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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
LIKE THE PRovEReIAL CAT.
How the Professors Desk Came
BacLs at His Own ENnense.

The Young lawyer has good taste in
antiques and has done much browsing
about in search OF them. He knows
the places in Worcester and the neigh
boring towns where those who like old
furniture and have the money to pay
for it may find what win delight their
souls. So IL was no more than nat
ural, when the professor sold his desk.
which was of ancient design. but OF
doubtful age. and began looking for
something better. that he should con-
suit tile young lawyer. The man OF
law was delightfully."- sympathetic. Il
saw just what you want the other
day. he said. but I'm afraid it's gone
now I'll keep my eye out for the next
few days
We'll, II you see anything really
good" said the professor, buy it and
hold il for me. 1t is not safe TO let 4
bargain 90 too long. only let ME
know as soon as you can. so that l
won't be buying one too. 1t would be
4 great favor"
Not at ALL" said the lawyer. Its
pleasure TO buy n good thing, even if
you are not to keep il yourself"
In 4 day or two the professor receiv-
ed joyful note. The young lawyers
mother had found just what the pro-
fessOr wantcd-a beauty, one of those
rare old bits that they cannot counter
felt. and such a bargain, only SO The
professor was charmed. He imme-
diateIy sent his check to the young
lawyer with an enthusiastic note OF
thanks and a request to send up the
desk. lie was in the hall when it ar
rived. He tore off the sacking and in
spccted his prize. 1t was his old desk
that he had sold a few days before for
SS.5O.-Worcester Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
The Tide Ran AMaH.

The humorist had been tied hand
and foot and dashed to pile that pro-
jected Il dozen or more feet above the
water at low tide.
He had dared to perpetrate an orig
inal joke, and the Photographers Anal
gamated union had decreed his death.
In vain he wriggled.
The cruel waters We're rising beneath
him. The tide was coming in.
I'm afraid lie murmured as he
looked down and noticed that the little
waves were tapping ut his shoe-'I'm
afraid that one tied viii not affect the
other" And lie laughed harshly.
Anyway" he added a moment later,
'I'll stick to my post"
The tide rose faster. 1t was at his
knee, his waist, his elbow, his neck,
Just as it reached his chin he gave
one final glance across the sparkling
waves and muttered:
well, it seems to be up to me now"
Whereupon the tide turned and ran
out.
He was saved.-CIeveland Plain
Dealer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
4 Valuable TrGckload

Perhaps as costly a commodity as
any that is carried in considerable
quantities in truckloads is Sumatra to-
bacco, such as is used for cigar wrap
pcrs. Sumatra wrappers cost from
81 to 81 Il pound. and the import duty
on them is SIS Il pound. This tobacco
is imported in small, compact bales
weighing 40 or $50 pounds each. Duty
paid Sumatra would be worth about
5000 a bale. and there can be carried on
n truck fifty bales or more; so that a
30 bale trucklOad of such tobacco
would be worth about S3O,000.-New
York Sun
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
The DOOR That OPENS.
Times When 1t Sends the Colo Shfv-
ars Down Yong Back.

Ever sit" said Mr.. Goblinton, late
q. night alone in room, reading or
studying, everybody gone TO bed long
ago, the house, the whole city. quiet,
| and see presently across the table On
the other side of the room Il door open
ing slowly? That's hair raising ex-
perieuce. You don't know by what
means the knowledge that 1t was open
ing was first conveyed to you, but you
see it now, opening slowly and steadi-
~ and silently, and you get up and
grasp the chair i'll which you have
been sitting and stand up. with the
| table between you and him for fur
Their protection, and wait for him, but
he doesn't come.
''Then You go around TO the door. 1t
has stopped now and is standing dead.
1t yields with no resistance except that
of its own weight when you open IL
wider, and, holding TO it, you look
around the door jamb into the han.
Silence there, perfect and complete:
nobody there; those were ghoStly fin
gers, if any, that turned the knob.
And so you shut the door securely and
go back to your reading.
Presently you find the door open
vacancy about it, and now you realize
what it all means. The back of the
catch bolt that you turn with n knob
Is worn off 4 little, rounded, or the
metal frame around the socket into
which the bolt enters may be worn. or
both. Or it may be the door has
shrunk or the jamb has drawn away
from it. so that only the tip end of the
bolt catches in the socket and has 4
constant tendency to work free. The
slightest shaking or jarring starts it,
and gradually it works itself clear of
the socket and then, if it happens to
be hung just so, the door slowly opens.
land there you are, and it is all very
simple when you come to know about
It, but it's never altogether agreeable.
You never really get used to the door
that opens. "-New York Sun
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
To Get n Vacuum.

Professor Dewar's achievement in liq-
uefying hydrogen has led 10 the dis
covery of an easy method for obtain
ing an almost perfect vacuum, and
that in n single minute. When n glass
tube, filed with air and closed at one
end, has its open end dipped into a cup
of liquid hydrogen, the intense cold
condenses the air into n kind of snow
which settles TO the bottom. If, then,
the upper part of the tube, from which
the solidified air has fallen, is removed
by heating and sealing it off, it be-
comes a vacuum chamber so free from
air that it is difficult to force an cleo
trio current through it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
strong Bank Notes.

Bank of England note that burning
can hardly destroy it. The authorities
have in a little glazed frame the re-
mains of a note which was in the
great fire of Chicago. Though CON-
pIetely charred and black, the note is
sufficiently legible TO establish its gen
uineness and be cashed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
ParadoxicaI.

Doctor" said the patient who runs
to useless philosophical contempla-
tons, ''ague, it appears to me, is one
Of natures contradictions"
How soy
1T gives you the fake and yet it
stays right with you.'-Detroit Free
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
EddysfOne.

The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that on which the Eddystonc
lighthouse stands. At low water it is
80 feet in diameter. At high water
the lighthouse. whose diameter at the
base is 2S2i feet. completely covers it
1t is inhabited by three persons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
Their Annrecfation.

The transforming crew had not eat
en- for two days and two nights. Sud-
denly the eldest soubrette appears
with n quantity of eggs
Where did you get them:" breath
lessly inquired the heavy man.
Il got them for Il mere song" she
replied. And it was even so. She fur
nished the song and the audience fur
nished the eggs.-Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29

"Get OUT commanded her father.
Don't let me ever see you here again
Very WELL" replied the confident
young man ''Your daughter can tell
you the nights 1 am to call. and you
can arrange to be out until l leave
Philadelphia North American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
The Ink Plant.

The juice of the ink plant, which can
be used rs ink without any prepare
ton, comes out on the paper at first a
red color. but after a few hours it
changes to black
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29

German postoffice employees are not
permitted to marry without the special
permission of the government
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29

The entire collection of coins and
medals in the British museum consists
OF nearly 100000 specimens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
Bent of His Industry.

Mrs. de Cohen-l hear you've got &
very industrious husband.
Laundress-Ies, mum; he's always
finding something for me to do.-Balti-
more Jewish Comment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

|4HJCAGo, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC Rail
l. wsy-Tfckets can be purchased or oasGszt
checked AZ & P Twentieth street depot o.
q HId ds-,nt, corner Fifth sEEuue Gns Thirty
trEt street, Frank u PlurIraer, Agent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29

u OCK leland 4 PEORIA RAILWAY
X DeDot First Avenue and twentieth stree
K stockhouse, GenT Tiki Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-29
TRAlNS.

Passerger trs!rs leave c RI a CHcIir,
ayenue) depot five 90 Minutes earlier than TIM
given. Trains marked cEily, eli other train
daily excsEt 5UndHy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
veR0EN NEe.

Rev. G. Sutton visited his sister, Mrs. N.
G. Norton, Tuesday.
Joseph Panton of Lowell, Mass, is visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leger Panton.
A. d. Vittum and son, Master Willie, went
to Westport to assist the Port Henry band at
the fair.
Hon. Warren Peck, side Judge of Addison
county, and wife are spending week in
Burlington.
Miss Martha Gngras and Miss Belle Gin
gras of Rutland, who have been visiting Mrs.
Samuel Allen, returned home Monday.
Miss Elite Morse, former assistant prin-
cipal of the graded. school, was married to
Charles l.. IIascock at Newfane Sept. O.
Raymond Caisse, who had been taking his
vacation in and around Montreal, has returned
and resumed his work for George w. Ross.
Postmaster n. II. Breckenridge and daugh-
ter, Miss Lena, of Vermontvle, n. Y, are
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Newell
Breckenridge.
p. Chevalier will soon sever his relation
with T. Neville, and his place will be taken
by George c. Ross formerly with Norton,
Warner & Co.
Miss Anna L. Harris of Boston has been
engaged to give an entertainment consisting
of reading and rectations in the Methodist
Episcopal church Friday evening, Sept. ~.
A quiet wedding was had at the residence
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ianniman Tuesday at !,
m M, the occasion being the marriage OF
their only daughter, Miss Margaret IIanni-
Irban, to George c. Ross, Rev. K. X. Davies off
dating. Only few intimate friends were pres
| dnt. The newly married couple took the
Id clock train for their bridal tour. On their
Rrfturn they will make their home in Vef
hpAnnes. u
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15

Scion Burroughs of Vergennes met
with an experience last Friday that he
does not want to have repeated. Mr..
Burroughs has some fresh meat in the
cold storage building .of NJ. T. Bristol.
He went in the room with Bristol after
some of it and was left there and
accidentally locked! in. He called for
help, and tried to batter down the door.
Every minute he was getting colder.
He exercised TO keep himself warm, but
it was of no use, as he had on crash
suit. He said he was suffering intense
pain all the while. Finally he discovered
pane of glass in the room, which he
broke and then commenced to call for
help. Ernest Gaupyea finally heard him
and went to his rescue. He notified
Bristol, who at once unlocked the door.
When Burroughs came out he said he
felt sleepy and from all indications was
on the point of freezing. He said he
never suffered with the cold so much in
his life. The temperature is cold enough
to freeze meat in "a hours time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
WEST CORNWALL

G. D. Barber went to Philadelphia on the
recent excursion.
Miss Emily Ellsworth of Salisbury was in
town on Tuesday.
Charlotte Lucas has again been confined to
her bed, but is some better.
Miss Anna NJ. Bingham has returned to her
school work in Bennington.
Mrs. Abbie Searle has lately visited at A. F.
Ellsworth's in West Salisbury.
Mrs. Rollin Lucas and children of Whiting
have recently visited at II. A. Moody's.
Mrs. Albert Pastene and children returned
to their home in Boston, Mass, on Tuesday.
Lucien W.. young son of Mr.. and Mrs H. w.
Bingham, has been quite sick for more than
a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Clark of Addison
have been recent guests Of Mr. aul Mrs. NJ. f.
Twtchell.
c. l.. Sowle was home over Sunday He
went from here to Danny for a day or so
before returning to Groton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abner Smith of Chicago came
last week for visit at Mrs. P. y. Binghams.
Miss Taft of Brooklyn, n. Y, has also been
there as guest of Mrs A. w. Bingham.
Chicken thieves relieved coop of its eight
Plymouth Rock chicks Wednesday night,
belonging to Edgar Sanford All are sorry
to have such a thing happen. No one sup
posed any of that sort of people lived about
here
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
The Country Doesn't Like 1t.
LChicagO Advance.

The proposition to organize an anti
imperial political party may not take a
very serious hold upon the country.
But 1t may as we'll be admitted that the
Philippine question is causing trouble of
heart to many good people. 1t is clear
that some of the reasons urged for the
subjugation of the Fillpinos do not com.
mend themselves to the righteous
sentiment of the country. The argument
that the possession of the islands is
necessary TO the expansion of our COM
merce in the East is one of them. A war
of conquest for the sake of trade is not
a iustifiable war, and everybody in
America knows it. Killing Filipinos in
order to make market for our manu-
facturers or to open gate to China is
not business which will go down in a
land filled with churches and teeming
and heaming with benevolent institutions
and philanthrOpies.
And no better Is the argument that the
war is necessary to Americas new role
AS world power. In legitimate way
we would all like to see America a
world power, but not on the basis of the
conquests of pagan Rome. We have
reached too high moral plane to drop
back to the level of the world before
cduc. we must nave some
other reasons for swallowing up the
weak than Just to expand and rule.
Make much of this idea that we are to
overrun the world and we will soon be
reaching out for Mexico and South
America.
Bad as both of these arguments are,
they are at the bottom of the majority of
the speeches and articles In defense of the
Philippine business. The fact that they
do not satisfy the conscience of the
country is the cause of much of the
growing restlessness and dissatisfaction
regarding the matter.
The argument that the Filipinos are
not capable of self-rule and need a
governor is somewhat better, but needs,
like homeopathic medicines, to be taken
in very small doses. For there are a
great many millions of brown people In
the world, and all the tropics are full of
scantily clothed people. If we are TO set
about governing all of them in the in
terests of civilization and more garments
and morals, we shall have our hands full.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
Interestinglsurgical Operation.

Peter Garrow, aged 26 years, of New
Haven, while at work in Bristol last
December fell from scaffold. Three
days after the fall he was completely
paralyzed from the waist down, which
lasted until he was taken to the Fanny
Allen hospital and was operated upon
the 23d of August. The operation con-
sisted of the removal of the rear parti-
ton consisting of two sections of the
spinal column, exposing about three
inches of the spinal cord. 1t was found
that a piece Of one of the vertebrate
pressed against the spinal cord, causing
the paraly sis. The membrane covering
the cord was opened and quantity of
fluid removed. Mr.. Garrow was In a
critical condition for several days, but is
now considered to be out of danger and
the operation seems likely to prove sue
cessful, as sensation is returning and he
is now able to turn over in bed, which he
had not been able to do since the injury.
He was kept under an anaesthetic for
two hours while the operation was being
performed. The case is an interesting
one from surgical standpoint and is be-
ing closely 'watched.-Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15


The month was started by golf
tournament, which began on Friday,
the first, and continued to the second.
Eight teams were entered, and 1t being
mixed foursome the play was arranged
to take two days. In the first round
Miss Mabel Louise Storm and George A.
Chapman won from Miss Ingalls, and
the Rev. Mr.. Curtis by two up and one
to play. Miss Cornwall and A. Chal
mers Charles'won from Miss Spies and
Ellsworth Cornwall by one up, having
had to play an extra hole to decide the
match. This undoubtedly was the
closest match of the whole tournament,
as neither side was able to get a lead of
more than one ,hole. Miss Sarah King
Peck and Francis F. Spies won from
Mr.. and Mrs. William d. Stewart by
three up and two to play. Miss Ad-
rienne B. Charles and Temple Bridgman
won from Miss Hutchinson and DR..
Abernethy by two up. In the second
round Miss Peck and Mr.. Spies won
from Miss Storm and Mr.. Chapman by
default, and miss Charles and Mr..
Bridgman won from Miss Cornwall and
Mr.. Charles by three up aud two to
play. On Saturday morning the final
round was played and resulted in
victory for Miss Peck and Mr.. Spies
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15
500 REWARD 500

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing Its work. The proprietors
have much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that IL fails 10 cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address, F. j. CHENEY Il CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Hairs FAMILY Pills are the best.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15

All the great marine parades are not
arranged to make holiday. The great
est ever seen anywhere in this country
was wholly involuntary. "A big ore boat
was sunk in the st. Mary's river last
week Tuesday, blocking all the immense
traffic between Lake Superior and the
lower lakes. 1t was not removed until
Sunday, and in the meantime over 200 of
the largest craft flying the American
flag were "held up" When the obsrruc-
ton was cleared away, a procession of
boats was formed in order of arrival,
making line over forty miles in length,
and steamed down the river.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15

over Miss Charles and Mr.. Bridgman by
three up and two to play.
On Sunday, the third, MIR. Curtis again
conducted the service In the music hall
and Miss Peck sang during the offertory.
On Monday night Mrs. Spies gave a
progressive heart party, and first and
second prizes were given to both men
and women; and as a sort of consolation,
BOBBY prizes were given to those having
the most hearts.
On Thursday general exodus to
Middlebury took place, as a number of
the guests were. leaving and others ac-
compaDied them to the station to bid
them farewell. Seventeen of the Bread
Loafers took dinner at the Addison
House that day, and out of this number
Mrs. Geo. Chapman, Mrs. Herring,
Miss Peck, Mrs. de LISA, Mrs. Van
Biel, Miss Charles, Mr.. Charles and
Percy Chapman took the train for New
York.
On Saturday night a vaudeville was
arranged by Mrs. Walker and the pro-
gram read as follows:
BREAD LOAF VAUDEVILLE TRoUP.
Directress, Nine. Keith (Mrs walker)
Musical Directr, ss, Nine. Cornwallini MRS.
CornwalD.
Accompanies, Nine. d. Angri mrs. Spies).
Announcer, Count Forgetsky IF. F. Spies).
Illuminator Sienor Flash (Mr Bryson).
Attendants, The Twins IT. Bridgman and f
COrnwalD.
Introduction of Nine. Keith and her young
pupil Miss Kutz).
Song, Count Wentzini (Mr. wentz)
Bellamy Dance by the NJ isses Ingalls,. Hutch
inson. Comstocs, NJ. Storm, g. Spies,
Cornwall and the two Mi sses Fenner.
Mother and son, Mrs. Bridget O'Roon and
Johnny Mrs. Allis and Mr.. Wentz).
/ Stories, Count Forgetsky.
Song, Sgnor Turnlplni (Mr. Wentz).
Selected Reading, by little girl, her first ap
pearance (Mrs. Allis).
Dinah Miss Gondolita Washington and
George (wiss Spies and MIR. Wentz).
Declaration, The Wooden Armed Mans rem.
dering of "a Little Peach in the Or
chard Grew" (Nr. Wentz).
St. Lucia, Whisting Solo, signorita Peanutti
- Miss Walker).
Cfar 1pd ary hy Euar du
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-15

1t may well be questioned whether we
should have civilization and morals
enough to go around. For, If we can
RELY upon the news columns of the daily
press, we are still some " hat in the raw
ourselves. And IL we are to make new
possessions something other than the
prey of political spolsmen, we must
thoroughly establish the civil-servIce
system. But unfortunately we have re-
Gently been moving Ia the opposite
direction.
Then again, the argument has so long
been used to Justify all sorts of tyran-
MES, political and ecclesiastical, that we
may well stand in doubt of 1t. Great
Britain did not think that our forefathers
could govern themselves.
Emperor William does not think that
the German people can govern them
selves. The largest church in Chrsten-
dom thinks that the people cannot even
be trusted to read the Bible alone. The
Catholic bishop who put communion Of
GOO people out of the church the other
day thought that they did not know how
to govern themselves. 1t Is a way that
all the infallible people have, but it is a
way very strange to Americas manner
of thinking.
The desire to spread Christianity,
which has also been urged as a reason
for an aggressive policy, is commend
able, but the method Is new and so far
does not work satisfactorily. No doubt
our kind of Christianity would be a
great Improvement on what the Filipinos
have had at the hands of the friars, but If
we must kill them in order to get them
to hold still long enough to preach II to
them the drawback is serious. Cortez
conquered and converted the Mexicans
as he went, but that does not seem to be
our forte, thank the Lord. Our better
way, demonstrated in a hundred success
full missionary fields. has been to go in
peace and preach In love.
But there is an argument for the war
which has great force with the Ameri-
can people. and that is. that we are in it..
1t is safe to say that If we had it to do
over again we would not be In 1t. Being
in it the country does not want to get
out of it with discredit or loss of
prestige. But it wants to get out; and
every time it reads such an article as
that on the Filipinos in the August
number Of Harpers it wants TO get out
more than ever. Our hearts have been
too long trained 10 sympathy for the
weak and oppressed not to be stirred by
such history.
That the situation is a difficult one
must be admitted. but inasmuch as it is
not satisfactory TO the country from a
moral point of view or to the army from
military point of view, it ought to be
found possible speedily to improve it.