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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

PERFECTLY tasteless, elegantly cuated with sweet
gum, pdrge, regulate purify, cleanse and strength
an. Railways Pills. for the cure of all disorders vi
Ehc Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder
Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Costive
Re5s Ind gestion, /spepsia, BiliOusness, Billion.
Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and al
arrangements of the Internal Vlscera. Warranted
to effect positive cure. Purely Vegetable, con
tanning no mercury, minerals deleterious drugs
Observe the following symptoms resulting
from disorders of the Digestive Organs.
Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullnese of the Blood
IN the Head, Acidity OF the Stomach, Nausea
heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fullness of Weight
sn the Stomach, Sour EruptIons Sinking or FIutter
inGs in the Pit of the Stomach. Swimming of the
Head Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Flutterinpe
ct the Heart, Choking or Sufocating Sensation
Rhenin Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots
,r Webs before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in
Ino Head, Deficiency Of Precipitation, YeIlowness oi
.ne skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side Chest, Limbs
ana sudden Flushes of Heat Burnng in the Flesh
Il few doses Of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the
sytem from all the above named disorders. Price
80 cents per box, Sold by druggists.
RHAD arALsE AND TRUE.
bend letter stamp to RADWAY q CO., No. so
warren, Cor Church st.. New York. ~ Infor-
ANTON worth thousands will be cent you.
TO TEE PUBLIC.
rnere can be no better guarantee OF the value of
y. hADwAK's old established Il. r. z. hEMKDr Is
u an the base and worthless limitations of them as
70 are are Faiee hesolvents. Reliess and Pills. Be
stre ana ask Tor Hadwa ., and see that the name
ltrdWay'ts on what yon bays
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic cures dumb
arue
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11
Ghe Salty sgns.
ROCK TBEAMD,......- rT.LxNoxS-
SATURDAY. September IL 1880
RADWAy's REMEDIES.
1RADWA.X,SI5
Sarsapariilian Resoivent,
rns areae Blood Purifier.
Changes as Seen andFeft. s.oo :.
Ac thou nailxr nocnr
Changes as Seen and Feit. 60 =

Changes as Seen and Felt, ee -
"a e As they Daily Occul
AFTER USING Anew DOSES:
T. Good spir1ta, disappearance of weakness
languor. melancholy increase and hardness o.
s strenasS iaereSsse improves relish
for food NO more sour eruGatfons OF waterbrash
good digestion calm And istutbcd sleep awak-
ana Of spots bosSkss pimples
the skin looks clear and healthy; the urine chang
ed from its turbd and cloudy appearances to eieai
cberry or amber color; water passes freely from
the bladder through the urethra without pain OF
scalding; little OF no sediment' no pain OF weak
4. Marked Elimination of quality and frequency
Of involuntary weakening discharges OF afhieted
a that way with certainty OF permanent cure. In
creased strength exhibited in the secreang glands
and functiona. armony restored to the several
&. yellow -t4-ge~on the white of the eyes, and
the swarthy, saffron appearsnee Oh the SKIN cnang
g. Those suffering from weak or liberated lungs
or tubercles Will realize great benefit in expectora-
lungs, air cells, bronchi or windpipe, throat or
head; diminishing the frequency Of cough; gener-
al Increase of strength throughout the system
stoppage of night sweats an6 pains and feelings OF
csssation Of cold aud chills sense of snfecation
hard breathing and paroxysm of cough on lying
down or arising in the morning. All these distress
sing symptoms gradually and surely disappear
taken. new signs of returning health viii appear;
.hs 6oSd ss All forea
posits noises. tnmors, cancers, hard Jumps, etc.
Be- resolved away. and the unsound made sound
and healthy ulcers feyer sores chronic skin dis
eases, gradually disappear. 4As-s@--
g. In cases where the system has been saliN ated.
and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate
have accumulated and become dep Jlited IN the
bones, joints, ETC., ausing carries Of the bones,
ricketts, spinal curvatures contortiols, white swell
lings varicose veins, etc., the SARSAPARILLIAN
the virus or the disease from the system.
g. II those who are taking these medicines for
the cure OF Chronic, Scrofulous or Syphilitic dis
eases however slow may be the cure, feel better
and find their general health improving, their flesh
and weight increasing, or even keeping his own is
sure sign that the cure Is progressing. In these
diceases the patient either gets better worse
the virus of the diEease is not Inactive; If not
rested and driven from the blood it win spread and
continue to undermine the constitution. As soon
IS the SARSAPARILLIAN makes the patient ''feef
better every hour yon will grow better, and in
crease in health, strength and iesh.~ - n ~
The great power of. this remedy is in diseases
khR. threaten death--asI in za#s
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

Cincho-o uinine cures chiils and fever.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

Printing and hinding executed neal
quick and cheap ut TEE AaaUs0FFIUR.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11
FEVER & AGUE

Fever and Ague cured for fifty cents. There 10
not q remedial agent in the world that will cure
fever and ague, and all other mAlarioae, bilious,
scarlet, typhoid, yellow and other fevers (aided by
Railways Pills. so quick Roadway = Ready Relief
FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE.
Inflammation of the Kidneys.
Inflammation of the Bladder.
Inflammation of the Bowels.
Congestion of the Lungs.
Sore Throat, Difficult Breathing.
Palpitation of the Heart
Mysteries, Group, Diphtheria.
Catarrah, Influenza
Headache, Toothache.
Neuralgia, rheumatism.
Cold Chills, Ague Chills.
Chilblains and Frost Bites
The application of the Ready Relief to the part
parts where the pain or difficulty exists will af
ford and comfort.
81 to 60 drops in half tumbler of water will in
few minutes cure Camps, Spralne, Sour Stomach
Heartburn, Sick Headache, Diarrhea Dysentery,
Collie, Wind in the Bowels, and all Internal Pains
Travellers should always carry bottle of RAD
WAY READYRELIEF with them few drops,
In water will prevent sickness pains from chang
OF water. 1t is better than French Brandy or Bit
af q stimuIent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-11

Aalford Table Sauce foS
sOup..Ash. &c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
Talked Her Jaw Out of Joint.

WHILE engaged in a controversy
Sunday afternoon with some neighbors
in the alley, negro woman endeavored
to give emphasis to her words by throw
ing her face into all sorts of shapes, in
doing which she jerked her jaw out of
place. After it had assumed the dislo-
Gated position her most frantic efforts
failed to bulge it, which scared her SO
that she thought the ''sweet-by-and-by"
was close at hand. Her antagonists in
the tongue-lashing encounter became
frightened, too, and ran for DR.. Corri-
gan and told him that Malinda had the
Iock-jaw. When the doctor reached
the place where free speech had been
interrupted, he found her pacing to and
fro in the room, her arms folded majes-
tically over her head and her mouth
wide open, from which protruded her
tongue, Tapping up and down in a spas
modic effort to say something, but, as
she was unable to divide the noise she
was making into words, she gave vent
to her locked-up feelings in meaning
less grunts. The doctor seized hold of
her refractory jaw and jerked it into
its place again, when her tongue re-
sumed its wonted wag, and she re-
turned to the conflict, assuring her ad-
versaries that the Lord could stop her
tongue, but they could not.-Louiscille
Courier Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
Catching Humming.Birds.

AN interesting account of how hum
ming-birds are caught appears in a
recent number of Nature: "Let us fol-
low little Dan, the Oldest and sharpest
of the humming bird hunters, as he
goes out for birds. First he goes to q
tree called the mountain palm, which
replaces the cocoa palm in the noun
tains, the latter growing only along the
coast. Beneath the tree are some fallen
leaves fifteen feet in length; these he
seizes and strips. leaving the midrib
bare, a long, slender stem tapering to
point. Upon this tip he places lump
of bird lime, to make which he had col
lected the inspissated juice of the bread
fruit and chewed it to the consistency
of soft wax. Scattered over the savan-
ma are many clumps of Towering BUSH
es, over whose crimson and snowy
blossoms humming birds are dashing.
inserting their beaks in the honeyed
corollas, after active foray; resting
upon some bare twig, pruning and
preening their feathers. Cautiously
creeping toward bush upon which one
of these little beauties is resting, the
hunter extends the palm rib with its
treacherous coating of gum. The bird
eyes it curiously, but fearlossly, as it
approaches his resting place, even
pecking at it,; but the next moment he
is dangling helplessly, beating the air
with buzzing wings in vain efforts TO
escape the clutches of that treacherous
gum"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
"ETTY-KETTY.o

Her name was Susan Grant Delevan,
but they called her Etty-ketty; you
would never guess why, and SO am
going to tell you. She was the sweet
est, spryest, most stylish little lady you
ever saw, and boosted nine and one half
birthdays. Perhaps you don't count
the halves, but Susy did. She cele-
bra.ed every half year-think of that!
Only there was difference. There were
the real birthdays, when she had her
parties and presents; and halfway be-
tween them the blessed days" when
Sue herself sent box to the Children's
Home, filled with old toys carefully
mended or new ones bought with her
own pocket money.
However, this has nothing to do with
our title. They never called Susy
''Etty-ketty," on those days. cit was
pet name," brother Noll said--who
went to the academy and learned slang
quite as readily as Latin or Greek
FUSED only when Sue rode her high
horse: or, in other words, when she was
trying to do Aunt Pomeroy." "High
horse" may refer to the one used at the
siege of Troy; when mamma frowned
at the slang Non always insisted it was
classical. Be that as it may, "doing
Aunt Pomeroy'' meant little Sues at
tempts to initiate that lady's grand airs
and elegant manners. Matter-of-fact
papa, quiet, busy mamma, boisterous
Noll, slow little Bess, even loving Cousin
Kate, were all content to be SO very
commonplace. They never cared to
know what was proper, and stylish, and
fashionable. But she ''gazed, wondered
and admired" every single minute Aunt
Pomeroy was in the house.
And then she "did" it.
The trouble was, the others would
smile so provokingly whenever she
tried to be real extra polite; and when
she went out with mamma everybody
treated her like little girl of whom
nothing was expected beyond "thanks'
and !" if you please" Sues great am
biton was to make calls quite by her.
self.
And at last the opportunity came.
Il expect to go past Aunt Dolly's to-
morrow" said DIR. Delevan one day.
"What a pityr' exclaimed. mamma.
thinking of the annual meeting of the
Woman's Board, which she could not
possibly leave. "The dear old aunties
will expect to see some of us. Suppose
you take Susy?"
Papa made no objection, and Sue
hurried into the library to begin her
preparations. Out came a daintily-
bound book, of whose existence bother
some Noll was in blissful ignorance.
and which Bess thought dreadfully
stupid for anything having such funny
name. 1t was funnier to watch Sue
bowling, and curtseying, and repeating
elegant phrases before the long mirror,
Bess standing here. or sitting there. as
circumstances, or the book. demanded.
But one tires of even funny things.
and at the end of act fifth little Bess
slipped quietly out: However, Sue
could the more easily decide on her
toilet, with no one to ask "whyP" and
"what for?'
First she laid out half a dozen bits of
te-board, her own secret handiwork:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SOME interesting experiments, re-
Gently made in Paris to test the infiu-
ence of the various colors on the eggs
Of animals, Showed that the eggs were
developed most by the violet and the
blue rays, while vitality was retarded
by the red and the green rays. Yellow
rays acted as the ordinary white light of
day.
M. RIvETT CARNAC, who has ex-
plored many of the barrows and burial
mounds of India, has found in them
new evidences of the resemblance of the
mounds and their contents to similar
works in Europe. The shape of the
tumuli is the same in the East and the
West, and they are always placed on
the slope of hill facing the south.
CHINESE varnish is made by mixing
three parts of fresh blood, which has
been deprived of its fibrin by beating
with small twigs or broom straws, four
parts of slaked lime and a little alum.
This may be used at once. 1t is said
that straw baskets coated with it are
rendered water and oil tight, and that
pasteboard to which it has been applied
becomes as hard as wood. =
M. BOUTIGNY has called attention to
the remarkable powers of resistance
against chemical agents possessed by
insects. Having put common fly into
the lye of potash, he found it in the best
condition on the next day. He also
found that weevls, imprisoned for a
considerable time in flask containing
caustic stone and coriander-seed, pros
pered, multiplied and lived as long as the
seed lasted.
THE minute organisms of microbes,
which Nj. Pasteur has shown to be con-
cerned in epidemics and contagious dis
eases, are SO very minute that they may
sometimes easily escape detection, es-
pecially in pure water. In such case
they may be killed, without being de-
formed, by certain chemical agents,
among which is osmic acid, and will
sink to the bottom in such quantities as
to admit of microscopic examination.
The deposit may be examined after sew
eral hours (twenty-four or even forty
eighty if the water has been very pure.
Coloring reagents mixed with dilute
glycerine may also be used with advant-
age in the work.
SHELLAC, the product of an insect,
principally obtained in India, is deposit
ed on the twigs, of trees to protect its
eggs, and, later, to feed the larvae. From
the deposit (known as lac-seed) shellac
and coloring matter Qacdye) are manu-
featured. The officers of the Forest
Department of India have recently dis
covered that by applying the lac seed to
different trees, or by transplanting the
trees bearing the deposit, the insect can
be farmed, and the supply thereby in
creased indefinitely in given locality.
The lac industry is thus being spread in
India. A few years since 100000
worth of lac was annually exported.
The amount sent abroad now amounts
yearly to three-quarters of million
sterling.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
Coal Oil Running to Waste.

THERE are in round numbers nearly
5000 producing oil wells in the Brad
ford district. Their daily yield is TO-
600 barrels. The lower or old oil fields
are producing $4,000 barrels a day.
The daily demand for petroleum is 3d.
900 barrels. This is the amount now
run by the pipe lines. The accumula-
ton of oil for which there is no present
demand long ago exhausted the storage
capacity. For three months 5000 barrels
have been running to waste every day.
There are 100000 barrels of petroleum
in wooden tanks at the wells. 1t is es-
timated that there are at least 100000
barrels of accumulated stock in the
storage tanks of the pipe lines. The
oil that is running to waste is run upon
the ground and into the creeks. Enter
prising individuals build dams along
these streams and collect the floating
grease Hundreds of barrels are
pumped off and stored in improvised
tanks to await market. Individual
producers are building private tanks to
store the over production. There are
now 100000 barrels of this tankage in
this region. The number of wells stead
lily increases every month, in spite of the
situation.
The Bradford wells are all flowing
wells. This fact is what caused the
abandoning of so many of the wells in
the lower field, they being all bumpers.
Until recently the ''sucker-rod" and
pumping engine were almost unknown
in the Bradford field. Now they are
in demand. Many of the oil wells
have fallen off greatly in their yield.
The supply companies can not furnish
enough sucker-rods and engines to meet
the call for them. Secondhand ones
from the lower field find a ready mar
ket at good prices. This resort to the
pump is creating no little uneasiness IN
the field. 1t indicates that the gas is
failing. A flowing well on being
pumped increases its yield largely, but
the continuance of a full yield becomes
uncertain. The positive defined area
of the Bradford oil-producing field in
cludes 65, 900 acres. There IS well to
every five acres of land that have been
developed, which leaves about 10000
acres vet to drill. Wells on this terri
tory will not be put down with such
reckless haste as has characterized past
operations, because it is controlled by
large companies of capitalists.
ford (Pd.) Cor. NeaO York Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
Mis- SUSY DELEvAN.

Cards, to be sure, but no card-case.
She did not quite like to ask mamma
for hers, but there was the old silver
snuff-box that had been her great grand
mothers. 1t would do very we'll. and
went at once into her pocket. Three
other things were lacking; a bird for
her hat, chatelaine for her fan and a
veil. Cousin Kate had all of these, and
Cousin Kate would be gone to the
Society with mamma. tomorrow. Why
couldn't she borrow them as well as the
snuff-box? She need not say anything
about it, because-well, NolI, or some
body, would be sure to laugh, and she
did so want to be real stylish, once.
Never was there such long fore
noon, and certainly never such an I'M
easy little girl. She was perfectly
happy, of course, only when mamma
kissed her goodby, and said: "Wear
your new gloves if you like, only be all
ready when papa comes, and very
good little GIRL" she felt, oh such q
sharp pain, way, 'wGy inside. where
none of papa's medicine could ever
reach it. But even mamma must have
wanted her to look stylish. or she would
never have told her to wear her new
kluS. i udI WIS WAdt ouO o1iu w hSA
self. as she went slowly up stairs to
cousin Kate's room to g finish her
toilet" r- r,..t.-
She fastened the big chatelaine around
her waist, balanced the pretty chip hat
on the top of her head, and tied the
strip of black lace so tightly over her
eye winkers that they were all doubled
aud twisted together.
But Aunt Pomercy always looked un-
comfortable. and it wasn't half as bad
as that choking sort of pain.
Papa stared little as he tossed the
small lady into the buggy; but who
would expect him to know one hat from
anotherp And if he thought Sue unu-
sually quiet, SO much the better for the
consultation over which his thoughts
were busy.
'.Are you going in?' asked Sue, as
they neared Aunt Dolly's.
II don't know-yes. for minute;
they may not want you to stay. So the
old hitching post is gone entirely! l
shall have to take Charley overto the
b. m"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18

Wasn't that fortunate! 1t would give
Sue just time to ring the bell, present
her card and seat herself la Pomeroy.
She sailed grandly up the walk, tuck
ing her veil little tighter over her
nose, stopped a second to open her
snuff no, card-case-when suddenly.
around the corner of the house, came
big, black dog. Sue sprang for the
latch. the door flew open, and in they
went. Sue. snuif-box. dog and all.
"What-u nder-the-sunw ejaculat-
ed Aunt Dolly, dropping her dish of
beans.
"Mercy on me! what is it?' gasped
Aunt Lucinda, reaching wildly after her
knitting-work. cap. spectacles and
'.false fronts"
..Bless me! it's only little Suer' said
Aunt Deb, picking Up the small bundle
of dry goods from under the table. and
kissing a crushed bit of chip and black
lace, into which the little brown head
was tightly wedged. '.Be still. Bose!
I'm ashamed of you. Well. well. doc
tor, this is unexpected, and you'v We took
us all aback, coming in so sudden"
which, considering the time the doctor
had spent trying to fasten frolicsome
Charley securely, seemed to him a
slightly inconsistent greeting, as he
walked up the path.
Oh-my-snuff-boxr screamed Sue.
disentangling one eye just as Bose Owed
under the sofa.
"Snuff-boxr exclaimed Aunt Deb.
interrogatively. "Yours? Why-what
-whO-'
ats me-" sobbed Sue. II mean
Aunt Pomeroy-and the book-says-
you know-it's etty-ketty- to have
cards-and it was silver-Aunt Pome-
roy's-''
A roar of laughter from papa broke
the sentence short off, and sue, rushing
out into the buggy, buried herself and
her disgrace under the lap.robe No
coaxing, not even Aunt Debby's cream
cakes. could bring her back.
'.All forlorn," she sat curled up on
the seat, during the long consultation"
and longer ride home, the battered
snuff box in one hand, a ''crumpied"
hat in the other. Very softly she stole
into the house, only to meet Noll right
in the hall, that identical "book" in his
hand-Bess, left to her own resources,
having innocently tried to amuse him
with what "Sue liked BEST
Papa. stepping in to speak to Noll.
read the title. '.Hints on Etiquette"
.'Oh, you dear little Etty-ketty! Was
that what you meantP' he exclaimed,
with another roar of laughter, from
which poor Sue could not escape
because Noll had caught and held her
fast.
ITO be sure! Little Miss Etty-ketty!
In borrowed plumes. Won't she catch
| itr' he said, looking her solemniy over,
from head to foot.
"Let her go. Noll; don't bother her;
she's been punished enough-poor lit
tie jack-dawr' said papa, kindly; make
it all right with mamma, when she
comes, and remember Truth and Right
have more happiness in their keeping
than Style and Show"
Mamma forgave her, Cousin Kate
''made over her hat, and Noll ham
mered out the snuff-box, but they call
her Etty-Ketty whenever she tries to be
grown-up and stylish. instead of little
Susy Delevan. Christian Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
Effect of Fright on the Hair.

THE Gazette DIES Hopitaur gave an &C.
count, lately, of singular case of CON-
plete alopecia. A girl, age seventeen,
who had always enjoyed good health,
had, one day, a narrow escape from be-
ing crushed by a floor giving way be-
ene.l. and the same night began to com
plain of headache and chills; the next
morning she felt restless, and had itch
ing of the scalp; during the few follow
ing days she steadily improved, with
the exception of the itching. One day,
in combing her hair, she noticed that it
came out in great quantities; three days
later she was perfectly bald. Her gen.
eral health was good, but her head con-
tinued bald, and was still so when seen
two years later by the reporter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
4 Tale Told In q Texas Cowboys
Camp.

IT was clear moonlight night when,
after hard days ''drive," and the
herd of wild horses had been penned,
the cowboys stripped their tired ponies
of saddles and brides, and staked them
out to Craze on the thick mesquit grass
which fringed the bank of the San Ber-
nardo.
After this duty had been attended to,
the cooking utensils were brought forth,
and soon the coffee pot was singing a
musical little song, and leg OF fresh