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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-15
PALM SOAP,
PURE PALM SOAP
A PHILADELPHIA SPECIALITY,

Established forty years, and for sale by more than
one thousand storekeepers This Soap has no
equal in quality cheapness, for Bath and Toilet
use, being made OF LlBERIAN OIL from the
PALM TREE. Packed in boxes containing two.
three, i've or eight dozen. A liberal discount TO
Wholesale Dealers. Manufactured by GRAVES Il
SON, 1903 Christian street, Philadelphia II is
used by the Oldest resident families. physicians
and many pubic institutons-she American Hotel
Baths, Public Ledger" Post Office, Water De-
partment, and the Turkish Baths.
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To Mothers: Should the baby be suf.
fering with any of the disorders of baby
hood use DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup at once
for the trouble. Price Is cents,
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For SALE.-A two story frame dwelling
barn, etc., Apply to J. III. Kerr, un Mo
line avenue. tt
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Piles--Itching Piles

Positively cared-also Blind and Bleeding
Piles, Fistula, Salt Rheum, and all dis.
eases of the Skin, by the use of
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Printing and binding executed neat
quick and cheap at THE ARGUS OFFoE.
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ARaus uEApouARrERs .nnoLrrE

RIcHARns q SoHRBBcK's Drug and Book Store
opposite First National Bank, where all orders
can be left for the ARGUS, aud where all Moline
business is transacted by o. J. Beardslee. Bust
ness notices should be handed in by nosn to en-.
sure publication the same day.
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Every effect must have a cause; so
Bells, Pimpes, etc, are the result of poor
blood. DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture ana
Danish such eruptions as those named,
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PozZoni's preparations are standard
wherever introduced and in this vicinity
have ready sale with all the leading drug
gists and fancy cry goods dealers. The
celebrated Pozzoni Complexion Powder
is very popular with ladies and pronoun-
ced a valuable, delicately perlumed, aud
harmless cosmetic. Unlike most prepare
tons of this class it IS free from injurious
ingredients and imparts natural healthy
glow to the face, without the vulgar ex-
IRENE. An excellent hair dressing is found
in Chemical Balm" which prevents hail
from falling out, and accelerates its growth
1t is an excellent scalp invigorant and
thoroughly removes dandruff. These su-
perior articles can be obtained Of any drug
gist and will be found 10 all cases just as
represented. A trial will convince the
most skeptical of their merits.
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ROSSMAN'S CURE.

Itching PILES is generally preceded by
a moisture like perspiration producing a
very disagreeable and distressing itching,
particularly at night, after getting warm
in bed. No humbug-as trial will prove
For sale by all respectable druggists.
RossMAN Il MCkINsTRY, Hudson, NY,
Proprietors.
Sent by mail for so cents.
For sale by all Druggists iu Rock Island
Fuller 4 Fuller, and VanSchaack,
Stevenson & Reed, Chicago, wholesale
agents.
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The attention of democrats is specially
called to the Township Democrat caucus
to be held on Wednesday evening Of this
week. The democracy of the other town
ships are moving in the matter of choosing
delegates to the County Convention with
commendatle earnestness and Rock Island
should do the same. What is needed just
at this particular tine is full expression
county, of their steadfast adherence to
principle. and their determination to put a
regular old-fashioped straight-out demo
cratic ticket before the people for the com
| ing fall election. Send good men as dele
gates to the County Convention, men who
are democrats Of uudoubted integrity
make ticket that is composed Of reliable,
earnest, unyielding democrats, call it the
democratic ticket, let it be out and out,
such work for it. swear by it, live for it, and
10 that name we'll conquer. 1t is only a
question Of time,-the principles of de-
mocracy can never die: and though long
time ecipsed, sometimes overthrown, of
ten derided, and even betrayed and aban-
doned by the timid and faint hearted, true
democracy is essentially the cause Of true
constitutional liberty; and go long as con.
stitutional liberty shall survive so long
democracy will proudly unfurl its banners
and do battle for victory and supremacy.
= Restfal Nights, Days free from Tor.
tDre
, Await the rheumatic sufferer who resort:
to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Tha
this benignant cordial and depureut is ;
far more reliable remedy than colchicuu
and other poisons used to expel the rheu
natic virus from the blood, is fact tha
experience has satisfactorily demonstrated
1t also enjoys the advantage of being-un
like Unexpectedly safe. With man,
persons certain predisposition to rheu
matism exists, which renders them liabl
to its attacks after exposure IN wet wealth
er, to currents Of air, changes of teDpera
ture, or to cold when the body is hot
;, Such persons should take wine glass OF
: two OF the Bitters as soon as possible al
q ter incurnng risk from the above causes
as this superb protective efectually null
3 fies the hurtful influence. For the func
= tional arrangements which accompan,
rheumatism, such as collie, spasms 10 th
stomach, palpitation Of the heart, imper
feet digestion, &c, the Bitters is also
T. most useful remedy. Its only necessar.
10 obstinate cases to use it with PERSISTENCE
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MEDICAL.

Or sugar-Coateds Concentrated, Root
and Herbala juice Anti-Bilious
GranuIes.sS THE "LITTLE GIANT"
CATHARTIC, or Multum I'm Parvo
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Chairman of the Committee.
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Dangerous Liberty.

When will parents learn the i'm
portance of keeping firearms out Of
the children's way? They will play
with them if they can, 1t has been
established by innumerable exam
Piles that there never was a gun OF
pistol SO crippled, old or rusty, that
it will not go off in the hands of a
child, and it is also as well establish
ed that the innocent aim of child
is always deadly. Two more cases Of
this kind are reported. A boy Of
twelve years of age was left alone
for u few minutes with his one year
old sister. He commenced playing
with the baby, with loaded rife,
The gun went of, the ball entering
his sisters chin and passing through
her head, killing herinstantly, The
alarmed boy ecafrea for help. Hssaid
that man came into the house and
shot the child, and then ran away.
That was lie told in fright. He af-
tcrward confessed that he was play
ing with the gun, pointing it at his
sister, when she, grasping and pull
ing at the ramrod, the gun went of
in his hands. And so she died. The
other case was that ofa fourteen-year,
old who was playing at burglars, u
with a seven.year-old friend. He
had a gun which he did not know
was loaded, but which he had been
in the habit Of using to snap caps.
The inside boy took the gun, while
the outside fellow played burglar and
robber, at the wide chinks of the
door. He put his face to one of the
chinks, and this was good oppor-
tunity for the other to "blow wind"
in his face by swapping caps. The
first cap missed fire, but tho second
discharged the gun and killed the
outsider in the game of robbers, in
stantly,
There is no more to say. If chill,
dreu will play with firearms, they
must get shot sooner or later, 1t is
for parents to prevent such danger.
Gus play.
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ADIssatI.aed witness.


She was farmers wife, and, as
she took the witness stand in a case
before Justice Brown, she had her
hands clenched, herlips compressed,
and the FIRE in her eyes was evidence
that she was burning to tell the
truth. IA
"Well, tell the jury what you know
about the case" said the lawyer
She moved around little, looked
at the jury square in the face, and
getting hold Of the witness box she
began:
~ was out to the barn to ask my
husband if he thought it was going
to rain, and he said he guessed not,
and said l guessed not, when three
or four men came in, They were
jawing and swearing, and it almost
nude my blood run"
"Never mind all that" interrupt.
ed the lawyer, "Did you see any one
Strike a blow?"
81 guess l did see some one strike
n blow; and l never was so frighten.
ed in my life, wonder Ididn'tfaint
auSay. and think this man they called
Robinson was the one who struck the
first blow, and Pm almost sure of it,
and if I'd been a man l have"
"Do you swear that Robinson
struck the first blow?"
ayes, sir, Iswear that I think Rob
inson struck the first blow, though l
may be mistaken, Of course, and of
course don't want to swear to a lie
for no one, and 1 was excited, and l
don't know but that some one may
have hit him with an car Of corn,
and"
"That will do" said the lawyer,
"Why-why, l haven't hardly
commenced yet" she protested.
"Woll, I've got all l want of such
testimony"
81 say it's a mean trick to bring
me into town, over 'leven miles of
mudy roadand then not let me swear"
she exclaimed, as she stepped down.
81 guess Pm just as good as some 9th
er folks out my way, and guess Fye
got just as good an education for
swearing in court even if we hayn'tI
got upholstered chairs in the house."
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can give me a intellectual answer.
Third, when l examine operations
of nature ] find everywhere through
them evidences Of intellectual ar
rangements, of contriyances to reach
definite ends precisely as | find in
the operations of man; and hence l
infer that these two classes of opera
tions are results of similar intelli-
ence, Again, in my own mind |
find ideas of right and wrong, Of good
and evil. These ideas then exist in
the universe, and therefore from a
basis of our ideas Of a moral universe.
Furthermore, the conceptions of good
which are found among our ideas as
sociated with evil, can be attributed
only to a being Of infinite perfections
like that which we denominate
"God." On the other hand, we are
conscious of having such evil
thoughts and tendencies that we
cannot associate ourselves with a
Divine being, who is the director and
the governor of all, or even call upon
Him for mercy without the interces-
sion Of One who may affiliate Him
self with us.
find, my dear Mr., Patterson, that
l have drifted into a line of theologi-
cal speculation, and without stop
ping to inquire whether what l have
written may be logical or orthodox,
l have inflicted it upon you, Please
excuse the intrusion, and believe me
as ever, Truly yours,
JOSEPH HENRY,
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Economy is Wealth.

suppose you knew ricklet old
Shedebiddy Jones, who lived in the
holior? He wasn't any smarterthan
he might have been, was Shedebiddy
Jones-even his wife used TO call him
a poor, shiftless critter. Well, once
in the while he was clipper as any
body, and gave vent to some ALFRED
good thingss In those days Uncle
Josh. Hawks kept store here, and he
was about the smallest souled man |
ever knowed. One day shedebiddy
came down on an Grant, but he for
got what he came for. lie was >pur-
ty old, and his memory failed him
now and then. So he thought he
would buy something to pacify the
old lady-for she was.s Tartar, and
no mistake, when her dander was up
and he asked for a quarter of figs.
Now, Uncle Josh, he knowed to a fig
how many it took to a quarter of
a pound, and be put the usual num-
bor in the scales, but they outweigh
ed.
One was larger than the general
run, I guess; anyway, he took one out
and put another in, and then the
weight was short. So he took that
one out and put in another, and still
the weight was short. Uncle Josh,
would no more give under than over
weight, SO he took up the big fig
again and cut off one end and drop
ped it in, and the scales balanced ex-
actly. Old Shcdobiddy's eyes were
CROWN dim with the frosts of seven
ty winters, but they weren't SO dim
but what he seed the fig.splitting, but
he never said Il word. Uncle Josh,
wrapped them up in a small piece of
brown paper, and then looked about
for something to with which to tie
up the parcel, but it happened that
the twine had give out.
"You don't mind if there isn't any
string do your" he asked in an in.
sinuating sort of way.
mo-" answered shcdobiddy, as So
Der as u judge, "and I'll bring the
paper back tomorrow"
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ersaults all the way home, but now
III see you hanged first"
The reporter got behind the desk,
lifted up chair to ward Of a missile,
and then he said calmly:
@what was Mrs, fuckers object in
turning somersaults all the way
homer"
Those who saw Tucker come from
the Argus office said he looked as If
he had seen ghost, he was SO white.
The Argus lost subscriber.
In view of the fact that thousands
of men are out Of employment, it is
becoming a question with many if it
is not the duty of the Government to
make large appropriations for pub
lie improvements and to try and in
duce capitalists to invest their mon.
ey in works of that kind, also, that
employment may be given to labor.
There are many who favor such a
policy and they instance the i'm
provement of the Mississippi, Ohio
and other rivers, the repTjr Of The
Mississippi river leyees; the compile
tion of the James River and Kanaw-
ha canal, and the improvement Of
certain harbors as samples Of public
works, that might be improved in
this way with profit to the country
and to the great relief of labor
There arc times, when to adopt a
policy of this kind is wise, and we
are not certain but that that time
has arrived in our history. We are
in favor of public improvements, and
if we could make useful ones and at
the same time prevent the Govern
ment from encroaching on what is
properly the province ofthe citizens,
and the citizens from invading the
province of the Government or Sc
curing monopolies from it, it might
be well to adopt such policy.-Ners.
Saturday night at u o'clock, as two
German residents of Wheeling, nam
ed Kraus and Boehm, were going
home, they were suddenly and with.
out provocation fired upon by an un-
known party ofdrunken men. Kraus
is fatally and Boehm seriously in,
iured. The assailants escaped aud
are not known.
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"Not one man in a thousand mar.
ries the girl he most wanted,"-Er.
Yes, but look at tho lots of girls who
wanted us, anddidu't marry us, The
joy of this thought is only oqualod
by the sorrow of the thought that
another girl who wanted US did mar
ry ua.-Ptt95wgh Leader,
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Simple improvements.

= Y. =
With proper care and a little inge-
nuity, a very humble home may be
made pleasant and attractive. Furni.
ture is often discarded because it has
grown lhabby, when it might easily
be renovated and made seryiteable.
For instance, if you have among
your furniture chamber-set that
has become oldfashioned or dilapida-
ted, before you dispose Of it, see how
nicely you can make it look with a
trifing outlay of time and money.
Have some paint mixed for you o.
any pretty light tint, and give the
furniture two even coats of it. After
it is dry, varnish it, and I am sure
you will think the improvement
compensates for the labor. Kitchen
chairs and tables, or any of the COM
mon wooden furniture ofwhich there
is more or less in all our houses, may
be improved in the same way. Very
pretty drapery window curtains for
sleeping rooms may he made out of
cheap bordered pe-cale. They should
hang from a corhico covered With
plating of the bordering, and loOpcd
back with q band Of tho same. I
have seen a room finished with one
ofth furnished sets mentioned above
blue and white porcalc curtains and
a simple mating on the floor, that
had charming effect. One who, iS'
obliged to put the best side out with
the least expense, knows the salts.
faction there is in such success.
Perfect order and neatness will lend.
an air of elegance to the' most cheap.
" furnished room, if good taste is
observed.
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A Danbury boy asked his father
the other day what what was a phil
osophor.
"a philosopher, my son? Why a
philosopher is a man who reasons"
as that sol" said the boy detected.
ly, ~ thought it was a man that
didn't lot things bother him."
The father silently pattcd his sons
head.
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SelrRellancc.

Be not mere imitators of other
men's actions, methods. md rules Of
thought. Use other mems ideas and
experiences as you would use book
or newspaper, In stimulating your
own action, in comparing your own
conclusions. You are not safe in
blindfy accepting the conclusions of
any man without first applying them
to the crucibIe of your own common
sense, to the dictates and promptings
of your own judgment.
You must bear the burden or the
injury your own mistakes; it will
be difficult to find the man who gave
you bad advice after the crash has
come; most friends and advisers are
fair weather philosophers, hence you
must mark out your own pathway Of
action, irrespective of the opinion
and advice of others, except as aids
in forming your own finaljudgment.
Never expect that success from bor-
rowed ideas that you do from such as
have been fully digestcd and assim-
Hated in your own constitution
You cannot work so well in borrow
ed clothes as in those which have
been made to order.
Each forest tree depends upon its
own roots for support, and upon its
own leaves for nourishmont, and yet
while each is benefited by the shelf
er and protection of its immediate
ncighbors, it would die if dependent
upon them for anything further
So all men are dependent upon each
other for much that makes life pleas
ant and prosperous; yet after all no
man achieves mental growth, success
or high attainment except through
his own exertions and his own fae.
ultios, The world delights to aid
those who or abundantly able to take
care of themselves. Those who most
need help are least likely to receive
it. The mental victories achieved
through honest purpose, firm resolve,
persistent effort, are far more benef'
cial to the individual, as well as far
more satisfying to his better nature,
than the mere acquisition of proper
ty or power through tho assistance
of others, or through the medium Of
questionable practices.
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A Sunday school boy at Maysville,
KY, was asked by the superintcnd.
ent ifhisfathor was Christain.' Yes,
sir, ho replied, but he is not work.
ing at IL much
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HEALTH NEvErs.-Nover eat in a
hurry, because 1t causes indigestion.
Never speak in hurry, because it
is ominous of instability.
Never think on going to bed, be-
cause it makes wakefullncss.
Meier cat between meals, because
ii produces irritation.
Never dine iu excitement, because
the blood Is called TO the brain which
ought to- go to aid digestion.
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Tho New Orleans Picayrtne peril.
nentfy remarks: Tho New York Com.
mcrcial Advertiser says: miss Cor.
son yesterday showed a number Of
sportsman how a meal could be niadU
over d camp fire with nothing more
than a few saucepans and a frying
PAN" We can understand how Miss
Corson prepares n Rftpen.cent dinner
for six persons, how Train oats pea.
nuts, and Dio Lewis brushes oats for
sustcnance, but meal Of saucepans
and hot frying pan is too hard TO
believe ~ ~ ..
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Mr. TuekeEA Ilems.
BY MAX ADELER.

the Argus, and siding up 70 the re-
porter's table, and topka seat, mug
ed up close, aud said;
@Just take it down now, and I'll
give you a good item Ready?o
"Yes, go ahead
"Well, this morning Mrs. Tucker,
my wife, you know, and her daugh.
ter Bessie, were out driving with a
bay mare named Kitty, along the
river road to see her,aunt.
"Whose aunt?"
"Mrs. fuckers aunt. To see her
aunt. Bessie was diving the mare,
and, a little after they had passed
the stapleton place, she threw one Of
her shoes OFF,
Bessie didY"
"No, Kitty, the mare. And Bessie
said to her mother that she thought
she was behaving qneerly."
"Mrs, Tucker WASH.
"The mare; and she felt SO weary
that she had a potion to turn back" :"
care you speaking of the mare or
of Bessie?"
II mean Bessie, of course. But she
kept on limping and going kinder
on.eyen, until they vas down by the
gas works, when she laid back her
ears and" ".
"You don't mean Bessie's cars?'
Certainly not"
$50 on, then. Mrs. Tucker laid
back her ears"
"The mares ears, And, just as
they got on the bridge oyerthe creek,
the mare gave a tilt to one side, and
Mrs. Tucker screamed; she let drive
with both her hind legs against the
carriage"
"Are you referring to your wife or
to the"
kitty, the mare, and snapped
both shafts of short' The next mo-
ment, before my wife or Bessie could
save themselves, she went over the
side turning complete somersault."
"You are now speaking of the
mare?'
"Yes, the marc turned a complete
somersault into the water. One of
the traces remained! unbroken, aud,
of,eourse, as Kitty went over she
draggedsthe eaffiak0 aftar her, and
Mrs. Tucker and Bessies went fioun.
dering in the creek The mare at
once struck out for shore, and Bessie
fortunately had presence of mind
enough to grasp her by the tail. She
had blind staggers but it had passed
off"
"Not Bessie?"
"No, the mare; and as she was be.
ing towed past Mrs. Tucker, she
caught hold of her dress"
"The mares dress?'
"Bessio's dress, of course; and it
seemed for u minute that the mare
would bring them safely to land
But Mrs. fuckers hold on the mares
tail loosened somehow, and"
"You said Bessie had hold of the
mares tail"
Did l? Well SO it was; and Mrs.
Tucker had hold of her dress"
Whose dress2"
Didn't say Bessie's dress. Well
then, somehow my wife's hold loOs-
ened, and then"
"Her hold of what?"
"Her hold on the mare's-no l
must be mistaken. Bessie had hold
of the tail, while the mare was swim.
ming and the marc had-that is,
Mrs. Tucker had hold of-well any
how, she let go"
"Mrs. Tucker let go?"
ooh, l dunno, who ever had hold
of the mare let go, and she went to
the bottom like stone,"
Tf l follow your meaning, it was
the mare that went to the bottom"
my goodness, man, can't you un-
Itwas not the mare. The
mare swan ashore"
"What did you say she went TO the
bottom for then?"
~ didn't, it was Bessie"
"Bessie mover said a word. about
it,"
"You know what l mean. Bessie
went to tho bottom"
"And your wife swan ashoro?"
t.N, ~, jsl,,,F ;tk,.U
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WE have justnow heard cabbage
story, which we will cook up for our
laughter-loying readers. "oh! l loves
you like anythingl" said a young
man to his sweetheart warmly press
ing her hand. "Dittol" said she,
gently returning the pressure. The
ardent lover, not happening to be
pveflearned,s .soFely puzzled to
understand the meaning Of ditto, but.
was ashamed toexpose his Ignorance
by asking the girl, He went home,
and the next day, being at work in
the cabbage-yard with his father, he
spoke out: Daddy, what's the mean;
ing of ditto2" "Why," said the old
man, "this here is one cabbage-head,
amt it2" ayes, daddy" "Well, that
ar's ditto" "Rot that ar good.for-
nothin' gall" calculated theindignaut
son; "she called me cabbago-hoad,
and I'll never go to see her againP"