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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
CouIdn,t Find thc Cork.crew,

Il Couiun't Find the COrkscreW.
They live pretty well out in hand
some home, but not near enough to n
fire station to be handy in case OF &C
cident." AS the house is their own
and their all the husband had been
somewhat in terror of a blaze for some
time. So he laid in n stock OF hand
grenades, those little glass bottles
which are supposed to put out any fire
that may start.
One day the blaze came. The cook
started it in the kitchen. Then she
fed bowling to her room and began to
pack her trunk. The wife prides her
self OR her ability to keep her head, so
first she stepped to the telephone and
turned in the alarm, and then she went
for the hand grenades.
When the fire department did arrive,
the men found her standing over the
sideboard rummaging through the
drawers. Copfous streams of water
soon drowned the blaze and ruined the
lower floor, and the department left.
Still she p1mmaged. Her husband
came, calle6by the phone girl. He saw
her there.
"Why, my dear girl he said, "why
didn't you use the hand grenadeS and
stop the fire as soon as it started
Then the whole lower part of the house
wouldn't have been soaked"
John" she responded Jelly, eff you
would just keep the corkscrew where
1t belongs, 1 could use the horrid old
grenades. But it is gone, and how was
1 to open them ?"-Kansas City Jour-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22

Nasturtiums make n charming deco
ration for the dinner table If cleverly
used. Their many tints tend to give n
variety that IL sure to be pleasing in
effect. They should be grouped in large
masses, with their leaves in shallow.
wide mouthed dishes. A pretty idea
carried out by one hostess was to ar
range them in low, narrow cut glass
trays. extending in wavy line down
the middle Of the table. The deep hued
blossoms were in the center, and the
lighter tints succeeded until at the ends
OF the line the flowers were almost
white
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Tho Grand Medicine Man.

The ceremony of the Grand Medicine
is an elaborate ritual, covering several
days, the endless number of gods and
spirits being called upon to minister to
the sick man and to lengthen his life.
The several degrees of the Grand Med
icine teach the use of nominations, of
medicines and poisons, and the require
ments necessary to constitute n brave.
When a young man seeks admission
to the Grand Medicine lodge, he first
fasts until he sees in his dream some
animal, the mink, beaver, otter and
fisher being most common, which he
hunts and kills. The skin is then
ornamented with beads or porcupine
quilts, and the spirit of the animal be-
comes the friend and companion of the
man.
The medicine men have only a linn
ited knowledge of herbs, but they are
expert in dressing wounds, and the art
of extracting barbed arrows from the
flesh can be learned from them.
In olden times-yes, to within the
memory of living Ojibways-the med
icine man at the funeral ceremony thus
addressed the departed: Dear friend
you will not feel lonely while pursuing
your journey toward the setting sun.
have killed for you a Sioux, [hated
enemy of the Ojibwaysl, and L have
scalped him. He will accompany you
and provide for you, hunting your food
as you need it. The scalp have taken
use it for your moccaSins. open
Court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Sliding to Happiness.

Old Lady-And so you expect to get
married when you grow up?
Little Girl-Of course. Everybody
gets married. 1 won't say mo" like
Aunt Lucy did and be an old maid. No,
indeed.
Perhaps you won't like those who
ask you"
''Oh, yes, L will. 1 feel sure that
when a real nice little boy-I mean
man-comes to ask me to get married
I'll be so happy 1 won't wait to run
down stairs to meet him. I'll just slide
down the balusters."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
A MOUNTAIN LAKE.

oh. hmpid listener, in your placid soul
Are mingled all the songs that brooks have sun,
When years and years, the shaggy hills among,
They babbled Of their trials, with foamy tears,
Until. all wearied, having reached their goal,
You softly soothed their sorrovs and their fearA
Like sentinels the stolid mountains stand
About you, dres't in garb Of gorgeous green;
At early dawn their mirrored shapes seen
In shimmering outline. painted by the sun.
Upon your face, athWart the cleaning sand,
Nor fade from view until the day is done.
fitting figure Of eternal rest
You typify the changeless fate OF man
When, having coursed mortality's brief span
Adown the hills of Time. his life shall end.
And all his doings. be they banned or blest,
Foreyermore, with other deeds shall blend.
John A Foote in Rosary Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Girls outat. For summer Visits.

When we are TO be guests at a
friends house or at an inn, we need not
transport thither our entire wardrobe.
A little planning will indicate the trim,
short travelling skirt, the shirt waist
and jacket and the neat sailor hat for
the Journey. the pretty reception dress,
the evening and dinner costume and
the ample supply of fresh waists for
everyday wear, with golf or bicycle
skirt. A small trunk and a hand bag
will usually contain an outfit for a
fortnight's visit, and a dress suit case
lends itself accommodatingly TO the
requirements of three or four days or 4
week. Experienced travellers cross the
Atlantic and spend three months in Eu-
rope incumbered with less luggage
than some young women carry to the
White mountains or to the Adiron-
dacks for a single month. For many
reasons a trunk is comfortable adj
junct when a person is away from
home, but it should not be too large,
and 1t should be judiciously packed
Margaret Z. Sangster in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
shade Hat. For children.

It's a wise mother who buys shade
hats for her youthful offspring. The
back tilted beadgear may be decidedly
picturesque on the piazzas. but when
the sun glares into baby faces all the
prettiness is marred by frowns. The
tender skin is wrinkled up like an an
cient DANES and often becomes marred
by lines which should have no part in
fuvenile existence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Lion. and Tigers.

There is nothing odd or peculiar about
the sleep of the lions and tigers. In
captivity they show the same indiffer-
ence to danger. that they manifest in
the jungles and by day or night will
slumber through an unusual tumult.
unmindful or unconscious OF the noise.
Their sleep is commonly heavy and
peaceful
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22

In its native habitat the shell of the
oyster is always a little open, and
microscopic waving hairs set up cur
rents which carry the food plants to its
mouth, where they are engulfed and
afterward digested.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Meant wei, but Made Him Nervors.

Meant Well, but Made Him Nervous.
MIR. Fijjit-Please don't send that
messenger boy who shutters up to my
house again.
Mr.. Fijjit-Nothing. But gave him
a % cent tip, and he hung around all
afternoon trying to say Thanks
Columbus lQ.l State Journal IL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Gambling.

The writer once spent a Saturday
afternoon in the study of dignitarx of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
DR.. j. ALVIN HORNE

to Bldg Ito
lamp OF Tree book)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
Home Testimony Should
be Convincing.

my ear. | can now hear it three feet
away. | am very much pleased with
DIR. Horne's treatment and he has en-
tirelv cured me. 1 gladly recon-
mend him to all as competent ply
stefan and honorable gentleman.
HANS ARBS.
Presumption, ILL.,"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22

a Presumption Citizen Cured of Deafness
Of Fifteen Years Duration.
al have been gradually becoming
deaf for the past fifteen years. I'm
til last winter 1 could hear fairly well.
Since that time 1 have heard with
great difficulty until consulted DIR.
j. Alvin Horne. the celebrated spe-
cialist of Rock Island, in all chronic,
nervous and private diseases of men
and women, who has cured me en-
tirely of deafness. When l was first
treated by DR.. Horne 1 could only
hear a watch tick by placing it to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-22
ASSOCIATE DISEASES.


In curing an ailment of any kind [
never fail to remove all reflex compli-
cations of associate diseases. In case
of Varicocele, the weakness caused "
it disappears. If it is structure and
has developed into Prostate, Bladder
or Kidney affections, the injured or
gans are all restored to perfect
healthy condition. II it is Syphilis.
any and all skin, blood and bone dis
eases arising from the faint are en-
tirely and permanently eliminated
from the system. II it is impotency,
the many distressing symptoms fol-
lowing in it's train and Indicating pre-
mature decline of the so called physi-
cal, mental, sexual powers are totally
removed and rapidly replaced by the
youthful energy of robust manhood.
Hence all resulting ills and reflex
which may be properly
termed associate diseases and which
in fact are often more serious than
the original ailments that give rise to
them-all, l say, disappear COM
pletely and forever with the cure of
the main malady.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
COST OF ENGLAND'S WAR.

The Rocky Mountain News says
that the Boer war has cost the
British government S775,ooo,ooo.
1t may reach SIoo,ooo,ooo before
it is ended A writer on English
army method, gives some valuable
statistics regarding British wars IN
the last two centuries. In the early
part of the eighteenth century the
wars with France cost Soooooo,> :
ooo The seveny year war, as 1t Is
known in European history, cost
S3oo,ooo,ooo. The war to suppress
the American revolution cost 5000.
100000. The Napoleonic AarS, ia
cluding the war OF 1912 With The
United States and the conflicts IN
India, are figured at 81 coo 900 900
The Crimean war C ,s' SS5O.OOo.-
900, while more recent opera ion,
in Asia, Africa and China are said
to have cost 81 ,OOo, 100000. In
cluding the Boer war, this is a
grand total OF SS ooo,ooo,ooo that
the British government has expend-
ed in military and naval operations
in the last 200 years. Some idea
can be gained from these figures Of
the patient loyalty that the British
people have displayed in the pay
ment of war taxes. The burden
must have been enormous. Some
Of these wars, like those Against
Napoleon, may be said to have been
legitimate, but not few of them,
like the two American wars and
the Boer war, were purely in the
interest of despotsm. Yet any
nation must have had unusual
sources of national income and
wealth to stand up under such
burdens
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
$l3 To Buffalo and Return $l3.

Via the Nickel Plate road from
Chicago, for the Pan-American
Exposition Tickets on sale
daily, good leaving Buffalo up to
tenth day from and including date
of sale. Also tickets on sale
daily Chicago to Buffalo and re-
turn at SIG for the round trip,
with Is day limit, including date
of sale. S21 Chicago to Buffalo
and return, good for 30 days.
Tickets Chicago to New York
and retnrn at Especial reduced rates.
Write John Y. Callahan, Gener-
al Agent, Ill Adams st ~eet, Chi
cago, for full particulars and
fol iers showing time of trains, etc.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
Slept in the Parks.

Colorado Springs, July IL 2-Conserva-
tive estimates place the number OF tour
lists in Colorado Springs at 10000. All
the lines in the east are taxed to their
capacity in handling the crowds. They
are coming in from every part OF the
world.
Such was the jam last night that the
all. Hundreds we're being turned away
on account OF lack OF room. There be-
ing no way to relieve the condition, the
overplus had to do the best they could !.
Ma slept in the parks, some sat about
the hotels, and still others went over to
Colorado City and Manitou ouly the find
accom- cd ations wanted.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
HAVE TO STAND 1T.
The Supreme Lodge K. of P. Has
Decided the Mismanagement
Loses Must be Met.

Chicago, July 12-The supreme lodge
Heights OF Pythias which has been in
session here, considering charges OF mis-
management by the board of control OF
the Endowment Rank, today decided
that the most exped.ent way OF meeting
the deficiency OF $4,000 would be to
raise the insurance rate to the maximu N
prescribed by the national fraternsl con-
gress.
II, in this way. money is not quickly
enough forthcoming. it is likely that a
special assessment OF 80 cents will be
put on every member OF the order. This
would speedily raise S25O.OOO. The
board will continue to Investigate the at
fairs OF the Endowment rank.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
Low Rates to Buffalo Exposition.

Via the Nickel Plate Road.
Also special reduced rates Chicago
to New York and return. Three
through daily trains, with vesti-
buled sleeping cars and excellent
dining car service, meals being
served on the American Club
Meals plau, ranging in price from
80 cents to Sl.OO. Chicago De-
pot, Van Buren, Sta Pacific Ave-,
on the Elevated Loop.
Write John Y. Callahan, Gener-
al Agent, LII Adams St, Chicago,
for full information and beautiful
ly illustrated descriptive folder Of
the Exposition Buildings and
Grounds.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
CHANGE THE WORLDS MAP.


Recent Events Have Puzzled students of
Geosr ply.
Why, where is Patagonia? was the
astonished query recently put to me by
an old schoolmate, as, carelessly turn
ing the leaves of his little sons geogra-
ply, he suddenly came upon recent
map of South America, says writer in
Scribners Magazine. The boundaries
which we boys had once regarded as
commutable had changed, and the
map, which the vivid impression Of
youth had engraved firmly upon our
memory, was no longer in existence.
The experience of my friend, man
of considerable intelligence, is not an
isolated instance. The rapidity of our
geographical progress within the last
decades has rendered it extremely diff
ficult for the layman to follow the
course of events. In 1925 three great
continents were practically unexplored.
Australia, or New Holland, as 1t was
then called, was nothing more than a
terra incognita-a mere geographical
idea; the vast expanse of Africa-with
the exception of the Mediterranean
region and the little settlement at the
cape-was still the land Of wonder and
conjecture, and as 1t had been in the
days of the Romans; while Central
Asia. with its millions of inhabitants,
WAS effectively closed to Europeans.
In the south nature had reared her
mighty barrier, the Himalayas. and in
the east we hnd China immured, both
in a literal and figurative sense, within
that gigantic wall of exclusivenesa
which seemed designed to screen for
ever from the prying gaze of the civil
ized world the sacred and inviolable
empire of the sun" Yet 1t is upon the
American continent that the most mar
velous changes have been wrought
changes whose magnitude we, the liv-
ing witnesses, can scarcely appreciate.
As the rising food imperceptibly but
steadily advances the water line, thus
constantly altering the contour OF the
beach. so the swelling tide Of popula-
ton, surging westward. has, through
this entire century, surely but inces-
sanity pushed forward that long west
ern boundary line of 1000 miles. tho
outlines of which have never for q
moment remained the same.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13

Colorado people are given to
much complaining about the heat.
The fact is that Colorado people do
not know much about hot weather,
the kind that wits you. Ii is a
fact that the sun does beat down
pretty hot, but we do not and never
have had, the willing, sweltering
heat of the Atlantic states. The
way to prove this is to take jaunt
back east some time in the middle
OF summer and then come back to
Colorado. You will know the dit>
ference right away. When every
particle OF clothing on your body
feels like dead weight, when your
clothes reach the small of your
back, when a collar willis by the
watch in twelve minutes, when you
must take fan to bed with you, in
order to secure enough air to
breathe, you are striking what east
erners call real walm weather. For
real comfort in summer the noun
tans of Colorado afford the most
enjoyable temperature in all the
land and the people are beginning
to find it out.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13

A woman started a run on a
bank at Cleveland, because she MIS-
understood the cashier, when he
told her she could not draw funds
after banking hours. He told her
to wait and she thought the bank
had no funds. 1t is generally unsafe
to let woman have bank ac>
count under any circumstances.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
WHAT ARE YOUR EARS LlKE7
Much siGnihcancs in Their Contour -
Well - in Their Length.


When serious minded person 10
observed running his finger thought
fully along the edge of one of his
ears the spectator may legitimately
arrive at the conclusion that he is try
ing to find the Darwinian nodule,
which indicates some uncommon char
acteristic of a valuable kind. 1t is
rare and precious ornament, and
among few personages who appear
to have 1t marked clearly is Prof.
Sayce, the distinguished professor OF
assyriology at Oxford. But If they
cannot claim the nodule, one thing all
people have in connection with their
ears, and that is a quick, easy and
quite reliable means of Identification.
A missing heir with two ears on his
head could never be personated by an
INSCRIPTIONS swindler had he taken
the precaution to leave a life-size
at the safe deposit or in the care of his
bankers. Then, again, twins, alike in
all else, could never get mixed. for
even twins have special ear each.
Perhaps, however, all this sinks into
insignificance compared with the cher
tshed delusion that very small ears are
a sign of good family, and that big
ears are a Disagreement as well as
sign of low birth and stupidity. This
is indeed baseless superstition. Men
and women alike have ears that match
their noses. 1t is not blood, but ma
ture which makes big ears. The way
to learn whether you have ears of the
proper proportion is to take meas
urement from the extreme top of the
ear to the bottom of the lobe. This
measurement should be exactly the
same as that of the nose, taken from
the top, where 1t joins the forehead.
exactly between the eyebrows, to the
bottom where the inner wall dividing
the nostrils meets the upper lip. When
the ears are wide at the base Of the
opening they show power Of appre-
ciating differences in sound. Sir John
Stainer has the true composers ear,
and the square shape is identical with
the form Of Mozart's ears in his best
portraits. When the top of the ear
is straight there is a kind of inde-
pendence of character often found
among travellers. The very high
pointed form of the top of the pima
or outer ear seems to go with an
artistic nature. A peculiar form of the
helix or outer rim of the ear is found
In the ears of Charles Dickens. This
with other signs is taken to denote
that the novelist's power Of attention
habitually tried to leave off in the mid
die of subject-a suggestion borne
out by all examination Of the Dickens
MSS. The shape of the left ear indi-
Gated an abundant flow of words and
the faculty of swaying masses of peo-
pie as a whole.-London Mail.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
We know of no more cooling

We know of no more cooling
method, to the ardor OF set Of
cranks and fanatics, like the Dow-
ieites have proven themselves to be,
than stream from good strong
hose. This is the manner the
mayor OF Evanston, Illinois, dealt
with that crowd.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13

That was an awful wreck on the
Chicago & Alton railway. 1t goeH
to prove that, Notwithstanding all
the aids to first class travel and se>
curity, there is much ch,nce in
riding on one OF the fast express
trains.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
Another Nome Rush Expected.

How many will go to Cape Nome in
the spring to search for gold is the
question troubling Seattle. Wash, out
filters. The first wild rush is over.
but 1t is expected that, in spite of
this. between 5000 and 5000 will be
on their way to the gold fields when
the season begins.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13
In Aid of Children. Home.

The George Junior republic of New
York has been willed all the lands and
buildings in Winsted. CT, belonging to
the late Miss Mary T. Buel, together
with $4,000 in cash. The will requests
that the association use the real es-
tate as home for the children under
Its care.
The daily sentinel., 1901-07-13

Kansas farmers obtain good
crop once in awhile, but they more
often miss one. Farming in the
Grand valley offers no failures like
Kansas enjoys, about every other
year or about tour out oil five.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-01
A QUICK GUESSER.

Emmeluth is a quick guesser, No
terdays Star Passing of the Simians,"
than he guessed he was one of them.
No one has yet been heard to challenge
the correctness of his guess.
Believing that he was hit by some
thing thrown at him, like any simian,
Emmeluth's first instinct was to throw
something back. 1t didn't make any
difference what he threw or whom he
threw it at. The monkey folk don't
consider such things. In some coun-
tries people gather the cocoa-nut crop
byirritating the monkeys till they throw
down to the ground the inaccessible
fruit. Emmeluth threw a gem of a CO.
coanut. I'VE shall see what to do when
dent of Public Instruction, In the APP
preparation BILL" he said. Think of
that! A legislator who has so often
proclaimed his own integrity openly
proposes to consider an appropriation
not on any basis of justice or right
but on the basis of his own wounded
vanity, or spite. And he is as blind in
his rage as to the object of his ven
geance as he is to the reasona bleness of
it. The Superintendent of Public In
struction had nothing to do with the
offending headline, and in all prob
ability at the time Emmeluth spoke
had not seen it.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-01
THE EDITOR.

Nearly a year ago The Star aban-
doned the vogue, which has long pre-
vailed in Hawaii, of designating one
employee as Editor" and placing his
name at the head of the editorial col
umn, and adopted and follows the sys-
TEN almost universal on the mainland
and more and more prevailing wherever
the English language is spoken, of i'm
personal journalism. The editor does
not speak through The Star. The Star
speaks direct to its readers. This is
in line not only with the development
of modern journalism in English
speaking countries, but with the law
which joins publication and RESPONSE
bility In making this change The
Star passed no criticism and made no
reflection on any of its contemporaries
which continued or adopted the old
vogue.
From time to time persons who had
Immature to vent either against The
Star, or against Alatau T. Atkinson,
who, for more than three years honor
ably and ably held the position Of edi-
tor of The Star, have sought to raise
antagonisms either to Mr.. Atkinson or
to The Star, by sinister imputations
open or covert. These have been
wholly ignored both by Mr.. Atkinson
and The Star and will continue to be
ignored by The Star. For Mr.. Akin
son. as to the future, The Star has not
autboritv IN sneak
TO the many readers and friends of
The Star this may be said: When Mr..
Atkinson in June, 1900, was appointed
superintendent of Public Instruction
he withdrew as editor of The Star, and
his name ceased to appear at the head
of the editorial column. Since that
date there has been no one designated
as, or having the tide of Editor" or
| invested with an editorial personality
separate from The Star. The Star is
owned, by corporation and is conduct
ed as other corporations are through
it's officers and employees. 1t speaks as
The Star and not as an editor through
The Star.