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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Silks.

20-inch fancy silks, regular price
39G, for this sale, per
yard. -. -. csc
20-inch figured satins, good
assortment to select from,
regular price soc, for this
sale. 49,. .... 80. 45c
2O-inch striped taffetas, good
values at 1925, for this sale
per yard. zoe
22-inch corded and striped taf- (
feta, regular price $l.39, for
this sale, per yard ~,.... csc
2i-inch black satin duchess,
regular price $1.15, for this {
sale, per yard. ........ soc
24-inch black taffetas, regular
price $3.50 per yard, for this
sale, per yard. .............SI.2 5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18
Black Dress Goods.

42-inch wide vale cheviot, regular
price 75c, for this sale per
Priestley's famous black dress goods,
in fancy designs, former price
1925 and 81, for this
Sdle. Z5C
5i-inch black cheviot (sponged and
shrunk) good value for $1.15,
for this sale, per yd ..... S5C
54-inch black camel's hair, so much
in demand for this season for
this sale. ... 81 40
Priestley's waterproof cravcnette, in
soliele and prunellas, per yd,
$1.75, $3.50, $1.39, $1.25. -. ST. 90
(They shed rain.)
Priestlev's new fall black crepons, n
big assortment to choose from,
every yard guaranteed to be per-
fectly satisfactory to the wearer,
s2.75. $3.50. 1926, $1.98,
$1.75, $3.50. ............S IS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

(OiOTSQ HECSS OCOdSs
Double fold plaids for school wear,
good value at 1Sc, for this
SAFE. -...,- I&3C
36-inch all wool ladies' cloth, in black,
navy, myrtle, brown and cardinal,
regular price 35c, for this
sale 25C
40-inch brocaded novelty dress goods,
former price soc, for this
sale, per yard .............. CSC
42-inch cheviot in navy, brown and
cardinal, regular price 75c.
for this sale, per yard. soc
3S-inch pebble cloth, in all the new
colorings, regular price 75c,
for this sale, per yard 49,. $50
46-inch cheviot. in all the popular
grays, for this sale, per
yaru. ........... .......... ZSC
52-inch habit cloth, in all the new
fall colorings, for this sale
per yard. .............. LIS
52-inch grey camel's hair for
separate skirts. for this sale I..35
Plaids are very popular this season
and we are showing a fine assort-
ment at $1.65. S1.20. Csc,
75c. 45c and .. Csc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

DOmeSffCS.
l 800 yards fancy tenAis lannels
from 3 to 20 yards lengths.
buy what you want, per yard DC
1000 yards plain tennis do
mestic flannel, good value,
per yard, only. .......... sc
% cases, $500 nice. clean cot
ton battin, for this once. &c
New comforter prints. beautiful
patterns, per yard, &C, &c and sc
Extra twilled cotton flannel
32-inch width, at ...... 79c
Apron check ginghams. sc
A No. 1 German worsted l.
ply knitting yarn per
pound -....... 49,. $50
Best Germantown yarn per
Best Saxony yarn, per skein... SC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-18

The position of the newspaper cor
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
oar vsorst FauIt.

Undoubtedly the tongue is the most
trying member of the body, but it seems
reasonable that an endeavor to rule the
tongue should meet with partial success.
All, no doubt, check the hasty word some
times, especially directly after making
New Years resolutions, and most of us
use some discretion in talking about our
~neighbors. But our besetting sin is in ex-
pressing ourselves too freely. We are all
~opinionated, and we want everybody to
know just what we think about every
thing, so we talk indiscriminately about
this and that and cheaper, all we say by
saying too much.
A few terse sentences on any N subject
by the person of habitual conservatism in
the entire opinion of some voluhle indi-
vidual. Moreover, we hurt ourselves and
others nearly every time we give free rein
to our speech. Familiarity breeds con-
tempt, we are told, and the more we talk
the more familiar others become with our
inner selves. and ordinarily the lower we
sink in their estimation. We hurt others
by talking of them and their affairs, be-
cause we often give things a false color
Ing, though this may be inadvertenG.
The more a thing is talked of the more
twisted it is apt to become.
If We realized at the time what we know
to be true on ref1ection-i. O., the fact that
our lightest words are often repeated and
also misconstrued until we could not rec
ognize them as our own were they to come
back to us, we should think twice before
talking too freely, even on matters that
concern only ourselves. -Housekeeper.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
DonaId,s story.

The mostes' fun you've ever seen
Is jurnpin roun' the great big screen,
An 'tendin scare an sayin "booi"
At Rob an Rolly peekin froo,
An men they jump like anythin
An shake an s~queal's loud as they kin.
An men we does it all ag'in.
Gertrude an me we scareS the boys.
Today we made the mostes' noise
Dur mamma fought she'd look an see
What fearful rackit at could be,
An-what you think-she coined an seen
Us all a-playin WV her screen,
An seen US scare, Gertrude an mel
When she coined out from back of me
We 'us jes' still, 'cept Bob sez, "Geeis
We felt s. foolish, cuz we seen
AT didn't like her screen
AL hauled aroun' an mebbe tore
Guess we won't play that game no more.
It's lots of fun, but it don't pay
To treat our mammals screen that way,
An men sit still a half a day.
Robert, he says we got too gay,
An Rowland says we'd better play
Some game wivout no fancy stuff
Jes' play wiz furn'chur ATS tough,
An Gertrude says the bestes' plan
Is play we're all a growed up man,
An be the very best we can.
Marie Nelson Lee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
Chemical Prints.

Here is a way to take a picture in the
dark: Draw a picture on a piece of paper,
using sulphate of quinine in making the
outlines. Expose the paper to the sun for a
few minutes, then place the paper face
down on a piece,of sensitive paper, lke
that used by photographers, and place the
two sheets between the leaves of a book.
If the sheets are removed from the book a
few hours later, you will find that an exact
reproduction of the drawing will have
been impressed On the sensitive paper. De-
signs of any sort can be cop.edin this way,
or you may trace over a printed picture or
design with sulphate of quinine, and by
the same process produce a faithful copy of
the print. Try it.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
Magic Writing.

Present q person with a slip of paper, a
pan and a tumbler of water and desire
him to dip the pen into the water and
write down whatever he pleascs.
When Cry, the words will be invisible,
but if the paper is immersed 10 the con-
tents of the tumbler, the writing will
make its appearance quite distinctly.
To perform this the pen should be a
quill one and new, and the water in the
tumbler should have one or two crystals
of s~ulphate of iron (green yitrioD previous
ly dissolved in it, while the writer should
ho careful the pen does not get dry in use.
When the writing has been executed,
the tumbler should be taken away, ON pre-
tense of the water being rather dirty and
wanting changing. Another similar tum-
bier is brought back, filed to the same
height with water, in which % few drops
of tincture of gals nave been poured.
When the paper is immersed in this, the
writing will quickly appear.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
GOWDY'S CLEAN CHIN.
The Hirsute sacrifice of Our Consul
General In Paris.

The Hirsufe Sacrifice of Our Consul
General In Paris.
The bunch of whiskers which gave to
j. K. Gowdy, United States consul
general to Paris, the unearned and I'M
deserved reputation of being a shay
seed is no more. The ruthless hand of
an alien barber has swept clean the
diplomatic chin, and Uncle Sans rep
resentative in the French capital now
wears a face as smooth as that of EN-
bassador Choate or Robert G. Ingersoll.
When President Mckinley appointed
Mr.. Gowdy consul general two years
ago, the paragraphists and c~artoonists
seized-metaphorically of course-upon
the chin whiskers Of the new diplomat
with shouts of glee. He was called a
farmer from Indiana" and it was in
timated that his "Hoosier wind break
ers'' would add to the gayety Of Paris.
Unfortunately a whole lot Of people
took these pl~easantries in earnest, and
many still Believe that this nation is
represented in the French capital by an
awkward, unrefned backwoodsman.
AS a matter of fact Mr.. Gowdy is
nothing of the sort. He is the most
popular American in Paris. He has of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
Hebrews a T1sn.

Concerning the alleged fondness of
the Jews for fish, The American Hebrew
says: SIN the middle ages the Jews,
for the most part, denied their religion
to those about them and practiced it in
secret. Openly they lived a Christian
life apparently-they had to, if they
would cxist-andA as those about them
abstained from meat on Friday they
perforce did likewise and partook large
II Of sea food, which the Jewish house
wife learned to prepare to perfection
The use Of fish on Friday became a Gus
tom with them. and, like other ingram
ed customs, was kept up when the NOV
ing cause had long passed away.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

Constitution, in Portsmouth harbor, his
Father, Lieutenant William A. Winder,
was then in the Third artillery and sta
toned there at that time. His maternal
grandfather was Governor Ichabod
Goodwin of New Hampshire, whose
daughter married Admiral Dewey.
Lieutenant Winder is a man of wide
culture, great versatility and ability,
and is not only an exemplary son, but
it has often been remarked by his de-
voted and admiring mother that she
has the sweetest nature in the world"
That he stands well in his profession
and is regarded as a most able and ac-
complished officer can readily be recog-
nized by the honors that have come to
him through his own merit.
He was appointed from New Hamp-
shire and entered the Naval academy in
1859, made a midshipman 1879, COM
missioned ensign 1874, master 1880,
lieutenant ljunior grade) 1888, lieuten-
ant 1886. His present duty dates from
December, 1896.
He was on the Marion (scuth Allan
tic), cruising, 1899, when the ship
took yellow fever at Rio, and the crew
were encamped several weeks on Flores
island, Montevideo. Toward the end of
the cruise the ship rescued the crew of
the bark Trinity, wrecked at Heard's
island, south Indian ocean, and also
rendered important service by hauling
off a large British ship ashore near Cape
Town.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

civilized country there arepeace leagues
and peace societies. But the congresses
have been meetings of enthusiasts who
lacked authority of all kinds while their
sessions have ended merely in the ex-
preston of sentiments, not in the franz
Ing of any definite policy which they
bad the power to execute.
The first peace society started almost
simultaneously in America and Eng
land, about 1912 Or 1914. DIR. Noah
Webster, in Boston, was the first writ
or on peace topics in the United States
AS a consequence of his teachings The
Harbinger Of Peace was founded in
1928.
Three years later The Calumet fol-
lowed. and in 1885 the first number of
The Advocate of Peace left the press in
Boston This paper is still in existence
as the official organ of the American
Peace society, being the mother Of the
international association, styled Uni
versal Peace union.
Alfred Fl. Love of Boston, editor Of
The Peacemaker, is president of the
Universal Peace union, and this society
works hand in hand with the National
Woman's Christian Temperance union,
the Pacific Arbitration society, the
American Peace society, the Christian
Arbitration and Peace society, in Phil
adelphia, and with the Quakers and
Mennonites. It's principal branches are
in the states of New York, Ahode Is
land, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Among its Iiterarylights have been and
are now such men and women as John
g. Whittier, Andrew Peabody, Charles
Sumner, Robert T. Winthrop, Julia
Ward Howe and others.
These societies, backed by their
friends in Great Britain, exerted a GER
tain influence over the nations Of the
old world as long as half a century ago,
and upon their initiative peace societies
have sprung up in Italy, France, Swift
kerland and Belgium, in the Scandipa-
Fian kingdoms and in Austria.
Spain is the only civilized country
not represented in the international
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

The sentiment expressed by the hero
inc of a recent magazine story will find
a responsive chord in the hearts of
many women The woman in question
is a lover of china, and her most cher
ished possession is blue teapot Of great
beauty and great age. As she lies on
her dying bed she says to her daughter:
Nov read me that bit in Revelation
about the new city and harps and viols
and precious stones. / dare say if these
t~ranslators had been quite up to their
work some of those things meant pre-
cious china. But it doesn't matter; poor
men, they did their best. like to think
that there'n be that sort of things up
there. ! can appreciate them, you see,
having been used to them down here"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

of the United Italian Peace societies,
20 IN number.
But the czar of Russia is the first
ruler of any great nation to decrare
openly for peace. Soon we are to see
what effect his example is to have and
how much he can accomplish.
As a matter of fact it is certain that
the coming peace conference at The
Hague will result in no dsrect change
of the nations toward each other. The
enthusiastic persons who imagine that
the delegates will heartily indorse the
plan of the car and that as soon as
this is done disarmament will begin
are sadly deluded.
Although nearly all governments
have appointed delegates, it is quite
evident that the powers do not attach
any Importance to the conference. No
special delegates have been named.
Each government has merely assigned
its regular diplomatic representative to
look after the affair with much the
same ~nonchalance with which it would
tell him to attend the opening of a canal
or the founding of a state school.
1t is quite probable that the diplo-
mats may decide to agree in declaring
that universal peace would be avery
good thing for all peoples in the world
they might do that, and probably
would, without the formality of assem-
bling-but it is quite another thing to
stop work on warships and reduce
standing armies to mere skeletons OF
their present size. 1t may be that peace
recommendations may be made to the
various governments, but it does not
follow that the said governments will
not pigeonhole the said recommended
tions and promptly forget all about the
meeting at The Hague.
When Nicholas first issued his peace
proposition, it was received with much
.incredulity. The shrewd diplomats and
statesmen doubted his sincerity. This
doubt wa1 expressed by Kipling in rug
ged rhyme under the caption of s'The
Truce of the Bear, and the warning,
Make We no truce with Adam Fad, the bear
that walks like a man.
was an index to the attitude of Europe;
but Of late the statesmen have become
generally convinced that the car is
really sincere.
Nothing could be more sincere than
the peace note which was sent to all
governments as a formal announcement
of the czar's plan. 1t contains 10 I'M
reasonable proposals either. Instead of
asking for an immediate and general
disarmament, as was at first reported,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
Wit AND FIGHTER
About Admiral
Kautz, Who Is On
Deck In Samoa,
THRILLING ExPERIE Noes
How He Hauled Down
the Flag in New
Orleans.

Rear Admiral Albert Kautz, the
American naval officer who has been
dealing with the7 rebellious Sameans
and their German hackers SO vigorous
ly, is a good fighter and a man of calm
Judgment. When he clears his ship for
action, he means business, and when he
shells natives in. the woods it is because
he has good reasons for SO doing
At Annapolis he was the classmate
and chum of Admiral Dewey. During
the war with Spain Rear Admiral
Kautz was kept in the background by
being continued in command of the
naval station at Newport, but he was
recently assigned to the command of
the Pacific station and sent to Samoa.
Rear Admiral Kautz is an Ohioan
and is just so years old. He entered
Annapolis at the age of 30 and received
his promotion to lieutenant the week
after Fort Sumter was fired on. He saw
his first war duty on the blockading
steamer Flag.
One of the first prizes captured by
the Flag was the brig Hannah Balch,
which was trying to run a cargo of
molasses into Savannah. The young
lieutenant and five men were put on
the brig and ordered to sail to Phila-
delphia. But the Halch was caught off
Hatteras by a Confederate gunboat,
and Lieutenant Kautz was taken pris-
oner.
After being on parole in North Caro-
lima for two months he was taken to
Richmond and given his choice of en-
tering the Confederate navy or being
sent to the provost marshal. Rautz
chose the latter. but when ushered into
the presence of that officer was greeted
with the question, "Do you know why
you have been sent forf'
81 have not the faintest idea" was
the reply.
''To be put in a cell s feet bye s., fed
on bread and water and to be hang
ed in case they hang Lieutenant Hudg-
ings, one of our officers, who is now in
the Tombs in New York"
81 was captured at sea-" Kautz re-
piled, anger conquering his surprise. ION
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

STATES LOTTERY HOCSE, IdE dAGCE.
Nicholas merely requests the nations to
agree to stop charging their armies
and navies for five years and to consider
ways and means of settling interna-
tional disputes by arbitration.
His reasons for urging this step are
certainly sound. He points out that the
maintenance of great standing armies
and the building of constantly increas-
ing navies are sapping the strength and
life of national prosperity. He wants
the soldiers returned to work and the
treasure now spent on ships used for
public improvements that may benefit
the people. No mawkish sentimestality
about this, is there?
The czar INDUCED in g~eneralities. He
might have made his plea much stronger
had he given a few facts which certain
" were known to him. He could have
shown that Europe has now practically
upward of 18, 900, 900 armed men ready
to leap at each others threats, most of
whom have been withdrawn from peace
full pursuits and are spending the flower
of their strength tanning the fame of
military antagonism and ~cultiyating a
spirit of revenge, vainglory and blood
shed.
According to statistics compiled by
the British and Foreign Arbitration So
ciety, the annual expenditure of Eu-
rope on means of defense and aggres-
sion, including the interests on public
debts mainly incurred for the same pur-
pose, has risen in the last 80 years from
81, 900, 900, 600 to 50, 500, 600, 600.
In the same period the national debts
Of Europe have doubled. Gold has been
withdrawn from circulation and put in
the war chests of the nations, causing a
contraction of the circulating medium.
1.-THE enforced idleness of great portions
of the population through military serv-
ice has made millions of paupers' and
heaped up taxation to a height never
before endured in the worlds history.
Half a century ago Victor Hugo de-
clared that the time was near when the
last cannon would be dragged to the
museums, there to be exhibited as cu-
riosities side by side with old time in
struments of torture. 1t is true that
some of the cannon of SO years ago are
now in museums, but for every one SO
Withdrawn there are now ready for use
1000 others, each one a dozen times
more deadly than the old ones. Hugo
was far ahead of his time. Is the Ear
also, too early?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
THE BABY WENT TO BoytAND.

lie sat on my knee OF evening,
The boy who is half past three"
And the clear blue eye from his sun Drowned
face
Smiled happily up to me.
/ held him close as the twilight fell
And called him my dear little SON."
Then / said ~ have wondered for many days
Where it Is that my baby's gonei
fI'dsa baby once in a long white gown
Whom / rocked just as do you.
His hair was as soft as yellow silk,
And his eyes were like violets blue.
His little hands were like pink tipped flowers.
See, yours are SO strong and brown.
He has slipped away and Is lost, ] feur.
Do you know where my baby's gomez"
Did my voice half break as the thoughts would
come
OF the sweet and sacred days
When motherhood's first joys were mine?
Was a shade of regret on my facet
For close round my neck crept a sturdy arm,
And the boy who is "half past three
Said, ssThe baby-he went to Boyland,
And-didn't you know?--he's mel
Philadelphia North American.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10
REAR ADMIRAL ALBERT KAurz

board an unarmed vessel, was placed
ON parole, which / have violated,
and I demand that I be treated as an
officer and a gentleman, not as a felor
and pickpocket.
"You have been caught in bad COM
pany," was the answer, land must
take the consequences.
Kautz was sent to Castle Thunder
and was there found weeks after by a
former classmate. a southerner who had
in the meantime become an officer in
the Confederate service. This friend
went to jefferson Davis to Secure the
parole of Kautz. It was given only aft
er the friend had pledged his life that
Kautz would return If he could not ar
range for an exchange.
Secretary Stanton refused to grant
the exchange and urged Kautz, now
that he was out Of danger. to stay out.
saying that the Confederate officer in
the Tombs would surely be hanged as a
privateer.
Pardon me, Mr. Secretary" said
the young officer quietly, 'sbut this
matter of exchange is my business. I
have pledged my word of honor to re-
turn to Richmond at the end of so days
in case I am not exchanged. and if my
government does not exchange me I
shall most assuredly return.
And he would have gone back to
death at the end of a rope, too, had not
President Lincoln interfered and order
ed his exchange.
January found him a member of Far
ragut's staff on the fighting Hartford.
He commanded the first division of
great guns in the engagements with
Forts Jackson and st. Philip the Chal-l
mette batteries and the capture of New
Orleans. After the surrender of the city,
he was detailed to haul down the state
flag from tine city hall. The mayor
warned Kautz that the act would cost
him his life, but he did it.
Besides being brave Admiral Kautz
is witty. He has the reputation of be-
ing one of the wittiest men in the serv-
ice. One of the stories told of him con-
Germs his skill as an equestrian. Being
complimented upon his fine horseman-
ship. he replied
why shouldn't I ride wellS I have
a brother in the cavalry"
Two days later, in the presence Of
the man who had complimented him,
the admiral was thrown sprawling in
the middle Of the road. His friend
made haste to withdraw anything be
had said complimenting the admiral's
Workmanship and asked:
"What is the matter with that cav-
airy brother of yoarsf"
HE was transferred to the infantry
yesterday said the admiral.
The brother to whom Rear Admiral
Kautz referred was the late Brigadier
General Kautz, who served with dis-l
tinction in the .civil war.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-10

Did YOU ever thin. about the most use
full letter in the alphabet and wonder
what it is? Even though you should think
of it it might take you quite awhile to
study out the answer for yourself, so to
save time it is just as we'll to tell you at
the start. It is E, which is used 1870 times
to 90 times for T. which is second in popu-
larity. The relative Importance of all the
letters in the alphabet has been pretty ac-
curately agreed upon and q table of their
proportionate values is appended here
with: A, SO; B, 10; G, 80; D, Al E, 1870;
f, 25; G, II; H, "a; I, so; j, 4; Z, 8; L.
40; M, 80; N, 80; O, so; p, II; @, 5; r.
90; S, so; T, 80; U, 81; v, -; w, 90;
X, 4; Y, 20; q, 3.