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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
MISS TUNIsoNs ROMANCE
Fair Society Woman who Has just Been
Declared to BE Insane.

Pana, Ills, Feb. PA commission
appointed to inquire into her sanity
has just declared Miss Tunison TO be
fit inmate of an insane asylum, and
she will be taken to Jacksonville to
spend the remainder of her days. Be
fore the war Miss TunniSon was the
recognized leader of Panas most arts
tocratic society. There appeared in
Tana at that time a young man who
soon won her heart. For several
months he found pleasure in counting
the fair society girl They We're con-
stantly together and finally their en-
Gagement to marry was announced.
Two days before the date set for
the wedding the young man disap-
peared and his whereabouts has never
since become known to Miss Tunni-
son. On the day that her sweetheart
left Miss TunnisOn went into seclusion
and vowed to quit society. Since that
day she has never left the little lot
which surrounds her home. Her eX-
istence has been a mystery to the old
est residents of Pana. Time has told
upon the old house until now it is
Teather-beaten and scarcely better
than a mere hovel. Miss Tunnicon has
rarely been seen since she made a re
cluse of herself.
ears ago her Olu IflenuS Irieu 10
force themselves into her dwelling in
an effort to demonstrate with her, but
she refused admittance to all of them.
Two brothers. who are wealthy farm
ers in Christian county, have repeated
ly endeavored to persuade her to leave
her howell and go to their homes to
live. When before the insanity com
mission Miss Tunnison admitted her
love story, but refused to allow the
name of her lover of years ago to pass
her lips. She stated that when a girl
of 10 years she decided to renounce
society for the rest of her life and that
since then she had simply been keep
ing the promise made to herself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
severe Blizzard in Michigan.

st. Joseph, Mich, FEB. 20.-The
worst blizzard of the season, acorn
panied with high northwest winds,
prevailed here during the night and
morning. The local freight train on
the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa rail-
road due here early in the morning
from South Bend, Ind, was imprisoned
in a wall of snow that had collected
during the night in the Galien cuts,
fifteen miles south of this city, with
freight trains on each end of the cut
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
JaiIPri.oners Have Smallpox.

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 25.-Three
prisoners in the county jail. which is
i'm the basement of the court house in
this city. has been discovered to have
smallpox and the four courts and the
county offices have abandoned the
building. The jail will be made a
hOSDital
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25
working Night and pax.

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is DR..
Kings New Life Pills. These pills
change weakness into strength, list
lessness into energy. brain-fag into
mental power. They re wonderful in
building up the health. Only %
cents per box. Sold by Hartz &
Whenever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25

wild Man from Borneo Dead.
MaysyiIle. Nv. Feb. 25.-Henry
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25

McCABE'S
MCCABE'S
MCCABE'S

s edaasmo st. sB " % Examine a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25

ladies' CHemises.
At PIC OF soft finished mus
lin, lace trimmed.
At 35c Full tucked and hem
stitched, yoke lace
trimmed. Others up to 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-02-25

l in superior manner of line cambria
I and long cloth, with full Jokes of
l lace or EN- broidery-some of these not
to be had again at the price.
An elegant display of gowns in a
|. variety of styles at prices up to So. %.
ALI made with the same care and
I workmanship that you would expect
to find in gowns three or four times
! the price.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04

second voyage to America, in 1893.
But Columbus was not looking for a
few little scattered islands. and when
he found how small they were he hoist
ed sail and went away after naming
them the Virgin islands. Then for
more than $50 years they lay, unvisit-
ed by white men. In 1867 some adven-
turous Dutchmen sailed into the splen-
did harbor of st. Thomas and started
a little settlement there. That lasted
for ten years. Then the Dutch gave up
the attempt, and a few years later the
Dane took their place. Since then
the English, French and Spanish have
a~lternated in the control of one or
more Of the islands, which finally
passed under the permanent control
OF Denmark in 1915.
But the chief romantic interest which
attaches to st. Thomas lies in the fact
that 1T was for years one of the head
quarters of the famous pirates and
buccaneers who so long infested and
ravaged the Spanish Main. Before
steamships were invented st. Thomas
was more than 1t is today, a roadhouse
OF the seas, a sort of ocean halfway
house between the continents. Into
its great harbor Spanish g~alleons and
heavily laden slave ships ran for shell
ter, and the buccaneers hanging close
about were certain Of good picking.
Sometimes the pirate ships even pur-
eued their prey into the land-locked
harbor, and under the eyes Of the town
captured it.
All three of the islands are thought
to be the tops of what were once vol
canic mountains. In appearance they
are typically tropical. When a ship
sails int the harbor of Charlotte Anne
liza, for instance, the passenger sees a
fringe Of low white houses along the
shore, shining against a background
of glossy green, while behind and
above towers a line of stately hills,
covered for most of their height with
thick, tropical foliage. Almost all the
houses have bright red roofs, and the
whole landscape Is a riot Of vivid color.
Charlotte Amelia is remarkable among
tropical cities in that it is extremely
clean-a fact which must be laid to
the credit of the Danes. It's straight
streets, lined on either side with two
story wooden houses. are paved with
asphalt, with wide cutters on either
side. When rain falls on the hills
swift currents Of water rush down
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04
MOST PEOPLE LoPslDEp.


81
Difference Between Legs. Eyes, and Ears
of Men and Women.
The two sides of a persons face are
never alike. The eyes are out Of line
in two cases out of five. and one Y
is stronger in seven persons out of
ten. The right ear is also, as a rule,
higher than the left. Only one person
in fifteen has perfect eyes, the largest
percentage of defects prevailing
among fair-haired people. Short sight
is more common in town than among
country folk, and of all people the
Germans have the largest proportion
of short-sighted persons. The crystal
line lens of the eye is the one portion
of the human body which continues to
increase in size throughout life and
does not cease with the attainment Of
maturity. The smallest interval of
sound can be better distinguished
with n ear than with both. In
fifty-four cases out of 100 the left leg
is stronger than the right. The bones
of an average human male skeleton
weigh twenty pounds; those of a
woman are six pounds lighter. That
unruly member, the tongue of a wo-
man, is also smaller than that of a
man, given a man and a woman of
equal size and weight. 1t may be ap-
palling to reflect, but it is neverthe-
less true, that the muscles of the hui
man body exert a force of over 500
pounds. The symmetry which is the
sole ineligible ground for our idea
of beauty, the proportion between the
upper and lower half of the human
body, exists in nearly all males, but
is never found in the female. Ameri-
can limbs are more symmetrical than
those of any other people. An av-
erage head OF fair hair consists OF
143,040 hairs, dark hair of los, 900,
while a red head has only 90, 200. Fair
Haired people are becoming less nu-
merous than formerly. A person who
has lived seventy years has had pass
through his heart about STE, 020 tons of
blood, the whole of the blood in the
body passing through the heart in
about t~hirty-two beats. The heart
beats on an average of seventy times a
minute, or 6.792. 900 times in the
course of a year, so that the heart of an
ordinary man, eighty years of age,
has beaten 5000, 900 times. The heart
one is lying down than when one is
in an upright position.-Chicago Jour
nal.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04
THE sNoR IN SOCIETY.
Observation-Disclosures of Persons who Inn
agIne Themselves Social Leaders.

Observation-Disclosures of Persons Who I'M
aRine Themselves Social Leaders.
The accepted definition of a 'snob,'
together with it's attendant adjective
''%snobbish," is not the same in Ameri-
ca as in England. On the other side it
means social p%retense of some kind,
and T~hackeray has shown under that
head what a great variety of the spe-
cies there is. But with us it does not
necessarily include p~retense. When
we call a person a snob the idea in
tended to be conveyed is that he or
she is ultra exclusive and wishes to
associate only with persons who are
considered very smart. In fact, to be
smart" a person must necessarily be
somewhat snobbish, according to the
American acceptance of the word, for
extreme exc~lusiveness is even more
necessary to the maintenance Of a
smart set in a republic than in places
where the lines are defined by rank.
The so-called Four Hundred is, as
everyone knows, divided up into any
number of sets and cliques, but new
OA CAOAC00S uC0PIIO do0CI LIOuS 10 Tile
contrary, there is always one set that
is fashionably paramount. That is to
say, invitations from it's leaders are
more priced than any others, and to be
admitted within it's limits is a coveted
honor. And here we come back to our
accepted definition of the word
"snob." People who make an effort to
get into this society, and by so doing
overlook and neglect old friends, are
termed snobbish. while the members
themselves, who have no desire to en-
large their small coterie or to hide
their Indifference to the world at
large, come under the same classical
ton. Thackeray's people, with their
miserable little attempts to pass them
selves off for others than they are
land we may safely assert that there
are more of that ilk in England than
America), we would call cads-so that
the use of either term by an American
does not necessarily convey the same
idea as when spoken by an English
man.-New York Tribune.
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DennarkS Three \
a Little blandJ
&@6

The Danish West Indies, which Dem
mark has just been notified must not
be sold to any other power but the
United States, are three little islands
lying Immediately east Of Porto Rico
at the gateway of the Caribbean sea.
santa Cruz is the largest Of the three,
and contains s~eventy-four square miles
OF territory, more than fve-sixths of
which is under cultivation. It's total
population is 10000, most of which is
of negro descent. st. Thomas is the
second In size. and is the first in i'm
p~ortance because of it's situation and
fine harbor. st. Thomas also contains
the commercial metropolis OF the is
lands, the Town of Charlotte Amelia,
which is better known as St. Thomas.
Charlotte Amelia is a town of IL, 1000
inhabitants, and the total population of
the island is only a few hundreds larg-
er. st. Thomas contains but thirty
three square miles of territory, most
OF 1t too rocky for cultivation. The
third island in the bunch for which the
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04
Mosquitoes, Frost and Fever.

If the frost is the effective agent
against the continuance of yellow fe-
yer, how has it happened that the fever
has ceased in its time at Key West, St.
Kits, Vera Cruz and elsewhere to the
south of us, where there is never a
frost? AS for the mosquito going out
of business with the appearance of the
frost, that is surely a mistake. The
winter following the last appearance
Of fever here vas SO mild that the mos
quitoes remained in commission until
March. The fever, however, disap-
peared the last week in December
Mobile (Ala.) Register.
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proposed union with the United States,
several thousand being recorded in it's
favor. The sentiment of the people
was almost unanimous. But the plan
had many opponents in congress. Chief
among these was Senator Sumner,
then the head of the committee on for
eign relations. He pigeon-holed the
treaty and prevented it's consideration
for a long time. Meanwhile a con-
g~ressional committee of inspection had
been sent to make a trip through the
islands for the purpose of seeing that
the United States vas getting a good
bargain. Unfortunately this commit
tee started out during the annual hur-
ricane season, which begins on July 1
and continues for three months. The
visiting statesmen happened to be at
st. Thomas when the great hurricane
and tidal wave Of 1867 struck the town
and carried away a part Of it, and
when they got back to Washington
again they FASTENED to support Sena-
tor Sumner in his attempts to kill the
treaty providing for the purchase Of
the islands.
A good many years later another at
tempt was made to buy out Denmark's
possessions in the Caribbean. This
time the price was fixed at less than
$4,000, 900, but, in spite of the reduc-
ton, it came to nothing. Meanwhile
King Christian and the Danish gov
eminent have been growing increas-
ingly anxious to sell. Denmark is no
and is not likely to become a great
naval power, and the chief value of the
islands lies in the fact that st. Thomas
has a good harbor and commands the
gateway to the Caribbean sea. Be-
sides, the islands are not s~elf-support-
ing. The Danish government is called
upon to face an annual deficit incurred
in their administration, and the treas
ury of Denmark is not sufficiently
strong to stand such a strain without
feeling It.
Whatever the islands may lack in
any other direction they are strong
in historic and romantic interest. They
were discovered by Columbus on his
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United States now proposes to pay
&3,240, 900, is st. john little rocky islet
on which less than a thousand people
live. Altogether the purchase would
add but $4,000 people and less than ITO
square miles Of territory tt the United
States.
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward
made an attempt to buy these islands
Tor $4,000 The Danish government
agreed to make the sale. provided the
people Of the islands were agreeable
to it. The Rev. DR.. Hawley, pastor Of
the church which the secretary attend
ed at Auburn, N. Y, was SEM to st.
Thomas to supervise an election held
to give the people a chance to express
their views. On all three islands but
twenty-five votes were cast against the
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ther is of any Importance, from a COM
mercial standpoint. Practically all of
the 10000 inhabitants Of the island
speak English, and the only sign of
their allegiance to Denmark is the flag
and a little garrison of about 100 Dan
ish soldiers. Fredericksted is a tum-
ble-down town of stucco-covered, two
stored buildings, the assures in the
walls and the tumbling walls being a
result of the sack Of the city in 1873,
when the negroes on the island revolt
ed against the Danish government.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04
WHEN TO PASS THE HAT.
Mark Twain Civ es Advice to Those
Wishing to Procure Charity.

W1sb1nS to Procure Charity.
Mark Twain had wisdom on occasion.
as we'll as wit. He declares that when
a man makes In appeal for charity it
is a great mistake to get everybody
ready to give money and then not pass
the hat. Some years ago, in Hart
ford" he said the other day, 1--WE all
vent to church on a hot, sweltering
night, to hear the annual report of Mr..
Hawley. a city missionary, who went
around finding the people who needed
help and didn't want to ask for it. He
told OF the life in the cellars, where
poverty resided; he gave instances of
nero1sm and devotion to the poor. The
poor are always good to each other.
When man with millions gives we
make much of noise. It's noise in the
wrong place. For it's the widows
mite that counts. Well, Mr.. Hawley
worked me up to a great state. L
couldn't wait for him to get through
l had $4O0 in my pocket. / wanted to
him that and borrow more to give.
You could see ~e~eenbacks in every eye.
But he didn't pass the plate, and 1t
grew hotter and we grew sleeper. My
enthusiasm went down-$100 at a time
until finally, when the plate came
round I stole 10 cents out of it. So you
see, a neglect like this may lead to
crime. Times-Herald.
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AND WIFE.
A Veteran of the Civil War Tells an
Interesting story,

interesting Story.
Ef1ngham, ILL.,, April 22.-(Specia1.l-
Uriah S. Andrick is now 81 years Of
age. Mr.. Andrick served through the
whole Of the Civil War. He was wound
ed three times by ball, and twice by
bayonet.
When he entered the service Of his
country, in 1851, he was hale and
hearty, and weighed 1873 pounds. Since
the close Of the war, however, Mr.. And
drick has had very bad health.
For fifteen years he never lay down
in bed for over an hour at a time. He
had acute Kidney Trouble, which grew
into Bright's Disease. His heart, also,
troubled him very much.
On Oct. 18th, 1900, he was weighed,
and weighed only 102 pounds, being but
a shadow of his former self. He COM
menced using Dodd's Kidney Pills on
the 26th Of last December, and on Feb.
goth was again weighed, and weighed
LAG pounds. He says:
ST have spent hundreds of dollars and
received no benefit, until on the 26th OF
December last, / purchased one box of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. l am cured, and L
am free from any pain. My hearts
action is completely restored. I have
not the slightest trace of the Bright's
Disease and 1 car sleep well all night.
I was considered a hopeless case by
everybody, but to-day 1 am a well man,
thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills.
For the last sixteen years my wife
has been in misery with bearing-down
pains, pains in the lower part of ths
abdomen and other serious ailments.
When she saw what Dodd's Kidney
Pills were doing for me she commenced
to use them. She now feels like anoth-
er woman, her pains have all disap-
peared Inc her general health is better
than it has been for years.
"She is so taken up with Dodd's
Kidney Pills and what they have done
for us that she has gone to Mr.. Corn
wallis drug store and bought them for
some of her friends for fear that If they
went themselves they might make a
mistake and get something else"
There is something very convincing
in the honest, simple story of this old
veteran and his wife.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only
remedy that ever cured Bright's Dis
ease, Diabetes or Dropsy. They never
fail.
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MARKET PLACE OF CHARLOTTE

MARKET PLACE OF CHARLOTTE
AMELIA.
of the fact that the introduction of
steam has taken much business away
from st. Thomas, it Is still a busy
place, and as a result its people have
little of the tropical lassitude and lazi-
ness about them. They do not even
stop work to take a siesta in the mid
die of the day.
Prior to 1S4S both st. Thomas and
the larger island of Santa Cruz pro-
duced large quantities of 6 In
that year Denmark freed all the slaves,
and as a result. most of the r
left the plantations and gathered into
the towns. The sugar planters could
not get sufficient labor to work their
plantations, and the industry almost
disappeared. More recently it has been
resumed on a considerable scale, par
dcularly on Santa Cruz where there
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is a great quantity OF fertile land. On
this island many Of the former slaves
have set up as the proprietors of small
plantations, and it's annual production
OF sugar is now $4,000 tons, a supply
sufficient to supply the wants of the
United States for two days.
The temperature of the Island of
Santa Cruz ranges from Sc to 80 de-
grees. 1t has many magnificent drive
ways, leading through Of
palms, tamarinds and bananas.
There are two towns on the island
Fredericksted and Ch~ristiansted. Nei-
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A little stream in the anon ran,
In the canon deep and long,
When a stout old oak at its side began
To sing to it this song:
ooh, why do you laugh and leap and
sing,
And why do you hurry by,
For you're only a noisy little thing,
And a great stout oak am /.
A hundred years I shall stand alone,
And the world will look at me,
While you will bubble and babble on,
And die at last in the sea-"
$50 proud and lofty?" the stream re-
piled,
You're a king Of the forest, true,
But your roots are dead, and your
leaves all dried,
Had 1 not watered you"
The oak-tree rustled it's leaves of
green
To the little stream below:
"Tis only a snow-bank's tears, 1 ween,
Could talk to a monarch so.
But where are you going so fast, so
fast,
And what do you think to do?
Is there anything in the world at last
For a babbling brook like your"
$50 fast, so fast, why should I wait"
The hurrying water said,
When yonder by the canon gate
The farmer waits for bread?
Out on the rainless desert-land
My hurrying footsteps go,
/ kiss the earth, I wet the sand,
| make the harVests grow.
"And many a farmer, when the sky
Has turned to heated brass,
And all the plain is hot and dry,
Gives thanks to see me pass;
By many a sluice and ditch and lane,
They lead me left and right,
For it is l who turn the plain
To gardens of delight"
Then hurrying on, the dashing stream
Into a river grew,
And rock and mountain made a seam
To let it's torrent through;
And where the burning desert lay
A happy river ran,
A thousand miles it coursed it's way,
And blessed the homes of man.
Vain was the oak trees proud conceit,
Dethroned the monarch lay,
The brook that babbled at it's feet
Had washed it's roots away.
Still in the canon's heart there springs
The deserts diadem,
And shepherds bless the day that
brings
The snow-bank's tears to them.
Youths Companion.
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through these streets, washing
wi the cutters and making it easier
to keep the town clean. Almost every
mousse has a balcony across the front
OF it's second story.
One of the most picturesque sights
TO be seen at st. Thomas is the process
sion OF coal carriers, which is cease
lessiy passing from the docks down
into the holds of the vessels lying
alongside. The coal carriers are all
stalwart negro women, who carry great
baskets filled with coal on their heads.
They work in day and night shifts.
and after darkness falls they sing
weird songs as they work. In spite
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04
Demand for More BattIasb,r..

When the Secretary of the NAVY recent.
" demanded more b~attleships. Congress
considered his recommendations fayorably
ana aulnorized the construction of sever
al powerful warships. Protection is what
our seaports require, and fortifications
viii not adequately supply this. Defense
against all disorders of the digestive orr
cans, such as dyspepsia, constipation. BIZ
1ousness, rheumatism and nervousness. ia
adequately afforded by that efficient REM
edy. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Try It.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-07-04

A stained-glass window is to be
placed in Burton church, Williams
burg, Va, in memory of Chief Justtca
Marshall, who attended that church
while a student at William and Mary
College.-Indianapollis News.
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AZ Old Inntrument.

Violinist (proudly)-The instrument T
shall use at your house tomorrow is
over two hundred years old.
Parvenu-Oh, never mind! It's good
enough; no one VIII know the differ
ence."-Tit-Bits.
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swell, I see they are going to have a
real naval arch"
whats the idea of that?"
"Oh, I suppose it's to commemorate
the way Dewey has been forgotten."-
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An empty discourse and a solid one
are much the same-they are both
sound.