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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-24

n,,. RAPIDS CRY, ILL.,, Sept. %, 1877.
The Taylor Williams Mining Company,
capital $4,000, has been incorporated,
with t. Williams, j. Mickle and Il. Wight
man AS directors. 1t only includes the
mines controlled by Mr.. Williams at
Happy Hollow. The general offices of the
Company are located here, with j. Mickle
as General Manager. We hope an early
dividend will be declared.
Mrs. Shuler is building a large addition
to her house on River street. River street
Is getting all the improvements lately.
Nj. M. Corbett was in town the other
day, the guest of 4. M. Mitchell.
The Mollie Mohler which was sunk BY
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$4,000 BOTTLES
Sold in 1876 of This Imminent.
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Excursions to the Rocky Mountains

Excursions to the Rocky Mountains
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road has arranged with the various rail
roaG lines in the country for special round
trip rates to the Rocky Mountains. and
has secured the following rates to Denver.
Colorado Springs, Canon City, Pueblo and
return: from Kansas City and Atchison,
S45: st, Louis, $50; Chicago, sos; Quincy,
$50; Cincinnati, $65; Buffalo, $75, and
correspondingly low rates from all points
east, north and south. These tickets are
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west of the Missouri river. Tickets are on
sale at all principal stations throughout
the country. This is the new route to
Denver through the garden of Kansas aud
Colorado Send for maps, circulars. time
tables, etc, to 7. J. ANDERSON,
Gen. Pass Agent,
TOPEKA, Kan.
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RAPIDS CITY.

The New Mining Company Improve
ments---steamboat raised Chi oxen
thieves---sunday School Picnic
Sporting Club organized, etc. etc.
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26
Ancient Morals.

In the ancient Gentoo laws of India
which show admirable notions of hon
esty as between the subjects the laws,
We find prescriptions for dividing the
booty of robbers who had plundered
any contiguous but alien people. "If
any thieves" says the ordinance, "bv
the command of the magistrate, and
with his assistance, have committed
depredations upon and brought booty
from another proriRce, the magistrate
shall receive share of one sixth of the
WHOLE" etc.
In ancient Greece, even at the golden
prime of that splendid narrow culture
which exhibited itself so incomparably
in art, in literature, and i'm civic virtue,
the moral rules which concern liberty
and life, and the simpler of the moral
rules which concern rights ofproperty,
were defined very perfectly as between
the fellow-citizens of each state, and
between the kindred states, but very
imperfectly beyond that strict limit of
familiar association. The stranger, the
alien, the enslaved captive, the bar
barian of the non-Hellenic world, were
not human fellows To the Greek; at the
most they were only human creatures
of some different variety, having that
similitude and approaching somewhat
to that relation, but quite excluded
from his cognitiOn of fellowship by
all the habits of his feeling and his
thought. According to his perception,
they were clearly proper subjects of
predatory warfare and piracy; he could
kill them, plumber them, enslave them,
with no more compunction of con-
science than the modern hunter feels
in capturing or killing the game-ani-
mails of the forest. And yet the same
conscience was acting in the Greek that
acts in men to-day; but only with more
narrowEess of range in the perceptions
upon which it acted.
We shall have to pass far beyond the
Greek in history to find much of a
moral change in these respects The
EHSll>illlldH Ol lnt EliLiDttldil aye was
a tolerably cultured man, as well NOR
ally as otherwise. So far As his fellow
Englishmen were concerned, he had
notions of right conduct that were quite
accurately formed Bnt he found it
hard to carry many of these notions be-
yond the shOre-bounds of his little
island. The sea in that time-nOt only
the Spanish Main. but the English
Channel, and the very Thames ITSELF
was swarming with English pirates
and buccaneers. who were the contem-
poraries of Shakespeare, and Bacon,
and Spenser. and Coke: who boosted
the best names of the English gentry
in their ranks: who received more than
half countenance from the public SEN
timent and the public policy of the
English nation; and who pillaged |
Spanish, French, and Flemish traders |
with serene impartiality, killing cap
tains and crews without remorse when |
it suited their convenience to kill
Popular Science NORhly.
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Real Old Solid Comfort

The other afternoon a frog catcher
from the city came across two boot
blacks in camp on the river bank near
the lighthouse. Their tent was COM
posed of old coffee sacks sewed together,
and was just large enough to keep the
sun off a spot three feet square.-The
lads were boiling potatoes in an old
wash dish and frying a very thin fish
on piece of sheet iron. They had ali
oyster can to drink out of, bed made of
weeds.
"What are we doin' here?" indig-
nantly replied one of the lads when
questioned. "Why, we is out on our
summer trip, and having the bufliest
time in the world. The eocoanut is all
gone and the crackers eaten up, but
we've got fish and taters left, and you
kin tell the boys in town that we shan't
come back till we've recuperated right
up to hundred and fifty pounds apiece,
We hain't on the Saratogy lay, We
hain't, but we are after real old, solid
comfort"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26
Mystery of OfDreams.

1t is related that a man fell asleep as
the clock tolled the first stroke of
twelve. He awakened ere the echo of
the twelfth stroke had died away, hav-
ing, in the interval, dreamed that he
committed aerime, was detected after
five years, tried and condemned; the
shock of finding the halter about his
neck aroused him to consciousness;
when he discovered that all these events
had happened in an infnitesimal frag-
ment of time. Mohammed, wishing to
illustrate the wonders of sleep, told
now a certain man, being a sheik,
dreamed that he found himself, for his
pride, made poor fisherman; that he
lived as one for sixty years, bringing
up family and working hard; and
how, upon waking up from this long
dream, so short time had he been
asleep that the narrow-necked gourd-
bottle filled with water, which he knew
he overturned when he fell asleep, had
not time in which to empty itself. How
fast the soul travels when the body is
asleep. Often, when we awake, we
shrink from going back into the dull
routine of sordid existence, regretting
the pleasanter life of dream-land. How
is it that sometimes, when we go to a
strange place, We fancy that we have
seen it before? Is it possible that when
one has been asleep the soul has fioated
away. seen the place, and has that
memory of it which so surprises us? In
a word, how far dual is the life of man,
how far not?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26

The past lends TO Egypt charm more
enhancing than its cloudless skies and
delicious climate. Go where YOU will.
antiquity meets You at every turn.
Around you lie the ruins of cities
whose very names have been obliterated
in the silent march of the ages. Before
you flows the sacred river upon whose
waves floated centuries ago the little
ark of the oUtcaSt Hebrew infant. and
the golden barge ofthe gorgeous daugh-
ter of the PtolemieS. Time was when
this old Nile was the highway down
which many successive nations rushed
to conquest, for the Ethiopian, the As
syrian, the Persian, the Roman, and the
Saracen have all lOrtled it in turn in
this ancient realm of the PharaOhs.
Now vexed no longer with the fleets of
rival monarchS, the mighty river rocks
with slumberOus swell the lotus lilies
on its tranquil breast, and on its lonely
banks. which have rung 50 often in
days gone by to the shrill paeans of tri-
umph, the palms in the Sultry nOOntide
throw their long shadows athwart the
ruined temples and colossal statues,
grand in execution and fau less i'm
detail, which reveal in every outline
the perfection to which the arts of ar
chitecture were carried in this their
earliest cradle. The soil is strewed
with fragments of broken columns and
defaced colossi. Buried beneath the
drifting sand of the desert lie the glo-
riOus and yet grOtesque masterpieces Of
the Egyptian chisel. Serene, majestic.
grave, inundated with flood of har-
monious light, the calm features of the
once inscrutable Sphinx look down
upon u.s. as many centuries ago they
looked down in their grand repO>e upon
the wondering Father of Histo & :rime
has pressed lightly on these .ksnic
temples and vast tomb-places, but from
their shadowy portals the wOrshippers
have gone forever. DesOlate and state
fallen, they open now only to admit
the curious strangeI.-CAdmJerS' Joar-
nal
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-09-26

enjOined i'm the Khoran than prayer.
He speaks of prayer as ''the pillow of
religion and the key of paradise" To
his followers he prescribed five stated
seasons of prayer every day. The first
is in the morning, between day and
sunrise; the second Immediately after
noon; the third at the middle hour be-
tween noon and sunset; the fourth be-
tween sunset and dark; the fifth an
hour and half after night has fully
set in. These seasons of prayer are
still scrupulously observed i'm all Mo-
hammedan countries. The muezzin or
crier from the top of the mosque pro-
claims the hour of prayer, when every
good Mussulman, wherever he may be
or however employed, is obliged to
pause and go through with his devo-
votions.
Fasting is another duty or the Mo
hammedan religion. The great fast of
Ramadan is continued through the
whole of the ninth month of the Arabic
year. No food must be taken through
the hours of daylight, but when the
evening comes the votary gives himself
up without restraint to the pleasures of
the table and such other qualifications
as his heart desires. Frequent ablu-
tions and alms-giving are also to be
reckOned among the duties of the Mo
hammedan religion.
Mohammed prohibited to his follow
ers the sin of gambling and the use of
strong drinks. By strict Mussulmans
these iniunctions are observed, while |
by the more liberal class they are dis
Polygamy is permitted and practised |
among the followers of MOhammed. He |
limited his followers to the number of |
four wives, while he was allowed to |
have as many as he pleased.-Bdptist
Quarterly.
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NO. 80.
English Kings.

William the Conqueror died from his
enormous fat, from drink, and from the
| violence of his passions.
William Rufus died the death of the
poor stays that he hunted.
Henry the First died of gluttony.
Henry the Second died of broken
heart, occasioned by the bad conduct OF
his children.
Richard Coeur de Lion died like the
animal from which his heart was
named, by an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody knows how, but it
is said of chagrin, which, We suppose,
is another term for a dose of heIlebore.
Henry the Third is said to have died
a natural death.
Edward the First is likewise said 10
have died of ''natural Sickness"
which it would puzzle all of the college
of physicians TO denominate.
Edward the Second was most barbar-
Ously murdered by ruffians employed
by his own mother.
Edward the Third died of dotage, and
Richard the Second of starvation, the
very reverse of George the Fourth.
Henry the Fourth is said to have died
''of fits, caused by uneasiness," and un-
easiness in palaces in those times was
very common complaint.
Henry the Fifth is said TO have died
''of painful afilIetion, prematurely."
This is courtly phrase for getting rid
of king.
Henry the Sixth died in prison, by
means known then Ouly to his jailer,
and known now only TO Heaven.
Edward the Fifth was strangled in
the tower, by his uncle. Richard the
Third.
Richard the Third was killed in
battle.
Henry the Seventh wasted away "a a
miser ought TO do, and Henry the
Eighth died of carbuncles, fat and
fury, while Edward the Sixth died OF a
decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of "a
broken heart" whereas she died of a
surfeit, eating too much of black pud-
ding.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died of
from having sacrificed
Essex to his enemies.
James the First died of drinking.
Charles the First died on the scaffold,
and Charles the Second died suddenly,
it is said. of aDoDlexv
William the Third died from con-
sumptive habits of body, and from the
stumbling of his horse.
Queen Anne died from her attachment
to ''strong water" or, In other words,
from drunkenness, which the physi-
clans politely called the dropsy.
George the First died of drunkenness.
which his physicians as politely called
an apoplectic fit.
George the Second died of a rupture
Of the heart, which the periodicals OF
that day termed visitation of God.
George the Third died as he Eyed-a
mailman. Throughout life he was st
least consistent monarch.
George the Fourth died of gluttony
and drunkenness.
William the Fourth died amidst the
of his subjects.