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The Carlisle independent., 1907-03-07

Contractor Osborne has been working three brick masons on the Hummel building this week and the walls are just about m
The Carlisle independent., 1907-03-07
Woven and Barbed Wire.

Chr car of Barbed and Woven wire received several days ago is going fast, so if you are in the market ior wire 1t will pay you to call and get oue prices before the supply is exh5usted.
 |, P Krsh}1a.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
LINCOLN FELLOWSHIP.
Admirers of Former President to Keep
His Memory Green.


Admirers of Abraham Lincoln met
In the Fifth Avenue hotel at New York
the other night and organized the Lin
coin fellowship, an association design
ed to become national i'll scope and
character, says the New York Tribune.
The fellowship is intended to perpetu-
ate Lincoln's memory and keep alive
his principles and patriotism.
Fifty letters were read from promi-
nent men, most of them containing the
initiation fee of n dollar for member
ship, including Horace White, General
o. .. Howard and others. Horace
White wrote that he hoped the organi-
cation would accomplish something
more than give an annual dinner in
memory of Lincoln.
One of the charter members is c. w.
Mcclellan, Il retired New York banker,
who was an officer In the Confederate
army. Others who joined are David ii.
Bates, Lincoln's tclegrapher in the war
department; Major J. B. Merwin. Mid
dleford, Conn, who was LincOln's con
fidential agent and who says he dined
with Lincoln in the White House Oh
the day of the assassination and start
ed for New York early that evening to
present LincOlns letter to Horace
Greeley containing the president 5
plans for digging the Panama canal
| with 100000 negro soldiers, with Ben
| Butler as supervisor; Charles 4. Tin.
| ker, clerk in the war department. and
! General James Grant Wilson, who ex.
! hibited n ring containing strands of
hair from the heads of Washington
| Wellington. Napoleon, Alexander Ham
ilton, Lincoln and Grant. Major Mer
win had the original order writer
and signed by Lincoln passing him
through the army lines.
These officers we've elected: Major
| William Lambert, L. s. A., retired. OF
| Philadelphia, who served under Gen
! eral Thomas in the civil war preSi
dent: General James Grant Wilson, c
w. Mcclellan, Judd Stewart. New
York; J. Il. Oakleaf. Moline, H.
| Alonzo Rothschild, East RoXhOro
Mass. and General James Fish of Min
neapolis. vice presidents; L. u. Tandy
| and Judd Stewart New York sccre
tary and treasurer respectively. I'll,
! fellowship will hold it's annual meet
ing on Lincoln's birthday and vii
hold memorial services on the ami
yersary of his death, April - It |:
proposed to celebrate the centennial
anniversary of his birth. Feb. II, 1909
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
TO END BLACK HAND.
Organization of New Orleans Italians
Plans to Deport Criminals.

To rid Louisiana and the south of
the Black Hand and other secret Ital-
ian brigandage is the object of the
Italian vigilance committee, headed by
Judge Philip PatornO an exporter, and
composed of the best class of Italians
in New Orleans, says the New York
Tribune.
A systematic crusade has already
been started. The names of fifty sus-
picious Italians at present living in
New Orleans are in n black box, sealed
and locked. These are looked upon as
bad characters. The records of these
Inen viii be Investigated in Italy, and
| if it is proved that any one of them has
served u term i'll prison--and it is be.
| lieyed that many have-they will be
| deported under the laws of the United
| States. 1t is the intention of the vigi
lantes to solve the Black Hand out
RACES with deportation. Every danger
| Gus character will be driven out of the
| United States just as soon as his iden
tlty Is established
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Worlds Mcancst SwindIcr.

Give Denver another championship
medal and crown her afresh with laIl-
rel. Once more she has proved her SUI
premacy This time she jumps into the
calcium of fame as one abiding place
of the champion among all the cham
pion mean men of the world, says a
Denver dispatch. There have been pas
masters in the art of meanneSs prOduC,
ed by other cities, but Denver clairls
that her champion has all other men
so completely outrivaled that, i'll com.
parisOn, they are not really mean men
AT all.
The new sovereign of meanness is an
individual who is cheating small chit.
dren out of their costly Teddy bears
The champion mean man wanders
around town until he sees some scrap
of humanity about four years old clutch
ing beloved Teddy bear i'll its chubby
hand Then Mr.. Champion walks up.
Look" says he, holding up a shin
ing 25-cent piece. Il will give you al
this sugar-stick money if you will give
me your Teddy bear"
The bait is too alluring for the chill
dren to resist and they hand over theil
So and 81 bears for the 'twO-bits.
Then Mr.. Champion disappears as fas
as he can walk. There were in one
day six complaints to police headquar
i,r-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

St. Louis Republic: The Japs are
not so smart as they would like to be
if they insist upon the admission to
this country of their coolic laborers in
numbers that disturb the usual way Of
living, here and there.
They had better stick to their de-
mand of Asia for the AsiatiCs," which
preceded their war with Russia. And
at the same time it might be well for
them to understand that there is some
thing of a disposition on this side oi
the Pacific to keep America for Amer
leans.
Their complaint that this is the only
country which has sought by treaty tC
exclude the immigration of Japs of any
class has no other origin than that the
United States is the only country Of
Europe or America to which the Jap.
are disposed to migrate i'll number!
that may become incOnvenient. TIL,
Japs would do well to look at it quiet.
and make a precedent against day o
trouble that is likely TO come soone
OF later.
This country is filling up with pee
pie at u rapid rate. Maybe in abou
fifty years from now it will be so crowd
ed that people in considerable drove
will be wanting to follow the star o
empire still westward across the Pa
cific and invade good many sphere
of, Japanese activity.
Once started, the movement woul
not be. easy to head off. If Japan il
sists upon our receiving such of he
people as we do not want, she coul
not with good grace object to receiN
ing any number of our people who's
competition in industry and trade sh
would not welcome.
We are doing tolerably we'll on thi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
BAND AS A CHURCH LURE.
Chicago Pastor Would Give a Concert
Before Sunday Evening Service.

Before Sunday Evening Service.
Salvation to the tune of a good band.
That is the idea of the Rev. L. John
ston Myers. pastor of Emmanuel Bap-
fist congregation, 250S Michigan ave-
nue., Chicago, says a special dispatch
to the New York World.
1.-THE people want sensations in
church as we'll as anywhere else. Why
not give it TO themE" he says.
1--WE must reach the people, get in
contact with them, and any fair and
honest means is justified. 1 would
Jump at the chance to get a good band
to give a concert on Sunday evenings
an hour or so before service.
Il believe it would draw crowd.
And after the musicians had played
outside the building | would have them
come in and finish the concert. That
would attract many outsiders in. Per
haps once inside they would be good
enough to remain.
There are not many brave ministers
today. The majority are afraid to do
! anything. They lack the courage to
| face the possibility of defeat and hui
initiation. If always cuts the sinew
The little fellow does the little work
which he sees mapped out for him, be
cause he can't possibly lose. God loves
| brave men. Men like q man who dareS
| to do"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
WHISPERS IN SUICIDES WAY
Form a Cushion For the Rope, and the
Owner Repents.

Things have been going wrong of
late with Thomas Becker, Il farmer
near Enfield " Y. The other morning
ut breakfast he was 50 disturbed that
he shook his head until his long beard,
the longest and bushicSt in TOmpkins
county, had busted all the crumbs from
his place at the table, says an Ithaca
special dispatch TO the New York
Times.
'There'H be something doing soon
around here" he remarked ominOuSly
to his wife, as he and his monumental
beard moved off toward the barn.
There Becker threw Il rope over a
croSSbeam, made it fast at one end
and arranged a moose at the other.
The moose he put around his neck ms
he stood on a feed bucket Then lie
Iaboriously tied knots in rope that
fastened his hands behind his back.
That accomplished. he babe farewell
to the world and stepped Off the buc.
ket.
Twenty minutes later Mrs. Becker,
becoming anxious, went to the barn il
search of her husband. There she
found him hanging, more or less COIN
fortably, and looking sheepish.
Are you alive, Thomas:' she in
quircd in trembling tones.
81 am" answered Mr.. Becker. "DC
you suppose any one could choke him
self with Il mattress of whisllers be
tween the rope and his throat?'
! That was the fact. The would ht
| suicide in his nervousness had failed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Prince on JnDIn.

Congressman George w. H:."cC, fS"-
merly of this district, Wa. a.Icd It
lGaIesburg his opinion abCI - SCI; :
ing of the American qua To-. 20 t.
Pacific coast, and replied to &c effCc
that he considers the movement based
upon wisdom. What Mr. Prince says
on the subject receives additional EN-
phasis from the fact that he is a mem
Der of the military committee of con-
gress and has had occasion to study
such situations as that now existing.
Said he:
Il can see no reason why so much
discussion should arise over the action
of the president, through the secretary
Of the navy, i'll sending war vessels into
| the Pacific ocean. We have almost as
much coast line, if not more, on the Pa
cific coast than on the Atlantic. We have
many interests far out i'll the Pacific
Our navy should familiarize itself with
all the waters of the world, and especi
ally with those of our own coasts.
1T seems TO me that the move is {
proper one, and that it will make TO!
the peace of the world. We have ne
present fear of any war from any
any source. Japan is the Yankee o.
the east, and her distinguished military
and naval officers have recently beer
touring the United States, and they
know full well the resources of our PEG
pie. They will be the last to advise
war with us, and do NOT think there
is any good grounds for the war appre
hCnsiOn.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

NEEDS IN that section, says Wichita
correspondent of the Kansas City Star.
H. B. Lamb. a farmer, had planted his
corn second time only to have it
taken by the bugs, and he finally
plowed up an eighty acre field and
planted Kaffir corn. The bug is two
times the size of the potato bug and
has long proboscis which projects
from its head like an elephants trunk.
With this implement it sucks the juice
from the central stalk of corn. When
the corn is more than foot high the
bug does it no harm.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Old Home Week,

Once I met an aged lady
In n leafy country lane
Oh. the lane was sweetly shady,
And the birds had come again.
And she cried. al am so happy
That 1 hardly dare to speak.
For the children, they are coming
Coming home in old home week"
Next appeared n golfng widow,
And her weeds were very fair.
She'd a bird upon her lid o,
And ribbon in her hair,
And she choriled with joyous
Gladstone little treble squeak:
"Tm so happy! TIubby's coming
Coming home for old home week."
Coming next along the highway
Was a lawyer known to fame.
He's not noted for the shy way
That he works the promise game"
He was smiling like the sunlight
AS II warns the mountain peak
AS he cried. John Doe is coming
Back from Paris old home week."
Then a bachelor so lonely
Came along. A pleasant sight.
He was beaming. for his only
Ownest own dear hearts delight,
Who had been out west divorcing
Number one in Sioux Falls bleak,
Was returning with the papers
Just in time for old home week.
But the best of all the visions
That can bless n mortal eye
Were two babes of the Patricians
Who came dancing gayly by.
"She is comingi" How they sang II!
There were tears upon my cheek.
Mother has no bridge engagements
For the whole of old home week.
-Wilberforce Jenkins in New York Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Perry S. Heath who retired from
public view after his mix up in the
postofIice frauds is on the political
deck again and suggests that the cont
ing congress should revise the tariff
because on the eve of a presidential
election, "the chances would favor a
more conservative treatment of the
subject" Talk to Speaker Cannon
about it, Perry, and if you can convert
him there may be something doing, il
it is even to revise the tariff higher
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Cannae.

Cannae, where Hannibal won his
greatest victory over the Romans, Is
situated on the opposite side of the
peninsula from the city of Rome, on
the river Aufidus and about six miles
from its mouth 1t was from this bat
tlefield that Hannibal sent to Carthage
three bushels of gold rings from the
fingers of the Roman knights slain in
the battle. Cannae is about 200 miles
from Rome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
A Waitress Too Optimistic.

"A mistake was made when I ate
at this place five years ago" said a
man to the waitress at the lunch coun-
ter in the Union depot.
Suppose l gave you too much
money in making change" said the
young woman.
"No. that's not the trouble. I was
short 90 cents
''Well. l wasn't here five years ago."
she snapped as she left TO wait on an
other Observation-Disclosures City Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Tears Not Idle.

my doctor tells me Il good cry is
beneficial"
The second woman, opening her
purse, displayed Il first class return
ticket to Europe
a good cry gained me this" she
said.-New York Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

TO take his beard into the calculation,
and it formed an effective cushion.
You'll not try it again. will yong"
pleaded Mrs. Becker after she had
freed her husband.
NO" said Becker refectively. "To
make a job of it I'd have to cut off
my whisllers. and I've been growing
'em too long to waste 'em now"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Those in control of railroads have
been guilty of grossly improper hndn-
ciering and of Illegal and injurious dis
examinations in charges. says Governor
Hughes. Yet he thinks we ought to
take 'em up tenderly; lift EN- with
care" and veto each bill for a =
cent fare.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

With the tinkling ring and the wink.
ink swing of plank in platform. thy
announcement comes that the admins
tration has caught John d., and isn't
going to do a thing to him" Loo
out for an advance in the price of oil
and another big deposit of pubic
money in the Rockefeller banks, vita
out interest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

A Philadelphia contemporary has dis
covered a joke in dictionary. 1t is
one of those unconscious bits of hui
NOR. Under the word question" Is
the following: ITO pop the question
see pop"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
World Regeneration,

The world will only he regenerated
by degrees and by reform of human
character, a task that will always and
of necessity remain the task of each
and every member of the human race.
Saturday Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
The Norm Turned.

Gam I to understand. then" asked
disappointed poet as the editor hand
ed back his latest productions. that
you do not like my verses?'
Yes; I don't think much
"Ah, you don't think! 1 see-that
explains IT,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore who
was this week elected honorary pres.
ident of the Catholic Educational as
ISOLATION of the United States by a
unanimous vote is profoundly learned
and is ideally fitted for the proud dis
tlnction conferred upon him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Tom-Rut perhaps she doesn't love
you. Jack-Oh. yes. she does. Tom
How do you know? Jack-When 1
told her that | had no money to get
married on she offered to borrow some
from her father Philadelphia In
Quirer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
THE ELEPHANT BUG.
New Corn Pest Has Arisen to Worry
the Kansas Farmer.

Reports recently received at Wichita,
Kan, from the Walnut valley say that
new kind of bug known as the ele-
phant bug has been infesting the corn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924
Second avenue. Rock Island, Ill. tEn-
tered at the postofiice as second-class
matter.1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

From the Princeton observatory I,
tailless comet has been observed. Still
it is believed that this isn't the first
bob-tail flush ever seen at this comet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

side of the Pacific and Japan is not de-
|caying on the other. 1t will pay to let
well enough alone and go on as we are,
in mutual helpfulness and amity.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
Vanity.

Little Fred-Why Is 1t that women
are always complaining about their
servants? Little Elsie-Oh. that's just
to let people know they can afford to
have 'em.--Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

When Japan learns we still have
Fighting Bob" Evans it will know
where to get off
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Coyetousness swells the principal TO
no purpose and lessons the use to all
purposes.-Taylor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Boost and you are in complete har
mony with the spirit of Rock Island
Greater Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

Mr.. Roosevelt brands his heirs ap
parent very much as he used to brani
his steers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13

After the government gets through
with the tobacco trust there should be
nothing left but ashes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-13
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

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.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-11-01

Mrs. r. p Williams has returned
from pleasant visit to Columbia, Ala
bama.
j. o. Holmes, one OF the members of
the Holmes Drug Company, in this city,
has come over from Perry on business.
For SALE-A fine black mare, 8years
old, in good condition and works any
where. Address G. s. Sauls, p. o.
Box 27S, Tallahassee, Fla. S3-tf =
Mr.. w. w. Nicholson, of Havana,
made two days VISIT this week, to her
son, Mr.. P. T. Nicholson. Mrs. Nichol-
son was on her way home from visit
to Quincy.
Mr.. Howell Sheats is now the prompt,
courteous and efficient manager of the
Star Pressing Club. Ladies will find
special attention given to their skirts
and coats We call attention to Mr..
Sheats' advertisement in another col
umn.
Have you seen those lovely Diamonds
Sweeting has brought from New York;
They are good to look at il you do not
BUY them "a
Judge George P. Raney, Jr., Of
'Tama, visited his relatives and hosts of
Tallahassee friends again the first Of
the week.
LOST ! A bunch of keys. Among
them are Ave Yale lock keys. Finder
will be suitably rewarded, upon leaving
them at this Office.
The improvements In Miss Jessie Me-
ginniss' store buildings on Monroe street
are fast coming to q finish, and the j.
w. Collins grocery store, with nice
show windows, will be one Of the neatest
in the city,
For headache DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pulls.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-11-01

DR.. c. f. Marsh, Of Pensacola, IS Wis
iting Tallahassee for few days.
J. w. Walden. of DeFuniak Springs,
Is on business trip to Tallahassee.
Mrs. W. G. Lecky, Of Vernon, Is the
guest of her brother, Mr.. J. ID. Hutchi-
son, at the Leon Hotel.
w. l.. Mcdowell, Of Savannah, Ga,
Manager Of the j. p. Williams Lumber
Co., Is registered at the Leon.
H. NJ Sweeting 3 handsome stock has
been enlarged by the addition of a num-
Der Of fine hand-carved busts of Italian
marble, Call and SEQ them. 36.3t
Mr.. Malcolm Poage, son Of Rev. W..
N. PEACE, was married Wednesday, the
23rd inst, 10 Miss Bette Baxter, of
Nashville, Tenn.
"A pond may lie quiet in a plain, but
lake wants mountains TO compass and
hold IL in." A push-cart merchant can
get along without much advertising
but q store requires newspaper space,
and plenty Of it.-Gainesville Sun.
Duval Bros. have increased their adj
vertisinR space TO one-half page. They
are interesting in their part Of this
newspaper every week, and no issue
goes to press during the whole year
without their bow 10 you. Talk to them
about their business and their advertis-
sing too.
Did you get cold a few nights ago 7
II you did you had better have those
blankets cleaned while the weather Is
warm by the Tallahassee Steam Laun-
dry 36
Muresco, the king Of all wall finish,
have no other. Applied by John E.
Spencer. 33-3t
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-11-01
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.

FoR SALE BY Mickler q Perkins
I Has been used only two months. 36.ti
Miss Lalah Gates Is home again from
> delightful visit 70 Georgia.
Mr.. and Mrs, G. f. McGrlf are max
ing visit TO Panacea Springs.
Headley's Chocolate Spray, very tooth
some. 7. II. Randolph & Son. 36-2t.
Hon. j. E. Hartridge, Of Jackson
vile, spent the Weekend at the Capt.
Be sure not to miss the Mehrtens-
Sheridan Concert, on the evening of the
9Th Inst. These ladies' are high-clasa
artists, and the audience may confident
b expect treat.
DEAD THAT old FAST winter suit
looks dead, bat Il you will have II steam
steamed at the Tallahassee Steam Laun-
aEy II will bring II TO life. 80
Mr.. George Camp, Of White Springs,
who has charge Of naval stores COM
mtsaary there, was In the city Mon
day.
The opera house has been strengthen
Cd, renovated and nicely cleaned in
readiness for the coming of the Mehr-
tonB-Sheridan Company, which is the
hrBt Of the course Of six entertain.
ments TO be given here this winter for
the special benefit of the College girls.
Have you seen H. N. Sweeting q
lnrgo new stock Of beautiful cut-glass
II not. give him an early call. 3b-9t
Miss Theo Morrison, of Monticello, Is
the guest Of Mrs. A. l.. Bond.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-11-01

Colonel Fred Robinson says the only
thing that was lacking to make the re-
union at Pensacola a perfect occasion,
was want of time TO take in all the
pleasures provided for them by the good
people of Pensacola, and the capacity
to do justice TO the multitude Of good
things provided for them to eat. All
the Tallahassee delegates agree in say
ing that this reunion was, in many ways,
the pleasantest they have ever attended,
and they are full Of praise for the hos
pitable people Of Pensacola.
Paper-hanging Is an art, and John E.
Spencer Is the artist. So for up-to-date
paper-hanging, see John E. Spencer.
33-3t
This little paragraph is now going the
rounds in the Florida newspapers The
moss-back and pull-baek that keep a
town setback ahould be made to go
away-back and stay-back and not all
lowed to comeback.
Have you seen H. N. Sweeting's
large new stock of beautiful Cut-glass
II not, give him an early call. S5-St
Sale Of seats for the Lyceum enter
tainment will begin on Monday, at the
store Of Burns and Co. Be prompt in
securing your seats 80 that you may Sc
cure one to suit you.
Rooms TO Rent--Address w. L. Mar
shall, Tallahassee, Florida. 32-tf