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gagged for terms of five years on the un-
derstanding that they viii have food free
ior SIX months after their arrival. and free
iooglhgS IS and medical care for the whole
man gets twenty-five cents a day and each
woman eighteen cents. Up to 1898 more
than fifteen thousand East Indians had
oeen imported upon these conditions, ard
OF theSe. Twelve thousand had remained in
the colony. Many had settled on govern-
ment lands at the close of their service
ana some had little plantations of rice
sugar and bananas of their own. The HIM
zoos could be brought to the Philippine
Islands much more cheaply than to the
tl11s, and it Is a question whether they
would not be valuable addition to our
working population there.
In the Tonga Islands.
Another part of this federation Is to be
the Tongas. These are group of islands
lying northwest of New Zealand and south
east of the Fijis. They are now under a
British protectorate. although they still
nave king, George II, who governs the
country IN connection with the legislative
assembiy. . The government in fact is a
SORT OF a constitutional monarchy under
England Half of the assembly is COM
posed OF the mobiles and the other half
IS maze up of representatives, elected by
teSns seSn OF rh ,he natives as have paid their
taxes Ihe mobiles can only hold office
ouring good behavior and the taxation
clause makes only the best of the natives
eligible to the assembly
1hese Tonga Islands have an area al
toSether about one-tenth that of Con-
nectlcut The largest of them is only
t"enty-tWo miles long, and there are many
"hlch are little more than atolls and
coral rocks rising out of the sea. Some of
lhem are volcanic, but their soil is we'll
ttted for cocoanuts and sugar.
AS to population, the Tongans are only
about 1900 in number. They are Poly
ncslans, having complexions of a light
copper color and features not much un-
Ike our Flllplnos. They are all Christians,
and as general thing are religious. They
nave put one town of good size, Nukua-
lofa, the capital. This is situated on the
largest island, running about a beautiful
hafbor. 1t is very pretty little place
with Wide streets and nice houses shaded
by cocoanut ard other tropical trees The
finest buildings are the palace of the
KING and the Methodist college for girls.
Inc town has a cricket club and race
track, and there are on the island, it is
sad, some of the finest carriage roads
south of the equator
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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on the funeral pyreS of their husbands.
When a chief built a house he festively
planted a living victim under each post,
and when his canoes were launched he used
them down into the sea. When he died
his wives were strangled to line his grave,
that he might lie soft. and such a thing
killing BABY was too common for notice.
King ThakOmbau and His Father.
The last king of the Fills, Thakombau,
was the son of a noted man eater. Tha-
kombau was something OF a cannibal him
self, but his father craved human flesh as
a matinee maiden Graves candy. He had
war canoes which he sent about through
the South Sea Islands for supplies. and
they often came back filed with dead men
and women and with dead babies dangling
from the yardarms. Upon their return
there was always feast, in which every
one Joined.
You can still see the ovens in which the
cooking was done. They were filed with
red-hot stones, and 1t is related by the
missionaries that victims were often thrust
In alive. At one time fifty bodies were
cooked. and at another eighty women were
were not enough enemies to supply the
kings table he ordered his men to ambush
the watering places ana to lay in a stock
of fishermen or stray women who had gone
down to battle.
King Thakombau killed his first victim
when he was six years old. and he was
famous as cannibal up until the time of
his conversion by the missionaries. He
then reformed, and later on maue the
treaty which gave these islands to Eng
land.
The Fijians in 1901.
These stories give you some idea Of the
Tijians Of the past. The Fiiians Of today
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half dozen denominations, among which
the Methodists. the Presbyterians, the
EpiscOpalians and the Catholics are the
leading ones.
The Fijians have good schools. They
were first established by the missionaries
and afterward taken up by the govern
ment. There now thirtyfour thousand
scholars in the public schools. There is
night school at the town of Ievuka and
another at Suva. There is an industrial
school near the latter place where carpen-
tering. boat building and iron working are
taught. There are seventy students in
the school. who have been entered for
terms of five years. There is also a medi-
cal school. and altogether the people are
well equipped to educational matters.
1t seems strange to think of newspapers
being published in such an out-of-the-way
part of the world. There are, however,
four different journals set up and printed
in the islands. The Fiji Times is issued
twice a week, and it costs twelve cents a
number. The Royal Gazette appears five
times month at twenty-five cents a copy,
while the Ma Mata, a Fiiian newspaper, is
published by the government at seventy
five cents d year, or six cents copy. In
addition to these there is the Fiji ColOnist
published in Levuka al five dollars per
year.
But before I go further let me give you
some idea to the extent of the islands
You know that they lie south of the equa
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suffered terribly with rheumatism,
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two ago | was reading one OF vour
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All correspondence held as strictly
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Address DIR. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo,
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This offer of free consultation bv
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FOR MAN OR WOMAN,
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string of beads and fan. The men wear
little more
The Fijians are a good -natured people.
They are cleanly and spend more than half
their time in the water. After every bath
they rub themselves down with cocoanut
oil, the rancid smell of which enbles you to
tell them if the wind is blowing right be-
fore you can them.
Fiji Houses and Towns.
There are number of Fiji villages scat
tered over the islands. and there many
natives who live in and about Suva and
Levuka, the principal places where the for
eigners are located.
The Fiji villages are made almost en-
tirely of matched huts, the walls made of
woven bamboo. The roofs are very thick
and the thatch is so beautifully put on that
it seems to be woven. No nails are used in
building, the walls being tied together
with strings. Some of the houses are con-
ical in shape, others oblong and others
oval. The usual hut has but one ROOM in
which the whole family stays in the day
time, when it rains, and where all sleep at
night. The usual bed is mat on the floor
and the pillow a bamboo log, which is
sleeper's head dress well up from the
ground. There is but little cooking and
fruit forms large part of the diet of the
people.
In the mountains there are savage Fiiians
who keep themselves apart from the civil
lied natives. Here the men for full dress
wear u strip of bark about their waists
tied at the front in a bow, while the Voc
men have a fringe of grass about four
inches long.
There is q close connection between New
Zealand and the Fijis. You can get boats
here every few weeks for the two chief
ports, Suva and Levuka. and the excursion
there is one of the favorite ones of this
part of the world. 1t is looked upon here
much as a trip up the Great Lakes is
looked upon in the United States.
have met a number of men who have been
to the islands. and they tell me that they
are the paradise of the Pacific. They de-
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tinued taking the medicine and in a
short time was well, and ever after
ward loud i'll his praise OF DR..
flerce's Golden Medical Discovery
as he told of the wonderful cure il
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we'll
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CheerfuIueeA,

/ think too ready with complaint
In this fair world Of Gods. Had we no hone
Indeed, beyond the zenith and the slope
OF yon gray bank OF sky, we might be faint
To muse upon eternity's constraint
Round aspirant souls. But since the scopa
Must widen early, Is Ii well to druop
For a few days consumed in loss and taint?
q pusillanlmous heart, be comforted,
And like a cheerful traveller take the road
Singing beside the hedge. What IL the bread
BE bitter In thine inn, and thou unshod
To meet the fiiutsi At least IL may be said:
Because the way is short, thank Thee God 80
--EI4IZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
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1T gives ME much
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the merits OF DIR.
Pierce Golden Medical
Discovery" writes Miss
Annie Wells, OF Fergus
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are perhaps the most civilized of the col
ored people south of the equator. They
have been almost universally converted to
Christianity. They have churches every
where. They have almost thousand
places of worship; there are thirty thou
sand church members among the one hun
dred and twenty-one thousand of the popu-
lation. and there are thirty-three thousand
children in the Sunday schools. They have
their own native preachers and they pay
the salaries. giving about fifteen thousand
dollars q year to the church. There are
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An Expensive New Fad.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Hempstead-"Did you give up anything
during Lent?"
Meadowbrook-"Eight or nine hundred
dollars learning to play bridge whist!'
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a Way Out.
From Life.

The Poet-'1 am afraid I've unwittinely
changed my pegasus into mule, he is so
obstinate"
The Poets Wife-"Why don't you change
him into an ass, and write something for
the magazines?"
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Godstein, Jet Norris Adam
Kjelberg. X q Paderito pao1o
Law, William Mrs Stewart, Fannie g Mrs
Iuckey, w y Vincent. Adele Nine
Mattu, Rod Won Dorpowska Ida Mss
STATION a.
Atwood, Hattie l. Miss King. Harry Mrs
STATION "B" =
Adams, Bessie Miss Gilbert George
STATION &c"
Chase. Chas p Powell NJ f3l
MarFinan. NJ + Mrs RawlIDs Fred Y %~
Norton, II A Mrs
STATION III"
Alexander. Louise Mrs johnson. CO
0ood Hopel Anacosta- Hillsdale)
Davis. EmeliUe Mrs Spriggs las
fAnacostiab U-niontounl
Johnson. Lucy Miss
tAnacostial
BRo0kLAND STATION,
Waddy. Henry
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Her Secret.
From Life.

Reverend DR. Gollie-"But how do You
manage to interest so many in your chari-
table work.
Mrs. Lureing-"Well. doctor. I find that
a card with Dancing" on the lower corr
ner seems almost as attractive as the prom,
Use of future bliss"
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ADVERTISED LETTERS,

The following is a list of advertised letters re-
manning in the Washington %. c. Post office Sat
urday. April 20, 1901.
10 obtain any of these letters the applicant
II not called for within two - weeks they win
be sent TO the Dead Letter Office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
sale of Real Estate.

BY virtue of an order and decree of the
county court of Rock Island county, Illinois,
made on the petition of the undersigned
administratriX of the estate of Charles A.
Rose, deceased, for leave TO sell the real
estate of said deceased at the December
term, A. D.. 1900, OF said court, to-wit on the
22d day of December, 1900 1 shall on the I'D
day of January next, between the hours of
and o clock in the afternoon of said day, sell
q public sale, at the east door of the court
house In the city of Rock Island, In said coun-
ty. the real estate described as follows, to-
wit. All the right, title and interest," of said
Charles A. Rose deceased. at the time of his
death 10 aud to the undivided one-third % of
lots one ~. two (2) and three 90 In block %
of Spencer and Cases addition to the town OF
Stephenson, now city of Rock Island more
particularly described as follows: Beginning
at the northwest corner of lot one ID In block
one ~ aforesaid thence east along the south
one hundred hfty-eight and one-half C5s1D
feet; thence south parallel with the west line
of said lot one % one hundred fifty (l5O) feet,
more or less, to the north line of t1e alley run
ming east and west through said block one ~;
thence west along the north line of said alley
one hundred fifty-eiRht and one-haf (l5S1S)
feet to the east line OF East Seventeenth
ing also the west line of saidlot one ~; thence
north along said last mentioned line one hun
dred fifty feet ESQ feet, more or less, to the
place of beginning. together with the dover
interest of the petitioner, Ella NJ. Rose IN said
real estate, situated in the county of Rock
Island and state of Illinois, on the following
terms, to- wit; cash In hand on day of SALE
Dated this ed day of December, AID. 1900
ELLA N. ROSE,
Administratrix of the estate of Charles "A.
Rose, deceased.
JACKSON HURST, attorneys
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
LOsLM LorTINGs.

Joslin, Jan. Crank Wake shipped
a car load of hogs from Joslin last
Thursday.
Mrs. W. E. Donahey visited Wednes-
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Mccall, in Coe.
Mrs. C. H. Osborne spent Wednes-
day in Port Byron visiting with Mr..
and Mrs. John Osborne.
John Noah is moving this week tt
his new home he boug light near. Port
Byron.
George Brandt and family. of Port
Byron, Sundayed with Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Wainwright.
John Buckley, who was severely
hart in a runaway, is now able to be
around again.
Mrs. John Brown and children, who
have been visiting for some time with
her parents in Missouri, are expected
home this week.
The newly elected officers of Smilax
camp will be installed at the regular
meeting the coming Friday afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
Masters Sale.
CT: $780,

Henry Curtis, Attorney.
State of Illinois, &c
Rock Island county. %
In the Circuit Court in Chancery. Partition
General No. 1880.
Rock Island Pillow Company VS. Ada Smith
Arthur Smith, Myrtle Hensler Hazel Bensler
Thos Moore, George Moore, Moore
wife OF said George Moore, and the unknown
owners OF the undivided one tenth part uoi
OF Seven ca in Block Four 90 in that part.oi
the City of Rock Island, In the County of Rock
Island and State of Illinois, nown as and de
scribed as the Chicago or Lower Addition To
said City of Rock Island.
Notice Is hereby given that by virtue of a
decree of said Court, entered in the above en-
titled cause, on the Thirteenth day of De-
cember, A. d. 1900 shall, on Saturday, the
at the hour of two o'clock In the after
noon, at the East door of the Court
House, in the City OF Rock Island, In
said county of Rock Island, as directed by said
decree, sell at public vendue to the highest and
best bidder for cash in hand, that certain parcel
of land. situate in the County of Rock Island
and State of Illinois, known and described as
follows. tO-wit:
of the City OF Rock Island, in the County of
Rock Island and State of Illinois, known as
aud described as the Chicago or Lower Addi-
ton to the City of Rock Island.
Dated at Rock Island, Illinois. this Twenty
sixth day OF December, A. D.. 1900.
ELwIN L. PARMENTER.
Master in Chancery, Rock Island County, Ill.
HENRY CURTIS. Compliments solicitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09

A BILL is pending in congress pro-
viding for the acquisition of the his
toric camp of Valley Forge, occupied
by General George Washington and
the continental army at the crisis OF
the revolutionary war, and its use as
military park under the control of
the war department. The headquar-
tiers of Wa shington has been acquired
and is being cared for by patriotic
body formed at the centennial of VAL
ley Forge, but the really historic part
of the field on which bivouacked the
officers and soldiers is now in the
hands of private owners. A small
part of the ground now belongs to the
state of Pennsylvania. 1t is believed
that congress will authorize an APP
preparation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09

Public opinion. says the Chicago
journal (rep.) has been so sharply
expressed against the proposal to give
50, 200, 900 year OF the, peoples
money for 20 years to few rich cor
porations, that senators and congress
men who know on which side their
bread is battered, would no more vote
for the subsidy bill than they would
vote for bill to create William Nc
Kinley emperor.
Senator Hanna is new man in the
senate and does not understand this.
He thinks he can induce his confreres
by one argument or another. to disre-
gard public sentiment and keep their
promises to him. But he may posi-
bly, find there is no argument, how
ever alluring. that has any weight
with the average legislator when OPP
posed to the argument of personal
safety in the seat the legislator occu-
pies. Undoubtedly Senator Hanna
had more than enough pledges to
pass the bill triumphantly. He is apt
| to see, to his amazement and chagrin,
| that not one of them will be redeemed.
The promised senator's and represen-
| tatives may nave no objection to the
subsidy; they may be eager to keep
their word; but dare they breast the
| angry storm of public indignation
the subsidy bill has stirred?
Perhaps the next congress win think
itself safe in reviving the measure af
ter the storm has blown over, an6
perhaps, if public attention is at that
time sufficiently absorbed in some
thing else, it may smuggle the bill
through. But, SO far as this congress
is concerned, the subsidy idea is tC
all present appearances dead.
1t is great surprise and great
disappointment to Senator Hams
disappointment; surprise, for it ii
his first experience with defeat, TIT
first indication that he is not all
powerful. But it is neither surpris
ing nor disappointing to anybody els
in the United States outside of thu
subsidy ring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
ACCORDING to the census

ACCORDING to the census bureau
bulletin heretofore mentioned in the
Associated Press dispatches, the exact
center of population is in the follow
ing position: Latitude, SO degrees,
hours and So minutes; longitude, So
degrees, 48 hours and 81 minutes.
In 10 years the center of population
has moved westward 16 hours, l min
ute, about IA miles, and southwest 2
hours, 20 minutes, or about three
miles, 1t now rests in southern In
diana, at point about seven miles
southeast of the city of Columbus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
V. MOUNT. of Indiana,

Gov. MOUNT, of Indiana, has re-
ceiyed the deed to the tract of land
surrounding the grave of the mother
of President Lincoln, in Spencer coun-
ty, near lincoln City. The deed con-
veys the land from the county COM
mfssioners of Spencer county to the
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial asso-
citation. A custodian for the land,
which Will be transformed into a park.
will be appointed. and arrangements
made to beautify it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
GET STRONG
Vinol Makes Weak
People Strong.
WE GUARANTEE 1T WILL
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WE KNOW OF NC TONIC Or RE-
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-01-09
Pension.

A Mexican war veteran and prom
inent editor writes: "Seeing the adj
yertisement of Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, 1 am
reminded that as soldier in Mexico
in 1S47 and 1913, contracted Next
can diarrhoea and this remedy has
kept me from getting an increase in
my pension for on every renewal a
dose of it restored me-" 1t is I'M
equaled as quick cure for diarrhoea
and is pleasant and safe to take. For
sail, by all druggists.