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THE AKGTJS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 4, 1899. Famous the world over. Exquisite flavor. a Bohemian TH4 4 11 St. Louis -gMO USA E Never 3 old in bulk to bottlens. solutely pure. Brewed and bottled in 5t LoutS by the American Brewing Co ORDER OP FEKD. RODDEWIG'S SONS. Wholesale Dj a'.ers. Davenport, la THE TRAVELERS' GUIDE f HICAOO, ROOK ISLAND ft PACIFIC BAH way Tickets can be purchased or baeiai?. eneeked at K I A P Twentieth at root depot, e OEUF depot, comer Fifth evenae and TtirtJ Irst itiHl, Prank H FlQmmer. Af est. TRAINS. East. Denver Limited A Omaha.. . . Ft Worth. Denver A K O.... Wlnneapo Is Omaba and Dea Mcrlnee t Omaha Minneapolis Omaha A D:. Mol-.es Kx .... JDcnver, Lincoln A Omina.. Denver. Lincoln at fnsana... De. Mnlm- Kzpr. Hock Iflaiid A Bnreaa Ac... MP an I A Mtnnrauole Dnver, It Wortb K O JKane a City M J a Denver tKack IS'hrrH A Vnb'U)n Chicago A We-tLiiier'y Hnck leianrt A B'ooiihrii Ae..j t 3:10 am t Bids an: t 6:f0 am t 8 Ml am 19:ii5 am 7 :.r.5 am II:" am am tl:irt ni 1 ::J0 pir. i S:lS bjd i 5:(0 am llrlO pm 1 1 :."i0 ptu t t:lt pm 5:35 pm Was. tl0:40 pn 9 :(10 pn tin:40 pa 810 an tl0:40 pn t fl 57 am t S :0S aa T o:ns an :: pn '.) : pn in-4i1 Tin It 8 :) air t 3:hflpn t S:35 pa t 7:40 an. Arrival. Departure. JDnl'y, except Sunday JDsUy exu-pt auttirday. Ail others daily. Tele pliona ltrjl rTjraa(iTON routb-o u m u raji IJ way Depot Fr.t avesas aci i.steact street, M J Young, Airect. t 7: TKAINH Bt. L., enTlrgfltla. feorla. Her. V'n. via Moiimontl) Chicago, Marling, Clinton Dubaqae Poor'., Hawdilown, bar- Ucrton, Denver Wst.... ht. Panl A Minneapolis Sterling-, Clntno A Dnhnqne Bt. Ij.. U ansa Ci v. Danvar P. Coast via Gkle-b'jg 7 arv B tavt 8:40 pa 1:15 iio tH :M an 7:M pm1 8:1ft an 7:50 pm.t 6:40 am i5 pm 6 55 an- Daily. tDally except Bandar. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A BT TAJ"- Ball wnjr Kactne A (Southwestern L-.vlilca-Dpot Twentieth street, between first anu oecom nveoces. L H Greer, Agent, TXAIN8 iaavs A p.hivs JHM1 ani Bx)re 7: am 9:18 am t Panl Express 4:00 rm 11:50 an ITelghtar-d Accommodation b:jq em y 10 an Dally except Bonday. ROCK ISLAND PBORTA RAILWAY Jtenrt First Avenne and Tvwk treat M. A IMter.-on, Urm ral lMssruir Agi-iit . TRAIW8. Lmti Amtts Springfield, 01nclni.aU, Peo ria, etc 10:19 on Peona. Springfield, 8t Loals etc "8i06 am 6:40 pm Accomodation Fact Pretgbt. 10;0 am Peoria, Hrmgllcld. Cincin nati, etc 1:45 pm 11:15 an Pooria Aecom. Freleb..... .. 7:10 pm 1:3 u Bierrard Accomodation 5X1 km 4: SO pa cable Accomodation 8:40 am 2:30 pn Cable and Bherrard Aocom.. 8:30 pre 7:65 am HE KNEW HUMAN NATURE. Paoscntrer trains leave C B I P (Molln venae) depot live (5 m in ate earlier than time alrcn. Trains marked daily, all other trainf dally except Bnnday. INSURANCE. CHAS( E. HODGSON . . Fire Insurance Agency, Established 1874. American Ins. Co., - Newark. N. J. Traaera Ins. Co., - - Chicago, 111. Union Ins. Co. - Philadelphia, Pa. Kockford Ins. Co. - - Kockford, 111 Security Ins, Co. - New Haven, Conn. Ins. Co. State of 111., Kockford, 111. Office, Room S. Ituford bloek. Ratea aa low aa consistent wlib security. J. M. Buford, General -fr Insurance Agent. Ti e old Fire and Time-tried Corn panics Kc precox ted- Losses Promptly Paid. -Rate aa ow aa any rei:auie company Pin aSTord. Your natron age la solicited. And Had Xo Trouble In Disposing; of tbe Old Stock. In Dearborn street is a baberdasher time was wLeu they answered to a less formidable name wbo counts a genius among bis employees. This favored of fortune" is a youth wbo once clerked in a general store in the country, and bis present proprietor wonders If there are any more like him running at large in tbe provinces. There bad been a stock of cheap col lars and cuffs on the shelves for years Once in awhile, usually Just before in voicing, these articles had been brought down, carefully dusted, tied with new baby ribbon, arranged in or derly fashion in the window and mark ed "O cents" for the cuffs, "5 cents' for the collars, liut patrons would none of them. Occasionally a man would come along and toss them over, attracted by the price, but that was alL Tliev would not selL The country youth waited till the first hard rain. Then be took an arm ful of the goods and dipied them care fully in a pail of water so that about half of each article was moistened. Then he dried them in the sun at the back door and next morning heaped them in the window with this mark ing: : Ii'iinfd L'T the Kain. : : Collars, 10 Cents. : : Cuffs, 2J Cents. : And they went before noon. It was all the genius from the country could do to get subsequent armfuls soaked and dried fast enough to supply the demand. Chicago Post. STRONG ROOMS. Remarkable Kipedienl. Adopted to Save Some Fabulous Fortnnei. The Itnnk of Kngland's strong room is one of the largest in the world. Th fi.uml.it ion, ; feet below the street level, is a lK-d of concrete 20 feet thick. Above this is a lake seven feet deep and above that Ihii-k plates of iron specially manufactured to resist both skill and force. Any one attempting an entrance from above would find a similar bed of concrete, a similar lake ami similar plates of irou. The walls are impenetrable, while the doors are one foot thick, weigh four tons each ami are made absolutely uudrillable. Mr. AV. V. Astor's valuables are stor ed in the oflice of the Pall Mail Ga zette in one of the most remarkable strong rooms ever erected. It is steel throughout and covered witn half an inch of solid concrete. The door, also of solid steel, weighs over two tons and has the most remarkable lock which the ingenuity of Chubb has ever constructed. The whole cost a fabulous sum, but this is not surprising when we are told that Mr. Astor locks tip about Ooo,OoO worth of valuables and money in this room. The Imperial Ottoman bank, Con stantinople, bad a marvelous steel fort built upon a water bearing rock, and on top of the rock foundation Is a four foot bed of concrete. The height is over SO feet, length 40 feet and width '24 feet. The steel walls are surround ed by masonry and coucrete six feet thick throughout, while the whole com prises nearly 30 tons of steel. St. Paul tilobe. Sore of Water. Sir Joseph Prestwich had lought in lsil a small estate near Sevenoaks. on which he built a residence, but it was high up on a dry and treeless chalk down. Where was water to be found? "So confident was Prestwich in re spect of water supply that he at once engaged an old well digger to sink a well 1GS feet deep. The boring pro ceeded, but when a depth of 100 feet was reached t lie two workmen wut to the city and sought an interview with their employer, whom they found at his desk. They explained that there was no sign of water and that injtheir opluion it was useless to bore to a greater depth. 'Ho ou,' was the. quiet rejoinder, you will come upon water to morrow. You are within two fleet of it.' "Next day it proved exactly as Prest wich bad foretold. And ever after, among many of the denizens of the val ley, he had the reputation, much to his amusement, of not being quite cauuy.' " I.ife and Letters of Sir Jo seph Prestwich. GEO. WAGNER. Jr. nsurance agent.; Rpremnta the following well known Flra amd Accfclect Lbsci aooa Companies : Rochester Genzu Ins Co.... ..Rochester, N T tirrman .r'reepon. lit liu'iLo German " Ituffaio. N Y Reliance " itiiiadelphla i;erncan Fire ' I-eorta, 111 N. ii -nr.p-iriire ....Mancbeter. X H Milwaukee Meohanlea M Milwaukee. Wis Fidelity and Casualty ....... New York UflM eor&cx Klhteeata tract tad Second awanoo, Mon4 ftoto Tolophono 1047. A Vlotlm of OvrrranHdenre. "This bill isn't what I had a right to cxiect." grumbled the man who bad stepped up to tlie cashier's window at the gas company's office. "Two dollars, bey V" said the cashier, glancing at the bill. "That doesn't seem so very exorbitant. What was it the month lefore'i" "Four dollars." "You didu't kick on that, did you?" "No." "Why is this so much smaller?" "The house was shut up half the mouth." "Then what arc you complaining aliout? Isn't $2 about right?" "Yes; but, blame it, I made a bet of So the other day that the bill would be as big as usual!" Chicago Tribune. A WaraisB I'hase. 'What made you break off the argu ment so suddenly?" "IMdu't you hear what he said?" ask ed the cautious citizen. "Yes. When you loft, he had just said, "Iet us alk this over calmly and reasonably. " "That's why I went. Whenever a man says "Let us talk it over calmly and reasonably you may depend on his l-eing so ausry it won't take more thau three words to make him fight." Washington Star. Plaelaat the Respoaalhllit r. Visitor (in penitentiary) What trocght you to this place, my friend? Convict Tb sheriff. Ohio State Journal. lie Tboesbt lie Had 'Em. "Once I thought I bad eni sure.' raid the eld express clerk. "I didn't driuk very often, but when I did I generally did ft well. I had been out with the boys one night and the next night and then for a day or two, and when I went back to work I was pret ty nervous. I worked at a high desk and was plugging along when what should come and stop right in front of me but a big green spider with red eyes. We stared at one another for a moment, and I turned cold. Then came a big black bug and a green one. and soon my desk was covered with an assortment of the most curious lxking bugs and spiders I ever saw. There were things with long hind legs and short front legs and vice versa. There were bugs with horns and all sorts of things. I broke out in a cold sweat. I thought I bad 'em that time, " 'John,' said the boss behind me. 'there's a box up there addressed to the Smithsonian institution at Wash ington. It came from Xew Mexico, and great Scott, it's burst, and the bugs are ail getting out: "Say, I never lelt better In my life than I did that minute. It took us all day to round up those bugs and get them back into the box. Some of them were so ugly that we were all sure they were poison biters. But I was mighty glad I didn't have those kind of bugs in my mind." Kansas City Star. The Powder PufT In Cnba. The Cuban woman, young or old, con siders a powder puff a more indispen sable adjunct to her toilet than mere soap and water a primal necessity to her attractiveness which it is her re ligious duty to foster and preserve. Thus all classes and conditions are wedded to the powder puff, from the grand dame of fashion to the neglected little orphan in the asylum; from the crumpled visa god octogenarian to tbe rosy cheeked child of half a dozen sum mers. Go into any Cuban school aud you will lind teachers and pupils alike unsparingly garnished, a powder 1hx and the rag or bit of chamois with which to apply it in every desk and tucked alongside the chalk ou the blackboards. In shops where female clerks are em ployed and in the big tobacco factories where 200 or Six) girls are at work roll ing cigarettes the same is true. Visit I.a Corona, the largest tobacco factory in Havana. Ten o'clock Is the breakfast hour of the employees, aud when the bauds of the clock point to a quarter of 10 every girl stops work aud readies for her powder box. In the opinion of them all, that intervening 15 minutes was needed in which to as sume the ghastly mask of powder, in order to make themselves presentable before going ou the streets. Exchange. An Absentmlnded Man. Tllcre have been a great many stories nlwut absent minded men, where one forgets his house address, another what business he is iu and where an other has to refer to the mark on bis handkerchief before he can remember his own name. There is a fanner named Hogers in the north, who pos sessed a Jersey cow, which be used to drive morning and evening to and from the pasture, not far from his home. One morning, as one of his neighbors was passing along the road, be met Mr. Hogers walking in the middle of the lane, his mind apparently engross ed with some weighty question. The neighbor called out: "Good morning, Mr. Rogers. Where are you going?" "Why," said Mr. Rogers, In a sur prised way, "I'm driving the cow to pasture." And he waved his hand to ward where the cow ought to have been. "Well, where's the cow?" asked his friend. "I suppose I fyrgot to let her out of the barn," answered Mr. Rogers hum bly as be realized his position. And he had. Columbian. Stood by Ilia Dad. Once when John Van Iluren, son of President Van llurcn, was luaking a speech in lchalf of his father, an old Democrat rose in the audience and up braided him as a bolter. Pew men were more effective on the stump or quicker at repartee than John, and he replied to the charge with an anecdote some thing like this: "One day a man on horseback came up with a loy who was contending with an overturned load of bay. In stead of tossing the hay back in. the wagon, the boy was energetically toss ing it hither and thither, regardless of where it landed. "The traveler halted and said; 'My young friend, why do you work so furiously this hot weather,? Why do you not toss the hay back in the wag on and bo more deliberate iu your labors?' "The boy stopped, wiped the stream- lug perspiration off his face on his shirt sleeve, and, pointing to the pile of bay ou the roadside, exclaimed, 'Stran ger, dad's under thar.' and then he set about work more furiously than ever." Separate Towels tr'or Children. Two or more children should not be permitted to use the same towel. Each child should have a separate one and he taught to regard it as iersonal "prop erty. Towels may be bought with initials woven In them, which makes It easy for the owner to distinguish bis own. Diseases of the eye and skin diseases are easily communicated by the indiscriminate use of the same towel by different persons. If careful ness in this matter be inculcated in childhood, it may save much suffering'. Ladies" Home Journal. In Mexico everything and everybody pays a direct tax, from the street por ter to the largest mercantile establish ment, and 'the stamp tax for docu ments U equally lucrative. THE WORD BLIZZARD74 Said to Have Been Caed In South Dav- kota In the Sixties. A well known book of . reference states that the Chicago Advance was the originator of tbe word "blizzard' on the 8th of January, 1SS0. Old tim crs in South Dakota take exception to the statement. A story is told by th editor of the Hutchinson County Her ald, who commenced his newspaper work on the Dakota Republican, at Vermillion, in August, 1S07. The Peake family, Swiss bell ringers, arrived in Vermillion by stage, and William Peake, manager of the boll ringers, said to a party of friends. would like to see oue of your blizzards I have beard so much about." Mr. True answered: "All right. AVe will order one for your special benefit aud have it here when yon come back through here from Yankton." After showing three nights In Yank ton the troupe started homeward to Sioux City, Mr. Peake being on the outside of the stage with the driver. The morning was warm and balmy. Mr. Peake was astonished at the ac tions of the driver, who suddenly whip ped up. aud asked what the matter was. T. C. Williams, who was driv ing, answered that he was afraid Mr, True's order was going to be a little ahead of time. "Look to the north west," said he. There was the blizzard approaching in all its fury. In almost I minute the blinding snow was being whirled through the air, and Mr, Peake withdrew to the inner part of the stage. It was oue of the most ter rific storms known to the territory. which is saying considerable. The Peake troupe was compelled to wait several days at Vermillion until Mr. True's blizzard had blown itself out. Sioux Falls Argus. Tbe ytlec llor's Revensre. A young lady who is employed In one of the tall office buildings has a young nan acquaintance whoso name is Jones. A few days ago the office boy was saucy, and she scolded him A day or two later he marched into the Inner office where she was at work and handed her one of Mr. Jones' calling cards. "Is he out there?" she whispered to the boy. The latter nodded. Her heart beat faster. She could not imagine what be had come to her of fice for. Perhaps he wanted her to go to the theater that night. She went softly to the washstand in the corner and rearranged her hair, tied the rib bon about her neck freshly and then with her sweetest expression, went into the other oflice. A burly man with a mustache stood near the door. It wasn't her frieud at all. "Are you Misa T' he asked. "Yes?" "Well, I'm a constable, and I've got a judgment of . !f 12.50 against thbj firm." And now the young lady wonders if she carelessly left any calling cards on her desk or whether It was a curl ous coincidence and the constable had the same name and used calling cards (n his business. Chicago Xews. Ilantiosr a Celebrity. "So you've traveled in the south of Europe?" said the young woman. "Y'es," answered Derringer Dan. "Did you see Monte Carlo?" "Xo; I asked fur him, but he didn't show up. And, what's more, there wasn't a game of monte in the whole place. I don't believe there is any such person." Washington Star. It Has Been Noticed. "There's a rather queer thing that I have noticed about people who follow the profession of letters." 'What's that?" "The man who writes just to keep the pot boiling is not the one who pro duces the hottest stuff." Chicago Times-Herald. Dean Swift, when Invited to dinner by his friend. Lord Bolingbroke, was shown the dinner bill as an induce ment to accept and replied, "A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company." Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than the common, but those only who have greater designs. La Rochefoucauld. i t t ? t Does the Baby Thrive I If not, something must be f wrong with its food. If the t I mother's milk doesn't nour-1 tish it, she needs SCOTT'S CAM Tl CirtVt 14 ... i: iL. X elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not food, then it requires oUUII b ClllulblUllf Haif a teaspoonful three T or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect It seems to have a magical effect upon babies, and children. A fifty-cent bottle will prove the truth of .our statements. Should be take a la summer as welt as winter. qoc. nd ft.oo, all drngratt. SCOTT 4 BOWSE, Cheausu. New York. What You Want You Want. AND YOU WANT IT QUICKLY. rsrj. To supply this important want and to sup ply it quickly, THE ARGUS offers the best advantages conceivable in its special department created and conducted with this purpose in view. Those who have patronized THE AR GUS want column will testify to the fact that IT IS UNFAILING IN RESULTS, and is bound to supply the want which is made known through it. TRY FOR YOURSELF AND BE CONVINCED. i.