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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Gland of thc Fam God.,

1t is interesting 10 know that Okla
homa, with its possibilities of statehood,
is known locally us The Land of the
Fan God" Just why the adjective is
not apparent, in fact is so puzzlirg that
a number of correspondents are con-
cerned about the question. The govern
or habitually uses the phrase, but one
writer says: Governor Ferguson is not
alone in his habitual use of this phrase,
for every one of the territOrys govern
Ors from Steele down has delighted to
use it. And so. too has nearly every
other citizen of the territory. But
whether or not one of the governors, or
any other citizen, has understood just
what is meant l am in doubt"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Finds Way to Live Long

The startling announcement of n
discovery that will surely lengthen
life is made by Editor o. II. Downey,
of Churubusco, Ind. II wish to state, -
he writes, that DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption is the most
infallible remedy that 1 have ever
known for coughs, colds and grip. It's
invaluable to people with weak lungs.
Having this wonderful medicine no
one need dread pneumonia or con-
sumption. It's relief is instant and
cure certain Hartz & Ullemeyer
guarantee every so cent and 81 bot
tie, and give trial bottles free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
OFFICERS INSTALLED By ROCK
ISLAND LODGG Al. & A. M

The following corps of officers were
installed last evening by Rock Island
lodge, No. 65S, y. +. & \. NJ:
w. NC. |. Petersen.
S. WI. \. Cleyenstine
7. W. II. Bengston.
Treasurer-W T. Hartz.
SecretaryZH. 5. Bollman.
ChaplainAsEmil Beck.
Senior Deacon-P. l.. Henneberg.
Junior Deacon. W. Cook.
Senior Steward-F +. .Jenkinson.
Junior Steward. T. Campbell.
Marshall. G.. Huntoon.
Organist-Marshall Kennedy.
Tyler-D. j. Kennedy.
Member of Board of Control-G. II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
The secret of Long Life

Consists in keeping all the main or
gans of the body in healthy, regular
action, and in quickly destroying
deadly disease germs. Electric Bit
ters regulate stomach, liver and kid
neys. purify the blood and give a
splendid appetite. They work won
ders in curing kidney troubles. female
complaints, nervous diseases, consti-
patton, dyspepsia and malaria. Wig
orOus health and strength always fol-
low their use. Only 80 cents; guaran-
teed by IIartz & Ullemeyer, drug
q SITS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Hoodoo Started Trouble.

"Some people know" he began in
an insinuating tone. "act very much
like hoodoo."
"Who do?" asked his indignant and
suspicious friend.
Eyes. that's what l said-hoodoo!'
"Well, answer my question-who
do?
You stupendous ass, that's what l
say-hoodoo! Hoodoo! Hoodoo"'
You hopeless. gibbering idiot, that's
what I'm asking you-who do? Who
do? Who do?"
At last their friends found them
locked in n deadly embrace. chewing
each others ears. and long before the
attempt at explanation was completed
each had been placed tenderly in a
heavily padded apartment.-Los An
geles Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

&odol does for the stomach that
which it is unable to do for itself.
even when but slightly disordered or
overloaded. Kodol supplies the nat
ural juices of digestion and does the
work of the stomach, relaxing the
nervous tension, while the inflamed
muscles of that organ are allowed to
rest and heal. Kodol digests what
you eat and enables the stomach and
digestive organs to transform all
food into rich, red blood.
Harper House pharmacy; \. j.
Reiss drug store, corner Seventh ave
nue. and Twenty-seventh street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
boiling water ordeal.

The Shintos of Japan perform an ex-
traordinary feat. 1t is known as ''yu-
baua." an ordeal by boiling water. At
this the devotees literally drench them
selves with water out of caldrons at
q galloping boil. 1t would take the skin
off any one else, but not a blister APP
pears upon the bodies of these Shinto
priests. The only explanation they
vouchsafe is that they draw out the
spirit of the water, and 50 it be-
comes harmless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
WILLIAM FILBERI PRESIDENT
COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION

The Rock Island County Fair assoc
citation held it's annual meeting at
Joslin and elected the following Off
GERS:
Observation-Disclosures Filbert.
Vice President-E. c. Donahoo.
Secretary-F. j. Whiteside.
Treasurer-John Schafer.
General superintendent - W. IL.
Whiteside.
Marshall. +. Donahoo.
Directors-Ambrose Searle, Charles
Wake. William Schwenneker. George
Wainwright. II. Weideman, William
Mold and Charles Filbert
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

You have looked into a beautiful
face, seen the sweet smile, rosy
cheeks, laughing eyes. and wished ma
ture had made you attractive. Rocky
Mountain Tea makes homely women
beautiful. T. II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Children Poisoned.

Many children are poisoned and
made nervous and weak, if not killed
outright, by mothers giving them
cough syrups containing opiates. Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar is safe and GER
tain remedy for coughs, Group and
lung troubles, and is the only promi-
nent cough medicine that contains no
opiates or other poisons. All drug
pists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

A newspaper in Norway recently
contained the following advertisement:
at. the undersigned, declare that.
through a regrettable mistake, l cir
culated the rumor that the coffee house
keeper, Jorgen Henriksen, had drunk
glass of beer. 1 humbly apologize to
Mr.. Henriksen for this unfounded i'm
putation. Olaf T. Lien"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
No Luck In odd Numbers.

McQuerry 1t was Rory. O'More,
wasn't it, who said, There's luck in
odd numbers"
Lushforth-I give it up. but he would
not have said so If he had seen the re-
ception got the other morning when
came home at 3.-Philadelphia Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

Many new students have been en-
rolled and more are continually ar
irving. The fact that students come
TO Augustana from all over the Uni
ted States goes to show that the rep
utation of this college is not only
local, but very widely known, and the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
How a Clever Convict
Escaped From Prison

A prison visitor was made the unwIt-
ting means of helping a burglar named
Carey to escape from the Jail in New
Orleans a few years ago. Feigning re-
pentance, this ingenious criminal grad
ually enlisted the sympathies of a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

without the usual examination. y few
days later Carey had vanished. The
bars of his window had been neatly
cut out with n steel file. The family
Bible. which lay on the floor, gave the
secret away. In the center of its leaves
n hole had been cut, and, snugly stored
therein, a parcel of steel saws had been
completely hidden.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
S. M'MAHON DEAD
Old Res dent of City Passes
Away After Lingering
Illness.
HAD REACHED HIS GATH YEAR
Was for Years Blacksmith in
Local Shops OF the
Rock Island.

Simon AcMahon, ST., one of the old
passed away last evening at 11:40 at
ms home, 2439 Eighth avenue, after a
long illness with the infirmities of old
age.
Deceased was SO years of age. lie
was born in County Clare, Ireland,
and came to America when young
man - years Of age. For a period of
four years he lived in Boston, Mass,
and then he came to Rock Island, re-
life.
He was a blacksmith by trade and
for many years he was in the employ
of the Rock Island road in the Ioca
shops. He retired from active duties
IS years ago. For the past five years
he had been in poor health.
Forty-five years ago he was mar
ried in this city TO Miss Ellen Nc
Aulliff, who survives. together with
five children, Simon, .Jr., John p, Miss
Katherine and Thomas j., of this city,
and James Henry. of Peoria.
The funeral viii he held at Q o'clock
Monday morning from Sacred Heart
church.
william w. Moore.
William w. Moore. an old and re-
spected resident of Yuma. died Jan. .
of asthma and complications. leaving
his widow and his adopted daughter.
Edna, also brother, Jacob Moore, of
Akron, Ohio. Mr.. Moore was born in
Westmoreland county, Pa, May 5,
1883, so that his age at the time of
his death was "a years, : months and
% days. When 20 years of age. in
1858, he came to Rock Island county.
which he made his home for the re
mainder of his life except Il few
months which he spent at ,rilden. Neb.
He served in Company {, 1O3rd Hi
nois volunteers. Dec. %. 1870. he was
married 10 Hannah Bryan. Two chill
dren blessed this union. Alice and
j Johnnie. but both died in infancy. and
they adopted the girl, Miss Edna, who
has long been a real daughter to
them. Several months ago Mr.. Moore
went to Nebraska with the hope of
securing relief from asthma, but he
was helped only temporarily.
Mrs. AngeIine .iarquart.
Mrs. Angeline Marquart died of the
infirniities of age at 1880 last night
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ly
man Arnold, 2S4O Seventh avenue. She
had reached her S4th year and was a
native of Pennsylvania. For 80 years
previous to her removal TO Rock ISL
and in 1898 Mrs. Marquart had resided
at Freeport, Ill. Two of family of
nine children survive. They are Mrs.
Arnold, of this city, and John H. Mar
quart, of San Francisco. The remains
will be taken to Freeport for burial
Monday morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

DR.. Udden has been granted leave
of absence en- account of ill health
and his chair is being temporarily
filled in geology by Prof. Peterson
and in botany by DR.. Ostrom, of Rock
Island. DIR. Bersell has also been
granted leave of absence on account
of i'll health and his chair in Greek is
being filed by able instructors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
AUGUSTANA NOTES.

Most of the students in the various
departments at Augustana college
have now returned and the express
sions of pleasure at again meeting
and assembling with each other after
the holiday vacation are gradually
giving way to the more serious duties
of school life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

The spring term was opened on the
morning of Jan. with an address of
welcome delivered by Vice President
DR.. c. f. Lindberg. who is acting in
the capacity of president, DIR. Andreen
being absent on a journey to Europe
undertaken in the interests of the col
lege.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Pneumonia and La arInpe.

Coughs cured quickly by Foley's
Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes.
All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

The students, in conjunction with
the faculty, have decided to publish u
monthly paper to contain college
news. etc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10


missionary and
at last told him
a . piteous story
of how he had
pawned every
thing before TAX
ing to crime.
What he most
regretted was his
old mothers BIZ
bic, and If the
missionary would
only recover it
for him he would
be everlastingly
grateful. The Wis
itor promised to
do W h a t he
could. Carey
gave him the
n n IN g of the
pawnshop. and
t b e re. sure
enough. the book
S till remained.
The pawnbroker
was glad to sell
it, and the vol
ume thus passed
into the prison
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

high standard of the work carried on
is an incentive to more and more stu
dents to avail themselves of the OPP
portunities afforded here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Fidelity Loan Company.
MRS. IDA MCDONALD,
Supreme Deputy of the Maccabees of the World.

that | must do something
to regain my health. A
friend advocated your Wine
of Cardui treatm ent so
strongly that ] decided to
try it, although had little
faith in patent medicines.
! am now very thankful that
! did so, for within ten days
blessed relief came to me,
and in less than three
months ] was cured. and
have enjoyed fine health
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
A Scene in Congress.

Washington, Feb. 13.-Representa-
tive Cochran. OF Missouri, caused d
stir in the House this afternoon by
denouncing a statement Of Repre-
sentative Hepburn as lie, The bill
under discussion was the Elkins anti
rebate bill, and Mr.. Hepburn had
made n severe attack upon the Dem
ocrats, who, he said, had shown a
willingness to vote for any kind Of
idiocy labelled antitrust He re-
ferred to a speech OF Representative
Cochran who, he said, had misread
the pfovisi ons of the interstate com
merce law.
"Will the gentleman yield?" asked
Mr.. Cochran.
81 will not" was the reply.
81 denounce your statement as 6
deliberate lie, shouted The st. osepf
congressman.
'If you did not misstate the Law
deliberately, you did so through
ignorance" said Mr.. Hepburn.
Mr. Cochran did not reply, and hi
words were passed without furthe
notice.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
AMERICAN RAILROAD METHODS
British Expert I'm Person of Philip
Burta Expressed Admiration
for Them.

Philip Burt, general traffic man
ager of the Northeastern railroad
speaking at the Railway institute oil
York the other day relative to his
recent Investigation of American rail
road methods, expressed general ad.
miration of them, and said he was OF
the opinion that British railroad men
could learn much from America. Al
the same time, he added, the besy
American minds would find much to
admire and learn in English railroad
management.
Mr.. Rurett said that the intense
keenness and enthusiasm of all Amer
leans in their every day work hac
left lasting impression on him. He
thought that while America held the
record for speed. the English averag,
express runs would be found higher
than the American. Mr.. Burtt cor
daily admired American adaptabilit,
in the use of power and ingenious
labor-saving devices. He concluded
with remarking:
The English must learn to be les
insular and more cosmopolitan il
| their ideas and realize that the,
have not been specially selected b.
| Providence to be teachers of tn
| world"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
The Best Is the Cheapest.

Not how cheap but how good is
the question.
The Twice-a Week Republic is not
as cheap as some so-called newspa-
pers, but it is ascheap as tits possible
to sell first-class newspaper. II.
prints all the news that is worth
printing. Ifyou read it all the year
round you are posted on all the i'm
portant and interesting affairs of
world. 1t is the best and most relk
able newspaper that money and
brainscan produce-and those should
be the distinguishing traits OF a news
paper that is designed to be read by
all members Of the family.
Subscription price, 81 ayear. Any
newsdealer newspaper or postmaster
will receive your subscription or you
may mail it direct to
THE,REpUBLc,
st. Louis. Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
AMERICAN METHODS.
British Commission Tells What It
Saw While In This Country. :
Denies That the American Werkma.
Works Harder or Faster Than
His EnElish Brother--oth-
er Crxiclsms.

Unfsvorable testimony by members
Of the Moseley commission, which re-
Gently returned from the United
Ststes after investigating trade and
industrial conditions there, accumu-
lates. Mr.. Mcdonald, the delegate OF
the London Trades council, in an adj
dress to his fellow councillors, repudi-
ated the idea that American workmen
did three times the amount of work ac-
comphshed by the English. He denied
that the policy of ''ca canny" did not
exist in the United States.
The delegates found in most OF the
workshops men taking things more
quietly than they do in England. While
the tendency in the United States was
toward the use of machines, to short
er hours, and to increase in wages,
there were also bad firms and sweat
ers' dens in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and elsewhere that would not
. be allowed to exist in Great Britain for
five minutes.
He did not think that British meth
DDS would be much changed as the re-
suit of the commissions visit. because
here they went in for solid. sound
workmanship, which they did not doin
America. He had seen work there
which would cause a man to be dis
charged here instantly. The American
workmen had nothing to teach the
British workmen, but the British EN-
ployer had great deal to learn from
the American employer.
In criticising the cities the commits
sion had visited, Mr.. Mcdonald said
they had only seen one that was clean,
namely, Washington. The condition
of Pittsburg and the business of the
people there were impossible to de-
scribe. The delegates, in visiting the
Carnegie works, were told not to take
notes or photographs, but what he saw
of the workers. condition impeled
him TO say that, If Mr.. Carnegie would
get the workers children shod, pave
the streets, and put windows in some
of the houses, he would do more for the
good of humanity than in endowing H.
braries.
Ca canny," the expression quoted
above, is Scotch phrase, which is
equivalent to don't overwork your
self" This is the policy followed by
British trades unions in not allowing
a workman to exceed the regulation
output.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
An Epoch Making War.

Vienna, February 14.-Vienna
newspapers comment on the present
situation in the Balkan peninsula,
agreeing that the affair is fast taking
on a serious aspect. Die Informa.
ton declares q Macedonian insurrec.
ton certainly will break out between
March % and April TO-
Die Zolt says Russia and Austria,
realizing that interference is useless
have resolved to let things take theiI
natural course.
Tue Morning Zeitung says: awe
are on the eve bf an enoch.mak king
war. When it is concluded il will b.
necessary to revise the map OF Ea
rope. IL will I've almost the last s,eI
| in the expulsion Of Turks .irou
Europe"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
A CITY OF SUICIDES.
Figures which show That fhe Euro.
pean City Leads the World In
This Class Of Unfortun ades.

Statistics for 1902 demonstrate that
Vienna continues in, the front rank
of the European capitals in the num-
Der of suicides. Last years records
show that there were 453 deaths from
suicide and 467 attempts at self-de-
struction. The number of women
suicides increased in ten years from
81 to 1924. Most of the deaths are at.
tributed to love and hunger. The
former was responsible for 100 sui.
cides or attempts at self-destruction
poverty for 1888, insanity for 1877, do
nestle troubles for ~ and financial
losses for 10. One hundred and sixty
persons hanged themselves. A14s uset
firearms in taking their lives, 81
drowned themselves and 35 took poi
son.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
She Was bred Scott's Owner.

Springfield, Mass, Feb. ID Mrs.
c. C Chaffee, SO years old, died here
yesterday Of old age. She was the
widow Of DR.. C. G. Chaffee and was at
one time the owner of bred Scott,
over whom the famous legal contro-
versy was waged which practically
annulled the Missouri compromise.
The slave had been left to Mrs. Chat
fee by her first husband, DR.. Elmer
son, OF st. Louis, and when she had
practically gwen him his freedom,
after moving to this city to live. A
st. Louis lawyer brought suit on the
claim that Scott had been freed by
being taken into free" state H.
hoped by this to gain SCOTS free
dom and obtain fourteen years
Wages for him. The local court de
cided in his favor, but in thre su .
cFed'Ug courts, up to the United
states supreme court, If was declared
that the negro's ownership was not
affected 10y bis being u.kril upo.
free, rod Immediately after the sui
had been decided in her favor. Mrs
Chafis.e liberated the man
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
WATCH ST. LOUIS.

The greatest worlds fair the world
has ever seen will be held atSt. Louis
in 1908. To keep in touch with the
work of preparation for this great
worlds fair and to get all the news
Of all the earth, every reading person
should at once subscribe for the
great newspaper Of st. Louis, the
GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. Itstands pre-
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
White Girls Served Negroes.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 10
Considerable comment has g. been
aroused in Utah over the action OF
Senator elect Reed Smoot in seating
some negroes at a banquet with white
people and having white girls serve
them. The Southerners now living
in the state express themselves on the
subject with especial vigor. Sand to
think" said one OF them to-day,
that Shoots father was a Ken.
tuckian and STAKEHOLDER. 1t must
have made the old man turn over in
his grave"
Friends of Smoot defend his course
He himself is quoted as saying in ex
PLANTATION: ''Ii President Roosevelt
is not too good to entertain a color
ed man at the White House, l DOM
see why l shouldn't have colore(
people as my guests.
The occasion at which this tool
place was at the banquet given by
APOSTLE and Mrs. Smoot to the mem
bers of the state Legislature and stat
officers in Provo. Invitations wer
given officers OF both houses. On
doorkeeper of the lower house is
negro man who, in private life, is {
lianitor and politician. He receives
an invitation. He took along hi
wife and a couple Of negro friend
with their wives. One OF the othe
men is the editor Of weekly pape
fornegroes and the second isemploy
ed as a porter.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-02-19
TRAINMEN FIGHT ROBBERS.
Bandits Blew a. Safe and Get About
$4,000 On Northern Pacific
Burlington.


Butte, Mont, February 13.-Five
men, according to the railway men,
and two men, according TO passen-
gers, held up a Burlington eastbound
express eight miles from this city on
the Northern Pacific tracks shortly
before midnight.
The robbers blew the express sale
land escaped with plumber estimated
ats high as $1,000. Preceding the
blowing OF the sale the robbers had
a fight with the train crew In which q
mail clerk was badly wounded.
The holdup took place on grade
which leads into Butte, The robbers
[appeared suddenly at q short turn
band one waved a red lantern. The
signal was instantly obeyed by the
engineer. but before he could realize
the purpose Of the robbers they were
covered with revolvers. The fireman
was forced to leave the cab and un-
couple the express and mail coaches,
while the engineer remained on the
engine.
The sudden stopping OF the train
aroused the other members OF the
train crew and a number Of passen.
gers, who rushed to the platform.
Fight was quickly shown by the rob-
bers and while the passenger rushed
back into the cars the trainmen
stood their ground and returned the
fire OF the robbers. About a dozen
shots in all were fired, the only per-
son being hit, so far as known, being
a mail clerk.
The robbers retreated in the direc-
tion of the mail and express cars
while firing and when they reached
the rear platform they gave signal
to go ahead. The cars were run
about two miles where the safe was
blown. Quickly gathering tn e i r
booty, the robbers mounted horses
and rode away. The news reached
this city half an hour later and pos.
ses we're sent out Immediately in all
directions, The Northern Pacific
company has offered reward of$5,-
900 for the arrest and conviction OF
the robbers.