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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
TaIiSmanH In China.

The belief in the potency of charms,
etc, is very widespread among the low
err class Chinese and the Shans in parts
of Yunnan. The latter in particular
have all kinds of amulets to ward off
evil, the gem OF their collection being
one which confers invulnerability on
the wearer. This useful quality may
also be obtained, / was informed, by
undergoing a very painful process of
tattooinG. During my trip was shown
a dragons nest" which looked like a
bit of the horsehair stuffing from for
eign saddle. guaranteed to render the
purchasers house safe from fire. and q
female deer's horn" which would ena-
bic the fortunate owner to walk great
distance without fatigue.
Not being n landed proprietor or a
professional Splinter, 1 had no use for
these things, and though entered into
negotiations with several people for
the talisman which would render me
invulnerable none of them was willing
to stand the test of western skepti-
cism-a revolver at 80 paces-even
though 1 offered them an enormous
sum and handsome funeral in case of
accident.-Geograp Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

pint" says the deacon as he hits q
cracker barT with his cane. Yes, sir.
thar's good deal IN your theory about
dodgin- When all the COWS around
here was heyin the lump jaw. Teller
offered to protect mine ag'in IL fur S3.
/ said I'd let her take her chances, and
. she come through all right 1 obsarve
! Moses Forbush among the audience.
and, as Moses built the fence around
the schoolhouse, mebbe he's got sun
thin to say"
Il amt ag'in lightnin rods" says
Moses in his slow way-"I'm not ag in
'em fur what they are. 1t pears to
me, however that we'd better begin at
the bottom instead of the roof. Thar's
about 20 hogs nestin under the school
house, and thar's about 20 holes in the
| floor. 1 sorter like the idea of light
| hin rod. and sorter like the idea of a
new floor and drivin the hogs out. One
| idea sorter balances the t'other, and l
| don't want TO cast my vote either way"
You hewitt made a pint" says the
deacon, but nobody expected you to.
1 take it, however, that you go in fur
an emporium of education. bein you
got the job of buildin the fence and
hev seven children goin to school"
Yes, 1 think 1 do replies Moses.
1--WE allus felt that 1t was my duty
to uphold the Magma Charta of liberty.
and when it comes to boostin the
wheels of progress and civilization I'm
good to lift a ton"
1t was then suggested that the light
min rod man might want to say sunthin
more, and he went at it and made a
reg lar Fourth of July Grafton. He pic
tured George Washington, John Han
cock, Thomas Jefferson and half q doZ-
en- more goin to school to learn how to
spell such words as liberty" free
dom" and "bulwarks." He pictured
them schoolhouses bein struck by light
nin fur the want of rods, and he had
tears In Joab Warmers eyes in less'n
five minits. Then he pictured the hap
Ply children of Jericho crowded into the
schoolhouse on summers day.
Among them was future lawyers, doc
tors, editors, statesmen and poets.
They was drinkin in deep drafts OF
education when a black cloud appeared
over Jim Taylors barn, rumble of
thunder was heard, and a mint later
a thunderbolt shot out and struck the
schoolhouse. and thar was a tragedy to
conyulse the world. The town had
saved SIS on lightnin rod, but whar
was the schoolhOuse, the schoolma'am
and Al scholars? Some was shoutin
and some was wipin their eyes when
the man sot down, and after Deacon
Spooner had declared it the strongest
pint he ever heard he made ready to
put the question to vote. Jest then
in comes Lish Billings, and the deacon
turns to him and says:
''Lish, we are hevin a meetin about
that lightnin rod on the schOolhouse.
AS you painted the buildin mebbe
you'd like to say sunthin. Are you fur
it or ag'in itT'
Neither one" answers Lish after
awhile.
Are you standin neutral"
mot exactly"
"Then, how do you make 1t outr
"Why, the burned old buildin fell
down about an hour ago of its own
self. and don't reckon thar's any call
to waste any breath about the mat
ter" NJ. QUAD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
Story For the Wee One.

story For the Wee Ones.
There was once q sheep who lived in
a pleasant green field. He ate the grass
and drank the water.
One day a man came along. He look
ed at the sheep and said: ''Oh, you are
dirty! 1 must wash you" He caught
the sheep and dragged him into the
pond. 'Ba-a! Ba-a"' said the sheep.
He thought he was going to be drown
ed. But the man only squeezed him
up in handfuls and waggled him about
by his legs till the sheep was clean.
Then he gave him push up the bank
and let him go. "Ba-a! Ba-aw bleated
the sheep. He stood dripping on the
grass. He hadn't any towel, but the
warm sun soon dried him.
Next day the man came again with n
great pair of shears. The sheep ran
away-ran as fast as he could-but the
man ran faster and caught him 'Ba-a!
Ba-aw said the sheep. He thought he
was going to be killed this time.
The man took the scissors - snip.
snap, snip, snap-and the sheep was
too frightened to ba-a. But the man
was only cutting the sleeps hair.
Sleeps hair is wool. Snip, snap, snip.
snap, BY and by all the wool was OF.
Then the man let the sheep run away
ba-a, ba-a-quite naked. But the wool
they put in the train-puff, puff, puff,
puff and brought 1t up to town to
make baby's coy socks with.-Cincin-
natl Commercial Tribune
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
SAVED BY PLUG OF ToRAcco.
New York Boys Remarkable Expert
ence While Fighting the Boers.


ence While Fighting the Beers.
A good many people protest against
smoking and say that it is injurious,
but Corporal John Trusttum OF the
Royal Horse artillery, a New York
boy who went out to South Africa
to fight the Beers, will always swear
by 1t for the reason that plug of to-
bacco saved his life at the battle of
KHpkraal, near BIoemfontein, on
May 3.
John Trusttum resided with his mar
ried sister, Mrs. Vogt, in New York.
He has a roaming disposition and
could not rest in New York when the
Boer var began. He longed for an
opDn: tunity to see the fighting in South
africa, and accordingly he went to
England, Joined the Horse artillery
and went out fired with the ambition
OF serving under Lord Roberts.
He went through several bloody en-
gagements and came out scathless IN
til the attack on Klipkraal. May 3,
when he was leading a gallOping Max
i'm battery up the hill, says the New
York Journal. On arriving at ths sum-
NIT the Beers opened fire and, as Trust
tum graphically describes in his let
ter, cit looked like a sheet of fame.
Men fell on every side. My horse was
shot in seven places and died instantly.
AS fell with him 1 felt a sharp pain
in my right thigh and knew that had
been shot.
Il lay on the ground for three hours
IN great pain. because could not ex-
tricate myself from under the horse.
~ <rf IL (eaI
faint. Later on an ambulance came
along and conveyed me TO the hospital
at Bloemfontein. When the surgeon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
A WARM DISCUSSION.
JERICHO AeITATED AsoUTA SCHOOL,
HOUSE LIGHTNING ROD.

Pap Perkins. the Postmaster, Tells
| About the P'ints That Were Made
on Both Sides and How the Build
ing Itself Settled the Question.
Copyright. 1900. by C. B. Lewis.l
It was lightnin rod man who start
I'd the schoolhouse discussion. He
came along the other day and saw that
the schoolhouse was without a rod,
and he went to the town board and Of
fered to put one up for so much. The
town board wrastled over il all day
without comm to a conclusion, and
when Ii got to be known all over Jericho
a big crowd assembled at the postofice
in the eYenin to talk the matter over.
1t was Deacon Spooner who called the
crowd to order and said:
las it appears to me and to a major
ity of the citizens Of this town that an
epoch in the history of Jericho has ar
rived, call upon the lightnin rod man
to state his case"
There amt much to state" replies
the man. I've offered to put up two
rods on the schoolhouse and warrant it
a good job for $40. Bein as a school
house is an emporium of knowledge
and bein as the cause of education may
be said to be the bulwarks of liberty,
I've Knocked SO Off the regular price"
II take it that he's made a pint"
says the deacon as he turks on the
floor with his cane. Emporium OF ed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
He Had Three Tongues.
SECOND APPEARANCE.

Little Dean is years old, and he
frequently surprises his auditors with
remarks that would sound mature from
children of greater age, says the Utica
On. " Observer. While out driving
with his aunt recently the horse, be-
ing somewhat playful. behaved rather
undignifiedly while passing a street
car. This caused the youngster to re-
mark, "Auntie, when we meet the next
car you had better let me drive"
During the rest of the journey his
numerous questions and running fire
Of conversation became rather annoy
ing to auntie, when she asked, "Well,
Dean, how many tongues have you
got:'
Three" quickly. replied. Master
Dean. .-.,.t .,r..-,s --g,g
Indeed! Where are theyT ',
"One in my mouth and one In each
shoe"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
Not the "Takins, Kind.

A story about little Prince Edward
OF York appears in The British Week
". Not long ago he was taken over q
big battleship and was much interest
ed In a large, heavily built chest which
was shown him. What does that
hold?" he asked the tall officer who ac
companied him Powder" was me
reply. The little boy looked svinpa-
thetically at the stalwart figure and
observed, Then do you tale powders
too"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
Lost No Time.

Parke-I told my wife she could sell
II she desired the furniture that had
become too bad for use.
Lane-She was prompt to take the
hint, was she?
Parke (sadly)-Was she? There isn't
Q thing Ieft-Harper's Bazaar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
In SIEa

Willie Good-Pa, our teacher says
that collect" and "congregate" mean
the same thing.
Rev. Goodwill, you tell your teach
eT that you have information that
there is considerable difference be-
tween a congregation and collection.
Baltimore American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
A wedding Invitation.

A correspondent sends US the follow
ing unique Invitation TO a colored we'd
ding ceremony in Liberty county:
Dear Sir-Yo' yo'r lady is hereby invite to
q social weddin Of Mr.. Joe McAnsly TO Miss Sue
wilkins "Wednesday night, weather permittin.
Admission. ladies. IS cents; gentlemens, IS: chill
drens. 10. Also. please bring . present With you.
II IL amt but cents worth There will be .
dance Come one. come all.
Atlanta Constitution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

Mrs. Tucker-Tommy. what makes
You so late?
Fommy-Had some words with the
teacher, and she kept me In after
school
Mrs Tucker-You had words with
the teacher?
Tommy-Yes'm: couldn't spell them.
Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
rheir summer c1othe..

4 teacher was explaining to a little
girl how the trees developed their foil
age in the springtime.
''Ah. yes" said the little miss; 'I IN
derstand- They keep their summer
clothes in their trunks!''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
Comrade Robin.

Willow, willow, golden yellow,
In the valley land 2bloom,
Do you know that /, your fellow,
From the dreamy south am Gomez
Yellow willow, greet me home.
!. your summer comrade, willow,
From far lands beyond far seas
Rode the wind and scorned the billow
Homing to you, willow trees,
And your pollen, yellow bees.
Willow, willow, golden yellow,
From your arms beneath the blue,
Do you know that ], your fellow,
All day long will sing to you.
From the dawning till the dewf
Theodore Roberts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
Atlanta Constitution.

Running at right angles with the
Orange river. South Africa. are mighty
downs OF red sand, which extend for
miles into the vast desert of the KaIa-
hari- There are few wells, and some
produce horse sickness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

Trains marked daily. All others daily ex.
cept Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

Clinton. Sterling. Chicago
Clinton. Chicago. Omaha,
Denver. Rockford, James
Vile, Madison Qleave Day-
export. ......-........-.--.
Clinton. Chicago, Dixon,
Sterling Gar Davenport
Clinton, Cmahs. Sioux City,
Utah and Pacific Coast
Clinton. Sterling, Dixon,
Chicago. Cedar Rapids,
AnamOSa. -......-.....
Clinton. Chicago. James
VILE, Madison, Rockford
Clinton. Denver. Omaha,
Cedar Rapids ..........
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

carnival departure. tDaly, except Sun
ephone 1893.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27
TRAIHs
I LEAVE I ARRIVE

Trains marked daily: all other trains daily
except Sunday. The S:45 D. N. tran carries
through sleeper TO St. Louis, arriving there
7.26 q.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-27

St. l. Springfield. Peoria
Bur. Quin. via Monmouth
Chicago, Sterling, Clinton &
Dubuque .............
Peoria, Beardstown, Bur
nnRton. Denver and west
St. Paul & Minneapolis.
Sterling, Clinton & Dubuque
St. L., KBns c., Denver &
PRc. coast via Galesburg q.
sDaily. tDally except Su
The sun., 1900-09-19
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.
Plans for Their ReburiaI in Arling-
ton Cemetery.

Washington, Sept. 1S.-Arrangements
for the ceremonies attending the reinter-
ment of the Confederate dead buried in
and about Washington are rapidly near
ing completion. The site selected by the
committee is one Of the prettiest remain
ing in the National cemetery at Arling-
ton. and the final details only await the
approval of the Secretary of War.
The work of the committee from the
camps-11 G. V. T., and Broadway
Rouss G. V. U.-who have the arrange
ments i'll charge, has been a labor of love
and the ceremonies plancd will be of the
most impressive order The bodies from
the cemetries from the Soldiers Home,
which is on the Maryland side of the
Potomac, and those now resting ut Ar
lington, will be taken mp and placed side
by side-comradeS in death as they had
been in life
The committees have planned to make
the event memorial service. and it is
very probable that the Union veterans
will join forces with the wearers of the
gray in the march to Arlington ana ill.,
services at the grave.
The sun., 1900-09-19
FAILURE IN WALL STREET.
The Firm of Hatch .& FoOte Sus-
pendS Operations.

New York, Sept 12-The announce.
mont is made on the Stock Exchange of
the suspension Of Hatch " Foote.
Mr., Daniel Il. Hatch, tho senior mem
her of the firm. when seen at the Of
tccS, ) Nassau street, made the follow
ing statt mont:
MIR. Foote specuated without the
knowledge Of the firm for several year
and lost over S200,0G0. The loss am
the strain have broken him down. X
has been crazy for three weeks and /,
not expected to live the day out. take
it for granted that he has been out OF his
head for six months. as cannot other
wise account for his actions. After tax
ing counsel with friends thought it best
to stop business in order to clear mat
tcrs up"
Mr.. Hatch stated that the lialrii:i. &c
of the firm would not exceed $2000,00l
The assets. he thought, would be about
that, although there had been some
shrinkage. and it was largely a matter
Of estimate yet.
About 1000 shares of various promi.
nent stocks have been sold under the
rule on the exchange for account of tho
firm.
The story which is interviewer in the
facts leading up to the assignment is one
of the strangest that Wall street men OF
this generation have heard Both Mr.
Hatch and Mr.. Foote were clerks in the
old investment house of Fisk & Hatch.
which did Il large business in government
bonds 80 years ago.
In 1861 they formed a partnership. hut
not until three years later did they be
come Stock Exchange house. Mr.. Dan
icl i. Hatch was the board member,
Mr.. Foote had charge of the accounts.
Like the firm in which they received
their carly training. they did qrict
| business and were located under the
\ Fourth National bank on Nassau street.
Up to now they had been regarded rs
one of the substantial houses of the
! street
The sun., 1900-09-19
JAS. 7. MULLIN & SONS,
Clothing, Sixth
Hats, and Market,
Shoes. Wilmington.
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
BATTLING Ia Progress at Frontier
Town of I&amnti PoOrt.

BATTLING Ia Progrcss at Frontier
Town of homnti Poort.
London, Sept. 1S.-A Lourcnco Mar
lucs dispatch says:
Fighting is proceeding at Komati
Poort. All the available men have been
sent to the frontier. 1t is expected that
Komati bridge will be destroyed. There
is great uneasiness here"
Komati poort is town on the from
tier of the Transvaal and on the rail
road leading from Pretoria to Portu-
guese territory. 1t is situated about 80
miles from Lourenco Marques With
the occupation of Komati Poort the
British would be able to cut of all sup
plies reaching the Beers by railroad from
Portuguese territory.
Lord Roberts reports from Machado-
1orp, under date of Monday, Sept. H.,
that few minor skirmishes have taken
place between the British troops and
the Beers. He adds that General
French has captured so locomotives, in
addition to the 43 locomotives and other
rolling stock which he took when he
occupied Barberton Sept. 13, and that
General Stephenson was expected to oc-
cupy Nelspruit during the afternoon of
Sent IL
The sun., 1900-09-19
LULL IN CHINESE news
Reported Imperial Edict Upholds
Agreement Of Viceroys.
CONCESSIONS TO CoNVER.Ilss. s.
The Allies at PeISing Take n stand
Against LOOting, the Germans
Making Robbery Cnp-
itnI OGense.

Washington, Sept. 1S.--It is said at
the state department that no emergency
exists in connection with the China mat
ter or any of the foreign relations of the
country which demands the presence of
the president in Washington. However
when President Mckinley left Washing
ton for Somerset and thence for Canton,
it was the understanding that he would
make periodical visits to Washington at
intervals of week or ten days, and his
departure from Canton is said to be mere
ly to keep one of these engagements. A
telegram received at the White House
states that the president will reach here
very soon.
1t is positively stated that there has
been no change in the Chinese situation,
at least in its diplomatic aspects.
1t is learned here that the discussion
now proceeding in Berlin of an alleged
American proposition to limit the occu-
pying forces in China to 1000 in Peking
1000 outside the Walls and 10000 else
where is not based upon any plan sug-
gested by the state department here. 1t
can be stated positively that it has not
figured in the diplomatic negotiations.
An Imperial Edfct.
A dispatch from Shanghai says an i'm
perial edict has been issued which sane
tions the agreement of the viceroys with
the consuls regarding the maintenance of
order in the central and southern prov
inces. 1t also agrees that native Chris
tians who refrain from holding meetings
and creating disturbances shall be treat
ed impartialy.
\ dispatch from Peking of date of
Sept. 13 says:
"Three hundred American cavalrymen
will leave tomorrow for the northeast to
rescue Christians who are surrounded by
the Boxers. It is expected that they will
be gone ten days.
"Other expeditions had been planned,
but the general sentiment is opposed to
them because they keep the country in a
disturbed condition.
provost marshals' courts have been
opened by all nations to prevent looting,
and the Germans have made robbery Il
capital offense.
"A detachment of the Bengal lancers
co-operated with the Germans in an ex-
pedition against Iianghsiang to exact
reparation for an attack on German sol
diers. The Indian troopers entered the
city ahead of the Germans and tempo
rarly hoisted the British flag. In the
fighting the Chinese had 200 killed"
The sun., 1900-09-19

Apparently American coastwise snip
ping is increasing, for i'll addition to the
construction of twenty ocean screw
steamers, nearly nine hundred vessels of
one hundred and seventy-tiye thousand
gross tons, were built and registered dur
ing the year on the Atlantic, Pacific and
Gulf coasts. In 1899 the number of
American vessels engaged i'll coastwise
trade was substantially twenty thousand
having q gross tonnage of nearly mil
lion, an amount greater than the entire
tonnage of the German and French mer-
chant fleets in 1898. At the same time
the interior shipping of the United State
has been expanding, for nearly three
hundred and fifty vessels. of practically
one hundred and fifty thousand gross
tons. were built and registered on the
Great Lakes and the Mississippi and its
| tributaries in the last year.
In the last decade. according to the Of
| fical statistics in question, four hundred
and SXty-five steel steam vessels have
| been constructed in theITnited States
and of this number Philadelphia yards
| furnished one hundred and ten. or nearly
one-fourth Of the entire number: Clevc-
| Ian siXty-nine. and other Shiphuidine
Philadelphia vessels amounted to one
hundred and thirty-cight thousand ol
about one-ffth of the whole amount con
structed in the period mentioned. II
view of the growth of shipbuiding il
other sections of the country this recort
speaks for itself.
The sun., 1900-09-19
nuny In &ci,urIkiII Region.

Pottsvillc. Pa, Sept Is. - All the
Schuylkill region colleres resumed work
with tho single exception OF Morea. oprr-
atcd by Dodson & Co. The Vulcan and
Buck Mountain, near Mahanoy City. are
>horthandcd however. The Lehigh Goa!
company's Centralia colliery, which shut
down owing to scarcity OF coal. resumed
with less number of men at work.
1t is reported from Nesquehoning that
when Hugh Dempsey Of Scranton and
james Gallagher Of Hazleton, labor lead
ere, attempted to address meeting they
were jeered and pelted with stale vege.
tables and had to stop.
National President Mitchell and Or.
ganizer james will speak Mt Mahanoy
City, whore a large number of mine
workers did not report for work.
The sun., 1900-09-19
&1oO liNMARD. S1no.

The readers OF this paper will be
pleased to lca,' that there is ut least
one dreaded { Rase that science has
been abl to c s in all its stages and
that is c tarrh Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only posit. cure now known to
the med I'll f. ternity. Catnrrh being
Il constil ional ulscase. requires con-
stitutione treatment. llall's Catnrrll
Cure is taken informally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surface Of
the system, thereby destroying the foun-
dation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building mp the CON
Stitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietorS have so much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer one-hundred dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address Il. j. CHENEY, Toledo, O.
Sold Icy druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pulls are the hest.
The sun., 1900-09-19
sneech ,y wiIheImira.

The Hague Sept. 1S.-Ihc states gen
raj parliament of The Nctherlands) were
reopcned by Queen Wilhcnina, who was
accompanied by the queen mother. Ia
.he speech from sile throne her maicsty
eeferred to the continacd friendly rcla-
lions with foreign countries. with the
exception of C.iina, and mrntioacd that
he conventions OF thc peace conference
aad been ratified by almost all the pan
,rs. The queen also said: II hope Ia,
international bureau of the arhitratip
tribunal will shortly be established hc.t
and that it viii fulfill the end for whirl
t was founded by assisting in the peace
'ul settlement of the differences betwce:
lations, Il work of Importance whicl
4n.at be t2o highly rated