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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05
FUEL.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

H J. TOHER & CO.-Brokers, Davenport.
Stocks, grain, provisions, cotton. Prfxale
wire to New York and Chicago. offices
100 Main street. Telephone 407.
GEORGE h. SIDWELL & CO.-Commission
merchants. Grain, hay and provisions.
Members of the Chicago board of trade
and Chicago Stock exchange. Established
% years No $40 and 54S Rialto building
Long distance phone. Harrison 1866.
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CLARyOYAN,


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CLAIRVOYANT-MrS Sulger, the medium,
has not been here long but has already
located a lost watch and child who had
been kidnapped in Moline. Name viii be
given at her home. 1909 Sixth avenue, Mo-
line. She will give lectures and free tests
every Wednesday evening at the Art gal
lery. Admission Is cents.
MADAM ST. MARIE-Palmist and clairvoy-
ant. Tells you the past present and tu-
ture correctly. Tells you everything per
tanning to business, marriage, divorce,
love affairs, sickness, death, accidents and
everything of interest. One call Will
prove her wonderful accuracy. once
hours from ! to 10 p. M 7O5 Fe''rth ave-
nue.. lake the Blue line.
ROY VICADE, formerly OF Davenport, has
located in this city at 627 Seventeenth
street If trouble besets YOU in any tor m,
call and consult This gifted man. He has
helped thousands, why not you: Tells
everything, without You uttering word.
Gives lucky days and numbers, gives ad-
vice on business speculation, law, love,
marriage, etc, locates buried treasures
and lost friends. Always consult the
best Hours 10 daily and Sunday. sat
isfaction guaranteed.
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HOTELS AND RESORTS.
GRAND HOTEL-Famous Colfax mineral
springs. Offers best accommodations at
reasonable prices. Address william Frey,
Coifax. Iowa.
LAS VEGAS HOT SPRINGS-Located 6.767
feet above the sea- All the year round re-
sort. a perfect place for rest. For partic-
ulars address DIR. Daniel S. Perkins, Medi-
cal Director, Las Vegas, N NJ.
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C., Ii. s. 0. Railway Special Excursion
Rates.

c., Ii. & 0. Railway Especial Excursion
Rates.
June to Sept. so, ST. Paul and Min
neapolis ana return, $12.
June l to Sept. 80, Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo and return, $26.75.
June 16 ana Il, St. Louis and return,
1910.
July 20. 21 and -. Minneapolis and
return, $11.15.
July 1 to 10, Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo and return, $2425.
July l to 10. San Francisco and Los
Angeles and return, $59.25.
Phone 1850, c.. b. & q. depot, Twen-
tieth street and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05

Queen & Crescent service Cincin-
natl to Atlanta and Jacksonville, the
best in the country.
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ARCHITECTS.


LEONARD DRACK-Architect and superin-
tendent. Skinner block, second floor.
8 once hours-1O to IL m 4 to $50 p. m.
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HENRY GAETHJE = Proprietor Chippian-
mock nursery. Cut flowers and designs of
all kinds. City store, 1907 Second avenue.
Telephone $40.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05
FLORISTS.

THE LONGVIEW Park Floral company,
Meyer & Behring, Props. Green houses
1ll5 Fifteenth str eet Plants, cut flowers
and designs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05

One hundred miles shortest, to
Chattanooga, Queen & Crescent
route.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05
PHYSICIANS.
DENTISTS.

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J. t. TAYLOR-Dentist. once hours $50 to
u m, 100 TO p. m. 2IsH Eighteenth
street, opposite Union once. Telephone
new $3.50.
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MIsOELLANEous.

MISCELLANEOUS.
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DIRT given away for hlling purposes on
Twentieth street Apply''to II. E. krell,
Ills Seventeenth street.
IF YOU WISH your money to earn higher
rate of interest than is paid by savings
banks, call on Marion e. Sweeney, attor-
ney, rooms 1886. Mitchell s. Lynde building,
Rock Island.
J. p WILLIAMSON buys, sells and ex-
changes all kinds of second hand goods,
will pay more than any other dealer and
sells cheaper. All kinds OF stove repairing
and cleaning done also. j. =. Williamson,
1916 Second avenue. New telephone 5l6i.
DO you WANT AGENTSt-Many years ex-
perience places US in a position to give you
valuable Information along lines that VIII
assure you success. Ask for free letters
of Information and bulletin of daily papers
that pay. We also start responsible par
ties in the mail order and agency supply,
business. Lord & Carver. Racine. Wis
IF YOU WANT to buy, sell, trade or rent
anything, engage help or secure situation
the Mail is the one paper in Moline that can
do II for you. Mali wants are popular and
Nail wants bring results. One-haif cent
per word is the price to all alike, cash in
advance 2-cent stamps viii do. Evening
and Saturday Mail. Moline Ill.
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Only through car line to AsheFille,
N. c., Queen & Crescent route and
Southern railway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-05
Art DECORATION.

ART DECORATION.
PARDON & SON-ArtiStic interior decora-
ton. Finest line of late paper carried and
skilled workmen employed. Moderate
prices All Seventeenth street
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FOR REN1-RooaEs.

FOR RENT-Newly furnish.d rooms, gas
and bath. 1928 Fourth avenue.
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LOST AND FOUND

LOST-A ladys large black wrist pocket
book with brass chain. Finder return K
this ONCE or to address in pocketbook and
receive reward.
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Observation-Disclosures.

McCASKRIN & McCASKRIN-Attorneys al
law. Rock Island and Milan. Rock Island
once in Bengston block. Milan once on
Main street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-19

year they have again gone on a
strike.
As early as the eighteenth century
sardine fishing was an important in
dustrv in France, and it has increased
very extensively with the growth of
railroads and the progress made iii
the knowledge of canning. Brittany
is the center of the canning indus
try, as well as the province that pos
sesses the most productive fisheries.
The fishing in Brittany used to be
carried ON by surrounding the
schools of fish with nets, and then
throwing stones to brighten the fish
into the meshes; but now very fine
meshed gill nets are employed, which
are kept in place by cork fioaters and
n few small stone sinkers. The nets
are dyed a sort of marine blue, to
render them, when immersed, incOn-
spicuous to the fish.
Bait is employed by the Breton
fishers. and they have to get this inn
portant part of their fishing para
nhernalia from foreign parts; the
salted eggs of the cod being the fav-
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est book about Mrs. Ben-wah (prob7
ably "Benoit') and her parrot. Mrs.
Benoit was a full-blOOded Indian OF the
colony. Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Con-
verse is the New York city chief of the
Six Nations. 1t was she who discov-
cred Falling Star, just as she was try
ing to leave New York for Luzerne.
n. Y, where other Indians live. The
girl had beauty, and Mrs. Converse
made her stay and pose for artists.
In this way she could earn as much
money in half a day as by making
baskets for a week. So Falling Star,
who was an Abenaki and otherwise
known asl Mrs. Annie Fuller, posed for
the Metropolitan art schools, and for
the Chase schools and at Pratt insti-
tute in Brooklyn. A year ago she met
with an accident, which put an end
to her posing, whereupon she went
back to Luzerne, where she has just
died.
Falling Star was only 40 years old.
Her brother was murdered, her hus-
band and her little son died long be-
fore her, her mother was a helpless
invalid. Hers had been a hard life
when chance brought her to the at
tention of artists and softened for a
little time her fiinty way.
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sheriff's deputies threatened, the
breezy way in which he said me boy,
so that the syllables caressed the ear,
his gallant attempts to star Mrs.
Mapleson, stage named marie Rose"
the soothing manner in which he would
placate an irate tenor whose salary
was two weeks in arrears?
Abbey was a business man pure and
simple, with a plunger's nerve. Dam
rosch, who managed German opera
for the subscribers, was musician,
not at all business man, Mapleson
was a sunny adventurer. Grau is an
unusual mbination-artist and bust
ness man at once. Such men do not
happen often. Even he is WORKOUT at
A by the herculean task of hiring
singers, hearing candidates, crossing
the Atlantic twice a year, going over
accounts, settling quarrels.
Outsiders have little idea what set
Ting quarrels alone sometimes means.
A prima donna of impetuous nature
has been known to try to stab another
prima donna upon the stage of the
Metropolitan between acts. Of course
Mr.. Grau at such crises had to get busy.
1t is nerve wearing.
Grau also managed the spring sea-
son of opera at Covent Garden, Lon
don That is secondary. In London,
Paris, St. Petersburg, the plant is the
same. New York insists upon taking
away the best singers. New York is
willing to pay the price.
In New York, for instance, consider
it settled that it pays an opera man
ager to pay a singer like. Jean de
Reszke $4,000 a night-if the people
want him. Three years ago and again
this season, Mr.. Grau opened with an
assured profit upon his books. Nearly
all his boxes and a good share of the
seats were sold in advance. Opera
lovers knew that the best would be
provided. But take the seasons when
there is a gap between subscriptions
and estimated cost. The company
must rely for profit upon chance sales
of seats. When the famous singers
appear the house is full. At other
times even those who pay for seats
by the season stay away.
Are the casts so much better than in
the old days when Patti and Campanini
and Ravelli and Gerster sang? Not
always as to the principals. But the
chorus and the costumes and the seen
cry and the orchestra and the hundred
and one incidentals show the advan-
tages of having a thorough business
man in charge.
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cut off and your body be divided into
four quarters to be disposed of as his
majesty pleases. And | pray God to
have mercy on your soul"
The law authorizing this sort of
sentence has never been erased from
the statute books and stands as a hOr-
rible memento of the England that
was, but that has now passed and gone.
The improvement in public sentiment,
and nothing else, has made such SEN
tence impossible of its being en-
forced.
A review of the history of the trea-
son cases of England shows that when
these terrible sentences were actually
carried out to the last letter and spirit
of the enactment, before frantic null
titude that shouted with the widest
Joy when the eXecutioner tore from
the victims bosom the bleeding heart
and, holding it high said: Behold the
heart of a traitor!" there were far
more traitors to deal with than there
are at the present day. Far from in
spring the terror which it was IN
tended the scenes would inspire, the
CORY spectacles thus enacted by the
authority of the law. apparently pre-
pared the ground for the seeds of
other anarchies. The people were
made callous by these frequent re-
voting sights; and from the contents
of certain pamphlets which have come
down to us from the pens of willing
spectators of such scenes, it is APP
parent that those who punished were
pcssessed of spirits of revenge that
were far more criminal than the orig
inal intentions of those who received
the punishment. The majority of the
populace a century ago in England
could witness such a butchery with
pleasure and then go home and enjoy
a good meal and a soundnight's sleep.
England has not been compelled to
deal with a treason case for period
of some 60 years; and the prisoner at
that time arraigned, established
good case of insanity and was acquitted
of treason, though he was detained,
of course, to await her majesty's
Measure" This man was Edward Ok
ford. and he was arrested for attempt
inc to shoot Queen Victoria as her
carriage was being driven through the
streets. This was in 1910. At about
the same period, when the Chartist
movement was in progress John Frost
and other enthusiasts of that agita-
tor were arrested for participating in
an armed uprising and were arraigned
for treason. In accordance with the
apparently inyariable rule that is fol-
lowed when the prisoner is found
guilty, the extreme penalty was first
passed upon them; but their sentences
were COMMITTED to transportation.
Later, in 1856, they were allowed to
return to England. Transportation
began to be a favorite penalty in the
first quarter of the century; it was
a convenient way of getting prisoners
out of the way without blooGshed when
the demand for leniency cases calling
for capital punishment where the Of
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rings out the tidings Cor at least that
has been the custom), and down to
the quays troop mothers, wives, and
sweethearts; to greet the fishermen
and 10 help carry the great baskets
of fish.
1t is an interesting sight to see the
boats after the return to the fleet,
the bright nets always being immedi-
ately hung up to dry. They decorate
the boats from stem to. stern, frou
masthead to water-line, and gay
picture they certainly make. The
fishermen, in blouses, short trousers,
and bare legs, work at the unload
ing; the girls and women, even more
picturesquely CARRIED, carry the fish
to the canneries.
The girls also work in the sardine
factories. In bare feet, with skirts
tucked up, they toll away, song on
their lips, though their task cannot
be the most pleasant-that of their
sisters working without appears
preferable. The heads and entrailS
are removed from the sardines as
soon as they enter the factory, and
then the fish are put into brine,
where they remain for perhaps all
hour. After being thoroughly
washed, they are dried, which pro-
cess also requires about an hours
time Then they are immersed in
boiling oil. packed in cans, which, on
being sealed, are set in boiling wa
ter; after cooling, as a last cleans
ing process, they are put into saw
dust.
The Bretons are a serious and
grave folk naturally, but the Breton
fishermen. as is true of most men of
this calling, are jovial and hearty.
The Breton types have been made
familiar to us by the noted artists
who have found the people, the
landscape. and the water coast Of
Brittany SO tempting they have often
and long pitched camp in the midst
of the picturesqueness Many ia
NOUS canvases have gone out from
the various artist colonies in Brit
tanv, and made known to many land )
and peoples the simple life of the
Woodworking folk living in that por-
ton of France that lies between the
English channel and the Bay of Bis
cay.
The Breton women do mems work
in the fields as we'll as in the fishing
industry; and in a country where the
land harvest grows down clear to the
sea, one can look upon petticoated
toilers reaping grain near by other
petticoated workers with shrimp-net
and fish basket The wide white coll
lars, the nobbing white caps, dot
both landscape and shore, and a big
part Of the outdoor life of Brittany
the woman have share in. In the fish
ing villages, the whole family seems
to live on the water more than on
land; and one might change the
phrase takes to water like a duck
to ''talIes to the water like a Breton
child" KATHERINE POPE.
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recalled the famous Secretan sale in
Paris. Marquand's pictures alone
brought close to 100000; they were
few, and he had given his best to the
Metropolitan museum during his life
time.
It is a good time to study fads.
Hoppner is now all the rage. Copleys
would be if there were any for sale.
A Hoppner brought ten times as
much as a Raeburn, both examples OF
the style of ancestral portrait art
now in vogue. A tiny picture by
Alma-Tadema, famous in reproduc
ton, brought $97.75 a square inch. A
few good little American pictures
sold for less than one inch worth at
this rate. Even Abbey and Parsons,
Americans of long residence in Eng
land, and famous among painting
men, sold in several examples for Il
few hundreds each. Their work was
exquisite, all the world admires it.,
but
The fad changes from time to time.
Not long ago the modern French
school was the only thing a New
York millionaire would bother with.
Some of Mr.. Marquand's century-oid
English pictures showing ladies' of
the court in quaint costumes of by
gone DAYS must have brought to his
estate much more than their cost
to him.
With all this money freely spent
by New York men for pictures paint
ing remains about the worst bushes
an American can take up, from the
financial point OF view. Sargent
alone of living Americans gets high
prices from individuals; but Sargent
is one of the really great artists of
all time. Abbey and Parsons have
lived largely by their work as illus
traitors, though the former, as the
painter of King Edwards corona
ton, will hereafter be fashionable
in London-and OF course in New
York.
1t is almost useless for an Ameri-
can artist to waste money on big
canvases. He may sell little bits,
suitable for modest homes whose in
mates have artistic taste and cannot
join in the scramble for $4,000 pic
lures; but he may hardly hope 20
have his big machines" hung on the
walls of famous patrons. So he sell
dom even tries to paint them.
How that arrangement makes for
pettiness, But for the provincial
ism of buyers in the best picture
market in the world-that is New
York-don't you suppose New York
men would be painting better stuff?
OWEN LANGDON.
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The News Condensed.


Fifteen champion athletes of the
Ohio State association will compete
in the indoor championship meet OF
the American Athletic union, to be
held in the Exposition building ~
Milwaukee, March z.
Joseph 6. End, general merchant
at Sheboygan, filed a petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of ST.
600, and assets $62, 900.
Simon Olson, ex-sheriff of Burnett
county, died at Madison.
The report that Il trust of water
works companies is being formed in
Wisconsin is a canard.
Eight Wisconsin Indians were in
the graduating classes at the Carlisle
(pa.) Indian Industrial school.
A Winnebago Indian squaw known
as Mrs. William Hindsley, was foupd
lying dead in the snow near Black
River Falls.
Louis Trebert and Henry A. Tag
atse, of Marinette, have been offered
$4,000 for the total rights to pat
ent on an automatic railway gate by
a Philadelphia millionaire.
7. A. Peacock, of Oconomoyvoc has
been selected by Gov. La Toilette to
fill vacancy on the state board OF
normal school agents.
Mrs. Lucille Colbert has been bound
over to the next term of court,
charged with starting the fire that
almost destroyed the village Of Bear
Creek.
Frank Barden, a farmer living near
Pardeeville, ended his life by taking
strychnine because his relatives had
him placed ore the blacklist Of all
the saloons of the village.
Capt. II. w. Hart, aged 81 years,
senior member and manager Of the
Hart steamboat line, died at Green
Bay of heart disease.
At meeting in Madison of the
state camp of the Royal Neighbors,
Mrs. Eva Childs, Of Hanover, was
elected state oracle and Mrs. r. f.
Sullivan, of Madison, state recorder.
A Sons of Veterans camp has been
organized at Bloomer.
The general merchandise estab-
lishment Of NJ. Jurgenson at. Gays
Mills was totally destroyed by fire,
the loss being $4,000; insurance, 3d.
900.
State Superintendent c. p. Cary
has sent out printed announcements
of a convention of Wisconsin insti-
tute workers to be held in Madison
March 81 and April / and 2.
The new Catholic home for the
aged, erected by Henry Boyle and
presented to the Sisters Of st. Ag-
mes. was dedicated in Fond du Lac.
The Green County Agricultural So
ciety has decided to reorganize as
stock company, with a capital stock
of $4,000, divided into 1920 shares of
ten dollars each, each of the $50 life
members receiving one share.
Capt. Theodore Sayeland, aged 62
wears, one Of the best known marine
men on the great lakes, died at the
Milwaukee hospital. He is survived
by three sons and one daughter
The "cookee" in a lumber camp of
The Ashland Iron & Steel company
only escaped being eaten by wolves
by the vigorous use of an ak, with
which he Drained one of the brutes.
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orite bait, though the roe of other
fishes are made use of. The fisher
men pay about 100000 year for the
roe. The cod roe come from Norway,
Holland, Newfoundland and the United
States. With the roe, the fishermen
mix peanut meal, which mixture
proves very attractive TO the sar-
dimes.
The sardine fishers do not have to
go very far from home; near shore
the catch is made. They rarely go
six miles from land. The regular
fishing is done by cay, though early
in the season some fishers put their
nets out at night, go to sleep, and
wallen in time to haul in small fry,
suitable for sailing or for present
consumption. Later in the season
the fishers start for work at two in
the morning, and by ten may have
reaped fine harvest. The fatter and
better fish are caught the latter part
of the season.
The situation of Brittany, juttinG
out as it does into the water, lslanded
on three sides, gives it large coast
line, and makes the calling of fisher
man a certainty. Both men and
women are engaged in getting the
sardine ready for market. Six days
in the week, that is, during the sea-
son for fishing, the men go out III all
sorts Of weather, and while they are
gone the villages lack much Of the
cheer and noise abroad when the
husbands. fathers, and young mer
are at home. The return Of the fleet
reawakens the town. AS the boats
approach. the bell of the fish market
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French sardine industry gives en-
ployment to about 10000 fishermen,
and makes use Of more than 5000
boats. These figures will doubtless
convey some idea of the number OF
people affected by the present fail
ure of the sardine fisheries.
Nine months of the year the Bre-
tons are wont to fish for this par
ticular member Of the finny tribe,
the fishing sometimes lasting unit!
the first of December, and OCCASION
ally into the second week of Decem-
Der. In the last few years there
have been several scares in regard to
the sardine supply becoming eX-
hausted, some considering that it
was owing to the constant fishing
the number of fish became reduced
from time to time. From 1887 to
1890. sardines were very scarce, but
at the end of that period they re
turned in their old abundance. This