessed by Col. Henry Curtis,
of this city, and DR.. w. L. Allen, of
Dayenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Take a Hint.

This is the time of year when it be-
hooves you to be careful of what you
drink. You take no chances when
you drink Carse 81 Ohlweiler's goods.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Don't Forget

The book auction sale tonight. Sale
for one week only at 1919 Second ave
hue, Carse building. L. z. West.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Rousing BOOK Auction sale

Every afternoon and evening for one
week at Carse building, 1919 Second
avenue. l.. Z. West.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
John Norman's VIII.

The will of John Norman, of Moline,
was also filed. 1t contains peculiar
requests, heretofore referred to in
THE ARGUS, all of which were carried
out at his death, including the draw
ing of the hearse by four black horses
and the interment of the body in an
Theoretically sealed coffin. Norman
leaves all his property to his friend,
Olof Abrahamson, who is appointed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Chairs and Rockers.

In the general mix Up" among
the furniture makers, some style of
chairs and rockers on which the combi-
nation could not agree on the sched-
ule of prices had to be sold out that
the future prices of the combine
might not be iuterfered with. We
were fortunate enough to be in the
market the very day the cut prices,
were made for these ''close OUTS. The
manager of the combine appointed
two car loads to US, but this only
means little over 100 dozen, which
at the prices we can name may not
last the week out.
How long will 200 chairs last at
these prices?
Cane seat dining chairs, solid oak,
arm braced, 62c each, 1912 per set.
Other better and larger diners at 75c
and &c.
Solid oak rockers, cane seats, arm
braced, good solid $1.1S and $1.3S.
Large roomy cobbler rockers, solid
oak embossed leather seats at $1.69,
$1.97 and $2.1S.
Garry them home whenever you
can as we cannot promise very
prompt delivery during the rush.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
WILLOF MRS. HARPER
Leaves Her Estate for Equa
Division Among Her
Children.
INSTRUMENT PRoBATED TODAY

Deceaseds Holdings Include Valuable
Properties In Rock Island and Chicago
Three Sons Are Named as Executor
Last Testaments of John Norman of
Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Phenomenal Domestic Bar.
gains.

One case remnants tennis tlannels,
2 to yard lengths, always Sc yard.
but these short lengths go at &c
yard, &c, &c, &c. (Step lively for
these.)
S6-inch dress satteens, dark figures,
value 10c. This time at &c, S3c for
fall skirt patterns of heavy bordered
fiannete. Only a dozen in all, SSc,
33c, 33c, 33c, 3Sc, each.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

Our cloak buyer who New York City picked special lot
express 50 and so values So prompt
People's voice., 1899-07-06
THE WISHING WELLS.
A Orange Old Scotch Custom That
IL Handed Down from Fa-
ther 10 Son.

In Scotland old customs die hard, es-
pecially in the highlands, as was evi-
denced on the first Sunday in May,
when the time-honored practice of pay
ing a visit to the wells, the waters Of
which are known for their healing vir-
tues, was observed by hundreds of per-
sons.
Young and old journeyed from In
verness during the day to ST. Mary's
well, which is situated near to the
blasted Culloden heath, and after drink
ing the water coin was dropped into
the well. This act is supposed to be an
earnest of good health and success dur.
ing the year.
The practice of visiting wishing
wells" has descended from father to
son, and despite the fact that many
ministers point out that it is not con.
duciye to keeping the Sabbath holy, and
is only fit for superstitious barbarians
still the numbers who 60 to the well
never diminish.
Not only was the practice observed ir
parts Of lnverness-shire, but in Ross
shire also numbers Of people visited the
famous healing well of Craigehow, de
posted their coins and returned appar
emily satisfied that trouble and sickness
had effectually been guarded against il
the coming year.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
ONLY ONE Triple HERE.
The Only saloon IN the World Where
YOu Can Buy But One
Drink.

London boasts of saloon where
man can have only one drink-and e
smoke. 1t is located Just off Bishops
gate and in rather a low street. MOI
may that one drink be a horn OF plenty
Printed rules adorn he wall, and nc
rule has ever had a single exception
After one drink tn tipper who wishes
another must 90 lway-go far away
and out of sight-and not come back
until after the lapse of least 30 o. &C
minutes. No one who shows sign Of
having had too much may have drink
at any price. Then, too, the hours oi
closing are far more civilized than those
of most public houses. Of course, over
and above the regular customers many
people are attracted 10 this inn out Of
pure curiosity. The sightseeing ari
noyelty-hunting American finds il out
In his rambles. Should the curiosity
monger, however, try to coax The mer
servers behind the bar into breach &.
their stern laws be is courteolsly re
fused. You must play the game OF
nothing. In fact, the list of carefullj
compiled rules concludes with an in.
timation that such customers as DO not
care 10 conform thereto are respect.
fully requested to transfer their custom
to some other establishment"
People's voice., 1899-07-06
JAPANESE ARISTOCRACY.
Territorial Lords Surrender Their
Powers TO Strengthen a Cen
trail Government

Undoubtedly the most powerful and
at the same time exclusive aristocracv
was that of the Daimos, or territorial
lords Of japan prior tothe great social
revolution Of 1865. There wore fewer
than 300 Of these great lords Their
power within their own provinces was
almost absolute, and they owed merely
a nominal allegiance 10 the sovereign.
Yet in 1869 241 out of less than 300
Daimos voluDtaril: surrendered their
powers and their possessions into the
bands of the emperor, in order that
centralized government might conduct
the affairs of the empire in a manner
more in accordance with those western
ideas which the nation was then max
ing up its mind to adopt, and from this
surrender the phenomenal progress of
Japan as world power undoubtedly
dates. A somewhat similar case may
be found in the history of Russia, when
in the year 1864, the boyars, believing
that the car, Ivan ", afterward
known as the Terrible, was about to
leave them to their own intrigues and
domestic strifes, laid all the privileges
of their order at his feet to induce him
10 return. 1t was from this act of self
abnegation that the traditional autoc-
racy of the Russian empire practically
begins
People's voice., 1899-07-06
WANTS A NEW RELIGION.
Government of Japan at Present
Much Drawn to Everything
English.

1t has been stated on pretty good au-
thority that the leading statesmen of
Japan are thinking of making Chris
tianity the established religion of the
country, says the Evangelist. When the
government of Japan was changed and
the mikado assumed his kingly author
ity one of the first steps taken was the
endowment and establishment of the
Shinto religion. And Shintoism is so
broad and comprehensive a belief that
it has frequently allowed Christian
services TO be held in It's temples.
To the American Episcopal church
belongs the honor OF being the first
Protestant body to commence Chris
tian work in Japan, for Bishop vii
liams established himself at Tokyo as
early as 1889 and translated portions
of the prayer book and Bible into the
japanese tongue. Should Japan adopt
Christianity as a national faith II is not
likely that II will take a church exactly
TO the pattern of either British or Amer
lean Christianity, but the Episcopal
missionaries in Japan believe that the
moIding of the japanese mind with
regard to Protestant Christianity rests
very largely with the Anglican commu.
nlty' especially as the japanese govern.
ment is at present much drawn to ev.
erything English.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
CONCERNS THE RAILWAYS.

Japan had more than a hundred rail-
road collisions last year.
In 1892 the first Boston stage coach
started for New York, and now 100 rail-
way trains are sent out of the city
daily.
There is a proposal to run a light
ming express between Manchester and
Liverpool in IS minutes, on the mono
rail system. The rate of speed would
be 90 miles an hour.
The London Railway News reports
that the Argentine government lately
telegraphed to the Krupps in Germany
to cancel an order for guns and arma-
ment and supply rails instead for 500
hlometers Of railway.
The two cars running on the trolley
line up Mount Tom, Mass, are con-
nected by a cable running over a re
turn sheave, so that the descending
cars weight balances that of the one
ascending, and makes less demand on
the electric motor.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
STAGE CELEBRITIES

Beerbohm Tree is godson Of the en-
peror of Germany.
Miss Lillian Norton attracted little
attention as an opera singer until she
took on foreign disguise by changing
her last name to Nordice. She was
born at Pennington, Ne.
A German statistician has discovered
that ballet dancers, as a rule, attain an
age much above the average. Carlotta
Grisi is II years of age, and Amahs
Farraris rs. Taglioni was over so years
old when she died, and Fanny Elssler
was IA. Rosita Mauri, we'll over 50, is
still dancing at the Paris grand opera.
German actresses have TO be careful
how they wear male costumes. A young
woman has been fined in Vienna for
wearing a correct military uniform,
which is not allowed by the Austrian
authorities. In Germany, however, she
would have been punished if the uni
form had not been correct, the kaiser's
decree permitting military dress on
the stage only when absolutely correct
Laurence Irving is said to be imita-
tive Of his father, Henry Irving, in play
ing the chief part in "The Crystal
Globe" a new London melodrama OF
the bowling type. The character is q
mesmerist, so demonstratively weird
and figuring in scenes so very sensa-
tional that the reviewers poke fun at it.
However, the younger Irving is de-
scribed as a clever actor.
Hermann Muller, leading actor at the
Berlin Deutsches theater, killed himself
recently In an unusual manner. After
putting a blank cartridge In pistol.
he filled the barrel with water and then
fred into his mouth. His head was
blown to pieces. 0verwork and melan-
cholia caused the suicide. He was best
known through his work in the new
school of plays by Henschel, Suder
mann, Hauptmann and Hirschield.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
A VALUAD.- ....4U.
Thought to Be a brewing by a RO.
man Soldier o. the Cru
cifiXiOn.

Continuing my examination, sale
Sig. Marucchi, Il came some time since
upon a little drawing, 15xS inches. 1t
was on the wall of a room in the sol.
diers' quarters in the house of Tiber.
ius;" says Ainslee's Magazine.
"The lines in it were almost complete.
ly obliterated. Nevertheless, by the aid
Of powerful glasses, l thought l dis
cerned pictorial reproduction of some
striking event. There seemed TO be
two crosses with ladders leaning
against them. On one of these a sol
der was mounting, carrying something
like tablet. Above the transverse bar
of this same cross was another soldier
with a hammer. Beneath was a figure
dragging another toward the cross
Yet another figure was raising ladder
to the second cross, and on third lad.
der soldier was mounting. Two ropes
hang from the cross beams which unite
the crosses. Names are written near
the figures. One is Pilatus or Piletus
written Piletus). High above the
drawing is a word resembling Crestus.
and near II Is hammer, which, as is
known, was the emblem of the cruel.
fixion.
"All the circumstances brought me &c
imagine for q moment that might be
in the presence Of a picture Of the cruel.
fixion Of our Savior, and possibly ever
drawn By soldiers who had assisted
at the event. Many others were of the
same opinion, though there were com.
petent authorities who read in it a
different Specification. They suggest
ed, for instance, the launching Of a
ship, or the representation Of an aero.
batic performance. One thing IS now
clear, the large inscription over the
drawing can be no part of the idea
therein represented. 1t is the work OF
many hands, written at various periods,
and composed almost exclusively OF
hbertine expressions
People's voice., 1899-07-06
ATCHISON GLOBULES.

By the time man has saved up
enough to get what his appetite craved,
he has lost the appetite for it.
Your reputation is above reproach
if those who see you on the streets after
midnight wonder what sick man you
have been sitting up with.
One of the things boy is very sure
of Is that when he Aas grown to be a
big mar he will forget to hunt up
and hct those who abused him when
he was - boz.
"HIe is the biggest fool in the world"
we heard a man say this morning, re-
ferring to man Of his acquaintance
If the fellow is the biggest fool in the
world, he must be daisy; there are
some awfuIly big fools in the world.
Physicians say that when a hard
working man says he Is sick they feel
some apprehension, and watch his case
closely, but that when an ldler comes
for a prescription, bread pills answer
as well as anything.
The people should read more and con-
verse less. Half the conversation one
hears is to the following effect: 81 re-
call once in 1870, no it was in 1869; no,
again, it was in 1871, because another
incident IN 1871 fixed it upon my mem
ory, that l met Mrs. -, oh, now, what
is her name? Mrs. -, oh, you know
who / mean. Her husband afterward
died, and she moved away. Smit, Smart,
Swift, Swelt! Now, ! have it. Well,
what was l saying about Mrs. Swelt?"
-Atchison Globe.
People's voice., 1899-07-06

ballots cast at said primaries, and certify
the number of votes received by each
candidate TO John Hinchcliffe, chairman
of the Peoples party county central COM
mittee and to VI. c. Cornwell, chairman
of the Democratic comfy central COM
mittee, severallv. And the ballots shall
be securely sealed and sent to J. Robt.
Gillian, secretary of the joint committee,
by whom they shall be, e,preserved.
Said certificates shall be enclosed in an
envelope marked, "Votes polled at
county primary election in - township,
held on the 29th day of July 1899"
Said John Hinchcliffe and NJ. c. Corn
well, as said chairmen respectively, shall
preserve said envelopes unopened until
the First day of August 1899, at O'Clock
pm, of said day, when they shall open
the same at the court house in Yelling
ton, Kansas, in the presence of such
members of the county central commit
tees of the Peoples and Democratic
parties of said Sumner county, Kansas,
and of such candidates as may be pres
ent. and the said returns shall be can
vassed by the said John Hinchcliffe, as
chairman and ]. Robt. Gillian as secre-
tary of the Peoples party county CEN
tral committee, and N. c. Cornwell
as chairman and W. D. Frantz, as
secretary of the Democratic county cen
tral committee, respectively, and the
candidate receiving the highest number
of votes, for each respective Office, shall
by the said John Hinchcliffe as chair
man, and !. Robt. Gillian as secretary Of
the Peoples party county central COM
mittee, be declared the nominee of the
Peoples party Of Sumner county, Kan
sas, for county clerk, sheriff, register Of
deeds, treasurer, surveyor, coroner, for
trustee: of county high school and COM
missioner First district; by the said NJ.
&c. Cornwell, as chairman and W. D.
Frantz as secretary of the Democratic
county central committee shall be de-
clsred the nominees OF the Democratic
party Of said Sumner county, Kansas, for
county clerk, sheriff, register of deeds,
treasurer, surveyor, coroner, for trustees
of county high school and commissioner
Of First district, to be voted for by the
Peoples party and by the Democratic
party at the ensuing November election,
and the certificates of such nominations
shall be filed by said chairman and sec
retaries, respectively, Of each comittee,
of Sumner county, Kansas, as is pro-
vided by law. JOHN HINcHLIFFE,
Chairman Peoples Party Cen. Com.
J. Robt. GILLIAN,
Sec'y Peoples Party Cen. Com.
NJ {. CoRNwELL.,
Chairman Democratic Cen. Com.
w. D FRA:TZ,
Sec'y, Democratic Cen. Com.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
1t Is Unnatural
to Be Sick.

II is natural to be well. Every
known disease cured without
drugs. II you have any ailment
wh1teyeT, bring your case to
Nine. d. j. ). Reed and be re.
lIe7ed. Everyone benefited.
most are cured. To everyone
Suffering from any trouble what.
ever the assurance Of helm Is
given. Come and be convinced.
TERMS-COnsultation free. Treat
mentsl.OO each, invariably In advance
Seven treatmentss5.00. Absent treat.
ment $500 per month.
Rooms at Epperson's, two blocks
north OF the Court House.
Office fiOurS 10 to 70 and 2 tlII6.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
EFFECT OF MUSIC.

Eagles when played to become sert-
Gus and se6ate and listen intently with
evident enjoyment.
Captive coyotes when music is played
will range themselves in a half-circle
and listen with the greatest attention.
Snakes like the bagpipes played soft
ly, and will sometimes coil up with
raised head and gently sway to and fro.
Lionesses are affected most by the
bagpipes. They crouch half frightened,
and then dash madly around their cage
as though scared.
Perhaps the most surprising effect Of
music on animals Is in the case Of the
alligator. When the experiment was
tried the big brute rose from the water
and actually smiled with his great teeth
exposed.
When whistle was played for the
benefit OF a cage Of monkeys It was
found the green-bonnet monkey sat
with hands and feet tightly drawn to-
gether, as though he controlled himself
by the utmost effort. Another monkey
dropped his jaw and made horrible
faces at the musician.
Just as music has different effects on
different natures, so It acts differently
upon animals Of varying species. Weird
music is more successful in attracting
the attention Of animals than that Of
the louder and harsher instruments
The blare Of trumpet only inturiates
them, while of the cornet and flageolet
they take not the least notice. Bag
pipes and the violin are afforded atten-
ton and interest.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
b. Z. SPARR,
The ClOthier.

Personally conducted excursions to
all points east, via Great Rock Island
Route Leave Wellington every Sat.
urday' Pullman Tourist Car rates
~ 90 to Chicago. $3.50 to Buffalo and
%'OO to Boston. Reserve your &c.
commodatiOns early. Get full par
tlcularS OF ageat or write to E. W.
thompson, A.G.P. & Ia, Topeka.
Kansas. 10