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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
CITY CHAT.

American laundry.
Bicycles at Wilcher's.
Buy q home of Reidy Bros.
For insurance, f. j. Burns.
Morning Light 5-cent cigar.
Open tonight Dolly Bros
Kerler Bros. clean mattresses.
Homes for sale. A Rush 81 Co.
List your property with Reidy Bros.
Gasoline stoves at cost at Wilcher's.
A. Rush & Co., room 6, Buford
block-real estate.
Everything electrical. Estimates
furnished. Rock Island Electric COM
pany, phone 1880.
Shirt waists, IS, $3.50 and $l.50
quality. your choice this week for 20
cents at L9mbert's toggery shop
For real estate ana reliable insur-
aace call on Hall & Hemenway, room
IS, Mitchell & Lynde building. Tele-
phone 1904.
Clarence Langdon and Miss Nellie
Muiligan. a Lyons couple. were
welded Yesterday afternoon at the
office of Justice Schriver.
Clearance sale of up-to-date gents
furnishings for this week only, going
at 80, so and as per cent discount at
Lambert's toggery shop.
F. j. Young, for the past six years
at McCabe's. has accepted q position
at the Boston store in Davenport,
where he began yesterday.
The annual reunion of the 126th
Illinois volunteer Infantry was endet
yesterday afternoon, when the major
ity of the veterans left for their
homes
Charles w. Milan and Mics Gym
thia III. Halves. the former from Rock
Island and the latter from Moline,
were married in this city yesterday
by Rev. ID. L. McNary.
Richard Bohman, the 6-year-old
son of William b Bohman who lives
at Eighth avenue and Forty-'ourth
street, lies in a critical condition
from the effects of a fan from the
porch roof as his home. His sku l
was fractured al d the chances for his
recovery are not the best.
Gel. w. F. Cody was called upon
today by a number of the friends
whom he knew in the early days.
having. as is generally known, been
born III Scott county, about twelve
miles Dorth west OF Davenport. The
distinguished visitor is being enter
tanned at the home OF Col Nuttipg in
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
Death of Child.

Amos Hamilton. the 1-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. z. Thompson. oil
Peoria, died at 8 O'Clock this after
noon at the home of John Thompson,
527 Twenty-third street. The child
had been suffering for some
time with lung trou Die, and was
brought to this city about three
weeks ago in hopes the change would
prove beneficial, but the hope was not
realized. The funeral will re- pri-
vate one. and will occur tomorrow
afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15

Arizona while she was still an infant
in arms. With the immigrants was a
guard OF troopers of the famous Cali
fornia column, the regiment that drove
the Confederate forces from Arizona.
At Beale Springs, in northwestern
Arizona, the party was attacked by In
dams. James ID. MOnihon, late mayor
of Phenix. was a trooper of the escort.
One of his favorite stories is that in
which he tells of snatching up the
Banghart baby and hurrying through
n rain of bullets to place her in a posi-
ton of safety.
She was welded to y. o. Murphy in
Prescott about Is years ago. Issue of
the union is one child, boy, now pre-
pairing for college at Garden City, n. Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
MRS. SPENCER ROBINSON
BRINGS SUIT FOR DIVORCE

Jackson & Hurst. attorneys for
Mrs. Theresa Robinson. of this city
last evening filed bill of divorce in
Circuit Clerk CANDLES Office Ac-
cording to the instrument, she wss
married 10 Spencer Robinson Dec Is,
1897. and was deserted by her hus-
band year later. She asks the GUS
tody OF her 2-year- old daughter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15

Fair t0Riglt and Friddy;;
HtfLe change in temperature.
j. N. SHERIER, Observer.
Temperature at Z a. M. e.,
at $50 D. M. Sc.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
CURIOUS CITY GARDENS.
In London Crops Are Raised In n Bar-
rel, or Open Umbrella, or Under
Blankets.

Many people have such a deeply
rooted love for flowers that they
will go to any amount of trouble to
raise a few blooms, even under the
most apparently impossible circum-
stances, says the London Mail.
Instances of this occur in the East
End of London, where sometimes the
only available garden is barrel. In
order to make the most of this how
ever, it is bored all over the sides
with holes about two inches in diam
eter, into each Of which plant of
some description is placed, in addi-
tion to those planted in the usual way
on the top, so that a good display is
obtained in the minimum amount of
space. These barrels frequently look
very pretty and effective when all
the plants are in bloom.
The statement that there are gar
dens under bedclothcs is supported
by no less an authority than that of
Very Rev. S. Reynolds Hole, dean Of
Rochester. A district visitor in the
Midlands, when calling upon poor
woman, noticed how few were the
coverings of her bed. Upon being
asked, she admitted that she had an
other blanket, and was demonstrated
with for not using it, as the weather
was bitterly cold. 1t at length tran
spired that her husband had taken it
to cover over some plants he was
rearing in tiny greenhouse, in the
hope of saving them from being
killed by the frost. Surely devotion
to flowers could hardly go much fur
ther than this.
Not few suburban householders
usually find their gardens just out
side the scullery door, and they ex-
ercise their horticultural ingenuity
upon the tiny slips of ground in
which the considerate jerry builder
has carefully buried his superhu-
GUS half-bricks. In various parts of
the country, notably at Nottingham,
there are cottage gardens three miles
away from the residences of their
owners, so that when visitors are in
vited to come and have look
around the garden" it means a some
what lengthy excursion. These small
allotments are, however, greatly ap-
preciated and carefully attended, de-
spite the fact that the time taken
in getting to and from them plays
sad havoc with their owners scanty
leisure.
OF gardens in cemeteries there ap-
pears to be only a solitary example
in this country, the one which Sir
Joseph Paxton, of Crystal palace
fame, formed at Coventry. In the
United States, however, there are
many gardens of this kind, notably
at Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia,
and they might, with advantage, be
copied in our cemeteries.
Gardens may be made on open UNI
brellas as far as obtaining sub
stantial crop Of mustard and cress is
concerned. 1t is only necessary to
open the umbrella, wet it thoroughly,
and sprinkle the seed over it. If the
fabric is kept damp, the seed will
soon begin to sprout, and in few
weeks a nice quantity of the salad
may be cut. The same thing may
be done in dinner plate with the
aid of a strip of an old flannel shirt
piece Of felt, or other similar cloth
provided it is kept moist.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
PITH AND POINT.

A woman's sympathies are areuiet
when anyone else on earth gets sick,
except her dressmaker. - Atchison
Globe.
When a man is confronted with
lot of his old love letters in breach
of promise suit he realizes that kind
words can never die.-Chicago Daily
News.
"Ycs, when l put away my over
coat for the summer drop cam
phor ball in each pocket" "Do you?
Three gilt balls are good enough for
me, me,"-Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Towne-"See that man? Wen, sir,
he landed in this country with bare
feet, and now he's got millions"
Browne-"Gee whiz! He's worse than
centipede, isn't he?"-Philadclphia
Press.
"The race" said the man who was
given to moralizing, sis not always
to the swift" That's so,' replied
Sportiboy; "the jockeys will pull
their mounts if you don't watch 'em
close."-Philadclphia Record.
81 don't think those explorers who
wander thousands of miles to find
the poles are so remarkable. "What's
ordinary about them?" "Just see to
what lengths small politician will
go for little post!"-Philadclphia
Times.
As we chained the wretch to the
stake and piled the faggots about
him, his cringing terror moved us to
scorn. "You haven't much forti-
tude!" we sneered. "Well, l haven't
fortitude to burn, for fact!" con-
fessed he.-Detroit journal.
As man of wealth it became his
duty to encourage art and culture.
Somewhat proudly he displayed re-
cent acquisition. That" said he,
sis fine specimen of the impressions
istic school," $50 it appears" said
the friend, "but what does il repre-
sent?" -Four hundred dollars."-ln.
dianapolis News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
FACTS ABOUT CRAB MEAT.
the Crustncean's Steering
Apparatus.

The hard-crab business began sew
eral weeks earlier this year than ever
before. Chicago is the farthest point
away to which crab meat is shipped.
Most of it is sold in the east, near
the seaboard. Philadelphia is said to
be the greatest crab market in the
world. There is great demand for
hard-crab meat at summer resorts,
and it is singular fact that most
of this trade comes from seaside re-
sorts and very little of it from noun
tain or other inland resorts, says the
Baltimore Sun.
1t was an Oxford packer who first
made speciality of make meat, pack
ing it separately from that taken
from the body of the crab. The fake
meat is the great boncless muscle at
tached to the two broad fipper back
fins-tbe steering gear of the crab
which is taken out in one solid white
piece and which easily separates
itself into flakes. 1t brings 25 per
cent. more than the other meat. The
prices now are one dollar a gallon
for flake and so cents for body
meat.
The disposal of the offal remaining
after picking has been troublesome
to crab packers. Thousands OF
wagon loads of it every season have
been given to farmers for manure,
and thousands of tons dumped into
the river. Now, however, there is tn
be market for even this debris. 1t
is used for making commercial fer
| tilizer.
The average catch of crabs per boat
per day during the season is three
barrels, and the average price Sc
cents barrel. The railroad freight
weight of barrel of live crabs J.;
$50 pounds. One barrel of fat, hard
crabs will yield four gallons of q
pounds. For picking two and one
half cents a pound is paid. The TOP
shells are saved and carefully cleaned
for the devilled crab trade. Clean
crs get five cents per hundred shells
Ice is one of the chief items of cx
pcnsc in the crab-meat trade. A pack
er doing business of ordinary ex
tent will use 5000 worth of ice
month; and it will take for the sam,
house eight dollars worth of coal 6
week to steam the crabs. The cans
cost so per cent. more this season
than ever before. A crab picker viii
make from five to eight dollars 1
week, working ten hours day.
The packers buy tripe from thu
butchers and cells from the fishermen
all the year round, and salt then
down for crab bait, buying salt b.
the carload. The crabbers for a pack
er doing an ordinary business vii
use 100 tons of bait in season. Eaci
packer has his own crabbers, whom
he cquips with outfits and furnishc
with bait, charging them up agains
each crabber in settlement. Th
packer is obliged to take the who'll
catch of his crabbers during the sea
son, whether his orders require i
or not.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
THE SOCIAL SECRETARY.
A Useful FunctiOnary Found In Some
OF the big Department
Stores,

1t is depressing to feel ones self
only one of 500 employes--and not an
important one. 1t is natural that such
a feeling should foster a notion that
one is being sighted or overburdened
or possibly prosecuted. When imag-
ination goes to this length work suf.
fers as well as the worker. To save
them both some of the great depart
ment stores have engaged discreet and
tactful women whom they call social
secretaries"
The social secretary is an inter.
mediary between the employer and the
saleswoman, and her duty is to keep
them both from making mistakes,
says n writer in the Youths Compan-
ion. She is not expected TO overlook
wrong-doing, but neither is she de.
sired to remain silent when she thinks
an employe is unjustly treated. She
has authority to send delicate girl
home early on stormy day. She can
recommend a clever girl for promo
tion. She is qualified TO mother" the
sick and encourage the sensitive, and
she must be brave enough if occasion
arises to tell her employers unpalata.
ble but wholesom truths.
We hear of one social secretary who
organized among the saleswomen an
insurance club, mutual benefit asso
citation and social club that arranges
for summer outings and winter par
ties. Another hunted up quiet farm
house home for girls who were tired
or i'll, and sent them there, and kept
them there until they regained health
But the social secretary's best work
is done in meeting the little needs OF
every day and advising her associate.
for their physical, intellectual ant
moral good. "rhe firm" may seem re
mote and inaccessible, bur this JUS
and sympathetic woman stands YER,
near.
| Wherever the experiment has beer
made, apparently, the social secretary
has become fixture. Efforts like her
profit the employer as well as the EN-
ployes, because they directly promot,
that spirit of willing service whicl
adds so much to workers value. One,
convinced that she is not held in dis
dain or viewed as simply part of
money-making machine-that she i
the object of goodwill and kindly re
membrances-th girl in the depart
ment store solves her personal "labo
problem" as we all may solve our own
by doing her best work and doing i
cheerfully.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
NATIVES OF SOUTH AFRIC A.
Tribes of Aborigines That Find Small
Favor with the English or
the BOers,

Some Englishmen call the natives OF
India "niggers," with an emphatic ad-
jective often pretiXed. Persons of this
kind, with the same exquisite accuracy
and the same just sense of superiority,
call the races of South Africa mig
gers" also. Some persons are neither
wiser nor better bred than the Beers,
who habitually refer to the natives
as "black cattle" or "back trash"
The fact is that the natives are neither
negroes nor black. The aborigines
appear to have been bushmen, who
are a dingy yellow color. These have
been pressed southward and broken
up into scattered communities by in
vading peoples of the Bantu stock.
The Hottentots are believed to be of
mixed bushmen and Bantu descent,
In physical characteristics they re-
semble the bushmen; and they speak
n tongue like theirs, full of clicks, and
like theirs in grammatical construc.
ton.
To the similarity of grammatical
construction, however, there is one inn
portant qualification, according to the
Monthly Review. The bushman Ian
guage is that primitive typewhich has
no genders, while the Hottentot Ian.
guage is sex-denoting. The Bantus
Of eastern and central South Africa
are generally divided into two great
peoples known generically as the
Bechuana and the Zulus. To these
two peoples U do not attempt here
| an enumeration of the various tribes)
the native inhabitants of the Trans
vaal and the Orange River Colony
chiefly belong, though there are iso'
| lated communities of bushmen. Soft
is their speech and pleasant 10 the ear
full of vowels and devoid of the clicks
| and harshness of the bushman dia
lects.
Though they are not negroes, they
are prolific, and thrive, as the negroes
too, thrive, in the presence of civiliza
tion. Hence they are likely to re
main permanent element of the pop
ulation, and an increasing rather thar
a diminishing element.
The bushmen are hunters at a rela
lively low level of savagery, but fur
nished with the bow and possessed o.
considerable artistic power. Far in
ferior to them in the latter respect
the Bantu tribes are otherwise mucl
farther advanced. They are pastora
and warlike peoples, living under tn,
government of chiefs in communitiei
on patriarchal basis.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
SAVANNAH, HARDIN COUNTY, TENNESSEE FRIDAY, n
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Germany is speeding $3,0O0,10o on
the improvement of the Rhine river
below Strasburg.
The chief drawback to climbing
mountains in Mexico is the scarcity
of springs, as compared with the
Swiss mountains in which they
abound.
A local Berlin paper recently on
nounced that an invalid soldier had
no other way of passing his time
than collecting picture postcards.
This has been responded to by some
5000 cards from all parts of the
world.
There are to-day in Brazil, Uruguay
and the Argentine about 100000
Italians, in population of $4,000, 900;
and it is believed that by the middle
of the century there will be 15,000,OOO
of them, or nearly half as many as
there are in Italy to-day.
Australian papers state that the
experiment of the West Australian
government in turning domestic cats
loose in the southeastern districts of
the colony, to check the invasion of
rabbits from South Australia has
been pronounced success.
The Germans are now conquering
Paris more effectually than they did
in the days of Bismarck, William and
Won Moltke. The Germans are grad.
ually edging in everywhere in the
French capital. They are in finance,
banking, exploitation, commercial
houses, professional houses.
The Irish bank returns show in
creasing prosperity of the island. In
December, 1900, the deposits and cash
balances in the Irish joint stock
banks amounted to e43,2S0,000 (cXclu
sive of the C e1,96O,000 government and
other public balances in the bank OF
IrelandD, or e2,5Os,000 more than al
the corresponding date, being in tact
the highest yet recorded, while the
deposits in the savings banks amount
ed to e10,36S,0O0, or G3oo,0U0 more
| than in December 1899,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
IhE STORY, 4 ! ! : ,Tklls$
y.HSI&aSss3s !
THE SOUL OF The SINGER.

We read the song that is written.
a rev little, grotesque signs,
Arranged in n certain meter,
with rhymes at the end OF the lines;
And by the sound or the meaning
some chord In our hearts is stirred;
But the song in the soul of the singer
Is something that's never heard.
We all fall short of expression,
However yo seek to linn
The picture within the spirit,
The painting is crude and dim;
80 little is placed on canvas,
So much there must be inferred!
The song In the soul of the singer
is something that's never heard.
How oft the message that's gathered
The reader himself puts there!
How oft the message intended
Escapes and is lost in the air
We miss the intangible something
That's back of the printed word.
The song In the soul of the singer
is something that's never heard.
The one who best sees the picture
Is he with the soul for art;
The one who best reads the poem
is he with the poet heart;
The thoughts that are rarest and sweetest
Are deepest from sight inferred.
The song In the soul of the singer
Is something that's never heard.
we meet; yet are veiled in spirit;
Familiar, and syet unknown;
A realm In our inmost beings,
In which we're alone. alone;
In each Is strain peculiar
To no other mind conferred.
The song in the soul of the singer
is something that's never heard.
There are yearnings that can't be spoken;
There are loves so suprcmely blest,
There are dreams so infused with heaven,
They neved can be expressed.
There are infinite inspirations,
BY which we are thrilled and spurred,
Like the song in the soul of the singer.
A something that's never heard.
1t may be in realms eternal,
The curtain shall backward roll,
Revealing the CLEANS of glory
That shine In the inmost soul;
And then the ideal vision.
No longer obscurcd and blurred,
The song in the soul of the singer,
Unpent shall at last be heard.
Denver News.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
"EIecfric GhOsts.v

DR.. Oliver j. Lodge, in an address
TO electrical engineers in Birming-
ham on February 27, thus defined
an electron, that new term of sci
ence which has recently assumed so
much Importance: An atom is ordi-
narily associated with a charge, and
force is required to separate the
charge from the atom. The atomic
charge, when separated, is called an
electron. In an electrolyte, ]. e., a
substance decomposed by an electric
current, there is bodily transfer of
atoms with their charges; in me-
tallic conductor the charges are
handed on, as electrons, from atom
To atom. In the discharge through
highly rarified gases the electric cur
rent in its most simple form, "for
here there is flow of electrons trav.
cling by themselves, of disemhoGit
charges or electric ghosts Elec-
irons, DR.. Lodge added, are the tast.
est moving of all known terrestrial
objects, their speed being one-tentt
that of light, which is 10000 mile.
per second. Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12

1t is said that the Bank of France
has an invisible studio in gallery
behind the cashiers, so that at a
given signal from one of them any
suspected customer can instantly
have his photograph taken without
his knowledge. The camera has also
become very useful in the detection
of frauds, a word or figure that to
the eye seemed completely erased be-
ing clearly reproduced in photo
graphs of the document that had
been tampered with.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12

Mr.. Beddard, of the London Zoolog.
ical society, calls attention to pc.
culiarity of the ears of tigers which
he thinks may be classed under the
head of protective markings" On
the back of each ear is a very bright
white spot, and when the ears are di.
rected forward these spots are conspic.
uous from the front. Mr.. Deddard
suggests that when the tiger is sleep.
ing in the dim light of a cave or thicket
the spots on its ears may appear &c
an enemy, looking in, as the CLEAN oi
it's watchful eyes, and thus save the
sleeper from an unexpected attack
Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
Filipino Ladies' Smoke 16-Incb Cigars

The ladies of the Philippines have
progressed far beyond the dainty
cigarette; indeed, their cigars, which
measure some 1G inches, are not in
tended for an evenings pleasure or
an after-dinner smoke. In the Phil
ippines they prefer smoking on the
installment plan, for these huge rolls
of tobacco, which measure five inches
in circumference, constitute one
weeks pleasure for the ladies of
Luzon. To Offset the difficulty pre-
sented by the weight, the mouth end
is filed with a soft fiber of tobacco,
20 that when the cigar is grasped
firmly between the teeth so great an
indentation is made that for the re-
, mainder of the six days smoke the
, huge cigar fits naturally TO the
, mouth, and can be held without any
conscious effort.-London Science.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12
Twain ON Compliments.

Compliments are not necessary fol
people who have lived proper life"
says Mark Twain, because no one
can pay you such n compliment as
You can pay yourself-if you have
Lived that kind of life"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1901-07-12

The Top Side Of the Earth.
A TRUE STORY.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY Rev. w. Il. Barton.

The following story is reprinted from
the New York Independent, and is pre-
ceded in that publication by note from
the editor of the Independent which adds
interest to the story, and which we also
reproduce:
IA recent article In The Independent by
our excellent friend, "Dicast," refers TO
the Rev. John Jasper, who was buried at
Richmond on the 4th of April, as "the last
outspoken defender of the old astron-
omy." The following article shows that
the statement is not quite correct. There
still live many thousands of such out
spoken defenders. DIR. Barton writes that
he prepared the paper which follows at
the same time that he was writing his
story "Pine Knot" AS the story pro-
gressed he found use for the incident,
and with slight notifications embodied
1t in the story Readers of the book
who may have supposed 1. an imaginary
event, and as such the reviews have
treated it, will see that 1t was essentially
true to fact. 1t is easier for reasonably
intelligent people to believe that "the
sun do rum which was Brother Jasper's
way Of putting 1t. than we may at first
imagined