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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29
NO USE FOR LICENSE
stephen UtIey Returns Marriage
Certificate and Asks
Money Back.

County Clerk Hubbard yesterday
received through the mail marriage
license, which on the face of things
appears to indicate that there has
been another case of unrequited love.
Saturday Stephen UtIey, of MARSHALL
town. Iowa, called and procured a Ii
cense to marry Mrs. Kate Hand. of
Davenport.
Yesterday i'm the letter in which
the license was returned Utley did
not give any explanations but said he
wouldn't have any use for il and
asked if h could have his dollar re
turned. Of course the request en-
bodied could not be granted, for the
dollar was simply fair remuneration
for the labor of making out and re-
cording the document and the materi-
al used.
In addition to pointing to a prob
able romance with an anti-climaX
ending this incident should serve to
bring home to every man a full re-
alization of the financial risk he
runs in procuring Il permit tn marry
under the present condition of things.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29
GOLF TOURNAMENT
DATES ARE ANNOUNCED

The calendar of the Rock Island
Arsenal Golf club is announced as
follows:
Preliminary matches for the mems
handicap cup on the following Satur-
DAYS: May l. and 81. June Is and IS,
July 10, Aug. and %. and Sept. 6.
Preliminary matches for women
handicap cup ou the following Thurs
days: May -, June , and 10. July .
and -. Aug. Il and p and sept. II.
Mems championship: First prclim-
mary rounG Monday. sept. -, second
preliminary round and match play
rounds ON successive days following.
Wumen's championship: Prelimin-
AIRY round Tuesday. Sept. -. match
play rounds on successive days fol
lowing.
Finals mems handicap cup: First
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

placed over her. Objects placed in
side this cabinet were moved and a
variety of noises were caused to pro-
ceded from instruments that were
placed there. After each the curtain
would be instantly drawn back by the
attendant and Miss Fay would appear
as she was tied and the bonds would
be unbroken. Finally her bonds were
severed by a knife that was placed
in front of her.
Reads Questions.
After an interim devoted to other
attractions Miss Fay gave her final
exhibition, which was the most won
derful of ALL Early in the evening
members of the audience wishing to
have questions answered were re-
queSted TO write them on a piece of
paper and sign their names. In the
final part of the program Miss Fay
requested that the slips of paper br
taken out and held in the hands of
those who had written them. each
person at the same time fixing his
mind upon his question. The per-
former was seated in the middle of
the stage bIindfolded with a cloth
while her attendant passed through
the audience. she called out the
names of those who had questions.
gave the substance of the interroga-
tions and in nearly every instance an
swercd in an apparently satisfactory
manner. In every case the question.
when opened and read, proved to be
as she had said. This was kept up
till two dozen or more questions had
been answered and then Miss Fay de
clared that she was unable to go
further.
The gentleman above mentioned
were not present on the stage during
the latter part of the program. They
declare that they were absolutely I'M
able to find any evidence of fraud and
all were nonplused by the demonstra-
tions. Miss Fay is slight of build and
about 10. years of age. While she is
performing she appears to be strung
up to an exceedingly high tension
and the gentlemen who held her hands
while ON the stage found them very
cold. Her health is such that she is
prohibited from seeing
visitors
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29
SEASON WHEN BLACK
BASS BITE THE BEST

The half-grown grass is faint green.
Early flowers bloom in the moist
places of the woods. The air is full
of the sweet smell of growing plants,
yet the sharp tang of the winter has
not altogether gone. The early morn
iugs are cool. but as the DAYS grow
older and the damp rises from the
earth il becomes almost sultry. The
weather. sun, hreezes ana air are
glorious. invigoratiug. but with ma
lures riotous generosity the carly
springtimc has ever greater joys. for
il is then that black bass bite and
ardent anglers, bc they greyhcads or
callow youths. seek the streams and
match their cunning against their IA
vorite fish
For months light has come tn the
monarchs of the streams. through
window pane of ice, maybe a foot or
more in thickness, and the only air
has been filtered through the icy wa
ter i'm places where the frost was I'M
able to imprison the swift-1owing
stream. But now the water is Just
cold enough to he invigorating. Above
/ is the blue sky and the warm spring
air. No wonder that the gamey bass
rcioiccs in his new lease of life and
/ is ready To do battle with the first
angler who dares him with tempt
ing bait.
While the spring signs tempt the
! fishermen out just as soon as the
! fish will begin To bite, the law still
offers a little protection to the tinny
people of the creeks strcams and riv-
ers of the middle west:
Long before philosophers battled
over the theory of chance in the uni
verse. fishermen had it all solved out.
If fishing is ruled by luck, then all
things else follow suit, for in spring
at least fishing comes first.
Rod fishing ON the Mississippi is
now confined mostly to the bass and
lcXcellent catches are made in any
part of the stream between Prairie
du Chen and Red Wing. Mimi. which
/ is To say some hundreds of miles of
bright. fresh water. The best part
of the river begins ut the lower Wis
consin line and runs up far into Min
nesota.
This part is best because the coun-
try il travcrses is comparatively I'M
populated. There are thousands of
reaches. eddics, bays and other Turk
ling places which are not fishcd at all.
The bass will not now rise to the
| fly. because they know by instinct or
reason that no insects worth having
arc vet around. They are ravenous
for live bait, however. and will take
anything which Stimulates live bait
with fair accuracy.
| With live minnow. frog or Undated
| spoon the caster may take a bass, n
! pickerel, q small pike or that savage
pirate which people on the banks call
sand picllerel,' but which is the
muskallonge. There are also the
striped bass, the rock bass and crop
pies in plenty, but nobody fools with
croppies when the nobler things are
to be had. The striped bass are
known as bar fish and are taken with
the spoon in the shallow waters near
the sandbars later in the season.
4 month hence insect life will he
busy above the great stream and
then the red-eyes will be surging up
ward for the flies. This sport is more
satisfactory on no other American
water because the fish are plentiful.
heavy and courageous. space is prac-
tically unlimited and there is always
room for cast.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

Millions marvel at the multitude of
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Life Pills, the most distressing, too.
Stomach. liver and bowel troubles,
dyspepsia. loss OF appetite, jaundice.
biIiousness, fever, malaria, all fall
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at HART Il UHemcycr's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

Pneumonia * Robbed OF It's Terrors.
by Folcy's Honey and Tar. II stops
the raclling cough and heals and
strengthens the lungs. If taken in
time it viii prevent an attack of
pneumonia. Refuse substitutes. For
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

match play round "Wednesday. oct. L.
scmi-iinaIS and finals oct. = and =
Finals women's handicap cup: First
match play round Wednesday, Oct. 5,
semi-finals and finals Oct. and 20.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29
Mrs. D. Arnold, President German
Woman's Club, Grand Pacific Hotel, Los
Angeles, Cal, Relieved Of Tumor by
Lydia F. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

DEAR Mrs PINKHAM II suffered four years with
womb the doctors declared the hospital and
dego operation which dreaded and hcsated to submit
NV medicine,
although he practising physician and he said he believed
Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Compound would
That day took my DOSE and kept up faithfully
used only did
appear my general health very much improved and had
felt o well since young
relapse other med
icin your Compound restored my health and believe
avedm lfe.'-MRs. D. ARNOLD.
$4,000 FORFEIT ABOVE LETTER is NOT GENUINE.
suppressed
debility,
hopeeSsness,
Il.
troubles.
Refuse to buy any 1nedicne you the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29

When n mans wife tells him TO
"wait just second" he can form
some idea of what eternity is like
Chicago News. t'i''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-29
is HUMAN MYSTERY
Remarkable Exhibition Given at
Illinois Theatre BY Anna
Eva Fay.
LIFE TO INANIMATE OBJECTS
Questions Written in Audience An
swered From the
stage.

Taxing last evenings demOnStra ton
as fair sample of the work of Anna
Eva Fay and considering the fact
that she is To remain i'm the city dur
ing the entire week il would seem to
be the sensible thing on the part of
all Rock Island residents who have "a
dun. dead weight resting upon their
minds as Il consequence or the evil
they have wrought, to do the grace
full thing by at once making such ret
ribution as they are able and spare
themselves the modification of being
found ont and exposed. Miss Fay's
particular forte appears 10 lie in Civ
ing the location of the lost or stolen
and i'm solving the mysterious gener-
ally and il would not be wonderful if,
after the cvildocrs of this city have
had opportunity TO witness her feats
of mental telepathy, or whitever il
may be owners of good hats and rub
bcrs that have been exchanged by
mistake or of umbrellas that have
been taken outright. should open
their respective front doors some fine
morning and find their lost property
on thc porch. The police force, too,
may take Il hunch and line up
Wholesale collection of stolen bicycles
and other missing articles upon which
their efforts as sleuths have been
spent in vain.
Laws OF Gravity DIsregarded.
The manner in which the laws of
gravity and accepted rules of natural
phenomena were disregarded last
evening severely strained the credul-
lily of many members of the large au-
dicncc present, and the openness
with which everything was done APP
peared to leave doubling Thomases
nothing to suspect save the evidences
of their own senses.
At the beginning of the exhibition
three members OF the audience were
called upon the stage. W. b. Mcintyre
and w y Rosenficid. Of this city, and
w II. Taylor. of Moline, conscnting to
take to the boards upon the presen-
tation of their names by other spec
tators- Upon her first appearance ON
the stage Miss Fay moved various obs
iects 10y merely laying her hands up
on them. Then she took Il cotton
handkerchief from Mr.. Taylor and
placing ii upon the floor caused il to
stand upon its corner at her com
mand. Turning. she walked away,
the cloth falling back 60 the floor.
At distance of about twelve feet
She turned and at her command the
handkerchief again rose upon one
corner and came To her with series
of jumps, something after the fash
ion of a kangaroo.
Bonds No HIndrance.
Miss Fay was next tied securely to
a board that was nailed upright and
braced to the floor. her hands beinr
fastened behind her back and TO ~
ring staplcd in the board, and her
head tied back. The bonds that held
her were sewed and court plaster
was sealed over her wrists. Then
cabinet consisting of wooden frame
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
Guarding Russell SAGE.

Ever since Laidlaw tried to blow
Russell Sage up in his office the ven
cradle financier has been casefulIy
guarded while there. In an ante
room sits his faithful guardian and
confidential man, Mr. Menzies, through
whom the old man must be reached
Mr.. Menzies is protected by a parti-
tion having latticed wire top with
iron spikes reaching to the ceiling 1t
would be impossible for man to
climb over these spikes or to throw
bomb between them. Mr. Sage is
not always accompanied in the street
CIR in travelling between his home and
Office by body guard or detective.
Frequently he goes about entirely
alone and seemingly is without fear
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
About Your Lessons, Bows.

The boy who used to boast Of get
ting the best of his teacher has been
heard from. The same traits of char
acter which tempted him to deceive
his teacher into believing that he had
solved his problems, and completed
his tasks himself. led him to cheat his
employer, to idle whenever his back
was turned, and to shirk his days
work, until he finally lost his position.
His lack of education-the result of
cheating his teacher-has proved a
perpetual handicap, and has lost him
many a good situation. His dishon-
esty, which started in the sch oolroom,
has grown until nobody will trust him
and he has no credit or standing ln
his community.
AS a boy, he thought himself very
clever in being able to dodge his
lessons and impose upon his teacher;
but he realizes now that the person
cheated was himself. In those pre-
cious days of youth he robbed himself
of pearls of great value which he
never will be able to recover.
The thief of time and opportunity
often thinks he is enriching himself
but he awakes one day to the truth
that he is poorer and nearer for the
theft.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
The Struggle on the Sheet.

across the room, or, what is better.
over folding doors. Seat the company
before the screen, without lights. The
actors dance and act behind the sheet,
on which their magnitied shadows are
cast BY the lamp. Occasionally they
jump over the lamp, and thus appear
to the spectators in front as If they
had jumped upward through the cell
ing Some amusing scenes may be
contrived with little ingenuity
chairs and tables may be called down
from above by passing them across the
light: struggle between two seeming
combatants may take place, and one
be seen to throw the other up in the
air on the same principle. OF course,
the actors must promote the deiusion
by their gestures, moving their hands
and feet as if climbing upward. Care
should be taken to keep the profile on
the screen as distinct as possible, and
practice will soon suggest some high
ly humorous situations.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31

but l don't know. + ate downed me
years ago and her grip is still on my
throat. Where I see others leap and
stand upright, there is for me only
spasmodic, inefiectual efforts to get
upon my feet. Still, living on the
back is not such an uncomfortable
position and grip never annoys un-
less one struggles against it: and
gave up struggling long ago."
The man of means turned upon
her eagerly.
Who wrote that letter."
That none OF your business she
laughed, are you satisfied as to your
skill"
u insist on knowing who wrote that
letter.
Insist as much as you please.
Business women do not betray con-
tidences."
He stood up and looked down an
grily into her smiling face.
IF | told you that all my hopes of
now and hereafter depended upon see
ing that signature, would you show it
to me?'
Il am afraid I could scarcely credit
such q rash statement
"Oh, you can believe it. 1t is true
enough"
He faced around and stared at the
fire. When he spoke again his tones
betrayed intense disgust.
Il would not give thirty cepts for
the heart and soul of all the business
women in the world put together!"
Il didn't know it was up for auc-
ton" she commented.
He turned upon her savaeely.
Once more, will you tell me who
wrote that letter."
"'Onct, Bunsby will you scoot.'"
Listen to me-" he Numbered sit
ting there in your inane :mbecility
you are holding the happiness of two
lives"
Il shall try to hold them tight." she
murmured.
You viii not show me that sigma
ture?'
No"
Then will go to her without see
ing it. Don't you suppose that |
KNOW lHGTS is put one woman IN the
world surong enough to pen such
words as tlose?'
The literary woman laughed as the
door banged viciously
And to think that it was one of
my own little creatures that wrote
them. Well, l dare say he and Lou
will make up that longstandng
squabble of theirs now that wave
of chance has washed them together"
and then as though she suddenly felt
the need of something strong, she
took up the paper at her elbow and
read again that bit of Rightor's: "A
man must sit on his own salt sack;
that's the first duty. Then he must
walk in the path whereto the Fates
kick him; that's Kismet. Then he
must gather all the red and blue bios.
SONS along the way, and hold his
head high, and breathe deep and
whistle at the stars and keep away
from churchyards and laugh so mer-
rily as he may; that's cheerfulness.
For the rest, there is no man that may
walk against the high waves Of the
sea. nor gather thistle down in the
wind. nor plant cabbage in granite" !"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
Fun in a Clocks Face.

Some amusement may be had in .
company Of boys and girls by asking
them to draw a picture of the face Of
a clock. Most of them would be likely
to draw the letters w. instead Of iii.
for four, and would forget, perhaps.
that all the letters of the dial should
stand with their base toward the CEN
ter.
1t is probable that most people read
a clock dial by the position of the fig-
ures or letters and disregard the hg-
ures themselves. Some of the larger
clocks now made for steeples have
only straight line at each hour place
and they serve their purpose admir-
ably.
1t has been found. however, that
while most persons have no accurate
knowledge of dials, any marked de-
parture from the usual method OF
marking them is at once detected. A
dial bearing Nv. instead of the four
straight lines attracts everybody's At
tention.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
This Landlord Hates Docs,

There is curious clause in lease,
which gentleman in Paris was asked
to sign recently: Il hereby agree not
to bring any dog into the apartments
which | am about to occupy and not to
permit any dog to remain there. Fur
thermore, authorize any person who
may at any time find a dog in my
apartments or in the garden or court
yard or on the stairs leading to the
apartments or on the steps at the
front entrance to make away with him
Immediately in any manner that he
pleases. and l hereby promise that l
will never take legal action on ac-
count of the disappearance of any
such dog"
1T is rather surprising" says a
French paper, that this landlord, who
has such horror of dogs. does not
append to this clause another one, as
follows: BE it understood that chill
dren come under the same category as
dogs"
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31

woman may be strong enough to go
on living straight, honest life she
never quite gets over a mishap of the
heart. Don't you believe that?"
NO" he replied with rough
laugh, Il have seen tco many women
recover from heart-breaks."
'Or think that you have" she sug-
gested. Il doubt If even your astute-
ness can say what is in a sealed can
that is not labeled
There is nothing Of the sealed can
about woman's heart he said, and
there was a nasty slur in his tone
that fred the literary woman's blood.
You know so much. Listen to this
from the pen of a woman who all
unite to call strong and contented,"
she took written sheet from the
drawer and ran her eye over it search
ingly. Here it is: Perhaps it is in
me to do better work and more OF it.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31

half an inch wide. Fasten thio od1s
to the edge Of the board with . 49,
Place the board in . sunny window
just before IL O'Clock and mark tho
place 20 that you can always place
in the same position every day. LAv'
the sheet on the board 30 that the
first ruled line touches the cardboard.s
At exactly IL o'clock place the board
SO lnat the shadow OF the card will:
cover the nrst ruled line. Just on
the same minute Of IL mark the top
Of the shadow on the ruled line with
dot in ink. Do this every day ct
exactly IL o'clock. using the next
ruled line. Cloudy days skip line.
Mark the shadow on the ruled line
for twenty days or longer, If there are
more lines. When all are marked join
all the dots together with an mixed
line, and you will see that the lire is
bent or curved. This curved line
shows the curve in the sky the sun
follows as the season changes.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
A Grand Dukes Costume.

By all accounts Grand Duke Boris
was spectacular feature of the
horse snow in Newport the day he at
Kaleidoscope costume of his royal
higness included g. suit in large gray
plaids, lemon-colored shirt, and sill
yer gray tie; tan shoes, white and
tan belt. fastened by a snowy gold
buckle, and a white straw hat trim
med with light blue. A jeweled snake,
curled in three glittering coils, form
ed his ring, and the much written
about bracelet was in evidence when
ever he gesticulated with his left
arm.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
DEsERr ,Mc,TEs 10 posrkv.
Writer Disecvers eeauty Of Sort II
DesoIation.

know desertlike place that ;sl
not wholly, desert, yet it is neither
oasis nor fertile land. says Werner 2.
Reed in the August Atlantic 1t is
what might be termed semi-desert,
ard it has mood that is different
from that of other deserts. 1t seems
philosophic. well-contented sort OF
place, that has much knowledge, much
wisdom, and that extracts wise en-
joyment from the days that pass over
it. 1t is nearly related to tall peak.
and is akin to nearby range OF
mountains, and to the air and the SKY.
Flowers grow upon this semidesert-
sunflowers, and bergamot, and blue
bells, and Mariposa lilies, and many
other shaggy little steps that bear blue
and yellow and white and seven-huea
blossoms. 1t knows brush, too.
and yucca. and various pygmy cacti.
1t is field and farm and native land
for many well-established. ancient and
wise nations of prairie dogs, and IT
is the world and the fullness thereof
FOR thousands of republics OF ants.
This semi-desert stretches away from
the mountains and runs its way in
billows towards the East. We know
It reaches to farms aud towns and
work and trouble, and that its next OF
kin. the prairie. goes on to the great
rivers whose banks are lined with the
covers of chattels, but we like to think
that, as a desert, it stretches away be-
yond the horizon. and passes un-
changed on 10 infinitN and across 1t Is
the road to eternity. ana enoiess
growth of soul and joy of effort and
consummatioH.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-10-31
Ready For the Explosion.

make as much fun as any little device
you ever heard of.
Here is the way to make it: Select
five of the longest and smoothest
toothpicks you can find, and place
two of them on the bottom of goblet
or wineglass, turned upside down on
On these two place third one, so
that it will lie lengthwise along the
middle line of the letter.
Now place pick at each end so
that it will rest on top of the middle
one and under the ends of the crossed
ones. This will make little bend in
the middle pick, causing enough pres
sure to hold the device to gether. The
picks may be more easily arranged If
you get some one to help you.
Get long cork and stick matches
into it to represent arms and legs.
An extra piece of cork may be carved
into a sort of head for the figure, and
the effect will thereby be made more
grotesque. Or you may make the
head with all the features out of new
bread, which is malleable enough for
the purpose. A little water color paint
will make eyes, nose, ears and cheeks.
Now place the figure astride of the
middle toothpick, at one end. and you
have everything ready for the "going
off, of the machine. To bring about
the catastrophe you have only to
touch a lighted mate. to the end Of
one of the crossed toothpicks, and
just as soon as enough of it has burn
!, 0T S,,~o Va
whole device will fly to pieces. and
as the bent middle toothpick will
spring up when thus released from
pressure it will throw the figure into
space dismembered.
The result is both startling and
amusing.