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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
STORIES OF THE STAGE.

~
The Smugglers" is the bill for Sun
day night at Rarper's theatre. 1t
will be played by the popular Chase
Lister company, and promises to be
one of the theatrical events of the
season.
Because She Loved Him So" a
new comedy with a catchy title,
which will be presented at the Burtis
opera house next Tuesday, kept all
New York laughing for an entire
season and ran to crowded houses
all last summer in Chicago. 1t is the
greatest comedy success CT its author,
William Gillette, who adapted it from
and is the first work from his pen
since he wrote the now famous
"Secret Service" The title of the
piece is in manner explanatory of
the story it tells. Mr.. Gillette has
been uniformly and emphatically sue
cessful in rendering French farce into
delightful English adaptations, and
in Because She Loved Him So" he
is said to have been as effective and
graceful as in the numerous other
adaptations that have been made by
him. Right down through the long
list from '.All the Comforts of Home
and "Mr. Wilkinson's Widows. to
loo Much Johnson, theatre-goers
have never failed to, find plenty of
hearty and healthy laughter in the
comedies that have worn MIR. Gill
lette's name. He is now in the ripest
and most successful part of his career,
both as actor and playwright, and it
is only reasonable to expect for the
man who wrote Secret Service''-an
play that has triumphed in
both the new and old worlds-that
this new play will be bright and en-
as well as in every way
worthy of his great reputation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
II Happened In q Drug store.

lone day last week lady came to
my drug store and asked for brand
of cough medicine that l did not have
in stock" says c. K. Grandin. the
popular druggist of Ontario, N. Y.
She was disappointed and wanted to
know what cough preparation | could
recommend. l said to her that i
could freely recommend Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, and that she
could take bottle of the remedy and
after giving it fair trial if she did
not find it worth the money to bring
back the bottle and 1 would refund the
price paid. In the course of a day or
two the lady came back in company
with friend in need of a cough med
icine and advised her to buy bottle
of Chamberlain Cough Remedy. l
consider that very good recommen-
dation for tie remedy" The remedy
owes its great popularity and extern
sive sale in a large measure to the
personal recommendations of people
who have been cured by its use. II
is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
STRUCK 1T RICH
when They Needed 1t Bad,

when two months old baby re-
fuses to nurse and cannot digest any
of the baby foods or cows milk pre-
pared in different ways, we must do
something or lose the baby. That
was the condition of our little one
about year and a half ago.
I'VE tried every baby food on the
market, beside the cows milk, but
nothing seemed to agree with him.
He suffered from Indigestion, until
by the time he was nine months old,
he had grown so weak and emaciated
that we didn't think he could live.
AT last his stomach refused to take
anything, and for three days the little
fellow was actually starving for some
thing he could digest.
81 happened to have box of Grape
Nuts in the house and getting a tea
spoonful, poured a little hot water
over it, letting the food stand few
minutes, then gave the baby the
brown water which had the strength
of the Grspe-Nuts in it. He could
take but two spoonsful at time and
then rest a while.
His stomach retained the food and
after one days use of the Grape-Nuts
in this wav, his bowels were right.
for the first time in six months. l
continued to feed him the water from
the Grape-Nuts and little cream, and
later on the softened food itself, and
he steadily improved, his little body
and limbs beginning to get round and
plump, and by the time he was year
old he was as large again as when
nine months old. At Is months he
weighed % pounds, and now at IS
months he it great, fat, jolly baby
climbing and going everywhere, full
of fun, rosy cheeks and bright eyes.
During all this time his food has
been Grape-Nuts; Just the water at
first, then later on he had the food
itself. He is the best advertisement
Grape-Nuts could have in this town,
for every one knew his condition and
no one thought he could possibly live.
We give all the praise to this most
valuable food, and never lose an OPP
portunity to recommend it to persons
suffering from indigestion and lack of
Mrs. G. ID. Johnston
Greenfield, Ind.
Actual proof is better than all the
ory, yet it is we'll to know that Grape
Nuts food is made scientifically and
made for purpose. The most pow
erful elements in wheat and barley
are used and so prepared as to fur
nish the human body with those
food elements, predigested in nat
ural manner; that is, turned from
starch into grape sugar.
The food is powerful enough for
athletes ana easy enough Of digestion
Gas shown by the above experience)
for the weakest babe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
HAPPY SURPRISE PARTY.
Miss Dora Senger Remembered by a Com
pany of Friends.

Miss Dora Senger Remembered by Com
Pany of Friends.
Miss Dora Senger was pleasantly
surprised last evening at her home,
925 Eleventh street, in honor of her
birthday. The evening was spent in
games and other amusements and also
vocal and instrumental selections, af-
ter which q fine spread was partaken
of. The occasion was one long to be
remem bered by all present. Miss
Senger received many beautiful pres
ents. Those present were: Misses
Anna Powe, Barbara Mandle, Theresa
Peters, Pauline thinner, Maggie Klotz,
Emeline Huber, Mamie Hale, Dora
Senger, Maud Callahan; George SEN
ger, Joe Math, Herman Schnell. AL
bert Huber. George Townsend, Ferdi-
nand Schnell, Harry Coyne and Fred
Erhart
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
Henry wiIbert's Death.

The Oil City Derrick, OH City, Pa,
has the following account of the death
of the father OF j. S. Wilbert, of this
city:
Henry Wilbert, one of the pioneer
oil operators in this vicinity, and one
of E.enango county's best and most
highly respected citizens, died at his
home in Petroleum Center, at $50
o'clock Sunday morning, from
Bright's disease. after long illness.
The deceased was 90 years of age
and was born near Co blentz, Germany,
and came to this country with his
parents when he was II years of age.
The family located at Rome, n. Y,
but short time afterwards Mr.. Will
bert went to Wisconsin, where he built
u cabin in the wilderness and COM
menced to clear ground for farming.
About this time news OF the great
discovery of petroleum on Oil creek
reached him and he left his home in
the west and came to this vicinity,
locating on the Tarr farm, where he
engaged in the oil producing industry.
"Mr. Wilbert followed the oil devel-
opment to Pithole and Piumer, and in
1867 he returned to the neighborhood
of his first venture in the oil business
and for about fifteen years thereafter
he was employed in a mechanical po-
sition with the Central Petroleum
company, that company owning and
operating Il large tract of land at Pc
troleum Center, and known as the
Wash McClintock farm. When
that company dissolved. Mr. Wilbert
bought their property. This land
was drilled by Mr.. Wilbert and he
also farmed a part~of it. He was a
man of the strictest integrity and in
dustry, and man whom men were
proud to call friend, and whose life
has been an incentive for all who
came in contact with him. He is sur
vived by nine children, five daughters
and four sons. One of the former is
Sister Mary Pierre, of St. Joseph's
convent, Titusville. The other
are Caroline, Elizabeth and
at home, and Margaret, of
Pittsburg. His sons are John S., Pc
ter A. the latter of the firm of Breene
& Wilbert, the well-known attorneys,
of Oil City; Charles and Henry. Jr.
MIR. Wilbert was a consistent mem Der
of the Catholic church, and it was
largely through his influence and sup
port that services of that faith have
been conducted in the Petroleum Cen
ter church so lohg after the glory of
that place has departed. He was a
of the G. NJ. b. Al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
stockhoIders' Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Peoples Power company
will be held at the general offices of
the company, No. 100 Seventeenth
street. Rock Island. ILL.,, on Friday,
Nov. %. 1900, at $50 O'Clock p. m,
for the purpose of electing directors
for the ensuing year, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the meet
ing. S. S. DAVIS, Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
Announcements,

The undersigned will be at Grot-
jams drug store on Saturday evening,
Oct. 81, and Wednesday evening, Oct.
81, for the purpose of receiving
October assessments from mem bers
of Sylvan Court of Honor, No. 391.
j. &. WOODS,
Recorder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
characterization Nerve

Was the result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and tre-
mendous energy are not found where
stomach, liver, kidneys and, bowels
are out of order. If you want these
qualities and the success they bring.
use DR.. Kings New Life Pills Only
25 cents, at Hartz & UIlemeyer's drug
store
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26

GA - re II Ia
B.sutA. The Kind You Haa llKsys Bogea
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
FOR Over Ffftr Year.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. Il
sootbes the child, softens the gums
allays all pain, cures wind colo, and
is the best remedy for diarrhoea. 2;
cents . bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
Don't be deceived or humbugged by

people who claim the discovery of
some hitherto Unknown herb or rost
in swamps, or on some mountain or
prairie, for the cure of kidney or
bladder troubles Any doctor or
druggist will tell you that such claims
are fraudulent. Foley's Kidney Cure
simply contains remedies that are
recognized by the most skillfui physi-
clans as the best for these complaints,
60 don't be credulous or foolish. Fer
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
To Stop q Cold.

After exposure or when you feel a
cold coming on, take dose of Foley's
Honey and Tar. 1t never fails to
stop a cold if taken in time. Take
nothing else. For sale by all drug
oists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26

Mr. Pierce formerly lived in Rock
Island, and is son of Capt. ". II.
Pierce. The couple win sile in
Gilchrist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
Job Couldn't Have stood 1t

If he had itching piles. They're
terribly annoying but Bucklen's
Arnica Salve will cure the worst case
of piles on earth. 1t has cured thous-
ands. For injuries, pains, or bodily
eruptions it's the best salve in the
world. Price % cents a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by Hartz & Ulle-
never, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26

Buchanan, Mich. May %. Gene
see Pure Food company, LIE Roy, n.
Y. Gentlemen: My mamma has been
a great coffee drinker and has found
it very injurious. Having used sew
eral packages of your Grain-O, the
drink that takes the place of coffee,
she finds it much better for herself
and for us children to drink. she has
given up coffee drinking entirely. We
use package every week. l am 10
Years old. Yours respectfully,
FANNIE WILLIAMS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-26
AItgeld's Coming.

Ex-Governor John p. Altgeld, who
speaks in the city next Wednesday
evening, has been doing unusually eff
fective work on the stump this fall.
lie has been in general demand
throughout the east and the people of
Rock Island, who have previously been
under the spell of his oratory, will not
fail to treat his appearance with a fit
ting demonstration.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
Short and Useful Pointers.

Apple trees should have thorough
culture.
Winter apples are generally the prof
table ones.
Don't cultivate corn 80 deep that you
cut the roots.
Select a cool place when setting
hens late in the season.
Charcoal made from corn cobs Will
be appreciated by the hogs.
You can't make any mistake by add
ing soy beans to the pig ration.
Overfeeding. especially with some
foods, will result in ruined udders.
Make it a point to introduce fresh
blood into your stock every season.
Farmers do not pay sufficient atten-
tion to the different methods Of culture.
Variety of production seems to be
the best plan to secure good prices 1or
farm produce.
The farm where sheep-growing Is
made a success always shows an I'M
provement year by year.
The hens roosting on wagon axles
over night show that the head of the
farm uses but little judgment.
Every farm should have at least suf-
ficient trees to furnish n good supply
Of fruit for the farmers family.
Some claim that filth is not the cause
of hog cholera, but, in spite of this, we
all know that it furnishes a prolific
field for Its growth.
The principal requirements of O
human being are something to eat and
something to wear. By this you can
readily see the value Of sheep.
The man who keeps his cow on pas
ture alone from May until October.
thinks thut his cow is paying too big
profit, and wants her to cut it down.
Care should be taken in bringing
young steers up to their full feed. 1t
should be done gradually. Each day
give them just about what they Will
eat.
A farmyard without at least three or
four shades trees is very unsatlsfac-
tory, and If the shade Is secured from
some sort of fruit tree, why so much
the better.
If you have any dead animals don't
leave them out for the crows. If you
do, you will find that your farm is
stocked better with crows than any
thing else.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
improving the Farm.

The cause of the increasing number
of run down farms is from lack OF
knowledge of the primary principles
of agriculture. The land deteriorates
without attracting attention. This
decline III the farms fertility Is going
on all the time. slowly but surely. and
the amount produced each year be-
comes less and the farmer finally
awakes to the fact that his farm IS
wearing out, and he knows not how 10
stop the wear He keeps up the pro-
cess of taking off and hauling to the
market the wheat, corn and oats, pas
lures the stalks with the hogs and
mich COWS and these help in the work
of destroying the mechanical condi-
ton of the soil. The straw is burned
in the wheat field or else is stacked IN
the open yard and the cows eat ano
destroy it as they brave the rigors OF
winter. Because OF a lack of early
training in the correct principles OF
good farming lie does not see his er-
rors and the work of reducing the
farms productiveness continues until
it gets name that makes it practical
ly unstable.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
New York's Unknown MllllonaIres.

A Wall Street man who has been
making up O. list Of old unsettled es'
tates In New York City said that until
he began the work he had no adequate
appreciation Of the great wealth Of
this city. "For instance" he said, Il
discovered an estate last week which
amounts 10 q good deal more than q
million and when the man who owned
it died suddenly several years ago no
one knew him outside Of little circle
Of family friends. He was born IN
New York City and lived here all his
life with reai estate valued ut more
than q million dollars In his name and
yet he never figured in any of the
lists Of wealthy men. OF course the
Fayerweather estate was striking
example Of unexpected wealth, but
there are many others which foot up IL
the millions and Of which the public
knows nothing. There is NO way to
get a directory of these valuable es-
tates. Many Of the trust companies
have lists of them, which they guard
closely. My information has been
gained by following up all sorts of
clues and old records and If I decided
to publish 1t, after it had served my
purpose, it would make interesting
reading.-New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
Tho Farmer,s Dog.

A good dog Is Of most inestimable
value to the farmer, but useless cur
is worse than nuisance. There are
but comparatively few dogs in the
country that are worth their keep
Nearly every farmer owns dog, some
times three or four; but few are In any
way trained to be useful. Dogs are IN
telligent creatures and will often pick
up enough of their legitimate work
about the farm to be useful, but the
average eur rarely does. In the dog,
as in all other animals, blood tells. The
popular idea seems to be that dog is
q dog, and more or less Of q nuisance.
To pay a good price for pup would
call down the scorn Of the neighbor-
hood. And If the dog grew to be
big, fine-looking fellow, the chances
are that he would be poisoned by some
one who cannot realize that the dog
is the noblest Of animals. A neighbor-
hood is certainly better off for being
rid Of n cur. but to wilfuIly murder
fine, good tempered animal simply be-
cause he is large and strong is nothing
less than criminal. In our home town
in the past two years there have been
no less than a half dozen Newfound-
land, st. Bernard and mastiff dogs
poisoned. Not one of them was vicious
or ill-natured, and all were very fond
of children. No one can keep a large
dog in the town, yet the streets are
full Of mongrels and ours ut all hours
of the day and night. 1t is but rarely
that these animals meet an untimely
end.-The Epitomist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
O-I-C

When preparation has an advertised rep
utation that is worldwide, it means that
preparation is meritorious. Ifyou go into
u store to buy an article that has achieved
universal popularity like C0scarets Candy
C1;shartic for example, you feel 1t has the
endorsement OF the world. The judgment
: of the people Is infallible because it Is nm
personals The retailer who wants to sell
you something elsen4 In place Of the ar,
ticie you ask forshas an ak to grind. Don't
staad to- reason He's trying to sell
something that is not what he represents It
to be. Why? Because he expects to de-
IiyesaR extra profit out of your credulity.
Are you easy2 Dom. you see through his
little gamer The man who will try and sell
you substitute for Cascarets is fraud.
Beware OF him! He is trying to steal the
honestly earned benefits of q reputation
which another business man has paid for.
and If his conscience will allow him to go
so far, he will go farther. If he cheats
his customer in one way, he will in an
other and 1t Is not safe to do business with
him. Beware Of the Cascaret substitutci
RemeE::.r Cascarets are never sold In
bulk but in metal boxes with the long
tailed "C' on every box. and each tablet
stamped G. G. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
Shifted Responsibility.

A woman employed at a YORKSHIRE
factory took her fiye-year-old boy TO
the hospital and asked the surgeon to
look mt his hand. By some freak or
Nature his finger and thumb had In
terlocked causing him great pain at
times
"Why didn't you come here earlier,
nv good woman2" said the surgeon In
q tone of sharp reprimand. 1.-THE little
chap has evidently been suffering from
this extraordinary defect since the day
of his birth. If you had brought him
soon after he was born l might have
done something for him but l very
much fear I cannot now"
The woman aware that she was SAL
ly to blame. but loath to take the full
responsibility, Immediately turned
upon her unfortunate offspring.
"Dost ia hear what the gentleman
says, Tommy" she cried. "rha ouSht
to ave mentioned it FIVE years sin.
Oih've no patience vi folk at sut1er
an say nowt."-London Spare Mo-
ments.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22

he can control the use of his products
so that the sellers and retailers or It
must solicit his patronage.
There are many ways to use milk
with more profit than selling at TWO
and three cents quart. There ls
nutritive value In skim milk for feeu'
ing that should at once appeal to every
dairyman. We first have the chance
to skim off the cream and convert IL
into butter. That is worth something,
and it will bring fair prices In any
market. Let that. however, be inc
by product, not the main object of the
work. Feeding the skim milk to coll
vert it into money Is what we are aim
iny ut. Suppose now we rnise drove
or hogs sufficient to consume all INT
skim milk produced In the dnirT, ana
then add q few colonies of chickens.
Here we have two distinct sources OF
consumption. The pigs Will thrive anu
fatten on skim milk when fed properly
with other: food In way that will pay
for all the trouble and expense OF
breeding them. This sort Of breeding
does not contemplate swill, and sour
at that. No hogs will do their best on
sour swi'. and no one should expect lt
Of them "A. these enlightened Days. But
If you want to make good sweet pork,
pork that is not oil fat, but solid and
firm, with lines Of lean streaked IN
it, rnlse your drove Of hogs on clover.
and feed them sweet skim milk anu
some corn meal. Let the milk be 1ed
as liquid and also mixed up with the
corn. The clover will supply them
with one class of food material, ana
the milk and corn will add fat anu
weight so fast that the pigs Will pay
we'll on the investment. Skim milk
fed to pigs in connection with other
foods can be made to return prof1t OF
80 to 40 cents per 100 pounds. This Is
far better than shipping the "hole
milk to a glutted market. In connec-
tion with the butter profits, the dairy
should thus be made more prontaole
than when run largely for the benent
of the city milk dealer.-C. z. Raynor'
in American Cultlvator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
A Now Kind Of F1y.

An aetonished, but apparently salts
fed spider was one upon which gen.
tleman recently made an experiment.
The result of his Investigations is told
In Public Opinion:
While watching some spiders one
day, it occurred to him to try what ef-
feet the sound of tuning fork would
have upon them. He had strong sus-
plclon that they would take it for the
buzzing of q fly. Selecting a large,
fat spider, TINT had long been feasting
OH flies, he sounded the fork and
touched thread of the spiders web.
The owner was at one edge of his
web and the thread selected wa1 on
the other side. Over his wonderful
telephone wires the buzzing sound was
conveyed to the watching SPIDER. but
from his position he could not tell
along which particular l.ne the sound
was travelling.
He ran to the centre OF the web IN
hot haste, and felt all around urti' he
touched the thread against the other
end of which the FORK was sounding.
Then. taking another thread along
with him, as n precautionary measure,
he ran out to the fork and sprang upon
1t.
At this point he found out his mis-
take. He retreated for a short dis
tance, and stopped to survey this new
buzzing creature which should have
been a fly, but strangely unlike any In
sect he had ever seen. At length. ap-
parently convinced that the object at
the outer edge of his web was more
suitable for amusement than for an
article of diet. he got on 1t again and
danced with pleasure. 1t was evident
that the sound of the fork was music
to him.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-08-22
Poultry Feeding.

Those who want fat chickens or
turkeys should remember that the only
way is to begin by feeding right from
the beginning. Do not trust to their
being able to pick up a living in the
fields for the summer, and then fatten
in few weeks before killing. II lhey
find enough to eat when running at
large they will eat but little or not at
all when they come up at night, out
1t should be placed where they can
get it If they want it. Never let them
20 to roost until they have had all they
care to eat of sound grain, and we pre-
fer the whole grain to any mash as the
last food Of the day. OF course those
who keep their fowl in yards DO not
need this advice, but they need to reed
at regular hours and give as much MS
they will eat at night.