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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-25

II dulls the scythe of Father Time,
drives away wrinkles of approaching
old age-the elixir of life, that puts
hope In the human heart-Hollister'
Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. Tea
or tablets. T. H. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-25
IN THE CHURCHES.

Spencer McmoriaI.-The business
meeting of Mrs. Rutter's Sunday school
class will be held at the parsonage Sat
urday evening. A program will be Civ
en- and all young people are INVITED to
be present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-25

Broadway Presbyterian.-The Nor
NAL bible class has meeting tonight
at 1880 in the east parlor of the
church.
The Ladies Missionary society holds
meeting Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock in the west parlor
There will be no prayer meeting
Wednesday night. because OF union
services held az Memorial Christian
-cnurch.
The monthly reception at the Beth
any home Thursday afternoon will be
held at 5 O'Clock and be under the
auspices of the ladies of this church.
This reception will be fruit shower,
each one attending being requested to
bring a donation of some sort of fruit
either fresh or canned. Those who
cannot attend, but wish to donate
something are asked to send their do
nations to Mrs. H. ID. BlakemOre. SIC
Nineteenth street. Tuesday or Wednes-
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-25

1: go on Tuesday afternoon and contin-
u:ng until Wednesday night. the county
convention of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union will be held in this
church.
Thursday afternoon at O'Clock the
Ladies' Aid society will assemble at
the home of Mrs. II. w. Miller, 1884
Third avenue.
On Thursday evening a s O'Clock.
the teachers and officers of the Sunday
school meet at the home of Miss Clara
Beselin, S45 Seventeenth street.
Omitted Presbyterian.-Next Sunday.
communion services will be held. Raj
iy day will be celebrated in the Sunday
school
No prayer meeting on Wednesday
night because of union services at
Memorial Christian church.
On Thursday and Friday evenings
Rev. c. Fl. Mitchell. OF Dewitt, Iowa,
will preach at the church.
The Ladies' Sewing society will meet
Friday afternoon with Mrs. John Tay-
lor, 7f3 Fourteenth street.
First Methodist EpiscopaI.-The
night with Miss Clare Van Calder, 1910
Twentieth street.
Central Presbyterian.-TheW oman's
Missionary society will meet with Mrs.
o. Leonard. 1425 Seventh avenue, Fri
day afternoon at O'Clock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-25

First Baptist.-The Ladies' Aid So
ciety holds its regular meeting at the
church Friday afternoon.
The regular Wednesday evening
prayer meeting will be held from 7:15
p. m. until p. m, after which the
congregation will be dismissed in order
that as many as wish may attend the
union meeting at the Memorial Chris
tian church.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
A Prodjoal's Return,

Dramatic scenes continue to be wit
messed as the result of the religious
REVEALS in Wales. In a Glamorgan-
shire town, says the London Chron-
icle, the pastor, in the course of an
impressive address, appealed to all
backsliders to return to the fold.
Sitting quietly in the gallery was a
young man.. Moved by the stirring ap-
peal, he sprang to his feet and begged
to be readmitted to the membership
of the church. All eyes were turned
to the suppliant, and the effect was
startling when it was seen that the
young man was the minister's own
son.
Overpowered by his feelings, the
father was unable to say word,
and he broke down with emotion. The
organist struck up a well-known
hymn, at the conclusion of which the
minister, having mastered his feel
ings, welcomed his sons conversion
with tears of joy.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Oyster. AGED 25. = Foot 1 ono

A wholesale oyster dealer was siz.
ing up a. new invoice yesterday.
There are some old fellows in that
lot" he said, as he showed to one
side some abnormally large ones. He
picked out one and measured it. The
shell was eight inches long. 1.-THE
age of an oyster has absolutely no
affect upon it's quality" he said. cit
doesn't get tough with age, like the
higher order of animals. How long
does an oyster live? Well, l couldn' t
say exactly. l have known Maurice
river oystermen to claim that an oys-
ter undisturbed in a neglected cove
would live for twenty-five years before
it finally died of old age. And an
oyster of the Maurice river type keeps
on growing all the time. I have seen
some myself that measured nearly a
foot in length.-Philadelph Record
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24

VovS ruiuS0 me-.
q landsman's flag at half mast. Get
your best rigging on and come, there's
not a minute to be lost"
Mr.. McDougal was soon attired in
his best black suit of clothes and the
two set out for Miss Haggerty's
boarding house.
Now" said the skipper, "if she
says yes, you ask for an early wedding
day. When this here news GETS out
there'll be a lot after her." and, he
added, with unnecessary candor, most
anybody can beat you in looks"
Miss Haggerty was at home and
would see Mr.. McDougal in the par
lor. Captain Pole chose to await
on the street the result of his mates
suit and walked up and down in front
of the house. Presently McDougal
came to the door and beckoned to
the skipper
"Well," said that gentleman, as he
reached McDougal. sis it all right?"
81 have ma asked her yet" replied
McDougal, nervously. 'Are We sure
ye did ma make mistake in the
LOUISE"
mo" roared the skipper, ut was
Dennis Haggerty's house. Hurry up,
man, or you'll lose the chance"
In a half hours time McDougal
came out.
we'll be married in a week." he
said. "The landlady is witness of
the engagement. 1 hope ye're ma
wrong in the house."
Captain Pole was aroused early in
| the morning by Mr.. McDougal, whose
countenance showed great mental
| perturbation.
"Ye've ruined me-" said he, shaking
his fist at the skipper.
whats the matter?" exclaimed the
captain.
''It was ma Grape on the door,
howled McDougal, "the man who was
fixing the steps hung his black alpacy
coat on the bell-pull."
The skipper whistled.
"I'll ma marry her." shrieked Nc
Dougal. "Im sweendled."
"Then," retorted the skipper, with
difficulty depressing roar of laugh
ter, shell sue you for breach o. prom
Use. The landlady is a witness you
know"
The next week Mr.. McDougal and
Miss Haggerty were married in the
most inexpensive style and five years
later Captain Pole, witnessing a par
ade of the United Irishmen, marked
with surprise how sturdily old Dennis
Haggerty bore the banner.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
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Douglas name with an adjective and
went gloomily below.
Captain Poles watch was mas
sive machine to which he lay great
store and when it became out of order
there was only one matchmaker in
the city who was permitted to repair
it. After his abortive effort to excite
Mr.. McDougal to action he glanced at
his watch and found it stopped.
''I'll take it to Smoot," he said, and
he left the schooner, scowling at the
immovable McDougal, who was still
| working on the rigging.
The skipper had left his watch with
Mr.. Smoot and was about to depart
when he remembered that Dennis
Haggerty lived directly opposite the
matchmaker. He glanced across at
the house and then he rubbed his eyes
and stared.
1t was not the evidence that MI.
Haggerty was having some repairs
done to his front steps that caused
him to stare, but attached to the bell
pull was a streamer of Grape.
He fastened back to the schooner.
Hes dead" he gasped.
aye ma mean it," exclaimed NC
Dougal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Turned Round by the Sun.

A large granite ball, weighing two
tons, in a cemetery in Ohio is slowly
turning on its axis. During the, last
five years the ball has turned 1871
inches. When the ball was placed in
position an unpublished spot 6 inches
in diameter was left in the socket OF
the pedestal on which it rested. A
year ago it was noticed that the un
polished spot was turning upward on
the south side of the monument. The
revolution of the huge polished ball
which it would require a derrick tc
lift, is supposed to be due to the suns
heating one side of it, the south, and
causing it to expand, while the north
side, which rests most in the shade
does not expand to the same extent
and thus the ball gradually shifts its
position by turning.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
the USES OF uRALITE.
uncomfortable and Can BE Worked
With Like Wood.

With Like Wood.
Have you ever heard of uralite?
Probably not, for it is a new inven.
ton. Yet it is well worthy of your
notice, since it is superior to any
thing of the kind that has yet been
produced. 1t is the invention of a
Russian artillery officer and chemist,
named Imschenetzky, and its claim to
distinction lies in the fact that it is
absolutely fireproof.
Uralite is composed Of asbestos
fiber, with a proper proportion of sill
cate, bicarbonate of soda and CHALK
and it is supplied in various finishes
and colors, according to the purpose
for which it is intended. In soft
form sheet of uralite is like an as
bestos board; when hard it resem-
bles finely sawn stone and has me-
tallic ring. Besides being nOncon-
ductor of heat and electricity, it is
made entirely so by paint, and it is
not affected either by atmospheric in
fiuences or by the acids contained in
smoke in large towns, which rapidly
destroy galvanized iron.
Moreover, it can be cut by the usual
carpenters or woodworkers' tools; it
can be veneered to form paneling for
walls c. partitions; it can be painted,
grained, polished and glued together
like wood; it does not split when a
nail is driven through it; it is not
affected when exposed to moisture or
great changes of temperature, and it
can be given any desired color either
during the process of manufacture OF
Acknowledgements Magazine.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24

Copyright 1905. b.
SANDY" said Captain Pole, as he
shifted his tiller so as to pass barge
towing down the bay, you'd better
ask Kate Haggerty to have you when
we get to port"
There's ma hurry" replied Sandy
McDougal, mate Of the schooner Ajax,
enjoying his pipe.
Go ahead" retorted the skipper.
pettishly, you'll wake up some morn
i, Hates money"
"She's ma got it yet" expostulated
Mr.. McDougal.
= "But she'll have it when her uncle
dies and he's old as the hills"
"Hoots, only seventy and men are
living longer than they did," said Nc
DousNl, "it's little saprised I'd be If
he lives to be ninety"
"Well," remarked the skipper, eff
you don't want wife with ten thou
sand dollars, all right"
There's ma hurry" insisted Nc
Dougal. IF I'd marry her now I'd
have to support her, mebbe. for ten
years before her uncle dies"
DcuuLS A1dS6OiIyp oSONSuoAO, was
worth at least ten thousand dollars
and his only relative was Kate Hag-
gerty There was no scarcity of wom-
en- in the world forty years back, but
Dennis and his brother Michael must.
perforce, fall in love with the same
girl and she chose Michael. Dennis
never forgave them and carried his
resentment to the second generation,
never noticing their daughter, Kate,
not even when, her parents dying
very poor. she started out to make
her living. Kate, thirty years old,
plain as to face and expert in sordid
economy, only knew she had an uncle
because people told her SO. She gave
MO heed to the news when she did
hear 1t and went on earning a very
scant living with very hard work.
Now, Captain Pole knew something.
to Dennis Haggerty's will which left
FALL he possessed to Kate Haggerty.
McNeal had Immediately sailed on a
voyage to Australia and the skipper,
practically, was the sole possessor OF
the secret. He knew Kate and liked
her so he did some thinking.
"Kate's getting old" he'mused. "and
I'm looks she's more like barge than q
racing yacht, but there'll be plenty OF
good for nothing fellows to marry her
when they know she'll have ten thou
sand dollars. They'll spend every
cent OF it for her."
Then he appraised Sandy McDougal
his mate, of the secret and introduced
him to Kate.
"He's too stingy to ever spend her
mopSy," soliloquized the skipper. land
he make her good husband"
Sandy courted cautiously. Kate
with dowry of ten thousand dollars
was very attractive, but his Character
istic stinginess, made him hesitate
about mourning the expense of wife
until the dowry was possessed. AS tc
Kate, who had, never had a beau, she
dreamed dreams and watched fol
.Sandy's coming eagerly.
The inexpensive courtship, for San
dy never spent a copper on Kate
dragged on like voyage through The
calm belt and Captain Pole chafed.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Do We Eoroet?


Do we forget when winter SHOWS lie deep
Above the beds where our beloved sleep,
And We no longer wildly weep
Do we forget?
Because, when comes the holy Christ
maStide,
And love and joy are scattered wide.
We check our signs, and strive our tears
DO we forget?
Do we forget, because with mute lips
To fading pictures, all our love, I'M
guessed,
Lies locked secure within our patient
breast
Do we forget?
Because. across the widening gulf of
years,
There comes no loving word to quell
our fears,
No watchful hand to brush away our
DO we forget?
Do we forget? Nay, in each heart there
lies
A secret place. where. hid from mortal
Dwells. strong and true, a love that new
Nor can forget!
IS. OH. Dickson in the Pilgrim.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Wonders of the Hand.

The human hand is profound
study. No instrument devised by man
compares with it for complication. II
is hammer, vice, forceps, a
hook, a spring, a weight; it pushes
draws in, and the fingers alone con
tain elements of chisels, gouges and
all the tools a sculptor requires in
modelling. From the elbow to the
digital extremities it's movements are
produced by nearly fifty muscles. Sc
complicated is the cordage of hui
man hand that expert anatomists can
hardly keep in remembrance it's in
tricate mechanism. With it all the
emotions of the mind may be both
manifested and intensified. 1t is a
wonder of wonders.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Lonu.Lived ENGLISH Family,

Do modern records contain any
thing to equal the following entry in
the parish register of Old Whiting
ton, Derbyshire: Thomas Ashton
son of Mr.. Arthur and Mrs. Jane
Buckley, was baptized July 1. 1744
Godfathers: Edward Downs, esq.
81 eat great great great uncle: DR.
Charles Ashton, great-great-great
uncle; Joseph Ashton, gent, great
great-great-uncle. Godmothers: Mrs
Wood, neutrality-suspicious.
Mrs. Wainwright, great-great-graad
mother; Mrs. Green, great-grand
mother. Registered at the request o.
Joseph Ashton, of Landon, gent, who
nominated the godfathers and god
mothers, believing they are not to b.
paralleled in England"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
LIFE IN ITS REALITY.
Not the Succession Of Days, But
Deeds and Content.

Not the Succession Of Days, But
Deeds and Content.
There are moments in the lives of
all men when with closed eyes they
hear through the silence the pulsing
away of the hours and they realize
the life beyond time. The smallness
of the present moment, made up as it
is half of the past and half of the
future, it's wholly illusory nature, $50
helpless a kitten in the star-spangled
universal bag" springs upon one, and
the calendar upon which we mark out
our our sense of succession is futile
blank. Birth itself is but "a sleep and
forgetting" It is not time, but con-
tent that counts. The one great birth
day of the world commentaries a
short life, not SO much as half the al
loted span of man; life obscure ex-
cept for a few short years or arduous
service and of suffering. 1t is not the
numbered succession of days that is
life, but the area soul covers, its
stretch over souls and out beyond
space and time. 1t is, humanity speak.
ing, that we tell of growth in time;
growth is in life, in fullness of con-
seriousness, in abundance of giving.
For "the transient" said Martineau,
sis more to the large soul than the
everlasting to the little
But we cannot think in terms of the
eternal; even as in olden myths the
gods appeared to mortals only in dis
guise, so the life everlasting, pitiful
of mortals, presents itself to the dawn
ing consciousness under the symbols
of time and space. We live in illusion
of beginnings and ends.-Harper's
Weekly.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
There's ma hurry, ;" insisted MeDousaI

There's ma hurry" insisted McDougaI.
McDougal WAS overlooking the tar
ring down OF the schooner's rigging
when the skipper came aboard much
excited.
"Old Hagserty's SICK" he whispered
to Sandy, hes pneumony and he's
too old man to get well. Now's
your time, Sandy"
For a moment Sandy wavered then
he said, "He may get wull, there's ma
hurry"
Captain Pole coupled Mr.. Nc.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
All or Nothing.
lis is a story from Cumberland

This is a story from Cumberland
Island:
A teacher was bathing in the surf,
and a dozen or more of his youthful
scholars we're looking on, when one
of them exclaimed:
How 1 wish he would drown!"
81 don't" said another. 81 want
a shark to eat him"
Better ask for a whale" said the
smallest of the crowd. "It kin swal-
Ter him whole! Constitu-
ton.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
"FuneraI Services" Over Saloon.

To the solemn wall of a dirge, which
followed funeral services, a saloon al
Laurel street and Freeman avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio, was closed perma
nently the other day. The services
were conducted by members of the
Young Peoples society of the Lincoln
Park church, which long objected to
the presence of the establishment
The church people made business sc
poor for the saloonkeeper that he was
driven out.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Hunted Deer Invaded store.

A deer, pursued by the County
Down Ureland) staghounds, bolted
through a grocer's shop in Crossgar
the other day. and then through the
scullery and yard into neighborine
kitchen. 1t overturned the furniture
and tried to jump through the win
dow, but it became wedged in the
frame, and was captured there. In
spite of the noise the animal made, a
child which was sleeping in the
kitchen was not awakened.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
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Ode to the Prune.

Ode to the Prune.
. CThe California prune crop this season
Is $50, 900, 900 pounds.-News note.)
Fair fruit. though greater bards refuse
10 chant your praise; although they
Scorn ye,
This is the acme of good news
From California.
Great poets do not care. to tune
The Tyre to such a lowly ditty,
And pity it's, it's true 60 prune,
tbs true you're pitty).
Perchance the pruning knife should cut
That pun we made the verse above
this,
Perhaps, we say. it ought to, but
We simply love this!
The punishment must fit the crime.
AS Gilbert said in The Nikado.'
But, o to make it fit a rhyme
OF Ell Dorado!
Oh. prosy prune. they've done you wrong
VINO never yet have been so tuneful
10 chant your sweetness in song,
Bah! They were pruneful!
Esculent prune, we have a bunch,
AS sure as we're luckless sinner,
Well have you now for breakfast. luncf
And maybe dinner.
But, welcome, prune. by pint or peck.
We're glad your crop is SO extensive
We're tired of you, but-by heck
You're inexpensive!
New York Mail.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24
Monster Bass CAUGHT.

A striped bass three feet six inches
in length and weighing twenty-five
and one-half pounds was caught in
Russian river, California, recently. 1t
took several hours to land him.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-02-24

Silence is golden, but the gold stan
dard has not yet been adopted by the
sewing aocieties.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29
THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS
Makes Contract With comanche. The
Road is Assured

Comanche, l. T., Nov. 2S. Fri
day night the officials of the Okla
lahoma & Texas Railroad company
chartered from Oklahoma City tc
Wichita Falls, Tex, met with the
citizens of Comanche and made a
contract to construct the railroad
through Comahche.
The following officers and direc-
tors of the road we're present at
the meeting G. B. Stone, Okla
homa City, president; Henry w.
Prouty, Chicago, general attorney
and director; Eugene Willoughby,
Chicago director; w. W. Bierce,
Oklahoma City, director: A. A..
Galbraith, Oklahoma City, attor-
ney. Being all the directors of the
road except R. H. Nickerson Of
New York. The railroad running
from the northeast to the southwest
insures the future prosperity of
Comanche.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29
LET US BE GRATEFUL

Tomorrow is the day set apart by long establish
ed custom and BY executive proclamation to return
thanks to the Giver Of all gifts for his manifold bless
ings. We cease our labor for a day and nation
and as individuals pour out the gratitude of our
hearts for the fruits that have crowded our labors
the past year, for the measure of happiness that has
been vouchsafed to US and for the ills we have been
spared.
No nobler passion warns the breast of
than gratitude no creature stands lower in the
scale Of humanity than the migrate The high-born
SOUL the great heart is keeny sensitive and warmly
responsive the influences that vibrae the chords Of
gratitude
Lei Us be grateful that we live in nation where
the rights Of theindvidua the largest where the
largest measure Of protection is granted to us in our
lives Liberties and the pursuit of hapiness in ma
tion where, if corruption showss front if the CRATER
reigns for time. if the foes Of liberty flourish for
season the sovereign citizen can rise in his might and
dethrone them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29

Let Us Be grateful.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29

Entered at tie Postof6ce in the City Of Chickasha
Indian Territory, ss Matter Of the Second Class.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29
NOTICE OF ELECTION

Whereas, the term of Office Of
d. E Emerson and R. M. Cochran
School directors Of the city Of
Chickasha, Southern District OF
the Indian Territory expires on the
Third Saturday of December, 1905
and Whereas, the law provides that
two School Directors for said Dis
trict shall be elected annually on
the Third Saturday of December
each and every year,
Now, therefore, l, Johu H. Ven
able Mayor of the said city of
Chickasha Indian Territory, by
virtue of theauthority vested in
me by law, do hereby call and pro-
claim said election to be held III
the city of Chickasha, on Saturday
the 10th day Of December, 1905,
for the purpose of electing two
School Directors to serve for a
term of three years. The qualified
voters of the said city of Chickas-
ha shallvot for and elect at said
election two School Directors for
the said School District of the
city of Chiskasha, Indian Territory
and place of holding said election
shall be as follows, TO witt
In the City Council Chamber in
Terrell Building at 2o51z. Chick
asha Avenue;
And the following judges are
hereby appointed to hold and con-
duct said election are as follows:- ].
F. Bishop Steve Hatsell and J. D.
Bridges.
Said election shall be held and
returns thereof made as the law
provides.
Witness my hand as such Mayor
Of the city Of Chickasha, Indian
Territory, this, the 27fh day Of
Nov, l9o5.
Join H. VENABLE,
Mayor Of the city Of Chickasha
First published Nov. 7S, 1905.
83-Io2
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-11-29
FUNNY
FOLKS

Those people who would rather
pay rent when they can own a
home that will sell for more than
it will cost. The history Of Chick
asha has been that low buying
made profitable selling, and it is
sure prove the rule this time. Be
at Highland Park Friday.