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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
MATHEWS
LIQUID STARCH GLOSS

Gives splendid gloss and finish to ali starched
goods making them WHITTIER AND CLEARER tt all
wax or anything else, and prevents the iron from
sticking Trial bottle free
Put up in 4-oz bottles, price 15c. Sold by Gro
GERS and Druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
From the Hon Peter Menard, one of the Oldest
SETTLERS in Illinois.

1t gives me pleasure to add my testimony to the
virtues of your great medicine. One of my blooded
horses had a swelling over the cap of the knee,
about the size of hens egg. Some said 1t was q
strain, and some that it was the JOINT water from
the knee, and could not be cured tried oil cedar
on it, and all the liniments and ointments, and
they did no more good than water. / then, by per
suasion of my friends, tried H. G. Farrell's Arabian
Llnimant, and l was happy to find it take effect
after few days, and it finally cured the noble ami
NAL entirely l think it is decidedly the creates
liniment for horses as well as human flesh, eyel
knew.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. Sept. %.
Wheat-strong: shade higher; II asked cash
] 0T01 071s Oct.
Confirm and higher: 42ss cash or Oct
Oats-Firm; 23Z cash or Oct.
Rye-53A
Barley-63.
Pork-Weak and lower; 13 IS cash: IL 30 year.
Lasd-Weak; 8 70 cash; s 421s year.
Whisky-1 0S.
LIVE STOCK.
Hogs-Rece1pts 1900; active and shade stronger
light 50D5 50: packers 1905 so; heavy shipping
5 40Q5 30; Philadelphias 70Q6 %.
Csttle-Receipts $500: market quiet; common tC
choice smooth 0005 80; hulk sales to shippers
5015 90.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
sCHENCKs PULMoNIc sYRUP

for the CURE OF CONSUMPTION, CoUGHs and COLDS.
The great virtue of this medicine Is that it ripens
the matter and throws it out Of the SYSTEM puflhes
the blood and thus effects cure
SCuRNCK's SEA WEED Tonic, FOR TIE CURE OF
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGEsTTON, &c.
The Tonic produces a healthy action OF the stom
ach, creating an appetite, forming Chyle, and Gu
ring the most obstinate cases of Indigestion,
SCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF
LIVER COMPLAINT, &c.
These Pills are Alternative, and produce healthy
action of the liver without the least danger as they
are free from calomel, and yet more ef1cac1ous i'll
restoring healthy action to the liver.
These remedies are a certain cure for C0nsump-
ton, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripens the matter and
purifies the blood. The Mandrake pills act upon
the liver create healthy bile. and remove all dis
eases of the liver, often a cause Of Consumption.
The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to the
stomach, makes good digestion, and enables the
organs to gTorm good blood; and thus creates q
healthy circulation of healthy blood. The com
bined action of these medicines, az thus explained
| will cure every of Consumption, ii taken IN
/ time and the use of the medicines perseyGred in
DR. Schenck is professionally at his principal of
fee, corner Sixth and Arch streets. hiiadel phia
every Monday, where all letters for advice must be
addressed. SChenCk's medicines for sale by al
Druggists
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28

aGus HEADQUARTERS MOLINE,

RICHARDS & SoHRsEcK's Drug and Book Store
opposite First National Bank, where all orders
can be left for the ARGUS, and where all Moline
business is transacted by o. j. Beardslee. Busi-
ness notices should be handed in by no2n to en-
sure publication the same day.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
E ELECTRICITY |

n Electro -Galvarc Battery, combined with the
n celebrated Medicated Porous Plaster, forming
the grandest curative agent in the world Of medi-
cine. and utterly SURPRISING all other Plasters here
tofore in use. They accomplish more in one week
than the old Plasters in q whole year. They do not
palliate, they CURE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
SANFORD's
RADICAL CUR {
For Catarrh

LAS worked a revolution in the treatment of Ca
II t8rrh. 1t has demonstrated beyond all doubt
that this disease in its severest FORMS is cure.
able and that comfort and happiness may be made
to follow years of misery, years of suffering, by
persistent use of it. The method of treatment or
iginGted by Dr. Sanford, VIZ: the local and consti-
tutional by remedy prepared by distillstion, is
the only one ever offered to the public that will
bear the test of time.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
"A WONDERFUL REMEDY" /"

MEssRs. WEEKS 4 POTTER: Gentlemen,-Your
COLLINS NoLTAIC PLASTER is q wonderful remedy.
| have suffered with a weak and painful back more
than eight years before sent for your Collins Vol
taic Plaster. The pain reached from my back TO
my sides and hips. My left side and hip feeling
very well, but think require another Plaster for
my right eide. / am much improved that can
walk and stand, but before got your Plaster
unable TO walk or stand.
Respectfully yours.
Mrs RICHARD GoRAAN.
Lynchburg, Va, July %, 1876.
P S. Since l finished my letter some uf my
ncighbOrs have come in and wish me to send for
some more of your Plasters. l am recommending
them To all my friends. Please send six of your
Collins Noltaic Plasters. Enclosed find $1.25.
MRS. CoRMAN.
Sold by ali Druggists for 25 cents each. Sent to
any part of the United States and Canadas receipt
of 25 cents for one 81 25 for six S22 for twelve
by WEEKS & POTTER, Proprietors, Boston.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
ARTISTIC TAILORING
EDWARD
ELY g.
r
Gu, ,
Of Chicago. His,
ARTISTIC TAILORS.

We have the CHOICEST and LARGEST stock
of FINE WOOLENS in FALL AND WINTER
weights for G GGNlLEAIEN ever shown under one
loof on this Continent.
LADIES RIDING HABITS and Servants Livery
made To measure.
SHIRTS made to measure.
Wedding Toilet a Specially.
FIVE PER CENT. DISCOUNT on all garments
paid for within five days from receipt of goods.
-Clergymen 10 per cent. discount.
PRICES LoWl STANDARD THE HIGHEST.
Wabash Avenue cor. Monroe, CHICAGO,
ESTABLISHED 1854
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.
!. Q. TARREL1's ARABIAN 1INIMENr
TRIUMPHANT OVER DISEASE

This truly great medicine still goes on, conquer
ing disease, and snatching many a poor powerless
victim from the grave. BY its powerfully stimula-
Ting, penetrating and anodyne qualities it restores
the use of limbs which have been pasied for years
and by its singular power of reproducing the syno-
vial fluid or joint water, it all diseases of the
joints with surprising rapidly. For rheumatism
and affect tions Of the spine and Spleen it has proved
Itself specific; and fo- affections cf the lungs,
lver and kidneys, it is most valuable and power
ful auxiliary; also, for all diseases of the glands
scrofula, goitre swelled neck. etc. And indeed
Tor almost any disease where an external applca-
ton is required, this medicine stands unparalleled.
Sprains bruises cramps wounds, chilblains, burns,
etc, are speedily Cure0 by it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-28

Office and Depot, 100 Fulton street. New York
Sold in Rock Island by Benser 4 Thomas, Otto
Grojan, C.ISpeidel, and K. Breunert mwf
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
Far ming Notes.

Do not neglect to SOW peas on few
worn spots in your corn and cotton
fields this year, to plow under, just for
an experiment. A few hours work
may bring you to q determination,
when you see the result, that will start
you on the ro1d to fortuue.
The way to have fine valuable stock
is to take care Of it and treat ii with
humanity Farmers must become
more careful aud thorough in all their
work. 1t does not pay to neglect pro.
vision for the comfort of stock, because,
perchance it may live through such
treatment. Possibly it would improve
under q different treatment.
Among the avocations suitable for
young boys is the rearing and care of
poultry. The love of pets is universal
among children; and in the whole range
of our domestic animals there are no
pets so generally adapted to city, town
or country, as domestic fowls. Nor are
there any that furnish greater pleasure
to fortunate owners; for besides their
handsome appearance. there is the
daily gathering of the eggs source
of unfailing pleasure.
Among jobs to be performed at wet
times in the spring, that of getting out
summer wood is not the least impor-
tant. 1t is very essential to have plen-
ty of good seasoned wood for the kitch-
en- in summer. Farmers are apt to
leave the cook to prepare dinner with
such material as she can pick up, or else
she is put off with green wood to get along
as best she can. When summer ar
rives and work is pushing there win be
no time TO lose in getting wood. Do it
now, and you will save your own time,
and the time, fatigue, and patience of
the cook, and get better dinners into
the bargain.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
Haul in YOUR Line!

"Take no thought for the morrow"
that is, no anxious, fretful thought
Walk through to day as we'll as you can,
and God will undertake for your fu>
ture. When you go forward out of to-
day, to worry about to morrow, you are
over the fence, you are trespassing, and
God will scourge you back into yonr
own lot. When | have been fishing in
mountain strt am, ] have always
found that so long as kept a short line
I could manage my fishing very we'll;
but when I let my line run out the
stream took it down, and there l was,
at the mercy of every stick that stuck
up in the stream, and every rock that
iutted ont from the banks. | lost my
fish, and tangled my line; very likely /
lost my footing also, and got over head
and ears IN the stream. Now, most
men have cast out their line into life
forty gears long. when it ought to be
but one dag long. In consequence,
they are not able to manage their tackle
at all; but are pulled after it, stumbling
first into this hole and then into that;
slipping up here, and slipping down
there, struggling and splashing about
in far more distressed fashion than the
fish at the other end of the line-and.
as a general thing, there is no fish
thers. Haul in your line!
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
IF Had Kept my Temper

~ never can keep anything" cried
Emma, almost stamping with vexation.
Somebody always takes my things and
loses them" She had mislaid some OF
her sewing implements.
There is Que thing remarked
mamma, that / think you might keep
if you would try"
Il should Ike to keep one thing, an
swerod Emma.
"WelI, then, ny dear, resumed
mamma, keep your temper; if you do
that, perhaps you will find it easy to
keep her things. l dare say if you
L..t; ef.lpiu,ta souI Time in searching
for the missing articles, you might have
found them before this time; but you
have not even looked for them. Ion
have only got into passion-a bad
way of spending time--and you have
accused somebody, and uniustly, too,
Of taking away your things and losing
them. Keep your temper, my dear;
when YOU haye missed any article, keep
your temper and search for it. You
had better keep your temper, if you
lose all the little property you possess.
So, my dear, repeat, keep your tenn
peri"
Emma subdued her i'll -humor, search
ed for the articles she bad lost, and
found them in her work bag.
"Why, mamma, here they are! l
might have been sewing all this time if
| had kept my temper"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
A Day of Rest.

Chateaubriand says that during the
time of the Revolution the peasants of
France were in the habit of saying:
"Our oxen know when Sunday comes,
and will not work on that day" The
OK cannot labor nine successive days, at
the end of the sixth his lowing seems
to demand tho hours marked by the
Creator for the general rest of nature.
BianconI, the Irish car proprietor, said
that he could work horse eight miles
a day six days in the week, better than
he could six miles day for seven days
in the week. BY not working on Sun
days he effected a saving of twelve per
cent. This is in unison with the very
remarkable testimony of DR.. Fare be-
fore committee of the House Of Com
mons. He said: "a physician is anx-
ious to preserve the balance Of circula
tion as necessary to the restorative
power CT the body. The ordinary ex-
ertioDs Of man run down the circulation
every day Of his life, and although the
night apparently equalizes the circula>
tion we'll, yet it does not sufficiently re-
store its balance for the attainment of a
long life. Hence, one day in seven by the
bounty of Providence is thrown in as q
day OF compensation TO perfect by its
repoco the animal system. You may
easily determine this question as a mat
ter of fact by trying it on beasts of bur
den." God has revealed Himself in
this Divine arrangement of time in the
same manner in which He has set the
night of rest against the day of toll,
rounding the day. by n sleep, myster-
iously adjusting strength and time; so
that we feel thankful and bless God
that the time of toll is not longer, feel
ing that strength would not be equal
for longer period-that we could not
endure it. So He has exactly adjusted
also this seventh portion of time to
rest. Robespierre and Danton thought
to diminish the resting days of man:
but the experiment failed, and society
broke down beneath the burden they
! IMPOSED.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10

The semi annual meeting of this pros
porous Georgia factory WAS held last
week. The report of the President
shows that the profits of the company
during the six months were little over
thirteen thousand dollars, from which
q dividend Of two per cent. was de-
clared. When the depressed condition
of the market for cotton goods is taSen
into consideration, causing most other
mills to either stop or run on short time,
the result must be considered as fur
ther proof that the South is the place
to proftably conduct cotton mills. The
surplus of the companys production
has been disposed of, and President
Jackson thinks the future is encourag-
ing. Most Of its goods are now sold in
advance.
The factory took during the six
months ending On the 18th ult., 5,39l
bales; employed over SIX hundred hands,
aud sold its own goods to the amount of
$416,54O; she made in the six months
41G, 901 yards of goods, chiefly adapted
TO and intended for Southern consump-
tion
The stockholders requested the di-
rectors of the corporation to look into
the matter of salaries with a view to
bringing them down to hard-pan. A
proposition was made to reduce the sal
aries of the President and Superintend-
ent to four thousand dollars each. and
to be at ten per cent. in all other sala>
ries, but the proposition was withdrawn
with the understanding that voluntary
reductions would be conceded by the
officers themselves.
The latter part Of the meeting was
enli7ened by political discussion that
was both lively and amusing. Mr..
Walsh claimed that Mr. Cogin had at
tempted to bulldoze the operatives of
the cotton factory in the interest of GER
tain local candidates. The stockhold-
ers finally resolved to strike out all per-
sonal illusions and to declare "that no
officer connected with this company has
any right to exercise undue influence,
much less arbitrary control, over the
political rights of the workmen en-
ployed by this corporation, and that
they be left entirely free to exercise The
elective franchise as they may SEQ prop
er. ."-AUantd Constitution.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
Love and be Happy.

It is the easiest thing in the world to
be happy, if men and women could on>
ly think so. Happiness is only anoth-
er name for love, for where love exists
in a household there happiness must
also exist, even if it has poverty forIits
close companion; where love exists not,
even though it be in palace, happiness
can never come. He was a cold and
selfish being who originated the say
ing that "when poverty comes in at the
door, love flies out at the window"
and his assertion proves conclusively
That he had no knowledge of love, for
unquestionably the reverse of the
axiom quoted is nearer the truth.
When poverty comes in at the door,
love-true love-js more than ever in.
clined to tarry, and do battle with the
enemy. Let those who imagine them.
selves miserable, before they find fault
with their surroundings. search il
their hearts for the cause. A few kind
words, little forbearance, or kiss,
will often open the way to food Of
sunshine in house darkened by the
clouds OF disccrd and ufamiabiliiy.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
An Apple Meringue.

This is delicate, quite showy dish,
easy to make, and good when it is done.
It needs good apples, that is, those
with sprightly flavor; pare, quarter.
and remove the cores; stew in q bright
tin or enameled sauce pan, with sugar
to taste, and little cinnamon; as soon
as the apples are done through, having
kept the quarters as whole as possible.
turn them into pudding-dish, being
careful not to break them up. While
the apples are cooking. get the mer'
ingue pronounce it always mee-rang)
ready. Fpr moderate sized dish, uso
the whites of four eggs, beaten to .
firm froth, four ounces OF sugar, and
flavor with lemon; spread this over the
apples in the dish, set the dish in the
oven, and bake until the surface is well
and evenly Drowned. Serye hot for
dessert, but some prefer 10 lctit get
cold and eat il With cream.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
How to Increase the Flow of Milk.

A lady correspondent, writing us
from Arkansas gives us the following
excellent recipe to increase the flow of
milk in COW, and We oan heartily en-
dorse it, for we have seen it tried. She
says: "Tepid water slightly salted
given twice day will increase the aow
of milk one third; if the COW will not
drink it at first trial scatter O handful
of bran or meal over the top of IL.
They soon become very fond Of it, and
will drink all you give them. I tried
this plan three years ago with perfect
success. l had only one COW, and she
was of the common scrub stock Of the
country, and after she began to drink
the water, prepared as above, she fur
nished me twice a day two ordinary
water buckets full of milk, and by feed
ing little corn boiled with cotton seed
the milk yielded butter enough to sup
ply my table bountifully and have q
few pounds to sell every week. gave
her three gallons of water twice a day. "
--Er,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
synisrslLan!g.
William and Susan


Susan Brown and William Ready,
livers in the Lone Star State. one calm
night, all snug and shady, side by side
in converse safe. Twas on old maj!
Browns piazza; stars were frightening
all the skies, and the moon above the
plaza, was just about upon the rise.
Twas the hour for love or liquor-calnl
sweet hour in early June; love nor wine
will never flicker on such night with
such moon.
Susan was as fair as Hebe dressed in
all her Sunday clothes-fairer than hel
cousin Phoebe who is fairer than the
rose. As for William-nevar wildwood
sheltered youth more stout and hale
he was from his very childhood what
the Texans call whale. There they
sat for hours talking of their joys anf
hopes and fears; talking of their loves
and chalking out their plans for coming
years. Talked they also of their mar
riage, limiting at no distant day when
little crib and carriage might perchanct
como into play.
Thus they sat, her hand in prison
not prison harsh OR stern-for twas
merely locked in his'n as his lips wert
pressed to her'n.
But alas! the course of true love
smoothly runs oh never, never! hearts
enlinked in old or new love soon, a'as
must sigh and sever. Oh, that in sef
OF rapture, where the heart most sweet
ly floats fate PIRATES sure to capture
half our joys and cut or throats!
Hark! the smell of shot and powde'
rises like a funeral knell! Louder
louder, and still louder rumbles tha
heart-rending smell. Susans sybil sou
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
darm Noffs.
Some Points About Fat Horses.

A fat horse is proportionately weak
horse. Fat is an oily matter, itself IN
endowed with life or sensibility, contain
ed in cells. as honey is within the
honey comb, which are vital, and SO en-
dowed that they lose the power either
of adding to. or taking from the quantity
of oily matter at any time existing.
The use of fat is to fill up crevices in
the body, facilitate the movements Of
parts one upon another, and serve as
sort of internal nutrimert, in case the
animal should be in situation where
he can not obtain food; but, when it
accumulates, instead of facilitating the
motions of parts it clogs and impedes
them, and becomes, from its collected
amount of freight, burden TO the
body. A fat horse is not only unfit TO
go, but really has weight within
himself to carry which the horse in con-
dition for work has been disencumber-
ed of. A fat horse will not bear the
loss of blood the same as horse in a
working state of body; the one will
faint from the abstraction of quantity
which the other will stand without
being affected. Plumpness, which
arises from fatness, is too apt to con-
vey to the eyes of the inexperienced
the impression of strength and ability
to go to work, whereas it ought, we re-
peat, be taken as proof to tie contra
ry. When buyer enters a dealers
yard to buy horse, every horse shown
him most likely-certainly every horse
four or five years old-is fat. and,
therefore, not in condition for work.
Dealers-by quantities of grain and
sometimes by means of poisonous nos
trums and by giving their horses only
suoh little walking exercise as serves to
keep their legs from swelling make
the horses they have for sale as fat as
they can, and for two reasons. First.
fat fills up the crevices and coDceals
any imperfections there may lie Of out
ward form. 1t is the horse dealers
putty; by it, like the coach-maker or
the furniture maker, he makes his ar
ticle for sale appear more perfect or
freer from defect than it really is. Se-
condly. by it be gives an appearance Of
size and bulk to the article which pass
es for sign of strength and ability but
which, as we said before, is in reality
condition of weakness.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10

AN Englishman devised trick that
beats anything of Yankee invention in
that line. He desired to be a physi.
clan, but had no education in medicine,
and diploma was necessary. So he
hired a needy physician to personate
him before the examining board. an
swer the questions, and get the diplo.
ma in bis name. The plan was sue.
cessful, but there was subsequent ex
posure, followed by arrest.