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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Catalogue pecentions.

'No, thank you. want what l ask
ed for. Good day" This quotation
took the grand prize In a recent CON
test held by magazine in the cam
paign against substitution in trade.
You do not always get. what you ask
for when you order through a cata-
logue 1t is very easy to make an ar
ticle look better in picture than II
looks in reality, and this is done fire.
quently. in the catalogues. But there
IS Il still more insidious and contempti-
BILE way of deceiving the public which
some of these concerns employ. They
print both picture and the description
of piece of furniture, for instance.
According to the picture, it is elegant.
Suppose it is a dining room table. The
picture will show handsome five inch
table legs. The reader is attracted at
once. Even when he finds by perus
ing the description that the table has
two inch legs he is not altogether dis
enchanted. Quite often a person or
ders an article through the influence OF
the picture.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
A Hint to the Wise.

The Paris (Mo.) Appeal, referring to
the business done by mail order houses
throughout the various counties In Ms
souri,, editorially says: Advertising is
costing the merchants of Monroe coun-
ty thousands Of dollars every year-not
that our merchants actually pay out
thousands of dollars each year for adj
vertising, but the great department.
stores in the cities advertise every day
in the year, telling the public Just what
they have to sell and what 1t win cost.
The papers carrying these advertise
ments and thousands of price lists go
all over the county, and people see
what they need advertised and order
1t from the city stores. Who can blame
them? Merchants all over this county
have the same goods and often for less
money. but the buyer does not know
it, SO he sends off for his goods. Now,
If the merchants in this county were
to use the same methods that the city
merchants use the mail order houses
would get but few orders from old
Monroe"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25

OF these We're fought against the
French. the first under the command
of the Duke of Marlborough on Aug
IL, 1T05. who on this date actually oc-
cuDied the same ground as the Duke of
Wellington did a little more, than q
century later. June Il, i1S15. the only
difference being that the former was
marching on Brussels and the latter
was marching from BEHssels In the
first battle the French were defending
Brussels. They marched out to meet
Marlborough. but owing to the slack
ness on the part of Schlangenburg. the
Dutch general. who was fighting with
him. it was not success, Marlborough
only taking Il few of the French troops
as prisoners. The following one,
fought against Napoleon by Yelling
ton. proved to be one of the greatest
victories ever recorded in the annals
of England.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
cured that could be traced to the drink
ing of the unfltered water of Ham
Horne Trade HomiIies.

y
When your next doo- neighbor sells
the same kind of goods that the mail
order catalogue advertises and at cor
responding prices, you need doctors
attention if you purchase by the mail
route.
Every tub must stand on its own
bottom So also must every town. II
ty in your town by doing large part
of your buying from the catalogue
houses, the place is calculated to fall
down pretty soon.
If the farmer who does good deal
of buying from mail order concerns ex-
poets to continue selling his vegetables
and other products in his home town,
he should remember that it is poor
rule that won't work both ways.
Folks looking for bargains need not
confine their researches to the large
and Turing catalogues from the city
houses. Sometimes local newspapers
advertise bargains to be had right at
home, and it might pay to look for
such things in the home papers. Then
if you don't find what you want ask
the merchant why he doesn't advertise.
The city mail order store is the real
octopus Its thousands of tentacles
are sucking in money from every direc-
ton. Money is the blood of a commu-
nifty, and when it is drunk by the &C
topus to such an extent the town is
sure to become anaemicf
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
The French Tramp.

The vagabond who is kin to the wolf
Is special product Of civilization.
You do not meet him in England or
Germany, though something like him
exists among the half yellow Slavs of
Russia. Ee is eminently Latin. liz ev-
cry sense Of the word he is a rebel
against society. He has had some ed
ucation-few Frenchmen can escape 1t.
He has read little. perhaps enough
to kindle his brain of a wolf and he
has two aims In life-to live the free
life of the wolf on the hill and to in
jure as much as he can that great,
monstrous, law driven machine, civili-
zatfon. The lonely farmhouses are de-
fenseless against him. When all ARE
busy afield he creeps in and pillages.
If need be lie kills. He has a distinct
hatred for those who work and garner.
AS he passes he fires the hayricks--
barns and buildings 90 up in smoke.
That is where the Latin shows in him.
Once out Of the law he Is an anarch.
So long as he is cross tied in innumer-
able acts of parliament the Latin is
merry and amiable When the ropes
are off he makes revolution-or fires
hayricks.-Vance Thompson in Outing
| Magazine
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Gave II In Full.

An old Scottish minister took 1t into
his head to marry his housekeeper.
His precentor being i'll on the day
when the banns were to be proclaimed,
the minister. not caring to make the
intimation himself, arranged with his
herd boy to do it. "Now," he said,
you just call out in loud voice, Proc
lamation of marriage between the Rev.
Mr.. Murray of this parish and Jean
Lowe o. the saine.' .Ha, ha". laughed,
the rninister as he concluded. "Wha'd
haze sthocht it!'' The Sabbath came
ro,lnd, and the congregation assembled.
When the moment arrived the lad, who
had duly prepared himself, rose and
called out: Proclamation of marriage
between the Rev Mr.. Murray of this
parish and Jean Lowe O the same!
Ha. har' he laughed, thinking this to be
q purt of the proclamation. "Wha'd
haze thocht it?r The effect on the min
istei and the congregation can be imag-
ined
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
They Must Be Hardy.

An official of the department of agri-
culture referred at dinner in Wash
ington to the amateur florists who
spring up in the suburbs every spring
by thousands.
More florists perhaps than flowers
spring up" he said
I'm seed shop one day 1 heard one
of. these amateurs complain about the
last batch of seeds he had bought. Aft.
er he had ended his complaint he be-
gan to ask floral questions. -
"'Oh, by the way he said, what is
a hardy rose?
1t is one growled the dealer, that
doesn't mind your wife pulling it W
by the roots every day to see il 1t has
begun to grow YETI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
was deputed to approach her. IVA.

was deputed to approach her. WAS
she inclined to play?"
Particularly disinclined," was the
discouraging response.
The envoy tried again and mention.
ed her husbands Carnival" zone
part l particularly love, the March of
the Davidsbundler.' If 1 could only
hear you play just that page or twow
This reused her. Page or two. in
deed!' she cried. "Wenn man de Car
naval spielt, spielt man Inn GAM"
when one plays the "Carnaval." one
must play it alb And she played the
whole
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
CITY IMPROVEMENT HINTS

followed. and the entire party stopped
ON the open space back of the school
house
Without word the men with picks
began TO dig. the shovelers began to
shovel, while the. torch bearers held
their lights high above the group. Aft
or the digging was well under way the
q. BIS started up dirgelike song in
doleful voices. Altogether it was an
uncanny scene.
"Wha-what are you fellows up to
anyhow" gasped the chief knocker.
Gentlemen, unmask," commanded
the supreme saehem. All the G. BIS
unmasked, revealing the fact that they
were the leading young men Of Cory
vile. Then the supreme sachem, who
happened to own the grocery store in
which the knockers chiefly knocked,
addressed the candillates>for Initiation:
1--WE are the Grand Burgers. We are
digging your graves. We have reach
ed tie conclusion that few first class
funerals are needed in the interest of
Coryville. and we have selected you
gentlemen for the honor of furnishing
the raw material. For years you have
knocked and blocked every movement
for the good of our town, and we have
decided that Coryville can get along
without you. However, we are going
To give you a chance If you viii
promise solemnly 10 boost and not to
Knock hereafter. you may take your
own time and die natural deaths But
always RENE mber that the Grand Bury
ers have the tools and that we can
Gig"
Corygille has no knockers now.
DIrDn rnvNyg
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
WHAT IS ITa

washing horizontally
of
making life
The faucet
and
market which
will do satisfactory low pounds
The tub Louisiana
1t detachable wringer
board finish.
afford be without will much
labor, and the Lewis Washer?
would otherwise obvaing the of
because by washing quicker
would help
laundry bills and the wash
depending o.
doing washing would worth the
machine
doing
thing clothes from being
washing bills will
in few months time will
every only by
AAky, AzyeGs & Conoanr
OPPOSITE HARPER HOUSE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
PURE WATER SUPPLY VITAL.
Health Ct Community Is Very Large
ly Dependent Upon 1t.

ly Dependent Upon 1t.
Too MANY precautions cannot be
taken toward guarding the water sup
ply of a town. Along this lire Ed
ward, Weg!nann says in the Metropoli-
tan Magazine:
The health of community depends
LARGELY upon the purity of its water
supply. Formerly it was thought that
water il which chemistry failed to lind
any nOxious elements was fit for do.
nestle use, lut III recent years the sci
CAGE of bacteriology has demonstrated
that such water may contain the germs
OF dangerous diseases. These germs in
crease very rapidly in number and
are often communicated by the con-
Elimination of source of water supply
from one infected person to whole
community. Such case occurred in
1SS4-5 i'll Plymouth, Pa. \ man who
had contracted typhoid fever in Phila-
delphia was nursed during the winter
IN house rear a mountain brook
which flowed into Il river from which
Plymouth derived its water supply
The refuse from the sickroom was
thrown on the Snow near the house
without being disinfected. AS cold
weather does not kill disease germs,
the typhoid germs We're washed in the
spring Ey the melting of the snow into
the mountain stream referred to above,
and as 4 consequence more than Loco
cases of typhoid fever and about 100
deaths from this disease occurred in
Plymouth, these cases being all con-
fined to persons drinking the polluted
water.
In 1892 Hamburg. Germany, was vis-
itod by terrible epidemic of cholera.
Ills city derives its water supply from
the river Elbe. At the time of the
epidemic the river water without being
filtered was used for domestic purposes
1t has been proved beyond question
that the germs of cholera We're com
municatcd to the city's water supply
by throwing into the river the excreta
of sailor who was sick with cholera
on Il vessel anchored in the Elbe. Near
ly COCO persons died of cholera In
Hamburg during this epidemic, but in
Altoona, Il suburb of Hamburg, using
Elbe water that had been filtered
through sand. not case of cholera oc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Respect More Essential Than Love.

The most essential thing in mar
riage is respect. 1t is above love,
above compatibility, above even the
priceless sense of humor. Respect will
make even the appalling intimacy
endurable and will bring one through
the most trying disagreements with
no bruise on the soul. whatever wounds
there may be in the heart. Therefore.
men and women, never. never marry
any one you don't really respect, how
ever passionately you may love. :
Grand Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Progress.

The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted Is tongue of
flame, every prison more illustrious
abode. Every burned book or house
enlightens the world. Every suppress
ed or expunged word Ireyerberates
through the earth from side to side.
1t Is the whipper who is whipped, the
tyrant who is undone.-Emerson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Graveyard Of Aslaties.

The northern territory is the grave
yard Of innumerable Asiatics. who en-
ter by way of the gulf of Carpentaria
In quest Of gold. Death from thirst
and starvation accounts for thousands.
The few who survive return to China
to spread the fame of Australia's re-
lentless solitude and hunger tracks,
Chambers Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
A DipIomat.

Benners-What makes you think that
Brown IS such diplomat? Jenners-
When he was shown his friends baby
for the first time he said it had its
fathers intellect and its mothers beau
ty.- Philadelphia Telegraph .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
A Gentle Hint

Life at best is but a gloomy prison."
said the moralizing bachelor
so much the worse for men who de-
liberately choose solitary confinement"
remarked the girl who had her trap set.
Bohemian Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25

In Felix Moscheles' fragments of
an Autobiography" occurs the follow
ing: Nine. Schumann was wanted to
play at little musical reunion, but
she did not respond Mr.. Moscheles
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Two WaterIoos.

II is very curious fact that good
many people do not know that two
battles were fought at Waterloo. Both
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
Silver Aluminium Jelly MouIds
Free.

individually nodded desserts are now
considered the proper thing. The molds
are hard to get outside the large cit
les, but users of JEI.L-O. the dainty
dessert, can get them absolutely free.
Circular in each package explaining
and Illustrating the different patterns.
JELL-O Is sold by all good grocers at
Toe per package. Do not accept SUBJ
stitute or yot viii be disappointed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-25
"Let the Water do
the Work"
The Lewis
Power
w asher

The greatest labor saver
ever introduced into the
household.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24


suitable entertainment consisting
shows vaudeville features and the Fair
pleasure
place where
which
during Fair
entire
daughters
and
the meas
CUES
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
THE oLD HOME WEEK" HAS BEEN AN ANNUAL FEATURE

Tair-september
established institutions kind middle
the marked the
Fair leading
which shareholders section this
the the State through the
Legislature institution
exploiting her
exposons this
kind mirrors of the the commonweahs they represent
and universally recognized such.
National field the State
buand this is
southern Kentucky northern Alabama and former residents who
together
pleasure.
listening
other
their condition
benefit of themselves and
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
the Woman's BuiIdin.


other the business
of
exhibition
the products the
contests that only to residents OF this though
raising
to
intelligent de
building of interest
that there
welconducted
benefited
the
subjects in
TO hesele
of de
conditions the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
RISE OF JOHN BURNS.
An Engineers Apprentice Who En-.
tered the British Parliament.

Some people are laboring under the
belief that England is less democratic
than this republic, says the Brooklyn
Eagle. They should study the rise OF
John Burns, now president of the local
government board. Thirty-five years
ago he was an engineers apprentice at
two dollars a week This position in
England is far more menial than in
this county, because a lad has little
hope of rising to an earning point be-
yond six or eight shillings a day. But
John Burns kept going.
He acquired an education by self
study because the common school sys-
tenn, as we understand the words does
not exist in Great Britain. He deve-
oped the ability to talk upon his feet.
He stood for parliament, although he
hadn't a Shilling besides his earnings
as an expert workman.
Members Of the British parliament
are not paid anything for their serv-
ices. Friends came to Burns assist
ance and he took his seat, with nearly
40 other representatives, of labor. To
day he is a member of the govern
ment and as privy councillor may, if
he chooses, draw $4,000 year for
the rest of his life, whether in or out
of office.
OF course, it is not considered reg
ular to take the salary when one is
out of Office; but some cases of the
kind are well remembered. That Ben
Butler of the British parliament, Ben
iamin Disraeli, always drew the
money. He needed it, he asserted.
But what I started to say is that a
workman has as great a chance in
England as here If he makes some
thing of himself beyond a drudge.
Such successes are more exceptional
there than here, if reference be had to
the American born workman, because
the foreign-born laborer does as little
work as he can here or elsewhere.
His Incidence is infectious and many
formerly earnest toilers have become
imbued with the continental belief in
shirking duty
Had Burns felt thus he would still
be a mechanic and carrying a dinner
pail.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

doesn't care much about himself, or
anything else, after that. There s
just one thing he does care for
he'd like to open up the hot place a
little sooner for the man that did it. "
The driver nodded his head. Il
guess you're about right" he said.
Il don't blame you a bit WAL it's
time for me to be goin' along. Tn
sorry for you-that's fact He
lightened the brake-pressure, CHR,
ruped to his horses, and the wagon,
load OF dynamite started down the
hill.
The young man with the rifle SAT
looking down the road. Suddenly he
started, and half rose from the bank.
A light buggy came whirling into the
main highway from a branch road,
near the foot of the hin. It's his rig,
by God!" hissed the Tilted lover.
"Going to get her, and take her over
to see the railroad building. And she's
expecting him and waiting for him,
likely, dressed in that white"
The young man choked and buried
his face in his hands All at once, o
terrible cry smote on his ears. He
jumped UP and saw, first, great cloud
of dust where the load OF dynamite
had been crawling down the hill Then
a flying figure emerged from the dust
cloud, like a man pitched out of win
dow. 1t sprawled face downward by
+bo rOoJciJo low OF for n
moment, then stirred, sat up, and
looked wildly down the hill.
Something had broken, and the load
of dynamite was running wild down
the the hill, at the heels of two fren
zied horses. In front of it was the
successful lover in his buggy There
was no chance for him to turn out
on either size of the road and there
was no branch road for miles ahead
The horse between the buggy-shafts
was doing his best-but what is a
single horse in his senses to a pair
of runaways? In less than a minute
there must be collision then
The young man with the rife sat
down again on the bank He laid his
rifle in the grass, folded his arms as If
be were hugging himself, and smiled
grimly. Then he fastened his eyes
with great hunger of longing on the
lessening distance between the two
teams.
All at once a face rose before him
iler face-tender with happy love, visit
ful with longing He saw her, in
her white dress, waiting for this man
60 whom she had given her heart
sitting there on the little vine-covered
porch, with her wrap over her knees,
and one little pink flower pinned tC
her dress.
Then he snatched his rife out OF
the grass, raised the sight to the last
notch, and knelt in the white road,
with elbow on knee and fore-stock
gripped firmly in his left hand. His
nerves were as steady as threads of
steel. What he was going to do was
for her sake!
Puff-a little jet of smoke out of the
rifle-barrel away up there on the
shimmering hill. A brief space OF
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
"A Bullet Had Crashed Through the
Cases of Dynamite.

VI EytldfulACs
time, in which bird could scarcely
have drawn breath--and then flying
horses, wagon, black tarpaulin, all yan-
ished together, as If at the wave OF
magicians wand. "A dense cloud dt
smoke, dust, earth and powdered frag-
ments of all things sprang up against
the blue of heaven, and a chasm, as r.
TO the very bowels of the earth,
yawned in the white road. A bullet
had crashed through the cases Of dy.
namite
The young ri1leman shaded his eyes,
until he saw his rival emerge from his
overturned buggy, beyond the wreck,
and kneel on the neck Of his strug.
Cling horse, while he hurriedly un-
'buckled the harness Then he who had
fired that wonderful shot for his loves
sake turned swiftly again into the
woods; and the sun shone down on
the white road, and the birds lifted up
once more their everyday songs, as if
nothing had happened
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
The Woret Blow.

Actor-There is one thing in pro
duction of Hamlet" which is worse
than playing the piece with Hamlet
left out.
Critic--What is that?
Actor-When the ghost doesn't
walk.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
and Some Time. TOO.

Admiring Friend-So you started on
your motor trip Monday Where did
you stop last night?
Motorist (mournfullyl the road
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

Don't have the manure trench be-
hind the cows too shallow, or they will
stand in it. Eight to ten inches is
none too deep.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24
MAKING PROSPERITY FOR TENNESSEE
PURPOSE Of ANNUAL STATE FAIR
Aims at Improvement in Crops and Live Stock and in
the Economics of The Household.

tn Addition to Encouraging
Their Daily
Resort-Every Provision Made for
I TANNER of
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

Yes, it is just as dishonest to buy
short measure bottles and deliver
them to customers as full measure an
it would be to fail to fill the measure
up full and claim you had given fun
saart.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

A share of the profits of the farm
belong to the wife, whose faithful
labors has made it possible for you to
do as well as you have done Divy up.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

Won't be long now before you win
be bead over heels in the spring work.
Too late then to spend time reading
and studying and planning out the
seasons work. Do it now.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1908-07-24

More and more farmers boys are
taking the agricultural courses at the
different state colleges, which is one
OF the most eneegraging signs for the
future of agriculture.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-05-14
Kccp the Rnlnncc. un.

1t has been truthfully said that
and disturbance of tho even balance
of health causes serious trouble. No
body can be too careful. to keep this
balance up. When people begin to
lose appetite. or to get tired easily,
the least imprudence brings on sick
ness, weakness or debility. The sys-
tenn needs tonic, Graves 1t, and
should not be denied 1t; and the best
tonic of which we have any knowl-
edge is Hoods Sarsapariila. What
this medicine has done in keeping
healthy people healthy, in keeping up
the even balance of health, gives 1t
the same distinction as a preventive
that 1t enjoys as cure. Its early use
has Illustrated the wisdom of the old
saying that stitch in time saves nine
Take Hoods for appetite. strength,
and endurance.