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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-08
DAVENPORT DOTS

Yesterday Matron Hill had a Wis
itor. The caller gave the name of
Clara King. and said she was from
Iowa City where, up to two years ago,
she attended the parochial school OF
Father y. J. Schulte's St. Mary's par
ish. The girl said she came to Day
export with her mother, Mrs. Louise
King. a week ago last Wednesday
and was left here penniless and with
out friends by her mother, who re-
turned TO Iowa City the following Sat
urday morning.
Isaac Shepard, Of 514 Division
street. this city. is a negro, who has
resided here since 1878, and has al
ways been a law-abiding and respect
able citizen He comes of Virginia
stock his parents having moved to
Plattsville, Wis, in the early '40'S,
where Isaac was born April 20, 1S43.
Mr.. Shepard has the distinction of be
ing the first colored man born in the
state of Wisconsin. He moved TO Dav-
export in 1878, and for many years re-
sided on West Third street near Da-
vie, from which place he removed to
Bailey Cook knew Shepard 43 years
ago IN Plattsville. and guarantees the
statement that he is the first negro
born in that state.
Anna Crawford, who was recently
arrested upon an island below the
city and sent to Jail upon the charge
of vagrancy, will be returned to the
state penitentiary at Anamosa, there
| to serve out an uneXpired term. \
warrant of commitment has been re-
ceived at the Office of Sheriff Near
thur signed by Gov. Cummins.
The case of Lily Arenschield, ad-
ministratrix, vs.. the c., r. |. Il F..
wherein the plaintiff asks for heavy
damages because of the death of her
husband in the Eldon yards New
Years day last year, has been appeal
| ed u the supreme court by Carroll
Wright and Cook < Dodge for the
/ defendant.
DR. \. L. Hageboeck and party. with
their baggage. who left here Saturday
TO travel overland in an automobile to
st. Louis and the worlds fair. arrived
safely at Mound City at o'clock
Monday evening.
| Saturday. July Is, has been fixed as
the day for holding the democratic
| county convention. Turner hall will
be the place. The convention will Sc
| lect % delegates TO the democratic
state convention 10 be held at Iowa
| City July 10. and % delegates TO the
democratic congressional convention
to be held at such time and place as
are later announced by the congress
| sional committee
Recently it was announced that the
| l. & l. interurban road which is build
/ ing a line between Davenport and Gin
ton. had secured an option upon the
Biller property. formerly the old Hen
der Hardware store. with a view of To-
| eating its passenger station and ex-
press office therein. While the com
pany took an option upon that build
/ ing yet at the same time they kept a
guarded eye upon the Leader building
| which adjOins it and covers the north
east corner of Brady street and Com
merCial alley Now they have succeed
/ ed in securing the option or condition
al lease upon the ground floor of the
Leader building at monthly rental OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-08

John Q. Hawk, chief of the fire de-
partment has submitted his report on
the number of fires during the months
OF May and June which shows that
Moline has suffered heavier the past
two months than is usual. The total
loss was $S6.SS5 and insurance invol-
we'd, S131,S15.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-08

Baby sleeps and grows. while man.
ma rests if HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea is given. It's the greatest baby
medicine ever offered loving mothers.
So cents. tea or tablets. T. II. Thomas
pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-08
Licensed to Wed.
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. +. w. Groves sig
nature is on each box. % cents.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22
FOR THE
FAMILY DINNER.

When you need a hot oven or wher
baking bread. cake or pastry, good coal
is necessity. Any coal coming from
]. H. MENKE'S yard will always BIZ
found satisfactory. Our superior egg
or furnace coal, our fine cook stove
coal. or chestnut for your parlor stove O,
range is the best and cleanest that cen be
procured.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22

The earth has nourished us through un-
known ages OF human existence Is it not
true that the earth supplies us with every
thing that we really require for existence
Have you ever thought that it is probable
that the earth supplies us with the means
to keep our bodily vigog, our health, IL we
only knew IL? The animalssknow by in
stinct what Is good for them andwill search
unul they hnd.in some plant what they
need for correcting indigestion or constipa-
ton. etc. Is it, therefore, not possible that
there are roots and herbs supplied by nature
which viii cure the diseases that afaict
human kind That is why DIR. Pierce, of
Buffalo, N. Y, has such faith in his Med
in general and active practice, he found
that combination of certain herbs and
roots made into an Alternative extract, with
out the use of alcohol, would always put
the stomach into healthy condition, nour-
ish the tissues, feed the blood and nerves
and put healthy tone into the whole
system.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
restores the lost flesh by curing diseases OF
the stomach and other organs of digestion
and nutrition and enabling the perfect di.
gestion and assimilation of food from which
hesh and strength are made.
at was all run down. very nervous and suE
fered terribly from stomach trouble which the
doctors pronounced indigestion writes Mrs
for a year without permanent relief Was ad.
vised BY friend to try DR. Pierce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery, and after the use of nine bottles
I was cured; can heartily recommend the
Golden Medical Discovery to any one suffer
Ing from stomach trouble. My husband was
also greatly benefited by its use"
To gain knowledge of your own body-ir
sickness and health-send for the Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser. A book
of 1908 pages. Send FL cents in stamps fol
paper covered, or, 81 stamps for cloth
bound copy. Address DR. R. v. Pierce, e.;
Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22
A Sure Thing.

1t is said that nothing is sure ex-
cept death and taxes, but that is not
altogether true. DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption is sure
cure for all lung and throat troubles.
Thousands can testify to that. Mrs.
C. B. Van Metre of Shepherdtown,
w. Va, says, 81 had severe case
Of bronchitis and for a year tried ev-
erything l heard Of but got no relief.
One bottle of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery then cured me absolutely
It's infallible for Group, Whooping
Cough, Grip, Pneumonia and Con-
sumption. Try it. It's guaranteed
by A. G. Luken & Co., druggists
Trial bottles free. Regular sizes SOC
and $1.00.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22

Braces body and brain, strength
ems, soothes, cures while you sleep.
That's what HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea will do. Makes YOU well,
keeps YOU we'll 35 cents, Tea or
Tablets. G.. Luken & Co.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22
Cannot Box With a Lady.

"That calm, dispassionate commu-
Mon which a man holds with a stu
alton in the sixteenth part Of a sec
ond convinced the man i'll question
that when lady challenges a gentle
man to an athletic contest Of any
kind he cannot win sparring match
with any grace nor be the victor in a
wrestling match with a lady with
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22
STORIES WISE
AND OTHERWISE

William Allen White, author of
"Whats The Matter With Kansas
and other literary gems has been
cowhided-he is now a full fledged
editor. The following is the dis
patch that was sent out from Empo-
ria, Kan, regarding the adventure:
"Mrs. Delta Meffert, divorced
wife of DR.. William Meffert of En-
poria, Kan, horsewhipped William
Allen White, editor of the Emporia
Gazette Thursday night.
DR.. Mefferet' s license was revoked
two years ago for improper conduct.
The Supreme court of the United
States this week sustained the Kan
sas court which passed upon the
case.
Horsewhip For the Editor
Editor Whites paper has been
against Meffert and his news stories
and editorials lately have included
comment about Meffert's divorced
wife Thursday as Mr.. White was
leaving his Office, Mrs. Meffert and a
woman friend approached him, and
as he stepped aside Mrs. Meffert be-
gan striking at him with a whip.
White Immediately started to run
and the whipping was not effective,
as only one blow landed.
Fooled Readers by Printing It.
Mr.. White printed short version
of the affair in his paper Friday
night. The article, written by Mr..
White himself, follows:
"Here is an item that you thought
would not be in the paper.
"Last evening at dusk, as the edi-
tor Of the Gazette was starting for
home, few yards from the office
door,, he met Mrs. Della Meffert, di-
vorced wife Of William Meffert, of
whom mention was made in these
columns recently. She was accom-
panied by lady friend, and as the
Gazette man started to pass, Mrs.
Meffert pulled from her cloak a
small but effective looking whip.
"The editor Of this paper side
stepped and, what every true gentle
man would do, ran forty yards like
white tailed buck to the office by
the back door.
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-22
But Can Run Like a Rabbit.

the sporting calendar in which any
gent may vie his proves with any
lady. And how he did run! Shoot
ing the chutes, leaping the gap, or
looping the loop, are clumsy dilatory
tactics compared with the way that
fat old codger liked the hike around
the back door of this. office.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
VEST HAD SOME DOUBTS.
Thought the Legislature Might Re-
peal All the Smart Young
Man Knew.

Senator Cockrel tells of the case Of q
young man who once appeared before the
commission appointed in Missouri to exam
inc applicants for admission to the bar Of
that state. 1t appears, says the New York
Herald, that this youthful applicant, who
had failed miserably in all that p~ertained
to Jurisprudence, civil law, case law,
sumptuary law and due process of law, was
finally asked by Mr.. Vest, for q long time
senator from Missouri, whether there re-
manned any questions which the young man
would like to have put to him:
81 regret, to say remarked Mr.. Vest,
shat you have failed to come up to the
mark in the branches of law upon which
we have examined you But" added MIR.
Vest, in a most kindly spirit, eve will ques-
ton your further, if you SO desire"
We'll, sir" responded the applicant, al
would suggest, if you please, that / be ques-
toned on the statutes"
AT this Mr.. Vest smiled sadly. my dear
young man." added he, II do not doubt
that you're up on the statutes; but / do
doubt that you will succeed in the law.
Suppose you should have the utmost ia
mhiarity with the statutes, what's to pre-
vent the legislature from repeating all you
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
VEGETABLES AS. MEDICINE.
Instead of Giving Drugs Physicians
Of the Future Possibly May
Prescribe Them.

VIII the doctor of the future, An
stead of prescribing some unpleasant
drug, order a course of indicated veg
etables? This may be the result OF
the present attempt to cultivate plants
containing abnormal quantities of GER
tain medical substances. 1t is well
known, says a scientific paper, that the
amount of any characteristic element
in a plant varies with its richness in
the soil, and it is also known that the
assimilation of mineral elements OF
the body is much more readily accom-
plished when they are p%artaFen in the
form Of food. In the past if the body
needed an excess of iron, it has beer
supplied by tinctures taken through
glass tubes. The modern idea is to
supply this want by such vegetables as
medicated spinach.
Experiments with plants grown IN
soil enriched by hydrate of iron
proved hat they contained a much
larger percentage of iron than those
grown in the natural soil. This opens
a whole vista of interesting pdSsibil-
tiles. The iron, the potash, the man
ganese, the nitrogen needed by the
system can be supplied more effective
ly and more pleasantly through vege-
tables than through medicines.
Already many vegetables are known
to have curative properties. Celery Is
generally held to be good for rheuma-
tism and nervous disorders: lettuce fol
insomnia; peanuts for Indigestion:
onions for liver complaints; carrots
for scurvy; tomatoes for the liver:
b~lackberries for diarrhoea, and apples
for nervous dyspepsia and rheumatism
Certified milk, with its stated proper,
tons of fat, sugar and solids. would
have seemed improbable some years
ago Will the future see certified
vegetables?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
Six Doctors Failed.

South Bend, Ind, Oct. "a (Specia).-
After suffering from Kidney Disease for
three years; after taking treatment from
six different doctors without getting re-
lief, MI. j. Q. Laudemaa, of this place,
found not only relief bat a speedy and
complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Speaking of his cure, Mr.. Laudeman says:
Eyes, l suffered from Kidney Trouble
for three years and tried six doctors to no
good. Then l took just two boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pills and they not only cured my
eral. Of course 1 recommended Dodd's
Kidney Pills to others and / know a number
now who are using them with good results"
Mr.. Laudeman's case is not an excep-
ton. Thousands give similar experiences.
For there never yet was a case of Kidney
Trouble from Backache to Bright's Disease
that Dodd's Kidney Pills could not cure.
They are the only remedy that ever cured
Bright's Disease.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
HERE N THERE.

The well-kno IN methods OF pre-
serving posts and wood which are
partly imbedded in the earth are only
effective when both the charring and
tarring are applied.
"A high authority on the matter
states that an average prairie fire will
remove more nitrogen from the soil
than will be taken from it by i've ".
erage crops of wheat.
The effort to grow Sumatra to-
bacco under canvas in Connecticut has
proven a failure. The company pro-
noting the undertaking has failed, and
a receiver has been appointed.
A Rocky mountain editor hits the
nail on the head when he says that
it takes a monkey a million years to
become a man, whereas a man can
make a monkey of himself in a very
few minutes.
Remember that while the law or
supply and demand is a regulator or
prices in the long run, yet it does not
always go into effect until after a crop
has left the farm and is in control OF
the middleman.
Both prairie and forest fires are
known to be exceedingly destructive
Of humus. In burning over grass
lands the humus is rapidly destroyed,
instead of being left Is food for the
growth of grain OF grass.
The necessity of high fertilization
in Japan is shown by the fact that
in a portion of the country Japan bar
ley, indigo, beans and rape are grown
successfully on n plot of ground
within the space of one year.
The surest way to ruin a young or.
chard plantation is to turn cattle into
it. Even If the trees be too large to
DE eaten off, or broken off. all branches
that are within reach will certainly be
pulled down, all low growth will be
destroyed
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
ABOUT WOMEN EXPLORERS
Some Of Them Are Among the Best
and Most Successful Of
Globe-Trotters.

Emperor Menelik, who claims descent
from the queen Of Sheba, must have
thought that his royal ancestress had
come to life again when the OF
Mrs. w. N. Macmillan, of st. Louis, Mo-
swung into his capital at Ads AbeDat
in the middle of last winter, says the
New York Mail. Accompanied by a full
outfit Of riders and guards and bearing
her gifts for the mighty Negus. this
American lady traversed Abyssinia from
west to east. Her husband had gone by
another route to Lake Rudolf, but Mrs.
Macmillan had got it into her head thai
she wanted to see Menelik, and to see
him she went. She had come prepared
to meet hostile tribes, but found, on the
contrary, that the whole population was
ready to turn out chivalrously to guard
and escort her. She was the first white
woman to cross Abyssinia.
She is not, however, the first woman
to undertake p%erilous and extraordinary
journeys. Quite literally the woods may
be said to be full of women explorers
Women are among the best, the most
successful, the most popular OF literary
globe trotters. Is there any country
which Miss Eliza Ruhamsh Sciemore.
a Wisconsin woman, has not visited and
written a book about, from Java to Alas
ka? Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, an Eng
lish woman, a clergyman's daughter, re-
mains the foremost authority on the life
and customs of China, Japan, Korea anG
Thibet. She has penetrated remote
parts of inner Asia, and everywhere has
carried herself with bravery and tact.
Miss Peck, a New England woman, has
climbed the highest and supposedly in
America, surprising several times the
achievements of male mountaineers.
Elizabeth Bisland, who made a record
Journey around the earth; Minnie Muriel
Dowie, who explored the C~arpathians
and other strange places; Mrs. Rijnhart
a Dutch woman, who wrote a splendid
book about Thibet; Lima Bregli. a Swiss
woman, whose book, Forward" was
the narrative of a journey around the
world; Sara jeanette Duncan, who may
not scale mountains, but who looks
pretty searchingly into the minds of al
sorts of people the world ~over-these
and others have proved that woman's
extraordinary faculties Of observation
may be made of genuine and delightful
Use to the world In books of travel. And
as to the dangers, the Obstacles-what
are these to the modern woman but an
additional incentive? Mrs. Macmillan
found that her name and presence con-
verted hostile tribes" into serviceable
friends. No woman traveller has yet
been murdered, nor even seriously i'll
treated, in any "barbarous" land.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
WenIth OF Farmers.

You may call him a "rube," or a
"hayseea," or a zap" but the farmer
is the biggest man in the country new
ertheless. He could buy all the ma
tional banks, pay the national debt,
purchase both the Steel combine and
the Standard oil trust and put Wall
street out of business, out of the
products of his own toll, and still have
a billion dollars left for pocket money.
To sum up a sentence, the farmer, by
whatever name he may be called, is
the most important class in the United
States, and he has a right to grow
chesty at the showing he makes.-
Franklin FavOrite.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
PITY THE POOR HEATHEN.
MIR. Spinks Was Anxious to Get In
His Contribution on
Time.

Rev. Mr.. Osborne, according to the New
ark (N.J.) News, tells this story on one of
his Pensioners:
Company came to spend Sunday with the
Spinks family. Nevertheless, and in spite
Of a pouring rain, Mr.. Spinks prepared for
church.
Surely, you're not going" said Mrs.
Spinks.
Surely, 1 am" replied Mr.. Spinks.
"The pastor is booked for his annual mis-
slonary sermon and | wouldn't miss being
there for anything"
But it's storming dreadfully."
Let it storm"
"And your guests-what will they think
If you run away and leave them?"
Let them think what they please. I'm
going to church"
I've never seen you so interested in mis-
sions before" said Mrs. Spinks.
just between you and me, returned Mr..
Spinks, Il don't care a hang for missions.
But the annual collection for the heather
will be taken to-day, and if | put a five
dollar bill in the plate it'll be all right. But
if l stay away, the pastor will drop into
my office some day this week and pull my
leg for ten"
go, by all means" said mis- wife.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
BLOOD WILL TELL
A THEORY SUPPORTED BY FRESH,
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
A Recent Instance Proves That's Woman'e
Happiness is Largely Dependent on the
State of Her Blood.

6appAnesS ~ Largely Depenuenb On tho
State of Her Blood.
When the blood is disordered every
organ of the body is affected ~unfavorably
and fails to discharge its functions
properly. In the case of every woman
nature has made special provision for a
periodical publication of the blood and
so long as this occurs her health and
spirits unfailingly reveal the beneficial
results. So slight a cause as a cold or a
nervous shock may produce a suppress
sion of this vital function and until it is
restored she is doomed to misery. The
remedy that has proved most prompt
and effective i'll all disorders peculiar to
the female sex, is that which brought
such great relief to Miss Matte Griggs,
Of No. S07 Indiana street, Lawrence,
Kansas, concerning which she speaks as
follows:
"In the winter of 1902, from some
unknown cause, there was a cessation
of functions peculiar to my sex for a Pc
riod of four months. I became very
weak and could not get up stairs with.
out help. I had nausea and pain and q
constant headache. I was under the
care of a physician for three months,
but he did not succeed in curing me.
Then a lady friend told me about the
merits of DR.. Williams Pink Pills which
she had used in her family and she in
duced me to try them. 1t was in May
when l first began to use them and in
June I had fully recovered my health,
and have since remained perfectly
WELL"
In all cases of delayed development of
young girls in anemia or weakness due
20 impoverished blood and showing it
self i'll pallor, lack of ambition, despond-
ency and nervousness /; also in the great
constitutional disturbances attending
the period known as the change of life,
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are invaluable
for women whose health is always
closely dependent or the state Of the
blood. They are sold by all drug
gists. A booklet Of valuable informa-
tion, relating to the care of a woman's
health at all important periods, and en-
titled "P}ain Talks to Women" will be
sent free in a ssaled envelope to any one
who chooses to write for it to the DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Schenec-
tady, N. Y.