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The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

town Two ot them were residents OF the
country, neighbors returning from q bust
ness trip necessitsted By the bogus sales
o. a bogus land agent, which had involved
their property.
The third traveller was q woman from q
Tar New England town, whose whole life
Up 70 her comely middle age had been
spent IN the rush and turmoil Of e mon
ster factory. TO her the wide, fliritable
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

the crush Of scintillatIng robes. An usher
with gardenia in his coat was just Of
fering his arm to stately dowager when
he dropped something. He bent over and
the dowager was passed on to another
usher. When the first man Strengthened
up he extended his arm to Elsa. She gave
one gasp and all the color faded from
her face. Then, with head proudly up
lifted, she started down the aisle at his
side.
please don't look like that" he whis-
pered. ut was beastly caddish OF me,
but l do look a bit like Harry's English
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06
HER FRANK OPINION
By A. S. Richardson.
Copyright, 1903, by t. c. McCluro.)
Richardson.

UNAN N = . VUICb IU56
decisively above the ex-
carnations Of dismay.
"It might { have been
worse, and Miss Gran
ford can mend it"
She ran into the hall
and leaned over the
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

~ ~ - ~ ~
S the travellers reached
their various destina-
lions the stage coach
slowly emptied itself.
until only three were
left 70 be stranded by
q breakdown at q clus-
ter OF houses called a.
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

oalustrade. young man. good to look
upon and evidently fresh from riding, was
Watching the florists at work.
"FrankPo
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06


ION Il was an outrage to have ones
iaVorite bsrroom remodeled into a sani-
tar1urn. but IL was heaping insult upon
injury TO have a 25-horsepower French
racer flashing over roads-snd good roads,
too-long sacred 20 the festive COW pony.
With Harvey Thatcher, owner Of said
racer, the EOod roads surrounding Fort
Norton, the county seat OF Buena Vista
County, had been the main attraction.
When his physicians had ordered Colo
Tado air Thatcher had stipulated that sec
ton OF Eastern Colorado where the roads
would permit him to break the already
brilliant record OF The Comet. And go
Il happened that he and his machine. his
valet and his chauffeur were thcrns in
the nesh OF the cowboy element, even
as tia latter had worried the respecta-
bic faction among the early citizens OF
Fort Norton
The cowboys had barely become accus-
toned 70 the presence OF The Comet in
their midst. and had decided that II
might prove dangerous to shoot up a
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

AINTY lanterns by the
thousands, half hidden
among the branches OF
he trees or swinging
merrily on invisible
wires, flooded the place
with soft light. There
were long tables, over
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

CcOpyrsTht 1908. BY 7. c. Mccurs)
The San Francisco call., 1903-09-06

7 had been bad enough.
said the cowboys, TO
have Buena Vista
County turned into q
rendezvous for inva-
lids IN various stages
OF hay fever, bron-
rhlfln and rnrrrrrrnn-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
PROPOSITION FOR NEW
FOUNDRY STILL OPEN

The offer to the people of the city
is still open to furnish portion of
the capital for the rebuilding of the
plant of the Rock Island Iron works,
recently destroyed by fire, on much
larger scale than it formerly opera
ted. Morris q Lewis, the proprie tors,
have proposition from the city of
Clinton. Iowa, to establish the foun-
dry there. The people of that place
agree, it is understood. to purchase
$4,000 worth of stock if a $4,000
plant is put in.
The same proposition has been
made here, but so far no action
has been taken. The business of the
concern before the plant was destroy
ed was sufficient to warrant the build
ing of a large plant and the plans
were prepared before the company
purchased the plant in Chicago, which
they are now operating. These plans
it is now proposed to carry out if the
capital is Forthcoming. If the plant
were rebuilt on $4,000 scale in the
neighborhood of 100 men would be
employed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10

The phenomenal cures accomplished |
by animal magnetism, administered
through the Boy Phenomenon, who
has an over-abundance of that vital
fluid, continues to attract crowds to
his office and to excite the greatest
interest all over the city. While some
of the stories of cures seem too Won
derful to believe. the most conserva-
tive versions stop very little short of
miraculous.
What lends an air of truthfuness to
the report of these cures is the fact
that the names and addresses of per
sons cured have been published, and
every one of them have been we'll
known citizens whose veracity could
not be doubted.
One of the most phenomenal cures
accomplished since his arrival in Rock
Island was that of a well-known lady.
Mrs. Catherine Blythe, 1923 Fourth
avenue, and as is generally known,
she has been very deaf. She was
treated on the public stage last
Thursday night and the next morn
ing was astonished to hear her clock
strike; then she heard voices, and be-
fore the day was over she readily
heard an ordinary conversation. She
has had but one treatment since and
her hearing is daily improving. She
was so oVerioyed at the great bene-
fits derived that she wrote the follow
ing letter to the Boy Phenomenon. 1t
speaks for itself, and shows those
who have chronic ailments the rapid
ity and permahence of n cure by vital
magnetism.
This letter is published to show
that when results are obtained they
are permanent:
boy Phenomenon: l want to thank
you and express my gratitude for the
great service you have rendered me
by restoring my hearing. Some years
ago | began losing my hearing and
have since been almost totally deaf.
1t was with difficulty that | heard at
all: ! also suffered with those noises
in the head which nearly drove me
insane. l had given up all hopes of
ever being able to hear again, as doe
tors did me no good. and said that my
case was incurable But thanks to
your magic touch, since | received
my first treatment at your hands |
can now hear ordinary conversation
very readily and the noises have stop
ped. l cannot express The happiness
feel at again hearing the voices of
my friends. Thanking you once more.
/ am yours respectfully, (Signed)
MRS. CATHERINE BLYTHE.
The Boy Phenomenon not only
treats such diseases as the above, but
nearly all chronic diseases yield to
animal magnetism at the hands of
this phenomenal magnetism.
Those who wish to take advantage
of the presence here of this remark
able healer should lose no time in
calling and securing an appointment.
as no new cases win be accepted after
next week. Office hours at Harper
house from 10 a. m. to ) p. m. daily,
except Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10

doubtedly come when the two places
will be joined by rail, but neither you
nor your children can hope to make
the journey. The cost would go
way up into the millions pound ster-
ling, and while money enough could
probably be raised it would not be a
paying investment
1.-The idea that Behring straits
might be bridged, he said, was fan
tastic dream. In the first place, he
said, it was forty-two miles across
and secondly, could bridge be built
of sufficient span, no such struc-
ture could ever Withstand the ice
when it began to break up in the
straits.
after the lecture Mr.. De Wendt
was entertained at the Bellevue by
Charles Hawtrey, the English actor"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
DE WINDT DELIGHTS AN
AUDIENCE AT PHILADELPHIA

The Philadelphia Enquirer has the
following to say of Harry De Windt,
who lectures under the auspices of
the Tri-City Press Club Feb. II, and
who appeared before the Transatlan-
tic society at the Academy of Music
last Thursday evening:
''Nr. De Windt has an easy delivery
and is a fascinating talker, while his
discourse was literally punctuated
with excellent and, in many instances,
strikingly beautiful pictures of the
ground traversed by him. The object
of the journey was to go from Paris
to New York overland by way of ST.
IBERIA and Behring straits. Interest
ing side lights were thrown upon the
extreme portions of Siberia, its in
habitants and their customs.
acknowledgements, the remotest po-
litical settlement in Russia was de
scribed by the lecturer as an Arctic
Inferno and from his comments and
the pictures thrown upon the screen
the epithet is not a whit too strong.
The awful sufferings of the party
more severe even than those of eX-
plorcrs ambitious to reach the north
pole-on the long journey overland to
the Asiatic borders of Behring straits
were wildly recounted.
Mr.. De Windt gave much valuable
information regarding Alaska. He
spoke of the rapid strides Ameri-
can energy and enterprise had TAX
en- in Nome City and Dawson City.
Alaska, however, in his opinion, was
no place for a poor man. The day
for making big fortunes had passed,
he declared, and only the men with
a capital of $4,000 could hope to
come back wealthy.
"Regarding the scheme 10 build a
railroad from Paris to New York,
Mr.. De Windt said: The day will un-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10

Ssd s sSRss s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
sales Greater Than Population of Illinois.

Population of Illinois compared
with the sale of Single Binder cigars
and other brands of Lewis factory.
Cigars sold during 1902 Gnternal reve-
nue. counted) 5,sO1,3OO. Population of
Illinois, 1921, 800. Lewis Single Bind
er factory sold 979,750 more cigars
than there are people in the great
state of Illinois. Greatest years
sales in the history of. the Lewis fac
tory. Reliable quality brought the
business.-Peoria Star, Jan. 4.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
COST is TOO HIGH.
Several of the Big Railroads
Abandon Proposed I'm.
provements.
Dali AND LABOR ARE DEAR
Claim That Outlay Cannot Be AT
forded Till Net Earnings
Are Larger.

The outlay of millions of dollars
for improvements has been abandon
ed for the present by western roads
because of the high cost of labor and
materials.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul yester-
day ordered the abandonment of the
work of double tracking its main line
from Milwaukee to La Crosse. This
work was ordered last year and the
work from BroOkfield to La Crosse,
distance of 1872 miles, was estimated
to cost So, 54S, 900. Nearly half of it
has been done, and something like 100
miles were to be finished in 1903, in
volving an expenditure of $1,50O,OOO
For precisely the same reasons the
Chicago & Alton has abandoned for
the present improvements and better
ments contemplating an expenditure
of $4,000, 900.
Not only is the cost of making bet
terments high under present condi-
ticns, but it is asserted that the net
earnings of the roads are falling off
because of the advanced cost of coal
and labor. In the item of coal there
has been an advance of 1919 per cent
IN miners wages. One of the Chicago
roads uses $500 tons a day. or 2,OO0,-
600 tons year. Advance the cost of
this coal 1919 per cent, and in one
item alone that road will pay great
sum more for operation than it did
in 1901
The statement of the Chicago d
Northwestern road for 1902 shows
that the operating expenses were 81
729,O13 more than in 1901. while the
gross earnings showed an increase of
only $2,110,6SS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
Searching for the Pole

Until different means have been
adopted from those tried in the past
it seems about useless to make any
further effort to locate the north
pole. 1t is also useless to make an
effort to cure disorders of the stom-
ach, liver, kidneys or bowels unless
you use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which is world renowned as cure
for such ailments. 1t will strengthen
and tone up the weak stomach, re-
store the appetite and stimulate the
liver and kidneys There is no medi-
cine in the world so good as the Bit
ters to cure sick headache, heart
burn. indigestion, dyspepsia, consti-
patton. liver and kidney troubles or
malaria, fever and ague. When in
need of remedy of this kind do not
fail to try the Filters. 1t will surely
do you good. Don't accept substi-
tute.
All the news all the time-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
She Now Hears,
Mrs. Catherine Blythe, a Well
Known Lady, Deaf
for Years.

Can Now Hear an Ordinary Converse
tiOn.-A Letter That Smashes All
Incredulity.-Cure Follows Cure in
Quick Succession, Under the Mirac-
ulous Treatment of the Boy Pre-
nomenon That Unlocks Imprisoned
Hearing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
MysterIou. Clrcumstance.

One was pale and sallow and the
other was fresh and rosy. Whence
the difference? She who is blushing
with health uses DIR. Kings New Life
Pills to maintain it. BY gently arous-
ing the lazy organs they compel good
digestion and head off constipation.
Try them. Only 25 cents, at Hartz &
Ullemeyer's, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10
Answer to Iowa Protest.

These facts are cited by a railway
manager apropos of the protest filed
last Saturday with the interstate
commerce commission by the ship
Pers of Iowa against the recent adj
Vances in freight rates in grain, pro-
visions and other products.
In making his protest for the ship
pers Commissioner Frank T. Camp
bell claimed that the recent increase
in railway rates was due to the Eek
orbitant demands of corporations >,
and asked the interstate commerce
commission to investigate whether in
creased earnings do not largely ex-
coed increased expenses. He says
that the average cost of carrying a
ton'a mile has been reduced from 1.77
cents in 1883 TO less than half a cent
in 1900. On the Atchison line the
freight rate a ton n mile was reduced
from 2.43 in 1850 to .97 in 1900
Railway men say in reply: Instead
of promising larger earnings and div
t1dends,' as Mr.. Campbell says, condi-
tons promise decreased net earnings
as the result of the continued adj
vances in the cost of operation.
What would be the effect of a year or
two of bad crops. can be judged from
the fact that the cost of operating
many roads today is greater than
their gross earnings five years ago.
1T is only a question of higher
rates or lower wages, the postpone
ment of improvements. and a rigid
economy in every direction to pre-,
pare for hard times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-10

When doctors fail, try Burdock
Blood Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, con-
stipation; invigorates the whole sys-
tenn.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
PlcKlNGs FROM FICTION.

Hope is the heroic form of despair
"The School For Saints"
The most agonizing fear of a true
lover Is that his lady shall think him
a weakling.-"On Satan's Mount"
Sentimental people are sure to live
long and die fat. Feeling--thats the
slayer.-''The Ordeal of Richard Fee
veral."
When prudence and reticence are or
guard the man himself, past, present
and future, comes into view.-"Kent
Fort Manor"
You never could bet on that woman.
II there was one or two things she'd be
likely to do sbe wouldn't do either of
them.-"Tioba."
Things always run in streaks-don't
matter whether it's politics, love, farm
In or war. They don't travel alone
Before the Dawn"
Sunum cuique-to the man belongeth
courage in great things, but In affairs
Of small moment woman is pre-emi-
nent.-"The Wheel of Love-"
Success undoubtedly often covers
mistakes, but human nature Is on the
whole generous, or at least good tenn
pered. and Prospect"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
Fatal Accident at Harlan.

HARLAN, IA, July Especial to
Register eader.-One dead, one fatal
ly injured and one seriously hurt is
the result of the explosion of a small
cannon used here last night in a pre-
mature celebration of the glorious
Fourth. The dead:
CHARLES KINSEY,,
Fatally hurt:
George Anderson, boy IL years old,
lost leg, cannot live.
Seriously injured:
Peter Jensen, lost right eye.
The young men were experimenting
with cannon which they had made in
local foundry. They we're loading
it and using a crowbar to ram the
charge home. The crowbar struck a
spark and caused an explosion and
the cannon burst into hundreds OF
pieces with the results noted.
Kinsey was a married man and
leaves young wife. The distressing
accident cast gloom over the entire
aitv
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
Vigorous Old Age.

A. A. Eddy, or Father Eddy, as he
is called, visited Harlan the past
week, going over Wednesday of last
week and returning Monday of this
week. He walked all the way over ex-
cept two or three miles, and all the
way back except about a mile and a
half. Father Eddy was so years old
last April. We doubt if there is an
other man Of so advanced an age in
Audubon county who can perform the
trip afoot with such ease as he did, for
the next day after he got home he
seemed as spry as ever. He says he
greatly enjoyed the trip. 1t is twenty
six miles across without the ups and
downs, which make it few miles
more. Coming home Monday he left
Harlan at I a. m. and reached here at
e m m
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
WORK AND REST.
When They Alternate Perfectly, n
Man VIII Enjoy Both.


After work comes rest. When they
alternate perfectly a man may prepare
to enjoy real happiness. When they
alternate perfectly a man will enjoy
both the work and the rest that foI-
lows 1t.
Nature is just old lady. She seldom
gives man more than he needs. If he
elects to live a lazy life she let's his
muscles get fiabby and his brain go
sleepy. She never permits him to long
possess faculty or a nerve or a mus
Gle or sinew that he does not use
The proper way to keep your muscles
or your brains is to use 'em up and let
nature provide you with fresh sup
ply. Nature is assisted In this work by
rest. One may rest sometimes by seek
ing q change of labor. Labor thus be-
comes q recreation-re-creation
To live happily in this world it is not
enough to know how to work. A man
must also know how to rest The man
who knows only how to work will soon
wear out. II he doesn't wear out i'm
mediately his work will suffer in some
way. No man can do his best work I'M
less he alternates 1t with little play
or little rest.
A man who can't drop his work from
his mind as readily as he can drop his
tools from his hands had better take a
few weeks off to study the rest ques-
ton. His nerves are not what they
should be.
II man wishes to keep his nerve, let
him avoid neryes--Pittsburg Dispatch,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
Ivy Clad Buird,nr..

So long as the walls Of building are
sound and the bricks or stones, well
cemented together, offer no assures or
cracks for the plant to force Its way
into, there is nothing whatever to fear.
Should the ivy, however, find an open
ing, and so thrust itself into the wall,
the natural and continuous expansion
Of its parts will tend to loosen the
stones and hasten the decay Of the
building.
A fair growth of ivy on sound walls
that allow Of no advances beyond the
superficial attachment of the claspers,
or aerial roots, as they are called, is al
together beneficial. 1t promotes dry
ness and warmth, counteracts the cor.
rosive action Of the atmosphere and is
at once shelter and an ornament.
These aerial roots are not sources of
nutrition, but merely serve as mechan-
zeal support to the climbing ivy. The
contention that they sap the whole Of
the moisture from mortar, leaving 1t
excessively dry and crumbling, has
therefore no foundation in faction
don Standard.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
WAS PERIODICALLY OBSERVED
The Fourth at Audubon. coneress-
ments-- Events.

Cloudy weather Saturday morning
prevented large attendance at the
celebration at the fair grounds so the
program was deferred until after din
ner. At one-thirty, after good music
by the Extra band and invocation by
Rev. Mccormick, Congressman Smith
delivered an eloquent and patriotic
address. 1t was different from the us
ual one, being on new lines. 1t
largely treated on some of the dan
gers that our country now faces.
Judge Smith is patriotic, and is stu
dent and philosopher, and is always
much appreciated here. The new
amphitheatre was packed and all lis
tened attentively to him.
The rest of the afternoon and even
ing was full of amusements. The
horse racing was of much interest
George ellis popular pacing mare,
Alice G., won first money in the half
mile pace, time liz. Second money
was won by Mr.. Robinson's horse, Of
Avoca. In the half mile trot, George
Hoover's horse, Hank Low, won first
and Marion Jenkins horse won sec
ond. In the running race Sam Will
sons horse won first.
The following score shows the re-
suit of the shooting which was Of con-
siderable interest to a large number:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
A DISGUISED Toast.

At one time the officers under Lord
Howe refused to drink his health at
their mess, for, though a splendid adj
miral, he was not popular in the navy
on account Of certain shyness and
want of tact with those about him.
The chaplain. who was protege of his
lordship, was mortified at this and de-
termined that the officers should drink
to Lord Howe. When called upon for
toast one day he said, well, gentle
men, can think Of nothing better ct
this moment than to ask you to drink
the first two words of the Third Psalm,
for Scriptural toast for once may be
taken from one of my CLOTH" The
toast was drunk. Not one of the Off
GERS indicated by word or look that he
was ignorant Of the words alluded to.
On referring to the Bible 1t was found
that the Third Psalm begins, Lord,
how are they increasedp
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-07-09
CAUGHT IN A LOG JAM.
Thrilling Fishing Experience II
Northern Michigan.


Upon one occasion in northern Mich
igan l was trout fishing in company
with n veteran timber cruiser, man
who knew everything about the rough
bush life, says writer In Worlds
Work. In time we reached a bend In
the stream where lot of small logs
had jammed during the spring freshet.
My comrade unconcernedly ventured
upon the logs. and before could fol-
low by some mischance he stepped
upon q loose one and instantly disap-
peared. Had l not been looking at him
It Is likely should have imagined he
had crossed and gone into the brush
upon the fk,ther side. One log of all
the mass was rolling, and hand show
ed at one side of it. To dart across and
seize the hand occupied very few Sec
onds, but to my horror l could not pull
him up through the narrow space
through which he had slipped. To set
a foot upon the log either side the OPEN
ing and shove with all strength was the
only hope. For seconds l chung to the
wrist and strained nightly. Slowly
the logs separated and up he came till
he was able to twist upon his stomach
across log. Half drowned as he was,
he had not lost his nerve. "Do-don't
let 'em squeeze back ON mer' he gasp
ed, and a moment later he was ON his
feet. Most men would have weakened
then, but he was iron. He had swal
lowed lot of water, had been cheek
by jowl with an awful death, yet he
had nc. idea of proving false. The logs
were slowly slipping farther apart and
was standing like a certain large gen
tleman of Rhodes and unable to stand
much more spreading or to spring to
either side, while, of course, to slip
into the water meant to enter the trap
he had just escaped. In few seconds
he seized my hand and one quick haul
carried me to firm footing. The logs
at once closed like a gigantic trap.
When we reached solid ground my com
rade almost collapsed, and for half an
hour he was very sick man. Later
he said: II held my breath as long as l
could, calculatin' you might try to get
me, an, pardner, I'll never forget that
little turn. l reckon 1 was In a mighty
tight place"