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had Husband who led the choir, but these
Trihes did not bother the Kid. He had it
all cribbed up to kill the Husband in a
Duel and carry Loved One off to lonely
Island. where they could live Crusoe Fash
ion. He used to send Teacher an occa-
sional Card showing couple of fat Pig
cons nesting under Mess of Spinach, and
also a little Couplet TO the Effect that as
sure as the Vine grows round the Stump
she was his Little Sugar Lump. He picked
her Currants for her and wouldn't take
Money for it, and he loafed around the
Kitchen when she was making her Apple
Butter until at last she sent him Home
with a little Note to his Nav, advising
her to put him in heavier Flannels and
make him drink Sassafras Tea each Night.
Eugene pinned away for a couple Of Days,
and then transferred his Pollywog Aztec
tions to an Old Maid who stood at the Cen
eral Delivery Window at the Postoffice.
He wrote for Seed Catalogues and Terms to
Agents so as to have an Excuse to speak
to Angel She up and married the Station
Agent. Eugene had to go out and forget
his sorrow in Baseball and Pull-Away.
In due Time he went to a Fresh-Water
College, and here he began to yearn for
another Kind. 1t happened that he went
out Botanizing with slender COED who
wore Nose-Glasses and had an Intellect
that made a Noise like a Dynamo. FIRE.
quently they did their Algebra together.
and he wrote Notes to her in Latin telling
her that she was All Right.
Along about this time his Idea Of Para
disc come down to Earth was TO own
snug little Library and sit in ii every Even
ing reading aloud to a tall-browed Help
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Affinity concealed somewhere in the Brush.
and the Game was TO hunt her up and then
stick TO her like Spalding's Glue. He al
lowed that the Real Girline Charms did
not depend upon Frizzes and Makeup.
Eugene was strong for the Beauty OF Soul.
which would wear for Years and look just
as we'll on one Side as the Other.
When he graduated he was keen 10 do
the Library Act with the cogitative Co-Ed.
Upon searching himself he found that his
Assets consisted OF a hand-worked Dlplo-
ma, a few Dance Programmes and "A Badge
Of the Gotta Bazoota Frat. He decided 10
cut out the Private Reading Circle until he
could see his Way clear TO get enough 10
pay for the License.
Having settled in the City, he gave a busy
Imitation of a Bright Young Fellow who
is trying TO side-steD the POtter's Field
At the Boarding House where he coaled
there was a Head Waitress who carried
a Remarkable Shape for one who had 70
be on her Feet all day. She had never
been beyond the third Grade in the Gram
mar School but when they had Chicken
she always slipped Gene the Second Joint.
and she had his Paper propped UP for him
when he came 10 Breakfast. He gave her
several long Rides on the Cars, and there
might have been something doing IL Eu-
gene had not had his Salary whooped. He
moved into a first-class, pruneless Family
Hotel, and got into the Habit Of carrying
Money in his Clothes. In the meantime
the Co-Ed was of in Minnesota somewhere,
teaching School.
Around the Hotel there were all Kinds.
and Eugene, who was now thirty and had
mislaid his Diploma, found that he no long
er had an uncomfortable Desire 70 buckle
up with those who wore Specs and could
tear the lining out OF synthetic Philosophy.
When ne ambed around after Dinner he
had his Port Eye out for a larksome Loo
loo who would pin Flowers on him and
tease him to take her TO a Lively Show.
He began to buy Flowers for all who were
under twenty-five. He framed his Dresser
with Carbon Photos Of Mazies and Lillians
and Madges. One Of the upper Drawers
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smelled like the front part Of a Drug Store,
and was filled with Square Envelopes ad-
dressed in the scraggly, dislocated Writing
that looks like Profile Drawing Of the
Sierra Nevadas.
Eugene was now too Busy TO think Of
Matrimony. He had eight or nine on his
Books at one time, and the Main Joy Of
his Life was to burn up his Income in such
way that it would give a feeting Hour
OF Happiness TO a dimpled Bud weighing
anywhere from IS to lis Pounds.
The Library which he had planned in the
Cloisters of Learning consisted Of a Date
Book and a Volume telling how 70 cook
Things in a Chafng-Dish.
Bye and bye it came about that Eugene
had thin Spot on top OF his Head The
little Ships who hoped out of the Nursery
in Sassiety every Fall started in 10 call
him Papa and Nunky. He began TO count
the Years and decided that he was due to
take the High Jump.
But he did not choose any Lady who
taught in the Sunday School Neither did
he swing on any Old Maid at the General
Delivery. His Heart did not hone and han
ker for any Female Emerson or any stately
and superior Head Waitress Even the
Society Queen who had been worked out
for a couple Of Seasons did not appeal TO
Eugene. He put his Tag on a blonde Ca
nary seventeen Years Of Age. who spelled
Sure with II and had from seven 20 nine
Thoughts every twenty-four Hours. But
she was very Easy TO Look at And the
only call that he made on her Intellect was
to. please regard him as The Works
Moral: The only Cinch Method Of avoid
ing Misplays is TO wait until one knows his
Mind
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family moved to Birmingham. Ala. From
here. for few months, she attended school
In Atlanta For four years following 1898
she resided in New York, where her first
novel was written, returning to Birmine-
ham. When Miss Johnston was twenty
her mother died. and since then she has
had charge of her fathers household. Her
health is delicate
Inquirer: Gen. Calixto Garcia died at
Washington Dec. IL, 1898. Try Senior Tomas
Estrada Palma. President of the Cuban
Republic at Havana. Domestic postage
rates apply to mail sent to Cuba.
In what way can I detect sewer gas n
there Is any escaping through n,umhino9
:. In testing air for vitiatfon why is If tb9t
the test Is usually made for carbon diox-
ide?-G. G..
You make simple test by wrapptnp
the suspected joint with single layer of
white muslin wet with a solution of acetate
OF lead. If gas is escaping its sulphur COM
pounds will blacken the cloth. 2. Because
that is the most common foulness. il being
produced by animal respiration and by the
burning of fuel and Illuminating oil and
gas.
VIII You give me an idea of the method
Dy "hlch silver is separated electrically
from copper in the product of copper
mines IF. PFNA
Crude metallic copper direct from the
copper smelter. usually the product of the
Bessemer converter. is cast into far slabs
These are covered with baggins and i'm
mersed in acidulated solution of sulnhats
of copper With these as anodes and with
sheets OF copper as catholics the conner 90
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Once there was a Boy named Eugene.
About the time that he shook the Sailor
Collar and began to wear Galluses instead
OF buttoning them TO the Waist he had his
first Attack.
He went off his Feed and moaned in his
Sleep. His Mother, not suspecting that the
Divine Passion could find room TO operate
in a 9O-pounder, thought he had Cholera
Infantum. She began to shoot the Pain
Killer into him, but IL failed to touch the
Spot
Little Eugene had gone Mushy on the
Lady who taught his Sunday-School Class.
She was doing her thirty-fifth Lap and
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Washington, d. C.?-J. e. Men
Allen.
Where was President Hill. of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, born?-T. H. S.
Near Guelph. Upper Canada.
Where was Prof. o. S. Fowler educated?
z. Was he ever a general practitioner in
medicine? IN. r. c. r.
He graduated at Amherst College. 2 No.
How many persons in the United States
committed suicide in 1901 ?-B. X. J.
This is not known. There were returned
for the census year of 1900 suicides to the
What was the population of Kansas as
taken the last TWO times2-H- G.
In 1895 it was l.S3i66S. and in 1900 II was
1.470.495- The general census Of 1890 re-
turned las, Jos.
Who was ambassador from the United
States 10 Cuba from 1856 to 1s9s?-J. c.
The consul general at Havana in the first
OF this period was Ramon o. Williams,
and from June. 1896. was Fitzhugh Lee.
Did deed conveying real estate bearing
date in October, 1901, require revenue
staups-W. ". J.
If for over S25oo. yes. at the rate of 25
cents for each SEQ of value: If under 81. 500.
no
Are the recent French laws that are fore
Ing some Of the religious orders out of
Z, c.
No; though the Jesuits. Dominicans and
PGssionists. the larger organizations
feel their application with especial force.
Was David Davis a member of the EIec-
toral Commission 2 n what year did
Samuel J. Tilden die?-L.
No; the five associate justices Of the SUI
preme Court who served on the commits
sion were Nathan clifford. s. J. Miller. S.
j. Field. W. Strony and ]. P. Bradley. .
in 1856. Aug. 4.
Does. the republic OF Switzerland have
direct lsSislatiOn2 > What is meant by the
initiative and referendum?
Yes; that IS the marked tendencv-more
marked in some csntons than in others ,
BY the former Is meant the right OF the
voter. in Switzerland. 10 propose new.
o. the repeal OF old, legislation. BY the
latter IS meant the submission Of Iegisla-
ton that has been approved by representa-
tyes In legislation or convention to a pop
aIar
VIII you print something OF May John
ston's lne,-efrs- A b
She was born In Buchanan. Va. Nov. q
1870. anc there lived. being educated In her
home. until sixteen years old. when her
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Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
There are many physicians who hold that
colds are not due 10 low temperature, but
to contagion. If you say to them: Then
a man alone on a desert island would
never take cold?" they reply: He would
not" But if you ask them how the first
cold, the original cold, came into existence
they are stumped. Nevertheless, they have
many evidences in favor of their belief
and as good an evidence as any is the San
itarium for Consumptives at White Haven
In this institution frail consumptives, i'm
medately on their arrival, are made to
work and eat and sleep-to live altogether
out of doors, yet they never take cold, even
with the thermometer at zero. But if a
visitor with a cold gets into the building
he is apt to communicate his disorder to
a patient and for a week colds run like
wildfre through the place Persons with
colds are not admitted into the White Ha-
ven SanitariUm-
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The Stay-at-HOme.

I have waited. / Rave longed-
I have longed as none can know,
All my spring and summer time,
For this day TO come and go;
And the foolish heart mine,
Dreaming i would see them shine
Harlequin and Columbine
And Pierrotl
Now the laughing has gone by,
ON the highway from the inn;
And the dust has settled down.
And the house is dead within
And I stay-who never go
Looking out upon the snow,
Columbine and Pierrot
And Harlequin
All the rainbow things you see
Understream are not so fine:
And their voices weave and cling
Like my honeysuckle vine,
Lovely as a violin
Mellow gold and silver-thin:
Pierrot and Harlequin
And Columbinei
Oh, the people that have seen.
They forget that IL so!
They. who never stay at home.
Say. IT'S nothing but a show
And l keep the passion in:
And / bide, and i spin.
Columbine . Harlequin
PierrotI
Josephine Peabody.
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A FABLE FROM REAL LIFE.
How Author of Fables i'm Slang"
Lived Up to His Theory.

New York Tribune.
There is class Of peoDle-and they are
not all women, either-who can not be con-
WINGED that whatever an author writes
isn't photographed If a man writes
love sonnet he must be in love, a theory
which. If carefully applied TO some of our
poets. would prove that they out-Solomon
Solomon. Such persons are rather vexing,
for one is sure they would never read
Shakspeares sonnets II they didn't believe
there was woman involved. and they SIM
ply glory in the fact that poor little David
Copperf1eld is said TO be the boy Dickens
himself TO all such this story may have
interest.
II is about a fable by George AIDE the
past master OF slang. The fable tells of
two men. the one who wouldn't learn bot
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-24

One lesson, Nature, let me learn OF thee,
One lesson which IN every wind is blown,
One lesson of two duties kept at one,
Though the loud world proclaim theiA enmity-
OF toll answered from tranquility,
OF labor. that in lasting fruit outgrows
Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose
Too great for haste. too high for rivalry.
Yes while on earth a THOUSAND discords ring
Mans senseless uproar mingling with his toll
Still do thy quiet ministers move on,
Their glorious task in silence perfecting.
Still working, blaming still vain turmoil.
Laborers that shall not failwhen man is gone.
Matthew Arnold
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meet. He wrote several Essays on Women
and sprung them on the Pythagorean Lit
erary Society He said that every Nav
erick who was cow-trailing around over
the Sand-Lots of this dreary Life had an
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bonnet with one hand, and hanging on with
the other, few along, and in no time Ned
was face to face with his own stable door,
painting and whinnying to be let in. with
no other damage than throwing shoe.
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Irrigation without water.
Kan) Globe

Irrigation without water is a humbug.
80 Is a iact that water IS scarce in all
sections where IRRIGATION l. carried on
IN Soiorado. thousands or acres OF cood
iano under ditch, have been abandoned be-
cause or lack of water There Is not
SnSosn water IN the mountains for Colo
raao, 10 say nothing OF the arid lands OF
Kansas. Irrigation Is a good thing like
eiectricity. but the talk about il is greatly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-24
MODERN FABLES GEORGE AIDE.
THE MODERN FABLE OF EUGENE
WHO WALKED THE LENGTH OF THE
s COUNTER BEFORE MAKING HIS Sc
s LECTION.
e there was a Bow named Eugene.

convYjsbf 1909 by Robert Howard Russell
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Whatever you do. don't forget Mrs. Austin
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The Doings of Indiana Postoffices

Beginning Capitol Unless Preceded by Period
Quotation the Name of a Postofce In Indiana
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WIN you print something OF May John
ston's hfe--efrs- a -.
She was born In Buchanan. Va. Nov. q
1870. anc there lived. being educated in her
home. until sixteen years old, when her
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
EsefnI Men

A we'll Known Philadelphia society
woman said the other day:
Il have come to separate the men OF
my acquaintance into three classes.
There are the dancing men, the dinner
men and the corner men, and each has
his own place OH my list. For instance,
would never think of depending upon
dancing men for dinner. The dane
ing man is generally callow, and he
doesn't know much else besides dane
ing. On the other hand, the dinner man
seldom dances, but he is good talker,
is specifically informed upon the light
er topics of the duy-the opera, drama,
tue latest novels-and can more than
hold up his end. He doesn't allow con-
versntion to lag, and consequently he
is uu important factor ut dinner. Men
will accept dinner invitations quicker
than invitations of other kinds, but
don't think from this that they are all
dinner men. Far from IT.
The corner man? oh. he is the one
who has the knack of making himself
generally useful and is quite in class
by himself. He looks after the comfort
of the chaperons, runs handy little err
rands and can even be depended upon
at afternoon teas. The other men don't
think much of him. but he has his own
value from the feminine point of view"
Philadelphia Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
when Fror. Arc ne.t.

Frogs legs are sold in Paris daintily
threaded on little willow wands. Peo-
pie buy them for the home table in
stead of. as is the practice in this coun-
try, eating them exclusively in restau-
rants. They make n most palatabIe
broth for invalids and convalescents.
but ordinarily the legs are prepared by
removing the skin. rolling them in
flour, adding salt. pepper and butter.
with pinch OF parsley. and cooking
them gently in frying pan or on the
griddle. BY Parisians it is considered
that the frog is best in the fall of the
year, when it is latest and most deli
cate. However. large numbers of the
batrachians are caught In the spring,
when they are said to be more easily
captured.-Saturday Evening Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
Common Sense In Law.

When we are told that every law
must be enforced to the letter though
TIE heavens fall, it las Il brave sound.
but wise regard for the public good
demands that the laws lie so executed
that the heavens may not fall. The
maxim that 1.-THE extreme of the law
may be the extreme of Injustice
"summum jus. summa injuria"-is of
venerable age and has had the approx
al of the best Jurisprudence as well
as the best craftsmanship of many
centuries. 1t is not mere ''sophistry'' -
as somewhat hastily, l suppose, 1t has
been called-but it may well be quoted
in support of the application of simple
common sense to complicated and per
picking eXigencies. l think there is not
government in the world, not even
the most conscientious. that does not
refrain from rigidly enforcing to the
letter some laws standing on its statute
books, either because they are anti
quated or because such enforcement IS
practically impossible or. If beneficial,
would result in evils greater than those
which those laws are to prevent or re-
press.-Carl Schurz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
A Survival of the Primitive.

A Philadelphia philosopher thus ex-
plains the general preference for Il wall
table in n restaurant: primitive man
ate in peril. The cave bear, the saber
tooth tiger, even some warrior of his
own kind, was apt at any moment to
leap upon him and to devoTr his food
and perhaps himself. Therefore he
took his meals with his back against Il
cliff or in the corner of two adjoining
cliffs, if possible. and with the open
country before him. That, YOU see,
was the safest way for him to eat. He
COULD not then be surprised.
land we still have in US that memory
of the primitive man, and we still I'M
consciously, when we sit down to our
repasts, choose places that give us
wall for our protection. That and not
a desire to see things is what causes us
to pick out walls and corners. You can
see as well from the middle of a room
or from any other place, you know"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
A Queer Marriage Custom.

In the Loo Choo islands there are
some curious marriage customs. One
consists in the bridegroom going round
to all his friends houses and permit
ting them to dress him up in any ride
ulous style that they fancy. Some
times the happy man is arrayed in u
gayly painted kimOnO, the sleeves of
which are tied up with Il string laden
with bells, toys and trumpets. \ mask
is then put on and red hat. the rig
OUT being completed by an empty ker-
osene tin, which rattlcs noisily along as
he walks, accompanied generally by 4
crowd Of children.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
HAMPTON CLASHES WITH
THE MILWAUKEE, RAILROAD

The Moline Mail says that Hampton
and the Milwaukee road have come
to Il clash over the grade question.
and whether or not the grade. of the
tracks for the Kansas City cutoff
through that village shall be three
feet higher than il * now remains
10 be seen.
One Of the village board members
was in the city the other day and said
that the village was going 10 oppose
the elevation of the tracks most
strenuously and that If necessary the
road would he hauled into court TO
show by what legal right il occupied
the streets at all.
The company * at present rebuild
ing the line ON this division between
Thompson and East Moline and has
a gang of men at work in the neigh
borhood Of Port Byron. which * 10
go over the whole line between The
Two stations and make the changes
necessary To accommodate the heavy
traffic of the new service.
When the surveyors came to Hamp-
tonO they ran a line which elevated
the track three feet above the pres
ent grade and showed the village a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11

In reply to inquiries we have pleas
ure in announcing that Eiy's Liquid
Cream Balm is like the solid prepare
tion of that admirable remedy in
that il cleanses and heals membranes
affected by nasal catarrh. There is
no drying or sneezinG. The Liquid
Cream Balm is adapted to use by pa
TENTS who have trouble in inhaling
through the nose and prefer spray
ing. The price. including spraying
tube. * &c. Sold by druggists or
mailed by Ely Brothers. 80 Warren
street. New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-11
ADDS TO CAPACITY
Notable improvement in Progress
at WatertoWn
Asylum.
SOCIETY HALL NEARLY COMPLETED
Additions VIII Keep Builders Busy
Greater Part Of Sum-
mer.

This summer the great asylum at
WATERFOWL will undergo elaborate
improvements which when finished
viii amount to many thousands of
dollars and will increase the capac-
| ity of the already up-to-date institu-
tion.
The last several months worllmen
have been busy on building additions
ana the prospects are that they will
be engaged all summer before the
present plans are finished.
David Stephens, of Rock Island, has
just completed the building of the
laundry. machine and blacksmith
shop aud is rapidly finishing the So
ciety hall.
The new laundry is already in OPP
Grafton and il is giving entire salts
faction. the clothes being done up
with neatness and dispatch. The
machines which have been put i'm are
the most modern appliances that are
known today. The outfit is a collar
and shirt machine. four large double
gear washing machines, an extra
large size eNtracatur. mangle, sprink
lerS and Il large dry room which is
operated by 36-inch disk fan driven
by Il motor. They have also facilities
to make their own soap. Adjacent
to the laundry building is n large new
cistern which has been built this
winter. LIS capacity is 10000 barrels
of water. Into this large cistern all
the water from all the cisterns
around the institution flows. The
laundry is altogether the finest equip
ped ever introduced in this vicinity.
Equipped with Latest Machines.
The machine and blacksmith shops
are also equipped with the latest ma
chimes. One large turning lathe has
been put i'm and also several smaller
sizes. Several drills and all other ma
chinery which goes with modern
shop has been put in. The repairing
around the institution will he done
in these shops.
The society hall is nearing compile
ton rapidly and il will probably be
opened the latter part of next month.
The building will be of brick and is
two stories high with basement.
\ large force of men has also been
put to work on the new parole hall.
which is to he two stories high and
with Il basement. 1t will be 55NS0
feet. Next week the contract for
the mems dormitory will be let 10
contractors. This will be. two
story brick. fire-proof. with base
ment, and will be 3OxsO feet. When
this building is finished it will be
used by the men attendants as sleep
ing quarters. 1t will accommodate
forty men.
Building is not the only thing they
are busy at. but they are also sowing
grain and planting vegetables for the
supply next winter. Since the warm
weather has started they have plant
ed twenty-five bushels of onion sets
and have sowed sixty acres of oats,
besides the many vegetable supplies.