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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
INSECTS THAT ARE MUSICAL.

Musical insects of the winged type
may be divided into.two groups: CD
Those which do not use their wings
and (2)those which do, for the pro-
duction of sound. OF the two, the
latter species is by far the more nu-
merous. A very curious fact is that
all insects are tenors, deep bass voices
being quite unknown in addition to
this, the males are always the per-
formers, female insects being dumb,
contenting themselves with stopping
at home and looking after the chill
dren instead of standing at the front
door. singing like their lords and
masters.
Many insects sing by day, such,
for instance, as the chickadee, which,
however, are not of the ''violinist"
type, as they play upon a series OF
hard plates attached to the abdomen,
much in the same way as Spanish
dancer uses the castanets. Another
insect of this type is the black field
cricket, which has its home in a
small, cavelike dwelling it prepares
in the earth.
Other insects only sing by night
such, for instance, as the domestic
and tree crickets, whose regular mod
ulated notes are known to every one.
The apparatus used by these insects
exactly resembles violin, the abdo-
men being partially endowed with a
small bridgelike edgeor ridges, against
which the wings are rubbed, thus
producing the strident note character
istic of the insect.
Other insects, such as locusts and
their kin, have veritable bows cover
ed with fine ridges and attached to
the wings by two buttonlike growths.
Others have cavities covered over
with fine membrane which serves
the Office of resnators in almost all
insects of this type there is parch-
ment like part of the abdomen which
acts as a kind of sounding board.
Strange to say, many of these harmo-
NOUS insects are deprived of hearing.
Crickets however, are an exception
as they have sharp ears and cease
their vocal efforts at the sound ofap-
preaching footsteps. Some insects,
although apparently deprived of any
means for the production of sound,
are none the less capable of making a
noise in the world. A notable in
stance of this is to be found in To-
Gust rejoicing in the euphonious name
of Microcentrum tetinervis, which
produces a short, monotonous note
like two pieces of mental or flint rub
bed together.
So far the field of insect voices has
not been widely explored. 1t would
be interesting to study them from the
point of view of musical notation, and
also to determine whether their song
alters in any way according to season,
hour of the day, age of the insect and
meteorological chnditions. -S1ent5ft
| Ameylcan.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
THE USEFUL YAwN.

The act of yawning is distinctly
beneficial in two ways. In the flrst
place it serves the purpose of lung
ventilation. The lungs are not filed
or exhausted by ordinary respiration.
There is a certain quantity of air
which physiologists call residual
air" left in the recesses of the lungs
after the ordinary respiration. This
in time becomes vitiated and affects
the blood and, through it, the ner-
vous centers.
The result is a yawn, which is
really stretching of the respiratory
chamber to its fullest capacity and
the filling of it with freshly inspired
air which drives the vitiated air out.
Yawning is also beneficial in so far as
it opens, stretches and ventilates the
vocal, nasal and auditory chambers
in immediate connection with the
mouth.
The cracking sound often heard
when yawning is due to the stretch
ing and opening of the eutachian
tubes from communication between
the middle ear and the back of the
throat. The deafness which often
accompanies cold is due to the con-
gestion of these tubes. .-L0ndon Hos
bitaI.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
A WONDERFUL PROOF.
1.-THE suns heat is so great "

"The suns heat is so great -
But an intelligent young woman
interrupted the scientist impatiently.
"After ALL" she said, 1t is guess
work, this talk about the excessive
heat OF the sun. You can't prove
any of your claims. +"
He was disgusted.
"I can't?' he cried. "Why, it is
the easiest thing in the world to prove
that the sun is hot enough to met
iron, granite, the hardest substances
known, into liquid, into steam."
"How would you make such a
proof?" she asked incredulously.
with the burning glass, . said he.
"a burning glass is slightly round :
ed. Thus it bends into a focus-it
concentrates upon one small point
a number of sun rays The tiniest
burning glass, catching only few
rays, will light fire, set off gun or
bore a red hole in your hand"
Eyes"
uS SOldI uCdt WulCu tuC Jul dAuS
glass collects for us is the tiniest frac-
tion of the suns actual heat. We
can prove this by focusing with our
glass rays from powerful lamp or
great fire. We get small, bright
spot, little heat, but this heat is
nothing to compare with the heat of
the lamp itself.
80. knowing, now, that the solar
heat which the burning glass gives to
us is but fraction of the heat Of the
sun, we take burning glass yard
in diameter-such glasses have been
made for the sole purpose of convinc-
ing skeptical persons like yourself
and this glass concentrates many
hundreds of sun rays for us, and it
gives us a heat greater than we can
obtain in any furnace, a heat that will
melt rock into vapor."
The scientist smiled triumphantly.
"There is your proof" he said.
"The burning glass will only collect
a tiny portion of burning objects S
heat, and the tiny portion of the suns
heat that it gives us is yet sufficient
to change in a jiffy block of granite
into a puff of steam"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
ENGLISH as SHE Is SPOKE.

A young woman who was coming
to America for the first time to meet
some relatives whom she had never
seen was regretting to a steamer ac-
quaintauce her lack of familiarity
with American forms of greeting.
She was German, and her English
was unusally quaint. The man un-
dertook to teach her some of the
speeches New Workers usein common
when greeting each other after long
separation. That he was humorlst
of the old fashioned sort was shown
when the steamer arrived at the dock
for the first words the German girl
greeted her male relatives with
were:
"By jimmy crickets, I'm dog gon-
ed glad to see you !" And she couldn't
quite understand just why they
should look so surprised.
$50 that young mans gone at last, !"
said the girls mother. "You and he
have been occupying the parlor pref
ty regularly here of late, and I'd like
to know what his intentions are. Do
you know?'
"Well," /" was the dear girls ambig-
uous reply, che keeps me good
deal in the dark
"MY dear" said his wife mildly, /
need little elastic currencythis morn
ing
His puzzled look having sufficient
" amused her, she explained that she
wanted to buy some garters.
every sorry" he replied, "but all
nv elastice currency went for sus-
penders yesterday"
do you think little learning is
a dangerous thing ~ Possibly.
But it isn't half so dangerous as the
same amount of ignorance"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
MANS HUMILITY.

Sculptor and painter express a
preference for the masculine figure as
a type of beauty, but this prejudice
never has pervaded the minds Of the
laity Women have keener eye for
color effects. Few men in purchas-
ing tie stop to consider how it ac-
cords with their complexions. They
wouldn't know, anyhow. Such phys
ical imperfections as women possess
they may conceal under flowing lines
of drapery. What recourse has the
bowlegged man or the one with
knock knees! Absolutely none. In
draperies he never could catch car.
A woman will put on her head tow
ering creation built up pof the remains
of songsters, a thing in itself hideous.
She will wear dress that squeezes
ber waist until above and below there
is a breadth of deformity that argues
actual pain. She will put on shoes
with heels about the length and di-
ameter of the human fingers, and as
she limps along with studied grace
will, with the hem of her skirt, sweep
from the street paper, rags, cigarette
stumps and bacilli. All this time she
will look perfectly lovely" and
man, whose hat is a comfortable COW
ering, and whose heels are built for
contact with the pave. feels that she
is superior. This is an intuition.
He looks at the bills for her toggery,
and his opinion is confirmed. Thisis
a conviction. There seems to be no
remedy. The male habit of wearing
such clothes as the tailor and haber-
dasher supply is fixed. The male re-
grets; he can do no more. He, too,
would like to be beautiful being, a
combination of harmonies and entity
pleasing to his critics. He knows
what he is, knows and grieves, but
can't help it.-PAila. Ledger.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

never put the left foot down first when
stepping on board, for to do so, they
believe, will bring disaster. He must
be courageous Swedish sailor, in
deed, who will mention the name of a
port for which he is bound.
The following motions are as
peculiar as they are popular where
they have sway: A Turk who finds
piece of bread on the ground picks
it up, kisses it and carries it until he
finds hole in which it can be insert
ed. To do otherwise will doom him
to the third hell. A sure cure for
whooping cough in Sweden can be OBJ
tanned, the people believe, by asking
and following the advice of a man rid
ing a piebald horse. In Scotland
young woman who tries on a widows
cap is sure to be window after mar
riage. A moder Grecian mother, be-
fore putting her child in its cradle,
turns three times around before the
FIRE while singing Her favorite song.
This is to ward off evil spirits.
When boy friend of mine at
tempted to rid my hand of warts by
bidding me follow these directions
Tie knot in yarn string for every
wart touching a knot to each one
then bury the string, and when 1t is
rotted the wart would be gone. Re-
Gently learned that the farof Hin
doc, troubled with a wart, looks at the
new moon, picks up pinch of dust
from beneath his left foot, rubs the
wart with it, and when the moon
goes SO does the wart.
In cursory way I have specified
some of the superstitions obtaining in
England aud America. I shall close
this article with the mere mention of
few others. The English housewife
will not sweep the dust out of the
front door, fearing to sweep away the
fortunes of the house. There are
American housewives, when ready to
move out of their homes, who will not
sweep the dirt out the front, believing
it would bring misfortune to the next
tenant. Neither will they carry cat
or broom with them. In Devonshire
it is believed the person who plants
bed of lilies of the valley will die in
the next twelve months; in the Uni
ted States there are many people who
think that if a weeping willow be set
out in the yard some member of the
family will die before its topmost
branch reaches the caves of the house.
Nashville AnzeEI11M.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
SUCH A PRETTY GIRL.

She's not particularly bright
At school they called her dull;
A boy in such case would bemoan
The thickness of his skull.
But, now. when young men look at her.
Their brains are in whirl;
She's no Minerva-what of that2
She's such pretty girl
She hasn't very much to say,
And doesn't say IL we'll;
And yet, men readily admit,
She weaves q wondrOus spell.
No man denies her facile charm,
Unless he is churl.
She's slow and stupid-what of that?
She's such pretty grill
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
ALL HE KNEW.

What do you think of this talk
about evolution - some one asked
Brother Dickey.
"Eva who?"
Evolution -
"Whar do he live at?"
When the thing was explained to
him, Brother Dickey said
81 dunno nuttin' tall bout him.
De only thing in de round wor'l dat /
knows fer sartin' is heaven is high, en-
hell is not !"
AN old hen was pecking at some
stray carpet tacks in the back yard.
"Now, what do you suppose that
fool hen is eating those tacks forF"
said Homer.
Perhaps, F." rejoined his better half
''she is going to lay carpet"
"My wife married me to spite
somebody"
who was it
"Me, think"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

There are lots ofalleged Christians
that will peep through the binds on
Sunday, but have not sufficient moral
courage to open the front door.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

"DoN'T those poor girls work hard
behind those counters 7" exclaimed
the sympathetic lady. "Yes, but
mercy! I've worked good deal
harder in front of them, matching
samples"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

Over estimated personalities are
responsible for the downfall of many
under-estimated propositions.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

The little white bird of perfect faith
makes its nest only amid the branches
of absolute confidence.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.
BY ARTHUR G. LEWIS.

Cheerfulness and contentmeut is the
best evidence of God S existence in the
nature of humanity.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

1t should only be necessary to ap-
peal to the intellect of intelligence in
order to prove the worth of right.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

DAsHAwAY-Do you love that girl
as much as you think you do!
Cieveton Why, old man, / love
her almost as much as she thinks I
do.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

A mans gentility may be recognized
to large extent by what he does not
do to attract attention to.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

It is too often found more convenient
to quote maxim than to practice
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

Never jump at a conclusion or opiu-
ion beyond your experience; approach
it only with careful diplomatic dis
cretion.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10
DANGER LURKS IN KISSES AND DISEASE
IN THE HANDsHAKE.

Don't be too promiscuous in kiss
ing was the advice given before
large audience at the Tuberculosis
Exhibition, at Eighth and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, one evening last
week by DR.. L. F. Flick, director of
the Phipps Institute. kissing in
the family is all right, but the lips
should be always kept clean and we
should not be too promiscuous in our
kissing" the doctor said.
DIR. Flick strongly condemned the
old-time custom of hand shaking
among civilized people. I'VE should
60 through life without shaking
hands, he declared.
when people call on me and hold
out their hands they appear surprised
that do not shake hands. make
it custom not to do so. By shak-
ing hands am.liable to give the one
with whom I shake hands any dis
ease may have, and he is liable to
convey to me any disease he may be
suffering from. There is no reason
why we should swap diseases. There
fore say to you don't shake hands.
We can get along in life very well
without doing so.''
Other home truths were urged by
DR.. Flick which, he asserted, if fol-
lowed, would go long way in wiping
out the "great white plague" He
was exceptionally severe on spittoons,
because, he stated, he never saw a
man who could expectorate properly.
eff we would do away with spit
toons," he declared, I'VE would be
removing the chief cause for the spread
of pneumonia, influenza and many
other diseases. Don't spit into any
thing that cannot be destroyed. I
would rather travel in railroad cars
that had no spittoons than those with
them. Above all things don't ex-
pectorate in pocket handkerchiefs. If
you must do SO, use the little pocket
cups that can be so easily destroyed.
Tuberculosis is a house disease,
and in contracting it time is an i'm
portant element. 1t is not contagious
in the sense that smallpox is, but
you can't be in house or place all
the time with consumptive without
getting it unless you are immune. II
you have broken down tissues you
are more readily susceptible"
"How IS the new memory system
you are studying2"
"It's like all the rest" said the
man who struggles to improve his
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

"How IS the new memory system
you are studyingl"
"It's like all the rest," said the
man who struggles to improve his
mind. 1T goes on the theory that
it's easier to remember a whole lot of
things you are not interested in than
one that you are. +"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

A Man undaunted by the slurs of
envy today will accept gracefully the
cheers of success tomorrow.
The human heart is never entirely
without tenderness as long as it is
conscious of regret.
Much that man calls friendship is
only liability against which there's
no asset to equalize.
How many small characters stand
before the incubator of human effort
and anticipate the eggs invalidity.'
AS thorns indicate the presence of
a rose so often does hate demonstrate
the proximity oflove.
The ostentation of virtue merely
proves to some extent at least the
secretiveness of vice.
The best companionship is frequently
our own, provided we can make it
congenial to ourselves.
Prejudice prophecies the failure of
about as many enterprises as gener-
osity anticipates to success.
O
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-10

do you think a little learning is
dangerous thing :" Possibly.
But it isn't half so dangerous as the
same amount of ignorance"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-13
LEGAL.
Notice of FInnI Settlement.

Estate of Sarah Anne Kirkpatrick.
deceased.
Public notice is hereby given that
the undersigned administrators has this
day filed her final report and settlement
as such in the county court OF Rock Is
land county, and hearing on said report
has been set for July, 1906, at o'clock
a. m. at which time persons Interested
may appear and make objections there
to, and If no objections are filed, said
report viii be approved at that time,
and the undersigned will ask for an or
der Of distribution, and will also ask to
be discharged.
Rock Island. Ill. July 2. 1906.
MAUD MABIE. Administrative.
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EXPRESS, STORAGE. BUS AND CAB.

ROBES TRANSFER COMPANY-12O
West Seventeenth street. Old phone
1881; new phone 515S New storage
building. Express. baggage, bus and
cab calls answered day or night.
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FOR RENT - Seven-room house, with
all modern conveniences, located on
corner Twenty-ninth street and
Eighth avenue; rent, $26. Inquire of
Aaron Anderson, 12S Thirteenth
street.
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LEGAL.
Executors Motto

Estate of Augusta Gotthardt, de-
ceased.
The Undersigned. having been ap-
pointed executor of the last will and
testament of Augusta Gotthardt, late
of the couny of Rock Island, state of
Illinois. deceased, hereby gives notice
that he will appear before the coun-
ty court of Rock Island coun-
ty, at the county court room, in the
city of Rock Island, at the October
term, on the first Monday in October
next. at which time all persons having
claims against said estate are notified
and requested to attend, for the pur-
pose of having the same adjusted. All
persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make Immediate payment to
the undersigned
Dated this 26th dav of June. A. D..
1906. ARTHUR GOTTHARDT,
Executor
Sweeney & Walker. attorneys.
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MONEY TO LOAN ON SALARY.

~~~~~~~-~-~~-~-~~ ~~-~~~~~~~~~~~O~~~~~
EVERY employee in the tri-citieS hold
ing a steady position can get a loan
on their promise to pay on their plain
note. No endorSer, no inquirer OF
friends, or employer. Loans on house
hold goods and other personal prop
erty. Our plan is the fairest and most
convenient to borrowers. G. Berg
port.
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FOR SALE-Cheap. nice level lots. cor
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street car track. Also for sale, one
half acre lot. Also for sale or trade,
one-half acre lot with new seven
room house. Terms to please pur-
chaser. Inquire Of T.. Thonn, 1915
Twenty-SeVenth street.
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ART DECORATION.
HEATING AND PLUMBING.

DUFVA & CO.-Heating
and plumbing along scientific lines.
Careful and skilled workmen. Prompt
attention. ia West Seventeenth St.
Phone 11iS.
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+. COX.-Rea1 estate and
insurance. Loans specially. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
ronage solicited. Phone west 706-X.
Office, 1921 Second avenue
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Train

Trains. Leave. Arrive.
Peoria, Springfield,
St. L., Ind pls. $40 am $3.50 pm
Peoria & st. Louis. . 1870 pm b:55 pm
Peoria, Ind'pls. Gin
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Sherrard Accom-. /" $50 am S:45 am
Gable & Sherrard
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
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Masonic.

Masonic.
TRIO LODGE, NO. 81, A. +. e. A. M
"A Meets in stated communication
wv on the first Thursday of each
M month. A. w. Gillespie w NJ
I " William Il. Petit, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COUNCIL. NO. 90. r. &,
). M.-MeetS in stated cOmmunica-
ton on the third Wednesday of each
month. NJ. NJ. Briggs, II. L. M; l.. g.
Daugherty, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COMMANDERY. NO. IS,
X. T.-Meets in stated ConclaVe on
the second Monday of each month
III. y. j. Mcdonald. T.. c.; r. g. Willer
ton, recorder.
ROCK ISLAND CHAPTER, NO. 269, o.
Il. S.-Regular meeting second We'd
nesday of each month. Helena War
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tary.
MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL-H.
ID. Mack, president; f. Z. Myers, Sec
rotary.
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HOTELs AM REsORTs.

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6.767 feet above the sea. All year
round resort. A perfect place for
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Daniel S. Perkins, medical director,
Las Vegas, n. NJ.
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FOR RENT-Desk room. for any pur-
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Mauckers new Office in Rock Island
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RAILWAYS AND STEAMERS.

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND 81 PACIFIC
Railway Tickets may be purchased
at the city ticket office, 1929 Second
avenue, or C., X. / e. p. depot, Fifth av-
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west 1898, west 1929. FRANK II.
PLIThIMER, G, =. A.
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FOR RENT-A store room, 20-foot front
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PATENTS.

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PATENT AND TRADE MARK office,
room IA, Mitchell & Lynde building.
Rock Island. James +. Murphy, as
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ent attorneys, Washington, ID. c., and
Chicago, Ill
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Storage company, 322-326 East Fourth
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ARCHITECTS.

LEONARD DRACK-Architect and su-
perintendent Skinner block, second
floor. Office hours, 10 to II a. m, to
$50 p. m.