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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-16
IS FIRST ANNUAL
Meeting of Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Society Thursday
and Friday
AT THE SPENCER MEMORIAL
Rock Island District of Central Illinois
Conference - The Pro-
gram.


mans Home Missionary society of the
Rock Island district of the Central Hi
nois conference will be held Thursday
and Friday of this week at Spencer
Memorial church in this city. The seS
sions open Thursday afternoon and
close Friday morning. The following
program will be carried out:
Thursday Afternoon.
2:3O-Opening service-Mrs. w. A
Lovett, Rock Island.
Presidents greeting-Mrs Margaret
Holt, Moline.
Enrolment.
Committees.
Minutes.
Home Mission Fields-Miss Alice
Dunmire, Kewanee
Our Work at BOaz. Ala.-Mrs. Sue
Bridgeford. MilIersburg.
Vocal solo-Miss Sara Tunnicliff Mo.
line
Possibilities of the Mite Box-Mrs.
Mary f. Edmondson. Orion.
Department of Literature - Mrs. c.
G. PinkertOn, Rock Island.
Mrs. Mary Haney Ioder. Milan.
Closing hymn.
Benediction-Rev Wiley.
Thursday Evening.
:30-Devotions-Mrs g. l.. Boom
er. Edgewood Park.
Authorizations.
Address-Mrs Mabel Hilbish. Sher-
idan
Vocal solo-Mrs. J. F. Witter.
Violin accompaniment - Robert Wi
ley
Offering.
Hymn
Benediction-Rev J. b. Rutter.
Friday Morning.
9:O0-Praise service-Mrs. NJ. V
Crumbaker. Moline.
Reports. Auxliaries and Circles
District officers.
Treasury talk-Miss Ella G. Taylor
Rock Island.
Quiz on Annual Report.
1O:00-Election of officers.
Topics for Possibilities
of the Mite Box: Possibilities of the
Reading Circle: Duties of Officers;
Necessity of Reports: Best Methods
for Meetings; Where Home and For
eign Missions Meet; The Relation of
the w. II. NJ. s. 10 the Future Welfare
of Our Country.
Discussion led by Mrs. NJ. f. FL
mondson. Orion; Mrs. F. f. Shut.
Woodruff; Mrs. Louie Baxter, Aledo.
and others
Reports of committees.
Closing hymn
Benediction.
The ladies of Spencer Memorial
church will serve supper at the church
Thursday. at 6 o'clock p. m. 10 dele
gates and to ladies of the local socie-
ties
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-16
saIeY on Blacklist.

"Blacky'' Saley has been ostracised
from Moline. for that is what il
amounts to. Mayor Olson has ordered
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-16

c., M. & ST. p. Summer Tourist Rates.
The c., NJ. & st. p. railway will sell
round trip summer tourist tickets
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-16
Time Tried and Merit Proven.

One Minute Cough Cure is right ON
time when it comes TO curing coughs.
Group, whOOping cough, etc 1t Is per
fectly harmless pleasant 10 take and
Is the children's favorite cough syrup.
All druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-16

buque 1000 p. m: $3.50 for the round
trip.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
THE cHuKCHEEs.
Whey Live I'm siberia and Have n
Mania Tor suicide.


A Russian correspondent was talk
ing about Siberia.
I'm that strange land" he said. 1.-The
strSngest thing is the suicidal tend
ency OF the Chukchees. Among the
Chukchees. actually. suicide is one OF
the most common forms OF death.
The Chukchees live I'm northeastern
Siberia. They are small and copper
colored. They dress I'm skins and ride
reindeer. Tallow and raw kidney are
their chief delicacieS. In every Chuk-
chcc house hangs a death coat.
"a ChuSchee doesn't Kill himself by
his own hand. He appoints his nearest
relatiVeS-his wife. son or daughter-to
do the deed. And the delegate never
rebels. never declines this sad and hor-
riblc task
"lnnumerable are the causes Of sui
cide-jealOusy. unrequited love. an in
durable disease. melancholy, poverty.
and SO on.
Il knew man who WAS prosperous
and apparently happy. Suddenly de-
sire FOR death seized him. In three
moons he said. L will go home TO my
fathers And he calmly settled his af-
fairs and az the appointed time babe
his wife 10 knot 4 cord about his throat
and his two sons TO pull upon the cord
till he should bc Stranglcd. He died.
they told me. Joking.
The death coat which hangs in ev-
cry Chukchee house has hood 1t is
for use in suicide. The hood hides the
facial contoruons of the dying.
There are Chukchec families where
in suicide is hereditary. wherein It is a
point Of honor for the sons TO kin them
selves. natural death being regarded
IN such families rs diSgraceful and
scandalous. a sign OF the most unpar-
donable cowardicc.
The Chukchecs. despite their sui
cidal tendency. are i happy and
healthy people. moral truthful. brave
and temperate. st. Louis Globe DEM
Ocrat.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
Tho NIrnnc.t Nm

\ well 10 Go Chicago real estate own
err went into hardware store in that
city and asked the proprietor for a
pound OF nails. The small package
was made up and the price. a nickel.
handed ID the merchant. when the Gus
toner asked If the purchase could be
sent 10 his house, which was in a dis
tant part Of the city. The merchant
asSentcd and. calling an GRAND boy.
handed him the parcel with the nickel
be had just received FOR it. and said:
Here. Johnny; take the car and take
this parcel ont IL Mr.. Blanks house"
What" said the customer. Are YOU
going 10 give the boy the nickel TO take
the parcel outF"
Why. certainly" said the merchant.
Il wouldn't think OF asking him TO
walk 50 far"
Well" said the meanest man I'm
Chicago, If you would just as soon
give me the . cents l will take it out
myself''-Minneapolis Journal.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29

1t was the middle ages before the
kitchen had been raised % the dignity
OF an established apartment Strange
doings went ON i'm those medieval
kitchens butchers slaughtered ami
mails there. which were skinned and
dressed as well rs cooked i'm the litch-
en-. The family blacksmith kept his
fire there and repaired the plows and
wheels Of the estate Coal began TO be
used rs kitchen fuel IN 1913. though
not generally for 200 years after The
oven did not come into use until the
year 400. and then il was the old
fashioned brick oven. which persist,
for hundreds OF years. The stove.
when invented. took the place OF the
separate oven and the fireplace. with
It's spit. crane and hanging pots
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
TIE BOAST oE HEALTH.
ne OFTEN Precedss serioa. AZ Not
Easnl sickness


All doctors know that just before
death the patient often experiences
what is called rally" nature making
apparently her last stand against the
symptoms which we call death. and IL
Is quite likely that the feeling which
Induces men TO boast OF health is OF the
same kind-an effort OF nature 20 pro-
tect us against the coming sickness
which the body has recognized, though
the mind has not. The phenomenon
occurs every day I'm the cases or con-
sumptive patients. who brighten up
and grow hopeful just when the disease
is about TO strike its hardest blows,
and il is quite possible that IL is more
frequent than has yet been recognized
that the approach OF fever. for exam
pie. Is signaled 10y an unusual con-
seriousness OF health. II have never
felt SO wen in my life" says the pa
tient. who twenty-four hours after Is
lying PROSTATE and whose friends quote
his statement as illustrating once more
the ancient and depressing belief.
The boast had nothing TO 10 with the
illness. but II preceded IL. and men. at
tracted by the violent contrast, almost
instinctively link the two together as
In some way and 20 some extent cause
and effect. Next time those who heard
Il. IL they feel that rush OF health in
their veins. will avoid boasting OF II.
and the relation Of the two viii escape
attention. Moreover. IL must not be
forgotten that boasting is OF itself a
sign of weakness. either temporary or
permanent. and that consequently fail
IRE follows hOaSting more frequently
than it follows silence. The perfect
driver says he is perfect just when he
Is most careless. and the resulting
spill is remembered when the thousand
and one escapes due TO the same driv-
er's skill and hardihOod are clean for
gottcn.-London Spectator.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
GAVE RosTAND HIS START.
Sarah Dernhardt Had Faith In the
PInywriEht's Ability.

PInywriEht's Ability.
Edmond RoStand. the great French
playwright. had the usual difficulty in
getting a hearing when first he began
10 write FOR the stage Sarah Bern
hardt was directly responsible for the
primal achievement Of this successor
of Victor Hugo. Nine. Bernhardt grew
greatly interested in RoStand's first
play. La PrinceSSe Lointainc." and
suggested that he give Il public reading
OF the manuscript at her theater.
To this reading the actress invited
Coquclin. whose attention was rivcted
from the very first line and who. walk
Inc home with the poet. gave it rs his
opinion that his companion was To be
come the greatest dramatist OF the age
Il bind myself. here and now. 10 take
any play which you write tin which
there is part FOR mcl without read
ing il" he said. Ito cancel any en-
& cement I may have on hand and to
produce your piece with the least pos
sihle delay"
such faith as this proved a veritable
backbone TO RoStand. who had lost all
hope OF exciting interest in his work
y few years later Coquclu produced
"Cyrano." the success of which has
passed into hiStrionic history. 1t was
gratitude 90 Mime. Bcrnhardt for her
share TN giving him this opportunity
that made Rostand write "L'Aiglon.'
which many critics consider the great
est tragedy OF modern times. Nine
Bcrnhardt made fortune from the
play. which she presented not only in
France, but also in England and Amer
ica.-\cw York Press
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
MEN OE MUSCLE.
Monarchs Who Performed some
Wonderful EeatS OF strength.

Wonderful Feats OF strength.
Augustus the Strong of SaNony I'm his
playful moods would seize a couple Of
courticrS. one I'm each hand. and hold
them out at arms length. He would
twist stout iron bars around their necks
tor collars and straighten horseshoes
with a wrench of his muscular fingers
while on one occasion. when the horse
of one OF his attendants refused TO
bulge. he put his hcrculean shoulders
under il and walked away with horse
and rider together.
George CaStriOt. prince OF Albania
welded such 4 powerful sword that he
could sever bulls head mt a single
stroke. while once for wager he
walked or with ten OF his courticrs
standing on n platform. Charlemagne.
who was reputed 70 Ice the strongest
man Of bis time. was able 20 snap the
strongest horseshoe between the fin
gers OF one hand. and Don Sebastian
merely by the pressure of his knees
could make his charger groan with
pain.
Peter the Great OF Russia SO devel-
Oped and hardened his naturally strong
muscles 10y years Of work as black
smith and carpenter that he became
the strongest man in his dOminions.
He had but one formidable rival in n
country blacksmith. whose boast IL was
that he was the only man in Russia
who could lift an anvil from the ground.
When this boast came 10 the ears Of
Peter he set out incognito with a sin
Gle companion and challenged the
blacksmith 10 n trial OF strength. With
out a word the latter seized his ponder
Gus anvil with both hands and. strain
ing his mighty muscles almost =, burst
ing point. raised il foot from the
ground. When Peters turn came he.
too. raised the anvil higher and higher
until. 10 his rivals Consideration. he
placed it on his shoulder and walked
out Of the smithy with IL. 50 startled
was the blacksmith by this exhibition
OF strength that he rushed away to
summon the villagers 20 come and see
the evil one. who had run away with
his anvil
Potter had worthy successor in Alex
andcr III. father of the present car.
whose phenomenal strength earned for
him the title OF the Russian samson. 9"
Amazing stories are told OF AleNander's
muscular powcrS-hOw he could burst
open the StouteSt barred doors by a
push Of his great shoulders. crumple up
coins i'm his hand rs II they were leath-
or instead of tough metal snap iron
bars across his knees. tear n whole
pack OF cards I'm two and with a few
movements of his powerful hands con-
vert pewter tankard into a bouquet
holder.
Nor must we forget that amazonian
queen OF Poland. CymburGa, who used
to crack nuts with her fingers. and
when she was training her fruit trees
would hammer the nails into the wall
with her clinchcd fist.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
RULES FOR A HOME.

Remember that home begins with
charity.
Remember that open windows make
health epidemic.
III you must worry, take a big thing.
The little things Will knock you out
Keep your children, your dogs and
your troubles away from your guests.
The dining room should always be
sacred. That is the one room where no
scraps should be allowed.
Have the same standard OF morals
Tor yourself as for your children. You
need IL as much as they do.
There are three standpoints to every
home-your own, your wife's and the
cooks. Try and forget your own.
Put over the front door for every
member Of the family to read. He
Who enters here leaves satire behind"
Buy everything on the installment
plan by paying for It all in one install
ment-the first.-Tom Mason In Judge.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29

Football has never been a very gen
tie game. 10 judge from what Master
Stuhbes says about IL in his "Anato-
mic OF Abuses published in 1888:
For. rs concerning football playing. |
protest unto You IL may rather be call
ed a friendly kinde OF fight than a play
OF recreation. a bloody and murther-
ing practice than sport or pastime.
Tor dooth not every one I've IN waight
FOR his adverSarie. seeking To over
throw him and to pickle him on his
nose, though il be on hard stones. so
that by this meanes sometimes their
necks are broken, sometimes their
backs, sometimes their legs, some
times their armeS. sometimes one part
thrust out Of joynt. sometimes anoth-
er; sometimes the noses gush out with
blood; sometimes their eyes start out"
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

You can't spend any time hating peo-
pie If YOU want to go forward.
After man has worked hard to get
d thing ne has To fight hard TO keep it.
No one loves a crying baby. and the
same is true OF people who are grown
up.
While your friends promise you big
things. the ''if' they put i'm the promise
is bigger.
All your troubles are exaggerated.
including the unc0sincss that con-
science causes.
When friends urge you to come and
see them amy time" it requires some
figuring TO find ont just when that
time u.s.
Decisions after mature reflections are
so often wrong that greater respect
should Ice paid the decisions Of a pen
ny coming down heads or tails.-Atchi-
son Globe.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
All NvabbIy In Their Walk.

Nobody in New York walks straight"
said the gray headed citizen Of the me
tropolis. Watch a score Of pedes-
TRANS on the sidewalk. and not one OF
them sticks 10 straight path. Those
deviations are not always due to the
crowded condition of the pavement ell
Their. During the rush hours man is
supposed 10 dodge this way and that In
his efforts 20 make progress. but when
given clear road there is no excuse
Tor so much sidetracking Yet no mat
ter how favorable the conditions the
New Yorker zigzags just the same. He
might have a stretch OF sidewalk a
block long all 10 himself and be per-
fectly sober. yet in that distance he
would veer from curb To stoop line and
back again several times"
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
BUSY INSECT EATERS.
What one Days Hunting brought 60
nroOd OF Pied WaEtniI-.

what One Days Hunting brought 60
HrOOd OF Pied WnEtafI-
y close student OF bird life writes:
observation OF several species OF in
/ sectivorouS birds has shown that the
parent birds viii. when their family Is
growing up. make between them i'm the
neighborhood OF 600 visits 10 the nest
IN the course OF day. carrying on
each occasion a whole bcak load OF
gnats or spiders or larvae For tho
birds which feed ON cnats or other
small life generally take To their youn-
geSt not single insects. but n whole
collection at time. ON one occasion
| spent an hour in taking the record
OF pied wagtan which had its brood
OF newly hedged young ones In an old
disused punt that had settled down at
its moorings into the mud at the side
or the pond. During the hour the male
bird alone was looking after the fami.
~ the female amused herself by run
ming about on the bank catching IN.
secJs for her own consumption and
varying the occupation with long spells
OF attention TO her toilet The male
bird. on the other hand. never rested
for one minute from his work OF bread
winning. As his hunting ground was
the open surface OF the pond. above
which he fitted. he was never out OF
my sight
In the course OF the hour ne made
twcnty-eight trips. the shortest absence
from the young lasting one and a half
minutes and the longest nearly six
minutes. On no occasion did he remain
at the punt for more than fifteen sec.
ondS or lust long enough 10 turn over
the food collected on the last trip TO
the proper yOungster and be or again.
MyradS Of gnats were dancing above
the water. and at each dip the bird
struck at one. but one could not see
whether he always caught his quarry
or not. As FAR as IL was possible TO
guess he always did. ON his shortest
absence he made over forty shots. and
from that the number ran up to con-
.crably over 200.
"Supposing that be missed his aim
haiI the time or afterward dropped or
swallowed the insects, SO that half OF
them were wasted and failed to reach
the family at home, there must have
Deen from 1900 TO 1900 gnats brought
back 10 the punt in the course of that
one hour Later in the day both parent
Dirds We're hawking simultaneously.
each returning methodicaIly TO the
young every two or three minutes.
what the gross consumption OF Insects
was IN the course Of the day il is i'm
possible TO guess. but il can hardly
nave been less than 10000 or $4,000
ana was probably twice rs many"
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
Ready For the Cholera

Some years ago there was an out
break Of cholera in France, and in
structions We're forwarded to the may
or OF certain village 10 take all nee
esSary precautions, as the epidemic
was rapidly spreading. At first the
worthy magistrate did not know what
to do. After awhile, however. he re-
ported that he was ready to receive the
dread visitor. Upon inquiry being
made it was discovered that by his
orders 4 sufficient number Of graves
had been dug in the local cemetery to
bury the entire parish if required.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
DON'TS ON NAMES.

Don't name girl Violet when her
disposition may be that Of a tiger lily.
Don't hamper a boy with a name
that will prove Il heavy handicap in
life.
Don't name a baby after a hero I'M
less the hero has been dead several
years.
Don't name a girl after a flower.
Think Of an old woman called Pansy
or Daisy.
Don't tack fancy name on kid.
1t makes him a target for his com
panions.
Don't name "A child after a relative
from whom you have expectations"
The relative may yet marry
Don't forget that the man with the
common name Of William is more like
ly TO write checks than one labeled
Percy--Portland Telegram.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
How to Clean old nook pIo,e.

10 restore old book plates that have
been injured 10y age and damp proceed
as follows: Place upon a fiat surface
Sheet OF 'hite paper somewhat lar
ger ihan the print TO be cleaned. Care
fully dampen the print on both sides
with soft. wet sponge and then satu-
rate II with a mixture Of chloride of
lime and oXalic acid dissolved in about
equal proportions in Il pint OF cold
water Nou can tell when the mixture
is right by SIS turning magenta color.
Continue 10 apply II until every stain
or spot has disappeared ana then with
clean sponge wash the print freely
with cold water.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29

Mankind is suspicious" said a
chemist OF the board Of health only
last week a wealthy clergyman sent
me a piece OF pie for analysis. lie
suspected that his daughter. beauti-
ful and good girl. wanted TO put him
out OF the way. The pie contained. OF
course, none but the usual ingredients.
some people send me pickles, sauces,
plackinSs-prOttable and widely ad.
vertised compositions that they want
TO learn how TO duplicate and vend
themselves.
There isn't Il well known patent
medicine that hasn't been submitted
TO me for analysis twenty or thirty
tmes."-New York Press.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
THE PUEBLO INDIANS.
Their Religion Is In n Way a Species
OF Water Worship.

Their Religion Is In n Way "A Species
of Water Worship.
Eagle feathers are much used in the
ceremOnials of the Pueblo Indians. and
In order TO make sure Of a supplv the
Zuni keep the birds IN cages, plucking
few feathers whenever they happen
TO want them. On the other hand, the
Moki have eagles nests located at va
rious spots within thirty or forty miles
OF their towns, which are considered
the property Of different clans among
them. The eagle lays its eggs in the
same nest year after year. and the
clans Inherit rights to certain nests
from generation 10 generation.
The eagles are not killed, but the
new fiedged young ones are taken
from the nest-that is to say, all but
one or two, which must be left. To
remind the eagle god to encourage the
laying Of more eggs by the birds an
egg carved out Of wood Is placed
where the divinity will be sure to see
it; also, after being plucked. the ca
glets are carefully buried I'm a certain
cleft in the rocks, which Is the eagle
cemetery. Here the eagles have been
inferred for centuries, and the place is
very sacred
The Pueblo Indians have a tradition
or the flood, and they say that the tur-
key is marked in commemoration Of
that event, its tail being black at the
end where it was dragged through the
mud after the water had subsidized
The duck is another sacred bird, be-
ing associated with water. From the
Pueblo point Of view, anything that is
related TO the all precious water in any
way Is an object Of worship. Their re-
lgion is made up to great extent of
aquatic divinities and might be called
species OF water worship.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29
4 Queer REGIME

In an old black letter translation Of
AlbertuS Magnus the donkey figures in
the following extraordinary recipe:
Take an Adders skin. and Auri mig
mentum. and greeke pitch OF Reupiri-
ucum. and the wake of newe Bees, and
the fat or grease Of an Asse. and breake
them all, and put them all in duh
seething pot full Of water. and makeSit
to seeth at glove fire, and after let it
wake cold, and make n taper. and ev-
cry man that shall see light Of 1t shall
SCENE headlesse."
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-11-29

There is a japanese rabbit hunting
story, says a Japanese authority,
which runs as follows:
one Jap meets another In the hunt.
ing season with gun over his Shout.
der.
Ana! Been shootingr ho says.
You look upset
am upset replied the huntsman,
and with good reason. started a rab-
Dit. Cherry Blossom, my dog, ran aft
er IL. fired, and Cherry Blossom fell
100 bad. And the raDbitY
Inc rabbltI 1t brought Cherry
Blossom back and laid her M my feet -