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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

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. c. Berg
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
FOR sALE-CITY PROPERTY.

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FOR SALE-See Schreiner & Hubbard's
ad on page >.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
FLORISTS.

HENRY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Chip
piaunOck nursery. Cut flowers and
designs OF all kinds. City store 1907
Sarnnd avenue Talephone IlIn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR SALE-Go-cart in good condition.
Inquire at PA Fourth avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

WANTED - y good girl for kitchen
work at 1905 Fourth avenue.
WANTED-A cook; references required:
best wages. Apply 1T sci Elm street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
H3NTED-TO EXCHANGE.
HkIRDRESSING,

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'CIENTIFIC FACIAL AND SCALP
Massage ShampooinE, ManicurinC.
and all kinds of hair work done to
order. Ready-made hair goods for
sale. Chiropody a speciality for la
dies and gents. 1S27h Second ave
nue., Rock Island. Mrs. d. E. Scholl
and daughter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR SALE-At sacrifice. a new Vosc
* sons piano. Inquire at 945 Forty
third street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
Observation-Disclosures.

/. NJ. McCASKRIN-Attorn
ROCK Island and Milan. Rock Island
ofnce IN BengstCn block. Milan Office
on Main street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR SALE-Full blOoded fox terrier
pups. ! months old; price, S3. Inquire
at 1920 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

HOME LAUNDRY - Family washings
only; work called for and delivered
Miss y. Couch, proprietor, 1919
Twelfth street: old phone west 652-L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
FUEL.

EMPIRE COAL & COKE COMPANY
Wholesale and retail dealers in bi.
luminous and anthracite coal. Prompt
ueiIvery service. Orlce 171S FirSi
avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
WELL. DRU.LER.

OLOF SWANSON = Well driller: first
class water guaranteed or no pay.
Call or address SIT Ninth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
CLAIRvOYANT.

MRS. MARY YATES-Business medium
hours, / to 10 D. m. Residence. 7O5
Fourth avenue. Take the Blue line
west. Phone west TAX
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

opportunity to join the
I. 5. navy and learn a trade; board,
lodging. medical attendance, and $45
outfit clothing free. Good pay, with
opportunities to increase it. Electri-
clans, clerks. machinists, firemen, car
penters, cooks. and men without
trades. but of good character, accept
ed. Call or write |. 5. Navy Recruit
ing Station. Whitaker building. Day-
export; also Cedar Rapids and Dcs
MOincS, Iowa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

IF YOU WANT to buy, sell, trade or
rent anything. engage help or secure
a situation, the Mail is the one pa
per in Moline that can do it for you
Mail wants are popular, and Mail
wants bring results. One-half cent
per word is the price to all alike cash
In advance; 2-cent stamps will do
Evening and Saturday Mail, Moline
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN-New company. Peo-
pies Loan company, makes salary
loans, furniture loans, piano loans:
lowest rates, easy payments, quickly
ana quietly. Private offices Peo-
pies Loan company Cunincorporated)
4O9 Lane building. fourth floor. Dav-
export, Iowa. open s "A. m. to $50
p. m. Open moons and Wednesday
and Saturday evenings
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FIR RENT - Nicely furnished front
room at 4l6 Eighteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

ii. j. CHURCHILL COMMISSION COM
pany - Brokers Rock Island house
block Stocks, grain, provisions, cot
ton, and Investment securities bought
and sold for cash or on margins. Pri-
yate w Tres to Chicago and New York
Both phones; old west $40, new 504S.
Market quotations gladly furnished
by phone or mail.
ii. L. TOHER g. CO.-Brokers, Daven-
port. Stocks, grains, provisions. cot
ton Private wire to New York and
Chicago. Offices, 100 Main street. Tel
ephone 407.
GEORGE Fl. SIDWELL &C. CO-Com-
mission merchants. Grain, hay and
provisions. Members of the Chicago
board of trade and Chicago stock ex-
change. Established 25 years No
642 and 54S Rialto building. Long dis
lance phone. Harrison, 1856.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
EDUCATIONAL.

VILLA DE CHANTAL-A home school
conducted for girls by the Sisters of
the Visitation. documentary and
higher branches and all polite accom-
plishments taught Twentieth street
ana Fifteenth avenue, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
ART DECORATION.

PARDON & SON-Artistic interior
decoration. Finest line of late papers
carried and skilled workmen EN- plov.
ed. Moderate prices. AZ Seven
teenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR RENT : Large furnished front
room at 2SOS Fifth half ave
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

DON'T buy land until you have a chanc,
TO see our list. We own or controi
Al lands we offer in Minnesota
North Dakota or Canada. Leay,
agents ut home and save the commits
sions. Free transportation to ali huy-
crS. w. c. Rodgers Land company
National Bank of Commerce building
Minneapolis. MINI.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
EXPRESS, STORAGE, BUS AND Can.

ROBES TRANSFER COMPANY-l2O
West Seventeenth street. Old phone
1881; new phone 515S. New storage
pudding Express, baggage. bus and
cab calls answered day or night.
Reliable STORAGE-On first floor;
also manufacturer of awnings tents
wagon covers, etc. Tents for rent
r. Roessler e. Co, 209 Fifteenth
street, opposite the court house, Rock
Island.
EWERT & RICHTER-Express and
storage company, having unequaled
facilities for moving, storing, packing
and shipping household goods. and
can quote reduced freight rates to
Pacific coast and other points. Write
or call. Office and warehouse 1922
326 East Fourth street, Davenport,
Iowa Telephone sos.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished rooms at
1907 Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR RENT - Rooms for light house
keeping at 307 Third street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
FOR SAIE-FARM LANDS.

DAKOTA AND CANADA LANDS-Send
Tor Illustrated booklet. maps and in
formation about excursions. Agents
wanted. Dakota n Canada Land com
pany, Minneapolis. Mimi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11

FOR SALE-Lots in Beecher &, Walsh's
duuitch on TWenty-fifth and Twenty
sixth streets between Fifteenth nnC
seventeenth avenues; will be solo
cheap and at your own terms; con
Venlent to street car line and city
water; level all above grade, witt
some fine shade trees; will build
homes for desirable parties. For
particulars see Beccher Bros, 15l3k
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-11
FOR RENT--MiSCELLA

fok kENT-Storc room at 1917 Third
avenue. Inquire of John Koch. Dis
Seventeenth street
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
Wrecks in san FRANCISCO Bay.

What melancholy sight the bottom
of San Francisco bay must present
A diver recently told of going down
to the City Of C0ester, sunk many
years ago at the mouth of the harbor
by one of the large China steamers.
He descended with stout heart and
a mind lured to the tragedies of the
sea- but when he saw two sisters of
charity sleeping quietly in their berths,
and nearby man on his knees, sway
ing back and forth with the motion of
the tide, and a dim, mysterious light
over all the somber objects, his heart
failed him and he gave the signal to
be hauled above. The San Rafael lies
there too. She went down in 1901,
sent to the bottom by a collision with
another steamer in the fog. The
relentless tide runs over her coy
cabins and beautiful stairway, dark
with the passage of time.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
Gold In the North.

Perhaps the most northerly gold
fields in the world are those in Lap
land, where the River Ivalo seems to
be the center Of an auriferous region,
where gold dredging operations have
been carried on for some time. Dig
gings to the depth of 300 feet have
been completed with view of finding
out the real course of the ore. The
gold discovered last year by COM
pany, founded in the United States,
amounted to only four pounds, valued
at $1,5O0. This was found along part
OF the Ivalo river, and the largest mug
get weighed about 1923 grains. There
are three companies digging gold there
now, the latest being the Ivalo com
pany, organized in the United States.
Within the possessions Of this com
pany lies Kultala, which was built in
1871 by the Finnish government for
washing gold.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
GOOD THING TO LEAVE ALONE.
Physicians Advice to Those Who Are
Fond of Mushrooms.

1t may be possible that when all the
boys are dead they will quit eating
toadstools and dying in spasms there
from. The edible and poisonous varie-
ties of these fungi are too close to-
gether in general and species for the
average youngster to differentiate
them. 1t continues, after many years,
to be the same old story: Eat it; if it
kills you it is toadstool; if it agrees
with you it Is a mushroom Some
years ago the department of agricul-
ture at Washington issued an elab-
crate and beautiful set of illustrations
OF mushrooms and near" mushrooms,
labelling one set "edible" and the other
poisonous" The story leaked out
that the printers got the labels mixed
and that the transposition was not
discovered until the work had been
sent broadcast. The officials did some
tall hustling in an effort to call in the
issue. A well-known physician said
to me the other day: Owing to the
very great difficulty in ordinary life
of detecting the true from the false,
my mushroom advice has usually been
let both kinds alone. New York
Press.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
HAD NO USE. FOR BABIES.
Dog Intended to Be the Only Pet In
the Household.


owned a black and tan terrier from
1874 to 1881. l received him when
quite a puppy and he was with me
through part of my university and the
whole of my seminary terms. In 1880
l msTied and in 1881 my first child
was born. The first time she was
brought down into the sitting room /,
like proud father, took the little one
in my arm. The dog came in and ex-
pressed his jealousy by a series of
growls and an attempt to get at the
child by jumping l gave him a hint
with my foot and he walked out of the
house. We saw nothing Of him for
over three months. One day while
walking near the outer part of the
town where we lived we saw old
Croaker, as We called him. He took
no notice of us, but walked straight
to a place where there was a trim
looking garden and neat-looking
house. Upon inquiry we found that it
was inhabited by two elderly spinster
sisters. The dog had gone to them
and could not be induced to leave. He
was determined to avoid a similar
danger in the ure-Chicago Trib-
une.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
AL A MATTER o. INCHES.
Wcr1-n's Increased !F,l ut Makes Her
SuFtF-r 20 ian.

w ader If the love ideals Of WON.
eahoc are changing with the sex,
Which is certainly in a transition
late. AT one time it was rare event
Ter woman to marry a man much
younger than herself; now it is com
mon one. Not so very long ago, in her
secret heart, the unattached maiden
rather longed for a master to whom
she might play the part of admiring
and adoring satellite; but in the pres
ent year of grace she prefers to be
sovereign herself, and to have prime
minister who is useful and subordin-
ate. Can this change be in any way
due to the superior inches of the mod
ern woman? A difference must in
evitably exist between the day dreams
Of the six-foot somt thing and the day
dreams of five-foot nothing. Only the
other evening, at concert, l was
much struck by the imposing manner
in which very tall woman, splendidly
gowned, made her entrance into the
room. She swept in as if the whole
world belonged to her, while behind
her followed an Insignificant creature
in black carrying her costly cloak, her
fan and l don't know what else. Hon
estly, felt sorry for him, but realized
that my pity was wasted. One could
see he exulted in his wife's magnifi-
cent appearance and his own subjec-
tion.-Black and White, London.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
A Famous Model.

A good many years ago-27, to be
exact-the most famous model In the
world, Antonio Corsi, wandered from
town to town as strolIing minstrel in
England. Felix Moscheles, the IA
nous artist, happened to discover him
at Dover, brought him to London and
employed him as a model That was
the beginning of a really artistic
career, and to-day Antonio Corsi has
the distinction of being the finest
model in the world, as well as the
most famous All classes of painters
have been thankful to employ him.
He posed for Sargent and Abbey for
the well known paintings in the Bos-
ton public library, and he has not dis
dained to appear as Mephistopheles on
can of deviled ham.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
PauanIni,s Violin.

The famous violin Of Paganini,
which was preserved in a glass case,
has been found to be rotting, and
it is certain that the wood will not
last many years longer. This dis
covery has caused agitation as to
the means Of preserving the precious
Instrument. 1t has been decided
that to keep it few years longer
II shall be taken out once year
and played on for an hour by the
best pupil of the conservatoire.
Only once since the death Of the
greatest violinist who ever lived has
the violin, which is superb
Stradivarius, been touched, and that
was some years ago. by the Spanish
viclinist, Pablo del Sarasate, to
whom the city during a triumphal
tour through Italy wished to offer q
signal honor.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
Porpolses in New York Harbor


New York harbor was treated to a
strange visitation one night recently.
A school of porpoises, numbering as
many as 100 and headed by a vener-
able patriarch in gray whiskers, swan
in, took leisurely survey of their sur
roundings and then returned to the
open, something for which the oldest
inhabitant could recall no precedent,
says the Boston Transcript The Wis
itors came in through the new Am
brose deep water channel. Perhaps
they assumed that it had been pre-
pared expressly for their accommodate
ton. At any rate, they seemed to ap-
prove of it, This phenomenon occurred
on the night which soothsayer had
appointed for the submergence Of
Manhattan by tidal wave. But the
skeptical public did not take alarm
On the contrary, the old watermen
said it betokened fine sea weather.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
RAIN WAS SURE TO COME.
Farmer SO Certain That He Was
Rather Unduly Impressive.


A New York man who had been
summering in the White mountains,
on his return to town, told Of an en-
counter with a New Hampshire farm
err. 1t was late in September, and 1t
was almost time for the equinox, or
line storm" as the natives call 1t.
Inc city man was planning certain
trip on his motor cycle, but the morn
ing on which he had been intending to
start was SO gray and overcast that
he felt some hesitation about setting
out. He was trying to persuade him
self out of this feeling, even though
his better judgment was against him.
The mountains were yelled in wreaths
of mist and cloud that had settled
down almost to their bases. He was
getting his wheel ready when one Of
the nearby farmers came up and
leaned over the fence, watching him.
II s'pose we don't mind gettin some
wet" he finally insinuated. ooh,
don't believe it's going to rain" an
swered the optimlst, jauntily. 1T
looks bit threatening, but l think it
will clear up by noon, so I'm going to
start just the same" The farmer was
silent moment, then he pointed sol
EMMY toward the clouds, which had
entirely shut out from view the mighty
mountain four miles away. Young
man." he said impressively as he
pointed. Look thar When the cloud
settles down over Kearsarge, God
Almighty couldn't stop the rain!"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
SLEEP BROKEN BY
ITCHING ECZEMA
Skin Of Whole Body Covered for a
Year Awful Itching Kept Suf-
ferer Awake Half the Night
Tried All Kinds Of Remedies but
They Had No Effect.
CUTICURA REMEDIES
A PERFECT SUCCESS

II wish to let you know that / have
used one set Of Cuticura Remedies =.
one cake Of Cuticura Soap, one box OF
Cuticura, but two walls Of Cuticura
Resolvent Pills - which cost me o
dollar and twenty-five cents in all. For
q year l have had what they call eczema.
l had an itching all over my body, and
when / would retire for the night it
would keep me awake half the night,
and the more would scratch, the more
it would itch. / tried all kinds Of REM
edies, but could get no relief. A friend
Of mine told me to try the Cuticura
r aGpt tried them for was aU completely mp
cured. If any of my friends should
be troubled with the same disease, !
will cheerfully recommend the Cuticura
Remedies, and if know any one who
wants to know how / cured myself, l
shall be glad to tell them. Walter w.
Paglusch, 2O7 N. Robey St., Chicago
ILL.,, Oct. s and 16, 1906"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
crieq as a schooIboy,

Grieg was not pattern schoolboy
In description Of his days at school
he wrote: Knowing that by arriving
late would not be allowed to enter
the class until the end of tthe first
lesson, | used, on wet mornings, to
stand under dripping roof, until / was
soaked to the skin. The master then
sent me home to change my clothes
but the distance being long this was
equivalent to giving me a dispense
ton! You may guess that / played
this prank pretty often, but when at
last carried it so far as to come one
day wet through, though 1t had hardly
rained at all, they became suspicious,
and kept lookout. One fine day l
was caught, and made an intimate ac-
Quaintance with the biroh!"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
Could Have Their Choice.

Frederick Sandys, described by
Ruskin as the greatest of English
draughtsmen, was once asked before
he was known to fame to paint the
portrait Of the mayor of a town, a
most estimable grocer. The spokes-
man Of the deputation said that the
committee was prepared to pay as
high as $50 for a good portrait, but on
seeing the artists face grow long, add
ed that they only wanted half
length. "Oh, of course, that makes a
difference" said the artist, most ur-
banely Which half would you pre-
fer. gentlemen
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
WITH THE BRAND OF CAIN.
French Scientist Advocates the Mark
ing of Murderers.

A French scientist has made a re-
markable proposal in regard to the
punishment of murderers in France.
He is of the opinion that neither gull
lotining nor life Imprisonment is an
adequate or suitable punishment for
murder. The guillotine, he points out,
inficts absolutely no suffering on the
criminal, who is probably man who
has passed his life in infiicting suffer
ing on others. AS to life imprison-
ment, it entails heavy expense to the
country and generally reduces the
prinoner to insanity. He suggests,
therefore, that such criminals shall be
branded on the face with redhot
iron and then released. The branding,
he thinks, should be done in public,
the M" signifying meurtrier, the
French word for murderer. being
stamped as an ineradicable mark on
the forehead Of the criminal He would
thus bear about to the end of his days
the mark of his crime, and be con-
slant warning to his kind.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
LonafeIIow,s School Dave.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the
poet. received his early education in
a school in Portland, Me. He was
pronounced by the master to be tone
of the best boys in school," He was
a studious child and preferred the com
pany Of books to lively companions
He passed the entrance examination
to Bowdoin college at IA. He graduated
fourth in his class in 1926.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
CUTICURA
The Great Skin Cure and PureSt
and Sweetest of EmOIlientS.

Cuticura Ointment is, beyond ques.
ton, the most successful curative for
torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin
and scalp, including loss of hair, yet COM
pounded, in proof of which a single
amounting with Cuticura Ointment, pre-
coded by a hot bath with Cuticura Soap,
and followed in the severer cases by dose
of Cuticura Resolvent Liquid or PilLs).
is often sufficient to afford immediate re.
lief in the most distressing forms of itch.
ing, burning, and scaly humors, eczemas,
rashes, and irritations, permit rest and
sleep, and point to speedy cure when
most, if not all, other remedies and even
physicians fail.
Complete External and Internal Treatment fof
Every HumoI of Infants. Children. and Adults cons
sists OF Cuticura Soap (25cl TO Cleanse the Skins
Cutcura Ointment (50c) TO Heal the Skin. and Cuti-
cuFa Resolvent (50c) Cor in the form OF Chocolate
Coated Pills, Csc per vial Of GOD to Purify the Blood.
Sold throughout the world. Potter Drug Chem.
Corp, Sole Props, Boston, Mass.
ea- Mailed Free. A Book on Skin Affections
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
f, Letting Go All Holds.

Once there was a woman who had
spent many, many years in making
green lampmats-these mats, you
know, that have fuzzy borders you
put them on the center of the table
as ornaments-an never, never had
made them of any other color than
green. One day. when in an unusually
wicked mood, she shut herself up in
her room, locked the door. pulled down
the blinds, and then, yielding to an
uncomfortable impulse, she dissipated
in the most reckless manner by GRO
cheting red lampmat
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
a Narrow Escape.

Anxious mother Ito small son who
has just tumbled down stairs) -
Mercy me, quick! are you killed?",
Little Dick-"No. m" Are you hurt
much? DO tell me. quick!p NO; that
was the luckiest fall ever had !"
"Lucky?' Yes; only struck one
stair ON the way down
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State Of Mississippi oIn.
Chickasaw County 1nd District 6

The creditors Of w. G. StovalI, de-
ceased, having debts due or not due,
shall have their claims registered, pro-
bated and allowed BY the Chancery
court Of the Second district Of Chick
asaw county, Mississippi, within one
year from this date, otherwise said
claims shall be barred, and a suit shall
not be maintained thereon in any court
even though existance q the claim be
known to the executors. This being
the law we respectfully ask all credi-
tors to take their claims to the Chan
Gerry clerk. and have them registered.
probated, and allowed when the same
will be paid at once.
Respectfully
G. E. Saunders,
Ill. Morrison,
A. 7. Stovall.
Executors
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-11-13
STRANGE RehavIor.

Doctor-'il regret to inform you,
Mrs. Tightwad, that fear your hus-
band is afiicted with softening Of the
BRAIN Mrs. Tightwad- Goodness
graciousl What makes you think so?""
Doctor-"TIe insisted on paying me In
ADVANCE"