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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
How Not to Write Poetry /.

1t is absolutely essential for a poet that
he be natural as well as imaginative. his
pictures must be drawn, not from English
poetry, but from his own observation. The
man who sees his deserted villages and
hears his skylarks and linnets through Gold
smiths eyes or Wordsworth's ears, is but
secondhand poet. The following extract
from an actual letter written in the Office of
the NY. Independent, declining poem from
a not unknown writer, will indicate in a
very concrete form what is this error which
contradicts one of the first canons of poeti-
cal criticism. Be natural:
when you drew picture of forest
haunt in summer, tried to imagine and
see what you described. / immediately
got into confusion. 1t sounded well; but,
botanically, it was all awry. You drew it
from your Imagination or, rather, from
the poetry of your reading, and not from
nature | don't know scenery in your re-
gion very well; but, l. | doubt some
what if the frs, willows, 'aspens' oaks,
and 'dogwood grow together. =. doubt
those daisies in summer on the slope
lJul IL IL pOcolDlCs -. uClC 10 uO hCdhh-
er' in the United States, except very lit
tie in Tewksbury Mass f. If there were
heather on that hillside, it would be a
dry hill, and it would be brake, and not
fern. 5. 'Daffodils do not grow on side
hills or anywhere else except in gardens.
G. OF all green, emerald is the very last
to describe willows, which are a very
light, whitish green. T. 'Dogwood bloom:
in snowy bowers, never in summer only
in early spring S. Your 'woodbine
golden bell may be right if you mean what
is commonly called honeysuckle 9. What
the amber dropped in summer by the pop,
ular il cannot guess" Will some six OF
seven hundred Of our intending pOetica
correspondents please not to read this note
for it is great convenience to u.s. COMPEL
ed, as we are, to decline nearly all thu
poetry sent to us, TO come across such
words as lark, nightingale ''prim
rose, "sloe, heath, ''gorze, or cur
few which invariably suggest the waste
basket
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02

sional interference with the management
and oneration Of railroads whereby Just
and Uniform rates can be obtained, put the
nromiscuous ditch system which Is advo-
Gated with so much warmth and persist
ence by interested parties and ciues,we OBJ
iect TO, if the general government Is to
meddle with it.
We are in favor of the Improvement of
the Mississippi river, because it would
then furnish additional facilities for doing
n freight business, and be in a condition
To compete more successfully with the
railroads. and thus add greatly to the
nrosperity of the West. For the same
reason we are in favor of completing the
last link of the ditch from New York via
Chicago and Hennepin to the Mississippi
at Rock Island. We do not favor a PRO
miscuous ditch system" We ask that
the few miles yet wanting to connect II
upper Mississippi river directly with the
lakes by canal shall be made by the gener-
al government. This canal East from
Rock Island would be SO central to Iowa as
to compete with the railroads doing bust
ness for that State, which cross the State
of Illinois East and West. Iowa does five
times as much business in freight over
these roads as over all other roads ano
rivers put together.
If is right to spend government money
! in improving one route, why not right. t(
spend money by the same power on another
route, over which there is vastly more busl
ness, whether canal or river? The grea
commercial line of this country is from
the Upper Mississippi via Chicago to New
York. The Northwest greatly needs ;
southern outlet by the Mississippi river
and northern route by the lakes. Thes
two routes must be made better ant
cheaper. The only efectual way of doinl
, this, judging the future by the past, is t
make the Mississippi river a good safe nav
igable stream fiom its head waters to tn
gulf, and to make good water route, a
, herein stated, to the East. BY referenc
to map of the Northwestern States,
will be easy to see that the improvement
= of the Illinois river and the extension c
canal to Rock Island will have great Unfit
, ence in reducing the charges upon the raj
roads, and that the people of other State
have an interest IN these Improvement
far greater than their cost, or, liz Othe
!, words,it is much better for the Northwe
that the general government make thes
improvements than to do without them.
JAS. NJ. ALLAN
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
CLIMAX! CLIMAX {!

Pages Climax Salve, a Family
blessing for % cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
Wewarrant it to cure ScrOfula
Sores, Salt Rheum, Chilblains,
Sore Breasts or Nipples, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, and Sprains.
1t has been used over twenty
years, without one failure.
Ithas no parallel-haying per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and putup in larger
bOxesfOr the same price than any
other Ointment.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
Maj ], NJ. Allan Gives the Cedar Rapids Re
publican some Information,

The Cedar Rapids uowal Republican,
of the Doth, ult., does not like the Rock
Island canal convention, and having pro
pounded conundrum, is thus answered
by Maj. Allan. of Gencseo:
In it's issue of that date, after making
some free and easy comments upon the
Rock Island Transportation Convention, of
the oath inst, it says will some well in
formed gentleman tell us of what benefit
u canal beginning at or near Rock Island
and terminating at Hennepin will be to
Iowa as State, Minnesota, Nebraska, and
larger part of Illinois z
There is now a water channel from Hen
nepin by canal to Chicago and thence by
lake, river and canal to the seabOard,
through which freights are much cheaper
than by rail. Instead of terminating the
canal at Hennepin, we propose to extend
it from that point to the Mississippi at Rock
Island, thus making continuous water
route East and West from the upper Mis-
sissippi to the Atlantic seaboard Freight
by canal boats from the Illinois river
through the canal to Chicago, have been
heretofore from twenty to forty per cent,
cheaper than by rail the same distance be-
yond the influence of the river and canal.
The railroads close by the canal and river
in the navigable season carry freights at
very much cheaper rates than they do else
where. Now we suppose this condition OF
things will exist when the Illinois and
Michigan canal is extended from Hennepiu
to Rock Island. Five or six hundred miles
of the Mississippi river would be tributary
to this canal and lake route to the Eas
direct Canal boats would be towed NJ
and down the river to deliver and receiv,
freight, We suppose Iowa would have +;
very great interest in the canal, ii construct
ed,wherever water transportation compete
with railroads, the rates for carryin
freight as we'll by them as by the waite
being comparatively cheap.
The Illinois river enters the Mississippi
river more than three hundred miles b
the river below Rock Island. There al
several hundred miles of navigation on tn
Mississippi river above Rock Islant
When the Illinois river is improved as COL
templated, and the Illinois Il Michiga
canal is extended from Hennepin to Roc
Island, the commerce of the river from S
Lous to st. Paul will have a choice
routes several water ways in different
rection, besides twelve or fifteen railroad
These railroads will be compelled, VIII
the contemplated improvements are mao
to reduce their charges, as they do und
similar influence elsewhere. We ask t
Cedar Rapids Republican to tell us whet
er or no the State of Iowa has any inter,
In such condition of things? We suppc
all the railroads running East from 10,
across the State OF Illinois will be compe
ed to make a considerable reduction
their freight charges, when the Illinois
Michigan canal is extended to the Miss
slppi at Rock Island.
The Cedar Rapids Republican of [
Zoth also says; we can readily give {
the Improvement Of the Mississinn; r;v,
Y and we also favor the theory Of Cougr
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
Castor Oil Pills,

The safety and certainty of action of Gator OIL,
times popular. because 1t IL reliable medicine;
THE ONLY OBJEC lION
to its constant use Is the difficulty OF administering
II to children and It's nauseousness TO aduls' boh
these objections are now entirely overcome me
Proprietor, by the application o. tne princlpes ol
chemistry. aided by a careful manipulation and
long ra tcal experience, has at length succeeded
in accurately combining,
IN A SOLUBLE FORM,
ALI the medicinal elements of Castor Oil with other
harmless hut valuable vegetable products These
pills being coated with sugar, Will be found easy
and pleasant take. and, they contain neither
mercury nor minerals in any form. arr a very safe
medicine in all Cases where purgatiyes required
such as
Bilious Disorders.
SICK HEADACHE AND FoULNEss OF THE
STOMACH
Habitual Costiveness and Piles
Dlarrhma or LoosenGss of the Bowels
tevers and Inflammation: and as
GENERAL BLOOD PURIFIER,
they will be found invaluable also very desirable
medicine for
FEMALES IN DELICATE HEALTH,
None other should be used
VIM. SCRUTON, Proprietor.
81 Barclay street, n. \
Price 25 Cents per box
For sale by all Druggists.
2-IBd6m
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
THE LONG PARLIAMENT"

The Legislature Of this State, recently
adjourned, gets some pretty severe ana
merited raps through the press generaly
for evading that clause Of our new consti-
tut;on in regard to biennial sessions by
adiourning over to the past winter and
then claiming that it was the same session,
and not two sessions. 1t was sneaking
evasion and is very generally condemned.
It cost the people some 100000 and
did much harm. The Chicago Tines says
il will be known as the longest costlest.
and in a good many other respects the
worst legislature ever convenedin this state,
and adds that
In describing it as in many respects the
most worthless legislature ever convened
in Illinois, the Times Of course alludes to 1t
as one body, and not to all its members
severally. 1t contained some able, upright,
and entirely trustworthy members. The
application Of the proportional, or equity
principle in the election of its members
brought into it the best men that 1t con
tanned, men like Hay, Cullom, Durham
Bushnell (deceased). and twenty or thirty
other frst-rate legislative minds that could
not have appeared in it had the old jug
handle system" of representation been still
in vogue. But such men, constituting
only minority of the body, we're power
less against a more than commonly ignor
ant aud INSCRIPTIONS majority, and are moi
to be held responsible for follies which the
opposed but had not the numbers neces
sary to prevent.
And the Springfield correspondent o
the Times in reviewing the legislature, it
acts, and its members, says:
Durham, Of Henry, has made recort
as one of the ablest members of the house
and could return if be would, but he say
he won't.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-02
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The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09

EASTER SUNDAY.-Easter SUNDAYS eAp,.,
festival concentrating the resurrecti0n +
Christ 1t corresponds with the passo,e, 81
the Jews, and most nations still pive Il III
name. Easter Sunday is always the first g., ,'
day after the full moon which happens un0 "' :.
next after March 2ls,; if the full moon h..
pens on Sunday. Easter will be OF the St'
day after, aud may cotne as early az Mari
22d, or late as April 18th. In nearly all Chi.
tian countries the recurrence Of Easter i. ~
ebraied with various sports and superst,im.
Among the best known is the English cusm
of making presents of col0red eggs. whit
were often deliberately orhamented; and il,
royal roll Of the time OF Edward |, appesuu
entry oi led Tor 400 eggs tpbe used for d,
purpose. In some parts of Ireland the legsa
is current that the sun dances in th4 ssra
Easter Sunday morning In tie nor.apa
countries Of England. on Easter morning IL
men parade the streets aud claim the prlEl-s
of lifting every woinan three times from s
ground, receiving IN payment kiss or q sEr
sixpencc The same is done by the wenela
the men on the next day. In part Of 0I@rl
shire. after evening service on Easter Sundu.
,n.a and women used 10 throw great quanttn
II apples iuio the churrhyard. and these vs
had been married during the day threw thre
times IN macy as the rest; after which Oil
went the minister's house and toasted Ga
bread. ux So and ale.
The ga. 9ctiau vac would have elTw
in the north ri England sine. reading The s''''
j.. that we wni,ij be- airaid the sixprEct VIOLA
fail to us every time Instead Of TIE kiss Il
fact. if we lived there. and al. OF Tue weaa
ia our neishborhood were able topfoSide'Ao
selves with sixpence apiece, weVefi! sff'
we would make better wages on that d.! TIL
any other in the year.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The STATE flights Democrat reports case oil
smallpox in the nrisLborhood al Albany The
same paper says a young h"odluu named Frank
Hikler was caught setting out ire IN barn
on Water street. and locked up.
4 confidence ,nsn is operating OH sinai!
scair ia Oregon.
salmon fishing is becoming quite an extens-
i've business at the mouth Of Rogue river
Report from London says the steamship Nile
Vas lost recently. on her way from H"nck"ne
10 Yokohama. aud ali on board were drowned,
including the japanese Commissioners Ia the
Vienna Expedition.
The Panama Steamer supposed TO be lost
has arrived at san Francisco.
The milltar, were ordered out 81 suppress
s,rk" atnons the laborrrs at Susqu~hauna de-
pot. Pa The strikers were Erie railroad en-
ployees. and had stopped the running of trains
over the road
The Massachusetts legislature has no: yet
succeeded in clcciing United States Senator
Ia take the place al Sumner.
The Bank of Commerce.. Providence. Rhode
Island. has commenced proceedings IN bank
rupicy agains. the A. q w. Sprague manu-
featuring company.
A disease resembling dp,heria has appear
ed among the children of Willard City, Utah.
and is attended with fatal results in large
number of cases.
Thomas McGeehan. in whose defense Val.
iandigham was engaged when he accidentally
shot himself was shot twice and mortally
wounded in Hamilton. Ohio. few days ago.
he having returned In that place after being
warned away by the citizens.
The Security Bank Of New York City has
suspended.
Van Yormer. the mail carrier Of American
Fork. Utah, who was suppos d to have been
lost in an avalanche, is now believed In have
been murdered and man named Burton has
been arrested on suspicion Of being the muir
derer.
The operatives in the Methune Jute mills,
Boston, have struck for higher wages.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09

IMPORTANT TO MINE OwNERs.-Commis-
sioner Drummond recently received letter
from Gray a. Haven, Of San Francisco. asking
whether the Department would permit parties
who own several mining claims adjoining each
other to make one application for patent to
all the lands in one tract. instead of separate
applications. He has responded officially that
in all such cases each claim must be- separately
surveyed, notice posted on each tract, and rec
ord proved separately Also. it must be shown
that five hundred dollars have been expended
on each claim. Thea, if the claims are adioin-
ing. one application for patent may be made
to cover the whole tract. But this will not be
granted when the claims are remote from each
other. the only object being to allow patents to
issue with as little cost as possible. avalanche.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09


-. = r roun1so. l.. AND STRANGE Cas-. ):
San Francisco Al'" Of the Oath instant s' :,
very strange case, in which tho o.s: fehte
Of life and death seem to be- set - ',aa'yhn
follows: naaeht i
One OF the strangest cases IA.
pired in the United States for !. .la1 has tan.
,s that OF tn the daughter of Michael I ~. pat
living at oo. Mason street The ch;,a ",Aaerty
subject 10 hts OF an epileptic charss.aa s besa
the time she was a few months old ac<f fon
them. on Thursday afternoon s Oh. - Que q
Since that time. however, no r;oo. .o expired
taken place. nor had the bodv i ios. morris ID
color up to last night There w ..' dny ofM
Cd nush on her cheek. intermittent in ,i :. seaf
sity' the ears werered and the eve. ~ lltes.
natural, with no film and without i perfect,
vltrous aspect that death imparts az ,eo Usual
when these facts came to he not; - coQfs,
child's parents, the funeral was seu oy Tie
The warmth of the body continues ~ pO''p0aed
or less extent in different portion. - . :. greater
having nearly that of the living bodv 'ue tea
the case was supposed to be one Of s,,. asa't
animation. but the subsequent gradual II'ISta l
position OF the body set this belief as;a aeesp
the peculiar condition of the dead hod I's' aad
regarded merely as an extraordnar v'' - Nov
phenomenon. Last night, at quite M, t1i I
mn Alta reporter visited the dwellina e .s soat
Whaerty. He found that during the sa. " At
decomposition had been quite rand . ~
still there was none of the odor Of death t's,sl
limbs were still flexible and retained v,,n aF
the face, however. had turned ashy bale ., n.
was slight swelling. and purgipg had ' -. 'nt''
1t had been finally determined BY the . w. ~
to perform the funeral rites this mor0;n r''.a
extraordinary number Of people. the s,s, ~
part out of curiosity. while some. uediess l, a
to note all the facts for the benefit Of .ess.s
had visited the house during the day. '0'
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09

THE rumor that peace between Great Brit
ain spd Ashsstee 10 to be concluded BY the in
termaTrisge Of the youthful Princess, Beatrice,
and his imperial blackness, King Coffee. is con-
tradicted. The other rumor, however, that
among the allies employed BY enlightened Eng
land. il tribe Of canibals, which have to be
watched lest they devour their enemies is con-
arn.d. At tai. Mr.. Bright 81 Ssiu.: Here's
richness, But then, 10 war, practical old Eng
land goes on tho unsomantic principle, that the
end justifes the means, and the doctrine,
however revolving, 10 not unsound.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09
FOREIGN NEWS.
England.

March 10, 1874.
The Ashantee war has taEininated, ana tne
o.a au axnresses admiraguIh and thanks for
the oallautry displayed BY her troops IN Ash
antee. 81 ;ov..4;.
c.ta charges preferred against DR.. kennexy'
eeounsel fnr the Ticlborne claimant. ana Mr..
Whallev. NJ. p. demands that similar COM
m,ttee be appointed to investigate charges
aoninst Mr.. Hawkins, the Prosecuting Az
torney in the same case :: A..
The reading Of the Queens speech IN the
house of Lords, was followed by sharp de-
bate. ..a... d;..o,.,;oo
Of the last parliament as an act OF p"i1'ca' SUI
ride committed during temporary INSANITY
Lord Shelborne, late Lord Hign Chance"of'
r;na;cated the course Of Mr. Gladstone.
The London Daily Ners says it has been
given To understand on good authority that
Wr Disreali will advise an early release OF the
remaining Fenian cOnvicts A.
Tempestuous weather is reported on tue
Scottish coast, and there has been some Dam
age to shipping ,a o.
the government whether 1t was willing ~ CO
onerote with the United States in fixing sailing
tracks for vessels crossing the Atlantic ocean
"N " LONDON, March 21st.
Disreali today refused to receive deputa
ton which came to ask for the release OF the
Fenian prisoners
An extraordinary rise in the Thames hai
caused great damage in Lambeth and Rother
bite. Sewers burst. and the floors OF many
houses were forced up. drowning many chill
dren At Mapping. the lower stories oil hoose'
were filled with water. business on the wharsei
was suspended. and numerous families wrr.
compeled 10 abandon their houses. Al WOOL
witch. the fires in the gun factories were ex
t,nsushed. aud the store sheds We're HOODED
Embankmenis have been erected 10 prevent
repetition of the inundation
| A Mr.. ODonnel Home Ruler. has beer
elected to Parliament from Galway.
March 24-The steamship Faraday, bull
expressly fur LAYING cables. will begin OH ih'
| 9th of April TO take on board the cable 10 b
laid directly 10 the United States.
| The Pullman Palace Cars have been recels
ed with the highest favor in England Ih
Times says: Everything about them bis close
| ly. aud works smoothly. The e.e tallsesery"her
upon mechanical coniriyances ei that ingenni'.
we nrr accustomed Ia describe ns American.
/ March o7ih--In the Commons to-day. wa
asked the number, terms and places OF impfi'
onmenf of fenian conyic's. and the opinion q
eoy-t nment whether the time has not come To
! their release Cross. Hame Minister. replie
| tina. the total number Was sxteen-~lesen ex
! s.ldiers were sentenced for lite. for assisiin
the insurgenis--iwo were sentenced Tor nitee
! wears: one for seven years; ten were IN Aui
traiia. three IN England and three IN ireland
Government had no Intention al iniericfin
with their sentences. The House received thl
announcement with cheers.
The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-04-09

Dawn LoGAS-Thc Portland Ne,rs has
these complimentary words about the een'ie-
man whose name heads this article-la'el. de-
ceased Coming from all lrrrconcliable polii'
ical foe. as it does. such language is indeed
complimentary bat the great delicacy of the
unsaid. Perhaps il is beitsr-it is surely more
chariiahle--io let III. mantle of oblivion fall
upon all he should NOT have been. He was a
pow er. girt round With weakness Invinci.
BILE in personal honesty. no man was ever weak
or than b. when tempted b. that one low aud
sroyelling vice. which his great in.clleci and
accomplishments should have despsed and
which. after r"bhing him Of every laurel ot
life. hurried him ~ darkened and melancholy
grave:
THE announcement of the death "f David
Logan. Esq. will bring once more Ia the attcn-
ton Of the people OF Oregon and our nelghbor
ing Territories n name with which they have
long been familiar. Mr. Logan has from an
early day held one oi the first places ai the
Bar and in the politics Of the State.
In his profession he was successful If sue
cess can be- attained within such limited
spher" rs that WHICH mas rlFcum*cFlbea tpf
Bar of this Northwest Coast from the organi
cation OF the first Territorial Court IN Oregon.
He was worthy tn have measured lances with
the great lawyers Of the land, had opportunity
or inclination So led him.
| In politics he was not successful. and for
reasons highly crediable tn himself His prin
| ciples were not elastic enough Ia suit the nee
essi'ies Of his party. He could not adapt him.
self Ia its changing creed. nor be rcconrlled Ia
its dishonest practices. In two campaigns
when success was impossible he accepted the
leadership. but on his own terms. His party.
not politics, disappointed him. and gave tn his
mind that msanthropic turn which led him to
seclud' himself on his farm in Yamhill county,
where he died
| He died in the prime Of bis years.