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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Iowa u. v. Z. Appointments.

Dubuque, NOV. is. Commander
Langstaff, of the Union Veterans,
Union, has issued his first general or
de-, since his reelection. and in that
order he announces the full list of app
pointments made by him as follows:
Adjutant General-Col. NJ. f. Irwin.
No T. Dubuque.
Quartermaster General-Col !. A. L.
Mitchell, No. /, Davenport.
Chief of staff-col. v. E. David. No.
IA. Council Bluffs
Chief Mastering officer-Lieut. Col.
Charles II. Robinson, No. 16, Des
Moines.
Inspector General-Lieut. Col. t. S.
Gaddes, No. %, Seymour.
Judge Advocate General-Lieut. Col
II. g. Carpenter, No. II, Des Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Defeat soldiers, monument.

Clarinda, Nov. 1S.--The proposition to
levy a 1-mill tax in this county for the
purpose of erecting soldiers monu
ment or hall in this city was voted on
at the recent election. and was de-
feated by the vote of 1.21S to 66l The
old soldiers are much disappointed
over the outcome of the vote, as they
have about $1,000 already on hand for
such fund and the tax asked would
make them a fine building for their
home, or monument to their memory
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Tnma county Matters.

Special to Times-Republican.
Toledo, Nov. 1s.-The board of super
visors adjourned this morning after a
busy week. Mr.. John Ladue was re-
elected steward of the poor farm. He
is a most efficient manager of the in
sane department, and he and our peo-
pie have no patience with the COM
ments of the board of control nor
LOCKER On in their criticisms of the
manner the incurable insane are kept,
at least in Tama county
Deputy County Clerk Frank Arb has
resigned and S. A. Erect. of Garwin
succeeds him. Mr.. Arb goes to Mime
sofa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Poison in HIS Wine.

Council Bluffs, Nov. 1S.-Abraham
Snyder, II years old, in his petition for
a divorce, says that his wife, Zishna, 60
years old attempted to poison him by
placing arsenic in his wine. The aged
couple We're married in Poland forty
two years ago and lived together until
A few months ago. when domestic trou-
bles reached such an acute stage that
Abraham decided to ask for a legal
separation He claims his wife at
tempted to kill him number of times
in his sleep. and says he is in mortal
terror of her
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
HE DRANK PAINT.
Cedar Rapids Painter Attempts Sui
eide in Peculiar Manner

CIue III ItCUIIur MHHheF.
Cedar Rapids. Nov. 1s.-Bet Harland,
a painter. in an attempt to commit sui
eide drank three pints of green paint at
Z o'clock yesterday morning. 1t was
discovered almost Immediately and he
was hurried to the hospital, where a
stomach pump was brought into play
and his life was saved. Harland's do
nestle life has not been happy one
and 1t is stated that his wife recently
skipped out with another man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
A CASE Of SMALLPOX
Family Of Guleo Oleson, Living Near
Marathon, Suffering From
the Disease.
Three Sick, One Of the Patients Be.
ing in Advanced Stage Of
the Malady.
Five Cases at Storm Lake Under
Strict Quarantine Christian
Science Crime.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Marathon, Nov. 1s.-Dr. George B.
Jackman. Of this place, was called in
consultation by DR.. ohug, of Sioux
Rapids, Iowa, to the home of Guile G.
oleson, seven miles southwest of here
Three Of the family are sick, the at
tending physicians pronouncing the
disease as smallpox. one case of which
is seriously advanced.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
ASSAULTED BY STRANGER.
Railroad Man Mt Knmrar Attacked
by a Bicyclist.

KnlIrOnd Man mt KnfnThr a ttncKcd
by a Bicyclist.
Special to mes-Republican.
Kamrar, Nov. 1S.-Yesterday morning
about 10 o'clock Mr.. Sampson. the c. &
N. w. section boss at this place, was
assaulted by a stranger who was trav-
cling through town on bicycle. Samp-
son was beaten up numerically. The
stranger then made good his escape and
has not yet been apprehended. No
cause can be assigned for the dastardly
assault, as Mr.. Sampson says he had
never seen the man before. 1t is
thought here that.he is the same man
who stole wheel at Webster City
Thursday
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Chnrgcd with Theft.

Cedar Rapids, Nov. 1s.-Jimmy Greg
ory, wanted at Scion for stealing 5000
or 5000 worth of machinery out Of a
Touring mill, which had been partially
destroyed by fire, was arrested at Wa
verify Thursday. He was brought here
Yesterday morning and taken to Scion
on the afternoon train. Gregory is an
old thief and has been arrested here be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Christtan sciencc Crime.

Sioux City. Nov. 1s.-The 9-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Madsen. of
this city, died yesterday of diphtheria.
no doctor having been called in TO see
her. The parents are Christian scien-
lists, and the mother has been treating
the child herself. Even the house was
not guaranteed. and for three days the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
Davenporters on Hoard.

Davenport, Nov. 1S.-Four paven-
porters were passengers on the steamer
Patrfa, which was reported burned off
Dover. They We're William Stohs, Hans
j. Steenholdt and Henry William Koch
Ter, residing here. and H. F. Weinann,
OF Creston, who left here with the par
ty. The four were saved with the other
passengers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18

Stop that cough right away with
Mull's Lightning Cough Cure. Twenty
five cents. For sale by the Mcbride &
Will Drug Company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
stiII Barred From DecoIIete.

The South Side girl who has the physique
of Sarah BernharClt has been following the
directions of a beauty oracle and, when
she met friend in the foyer of the Audi
toriun, said:
'Tou see, / am wearing a street COS
tune after all my preparations for evening
dress. -
The friend nodded.
"Well 1 massagcd my neck twice day
for three months, until my collar bones
quite disappeared. l felt sure l should be
an ornament to box party"
We'll, what happened:" inquired the
friend
My neck is all right, but you ought to
see my arms" The girl sighed. The
massage exercise developed my muscles so
that they stand out just as if 1 were a
prizefighter. !"
The speaker waved her fan with a vigor
that proved her strength, and then passed
a sarcastic comment on thin girl who
wore "A decOllete corsage.-Chicago Inter
Ocean
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
KEPT HIS TOBACCO.
Fifteen Years to Acquire the Proper
Flavor For Use.

"Apropos of heavy black tobacco, " re-
| marked a dealer Il used to have n num-
Der of customers who smoked cigarettes
made of straight perique. Some few re-
main, but 1 could count them on one
hand, and the habit is, SO II speak, eX-
tinct. 1 doubt whether it was as injurious
to the health as some have clGimed, and l
had pretty good opportunity to watch its
effects
For over 90 years 1 have sold tobacco
to one of the most confirmed and enthu-
siaStic perique smokers in New Orleans.
He was past middle age when he first
came to my shop and is still hale and Wig
orous, his eyes bright II birds and
his hand as steady as a rock. He buys
his tobacco in bulk, afterward cutting it
to suit himself, and, like number of
other old time smokers, he can detect eX-
quisitely slight differences in flavor among
a lot of rolls or carrots. 1t is very interest
ing to see him pick out a supply for pri-
vate ripening, something he attends to at
intervals, just as one might keep up
wine cellar.
HE proceeds on the theory, 1 believe,
that the leaf is at its best between IL and
10 years after having been put away and
has each roll carefully dated, so as to en-
able him to consume perique of approx
mately that date from season to season.
As it ages the tobacco assumes a beautiful
deep black brown ana doesn't resemble
ordinary tobacco at all. This particular
old gentleman I have in mind has shown
me pieces that looked like ebony. He
moistens them with a dash of sherry and
water, whittles off what he wants with a
penknife, rolls it up with quick turn of
the wrist and walks away putting a cloud
of smoke that would lift the average
young clubman clear off his feet.
LAS / remarked before, however, there
are very few of the old time DeviQue
smokers still alive-I doubt if there are
over five or six now left who continue to
keep up their annual stocks. New Or
leans Times Democrat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25

The sand ridges or dhoras of the Indian
desert spring from low cross ridges or sad
dies, like closed fingers from the knuckles
of the back of the hand but in reverse and
parallel directions. That is to say, the
ridges face both northeast and southwest,
covering n longitudinal distance of one to
two miles, when they are again repeated
in a similar formation. Their cross slopes
average two TO one and are well covered
with desert grasses and bushes, an occa-
sional acacia or rohira tree breaking the
monotony of the landscape. This peculiar
formation ends abruptly at the sandstone
cliffs of Sata, about ! ZOO feet above sea
level, which form a barrier TO their farther
extension eastward. When seen for the
first time from these heights, they have a
confused, wavclike appearance, and it is
only ultimately discovered that they form
in plan parallel but tapering ridges.
With the exception of the field rat, ami
NAL life is absent, and the old trade route
is mostly indicated by the skeletons of
camels which dot the track at short inter
vals.-C. II. Croudace, in Engineering
MAGAZINE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
ELECTRIC TERMS.
fAey Are Simple Enough Once You
Get the Hang of Them.

| a consulting electrical engineer who
/ was asked to put one of the less common
| electrical terms in plain Language said:
Il am frequently resorted to for just such
| explanations, and nothing surprises me
more than the haziness which still exists
In the minds of even intelligent folks in
regard to the simplest electrical terms To
most people the electrical units are still
mere Greek, and comparatively few go to
the trouble to take hOSd of the more COM
mon of them, such as volt, 'ampere,
resistance electro motive force ETC.,
and fix their meaning once for all in the
mind. a man who knows me only by
reputation wrote to me the other day that
he had done this with much satisfaction
to himself as he has now a far more in
telligent idea of electrical doings than he
had before. But still, he said, from time
to time some electrical words creep into
the daily press which convey nothing to
him. He mentioned as one of these the
term watt hour.
''Now, this is quite simple. The watt
is the unit of electric power. 1t means
the power developed when 44.25 foot
pounds of work are done per minute, or
1875 foot pounds per second A foot pound
is the amount of work required to raise
one pound vertically through distance of
one foot. When this is figured down so as
to be defined in horsepower, which is I'M
derstood by every one, 1t can offer no dlfh-
Guilty, and if any one to whom the word
watt is pulling will remember that a
watt is the one-seven- hundred and forty
sixth of a horsepower he will have no more
uncertainty about it. Having get SO far,
it is an easy graduation to the watt hour,
which is the term employed to indicate
the expenditure of an electrical power of
one watt fos an hour. In other words the
energy represented by watt hour is equal
to that expended in raising pound to
height of ., 654 feet. An even easier way
of fixing it is to remember that two watt
hours correspond almost exactly to raising
a pound to Il height of one mile.
THE understanding of such terms
opens ont some very curious facts to the
uninitiated For instance, a certain dry
battery, weighing 8. IS pounds, was known
to yield $50 watt hours. If this force were
applied to raising the battery itself, it
would lift it to height of over ten miles.
Again, in one hour the energy translat-
ed in an ordinary 10 candle power lamp
weighing about an ounce would raise that
lamp to a height of 400 miles at a velocity
of nearly seven rifles per minute. Yes,
it pays man to expend little pains on
mastering the ordinary electrical terms.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
FORCED TO KILL HIMSELF.
Ike Was Declared Officially Dead and
| Then Driven to Suicide.

This is a true story: In San Francisco
there's Chinese secret society the laws
of which are as strict and unchanging as
those of the Modes and Persians. One of
the members of this society told some of
its Secrets-an Offense punishable by
death He was to be tried in the usual
way before a tribunal of the society.
! The night of the ordeal was fixed. The
culprit was represented by able counsel,
but the sentence was death-as was eX-
pected An eXecutioner was called from
an adjoining room. He was a strapping
big Chinaman and wore one of those hid
eous wooden masks that art critics think
so beautiful He carried double edged
sword fully five feet long. To test the
edge he folded a newspaper in eight parts,
and the knife went through those eight
thicknesses of paper as if it were bit of
butter in summer time.
The culprit was put dov.4 upon his
knees, and another Chinaman, also on his
knees, faced him and caught the traitor by
the cue. He drew the culprit'S neck to-
ward him, the smock was pulled over his
shoulders and with one mighty swing the
double edged sword descended Like a
flash it Glove the air and then-stopped.
A fractional part of an inch separated the
sword from the victims neck. Very, very
gently the executioner brought the weapon
down until it just touched the traitors
neck. Then, rs it is a crime to kill a man
in San Francisco, he stopped. He brought
the sword to his side again, turned to the
judges and said:
THE culprit is dead
The newly executed got to his feet and
said something to the judge. The judge
did not heed-for the culprit was dead. He
tried to speak to the Cinnamon, who were
hurrying from the hall But he spoke to
deaf ears. To all intents and purposes he
was a dead man.
He made his way into the street and the
first thing that caught his eye was huge
poster proclaiming to all Chinatown that
he had been executed that evening. No
one would speak to him, no one would
look at him. He was dead man-just as
dead as if the eXecutioners sword had in
reality descended.
For a whole week that man wandered
about Chinatown, the posters proclaiming
his execution staring him in the face at
every turn. Not crust of bread could he
beg, not a mouthful of water His people
knew him as dead-he was past, gone,
buried.
And so one day he wandered up into the
American portion of San Francisco and
stole a revolver from a messenger boy,
who was showing it to some companions.
Then he ran down into Chinatown, sat
down on the pavement beneath one of his
own death notices and blew the added
brains out of his poor Chinese head.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
How Horses Catch Cold.

Horses are very subject to nasal catarrh
and it is widely prevalent belief among
coachmen that if horse goes into fresh
stable, and especially if horse which has
been out at grass goes into stable with
other horses, it will be most likely to de-
velop a cold; so, too, it is noticed, will
horses bought at n fair, and this is popu-
larry attributed to the drafts to which
they have been exposed. AS it is admitted,
however, that any other horses which may
have been in the stable generally catch
this cold from the newcomer surely it is
moro reasonable to suppose that the latter
has in like manner received the infection
from some of its neighbors while on sale.
A medical friend of the writer lately
made an interesting experiment. He has
two horses and has been in the habit of
turning one out for the summer months.
When he brought it in again for the win
ter, it used invariably to develop a severe
cold. Coachmen will tell you that this is
due to the unaccustomed warmth of the
stable, which makes the animal "nesh."
Last year, however, before bringing in his
horse the doctor had his stable thorough
~ disinfected and lime washed and put no
other horse into it The one which came
in from grass then remained perfectly free
from any symptoms of catarrh. Spectator
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
Novel SwindIinr Scheme.

Among the battered flotsam and jetsam
that has accumulated in n secondhand
store not great distance from Jackson
square is n shabby round table with curl
Gus secret and no doubt n still more curl
Gus history. The top was once covered
with green billiard cloth, which now is
worn to tattcrs and discloses n steel plate
set in the center and perhaps ten inches
square
The whole top is loose and can be re-
moved, revealing an interior space con-
tanning n horseshoe magnet wound with
wire and connected with an armature
very much like that of an ordinary tele-
graphic instrument. A close examination
shows an insulated wire running down
one of the legs to a small knob or button,
protruding on the outside. When the top
is in place, the steel plate rests directly
over the magnet. This strange device is
explained clearly enough by its present
owner sit is a dice table,, he said, ION
which a lot of money has been won. When
it was in order, there was Il good sized
battery inside connected with the magnet.
When the knob on the leg was pressed, the
current was turned on, and that made the
steel plate magnetic. The dice they used
with il had small metal disks on one face,
and rs long as the current was on they
naturally fell that side down. When the
knob was released, they would fall any
way they CHANGED to come, so all that was
necessary for the operator to do was to
keep his knee on the button and he could
absolutely control his play. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
ANSWERED PRAYER.

! prayed that love might come;
That that great passion which makes heaven
or hell
To whom it cometh might fill my lone heart
With all its heights of Joy and depths Of woe,
That might know the length and breadth Of
human soul
Love came, How my life bloomedi
How fairer than thought earthl How
near seemed heaven!
The griefs that had been mine were gilded
DER
With light from my glad heart, and they were
lost.
And then-God the heavens broke; the earth
stood still
/ stood alone TO reckon up the cost.
The day will never dawn so horror filed,
Not when the earth shall melt and roll away.
Such agony will never come to poor
heart
There comes time cannot even pray.
The soul knows well there is both hell and
heaven,
When, when unsought the hearts full love is
given.
An answered prayeri God gave first what
asked and naught beside,
The bitter portion my own lips had craved
What other could he do than give it me?
How other teach my willful heart the truth
That prayers of earth ask ever but the wrath
He giveth all unasked to those who live by
faith.
Rose Van B. Specie
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
A VIVID DREAM.
One of Robert Louis StevensOn's
PhantOms of the Brain.
Rose Van B. Specie.


Yesterday walked too far and spent
all the afternoon on the outside of my bed
went finally to rest at and slept nearly
II hours on the stretch. Bennett (the
doctor), when told of it this morning,
augured well for my recovery He said
youth must be putting in strong. OF
course 1 ought not to have slept at all.
As it was l dreamed horribly, but not
my usual dreams of social miseries and
misunderstanding and all sorts of cruel
fixions of the spirit, but of good, CHEEKY,
physical things-of long SUGGESTIONS of
vaulted, dimly lit cellars full of black wa
ter, in which l went swimming among
toads and unutterable, cold, blind fishes.
Now and then these cellars opened up into
a sort of domed music hall places, where
one could land for a little on the slope of
the orchestra, but sort of horror prevent
ed one from staying long and made one
plunge back again into the dead waters.
Then my dream changed, and l was q
sort of SiameSc pirate on very high deck
with several others. The ship was almost
captured, and we were fighting desperate
". The hideouS engines we used and the
perfectly incredible carnage that we effect
ed by means of them kept me CHEEKY, as
you may imagine, especially as 1 felt all
the time my sympathy with the boarders
and knew that L was only prisoner with
these horrid Malays. Then 1 saw a signal
being given and knew they were going to
blow up the ship.
1 leaped right off, and heard my captors
splash in the water after me as thick as
pebbles when bit of river bank had given
way beneath the foot. 1 never heard tho
ship blow up, but spent the rest of the
night swimming about some piles with
the whole sea full of Malays, searching for
me with knives in their mouths They
could swim any distance under water, and
every now and again, just as 1 was begin
ming to reckon myself safe, a cold hand
would be laid on my ankle-ugh i-''Th
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson" edit
ed by Sidney Colvin, in Scribner's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-25
A BURGLAR PROOF SAFE.
The Scheme which Made Secure
Against Assault by Thieves.

I've been in the fire and burglar proof
safe business for 20 years, >" remarked the
veteran drummer, land / guess l have
sold my goods in nearly every state in the
Union, but until 1 visited western town
of 5, 900 people l had never seen really
safe safe-one that was proof against any
and all forms of assault. 1t was the first
time had struck the place, and went
there because / had learned they had open
ed a new bank, and I'm always on the
lookout for that kind. l got into town
about D o'clock, and, without stating my
business, l strollcd around before supper
to where the bank building was located
just to have a look over the situation. 1t
was quite modern building for the size
of the town, and the builders had put in
a boiler and engine to give the power for
water and electric light and steam heat
There was nothing remarkable about
this, but at the rear of the building /
found something that was at least novel.
1t was "a plain brick addition 20 feet high,
with large windows on its four sides, Civ
ing full view of the interior, and right
in the center, between heaven and earth,
five feet below the ceiling and ten feet
above the floor, hung big safe suspended
to n heavy anchor chain. 1t was an entire
" new wrinkle to me, and after studying
il awhile went back to the hotel deter
mined to ask Il few questions before letting
hotel clerk, after the manner of his kind,
knew it all, and when he had finished his
calculations had learned that the bank
people, instead of spending their money on
"a high priced, time lock, burglar proof,
stone walled vault and safe that might be
dynamited full of holes, had simply bought
a good cheap big safe and, having put it
in the high room they had built for it, had
rugged chain and pulleys and attached
the combination TO the engine down cellar.
AT closing time the safe was drawn up
between floor and ceiling out of reach
from above or below and left to swing I'M
til time to begin business again next
morning. The steam was down by IL
O'Clock, and then the only possible way to
get at the safe was to raise steam and let
il down within reach, a job the most skill
full burglar could not perform without de-
lection, because steam engines are not run
on a silent schedule as n rule. The next
morning, after l had taken another look
at the working of the arrangement and
saw how easy it all was, i never said
word about having safes to sell or even
that was in the business, but slowly and
sadly packed up my traps and got out of
town. "-WashingtOn Star