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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13
SETS TIME LIMIT
Judge Graves Makes Rule to
Bring Case of Rooster VS.
looney to an End.
LONG BEFORE THE MASTER
Allows Two Weeks to Finish Cross
Examination - Defendant Sug-
eests go Days as Needed.

Judge L. c. Graves in the circuit
court has fixed Feb. / as the limit for
completing the hearing before the mas
ter in chancery in the foreclosure suit
OF G. \. Rooster against John Looney.
One day last week, when the case was
set for hearing before Master i'll Chan
Gerry Connolly. Looncy was busy in the
circuit court and refused to leave the
court room TO attend the hearing i'll
the masters Office. AS a result, the
complainant's attorneys, i'll order to
avert further delay on the part of the
defense, filed a motion TO order the
master to conclude the hearing and
report his findings.
The motion was argued this morning
before Judge Graves. who denied the
motion, but ordered the compliments
to produce the three Witnesses desir-
cd Monday, Jan. 90, for cross eXamina-
ton, and fixed a limit of two weeks
for this examination. The master re-
ported his findings in favor of Mr..
Rooster last fall, fixing the amount due
at approximately $4,000, but the case
was referred back again for the pur-
pose of allowing Looney to cross eX-
anime certain Witnesses who testified
for the complainant
Wanted 30 Days.
When the court intimatcd that he
might desire to limit the time for Il
hearing, Looney said that the original
hearing had taken a year and that the
proceeding now before the master
might also take year. He suggested
that he considered 80 days as a just
time limit. The court, however
thought Il week a more reasonable
time.
"a record as big as a haystacb
might be piled up in 90 days" added
the court. Judge Graves stated that il
sufficient reason was shown, the time
might be extended, but he expressed
plainly his opinion that a week should
be sufficient, and two weeks, which he
allowed, should be ample if the attor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

vices will be held at the Eichelsdorfer
home tomorrow afternoon at 4 O'Clock
and the remains will be taken TO Grand
Rapids, Mich, for burial
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

Central Presbyterian.-This evening
at 1870 the Young Peoples Christian
Endeavor will hold its regular bust
ness meeting at the home of Mrs. Alta
Klattenhoff. 1870 Fourth avenue.
Wednesday evening at $50 prayer
services will be held at the church
Thursday afternoon at the Ladies
Aid society will meet with Mrs. II. c
Connolly, 1900 Second avenue.
Thursday evening at 1870 the nor
NAL bible class and Sunday schoo
teachers will meet at the home o
Rev. Marion Humphreys. 1914 Seven
teenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

First Methodist.-The Daughters of
the Covenant will meet this evening
at 7:30 with Miss Osa Beverlin, 1927
Second avenue
Wednesday evening prayer, service
will be followed by a meeting of the
Sunday school teachers.
Thursday afternoon at cottage
prayer meeting will be held at the
home of S. Z. Mattison, Jr.. 1131 Twen
tieth street. At 1870 services will be
held at the home of c. G. Dack, 1904
Eighteenth avenue.
Services Friday evening will be held
at the home of Z. ID. Sweeney, 81
Twentieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

Spencer Memorial Methodist.-To-
morrow evening the bible study class
will meet in the church.
Wednesday evening prayer services
will be held in the church, followed by
a meeting of the Sunday school teach
ers.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
Hill on Forty-fourth street
Friday evening the choir will meet
for rehearsal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. Druggists refund money if It
fails to cure. e. w. Groves signatur,
is on each box. 25 cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13
1t the home of Miss Mary Lindgren,


Cos Third avenue
The confirmation class will meet
Saturday afternoon at l o'clock.
Zion Lutheran-This evening at
7:45 the Young Mems club will meet
at the church
Tomorrow evening at 7:15 the
building committee will meet in the
church. AT s the combined boards will
meet in the church.
Wednesday evening at 7:45 services
will be held in the church.
Cottage prayer meeting will be held
at Fifth street and Twenty-fifth ave
nue., Moline, Thursday evening.
Friday evening and Saturday after
noon the confirmation classes will
meet
Saturday afternoon at 2 the Boys
society will meet with Leonard Olson,
4425 Seventh avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

Kodol is the best remedy known to-
day for dyspepsia, indigestion and all
troubles arising from a disordered
stomach. 1t is pleasant. prompt and
thorough. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

United Observation-Disclosures
services will be held in the church
every evening this week with the ex-
ception of Saturday. Rev J. l.. Vance,
the pastor. will be in charge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

Christian Science.-The weekly ties
timonial meeting will be held Wednes
day evening in the church.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13
in THE CHURCHES

Grace Lutheran.-The Forward So
ciety will hold its annual business
meeting this evening in the church.
Prayer service will be held Friday
evening in the church.
The annual congregational meeting
will be held in the church Jan. 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

First Baptist.-Evangelistic services
will be held every evening with the
exception of Saturday, with preaching
by Rev. II. w Reed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13
SECOND BOLD JOB.
Another Robbery Like That at
the Buffalo Saloon is Com
mitted in Early Morning..
NEARLY 500 IS SECURED
Armed and Masked Men Enter Crunnp-
toms Place-lock Bartender in
Cellar and Raid Cash Box.

A second daring robbery similar to
that in the Buffalo saloon last week
and at an equally unlikely hour, was
committed this morning at 5 80 at Cal
CrumPon's saloon at the corner of
IYenty-first street and Fourth avenue.
1t is thought the robbery was COM
mitted by the same two men who did
the Buffalo hold up job.
Ray Crumpton, brother of the pro-
prIetor of the place, was in the bar
room alone, having opened the doors
at O'Clock. Shortly after the doors
were opened, two men, with handker-
chiefs as masks covering their faces,
entered the place, one by the front
door and the other by the rear en-
trance. Each carried two large re-
VOlVerS
Secured Nearly 800.
Crumbton was asked how much
money was in the money drawer, to
which question he made no definite
reply. He was then hustled into the
wine room and from there he was re-
ii lew anu COIl-
manded to go down cellar. and the
door wasdocked behind him.
The robbers hammered at the none
drawer behind the bar for over 10 min
utes, the lock finally giving way under
the blows. The money in the drawer,
amounting to about $50, mostly in sill
yer, was removed. They also opened
the cash register. where oRly a small
amount in change was deposited.
Imprisoned Man Found.
Mr.. Crumpton, the proprietor, ar
rived at the saloon about 5:35, only g
few minutes after the robbers had de
parted Attracted by his brothers
cries he opened the cellar door anC
heard the story of the bold theft. He
| Immediately notified the police, wht
are working on the case
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-13

All the news all the time-THE
ARGUS.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

two inches in twenty-four hours, ard
eighty-one and a third rails pass over the
structure every year. counting 10Th lines
of rails on both tracks.
This phenomenon is caused by the un-
dulation of the track produced by the al
ternate rise and fall OF the rails which
the distance between the trucks OF a train
occasions. augmented by the natural sway
OF the bridge. The track is depressed at
the point OF contact with the wheel and
rises soon as the wheel has passed
over, and the natural elasticity of the
rails is acted on By the forward motion
Of the train. creating a wave motion which
carries the rails forward with the train.
The exceptionally elastic construction of
the bridge, which permits vibration from
the motion of the trains ard the wind at the
same time, gives an added impetus to the
wave molten Of the rails and sends them
forward faster than they would otherwise
so,
1t is hard to understand how a rail that
is securely spiked and bolted to the road
bed can move at all without tearing the
track up with it. and the statement that
the entire line OF rails advances over the
ties moving with the train at the rate OF
ing to the amount OF traffic. while the ties
remain stationary, gives rise to the request
to be shown" The Showing is easily
done, for one needs only to go to the
Washington Avenue station TO see. the relief
rails on the west bound track and the feed
rails on the eastbound track. and find
courteous officials who will explain the
phenomenon of the creeping rails and the
device by which the dangerous popularity
Is overcome. Engineers who visit 81. Louis
never fail to see the "ereepers' in use on
the Eads bridge, and the device Is cele-
brated outside OF St. Louis.
The device is as simple as It is ingenious
and is the invention Of Chief Engineer p.
K. Pfeifer OF the Terminal association. 1t
consists OF two relief rails and two feed
rails on the forward and rear ends. respec-
lively, Of the tracks. laid alongside the
main rails AT the point where the bridge
proper joins the approach. These relief
and feed rails are a continuation Of the
bridge main rails, ard curve slightly 20 the
| outside OF the line rail They join tn,
wedge-shaped ends Of the approach rail-
At the side In a position resembling the frOl
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
MAN is NOT so MUCH
Beside other Animals He Seems Weak
and Ineffective With His
Brains

NV the aid of mechanical instruments,
the products of his braih man can sweep
along a prepared track at 12O miles an
hour or glide over the surface OF the sea
at about forty miles. He can also build
towers nearly 900 times as high as him
self or burroY into the crust OF the earth
to a depth eaual to about 200 times his own
height.
But strip a man of his machine-made
Instruments, weapons and clothes and the
lord of creation is a poor thing at best. An
ape weighing sixty pounds Is far more
than a match singlehanded for an unarmed
man OF three times his weight.
Take a mans powers OF running. His
best speed for a mile is four minutes
twelve and three-quarter seconds, which
works out at about fourteen miles an
hour. That common beast Of prey the
gray wolf. lopes along at an easy twenty
and thinks nothing Of covering sixty miles
IN a night. The hunted fox has been timed
10 run two miles at a speed OF twenty-siS
miles an hour. A race horse at full speed
travels thirty-two miles, while a grey
hound. which Is, so far as known, the
swiftest of all four-lsgged animals. runs
at thirty-four miles.
In jumping we are equally behindhand
Roughly speaking. six feet in height AND
twenty-three In width are the limit o.
mans achievements. A, red deer has beer
known to clear wall ten feet high, th'
chaniois can do at least a foot higher
while as for the springbok OF the Soutl
African veidt this creature will shoot ten
feet up in the air Just for the fun OF tbs
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

thing. Some of the beasts Of, prey are
even more wonderful In their athletic per-
formances. The black jaguar. for instance,
can reacn a prancn fourteen feet from
the ground. The greatest Jumper on earth
is the kangaroo. The sort known as the
"od man" has been seen to clear dead
wood fences ten to twelve feet high, while
it can leap with ease a width OF fifty TO
sixty feet The record width cleared by
horse is about thirty-seven feet, while the
ostrich. in running. clears twenty-five feet
at a stride.
The athletic achievements OF fish are
very wonderful. To see a salmon leap up
a perpendicular fall five or six feet high is
a most ordinary sight. Many OF the
predatory fishes can travel at the speed
of a torpedo boat. The writer has stood
in the bow of a steamer travelling at four
teen knots and watched a shoal OF poT-
poises gliding along under the cutwater.
Every now and then, apparently for the
sake of exercise, one OF them would break
away from the rest and make a complete
circuit of the moving steamer as quickly
and easily as though the ship we're stand
ing still.
Even II man perfects a flying machine
It will be a very long time before he can
hope to rival the feats OF the birds. A
dozen different birds have been credited
with speeds OF sixty miles and hour and
more, but IL is only lately that definite
ez pertinent has proved that the swallow is
far swifter than the wild duck or carrier
pigeon. A hen swallow was taken from
it's nest in an Antwerp railway station
and sent in a basket by express to Com
/ piegne, a distance Of 1874 miles. There,
at 1880 in the morning, she was liberated.
At SIS the bird was seen to arrive at her
nest. Work this out and you will find
( that the tiny creature Travelled at the rate
of lss feet a second-squal TO 129 miles
an hour. At this rate it would take a
swallow only half day TO fly from Bel
gium 70 North Africa
In the matter OF muscular strength man
is not quite so far behind the rest OF the
animal world. for trained athletes have
achieved wonderful feats OF lifting still
where would you find a man who could
run up a mountain side carrying two
others as heavy as himself grizzly
bear has been seen to carry a bullock
twice his own weight up an incline OF one
| in three -Baltimore Sun
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
CREEPING RAILS ON BRIDGE
Phenomenon Unusually Well Marked
on the Big Bridge at
ST. Louis.

The people of ST. Louis think they know
all about their famous bridge, and are
ready to discuss any phase of the bridge
question at a moments notice, but very
few Of them know of the most curious
and interesting fact connected with the
structure-that the rails as well as the
trains move across the bridge. The rails
travel slowly from one end of the bridge
to the other, pushed forward by the trains
that pass over them, and are fed into the
track at one end and taken out at the
other at the rate OF nearly 50 feet per
month.
A rail laid in the westbound tracks at
East st. Louis crosses the river in two
years and seven months and reaches the
Washington Avenue station in good con-
dition. while one laid in the eastbound
track at the end OF the bridge also crosses
the river and slips through the "creeper'
on the Illinois side in the same length OF
time. They travel at the rate OF twenty
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

description Of the banqueting hall of Tamar.
or Tara, which is very curious. 1t states
that 'the palace of Tamara was formerly
the seat Of Coon of the hundred battles: it
was the seat OF Art. and Of Cairbre LIZ
Teacher and Chartar Nor. and OF every
king who ruled in Tamar to the time Of
Naill"
In the reign of Carmac the palace OF
lamar was 900 feet square; the diameter
OF the surrounding rath, seven din, OF casts
Of daft 1t contained $50 apartments, $50
dormitories or sleeping rooms for guards.
and sixty men in each. The height was
twenty-seven cubts. There were $50 com
mon drinking horns, twelve porches, twelve
doors, and 1000 guests daily besides
princes, or ators and men OF science en-
gravers of gold and silver. carvers. model
ers and mobiles.
The eating hall had twelve stalls. OF
divisions In each wing, with tables and pas.
sages round them; sixteen attendants on
each side, eight to the astroiogers histor-
ians and secretaries, in the rear OF the hail.
and TWO to each table at the door; lOc
guests in ALL Two oxen. two sheep. ana
two hogs at each meal divided equally to
each side"
We are also informed that the quantities
Of meat and butter daily consumed here
surpass all description. There were twen-
washing hands and feet a ceremony not
dispensed with from the highest to the
lowest.-Punxsutawney Pa) Spirit
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
RHEUMATISM AND WEATHER
why Weary human Joints lndle"te
% and Down of the
Barometer

Prof. Co. OF the Chicago weather bureau
not only furnishes the community with
forecasts of the weather. but teaches people
how to be forecasters themselves, on very
modest scale. When he was asked recently
for an explanation of the familiar fact
that rheumatic joints and other feeble por-
tions OF the body ached when rain was
appToaching he gave the philosophy OF this
experience and made out the human body
. sort OF barometer.
His theory is explained IN part in Prof.
Garriott's book on meteorology, which con-
tains the following Passage'
"As the normal pressure, OF weight OF
the atunosphere is about one ton to every
square foot Of surface at the level Of the
sea. and a change OF one inch in the mer-
eurlal column OF the barometer means a
change IN pressure of about seventy pounds
10 every square foot OF surface decided
changes An pressure must exert q marked
Influence upon the BODY and It's functions.
A change In the barometer OF one men IN
twenty-four hours Is not uncommon In
many portions OF the United States ana
this change IN the barometer causes
change OF about one-haf ton In the Weigh'
OF the atmosphere that is sustained by the
average human body 1t Is not diffleuit
therefore, TO imagine that the physical or
RAnism OF animals may be sensitive 10
these changes ana that 1t mas become ali
inherited instinct to associate the sensa'
tions experienced under different atmos'
pheric pressures with the kind Of weather
they indicate. The organization OF diseased
and delicate human bodies and OF many
kinds OF animals Is extremely sensitive &C
atmospheric changes, and aches pains and
nervousness in humans ard restless be
havior on the part OF animals. birds and in
sects may. In measure. be attributed &C
low. rapidly decreasing atmospheric pres
sure that precedes and attends storu
.periods."
rho bload and other fluids Of the body
Prof. Cox says. contain a considerable
amount OF air. ana thls air expands in pro
portion as the external atmospheric pres
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

OF switch, and the wheels OF the trains
pass smoothly over the joints at the same
time that they push the bridge-line rails
past the joints. The joints are kept well
fabricated to prevent friction, which might
be dangerous even with the slow motion Of
the rails. Both feed and relief rails are
secured to the ties Just as the main rails
are held. and a distance of thlrty-five feet,
or three feet more than the length OF a
rail- is allowed in front of the relief RAN
at the forward end Of the track to guard
against any emergency. The rails are fed
In ana taken out at the rate of about one
rail every three weeks, and joints and
bolts are inspected every twelve hours
st. Louis Republic.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
HUGE WAS THE HALL OF TARA
Description of Ancient Palace Made
Famous by Tom MOOre's
Poem.

The name OF this ancient palace is ia
miliar to everybody through the well known
poem of Thomas Moore, beginning:
The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
VAS IL that soul were fled.
Tara Is a hill IN Ireland made famous as
the site OF the palace Of the ancient kings
OF that country. 1t was here that St. Pat
rick began his great apostolate by preach
ing to King Leary in 4S2. The site was
abandoned In 565 on account of CURSE
pronounced against the reigning king by St.
Ruadhan.
In the library Of Trinity college. Dublin,
there is preserved the fragment Of an an
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
Saturday is Hard
ware Day
f24c Hardware Sale

axe Feather busters, 12-inch feathers;
a5c Cotton Mops, large size; 30c
wire or Heavy Braided Clothes
Line: S5c Clamp Sleeve Board.
padded; 35c new Bread Board; Zoe
Parlor Brooms. union made; Large
Galvanized Pail; csc Zinc Wash
Board: 10 Wire or Wooden Coat
Hangers; 25c Wilson Bread Toaster;
Vrooman's 25c Sink Strainers; 25c
Carpet Beater, extra heavy; soc
Wooden Knife and Fork Boxes; 8
rolls of fine Toilet Paper; pkgs.
Polished Tooth Picks; 6-foot ceiling
busters; 2 Scrubbing Brushes, 1Oc
auality-any OF the above for la1ho
SCREEN Doors, w1E, ETC.
New Screen Doors. extra strong $50
Fancy Oiled Screen Doors, worth
S1.9S .......s........... @As1o
Adjustable Screens, Is to S3 inches,
at ...........s.... Asc
Best Poultry Wire, Saturday No
Best Screen Wire, Saturday. -. 11sc
csc all Galvanized Wash Boiler B6c
Heavy Galvanized Wash Tubs. $50
S1.25 Folding Ironing Boards. $50
lawn MOWERS, HOSE, ETC.
Ball bearing Lawn Mowers. sold oil
over for s7s5 to $3.50. fully guar
anteed ......--.. ..-...'' .S4'4S
Good Lawn Mower, worth $500, on
ly ................ s'.s Was
CSC Hose Reels, only ............ $50
Rubber Garden Hose. Saturday, INC
10 ....... ...s.........-. ....1 1a1Ac
csc Steel Garden Rakes and Hoes 15c
NOW Tg TXE THE TO PAINT
Can ready mixed House Paint. worth
zoe to 36c. on sale tomorrow, &c
ana s............s ............ 1Oc
Best Floor Paint, per gallon. only $50
Wall Paper Cleaner, per CAM. 71zc
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

Granulated Sugar at less than job
ber's cost.
10 bars best brands Laundry Soap, 25c
The best white or yellow Cornmeal,
per sack l5c
Solid packed Tomatoes, per can. z Y C
cans fancy Sweet Sugar Corn. 25c
The best domestic Macaroni, pkg. 8 n C
Oil or mustard Sardines, per can. 3 n C
Bib can Baked Beans, Hominy or
Squash, for ..... ......S c
The best hand picked Navy Beans, per
pound ............ DC
The best Pearl Tapioca or Sage, per
pound .......... ......... .... b "a c
Large bottle pure Tomato Catsup s rs c
Haarmann's Pure Malt Vinegar &c
Quaker Oats Company's Toasted Wheat
Flakes, per package. ......... DC
The best Soda Crackers, per lb. &c
The best Crisp Pretzels, per lb. -. &C
The best Crisp Ginger Snaps, per lb. &c
3 cans best Lima Beans, Wax Beans or
Green Beans for ......~.. 25C
2-lb. cans Early June Peas. ..8h c
Fancy Santos Coffee, fine drink,
pound ....... l5c
Fancy Maracaibo Blend Coffee, nothing
finer, per pound. 1T u c
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
"a Yankee Prince.n

George Cohan is credited with an unu-
sual achievement In his latest output "A
Yankee Prince" II is said that from the
first performance, about week Ego. not a
line or a change has been found necessary
and the piece goes from the start just as
II was written and staged by the author.
This is unique Accomplishment and It is
doubtful II it was ever done before with
a musical piece in this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

sure on the body is reduced. In time OF
low barometer this produces an internal
pressure against the nerves. and wherever
the nerves are already inflamed there is
pain. This pain, therefore is a sign OF low
barometer but not always Of rain as pre-
cipltatIon is governed by many influences.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
A serIonn nrenkdomn

results from chronic constipation, Dr.
Kings New Life Pills cure headache
stomach, liver and bowel trouble 25c. For
sale by Beaton Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23
An ugly Cash

should be covered with clean bandages
saturated with Bucklens Arnica Salve'
Heals burns, wounds, sores, piles. &c For
sale by Beaton Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

The best Porto Rico Blend Coffee, ele-
CANT drinking, per lb. .2Oc
The best Tea Siftings, per lb. 49,. 15c
Fancy Basket Fired or Uncolored japan
Iea, per 10. ......., -. .zoc
BUTTER AND CHEESE
SALE PRICES.
Choice Dairy Butter, per pound Ice
Fancy Dairy Butter, per pound .19c
Fancy Creamery Butter, per pound 23c
Fancy Full Cream Brick Cheese, lb. 15c
Fancy Full Cream New York White or
colored cheese, per pound. ...,. .15c
FRESH VEGETABLE PRICES
FOR SATURDAY.
2 punches fresh Asparagus. .,..5 SC
Fresh Spinach, per peck ......... sc
6 lunches fresh Onions. &c
3 large Cucumbers for. .... sc
Green Beans, per pound. ....... sc
A bunches fresh Pie Plant sc
New Potatoes, per pound ...... .2Ac
New Cabbage, per pound. aye
2 heads fresh Leaf Lettuce. sc
PINEAPPLES. PINEAPPLES. w.
The finest and cheapest Fruit to can.
Each. 80. .5c, 71sc, S1sc, 1Oc, 121 &c
Dozeni S6c, Doc, $1.1O, $1.35
Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-23

Over 200 boxes of heavy black
Taffeta Ribbons from the great
New York purchase will be placed
on sale Saturday. All widths, Nos.
5 to $50, Less Than Half.