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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

social circles of two continents, desired
to supplement a moderate income by
rendering valuable service to ladies Of
means and neglected opportunities.
Terms could be agreed upon in a per-
sonal interview. Strictest confidence
observed"
Mildred looked up with her face full
of fun. "It sounds for all the world
like Nine. LIE Due. Dear little Bombas-
tiana. But she is a lady and we know
her. Her manner are exquisite"
"And her nature expansive. Given
the creature comforts Mrs. Monette
could supply and she would flower out
superbly."
Milly looked at him meditatively.
ri begin to think your plan a good
one"
Don't be so sparing of your en-
comiums. 1t is a grand one. The
only hitch is in the method of o n
vincing Mrs. Monette that she stands
in crying need of a Nine. LIE Due"
Mildred flung him a reproachful
glance. "She is already pathetically
convinced of that. Some Of these days,
Ledyard, you will call yourself a blind
Ounce"
After he had left her Mildred wrote
to Nine. LIE Due. 1t was a long, per-
suasive and explanatory letter. 1t
closed with a memorable quotation. for
which she referred madame to Oliver
Wendell Holmes. The sentence pre-
ceding it, however, impressed the lit
tie French woman more seriously than
did the excerpt
Il am certain, if you undertake this
lady, you will find fertile virgin soil
in which to plant your good seed. /
want you, chere annie, to make of my
little western friend such a flower of
civilization as any man might be
proud to wear in his bosom. The ma
terial is all there. She only wants
some n capable Of leading her from
her low-vaulted past, some one to
teach her how to build for her soul
more stately mansions as the swift
seasons roll. Which idea you will
find nor gracefully embodied by Mr..
Holmes"
Fielding had Just ridden out of sight
with his sisters letter to Nine. lie Due
in his pocket. The two women stood
in the front door watching him. Even
the motion of a mar and horse have
interest in the scarcity of event on a
ranch. Mildred put her arms around
Harriet's waist to ask the question:
81 have written to a friend in New
York city who wants to see your great
western country dear Mrs. Monette,
asking her to come out before Led
yard and / leave. If you find her
companionable viii you let her stay
on here in my placer"
Not to take your place, dear Miss
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

sidewalks were busted with a belated
furry of o A 5th avenue florist
and a 9Th avenue milliner located side
by side had lone their respective best
ten saints by their most ~bewildering
displays. Diana of he Tower had fall
len an easy prey to the fascinating al
lurement. She turned from the win
dow with a sigh, and her companion
did the same.
you know" said Diana, s~ententious-
ly, I'VE are being very naughty, Betty.
We oughtn't to think of a single thing
but our sins until after the on
Easter day."
This wise counsel was received with
scorn and mocking.
"Our sins? Oh, dear me, Di; / am not
a competitor for your halo and wings,
but neither am l under condemnation
for any special crime. Really, you give
one a shuddering sense of the nearness
of the electric chair"
you give a shuddering sense of hav-
ing a simpleton for my best friend.
But, come now, Betty, darling, what
is the very worst sin you ever commit
ted? If you will confess to me l will
confess to YOU"
pn.fu n-ohnI h~r hrnur. rnan0ffr11rr
Presently she shook her head as If she
gave it up and avowed a clean con-
science somewhat apologetically: "Oh,
well, you must remember, dear, l am
not in society yet. / haven't had time
or opportunity to be very giddy. I'm
afraid l really can't think Of a thing
to confess. Can your"
Lots" said Diana, laconically. a"
eat entirely too many marrons-glace-"
"Oh, l do that"
"And | can't bear to get up in the
morning. I've been late for breakfast
three times this week"
Betty's estimate Of her W GRIM
inal record rose rapidly. She nodded
cheerfully.
That's me all over"
"And-and"-Diana was tall. so the
roguish glance she flung sidewise at
her friend took a downward slant-"I
am always doing the things / want to
do and leaving undone the things !
! don't want TO do"
81 am afraid / do, too"
Diana OF the Tower sighed mournful-
ly.
What a perverse lot we must be,
Betty. and / do try to d~readfully hard
to be good. I'll have to try harder.
suppose"
"Oh, don't. The girls In the class
are half afraid Of you already. You
know what they call you. don't your"
"Diana-or-Miss Towers, I suppose
There Is nothing else to cali ne. Only
I wish they wouldn't treat me - r !
IAA ri ArL
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

Fielding VA one c.n ever Is thak
But any friend o. yours VIM be vel
come. always welcome to Farindaless
gulch."
Quite two months later. In the crisp
freshness Of tho early morning. the
Fieldings turned their backs upon the
little black-clad figure. that stood her
ground bravely. SO long as the flutter-
ing of a handkerchief could be seen.
BY her side stood a small. wrinkled
fine lady, with sharp black eyes. and
gray frizzes arranged about her blue
veined temples with scrupulous exact
ness. It was Mime. LIE Euc. Watching
the receding wagon. she softly quoted:
Build thee more stately mansions.
oh, my soul, as the swift seasons roll:
Leave thy low-raulted past"
Harriet. too. was silently recalling an
utterance of her dear Miss Fielding"
Things can rever be Just as they
once were"
Never" she sighed, almost with a
sob. Then she remembered that Nine.
LIE Due was by her side.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

cording i your own noti5ps Of whas
= girl should be.
4 see very serious 5~S3sctiohs to such
4 plan. II you rear her too tenderly.
Just as You would your own daughter,
for instance. o are laying up dreadful
trouble for her in case her mother a
coarse, uneducated woman, Of course.
should eventually turn up. They gen
orally do when they are mol wanted.
so just bear in mind. my dear, while
YOU experiment is in progress. that
no pretense of kinship is ever to be al
lowed: that the girl had better be per-
mitted a little wider range than q Miss
Desbrow could enjoy, and. above an
things. should she be left on our hands
until lovers come, no man shall be per-
mitted to WOO her without being put in
complete possession Of her story Just
as we know it ourselves"
To which Mrs. Desbrow had yielded
full and ready acquieseence. "Oh, Of
course not 1t would be d~readfully dis
honorable. And the lovers will come.
inevitably, Willie. She is going to ba !
beautiful. Her eyes make me fancy
that her mothers must have looked
like when she died and went to heaven
to be surprised into happiness"
"Died,"
"Oh, of course. she is dead long
years ago. And she must be happier
than she ever was on earth, poor
girl"
And now Diana of the Tower had
come to be as old-a little older
than that despairing. sad-eyed girl
who had been lost sight of all these
years. She was beautiful. And lovers
had come-a lover at least-ona
whom the girl looked up to with rev.
erence and hated heartily.
Betty, noticing the cloud she had
brought to her best beloved's" face,
locked her arm in Diana's to coo soft
ly. (NOWA JuCAs AFO AuNV Ay ucot
beloved frown, and when she frowns
she don't look a bit like the Ascension
lily Ted Holbrook calls her. And peo-
pie ought to be loving and forgivins
in Lent, If they really ever expect to
wear halos and things"
Diana flushed a lovely rose-pink and
laughed. Teddy Holbrook Is a goose
and you are another"
Teddy Holbrook win be a great
artist some OF these days. and you :
won't dare to snub him IS you do
now"
Il have neve snubbed him"
ooh, yes, you have. my dear. You
were perfectly fiendish to him last
class day. And II you act as ferocious
ly to-day / am afraid you will drive
him from the class, and when a way
ward young man with no mother. nor
aunts, nor sisters, nor cousins 10 keep
him in the way he should go. once
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

uere 1.uoo ysaxs I'D. m only Just 17.s
BETTY looked Il her critically.
Its because you ara SO tail. my
dear. and 30 stately and digniled.
You're never at all klttenish until you
and / get on by ourselves. It comes
Of never having had any brothers or
sisters. / guess"
This guess had q SOLDERING eject on
Diana OF the Tower. She elasped her
perfectly gloved hands about her
hymnal and walked on in silence.
looking straight ahead of her. Why
had she never had any brothers and
sisters? Who was she. at any rate?
These questions had only very recently
troubled her tt any extent. She usu-
ally put them violently away
She knew that the lowering tender
ness of a good and refined woman had
blessed her from the cradle up. God
mother" she called her. And she
knew that the ample wealth and easy
a-cQuiescence of a h~igh-toned gentle
man had secured to her all the advan-
tages girls of means could ask. God
papa" she called him. She knew
nothing more.
Mr.. Desbrow had settled all that in
her nursery days. when she and his
lordship used to tumble about the great
white bearskin rug in an absolute
equality of youth. happiness and ire
sponsibility. His lordship had left her
companionless when he had reached
the kindergarten stage of existence,
since when she had made only feeting
ties of gossamer strength.
There was a vague impress in her
mind-how she got it she could not
tell-that she was the child of some
poor relation of Mr.. Desbrow's. Why
she should have selected the Desbrow
side of the house to plant her rootless
genealogical tree she could not have
explained. She supposed vagueiy-al
of her researches into the origin OF her
own being were clewless-that her pa
rents, being poor, were in some chronic
sort of disgrace. else, certainly, IN all
these years. she would have, once, at
least, heard them mentioned.
1t was a subject she tried not to
think upon too often or very deeply.
She was thoroughly happy in her home,
and she was quite sure many a girl
was held in" more strictly by their
own parents than she by those whom
she called her 'Godparents."
This was un~questionably true. Mr..
Desbrow when relinquishing all hope
of finding the girl who had bestowed
on him such an unweleome legacy had
said. with an air of sternness meant
to carry very full weight:
my love, you have chosen to keep
this child out of the founding hospital
where she most assuredly belongs, and
you say you are going to rear her ac-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01
CHAPTER XII.
Diana of the Tower.

ut is really d~readfully d~istracting.
and | don't think we ough to be tanta-
lized this way before Easter. What
do you think?"
After Easter they would all be pick
ed"
II say the white heather"
"That Partisan bow is divine" K
Then with signs of ecstatic excitement
two fresh young faces were pressed
still closer to two big p~late-glass win
dows.
The key to the situation? Flowers
and bonnets!
1t was Lent. Very near Easter. A
crisp March wind was blowing and the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01

Ne York Evening Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
c., RI. g. p. Excursions.

On May 1 and Is and June 5 and
10, round trip tickets will be sold to
a number of points in the north, west
and southwest at a rate of one fare
plus 81. On these dates will sell
round trip tickets to Denver, Colorado
Springs or Pueblo, at rate of $2S. 25.
May 10, 20 and 81, round trip tick
cts will be on sale for Washington,
D. c., at rate of $24 05, good to return
up to and including May %.
May II, p ana %. round trip
tickets will be on sale to Detroit,
Mich, at rate of $14 81, good for re-
turn up to June l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Spreads Like Wndfire

When things are 1.-The best" they
become 1.-the best selling" Abraham
Hare, leading druggist of Belleville,
Ohio, writes: Electric Bitters are
the best selling bitters 1 have handled
in 20 years. You know why? Most
diseases begin in disorders of the
stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels, blood
and nerves. Electric Bitters tones up
the stomach, regulates the liver, kid
neys and bowels, purifies the blood,
and strengthens the nerves. hence
cures multitudes of maladies. 1t
builds up the entire system. Puts
new life and vigor into any weak,
sickly, rundown man or woman.
Price SO cents. Sold by Hartz 6
Ullemeyer, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
quick arrow shooting.

The Maya Indians have acquired eX-
traordinary dexterity with the bow and
arrow, which, with the spear. is their
only weapon, though the boys before
they are strong enough TO draw the
bow often use 4 sling made from a
strip of rawhide, with which they kill
squirrels and small birds. The bows
are about five feet long, made of a
thin, tough strip of cuhoon palm, well
seasoned. The arrows are usually car
ried in tiger skin CULVER and can be
used with marvellous rapidity, as the
following incident will show:
y chief of the Lacondones of my ac-
quaintance named Canek had been on
bad terms with his father-in-law for
some time. One morning while hunt
ing in the bush he espied the old man
in an anana tree gathering the apples.
He at once fired an arrow at the man,
striking him through the chest and
while the body was falling placed an
other arrow in the neck. Fortunately
for himself he managed to reach the
nearest Spanish settlement before any
of the murdered mans relatives could
overtake him.-Chambers' Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
The Professors Foresight

Professor Frederick Won Martens.
who holds the chair of international
law in the st. Petersburg university
and is 4 frequent representative of the
car in legal councils of moment, is
not n Russian citizen, nor even 4 Rus
sian subject, but philosophic German.
He is a notable linguist and author,
and at the Venezuela arbitration M
ference in Paris, where he read the de-
cision of the commission, he had n
pleasant fashion of addressing each
delegate in his own language. One of
the English jurists wondered how the
professor was able TO keep up his
knowledge Gf so many modern TONGUES.
The professor replied: "It is sell de-
Tense. You see, in case lose my chair
1 wish to be prepared for any off, you
foreigners may make" - Saturday
Evening Post.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Safety In Battle.

Every soldier believes that the only
safe place under fire is the recent scene
Of some cannonade escapade. When
defending fort or camp. the wounded
are generally placed in the breaches. as
the enemy is not likely to waste pow
der and shot on points which have al
ready been cleared of all barricade.
The same holds true of naval engage
ments- Sailors much prefer to sit in
some yawning gap still hot and smok-
ing from the effect of a splintering
cannon ball than behind the stoutest
bulwark.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Complainant Solicit ors.
Notice of Publication-Chancery.

State of Illinois. &C
Rock Island County, -
In the Circuit Court. May term. A. D.. 1900
NJ. V. Hoisapple vs. Mary j. Holsapple. In
chancery.
Afidavit OF unknown residence of the above
defendant, Mary J. Holsapple, having been
filed In the clerk Office of the circuit court of
said county, notice Is therefore hereby given
10 the said nonresident defendant that the
complainant fled bis bill of complaint in said
court. on the chancery side thereof, on the I'd
day of Al ril, A. D., 1900, and that thereupon n
summons issued out of said court. wherein said
suit is now pending return able on the 9TH day
In the month of May next, as is by law required
Now. unless you, the said defendant
above named, Mary J. Holsapple. shall per-
sonally be ana appear be fore said circuit court
on the first day OF the next term thereof to be
holden at Rock Island In and for the said county
on the 7tb day OF May next and plead answer
or demur to the said complainants bill of COM
plant, the same and the matters and things
therein charged and stated will be taken as
confessed, and a decree entered against you
according TO the prayer OF said bill.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE,
Clerk of Said Court.
Dated at Rock Island, illinois, April 3 1900
MCCAsKRIE MCCAsKRIE, COMPARTMENTS So
licitorS-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Is IT THE BUBoNIc PLAQUES
New Form of Pneumonia That Is Very Fa-
tai al Butte

tai Butte.
Butte. Mont, April PA strange
malady. which the health board be-
lieves is a new form of pneumonia but
which the panic-stricken people of this
city call plague. has killed more than
LOO persons since the middle of March
There are now go i'll with the disease,
which has proved fatal in nearly ev-
cry instance. Those who are able are
fleeing from the city. Death ensues
within four days after the attack and
in the majority of cases sooner. Many
have died in twenty-four hours, and
the average is within three days.
Bodies of the victims turn black imme-
diately after death Hospitals are
crowded to overlooking. There is
great lack of nurses, although many
have been brought to Butte from other
places.
In most instances the lungs are ap-
parently the first affected. There are
frightful pains in the head and great
difficulty in respiration. Then the
heart is attacked and death follows
quickly. Most persons in Butte are
convinced that the plague was brought
from the Philippines by returning sail
ors. There are $4,000 people in Butte
and they are in terror of the disease.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
OWED TO FIERY DEATH.
, Suicide Makes Cremation Sure by Jump
ing Into a Coke Oven.

Connellsville, Pa, April 24.-Leap-
ing high into the air, as an expert
diver would in taking a fancy plunge
into the water, an unknown man conf
mitted suicide yesterday morning at
the foundry works of the II. c. Frick
Coke company by diving into coke
oven. In less than a minute what had
ben a man apparently in the full vigor
of life had mingled with the curling
smoke of the ovens, distinguishable
only by its blush brown color and
nauseating odor from the gas smoke of
the burning coal.
more tragic death never occurred
in this region. The coke workers saw
him only for an instant as he prepared
for the leap. He was well dressed, OF
medium height and weight, and smooth
shaven. For the slightest possible
space of time he seemed to pause on
the sloping ground behind the ovens.
then quick as a fash he ran down the
slope, and plunged into the oven.
When the Mortified oven-drawerS
rushed forward to recover the body
there was only a charred mass of flesh
not three feet long
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
March 10, A. ]
Publication Notice.

State of Illinois, ls
Rock Island County, ~
In the circuit court, May term, A. D., 1900.
Bill TO quiet title.
Susanna NJ Gansert, complainant, VS.. An
drew ShuIr, the unknown heirs or dcvisecB
of Andrew Shurr, deceased, the unknown
heirs or devisees of Andrew Sherer, dc
ceased and the unkn9 Sn owners of the
south a OF Lots In BLOCK Q. in Spencer g.
Cases addition to the city of Rock Island,
IN tie county of Rock Island and state OF
Illinois. defendants.
To the said defendants: You are hereby no
titled that the above complainant has this day
fled 10 the ONCE Of the undersigned clerk OF
the above entitled court, a bill OF complaint
against you; the said complainant has also
fled In the ONCE OF the undersigned clerk an
afildagit 10 said court OF your non-resdence and
that the names OF the heirs or devisees OF the
said Andrew Shurr deceased, and Andrew
Sherer, deceased. are unknown.
Now, notice is hereby given to you and each
of you, that the above cause Is pending 10 said
court: that summons In chancery has been
issued therein against you, returnable TO the
next term of said circuit court, 10 be begun
and holden at the court house In the city
of Rock Island In said county on the first
Monday OF May, A. ID. 1890, At which time and
place you Will appear and plead, answer
demur to said bill of complaint, II you see At.
Dated at Rock Island Illinois. March n, A
D., 1900. GEORGE w. GAMBLE.
Clerk OF said court
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
OuestIon Anawered.

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of using
anything else for Indigestion or bill
iousness. Doctors were scarce, and
they seldom heard of appendicitis,
nervous prostration or heart failure,
etc. They used August Flow
er to clean out the system and stop
fermentation of undigested food. reg
ulate the action of the liver. stimulate
the nervous and organic action Of the
system, and that is all they took when
feeling dull and bad with headaches
and other aches. You only need a
few doses of Green's August Flower,
in liquid form, to make you satisfied
there is nothing serious the matter
with you. Sample bottles free at 7. H.
Thomas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Sale of Real Estate.
To all persons whom it may concer

To all persons whom II may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
Martha Hirig. guardian of Josephine W irig
Mary Martha Wirig, Emil Wirig aud NichoIaus
Wirig. minors wilt make application TO the
county court of Rock Island county. at a reg
uiar term thereof. to be held at the court house
in the city of Rock Island, in said county, on
the 6rst Monday of May. A. D., 1900, being the
seventh day thereof. for an order and decree
of said court, directing her said guardian,
TO sell the following real estate belonging To
said minors much thereof shall
seem to said court to the interest of said min
ors situated In the county OF Rock Island and
state of IllinOis- towit:
The one fourth 90 undivided interest In the
following described real estate: Fourteen
feet ia TT ten inches 40 in from OF the east
side of lot No. ten (I0) and all of lot No. elev-
en- Ul) except the east fourteen feet IA ft)
ten .inches 40 in) thereof, being the west
thirty-eight and one-half feet (Sstz TT )of said
lot No eleven UD in block ten IO) in tn at
part of the city and county of Rock Island and
state Of Illinois known as Thompson e.
w ellis addition TO said city, reference being
had to the original plat of said addition, for
the seaport and education OF said minors, and
for the purpose of investing such of the pro-
ceeds OF said SAFE shall not be Immediately
requisite for sad support and education In
other real estate, or of otherwise investing
the same.
MARTHA wIRTG. Guardian OF said Minors
LUpOLPH & REYSoLDSs Attorneys.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
FOB RENT.

Tor RENT ROOMS at 1911 SECOND
l. avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-24
Notice of PubIloatI on-Chancery.
State of Illinois, l.,
County of Rock Island. ( 90

state or Illinois, CO
County of Rock Island. o"
Ia the circuit court, May term, A. d. 1900
Ella BargholtZ, complainant VS.. Charles Barg
holtz defendant In chancery.
Affidavit of the non-residence of Charles
BargholtZ the defendant above named, haV-
ing been filed in the ofice OF the clerk of the
circuit court of Rock Island county
tice is hereby given to the said nonresident
defendant, that the complainant has fled her
bill of complaint in said court. on the chancery
side thereof, on the 10th day OF January A. ID.
1900, and that a summons thereupon issued out
of said court against said defendant returna-
Bile on the 9TH day OF May A. D. 1900, as is by
law required.
Now, therefore, unless you, the said Charles
BargholtZ, shall personally be and appear before
the said circuit court of Rock Island county, on
the first day of the March term thereof, TO be
holden at the court house in the city OF Rock
Island, In said county on the 9TH day of May
A. ID. 1900, and p'ead, answer or demur
to the said compliments bill OF complaint,
the same and the matters and things therein
charged and stated will be taken as confessed,
and decree entered against you according to
the prayer of said bill
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal OF said court, at
my ONCE in Rock Island this 18th day OF March
A ID. 1900. GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Connolly 81 Connolly,
COmplalnants Solicitors
March 10. A. ID 1900