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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20
BULLET IN HEAD
Bert Walker Makes Sensational
Attempt at Suicide on
the Street.
OFFICERS APPROACH FRIGHTENs
Resembled Man Wanted at Sher-
rard-His Mother in
st. Louis.

y peculiar attempt at suicide. took
place on Twentieth street near the Q
depot about o'clock last evening,
the victim being Bert Walker, about
25 years of age, and for several
months past u porter at the ST.
James hotel in Davenport
Late yesterday afternoon the Rock
Island police received notice of II
theft of money ut Sherrard and u de-
scription of the man wanted was
furnished. At the time stated above
Officer Dennis Mccarthy was in the
waiting room at the Burlington depot
when he noticed = couple of Young
fellows passing the window on the
north side. One of them appeared
to answer the description of the par
~ the Sherrard authorities were af-
ter and the officer concluded to in
vestieate. He opene he door and
moved toward the young man, who
Immediately started to run.
The officer gave chase. As the flu
gitive crossed the north track going
toward the river the policeman no.
ticed some thing flashing in the light,
and concluding there was to be some
gun play he lodged behind the watch
mans shanty and prepared to hand
out the best he had in the shop.
While getting out his gun, however,
he heard shot and on peeping out
of his cover he saw his man PROSTATE
on the pavement.
Ball Enters Temple.
As il was about train time there
crowd "a hnrf ha
number saw the whole affair. The
bleeding and unconscious young
man was carried into the baggage
room, from where he was taken to
st. AnthOny's hospital in the ambu-
lance. There an examination by Il
number of physicians disclosed the
fact that the wound had been made
with n 22-calibre revolver, the ball
passing in at the right temple and
taking n backward and downward
course for Il distance of about three
inches. The ball could not be To-
Gated. The patient, after rational
period, relapsed into unconscious
ness from which it was thought he
would not recover. This morning his
condition remained unchanged.
~
Walker ON the way to the hospital
told all of his story that he appeared
to want to make public. He said his
home was in st. Louis and that he
has u mother and brother living at
221O Clark avenue, in that city. In
regard to the motive he had in shoot
ing himself he would only say that
he wanted to die. His companion at
the time the officer accosted him es-
capped and has not since been seen.
Inquiry at the St. James hotel elicit
ed the information that Walker had
always been sober and faithful in
his capacity as porter and no cause
for a desire to end his days is known.
This afternoon Walker had recov-
cred consciousness and his condition
was considered somewhat more hope
full. The surgeons have given up
hope of recovering the ball. fearing
that an attempt to do 50 would prob
ably result fatally.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20

Mothers can safely give Foley's
Honey and Tar to their children for
coughs and colds, for it contains no
opiates or other poisons. For sale
by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20

All the healing balsamic virtues of
the Norway pine are concentrated in
DIR. Woods Norway Pine Syrup. Ma
lures own remedy for coughs and
colds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20
licensed tn Wed.

John Hermann. $50. Rock Island
Miss Gusta Erickson. Rock Island
Claude De Mundrun. 1890. Darstow
Miss Selma Klebe Barstow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20
Both Pleasure and
Profit

Can be obtained by trading at Shields where
prices are low and quality is high. This
combination is much sought after by the
economical housewife. While lowness Of
price is of great Importance still in order to
give you full value for your money it must
Sbe coupled with highness of quality. Both
of these are to be found at Shields.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-20

DR.. c. T. Foster. of this city, was a
witness. He testified that Collins
could not be believed under
oath.
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COINS IN CORNERsTONEs.
Why People OF To-Day Observe Gus
tom of Placing Them There.


Boston Advertiser.
The custom of placing old coins and
other curios in the cornerstones OF pulld-
ings has its origin in the dim and misty
regions of the past and is really relic
handed down from remote antiquity.
the middle ages a human being was often
walled up alive in the formation OF a
castle to insure it's durability.
There is an old tradition, both or st. Pat
rick In Ireland and st. Colombia in Iona,
that when they attended to build chapels
for the worship of the Christian God their
work was impeded by an evil spirit, and 1t
was not until the human victim was sacri-
feed and buried under the foundation that
the building stood firm. According to an
other legend. st. Oran, faithful follower
of st. Colombia, consented to be buried alive
in order to propitiate certain demons OF the
soil who interfered with the attempts Of
St. Colombia to erect a chapel.
After three days, so IL Is related, CO.
lomba ordered the body of his friend to be
disinterred when Oran, to the consterna-
ton and dismay of the assistants, declared
that there was neither a God. Judgment
nor hereafter. There is probably some
is not likely that any Christian Patrick
or COLOMBIA countenanced such inhuman
practice. 1t is far more probable that the
immolation Of human victims was prac-
ticed among the Druids. for underneath
each OF the twelve pillars of one OF the
Druidical circular temples In Iona hu-
man body was discovered.
Closely allied with this custom Of the i'm
notation of human beings in the founda-
ton of buildings is the practice of bath
ing the PROV of vessels in wine at their
christening. Doubtless many people who
have watched with interest the so-called
christening of ship probably not
aware that this performance is only a
modified form of the prehistoric custom
of bathing war vessels at their launching
with the blood of human sacrifice. In
Polynesia the savage tribes still STAY some
unfortunate captive to consecrate the COM
plement of a war canoe, and the hardy
cruel and inhuman.
Among the gypsy tribes the blood of
virgins and children is thought to possess
magic virtue. Whenever a new tent is
erected some member OF the tribe sprinkles
IL with few drops of blood OF child to
protect 1t from accident.
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then above that Frieze of Blue Jimson
Flowers. Then when we draw all of the
Curtains and light one Candle in here. 1t
will make a Swell Effect
II feel that we are going to be very
Happy" he said and then he went out and
sat behind the Barn where he could smoke
his Pipe and mediate on the Uncertainties
of Life.
Next Day he discovered that she had
condemned his Rocking Chair and the old
style Center Table on which he used to
stack his Reading Matter and keep a Plate
of Apples handy.
When he entered the improved and mod
ernized Living Room, he found himself up
against a Job Lot of Beauty and no Mis-
take.
All the Furniture was straight up and
down. 1t seemed to have been chopped
out with an Axe and was meant to hold
up Members of the Rhinoceros Family.
On the High Shelf was a Row of double
handed Shaving Mugs. crippled Beer
Stems, understood Coal Scuttles and vari-
Gus Copper Kettles that had seen Better
Days.
"At last we have a Room that satisfies
every Craving of my Soul" said the Wife
liam more than Satisfied" observed the
Treasurer "I am delirious with Joy. My
only Regret is that an all-wise Providence
did not mold me into a different Shape SO
that / might sit down in some of these
Chairs. What are those Iron Dinkuses
sticking out from the WALTZ
Those are Florentine Lanterns" she re-
piled, land they are very Roycraftie, even
If they don't give any light"
Next she started in on the Dining Room
Rule No. l for making Home more Cheer
full is to put In a Shelf wherever there is
room for one. After which the Shelf is
loaded down with Etruscan Growers and
Antique Jugs.
The low-browed Husband could not tell
the difference between High Art and Junk
The female Bradleyite covered the Walls
with about 400 Plates, each with Blue
Curly-Cue on it. They looked very cheap
to him until he received the Bill. and then
he learned that they were Old Delft and
| came to S11 apiece.
In fact, after his Wife had been haunt
ing the Secondhand Places for awhile he
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Steak and he had the Coffee come right
along in large Cup. He refused to daily
with the Demi-Tasse. For this True
American the Course Dinner was a weak
Invention of the benighted Foreigner.
When he squared up to his Food he cut
out all of the Trimmings.
This is the kind of Husband who peels
his Coat in the Evening and gets himself
all spread out in a Rocking Chair with a
fat Cushion under him.
He lives to wear out old Velvet Slippers
with Pink Roses worked on the Toes and
the Heels run over.
Give him about two Cigars that pull
freely and Daily Paper, and he is Fixed
for the Session.
Along about 1880, if he can connect with
a Triangle of Desiccated Apple Pie and a
Goblet of Milk, he. is ready to sink back
on the Husks feeling simply Immense.
Now this Husband had a Fireside that
suited him nearly to Death until the Bet
ter Half began to read these Magazines
that tell how to beautify the Home.
Her first Play was TO take out all the
Carpets and have the Floors massaged
until they were as slick as Glass, so that
when the Bread-Winner stepped on one of
the Okra or Bokhara Rugs he usually
gave an Imitation of a Player trying to
reach Second.
He told her that he did not care to live
in a Rink, but what he said cut very few
Lemons with the Side-Partner. She was
looking at the half-tone Pictures of up-to-
date Homes and beginning to realize that
the WALLPAPER, Steel Engravings and the
Enlarged photographs of zap Relatives
would have TO go.
One Day when the Provider struck the
Premises he found the Workmen putting
Red Burlap on the Walls of the Sitting
Room.
"Why the Gunny-Sack?" he asked
Cant we afford Wall .Paper?"
Love of Art is the True Essence of the
Higher Life" said the Aesthetic, and she
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learned that any Article which happened
to be old and shop-worn and cracked was
the one that commanded the Top Price.
She never let up until she had made the
whole House thoroughly Artistic
Her Women Acquaintance would come
in and she would show them the Dark Oak
Effects and the Sea-Green Frescoes and the
Monastery Settee with the Sole-Leath
Bottom in 1t and the corroded TEAPOT that
she had bought for 500. and the Table
Spread made from Overall Material with
just one Yellow Poppy in the Middle, and
they would have 81 different kinds of Duck
Fits and say that it was Grand, and that
her Taste was simply Faultless. After that
she wouldn't care what Husband said.
He was a fairly patient Man, and all he
complained of was that when he sat down
he dislocated his Spine, while the Brass
Knobs wore black-and-blue Spots on him;
and the dining-room Table should have had
a couple of Holes for him to put his Legs
through: and he couldn't find a Place in
which to stretch out; and he needed
Derrick in order to move one of the Chairs;
and at Night when the Moonlight came
into his Room and he saw all the bunny
Bean-Pots lined up on the Foot-Board
and the Instruments of Torture staring at
him from every corner of the Room he
would crawl down under the Covers and
dream of his Childhood Home, with the
old-fashioned Sofas and the deep Rocking
Chairs and the big Bureaus that were
meant to hold Things and not to look at.
However, he has been unable to arrest
the reaching-out after the Beautiful, for
only last Week she purchased a has-been
Clock-price Sis.
Moral: There is no Place like Home, and
some Husbands are glad of it.
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1854. the woman's drop-frame following
about three years later. These soon were
supplied with pneumatic tires and improved
to their present lightness.
Kindly state if there are any crocodiles
In Cuba.-C. A. ,.
Alligators and crocodiles are distinct va
rieties of the saurian family, and some
authorities have asserted that only the for
mer are found in American waters. Ii Is
now generally admitted, however, that
both varieties are found in Florida; pre-
sumably, then, they are in Cuban waters
also. but we have no official authority for
such statement.
What is meant by the term or expression
''half-volley,' used in the game OF ping
pong or table tennis? The rules or ABOVE
named game say, the ball is in play as LONG
as il remains on the top of the table. Does
this mean the ball may be returned after
the second or subsequent bound II IL re-
main on the table
In acknowledging ball, the stroke is not
made at the ball, but at the spot where the
ball will be Immediately after it has struck
the table The ball must be returned after
the first bound and it is called a fault If
returned after the second or subsequent
bounds.
=:
What is the significance of the terms
Radical and Conservative" as applied
10 English politics? 2. Is the present Min
istry headed by Mr.. Balfour. Conservative
3. Was Mr.. Gladstone a Radical?-E. II. ID
Radicals are the advanced wing Of the
Liberal party, bent on parliamentary re-
form, extension OF the franchise and les
SEEMING of the power Of the ruling oligarchy
Conservatives are opposed 10 pronounced
reform measures or alterations in church
or state affairs for which they deem the
time not ripe. 2. 1t stands for a combina-
tons of Conservatives and Liberalization.
lists. The latter are named for the Liberals
who in 1856 allied themselves with the Con
servatives on the irish question. Theii
members of Parliament numbered. In the
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to Mezieres. il 1 remember. and whether
he were ultimately convicted or acquitted
l do not know. ! had second opportunity
of witnessing a conformation some years
later. but did not avail myself Of il. One
experience was enough. But this part of
the recognized judicial proceedings in MUIR
der cases in France, and that is one rea-
son why 1 am impelled to think so highly
Of the trained patience and cool zeal for
cold justice which marks the English
method.
Copyrighted in the United States of Amer
lea by d. T. Pierce. All rights re-
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general elections of 1900, sixty-eight, to 334
Conservatives, 1S6 Liberals and eighty-two
Nationalists-a ministerial majority of 1874.
3. Hardly, though some of his measures laid
him open to the classification.
Will you print recipe for liquid that
will render albumen prints transparent
when placed upon glass?-T. G. ID.
If transparency such as is required in a
lantern slide be desired, there is no way but
TO remove the paper altogether. If the
print be smoothly pasted on a glass, face
downward, the paper backing may be re-
moved with fine glass paper, as in the crys-
toleum process or, if before pasting on the
glass the print is enameled with collodion,
it may be damped with water and rubbed
up with the finger. In either case a final
application of vaseline. castor oil, wax or
the like, will be advisable for. the attain
ment Of all possible transparency
Is a man owning one-fourth section of
land in Indiana permitted to purchase and
hold homestead in the new opened land
make of il a home for himself and family ?
2 What is the altitude of Indiana above
sea level, especially northern Indiana? 3.
What has become of the old-tiIne Black
Abolitionists.-c. w. c.
The statute specifies that anyone owning
800 acres of land in any State or Territory
is disqualified from presumption OF public
land. 2. The highest point is at Carlos,
Randolph county-1.20S feet; the lowest al
the mouth of the Wabash. Lake Mich
igan's elevation is about 600 feet. 3. Prob
ably the majority OF them are dead nearly
half century having passed since the
time of their political activity.
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The ONLY AMERICAN NATURAL
CATHARTlC WATER.

was named for Sir Isaac Newton which
is error. Sergeant Jasper had an associate,
Corporal Isaac Newton, Jasper's Junior by
several years, but his equal In patriotism
and bravery and his superior in strength
and agility, who was associated with him
in most of his heroic adventures. When
Newton county was organized from the
redundant territory of Jasper county, the
new county was named Newton, thus as
sociating the names of the two heroes
who were inseparable in life. W. c.
Union City, Ind, Oct. "a.
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Once there was a Husband who was
stuck on Plain Living and Home Com
forts.
He would walk around an Angel Cake
any old Time TO get action on some Farm
Sausage. He was not very strong for
Romano Salad or any Speckled Cheese left
over from Year before last. but he did
very neat Vanishing Act with a Sirloin
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Because you do not understand.

Because you do not understand.
I open all my heart TO you;
Tell all the things / hope to do.
And all the dresm my heart has planned.
With eyes serene you wisely nod
Because you do not understand.
Because you do not understand.
tell you OF my love and hate.
Ny sorrow and my fear OF fate;
That which I crave and know In banned.
You smile with wise. unseelng eyes
Because you do not understand
Because you do not understand.
tell you Of my grief and care
II adds no jot 10 what you bear:
You too simply. singly planned.
I my whole sick soul 70 you
Because-you cannot understand!
.Efhcl Watts Nunford. In Smart Set
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1854, the womans drop-frame following
about three years later. These soon were
supplied with pneumatic tires and improved
to their present lightness.
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began to read a Booklet bound in the same
Paper that the Butcher uses when he
wraps up a Soup Bone.
Come again. said the Wage-Earner,
who was slow at catching these Ruskin
Twisters.
This is Art Burlap and not the kind that
they use for sacking Peanuts" explained
the Disciple of Beauty. above the Bur-
lap will be a Shelf of Weathered Oak and
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Softened Grief.
Someryille q

Somerville (Mass.) Journal
Wilson, lost that fine silk umbrella that
/ carried in town to-day.
Mrs. Wilson-Oh, what a pity
Wilson-Still, there is one consolation. II
wasn't mine.
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
In your Sunday issue. replying to a ques-
ton, you say that Jasper county was
named for william Jasper. the revolu-
tionary hero" which is correct: but you
give the inference that Newton county
New-York tribune., 1902-07-13

on this side of the ocean, We remember was one
Of practical good sense and Hberality rare IN
his time. other men Of the Chauncey family
were Of some note in Hertfordshire. Sir Henry
Chauncey the grandson Of Harvard's president
was the first historian of the county, held high
Offices therein, and was knighted by Charles H.
one discreditable thing is set against his name
he was the prime mover in the last trial for
Titchcraft held in England. Jane Wenham a
harmless old woman, was committed TO HerJ-
ford gaol by him in the year 1T12 the testimony
against her being Of the silliest sort. Some Of it
was furnished by Arthur Chauncey. who expert
mented by sticking pins deep into the arm Of
the wretched old woman TO discover if perad-
venture she behaved after the usual manner Of
witches The jury found Jane guilty, and the
Judge perforce condemned her to death Being
a more enlightened parsonage, however. than
the grandson Of Harvard's president he nullifed
this merely formal action by seeking and OBJ
tanning a pardon for the "witchF-and she ended
her days peacefully in cottage bestowed upon
her by a compassionate squire Of the neighbor-
hood. This squire was John PIumer and he
lived at BIakesware Hall-Jhe home which in
after years was the exqusit-iy celebrated
'Blakesmoor" of Charles Lamb.
Lamb is the beloved writer with whose mem
ory Hertfordshire is most tendery and closely
associated Much Of his childhood spent at
..Rlakesmoor." as the readers of the essay
Dream Children" know. The PIumers pre-
ferred 70 live at a neighborng country seat
which they owned, and they left the house at
Ware in charge of Mary Field, Lambs good
old grandmother. He deeply loved the place
Of all the spots on earth he knew Hertfordshire
was dearest, and it appears, again and again, in
his writings He once owned an of land
and a cottage in the county-an ownership
chronicled in the essay My First Play" This
New-York tribune., 1902-07-13
An EDITION OF HAMLET"

ONE THAT DR. FURNEss HAS NEVER SEEN
From The London Times.
Mt J. W. Jarvis writes TO US from 90 Worth
ing-r0aj Southsea.-
Your Shakespearian readers Will no doubt
De interested IN the discovery Of an edition OF
Hamlet that Mr.. Horace Howard Furness in
his Fariorum edition Of that play seems to have
almost despaired Of meeting with. In vol. -
page 50 in Appendix, We read
TheObald throughout Shakespeare Restored"
refers to an EDITION by the accurate Mr. Hughes.
which is not mentioned in Bohns edition OF
Lowndes photographed Manual No copy Of
IL exists in the British Museum. the Bodleian,
the Library of the Duke Of Devonshire. the
Capel Collection, any other to which We
have had access The test word for his edition
(Which have never seem would be Faction"
irstead Of Fashion, Act . scene = line 329
else Roaming" instead Of Wrong, Act , scene
>. line 100. I mention this in the hope hat il
may some day lead to the discovery of a copy
which at present certainly appears TO be rarer
than the CuartO.
Il had an edition in my possession of Mr.
Hughes's Hamlet Oondon: Darby. Bettesworth,
and Co, 1IlS, now in a public library, which
l have since discovered does not embOdy all the
test words required to identify the original OF
Theobald's shakespeare Restored, which are
| Canon for Cannon, Act l, scene ,, Roaming
for Running Act l, scene 2, Faction for Fash-
ion, Act >. scene ,. 'Fencers' for Scrimers, Act
T. scene Z and BOdng' for Gaingiving. Act .,
scene >. These are TO be found on pages J. 20,
Al, Sc and 1O1 of another edition l have now
discovered Hondon; Darby, Bettesworth, and
I Co, 1928. and which l have collatec with the
/ Temple edition. l have made a detailed analy-
sis of the different readings Of the two edi-
tons For one exampe-which l prefer to the
I usual reading-in Act 4. scene T. the Temple
reads:-.There with fantastic garlands did she
come Hughes reads:-There with fantastic
garands did she make I have been induced
. to communicate this, as l am OF opinion that
+ no excess Of care and attention can be be
slowed in vain in securing any emendatons OF
Shakespeare's great masterpiece. hope this
VIII crafty and convince that ripe scholar Mr.
/ Furness that however scarce and unknown to
I photographers this edition may be, have dis
covered the one alluded TO- that or the accur-
ate Mr.. Hughes of Theobald's Shakespeare Re
. stored