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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14
B. & Q. Railroad company

The c., B. s. @ Railroad company
will have on sale Feb. Is and 10 tick
cts to St. Paul and return at one fare.
Good going date of sale. good return
ing not later than Feb. %. account
annual convention National Creamery
Butter Makers association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14
His WIG Saved Him.

My wife's good advice saved my
life writes F. NJ. Ross, of Winfield,
Tenn. for had such bad cough 1
could hardly breathe, 1 steadily grew
worse under DOCTORS treatment, but
my wife urged me to use DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption,
which completely cured me-" Coughs.
colds, bronchitis, la grippe, pneu-
monia, asthma, hay fever and all
maladies of chest, throat and lungs
are positively cured by this marvel
GUS medicine. so cents and 81. Every
bottle guaranteed. Trial bottles tree
at Hartz & UIlemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14

The most soothing, healing and an
tiseptie application ever devised is
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t re-
lieyes at once and cures piles, sores.
eczema and skin diseases. Beware of
limitations. B. FL. Bieber and Hartz
& Whenever
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14

The Burlington will have on sale
January 1st and 18th. and February
9Th and 10Th, home seekers excursion
tickets at one fare plus two dollars
($2) for the round trip to various
points in the north, south and west.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14

at Galesburg Friday after a weeks
visit at the home of Theo Peterson.
The r, L. & p. bridge gang is doing
some bridge work here this week.
Eunice Eldred visited with the
Misses Brewn at Gilchrist over Sum
day.
Rev. j. w. Hunter is running the
barber shop of A. l.. K'le during MIR.
Kile's absence.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bell is i'll of la
grippe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14
I'm Missouri.

jefferson City. Mo-. Jan. 14.-Gov.
Dockery in his inaugural address to
the Missouri general assembly spoke
at some length on the needed legisla-
ton, and touched briefly on the
worlds fair to be held in st. Louis in
1908 to commemorate the hundredth
anniversary of the Louisiana urchase.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14

If Banner Salve
doesn't cure your piles, your money
will be refunded. 1t is the most heal
ing medicine in the world. All drug-
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14
OTHER STATE INAueuKATIoNs.
Indiana and Missouri Install New Execu
tives.

Indianapolis. Jan. 14.-William T..
Durbin was inaugurated governor of
Indiana at noon. The occasion was
marked By civil and military dis
play. The inaugural address of Dur
bin commended the administration OF
his predecessor, Mount. and favored
a non-partisan management of state
institutions, and warned the'legisla-
ture against the. danger of over-bur-
dened statutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-14

the generations OF Illinois, past, pres
ent and to come. is to stand up. like
men. in our brief day. and fulfill the
oath. in spirit and in truth.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

does not love Williams; Desmoulins hates
them both; Poll Miss CarmichaeD loves
none of Them
In March, 1T6 he left Johnsop's court
for No. Bolt court, between Cough
square and Fleet street. This house,
which was burned down in 1919, stood in
the northwest corner of the court, on the
site of what until very recently wa the.
Stationers' company's school. In an ex-
ira illustrated pennant at the Soane mu-
scum, which once belonged 10 Faunt-
leroy, the forger, there is an excellent
drawing of it. 1t had a garden at the
back, apparent on Horwood's map of
1899, which corresponded very nearly to
the subsequent school playground. 1t con-
tanned a vine which bore grapes, and had
two stone seats at the door, from which
johnson would occasionally discourse on
returning from worship at ST. Clement
Danes Here his "Seraglio," as he call
ed it. attained the full limits indicated
above Miss Williams retaining the
ing the supremacy of the kitchen. which
supplied those mot inelegant dinners"
of his latter days to which Hawkins re-
fers. Johnsons books and study were on
the ''two pair of stairs floor;' and in the
back room of the first floor, on Monday,
Dec 49, 1884 at o'clock in the evening,
he died Francis Barber, his black serv-
the room. finding he had ceased to
breathe, went to the bed and found him
dead. Seven days later, a little after
noon on the 20th, at hearse with six horses
and accompanied by twelve mourning
coaches carried his body from Bolt court
to Westminster abbey. He had not many
mourners of distinction, but it was some
thing to be followed GRAVEYARD by Burke
and Reynolds.-Austin Dobson in London
'FattIer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
TOY WITH ETERNITY
MEN WHO ARE COMPELLED TO USE
DYNAMITE HAVE MAR
ROW ESCAPES
HOW THE STUFF IS HANDLED
Few Embarrassing Moments in
Lives of Those Who Are
Engaged in Handling
Explosives.

IL takes some nerve to toy with eternity
every day and go to work every morning
with the thought that you may come
nome at night to your sorrowing family
in basket. There are men in this city,
says the Springfield Republican, who face
death six days out of seven, and -thins
nothing of it, and it is death of the most
horrible kind. These men handle the
dynamite and nitroglycerin which are
used in blasting rock in the different
quarries, and they pay but little heed to
handful of the dim beyond in the
shape of stick of high explosive done
UP IN yellow wrapping paper.
THESE men are experts in their trade.
and hold the position of foreman of the
various gangs who do the drilling and
blasting in East Longmeadow and VIII
braham. They are young men mostly.
the trade not being conducive to old age.
They begin as assistant foremen and re-
main such until a premature crash causes
vacancy. At first the fear of high
explosives is drilled into them until they
regard the Sawdust-lined boxes with hor-
ror. But In few months they become
accustomed to their trade and handle the
sticks of dynamite as a boy handles a
big frecracker. They claim that dyna-
all, unless you eat it, and then it win
give you a violent headache. Men have
often done this, and it makes them very
i'll for short time. A new assistant
foreman is almost always broken in in
this manner.
Dynamite is an uncertain quantity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
DIR. JOHNSON IN FLEET STREET.
landmarks of the Great Bear of En-
Iish Letters.

Iish Letters.
That "a tavern chair is the throne OF
human felicity is one of the best known
of the JohnSonian aphoriSmS With such
sentiments it is probable that the doctor
occupied that regal eminence upon every
possible occasion, and of necessity often,
in the inns of Fleet street
which : as Boswell admits was
his favored thoroughfare Leigh
lihood he had seen the interior of every
house of call in the neighborhood, and
as he lived Whereabouts" for nearly
dye-and-thirty years it is more than pos
Sible that Leigh Hunt is right.
Yet his name is not definitely connect
ed with many Fleet street taverns, and,
oddly enough, two of those with which
he is most popularity associated are not
mentioned by his biographer. The Cock,
for example, now transferred to the
southern side of the street, and still pre-
serving an ancient oak fireplace of the
Johnsonian epoch, is not alluded to. But
the Cheshire cheese, in Wine Office Court
a delightful old hostelry with paneled
rooms and "sanded floor that grits be-
meath the tread, appears to be able to
Justify claim not advanced by Boswell.
Cyrus Redding, of the Fifty Years Rec
elections" had in his youth conversed
with Fleet street tradesmen who had fire.
quently seen both Johnson and Goldsmith
in the house, and who we'll remembered
that DR.. Majors seat was always in
the window and DR.. Minors ION his
left hand" 1.-THE table and the room"
says Redding in 1858, ARE now as they
were when ! first saw them, having had
the curiosity to visit them recently"-a
testimony hard to be gainsaid.
OF the taverns named by Hawkins
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

cape Which a gang of men under HIM
had this spring. The dynamite was used
freely during the day, and some loose
sticks of 1T were left in the bottom of
the big tool box. When the o'clock
whistle blew the Italians f1ocked to Tie
tool box like homing pigeons The men
began to throw their picks and crow
bars into the box at long range. Just
then the foreman came on the scene and
yelled at them to stop, as he dove behind
the nearest tree. No one knows why
the whole gang was not blown into bits.
1t was just one of the strange freaks of
dynamite.
This same foreman had rather a blood
curdllng escape last fall while at work
IN the hills to the east. AS he came up
to the tool box at night he found an Ital-
ian cuddling stick of dynamite to his
manly chest. The foreman gave vent
to his feelings more emphatically than
politely. To show that his wrath was
reused, the man lifted the stick of dy-
Mantle above his head and let drive at
the foreman. If it had hit the mark
there would now be another assistant
drawing more pay Fortunately the stick
went wide and fell in some soft grass
The next five minutes were probably the
most interesting that the irate son of
spaghetti-land has ever passed. When
he emerged from the fray he passed a
unanimous vote that he would rather be
blown up by dynamite than by the fore
fort in it,
OF course, as dynamite and "jelly, are
not allowed to be carried on the trains,
they never are, but there are some in
teresting times for men who sit in seat
holding. bag in their arms during the
entire journey. One local foreman said
he took a trip awhile ago in a crowded
car, and If anyone had hit his travel
ing bag no one on the car would have
reached the next station collectively
When he got to the end of his journey
: he went to hotel to get luncheon, and
while he was registering placed the bag
on the desk beside him. A man came
in while the foreman was presenting his
autograph to the clerk, and was hurt
because the bag was on the desk To
assert his rights as true citizen of
free country he grasped the bag and
threw it on the floor. The foreman, when
he had stopped a hastily thought-up
prayer, explained the contents of the
bag. How Jelly is taken about no one
who knows will tell. 1t is never placed
on the seat of wagon, even while being
moved from place to place, but Is always
held in the arms of the foreman 1t is
pleasing way to travel, and is nearly
as exciting and uncertain as touring in
an automobile. The life of dynamiter
is eventful, and there never is a quiet
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

there is the Devil by Temple Bar. wherss
looh pace tnat memorable Symposium in
winch Mrs. Charlotte Lennox was TeyoI-
, "a Win laureis and hot apple pye,' and
hept awake all night to celebrate the ap--
pearance of her first novei-"Harriet SIN
art. Then Boswell mentions the Mitra
. Wnere ne hrst supped with his mentor,
upon which occasion what with inc 1or+'
the orthodox high church name Of tb1.
tavern, and the presence of the great.
man, he experienced, as he well might
variety or sensations, accompanied
by "a pleasing elevation OF mind bevond
what he had ever before experienced .
But these are the only Fleet street tay-
ems we can remember. Old Slaughter's.
IN St Martins Lane, the Crown and An
chor, at the corner of Arundel street
the FOUNTAIN, in the Strand, the Turks
Head, in Gerard street, the Kings Head,
N Ivy Lane, the Queens Head, in ST.
PauIs church yard-all these were be-
yond the limits of that highway of let
ters which the doctor preferred to the
Vale of Tempe.
But, wherever he dined or supped, he;
certainly lived for many years in Fleet.
street: 1t was at No. II Cough square
happily still existent-that he resided
from l749 to 1853, and did the major part,
OF ms work before he was pensioned.
came forth the VANITY Of Human Wish
es, the Rambler and the ''Idler.'' the
dictionary and the famous letter to Ches-
terfleld Here, too, he lost his wife, the
imita so broadly, but whose mental
good qualities her husband can scarcely
have mistaken. however blind he NAV
have been in regard to her personal at
fractions. Here, too, 1t was that he re-
ceived intelligence of his mothers death.
From Cough square and ts~sky parlor
he migrated after a short interval to
Middle Temple Lane. No. 1 of which, now
blotted out by Johnsons buildings, was
long inscribed Or Johnson's Staircase
Murphy says that he liked there in
poverty, total idleness, and the pride of
literature" which last named character
istic appears to have been exhibited up.
on one occasion by an entire absence of
pens, ink and paper. 1t was at Inner
Temple Lane that he was pensioned and
first wrote himself doctor. In 1865 he
crossed Fleet street again to Johnsons
court No. z, close to Andertons hotel.
Here he began to have his fringe of PEN
sioners about him-Levett (the DOCTOR in
the garrett blind Miss w Hams on the
ground fioor-and here he suffered the
amenities of that conflict of. petty jeal-
ousies which made him so sympathetic
a spectator OF Storaces "Seva Padrona''-
at Maryiebone gardens. Williams hates
everybody" he wrote later to Mrs
Thrale; 'Levett hates Desmoulins, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
SOME YANKEE TRAITS
BIBLE AGENT VISITS NEW EN-
GLAND ABANDONED FARM
REGION
TYPICAL FARMERS FAMILY
Barren Character of the Soil From
Which They Wrest Their
Living Makes Them
Frugal.

To the visitor in the New England de-
serted village the coming of the Bible
agent was an event of almost feverish
interest. The village lay far back to the
southwark of the southern tier of the
Berkshires, in that silent stretch of land
known officially as the abandoned farm
district, says the New York Sun, and no
traveller from the outside world had dis
| turbed it's slumber since the biscuit
drummer had spent night there ten
days before
The visitor wickedly made up his mind
that he would get some diversion out
of the Bible agent If he had to obtain
a corner on the livery business by hiring
in advance the one available horse and
wagon in the village. This he would
sublet to the agent, provided the latter
would take him along as driver. And
when the agent on the morning after his
arrival announced his purpose of work
ing through the country that day so far
as the state line he had no other choice
than to accept the visitors proposition.
The agent was an old man, a clergy
man whose health had failed, who as a
pensioner of his church still served it
Bible society. AS his mission was to sell
Bibles only to those VINO could afford
to pay for them and to give them away
to those too poor to buy, his task did not
seem to the visitor to be arduous.
The journey was begun by a. M, and
the agent requested his driver to stop,
not only at all the farm houses, but
wherever they might find men working
in the fields.
ai,o1x, 80
explained, I'VE must allow no one to es-
cape u.s.
A stoop-s houldered old man, returning
with couple of steel traps from a. pas
ture lot. was the first customer. In in
PRODUCING his subject the clergyman used
a stereotyped. formula from which he
seldom departed.
"Can you tell me- he said, hating
the old man and unclasping a case con-
tanning samples of his Bibles, IF your
household is supplied with a BibIe?
The stoop-shouidered old man let his
traps rattle to the ground and looked
the agent over carefully
well if it faint it fought to be-
he replied, 1.-The Lord knows we've lived
long 'nough an got 'nough young 'uns
they a hull stack on 'em SumWheres-
got EN- t. sell hev yep
The agent handed him cheaply- bound
volume containing blank pages for the
family record.
This one we sell at 40 cents each,'
he said
The farmer took it and spent some
moments in turning over the leaves and
examining the binding. Then he glanced
up and his eye fell upon the visitors
hired horse.
"Fust rate lookin Bible" he said,
"cheap 'nough, tew, should say. Got
Bill Curtis old boss there, amt We? Want
t. stake with We at the foot tn hill, did
he? All fired good boss that wuz once -
HE seems a very faithful ANIMAL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22
POesy.

Lie. -.
Nobody understands mel" cried the
| poet, despairingly. II shall starve!'
For it was against the law to beg, and
he was too proud to conduct a series of
authors readings.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-22

or uninteresting moment in his business
until the time when he is representing a
Chinese puzzle and the undertaken is try
ing to sort him.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
Corner Stone Laying.

Wednesday, afternoon ut ; O'Clock the
corner stone OF tn" Hfce Kindergarten
building w',i re laid. The ceremony
will he coniuvtol ny the Masonic Lodge.
Supreme Judge fitzgerald will! officate.
Rene lodge No. j., T. < \. NJ. will be
present III 4 jsody.-J, .,r'lal
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
Rushing the Work.

The railroad will not reach Glover
Junction, as was thought, by the first
of June. There is considerable work
to be done down through Clover wash
and if it reaches that point the last of
the month it will be doing well. How
ever work is being pushed as rapidly
as possible. The Clark forces are not
idle. They are as busy as bees and
keep on constructing grade in Meadow
Valley Wash. The Short Line keeps
shipping work. men and material into
the county.-Lincoln County Record
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
THE BALL OPENS.
What Town Will Secure the
Carniva! Qneen.

Yesterday the first money for a Car
nival Queen came into the hands OF
the Carnival Committee.
This is the first castor SHE'D into the
ring in the Carnival beauty contest
and now that the ball is opened there
are likely to be others. Carson will
present more names. Reno will come in
stong With some of the favorite bells of
the riverside town and then the Com
stock will tackle the game with will.
No Que can now predict where this
contest will land tho Queen. She may
come from Carson, the stamping
ground OF beautiful women, or the
rugged sides of old Mount Davidson
may furnish the divinity which will
reign on that eventful occasiOn-unless
Reno wakes up and plunks in enough
! dollars to make all other towns crawl
out Of the contest.
! One thing against Carson lies in the
fact that there are so many bells here
that the bewildered voter hardly
knows which way to turn. Walking
along the street one meets dazzling
array of girls. any one Of which one
would say would be just the thing for
| q Carnival Queen. until YOU reach the
next corner and two Or three more
fash into view which drives all recOl-
lection Of previously encountered
! Of hac1 JTnIn or
those circumstances d susceptible man
hardly knows what to DO Whatever
he does. however, he can rest assured
that the Carnival COMMITTEES gets the
money ana it all helps TO swell the re
ceipts of the big celebration. \ man
with moncr and an imnressinDa BILE dis
position will have show to vote for hi
choice from new until the polls close
aud repeating is not prohibited by the
Carnival election laws.
: Vote early aud vote often is the
: watchword with everybody from this
: on. Carson. however. presents bel
first candidate ani invites the State tt
compete and if Carson is beaten in tn,
race it viii be beaten by some one wht
/ 1jll get up aud hustle along at a YER,
lively pace and keep hnstling until tn,
last minute.
= We have plenty of beauties here il
D this berg and we have plenty of hust
lers and the longest pole raIes the per
simmon.
The following is the list to date:
Miss Lillian Swift, Carson
Miss Katie Schulz. Carson
L Miss Martha Murphy, Carson
T Miss Vera Novacovich. Reno------l
= Miss Sadie Phillips. Reno--l
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
Waking Up.

The citizens Of surrounding towns
are beginning to realize that there will
be something do;ug here about the
first week in July.
Already people in Virginia ana Reno
are sending to tia Committee for con-
cessions and iuqui,ing the price of
vacant buildings and LOIS 10 rent them
for the Carnival. One WAS snapped up
yesterday ny an enterprising Reno
man who cou2dn t STOP to write
The erection OF the Midway is going
to be a great source OF revenue to the
locality where it opens. As vet the
spot has not been selected. The con-
cessioners wanted TO Omen in the Cap
itol grounds as they did in Sacramento
but the Capitol Commissioners did not
propose to take chances on running so
much grass, e. especially where it re-
Quires SO much care To keep it looking
we'll.
The Midway Will either De placed in
the vacant lot diagonallv from the
northeast corner of the Capitol square
where the dog show was few weeks
ago, or on some side street near the
center of the city.
The business houses OF Carson are
fixing up their fronts aud painters and
builders are busy getting things in
order for the grand week. Reno and
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
To Wed.

The engagement is announced Of
Miss Minnie Sadler OF Carson to B. L.
Plummer, Jr., of Mineral Hill, Eureka
county. The marriage will take place
at the residence of the brides parents
is the eldest daughter OF Governor and
Mrs. Sadler, and has taught success
fully in the schools of the State for
several years. Mr.. Plummer is a
thorough-going business man and is
engaged in ranching and stock rails
ing in Eureka county. The young
couple will take up their residence at
the groom's ranch near Mineral Hill
Eureka Sentinel.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
Reduced Rates to the Pan
American Exposition Via
Union Pacific Railroad.

On sale June 3rd and 4th to Buffalo
and return S87, account of Pan Amer
fcan Exposition; Kansas City and re-
turn $50, account Council Mystic
Shrine: ST. Paul and return S67.9O ac-
count Camp of Woodmen of America
Time of the Union Pacific to Buffalo is
81 days. Tickets sold at all offices of
the Southern Pacific and Union Pa
cifc r. r. Co.'S.
For full particulars in regard to
rates and fast train service call upon or
write D. w. Hitchcock, General
Agent, Union Pacific r. r. Co., !
Montgomery ST., San Francisco.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29

This ballot may be counted for as many
votes as the sender indicates in the space
at the left Of the word 'votes,' but each
vote must he accompanied by five cents.
The expenses, dress, etc, OF the selected
Queen viii Of cnhrsa be paid 10y the com
mittee and she Will he given grand re-
ception in addition.
The lady receiving the highest number
Of votes in The state will lie declared
elected Queen OF the Carnival. and the
highest III each county Will be maids of
honor.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-29
Memorial Day.

Tomorrow being Memorial Day the
occasion Will be properly observed by
the members of the G. \. r. and w. r.
c., while the citizens will also participate
as heretofore After the column forms
and marches to the cemetery the follow
ing exercises will be held at the grounds:
Music-Nevada State Band.
Reading of orders from headquarters
Adiutant.
RemarkS-Post Commander.
Music, "Consolation"-Ch0i
Prayer-PoSt Chaplain.
Address-Post Commander.
Music, 1--WE Deck Their Graves''-
| Choir
Poein-"Ode on Decoration Day''-A1iss
| Helene Chartz.
| Music-Nevada State Band.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-Master
| Robert Rountreo.
Decoration of Monument-Officer of
the Day.
Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty-Post
Chaplain.
| Salute to the Dead.
Reading OF the Ron Of Honor-Post
Adjutant.
! Hymn-"A merica'-ChOir.
Benedlction-Eev. J. w. Dorrance.
Memorial Service to the Unknown
Dead-Custer Corps No. 10, w. r. c.
Decoration Of Comrades Graves.
Music will be rendered by the Nevada
State Band during decoration.
Flags should be displayed at half-mas
from sunrise to sunset on public and pri
waite buildings.
The Ladies' of Custer Relief Corps viii
thankfully receive contributions of flow
ers on " eduesday May Goth at Armory
| H3n.
G.. A. BRULIN,
S. Y. Commander
Acting Post Commander