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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

DO YOU WANT AGENTS?-Many years ex-
perience places US in a position to give you
valuable Information along lines that will
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.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
wANTEp-PosITIoNs

WANTED-Situation bv an experienced lady
stenographer. Can furnish references If
desired. Address IL NJ D. care of
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
FUEL.

EMPIRECOAI. & COKE COMPANY-whole.
sale andsretail dealers in bituminous and
anthracite coal. Prompt delivery service
offices lbs First avenue. Telephone west
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

HAYES s. CLEAVELAND - The pioneer
agency. Old time and fire tested compa-
MES. Fire, lightning, plate glass, tornado,
accident, life, or almost any form of risk.
Ground hoor offices 2l0 to 2lS, Eighteenth
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
INSURANCE..

goods specially. Oldest and best com
panies, lowest rates c. r. Chamberlin,
Mitchell q Lynde block. Phone 1890.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

TORNADO INSURANCE-Rates for city
property % cents per 800 one year, 40 cents
per 800 three years, 80 cents per 500 five
years. Cali or address c. r. Chamberlin
Agent, Mitchell & Lynde building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
FOB. RENr-RooMs

FOR RENT-A large airy furnished front
room at 536 Tive nty-second stress
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

MONEY TO LOAN-In any amount, on any
kind of security. Also choice property tor
sale or rent. w. L. Coyne. $50 Seventeenth
street, up stairs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
Observation-Disclosures.

| McCASKRIN & Observation-Disclosures at
law. Rock Island and Milan Rock Island
ONCE in Bengston block Milan ONCE on
Main street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
wANTED-MALE OR FEMALE.


WANTED-Ladies and gentlemen to canvas
tor the best selling article on the market
First class proposition to right party. Ad-
dress ''F A. Argus office
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
uANrEn-mALEHELP

wANTED-Ben boys at the Harper house.
Good wages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
wANTED-AGENTs.

Schneider, 74l Twenty-third street.
WANTED - Trustworthy person in each
county to manage business, old establish
ed house, solid financial standing: straight
bona fide weekly cash salary S1S paid by
check each Wednesday, with all expenses
ed for expenses. Manager, $40 Caxton bldg.
Chicago
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WE make a specially OF loaning money on
household goods, horses, wagons, etc,
without removal and in a quiet way. Cali
on US for quick loans. Fidelity Loan com
pany, Room IS, Mitchell & Lynde block.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
NEIsCELLANEoUs.

IF YOU WISH your money to earn a higher
rate of interest than is paid by savings
banks, call on Marion Z. Sweeney. attor
ney, rooms 1896. Mitchell& Lynde building
Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

FOR ,RENT-Three unfurnished rooms up
stairs, with basement cellar. Inquire at
1921 Sixth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

FOR RENT-A large front room nicely fur
niShed, with board. at lOl5 Seventeenth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

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. p. Williamson,
1918 Second avenue. Telephone 1884.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms with all mod
ern conveniences at $40 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
DENTISTS.

j. Il. TAYLOR-Dentist. once hours $50 to
u m, 1870 to 5 p. m. 2l9x Eighteenth
street. opposite Union once. Telephone
new 1888.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

CONNOLLY & CONNELLY-Attorney at
law. Money loaned. once over Cramp-
tons book store, l719 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

ROCK ISLAND STEAM LAUNDRY-BaurS
field s. Sexton, proprietOrS. Fine finish and
quick service. 1914 Third avenue. Phone
west 1898.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED-A small m odern house to rent il
good neighborhood from SIS to SIS. Ad
Oress &c. f. s. care of Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms with good
ia bile board. All modern ConvenienCes.
1929 Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WANTE O-Have you position equal 10
your abilities: Energetic and reliable
women do well working for us. No moe
work and better pay. Write tor particu-
lars. Crescent works, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WANTED-Two or three furnished rooms
for light housekeeping by man and wife
Address ''R. j. D." care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WANTED-Several bright young men be
tween ages of Is and 25 Ones willing TO
work. Good wages. Inquire at Harper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

LEONARD DRACK-Architect and superin
tendent. Skinner block, second floor
once hours-lO to IL a. m, 4 to $50 p. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WANTED Ladies' shirt waists to make at
1874 Second avenue, third floor, over L II e.
meyer & Sterling's clothing store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

FOR SALE-A five room house with bath
lot 9Ox15o. fruit trees and other small fruit,
good well, % barrel cistern, city water,
barn and carnage shed, located on Forty
fourth street. Address S. L. MattiSOn, 1853
Nineteeth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-24

WANTED Room and board for couple in
private family, good neigh borhood, reak-
enable price. Address Room care of Ar
gus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23
SCIENCE SIFTINGS.

In consumption, early diagnosis is
Of great Importance. 1t is now great
ly facilitated by the use of X-rays.
A full-sized cigar contains as much
as two grains of nicotine, a pipeful of
tobacco not more. as a rule, than
two-thirds of a grain.
Mummiied Egyptian bees, esti-
mated to be 5000 years old, will be
exhibited at the international Agri-
culture exhibition TO be held in Wen
ma next April.
DR.. Julius Boeckelmann, German
physician and scientist, who went to
patagonia eight years ago to study
the conditions of the country, says
the P~atagonians will be extinct in a
few years.
When the fire of a heating appara-
tus is lighted for the first time at the
beginning of the cold season, n
sometimes notices a most unpleasant
smell of ammonia and the like. 1t
seems that large numbers of mic
robes gather in the pipes during the
season of rest. and the warmth
causes the organisms to vegetate, and
thus a quantity of ammonia is pro-
duced.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

river from Poughkeepsie, man miles
farther north han West Point, in a
beautiful region, suited for the repose
of a poet-naturalist.
In his way, Burroughs has been a
government official, too. 1t is like his
simple nature that as a public servant
he was content with a very subordinate
job in a Washington departments
Waterman or messenger, or something
like that. Returning to Esopus, he was
made postmaster, an honor of little
profit, as the place is hardly more than
a rural crossroads. He was past so
before his writings were a source of
more than trifing income. Even now.
though their admirers are found all
about the world, their circulation is
small. Comparatively few people buy
nature books" though the number is
growing. Thoreau, Burroughs prede-
cessor by many years in this line, used
to boast a library of many hundred
books. all his own'-the unsold copies
of a small edition. Burroughs has been
more fortunate in his times.
Burroughs writes in a rough cabin.
uliOEI N1lOSS 1OOl III SQU1EIEIS
scamper, making a great racket. In
New York. with his long beard and
breezy name he is a conspicuous fgI
ure, but utterly unconscious. He brings
TO the city the fresh interest of a boy.
If in a parlor in the city, he becomes
aware of something unusual happening
=pon the street, he runs to the window
with a boys quick curiosity. Such a
man sees things because he looks for
them.
should imagine that Burroughs and
splendid old John Muir might be a rare
" matched pair. They were together
once before, in the great Hartman ex-
petition in Alaska-that strange. con-
vincing proof that even a Wall street
magnate can be interested in scientific
problems. OWEN LANGDON.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23
The News Condensed

The right of way for the proposed
belt line between Chicago and Keno
sha has now been secured and work
on the line will be pushed.
AS a result of the lack of interest
the State Baseball league has been
abandoned.
Milwaukee milling companies have
increased the wages of the 1000 mill
workers on an average of one dollar
a week.
DR.. w. r. Hopkins, of Cumberland,
is making arrangements to open a
consumption sanftarium on the
shores of Lake Nebagamon.
The Lake Vista Hotel block at Will
liams Bay was burned, resulting III
damage of $4,000, ON which there is
little insurance.
Thomas Phillips pleaded guilty to
breaking into a boat house at Racine
and stealing a $500 yacht and was
sent to prison for three years.
The date for commencement at
Carroll college at Waukesha has been
get for June &c.
Fudge Belden has appointed Henry
+. Jordan receiver of the Kenosha
state bank, which was recently
closed by State Bank Examiner
Bergh.
D. w. w. Walkers drug store at
Marinette was robbed of $3.50 by
burglars who climbed through the
tranSom.
Ed Jones was killed while driving
a bus from the depot at Athens by
falling. He fell from lis seat, break
ing his neck.
Thomas Maham. of La Grange, aged
As years. fell down stairs. receiving
internal injuries from which he died.
Hoehner & Bartlett, of Eau Claire.
have been given the contract to build
the Eau Claire Carnegie library at
S29,6 GAG. all contracts aggregating
$4,000.
Joseph Cook. who worked at GRAY
tits mill, near Wausau. fell from the
top of the iron framework of a
bridge over the Eau Claire river and
was killed.
While attemptingto remove a hand
car from the track, Section Foreman
Charles Shadow, of Iron Ridge. was
struck by a switch engine and in
stantlv killed. He leaves a wife and
four children.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

n IN .|lnhnlte Mah'
credit for sagacity and discretion.
When Theodore Roosevelt was lieu
tenant colonel OF the Rough Riders at
the beginning of the war with Spain
Humphrey was the quartermaster in
charge at Tampa, where the American
troops were gathered to embark for
Cuba. Everything was in a state of
confusion amounting almost to demon
aIization, and Humphrey was doing his
level best to bring order out of chaos
when Roosevelt arrived, Jealous and
determined to push his regiment to the
front. 1t wasn't easy for the Rough
Riders to get exactly what their i'm
petuous colonel demanded, and Roose-
welt and Humphrey had a clash which
neither of them was slow to forget.
In the five years that have elapsed
since the trying times of 1898 changes
have come to both men. Roosevelt
became president; Humphrey, eager
for service, went to the Philippines,
accompanied Chaffee on the Chinese
expedition, and made a record which
singled him out among all the officers
of the quartermaster's department as
the most efficient and most brilliantly
equipped.
But all this had been lost sight Of by
the former colonel of the Rough Rid
ers until the time came when the re-
tirement of Quartermaster General
Luddington brought the question of
the succession to the front. Then the
president looked over the names of
available officers. He found that the
man who had made so unfavorable ar
impression upon him five years before
had won the confidence of the entire
army by his later achievements. He
sank his own personal %prejudices and
gave Humphrey the coveted prize.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23
GREAT MANS TEN NOSES.
Were Made of silver to supply tho
Place of the Natural Organ
Lost in a Duel,

In his lecture before the last
meeting of the Chemical Society Of
Washington upon the Old Chemical
Society of Prague, Bohemia, organ.
lied during the middle ages, under
the reign of Rudolph H., DR.. H.. Car
rington Bolton had occasion to call
attention to the somewhat we'll
known fact that Tycho Brahe, who,
by the way, was a member of this,
the earliest chemical society of Eu-
rope, wore a silver nose. it appears
that when & young man the great
astronomer fought a duel in which
he had the misfortune to lose that
Important member and was obliged
to wear a silver one instead, says the
Washington Post.
"This," DR.. Bolton stated, she was
in the habit of removing at night
when he slept, and one night his
favorite dog managed to gain pos
session of his masters silver nose,
which, after he had played with it all
night long, was of very little service
the day following. Tycho was in
great distress the next morning
when, after an hour search, he
found his precious nose battered and
chewed out of all shape and service.
In order, therefore, to avoid future
accidents Tycho hied him to the sill
versmith's and had ten silver noses
made in place of the one. One of
these said DR.. Bolton, "was pre-
served in one Of the museums of Ger
many until the beginning of the
nineteenth century when, by some
mishap, it disappeared and thus far
has not been recovered"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23
USE M IN FIGHT.
Balkan ID Decimate Turkish
TrOOps-Fierve Battle Re-
ported.

Salonica. European Turkey, April
2O.-A s~anguinary fight has occurred
at the village of Opela between reyo-
lutionists from Palanka and Turkish
troops. After the encounter had last
ed some time and the reyOlutiOnists
were getting the worst of it, a dozen
of them being killed or wounded, they
resorted to the use of dynamite and
hurled bombs among the Turks, 70 of
whom were killed or wounded by the
explosions. In the panic which fol-
lowed the revolutionists broke
through the Turkish Gordon and
escaped.
Constantinople, April 20.-The Ital-
ian, German, Russian and Austrian am
ba%ssadors to Turkey have had au-
diences of the Sultan in which they
urged the imperative necessity of
checking the Albanian disorders. Much
comment.has been raised by the signif-
icant fact that the Austrian and Rus
sian ambassadors saw the sultan joint
ly, as this is unprecedented. 1t is re
ported that the representatives of
both of these countries took a veryseri-
Gus tone in speaking with the sultan
and that that ruler promised ~acquies-
cence to their demands. The AIbanians
at Ipek. still detain the sultan's com
missioners as hostage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

nobody was able German.
to secure recognition. German re.
sumes his old functions as naturally
and gracefully as though there had
never been a lapse.
There are a good many points Of re-
semblance between German and Aid
rich, who is the acknowledged repub-
lican parliamentary leader in the SEN
ate. Both are hard-headed men OF
business training. Neither appeals es'
pecially to the popular imagination
Each is a master of motives and skilled
in combination. There is little senti'
ment about either. Neither German
nor Aldrich figures very much in de-
bate. They do not pose for applause,
nor expect it. They are satisfied II
they can accomplish political results,
and are Indifferent as to whether they
receive personal credit for what they
do. That is one source of their
strength, for they do not excite envy
or rivalry among the men whom they
expect to follow their lead. They are
quite willing that others should enjoy
the glamor of the superficial reputa.
tion that the newspapers can give
They play politics as they would play
a game of chess-putting forward
their men to the best advantage and
making everybody's talents count
most effectively in the party interests.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

Hon. William E. Chandler treaty claims COM
mission is in existence.
One reason for the unobtrusiveness
of the commission is that Chandler is
sitting on the valve.
When the war with Spain came to an
end the United States, by the treaty of
Paris, took over all the claims which
American citizens had against Spain
on account of the insurrection in Cuba.
These claims ran up into the millions,
even when it was supposed that they
were to hold only against the bank
rupt government at Madrid. AS soon
as it was known that the United States
government was to be the responsible
party the amount of the claims was
quadrupled and quintupled almost in
a flash. Until about the time that the
Spanish treaty claims commission was
created with Chandler at the head of
it they amounted to between $50,0OO,-
900 and 500, 900, 000 and the commission
headquarters on II street fairly
swarmed with attorneys who were to
get contingent fees running all the
way from ten to so per cent.
Hardly one of these so-called Amer
lean citizens had an American name.
Almost without exception they were
Cubans who had secured American citi-
zenship On one preteNt or another sole
ly for the purpose of pushing their
claims. So there was no great amount
of sympathy for them. Chandler took
them in hand and he has been holding
them down for two years. In that
time out of the $50, 900, 900 in claims his
commission has allowed just So, 900,
and there is no immediate prospect of
any more. Of course there is wailing
and crashing of teeth on the part of
the attorneys, but it is hard to see
what they can do about it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

crust was cut, emerged a beauteOus
lady, clad much as Venus must have
been when rising from the sea. That
night and the scandal it made nearly
ruined Sherry's. 1t wasn't long before
Il married man, an artist whose name
is very familiar, repeated the feat in his
great studio. Then the idea was for
gotten. New times demand new gent
uses. The horse dinner is like nothing
else so much as the famous monkey
dinner given in Newport last summer;
and it wasn't much like that. At the
monkey dinner there was only one
monkey, and he was a well-behaved
guest.
! can recall two famous dinners given
in New York, each widely different
from the other, and each deserving
fame.
A number of years ago a correct look
ing man appeared at the then fashion
able Brunswick hotel, and engaged a
table for a dinner to 30 guests. He was
we'll dressed and had money. When
the guests arrived they were unknown
to the management, but at first de
NOlOuS WINE ICNCdlSh lhe u rum. InHN
were 30 of the most abandoned charac-
ters in New York, men and M
Their host was Billy McGlory, landlord
of the infamous Armory hall, worst
resort of the old unreformed New
York. The shameless pranks they
u in every part of the hotel before
they could be caught, one by one, and
expelled, were a nine days scandal
that nearly ruined the Brunswick.
though its managers had been quite
guiltless in the matter.
The other famous dinner was better
natured. 1t was given by Johnny Mar
tin. the shrewd Irish-American whose
name is universally pronounced in the
French fashion. before he moved up
town to the old Delmonico corner on
Fifth avenue Friends made merry
with him the last night in the old house.
The tables were at last cleared and
carried away bodily. and then an old
fashioned country ~barnyard was impro-
vised upon the floor. There were pigs,
geese. rabbits, chickens, all alive and
shouting in their several tongues.
Vastly funny, it seemed to the drunken
men; and because the prank was COM
paratively harmless, it ruined nobody.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

unknown among New Yorks rich took
occasion to ~signalize his arrival among
them by giving a dinner party at the
most luxurious restaurant in the city.
There were 80 guests. Each was seated
on horseback, his food being spread be-
fore him upon the pommeI Of his sad
die. The horses had been led up the
grand staircase, whose lofty magnih-
ccnce recalled a palace Of the old world,
and we're for the occasion e%nscOned in
the great white and gold ballroom,
where
Il don't believe a world of it," the
New Iealander Will say, finging down
the offending volume. Yet it will be
the truth hat he rejects, while sWal-
lowing lies that make half Of history.
The name Of the man is Billings-C.
X. q. Billings. / suppose he must be
well known to horsemen, for the occa-
sion Of the banquet was his election
as president Of the Equestrian club. 1t
was managed very cIeverly. The DIN
ner was announced; then doubt was
east upon its most sensational lea
ture. When the guests arrived thcy
were met by the host with doWncasI
and apologize eyes. The newspapers
had made so much fuss about the horse
dinner, ne said, that he'd had to call it
off. However, if the gentlemen would
step upstairs, they could at least have
something to eat. They stepped; and
there, in the great ballroom, just as
history says, were the 80 horses, all
eating from i~mproyised managers, all
caparisoned strangely for banquet
purposes, with tiny tables at the sad
die bows. They didn't walk upstairs,
however, those horses; history's wrong
there. They were liked up, one by one
in the passenger elevator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23

The Willard hotel, which wasfhe great
resort for soldiers and statesmen dur
ing the civil war and for a good many
years afterwards, gradually fell into
decay. 1t has now been replaced by a
modern structure which compares in
size and appointments with the SPLEEN
did caravansaries Of Manhattan island.
There are two or three other struc-
lures here which compare favorably
with the New Willard, and before the
end of another year there will be two
or three more
The supply has stimulated the de-
mand until the entire atmosphere of
the capital has undergone a change.
The old-time country village aspect of
the place has departed never to return,
and the town has taken on a metro
p%olitan air.
Washington is now a winter resort