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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24

To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form of slavery. George d. Williams :,
of Manchester, Mich, tells how such
a slave was made free. He says:
my wife has been so helpless for fve
years that she could not turn over in
bed alone. After using two bottles OF
Electric Bitters she is wonderful :
improved and able to do her own
work" This supreme remedy for
female diseases quickly cures nerv.
business, sleeplessness. melancholy
headache, bac1ache. fainting and dizzy
spells This miracle working medi.
cine is gOdsend to weak, sickly, run
down people. Every bottle guarar
teed. Only so cents. Sold b. Hart
g. Ullemeyer. druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
ENTERTAINS LADY FRIENDS.
Mrs. &. l.. Walker Gives Song Recital at II err
Home on Nineteenth Street.

Mrs. c. l.. Walker gave a song re-
cital for her tri-city lady friends at
her pleasant home on Nineteenth street
yesterday afternoon. The hours were
from $3.50 to 6. The guests mum bered
over one hundred. The program was
furnished by Spencer Robinson, tenor,
and Miss Bertha Sonntag. contralto,
with Mrs. j. F. Robinson as accompa-
mist. Each of the vocalists sang a
group of three numbers, then they
gave a duet. Among MIR. Robinson 8
selections were Mary of Argyle, -"
annie Laurie" and blue Bells of
Scotland" and so beautifully did he
render them that he was called upon
again and again for encores, Miss
Sonntag meeting with like recep-
ton, particularly in her singing of
The Sea" and Bartlett's Dream. -
At the conclusion of the recital dainty
refreshments were served. 1t was a
pretty and delightful social and mu-
steal event.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
PULLED OUT OF THE COFFIN.
shroud Torn ON In the Removal OF the
BODY.

Torn oH INc"oNSl the
Body.
AS the details of the grave robbery
develop. more and more it grows into
one of the most heartless, inhuman
and ghoulish of crimes. An eXami-
nation of the grave shows that the
glass of the collin had been broken
and the lid raised far enough to per-
nit of the passage of the body. from
which the shrOud was torn and left in
the coffin. fine grave was then re-
filled. but in their haste 10 get away
from the scene of their henious opera
tiOn-, the robbers neglected To ar
range the mound AZ smooth as it
was when they desecrated it.
Mrs. Maurer was aged 40 years.
and the wife of Casper Maurer, an old
soldier She died Jan. Is. Her rela-
tives and friends are greatly incensed,
and feeling against tn" grave robbers
is running high in Rapids City and
vicinity.
People at Hillsdsle and Port ByrC II
have become so worked up over the
affair they have had the graves of rel
atives opened to allay fears that the
robbers had operated in other GENE
teries, but so far have not made any
discoveries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
w. F. MCCARTNEY MISSING.
South Rock Island Man Thought to BE
Temporarily Insane.

South Rock Island Man Thought to BE
Temporarily Insane.
W. F. Mccartney has been missing
from his home on Brasher street,
South Rock Island, since Monday, and
his family fear he has again lost his
reason and is wandering about the
country. He was formerly patient
at the Watertown asylum. Mozart
ney is 10 years of age. He was en-
gagged in cutting timber east of the
Watch Tower. A motorman on the
Milan line states he saw McCartney
walking toward home Monday after.
noon about $50 o'clock. MCCARTNEY
is B feet 10 inches in height, has a
dark mustache and his hair is tinged
with gray.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
Taxes Due.

Taxes for the year 1899 are due.
Parties having personal tax and no
real estate will be expected to make
immediate Paymezt. The penalties
pres cribed by the statute will be en-
forced for nonpayment of personal
taxes after notification by postal card
or otherwise. Office with Hull & Co.,
real estate and insurance agents,
Room 81, Mitchell & Lynde building.
CHARLES BOWERS,
Township Collector.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
Rheumatism Cured In a Day.

Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in l to 8
days. Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
ease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. as cents.
Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901 Second
avenue, Rock Island; Gustave Schle-
gel & Son, 220 West Second street,
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24

Was the result of his splendid health
Indomitable will and tremendous en-
ergy are not found where stomach,
liver, kidney and bowels are out OF
order. If you want these qualities
and the success they bring, use DR.
Kings New Life Pills. They develor
every power of brain and body. Only
% cents at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24

J. A. Lambert. <of Rachel. n. c.,
writes: Il heartily endorse Foley:
kidney Cure. 1t does what you claim
il will do. and there is nothing equa
10 il. aud / thank you for the good il
has done me-" All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
Don't Read This.

In our big west window are dozen
fine jackets. In the cloak depart
ment, second floor. there are fifty
more equally good. These Jackets
have sold at all kind of prices from
So up. Take any of the lot now for
1898. Take 'em quick while
you can get 'em ...........S3.0 S
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
[. 8. MCCabe 6 Co.
DOneSficS.

Good heavy unbleached sheet,
torn by hand Tuesday..... SIC
Bleached sheets at the same
time ..............,,..... 3oc
Genuine hand hemstitched pill
low cases 8 O'Clock Tuesday &c
Large, heavy full sized bed
spread ready for use. ..... csc
Lighter weight large and
strong, hemstitched, white
spreads at.......... -. soc
1000 yards short length tennis
tlannels at ........... oic
700 yards apron and shifting
cheviots, while they last. SIC
$50 yards short length tennis
fannels.. -............... 44C
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
II Banner SaIVe

doesn't cure your piles. your none,
will be returned. j. is the most heal
ing medicine IN the world All drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24
A Card.

Phelps &C" Cough, Cold and
Group cure is guaranteed. 1t cures
chronic cases. 1t is out of the old
rut. For asthma and all other lung
troubles take &c" The Harper
House pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-24

Chapped hands. cracked lips and
roughness of the skin cured quickly
by Banner Salve, the most healing
ointment in the world. All druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
The Sheldon Paper.

EFrom the Scranton Truth
The enterprise of the Rev Charles NJ
Sheldon, who has undertaken to run
the Topeka Daily Capital as the Master
would conduct a newspaper were he
now on earth, must prove a failure, no
matter how much money may be ac-
cumulated by the publishers as the re-
suit OF a single weeks experiment In
the first place, Mr.. Sheldon, with all
his colossal modesty. does not know
how Our Lord would conduct daily
newspaper; secondly, he does not know
how an experienced editor would con-
duct it; and thirdly, he does not know
how to print the kind of a newspaper
the people want Now, lacking in the
last named qualification, he must prove
a great failure, because there is no
more dismal spectacle than a news
paper without readers except it be a
preacher without a congregation.
The fact that Mr.. Sheldon's much adj
vertised piece of journalistic idioSyn-
cracy-not to call it by a harsher name
has gathered into the bank account of
the Daily Capital 100000 for one week s
subscriptions, is no proof of the per-
manent success of the venture. Meas
ured by this standard the Petit Journal,
with its million of readers, would be a
monumental success.
Much ado has been made ever the fact
that Mr.. Sheldon has excluded certain
advertisements from his model paper.
Why, for years after he started the New
York Ledger, as a weekly story paper,
Robert Bonner did not admit an adver-
tisement of any kind in it's columns.
What was the reason? Simply his
space was too precious. 1t paid him
better to devote his columns to the
pabulum which gathered in an army Of
| readers. Mr.. Sheldon, in view of the
great subscription list invited by his
novel scheme, might easily have begun
by emitting all advertising from the
Capital and he probably would have
done this were his foresight as good as
his hindsight.
There may be more dishonesty in ad-
vertising a certain brand of coffee than
a certain corset If the coffee is a
fraud, it sometimes is, and the pub
! lie is led to buy it through the Capital,
! is not Mr. Sheldon a party to the de-
ception, according to his own ethics?
! He may plead that he did not know it
was a fraud. But did he not undertake
to say that he would edit a paper as
! the Master would have edited it, and
can he assert that the Master would be
deceived by the spurious coffee? And
so it is in other things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Texas Very Severe.

LF'rom the Houston CTexas) Post.1
When the officers sent by the chief
priests and Pharisees to arrest Jesus
had returned from the temple where He
had taught, to the marvel of the Jews,
with unexecuted warrant and were ask
ed why have ye not brought Him"
they answered simply, Never man
spoke like this man"
Yet there is a man in Kansas who as
sumes Ito demonstrate now Jesus would
run an up-to-date newspaper were He
on earth" 1t matters little unto his
fellows what this mans name is. It
matters much to his fellows that this
mans vocation is that of a minister of
the gospel Is he blasphemer or sensa-
ton monger? Much of both and little
of anything else The fact that he is
of the clergy will not allow Immunity
from this indictment-rather will that
fact prejudice him guilty on the dual
counts submitted. Jesus. if on earth
would not run a newspaper His Won
drously taught doctrines have not been
carried to the four corners of the world
since He died for them a finite death on
Calvary, through such an Instrumental
ity nor will they ever be- This Kansas
minister, with something of that vulgar
thirst for notoriety that gave the tenn
pie of Diana to the ashes of consuming
fire, has declared, in effect: IF Jesus
were on earth He would conduct a daily
newspaper, perhaps at Topeka, Kansas,
and l, being the only man amongst all
Tue 4lAUllAlu0G u AilCl Oh TN
for the employment, He would make
His managing editor
1t is bad enough for men to scott at
the creations of orthodoxy. Few do.
These few find incentive for blasphemy
in the doings of the pulpit, oftener than
not. Strong men and women are not
swept away from the safe anchorage of
abiding faith in the teachings of the
Saviour, and the supremacy over all
created things of the Godhead by the
sensational clatter of the mountebanks
and Pharisees of the ministry and of
the church, but the weak and superficial
are. Even these, however, must con-
template with feelings Of revulsion men
of the ministry who cease to be teach
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
The Sheldon Experiment.


From the Indianapolis News.
The first number of the Topeka Daily
troll of the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon.
appeared today. His purpose is to print
to himself the right to decide what is
Christian and what is not. There has
been disposition to make light of this
experiment But. though it must be con-
feSsed that it has some rather absurd
features, We think there can be no doubt
that Mr.. Sheldon is in earnest, and that
his intentions are good. Moreover, there
are some very serious factors in the prob
lem, as presented by him. Much has
been said of late about the narrownesS
of Christian dogma, and there is undOubt-
edly a strong reaction against it, But
little has been said about the narrow
and artificial morality championed by
some intolerant Christian teachers, of
whom Mr.. Sheldon seems to be one.
This has already been revealed. Last
night when his dramatic editor asked for
replied: We shall not want anything
of that kind" He has adopted a rule
forbidding.- smoking in the editorial
rooms Some advertisements which
to the normal mind, seem entirely
harmless and inoffensive, have been re-
jected. Such narrowness and prudish-
ness can not possibly promote the cause
of sound morality. There is abundant
room for reform in the conduct of news
papers and many of the principles which
Mr.. Sheldon proposes to apply to his
work are worthy of communication and
living can not be furthered by an attempt
to revive the old Puritan standards.
The serious part of the business is that
men may be repealed by such a course
They may identify the Sheldon ideal with
real morality and true Christianity, and
thus their revolt against his restrictions
may carry them further than it should
Men feel that the theater as an institu-
ton is not to be condemned though they
are deeply convinced that it must be re-
formed and cleansed They are unable
to see that smoking is a sin, for they
know that some of the greatest and best
men have smoked without apparent in
! jury to their physical, moral or spiritual
natures. And the best thinkers are COM
ing to see more and more that everything
| possible ought to be done to make NOR
| aIity the natural and normal thing, and
not the product of artificial rules and re-
strictions. And that, too, was the method
| of Christ.
Of course Mr.. Sheldon's experiment
will prove nothing. The fact that hun
dreds of thousands of people have sub
scribed for the paper is without serious
significance The motive of most of
! them is mere curiosity. Whether they
would permanently support such paper
can not be proved by a weeks trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
A Great Week For Topeka.

lFrOn the brooklyn Eagle.
This is a great week for Topeka, kan.
Before Saturday night thousands of
readers whose notions as to whether
Topeka was in Arizona or Dakota have
been vague will know that town as
the scene of the greatest newspaper ad-
vertisement which has ever been at
tempted, a scheme for publicity which
makes the widest bids of the penny
press of this city pale into insignificance.
For this is the week during which the
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon is to run the
Topeka Capital as he imagines Jesus
would do Already the news has gone
abroad.
If Mr.. Sheldon's experiment is an in
timation that he thinks the press is
worse than these other agencies of
civilization it is a rank impertinence.
But there is little ground for such an
inference. In his book he held up the
shortcomings of the clergy quite as
sharply as he did those of the newspa-
pers. It would probably be fairer to say
that he recognizes the editorial chair
as a far more powerful influence than
the pulpit and that he wishes to express
his ideas of Christianity through the
widest medium he can find. If that is
so he has chosen well.
In Kansas, however, they take the
other view. The rival paper, the To
peka Journal, has engaged Edward w
Howe to conduct daily a column on how
he would run the churches Mr.
Howe is the author of that remarkable
novel "A Country Town." he has writ
ten a story on the failure of a preacher
because he had no real call to the sacred
work, and he is the quaint genius whose
paragraphs in the Atchison Globe have
been quoted from one end of the coun-
try to the other. Mr.. Howe is quite
capable of UNFOLDING the merit of his
profession against Mr.. Sheldon or any
one else. The shortcomings of the clergy
are likely to come in for as searching
criticism as those of newspaper men.
The debate ought to rid public discus
sion of a good deal of cant about what
is and what is not Christian. But
whether Mr. Sheldon will permanently
improve anything save the financial
standing of the Capital is doubtful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
A KANSAS CITY PREACHER.
Advises Sheldon to Stick to Pulpit and
Howe to Sanctum.

[From the Kansas City Journal
Rev. DR.. Northrop discussed the Shell
don experiment and Ed. HoWe's lay ser
mons at the First Baptist church last
Another week has come and gone. and
thank God, We are still alive. Much has
taken place to amuse, confuse and en-
thuse the troubled hearts of excited mill
ions through its golden hours. Humanity
has gone through the fever heat of war,
finance. society, reform, education poll
has found much for idle hands to do
General interest has been taken in Mr.
Sheldon's six days wonder-the expert
ment OF a Christian daily, and in Editor
Howe'S lay sermons. The reading pub
lie has been equally disappointed in both
attempts. and has settled back to the old
truth-only God is great
Both kanSanS- are extremists. Both
are at antipodes rengiously. The one is
the champion of faith, the other of doubt;
the one is an Optimist, the other a. pessi-
mist; the stands on the delectab BILE
mountains and points the people to the
far away visions of heaven on earth; the
harp on the willows, and holds sweet
communion with the icOnoclasts of the
dark ages, and at night silently folds
his tent and steals away to the shade
of Doubling castle. Mr.. Sheldon's en-
thusiasm and Mr.. HOwe's cynicism drive
us back to the safe rule: Attend to your
pulpit and the other to his sanctum, and
the world will breathe easier.
Replying to Mr.. HoWe's statement that
the Bible is not accepted by a single
scholar of note, Rev. DR.. Northrop de-
Tended Christianity by citing an immense
number of historical facts covered by his
recent series of sermons on THE Bible
Championed.' He showed that there is
not a European university not founded
by the church. and the presidents of all
the great institutions of learning are
tracts from the testimony of some of the
greatest thinkers of the age
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22

about the evils of drunkenness and he
got his information largely from news
papers that give details, still he is not
drunkard. = man who knows nothing
Of crime will never indulge in it-as
long as he keeps away from it. man
who doesn't know how to swim viii
never be drowned as long as he keeps
away from the water But if he should
fall in-well, his obituary should con-
tain the Details
Criminals. drunkards, and all other
evil doors are simply trying to beat the
game of nature. When they learn that
nature is game that cannot be beaten,
they VIII leadS correct lives. Whenever
a paper reports the downfall of an evil
doer it teaches that nature is a game
that cannot be beaten. That's why
modern papers are making the people
better. Even the church has its Satan
and its Hades to prove that the path of
the tranSgresSor is lined with brirn-
stone, and many churches give 1.-The de-
tails" concerning Satan's personality
and the temperature of his resort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
GiveI Givel Givei

From the AtchlSOn GlObe-I
In the first issue of the Sheldon Capt.
tai the editor advocates several schemes
and hopes the people will give literally.
One of them is to build an asylum for
cOnsumptiveS in Colorado; another is to
raise a fund to help the starving in In
dia.
many minister's: Mr.. Sheldon has car
ried the cry into the Capital during the
week he will edit it.
Last Sunday, in his sermon, Mr.. Shell
don urged the people to give, give, give!
Many men who make money give lib
orally to practical charity But the men
who give the money: have they not a
right to decide what use shall be made
of the money they give? If man is
able to make money, is he not able
to decide how to spend it in charity, as
the minister who spends most of his time
give s25 a month to charity: do you need
the assistance of minister to tell you
give to the hungry in your own neighbor-
hood than to send it off to India, as Mr..
Sheldon suggests?
That is the cry church members are
always hearing. They are asked to give
toward the Sheldon Capital and when
the Sheldon Capital appears, it asks them
to give to a lot of other funds.
Here is a remarkable coincidence: The
Christian Herald, of New. York, has al
ways taken an active interest in the
Sheldon Capital. In the first issue it
had a big advertisement. 1t has been
lions for the Sheldon Capital. The first
page of the first issue of the Sheldon
Capital was devoted to calling on the peo-
pie for money with which to help the
people of India 1t was stated that Mr..
Sheldon hoped to raise a. million dollars
for this fund. The India fund was ex-
plotted.
Now mark. the coincidence: The sec
ond issue of the Sheldon Capital. con-
tanned another big advertisement from
the Christian Herald: this advertisement
had evidently been prepared weeks ago.
It was not set in the CAPITAL office; 1t
is an appeal for India The advertise
ment calls on church societies of every
kind for help. and says Let all join
hands" 1t is a typical church appeal.
what would Jesus dog" it inquiries The
women and children are particularly ap-
pealed to, as usual The appeal is cum
ningly written At the bottom of the
advertisement. appears this: Address ::
India Famine Relief Fund, THE CHRIS
TAN HERALD 81 to 116 Bible House,
New York"
It is stated that Mr. Sheldon does not
receive any compensation for his work
on the Capital this week: he was work
ital He has been worked" again: by
the business manager of the Christian
Herald, one of the shrewdest business
men in this country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
The Sheldon Experiment.

lhrOm the Minneapolis JOurnal-I
The expectation that Mr.. Sheldon's pa
per will be so different from other papers,
and the consequent eagernesS tc get it,
suggests that the newspapers of the world
today are not conducted very close to
the plan on which Jesus would conduct
them, assuming, of course, that Mr.. Shell
paper. and will do it that way On this
latter assumption there may be some
doubt. OF course, but allowing it to stand,
the question arises, are newspapers less
in harmony with Christian principles and
con eonduot tt41l With less regard for what Je.
are other kinds of business and profess
sional work?-for the newspaper partakes
of the essence of both business and a
profession. Probably not. Probably
newspapers. being conducted by the
goods, Who condue cPi ma mlG i estab
lishments, who give legal advice, who
teach in the schools who heal the sick
who till the ground3who do the work Of
the world-are conducted as they would
be if by. force of circumstances some of
the people who now do these other things
had been editors and publishers instead
of merchants or bankers or farmers. And
probably the papers which these editors
conduct are better adapted to the wants
and tastes of the people who do the
WORK or the world and nd want to know
they were conducted on some different
plan.
There is danger just here, We are aware.
of lack of reverence. and so is this whole
experiment of Mr.. Sheldon's liable to ser
ious fault in this regard What author
Capital, as it appears today. cut and
trimmed and eXpurgated by him and
made. over from title to want 'ad." is
the kind of a paper essentially that Jesus
would print if he were in Sheldon's place?
The presumption is certainly a very bold
one, and that this weeks experiment in
the office of the Topeka Capital will tend
to greater reverence toward God wher-
ever the knowledge of the effort spreads
may well be questioned. Possibly Mr..
Sheldon may help to emphasize the i'm
portance of certain classes of news which
some back number editors have not yet
learned to appreciate, but there are other
ways In which such lessons can be
taught, and probably at less expense in
wholesome reverent feeling.
However. we assume no responsibility
of judgment to Mr.. Sheldon's motive,
and hope that the net result of his eX-
pertinent may be to leave with the editors
and the publishers and with the public,
when his short effort is finished some
higher notions on the part of the editors
of what the public wants, and some bet
ter conceptions on the part of the public
of what an important function the reader
performs in determining the quality of
what is given him to read by his fair dis
elimination between the good and the
bad.