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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24
Considerable amusement was F.,

Considerable amusement was once
caused by a slip of Emperor Nicholas
pen in accepting the officers of sew
eral companies of Siberian militia who
volunteered for service at the front.
The petition read: I'VE humbly lay
at your majesty's feet our desire to be
permitted to fight and die for the faith
erland." The emperor, in accepting,
wrote on the margin of the petition
in his own hand: Il thank you sin
cerely and hope your wishes may be
fully realized"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24
c., M. & St. p. Excursion 1at.s.

Homeseekers' tickets on sale the
first and third Tuesday in each month
to points in Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and to other home
seekers territory. For further infor
nation phone or call at any c., M. &
st. p office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

The c., NJ. G st. P. offers first class
train service to Chicago and Kansas
City, from the tri-cities, sleeping car
reservations made to any point de-
sired.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

True Christmas joy and the real
Christmas spirit lies in making some
one else happy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

Improved track facilities will Inn
prove the factory district.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24
THE. ARGUS

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island. ILL., lEn-
tered at the postoflce as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

Get to bed early, little people. Santa
Claus comes tonight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

TERMS = Daily, 10 cents per week.
Weekly 81 per year in advance.
All communications of argumentative
character. political or religious must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-24

A merry Christmas to all.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

immigration Commissioner Watson
cables from Bremen chat the steamer
Wittehin may be expected in Charles
ton the End of November with 500 CT
600 immigrants.
Seventy.fve bales of cotton and
three carsa loaded with cotton seed
meal were burned at the depot in
Lancaster on Friday morning.
The Atlantic Coast Lumber Com
pany pays its employs at Georgtcwn
$50, 900 every month.
Mr.. Yancy Berry of Saluda county
sold some long staple cotton in New
berry on Saturday for IA cents.
Manuel Silvelra, Havana agent for
j. M. Caballos & Co., New York
bankers, has absconded with a million
and the bank has closed it's doors
with liabilities of between three and
four millions.
Three thousand bales of cotton were
burned at Bremen, Germany, on Mon
day. It had just arrived from Sa-
vannah, Ga.
4 = .
A good article costs but little more
than poor one. It's cheaper to buy
the good one. The great .'MALLEA-
BLE'' Steel Range is made to last a
lifetime. It's first cost is its only
cost, If you want to save more than
half the fuel get a '.MALLEABLE"
range.
1t took two hours and half, one
day last week, for Chief of Police
Daley, of Columbia, to inspect and
review the hacks licensed in that
city. Seventeen out of one hundred
and forty-two were condemned, and
number promised repairs in time for
the Fair next week.
Mr.. w. s. Outz was nominated in
the recent primary in Edgefeld to fill
the unexpired term of his father and
has been commissioned by Gov. Hey
ward and has assumed the duties of
the Office Of sheriff of that county.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17
Valuable Place for Sale.

We will offer for sale to the highest
bidder on the Sd day of November, next,
at II o'clock a. NJ, in front Of the store
Of J. z. Summer, known as the Polly
Summer place, containing 1872! acres,
being in Broad River township and
bounded by Broad river on the east, Mrs.
Mandy Kesler on the north and west
and on the south by J. II. Fulmer and
others. Has dwelling and tenant
house thereon. Sold for division.
J. F. MAHAFFIE,
Oct. 10. 4-52 j. K. SUMNER.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17
Tresrassers, n office.

THIS IS TO NOTIFY ALL PER
SONS not to hunt or trespass in any
manner whatever upon the lands OF the
undersigned. The law will positively
be enforced against all vlolators OF thus
notice n. SIEELE.
oct. 1, 1906-4w-51p.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

Mrs. Efird, the mother of Hon. G.
M. and Senator Frank Efrd, we are
glad to state, after being 50 very sick
here, left last week for her daughters,
Mrs. John Summer, at Newberry.
The citizens of Columbia are max
ing every preparation to highly en-
tertain her guest during fair week.
This week we are again crowded
with advertisements which convey
not only interesting news but profit
able hints of savings to our readers.
Read them over carefully and let the
advertisers know that you saw them
in the Dispatch, and it will help all
of us.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
Wa,,ids Notes Gathered Here and
There by q Dispatch Man.

Malside Notes Gathered Here ana
There BY q Dispatch Man.
( Put your business before pleasure,
or by and by you won't nave either.
Ladies and childrens' cloaks IN pro-
fusion, the Lexington Store.
Bravery is reckoned by what we do,
not by what We threaten to GO.
See Clerk Samuel B. Georges sales
advertised on the seventh page.
The fire departm ent of our town sent
ND yesterday the hose to sprinkle the
fair ground.
Most people get better obi tuary no
tices than they are entitled to.
You will find the very best, candies,
cakes and crackers always at the
Bazaar.
Our hotels and boarding houses are
over-taxed with guests, some having
to take rooms at private houses.
The best Northern butter and full
cream cheese is sold ATM. D. Harman's
grocery.
Many a sharp retort is made in
i blunt language.
We issue one day early this week in
order that our force may enjoy them
selves with the crowd at the Fair.
You certainly will miss bargains in
shoes If you do not see the special
s>ou' =. : = -. : '
Mrs. 7; 2; MeeSae, y shs nanh MiaWay e,
section. klied 9 haWk WIN e rock on On
from. tip to tip.
1rtara ia ) 1nm her Of nrominen1,t
raonia = visiting 81 here who are attend
mo Ihhe FAIR. but our space will not
admit giving each personal notice.
# a beautiful line sof lap robes just
opened at Nv. p. Roofs store, and the
prices are moderate.
,f,o,,ar,t phi1;n Enstin how To secure
1000 bond paying per cent. interest
PEI. annum. aeadquarters at Coi. u.
e. Graham,s once.
The Great Steel Range, aMALLEA-
nLrt e nlu9eoog4 - as Sns o1sS sath;gss, ddige
sssa aaisaS ~ I,es ,cssess esSi bas;das
o1leI su-se ~ pJsaess, ~ uss1oes
liaais leo1A's ''.ao os41sls ..1so A'.
Contractor John w. Fry is manu-
sssa.:. sos',.e ~ ~ ns +,,a ~ - -
@ KssLa. h,,;Id;,,n ~ = tba oo,,-t bonse
- 4tss'- wy : : ',o'
wANTED-Trayeler for established
honae Twelve dollars weekly to
stsrg penses Raao. I~eielences. ~
: san1Tess oeotse oloWs' i7A' ~ so1,
20 y. s ~ z
Lexington county will, as usual,
send heY auoto Of citizens to The State
Fair next week. She viii also bring
back many premiums.
Mr. j. M. Horner has resigned his
position OF Eagan, Ga, and has ac-
cepted position as oyerseer of the
dye honse at Hiand Park Mills, Char
lotte, Nc.
b ,r... 5. - Koo ob;1dran,a
underwear at 25c. No such goods
were ever offered at these prices. At
w. p. Roofs store.
-. ,,;o,,,,oo,,a+s th,.e.
LoO. oae. ~ .Ys ~ picnpuuAu;, saas, on u tha
fair grounds. Remember, too, the
more von put down the, less you
Diek up.
The NUMBER OF attehgants ab ne
County EAR increases at every 1aIr;
IL Is tnrong ana Jan oouay anu
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17
Valuable Place for Sale.

WE WILL OFFER FOR SALE BE-
fore the Court House door on the first
Monday in November next, our place OF
73S acres, more or less, about 100 acres
open, balance in wood and timber.
Well watered, good pasture, peach and
apple orchard, two dwellings and other
out buildings. Near Clark's mills. Can
be bought privately.
Terms - One-half cash balance on
time. JOB SHUMPERT,
Route 8, Lexington, S. G.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

WANTED.-An apprentice to learn
the art of printing. Must read and
spell we'll and have some knowledge
of manuscript. No cigarettes or bad
habits. Apply at the Dispatch office.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

But it takes money to buy land.
The question of how little to pay for
a ladies' every day wear shoe is for you
to decide.
Here is what we advise:
kangaroo calf, (mind you this is no
imitation plain or cap toe lace shoes.
Solid leather soles and heels. One
piece leather inner soles and counters.
Some inner soles are made Of so many
pieces Of leather pressed together that
you would hardly know it was leather
when wet.
At $1.50 pair.
Grain and Glove Grain Lace Shoes,
One piece leather insoles and counters.
Solid leather soles and heels at, $1.25.
Good shoes cost more than shoddy
ones, but they are cheaper in the end.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

SCHOOL BOOKS are positively sold
for cash. Harman~s Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17
Wells! Wells!!
BERLEY & kYzER,
THE : WELL MEN.

If you want to do well, be well and
look we'll, get Berley & Kyzer, Lexing-
ton, s. c.. to put you in a Terra Gotta
Well which will give you pure water.
Our prices are right, our work is right.
Give Us trial and be convinced.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-10-17

A Rondeau Of Vacation.
The wicked flee where none pursue
To pastures green and waters new.
In other words, the very rich.
On whom 1t is the style to pitch,
Seek cool and rest where men are few.
In private yacht with well trained crew,
In mountains high above the blue
To every far and costly niche
The wicked flee.
Less rich and hence less wicked, too,
We scrimp to buy two weeks Of view"
For fourteen sleepless nights we twitch,
And ceaselessly big fans we switch,
For each night comes with cool and dew
The wicked flea!
Cecilia A. Loizeanx in Iippincott's Mag
aZine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
Monkeys Ate Onions.
m the New York World.

From the New York World.
Onions and monkeys mix no more than
oil and water as everybody around the
monkey cage at Central park forund out
yesterday.
The monkeys were sitting dejectedly
munching an occasional peanut that some
visitor tossed to them. An old monkey
with a bunch of white whiskers had
driven all the others to the back of the
cage and was squatting in front gobbling
everything that came in.
Two small boys tossed the old white
whskered one big red onion. He grab
bed it and raced to a perch. Then the
boys threw in more onions and the small
monkeys got them
In about 20 seconds there was one con-
tnuous stream of monkeys in that cage.
They were going round in circles so fas.
that not one could be singled out. The
onion juice had got in their eyes and up
their noses. Never was there such caht-
tering and squealing. keeper dragged
out the onions and showed in pan OF
water The monkeys drank so much they
swelled and looked like little Buddhas.
They shrieked every time man who
had been eating onions went near their
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
Parafin to- Exclude Noises.

From the New York Medical Journal.
Bridge says that the medical profession
teaches that not one person should spend
less than one-third of his existence in
sleep. and that 1t insists that children
especially must have an abundance of
sleep or be in peril of nervous and mental
bankruptcy. The author speaks of in
somnia, or rather insomniphobia; we
should go to bed to rest the tired body
and let sleep come as an incident; rest
of the body should be the chief aim. This
rule the great class of sufferers from in
somnia should learn. Our rest should be
taken in horizontal posture Light can
be kept out of the room. but not noises
For this nuisance an air tight nonvibrat-
ing stopper for the ears is the best, such
q material Is common parafin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice to Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that the COM
misslnoers court of Walker county, Ala
bama will receive until l o'clock p. m.
on the 9th day of September, 1906, seal
ed proposals for the furnishing of ma
terials and performing the labor required
In the repairing. erection, extension and
completion of the court house at Jasper,
Ala, according to the plans and speci-
fications prepared by Walter Chamber
lain & Co., architects of Birmingham.
Ala, said plans and specifications not
having been formally adopted are subject
to change, modification or rejection at
any time before approval of bid.
All bids are to be delivered. sealed to
the probate Judge of said county, on or
before the time above named.
A certified check or draft for two (2)
per cent of the total amount of the bid.
payable to the probate judge of said coun-
ty. must accompany, each bid, such check
to be forfeited to the county should the
contract be awarded to the bidder, and
he fail within thirty days after being
notified to execute contract for the
faithful performance of his bid, and fur
nish to the county a surety bond equal
to the amount of such bid.
The plans and specifications above
named are on file open to public inspec-
tion at the office of the probate Judge
at Jasper, Ala, and In the office of
said architects at Birmingham, Ala.
Bidders shall set forth in their pro-
posal blank the number of buildings of
this character and fireproof erected by
them, the cost of each of such buildings,
and the different locations as we'll as such
other information as will establish their
experience in detail with this class of
construction their diversity of experience
and qualifications to cope In a satisfac-
tory manner with the conditions that
will arise to insure prompt and proper
management.
1t Is suggested that each bidder should
visit the town of Jasper, Ala, personally
investigate the local conditions, and make
an accurate survey and examination of
the present old building that is to be re-
paired and extended
The commissioners court reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
JAMES w. SHEPHERD,
Judge of Probate
August "a 1906 9-l9-9t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
BREAKING A LOG JAM.
Ticklish Business on Brink of Forty.
Foot Cataract.

Not many years ago a center jam
formed just above the falls where tho
Tahquamenon river leaps forty feet to the
whirlpool below. 1t was only few yards
back from the verge, says a writer in
the Outlook, and 10 break lit the men
were obliged to get down into the water
below it, stand there with the falls be-
hind them and the current swriling about
their knees, and pry the bottom logs out
with their peaveys.
The water was not deep and the jam
itself sheltered them from the rush OF
the river, but II man lost his footing he
was gone. Carefully and cautiously they
worked the first log loose, and as 1t start
ed toward them they leaped upon 1t, and
before 1t could get away with them
jumped from 1t TO the Jam.
Loosening one stick was not enough to
start the rest. and they soon found that
the whole pile would have to be torn
apart little by little.
More than that, other logs kept coming
down the rapids and adding themselves
to It, so that 1t grew at one end as
rapidly as they could tear 1t away at the
other: but they kept at Il, and in the
course of time they worked back ten
or twelve rods from the brink.
Then of a sudden one of them saw
a long piece of pulpwood coming for him.
There was no time for him to dodge and
1t was too small to hold him II he mount
ed It. so, as the only chance, he tried to
jump over II.
1t was too quick for him. 1t took him
across the thighs and the next instant
he was down and the river was sweeping
him toward the falls. On he went, faster
and faster nearer and nearer, till he was
almost on the verge, and then by some
miracle of strength and agility, he got
his spiked shoes against something solid,
rose to his feet and started to wade back
against the current.
Little by little he forged ahead till he
met some logs large enough to carry his
weight, and mounting them, he jumped
from one to another till he reached the
jam Then the foreman cursed him for
having dropped his peavey, and he waded
out again almost to the brink. found 1t
where It had caught between some rocks
and brought II back
The problem of handling a drive In
which the logs are not made up into RATS
-as Is sometimes done-but> are simply
turned loose on the river, Is to keep them
from tanning and to see that no stray
glers are left behind
It is the stragglers that give the most
trouble-the stray sticks that run aground
in the shallow places, and that, II the
water falls considerably after the spring
freshets, are often left high and dry on
the banks to make what the river driver
calls a dry rear
Now and then, II Is true, whole field
of logs catches in a narrow bend, and
the entire crew has 10 go forward to the
point of congestion and set things moving;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19

but most of the time the men are taking
care of the rear while the rest of the drive
takes care of itself.
Just behind the drive long BOOM made
of logs chained together end to end, is
stretched across the stream from shore
to shore, with big red beateu in charge
at one end and a square. boxlike scow at
the other. A short distance ahead of the
boom are two smaller boats. one following
each bank, and few men are usually
walking along the shores sometimes on
land, sometimes wading in the water and
sometimes afloat on the loose.
The first time river driver asked me
IL ! was 'any good on the loose I
thought that he was wondering whether
or not I would make a congenial COM
panion on a spree. This proved to be a
mistake.
'vrhe loose" is the term used on the
drive to designate logs or pulpwood sticks
floating loosely on the surface of the
river, and to be good on the loose is to
be able to go about on 1t wherever one
pleases without getting wet. To ride big
pine log is not so very difficult, but to
walk or run across field of pulpwood,
where most of the sticks are far too small
to carry mans weight, is like skating on
very thin ice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
How to Spell II.
From the Rochester Democrat.

From the Rochester Democrat.
Speak king of spelling reform, perhaps you
have seen the rather old puzzle invented
by some genius to Illustrate certain &C.
centricities of the English method of de-
noting sounds by letters. The puzzle was
to pronounce the following word: 'Phtho-
lognyrrh.' OF course nearly everybody
fell down on it. But If you stop to
think that ''phth" has the sound of st"
in ''phthisis," that 'olo" has the sound
Of ''ur' in colonel" that Ign has the
sound Of m in 'gnat," and "yrrh' the
sound of err in '.myrrh.'' it is easy to
see that the product of the letters y
turner"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
Crosstles Wanted.

The Birmingham Terminal company
will receive proposals until October l,
for $500 hewn post oak, white oak or long
leaf yellow pine cross ties, 7x9xS 6-inch,
f. o. b. Birmingham. Ala, or point of
shipment. Usual specifications; inspection
to be made at shipping point
Also for sixty sets of sawed long leaf
yellow pine 7x10 switch ties. Same condi-
lions as above.
Address all communications to the Bir-
mingham Terminal company. Walter Fl
Harrison, chief engineer. Birmingham,
Ala, and mark Proposal for cross and
switch ties 9-19-7t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19

Southern Railway viii sell round-trip
tickets to Atlanta on September 18th, nth
and 18th at the special low rate of IS. 2S.
Tickets limited for return until September
9th, and can be extended until October
TO- 1906. For complete information apply
to NJ II. Bone, d. p. A.. or M. Coxwell,
c. P. A.. Morris hotel building. 0-16-4t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19

WANTED-A position in general store or
commissary by a young man who knows
the business and is not afraid of work.
ing little overtime Best references as
to character, ability, etc, Address II. @.
s., care ]. b. Dial. at postoffice. 9-19-2t
WANTED-Position by first class expert
enced boolSkeeper and general office
man. Best Of references. furnished. c.
B., care Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
HELP MAN1Ep-MALE.

WANTED-Good reliable men to represent
and sell to dealers the products of the
German Stock Food Co, of Minneapolis,
MINI, the oldest and best stock food
company doing business. We pay very
liberal commission and furnish a COM
plete sample outfit to responsible par
ties, 9-1T-14t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19

wANTED-For u. S. army: Able-bodied
unmarried men, between ages OF 81 and
S5 citizens of United States of good
character and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write English. Apply
to recruiting officer. IVA N. 10th ST..
Rlri,, In nharn Ala Lilly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
TOLOAN
Liberal Loan Company.

We will loan you money on liberal
terms. When you get in trouble. call on
us, and we will help you out. Anything
of value we will take as collateral. Call
and see us, 222o I'd ave, and we will treat
you right and make you feel satisfied.
Phone. No. 279 Peoples.
M. MALONEY. Manager.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
SITUATIONS WANTED.

wANTED-By married man % years old.
position as stenographer. Have six years
experience Am good penman. First
class references furnished. Pittman,
care Age-Herald. 9-l9-2t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19
FOR RENT

$4,000 per month-Two new brick
houses 6 rooms with bath, modern in
every way. 18th ST., between 10th
and 18th Avenues South.
s25 per month each--Four stores, 18th ST.,
between AYES. A and B.
Citizens Savings Bank, Real
Estate and Rental Department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-19

WANTED-Man to manage state agency
for the sale of oll-gas stoves Good
opening for right party. Agents wanted
at all points in Alabama Men or wo-
men. Address J. w. Hunter, Selma,
Ala 9-16-St