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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
book Plates.

A book plate indicates a certain love
of ostenta ton. Is it fitting that an in
dividual should suggest that his libra
~ is so voluminous that he cannot I'M
dertake the physical fatigue of writ
ing his name in each book he pos
sesses? Public libraries, large and alb
stract collections, may make use of
this mechanical means of identifying
property. but the private library should
be more modest, more personal. To
the critical observer book plate
seems to cast suspicion upon the own
er's educational attainments. One won
ders If after all he can really read
and write, If his books are any more
to him than Locke's Essay on the
Human Understanding was to Leono.
IA, who treasured therein her party
patches. May there not be reasonable
doubt of his ability to read who thus,
in place Of signing his name, resorts
to the illiterate practice Of making his
mark Atlantic Monthly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
MINING FOR RUBIES.
The Primitive Methods That Are Still
In Use In Burma.

The system practiced for obtaining
rubieS in the mining districts in Bur
ma is of the most primitive descrip-
ton, says the Searchlight. The mining
shafts are simply holes about two feet
square sunk to Il depth varying up to
fifty or sixty feet. The snoring up of
the walls of the shaft is most crude,
the sides being supported by posts at
the corners and branches of small
trees secured carefully against the
sides by means of stout sticks.
The miner carries a tin pot similar in
shape to blunt edged cone on his
head. He sQuatS down in one corner
and digs between his knees in the OPP
posite corner. The earth, or byOn, as
the ruby bearing earth is called, is
conveyed to the top as fast as ii is ex-
caVated in small buckets let down
from above.
The apparatus for raising and lower
ing the buckets is simple in the eX-
IRENE. \ stout bamboo post about
twenty feet high, called Il maungdine,
is fixed upright in the ground ut Il con-
venient distance from the pit, or dwin,
and 4 long, thinner bamboo pivoted
horizontally into the upper end of it SO
as to project an eighth from the mine
and the long arm toward the mine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
ITCHING SCALP
FALLING HAIR
Came Out ConstantIy-Hair Finally
Had to Be Cut to Save Any Scalp
Now in Good Condition and No
More Itching Another Effective
CURE BY THE
CUTICURA REMEDIES

az will gladly give you all the infor-
nation concerning my case. / used
the Cuticura Soap and Ointment for
diseased scalp, dandruff, and constant
falling of hair. Finally 1 had to cut
my hair to save any at all. Just at
that time / read about the Cuticura
Remedies. Once every week l sham
pooed my hair. with the Cuticura Soap,
and used the Ointment twice a week.
In two months time my hair was long
enough to do up in French twist. That
is now FIVE years ago, and L have a
lovely head of hair. The length is
six inches below my waist line, my
scalp is in very good condition, and
no more dandruff or itching of the
scalp. / used other remedies that were
recommended to me as good, but with
no results. If you wish to publish
any of what l have written you, you
are welcome to do so. / am, respect
fully, Mrs. w. F. CRIES., Clay Center,
Neb., Oct. %, 1905"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
Fishing Season.
Many Big Trout Catches Re-
borted---RoosepeL Trout
a Ne7U ArrlUai.

The fishing season of 1906, 50 far as
lake and brook sport are concerned, is
proving Il big success. The wholesale
stocking of waterways by the United
States government hatcherieS has inn
proved the sport vastly over that OF
two or three years ago.
Reports of unusually large catches
of trout have been received by the
writer from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Michigan and Maine.
President Roosevelt has had many
queer things named after him, from
Chickasaw papooses TO a particular
brand of hard cider. and now he has
attained new fame through the discov-
cry of what is to be known as the
Roosevelt trout" The Roosevelt trout
or "Salmo roosevelt" as science will
know it, is a newly discovered species
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06

Count Tolstoi thus described one
phase of his babyhood: al am bound.
wish to free my arms, and cannot do
so, and scream and cry, and my cries
are unpleasant to myself, but 1 cannot
cease. They think that it is necessary
that 1 should be bound. Whereas I
know 1T is not necessary, and 1 wish to
prove 1t to them. 1 am convulsed with
cries diSasteful to myself, but unre-
strainable. 1 feel the injustice and
cruelty. not of human beings, for they
pity me, but Of fate. and feel pity for
myself. and certain it is that this was
my first and most powerful impression
In life. Nor is 1t my cries that are
upon my mind, nor my suf-
ferings, but the complexity and con
trast of the impression. 1 desire free
dom. 1t interferes with no one else
and I. who require strength, am weak.
while they are strong"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
regions of the west. It is hardy and

regions of the west It is hardy and
prolific.
When Salmo roosevelt jumps out of
the water I'm the sunshine il looks as
If 1t were literally made of gold. On
the back it Is OF light yellowish olive
color, but the lower sides and belly
are a bright golden yellow, and along
the middle of each side runs a rosy
band.
The gills are rosy, and so likewise
are the fins. except the back fin, which,
as we'll as the tail, is olive and yellow
notified with black spots.
Out of the way Florida coast places
like Punta Rassa or st. James City on
the southwest coast have become cele-
brated fishing resorts. These are
crowded in summer with enthusiastic
anglers. ladies being quite as eager as
the men in catching ray. The sea is
literally covered with boats on fine
morning.
The gulf of Mexico, bay of Florida
and the straits are all good fishing
grounds. Shoals of tarpon swarm
there dipping and plunging in the blue
waters in proximity with various kinds
of sharks, whose presence is indicated
by their dorSal fins. In the shallow wa
tiers of the coral inlets the prickly ray
Tor thornbackD is found warming itself
or sprinGing with great fiapplng wings
high into the air. Among these multi
tudinous coral fishes are To be found
the sawperch. the sawfish. the sword
fish and all the thousand strange in
habitants of the sea. The least danger
Gus fishing is that for tarpOn, which is
one of little known branch of the
herring family 1t is sometimes called
the silver king on account of it's very
large glittering scales. The scientific
name, Megalops thrissoides megalops
large eyes, has been given to the tar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
TWO FOES OF THE ANGLER.

and described as the most beautiful in
America. Golden in color and about
a foot in length, II is found only in one
small creek tributary to the Kern river
in the high Sierras of California, called
Volcano creek.
1t is by the presidents express per
mission that his name has been be-
slowed upon this remarkable trout He
has taken a special and personal inter
est in its preservation, and under his
direction steps have been taken to
propagate 1t artificially and TO distrib-
ute it over the United States.
The experts of the fisheries bureau
believe that it will thrive and multiply
in the cold streams of the Adirondacks
and in other parts of the eastern Unit
ed States as well as in mOuntainp;-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06

SHOOTING A SwORDFISH IN FLORIDA
WATERS.
pom on account of the large size and
peculiar shape of its eyes. There is
also remarkable bayonet continue
ton at the extreme end of the dorsai
fin. The flesh of the tarpon is very
coarse and bony and can scarcely be
ea1an.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
Telling Age and Sex by Pulse.

1.-The female pulse always beats fast
er than the male" said a physician.
land from birth to death the pulse
speed steadily decreases. l have no
doubt that by the pulse alone l could
tell readily healthy persons age and
sex. Babes at birth have a pulse that
beats 160 times Il minute in the case of
girls and 80 times n minute in the
case of boys. At the age of four or
five the pulse beats will have fallen re-
spectively to 40 and 100. 'Maidens'
and youths pulses average ninety-five
and ninety: mature women's and mems
average eighty and seventy-fve; elder
ly women's and mems average sixty
and fifty. An old woman's pulse rare
ly IL ever sinks below fifty. but among
old men pulse under fifty is fairly
common"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
SPELLING REFORM.
The Phonetic Phenomena of the Word
ssPhenix.,

The Phonetic Phenomena of the Word
"Phenix."
They were talking about spelling re-
form and the idiosyncrasies of English
spelling in general.
There's that very word phonetic "
said one of the men. That's a sample
of English spelling. The reformers call
their system the phonetic SYSTEM and
yet they have to spell phonetic with a
pho in order TO let people know what
they mean. The very word that means
spelled as pronounced Is as far from
1t as possible
"Now, nowr' drawled his friend.
You're too hard on the good old Eng
lish speller. You ought to be proud of
phonetic Why, that word is SO trim
med down and sawed off and cut short
that / wouldn't know il was English If
L met it alone on Il blank page. You
ought TO thank the language for that
word. 1t is beautiful word. That
pho might have been spelled like
dough and the net like 'ette' in 'ro-
settle and the 'ic' like 1iq' in liquor
That would be a good old style English
ord-phoughnetteiq. But it is COM
ing. HouclIC spelling 10 tOLulhS- lOOh
at the word 'pheniX.' 1t is spelled 'phe-
nix everywhere now, and l remember
it always used to be phoenix That 20
has gone. That shows
Nothing said the objector. What
does it show? That the phenix is
bird. Isn't the phenix a bird? Yes!
Well, that round thing you say was an
20 was an egg. That's all. Twas just
an egg, and the phenix laid the egg.
That's all.''-Success Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06

The thornbacks or rays live exclu-
sively a the bottom of the sea. burrow-
ing themselves into the sand. and, ow-
ing t0 their protective coloring, are
able to spring out upon the unsuspect-
ing plaice. shrimp and crab These
groteSque fishes often reach gigantic
size Their breast fins, which answer
to the wings of bird, are often ex-
traordinarilv broad
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
Too Great
COrneW
Coaches
Courtney and Moakley
Responsible For Wide
ATHLETIC Prominence of
Ithaca Institution II.
II. GarreB, Michigan S
Redoubtable Star.

The present sensational prominence
Of Cornell university in the athletic
world is due primarily to her two
great trainers and coaches. Charles
Courtney, the rowing instructor. and
Jack Moakley, generalissimo Of the
track team.
The victory of two of the Cornell
crews at the recent annual intercolle-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06

Children like Kennedy's Laxative
Honey and Tar. The pleasantest and
best cough syrup to take, because II
contains no opiates. Sold by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
Municipal Bonds for Sale

HAVE $500 WORTH OF STERLING, ILL, S PER
CENT MUNICIPAL BONDS FOR PAR, THUS
NETTING THE PURCHASER PER CENT PER ANNUM.
THIS is AN IDEAL INVESTMENT ONE THAT ABB
soLUTELY SAFE, WITH NO TROUBLE DELAY IN
THE COLLECTION OF INTEREST PRINCIPAL.
WE HAVE VERY DESIRABLE INVESTMENT IN
CITY PROPERTY BRINGING IN A MONTHLY RENTAL
OF 500. WILL NET ABOVE ALL EXPENSES OVER PER
cENT-ssooo WILL HANDLE THE DEAL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-06
FROM THE HOUR OF BIRTH
Mothers Should Use Cuticura
Soap, the Worlds
Eavorife

Mothers are assured of the absolute
purity and unfailing efficacy of Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment, the great
Skin Cure, in the preservation and puri-
fcation of the skin, scalp, hair, and hands
of infants and children For baby ecze-
mas, rashes, itchings and chafngs, as
well as for annoying irritations and
lucrative weaknesses, and many sana-
tive antiseptic purposes which readily
suggest themselves to mothers, as well
as for all the purposes of the toilet,
bath, and nursery, Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment are priceless.
Sold throughout world. Soap, 25c., Oin-
menf 59e- Resoyent, Gin Chocolate Coated
Pills zSc per vial OF 6l,. may Of al druggists
fouer Drug and Chem Corp, Sole Props Boston Mass
- Mailed Frss, +" The 9rsss CQticurs skin Book"
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
Especial washington Letter.

SHE signs of the times indicate to
those who possess memories that
the Republican tide has reached
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
FLIGHT of Time.

Tempus fugit. Yea, verify. So rap
idly do things move in this age of
steam and electricity that Andrew
Jackson seems removed from us al
most as far as julius Caesar. Yet
there was buried at Silver Springs,
Nd, the other day an old lady who
when a child was pet of the grim old
lion of The Hermitage. Her name was
Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee. She was a
daughter of Francis Preston Blair, Sr.,
the great editor whom General Jack
son discovered in Kentucky and trans
planted TO Washington to conduct the
administration organ, which he did
with courage, fidelity and signal abil-
ity. Consequently Mrs. Lee was sister
to Montgomery Blair, once postmaster
general of the United States, and to
General Frank Blair, the famous and
heroic Missourian.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
The Viewnoint.

1t is q well known fact that artists
are very particular as to the way and
place of hanging their pictures SO that
they may show to the best advantage.
Much depends on the viewpoint in 9th
er matters also, including politics. Be
fore the election in Maine, while the
Republicans were dreaming of old time
majorities, Mr.. Secretary Taft, the
soulful Beveridge, Uncle Joe and all
the rest of the Republican spellbinders,
great and small, declared yociferously
and with one accord that Roosevelt is
the ISSUE. thereby expecting to give
the president and his party great
boost. But when the returns were all
in and the Republican candidates, like
Little Bopeep's sheep, were dragging
their tails behind them," because the
majority in the state was cut down
from. 27,00O to 7,O00 they at once
changed their tune and asserted that
prohibition was the issue. Wherefore?
Because, If they stated the truth when
they claimed that Roosevelt was the
issue. then that eminent Republican
received an awful jolt in the Maine
election. In the case of Mr.. Secretary
Taft, Senator Beveridge and Uncle Joe
it is true as in the case of other folks,
that hind sight is better than fore
sight. The bald truth is that Repub-
licanism and Rooseveltism are both on
the wane, and the whole world knows
it. There is no escaping that conclu-
sion. The pendulum swung so far to
one side in 1904 that it will naturally
swing back to the other side. In fact.
it has already begun to swing back
and perhaps will give us the house this
fall. If so, we are almost certain to
elect both president and house in 1908
And in figuring on the greatly reduced
Republican majorities in Maine let it
not be forgotten that all the Repub-
lican big guns shelled the woods up
there
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
The Bond Of Union.

Certainly the old saying that politics
makes strange bedfellows never had a
more startling illustration than when
Senators Foraker and Dick Joined
hands at the recent Ohio state conven-
ton to roll Judge Theodore E. Burton
and other Buckeye reformers, which
they did most thoroughly. While they
were at it they rolled Ex-Governor Her
rick, which was dead easy when COM
pared to the stunt of rolling Burton.
The former was simply the protege Of
the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna.
When the master died the strength
went out of his understudy, but Bur-
ton is considerable Of man, a student,
scholar and statesman. Foraker and
Dick are held together by the power
of public patronage.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04

ed in favor of tariff revision. Now
comes Mr.. Secretary Wilson Of the ag
ricultural department and makes the
good confession. There is even some
hope for Mr.. Secretary Shaw Of the
treasury and for Uncle Joe. for
While the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return.
In a recent interview Secretary Will
son said:
/ do not think any votes are to be made
for the Republican party by defending the
policy OF selling goods cheaper abroad
than at home Some good Republicans
disagree with me and are frankly admit
ting and defending it. Well, do not
think a majority of the American people
will ever agree that 1t is right to do that,
and the sooner the party recognizes that
fact and corrects the situation the better,
in my opinion. 1t win be-
When Mr.. Secretary Shaw. also Of
Iowa. reads that from his brother
lowan and his yokefellow in the cabi-
net bis eyes will pop open like morning
glories. The reason why Shaw is the
chief Of stand patters and why Secre-
tary Wilson has Joined the reyisionists
may be that whereas, Mr.. Shaw as Sec
retary of the treasury is brought into
close communion with high financiers
of the Wall street brand, Mr.. Wilson
as secretary of agriculture associates
with farmers. The one gets his inn
pressions in the east, while the other
draws his information from the west.
The cabinet is certainly in a most
muddled condition There are nine
members. Two-Taft and Wilson-are
known to be tariff revisionists. Two
others-S Shaw and Hitchcock are stand
patters. What the rest may be no
body knows. They appear to be on the
fence.
Mr.. Vice President Fairbanks Wall
In a recent speech in New Hampshire
Mr.. Vice President Fairbanks spoke
these doleful words:
We live in an era of progress, period
of many rapid and marked changes in
our social and industrial life. AS we con-
template our foreign commerce we are
amazed and humiliated to observe that
the greatest share Of our commerce with
foreign countries is carried under the
protection of alien flags. Less than 13
per cent of 1t is carried in our vessels.
This is certainly out of harmony with
the spirit of American expansion. The
United States does not need to take sec
ond place to any nation in carrying her
own commerce upon seas. There is no
good reason why we should not have
merchant marine worthy of the world 3
respect. AS it stands today, it is so in
significant as to be an object of con-
tempt and derision among the great com
mercial carrying powers.
The vice president ought to have had
the candor to state that when the Re-
publicans came into power in 1861,
after almost half a century of unbro-
ken Democratic rule, we had the sec
ond largest merchant marine in the
world and that it was then growing
by leaps and bounds, but that forty
five years of almost unbroken Repub-
Iican rule have driven our flag from the
high seas. where it is seldom seen ex-
cept at the masthead Of man-of war.
This is reason enough for turning the
Republicans out.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
Gonners Not Invited.

Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman,
chairman Of the Republican congress
sional committee, gives it as his opfn-
ion that President Samuel Gompers Of
the American Federation of Labor
helped Congressman Littleield by
fighting him. Mr.. President Gompers
has declared war on Sherman. Has
ANYBODY heard of Brother Sherman in
viting President Gompers to invade his
bailiwiek? Not much. Such invitation
would have the sincerity of Sherman's
opinion.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
a Lovely Bow.

6 Some time ago Hon. James School
craft Sherman, chairman Of the Re-
publican congressional committee, sent
forth pathetic appeal to Republicans
for one dollar contributions to the Re
publican campaign fund, and 1t was ar
tistically arranged that President Roose-
welt should drop the first dollar into
the hat in most ostentatious manner.
At any rate, it was made to appear
that he wbacked up the first dollar Of
the daddies. OF course only fools were
deceived by any such performance, for
sensible people know that the great,
bloated trusts will furnish money to
Brother Sherman by the hundred thou
sands of doIlars That he is not de-
pending on dollar contributions Is Gear
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04

urine scalds the flesh or if. when the child
reaches an age when it should be able TO
control the passage. it is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting. depend upon it the cause of
the difficulty is kidney trouble. and the first
step should be towards the treatment Of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due 10 diseased condition of the
kidneys and bladder and not TO habit as
most people suppose.
Women as well as men are made mis-
erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root is soon realized. II is sold
by druggists, in fifty Et
cent and one dollar F! IS: ss 60
sizes. You may have 3 q ~ GE;Ia
sample bottle by mail seEs w Elee==s
free. also pamphlet tell Home Of swsmpRoos
ing all about it, including many of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton. N. r.. be sure and
mention this paper.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root, DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root, and the address, Binghamton,
N. Y. on every bottle.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty, vigor
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
La Toilette.

Senator Robert Marion La Toilette Of
Wisconsin appears to be losing his
hold on his state. His candidate for
governor for whom he took the stump,
was Overwhelmingly defeated at the
primaries under a primary law which
La Toilette forced upon the statute
books. The way of the Republican re-
former. like that Of the transgressor,
IS hard. The stalwarts are happy as
larks at La Follette's discontinue.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04
Champ Clark S
Recedng Of Republican Tide
NfTA 80 aN Meaning Of Recent EIectonsv<C
N@<E &EH @W O. P.Campaign Fund d<>sCharge Of
the Bread and Butter Brigade -

~ demonstrated by the fact, according
to later dispatches. that he has discov-
cred that Hon George Bruce Cortel-
you, postmaster general and chairman
of the Republican national committee,
has the snug surplus of 100000 left
over from the campaign of 1904. It
seems that Sherman's palms are itch
ing to get hold of that surplus, but that
Cortelyou is determined that Sherman
shall not have it. Perhaps Cortelyou
intends to return it to the widows and
orphans from whom the insurance
thieves stole it. 1t will be remembered
that just prior to the election of 1904
Judge Parker charged that the great
trusts and corporations were financing
the Roosevelt campaign, whereupon
the president declared it was lie.
Then Parker's informant went back on
him, and the judge couldn't prove the
truth which he had told, for that it
was truth was demonstrated by the
subsequent developments. 1t gave
Judge Parker severe jolt. Now he is
vindicated. 1t is said also that when
the ugly exposures were made as to
life insurance contributions the presi-
dent declared that they should be re-
funded, but the older Republican heads
vetoed that scheme on the grounds
that the committee had no money, but
the committee has 100000 surplus and
should forthwith repay the plundered
widows and orphans or should be sued
for the money.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1906-10-04

and cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. If the child urin-
ates too often. IL the