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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21

When you are bilious use those
famous little pills known as DeWitt's
Little Early Risers to cleanse the
liver aud bowels. They never grippe.
Il. II. Bieber and Hartz & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21

Notice IS hereby given that the undersigned
will at the May term. A. ID 1901, of the circuit
court OF Rocx Island county, Illinois. which
convenes on the 9Th day of May A. ID. 1901,
make an application to said court for leave to
change his name from that John Il. johnson,
which he now bears, to that of John Theodore
Norrby by VT ich name to be assumed he Is to
be thereafter known and called.
Anyone interested can appear in said court
and file objectio6 u such Intended change of
name IL they SO desire and may show cause
why the court should not grant the prayer OF
the petitioner.
JOHN T. JOHNSON.
w. J. Sweeney Solicitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21

Notice il hereby given thas Tuesday, II 2d
daS of pril. A. ID 1901, in the city of Rock
Island. III, an election will be held for the
following officers. to-wit:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21
rHE TRAVELLERS GUIDE

CHICAGO, RoCKIsLAND 5
Xa3a ~ Pacidc Railway = Ttckess
GIlaIEkhiH san be purchased or baggage
,<t checked at R. = z. twentieth
r. <Eilull;H street. depot, or c., r. l. 3 Z:
depot, corner Fifth avenue ana
Thirty -nrst street. Frank II Piummer, Agent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-21
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Rock Island, H., March II, 1901.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-11-25

We want your help in distributing
the above useful articles, 80 We will
be able to dispose them at the lowest
market prices.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-11-25
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

Robertson & Wilder have moved
their law offices to the Stangenwald
uilding, Merchant street, rooms
NC 0206. 207, second foe l6-lw
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-11-25

Kentucsy's famous Jesse Moore
Whisky, unequalled for its purity
and excellence. On sale at any OF
the saloons and at Lovejoy b Co.
distributing agents Tor the Hawaiian
Islands
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
THE PROSP EROUS M METHODISTS.

This has been a great year for mak- year for giving money away. The
 Methodists in the North are congratu-
 dar year with a round $15,000000 of
 their $20,000,000 Thank Offering Fund, fore money becomes tight. Mass meet ings designed to insure the raising of the remaining $5,OOO,0O are to begin in January, and are to be held in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Chicago. In other large cities no meetings are to be held, for the reason that in them the task has already been accomplished, and cities selected are intended to be national. Speakers at all of them are to be gov ernors and United States senators. All the millions thus far raised will be used for strengthening existing enter prises, 900 going to the endow- ment of colleges and seminaries; $250,- 900 to the fund for the support of worn out preachers s2000,000 to philanthro- pies and charities, almost wholly to pay debts on buildings: and $6, $50 900 to pay debts on church buildings. In scores of cities the debts of every Methodist church have been paid off or are in pro- cess of being paid.
 Good for the Methodists. They have mt Rockefeller, as the Baptists have, but they are prosperous
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
.UNH ESiIAIthG.7

What dyer call de dog?'
 "'E used to be called Gerald, but 'es 'ad so many fits that now l calls i'm Fitz Gerald. Ally Sloper.
 Its Name-"Miss Frocks has bought a birdess hat" said Mrs. Cumso.
 Tt might be called an Audubonnet, might it not ' asked Mrs. Cawker.- Judge.
 Eff you mus resk yoh money" said Uncle Ehen, don shoot craps. Save it up an put it in de stock market. whah de police ain takin' no notice. ''-- Washington Star
 Hoax-I hear you have an automo- bile. Have you run into anything yet
 Joax-I've run into debt You see I bought it on the installment plan.- Philadelphia Record.
 You should love your neighbor as yourself"
 "Of course; but there are times when a fellow is considerably disgusted with himself" f."-Chicago Post.
 You can't always trust man who | hesitates about telling a lie" i "No?"
 NO: he may have an impeachment in his speech. Philadelphia Record. Ned--Miss stuyvesant told my sister that you asked her to marry you twice.
 Tom-No didn't. I asked her twice to marry me once.-Somerville Jour nal.
 Are you going to write letter to Santa Claus, and have it printed in the Banner?" asked the first boy.
 No; my pa doesn't take the Ban ner," was the answer.-Baltimore American.
 Singleton Cat the reception)-Our hostess just introduced me to your wife, old man. What lovely liquid voice she has.
 Wederly-Yes; that's good name for it. It never dries up,-Chicago News.
 Up to Papa-"Children," said the fa- ther, facing the ordeal manfully, this is your new mamma"
 Was that the best you could do, papa?" asked the youngest, casting a critical eye on the new member of the family.-Chicago Tribune.
 We are asked by Brooklyn doctor, says a rural Tennessee paper, "to ac- cept fit medicine in payment for ad- vertising. We will take itch ointment and condition powders, but we can't have fits just to fill our advertising space"
 "Is Bliggins still at the door?" asked Major Muchspud.
 Yes, sir" answered the butler. When I told him you were not at home he said he didn't believe it."
 You go out and tell him l say it's so."-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
SAWDUST AS FOOD.

| Sawdust is used in the making of pa
 per, but will it ever be used in the nlak-
 ing of bread? Possibly not, though it is
 dangerous to predict nowadays, but it is going to be used as food for horses
 and cattle. A German inventor has 1 found a way to so use it. There is a sugar factories, called ''melasse," which
 contains about 50 per cent. of uncrystal-
 lzed sugar. This melasse is to be
 mixed with sawdust, which is shown by analyses to be more nutritious than straw. Straw contains over 3ta per
 cent. of albumen, 361a per cent of nitro-
 gen, IA per cent. of fatty substance and
 39% per cent. of wood fiber, while pine
 sawdust has SA per cent. of albumen,
 40 1-3 per cent. of nitrogen, per cent.
 of fatty substance and 99A per cent of
 wood fiber The sawdust, however, is first treated with salt and lime water and fermented to a certain extent be- fore mixing with melasse. Animals, it has been observed, easily digest young shoots and roots of shrubs, sunflower stalks and cornst alks, and the same nu- triment remains when these become wood. According to the report, when certain chemicals-salt and calcareous water-are added to sawdust or ground corn cobs and stalks that have under gone certain fermenting process the resultant product is food for animals that is easily assimilated and digested, and is liked by cattle, horses sheep and pigs. The valuable properties of this prepared food are based upon the nu- tritious matter contained in the wood (which is set free by the fermenting process), mixed with a large percent age of melasse.'' To the fermented sawdust may be added potato peelings, bran and the like, and then from 70 to 80 per cent of melasse is to be mixed in so as to be absorbed by the sawdust
 If we can by and by learn to live on sawdust and find some way to avoid buying coal we may be happy yet.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
WHAT IS coon MONEYe

The pastor of a Wheeling (West Vir- ginia) church has put his foot in it. He is suffering under the wrath of the w. c. T. U. because he has accepted con- tr1bution of five hundred dollars to his building fund from wealthy brewer. This, in the opinion of the temperance organization, is blood money, but the minister says that he is a gentleman, as well as a Christian, and will not re- turn the contribution. On the other hand, he hopes that the brewers sub scription will be followed by ''other similar manifestations of good fellow ship
 This brings up good old question again, and the discussion of it in Wheel ing will doubtless be as fierce as it has been in other places. Whatever hap pens 1t is not probable that the minis ter will return the brewers money, and he can prove that it will buy just as much for the good of the church as money made in selling potatoes would.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
The Three Tomcats.

Three tomcats sat on q backyard fence, Three sour, dyspeptic malcontents, And pleaded with clamoIous eloquence To d beautiful green-eyed tabby. They shrieked q trio of passionate love, And called her their velyet-eyed turtle
 dove.
 She merely wnked from the shed above trick which was certainly shabby. But in point of fact she couldn't decide With which of the three shed q be satlsHeu To tie up for life as u blushing bride; For each one sang so sWeetly, And hauled from the clouds an extreme
 high c,
 With such q remarkable purity Of tone that to each of those tomcatS three She had lost her heart completely In default of a choice from the tabby fair, The lovers concluded that then and there They would fight 1t out, and they rent the
 air
 With the sound of stern endeavor: And when the fur flew thick no more And the noise of the savage strife was OCT, Each Tom reclined in pool of gore With it's heart-throbs stilled forever Alas, for the tabby who sat on the shed, And beheld her admirers cold and dead Ere yet bride she was widow ed Because of her hesitation. An, husbands are scare in this vale of tears, And the maid who the fate of spinsterhood
 fears Should nail the first one that appears Without procrastlnation.
 Portland 0regonian.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
RAT RESISTED AN OFFICER.
After Managing a Woman He Gave tf
 Vi.

After Managing a Woman He Gave the Cop Ninety Minute Scrap. In a dimly lighted room and armed with a stout club, Officer Tim Hanley battled with vicious rat for an hour and half Thursday night. Hanley finally killed the rodent, but not until he had been severely bitten about the hands, and it had lacerated the arm of Mrs. Martin. As a result of her ex perience. Mrs. Martin lies in serious condition at her home on Ninth street. suffering from hysteria and the effects of the wound inflicted by the teeth of the rat. It was the most novel fight that the policeman ever participated in, and it gives him cold chills whenever he thinks about it, which is about all the time.
 Mrs. Martin and her daughter Oracle retired at an early hour Thursday night. They occupy room on he sec
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
MORNING COURIER

ond floor of the house. The third relief at Central station had just been dis
 missed and Officer Hanley was on his way home when he head a piercing scream and calls for help. The com motion emanated from the Martin home. The first thought of the officer was that murder was being done, and he burst open the front door and ran upstairs to the room from which the screams issued. The door to the room
 was unlocked and Hanley walked ir.
 On the bed stood Mrs. Martin, holding
 her arm, from which the blood was
 dripping. A little girl was perched on
 top of a dresser In a few words Mrs.
 Martin told her story. She said that
 she had been suddenly awakened by ar
 excruciating pain in her arm. She was
 mortified when she noticed q big rat
 crouching on her breast. She jumped
 up and threw the rodent to the floor.
 Hanley secured a club and began a
 search for the rat. He moved the dress CT upon which the little girl was stand ing, and in the corner saw the rat The
 officer leaned over to hit it, when it sud denly sprang at his hand. Before he could remove the member the sharp teeth of the little animal were fastened in his flesh. He shook it off, and it then attacked his legs, making vain effort to bite through his trousers. Hanley beat off the rodent, which he chased about the room, and struck at 1t a hun dred times, but only hit the floor re- sounding whacks Suddenly the rodent disappeared. Some soot dropped into the grate, and then the policeman felt sure the rat was up the chimney. He lighted newspaper and threw it into the grate. The rat dropped from its hiding place, it's hair was singed. It again attacked Hanley and scratched his hand in several places. Finally he cornered 1t and gave it its quietus
 It took him an hour and a half to kill the rodent, and he was soaked with precipitation and breathing heavily. The rat was of the sewer variety, and was almost as large as half-grown cat. There is some mystery as to how the animal got into the room, as rats have heretofore been an unknown quantity about the house. Mrs. Martin thanked the officer for his help, and then grew hysterical. A physician was called and yesterday he pronounced the condition of Mrs. Martin serious. Her arm is badly nflamed,--From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
OLD PEWTER POTS.
Days When They Were Considered
 Stylish Tableware.

Stylish Tableware. In old times when there was no chi ma, when silver plates was used only by the rich and powerful and not always by them, pewter articles were held in great esteem.
 The material itself is a compound of tin and lead, rarely tin and copper, the lead, on account of its cheapness, be- ing greatly in excess. As long ago as 1896 or 1897, when Shakespeare first printed the Tanning of the Shrew," pewter was a part of every housekeep- CTS store, and Gremio, telling of his house, enumerates.
 "Fine linen, Turkey cushions, boss'd with pearl, valance of Venice gold in needlework pewter and brass and all things that belong to house or house. keeping"
 In our own country some pieces of pewter were generally included in the scanty household utensils deemed nec- essary by the early settlers. There is an old inventory on the Island of Nan tucket, dated March 1, 1880, givng q list of personal possessions and real
 
 value of which was estimated at thirty five pounds. The inventory enumerates "his wareing aparell and shows and stockings" then passes on to his house. hold goods. and among other articles like brass kittles, i scillet 1 grid iron," We find mention of three old pewter dishes and three porringers.' Many families had two or three of these "por- ringers for the children.
 Pewter began to be used for house. hold utensils when wooden trenchers were no longer considered desira ble and in it's turn was crowded out by the large importations of china from the Orient and the productions of the Eng fish potters, but up to about 1790 in this country at least, it was highly thought of. Every housewife with any pretentons tu a good plenishng had her "garnish' of pewter, as a set of platters, chargers and dishes were called, and much time and labor were devoted to keeping it as bright as sil- yer. In this work the children of the household took part, hunting in the meadows for coarse kind of rush and then applying it in the securing pro- cess
 The chargers are, some of them eighteen to twenty inches across and quite deep. To-day, with all the luxu- rious appointments which we consider necessary in our kitchens, we forget the limited utensils our Puritan mothers deemed all-sufficient. A big iron pot-a l most precious possession-hung on a cane, containing the bits of bears |
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
Buyers Attending From All
 Parts of the State.
The High Reputation of the Com pany and Its Unexcelled Stock Which is Being Sold at Great Price Reduction Brings Many Patrons.

The general sale which was begun by The George H. Ford company in their building, corner of State and Chapel streets, on Dec. IS, Is at- tracting buyers from all parts of the state.
 The visits from customers are nu- merous and while many are taking advantage of the sale to purchase articles for general use, most minds seem bent at present on a Christi mas gift.
 Where else could one find a more ideal place for gift hunt than in the rooms of this magnificent house. The markets of Europe and Amer ica are represented at their best in the articles displayed, and owing to this sale, the price reduction, even on the rarest and most beautiful, is from 20 to 50 per cent.
 The many pretty things that de- light the hearts of women. delicate and exclusive designs in jewelry, watches and superb diamonds and precious stones set with correct taste are all in the magnetic line that meets the glance of the visitor.
 Men, too, as well as women, like to know that their jewels are cor rect. They like to feel sure about a watch and to know that dia- mond is not fiawed thing that Is really deception. Therefore there are many men who, while choosing a Christmas gift for others. are finding that The George H. Ford Co.'s response to the needs of re- fined men Is an absolutely reliable and correct article-if a watch, true to its promise: if precious stone, just as it is represented.
 All at discounts ranging from 20 to 50 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19

l meat or whatever flesh could be ob- tained and stewed with it were potatoes or any other vegetables at hand. This stew was put in charger set in the | middle of the table, that household | having trencher for each person be- ing blessed with prodigality In many cases husband and wife sat side by side, eating from the same dish, or two children stood by the board and used way, however, was for each person to fish from the charger with long handled spoon of horn or pewter. In Samuel Pepys' entertaining diary we find for September 23, 1860, the following note: 'T did send for cup of tee, China drink of which I had never drank before"
 Pepys was a man of the world, and we may be sure, "tee" had not been in use very long before he tasted it.
 Before the days of the convivial tea pot, pewter had been long used in mak- ing tankards, for brews of many kinds were manufactured at home.
 Of these tankards or mugs there are many variations, and many of these quaint pieces have history. Many years ago family came from England and settled in New Jersey. They were people of position and means, and brought with them many valuables and household goods, among them the ''in- haler" On the front of it is the inscrlp- tion Nudge Inhaler
 The quaint feature of this tankard is that the handle is hollow, and the flip or ale can be sucked out through the three holes in the top of it-a somewhat similar idea to the early earthenware puzzle jugs.-From the Ledger Month ly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
SCHLEY'S BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.

Admiral Schley has filed his bill of exceptions to the finding of the major ity of the Court of Inquiry, and an in- teresting document it is. It is also inn portant, for it shows that the majority didn't mind much about certain evi- dence that seems well entitled to their notice. Those who believe that Ad- miral Schley has not been treated just ly will find support for their belief in the bill, and even if it does not make an impression on the powers that be it will make an impression on the peo- pie.
 There is danger, we suppose. that everybody. or almost everybody, will get tired of this troublesome controver- sy before it is over, and perhaps Ad miral Schley would have been wiser to be content with the verdict of Dewey and the verdict of the people who see in him the man who efficiently did the work which he found to do. But he can hardly be blamed for wanting and seek ing better treatment than he got from the majority of the Court of Inquiry.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
ITALIANS EVERYWHERE.

l Not only in America, but throughout | Europe, Italian workers are to be found
 everywhere. Hundreds of thousands of | Italians work in the manufactories and l in the fields even of so thickly popu- ! lated country as Germany; and if Marselles, the principal French port,
 were deprived of Italian labor it would be forced to suspend its operations. The Italian follows a system perfectly op-
 posed to that of his Latin brother be- yond the Alps; he now sacrifices riches and even comfort, and is surrounded by a numerous family, and while la France manque de cadets" Italy has superabundance of them. Italian emigration, is not symptom of grow
 ing misery, but a manifestation of the country's vital powers. Driven away from their fatherland by the ever in- creasing population of the limited pen insula, these hundreds of thousands of Italians seek or create new markets, take active part in the economic strug
 gle, and are not the least factors in the progressive development of their mother country.
 Italy is to-day represented by 34 millions at home and over four millions scattered throughout the world. And these 3S millions of Italians, in spite of the unfavorable circumstances under which they labor, are far more prolific than the other nations who aspire to foremost rank in the world.
 It is precisely in this fact, in the great and ever increasing development of population, that Italy may expect to find the keynote of d most interesting spectacle which the world will perhaps witness in the near future-namely the new spectacle in the history of hu- manity of a great nation arising from
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19
ADVERTISING A RATES.

x IAs M Aituations, Wants, Rents. and other small Aadvertisements. One Cent Word each h.
 0eKtion. Five Cepts Word for full week (geveu times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in' 'G9xtlon, $1.20; each subsequent Insertion, ao Gents; one week. s3.2O; one month. $10: one a Rear. Tn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-19

V There are said to be from 5000 to 10,- Sqo0 men in Chicago who have been ad- f0itted to the practice of the law, but 4Iily about half of them are actively at sgork in the profession. The others SIi6ve zone into mercantile and financial
 7ployments. in some cases from ne-
 H48Bity and in others from choice.