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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-14
EVANSTON


Situated on Graut Avenue, Ashland Avenue. Dodge
St, an EmeleUn Avenu ana connected with the
city of Chicago by wide and e.egant Boule> ards
and the finest drives the world.
On this Property the streets are all beautifully
ornamenLcd with Iar2e tr and evergreeus ON each
side of the Avenues, with wide sidewalks and over
$50 00U0 il being expended Ia Buildit rs anu otuer
impr Jyemeuts
In calm: the attention of the public to this auc-
ton sale OF Evanston properly. and the great ad-
vaniages of this growing city plac CT residence
we may men ion q few Of lh many attractions.
The EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES are unequaied by
any suburbap town in the west The Ladies Col
lege and Northwestern University are both located
| near this property
| By chartered rights no liquor can ever be sold
within four miles Of her Universi building.
thorough system of wa er works and sewerage
will be pushed forward to completion wi.hin q few
mouths
| Evanston is now lighted by gas, and the ppes
will soon b. extended to this property.
| Tue Kali Road facl lies bet veen Evanston and
| Chicago, make her especially desirable as place oi
residence. adCit to tne >orth Western Il. K
which runs nearly 8 trains day, Dummy Road
| Is under con &C an WI soon Ue hnished connec
ting Evanst With all the towns, and running di
rect % the Cen e of busipcss,
| cY Lake Shore drive is beng finished from the
cit, and the rine drive in he country.
The y esent DO ulatou of Esansf n is about 10,
600 snH rapidly increasing. Her citizens are com
posed many of CEicaso's best p, .Il. who ha
built elegant homes, and adorned cir grounds
equal place of its size in the Union
! Special free TiaI will run directly to ths
grounu, leayin, Chicago on NOR lug of sale,return
ing Immediately t.r tie sale.
Terms eas anu will be ann iunced at time q
sal.
Title perfect, PRINTED CERTIFIED Abstract fur
nished.
For PIats or any other Information apply to Fl. "
Payne, o II. Z, acNcaI t33 LaSal St, .: To Eli
sou. PomeroY & Co., Auc ioaeefr, S4 and 81 Ran
dolph street, Chicaso, LII. 59-eod4w
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-14
J. ZIMMERMAN & co.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
FIRST CLASS PIANO FORTES

WarerOom and Frctory,
No 100 Main street. -. -..DAVENPoRT, IOWA
Also wholesale agents for Taylor and Farley Or
gans. l2-l7dIy
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
A Caution,

Each year hundreds of people lose
their lives by the communication OF
fire to their clothing. Children's cloth
ing is light and infammable as they
venture near gas lights or other columns
of flame. Dancers and others on the
stage are also nightly subject to danger.
French chemists declare that expert
ments in that line have convinced them
that valuable compound to do the de-
sired work may be formed by boiling
together twenty-five pounds of sugar
of lead, fifteen pounds of itharge and
forty gallons of water, for about half
an hour. When this liquid is to be
used, as much of it is taken as will at
least completely cover the fabric or
material to be treated-or, in many
cases, the fabric, may be simply
passed through the solution, raised to
nearly the boiling point. This opera
ton having been performed, the fabric
is removed, and spread out for about
twelve hours to the contact of the air,
after which it is to be immersed for a
period of from one to two hours into a
hot and moderately strong solution OF
silicate of soda. On being withdrawn
from tLis bath of silicate OF soda, the
material is allowed to drain, then wash
thoroughly in soft water, and when
dried, It will be found to haveacquired.
to valuable degree, the property of
being uninfammable. If a hundred or
more human lives can be saved each
year by this process, it will be one of
the most valuable ever presented to the
werld,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
Difficulties of Watermelon Culture.

"Can the watermelon be successfully
cultivated on sandy soil, in a rural town
of 1000 inhabitants, and an institute
located near by containing 100 students
studying for the ministry?" This
question excited considerable comment
and loud discussion among the agricul-
turists present at meeting of The
Hayseeds' in Cleveland, and nearly an
hour and half was spent in discussing
the same. An old green grocer who
had raised early and late vegetables for
the market twenty years of his early
life, said he could raise melons on top
of barn, or on billiard table even,
let him pick the locality and his neigh
bors. 1t was not so much the soil, nor
season, that the melon depended upon
for it's perfection, as it was the peculi-
arities of the inhabitants of the coun-
try round about. Where there was an
excess of colored citizens, it was almost
as impossible to raise paying crop of
melons as it was to keep spring chick
ems unless they roasted at night in a
Herring's safe. Then again, colleges
have a bad effect upon the melon crop,
and even minister's family of seven
boys has been known to blight large
patch in single night. In sections
of country where these drawbacks exist,
the speaker had learned that the only
method to insure full crop of melons
was to station a man by each melon
from the time it was the size of hens
egg until it ripened. This was expen-
sive, but the result was always gratify-
ing. As the fruit grew in size and ap-
preached ripeness, the speaker had
found it necessary to station two guards
over each melon, and even then, in
where too great fond
ness for these luscious products existed,
he had known of the inside of a water
melon being stolen and devoured when
TWO men with clubs were seated on a
shell or rind, engaged in friendly con.
verse. -Danbury Ne,Us.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
Did Not Know.

Mr.. Layard, the Eastern explorer,
once requested Mohammedan official
to give him some statistics of the city in
which he lived. He received in reply a
letter, of which the following is an ex-
tract !: "My illustrious Friend and
Joy of my Liver: The thing you ask
of me is both difficult and useless. AL
though I have passed all my days in
this place, have neither counted the
houses nor have inquired into tho
number of inhabitants; and as to
what one person loads on his mules,
and the other slows away in the bot
tom of his ship, this is no business of
mine. But above all, as to the previ-
GUS history of this city, God only knows
the amount of dirt and confusion that
the intidels may have eaten before the
coming of the sword of Islem. 1t were
improbable for us to inquire into it.
Oh, my soul oh, my lamb seek not
after the things which concern thee
not. Thou comest unto us and we well
come thee. Go in peace"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
Relations OF the Moon to the Earth.

Our earth has companion, the moon,
says Prof. Proctor. We look upon IL as
mere satellite, but it is another mem.
ber of the inner family of planets. II
you were member of world circling
around some distant star, you would be
enabled to distinguish the motion of the
moon from that Of the earth. 1t is only
from our earth that it seems to go
around lis. 1t really goes around the
sun. Every world must have that
popularity, that it must seem to its in
habitants to be the centre of the whole
universe. In Venus, Mars, in even the
asteroids, each seems to be the centre
OF the universe. Thus the astronomers
of old fell into the mistake of thinking
the earth was the fixed centre of the
universe.
Mars, instead of being like Venus, is
a planet that we can study very fully
indeed. We have here the orbits !;
here is that of the earth, there that of
Mars. A portion of the time the face
of Mars is turned toward the sun and is
also turned toward the earth, and thus
illuminated is studied to great advan-
tage. You can therefore conceive how
Au 10 VuuU uoVAouOLuCAo nuNc OCCu uOlC W
take such pictures as these of the
planet, having features resembling
the earth. There is an appearance OF
two bright white points at opposite
sides, which have always been called
the snowy polls of Mars. Herschel was
the first to perceive that they waxed and
waned in size. He noticed that the axis
was inclined very much like our earth,
or rather more than our earth, but 80
nearly like it that the same sort of sea-
sons prevail. He noticed that when the
summer was in progress the polar re-
gions seemed smaller than in winter.
This was the first thing to show
that the planet was like our earth.
Our snowy regions do not cover more
than the arctic regions, and they occupy
about the same proportions as those of
Mars's surface. Since the polar SHOWS
do not extend further, therefore the
same sort of climate it seemed probable
prevailed there. Other features cor
to the idea of the inhabi-
tants of Mars were noticed. Some
portions have greenish hue, as though |
they were oceans. The planets con-
tinents, or what we call continents, were
ruddy and white surfaces sometimes
seemed to form over these continents
or oceans, and to melt away during the
day, as if clouds we're being dissipated
by the action of the sun.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
A Strange ARRAY In Kentucky.

A preliminary examination has just
been concludedin the court in Harrods.
burg, KY, which gave the particulars
of one of the most bloody, tragedies,
consequent upon the habit of carrying
concealed weapons, which has occurred
in this country. For many years the
Thompsons and the Davieses has been
friends, but at last they fell out, and
that bitterness ensued which always
follows when friends disagree. In No
vember last both families were inter-
ested in lawsuit regarding money
which was tried in Harrodsburg. Each
testified point blank against the other,
and if the testimoney of either was true
the members of the other family were
most infamous scoundrels. In our cool
Northern country such things might be
and blood not flow. But the Kentucky
spirit was stirred and the result was a
most bloody fray. Each party was
armed, and as the testimony showed
they were in the habit of being armed.
Even while the civil trial was progress.
ing, there in the very presence Of the
Court the fight began. A shot was
fred, but by whom no 'one has been
1OlC w oWCdLs 41lCu 1O1lOWCu "
lade in which the Thompsons and the
Davieses all took hand. The result
was three dead Davieses, father and
two sons, and several wounded Thomp-
sons. In the meantime the spectators
rapidly disappeared, some through the
windows, and others behind the stoves
or benches. There was none left to
testify as towhat they had seen, though
many could swear to much that they
had heard. The Judge took refuge
behind his desk, and there brawling
ruffian, with pistol in hand, fell
across him, both Justify yelling For
Gods sake don't shoot"
Now four Thompsons have been
brought into court upon the charge of
murder. Doctors have testified, and
bloody garments have been exhibited.
Ten days have been occupied and the
ablest counsel in Kentucky have been
Upon general principles it
has been found that it was free fight,
and nobody was to blame. though upon
the specific action of chasing young
Theodore Davies two blocks, and then
him in the back, the elder
Thompson has been held in the sum of |
five thousand dollars bail, which was
promptly furnished, while his three
sons were discharged.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
he were so hungry he couldn't wait.

he were so hungry he couldn't wait
We're most dead wi hunger, father"
Jim had brought bagful of bread.
stuff, on the chance of such need. He
hastened now to divide it among the
sick and famished children, while
Tommy's father went into the back
room, where the little white body lay,
cold and quiet-not hungry now. Old
Classy stood beside him.
"He did nothing but cry" she said,
after de massa went, till he took sick
and den he quiet berry soon. He'd been
lyin' still, mout be q couple O. hours,
when all of a sudden he skeered right
up, his little face all smilin', an cries
out, "Teacher's comm I see him
walkin' up de hill, aside Of man all
white an shinin'. Oh, let me go
He's holdin' out his hands to me. Let
me go ! Dem was his berry last words,
massa. He went off slick that mint,
and ef you ask my 'pinion, Massa
Garston went fust. He'd never ha'
stayed away from these ere blessed
children if the snow hadn't caught
him."
She said truly. Two days later, man
and woman. starting from Keith's
homestead for the school, found his
body half covered with snow, and lying
within dozen yards of the stick, where
the dog, stark and stiff too, crouched
guardian-like upon the heap of now
useless provisions. He must have lost
his way in the binding drift, and wan.
dered round and round in circles, till
he dropped from sheer exhaustion 4; for
there were marks of his footsteps still
visible, crossing and recrossing each
other in every direction. But the face
was quite peaceful and on the stern
lips there still lay smile, frozen there
by the ice hand of Death, before he rose
up to meet the Man whose dazzling
whiteness is beyond that of all SHOWS
yea, even of the sun and stars. And
even in dying he had tried to carry out
that task which, unfulfilled, had trou-
bled his last moments; for one rigid
hand still grasped an end of pencil,
while beside him lay the pocket-book,
in which the poor frozen fingers had
scrawled-
Food-to the children-Quick "
That strong right hand must have
grown strangely dead for the letters
were all but illegible.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
Warm Winters.

It is customary to forget eaeh win.
ter's weather before the next comes,
and to consider every season remark
able. An old number of the Hartford
COurant contains some records tran
scribed from the journal of the Rev.
Thomas Smith. of Portland, Maine,
which are rendered especially interest
ing by the present mildness. In 1885
January was pleasant and moderate,
and February was "summer month ;"
in 1873 January came in like April in
1740 there were but two snow storms !;
February was q summer month again,
and March the same in 1851, January
Is, the frost was entirely out of the
ground, February was like spring, and
"the winter ends awonder through the
whole" In 1855, in January the fish,
as they are reported to have done this
year, "struck in " from the sea, the
weather being so warm. February was
delightful, and March clustering, but
soft as May. In 1773 Mr.. Smith
records summer day on January 27,
wonderfully moderate the next day."
and February 8, ''no snow since Decem-
Uor 10, WOuuorlul WeaGuor. we saw
two robins. In the year 1775, Feb.
~, the New Yerk Gazette and Post Boy
reports that last Wednesday the wea-
ther was so uncommon warm that many
lads went into the river to swim"
These are records all but one of them
more than century old. They notice
six remarkably warm winters within
period Of forty years, but coming with
no noticeable periodicity. People who
are calling this season strange above all
others, indicative that our planet has
drifted into new influences, and who
are promising all sorts of consequences
from poor crops to Second Advent, may
bear in mind that there is precedent
for it all, and that whether the weather
is divinely dispensed each day or is a
grand sequence under ordained law
which prayer cannot effect, it keeps
coming and changing hour by hour,
and the peculiar freaks of century
and more ago have not resulted in an.
initiation yet. Nor has the period be-
tween then and now been one of unin-
terrupted disaster.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30

Coop LANGUAGE. Young people
should acquire the habit of correct
speaking and writing, and abandon as
early as possible any use of slang words
and phrases. The longer you put this
off, the more difficult the requirement
of correct language will be; and if the
golden age of youth, the proper season
for the acquisition of language, be
passed in its abuse, the unfortunate
victim will most probably be doomed to
talk slang for life. You have merely to
use the language which you read, in
stead of the slang which you hear, to
form taste in agreement with the best
speakers and poets in the country.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30

A BEAUTIFUL TREE.-The camphor
tree perfumes the air, and its leaves
yield the finest honey. 1t often reaches
a hundred feet in height, with a girth
of fifty feet. The precious gum is
found sometimes in layers as large as
mans arm, but more frequently in
small fragments, extracted with sharp
pointed instruments. The wood is ex-
cellent for house. ship-timber and furni-
ture, and, excepting the teak and
calambuco, is the only wood never at
tackled by the myriads of voracious in
sects in the East Indies. The common
kinds of camphor are procured by dis
tllatiop,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
JUST HIS DUTY.

1t was in the year of the great Min
Eesota snow storms. You heard O.
them, I dare say. Most people did
and I've little doubt that, to ladies anG
gentlemen sitting by their snug fire
sides in London and New York, there
was something pleasantly exciting il
the daily accounts from those far West
tern States, of how the snow kept fall
fall, falling, day by day and week by
week, in one soft, steady sheet of daz.
zling white, till it rose high over walls
and hedges, blotted out roads, and
fields, and streams, and made hills and
dales alike one dead, blank level. Peo.
pie read with eager curiosity of whole
coach-loads frozen up in one night, of
travellers lost in the whirling drifts
within yard or two of their own
homes, of men going out to seek for
stray cattle, to be found dead and stiff
within an hour or so.
His name was Hugh Garston, and he
was the master of an infants school
halfway between Rock Rapids, Iowa,
and the villageof White Water Springs
Hugh's father had been q gentleman of
property, given to travelling in his
youth and having rambled as far as
Iowa one summer, had there fallen in
love with and married q trapper's
daughter.
AS soon as the deed was done he was
very much ashamed of it deserted his
wife as soon as possible, and returned
to his ancestral halls in Yorkshire. Un-
fortunately, the trapper's daughter was
not person of delicacy. Instead of
taking her desertion as a gentle hint
that Mr.. Garston was tired of her, and
resigning herself accordingly, this
young woman packed up change of
linen, and not only started off in pur-
suit of him, but actually found him in
his own home and, arriving at the
hall with fortnight-old baby in her
arms, she presented the baby to the
hail. s master as his son.
In good time Hugh went to college.
In the latter's twentieth year, however,
something occurred which turned all
this good to bad. Mr.. Garston had
destined him for the church. Hugh de-
clined to enter it. A quarrel ensued.
Unpleasant disclosures followed. Hugh
learnt for the first time that his mother
was not dead, but living and disowned,
and that the second Mrs. Garston owed
her marriage to lucky and legal flaw
in the first ceremony.
Passion is productive of hasty words.
Wise men pay no heed to them. Hugh
was not wise. Within q week he had
thrown up father, college and pros
poets, and departed to seek his mother
in the far West. Please to remember
his trapper blood in excuse, and excuse
him-as did.
When 1 next met him it was ont there.
and he was returning from his mothers
funeral. He had found her living alone
IN small house on the hills, keeping a
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-01-30
+" The Babes In the Woods"
DId ZINE FLAT, 1871


Something characteristic" oh u?
Hump Ireckon you mean by that
Something that happened in our way,
Here at the crossin' Of Big Pine Flat.
Times aren't now as they used to DO,
When gold was flush and tho boys wer
frisky,
And man would pull ont his battery
For anything maybe the price Of whisky.
Nothing OF that sort, eh? That's strange.
Why, thought you might be diverted,
Hearing how Jones, Of Red Rock Range,
Drawcd his " Hint to tho Unconvcrtod,"
And saying, "Whar will you have 1t ?" shot
Cherokee Bob at the last Debating
What was the question I forgot
But Jones didn't like Bobs way of stating.
Nothing of the kind, eh You mean
Something milder? Let's see-Oh, Joe!
Tell to the stranger that little scene
Out of the "Babes in tho Woods" Yo,
know,
" Babes was the name that We gave en-, sir
Two lean lads in their teens, and greener
Than even the belt of spruce and fir
Where they built their nest, and each da.
grew leaner.
No one knew where they came from. None
Cared to ask if they had mother.
Runaway schoolboys, maybe. One
Tall and dark as spruce; the other
Blue and gtld in the eyes and hair,
Soft and low in his Speech but rarely
III. l..sA
To get at their secret at all unfairly.
For they were 80 quiet, so sad and shy
Content to trust each other solely,
That somehow we'd always shut one eye,
And never seem to observe them wholly.
AS they passed TO their work. Twas wornout
And it paid them grub. They could live
without it,
For the boys had way of leaving game
In their tent, and forgetting all about it.
Yet no one asked for their secret Dumb
1t lay in their big eyes heavy hollows.
1t was understood that no one should come
To their tent unawares save the bees and
swallows
So they lived alone. Until one warm night
l was sitting here at the tent-door, so, sir,
When out of the sunsets rosy light
Up rose the sheriff of Mariposa.
l knew at once there was something wrong,
For his hand and his voice shook just little,
And there isn't much you can fetch along
To make the sinews of Jack Hill brittle.
" Go warn the Babes y he whispered, hoarse
" Tell I'm coming to get and scury
For I've got story that's bad, and worse,
I've got warrant; now, man, you hurry"
Too late! they had seen him cross the hill 4;
ran to their tent and found them lying
Dead in each others arms, and still
Clasping the drug they had taken flying.
And there lay their secret cold and bare,
Their life, their trial-the old, old story
For the sweet blue eyes, and the golden hair,
Was ,cOnlan's shame and acondn's glory.
80 Who were they?" Ask no more, or ask
The sun that visits their grave 80 lightly;
Ask of the whispering reeds, or task
The mourning crickets that chirrup nightly.
All of their life but its Love forgot,
Everything tender and soft and mystic,
These are our Babes in the Woods, you've got,
Well-Human Nature-that's characteristic.
BRET HARTE.
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.1pxsSe PRINTING

Of an kinds neatly executed d tho lowest living
prioes. Our ONCE q well furnished with mate
Hal and stock for this department., and we now
have experienced and competent workmcn ia
use them. II you want any printing done you
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for you can get as good work and az low prices
at this Office as Iny other.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-03-26

STOCKS. A gradual increase OF
stocks will be noticed by examining
our report this morning. \ Spring
excitement ma he soon looked for,
when everything will he booming
along the line.