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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-22

largest and best selected stock of bot
tied goods in the three cities at lowest
prices.
No dispute. The H. & H. are posi-
lively showing the finest turkeys dis
played on this market, direct from
farm to consumer, no middle stop. or
middle profits, accounts for the low
prices they quote.
You will find at Ehlebs Twentieth
street grocery everything necessary to
make your Christmas dinner a pleas
ure. Vegetables and fruits, everything
on the market; new nuts. fancy can
dies, raisins, ETC. Order there.
Don't forget to visit Jackson's jewel
ry and art store and get his prices be-
fore purchasing elsewhere. Big line
new goods, low prices Diamonds,
gold and silveTware of every descrip-
ton. Jackson's, 1907 Second avenue
Bought it yet? Don't tire yourself
out shopping around at this late hour,
bur go 10 the" Christmas gift store,
Mosenfelder & Sons, where you will
find numberless suggestions for gifts
that will please. See their ad On page
eight.
The Sunday school of the Centrai
church viii give cantata this even
ing at 7:30 in the church. entitled
Santa Claus Visit" after which San
ia Claus will appear and a general good
time will be INDUCED in. Everybody in
yited.
Final mark down. It's a principle
nf MpGnhp' n oil
ing in prices of toys, dolls. and other
special Christmas goods on the last
two days before Christmas This year
is no exception. Late corners get this
satisfaction.
II. Horblit is highly complimented
by numerous customers on low prices
and variety of fancy toys and holiday
goods. The best selection of dolls in
the city. Come early for your choice
Prices will suit you. H. Horblit, 1929
1881 Fifth avenue.
Your Christmas dinner will not be a
success without a cup of good coffee
Ii is not too late TO order a pound of
Bartlett Bros. famous J. & NJ. blend
Cali us up over either phone and see
how quickly We will be there with the
goods. Store IsIS-1S2O Third avenue
Cheap jewelry is dear at any price
Condemn it as vigorously as you would
tainted meat" or dirty milk. or any
other contaminated article of food. We
know good jewelry and we know bad
jewelry. Our knowledge is yours for
the asking. ingalls,, 1907 Second ay-
enue
Schroeder Bros, who conducted
meat market for many years on TWEEN
tieth street, find their business so in
creased in the west end Of the city,
| that to accommodate their many Gus
toners in that section they have decid-
ed 10 establish & branch store on the
corner of Fourth avenue and Tenth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-22

700 p. m, followed by a dance. E
music.
Next to a 5000 diamond ring is fine
box of candy for a present more pal.
atable and at less cost. From % cents
up TO $500 at Maths.
At the east door of the court house
Wednesday morning at 10 O'CLOCK
there will be sold al partition sale lol
in Highland Park addition.
People looking for a fine building
site will do well to attend the masters
sale at 10 O'Clock, Dec. p, 1905, at the
east door of the court house
Expert manicuring, shampooing and
thorough treatment of the hair and
scalp given by Mrs. Sol Levi, 736 Sew
enteenth street. Old phone, west so.
Cigars, cigars, cigars, all the leading
brands of Havana and domestic cigars
and AL sizes of Christmas boxes at
Steiner's Fifth avenue pharmacy.
Egg plant, cauliflower. new potatoes.
new peas. wax and green beans, in
fact. complete line of fresh yegeta-
bles at Passig Bros. tomorrow. Order
there
Before buying your Christmas pres
ents look over my stock of jewelry,
pictures, and statuary. My prices low
er than ever. Jackson's, 1907 Second
avenue.
No further profits on Christmas
goods. McCabe's offering to last
hour" gift seekers will keep their store
filed TO the minute before closing time
Saturday night.
The II. & II. market has fixed the
low prices quoted on Christmas poul-
try. Why pay more? Garry a copy of
the H. & II. big Christmas ad when
you go marketing.
whole carload of new statuary just
received and now on sale at lowest
prices ever offered in the tri-cities at
Jackson's art and jewelry store, 1907
Second avenue.
Santa Claus and the Katzenjammer
family again tonight in McCabe's
Third avenue window. includes Uncle
Heine, Der Captain. Mrs. Katzenjam.
mer and the Kids
Remember all you save. is what
you give" Don't let this Christmas
go by without adding little bright
ness somewhere. McCabe's splendid
equipment is at your service.
Any one interested in buying a five
or seven room cottage should attend
the sale at the court house Wednesday
next at O'Clock.
Take notice. Tomorrow is Satur-
day The last trading day before
Christmas. Is anyone forgotten? Nc
Cabe's store viii be open late with all
its economic advantages al your ser
vice.
A fine bottle Of wine free with every
purchase of dollar or over at Simon
Lewis, from now till Christmas. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-22

Temperature nt n. M. 80; mt 3:SD
ID. T. Minimum temperature In the
past "a hours. -; maximum. "a.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-22
THE WEATHER.

Generally fair tonight and saturday
colder tonight. The lowest temperature
tonight will he about 20 degrees
}. VI. SHERIER. Observer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11
The Bad Boy and His dad Arrive in
Cairo-At the Hotel They Meet
Some Egyptian Princesses - Dad
Rides Camel to the Pyramids and
Meets with Difficulties.

BY HON. GEORGE w PECK.
(Ex- Governor of Wisconsin, Former Editor
of Peck's Sun, Author of "Peck's
Rad Rovn etcO
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11
FADS IN SIZES OF CIGARS.
Queer Notions Crop Out Among the
Smokers Who Think They
Know It All.

Two smokers stood In one of the
cigar shops in the vicinity of the
stock exchange, during the rest hour,
says the New York Sun.
You have all sizes of cigars" said
one of the smokers as he surveyed
the stock. Then these questions and
answers followed:
"In length" replied the shopkeeper,
"the average cigar is from four to five
inches"
HAS the size of cigar anything to
do with the price,"
Sometimes. Not always. The sto-
gle is longer than the average length
and everybody knows what a stogie
costs. They are seven inches long.
Il have another cigar the same
length as a stogie, which sells three
for a~dollar. The cigar that sells
three for half is about five and a
half inches long, but it is thicker than
the cigar of the same length that sells
for ten cents straight or Is cents
straight"
What is the weight of an average
cigar?"
"All depends on the tobacco. One
cigar that sells for ten cents weighs
about one-fourth of an ounce. An.
other, the same size, weighs an eighth
of an ounce. and still another of the
same size, that sells at the same price,
weighs half an ounce. The brand that
sells three for a dollar is the same
weight"
q suppose there are fads in sizes OF
cigars just as there are fads in fash.
ion?"
We'll, you're on. Just at present
the fad seems to be long cigars of the
panatela shape. They are all prices,
too, from five cents up"
Isn't it fact that the average
smoker-I don't mean men who run
to fancy prices and buy by the box
buys the five cent cigar?"
More five cent cigars are now sold
than formerly" the shopkeeper re-
piled. THE five-cent panatela shape,
for instance, we sold for ten cents
straight when we paid duty-I am re-
ferring to the Porto Rico cigars.
81 have one customer who used to
Duy lueHn ny lHe DON, dI HNe uOlidFS.
When the duty was taken off l gave
him one of the brand one day and told
him it was new five-cent cigar that
had just put on the market. He
smoked about half of it and said it
was enough, and he wanted his old
smoke. Then told him it was the
same, less the duty"
"frbaD what bapnaDadop
What usually happens? You smok.
ers think you know more about cigars
than we who make them. That man
wouldn't have 1t. He insisted on
smoking ten.cent straight and
gave it to him. Price is what gov
erned him, just as it governs most
men when they buy. The average
man is not much of bargain hunter"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

spot, while others, swearing or cry.
ing, were taking up collection. Enough
money to fill Baptist preachers stove-
pipe hat was raised in two minutes.
Mamie thanked everybody In sweet,
bewldered way, but told them that her
mother was dead, and that there was
no one to care for the children and run
the house in the absence of her father
but herself
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

and pulled his feet up on top and sat
there like frog on pond lily leaf.
My jackass only stepped his feet in the
edge, and dad wanted me to swim my
jackass out to the camel, and let him
fall off onto the jack but | knew dad
would sink my jack In a minute, and
wouldn't go in the river. Well, the
camels drank about an hour, with dad
sitting there meditating, and then the
dragomen got them out, and we started
off for the pyramids, which were in
plain sight like the pictures you have
seen, with palm trees along the Nile, and
Arabs camping on the bank, and it
looked as though everything was going
to be all right, when suddenly dads
camel stopped dead still and wouldn't
move foot, and all the rest of the cam
els stopped, closed their eyes and went
to sleep, and the Arabs went to sleep,
and dad and the jackass and l were ap-
parently the only animals in Egypt that
were awake.
Dad kicked his camel in the ribs butt
wouldn't bulge. He asked me if
couldn't think up some way to start the
pIoCeSSloll, anu SJOppeu my JdCkdSS
and thought a minute, and told dad
had it. / had bought some giant fire
crackers and roman candles at Cairo,
with which | was going to fire salute
on top of the biggest pyramid, to cele-
brate for old America and l told dad
what | had got, and thought if | got
off my jackass and fired a salute tbere
in the desert it would wake them UP.
Dad said "all right, let er go. but do it
sort of easy, at first SO not TO overdo it,
and got my artillery ready. Say, you
can't fire off fireworks easy, you got to
touch a match to EN-, and dodge, and
take your chances. Well, l scratched
match and lit the giant fire cracker.
and put it under the hind legs of dads
camel, and when it got to fizzing lit my
roman candle, and as the fire cracker ex-
ploded like a 16-inch gun, my roman
candle began to spout balls of fire, and
aimed one at each camel, and the
whole push started on a stampede for
the pyramids, the camels groaning, the
Arabs praying to Allan, dad yelling to
stop 'er, and my jackass led the bunch,
and | was left in the desert to pick up
| the hats
guess l will have to tell you the rest
OF the tragedy in my next letter.
Yours with plenty of sand,
HENNERY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

train was heard approaching and waved
it frantically as the big locomotive
came laundering down the mountain.
The engine driver reversed" and the
grinding machine came along in cloud
of steam and with fire streaming from
every wheel. The heavy train finally
came to stop not ten feet from the
big rocks of the mountain avalanche.
1t was in that part of the canyon where
the road runs through a notch in the
mountain, 1000 feet above the valley.
Wanted to Adopt Her.
When the passengers swarmed out
of the train, and men, women and chill
dren looked into the dizzy abyss they
realized what they had escaped In an
instant they brushed the trainmen
away from the girl and hugged and
kissed her as If she were the only heroine
on earth. Bob" Weaver, the engine
driver, had already picked her up in
his arms, calling her an angel whom
Heaven had sent to save the train and
its passengers. A dozen men, with
tears in their eyes, came forward and
wanted to adopt little Mamie on the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

when we got here all we have had to do
is to battle the dirt off in layers.
1t takes nine baths to get down to
American epidermis, and the last bath
has jackplane to go with it, and a thing
they scale fish with. But we are all
right now, with rooms in the hotel, and
rested, and when we go home we are
going to be salted down and given
chloroform and shipped as mummies.
Dad insists that he will never cross a
desert or an ocean again, and | don't
know what is to become of us. Anyway,
we are going to enjoy ourselves until we
are killed Off
The first two days we just looked
about Cairo, and saw the congress of ma
tions, for there is nothing just like this
town anywhere. There are people from
all quarters of the globe, the most out
landish and the most up-to-date This
place is an asylum for fakirs and rob-
bers, place where defaulters, bribers.
murderers, swindlers and elopers
are safe, as there seems to be
no eXtradition treaty that cannot
be overcome by paying money to the
OhiSldlo' lOuhu ludI OuI the uISl udy,
and told dad we should have no stand
ing in the society of Egypt unless the
people thought he had committed some
gigantic crime and fed his country
Dad wanted to know how it would
strike me If it was noised about the ho-
tel that he had robbed national bank.
but | told him there would be nothing
uncommon or noticeable about robbing
bank, as half the tourists were bank
defauters, so he would have to be ac-
FUSED of something startling so we de-
cided that dad should be charged with
being the principal thing iI the Stand
ard Oil company, and that he had under
ground pipe lines running under sew
eral states, gathering oil away from the
people who owned it, and that at the
present time he was worth billion dol
lars and his income was $4,000 600
every little while, and by ginger. you
ought to see the people bow down to him
Say. common bank robbers and default
ers just fell over themselves to get ac-
quainted with dad, and to carry ont the
joke, ! put some kerosene oil on dads
handkerchief, and that clinchcd IL, for
everybody loves the smell OF perfume
that represents a billion dollars.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

faces at me on my jacllass, and finally
dad wanted to change works with me-
and ride my jackass, but told him we
had left the stepladder back at Cairo. so
dad hung to his mountainous stead, bur
the dust blew so you couldn't see, and ii
was getting monotonous when the
queerest thing happened.
You have heard that canels can fill up
with water and go for week without
asking for any more, Well. guess the
week was M, and it was time to load the
camels with water, for as We came to
the Nile every last camel made a rush
for the river, and they went n like q
yoke of oxen on stampede, and waded
in clear up TO the humps. and began to
drink. and dad yelled for a life preseryer
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

her by the Southern railway. Corpor-
,Rtions must not be entirely soulless.
! This is how it all came about, and
why Mamie Gibson is going to attend
the Asheville normal collegiate insti-
tute and secure the education she has
dreamed of and wished for and yet
felt would never be hers.
This is the story Mamie Gibson,
,&he heroine, IA years old. lived in a
rough mountain hut with her father in
care of her younger brothers and sis
,ters. 1t is a wild, stupendous region,
with the Black mountain range rising
high on every side. A river rushing
like torrent through the gorge below
spreads away in soft silver loveliness
as it reaches plateau in the wilderness.
Nannie's mother had died but few
weeks before, and, being the eldest, she
became the Little Woman" of the
household. She was at work about the
house cooking and caring for the chill
dren when suddenly the mountain trem.
bled, and with the roar and crash of q
cyclone an immense slab of the noun
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

Bau BOY, etC,l
Copyright, 1906 by Joseph b. Bowles)
Cairo, Egypt.-My Dear Old Irish
Vegetables: Gee, but you ought to see dad
and l right now, at hotel, waiting for
chance at room, when bride and
groom get ready to vacate It, and go
somewhere else. This hotel is full OF
married people who look scared when
ever there is a new arrival, and came
pretty near creating panic by going
into the parlor of the hotel, where a
dozen couples were sitting around max
ing goo-goo eyes at each other, and get
ting behind screen and, in disguised
voice, shouting, 81 know all! Prepare
to defend yourself!"
The women turned pale and some said
"At last! At last!" while others got
faint in the head, and some fell on the
bosoms of their husbands and said:
Don't shoot" You see, most of these
wives had husbands somewhere else,
that might be looking for them. l have
warned dad not to be seen conversing
with a woman, or he may be shot by a
husband who is on her trail, or by the
husband she has with her.
Well, sir, of all the trips we have had
anywhere, the trip from Constantinople
here was the limit. For two or three
days we were on dinky steamboats, with
Arabs, Turks, negroes and all nationafi-
ties camping on deck, full of fleas, and
with cholera germs on them big enough
to pick like blueberries, and all of the
passengers were dirty and eat things
that would make dog in America go
mad. The dog biscuit that are fed to
American dogs would pass as delicate
confection on the menu of any steam
boat we struck, and l had rather lie
down in barn yard with wet dog for
a pillow and a cast-off blanket from a
smallpox hospital for a bed, than to
occupy the bridal chamber of any steam
boat we struck.
And then the ride across the desert
by rail to reach Cairo was the worst in
the world. Passengers in rags, going to
Mecca, or some other place of worship,
eating cheese thousand years old made
from old goats milk, and dug from the
Pyramids too late to save it, was what
surrounded us, and the sand storm blew
through the cars laden with germs of the
plague, and stuck to us so tight you
couldn't get it off with sandpaper, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

going to marry an Egyptian woman,
would take her to Norway, or up to-
wards the north pole, where it is night
all day, and you wouldn't realize that
you were married to colored woman.
To be around among these Egyptians is
good deal like having a pass behind
the scenes at the play of Ben Hur in New
York, only here the dark and dangerous
women are the real thing instead of
being white girls with black paint on.
We have just got back from the pyra-
mids, and dad is being treated for spinal
meningitis, on account of riding camel.
| never tried harder to get dad to go
anywhere on the cars than did to get
him to go to the pyramids by rail, as
millionaire should, but he said he was
going to break a camel to the saddle,
and then buy him and take him home
for side show. So we went down to
the camel garage, and hired camel for
dad, and four camels for the arabs and
things he wanted for an escort, and a
jackass for me. There were automobiles
and carriages, and trolleys, and every
thing that we could have hired, and
been comfortable for the ten-mile ride.
but dad was mashed on the camel, and
he got it.
Well, sir, it was not one of these
worlds fair camels that lay down for
you to get on, and then got up on the
installment plan, and chuck you for
ward and aft, but proud Egyptian
camel that stands up straight and
makes you climb up on stepladder.
Dad got along up the camel's ribs,
when the stepladder fell, and he grabbed
hold of the hair on the two humps, and
the humps were loose and they Topped
over on the side, and it must have hurt
the camel's feelings to have his humps
pulled down, so he reached around his
head and took a mouthful out of the seat
of dads pants, and dad yelled to the
camel to let go, and the Arabs amputat-
ed the camel from dads trousers. and
pushed dad up on top with bamboo
pole with a crotch in it, and when dad
got settled between the humps he said.
Let 'er co." and we started.
Dad could have had a camel with a
platform on top, and an awning, but he
insisted on taking his camel raw, and
he sat there between those humps, his
trousers worked up towards his knees,
showing his red socks and blue drawers,
and his face got pale from sea sickness,
and the red, white and blue colors made
me think of fourth of July at home.
We went out of town like a wild west
show, and dad seemed happy, except
that every time an automobile went
whizzing along, dads camel got the
jumps and waltzed sideways, out into
the sandy desert, and chewed at dads
socks, so part of the time dad had to
draw up his legs and sit on one hump,
and put his shoes on the other hump.
The Arabs on the other camels would
ride up alongside and steer dads camel
back into the road, by sticking sharp
sticks into the camel, and the animal
would yawn and groan and make up
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11
Red Hair.

When red hair makes its appearance
on human head all lukewarmness is
at an end. 1t is either loved or loathed.
Its admirers, with artists in the van. are
almost Historically enthusiastic. They
call it golden. though the gold that
comes out Of the earth is not often eN-
actly that shade. A red-haired woman
is sure of a success in some quarter.
however plain her face or insignificant
her figure. The letIactors Of red hair
say It is slsp of bad temper or immor-
allIy or both, Apd therefore {. - soru-
pulously avoided, Queou
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11
A Pretty Mountain Maid Prevents a Bad
Accident the Southern
Railway.
USES HER RED PETT1coAT FOR FLAG
The Passengers Wanted Adopt Her. But She Would Not
Leave Father and Sisters-The Railroad Com
pany to Give Her Education
Railway.

Asheville, N. CA tale that reads
Hike a romance woven by an ingenious
teller of stories is that of pretty Nan
ME Gibson, the South Carolina noun
tain maid, whose presence of mind
saved a fast passenger train from
plungng to destruction down a noun
tain precipice; whose loyalty to home
and kindred caused her to decline Of
fers from rich people to adopt her, and
give her a life of ease, and choose in.
stead the days of toll and care in the
little mountain home of her father and
sisters because she was needed there.
And now comes the unexpected Sc
-quel to the story of her devotion-an
education, the dearest hope of her
young life. This has been guaranteed
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

All the women wanted to dance with
dad in the hotel dance, and because they
thought must be heir to all the oil
billions, they wanted to hold me on
their laps, and stroke my hair, as though
was it. l guess we are going to have
everything our own way here, and IL
dad does not get eloped with by some
Egyptian princess, shall be mistaken.
The Egyptians are pretty near being ne
groes, and wear bangles in their ears
and earrings on their arms. You take
it in the dark, and let a princess put
her arm around you, and sort of squeeze
you, and you can't tell but what she is
white, only there is an odor about them
like "Araby the blessed, but in the light
they are only negroes. little bleached,
with red paint on their cheeks. II was
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

tain fell upon the main track Of the
Southern railroad.
Goes to the Rescue.
1t was situation to appall anyone but
the little heroine with good cool blood
in her veins. She recovered her wits
instantly and became master of the sit
uation. Seizing a red tablecloth, she
told her sister Patty, little tot nine
years old, to run for her life down the
track and flag trains coming from below
Then turning household affairs over
to little Julia, six-year-old mountain
kid, she ran like a deer up the track,
where she knew train would soon be
coming down the mountain. She had
no red tablecloth, but she switched
off her red petticoat as the roar of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11
Told Her Story.

with the modesty of the violets by
her side, the girl talked shyly of her
family affairs, ard explained why It
would be impossible for her to accept
the many kind offers showered upon
her for home in big house, with serv-
ants to wait upon her and piano to
play after she had learned music and