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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
@ PASSENGER STATION

Some minor improvements are I'M
der way at the C. b & Q passenger
statio.. The record room is being
fitted up with shelves and telephone
booth constructed to be installed in
Freight Agent Young's offices. AVN
ings have been ordered f1r the win
dows on the soath and west sides of
the building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13
KINRr KlnIafa.

The stage of water at the Rock Is
land bridge al n. m. was 3:35 and
stationary. The temperature at noon
was So.
The WinonR was in and out and the
Monarch and barges went north.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13
Licensed to Wed.

Eczema. salt rheum. letter. chat
ing. ivy poisoning and all skin tor
lures are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. The certain pile
cure. b. II. Bieber and Hartz & Ulle-
meyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13

Everybody's liable to itching piles
Rich and poor, old and young-ter-
rible the torture they suffer. Only
one sure cure; Doan's Ointment. Alb
solutely safe; can't fail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-13

My heart and hand another claimed,
His plea had come too late.
It's ever thus with people without
pluck and vim,
Take Rocky Mountain Tea, don't
get left again.
L. III. Thomas pharmacy.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12
NEWSPAPER GRIST.

An enterprising western firm is maxi
ing arrangements to set up q modern
American sawmill in China, where lum-
Der is still sawed by the primitive meth
DDS Of century ago.
Last year 1,141 vessels were lost. OF
these 322 were steamers and 819 sailing
vessels. There are 2s,1s0 steamers and
sailing vessels in the world.
Anewspaper printed on the excursion
steamer "Ophir" published one number
in 80 degrees minutes north latitude.
It claims to be the paper printed far
thest north Of any on record.
The people Of Tyre were such experts
in dyeing that Tyrian purple remains
unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians
were also wonderful dyers, and could
produce colors so durable that they may
be called imperishable.
The hydraulic mining pits in Cali
fornia materially changed the land
scape in many places. The pit of n.y.
draulic mine in Nevada county, CAL,
which was washed out some so years
ago, is again covered with growth OF
pine and other trees, and patches of
brush again dot the once verdureless
slopes.
Some remarkable records of tumors
are given in the Lancet. The largest
known is a uterine tumor that weighed
1875 pounds, described by doctor of
Bucharest. Hunter removed one weigh
ing 140 pounds from woman whose
weight without the tumor was IS
pounds. The largest solid tumor of this
class weighed 1O6 pounds. The record
for ovarian tumors is held by Chinese
patient, who had one weighing 1863
pounds; without it she weighed II
pounds. There is New York one of
149 pounds and German one of 146.
For mammary tumors case is on rec
ord where the growth in one breast
weighed GA pounds and in the other 40
pounds.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12

He's the meanest man I ever had
anything to do with, said the sewing
machine agent. had a note from him
the other day saving that he desired to
view one Of our matchless machines
with the view of purchasing il found to
be satisfactory. In these piping days
of competition it is novelty for sew
ing machine agent to be invited to call
and show goods go when hsd recover.
ed from my surprise, ! promptly loaded
machine in my cart and started for
the address the man had given.
AN old man met me at the door and
invited me to bring the machine inside
90 be could more closely examine it.
did so, setting the machine up IN the
sitting room and calling his attention
to ITS fine points. He was an attentive
listener and talked with the conf
derce Of man who considered sale
certain. Finally having exhausted all
of my arguments be asked to see Il
practical test of the capabilities Of the
machine. I agreed and asked him to
bring me something upon which to
work. He lett the room returning q
few minutes later, his arms filled with
damaged linen.
u sat down at the machine and show
ed him how easily rent. and tears could
be mended, making the garments as
good as new and saving in ahort time
the price of the machine. The man
seemed very much interested and kept
handing me garment after garment that
needed attention.
v worked for two solid hours mend
ing the old mans garments, aad at last
having nothing else that needed atten-
ton he commenced TO find fault with
the machine.
FINALLY be told me he guessed he
wouldn't buy a machine right away.
u was so mad that I didn't dare trust
myself to speak. and l was glad after
ware that didn't, for when I learned
the whole truth realized my inability
to do the subject justice. The mlsera-
BILE old sinner, who happened to be a
bachelor, had brought me up there
simply to no his mending. He has
worked the same game on other agents.
IN. Y. SUN.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12
Published N o n d a VI
Wednesday and Friday|

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is in reality fine, fresh
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TRIBUNE of same UllN
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Foreign Correspon
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traiions, h m rous
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agricultural mat err a w TlTlNII
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reliable financial u Il
market reports.
Regular subscription
price, 81 so per year. nnunU1ATu
We furnish II With ItlDClvl
THE CLARION for % 90
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12

"A good stroug bluff al the proper
time is very good thing, but it may
fall fat said well known travelling
man who is at present visiting Washing.
toa. 1T was at one Of the best hotels
IT. Kansas City a few days ago that one
of the guests stepped into the lobby TO
leave his umbrella, and not desiring to
20 to his room thought he would try a
scheme of his own to prevent some one
from walking off with it. Taking a slip
of paper from his pocket. in big. black
letters be wrote the following notice -
Beware! The man who owns this um
brella weighs over two hundred pounds
and can strike ten ton blow. He will
be- back in fifteen minutes 1t was not
long after that some one was attracted
by the eign, and be feared not the con-
sequences of the dire threat. Quickly
taking the coveted umbrella be remov-
ed the paper, and. turning 1T over. he
wrote on the back as follows: The man
who took the umbrella weighs less than
one hundred and fifty pounds, but can
walk ten miles an hour. He is never
coming back. Washington Times.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12
A ron of ireland was painting q fence

A ron Of Ireland was painting fence
His face wore q troubled look. Sud-
denly smile shot across it. aud. Dip
ping the brush in the paint pot, he be-
gan to paint faster and faster.
Why are you painting 30 fastT asked
a bystander. >You',e in a rush all Of a
sudden to finish the job
'Shure. an thot's all right was his
reply. u haven't much paint left, an
it's finishing the JOB Dim afther, before
its all gone
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12
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Published on Thurs.
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of The DAILY TRI.
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Regular subscription
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per year.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12


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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12
Nj Three Together for On! 5 ZOO

One other opportunity offer you You wish to keep in touch
with metropolitan life through the medium Of great daily the
marvellous fund of knowledge concerning the happenings Of the
day. Each issue contains six to eight pages OF eight columns each Of
avs this would have cost you probably much as $500 year.
by itself Now you have It you wh in connection with youf
home paper and The Cosmopolitan Magazine 49,.
Three Together One Year d:I Only $22'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12

Y cant love you any more than I do
she admitted. 'Oh, You are unfair. nm.
generous
Darling, ism Everything fair in lover
said he.
>But you think I've got strong box
crammed with horrid skewered things
all labeled and-'she began. halt crying.
,Inever thought it, be Interrupted
earnestly. u never believed a single
syllable of that envious gossip-never,
my princess
He drew her to her feet beside him,
and not until then did either Of them
remember the rescued woman.
But that person was standing at q
polite distance, busily intent on shak-
ing the water from her dripping gar
ments. Who she was or how she hap
p,ned to stumble into the pitfall mo ont
knew.
A little nearer loitered couple o
inquisitive persons VIII" skated away
with suspicious celebrity the instant they
were observed.
THAT dreadful coquette means tt
marry that poor Mr.. Faulkner. Sh'
actually kissed himr Miss Petit sale
tearfuly.
,Ah, SOP sighed Mr.. Harding. We'll
there's always a flaw somewhere in tn
finest armor, but only experts in tn
same arts can discover it. and capitula-
ton is the only logical sequence
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12

has for nearly sixty years been
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farmers and villagers. Its
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fashion notes. its Science and
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Der year.
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Six Million Boxes a Year.

In 1895, none; in 1900, 5000, 900
boxes; that's Cascarets Candy Ca
thartic's jump into popularity. The
people have cast their verdict. Best
medicine for the bowels in the world.
All druggists, Ioc.
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published on Monday, Wednes-
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re to secure the best magazines.
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1901-09-12

E delights Of an evening spent around welghted read
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with its wealth of illustrations its stories of adventure and
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ends of the EARTH and its instructive articles for young and od-thee
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and proper education Of your children
To secure you the best and most interesting OF the great Illus
tated magazines at the lowest possible price has been the ann OF .
editor Of this journal That we have succeeded leave readers
to Judge special contract recently entered into with The Coso
poan which seeks become better known this has
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trated magazines together with years subscription to this JOURNAL
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Both TogetherOne YearfoTOny$ l'55

In this way you secure your home paper and an illustrated
magazine at price that only about fourth of what some OF tine
illustrated magazines sell for For three years The mas
undsputedy claimed that reached the largest clientele possessed oy
any periodical daily weekly monthly in the world was me
Cosmopolitan which Julian Hawthorne to India to let the Woa
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University which now has 900 students on Its rolls Was
The COSMOPOLITAN which offered prize Of 5000 tor the Fest horse
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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
A RARE OPPORTUNITY.

Every lady who intends purchas-
ing new wrap this fall should at
tend the special cloak sale at ]. c.
Haskett's store next Friday, Oct. %.
Such an opportunity will probably
not be offered you again this fall.
An Eastern manufacturers line
will be on display on that date. No
doubt this is larger and better as
sortment than can be found in our
largest city stores, and as every
garment will be delivered at time
Of sale there is no chance of a mis-
fit. The assortment is so large and
varied that every taste can be salts
fed. Ladies should take advantage
of this sale aud see the display
whether they wish to purchase or
not. Remem Der this sale is for one
day only, Friday, Oct. %. Don't for
get the date.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
OUAPAW NEWS.

Quapaw has groceries and hard.
ware, and could support dry
goods store.
The boys who stole all the whips
and laprobes at the school house
last Sunday night have been To-
Gated and will be punished if same
are not returned to said school at
once.
Your correspondent has been very
busy this week and items are 1T
tie bit shy.
w. b. Hohler went to Joplin Mon
day in the interest of ". r. Bing-
ham & Co.
Bingham Bros. were at Webb City
Monday selling hay.
Our school ia progressing nicely
with Mr.. Chas. Allen as teacher.
About IS pupils are enrolled.
Our second cutting of hay is
about finished, as frost has made
it's appearance.
We are sorry to know that John
Murphy's little Pearl is very i'll.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
CRAWFISH PRAIRIE.

Old Jack frost made the farmers
all hustle with their second cutting
of hay and some have begun gath
ering corn.
Misses Daley Wilson and Jessie
Shaw went to Modoc to church Sun
day.
F. L. Ray and family visited at
his uncle Louis Imbeau's Sunday.
Louis Imbeau and daughter, Ka-
tie, spent Saturday in Galena and
Joplin on business.
Miss Daisy Wilson, from the Prai-
RE, carried off the honors of the ev-
eng as the tackiest young lady at
the tacky party given at Peoria last
week.
Mrs. Ida Ray and Mrs. Black are
on the sick list this week.
Miss Mollie Crane spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
John Bouser.
Mrs. Ray is visiting her son,
Frank, at Quapaw Mission this week
Will and Tom Carver drove to Ga
lena Thursday and attended the
Wild West show and then drove to
Baxter and took in Uncle Toms
Cabin.
Abe Ray and wife, Dave Porter
and wife, Walt Hunsuck, George
Kelley and Dave Meeks were among
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
Missouri Pacific Ry at Joplin.
TIME or TRAiNe At
BAXTER SPRINGS.

Arrive.
From St. Louis and Kansas City at 200 m
From St. Louis and Kansas City at S.45 Am
From st. Louis and Kansas City at 400 pm
Depart.
For ST. Louis and Kansas City at go a. m
For st Louis and Kansas City at $40 a. m
For ST. Louis and Kansas City at 100 p. M
Train No. 4, which leaves Joplin at $40
m, makes direct connection at st. Louis
and Kansas City for Chicago.
Train No. TO- leaving Joplin at 100 m
for ST. Louis and Kansas City. arriving In
Kansas City at 1.a0 a m, and st. Louis at
40 M, has free reclining chair cars and
sleeper. No change.
No. $40 a m.-Sleeper for Kansas City.
This is the ONLY LINE running three
daily passenger trains from Southwest
Missouri to Kansas City and st. Louis;
equipment consists of Pullman palace
coac hes, FREE reclining chair cars and
Pullman sleeping cars and buffet. For
further particulars apply to
c. H. ROHRER.
Passenger and Ticket Agent, Joplin, No.
J. H. Lyon, r. Z. Lyon,
Western Pass. ACT, Trav. Pass. ACT.
col Main street, Kansas City, No.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
A BUSY PLACE.

The little station of Quapaw, sew
EN- miles southwest of Baxter, is a
busy place just now, and has been
all summer. The different lines OF
business are fairly we'll represented
there and the inhabitants really
hope and expect their place to be-
come one of considerable CONNER
cial importance.
W. r. Bingham & Co., "Riley and
Ike" look after the implement and
vehicle business there, and deal ex'
tensively in hay and grain. They
have big feed mill there and sell
corn to the outside world either in
the kernel or in shape of chop feed
r. N. Edgington keeps a we'll as
sorted stock of groceries and provi.
sions, and dry goods. The postof'
fee ia in his store, and Nr. Edging.
ton handles Uncle Sans business
also.
T. H. Allen & Son carry quite a
nice stock of groceries and provis.
ions and do a good business. This
firm bought out L. r. Davee & Co.
There are two blacksmith shops
at Quapaw, one being conducted by
T. III. Allen and the other by a Mr..
Knowles.
The sick folks of Quapaw and vi
cinity are being looked after by DR..
J. B. Allen, physician and surgeon
of good repute and wide experience.
DR.. Allen is graduate of the Keo-
kuk, Iowa, school and keeps fully
abreast of the times.
There are about dozen large hay
barns at Quapaw and shipments of
gilt edge prairie hay from that
place are large.
The people of Quapaw are proud
of their town. A good school, with
a good teacher, has been estab.
lished there.
Quapaw is really cutting some
ice"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
NEW TIME CARD.

On the last page of this paper
will be found the new time card OF
the Frisco system. 1t goes into eff
feet Sunday, Oct. 20, and gives
twelve trains in and twelve trains
out each day to Baxter Springs
Study the card and become familiar
with it. You can go anywhere at
almost any time. There are five
daily trains TO Joplin.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
FOOD For THOUGHT.

We fear few parents give enough
thought to the manner in which
they clothe their children for
school. Look at the children as
they go and come from our public
schools; see how many of them are
dressed az If for a party or recep-
ton; and it is not because their
parents are 80 well-to-do that they
are amply able to provide such
clothing for their children; it is
due to the striving by one parent
to outdo in show the efforts of an
other parent; and in many instances
things are neglected and comforts
at home denied to crafty foolish
and ruinous Ito the child ambition
to have ones own children as we'll
dressed as his neighbsr's.
But this harmfulness has many
phases. 1t harms parents who cam
not afford such expense; it harms
the grocer, and the baker, and the
butcher, at whose expense this
show of dress is too often made; 1t
harms the child thus over dressed,
by making it to love dress and to
be forever dissatisfied with dress
such as in his condition he can af-
ford to wear; and above all, it is a
great wrong, an isestmable wrong,
to the children of the poorer par
ents who cannot. or, being of good
sense, will not, overdress their chill.
dren.
Have you noticed On our streets
how the poorer and more plainly
dressed children are neglected by
those of the better dressed, who
flock to themselves?" and has it
not caused you to think how it
hurts the sensitive soul of the poor
child? If the parents who over
dress their children land there are
many of them) know how they
thereby drive a dagger into the
heart of the poorer child who does
not and cannot wear 30 good
clothes, then we say, shame upon
them! but we think few of them
have given any thought to the harm
they do to their own children by
over.dressing them, and to the pain
they cause to the other children,
whose clothes are poorer or more
plain.
We hope this will cause them to
stop this foolish, this harmful, this
cruel practice.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19
BIG BUGS HERE.

Some of the officials of the Frisco
system passed through this city
Wednesday on their way south.
They are out on tour of inspec.
ton and their travels took them
over the cutoff between Miami and
Alton, and possibly to Texas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19

]. G. Polster returned Tuesday
from a visit with his mother in st.
Louis and Ezra Hinsbaw at Bloom
ington, Ill. He says Mr.. Hinshaw,
who had an ankle broken some time
ago, lie getting along fairly well on
the way to recovery, and that he
will be in Baxter some time this
fall,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19

In the Black Cat sketching con-
test given by ]. C. Haskell, the FIRST
nrize of 81 in cash was awarded to
Maater Carl Buchan; the second
prize. two pairs of 25c Black Cat
StocRinGs. to Master James Arm:
strong; the third prize, one pair OF
25c Black Cat Stockings, to Master
WaIla Covey. C. Fribley, j. p.
Daniels and ye editor OBLIGATED as
iudges.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19

See the Twentieth Century Sewing
Machine. the best up-to-date ma
chine on the market. Sold by G. r.
Gould,
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19

Grand Army comrades are all re-
quested to attend the Post meeting
Saturday evening, Oct. %. The old
Post organ will be sold at auction
by w. d. Pinnick, the celebrated
auctioneer. The organ must go to
a member of the Post. All should
attend az there will be an old-fash-
toned roundup and a good time
generally.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-10-19

You will find childrens and
misses trimmed and street hats in
great variety at Miss Simpsons.