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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-11-26
Boilers Recently Inspected.
Sixteen Dead SO Ear.

Within the last hour three bodies
have been taken from the ruins, MAX
ing 16 dead. They are so badly
burned as to be unrecogniZab
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

having at the base OF it's stem-in the ground
a loose skinlike sheath surrounding IL, or rem
nants of one, should never be eaten until the
collector is thoroughly cOnversant with the tech
nicalities OF every such species, has been
taught by one whose authority Is we'll known
that IL IS q harmless species This rule pur-
posIy includes the renowned Amarita Caesaria
everywhere written luscious. regard IL as
the most dangerous Of tOadstOOls, because of it's
close resemblance to It's sister plant-the Amar-
ita muscaria-which Is deadly.
Another deadly species-the Amarita phalIoides
is frequently mistaken by the inexperienced for
the common mushroom. Safety lies in the strict
observance of two rules. Never eat a toadstOOl
found In the woods shady places believing IL
to be the common mushroom. Never a white
or yellow gilled toadstOOl in the same belief
The common mushroom does not grow in the
woods. and its gills are at first pink then
purplish brown or black
The wiseacres tell us tOadstOOls (tO be edibIe)
must have equal gils. must not have thin tops
must not turn yellow when sprinkled with salt
must not blacken silver spoon: that we must
not eat of those changing color when cut or
broken. of those exuding milk or those which
are acrid. hot or bitter. and give many other
specifics for determining the good from the bad
These tests all worse than worthless for if
confidence is placed In them they will not only
lead us away from esculent and excellent varie-
ties. but directly into eating venOmous ones.
In a chapter OF instructions to Students all
necessary information is given for examining
and testing unknown varieties. Each of the
thousand fungi named in the work is so fully
described that possibility of error~femains II
the reader possesses n reasonable amount OF
common sense and observes carefully. The de-
scriptions are greatly aided by more than two
hundred plates. OF which about thirty are coll
ored TO initiate nature closely. A valuable chap
ter is added on ''Toadstool Poisoning and Its
Treatment" by DIR. w. S. Carter. professor of
physiology and hygiene OF the University OF
Texas. and another containing recipes for cook
The indexes are scientifically arranged. and thus
every possible aid is afforded the reader and
student. Professor Charles III. Peck writes TO
Captain McIlvaine: "It is work OF absorbing
interest and will be boon TO American my
copha gists. You have done a work which will
be OF lasting benefit to all lovers of American
mycology."
The author OF THE Mushroom Book makes
claim an original discoverer. She is
teacher Of botany. and has put to excellent
service the material gathered from the writings
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

instead of going miles TO harry and do them 10
Death. This contradiction is soon explained by
the authors own remark that ducks must die
that aldermen may dine" and science is a bet
ter excuse for killing ducks than aIdermanic
appetites But what is still more paradoxical-
as many sane men Will look at the matter-is
the fact that man should find pleasure In
leaving comfortable fireside in the depths Of
winter and penetrating into the bleak North
Sea" TO chase wild geese. Some OF the dis
comforts-not 10 put IL stronghold this
sort OF pastime may be gathered from the state
ment that nearly all the professional punts-
men OF England. Ireland and Scotland do their
work at night. and most OF the poor fellows
have 10 pay for IL. too. sooner or later. One
rarely sees a puntsman over the age OF forty
Who does not suffer from the results OF his
nocturnal expeditions'-the penalty being
chronic rheumatism. The story OF McInnes and
his Goose Queen" too long 10 quote here is
a good example OF what the mania for this kind
OF sport-half scientific since the passion to
possess rare specimens is its chief niotive-win
lead its subjects TO-
Ihe beautiful illustrations in this book go far
TO convince one Of the fascination which that
wild sea country and It's sea birds must exer-
else over those who have once thoroughly
learned them. Mr.. Millais attempts no word
painting 10 speak of. but trusts to his brush-in
one case to his father's-and 70 photographs. to
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11
IN MEXICO.


MEXICO CITY. An Idler's Notebook. BY Olive
PerCivaL I2mO. PIP. 20S Herbert 5. Stone & Co
An idIers notebook is not the place In which
TO look for distinction Of literary style or the
well compacted results OF study and observation
and Miss Percvars notebook contains neither
1t is a collection of newspaper sketches. giving
in more or less vivaCious manner. and some
times with Il certain vividness the impressions
OF an American girl among the Spanish neigh
hors 10 the south OF Such a lot OF people
have spent the day I'm Mexico and have then
written books about H." she observes: my pre-
determination 10 be original She went
determined TO find Mexico City all that could
be imagined IN the way OF tropical picturesque
ness. and she succeeded before long. II rained
when she arrived. but the crooked old streets
were veritable pictures:
Not dazzlingly Oriental 10 be sure as they
ought TO have been but OF the French Impres-
sionist school-alI muddy grays and browns.
with str"aks Of purple shadow and splashes OF
dull pink ana yellow. But all at once there
was no rain-not one drop-a glorious Mexican
sun was shining. IL brought out the fra
GRANGE OF the strange flowers in the courts
brilliant glimpses of which We're permitted
through medieval entrances as the carriaR.
poked along. Everything was So delightfully."-
clean and fresh and beautiful-everything ex-
cept the AIeXIc smell
II the smell was ''Mexic." the streets were
theatric. crowded with astonishingly poor Great
ures. and sorrowful eyed But the American
girl walked them In proud defiance OF southern
conventionality and found no cause for alarm.
even IN the case Of beggar drunk with pulque
He Immediately nattened himself against the
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

AND POISONOUS. One Thousand American
Fungi How to Select and Cook the Edible.
How TO Distinguish and Avoid the Poisons Civ
ing Full Botanic Descriptions. Made Easy for
Reader and Student. BY Charles McIlvaine.
President OF Philadelphia Theological Centre,
Honorary Member Salem County and Glouces-
ter County, N j., Medical Societies. Assisted by
Robert X Macadam ToadstOol Poisons and
Their Treatment. Instructions to Students. Rec
ipes for Cooking, etc. Octave, pp. xxxvi 702.
Indianapolis The Bowen Merrill Company
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

OF seventeen men who have made special study.
of fungi and TO all of whom she gives due credit.
1t is the purpose of this work to enable the unsc
entifc reader TO identify the edible and the poi.
sonous varieties of the common species Of fungi.
For this purpose the system of classification is
admirable. and the forty eight plates-many ori
them colored-with the numerous illustrations I'M
text, afford abundant aid to the student. With
this book in hand the wanderer through the
woods and pastures need find little difficulty In
identifying any tOadstOol met with. and may
safely gather store of excellent food; but al
ways the gathering must be dOne-as the greao
artist mixed his cOIors-with brains.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

produce his pictorial effects. Most of his pict-
ures are studies of birds. with the wild Scottish
coast as background. It a pity that the
reader does not get more elaborate pictorial
souvenir of Jet, the authors retriever whom
he is taught 10 love. Jet is, In fact made TO ap-
pear a veritable heroine OF the coast One stormy
day in the Orkneys Mr.. Millais. who had been
watching for elders of those birds fly
by. and fired:
The bird was hard hit and made out to sea-
but had not gone fifty yards when II fell dead
among the breakers. AS the sea was Wild In
the extreme, and l knew that the bird would
be soon blown ashore 1 never thought OF send
Ing my dog In after II; but Jet who was
potterfng about in the rocks at a short dis
tance, unfortunately had her eye also on the
cider and, seeing IT fall, at once made for It, in
spite OF my efforts 10 stop her, all my shouting
being drowned by the roar OF the ocean. I could
only stand and admire her pluck as she fought
through the first two breakers. Now, those
who have lived much by the have noticed
Lhat these breakers always travel over the
face Of the ocean In threes. The third did for
jet as she was trying TO raise herself and
look about for the bird. II broke completely
over her, and I felt a chill go to my heart
the next moment, l saw her body floating help
lessly about amid the rush of seething waters.
Two more waves came and brought her nearer
the shore, so / put down my gun. and, running
waist deep into the water. caught her by the
tail and hauled her out before another wave
came For some minutes she lay perfectly
ttonless, save for twtching at her nostrils, and
l began TO think there was no hope for her.
Gradually. however, she began TO recover; but
being quite unable to walk. had to leave my
gun upon the rocks and carry her home the
whole way, a distance of two and a half miles.
The author is evidently the right sort of man
TO own dogs. He shows just much sym
pathy with the various rough types of humans
whom he meets in his wanderings about all the
windings of the whole northern coasts Of Scot
land and the adjacent isles. His sketch Of Jack"
N,fI ,r,t-
fens who has somehow got stranded In a Fife
shire estuary is charming. But the book is by
no means mainly made up of "reminiscences
like these. however interesting reading they
may be In their way. II is filed with informa-
tion about the birds of the coasts their habits
strange enough habits, too, some Of them-their
habitats and the various ways Of getting at
them-a book TO read for the matter that may
be got out OF II well for the indulgence
OF the Imagination with visions of "stinging.
ringing spindrift. and the fulmar flying free
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

THE MUSHROOM BOOK Popular Guide to
the Identification and Study of Our COmmoner
Fungi, with Special Emphasis on the Edible
Varieties. BY Nina l.. Marshall With many
Illustrations in Color and Black and White.
Photographed from Nature by J. A. and II. G.
Anderson Octave pp. XVI 167. Doubleday
Page &, Co
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

wall. with polite Pass on, young lady" No
one was ever rude. and many were friendly.
These poor people are in conditions so deplora-
Die that person of keen sympathies speculates
as 20 the possibility OF ever smiling again I'm
this life while the memory OF that poverty shall
endure. 1t is the hideous variety that knows
no hope And In the poverty stricken ewes Won
see only the unresented suffering of centuries
But IL one passes quickly enough one man
ages to forget II in the more cheerful panaroma
OF the streets: The high hated country gentle
men. barefooted. with bellshaped trousers and
with gorgeous zarapes over their shoulders. the
village women, rolling cigarettes with half
naked sons, and stock OF pottery for market.
the fat old sehora in the pink doorway OF the
"dulce' shop. where crystallized squash and
sweet potatoes offered in long clear bsrs
Ike glycerine soap. and other sweets made Of
milk and pecan nuts and cocoanut and tuna
juice and spices-of everything except chocolate
which is disappointment.
The Alameda charmed this young traveller
a "delightsome" park with a spell OF 'Mexic
enchantment." so long the 'musicianers'
were piping the Mexican music seductive full
OF subtle minor harmonies. Chapultepec the
castle Scott's men stormed IN 1S47, is now full
OF scientific smelling classrooms and mess
rooms. dormitories armories and gymnasa,-
all very progressive ana very dull"
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11
ONE OF BIsMARcK's OPINIONS.

From BlackwOOd's Magazine
Envy is the national vice of the German peos
pie. They cannot bear that any should be-
greater than themselves" Who does the reader
suppose spoke those words? A German OF to-
day would probably reply. Some arrogant Eng
hshman. of course. who wanted to exOnerate
his country from the reprOaches addressed to u
by the superiority of TeUtosic moral sentimenr
which Is the special possession Of the philOSOpnlo
professors, independent journalists and equi-
tably judging people OF the Fatherland-" IL SO
happens that il was Prince Bismarck who made
the observation. and 1t is to be found in Buschs
candidly outspoken parsonage. The writer OF
this paper is. for the moment, somewhat remote
from books. and altogether from libraries. But
he took Observant note of the above illuminating
confession at the time of reading little Buschs
book and he will answer for the substantial ac-
curacy of the citation.
Once, when he quoted II TO German frienos
a very erudtte parsonage Of more dispas-
sionate mind than Is now frequently met with
betwixt the Rhine and the EIbe. a rather hesi-
tatingly apologetic attempt was made to cast
suspicion on the trustwOrthiness Of the modern
German Boswell But the writer had the good
fortune to be acquainted with the Man of Blood
and Iron. held with him more than one Interest,"
portance. and he only say that Buschs
"reminiscences. written from notes taken at taa
time Immediately after each fresh interview.
bear on the face of them conclusive evidences
or their authenticity to any who was ac-
quainted with the maker of modern Germany.
They present him to the life, and one can hear
him uttering the above trenchant Judgment IA
the weighty and merciless manner with which
ne gave expression to his inmost convictions
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11
GILBERT WHITE.
"A BEAUTIFUL EDITION, WITH NEW MAT
TER, OF HIS WRITINGS

THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
OF SELBORNE. And Garden kalendar. BY
Rev. Gilbert White N. A. Edited by r. Bowdler
Sharpe, LID. With Introduction TO the
Garden kalendar by the Very Rev. s. Reynolds
Hole. Dean Of Rochester, and Numerous illus
trations by ]. G. Keulemans Herbert Railton
and Edmund J. Sullivan. In Two Volumes. Oe-
tavo pp KXiii, AZ; xY, 443. Philadelphia: J. b
Lippincott Company.
New editions of Gilbert White are constantly
appearing and some Of those recently published
have been uncommonly well edited and wen
printed. Nevertheless, IL is Only fair 10 say that
the present edition eclipses all its predecessors
IL is handsomely printed and bound. The Illus
tratiOns are altogether satisfactory. MI heule-
mans leaves nothing to be desired I'm his careful
drawings OF birds; Mr.. Railtons sketches OF the
authors house and surroundings are eNqulsltely
made, and while no portrait Of Gilbert White eN-
lists 10 serve as basis for those compositions
into which Mr. T. J. Sullivan frequently intro
auoas him this draughtsman's idea of the great
naturalisrs personality is sympathetic and per-
suasive Mr.. Sharpe. moreover, puts us under
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

the levelng Of his terrace. so he wins tor MN
self 1he chief i0v OF a gardeners life as he
watches the development from small beginnings
and the sure success of his labour-
The dean points out that after one hundred
and fifty years. and all our acquisitions Of prac-
,,oo, eynar,ence. cheap glass, heating appa-
ra+us innorts and hybridization, it would be
a vain conceit 10 criticise Gilbert Whites sim
ME rne,hoss. from which he candidly states
tba, NE shall not learn much about horticulture.
He does not read the Garden Kalendar," how
ever 10 criticise it, but simply to enjoy il as
O memorial OF a loVable man.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

OF many species, all that were difficult or OBJ
scure having been submitted to him Several
new species that were found by him. the greater
part of excellent food value. have been submit
ted 10 Professor Peck for classification The au-
thor preferred that they should be named de-
scribed and placed in their proper genus and
section by whose vast experience enables
him to classify in accordance with American
species"
Each species vouched for as edible In this vol
ume has been thoroughly tested. and some in the
list which have heretofore been under the ban
OF suspicion have been eaten by many persons
and subjected TO elaborate physiological tests.
Species containing deadly poison are few, but
their individuals reproduced in great num-
bers Nicely in distinguishing their botanic
variance from edible species closely re-
sembling them is necessary No charm will de-
tect the poison. Eating toadstools before their
certain Identification as belonging TO edible
species is neither bravery nor common sense
The question often asked is. BY what rule do
you distinguish between edible and poisonous
mushrooms? The answer usually surprises the
questioner-there is no general rule. All such
rules which have been given are false and unre-
liable. The quality of each was learned one at
time. Any toadstool with white or
lemon yellow glls. casting white spors when laid
-gils downward-upon sheet OF paper. having
remnants of fugitive skin In the shape OF scabs
warts upon the upper surface of It's cap, with
veil or ring or remnants of stains OF one.
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11
AFTER WILD FOWL.
SPORT ON THE COAST OF SCOT
LAND.

THE WILD FOWLER IN SCOTLAND. By John
Guile Millais r. Z. s. etc. With a Fronts
piece in Photogravure After Drawing by Sir
J. F. Mllais Bart, +. X. A, eight Photogra-
vure Plates two Colored Plates. and Fifty Il
lustrations from the Authors Drawings and
from Photographs. Quarto. PIP. xv, l67. Long
mans, Green & Co.
To a considerable part of humanity there is
probably much that is paradoxical in the tastes
New-York tribune., 1901-05-11

revealed by this WORK. II may very easily So, m
strange that man who loves ducks. widgeon
heron. curews and all such as Mr.. Millais does
not with gastronomic love. but with an MS
thetic. should not he content 10 let them uve
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-02-02
Competent But Uncanny.

Cincinnati Enquirer: A. A. Gala
CHER, district passenger agent of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, while en-
route south was taken quite Ill and
was compelled to stop at Montgom-
cry, Ala. He went to a hotel and ent
for a physician.
The medical man said:
You have a case OF pneumonia and
must have a nurse"
"All right" said Gallagher. do you
know a good nurse you car send to
look after me?"
The doctor said he did, and would
have the nurse at the hotel within an
hour. In about an hour a colored
woman, who measured about nine feet
In girth, put in an appearance, and
Gallagher asked her II she had ever
nursed sick people.
Yes, indeed" she replied. Use had
considerable 'sperience with ailing pus-
sons. / nussed Marstfs~ John, and he
died; then / nussed Mistress Lucy, and
she died; then / nussed Mistress Luz
cy's sister; the doctor didn't think she
was so very poorly, but she done died"
Have you had any other experience
In nursing? ?" asked Gallagher.
Yes, indeed. Only last week I left
Colonel Carter's house, where l nussed
the colonel for five days"
We'll, did the colonel get well?"
asked Gallagher.
mo; the colonel he died, too, but DR..
Jones, who tended him. run a big
knife into the colonel n opened him
up. The doctor had beer out late the
night before and was a little
The knife sort Of slipped and Just
about cut the colonel's heart out. Then
the doctor said all HI couldn't save
him"
You seem to be a good NURSE said
Gallagher, "and you're engaged"
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tinue to suffer on, dropping into the
grave one by one.
Peruna cures catarrh In oil stages and
varieties, whether acute or chronic, and
Is therefore the most effective remedy
ever devised for removing oil the de.
rangements which follow Ia grippe.
Samuel M. York writes from Union
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Dear Sir-"Last week | was taken with
Ia grippe and catarrhal deafness. l wrote
you for advice and followed your direc-
tons. After taking two bottles of Pc.
runa l found myself well of la grippe,
health Is better than il has been in FIVE
years.
my wife improved in health very
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York.
Miss Caroline j. Kahl, Otisco, Ind,
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"Three years ! had Ia grippe and
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Il highly recommend Peruna to all
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Kahl.
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Address DR.. Hartman, President of
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lowing:
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10 so to bed, I took three bottles OF
Peruna with very beneficial results,
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~ have nothing bur praise for Peru
ma, and recommend ii TO those SINH
iariy affected wherever I can -
Frances M. Anderson.
La grippe is, strictly speaking, cpl
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During the acute stakes Of la grippe il
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Indeed nearly every person who has
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If this vast multitude OF people could
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OF all the bad effects which la grippe has
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Thousands have already heard how
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