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4 THE AEGTJS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1903. THE AEGDS. Published Dally and Weekly at 1094 Second Arenue, Rock Island, 111. Entered at tie Pottofflce as Second-class matter. BT THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally. 10 cents per week. Weekly, 11.00 per year in advance. All com m nnlcatlons of political or arg"amea tatlve character, political or religious, must bare real name attached for publication. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every town ship in Rock Island county. Wednesday, February IS. It is now an opportune time for the editorial pnrngrapher to remark that the mercury has taken :i drop too much. In the United Stales, 7.S3?. new books were published last year. .My reading only 2lla a day yon can finish them all before the new crop comes. If anthinj? can be judged from the way Corbet t and Jeffries are talking ubout one another, there is another plot on foot to separate the public from some of its money. Ueore Morrish. of Holbrook. comes mighty near being a square man. It is said that he measures 4 feet 10 inches from the top of his head to the point of his big1 toe, and 4 feet TO inches around his body at what sol diers term the salient point. The horrible thought obtrudes it self that President Roosevelt may be growing fat because he laughs so much. "Laugh and grow fat" is a maxim. And how can he help laugh ing when he is told congress is really trying to deal with the trust question? Gov. Yates is now said to be the strongest advocate of an early ad journment and a short session, and his late conference with the house and senate leaders indicates a desire on his part that the session come to an end without the slightest unneces sary delav. State legislatures these days, when they can find nothing else to do. pro ceed In instruct congress as to the needs of a bigger navy, or to favor an amendment to the constitution of the I'nited States to make senators elec tive by the people. These solons ought first to look after matters in their own state before they spread out too far. According to a London weekly the duchess of .Marlborough is astounded at the extravagance displayed in New York society during her present visit to relatives there. Hspecia Uy was she amazed at the splendor of an enter tainment given in Newport by the wife of her kinsman, Cornelius Van- derbilt. who brought an entire com pany over from New York to amuse her guests one evening. England might have had- a little re gard for the United States when she got into the Venezuela matter. She might at least have asked some neigh borly question. It sometimes seems that Kngland is friendly only when there are good reasons for it, as far as England is concerned. This is to be regretted for whatever weakens the friendship of England in the confi dence of the people hurts the cause of Anglo-Saxon civi'ization. if there really is such a thing, which we begin to doubt. Patti is coming over to get a few- thousands more for her handsome young husband. Not having much voice left she tells us through her ad vance eulogists that we must pay to observe her "method." Well, we are not sure about the method. Patti sang at 10 years old in a style as good as that of her prime. It really seems that there is nothing to observe. She was born with a clear voice and she took care of it. Anybody can get the method who can manage to be born with the voice. Justice of the Peace fieorge F. Sej moiir sat in his Hoboken office when a young couple entered carrying with them the usual and unmistakable evi dence of desire to be made one. The justice asked the young man's name "Kichard Mansfield." was the reply. and his honor stared for a moment as he reflected that the noted actor must be much older than this would be bridegroom. Then he asked the girl's name. "Maude Adams," she timidly responded. The justice near ly fell out of his chair, but recovered when informed that the pair lived in a suburb of Hoboken. Then he tied the knot, pocketed his fee and kissed the bride. Bank Robbery Problem. Forty-six bank robberies in the United States in less than four months is the record which is worry ing: the country bankers. Illinois and Nebraska head the list with seven robberies each, Indiana i lias five, Missouri and Texas four each. New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin and Tennessee have three each as their share. Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and South Caro lina each have two. The singles are Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico and Utah. In the office of the Pinkerton de tective agencj- there is a large map of the United States, which is dotted in spots and patches with little tags made fast to it with pins. They start in. the right hand upper corner at Ihomaston, Me. The next one is Ver mont. There are three in New York, three in Pennsylvania, and then after a swarm in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa. Nebraska and other middle western states. The one farthest west in this thick settlement is marked Norman, Neb. Then it is a- long journey to the final stopping place at Price. Utah. There are no tags farther west than that. file Pacific coast is absolutely clear of them. On to the south there are a few, in Texas. Georgia and South Carolina, ind up in the north there are some more, but the great mass is not far either way front the Mississippi river and is grouped around Chicago. These taps form a pictorial vecord of the bank robberies that have Oc curred since Sept. 13. 1902,' when the Pinkertons made their annual report to the American I'ankers association. Each one has written on it the name of the town and date of the crime. and if the burglary was successful, that is all. If it was a failure for any reason the name and date are preced ed by "At.," an nhreviafion of the word attempt. In the bank burgling industry there are. so to speak, captains, lieutenants and privates. There is the "plant hun ter" who goes about as a beggar or peddler and finds out where there are safes to 1m 'robbed. He seldom takes part in the actual robbery. Then there are the men. usually two in each gang, who understand the use of explosives and perform the real op eration of blowing the safe. And fin ally there are the "stick up" men, the men who stand out side ami shoot at you. if you venture on the street or pop your head out of a window. There was a question not long ago as to whether the common use of pow erful currents of electricity by street ailway and lighting companies would not provide the intelligent bank bur glar with a means of resuming open ationson a larger scale by attaching temporary wires to trolley ires ami melting out the locks of bank safes, but this feat can be accomplished only when all the conditions are prear ranged for it, and it is not regarded as a feasible method for thieves. The only benefit ' which the safe. blower and the house breaker have de rived from electrical invention is that it has given them a new and handv dark lantern. Several weeks airo with a cane that had in the handle a small electric light bulb, one of those prowlers was caught in ISrouklvn. There are few. if anyuimprovemeiits on the old-fashioned jimmies, pullers bracers, spreaders and wedges of by gone days, but they are no longer used. Instead of 7.1 pounds of steel tools the modern bank thief carries a rub ber bottle of nitro glycerine, a cake of brown soap, a fuse and a handful of detonating caps. The door of the safe is blown off, not pried off, and and the man who does it is not th well-dressed, high-living -rook of old but a tramp, a hobo, an outcast even in the society of crime. They are call ed "yegg men" in recognition of tin discoveries and exploits of John Yegg a California tramp, who some years ago introduced this method into the business. SIMPLE CATARRH REMEDY J oat Breathe Hyomei Four Times a Day and He Cared. If a few years ago some one had said you can cure catarrh by breath ing air charged with a healing balm. the idea would have been ridiculed and it remained for 11. T. Booth, that eminent investigator, to- discover in Hyomei this method of cure. Hyomei has performeil the most mi raculous cures of catarrh and is to day recoginzed by leading members of the medical profession as the only advertised remedy that can be re lied upon to do just what it claims The complete outfit of Hyomei costs but $1.00 and consists of an inhaler-, a medicine dropper and a bottle of Hyo- mei. Ilreathe Hyomei through the inhal er for a few minutes four times a day and it will cure the worst case of cat arrh. It sooths and heals the mu cous membrane of the air passages, prevents irritation, and effects a com plete and lasting cure. The treasurer of the American Life Insurance company, J. S. Nugent, of New York, writes: "Hyomei has com pletely cured . my daughter of cat arrh from which she has been a suf ferer for years." In Rock Island there are scores of well known people who say they have been cured of catarrh by Hyomei. If it does not cure you, T. H. Thomas will return the money you paid for Hyomei. This is the strongest evi dence that can be offered as to their faith in the remedy. Live for those who love you. For those whose hearts are fond and true. The only way to do this right. Take Kocky Mountain Tea at night. T. II. Thomas pharmacy. Health for 10 Cents A lively liver, pure blood, clean skin, bright eyes, ' perfect health Cascarets Candy Cathartic will . ob tain and secure them for you.. Genu ine tablets stamped C C C Never sold in bulk. All druggists, ioc DAILY SHORT STORY Deacon Hastings' Fiddle. (Copyright, 1902. by the S. S. McClure Company. 1 It was a well known fact when Abel Hastings was elected one of the den- cons of his church that he not only owned a fiddle, but played ou it. He bad been censured for this act of world I in ess, but as it wan his only weakness and as he was eminently fit ted to fill a deaconshlp his brethren went ahead and took chances. It might be just possible, urtf ued the majority, that a man could fiddle and not bring the church Into disrepute. But at the same time he was expected , to play nothing but the most solemn airs. The first move on the part of Satan was to induce the new "pillar" to stop and gaze at some circus bills posted on a barn. A brother deacon caught him red handed and lectured him for an hour on t he enormity ofhis offense. The transgressor promised better things. lint,, lo. when the circus arrived he permitted his daughter Minnie to at tend in company with younp: Ike Har per! His excuse that young people had a curiosity to see lions, tigers, bears and kaugaroos didn't go down, and he was warned that any more trifling would be a serious matter. The deacon was penitent, but It wasn't four weeks before be bought a piano for his daughter. At an informal meeting of the other deacons, the pew openers and the box passers it was de cided that a piano could not !e classed under the head of naturally wicked. The question was. Could the deacon live in the same house with a fiddle and a piano and maintain his religious Integrity? The deacon's critics were watching and waiting, when they caught him tr'ppiug In another direction. His barn faced the road, and when an agent for stomach bitters came along and offer ed him $23 for the use of the roof for a year the good man pocketed the cash. A mighty sign soon appeared on the roof, and the hist letter was hardb finished before Deacon Hastings was In trouble. It was the opinion of the majority that all stomach bitters were three-fourths whisky and that the ilea con had sold himself to the cause of iutetuperauee and ought to be disci plined. He was going like a lamb to the slaughter when the agent hired a man to drink four bottles of the bitters at once and proved'ihat there was nothing in it to lift u,mau heels off the ground. The object lesson couldn't be denied, but yet no.oye was satisfied. He realized. this fact, and didn't dare give a.eornhuskiiig or.au apple paring that fall. . Nemesis was close on the deacon's heels, however. Ilis daughter Minnie was a general favorite, and one winter night a lot of young people appeared as a surprise party. He couldu't turn them away, and he reluctantly brought out his fiddle. The fiddle and the piano started out with "Sweet Uy and Hy," accompa hied by all who could sing, and how they ever switched off on to ragtime the deacon could never explain to him self. It was like a dream to him next day. When told that the young folks had formed in sets and danced to his "first four forward and back ladies change gents to the left all prome nade," he studied over it and sighed. Before noon next day it was known far and wide that Deacon Hastings had fiddled for a dance. That he would be churched was regarded as a matter of course, and it was determined that his fellow deacons Investigate before he could run away from the scene of his crime. Accordingly, at 7 o'clock on the evening after the party, they filed into his parlor to put him on the rack. "Brethren, I hain't got much to say,' began the culprit. "If there was a dance, and I guess there was, then the fiddle sort of got away with me." "But you also called out the figures to be danced, didn't you?" asked one. "Mebbe I did. When the music got to goiu. I felt that I had to mix In. Durln' my sinful days I nsed to go to every dance within ten miles." "There can be no doubt, brethren," said the same deacon, "that it was sin ful music and that there was dancing, but we must not be too impetuous Deacon Hopkins, will you let us hear the strains given last night?" The deacon called his daughter down and got out his fiddle. While he was tuning up three of Minnie's girl friends arrived .and were ushered Into the room. .When the music was ready, the derelict said: "I will show you as nigh as I can re member just how it was. Deacon Jones, you stand here with my wife. You oth ers stand up with these girls. Now you are all ready. Salute your partners! Ladies to the right gents to the left! All salute! Promenade half way round half way home! All balance and swing your partners!" The deacons had stood up reluctant ly. They had hung back at the first call. It was only for n minute, how ever. A warm wave swept them from head to heels and back, and they went through the figures with n vim. "That's the way It was," said Deacon Hastings as the music stopped "only more of it; two hours, mebbe." The deacons retired to the kitchen for a consultation, and when they had got there they looked into each other's face and queried. -"Well?" When they had returned to the par lor. Deacon Jones, speaking for the rest, said: "Brother Hastings, we find, that you played sinful music and that you called sinful calls for a sinful dance, but we also find that yur fiddle got away with you and that everybody enjoyed the occasion, and so you won't hear any more atout it. I may add in this connection, being as we are here as sembled and being as your fiddle and piano are in tone, you might favor us with a few more lively airs." C. B. LEWIS. TODAY'S MARKETS Cuicago, Feb. is Following are the open ing. highest, lowest and closing quotations In today's markets: Wheat. May. 78; TH July, 74: 73?,; 73, V Corn. May. ; 4h: 4hH- 45J July. 43H; 43.; 43H: 43&. Oats. Mar. SGV 8R.4-: SoH' July, 32Ji;32Ji, 32?i:S2.. Pork. Feb., 17.25; 17.25: 17.85: 17 S3 May. 17.15: 17 f2 17. 40: 17 40 July. 16.90; 16 92; 16.f0; 16 80 Lard Feb., 9.00; 0 60; 9.57: 9.57. Mav. 9 60: 9 60 -: 9 57: 9 57. July, 9.40 9.40; 9.35; 9 35b. RllM. May. 9 57: 9 57: 9.50: 9 SO . July. 9.40; 9.42; 9.35: 9.35. Receipts todav: Wheat 19. corn 177. oats 76: hogs 30,000: cattle lg.OOo. sheep 15.00O. uoga at Kansas cjity B.ooo, cattle f.ooo. boRS at Omaha U.0U0, cattle O.fiOO. Hog market opened 5c lower. Hogs left over 4.500. Light. I0.5o2i7.o5 mixed and butch ers. 6.757.:): good heavy, (6.8537.45 rough neavy, or.niu Cattle market opened steady. Sheep market opened strong. Union stock yards 8:40 a. m. Hog market s'ow to 5f 10c lower. Light, (0 4.n7.05: mixed and butchers. 16.75 K7 SO: good heavy, W.8X&7.45; rough heavy, t6.85Ct7.l0. . Cattle market strone to 10c hlerber. Beeves 3.25a5.00, cows and Betters 1.50 .itj, reias steers 13. 5t4.&0. Blockers ana feeders i 25a4.5U. Sheep marketvtrong, generally 10c higher. Hog market closed dull. Light. I8.4.va7 00: mixed and batchers. 6.75 7:25: good heavy, e.S3S7.40; rough heavy. o.3.a.iu. Cattle market closed slow but tlrm. Sheep market closed strong. Estimated receipts Thursday: Wheat 15 corn 150, eats 80, hogs 36.000. Mew York Stocks. New York. Feb 1H.-The following are the closing quotations on the New York stock exenange: So. Pacific 6i'i. sutar 131 K. C. & A. com. 35;. gas 104. Penna. MI'S H. AO. C. R. I. & P. com49H.C. M. &St. P 177 , Manhattan U3'i, t-acmc juaii 41. Atcnison com . e,, W. U. Tel. Co. 90. N. Y. Central H3Si L. A N. 126. IS.. R. T. 69V. RdK- com. 63. leather com. 14. copper 7;Pi. Atcnison Did. iooh. U, S. Steel pfd 8MVi. D. S. Steel common 38V, Missouri Paciiic 113. Union Pacitic common 1013. coal and iron 65U. Krie common 39; Wabash pfd SHJ. Can. Pacific 137?,. Republic teei common 2n;. Kemibiic steel otd. 79. M. K. & T. common 28, American Car anu r ounary common 40. LOCAL HABKKT CONDITIONS. Today's Quotations oo ProvMIons. Lire Stock. Feed and Fuel. Rock Island. Feb. 18. Following are the quotations on the local market! Provisions. Butter Creamer? 25c. dairy 20c22c. Eggs Fresh lfc(20c. Live poultry- Cnickens 10c per pound hens fic per pound, ducks 12Hc, turkeys 13c geese 9Hc Vegetables Potatoes. 35c to 40c. Live Stock. Cattle Steers V3.50 to (5.00. cows and heifers (2.00 to (4.00. calves (4.50 to (6.00. Hoes Mixed and butchers (5.50 to 16.50 Sheep Yearlings or over, per cwt. $4.00 to 15 00, Lambs per head (5.00 to (6.00. Feed and Fuel. Grain Corn 40&42c: oats. 30c to 35c. Forage Timothy hay. (11 to (13, prairie f 10 to til, baled prairie 19, baled timothy 112 straw, (5.50. Wood Hard, per load (5.005.50. Coal Lump, per hushel 5(ai6c mine run 1 ID pr bushel. sack. per bushel 8c. Amusements. H. J. TOHER. A. Is. ANDERSON. H. J. Toher & Co., Brokers. Stocks, Grain, Provisions, Cotton. Private wires To New York . And Chicago. No. 109 Main st ' Davenport. Iowa. Telephone 407. - HEAD THE 1A1I,Y AUG US KOU NEWS " iy i ii i ii i ' i 1 " r PlRlCTION CHAMBERUN.KINPT COMPANY. Wednesday, Feb. 18. ONLY ONE NKiHT James 11. AValliok presents Lis elabo rate revival of ii THE BANDIT KING" The greatest modern stage show in the world with .lOll.X ,1. FA1J UELL as "JOE HOWARD" SEE THE TKA1NE1) HOUSES. THE MAGNIFICENT SCENEUY. THE NOVEL KEAL1STIC EFFECTS. Prices: L'3, 3j, 50, 75 cents. Seats on sale Tuestlav morninir. OiaCCTION CHAMBERUN.KINDT&COMPANV. Thursday,1 Feb. 19. One Night Only Gideon's Big Minstrels In every detail perfection. In every feature originality. In every artist greatness. Completely and suc cessfully illustrating the triumph of mirth. The greatest aggregation of colored minstrel stars and Vaudeville artists ever organized. :3 minstrel kings. A big- band. A drain corps and a big street parade. ri'rices 2.-), 35. and SO cents. DiRtcnoN CtiAtiBERUN.KiNOT & Company. Sunday, Feb. 22. the r.u; MUSICAL COJV1EDY THE IRISH PAWNBROKERS With the Farce-Corned v Star Triuni- ' . . viral e, ' , SULLIVAN and MACK AND MAZIE TRUMBULL COMPLETE Pi;01)l'( TION. ALL SCENEKY CAUKIEI) -Y POSITIVELY 2 PEOPLE - A Coined v for Nice Folk:,. Prices 2.. :!.".."(( and 7." cents. Seats on sale Friday at Illinois smoker. ugusta.na. College Monday, March. 2. p. m. GRAND CONCERT During Ladies' Quintet "The finest vocal tpiintet in Europe." direct from Sweden, assisted by Curtis D. Morse, Entertainer, under the aus pices of T5he Lyceum. ileservcd seats, SO cents. Advance tickets now on sale. Re served seats at .losephson's. Moline; Harper House drug store. Koek Isl and. Sale fif reserved seats begins Monday morning-, Feb. '2'.). ...WE ARE STILL HERE... PRU-RI-TA Has cured more people in Kock Island in six months than any other medi cine for Hlood, Kidneys and Liver. Sold at 1913 Second Ave. . IBiHl mm TO SAN FRANCESCO AND LOS ANGELES To Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Puget sound paints. Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars. 'Phone 1180, c!, B. 6c Q. Ticket Agent. Depot Twentieth St. and Second Ave. Now ? I Overcoat i t I :"i"i"i-;"i"H-i4-s- is the time to buy t your winter . . , one-fourth off on any winter 4 Uvercoat in the house T X T T Gustafson & Mayes, The New Clothing Store 1714 Second Avenue. T H 2C Second Week of Leaders 1 "iffa ml Out sa Of the ROCK ISLAND SHOE CO. 's Shoes. Still G re act Reductions all Through the Stock. About 60 pairs of Ladies' high top shoes, splendid' values, sold formerly at $2.50 and $3.00. Almost all sizes and widths, only $1.18. Don't miss this snap. We have added to our odds and ends lot some great values for 50c, 75c and 98c. Some patent leathers slightly dam aged in this lot. Odds and ends of all solid boys shoes $2 worth of wear for 95c. N a 15he Leader Opposite Ha.rper House. C.C. Trent, Mgr. jj WW'f f -H -H H I I l"l M-1 H 1 H 1 1 1 9 Nothing Better Than X , 17 - E II IN I I'll i Chandeliers and Porta.bles. Goes, Electric and Combination. Call and look through our new Fixture Koom. JS'ew stock. Right prices. fekllW. A. ROBB & CO., BQCG HO 18tll fit. Phone Wost 1B38 t i t t z 11 1 1 III I I in Ull 1 I tt 5 ijoooiKKJWO Dr. . M. 11 ILsL SL, IS., IT1. JLF. v. Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Graduate of McKillip's Veterinary College, Chicago, 111. Office and Veterinary Hospital o, f o o a 5 125 Third Artnoc, Kock Iilud, III. Besldeooa 1813 Fourth Av.no. O Office bours 7 to 8 a. m. . 1 to 2 P. m.. 7 to 10 p. m. Central Phone: Offlce 1409 r 5 West. Residence lf6l Weak Union Pnoaes: Offlce 5707, Residence a7.