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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

Taft had conference with the engi-
neers engaged in the construction of
the canal.
The president-elect and his party
will sail from Colon for New Orleans
next Friday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

of health were recommended yester-
day by special committe to the Iii
rois live stock breeders convention.
The Recommendation of this special
committee on tuberculosis legislation
will be incorporated in a legislative
bill.
1t is proposed that owners of dis.
eased cattle. to be killed by the state,
shall be paid in part by the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
WOULD KILL DISEASED CATTLE
Quarantine ct9use to Prevent Importa
ton Endorsed by Breeders.

Champaign, H., Jan. S0.-Destruc-
ton oil diseased cattle in Illinois and
forbidding the importation of animals
from other states without clean bills
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

VALENTINES for 1909
V-Full of tender and
refined sentiment and ar
tistic beauty. Cards and
Novelties in thousands of
styles fully maintaining
the McCabe valentine
leadership. Many prices
from 1c to soc.
In the Book Depart
ment there are many at
tractive books for valen-
tine rem e m bran ces.
Fancy and Floral bind
ings, dainty ribbon books
and booklets 10c to $2.75.
200 pieces of all silk
baby ribbon, pink only, 10
yards for Sc.
Lunch at our Balcony
Tea Room.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

GILL Clearing the Ladies'
- Coats and Suits. The climax of
value giving is going on right now.
Let's figure it out
Take those handsome suits at $500
in the clearing they figure this way
Value of suit :. $500
Clearing price 1875
You save 1926
Quite few suits that you've greatly
admired at $500. The clearing sum is
Value of suit $500
Clearing price l4I5
You save . 1t25
That's about the way we are handling the
suits.
The coats at 1900 are of exceptional
value. But in the clearing here's the equation
Value of coat : $500
Clearing price . I25
You save 775
Take $500 coats, full of style and snap,
but here's the way they figure
Value OF coat $500
Clearing price $50
Furs same way. How can you make
money faster than by investing it in this clear
ance of splendid, stylish, up-to-the-minute
Coats, Suits and FurS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
THE MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
OK ISLAND. ILI...TanHssCS5dRnI 4 4S sHs6H5 {


BRINGING Forward the reserves has filled the de-
l. pletion caused by the weeks great selling. Com
plee assortments and some entirely new lines will
make the second week of the Muslin Underwear sale
more active than the first Every comment is-sueh
variety, such beauty of lace and embroidery trimmings
such low prices, even for one of the McCabe Sales.
Night Gowns al 75c and 95c Two of the most popular
prices for this aewe have surpassed ourselves in
at these prices You should not miss seeing these splendid bar
gains at 75c and CSC.
Eight numbers added to the already large assoments at
LOO and 125, of them better than last week. will
make these center of interest
Corset Covers and Drawers here in such abundance
such variety be almost bewiderng The great values at
Csc, SOC, CSC, 75c and s. 90 convincing
White PeticOatS. For the second week beated ship
men from exclusive petcoat house will for less than prices
originally planned Handsome embroderies finish the
deep ounces and there fine tucked plain ounceS,
should have been $25 to $175 will be nqucsoned bargains
for prompt buyers at 81 rs and $1OO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

to Angelina w. Hubbard, part block 1,
Chippiannock cemetery, Rock Island.
$50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
DEATH RATHER
Than DISEASE
Herman Branberg Of Moline Blows
Out His Brains in Fear OF
tuberculosis.
THREE HAD DIED OF IT
Young Man Preferred Violent End to
Wasting IIIness-Had Been Exam
med by Physician.

Fearing that he might suffer the
fate of all but one member of his i'm
mediate family and die from tuberou
losis, Herman Branberg, known rs
Shelton Suicided in Moline this
morning by blowing off the top of his
head with a shot gun. He was exam
ined yesterday by a physician. and
told he was not suffering from tuber
culosis, but merely had cold. This
morning at $3.50 he shot himself in
his room at the home of Mrs. Louise
Edlund. 1924 Fourteenth street
The young man was well known us
an amateur baseball pitcher. He was
employed as a plow filter by Deere G
Co.. and had savings of a5ou $500 III
the bank.
Feared the Disease.
The young mans sister died April !
1906, his father died four days later
and his mother died the same year
tuberculosis causing all three deaths
The young man had feared that he too
would contract the disease. He was
q years old. His brother, Emil, OF
East Moline, survives him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

MOT to overlook Good
~ Things in the Notion
Novelty Section, we men
ton for quick clearance
A lot fancy back combs,
25c to Csc ones, at l0c-
yes, iOc.
From the many handsome
belts at SOC, 75c and LOO,
where there are only one or
two of a kind left we price
them for a quick good bye
at SOC and Csc. Buckles
alone are often worth more.
A clean up brushes of all
kinds, hair, tooth and nail
Hair brushes at 33c, 45c
and &c.
Nail brushes at 10c.
Tooth brushes at &c and
TIC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
The Price Of Peace

The terrible itching and smarting,
incident to certain skin diseases is Al
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

NOU Can buy low
i priced shoes. al
most anywhere these.
days, but you don't
see fsuch qualities as
the, Majestic shoes at
such prices anywhere
else.
The new Majestic
Shoes for women are the
handSomest we have ev-
er shown. Never have the
styles been so snappy and
up-to-date, made with all
spice and beauty of shoes
selling at much higher prices:
Patent leather, Velour calf,
Vici kid and winter tans, high
arch lasts, correct heels,
swell shapes-altogether the
best you have ever seen at
this price, all styles, all
feathers, per pair, $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
Feared the Disease.
TIL f. w EATH r. II.

Fair tonight and Sunday; continued
cold tonight. with the lowest tempera-
ture below zero; sunday rising temper
allure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
}. VI. sHERIER, Local Foreeaster.

Temperature at "a. m. below zero;
perature in last "a hours 81; minimum,
below zero. stage of water "a feet,
rise of one foot. Precipitation .1S
inch. Velocity of wind ut . a. m. "a
miles per hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

IN The JeWelry De-
L partment. Quad
ripple plated hollow
ware of the leading
makes.
Candelabra 5 light, Colon
ial design, hand FURNISHED
and heavily lacquered, regu-
lar $3.50 value, at $500.
Baking dishes, same quail
ity, $500 value at $500
each. Half a dozen left.
Very heavy salad bowls,
floral border, butler finish, at
$500 each.
Rogers best plate teaspoons
75c a set of six 75c.
2OR of on all triple
plated table and dessert
spoons.
2OR of on Gold Clocks,
Ebony goods, Jewel cases,
Opera Glasses all Leather
Goods, Ash Trays, etc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30
MONDAY till noon, Pep
" perell bleached sheet
ing, 2A yds. wide, yd. zoe.
Monday, 2 to 5 pm, Pep
perell Brown Pillow Casing,
AZ inches wide, per yd. 1Oc.
NESERVE Stock of $500


II yards and odd pieces of high class
i Valenciennes, Venice, Chantlly,
Point de Paris, Net top, Real
Princess and other fine laces, also sever
al thousand yards of braids, bands and
fancy trimming will be offered at just
about Half Price Monday at $50 and for
the week.
=, 100 dozen Valenciennes laceS worth SC and
&c yard or 55 and 65c piece OF IL yards
for 29c. Dozen yards sold only in full bolts
OF IL yards at 29c.
1875 dozen Valenciennes aces worth and
&c yard or 75c to 9Oc piece of II yards all
at 38c for dozen yards-yes a bolt of IL
yards for 38c.
1872 dozen Valenciennes laces worth up to
12c a yard, all the odd pieces of fine walls,
worth up to $l.35 a dozen-sold by the piece
only, IL yards for Soc.
About 300 yards of fine val laces Tor
chonS both linen and cotton Point de Paris
laces, ETC., in shorter lengths and odd pieces
worth up to 25c yard, great picking here at 10
and Sc yard
Fine Venise bands and edges, short lengths
of all over laces, black silk laces, net top edge
laceS, cluny real torchOn. Exquisite real Prn-
cess bands and edges both white and black.
Colored aces and bands-in fact representa-
ton of all the best and most wanted laceS at
less than cost of import-Mondat at $50 and
till sold, laceS that sold from 38c to $500
yard marked at CSC, CSC, 45c, 35c, Csc
and 19c yard
ENGLISH Lace nets in dots and
geOmetrical designs for half and
full length sash curtains; II patterns in
white that sold at csc and $1.25 per yard
specially priced for Monday at ACC yard.
20 new patterns of coiored Examines and
Easement cloth in loaded glass and Art Neau-
veau patterns and designs are of the newest
popular drapery fabrics in the market for win
doWS, doors and over draperies and provide an
inexpensive and practical way of beautifyng
the home at modest price per yard Csc.
1900 yards coin spot and Jacquard figured
white curtain swiss the SC kind, a yard &c.
THE New Run Easy Wood
frame Clothes Wringer with solid
white rubber rolls warranted for three
years, only S2.95.
Universal Food Chopper with full set knives
and crusher, TIC.
American Style Waffle Irons, No. 8, size,
Regular $1.OO value, for CSC.
Adjustable mop sticks with heavy cotton
mop cloth complete &c.
Fine splint Elm clothes baskets, extra large
size, only SIC.
Bright Timed wire waste baskets with solid
metal bottom, Csc.
1O-Foot clothes line props with metal ends,
each 19c.
Vrooman's blue enameled sink straners,
saves plumbers BILL 15c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

Closing out all odd pat
terms and small lots of wall
paper at SO per cent dis
count.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-30

Lunch at our Balcony
Tea Room.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04

ablng the heat Wcaricd resident to
vary the monotonCy of rather col
olcSs life by occasional trips To the
hills for fresh air and cooler nights.
The country is we'll watereG by rivers
and streams but no lakes of CONNER
cial importance are found.
These rivers are OF the utmost i'm
portancc to the trading interests of
the country. facilitating the internal
trade while developing the exports and
at the same time making the valleys
and loWlands among the most fertile
and productive in the world This
magnificent country first drew the at
tentiOn of the commercial world as Il
rice producer and today Burma is the
chief rice exporting country of the
world, While Rangoon, the principal
city and port is not only the greatest
rice port in tn" world but thirG in
commercial Importance in the Indian
Empire. ~
T.. A. WAKEFIELD
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04

east the Fr@ncn .lcovince of Indo-
China, the CnlnCs. -"oVince of Yunnan
and the Chinese i or Shan State;
on the south the -. .. - TAI or Snan
States, Siam and t. .,iamese Malay
States. The cxtr"m .ength is abou.
| 200 miles. the greatest breadth 575
miles, with an area of 100000 square
miles or about nine-tenthS the size of
Texas. In approaching the coast IF
Burma one is struck by the muddy
aspect OF the ocean which is very pro-
nOunced for many miles at sea. This
is particularly true in the vicinity of
the various mouths of the lrraWdddr
whose waters are so heavily charged
with silt that the river is always tn"
color of an ordinary mud puddle after
a heavy rain.
I The coast line presents a very beau
ltiful appearance with long low beaches
with Il background in many instances
! of low mountain ranges and ornament
| ed by graceful palms, mangroVes and
other specimens of tropical Vegefa-
| ton. This wealth of plant life i'm
mediatcly imnresscs the visitor from
| temperate chimes as it is encountered
| everywhere in this land OF milk ard
honey the Land Of PagodGs." Even
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04

800, the largest province OF IRE
Er,nire is accessible only ~
A ".ar unless one wishes TO traverse d
.',d waste of mountain, Vaiiey a'i'
WIZ through the adjoining porhoh3
.sia Railway construction to con-
VI .te lines of India with the Bur
~, DC system has been under consld-
hie. for some years and Will pro-
et" coon as a route can be found
Gh;cb does not present serious ehgi-
Zinc difficulties. AS far back as
.,hentic history records Burma was
,,is;ted by traders attracted by rum"rs
H. fahulous wealth of the country
.a,a and rubies. In the matter Of
~ tho r1Inors were well founded
a. Rubv Mines District at Mogol
o.. IN the Irrawaddy, Where the old
ao,ula law" supplies the markets o.
.ba world with this beautiful gem
ro,d has been found in several places
~. The output is inconsiderable az
Duasent The first known traders Wef"
20 in their dhoWs and Chinese in
.sair necular junks with bows and Al
tor decks high above the water each
tunk provided with pair OF eyes 10
ca,ed on either sid" OF the bow
.ftar MANY centuries of vicarious
snor;orces on the China Sea AMI
,rators adjacent thereto tire Chinese
st;u nroyide their janls with optical
ooceesories. as in the pigeon English
narlance of the celestial, NO st eyes,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04
LIGHTS OF LONDON,
Americans Astonshed by Many Signs
in Streets.

The American in London, on his first
visit to that marvellous city, is struck
by the number OF signs over shops
with the royal arms painted thereon
and announcing that the tradesman
is a purVcyor to their majesties YET,
when the matter is sifted. the number
is not 50 large.
Officially. according to the London
News, there are about 200 tradesmcn
in London who hold the royal warrant
and are entitled to use the royal arms
as a shop sign, with the accompanying
words. BY royal appointment" The
royal warrant has to be received,
signed and sealed in due form: other
wise. if a tradpSman styles himself a
purvcyor to a member of the royal
family without this formal permission
he is guilty of an offcnse which is
punishable by a fin" not exceeding
600. Moreover. lie is liable to a SINH
lar fine if he uses arms SO nearly re-
semblng the royal arms as to lead
people to believe that he is carrying on
his business under the authority Of
royalty. Several instances have oc-
Cured of the enforcement of these
penalties.
Tho warrants are exhibited in the
shop windows, headed by the royal
arms and bearing the signature of
the lord chamberlain, the COMPTROLLER
of the royal household, the treasurer
of TIL latter, or of the master of the
horse etc, according to the circum-
stances.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04

no can see" Following closely the
Arabs and Chinese We're the POrtu-
guese galcons, Persian ships, the
Dutch. English and other European
nations until today nearly every COM
mercial flag in the world except the
American) may be seen in Rangoon
Port and on the broad thoroughfares
may be seen representatives OF nearly
every nation under the sun.
The earliest Inhabitants of Burma
are not known but, us the country has
been a cockpit for the greater part OF
the time since it's history has been
known, it is quite probable that the
original owners of the soil do not now
live there. The only tribe now re-
naming not belonging to the Indo-
Chinese family is the Sclung, or Scion
as the Burnans call them. inhabitatinI
the islands of tn" Mergui Archipelago.
The Sclung language shows evidence
Of connection with the language of tn
aborigines of Cambodia and also the
Negritos of the Philippines.
The first dWellers We're probably
driven out by the sWarms of Indo-
Chinese invaders who centuries agp
started following the courses of the
rivers leading to the Indian Ocean and
who have ever since been Wcdging
themselves in Wherever they found OF
could make room. OF the various
tribes and races involved in these
movements the Tibcto- l3urmln has
let the. most marked evidence Of his
presence and progress. they Wer"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04
pFEMiNlNE FANCIES.

1t is3not the KIND OF veil which gives
one al shiftless, careless look, but the
way in, which it is put on. 1t must be
adjusted. close and trim about the low
er edge If one would not destroy the
sood lines of throat and face. 80 -
In Paris the short coat has already
superseded the long one, but although
sc are told the same will be the case
here before the end OF the season there
little use in worrying.
Like the fragrance of lavender and
ld-fashioned gardens, the mention of
Canton ginger recalls tales of old home
life in Virginia and New England,
when housewives took pride in their
homemade ginger preserves and con-
sidered them second only to the classic
sweetmeat imported from the East
With tea and blue china, says the New
York Tribune. And then it goes on to
give a number of suggestions for US
ing it, one of them being a novel sand
wich in which the imported ginger is
tut in thin shavings and spread with
cream cheese, between slices of but
tered bread The bread should be very
thin and the ginger and cheese not
mixed but laid on the bread in separ-
itc CTS 81 tIldl lIlc lldNOT each
will be quite distinct.
trained nurse was responsible
for the suggestion that made strips
of adhesive plaster a household
friend in one family.
The nurse said that in the hospitals
she used this plaster for everything
she wanted to label. 1t is easy to
write on, can be cut any desired
shape, and adheres quickly and firmly
She labeled all her different. medi-
cine glasses in this way, as it did nor
blur so easily as paper labels if it
became damp She also used it in
the diet kitchen for different sup
plies. 1t could be removed without
the disagreeable crumbling of paper
when it became soilcd.
Since then the family has never
been without a supply of adhesive
as the nurse called it. 1t is used for
every purpose, from marking pre-
serves to mending a sudden rent in
4 frock.
The plaster can either be bought
wound on spools. or. what is much
cheaper. in sheets about half yard
long, which can be easily cut or torn
as needed.
OF all the hair ornaments. just now,
Jet may be said to be ahead ....-
Once of the newest ones is shaped
like a coronet in laurel leaves and
IS mounted on two combs, one at each
side e-@ z:
The narrow bandeaux singly, or in
clusters of two, three or more, ar,
| also favOrites.
One of the newest garnishments
| for white or bright cOiored frocll
is the cut jet girdle and collar, made
| en- suite both with tasseled ends.
| The girdle and collar are both made
of cutnai heads in flexible style and
have long ends.
Meals should be something more
than the consumption of food All
work stops at those times and people
| meet together. ""
Nothing that can be done should be
| omitted to make it an occasion OF
| agreeable interchange of thought ami
| conversation. and when this is done
not only the body. but the mind and
nerves, are refreshed. "' ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04
MAINE PEOPLE
BRADBURY REUNION.
Held in Massachusetts,, Many Maine
People Belong.

The recent reunion of the Bradbury
family at Waverly. Mass. was Of cs-
pccial interest in Maine for the greater
part of the family resides in Maine
The members take just pride In th
fact that the family can trace its di-
rect lineage back through five ccntu-
rieS.
In 1886 True Bradbury moved from
Limerick, Me, to the then wilderness
of Aroostook County and settled in
what is now New Limerick. His fam
lily consisted of ten sons some of whose
descendants, while at the home of Les
ter Bradbury, four years ago, con-
cciVed the idea Of organizing an ASSOC
citation to hold annual reunions.
The organization was called the De
sccndants OF True Bradbury, and Sam
uel r. Bradbury of Limerick was elect
ed president ard Henry *. Bradbury of
Van Buren,. secretary-treasurer. The
following year. 1907, the reunion was
held at the home of tho president and
the next year with Lester Bradbury at
Fort Kent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04

bic figures in the secondary schools OF
the state. His father, Joseph l.. Hack
cit OF Maine, WIS an associate of Han
nihal Hamlin in the political life OF that
state. His ersndfathcr served in the
war Of 1872, and his eat-grandfather
in the Revolutionary War.
Major Hacfl"tt came to California in
1859. He ens:ged in business in Cra3-
cent city for Il time. and later in q
mining venture in Idaho. In 1863 he
Joined the California volunteers, and
later was transferred as sergeant-ma-
Jor to tn" ordnance department OF the
regular army on his retirement, in
1913, Ii" W2S appointed on the staff OF
General Booth, With the rank of major.
He served as commandant at St. Au-
gustine School at Benicia from 1873 to
1879, at st. Matthews School from
1873 to 1889, and at Belmont School
from 1889 to 1902, continuing with the
last-nGmcd school as recorder until a
few months before his DEATH
During his thirty-1ive years in these
schools he had under him hundreds of
boys, some of them now prominent in
the life of the state. Although a strict
disciplinarian, his dignity and simpli-
city Of character, his gentleness Of
heart and his kindly humor, awakened
in mis- pupils both respect and affection
in q rare degree
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-04
Burma, Past ard Present, =
AS Seen by a Maine Man.

minated in war being declared by the
British on March 9TH, 1924 The
treaty II Tandabu concluded Feb. cath
1926, provided for the ccSsion OF
Assam, Arakan and the coast Of Ten
asscrim to the British ana an in
demuity payment of about $6o0.000.
In 1872 another war broke out be-
tween Great Hsitain and Burma which
resulted in the annexation of the
province OF rcgu. late in 1885 the
third war occurred which crded in
the Punishment of King IHib@E and
the establishing Of + !r.:Ia IS a
province Of the Indian E.mHirc.
Following closely in the footsteps of
the earlier traders were the mission
aries who have been closely associated
with the local educational authorities
in the mental and spiritual develop
ment of the younger generations ~
Burmese. The coast line OF Burnt,
stretches from degrees, 50 minutes t.
% degrees, II minutes north latitude, (,
about | 200 miles. The most norther-
~ point is in the interior about % de-
grecS. 30 minutes north latitude.
The boundaries of Burma arc: On
the northwest the Indian Province of
Bengal. assam and the dependent stat,
Of ManiYur: on the north are the
Mishmi Hills and the various tribes
OF this region where India. Tibet and
China meet; on the east and NORTH