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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

We see in the Ner York Spdrit Of the Times
mention of the cure of Mr.. George Drake, +6
Fifth street, indianapolis, Ind, of a severe
case OF water rheumatism. BY the use OF st.
Jacobs Oil-Cinriaaati ENQUIRER
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

"A Shoreham (Vt.) family have
drunk eleven barrels OF cider in four
months. One of the members alone has
drunk four barrels, and he is still hale
and hearty.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

SHE was a wee bit of lovab.e humanity. and
when she murmurel - Yes" to his tender in
quiry, he called her "a little one for assent"
" L. Ne,rs.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16
CEDARvILLE, O., De

GRANVILLE, o., Dec. Ia, 1851.
Have used Piso's Cure for Consumption In
my family for ten years, and want nothing
better as q cough remedy. j. A. HARESD.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

BACON SAYS: "Reading makes full man."
where the brewery is located.-N. o. Picaynse.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

WHY are seeds, when sown. like gate postss
Because they are Planted in the earth to prop
agate,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

"WHAT to eat and how TO cook il, /" IS the
name of book recently published what
to eat and where to get 1t, would meet with
. liyelier sale among the laboriDG classes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

YoU can swallow L. Z. Ransom Butter Color
and the effect will not be different than from
eating same quantity of butter.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

~THE Diamond Dyes for family use have
no equals. All the popular colors are easily
dyed, and are fast and beautiful Only 10
cents q package.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

By contracting a disease you help TO spread
It. Queer, isn't it.-Ner Hacea Pd.ladiun,.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

The man with the broadcast smile is he who
uses Frazer Axle Grease. This is honest.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

II afflicted with sore Ewes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's EyeWater. Druggists sell it. &c.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

670 A WEEK. $l2 day at home easily made.
d Costly outfit free Addrs True kCo. Augusta Nc
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

nm TREES Hardy cziapa, go Concord Crap Vines
HUI b. mali for 0a now. n. Z. RowLEY. Lacon. Ill.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

AeeN6c Coin money with Dr. Chase-s New
u06u , Receipt Book. Newly revised and en-
aryed. By mail e. Addess Chase Pubg Co.. Toledo y.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-16

WIEN WHITING TO ADvERTIsEEa
PIsass say you saw tine advertismeaf I'm
this paper. Advertisers like To know
when and whsss thsir advsstasaspAs are
DaytAg 49,.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
The Modern Delivery Clerk.

The post-office delivery clerk is an Of
fetal paid by the government of the
United States to make the travelling
public, and those who have not got lock
boxes paid for quarterly in advance feel
that there are worse things than not get
ting the letters they expected. The
worse things are the delivery clerk HIM
self and the manner in which he treats
the anxious inquirer. There is no inn
petuous haste about the movements of
the delivery-clerk, but, instead, there is
calm repose of manner and leisurely
disregard of time, as he turns to his pig
con holes to look for letter for you,
and, becoming Interested in the reading
OF postal card, forgets all about your
presence.
We heard man say the other day
that the average delivery clerk is of
retiring disposition-he will retire be-
hind a desk for half an hour to finish
reading the catastrophe of Seaside Lii
brary novel, while the unlettered public
howl like foghorns outside, and pound
on the sides of the windows with their
sticks and umbrellas.
The post-office delivery clerk is really
a very mild and inoffensive creature
when he is dead or discharged. In his
official capacity, however, he is not ex-
cessively communicative or oppressive
ly polite. He never comes out of his
window to chat with friend er to point
out to a stranger the way to the court
house. There are several characters
tics and eccentricities of the delivery
clerk that may be worth mentioning
He will look at the inquiring one in
pre-occupied sort of way and when the
latter states that his name is j. F. Viii
son, and asks if there are any letters for
him, the clerk will go into a reverie over
about forty letters that he will fish out
of the w box. After he examines them
all.and has had ten minutes of a joint
discussion with the first assistant mail
ing clerk with regard to whether the
second throw that Smith made last night
was two skies and three or two threes
and six, he will then look over few
more letters, until he comes to one that
looks as if it might fit the man outside,
and coming to the widow says, You
are sure your name isn't j. P.Williams,
are you?' as if Wilson might have lost
or mislaid his name and unconsciously
picked up some other mans name by
mistake, as one might exchange hat
or an umbrella. When the man assures
him that his name, as well as he can
remember, is Wilson, the clerk looks
disguised and disappointed because he
is again baked in disposing of some of
his stale literature.
The most exasperating specimen of
delivery clerk is the one who has the
reputation of havinga acknowledgements
DRY. He remembers, or pretends to re-
member, the names of all the letters in
all the pigeon holes from A to z, and
we never saw a man yet who wouldn't
doubt the accuracy of his statement
when, without looking through his stock
of letters, he says: Nav, nothing for
that name'h
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21

nightly sinmbef,s. Man t.;in train hii1-
self TO the habit of sleeping without
preceding meal, but only after long
years of practice. As he comes intothe
world nature is toe strong for ilim, and
he must be fed before he will sleep. A
childas stomach Is small, and when per-
fectiy filled, If no sickness disturbs it,
sleep follows naturally and inevitably.
As digestion goes on, the stomach be-
gins to get empty. A single fold in it
viii make the little sleeper restless; two
viii waken it; and if it is hnshed again
to repose, the nap is short, and three
folds put an end to the siumber. Para
goric or other narcotics may close its
eyes again, but without either food or
some Supplying drug, it viii not sleep,
no matter how healthy it may be. Not
even an angel who learned the art of
minstrelsy in a celestial choir can sing
babe to sleep upon an empty stomach.
We use the oft-quoted illustration
sleeping as sweetly as an infant be-
caxse this slumber of a child follows i'm
nediately after its stomach is complete
ly filled with wholesome food. The
sleep which comes to adults long hours
after partaking of food, and when the
stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not
after the type of infantile repose. There
is all the difference in the world between
the sleep of refreshment and the sleep
of exhaustion. Tosleep well, blood that
swells the veins in the head during our
busy hours must flow back, leaving a
greatly -diminished volume behind the
brow that lately throbbed with such We
hemence. To digest well, this blood is
needed at the stomach and nearer the
fountains of life. 1t is fact, establish
ed beyond the possibility of contradic-
ton, that sleep aids this digestion, and
that the process of digestion is condu-
Give to refreshing sleep. 1t needs no
argument to convince us of this mutual
relation. The drowsiness which always
follows the well-ordered meal is itself
testimony of nature to this inter-depend-
ence.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
mothersl mothersll mothersll!

Are you disturbed at night and bro
ken of your rest by sick child suffering
and crying with the excruciating pain
OF cutting teeth2 If so 60 at once and
Get bottle of Mrs. Winslow's looth-
lug Syrup. It viii relieve the poor
little sufferer immediately-dep
npon it; there is no mistake about it.
There is not mother OH earth who
has ever used it, who will not tell you
at once that it will regulate the bowels.
and give rest to the mother, and relief
and health to the child operating like
magic. 1t is perfectly safe to use in all
cases. and pleasant to the taste and is
the prescription of one of the oldest
ard best female physicians and nurses
in the United States. sold every
where 25 cents . bottle
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
A Millionnaire's Dinner.

An old man worth several million dol
lars was in the habit of prowling around
the Office of the insurance company in
which he was director. One morning,
as he was investigating, he happened to
come across the dinner-pail of the office
boy. His curiosity led him to take off
the cover. A slice of homemade bread,
two doughnuts, and piece of apple pie
tempted the millionnaire's appetite. He
became a boy again, and the dinner
pail seemed the one he had carried six
ty years ago.
just then the office-boy came in and
surprised the old man eating his pie.
That's my dinner you're eatingr'
exclaimed the boy, Indignantly.
Eyes, sonny, Isuspect it may be; but
it's first-rate one for all that Pve not
eaten so good one for sixty years.
There" he added, as he finished the
pie, take that and 60 out and buy
yourself dinner, but you won't get as
good one," and he handed the boy q
five-dollar bill.
For days after the old man kept re-
ferring to the first-class dinner he had
eaten from the boys pail.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21

lowinga ntfie Scotch dog. IN the
crush at Fourteenth. Street, where an
old-lady aud a little girl were neariyrun
over, he fHssily jumped for little doggy,
grasped him in his arms, and said, IF
dear doggy had been killed, I would
have been out Of a place, you nasty lit
tie devir'
well" remarked Jones the other
day, Il see by the papers that jenkins
is having strong pressure brought to
bear on him to allow his name to be
used as a candidate for the office of '-
II guess, remarked Sinpkfns, as he
tilted back in his chair, tilted his, hat
over his eyes and spat on the stove,
squirting reflectively the while at the
last man who had dropped in to pur-
chase q two-for-five Havana, Il guess
he's like the rest of the boys. The press
ure'S mostly iDternaln
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
A New Star.


A New York letter says: We are wait
ing for Lydia Montrose- For months
she has been heral1ed as the coming
tragedy queen, but her arrival has been
delayed SO long that it is probable that
her debut will go over till next season.
She is New Orleans octoroon girl,
whose beauty is said to be positively
amazing. Her voice is very deep and
rich, and she is fairly educated, having
taught colored school in the south for
some years. 1t is not claimed that her
dramatic ability is extraordinary, but
that she has an instinct that grasps the
roles she has been taught, firmly, and
enables her to give them distinctive
coloring. 1t is in tragedy that great
things are expected of her, because of
her superb voice and magnificent pres
ence. In fact, guess the truth of the
matter is that she will be most adver-
tised as beautiful woman. She is tall
and 1.-the, with immense black eyes and
a small mouth with glittering little
teeth. Her face is SO light that she
bushes visibly in way that makes her
managers fall into rhapsodies, and her
arms are models of symmetry. Her
costumes will be revelations of gorge
BUSINESS in brilliant scarlets and reds, as
the DeslVleSI cOlors SET OH HeT coMpieA-
ion to the best advantage. She viii be
seen-seen indeed-in Camille . which
erratic and naughty character seems to
be the favorite character with beautiful
women, and it is proposed to revive
Anthony and Cleopatra for her to
star in. / should imagine that her
Cleopatra would be worth seeing. 1t is
also proposed to have her appear in an
elaborate reproduction of the BLACK
Venus II she is SO very beautiful,
and is properly managed, there is no
question of her success, for New York
ers will go to see handsome woman
every day in the week, and pay for it
liberally.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
EAau -sE's raluMFa
fraz,ar,s Hoor R.snsrs.


Ii you are weak, or languid, us'
Frazer's Bitters.
IF your flesh is fiabby and your com
plexion sallow, use Frazer's Bitters.
If you live IN malarial district, u.s.
Frazer's Bitter's
If worn down with the care of chill
dren, use Frazer's Bitters.
Ii You have got the blues. use Fraz
er's Bitters.
If you kept late hours and lived con
trary to the laws of health, use Fraz
er's Root Bitters.
If you need toning up, take Frazer't
Root Bitters.
Ii You have abused instead of used
natures gifts, use Frazer's Bitters
IF you feel old before your time, use
Frazer's Bitters.
Iflife has become a burden and you
have gloomy forbodings, use Frazer'e
Bitters,
If your hands tremble and yo eyes
have grown dim, Frazer's Root Bit
ters will make you feel young again.
Sold by all druggists everywhere at
the low price 800 per bottle. F.. S.
Henry Co., Sole PEoprietos, Cleveland
Ohio.
For sale by Mccabe g Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21

General Joseph S. Fullerton, in a
bright speech at the reunion of the Army
of the Tennessee, in st. Louis, the 9TH
er day, spoke of General Thomas as the
man who as a brigade, division, corps
and army commander never once sus-
tanned a reverse. OF Chickamauga he
said that the facts now known show
that it was at least drawn battle, if
not for us victory. OF the battle of
Franklin he said tirat ION the little earth
works which we hurricdly threw up as
the enemy approached indeed. after he
was in sight-within the short space of
two hours fell seven general officers of
the Confederates.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21

-
BEPREsENTs THE FOLLOWING. CoMPA-
Insurance Company of North
America.
North British and Mercantile.
London Assurance
Lancashire.
Pennsylvania.
Springfield of Massachusetts,.
Queen,
Commercial Union.
Glen's Falls.
Buffalo German.
Manufacturers of Boston.
New York Alliance.
Mechanics and Traders.
La Confiance.
Mutual Benefit Life.
Office over the Rock Island
satIoral Bank.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
Wanted a Poke.


The dialect of both races in some parts
of the Carolinas is so peculiar as to be
almost unintelligible to persons unac-
customed to it. A somewhat Anticipated
colored divine entered the grocery store
of a white brother at Asheville, n. c.,
the other day, when the following col
loquy ensued:
Prop.-'.Well, Uncle Caleb. what'll
you have?'
C. D.-t'W'y boss, / wants heap a
things. / wants taters, l wants hacker,
/ wants shellotes (onions), wants kerr
sene, wants 'lasses and wants goob-
er peas; but Ise feer'd | can't tote 'em
ALL"
Prop.-"Well, Uncle Gale, if you'll
carry my boss to water you can tote the
things on the hoss.''
G. D.-'-AH right, boss; I'll carry de
boss, but you must glib me poke to
tote my things in''
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
pTLEsilI
eILEaI,
P--Gsi
R--5ssi FIIEs!. PILEsiII
s-.'s cn.s Pound at last. nc One Need
suffer

E--EsSf ElbESis FILES ] II
> s-.ss cn.s Pound at last nc One Need
suffer
nrire cure for the Blind. Bleeding
Ttcning and liberated Piles has been
disco 7cred by DIR. Williams ian Indian
reme,tyl. called DR.. Williams Indian
Continent. A single box has cured
the worst chronic cases of Is and 80
years standing No one need suffer
Ave rlinutes after applying this won
derTnt soothing medicine Lotions,
Instruments and F.lectuaries do more
harm than good William Ointment
aDsorbs the tumors, allays the intense
itching particularly at night after
geLring warm in bed). acts as poul-
tice: gives instant and painless relief,
and - prepared only tor Piles, itching
or the private parts, and nothing else.
Read what the Hon. J. NJ Coffin.
berry, of Cleveland, says about DR.,
Williams Indian Pile Ointment: r
have used scores of pile cures and it
affords me pleasure TO say that have
never found anything which gave such
immediate and permanent relies as DR..
Williams Indian Pile Ointment.
For sale by all druggists, or mail d
on receipt of price 81 90.
s. E. Henry q Co.. Props,
Cleveland. Ohio
For sale by McCahe a Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
Eating Before Sleeping.
The Prejudice Against This Habit Unground
and Foolish

Man is the only animal that can be
taught to sleep quietly on an empty
stomach, says the New York Journal Of
Commerce. The brute creation resents
all efforts to coax them to such q viola
ton of the laws of nature. he hon
roars in the forest until be has found his
prey. and, when he has devoured IT, ne
sleeps over until he needs another meal.
The horse will paw all night IN the sta
BILE and the pig squeal IN the pen. re-
fusing all rest or sleep until they are
fed. The animals which chew the cud
have their own provisions for late
meal Just before dropping off to their
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
A Chicago landlady has 4 machine

on the clothes ringer principle, which
does away with the pounding of beef
steaks to make them tender. 1t works
so silently that boarders cannot hear it.
This will fill kong felt want ia the boz
som of the boarding house keepers. as
it will do away with the exasperating
sounds of boarders fling their teeth inn
mediateiy after the pounding begins In
the kitchen.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Modern Foreign Languages.

There Is disposition in America to
exaggerate the Importance of knowing
foreign tongues. For those who pro-
pose to follow literary pursuits and the
higher walks of the sciences, it is i'm
portant to have easy access to the liter
ature and science of other lands; but
for the great body of Americans, the
time necessary for the requirement of
a foreign tongue could be much more
profitably employed in mastering what
is to be learned from the literature of
his own. There are more good books
in their own language than they can
ever hope to master, and as much good
society among English-speaking people
as they can turn TO any account. A
knowledge of foreign tongues will rare
ly render women more attractive ex-
cept to foreigners who have never paid
their language the compliment of learn
ing it, and whose acquaintance and So
ciety ought more frequently to be dis
couraged than cultivated.
Nine persons study foreign languages
from vanity, for one that resorts to
them for key to unlock the stores of
knowledge which they contaIn.-The
Century.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18
Wellington Scooped by McNulty.

Friday and Saturday brought a large
crowd of Wellington sports to Ashland to
bet on a foot-race between McNulty and
Morgan(D Morgan was none other than
Fred Stone, of Michigan, who has the sec
ond best record in the United States, and
was brought here under an assumed name
in order that they might rake in the money
here as they did at Wellington short time
ago from the New London crowd. But
when Stone contested with McNulty he
met a foeman worthy his steel, and by
whom he was nicely defeated The
contestants scored several times before it
was go, and when they got of, with Nc
Nulty in the lead, they sped away as if
they had been shot out of cannon. As
McNulty kept in the lead during the en-.
tire race, his friends urged him on with
deafening cheers, and when he reached the
goal and had won the race he was picked
up and carried on the shoulders of his ad-
mirers. The amount of money lost by the
Wellington hackers is estimated at g, 100,
an amount that Eds backer from Colorado
appreciated.-Press.
"a fool and his money is soon parted"
We have no sympathy TO waste on any
man who loses money in such a dishon-
orable way. We only wish both parties to
a bet were obliged to forfeit the money
put up and to pay fine besides, so we
might have an end of this foolish and de-
moralizing practice.-ED.l
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18

THE Constitution after having pursued
q course through this and former cam
paigns the most bitterly personal, aiding
in circulating ISLANDERS after they had been
authoratively denied, and which it well
knew to be false, making use of an unrea-
sonable and foolish prejudice to influence
his readers, is in poor condition to invite
his neighbors to repentance and confession.
We do not expect to answer to the con-
science OF the Constitution for our editori-
management, for its course for six long
years shows it to be destitute Of any such
moral quality. One needs to look no far
ther than the Constitution to find a paper
that habitually disregards every principle
of honor and fair dealing toward its oppo-
nents and resorts to all the arts of dema-
gogue and trickster, while shouting with
all the energy Of an escaping criminal,
aStop thief" '.fraud, dishonesty" "hyp0-
crite and hypocrisy" as though its editor
was the only honest man left alive And
It might be supposed that one who had so
recently sold his birthright as loyal Re
publican for q mess of miserable, thin, i'll
favored pottsge in the shape OF the pro-
fits to be derived from publishing the Con-
stitution, would have very little to say
about his neighbors being bought with
campaign money.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18

IT is with no desire to prolong the ami
mosities Of the campaign that we again
make reference to that interview with Mrs.
HoEk reported in the Democratic circular.
Notwithstanding our denial that we were
present at any such interview and that We
had not heard Mrs. Howk speak on that
or any other subject for six months past,
certain Democrats we know Of attempted
TO discredit us by claiming that the denial
was only technical; that they could bring
Witnesses to prove that we stood at the
door and heard the whole conversation.
We repeat that our denial was true, with
out qualification or mental reservation,
and we now offer 800 to the Democrat
who viii produce any individual or one
scrap of evidence to prove their statements.
The whole thing, so far as we are con-
cerned. is q miserable Democratic lie,
which, If they had one spark of honesty or
decency left they would make haste to re-
tract
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18

IT would seem that the recent election
had pretty conclusively proven that the
liquor element of every shade and charac-
ter believed that the position of the Re-
publican party on the temperance question
was antagonistic to their interests, how
ever 1t may be regarded by the Prohibit
tionists, and il we have accomplished
nothing further, we have at least succeed
ed in getting rid of the whiskey element,
and the temperance sentiment Of the party
viii be allowed to make itself heard. If
the ground already taken is less radical
than could be desired, it should be re-
membered that reforms do not spring into
existence full grown; that the rank and
file of parties do not accept new ideas
more readily than the leaders; but that
having taken step forward the future of
the party viii be steady and continuous
march to victory. We do not expect to
win without temporary defeat, but as sure
rs justice and righteousness are superior
to sin and crime, so sure will the right
finally triumph