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The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

The Long Prairie Leader states Re-
publican belief very frankly when It
says that most of the things that JEFF
ferson stood for are as dead as the
Ptolemies of Egypt. Yet the doctrines
OF Thomas Jefferson will still influence
the world when all the Republican
politicians of the present are buried in
eternal oblivion.-Little Falls Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

st. Peter holds the keys of the heav-
enly gates without opposition, but
when 1T comes to holding the keys to
81. Peters postoffice, why it's just
little different-Wabash Herald
The Saint Paul globe., 1903-11-08

1t wouldn't be a good thing for the
Republican party of Minnesota should
5. r. Van SAINT secure the nomination
again. Not many voters care to see
the governors Office monopolized by
one man, and would not stand for a
third termer. 1t would weaken the
party at the polls, from governor to
county commissioner.-Battle Lake Re-
view.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
Daring
HoIdupS
PerfLS Thar Confront q
Railroad E-xpreGE
MeSren6er.
HosO q Quick Wfffed Man Fooled
Band Of T6ieUeF--Zbe
Man Who >S7epF
on Duty.

Since the railroad has penetrated the
far west it has had to contend against
the train robber, and the struggle be-
tween the bandits and the roads has
been long and picturesque and one in
which many lives have been sacrificed,
and in that struggle, which is by no
means ended, the express messenger
has played an important part. The
railroads have wisely adopted the pol
icy in late years of cOncealing from
the public the amount of their losses
through robbery, as it was discovered
that such information excited the Gu
pidity of criminals and was soon fol-
lowed by another robbery.
On June z. 1890, a Northern Pacific
train was held up at Salem, n. D., by
four masked men. The quick witted
messenger. Immediately upon hearing
the shots that are preliminary to every
robbery by a gang, locked everything
OF value in the safe, put out the lights
and left the car. Finding the express
car deserted and failing to discover the
messenger, the bandits left it and turn
ed their attention TO the mail car. No
wiser course could have been followed
by the messenger solicitous for the safe
ty of the money in his charge.
Two robberies that resulted in the
death of the men in charge of the eX-
press cars We're that of a New York
Central train near Rochester Feb. 81,
1892, by a lone highwayman, who
broke into the car unaided grabbed
what plumber he could reach, then
killed the messenger, and that at Lone
ly Hammock, Fla, on May 81, when
four men held up Jacksonville, Tam
pa and Key West train, murdered the
messenger, wounded his assistant and
pIundered the car. The resourceful-
ness of the messenger on q st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha train which
was robbed near Kesota Junction,
Mimi, on July 1, 1892, saved his COM
pany a large amount. Before the rob-
bers broke into his car he gave the
most valuable of the money packages
to a friend who was riding with him
and asked him to sit on them.
On May II, 1871, the express car run
ming between Cincinnati and Pittsburg
was robbed of $4,000. When the train
arrived at Columbus, o., the messenger,
George Bradley, was found on the
couch in his car with a chlorofOrm sat
urated sponge on his breast. After he
had been revived he said that upon
leaving Cincinnati he had arranged
his packages and gone to sleep as uSu-
al. He declared that he knew nothing
of the robbery and was not aware that
he had been chloroformed. His story
was apparently sincere, and the fact
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

detailed TO the railroad station, and
when the three came to take the train
Bradley was arrested.
In the prisoners overcoat pocket ST.
600 was found, and slowed about his
person was $4,000 more, and in valise
which ne had left at his hotel $4,000
In large bills was discovered hidden be-
tween the false sides.
Forced to confession, Theodore
Bradley attempted to shoulder the en-
tire responsibility for the robbery, but
he finally broke down and told of his
brothers completely in the crime, ex-
planning that the messengers share OF
the plumber was buried at Columbus.
While the detectives in their wide
experience are perfectly justified in
taking a somewhat cynical and skep-
teal view of the probity of messengers,
it happens now and then that they are
entirely mistaken in their suspicious.
A case like that of Ben Shipley arises
at intervals to illustrate the fallibility
of trained thief hunters. Shipley was
messenger on the Atchison and Ne
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
Election Notice.

Notice is hereby given that on
Tuesday, the 18th day of April, a. ID.
1903, in the city of Rock Island, ILL.,,
an election will be held for the fol-
lowing officers, to-wit:
CITY OFFICERS.
One mayor for two years.
One city clerk for two years.
One city attorney for two years.
One city treasurer for two years.
One alderman in the First ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Second ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Third ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Fifth ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Sixth ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Seventh ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Fourth ward
for two years.
TOWN OFFICERS.
One assessor for one year.
One collector for one year.
Four assistant supervisors for two
years.
One justice of the peace to fill va
cancy.
Which election will be open at z
o'clock in the morning and continue
open until o'clock in the afternoon
of that day. Places of registration
and voting will be as follows:
First ward-First precinct, No. 403
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

that he had been pulled from the car
unconscious seemed to prove his sin
cerity.
But the suspicious detective sent to
Investigate first consulted physicians to
ascertain the effect of chloroform on a
sleeping man. 1t was the opinion Of
the doctors that the first effect would
be to wake the sleeper, and as the mes
senger was clear on the point that he
had not been conscious of the admins
tration of the drug, the officer shad-
owed him. Working on another tack,
it was found that the suspect had a
brother, Theodore, who had once been
a messenger, but who was at the time
of the robbery out of work. This
brother, it was learned, had been in
Columbus on May II. From that place
he was followed to Chicago, where he
was secretly married to girl named
Nellie Rowland, who later became
widely known as a variety actress.
The two, accompanied by a brother of
the girl, began to spend money very
freely in celebrating the nuptials. On
the following day it was learned that
Bradley had purchased three tickets
to a town in Canada. A detective was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
COUNTY

Anyone suffering with of these troubles may go to
medicines, and buy 81
of Cure this guarantee, VIZ:
feaspoonfu before after each meal until two
the 81 bottle has been
entirely satisfied re-
wrapper containing onethird OF the
druggist dealer from whom bought
it. advertisement bearing and address,
your money win be returned you. Kodol is curing
helpless persons of faith
IT guarantee you. cannot afford to
ignore fails, you get your money backwhat
more can we do-vhat mo we say?
&c DeWITT & co. Chicago, H.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

Fourth avenue.
First ward-Second precinct, No.
1914 Third avenue.
Second ward-First precinct, No.
SOC Fourth avenue.
Second ward-Second precinct, No.
100 Seventh avenue
Third ward-First precinct, county
Jail, Third avenue and Fourteenth
street.
Third ward-Second precinct, No.
1434 Seventh avenue.
Third ward-Third precinct, Meier
& Behring's nursery, 1115 Fifteenth
street.
Fourth ward-First precinct, Tricks
livery, 1914 Third avenue.
Fourth ward-Second precinct, NJ.
Levy's carriage house, Nineteenth
street, between Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
Fifth ward-First precinct, hose
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward = Second precinct,
Schmidt's grocery, No. s23 Twentieth
street.
Sixth ward-First precinct, hose
house, Twenty-sixth street, near Sew
enth avenue.
Sixth ward-Second precinct, a. ].
Riess' barn, No. 7O9 Twenty-seventh
street.
Seventh ward-First precinct, 3110
Fifth avenue.
Seventh ward-SecOnd precinct. Pc
terson's carpenter shop, No. SO For
ty-fifth street.
Seventh ward-Third precinct, AL
bert Olsen's barn, Forty-fourth street,
between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
H. c. SCHAFFER.
City and Town Clerk.
Rock Island, March II, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
Tragedy Averted.

"Just in the nick of time our little
boy was saved" writes Mrs. w. Wat
kins, of Pleasant City, Ohio. 'Pneu-
monia had played sad havoc with him
and a terrible cough set in besides.
Doctors treated him, but he grew
worse every day. At length we tried
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, and cur darling was saved.
He's now sound and we'll" Every
body ought to know, it's the only sure
cure for coughs, colds and all lung
diseases. Guaranteed by Hartz d
Ullemeyer, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
O., b. so. Railway.

Beginning Feb. Is and continuing
until June Is, we will have on sale
one way excursion tickets to San
Francisco and Los Angeles at rate
of thirty-one dollars ($31.OO).
Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Pu-
get Sound points, thirty dollars
($3o.oo)
Salt Lake City, Ogden, Butte and
Helena, twenty-six dollars, ($26.OO.)
Inquire Phone 11SO, c., B. & O..
ticket agent, depot Twentieth street
and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
Cheap Homes in Texas and Arkansas


Along the Cotton Belt Route-land
that can be bought for $500 and $500
an acre and up-cut-over timber
ground that makes good grazing land,
furnishing range ten or eleven months
of the year, farming land for corn,
wheat, oats, cotton-some of it pc
culiarly adapted to quick growth and
early maturity of fruits and vegeta-
bles, such as peaches, pears, plums,
Strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, on
ions, cabbage, understanding good
markets in the north at fancy prices,
on account of excellence of quality
and earlier maturity than in other
sections. An ideal place for the man
of small means-cheap fuel. cheap
building material, long growing sea-
sons, short, mild winters-a land of
sunshine and plenty. Let us send you
literature descriptive of this country.
Homes in the Southwest" "Glimp-
ses of Southeast Missouri, Arkansas
and N. w. Louisiana" Through Tex
as with a Camera" Fortunes in
Growing Fruit and Vegetables" ''The
fruit and truck growers
journal.
On first and third Tuesdays of each
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

month the Cotton Belt Route will sell
one-way tickets from ST. Louis,
Thebes, Cairo and Memphis, to points
in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, at
half the one-way rate plus $500, or
round trip tickets at one fare for the
round trip plus $500, allowing stop
over going, and 81 days return limit.
For full information, address
E. w. LaBEAUME,
G. P. & T. A, st. Louis, Mo.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

Our Guarantee.

STATE ............
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
BATTLED A BIG BEAR.
continued trom Ninth Page.

over some roots and went rolling end
over end, carrying the man with him.
Jordan knew that this was his chance
if he could get upon his feet sooner
than the bear. He was up like a flash,
and while the bear was half risen he
dealt the animal a fearful blow on the
head, crushing the skull and burying
the ak to the handle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

A wheelman's tool bag isn't COM
plete without a bottle of DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil. Heals cuts, bruises,
stings, sprains. Monarch over pain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

Queen & Crescent service Cincin-
natl to Atlanta and Jacksonville, the
best in the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

Only through car line to Asheville,
N. c., Queen & Crescent route and
Southern railway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21
TIPS TO TRAVELLERS

Queen & Crescent fast line to Bir-
mingham and New Orleans. Two fast
trains daily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

One hundred miles shortest to
Chattanooga, Queen & Crescent
route.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18

A curious lawsuit regarding the own
ership of lands was tried recently in
Ceylon. The trouble originated at an
archery competition held by King Para
krania Bahu VI, who ruled over Cey-
Ion in the fifteenth century, in which
there were two champions who outdis-
tanced all the rest and alike hit every
mark that was submitted to them. The
king was about to divide the prize when
from a neighboring pond a frog was
heard to croak. The king seized upon
a solution and declared that whichever
could hit the frog, aiming only by ear,
should gain the prize. One of the arch
ers transfXed the frog with the arrow.
So delighted was the monarch that, be-
sides the original prize, he gave to the
winner an estate Of $4,000 acres. The
claimants in the lawsuit were the de-
scendants Of the archer.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
The Epicurean B2ceer.

The badgeris great epicure in eggs,
and much of the hostility Of game
keepers to this animal lies undoubtedly
in the fact that it will, when it gets the
chance, devour a whole nest of par
fridge or pheasant eggs. Badgers are
said also to be fond of honey, and,
knowing the extraordinary craving Of
their South African cousin, the ratel,
for this delicacy, I should say it is not
improbable that they may occasionally
partake of it. 1t is certain that these
animals have a particular liking for
the nest and larvae of wasps and wild
bees, digging down with strong feet
and infinite perseverance till they at
tain their object. These animals are
said by keepers to kill and devour free
ly young rabbits. That they do partake
of this fare at times is, think, certain
but that they destroy any very consid-
cradle number is more than doubtful.
Still, the badger is carnivorous in his
tastes and is not, even by his kindliest
friends, to be absolved from devouring
at times tender rabbits and even the
young of game birds when he can get
hold of them.-Longman's
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
A Christmas Card Worth Millions.

A Christmas Card Worth Millions.
The most expensive Christmas card
ever made was prepared by an English
firm in Calcutta some years ago for the
native ruler Of Baroda in the East In
dies, and intended as gift for Euro
pean lady Of rank with whom the great
man was in love- This card was a
foot in length by ten inches in width
and of flaWless ivory. to obtain which
over forty elephants were killed. Four
of the most skillful carvers to be found
were at work for six months on this
magnificent present. When it was fin
ished the eyesight of three Of them
was injured and the fourth man be-
came blind. The engraving and cary
ing they did were the representing Of
10000 of the stages Of existence of
Buddha. The card was ornamented
around the edges, like frame. with
forty-four diamonds of the purest wa
ter, and each the size of q haZelnut.
The cost was estimated at half a mill
lion pounds sterling. The lady never
got her present for the potentate was
arrested for trying to poison the Eng
lish resident, and the card disappeared.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
ScaIIODed OYSTERS.

:. The Christmas dinner should include
oysters. They may serve for an en-
tree and are delicious scalloped or
baked in a pie. with the giblets. This
is the way. to prepare scalloped oysters:
Place in a shallow baking dish layer
of OYSTERS. over this spread layer of
bread, crumbs or; erumbled crackers;
sprinkle it with salt. pepper and bits of
= butter; alternate the layers until the
dish is full, having, crumbs on top, we'll
dotted, with bits of butter. Pour over
the whole enough oyster juice to mois-
ten it. Bake in hot oven fifteen or
twenty minutes or until Drowned.
Serve in the same dish in which it is
baked. Individual scallop cups or
shells may also be used, enough for one
person being placed in each cup. Prop
erly prepared, it is an excellent DISH
New York World.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
A HeaIthful Costume.

When the Fraser highlanders landed
in North America in 1857, it was pro-
posed to change the dress on account
of the cold winters and hot summers.
The officers successfully opposed this
and were ultimately justified by the
highlanders being the healthiest SOL
diers in the army. In the campaign in
Holland in 1894 some regiments lost as
many as 800 from disease, but the
Black Watch, which had 800 recruits
in it's ranks. had only twenty-five cas-
ualties, including the killed in battle.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
WHY CREAM TESTS VARY.
Professor Harrington Answers s
Question Which Is often Asked.

Professor Harrington Answers a
Question Which Is often Asked.
In answer to a correspondent as to
the cause of so much variation in the
tests of cream, Professor e. H. Earring
ton in the Country Gentleman replies
as follows:
Cream often contains considerable
air mixed with it, either that which
is forced into it when milk is skinned
by a cream separator or from the gases
formed when cream sours On ac-
count of these gases a pipette full of
such cream will hold a certain amount
of air, and consequently not the full
volume Of cream. Cream is SO much
thicker than milk that more or less of
it adheres to the inside walls of the
pipette when it is emptied. The glass
does not drain SO thoroughly as when
milk is measured, and there is left con-
siderable fat in this cream adhering to
the walls of the pipette. This adhering
cream is not of uniform quantity.
More of it may be left in the pipette
from some creams than from others.
The amount which sticks to the pipette
depends great deal on the richness
and ripeneSs of the cream measured.
Cream bottles and pipettes may not
be accurately graduated. One person
may test cream by measuring into the
cream test bottle with a 17.6 c. C.
pipette and another may test by
weighing the cream after it is meas
ured into the test bottle. There is a
difference in the tests made by weight
and by measuring the cream. A thin
cream containing about Is per cent
fat may be measured with pipette
and fairly correct results obtained, be-
cause pipette full of such thin cream
will weigh nearly eighteen grams. But
a pipette full of rich cream containing
40 or more per cent will weigh some
where about sixteen grams, and when
this is measured into test bottle the
result obtained will not be nearly SO
accurate as may be the case when Il
thinner cream is measured and tested.
On account of the effect which the fat
and the air bubbles in cream may have
on it's weight it is always safest in
testing cream to use a scale for weigh
ing the quantity tested in each bottle.
In cream testing as we'll as in milk
testing it is necessary that acid of the
proper strength should be used, that
the tester should be run at full speed
and the required length Of time, and
that the test bottle chamber should be
kept warm during the Whirling. The
temperature of the bottles during test
ing may be regulated in steam turbine
testers by the arrangements now pro-
vided on the modern machines of this
type. If a hand tester is used the
cream bottles should be kept warm by
placing them in hot water and by add
ing hot water to the tester while they
are being whirled. A difference in
temperature of twenty or more degrees
will affect the length of the fat col
umn and consequently the per cent of
fat read on the neck Of the bottles"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
Taking Pleasure Swiftly.

Take time to be merry, to have a
good time," and you will double your
possibilities Of health, wealth and hap
piness. Anglo-Saxons are made fun Of
because they take even their pleasures
sadly. Their American cousins, with
characteristic energy, make business
Of it. Ian Maclaren's story of the
American who was "doing" the United
Kingdom is a good illustration Of
Jonathan's method Of pleasuring. A
visitors card was brought to DR.. Wat
son Gan Maclaren) in his study, but
before he had time to read it his Wis
itor stood before him and announced
himself. "My name is Elijah X. Hig-
GINS" he said breathlessly, land I am
a busy man. You are also busy and
have no time to fool away. Four days
are all I can give to the United King
dom, and wished to shake hands with
you. Goodby! I am off to Drum
tochty"'-Success.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
Fighting Oleomargarine

The state dairy and food department
Of Ohio has been in receipt lately OF
number Of protests from travelling men
against the utter disregard by certain
hotels of the oleomargarine law. In
response to these protests warnings
were sent to the proprietors. circu-
lar letter will be sent to every hotel
keeper in the state calling attention
to the provisions of the law regarding
this matter, together with the intima.
ton that the department intends to
use repressive measures. The law on
the subject prohibits the use Of artifi-
cial butter that contains any cOloring
matter not natural to the product. The
statute also prescribes the display of a
card not less than 10 by IA inches in
size, upon which are to be shown in
letters not less in size than one and a
half inches square, in black ink, the
words, "Oleomargarine sold and used
here" This must be shown in the eat
ing room where the substance is served
and must be in a place therein where it
can be easily read. The penalty for
failing to observe the law is mini
mum fine of $500 for the first offense
and q maximum fine of $500 and nine
ty days in jail for subsequent offenses.
Dairy and Creamery.
Beef Trust Violates Law.
According to statements by several
of New York's most prominent butter,
poultry and egg dealers, the internal
revenue department at Washington as
we'll as the revenue officers of New Jer
sey and New York, will shortly be
called upon to arrest and prosecute
certain alleged agents of the beef trust
who for several years have been sell
ing and delivering oleomargarine in
New York and Jersey City in violation
of the state and national laws. The
step has been decided on by the lead
ing commission houses in retaliation
against the beef trust for invading the
New York poultry, butter and egg mar
ket because farmers and butter men
of the state dared to oppose the trust
in having the tax increased on oleo-
margarine The oleomargarine is
brought east, they say, in the bottom
of refrigerator cars under the beef.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-18
Worlds Fair Dairy Barns.

The barns for the dairy department
Of the worlds fair at st. Louis are be-
ing constructed, and they will be ready
to receive their occupants before the
first of the year. Their location is at
the north end of the live stock site and
just west of the proposed live stock
forum or main amphitheater The
barns will be uniform octagons 100
feet in diameter. Each will have thir-
ty-eight stalls arranged in semicircle
with rear promenade twelve feet
wide to accommodate visitors. Eight
box stalls by II feet will be provided
for the cows at calving time, and two
box stalls will furnish quarters for
bulls.