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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-21

Quite Uncertaih.
Il wonder how
old she is"
II really could
not say"
But you have
known her all
her life"
"Oh. she was
born thirty-hve
years ago, but
[ Ii a [ m a V not
have any bearing
on the subject"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-10-21

Clean up the town.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

The January number of the Rail-
road Red Book, monthly publication
issued by the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad company, is store-house of
accurate information that should be in
the hands of every westerner, to
whom the special articles. some sixty
in number, will prove not. only in
structiye, but intensely interesting;
while from an advertising standpoint,
every copy placed in the hands of a
prospective homeseeker will prove Of
benefit to the rapidly growing settle
n4ents tributary to this road The
work of the reclamation service in
Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Nevada is
portrayed in an interesting manner
by c. j. Blanchard; the rapid progress
being T-1ade in the mining industry,
agriculture, horticulture, stock raising
and other industries of this intermoun-
tain region Is shown in special arti-
cles by writer's who are conversant
with the real conditions. making one
of the most interesting numbers of the
Red Book ever issued.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

A MOTHER interesting Washington
"A romance is disclosed in the an
nouncement of the engagement of
Preston Gibson, millionaire clubman,
athlete, author and playwright, to
Miss Grace Mcmillan Jarvis, a niece
of Lady Harrington and one of last
seasons most attractive and charm
ing debutantes.
The engagement was announced by
Miss jarvis grandmother, Mrs
James Mcmillan, wife of the late SEN
ator from Michigan, who was one of
the wealthiest men in the Wolverine
state.
Mr.. Gibson Is son of the late Sen
ator Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana
and nephew of Associate Justice Ed
ward ID. White of the United States
supreme court. He is also closely re-
lated to Mrs. William f. Draper
whose husband was former ambassa-
dor to Italy, both of whom are now
prominent in Washington society.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

VIZ SHINGTON--When Theodore
w Roosevelt retires from the presi-
Dental office, on March next. he will
have made a record for numerous cab
met appointments. The last cabinet
meeting he presides over will be COM
posed almost solely of comparatively
new men. There will be but one man,
Secretary Wilson, who attended the
first cabinet meeting that Roosevelt
held in the autumn of 1901 There
will be only one other Secretary of
the Treasury Cortelyou who was at
the cabinet table in March, 1905, when
Mr.. Roosevelt entered upon his pres
ent term.
In the seven and half years of his
tenure, Mr.. Roosevelt will have had
20 different cabinet officers, but not
as many different men, for Mr.. Root
has served under him first as secre-
tary of war and then as secretary of
state. Mr.. Cortelyou has had three
cabinet positions under Roosevelt
commerce and labor, post office and
treasury. Attorney General Bona
parte first came into the cabinet as
secretary of the navy.
No other president has made so
many changes. There have been six
secretaries Of the navy since Mr.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
AN IMPROVEMENT.
A new Halloween game, IN which &
peach is used instead of an apple

Professor Munyon has just issued
most beautiful, useful and complete AL
manac: it contains not only all the scien-
tific information concerning the moons
phases, in all the attitudes, but has IL
iustrated articles on how to read char
acter by phrenology palmistry and
birth month. 1t also tells all about
card reading, birth stones and their
meaning. and gives the Interpretation
of dreams. 1t teaches beauty culture,
manicuring, gives weights and meas
ures, and antidotes for poison. In fact,
1T Is Magazine Almanac, that not
only gives valuable information, but
win AFFORD much amusement for every
member Of the family, especially for
parties and evening entertainments
Farmers and people in the rural dis
tricts will find this Almanac almost
invaluable
1t will be sent to anyone absolutely
free ON application to the MUNYON
REMEDY COMPANY, PHILADEI~
PHIA.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
Katherine Ell<ins to Become Nurse

hrmed that report, and ever since
Washington has been wondering what
the young woman would do, it being
assumed that her affections had been
as deeply wounded as her royal suit
or's by the breaking of the engage
ment.
II is now learned that Miss Elkins'
attitude toward society for the next
six months at least. and perhaps
longer. will be more serious than was
anticipated
Arrangements have been made by
Miss Elkins to begin the serious work
Of study in the homeopathic general
hospital in Washington.
The course which Miss Elkins viii
have to follow, under the rules of hos.
pital training, will include attendance
ar all lectures, clinics and operations
She will have TO spend certain num-
Der Of hours each day in various
wards observing the treatment of pa
tients and fitting herself to take tenn
peratures, dress wounds, apply band.
ages and do all which nurse must
perform for the sick
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

This is Mr. Gibson's second venture
on the sea of matrimony In 1900 he
married Miss Minna Field daughter
of Henry Field of Chicago and niece
of Marshall Field the merchant dry
goods prince. Their wedding eight
years ago was the result of a 70.
nance dating from their meeting in
school, but the marriage turned out
unhappily and two years ago Gibson
and his first wife were divorced
Shortly afterward she married Alger.
non Burnaby, member of the British
smart set" and they are living in
Licestershire.
After his divorce Preston Gibson
took up his residence permanently in
Washington and at once became pop
ular in the set which comprises some
of the best known beaux and bellies Of
the capital. Besides being we'll
known author of Kentucky stories,
Gibson has dramatic talents, and took
prominent part in social theatricals
But it was as an athlete and lover of
open air sports that Miss Jarvis came
to know him, and their love of athlet-
les soon ripened into the romance
which was announced recently.
The debut of Miss Jarvis last win
ter was regarded as one of the smart
est events of the season.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

A GOOD deal of amusement was Gre
~ ated at the hearing of the COM
mittee on ways and means the other
day. when newspaper article was
brought to the attention of the COM
mittee, stating that "the ways and
means committee, which is now en-
gagged in the task of framing a bill to
protect American industries, had pur-
chased toweling bearing the mark,
Made In Great Britain" The clip
ping was passed along to the commit
teemen, and finally one of them sent
this word down to member of the
press.
when the session is over turn up
the chair upon which you are sitting
and read the mark" This was done,
and it was revealed that the chair was
Made in Vienna"
Further inquiry disclosed that the
gypsum upon the walls of the commit
tee room was imported from Canada,
that the carpets on the floor came
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

Washington.-With the transmission of
the report of the national conservation
commission and accompanying papers,
President Roosevelt also sent a message
to congress. The following is a COM
prehensive synopsis OF the document:
The president declares his entire con-
currence with the statements and con-
illusions of the report and proceeds:
1T is one of the most fundamentally
important documents ever laid before the
American people. 1t contains the first in
ventory OF its natural resources ever
made by any nation. In condensed form
IL presents statement of our available
capital in material resources. which are
the means OF progress, and calls atten-
ton to the essential conditions upon
which the perpetuity. safety ~nd welfare
of this nation Eow rest and must always
continue to rest
The facts set forth In this report con
stitute an Imperative call to action. The
situation they disclose demands that we.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
sELF-coNrRoL AND PROGRESS.
Vital Truths as Set Forward by An
Client Philosopher.

Where then Is progress? II any OF
you, withdrawing himself from exter
nails, turns to his own will to exercise
1t and to improve. 1t by labor, so as to
make 1t conformable to nature, elevat
ed, free. unrestrained unimpeded,
faithful. modest; and il he has learned
that he who desires or avoids the
things which are not in his power can
neither be faithful nor free. but OF
necessity he must change with them
and be tossed about with them as In
a tempest, and of necessity must sub
1ect himself to others who have the
power to procure or prevent what he
desires or would avoid; finally, when
he rises in the morning, If he observes
and keeps these rules. bathes as
man of fidelity, eats as modest man;
In like manner. If in every matter that
occurs he works out his chief princi-
Piles as the runner does with refer
ence to running, and the trainer of the
voice with reference to the voice
this is the man who truly makes prog
ress-Epictetus.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
: Stories on Tariff Revisers

from Brussels, and that the wood
work of the imposing throne" upon
which the committeeman sit at hear
ings, was brought over from Italy.
In fact" said Democrat, 1.-THE only
article Of domestic production around
the committee room these days is the
hot air supplied by the witnesses who
appear before u.s."
All of this recalled to Democratic
members of the committee ludicrous
incident that occurred during the CON
sideration of the Dingley bill in the
house, IL years ago. Nelson w. Ding
ley of Maine was in charge of the tar
in measure at that time He was
speaking to the theme, I'VE should
encourage American industries"
Mr.. Dingley was followed on the
floor by Jerry Simpson of Kansas,
whose nimble- wit and comic stories
are part of the traditions of the
house. Mr.. Dingley wore high hat.
and invariably brought it into the
house with him, laying it on the chair
adjoining the one he occupied.
THE gentleman should practice
what he breaches" shouted Mr.. Simp-
son, moving toward the unsuspecting
Mr.. Dingley. Picking up Mr.. Ding
ley's headgear, Simpson continued:
Il find label in the gentlemans hat.
reading thus: Made in London"
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

Roosevelt entered the White House
Long. Morton, Moody, Bonaparte, Met
calf and Newberry; and five postmas-
ters general--Smith, Payne, Wynne,
Cortelyou and Meyer There have
been two secretaries of state-Hay
and Root. The recent announcement
that Secretary Root is to resign as
soon as he is elected to the senate
from New York and that Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Bacon Of
New York and Boston will succeed
him assures three secretaries of state
during President Roosevelt's time.
Mr.. Roosevelt has also had three sec
retaries of the treasury, three secre-
taries of war, three attorneys general,
three secretaries of commerce and two
secretaries of the interior.
Grover Cleveland the only other
president since Grants time who has
served two terms, had but 23 cabinet
officers They were In two admins
trations, separated by a four-year pc
riod. In each of his administrations
most of the men who came into office
with him remained at his cabinet
table till the close of the four years
for which the president had been
elected. But one of the changes in
Mr.. Roosevelt's cabinets has been on
account of death, and that was in the
state department
When Mr.. Bacon becomes secretary
of state three of the nine members of
the last Roosevelt cabinet will be
men who were favorites at tennis and
have been counted as members of the
tennis cabinet.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

r HE end of the romance OF Rather
Inc Elkins and the duke of the
Abruzzi is to be like the final chapter
OF an old-fashioned novel, in which the
heroine fees with her memories to
convent walls and the hero betakes
himself and his wounded heart to the
wilderness of the world to seek for
getfulness.
The authoritative announcement
that there would be no marriage be-
tween Miss Elkins and the Italian
prince and cousin of a king was hard
ly cold when the cable brought from
Rome the report that the duke was
planning to be of to the unexpIored
mountain Businesses of India.
Subsequent dispatches have .on-
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

grew stronger, and within three months
l was perfectly well woman.
81 want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. - Mrs. JOHN G.. MoLDAN,
2115 Second ST.. North, Minneapolis,
MINI
Thousands of unsolicited and genu-
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency of Lydia e. RfsEham's
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Women who suffer from those dis
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not lose sight of these facts or doubt
the ability of Lydia f. Pinkham's
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IfyOu want special advice write
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Shewill treatyour ENTHUSIASTICALLY
confidential. For 90 years she
has been helping sick women in
this way, free of charge. Don't
hesitate = write at once.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
To Shut Out Noise.

To shut out the various small noises
which SO annoy and distract one en-
gagged In study or other work demand
ing concentration, try the Fourth of
July stunt" of stuffing the ears with
cotton. This is far more effective
than stopping the clocks and exiting
the family
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

caused a weakness
and broken down
condition of the
system / read so
mach ofwhatLydia
l.. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women /
felt sure it would
help me, andImust
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me, /
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

aches. and a feeling Of languor. Part
OF the time ] could not attend to my
work and irregularity of the kidney
secretions was annoying. Doan's Kid
ney Pills brought me prompt relief"
Sold by all dealers. SOC a box. Eos
<er-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

suffering from back
ache and other COM
mon durable kidney
ills. II you suffer so,
profit by this WON
ans example: Mrs.
Martin Douglass, So
Cedar ST, Kingston.
N. Y. says: Il had a
lame, aching back.
dizzy spells, head
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

Il don't know whether I'll like Jack
Or not when l see him again." said
she. He wrote me he was getting
fat. | hate fat man."
"A fat mans all right" said the boy
VINO was playing cards on the floor.
when burglar gets In. A fat man
will scare a burglar"
But" she demurred, I'm not mar
rytng man just because he's good to
scare burglars with. am II"
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
Objectionable.

81 wouldn' objeck to de man dat
keeps talkin all de time" said
Uncle Eben. IF he didn' insis' on
th'owin' in a question every ten min
utes or so dat you's got TO answer to
show you's keepin' awake. Washing
ton Star.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
EIks' Excursion to California.

Via Salt Lake Route, February G.
Thirty days, 33 dollars, 80 scenes. II
interested, see any Salt Lake Route
agent, or write to A. w. Raybould,
Secretary, Sat Lake City. Boating.
bathing, orange grove trips.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
Nearest Perpetual Motion.

The man who invented the gas
meter has just died. He takes his
place as coming the nearest to date to
solving the problem OF perpetual mo-
ton-Hartford Courant
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

A woman no sooner forgives an In
fury than she proceeds to forget about
having forgiven II.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

Strong drug cathartics simply aggravate
the condition--the true remedy for consti-
PISTON and liver trouble is found in Gar
4 held Tea, the mild Herb laxative.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS.
PAzO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to any ca ~
Qf itchlnR Blind, HoedinR or Protrndin8 Piles In
: 70 IA days or money refunded &c.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was a great
sufferer from female troubles which
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28

Arms and laws do not flourish to-
gether.--Caesar.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
PRESIDENT SENDS
STRONG MESSAGE
ACCOMPANYING REPORTS
OF THE CONSERVATION
CONGRESS
URGES NEEDED LEGISLATION

Document In Measure Is De-
Tense Of the Retiring Administration
Duty of the Present Generation to
Its Descendants Pointed Out--ObIi-
cations of citizenship-Urgent Need
Tor the Development of the Ccun-
sry's Water Power.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-01-28
OFTEN THE CASE.
Women Struggle HopeIessIy Along,
Suffering Baekache, Dizzy Spells,
Lanouor, Etc.

Women have so much to go through
in life that it's pity there is SO much
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-10
SAY Have you
Napoleon and the Canal.

The steadily increasing estimates
as to the final cost of the Panama
canal serves to keep that projected
waterway very much in the public
eye. But probably very few know
that If an ambition which had been
cherished by the late Emperor Napo-
leon Ill. had ever reached fruition.
there probably would never have been
any attempt to cut a canal across the
Panama isthmus.
1t was after Prussia had defeated
France hat Napoleon conceived the
project of opening a canal through the
Nicaraguan route. 1t seems that the
idea first occurred to Napoleon while
he was a prisoner in the fortress of
Ham. At that period he filed his
time with schemes for great under
takings, and to a friendly navy Off
Ger who visited him in his cell he re-
vealed his plan for a Nicaragua
canal. ON reaching England after his
release he printed his plans. calcuIa-
tons, and surveys, together with a
map. which eventually came into the
possession of IA Mr.. Haynes of Man
chester street, Manchester square.
Jerrold's Life OF Napoleon makes
brief reference to this ambition of Ma
poleon, and says that political events
put a stop to the enterprise.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-10
At the MilIiner's.

An Atehison woman who has a sin
cere desire to the economical. says the
Kansas City Journal. took a blue
feather. some velvet. and a rose to n
milliner, asking the milliner to fur
nish the shape and trim it. The
woman was proud of the feather. the
velvet. and the rose, as they were as
good as new, but the milliner cast lust
one glance at them. and then the wom-
an began to apologize. Apologies
are not necessary said the milliner
icily. You surely don't expect me to
use anything like that" And the wom-
an didn't. Another woman said to
her milliner, brayely: 81 want a hat
that doesn't cost a CEN over five dol
lars" What" screamed the mil
liner. Il mean" stammered the wom-
an" that doesn't cost over SIS" ooh,
we'll, that's better" said the milliner.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-10
Has Woman a Sense of Humor7

Not a wife-Eve but plays up from
morning TO night to Adams idea of his
own importance. She must assume al.
ways that he is absolute monarch of
the little domestic kingdom, no matter
how firmly ~intrenched she be as the
power behind the throne, writes Inez
Hayes Gilmore in Success Magazine.
She must assume always hat he is
the hub of his business world, that it
would fly to pieces were he to absent
himself from it for a week-assume it
wen though she knows that it is his
capable underclerk who keeps the
wheels moving.
And last, Women have no sense of
humor," says-does the man live who
has not said it? 1t is the oldest brom-
idiom eXtant. Yet man has always be-
fore him the irrefutable evidence that,
for countless generations, woman has
lived with him. How could she have
survived that ordeal minus the sense
of humor?
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-10
DESCRIBING THE IDEAL WIFE
a Few of Them May Rightly Sc
Considered Unjust.

\ Philadelphia clergyman collected
and read from the pulpit last Sunday
a number of letters from husbands
presumably model misunderstanding
on the subject of the model wife.
One man wrote that the ideal wife
should not spend $25 a week when the
income was but $50. He probably
meant that, in any event, $25 was too
much and only an ~extrayagant house.
keeper would lavish any such sun up.
on the home. 1t was a man of this
sort who, when he got off the old and
trite remark about the bread that
mother used to make, was tartly told,
We'll, you don't make the dough that
father used to make" The hardest
domestic experience for any woman
is to have her husband ascribe to her
lack of thrift the failure to lay by
money against a rainy day, when the
real reaso is that his own earning
capacity is inadequate to supply the
elemental requisites. Women as a
rule are the savers rather than the
spenders, and when the penny is laid
by on its way to the dollar mark the
saving is generally due to her econ
omy.
Another man holds hat it is the
part of the ideal wife TO keep herself
neat and tidy. 1t is; but too many
men throw the whole burden of the
household drudgery upon a woman's
shoulders, without once rejecting
that a Observation-Disclosures cannot keep
her couture, her complexion, and her
attire as immaculate as the lady of
leisure, who may loiter as long as she
likes before the mirror and the toilet
table in her boudoir. 1t is a source
of unhappiness in many a home that
the mar makes disparaging cOmpari-
sons between his arewo and pre-
occupied wife and some airy fairy Lii
liam whose chief concern is whether
her white shoes are spotless and her
gloves quite clean.
Another man believes hat the ideal
wife is one who does not harass the
life and soul out of a man" Heckling
or ~henpecking at home is beyond per-
adventure, the continual dropping that
wears away a stone, but it is only fair
that the man should ask himself a few
searching questions before he blames
his better half. Has he been kind or
cross after the days worrisome bust
ness? Has he been thoughtful or neg
ligent about the minor items that in
lies appraisal make up the major
portion of the inventory? The man
who finds fault with his wife will
sometimes find that "on his own head,
in his own hands, the sin and the say.
ing lies. '-Philadelphia Ledger.