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THE HOCK 'ARGUS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1910. NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS DAVENPORT Looking for Factory Slte. H. Q. 'Jones, representing the National Rub berette company of De Moines, Is In the city for the purpose of looking over the local field with a Tiew to establish ing a plant for the manufacture of his product. The company Is manufactur ing a new puncture proof Inner tube fulfill tnr- ,). tires, the process differing from other filled tires In that the puncture proof material occupies only one-tenth of thft air STUrfl rf tYta til 1 A H4rr nlort has been started la Des Moines which will be in operation by Oct. 1. Mr. Jones will. If conditions are found sat isfactory, negotiate for the establish ment of. a factory here as soon as pos sible, as the field presented is a wide one. o Ned Lees' Vacation. Rev. Ned Lee on Saturday received a letter contain ing a vote of thanks from the congre gation and official board of the Meth odist church at North Huran, Wayne county, New York. The pastor of' the church is Rev. Clarence Richards. While on his vacation last mor.ih Mr. Lee visited at North Huron. Finding the Methodist church there in distress for the lack of funds, he went to work and in a single day raised sufficient money with which to repaint the church and parsonage, construct gran itoid sidewalks around both, and make numerous other improvements. Mr. Lee surprised the natives of North Huron in- soiiciting funds from all Classes of people and not confining his solicitations to Christians alone. All gave a generous response, and aB a re sult the church property la cow in ex cellent condition. New Asphalt Plant. The asphalt equipment of the McCarthy Improve ment company has arrived In this city and will be Installed this week at City Island. The improvements made this year by the plant will be the last work done In this vicinity by the plant which. is transferred by rail, as plans and specifications for one of the largest and most modern stationary plants In the west have been made. The plant will be located on City island. It will be equipped to handle the business of the trl-cltles at any season during the year that contracts may be let. The building will be of fire-proof construc tion and modern throughout. Obituary Record. Lewis Lv Burllng ham died in Bettendorf Saturday after ah Illness of 92 days' duration from cancer of the Btomach. Deceased was born Oct. 10, 1831, in Steuben county. New York, and moved to Scott county 42 years ago, settling upon a farm in Bettendorf, upon which he lived until his death. In 1354 he wag married to Sarah A. Franklin, who attended him daring his illness and 1 his only sur vivor. The funeral was held today. The death of Jonathan MacDowell occurred at the family home at 105 West Eighteenth street Saturday af ternoon at the age of 67 years. BesldeB his wife, there survive a son, J. P. MacDowell of Eldridge, and a daugh ter. Bertha MacDoweJl, at home. The funeral was held today. The death" of Mrs. Delilah Goodwin occurred Friday night at the family home, No. 1 Arlington court, after a brief illness resulting from the infirmi ties of old age. Those who mourn her death are nine children: Mrs. Emily W. Scott of Atlantic, Iowa; Mrs. Theo dica Murray. Orvllle and Theodore Goodwin of Diota, Iowa: Mrs. Rebecca D. Doolittle of Davenport, Iowa; Mra Melissa McMurray of Victor, Iowa; Alonzo L and Thomas D. Goodwin of Mitchell, S. D., and Hiram P. Goodwin of Seattle, Wash. The funeral was today. To Lydia E. Finkliam's Vegetable C&zpcund jSioomdalc, Ohio. suffered f rom fjrri'ii'f ll(ill-.lfho. Tjn'r.S ill IT) V baCH" . . laiia rittnc siue, ana ri : v:i.s tired all the time and nervous. I could not sleep, and every month I could hardly stand the pain. .Lydia E. rinkliam'3 Vegeta ble Compound re stored me to health again and made me feel like a new wo man. I hope this letter will induce other women to avail themselves of ,thl3 valuable medicine." Mrs- E. 1L uTbxdsbick, Bloomdale, Ohio. ( Backache is a symptom of. female weakness or derangement If you have backache don't neglect it. To get permanent relief you must reach the root of the trouble. Xothing we know of will do this so safely and surely as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. Cure the cause of these dis tressing aches and pains and you will become well and strong. The great volume of unsolicited tes tixnony constantly pouring in proves conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham's (Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has restored health to thou sands of women. If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound will help yon, write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be absolutely confidential ftnd the a wco free. RED TAPE EXPERT FINE FRUITS PURE OLIVE OIL AND MACARONI SPEGHETTI A full line just received from Italy at F. CAMP ANA'S ' 1917 Second Avenue. The goverrvnent oSces In Whitehall are supposed to use "red tape" pretty freely, but the supply in London is nothing to what it is in India. Let us outline briefly the true history of Balm Tara Cbaud. late of the subordi nate branch of the Indian civil serv ice. The story is true. Dabu Tara Cband was a deputy sub assistant clerk In the cutcberry of a deputy collector in the Swanklbagb district of southern Bengal. The in land postage nite in India at that period was three pies, or about 1 farthing, for letters weighing one tola. One tine day when the officials bad concluded the annual or biennial over haul of the books of the cutcberry It was discovered that by some un heard of turpitude one stamp of the value of three pies (1 farthing) had been unaccounted for. The stamp could be clearly traced to the desk and control of Babu Tara Chand. Thence it bad disappeared. Babu Tara Cband was not summa rily dismissed; neither was he made the target of a criminal prosecution. In stead be received a lengthy letter on blue foolscap paper, painting out in detail how certain property of her most gracious majesty the queen em pressto wit, one Indian postage" stamp of the value of - three pies bad been committed to bis care on a certain date and that uptto the date of writ ing no adequate explanation bad been forthcoming of said. postage stamp. The communication fell upon the luckless Tara Cband like a bolt from the blue. It left but three courses open to him viz: (a) Besign from the service. (b) Czplaln the disappearance of the farthing postage stamp In a manner deemed -eatJafactory by the auditor. (c) Recoup, the farthlog-' Of these ' three courses It - will be obvious' to any person with the shal lowest knowledge of the Bengali char acter that the third one (c) was from the outset , beyond the. pale of con sideration. The first (a) was also too terrible to . contemplate. Therefore Babu Tara Chand sat down and com posed a letter which was a masterpiece In its way and. in which be requested to be relieved from routine service for a period of four weeks to enable him to make such, a search. among the rec ords of the department, etc., as might enable him to trace the missing stamp. This reasonable request was readily granted. Four' weeks later Babu Tara Chand applied for a further term of two weeks . wherein,' to ; draw; up a report upon the., results of his investigations in pursuit the. err anti postage stamp. This, having pftssed.tbrough the eight een or nineteen, different bands neces sary for such. an. application, was in turn duly granted,' and nt. the end of the fortnight Tara Chand submitted a report of 216 foolscap pages, explain ing that, despite the most diligent ef forts and Inquiries on his part, be had been unable to secure the slightest clew to the cause of the deficiency. When the department of audits and accounts had fully digested thls.docu- Try It! That is the Way to find out how good P.andG. The White Naphtha Soap is. Read and follow the directions on the inside of the wrapper. They tell you to wash clothes in half the time and with half the effort it now takes. V . . . without boiling them. ... without rubbing the life out of them on a . . . without, having to stand for hours, over tubs of steaming water. A good part of the work and almost all the discomfort of wash day is due to the fact that women boil their clothes. It isn't necessary. cents a cake and worth it ment and presented a reporc of the same In official precis to the auditor general the auditor general through the secretary of the. asslstaut auditor general of the presidency of Bengal notitled Babu Tara Chand that it was not wholly satisfactory and that the circumstances bearing upon the loss of the stamp would have to be definitely explained and proved or the deficit of three pies would have to made good. Babu Tara Chand stuck to his guns and wrote again. He wrote many times. As often as be wrote his ex planations the auditor general wrote signifying his ofiicial dissatisfaction with the same. Eventually, one fine day about nine months subsequent to the discovery of the loss and some two years subse quent to Its alleged perpetration, the auditor general his Interest in the matter of a farthing postage stamp be ing overwhelmed in u frontier war budget sent an ultimatum to Tara Cband. The loss of the postage stamp would have to be definitely explained or Its value, the sum of three pics, be duly refunded to the treasurer of the Swankigabh district. Then Babu Tara Cband became pos sessed of an inspiration which even to this day is pointed to with pride and complacency by even the most cir cumlocutory of the red tape depart ments within the purview of the gov ernment of India. Babu Tara Chand wrote to the audi tor general as follows: Sir In.reply to your memo, of 7th last. I have tne I onor to state terrlWe confla gration of my cooK rious. : on 5th Inst., hopelessly annihtlotins" aJl: documents In the case of lost - poets.se stamp of three plea. propert ,of ber roost Gracious rnaj- wty the Queen em press. Therefore by (Trace of God andLundeiyreruJatlon para. IS, 463, section - czxxl. of departmental reg ulations, volume 87 (bengal).. I request you forward for my Information complete copies of entire file of correspondence In this case, so ttvat l ean report again upon same to your . aUr action. 1 have the honor to be, air, your most obedieDt. hum ble servant. TARA CHAND. ijeputy 8u bassist ant Cleric to the Deputy Collector, Bwanklbagb. The auditor general never replied. Tara Chano bad won bis case. Lon don Tit-Bits. A PUZZLING PINE. """" Peculiar Tree-That Is Something of a Mystery to Botanists. Upper California is the home of a tree that has puzzled botanists. It is a pine which will grow only near the seacoast Its growth is slow, and it does not attain to .great size. The. strange thing about it is that tbere are, to ' all,, appearances, insur mountable difficulties In the way of the perpetuationof the species. Some specimens of It, exist in Kew gardens, in London. - They have been carefully examined, by ,' competent authorities, and all admit that the tree presents a problem unlike anything elsewhere met with. This pine produces at regular inter rals the usual cones "containing seeds; but, strange ..to, say, the cones are se thoroughly protected that the seeds cannot be released. The cones are hard and tightly closed and have strong overlapping scales. More extraordinary still, is the fact that the pine;"; after producing Its al most . invulnerable, cones, ; keeps them hanging on Its, branches' '.year after year. Unless through sorne peculiar accident the seeds would apparentlj remain attached to the parent tree for ever. Many of the cones, on the trees in Kew gardens' have been" there for years, as Is shown by' the size of the branches and the formation of the bark. A It has been found that tie seed ves sels which this"; tree so powerfully re tain are so'vwell protected that It re quires a'strong knife 'with the assist ance of a heavy. hammer to cut the cone into sections. No ordinary con ditions of 'temperature can make a cone open. . :j' The following ,1s.' the only explana tion yet ottered that seems to have any degree ' of plausibility.: . The species may be perpetuated by" fire. One who has studied the tree asserts that noth ing but. the Intense beat of a forest tire ceuld compel 'the cones to release their seeds. It has been found that tinder the influence of Intense heat they crack open and the seeds fall out uninjured. Harper's Weekly. Advertised List No. 37. Following is a list of letters remain ing uncalled for in the postofilce at Rock Island for the week ending Sept, 17, 1909: Henry Appell, Miss Helen Anderson, Mrs. Gus Anderson,' Mrs. Grace Anderson, Mrs. A. W. Bowen MOLINE Defeated In Cook County John. H. Hell, former principal of the Molina high school, who was candidate for republican nomination as superintend ent of schools of Cook county, met de feat in the primaries, according . to complete reports printed in the Chi cago papers. Mr. Hell, who is now su perintendent of schools in Morgan Park, finished third in the race for nomination, whioh was won by Archi bald O. Coddlngton, the state candi date, with a plurality of 8,284. Still Remains Here. The manage ment of the Molina Pump company de clares erroneous all reports to the ef fect that a decision had been reached to move its factory from Moline to Ottumwa, Iowa. . Manager Killlnger declares that, while negotiations have been begun wKh the Ottumwa Com mercial club, they are no farther along than are negotiations with commercial organizations in a number of other cities. The pump company, having dis posed of its local plant, h? on the mar ket for a site, and Ottumwa Is attempt ing to raise a bonus of 915,000 to the concern. Will Build In Spring. Immediately following the conference session at Pontlac this week, the Methodist church congregation in Silvis will be gin a campaign for funds with which to erect a handsome church edifice in. the spring. - The ofiicial board of the con gregation, at a recent meeting voted unanimously to request that the pres ent pastor,' Rev. E. W. Thompson, be returned for his fourth year. The re quest practically means Mr. Thomp son's selection, as the conference gen erally ratifies decisions of local con gregations. Silvis Methodists met all their financial obligations during the fiscal year ended Sept. 8, and report an increase of approximately 30 mem bers. Obituary Record. Mrs. Sophia Cor nelius, wife of Peter Cornelius, produce dealer, was buried this morning In East Moline cemetery. The funeral service was at 9 o'clock from. Sacred Heart church, Rev. J. B. Culemans of ficiating. Mrs. Cornelius' death occur red at St. Anthony's hospital from an attack of typhoid fever . She was born in Belgium Feb. 20, 1R83, and came to this city in March, 1905. She leaves her husband and three small children and two brothers here, her parents, four brothers and one sister in Belgium. (2), Mrs. M. Blakemore, Mrs. L. R. Bland. Mrs. H. S. Beggs. Mrs. C. Berk ley, Miss Jennie Baker. Mrs. Charles Becht, Mrs. R. E. Bell, Mrs. C. A. Bnrs tron, Mrs. J. Bullok, Mrs. John Brough. Miss L Barrett, Mrs. P. Baker, Mrs. M. Beham, Mrs. C. H. Black, Harry Barllant. Bill Bloyd, Miss Butner, Miss T. Cooney. Mrs. N. O. Connor, Mrs. S. M. Coard, Mrs. W. F. Callahan, Miss H." Couch, Mrs. R. Compton, Mrs. M. Connelly, Rastus Coward, Miss L. May CummingB, John Collins, M. C. Church, Mrs. Thimas Lewis Dunn, Mrs. O .S. Deland, Mrs. W. C. Devole, Mrs. S. A. Daugherty. Mrs. C. Duncan, Mrs. C. Dackers, Mrs. Olive Dunkwene, Miss L. Davis, Mrs. P. Declark. Mrs. Maud Deetz, Mrs. Ethel O. Day, Miss J. Don ahue, Mrs. U. G. Davis, Steve Debore, George Darley, Elijah Davis, Mrs. F. M. Frennon, Miss E. F06burg, C. C. Ford, Charles Ford. H. R. Ford, Harry Ford, Clara Farrell, Laura Frudeger, Miss M. Gordon, Mrs. E. Galvln, Mrs. M. Gosselllng, Mrs. S. S. Gregg, Dil lard Givan, Gaetano Galvani, Miss He'en Gevcke (3), Mrs. E. Huber, Miss Ada Hoebecke, Mrs. M. I. Huntington, Mrs. C. S. Hicks, Mrs. Mary Holets. Mrs. A. Holmes, Miss B. Hole. Mrs. Ruth Hansen, Mrs. Viola Hill. Mrs. F. Haddick, Mrs. Freda Hammerstrand, Mrs. I. E. Huppert, E. H. Hohensteln, Jonathan Hultlngr.i, Mrs. Julia Hotze, Miss Perl Held, Mrs. Emma Johnson, Mrs. P. H. Jones, R. L. Keating, Mrs. A. S. Klrklund. Miss May Kroll, Mrs, J. Lorden, Miss Bessie Lane, Miss Laura Lcomis. Miss E. Lindholm, Emil Luckmeyer, William Lake, Mrs. W. J. McMillen, Mrs. M. Murphy. Mrs. E. E. Mills, vMl8B m! Merrlman, Mrs. R. E. McGowan, Mrs. E. T. McAuliffe, Claude Mentzer, Mrs. Frances Murphy, Alex A. Miller, Mrs. Genevieve Meyer, Mrs. J. Nadler, Miss AnnA"Nelson, Mrs. Marie Olney, Mrs. Hedley Peterson, Mrs. N. B. Pratt, Mrs. E. Pearson, Miss Mae Park, Mrs. Alice Park, Mrs. Emil Rabe, Mrs. C A. Reagan, Mrs. Ike Reed, Wood II. Ramsey, Rock Island Cigar company, Mrs. C. Sherer, Mrs. A. Smithy Mrs. W. J. Sample, Mrs. W. E. Snyder, Mrs. M. Sllversteln, Mrs. E. Salyards, True Spencer, MUs Mollie Stanley, Bahert Sards, Mrs. M. Tarpy, Mrs. J. W. Temple, MIbs E. Thomas, Mrs. Lamont Vercoutern, Clyde Veaux, Miss Ruth, Waite, Mrs. B. Weltz, Mrs. Roy Wendt, Mrs. S. Williams, Mrs. N. S. Wakeland, Mrs. H. B. Wilson, Anne Whaley. Foreign: Herrn Ft. Sophus Block, Robert Larssen. hugh a. j. Mcdonald, Postmaster. The Lash of a Fiend would have been about as welcome to A. Cooper of Aswego, N. Y., as a mer ciless lung-racking cough that defied all remedies for years. "It was most troublesome at night," hewrltes, "noth ing helped me until I used Dr. King's New Discovery which cured me com pletely. I never cough at night now." 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To safe guard the domestic health and to keep the home thoroughly clean and whole some at aO times, plumbing fixtures affording absolute and perfect sanita tion are a prime necessity. StMKfelrf" plumbing fixtun and our opart mecLank r&l maka Jota bathroom attractm and inviting. Let ua giv you an ciiaiain. CHANN0N & DUFVA East 17th St. Rock Island.