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The Conservative, 1901-11-21

the care and use of school garden
should be given in the county insti
tute. The best way is not known,
but if many people work for it., a
better way will be found
do not know the best method of
teaching practical, scientific agricul-
ture, but do know where like best
to get my practical information, and
that is from some successful farmer,
and if were in charge Of county in
stitute, should take great pleasure
in arranging for series Of lectures
from men who had been particularly
successful in some department. Of agri-
culture. These men would make up
in force and originality for any lack
Of elegance in their diction, and
there might be found those who had
something to say and the way of say
ing it too. The paper on alfalfa in
The Conservative of September 10,
1901, by H. D. Watson, represents
type of article that would make excel
lent instruction in county institute.
In Other Schools.
In the industrial school at Hamp-
ton, Va, they have taught agricul
ture successfully by the outdoor
experimental method supplemented by
technical instruction in the school
room. From Hampton have come
Booker T. Washington and the hosts
of industrial workers who are help
ing to give new solution to the race
problem.
The date palm now grown in Ari
zona came in with the Catholic mis-
sions, from the mission gardens Of
California came the mission grape. In
England they are establishing rural
schools patterned after the old New
England farms. 1t is thought that
the all-round training they afford,
make for the best and fullest develop
ment If the schools of Nebraska
are conducted in a spirit Of wisdom
they will utilize their opportunities
and raise at the same time education
and agriculture to higher planes.
The schools will serve the state and
educate a race Of farmers. They
will at last have the courage to break
away from the fallacy that an individ-
ual may be educated for one kind of
life, and he is thereby better fitted
for something else.
Education serves a good purpose but
it is not always and at all times an
unqualified good. 1t does sometimes
unfit men for life. Let us admit it
and make suitable provision against
this unwelcome fact.
The ideal farmer is one who has
the proper blending of general intel
ligence and steady habits of work.
The Conservative, 1901-11-21
DEMAND
DECLINES.

in tribes, the medicine men are
very numerous and faith in their
supernatural powers is general.
But barbaric ignorance is giving way
before civilization, and educated people
generally know something of anatomy,
physiology and the rules of health.
Thus the demand for doctors is declin-
ing as mankind comes more and more to
know something of the human organ
ism and it's conservation.
The spread of legal knowledge among
the people and the numerous "form
books, (which teach
Lawyers. the laws of business
and furnish skele-
tons for contracts, deeds, wills, leases
and all other legal documents are con-
stantly repressing and restricting the
demand for lawyers. The more the
masses of the people learn, the less they
need lawyers. The wisest citizenship
is that which settles commercial differ
ences outside of the courts. The more
the people know Of the laws and methods
of business, the less they wish to know
of lawyers. If the boasted system Of
American public schools, which gives
education away as the sun sheds light,
is worth half as much as it's advocates
and eulogists claim for it, there can be
no demand for either doctors or lawyers
in the near future, except by the
ignorant and criminal classes. Doctors
and lawyers will decline in numbers
and in value if our school system ripens
fruit equal to it's promising blossom.
And, Furthermore, the decline in the
demand for clergymen, for pastors, for
preachers, priests
The Clergy, Too. and ministers of the
gospel will likewise
weaken and wither. All this present
demand for doctors, lawyers and theo-
logians arises from imperfect intellect
ual and moral development And when
the vast free school systems, which with
free universities embellish and tax
every state in the American Union and
The Conservative, 1901-11-21

The demand for
DEMAND doctors declines as
DECLINES. inte lligence be-
comes more an d
more general. Among savages,
in tribes, the medicine men are
very numerous and faith in their
powers is general.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
a FEW REASONS
which Are Rapidly Making New Catarrh
Cure Famous.

which Are Rapidly Making New Catarrh
Cure Famous.
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, the new
catarrh cure has the following adj
vantages over other catarrh rene
dies.
First: These tablets contain no
cocaine, morphine or any. other in
furious drug and are safe and bene-
fetal for children as for adults; this
is an important point when it is re-
called that many catarrh remedies
do contain these very Objectionable
ingredients.
Next: Being in table form this
remedy does not deteriorate with age,
or an exposure to the air as liquid
preparations invariably do.
Next: The table form not only
preserves the medicinal proprieties
but it is far more convenient to
carry and to use at any time that ii
is only question of time when the
tablet will entirely supersede liquid
medicines as it has already done in
the medical department of the Unit
ed States army.
Next: No secret is made of the
composition of Stuart's Catarrh Tab
let's; they contain the active prin-
ciples of Eucalyptus bark, red gum,
blood root and Hydrastin, all harm
less antiseptics which, however, are
death to catarrhal germs wherever
found, because they eliminate them
from the blood.
Next: You can not cure catarrh
by local applications to the nose and
throat. because these are simply To-
cal symptoms and such treatment
can not possibly reach the real seat
of catarrhal disease which is in the
blood; for this reason, inhalers,
douches, sprays and powders never
really cure catarrh, but simply give
temporary relief which a dose of
plain salt and water will do just as
well.
Catarrh must be driven out of the
system, out of the blood, by an in
ternal remedy because an internal
remedy is the only kind which can
be assimilated into the blood.
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets do this
better than the old form of treat
ment because they contain every
safe specific known to modern
science in the antiseptic form of the
disease.
Next: The use of inhalers, and
spraying apparatuses, besides being
ineffective and disappointing, is eN-
pensive, while a complete treatment
of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets can be
had at any drug store in the United
States and Canada for so cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
.JOSI.IN.

Joslin. Dec. 12.-Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Biehlmeier spent Saturday in Joslin.
+. +. David had business in Moline
Tuesday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ii. Osborne and
children Sundayed in Port Byron.
Doc Sayers, of Moline, was re-
cent visitor in our neighborhood.
Elmer Miller and wife, of Rock Is
land. spent a day with Mrs. Miller's
parents.
Miss Iva Donahey has returned
from her visit to her grandparents
in Coe township.
Earl Donahey returned home Sat
urtlay after spending Il few days with
Mr.. and Mrs. Biehlmeier.
Ed Wainwright wife and daUgh-
ter. have left for their home in Da-
kota after spending three months
with relatives and friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
FOSTER.

Foster. Dec. 12.-Rev. c. l.. Elan
ders went to Marston Monday To
begin a series of meetings.
John Foster is home from Solon,
Iowa.
Miss Nellie Wray went to Musca-
tine Monday to attend Prof. Leve-
rich's normal school.
Ed Feldmhn has been sorely af-
flicted with "A lame back since We'd
nesday of last week. He has not
been able to get about much since.
Jacob Freyermuth, of Shiloh. Ia,
spent a few days here with relatives
last week.
Miss Bessie Duffield, of Sweetland
Center, Ia, visited over Sunday with
her friend. Miss Mae Reynolds.
Miss Beulah Miller opened her win
ter term at the Cole school, east of
Illinois City.
Several of our teachers attended
the teachers meeting held at Illinois
City last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Drury, of Fer
dinand, took dinner at f. p. Gilletts
Sunday.
The Misses Lucy and Kate Watson
were guests of the Misses Gillett
Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
Stories From the Suburbs.


day evening which had moderate
attendance and was highly appreciat-
ed by those present.
The ladies of the Social Union will
have their annual bazaar and turkey
supper on the afternoon and evening
of Friday, Dec. Is. The supper will
be served from to s.
Printed circulars have been re-
ceived by the teachers of the upper
end of the county, from 5. j. Fergu-
son, county superintendent, stating
that it is desirious to erect Ma
tional monument to the memory of
our martyred president, William Nc
Kinley," and that the school children
should have an opportunity to con-
tribute to the same, and requesting
the teachers to bring the matter be-
fore their individual schols.
Monday last j. j. Huntley was TAX
ing an inventory of his stock of
groceries preparatory to his entering
into co-partnership with Fred
Moody.
The following is the report of
Postmaster John McCauley of the
business upon the Port Byron rural
route for November: Delivered
Letters, sri; postal cards, III;
papers, 2,435; circulars, 525; pack
ages. 6S; total, BIS. Collected
Money orders, o; letters, 4S3; postal
cards. 81: papers, IS; packages, 6;
circulars. 6, total, $50. Collected and
delivered, 1855; cancellations, 1904.
Frank SHELTON has been appointed
substitute carrier.
Friday evening last genuine sur
prise was perpetrated upon Miss Lii
liam Crompton by eight couples of
her young friends coming in body
to her residence. Music, games and
refreshments were the order of the
evening.
The new pupils enrolled at the
high school Monday were Ralph Hee-
rem, William Wright and Jessie
Lamb. The class in physics took its
examination Thursday afternoon.
Port Byron District Court, No. o,
elected the following officers at its
last meeting for the ensuing year:
John Schafer, w. c.; Lizzie Tilbrook,
V. c.; c. L. Hobart, p. c.; a. II.
Wendt, recorder; julius Linke, treas
urer; Luella Hobart. chaplain; A. G..
Brewster. guard; Frank Ziegler, SEN
tinel; Matthew Schafer, director.
The electric clock has been taken
out of the postoffice and every one
had become so accustomed TO it that
they seem lost without it.
The annual meeting of the Metho-
dist Sunday school was held Wednes-
day evening, when the following of
ficers were elected for the coming
year DR.. Sensibaugh, superinten-
dent; Mary Trent, assistant super
intendent; Lille Crompton, secre-
tary; Edward Lyford, assistant sec
rotary; Clarence Tilbrook, treasurer;
Chester Cooley, librarian; Lorin Saw
age. assistant librarians; Mrs. Sensi-
baugh. chorister; Bessie Pearsall,
organist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
CORDOVA.

Cordova, Dec. 12.-Miss Anna Hunt
spent Saturday at home.
Mrs. William Marshall was calling
on friends in Port Byron last week.
j. Il. Nanderburgh made a business
trip 10 Port Byron Tuesday.
The lecture given by Frederick
Truman at the Baptist church We'd
nesday was attended by an appre-
ciative audience.
Henry Durant has moved his store
into the Stockwell block.
John Cooper came home from Chi
cago Friday.
Charlie Hoskel went to Rock Is
land Thursday.
Mrs. l.. c. Stockwell and Mrs. Mar
tin returned home from Usage Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. james Robinson are
the proud parents of new baby.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Pearsall
came Friday to visit a few weeks
with relatives here.
Mrs. Edward Cool is visiting friends
in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitesiles and daugh-
ter, Sally, were visiting relatives in
Hampton Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Block, of Port Byron, was Wis
iting friends here Thursday.
Mrs. Kate Purdy is visiting in
Usage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
BOWLING.

Bowling. Dec. 12.-The wood saw is
now heard in Bowling.
Those who are sick at present are
Mrs. Robert johnson, II. Koch, John
Forgy and Ben Kahn
Among those who visited the coun-
ty seat Saturday were Mr.. and Mrs.
DaXon, Robert Young and daughter,
Mary, Mr.. and Mrs. Witherell and
John and Guy Hodson.
Fred Beck, while loading hogs the
other day, broke his little finger.
James McAfee has n very sore
hand which he hurt on a rusty nail
Mrs. Keys of Rock Island visited
with Mrs. Haines one day last week
Robert Huleatt is spending a few
days in Denver. Col, where he is pre-
pairing to take his family in the near
future.
Freeman Bingham has rented the
tenement house belonging to Minor
Curtis and lately occupied by Guy
Hodson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
TRAINS ARE TO SLOW DOWN
General Passenger Agents Opposed to Fast
Running Between Omaha and Chicago.

General Passenger Agents Opposed to Fast
Running Between Omaha and Chicago.
An agreement was reached vester-
day by the executive officers an F!
general passenger agents of the
western roads regarding the time of
trains between Chicago and St. Paul
and the Missouri river gateways. \
resolution was adopted providing
that not later than Dec 81, the min
imum time schedule between Chicago
and Omaha shall be thirteen hours
and thirty minutes, and that not lat
err than Dec. % the minimum time
schedule between Chicago and ST.
Paul and Minneapolis shall be twelve
hours and fifty-five minutes.
This puts the schedules between
Chicago and Omaha back to the slow
time made under the old agreement.
while the time between Chicago and
st. Paul is only twenty-five minutes
faster than that made under the old
agreement
While all the roads represented at
the meeting voted for the new agree
ment, yet IL is by no means certain
that ii will be carried out. Some of
the roads were represented by sub
ordinate officials and their action
has To be ratified by their presidents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
"A GOOD Beginning Makes
a Bad Ending"

That saying seems to have been bern
of the superstition deep rooted in hui
manity. 1t is akin to that other saying
Tie laughs best who laughs last" Per-
haps in these and similar sayings there
Is survival of the old pagan belief that
a display of happiness was likely to in
cur the envy of the gods and to draw
down the visitation of the malice which
Is twin to envy.
1t would be ridiculous proposition to
affirm that bad is the necessary outcome
of good. But just as many day which
begins with a cloudless sky ends in
storm, so many an event in life which
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12

promises only happiness ends in disap-
pointment and misery.
This is very true of marriage. The
young wife goes heart and soul into
home making and housekeeping. She
loves to cook and prepare the dainties
her husband enjoys. She is so robust
and hearty that she can hardly find
enough to do to exhaust her abundant
energy. That's the way it begins. At
ter a while she finds that it takes all her
strength to care for her home. Then
household cares begin to overtax her,
and she drops down into a chair many a
time and gives way to tears because of
her weakness and misery. The sky so
cloudless on the morning of marriage
has soon become overcast.
THE CRITICAL. TIME
in many a woman's life comes Just az
this period of encouragement and de-
spair. She finds indications of disease
of the delicate womanly organs. Her
women friends perhaps tell her that the
bearing down sensation, the pains in the
back and loins indicate disease or dis
placement. She consults physicians,
takes prescribed treatments, all to no
avail. And yet this woman'S case is
durable on the evidence of women who
have been cured.
oFour years ago my health began to
fall" writes Mrs. Nellie NJ. Reycraft,
of Glenwood, Washington Co., Oregon.
"I had heavy dragging and weight in
the region of the uterus, pain in back
and loins, could not lift anything heavy,
rest at night very poor; stomach de-
ranged One physician said was over
worked, another said 1 had Conges-
ton and falling of uterus He treated
me nine months and said would not be
well until 1 had passed the change of
life. l was only twenty-seven years old
then. 1 became discouraged, and began
using DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Took a teaspoonful three times day;
began feeling better right away. Am
using my third bottle now, and feel am
in good health. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription has restored me to health.
If suffering women would give 1t fair
trial they would give it praise"
1t can truthfully be said that there is
hardly form of wonIanly disease med
ically durable which will not yield to the
faithful use of uFavorite Prescription"
More than this, it is a matter of record
that many forms of womanly disease pro-
nounced incurable by local physicians
have been perfectly and permanently
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
PORT BYRON.

Port Byron, Dec. 12.-J. w. Max
well went to visit with relatives in
Pittsburg, Pa. whom he has not seen
for many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Wainwright and
family with John Crompton Sunday
ed with F. f. Crompton and family.
Miss Dora Stiltz has gone to Rock
Island to assist in caring for her
sick sister, Mrs. Warnecke.
There was a stereopticon enter
tainment at the HartseIl school
house south of Rapids City Thurs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
An EvaneeIist's story.

81 suffered for years with a bron'
chiaI trouble and tried various rem
edies but did not obtain permanent
relief until L commenced using One
Minute Cough Cure" writes Rev
James Kirkman, evangelist of Belle
River, i'll. One Minute Cough Cure
affords immediate relief for coughs
colds and all throat and lung troub'
les. For Group it is unequalled. Alb
solutely safe. Never fails and IA
vorite with the children. b. II. Bic
Der and Hartz & Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
Coughs and Colds in Children--Recommen
dation of Well Known Chicago
Physician.

/ use and prescribe Chamberlain's
cough remedy for almost all obsti-
nate, CONSTRUCTED coughs, with direct
results. i prescribe it to children of
all ages. Am glad to recommend it
to all in need and seeking relief from
colds and coughs and bronchial at
fictions. 1t is non-narcotic and safe
in the hands of the most unProfes-
sional. A universal panacea for all
mankind.-Mrs. Mary II. Melendy, NJ.
d., Phi. D., Chicago, Ill. This remedy
is for sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
THE REASON WHY.

THE REASON WHY.
Some medical works content them
selves by classifying advice under the
head of vDoD or Don't" DR.. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Adviser gives
the reason why, for all it enjoins 1t is
a plain guide to health written in plain
English and dealing with the great prob
lens of physiology and hygiene from
the view point of common sense. This
great work containing 1908 large pages
expense of mailing only. Send 81 one
cent stamps for the work IN cloth bind
ing or only II stamps for the book in
paper-covers. Address DR.. R. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, n. y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12

cured by the use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription.
It is worth noting that these cures
are lasting. Many medicines offered for
women's use are mere palliatives. They
numb the nerves and so dull the pain.
But they do not re-establish the lost
womanly health. vFavorite Prescrip-
ton" is a purely vegetable preparation.
1t contains no alcohol, neither opium,
cocaine or any other narcotic. 1t cannot
disagree with the weakest constitution.
1t establishes regularity, dries the drains
which weaken women, heals i1hamma-
ton and liberation and cures female
weakness.
IT IS wOMAN'S WAY
to sacrifice herself for her family. She
goes without the new dress that husband
or child may have some coveted pleasure.
And for econony's sake she often bears
the ills which are undermining her
health. 1t is a false economy. The
health of the wife and mother is the
most important factor IN the home life,
and every suffering woman who has been
cured by "Favorite Prescription" is a
witness to the real economy of this
means of cure.
"A1y health is the best now that it has
been for four years." writes Mrs. Phebe
Morris, of Ira, Cayuga Co., NY, Box 81.
CT have taken but two bottles of Your
medicine, Favorite Prescription and
Golden Medical Discovery These med
icines have done me more good than all
that 1 have ever taken before. /oOnidH't
do my zOo1lk only about half the time,
and no5t / can zC0yk all the time for a
family Of four. Before I took your
medicines l was sick in bed nearly half
the time. My advice to all who are
troubled with female weakness is to take
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
Golden Medical Discovery the most
wonderful medicines in the world"
Sick women are invited to consult Dr.
Pierce by letter, free. All letters are held
in sacred confidence and woman1y conf
dences are guarded by strict professional
privacy. Address DR.. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
In little more than thirty years Dr.
Fierce, chief consulting physician to the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, n. ", assisted by his staff of
nearly score of physicians, has treated
and cured hundreds of thousands of sick
and suffering women.
If the dealer offers you a vjust as
good" medicine in place of "Favorite
Prescription" it is because less fneritori-
Gus medicines pay him little more
profit. His profit is your loss. Insist
upon having Favorite Prescription I" the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
Health and Beauty.

Poor complexion is usually the re-
suit of torpid liver or irregularity of
the bowels. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers stimulate the liver. Promote
regular action of the bowels. Never
distress. B. H. Bieber and Hartz &
Ullemeyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12

There's a lot of girls who have
regulations as beauties. Their
loneliness is caused by good health,
brought about by taking Rocky
Mountain Tea, made by Madison
Medicine company. s5 cents. L. III.
Thomas, druggist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12

Burdock Blood Bitters gives a man
clear head, an active brain, a
strong, vigorous body; makes him
fit for the battle of life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12
Baseball Notes

Bloomington fans are rejoicing
over the acquisition of McGreevey
for next seasons team. 1t is said
Mac could have had a chance with the
Chicago National league team in the
spring and he was eager enough for
the place, but seems to have changed
his mind. It's a safe bet that the
Bloomington magnates had to put up
a nice increase in salary to keep the
veteran. The Bloomington people
are aiming high. For instance. they
are after no less a man than Frank
Dillon to play first base. Dillon was
with Detroit last season and is under
stood to have drawn salary of 5000.
1t will cost Bloomington nearly as
much to land him. if. indeed, he will
step back into such a small league.
All of last seasons Bloomington
team have been signed with the eX-
ceptiOn of Elsey and Kinlock. Feih-
Ter will replace Herman at second
base and Bammert, who has knocked
about in minor leagues for some
time, will play the short field.
Omaha, Dec. 12.-Buchanan Keith,
who owned and managed the West
ern league team in Omaha for two
years, declined to accept an offer
from President Hickey of franchise
for this city in the American associ-
alton. Keith says he expects the
American association will abandon
the idea of placing n ball club here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-12

The weak spot in many men
and women is the back. 1t
parts of the body. 1t gets