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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-13
The undersigned respectfully
1on of pafties contemplating

ed Brequet Hair Springs Full Ruby Jewelled, ano
combine all modern improvements IN Watch
making.
These Watches were awarded the Grand Prize h.
the Paris Exposition of 1867. for the beat perform
ancc and grea est accuracy in Adjustment; and as
further guarantee that hey equal to the bestwe
annex names of some of the most respectable zeal
ere i'll the trade WHO have tested them for END
will vouch for the accuracy of our statements.
Benedict Bros. n. Y, W. II. Weeks, Bangor,
b. Marks, Troy. n. 7, Ne.
j. A. Smith, Saratoga sp's Il. " strang- Elmira, y
E. B. Booth Son Roch Haskins & Isbell, osw,
ester. N Y 10. n. Y.
H. Botehkiss, Buffalo, n yee & Bettys, AuburH
B. K Chase Co.. Rat j. 4, Clark. Batavia Il.
land, VI, i,
j. II Grant, Troy, Pa. II CoweII 8 Co., Ciev.-
G. W. Luce, Xenfa Ohio. land. o
A. Lowell Portland. Me. o. Il. Ford, sew Hover.
OHIO. Nichols & Iser'he To
A. L. Bnrtenk werccs ledo Ohio.
ter. Mae. Geo. Enibty, Morrow, o
w s. Taylor, Utica, New q. Bills, Canandaieua, n
York. Y. LIE Grys d Wort d
Evans d Manning, Bing- Cambridge, n. u.
! hamton, n. Y. d. B. Buell. d Co, Hart
Dunlap & Baker, Man ford, CT.
chester, n Fl; c. Wyinan, st. Alban
George m W. Dickinson, v" q. Hfk' +" "'ns'e'
Ashtabrla. o. John b. Morriss CT z Gin
Weld Brcs, Lockport, II. natl. o.
Baillette & Weld Water Pa
loo, Iowa l. II. Grant, Troy, y. y.
Carpenter q Bro, Bnr-N 7. Kilburn, Cory,
lingtoD. Iowa. Pa.
| Ferguson d. Clapp, Indianapolis, Ind.
And large number OF others throughout the
United States. For further particulars. ask your
matchmaker to see them. or address
| QUISCHE & KRUGLER, = 7
Wholesale Agents III the United States, Salesroou
| 15 Maiden Lane. New York.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-13
New York Market.

& NEW 1ORK, March 13
FINANCIAL.
Gold--1 14a.
MoDsy-S04
Goyernments-Active: strong
u. S, Bonds ti59 cent 520's 1881 i.-....-. 1 %
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-13
G, nj. KELLER. M. y.

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence cor
:. Orleans and Ohio streets next door to Kehler's
Drug Store. Office over Bensef 6 Thomas Drug
tore. Market Square, Office hourf 10 to IL A. M to
Pm T-Iad&~Iy
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-13
THOMAS YATES,

IS PREPARED To DO PLUMBING IN ALL IT'S
! branches. also. Gas and Steam Fitting.
Call and have estimates made before ordering your
work done by ether parties.
THOMAS Y At ts. lLevee Rock Island
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-13
Orleans Street Livery.

A HENRY, LIVERY FEED SALE AND
y, Boarding S able. Parties and Funerals Spe-
calty Orleans Street, between Buffalo and Ea
gle. Charges reasonable. IL 15d1y
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

CHURCHES should be careful how they
go on the bond of unworthy members. \
Hartford correspondent tells this story: In
tho absence Of the president of one of the
city banks, the cashier, great wag, was
looking over the mail, when he found a
letter from an Albany bank, inquiring as
to the value of note Endorsed and pre-
sented there for discount by certain
Hartford man Of unsavory business repu-
tation, who was, however, noisily active in
a certain religious denomination. Selling
a pen, the cashier quickly replied as fol
lows: s'If the note is genuine it isn't
worth a d-n; but if forgery, his
Baptist brethern will probably make it
good" When the president Of the bank
came in the cashier informed him that be
had answered the Albany letter, but would
show him his response if he desired. The
president asserting, the cashiers Letter
was produced, upon the perusal Of which
the president smiled grin,ly, and said !:
''The letter may go, for your facts are cor
rect, though should not have expressed
them ia just that way"
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EN-
There is vast difference, says the Dan
bury NcUs, in the conduct OF a man and a
woman in new clothes. When woman
gets new suit she immediately pTances
down town, ard for hours will walk con-
tentedly along crowded thoroughfare,
receiving fresh impulses of joy every time
another woman scans her wardrobe. But
a man is so different. lie won't put on
his new clothes Cor the first time until it is
dark. Then be goes down town so eau
iiously as to almost create the Impression
that he is sneaking along If he sees a
crowd on corner he viii slip across the
way to avoid them, and when lie goes into
his grocery llc tries to get behin1 as many
barrels and boxes as he can. All the time
he is trying his level best TO appear rs it
the suit was six months old, aud all Inc
while realizes that me is making an infer
nal failure Of it. We hope the time will
como when new pants will be SO folded by
the manufacturer that they won't show
ridge along the front Of each leg when the
wearer dons them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
APoRTUGUEsE SPORTSMAN.

Hs had some experience of woodcock.
hare, and red-legged partridge shooting,
and likewise Of hunting with dog and
gun, wolves, which he never by any
chance shot. This fact does not astonish
anybody who has seen Portuguese gun
loaded. A small handful of native and
almost harmless powder, a little grass or
leaf or two, and an equal handful OF shot Of
ali sizes, rammed down with huge wnd
upon it of extempore manufacture, consti-
tute the charge. The gun is fred, the
wolf escapes, and, WHIST is more remarks
ble than this, the sportsman who holds the
gun also escapes. The dogs are usually
as unsuccessful as their masters, in CATCH
ing the feet-footed wolf; nevertheless the
wolf continues TO be the favorite sport Of
the Portuguese. The good padre had
many thrilling stories of uncaught wolves.
and was moreover eloquent in his accounts
of the thrush shooting about Cimbra and
the crow shooting near Oporto. "Crowsi
Are they game birds You cannot eat
them, can you Z" "To be sure l can; they
are the best game in the world" said the
padre; "stewed in vinegar, there Is really
nothing 60 good d"-Eca miner.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

WONDERFUL BEANs.-A gentleman in
st. Louis has lately had sent him by a
friend from California, two beans resem-
bling in shape beechnut, which are pos
sessed with remarkable power of anima-
tion, which they show in advancing. re-
treating, and turning somersaults. Their
antics are indeed wonderful to witness.
They are known in the State from which
they come as the jumping bean. He keeps
them in a small box, and if left at night in
the bedroom upon a table, they make such
a racket he is obliged to shut them up in
a drawer SO he can sleep. To some this
article may seem incredible. Others may
have seen them.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
LYING TOR LUCK.

Walking In the early morning at small
station In North-wes. India the writer, on
passing a shrubbery, observed man
siealthily moving in the bushes The in
truder was asked what he wanted. when
he replied, "Tho Seth is dead" This Seth
was the principal man in the native city
adjoining the station, and a merchant uni
versaly known in the commercial world
on account of his great riches. Forgetting,
in his surprise at the announcement, that
the reply was scarcely an adequate one 10
his question, the writer took his walk. and,
on returning, expressed his astonislmeat
to the servants that they had not told him
the Seth was i'll, mentioning the catastrophe
he hsd learned from the trespasser. One
of the servants having happened, on his
way from the city that very morning, to
have seen the Seth hearty and well. it
wac decided on all hands that the infoima-
ton was incorrect
Thereupon one present remarked:
"The man who told your honor was
probably dyer"
"a dyerr' cried the writer; "but why
should dyer tell falsehoodsf''
"He was probably lying Tor luck" was
the answer; and then it was related that
when a vat has been prepared for dye,
sone al xety is felt as TO whether it will
turn out well-and the blue dye was said
to be the most ticklish-and that during
this doubt the dyers go out telling false
hoods, in the hopes that, if they are believed,
the vat will turn out well. Further in
quiries were made afterward, and the facts
were found to Toe correct; and, indeed,
illusions to the custom were subsequently,
pointed out in native poetry. A lover would,
perhaps, be made 70 address his mistress
in some such mad hyperbole as this, "fou
deceived me, it may be, lest tbs blue vat Of
heaven, jealous of the heaven of your face.
should wish TO spoil ITSELF
There is no pretense that the incident
marked sny discovery; the circumstance
is probably well known TO any one taking
an interest in folk lore and local customs,
but it certainly explains how lying might
be bold species of worship. Numberless
traces exist Of conciiiatory worship in
countries where the popular faith con-
ceires spirits of evil &c have independent
power; such worship is opposed to that
offered in the hope of obtsining benefits,
and is in truth blibe TO secure abstinence
from mischief. Akin 10 this is The fear Of
offending such hur;ful beings by using
unpropitious names; thus The furies must be
called the Favorable Ones, Eumenidesl
and q certain undesirable parsonage
should be mildly designated "the old gen.
teman" Perhaps-but antiquarians must
decide this-in our sport of April Fool
there may be trace Of this worship of an
evil spirit. And go, as we laugh at some
fun-bewildered person on a showery
morning in The Spring, and keep up the
joke because We perpetrated it in our teens
we may be performing a rite which was OF
old like laying a garland Of poisonous and
sinister flowers on the altar of demon, in
the hope of securing good fortune for those
who were not afraid of lying for luck.-.a1
TIC Year Round
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

The Hartford Times tells of smart Con-
necticut stump speaker who was harangu-
ing a crowd in Fairfield county, when the
effect of one of his strong points was terri
bly, broken by a bawlng exclamation from
a balf-drunken fellow in the crowd, who
sung out :-''Oi,, you're demagogue -
The orator fixed his eye upon the fellow
and, pausing just a moment to fix the at
ten:ion of the audience and give his re-
sponse the more effect merely answered,
with one of his own unapproa chabie grins:
"And put a wisp Of straw around your belly
and you'd be demUohn ~ 1t brought
down the house and cxtinguislied the bibu-
ulous offender.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
WHAT MY LOVER SAID.

By the mereSt chance in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me
In the tai, wet grass, with its faint perfume
And 1 tried to pass, but he made 40 room
Oh, | tried but he would not let me
So st ood and blusheti till the grass grew red.
With my face hent down above it,
While he took my hand, as he whisp ring
said
{How the clover lifted each pink sweet head,
To listen 20 all that my lover said
Oh the clover in bloom-I love IT'D
In the high, wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung over,
But could not pass upon either side,
For found myself, when l vainly tried,
In the arms of nay s'ea'ifast lover.
And he held me there and he raised my
head,
While he closed the path before me;
And he looked down into my eyes and said -
GLOW the leaves bent down from the boughs
DER head,
To listen to all that my lover said
Oh, the leaves hanging lowly Ger ne!
Had lie moved aside little way,
could surely then have passed nim;
Aud would not have heard what lie had to
Could only aside have cast him.
1t was almost dark, and the moments sped,
And the searching uight-wind found as
But he drew me nearer aud softly said
GLOW the pure, sweet wind grew still, in
stead,
To listen to all that my lover said
Oh, the whispering wind around usO
j am sure he knew when he held me fast,
That | must be all unwilling;
For L tried to go, and l would have passed +,
As the night was coming with its dew at last,
And the sky with stars was filling;
But lac clasped me close when | would have
fed,
And he made me hear his story,
And his soul came out from his lips and
said
glow the stars crept out where the white
GOo:9 led,
To listen TO all that my lover said
Oh, the moon and the stars i'll glory }
1 know that the grass and the leaves will
not tell,
Aud I'm sure that the wind, prcciol 8
rover
Will carry his secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word OF the many that rapidly fell
From tie eager lips of my lover;
Shall never reveal what a fairy-like spell
They wove round about us that night in the
dell,
In the path through the dew-ladeu clover;
Nor echo :he whispers that made nay beart
swell
AS they fell from the lips of my lover
H. G.. in ". T. EreniHg Post.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

"The first prize in mathematics in
Thompson University was carried off this
year by Miss ID. Angelina Smith, a gisl of
eighteen
Mr.. Jooiink, stretched in an easy chair
before the fire with a handkerchief thrown
over his bald head, read this interesting
fact aloud from the paper last night, but
shortly repented Himself for having done
SO, as it set Mrs. JoLlink talking. That
good lacy was engaged in darning Joblink's S
stockings, and addressed her conversation
to her bosom friend, Mrs. Meezles:
''Yes, | don't doubt it. Folks is begin
MIN to see that girls can do jist as well as
boys. Folks here in Virginny tell me
should be thankful that | amt burnt out,
and SO am but when think of what l
might bin if I'd kept single it makes me
mad. Instid OF bein' Mrs. Sarah Ann job
link, the mother Of five, an don' my own
housework, l might jist well a-bin Miss
S. Ann Midge, an carried off prizes too.
| might a-bin a doctor or a lawyer or a
book writer, an had my name in the pa
pers."
,
weak eyed aud admiring Mrs. Meezles.
"Now," proceeded Mrs. j., casting a
side glance across the comfortable room at
Joblink, who was rubbing his bald spot
miserably, "Now, why migbtn't l a-5in a
reformer an held conventions an things
an showed folks how they was agoin'
astray an didn't know beans compared
with me? But" sighed the good lady, 81
got married, an ain the mother o five"
$50 you did, DEAR" said the sympathetic
Mrs. Mcezles.
+'Who knows, now, that mightn't q bin
an artist or a juryman, Or"
"Good Lord, my dear!'' cried Joblirk
suddenly, throwing his spectacles off his
nose to his forehead and holding the paper
far away from him as possible, as if that
would enable him TO read the better, "Good
Lord! my dea,, the poor old lady is deadr'
What poor old lady, Joblink ?' snapped
the testy wife.
"Mrs. KinkcGi,s, yon know-your old
mistress. Dear, dear, and she's dead !!
Well, WE'LL we must all go in our turn.
She was good mistress to you, Sarah.
Dead, eh? Well, well, l."
With three strides Mrs. Joblink spatched
the paper from her astonished husband' S
hands, and still more surprised the kindly
gentleman with a whack or the ear. But
the murder was out, and Mrs. Meezels en-
joys the knowledge that her friend, Mrs.
Jobiinll, was no Tore than a servant girl
before that poor dear man Joblink married
her-with all her airs. Firgfnia ChrOnt-
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

sPA, are you ia favor Of the Bible in
public schools ?'' asked a West Side young
ing. "Why, Of course, am" responded
the father, pleased that such al important
subject should engage the attention of his
youthful offspring. What makes you ask
such a question, my son ?'' go, nothing
rejoined young hopeful, ''oniy thought
maybe you wasn't, as you never have had
one at home" The urchin dodgcd, but
be wasn't quick enough.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

THE story goes that once in game of
poker General Logan held three jacks
jack of hearts, jack of diamonds and jack
Of clubs. After running the bets mp to
the limit and calling down the hands,
Logan found that his opponent had four
tens, when, with true military fertility of
resource, Logan furtively took out Of his
pocket one of his own photographs and
played it upon his unsuspecting opponcn:
for the jack of spades, thereby holding
four jacks aud sweeping the board.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
AMIDST THE BRE4 Il ERS.

/ never was in better spirits than on the
morning left Shanghae. l was then cap
tain of the good ship Morning Glory,
bound from that port to London, with a
cargo of tea. The vessel was fine clips
per, well formed, and in good trim so l
never felt more confident of making rapid
passage than on the day We cass off the tug
at Woosung and ran past Saddle Island,
with fresh eight knot breeze, down the
China Sea. had only two passengers
with me-Mrs. Clifford, the wife of an
English merchant at Ningpo, and her
daughter, a little sunny haired child, who
soon became a favorite with all on board.
All went well until we were off Turnabout,
when the wind fell light, and for several
days we made but little progress.
When l came on deck one morning, l
was surprised to find the royals and torgal-
laut sails slowed, though it was dead
calm, and the crew busily employed reef
ing preventer- braces and doubly securing
everything movable.
whats the matter Jackson ?'' I in
ouired, as the chief officer came towards
me.
81 think it's going to blow hard, cap
tain the mercury's all of a quiver in the
barometer-the birds fly high and are
making for land. I've seen those signs
before in these seas, and know a typhoon's
coming Oh pretty shortly he replied.
I commended his forcthought, and, urg-
ing him to get everything snug as quickly
as possible, went below to ascertain, as
accurately as could, the vessels position.
Clouds grad ually gathered overhead, and
at eiaht bells in the afternoon the first iu>
stallmeut of wind came, in short fitful
gusts, from nearly opposite points of the
COMPASS. Presently the clouds opened,
and a torrent of rain poured down, while
the wind increased in violence till it blew
heavy gale.
The matches were tightly battened down,
all sails furled except the three close -reeted
topsails and fore course and L put her
rioht before the wind, to endeavor to run
ont of the circle of the storm. Night came
Oh, and then the full fury of the tempest
hurst upon u.s. To see was impossible, for
the rain drove horizontally along, cutting
TO our very skins-to hear, still more so,
fol- the bowling OF the warning elements
deafened us completely.
Groaning and quivering, the good ship
bore bravely on, now rising high on the
crest of a mountainous billow, anon piung-
ing deep into an abyss of darkness, from
which she again emerged foaming and
snorting like mettlesome 'steeo. Ihe
crew drenched 20 the skin, were crouchlng
under the lee Of the weather-bulwarks !;
and 1 was firmly lashed to the mizzen-
rigging, under shelter of tarpaulin. !.
Still the hurricane ragged with increasing
violence. could not ,closc-haul the vessel
for want of sea-room on the starboard
hand and knew we shoulG get into the
inner circle of the typhoon--the point
most to be dreaded-if we lay to on The
off shore tack. The topsails blew out OF
the bolt-ropes with roar like thunder; !;
.he fore-brace parted, and the yard came
crashing down on deck. One huge wave
broke over the stern, while another struck
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

AN AWFUL FATE.-The bondage of a
drunken appetite we call sin, and blame
the victims who will not break it and shake
it off forever. But there are wretched
persons who cannot free themselves from
the fearful thraldrom. They are those who
have inherited the vicious craving Of their
parents. If beings exist !noS similar to
the demoniacs Of the New Testiinent,
these certainly belong to that class. ''Vis-
iting the iniquities of the fathers upon the
children is in the law of nature and the
law of God, and every such case as the
following affords terrible warning to the
self-made diunkard, not only of what he is
doing to himself, but Of what he may do
to bis children:
knew in Texas a young man who was
heir to a woeful heritage-the passion for
drink. He was physically one of the
handsomest Of men, and possessed of great
and varied talents, which he had carefully
cultivated. Moreover he served his coun-
try with distinguished bravery and was
then holding high position of trust and
honor.
But with regularity that was terrible
there came to him--no matter where he
was, over his ledger, in church, by the
side Of the woman he loved-a craving for
brandy that possessed him like demon,
and drove him forth from amorg his fel-
lows With set lips and despairing face lie
would deliver to a friend the keys of his Of
flee and betake himself to his room-not as
men go to a carousal, but as they go TO q
fearful reckoning, and for two or three
days drink, in suilen silence, till the crav-
ing was appeased. Some one was one day
praising, liz his presence, his vast stores of
acquired information and his delicate fancy
as an artist. yet shall die like brute
he said, sadly; and the dcspairing look OF
haunted animal came into his eyes as he
added, "A1y father died drunl-my moth
er--God forgive her!-my grandfather Shot
himself in delirium tremens-you know,
boys, how poor Patrick Gied-it will be the
same with me-" His prophecy was too
soon fulfilled.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21

hope of being rescued. There.was plenty
of fresh water in the deep pools and fis-
sures of the rocks, but our scant stock of
provisions soon disappeared aud then we
had to use bicheedemer-an edible zcopilite
shell fish and gulls' eggs, which abound
ed on the little island, for food.
y fortnight had passed away, aud still
no friendly sail bad greeted our sight.
The unusual diet and exposure to the
weather-which was extremely hot-told
upon US {; and in orr wan faces and attenu-
ated forms the happy crew of the Morning
Glory could scarcely have been recognized.
Then four of our number volunteered to
take the boat, which we had been unable
to repair for want of materials, and en-
dcavor to reach Hong Kong, from whence
assistance could be sent us. Full of hope,
they started on their mission, one beauti-
ful morning. bearing with them our heart
felt prayers for their success but, alas
they never reached land, the boat was
was how the report Of oar total loss got
circulated.
We remained on the Pratas six weeks,
at the end of which time a trading Junk,
noticing our signals, sent a sampan off,
took us on board, and carried US to Tae-
wan, on the island of Formosa, where we
received much kind attention from tue
British consul, who forwarded us to Hong
Kong
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-01-21
SPECIMEN OF ARABIC ARITHMETIC.

Until during the last quarter century the
arithmetics introduced into Turkey by the
American missionaries crowded out the
Turkish text books, multiplication WAS
taught in the Turkish schools according to
tho following rule: Add together the num-
bers TO be multiplied; take the right hand
figure of the sum for the left hand figure
Of the product; subtract both multiplier
and multiplicand from ten, and mal.ipiy
the remainders for the right hand figure of
the product. Thus:
9.....................--...
S............................
l2 7...27
( This is but q fair specimen of Arabic
arithmetic. OF course the rule lie applic-
able only TO single numbers, and is subject
10 innume,able exceptions. For ingenious
puzzles with numbers the Arabian has no
equal. :. -