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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
INSURANCE.

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INSURANCE. on dwellings and house,
hold furniture a speciality. Cham
berlin & Anderson.
F. COX.-Real estate and
insurance. Loans a speciality. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
ronage solicited. Phones west %, and
new 5172. Office at court house.
Insurance Agency Fire,
life, accident, health, and plate glass
real estate and loans; second floor.
Safety building. Office phone west
996. Residence phone 736-K. Open
Wednesday and Saturday nights.
WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors'. ad-
ministrators', guardians, trusteesr or
any kind of judicial bonds; lodges and
society officers; city, state or u. S.
government officials; contractors, po-
sitions of trust; in fact. any kind OF
bond you want Except bail bonds)
Terms reasonable. Hayes & ClcHve-
land. resident managers Fidelity &
Deposit Company of Maryland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

WANTED-Household goods to move.
store, pack or ship at reduced rates
to Pacific coast and other points. For
the best service at lowest rates write
or call on Ewert & Richter Express &
Storage company, 322-326 East Fourth
street, Davenport, Iowa. Tel. 59S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
FOR SALE-LANDS.

FOR SALE--Good stock farm, 293 acres
VIII take small farm in part pay
ment Reidy Bros
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
FIRE INSURANCE.
Charles e. N@dgs@m
FIRE INSURANCE.
AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED 1874.

American Ins. Co. ...... Newark, N. J.
Continental ms. Co. .........N New York
Agricultural ms. Co.. New York
Farmers Ins. Co.. York, Pa.
New Hampshire Ins. Co. N. Hampshire
Northern ms. Co.............N New York
Security ms. Co. New Haven. Conn.
Ins. Co., State of Illinois. Rockford, Ill
Connecticut Fire ms Co. Connecticut
office-172s Third avenue. Rates as
low as consistent with security.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
MASSAGE AND ELECTRoLYsIs.

given at the homes. Super
fluouS hairs permanently removed
with electric needle. Treatment Civ
en- at homes unless otherwise desired
Address Miss a. NJ kittridge, 1913
Perry street, Davenport, Iowa. Old
phone 1885,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

WANTED-Boarders. at a private Ger
man boarding house; first class meals,
home cooking, nice rooms, with steam
heat; bath and gas: price reasonable;
1905 Fourth avenue; old phone 824-Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

O-CEDAR SPRAY-O-Cedar Spray; the
modern method of exterminating in
Sects and bugs; 31G-320 Eighteenth
street. Inquire for j. a. Stombs.
IF YOU WANT to buy, sell, trade or
rent anything, engage help or secure
situation, the Mail and Journal is
the one paper in Moline that can do
1t for you. Mail and Journal wants
are popular, and Mail and Journal
wants bring results. One-half cent
per word is the price to all alike,
cash in advance; two-cent stamps will
do. Evening and Saturday Mail and
Journal. Moline. Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL - H.
d. Mack, president; f. T. Myers. Sec
rotary.
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EXPRESS. STORAGE, BUS AND CAB.

ROBES EXPRESS COMPANY = Furni-
ture moved. packed. and stored Bus.
baggage and cab service day or night:
Main office, 2410 Third avenue. Old
phone 537 and 900. New phone 515S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

HOPE HOMPSON-Attorney at law.
General law business; probate, COM
mercial. and corporation law. 304-305
Safety Building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED - Two or three rooms, fur
nShed for light housekeeping; must
be within easy walking distance of
Y. NJ. c. A. building. Address "G.. -"
care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

FOR RENT = Two nicely furnished
front rooms. also two furnished
rooms at 1872 Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
FOR Observation-Disclosures.

FOR SALE-Four-cylind touring car,
with top and lamps Address Owner.
care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
wANTED-FEMALE HELP.

WANTED-A waitress at the Rock Is
land house cafe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

CHIROS-World renown-
ed paimist and clairvoyant; here for
the summer; Temple of Palmistry
Watch Tower. Consult him if in
trouble.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at a private board
ing house; first class meals; home
cooking and baking; nice rooms. all
modern. bath, gas. etc. Call at 1908
Second avenue. New phone $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

FOR SALE-Great Dane puppies; thor
ouGhbred. registered stock. Prices
right. Cali west Asa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

FOR SALE-Cheap, a Cyclone camera,
Senior Takes picture 4X5 inches.
Inquire at 914 Fourteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
wAsNTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED - Bell boys at the Harper
house
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18
CLAIRVOYANTS.

MRS. PETERSON-Clairvo and
card reader. Satisfaction at low
rates. 404 Forty-third street.
MRS. MARY YATES-Business medium
hours, l to 10 p. m. Residence, 705
Fourth avenue. Take the Blue line
west. Phone west TAX
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-18

SEARLE & MARSHALL - Lawyers.
Money to loan on good real estate
security. Mitchell g. Lynde block,
Rock Island, Ill.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

JACKSON, HURST &c STAFFORD-At-
torneys- at-law. Office in Rock Island
National bank building.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

THIS FILM WAS PRODUCED FROM THE
IlI1e,r AND MOST NOMpI ETE ORIGINAI
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
Toy Horses in the Rough.

mountains, about hourA walk from the bohemian
boundary-the name of this place is Seiffen-and here
the toy making Independent home industry IS IN
full swing vet Toys been made in fact in every
family since generations and each family has become
a specialist for the other kind of toys. There
are houses in which only carriages are made. there
are others where only sheep and goats are carved
others are specialists for horses, and Others again,
carve only soldiers and other human figures.
The pay these people from the factories is rdicu-
lousy low; often whole family will only about
sixty cents day. All the members of family, chill
dren included, have to work with united forces to
make living from this occupation. But the people
extremely modest, their occupation leaves them
no time to do any complicated cooking. and they
mostly living lard and potatoes with which
they SEEM perfectly satisfied
The funny little old fashioned wooden animals that
have been going In and out of Noahs Ark for years
and years made chiefly in Gr1nhainichen and Oh
bernhau. In looking at these figures, which varysrom
half inch to about five inches in size one may adj
mire the skill and the patience required carve each
animal. No doubt much skill is required in this kind
Of work. but there is certain the manufac-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
Chipping Off the Animals

T HOUGH Santa Claus always begins getting ready
| for the next Christmas the very minute he I'M
harnesses his reindeer, yet he never could make
enough toys to go around if he did not have lot of
people to help him.
In Germany there several villages where every
body works toy making; not only the mothers, IA
lhers and children but the grandmothers and
grandfathers For generations these families have
made toys-dolls tin soldiers, doll furniture, little
wooden wagons and wooden animals of all kinds. In
many homes the little children begin helping in this
work when they are small that they can hardly sit
at the common working table.
In some villages there large factories where the
preliminary work the toys is done such as cutting
the rough material, the boards or the wooden blocks
into shape Then the of the family call at the
factory get this material and take it home to finish
The factories give out the exact number of pieces
essary for certain quantity of the furniture, not
piece less, and they demand that the finished
article must be delivered within certain time. This
MEANS of course that every one who works on the
toys must be very careful not to make Mistakes as
strict account is kept of all material given out.
There is a little place right in the heart of the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
Toy Making in Germany Finishing Wooden Horses

the turning lathe and which has been given IN IT'S
profile the shape of the animal in question.
The turning these rings is, of course, an art IN
itself which may not be found anywhere else in the
world There is a special union of ring turner's
(eifendreher and every one of them is specialist
for certain animals-one turning only COW rings OF
horse rings; another sheep rings; still another goat
rings and so on There are, further rings for graz
ing animals for walking animals for jumping ami
mails sc. The work is all the more difficult as the
t7l,",er really cannct the progress of his work
The profile of the ring (Which means the shape of the
animal can only be when the work is finished
and when the ring is cut in two. Experience and a
certain Judgment combined with pronounced ar
tstic taste are the only things to guide the turner
Whenever a family is about to start on new set OF
animals they order their rings from the turner order
ing so many COW rings stag rings, or camel rings,
&C. At home the animals are then chopped off from
the rings and the figures then given the finishing
touches including the painting and vanishing
In one of the tiny villages tucked away in a remote
mountain district there is old woman whose spe-
cialty is angels, which may at the same time be used
as candestcks. She has been making these angels,
according to her confession for more than thirty
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

preliminary trial in the Police Court the
proprietor and the bartender had sworn
that she had been ordered to leave the
soloon half an hour before the window
was broken, and that she had departed
vowing vengeance upon them. The police
man who arrested her had sworn that he
saw her hurl brick through the glass.
II was advised to advise Jenny to plead
guilty and receive a shorter sentence than
il she were convicted after e trial
called upon her. but she absolutely refused
to accept this advice. She told me that
she had never been in the saloon in ali her
life and that the reason the policeman
arrested her was because she had refused
to give him her pocketbook. The brick
had been thrown at her by the policeman,
she declared and had gone through the
window. and the proprietor of the saloon
and his barkeeper were perjuring them
selves, and when Judge Cowing asked her
what she was doing In the street at two
O'Clock in the morning she said that she
was coming home from work
asked.
I work at dish washin. ledge, yer
amer she told him.
do you work until two O'clock in the
morning.? he inquired.
q, les, Jedge, yer amer she declared
l "ork from seven in the morning until
TWO CLOCK In the morning every dav OF
Ihe week except Sundays, and that's
Ionger hours than you work yourself.
ledge, yer amer
by this time she had every ona In
court laughing, and her answers to the AS
slstaht District Attorney on cross-exami-
nation We're SO witty that the jury became
Interested IN her. She had assured me ON
ner sacred word of honor ia her cell that
the policeman had not arrested her until
Ten minutes after the window was broken
ano that the saloon keeper and bartender
hao held her until he arrived. Conse-
quentiy when the policeman was called
10 the stand and testified that he had seen
her throw the brick made up my mind
that ne was not telling the truth, and after
lohs cross-examination L got him So
tangled up that he contradicted himself
over and over again. The result was that
! HAT Pin Jenny was acquitted. although
she told papa afterward that OF course
she Threw the brick through the window
and was glad OF it,
MISS Coleman Is a graduate OF st On
brlels seminary. She studied law ia her
fathers office and in the New York I1ni-
versity Law School, She was admitted 10
the bar in 1SS9-when she was sixteen
years old, according to present indications
In spite of her youthful appearance and
girlish vivacity she is an impressive figure
in court. Her method is tense, pointed and
direct, her language concise and her man
ner confident. Those who have heard her
address a hostile audience on the woman
suffrage question cannot but admire her
courage and determination.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
Turning the Rings from Which Animals Are Made.
Toy Cows tn Different Stages

years. always after the pattern, which has orig
mated from her fancy and these angels belong to
the queerest figures that can be imagined.
In Thuringa, whence most of the dolls come. the es-
tabshmen of big factories has pretty done away
with the old home industry, yet there are few places
further In the heart of the mountains where fac
tories exist and where each family is, to speak,
factory in itself The principal of these
places is the little village of Seifen, about hour dis
tant from the Bohemian frontier The village counts
present 400 inhabitants and toy making is carried
in every little hut of the community.
The villages in which this strange art is exercised
not far away, geographically, from the big
places of industry, but the bad railroad connection
makes them far and most of these places difficult
to reach So there is little doubt that in spite of
progressive century with its tendency for mechanical
production, the old primitive way of toy making will
flourish in these hidden mountain villages for gener
atoms yet to Gomez but when all the horses and
riages and dogs and sheep and soldiers under
the Christmas tree, shining and sparkling in their
fautess coat of varnish, hardly anybody viii think
of the poor people who made these things and who
getting for their skilful work such poor
pensation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13
NEW YORK. saturday

NEW YORK. Saturday.
, HEN the clerk in Essex Market
Police. Court, Magistrate Daniel
e. Finn presiding, called the
case of the People vs.. Rosen-
stein, charged with felonious as
C.II.r Iui M and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

NEW YORK. Saturday.
NE RHEN the clerk in Essex Market
NM J Police Court, Magistrate Daniel
= Finn g .1 s:' F:.s: s:i ss- e.:
wv stein, charged with felonious as
w saut, Selig complainant, and
announced Mrs. Sophie Mayer,
counsel for the Defendant a woman OF
middle age arose from the lawyers.
seats and approached the bench. Rather
above medium height, with strong
intellectual face and attired In becom-
ing black, but wearing little ornamen-
tation, her department that OF grave SELF
possession, she seemed strangely out OF
place among the shabby occupants of the
gloomy court room The masculine part of
the Essex Market bar, the policemen and
the court attendants, deferentially made
way for her as she entered the rallied in
enclosure before the seat of justice and
composedly returned the Judges bow
When the clerk asked Mrs. Mayer If
she was ready to proceed with the trial
she turned toward pretty domestic
group on one of the front seats of the
court auditorium. Its centre was Jovial
little black haired man, who wore win
ming smile. On the other side of him was
his loving wife, an affectionate sister on
the other, and two curly headed children
chung confidently to his knees. It seemed
unbelievable, when Mrs. Mayer addressed
the iovial little man as the defendant In
the case, that any one should have MADE
so obvious and painful an error as TO
charge him with anything felonious-
much less felonious assault. The tender
ness with which his dear wife and sweet
children kissed him when he left them to
take an undeserVed place in the prisoner s
dock of itself was sufficient to prove him
incapable of an unkind deed to any one.
The dignifled respect with which Mrs
Mayer greeted him was corroboratlVe EVIL
dence of his moral worth.
The plaintiff in the case of the People VS..
Rosensten was tall and unkempt man
Of lachrymose countenance, whose head
was done up in white surgeons linen from
below his brick red ears, those organs pro-
truding at right angles and giving hlm a
startled expression from the rear. AS a
general thing the amount OF banoaslhg
worn by complainant IN police court
Is in inverse ratio to the seriousness of any
Injury he may have sustained. Indeed, II
frequently occurs, after a court officer
has unwound many yards of bandaging,
the wearer moaning ana shrielNing and
giving every other evidence of acute agony
as the potential wound comes closer to Of
fetal inspection, that no injury at all Is
dlscerniblc. In the case of Selig, however,
physical examination was unnecessary
since the ambulance surgeon who had put
the bandages on was in court to testify to
the nature of the wounds underneath.
The story OF the complainant was that
he had gone into a saloon in Delaney
street a week before and ordered a drink
OF whiskeg which had been placed before
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

life Mrs. Mayer is Mrs. Adolph H. Mayer
and her husband is also a lawyer, having
taken his first degree in Germany where
the pair were married. 1t was her nus
bands failing eyesight that suggested to
MRS. Mayer to take up the study of law
in order that she might assist him in his
practice. She took up the criminal end OF
lit. she frankly admits. because 1t is easier
recurring less preparation than In clVll
cases. "Then you are surer OF being palo
for your services" she said nalVelv'. a
man will always get money If he possibly
can to prevent being locked up -. ,osr
Mrs. Mayors clients thus far nave oeC M
mostly of the masculine gender. OIl1 90
theme was Fortgang, the agent anu i,o e', IVA
man of a manufacturing concern, W. n,,d
ACCUSED of the embezzlement OF 9ooV, - 80
whose acquittal she procured IN 0peo'a
Sessions few weeks ago. she was ho'
so successful in the Shapiro bigamy case'
the defendant having one wife ana Lalii'
lily in Russia and two more IN Aii ins 20
Mrs. Mayer tried the case last AprH pei tt
Judge O'Sullivan in General Sessions 80. -
proof against the prisoner was uSo e Saif
and he was sentenced TO tWo "i'N
years In prison. h,a m
! Only recently Mrs. Mayer was aple ~
turn the tables on 'taslh' as 1;+tIA
lice call the scoundrels VINO teaoh isi on
east side boys to steal On tn 80 VIM
liner client was boy named blsteiii' -,
had been arrested on charge Oh p S.1a',
picking brought by man naHleo 49,
Mrs. Mayer learned from the boy ina ina
stein had taught him to steal IN the n 4,s,,
place, but she reserved this lnl1ri 1ahich
until Eistein was brought to trial.. trial ws sesl
was before Judge zeller in Speclaa &C. pc !
sions. on the boys evidence stem was
ARRESTED in court, and, being trleo, ne 10
ceived the fun penalty for his oftence. :,
While Mrs. Mayer has been unusually
successful during her three years prac ,
tice of law, she is not enthusiastic anout
the criminal branch of It, Her othces
are with those of her husband at NO lO'
Attorney street.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-13

the bar at all. In fact, as he reached the
loot OF the stairs he saw the complainant
take his glass from the table-not the
bar-and throw 1t on the floor, after which
he picked up a bottle from the table anC
hurled that down also, smashing IL int
fragments. He, the proprietor ran up t
the table in su prise to inquire what was
ehe matter, when the complainant-Wh(
lte oeIendant afterward learned to his re
Sret was somewhat under the influence o.
ntQuotIsuddenly started back and rel
from MS chair on his head right into thf
Jagged pieces of the broken bottle. Tht
saloon keeper, much distressed about his
friends injuries, had advised him to go a
cnce to physician and have his wounds
crossed, and his surprise and grief nigh
be imagined when he learned that the
other had gone to the police station in
stead, obviously under alcoholic hallucina
ton as to the cause of his hurts, and made
complaint against him.
Rosensteins story was corroborated by
his Wife and the two friends of the nous,
aforementioned, who Were alleged to have
been at the table with the complainant a
the time he received his injuries. Judg,
Finn, however, asked a great many EN-
barrassing questions, and 1t was particu
larly difficult for him TO understand how
, In the event of a man falling from an or
binary chair into broken glass, the ton O
his head should be lacerated. His Homo
expressed Ine opinion tnat in order tina
Selig should obtain the injuries desoribe,
by the ambulance surgeon he would hay,
been compelled to stand up on the chat
and dive into the glass.
TO prove that it was entirely probabl,
that an inebriated person, as she
] Claimed the complainant to have been
would perform an involuntary aero
patlc inquire that would land him on the
exact top OF his head in falling from a
chair to the floor, Mrs. Mayer called lht
ambulance surgeon, a clean cut, fail
haired youngster in fresh linen and smart
blue serge. likewise a sharp contrast &c
his surroundings. The youthful medico
who saw more humor than gravity in the
situation, combining his responses to d
professional yes and mo" was made
to admit that it was within the outer con
fines of remote possibility that Selig in
dropping from a chair eighteen inches
high made a complete corporal revolution
before striking the floor.
Triumphantly now Mrs Mayer demand
led the acquittal of the prisoner on the
grounds, first, that It was a physical i'm
possibility for man only five feet four
inches tall to strike a man six feet one
inch tall on the top of the head, and, sec
ond, that 1t had been proved that the COM
plainant had sustained his injuries by
falling from his chair into the broken
glass on the floor. However. Judge Finn
had not yet got through with the wit
nesses He craftily called the three e
fore him separately and questioned each
one infinitely, out of the hearing of the