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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

selves, in the grim, dark old compart-
mentS, things that no brush, soap and
water, no disinfectant or wash. may
ever clear out. Old prisons, old hos
pitfalls and insane asylums, old tene-
ment houses inhabited by the dirty,
the sick, the wicked and the forlOrn
ought to be burned to the ground like
pesthouses, at least so soon as they are
a century old. The despairing, sitting
atmosphere of the interior of st. La
Zare sickens the free visitor from out
side to this day.
st. Lazare has accommodations, if
one might call them so, for 1000 in
mates. French prisons have hospitals
connected with them; often, too, de-
partments that serve as almhouses to
shelter the homeless. ST. Lazdre is
provided with these branches of adj
ministration. 1t is the custom. too, in
France, humane or otherwise as one
looks at it, to let the children of con-
vict women remain with the mothers
till they are four years old. Mothers
arrested go TO St. Lazare with their
little ones. and there. mingling among
thieves, drunkards. the lowest out
casts, some no doubt with murder on
their souls, the children run about.
Not infrequently an infant is born to
a prisoner mother in the gloomy walls
of st. Lazare. 1t, too, the sisters care
for.
Women sentenced for a longer term
than two months are sent to the new
prison at Nanterre. in the country n
short distance from Paris. The new
prison at Nanterre, TO which such con-
victs are conveyed from St Lazare, is
a modern structure, with new walls,
with light and air, and it has something
which some of the most splendid of the
old time French palaces lack, a bath
room with hot and cold water. Here,
too, are many cells for solitary cOnfine-
ment, and the punishment most dread
ed by a Frenchwoman is to be put
away alone where she can neither see
nor speak to any human being.
ALEXANDRA COSMO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
SPINSTERS FIND HOPE
in THE CENSUS REPORT

United States Including children) are
single, little more than one-tlrird
married, and not quite one-twentieth
widowed. The divorced constitute
but small traction of 1 per cent of
the whole number.
Within the last few decades the
birth rate in this country has, run
down rapidly. ''The idea of limiting
families" says Carroll ID. Wright,
has more effect upon the growth of
population than war, pestilence and
all other causes combined" In 1850
the average family comprised five
and half. People in the southern
states have the most children, while
in New England families are smallest.
Louisiana, in proportion to popula-
ton, has twice as many children as
Maine, under 5 years of age. Never
the less, baby born in this country
every twelve seconds. Every twenty
three seconds death occurs, every
tWenty-four seconds marriage, and
every minute in the twenty-four hours
five cradles are supplied with occu-
pants.
Following are the new census fig
ures showing the number of bachelors
and spinsters of 20 years and upwards
in all the states of the union:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
STORY OF RAPID RISE
OF TWO ROCK ISLANDERS

some respects. There is not "a win
dow or door in it though employing
several hundred hands all under COW
er. They work all the year round ex-
cept when the river is frozen over
tight.
This vast business is but another
example of the opportunities afford
ed in this country to men of in
tegrity, industry and good business
sense.
Not long since .Weyerhaeuser gave
to the city of Rock Island the sum
of S12,25O toward the erection of a
library and loaned them $4,000 more
to complete it in good shape.
\ few years ago, during a, depres-
sion in building operations, to avoid
discharging some of his wood carvers,
Mr.. Weyerhaeuser took n gang of
them up to his home in Rock Island
and set them to work on the dining
room. They paneled it top and sides
with mahogany and then went to
work ON it with their carving tools.
The result was probably the most
elaborate and beautiful example of
wood carving in the United States.
That one room alone cost little
over $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
A Rnrrlnr,s Friend.

A Washington dispatch says that
there is no such thing as a burglar
proof vault or safe, according to re-
port submitted by treasury experts to
Assistant Secretary Taylor. The best
tempered steel, no matter how thick,
is not proof against a new chemical
compound which professional cracks
men have learned to use. This COM
pound. called thermite, when mixed
with magnesium powder, will destroy
the hardness of the metal and rob it of
its temper. enabling a burglar with or
binary tools to cut into it as though it
wore lead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
SWIMMERS CRAMP AND
HOW TO PREVENT 1T

IT swimmers could be trained to-
keep cool under all circumstances
there would be comparatively little
drowning among bathers and summer
pleasure seekers. Cramp is usually
assigned as the cause when some
good swimmer browns. But cramp
ought in reality to be nothing serious.
Usually it affects only an arm or a
leg, or may be, only a hand or foot.
Any moderately good swimmer can
keep afioat with one arm, or even
without the use of that; yet goal
swimmers are drowning every week
as result of cramp. If such fatal
tiles were analysed they would be
more properly classed as drownings
from fright and loss of nerve. This
comes from the fact that every ono
is taught in childhood to fear the
water, and comes as a grown man
and swimmer to fear cramp. The
average opinion is that the man who
is attacked when swimming in deep
water is as good as drowned. There
fore, when a swimmer feels Il leg or
arm begin to cramp he is frightened,
in most cases, entirely out of his wits.
He loses his head, begins to splash
and paw and struggle, and then goes
down.
What swimmer should remem-
her is that he can keep atioat with
very, very little effort if he will turn
on his back and keep his chest infiat-
ed. 1t is the simple matter of float
ing, which every swimmer knows and
finds very easy. If the swimmer will
keep cool and float, the cramping
limb will frequently relax after lit
tie and he will find himself as well as
ever.-From How to Save Drown
ing Man, in August Outing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
Leatber For Filtration.

Leather, even when soft, does not
present itself to the mind as particu-
larly good filtering medium. Indeed it
might seem just the reverse, so one
must commend Mr.. w. G.. Stratton for
noting his experience with it in The
Chemist and Druggist. The so called
cbamois skin is there recommended as
an excellent medium for the clarilca-
ton of thick liquids. The leather is to
be well rinsed in cold water. he says,
and after being wrung to express the
excess of moisture it should be affixed
to the top of the funnel so as not TO
hang down very deeply.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

these have charge of the prisons for
their own sex. Thither female GRIM
inals are conveyed from the various
police stations.
ST Lazare is situated at the corner
of Boulevard Magenta and Rue de
Faubourg St Denis. Like nearly every
building in Paris on the left bank of
the Seine, it is old and huge and gray
and frowning. In the unspeakable old
days when men jailers kept it its other
terrors were added 10 by vile unclean-
illness and lack of sanitation. The gen
tie yet strong Sisters of Maria Jo-
seph have cleansed it to the utmost,
so far as may be, yet there are insects
in its walls, there are hauntings of
old tragedies, of the groans of the
helpless, the prayers of the dying, if
not of the ghosts of the dead them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
A Corn Cure.

To cure corns get little gutta percha
tissue from druggist. cut it into strips
and then wind a piece round the corn.
which must first be moistened with oil.
See that the edges of the tissue are as
even as possible, and when you have
wound it round wet the inside of the
end with spirits of turpentine. This
will cause it to stick firmly if you
press it down With a feather dipped
in turpentine touch the edges of the It's
sue, and they will unite. Leave for
four days. then take off the dressing,
and you will be able to remove the
corn with the back of a penknife.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
WI l"BUTsY'J UNDERH1I1 OF PRINCETON

w. II. BUTSH CNDERHILL OF PRINCETON
the two championship games against
Yale. and he appears to be rounding
into the best form of his career.
Underhill halls from East Orange,
y. J., where he won fame in various
branches of amateur sport. He has
played on the Princeton varsity foot
ball team for two years and is no I'm
important figure in track athletics.
Underhilrs pitching is the Tigers
chief dependence this season, and, al
though an unfortunate accident on the
teams southern tour laid him out Of
the game temporarily. "Butsy," as he
is best known, is now in his old time
condition.
Harvard is on the Princeton baseball
schedule this year and, together with
Yale, will endeavor TO defeat the I'll
gers in their own den during COM
mencement week. Underhill is GER
tain to pitch in both games, and Prince
ton money galore will be on hand to
back the chances of the orange and
black
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
ST. LAZARE.
Most Famous of the Old Prisons For
Women In Paris.
4,195:446

Women In Paris.
If the walls of st. Lazare could speak.
they would tell a tale of misery, of
cruelty, oppression and discomfort I'M
dergone by the wretched female con-
victs there which would make dog re-
joice that he did not wear the human
shape. Victor Hugo has told what ii
was to be a galley slave in France in
time not so long ago. Where is the
feminine Victor Hugo who will dare
write of what her own sex endured
from the prison guards of those dens of
horror in which helpless women prison
ers were formerly Gagged in France?
But there are French ladies who
know these horrors to the full Some
twenty years ago they set themselves
to have them mitigated. They have
worked as only women full of a holy
enthusiasm can work, and their efforts
have been crowned partly with success.
One branch of their enterprise is to re-
ceive on release from a Paris prison
Young women not yet hardened GRIM
inals and procure employment for them
that they may not of necessity sink
back into the black pools of iniquity
that lie only beneath the surface crust
of the brilliant city.
st. Lazare is the principal women's
prison of Paris, to which are sent
those arrested and sentenced for short
terms as well as those held for trial
or other detention. 1t gets its name
because it was formerly the home of
the members of the church order of
St Lazare. When they removed from
the building, it was turned into n
house of detention for arrested wom-
en-. Convent cell was merely turned
into prison cell, and the change does
not seem so great after all. Still, how
ever, there is conventual air about
the grim old building, for gentle blue
yelled nuns guard and minister to the
prisoners. Women arrested and de-
tanned in Paris are usually turned over
to the Sisters of Maria Joseph, and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
Her Good business Head.

'You say she is a good business wo-
manT'
"Oh. splendid. Incompatible. She lets
absolutely nothing drive business out
of her head. Why, just before Harold
started for Europe he proposed to her
by letter and asked her to telegraph
her answer"
''Well?"
''Well, most people would have tele-
graphed Yes or No. but she had
enough of a business head to wire. 1T
affords me great pleasure to say yes to
you,' thus preventing the telegraph
company from getting any advantage
of her in charging for ten word mes
sage" -Brooklyn Eagle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
strength of Rlrn1 1enEues.

The relative playing strength of the
National and American leagues was
question of warm conjecture last sea-
son, and now that half 4 dozen promi-
nent National players have deserted to
Ban Johnson's clans the discussion is
sure to be renewed. 1t is probable that
post series of games between the
winning teams of the two leagues will
be played at the close of the coming
season. Comiskey of Chicago is a warm
advocate of the plan, and he endeavOr-
ed to match his champion White SoN
against Barney Dreyfuss' Pirates last
year, but nothing came of it. The
scheme is feasible, would be profitable
and would definitely settle the oppOs-
ing claims.
There is one blot on the shield Of the
american league, and that is its brazen
countenancing of contract jumping.
The American now has on its rolls the
largest number of contract breakers
ever known. Breakers aheadr' will
be the cry if this dishonorable support
of lax business methods continues. and
the American league will be entirely TO
blame. But anything to beat the Ma
tionar' seems to be the battle shout,
and it is not likely that the throwing
out of bait to weakminded but strong
playing ball toSserS will soon cease.
Early last year Ban Johnson took
firm personal stand against contract
jumpers, but he has been sidetracked,
and the will of the individual mana
gers holds good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
Cor of sd. simon.

Lady Reel. dam of the famous sixty
thousand dollar Hamburg and the ten
thousand dollar Frankfort, has fOaled
n black filly by St. Simon ut James r.
Keene's Castleton Ky) stud. Keene
paid $1,000 for the mare. The FLY is
the first get of St. Simon 10 be foaled
in the United States and is a sister to
August Belmont's twenty thousand dol
lar yearling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
The MonocIe Is Harmful.

No sensible person will ever wear
single eyeglass unless he is blind of
one eye. Its use means that one eye
is neither employed nor unemployed,
but is enga ged in ceaseless though no
doubt unconscious efforts to see as
much as its more favored fellow. This
straining is as harmful as anything
could we'll lie and cannot fail to lead to
the gravest results.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
The SPORTING WORLD
Princeton.s ahIe TwIrler.

W. II. Underhill, the leading pitcher
at Princeton this year, should lead the
Intercollegiate twirling list at the close
of the season. He wound up last years
playing in sensational style, winning
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
rhe pe1ehnntx Fnmi1r.

Five of the famous Delehanty family
are playing ball this season. Ed is with
Washington in the American league,
Jim with New York, Joe with Worces-
ter. Tom with Denver. while Frank,
the youngest of those in the business,
is with the Warren co. semiprofession-
al nine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
one nr the Other,

"what do you think of that wheel?"
asked Sprockets. whose bicycle had
been in q collision.
ct think it ought to be retired or
retired" replied Dinwiddie. -Pittsburs
Telegraph.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

and been done up by his pal Carnes
and Fisher at once went back on their
confession" and accounted for their
time on that evening. This gave them
away on the robberies, and they were
duly tried and landed behind the bars.
NJ. QUAD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
simiIar. but DInerent.

Biggs-Whe.n l make a trade. al
ways want something to boot
Diggs-Same here. and usually get
it later when kick myself.-Chicago
News
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

When a sick man notices that his
wife curls her hair only just before the
doctor comes, he is not sick enough 70
be dangerous. --Atchison Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

Group instantly relieved. DIR. Thorn
as Eclectic Oil. Perfectly safe. New
.er fails. At any drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09
TrouhIe.

The man who borrows money Dor
rows trouble. The man who lends
money doesn't need to borrow trouble
-SOmerville (Mass.) Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-09

Totals 49,. .6,726,779
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24
NEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.
Thousands Of Texans Participate In
Cremation of Black Brute.

Thousands Of Texans Participate In
Cremation of Black Brute.
Longview, Tex, May 23-The cul-
mination of a man hunt which has
been in progress since last Saturday
was reached yesterday when Dudley
Morgan, negro who assaulted Mrs. Nc
Kee, wife of Texas and Pacific fore
man at Lansing, Tex, was burned at
the stake. When it was learned that
the negro had been captured and was
being taken to Lansing for identified
tion the excitement of the people
knew no bounds
By II o'clock great throngs had
gathered at the Lansing switch, and
looking over the ground decided to
make arrangements to burn the negro
about quarter of a mile away on the
line of county road. A better place
could not have been selected for the
convenience of the immense crowd
which witnessed the burning, for it
was an open place, smooth and cover.
ed with grass, hedged in with high
trees, making an opening about 200
yards wide and 300 yards long. The
trees were literally lined with people
an hour before the negro arrived.
Just before II o'clock the train
bringing the negro and his captors
near where he was captured arrived
in Marshall and was met there by a
great throng of people.
The prisoner was taken to the sec.
ton house, which stands close to the
track, and identified by Mrs. Mckee
and several negroes who worked on
the section with Morgan. Mrs. Nc.
Kee told them they had the right man,
and the negro was escorted by about
200 men armed with Winchesters to
the place of execution.
Morgan confessed to having commit.
ted the crime and after being secure.
ly chained to the stake or rail Section
Foreman Mckee, husband of the WON.
an assaulted, applied the match to the
faggots. Many women were present
from the surrounding country, but ow.
ing to the great crush they had little
opportunity to see the negro until the
heat forced the crowd to widen the
circle and the flames leaped over him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24
DEATH IN TROLLEY WRECK.
Brakes Refused to Work-Car Dashed
Down Steep Hill.

Brakes Refused to Work-Car Dashed
Down Steep Hill.
EastOn, Pa, May 23.-Two men were
killed and many men and women in.
jured in a trolley wreck few miles
beyond Easton at midnight last night
The dead:
Edward Commodore, Nazareth.
Joseph Derhammer Easton
An Easton and Nazareth car left
this city shortly before midnight car.
rying 80 passengers. On a steep hill
in Palmer township, the brakes re-
fused to work and the car ran away.
descending the incline at terrific speed,
At the foot of the hill there was a
sharp curve. Here the car jumped
the track, and tearing loose from the
trucks fell on it's side in the country
road. The greatest excitement pre-
vailed. Many women tainted, while
others became hystericaI through
fright. There was wild scramble ia
get out of the car. While the passen.
gers were being dragged from the car
windows an effort was being made ia
release Commodore from beneath the
trucks, but before he could be got out
life was extinct. The body of Der
hammer was found several yards from
the wreck in the car. The skull was
fractured and the body horribly bruis.
ed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24
CAUSED
BY POWDER DUST
Opinion Of Experts as to the
Coal Creek Horror.
RESULT IMPROPER VENTILATION

Rescuing Parties Are Still at Work In
the Mines to Recover Dead Bodies,
but Experience Great Difficulties
From Foul Gases and Tons of Debris,
Knoxville, Tenn, May 23-A spe.
cial to The Sentinel from Coal Creek
says that it is the opinion of mining
experts who have examined Fraterville
coal mine, in which the terrible expIo,
sion occurred last Monday morning,
that it was caused by powder dust,
This, it is suggested, might have re.
suited from improper ventilation in
the mine, which, until two years ago,
was unquestionably considered the
safest in the Coal Creek belt. 1t is
stated that the Fraterville mine was
dependent on the fan at the Thistle
mine for fresh air supply, there being
no fans at the entrance to Fraterville
mine Further investigation will, how
ever, likely be made to ascertain
whether any gas deposits were pene
tf6ted as at first thought.
Rescuing parties labored in vain last
night and today in their efforts to re-
cover dead bodies, as none have been
brought out since 2 o'clock yesterday.
when the number was 212. OF these
all save three have been identified. II
is still question as to how many re.
main in the mine, though it is thought
the total number therein at the time
of the explosion was 226. The res.
cuers encountered very great Difficult.
ties in the last entries penetrated, both
on account of gas accumulattons and
on heavy lodges of coal having fallen
to block further passage. The mining
cars are piled in heaps in many places,
indicating that the explosion was in
some respects akin to an upheaval,
These distractions will have to be re'
moved at least in part before more
bodies are recovered. Many are be.
lieved to be buried beneath this debris.
The chairman of the relief commit.
tee sent out from Knoxville announces
that it requires $500 per day to pro.
vide actual necessities of life for the
widows and fatherless and to give 9th.
er aid that comes in the province ot
the relief committee 1t is thought the
real enormity OF the situation is not
being fully realized and that outside
cities have on that account failed to
respond. G. M. McClung is Chairman
of the relief committee in charge OF
all contributions coming to this city.
r. NJ Lindsay is chairman Of the re
lief committee at Coal Creek. Contri
buttons may be sent to these gentle.
men
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24

Paris, May 23.-A dispatch receiv.
ed here from the governor of Martin.
iQue M. l'Huerre. dated yesterday,
reads as follows: Have consulted
with the council of the late colony on
the subject of total or partial evacua.
t1on Of the island They are unani.
nous III declaring that such a meas.
ure is not justifiable at present. The
transatlantic steamship now undergo.
ing repairs here might be utilized to
transport those who are desirous of
leaving. About 900 people are leav.
ing by the steamer Versailles and 9TH
ers are sailing on the Vile de Tangor
for Trinidad and Cayenne. There
have been no new fatalities"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-05-24
FATAL BOXING CONTEST.
Tommy Noonan Dies From Blow Re.
ceiVed at Hands of Eddie Dixon.

Tommy Noonan Dies From Blow Re-
ceiVed at Hands of Eddie Dixon.
Dixon is in custody having surren.
dered to the police Immediately after
it became apparent last night that
NoOnan had received a serious injury
While generally known in sporting
circles as Tommy Noonan, the dead
boxers real name was John Cassidy
and his home was in Chelsea. He was
20 years of age. The fatal blow was
delivered in the fourth round of what
was to have been a six round bout.
1t landed on NOonan's jaw and he
dropped to the floor, where he lay un.
til counted out. 1t was seen that he
was in a serious condition and physi.
clans were summoned. They pro.
nounced him suffering with concussion
of the brain. Noonan was removed
to a hospital, where death ensued
about o'clock this morning.