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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, May 29.-Following are
the wholesale prices on the local
market today:
Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, 19c TO 20c.
Live Poultry - Hens, per pound,
13c.
Butter-Dairy, zoe; creamery, 25c.
Iard-11c.
Potatoes-90c.
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn, 75c to soc; oats, soc to
Coo.
Forage - Timothy hay, S13 to SIG;
prairie, $40; clover, $12; straw, 81.
Coal-Lump, per bushel, lac; slack
$3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29

For stomach troubles, biliousness
and constipation try Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Many re.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29

Northwestern Minneapolis,
today 103, last week 146, last year
Duluth, today 1, last week Is,
last year holiday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29

markable cures have been effected by
them. Price, 25 cents. Samples freq
For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29

Liverpool closing cables-Wheat y
to q lower, corn unchanged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29
The Automatic Hand Machine
Getting All the Dirt

" ACUUM Cleaning
"
floors upholstered furniture daperes pillows mat
billiard
Automatic"
the delicate fabrics without particle off
lie rom the floor
DEMONSTRATING
This machine built a
market that throughout
has the largest therefor the moths
and germs. han any 9th
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29
WAGES HIGHER IN IN
DUSTRIES NOT PRO-
TECTED THAN OTHERS

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-29

(To be Continued.)
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

''Eow-THIs MINUTEr SAID EDNA.
her hair, her form. Maybe he would
not care to have her back! Then more
tears.
She began letter to Ezra when
there was strange, heavy step on the
rickety stairs which was yet curiously
familiar. She stood up, listening. She
was very pale. Opening the door in
response to the knock, she stood fac
ing her husband.
'Ezrar' she faltered weakly
EDNA, my dear, 1 couldn't stand life
without you any longer"
She fell into his arms to be strained
to his heart while she sobbed:
"Oh, Ezra, l am so unhappy! l am
failure. My books are good for moth
ing. They are not true. 1 was writ
ing to you to ask you-to go home"
Then they sat and talked Of the deal
old ranch and many other things.
Edna noticed something new, more
alert, deeper and stronger in Ezra's
manner and dimly fancied he used
much better language than before and
chose his words with more discrimina-
ton.
She showed him the extract in the
paper from the book that had made
her so homesick.
What will you say, Edna, when l
tell you that l wrote that book? l
was so lonesome after you went that
| thought I'd study some to pass the
time l had teacher up on the
ranch four years, and then I kept on
reading and studying, and suddenly,
almost without knowing how 1 did it,
began the book, and here is your
copy"
"Oh, Ezra, l was writing only
dreams! l see it now, and you have
written truths. oh, am ashamed"
"Well, you needn't be. You are the
cleverest, sweetest and best girl in the
world. When shall we start?
"Now-this minute!" said Edna.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

himself to the problems Of sociology
and religion which occupy so large
portion of his thought.
1t was quite characteristic that Gen.
eral Booth should signalize his ap-
proach to octogenarian honors by set
ting forth plan that has long occu-
pied his thoughts and been the subject
of many conferences with his asso-
ciates-namely, the establishment of a
sort Of Salvation Army university, or,
as the general terms it, "a World Uni
versity For the Cultivation of the Sci
ence of Humanity In Connection With
the Salvation Army" 1t is proposed
that the institution should have it's
main wings in England and the United
States, with affiliated colleges through
out the world. In the United States.
the head school will be in New York,
and Chicago will have an important
branch. In the various departments of
this university of humanity those wish
ing to engage in the work of the army
will be trained in its 4Nethods of social
and religious work, and General Booth
hopes that they will thus be better able
10 uedl Will INC leIIlplc anu Cry lHB
evils which af1ict the human race.
Considerable complication was intro
duced into the already confused Ser
Wan situation when Grown Prince
George renounced his rights Of success
sion to the throne in consequence Of
the scandal about his alleged brutal
treatment of a servant. Amid all the
talk of war with Austria Hungary over
the proposed annexation by the latter
of Herzegovina and Bosnia the ques-
ton of succession to the throne forged
to the front and threatened condition
of anarchy which might make Austri-
an Intervention unavoidable. Prince
George is said to have been crushed
by remorse at the death of his servant
and greatly chagrined that he was vir-
tually charged by the nation with his
murder, for death resulted from the
injury the man received, whether 1t
was purely accidental or otherwise.
Grown Prince George has been subject
to fits of uncomfortable anger, and the
charge that he had knocked his valet
down and trampled upon him, so In
juring him as to cause his death short
iy afterward, was eagerly taken up by
the Socialists and other opponents OF
the reigning family.
Prince Alexander. second son OF
King Peter Of ssrvia, who In default
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

PRINCES GEORGE AND ALEXANDER, FIRST
AND SECOND SONS OF KING PETER.
ligent and serious minded, being Of
less violent and willful temperament
than his brother George.
When his brother Georges resigna-
ton Of kingly rights was under consid
Grafton Alexander is reported to have
said: "Under no circumstances will l
agree to take my brothers place. If
he cannot be good king, neither can
|. | will stick to my brother through
thick and thin. George must remain
crown prince"
The original complication in the case
Of these brothers was rendered more
complicated still when King Peter is
sued a ukase changing the names Of
his sons so as to preserve the name Of
George as head of the house of Kara
georgevitch. Prince George is now
Prince Alexander and Prince AleXan-
der is Prince George, which is mixing
things worse than Little Buttercup did
In "Pinafore."
Anna Boyle, who is charged with
being an accessory to the kidnapping Of
little Willie Whitla of Sharon, Pa, is
a very nervy woman, and when she
was being taken from Cleveland to
Pennsylvania she almost eluded the
vigilance of the officers and made an
attempt to jump from the train. Her
personality is one Of the mysterious
features of the case, and though she
is said to be the wife Of James H.
Boyle, the chief figure in the kidnap-
ing plot, her history is matter which
has excited considerable speculation
and discussion. She is not a bad look
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09
Almost Complete.

Work on the grounds and buildings
Of the Alaska Yukon-Pacifi exposi-
ton at Seattle Is well advanced, and
the management is determined to have
everything in readiness by opening
day. This has been written about all
expositions in late years, but the prom
ise has never been completely fulfilled.
The officials of the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-
cihc exposition, however, have started
out with completed-on-opening-day
idea above everything else, and If they
do not carry out their plan it will not
be because western energy has not
been expended In the task.
citizens Of Seattle and the entire Pa
cifc coast are enthusiastic in their
support Of the exposition. No knock
ing Is going on by other cities.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09
TN HE celebrations all over the
world in honor of the eightieth
birthday of General William

1" HE celebrations all over the
world in honor of the eightieth
birthday of General William
Booth, founder and command
er in chief of the Salvation Army, call
attention to the fact that the venera-
BILE head Of this great militant reli-
gious organization has just won Eight
with no less a parsonage than the czar
of Russia. General Booth was long
forbidden entrance to the Russian en-
pire and was apparently as much
dreaded by the czar and his associate
autocrats as a revolutionist or assas-
sin. But at last all opposition to him
has been withdrawn.
General Booth was born on April 10,
1929, in Nottingham, England, and
was at first minister of the Metho-
dist New Connection denomination,
but he left this ministry In 1861 to
engage in evangelistic work, and his
interest in this department of religious
activity led to his devoting himself
wholly to labors among the outcasts
and downtrodden and in that way to
the organization of the Salvation
Army, which dates its birth from the
year 1878. The army is now estab-
lished in twenty-five different coun-
tries and has some 10000 officers. Its
head, who exercises over 1t the sway
Of benevolent despot, believes he is
good for almost another eighty years
yet and in his ripe old age declines to
take life much easier than of old.
He lives in a plainly furnished home
Of the country mansion type. Every
thing about the place bespeaks SIM
plicity, combined with a somewhat
rude comfort. The general when work
ing occupies a large back room on
the ground floor overlooking a sweep
Of green lawn. Despite his years
his figure is erect and gives the i'm
preston Of a man six feet in height
He not only works full ten hours
day when at home, but often converts
his bedroom into workshop and at
night when unable to sleep devotes
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09
One Virtue of Art.

The greater number of us are con-
demned by circumstance of income and
the routine Of duty to life restrained
by walls, streets and the more or less
flexible bounds of the community. The
greater world without is defined by
such impressions as the books and
the newspapers and the chance travel
ers make upon our imagiuations. When
the opportunity Of vacation or enforced
travel takes AS into country and cities
thus described, we learn how awry
and colorless these initial impressions
have been.
The life that goes on within our own
walk must ever be narrow In this one
sense-that the mind can never recre-
ate all of any scene brought to us by
others. The painter, as skillfully as
the musician, can catch movement,
light and poetry and can present them,
SO far as they may be reproduced, to
the senses of the beholder. His ex-
pertness at this is often weird, un-
canny. At least half dozen pictures
can make one feel as If present In the
scene, thing impossible to the photo
graph or to any other OF the graphic
arts. This, we believe, is a valuable
quality Of art. 1t can bring a relief
from the dulling rule of duty. 1t can
impart a touch Of the buoyancy of
travel. 1t can. to employ a hackneyed
but fitting phrase, take one out of one
Self.-Toledo Blade.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09
Unto the
Hills.
BY OLIVE HARPER.
Copyright, 1909, by American Press
Association.

~ T is useless to say any more on
the subject, Ezra. My decision
is taken"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

with great purple punches. luscious
rpd sweetl How rich the milk WINS
and how thick and yellow the cream
and how sweet the butter. She hat
not tasted butter for long time. and
as she thought she was almost ready
to say, 81 will arise and go to my fl.
Their"
Suddenly she began to cry--n0t 9
burst Of noisy tears, but hopeless
quiet weeping without evepN sob.
In her mornings paper she hnd rcat
Of new western author who h"f
drawn his inspiration from the vcrj'
Piedmont hills where her hAHc waa
There was an extract, and thi3 seemed
to speak to her In her husbands ow~
voice and say the same thin.<i Of -tIlc
place that she had heard him say 81
often. 1t was word picture of al
that could be seen from that spot M
lnder the madrona. She could smell
the waXy blossoms and see the rich
masses of the golden poppies that fair.
ly crowded each other. She could hear
the yellow linnets, see the wild rabbits
scattering In the bushes. She saw the
droll little gophers as A1ey put their
noses out, saw the broad bay-oh. il
was too much! She was seized with q
sudden homesickness. She would
write to Ezra, and he would scnd her
money. But could she live until the
letter could reach her?
Defeat was written all over her. Ten
years had left its Impress on her face,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

~ T is useless to say any more on
the subject, Ezra. My decision
is taken"
Every WELL" replied Ezra, with
a sigh, as he looked down at his wife,
who stood before him, with defiance in
every line of her pretty face. Her
shoulders were thrown back and her
right foot advanced, while her hands
were clinched as If for a combat
This ready acceptance Of her ex,
pressed determination annoyed her.
She had expected opposition and was
prepared for fighting 1t from every
standpoint. Her arguments had been
carefully prepared to defeat anything
he might say. And here he had accept
ed her decision without a word He
asked no concession, made no appeal.
It was exasperating.
Ezra Robins was six feet tall and
big in proportion. Edna was a little
mite of a woman, whom he could car
ry like a child in his strong arms. He
loved her with a mighty love and
CucIlSutu ucI Will du ltuutC-
ness. He almost worshiped the girlish
prettiness of her face with its pink
cheeks, pale blue eyes, ashen blond
hair and weak chin. All these traits
appealed to his large nature as the ten
der beauty of little child. Nothing
that he could do for her was too hard
or irksome.
Ezra had received next to no edu-
cation, as his family had moved to
California before there were schools
and he had been obliged to work from
almost his babyhood. His father had
died, leaving him the ranch near the
summit of the beautiful undulating
hill just beyond Piedmont. Here he
had brought his young bride.
Every comfort that he could obtain
for Edna was purchased, and he was
very happy in his protecting love and
abounding tenderness. He loved her
so entirely that he did not know or
feel that her love for him was but
weak and attenuated sentiment of half
contemptuous liberation.
For Edna Robins had literary aspi-
rations. She subscribed for the story
papers, read Mrs. Braddon, Oulda and
The Duchess. She longed to evolve
books like those written by her fa-
vorite authors and to people them
with such unreal characters as lived
in those books. She would sit for
hours in her darkened room trying to
create a plot for a book where all the
suffering heroines should live in sump
tuous homes, wear diamonds and have
dazzling beauty.
While she was dreaming her dreams
of unrealities in her room Ezra would
wander to a place from which he could
look down upon the scene before him
the beautiful San Francisco bay-a
panorama surpassed nowhere on earth.
He always turned his eyes toward the
Golden Gate as the sun was setting to
watch the last rays as 1t sank into the
Pacific. After the sunset came the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

WILL RETURN This OUT OF FAX
PROFITS"
gorgeous glory of the gold fringed
purple clouds. The last look was CIV
en- to the Golden Gate itself, the
rugged slopes of the broken hearted
mountain that had been torn asunder
by some unknown cataclysm Of nature
to open the gate to the hordes to come.
Alcatraz and Goat island grew dim
as the lights Of the city across the bay
burned out, and when the evening
star and perhaps a thin silvery cres-
cent hung down low over the San
Francisco hills he would heave a sigh
of deep content and return to the
ranch with a sweet peace on his face
and humble thankfulness for all that
he had and had seen filling his heart
80 that his countenance beamed with
the inner light Of great soul.
At such times he was unconsciously
a true poet, with grand thoughts strug-
Cling for utterance and finding no out
let in words. But the gOOry and beau
ty Of it all sank deep in his simple
heart.
Edna wrote a little namby pamby
story of an impossible hero and her
Oine. This story she sent to the edi-
tor of the local paper.
The editor thought that Edna was a
fool, but he had received many serv-
ices from Ezra when in hard luck, and
what editor does not have his hours
Of disnny when every hair stands up
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

of the descent of the succession to
Prince George would ordinarily be-
come heir to the throne, spent some
years in st. Petersburg as q student
and has the reputation Of being intel
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09
The LimeIight of Publicity

The Eiehtieth Birthday Of
General William Booth of
the Salvation Army-Two
Princes Who Now Hardly
Know Their Own Names.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-09

Characters Who Figure
Prominently In the Eye.
Mrs. Anna Boyle and the
Mystery of Her Connec-
ton With the Whitla Case.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-18
ELECTRIC FARMING.
Germany Claims Wonderful Results
From Recent Experiments.

Berlin. June 10-Emperor William
is backing a series uf experiments Ia
electrical farming" which the dis
coyerer OF the new system, DR. Hoe
chsterman, believes viii revolutionize
all agricultural and horticultural In
dustrieB.
Partial details were gwen out today
OF the result Of the experiments to
stimulate plant growth by means Of
electrical currents, which are being
conducted on the imperial domain AZ
Dahlem Station. An electric plant
that produces 100000 volts of cleo
tricity has been Installed and large
tract Of ground strung with an intri-
cate network OF wires. over which
the electricity Is distributed.
The atmosphere Is heavily electrl-
fled and DR.. Hoechstermanu declares
that cereals, flowers and all kinds ot
vegetation have grown with unusual
rapidly under the electric stimulA
tion.
DR. Hoechstermann says that not
only will all plant life develop more
rapidly under the new conditions. but
VIII also bear more abundant crops,
and that all fertilizer may be done
away with lie predicts that within
a few years electrical farming viii
be the vogue.
The experiments at Dahiem station
are being conducted privately The
Kaiser is greatly interested In the
scheme and permitted the experiments
TO be carried out on one Of the Inn
perial estates.
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-18
As Doctors See Spring Cleaning.

Spring cleaning, especially when
certain simple precautions In carry
Ing IL out are not observed. Is not
without it's obvious possibilities for
evil The cardinal fact connected
will this procedure is that there mu,,t
always be potentlalities for evil lnrk.
Ing In dust and dirt, and general
housecleaning means the removal oi
these deposits which usually repre-
sent the sum OF years accumulation.
IL would be strange. indeed. II this ac-
cumulation was free from disease pro.
ducing organisms. and II never is.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL examination would be
bound to reveal a rich garden oi
pathogenic entities In the household
dust and dirt annually removed IN the
spring cleaning process.
II follows that only that method OF
spring cleaning can be approved which
secures the removal OF the dust and
dirt as against one which merely scat
ters them. Spring cleaning, after all
amounts TO the application OF aseptlC
principles TO the dwelling-house and
modern reiinementB teach that unless
the process is well done Il might az
well be left undone.
Theoretically, no materials that
may probably contain dormant dis.
ease-pToducing entities should be al.
lowed to accumulate their forces, and
therefore, spring cleaning as an an.
nual aseptic process applied 10 the
house is wrong In principle, Accord.
ing to this view, spring cleaning
should be abolished in favor OF d
regularly conducted cleaning process
kept UP all the year round at com.
paratively short intervals. This Il
the course persued by many careful
citizens nowadays, and the public
would do well TO follow their example
London Lancet
The Democratic advocate., 1909-06-18
ABOLISH THE PLY.
CHIEF Cause Of Bowel Complaint In
Young Children.

it happens every day. and 80 one
pays very little attention Maybe II
Ia the butter, or perhaps the alice OF
bread alongside ones plate. or else,
quite possibly, II ~ the milk in the
pitcher. But, whatever II IL that at
tracts the omniDreHent ny. lis appear
ance, as IL crawla over the food on the
table. Is nnRppetizlnR.
The health authorities OF New York
City estimate that about one-haIf OF
the deaths from typhoid in the metro
polls annually are attributable 10 the
distribution OF the germs by dies. But,
serious as this matter w, II Is OF vast
" less importance than the deatruc-
ton OF human life. particularly that
OF young children, by the bowel com
plants which these insects are chiefly
Instrumental In spreading. II IL reck-
oned that deaths from these latter
maladies In New York would be re-
duced from 1900 20 about 2 900 a year
II proper precautions were taken to
prevent the breeding OF flies.
The insects will breed In fermentlng
vegetable or animal material OF al
most any kind Garbage suits them
tirst-rate. The maggots and chrysh-
lids have been found In great numbers
In rotten straw mattresses, among
old cotton garments, and even In
waste paper that had been exposed 20
wet.
Now, so far as stables are concern
ed, which are accountable for ninety
Ave per cent Of the ny output IN cities,
the Matching OF the insects can be
absolutely prevented by the simple de-
vice OF putting all manure into COW
cred receptacle, and removing the
contents once q week. This recepta-
Gle should be a water-tight bin or
pit. provided with a cover, 80 as to
prevent the ingress and egreea OF
flies.
The additional methods demanded
are the following: Abolish all un-
sanitary outhouses. ALLOW no ac-
cumulations Of filth of any kind. Com
pei people to put all their garbage in
covered cans. and remove the con-
tents at least once a week. Compel
owners of abattoirs to keep all refuse
In covered receptacles and remove
such waste at least once week
From "Poisoner a Table Guest" In
July Technical World Magazine.