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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
EXPLAINING II.

''Now," said the physician who was
examining an applicant for life insur-
ance, Il shall have to ascertain your
chest expansion"
MY whatr'' asked the applicant
"Your chest expansion.
''He means" interposed friend who
had come in with him, 1.-THE difference
between what You measure when your
chest isn't inflated and what you meas
ure when it is inflated. .
''Oh," said the applicant, beginning
dimly to understand. ''Ten years ago I
measured around here"-indicating his
rotund stomach-''only 32 inches. ]
measure As now. / guess what you call
my chest expansion is 16 inches. -
Youths Companion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
The POOR and the Poor.


A very little familiarity with the
poor districts of any city is sufficient to
show how primitive and frontierhke
are the neighborly relations, says Jane
Adams in The Atlantic. The fact that
|. the economic condition of all alike is on
most precarious level makes the ready
outflow of sympathy and material as
sistance the most natural thing in the
world There are numberless instances
of heroic self sacrifice quite unknown
in the circles where greater economic
advantages make that kind of intimate
knowledge of ones neighbors impossi-
Bile.
An Irish family. in which the man
has lost his place and the woman is
struggling to exc ont the scanty saw
ings by day work. viii take in a widow
and her five children who have been
turned into the street without mo-
ment's reflection upon the physical dis
comforts involved. The most maligned
landIady is usually ready to lend scut-
tleful of coal to O suffering tenant or to
share her supper
A woman for whom the writer had
long tried in vain to find work failed to
appear at the appointed time when a
job turned up at last Upon investiga-
ton it transpired that neighbor fur
Their down the street was taken i'll; that
the children ran for the family friend,
who went, of course. saying simply,
when reasons for her nonappearance
were demanded, ''It broke me heart to
leave the place, but what could doG"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
AN ARTFuL GAME.
4 Clever swindIe which Was Sue
cessfuIIy worked In Paris.

4 Clever SwindIe which Was Sue
cessfuIly Worked In Paris.
Swindling is as monotonous as ethics
or mathematics, and the various ways
and means xssorted to in the last decade
of the nineteenth century for obtaining
possession of other peoples money were
matters of common knowledge in the
Egypt of Rameses the Great. But the
Partisan police now affirm that new
departure has been made on the banks
of the Seine. And this is how it was
worked:
An Office was hired in a good bust
ness street by the inventor otthe trick,
who assumed the title of somebody and
company, chemical agents. Being con-
WINGED advocates of women's rights.
they employed some members of the
fair sex, who dressed in the height of
fashion, used the most fashionable per-
fumes and then visited singly the best
apothecaries' shop One of these fair,
false emissaries would stop her cab at
the chemists, come in and, taking out
her purse, ask for another bottle of DIR.
Beaumont's elixir. '.Dr Beaumont's
what3" said the young man behind the
counter. 1.-The elixir. Don't you know o.
''Oh, how tiresome, and my poor rheu-
matte husband will be so disappointed
Are you sure it was not here that our
servant bought it before2'' mo. ma
dame; it was not here. Where is it sold
wholesale p cit is sold wholesale,
think And here the lady showed the
ticket on the bottle. 1T costs francs
That same day the chemist bought
the elixir wholesale. laying in fair
stock of it, and meanwhile many of the
confreres were doing likewise. But, as
nobody called any more ON the obliging
chemists to buy the elixir, one of the
curious confraternity analysed this
specific which was supposed to relieve
rheumatics He found that it was at
least perfectly harmless, consisting Of
water colcred by coffee grounds. The
police were then let loose upon the Ia
dies and the chemical agents. but they
had all moved on, leaving no address
They are said TO have Melted about TO-
900 francs by the trick.-London Tele-
graph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Publication Notice-1n Attachment.

State of Illinois.
County of Rock Island. -
Circuit court OF Rock Island county. May
term, A. d. 1899.
Joseph L. Haas VS. Henrietta NJ. Benser in at
tachment.
Public notice is hereby given to the said
Henrietta NJ. Benser. that "a writ of attach
ment issued out of the ONCE of the clerk OF
the circuit court of hock Island county, dated
The sth day OF March, A, ID 1899, at the suit of
the said Joseph L. Hass and against the estate
of the said Henrietta NJ BenSer for the sum
of twelve hundred and eighty-ei9ht dollars
and twenty cents. directed to the sheriff of
said Rock Island county, which said writ has
been returned executed.
Now. therefore, unless you. the said Henri
eta "a Benser shall personally be and appear
before the said circuit court of Rock Island
county on the first day of the next term thereof.
to be holden at the count house in the city of
Rock Island. in said county. on the first day of
May, A. ID. 1893, give special bail. and plead to
the said plaintiffs action, Judgment will be
entered against you, and in favor OF thu said
Joseph l. Haas. and so much of the property
attached as may be sufficient to satisfy said
Judgment and costs Will be sold to satisfy the
same
GEORGE w. GAMBLE. clerk
CHARLES BUFoRD. P1aintlns Attorney.
March 18th, a. ID. 1899.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Notice of Publication-Chancery.
State of Illinois,

State of Illinois, ~
Rock Island County, 30
In the circuit court, TO May term, 1899. In
chancery.
Cora Murphey VS.. Howard J. Murphey
Affdavit of the nOn-residence of the de-
PENDANT, How yard J. Murphey, having been fled
in the clerks ONCE of the circuit court of said
county. notice Is therefore hereby given to
the said nonresident defendant that the COM
plainant fled her bill of complaint in said
court. on the chancery side thereof, on the
23d day OF March, 1899, and that there
upon a summons issued out of said court,
wherein said suit is now pending, returnable on
the first Monday in the month of May next.
as is by law required. Now, unless you the said
nonresident defendant above named. Howard
J. Murphey, shall personally be and appear be-
fore said circuit court. on the first day of the
next term Thereof, to be holden ut Rock Isl
and in and for the said county, the LIST
Monday in May next, and plead, answer
or demur to S id ccmplainant's bill of com
plant, the same and the matters and things
thereiu charged and stated will be taken as
confessed, and decree entered against you
according to the prayer of said bill
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Rock Island Illinois, March 81 1889.
S1URGEO & MARSHALL
Compiainants Solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Publication Notice.
RS Ssa1 SAL, oI 5. 6,n9Esv IS

Rock Island County, S.
In the circuit court of said county, to the
May term, ~ ID. 1892
Carl j. Mueller vs. William Ferguson. Simon
Dexter, Jessie A. Dexter. Lucy y. Matlock.
Maria Q. Dutton, Carrie Cum nings George
Matlock.
Afidavit of non-residence of Maria c. Dut-
ton, Carrie Cummings and George Matlock,
defendants In the above entitled cause. having
been filed 10 the clerk ONCE ia the circuit court
of said county, notice is hereby given 20 the
said nonresident defendants that the com
plainant fled his bill of complaint in said
court, on the chancery side thereof, on the
18th day of March, y. ID. 1899 and that thereupon
q summons was issued out of said court.
wherein said suit IS now pending. returnable
to the first Monday in the month of May
next as is by law required
Now unless you, the said nonresident de-
PENDANTS above named, shall personally
be and appear before said circuit court
on the first day of the next term thereof. to
be holden at Rock Island In and for the
said county on the first Monday in May
next and plead, answer or demur to
the said complainant's bill of complaint, the
same and the matters and things therein
charged and stated viii be taken as confessed,
and the decree entered against you according
to the prayer of said bill.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Rock Island, Illinois. March IS. 1899.
McENIRY & MCESIRY.
Compliments Solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
THE BEDOUlN.
How This True Child of the Desert
Goes Through Life.

How This True Child of the Desert
Goes Through Life.
How dreamily that Bedouin life,
with its uneventfulness and its fatal
ism, fitted the time and the placei
Here was. poor Arab who did not
know how old he was, but he could
look farther into heaven than could.
His mother had borne him while the
caravan was on its way to Mecca. He
had worked as a laborer on the Suez
canal, and he had been dog knacker
in Constantinople before that. He had
gone hungry in the wadies of Idum9a,
and had run as a cameleer barefoot in
the burning sands of Arabia Petr9a-
He had vegetated into manhood ON the
lower stratum of this strange oriental
existence, content to believe that life
was an unavoidable curse, with a drow-
sy intimation of eternity in it, always
associated with the tinkling of bells,
the rattle of castanets and the sweet
smell of Beirut tobacco.
But he could see some things that
were beyond my vision, and I wondered
if this true child of the desert. born IN
der indigo skies, of a race that had been
guided since the days of Moses and
Menephtah by the pillars of fire by
night. had not preserved some powers
of vision that were common to the
primeval man. He never lost the true
oriental disdain for enterprise and con-
temporaneous disturbance, and he made
an engineer feel that his work. seen in
the light of the unperturbed stars, was,
after all, an impertinence to true
pariah. -t'Ghosts In Jerusalem" by A.
G. Wheeler, in Harper's Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
difference Between Them.

"After all, 4" said the bachelor, "the
difference between love and dyspepsia
is purely relative. 1t is a matter of time
only. One is future and the other past.
''How do you meant" asked the be-
wildered maid.
1.-The lover doesn't want to eat, and
the dyspeptic wishes he hadn't" an
swered the bachelor. thereby thinking
he had scored one on the sex that was
continually disturbing his peace Of
mind. Chicago Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Notice of PublIcat,on-Chancery.
State OF Illinois.
Rock Island County.

State OF Illinois.
Rock Island County.
In the circuit court, May term. A. d. 1922.
Rock Island Mutual Building LON and Savings
Association vs. William Z Stevens, Lottie
+ Stevens james W. Atkinson, Thomas
IyneSS and William ID. Stevens.
Afidavft of non-reSidence of the defendant
William d Stevens impleaded with the above
defendants. william E Stevens. Lottie E Stew
ems James w. Atkinson ana Thomas LyneSs,
having been fled in the clerks ONCE of the cir
cult court of said county notice Il therefore
hereby given TO the said nonresident defend
ant that the complainant fled its bill of com
plaiut in said court. on the chancery side there
of. on the twenty-ninth day of March. 1850, and
that thereupoo a summons issued out OF said
court. wherein said suit Is now pending. re-
turnable on the first Monday In the month of
May next, as Is by law required Now.
unless you the said nonresident defendant
above named. William d. Stevens, shall
personally be and appear before said
circuit court, on the first day of the
next term thereof, to be holden At Rock Island
In and for the said county. on the first Monday
in May next. and plead answer or de-
muir TO said complainant's bfl of complaint
the same and the matters and things therein
charged and stated viii be taken confessed
and decree entered against you according
to the prayer of said bill
GEORGE W. CAMEL Clerk.
Rock Island Illinois, March -. A. 1922
Z Il GUYERs Complainants citor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Notice of Pubication-Chancery
McCaskrin & McCaskrin. lawyers.


State of Illinois.
Rock Island County.
In the Circuit Court, May term, A. d 1899.
Emma Williams vs.. George A. Williams, in
chancery.
An anidavit having been duly eel titled and
sworn to and filed In the clerks office of said
county and state by the above named COM
splaipant Emma Williams. showing that the
residence of the above named defendant il
unknown. notice Is therefore hereby given
TO the said defendant that the compla nant
fled her bill of complaint in said court, on the
chancery side thereof on the I'D day of Mare b,
1889 and that thereupon q summons issued out
of 5 Aid court, wherein said suit is now pending.
retumable on the first Monday in the month of
May next, as is by law required.
Now. unless you, the said defendant, George
A. Williams. shall personally be and appear be-
fore said circuit court. on the first day of the
next term thereof. to be hol6eu at Rock Island
In and for the said county. on the first koncay
In May next and plead. answer or demur to the
said complainant's bill of complaint. the same
and the matters and things therein charged
and stated Will be taken confessed, and n
decree entered against you according to the
prayer of said bill
GEORGE W. GAMBLE Clerk
Rock Island, Illinois, March y, 1899.
MCCAskRIS & MCCAsKRIS,
Complainants Solicitors
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Depends.

Thomas, how would you correct the
sentence, He laid down on the
loungef'
"I wouldn't correct it at all. ma'am.
It's all right.
How do you make that out. Thorn
asp
HE was carryin an armful of down,
ma am, and he laid it on the lounge"
Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
The Wrong House.

A weather beaten member of the
tired fraternity, who had lost leg and
had it replaced by wooden substitute,
stumped his way up the main street OF
a Lanarkshire village the other day
and paused at the door of the first like
~ looking dwelling. Knocking at the
door, which was opened by a brisk,
businesslike housewife, the man began
his stereotyped whine:
IF We please, mum, lost my leg
And before he could unfold another
word of his tale the sharp retort came:
-'-'Aweel, ye didna lose it herei"
4 And bang went the door in his face.
Mercury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
DENS OF HORROR.
The Prisons of Morocco Are Hotbeds
of Deadly Disease.

The Prisons of Morocco Are Hotbeds
of Deadly Disease.
The prison system and treatment of
prisoners are worse in Morocco than in
any other country in the world.
Men are arrested-often merely to
spite some one whom they have Teen so
unfortunate as to offend and who pos
sesses some power-and flung into pris
on, where they would be left to starve did
not their relatives or friends bring them
food, for no arrangements whatever are
made by the authorities for the feeding
of prisoners. All that is provided is a
prison, generally crowded with prison
ers dying in the most loathsome and in
fictitious diseases. dark and unventilated,
and custodians who are quite as brutal
and savage as the prison system itself
Prisoners are cast into these hotbeds
of disease, generally without the most
farcical pretense of a trial, to die and
rot if their crimes are light or their
enemies impotent. Otherwise they are
probably tortured in some way or an
other. Starving merely is too good for
them in the opinion of the authorities.
Not long ago q merchant who had
dared to claim payment for goods sup
piled to friend of one of the court Off
Gals was cast into prison without trial,
and after suffering torments in the
midst of mass of diseased humanity
for months was taken out, showed into
a barrel fitted with long spikes and
rolled down a high steep hill. The bar
rel eventually plunged into the sea with
its torn and mangled cargo. Imprison-
ment, torture and death for daring to
present his billl-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
The Absent Dodge.

Fuzzy-They say that Faddist has
become a Christian Scientist and is
successfully giving the absent treat
ment.
Wuzzy-I guess that's So He bor-
rowed $50 from me month ago. and
whenever call to ask for it he's out
New York Tribune
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Nv AnothenName.

Dakota Woman know / can never
stand it, doctor, TO have that tooth
pulled.
Dentist can divorce you from that
tooth, madam, in five seconds.
Dakota Woman-Oh, well, go ahead
Chicago Tribune
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
LEGAL.
Administrator Notice.
Estate of John Wilson Drury .dece ased

The undersigned having been appointed
administrator of the estate of John VII
son Drury. late OF the county OF ROCK
gives notice that he win appear before the
county court of Rock Island county, at the
county court room in the city of Rock Island.
at the June term, on the first Monday
in June next. at which time all per-
sons having claims against said estate are
notified and requested TO attend for the pur-
pose of having the same adjusted
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment to the
undersigned
Dated this 2sth day of March, A. D. 1904
HENRY C. COSSELLY, Administrator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Satisfied.

Opulent Father-in-law-Wha ails
you, George2 Since you have married
you seem to have lost all your ambition.
George-Well. You see, sir, j reached
the height of my ambition when be-
came your son-in-law.- Life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Too Clever 10 Keep.

First Shipping Clerk-Have you heard
that Robson has got sacked?
Second Shipping Clerk-No. Is that
a fact? thought he was such clever
sort of chap
First s. C.-Too clever by half. He
invoiced consignment of cradles as
matrimonial fruit basketsl-Vanity
Fair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Executors Notice.

Estate OF George Vogler, deceased
The undersigned having Deen appointed ex-
ecutrix of the last will and testament of George
VOgler. late of the county of Rock Island,
state of Illinois. deceased. hereby gives notice
that she will appear before the county court of
Rock Island county. at the county court room,
In the city OF Rock Island, at the June
term, on the first Monday in June next.
at which time all persons having claims
against said estate are notified and requested
to attend for the purpose of having the same
adjusted AL persons indebted TO said estate
are requested to make immediate payment to
the undersigned
Dated this 10Th day of March, A. d. 1899.
AGNES VoGLER, Executrfx.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13
Poetic. saue,chea.

Weary Watkins-Oh. that I had the
wings Of birdl
Hungry Higgins-They's less meat
On the wings than they is ON any other
piece. -Indianapolis Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-04-13

Passenger trains leave K I q Molins
avenue) depot Ave (5) minutes earlier than time
given. Trains marked daily, all other train
daily except Sunday.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-07
SICK WOMEN

are invited to consult DR.. r. V. Pierce,
chief consulting physician to the In
valids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N. Y, by letter, without fee or
charge of any kind. DR.. Pierce is a
specialist in the diseases of women. He
has treated over half-a-million women
for diseases of the womanly organs and
ninety-eight out of every hundred women
he has treated have been absolutely and
perfectly cured. Every letter received
by DR.. Pierce, is treated as a purely per-
sonal and private communication and its
contents guarded as a sacred confidence.
All answers to these letters are sent in
sealed envelopes bearing upon them no
printing or advertising whatever.
Write to the doctor. 1t is no use for
sick women to write to a man unless he
is a doctor. 1t is no use to write to a
woman unless the woman is a doctor.
Write to a woman about cookery or any
branch of housekeeping, because she is
a woman and knows. But it is of no use
to write to a woman about disease unless
she has a doctors training and diploma.
A woman who isn't a doctor Is just as dan.
gerOus as a man who isn't a doctor, whea
she undertakes to treat disease.
There is no qualified woman physician
80 far as is known connected with any
proprietary medicine put up for women
Even the "bearded woman" the man
who advertises "write to a woman" is
not a qualified physician and stands too
much in fear of the law to claim that he is.
There is no other physician, male or
female, who, like DR.. Pierce has a record
of over thirty years, as chief consulting
physician of a we'll known institution,
making a speciality of the private treat
ment Of women's diseases.
Write to the doctor-Dr. R. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Women realize DR.. Pierce's ability
when they read his great work the Com
moi Sense Medical Adviser, IooS-pages
sent free on receipt of stamps to defray
expense of mailing only. Send Fl one
cent stamps for paper-bound edition, or
81 stamps for cloth. Address DR.. R. V
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-07
The Power of the Press.

"The power of the press'is a common
expression, but few really realize its ac-
tual power. Deep thinkers do not hest
tate to assert that half the crime of our
country may be traced to this source.
But great as is the influence of the press,
it a not begin to equal the power OF
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters over disease.
Most diseases originate in a weak stom-
ach. The Bitters strengthens the stom-
ach, purities the blood and cures consti-
patton. 1t will tone up the nervous sys-
TEN and stimulate inactive kidneys. AS
an appetizer it is unequalled. 1t cures
sick people, and an occasinal dose regu-
ates the bowels and prevents well peo-
pie from becoming sick. If you want to
get well, and keep well, use Hostetter's
Stomach RitterS.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-06-07
PLAYING THE GAME.

"And / really think" said Mrs. Merri-
man, ''it was more than n of my ordi'
nary Inspirations
"ReallyS" said I.
"Yes; 1t was genius. I'll tell you about
II. :.
s'Laura was staying here. She wasn't
by way of being actually engaged, you
know-one of that unsatisfactory sort of
half and half things. He's n nice boy,
quite a nice boy, but he had a gay little
way, like the Tomtit, you know.
Laura was here some time. They
wrote to each other, more often than not,
as Tomtit would say.
s'Then for a few days she looked
'mopy,' and wal for her quite cross. She
came to me, and by degrees began q long
rigmarole. He was this and he was that.
He was writing horrid, short letters. or
course she didn't care. 1t wasn't that.
Only he wasn't to think he could behave
as he chose.
sHe was staying in a house full of peo
pie. He had himself said there were some
nice girls there, and this was the apex OF
the whole matter; he was going next week
to another house, to which her twin sister
had been asked and not she.
"'Your twin sisters pretty, isn't shef'
"tI don't know snappily. We were
supposed to be exactly alike. Only she
wears a fringe and has darker eyebrows.
Yes; she Is pretty
"Then came a sudden burst Of conf
dence.
Dear Mrs. Merriman, Im--I'm
afraid he'll think she's prettier than J
ami
"'But surely he has seen her befores'
"'No; that's just 1t. He hasn't. She''
been abroad a great deal. I never me
him till this summer, you know
'Stopl' I said authoritatively q reall,
couldn't bear n more condolences, espe
cially secondhand ones). Stop! / have
q magnificent idea. Come up to my o o
and let mo cut. you a fringe
"'What on earth do you meanP' said
Laura blankly.
what l say. Come up at once.' She
came, and I out 1t.
+" 1t Ia a great Improvement she sale
as she twisted up her hair. i shall write
and tell him.
mo you WON'T said. You littl'
blind idiot Don't you UNDERESTIMATE Now
tell me, how much would 1t take to keel
Norah away from the Chamhcrlaynes'?'
"Laura's jaw dropped.
SOTO keep away Oh, | couldn't &
TINT. It's-rit's not what the bows caa