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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10
The Business Mans View.

o. E. Childs, of Moline, responded to
the toast, The Association From
Business Mans View" He referred
to the story of the Greek philosopher
who carried a lantern in daylight, say
ing he was seeking man. Mr.. Childs
characterized the real man as "a man
with a heart. head, a hand as Ten
nyson described him. Mr.. Childs said
that the Y. NJ. c. A should be support
ed by business men as mere business
proposition. 1t acts as help and
guide for the young men and broad
ems his boundary Mr.. Childs gave as
the main reasons for failure in young
men - bad habits, ignorance, slovenli-
ness, laziness and obstinacy. He said
that the products of association work
is strong, brainy men-men who do
right because il is right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10
COWBOYS LOSE TO PLANTERS

In Bowling Matches at the Central
Alleys.
The Cowboys and Planters bowled
at the Central alleys last evening. The
Planters won. Scores:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10

/; Edgewater club, open tournament,
July 8; western championships, men
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10
Kill Anti-Prize Fioht si,I.

Sacramento, Cal, March 1O.-The
anti-prize fight bill was defeated in the
assembly yesterday by a vote of 33 to
50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10

All the news all the time THE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-10

Dainty new patterns in fine
shirts: solid. substantial under
wear: a great display of beau
tiful spring colorings in rich silk
neckwear-evsry article moder-
ately priced-our great stock in
sures satisfactory selection
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Those Awful Ham Sandwiches.

The careful hostess happened casu-
ally to follow with her eyes a guest
who had just taken a ham sandwich.
As he took the first bite she noticed
an expression on his face which she
had not hitherto associated with the
consumption of ham sandwiches, and
her glance Immediately ceased to be
casual. The guest, unconscious of OBJ
servation, made his way slowly but
surely to the fire, and with infinite
Gexterity cast away the ham sandwich.
In great agitation, the hostess watched
the remaining sandwiches, and with
deepening emotion saw another and
another guest execute the same man.
euver. She had the rest of the sand.
witches removed, and tried to forget
them for the time being. Afterwards
searching investigation revealed the
awful truth. One of her small chill
dren had distracted all the ham from
the sandwiches, and substituted pieces
of an old red flannel garment, care
fully trimmed to sandwich SLEEK.
change.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
When Mrs. Stowe AWoke.

A friend of mine, Northern woman
Tong resident in Florida, once gave me
the following account of visit from
Mrs. Stowe: 81 had invited her to
spend the day, with several other Ia
dies, at my villa. She came with an
old white fur tippet wrapped about her
neck She sat all day near the open
fire, occupied apparently with her own
thoughts, for she spoke to no one.
When the day was well nigh spent,
one of the guests related the remark
able experience Of a woman who had
passed through some danger, l forget
of what sort. Mrs. Stowe presently
startled us all by inquiring, with some
show of interest. Did the woman
liver Julia Ward Howe's Article
on Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the Read
er Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
WOVEN BY GIANT SPIDERS.
Beautiful Piece of Silk Exhibited at
Paris Exposition.

One Of the wonders of the Paris ex.
hibition of 1900 was a piece of silk,
eighteen yards long and eighteen
inches wide, woven from the web of
the giant spiders of Madagascar. Into
its manufacture entered 100000 yards
Of spun thread Of twenty-four strands
of spiders web. twenty-five thousand
spiders had to be brought into requi.
sition for the purpose, and these were
procured by offering the natives so
much a hundred; but not knowing or
ignoring the purposes for which the
insects were required, and having a
"get-rich-quick" desire, they brought
them in by the sketfuls-mostly
dead. So that it was found necessary
for the winding-off machines to go to
the spiders, instead of calling in the
spiders to the filatories. However, the
piece of cloth was finally completed.
and was of a shimmering golden-yel
low color.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Protesting Against Rate Reduction.

Atlanta, Ga.-The recent PROPOSE
ton of ]. Pope Brown, Chairman of
the Georgia Railroad commission, to
reduce the passenger rate in Georgia
from three to two cents per mile was
protested against by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Order
Of Railway Conductors, and unions OF
The blacksmiths, machinists and teleg-
raphers, boilermakers, railway train
men, carpenters and joiners, clerks
and car men. These organizations en-
ployed an attorney especially to rep
resent them, who urged that such a
reduction would work against the
prosperity of the state and lead to a
reduction in the number of railroad
employees, as well as of their wages.
The Travellers Protective Association
also protested that reduction, as
proposed, would result in fewer trains
and poorer service.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Memories of Last Niuht.

Across the gray of last nights skies
The stars like white narcissus chung
And. sweetheart, mrrored in your eyes
The halo of their glory hung.
While far and wide the moonlight
flung,
And somewhere. in our world apart,
A Knockers sudden music swung
Last night, sweetheart.
The song below, the stars above,
Seemed buC to meet and melt into
4 silver symphony of love,
That thrilled our listening senses
through:
And. close within my arms. you knew
The depth of each unspoken thought,
While life for me held only you
Last night, sweetheart.
And, on. can there be more than this
Beyond the mystery of the skies?
A heaven sweeter than your kiss?
An Eden dearer than your eyes?
am not good, nor great. nor wise.
And yet by some strange chance Fa
wrought
/ found the way to paradise
Last night. sweetheart
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
OLD PORTRAITS IN HORN.
The Likenesses Of Many Historical
Characters Thus Preserved.

Most OF the specimens that have
horn work, so greatly valued at the
time, says the London Queen, date
from about the sixteenth century to
the very early part of the nineteenth;
but IL was from the middle of this
period, about 1850. that the best spec
linens have been left us.
When the well-dressed beaux in
Queen Anne's reign took to carrying
snuff boxes this gave a great impetus
to an art produced by softening the
horn in hot water. and SO pressing 1t
into molds, which were specially sharp
cut and clear of outline. In this way
many portraits have been handed
down to us, not always of those liv-
ing at the time but from some cause
or other brought prominently for
ward. The Stuart kings found special
acceptance with the Jacobites, and the
arms of noted families have been per-
petuated with their portraits.
The two most famous artists in horn
work were John Osborn, who was hard
at work in Amsterdam in the second
decade Of the seventeenth century,
and John O'Brisset, whose handiworks
were executed in England early in the
eighteenth.
Tortoise shell, turtle, elk horn and
wood were treated in the same fash
ion. The wooden impressed work ap-
pertains to Germany, and among
other examples one depicting Louis
X, king of France. survives.
Many of the finest examples of this
horn work are set in silver, as the
profiles here shown of William and
Mary.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Church Holidays Mixed Up.

In Constantinople three Christmas
celebrations, two New Years days and
two other holy days follow each other
in quick succession. AS the "old
style" calendar brings December 25
two weeks Otter the same day new
STYLE" two Christmases, the first
Latin and the second Greek, are in.
evitable. And as stormy weather kept
a delegation of Armenians from at.
tending an ecumenical council at
Chalcedon in 451, at which council
the date of Christmas was changed
from Jan. to Dec. rs, the Armenians
have ever since kept their old day.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

ness, faintness, lassitude, excitability,
irritability, nervousness, sleepless-
ness, melancholy, "all-gone and
want-to- be-left-alone" feelings, blues
and hopelessness, they should remem,
Der there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles
No other female medicine in the
world has received such widespread
and unqualified endorsement. No other
medicine has such n record of cures Of
female troubles.
The needless suffering of women from
diseases peculiar TO their sex is terrible
to see. The money which they pay to
doctors who do not help them is an
enormous waste. The pain is cured
and the money is saved by Lydia z.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. Elk.
perience has proved this.
1t is well for women who are i'll to
write Mrs Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass.
In her great experience, which covers
many years, she has probably had to
deal with dozens of cases just like
yours. Her advice is free and conf
Dental.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

"The Adirondacks and How to
Reach Them" is a nice folder with
maps and references to localities, no.
tells, boarding houses, mountains and
rivers in the great wilderness OF
Northern New York known as the
this region once, you will be sure to
go again. A copy of "The Adiron-
dack Mountains and How to Reach
Them" will be mailed free, postpaid,
to any address, on receipt of two
cent stamp, by George II. Daniels,
General Passenger Agent, Grand Cen.
trail Station, New York.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Wanted to Get Even.

A correspondent sends us the follow.
ing extract from the pious petition of a
good old colored brother, in a Georgia
settlement:
'Lawd, We wants blessin' fer ever
one, 'cept one; en- dat one is yaller
niger what boarded de railroad train
en- ruined off wild de whole collection
what wuz took up ter pay my salary
wild! Lawd, please make de train
lump de track-don't hurt de yuther
passengers, but take off one leg fun
lat nieger!"-Atlanta Constitution
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
SAYS Uncle 'Ras.

"Hit don seem exactly de propah
thing" remarked Uncle 'Rastus, so
er man ter thank de Lawd TO givin'
him his daily bread, an den turn right
eroun' an jump on his wife case hit
amt no good. Detroit Tribune
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Contaqions of the Soul.

Petrarch says: Let no man deceive
himself by thinking that the con-
tagions of the soul are less than those
of the body. They are greater-they
sink deeper and come on more I'M
suspectedly."
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

\ THLETES realize the Importance
of keeping in good bodily trim.
The digestion must be good, the cir
culation perfect, sleep regular and
enough of it.
If the slightest catarrhal condition Of
lungs or stomach is allowed to remain,
neither digestion nor sleep will be
strength-sustaining.
Those who lead very active lives,
like athletes, with good muscular de-
veIopmenf, find the spring months
especially trying.
Athletes everywhere praise Peruna
because they, of all men, appreciate
the value of a tonic that dispels phys
zeal depression.
The vocation of some men may allow
them TO endure the depressing feelings
incident TO spring weather, tut the
athlete must never allow himself to get
"under the weather."
He must keep in the pink of condi-
ton" all the time.
In order to do this he must avail him
self of a spring tonic upon which he
can rely.
Therefore athletes are especially
friendly toward Peruna.
Peruna never fails them.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
Easy.

The reason why white sheep eat
more than black ones has been def.
nitely settled. There are more of
them.-Chicago Tribune.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
New York.
The Peruna Medicine Company,

Inc Koruna Medicine company,
Columbus, Ohio:
Gentlemen-"This spring for the
first time L have taken two bottles
of Peruna, and, as it has done me a
great deal of good, l feel as if l
ought to say good word for its
worth.
"During the springfime for the
last few years, Ihave taken several
kinds of spring fonics. and have
never received any benefit what
ever This year, through the ad-
vice of a friend, I have tried Peruna
and IL has given satisfaction.
al advise all athletes who are
about to go In training to try bot
tie, for 1t certainly gets the system
In good shape" Yours truly,
JOHN w. GLEMSTER.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

nauseated. l had an acrid discharge and
pains down through my limbs SO / could
hardly walk. 1t was as bad a case of female
trouble as l have ever known Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound however,
cured me within four months. Since that
time have had occasion to recommend it to
q number of patients suffering from all
forms Of female difficulties and find that
while it is considered unprofessional to rec
ommend a patent medicine, 1 can honestly
recommend Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, for l have found that it cures
female ills, where all other medicine fails. 1t
Is a grand medicine for sick women
Money canpot buy such testimony as
this-merit alone can produce such re-
suits, and the ablest specialists now
agree that Lydia E. Pinkham,s Vege-
table Compound is the most univer-
sally successful remedy for all female
diseases known to medicine.
When women are troubled with ir-
regular, suppressed OF painful men
situation, weakness, leueorrhea, dis
placement or liberation of the womb,
that bearing-down feeling, inflamma-
ton of the ovaries, backache bloat-
ing Tor flatulence), general debility, in
digestion, and nervous prostration. or
are beset with such symptoms as dizzi-
Lydia z. piEkham's VeSefahIc Cam
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
PE.RU-NA
Renovates, Regulates, Restores a
system Depleted by Catarrh.

John w. Glenister, of Providence, r.
l., champion long distance swimmer of
America, has performed notable feats
in this country and England. He has
used Peruna as a tonic and gives his
opinion of it in the following letter:
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N w. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove. N. J.. Feb. IL. 1900.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

"Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
cured my wife OF a terrible disease With pleasure
testify To its marvellous efficacy" J.sweet Albany N.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27
A TRAINED NURSE
After Years of Experience, Advises Women In
Regard to Their Health.

Mrs. Martha Pohlman
Of 80 Chester Avenue,
Newark, N. j., who is a
graduate Nurse from the
Blockley Training School,
at Philadelphia, and for
six years Chief Clinic
Nurse at the Philadelphia
Hospital, writes the letter
printed below. She has
the advantage of personal
experience, besides her
professional education,
and what she has to say
may be absolutely relied
upon.
Many other women are
afflicted as she was. They
can regain health in the
same way. 1t is prudent
To heed SUCH advice from
such a source.
Mrs, Pohlman writes:
81 am firmly persuaded,
after eight years of experience
with Lydia 4. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, that it
is the safest and best medicine
for any suffering woman to
use.
Immediately after my
marriage found that my
health began to fail me. Ibe-
came weak and pale, with Sc
we're bearing-down pains, fear
full backaches and frequent
dizzy spells. The doctors pre-
scribed f2r me, yet / did not
improve. l would bloat after
eating and frequently become
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

The wise man shapes himself ac-
cording to his environment, as water
to the shape of the vessel into which
it is poured.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

Mrs. WinsIow's SOOTHING Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gurus reduces I'm
hammstion, aays pain, wind collie. 25c bottle.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

Many silk gown covers a starved
heart.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-05-27

Trust to luck-if you want to go hun
CRY.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04
RED AND GRAY SQUIRRELS
The Males OF Both species Are In
corrigiBle Fighters.

Ene htaASs OF Both species Are IN
corrigible Fighters.
A very quarrelsome disposition has
the chickaree, or American red squir-
rel, and there are continual fights be-
tween it and its cousin the gray squir-
rel These tights seldom end in de-
cided victory for either side. The males
of both species are incorrigible fight
ers. 1t is no unusual sight to see a
couple OF red or gray squirrels come
tumbling from some lofty limb so lock-
ed in each others embrace as to appear
almost like one animal
Though the shock of striking the
ground separates them, it is for a mo
ment only, They immediately clinch
again and continue to roll over and
over, fighting hercely until one breaks
away, only to be followed by the other,
who keeps up running fight for some
distance until he feels certain that he
hasso punished the conquered one that
he will not dare return.
Red squirrels by their greater agil-
ity and quickness can worst gray
squirrel every time in a running fight,
but let them once come to clinch and
the superior size and weight Of the
gray squirrel are bound to tell. Chica-
go News.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04
sT. KILpA ISLAND.


The Natives Have Cozds only When
Visited by Eoreigners.
There are many places where it is
impossible to cafch cold because there
Is no coldsto ,cateh. There is st, Kilda,
that lonely rocky island which was
visited by DrSf Johnson when he and
Boswell were making their famous
tour of theSHetr1des. There aresabout
hundred inhabitants on the island.
The coasts are $50 PERCEPTIONS that for
eight months In the year it is prac-
tically inaccessible. Several vessels
from the mainland call there during
the summer. And, strange to say,
whenever ship reaches the island
from the mainland every inhabitant,
even to the infants, is seized with a
cold. This fact has been known for
more than 200 years and was of great
interest to DR.. johnson, who was skep-
tical concerning II.
The question Of this st. Kilda cold
long puzzled men, who never dreamed
that 1t was an infectious disease and
that without the possibility of infec-
tion it is impossible to catch it, no mat
ter what the exposure may be. That is
to say, it is due to micro organism,
and without the presence of this micro
organism the disease cannot be con-
tracted. New York Herald.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04
Hospitality Abroad.

Hospitality has long been reckoned
among the virtues Of this nation, but
how very virtuous Americans are in
this respect is probably not realized
even by them till they go to other
countries and experience the hospi-
tality offered there. OF course, the
Englishman, being our own flesh and
blood, is given to hospitality almost up
to the American standard, although
come and lunch with me- is apt TO
be the extent of his invitation to a
male American on the other side. The
American in Paris knows that for
eigners receive few invitations to
breakfast or dinner from the Partisan
French people do good deal of enter
tanning, but 1t is largely confined to the
circle Of their relatives, among whom
a degree of devotion exists that
Americans can hardly understand. In
Italy cup of afternoon tea marks the
widest flight of hospitality that the
visiting American is often asked to
consider An amusing story is told
of an Italian aristocrat--a very great
mau-inviting a German nobleman to
come and drink coffee after dejeunerl
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04

rhe yvfttv nef,ns ~ n,.~., -. -. = !.
Famous Lsit}e pole.
a very notable dwarf was Bor,alw aski.
tie Pole, Of whose debit the aollewin Z
story is told: As boysof fifteen. when
be was Just one inch higher than 4
two foot rule, he was presented to the
Empress Maria Theresa. who was 80
charmed by his grace and COED looks
that she seated him on her Ian and
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04

Iennyson once attended dinner
where G. L. Craik proposed 'The La
dies In doing 50 he recalled the cyn.
icaf advice given by brother Scot TO
bis children: TAX my advice and dinna
marry for siller. You can borrow cheap
e. Some time later Iennyson at his
own table repeated Mr.. Craik's story,
but expressed the idea without at
tempting dialect His son Hallam re-
marked, Surely, father, craik did not
use those words. No, he did not. But,
then. Craik is a Scotchman, and am
afraid to venture On repeating him ex-
actly. However, It's almost as good IN
English as in Scotch, and it's tremen-
dously true In both.'
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04

The meaning of the evil eye, the
"ophthalmos baskanos" of the Greeks,
the .'fascinarev Of the Romans, was
probably far more than vulgar super
sition. We find traces of it in almost
every country, notably to this day
among the canny Scots who inhabit the
western isles of the sea, of ..Ulva dark
and Colonsay," Of Skye and the Heb
rides, and among the Turks, who dis
trust the evil eye of the stranger. But
in old classical days the power seems
chiefly to have been used for the pur-
pose cf grievously aflicting the live
stock Of disagreeable neighbors. So
we find to this day in Ireland, parts of
Scotland and the west Of England
where this belief is still prevalent. Ger
tainly, in some form or other, mesmeric
fascination by the eye has always been
known. But that any one person, with
no matter how evil an eye, should be
able to charm frightened animals to
any extent or number is ridiculous and
not seriously to be entertained for one
moment Chambers Journal.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04
why a sLfmfted. Tratns

The question why is limited train"
SO called has been propounded to a
general passenger agent, who replies
as follows:
First.It is limited as to its time.
Second It is limited as to the num-
Der Of cars and weight Of train.
Third. 1T Is limited as to the class
of cars.
Fourth.-lt is limited as to the num-
Der and class of passengers permitted
transportation thereon.
This last limit is adopted so that
every passenger may have ample ac-
commedation and not be crowded or
interfered with by other passenger
The fact thar an additional fare is
charged on a limited train and, fur
ther, that nothing but first class tick
cts are accepted for passage tends to
limit the class of travel which is car
rted.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04

# you happen to get d ring on your
finge' that Cts 50 tight you cannot re-
move i very easy way to get it off
Is as follows: Take piece Of cord or
wrapping thread and push one end Of
II under the ring. Then, beginning just
above the ring, wind the cord very
tightly round and round the finger
clear up to the tip Of the finger. Now
take hold Of the end Of the cord that
was slipped uEder the ring and unwind
the cord As the string unwinds the
ring VII be carried along with ii and
removed without any difIaeulty.
The Jersey City news., 1905-05-04

The very first thing that Chinaman
takes when he gets up in the morning
is a bowl Of hot "congee." or, as he
calls it, thin rice. This is simply
rice boiled away to a thinnish drink
able consistency II allowed to cool it
would thicken into paste. Some care
is required to make it properly. IF
the water is visible and not the rice.''
says Yuan Mel, shat is not congee.
If the rice Is visible and not the water,
that is not congee either The two
must be indistingulshab blended be-
fore you can call the result congee."