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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-03
CITY CHIT.

Finne sells good shoes.
Call for Improved Zazaro.
! Lage-Waters' sell good shoes.
Knabe pianos at Totten's sale.
| "Zibia,' the new scent cigar.
Merrell pianos at Totten's sale.
Sohmer pianos at Totten's sale.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Insure with Goldsmith & Mckee.
G. A r. day. Young & McCombs.
Piano sale. Totten's Music house.
For bus, baggage, express, call Robb's
For bus or express, Spencer & Trefz.
Hurry. hurry, hurry. Totten's sale.
New upright pianos $135. Totten's
sale
UHemeyer & Sterling's for your new
hats
All kinds of pork at II. Tremann's
Sons.
New upright pianos s1s5, Totten's
sale
Lage-Waters lead in the shoe bust
ness.
Lago-Waters lead in the shoe bust
ness.
Lage-waters lead in the shoe bust
ness.
For real estate and insurance, E. J.
Burns.
You can buy a good shoes at Lage-
Waters.
Spring ovcrcoats at UlIemeyer &
Sterlings.
Upright pianos, 500 Totten's Mu-
sic house.
Upright pianos. 500 Totten's Mu-
sic house.
Help the G. \. R. Saturday. Young
& McCombs.
New flower and garden seeds, at
Passig Bros
The best place to buy shoes is at
Lagc-Waters
Plenty of dressed chickens at H.
Tremann's Sons.
Leaf lard and pork tenderlofns at
II. Tremann's Sons.
Saturday, top overcoat day at Ulie-
meyer d Sterlings.
If you want pure leaf lard order at
II. TTCmann's Sons.
The stage of water was $50 at a.
m, and $40 at noon.
Order your Sunday chicken at
Schroeder's tomorrow.
The best s. shoes for men can be
found at Lage-Waters'.
Hess Bros. and w. B. Harris spe-
cial is on page six today.
Fresh Milwaukee sausage at Passig
Bros. tomorrow. Try it.
Help a worthy cause by trading at
Young & McCombs' Saturday.
New long watershed y in y over
coats al UlIemeyer < Sterling's.
Do not forget the two special bar
gains at Totten's sale Saturday.
Ten more days Of Finne's shoe sale.
% 10 40 per cent discount saved
Do not forget the two special bar
gains at Totten's sale Saturday.
Tax collectors Office open from 7 to
s O'Clock on Saturday evenings.
Everybody likes our topper coats.
There is a decided catchy style TO
them that is admired by all young
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-03
Mems Shirts.

SOC NegIigee Shirts.
Splendid $3.50 Percales and
Handsome Novelty Woven Mad
ras, ST.
Window full of Handsome soc,
81, $3.50 and $3.50 Shirts.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

had laid for summer vacation. Mr.. ELI
ms Is obdurate, however, and is deter
mined to make good his declaration that
he would devote the summer to getting
all possible information on this railroad
question. This is what he told the pres
ident, and he is going to keep his prom
Use. He proposes to hear all parties in
interest and then he is going to ask a
number of distinguished lawyers
throughout the country for their opin-
ions regarding the constitutionality OF
congress delegating the power to fix
rates to a commission.
Mr.. Elkins is rather proud of the law
against granting rebates by railroads
which bears his name. This law has
been up against the supreme court of the
United States, and has stood the test,
and Mr.. Elkins says that any other rail-
road law that he has anything to do with
must be framed with the same care and
with the certainty that it will be consti-
tutional. He says that he is very sorry
to interfere with the summer plans Of
any of the senator's, but he proposes to
have his committee get right down to
work and produce something that will
furnish the basis for action at the next
session of congress. There will be many
a trip spoiled by this programme, but
Mr.. Elkins says if they attend strictly
to business they may get away some
time in June, and all go fishing. He is
better situated than most of the senator's,
forbesides ha ring an immense mansion
in Washington that is as cool in mid
summer as a cellar, it is only a few
hours ride to his West Virginia home,
on top of the Allegheny mountains,
where they sometimes have frost in Au-
gust.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
HOW TO EAT SEED ORANGE
The West Indian Method Does Away
with the Necessity of Using
q Spoon.

when was in Jamaica" said a New
York man just back from the West In
dies, "a native got to talking to me
about their oranges" says the Sun.
Il asked him if they raised navels.
He said no, not to any extent, and that
he considered the navel an inferior
orange, anyway. | maintained that
there is nothing better in the way OF
fruit than a good California or Florida
navel orange. / see that the seeds and
the thick fiber in a seed orange make it
disagreeable to eat and spoil the flavor.
1.-The trouble is" he answered, You
do not know how to eat a seed orange
Then he showed me, illustrating with
some of his own seed oranges. You peel
the orange, taking car to pare just ill.,
side the white inner skin. When that is
done you have laid bare the outer wall
of each of those little sections of which
an orange.is composed.
Then you divide these sections one
by n and, putting this peeled edge in
your mouth, suck. You get the juice
and some of the pulp, but none of the
fiber and none of the seeds, which hang
close to the inner wall of the section.
That is better than eating it with 4
spoon for two reasons. In the first place,
after you have had the spoon in your
mouth one or twice it grows warm and
spOils the GOODNESS of the fruit. In the
second place, the spoon method has a
tendency to make the juice fly, and that
is disagreeable for your neighbors as
we'll as yourself.
Il learned to eat the native orange in
the native fashion, and now l think that
the seed orange and not the navel is the
king of fruits"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

at-home may go freely abroad; for
ingratitude to parents or disrespect for
the aged must not be even named
AMONG japanese.
The verdict of foreign observers
runs, of course, that the Japanese
woman is unduly subordinate to the
man and suffers ~variously and severely
in consequence. Religion, law, moral
ity, and social structure have combined
to Cypress the weaker sex. Buddhism
viewed m as a chief snare to It's
ascetic monks. Patriarchial law made
the chief man ruler of the family.
Confucian morality taught woman's
sole duty was obedience. And militant
feudalism relegated noncombatants to
an inferior place. Custom and ETH
quette followed suit and thus made the
verdict unanimous. Woman was
treated far better than elsewhere In
Asia, and was not beaten, as some
times happens elsewhere; but was
never considered the equal and there
fore the companion of man with equal
rights and privileges. Also she often
enjoyed the affection Of her husband,
but she had to win this after marriage
at great risk of failure. The faces OF
older women rarely indicated a soured
temper or cross disposition, but fire.
quently reveal suffering and disap-
pointment patiently and sweetly borne.
This is less noticeable wherever
oma has an economic value other
than that as wife and mother, namely,
in farming, especially in the tea and
silk culture, where she is as capable
as man.
1t was inevitable in progressive
Japan hat the need for reform in
wOman's position should be observed,
and it has already been partly met.
The new Law Code of 1898 bestowed
manifold advantages upon woman, so
that she can now become head of a
family, inherit and own and manage
property. and is a party to the dis
posal of her children. Further legisla-
ton would be useless until this has
been assimilated. Meanwhile. one and
a half million girls are in the public
schools, and are there acquiring a new
independence and force of mind.
Further changes will depend upon the
results of this procedure; but all par
ties agree that the old-time sweetness
and charm, in which the japanese
woman stood u%nrivaled, must not be
sacrificed to any new trait.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
A HABIT.
How the Exclusiveness Of a Great
Writer Was Eventually
Overcome.

The habit of seclusiOn was a distinct
trait in the family OF Nathaniel Haw-
thorne. One person, however. writes
Mrs. Davis in Bits of Gossip" had no
mind to encourage this habit in the
great novelist. This was Miss Eliza
beth Peabody, Mrs. Hawthorne's sister.
1t was her mission, she felt, to bring
the great novelist out from solitudes
where he walked apart, to the broad
ways of common sense. Mrs. Davis
happened to be present at her grand and
last coup to this end, and describes it as
follows:
One evening l was with Mrs. Haw-
thorne in the little parlor, in Concord,
when the children brought in their ia
Their. Suddenly Miss Peabody appeared
in the doorway. She lighted the lamp,
went out and brought in more lamps,
and then sat dowL and waited with an
air of stern resolution.
Presently Mr.. Emerson and his
daughter appeared, then Louisa Alcott
and her father, then two gray old clergy
men. who were formally presented to
Mr.. Hawthorne, who now looked about
him with terrified dismay. We saw
other figures approaching in the road
outside.
"What does this mean, Elizabeth
Mrs. Hawthorne asked in an aside.
q did it. / went around and asked a
few people in to meet our friend here.
l ordered some cake and lemonade, too"
Her blue eyes glittered with triumph
as Mrs. Hawthorne turned away.
They've been here two years." she
whispered, land nobody has met Mr..
Hawthorne. People talk. It's. ridicu-
lous! There's no reason why Sophia
should not go into society. So | just
made an excuse of your visit to bring
them in"
The little room was quite full when
there rustled in a M who anne
straight to Mr.. Hawthorne. l never
heard her name. but | knew her at sight
as the Intelligent questioner who cows
you into idiocy by her fluent cleverness.
$50 delighted to meet you at last"
she said, seating herself beside him.
81 have always admired your books,
Mr.. Hawthorne. And now | want you to
tell me all about your methods of work.
l want to hear all about it"
But at that moment his wife am up
and said that he was wanted outside,
and he escaped. A few moments later
l heard his steps on the floor overhead,
and knew that he was safe in tho tower
for the night.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
THROWS OK WITH TEETH.
Remarkable Feat Performed by q
Texas Negro Before Large
Audience.

There is no doubt that the teeth and
Jaws of the negro are in many instances
of quite extraordinary strength. A re-
markable feat was lately accom-
plished by a negro in Texas, who
gave an exhibition of his powers be-
fore a gathering of 10000. Pickett, the
man in question, chased a steer un-
til he was in front of the grand stand.
Then he jumped from the saddle and
landed on the back of the animal,
grasped its horns, and brought it to a
stop within a dozen feet. BY a remark
able display of strength he twisted the
steers head until its nose pointed
straight into the air. Suddenly Pickett
dropped the steers head and grasped
the upper lip of the animal with his
teeth, threw his arms wide apart, to
show that he was not using his hands,
and sank slowly upon his back. The
steer lost it's footing and rolled upon
it's back, completely covering the ne
gro's body with its own. Pickett arose
uninjured.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Reautiful behavior.

J. d. Benedict, the superintendent OF
the Indian territory schools, pointed
out a sturdy and grave young Indian
girl. "She is a maid" he said, lin the
house of a friend of mine, and the
other day she was left in charge OF the
children while her mistress went for q
long drive. The mistress on her re-
turn said to the maid: How did The
children behave during my absence,
Caroline? Well, l hope Beautifully
madam Caroline a~ns.ssTed, and at The
end they fought terribly together
Nhy did they fght?' the mother asked,
10 decide aaid Caroline, which va.
behaving the BEST"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Clock Paralyzed by Lightning.

A unique observation of the stopping
of a clock by lightning has been made
by DR.. Ernst Hartwig, of the Bamberg
observatory. He was noting the in
tervals between lightning flashes and
thunder when the rod on the observa-
tory was struck twice with an inter-
val of 46 seconds. The clock on a
stone pillar in the basement stopped
"a seconds after the second stroke.
The clock was not injured, but the pen
dulum seems to have been momcntari-
ly affected by a powerful electric shock.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
WAR AIDS WOMEN DOCTORS
All Privileges Before Restricted TO
Men Now Granted Them
by the Gear.

The Woman's Medical institute in st.
Petersburg, on it's foundation, was
hailed as the only place in the world
where a woman could take out medical
degrees. 1t was unendowed and was
kept going by voluntary subscriptions
and by sacrifices of professors. whose
zeal was even greater than their skill.
But though it was looked toward by
many as a beacon of advance, the school
in reality had only a trembling vitality,
knowing we'll that the lifting of the eye
brow of any powerful parsonage was
enough to send it tumbling down. AS a
matter of fact, the school was closed in
1886 by the minister, Warorwsky, and
was not reopened until IL years later,
when it lived on, if possible, in a more
trembling condition than before.
1t has now assumed a sudden impor-
lance. 1t has been brought from it's
struggling retirement. All the world
has been told of it's existence and called
upon to give it recognition. An edict
from the czar has given it a status and
substantial grant. It's students get all
the privileges hitherto available to
men.
The reason of this sudden change of
official attitude il that the war is taking
all the Russian men doctors, and if their
places are not supplied the country is
at the mercy of any epidemic that would
come along. Hence the thoughtfulness
and the generosity which has been sud-
denly developed toward the woman doc
tor
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

not hope to save anything out Of his sal
airy. There is the mission at Buenos
Ayres, for instance, where the compen-
sation is $40, 900 a year. An apartment
in a hotel in that city consisting OF a
parlor and a bedroom with a bath and
board costs from $12 to SIT a day in gold.
Modest dwelling houses of nine OF ten
rooms cos $154 to 1864 per month for
rental unfinished. Maidservants are
paid S22 to $26 a month, and it takes
two of them to do as much work as one
American servant. The common bottled
beer of costs one dollar per
bottle. Ginger ale and mineral waters
cost 80 and So cents a pint bottle; shoes
are $40 a pair and rubber overshoes are
$3.50 These prices are in American
gold.
Secretary Hay, in recommending that
the salary of the minister to Liberia be
increased from $4,000 to $500 a year,
stated that it costs about $4,000 for the
minister to transport himself and FAM
ily from the United States to his post.
Flour is sold in Monrovia for $12 a bar
rel; butter, one dollar a pound; lard, 40
cents a pound; ham or bacon, 40 cents a
pound, and kerosene oil, sc cents a gal-
lon. The price of wearing apparel is
fully double that in the United States
for a corresponding article. In addition,
the climate is extremely unhealthy. AID
the constant attendance of a physician
is needed. The present minister during
a residence of 10 months at slonrovia
has had Is attacks of fever; for each
visit a physician CHARGES Q fee of five
dollars.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Goose VS.. Turkey Race

On a recent evening a North London
publican backed his turkey to walk q
goose 100 yards. There was great ex-
element, hundreds of people witness
ing the start. After one false start the
goose got well away, leaving the turkey
ut the post, and, following his master in
good style, won easily amidst great APP
plause. Before and after the race the
goose, with a box on his back, collected
money for a local hospital.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
The Social Season Is Expensive and
.Tiresome-Why the American
Diplomats Must Be Men
of Wealth.

runs along unchanged. The members Of
the cabinet who will remain at their
posts are all doing their daily stunts of
eight hours work, but they have relaxed
TO a great extent the dignity that at
vines hedges them about. They are all
thorough democrats, with the possible
exception of Mr.. Hitchcock, secretary Of
the interior, who at all times adheres to
the nicetieS of etiquette and carries him
self more like an aristocrat than any of
his colleagues.
Secretary of Wal Taft is the poo bah
Of the government. Just now he is act
ing president, acting secretary of state
and secretary of war. He is also to
some extent governor general of the
Philippines, and m pretty near Oc-
cupying the I'M position with regard
to the Panama canal strip. He is in
tensely glad that the exacting social sea-
son of Washington is over and he can do
pretty much as he pleases. He dresses
comfortably and not in formal style,
and is on the streets a great deal. He
walks home to his luncheon from his
OlIICS, anu III tue eNeulHS Is IOuuu SlTOll-
ing about the streets. Secretary Morton
is enjoying the same freedom.
Postmaster General Cortelyou is dem
ocratic enough to take his luncheon in a
dairy lunch room, where he mingles
with chiefs of divisions and clerks from
his own and other departments. He has
buckled down to real hard work, and is
running every branch of his big depart
ment. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
is as unconventional as an old farmer
these days, while Attorney General
Moody takes frequent horseback rides,
and is usually found in the evenings at
his home, dressed in easy smoking
jacket with a pair of old slippers on his
feet.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
WIFE AND MOTHER
THE JAPANESE WOMAN AMONG
THE WORLDS BEST.

.Her One Great Virtue Implicit obedi-
ence-The Girl of Sixteen Is Ex-
pected to Marry Her Maternal
Care Is Irreproachable-No Serv-
ant Problem in Japan-She Never
Seeks to Hide Her Age, as Years
Bring Respect.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Well Trained.

V:sitor-How beautifully still the chill.
dren sit while you talk to them!
Schoolmaster-Yes; I've got them
pretty well trained. | told them at tha
start that every time I caught a boy
moving in his seat while l was talking
to them | would tall ten minutes longer
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Diplomats Needed.

ESIDENTROOSE
WELT has expert
enced the old diff
Guilty in getting the
material he wants
Cor the minor Dip
lomatic positions
abroad and also for
the important con-
sulships. The fall
ure of congress to
recognize the dig
nifty and response
bility of the repre-
s~entatives of the
United States gov
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

C1 oO1OdO ILL u Oof IN
of most of the positions at the same fig
ure that was paid half a century ago
has had the effect of keeping really capa-
BILE men out of the service unless they
are possessed of private incomes that
will enable them to live comfortably at
their post.
The more important diplomatic posi-
tions, such as that of ambassador, are
so attractive that really great men are
ready to accept them, but only when
they have a private fortune to maintain
the dignity and style which are required
to put the United States on a. par with
other countries in diplomatic circles. AT
all the important posts in Europe the
cost of living is at leasttwice the amount
of the salaries paid by this government.
The compensation of a United States
ambassador is $17,500 a year. Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, who will go to London
as ambassador will pay twice that
amount in the rental of an embassy
building. He is very wealthy, and will
not begrude the expenditure of $100, 900
or $3.50, 900 a year to make a good show
ing as the ambassador of the United
States.
In Paris, in Berlin and in st. Peters
burg the American ambassador who de-
sires to keep up appearances and do
credit to his government in a social way
has to spend $50. 600 to 100000 a year. A
poor man cannot afford to accept n
of these posts. In the case Of ministers
there is so difference, as they do not rank
quite so high as ambassadors and not
so much is expected of them in the way
of magnificent entertaining.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
South American Posts.

HERE are missions
of the Unite d
States, however,
where the salaries
paid are barely suf-
ficient to pay the
cost of moderate
living. Some of the
posts in S o t b
America are very
expensive, and un-
! e S S the United
S t a t e S minister
consents to live
like a clerk he can
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Glad When Season Ends.

HE cabinet officers
are not the only
ones who are glad
the social season is
past and that a Pc
Rod of relaxation
has come. There
is a large company
of under secre-
taries and attaches
in the diplomatic
corps who are feel
ing much easier
now than they did
a few weeks ago,
and who occasion
ally have a few
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

enamored of the idea of remaining in
Washington several weeks, il not
monthn, attending to this work, as 1t in
terfsles very materially with plans they
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
The Rows Don't Object

1t is generally unwise for a young
man to appear out in public with his
first silk hat when the snoWballing Ia
good.-Someryille Journal !
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29

coins to jingle in their pockets. The
past season has been a trying one on
these pets of society, as they have been
kept constantly on the go attending
luncheons, teas, dinners, receptions, ba-
Ears and banquets. They are compelled
to endure all this society business, as it
is a part of their chosen profession. The
strain on their physical system has been
great, and they welcome the present free
and easy season when they can sleep ten
hours a night if necessary, and do not
have to be on parade all the time.
While the strain on their physical sys-
tenn has been great, it has not been any,
thing to compare with the pull on the at
tenuated pocketbooks of quite a large
portion of these young diplomats. A
great many of these young men who
wear high-sounding titles and have their
names on the diplomatic list are younger
sons who have been provided for in this
way, and who have very small allow
ances to keep up their end of the game.
The drafts upon their slender incomes
during the last winter were 81 great
THAT some of them had to decline attend
ing fashionable bazarS and fairs gotten
up ostensibly for charity. They could
not afford to pay five dollars for a rose
or $40 for a chance on something simply
because some society beauty solicited
their contribution.
Many of these impecunious diplomats
keep their living places carefully con-
cealed. They do not care to have the
fact known that they live in third-story
back hall rooms and sometimes cook
their own breakfast on a spirit lamp.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-29
Work for the Summer.

ENATOR ELKINS,
of West Virginia,
chairman of the
senate committee
on interstate COM
e notified his
colleagues on the
: committee to be
here April II, to
begin hearings on
the question of
govern ment regu-
lation of railroad
rates. The men,
bers of this COM
mittee were not