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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
FOR sALE-FARM PROPERTY.

FOR SALE-The Glockhof farm, con-
sisting or 100 acres. on Thirty-eighth
street, South Rock Island. Will make
price right. ii. II. Walker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON e. QUINCY
Depot, Second avenue and Twentieth
street. Telephone. old west $50, new el7e.
+. A. RIDDELL. Agent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28

Trains.
Peoria. Springfield,
st. L., Ind'pls ....I
Peoria * st. Louis. &.
Peoria, Ind'pls. Gin.
Bloomington ....I
Sherrard Accom-. .. t.
Cable e. 6herrard
Accom-. ..........
Cable IL Sherrard q.
a. arrival: q. dep
cept Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28


WANTED-A boy at the Rock Island
Rug company. 2225 Fourth avenue,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
Trains.

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, q sT. PAUL
Ra!iway-D., X. l. Il ~. w. passenger
station at foot OF Seventeenth street g.
y. STODDARD. Agent. r. l. Hinriche,
commercial agent, 503 Brady street.
Davenport
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
FOR sALE-CITY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE-Four-room cottage. with
lot i0N12O feet. Price, $l.05o. In
quire at PITY Eighth avenue
FOR SALE-Best bargains In lots on
Twenty-fifth street and Tenth ave-
nue. II taken at once Easy payments
Inquire Reidy Bros
FOR SALE-The BEAUTIFUL home of A.
NJ. Blaksley. on Twenty-third street.
MIR. Blaksley has moved from Rock
Island and is anxious to sell this
property. Inquire of II. X Walker.
FOR SALE A seven-room two-story
house. in good repair; city water
good out buildings. Part down. il de-
sired. but cheap for cash. $50 TWEEN
ty-siNth street Inquire on premises.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28

FOR RENT-Splendid Office, rear OF
main lobby OF new Rock Island house
VIII be arranged to suit tenant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
WANTED-MALE HELP,

1
| WANTED-A boy at the Rock Island
| Rug company. 2e25 Fourth avenue,
WANTED - Circular and sample Dig
tributors everywhere; no canvassing:
good pay Cooperative Adv Co., New
WANTED-Agents. read in dark name
plates. signs. numbers: 200 per cent
profit; samples free. Wright Supply
company. Englewood Ill
WANTED = Steady. sober horseshoer:
one who has saved $50 and wants to
go into business. Address Bennett
sos Harrison street. Davenport
WANTED - Men to travel. advertise.
collect. etc, under Instructions: ex-
perience unnecessary; SIS weekly and
expenses Phillips, Manhattan build
ing. Chicago
Prepare now for spring rush. Posi-
tions guaranteed. Few weeks COM
Bey eSan aees n Gf
ing. Write for free catalogue. Moler
Barber college. Chicago. Ill.
wANTED-FEMAbE HELP.
wANTED-Pantry girls at the Harper
house.
wANTED--Two girls at wright's res
taurant. 1928 Second avenue.
wANTED-At once. two good girls at
sos Twentieth street. City restaurant
WANTED-A girl for general house
work at 21oS Third avenue. Mrs. Wal
ter Yerbury.
WANTED-A girl to help with general
homework. no washing. Apply at
1924 Fifth avenue.
wANTED-Ladies. Our catalogue ex-
plains how We teach hairdressing,
manicuring and facial massage
quickly, mailed free. Moler Barber
college, Chicago. Ill
wANTED-MALE OR FEMALE.
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WANTED-Men and women to assist
me in organization work. References
required. Good pay. Steady work
Call on ;. E. Van Noorden at Fraternal
Tribune office, CarSe building, Rock
Island. between and 10 n. m.
wANTED-POSITION
~~-~~~~-~~-~~~~~ ~>~~~~~~
WANTED-A position by n Smith Pre-
mier operator. Address H" care
Argus Office.
WANTED : Position by experienced
stenographer; good; references. Ad-
dress N" 1910 Sixth avenue.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: age So; II years
clerical and executive experience,
chief clerk railroad accounting de-
partment; energetic. excellent eXecu-
tive ability to handle office, or posi-
ton OF trust; high class reference:
fair salary to start with reliable firm.
Address Il. 81" Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
TrainH.

Daily expect Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28

H0ck ISfhnu q FeOr1a DIvtsfO0.
Trains leave Twentieth street sta
ton Main line trains start from main
depot on Fifth avenue minutes In ad-
vance or time given.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28

grocery store at s3l Thirty eighth
street. Inquire at the barber shop
next door
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-01-28
Administrator. Notice.

Marion e. Sweeney. Attorney.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
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There are 241 women paper hangers
in the United States.
Roanoke (Va) street railway employees
have received a voluntary increase in
pay.
There are about 500 girl waistcoat
makers in New York, of whom 500 are
in the union.
Boston Mass.l carpenters are seeking
an increase of % cents a day They now
receive So for eight hours.
Pastors of New Brunswick. n. j..
have formed union and are affiliated
with the central labor body of that city
Plasterers at Montreal, Canada, have
made demands for 40 cents an hour
They are now receiving 331a cents an
hour.
Sheet Metal Workers International
Union is the latest union to begin the
discussion and advocacy of a home for
aged members and a ''health farm for
invalid ones.
Street car men of Detroit. Mich. have
asked for a general increase in pay from
231a cents an hour to % cents. The
men also ask for 80 cents an hour on
Sundays and all holidays.
The United States government officials
are finally dealing with labor unions to
get help for Panama. 1t found it could
not get skilled artisans otherwise.
Members of the Tilesetters HELPERS
Union at San Francisco, Cal, have gone
on strike because the raise from 81 to
$3.50 per day was not granted
Cooks and walters of Oakland. Cal.
are much encouraged at the outlook in
their strike with some Of the proprietors
and look for speedy settlement.
A new local of the International Plate
Printers Union has recently been estab-
lshed at Albany, \. Y It contains ev-
err man of the business in Albany and
vicinity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Profitable Stitchery.

A woman, lately thrown on her own
resources, has turned to account with
excellent profits, her skill in fancy
stitchery, that is, combinations of
cross and other stitches done with
linen floss or silk for shirt waists, or
shirt-waist suits. She has had no
course of instruction, but simply taken
up the work, first among her friends,
and afterward outsiders. For the plain
er stitches in white she obtains forty
cents a yard. Colored and more elab-
crate designs call for higher rates.
She also does some fine hemstitching,
and finds a ready market for all she
can do for dresses and lingerie. Pa
irons bring their own material to this
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Girl Runs a Mine.

In these days of plucky young wom-
en-, Madge Picker, daughter of the
One-time well-knOwn member of Con-
gress, deserves a place in the front
rank. From mistress of her fathers
mansion in Falktoa, S. D., to q cabin
in the Rocky mountains is the change
that has come about. Miss Picker
is at st. Peters Dome, on the Cripple
Greek short line The shaft of the
mine has now been sunk to a depth
that makes it no longer a prospect. 1t
is a real mine and there is lots of ore
in sight. Miss Picker is her own SUI
perintendent. She has a force of men
at work, but every morning dons a
miners garb and, with a lighted can
die, goes down into the mine and
spends the day underground. She is
musical too. and when the miners are
through the days work she brings her
guitar and sings to them the music she
learned at her fathers home from IA
nous teachers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
THE RUSH ABROAD.
Steamship Lines Overtaxed in Carry
ing Americans to Europe.

Steamship Lines Overtaxed in Carry
ing Americans to Europe.
All travel records, both local and for
eign, are being broken this year, says a
New York correspondent. Never before
have the railroads and steamship com
panies been so overwhelmed with pas
senger business and never before has
there been such a wholesale moving from
city to country and seashore as has taken
place within the last six weeks. Since
early in June all departments of the big
transportation companies have been over
worked and there are no signs of a fall
ing off The rush began earlier than
usual and present indications are that it
will continue much later in the season
than ever before
At all the passenger piers and railroad
stations outgoing baggage is piled noun
tain high, and extra forces of men are
employed night and day turning the end
less streams of trunks and baskets into
their proper channels. Express com
panies and carting concerns are working
overtime, and storage warehouses are
being filled to their doors with the val
liable chattels of those who are going
away for a longer outing than usual.
Foreign travel is equally heavy. There
has never been anything like it before in
the port Of New York. 1t began early
last winter, and has increased as the
season advanced. Last year a total of
199,34S first and second cabin passengers
were carried out Of New York by trans
Atlantic lines. 1t is estimated now that
the figures for 1905 will pass that record
by at least 25.000
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
BLACK RUST SCARE.
Wheat Farmers Worried Bccause o.
Flights Apnearance.


The trepidation created By the report
ed appearance Of black rust in the
spring wheat belt is due rather to a
vague uncertainty as to what the eondi-
tons may be than to absolute knoWl-
edge as to the facts of the situation.
says the Chicago Daily News. Al
though rust is phenomenon of regular
occurrence it is difficult to foretell with
accuracy in any given year just how
damaging it is going to be. Its appear
ance is an occasion for anxiety but not
necessarily for alarm. the injury it may
intiict depending largely upon the time
of its appearance and the state or ad-
yancement of the crop.
Perhaps the most ominouS feature OF
the reports received thus far from ) 4rl-
Gus sections of the Northwest is nat
while black rust has appeared early, the
crops are comparatively late. The cause
of rust is microscopic spore which is
borne through the air and which in dry
weather is comparatively harmless. In
periods of rain or heavy humidity the
spores settle on the wheat and germi-
nate, their presence being shown by
the brownish red or black rust which
appears. The result is that the sap OF
the plant is absorbed and the berry or
kernel of the wheat, receiving no nutri-
ton, fails to develop. Thus, if the plant
has already reached an advanced stage
of development, the rust does relatively
little damage. If, on the other hand,
the plant is late in coming to maturity
or the spores are deposited unusually
early in the season, the damage done
may be enormous.
kilograms from station agents over
1900 to 1000 miles of railroad in Iowa,
South Dakota, Nebraska and southern
Minnesota, however, say mo rust.
These agents were instructed by railroad
officials to make careful inquiry con-
corning the reported black rust in wheat.
The replies are unanimous that there is
none of this destructive parasite in their
immediate localities. The only damage
they report is to potatoes which, it is
said, will not equal last years yield in
Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota
by % per cent.
Whether or not injury by rust this
year will be sufficient to reduce material
ly the size of the wheat crop depends
very largely upon the weather condi-
tons prevailing during the remainder of
the season, continues the Chicago paper.
Up to the present these conditions APP
pear to have been adverse, though there
is little to indicate that a few weeks of
bright, dry weather would not insure the
country against serious loss. The infec-
ton seems to be confined to local areas
as yet In estimating its probable eff
feet, of course, due allowance must be
made for the active imaginations OF spec
ulators who find an occasional rust
scare of service in manipulating the
market.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Making strawberry Reds.

If the strawberry bed is to be pre-
served for cropping another year good
care must be taken of it during the
growing season after harvest of the
fruit. In some sections and under GER
tain conditions il is a good plan to
burn the bed over after it has fruited.
By placing heavy layers of straw on
the bed and setting fire to 1t the old
plants are destroyed, the insects are
burned up and the weeds killed. There
il danger, however, in this plan Of in
juring the young and tender plants. In
most cases a better plan would be TO
NOW the plants to the ground and let
them thoroughly dry then cover over
them just enough straw to carry the
fame, set fire to it and thus burn out
what is undesirable.
If care is taken not to have too fierce
fire there will be little danger to the
crowns of the plants. After this the cuI-
tivator should be put in use and the
soil well cultivated both ways between
the rows, 50 as to cover the plants
slightly with the SOIL With the hoe
all undesirable plants must then be de-
stro. ed, together with the weeds, Of
course. After this the plants should
receive the regulation clean cultivation
until fall, when, if the work has been
well done. one will have a nice lot of
young plants well started, and which
will go through the winter in good
shape.-Exchange
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
LIVING EXPENSES.
1t Requires Much More to Support a
Family Than 8 Years Ago.

II Requires Much More to support
Family Than 8 Years Ago.
In the last bulletin issued by the bu-
reau of labor it is shown that the living
| expenses of the average fEmily during
the period between 1890 and 1904 have
increased from % to 80 per cent.
Beans and salt beef have gone up 10
per cent, lard 10 per cent, butter a per
| cent, cornmeal 80 per cent, crackers 1879
per cent, mOlasses 6 per cent, eggs 1915
per cent, herrings $50 per cent, salt Is
per cent. pepper 65.3 per cent and cur
rants 30 per cent.
These are only a few of the articles
which show an increase. Although the
bureau of labor claims that articles class
ed under the general head of Food
| have increased in price only - per cent,
the argument is a false one, is the claim
of the New York World.
While it is shown that flour has in
creased SO per cent and eggs 1916 per
cent in price, nutmegs have decreased
55.1 per cent and prunes 44.6 per cent.
Nevertheless they are all Jumped in
together under the head of Food" and
an average increase of per cent is OBJ
tanned. This is the merest sophistry.
Since 1894 canned goods have advanc-
ed over % per cent on the dozen cans.
The Standard Oil Company has advanced
the price of oil cents a gallon in the
same time. Bread is still cents, al
though the price of -four has risen SO
per cent. This is because the bakers, to
protect themselves, were forced to make
the loaf smaller.
The hens of to-day produce four times
as many eggs as a similar number did
ten years ago. The advance in price has
been phenomenal. The art of cold stor-
age is the one great barrier which pre-
vents commodities from finding a natural
price level These cold storage plants
are controlled by the trusts.
We eat eggs laid n year ago. We eat
chickens and game that were killed last
year and beef that has been on ice for
years. You may find in these cold stor-
age houses barrels of frozen turkeys
which were killed last Thanksgiving day
and which you may probably eat next
November.
Soda crackers have decreased 10.5 per
cent in price and about 80 per cent in
size. Fresh vegeta Lies cannot very we'll
be kept for next years consumption, con-
sequently they have decreased naturally
in price with the advance in truck farm
ing.
Coal has clambered up the scale about
50 a ton since 1890, without counting the
extra high figures reached in 1908.
As for clothing cotton hannels have
increased 1873 per cent, common suitings
14.1 per cent common boots and shoes
1872 per cent, women's dress goods 1853
per cent blankets 1873 per cent, and
thread POI per cent
The laborer pays more by - per cent
for his furniture now than ten years
ago. He pays about 10 per cent more
for the commonest kind of dishes and
table cutlery, and for the luxury of to-
haccn II ner cent more
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Pasture for Orchards.

1t is by no means the field that has
been cropped for years that is the best
location on the farm for the orchard.
That the fields in question have raised
good crops by yearly fertilizing by no
means indicates that they have suffi-
cient virtue to furnish the fertility
needed by trees. Usually they Will,
provided the soil is properly fortified
yearly, but unfortunately the general
idea is to give the field one lot of fer
tflizer at the time the tree is set and
let it 90 at that; this method accounts
for much of the trouble that results
from setting orchards on fields that
have been under cultivation for many
years.
Now as to the pasture. If it has
been used by the stock until they are
unable to get anything more from it.
naturally it will need considerable
preparation TO fit it for trees; if, on the
sionally and is furnishing fair pas
ture it is in good shape for the trees
because the droppings left by the stock
year after year have permeated the
soil. and under proper cultivation and
preparation, this well fortified soil
viii furnish nutriment to the orchard
for a number OF years. Tests of this
pasture soil, both with fruit trees and
small fruit plants prove that one
should never think Of letting an old
pasture lie idle just because it no long
er fulflls its original purpose. Try
the plan on a small area with small
fruits and it viii be saen that the argu-
ment brought or here is )ogical.-In
dianapolis News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Don't BE Disseminated.

The married woman nowadays is
frequently the discontinued woman.
And the reason is that she has made
the great mistake in allowing herself
to say discontinued words and think
discontinued thoughts, until imaginary
grievances have become genuine ones.
In all the wide world there is moth
ing so precious as good mans love;
nothing can equal that, and the woman
who cries out because her home is not
so fine as her neighbours, or because
she has not so many dresses. and is
discontinued with her lot, will find that
she will gradually estrange the love
that is hers.
Make the best of things. 1t is home
ly advice, but as valuable to-day as
ever it was. Shake off your discomfort.
Put it behind you as ignoble and I'M
worthy. Remember that one optimist
is worth a dozen pessimists.
Think always how much worse off
you might have been, not necessarily
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Keep Nothing from Mother.

They sat at the spinning together
And they spun the fine white thread;
One face was old, the other young
A gold and a silver head.
At times the young voice broke in song
That was wonderfully sweet;
And the mothers heart beat deep and
calm
For her joy was most complete.
There was many holy lesson,
interviewer with silent prayer,
Taught to her gentle listening child
As the -wo sat spinning there.
and all that speak, my darling,
From my older head and heart,
God giveth me one last thing to say,
And with it thou shalt not part.
Thou wilt listen to many voices,
And ali! woe that this must be!
The voice of praise and the voice of love
And the voice of flattery.
But listen to me, my little one,
There's one thing that thou shalt
Let never word to my love be said
Which her mother may not hear.
mo matter how true, my darling one,
The words may seem to thee,
They are not fit for my child to hear
If they cannot be told to me.
eff thou'lt ever keep they young heart
pure
And thy mothers heart from fear,
Bring all that is said to thee by day
At night to thy mothers ear"
Home Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
Mothers Too Attentive.

Children are often worried because
their mothers are too attentive. and
constantly rtprove the small ones
without reason. A child should be let
alone, and be allowed to play or amuse
itself in its own way, without the con
slant direction of a nervous mother.
y boy, for example, enjoys more a
few simple toys and something which
his own ingenuity has worked out
than the most elaborate plaything
which has been bought In the same
way the little girl will lavish her al
fections on q misshapen doll. prob
ably made at home, while the most
artistic production of the toyshop will
lie in state, to be taken up on rare oc-
casionS.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-08
CROPS I'm GOOD SHAPE.
Weather Bureau Says Corn Is Making
Favorable Progress,


Crop conditions are summarized as
follows in the weekly bulletin of the
weather bureau:
During the week ending July 81 the
Ohio valley and northern portions of the
middle Atlantic States and New England
experienced temperatures too low for
best results, but elsewhere the tempera-
ture conditions were favorable. Rains
interfered with farm work in the Mis-
souri, valley, northern Texas and in por-
tons of the lower Ohio valley and east
gulf coast districts, while rain is needed
IN Georgia, portions of Florida, northern
Mississippi, northern Illinois, Ohio and
northern New Jersey.
In the Ohio valley the growth of corn
has been somewhat checked by cool
weather. but elsewhere in the principal
corn States this crop has made excellent
progress. Throughout the Atlantic coast
districts fine crop is indicated. In Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Indian Territory and
northern Texas the condition of corn is
not so promising.
Thrashing of winter wheat has been
interrupted by wet weather in southern
Illinois and portions of the Missouri val
ley and middle Atlantic States, but else
where this work has advanced Satisfac-
torily. Winter wheat harvest is finish
ed, except a small part of the crop in
Michigan and New York.
Spring wheat harvest is in progress
in Nebraska, Iowa and the southern por-
tions of South Dakota and Minnesota.
This crop has made favorable progress,
do haino ynnnrtAA
from scattered fields in South Dakota,
where smut and blight are also prevalent
to some extent. Late spring wheat was
materially damaged in Washington by
hot winds of the preceding week, but the
early crop escaped injury. Harvest is
general in Oregon, with about the aver
age yield and quality.
Dat harvest has progressed favorably
and is now becoming general in the more
northerly States. With the exception
of some damage to harvested oats in
Missouri. Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia
the reports respecting this crop are high
ly favorable.
Some improvement in the condition OF
cotton over most of Texas is indicated,
and while too rank growth and unsat-
isfactory fruiting are reported from Ok
lahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missis-
sippi general, but slight, improvement
is also shown in these States. In Ala
bama the crop has generally deteriorat,
ed; in Georgia it is fruiting rapidly
where sufficient rains have occurred, bat
in other localities of that State rain is
badly needed, and shedding, rust and
black root are prevalent. Rank growth
and shedding are also reported from
Tennessee, the Carolinas and Florida, in
which States no improvement is indicat-
ed, except on clay lands in South Caro-
lima, while on sandy lands in that State
thu crnn hnS dntnrinrntnd