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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01
FILES A PROTEST
Rock Island Road Enters Objec-
tons to Action of Mileage
Bureau.
CLAIMS UNFAIR TREATMENT
Discrimination Said TO Have Been
Started when Coast Line Was
Opened.

Chicago, July 1.-The Rock Island
filed vigorous protest yesterday
with the chairman of the Western
Passenger association against the ac-
ton taken by the interchangeable
mileage bureau lines at Mondays Sc
cret meeting when an Interchange
able mileage ticket was adopted. This
meeting, the Rock Island says in its
letter to the chairman, was held be-
hind closed doors, and it was not in
vited to attend, although a member of
the mileage bureau. 1t votes no on
the proposition and protests against
any combination for the Introduction
of tickets which will affect it's rev
enues.
The Rock Island people feel that
they have been badly treated by their
competitors ever since the compile
ton of the new transcontinental line
via FL Paso and the acquisition of the
St Louis & San Francisco road. In
the first place, the Rock Island was
refused Il fair proportion of the immi-
grant business over its new line to
California, which compelled it to with
draw from the immigrant bureau and
Western Passenger association.
VIII RetaIIate.
The attack now made on il is claim
ed to be for the purpose of compell-
ing it to quit the mileage and clergy
men business If the new mileage
ticket arrangement is put i'm effect by
its competitors the Rock Island means
to retaliate by extending the present
1000 mile credentiaI book over the
entire Rock Island-'Frisco systems, or
will allow the southwestern lines, all
of which use the mileage credential,
to cover all of the Rock Island Frisco
lines.
More radical steps will be taken.
said prominent official of the Rock
Island yesterday, IF this fight against
our road is continued any longer.
The final outcome is likely to be an
all around rate war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01

In all forms of kidney and bladder
diseases, the best physicians recon-
mend Kid-Ne-Oids. They are COM
pounded after the formula of a cell
ebrated chemist, and represent tho
scientific study of is years. Pit UP in
tablet form at SOC. Pleasant TO take.
r. H. THOMAS, Leading Druggist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01

This sketch was made by Ada NJ.
Minard. aged IS, Horace Mann school,
Rock Island. ILL.,
We give Il cash prize of $500 for
any drawing of this character which
we accept and use. All school chill
dren can compete. Full instructions
will be found on inside of each pack
age of EGG-O-SEE, telling what to do
to get the prize, and how to make the
drawings.
Egg-O-See is fake food and is
manufactured from the choicest
wheat which can be procured. 1t is
made in the most perfectly appointed
food mill in the world. 1t is pure and
healthful because no other food is
made under such strict sanitary rcgu-
latiOnS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01

Sound kidneys are safeguards of
life. Make the kidneys healthy with
Foley's Kidney Cure. All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01
Unfounded Report.

There is no truth in the report that
the Rock Island has suspended oper-
ations on the line being built be
tween Kansas City and ST. Louis.
About ten days ago w. b. Leeds, pres
ident of the Rock Island, ordered the
contractors to suspend operations on
the line between Kansas City and
Pleasant Hill while plan TO connect
the Rock Island and Frisco lines near
Pleasant Hill was considered. But
the contractors already had several
hundred men and steam shovels and
graders at work on this part of the
line, and the work was not suspend
ed, the contractors continuing on
their own responsibility. Since then
the stay order has been revoked. The
contractors are hurrying the work on
all parts of the line and expect to
have the grading of the road complet-
ed between Kansas CITY and Versailles
within four months.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01
DON'T :ss $ 3 8 SR RI

You can be cured OF any form of tobacco usin,
easily, be made well, strong magnetic full o
new life and vgor by taking HO-TO-RAC
That makes weak men strong Many gai
Iel- pounds IN ten days over 60Qe G0G
let and advice FREE Address S'TERIIS1i
&RMRDV Co. Chicago .Ar Neo -+sxh 40
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-22
How to Treat tho Intoxicated.

Under this heading the Vegetarian tells
how an intoxicated man can be instantly
sobered by the application of cold water.
Referring to the use of cold water as re-
counted by some physicians of olden times
in cases cf insanity it quotes from an an
cient author the following:
That which will make q drunken man
sober in q minute ought to cure mad man
in month. If drunken ran is plunged
into cold water he will come out perfectly
recovered by simply wetting their heads in
cold water"
Another physician who has had large ex-
perience Ill hospital practice, says:
In our missionary dispensary work here
in this city we have had the most wonder
full results from the use of the cold spray
in such cases. Men who have been so in
.oxicated that they could not stand upon
sheir feet, by being paced under cold
shower for a few moments, have sprung
out of it perfectly sober, eNciaimlng, You
have wrought miracle Sometimes such
men have gone out and gathered in other
poor drunkards that the same might be
done for them.
"Applications of cold water act as sort
OF fire alarm to every part OF the system,
and enable the nerve centres to rise above
the depressing influences of the alcohol.
Immediately following the application of
cold. whether it be a cod sheet pack, q
cold full BATH or cold shower bath, hot
applications should be placed to the spine
and the patient should bevigorously rubbed
with dry towel so ss to promote vigorous
reaction"
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The Admira; Failed to Get a Dog.

Admiral Sterling almost became the
posSessor of coach dog, and some one
in Honolulu a loser thereby. The dog
has habit of following people to
whom he takes a fancy. and there is
no shaking him off until he takes it
into his head that change Of masters
is desirable. In some way he followed
an officer down to the naval station.
One of the clerks saw the dog and
made inquiries from other station at
anything about it. A telephone mes
sage came to this inquirEe clerk
shortly afterward asking whether such
dog was at the station. The clerk
replied that it was there and tied up,
and the person at the other end of the
phone said that dog was probably the
one intended as gift for Admiral Ster
ling. but had been sent to the wrong
would kindly present the dog to the
admiral. The clerk was unable to COM
ply with the reQues:. just at that time,
owing to the stress Of work. Later in
the day, in thinking over his tele-
phonic instructions, he came to the
conclusion that the voice had fami-
liar sound, and he forthwith smelt u
rat. The dog is still at the station
awaiting his owner. Admiral Sterling
didn't need dog, nyhow-Hono!u:u
Commercial Advertiser.
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The DESTROYER.

If war has slain its thousands, intemper-
ance has slain it's tens of thousands. And
where is the father who would not prefer
to see his son shot down before his face
than to behold him poisoned to a degrad-
ing death by these foul harpies wkom le-
gion has employed?
And who are the men whose fate has
been thus sealed in hopeless ruin?
They are young. They were seized and
bound while young. Hardly one in hun
dreds has passed the maturity of his earth
ing drunkards? Nothing was further from
their thoughts or their desires. They have
waded out most gradually, almost imper-
ceptibly, into the deep. They once looked
down upon the inebriate sot with sorrow
and contempt. as others now look down
upon them. They started with the drop
their fathers gave them, or with the offered
glass Of friendship, at noon or night. when
they lacked the courage to refuse. The de-
mon seized them when they were sheltered,
as they thought, far from his abodes. and
led them on, his purpose fixed, though yet
unknown to them, for their final ruin. ,
Where did this work Of ruin begin? Do
not tell me at the tavern or in haunts like
youths that taste for taverns? Where did
they get the appetite which sought its OBJ
iects and its pleasures there? You will be
compelled to look back far beyond their
public limit, and to feel and to, acknowl-
edge the responsibility often coming nearer
home. The moderate drinker is but an in
dentured apprentice to the drunkard. A
gracious divine providence may cripple his
ability in his youth, and he may not thor
oughly learn his trade. But the habitual
glass, however apparently refined, signs his
indenture. And no one who starts as an
apprentice of the craft, or who leads an
other to take single step in its clearly
marked line, has power to define the limits
Of the course.
God grant that we may never hive to see
our sons and daughters, 80 precious in our
ing power of this legion demon But if we
would avoid this terrible sorrow let us
avoid all connection with the habits of tho
trade. Let us remember that he plucks
the lambs from the flock at home, and Sc
lects the victims for his holocausts when
thev and theirs least expect his approach.
If you will save the souls of your chill
dren from the destruction, or yourselves
from all participation in the ruin, Danish
the "accllrsed thing" from your habitation.
lock up the tempting bottles from their
sight and neither have, nor offer upon
to vice, this direct provision for impover.
ishment If the health, poison to the bod
les, and destruction of the souls of your
selves, and your children, and your friends.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D. D.
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The Latest Disease.

Fanitis is the latest malady to attack
the human race. 1t Is disease to
which only civilized people are sub
ject. Moreover it Is prevalent in sum-
mer, and persons who frequent sum-
mer gardens and cafes are liable to be
numbered among its victims. 1t is
nothing more than an ordinary cold or
neuralgia produced by the drafts Great
ed by electric fans. Nevertheless, ply
sicians, in a spirit Of humor, have
chosen to give it semi-Scientftic
name, and many practitioners are con-
6dent the malady under its new nomen-
clature will prove as popular as Ia
grippe or appendicitis.-New York
Press
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as "Jezreers Tower" and was erected
not so very many years ago by an ex-
tinct sect called the Jezreelites. Their
leader. one White-or. as he preferred
to call himself, James Jeershom Jez-
reep'-had previously been soldier.
but found more profitable employment
in preaching faith which promised
immortality to all it's believers. Money
flowed into the exchequers Of the
Faithful" and the "Temple Of JezreeP
was commenced, "for the housing Of
144,0OO persons who were not to taste
death" However, before the building
was completed the faith of the immor-
tai Jezreelites received a rude shock.
White died, and most OF the money
also disappeared. 1t is. perhaps. need
less to say that the faith Of the Jez-
reelites in their own immortality died
with him. A half-fnished, ugly, gap
ing mass Of bricks and iron still re-
mains-a not inappropriate reminder
Of such piece Of monumental folly.
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herds Of these animals. almost wild.
fattened in the glades Of the vast
beechen forests. They were brought
in droves toward the Danube and sold
for consumption in Austria and Hun.
gary. Now the oak forests are de-
vaStated to 4 great extent, for the Ser
Wan takes from the soil but never gives
back-and American bacon is used ev-
erywhere. Small wonder that Prince
Alexis few years ago should have felt
emboldened to mediate an alliance
between himself and the daughter of
an American millionaire. pork packer as
''all in the trade"
The 4Servian woman, according to an
cient tradition. holds an inferior and
somewhat servile position. and not un-
til she becomes the mother of children
does she amount to much in the esti-
nation Of her family.
This was one Of the reasons that i'm
PEELED Queen Draga to try and palm
off her sisters child as her own. In
the wedding ceremony the presence
Of a new born child Is deemed a most
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which she placed between her lips,
while the King bit off the other half.
The bridegroom then took into his
arms a new born boy, lent for this
special occasion by the minister. Alex
ander kissed him, then laid him in the
arms Of the Queen, who. after kissing
him three times, returned with him to
his mother with the present Of new
shirt. This child is called Nakonyese,
"the most essential"
The scattered corn denotes that the
bride brings with her JOY and prosper.
ity, while the divided bonbon means
that no bitterness shall divide them.
After all these ceremonies the bride
must still stand at the threshold until,
provided with a loaf of bread under
either arm and a bottle Of wine in her
hands, she enters her future home.
Servian women are good houSekeep-
ers and travellers rejoice to find scrupu-
lous cleanliness, snowy sheets and COM
Portable bedding-essentials lacking in
most Of the other Balkan states. The
people are extremely fond of taking
their meals al fresco, and nearly all
the hotels of the cities and larger
towns have charming gardens inclosrd
in the quadrilateral formed by their
dependencies, where all sup In the
open air, surrounded by trees and flow
erS.
The women Of the cities combine Eu-
ropean and Oriental fashions in their
dress. An embroidered skirt and neck
erchief cover the bust, held in place
with flowers or a gold pin. A heavy
brocaded sash is usually thrown
around the waist and hangs In front
Of the gay silk dress, which Is made in
European style. An abundance Of jew
elry completes the costume, whose
beauty is marred by the foolish custom
of dyelng the hair and staining the eye
brows and lips. The arrangement OF
the, hair Is peculiar. slick black braid
coiled around O light scarlet fez. Its
crown covered with embroitery.~
Brooklyn Eagle.
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prayer. There arc few great land
owners. Each family owns the land 1t
tills, and with the most imperfect
methods of agriculture manages to
draw from it a livelihood.
Scarcely third of the ground Is un-
der cultivation, however, owing to the
fact that there are 50 few day laborers.
When a cultivator is not able with the
help of his family to harvest his own
hay or wheat he calls upon his neigh
bors. and in return offers his own SER
vices. At the end of each harvest Is a
festival called the moba. when all men
and women engage in the kola, or
national dance An immense circle is
formed of men and women alternating.
and holding each other by the hand or
waist. In the centre the gypsy band
plays the national airs.
The circle revolves slowly, in curves
the steps, q series Of small standing
Jumps, executed with great ,decorum.
No Servian will consent to be house
seryant-eyen the cooks and men
servants coming from Croatia, Austria
or Hungary. Maize is the principal
crop, the rest of the arabic land being
given to potatoes, hemp. vines, tobacco
rye, wheat and corn.
The climate and vegetation are mucl
like the South of England. The slopes
are covered with strawberries. the for
est glades with raspberries and black
berries, while pears, cherries, plums
and apples grow even in the woods.
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"But-well, Is that gray dress the best
you have? ..
"It's about the only thing 1 have"
she replied.
Then" said Pfeineger. "you must
20 down town to good dressmaker
and get yourself fitted out. Yes. [
guess 1 can stand the expense. I'll bet
l can match piles with Barker and top
him an inch or two for all his brag.
Don't ask me what. Get what you
want. Get plenty while you're getting
and get them good"
Of course that was nice thing to
say, and of course AIRS. Pfeineger
thanked him, but somehow she did not
feel quite as delighted as Pfeineser felt
she ought to be.-Chicago Daily News.
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Curious " Good-Bys."

When q Turk bids farewell to q
friend he solemnly crosses his hands
on his breast and makes a profound
bow. The natives Of New Guinea, on
the other hand, exchange chocolate.
conveying an expression of confidence
in each other as we'll as a salutation.
In the Fiji Islands two cardinal-col-
ored feathers are crossed and the Bur-
mcse gentleman murmurs Soothinsly,
"Hib, hibw In Japan your friend
takes off his slippers and says: Il re-
gard thee"
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everywhere, and the wandering
minstrel still traverses the country
from castle to castle, singing Of the
glOries e Servia as she was prior to
the defeat of Kassova. They are very
fond of the grand old hymns Of the
Greek Church. One noticeable feature
Of their songs is the keynote Of hope
fulness and brightness. Many Of their
ballads are like Longfellow's "Hia-
watha" in meter. OF their poetry it
has been said to be like their own
mountainous land, wild, stern and
rugged, but diversified by smiling val
leys and fruitful fields. showing that 1t
IS capable of development and cultiva-
ton" The versification Is regular
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A Giant Sassafras.

The accompanying picture shows the
largest sassafras tree have ever seen
or heard of. The tree measures thir-
teen feet in circumference and its
height must be between forty and fifty
feet. The tree stands in the township
Of Red Hook. Duchess County, New
York, about two or three miles south
east of Tfvoli, on the road from Tiyoli
to Upper Red Hook. have driven
past this tree every spring for nearly
sixty years. The trunk is now mere
shell. and desire to place on record
the portrait of this venerable tree be-
fore it vanishes. Years ago the tree
was covered with wild grape, and
every spring it was covered with bloom
the fragrance of. which made the old
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GOOD IcoUNsEL FOR THE YOUNG.

Dear children, hearken to advice,
That you may grow up sweet and nice;
Oa. Do not fractions be and ho!d.
And. aye, be gentle to the old!
! When to dear grandpapa's you 90
Don't stamp upon his gouty toe.
! And in his lean and shrunken shIns
Do not stick old and rusty pins.
If grandma says, Come, kiss nc, dear
Don't jab the poker in her ear;
Or from her cap-strings bite the lace,
Or paste scrap-pictures on her face
If at nice old spinster aunt's
A .-isit you should make by chance,
Don't with the scissors snip her troct.
Or throw tomatoes ut her clock.
For It's py little things like these
Often Your elders you displeasc:
Oh, Pray be CAIN and self-controlied-
Aad never strike or scratch the old
Carolyn Wells, in Puck.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Poem: Tho Saloon Keepers Cash Drawsr
Bella Terrible Arraixnment Of the
Rum Demon-Many Arc Poisoned to
Degrading Deatl, by This Foul Harry.
Thrifty, o master. the cash drawer bell
Tinkles the tidings that all is we'll; =
That your Golfer is filling with good realms
cash, ''- -
That your silver greets gold with gIee-
some ctiSk
Sweetet to ST8uS than seraph's song, -
Is the music that peals from your cash
drawer gong.
But, 0 while ye ring for the gold of price,
Gathered by sin and in ayarice-
Ring for the things no gold can huy,..
The wealth beyond traffic and usury.
Ring for the lives of good men lost,
Burnt as wisp in holocaust:
Ring for the life that was due the world,
Ring for father once strong and brave,
Whose son lies wrapped in drunkard's
Ring for the mother with prayers and
tears,
Her hair If, grown gray with the 'ef Of
Ring for tEewife with her sullied name,
A broke8 heart and living shame.
Ring for the children with tainted blood
Courslng their veins like poisoned Hood.
Ring for the home with its hallowed blisa~
Turned to remorse and to bitterness.
Ring for the hope that for years has lain
Dead, like friend on the battle plain.
Ring for the hope with it's warm, dead
face,
It's arms yet clasped in last embrace.
Ring for the JOY that might have been,
Turned to pain and Haunting sin.
Ring for the peace Christ meant should be.
A foretaste sweet, of eternity.
Ring for the holiness life has missed,
Sacred and sweet as the eucharist.
Ring, o bell, for the drunkard's death,
And the curses that died on his latest
breath.
Ring, o bell, for the drunkard dead, !
Whose life was wasted and blasphemed.
Solemn, my master, the cash drawer bell,
Tolls on the air funeral knell.
Some one has murdered man to-day!
What will; the Judge on the Great
Throne say?
Carved on the stone on Sinais hill
Is the law Of the Prophet, Thou Shalt
Not Kill!
Who shall plead of this foul crime,
Before Gods bar in the Judgment time!
IS. B. McManus, in the Rams Horn.
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essential feature. When King Alex
ander was married the wedding was
celebrated with a minute observance OF
all the traditional ceremonies and GUS
toms Of the Greek Church.
AS the Queen descended from her
carriage a piece Of white linen woven
in the country was spread upon the
ground. AS soon as the bride crossed
1t, it was rolled up in order that no
other foot might tread upon it. At
the entrance door of the Konak. her
aunt presented sieve Of seed corn.
of which the Queen took three hand
fuls, tossing them over her head. She
then emptied the sieve upon the
ground.
On the threshold the bride was pre-
sented with a plate of bonbons, one Of
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u h themselves Serbs or Serbs,
6 ~ 6 claim descent from COM
/! n Il + munity Of Slavs invited by
noR the Emperor Heracllus to
peuple the Danubian lands laid waste
by the Avars. This stock to-day, in
Europe, numbers over 80,000.0O0-
100000 being settled in Servia. By
language and race they belong to Rus
sa. and common saying with them
is: "The Germans have reached their
day; the English their midday; the
French their afternoon; the Italians
their evening; the Spaniards their
night: but the Slavs stand on the
threshold Of their morning" The
Servians are more purely Slavs than
their neighbors. the Bulgarians. When
they adopted Christianity. part Of the
people joined the Greek Church and
part the Church Of Rome.
For brief period during the reign
If one man, Stephen Dushan from 1888
to 1855, there was powerful Servian
kingdom. including Bosnia, Herzegov-
Ina and much Of Macedonia. But after
bis downfall and the disastrous flight
of his successor at Kassova the COM
2onent parts Of this Servia fell asunder.
Many of the Servians remain in
Macedonia to-day-in the sections
known as Old Servla-while the war
like Montenegrins are the descendants
Of the aristocracy Of ancient Servia.
who fed to the mountain Businesses be-
tween the Adriatic and the Valley of
Zeta after the defeat at KassOva.
In the Ottoman invasion the Seryians
along the Danube were conquered,
many Of the mobiles, in order to pre-
serve their privileges, adopting Mo-
hammedanism. They are a gentleman
nered people. however, and do not in
terfere with their Christian brothers
Of the Greek or Romish Church.
The Servian language is flexible.
musical and powerful. Song is heard