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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
Women's SIS Suits,

going on a trip relative to paving.
He is accompanied by S. G.. Etnycr,
city engineer of Council Bluffs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
Carried Away With Glover.

There is plenty of clover, so if you
can get poetry out of clover you can
have lots of poetry. Erecting Riley's
"Clover'O. | remember one night |
was reading that in southern Illinois
and they brought typical old farmer
with bushy whiSkers TO a seat close up
TO the stage. You would never dream
there was any poetry in the old man.
When | came to the end of recitins
Glover. And lovin'ly nestled my
face in its bloom: while my soul sleeps
away on breath of perfume the old
man slapped his leg and said out loud
My Cod ! have had good many
compliments on the platform but that
was one of the greatest | ever got in
my life. He blushed up to the roots
of his hair when he thought of what
he had done, but he was just living
out the poem. as he thought of the
clover
(Then came the telling character
sketch. "Tradin' Joe from Riley. and
Benjamin F. Taylors pictures. "The
Milk House" THE Milking" Might
on the Farm 1.-THE Churning" and
Money Musk" Then in contrast he
gave a few paragraphs from yellow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05

is not true. This poet says Love IS
more cruel than just" is it that way
in your home 1t is not in ours, thank
God Marriage and death and diviS-
ion make barren lives" | am sorry for
the man who wrote that verse. He
must have let" something that did not
agree with him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
GROCERIES IN A BIG FALL
To the Paving, But Not i'm Price,
When Wagon Overturns.

Groceries of all kinds took a decided
fall this morning, but not in price.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
Funeral of OLAF johnson.

The funeral of Olaf Johnson. sol
Firth street, was held yesterday af-
ternoon at o'clock from the home.
Rev. i. o. Nothstein conducted the
services. Burial took place at Chip
piannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
Funeral OF Mrs. Won PostcI.

The funeral of Mrs. Won Postel
1908 First street was held yesterday
afternoon from the home. the ser
vices being in charge of Rev. Mr..
Kroeger of Davenport. Burial took
place at Chippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05

That the new store is the tri-
cities wash goods store is further
eXemplytied by the great variety
attractively priced for tomorrow.
Here's another:2 1000 yards Mag
nola Bististe in all the most fav-
ored colorings, yard 1212c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05
Thomas HampsOn.
Funeral of wiIIinm Mccarthy.

The funeral of William Mccarthy.
III Seventh street was held this
morning from st. Joseph S church Of
which he was member for many
years. The services were conducted
by Dean J. J. Quinn. Burial took place
at Calvary cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-05

Corsets in the Memo New Am
erican Shape" are recognized in ev-
cry fashion-centre of Europe and
America as producing the correct
contour for the fashions of 1909.
Come and see them.
Don't miss Memo Week, Well
expect you-soon.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
WORK OF BOIL WEEVIL
CAUSES LOSS OF $25, 1000, 900
ANNUALLY IN SOUTH.
Government Experts Make Startling
Announcement-Sho2ld Be De-
stroyed in Winter Season.

Observation-Disclosures experts IN
the department of agriculture make the
startling announcement that the boil
weepil is causing a damage in the United
States each year amounting to $685.
900, 600. The department of agriculture
places that estimate upon the amount
of damage done, and considers, more
over, that this amount will continue to
be lost for some time at least on ae-
count of the difficulties in control which
are encountered in the Mississippi val
ley.
With a view to helping in the move
ment to destroy the boil weevil, which
is one of the worst, if not the worst,
of the insect pests to invade the United
States, and which started in the cotton
fields west of the Mississippi river, and
is steadily eating its way eastward, IN
til it will probably reach the Atlantic
coat, the bureau of entomology of the
department has been studying the boil
weevil in his winter quarters.
1t is found that winter is the most
critical season in the whole life history
of the boil weevil, and that to destroy
ten weevils in winter is more important
than to destroy many thousands in sum
mer. Most exhaustive studies of the
boil weevil in his winter quarters have
been made by experts. A vast mass OF
information about the habits of the boil
weevil and its Information or existence
through the winter has been collected.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

When Mrs. Hennen, regarded as a
first-class medium by the spiritualists,
took the floor and asked whether any
one was present who HAD never re-
ceived a message from the spirit
world. DR.. WI signified that he vas
such. The medium declared that she
saw standing by the Chinese minis
ter's side a m OF his country with
two children. She said she had not
been given their names, but described
them to him and remarked that II dur
ing the evening the names were given
her by the spirit she would make them
known to him.
While she gave spirit messages.
names and descriptions of spirits to
persons in the room DR.. WI watched
and listened with the keenest atten-
ton. To his companion another me-
dunn gave a long reading" informing
Mr.. Chang he was going away shortly,
but would return.
DR.. WI returned a few nights later
and had a private sitting" during
which he was told that the spirit OF
William Mckinley, martyred presi-
dent of the United States, urged him
to use his efforts for peace. The
spirit of the Chinese ENJOYS mother
also talked to him.
why is 1t | cannot see the spirits? 2"
was DR.. Wu's question. The mediums
explanation has not been made public.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
CROSS FOR C0NFEDERATES
Causes Spirited Discussion in Meet
ing of u. d. c.

Houston. Texas.-Crosses of honor for
the living veterans of the Confederacy;
monuments for the dead-such was the
sentiment expressed and voted most en-
phatically by thesUnited Daughters of
the C~onfederacy in the third days ses-
sion of their national general convention
held in Houston. The strife that devel-
oped over this question proved to be
the greatest of the convention, and may
be second only to the election of the
general officers, which will be the final
act of the convention.
The question of the award of crosses
of honor was precipitated by a motion
submitted by Miss Alice Baxter, of Geor-
gia, who sought to have the lines broad
ened which were voted at the Atlanta
convention, and which would give crosses
to the lineal descendants of the veterans
and to the relatives of those who fell
on the field of battle. A motion was
made by Mrs. Hattie Reynolds, of Ken
lucky, to provide crosses for collateral
descendants of veterans, but this, too,
was voted down in the tightening of the
lines which will furnish crosses of honor
only to those of the grizzled veterans
who have gone through the shock of
battle.
Other than the settling of the vexing
questions of the crosses of honor, the
report by Mrs. l.. Eustace Williams, of
Kentucky, the Encouragement, showed
during the year the receipts were ST.
s33.54, which, deducting expenses, left
a balance on hand of ~$4,O33.16.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

THE p~ostofice department in Wash
/ ington has just solved a problem
that Of several years standing. and
which for a long time they feared they
neved would be able to solve. Since
as far back as August, 1904. at regu-
lar intervals, the Boston postmaster
has been sending with his consignment
of dead letters to the dead letter Office
a number of small envelopes. all ad-
dressed with a lead pencil in the same
handwriting to the same person.
street and number in Boston. with no
postage paid upon them.
When in time 1t became necessary
to open these letters at the dead let
ter Office each was found to contain a
81 bill, wrapped in a scrap of brown
paper or old newspaper. without the
least sign or mark by which the SEN
der might be identified.
The number Of these letters sem
to the dead letter Office having reached
Jag, Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral De Graw concluded to send out
his inspectors to run down the mys-
terry. for mystery he felt there must
be-.
After a long search the %postofice In
spectors found that the name upon
the envelope and the addresses were
correct for the years 1904 to 1907.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
WIN FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS
Fewer Deaths Per 100, 600 Than for
Previous Year.

Washington.-The great fight against
tuberculosis is being won, according to
Chief Statistician Cressy L. Wilbur, of
the division of vital statistics, United
States census bureau. in a bulletin is
sued Thursday he says:
"a. continued decline in the death rate
from it from year to year may be ex-
pected."
He says that the organization of many
state and local anti-tuberculosis socie-
ties since the international congress on
tuberculosis at Washington in 1905 has
helped to check the disease. The total
deaths from tuberculosis returned in
1908 was 79,2s9, exceeding those of any
previous year of registration, but the
death rate per 100000 for 1908 is con-
sidcrably less than that for 1907. In
all registration states, the death from
tuberculosis showed a decline, except in
Colorado. Rhode Island and Vermont.
Mr.. Wilbur notes pellagra as a dis
ease of increasing Importance with %
deaths recorded in 1908. This does not
include the bulk of pellagra deaths in the
South, from which no records are re-
ceived.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
DEATH CLAIMS PAT M'CARREN
One of Best Known Politicians Of
New York.

New York.-Patriek Henry McCarren
state senator, political ruler of Brook.
Ign and familiar figure tc all New York
ers, died Friday morning in st. Cath
crimes Hospital, Brooklyn.
The end was quiet and peaceful. The
long, lank leader lapsed into unconscious
ness at 1890, after two %nieces, the only
relatives present, had kissed him good
bye.
He had not spoken for an hour or
more previously, and he recognized the
young women only by a slight motion
of his eyes. The last sounds he heard
before passing into his last sleep were
the voices of the Rev. Father Henry
thinner and a dozen of the hospital nuns
chanting the solemn Latin prayers for
the dying.
One of his last requests, earlier in the
evening, was that his aged mother, who
is lying dangerously i'll at her home, No.
81 Berry street, should not be told of
his death until morning, and until she
could reach her best possible condition.
She has not known of her sons illness.
She imagined him busy as usual with
his campaign work.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Solve Post Office Department Mystery

The man named upon the envelope
had finally been discharged. and is
now an object of charity. The pro
prietor of the hat establishment
where the man used to work stated
to the postoffice inspectors that the
man had formerly worked for him,
and that he had in the past received a
number of anonymous letters. Then
the inspectors started out to chase the
old man down, finally finding him, and
when they told him that $146 were In
the custody of the dead letter office
for him he was overjoyed.
The old gentleman was somewhat
dubious about taking the money. as
he said that there was not anybody on
earth who owed him anything. Then
he made an exception to this state.
ment by saying that a great many
years ago he had made a silk hat for
a man who had promised to pay for
1t, but never had. and he thought very
likely that this man was trying to get
ever with his conscience by sending
this small sum every month.
The $146 helped to put the old mar
on his feet and get him out of the
poorhouse.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
nURING the last fiscal year more
- fish and fish eggs were distributed

DURING the last fiscal year more
y fish and fish eggs were distributed
by the bureau of fisheries of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor in
Washington than ever before in it's
history. For the first time the total
OF fish and eggs distributed passed
the three billion mark. The exact
number was 3.1I7.301.525.
Last year the totai amount of the
distribution was 2.S71.456,280 and al
though Commissioner George M.
Bowers suggested early in the year
that he hoped to pass the three b.
lion mark. small hope was entertained
that he would be able to do It.
In addition to the increased distribu-
ton, a careful estimate has shown
that the cost of distribution has been
reduced to about $152 a million Of fish
and eggs distributed, which is a lower
average cost than has ever before
been attained. The cost during the
previous fiscal year was $16O.25. In
1907 it was $172.2S. 1906 s216.S0.
When the bureau was established,
in 1904. the cost of distribution was
$403.51 a million. while in 1897, the
year. before Commissioner Bowers
took charge of the work. the annual
output was 568. 144. 042 and the cost
was $397.76 a million.
Ten years ago the number of appli.
cations for the stocking of rivers and
r,IAI nj -
less than 1000. During the last fiscal
year, the applications increased to
nearly 1000 and the bureau respond
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Uncle Sam Plants Fish bv Billion

ed by planting fish in nearly that
number Of rivers. streams. lakes aud
ponds.
OF the entire amount planted, SO
per cent. was for market fisheries,
only two per cent. being for the use
of sportsmen.
In summing up the conditions for
the fiscal year, Commissioner Bowers
has come face to face with the con.
tingency that in the near future the
Pacific coast may be called upon to
restock the Potomac river and its
tributaries with shad. Only a few
years ago shad were taken from the
Potomac and planted in the Sacra-
mento river, where they are now more
plentiful than on the Atlantic coast.
The commissioner is having pre-
pared maps showing the extent to
which nets are planted along the Po-
tomac and its tributaries for catching
the shad as they return from the salt
water Of the Chesapeake Bay to the
fresh water In which they spawn. So
6iSoS a bSSA LIZ OhOldu6hk Ou IAC
fish as they attempt to reach their
spawning ground. that in spite of all
the efforts of the bureau to plant
eggs. the catch is constantly decreas.
ing.
seen to return soon, however, and he
stood near Ammon as if enjoying the
proceedings.
Sergt. Irwin told two or three of his
men to pretend they were a~ssaulting
him and when he started to cry for
help a half-dozen Of the Officers"
grabbed them and started to take
them before Ammon.
AS the Judge" was about to ask
what the complaint was, Irwin said
softly: Now" and his signal was
heard by all his men. Ammon went
to the floor with a punch in the face
that nearly took away his senses, and
the policemen seized II of their self
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
YORKTOWN COM MEMORATED
Detachments From Army and Navy
Join in Celebration.

Detachments From Army n Navy
Join in Celebration.
Yorktown, Va.-Quaint old Yorktown,
for the second time within the period of
its national fame, Tuesday commemo-
rated with fitting ceremonies that glor-
ious event in American history with
which its name is identified. Here was
laid one hundred and t~wenty-eight years
ago the cornerstone of liberty on which
a great nation has been built.
Yorktown today is a village of less
than one hundred people. 1t is as though
q stage setting for that final drama of
the revolutionary war had been preserv-
ed as the actors left it, a relic of anti
uuity as well as a monument to Ameri-
can patriotism.
When the fact hat Yorktown is still
without railroad communication is taken
into consideration, the attendance was
remarkable.
Upon every road for miles around were
to be seen OK carts and automobiles all
bound in the same direction and all load
ed to capacity.
To most people present the exercises
were the least part of the celebration,
although there was a parade of mounted
horsemen and horsewomen led by the
Fort Monroe band and the soldiers and
sailors, then a parade of the school chill
dren and afterward public speaking from
a grand stand erected in front of the his
fn.,o- olI Nolcnp mapciou
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
IXyASHINGTON. = Having satisfied
himself regarding the technique

WASHINGTON. = Having satisfied
" himself regarding the technique
Of flying machines when he visited
Wilbur Wright ia College Park. Md,
and piled him with all sorts of ques-
tons. DIR. WI Ting Fang. Chinese min
lster to the United States. turned his
attention to spiritualism and took his
first plunge into the mysteries of the
spirit world. He attended a meeting
Of the Temple League of S~piritualists.
where he was informed by a medium
that half a dozen spirits lowered by
his side.
From the time the human interro-
cation mark" as DR.. WI has become
known here. entered the hall. accom-
panied by WI Chang. an attache OF
the Chinese legation. and took a sea-
directly In front of the speakers
platform. he var all open-eyed atten-
ton. Notwithstanding his flowing pur-
pie robes. the minister was not recog-
nized by the half-hundred attendants,
but was the center of curiosity.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
FIGHT FREIGHT RATES
LEADING SHIPPERS PROTEST
AGAINST ADVANCE.
Movement Started by Adoption OF
Resolution at a Meeting
in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati.-That any proposed gem
eral advance in freight rates will dis
turb existing business conditions, and
that such an advance is not justified and
will be vigorously contested by the lead
ing shippers organizations of the coun-
try, was the tenor of resolutions adopted
Tuesday at a meeting of representative
shippers and other commercial organiza-
tons from many points of the country
held in the Sinto Hotel here. The day
was devoted to a discussion of the
freight situation, and it was determined
to at once i%naugurate a strong move
ment in opposition to the contemplated
advance in rates, a committee being Gre
ated whose duty it shall be to propagate
a campaign of education of the public
on freight rates
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

IEUT. FATHER of the Washing
Il ton police gave away one of the
secrets of the third degree" when he
told Judge Aukan how he extracted
about two dollars In small change
from the mouth of a cclored woman
who pretended that she had a gum
boil.
Policemen Russell, Looper and Har-
ney had made q raid on a house Do
G street southwest that was thought
to be q "speak-easy." or. in legal
terms. an unlicensed bar.
The police sem into the house two
or three people with marked coins.
When the raid was made George Tub
man. Annie Tubman and Charles Nor
man were gathered in. together with
a lot OF evidence IN the shape Of
whisky and beer.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
WOULD HAVE
BEEN DEAD
Says Temple Clark, of Pope
Had 1t Not Been For Cardui,
Now in Good Health.

Pope, Tenn.-"As the result OF o
fall from a horse, l suffered intense
agony for about 4 years." writes Mrs.
Temple Clark, of this place. Il was
irregular and had falling feelings and
other womanly trouble. At last | was
induced to take Cardui, the woman's
tonic, and it helped me a great deal.
I certainly believe if it had not been
for Cardui and Thedford's Black
Draught, I would have been dead, in
stead of having the blessing of health.
Il love a dollar, but 1 have never
seen one / think as much of as l do OF
a bottle of Cardui. / could tell a great
deal more and not get tired. / recon-
mend it to all my friends, for / am
sure it will cure others as it has me-"
Remember that Cardui is a vege-
table extract, composed Of valuable
medicinal ingredients. which build up
vitality, tone up the nerves and
strengthen the womanly constitution.
For over so years. Cardui has been
in successful use. It's merit is proven
and known. Using it is no new expe-
riment. It has stood the greatest Of
all tests-the test Of TIME.
NOTE-The Cardui Home Treatment
for Women, consists of Cardui (S1),
Thedford's Black-Drnught (25c), or
VeIv0 (50c), for the liver, and Carduf
Antiseptic $500. These remedies mny
taken singly, by Themselves, II de-
sired, or three together, as a complete
treatment for women's Ills. Write t0t
Advisory Dept, Chattanooga
Medicine CO., Chattanooga, Tenn, for
Special Instructions, and 4-page book,
Treatment for Women" sent In
plain ON request.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Woman's Mouth Was a Speakeasy Till

Annie Tubman's jaw was swollen
enormously. Lieut.. Fathers asked her
what was the matter.
Gum boil" was her laconic reply.
"Ahem," said the lieutenant. Then
he began to massage Armies face.
Out came a dime.
ANY more?" he asked. and Annie
shook her head.
The lieutenant gave the face a
pinch. Out came two quarters.
marked money. Another massage, and
Annie disgorged five nickels.
More pinching, more money. until
about 81 were in the lieutenant's
hands. Telling about 1t in court As
sistant Corporation Counsel Pugh had
the nerve to say to Judge Aukum
that the woman was forced to cough
up!
Annie and George Tubman were dis
missed, and Charles Norman was held
for further examination
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
TAFT ON DEEP WATER
PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR FAIE
PLAY FOR RAILROADS.
Sporadic Policy of River Improve.
ment Must Be Succeeded
by Definite Plans.

Corpus Christi, Texas.-Announcing
himself as an enthusiastic advocate Of
deep waterways, when such projects can
be shown to be practicable and necessary.
and declaring that the piecemeal pro.
cession by jerks policy of Congress in
the past with reference to snch improve.
,ments should be replaced with a definite
general plan for opening up great ave,
nues Of commerce, President Taft
aroused the delegates to the convention
of the interstate Inland Waterways
League, in session here, to enthusiastic
demonstration Of approval.
Continuing, the president said that in
addition to extending commerce, deep
inland waterways would serve as the
best means of controlling railroad rates.
In this connection he took occasion to
refer to the fact that in some localities
there is a disposition to do injustice to
the railroads and to drive the corpora
tions to a system or economy which
prevents the development of the country
through which they pass.
The president said it was often tho
case that the citizens of a county would
go to any extent to get q railroad to
come into the county, but once there,
not a friend of the railroad could any
where be found, except perhaps the local
counsel.
The president urged a square deal"
for the railroads, that they might no.
be deprived of reasonable. profits through
popular prejudice.
The president declared that the halt
ing, sporadic system of river and harbor
improvements in the past was not due
to the army engineers, but was the work
of the committees in Congress, who had
responded to clamor from home and to
party considerations. The time has come,
he declared, for a change in this sys
TEN.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
pRoHI SPREADS LIQUOR TRADE.
Knights Of Fidelity Declare Indiana
More Wet Than Usual.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Resolutions adopt
ed in the convention of the state branch
of the Knights of Fidelity, an organiza-
tion of saloon keepers, state that ten
times as much liquor is sold in Indiana
as when the seventy-two "dry" counties
had saloons. Social clubs" started in
dry counties to evade the law, were de-
nounced and the convention went on rec
ord as bitterly opposed to prohibition
and the Anti-Saloon League.
As a substitute for prohibition the con-
vention favored "%clean, moral Saloons
without wine rooms; the refusing OF sa-
loon licenses to men of immoral char
acter, and the elimination OF "barrel
houses"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Tobacco is Tabooed.

Savannah, Ga.-The use of tobacco by
ministers will be barred, if the wishes
of the woman's board of home missions
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, are carried out by The general
conference. The question was the theme
of a spirited debate at q session Of the
board, and the general conference will
be asked to prosobit the use of tobacco
by ministers Of the denomination.
The conference adjourned to meet at
Nashville, Tenn, in April, 1910,