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"I ' 14V THE ARGUS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1908. 1 r V s G r and Christmas Sale High B5f MCMRD S.&I&WES. Sewing A;3 Being a Christmas story of tho biscuit shooter's revenge, which is offered wjth apologies to the shade of Henry for inf rinsing on his particular style of blank-.verse and at the same time h'iatino one to the memory "of the old boy ' .' who had everybody else beaten to a pulp and three ways from the jack at this sort of thlnfl. DON'T FAIL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AND SELECT YOUR SEWING MACHINE NOW. REMEM BER, WE HAVE. EVERY KIND OF SEWING MACHINE MADE, AND CARRY ON HAND A FULL LINE OF WELL KNOWN SEWING MACHINES. ' ; . I . ' Grade Machines ! r 1 1 A rRESTUNGji with, the pots ana kettles, y Shooting biscuits like a ranger Ji , II H With an. aim that was unerring, Swiftly dealing out the ham-and, labored daily' Minnie Harhar, Sometimes knjown as laughing Waiter, ,f Jerking sinkers from the cuisine ? -"" To the grill noom for the hungry, y Working fora measly stipend ' jl- Of two-fifty, coming weekly. One. day to that cobwebbed kitchen Came a young man cold and hungry. He was walking on his uppers In the storms of wintry weather, And his garb was built for summer, Hanging on him loose and flabby, Like a hide hung on a fencepost. Any cop he might have met then Would have run him in and vagged him. COP . ,v ? . v J i . Jj . . - n FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING 9 , WELL KNOWN MAKES WHITE, NEW HOME, STANDARD, WHEELER & WILSON, SINGER $30.00 V- ' ; ; & 1 -x;' ' 'vr Hinnie Harhar saw the stranger; . Saw that he was weak and weary; Took him in and filled him quickly With the leavings from the tables. It was in the time of Christmas Time of cheer and. time of plenty.: Then she sought the boss and toldUMm Of the stranger in the kitchen Told him of the weary walking All the way from Kansas City, .Where the stranger had been fired from Just because he had got jagged and Could not work at biscuit shooting. i af t TJirrv- f s eEizco a xstrur .axd vent to womc. And they'd take their beer quite often In the wine room at O'Kelley's. Christmas days were soon forgotten, And the lean he'd got from Minnie From, his memory fast was fading. Then the stranger seized a tray and went to work with. Minnie Harhar, Dodging cops until she helped him Get a more befitting raiment, And the philanthropic movement' Set her back just seven-fifty. Then he got a shave and hair cut And a bottle of loud perfume. Thus equipped to make a conquest, He threw googoo eyes at Minnie ' Threw them hard and threw them often " Until finally she wilted. Then he took her, unresisting, In his arms and hugged and kissed her. He was hers and she was his'a Fcr a week or ten days, maybe, . . until he had met another Out upon the public highway And a smile that put him , bughouse. Met a gazelle with a 'light step She was working in a chop joint Farther down toward , the river,., And his footsteps turned he often Joyfully in that direction. , Just as soon as work was over With the gazelle he would wander. They were fairly glued together As they walked and chinned each other, All unknown to Minnie Harhar, h'.'w :.- was JO1?! . 4iV' MADE A. AND HI OT5TtM TVnKiEO HE rTF-isr. osat HIM FOR One day Minnie Harhar saw them Sauntering along together, And the air was fairly reeking With the stickiness of love talk. Minnie caught on very quickly, Saw which way the wind was blowing, : But refrained from taking action. When he came to work at evening Minnie Harhar sprung it on him, Boned him for the seven-fifty, Saying he must dig up quickly Or she'd put him out of business. Waiting then for half a minute, Sure, she could have bawled him out then, And .the gazelle would have shared it, But would that have helped get her Any of the seven-fifty -She'd invested in his raiment? Minnie Harhar pondered deeply, Made a sneak and held her temper. Minnie also shied utensils, . Using them for punctuation; , . Hurled ft plate with such precision That it spoiled his face forever; . Slammed a stove lid on. his stomach, . Pot of beans against his bosom; Hit him with the mashed potatoes And a fricassee of. chicken. All the time the guests were dodging Bound the tables in the grill room. ' T Minnie saw he was not coming - Through with any sum of money. s V - In the use -of the invective Minnie Harhar was not slouchy. 1 Into him she threw it swiftly, Like the hot' soup from the ladle. In the choicest chophouse language Minnie then addressed the piker Said he was a chump and welder, Also cheap screw, phony, moocher; Called him two spot, bloke and wuzzer, Said he was a yap from Tapville And a skate from down the river. Pans and plates were flying wildly, Walls were spattered with their contents, While the boss had taken refuge In a corner, with a table " Upturned there to shield and hide him. And the -piker, he was hiking Fast around the room, and dodging, But at every throw was getting All that could be coming to him. Everything was thrown by Minnie, All that she could lay her hands on. ' Nothing elset was there remaining But a pie; 'twas made of custard. This she seized without a tremor. "With a cry she sent i$ hurtling Through the air, and safe it landel On . the visage of the piker. ; ' With, his face all plastered oveTj SujKyhfrwas out of business Until he had eaten through it. Then outside the doer he amble d Exit pie and farewell piker. In the art of roughhouse making Minnie Harhar cleans the platter. Trifling some with her affections ,Is not now considered healthful. And the piker who has tried it t It is best that he be nameless. ' WE WILL ALSO SELL DURING THIS BIG SALE ONE OF THE BEST DROP-HEAD, BALL BEARING SEWING MACHINES WITH ALL THE LATEST SeJt OF ATTACHMENTS FOR $20.00 : - 7 NOTHING WOULD BE MORE APPRECIATED FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT THAN ONE OF OUR LIGHT RUNNING,' BALL-BEARING . SEWING MACHINES. ' . ; : ' ' 4 T. RICHTER & SONS, Inc., 221 W. Second Street, r Davenport, Iowa.. " inrm.HCM.u EAT&K XHUOiXtU IT. SPIRIT PBiZE II, Fhysician Wiil Seek $5?00Q Of fered For Counting Oranges. HAS v TWO GIRL' MEDIUMS. .Mil.' JUL Believes Me Can Fulfill Requirement:! of Contost With Young Women of Remarkable Powers One Who Never Saw Greenwich Described Fire There. If two young women palieuts of Dr. A. J. Fox of New York are the medi ums bo says tliey arc, it Is time fcr the Metropolitan" Psychical society of New York to bpsin counting out the $3,000 it h!s offered to one who could tell the number of onuses spilled on a table behind him or her. The doctor has been treating patients for hypnotic suggestion for the past four years, and so much success has be had in making Miss Emma Monroe and Miss Marga ret Marx do the mentally supernor mal" that he is convinced it will be a shame to take the money. v The test is expected to prove whetlir cr there is such a thing as communica tion with the spirit world. Here it is. as announced by the officers of the Metropolitan Tsychical society: When a medium announres that a spirit Is In the roop-yiat can see we will noise- lespiy spin a lew oranges upon a time behind the medium, so that she cannot ee them. We wilt 'also keep our own eyes in another direction, so that we do not Bee them, thus ,elin:!natlns the ques tion of telepathy." But the spirit, who Is j in the room and sees the oranKes. can communicate the number to the medium. If : the spirit docs this often enoosh to render coincidence improbable, the me dium will be presented with the money. That Dr. Fox is firmly convinced of the powers of these young women is apparent to arty -one who talks with him. KoFflrtiue time prior to four years ago he was junior physician at the Manhattan State Hospital For" the In sane, and, he told q reporter for the New York World the other day that It was there he first became interested in what is commonly known as spiritu-' alism. ' "One of the head physicians told me," he said, or a man lu tne nospitai who was undoubtedly a madman In many respects, but that he had fere told the 'assassination of .President Mc Klnley on the very morning that It oc curred. He not only gave the hour, but described the assassin and the spot whore it was to occur. Of course Euch a marvelous feat could not be explain ed away as an instance of mental telep- ! athy. I had been deeply Interested in hypnotism, and this story made me more so. "After leaving the hospital I treated many of my patient3 by hypnotic sug gestion. Of course there are many I physicians who do the same thing nowadays.,.-. "Certain little phenomena that I have noticed while administering the treat I ment have tenmted. mo to. experiment. ana come or trie things I have proved to my own rathfaotion I hesitate to talk about because I fear I will bo mis understood and branded as a crank or a faker. I venture to say, . however, that I have discovered so called clair voyant powers in at least 93 per cent of the patients I have experimental with that simply cannot' be accounted for on any ground yet known to sel-er.-e. "Two yonog women that I have re cently been treating and whom I had In mind when I called on Secretary Davi.i of the Metropolitan- Fsychic so ciety are Miss Margaret Marx and Ml."s Emma Monroe, both of 213 West Forty-second street. New York. Only re cently I have been treating Miss Marx, nr.d one day when I had caused her to pass from a deep sleep to a somnam bulistic sleep I told her to transport herself to Greenwich, Conn., a town 1 knew she had nevpr visited. "She described the streets, houses and certain familiar figures' In the town. I'p to that point It was possi ble that she was telling what was in my mind- I know the town well. But suddenly she exclaimed that there was a fire lu Greenwich and described It. I .thought her mind had wandered, but that afternoon I read in the news papers that a big fire had broken out in' Greenwich at the very time I was experimenting on her. . "My experience with Miss Monroe has been equally remarkable. Sonre time ago I was treating her by hyp notic suggestion for- a stomach trou ble, ard, Feeing that she was a good .ubject, I ordered her to transport herself to the apartment of a friend and tell me what he was doing. STio described his room minutely ancKtoRl me the color of the clothes he wore Again I accounted for it all as an in stance of mental telepathy. "Of course what she said was in my ruind, and she was at that moment absolutely under my control mentally. But when Ghe said he was seated by a window j reading Three Weeks' I marveled.' I did not know that he owned the bock, and I don't know th:it I bad even heard of it at the time. As soon as I left her I called my friend George Tohan on the tele phone and Eked hi:a how he- liked Three Weeks. That's funny.' he re plied. 'I have it in my hand now and have just started on it today. How did you know I was reading it?' I told him what Miss Monroe had sfi!d, and he was startled." Dr. Fox said he had planned to give a private exhibition at his home soon of the- powers of Miss Mnrx. Miss !Tor.rte, Miss Anna Silver and others of his pat fents. Then he will notify the Metropolitan rsychical society that he is ready to compete for the rich priz? it has offered. Secretary W. S. Davis of the society said that he wou'd arrang? the test whenever Dr. Fox was rodv for It. A Contest of Experts. Ian Mat laren us-cd to toll a story of two Scots worthies, douce elders o' the kirk, who found themselves alcne in the compartment of a railway carriage traveling i:i Perthshire, and. thrown upon crich other for company, they fastened on a knotty eint in theology to beguile the time. The subject of controversy was whether a man Is saved by faith or works. The discus sion became heated, and the train Crew ur at the destination of one of the debaters not a moment too .soon. Loath to give up the argument, they continued to wrangle until tho train began to move out of the station, and the discharged passenger had to run along the platform to eke out the precious moments left for a last word. The subject seemed to hang fire for a perilous moment ths train was ac celerating its speed when back .from tho figure leaning far out of the car riage window came the cry. "Hebrews ten thirty-eight!" ("The just shall live by faith.") Quick as lightning the other flung after the receding . antl nomian, "James first twenty-four!" ("I5y works a man is justified and not by faith only.") Harper's Weekly. Don't Experiment. ; You Will Make No Mistake if You Follow This Rock Island Citi-, zen's Advice. ' . Never neglect your kidneys. If you have pain In the back, "uri nary disorders, dizziness and nervous ness, it's time to act and no time, to experiment. These are all symptyns of kidney trouble, and you should seek a remedy which Is known 'to cure the kidneys. 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