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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
SOCIAL DOINGS.

The United Presbyterian church
holds its annual Sunday school picnic
tomorrow at Prospect park.
\ reception is to be given by the
Ladies' Aid society of the broadway
PRESBYTERIAN church tomorrow af-
tcrnoun from To o'clock at the
home of Mrs. 5. c. Taylor, 9Os TWEEN
tieth street.
The Tuscop club gives dancing
party at the Watch Tower this even
ing.
Louis Hotter entertained com
pany of IS friends at his home, 1901
Sixth avenue, last evening in honor
of his 18th birthday anniversary.
Games were played, refreshments
served, and an enjoyable time had
by all present.
\ social hour was enjoyed at the
conclusion of the last rehearsal I'M
til after the summer vacation held
last evening by the Rock Island
Choral society at the Broadway
Presbyterian church. Refreshments
were served.
y merry crowd of young folks arc
in attendance at the Trinity Sunday
school and parish picnic that is be-
ing held at the Watch Tower TO-DAY.
The young people took their baskets
ana went 10 the Tower for days
outing early this morning.
Arthur Wilcox entertained Il num-
her of his friends yesterday in honor
of his sixth birthday at his home on
Nineteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
saved From an Awfnl Fate.

Everybody said / had consump-
ton" writes Mrs. A. NJ. Shields, of
Pa, Il was so low af-
ter six months of severe sickness,
caused by hay fever and asthma, that
few thought L could get well, but /
learned of the marvellous merit of DIR.
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, used it, and was completely
cured For desperate throat and
lung diseases it is the safest cure in
the world, and is infallibTe for
coughs, colds. and bronchial affec-
tions. Guaranteed bottles soc and 81.
Trial bottles free at Hartz & Ulle-
meyer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
NATURE FOR BEAUTY:
CAN'T BUY THAT ARTICI E

The mysterious death of a young
woman who had tried a eauty-masl
treatment prompts us to- make few
pertinent remarks on the absorbing
subject of bcauty-cures.
We are not blue-ribbon beauty
ourself, but we are the proud posses
sor of a cornfed sort of wholesome
ness that is not at all unattractiye.
and we feel qualified to discuss in
telIigently and entertainingIy on the
subject that we have handed out to
ourself.
You can't get beauty at drug
stores.
Nature has monopoly on beauty
and you must do business with ma
turc.
When we were youth we had sew
eral warts on our left hand and five
on our ight Did we take the money
that we had received for the spotted
heifer and patronizc the village drug
gist? Not we.
We soaked our hands in milk-weed
juice. Then we did the HuclSleberry
Finn act in the cemetery on the
stroke of midnight with the black
cat, which had been wont 20 purr on
Jim Hookcr's doorstep.
Our hands today are wartless.
We had numerous freckIes. No
drug store powders for us. We rose
with the sun and bathed our intellec-
tual boyish countenancc in the morn
ing dew.
In three treatments we had separ-
ated II out of 100 freckles from our
countenance. We'd have landed them
all. but we shirkcd on the early
morning job.
We had a large and vari-colored
stone bruise on the side elevation of
our right toe, which would have pro-
hibited us from putting on French
heeled ballroom shoes had we been a
society belle. We hied ourself TO no
chiropodist. We buried our toe in
the cool, dark bosom of the muckiest
furrow of the celery field and let it
soak. The stonebruise departed
henceward.
Thus did we seek out nature in the
days of our youth. We still stand
pat for nature
There's more beauty cure on an In
diana farm than in all the drug stores
of Chicago.
When we were n dominant figure in
the journalistic life of Shelbyville a
society woman came into our parts.
For years she had been in the habit
of going to bed with hands swathed
in cold cream bandages, with feet
wrapped up in baby flannel, and wear
ing a blue cambria beauty mask. She
had kept three beauty-cure establish
ments in meal-ticl<ets.
Well, when she struck Shelbyville
she had a figure like a cornfield
scarecrow, complexion like brown
blotting paper. and a digestive APP
paratus that was past doctor, plumb
err, steamfitter.
She took board at IS per at Perkins
place. She knocked around the
fields for five weeks and got next to
natures heart.
When she left US she had COM
plexion like a red astrakhan apple, a
figure that had Venus well-nigb
backed into the pond again. and a
that would have made an
ostrich hide its head in a sandhill.
Health brings beauty-if you ever
had show for beauty.-Chicago
] Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
CFTYALONG RENTER
Police Department Occupant Of
Armory for Past %
Years.
BUILT BY THE RoDMAN RIFLES
At a Cost of $4,000 Proposed Plan
of RemOd-
cling.

ArmOry hall, ordered purchased
by the council Monday evening for
the sum of $4,000 for city hall, was
built in 1878 at cost of about $751;
OOO
The enterprise was undertaken by
the Rodman Rifles, now Company a,
sold to citizens in amounts ranging
from 500 up. The lot upon which
the building stands cost $500.
In time the bonds of the organiza-
ton deteriorated in value as il be
came apparent that the Indebtedness
would never be raised, and finally the
building passed into the hands of
L. l.. Mitchell.
Prior to that, however, there was a
long period during which the prop
erty was subject of litigation be
tween Mr.. Mitchell and CarSe d Oil
weller. the contestants having each
purchased heavily of the bonds.
y compromise was effected in 1857
by which Mr.. Mitchell secured CON
troll. From the time of its compile
ton the building has been occupied
in part by the city, the police de
partment having been quartered
there about % years.
Ideas of RemOdeIIng.
The plan generally favored contem-
plates remodeling of the hall prop
er to afford quarters for the patrol
and ambulance teams and the two
vehicles. and possibly for the equip
ment of the health department as
well. \ great many changes Will be
necessary before the offices can be
with any degree of con
and on the whole the gen
eral belief seems to prevail that at
the end of 10 years the erection of a
new building will have Proven the
cheaper, not to mention the matter
of sightliness and convenience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
rnnammatory rheumatism Cured in Three

Morton L. Hill, of Lebanon, Ind,
says: my wife bad inflammatory
rheumatism in every muscle and
joint; her suffering was terrible and
her body and face were swollen al
most beyond recognition; had been
in bed for six weeks and had eight
physicians, but received no benefit
until sho tried Mystic Cure for leu-
matism. II gave immediate relief
and she was able to walk about in
three days. / am sure it saved her
life" Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1901
Second avenue, Rock Island; Gust
Schlegel & Son, 90 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25

Rounds out the hollow places,
smooths out lines that creep about
ones face; woos roses back to faded
checks. That's what Rocky Noun
tain Tea does. 35c. T. II. Thomas
pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25

The floral parade, the feature of
the Davenport Elks' carnival. took
place this afternoon and proved one
of the grandest affairs ever witness
ed in the three cities. The crowd
was likewise one of the largest that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
River Bulletin.
River RIpIets.

Ihe Z. Rutledge, r. ID. Kendall and
Kit Carson were up this morning.
The Winona was down and up. The
stage of the water at a. m. was 5.75.
and so at noon. The temperature
at noon was "a.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25

The United Presbyterian church
holds its annual Sunday school picnic
tomorrow at Prospect park.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-06-25
Our plan is as folIows:--

Our plan follows
Briefly stated the contract of the Home Building
with its patrons follows: The applicant
for contract pays contract fee of So, whereupon
contract is given him, executed in duplicate By the
of this contract the holder to the
OF $40 before the 10Th of each month until his
contract natures, when the Home Building company
agrees to pay $50 month the home for the holder
for twenty consecutive months total of 81 900.
The holder takes Immediate possession of the home,
and begins to the of $40 month until he
has returned to the urity fund the fun amount the
pays no interest or any other sum whatever except
taxes and insurance
For full particulars call at Room Is Mitchell &
Lynde block
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
M<,ah1z9
PROTEST AGAINST COERCION.
Notable Meeting in the Interests q
Irish Liberty.

Boston, April 23.-Faneuil Hall. the
cradle of liberty" was crowded to the
doors last night at mass meeting to
protest against the renewal of coercion
in Ireland Many hundreds of people
We're unable to gain admittance at all,
while the ancient stairways We're JAM
med full of people who from that posi-
ton could hear little of the speeches
being made on the platform.
The meeting was notable for its nom
Irish character. On the platform there
was a gathering of distinguished men
that included as many men who were
not irish as of those who are. Among
those who spoke and expressed SYM
pathy with the meeting by their pres
ence were Thomas j. Gargan, former
Attorney General Albert e. Pillsbury,
Right Rev. Denis O'Callaghan, Rev. A.
J. feeling of Lynn, John O'Ca1laghan.
Hugh c. Toland, James Collier. Rev j.
Masterson Peabody, William j. O'Don-
nell, e. j. Gray, John j. Hardman, w.
F. Henderson. Charles Coleman, Thorn
as Sproules, DR.. o. NJ. Sheridan, M. J..
Jordan, w. c. LOTUS, Thomas Arthur,
Joseph Dennison, John p. Lane, John
b. Martin, and score of others.
Among those who wrote letters of
sympathy were William Lloyd Garri-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
"His Last Will and Tenement"
Atlanta Constitution

The old colored brother in order tc
be in style, made his will as follows:
"Dis is de las will en- tenement of he
understood. Bein' in SCUM min en- good
helt ever sence 1 got shed err rheuma-
tism year gone come mex Christmas
en- got my leg broke by tree wild a
'possum in 1t fallin' pom top me kaz
wuzn't quick enough in gitten out de
way, hereby give en- advise de follerin
possessions, no matter what l done in
de promises las year:
Ter my oldes wife, what wuz in Ala
bama de las time seen her. de Ia
cents what is under one err de legs er
de bureau ter buy snuff wild.
Ter my oldes' son two flop-eare
'possum dogs en- de lef' hind foot err a
graveyard rabbit.
"Ter de thirteen other sons en-
daughters l been a-feedin' SO long,
everything dey kin lay dey hans on.
fun de house cat ter de bin mule dat
broke two err my ribs las harves', en-
kicked de new preacher so high he
never come down ter say how high hit
wuZ.
" bleve dis is bout all: but eff dey
thinks gwine ter give up right off they
hez nightly mistook de man. Amt I
done put 'um on notice in de fust be-
ginnin' er dis will en- tenement dat 1 is
in good helt? 'Cose hez!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
A Versatile Negro.
[Chicago Tribune. /

"The most versatile man of my ac-
quaintance,' said politician yester-
day. was waiter in a restaurant
where I occasionally dined. He called
me DOCTOR for what reason never
knew. He was. very good waiter, and
when he suddenly disappeared | asked
one Of the other walters what had be-
come Of him. oh, he never sticks to
anything very long was the reply.
Several days after that l went into Il
barber shop to get shaved and walked
toward the only vacant chair. Good
morning, DOCTOR said familiar voice,
and there was my old friend the waiter.
He told me he had gone back to his old
trade. Well, he shaved me for about
three months, and one day a new bar
Der had his chair. About week later
I was riding out to West Philadelphia
on q Walnut street car, and when
handed the conductor my fare he re-
marked: How dye do, doctor" l look /.
ed UP, and there was the waiter-barber.
He said he liked a change Of scene
hence his present job. Yesterday went
into saloon to get drink. 'What'n
YOU have doctor?' asked the bartender.
There stood my erstwhile waiter, bar
Der and conductor smiling unconcern-
edly What are you going to try your
hand at next?' asked. Can't tell he
said. There's nothing like change Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24

fectly consistent all thru the present
unhappy controversy, while the latter
displayed the glazing inconsistency of
first voting for something they did not
want and then voting against the bill
which they themselves had amended
into such shape as they apparently
desired.
We cannot believe, continues the
writer referred to above that there Will
he persistence in such Inconsistency.
There is room, no doubt, for some SYM
pathy with the insurgents who have
rebelled against what seems to them
oppressive and arbitrary management OF
The house of representatives. There is
probably need of some radical revision
Of means anG manners in the house
There is need of Cancellation and OF
sweet reasonableness. But there as
suredly is no place for rule or ruin"
policy. Republican members of con-
s.ress surely do not wish to emulate the
engineer who. if not permitted to screw
down the safety valve, would deliber-
ately explode the boiler-certainly not
while they themselves are seated di
rectly over the boiler"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24

oring to make their way home, having
come to anchor off our bar. was caught
in terrific cyclone, the vessel lost and
nearly everybody on board drowned,
the shores of our harbor being strewed
with dead bodies of the last of the dis
astrous colony. 1t happened, however,
that the clergyman of the expedition
had come up to the town on some mis-
sion with the captain of the vessel, and
thus escaped the overwhelming disas-
ter. The Scotch minister, the Rev.
Archibald Stobo, thus stranded on our
coast, remained and became the found
er of the Presbyterian church in South
Carolina and the progentitor of one OF
the largest and most widely spread and
influential families in the state, his de-
scendants being found occupying high
positions from the seacoast to the
mountains, and many also in our sister
state of Georgia
Among the descendants of the Rev
Mr. Stobo, of the Georgia branch of the
family, is one who comes to us today,
not as a castaway. but as the president
of the United States. accepting the COR
dial invitation of our people to come
among us, not as stranger, but as one
himself entitled to a place as one of our
own community. Let us welcome him
as one of our own household, in whose
exalted position we may all feel hon
orad
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
a COUNSELOR OF CRIMINALS.

Not long since in a neighboring coun-
ty a wealthy man and his wife settled
their marital difficulties in court 1t
was notable case from the amount OF
money involved and the charges of SER
ious immortality advanced by the hus-
band. Witnesses were gathered from
far and near to affirm and deny the alle-
cations of infidelity, and among these
witnesses We're the inmates and propri-
etress of disreputable resort in Chi
cago. It was developed that a fine APP
pearing and capable young attorney
who sat in court was this womans
lawyer. and that counsel and defence
of the deini-nonde was his speciality
in practice. His income. apparently one
very satisfactory from a monetary
point of view, was derived from this
disreputable class from the members of
which he held retainers and to whom
he acted as guide, counselor and legal
friend. In plain fact, as a licensed
practitioner OF law he prostituted his
knowledge and talent to the preserva-
laws of the state which had given him
the right to practice.
This man is not alone in this field
of legal endeavor 1t is we'll known
among lawyers that much money is OBJ
tainable by acting as coach for GRIM
mails. In the large cities hold-up men,
thieves, pickpockets. all manner of
lawbreakers find counsel whose spe-
cialty in practise is their defence and
whose efforts are directed against the
workings of the law of which they
should be the logical supporters. In an
Iowa city recently an attorney was in
dicted for acting as a fence for his
client, shoplifter, and the stolen
goods We're found in his possession.
1t would seem to the laity that it is
time that the real lawyers, the reputa-
BILE practitioners to whom law is pro-
fession and not a graft, took steps to
protect themselves against these para
sites who discredit a noble profession.
There is no better reason for permit
ting shyster to practice than for IL
censing criminalsurgery. He is quite as
inimical to public good as the crimi-
nails who constitute his clientele. He is
cancer on the legal profession and
should be extirpated, not only for the
benefit of the profession but for the
good of the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
CRUELTY OR NECESSITY?

There seems rather too much fuss
making over the Filipinos VINO nave
been treated ALPHABETICALLY. 70 he
sure the water cure aided more in the
discovery of hidden guns and bolos and
the safety of American soldiers
than in the sanitation of the Filipinos
There is no record of death or particularly
serious injury resulting from the treat
ment while the death record from the
weapons alluded TO is plain and un-
questioned. The gun or bolo produced
by the gentle Filipino under the pres
ire of the water cure may have ana
doubtless has "annoyed" to death some
American mothers boy whose bones
are rotting uncovered under the Philip
pine sun. 1t is more than likely that
the bolo the mild hammered native
rushed forth TO secure and deliver while
the water cure wrought for repentance,
may have assisted in the murder OF
some lonely American picket whose
mangled remains were founo py lne
guard relief.
Much depends upon the point of view.
1t is easy to be hyper-humane at home.
Ease and safety conduce to super-sen-
sitiveness but the soldier who walks
his beat at midnight with the knowl-
edge that an instant of forgetfulness
means death, forgets the courtesies of
the parlor in the stern school of danger.
He learns the lessen of self protection.
He looks to results, and the result con-
sists in getting the Filipino's gun.
Possibly if the most insistent of those
whose aim in life seems to be the CEN
sure and criticism of the brave men
afield in the Philippines We're to stand
guard in jungle when every bush
might hide bolo or rifleman trans
formed from the gentle native who fed
ON government rations at an American
camp an hour before. they might see
less cruelty and more necessity in the
water cure. So much depends upon
the poirk OF view.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
Experiment in CO. Operation.
dubuque Times.l


Trenton, Mo-, town Of 10000 inhab-
itants in the heart of fine farming
country, is the scene of the latest So
cialistic experiment. Some time age
the United Brethren found their $4,000
college building at Trenton idle and
readily assented when Harry, Walter
and Roy Vrooman, of New York City
proposed to take the building and ess
tablish a ''Ruskin' college. 1t subse-
quently transpired that the brothers
were socialists and that the Ruskin
college was to be a center from which
to extend the cooperative principle to
the industry of the city. The first step
towards controlling the mercantile bus
mess of the city was taken when a
small grocery st re was established.
Then larger establishments were pur-
chased within month thereafter and
other lines of business were also abb
sorbed. The town has three daily
and the sco-ops" talk of
starting one in opposition. One on pay
ing $40 becomes a member of the Tren-
ton Cooperative Association with the
privilege of trading at any of the as
sociation's stores and with guarantee
of rebate of 10 per cent at the end of
the year. The associations entertain
ments are also free to members. The
Vroomans predict that in three years
Trenton will be socialistic settlement
and hundreds of families will move into
the place. They contend that those
who don't like the idea should move
out. However, the town people gener-
ally predict a short life for the asso-
citation. 1t embraces about 200 families
now and 500 more are expected from
England this year. The organization
seems more ambitious than the Con-
sumers' League of England, which is
content to divide its profits among it's
own members without everting itself to
drive competitors out of the field.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
The REAL PRoIEcIloNlsIs.

The claim of the beet sugar contin-
gent to constitute the old guard of the
protection principle and it's charges Of
epostacy against republicans who ia
vored the Cuban reciprocity
bill were effectually exploded by it's
vote and action last Friday. An eastern
writer points out that the beet sugar
men, despite all their professions of
loyalty to protection, voted for a great
er reduction of protection than the adj
yocates of reciprocity had proposed.
Ii spite of their solicitude lest the
Dingley tariff be thrown into the legis-
lative melting pot, they themselves did
all in their power thus to deal with It,
Seldom has anything in politics been
more completely demonstrated than /.
was demonstrated by the work of FRI
day that the true supporters and
friends of protection to American In
dustry are those who would keep the
safety valve of reciprocity in working
order. and not those who would def
antly screw it down until an explosion
occurs. The former have been per-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24

son. President Capen of Tufts College
eX- Governor George S. Boutwell, and
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Mr.. Garrison's letter was a character
istic one. He wrote:
1.-The event shows the description OF
the British ministry, which finds itself
constitutionally opposed and thwarted
by the determined and cohesive efforts
of the Irish representatives in parlia-
ment, under the wise policy and skill
full leadership of John Redmond and
his able assistants. Success to them
The presiding officer was Mayor Pat
rick A. Collins of Boston. His opening
address was denunciation of what he
called the tyranny now being inflicted
on his fellow countrymen, and time and
time again his eloquence moved the
vast audience to the widest enthusi-
assn.
Twenty years ago, in his capacity as
president of the Land League of Amer
lea, Mayor Collins participated in a
similar Indignation meeting at Faneu1i
Hail. called to protest the arrest and
Imprisonment in Kilmainham jail OF
Parnell, Davitt. Dillon, Redmond, Sex
ton, OBrien and others of the popular
leaders of the day.
Other speakers were Thomas j. Car
gan, Mgr, Denis O'Callaghan, Rev. A.
j. feeling, ex-Attorney General Albert
e. Pilsbury and John O'Callaghan 1t
was nearly midnight when the meeting
oil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-24
Two caIifornia Excursions.

On account of the convention Of the
Federation of Women's Clubs at Los
Angeles, Cal, on May to s. the Chi
csgo Great Western railway Official
route) will run two excursions, the first
leaving Minneapolis at 10 a. m. and ST.
Paul at 1890 a. m. on Thursday, April
a, and will be joined by the Iowa dele
cation at Des Moines the same evening.
arriving at Los Angeles via the Santa
re route at $50 a. m. on Wednesday,
April 80. Stop-overs may be arranged
for Las Vegas, Hot Springs. Santa Fe.
N. NJ, and at Williams, Ariz., to visit
the Grand canyon. The second excur-
sion will leave Minneapolis on Satur-
day April 26, at 10 a. m. and St Paul
at 10:3O a. m. and arrive at Des Moines
the same evening, following the same
route as the first excursion. Reserva-
ton for sleeping car accommodation
should be made at once. The fare Is
only S4s for the round trip. For infor-
nation and reservations apply to ]. A.
Ellis. ticket agent. Marshailtown. Iowa.