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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

larslips too. Down cellar you'll and
| peach pickles and six gallons of apple
butter. i hope your second wife win
| be as careful of 'em as L hev bin.
Many a time I hev wanted a peach
pickle in the middle of the afternoon,
but wouldn't so down arter it and be
a pig. Did i tell you about the cider
vinegar. Samuelg'
Mr. Gallup was holding his breath
over the statement that the Virgins
washer washed shirt for the govern
| or of Arizona in 13 seconds, and of
course he didn't answer.
's,rhe cider vinegar amt no good,
| Samuel. 1t didn't work, and you might
as well throw it away. Before you
marry ag'in you ought to fix the leak
in the roof, git new pump for the
well, whitewash the kitchen and buy
a new mop handle. First wives can
git along most any way and make one
mop last for 20 years. but second wives
begin to kick right away. / amt tellin
you these things because I'm jealous.
Samuel. but because it's my duty as a
dyin wife. l don't want you to hev TO
go huntin the house all over after Pm
gone to find things. Remember. your
dyin wife, who hain't asked you to buy
her a hairpin for II years, tells you
that you've got three shirts, four pairs
of socks, five collars and two handker
chiefs in the bureau, and hangin up in
the clothespress is two old suits and
one old hat. In the top drawer of the
bureau you'll find piece of Grape for
your hat. and in the bottom drawer is
some farewell verses writ out year
ago. / don't owe none of the nayburs
no tea or coffee or sugar, and none of
'em owes me anything. Now, that's ALL
and if you want to kiss me and say
you're sorry I've got to go and hope I'll
watch over you. why. then I'm ready"
She looked full at Mr.. Gallup for the
first time. His eyes We're still glued to
that pamphlet. 1t was stated that the
that it could be attached to a potato |
slicer or an apple parer and no readers |
interest could help but grow.
Mrs. Gallup waited GO seconds for |
an answer. and then as none came she |
softly rose up and went out into the |
kitchen and began to get things ready |
for breakfast. She had been gone ten |
minutes when Mr.. Gallup smiled. He |
didn't smile because he heard her sing |
ing verse of 1.-THE Old Oaken Bucket"
but because Mr.. Virgins finished his |
pamphlet with the declaration that no |
matter who wrote the poetry of |
America, he proposed to wash the |
shirts of the nation. NJ. QUAD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
AN ENDURING CURSE.
A Famous English Family That Per-
ished by Fire and Water.


The attempt of the Midhurst district
council to convert the famous "CIose
Walks"-four old yew avenues-at
Cowdray, in Sussex, into an arrange
ment of sewage tanks recalls a creepy
story of fulfilled curse. At the disso-
luton of the monasteries Sir Anthony
Browne obtained n grant of Battle Abs
hey and the priory of Eastbourne. the
parish in which the ruins of Cowdray
are situated, and according to a pic
turesque tradition one of the monks
cursed him to his face and prophesied
that ''by fire and water his race
should perish out of the land. What
foundation there may be for the story
no man can say, but unquestionably
the Brownies did so perish.
George Samuel Browne, eighth Wis
count Montague and owner of Cow
dray, who was engaged to Miss Coutts,
sister to Lady Burdett-Coutts' mother,
was drowned in the falls of Laufen-
burg in 1893. The messenger who
brought the news to England met one
going to Germany to inform Lord Mon
tague that Cowdray had been burnedi
He was succeeded by n distant rela-
tive, a Roman priest, who was dis
pensed from his vows that he might
marry and continue the line, but he
died few months afterward and the
title became extinct. The estates went
to the drowned viscount's sister, whose
two sons were drowned together at
Bognor in 1915. 1t is a weird story
London Chronicle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
Bootb and .Ricbarduu.,

In her book on -'Some Players" Amy
Leslie says that Edwin Booths detes-
tation of Richard III was frank and
incurable. One night. when in the most
magnificent instant of Richard a super
fell In a writing. squirning attack,
which set the country audience laugh
ing, Booth said quietly, after the fall
of the curtain. amid shouts of mis-
guided laughs:
what was the matter, captain"
The trembling captain owned reluc-
family that one of his % cent men had
been seized in n fit.
please pay 80 cents next time. and
employ one whose fits may not inter-
fere with Richard. Richard is unen-
durable enough without the addition of
rented fits
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

DEAR Mrs, PISKHAM:-It gives me great
pleasure to tell you how much your Vegetable
Compound has done for me. had been a suf-
ferer for years with female trouble. L could
neither read nor sew but a few minutes at time
without suffering terribly with my head. My
back and kidneys also troubled me all the time.
g was advised by a friend to take Lydia
e. PinkIlam's Vegetable Compound.
had no faith in it, but decided to try it. After
using one bottle felt so much better that con-
tinued its use, and by the time L had taken six
bottles was cured. There is other medicine
for me. RECOMMEND it to all my friends. "-MRs.
SARAH SwoDEB, 1o3 West St., La Porte, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

A finished sailor is a much more ex-
pensive article than the finished sol-
der, as a soldier can be trained in a
year or two. while sailor is a technic-
al craftsman. whose education is long
and elaborate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
steam Nnxirntinn.

The rise of steam navigation was
slow. Like most things new, it had OPP
position. In the sixteenth century an
unsuccessful Italian genius tried to
apply steam to navigation. In 1876 a
British patent was taken out for a
steamboat. 1t was 1907 that witnessed
Fulton sailing up the Hudson in boat
driven by steam. In 1888 steamships
crossed the Atlantic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
Force of Habit.

as the boss ing asked the stranger.
entering the drug store.
no" replied the absentminded clerk;
'but we have something just as good"
-Yonkers Statesman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
Icopyright. l9O0. b. 6. B. Lewis.l


Things That Are In 1t.
copyright. 1900. by C. B. Lewisl
When supper had been concluded,
Mr.. Gallup sat down to read q PAM
ph!et descriptive of the Virgins wash
ing machine, and Mrs. Gallup flung a
shawl over her head and ran over to a
neighbours to give warning that the
chicken pox had broken out in a town
only ten miles away and would proba-
bly, sweep the whole country before it
could be staid. 1t was hardly a quar-
ter of an hour before she returned, and
her first action was to pitch forward
on the lounge and roll over three times
before she got settled down into a COM
Portable position to do some weeping
Her conduct ought to have attracted
immediate attention, but it didn't. MIR.
Gallup was reading declaration from
the sole inventor and proprietor that
the Virgins washing machine had saw
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
OverWrOught Nerves.

AS soon womars become excited by some
feminine disorder she loses control of her speech
She has no patience with anybody anything.
The she loves the best the to whom she
talks the meanest.
Trihes light as drive her almost frantic
She is than crazy, because she knows what she
is doing and can't help it.
She doesn't have hystera and doesn't have faintng
spells
She is nervous, horribly nervous.
Does she get sympathy Oh, yes she gets sympathy
awhile, but she acts outrageousy that everybody
keeps out of her way much as possible After while
they begin think she's malicious and could do better if
a she tried real hard
She has turned her best friends against her.
This is sick with about the most discouragng
sickness women can have, and there IS person who
understands better than any else in the
world That person is Mrs. Pinkham The nervousness
cdmes from arrangement of the feminine organs
constantly fed and made by the constantly
developing disease Female diseases get better of
themselves They must have proper treatment Ordinary
physicians do not know how to gapple with these dis
eases Out of the hundreds of thousands of
Mrs. Pnkham has cured, not in five hundred
tried advice her medicine until they had exhausted
the skill of their physician, sometimes of several
physicians.
Mrs. Pnkhams address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice is
B prompt and to all suffering women.
You may not know that your nervousness from
female troubles Your doctor not know It, He
tell does not but does he cure youi Does he help
yourself you'll believe her Don't throw your lifes
happiness away and make yourself when little
your by removing the cause OF your trouble
Read carefully the letters from women Mrs Pinkham
has helped.
After thirty years of success in curing Ills
can you believe worth while to test the virtues of
Lydia e PksakEksazasSS
Vegetable COMPOUND 2
1 $EOOO REWARD
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

I1oIuISS u7IINIIls SOlII- BVVdUI0 OVIIIIEIUuIu
was a misery to myself and every
one around me. I never laid my aching
head upon my pillow without wishing could die
Il suffered terrible pain in my back, head,
and right side, was very nervous, would cry for
hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two
weeks, then again not for three and four months
was SO tired and weak, could not sleep nights,
sharp pains would dart through my heart that
would almost cause me to fall. / was so poor
and white that my folks thought was going to
die. My mother coaxed me to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. L
had faith in it, but to please her 1 did so.
The first bottle helped much that L con-
" well and weigh more than ever did in my life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

He who makes no mistakes makes
nothing else.-Atchison Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
Heartfelt Stories from Cured Women.

Mrs PTNKHAM:-I my duty you
received your
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

nued its am well and weigh than did
Your remedies deserve the highest praiseMRs WINRED
LENDER Pennington,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
MRS. GALLUP MOURES
A SIGN WARNS HER THAT HER TIME
HAS ABOUT COME.

So Between sobs She Has a Little
One sided Talk With Her Devoted
Husband About the House ard the
Things That Are In Ii.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06

better look
hesitate to tell the of health have gained twelve
kind attention and J. GooDEN Acey
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06
PHYSICIANS,
DIR. CORA EMERY REED
Homoeopa hic Physician.

Special attention to diseases of women and
children also diseases of eye, ear, nose and
throat. ONCE hours-Q:30 to IL a. M, to p
M 321 Sixteenth street, Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06


My troubles began with inflammation and hemor-
rhages from the kidneys, then inflammation, con-
gestion and falling of the womb, and Inflammation
of ovaries. underwent local treatment every
day for some time; then after nearly two months
the doctor gave permission to go back to work
went back, but in less than a week was COM
PEELED to give up and go to bed On breaking
down the second time, | decided to let doctors
and their medicine alone and try your remedies
Before the first bottle gone felt the effects
of it. Three bottles of the Compound and a
package of the Sanative Wash did me more good
than all the doctors treatments and medicine
The first remark that greets me when / go
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-06


believe
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Electricity played curious

Electricity played curious
part in a recent lawsuit. A GER
tain telegraph company was not
allowed to have its wire run into
q race course. Telegraphic oper-
ators were stationed in cupola Of
q hotel opposite the grounds, and
signals were transmitted to them
from the race track by means of
electric lights concealed in the
hats of the party seated in q car
riage, including the coachman on
the carriage. The results of the
races and the betting were thus
communicated to the operators,
who were enabled to send out the
information to poolrooms. The
gentlemen who were electrically
equipped were arrested, and after
some years verdict of $4,000 was
obtained against the detectives
who made the arrest.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Friday. Nav u.

Mrs G w Burbank aud Mrs w
E Wlsler went to Omaha this af-
ternoon via Arlington and are
spending the day with acquaint-
ances in the former city.
George Jaco, of Sioux City, is
visiting friends in the Valley to-
day.
Mr. and Mrs J Bradley, Mrs L j
Hennessey and Ed Scebold, who
have been in Marshalltown for the
past few days in attendance at the
Grand Lodge meeting of the A Q
q w and Degree of Honor, ar.
rived home this morning.
Miss Fern Roberts leaves 70,
Des Moines Monday, where she
goes for visit with friends.
Geo + Smiley and Amp George
are at Mobiles Lake today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
A. o. U. w. Votes to Abolish
Level Assessment

By practically unanimous
vote, the delegates to the Grand
Lodge of the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen who have been
in session in Marshalltown for
several days past, decided to
abolish the level assessment plan
in vogue for many years and SUBJ
stitute in its stead the classified
or step rate plan. So far as the
Iowa members of the order are
concerned the new ruling will be-
come effective at once. Will NJ
Narvis, of Muscatine was elected
Grand Master Workman; Il i
Rehkopf of Des Moines Grand
Recorder and A Hartung of Dies
Moines Grand Trustee. Mrs
Mary Skegg was elected Grand
Chief of Honor of the Degree OF
Honor, the woman's auxiliary to
the A q U ". The next Grand
Lodge meeting of the order will
occur in Council Bluffs.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
F. E. and M. v. Train Ditched
by Spreading Rails.

An engineer suffered painful
injuries, q train of five cars was
ditched, and the engine pulling
another train was considerable
damaged by the spreading of the
rails on the Chadron Casper
branch of the T E and M v at q
small station named Carreyhurst.
near Orion junction, Wednesday
evening.
The wrecked train was west
bound and was just pulling into
Carreyhurst when a spreading
rail threw the cars from the track
Upon the approach of the regular
train a work train backed from the
main line onto the siding to await
the passing of the regular train.
When the cars of the regular
train left the rails they crashed
into the work train, partially
wrecking the locomotive Of the
latter, the engineer of which was
slightly injured.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
SUICIDE OCCURS NEAR
nicola.
Aged Citizen Hangs Himself
to a Bracket on the Porch

Nicola, Ia, May lG.-Jons Jun
ius, father of Mrs Nels Olsen. who
lives half a mile west of Nicola.
suicided by hanging about 9
o'clock last evening. He tied the
rope to bracket on the porch
and then laid down, strangling
himself by the weight of his
body. He was found in a few
minutes by the family and DR.
Lowery of this city was notified
and fastened to the scene. Life
was extinct before he arrived.
He decided that an inquest was
not necessary, as it was plain
case of suicide. 1t is thought
Junius was temporarily insane.
The deceased came to this coun.
from Denmark several years ago.
He was 81 years old. Funeral
services were held this afternoon
at the house and interment was
had in the Nicola cemetery.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Railroads and Rumors Ct
Railroads.

Several hundred car loads of
ties and large consignment If
rails are being run upon Chicago
and Northwestern sidetracks at
Missouri Valley, and this la re.
gardcd 10y railroad men as indi-
eating that the Northwestern is
fortifying itself against possible
loss OF the Sioux City and Pacific.
However, inquiry last night at
Missouri Valley brought the reply
that it just happened that all
those ties and rails were coming
in now; that they were only for
repair work.
Still, authorities say, it could
be quite true that the rails and
ties are for improvement work
and this, toe, on the Sioux City
and Pacific, for it is we'll known
that in the event of the North
western acquiring the road the
light rails laid sixteen years ago
are to be replaced by rails of
standard weight.
The report from Missouri VAL
ley was that the ties in the con-
signment were sufficient to build
ninety miles of road. That would
st the Sioux City and Pacific case
very nicely.
The Northwestern people effect
to believe that there is small
chance of their losing the Sioux
City and Pacific, but their conf
dence in this never has been great
enough to cause them to go ahead
and make improvements on the
assumption. Whenever the ex-
tension of the Neville line has
been broached to them, the in
variable answer for almost twenty
years has been, "Walt until the
Sioux City and Pacific matter is
settled" But even they admit
that they may lose the road.
Either the Great Northern or
Illinois Central could use it to
advantage. Northwestern officials
have said that if the Northwestern
should by any hook or crook leave
the Sioux City and Pacific, i'm
mediately steps would be taken to
parallel the road. To all who are
familiar with the situation this is
known to be the only thing the
Northwestern could do to escape
the dilemma in which it would
find itself with four lines from
the east running into the Sioux
City and Pacitic.-Sioux City
Journal.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Begin to Dig for OIL.

Captain Dick Talbot, of South
Sioux City, acting for a company
in which former Assistant Secre-
tary of War Meiklejohn is largely
interested, is reported frem
Homer to have the lumber and
machinery on the ground to begin
digging for oil. It Is thought
that the digging has begun today
The lands in tract of thousands
Of acres was leased some FIVE years
ago by Meiklejohn's company,
Captain Talbot at that time being
interested in the deal. The leases
were simply such IS granted the
right to prospect for oil, coal and
minerals. It is said most of the
leases lapsed through failure to
begin actual work or pay penalty
lOT SUCH I6lluT0.
Notwithstanding that biologists
assert that no results of value may
be expected, Cornelius O'Connor,
one of the pioneera of Dakota
county, and who is familiar with
the lands, is one of the men posi-
tive that oil will be struck.
In Woodbury. county the work
of securing oil leases is at a stand
still, owing to the illness of one
of the Ohio oil men, who was most
interested in the indications of
petroleum.-Sioux City Tribune.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23

Owing to the parties pushing
the beet sugar industry here be-
ing unable to get the ground
needed for the cultivation of beets.
the project to give the business a
trial at Woodbine this year has
been dropped. Several of our
citizens were ready to take hold
of it but no suitable land could be
had so late in the season. We
hope the matter will be taken up
in time next winter and arrange
ments made to plant consider
able area in this vicinity to beets.
Woodbine Chronicle.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
.CAsToRTA.
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DR. A D searles, of Omaha, was
in the Valley looking up his real
estate interests today.
w S Mohler and family will
move to Missouri Valley next
week from Fairfield, Neb. MI
Mohler will succeed 81 8 Knight
as postal clerk on the Missouri
Valley-Long Pine run.
Miss Josie Buchanan, of M,
Pleasant, Utah, departed this
morning for Cedar Rapids after 9
brief visit here with Mrs j j
Amen.
Mrs Geo Fleming left this at.
ternoon for Alliance, Neb., where
she goes to make her future home
her husband having secured &
remunerative position with the
B & NJ company in that city.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
CASTORIA
For Infants ana Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
. ss:s; Il: g. Auzzzzz1
Plan for Saving Money!

A prominent railroad man yes
terday took advantage of the Pos
tai Savings Depository system
which has recently been inaug-
urated in the money order de-
pertinent of the postoffices of the
United States, by presenting a
$500 bank bill and taking in re-
ceipt five Sl00 money orders.
This system is based on the idea
of teaching the people the value
of small economics and is con-
fined mostly to depositors who are
more solicitious of securing their
money than of tindinga profitable
Investment for it, as no interest is
paid. 1t is said to be the exper-
fences where the postal savings
system is in vogue that persons Of
small incomes take this way OF
laying up the necessary money
for their rent, winter fuel, their
annual stock of clothing, or for
the equipments of a home. 1t
has also been found that these
depositors almost invariably be-
gin again the task of accumulat-
ing their savings for the future,
thus working out the ideas of the
department.-Nonpareil.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23

There is a vast coal supply in
Australia which is almost un-
worked as yet; the total product
so far is about a million tons, and
the larger part of this output has
been from the Province of New
South Wales. The resources of
Victoria appear to be vastly. great
er. The Latrobe Valley produces
Ignite of good quality, and the
supply is estimated at thirty bill
lion tons. Shafts which have
been sunk revealed beds 200 feet
in thickness. It has been found
that the Australian Ignite was
superior to the German in quality
and it also leaves less ash.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Shoulders at H1s Past

II recall now with horror, says Mai
Carrier Burnett Mann, of Ieyanna q
my three years of suffering from nd.
ney trouble. was hardly ever free
from dull aches or acute pains in nv
back. Tostoop or lift mail acks mad
me groan. l felt tired, worn out. anon,
ready to give up. when / began to nse
Electric Bitters, but six bottles com
pletely cured me and made ma faeI ~
9 new man." They're unrivaled ia
regulate stomach, liver. kidneys and
bowels. Ierfect satisfaction guaran-
teed by Elliott & Harvey. Only fifty
cents. maj
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23

About 100000 will be expend-
ed upon the capitol at Washing
ton during the congressional re-
CESS. Many desirable improve
ments will be made, and the ar
chitect of the capitol has been
authorized to prepare and submit
plans for the reconstruction and
fireproofing of the central portion
of the building and the renovation
and redecoration of the rotunda.
Plane are also to be prepared for
q new fireproof building adjacent
to the capitol grounds to be used
for additional committee rooms,
storage and power plant.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23
Slight Changes Made by New
Time Card.

A new time card will become eff.
fective on the G & NV and S &
& 2 systems next Sunday, May
18th, but it will make scarcely any
change in the schedules at the
local station. About the only
change is slight one in the time
of the arrival of the evening ST
Paul train from the south. The
train by the card now in vogue is
scheduled to reach this city at
$50 and by the new card will ar.
rive here at $50 and leave at 8.
The train will leave the Broadway
station in Council Bluffs at S:l5
after next Sunday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-05-23

A strange phenomenon was re-
Gently witnessed in Southern
Italy and Sicily. This was a
heavy red cloud which extended
over this territory, and the rain
resembled drops of coagulated
blood. This phenomenon, which
is called "bloody rain" is attrib-
uted to dust from the African
deserts transported by heavy
south winds.