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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
Patrons Of Husbandry At the Centennial
Exposition.

Patrons OF Augbandxy At the Centennial
Exposition.
In one Of our exchanges we find the fol-
lowing:
THE national grangers are to hold
grand encampment near Philadelphia to
attend the centennial exposition this year.
Sixty acres Of land have been leased, and
an immense building is to be erected, in
which rooms with Accommodations are to be
provided at cost of not more than So a
head each day. This is done, the grang
ers say, to avoid the extravaganza and i'm
POSITIONS of hotels and boarding
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
consented to lay double track to the ex-
hibition grounds, to be used exclusively by
the grangers. The run will not be more
than twenty minutes. The new building
is to be lighted with gas, and supplied with
hot and cold water. Shares of $50 each
are to be issued to the amount of $500. 600,
no member being PERMITTED to take more
than one share. This sum is thought to
be sufficient to cover the cost of the enter
prise.
THE HOPE HOSE BALL.-The Hope
Hose ball, at Killers Hall, next Monday
evening, will, nc doubt. be pleasant affair.
1t is being talked of a good deal among
the young folks. The company will give
handsome and costly gold watch to the
lady who holds the lucky number. Every
| lady will receive number when she enters
the hall. A committee will then be ap
pointed from among the dancers to super
intend the drawing No fireman will be
allowed on this committee. The watch
can now be seen at Bakers jewelry store.
Music furnished by Biehl's band in full
uniform.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
HAIR DYE.

BACHELORS CELEBRATED HAIR DYE.
best in the world. The inventor has used this
SPLENDID Hair DYE for 81 years with benefit to the
han. and injury to his health proof that it 10
the only true and perfect Dye, Harmless reliable,
instantaneous No disappointment; no ridiculous
tints: remedies the ill effects of bad dyes leaves
the hair soft and beautiful Black Brown Sold
and properly applied at BACHELORS Wig Fac
tory, No. l6 Bond street, n, Y, Sold by all drug
pists
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Fluid Lightning leaves no scars.

DR.. Mahla, Prof. Chem, certifes Prus-
sings White Wine Vinegar to be pure and
wholesome.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

All kinds Of sewing machines repaired
at the Boston Bazaar. 22-d&wtf

Orders for Printing or Book Binding will
be executed at The ARGUS Office neat
quick and cheap. IT,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

STop that distressing cold with bottle
of Masta's celebrated Balsam. For Sale
by all druggists in Rock Hand
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

Your TAXES ARE DUE.-State, county
and city taxes are due Office over Hong
Kong tea store.
decl5-3m j. r. HUBER, Collector,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
The Neat Housekeepers'

CTOVE DSESSING. NO DUST NO SMELL
y Always soft nd ready for use without dish
and give more elegant and lasting lustre than any
STOVE POLISH ever produced. A stove can be dress
ed on delicate carpet without soiling it. Manu-
Mass.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
Railroad Time Table.
PEORIA & ROCK ISLAND RAILWAY.

LEAVE ARRIVE.
Eastern rs. OOa m. Mail & Ex. 1:10p, m.
Mail lex. 1'45 p. m. Western Elk. 500 p. m.
Way Freight $50 a. m Way Freight rs p. m.
Through f. 500 p. m. Through Fl AGO q. m.
The 500 a. m, train makes close connection at
Galva with G b q @, for Monmouth, Bushnell, &c,
also at Peoria with & j. for Jacksonville Spring
field, st Louis and all points south and southwest,
arriving In st Louis at 800 pm.
The AS train makes close connection at Galva
with b & @ II r. for Galesburgh and Burlington
also at Peoria with r w s. W.,IB& w, and Illinois
Midland for points east and southeast,
j. r. billiard, Receiver.
JAS. V. MAHoNEY, Genl. Tiki. Agt
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

CONG EAST TRAINS LEAVE
At 8 30 q. m. 415 p, m. and 1000 p. m. Trains
arrive from west ae above
GOING WEST TRAINS LEAVE
At $50 q. m. 9:55 q. m, and 8 20 p. m. Train
arrive from the east as above.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
ASTHMA.

THE SUBSCRIBERS ARE MANUFACTURERS
] and Proprietors of Dr. r. W Reads Celebrated
Asthma Relief, which is undoubtedly the best
asthma remedy yet discovered INSTANT RE-
LIEF is GUARANTEED OR PURCHASE PRICE
REFUNDED. We put up the medicine in boxes Of
three sizes which retail for 25 cents, SO cents and
medicine promptly forwarded by mail postpaid
Also samples sent free to any who desire. Prices
per doz. $1.T5; $3.50 and 800; gross price, $1S
$50; $T2. ETHRIDGE, FULLER q CO.,
Rome, N. Y.
For sale in Rock Island By John Bengston Emf
Rehler, and L. Breunert
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
Q A M PHI o in Il
The great discovery for
The Relief of Pain!

1t Immediately relieves, and is a sure cure for
RHEUMATISM and all EXPLANATORY DISEASES.
CAMPnoRISB has relieved thousands Of cases Of
Sprans, Bruises and Stiff Joints 1t is unrivalled
cure for Sore Throat, Pains in the Back, Chest
and Limbs, Chilblains, Burns and Scalds, Frosted
Feet, Catarrh etc.
1t has a pleasant and refreshing odor, and will
not grease stain the most delicate fabric, which
makes 1t q LUXURY in every family. Price Is cents
per bottle For sale by (. Breunert Emil Kehler
and John Bengston.
REUBEN HoYT, Prop, New York
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

Printing and. binding executed neat
quick and cheap at The ARGUS OTTcI.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17

We copy the above from the Davenport
Democrat of Tuesday evening,
Religious services will be held in the
churches in the morning, after which the
Irish socities will conform to the follow
ing
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
The Irish societies and their guests of
Davenport and Rock Island will meet at
their respective halls at 10 o'clock, sharp,
on the morning of March 18th, thence
proceeding to Rock Island, there uniting
at / sharp. The procession will take the
following line of march to
ROCK ISLAND,
and through the following streets: From
the bridge west on Ilin5is street to Ohio:
south on Ohio to Orleans; east on Orleans
to Madison; south on Madison to Rock
River: east on Rock River to Broadway:
north on Broadway to the bridge; thence to
DAVENPORT
via the bridge; then north on LeClaire
street to 9Th; east on 9Th to Farnam: north
on Farnam to 10th; west on 10th to Ste.
Marguerties church: north from the
church to lltt; west on 18th to Brady;
south on Brady to Sth; west on 9Th to the
Sisters Academy, and through their
grounds; on 9Th to Brady; south on Brady
to 4th; west on 4th to Main; south on
Main to I'd; west on I'd to fillmore; north
on fillmore to St. Mary's church; east on
9th to Marquette; south on Marquette to
Sd; east on Sd to Harrison; south on Har
rison to I'd; east on I'd to Brady; north on
Brady to I'd; east on Sd to Rock Island;
south on Rock Island to I'd; east on I'd to
the government bridge. There the grand
parade will
HALT AND DISPERSE;
the societies will then proceed to their re-
spective headquarters.
The various societies which are to take
part in the celebration of this annual ami
versary are requested to meet on the
Rock Island end of the wagon bridge at IL
A. NJ, sharp.
In the evening there will be balls, in
both cities; the arrangements are not YET
complete but will be published in due
time.
Irishmen of all creeds join 10 celebrating
the birth of Saint Patrick. 1t is not 9
Catholic day, but is day in which every
Irishman delights to honor the memory Of
one of his country's greatest benefactors
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-17
aocxFosD. RocK ISLAND q ST. LOUIS 3. 3.

GOING SOUTH TRAINS LEAVE
At $40 q. m and $50 p. m, daily,
ARRIVE FROM st. LOUIS
Ato:G q m. daily, and s:45 p. IN.
STERLING TRAINS LEAVE
at go u. m. and $40 p. m.
ARRIVE FROM STERLING
At 900 q. IN. and 100 p. IN.
COAL VALLEY MINING co.'s TRAINS.
IyAyE ARRIVE.
H:05 A. NJ. 1880 A.
f9.O0M $3.50 p M.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05
A Corpse on a Spree.

There is in Leavenworth q tall, blonde
youth, Henry Arnold Green, who, by the
free use of his little pistol and his wild,
drunken sprees, made himself famous in
this city kansas City, about year ago.
lie is part owner of the Leavenworth
appeal He receives regularly large in
come from his English estate, which he
devotes to the qualification of his whims.
On Monday, the 4th inst, Green felt more
than usually funny. lie had seen a
funeral procession, and it pleased him to
have little funeral all to himself. Having
first secured the services Of hackman, he
directed him to drive to an undertaking
establishment, and there he ordered a
hcarse and horses, and an empty coffin.
The coffin was put into the vehicle, but
before the doors were closed the Enlishman
said that it was his pleasure to "get in
there himself" After instructing the
hackman to follow certain line of process
sion at a given distance from the hearse
ne crawled inside, and, lying down beside
"|AO NOiHii1 hShGCO a. ClSuT. 1ue procession
then moved of to Cherokee street, at a
funeral pace, tho hearse in front and the
hack following. AS they went down
Cherokee street toward the river, the
knight of the black plumes produced two
bottles of whisky, which he placed along
side of the coffin, and proceeded to wind
up two.days' spree. Presently they came
in contact with q large crowd, who were on
their way to attend festival, and who
made comments on the strange funeral
procession. The English corpse becoming
anxious to know by what authority he was
delayed on the highway, called loudly fol
the driver to stop, and while so doing
turned over in his small apartment and
with loud crash, forced portion of his
body through one of the large oval panes
of glass OH the side of the hearse. The
crowd couldn't stand corpse breaking out
of its coffin, jumping through the side oi
the hearse, and calling for the driver tc
stop further proceedings. They fled in all
directions. After once moro getting in
side, the author of the adventure was driven
to Shawnee street, and then he returned
the hearse and coffin to their owner
Kansas City Times.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05
The Tastes Of Women.

There Is great variety of tastes in the
world, and it is to be presumed that almost
every woman has a taste for something,
although it may not be painting or music.
1t is always desirable that they should have
some resource outside the daily routine of
their domestic duties, torelieve the tedium of
ordinary life. The instincts of their nature
crave such relief Men have their sports
and clubs, and officegossiping, from which
their wives and daughters are excluded.
There is something touching and pathetic
in some of the heirlooms, which show how
they were wont to amuse themselves in
days gone by. On the walls of some re-
mote upper-chamber there hangs a quaint
old sampler, covered all over with alphabets
in every conceivable form of text, and in
all varieties of color, very much faded now,
"worked by Abigail w. Brown, 1911, in
the 18th year of her age" By its side may
be seen Il funeral piece, with n green
willow, bearing strong resemblance to an
umbrella, hanging over q white shaft some.
what out of line, and supported on the
sides by two marvelously- carved female
figures, with a noble defiance of botany in
the surrounding grass and flowers, and ol
ordinary rules of prospective in the ada.
cent church. On the opposite wall, elabo.
rate card-racks are suspended, made Of
vanished and gilded scollop-shells; and in
the centre of the room stands blacl,
table adorned with little pictures of birds
and bugs, and buildings and beasts, and
anything else that happened to turn up in
the pictorials of the day, arranged in rows
and circles and squares and triangles, per-
haps with vase of artificial flowers on the
top, more brilliant than nature, and a
great deal sitter.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

ONE STEP AT A TIME.-A great many
people dishearten themselves by worrying
too much about possible future troubles.
Prudence and forethought is commenda-
bic, but mere unreasonable worry should
be avoided. 1t is an act of folly for a man
to cOniure up all the troubles that might
befall him, and mass them before him as
so many obstacles to overcome at once. A
man at the foot of flight of stairs which he
is about to ascend, would be foolish to
assume that he must take all the steps at
once, and that because he cannot do that
he cannot ascend tho stairs at all. lie has
only to take one step at time, and when
he gets to the top step he takes that almost
as easy as he took the first. But when ne
gets to the top let him be careful lest he
does not fall all the way down by one
misstep. 1t is the same way with the
affairs of life. All we have to do is to take
one step at time.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

In his speech at Fremont on Saturday
night, Gov. Hayes thus alluded to his nomi-
nation for the Presidency: at is very
great responsibility that has been placed
upon me, to be a representative of twenty
millions of people, responsibility which
l know very well am not equal to per-
form. understand very we'll that it was
not by reason of ability or talents that l
was chosen. There were accidents and
contingencies that caused this result, but
that which does rejoice me is that here,
where | have been born, and where l spent
my childhood, there are those that come
and rejoice at the result"
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05
What We Swear By.

Let us now examine some typical forms
of oath. The rude natives of New Guinea
swear by the sun, or by certain mountain,
or by weapon, that the sun may burn
them, or the mountain crush them, or the
weapon wound them, they lie. The even
ruder savages of the Brazilian forests, to con-
firm theirwords, raise the hand over the head
or thrust it into their hair, or they will touch
the points Of their weapons. These two ac-
counts of savage ceremony introduce us to
customs we'll known to nations of higher
culture. The raising of the hand toward
the sky seems to mean here what it does
elsewhere. 1t is in gesture calling on the hea-
ven-god to smite the perjurer with his thun-
derbolt. The touching of the head, again,
carries its meaning among these Brzilians
| almost plainly as in Africa, where we find men
swearing by their heads or limbs, in the belief
that they would wither if forsworn; or, as
when among the old Prussians man would
| lay his right hand on his own neck, and his
left on the holy oak, saying, "May Perkun
! (the thunder-gOd) destroy me!' As to
swearing by weapons, another graphic
instance of its original meaning comes
from Aracan, where the witness swearing
to speak the truth takes in his hand a
musket, sword, a spear, tigers tus6, a
crOckodile tooth, and thunderbolt THAT
Is, of course, a stone celt.) The oath by
the weapon not only lasted on through
classic ages, but remained so common in
Chrlstendom that it was expressly forbidden
by synod; even in the seventeenth
century, to swear on the sword (lille Ham.
let's friends i'll the ghost-scene) was still a
legal oath in Holstcin. As for the holdina
up the hand to invoke the personal divine
sky, the successor of this primitive gesture
remains to this day among the chief acts in
the solemn oaths of European nations.
1t could scarcely be shown more clearly
with what childlike imagination the savage
conceives that symbolic action, such a,
touching his head or his spear, will some
how pass into reality. In connection witt
this group of oaths, we can carry vet ste1
further the illustration of the way men,
minds work in this primitive stage associa
ton of ideas. One of the accounts from
New Guinea is that the swcarcr, holding II,
an arrow, calls on Heaven to punish him i
lie lies; but by training the arrow TIN
other way the oath can be neutralized
This is magic all over. What one symbo
can do, the reverse symbol can undo. Tru
to the laws Of primitive magical reasoning
unculturcd men elsewhere still carry on tn,
symbolic reversal of their oaths. An Abys
|: sinian chief, who had sworn an oath h,
disliked, has been seen to screpe it off hi
tongue and spit it out. There are still
places in Germany where the false witness
reckons to escape the spiritual consequen
ces of perjury by crooling one finger, t.
make it, | suppose, not a straight but
crooked oath, or he puts his left hand t.
his side to neutraizc what the right hand
doing. Here is the idea of our cover tn
Left but so far as | Know this has com
down with us to mere schoolboys shufiling
--Prqf. T.. b. Taylor, d. Pqp,elar Scjc,c
Nombyyor Joy.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

her manners and views. Secluded from
the world, reading little and hearing less,
she fossilizes in her place, and in few
years becomes a living anachronism, a
ladylike kind of Rip Van Wrinkle, for
whom time has slept and changes have not
been, and over whose mind progress has
not traced the lightest furrow. Too gentle
to be anything but amiable, never mixing
herself up with scandals or disputes, taking
no part in the life of the place anyhow, for
good or evil alike, she is yet practically
friendlcss; and when people speak of her
it is rather with contempt than with the
pity which she merits. But the world is,
as rule, without pity for those who do not
please it; and an eccentric old maid,
devoted to cats and worsted work, with
queer manners and an odd style of dress,
who make no condolences, asks no advice,
knts up no intimacies, but just lives as a
nun unprotessed-wanting the director
offers no points for the imagination to seize
on and sympathize with, though much
that can be laughed at and ridiculed.
THE NUN BY NATURE.
Of the same type, with difference, is
the sweet and sanity old maid, to whose
life love has always been astranger, and who
never even in her youngest days, thought
of marriage with anything but horror, Of
motherhood with anything but dread
She, too, is of the tribe of natural nuns fol
whom Pratestantism has no place, and
whose natural home is the convent. This
again is Of the kind that does not change
with the years. She has always been the
same. When young she moved through
the world in a stately statuesque kind O.
way, making the despair of all the men
who loved her-perhaps the moro because
she was unattainable; and when old she is
the same, with just the difference bctweer
the lily when it stands up in its first youn!
bloom and the lily when it is dropping t.
Its fall-botween wax fresh, bloomy, rosy
and wax faded, yellow, and with all til,
bloom rubbed off. But whether young O
old, she is always of the samo spiritua
|
untouched by the senses in any direction
with few, very few affections, and thes
with strange want of personality in thei
character-quite as satisfying if the object
thereof are separated from her for years a
if they are next door; woman whom tn
love of man never warmed, the caress Of
child never thrilled; the modern vestal
the Protestant num- in the world but no
fit; passonless and pure but a statue
not a woman.
In any case, however, we have sucI
beautiful types of old maids as make u
forgive the disagreeble and unwonmanly
and when we have two things to look al
is it not the wisest plan to shut our eyes t
the unpleasing and to sec only the NOR
desirable by Hrs. +. Lynn Linton in til
last BclJraria.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05
What is Done in June.

In June the land is sorcly scourgcd with
strawberry festivals an' other devices which
empty pockets and disorderd stomachs.
In June man who can't afford his wife
hired girl, can spend thirty cents day
for buck beer.
In June banana skins cripple more peo-
pie than cannon balls.
In June the tramp trampeth after any
thing but plOw.
In June men invest in their pet base ball
clubs and their money never bothcrs them
any more.
In Juno a man looks long and earnestly
for his summer clothes-and he only finds
a pair of cheap vases.
In June Sunday Schools pick up mar.
vclously, preparatory to expected picnics
In June all that a man hath, yea all that
he can borrow, that will he give to sec
base ball match.
In June radishes ere strong enough fol
base ball bats, and BARRIERS grease vii
blister the scalp of a cocoanut on a singl,
application.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05
P0et%V.
A COUNTRY SCHOOL.

Pretty and pale and tired
She sits in her stiff-backed chair
While the blazing summer sun
shines in on her soft brown hair
And the tiny brook without,
That she hears through the open door,
MOcks with its murmur cool
Hard bench and dusty floor.
1t seems such an endless round
Grammar and a, BIC;
The blackboard and the sums;
The stupid geography;
When from teacher to little Jem
Not one of them cares a straw,
Whether John is in any cease"
Or Kansas in Omaha.
But Jemmy's bare brown feet
Are aching to wade in the stream,
Where the trout to his Turing bait
Shall leap with quick bright gleam,
And his teachers blue eyes stray
To the flowers on the desk hard by,
Till her thoughts have followed her eyes
With half unconscious sigh.
Her heart Outruns the clock,
As she smells their faint sweet scent;
But when have time and heart
Their measure in unison blent?
For time will haste or lag,
Like your shadow on the grass,
That fingers far behind,
OR dies when you fain would pass.
Have patience, restless Jem,
The stream and the fish will wait;
And patience, tired blue eyes
Down the winding road by the gate,
Under the willow shade,
Stands some one with fresher flowers,
So turn to your books again,
And keep love for the after hours.
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

When Oliver Cromwell was asked, in
1919, to accept the post Of Commander-in-
Chief and Lieutenant General of Ireland,
he replied that he would go if he were
"suiiiciently provided" The following
facts from "The Calendar of State Papers =
will show the pecuniary value of his de-
mand, which was grantcd "ITc required,
in addition to the ordinary salary of the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, $4,000 for
outfit, $50 a day as long as he remained in
England, and $4,000 year on his landing
in Ireland. Unfortunately, Cromwel's
patent does not state his salary as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, only that he should
have the usual fees, stipends and allow
ances; but, Judging from analogy, it seems
to have been at least $4,000. His total
salary would be, therefore, $4,000 year,
which, multiplied by 81, to represent COM
parative value of money at that PERIOD
amounts to $226,O0O-the salary of the
present Lord Lieutenant being only
100000"
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEsT.-Dr
Beard states that from an analysis of the
lives of thousand representative men in
all the great branches of the human family,
he made the discovery that the golden
decade was between forty and fifty; the
brazen between twenty and thirty; the iron
between fifty and sixty. The superiority
of youth and middle life over old age in
original work appears all the greater when
we consider the fact that all the positions
Of honor and profit and prcstige-profes-
sorships and public stations-are in the
hands of the old. Reputation, like money
and position, is mainly confined to the old.
Men are not widely known until long after
they have done the work that gives them
their fame. Portraits of great men are a
delusion; statues are lies! They are taken
when men have become famous, which, on
the average, is at least twenty-five years
after they did the work which gave them
their fame. Original work requires cnthu
siasm. If all the original work done by
men under forty-fve were annihilatcd, they
would be reduced to barbarism. Men are
at their best at that time when enthusiaru
and experience are most evenly balanced
This period, on the average, is from thirty
! eight to forty. After this the law is thai
experience increases, but enthusiasm de
/ creaseS
Smyrna times., 1876-07-05

A young man in Chicago was recently
found dead in his bed, and the supposition
was that he committed suicide by poison.
ing, but upon analyzing the contents of his
stomach nothing but the following were
found in it; Pickles, pound cake, lemon.
ade, cold turkey, beer, fried oysters, cold
punch, ham sandwich, sponge cake, beef
ten, minee pie, fruit cake, tea, chicken
salad, whiskey, coffee, bologna saugage,
port, cheese, sardines and sherry. The
jury returned a verdict of "Died through
the visitation of friends