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The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25

rect, but he must remember that there are
several other matters connected with our
shipping laws that are as effectual as the
duty on ships, in keeping the American
flag off the high seas 1t makes very lit
tie difference to the American ship owner
IL he can buy his ships as cIeaply as the
Englishman. providing that the latter can
run his cheaper; and SO long as there ex-
lists difference in the expense of unning
his vessel, the cost price does not make a
material difference. @
Among these differences in running ex-
penses are:
1. The American ship-ewner must pay
state and local tax on his ship as personal
property whether the ship is working or
idle, which in the city of New York
amounts to % per cent per annum on the
principal BY transferring the ship to a
British flag he reduces his tax to an income
tax of 2 per cent on the net earnings.
2. The American ship-owner cannot buy
American ship supplies in bond in a
foreign port without paying duties. An
English ship-owner can buy English goods
in bond in an American port, and with
draw them for consumption on his ship
without paying duties.
3. The American ship owner cannot dis
charge seaman, with or without his con-
sent, in foreign port, though it be the
seaman's own home, without forfeiting
three months of the wages of that seaman
to the consul of that port to be retained as
a fund for sending home INDECENT Ameri-
can seaman. A British ship-owner rests
under ne such expense.
A. American ship-owners are under
pilotage and consular and tonnage fees,
very much mere costly and embarrassing
in their details than those of any other
country.
These latter named difficulties are not
touched upon in Mr.. Farwells bill, and
consequently it viii prove failure if
passed, but it is encouraging to see that
protectionists like Farwell are beginning
to realize the fact that it is necessary to do
something to relieve the present incubus
on American commerce. The time may
come when the American flag viii once
more be seen in foreign ports
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
INDEcIsIoN.

The indecision of Arkansas City girl as to
which of two lovers to marry, lasted until
the wedding day. She was deeply in love
with both, she said, and found it difficult
to see her alone she would accept him; bat
when the other secured a like opportunity
to impress her she would change her mind.
Both suitors procured marriage licenses,
pearing together before her. This was done,
and she gave preference to bartender
over baker. She consoled the rejected
suitor, however, with kiss, and-he is to
continue a dweller in the boarding house
she keeps
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
A HARDENING PROCESS.

The practice is common among the engra-
vers and watchmakers of Germany of hard
ening their tools in sealing wax. The tool is
heated to whiteness and plunged into the
wax, withdrawn after an instant, and
until the steel is too cold to enter the wax.
The advantages claimed for this method
are that the steel becomes almost as hard
as the diamond, and when touched with a
little oil or turpentine, the tools are supe
rior for engraving, and also for piercing
the hardest metals
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
A MISTAKE.

1t was announced from a Milwaukee
pulpit that August Fischer was to be mar
ried. The wife of another August Fischer
was in the congregation, and she conceived
the idea that it was her husband who was
meant Up to this time she had been
sane, but now she went home greatly ex-
cited, refused to accept the explanation,
brooded over her fancied wrong for sew
eral days, and finally assaulted Fischer
with an axe.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
GENERAL OPINIONS.
Kansas city, (Mo.) Times sDem.) Janna

kansas City, (Mo) Times SDem.) Jannary 1871
Senator Beck says the Arrears of PEN
sIons act is "a standing monument TO the
ignorance, selfishness and cewardice of the
American Congress-" He commits himself
unequivocally to the opirlion that it ought
to De repealed, and he is unequivocally
right.
Huntington qowa) Gazette dDemp january IL
Senator ingalls,, of Kan sas, has hastened
TO the defense OF the Arrears of Pensions
bill, and though he matie no progress in
his reply to Mr.. Beck he did in assuming
the responsibility of the b I'll for his party.
No Democrat should put a straw in the
the way OF the championship of this meas
ure by the Republican party, SO that it
may have the full credit of passing one of
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25

The report of the census will make
work of 90, 600 pages, embraced in dozen
volumes. The census report of ten years
ago was only little over one-fifth as
large, and represented only about one
fiftieth the labor, while the expense was
only trifie less. The value of these re-
ports, however, depends considerably upon
the promptness with which they are issued
The bulletins which have been given to the
public from time to time have been OF
great value, and really contained the
cream of the milking, but it is now nearly
two years since the population was taken,
and the volume relating to it has not yet
left the press.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
NEW YORK SUN.

In the Suns circulationfor tire year 1881
there was consumed the enormous amount
of 4, ,194 391 pounds of paper. It's daily
circulation averaged 1876. S41, its Sunday
paper sold to an average of 1876. .389 and
its weekly averaged 67,273 per number.
These facts are note worthy, but they
might be exceeded, perhaps, in interest by
corresponding statements as to expenses
for editorial, reporting, and news, for the
Sun is very enterprising.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
FRENCH GEMS.

The imitation gems now produced in
Paris by chemical means so nearly resem-
bic the genuine article that even connois-
seurs cannot readily distinguish them with
out the use of scales or files. The follow
ing oxides supply the coloring substances
employed; Gold, for purple; silver, for
yellowish green; copper, for bright green;
iron, for pale red; cobalt, for blue; tin, for
white; manganese, in small quantity. to
make the glass devoid of color--in larger
to give it an amethyst hue-and in great
quantity to make it black and opaque;
antimony. for reddish hyacinth color
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
BARBaRrsM

The Kentucky Legislature has discussed
and defeated bill to restore the whipping
post. The proposition was to give the
lash instead of Imprisonment for petty lar
ceny. 1t was advocated chiefly as an eco
nomic measure to relieve taxpayers Of
part of.the burden of penitentiaries, and was
opposed as return toward barbarism The
author of the bill was an ex-Judge.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
AN EvEE MArTER.

Guiteau may be crazy, let US hope for
his sake that he is; but the country viii be
thousand fold better off if he is taken
from it. Guiteau tries to excuse his killing
of Garfield by saying that he sacrificed one
life to save the happiness and liberty of
many: Is it not fair rejoinder to say that
by hanging Guiteau the American people
will sacrifice one life only, and give fifty
millions vast amount of satisfaction?
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25


the most disereditable laws that has ever
y49t through the National Legislature
Senator Beck has given the cue which the
party should follow;
louisville Courier-Journal Dem.l Jan. 1871
Mr. VOORHEES, AMI Mr.. ingalls, attempt 10
vain to repel the charges of Mr.. Beck. Mr..
VOORHEES, again loses himself in the finan-
cial mazes He believes that. paying the
pensions, fair and fraudulent alike, is
ssstabbing the money power" MIR. Voor-
hees as political economist is unique =
frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman 6Dem-,, jan 1s-]
1t would be infinitely preferable that
John Kelly should GO fer the radicals and
organize the New York legislature than
that he should be permitted to dictate
terms to the democratic party. The thing
to be desired is to eliminate John Kelly as
a factor in the democracy of New York.
baltimore American l2ep1. January 2o.l
The Treasury Department in Washing
ton is mortally afraid of pension agents.
It persistently refuses to publish list of
pensioners, for fear it will fall into the
hands Of these sharks, but the opposite
course would probably better subserye the
object in view Full lists both OF those to
whom pensions have been granted and
those making applications, posted or cir
culated where the paTties Feside. "ouiu III
many instances lead to the discovery OF
frauds by the neighbors of the claimants
and would not materially aid the business
of the agents, as those who desire the. SER
vices of the latter would be very apt to
seek it without any prompting.
ST. Louis Republican (Dem) Jan. 1s.
Senator VOORHEES,, Of Indiana, is an elo
auent, snowy, and in the main we'll
meaning, but very far from wise man.
He had it in his power to have defeated
the Pension Arrears bin and he hid not.
He now defends it because he then lacked
the nerve and sagacity to oppose it.
Denver Tribune (Repl JAM 16.
Whether Guiteau is crazy or not no man
can certainly say. But that he should be
hung is highly important. His life can be
made enormously useful to the country by
extinguishing it in that way.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
TRUTH ATTESTED.
Some Important Statements of Well-Known
People Wholly Verified.

In order that the public may fully realize the gen
uineness of the statements, as well as the power
and value of the article of which they speak, we
publish herewith the fecSiDste signatures OF parties
whose sincerity is beyond question. The truth of
these testimonials is absolute, the facts they
announce he ignored.
MOLINE, Lii, July ID, 1881.
IL. H. Wa77asF oE Co., Rochester, N. T.:
GENTLEMEN: Your remedy the Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, has been used by both my wife and my
SELF She used it ION general principles. as sys-
TEN and liver regulator; took the medicine fora
long-standng kidney trouble, which has been the
source of much Inconvenience and which failed TO
yield to the doctors remedies any others, until.
used your safe Kidney and Liver Cure. We both
unite in pronouncing it TO be the best medicine We
ever used, and in recommending it TO others as a
safe remedy.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
FREE PASSES.

The Iowa Legislature is now preparing
to wrestle with the question whether or
not it shall pass an enactment prohibiting
the acceptance of railroad passes by state
officers, notably members of that body.
There is no doubt that the possession of
free passes by members of the Legislature,
is a serious weight upon anything like
ia ir and impartial action when the inter-
ests of roads who issue them are under
discussion Every member of the state
Legislature, the state officers and Judges
of the courts have their pockets full of
passes over the roads of the state, and that
fact cannot but have an influence upon
their action.
On the other hand it is hard to suppose
that the senators and representative viii,
of their own volition, deny themselves the
profit and benefit of travelling where they
please without paying fare. An easy ex-
planation of an escape from the dilemma
is that inasmuch as the state confers many
benefits upon the railroads that are
not returned in kind, the Legisla-
ture shall make it compulsory
upon the roads to deliverto certain classes
of state officers, annual passes in rsttrn
that these passes shall not be forms of the
railroads conferred upon the office but
shall be thus right under the law, and
there shall be no consideration of benefit
in the transaction. Thus the railroads
will in the future confer the passes but
shall do so as matter of law and not of
their own accord, and the officers receiving
them will not feel any sense of obliga-
ton
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
rha sonls. q ATT RfY

The only B ATT u HY
known to the World ca-
able 81 being @ HARdED
with MEDICINAL PROP
ERTIES, which Is TRANS
FUSED INTO THE sYs-
TEN. If you are afflicted
with any of the following
DISEASES don'f neglect to
wear one of oui Batteries.
VIZ:
Paralysis, Brain and
Nervous Diseases, Rke keu-
matlsnd, Gout, Swollen
Joints, scIatica, Neuralgia,
Lumoago. Aches and Pains
Nervous and General De-
bility, spinal Diseases,
We ak Back or Side, Vast
ing, Decay, Restless nights
Nightmare, Melancholy,
DIZZINESS or Vertigo, Full
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
A MONOPOLY

Mike Mcdonald is Chicago gambler
and politician. The Tribune says: Let
any man start gaming house, and, unless
he pays tribute to Mcdonald, within three
days the police viii be upon hun, and his
place broken up.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25

Two men in the Democratic party are
just now attracting attention. They are
Mcdonald, of Indiana, and Beck, of Ken
lucky. Their views on the tariff question
are sound, statesmanlike and Democratic.
Boston Post.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
NERVOUS DEBILITY,
A Cure Guaranteed.

Dr.. e. G. WEsT's nerve AND BRAIN TREATMENT
. speclhc Tor Hysteria, Dizziness, Commissions
Nervous Headache, Mental Depression Loss of
Memory. SpermatorrheH Impotency Involuntary
omissions. Premature Old Age. caused by over-ex-
ertlon, selI-abuse or over indulgence, which leads
to misery. decay snd death. One box will cure re-
cent cases. Each box contains one months treat
mea One dollar box, or SIX boxes for FIVE dol
ais, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. We
guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each
order received by ns for six boxes, accompanied
WIN five deltare, we will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to return the money il the treat
ment does not effect cure. Guarantees Issued
only BY McCabe d Wheaton, Druggists, Rock Isl
and, III. Orders by mail at niar price dFw
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
SAFE.

1t now stated as physical fact that when
Chicago girl gets one foot in the grave
she is safe from the grasp of death. It is
an impossibility to get the other in-no
room
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.

(RAcINE AND SOUTHWESTERN DIvIsIoN.)
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee s:25 a. m and
11,00 D. m.
Leave for Dubuque, Winsna. vt. Paul and Minneap-
oils, $500 m
Leave for McGregor Portville CalInas Sioux CITY
and Yankton. II 100 D. M -
Arrive from Racine and Milwaukee, 4:35 a. m, and
6:25 p.
Arrive from MINNEAPOLIS ST Paul. Wiuona and Du-
buque, 900 p. m.
Arrive from Yankton, Sioux City Portville and Nc
Gregor, 5:15 a. m.
Through sleeping cars all night trains.
The Night Express leaving Rock Island every Sun
day night. at II 100 p connects with the train
irving in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given through tickets from Rock Is
land TO Chicago. Through tickets only good on this
train.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25

ess OF Blood Lack
Power Of will or Acto
Palpitation Of the Hear
Loss of Memory, Loss o
Confidence. .FaiptiEg Spell.
Hysteria, Epilepsy, Heart
burn, Dyspepsia Bronch,-
tis, Salt Rhenni. Flatulebcy
We k Stomach, Disease 3
Of the Heart and Lungs.
Dropsy, Asthma, Pleurisy
Constipation, Jaundice
Catarrh, Sore Throat, De.
bility, Piles, Tumors, Sores
Boils, Carbuncles, Fever
and Ague, Liver Complaint
Diabetes, Kidney Com
plants, Gravel. Chills, I'm
potency. Disordered Con-
ditione OF the Liver, Blood
Kidneys orUrinary Organs
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
Ca.f,arrn.

VHE ABOVE DrsEAsE HERE1oFogF
4 deemed incurabe. will readily weld TO Morryg
q Henry's Catarrh Cure. For sale by John Benrs-
ton. fr1ee 5ocp9F hott1e. Sadly
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
ASHLAND HOUSE,
Fourth Avenue aud Twenty Fourth Street,
New York.

AMzRIcAs AND EuRoPgAa PLAN. =
The central location of the ashland" makes 1t
g very desirable place for strangers. being one
block from Madison Park, also broadway and only
short distance from any of the principal places of
amusement.
By taking either sSrd street, cross town. or
Fourth Avenue street cara, access may be had
direct from Tie door TO any part of the city.
FRANII WARD and j. NJ WooDs win be found
n charge OF the office.
Recm and Board-S2, So. 80 and 50 per day.
Ro0ms-S1 per day and upwards.
mhlodly II. III. BRoCKWAY, Proprietor.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
ROCK ISLAND 6 PEORIA RAILWAY.

(sHoRTEsr ROUTE TO THE EAST AND wEsr)
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Way Freight. 90 A. NJ =sr
Fast Express. s. so A. NJ Mail and Ex.. 1855 P. NJ
Mail and Ex.. :35 r M. Fast Express. 6:05 p. NJ.
The :35 D. m. train makes close Connection Mt
Galva with the G. b. & O., for points west arriving
at Galesburg at 4:25 p. M; Burlington G 40 p m
Keokuk 10 :25 p. M; Quincy 10:05 p. m.; also MAX
ing close connection at Peoria with l. b. d W., and
T. P. & W., roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND G MERCER Co., R. R.
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Rock Island, ;. 900 A NJ. Cable 0:55 A. NJ
Cable, o:3UA n Rock Island. :. s:15 A. M
..........1 100 P. N. - 3:15 p. NJ
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-25
Denver Tribune (Rep) Jan. 1e,

Whether Guiteau is crazy or not no man
can certainly say. But that he should be
hung is highly important. His life can be
made enormously useful to the country by
extinguishing it in that way.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-19

A petrihed fish, perfect in form and near
ly five feet in length, and several petTifed
snakes were recently taken out of coal bank
at Marion, Pa.
Dealers have advanced quarter Of cent
on waste paper. Send along your spring poe
try, write it on one side of the sheet, and use
the heaviest legal Baltimore EUeyy Sat
urddg.
In Philadelphia many children are treat
ed for whoopng- cough by taking them to the
gas works, where they are alloaea e hEeatll3
the mingled fumeB of ammonia and sulphur
from the purifying pans. This clears the air
passages and affords relief 1t is said that
the treatment is recommended by physicians.
The rapid growth of traffic through the
Suez canal has at last suggested the desira-
bility of building parallel canal through the
Isthmus of Suez The present canal Tesem-
bles in some respects single railroad track
with side tracks at various intervals but, as
the demand for passage each way is all the
time increasing, the need of the equivalent 10
a double line of tracks will soon be felt TO
prevent vexatious and expensive delays
An almost incredible story of a tragedy
comes from the Hungarian village of Belen-
yes. Two men, one about 45 and the other
youth of 20, became enamored of pretty
young widow who kept q wine shop. Jealous
Of the preference shown TO his young rival,
the man laid in wait to kill him, but instead
fell a victim to the superior strength of his
antagonist An investigation proved beyond
question that the two adVersaries were father
and son, and that the pretty widow was the
daughter of one and the sister of the other.
II was grim fate which brought these three
together after a separation which began dur
ing the infancy Of the children.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-19

AWIsE BISHOP AND APRAYER THAT WAS NOT
UsED.-They have had a very severe drought
in southern Australia. The Wimmera dis
trict OF Victoria was specially afflicted.
Though the government ran water trains
daily, the precious fluid sold as high as twelve
cents gallon. But Wimmera is blessed with
bishop whose humor can match the sharp
est drought for dryness. The special severity
of the visitation in that district was due to
the remissness of the inhabitants, who had
failed to keep their dams and reservoirs in
repair. For years Bishop Morehouse had
warned his diocese that, sooner or later, q
heavy penalty would be exacted for the neg
lect, but his warning was whistled down the
wind. When retribution came the people
sought relief from on high. A deputstion
waited upon the prelate, and requested him
to draw up and sanction form of prayer for
rain. Then the bishop saw a chance to bring
the lesson home to them. He made answer
that prayer for rain was already provided
in the church service, but if, under the try
ing circumstances, the people desired spec
ial supplication, he would not object to draw
up form to meet the case. This is the
prayer which he laid before the dumbfound-
ed deputation: Forgive us, o Lord, that
we so indolently and irreligiously have brok-
en- thy natural laws, and despsed the indica-
tions of thy will in the time past and give
us grace, we beseech thee, so to lay to heart
thy present grievous and most just chsstise-
ment, that we may bestir ourselves to con-
serve and employ thy precious gift of water
to the fertilizing of thy fields, the relief Of
our necessity and the replenishing of our land
with a prosperous and happy people" 1t
hardly need be added that Wimmera made up
its mind to get along as best it might without
the Episcopal prayer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-19

TIE TRoUBLEs OF IRELAND to-day can be
Immediately traced to religious bigotry.
When the Irish wrested, in 1882, from the
English-alarmed at the successes of the
United States-a rescission of the act (com-
monty known as Poynings act, Henry VII
which had made Irish parliaments dependent
on those of England, it soon appeared that
the men who were so eager to gain liberty
and independence for themselves had no no.
ton of bestowing it on four-fifths of their
eountrymen-Roman Catholics. Grattan and
a very few other enlightened members would
gladly have done it, but all Grattan's infiu-
epce and eloquence would have failed to pass
a substantial measure of Catholic relief in
1882. Mr.. Gardiner did, in that year, bring
forward bill doing what little he dared in
that direction, and in respect to it Edmund
Burke remarked: mo man, on reading that
bill, could imagine that he was reading an
act of amnesty and indulgence. 1t reeites
the oath, and that Catholics ought to be con-
sidered as good and loyal subjects of his
Majesty and then follows a universal exclu-
sion of those good and loyal subjects from
every, even the lowest, office Of trust and
profit, or from any vote at an election, from
| any privilege in a town corporate, from a
vote at a vestry, from being barTister, at
torney, or solicitor. This has surely more Of
an air of a table of prescriptions than Of an
act of grace" In fact, at the very time when
Ireland was proclaiming her Independence,
and preparing to fight for it-relying too, on
the aid of Oatholics-there was not the slight
est intention on the part OF the Protestant as
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-05-19

was pleased to see the article in your last
weeks issue concerning the proper use of the
words "bad" and badly" The writer's clear
explanation ought to convince everyone that
"bad, and not badly" is the proper word
to use in the sentence, 81 felt bad when saw
him." / am aware, however, there are some
who still adhere to the opposite view. The
following, written by lady to Richard Grant
White concerning this very subject, comprises
the arguments generally brought up for that
side of the question II am aware that there
are many adjeotiyes placed after the verb
"feer which qualify the subjecti but am
yet unable to appreciate the fact that this is
one of them. l deem it proper to say 4
feel sick or 4 feel tired, or Il feel sad,
each of which, of course, is an adjective quail
flying the subject. In the expression, She
is a sick girl, the adjective refers to her ply
sical nature; she is sick, and feels that she is.
But were 1 to say, She is bad girl, would
you not naturally infer that allude to her
moral rather than her physical nature can
readily appreciate how man may be H (phy-
sioally) but how man can be bad, and feel
bad, without allusion to his morals is inoom-
prehensible." It will be seen that all depends