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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

cradle. From one end of the corridor
came a clatter Of footsteps, the clanll
of weapons and a ciarnor of voices.
, Doors We're thrown open as if III
search, and presently I man armed
with n scythc stepped into the nursery.
At the same moment some one raised
the cry:
THE kings bodyguard! They are
coming"
The man with the scythe, seeing the
| royal cradle, cried:
The prince is here! Come, let US
| finish the job"
At the same moment q door at the
opposite end Of the corridor from
which the mob had entered was
thrown open. the quick tread OF mailed
feet was heard coming along the pas
sage. and the captain of the guard,
sword in hand. entered the chamber.
He swung the gigantic blade. and the
man who had called TO the mob fell.
cut half in twain. In rushed a dozen
! soldiers. Their leader took the infant
| from the royal cradle. His men form
ed a barrier about him, and they car
RED the child away.
! The revolution had eliminated More
| troops arrived, and within few hours
all was quiet. But when the babe WAS
| brought to the king and instead of his
dark eyed son lie saw Il blue eyed
child lie was in CONSERVATION. Then in
another moment came a messenger
: from Theodore, begging that the king
I would come TO the nursery. since it
= would not be safe for her to come II
! him. The king eager for news of his
son, went. as suggested, and on enter
/ ing the room saw Theodore standing
over the royal cradle
! Alas. the terror Of the scene through
which the little one had passed had
| brought dire results. The child was in
, commissions and in On hour was dead.
I The king was il agony. His queen
| lad hccu murdered 10y the mob. and
now his son and heir had also passed
| away.
Meanwhile little Otto was being
| treated as the prince. \ sudden
| thought struck the king Might he not
be brought Up rs heir to the throne?
| When quiet was restored the first
act of tie king was to enuoble Theo-
DORA, whose son had been returned TO
her. rs heir TO a throne. As years pass
ed the kingdom grew more prosperous.
| and Theodoca, who retained the charge
of the heir apparent WAS beloved 10y
every one in the kingdom. When the
| king announced that lac WAS about II
marry her ana make her lis queen his
| subjects were much pleased.
| 1t was not known that Otto was not
the true prince until Theodore gave the
king son Of MS own. Then the king
announced her heroic act and Theodore
was worshiDed a. living saint.
JOIN TURNER WYETu.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
DAILY SHORT STORY
THEODORA.

GOriginaLI
In medieval times, when Romans,
Germans, Franks and Spaniards were
successfully pouring over Europe, there
was Il king. Desirius. who inherited an
Impoverished kingdom from his ances-
tors. Desirius was a good and wise
man; but, being unable To right at
once wrongs that had been perpetrated
by his father and grandfather, his
people considered him a very bad man.
Soon after Desirius came to the
throne a sor and heir was born to him.
Had the kingdom been prosperous
there would have been great rejOic-
ings. As it was there We're grumblings
Of discomfort. Another of this ac-
cursed race" they said. TO bring more
burdens upon us" This was absurd,
for if the king and his heir both died
the government would pass into the
hands of Theobald. who was worse
than any ruler they had ever had.
The queen could not nurse her babe,
and it was necessary to provide u wet
nurse for him. The king fancied that
his child might draw good or evil with
her milk and wished that his nurse
should be an excellent woman. The
kingdom was searched. and a young
woman, Theodore. was found whom
every one said was as pure as II dia-
mOnd. Her husband had been q SOL
der and fallen I'm the kings service,
her own child being born after the IA
Tiers death.
At last and very suddenly the vol
CanO that had been muttering burst
forth. Theodore was in the royal nurs-
cry with Prince John and her own
son Otto, who were the same age.
when she heard a distant clamor like
hurricane sweeping over 4 forest.
Nearer and nearer 1t came. growing in
intensity, and she began to distin-
Quish the bowling of men. the rafting
of arms and the shrilIer voices of
women. Then she heard terrific sounds
IS OF some heavy weight striking on
wood and at last the giving way of a
portal Shouts of triumph followed,
and Theodore knew a mob had entered
one of the wings of the palace
Then the prime minister opened
the door and looked in with a face
white as ashes. There sat Theodore
between the royal. gilded, lace covered
cradle OF the prince and the wooden
one Of her own son. calmly waiting.
The king has escaped" said Der
nard. speaking hastily, but had no
time TO provide for the removal of the
prince. His majesty sent me to beg
you to resort to some device at which
your sex are adopts TO save the heir
to the throne. You cannot take him
away. for every exit IS in possession
OF the mob. They will be here anon.
Hark, They come"
Without waiting for a reply he rush
ed from the room. and the nurse could
hear him running in the corridor. Go
ing TO the princes cradle. she took him
UP and laid him beside her SON The
prince was a brunette. his ancestry
having been Frank. while the other
was fair, after his north German par
entage. Theodore took up her little
Otto. Rugged him convulsively TO her
breast and laid lin il the prince
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
Saves Two From Death.

"Our little daughter had an almost
fatal attack Of wHooping cough and
bronchitis" writes Mrs. w X. Havi-
land. of Armonk. y. Y, but. when al;
other remedies failed. we saved her
life with DR.. Kings New Discovery.
Our niece. who had consumption in al
advanced stage. also used this wonder
full medicine and today she is perfectly
well" Desperate throat and lung dis
eases yield 10 Dr.. Kings New Discov-
cry as 10 no other medicine on earth
Infallible for coughs and colds. 80
cents and 81 bottles guaranteed by
Hartz & Uuemeyer. Trial bottles free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

Within the past few weeks several
cases have come before Justice Bauder
in Cleveland involving attempts by re-
jected suitors to get their presents
back. Becoming tired of this kind of
litigation. his honor suggests that
when Cleveland SWANS make presents
TO maidens the following contract
should be agreed TO: 1T is hereby
agreed that this - there the words
bouquet. hat. diamond ring or souvenir
spoon may be inserted), is for use only
during the period of courtship. 1t is
hereby agreed that said (bouquet, hat
etc.l shall be returned at once upon
day of snub. if any Engagement to
another man to be considered As
snub.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
THE Rome OF vINoL
To Weak People s.

If you are thin, pale, lack energy,
suffer with indigestion, nervousness and
irritabi1ity, cannot sleep, and have no
appetite, We guarantee that Vino1 Will
make for you rich, red blood and restore
your health and strength. If you Will
try Vinol and it does not help you, We
agree to return your money. This shows
our faith and fairness. Will you try itF
Respectfully,
H4RPER HOUSE PHARMACY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
HENRY DEMOCRATS DIVIDED
Republican Board in Adjoining County /
to Pass on Regularity Of Tickets.

to Pass on Regularity of Tickets.
\ hearing on the regularity OF two
tickets put up by factions of the demo-
cratic party in Henry county in which
the contentious ATE somewhat similar
to those between the regular demo
cratic ticket and rho LOoney ticket in
Rock Island. will come Up shortly. The
factions divided in the county couvon-
ton on the question of supporting ".
X. Hearst for president, though local
issues are really AT the bottom of the
.dissension. The hearing Will be held
lat Cambridge. The judges who hear
the contest are the county Judge. the
states attorney and the county clerk,
all OF whom. as in the case in this coun-
ny. are republicans. Each faction will
make an earnest effort 10 be adjudged
regular, and hard fought case Will
probably be heard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

\ typewriter operator in one of the
government departments at Washing
TON wrote %. 900 words i'll seven hours.
And yet every now and then we won
der how those Indiana novelists can
rurn out books so rapidly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
Browns Elevation Denied.

Al the main Offices OF the New York
Central road at New York the report
that W. c. Brown is 10 be made pres
ident of the system succeeding Pres
idenJ Newman has been officially de
clared 10 be without foundation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

Judge Parker Charged the Republic
an administration with reckless cX-
travagancc, and the president immeGi-
ateIy directed all heads of departments
TO be silent as to forthcoming esti-
mates OF expenditures.-New York Her
old l.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
Broke Into His House.

S. lie Quinn. Of Cavendish. Vt, was
robbed of his customary health by in
vasion of chronic constipation. When
Dr. Kings New Life Pills broke into
his house. his trouble was arrested and
now he's entirely cured. They're guar
anteed TO cure. % cents at Hartz &
Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

II Judge Parker gets to he president
he will probably not regard any cmer-
gency as dire enough to conceal from
the people for Il moment the business
condition of the governmcnt.-Cincin
natl Enquirer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

The car and the mikado may be
come so angry AT receiving resolutions
from peace congresses that they VIII
end the war TO get relief. Peace hath
its victories i'll war time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

TERMS - Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly. 81 per year in advance.
All communications Of argumentatiVe
character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for pubhca-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

Democrats of Massachusetts have
nominated Douglas. the So shoe man,
for governor. At any rate the voters
know what he looks like. This Is one
advantage of advertising.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

Carrie Nation has been fined and
sent TO Jail Unfortunately her sen
tence Will expire just about the time
the circUses 90 on the road next
Snrinp-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue, Rock Island, Ill len
tered at the postofice as second-class
matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

The republican presidential ticket is
a funny combination of tirecrackerS
and -pIOw.-Quincy Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
RIVER RiPLETS.
RIVER FORECAST

Nearly stationary stages in the Mis-
sissippi viii prevail between Dubuque
and MuSc2t.Ge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
Monday. October 10, 1904.

Senator Fairbanks is said to be tray
cling in a special refrigerator car
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

Michigan raised SS.OO0,OOO worth OF
beans this year. Boston papers please
CODY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10

BY THE J. w. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-10
RIVER BULLETIN.

D'ngr H@t. Chan &c
Line. sam. u hrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
The Electric Pilot.

From the Scientific American.
River and harbor pilots will be put out OF
business entirely If the invention of Prof.
r. B. Owens should come into general use.
Prof. Owens is now professor of electrical
engineering at McGill University at Mon
treal and the device referred to above is
an electrical apparatus by which boat
may be taken through narrow channel,
without the least danger of grounding, by
an officer of the boat entirely unacqua;nted
with the water through which he may be
passing. A properly insulated and protect
ed cable is laid In the channel to be fol-
lowed by the craft. An alternating cur
rent Is passed through the cable, and two
telephones on board the vessel are acted
upon by the magnetic influences OF the
cable. so that 1t is possible to detect the
reflections of the boat with regard to the
position of the cables by listening at the
receivers of the instruments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05

ished to these mountain Businesses by 81
Babylonian monarch 2.0O0 years ago, pre-
cisely as Russian non-conformists are ban
ished to frontier territories today by the
car
The pride of the Caucasus is the beauty
of its women. There are more beautiful
women to be found In these rugged noun
tains than anywhere else I'm the world In
other countries there are women as lovely,
but nowhere else is loneliness so common
Among the CircasSians a homely girl is
hardly ever seen, and this is true in @ less
degree of the Ossetes the tribes OF Dag
hestan, and many of the other races in
habiting these highlands.
Famed for Their Beauty.
The beauty of the Circassian girls is, of
course, world famous. They are In great
demand in all the harems of Turkey, Per-
STA, Egypt, Central Asia and other parts OF
the Mohammedan world Many merchants
visit the Circassian villages at certain sea-
sons of the year to pick out the prettiest
girls and induce them TO travel to Siam
boul, Teheran and other cities, where they
can make good marriages. perhaps to a
prince or pasha. Sometimes the merchant
buys the girl from her parents a specu-
1ation; more frequently he deducts a COM
mission from the sum paid him by the
bridegroom and sends them the balance of
the purchase money.
He keeps faith because he has to revisit
the Caucasus again In the course of his
business. The girl Is usually eager to ga
with him. She rejoices at the chance OF
leaving the narrow life of the village and
going out into the great world: where she
knows she will be Tapped I'm luxury and
possibly may become a queen, as many
Circassian girl has done.
In no part of the world are there more
ruined churches and monasteries than in
the Caucasus Many of them were once
magnificent buildings dating back to the
most glorious days of the Byzantine en-
pire. Some of these fine old ruins, destroy
ed almost to their foundations, now support
the wretched novels of the peasants. The
Christian races in the Causasus are fond
of building their villages around such ruins;
they believe it brings them good luck. 1t
is hardly possible to travel ten miles in
many parts of the Caucasus without COM
ing across some famous church of ancient
days. fallen into ruins.
But there are plenty of more or less mod
ern churches in the Christian districts OF
the Caucasus, and nowhere are monasteries
more plentiful. You see them on every
rugged mountain side, in every fertile val
ley. The most famous is the monastery OF
Atom, at Souchoum Kale. on the Black sea-.
1t is the largest monast-c establishment in
the world and was built at cost OF over
81, 100000. Twenty-Five hundred monks find
refuge from the world within its cloisters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
c1RcAss1AN MOTHER AND CHILDREN.

child upon the wooden ledge Of the win
dow and handed her permit to the turn
key. Soon a shaggy, Withholding face
peered through the wires. The woman took
the babys hand and tenderly inserted it
between the iron netting to greet its rebel
sire. The harsh features softened wonder
fully, and while he seized the tiny fingers
something happened, for suddenly he let
go and covered his face with both his
hands"
f. Race Apart.
There are nearly 10000 Jews in the Cau-
casus. who form race apart. The Rus
slams call them mountain Jews" They
herd together in small commmites-often
in separate villages-and have nothing to
do with the rest OF the people. They never
enter the towns or the cities. but are con-
tent to lead the simple. pastoral life OF
Abraham. They keep the Mosaic law to
the letter, and all their customs are simple
and Biblical. This Is not strange, mas
much as they are believed to be a remnant
of the Jews Of the captivity who were BAN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Surprises in War.
I'm the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
What novelty or what surprise will this
east Asian war produce? There may be
none, yet the chances would seem to be
that one will be forthcoming, as In each Of
so many modern wars. Napoleon surprised
all Europe with the fexibility of his mills
tary organizations and the celebrity Of thcif
movements. The war of 1912 surprised tho
world with an amazing series of sea VIC
tories, due to improved navigation and tho
sighting of cannonS. Our civil war reVo.
lutioniZed naval warfare with ironclads and
turrets. The AuStro- Prussian war of 1855
brought forward the perfected breechloader.
while the great FrancO-German war sur
prised the world with the deadly potency
of rapid-fire artillery. The Russo-Turkish
war gave an illustration at Plevna of the
value of the spade which enabled the
thinned legions OF Osmdn TO hold at bay.
and to repel with mighty slaughter tho
overwhelming myriads of the Russian army
The Boer war showed the efficiency of
smokeless pc WIDER and iong-range arms and
the need of open formation in battle and
great mobility of troops.
The present war ought, we should think.
to teach us some new lessons. The value
of the torpedo, the torpedo boat and the
torpedo-boat destroyer should be more ac-
curately demonstrated than ever before.
Whether the submarine boat will be used
and its efficiency ascertatned is not yet
known. Wireless telegraphy has its first
opportunity of service in war. There is
also a rare chance to compare the relative
values of sea power and Of land power.
Nor should we overlook the fact, on the
one hand, that the newest of civilized na7
lions and the first of Asiatic Eations to
enter the charmed circle of the great powf
NerS'' is for the first time TO show Its ca<
pacity in a great war, and, on the othet
hand, that the European POWER which IS
of all most populouS and which has by ran
the largest army is now to show whetheH
its military efficiency is commensurate witt
its physical bulk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05

their fondness for funeral feasts, which
seem to form the bulwark of their pagan
creed. In Ossetia man has to feed not
only his descendants. but also his departed
ancestors. Your dead are hungry!"-that
is the worst insult which can be flung at
the head of an Ossete.
There are no fewer than ten "Feasts OF
the Dead during the year. and some of
these feasts las. for several days. The
pious Ossete does not spread food and
drink before the tomb or the altar of his
6ncestor. like the Chinese. He devours the
offerings himself. and by convenient the
illogical doctrine they are supposed to
nourish the defunct progenitor In whose
honor they are offered. An Ossete may
thus make a hog and a drunkard of him.
self, ard charge the offense to iilial piety,
for obviously the more he can eat and
drink the better 1t is for the deceased.
A Sacred Duty.
The ritual Of the Ossete religion. IL so 1t
may be called. is full of references to the
sacred duty of looking after the daily
bread Of ones ancestors. The following
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Fail Not!

Rest not content! Hopes will de down at last,
Though famed by circumstance their embers cast
Pale light upon thy way. Love? Love viii
change,
For 1t has all Of bliss In which to range.
And on each Joy will sorrow follow fast.
Fen in the whelm Of things, the whiriing blast
That darkens even spirit. where are massed
The laws Of life and death. that weird melangc,
Rest not content!
Lo all the sweets Of human love, thou hast!
Thine IL the calm Of morning. unsurpassed
Thou hast the gift Of giadness, what strange!
The will and wish thy life SO to arrange
That truth be thine which ever grows more vast.
Reat not content!
CHARLES ". STEVENSON
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05
Two Ways to Get Strong.
From Everybody's.

FfOm EVtfyDuuy 5.
There are two ways to get strong, tia
active and the passive. TO sum it up with
one brief concrete Illustration, the active
treatment would comprise such vigorous
exercise of all the muscles of the body in
the fresh, rejuvenating air and under the
bright and healing sun as one might obs
tain in the railroad section gang. BY this
method you are able to relish and digest
anything short of shoe pegs. The passive
method goes at it the other way about.
Instead of exercising that one may eat. ]
one eats that one may exercise. A diet
is prescribed which is almost pure nutri-,
ment to begin with and has been so COM
pletely predigested that all one has to do,
Is to swallow it down and the food is
turned directly into power. BY this method. !,
if the billboards are to be believed, aged
gentlemen become frisky that they jumrs
over eight-foot fences just TO work of them
superfiuous energy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-05


opposite cliff"
True enough man had climbed to that
unhappily placed rocky table. and was
shouting something to a confrere high on
the cliff over their heads. AS yet he had
not seen them nor even noticed the place
where they were concealed. The sailor
imagined. from the Dyaks gestures, that
he was communicating the uselessness of
further search on the western part of the
island.
When the conversation ceased. he hoped
the lOud-voiced savage would descend. But
no! The scout looked into the valley, at the
well. the house. the cave. Still he did not
see the ledge. At that unlucky moment
three birds. driven from the trees on the
crest by the passage of the Dyaks, flew
down the face of the cliff and began a cir
cling quest for some safe perch on which
to alight. jerks swore with an emphasis
not the less earnest because 1t was mute
and took steady aim at the Dyak's left
breast. The birds fiuttered about in ever
smaller circles. Then one of them dropped
easily on to the lip of the rock. Instantly
his bright eyes encountered those of the
man. and he darted off with a scream that
brought his mates after him.
The Dyak evidently noted the behavior
of the birds-his only lore was the reading
of such signs-and gazed intently at the
ledge. jerks he could not distinguish be-
hind the screen of grass. He might perhaps
see some portion of the tarpaulin covering
| the stores. but at the distance 1t must re-
semble a weather-beaten segment of the
cliff. Yet something puzzled him. After a
steady scrutiny he turned and yelled to
others on the beach.
The crucial moment had arrived jerks
| pressed the trigger, and the Dyak hurtled
| through the air. falling headlong out of
| sight.
| The sound of this, the first shot of real
| warfare, awoke Rainbow Island into ire
| mendous activity. The winged life of the
| place filled the air with raucous cries. while
| shouting Dyaks scurried in all directions
| Several came into the valley. Those near
| est the fallen man picked him up and car
| ried him to the we'll. He was quite dead
| and, although amidst his other injuries they
| soon found the bullet wound. they evidently
| did not know whence the shot came, for
| those to whom he shouted had no inkling
! OF his motive, and the slight haze from the
rife was instantly swept away by the
| breeze
| Iris could hear the turmoil beneath, and
| she TREMENDOUSLY asked
| Are they going to attack us?'
mot yet" was the reassuring answer
! 81 killed the fellow who saw US before he
| could tell the others"
| 1t was bold risk, and he had taken 1t.
| though, now the Dyaks knew for certain
| their prey had not escaped, there was no
| prospect Of their speedy departure Never
| theless the position was not utterly hops.