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THE ARGUS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1893.
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happy oM ace-
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trader, ram-rlnr Irosi roeipUIat i-enillaMo the ffwaletex, XOA-PlIOKi to'
warta rrrrrtblas to ja. Letters fr a!vk, paarW "CunnulUiut Department," arc
area ay Mr rayta-iass aaljr. JUU-PHOIU CO, 1U O. COUfAX, ftrcf, Eabuaazoo, lira.
Sustain Home Industry
BY-
Calling for Rock Island
Brewing Co., Beer.
The Best Beer Made,
On Tap everywhere
TRY IT.
The Rock Island Brewing Company, success
ors to George Wagner's Atlantic Brewery, 1.
Huber's City Brewery and Raible & Stengel's
Rock Island Brewery, as well as Julius Junge's
Bottling Works, has one of the most complete
Brewing establishments including Bottling de
partment in the country. The product is the
very best. Beer is botted at the brewery and
delivered to any part of the tri-cities, and may
be ordered direct from the head offices or Mo
line avenue by Telephone.
tXCOKro RATED I'KKCR THE STATE LAW.
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Rock Island Savings Bank,
Uoce IsLAxn,' III.
Opaa I 1 , frnoi a. av to p. m-. and Satirday ermine tnm T to 8 'cloak.
Fl par cant Interest paid on Deposits. Money loaned on Parson! col-
lateral ar Kami fcatate security.
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Masrroan:
r. L. Hlttfc.ll, r. C. iMnkmwti. John CroMnrti. PM1 MltrkeU, H. P. null, L. I
smm,'. m. unnrru. ian uia.
Jacaaua UGMrt. aulfenum.
;aa tM, Jalj I, 100, mi orcspy tb. (ostkcMt comer of Hltraoll Lmde's sew MlMiBJt
J. T. DIXON
Merchant Tailob
And Dealer in Men's Fine Woolens.
1706 Second Avenue.
JOHN GIPSON,
THE 7IR6TOIiABS
Hjm Iwtatil la ala sew shop.
At 324
aVLarMieereaeiiceiaKr.
uvuoaxra oomuuvotit
BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Tae laeenata taehattte gleea at tale Seams U terlSea by man taaa 00 aUeteat Feoplo
aetng taaa- Mkd.au,
lli and 1 14 East Seoond Street, D AVEKPORr, IOWA.
Roek Island Brass Foundry
in ac::itectc3u c::x.
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artet-ef Ma
i Orvaca At tail First easeae.
alawlaaai asseaa lartlae. all eVeae
8EIVERS 6 ANDEESOH".
CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS.
AH Kinds at Carpenter Wo Dona.
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imhifim4ltaitirwMilllili
MsUInt sad MMtlm Orenrnrlcett
n'mmfn KrhnuxteA Mother,
mm! frrTrsU pro lap, as.
fwrm Vali4titinn. Slerpl
nmn, HrrTwas bnaMaa; anwa (oTlra
lnTTrflliac inuaitvl, pntrfcliar a sale
Change of Life, kale aa4
JiM. B I' FORD, Casntet
Seventeenth Street.
Oaaoata laa OK
aaa M.if Make
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J; MAGER, Proprietor:
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awtal aaiiara aa arueUa eats.
TRICKS THAT FAILED.
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ACCIDENT AND LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANIES EVER WATCHFUL.
ar a Baaaklya Maa Draw
Tkvaagk aa tajared Doable Talaa at
tha Tlaae Dator-It Taa Three Yeaia ta
Cataai tha EUek Stackaiaa.
A Brooklju nan who was hard np ran
op against his double, ivhaae finan-
cial aitnation was equally depraarfng.
EJicn waa aiitoanded at the rceem
blance he bore to tho othor, and by
common consent they joined fortunes
and rooms together. A day or two aft
er one of the two Dmraios Wan knocked
down by a wagon and aostained a frac
ture of tho log. He was carried home,
and the brilliant idea at oneo occurred
to his roommate to tako advantage of
the rcwmblance between the two and
draw f 25 from an insurance company
far as long a period as possible. Bor
rowing the injured man's clothes, he
paid a visit to an avuncular relative,
from whom he borrowed a few dollars,
lie went next to an insurance company
and took out a policy. Two weeks later
a claim came for total luablement,and
tho injured man was easily identified
as the holder of the policy, his room
mate being cartful to keep out of the
way. There could bo no doubt as to
the man's leg being broken, and as the
officers of the company recollected that
tho man who took cut the policy was
sonnd in wind and limb there eeemed
little reason to doubt that tho accident
had occurred Mnce the protnium was
paid. No question wns raised, and for
throe cr four weeks tho (25 was paid
with a regularity highly MtUfactory to
the well member of the firm.
But the cick man came to the conclu
sion that he was cot fretting a square
deal. Unable to leave hi bed, ho could
not take part in the jollifications in
which hi comrndo delighted, and it ap
peared to him that Lo was not getting
more than aiont 20 cents on tho dollar
of tho weekly allcwoncK. H 3 demanded
an equal division on tho ground that.
although his friend had done all the
thinking, ho had really playod the lead
ing role by getting himself knocked
down and run over. It was the usual
caso of rogscs falling out and honest
maa dariving the benefit. The disputes
wer ocrhoard by an adjoining room
er, who promptly cava away the story.
with tho result that tho weekly payments
ruiio to a sadden nnd uirfrewine end.
A caio duuumiiiraiiiig the value of a
time deter occurred ia Ohio. A man
carrying a large auuui-.t of accident in
surance had fallen a few days behind
in his preniinm, but oiin afternoon a
relative brought in the tmaH amonnt
and obtained a receipt for it. Thut day
tho insured was crippled in a street car
accident in Coluinlms, and it was of
conrso claimed thut tho premium was
paid before the accident took place.
The facts were distinctly favorable to
tho injured men, fcr investigation
proved that there were two street car
accident at about tho same place the
same day, two or three people being in
jured in each accident. The police
records threw no light on tne subject.
and the man appeared to have been
taken away by his friends. There was
littlo doubt that the premium was paid
between the two accidents, though there
waM much difficulty in fixing the exact
time.
It was finally ascertained thnt a tele
gram had been sent from Columbus an
hour after tho first accident asking to
have the premium paid, and this cir
cmustnnce was in itself so suspicious
thst payment f the benefit was refused.
A compromise was finally agreed to.
but considerably later two witnesses
were found to prove that the man was
hurt in tho first accident, so that if the
premium was paid in consequence of
the telegram fraud was evidently con
templated. But for the difficulty in
proving tho exact hour of payment tho
claim would not have been seriously
considered. As it was, however, tho
applicant's caso was on the face of it
umto a strong one.
Every one has heard of tho man who
had been reported as dead, and whose
friends had collected the insurance, in
dulging too freely in whisky and mak
ing a complaint to tho insurance com
pany that tho money had not been fair
ly divided. Instances in which money
has been claimed on account of the
death of people still living are much
more numerous than is generally be
lieved. In one case an Ohio stockman
carrying an accident policy for f 10,000
took some stock to New York. On the
return trip ho disappenied from tho
train while it was crossing a bridge.
and his bat being subsequently recov
ered it was contended that he had fallen
off and had been drowned in the river.
The company took advantage of the 00
day rule and then offered to pay the
money if a bond were put np to cover
the amount. The neighbors of the wid
ow fixed np an irreproachable bond, and
the money was paid.
The company was by no means con
vinced that the man was dead, and ar
rangements were made to have the
widow watched. Three years elapsed,
and tho instance was well nigh forgot
ten, when a dispatch was received to
the effect that the lady was disposing
of her furniture and evidently about to
move. A detective was employed to
keep track. Tho family went to Chi
cago, and the detective followed. Aft
er a day's delay they took a train for
the northwest, the detective also on the
train. Away cat in the wilds of Mon
tana the family alighted at a small sta
tion, where ft was warmly welcomed
by the long lost stockman who was
promptly put under arrest. The bonds
men were good for the monej-, and on
this occasion the compan1 attained no
loss beyond the expense Aocorred in the
watching. New Orleans Times Dome-
crat. -
American ptunps are known In China
and Japan, as well as in all pacts of
S'TiE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM. !
Bvaa a Scleatlata Pea Case Aaeqaatoly
Desert be Its Traaaraadcsa rll.a.
That apace is not void ia conceded.
That it is filled with a medium capable
of transmitting light and heat ia net
questioned. This medium is believed
to 1 uniform in density and elasticity,
but the exact nature of its constitution
in unknown. Some believe it to be
molecular, like gas, w hile 'others ques
tion if its structure has been correctly
defined. - It makes no direct impression
upon the senses and 13 known only
through effects produced, and yet, what
ever be its nature, it is known to trans
mit a wave of light at the rate of 80.300
miles per second, there being, as a mean
value, within the spectrum about ".0.000
waves in an inch,or more than 60,000,-
000,000,000,000 in the distance, passed
over in ono second.
When it is considered that waves are
transmitted through this medium in
all conceivable directions with tho same
velocity, some faint conception may be
had of its intense activity. The com
plicity of the waves is transcendent, for
each shade of light has its own wave
length, there being about 36,000 waves
to the inch in red light and more than
64,000 in violet, and outside the visible
spectrum there ore less in number in
one direction and more in the other.
Every self luminous body in the uni
verse is imparting to this medium waves
of these varying lengths all traveling
with a sensibly constant velocity.
When it is considered that the count
less number of stars and sens, scattered
promiscuously throughout limitless
space, are producing such waves, radi
ating from each in all possible direc
tions, it would seem that if they did not
actually destroy each other they would
so interfere as to produce "confusion
worse confounded, " and the impressions
upon tho eyo of an observer would be
valueless. Rut, on tho contrary, the
scientist believes that this medium truly
and faithfully transmits to tho remotest
space every wave imparted to it, pre
serving with the strictest integrity its
individuality except that planets and
other solid. Indies may destroy tho waves
they intercept.
A star ton or more years ago started
a wave which just now, we will snp-
posc. arrives ct the earth and writes its
own record on some sensitized plutes,
though tho star may be 6,000,000,000,-
000 miles away. From theso impres
sions the physicist finds perhaps that
tha star is double, although the most
powerful telescope had failed to divide
it; that the two revolve about each
other, and he determines their probable,
orbit, masses and velocities. Or perhaps
be finds, as in the remarkable star of
1802, that it changes from a star to a
nebula in a few months. In all this no
question is raised in regard to tha in
tegrity of the recoid, nor whether in its
long journey any planet, 6un, comet,
meteorite or nebula has interfered to
modify or in any way corrupt the atory
it was commissioned to tell.
What faith! But this is littlo more
than the shadow of an illustration, for
Herschel, the astronomer, thonglit 'it
probable that we can see nebuhe from
which it has taken light COO, 000 years
to reach the earth, during whicli ' tini'o
the interstellar medium has been faith
ful in transmitting at tho rate of more
than 11,000.000 miles per minute tho
impulse committed to it, notwithstand
ing its path has been crossed and re-
crossed by other waves without number.
Pen cannot adequately describe the
transcendent properties of this wonder
ful medium called the "luminiferons
ether" nor too highly exalt that faith
which enables one to implicitly believe
the truthfulness of the stories commit
ted to him. Ono is led to exclaim with
the psalmist: "O Lord, how manifold
are thy works. In wisdom thou host
made them alL Science.
A Great Invention.
"I have here," began the energetic
man as he bundled into the young law
yer's office, "the greatest invention of
the age. .
It was cases that the lawyer wan;d.
not inventions, and he said something
rather rude, but the energetic man
proved to be a philosopher and merely
smiled.
"I call it," pursued tho visitor, "the
eternal "kisser, because there is simply
no end to the kisses it bestows. It is
this." He hauled out a spray of mis
tletoe covered with white berries. This
interested tho young lawyer, who raised
his evebrows inquiringly.
"Mistletoe," proclaimed the agent,
"is very scarce this year, and a bunch
containing a score of lierries would
bankrupt a poor man. Now, this groat
invention brings happiness within reach
of all. Tradition permits you a ki-ss for
each and every berry, you know. You
hold this spray above your lieloved's
head so. ou bend so and kiss her.
Then you grab a berry so and pull it
presto, it flies back again in place.
The leaves and berries are india rubber,
sir, and twodid you say? Fifty cents
Thank you, sir. Good day." Harper "
Magazine.
Craasrcada Bartala.
Formerly it was a general custom to
erect ctosses at the jun-tiaa-tf.-our
crossroads on a place self consecrated ac
cording to tho piety of the age. Suicides
and notoriously bad characters were
frequently buried near to these, not
with the notion of iudigtuty, but in a
spirit of charity that, being excluded
from holy rites, they by being buried at
crossroads might be in places next lu
sanctity to ground actually consecrated.
Westminster Gazette.
Btttokad.
A Texas clerjrynian who ran as the
Democratic congressional candidate iu
that state two yours ago was once in
terruutcd in the midst of a public pray
er by a man who shouted, " Louder 1"
Be stopped short, looked at the inter
rupter and said coolly: "I wasn't ad
dressing you. sir. . I was addressing
the Almighty." Then he went on with
his prey 01;. Texas Sittings.
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
Cotaaiblaa Souvenirs.
When the Columbian year is passed,
we will all begin to wish to possess some
thing to recall this historic time. Only
a few of us have the souvenir silver half
dollars, but almost anybody can obtaic
canceled Columbian postage stamps, aaJ
of these a very pretty souvenir can b
made. The more denominations you can
collect the better, both for the sake of
appearance and value.
Soak the stamps for a few minutes
in very hot water, so that they can be
easily removed from the envelope, and
then let them dry. (jet a queer shaped
bottle or a common earthen vase of
some pretty form and gild the inside of
the neck. Then paste the stamps neatly
on tne vase in "rows of brick" fashion.
so that the entire surface of the vase is
covered. Use a separate denomination
for each row, being cartful to combine
the colors of the different rows so that
they look well together.
Another way, which you may perhaps
prefer, is to gild the whole vaso and ar
range a design of stamps in contrasting
colors in tho center, with a border of
them at the top and bottom. Ativ boy
or girl who lias ever been to a kinder
garten will be able to make a good de
sign for this decoration.
A plaque can lie decorated in the
same manner, starting the pattern from
the center and allowing it to spread out-
Trard like a star. Boston Herald.
Bow the Clover Co to lied.
The great round sun i- sleepy
Anil wants to iru to bed:
So he hides his lace so shiuy
Ik-hind a kerchief red.
Then all the link- clovers
That dot the vclvot lawn
Boirin to nod their tiny heads
And tie their liiffhtcups on.
Tho moon eorors up a-tiptoe
To kUs tiie (icars pood uhrht.
And she brings a iiulc cloudlet
To shield their eyt Irani liht.
Good niuht, yoa winsome clovera.
All snns in prnsFj- bcib-;
You'll dream of bleepy bumblebees
Who sing about your heads.
L. F. Chittenden.
Ves For Kites.
Strangely enough the kite, that favor
ite play tiling every boy brings out in the
spring, is being tried in experiments for
saving ships in a wreck off shore, the
kite to carry the rope from ship to shore
or shore to ship. Some one the other
day, by using two strings to a kite and
so guiding it, were able to have the kite
drag them in a wagon. Perhaps it will
be by means of this little plaything, aft
er all, that some day we go sailing over
the clonus in one of the airships all of us
have dreamed about. Is e w York World.
Eugenie of Battenber-g.
Here is a picture representing the lit
tle Princess Victoria Eugenie of Batten-
berg, whose sixth birthday occurred on
Oct. 21, in the arms of the queen s faith
ful Indian attendant and secretary, the
Munshi Abdul Karim. From her earliest
infancy, says "Lady's Pictorial," the lit
tle princess has been an object of affec
tionate respect to Abdul Karim, whose
kindly disposition has had much to do
with the queen's partiality for him. Her
majesty is constantly finding some new
occasion of showing her regard for her
oriental attendant, the latest mark of
her favor being to give him and his wife'
a pretty cottage and garden at Frogmore
for their occupation. As the cottage is
within a stone s throw of Frogmora,
House the children of Princess Henry
of Eattenberg will have their dusky
friend quite at their beck and call, and
will be able to exercise over bun that
childish despotism to which he, like
Bscst strong men, is so ready to ssbnat. J
What is
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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infanta
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nvc
other Narcotic substance It is a harmless substitnt
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, nnd Castor Oil
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee Is thirty years two by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allaya
fcvcrlshncss. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Cord,
cures Diarrhoea and AVInd Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is the Children's Panacea tho Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
"Caistorfc Is an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children."
Da. O. C Osooon,
IaOweL, Ilaaa.
" Castoria Is the best remedy for children of
which I .m acquainted. I hope the day is not
fm- distant when mothers will consider the real
Interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead 01 thPTarkmsqnack nostrums hich ara
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves."
Da. J. F. Koicncr oc
Conway, Ark.
Tha Ceatanr Company, T7
A HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TQ
SHAVE WITH."
APOLIO
IS THE PROPER THING
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BALD
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harsh, brittle? Does it split at the ends? Has it a
lifeless appearance? Does it fall out when combed or
brushed ? Is it full of dandruff ? Does your scalp itch ?
Is it dry or in a heated condition? If these are some of
3 our symptoms be warned ia time oryoa will become baKL
Skookum Root Hair Grower
Is whatyon need. Tt prodnctlr not an aecMent. toot the remit of adestifla
wca. Knowieace cr tne dlvasep 01 tne cair ana scalp led to toe disco.
erj ft how to trt-iit t'n-Tru "Skootnm "contains neither minerals aer oils, ts
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OUii tieroy tiC .air.
It Tour drucTist essent nnfiWnm Rrfirf itaetn. -mil m .111 AimmI
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Heating and Ventilating Engineers,
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Telephone Bock Island or Harper Hotels for bns os
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B..P:
Contractor
Office and Shop 325 Eighteenth Street
"AnkMeat
a specialty.
Castoria.
" Castoria Is so arell adapted to duVtraa feat
I recommend it aaiuperiorkanyrreaorlpttaS
known to me." '
H. A. Aacasa, K. Ot
Hi So. Oxford St., Broaklya, X. X
0:r physicians ia tha children'
incnt have spoken highly of then 1
ence in their outsde practice withCaatonB,
and although we only aa among- ear
medical supplies vhat is known aa legalar
products, yet we are free to oonfeaa taaa
meriu of Castoria baa woa aa la look M
favor n:ioa it."
Usitbd Hosrrrati m Disranurr,
Alleh C Surra, JYrx.,
Murray Street, Kaw Tarlt City.
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