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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08
Quincy News Letter.

Quincy awoke Monday morn
ing with a new taste in her
mouth. Sunday at four o'clock.
some of this city's best people
gathered in kindliness and good
fellowship and exchanged greet
ings and confidence. They had
planned for greater Quincy
and had adopted new and i'm
proved cultured way. Hence
forth there will be a Couture
Club" Industrial and social in
terests Of the city will be some-
thing of greater import than
ever before. This club was or
ganized in the 9Th and Elm ST.,
Baptist church by Rev. T. L
Smith, who acted as chairman.
Prof. r. A. Byrd, Mrs. Susan B.
Golden and Deacon Robt Hum
phrey we're the committee to
bring in the names of the officers
which brought in Prof. Tutt,
president; Mrs. R. Thornton,
vice president; Miss E. M. Smith
secretary; Gertrude Gamble. as
sistant secretary; Lillian Hum
phrey, treasurer; Mrs. L. F..
Johnson, president program com
mittee, Mrs Florence e. Chap
lain; Mrs. Matte Green, organ
ist. How to make a better Quincy
or not only a better Quincy, but
better country. We must push
each other upward and cut off SO
much pulling each other down.
If we can climb as fast as some
of our race, we must say to our
selves as race ought to say and
as all other races say and do,
there goes one of my race up
and [ am going to do all [ can to
help Now, let us, hand in
hand. shoulder to shoulder, heart
to heart, do all we can to push
our race upward. high and high
er; just as high as they can
reach. The aim Of the pastor is
to build up the race but if we do
not pull together, the hill will be
hard to climb, but if we push to-
gether, we will climb so easily
you will be surprised. Let us all
strive for the right, taking God
for our hacker. May this Cul
ture Club spread so wide and
near until every citizen will make
him or herself useful. IF we take
these things into consideration
and practice them, we will have
not only a better Quincy but a
better country.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08

Mrs. Sadie Brooks, of Decatur,
is here somwhat indisposed. She
is under the care of a physician.
Mrs. David, of $50 S. Spring
street is not much improved.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08

part. Remember. the next meet
ing of the Culture Club, Sunday;
December 90. at A o'clock at the
st. John A. M. e. church.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08

NOTICE-Edward D. Gorum is
now our authorized advertising
solicitor and also collect news
and money for The Forum. mgr.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08

Miss Cora J. Ball and Mrs. F.
r. Cook spent a very pleasant
Thanksgiving in Macomb, the
guests Of Miss Florence Mcbride.
Dan Cupid is tapping his
wings and stretching his eyes
near the corner OF 9th and Elm
streets, so they say.
Mrs. Jackson and Miss Nettie
Roberts were pleasant visitors in
the city last week. They left
Monday evening for Springfield.
Madames G.. Webster and
Green are troubled with throat
and chest this week.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1906-12-08

The friends of Mrs. Dora Rob-
inson feel much worried over her
illness. She has been sick for
some time.
Prof. r. A. Byad left Sunday
evening for Springfield.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

ing improved now. But one busi-
ness bad decreased; arrests for
drunkenness had fallen off about 90
per cent.
ALI this made US anxious to see
Hrrisburg where all the money was
going to and being spent. We visit
ed Harrisburg yesterday. While
We did not have time to secure data
as to postal receipts, R. R. tonnage,
ETC., we observed the large Touring
mills were idle for lack of business.
We failed to see single house built
last year and if there is a rod of
new fence in the city we could not
find it. In fact, the town seemed
to have imbibed heartily and gone
to sleep. a--t
From the above facts which cau-
not be refuted we draw the conclu-
sion that in order for town to
thrive and grow it is not necessary
to have saloons. JOHN HENRY.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

"Queer idea of jerks in adver-
tising to trade his auto for a mule,
wasn't it?" "There was some logic
in it. He says if it's case of etern-
al swearing, he wants something
with ears to swear at. "-Milwaukie
Sentinel.
Chicago, April 16.-Ten hours
between Chicago and New York on
trains operated by electricity, maxi
ing an average speed of Is miles an
hour, is the plan of incorporate re-.
of the Chicago & New York Elsc-
trio Air Line railroad.
The scheme appears to be far in
the future, however. 1t is asserted
that "some of the right of way has
been secured" but the projectors
decline to say how much. They
hope to have the road In operation
in five years. 1t will be thirdrail
proposition.
The proposed road will sacrifice
everything for speed and distance.
Jonathan D. Price, president of the
Cooperative Construction Compa-
ny, which was ores nized to build
the road, says the line will be 742
miles long, or 200 miles shorter
than any steam road now connect
ing the two cities.
Part of the line has been survey
ed. The first section to be built
will be out of G aicago. and the work
on this will begin soon.
In choosing the route, no atten-
ton is paid to whether the line
runs through large cities or not.
AS now surveyed, the road will be
eight miles south of South Bend,
Ind, and at that point it is pro-
passed to build a station and run
spur into the city. The same plan
will be followed where the road pas.
ses any other city. These spur
lines will be connected with the
the street railway systems in each
town, and it is proposed to run
freight trains at night.
The details as to the kind of cars
10 be used have not been thorough
" worked out.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20
A PROFITS OPINION.
After a Thorough Investiga.
ton Of the Subject, He Con-
c1udes That Saloons
Are Not Necessary.

EDITOR 11MES:-
Having been up to the first of the
current month almost daily visit-
or to the bustling little city oi
junction, we could not help but no.
tice the general improvement that
was In progress there.
Remarking this condition to an
old timer on the street one day be
waxed eloquent, and with un bound.
edenthusiasm set forth the following:
junction is improving ahead OF
any town in the valley. We built
more new houses last year than we
ever built In one season. We will
build more this year than last per-
baps twice as many. Fifty acres
of commons that: have only been
utilized for COW pasture for the past
S or 20 years have been fenced in
to lots ard are being utilizsd, cult.
waited and many of them will be
built upon this summer. In fact,
more lots have been fenced and i'm
proved during the past winter than
10 any period of five years before.
1--WE have just installed an elec.
trio light plant and the S. P. Is put.
ting in a $4,000 oil tank, and all
our merchants and millers are busy,
and there Is not a vacant lot in
in town."
All these things we had noticed
to be true but strange as it may
seem be wound up his speech with
the following remark:
"When the railroad gets through
with all she is going to do 70, III
there will bs but one thing necessa
ry and that is to vote the towr
"wet" again and then we are al
right. .
Do you think so? we asked.
Think 81, I know it. Why
this dry business is killing us off
It is loosing to Junction thousand
of dollars. The railroad boys al
spend their money in Harrisburg
now, so Harrisburg is getting thous
ands of dollars that ought to b'
spent here"
This put us to thinking and in
vestigating. Inquiring atthe post
Office we learned that the postal re
ceipts for the year 1904 were 81 SO4
for 1eO5 over $2,SOO; were told th'
quarterjust ended far exceeded that
Business men informed Us theil
trade had increased wonderfully
We only found one merchant wht
seemed idle all the time. We asked
local editor If Mr.. - ever ad
vertised. "Advertisep' exclaimed
the astonished quill shower, "Why
he never reads tie paper.
We found the bank deposits, in
creased, the railroad tonnage hac
outgrown the accommodations 81
the depot had been enlarged to twice
its former size. The mills were
running day and night on rush or
ders, schools were overhowing ane
carpenters told US they were en-
gagged for all the work they coulc
do this summer. We found thle
real estate Offices where as before
local option there was but one
Here we found that sales had in
creased nearly loo per cent but tina
most of the sales were of heretofor
unimproved property that was be
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20
Embroidery Lessons.

Mrs. M. P. Burnett will give les
sons in Eyelet Embroidery We'd
nesday and Thursday afternoons at
her residence.
Ind. phone No 2o2.
Bell phone No 135.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

HWhen you want anything in the line of
Clothing, come and see our line, get prices.
TWe balance our quality and prices defy
competition. Tour clothing sales has made
big strides in the past few years and this has
justified big increase in our buying. II Never
before has our store received such big ship
ment as this spring-we have clothing
by clothing for sale. Investigate.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

evidently fact that the city is
burning as reported. 1t is believed
that Palermo is burning.
Firemen are dropping from ex-
haustion. For 80 hours they have
batiled With the holocaust, and ma.
ny OF them are sleeping under wag-
ons, careless as to the approach of
fire. The situation could not be
worse unless volcano began pour.
ing molten lava over the city.
A correspondent of the Oakland
Tribune, writing from San Francis
co at IL o'clock. says:
At this writing there seems to be
practically no hope of saving the
city. The fremen are fleeing from
the flames in despair. Many peo-
pie are being buried alive, impris-
opei in the doomed buildings,
where the rescuers could not reach
them. The last big structure to
burst into flames was Grace church
which wac totally destroyed.
The war department. has receiv-
ed the following telegram from Oak.
land: 'Los Angeles says buildings
are rocking like a boat. Just lost
connection with Los Angeles imme-
.diately after this report. Men prob
ably left building"
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

8 Portland, April 16.-Evening
Telegram: Senator Clay was talk
ing about an important bill.
lis too delicate a measure" he
said. ito be treated so harshly.
Knocked about like that, it would
come to the same pass as the Paint
Rock mans razor" -
1.-The Paint Rock man's razor?"
"Yes. A Paint Rock man arose
one morning, and slipped into the
bathroom, and turned on the water
for his tub, and then, taking down
his razor and strop, shuddered and
gave great cry of despair.
"Oh!' he shouted, oh, my razor
Who has been tampering with my
razor?'
"The little son of the Paint Rock
man spoke up bravely, coming tc
the bathroom door.
I was using your razor, faith.
err he said. I used it to open some
oyesters with yesterday afternoon.
"'Oh, did you?' said the father.
Here, then, take it and give it a
lick or two on cobblestone, or I'll
never be able to get d. cent shave
this morning."
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

John stown, Pa. April 17.-Ot-
der again reigns at Windber, after
a night of riot and bloodshed, in
which three lives were lost and a
dozen men seriously injured.
With daylig ht arrived the state
constabulary ordered to Windber
by Governor Pennypacker. The
town Is now practically under mar.
tial law.
The miners did not return to
work in great numbers this morn
ing, although four mines of the
company are in operation with linn
tied forces.
A short time after o'clock this
morning Sheriff Begeley and force
of deputies escorted the 1 men ar
rested last night to the street. car
line and started them on their way
to the jail at Somerset.
The officers were all armed with
rifles and formed Gordon around
the prisoners, who were handcuffed
together.
Curtis Kester. the boy bystander,
who was shot through the bowels,
was enormously reported dead dur
ing the night. The physicians be-
lieve he has a fighting chance for
There were many alterations
and boietsrous arguments on the
streets through the day, but no Sc
rious clash occurred. A large mass
neetl g was held without any dis
oider until Deputy Sheriff W. M.
McMullen appeared. The foreign.
ers are apparently antagonistic te
McMullen. He was for five years
chief of police of Windber, and dur
ing his administration, made him
self unpopular with the miners.
The sight of McMullen infuriated
them, as he was looked upon as E
spy. Many Of the men rushed fol
him and threats were
made against his life. He fed
taking refuge in the home of Chas
Davis. A mob surrounded the Da
Wis home and stoned it until the oc
cupants were obliged to seek refug
with neighbors.
| During the riot about 20 of tn
minors were placed under arres
and landed in Jail.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-20

evidently q fact that the city is
burning as reported. 1t is believed
that Palermo Is burning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
KEEP THE KIDNEYS
WELL.
Health is Worth Saving, and Some
Rock Island People Know How
to Save 1t.

Many Rock Island people take their
lives in their hands by neglecting the
kidneys when they know these organs
need help. Sick kidneys are response
bic for vast amount of suffering and
illhealth, but there is no need to suffer
nor to remain in danger when all dis
eases and aches and pains due TO weak
kidneys can be quickly and perma-
nently cured by the use of Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Here is the statement of
Rock Island citizen who has reclaimed
good health by the use of this remedy:
Albert Littig, of 1890 Fifth avenue.
bricklayer and stone mason, says: Il
was taken with soreness across my
back, and it was further aggravated
by the nature of my work, as / have to
be so much in a stopped position.
saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised
and they were also recommended to
me by a neighbor, so l went for box
and began taking them. l was really
surprised to see how quickly they
cured me-.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Company, Buff
falo, N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
EXPERIMENT IN DIET.
British Expert Considers Cents
Ample For a Mans Daily Board.

British Expert Considers Cents
Ample For Mans Daily Board.
-'he principle that Il man can live
and work in health GA food costing S
cents Il day is to be tested in system
attic fashion by DR.. Josiah Oldtield, an
English physician, Il noted expert on
diet and fruitarian. says London
cable dispatch to the New York Amer
lean and Journal
y London daily paper will cooperate
in the experiment, finding four or five
average men, who will be provided
with work, clothing and lodging for
three months Their board, which will
be of the highest quality and as much
as they can eat, will be provided at n
cost of cents per man per day
The details of the dietary will be ar
ranged by DR. OIdield. who will super
wise the whole experiment. Ia letter
DIR. Oldfield declares that the expert
ment is of great Importance in re-
spect to the physique and stamina and
health of the race.
For the last twenty years or So" ne
continues. Our people have been false
ly taught. They cannot afford to buy
the best healthy meat. and as result
they are living on waStrel food and
feeding their children on what is little
better than rubbish.
Il have demonstrated how the poor
may be fed-and we'll fed-and on the
highest grade OF food at n cost OF less
than fourpence per head per day. II
this be true and if to raise this food
five times as much home labor would
be required, a great advance has been
made in going to the root of national
decadence and of widespread want of
employment.
IAN Englishman SHOULD be valua-
bic asset and not a troublesome prob
lem. Instead of costing 10 cents Il day
to keep him every man should as
minimum be able to live on 8 cents
day and earn Il shilling"
DR. Oldfield suggests that each of the
men should be tested as to his physical
fitness at the beginning and end of the
period of fourpenny diet and is san
guine that the last state will be in
fnitely better than the first.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13

1900. With several other balloons we
left Vincennes in August of that year
i'll q tremendous storm. On all sides
we were urged to desist from the at
tempt, as it was clearly evident to ev
erybody that the ascent in the teeth OF
IRENE None better than l realized
the danger, but | vainIy urged NM.
Oudet and LEIPZIG to remain on the
ground.
1T was about O'Clock at night that
we started, after several of the other
balloons had been dashed against trees
III starting. and every moment tue
great crowd assembled expected Il sim
liar fate TO befall us. But happily the
Horizon escaped this danger. and be-
fore furious gale we were driven
westward In intense darkness we
were carried along at the rate of from
eighty TO hundred kilometerS an
hour until we caught sight of the light
house of La Heve at half past o o'clock.
I'VE had every reason to expect that
by a fortunate shift in the wind we
were for awhile carried down the coast,
and hope returned to us that we might
yet escape. But it was only a few
minutes before we again saw lights at
Avranches, coast town, and the
pounding of the surf on the rocks and
the roaring of the great breakers rs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
CUTlCURA SOAP AND
CUTlCURA OINTMENT

"For a long time / suffered with
sores on the hands which were itching,
painful, and disagreeable. had three
doctors and derived no benefit from
any of them. One doctor said he was
afraid to touch my hands, so you
must know how bad they were; an
other said l never could be cured; and
the third said the sores were caused
by the dipping of my hands in water
in the dye-house where L work. 1
saw in the papers about the wonderful
cures of the Cuticura Remedies and
procured some of the Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment. In three
days after the application of the
Cuticura Ointment my hands began
to peel and were better. The sore
ness disappeared, and they are now
smooth and clean, and am stu
working in the dye-house.
II strongly recommend Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment to any
one with sore hands, and l hope that
this letter will be the means of help
ing other sufferers. Very truly yours,
Mrs. A. E. Maurer, 234O State St.,
Chicago, ILL.,, July 1, 1905"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13

of those things. hundreds OF l.'oml-
nent men are receiving albums, with
notes that read, please press your
thumb on a stamping pad. and then
make an impression on n leaf" Presi-
dent Roosevelt has given his thuma-
graf TO several little girls who are
friends of his daughter Ethel. Some
persons of the kind that always 20
to extremes are saying you can read
character in thumb prints as well as
in the lines of the palms. One girl
actually thinks of breaking her en-
gagement because the thumagraf OF
her betrothed proclaimed him stingy.
as she views il.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13

forever coltIlld roI' the l,ast..y."
With regard to the prophets success
sors. the Sunnis claim that the lawful
successor of MOhlLimcd was Abu
Bellr and after him Omar. Osnan and
All. nephew and sol-in law OF Moham-
ned The Shiahs however. reject the
first three ana hold that Ali was the
only legitimate successor. Shiahs pray
but three time; day and enjOin phi
grimages to Nejef. kerbela, kaZiinain.
Meshed Persia). SaInara and Kun as
well us to Mecca and Medina. Sunnis
make pilgri:nages only to the two lat
ter cities and pray five times day.
From this it can be readily understood
that the circumstances of the Turks
being in possession of the shrincs of
Nejef CNeshed Alb. Kazimain and ker-
bella is most displeaSing to deVout
Shiahs.-Blackwood Machine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
,Iohammedan Scots.

Mohammedans divide themselves into
swo principal sects-Shiah AID Sunni,
she Persians representing the bulk or
the former. the Turks of the latter.
The chief points on which they differ
are the condition of the soul after
death and the succession OF caliphs
."rhe Sunni belief IS that there is one
immortal God. whose works are With
out beginning or end, and that he VIII
be visible to the souls of the blessed,
while the Shiahs deny the immortality
of the soul and maintain that the CO.
existent principles of Zoroaster VIII
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13

The Oroville Gun club is waging war
fare against the blue jay tribe in order
to protect the quail, says an Oroville
Cali correspondent of the Sacramento
Bee. The blue jay is ruthless enemy
of the quail, destroying every nest
found. and so numerous have they be-
come in the immediate vicinity Of Orc
vile that quail are getting scarcer ev-
cry year and the sportsmen felt COM
PEELED to take some action. The club
is divided into two teams The team
killing the smallest number of jays
during a specified time banquets the
winning team. Prizes are also offered
each week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
ChamberIain's SaIve.

This salve is intended especially for
sore nipples, burns, frost bites. chap
ped hands, itching piles, chronic sore
eyes. granulated eye lids. old chronic
sores and for diseases of the skin, such
as letter, salt rheum, ring worm, scald
head, herpes, BARRIERS itch, scabies or
itch and eczema. 1t has met with I'M
paraileled success in the treatment OF
these diseases. Price 25 cents per
box. Try it. For sale by all leading
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13

Only 4 short time ago Count de In
VaulX made Il trip of twenty-one and
one-half hours from Paris to Nurem-
berg, in Germany, and the week before
be sailed for America he made flight
from Paris into Brittany. He has
many other flights in mind, but the
plans which now appeal most strongly
to his imagination are the crossing OF
the American continent and the reach
ing of the south pole by balloon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
Taking Thumb Prints view Fancy.

1t is going far in the hant for a new
fad when folk take to one of the meth
DDS of criminal Identification. But It's
going still farther when the product
of the new craze bears such an idiotic
title as thumagraf. says n correspond
ent of the New York Press. However.
many persons are making collections
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
rhe poet.. Inconni-tency.

'You speak of the brooks said the
critic as he looked over his friends
poem, "as the most joyous things in
nature"
$50 they are" said the poet.
But you are inconsistent"
"Why~
Because later on you say they are
ever murmuring."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
MOTHERSl MOTHERSl

To know that warm bath with
Cuticura Soap and single amounting
with Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, and
purest and sweetest of emollients, will
afford instant relief and refreshing sleep
to skin-tortured babies, and rest for
tired and WORKOUT mothers.
Sold throughout the world Cuticura Soap, &c.. Ont-
rncn 5Oc Resovent, Gin form of Chocolate Coated
lis 25c. per vial co., Potter Drug Chem Corp, Sole
Props, Boston, Mas
Mailed Free ssIiow to Cure Eczema and sAu About
the skin, Scalp HAIR and Hands"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-13
ITCHING PAINFUL
SORES ON HANDS

Suffered for Long Time Without
ReIief-Had Three Doctors and
Derived No Benefit One Doctor
Was Afraid to Touch Them
Soreness Disappeared and Hands
Now Smooth After Application of