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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

The man who saves little by little
will have something for himself and
family. There are no blank con
tracts TO home companies unless You
choose 20 make them such. Your
contract and receipts represent value
not chance. The larger the receipts
the more the value.
The first man pays the most to the
home fund for his home. but gets
possession sooner than those who
follow him. but the longer they are
required to wait the less they pay to
the home fund. thereby equalizing the
benefits derived by contract holders.
The first man pays $1,000 to the
home fund for n $1,000 home. The
last man-if that man is ever reached
will not be required to pay SO much
TO the home fund.
On 81 900 the interest payments at
Is per cent are $500 per month. BY
giving your fellowman the use of
your savings, he viii be required to
pay only S3.S5 per month more than
interest payments of S46O more than
interest in ten years 10 own a $1,000
home. BY the plan of the home com
pany described. one in less than 43
Immediately receive their benefit
In that excellent order, the Modern
Woodmen Of America. one in $500 re-
ceived a benefit in December and the
result was highly satisfactory to all
concerned.
The more You help one the less
help YOU can give to others.
1t has been said poverty is born of
speculation. Few succeed. many fail.
TO spectators many avenues are
open. the stock exchange, boards of
trade, fraternal life insurance com
panieS, etc. and do not understand
me to say that ali who invest there
in are spectators. Many. actuated
by commendable motives Ga desire to
assist the Unfortunate join fraternal
orders. On the death of member,
his beneficiaries may participate in
the mortuary fund.
In the Home company all are bene-
fitted by their savings.
Your own efforts will determine
the time required TO pay for home.
How much have YOU saved towards a
home the last two. five. ten or fif-
teen years? II you don't start to
save something toward a home now
when do YOU expect to get one? Do
you want Your fellow man to have
the use of your savings without in
terest. or do you want to tie
weight to him so he viii never be
able to swim to shore? Do YOU want
the use of money without interest?
Then do as YOU would be done by.
Help others and others viii help you.
If only ten per cent more become
owners of homes, by adopting the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
SOCIETY HAS A PROTEST.
Custom of Making Costly Wedding Gifts Objected
to---Go Beyond Means.

deny that there is more extravaganza
today than there has been during the
past twenty years. They admit, how
ever, that there is more determination
nowadays to make as much of a show
on a little money as possible. Only
Stockholders seem to be exempt from
this charge.
You see," said the manager of a IA
nous house, "a Stock Exchange gen.
tleman who is successful in business
does not mind putting down good big
sum for something worth giving. So
he comes in and says, Give me hun
dred pounds worth of wedding pres
ents' He doesn't mind if it be pearls
or diamonds or brooch or dog cart
so long as it is a present.
"On the other hand, have often had
notable lords, from dukes down to
barons, come in here and turn the es-
adjustment in and out in a vain effort
to find something for $50 which they
hope they can palm off as a costly
thing, representing at least an expendi-
ture of $3.50, for even dukes are not
above trying to make n show"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Do You Want
To Own q Home?
Detailed Description of Home
Company's Plans.

( plans of home companies. than under
past systems the home companies
viii not have lived in vain.
The following explanation was fur
nished by d. T. Blodgett, manager of
the branch office of the Mutual Co
operative Home company of Des
Moines.
1t gives the Central State Bank of
Des MOines, Ia. and the State Bank
of Prairie City, Ia. as references.
The branch office is located in room
$, McKinnie block, Moline, III.
If you take Il contract with the
Mutual Cooperative Home company
YOU viii simply be saving whatever
YOU pay in. The more YOU save the
less time YOU will he in paving for n
home. if YOU are sick before YOU get
possession of a home. by leaving the
contract as security the reserve fund
carries it for You one-half as many
months as YOU have paid. In case of
death your payments to the home
fund and the Accommodations are paid
to your family if they desire. After
YOU get possession of Il home. if you
die before YOU finish your payments,
the company viii under certain re-
strictions and conditions. make the
balance of the payments from the re
serve fund.
On the $3.50 contract. issued by this
company, the payments required. be-
fore YOU get possession of home,
are first $500. then Sl.5O per month
thereafter, until your contract ma
lures and you are in possession of a
home or have Your mortgage paid
off. After YOU get possession you are
required To pay only $50 cents per
month on each 500 used by you until
your payments to the home fund
amount to what you have used, not
to exceed $1,000, per contract. Of
these payments, S1.OO before maturity
goes to home fund. balance to eN-
pense and reserve funds, and S3%
cents after possession goes to home
fund and ) cents TO expense and re
serve funds, until the payments To
the home fund, before and after ma
turity. amount to the money taken
from the home fund for your use.
If each contract holder lives; pays
no more than required each month;
uses @i'VVo' pays w iuii edNii ioii'h'
~. $50 come in at once; none lapse
out, then the problem could he work
ed out easily. One thousand could be
placed in their homes at once, and 20
months thereafter 1000 more. and in
17Is months thereafter 1000. more.
etc. There would then be 1 in II in
their homes with the time required
TO place others in homes gradually de-
creasing. However, this would be an
arbitrary mathematical problem not
applicable to the experience of life
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
SHARING OF PROFITS.
Samuel VI. Jones Talks of the Coop
erntive Spirit and His Hopes.

erntive Spirit and His Hopes.
Samuel NJ. Jones, mayor of Toledo,
o., student, thinker and humanitarian,
who sends n check representing per
cent of wages to each of his employ
ees at Christmas and gives to each n
copy of his breezy Letters of Love
and Labor" talks to them in Golden
Rule park on almost every Sunday
afternoon in summer or gets some 9th
er man of ideas TO talk to them. con-
ducts n kindergarten for the children
in Golden Rule House, takes his work
people on picnics up the river and sees
that everybody has a weeks vacation
with pay, has an abiding faith in profit
sharing as the first step in the eco
nomic revolution which is to bring the
millennium nearer, says ii. L. Arm
strong in Ainslee's Magazine for Feb
ruary.
profit sharing" he said the other
day over his own signature. sis phase
of cooperation, and, though there is
not much of an outward manifestation,
1 believe that the cooperative spirit
is growing throughout the country and
the world. L believe that by the slow
processes of growth and evolution after
the slow lapse of years society is going
to realize Il perfect democracy in in
dustry and the brotherly relations in
life outlined in the history of the early
Christians, where we are told that no
man said that aught he possessed was
his own, neither was there any among
them that lacked, but distribution was
made to each according as any had
need l do not believe that there is to
be an economic revolution or upheaval
that will bring about Il change from the
present capitalistic and profit getting
system to n socialistic state of affairs
that is. do not believe-that the social
lists will ever take forcible possession
of land and the instruments of produc-
ton as they say, but through the
growth of intelligence each man will
come to see himself as part of the
whole and come to understand that
only as he co-operates from that stand
point can lie in any proper sense realize
happiness.
II believe that the trust movement
is an indication of the growing spirit
of cooperation, immoral in its primary
aspect because it is inspired by the de-
sire for bigger profits. but it is really
religious in its results-that is. it elm
mates waste. Its failure is found in
the fact that il does not justly dis
tribute the saving effected by the econ
-sIay of combination. The next step.
and the inevitable one, as / believe, is
cooperation in the field of distribution
that will involve the men who work
with their hands as we'll as those who
work with their heads"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
WILL USE ANCIENT MACE.
Curious Sceptcr to BE Employed In
King Edwards Coronation.

Curious Sceptcr to BE Employed In
King Edwards Coronation.
Since the lord mayor laid claim to
the privilege of carrying the crystal
and silver scepter or mace at the corO-
nation there has been 4 great deal of
interest displayed by Londoners to
know the significance Of this scepter
and what it is like, for It is no eNagger-
alton TO say that no one of i hundred
thousand was aware that this curious
and ancient relic was still in existence.
1t is indeed Il curious thing. The staff
is about eighteen inches long and COM
posed of crystal, cut and channeled
with alternate bands of gold and sill
yer. says the Chicago Record-Herald.
The divisions are decorated ut inter
walls with eight strings of large seed
pearls. The coronet is composed of
four crosses and four fleurs-de-lis dec
grated with three rubies and three sap
phires. besides six very large seed
pearls. Other pearls are arranged in
groups.
There is no record of the period when
this curious relic was made. 1t is evil
dent that it has been altered from time
to time, but in it's present shape it has
been assigned to the early part of the
fifteenth century. This emblem of the
lord mayors authority has not been
seen at any state function since the
coronation of George ". 1t will likely
therefore be one of the objects OF most
curious interest next June.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
THE MAROI GRAS.
How They Prepare For the Great
Festival ut New Orleans.

How They Prepare For the Great
Festival at New Orleans.
The time required for the production
of the eighty odd floats that enter each
year into the carnival parades at New
Orleans, day and night. is something
like eight months, so that work must
be vigorously prosecuted from early
July in order to have the floats in fin
ished shape by the following February.
The work is done under the strictest
pledge of secrecy, no one being permit
ted to enter the storage barns, and no
information is obtainable as to the sub
ject to be presented, so that curiosity
plays very important part in the fes-
tivities of tire carnival, says w. G..
BOwdoin in the February WOman's
Home Companion.
The cost of producing each complet-
ed float ranges from $3.50 as mini
mum to double that amount or even
more, as the work is more or less or
nate. The float cartoons that are in
SEPARATIONS for the artists are accompa-
MED by elaborate sketches of each of
the hundred costumes that must be
worn by those actually participating
in the parade. These are done in water
colors upon cardboards little larger
than an imperial photograph. They
show color and other details. The
names OF the materials that enter into
the costumes are given on these cards
and they are subject to criticism by
the design committee.
While these things are taking place
all the floats are in the hands of their
creators, and work is done from de
signs about twenty times the size of
the costume cards. in which the charac-
tiers are posed as they will appear upon
the floats in the street parade. When
no seeming flaw remains, n set, accom-
panied by the individual costume cards,
is sent to Paris or TO some home city.
where the costumes are manufactured.
Each suit is numbered and packed in
separate case. The costumes are usu-
ally delivered during the early part OF
December, after which they are re-
moved TO the 'den," where they are
arranged on long pine tables, each suit
surmounted by its appropriate picture
The members are kept busy for weeks
having their costumes fitted by tailors,
armorers and milliners. When all prep
arations are at last finished, the vari-
Gus costumes are replaced in their sew
eraI boxes which are kept locked until
the eventful day or night when they
are to be publicly used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

The New York Herald's European
edition publishes the following from its
London correspondent:
1t looks as if in certain quarters soci-
ETY. is beginning to kick against the
heavy tax they latterly have been fore
ed to tolerate in giving wedding pres
ents. This has been made all the more
pronounced by recent big weddings,
when, as in the case of the wedding Of
Lord StavOrdal and Lady Helen Stew
art, the presents were more costly and
more eXtravagant than have been seen
in recent years, representing, it is said,
about $1,7J00QO.
Some people in society estimate their
annual expenditure on wedding pres
ents at not less than 5000. The habit
of giving wedding presents has appar-
emily grown beyond all bounds. Every
one is expected to give. While there
are many who would be happy to do SO
in moderation, they feel that unless
they go far beyond their means their
little token will be merely brushed
away as unworthy to be placed side by
side with the gorgeous things that are
shOwered down in every direction.
ct is ali due to the fact" said one
lady. that we are living in an artifi-
cial, unreal and unhealthy age. We are
eaten up with love of ,ostentation. We
want to show and TO be shown. We are
a lot of sheep, we English, because we
fail to see that we are going the inevi-
table pace to ruin. Stop it? How l
wish l cOuld"'
Another lady. a marchioness. said:
az do hope you will be able to show
people that they are unkind in giving
such lavish presents to comparative
strangers. You do not know what suf-
fering it causes among people who are
obliged to follow suit.
"Of course there are many people
who give costly things merely for the
sake of seeing their names in the pa
pers. If the newspapers were to stop
printing the news. there would be a
terrific slump in presents. l shall go
on giving where 1 should not, but will
gladly join round robin protest"
Regent street jewelers. one and all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
BEGGARS FORM A TRUST
Gigantic Organization That Has Been UneartIed
at MISUNDERSTANDING Mans Genius.

and send tie professionals from place
to place ard by taxing each one go
much for information regarding the
gratis" make Il good thing for himself
and for them alSp. y general instruc-
ton below the list of names read as
follows:
"a good way is TO have some cheap
shoestrings or papers of pins to sell,
for them as don't buy nearly always
give something anyway"
Devine was sent back to Cincinnati
with orders not to return. Hoover and
Hall have left, and Lancaster has dis
appeared. and the officers believe the
town is rid of them for keeps, and ey-
cry professional that is found upon the
streets hereafter viii be sent to the
workhOuse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
TWAIN's TALE OF WOE
Mark Relates His Experience
With a Fast Train.
HOW He CAUGHT AN EXPRESS.

HumOrIst Loses His Hat. Coat and
For His Train att EImira, n. Y.
Told Driver of His Carriage to
GsVhoOp Her ID"
Mark Twain went TO New York re-
Gently with n sad tale of woe. inciden-
tally with badly cut hand. 1t is new
tale, he says, and Its not so very fun
ny either"
He arrived from Elmira on Jan. 80,
where, he says, he had hairbreadth
adventure with an express train which
nearly put an end to his perpetual ex-
istence," says the New York Journal.
Mr.. Clemens boarded Il Madison ave-
nue. car soon after his arrival from the
Erie railroad station in Jersey City.
He was looking at his right hand,
which showed evidences of rough
usage. He held it in his left hand.
'"Its for being overstrenuous," he
was heard to say, but I'm glad 1
caught the train"
whats the trouble, Mr.. Clemens?''
asked friend who happened to be on
the car.
Trouble? There's lots of trouble in
my family at this moment" the hui
morist answered, giving his bruised
hand n gentle squeeze with his left.
81 have just come down from Elmira.
It's a great place to keep away from in
winter. Don't mind it in summer. but in
winter! Well. just to show the kind of
a place it is express trains passing
through it never stop long enough to
see whether fellow gets on or not.
Yesterday an express train was
passing through the village-I don't
know just how fast it was going. but it
was going fast enough to kick up the
dust.
1.-THE driver of the carriage which 1
had hired when first reached town
and had not been able to lose, try as
would, said it was my train and we
had just Il minute to drive a mile to
the station to get it.
"'Whoop her upp said. and with
queer kind of smile the driver whoop-
ed her up, and we went sailing. 1t
was the heetest animal 1 had ever sat
behind and by far the worst. She
didn't trot. She didn't run. She whiz-
zed. We made the station just as the
train was pulling out.
81 was going to catch that train if 1
had to lose q leg or an eye or an ear.
1 was determined to lose something
and catch the train. 1 made n leap
from the carriage and a hop for the
train, and before l knew it my right
foot got mixed up with my left, and n
second later my face touched the ran
that the train had just passed over.
i was up in another second, running
down the tracks yelling to the brake
man to wait a minute. He must have
thought that 1 was Prince Henry or
Grover Cleveland, for he Immediately
pulled the bell, and the train stopped.
81 had caught the train and still had
the leg. L lost my hat and lost my
coat, and 1 came out on top save for
the cuts in my hand"
And here the humorist squeezed his
right hand with his left, said lie had
reached his destination and left the
car.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
CAN COPE WITH WOLVES.
A New Breed of stnEhOunds Com
hines Speed With Ferocity.


Dimes Speed with Ferocity.
William A. Richards, assistant land
commissioner. is Il hunter of no mean
prOwess, and in his home near the Big
Horn mountains, Wyoming. has killed
more than one grizzly and mountain
lion. Several days ago Mr.. Richards
was talking over sporting matters with
a Washington Post reporter, when the
conversation turned upon dogs and the
value of the several breeds for hunting
purposes. when he said:
'In my section we have at last Sc
cured n breed of dogs that is highly
satisfactory. AS wolf dogs they cannot
be excelled, and the only time that to
my recollection l ever saw these dogs
turn tail was on an occasion when
they faced four grizzlies. Even then
they showed fight, retreating only
when it was absolutely necessary. Sew
eraI years ago we began experiment
ing with view TO securing a breed of
dogs sufficiently heavy and ferocious
to attack and kill wolves and fleet
enough to run them down. After many
trials we found that cross between
the old Scotch staghOund and the COM
mon greyhound proved far superior TO
any of the experiments we had pre-
-viously tried.
''These dogs combine the fleetness of
the greyhound with the strength and
ferocity of the Scotch staghound and
as n result are being extensively bred
all through the west. a coyote stands
no show whatever with these dogs, for
as soon as the pack Overtakes him he
does not strike the ground until he is.
literally torn limb from limb. The gray
wolf is better and harder fighter, but
even in n fair fight one of these cross
bred wolf hounds is an even match for
the gray wolf. In fact there are some
of my dogs that are almost as wild and
fierce as the wolves themselves.
q These animals do not hesitate to
tackle the black bear and generally
make life Il burden for him. while in
hunting the grizzly bear they are quite
useful in holding the game at bay I'M
til the hunter arrives to give 'Wahb'
his coup de grace"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
Mark Twain and the Composites.

All compositors. however intelligent,
are not gifted with a sense of humor,
and professional humorists sometimes
suffer severely at their hands. Mark
Twain once had a trying experience
with Il compositor. one of those con-
scientious- compositors who not only
know, but know that they know, says
Harper's Literary Gossip. Mr.. Clemens
had received from his publishers the
proofs Of a story which he considered
as funny as anything he had ever writ
ten, but on reading the proofs he dis
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
New FiIipTno Coins.

The commission has forwarded to
Washington three designs for the pro-
posed insular pesos. They were pre-
pared by n Filipino, and the subjects
are all Filipino. says the Manila Critic.
In the first a native girl holds an olive
branch in her left hand and in her
right a hammer resting on an anvil,
while in the distance is seen the vol
cano Mayor. Above the figure appears
the word "Filipinas" and under it I'm
Peso" In the second design the CEN
trail figure is again Filipino maiden
gazing at the same volcano and in her
right the hammer In the third model
the head of Il mestiZa, with a crown Of
laurel, is shown. On the reverse of all
three designs are the words, United
States of America" and the date Of
coinage.
The darabouka, or Turkish drum. re-
sembles a long vase, the bottom COW
cred with parchment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
LATEST GAMBLING WRINKLE
GreeRbaeE Poker Is Played With the
Numbers the Bills.

Numbers the Bills.
Greenback poker is the newest gam
bling game in town, says the New York
World. 1t comes from Washington and
is the invention OF an overworked con-
gresham who thought it out as n
recreation while framing bills for the
relief of his constituency. The game
does not require n deck of cards. 1t
can be played in church or at 4 funeral
with perfect decorum and safety. The
regulars" at the Waldorf-Astoria tried
it the other night and voted it fierce,
but fascinating"
Any number of persons can play
greenback poker at once. The best
poker hand to be picked from the serial
number on Il bill wins all of the bills
entered in the competition. There is
nothing in the serial numbers by which
the court or picture cards may be des-
ignated, so these are eliminated, and
the game is played with the numbers
alone. as in poker dice. The naught
counts as a ten spot.
At the Waldorf, where seven persons
sat around table, the following seven
sample hands were shown on seven five
dollar bills:
A-4G4SO4O. Full house on tours
Qhree tours and Il pair of tens).
B-2413J4J3. Straight q, ., 3, /, D.
C-313TT915. Aces up with sevens.
D-2S09G045. Tens.
E-99514O6S. Mines.
F-299O371G. Mines.
G-292ST13J. DeuceS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

maHy discovered that the fun had been
carefully eliminated. Mr.. Clemens re-
turned the proofs, congratulating the
compositor upon having consumed
only one week in making sense of 9
story which he himself had required
two weeks to make nonsense OFF,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
,ome Prettv yaIentine Gif,..

A heart shaped cut glass flask for
perfume or a heart shaped box with
Silver top for the toilet table or ring
with 4 true lovers knot encircling
whole pearl. a turquoise or an anne
thyst, which is the February birth
stone, would please young girl, says
the February Ladies' Home Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08
An ola Hand.

"what was the first thing your hus-
band said when you got started on
your wedding Journey"
Excuse me while so forward and
have smoke You know it was the
third time for him."-Chicago Record
Herald. q -ssszs.aa-ss--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-08

a heart shaped locket with a single
pearl and having 4 place for hair and
photograph inside is n pretty gift, as
is also pendant of the same shape for
the watch chain.