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The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-16
An UninhabIted Parkh.

There is London parish which.
though its electoral list must always
be duly signed, does not contain a sin
gle inhabitant. This is the ancient
parish of st. Christopher-le-stock.
which extends over the open space in
front OF the Mansion house and the
Royal exchange, and includes the cor
nsr Of the Bank Of England. Gene
rations have elapsed since the parish
was anything more than the shadow
Of 4 name.
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-16
r.... Wild Hor.. and pr......

FeAss = Wild Horse and PresoAss,
William Mullen, the "broncho-bx,st-
ing evangelist, alternately taught
men the way to a better life and did
the rough rider act recently on the
lake front, Chicago. Two unruly mus
tangs, which heretofore had never
been harnessed. were brought forth
to test the preachers muscle, and in 4
short time surrendered to his roma
apparatus. Then the man who he-
lieves in muscular Christianity told
his hearers In three sermons how to
be good
The Grit-advocate., 1900-11-16

mile Of streets, and the existing mon
opoly is preparing to battle for its
life
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
LIVES BY KILLING WOLVES.
Nebraska Man Whose Only Occupn-
ton Is Destroying the
BruteE.

Peter \. Watson (''Wolf Watson'), Of
Omaha, Neb., draws salary from the
Nebraska Live Stock association to pay
him for putting in his entire time kill
ing wolves. He has reduced the wolf
census of the state so that he can kill
but 200 a year now. When he began
he killed 500 a year.
Watson's father, a famous hunter.
who shot buffGlo with Buffalo Bill on
contract to supply the Union Pacific
railroad builders with meat, was killed
in a wolf chase.
The son is now 55, as straight as an
Indian and famous rider He goes
from point to point where complaint is
made of wolves depredations, riding a
superb horse and accompanied by six
of his fine staghounds. Dogs and
horses run down the wolves in the open
prairie.
Then the training shows. A wolf
could kill one of Watson's dogs, but the
six show team work, and so divide the
animals attention that they are seldom
injured.
Upon his hunting trip Watson carries
only revolver, and seldom needs to
use even that. When he needs it, he
needs it badly, for though a wolf will
never attack a man so long as he might
run, hard-pressed wolf will sometimes
sell his life dearly.
Once big gray wolf jumped at Wat
son, clawing the flanks of his horse and
the riders right leg and hand Wat
son reached over with his left hand,
drew his pistol and fired four shots at
the wolf, but didn't harm the brute
much, as his horse danced about so as
to spoil his aim. Watson had but one
shot left. He put his pistol in the
VOLTS mouth and, at,the risk of blowing
off his own fingers. fired. That shot
finished the animal, after which the
bleeding man and horse had ten weary
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
WOMAN'S IDLE TEARS.
The Modern Heroine OF Fiction Is
No Longer n Weeping
WenkltnK.

What has become OF woman's tears,
idle tears? A cynical old bachelor late
" remarked in the hearing of woman
that he wondered what had become of
all the crying members of her sex. He
said that he had not seen woman cry
in some years, and that, so far as he
could see, there are just as many things
to cry over as there ever were, and lust
as many women. He did not object to
the absence of tears; he only wondered
about it.
This thing has received attentions of
various kinds before now. 1t was first
noticed in the novels. The young wom-
an in modern fiction does not do nearly
so much weeping as she used to do. To
be sure, she has not always so much
excuse for it. When a young lady was
carried away by fierce and determined
lover whom she did not want, and told
that unless she married him at once her
family and all her immediate friends
would be killed, there was really con-
siderable excuse for tears and swoons
on her part. This type of heroine flour
ished in the beginning of the present
century. She was followed by the hero
inc who cried as a child does to get
something she wanted--and usually
got it, if it happened not to be the moon
or anything equally unattainable.
Sometimes she was young lady of
religious predictions and shed tears
over the sorrows of others, or over her
own religious sentiments. 1t has been
estimated by careful statisticians that
Miss Ellen Montgomery, heroine of
THE Wide, Wide World" must have
shed at least five gallons, twoquarts and
0ne pint of tears in the course of her
adventures in two volumes. But the
young lady in the modern work of tic-
ton does not cry. If she is of a pas
sionate nature she now and then bursts
into a storm of sobs," but she does not
often do it, as old-fashioned people
would say, before folks" She is more
/ likely to preserve calm and more or
less uncomprehended silence. Another
/ type of modern heroine is the CHEEKY
girl who endures all her tribulations in
silence, or laughs about them, and is
the sunshine of the family circle while
her heart is secretly breaking. Unjust
be confessed that this type of young
/ lady would be considerably more to the
taste of the ordinary man than the old
! fashioned type Of fearful patience. The
mans woman"-courageous, gay, toll
Grant and reserved as to her private
feelings-is coming to the front in fic-
ton, and this ideal is decidedly worth
studying by the novel-reading girls of
to-day.-Chicago Chronicle.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
SAYING FAREWELL.
How 1t Is spoken and Acted by Per-
sons of Different Nation
nIity.

The Turk vii solemnly cross his
hands upon his breast and make a
profound obeisance when he bids you
farewell.
The genial Jap will take his slipper
OF as you depart and say, with a
smile: You are going to leave my
despicable house in your honorable
iourneying-I regard thee!"
The German "lebe wohl" is not par
ticuIarly sympathetic in its sound, but
it is less embarrassing to those it
speeds than the Hindoo's performances
who, when you go from him, falls in
the dust AT your feet.
The FIJI islanders cross two red
feathers. The natives of New Guinea
exchange chocolate. The Burmese
bend low and say: lib. Hib!"
The "auf wiedersehen" of the Aus
trians is the most feeling expression
of farewell.
The Cuban would consider his good
by anything but a cordial one unless
he was given a good cigar. The South
Sea islanders rattle each others whale
teeth necklace.
The Sioux and Blackfeet will at
parting dig their spears in the earth
as a sign of confidence and mutual es-
TEEN. This is the origin of the term
"burying the tomahawk."
In the islands in the straits of the
sound the natives at your going will
stoop down and clasp your foot.
The Russian form of parting saluta-
ton is brief. consisting of the single
word "praschai," said to sound like
sneeze. The Otaheite islander will
twist the end of the department
guests robe and then solemnly shake
his own hands three times.-Chicago
Evening News.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
QUEER COST MARKS.
Ten Letter Words and Phrases
Chosen as Secret Signs
A Custom That Has Disappeared In
the Great Retail Houses of
New York City Some
Odd Marks.

Among the old-time features which
are disappearing from the city stores
because of the modern methods is the
cabalistic cost mark which the mer-
chant once thought as indispensable as
the counter over which he sold his
wares.
The man who started business for
himself devoted many hours before he
made his first display of wares to ''mak-
ing up a cost mark. This had to be
unlike any other mark, and was, in
some instances, composed of ten hero
glyphics, often of transposed figures,
and more often of a word or two, the
letters of which could be used to eX
press figures. \ large wholesale con-
Germ in New York used the mark God
save u.s." and made up the tenth figure
with cross. Through this business
house the pious cost mark became
known all over the country. Clerks
from the establishment entered the
mercantile field on their own account
and took the cost mark with them, and
within few years it was in use in near
ly every state in the union.
Another cost mark which found many
admirers was MAKE profit" and this
was only trifle more popular than
Quick trade" "Johny Miles" served
as sign as well as a cost mark for one
concern, and one sentimental Irishman
who opened a linen store in New York
in the days when Niblo's garden was
"away up town" chose as his cost mark
my Bridget o."
When the campaign of 1860 was at its
height an ardent republican in Boston,
in whose store cost mark was in use
that had been invented by his grand
father, marked all his goods over in
order to use the mark, abe will win"
and this mark remained in use for years
| after ABE" had won the fight against
Douglas, Breckenridge and Bell, who
were all candidates against Lincoln
About that time the cost mark Hit
Douglas" was invented, and that and
Republican" are still in use in places
where plain figures have not superseded
the puzzle marks.
\ large dry goods house, which had
inc patronage Oh uunQFeQS OF pack, pas
ket and wagon peddlers, used as a cost
mark the words, "ReyOch Gilt" Yid-
dish phrase, which means, profit tells"
and the translation was also used by
the same concern.
These marks were useful" said the
manager of one of the large New York
dry goods stores, when houses had an
asking and taking price II those
days n man behind the counter had to
know what the goods cost to put on the
shelf so that he could regulate Himself
accordingly. An offer TO split the diff
ference when one price was asked and
another offered could be entertained
then, and statesmen were often com
PEELED TO shade prices. We viii do
this for you and It's the last of the lot
or We want to make customer Of YOU
were among the reasons given for com
ing down on prices; but all the time the
/ salesman had the cost mark before him.
and knew that he was on the safe side"
N. Y. Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24

"Your son-in-law tells me that there
is lot of money in the business in
which. he is engaged
~ should say there was. I've put
a lot of it in myself aud am willing to
pay liberal reward to anybody who
can help me get it out again. Chi
cauo Post
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
Good Oarsmen.

Seven japanese fishermen left Santa
Monica, Cal, in open, flat-bottomed
skiffs and rowed $50 miles in five days
without a mishap.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24
OverworISed Western Freight Crews.

Freight train crews on the Northern
Pacific recently tied up a division in
Montana for five hours while they OBJ
tanned needed sleep.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-02-24

But. weak as they were from loss of
blood, they took the wolf with them.-
Chicago Times-Herald.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
CONT KNOW HOW


s'To find that lack of knowledge oil
| now to properly feed ones self caused
me to serve ten long years as a miser-
able dvspeptic, is rather humiliating
| was a sufferer for that length OF
| time asd had become a shadow of my
natural self. / was taking medicine
all the time and dieting the best /
knew how.
'One day l heard of Grape-Nuts
food, in which the starch was pre-
digested by natural processes and that
the food rebuilt the brain and nerve
centers. knew that if nv nervous
system could be made strong and per-
feet, could digest food al right, so
started in on Grape-Nuts, with very
little confidence. for l had been dis
heartened for long time.
10 my surprise and delight, l
found was improving after living on
Grape-Nuts little while. and in three
months l had gained II pounds and
was feeling ike a new person. For
the past two years L have not had the
slightest symptoms sofindigestion, of and
am now perfectly well.
Il made a discovery that will be of
Importance to many mothers. When
my infant was two months old, l be-
gan to give it softened Grape-Nuts.
Baby was being fed on the bottle and
not doing well, but after starting on
Grape-Nuts food and the water poured
over it, the child began to improve
rapidly. is now a year old and very
fat and healthy and has never been
sick. Is unusually bright-has been
saying words ever since it was six
months old. / know from experience
that there is something in Grape-Nuts
that brightens up any one, infant or
adult, both physically and mentally"
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20

Second Baptist, Tenth street and Sixth ave
nue.. Services ~ IL 8. m. and p M
Swedish Baptist, corner OF Twenty rststreei
and Fifth avenue. Preaching at l0:15 .. IL
and 73O p. n by Rev. X RoSmarE-
First Methodist. corner OF Fifth avenue and
Nineteenth street. Rev. c. .. McCulloch.
pastor. Services at 1o:45 a. m and 80 . m
Morning subject. What Shall We Do With
Christi" @eveuing The tiSeat Salvation. "
2:3O D. m Epworth League at $50 p. N
German Methodist, corner of Sixth avenue
and Fourteenth street. Rev F. L LitZrodt
pastor. Services at 10:45 a. and 7:30 p. N
Sunday school at s:l5 a. m, J. j Helg, super
Lntendent- Epworth League At 4 Junior
League at p.
African Methodist, Fourteenth street aud
Fourth avenue Rev. c. H Thomas pastor.
Services at IL a. and 7:30 p. m Sunday
school at 1870 p.
Salvation Army Barracks 1909 Second ave
NJ, holiness meeting at 1890 u. N, christians
meeting a. =. u, salvation meeting at 7:30
p m
First Church OF Christ, Scientist, Twenty
third street between Seventh and Ninth ave-
nueS Services at l0:i5 a aud 7:30 d IN
Subject for both morning and evening. Ever
lasting Punishment Sunday school follows
the morning service. " Wedne Sday evening
meeting at 7:3O Reading rooms open every
Y.M @. A. building corner OF Third avenue
Reo-ganized Church ofJesuS Christ of Latter
Day Saints. Services a. 9O2 Third avenue
3 aud 1:30 p. Afternoon subject. Hebrew
Prophecy and It's f'ulfillment: evening. 'I'rim-
tive Faith as Interpreted by New Testament
Writers, Sunday school at p.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
MILAN MUSINGS.

Milan. Oct. 19.-Mrs. G. II. Honens
is visiting friends in Davenport.
Willis Stacker, of Atalissa. Iowa, is
visiting among friends in Milan.
Miss Lulu Lam bert returned Mon
day after spending week with Mrs.
w. Livingston at Peoria.
IL. Benton Honens left for Crab
Orchard. Neb, after spending three
weeks in Milan.
William Tenges left Monday for
Danville, H., as a delegate to the X.
of z. convention.
A democratic rally will be held in
Milan Saturday evening. A big time
is expected. Late cars will be run to
Rock Island. Hon. z. w. Hurst and
S. K kenworthy will speak.
A car load of fruit trees from j. X.
Henby & Son, of Greenfield. Ind, ar
rived in Milan Wednesday.
Miss Nina Gilmore spent Wednes-
day in Rock Island.
ID. K. South has q new mail wagon
for his rural free delivery route.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20

Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in l to 3
days. Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at once the cause and the dis
ease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. IS cents.
Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901 Second
avenue, Rock Island; Gustave Schle-
gel & Son, 220 West Second street,
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20

eiy New York hearing later in the
season. The company has also been
enlarged and strengthened and in
eludes Harry Davenport. Tom Rick
etts, Knox Wilson, William Riley
Hatch, Laura joyce Bell, Edith Yer
riBgtnn, Lillian Coleman, Josephine
Newman, Luella Drew. Josephine
Dit. and numerous others of equal
e ninence.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
STORIES OF THE STAGE.


Tomorrow night Harper's theatre
will be lighted u for show that will
make the gallery gods" heart
thump happily to say nothing of the
better groomed and older bead
That much talked of show. Railroad
Jack" which has been going at live
" pace in the eastern cities for sew
cral seasons. will have it's first pres
entation here. The company include'
Miss Madelon Caufman. Marie Hill
1iker, Bessie Primrose, John B. Max,
James DeNoyer, Ralph Arthur, w. S.
Lackayer, j. NJ. Gray, Gus Kapier. k.
q. Caufman- The great ragtime trio,
the Manhattan comedy four and the
Empire quartet will be on hand TO
help along a Jolly bill arranged by
X. G. Caufman for laughing pur-
poses to please the faithful In the
front rows the music is of the Iingling
kind. the dances rattle and the jokes
can be stamped 1900.
Tomorrow evening the popular ia
vorites, David + Higgins and Georgia
Waldron. will be seen in their new
play. Counting at Green's" at the
Burtis in Davenport. The principal
character is a young inventor named
Darius Green. To save the eyesight
of little boy, whose sister he loves,
Darius makes a sacrifice of all his
worldly means and prospects to an
Unscrupulous adventurer that he may
get the money for costly operation.
This man, Allan WoOdford, wishes to
marry the same girl, Evelyn Blair,
ard takes advantage of Darius Obli-
cations and his own ample means TO
gain his end. As Evelyn Blair, Miss
WaldrOn is au admirable foil to Oar
ius, and it is said the emotional
strength of the part is well brought
ont by her in several scenes of great
strength, notably the close of the in
tensely drama attic third act. Mr.. Hig-
gins promises an eD tirely new compa-
ny and an elaborate scenic produc-
ton.
The merry melange Of wit, beauty |
and song, ''The Burgomaster," has
outlasted 125 record-breaking per-
formances in Chicago. When it was |
produced. it was hoped that it might
attract sufficiently to pay the running |
expense of the theatre during the |
summer but like the hen that laid
the golden egg, The BurgOmaster"
was the biggest kind of financial
and artistic success; and instead of
arousing but partial interest, it be-
came the town talk, and more of it's
musical numbers have struck the
fancy of the street whistlers, than
any work of this kind recently given
in the windy city" TIE company is
"a large ono and tho scenprv and cos- |
tunes are all new; in fact. it is said,
a more beautiful and costly outfit will
be seen at the Burtis Monday night
than was presented in Chicago, as the
intends to give the COM
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
TO Stop u Cold.

After exposure or when you feel a
cold coming on, take dose of Foley's
Honey and Tar. 1t never fails to
stop cold if taken in time. Take
nothing else. For sale by al drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
BOWLING BREEZEs.

Bowling, Oct. 1S.-Jacob Gitt. OF
Sears, spent Friday with Mrs. Mary
Gitt, of Black Hawk.
c. b. Ellis went to AIedo on bust
ness Tuesday.
The rally held at the Presbyterian
church for the benefit of foreign mis-
sionary work was a fine success.
Mrs. Alice Howe and Carver Ben
nett Sundayed with Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Heath.
Mrs. Albert Hudson and son Frank
visited in Milan Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hudson visited
the county seat Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Young were in
Rock Island Saturday.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20

For sprains, swellings and lameness
there is nothing so good as Cham ber-
lain's Pain Balm. Try it. For sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus., 1900-10-20
Silk Department.


so pieces 27-inch all silk taffetas in
black, tan, old rose, helitrope,
castor, purple, gray. etc, good
value at $139 a yard Satur- QEc
day, per yard. ............O w"
so pieces 24-inch Peau De Sole silks
in black, also all colors, we'll worth
$l:S9 yard Saturday last 95C
5000 yards fancy waist silks, in
cords, stripes and new crepe effects,
in all colOrs of brown, pink, tan,
gray, lavender, ETC., never sold less
than $3.50 per yard, Satur- QOc
day only, per yard. ......... w"
25 pieces all-silk satin duchesse, "a
inches wide, an extra good value, at
$1.19 per yard, Saturday 7En
only, per yard ............. w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-13
Demand for Fish Scales in France.

Consul Covert writes from Lyons, under
date of December %:
"A call has been made at this consulate
for fish scales, to be used in the manufac-
ture of artificial pearls and other orna-
ments by the recently discovered method
of a French chemist. The supply is much
less than the demand, and it is said that
large quantities will be used and a good
price paid for them. The scales should be
sprinkled with salt as soon as they are
removed from the fish and packed in tin
cans. Any specimens sent to this cousu-
late will receive careful examination, and
the results. with any suggestions that NAV
be made and particulars of prices offered.
Will be duly reported 1t is believed here
that the sale of these scales may result in
establishing an important business in an
article that now has no commercial yalue -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-13
The Cranberry Industry.

cranberry growers who have received spe-
cial schedules from the census Office re-
garding their industry and have not filled
them out and returned them to the office
to do so at their earliest convenience. In
case any cranberry grower has not received
such a schedule, it will aid the census Of
fice If he will report that fact in writing,
addressed to the census office, Washington
If he does so schedule will he sent him
at once. This branch of the agricultural
industry of the country cannot be salts
factorily reported without the cordial CO.
operation of the producers throughout the
country. and hence the Office is solicitous
to secure such aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-13

yet and every moment of those ,,ea-s
snail be devoted to suffrage work. When
n I am ma, a century Old you may begin to call
The sufragists have settled the vexed
question In their resolutions they begin
In this the closing year of the nineteenth
thn,, ~, anu they ought to know. for
Ihey eau young a woman who does nor
GATE her birthday invitations back of 1Ss0
some twenty-five or thirty years ago the
sunraglsts got out some beautiful life
certlncateS OF the association which thew
mad signed by Miss Anthony and F-lizsheth
lazy Stanton. Miss Anthony said yester-
day that she had thought the women Womb
just tumble over each other in their en-
aeaVor TO get these beautiful things with
ner autographs on them, but that over a
hundred OF them remain on her hands.
They cost so each. and eight of them have
peen sold at this convention.
The sufragists of Iowa have a flourish
women. III W
Miss Anthony has had her ups and
downs in the lecture field Once unoy, a
time she lectured to an audience Of sir
women and one boy. That boy was the
nrst governor of Wyoming under equal
There is one thing that people who go In
suffrage conventions will insist upon' and
that Is that the speakers enunciate SO that
they can be understood. A soft, low voice
IN woman Is all right between the four
square walls of parlor, but on the Mat
form clear, ringing tone is a necessity
Some of the speakers of Saturday evening
could not be heard ten feet away. Those
who did hear gave them an ovation. Those
VINO could not hear got up and left In dis
gust omen who seek platform fame"
sdlo Dolo man who had ventured into the
convention. should learn t:rst Of all that
people will not submit to two hours OF
mumbling just because a woman is pretty
NO matter now brainy she may be- she has
got to make herself heard If She would he
appreciated.
young man who was at the convention
SATURDAY evening gazed at Miss Anthony
so earnestly that he was chaffei about his
apparent infatuatlon afterwari We'll. L
90 admire Miss Anthony" he admitted
but watching her carried me far enough
away from the present When I was a
broth or boy, away up in Maine L had a
grandmother who was stately an old
laoy as ever wore point lace and a CASH
mere shawl Just two women have I seen
IN my lie who could wear shawl grace
!uny-Aunt Susan and my grandmother,
MISS Anthony reminds me of my crand-
mother. of whom l was very fond"