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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25

While Grant Cor himself, and his bum
mer friends as self interested advocates
will industriously strive to make him the
nominee Of the ring in 1880, there are
other prominent Republican statesmen
who are ambitious to make the race, who
are actively figuring for the place and will
not cheerfully give way to opposition from
the silent man" This class are jealous
ly watching every move on the political
chess board, aDd will allow no opportunity
20 pass which can be utilized to defeat the
aims Of the horde of hungry wolves who
are at present shouting so Justify for
Grant. Foremost among these is Blaine,
who is for himself first and the rest of
mankind atterward. Possessed of a greedy
desire for the nomination he will leave
nothing undone to secure it, aud if in order
70 reach the coveted place it becomes nee
essa'y to sacrifice some Of his political
contestants, he will slaughter them with
out one grain of regret, if by 50 doing Jim
Blalne's chances are enhanced. Grant s
most formidable opponent is Blaine, who
will leave nothing undone to OUTRAGE all
competitors for the nomination. Either
OF them can and will be beaten by the
Democratic nominee.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25
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WESTWARD.
EASTWARD. n STATIONS.

Passengers carried on Freight trains as follows:
EAST ...,.....4:45 p m WEST. $500. 10 80 m
GEO. NJ LOOSELY, Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL, L. ST. JOHN,
Gen' Sup't. Gen. Tiki Il Pass. Agt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25
MASSASOIT HOUSE.

NJ. i E. s. CHAPLIN, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
The Massssoit House near the Railroad Stations
was established in 1913 1t has been twice en-
arged, making il three times its original size and
thoroughly remOdeled and refurnished. The lArge
airy sleeping rooms, furnished with hot and cold
water, are cxceled by none in the country. Spec
ial attention paid to ventilation and all sanitary
improvements. The prOprietors determined
that the world wide reputation Of the Massasoit
shall be maintained in all respects.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25
c., 3, & Q, 3. 3.
yocI ISLAND b PEoRlA RAILWAY.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THK EAST AND SOUTH.

SHORTEST ROUTE TO THK EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
R.4Oam Way Freight 2:30 m F'ht & ACCOM- on
9lO = Fast Express. 1;1ap m Mail and Express
80 m Mail and Exp's. $50 = Fast Express.
$50 " Fit & Accom'n 4:45 Way Ere ght.
The 80 p IN train makes close connection at
Galva with c & Q for points west: arriving at
Gslesburg at 500 m; at Burlington 9:l5 m; at
Keokuk 9:25 p m; and at Quincy $40 p m; also
making close connection at Peor with & W
and T P & W roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND i MERCER &C, 3. z.
Leave Rock Island at :55 g. m, and 80 p
Arriving at Cable at II 10 a m, and sos ?
leave Gable at $50 a m, and AS m.
Arriving at Rock Island at Sis a. m, 100 D. III
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MARREAG z;
PRESCRIPTION E j||l5!.i:!.I''

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lost manhood, and all disorders brourbt -
by excuses, exposures, or intiiscretir,.'-
Most druggists have the ingredients p 20.
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"Chronic Diseases" 3S pages, "EssaT an
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CHICAGO. MI1wAuYEE&s PAUL.

RACINE q SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION.
LEAVE ARRIVE
DAY Express and Msjl..S:55 6:05PM
Night Express. ..,..,..... 1O:3C p 5:55 AN
The night express leaving kock Island every
Sunday night at 10 05 connects with the train arri
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock
sland to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
thistIaln.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25
( RAILROADS.

Rock Island q Peoria
RAuW Az.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE
z asst AN ID SOU T 4
Trains leave Rock Island.
GAO a N Way Freight.
9:l0 q Fast Express.
2:30 m Mail and Express.
$50 Through Freight and Accommodation.
Trains arrive at Rock Island.
2:3Oam Through Freight and Accommodation.
1:10p IN Mail and Express.
$3.50 " Fast Express.
4:45 '' Way Freight.
The FAST EXPRESS leaving Rock Island at 10
a m strives at Peoria EOS p m, at Springfield 425
p m, at Decatur 400 p m, Jacksonville 90 p m.
Alton 20 p IN, st Louis SIS m, and Terre Haute
and UICKEsT route to all pointe southeast
The :55 p. m. train makes close connection at
Galya with & Q for points west ;arrlving at
Galesburg at 500 m; at Burlington 7:15 m at
Keokuk 9:25 pm; and at Quincy $40 p m.
Arriving at Peoria at 6 80 p m making close con-
nections with | g. w and 7 P il w for Indianap-
oils, connecting there with all fast trains for east
and south.
~ FAST TIME. SURE CONNECTIONS, and
rates as low as by any other route.
R. r. CABLE, Gen' Supt,
j. V. MAHONEY,
Genl Ticket Ag't.
*The 6030 m Accommodation leaves every day
except Sunday
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NORTEIWE@T


Trains leave Rock Island as follows: Day Elk.
press at :55 m, arriving at Racine $50 p N, and
Milwaukee 615 p H.; Night Express at 1890 p M,
arriving at Racine 300 a IN, and Milwaukee 9l5 a
IN, connecting at Fulton with Chicago & North
western Railroad for Morrison. Sterling and Dixon
AT Freeport with Illinois Central Railroad for Du-
buque, Lacrosse, and all points North At Beloit
with the Madison Division of the Chicago & North
western Railway for Madison At Clinton juno
ton with the Western Division of the Chicago q
Northwestern Railway for GAINESVILLE. Oshkosh and
Green Bay AtWestern Union Junction with the
Chicago Division of the NJ. & st. r. Ry for Chi
cago and all Eastern points. At Milwaukee with
Northern Divisions of the q. NJ. Il St p. Ry for
Waukesha, GAINESVILLE, Madison. Watertown, Por'
tage City, Kilbourn, Lacrosse. Oshkosh, Minneap-
oils and 81. Paul Also with the Wisconsin Central
Railroad for Plymouth, Green Bay, Menasha, Ste
vens Point and Ashland, And with the Milwaukee
Lake Shore & Western Railroad for Sheboygan,
ManitowOc, New L ndon and Cllnt0nville-
West bound trains leave Milwaukee g 7:l5 m,
and 6:16 m, making close connections for all
points in the West and Southwest.
This is the only line running through
Day Coaches and Sleeping Cars between
Milwaukee and Rock Island.
Passengers wishing to take the sleeper leaving
Rock Island at 1880 p m can do so amp time after
Z p m. Passengers for Dubuque can thEs secure a
rest from : p until 400
Be sure that your tickets read via Western Union
Railroad.
Tickets on sale at all principal ticket offices.
For information regarding rates, routes, etc., ad
| dress
D. A. OLIN, Avn CARPENTER.
Superintendent, Genl Pass. Ticket AIT,
| Racine, Wis. Milwaukee. Wis.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-25
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

Beyond, stood grove, and wrapped IN
its bosom could be seen several white
cottages, an occasional CLEAN OF sun
shine transforming the windows into
FURNISHED gold.
I ventured to break the silence, being
hardly capable of controlling the i'm
pulse.
ssThis is one of the most charming
spots have ever seen.
Mr.. Dent smiled.
"I perceive, Miss Lawrence, that you
are an admirer of nature"
ST am, indeed replied.
'sI am glad you have come, Miss Hat
tie, he continued; eve are so lonely at
the grove! I hope your visit will be
pleasant one."
I thanked him with as much composure
as could muster, and we relapsed into
silence.
At last my journey was ended; for
Gertie's familiar face peeped at me
from the portals of pretty villa, and a
minute later we embraced each other.
''Hattie, you must be very tired.
Come, now, tea is ready. But first have
something to show you which I know
you will love-"
She led the way to an adjoining room,
where sweet baby lay asleep in its
crib.
"Oh, Gertie, why did you not men
ton this darling's existence to me be-
fore?"
because WANTED to surprise you.
kissed the sweet child carefully, lest
I should interrupt it's peaceful slumbers,
and then followed Gertie to the dining
room, where I met George, Gertie's s
husband, whose hearty welcome and
generous hospitality made me feel quite
at home.
It is needless to describe how pleasant
ly my vacation passed. It seemed to me
like coming into new life, as it really
was, for when I returned to my aunt I
was the promised bride of Phillip Dent.
Gertie and I live near each other, We
often talk of old times. My dear aunt
has gone to her last resing place, where
she has met her well-earned reward.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

ACTRESSES IN LoNDoN.-The Spanish
King, when Cervantes' great work was
yet a novelty, saw a man stretched on
bank of the Manzanares reading book
and laughing over it. He declared him
self satisfied that the book was The Acl-
ve'at,1res of Don Qnicote, and he proved
to be right. Any one who lately OBJ
served two or three people talking eager
ly across q London dinner-table might
have been warranted in assuming that
thay were talking of tae Comedie Fran
caise, and Of Mile. Sarah Bernhardt.
We have heard of small social circle
in which it was made formal condition
that no one was to say word about the
French plays, or even mention the names
of its gifted actresses whose genius and
and whose real or imagined oddities were
the subject of talk everywhere else The
exclusion was in itself a compliment.
Society would talk SO much on the one
theme that in the breasts of certain per-
sons an inevitable revolt sprang up, and
they absolutely set a bar on it. Kemble,
at Lausanne, grew jealous of hearing
people always talking of Mont Blanc.
He thought they ought to have talked of
him. He would not allow those over
whom he had any authority to mention
the innocent monarch of mountains in
his presence. The very prohibition only
proved the interest that every one took in
Mont Blanc. If the mountain could
have appreciated the compliment it
might have smiled complacently amid
one of its sunny rosy sunsets, ss another
mountain is said to have done under the
influence of different emotion. The
members of the Comedie Francois might
hear with certain self-satisfaction that
in London people generally talk so much
of them as to make few people here
and there impatient of hearing their very
names.-LOndos Neacs.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29
Domestic Economy.


As we see the great advance that has
been made in the last fifty years in many
departments of labor, the better methods,
by which economy in time, in muscle,
and of course money-money being only
the result of time and labor, are gained,
we ask has not the time arrived when we
should turn our attention to domestic
economy? Are we not ready for better
and less wasteful methods of conducting
our household? It is not our purpose
here to look into the reasons, and ask
why this most necessary and useful de-
partment of life and labor is the one last
to be taken up for reform? Many of the
causes are self-evident, so apparent that
it would seem to be unnecessary to
enumerate them.
Now, however, SO many thinking men
and women are asking this question, that
the next step after agitation and intell-
gent discomfort, must be experiments.
Already many excellent inventions for
better ways of doing home work have
been devised, but they are either not yet
heard of by those who need and would
be glad to use them, or they are too ex-
pensive to be attained by small, separate
households; or, as is often the case, they
would unnecessarily multiply kitchen
utensils where the small, inconvenient
kitchen is crowded already.
It is very clear that the only way to
any real Improvement must be in some
form of combined labor; where, by the
com bination of capital, numbers and in
teIligence, several or many families can
procure the best machines and most
skilled laundry men or women and
cooks. One uneducated person can not
be supposed to be excellent in various
departments, and we rarely find one who
is excellent in any, but under better
method inducements would be offered to
make it worth ones while to be an artist
in every branch; and instead of food
cooked by an inexperienced woman who
had hardly known how to cook anything
more than a potatoe: or a field hand
been able to try her skill on much more
than corn cakes, for these we should be
able to employ persons who knew some
thing of the science of cooking and COM
bining and preparing food suitable for
refined and highly organized men and
| women.
Many experiments will doubtless be
tried before we find the perfect way, but
| let the experiments be made, we are GER
tainly ready for them.
The generation of young people grow
ing up will adapt themselves very read
! lily to new forms and methods. The bur-
den of a large house and all of its cares
| will be thing of the past, as soon as it
| is seen that we can have home, and all
| of it's joys and comforts, without its
| cares. This will be stride in the direc-
tion of making life fine art, worthy of
thinking beings, instead of the worry it
is to most people.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29
Flooding the Sahara.

The plan of Donald Mackenzie for
opening the interior of the African con-
tinent to European commerce by admit
ting the waters of the Atlantic through
an artificial channel into a vast depressed
area of the arid dessert, which for ages
has been the impossible barrier that has
isolated the dwellers of the rich and fer
tile country lying to the south from con-
tact with civilization, has just received a
fresh impulse by its presentation in pop
ular form in the pages of Scribner,s
MO7etlaIy. The project of Mr.. Mackenzie
is older than that of Roudaire for Great
ing an African Inland sea, though by no
means so well known as the latter; and
if the engineering features of the scheme
have been correctly stated and observed,
the Mackenzie project could be made to
accomplish vastly more important re-
suits, at a cost not greater and probably
considerably less than that of Rou-
daire. What is known as the Basin of Ell
Joof is great depression, 200 feet below
the ocean level, in the western portion of
the Desert of Sahara, covering an area
Of 10000 square miles. and was at one
time an arm of the Atlantic ocean, the
channel of which was placed not far
from Cape JUDY, opposite to the Canary
channel, which is still discernable, is 21s
miles wide, and is blocked by sand-bar
about 300 yards across, and elevated ten
to thirty feet above sea level. Assuming;
these statements of the topography Of
the region to be accurate, as DIR. Macken-
zie after several explorations affirms un-
equivocally, all that would be required
to convert the arid basin of Ell Joof into
vast inland sea of go 900 square miles
in area, would be to pierce this ancient
channel with canal, 800 yards in length
and a little over thirty feet deep. A
small ditch only would be required for
this purpose, Mr.. Mackenzie claims,
since, when communication was once
established, the water of the ocean
would pour into the depressed basin and
scour ont the channel for itself The
feasibility of this project on the score of
engineering difficulties, says the Engi-
asees-i,ag and Mining Journal, does not
appear ever to have been called into Sc
rious question, and of the two projects,
Mackenzie's and that of Roudaire, for
flooding the Algerian chottes, the former
is not only vastly the greater in the pos
sible geographical and climatic changes
it would bring about, but in its CONNER
cial aspects also, since it would bring
Timbuctoo, the great negro metropolis,
within 2,OOO miles of England, making
it, practically, seaport, and the whole
of North Central Africa would be brought
within easy reach of the harbors of Eu-
rope. Mr.. Mackenzie has championed
this scheme zealously and indefatigably
for a number of years, and though he
has suffered many checks and disap-
pointments, his faith in it's ultimate sue
casa any,aars ff, bo r1nahaEon
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

A young elephant was recently brought
into the Court of Exchequer, in London.
He was accused of frightening horse,
and thereby damaging young lady con-
tanned In the carriage attached thereto,
but his mild and playful behavior in
Court, where he amused himself by pick
ing hats off the table, convinced every
body that he did not mean to do it, and
the case was compromised.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

Our country exchanges are revelling
in perfect riot of delight in columns of
delightful yarns about the regulation
farmer who had terrible conflict with
a snake that measured twenty-one feet
eleven and three-quarter inches.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

The Duke of Sutherland, who is a
thorough practical engineer, drove the
locomotive attached to the train which
conveyed the Prince and Princess of
Wales around the royal agricultural
show.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

Here is something for the youngsters
when they again get at their Biographies.
The highest land this side Of tho Rocky
Mountains is in Potter county, Colorado
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29

Many an old-line Wing will remem her
that famous silver vase, two-and d-a-half
feet high, which was presented to Henry
Clay when he was running for President
in 1874. 1t has just been offered for sale
in Boston by the Commoner's grandson.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-08-29
R UP 7 U RE
CURED!
From a Merchant.

DAYTON, w. T. Feb. 10, 1879.
". j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, San Francisco-Dear
Sir: The Truss purchased of you one year ago
has proved miracle to me. have been ruptur-
ed forty years, and wore dozens of different kinds
of Trusses, all of which ruined my health, as
Your valuable Truss is as easy as an old shoe and
is worth hundreds of dollars to me, as it affords
me SO much pleasure. / can and do advise all,
both ladies and gentlemen, afflicted, to buy and
wear your modern improved Elastic Truss imme-
diately. never expect to be cured. but am sat
isfied and happy with the comfort it gives me to
wear it. 1t was the best $40 1 ever invested in
my life. You can refer any one to me, and will
be happy to answer any letters on its merits.
remain, yours, respectfully.
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Latest Medical Endorsements.

MARTINEZ, CAL, Feb. II, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Proprietor California Elastic
Truss Co., 720 Market street, s. F.-Dear Sir:
In regard to your Cal. Elastic Truss, would say
that have carefully studied its mechanism, ap
piled it in practice, and do not hesitate to say
that for all purposes for which Trusses are worn
it is the b,st Truss ever offered to the public
Yours truly. J. H. CARoTHERs, M. D.
Endorsed by q Prominent Medical Insu
tUse.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 1879.
W. j. Horne, Esq--Dear Sir. You ask my
opinion of the relative merits of your Patent
Elastic Truss, as compared with other kinds that
have been tested under my observation, and in
reply frankly state, that from the time my at
tention was first called to their simple, though
highly mechanical and philosophical construction,
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cases of rupture, and whom have advised to try
yours, all acknowledge their entire satisfaction,
and consider themselves highly favored by the
possession of your improved Elastic Truss.
Yours truly, BARLOW J. SMITH, M. ID.
Proprietor Of the Hygienic Medical Institute,
635 California street, San Francisco.