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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-20

Mr.. John George desires it stated that
he did not write the article in Wednesday
evenings ARGUS, rejecting upon the song
service at Darts Hail. - Union.
The statement, in The ARGUS, that
the article was written by a Repub-
lican, Should have induced Mr.. John
George to be less oficious. We made
that statement for the purpose of pre-
venting pig-headed bigots from saying that
Democrats attacked the psalm singing
meetings, and knowing that if the charge,
that Ed Russell, Ed Spencer and John
Hawley were running the business to keep
certain politicians prominent, came from a
Republican, the hit was all the harder.
There are two very good reasons why Mr.
John George needn't have worried himself
at all about the matter, viz;
|. He is not Republican.
2. He can't write so good English as the
article was couched in,
We can't understand the published re
turns of the Moline election. Cambridg
| Chronicle
You should study them as published il
THE ARGUS, which is the only paper tina
has published the exact truth in the mat
ter, viz: that politics had nothing whateve
to do with the election IN Moline; that
ring of pig-heAded puritan Republica
bigots undertook to draw party lines an
failed utterly: and that not one of thei
nominees was elected, on which any contes
was made, except Mr.. Ellis, one Of tn
aldermen, and that he was supported b
THE ARGUS. These are the naked an
simple facts about Moine-and they sho
that party rings have lost their ''holt' i
that town, and that there, as elsewher
people are beginning to look more to NE
than politics; and that no class of either
can or should be wholly excluded fro
local offices on account of politics alone.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-20

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-20
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wild, and they are vigorously waving the
bloody shirt" 1t looks as though they
would drive HAYES out of their party.
Between IL and l o'clock last night,
or, rather, this morning, Mr.. Isaac Negus
discovered light in the second story of
his old house on the corner of First avenue
and 18th street, and, knowing that the
house was vacant, he called his hired man
and the two proceeded to the house to
ascertain the cause of the light. They
found that three hard looking young fell
lows had entered the house, proceeded to
the second story and started coal fire in
the crate, and had then laid down to sleer.
They told Mr.. Negus that man who said
ne owned the house had given them per-
mission to make themselves at home e.
and they had done so. Mr.. Negus allowed
them to remain until morning, when they
thanked him for his kindness and departed
For some time past Edward Murphy
Esq, living on the corner Of Second avenue
and 18th street, and other people in tina
vicinity, have been considerably annoyed
by crowd OF young men and women wht
congregate on the sidewalk there in th.
evening and pass an hour or two singing
laughing, talking loud. and sometimes yer,
vulgar, dancing, ETC., but he has refraine(
from saying anything to them or making
complaint against them. Last night TIL
crowd assembled as usual, aud not beinl
content with the regular programme. on
of them threw the stump of an old ire
against Mr.. Murphys door. bursting tn
lock, and then the whole crowd took t
their heels aud ran away. Mr.. NJ.
making an effort To find ont who nerna
trated the outrage, and if he succeeds the
; will be severely punished.
On the petition of Rev. j. A Rey
nolds, of the United Presbyterian church
the question Of the insanity of Mrs. Mari
e /. Heitahrends. wife of Richard Heitah
f rends, came before jury Tuesday after
. noon. The jury was composed of Dl
!. g. G. Craig, foreman, David Halves
e Alphorso Gates, L. M. Webber, Ella
| T. Pineo. land w. a. Johnston, with Dr.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
The Rule of COntraries,

IT doesn't require any astrologist,
or medium, or gypsy with dirty pack
OF cards. 1t is very simple, lies in a
nutshell, and can be expressed in a
very few words. The plan is this: If
a girl expresses fondness for males
tic men with large whiskers, make up
your mind that she will marry very
small man with none. If she declares
that mind" is all she looks for. ex-
pect. to see her stand before the altar
with a very pretty fellow who has
just sense enough to tie cravat bow.
Ii, on the contrary, she declares she
must have handsome husband, look
about for the plainest person in the
circle of her acquaintance, and de-
clare "that is the man." for it will be.
Men are almost as bad. The gentle
man who desires a wife with mind
and mission marries lisping baby,
who screams at the sight of mouse
and hides her face when she hears
sudden knock at the door. And the
gentleman who dreaded anything like
strong-mindedAess exults in the fact
that his wife is everything he detest-
ed. If girl says of one, "Marry
him! I'd rather diev' look upon the
affair as settled and expect cards to
the wedding of these two people. If
a man remarks of lady, mot my
style at all" await patiently the APP
pearaDce of his name in the matrimo-
NAL column in connection with that
lady's. And if any two people de-
clare themselves friends and nothing
MORE" YOU may know what will come
Leader. -A 0-<
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
A MOther'S Influence.

ANOTHER instance of a mother,
powerful influence is given in what an
American minister says of his recent
visit to Stockwen Orphanage, London.
"There were five Surgeons present,
and all saba few words; the father,
John Sturgeon, and his two sons. ].
A., Sturgeon and Charles; then the
two sons of Charles, Masters Thomas
and Charles. 1t was an interesting
sight. After the meeting Mr.. Spur
geon introduced me to his father, and
we conversed together as we walked
about the grounds, for some considera-
BILE time. OF course, 1 asked him of
his family He is sixty-six years of
age. He has eight living children. He
has spent his life in the ministry. In
the course, of conversation he said:
Il had been from home great deal,
trying to build up weak congregations,
and feltthat / was neglecting the re-
ligious training of my own children
while l toiled for the good of others. /
returned home with these feelings. I
opened the doo-, and was surprised to
find none of the children about the
hall. Going quietly up the stairs, 1
heard my wife's voice. She was en-
gagged in prayer with the children. /
heard her pray for them one by one
by name. She came to Charles, and
specially prayed for him, for he was
Of high spirit and daring temper. II
listened, said the old gentleman to
me, tearfully. listened till she had
ended her prayer, and 1 felt and said
''Lord, l will go on with Thy work.
The children will be cared fnro,o
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18

three honrs. If it should boil away
verymuch add hot water from the tea
kettle. The meat should look like
white rigs, and the gravy that has
flowed from it be of clear brown
color. Take from the fire and strain
through a sieve~Or bit of tarlatan in
to cup. The Quantity of " tea = will
seem very small to you, but it is all
of the pound OF meat that is worth
saving. The tasteless rags left in the
strainer, would only tire and hurt the
poor, weak stomach of the invalid for
whom you have prepared. the nourish-
ment. Season the tea with a little
salt and less pepper, and let it stand
until cold. Then skim off every bit OF
fat from the top. Greasy soups are
always unwholesome. When the sick
person is ready for his or her beef tea,
heat some of it by setting the tin cup
containing it in shallow vessel OF
boiling water-a frying-pan will do
and leaving this on the hre until the
tea is warm enough. Pour into the
prettiest bowl oreup you have. 1t is
well to have this heated also, by pour
| ing hot water into it and letting il
stand while your tea is warming.
Have ready waiter covered with 3
clean napkin; put the bowl upon it.
lay beside this a bright silver spoon,
and by this have plate with few
Albert biscuits or cream crackers, OF
slice of delicate toast, with the crust
pared off; and take the tray with YOU
own hands to papa or mammals bed
side, just as if it were good and tempt
ing food, which it ought to be.--St
Nicholas. ''t~
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
An Incident of the Ashtabula
Disaster,

JOHNSON B. ORBURN and wife, who
live in the Saginaw Valley of AIichi-
gan, sat together in one of the forward
cars, and, during the time the car was
falling, which couldn't have been more
than ten seconds, the husband threw
one arm around his wife, she grasped
the seat and asked what had hap
pened, and he told her to secure a
brace for her feet, and added; 1--WE
are off the track and running through
the fieldsr' The rear emf of their car
struck first, smashing itself to kind
ling-wood, the debris being thrown
over the passengers in front. The
farmer found himself on the floor,
held down by mass of wreck on his
left leg, while his wife was thrown
across him, with the wreck Of two or
three seats holding her against the side
of the car. While thus held, and be-
fore either had spoken. one end Of the
car settled little and the wife was re-
leased. MARY, are youliving r asked
the husband. She replied that she
was not even hurt, beyond bruise
or two, and by this time the shouting
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
The Population of the World.

THE London Times published re-
Gently an extract of an account of the
population of the world annually pre-
pared by Drs. Benin and Wagner, and
published by Perthes, from which ii
appears that the population in 1876
may be taken at 1,423,917 200, of
whom nearly one-fiftb, or 800, It's, 900,
reside in Europe, and probably AGO.
100000, or less than one-third, belong
to the European civilization. Four
seyenths of the worlds people, or
s24, 900, 900. reside in Asia, and half of
these are Chinese.
The population of America, natives
included, in both divisions of the Con-
tinent, is only $4,000, 900, of whom we
imagine about half are of pure blood
ed European descent. The population
OF Africa, arrived at, of course, by
more or less careful guessing, is set
down at 1919, 900, 600, of whom scarce
ly one per centum can be fairly set
down as civilized men, and little more
than ten per centum as semi-civilized.
The Turkish Empire is estimated at
100000 including 10000, 600 in
Egypt and its dependencies, with Tu-
mis- and Tripoli; but the population in
Europe is Only 5000, 600, and in Asia
1a.500.0OO. Half the European popu-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
The Corn Belt OF the Country.
IT is interesting to examine the sta

IT is interesting to examine the sta
tistics of the corn crop of the country
and note the section most favorable
for the growth of this cereal. The
belt in which it best fiourishes is as
clearly defined as are the boundaries
of the States, its center being about
the fortieth degree of latitude. This
runs as follows: Through Central
New Jersey, Southern PENNSYLVANIA,
Central Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, North
ern Missouri and between Kansas and
Nebraska. The section for perhaps
three degrees on either side is the best
corn-growing portion of the country.
Above this line the short seasons
and more severe climate renders its
production unsatisfactory, while be-
low it an opposite extreme of climate
likewise prevents its full development.
Beginning at the seaboard, there
fore, we find that New Jersey, al
though only one-seventh the size OF
New York, produced nearly ten and
one-half million of bushels against
seventeen and one-half for the En-
pire State. " .
Pennsylvania, almost identical in
area with New York, produced thirty.
seven million bushels.
Maryland, lying to the south of the
line, produced about the same as New
Jersey.
The yields in the Western States
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
Beef-Tca.

BEEF-TEA is very nourishing and
safe form of food for invalids or deli
cate persons; and many little girl
might be glad to be able to make it
for some friend or member of the
family if she knew how. So here is
our recipe: Take one pound Of very
lean beef; and if you cannot obtain,
OF weigh out exactly pound, take
about as much as would fill a pint
measure if it were pressed tightly in
to it. Cut the meat into bits not
larger than rasins. and put. it into a
clean glass jar or wide-mouthed bottle.
Cover it, but do not screw the top on
tightly or it may burst when; heated.
Set this jar in saucepan of cold
water; put weight on top to keep it
from floating, and put the saucepan
upon the range or stove, where it will
heat slowly. Keep the water in the
saucepan at q gentle boil for at least
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
The yields in the Western States
uara &c follows. ..

Making grand total for these eleven
States of 100000 bushels, against
100000 for the other twenty-six
States. -.- -...r...
And corn is truly king too. When
it is plenty then cattle and hogs and
sheep abound, and where these are
of the 80, oOo,O 900 hogs grown in 1873
were raised in these States, and also
$3.50, 900, 900 of token and other cat
tle' out of the 1910, 900, 900 worth in
the country. ....
AS further evidence of the ines
Unable worth of the corn crop, the
Commissioner of Agriculture is our
authority "that for the past five years
its value in dollars and cents has been
greater than that of the wheat, oats,
rye, barley, buckwheat and potato crop
of the country by 1854, 500" st.
Paul Pioneer Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
J THE BABY FOR NE


IHAvE heard about the babies angelic,
With a heavenly look in their eyes,
And hair like he sunbeams Of morning
When first they appear in the skies,
And smiles Ike the smiles Of a cherub,
And mouths Ike the buds Of rose,
And themselves like the lilies and daisies
And every sweet flower that grows.
My baby's the jolliest baby
Thatany one ever did zee;
There's nothing angelic about him,
But he's Just the right baby for mel
His smiles not at all like a cherub's,
But rather a comica grin;
And his hair-well, IL iayor- the sunbeams,
When sunbe ans are wondrously thin.
His eyes, though they're blue, like the heayen'
Are remar kab earthly with fun;
And his mouths rather large for rosebud,
I'm e.s 'twere hal opened one. 2 -
His hands don't re ,embie fairy's
In the least. They're strong little pair,
As you'd think, am sure, II he got you,
As oft he gets me-by the hairl
Ard he isn't bit like lily ".t
Or any swee blossom that grows,
For no flower on earth, am certain,
Has dear little cunning pug nose.
He's himself-full of mischief, the darling.
And as naughty as naughty can be;
And IN glad that he isn't ANGEL
For he's just the right baby for me!
tl. Ha,per's Bazar.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
HydrOphobia Panic in Glasgow

AT Glasgow a terrible panic has
lately arisen, due to a widespread pop
ular belief that hydrophobia had
broken out there in something like an
epidemic. or, perhaps we should say,
epizootic form. Straightway the police
procee led to Stay all dogs they found
In the streets unmuzzled and without
responsible guardians. 1t would ap-
pear, however, that the alarm has been
somewhat exaggerated.
DR.. G. II. b. Macleod, the Professory
of Surgery in the University of Glas-
| gov, has done good service by expos
ing this fact. In popular lecture he
delivered the other night at Crosshill,
he took occasion to say that great
deal of the hydrophobia about which
they were mourning in Glasgow was
simply the creation of terror. In fact
it would seem that, just as by ho-
m9opathic doses of drugs one can
sometimes cure diseases by acting on
them through the imagination, SO
fearful malady may be generated by
the operations of overweight fancy.
In this way people, when they read
descriptions of the horrors of hydro
phobia, which is an extremely rare
disease, imagine whenever dog
scratches them that they are doomed
to perish from foaming madness.
Now, as DIR. Macleod wisely sug-
gests, there is really little to fear
from the bite of dog in most cases
for even, he remarked, "if a mad dog
bit him through the Clothes" he
would not care, because the animals
teeth would be cleaned from the
poison by rubbing through the cloth,
and "there would he no fear of bad
results" If persons were bitten by a
dog it was foolish to destroy the ami
mai there and then, for more than
once he had known of cases where
men recovered from what was thought
to be hydrophobia merely by being
shown the dog that had bitten them all
sound and clothed in its right mind
London Daily Telegraph.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
Cured.

HEwho made the mind is the minds
best physician. No human helper can
in any way so successfully minister to
mind diseased, as by winning its
thoughts to dwell on Him in the re-
pose of faith.
Some years ago, a young French no
bleman, a friend of the Emperor Ma.
poleon I'LL, became affected by that
mild form of insanity known as mel
ancholy." No one, not even the med
ical experts, could find out what allied
him, though the inference seemed to
be that he was troubled by some men
tai burden which he would not confess.
He was rational, with the sole eX-
ception of this unhealthy, broOding
habit of mind but this alone was suf-
6cient to make him strange, and iso-
late him from all interest in passing
things. His relatives grew more and
more concerned about him, and, final
ly despairing of his cure at home, they
procured letters from the Emperor,
and sent him over to London, to the
care of the famous physician, DR..
Forbes Winslow. $780,
The great doctor soon OWNED his
patients case, and managed his ex-
animation with such tact and gentle
ness that he succeeded in getting at
his secret. ......
"You are right. DOCTOR" said the
young man, as if the confession cost
him strong effort. at is religious
anxiety that troubles me. / was edu-
Gated in infdelity. My father and
| grandfather before me were infidels.
But for the last three years these
words have haunted me day and night
: Eternity, and where shall l spend
it?' They follow me like horrible
spell. l cannot shake it off. What
shall l do?"
There was a moments pause, and
then DR.. Winslow said, solemnly,
"Sir, you have come to the wrong
physician. cannot help you"
The young man sprang to his feet.
doctor, do you mean to tell me there
is no hope?" he said. els there Nc
release from this terrible thought that
chases me? When l wake and when
| sleep l hear the voice. Eternity,
eternity! Where shall 1 spend it p
And you tell me you can give me nc
nelpp'
"Calm YOURSELF" replied the good
p"yoIoran, IoI ne ustu iloU yet sad MS
final word. "For many years" he
continued, 81 was an infdel myself
but am happier man now. My cure
was faith in Jesus of Nazareth, the
Son of Goa 80
The young nobleman looked earnest
ly in the doctors eyes. 'Do you be-
lieve, then, in Jesus Christ, and that he
can help my case?'
81 do BELIEVE" said DR.. Winslow.
at was He who brought me out of
trouble such as yours; and now am
well assured where l shall spend ny
eternity. He is the physician you
want" .....-.,,...
The doctor then read the fifty-third
chapter of Isaiah: "He was wounded
for our transgressions, lie was bruised
for our iniquities. The chastisement
OF our peace was upon Him, and by his
stripes we are healed" and afterward
he knelt with his patient and prayed.
The young nobleman's confidence in
his adviser had made him teachable.;
prayer softened his heart and brought
him light, and faith in Christ lifted
him into the peace of God. Youths
Communion.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-18
E8eligio.,s.
GOING TO PRESS.

TWIN. A. yoxrs, foreman Of the composing room
of the New Orleans Tinses, died last week. Just
before his death he became conscious for mo
mept, and In Inst gleam, dwelling upon the habit
or his life, he suddenly exclaimed: "The adj
are all right, Sherman lock up the forms and lets
go to press."1 49, &As}S II &b4-i
Fellow man, a moment linger
on the dying printers speech: N IL
For it bears a weigh'y lesson, =
Our unheeding hearts to teach.
Day by day thou art composing
What universe shall read;
Type to type art ceaseless setting,
As thou addest deed to deed.
Alb, how surely lfe's full columns.
When the hand that set them lies
Fixed in an unbroken still ness,
-sgz Their composer advertise.
Soon the forms are locked forever.
Changeless shall TIL impression be:
Scan thy proofs in time. o printer;
g Thou art near eternity.
Are the "ads' all right, composer?
Art thou standing justified?
Ready now for d ath and judgment,
Their unfodings to abide! BE -
So shalt thou, as night advances,
"a Greet tn unstaying Pressman's call;
Then await the morn eternal
Publishing thy life to all.
--Reo. /. " Carman, in Christian STANDARD.