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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
Washington
Conquered.
Grip Takes the City in lis Iron
Grasp.
Government Machinery Almost at a Stand
stilI-EnormOus Percentage OF En-
pIoyes Stricken With La
Grippe-CapitaI at the
Mercy of the

The Grip epidemic is raging in the
Capitol City. and fully one-third of
the government employees are sick
or suffering from the dread disease.
Violent headaches. fever and chills.
sneezing and running at the eyes and
nose together with the bone-racking
aches and pains and a general ex-
haustion are the rule rather than the
exception. The best way to fight the
Grip is to strengthen the nerves and
build up the resistive powers so as to
throw off the deadly disease germs,
and nothing will do this so quickly
and surely as DIR. Miles Nervine. 1t
has restored health to thousands of
Grip sufferers after every other RENE
DIV had failed
When the Grip left me 1 was a
broken down wreck, both mental and
physical. Ny nerves were complete
~ unstrung. my appetite failed. could
not sleep and became so Respondent
that | despaired of ever getting well.
! began to improve with the first bot
tie of DR.. Miles Nervine and when |
had taken seven bottles l was COM
pletely cured. Have been strong and
well ever since ard weigh more than
/ ever did before
SAMUEL +. PILsoN, Staunton, Va.
All druggists are authorized to sell
DIR. Miles Nervine on n guarantee
that first bottle benefits or money re-
funded. BE sure and get DIR. Miles
Nervinc. Booklet on heart and nerves
sent free. Address
DIX. MILES MEDICAL Co,
Elk%art, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
CHILD CUT WITH AN AK.
An Accident in which yester Mosher's
Daughter is Wounded.

A little daughter of Vester Mosher,
of Andalusia, was accidentally struck
in the face with an AK Monday, re-
ceiving a cash that it required several
stitches to sew up. The child was
watching her brother chop wood. and
getting too near the AK received the
full compliment of blow aimed at
the piece of timber. DIR. Miller was
called from Edgington and gave the
little girl the necessary attention.
While the injury is An extremely pain
full one it is thought no serious results
will ensue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

Horrible agony is caused by piles,
burns and skin diseases. These are
Immediately relieved and quickly
cured by De Wits Witch Hazel
Salve. Beware of worthless imita-
tions. For sale by L. II. Thomas, A.
j. Reiss and Nj. +. Bahnsen, drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

The smallest things may exert the
greatest influence. De Wits Little
Early Risers are unequaled for over
coming constipation and liver trou-
bles. Small pill, best pill, safe pill.
For sale by I. II. Thomas, 4. j. Reiss
and NJ. +. Bahnsen, druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
4 White Mark.

Foley's Kidney Cure is perfectly
reliable preparation for all kidney and
bladder diseases. The proprietors of
this great medicine guarantee it or
the money refunded. DO they pot
deserve a white marx?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
Hard Coal, Coke and wood.

Indiana block for furnaces, camel
for CRATES, Cable and Athens lump
and nut for stoves.
T.. b. MCkowN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

To New Orleans or to Jacksonville via
the Queen IL Crescent limited trains
from Cincinnati, 81 hours through to
Havana.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarsts.
Candy Cathartic. c. - coordination forever
1ec, 25c. II c. c. c. fail. d.1gsiStsr fund moneZ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
FOR SALE.

TOR SALE TWO NICE HOMES on THIRI
L avenue one 500. the other SLIGO paving
paid for. Inquire at lilo Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18
WANTED.

WIN FD-CONPETEST GIRL AT OHsCI
w ~ SO TwcE-l=ta street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

"ANTED-A COOK WITH REFERENCES
w at 1910 Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

XTvANTED-GOODS SOLICITORS IN ROCK
w ISlard TO taLe orders for the celebrated
Singer sewing machine 40 contract
given TO right parties. Call on or IudrS-S the
Singer Manufacturing cOmpA j. AZ harrison
street, Davenport, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

"TANTED-PARTSF WITH $50 TO 800
w who can give ali hi, time - ms business
J arge profits ami 10 limit TO business Money
wei. secured. Address - 3 care Leader, Da-
yeHpOrt. Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-18

"ANTED-BOARDE CHOICEROOMS
w and board a. PIG Fourth avenue
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
Took His wife,s Advice.

When the man whose haircut showed
that his wife had peculiar notions as to
the way man should dress his hair
quit giving advice, one of the listeners
said:
mo man has more respect for wo-
man than / have, but / shall never take
the advice of my wife again about
money matters. She insisted upon my
hiding my salary, so if should be held
up the highwaymen wouldn't get it. /
draw my stipend at p. m, and it is
quite dark before l get home. She is a
good hider in the house, but her talent
in that line stops there. Now, she had
the brilliant idea that l should put the
envelope containing my money under
the sweatband of my hat. Highway
men would never look there and would
never rob man of his hat. After she
had made this suggestion about 40
times 1 accepted it. l went home as
usual on the elevated. had slight
attack of vertigo in the car, and the
man who always knows what to do
said needed fresh air and threw up
the window. In doing so he knocked off
my hat. went home bareheaded and
broke. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

In no other part of the world is kiss
ing SO much in vogue as in Russia
From time immemorial it has been the
national salute. Indeed it is more of a
greeting than caress.
In public affairs, as in private, the
kiss is an established custom. Fathers
and sons kiss, old generals with rusty
mustaches kiss, whole regiments kiss
The emperor kisses his officers. On a
reviewing day there are almost as many
kisses as shots exchanged. If lillipu-
tian corps of cadets have earned the i'm
perial approval, the imperial salute is
bestowed upon the head boy, who passes
it on with hearty report to his neigh
Dor, he in his turn to the next, and SO
on, through the whole Juvenile body.
On holiday or fete day the young
and delicate mistress of a house will
not only kiss all her maidservants, but
all her menservants, too, and if the
gentleman does not venture above her
hand she will stoop and kiss his cheek.
To judge also from the number of
salutes the matrimonial bond in these
high circles must be one of uninterrupt-
ed felicity. A gentleman scarcely enters
or leaves the room without kissing his
wife either on her forehead, cheek or
hand.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

The gentleness of bloodhound DISPOSE
ton is probably accounted for by their
not having been used to hunt and kill
prey. One of the most ancient anec-
dotes of these dogs attributes the cap
ture of q fugitive to the use of his own
bloodhound. The name itself is prob
ably a modern one, based on vulgar
error that the dogs only followed persons
who were ''red handed from homicide
or who had about them the smell of re-
Gently killed sheep. The ancient name
was lyme dog or talbot, which latter
appears to have been white variety of
bloodhound.
The Cuban bloodhounds, which were
used for hunting slaves by the Spaniards
and were imported into Jamaica, were
not bloodhounds at all, but cross be-
tween the mastiff and bulldog, or per-
haps the 'dogue' of Bordeaux They
were brindled, prick cared, and doubt
less horribly savage They were, how
ever, used as police and, like the
bloodhounds on the border, were main
tanned in every parish in Jamaica,
where it was the duty of the church
wardens to keep them at the expense of
the community.
Some of these dogs were kept in Lon
don during the early days of the 20
illogical gardens. The stories of their
ferocity are probably not exaggerated,
though Lord Balcarres, who imported
300 of them into Jamaica to aid in sub
DUNG the maroons, never used them.
He frightened the negroes into submits
sion by circulating the stories current
about the dogs. Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
JOHN HAYS BIG APRON.
One of the Cases Where Dishwash-
ing Produced a Poet.

One of the Cases Where Dishwash-
ing Produced n Poet.
Colonel Hay was when boy regu-
lar attendant Of the Presbyterian Sun
day school at Warsaw, Ills
The Sunday school lessons partly con-
sisted of committing to memory Bible
verses, and to attain supremacy in this
created quite arivalry among the schol-
ars, John Hay was sure to come out
ahead from two to five answers, some
times more causing those of his COM
rades who were always behind him to
regard him with envy
Consequently when some of those boys
heard that John had to wash dishes and
do the churning for his mother and.
more than all, that he wore an apron
while at these duties his jealous COM
rades fairly crowed
One morning it was agreed by his
comrades to get him out of doors while
he had his apron ON and humiliate him
by having two or three girls whom he
rather liked ask him questions in re-
gard to his homework
Young Hay came out to where the
boys were and answered the questions
by saying that he washed dishes as his
mother taught him. and then, with
twinkling eyes, he gave the dishpan
which he had with him tremendous
fling, contents and all. drenching who
ever happened to be near enough. and
laughing loudly, ran into the kitchen
Hay and his big apron were never mo-
Tested after that. Christian Endeavor
World
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
SURPRISED HER HUSBAND.
why the Young Wife Spent an After
noon In His Office.

noon In His Office.
Young Mrs. Smith, who lives down
on Prairie avenue is very fond Of her
husband and also very jealous of him
Mr.. Smith knows this and enjoys 1t i'm
mensely. Before the Smiths were mar
ried he used to know Minneapolis girl
who visited his sister in Chicago. Mrs
Smith knew her very well too. The Min
neapolis girl came down not long ago
and Mrs. Smith called on her A few
days before the Minneapolis girl went
back she called on Mrs. Smith, and
they had an enjoyable quarter of an
hour thinking things about one another
and talking about Mansfield
When the Minneapolis girl rose to
go. she said sweetly. "Oh. by the way.
1 want to see Charlie before go back,
and think l may just drop into his
office this afternoon.
"Oh. do; Charlie will be delighted,
returned Mrs Smith The door had
hardly closed on the guest before Mrs.
Smith executed sort of war dance.
She dressed as fast as she could, put on
nCI OOAnCb anu 1lO1 AAUC1UAOA4
of going down to Mr.. Smiths Office
Her grandmother demonstrated in vain.
Mrs. Smith il only IS. and she Is jeal-
GUS
II thought I'd spend the afternoon
with you, she announced to the aston
ished Charlie as she swept into the
office
"But. my dear he began, when
Mrs. Smith ensconced herself at the
side of his desk and intimated that the
most violent arguments would not
move her. She sat there all the after
noon The Minneapolis girl enjoyed
herself shopping, and forgot to call in
to tell Charlie goodby. Mrs. Smith broke
down and confessed as soon as she got
home, and her foolish young husband
told her to go down next day and buy
herself the prettiest hat she could find
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

We had come into the storeroom for
torpedoes at the Brooklyn navy yard
and the talk turned to high explosives
1--WE have to keep sharp watch on
the gun cotton, said one of the gun
ners who were with me, ''to see that 1t
does not get dry and does not get too
acid. There is never day goes by on q
battleship but careful inspection Is
made of the stores of gun cotton. Dip
in piece of litmus paper and see If it
comes out blue. If it does, all Is well,
but beware if it comes out red. That
means acid, and acid means danger"
"What do you do when it comes out
red 20 asked
''Neutralize the acid. You see, gun
cotton deteriorates lot in an acid solu-
ton
''Do you always keep the gun cotton
wetF'
"Always. That's one of the first
principles. When it's wet, it's safe;
when it's dry, it isn't. Let it have all
the water it will soak up, which is
about 80 per cent. j"
Suppose you were to touch off some
gun cotton here on the ground, what
would happenH"
Nothing at all if it wasn't confined.
You might burn ton of it like cord
wood in a bonfire. But pack it in tin
box, even flimsy one, and you'll have
fun. And, of course, the stronger the
box the more fun you'll have "-Bos-
ton Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
Underground Paris.

The Paris of the pavement, gay,
bright and exhilarating, is fairly ia
miliar to us all but underground Paris,
dark, solitary and damp, extending for
miles, is comparatively unknown. A
part of this area is devoted to the cata-
combs-a valley of dry bones, a garden
of the dead; the rest a garden still more
vast, provides for the wants, or rather
the luxuries of the living-it is devot-
ed to mushroom culture. These subter-
ranean gardens extend for some 30
miles under the gay capital and are
from 30 feet to 100 feet beneath the
surface.
1t is very difficult to obtain permits
sion to visit them, and even when per-
mission is obtained it requires some
courage to avail oneself of it, for the
only entrance is a circular opening like
the mouth of a well, out Of which q
long pole stands. Through this pole,
fastened at the top only, at fairly long
intervals, sticks are thrust This prim-
tive ladder, the base of which swings
like pendulum in the impenetrable
darkness below, is the only means of
reaching the caves. Here, again
cried our guide, with burst of cheer
fulness, "see this doorl On the other
side are the catacombs- full of bones
as this place is of mushrooms We
smiled. We were not afraid of bones
with an iron door between them and
us.-Straud Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
A Wall Paper Trick.

can old fellow came along the other
day." says Philadelphia restaurant
keeper, "who gave me a pointer 1 had
never dreamed of. He came in and Of
fered to patch up all the bad places in
my wall paper and so skillfully that /
couldn't find place after it was done.
Well, hadn't any patching to do, but
l bet the old chap quarter and his
dinner that he couldn't do what he
said. l tore patch out of the wall
paper. and when he was through eat
ing he went to work
1.-THE first thing he did was to cut a
piece of blank wall paper big enough to
cover the hole and paste it over Next
he took brush and painted ground
the same as the other paper. Then, kick
me if he didn't take other brushes and
colors and paint in the design of the
paper. l willingly yielded up quarter
with the dinner and was satisfied when
/ saw the alacrity and ease with which
the fellow did his work. New York
Tribune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
The Women of BeIrIum.

No one can travel in Belgium with
out being struck by the extraordinary
activity and prominence of the women.
Over the doors Of shops Of all descrip-
tions the name Of the owner or owners
is frequently followed by "Seurs'' or
"Veuve." You find them proprietors Of
hotels and restaurants They are often
custodians Of the churches. They are
employed to tow the boats along the
canal banks. They cut up the meat in
the butchers shops, and they are even
to be noticed shooting horses at the forge
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

The chronicles of 1855 speak Of 100
vessels in its basins and Of German mer
chants carrying away over 2,000 pieces
Of cloth to the distant lands of Russia
and Poland. It was the exchange of Eu-
rope, possessing in the fourteenth GEN.
fury 50 guilds and 100, 900 inhabitants,
more than three times as many as it
now contains. Among its wares we read
Of leather from Spain, wool from Eng
land, silk from Italy and Persia, linen
and cloth from Brabant, hemp and fax
from Holland, wine from Portugal,
Greece and France and hardware from
Germany, which included every variety
Of object in ivory, bone, wood, glass.
tin, copper, lead, iron, silver and gold.
1t had it's factories, it's curriers', its dy
ers, and its taxation considerably ex-
ceeded that of Client. But at the COM
menoement of the fourteenth century its
troubles began-troubles from within
and from without.
The Suene was rendered useless by
the invasion of sand as far as Sluis
(Ecluse), treachery, slaughter and po-
litioal jealousies and rivalries completed
the fall, and in 1914 its inhabitants had
diminished to 2, 696. Then came the re-
ligious wars and prosecutions from 1867
to 1884, the fanatics and the Gueux de-
stroying what remained, leaving little
for the French revolutionists.- Good
Words.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
How the Great Irish Leader Came to
Enter Politics.

How the Great Irish Leader Came to
Enter Politics.
Charles Stewart Parne1 was % years
old before he made his entry into the
political arena. How the step was taken
is thus described by Ar R. Barry
O'Brien in his biography Of the great
Irish leader:
Zone night during the general cleo
ton of 1874 Parnen dined with his sis
ter, Mrs Dickinson. in Dublin. After
dinner Captain Dickinson said Well
Charles. why don't you go into parlia-
menti Why don't you stand for your
native county2'
ITO the surprise of every one at the
table. Parnel said quickly I will
Whom ought to seer
i" oh. said Dickinson. we will see
about that tomorrow. The great thing
is you have decided to stand
" 4 will see about it at once. said
Parnell 4 have made up my mind. and
l won't wait Whom ought to seer
4 think Gray of The Freeman s
journal. said John, who was also pres.
emit.
" Very well, said Parnell, rising
from the table, I shall go to him at
once Do you come with me, John
1.-THE two brothers then went away to-
gether. It was now IL o'clock. and they
found Gray at The Freeman's Office
He was amazed when Parnel entered
and said, 4 have come to say, Mr.
Gray, that mean to stand for Wick
low as Home Ruler.
1t was only the year after that. on the
death of John Mitchell, Parnell was re-
turned for Meath. At first it is plain
that Parnen had few if any followers
The ability of the representative from
Meath was questioned Butt was then
the controlling power 1t was only in
1880 that Parnell became the leader
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

The most powerful engine must stop If
the fires are not fed Man Is the most Won
derful piece of machinery in the world, yet
no matter how strong and well-made his
bodily frame may be, if the ere of life
within him is not constantly fed his limbs
and muscles become powerless and useless.
The reason men become helpless and
diseased is because the food they eat,
which is the fuel of life, is not properly
digested and appropriated by the stomach
and nutritive organs. 1t is not completely
transformed into the strength and working
power which Is to man what steam Is to
the engine.
That wonderful power-making Golden
Medical Discovery" invented by DR.. R. v.
Pierce, chief consulting physician of the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of
Buffalo, N Y, imbues the human diges-
tive juices and blood-naking glands with
capacity to extract abundant nourishment
from the food. II builds up organic tissue,
nerve FIBER hard muscular flesh and work
ing force. 1t gives a man steam
What it did for Mr.. p. s. Hughes, Of Junction,
Hunterdon Co., N. J., Is given in his own words:
He writes: II received your kind letter, and
in reply would say that mine was a bad case OF
kidney and liver trouble, and that six bottles OF
DR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and four
bottles of little Pellets effected complete cure.
It is well known that almost every engineer Is
troubled more or less with kidney trouble especi-
ally on our fast express trains run one hun
bred and forty-four miles on these trains every
day in the week, and have had no return OF the
trouble since taking the remedies, nearly three
years ago."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

A woman never really knows the mean
ing of happiness and content until she is
the mother of healthy, happy child.
The health of the child depends on the
health of the mother, both before and af-
ter birth. Most all of woman's weakness
and particularly the weakness that most
strongly influence the health of children,
comes from some arrangement or disease
of the distinctly feminine organs. DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription will cure
troubles of this nature. 1t should be
taken regularly by every woman during
the entire period of CESSATION. 1t gives
strength to all the organs involved, lessons
the pains of childbirth and insures the
health of both mother and child.
Send 81 one-cent stamps to cover cost OF
mailing only, and receive free a copy OF
Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser. Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24

Somebody has discovered that Ber
muda onion eaten raw will clear the
head. A Bermuda onion eaten raw will
do more than that 1t will clear an en-
tire room. An active Bermuda onion is
a complete clearing house all by itself.
Take one Bermuda onion-only one
and let the lips of beauty close upon it,
and love will turn to hatred and honey
to gall and bitterness.
Clear the head? Why, Bermuda on
ion in fairly good health will clear the
head of navigation = Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
Heroes of the Pen,

The intensity of application with
which the mind follows whatever it
lays hold of in literary pursuits is ex-
emplified in the case of Robert Aims
worth, celebrated writer and anti
quarian of the seventeenth century. He
had been for years engaged in volumi-
nous Latin dictionary, and while fas-
cinated with this heroic work gave so
little time and attention to his wife
that he incurred her bitterest jealousy,
and before the work was quite complete
she committed the whole to the flames.
Instead of abandoning himself to de-
spair, Ainsworth set to work and re-
wrote it, accomplishing the entire work
in time. The same bitter disappoint-
ment was endured with similar heroism
by Carlyle when the manuscript of his
Frederick the Great" was destroyed
by fire.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-01-24
A SONG OF FORGETTING.

The hours as playthings were-ah, mel
And laughter lived in every word
What time that love was young and glee
In every pulsing heart throb stirred
The wild plum blossomed in the glen.
The rabbit raced across the plain,
And frightened birdlings fiurried when
Our hounds and horses tramped the grain.
Down in the grove beside the spring
We rested when the race was won.
And listened to the wood bird sing
A lullaby when day was done.
But, ali, you wandered from my side
And paved the long lone lane Of years
With memory stones and loss too wide
For sobs to soothe with memory tears
And now you come-come back to me
To fill, as then, the old time place Z
Where is the magic of your plea2
What change has come upon your facet Il
Oh, friend, to lose and still love on. 4
To live on chaff instead of grain
Is better than to feel love gone
Forgetting is the keenest pain
Atlanta Constitution.