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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

Embroioeries at 3Ize Yard
No mistake-that's what this Eisinger
Dessauer sale does to the Embroideries, for
one thing. There are about q thousand
yards in this lot: nice Embroidery Edgings
and Insertions worth sc. TIC; some even as
high as 1Oc. choice for $40 a yard.
Enbroideries at rec Yard:
Another thousand yards of Embroideries,
worth 15c, 121-c and a few 10c values; IL
inch Corset Cover Embroideries i'm many diff
ferent patterns; Finch TO 17-inch 15c
founcings. edgings and bands, etc. ALL all at
one price: not 15c. nor 2i5c, nor 10c. but
Just rec yard.
Embroideries at 15c Yard:
In this lot are beautiful csc Corset Covers:
some 2Tinch FlouncIngs; quite a variety OF
Csc Allover Embroideries, and so on. We
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
= From The Argus Files of 1888

Jan. The piano pupils OF Mrs.
Darrow gave a recital yesterday after
noon at Mrs. Darrow's home on Sew
snth avenue. Those who took part
we're May Carl. Minnie Jones. May
Freeman. Helen Loosely. Willie Spen-
Ger. Chris Koch. Lille Thompson.
Mary Freeman. Susie Montgomery.
Harry we.ch. Nav Walker. Willie
Page. Theodore Jennings. Margaret
Stewart. May Ferguson, Florence
Dart
Jan. 5.-Last evening Germania
lodge No. s a o. L. W. installed the
following officers. Robert Koehler,
Henry Einfeldt, F. c. Schroeder. Peter
Ecker, J. II. Beselin, Frank III. {. II.
Ritter. Fred Boetje. Henry Eifert. F.
Rudolph and DR.. Bernhard.
Jan The annual meeting OF the
Rock Island County Agricultural So
eiety was held and the following Of
heers elected: President. Mark Ash
down; vice president, Jere Pearsall:
secretary. A SaddOris: treasurer. ].
W simOnson; marshal. p. p. Cox:
general superintendent, Henry Sad
doris.
Jan. Sat its regular meeting last
night Island City camp No. 300 NJ. W.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
A Good Plaster.

Meritol White Liniment is a splen-
did application for sore throat. cold
on the lungs. Group and pains in the
chest. Saturate a piece of flannel cloth
with the liniment and use as a plas-
ter. II is very penetrating. will not
blister and IL very effective. II. o.
Rolls. Rock Island. Ill. exclusive
agent.-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
If it isn't right, tell u.
Well make it right.
Chicago Bargain Sale
Eisinger & Dessauer
Dissolution
Bargains in Winter Underwear:

Bargains IN Winter UnuerWear.
Ladies' 75c bleached fleeced Union Suits
for 49c.
Ladies' "Merode" Vests and Pants,
worth $1.OO and $1.50, for 89c.
Ladies' fleeced Vests and Pants, 25c
value, for 19c.
Children's fleeced Vests and Pants,
worth up to Csc, for 1870.
Children's and Misses fleeced Union
Suits, SOC value, for 35c.
Mems $3.50 Natural Wool Underwear
for &C.
Mems SOC fleeced Shirts and Drawers for
&c.
Mems $500 Wool Union Suits for S1.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

ST. Louis-Frederick y. Judson.
trustee for the Nathan Cole Invest
ment company, which handles the
$3.50. 1000 estate OF Nathan Cole. asked
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

Wash dress goods such as Csc lin
weaves, 29c white piques, 25c white
poplins, CSC checked ratines, 25c
fancy stripe crepes; also dress piques
and cotton dress corduroys in tans.
blues, pinks. etc. worth regularly up
to Soc; these go on sale. choice Of the
whole lot, not CSC nor 25c, but 121zc
a yard. All you want. while it lasts.
12Izc yd.
Bargains in White Goods:
Fifty bolts of SIPS English long
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

the circuit court TO appoint a receiver
for the company. This was a result
OF litigation by some heirs TO divide
the estate. .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
The store that helps to keep
the cost of living down.
Every Department
Shares
Chicago Bargain Sale
Eisinger & Dessauer
Dissolution
Chicago Bargains in Domestics:

Chicago Bargains in Domestics:
36-inch Dress Percales, worth 10c yard,
for 61ac yard.
15c Bleached Shaker Flannel for &c yard.
10c value in light and dark Outing Elan
mel for TIC yard.
Good Bleached Muslin, worth Size yard,
10 yards for 69c.
Light and Dark Outing Flannel, &c yard ;
10 yards for 39c
Standard Prints, the &c kind, for AZ yd.
10 yards for 39c.
Double width Percales mostly dark pat
terms, 61ac yard.
Good Persian Comforter Challies at &c
yard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
planted May rs, about 2s4 inches in

planted May %, about 21z inches In
depth and three grains to hill.
1t was cultivated once right after
planting and harrowd twice before the
corn came up. Oct 10 the corn
had reached such stage that mod
crate frost would not have injured il.
The crop was gathered on the fourth
and fifth of November. In regard to
rainfall he stated that the season was
considered fairly dry.
All tie news all he time-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

Fancy Dress Silks at 371ac Yd.
300 yards Of these silks are what the
Eisinger & Dressauer Dissolution Sale
brings to Moline; pink, tan, old rose, light
blue, white, etc.-choice of good variety
of wanted colors. Full 36-inch Brocaded
Silks, worth at least SOC, all you want.
while it lasts, 371ac yard
White Bed Spreads Worth $3.50. for $500:
So of these $3.50 Bed Spreads; plain white fringed
scalloped cut corners plain, some worth up to
$500, and some colored spreadspnk, blue. yellow,
etc.; out they go, choice for $1oo each.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
TELLS HOW PRIZE
CORN WAS GROWN
William A. Curtis, Winner in
Bank Contest, Gives Inter
esting Facts.

William A. Curtis. 1s-year-old Rey-
nolds boy, who won first prize in the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
White Wash Dress Goods at Half and Less:
Here's bargain such you only find at the Fisk


lcloth; the dainty soft long-cloth so
much in demand for white underwear.
While they last, these 10-yard bolts
of s125 English long-cloth go at sse
Ia bolt.
500 yards good 15c India inon. all
you want while it lasts, for 1oc yd.
tsc Gaiatea Cloth for 14c Yd.
$50 yards of this Galatea cloth; all
the wanted styles; on sale at, not 1Sc
but 14c yd.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
A Cut Price Sale of Embroideries:

A
this
oIlous
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

All tie news all he time-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17

Girls coats good STYLES, large variety of
cloths in plain and novelty effects; sizes in
this lot run from years to IA; while they last
take your pick. not $500. $3.50 or $1,000. but
just $249 each.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-17
School Savings.

The school savings deposits col
lected yesterday by the state banl
again amounted 20 more than two hun
bred dollars. The result follows:
Evening star., 1914-05-03
BuoYANcY OF FRESH AND SALT WATER

A CHINESE lad dropped his ball in a
narrow hole and could not get it out.
So he poured water in the hole, thinking
that he would float the ball to the surface.
As the ball was slightly heavier than water,
it remained on the bottom. Then he thought
of mixing salt with the water, as he knew
that salt water would float denser objects
than fresh This he did, and was rewarded
with the floating ball
This particular fact is demonstrated at
the mouths of rivers. Objects rolling along
the bottom OF a fresh river, too heavy to
come to the top will rise when they are
carried out to sea. The general rule also
applies to floating bodies. For instance, a
ship with cargo on the sea will sink some
times foot on entering fresh water port.
On the other hand, if she leaves fresh
water port with her cargo, she will rise
when entering the ocean. So ship may
be loaded apparently too much at wharf
and still be all right on the waves.
In building a dam the fact of salt waters
being heavier than fresh must be taken into
consideration, and the dam for the same
head must be a good deal stronger; this
too without taking into consideration the
beating Of waves, etc.
Evening star., 1914-05-03
Continued from page 4

Cleaning fled away like homing loon.
But the liners folk were more than gener-
Gus when they passed the Cleaning where
she had to heave to for pilot. Her crowded
rails gave her three times three cheers and
a tiger Her gold braided skipper barred his
gray head and leaned out from his bridge
to Shout, God bless you, old ship! God
fo'c'sle head halted the work of getting his
mooring lines ready for port to yell, with no
less sentiment than had moved his COM
mander, "What is she? Twin screw or triple?"
"Ouadrupe turbine!7 Pericles flung at
him with laugh.
On the opposite side of the Cleaning
where the Sound pilotboat lay still Others
were cheering and welcoming her. But
some of the cheers were for the man who
climbed her side to guide her into Seattle.
A young fellow he was, no older than Sears,
and he had won his chance to do this thing
from pool that had been formed the day
the telegraph had carried the news that the
Cleaning had arrived off the Heads of San
Francisco and sailed for the Sound.
"We've been on the lookout for you the
last five days' exclaimed the pilot boyishly
as he tumbled over the rail and met Sears.
Then his professional eye read what he
thought was the answer for the delay in the
Gloaming's white decks, the newly tarred
shrouds and backstays, and the signs of
fresh paint and glistening brass work. Just
what | said you'd do" he added enthusias-
tically. keep her out till you'd put her in
shape, no matter if they are going to cut her
down into an oil tank barge This is sea
history-all this, Capt'n Sears!'
WIHEREUPON Sears eyes went search
ing for Pericles, who had thoughtfully
slipped away at the pilots appearance. As
he discovered him on the opposite side of the
deck the giant called him.
"Look at that bridge out there, Bob, he
said, giving Sears pair of glasses and point
ing to where tramp wallowed up from the
south "See if you can see anybody you
know
@My grandfather exclaimed Sears at the
first glance.
"Yes, Father Israel, and Pericles jumped
from his side to hail the pilotboat and ask
her please to bring the old sea king from the
tramp to the Cleaning,
Blowing gale when brought that brute
out o San Francisco so hard that couldn't
get off to the Lady Mine. An just had to
come alongl@ Father Israel was telling his
grandson and Pericles little while later
on the Gloamings poop. $50 after all
mine eyes have seen the last clipper
At that moment the local pilot summoned
young Sears forward, and as Father Israel
watched him go he added:
"And they've seen more, Pericles, s,-ny
boy that she has brought home man,
"Every inch of one, Father, every inch!'
answered Pericles. "And thanks to him and
thanks to you I've had the bulliest, the BEST
vacation of my life.'
Ear i'm, pals! Ear im!' exclaimed a
runt Of a Cockney sailor, dropping line on
which he was hauling and staring aghast at
Perces. Hits is vykyshun is vykyshun
the bruisn' blighter's been 'aving! Oh, Gawd
syve US from bein' roundabouts Wen 'e's
working for bread an butter!'
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17
One Battalion of Soldiers

Seattle.-The transport Buford will sail from here toward the end of the month with one battalion of the Four teeuth infantry, from Fort Wright, at Spokane, to relieve the Thirtieth in. fautry now in Alaska. This regiment will be replaced by battalion num- bering 425 men, and one additional lieutenant. The order is issued from western department headquarters by Major Gen. Arthur Murray, and it is expected similar orders will be issued replacing regiments in the insular service by fractional troops. This order placed the first battalion of the Fort George Wright, Wash, on vessels to carry the troops to Alaska. As soon as relieved, the 3Oth, it is believed, will be brought within orders of the war department
 The enlisted strength of the battalion will be increased as follows: Com panies A, B and c to number 100 men and Company D to number l25. The stations are as follows: Battalion head quarters and Companies A and c to Fort William II. Seward and Liscum, one officer and 50 enlisted men to be selected by the battalion commander to form the Fort Liscum garrison; Company B to Fort Gibbon; Company D to Forts St. Michael and Davis, two officers and fifty enlisted men of this company to occupy Fort St.. Michael and the remainder to occupy Fort Davis.
 Arrangements are to be made SO that each man going north will have 21a years of service before him dating from July, 1914. This will be accomplished by transferring men to and from the battalion. The quartermaster corps has been ordered to furnish suitable subsistence and the medical depart ment to supply proper medical attend ance.
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17
Willing to Risk It

Proof that there are still a few people in the world who are game enough to daily with chance, is evidenced in the following extract from a letter received by Secretary C. B. Yandell, of the Cham Der of Commerce, from young broker in Chicago, who is apparently of that courageous soldier of.fortune temperament now rarely found outside the covers of popular novels, says the Seattle Post IntelligeDcer. The reck less and enlightened one says in part:
 GA broker friend of mine of LaSalle street tells me the Seattle Chamber of Commerce will pay the fare of a man to Alaska and also give him $lOO if he will guarantee to stay six months. 1 am g years old, energetic and progressive. Kindly send me from here to wherever you want me to go. ] fully appreciate the hardships, but the price of success must be paid in order to succeed"
 Tt is good to receive such a letter as that" said Secretary Yandell, "because it shows that in spite of the enervating effects of civilization the indomitable spirit of the pioneer is by no means dormant, and there are still few who are willing to battle with the Indians and suffer hardships in crossing the plains to arrive in this village aud em. bark on the perilous enterprise of going to Alaska. It was with regret that l informed the young man that the sea- son for bouused excursions as he men, toned had not yet opened"
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17

The National Geographical Magazine, in the February number, prints in full the annual report of Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, on Alaska, to the President, under the title, "The Nations Undeveloped Resources" Ac.
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17

companying this article is a map show- ing the proposed railroad routes. Three of these routes touch Fairbanks, thence to the Yukon, terminating op- posite the old telegraph station just below the Rapids, says tbe Ruby Rec- ord. After all, aside from local rivalry in this matter, the main point is to get the interior terminal on the Yukon. That the most advantageous point will be chosen is not doubted; but the very suggestion of making any point the distributing depot for Interior Alaska that is located on some side stream or mud slough which every few years floods the town during the breakup and then dries up in the summer to such an extent that it will not float a good-sized polling boat, is an unmis- takable symptom of an advanced stage of Arctic madness. Those are best armed for a struggle of this nature who have facts on their side, and every man, woman and child along the Yu- kon and throughout a large portion of the interior should be prepared to pre- sent facts whenever the "powers that
 be" or any of their satellites show on the horizon. The interior terminal
 must be on the Yukon. Let us all stand together on this one point.
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17

Senator Elwood Bruner, of Nome, who lost his purse containing S4OO in money and a draft for s6OO at Skagway recently, forgot that he had left it with the purser of the Alameda for safe keeping The Skagway Alaskan ex- plains the incident by saying: "The only way to account for Senator Bru- ner's forgetfulness of what he had done with his money is that upon his arrival here he was quite indisposed-in fact, the longer he staid and the more ire. quently he left his room at the Pullen House and went down town the more noticeable was bis indisposition. It was not thought at the time that his memory was affected, but rather that it was a weakness of his legs, which at times appeared to carry his feet pro- miscuously over the sidewalk on which he travelled. Appearances are, however, somewhat deceptive, which Is fully proven by the experience of the sena- tor from Nome
Douglas Island news., 1914-06-17

Smokers-All kinds of Smoking To- bacco in pound jars-also Egyptian and Sweet Caporal Cigarettes at Keist's Pool Room, Hunter Block.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-31
GERMANS FORCED BACK.
Nine Days of Bitter FIghting-Hand-
to-Hand in the Trenches.

PARIS, Dec. &1.--Ninc days of bit
ter fghting-niuc days OF suffering
from cold in muddy watcr-soakcd
trenches-have resulted in forcing the
Germans surely but steadily back all
along the extensive battle line in
France and Belgium. and have proved
the mastery of French arms, accord
ing to an official Paris report issued
today.
How the artillery Of France has bat
tered down position after position held
by the Germans; how the mud-spatter-
ed infantry has stormed and taken
trench after trench, fighting with
fists and butts of rifles when guns We're
too chokcd with mud to be OF service
otherwise; how the Germans suffering
great losses and making determined
counter attacks, have grudgingIy yield
| cd before the advance. are set forth
in this matter-of fact official tale of
! battle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-31
ABANDONS
SERVIAN CAMPAIGN
No Further Operations to Be Under
taken SO as Not to Weaken
Armies i'll the North.

ROME. Dee. 3I.-Gen Konrad Won
Hotzendorf, Austrian chief of the gen
eral staff, aud Archduke Frederick,
have declared that no further opera
tions viii be undertaken against Ser
via, SO as not to divert forces from
the North, despite the demands of the
clerical Austrian press for revenge.
Up to the end Of November Austria
Hungary operated with, first, three.
and then, eight, full army corps
against Scrvia, comprising, with cav
airy, first, 10000, then 100000 men.
Servia has been able to muster at one
time no more than 10000 men.
About Dee. | Austria-iIungarv trans
ferred five corps to aid in the German
Austrian campaign in Gahcia From
that time on the success of the Ser
yians was constant, and overwhelming
until not an Austrian remained at
large i'm Serviu, and King Peter on
Dee. 16 re-cntered in triumph the for
mer capital, Belgrade, while a Servian
army still remained i'm force in Bosnia.
The spoils of the Seryians cannot be
estimated with any accuracy; despatch
es from the new capital of Nish
toward the end Of the campaign speak
OF hundreds Of thousands OF prison
ers, many guns, and masses of trans
ports.
On Dec % it was officially reported
from Vienna that 'new and unified
measures wculd presently be adopted
= gainSt Servia.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-31
MUST DO SOME CLIMBING.
War Prevents Weather Observers from
Getting Scientific Instruments

PITTSBUR Re, Pa. Dee. 81. - Until
the warning nations OF Europe sheath
the sword and get down to the business
of making scientific instruments again
the Pittsburg weather bureau will have
to worry along without tele-thcrmo-
scope. Several weeks ago. when the
first severe cold of the season arrived
here, the instrument was broken and
appeals 10 Washington for another
have been without avail. Many of the
weather bureau instruments are foreign
made and it is believed that the gov
ermment will be unable to make repairs
until the war is ended. The teie-thermo-
scope is useful in that it allows the
observer, sitting in his comfortable Of
| flee, to tbell the temperature III glance
and without it he must climb :, 60
foot ladder Oh top of Il 30a-foot build
| ing when he desires the information.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-31
TRAIN ROBBERS
SECURED $40, $40
Overlooked One Passenger with $4,000
He Gave Victims from S25 to
$3.50 Each.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas Dec. - Ban
dts who robbed passengers in the two
rear sleeping cars of the west bound sun
set sIeepers on the Galveston, Harrisburg
X San Antonio Railway yesterday secured
81, $40 in cash and iewelry valued at
$1,000, according to the passengers.
The robbers. who boarded the train at
Oline escaped as the train neared Spot
ford.
Jose Martinez, wealthy Mexican from
Durango, who with his wife and daugh-
ter, occupied the drawing room IN the
san Antonio sleeper, was overlooked by
the bandits, who missed between $4,000
and $4,000 he carried besides jewelry OF
great value. So elated was Martinez that
lie distributed from $25 to $50 to each
of the victims who lost their all.
The bandits passed through the sleeper
robhing II of the 10 passengers, over
looking two men in upper berths as vel
as the Martinez family. They had partly
| finished search OF the second ear when. il
! is believed. they became frightened ano
1pulled the bell cord, jumping from the
train as it slowed up.
! Three men were engaged in the holdup
one remaining on the rear platform while
the other two searched the sleepers On,
woman, whose name was not learned, va
struck by bandit with revolver, whicl
inflicted a severe wound.
Mrs. j Carson of Houston, who witt
her 4-months-old baby occupied a lowe
berth became hysterical when the rob
bers demanded her money, and the leade
called out, Let her go, she's only
baby Under the pillow she secrete
tG1Ss
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-31
NO REQUEST FOR
JAPANESE ARMY
Great Britain Hesitates About Using Her Oriental
Allies on Account of Economic and Political
Difficulties Russia Successful Against Ger
many Austria and Turks

From frasmcntary and conflicting
reports Of the war tive main tcnden-
cics arc Observable In the west along
the entire front from Al~acc to the
North sen the allies are cxcrting
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