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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO
WOMEN.

Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pinkham. She will understand
your case perfectly, and will treat
You with kindness. Her advice
Is free, and the address Is Lynn,
Mass. No woman ever regretted
having written her, and she has
helped thousands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. LOUIS
TRAIN SERVICE.

Passengers destined to st. Louis
and points east should go via the Kan
,as City gateway, thereby securing
the advantage of the Chicago & Atoms
last night train, leaving Kansas City
at 9 D. M, arriving in st. Louis at 7:44
A. m. Chair cars free of extra charge.
Compartment sleeping cars. The AL
ton keeps their light a'shining just
ahead of the rest. Write to L. D.
Cooper, Travelling Passenger Agent.
Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City.
NO.. for lowest rates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
couldn,t See ANY Reason.

"This paper says" remarked MI.
Chugwater, looking at the headlines,
that there is a good deal of unrest
among the workmen at the chair fac
tories. Don't they ever let them use
the chairs?"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

n you don't get the biggest and
best it's your own fault. Defiance
Starch is for sale everywhere and
there is positively nothing to equal
It in quality or quantity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

A st. Louis Worlds Fair Informa-
ton Bureau has been established al
at 9O3 Main Street, Kansas City, In
charge of Mr.. l.. S. Mcclellan, where
information will be cheerfully fur.
nished.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20
Origin Of Plant superstItions.

The origin of plant superstitions
may often be traced to the uses made
of the plant, its foliage or flowers.
Among the Greeks, the bodies Of the
dead were crowned with parsley. HE
will be in need Of parsley" was a
euphemism signifying a belief in the
approaching death Of the person in
dictated.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

1t sometimes happens that the WON
an who is disappointed in love isn't
disappointed in marriage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallibls
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. W. SAMUEL
Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

There is no use grumbling; people
won't act to suit you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Try me just once and I am sure
% come again. Defiance Starch.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

The manufacturer of yeast doesn't
always rise in the world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

The fellow who has nothing of i'm
portance to say generally manages to
say it at great length.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Ask You Druggist for Aliens Foot.Ease.
81 tried ALIENS FOOT EASE recently,
and have just bought another supply. It
has cured my corns, and the hot, burning
and itching sensation in my feet which was
almost unbearable, and would not be with
out il now.-Mrs. w. j. Walker Camden,
N. J." Sold by all Druggists, ESQ.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

No, Cordelia, don't think for min
ute that because every man has hir
price, he gets It.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

It might be just as wei to remember
hat fast men are usually slow pay.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Men with brains make big money by
marrying it
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

Many a man 10 unhappy only because
he believes himself SO.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADEDf
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large . OF. package, cents
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-11-20

beautiful
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
DAILY SHORT STORY
Pushing kid" Stark to Justice
TOriginal.l

[OriginaI1
"Kid' Stark was twenty-five, his
wife forty, when they bought the Peach
Orchard farm. The wife had money.
Mrs. Stark seemed to have something
of rowing disposition, while her hus-
band was as fond of quiet as an old
man. She would go away, remaining
absent sometimes for a few weeks,
sometimes a few months. She had q
head for business and the faculty of
keeping her affairs to herself. When
she returned it was noticed at the
bank where she kept an account that
she usually had money to deposit.
One evening after dark Stark drove
his wife to the station, and when lie
returned several men who had called
at the farm to win his vote for COM
ing election reported that he was very
much depressed. Indeed they found
it impossible to get his attention TO the
matter about which they had called.
When four months passed and Mrs.
Stark did not return the wagging
tongues started in for a clatter. which
grew louder and louder, then subsidized
y
passed and no return of the wanderer.
Two years after Mrs. Stark's depar-
ture Stark, who had not touched any
money deposited in his wife's name,
presented Il check bearing her sigma
ture for $1,000. But the bank Off
Gals, who had long been suspicious
that he had murdered his wife and be-
lieved that he would not be satisfied
till he had appropriated all her funds,
scrutinized the check and pronounced
it forgery. Stark was arrested for
the crime. Since there was no evidence
of murder, that charge could not be
added.
When it came to trial an expert pro-
nounced Mrs. Stark's signature n for
gerry. The body of the check was IN
Stark's handwriting. The expert on
cross examination explained TO the
court that there were certain letters In
the signature which were made very
differently by Stark and his wife, the
expert stating that Stark in trying to
change the mode of making these let
tiers had made 4 lamentable failure.
Stark was convicted, and, since every
body believed that he had killed his
wife, the judge gave him n sentence Of
twenty years imprisonment.
There were many people in Brown
ville-those of the wagging tongues
who were very much chagrined that
Stark was not prosecuted for murder.
These persons could not understand
why when all the correlative circum-
stances pointed to murder still there
was not tangible evidence necessary
for conviction. They bounded the
prosecuting attorney till he went TO
work with a will, secured the deposit
tions of the men who had seen Stark on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Better Let Peoples Verdict Stand.

The republicans are paving the
way for a contest of the election of
Judge Scott. The committee has sent
word TO the republican editors of the
district to first suggest the possibili-
~ of such thing and then to recon-
mend that steps be taken to that end
The only ground upon which the con-
test is to be based is the cIoseness of
the vote. The feeling of the voters of
the district by this time. however, is
that if they had it to do over again
they would make it nearly unanimous
for Scott. 1t would be very much re-
GREETED if Judge Carter lent his con-
sent to contest. No man ever ques-
toned the verdict of the voters with
out losing prestige and reputation in
the process. The people respect Judge
Carter very much, even if they did
defeat him at the polls, and they
would be sorry to have their opinion
of him eheapened by any dispute over
their decisiOn.-Quincy Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
shows the Enormous Proats.

There are strong indications that the
ebb tide has started in the iron and
steel market, for the first time since
the formation OF the steel trust, and
the price of steel ingots has been re-
duced by the Independent companies.
The price of iron has been a trife
lower for some weeks. The reason for
the decline is probably the large i'm
portations of iron and steel, which
amounted in April to more than 160,-
600 tons. These importations are the
more remarkable when 1t is consid-
cred that about 40 per cent duty and
the heavy freight charges have been
added to the price that these imports
sell for and shows the enormous profits
that the American manufacturers are
making out of the American people.
And yet the Republican leaders say
the tariff must not be reformed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

the evening of his wife's departure,
found some garments belonging to Mrs.
Stark buried on the place, and on this
framed a theory for prosecution, and
had Stark taken from Jail to be tried
for murder.
BY this time it was plain to every
his wife, but that there was very good
evidence at hand TO prove it. There
were people who had been as obstinate
with regard to Starks innocence as the
wagging tongues had been in maintain
ing his guilt These people now gave
up in the face of the evidence and long
before the trial public opinion had pro-
nounced him guilty. Everything con-
spired to bring him to justice. He had
been convicted of forging his wife's
name to get her money, the circumstan-
tial evidence all pointed to her murder,
the prosecuting attorney had every in
dueement to convict him, the police
were DESTROYS of closing the mystery
and stopping the murmurings under
which they had so long suffered for not
solving it.
The prosecuting attorney proved by
the men who had visited Stark on the
evening of Mrs. Starks disappearance
that he had acted as If he had just COM
mitted a murder. The eXhumed cloth
ing was proved by competent witnesses
to have been that worn by Mrs. Stark
when she disappeared. These were the
principal circumstances proving Stark 8
guilt, though there were many minor
ones. The prosecuting attorney made
mastery effort, in which he scathingly
referred to the. prisoner having mar
ried this thrifty woman TO get her mon
ey and had murdered her in order to
get it the quicker. The prisoner sat
with dazed look on his face that eX-
perienced court officials pronounced the
same as that universally worn by those
guilty of a great crime. The prosecut-
ing attorney was holding the court
spellbound by picture of Stark Turing
his poor but trusting wife under cover
of the darkness to some isolated spot
and had lowered his voice with the
words, "And drove it to the hilt," when
there was a commotion at the door, and
n woman pushed her way forward with
every evidence of excitement. She was
Mrs. Stark. Without word she
plunged for the prisoner, took him In
her arms, and his head fell on her
shoulder in dead faint.
Mrs Stark had gone abroad on n
business venture. She had written her
husband one letter. which had miscar-
ried. then had entered a barbarous
country, where she was detained on
false charge with view to appropriate
ing considerable funds she had with
her. Then she had the bad luck to be
shipwrecked and was obliged to sail
around the globe before getting home.
The check she had signed in blank on
the evening of her departure in case Of
need and in n great hurry. The clothes
had been buried to be deodoriZed from
the perfume of n skunk.
The Starks lived happily together
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Ont Upon the Washer.

Chicago police justices have started
Il crusade against the masher. JUS
| tees of the peace that hold court
within the city limits agree that the
masher is a public nuisance and must
be suppressed. Here are a few per-
sons upon whom their ban has fallen:
The man who stares you out of
countenance
The fellow that makes goo GOO
eyes.
The individual who pretends to
read, but instead watches you over
his paper.
The person who winks and then
rubs his eyes as if it were a mistake.
The man who, because he occupies
part of the same seat in a street car.
thinks he has right to engage in
conversation with YOU.
The fellow who stands i'm the aisle
that he may offer excuses when you
pass by.
The man who tells stale joke and
then laughs to attract your at
tention-
Justice John p. Hennessy, who holds
court in Englewood had a masher
up before him few days ago and he
promptly gave him the laws limit
$50. Opinions of justices on the
masher evil are as follows:
Justice Hennessy-He is mean.
contemplate creature. not fit to- be
called a man. l say down with the
masher.
Justice j. II. Caverly-When the ev-
idence is conclusive, I will give them
the limit, and wish | could do more.
Justice John X. Observation-Disclosures
ers ought to be eXiled and fed on
bread and water
Justice Walter ]. Gibbons-A jail
sentence for the masher is the only
cure.
Justice George W. Underwood -
Washers that are brought before me
will get the laws limit every time.
Publicity will do more to stop this
evil than fines.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
The Bottom and Top.

President Roosevelt says of the
pOstofiiee scandal that he twill sift
the charges TO the bottom"
At the bottom are superintendent,
chief clerks and other subordinates
who have evidently been working for
their own pockets most of the time.
At the top are the higher officials
Of the department, who must have
known of this dishonesty if they did
not participate in it's gains. Above
these are senator's and representa-
tives who have worked the depart
ment for all it was worth" in offices.
contracts special privileges and other
spoils.
Will the president go to the top
as well as to the bottom of this scan
dial?
Postmaster Van Colt said yester-
day that president Roosevelt is a
man who viii not rest until he has
done all that is possible to ferret out
the guilty" The people like to be-
lieve this of their president. But
there are those who remember his
loud promise, when a candidate for
governor, to bring to justice the ras-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

Gals who stole or squandered the larg-
er part of the 100000 canal i'm
provement fund; yet nobody was pun
ished. There are others who do not
forget how Gov. Roosevelt sought to
suppress the report of the State Trust
eompany's mismanagement when the
investigation disclosed the fact that
one of his closest friends in the direc-
torate had been guilty of conduct
that was declared by the bank super
intendent to be beyond all question
illegal" in arranging loan of 3d.
100000 to a clerical dummy of specu-
lative directors.
President RoOsevelt's reputation as
detector and punisher of rascals
high in his own party remains to be
made. He has great duty and a
great opportunity before him in the
postal frauds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

Those who accompanied the liberty
bell from Philadelphia to Boston say
that there was less demonstration ov-
err the precious relic at New York
than any other place along the route.
As one of the party puts it: The bell
passed through the metropolis like Il
consignment of structural iron. Re
quests were received from nearly ev-
cry town and city between Boston
and Philadelphia to allow the people
to see the relic. but no such request
came from New York. So it happen
ed that while 10000 baseball dervishes
gathered at the bulletin boards no sin
gle person in New York did honor to
the symbol of American freedom"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
TLe Hookah I'm India.

The hookah is smoked as q refresh.
ment and sign of fellowship by the
natives of India and not merely as a
luxury. When n group Of natives are
seated together and, as is the custom,
the hookah is passed around to each in
turn it is considered very bad manners
for any one to decline to have a few
puffs If the hookah is thus refused
in a friends house or while one is the
guest of another it is regarded as an
insult. If for any reason a native is
put out of caste the fact is strictly
marked by his former caste fellows
refusal to smoke with him, and any
one who eats, drinks or smokes with
an outcast is himself outcasted.-
Chambers Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Startling Evidence

Fresh testimony in great quantity
is constantly coming in. declaring DR.
Kings New Dis Overy for consump
ton, coughs and colds to be unequal
ed. \ recent expression from II. ]
Mcfarland, Bentorville, Va, serves as
example. He writes: Il had bron,
chitis for three years and doctored al
the time without being benefited
Then l began taking DR.. Kings New
Discovery, and few bottles wholly
cured me-" Equally effective in cur
ing all lung and throat troubles, con
sumption, pneumonia and grip. Guar
anteed by Hartz d UlIemeyer, drug,
gists. Trial bottles free; regular
sizes, so cents and 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
scIatic rheumatism Cured.

L. Wagner, wholesale druggist,
Richmond, Va, says: Il had n fear
full attack of sciatic rheumatism, was
laid up almost two months; was for
tunate enough to get Mystic Cure for
Rheumatism. This cured me after
doctors prescriptions had failed to
have any effect. / have also heard
of fine results from others who have
used it," Sold by Otto GrOtjan, 1901
Second avenue, Rock Island, Gust
Schlegel q, Son, 90 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

1t is very plain that the Servian
tragedy is largely due to outside eff
fort TO control the government of the
country. and the situation furnishes
strong support for the belief that any
nation can rule itself better than any
other nation can rule itSS5B'eFeIgh rule
does not always assume the direct
shape. We nave continual evidence of
that in the revolutions and attempt
ed revolutions in our Spanish-Ameri-
can count ries. There were very pal
pable efforts at foreign control dur
ing our own civil war, but they We're,
happily, frustrated. Unfortunately
all strong nations get the idea that
they have a mission to take care of
other nations. and the almost uni
formly calamitous endings of their
efforts have not been enough to teach
the world the futility of them. The
world goes on with the same old
round of ambition, folly, revenge, fail
ure; and it will probably continue to
do so as long as human nature re-
mains unchanged.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
That ThrobbInr Headache.

would quickly leave you if you used
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Thousands
of sufferers have proved their match
less merit for sick and nervous head
aches. They make pure blood and
build up your health. Only 25 cents.
Money back if not cured. Sold by
Hartz & Ullemeyer, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

Kind Hearted Citizen-Tut, tut, tut!
Don't worry over it, little boy. You
didn't break your pitcher, and there's
no use, you know, in crying over split
milk.
Little Boy-Do talk as If I was cry
in, mister? Resumes his violent Ian
guage.)-Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Always on Hand.

The general scramble of the Repub-
lican politicians to get in place on the
Roosevelt band wagon is born of a de-
sire for political spoils. The Repub-
ncan patriot, whose main hope is for
the old flag and an appropriation,
never gets left if he knows 1t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

Mile minute runs are not in it any
more with the Burfngton's fast mail
engineers over on the main line.
Within the past few weeks three diff
ferent ones have made the so miles
from Galesburg to Mendoza in 20 min
uteS. which is some going when a per-
son takes time to think about it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
In Had Hands,

Reform in New York is travelling a
hard road, but then how can it be ex-
pected to prosper under Republican
auspices? The whole history of that
party since the war has been a never
ceasing fight against reform.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

1t now comes upon the strength of
semi-Official advices from Washington
that Postmaster General Payne is at
outs with the others of the cabinet,
and that there is general demand
for his retirement. The result is un-
mistakably Payneful state of affairs
for the president.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

TERMS-Dailys1 10 cents per week. Weekly,
per year IN advance.
All communications argumentative
character, political or religious, must have
real name attached tor publication. No
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Monday, June %.

For an affair that was all bluff and
buster the postoffice scandal seems
to have been wonderfully productive
of cold feet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

TIL Mrs. Stark died. after which her
husband was inconsolable and in spite
OF being still young man with plenty
OF means never married again.
BESSIE L. LANE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Twentieth Century Medicine

Cascarets Candy Cathartic are as
far ahead of ancient pill poisons and
liquid physic as the electric light OF
the tallow candle. Genuine stamped
G. c. c. Never sold in bulk. All
druggists Ioc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924 Sec
ond avenue, Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED at
the postofnce as second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
A r1ILLINERY
DRIVE
Three dozen 800
white Leghorn Flats,
trim'd latest and best
styles, SLIP.

Ready-to-Wear Department
We've been making some extraordinary
June purchases at way-under prices.
This time it's Muslin Underwear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
&c DRESS CHAL-
LIES, BIC.
Csc to soc Ginghams for 12Hc Yard
Extraordinary Sole Tuesday Morning at 8 o'clock

Extraordinary Sale tuesday Morning At o'clock
2ooo yards of David and John Andersons
finest made Scotch Ginghams and Madras
cloths nothing better for mems negligee
shirts, ladies waists or full suits, regular
price S5c, 4Oc and SOC a yard, also all mer-
and lace stripe effects, the 25c, 33c and 42c
qualities, your choice of over loo of the
latest styles and colorings at the ridiculous
price of l21ac yard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
Notice.

Is hereby given that a special meet
ing of the stockholders of the Union
Electric Telephone & Telegraph COM
pany will be held at the office of said
company in the city of Rock Island,
in the state of Illinois, Friday, the
3rd day of July, a. d. 1903, at the
hour of ) o'clock in the afternoon,
for the purpose of submitting to a
vote of such stockholders the ques-
ton of increasing the capital stock
of said company from the sum of
four hundred thousand dollars ($4OO,-
0O0), as at present, to the sum of five
hundred and fiftye.thousand dollars
$3.50, 000). and for sucn other bust
ness as may be brought before it.
Dated this goth day of May, a. D.
1908.
CHARLES a. LEE.
JOHN w. MORRISON,
JOHN A. FRITCHEY,
GEORGE b. SUCKER,
JAMES RUSS,
N. HAMILTON,
Directors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

Educate Your Bowels with Cascareess
&c. 2,. e 3D.. G. FAIL druggists refund money
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22

BY THE j. w. POTTER 90.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-02-14
Paid to Go to Church.

Those who are asking and trying to
answer the question, why are our
churches empty?" will be interested to
learn how the problem is solved in the
village of Hunton, England. There
the poorer villages are attracted to
church by competition for pecuniary
rewards. By the will of Bishop Por-
teus, who died about hundred years
ago, the interest on certain bonds is
divided annually among six poor cot
tagers of Hunton who attend divine
service the most regularly. The COM
petition gets more keen every year.
In fact, it pays very well to attend,
the remuneration coming out at near
ly % cents per service, or rather over
~ cents Sunday. This year $132
was distributed among six villagers,
two Of whom were widows. DR.. Por.
teus was rector Of Hunton from 1865
to 1887, and afterward bishop of Lon.
don.