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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
A Fiend Collector snubbed.

Collectors of autographs, postcards,
etc, are not always conscious of the
importunacy of their demands, and the
following anecdote, which comes from
TrieSt, gives a striking example of
their failing and of the humorous way
in which the intended victim treated
his tormentor. An Italian painter re-
ceived Il letter in the following terms:
Dear Sir-I should like to ask you a great favor
and hope you Will excuse the liberty / take. /
am making collection of painted postcards and
should feel myself highly fattered if you would
kindly send one with little picture painted
on it by yourself. It will certainly be the most
treasured card OF my collection, 1 should be
able to say that you of the first to honor
me in this way. Hoping to receive one. beg to
thank you in advance.
The artist replied:
Dear Sir-I should like 10 ask you great favor
and hope you will excuse the liberty L take j
am making collection OF thousand franc notes
and should feel myself highly hattered il you
would kindly send 1t Will certainly be
the most highly treasured thousand franc note Of
my collection. ] should be able to say that you
were one of the first honor in this way.
Hoping to receive one, beg to thank you in ad-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
Costly Blaze at Porto Rico.

San Juan. Porto Rico. May 2-The
new S15O.0O0 pier here caught fire
Tuesday and was totally destroyed in
half an hour. A large stock of sugar
and rum was lost in the fire.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
TRAILING stamp scheme Abandoned.

Marion. Ind. May From and aft
er April 80 no druggist in this county
will pat out trading stamps in return
for purchaceS-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
Fnrerer SeftIctl.

She-I tell you the moral superior
ity of woman is recognized in the
language itself. There isn't any femi-
nine for "rascals." Is there?
He-Of course not. but that's be-
cause
She-That's because there are no
feminine raacaIsl-ChIcago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02

But re foot OF ze bed" the bewil-
dered Frenchman said. 'it ees not on
ze end of re laIg!"-New York CONNER
eial Advertiser.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
WcISSITUoEs OF FORTUNE.
Illustrated in the Life of Cuban Girl
Who Once EIoped.

South Bend. Ind. May 2.-The death
cf Martinez Del Pine Costello. the
"South American Diamond King"
adds another chapter to the ro-
nance surrounding the life of his
niece. Esther Costello. who is now
working here as a nurse girl. for by
his death she becomes heir TO $500. 900.
When only l. years of age Esther Cos
tello elOped from Key West to become
the wife of Don Carlos Costello. Six
months later her husband died.
She then entered the University Of
Michigan, at Ann ArbOr, and was
graduated from there. She was
obliged by circumstances. however. TO
seek work, and became children s
nurse here. \ prominent young man
of this city fell in love with her and
wished to marry her. but his parents
objected to the match on account of
her poverty and lack of social prestige.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
Unirer,itY Pre.i,lent. Eorrrnthnr.

Champaign. Ills. May 2-Presidents
OF all the leading western universities
are meeting here. They have come
together on the invitation of President
Draper, of the University of Illinois.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
Cood Roads for Louisiana.

New Orleans. La, May "A per
mancnt Organization for the state of
Louisiana has been created by the
National Good Roads association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
GETS QUITE a MILITARY RECEPTION
Tremendous Crowds i'm the Streets Equal
the Mardi GraS Crush.


The president and his cabinet passed
out of the station between Il line of
smart looking militiamen on one side
and a smarter looking line of young
cadets from the Jesuit Military col
lege here on the other. The boys ranged
in age from : to IA, but despite their
youth they made fine appearance in
their gray uniforms as they presented
arms to the presidential party. Out
side. the governors staff, resplendent
in gold lace and mounted on plunging
chargers, awaited the presidential par
ty. The crowd around the station was
so dense that it required the heroic eff
forts of the police to keep the path to
TIE carriages clear.
4 big military parade consisting or
the Louisiana Cavalry Troop, the
Washington Artillery, and all the mi
litia from this end of the state escort
ed the party along Camp and Canal
streets to the new st. Charles hotel.
The city was literally but not lavishly
adorned with the national colors. But
the crowds in the streets were ire
mendous. Never. except in Mardi
Gras times. were they known to he
choked and jammed with surging hu-
manity. The irOn-wrought galleries
which embroider the fronts of the
fairly groaned under their burdens of
human freight. The feature of the
crowd was the great number of hand
some women who watched the process
sion from the windows and galleries.
Mrs. Mckinley and the ladies of the
party Ciined quietly at the hotel. and
later received the ladies of New Or
leans. The president and his cabinet.
with the other gentlemen of the party.
were given an elaborate banquet at
the hotel in the evening. About 800 of
the prominent men of New Orleans
were present and the banquet was said
to have exceeded in every respect any
thing of similar character attempted
heretofore in this city.
Today the party drove about the
city in the morning. and in the after
noon will take "A sail along the river
front. At 6 p. m. the presidential spe-
cial will again resume its journey to-
ward the Golden Gate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
Carpenters Lay Down Their Tools.

ShebOygan. Wis. May Every
union carpenter in this city laid down
his tools Saturday and will not return
to work until a new agreemen; as TO
scale of wages is reached with the
contractors. The old scale expired
Saturday. The large amount of build
ing under way may be seriously ham
pered unless Il new scale can he agreed
uDOu.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-02
AT THE CRESCENT CITY.
President Mckinley Is Welcomed
by the Town and Surround.
iEg Country.
ROUTE THERE LINED WITH PEOPLE
Who Actually Get i'm the Way of the
Train in Their Enthusiasm
Military Escort.

New Orleans. La. May 2.-The
presidential party travelled across the
cotton belt yesterday from Memphis
almost To the Gulf of Mexico. Down
the low-lying, rich, YaZoo valley, fer
tile as that of the Nile, ii Went 10
Nicksburg, teeming with its memories
of thirty years ago; thence east to
Jackson the capital of Mississippi, and
from there down into the land of the
magnolia and the orange to the old
romantic city near the mouth of the
Mississippi. with its traditions OF
French and Spanish rule. The out
pouringS of the people 10 see the pres
idential train along the route y,ster
day were larger II anything than on
the two previous days and the demon
sIrations at NicksDurg and Jackson,
the two principal stops, We're very
striking.
Expansion" the New south's WatchwOrd.
The visit to Vicksburg was in some
respects the most inters sting yet made.
Here a triumphal arch OF COTTON bales,
With the magic word Expansion"
pointed out TO the president, as he
passed under il, the path of the new
south. Although il had not been in-
tended to make any stops after leaV
ing Jackson, the train was halted at
several of the smaller towns where
cotton mills are located TO permit the
president TO see and speak to the Oper-
ativeS. At some, of the stations the
crowds actually impeded the progress
OF the train, and the engineer was
obliged to slow down TO avoid danger
OF running over enthusiastic people.
Crescent City Reached ut Sunset.
As the sun was lowering the train
crossed the bayous with their tangleS
of mOsS-covered cypress and live oak,
and, skirting Lake Pontchertrain,
steamed into New Orleans. This is
the first time New Orleans has ever
had Il visit from the chief magistrate
of the nation, and il was "A royal re-
Ception which the old city extended to
President Mckinley, who, himself, had
been here before. He made n notable
speech here the year preceding his
nomination for the presidency. and eX-
PRESIDENT Cleveland was here upon
one occasion during the interim be-
tween his two terms; but never before
has president, while in office, visited
the Crescent City.
BInre of Bands and Roaring of Guns.
The air was full of the blare of
bands, the booming of cannon and the
scream of whistles from the harbor
craft as the train drew into the station.
Here the president and his party were
greeted by Governor Heard, Mayor
Capdevielle, Senators McEnery and
Foster. the entire Louisiana delegation
in the house, the city council, and rep |
reSentatives of the various CONNER |
cial exchanges. While the mayor was
formally extending the hospitality of |
the city to the president fine mill |
tary band was completely drowning |
his words with New Orleans favOrite |
air. Louisiana Lou"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
COMPANY MANNERS.

We note that a good many men with
families do not live up to their privi-
le@eS as the head of the house in this.
that they do not wish to be burdened
with any care or responsibility in the
matter Of helping to serve the food at
the daily mealtimes. In some homes
the wife prepares the food and does
the carving, and everybody is expected
to help himself, while the head of the
house simply looks after himself. This
plan, While involving the least trouble
III the matter of serving the meal. i.
not promotive of good manners at the
table, and where young people are ac-
cuStomed to this sort of service at
home it is apt to place them at seri
Gus disadvantage when away from
home, where other and better methods
prevail. The serving Of the daily
meals in the home should be an occa-
sion, no matter how simple they NAV
be, where the family should be seen
on its best behavior where good man
ners and polite conduct should be cX-
pected from Eli. There should he no
such thing as company manners"
known,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE LAW OLE FORCE

We try to recognize and apply the
law of Kindness in dealing with all
kinds of domestic animals, but there
are many cases where it will not work
and where nothing short of the en-
forcement of control 10y fear will hold
some animals in check This applies
with much force to bulls, which never
under any circumstances can be trust
ed, to some horses which we work and
drive or ride, to many dogs and other
animals and occasionally to some boys.
While the rule of force should never be
put into operation where it can be
avoided it is still all folderol to claim
that there is never any need of it and
that the law of kindness and moral
suasion is all man needs to maintain
his authority over the lower orders of
creation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
ALL WANT LAND.

We We're on a northwestern train
lately upon which were over seventy
men going from central and southern
Iowa to the Dakotas after cheap farm
lands. These men were largely well to
do farmers who We're out of debt ana
had accumulated n comfortable bank
account, but who were finding it very
difficult to invest their savings in any
satisfactory security at living rates of
interest, AS their money had largely
been made by the advance in the value
of the farms which they owned, they
were cage: to repeat the thing with
some of the comparatively cheap lands
OF the northwest. Some of them will do
well, while others will not Some will
get land with too much water, while
others will mistake range lands for
arabic lands and get bitten. The men
who get the wet lands will in the long
run be better off than those who have
to contend with semiarid conditions, for
it is vastly easier to get rid of a sur
plus of water than it is to put it where
it is not.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
BETTER THAN A DAILY PAPER.

The agent of a cheap daily paper
seeking patrons among the farmers
along a newly established rural mail
route who was making point that his
paper gave late market reports was
nonplused when the farmer told him
that he had Il better thing in the tele-
phone in his house, which gave him di
rect connection with five different mar
ket towns and thus enabled him to
know the exact condition of the mar
kets on the morning of the day upon
which he wished to sell his produce,
while the paper was always twenty
four hours behind, do the best it could.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE INFLUENCE OF DEBT.

We think that the average man will
work Il little harder, economize more
closely and make his work count for
more when he is working to pay off
a mortgage on his farm or home than
when he is not, and this fact may be
passed to the credit of mans going
into debt, and while it is condition
which may not hurt young man, but,
on the contrary, prove beneficial in de-
veloping habits of economy and thrift,
it is still Il condition to be avoided if
possible by men past fifty, who will do
better to be content with what they
may possess and be free from any bur
den of debt, for there is no surer thing
than that there is a great deal of sat
lsfaction in feeling that one owes not
any man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
TWO cnnrs N nNn snAsoN

We raised TWO crops ON quite a good
deal of the garden ground this year
The strawberry bed, having fruitcd two
years. was pIoWcd up and the ground
planted to string beans the last of July
giving a fine crop. Then the early DO
tato and sweet corn patches were clear
ed off and sown to fiat turnips along
about the first week in August, which
did equally well. The twenty square
rods of ground thus produced crops as
follows: Seventy-tive quarts Of straw
berries. worth $50; three bushels of
string beans. worth So; corn to the val
ue of 81 and potatoes worth $50. The
turnips sold for so, making a total in
come of $fl from the onc-eghth of an
acre, or at the rate of $356 per acre, and
still some men think they must have a
half section of land in order to make a
living,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE FARM HOME.

The want of Il proper dividing line
between the farm home grounds and
abe barnyards is the cause of much of
the lack of attractiveness about sc
many farm homes. 1t is impossible to
invest hogyard or feed lot or the
Ealnyard proper with any great
amount of landscape beauty. At best
about all one can do is to keep the
buildings in good repair and painted
ana the yards as clean as possible, and
this essential part of the farm equip
mcnt should be entirely separated from
the home plot. it is, where possible, a
good arrangement to have the home
lot on one side of the public highway
and the harnyardS on the other. though
not directly in front. Where this can
not he done n four rod street should be
laid out between the house and the
barns. The house let should include
the home. the wood shed. the wind
mill, the garden. orchard and lawn,
and from it should be excluded pigs.
chickens and stock of all kinds. The
hogyard should be located as far to the
rear of the premises as possible. There
is very much to be done in the way of
Identifying our farm homes, and the
very first step in the process is to get
them distinctly separated from what
may be termed the business side of the
farm work. An attractive and well
kept country home will add a value of
from 50 to $40 per acre to any farm
upon which it is situated There is
great chance for Improvement all along
this line
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE FARM IN \ NEW COUNTRY.

A'A] hAa VI ~ NIsA COZ NFkN.
We have often wished that with the
experience accumulated since we could
try the experiment once more Of open
ir% up new farm on the frontier. We
did it once years ago ana can now real
ize just what Il lot of blundcrs and mis-
takes were made; for instance, it was
fifty miles to a railroad and grain
market and Just because everybody
else did so we broke up acres and acres
OF land ana raised wheat to haul fifty
miles to sell, when if we had had any
sense at all nothing but live stock
would have been produced on the farm,
buyers for which would come to the
farm. The mania to raise grain. wheat
particularly, seems to be inSeparable
from the first settlement of any new
country, when if man would simply
raise what he needed for his own use
ana turn his attention wholly to cattle
he could make a living ten times as
easy and at a much smaller expense.
The fact should he remembered by any
man locating ON a new farm far re-
moved from railway facilities. We
found it out when it was too late to do
us any good
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
THE EVOLUTION OF A FROG POND

THE EVOLUTION OF a FROG POND.
a friend of ours thirty wears ago
came into possession of half section
of wet land in the central west. The
soil was good, but all the land was
too wet for the purposes of cultivation
lie tried to sell it. but could not 1t
lay for years seeking a purchaser at
SO per acre when other and drier
lands in the locality were selling for
so and $50 per acre. Finally it be-
came Il sort of common or herding
ground. and the stock pounded the
hbrous turf into solidity, and here aud
there little patch of blue grass be-
gan to come in. The more it was pas
tured the drier it became. and in the
course of years the native grasses were
all driven out by white clover and blue
grass. About this time people began
to want to buy this land. but our friend
said nay-that he had held it for so
long he would hold it longer. Today.
ten years later, it has been converted
into two of the best farms in the west
and would bring, if placed upon the
market, SO per acre quick Now, this
change was brought about without any
artificial drainage save such as could
be done by properly blowing the fields.
Lands of this character are as rich and
fertile as the land in the Nile valley.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
ARRIVE AT EREnER1c1,

63S q m, except Sunday, from Cincinnati
IltIsburg, w ashington Junction and wav
STA ioi $. Baltimore and Washington MI
AIRY aud way stations. Mail arrives on
this train. "a
$50 a m, except Sunday from Winchester
80 Hagerstown and way stations
lu.Z0 a. m, except Sunday from baltimore
ana way stations, Philadelphia and New
1850 a. m, except Sunday, from Washington
and way stations '-
llS2 a. M, Sunday only from WASHINGTON
and way stations, Chicago and Wheeiing
80 Cincinnati and st. Louis
l@u5 p. m, sunday only, from Baltimore and
, way stations, Philadelphia and New York
20 =; m, except Sunday, from It. Iouis
ana itc,nnaiL New York Philadelnbia
WASN'T ston, HagerstOwn Lexington and
way stations W." "A"
$40 p; m, Sunday only, from Washington
ana way stations, st. Louis and Cincinnati
4.oO p; m, except Sunday, from Baltimora
ana way stations, Philadelphia and New
$50 p; m, except Sunday. from baltimore
York. PISS "iAA xso"
200 p. m, except sunday. nom washington
and way stations, Philadelphia. New York
Plttsburg and Chicago $500
SlZ p m, daily, from Baltimore and wav
o4op. m, except Sunday, from Westminster
Cumberland, Hagerstown, Brunswick and
way stations. ~
w. T. MULLINIX,
Ticket Agent.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

AS general rule a stalk of corr
which shows its intention to try to
produce two ears of corn will produce
more kernels and weight of corn if one
of the embryo ears is removed and the
effort of the plant confined to the ma
turing of one ear. This same rule APP
plies to fruits with much force, any
orchard tree which sets a heavy load
Of fruit producing more and better
fruit if well thinned than if allowed to
carry the whole load and with far lesa
drain upon the vitality of the tree, for
the heavy draft upon the tree is not in
the production of the pulp of the fruit,
but in the maturing of the seed inclos-
cd in the pulp, and the fewer seeds
produced tue better for the tree,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

In the abstract an ear of corn, a
stalk of clover and a milk COW are the
commonest of things, but just the same
they have offered problems which tax
the best knowledge and wisdom of the
most wise and learned of men, and
they have not yet found out all there
is to know about this remarkable trim
ity of good things. The COW and her
milk, corn and its utilities and clover
as a soil redeemer will still furnish
texts for valuable agricultural sermons
many years hence.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

Iow a man who raises 5000 or
nsbels Of corn each year and
3 as many hogs, horses and
Job had of camels, asses and
3 who still keeps enough bees
the proceeds from his honey
\ pay his taxes each year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

There is all the difference in the
world between driving your work and
being driven by it, In this strenuous
doing any sort of business to take
things easy and do them deliberately
A slackening of the pace set by modern
business methods means being run
over, crowded back and seeing your
place usurped by some other man with
more push. There is much to regret in
this state of things, for this high pres
sure method robs man of very much of
the pleasure of living.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

If you should happen to see that dol
la1 sirloin beefsteak ordered At some
good chophouse or on some railway
dining car as the colored cook took it
from the meat chest preparatory to
broiling it, YOU would not eat mouth
full of it. Being in blissful ignorance
of its condition you pronounce it the
best steak you ever ate in all your life,
still when he took it from the box it
was all covered over with a fungus
growth-'feathered out" the says
the outgrowth Of the ripper proc
eSs, to which it has been subjected to
make it juicy and tender. In general
way it is better for a man to keep out
Of the kitchen if he wishes to enjoy his
dinner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

We were in one of the largest poul-
try establishments of the west not long
ago when large consgnments of all
sorts of dressed poultry were being
received. Talking with the proprietor,
he said that there was a loss of from
% to 80 per cent to the average shipper
or producer solely on account Of care
less dressing of the birds. He showed
us turkeys which he was selling at 10
cents a pound, these well dressed, and
others equally fat which he could not
get rid of at cents owing to their bad
APPEARANCE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

tears. Is Il | Tor
women who are
daily being con-
sumed by tn e
sinouldering fire
of disease there is
little sympathy.
Inflammation.
wit Ii it's fierce
burning; ulcera-
ton, eating into
the tissues ; the
nervous system al
most shattered by
suffering these
are only part of
the daily agonies
borne by many a
woman.
DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription
pats out the fire
of Inflammation,
heals liberation,
and cures female
weakness. 1t tram
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

There are two agencies which more
than any others are destroying the
forests Of this country-the sheep herd
ers and forest fires-and both of these
are largely under the control of man
and should be prevented. The care
less aud shiftless way in which the
refuse of all timber is left where it is
cut for market invites the forest fire
ana makes it difficult to control. while
the sheep absolutely prevent the
growth Of all young timber to take the
place Of that removed. If enough
sheep cannot be raised in this country
without their having the range Of the
few remaining forests, it is better that
we buy both mutt@n and wool abroad.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06

ut things produced on the farm
hiring enough more than the
and average product to well
az ono for the trouble taken to
thcns Then there is the pleas
prodncing these best things,
4 Worth not little.