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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-27
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Failure of Ave Banks in
Chicago.
Extraordinary Efforts To
Avert a general Smash. 80 80
The Police in New York
charge upon the Stock
Gamblers.
They are driven from the
Street.
Jay Cookies statement oi
his condition.
They are driven from the
Street.
jay Cookies statement of
his condition.

Failures in various Places.
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A. L. LOGAN & CO., Publishers.
Post oface Boz, s7s7, st, Louis,
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Or. GoTTL-E3 TIscE's B+TTL IS.

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ST. Philadelphia, Pa For sale IN Rock Island ny
Smith 4 Bonney-
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Our prices are the lowest aud designs
the choicest, aud our stock complete in all
the different makes and grades The lar
gsst and most complete stock of
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Another Dishonest Repub-
lican omce-holder.
Burning of one span of the
R. r Bridge at Omaha.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-The following is a
list of the banks in this city which tempo
rarily suspended this morning, and will be
closed until there is a let-up in the curren-
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To-1AT'S ADVERTISEMENT IS.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-07-09
JEFFERgON'S TEN RULES.

Jefferson's ten rules are good yet,
especially for those who have the
training of the pupils of our public
schools They are so short and con-
else, and embody so much of value,
that it would be well if they were
printed in very bold type and put
where we could see them often. They
read as follows:
l. Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
8. Never spend your money before
you have it,
4. Never buy what you don't want
because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent Of having
eaten too little.
Z. Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
s. How much pains the evils have
cost us that have never happened?
8. Take things always by the
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten; very
angry, count hundred.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-07-09
A CURIOUS ExHIRTTION.

A needlework exhibition, got up
by the Princess Christian, Is now in
progress at the South Kensington
Museum in London. 1t has a high
historical interest. No article of later
date than 1900 has been admitted,
and there is no lace or woven tapes
try to be seen. Visitors may here
muse over an embroidered shirt that
belonged to Charles I. of England,
and the mantle he wore on the
scafold at his execution. Then there
is star from a sampler worked in
colored silk by the wife of Charles IL,
on which her loving fingers inscribed:
1.-THE 21st of Maye was pur marriags
daye." Poor Queen Bvt saddest
are the memories awakened of Mary
Queen of Scots. Three relics dis
played at the exhibition attest the
defsness of her fingers. There is a
baby-linen basket, which she worked
for her ungrateful son, James l.; also
work box, representing Jacobs
Dream, done while she was at Holy
rood; and lastly, a beautiful chair
covering and cushion, executed dur
ing her confinement at Fotheringay.
All these memorials belong to Queen
Victoria. 1t seems strange to realize,
as demonstrated to us here, that the
virago Elizabeth once made baby-lin-
en- for sister Mary; eighteen pieces of
her handywork in this line are
shown. There are also various little
toilet articles that belonged to Eliza
beth, such as her night cap, her shoes,
and her pillow case. pin cushion,
and a toilet cover. Silk hangings,
beautiful and fresh, as if just from
the loom, are marked as having deck
ed the bridal bed of Marie Antoinette.
There is q beautiful quilted coverlet,
the property of Anne of Denmark,
and close by are some curtain worked
in worsted by Amy Robsart. Nesdle'
work isnot likely to be so popular with
their grandmothers in olden times.
AS an occupation it is essentially seda-
tive; and we live in a fast and stirring
age. The American maxim ego
ahead" prevails everywhere as q fash
ion. Needlework is a gentle feminine
use of time. It had its advantages.
But it leads itself to gossip quite as
much as to meditation.
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OuR HOMES.

There exists very beautiful ideal
Of what home should be, but some
how men and women have fallen in
to the habit of showing the world
their best side of exerting themselves
to be amiable and agreeable to people
who care the least for them; while to
those to whome their interests, honor
and happiness are of vital concern,
they display all their most unholy
and disagreeable traits
Some men use their homes as es-
eape-valves for all the ill-humor gen.
Grated by friction with the world. 1t
will not do to storm and fume at that
but at home-ah, there one has g
right to do as he has a mind to! 1t
Is his home, and he is bound to have
his own way there, which be un-
doubtedbly could-only there hap
pens to be one or more others there
intent upon the same thing. And by
the way, this ''having ones own wayh
is very difficult thing in world like
this, where every life is so linked
with every other life.
There are woman, too, set down in
the calender of the world as patterns
of amiability, whose home temper is
q sad commentary upon the wisdom
of the worlds Judgment! There are
softly modulated and lady-like voices,
the charm Of the social circle, which
ip the privacy of their houses break
out in irritating taunts and angry re-
torts. There are Every nice women
who destroy all the sweetness and
blessedness of their household by
loud and continual scolding, frettings
and fault-findings. There are broth
ers who are chivalrous and devoted to
other peoples sisters, but who at
home tease and trouble their own.
There are charming yoang ladies fan
cied by some infatuated young men
to be angels, who are stubborn, self
willed and indolent at home, where
they should be most agreeable. The
true meaning of home is not a place
to go only when you feel hungry and
cross; where you can wear your
worst coat and your worst temper %
The home Is undervalued, and its
sweetness and sanetity highly desc
Grated ; it should correspond with the
beautiful ideal one, which we all ven
crate, where all baser passions are
subdued and controlled by sweet az
fection, tenderness and patience. II
is where the wife prefers TO stay
above all other places; place that i
never lonely to her, for the innumer-
able blessings that hover around it;
where the shadow of solitude is light.
ened by the halo Of quiet love; where
the hearth is always bright, and the
r00mS tidu and ohaarfI1I and wbare
the wife spends her afternoons, u
and the husband his evening" p
These are the shrines to which the
absent and weary will turn with long.
ing for rest and peace Exchange. I
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TIE ALTITUDE AT WHICH MEN
CAN LIVE.

There has been a great deal of dis
cussion as to the altitude at which
human beings can exist, and Mr..
Glaisher himself can tell US as much
about it as anybody. In July, 1Sf2,
he and Mr.. Coxwen assembled in a
balloon to the enormous elevation Of
G7 900 feet. Previous to the start,
Mr.. Glaisher's pulse stood at seventy
six beats a minute; Coxwell's at sew
enty-four. At 1900 feet, the pulse
of the former was at eighty-four !
that of the latter at 100. At 1900
feet Glaisher's hands and lips were
quite blue, but not his face. AT 2l,-
600 feet he heard his heart beating, and
his breathing became oppressed at
q. 900 he became senseless; notwtth-
standing which the eronaut, in the
interests of science, went up another
s, 900 feet, till he could no longer use
his hands, and had to pull the strings
of the valve with his teeth. Hron-
auts who have to make no exertions
have, of course, a great advantage
over members Of the Alpine Club,
and those who trust their legs even
at I3, 600 feet these climbers feel very
uncomfortable, more so in the Alps,
it seems, than elsewhere. AT the
monastery of st. Bernard, SLY feet
high, the monks become asthmatic,
and are compelled frequently to de-
scend into the Valley of the Rhone
for-anything but "a breath of fresh
air ~ and at the end OF ten years' ser
vice are obliged to give up their high
living. and come down to the usual
level At the same time, in South
America, there are towns (such as
PotosD placed as high as the top OF
Mont Blanc, the inhabitants Of which
feel no inconvenience. The highest
inhabited spot in the world is, how
ever the Buddhist cloister OF Hanle,
in Tibet, where twenty-one priests
live at an altitude Of 16, 800 feet. The
Brothers Scglagintweit, when they ex-
plored the glaciers of the lbi-Gamln
III the same country, encamped at II
900 feet, the highest altitude at which /
q European ever passed the night.
Even at the top Of Mont Blanc, Prof.
Syndall's guides found it very un-
pleasant to do this, though the Pro-
lessor himself did not confess to feel.
ing SO bad as they. The highest
in the world is Mount Ev-
crest (Himalaya,) 29,0O3 feet, and the
condor has been seen "winging the
blue air'' 500 feet higher. The air,
by the by, is not "blue," or else, as
De Saussure pointed out, "the distant
which are covered with
snow, would appear blue also ~ its
apparent color being due to the re-
fieetion Of light. What light can do,
and does, is marvellous; and not the
least is its power Of attraction to hu-
manity.-ChdBlber's Journal.
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WORK As THE FASHION.

If to labor be to pray, as the old
menkish apothegm declares, this is
surely mostIprayerful age. That Ia
Dor is meIitOrious and laudable, has
long been a sentiment; but it is little
more than within this generation
that the sentiment has been generally
and practically adopted. Singularly
strange 1t is that what almost every
body claims to believe should be, in
fact, so slowly accepted. Medical his
tory teaches us that those nations
were most prosperous that held work
to be honorable, and proved by deed
the sincerity Of their holding. The
Republics Of Genoa and Venice gain
ed their supremacy and highest glory
by their widespread commerce, in
which the first men of the State were
engaged, and were justly proud Of
such engagement
All the world over the men who
work are the men who win. 1t has
always been so, and always will be.
They who despise labor despise them
selves. The drones in the hive of hu-
manity are stung TO spiritual death
by consciousness of their own folly.
Still, in the face of self-enforced NOR
ais, Of indisputable facts, there have
been, and there are, men and women
claiming distiction because they do
Notwithstanding idleness to be an
honor. Because they are Zeros they
fancy they make figure in the world,
forgetful that zerOs add naught to the
sum of progress or prosperity. For
tunately, and fitly in this era of un-
common sense, rarer than genius
always, the conceited do-nothings are
disappearing fast by moral law,
too, since Nature does not keep what
she does not need. The days of Show
and Sham, of Title and Theory, are
rapidly passing. Civilization has
come to mean reason, truth, practi-
cality. This generation says to every
man; "I care not who you are; but
what can you do2 If idle and inet1-
cient, stand aside for your hetter; for
they are your betters who can and
will work. L judge each and all by
their labor and its fruits ?n
Work, in a word, has become the
fashion-a fashion set ages ago, but
never largely followed until now.
Antecedents and ancestors and au.
tbority no longer count, even in oil
garchies, unless sustained by acts.
The governing heads of the globe
have active brains and busy hands.
Only to the striving and strenuous
are the badges of distinction given.
Only to those who are up and doing,
come the early and the full rewards.
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GOOD ADVICE TO. YOUNG DOC.
TORS

Professor L. P. Yandelps Valedic-
tory Address to the graduates of the
Louisville Medical School. gives,
among other items, the following adj
vice about the treatment of the sick (:
"In all things study the quiet, the
ease, the enjoyment of your patients.
Give them abundant fresh air and ice
and cold water and fruit, when they
desire such things. As to food, obey
their appetites. Hunger and thirst
have been well styled our physical
conscience % which in the sick room
is never to be disregarded. They are
safer guides in respect to diet and
drink than can be found in all our
medical philosophy. They make
known to US what the living organ
ism needs. Whatever sick people
have a true desire for they ought,
therefore, to be INDUCED in When
your little patients have been sick 9
long time, and have become anemic
and emaciated, 1t may be for want of
proper food, have them carried to the
table, and allow them to indicate by
signs, if they have no words. what
their systems require to build them
up dSdlus 'LuldulS SullCI SIedb uAStIcSS
whenIill, on account of thirst, which
they have no way of making known
to you except by their means and
cries. You will often be delighted to
see how instantly their plants cease
on your giving the little sufferers q
drink of cold water. Dismiss from
your minds, then, and everywhere
discountenance the absurd notion
that cold drinks can ever be injurious
to the sick. Avoid noise in the sick
room. Whispering, too, should be
discountenanced. The attention oi
patients is attracted by it, and they
are annoyed and fatigued by the effort
to hear. Some of my colleagues
whisper that this is especially the
case with lady patients AS a gener.
al rule, you may safely trust the feel
ings of convalescents in regard tC
sitting up:and taking exercise as vel
as in reference to diet. Ina word, you
can scarcely consult the inclinations
of the sick too far, except as to physic,
of which, Of course, they know moth
| ing.u
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LEI SHOULD DIE TO.NIGHT.. III

III should die tonight, ll 80
Ny friends would look upon my quiet face
Before they laid It In its resting place,
And deem that death had left almost fair;
And. laying SLOW white flowers against my
Would smooth It down with fearful ten
And fold my hands with lingering caress,
Poor hands. so empty and so cold Tonight
II I should die tonight,
MY friends would call to mind, with loving
thought. r.. :
Some kindly deed the icy hand had
wrought; tnr
Some gentle word the frozen lips had sid !;
Ei- EErands on which the willing feet had sped,
Inc memory of my selhshness and pride,
Ny hasty words. would all be put aside,
night. =
III should die tonight, -nl
Even hearts enstranged would turn once
Recalling other days remorsefully: .f~
The eyes that chill me with q vorted glance
Would look upon me as of yore, perchance,
And soften In the old, familiar way. l
For who could war with dumb, uncon-
So I might rest. forgiven Of all, tonight.
Oh, friends, I pray tonight,
Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold
The way is lonely. let me feel them now,
Think gently OF me; am travel worn,
My faltering feet are pierced with many
Forgive, oh. hearts estranged, I pleadI
When dreamless rest is mine I shall moi
The tenderness for which I long tonight.
lbs, in Christian Union. -rl
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INDIANA YIGILANTS.

NEW ALBANY, IND. June %. South
ern Indiana has witnessed another
midnight execution, and another
murderer has received short shrifi
and Justice at the end of hempen
rope. On the 18th of June, DeloS
Heffren, noted bully, desperate ane
the terror of Washington County,
deliberately shot a Frenchman by the
name of Halstead, in broad day light,
! in the streets of Salem, and after
shooting him to death, held him up
in his arms until his brains were beat.
en- out with the but of a pistol. In
tense excitement followed the COM
mission of the brutal murder, which
did not confine itself 10 Washington
county, but spread to the adjoining
counties, and threats of hanging Hef-
fren had been freely made.
Quietly plans were matured, and
yesterday the town was filled with
people, ostensibly to view the, per-
formanoe of a circus, bus really deter
mined that justice in a mask and
cowl should consign HeHren to that
doom which he so richly merited.
After the night performance silence
brooded over the town till ] O'Clock,
when apparently by preconcerted
signal, the streets leading to the Jail
were filled by crowd of quiet, reso-
Lutte men, who proceeded to the resi-
dence of the Deputy Sheriff, which
adjoined the Jail and demanded
the keys, which being refused, he was
Overpowered and confined, but would
not disclose where the keys were
placed. A sledge hammer was then
procured and the doors of the Jail
were demolished.
When Heffren's cell was reached,
they found him standing at the door
with a piece of the bedstead in mis-
hand, like lion at bay. This, for
moment, caused the vigilants to halt,
but, throwing lighted turpentine
balls in his cell, so that he could be
easily seen, firing from revolvers was
opened upon him. At length he fell,
wounded in three places, when the
crowd rushed in, seized and bound
him, and hurried him away in the
darkness to the railroad bridge, where
producing the rope procured for the
purpose, Heffren was ordered to pre-
pare to meet his victim in another
world, and was pushed or thrown
from the bridge. Having completed
their work, the vigilants released the
Deputy Sheriff and town patrolmen,
whom they had seized, and quietly
left the town. The body was left
hanging until o'clock this morning,
when Heffren's. friends took charge
Of it. -trr
1t is supposed that the same vigil |
ance committee that hung the RenOs
years since assisted in the |
Hefffen.
Delos Heffren was Assistant Secre-
tary of State under the Willard Ad-
and at that time no
young man stood higher in the con-
idence of the people, but of late years
he has been the proprietor of a lew
ioggery in Salem. and almost con-
Itantly engaged in 'disgraeeful brawls
md fights. -Four years ago he killed
William johnson, but was acquitted,
t is said, by a packed and venal jury.
lie was brother of Horace Hetfren,
# the Sons of Liberty notoriety, and
'nce prominent politician of South
rn Indiana.
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Whole No. 1862

The fireworks were still going
Walcutt. looked at the Ridiculous
scene and laughed. 1t was burning
ms carriage; but he couldn't help
IaQgnlng, and showed himself to be a
Ols u1t.'34 q phlIosopher by saying he
mig as Well laugh as cry. The sup
posltlon Is that bottle was broken
IN tne carriage when the horses were
tunnlng, which would naturally in.
crease the facilities for fire comnuni-
eA9oh. While the driver eontempIa-
ssu ss tne scene, and fiattered himself
eeat ne ana Keliar had better view
9I tne nare up than their passen0ers
Ssa Sam Flemlng came running IN With
Mule spots Of half smotbered and
sIholderlng fire on his clothes and
commenced throwing mud on the
carnage, he had jumped ont abonf
tWo hundred and fifty vards 6ocE
ana was the only man whom the S-i,,
We. yer saw going out and. aItbouob tba
iass 70 geS OUT, was the least i6inred
OF tne three who were insido n ~
seemed % leap forth from 4 svv;ft1v %
moving naHof fire, which had ! co1,o'-
es tall behind, owing to the fiiSbS Of
me horses II the flames 6aS not
3ssl gesn carried back by the wind 1be
urtVer would have been driva-, f.-,,, -
nls seat: His loss will he San6 '-'-A
tleming Sreported thst IvaLh
lumped1out half mile bsck TIo T6o
Two naekmen and Flep,ir0 sta-ta,1
2aek expecting to find Webb and
Huston sitting along the .roadsids ,i.
laugnlng az the absurdity of the sifY1.
ation. But they met a man who fofd
them Webb was dangerousIv bnrnsJ mn I'D
anu tnat ne was following to pick mn
osneLS VINO might possibly be wound.
eu. Ine stranger turned bacir and
T1ynu1cted TSylVed the men to a housa vbera
Neop was stretched on his bactr
WI WIN scarcely & stitch of cIotbino On
ms oody. Huston did nor annes- - -
oe SO oadiy burned, but he was snffar.
ing severely and bore mn, s,,nJa- -
rlgnt well until he got, homa Wahb
~ y " izeu 81 tne driver, and asked him
~ ~ g3tot some so whisky. Walcutt rode
UoI'u ~, " .!DIgeloW,s, mile or so tow
aIu als ene eicys and Bigelow wouIdn't
let lin nave any. He got a quart at
anOsnen place two hundred and fiftv
YARDS nearer, town, and started hack
Dus op. tne way he met a wagon COM
ing toward the city with the unfortu-
naTs @ men, and came back with il.
Inc men were taken to MeneeIyIz.
and from thence Huston went to his
4 nomeon Sonth street, ip w. n. Hem
derson, 3 carriage pretty well exhaust
eu- Mepp was taken to the Ameri-
can douse at 4, o'clock a. m. and
piaced IN room los, where Drs. Flow
ers and Kfnsell were called. and did
an that could be done TO save life. but
4 sne unfortunate sufferer died before
moon. Ills wife and 'ohild-aeed six
OF seFen-and his father and friends
were notified in the morning. and
were present when life, ceased to ex-
! 1st; The deceased was nos Conscious
l much after daylight. The physicians
7 were satisfied that the case was hope
less fromfhe beginning. The sad end
OF this unfortunate exnberanee of nat
rl9Ilsm has taken away a good heart
-ed man. man. one whose faults, if he had
any, were against himself.
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MIRRORS

To the inherent vanity of the hu.
man race must doubtless be attributed
the invention of artificial Mirrors
In the primitive ages of the world,
| tranquil lakes and springs furnished
natural rejecting surfaces for the
qualification of this passion, bat ad-
vancing civilization suggested 3 more
convenient agent for its indulgence.
The Introduction of mirrors is as
cribed to the Egyptians, with whom
originated so many appliances of con-
veniences and luxury.
For many centuries mirrors were
manufactured exclusively from the
various metals, skilfully elaborated
and highly polished, copper being
first used for this purpose. They were
fashioned into spherical shapes and
united to handles highly finished,
either with attractive representa-
tions or with frightfully repulsive
figures, which would, by contrast,
heighten the attractiveness of an OBJ
servers features. In process of time
tin and lead were combined with cop
per in their construction, and subse-
quently silver was substituted, and
in the fourth century (B. CO., mirrors
manufactured from the latter metal
were in very general use among the
Greeks and Romans, constituting an
extensive branch of industry. Glass
was substituted during the second
century, but, for some reason unaseer-
tanned, the use of this substance APP
pears to have been abandoned, as wri-
ters make no further allusion to glass
mirrors until the thirteenth century.
In the sixteenth century the Vene-
tians introduced the art of manufac-
turing mirrors by coating glass with
a composition of tin foil and mercury,
and SO successful was their enter
prise that, at the present day, no
marked or substantial improvement
has been made upon the process they
originated. Though many inven-
tions of new methods have been in
trodueed, and numerous improve
ments suggested, such as precipitating
silver, gold and platinum upon glass,
yet the process of the artists OF Venice
still holds its place on account of the
cheapness and durability of the coat
ing and the brilliancy of the relec-
ton.