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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-22

Going North-11:15 a. m; 10:3S p. In.
Going South-7:30 a. m; S:2s p. m.
Palace Sleeping cars, owned and operated by Is
line. accompany all night trains.
CONNECTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
At Darlington with Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Ry
for Peoria, Indianapolis, Lafayette and Cincinnati;
with Chicago, Burlington & Quincy r. R., for Chi.
cago, Keokuk, Quincy and ST Louis " est to Ottum-
wa and all points in Kansas and Nebraska and with
Burlington Southwestern R'y, for Pennington,
Bloomfield and all points in Missouri and Kansas.
At Columbus junction, with Chicago & South
western Railroad for ashington andlLeasenworth,
At Nichols with Museatine Division C, K q N
for Mascatine. e.
AT West Liberty, with Chicago, Rock Island
Paclhc Railroad, for Iowa City, Desmoines, and
Davenport. f.
At Cedar Rapids, with Milwaukee Division of B!
II q d for Independence, West Union, Postvilld
ana McGregor; with Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way. for Omaha. Council Bluffs and Chicago an6
with Dubuque Southwestern Ry for Dubuque.
At Waterloo and Cedar Falls, with Illinois Cel
tral Railroad for Independence Dubuque Fol
Dodge and Sioux City.
AT Shell Rock with Stage for Wayerly
AT Nora junction, with Milwaukee & st Pau
Railway, fer Mason City and Charles City.
At Plymouth with Milwaukee q St. Paul Railway
for all points in Minnesota
AT 81 Panl, for all points on Northern Pacific
railway the great Lake Superior region, aid all
points North and Northwest.
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9. ] IVES, Gen'1 Pass. q Ticket Agent,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-22
LIBBY'S PROTECTION
CONGRESS CATER
For Gentlemen's Wear.
Patented April 10, 1871

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lection Congress CATER. This Shoe has proved a
success, and IL becoming very popular. 1t has all
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perhaps useless. In the Protection Congress, the
Goring is concealed from view and preserved from
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OF Mt and beauty OF appearance 1t has no cum
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and easily adjusted
These goods are made in the best style, and of
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warranted -'
Orders are respectfully solicited from dealers.
For sale by G. LIBAY, Pat. and Inventor 40 Tase
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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
LEARN THE VALUE OF MONEY.

A silver dollar represents u days work of
the laborer. If it is given to a boy. he has
no idea of what it has cost, or of what it is
worth. He would be as likely to give a
dollar as a dime for q top or any other toy.
But if the boy has learned to earn his dimes
and dollars by the sweat of his face, he
knows the difference. Hard work is to
him a measure of values that can never be
rubbed out of his mind. Let him learn by
experience that a bundled dollars represents
Il hundred weary days labor, and it seems
a great sun of money. A thousand dollars
is a fortune, and ten thousand is almost in
conceivable, for it is far more than he ever
expects to possess. When he has earned a
dollar, he thinks twice before he spends It.
He wants to invest it so as to get the full
value of a days work for it. 1t is q great
wrong to society and to a boy to bring him
up to mans estate without this knowledge.
a fortune at twenty-one, without it, is al
most inevitably thrown away. With it,
and a little capital to start on, he will make
his own fortune better than any one can
make it for him.-Hunt's Merchunts' Maqa-
zine.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
a SCENE IN COURT

a ~iaughabl" story is related of Dunnine.
an English judge. 1t is said of him that fire.
quentiy, in the examination of witnesses.
lie often 'displayed great coarseness. and
drew upon himself the animadyersion of
MS bretiiren." On one occasion, wishing to
establish the identity of Il party through
the lnstrumentality of an unsophisticated
olu woman Occupying the witness stand).
the following highly amusing colloquy is
Is SAID to have taken place between Cunning
and the old woman:
Dunning.-"Was he a tall man -
Nltness.-"Not very tall, your honor
much about the size of your worship's
honor"
Dun.-''Was he good lookinc?"
Wit.-''Quite contrary-much like your
honor; but with a handsomer nose"
DUH Did he squint p
Wit.-''A little, your worship; but not SO
much as your honor by a great deal.''
These replies produced a roar of laughter
in the court, in which Lord Mansfield (who
was on the Dench) is said to have joined.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
WOMEN

The gentleman who kissed the laly's
'snowy brow" caught a severe cold, and
has been laid up ever since.
A KALAMAZOO couple agreed to separate,
and the husband broke up housekeeping by
smashing $500 worth Of furniture.
II HAVE never known but two women
who were really perfect,'' said one French
lady to another. "Who was the otherr p
quietly asked her companion.
"SHoW US the man." cries an exchange,
s'Who slurs his mother-in-law, and we will
vouch that his wife is not a desirable ac-
quaintance."
AN Illinois girl couldn't secure a certificate
as a school teacher because she couldn't tell
why the hind wheels of a carriage were the
largest.
A CHICAGO lady, who asked her little son
at a fashionable hotel, the other clay, if he
knew that ''menu'' is French for bill Of fare,
tainted when he replied, ME nu it,
A S%TRATFoRD old lady, who had never
been on the cars before, recently rode by
rail to New Haven. On her return, being
asked what she thought of it, she exclaim-
ed: "Why, faint nothin at all! It's the
most m-o-n-o-t-o-n-o-l-s thing! Why | be-
lieye that coming back they went through
the identical places they did when they went
DOWN.
A FEW weeks ago a young lady broke
through the ice of a deep skating pond near
Toronto, and a young man rescued her at
the risk of his own life. AS the halfdrown-
ed girl was recovering consciousness, her
agoniZed father arrived on the spot. Taking
one of her cold, white hands in one of his
own, he reached out his other for the hand
of her rescuer, but the young man, realizing
his danger, with one frightened glance broke
for the woods and was soon lost to view.
He has not been heard of since, and it is sup
posed that he is travelling in the United
States under the false and hollow name of
Smith.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
Fl GAZE OF LIFE.

Mans life is a game of cards. First it is
a ''crib-age." Next, he tries to go it alone"
at a short Of "cut, shuttle and deal'' pace.
Then he "gambols on the green" Then
he raises the "deuce' when his mother
stakes a hand in'' and, contrary to noyie,
s'beats the little joker with her "fiye."
Then, with his 'diamonds'' he "wins" the
s'queen of hearts," Tired of playing a clone
hand,o he expresses a desire to '~'assist' his
fair partner" "throws out his cards." and
the clergyman takes q ten dollar bill out of
him "on a pair.' She "orders him up'' to
to build the fire. Like a ''knaye'' he coins"
the "clubs," he often gets "high' which is
s'low'' too. 1t he keeps "straight' he is Of
tentimes "flush." He grows old and ''bluff.'
sees a ''deal' of trouble, when at last he
.shuffles" off his mortal coil and ''passes in
his checks" AS he is ''raked in' by a
s.spade." life's fitful ''game" is ended, and
he waits the of Gabriel's trump
which shall ''order him up.'
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
EzRoBs IN MAR2IAGE.

,f,,, If y errors of life admit OF eMe
/. A loss in II business may be repaired
] : r,ip in another; a miscalcu1ation this
H. may be retrieved by especial care the
pyt:a bad partnership may be dissolved,
4 injury repaired, a wrong step retraced.
NErt Al error ia marriage goes to the very
IT. snd foundation Of life. 1t has been
III that no man is utterly ruined till he has
p,yried d worthless wife and 50 every
wom,n has a future before her until size is
Named. in a wcdlock, which is a paddock.
II wretchea and unworthy man. The deed
Me- done cannot be recalled. The Wine Of
h is wasted and the goblet is broken, and
II tears or tolls can bring back the precious
kucht. Let the young think Of this, and
II them walk carefully in q world o. snares,
take heed to their steps lest III this most
Hkical event OF life they 70 fatally astray.
EDnt here we must guard against another
srm. Many people think they have made
Rnistake il marriage, when the mistake is
Iny in their own behavior since they We're
Married.. Good h4sbaads make good wives
III good wives make good husbands; and
|f scolling, or incorporate. or s~lanternly
Ianer often has but himself or herself to
lame for the misery that clouds the life
II d~esolates the home. Mult;tudcs who
that their marriage vas q mistake and
DO make their existence alife-long misery,
hight by a little self-denial, and patience,
a forbearance, and gcntleress, and old
Ine courtesy, make their home brighten
He tie gates of Eden, and bring back
kan the old love that blessed the happy
(Qden days gone by.
suppose the wife does not know quite so
|1pch as you do; well. you showed your
fat Judgment when you thought her the
yet among ten thousand! Or if your hus-
kld Is not the most wonderful man in the
erld, it simply illustrates the wit and wis
w Oh tle young woman who once thought
was, and could not be convinced of the
p'fary! 50 perhaps you are not SO. I'M
kg'ly mated after all and if one has had
a'er opportunities since marriage, then OF
pFse mat one should teach, and cultivate
encourage the other, and so both jour.
81 tosether.-HaI's Health.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03

GAN OCCASIONAL correspondents has at
length discovered an Elysian abode teem-
ing with men and women of most singular
temperament. She writes: "One of the
most extraordinary features in Hawaiian
character lies in the fact that the terrible
passion of jealousy is unknown among
them. 1t does not exist any more than a
thing that was never heard OF never had an
existence. The Hawaiian women is the
most loving of human beings. The liaW-
allan lover, however deeply he loves her, is
never Jealous of her. Me- may smile upon
her, many come and go, but his soul is I'M
rutfled by the green-eyed monster. Native
women are not jealous of native women nor
of men husband is not jealous OF wife.
The native is not inattentiye to the wishes
of his beloved. He waits upon her With
gallant attention; in fact, the Hawaiian is
so extremely gallant that he thinks it a glo-
ry to do homework, if the doing Thereon
will please his sweetheart"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
GOLDEN EAvES.
Has any sharper thorn, perchance,
Assaulted thy saddend heart;

Has any sharper thorn, perchance,
Assaulted thy saddend heart;
Come here, where living waters glance,
And drink, and healed, depart!
Good character is above all things else.
Never borrow If you can possibly avoid
it. 3
Never listen to loose or intidel CONVERSE
ton.
You had better be poisoned in your
blood than in your principles.
Love is circumspect, humble, and up
right not yielding to s%oftness or to levity,
nor attending to vain things it is sober,
chaste, steady, quiet, and guarded in all the
senses.
The useful encourages itself; for the
multitude produce il, and III one can dis
pense with it; the beautiful must be encoul-
aged for few can set it forth, and many
need it.
-'.Lust having conceived, it blingeth
forth SIM" Sin hath its conception, and
that is delight; then its formation, and that
is design; then its birth, and that is action;
then its growth. and that is custom: then
its end, and that is damnation.
Lying supplies those who are addictel |
to It with a plausible apology for every
crime. and with a supposed shelter from es-
cry punishment. 1t corrupts the early simpl.-
city Of youth it blasts the fairest blossom,
of genius and Will, most ass1redly. conn-
teract every effort by which we may ho,t,
to mDroye the talents and mature tho yir-
tues of those whom it ~intests.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03

iler j very sweet singer. Her voice may
De passaDle but has llaA no cultivation"
says Julia. "Ihat's So" adds Cor,
why doesn't she go to Boston as we
did,"
"Have you been able to keep your plants
through the winter?'' Kate asks.
mo indeed, haven't tried. Don't care
tor flowers myselfonly in amiiliner's sl,oD.n
replied Julia. eyes, | like to look at flow
erS in the shops" This from Cora.
We take zap the photograph album. The
lrst Is the likeness of gay young man OF
'l'e village. "lsn't he perfectly splendid?'
signs Julia. Eyes, the best looking of all
the young men; and his hands are so
white,'' says Cora.
He is lazy, is he not?" says Kate rather
pointedly.
why no." quickly answers Cora. 60
be sure he is above farming, but he has a
charming span of horses and drives out
nearly every day of course it takes nearly
all OF his time to care for them. I'm sure |
IKE nm much better than that upstart of a
George Gordon, just home from college s:
ne thinks he knows everything now | sup
pose. We ask the young ladies to sing.
" We are very much out of practice" says
julia. But after considerable discussion as
to who shall play, and what shall they sing,
they begin. There are trills and quivers.
ending at last with an agonizing shrek, all
OF which passes for good music.
kate gives me a tine-to-go look and we
take our leave. At Sarah Gordon's we
meet with q cordial reception, and a well
Onc which seems sincere. The atmosphere
Of the room seems different from the pre-
vioEs one. She tells us how glad she is to
have George home again, offers to lend her
new book sent from her aunt. When we
ask her to sing she makes no excuses, and
really her little melodeon sounded sweeter
than the thousand dollar piano to which we
had just been listening. She passes the
fruit dish, and while we are discussing the
choice apples George comes in. lie ex-
presses his delight that Minnie G. has been
persuaded to sing at the coming concert.
When we leave Sarah follows us to the
door, tells MS she has enjoyed our call in
stich hearty way that we believe her. Now
which way Of entertaining do you like best,
kind reader, and which is your method ?
Duigo Rural.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
TWO WAYS OF ENTERTAINING.

fa'e aud started out for the purpose of
aeAAlS some calls one pleasant afternoon.
f. We went to the Misses Julia and Cora
IS who had quite recently returned
~ 'ne city where they had been cultivat-
4 'ier musical talents. We were received
\ great deal of demonstration by Julia,
j course Miss Cora did the same. for
\ was her sisters echo.
L"eolately Julia asked if we noticed
n.y. n--'s new hat the previous Sunday.
IN answering in the affirmative. she said.
Ia, d fright, isn't it," Kate replied she
H. asa' IL quite becoming to Mary. "Your
l s. ','a mine differ sadly" said Julia.
Ipa,, afawls Cora, "Julia and I have
4 'a[" ABOUT it ever since we saw it, and
H., ~ 0nee broke forth in a d~isagreeable
i Man, Hu opIc is the concert. Glow absurd
eved ' ,1"1, - to think of sipgingm OBJ
Il Ss'''' | yentured to say thought
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
qHB HON { CIR CLE
THE RUINED MILL.

and dark by the river s.de'
s' .tooJ, the old ruined mill;
'fan h"r ''stic beauty Of by-gone days
D "Iirrs dimly round it still
C 'iDn sing meath its ~mould'ring cave
INV oss covers the dingy wall.
-hom shadows of green old forest trees
r.l1s silently over al.
.;ro sweeps with a mournful sound
n,.t tbis old ruined mill,
,,1n.nr us tales of other days,
VI whose memory fingers still.
~. of the miller, strong and brave,
.r1 the milIer's daughter fair,
-" .sne each dag in her light canoe
W." wan > lunch tor the workers there.
-. those merry days are all gone by,
.nd now the old mill is left
,hnnyn for the swallows Which round it fly,
az #. beauty It's all bercft.
,,t ,be miller's dau Gh1er, q happy wife,
ires over on yon green ilill,
"a from her window watches, to-day,
Tho r,ins of "llthcr's mill.'
Republicans.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03

CURRAN was once addressing a jury, when
the judge, who was thought to be antag-
onistic to his client, intimated his dissent
from the arguments advanced by q shake OF
his head. 81 see, gontlemen,' said Curren,
II see the motion of his lordship's head.
Persons unacquainted with his lordship
would be apt to think this implied a differ
ence of opinion but be assured, gentlemen,
this is not the case. When you know hia
lordship as well as | do, it will be unneces-
sary to tell you that when he shakes his head
there really is nothing in it."
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03

DE-. JOHNSON was observed by a musical
friend Of his to be extremely inattentive at
q concert whilst a celebrated solo player was
RAINING up the divisions and subdivisions
of notes upon his violin. His friend, to in
dnce him to take greater notice of what was
going on, told him the performance was
very difficult. "Dinicult, SIR replied the
Doctor, 81 wish it were impossible"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03
OLD MAIDS.

A keen observer of human nature, in ex-
pressing his opinion on old maids, said he
is inclined to believe that many of the sat
irical expressions east upon old maids tell
more to their credit than is generally i'm
agincd. Is q woman remarkably neat in
her person? 'She will possibly die an old
maid" Is she frugal in her expenses and
exact in domestic concerns? ''she is cut
out for an old maid" If she is kind and
human to the animals about her, moth
ing can save her from the appellation
OF an "old maid" In short, it seems as
though neatness, modesty, economy and hu-
manity were the never-falling characteris-
tics of an cold maid"
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-05-03


LITERARY SUCCEss.-Prot. Matthews, i'm
an essay entitled, GA Peep into Literary
workshops,' thus discourses on success in
literature:
The veins of golden thought do not lie
lie upon the surface of tie mind; time and
patience are required to work the shafts, and
bring out the glittering ore.
The compositions whose subtle grace has
a perennial charm, which We sip, like old
wine, sentence by sentence and phrase by
phrase, till their delicate aroma and exqui-
site flavor dif1use themselves through every
cell of the brrin, are wrought out, not I'M
der "high PRESSURE" but quietly, slowly,
lcisurely, in the dreamy but caressing at
mosphere of fancy. They are the mellow
vintage of a ripe but enforced imagination.
Half the failures that occur in literature
are due, as they are due in art, in business,
ia every kind of pursuit, to selfconceit in
the aspirant, leading him to despise labor,
and to fancy that his slightest effort is suf-
ticient to win success.
He that bclieveth shall not make haste.''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15

The great French scholar, orator
statesman, politician. and scientist.
Mons. Theirs, who recently died, was
the son of . Marseilles laeksmith.
He was a low squat parsonage, with
bristlirlg hair, keen black eyes, rather
heavy jaws, quick and nervous in his
movements. HIS voice was very
thin and sharp, and in oratory his
figures and attitudes were ANYTHING
bHt attractive but his learning, wide
range of thought, sarcasms and logi-
cal argument always commanded
profound respect and attention,
and usually proved too
strong for his opponents. In the So
cial circle he was the central figure.
whence leaped forth varied cintilla-
tons of brilliant thought on every
subject known to the polite. He was
a man of BOOKS, of letters and action
both. No Frenchman since the
Great Bonaparte, possessed so vast a
store Of varied learning as Mons
Thiers,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
BY TELEPHONE.

GMEf 49,
A worthy and elderly divine from
the rural regions, who has zealously
laboled for a number of years in his
divine calling in the true spirit of
meek and innocent simplicity, came
to the city a few days ago. His WIS.,
its to the city r not very frequent,
and they occur at great intervals.
He has not quite SO much followed
the worlds progress in scientific adj
yancements and discoveries as he is
interested in the hayward trials and
vicissitudes of his own little band of
sinners in the rural field.
He dropped in at the office of a
large and extended manufacturing
establishment. They had a quiet,
pleasant chat in the elegant, costly
furnished apartment. One of the
novelties of the room is a telephone
connecting it with the factory some
miles off. Our friend the chief is
suddenly called out; the reverend
gentleman remains alone in the room.
He pulls out the latest tracts, adjusts
his specs, nestles down in the fautenil
and begins TO read.
"Ellol'' in sepulchral tones. Looks
up. Thinks it is outside.
"El-lowl Wake up, old boy"
Our divine starts up and gazes
around. a9i
"Why the devil don't you an
swer?"
"What in hill are you doing?"
continues the telephone.
"Really,--my dear-dear~ sir"
gasps our kind sir, swaying unsteadi-
ly through the room.
"Order down two carloads of coke
and a barrel of birthstone"
"Lord have mercy on their souls"
mumbles the preacher in panic-strick.
en- terror.
"Send down a new pack, a box o.
cigars and IL half dozen bottles of Joe
Murch's best. IS %
This was too much. The elderly
divine bolts through the door, file:
down the street, boards the first trair
homeward and never gets over lis ex
element until he has landed safely
lin the parsonage in the rural domain
A few days after u worthy friene
the manufacturing chief receives 4
long, kind epistle, Offering earnes
prayers for the salvation of his soul
and that God may finally purge hin
from all the sins ind great wicked
ness with which he is surrounded.