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TfYE IN THE CATSKILI& HE DATES HIS LETTER FROM "THE HORNET'S NEST." Wot Bmuw That la the Name or the Place Where Be Is Stopping, but Be eaase It Sounds Well Some Incidents of Mountain Life. (Copyright by Edgar W. Nye. The Hornet's Nest, On the Brow op the Catskhxs, Aug. 80, 1890. My letter is dated from the Hornet's, Neat, not' because that is the name of the place where I am, but because it sounds better to attach some rugged, sylvan epithet to it. I once decided to visit an acquaintance who had named his place The Elms. I went partly be ' cause his invitation was evidently so hol low and insincere that to punish him se verely 1 went. He had The Elms worked on his clothes, and embossed on his stationery. ON A LOAD OF HAY. and blown in his glass, and it pained him to eat his victuals from lineu thnt didn't have The Elms emblazoned on it. He told me to come and surprise him any time, and shoot in his preserves and stay till business compelled me to come to town again. He had no doubt heard that I never surprised any one, and never went away from home very much, and so thought it would be safe. Therefore I went I just went to teach him a val uable lesson. When I go to visit a man for a week he is certainly going away a better man, or else punishment is of no avail, and the chastening rod entirely nseless in his case. The Elms was a misnomer. It should have been called The Shagbark or The Doodle Bug's Lair. It was supposed to mean a wide sweep of meadow, a Vine covered lodge, a broad velvet lawn and a carriage way, where the drowsy locust, in the sensuous shadow of magnanimous elms, gnawed a file at intervals through the day, while back of all this the mossy and gray whiskered frout and corrugated brow of the venerable archi tectural pile stood off and admired itself in the deep and glassy pool at its base. In the first place none of the yeomanry for eight miles knew that he called his old, malarial , tank The Elms, so it was hard to find. But when I described the looks of the lord of The Elms they wank at each other and wag-ged their heads and said, "Oh hell, yes, we know him," or words that were still even less eu phonious than that. When I got there he was down cellar sprouting potatoes, and his wife was hanging out upon the clothes line a pair of gathered summer trousers that were evidently made for a man who had been badly mangled in a saw mill. The Elms was 'not even picturesque, and the preserves were out of order. I was received with the same cordiality which you detect on the face of any other kind of detected liar. He wanted to be regarded as a remarkable host and landed proprietor without being really hospitable. I remained there at The Elms for two days, nibbing rock salt and Cayenne pepper into the wounds of my host, and suggesting different names for his home, such as The Tom Tit's Eyrie, The Weeping Willow, The Crook Neck Squash and The Muskrat's Re treat. Then I came away. His old look of apprehensive cordiality did not leave him until he had seen me climb on a load of hay with my trunk and start for home. So when I put a May-Agnes-Fleming name on any place I may be at, when I write a piece for the paper, it is mostly done to be mischievous. TheCatskills are full of people this summer, and I presume there is a larger population of "boarders," as wo are called indiscriminately, than ever before; for the number of available points to which the victims of humidity and poor plumbing may retreat in summer time is constantly on the increase, while, so far as 1 know, all the private and public boarding places are filled to their utmost capacity. This means a good deal when one considers the great area of country called the Catskills. Everywhere the gandy boarder in flannels and ecru shoes looms upon the green lawn or the brown dirt road, or scales the mountain today and stays in bed the following week, rubbing James B. Pond's Extract on his swollen joints. I scaled Mount Utsayantha a 6hort time ago in company with others. We picked out a nice hot day, and selecting the most erect wall of the mountain, facing west, we scaled it in such a way that it will not have to be done again till new scales grow out on it. Mount Utsayantha is 8.8C5 feet above sea level, and has a brow which reminds me of mine. It is broad, massive and bleak. The foot of the mountain is more massive, however. From the top of the mountain one gets a view of six or seven states with a good glass, 1 was told. Pos sibly there were that many in sight, though at this season of tho year states look so much alike that it takes an ex pert to pick them out readily. When states are moulting it is all I can do to tell Vermont from Massachusetts. One gets a nice view from this mountain and highly exhilarating birch beer. I Albany can be distinctly seen with a glass a field glass, I meannot a glass of birch beer. Some claim that the nub of Governor Hill's boom may be seen protruding from the state house with the nude vision. Others say they can see tho Qreen mountains, and as far south as the eye can reach. We took two hours and a half for the ascent of the mountain, and came down in about twenty minutes. We descended ungracefully the way the Irishman claimed that tho toad walked, viz., "git up and sit down." Mount Utsayantha I use the accepted orthography as found in tho Blackhawk dictionary has a legend also. Many centuri ago this beautiful valley was infested by the red brother and Lis bronze progeny. Where now the red and blue blazer goes shimmering through the swaying maples, and the girl with her other dress on and her straw colored canvas cinch knockth the croquet ball gayly west, once there dwelt an old chief whom we will call Polka Dot, the pride of his people. He k jked somewhat like William Maxwell Evarts, but was a heavier set man. Places where old Polka Dot sat down and accumulated rest for himself are still shown to city people whose faith was not overworked while young. Old Polka Dot was a firm man, with double teeth all around, and his prowess got into the personal columns of the pa pers every little while. He had a daugh ter named Utsayantha, which means "a messenger sent hastily for treasure," so I am told, or possibly old Polka Dot meant to imply "one sent off for cash." This idea is my own, and possibly of little value. Anyhow Utsayantha grew to be quite comely, as Indian women go. I-never saw one yet that couldn't stop an ordi nary planet by looking at it steadily for two minutes. She dressed simply, we:ir ing the same clothes while tooling cross country before breakfast that she wore at the scalp dance the evening before. In summer time she shellacked herself and visited the poor. Taking a little box of water colors in a shawl Btrap, bo that she could change her clothes when ever she felt like it, she would go away and be gone for a fortnight at a time, visiting the nltra fashionable people of her tribe. Finally a white man penetrated this region. He did it by asking tho brake man on the West Shore road how to get here and then doing differently. In that way he had no trouble at all. He saw Utsayantha and loved her almost in stantly. She was shucking a mnskrat at the time, and ho could not but ad mire her deftness and skill. From that moment ho could not drivo her image from his heart. He sought her again and again to tell her of his passion, but she would jump the fence and flee like a frightened fawn with a split stick on its tail, if such a comparison may be per mitted. At last ho won her, and mar ried her quietly in his working clothes. The nearest justice of the peace was then in England, and so rather than wait he was married informally to Ut sayantha by repeating to her with great solemnity the following stanza: Ena mena mina mo. Catch a Digger by tho toe; When he hollers let hiio go. O-U-T spells out. While this had no special bearing on the case it awed Utsayantha, and she went home very much impressed, in deed. That fall a littlo russet baby came to bless their union. Tho blessing was all he had with him when he was discovered. Then the old chief Polka Dot arose in his wrath, to which he added a pair of moose hide moccasins, and he upbraided his daughter for her course. He up braided her with a piazza pole from his wigwam. -He was very much agitated. Sb was tho pole. Then he cursed her for being the mother of a i breed child, and stalking Jth he slew tho white man by cutting open hjs trunk and disarranging lus reins. He then wiped the stab knife in his tossing mane, and grabbing lus grandson by his swaddling clothes fce hurled the surprised little stranger into Lake Utsayantha. By pouring another pailful of water into the lake the child was drowned successfully. Then the widowed and childless Ut sayantha came forth as night settled down upon the beautiful valley and the day died peacefully on the mountain tops. Her eyes were red with weeping, and her breath was punctuated with sobs. Putting on a pair of high rubber boots she waded out into the middle of i the lake, where there is quite a deep place, and drowned herself. This should teach us never to kill a son-in-law without getting his wife's consent. When the old man found the body of I his daughter he was considerably morti- neo. fie took lier to tho top of the mountain and buried her there, and 47 SCALI.NO THE MOUNTAINS. ever afterward, it is said, whenever any spoke of the death of his daughter and her family, he would color up and change the subject. Stamford, at the base of this mount ain, is a five hours' ride from Weehaw ken, and according to my notion is the ideal mountain resort. God has done much for Stamford, and Dr. Churchill has encouraged nature in a good many ways. It is a neat, handsome village, with just enough civilization to soothe existence and teach us to pay for what we get. We often find Boots where nature has broken the record in getting together the elements of health and beauty, but man, poor, weak, measly man, gets in there, and robs and holds up and knocks down anil drags out lus fellow till the angels turn away and weep on each other's shoulders. Just as the meanest and most pestiferous flea bit ten and soul scarred man of the commu nity generally marries the most angelic girl in the school, and uses her mostly to start a row of graves with .in each of which he deposits a new and choice wife every two or three years, so unprincipled men with greedy eyes often flock to the beau tiful sites for thriving towns, and there cling upon tho corporation like big red caterpillars till one by one its fountains dry up and the dead leaves in the parks fall upon tho moss grown and sodden paths beneath. At last, old and flabby, with nothing to feed upon but the slimy reminiscences of successful obstruction ism and swift decay, they cling about the cracker barrel and sour cider of the last mercantile relic of the place, and brag over tho grave of their perished possibilities, and cackle with devilish mirth over the money "they have saved the town." Stamford, by some singular accident, has fallen into good hands. That is why the same people have been coining here summer after summer for sixteen or eighteen years. ' That is why the place is a thrifty little eighteen karat orna ment to the already beautiful brow of nature. That is why tho comfortable homes and hotels overflow with happy, hungry and contented guests, and it is why their children's children for many generations will flee from the loud smell ing pandemonium of disemboweled and fetid Broadway to breatho the atmos phere of clover scented fields, and for get the hot anguish of the feverish, self ish, hustling, pelt peeling town in the , hospitable homes of Stamford. This is not a page from a forthcoming guide book to the Catskills, but the sin cere sentiments of a plain boarder who pays every week and leaves a mighty small margin for his landlady. I speak thusjofStamford because I would have & ... THE ROCK thanked any good ft lend to tell me the same thing a year a 'o, and thus saved me much tiresome ar d expensive search. Overcrt irded. "My son," said the old gentleman, "whatever betides you never fail to preserve tho principles of patriotism. Patriotism is one of tho greatest things that can influence hit man life." "I know it, father," wan the reply. "But doesn't it strikt yon that there is a tremendous lot of ople in the busi ness?" Washington 1 ost. A PIONEER'S DEATH. Jndcc W. L. foal., of I'avenporr, anes Away at an Karl' Thin Mern lat. Judge W. L Cook lied at the home of his danghier-hvdaw, J Irs. M. A. Cook, on the Rockingham road below Davenport at 3 o'clock this morning. For the past five years, and until July last he had lived in Rock Island, having ten years ago married Mrs. Margaret Ctse, of this city, and the two aged people lived happily to gether until Mrs. Cook was stricken with paralysis, when she was removed to her daughter's home at Ottawa, and Mr Cook taken to his daughter-in-law's home across the river, to be cared for. Judge Cook was born in Beikshire comity. Mass., June 17. 1801. April 24. 1827, he was united in marring ! with Miss Polly Brockway. One chill was born unto them. Mrs. Cook died May 30. 1831. Mr. Cook afterwards married Miss Alniira Woodhull. In 1835 Mr. Cook built a raft on tho Allegheny river, and with his family floated down on it to the Ohio riv er, and from thence to St. Louis. Here he made the acquaintance of a govern ment officer and secured pussage for his family, together with his household ef fects, to Rock Island. Arriving here he employed an Indian to row himarnss the river to Davenport, where his father had settled. Arrangements were at once made to bring over his family and house hold goods. He felled trees and erected a log house on the property now owned by hie daughter-in-law, Mia. A. M. Cook. In the spring of 1836 be planted a few acres of corn and in the fall he gathered twelve bushels which he placed in the loft of his house, and during t ie winter cround it an old-fashioned coffee mill as occasion required. At this time there was no mill for many miles from D ivenport. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs Cook Mrs. Cook died Jan. 8, 1848. and Mr. Cook married Mrs. Elizabeth Shiek. Two children were born to them Elijah B. and Emma (now Mrs. August Rohlf ) Mrs. Cook died Aug. 15. 1878. and Sept. S3, 1880, Mr. Cook again married, form ing an alliance with Mrs. Margaret Case, of this city, who still survives him. but is lying in a critical condition at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Taylor, at Ottawa, III. Mr. Coik was for years very prominent in Scott county Bffairs and held every office in Davenport towns ship. In 1S55 he wai elected county judge, which office he held two yers. He joined the Methodist church in 1831, and has been a member ever since. He was a Mason, a men Iter of the Scott county old settlers' association, and was well known by many of the Rock Inland county pioneers. IVnNurlns the- turn pan v. The coroner's jury in the inquiry as to tue accident on the electric road at Dav enport a week ago, by wtiicb Prof. W. C. Preston lost his live, r turned a verdict late Saturday afternoon . It is as fol lows: State of Iowa, Scott county. An in quieilion holden at Davenport, in Scott county, Iowa, on the 2d, 4th. 5th and 6th of September. A. I.. 1890. before Dr. James McCortney. coroner of said county, upon the body of William C Preston, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto s inscribed. The said jurors upon their oaths do say, after baying beard the evidence and examine d said body, we do find that deceased came to bis death by being crushed between a box car on the C , It. I. & P. railroad go ing east on Fifth street and the electric street car No. 16, of the Davenport Elec- trie Street Railway company, on which be was a passenger on Sept. 1, 1890. at about 3 p. m. Said street car came down Brady street heavily loaded, beyond the capacity of the appliancts in use for its control, and we believe th tt the managers of said road are censurable and responsi ble for such neglect. O ven under our hands, at the time and place of said in quisition, above mention? 1. John Lii.lts, D. H. Hartwei.l, D. P. WcKown. There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to gether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years the doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local reme dies, and by constantly failing to curs with local treatment, pronounced it incur able. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore re quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactu -ed by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from ten drops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the svs- tem. They offer one hund ed dollars for any cise it fails to cure, r end for circu lars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O. t3FSold by druggists, 7tc. LOCAL N0TIC1S. The Crown dining hall, So. 1708 Sec ond avenue, is now ready lo furnish you the best meal in the city for 25 cents. Concert and dancing every Saturday evening, with good music at Joseph Hu- her s garden on Aloline avnnue. Every other day in the week except Saturday the garden is to let. 150,000 to loan on real ei tats security, in sums of $200 and upward, at lowest current rates of interest. itbout com mission. E. W. Hurst, Attorney at law, Rock Island. In Town and Hami The seeds of intermittent and b lions remittent fever germinate and bear evil nil c No commu nity has altogether escaped it. In populons wards of large cities bad sewage causes It, and in their snbnrbs stagnant pools In sunken lots breed It. There is at once a remedy and a means of prevention. Its name is HokU ttcr's Stomach Bitters, which Is withont prradve iture, the most potent antldole in existence to the malarial virus. Fortified with this incomparable, taving specific, miasmatic Influences may be em onntered with absolute impunity. Disorders ol the stomach. liver and bowels, begotten by miasma-tainted water, or any other cause, sn ccum b to the benefi cent corrective named, and rbuumt tic, kidney and bladder troubles are surely remove ble by Its use when it Is given a persistent trial. ISLAND A JtGUS, The Dcrfume of violets, the nnrltv of the lily, the glow of the rose, and the flush of Hebe combine in Pozzoni's won drous powder. Poor Effle (who has been stune) : First it walked about all over my hand, and it was so nice) but, oh, when it sat down Mclatire Bros, have a new and reliable kid glove cleaner; cleans- perfectly and leaves no odor. ' PURIFY YOUR BLOOD Celebrated LIVER PILLS PREPARED ONLY BY FLEMIMQ BROS.. PITTSBURGH, PA. Intelligence Column. Cheapest and bet place In the paper fur "Wants," Ust ,' "Sale" and 'Hcntrt nottci Only one-half cent a word, column. Try it. Everybody reads (his Fa )ll KKNT-F1VK PLEASANT ROOMS healthy location 8S3u Fourth avenue, li-.1t QKOONlMlANa FURNITUKB. bought, sold W. or exchanged. Money loaned or Furniture stored at iMintbeast corner Terry and Third SIS., Davenport. TT-OR SALE VALUAiiLE KA.TKNT IM J. provetnenl on Elevators. Now in operation at Mar MiitiMiim; w orns, ssaa Hamilton St., riniaua. Pa; preKerves life and limb; for full pcrticulars apply to KOBT J. WALKER. Inventor. - WAN1KI) A PARTNER WITH SOME money: to take charge of horse aud biuret lo canvai in -the country; troorf reference re quired. Aiinre i, ii, Dox ais, Milan, all. 5 WANTED. A LADY TO MANAGE A llraneh otUce, at her own home, for the Fa mous Female Specillc "Oranpe Lily"; a splendid opportunity; auuress Willi stamp, The Dr. coon lev Medical Institute, South Bend Ind. TTTANTED GENERAL STATE AGENT TO W 0en headquarters in some principal city, assume eirlusive control f our business and ap point local and stib-ag.nt in every city hi the state; goods well known, stanle as dour. In uni versal demand, and pay a net rroflt of 50 to loo percent. Address TUB u MOM COMfASV, 71 uroauway, new tork. X3 LUMBKR Ll'MBBR-YARU WORKMEN OF all trades, can secure steady emnlovment in Ihe lumber yards of Chicago at from f l.Nl 10 ti per day on application in person lo E, K. HOOPKR. Secretary of the Chlcaeo Lumber Yad Dealer's Association, room 618 Chamber of Commerces. B. corner LaSalle and Washington streets, micaim. 111. Ss PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. M. BEAKDSLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office with J. T. Ken worthy, 1745 Second Avenue. WILLIAM JACKSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Rocs Island ii national Bank Building, Rock Island, III. 1. D. SWTS KNIT. c. L. walks a. SWEENEY & WALKER, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW XI Office in Bengston's bmek. Rock Island, 111. McEMHY & MtEMRY, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW Loan money on eood security, make collections. Reference, Mitch ell A Lynde. bankers. Oftloe in Postothc block. THE DAILY AKUUS. ?OR SALE EVE HY EVENING at Crampton's News Stand. Five cents per copy. DKS. IJCTHEUFORD & BUTLER, GRADUATES OF THE ONTARIO VE TERNA ry collcire, Velernary Physicians snp Surgeons. Ofilce: Tindall's Livery stable; Residence: Over Asters Bakery, market square. Salesmen W!TM0IID To sell our goods by sample to wholesale and re tail trade. We are tho largest manufacturers In our Hue. Liberal salary paid. Permanent posi tion. Money advanced for wages, advertising, etc. For rerms address CKKTKKMIAL MF0. CO., Chicago, III. WM. 0. KULPi D. D, S. OFFICE REMOVED TO MASONIC TEMPLE, Rooms 46, T, 29 and , Take Elevator. DAVENPORT. IA. pilOTO-ENGRAVING, DESIGNING, ILLUSTRATING. J. M. GASPAUD, Library Hnildine. Davenport, Iowa, Call for estimates and see work before going to Cliicsgo. JLOUIS K. GILLSON &. CO., snunU. procured . Increase all other soldiers' claims prosecuted. Write us about your case. Room 4, Metropolitan block, C hicago, III. Protect Your Eyes. MARION OPTICAL CO.'S Improved Crystallized Spectacles and Eye Glasses. 11 and 1C Maiden Lane, N. Y. Rranch: Marlon, Ind. For sale by T II. Tbomss, Drnircist, Rock Island, ill. Bep. li-dtim N O1I0K TO CONTRA 0TORS. Sealed proposals will be received at. the City Clerk's office. Rock Island, III., until Monday September ISIh, 1. at 5 p. ni. for constructing the Improvements ordered by ordinances of said citv, passed respectively .lime lfllh and July SUt, lKWf, and entitled "An Ordinance for the con st ruction of a sewer on Twenty-second street from the north line of Ninth avenue to the north line of Fifth avenue, there to connect with the mam city sewer. AIo, 'An Ordinance for the construction of a sewer in the alley next south of Second avpn between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets." Plans and specifications can be seen at the city clerk's office. All bids must be accompanied with a certified check in the sum of Two liundrcd dollars paya ble to the city treasurer of said city In case the bidder shall fall to enter into contract with ap proved sureties to execute the work for the price mentioned In his bid. The city reserves the rieht to reject any and all bids. ROBERT KOEULKR, City Clerk. Rock Island. 111., September 4th, lt&o. Hit N OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Estate of Sherman O. Elliott. Deceased. Public notice is hesehy given. That the nnder sii;ned, Ashley W, Elliott, administrator cum ttt t amenta anaro of Sherman O. Elliott, deceased, has this day filed his final report and settlement as such In the county court of Rock Island county, and that an order has been entered by said court approving the said report, unless objections there to or cause to the contrary be shown on or before the firs' day of October A. D. 1890; and upon the final approval of said report the said Ashley W. Elliott will ask to he discharged. All persons In terested are notified to attend. Rock Island, 111., Anmistsmh, 1890 ASHLEY W. KLLIOTT. Administrator cum ttttamento anaxo of Sherman O. Hlliott, deceased. sept Id -Sw JJIS80LUTJON OF PARTNERSHIP. The' co-partnership heretofore existing nnder the firm name of Gray A Schafcr has this day been dissolved hy mutual consent, Mr. George Hchafer retiring and Wm. Gray continuing the business at the old stand. WM. OllAY. GKORGE HCHAFER. Bock Island, 111 ., Sept. Bib, 1SH0. Warranted Free from Injurious Drugs. mmli Pif mi rt MONDA Y, SEPTEMBER 8, 1890. " m inr" rune. TRIPLE PREPARED FROM SELECT FRUITS Br FrankNadier CHEMIST ROCK ISLAND, ASK YOUR GROCER FOR THEM TO THE AFFLICTED! Mli Why payblirfeestoquaekswbenthcbest m 'lm medical treauinrnt can be biwl for reason M ableprieesof The lernChemlcalCo.,pro. Si ( pared from the prescriHimsof lr. Wlll J lams. a nh vsiclan of world-wide repute I m vmm.aituyirianu woi CyY0UNG MEN EM laaa jm of Memory, Desi uemiK -mill m'liiuini orvous lability. DcsfMrndency. etc Iroru early indiscretions or other causes; also llinnt C 1CCI! llCH wno experience a wenkness MIUULL'ADlU MlR inadvaueeof tbeiryears.Kid ney and Bladder troubles, etc, will tind our Method of Treatment a Safe, Certain and Speedy CL'KK. 0CIIIUII D1CTII I CC Kx oerlence proves that In OtMIN AL r AS I ILLtO, temal medicines will not cure tne atxiveaumenia. irr.w imams. wbo hasgiven spocial attention to these diseases for many years, prescribes Semi nal Pastilles which act directly upon the diseasisl orrans.arMl restore rliror better than Stomach MeOlclmw, s ttiey are not changed bytheitastrlcjuice and require no change of dietortnterruptlonlnbiudnesa. HOME TREATMENT costing- f mru $.1 Ou to HMO, used with an fnllinu sneeesa for over tliirtv venr In lr. Williams' private practice. Give them a trial. CDCPICIP Un 01 fortheKldneysandltladdereurea orCulllu rlU.OI recent cases In one to four days. IITCDIUC CHTDftDUIP -4ure Cure forall l.irmsof U I trUrit CU I nUr nib Kemale Weakness, etc Call ir write for Catalogue and Information before Oonaultlnif others. Address THE PERU CHEMICAL CO., 189 Wisconsin Sheet, MILWAUKEE, WIS. BOCK ISLAND BOH. WORKS. -ALL KINDS OF Cast IronWork done. A specialty of furnishing all kinds of Sloyes with Castings ot 8 cents per pound. NINTH ST. AND 7th AVE. DOWNING BROS., Propts. WHEN YOU ARE READY to boy s piann-fnrta or rmran. be ft a new or second hand tnstrament, yrtn will Atmsnlt y.sir own best in terests by writing- as fur terras and prices. Your own eiperience will tell jim that It rs alirirs sate to do business with a bnose of e1al)hthrt repu tation and when yon ln learn that such a house sells goods at the lowkst Plilcrs quality cifn.lv red. and on tbs easiest terms, ynii hare all the helter reantio fw placing risir order with it. We sell the ht In atrnmerrts in the market at the fcnteat prices and have pianos to suit all tastes and purses. Our exhibit incladea such makes as The Peerlewa Knnbe, The A rustic Kroeser The Popular Kiwher, The New Fiigland aud I'ense I'lanoej. tor particular! ruli on or a-ritr IValers and Manufacturer, CHICAGO. CHAS. R. WHEELAN, Undertaking and Embalming Dimick Block, No. SOS 20th St.. T ock Irland. EJUS. '..ui( mii, n.rru a i ltlll,u't.- ir 111 i nmTiHK- inmroods. with hearse and atipuartc mice, and havine secured the services of Mr. Geo. K. Reed, of Chicaim. an ax pert funeral director and em balmerof IJ years experience, I am fully pre pared to enarantee satisfaction. Telephone lll.i. TTavInn . -... - ... , . . ' 1 BUY ELLIS CELEBRATED The cheapest ever known $2 25 Per Ton for Cash. Will also contract lo furnish Tile and Rrick for sidewalk and do general haullintr. Office oppo site St. Joseph's church. Second avenue. Telephone 1. 3r. T. 11. ELLIS PROTECT YOUR -HOMES AND LIVES- By nsinr? A. F. Schmid's, the pioneer resi dent Lightning Uod dealers celebrated LIGHTNING RODS. which he keeps constantly on hand. Any job, no matter how complicated, done In the moat scientific manner. Competition In prices and quality detled. Address A. F. SCHMIDT. No. 821 Twentieth St.. Uock Island, CHAS. McHUGH, R. R. TICKET BROKER. (Member American Ticket Brokers' Ass'tn) Reduced Rates to all Points. OFFICE In Adams Express Office nnder Harper Donse. ' BOLE ABKNT FOB Tha Pope Mfg Oo. Bicycles. Ladles and Children's picyclcs a specialty. Music Teaching. After 28 years experience In teaching Instru mental Music, I will promise yon more theory with less lessons for the least money of any teacher in the city. DAILY PRACTICE nnder onr superrision. given each juvenile pnpll. Teachers will save money to order their Music Books of ns. One-third off of marked price on Sheet Bin etc to every one. .Leave orders, naming author, at my music rooms, 1401 Second avenue. Hoik Island. , We make a specialty of teaching inexperienced teachers how to teach. . Address me at 1406 Brady St., Davenport, la. . . MUS. O. A. KKUKKii. . ILL 11 8(- NVJI'. -1 ii Mercer County CoaL MEDICAL. Dr. S. E LI (Late of Cincinnati. Ohio,) Has Permanently Located in Davenport. In the past two months he has succcssf nlly trea'ed almost 400 MKM of the most severe character. Such diseases as Rhenmatism. Nenralpla, Scrofnla, Ileart-dis?ase. disease of the Liver, K dnevs, or of any of the secretory organs; also all k.nds of l.nni! diseases or complications, snch as Asthma, Br nchttis or Pleurisy. All kinds if nervous diseases successfully treated. PILES Positively and permanently enred, without the use of the knife or auy operation whatever, or no chaige. , tfLoss of Manhood, Seminal Weakness, and Errors of Youth, positively and permanently cured. tVPossiilvi'ly no case taken that csi.uol be cured. Correspondence accompanied by 4c la stamps promptly answered CONSULTATION FREE. fllce-McCullonKh'sNew I'.lock. W. Third Strift, near Main, DAVENPORT. IA. 186 So. Clark St. The Betfular Old-EstaLlLslicd PHYSICIAN AMD SURCECfJ Is (till Trratlne with the Greatest SKILL and SDCCESS Ctanic,NcnoE and Private Diseases. M-NERVOU3 DEBILITY. Lost Man. hood. Failing Memory, Exhausting Drama, Terrible Dreams. Head and Back Ache and all the effects reading to early decay and perhaps Con gumption or Insanity, treated scienutically by new methods with never-failing success. -SYPHILIS and all bad Blood and Skin Diseases permanently cured. -KIDNEY and URINARY compbints. Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Stricture, Varicocele and all diseases bf the (ienito-Urinary Organs cured promptly without injury to Stomach, ItJdneys or other Orcina. ' "No experiments. Aee and experience important. Consultation free and sacred. A11 correspondence is sacredlv rrivate. Forty Vears' Practice enables Dr. Clarke tnGiiar antee Cure in all Curable Cases of Enema. Scrofula. Srphllls. Klailder and Kidney PL eases, laeorrhiea and Kemale Troubles. I.iver 4mplaint. Catarrh, all Blood, skia and Ner voua I'isease. No mailer v.-lio has failed to cure yon. write Dr. Clarke a full history of your case. Hours, b to 8; Sundays, q to ix. Call on or address F. D. CLARKE, M.D., 186 So. Clark St., CHICACO. ILL. B.E.C. Wests NERVE AND BRAIN TREATMENT. PpocitV frtr llvgwia. PiTln KiM. NVnrp.l, W&ko fuhifw, Mcnfial l-,irvuii. t4ottimitr t the Itmu, tv Fuittiiic Iti iiiMiimv hikI Ia4iifnr to im-ci y aru. ilt'jth. Prt-mituir- OM Aire. Burreiim-j--. I.o. til Wr i:i .'itht'r svf, liivoluiitni 1 o.xot", Ami MK-mm!iM rhcra aii-'i-ti ,r ovtrii tion ol the tmilit. wtlfni.u-r or ..-.-r-itiiiMiirpiii-t Kiit-h Ikt rtn.talns one m iih' iri mont U.S. m kix tir $t. t at l. mail rrvi-inl- nh tt, h oriji-r tor mt. Imix. Vr1 utvli.vtM' niiurnnl.t' lo refund mom y H the I rtif nifnl f!uis tu uiv. tiuuruntis iQt-d and viiuinr tuld uniy hy HAKTZ A BABNSKN Ornntn, Sole Aecntft, corner Third avenae nd Twentieth utreet. Hock Inland, 111. RUNKENtfESS V Liquor Habit. MU7M WOfUO THf? S BlTON CURE DIHmKes golden specific ." -r .'.,r,'T? """P f'"''wlwl artl ". r4. without the knnwntre ol th- paticnl.it nreeaaary It i abaolutely hnrmlca and will effect a permanent and npecdy eurf. w-h.lror the patient la a moderate drinker nran alcoholic wreck IT t'K r til.. It operates o omiMiy itnd with sucti cer tainty that Ihe patient unriercne no inennvrnlenea "Ui-T' 5S '" "w.r": bm complete reform atioa is eneeted. 48 pace book ol panieniara free. Marshall A Fi'her and Rifts, Kock Inland, 111. t. n. Thorns", drug may -dwly The Great French Remedy for Suppressions iiu mommy irreKiiiariiies. I Jill 1 1. 1 Te I Tlrw T.ivwul 1.1 1111 A. Tl i France; gnaranteed to aeeomplioh ah that is claimed for them. To be nsed monihly for troubles neeuiinr to women roll a l reel ions with each box. 1 per box or three I oxes for $5. American Till Co., royalty proprietor. Spencer, Iowa. The Pennine pill obtained of Otto Kndert, Kim street. Rock Island, Juppe A Co., Itavenport, and of all drnpgists. mUmlw THE UDLIKE SAVINGS BAKK (Charted by the LeglsUtore of Illinois.) MOLINE, - ILLS. Open daily from 9 K. M. to s p. M , and onTuee day and Saturday Eve uiiiirn from 1 to 8 o'clock. Interest Rllorred on Doflposiw t the rate of 4 jut Cent, per Annum. Deposits received in amounts of f 1 and Upwards. SECURITY ANDADVANTAQKS. The private proprty of the Trustees is respon sible to the depositors. The officers are prohibi ted from borrowing any of its moneys. Minors and married women protected by ttpecial law. Offiobr.: b. W.Whssick, President; poa tir Seimmbr, Vice President; O. V. Hnnnrti, Cashier. Tbostkbs: S. W. Whet-lock, Porter Skinner, C. K. Uomenway, J Silas U?as, Q.Tl Rdwards, Hiram Darling, A. S. WrU-ht, J. S. KeatnK L. H''"""1ry. C. ViUlhum. , f The only chartered wavtnes Bank In Rock Island bounty F."H. Mn.t.mt rres't. 8. K. Smith, V iee-rreo-f. K H. ItTsS, See'y. J. K. Kmm, iViiih THE DAVENTOUT SAFETY DEPOSIT CO. nnsr national bank huilmsu, DAVENPORT, - - - IOWA. Perfi-et protection arrnitist lmrjrlars, thieves a id tire with iw k re and Itiirirlar-PriiTrf Vaults and .siifos. Imw prpHml to r "a ki vH,i,i,UU V!"".H' Vih rtU, v iatiot, of key locks. Ihe l.a ka of tl, Wlfea are all dilli rnt, and under tho mtrM of tlie renter l-jwrli snfe ttnitaiiis a tin Ni in which to nl u vnlliuliles-Just stn h nee,,mm.Hl.-.,'o m V arl v.-aiitd by AdmiiiistnttorH, KxeeuKira, i.nxrZ liins Capitalists, M:im,il or Sincle , nrn Kitrinera, Meelumi.-s Irwlin hSTJ htntnwrs, having valnnhW I-rivate n'tirltii t-,,w -"''lion tit iuirrs, etl? Sales In nil sizes, raiiunif: in prii-e, Vr annum" Irotn Three 1 Miliars up to Thirty iMWrs? aSl rtmliiiR to sire and I.r-hU.hu bSSrJS Kioia ?r TKiekace, Iwixea r tninki If y,m are koIiik to travel, this is tlie only phW Vif h soliite siifery in the three cities foywr alWrt ami otlwr valuable Civ.lrwi tZuihll (Vll and aA nor Vu,,lt. -.1.... i. T "W"!. Sate or not -uer you aealro M. J. BOHLF8. CiuUxUa. FUnNITUnE-FREE OF C!IflRGE!(5?SfsS rs, on an CASH order during our so DAV 8PECIAL PRICE SALE. IlildrelhFurnHBreCie'S'i? cGREARi ran rarer AGEIITS WANTEDS fSTOVEs ; C -toN Store?, SSfe? ' JA immense lit,- "I ,w Vhf4 ft h$ Davis Block, Moline, Illinois, Telephone 252C. ANDREW IVTCLSOIV, Practical Tile and Brick Mi Layer. Resedence 819 Twenty-first Sr. Yard near St. Pul 0. -p.it. Rock Island, III. Ei-timates famished for any kind of Tile or Brick in the market. I y.:.z of t.-.rt and ti,e walks a specialty. Dealer in New and Second Hand Goods- Bay, st lis and trades any article. A sm-cia'tj mt.l. JisiJ'. N'O. 1614 Se .'t!,i ArrEIB FRED Jk.IF'IELQTXIST Has oppned his New and Ppsciim SAMPLE ROOM No. 1020 to 1(526 Third avenn- where be would tx pleasetl to nee bis friends. w1 All kind of drinks a well a Ale and Porter, and the well known dr.r.k II ' ''' oniy piace in tne city m he e you ran pet iU Kosst Beef Lnnre erery day tr..m e ! : - J. T. DIXOJST. MERCHANT TAILOR. s And Dealer in Mens' Fine Woolens. 1706 Secon.l Avt nre. F. W. HERLITZKA. No. 229 Twentieth Street, next Conrad Schneider's pmrtry, R.--k for fine fitting . BOOTS AND SHOES, Made ia the latent style. Also repairing done with neatness an.i i! s - A. BL ACKH ALL , Mansfactarer of all kinds of BOOTH Gents' Fine Shoes a specialty. Repairing done aeatly and promptly A share of your patronage reepectfolly solicited. , v 1618 Second ATenue. IJ k l r. FRANK BABCOCK, Dealer in Groceries and Provisions, No. 2dr Fifth ATenue, lloCK trmew atme, new stock, the best good at the A. SEABURG. House and Sign Painter. First-class Graining and Paper nantfng. P. O Box 672. DR. SANDETT8 ELECTRIC BELT IHtHll.ll .Tkk " Ik M tl llllWa.kU laa :. 7- !. for ttkimrlht ii m WHiMlit SntwH, cirlaatffwt.. ana. a. fi UrT '""u Kl-irie4t Ikrtwrt all IK ZtZlt rrM-r"-"T HKU.TM aS tHUHNH S STaHMITIl. liiLTTf .TL ' "' I Sl S. mm m. WmwnfSf if-i aLMitaiuui,. laaaiwat ca lea as ill, ncDlSEflSESEH -iYrCURED.lVl.V.'.V CaU or sead tor ctreolar eoauanlna Bostaaarreloasearasor Comb Horn,, Caorer, Bright Maraae. acrofnia. Xcseaw, Snthllia. thnnula, r.7 arrh, Taators. Btoaaaeh TranMas, Me... te. aiesa aawtaa, ...- T. " swaitiawywiwT. Basils sosi KiLlsa UU. fm. aHarasra aae mmmmm lima, tMitatr. tu. 4 DAVID BOS. 1615 ar.il V.r. DAVIS & CO, I I tti UP til II Steam Fi Mi A complete t-t.rk of Pip, Brass Goods, i'atkiiif Hose, Fire Brick, Etc Sole Afectf f ir DEAN STEAM PUMPS and SIGHT FEED LUBRICAlGPi We pvftratitfe every ore perfect, ar Y tr;C p a Tfrai j ubj ii iai, iai rc?Liii;-,:j.t jr:. Safety Heating DoiWs and C. ntrvi -n ' fnrnishiDo and layine W&ter, vA Strer Pipe. 1T12 FiitrTin. Ria k Is'aiiil. I ir.ic Telephone 1148. Resides. ce 'l ;ios M AND SHOES lowest prices. A shsre of m:m' '' Shnp Fourth Aye. cel. Sit sr.d --i s GEO. GEEEN, City Scavenger. bas iTrD a DISINFECTANT which do Its work In a tnoroBk' XSni thoronghly Vl aUobnoxioBi smells, tor sale drugstore. Pkick 60 Ckkts fkb Brt