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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
DOWN IN A
SALT MINE

1t is only the elect among travellers
who find their way to Berchtesgaden.
In Bavaria, not very far from Salz-
burg, writes n correspondent of the
London Taller. If you drive in q car
rage from thence by road, you are
stopped midway at n customs house
and find yourself leaving Austrian ter
ritory for Bavarian. Berchtesgaden is
beautifully situated, and it has two
noteworthy attractions, one of them
the Konigsee, thought by many the
most beautiful lake in the world. and
the other the salt mines. \ visit to the
salt mines gives one an exciting hour.
Many tourists take tickets at the top.
but many of the fair sex are deferred
from using them when they see the
costume that is rendered essential to
the visit In other words, they have to
abandon skirts and adopt Il special
''rig out" One may frequently observe
that ladies, torn between what they
consider modesty and curiosity, go two
or three times to the mines before they
screw up their courage sufficiently to
don the attire and pay the visit.
The necessity for women to abandon
the usual garment arises from the fact
that a portion of the mine can only be
visited through the medium of n kind
of slide. This slide is, however, the
best thing in the whole visit. 1t is
great deal better than tobogganing.
and, as one is in the dark and with
only a candle fastened TO ones dress,
it is not little exciting.
The strangest incident in the trip is
that of the illumination of what is
called 'the salt lake" You are rowed
across this lake in almost absolute
darkness, the illumination being pro-
vided by a number of miners lamps
round the lake, and the Journey has a
very considerable weirdness. The next
best experience In the trip is the final
ride into daylight on the trucks. This
is q journey through absolute darkness
for a very considerable way until final
ly one sees a little CLEAN of light in
the distance. Altogether, as 1 have
said, between the toboggan slide, the
car ride and the boat journey across
the salt lake the visitor to the Berch-
tesgaden salt mine has plenty for his
money. But, curiously enough, he sees
very little salt. At any rate, the pre-
pared salt that one uses on ones break
fast table is not at all in evidence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
SOME WRITER'S.


Bret Harte was a good deal of a re-
cluse, in that respect resembling Haw-
thorne more than any other man Of
letters.
Baxter, it is said. kept the manu-
script of the Saints Everlasting Rest
in his hands for thirteen years, revis-
ing and condensing.
Cooper is said to have written 1.-THE
Spy" in less than six months. Most of
his stories were founded on legends
we'll known in his neighborhood.
Longfellow turned out about one
volume of poems Il year for many
years. Nearly four years were required
for his translation of Dante"
The first volume of poems by Alfred
Tennyson came out when he was TWEEN
ty-four. He was forty-one when 'In
MemoTiam" came from the press.
Thomas Moore often wrote a short
poem almost impromptu. He consumed
over two years in reading and prepar-
ing material for Italia Rookh" and
two years more in writing that mimi
table poem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
FREAK ADORNMENTS.
Strange Household Ornaments That
May BE Seen In England.

| Strange Household Ornaments That
May BE Seen In England.
Many are the strange household and
garden adornments scattered up and
down the English countryside. In a
Sussex village is part OF 4 garden pal
ing made wholly out of the swords of
swordfishes. The lady who owns the
garden got the strange paling from her
brother, who had originally sported it
IN the tropics.
Near Leeds is n summer house made
wholly of buttons of every imaginable
kind, and in the same county is
room the walls of which are adorned
entirely by the ribbons of cigars, near
ly 10000 OF these being represented
From garnet to basement in the large
house of a Leeds mineral water manu-
facturer is a gigantic scrapbook, ev-
cry notable theatrical poster of the last
twenty years being pasted ON the
walls.
\ north country banker living near
Wakefield has 4 great dining room the
whole of the walls of which are the
wooden and iron doors of eminent cas-
ties and historic buildings, and at Lis
card, in Cheshire, is a room that con-
tainS hundreds of picture frames made
of every imaginable substance, from
leather to tigers bones, one frame be-
ing placed within another according to
size SO that the whole surface is COW
cred with frames
In Liverpool is n room-that of
dentist whose grandfather occupied
the same premises-that contains many
mirrors and pictures the frames of
which are made entirely of sharks
teeth. Near Birmingham manufac-
turer has a study that is lined, even to
the roof, with nothing but chains of
various thicknesses and padlocks of
different sizes.-Pearson's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
The snendthrift.

Once upon a time there was spend
thrift who made his father very I'M
happy through his prohigate habits.
MY son. said the parent, you
spend every penny that you get, and
it must cease. Remember that the
pennies make shillings and the shil-
lings make pounds. If you do not
change your habits of always spend
ing to habits of judicious saving, will
not spare the rod"
The admonition had no good effect on
the youth, and he continued to spend
the pennies before they could accu-
mulate into shillings.
His father spoke no more about the
matter, but he applied the rod most
vigorously to him until he howled with
pain.
MoraL-He who spends the pennies
viii get the pounds.-New York Her
aid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A Starving millionaire.

One of the richest men in the world.
Worth almost billion dollars, is
starving to death, because his stom-
ach has become weakened through
worry and anxiety in looking after
his immense fortune. His digestion
is destroyed and the stomach cannot
therefore assimilate nourishment.
What avail is wealth when your
health is gone. If your stomach is in
a similar condition, no matter from
what cause, commence taking Hos
letters Stomach Bitters at once. 1t
is natures own remedy for the stom-
ach and will restore the appetite, per-
feet the digestion and cure beIehing,
fiatulency, dyspepsia. constipation,
biliousness and liver and kidney trou-
bles. The genuine is for sale by all
druggists and has our private stamp
over the neck of the bottle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A PunctuaI Bird.

What tempts the little humming
bird that we see in our gardens TO
travel every spring from near the
equator to as far north as the arctic
circle, leaving behind him, as he does,
for season, many tropical delights?
He is the only one of many humming
birds that pluckily leaves the land of
gayly colored birds to go into volun-
tary exile in the north, east of the Mis-
sissippi. How it stirs the imagination
to picture the solitary. tiny migrant, a
mere atom of bird life, moving above
the range of human sight through the
vast dome of the sky! Borne swiftly
onward by rapidly vibrating little
wings, he covers the thousands of
miles between his winter home and his
summer one by easy stages and ar
rives at his chosen destination, wealth
er permitting, at approximately the
same date year after year.-Country
Life In America.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
THE wooDCocK.
where Does 1t Hide During the Molt-
ing SEASON.

where Does IL Hue During the mOit-
ing SeasOns
1t is during the months of August
and September that the mystery of
the woodcocks life begins. This is
the melting season, when the bird
changes its plumage before beginning
its journey southwark. At this time it
leaves the swampS. Where does it
go? That is a question which has new
er yet received a satisfactory answer,
although each sportsman and natural
list has his own opinion, and many fine
spun theories have been advanced.
Some say that the birds move toward
the north, some that they seek the
mountain tops. coming into the swamps
to feed only after nightfalI; some that
they seek the cornfields, and there
have been many other such theories.
Probably the truth lies in a mean of
all these statements. 1 think it prob
able that the birds know the loss of
their feathers renders them to n GER
tain extent helpless and more exposed
to the attacks of their natural enemies,
and they therefore leave the more open
swamps and hide in the densest and
most tangled thickets. 1t is certain
that they scatter. for at this season
single birds are found in the most I'M
usual and unexpected places.
Years ago when shooting in Dutch
ess county, y. Y, L knew one or two
swamps, which we called melting
swamps, where in August we were
sure to find limited number of birds.
These swamps were overgrown with
rank marsh grass and were full of
patches of wild rose and sweetbrier.
If we killed the birds which we found
there, we were sure in a week or ten
days to find their places filed by about
the same Misunderstanding.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
KINGS AND QUEENS.

The king of England who could not
speak the language of his kingdom was
GeorgeI.
In the battle of Bosworth Field, 1885.
king was killed Orchard III) and
king was crowned (Henry Wiz.
The motto, "Dieu ct Mon Droit," was
first assumed by Edward III. of Eng
land when he took the title of king of
France.
"Your majesty as a royal title was
assumed in England in 1927 by Henry
VIII. The title before that was "your
grace or 'your highness" for the king
CT queen.
William ". was at the time when he
succeeded to the throne the first Will
liam of Hanover, the second William
of Ireland and the third William of
Scotland.
Henry VIII. was the first to assume
the title of king of Ireland. The title
king of Great Britain was assumed by
James VI. of Scotland when he became
James 1. of England.
Richard I. was the first to call him
self king of England. Every king from
king of the English. The title was as
England, in S2S.
King of France was a title borne by
the monarchs of England for 432 years,
and when Elizabeth became queen of
England she was also king of France"
asserting that if she could not be a
queen she would be king.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
TRICKS FOR HORSES:
ANIMALS EASILY TAUGHT

These sea flowers are really not now
ers at all They are living creatures,
known as sea anemones
For many years scientist has
tended and fed them, and the little
animated flowers actually have come
to know him. When he feeds them, he
puts little bit of fish on the end of
long pointed stick and puts it care
fully down into the water until it is
near the anemone. 1t did not take long
for the beautiful things to understand
it, and, whereas at first they used to
withdraw their petals and shut up
tightly when the stick approached,
now they Irvine gracefully and stretch
their dainty arms out as far as they
can go in order to reach it.-LOndOn
Answers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

/ to be found under that age. All had
been put to death.
The English government has very
naturally passed severe laws against
this abominable crime, but to evade
them the Hindoos allow their girls to
live until the age sof twelve, after
which they do away with them by adj
inquiries it transpires that in many
districts twenty-five out of every hun
dred girls have been. got rid of in this
manner Those girls who have been
spared they marry very early, gener-
ally between fourteen and fifteen
years, and that not according to their
own choice. but by the will of their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
ORIGIN OF the Jinri1xi.hn r

Most travellers ia Japan would sup
pose that so general1a japanese ,insti-
tuition as the jinrikisha was Of native
origin, but not so. An old resident of
Yokohama writes to the Kobe Chroni-
Gle: "For several years after the insti-
tuition of the jinrikisha it was general
ly understood among foreigners in Yo-
kohama that Mr.. GOble, half cobbler,
half missionary was it's inventor Mr..
GobIe, though a rough looking sort of
man, was regarded by the foreign resi-
dents of the port as an honest, con-
sistent missionary. believe it was he
who built the first missionary chapel
in Yokohama, and as long as it lasted
it was known as Coolies church, He
was in the habit of taking long ram
bles in the country and doing little
peddIing business, and, if my memory
serves me rightly, he gave commits
sion to blacksmith either in Kawasa-
Xxi ION the TOkaido, between Yokohama
and Tokyo or in Fujisawa to construct
the first jinrikisha. The vehicle took
at once with the japanese, but not so
among the foreigners, with whom it
was some time before it became a pop
uIar means of locomotion. Mr.. Goble
was an American citizen"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
MILITARY DISPLAY.
An Amusing Bit of Routine In a New
York Hotel.

An Amusing Bit of Routine In a New
York Hotel.
There Is no better place to mark the
increasing love of military display and
maneuvers than the lobby of n large
hotel. The coIored help in particular
are great soldiers. In one of the Broad
way hotels uptown the colOred hall
men are changed at noon. Things were
quiet in the lobby at that hotel today,
for the clerks and bookkeepers were
deep in their books. and the loungers
were all sitting peacefully on the So
fas when the steady tramp, tramp of
what sounded like n regiment of infan-
try broke the stiffness.
The regiment consisted of six col
ored ha1lmen IN blue and brass, with
an especially resplendent mulatto in n
more gorgeous uniform walking at the
head of the procession. says the New
York correspondent of the Pittsburg
Gazette. He lined his six men in front
of a bench before the desk. looked
them over sharply to see that they
were "eyes front" and Kissed "Atten-
tion?' Then as he clapped his hands
once the six men hinged their legs ST.
multaneously and dropped into their
seats like row of wooden soldiers.
The mulatto wiped his brow with q
highly perfumed handkerchief, glanced
at the head clerk for approval and as
the first man responded with jerk to
the cry OF 'FRONT.' went to the main
doorway to look at the sunlight of
Broadway with the air of a successful
major general. The whole perform
ance was excruciatingly funny, but l
am sure that mulatto would have COM
mitted assault and battery on any one
who dared to laugh.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
TaIxing Him at His WORD.

Joseph Jefferson in his biography
relates what was probably the last jest
of Artemus Ward. When the famous
wit lay dying in Southampton, he was
attended by his devoted friend Tom
Robertson, the author of Caste" who
was also a friend Of Jefferson.
'tJust before Wards DEATH" writes
Mr.. Jefferson, Robertson poured out
some medicine in glass and offered
it to his friend.
Ward said:
"NIy dear Tom, I can't take that
dreadful stuff
"'Come, come said Robertson, urg-
ing him to swallow the nauseous drug.
There's a good fellow. Do, now, for
my sake. You know would do any
thing for you
"a.s-Would you p said Ward, feebly
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A story of Ceramics.

Cervantes once gave proof that his
generosity was fully equal to his gen
ius. In the early part of his life he was
for some time a slave in Algiers, and
there he devised a plan to free himself
and thirteen of his fellow sufferers.
One of them traitorously revealed the
design, and they were all brought be-
fore the dey of Algiers, who promised
them their lives on condition that they
revealed the contriver of the plot.
81 was that person." at once cried
Cervantes. "Saye my companions and
let me perish alone"
The dey, struck by his intrepidity,
spared his life, allowed him to be ran
somed and permitted him to go home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

A Capucsin monk engaged in MIS-
sionary work in Nepaul, writing of
Hindoo family life, remarks that it is
very difficult for parents to make adj
yantageous matches for their daugh-
tiers. The Hindoos therefore find n
means of Kidding themselves of too
many daughters by numbering them.
1t is well known fact that Hindoos
of high birth, those who are called
rajpoots, caused their daughters to be
put to death after their birth by men
specially engaged to do so. This Grim
inal custom had become so general
that in 1910 in the seventy-three vii
lagos of the Allahabad district there
We're only three girls under twelve
years of age, and three years later in
the town of AGRA there was not one
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
1nstinct OF Horses 1n war.

Arabian horses manifest remarkable
courage in battle. 1t is said that when
n horse of this breed finds himself
wounded and perceives that he will
not be able to bear his rider much
longer he quickly retires from the con-
f1ict, bearing his master to a place of
safety while he has still sufficient
strength. But, on the other hand, if
the rider is wounded and falls to the
ground the faithful animal remains
beside him, unmindful of danger,
neighing until assistance is brought.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
DON'T GET TOO FULL.
A Lesson That May he Learned From
the Habits of the Bees.

A Lesson That May he Learned From
the Habits OF the Bees.
"Don't stir up beehive unless you
know it is a rich one" said an apiarist
to visitor at his bee farm.
81 think that 1 would leave them
alone altogether" was the reply. "'They
have too angry a buzz about them to
win my confidence"
You are not used to them, that's
ALL said the beeman. For example,
these hives are full of honey, and if 1
puff a little smoke into the doors so as
to sort of suffocate the sentries can
topple a hive over, handle the bees
like so many beans, clean the honey
combs and carry them off. The bees
won't harm me" And, to prove his
words, the speaker performed his ex-
pertinent and came back to his friend
with smile and several heavy combs
of honey.
eff those hives had been nearly
empty" said the apiarist, 81 would
have been lucky to have escaped with
my life. The tenants of a poor hive
sting to kill"
'That's strange" said the visitor.
81 should think that they would de-
fend their boards with especial jeal-
ousy, and the more they have the hot
ter they would fight"
"The reason is" said the beeman,
''that when alarmed the bees fly to
their storehouse and gorge themselves.
When full of honey, bee can't bend
its body and sting"
(Which should be n lesson to u.s."
said the other Don't get too full. -
New York Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

parents. which is decisive.
An Indian family of good rank
could not keep an unmarried daugh-
ter. 1t would not only be a public
shame, but also a crime against reli-
gion. To procure husbands for those
who have not already found them
there are a number of Brahpans, old
and decrepit, called Kulin Brahmans,
who go about with the one object of
going through the ceremony of the
''seven steps" with as many young
girls as they can upon receipt of a
large sum of money. but who after
ward leave the country and perhaps
never see them again.-Pan Mall Ga
zette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
SEA FLOWERS AS PETS.
The Queer Little Creatures known
AnemOnes.

AnemOnes.
The queerest pets in the world are
kept in a beautiful row of clear, fash
ing, round glass tanks on an upper
floor of a large aquarium. AS you ap-
proach the tanks you behold glowing
little groups of color and artistic blend
ing and mingling of fantastic weeds
and shining stones. Then when you
peer into the tanks you see what at
first seem to you just like particularly
handsome and gorgeous flowers grow
ing all over the little rockeries. Some
of the flowers look like dainty pink
and white and yellow and purple and
crimson daIlias Others look almost
like daisies, with lacelike petals.
Others look like little star flowers, all
pure white and perfect These flowers
are of all sizes, from tiny ones barely
large enough to see to great ones al
most large enough to fill a saucer.
But if you will watch these flow
ers" for a few minutes you viii jump
suddenly, for all at once you will see
one move its petals. Then you will
see another and another do it. Slowly
the petals unfold or contract, with
little jerking movements, sometimes
twining in the water like snakes.
Tap smartly on the table on which
the tanks stand, and like lightning all
the petals viii have disappeared
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

gives an opinion MI ne mas waited ana
weighed a case and looked at it from
every side"
"Um-m?' said the skeptical friend.
That's all right if you don't carry it
too far. There have been times, you
know, when he's been so cautious that
his diagnosis has come near getting
mixed up with the postportem." =
Youths Companion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A KISS BEFORE A
WEDDING ENGAGEMENT

left the drawing room. I strolIed OUT
on to the piazza and found her looking
out upon the ocean. L approached her.
put my arm about her. kissed her. and
the next stage in our relationship was
betrothal.
When my wife attempts to fling in
my face n catalogue of the superior
virtues of woman, fire a round shot
at her in this little episode.
f A Mitchell. J
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Plenty of Color.

'That Mrs. Wadhams to whom you
introduced me the other evening re-
minds me very much of a portrait by
Rembrandt"
'Ts that so? Which onef"
ooh, any old one. They all look,
when you get close to them, as if the
paint had been thrown on by the
handful."-Chicago Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A warming From the Child.

A three-year-old little girl was taught
to close her evening prayer during the
temporary absence of her father with
1and please watch over my papa 1t
sounded very sweet, but the mothers
amusement may be imagined when she
added, 'And you better keep an eye on
mamma too.''-Exchange.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
CIings to HI. Misery.

"Ah," he sighed, 81 was happier
when was poor"
'Well," they answered coldly, cit is
always possible for a man to become
poor again."
But somehow the idea did not seem
to Empress him Chicago
Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

stretching out his hand to grasp hrs
friends, perhaps for the last time.
"T would indeed said Robertson.
"SThen you take it, said Ward.
'sThe humorist passed away a few
hours later"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A Serene Temperament.

Mike said Flooding Pete. don't
you wish you was rich!"
"Kind o." answered Meandering
Mike. Course 1 couldn't eat any,
more dan 1 does, but I'd be saved de
trouble o. sayin' much obliged SO Of
ten.'-Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
The Viewpoint.

THAT man is extremely suspicious,
as he thinks every one he sees is a
shady character, and naturally too"
Its his nature, 1 suppose"
mot at all. He wears smoked spec
tacles."-Baltimore Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Used for Pneumonia.

DIR. j. c. Bishop, of Agnew, Mich,
says: Il have used Foley's Honey
and Tar in three very severe cases of
pneumonia with good results in every
case" Refuse substitutes. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
One Rric,s short.

Richard NJ. Hunt, the architect, used
to relate that in his younger days,
while supervising the erection of a
brick building. Il recent arrival from
Cork applied for a job and was en-
ployed as a hodcarrier after being in
structed that he must always carry up
fourteen bricks in his hod. One MORN
ing the supply of bricks ran out. and,
do his best, the new man could find
but thirteen to put in his bod. In an
swer to loud yell from the street one
of the masons ON the sixth story
shrieked down:
what do you want"
''T'row me down swan brick" said
Pat, pointing to his bod, ''to make me
number goodY'-New York Times.
Too Cautious.
81 have the greatest confidence in
DR.. Slocum as a physician" said one
of the doctors patients. "He never
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27

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