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THE ARGUS, MONDAY. DECEMBER 1C, 1907. v THE ARGpS, Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue. Rock Island, 111. En tered at the yostofflce aa second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dally, 10 cent per week. Weekly, SI per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No such artlclas will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence .solicited from every township In Rock Island county.! Mondey, December 16, 1907. DO IT NOW. The delay of the Christinas shop ping to (he 1hm( moment means n heavy atraiu un the nerve and Ktrrngth of Hie yoiini; girl t'lrrka and other employe of the stores how jrrent a strain la little realized by thoae who gather around the glittering- ChrUtmaa treea. v That thla condition may be change ed la the ardent wlah of every char itably inclined prraon. It can be changed by the buyers of Christ mas presenta doing their shopping early. Tbey will not only benefit the clerka and employes of stores by so doing, but will also greatly benefit ' themselves by avoiding buying la a hurry and getting the pick of the hollilay gooiln. The Argun advice to Christmas shoppers is to do it now. Just" so no one .wishes Bob Evans "non-voyage." Farewell Admiral Bob. v Take good care of yourself. The biggest failure thus far is the Jamestown exposition. Don't wait until bye and bye but do your Christmas buying now. After reading the president's latest, Wall street is trying to be happy. Here's to the big fleet. May it send hack good tidings, whate're betide. Read The Argus advertising columns before startihg out on your holiday purchasing expedition. It will pay jou. ... This will be a busy week in mer cantile lines. The clerks as well as lhe Christmas shoppers will have their hands full. Xow that the president has made his final grandstand play in personally sending off the big fleet, the public will anxiously await news of his next exploit. While all this fulsome praise is go ing ground about those people who aided in checking the panic, why not say a word for the man who had both the courage and the sense to leave his money in the bank? . When Kansas City has a blue Sun day, a red light district and a great white way. all at one time, it does look as though the patriots might have located the convention there, be cause of her patriotic colors. American Fleet" From Knglifch View point. . -Archibald S. Hind in Cassier's Maga zine says: The United States navy has not only attained the position of the second sea power of the world, as judged by statistical methods, but it has reached a high standard of effi ciency, as is shown by the gunnery records. It is one thing for a nation to jiossess a number of ships of vari ous classes which look impressive when set out in an official statement of strength, and it is quite another for it to spend large sums on pay for officers and men, coal and stores of all kinds to enable those ships to keep the sea.s and thus enable the person nel to become proficient by continual drill in the essential war duties. It Is one of the virtues of the American authorities that they have always rec- Ognized the supreme importance of expenditure upon the fleets at sea w?nch are the training centers for war. Consequently, the ships of the tailed States navy represent actual fighting power and are not inert mast-es of " material, which can be translated mto terms of war only after months of delay even provided the enemy gfes sufficient opportunity to put a war edge on the tools which hale been provided at so much cost. The ships of , the United States stand . for real sea power, a form of sea power which: is characteristic of the republic', '-energetic, thoroughly alive and resourceful.: It has net the same rule of thumb disciplinary veneer as is to- be found for instance in the Ger man navy" but' about the whole fight ing machine there is an assurance that on' the day-of battle it will give a good account ot itself.- -r Thp ships, in fact, arc ships of war. and in examining the standing of the navy in vessels, of various types, no - Knropean fjets whose men-of-war np"- pear more formidable ou paper- than they will, or can, even show them selves to he in war. An Optimistie Club. The city of Aurora is nothing if not original and progressive. The latest thing developed there in a social way is the "Optimistic Club." with a large and rapidly increasing membership. Its basic tenets are as follows: "There are more people dying for the lack of a kind word than from disease. "A smile is potential, magnetic and dispels trouble. , "The man who never makes any mistakes never makes anything- else. "Hard luck stores are the overdue notes. i "Before money was invented i some people were happy. j "Xobody can really harm yoji but yourself. ! "A smile is God's own medicine. "In the realm of birds the lak is the optimist, the crow is the bessi mist. Why be a crow? "Clearing house certificates 'and tight financial conditions have afforded mor people who never had a dollar an excuse lor their Hard luck roan anything that has happened siuce he civil war. . "The optimism of the optimist (de stroys the last hope of the pessimist;; "A grin, is a counterfeit smile and does not pass current because die heart stamp is not on it. "Any one is eligible to join who will agree to smile every time he seeS trouble ahead from now until th close of life. "Dues are payable in scrip. "Step in and join now. Don' crowd." There is room in every community for such an organization and every community would be the better for having one. November I'irc I.oks. The fire loss of the Uniied Slates and Canada for the month of Xovem ber. as compiled by tlie Xew York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin from carefully kept records, shows a total of $19,122,200. or nearly $3,000,000 more than the sum charge able against the same month of the preceding ' year. The following table gives' a comparison by months of the losses this year with those of 1905 and 190C: Jan.? 1.37S,100 $ 17.72ft.nO $ 24.0fi4,dO) Feb. rl.Vfi'.l 1.000 1 S.24!.it ill 10.S7ti,fiOO Mob li.7-r.1.400 1X.727.7T.O Apr 1 l.iml. 2'.tL'.r.nl.l."o May U,7"li,2.")0 l.512..s."i June ii.7s,soo i:t,!i:o.;.-.n July i:!.17"..2:.0 12.428.ii.-in a UK. n. 4r.fi, ;oo :,4i.oo Sopt. i.7t.-..2r.o o.s.-.2,r,:.n lot. lJ.2ii7.OilO 13.K72.-f. ID Nov. 1K.17n.200 10.24X.250 20. r.r.y.7oo 21. !2r,.!MMI 1K.2N6.300 14.7f..-,ftuO lx,24.l.,o 20,24. no 11. 449.400 13.3.r0.2.-.rt 19. 122.20H Tl 11 m$l'.!.!l!.20n $440.70S.r:,0 $1!!.SS7. Doc. l."i,27rt.(iOO lll.001.4r,0 100 Tl.s $17,-..lfl3.SoO $4.-.!.71O.OO0 During Xovember there were no less than ooO fires here the loss reached or exceeded $10,000. For comparison we give the following classification as to destructiveness: i 10.000 to J 20.000 20.OIH) m ::i.oini oO.llOlt to 'i(I.IIOI) r.n.iMio to 7.-.noo 7 '.nun to 100.1100 loci. nun to 200.000 '100.000 iltlll over . 13'. i!:l so 23 13 2'1 1 Totnl 320 The more important tires during Xovember trom an insurance loss standpoint were these: Brockton. N. Y., wine cellar.. $ l.oiiisvillo. K, stock yards plant w Mnnoio, Intl., wholesale gro cery 230.000 230,000 200.000 2.26S.000 230,000 373.000 300,000 230.000 193,000 Superior. Wis., grain elevator and other HarrisluirK, Pa., meat packing plant Salt like City. 1'tah. storasre building and other Peoria. 111., business block.... Los Anpreles. t'al., tee and cold storage plant Louisville, Ky., wholesale gro cery In view of the heavy fire loss of the year, fire insurance companies are not expecting remarkably favorable v bal ance sheets at the close of the present year; still we presume they can and will make the usual dividends to their stockholders from their surplus accum ulated in former years. Rheumatism Cured in 24 Hours. T. J. Blackmore of Haller & Black more, Pittsburg, Pa., says: "A short time since I procured a bottle of Dr. Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism. ?t got me out of the house in 24 hours. I took to my bed with rheumatism nine months ago and Dr. Detchon's Relief" for Rheumatism is the only medicine that did me any good. . 1 had five of the best physicians in the city, but I received very little relist from them. I know Dr. Detchon's Re lief for Rheumatism to be what it is represented and take pleasure in rec ommending it to other poor sufferers."' Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1501 Secotfl avenue. Rock Island; Gust Schlegel & Son, 20 West Second street, Daven port. - , Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pil's. They are for weak back, in flammation of the bladder, backache. and weak kidneys. Sold-by all drug gists. Moderate Price Golumot IPoudcr (l.OOO.flb will be Klrrn for totanre tnjurionato fcHb lounit in Calumet, t Sfye TIrgus Daily Sljort Story "Millie's Strategy ."-By W. Crawford Sherlock. ; . (Copyright, 1907, by P. C.Eastment.; Millie, 1 have requested Mr. Mitchell not to come here uuy more." Mrs. Thompson purred rather than spoke the words, but her keen black eyes were fixed Intently upon her niece as It expecting the uews would provoke a storm. She was not mistaken. What do you mean. Aunt Hetty?" demanded Millie, ber blue eyes flush ing and ber voice quivering . with anger. "Why should you tell Jack not to call upon me again? I am not a child and can see no reason why you should object to his visits IE I don't." You forget yourself, Millie," return ed Mrs. Thompson In the same soft purring tone. "I am your aunt, your father's sister, and he requested in his will that yon should make your home with me until you are either married or have reached the age of twenty-five. That makes me your guardian, moral ly If not legally, and I deem It my duty to break up your Intimacy with Mr. Mitchell." "Why did you not object to Jack when I first met him? Why did you permit him to call here time and again after we met? Why did you wait un til we are engaged to be married be fore you offered any objections to his visiting me?" Millie had arisen and faced Mrs. Thompson. Her voice was calm, but Incisive, and each question was em phasized by a sharp rap on the ebony table beside her. "I am not compelled to answer such tiuestions, Millie Gray, especially when Asked so disrespectfully." purred Mrs. hompson, "hut I will do so. I ought Mr. Mitchell was a very es timable young man when you. first et him. This Impression remained th me until lately, when I have had son to believe him otherwise." What Is your reason?" demanded Ut girl sharply. "If auy one has ma ligned Jack, 1 have the right to know, sb'lt may give him the opportunity to deind himself. What have you heard aboit him. I wish to know." "Ttlecline to tell you," replied Mrs. Thompson. Her voice was still soft and low, but her thin fingers twitched nervously as if she was imbued with a stroui desire to scratch the g!rl so boldM confronting her. "Mr. Mitchell shall, Aot come here again. That is all I hav to say. Of course, as you are of agdk I cannot prevent you from meetloa him clandestinely, but so far as my own home is concerned I shall endeavor to do my duty." ri.i. ... . ..... ; -. i The iiggcstiveness of her aunt's words pftzzled Millie, but their purport beeameyBearer to her as she reflected. "I tbrrfk I understand It all now, Aunt ID-fty," she said slowly and scotyifulWi - "You have deliberate! planned' 'w. thing, knowing that my father, wl hated the very mention of runaway , marriages, provided that I must be mArried at your home if I am married bersre I am twenty-five. If I am marriett any where else, one-half of my fortuo will go to you. My fa ther made this strange provision, be lieving It wonfij prevent me from dop ing with any vnp liefore I had reached years of discretion. You introduced me to Jack Mfrekell and encouraged him to come to sea me. Xow when we are almost reairy Jo be married you trump up some olitectiou to him In the hone that I will nttTaway and get mar ried, thus allowingbu to become pos sessed of half my fortune. Aunt Het ty, I have never ioed you, but I did not think you were, -capable of such a scheme." V "Believe what ou jjiease," retorted Mrs. Thompson, purrbjifc no longer, but speaking harshly anS discordantly. "Mr. Mitchell shall not; come here again. You may do as ytui pleased "I am going to marry Jack Mitchell," replied Millie quietly, "aivfiVI shall be married in your home.' 'jCtiflt'is all 1 have to say." And, turning the girl walked to her own room, hVaving her aunt to reflect over the last ,wjrds. Bolting her door to guartfagainst any intrusion, Millie reflected, over the situation. She was nowtwety, and by waiting five years until sltjeaine Into possession of her fortune IfAjouid lie possible to prevent Mrs. Thenisou from obtaining any of the protrty, but the girl's mind revolted at the1dea of waiting so. long. She had knvu Jack Mitchell for two years and bjsen engaged to blm six months. Kw years seemed a lifetime, and she USs.-: missed all thought of such a plan. . f Aunt Hetty should not profit by her marriage to Jack upon that at leasM Millie was resolved-but how could sheh0 the Xew York American. She is possibly be . married In her aunt's home?, .Aunt Hetty, having been, dis covered In her scheme to secure a part of the fortune, would spare no effort to prevent her niece's marriage In her home, and Aunt Hetty, small of stat ure and not overly stroug. usually ac complished what she started out to do. "What a jolly row there would be If Jack and the minister would come here and try to go ahead with the cere mony," laughed Millie as the ludicrous side of such a possibility, appealed to her sense of humor. "I can Imagine Aunt Hetty taking Jack by the coat collar and putting him out, despite his six feet, of length and 200 pounds weight. Annt Hetty would do it some how, so I must be married here with out ber knowledge, but how Is that to 1 done?" ' There seemed no way to solve the .problem, and, Millie arose to take a walk, thinking the fresh air might bring some relief to her troubled mind. As lia stood before the mirror arrang ing ber hat she noticed the reflection tt men moving about the adjoining bouse, and she tamed to Invcstijite Men were taking up the cariiet and moving. the furniture, put of the room opposite " hefs. ' While others were on the floor below. similarly engaged. Could it le possible that the Jacksons were going to move? If tbey were the adjoining house would probably be for rent, and Millie raised her window quickly and reached out her hand. It almost touched the window of the ad joining house. The houses were Join ed together in front, but in the rear a small space less tban tiiree feet wide separated them to admit light and air. 'A solution of the problem flashed across the girl's mind as she lowered and fastened the window. It might be jiossible to frustrate Aunt Hetty and not wait five years cither. During the next week Millie spent much of the time at home. Aunt Het ty, always on the alert, viewed this unusual proceeding with suspicion and remained indoors herself to guard against any possible Invasion by Jack Mitchell. Instructions were issued to the servant to admit no one, and Mrs. Thompson felt confident of being a file to frustrate any attempt on Millie's part to marry according to the pro vision of her father's will. Millie smiled complaceutly, but said nothing, as she noted her aunt's ac tions. Things were progressing fine ly, and at last the plan was ready for execution. Locking, and bolting her door, she spent two hours in putting on her pret tiest gown. .When this task was com I!eted to her satisfaction she raised the curtain and opened the window. A moment later Jack Mitchell's hand some face peered out of the window of the adjoining house. "All ready, Millie?" he asked, re straining a stroug desire to spring across the Intervening space and take her In his arms. "Here's the Rev. Mr. Walker, an old friend of mine, and two witnesses, Bert Latimer and Frank Long. We are all ready If you are." Millie nodded, and the minister dl rected them to join hands across the space of separation. The marriage service was read in slow, measured tones, and they were pronounced man and wife. Jack would have come over to join his wife, but she prevented mm. "Xo, no, Jack; this Is Auut Ilettvs house, and she has forbidden you to come here. Just wait for me at the door." Mrs. Thompson, listening, as was her wont, at the keyhole, had heard the sound of voices (and felt that some thing was wrong. Vigorously and viciously she had pounded on the door or Millie's room, demanding admit tance during the ceremony, but tlu? Rev. Mr. Walker, previously apprised of the situation, bad not heeded the interruption. As Miljie unfastened the door Mrs. Thompson's angry face con fronted her. " "Who is lu your room, Millie?" de manded the aunt, glancing around In quest of the intruder. She found no one in the room, but caught sight of Jack's face across the way. The bride groom had waited' to see what devel oped when the door was unfastened. "What Is that man dolug In the Jack son house?" continued Mrs. Thompson augrily. I shall request Mrs. Jack- sou to forbid him coming there." Mrs.f Jackson and Mrs. Thompson were excellent neighbors, and the threat seemed sufficient to prevent any further visitations of Jack Mitchell to the adjoining house. "Mrs. Jackson has moved. Aunt net- ty," said Millie calmly. "But you have been so busy watching me that you failed tQ notice it. I. or, rather, we. have taken the house." "We! What do you mean?" Inquired Mrs. Thompson excitedly. T have nothing to do with that house." 'I mean Jack and myself, aunt. We have Just been married. I stood in my room and Jack stood in the room of the house next door. I was married in your home and have complied with the condition of my father's will. Good by, Auut Hetty. Come over and see us. We will lie at home on Tuesday of next month." But Mrs. Thompson was too much discomfited by the defeat ot her well laid plan to make a reply. CHICAGO'S POLICEWOMAN. Kindness and Laco Handkerchief Miss Dorothy Stewart's Only Weapons. Chicago's first and only policewoman was on duty the other day at the Audl- toriuni theater, savs a Chicago dispatch iWiss Dorothy Stewart, whose motto Is, IfV kind word does more than a club; pfCUeuee does what handcuffs can't." ib blue jacket and helmet and gold br3ded blue skirt, white gloves and weirug a star. Miss Stewart patrols the,lbby ami foyer of the theater, proteclug women and children. She Is onl,twenty-two years old, sweet faced u(l equally sweet tempered, but fully ejypped with official determina tion. V . "I thiufKit Is a grand position for a woman." id Miss Stewart, "and as for the eoscnwe well. It's just too dear for auythlui. Honestly, now, don't you think It.ery becoming? "My only Tsifeapon is a lace handker chief. I flonHri tarry any club," she laughed, holding, out her bands. "My brief experience as already satisfied me that it Is eay to handle woineu and children at ie ticket office and throughout the theater simply by kind ness. Women, ydu'kuow, don't like to stand In line before box office, and this often angers a policeman. Some hut headed ones are liable to take a womau by the arm rhaps more roughly . Uian .tbey; tkluk .That- lust Hang Up the Baby's Slocking! 'Be Sure You Don't Forget! X ' - Gladden the wee ones' little hearts. They don't understand about this lack of money. Plenty of time for them to find out about that. Maybe there is more than one of them. Don't forget the wife, eith er. Make it "A Merry Christmas" for all. Why shouldn't you? The money that's easy. See us. We'll loan it to you. We make it easy to borrow ?nd easy to re pay us, too. Get what you need now repay us a small sum that you know you can easily meet each month that's our proposition. We take a lien on your furniture, piano, horses, wagons, and other personal property, to secure us, but the property is not removed or disturbed in any way. Everything confidential. Low rates, easy terms, long time, and a square deal from start to finish. Can you ask more? Call, write or phone us today. mates matters worse. But a kind wore has the proper effect In every cuse. "Here, of course, Ave are not troubled by flirts, but, then, should one by any chance apear he would fiud me after him in a jiffy. It wouldn't take me long to hustle him out, I assure you." This latest acquisition to Chicago's force of peace guardians has thrown an air of mystery about herself. It Is said she is the daughter of welf known parents, that she Is a Chicago girl and has done some private investigating at times, although she never met a real. sure enough habitual lawbreaker In her life. VOICE OCTAVE ABOVE PATH'S Wisconsin Girl Astonishes Musicians by Her Singing. Striking with ease and sustaining the high V which Adelina Pattl merely touched for a second after reaching it by a succession of trills, then ascend ing purely and sweetly to the V one octave above l'atti's and to the t! above it, Yllma Schaefer, nineteen years old, of Oshkosh, Wis., is creat ing a sensation in musical circles, says a Milwaukee (Wis.) correspondent of the Spokaue Spokesman-Review. Her remarkable voice, with its rauge of five full octaves, has astonished Milwaukee musicians, who have re fused to believe the claims made for it until. they have heard her run the record breaking vocal scale which stops five notes from the end of the piano's keyboard. This voice has been under cultivation only a few weeks. An Antifog Plan For London. M. Magglora, who purposes to abol ish fog and has submitted his explosive scheme to the London county council, seems to have no doubt of the efficacy of his method the shooting of strong and searching currents of air out of huge cannon or projectors, says the London Globe. Eight or ten of these weapons would, he says, be needed as a jermanent antifog apparatus for Louden. "Twenty explosives, costing scvenpencc each, will dissipate any fog in twenty, minutes," he says. Belinda's Patients. fA Washington doctor lias all Ills hos pital nurses treat their patients by sink ing to them. Belinda was a gentle nurse who wore a frock of blue And labored long- and lovingly to pull her ' patients through. But some were peevish and perverse, and, though she tried and tried To heal them, just to spite their nurse the lngrates went and died. m And so she brooded night and day upon her grievous wrongs Urttll she heard a doctor say, "Why don't you cure with songs?" Belinda's soul then knew content. She jettisoned her woe. And everywhere Belinda went a song was sure to go. Beside the bed. where parting life oppar- . ently was laid. She warbled softly. "Get a Wife!" and. trembling and afraid. The patient suddenly updat and. picking up his grip. Departed through, the 'window at a Lush tania clip. Belinda next tr'ed timidly the "Merry ' Widow" waltz , - Upon a man whose bones were full of fis sures, flaws and faults - Resulting, from a fracas with an elevated train. From .which, a badly broken man, they pulled him forth again. - When'tirst the languorous notes he heard " he -Wore a puzzled air. . Then blinked, then, lato fury stirred, he went away from there. Belinda has one patient now; the others tied away Aa fast as she could get to them and soothe them with her lay. To him she" croons "My Teddy Bear," "School Days" and "I Love "Sou." And he lies quite contented there the tuneful hours through. She's sung him aU the latest hits, and that is going some, Jut he appears to like them all. for he is deaf and dumb. i' -James J. Montague in New Tork Amer. lean. .. . ' " Wlfe Yes, It waa I who brought ain the money into this household. What did yon have before 1 married you? Husband Peace. . "s . . -' FIDELITY LOAN CO., MITCHELL A LYNDE BLOCK, ROOM 38, ROCK ISLAND. Office hours, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., and Saturday evenings. Telephone west 514; new telephone 6011. RECORD OF COURT HOUSE COUNTY COl'UT. Judge R. W. Olmsted presiding. PROBATE, Estate of Peter Tindall. Waiver. In re claim of John Kipping and Thomas and Margaret Quilty, appeal bonds of said John Kipping and of said Thomas and Margaret Quilty filed and ap proved. Estate of Edward G. Tindall. Inven- tory filed and approved. Estate of John A. Hanson. Inven tory filed and approved. Certificate of publication of notice to creditors on file of the date of Dec. 13, 190G. Proof of posting notices to creditors filed. Final report filed. Receipt and waiver of notice by Christina Hanson, widow, of all property in estate under will filed. A. H. Kohler sworn and examined touching heirship. Final re port approved as no notice appears necessary. Executor discharged. , Estate of Isabella Kelly. It appears that no lawful hearing has been had on the claim of Bertha Kelley. Hear ing on same set for Doc. IS, 1907, at 2 o'clock p. m. . . Real Estate Transfers. Charles A. Wahlgren to Freda Nel son, lot 9, block 1, Frick's addition to Moline. $2,300. Jane S. Cable to Frank E. Bobbins, lot 11, Allen & Fleming's addition. South Rock Island. $275. Edward Van Hecke to Theophiel Herpelynch. lot 7, block 1. Blackman's addition. Moline. $1,225. Erika Wahlgren to Freda Nelson, lot 9, block 1. Frick's addition, Moline. $1. Adair Pleasants to Sophia Regeif berg, lot 54. part southeast quarter section SC-1S-2W. $1. cah erf lYeowes zemewJber0 The leaves no reason for dispute or differ ence of opinion. 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Return $10 worth ,of cash receipts and get 25 cents in trade or cash free. ; Yours truly, LARSON & LARSON You know as well as any one when you need something to regulate your system. If your bowels are sluggish, your food distresses you, your kidneys piin, take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It always relieves. 35 cents, tea or tabletc. Harper House pharmacy.