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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-19

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-19
The Tournament.

The last day of the tournament was the
most successful of all. and was largely
attended. The first shoot on the pro
gramme was grand club shoot, entrance
fee 500; 40 per cent to first, 80 per cent
to second, 20 per cent to third, and 10 per
cent to fourth. Following is the score:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-19

Buy your wife White Sewing Machine
for Christmas present. at Hawley 4
Hills, Rock Island.
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Printing and binding executed neat
quick and cheap at The ARaus0FEIuE.
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Ha1ford Table Sauce, sold
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-12-19

DR.. ScaENcK's PULMoSIc SYRUP, unlike all
other Cough, Cold and Consumption remedies,
CONTAINS NO OPIUM or other narcotic. 1t does not
dry up a cough or increase the Inflammation, as
these preparations almost sure to do. DIR.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup loosens the phlegm and
corrupt matter in the lungs and assists nature to
expel the disease from the system. Its healing and
soothing properties are wonderful. 1t makes new
blood and builds up the debilitated constitution.
We here publish few certificates from we'll
known persons. Read them.
NEwBURGH, n. Y, March 4, 1879.
DIR. j. H. ScHENCK-
Dear Sir-I feel that I doing good to others
by telling yon what your medicines have done for
me. / was sick with Consumption for over two
years, and after trying many remedies and employ
ing the best physicians in this CITY, without benefit
was induced to use your medicines. had nard-
ly taken the first bottle before felt much better,
and after continuing their use Tor some time was
entirely cured This was over six years ago, and
as have continued TO enjoy good health since l
feel that my cure is permanent. | am happy to
add my testimony with many others tt the efficacy
OF your medicines l know many others in New
burgh who have been benefited by their use.
MRS. SOPHIA NJ LAWSON,
No. 50 Ann street, Newburgh, n. Y.
ALTON DEPOT, Nelson Co., Va,
DR. j. H. ScHENcK, PHILADELPHIA
Dear Sir-I deem il my duty to you and to all
who may be suffering with that awful disease, Con-
sumption, to write 10 you OF the change for the
better that has been made In my wife, condition
by you and your great medicine. On August 29th
1878. my wife was taken down with Consumption
l called in of the best doctors in this country
He attended her as faithfully man could, doing
everything in his power, but she got verse every
day. In october l called another doctor. They
both said she could possibly live, for she had
Consumption, and that her lungs were nearly gone.
She was at this time the most pitiful object any
person had ever seen, perfect skeleton, cough
in and splitting large quantities of matter.
tried III kinds OF patent medicines that were
said to Consumption, but nothing did her any
good.
On the first of October tho doctors aud all her
friends gave her up It their opionin that
she could not live five days longer. BY chance
got one OF your books describing many similar
and their cure, and on the 9th of November
wrote TO you, describing her case You wrote me
to give my wife your medicines according to the
printed directions AID you thought she could be
cured. 1 at once bought some of your
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
The krupp Gun Works.

The krupp gun works of Germany are OF
immense dimensions. One of the establish
ments employs $500 workmen. and contain
2OS boilers and engines, which combined,
10000 horsepower, and operate seventy
seven trip-hammers, varing in weight from
200 to 100000 pounds each. Since 1877, 15,-
600 cannons have been turned out; 800 are
made on AL average every month. Daily.
$4,000 tons of coal and coke are consumed,
and 21 900 gas jets are in use. A railroad
track, with twenty-four locomotives and
700 trucks, is in operation within the works,
and between them and the nearest railway
station. This establishment has twenty-four
telegraph stations, and eight fire engines for
protection against confagration.. In the
mines connected with these works. there are
$500 workmen. Iron ore the company gets
from its own lands in the north of Spain to
the extent of 200, 900 tons annually, which
five steamers, also owned by the company,
convey to the factories. The company has
built 3,268 tenements houses for its employees,
in which 16, 200 persons live. The grain used
in the bakeries that supply these people with
bread is bought by agents of the company in
large quantities chiefly in Odessa, the Russian
grain port. -Four common schools and an
Industrial school for girls and women pro-
vide the elementary instruction needed by this
city of factory hands.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31

GRRENVILLE MURRAY in recent "RrOund
About France" paper divides the Bonapar-
lists into several categories. First came the
descendants of the men who won titles on
the battle-fields Of the First Empire, and
whose names are closely associated with the
glory of that epoch. They are the Jacobi-
tes of the party-the men who cannot waver
in their loyalty SO long as there lives
Prince of Napoleon's name ambitious OF
wearing the crown. The regiments of the
Guards, the brigades of the police and espi-
onage departments are full of them and
they were always remarkable for their dog.
like fidelity to the regime which employed
them. But it is only fair to say of some Cor.
sicans that their imperialism was devoid OF
any interested motives, springing only from
pride which inhabitants of small, wild is
land could but feel at the lustre shed upon
their birthland by great family. After the
men whose devotion TO Bonapartism has its
source in the First Empire come those
whose loyalty dates no further back than
Napoleon lids reign. The late Emperor,
Thought he had fewer admirers than his uncle,
had good many more personal friends. An
other class of Bonapartists remains to be &C
counted for, and these are the men who can
not imagine that country should be orderly
save under military despotism. The theoret-
ical advocates of Caesarism must always be
pretty numerous in a country which has been
80 over r-governed as France.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
The Ruins of Babylon.

The traveller who is fortunate enough to
see Babylon in April cannot call it desolste
The date groves and gardens along the banks
of the Euphrates are then things of beauty in
their fresh spring verdure, and the plain itself
is laid down with crops. Irrigation canals
cross it here and there, and give trouble to
the horsemen. No grass grows upon the
mounds, and there are patches of the level
white with the nitre which is to be found
here as in other parts of Mesopotamia; but
the surface of the soil is on the whole green
and pleasant to the eye. The glad waters of
the river flow in the bright morning sunshine,
with palm and mulberry hanging over its
banks, drinking in sap and life. The great
city which counted its population by millions,
and filled the world with renown not yet
forgotten has disappeared under the dust of
twenty centuries; but nature is as fresh and
as iocund as when Babylon was still unbuilt.
Birds sing overhead in the pleasant spring
air; balmy odors regale the senses. 1t is
difficult under the circumstances to feel as
one perhaps ought to feel for the great cap
ital which once numbered the ground; for
nature makes its grave beautiful.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31

MARRIAGES, says a German writer, are
usually contracted to crafty one OF three de-
sires, viz, love, fortune or position. Inc
man who marries for love takes wife; who
marries for fortune, takes mistress; who
marries for position, takes lady. He is
loved by his wife, regarded by his mistress,
tolerated by his lady. He has wife tor
himself, 9 mistress for his household, lady
for the world and society. His wife will
take care of his household, his mistress OF
his house, his lady of his appearance. II he
is sick, his wife will take care OF him, his
mistress will visit him, his lady inquire after
his health. He takes q walk with his wife, q
ride with his mistress, goes to party with
his lady. His wife will share his grief, his
mistress his money, his lady his debts: II ne
dies, his wife will weep. bis mistress lament.
and his lady wear mourning
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Rest for Headaches.

Dr. Day says, in late lecture: Whatev-
er be the plan of treatment decided upon,
rest is the first principle to inculcate in every
severe headache. Rest, which the busy man
and anxious mother cannot obtain so long as
they can manage to keep about, is one of the
first remedies for every headache, and we
should never cease to enforce it. The brain,
when excited, as much needs quiet and re-
pose as fractured limb or an indamed eye,
and it is obvious that the chances of shorten
ing the seizure and arresting the pain will
depnd on our power to have this carried out
effectually. 1t is a practical lesson to keep
steadily in view, in that there may lurk be-
hind some simple headache, some lesion of
unknown magnitude which may remain sta
tionary if quietude can be maintained.
There is point worth attending to in the
treatment of all headaches. See that the
head is elevated at night, and the pillow hard;
for, if it be soft, the head sinks into it and
becomes hot, which with some people is
enough to provoke an attack in the morning
IL the sleep has been long and heavy.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 81, 1879.
Dressing Stone by Electricity.

Among the novel applications of electrici-
ty to the industrial art is q new stone. dressing
apparatus, which is worked by dynamo
electric machine, and which the inventor
claims will dress millstones or other stones,
and drill rock econ omically, with rapid
ity, precision and dispatch. The chisel en-
ployed is fastened to a spring arm which
prOtrudes from case containing magnets and
armatures. This spring arm, when the mag
nets are connected with the dynamo-electric
machine, moves up and down with extreme
rapidity, causing the chizel to strike a blow
at each decent. The inventor states that it
can be made to strike from l 1000 to 1900
blows per minute. Wires being used in place
of steam pipes enables the apparatus to be
moved readily to any angle,or worked at any
reasonable distance without much loss of
power while not the least meritorious por-
ton of the whole invention is the horizontal
frame or base to which the electric appdra-
tus is fixed. This frame is portable, and by
the use of screws can be so adjusted as to
cause the chiZel to strike any portion OF a
circle with either swift or slow motion, the
number and intensity of the blows being re-
gulated according to the softness or hardness
of the stone. By the use of this machine it
is said that a milestone can be covered in a
very short space of time with the necessary
grooves and furrow, having the straightness,
regularity and parallelism so much desired in
good milestone dressing. The apparatus can
be worked either automatically or by hand,
so as to suit the varying natures of the stone
operated upon.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
The Texan Cowboy.

There is DO better place than Fort Worth
to observe the COW boy, that peculiar product
of wild frontier life. He is apt to make him
self obnoxious in crowded town, but seen
on his native heath, cantering over the plains
on his swift mustang, swinging his lariat and
shouting his whoop and halloa to the fleeing
steers, he is picturesque spectacle. He
lives in hut or tent, sleeps in summer rolled
in his blanket in the open air, is in the saddle
from morning to night, settles bis quarrels
with his six-shootcr, looks upon killing as a
venal offense, and upon cattle-stealing as a
capital crime, and is altogether the most free
and independent fellow to be found in this
peculiarly free nd independent country.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
TRODDEN FLOWERS.

There are some hearts that, like the loving vine,
Cling to unkindly rocks and ruined towers.
Spirits that suffer and do not repine-
Patient and sweet as lOwly trOdden flowers,
That from the passer's heel arise,
And bring back odOrous breath instead OF slghs.
But there are other hearts that will not feel
The lonely love that haunts their eyes and ears;
That wound fond faith with anger worse than steel,
And out of PHYS spring draw idle tears.
Oh Nature, shall it ever be thy will
Ill things with good to mingle, good with i'll?
Why should the heavy foot of sorrow press
The willing heart OF accomplishing love
Meek charity that shrinks not from distress,
Genteness, 10th her tyrants to reprove?
Though virtue weep forever and lament,
With one hard heart turn to her aud repent?
Why should the seed be broken that will bend,
And they that dry the tears in Others eyes
Feel their own anguish swelling without end,
Their summer darkened with the smoke OF signs?
Sure, Love to some fair region of her own
viii flee at last and leave us here alone.
Love weepeth alway-weepeth for the past,
For woes that are tor woes that may betlde;
Why should not hard ambition weep at last,
Envy and hatred, avarice and pride?
Fate whispers that so low is your poor lot,
They would be rebels; love rebclleth not.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Tribute TO THE MINES.
What Senator Jones Said 10 II Newspaper
Reporter.

Mining is movie operation, said the Sena-
tor, it involves all the sublimity and tragedy
of life. You are Monte Cristo to-day, and
perhaps sitting out ON the bare rocks to-mor-
row, with pick III your hand and grub
stake of $50 from some kind friend, looking
hopefully into the riddle of the mountain s
face. believe, however, that most men are
more manly at mining than any other pur-
suit. You see poor chap without change
of clothes, sleeping in hut, no woman near
him and cooking his own food, yet with the
dreams OF immortal riches in his mind, and
the courage to 90 week after week driving
his pick, shovel and cartridge into the hill.
There is nothing mean about him !; he has
hope which is the essence of religion. l re-
member reading in Bulwer's ''Lost Tales of
Miletus" the story of Sisyphus. There he
sat on granite hillside, the sun flaming
down upon the hot rocks, almost binding
his sight, and with his powerful limbs ex-
tended, his back bent, he was pushing a
stone up the mountains, on whose summit.
inconceivab]y high, was the only green or
cool spot of light falling as if upon grass
there. He had been working for years and
years to drive that stone to the top OF the
mountains, and it ever slipped back upon
him. If he can drive it to the top be Is to
be one of the immortals, but if he gives it up
lis doom is oblivion. His good angel says
to him, "Oh Sisyphus! why continue at this
impossible task?" "Why,' he replied,
"don't you see the light on the green summit
yonder? Beyond that is the Elyslan Fields.
and if only get the stone up there l shall
have rest, and dwell with Rhadamanthus and
the happy people" ''But," says the angel,
:smy poor soul can never roll the stone up
After all, the only penalty of abandoning
the task is extinction. Why toll so hard when
you can have sweet oblivion?" "Begone. "
exclaimed Sisyphus, ''better to work through
all eternity than accept oblivion" and he
turned to his task again.
'Now," said Senator Jones, .s'that is the
life of the miner. He is rich to-day, buying
yachts country houses, managing railroads
etc. etc. Next year he is broke, and he goes
back to the mines, and stares into the burning
face of the mountains. Hope keeps him up.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31

SWEET are the uses of Washington jour-
nalism. A Western paper quotes the Sen
tinel as brilliant sheet, whereupon its
brother, the Post, remarks regarding its rival:
s.The brewers of this country have employ
ed fellow named Schade to watch legisla-
ton at the Capital, and in order to disguise
his calling he prints what he calls news
paper once in q while which is mainly made
up of cuts of improbable beer-barrel bungs
and incredible bottle-stoppers. The type is
generally set with shovel, and the edition
worked off on bit of smooth concrete pave
ments with gravcl-crusher."
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Not Legally Posted.

AT the trial of Ccnant, the defaulting
cashier of the Elliott National Bank of Bos-
ton, on Monday, his counsel, Gen. Butler,
argueing that the courts could not 60 behind
the noNe prosequi which had been entered in
the case, told this story: "a Quaker was
on trial in England. when brother Quaker
entered and accosted the Lord Chief Justice
with the remark, MY Lord Chief Justice, l
am charged with a message to thee from
God Almighty The Lord Chief Justic ask
ed its purport, when the broadbrim replied:
Thou art "a lying knvve. The Lord knows
well enough that the court has nothing to do
with noUe prosequi. 1t must be addressed
to the Attorney General
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Italian Girls.
lFOrneys' Progress. !

The girls of Italy do many things our
young ladies would not think of doing, and
they leave unlearned certain accomplish
ments which only the very poorest American
fair ones pass by. The Italian bride makes
her own outfit, and as the trousseaa consists
of six dozen of everything, being intended to
last twenty five years, and all must be en-
broidered and frilled, the task is not an easy
one. But they take their time to it, occupy
ing two years in getting it in shape, and all
the while the work goes on the lovers are
counting. The husband gives the dresses,
shawls, everything, in fact, but the under
clothing. Italian girls do not learn to sing,
draw and play the piano. These are left to
people who earn their living by them. But
they are taught how to sew, cook and iron.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
DISREGARD OF THE SABBATH.
Some Pertinent observations by n Visi.
tor.

A States gentleman, who has spent several
months looking over Montana with view of
making his home here, gives us the benefit of
some of bis observations. His letter, written
from Salisbury, is anargument in favor of
Representative Brooke's Sunday law. The
writer says:
"Having been a reader Of the HERALD for
several years and taking it's columns as cri-
terion, had formed a very favorable opin-
ion of Montana and especially of the enter
prise and morals of the people. Last March
l started from Michigan, which has been my
home for over forty years, to see this Won
derful country arrived in this beautiful
valley about the middle of March and spent
some time in travelling over the Territory
The ranchmen found generally kind, intel
ligent and hospitable, and my opinion of the
people was favorable passed up the Bea-
verhead valley, crossed over the Divide and
spent my first Sabbath in Bannack. Here
the shops and saloons were all open. My
first thought was that had lost the day OF
the week, but was told that Sunday was the
best business day of the week. The follow
ing Sunday spent in Virginia City. Here
the same spectacle presented itself Monday
a friend showed me around town, and among
other places of note pointed out the spot
where the Vigilantes in early days had hung
five men at once and from the same gibbet.
mentally remarked that judging by the God
lessness had witnessed the preceding day, l
thought they could not have hung too many.
On the 18th of April | was in Helena. On
my way to church in the evening l noticed
stores, saloons and gambling places in full
blast visited Benton, travelled over Lewis
and Clarke about month, and returned byw way
of Helena to this place. Nearly everywhere |
went the same order of things was observed
-non-observance and desecration of the Sab.
bath day. So richly favored country in
other respects should seek to elevate its
moral and religious aspects. l think now of
returning to Michigan after a visit to your
wonderland-the National Park"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Summer BOarders.

A gentlemen, wishing to obtain board for
his wife and family in the country. was d.
rected to neat looking farmhouse kept by
an old farmer and his wife. A brief inspec-
ton satisfied him that the place would suit
him. ''But now as to the terms" he said.
s'Waal," drawled the farmer, ''you have SIX
children, You say2" eyes, cir" The Old
man reflected few moments and then re.
piled: Last year / took children at half
price. Do you see them par trees and berry
bushes? Waal this year will charge full
price for the young 'nhs, and throw in your
wife and yourself for nothin'." esEEs
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
Sensible Teaching.
Lowell Courier. !

Lowell Courier]
Principal French, of one of the Pennsyl-
vania normal schools, suggests what he calls
''business day. in schools-one day in
month, fortnight, or a week set aside for
the learning of some particular thing in
fresh way. He recommends that on one OF
these days each pupil should be requested to
bring some good magazine or newspaper
and read therein something OF real value
which will bring out questions from the
auditors n On s5n anGnes S tsh day oW sogsS o wre
correct and entertaining letters, and how to
make notes and receipts. Again he suggests
geography, asking pupils, for instance, to
load vessel at Boston with such articles as
needed in the West Indies. Mr.. French
carries his recommendations and illustra-
tons through many branches of study, and
they are all good.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31

NURSES. the Rev. Arthur Blink
man, hospital chaplain, says about nurses
should be read by every nurse in the land,
and if they would all ''act accoIdin there
would be Joy among the sick indeed: :,
The nurse ought to have washing stand
all to herself in every sick-room. and the
more she washes her hands at it, whether
thev want it not, the more the patient will be
edited. Everything should be clean about
the cap. everything clean about the dress, but
the nice effect of it all may be spoiled by the
one black finger-nail that rests on the saucer.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
THE PIAZZA TRAGEDY.

AlgernOn Ethel's papa has q
Newly painted front piazza,
He has
Piazza.
When with tobacco juice twas tainted,
They had that front piazza painted.
That tainted
Piazza painted.
Algernon called around perchance
That night arrayed IN goodly panty
That night perchance
In gorgeous pants.
Engaging Ethel in . chat,
On that piazza down he sat
in chat
They sat.
And when an hour or o had passd
lie tried to rise, but, oh! stuck fast
At last
Stuck fast!
Fair Ethel shrieked, 'It is the paint.'
And tainted in deadly faint
This saint
Did faint.
Algernon sits there till this day
He cannot tear himself away
Away!
Nay, Nay!
His pants are 6rm, the paint is dry
He's nothing else to do but die
To die
o my!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1879-07-31
WATCH.WORDS.

Helen s. Conant in Hazper's Magazine for August
Through gathering clouds and stormy seas OF Fate,
Two golden watch-worde guide and comfort me:
Toiling along my path, early and late.
cling to Patience and Fidelity
In all the weary changes Of my day
I strive to follow duty faithfully;
And when faltef, fainting, by the way.
So onward through what entering God may send,
walk with faith. and feet that shall not IRE,
Trusting with Patience, et1ong unto the end,
TO reach at last, q Lord my souls DESIRE