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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

FOR SALE = Grocery outfit, including
shelving, scales, counters, show cases,
ice box. desk, tea and spice cans, cof-
fee mill, etc; bargain If taken at once.
w. c. Maucker, Fourth avenue and
Seventeenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
EXPRESS, STORAGE, BUS AND CAB

ROBES EXPRESS COMPANY-Furni-
ture moved, packed and stored. Bus,
baggage and cab service day or night
Main Office, 24I0 Third avenue. Old
phone 537 and 900. New phone 515S.
also manufacturer of awnings, tents,
wagon covers, etc. Tents for rent. B.
Roessler & Co., 209 Fifteenth street,
opposite the court house. Rock Island.
EWERT & RICHTER Express and
Storage company, having unequaled
facilities for moving, storing, packing
and shipping household goods, and
can quote reduced freight rates to
Pacific coast and other points. Write
or call. Office and warehouse, 322-
326 East Fourth street, Davenport
Iowa Telephone SOS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

FOR SALE-Launch, 17-foot boat, fully
equipped with new 3-horse power en-
CINE; bargain for somebody; in first
class condition; will last for years
Inquire 1903 Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

WE MAKE A SPECIALITY of loaning
wagons, ETC., without removal and
in a quiet way. Call on us for quick
loans. Fidelity Loan company. room
a8. Mitchell & Lynde block.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

FOR SALE-A second hand cook stove,
very good for laundry use; also sec
ond hand gas stove. Inquire at SIC
Seventeenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

FOR SALE-Two S0-horse power boil
ers. complete. in first class condition
$3.50 each. Can be seen at 241O Third
avenue. Phone west 301.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
For Observation-Disclosures.

FOR SALE-About $3.50 cash, balance
time, will handle one of best lunch
counters in Rock Island. Address ID
So" care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

MONEY TO LOAN on real estate secur-
ity at lowest rates. Marion E. Swee-
ney, attorney, rooms 80 and 35. Mitch
ell 81 Lynde building, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
LODGE DIRECTORY
MONEY TO LOAN.

LOANS ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY
at lowest rates. Ludolph & Reynolds,
lawyers, Buford block, corner Seven
teenth street and Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

WANTED-At once, an experienced ma
chinist, trimmer. and tool maker. We
lie Motor & Vehicle Company. Moline,
III
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

WANTED = Agents; money in soap:
$1.25 pair tension shears free with
each box: sells like blue blaZes at
Is cents sample box 80 cents; large
circular free; tells all; $45 daily profit
if you can give away 100 pairs s1.25
shears daily: you can do it; try; write.
Parker Chemical company. Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED-Boarders; first class table;
central location; 1900 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-13

WANTED-Men to learn barber trade,
and take positions waiting our grad
yates; short time required, constant
practice furnished; scholarship in
cludes tools instructions .demonstra-
tions, examinations. and diplomas;
write for catalogue. Moler Barber
college, Chicago, Ill.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29
REPLIES TO CHARGES.
CONTINUED from page one.)

with glaciers and difficult places to
negotiate.
The ice was extremely rough and
there was a good deal of water to
be expected that would have sub
jected the instruments to a risk
which was entirely unnecessary when
Mr.. Whitney awaited a ship to go to
Etah for him upon which he expected
to return directly to America. / had
hoped to get back by the end of
July or the middle of August. ]
wanted to see my family as soon as
possible, as I had been separated
while Mr.. Whitney did not expect to
get back before October.
"As to the charge that l had not
found traces of Commander Peary's
records at Cape Thomas Hubbard
the point which Peary would call
Cape Thomas Hubbard Is a round
promontery and it would be difficult
to find any distinct point which could
he positively recognized as Cape
Thomas Hubbard. From Commander
Peary's map L am absolutely unable
~ IONdtO OapO AoIloS " =
did not search for any cache where
records might be deposited. In fact,
I did not know that Peary had left
any records there.
Considerably to the west l did
see a rock which might have been a
cache, but it might have been merely
a clump of rocks. / a at a very
long distance from it and there was
no reason why l should have searched
l left a cache of provisions close to
the beginning of the cliffs of what
Sverdrup puts down as S%vartevoeg.
There was no indication near where
we left our provisions.
"The other points of the so-called
charges have been replied to in de-
tail on several occasions. l will an
swer everything in the most formal
way when Commander Peary prints
or makes public his other points. My
reply then will be given out as a
written statement"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

1t is not to be wondered at that
Russia has entered the Chinese loan
controversy and wants her share of it.
The whole scrimmage is a piece of
~selishness on the part of the other
nations. Duty to IT sympathy for
China is not the ruling motive. The
idea is to get some sort of a foothold,
on which t stand, in future complicat-
lions. Why does England insist upon
lending China money, if France does
or the United States, If Germany
does? For the same reason, Russia
wants a finger in the pie. And then
to think that China has to increase
her loan from 23 to 80 millions in
order to widen the distribution of
her bonds. There is now a delay in
settling the matter because of Rus
sia's demand. 1t is possible that
China will have to go into debt five
more millions to let Russia in the
game. 1t is accounted a great piece
of diplomacy to make China divide
up her loan and give us a share.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

The silver dollar gradually is going
out of circulation. Today there are
about 1900, 900 Of them in circula-
ton, which is the smallest number
in recent years. Three years ago
there were about $4,000, 900 passing
through the various channels of
trade. The reason for the unpopu-
larity of the silver dollar, it is said
at the treasury department today,
was that the government for the
last two years has declined to pay
the express charges on shipments of
them to the treasury for exchange for
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

The first Grand Army post in Eu-
rope has lately been organized at
Oldham, in Lancashire, England,
where 20 former Union soldiers re-
side. Although it is the first Eu-
ropean post it is not the first outside
the limits of the United States, as
there are already four in Canada, one
in Peru and one in Honolulu. There
are, according to the United States
pension commissioner, about 5000
pensioners residing in foreign
countries.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

notes of similar. value. There were
more thaHl$ 80 100000 Articulation
when congress refused TO appropriate
money for paying express charges.
Immediately the movement of silver
dollars decreased rs per cent. Be-
cause of their size and weight, they
already have been discarded in the
mercantile centers of the North and
East, but they still retain favor in
the west and the southwest and in
all parts TO the south.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29
THE POETRY OF THE POLE,

That was an interesting question
God put to Job: Wherein are the
sockets of the earth made to sink?"
Of course Job couldn't answer. 1t
was put to him to impress him
with an appreciation of humility. In
another place, in the Bible. the qnes-
ton is answered, thus: He stretch
eth the north Zone socket) over the
empty space and hangeth the earth
upon nothing
The socket was the place in which
the earth's pole plays, and with thai
little place, which the Bible says is
as empty space" intelligent man
kind has always taken a deep inter-
est, possibly not so much with the
socket as with the pole itself.
Around that point, set in with burn
ing stars as Virgil has it, the earth
whirls. 1t all makes a field for poetry
and science has not invaded it to any
| extent. So it is this poetic feature
the of the scene, that Is the
| inspiration of all endeavor to find
the exact spot.
1t is pleasant to note there is one
| spot on the globe, where enterprise
and the market are ruled out; where
| there is no footing for anything but
| fancy; where one can stand in his
imagination on the eternal ice and
watch the eternal stars; where there
is no pressing of buttons, no hooting
| of automobiles or changing of dollar
| bills; where n can let his thoughts
run and revel and then wake up to
| open his eyes on the blue skies OF
| home. We can see the North Pole
now, just as it is, as the Bible had it
| over 5000 years ago.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

The Ely Securities installment plan
for building of homes in the district
has meant the erection of a number
so far this season, and many more
will follow. The district is far better
for it. The standing of every n of
it's merchants is much improved,
while it has enlisted in it's behalf just
that many more active workers who
have interests at stake here beyond
the daily wage.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

Those who assist others to obtain
homes perform a public service f the
very greatest value to the community
at large. The Ely Securities Co., in
advancing its installment plan and
making it possible for every man on
the pay roll of the camp to become a
home owner has earned the public
endorsement and appreciation oil
which the large amount of home
building in East Ely is the best
evidence.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

In the island of Savaii, in the
night in the year 1905, there arose
from the midst of a peaceful cocoa
plantation a volcano that in four
year of its ceaseless activity has sent
forth more molten lava than has any
other volcano of which there is any
record.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

In order to give the London police
men a day of rest each week it has
been necessary to add 1900 men to
the force.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

Money in bank is good; money in
a home is better. 1t earns more and
is just as safe.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

One year (by carrier) .......$10.00
One month tby carrier) 80. loo
Single copies .05
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Adele-"Did you say you saw her
wedding gifts?" Laura-"Oh, yes!'
Adele-"How was her silver mark
ed?" Laura-"From the looks of 1t
l should say that it was marked
down."-Newark Star.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

Dearest, I've dropped my $1,000
diamond ring down the bath pipe.
You must send for a plumber" mo
I'll buy you another ring, it will
be cheaper."-New York Evening
Telegram.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

cit is not SO many years since peo-
pie were laughing at the telephone"
said the earnest inventor. That's
true" answered Mr.. Sirius Baker.
NOW, instead of laughing at it, We
lose u tempers. Washington
Star.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

When a girl gAs to the point
where she wants to darn somebody's
socks, it is a sign that she is in
love.-Dallas News.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

God sends nothing but what can be
borne.-Italian.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-29

Harriman's will is the strongest
argument for woman suffrage that
has yet Observation-Disclosures Post
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

an appearance as the Fisher
mans wharf in San Francisco on
Friday morning. There are a
number of small outfits working
away for dear life around the
mouth and half a mile up the
gulch.
McCauley & Lund have a good
sized dump to show for their win
ter's labors. So have Tom Lock
head and Stevens. The latter
outfit have accomplished wonders
with small boiler and windlass.
Egler & Wallick are operating
the biggest plant on lofty. They
have some of the best pay on the
creek, and will in the near future
bring it to the surface as they
contemplate putting large force
of men to work.
Killarney creek from now on
can be numbered amongst the
producers. Miller & Reynolds
have a big body Of pay dirt in
sight. They are now blocking
out the ground and tunneling
preparatory to working on a big
scale during the summer.
The prospectors at the head
waters of Sullivan and Quartz
are all, without exception, san
guine that their holdings will
show UP with plenty Of the vel
low stuff in days to come. John
son & Mcintyre are giving their
ground thorough search, and
it will be no surprise to people
who have seen their claims to
hear Of new strike any day.
Fred McGary, James Buckley,
John Patten and Henry Lunds-
ford have divided their holdings
on Quartz into sections SO as to
be sure that every part gets a
thorough search.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03
.DO|NGS ALONG
The CREEKS

Fernando & Co., on the Dakota
ssOclatiOn. are on some Of the
best pay on Sullivan creek. They
have $4,000 four wheelbarrow
buckets of dirt on the surface,
and expect to increase their
dump to 10000 buckets before
the water runs. Mr.. Fernando
is receiving the congratulations
of the Sullivan folks on his luck,
as he is an old timer on.the creek
and a general favorite with the
boys. Under his able manage
ment his partners as we'll as.him-
self will reap @ considerable for
tune from the Dakota association.
Max Nevelle and partners have
5000 buckets of very good pay
in their dump on the lower end
of the Dakota.
Farnam, Smith & Sobauski, on
the Midnight Sun association,
have 5000 buckets Of pay dirt
a-straddle of the sluiceboxes all
ready to catch the first water
that runs this spring.
CHECKER & Rice, on the Amer
lean bench, are busy as ants
under and over ground, adding
to their pile all the time. H.
Snyder, Kemper ( & Co. have
shut down through sickness of
two Of the company >Snyder and
Hayden). They have 5000 buck
cts of the famous Patterson dis
covery dirt on the surface, and
have promised to add to the dis,
trict's fame during the coming
summer by operating on a large
scale.
lofty gulch presents as busy
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03
MY CREED

This is my creek: To do some good,
To bear my ills without complaining,
To press on as brave man should
For honors that are worth the gain
ing;
To seek no profits where I ray
BY winning them bring grief to
others. >
To do some service day by day
In helping on my toiling brothers.
This is ny creed: To close my eyes
To little faults of those around me:
To strive to be when each day dies
Some better than the morning found
me;
To ask for no unearned applause,
To cross no river till reach it;
To always have worthy cause,
To fearlessly and fairly preach it.
This is my creed: To wisely shun
The sloughs in which the foolish wal
low,
70 lead where I may be the one
Whom weaker men should choose to
follow;
To keep my standards always high,
To find my task and brayely do it; i.
This is my creed-I wish that
Could even live half way UP &c ii,
Chicago Record-Herald.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03
Big Crowd
Will Be There

Everybody on Sullivan creek
and vicinity is looking forward
to the good time in store for
them at the house warming party
at the Hotel Drummond on next
Monday night. The proprietor
has q fine, large house, and has
been arranging for the reception
of her neighbors and friends for
the past week. Arrangements
have been made whereby large
sleds will be provided to carry
the Hot Springs crowd that is
going to attend the house warm
ing.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03
a., 9. Lodge
Fiourishing

At the meeting of Camp Hot
Springs No. "a, A. B., on Mon
day evening last candidates for
the elective officers were placed
in nomination, and the election
will take place on next Monday
night. The lodge is in a good
healthy condition; it has a fine
nest egg in it's treasury, and
several Of the members are be-
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03
Big eyed Chick

A gang of Greeks is working in the
railroad yard near Downs, Kan. They
had been buying all of their meat from
q Downs grocer until a few days ago.
The grocer noticed they didn't come to
his store for several days. Then one of
of the Greeks came back, but his face
looked peaked, and he was about Sail
in"
ssWhat's the matter with you?n
asked the grocer.
81 sick in the knee" he answered.
81 sick in the bell. I sick in the head. ;"
He looked sad and forlorn.
ssWhat have YOU been doing?" asked
the grocer.
ssToo much chick nit the big eye"
he replied. ''Too much chick NIT the
big eye. He make me sick. Too much
chick nit the big eye.
After questioning along for time
and getting the, tangles out of the
Greeks talk he discovered that the for
eigners had bought shotgun, intend
ing to kill their own meat. Their first
game was several big owls. and a mess
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

Save time and expressage by order
ing Drugs at DR.. Carter's drug store,
Sullivan City. Everything in that line.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

Uncle Wallace Houston, the master
builder, left yesterday morning for
Gibbon. Billy Ford accompanied him.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

n On Slough below Hot
%oS q Springs, March 81. two
small account books-one black cover,
other gray. Return to Chas. Dickln-
son, the Freighter, Hot Springs, and
receive suitable reward.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

or two of them came pretty nearly
making a national mourning day in
Greece. Kansas City Journal.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

Mrs. J. F. Nellany IS now almost re-
covered from the effects of a few days
serious illness.
Hot Springs post., 1909-04-03

ginning to figure on ways, means
and plans for the erection of g.
suitable hall for the lodge-one
in which big dances and enter
tainments may be held.
The Dolores star., 1909-05-07

thing-to have some mart in tho
worlds work. The law seemed n he .
respec'aoie profession and felt that
mayoe l could do some good in pol,.
ucs. don't think the men of nv
cisss take as much interest in politics
~ they should. And then, I'd like to
make my own living
have to make mine" said Maria
Greene.
But you never thought of teach.
ing. or nursing. or-weli-paintine or
us.' IN. or that sort Of thing. did your
NO, she replied: did your"
vernon laughed at an absurdity that
needed no answering comment. and
then he hastened on;
vi course. you know I think II fine
thas you should have done as YOU
have You must have met with dis.
couragemenis."
sne laughed. and Vernon did not
note the bitterness there was con.
ceaied In the laugh; to him It seemed
intended to express only that polite
oeprecation demanded in the. treat.
ment OF personal situation.
can sympathize with you there, I"
said Vernon. though Miss Greene had
not admitted the need OF sympathy
Perhaps 1t was Vernons own need OF
sympathy, or his feeling of the need
OF II. that made him confess that his
own family and friends had never sym.
pathized with him. especially with
.what he called his work In politics; he
felt. at any rate, that he had struck
the right note at last. and he went on
TO assure her how unusual 1t was to
meet woman who understood public
questions as well as she understood
them. And 1t may have been his curl
osity that led him to inquire:
How did your people feel about
your taking NY the law?"
Miss Greene said that she did DO,
know how her people felt. and Vernon
again had that banned sense OF her
evading him.
I've felt pretty much alone In my
work" he said. The women 1 know
won't talk with me about It: they
won't even read the newspapers. And
I've tried SO hard to interest them
in IT,"
Vernon sighed. and he waited fol-
Miss Greene to sigh with him. He did
not look at her. but he could feel her
presence there close beside him. He,
gloved hands lay quietly in her lap:
she was gazing out over the prairies
The light winds were family stirring
her hair. and the beauty Of 1t, Its
warm red tones brought out by tn.
furnishing sun. suddenly overwhelmed
him He stirred and his breath came
hard.
Continued next week)
The Dolores star., 1909-05-07
CHAPTER WI.

Maria Greene would not let Vernon
attend to her tickets; she said 1t was
a matter of principle with her; but
late in the afternoon. when they had
had luncheon, and she had got the
tickets herself, she did accept his In
vitation to drive. The afternoon had
justified all the mornings promise Of
a fine spring day, and as they left the
edges of the town and turned into the
road that stretched away over the low
undulations Of ground they call hills
in Illinois, and lost itself mysteriously
In the country far beyond, Miss
Greene became enthusiastic.
Isn't 1t glorious!" she cried. "And
to think that when l left Chicago last
night 1t was still winter!" She shud.
dered. az II she would shake on the
memory Of the city's ugliness. Her
face was flushed and she inhaled the
sweet air eagerly.
ITO be in the country once more!
she went on.
did you ever live In the country p
Vernon asked.
Once" she said, and then after Z
grave pause. she added: "A long time
ago."
The road they had turned into was
The Dolores star., 1909-05-07

halfmile track near the city, ran two
plugs over II every day for a purse o!
five dollars and made books OF every
race from Sheepshead Bay to the Pa
cific coast. II the law frowned that's
all II could do.
The peaceful little village wherein
was the race course became trans
formed. Farmers studied dope sheets
as they guided the pillow and talked
knowingly of mud-larks and cinches.
Everybody became a sporting man
and among them David Cobb. the vii
lage carpenter.
Cobb was sore smitten with the bet
ting disease. II would have puzzled
him to try to name the boundaries of
his state. but he knew the pedigree OF
pretty much all the horses running
and once and while he won a bet
A felicitous run OF luck which Mr..
Cobb had been enjoying suddenly
changed and fortune-ever capri
cious jade. turned her back on him. He
couldn't win bet and one August day
found himself penniless. He sat
gloomily on a trestle In front of the
blacksmith's shop listlessly reading
the entries for the day. Mr.. Quinn. a
disqualified jockey from one Of the big