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'4 THE ARGUS, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1900. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1624 Pecond avenue. Rock Island, I1L En tered at the postoffice aa second-class matter. By THE J. W. POTTER CO. I ....... I niemner 01 an me Masonic oouies anu was at one time commander in chief of Freeport Consistory. He was also prominent in Odd Fellowship. DAILY. STOllY TERMS " raJly, 10 cents per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. All communications of argumentative character, political or religions, must bave real name attached for publics. tlon. No such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Correspondence solicited from every township In Rock Island county. TRADES IARM COUNCIL -Saturday, Nov. 24, '1906. It is a. simple problem: Get tracks and you get the factories. the "The hope of the democracy in this crisis is William Jennings Bryan." says the Boston Traveler. The Atlanta Journal says that the arrival of the president at Colon was the nearest he will ever. come to a full stop. The president has finally added the royal touch to his dramatic voyage by riding across Porto Rico' in the Infanta Eulalie's old automobile. Boston can relinquish lier proud claim as the hub of real Americanism after having named one of her public ways Avenue ties Louis Pasteur. Washington Post: "There is enough gas in a man." says a prominent chem ist, "to fill a gasometer of 3.C40 feet." Needless to say this conclusion was ar rived at during some heated political campaign. The Trans-Mississippi congress com mittee at Kansas City first turned down Hon.William J.Bryan's resolutions.onein the interest of universal peace among nations and the other for eternal war on the common enemy, the trusts and then the congress adopted them. What made the committee hesitate in the first place. Rev. E. B. Real, an 81-year-old super annuated Methodist preacher of Rog ers, Ark., announces his intention to marry Mrs. Jane Salisbury, a buxom widow of 51. His relatives objected to the union on the ground that the old gentleman was "in feeble health and not able to marry." They applied for an injunction restraining Mr. Real from entering into the holy bonds and the court has decided in their favor. Tbe Pace of Living. The pace of living in the United States seems to be getting faster. That it is the country's golden age of over indulgence has been nowhere better illustrated than in statistics furnished by the department of commerce and labor. It is found that the value of luxuries imported into the United States for the fiscal year reached the astonishing figure of $100,000,000. To bacco, cigars and cigarets were brought into the country to the extent of $25, 000,000, which is more than double the importation of 10 years ago. The same figures show that opium smoking has largely increased, and, to crown this evidence of our running, dia monds worth $40,000,000 passed through the customs last year, as compared with only. $75,000 worth a decade ago, Perhaps there may be some of the trials and temptations which the young er Rockefeller advises his bible class must be expected with the flush of tri umphant prosperity. It is encouraging to believe that most of us- can be trusted to meet them as mere temptations and overcome them for the general good. A NEW ADAM AND EVE. The New York magistrate who soak ed the world's greatest tenor, Enrico Caruso, for indecent conduct in the presence of women and children in Central park, and for insulting women, did his duty. The fact that the penalty will be the seclusion and disgrace and the wrecking of a brilliant career, counts for nothing against the debt that has been paid to decency. The duty to society goes before the duty to art. One crime leads to another. Benson, the man who robbed the Ladd. 111., bank, says he began his vicious career by being enticed to gamble. The game was poker, and he became a devotee. It grew to a passion and finally a crime. He was drawn on from one villainy to another, until he finally ended up by robbing a bank, for which he will go to the penitentiary. Beware of gam bling and gamblers. The gambling den should have painted in plain letters over Its doorway. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." To Check Fire Ltosses. Organized effort on a large scale to reduce fire kisses is represented in the International Society if Building Com mi.ssioners and Inspectors of Washing ton, D. C, which has just held its third annual election and issued a report of its progress. Free advice on the sub ject of fire prevention is offered "to any municipality or individual having their own corporate or his personal in terest enough at heart to ask for it." The society is composed of the chief officers of the building departments of the large cities. Nearly every impor tant city in the country is represented as well as many cities in Europe, some 3f the members being from England Austria and Mexico. Its work is direct ed by one of the best known consulting architects and authorities on fire pre vention in the United States. Through the society's efforts many cities have already been induced to improve their building laws. The so ciety is also trying to get municipal! ties to lower taxation on fireproof build ings, while placing the maximum as sessments on fire traps which are a menace and the protection of which in volves big expense to every large city. Statistics show that year by year half as much property is burned up in this country as is added. The average an nual fire loss is now $200,000,000; this year it will exceed $500,000,000. The International Society of Building Com missioners. and Inspectors was formed to carry on a campaign of education whereby the public will become thor oughly familiar with what constitutes fireproof construction and the need that exists for it. Governor-elect James H. Higgins of Rhode Island, 30 years of age, is the youngest governor of the smallest state. Higgins is popular in the extreme, and even his political enemies have for him only respect. His habits are ex emplary and he uses neither tobacco nor intoxicants in any form. His fath er died when he was 13, and he had a hard struggle to educate himself and assist, in supporting his mother and two younger brothers. He is the first Roman Catholic governor of any New Englan 1 state. A respected citizen of Freeport and a man prominent In Illinois history passed away in the death yesterday of Hon. Edward I... Cronkrite. He was former mayor of Freeport and for six terms a member of the Illinois legis lature, being democratic caucus nom inee for speaker at the time of the historic fight between Logan and Mor rison for the United States senator ship. Mr. Cronkrite was one of the oldest merchants in northern Illinois and was always active in public af fairs, serving the community In anv position to which he was called. Al-j though he had occupied many import-' ant offices, he accepted the post of! county supervisor at the request of the citizens and held the place at the tlmo' of his death. During the Logan and! Morrison contest for the senatorship Mr. Cronkrite was a conspicuous fig-,' ure at Springfield. As leader of the democratic wing and nominee of his party caucus for speaker, he acquiesed in the naming of Elijah M. Haines, an independent for temporary speaker to secure his support. Mr. Cronkrite was at one time democratic nominee for state treasurer of Illinois. He was a IN THE SUBURBS. MILAN. Miss Clara Fisher of Sears returned home last week after an extended visit in New York. The Misses Margaret Medill, Parrot, and Rice, teachers of the Moline schools, spent Sunday at the home of Miss Me- dill's brother in Milan. Mr. and Mrs. William Mosher are visiting friends and relatives in Iowa. C. H. Smith, who has been ill, is again able to be at work. Beth Heath of Davenport was visit ing relatives in Milan this week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Criswell spent a lew days at tne home or Mrs. Cris well's parents in Reynolds. Ciare Baugh of Cambridge visited friends in Rock Island and Milan this week. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Taylor have moved into one of the Sears houses on West Dickson street. Mrs. Sandy Bingham of Bowling vis ited her mother, Mrs. Robert Adams, in Milan the latter part of the week. ira .ann returned tnis week from a business trip to South Dakota. Johy Kyte, who, with his wife, is vis iting friends in Milan and Sears, has been taken sick with pneumonia at the home of E. Crouch, his uncle, in Sears. Fred Kyte returned to his home in Battle Creek, Mich., after being called here by the death of his grandfather. Gives vigor, strength, vitality to your nerves, stomach, and every part of your body. It's easy to take; swal low a little Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea; it does the business. Tea or tab lets, 35 cents. T. H. Thomas' phar macy. A 25c. Bottle 1 femps Balsam Contains , 40 DOSES, And each dose is more effective than four times the same quantity of any other cough remedy, however well advertised and however strongly rec ommended that remedy may be. Remember always that KEMP'S BALSAM is the - - Best Cough" Cure. It has saved thousands from con sumption. It has saved thousands of lives. At all druggists', 25c., COc. and $1. Don't accept anytnlag else Original. The patient was placed upon the op erating table, the surgeon put on an aprou similar to those worn by butch ers, an assistant administered an an aesthetic, while the nurse stood wait ing. As soon as the patient came un der the influence of the drug the sur geon proceeded to open his breast ant; take out a rib that had been so forced out of position by an accident that It endangered the man's life. When the patient came to himself he looked wildly about him. No one waa near except tbe house surgeon and the nurse. "What's all this about?" he asked wonderiugly. "You're all right," replied the doctor. "You've had au accident. We've taken out a rib." "A rib! Out of me?" "Yes. Be quiet. All depends upon your not exciting yourself." The patient closed his eyes and be gau to mutter Incoherently. The doctor looked at the nurse and 8 hook his head. "lie's delirious," he said. The uurae shuddered. Suddenly the patient opened his eyea and. fixing them ou the doctor, said ex citedly: "You say a rib has been taken out of me?" "Yes." "Well?" "Well, what?" "Where's the woman? "What woman?" "What woman! Why. the woman that has Iieeu made out of the rib." The doctor glanced ominously at the nurse, who said nothing, but looked troubled. Surely the man was badly "out of his head." "I say, where's the woman?" repeat ed the patient excitedly. The doctor whispered Mine words iu the nurse's ear, then, pointing to her, said to the patient: "This is the woman. Now go to sleep." The patient stared at the nurse, then went on incoherently: "So you're Eve. are you? Made of a rib taken from my body. We must be married. By the bye. how in thunder did Adam and Eve get married with no one to marry them? Send for a clergy man at once." The nurse drew back. The doctor made an effort to pacify the "patient. but without effect. Theu he took the nurse aside and told her that the man's life depended upon their quieting him, and there seemed to be no way to do en but to yield to his wishes. After some pleading on the doctor's part the girl consented to go turougu a marriage ceremony which he assured her would be meaulngless. An assistant was called In to personate a clergyman, and the doctor led the nurse to the bed. "Are you a real sky pilot?" asked the patient. The man proved a poor liar, and the patient began to rave: "Get out o' here and send a real dominie! Do you think I'm out o mv head to be fooled this wav?" The doctor sent the man away and suggested that they call a clergyman. After all, there was nothing legal about a ceremony with a man who didn't know what he was doing. The patient raved on, and the nnrse finally consented. A real clergyman was called, and the moment the patient looked at him he seemed to be satisfied that he was what he pretended to be. The patient took the nurse's hand, and the cere mony was performed. The moment It was over the would be groom closed his eyes and lay perfectly tranquil. "You've saved his life," said the sur geon to the nurse. "Never fear. There's no danger of your getting into a com plication. I, a physician, was present, and, knowing that the patient's life de pended upon our humoring him. he be ing delirious, I persuaded you to net a part. All this I will put In an affidavit." The nurse did not appear either to fear that the mock marriage niiuht bring her trouble or doubt that the doctor's affidavit would be all she would need to ward it off if it came. Indeed, the doctor in speaking of the matter to the matron told her that It was singular what an effect even the semblance of a marriage would have over a woman. The pretended bride. he said, seemed to be as much affected is if she were going ihrough the real thing. The man minus a rib did not return to his delirium. When the doctor called the next morning and found his mind clear he supposed the patient had for gotten all about the marriage ceremony. "Doctor," he said, "was I delirious yesterday when I came out from the influeuce of ether?" "You were." "Talked about my lost rib being turned into a woman?" "You did." "Insisted on a marriage?" "Yes, and to humor you I persuaded your nurse to play the part of Eve: But it's all right. You needn't worry. It was only a mock marriage." Meanwhile the nurse, who was pres ent, had turned away. Suppose nurse claims it Isn't?" pur sued the patient. "That is ridiculous. But even if she did I would" Nurse," Interrupted the man on his back, "did you Intend to marry me yes terday or not?" The nurse turned, with a smile and a blush. I "I did." I The doctor stared first at one, then at the other. i Oh, that's all right," said the groom.- "We're old spoons." i F. A. MITCHEL. : Health Insurance at little cost SS,000.00 oCcrcd ; fi'i stance injurious to the hci.lth feu ad in Lamnict Bakrac- Povdc ! hits tiC'ft.-Uf ingredients combined by slaheu chemist:;, "-:-''3 k and complies with tho pur food liv.uof lCe i f I ,: - tf all states. 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