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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

When the sun goes undsr q cloud for
any length of time the mercury re-
ceeds and the electric circuit is
broken and the record is interrupted
The Rain Recorder.
The self-registering rain gauge is
one of the new instruments. 1t works
much like an automatic grain weigh
er. When a pocket gets full it empties
and places another pocket under the
spout where the collected water runs
in from the collecting receptacle.
The movements of the pockets make
and break electric circuits that make
records in the office below. All these
instruments are to be placed on the
top of the government building. There
are now there a self-registering Their
mometer, wind gauge and weather
vane.
The records thus and otherwise OBJ
tanned are important and valuable
not only from a prognostic stand
point but as preserved statement Of
fact and condition Tor future refer
ence in the event of developments
upon which may be contingent the
actual state of the weather at a GER
tain time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
READING THE SIGNS
Improved Equipment in the
Local Weather
Bureau.
VALUABLE INSTRUMENT ADDED
Description of the Scientific Aic s
to Gaining the
Forecasts.
VALUABLE INSTRUMENT ADDED

The local Office of the United States
weather bureau at Davenport has re-
ceived number of new instruments
which are of great Importance to the
people OF the three cities or may be
Of value if they are properly referred
to. The largest and most snowy of
these instruments, although not the
most novel or delicate, is the triple
recording instrument which by means
of electromagnetic records what the
observing instruments" take notice
of. The Old instrument that was re-
placed recorded direction of the wind
and its velocity at intervals several
minu - apart but the new instru-
ment will not only record these data
and with Only minute intervals be-
t~een records, but will keep q record
of the sunshine and rainfall also. The
reco. ding instrument consists of a
drum around which is wound a sheet
of the record paper. The drum is
turned by clockwork and moves for
ward by means of a screw so that the
records wind around the drum like
the threads of a screw.
How the Record Is Made.
The record is made by pen that is
made to come in contact with the
drum by the pressure of the electro
magnets when they are excited by a
current of electricity, the circuit being
completed through the recorders
on the roof of the government build
ing. These instruments on the roof
are the wind velocity instrument,
being a revolving vane with four
pockets to catch the wind By means
of a screw movement and cog wheels
this machine closes the circuit after
a certain number of revolutions are
made. Each revolution OF the vane
represents a certain number of feet
that the wind has Travelled. The rec
ord of the number of revolutions of
the vane as shown becomes easily
reduced in miles.
Wind aud Sunshine.
The direction of the wind is shown
by common weather vane which
makes elelectrical contacts in each of
the Quadrants of the circle. The
newest instrument is the sunshine re-
corder that has Just arrived at the
weather Office. 1t consists of tube
from which the air is exhausted.
Within this tube is u smaller one that
terminates at the lower end in bulb
that is half filled with mercury ana
above which is air. The bulb is
blackened. When the sunshine strikes
the instrument, the black bulb alb
serbs the heat and the expanding ar
drives the mercury up the small tube
toward the points of two wires which,
when the mercury strikes them, COM
plete the electric circuit, producing q
record in the recording instrument.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
just Saved HALLE.

1t was thrilling escape that
Charles Davis, of Bowerston o., late
ly had from a frightful death. For
two years severe lung trouble con-
stantly grew worse until it seemed be
must die of consumption. Then he
began to use DIR. Kings New Discov-
cry and lately wrote: 1T gave in
slant relief and effected a permanent
cure" Such wonderful cures have
for % years proven its power to cure
all throat, chest and lung troubles
Price so cents and 81. Every bottle
guaranteed. Trial bottles free at
Hartz & UIlemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
LOCAL RED CROSS SOCIETY.
One Formed In Rock Island With LaudabIe
Aims.

One Formed In Rock Island With LaudabIe
Aims.
We wish to announce that a char
liable organization, the Red Cross
Medical association of Rock Island and
Sou b Rock Island has been incorpor-
ated under the laws of the state of Illi-
nois fer the purpose of furnishing hos
pital service, medical aid and to assist
in oefraying funeral expenses, where
aid is needed. This association is
| maintained by the small monthly dues
paid 10 by the mem bers, and ali mon
eys collected by the as, ociation will
90 to pay the expenses CT the asSocia-
ton, doctor bills and drugs Mem
bers pay their money, let them take
their choice of doctors and drugstores,
as the Red Cross shows no Partially
Anyone can belong to this association
No entrance fee is charged. Anyone
can become a mem Der from the oldest
to the youngest, the richest to the
poorest, and call any physician in the
city, night or day, and all physicians
and medicines are paid for by the as
ISOLATION. All money collected from
mem bers in this city is paid out for
the benefit of the members in this
city. Notice to ply sicians and drug
glsts: Should any mem Der call on
you for treatment, ask to see their
Red Cross pass book. and if their dues
are psid kindly give them the best
service and send your bill with the
regular fee and it will ceive prompt
attention on the first day of each
month. The officers that have been
Appointed arc: e.. w. Halves, presi-
dent; L. Medill, vice president and
treasurer; James McNamara, secre.
tary; G. q. Craig, Jr., NJ. D., medical
inspector. II. l.. Mason, promoter.
They are all we'll known citizens and
men of wide and successful expert
ence. we'll fitted to carry on the affairs
of the association. The main office is
in Rock Island at the Sanitarium
Dr.. q. q Craig, Jr., office. For fur
Their information call at the main
Office.
RED Cross MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
THE BRITISH DOCTORS
Are Doing q Noble Work at Their office.
100 Third AVenue-NumerOus Re
narkabIe Cures Are Being
Reported Daily.


4 staff of eminent physicians and
surgeons from the British Medical In
stitute have at the earnest solicitation
of large number of patients under
their treatment in this country es-
tablished q permanent branch of the
institute in this city at 100 Third
Avenue, over rremann's meat market.
These eminent gentlemen have de-
cided to give their services entirely
free for three months (medicine ex-
cepted) to all invalids who call upon
them Tor treatment between now and
Jan. 10. These services consist not
only of consultation. examination and
advice, but also of all minor surgical
operations.
The object in pursuing this course
is to become rapidly and personally
acquainted with the sick and afflicted,
and under no condition whatever will
any charge be made for any services
rendered for three months to all who
call before Jan. 10.
The doctors treat all forms of dis
ease and deformities, and guarantee
q cure in every case they undertake.
At the first interview a thorough ex-
animation is made, and il incurable,
you are frankly and kindly told SO;
also advised against spending your
money for useless treatment.
Maize and female weakness, catarrh
and catarrhal deafness, cancer, with
out pain or cutting, rupture, all skin
diseases. and all diseases of the rec
tum are positively cured by their new
treatment.
DR.. K. j. Nate, the chief consult
ing surgeon of the institute, assisted
by one or more of his staff associates,
is in personal charge.
Office hours from 8 q. N. till 8 p.
m. No Sunday hourF.
Special Notice-H you cannot call,
send stamp for question blank for
home treatment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

IL Becky Sharp" Mrs. Fiske's
play founded on Vanity Fair" the
possibilities of skiIful dramatizing
from a book with a superabundance
of material are seen A play can be
but of certain length, can have but
given number of characters, and
must deal with dramatic matter The
theatre is place for well-digested
narrative sp ced by sprightly move
ment and peopled with characters
action. The playwright, dealing with
Vanity Fair" has made from the
book a logical story with plenty OF
action based on the history of Becky
Sharp as Thackeray describes it, and
that all the prominent chars c.ers that
relate to that story are seen in stage
guise. The play lover can ask no
more, and this has been done with
such skill that the drama is remark
ably pleasing aside from the admit
tedly wonderful work of Mrs Fiske as
Becky. Mrs. Fiske comes to the Bur-
tbs Friday evening, Dec. rs.
Realism on the stage is found in
large quantities in War on Women, ."
the latest meIodramatic success in
which Hope Booth will appear at Har-
per's theatre Sunday. 1t deals with
the life found in the far west. The
scenes are stirring ones. among them
being q block house and stockade,
railroad station and telegraph office,
real Indiau camp, including a dream
scene of the Happy Hunting Ground"
Ten horses and ponies a stage coach.
soldiers and cowboys are required and
they are shown in adventures and
deeds of heroism. All the features
send thrills through spectators who
applaud and cheer the life-like action.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
COUNTY TEMPLE.
Transfers.

Dec. % Edward Define and Franz
Define to Victor Define, und % lot 5
block l. Moline Water Power com.
pany's West add, Moline, Sl,4OO
Margaret Morehouse to Emma John
son. lot -. Johnson's add, South
Moline. g. 500.
A. B Chapman to Charles S. Can.
dee. lot IL Candee's subdiv., So.
Andrew O'Brien to Peter Villa.
muth, 81 mel nwI 23. Is lie, 5000.
County Clerk to c. L. Hunter. q
acres W end s! l. I ne "a, 10, CIV.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
TO JOINTLY INVITE
PRESIDENT TO COME,

Committees from the Rock Island
Club, the Retail Merchants, OF this
city, and the Davenport and Moline
Business Mems associations. meet
this evening at the Hotel Sommers,
in Moline, to formulate an invitation
to President Mckinley to visit Rock
Island arsenal and the tri-cities on
his western tour next spring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
For HoArseness.

Benz. Ingerson. of Hutton, Ind,
says ne had not spoken above whis-
per for months, and one bottle of
Foley's Honey and Tar restored his
voice. Used largely by speakers and
singers. For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

Cold aud cough cures are numer-
Gus, bit the one that leads all others
in merit, is Foley's Honey and Tar,
which is in great demand these days.
For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

Bright eyes are an infallible index
TO youth. nice windows from which
Cupid shoots his arrows. Rocky
Mountain Tea makes bright eycs.For
sale by 7. II. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

When you want prompt acting little
pills that never grippe use DeWitt's
Little Early Rizers. B. II. Bieber,
Hartz & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

Art thou one of the many that has
drained the golden nectar that maketA
thy heart full of strength and glad
ness? If not, take Rocky Mountain
Tea. For sale by T. II. Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve will
quickly heal the worst burns and
scalds and not leave scar. 1t can be
applied to cuts s1d raw surfaces with
prompt and soothing effect. Use it
for piles and skin diseases. Beware
of worthless counterfeits. B. II. Bic
Der, Hartz & UIiemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

TIE person who disturbed the con-
gregation last Sunday by cough
ing, is requested to call and get q
bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t
always gives relief. For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

Christmas exercises were also held
by the children of St. Mary's church
in Colum bia hall at the school build
ing There was a nice program. in
Guiding cantata, and Santa Claus
distributed presents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

GA sTo zEA.
Bearstss ~ The Kind You Hs5 AlKays BVga
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
INSURANCE.
CHAS. E. HOOGSON =.
Fire Insurance Agency,
Established 1874.

American ms. Co., Newark, N. j
Traders Ins. Co., Chicago, Ill
Union Ins. Co. Philadelphia, Pa
Rockford Ins. Co. Rockford, Ill
Security Ins, Co. New Haven, Conn
Ins. Co. State of ILL.,, Rockford, Ill
once Room 3, Buford block. Rates
as low as consistent with security
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27

The Central Presbyterian Sunday
school held exercises at the church
last evening. There was a good at
tendance and a we'll rendered pro-
gram, gotten up under direction of
Miss Ada Hemenway and Miss Anna
Bromley. A Christmas tree and post
office were used in the distri button OF
presents, each person receiving d
written notice to call at.Santa Claus
headquarters for package.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-27
CHRISTMAS EXERCISES
HELD LAST EVENING.

Christmas exercises were held by
the Sunday school Of the Memorial
Christian church at Armory hall last
evening. a cantata was given by $50
children entitled, "A Christmas Cru
sade, or A Story of Santa Claus and
the Klondike Gold Regions" Pre-
ceding this there was an excellent
musicAl program, with recitatious by
Lillian Cameron and Clara Bsselin.
The cantata was a representation of
Christmas in the Klondike, and at the
close Santa Claus passed out presents
IN the form of nuggets.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

ed and managed by Englishmen, Ger
mans Frenchmen, n other Europeans.
I saw long rows of Arab girls standing
up over tubs and manipulating the raw
cotton in an atmosphere so full of cotton
dust that I was glad to escap from the
room after a stay of a few minutes.
What are the hours of work of these
girls?" I asked my European guide, for
want of something better to say.
"From four in the morning to six at
night, with a short intermission for din
ner," was the astounding reply.
"And the pay?"
give small piastres a day." Chat is.
IL 1-2 cents.O
o happy Filipinos! o complacent Bish-
op! this is the cheerful prospect before
you.
And what effect will the Introduction
of our factory system in the Philippines
have upon our w labor market? 1t will
curse him that gives and him that
takes. With the competition of boys and
girls at twelve and a half cents a day
Nsing cheap coal mined at similar wages,
h same level in his country? Will there
be any other way to keep all our manu-
features from migrating to the Isles OF
the sea? In running the Filipinos we shall
be running ourselves.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
PERFORMING ANIMALS AND ACCT
DENTS.

Fortnightly Review: The accidents and
fatalities arising, directly or otherwise,
from these show of performing ions and
other wild beasts are so many and SO
frequent that to enumerate those even Of
the last two or three years would occupy
space than can be better used. They are
somewhat more frequent in the provinces
owing, perhaps, to defective range
mentS for keeping the brutes properly
under control, for the fragile barrier i'm
posed at country fairs between them and
gaping crowds differs very widely from
the solid girder SO ingeniously manipu-
lated at the latest and largest London
circuses. These accidents vary from the
aforementioned recent discharge of buck
shot into the heads of the audience to
the actual mangling in the public view of
the tanner or keeper. The daughter of
the Dutchman Van Amburgh and the IT.
ishman Mccartney met with the most
horrible deaths in the arena, and COM
p~aratively recent records include a
French seamstress torn by a panther and
a negro lion tanner mangled by his VIC
Tins, a keeper nearly killed at NARROW
Fair, (and rescued only by the prompt
application Of red-hot irons as a closure
to the debate,) and a drunken attendant
mauled at Sanger's Circus. at WoOlrich,
by a white bear hat he had been teasing.
This introduction of ferocious and often
il-guarded wild beasts in the midst of
our cities and villages is absurd. What
was the use of discriminating the wolf il
we meant to r~eintroduce the bear? Those
who have any taste for the proximity of
such brutes should betake themselves to
the jungle, where they can serve man.
kind, not by tanning, but by shooting.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
OPPOSES MARCH OF CIVILIZATION
Why the Society Of the Big Knife Wages Its Horrible Anti
Foreign War in China.

the society had left it's trail Of fire and
blood over more than 40, 200 square miles
in Western Shan Tung and the neigh
boring parts of Chihi.
Great as these depredations have been,
however, little punishment has been met
ed out to the persons responsible for
them. Occasionally a head or two has
ben cut off and hung up in a cage by
the highway as a warning to eVll-doerS,
and several perpetrators of minor Of
lenses against the Christians have been
hailed before the court of righteous judg-
ment n sentenced to such p~unishments
as wearing the cague.' but any decided
effort to put an end to the reign of law
lessness has been frowned upon by Of
ficials in high authority.
One instance OF this was seen in the
actions of Yu Hsien. the governor of Shan
Tung. Just prior to the murder of Mr..
Brooks warming came to the governor
that the Boxers We're contemplating the
wholesale destruction of the Christians.
He claimed that such a thing was i'm
possible, but. under protest, sent out a
party of soldiers to suppress the rioters.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

the missionaries. and they are thus per-
suaded to offer no protection or assist
ance to the Christians when the attack
upon them Is made. In this way other
wise law-abiding citizens of the prov
inces are made accessories II not active
assistants to the work Of the Boxers.
Among the slanders that nave been
frequently circulated by this organiza-
ton are those that declare that the
Christians are hog worshippers: that in
the reception of the holy communion the
people drink a philtre that makes them
slaves of III priest, and that during ex-
IRENE junction the priests cut out the
eyes of the dying men. In China it is
believed that 81 different parts Of the hu-
man body possess especial medicinal vir-
tue, and it is charged by the Boxers that
the missionaries murder the children in
the orphanage in order that they may
cut up their bodies for these me1icinal
purposes. e
AS the people in the villages are *
trenely ignorant, they accept these wild
tales as fact, n 1t is to be feared that
the outrages Of the future will be worse
than those of the past unlesSa more
stringent measures are taken to sup
press the Boxers, the cause Of all the
trouble. 70
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

Citizens of civilized lands who know
little or nothing of the conditions that
exist in China can scarcely understand
why there should be sue a we'll defined
opposition to the advancement of mod
ern ideas in the Celestial kingdom, or
why it should be possible for any organ
ization of fanatics, we've powerful, to
murder missionaries and destroy Chris
tian church property without interfer-
ence from the police.
There was a time, not long ago, when
this ignorance concerning the condition
of affairs in China extended to the high
est circles in Europe and America, but
of late the revival of interest in the
country as a commercial possibility has
brought it more directly within the line
of vision of the civilized nations. The
organization of the American Association
of China vas a step in the right direc-
ton, and it probably will not be long be-
fore the great nations of the world will
be eXerting a wonderful influence over
the entire internal policy of his kingdom
of the east.
One of the first steps that will have to
be taken by the powers. however, will be
to compel the suppression of the Society
of the Big Knife, better known as the
Boxers. OF all the organizations in the
world there is none that is more thoro-
oughiy opposed to everything that is at
all modern, and civilization will make lit
SiN ti'StSSS III Ntilii1 uilltS SOlll0luluS is
done to force this society out of exist
ence.
Scarcely a missionary has been MUIR
dered in many months, and scarcely a
church property has been destroyed. that
the crime cannot be traced directly back
to the Boxers. Fiendish as some of
these assaults have been, they do not
begin to represent the limit of the atroci-
ties that will be committed if the powers
do not take the matter in hand and de-
mand the complete suppressing of the
organization.
MUST BE PREVENTED.
At the present time the sentiment in
the official and semi-ofticial circlts of
emma is such that it is extremely doubt
tul If such a work of determination could
pc carried out successfully by the au
thorities, and it is for this reason thai
II is believed that it is not at all unlike
~ that Uncle Sam will join with some
OF the European powers to send armed
forces into this country to do their ex-
terminating for them. If such a work
should be undertaken there can be no
doubt that it would be we'll done, for the
patience OF the Christian countries is
now about exhausted, and the knowl-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

They met the Boxers, learned that the
report was true, and, in a pitched fight,
killed over a hundred of them. Yu Hsien
was terribly enraged when he heard Of
this literal obedience of his orders. He
degraded the three officers in command
Of the troops and reported to the author
tiles at Pekin that they had stupidity
struck down innocent village people and
country merchants.
This action is but one of many on the
part Of those in official position, and all
this has persuaded the Boxers that the
authorities are in sympathy with them.
AS the result, more outrages have follow
ed, and there will undoubtedly be even
more attacks upon the missionaries and
their converts if the powers do not show
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
YOUNG HINDOO,

Sooboonagam Ammal-that is the name
Of a young Hindoo woman whose strange
history will be told to the Eucumenical
conference. It is a story as strange as
that of Dungara, the God of Things as
They Are. An apostate from the Brah-
min faith, she has, since her conversion
to Christianity. been pursued with re-
lentless malignity by her people. Escap-
ing from India through the aid of Miss
Grace stephens. superintendent of the
Methodist Episcopal mission at Madras.
who brought ~"Sooby's" conversion I'd
Christianity. he young fugitive fears
that even here she will not be safe from
the satanic ingenuity which has almost
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
DANISH FILIPINOS
FROM OUR FACTORIES
By Ernest H. Crosby.

The saddest news that has come from
our new possessions in the Pacific is the
brief statement, attributed to Bishop
Potter, that Filipinos take kindly to our
factory system. So do mice take kindly
to cheese in a trap. 1t is strange that
so little attention is paid to the industrial
side of benevolent assimilation as distin-
guished from it's political side, and yet
the Industrial effects are much more far
reaching. I have seen our factory sys-
tenn in full operation in Egypt. 1 visited
the cotton mills at Mansourah, mills own