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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
The Weather-.To-Dax

The Weatne1--1U"O@y.
The following shows the temperature
at THE ARGUS OFFICE to-day, IS in
dicated bv thermometer:
IA. NJ 100 above zero IL n. 800 above zero
"a. 23s " 3P. N. as ;"
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
Death of Gov. STANDARDIZATION of the
Trustees--A Successor Appointed.
No MorePostponements--Draw-
ing Certain February 27th.

At a meeting of the Trustees of the
Public Library of Kentucky, Jan. Is.
1873, it was resolved that C. NJ. Briggs,
esq, who under the late Hon. Tho. E.
Bramlette was the real business manager
Of the gift concerts already given in aid
Of the Public Library of Kentucky, be and
he is hereby authorized to take the place
made vacant by the death of said Bran
lette, in the management of the affairs OF
The fifth and last GIFT concert and that the
drawing announced for February 81, 1875.
shall positively and unequivocaIiy take
place on that day without any further
postponement or delay on any account
whatever.
r. T. DURRETT, Pres.
JOHN s. CAIN. Secretary.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
THOMAS YATES.

as PREPARED TO DO PLUMBING IN ALL ITS
J branches, also, Gas and Steam Fitting.
Call and have estimates made before ordering your
work done by other parties.
THOMAS YATES, Nevee. Rock Island.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
Choice Table Butter.

DERsoNs WANTING CHOICE TABLE BUT
] TER, iu 20 lb. lots or upwards, at reasonable
rates. will be furnished by dropping line to the
undersigned. ID. G. MOORE Cos,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
A Powerful Book.

Peak Family, at Darts Hall, Monday
and Tuesday evenings, FEBRUARY | and 9.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30
LAYCOCK'S
Worm Killer !
The Safest and most Reliable
p" orm M edicine
IN THE MARKET
~ Pleasant to take. Twenty five cents a both

wPleasant to take. Twenty five cents bottle
Sold by all Druggists. and in Rock. island by Emf
KRhler. r. 81 ezza- ----~ -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
The First Umbrella i'm London.

AN old English record states that as
early as the middle of the eighteenth cen
tury some enterprising genius introduced
umbrellas at. Oxford and Cam bridge,
letting them out, like sedan-chairs. to
the students at SO much per hour,
thus enabling poor young men to
pass from building to building to their
lectures without being drenched by rain
But people no more thought of taking an
umbrella about the streets of d town or
city than Of taking bed to sleep in or
stove to warm themselves by as they went
about their regular business
The first person who ventured on such
an innovation was Jonas Hanway-the
same benevolent old gentleman to whose
exertions England owes the foundation of
its Marine Society," and to whose men,
DRY there is a monument in Westminster
Abbey. Mr. Hanway had travelled in
China and other parts of the East, where
umbrellas were in general use, and having
brought one over with him, as sort of
curiosity, he at length determined to avail
himself OF its protective benefits, and so
one day ventured on the streets of London
holding the queer-looking apparatus
over his head, during heavy rain
Perhaps, if he had known what a show
er of-ridicule, and even abuse, he was
provoking, he. would rather have faced
the rain. For groups of men hustled him
on the sidewalks, and called him mad:
women, from windows and doors, clapped
their hands and laughed; and boys in
crowds ran after him, kissing, hoOting and
even peltlng him with stones. But they
soon grew tired of such shameful sport,
and took it quite as a matter of course, as
Mr.. Hanway, day after day, walked the
streets, umbrella in hand, whether in rain
or sunshine. Occasionally he invited
friend to share his comfortable shelter,
and all agreed in pronouncing it very
pleasant; but so afraid were they of ridi-
cule that it was more than three wears
after Mr.. Hanway's first experiment be-
fore another man in London found coI1r
age to own or carry an umbrella. Jonas
Hanway died in 1776, and for the last
thirty years of his life he carried an UNI
brella whenever either sun or rain rem
dered one desirable; yet the present cen
tury had passed more than its first decade
before the use of umbrellas became gen
eral.-Fmmae Roper Featdge, IN st. NicAo-
las for 4u0uat %
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05

place in e3erybody's wine and fig-treen
ideal 7il4 p
At first the family is attracted to the one
person sitting on the door-steps. The
modern piazza is a mere expansion of the
primitive door-steps, and is the same sig
nificant border country. The cares and
anxieties OF life are q to be continued" an
other day like a serial story in the next
number of the magazine In the mean
time there as the border country, where
there is neither house work nor garden
labor. After the family are assembled
friends drop in and neighbors stop at the
gate. They have something sensible to
say, as, What beautiful roses you haven
or, I've brought you some harvest APP
pies" Then they come up the gravel
walk; you extend to them the Inequalities
OF your door-steps, and sociability is ac-
complished. There are no elaborate toilets
to prepare, no fuss and feathers" And
to be social without the aid of the g butch
er, the baker, the candlestick- maker is
beyond belief. one accepts it as certain
spiritual manifestations are accepted-as
matter OF experience. 1t was in this way
that our sociables originated, and we called
them, significantly, Door-steps." 1t is a
good name. Gradually we found out the
morale that [ have-already attempted to in
dictate. 1t does not limit us to the outside
or the inside of the house, but only means
a homely, home-like. hearty hospitality,
better than mere sans souca.
The silver moon rolls on to our faint
praise, and we talk commonplaces to- its
accompaniment Does anybody suppose
that on this account we don't know how
beautiful it all is? The light falling
softly on the tree-tops and in silvery shafts
among the branches; the dim, hazy
shadows on the lawn; the lake or river
glittering in the valley, and the pale gray
mountains beyond. Of course we know
all about it, but we don't encroach on the
domains of the poets and essayists. So
we talk our commonplace, and find our
selves refreshed and cheered thereby I
can't pretend to tell why this is so, but the
knowledge is drawn from observation
We are literary chiefly in the way of rem
iniscences. Our dramatic recitatives are
often the well-remembered treasures ofour
school-days. We rescue "Sir John
Moore" and Marco Bozzaris'' from OBJ
livion. Somebody remembers little of
Shakespeare or has learned little of Ten
nyson, and that satisfies our modest am
bItion.-" Home and Society,"" IN Ser56ner
f07, 1Auo2ist. 'r p
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
4" Steps"
ear

THE following warm-weather suggestion
comes to us from the country:
A country-house in summer is delightful
in proportion to its piazzas and its shade
trees. The shade-trees are for nOon-day
heats, but the piazzas belong especially to
the golden hour the cleaning and the
moonlight The house itself has to be.
but when one can make the compromise
between the pastoral simplicity OF living
altogether out of doors and the civilized
necessity of architecture it is fair to SUD
pose that the happy medium is attained.
And just at the door-steps there is this
combination of security and freedom. of
unconstraint and the prophecies, which
satisfies at the same time the natural pro
clivities and the artificial tastes. Certain
" the summer breezes and odors have
something to do with ones endowment: but
the ascetic value of the surroundings is a
large, unknown quantity.
One does not often sit solitary On ones
doorstep to watch the stars. There is
sort of soeiability that is of the summer.
Perhaps it comes more perceptibIv TO us
who have just escaped the rigors of winter;
at any rate it belongs especially to the sum
mer-time, and takes tone and color from
the surroundings. 1t is part of the twi-
light IN the country, and has prominent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
How Mountains Are Sawed Into.

The contracting or shiiveling of the
earth causes the rocks near the surface to
wrinkle or fold, and such fold was
started athwart the course of the river.
Had it been suddenly formed it would
have been an obstruction sufficient TO turn
the water in a new course to the east. be-
yond the extension of the wrinkle: but
the emergence Of the fold above the gen
eral surface of the country was little or
no faster than the progress Of the corrasion
OF the channel We may say that the
river did not cut its way down through
the mountains from a height of many
thousand feet above its present site; but.
having an elevation differing but little.
perhaps, from what it now has, as the fold
was lifted it cleared away the obstruction
by cutting canon, and the walls were
thus elevated on either side The river
preserved its level but mountains were
lifted up; as the saw revolves on a fixed
pivot, while the log through which it cuts
IS moved along. The river was the saw
which cut the mountains in two.-Popular
Science Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
A BOOtblack Marquis.


ABOUT year and half ago French
man, who had lived for some time in Chi
cago and operated on the Board of Trade.
committed suicide. He was a member of
one of the Oldest and most noble families
in France, that of de Belloy, and was, BY
right, Marquis. Being depressed in
spirits he went, one evening, in company
with some friends, into wine-cellar on
Clark street and, after drinking several
times, drew small pistol and fired bull
let into his body. There was, of course,
a confusion at once, whereupon de Belloy
walked up to the counter, where the owner
OF the place presided, asked his pardon, in
the most bland terms, for creating any I'M
due disturbance, fell back upon the floor
and died. The strange man had strange
eventful and romantic history In brief it
was that he left France about twenty wears
ago and came to America In Northern
Michigan he married fisherman's daugh-
ter, and maintained himself and family
for some time by teaching. Six children
grew out of the union Several wears ago
Grating on Change, his business career
proving checkered one After his death
his widow found it a difficult matter to ret
along. Her oldest boy engaged in boot
backing and selling newspapers upon the
streets, becoming rapidly as dirty, saucy
and shiftless boy as is to be found amongst
the gamin of Chicago. The widow sub
sequently removed to Geneseo, in this
State, where she now resides with her
family. The strangest part of this story
remains to be told. a
Information has just been received here
that the mother of Marquis de Belloy. the
father OF this bootblack, has Just died in
France The Chicago boy is the oldest
son and, by right, inherits the title of Mar
quls, while his mother becomes the Mar
de Belloy. The boy will hereafter
be the head Oh this proud family, which
traces It's lineage back behind the Crusader.
All that now remains is to prove the legal
10y OF his mothers marriage and his own
legitimacy to secure the titles and the
right to all the lands, estates, heredita-
nents of the family of which they are the
representative heirs. Good for the boot
black; good for the isherman's daughter
Nov then, won't some American girl
please keep her eye on the young Marquis
md gather him in, matrimonially, as soon
IS he gets old enough ?-Chicago Times.
IN Italy an idea is current that the
United States have abolished paper money
nd are swimming in gold and silver.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
got Dnuna blenders.
THE R4INT DAY.

NHE
BY MRS. CLARA DoTY BATES.
GOLD LOCKS sits by the window pane,
Sits and watches the falling rain;
The great drops patter thick and fast
From sky all dull and overcast,
And she signs, with half frown on her brow
What good does the rain do, anyhow?r
| know she is thinking of the play
On the bright, dry sidewalk yesterday,
In her pretty, new, blue-nbboned hat;
She is tired of the doll and book and cat;
She could run and shout in the sun again
But for this rain, this useless rain.
| smile at her small, impatient sigh,
And the wistful trouble of her eye,
And sitting down by the window say:
Little girl, Gold Locks, look this way,
And listen, and | will tell you now
What good the rain does, anyhow.
" The grass that spreads for your little feet
A carpet soft and green and sweet;
The leaves that cover the cunning nest.
On the apple-bough, of the red breast;
And the fields of clover and fields of grain,
Could never grow without the rain.
None of your dainty. blue-eyed pets,
The crowding, sweet breathed violets,
Could liftto the light their happy heads
Out of the grass and the garden-b beds,
And nod to YOU in their blithesome way,
If there never were rainy day.
ss..eei Cl.I-. rEEa
Then, dear, all days go by so fast,
The wettest, dreariest does not last,
And if-when this with its rain is done
From the west should shine the evening sun,
We shall see rainbow's painted arc
Glowing where now the sky is dark.
"And then tomorrow when you wake
TO see the red, bright morning break,
You will say as you smell the fragrant air.
And the fresh drops glisten everywhere
On tree and flower in the early sun:
This is the good the rain has DONE"
IL EcC~ Boston Congregationalist
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05
GOOD-BY.

q GOOD-BY.
OPEN the1casement, Roger, 49, Ae@ . 81
Open it wide;
Let in the friendly voices
OF wind and tide;
Let in the golden sunbeams
On every side.
Raise me high on my pillow A-
Yes, that viii do;
How is it. Roger, that no one
Lifts me like you?
Nobody's hands are so tender,
Steady and true.
Just as you promised to hold me
When death is nigh,
In It's old place on your shoulder
Let my head lie
Now for one last look, Roger,
On ocean and sky. sesa
All! how the.white sails glisten e
Out by the Norel
Hark how the waters ripple
Down on the shore.
Gently the soft wind kisses
Ny cheek once more.
Yonder thessilvery sea-birds
Flutter and cry,
Under the band of purple and gold
In the western sky;
Fairest of earth's fair pictures,
Good-by! Good-by! ..r ....
Roger, you know how often,
In my pain,
Pye longed for a glimpse of the shining sea
Yet once again: s.e
Doubling, as days rolled onward,
My prayer was vain.
But the answer has come, and I see it
Stretching for miles, .0
With its murmuring, dancing waters,
Its changing smiles,
Whilst the clouds of evening gather
In FURNISHED piles.
: Il
I've said good-by, and Pmready-
Where's your dear hand?
And you'll hold me, won't you, Roger,
Until | stand
With the Fathers arms around me,
Safe in the Better Land?
-Comadian Illustrated Neacs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-08-05

IN Italy an idea is current that the
United States have abolished paper money
and are swimming in gold and silver.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-11-05

But after she went up stairs her face
changed. Long she stood at the win
dow looking out at the dim-tinted sea.
sit has been very NICE" she whis-
pered to herself ut last. "But this is
foolish. must 90 to bed"
Miss Ashurst's letter of recall came,
and on the day fixed she left. Amy,
dazed, as it were, by this sudden de
parture, rcproachcd herself heartily for
feeling glad. This reproach decpened
into rcmorsc when, the fareWell> spoken
and the beautiful radiant presence VAN
ishcd, she found her walls and table OF
namcntcd with good-by gifts. There
were the photographs she had most adj
mired, the books, even the Madonna,
ivory-painted and velvet-swung, all left
for her by her s~wcet-hcarted rival. 4
mist of pcnitcnt tears dimmed her eyes;
but in spite of pcnitence and of tears,
she was glad. For Phil, the rattle Of
the wheels which bore his charmcr away
WAS like the sound which breaks sharp
ly into some fantastic dream.
Metaphorically speaking, he rubbed
his eyes. For Il day or two he hung
about, vacant and l~istlcss; then he
reused, as DESTROYS to pick up dropped
threads again. Somehow Amy was
more difficult to approach than of yore.
A little veil rested between them. She
was not always to be had when wanted.
We value what we work for, what we
hold with some trembling scnse of inSc-
curity. As weeks went on, Phil grew
to prize Amy more than ever. The
knowledge that he had lost her intensi-
fed his love. 1t required months to
win his way back to the old place. But
at last
"And you are quite, quite sure that
you care most forme:?" whispered Amy,
saucily, the night after their engage
ment.
"Most9 Altogether, YOU mean.
There is no other"
Not even Miss AshurSt,'
"Not e. Miss AshurSt; though
and Phil lifted his cap as before a queen
-" She is Il sumner, II real lady, every
inch OF her, and as good rs she in beau-
tifuI. Bless her."
And bless her, say we.-HUper'S b.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-11-05
That ar Boy.

Trade vas rather dull in the barber
shop the other day, and rs the boss
settled himself to honing the razOrs he
says to Joe, his assiStant-Says he, ",Joe,
you've seed dat ar cab sam, dat boy
Sam % mine, hain't ver:?" Joe said he
thought he had. "WeI!, that ar boy
+ You b1ieve it-that ar boys the
worst little rascal in dis yertOwn. Can't
do muffin tall wild him. He won't 20 to
school, ncr he won't do muffin round de
house. I've whipped dat little scoundrel
morc'n Il dozen times 4 day, and de
more l whip i'm de worse de little ras-
cal gifts. / don't know muffin tall what
Is gwine do wi him." Just then
Brown, OneOf the boss neiGhbOrS, came
in, slammed the door and said, "Look
a-heah, ole man, you's got to take kcer
o dat boy Sam o. youfn-done suah;
now, mind | said so. He's all de time
frowin' stuns at my chickuns, an if he
don't stop dat kim o. work, I'll bust de
little rascal's head wild hoo-you heah
me talkin', don't yer?" sLOok a-heah,
niggah," said the boss, getting mad and
up the whites of his eyes, "who
who you calm little rascal? Da'
hain't Il better b'haved boy in dis yer
city dan my Sam. | don't b'lieve he
teched yer chickuns, tall. Now, yer
to cheese sech talk as dat ar bout
my Sam, or, for de Lawd, niggah, I'll
cut y~er!"-MarqueHe Mining Journal
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-11-05
Shut the Door.

The night is cold; the fierce winds blow;
Dark clouds the heavens hide;
The air is white with drifting snow;
The cruel FrOst-king rcignS outside
His minions roar,
Oh! shut the door.
Within. the fire burns warm and bright,
And light dispelS all thoughts of gloom
The lowered curtains hide the night;
Luxurious comfort fills the room,
And ease floats Ger.
oh! shut the door.
Within, the social harp, swcct-toncd,
No di>cord yields, no players fail;
There beauty rcign>, and wit is crowned.
And Virtues pure, %un>pottcd veil
Is each thrown DER.
Then shut the door.
For, just without. they Shiycring stand,
The wrctchcd freezing, stepped in sin,
Begging for warmth, some kindly hand
70 0pc the door and let them in.
But no; still more
Wen shut the door.
The fierce wind must not enter here,
And Virtue must not meet with Sin;
These tender frames no cold could bear,
And white robes black when Sin comes in.
Forever more,
Then shut the door.
Ncs. shut the dOor-thc cold, the storm,
The sin, the misery, shut out,
Though many 4 frozen, ~lifclcSs form
At morn our steps will lie about.
The winds still war,
Shut fast the door.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-11-05
The Weddas-A Strange People.

An interesting paper on the Wcddas,
Il tribe Of men inhabiting Ceylon, was
read before the Department Of Anthrop-
oiogy of the British Association for the
Advancement IF Science, by Mr.. Ber-
tram llartcShorne. The WeddaS still
depend for their means Of subsistence
upon their bows and arrows, and pass
their lives III Tie vast forests of Ccylon,
without any dwelling houses or system
of civilization. There is an entire ab-
>encc of any flint or stone implements
among them, and their state nf harbar-
ism is indicated by the practice Of pro-
ducing fire by means OF rubbing two
sticks together, rs Well As by their ha-
bitual disregard Of any sort of addition.
Their intellectual capacity iSycry slight;
they are unable 10 count, or to discrim-
mate between c%olors; they seem to re-
gard theft and lying As an uncomfortable
wrong, while they are devoid of n
sentiment of religion except as that TO
be inferred from their practice of offer
inc Il sacrifice to the spirit of one of
their fellows Immediately after his de
CEASE The quotations Indicate the I'M
pOrtancc of this account in so far as it
tallicS with the observations already
made on the origin of religious scnti-
ment. The Romans and Greeks evinced
the same regard for the dead, and the
modern mode of burial is the survival
of the earliest religious ideas on the sub
ject but little altered by time and Scus-
tom. 1t is Thorcau who first said that
much of the time Of the livingiS devoted
to carrying out the wishes Of the dead
these survive in their withstand we have
invented additional legal paraphernalia
for carrying out primitive conceptions
of the meaning of death. Mr.. Harris
horne further said of the WcddaS that
they never laugh, and they are note
worthy rs being the only savage race
in existence speaking all Aryan lam
guagc. Alr. Hyde Clarke said at the
meeting that the Wcddas had aIl the APP
pcarance OF being an aboriginal people.
Their speaking an Aryan language was
no decisive reason for calling them
Aryans. This statement embodies pres
ent views on the position of philolo@y
as i science. Its results appliedt to pre-
historic conditions are seen to be faulty.
In all the discussions as to the afinitics
of the races of men a study of the physi-
cal characteristics is the best guide.
Religion is but little help in the matter,
conquered faces adopting the religious
beliefs of their masters; while there has
been an international conflict going on
between different religious ideas them
Independent of physical strug-
giles. So we, an Aryan people, have
adopted a religion which is Semitic.
A MAN who has travelled saysi it didn't
take him long TO find out that the brake
men own all the railroads and the clerks
all the hotels.