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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
Care of Harness in Summer.

s Harness is more rapidly injured in
summer. says the Country Gentleman,
than in winter. 1t is sometimes soaked
with rain, and again subjected to heat
and drying. and the perspiration of
horses does it no good. If kept well
oiled, all these influences will cause lit
tie injury. There are many different APP
plications used. and different modes are
adopted for employing them. A COM
mon way is first to wash thoroughly with
soap and warm water, and then apply
neatsfoot oil, as the best oil for the pur-
pose. But different course is adopted
by others. One team manager informs
us that the first thing to do is always to
apply one or two coats of castor oil with
enough lamp-black to give proper col
or. BY thus saturating the leather with
oil first the soap and water applied af-
terward do not penetrate it, and when
leather is permitted to absorb water it
hardens it and excludes the OIL By
oiling first the dirt is softened so that it
is easily washed off, and this obviates
much of the scraping otherwise required,
and the whole operation may be per-
formed at once. After being oiled,
wash it with sponge and soap-suds,
and when dry, rub over it mixture of
equal parts OF oil and tallow, cOlored
with lamp-black, and small portion of
Prussian blue. This is substantially the
process recommended, and we shall be
glad to hear from those who have tried
different methods. as to their compare
tive value, and of the benefit of apply
ing the oil first and the fitness of castor
oil as compared with other applica-
tions. While on the subject of using
ha fov~y Sarfrf =
well to recommend for any field-work
the simplest harness that will answer
the purpose, both for the comfort of
the horse, and to prevent the needless
wear and tear of leather. Binders are
not needed. belly-band nor cruppers.
Simple harness for the farm. kept al
ways in good order. not liable to break
age, will be thing of economy in more
ways than one. and sometimes prevent
costly delays in the most busy days of
the year.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
The Quick Pantaloons.

There is no one thing that shows the
falling off in American brain, so much
as the habit certain young star spangle;i
Americans have of blindly following
fashions in dress. And among all the
fashions that are ludcrous there is none
that makes man with brain so tired a.
the tight pants that are being worn bv
some of the society ducks A man who
has leg that is big enough to be seen
with the naked eve can indulge in rea-
sonably tight pants, and not make II
show of himself, but for young mash
er whose leg is about the shape of a els
tern pole, and the shape of lath. to
encase it in covering of gaudily col
ored gunscase material, is too-too A
young man called on sarcastic girl IA
few evenings since, his legs done up in
the tightestof pants legs. and she looked
very sad and her eyes had far away
look. He asked her what it was that
caused her to be troubled. She looked
at his large. generous. fiddle-box feet
and said she had been wondering how
he got his feet through the legs, wheth-
er he unscrewed them and took them
of, or whether there was hinge in the
ankle so he could straighten them out.
AT picnic recently young man with
tree, when a farmer who had brought
some milk to the picnicers took stick
and struck one of the legs real hard.
The young man felt hurt and jumped
to his feet, demanding an explanation.
The farmer said he saw it lying there
and thought it was a striped snake.
There are many things the small legs
and tight pants could be used for. if the
slimness is going to remain in fashion
for arys length of time. If a tip could
be arranged to fasten on the foot. and
reel could be strapped on the thigh. and
little loops made along the leg to run
line through, the fashionable young
gent could use his leg for fishing tackle.
To see couple of the slim legs in the
office of hotel, among other fair sized
legs. one thinks of couple of stalks of
asparagus, aud wonders how . vine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
Professor and Inventor.

The following is good story about a
well-know professor, which may go to
prove that even great physicists are
liable to error:
The Professor was showing party of
ladies and gentlemen over some large
works at Birmingham, chiefly engaged
in the manufacture of complicated op-
teal instruments. The party came
across a very ingenious instrument, the
working of which the Professor pro-
ceeded TO explain. In the midst of his
explanation. a roughly dressed young
man, standing near, struck in, and civ
lily pointed out that the man of science
was quite mistaken in his notions as to
the instrument in point.
The Professor, whose weak point is
not an excess of humility, angrily main
tanned his own view, but did not sue
coed in convincing his opponent, who
finally shrugged his shoulders and
walked off.
''Who is that-that persona asked
the Professor. Indignantly, of work
man standing by.
20, that is Dr. was the reply.
s.He invented that instrument you have
been looking at" GTableau.l
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
for him. If he could, he would put
nrairie IN his head

for him. If he could, he would put a
prairie on his head.
But leaving minor points about hats for
larger ones, what a wonderful amount of
mans responsibility vests in his hat To
try the experiment, lose your hat over the
bridge on windy day and walk few
blocks without one. All the rest of your
clothes will not save you from the person
alities of the juvenile public, nor the un-
concealed ridicule of the more adult 1t
is no use to stop and remind the street
boys that Julius Caesar never wore any
thing on his head. IF you put your UNI
brella up you only make matters worse.
The man who's lost his hat is the general
joke of the moment.
Mobs, therefore, hate hats. For mobs
hate responsibility and all signs of it. In
public speaking they are very important
feature. They are the orators weakest
point. 1t is fierce light that beats on a
candidates hat. There is a loadstone in
it that attracts old eggs and rotten oranges.
Even dead cats have been known to dis
play the most unusual ferocity at the sight
of one. | remember when | was travelling
in Ireland Gas a correspondent with
Messrs. Parnell, Dillsn and Davitt, seeing
cat, though VIGOROUSLY, indeed out
rageously defunct, escape from the grip of
its possessor and, traversing the interval
between that person and the platform,
knocked off the speakers hat. Mr.. Par
nell. with characteristic sagacity, generally
spoke hatless. He understands mobs and
was anxious to economize his hat, but one
day Git was at Enniscerthy) the
mob was SO Infatuated by his con-
duct that they tried to snatch a
paltry compensation in the honorable
gentleman's trousers. They got hold of
his leg and pulled it through the ratings,
but Mr.. Parnells suspenders proved equal
to the strain and the mob was baff1ed.
And here lies difficulty, for if public
man keeps his hat on, the mob is liable to
take it off violently; whereas if he puts it
out of sight an exasperated public may
thirst for his shirt
Nothing so disconcerts OF deranges a
man so rapidly and so completely as the
loss of his hat or even liberties being taken
with it. In an alteration at a street cor
ner the hatless one is always set down by
1ookers-on as being in the wrong and the
policeman does not hesitate to pronounce
him either drunk or disorderly, or both.
But the subject is too large one for my
space. As | said before, however, it is one
that is well worth somebody's studying,
for | think there is more in hats than many
people think
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

The comparative inactivity of the stock
market, although a very few years ago
what is now dull day would have been
memorably for its activity, seem to make
the firmness with which the securities are
held all the more noteworthy. During tine
current month railroad earnings will be
increased largely and capitalists are avail
ing themselves of the present quiet spell
to acquire such stock and bonds as are
most likely to be affected by the move
ment of the crops and merchandise be-
tween New York on the one hand and the
Pacific coast and the Gulf of Mexico on the
Mexico on the other. English capital is
also seeking investment in American enter
prises, and last week some large amounts
of securities we're taken for the other side.
This movement win increase when the
full extent of the Improvement in progress
is fully known, and altogether it seems
quite safe to look for a more active con-
dition of affairs in the early future.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

would look climbing up the Ices, Wa
place such legs would be for stri ,al
beans to cling to. But there is onss
thing such pants are good for. No one
can crawl up such pair of trousers ~
make life burden to the wearer. IT. bov "
is always much sympathy expressed -
the owner of condensed legs, encaseJ :
gun covers. There is a feeling that tb 4,
owner of them is in danger of bavino
them broken off by a dog runninS
against them, or falling over a Wheel
barrow, or something, and the wearer,
are treated with much tenderness
young fellow called on a matron recant
ly, and took seat on a wooden cam
chair that happened to be in the recarIp
ton room. The good lady looked !,
the suffering caller and said: ~
take seat in this stuffed chair
know that hard chair will scrane tba
veneering off of your pipe stems" SncS
remarks are uncharitable, and ladia.
should remember that young men bavs
feelings. The tight pants will 90 ont ~
fashion this fall, and these sufferinn
legs can be banked up with bran ana
cut feed. -PecE's Sun.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
Don't Blow Out the Gas.

According to the Boston Herald tbo
countryman is stupendous sucoaS.
wherever gas is concerned. When bo
goes to his hotel the first thing the cIarI
says to him is: Don't blow ont tba
gasr' The hall boy repeats it. and
when the porter brings up his trunk h.
also growls: Don't blow out the Gas ~
When the countryman retires he GOO,
to the gas fixtures and sees on b7ack
and white placard, in words two miles
long, Don't blow out the gas" He
reads this aloud very carefully and then
blows out the gas! A few hours later
and the night Waterman smells it. bat.
tiers down the door, and the ruraite il
taken to the hospital, where he is enron.
icled as ''asphyxiated'' and left to live
or die. Usually he lives.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

drink. By this means an anti-prohibition
house can be secured, and this viii put a
quietus on st. John ideas in Illinois.
Even the greenbackers have become in
oeculated with this sumptuary law craze.
The solid financial condition of the coun-
try has deprived these gentlemen cfitheir
tissue consequently they have taken up
the prohibition and woman suffrage hobby
as last resort. But the leaders will find
that they cannot take corporal's
guard into the prohibition and woman suf-
frage camp. The greenback leaders have
fooled the working man. long enough,
and he is getting his eyes open to the de-
ceits that have been praeticed upon him.
AS soon as one tissue" is disposed of by
the exposition of its fallacy. these self
imposed leaders endeavor to ''catch on" to
something else. T hus the platform of the
greenbackers, like Josephs coat, is of
many colors, politically. In this county,
which is probably the strongest greenbaek
county in the state the introduction of the
prohibitory and woman suffrage plank into
the state platform at the approaching cleo
ton, causes great dissatisfaction, and the
ARGUS would not be surprised to hear of
an open rev oft before election day. No
special pleadings can fool the mass of the
people into voting for sumptuary laws.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

The republican leaders look for nothing
but disaster from the prohibition move
ment; but the party is determined to force
it upon the country despite the efforts of
the more knowing ones. The prohibition
issue has to be met sooner or later. and
he only way for those to do who are OPP
posed to all sumptuary laws is to meet the
question at once, and they have an excel
lent opportunity presented them this fall
of putting stop to the foolishness by
allying themselves with the Democratic
party. A state Legislature is to be elected,
and as this body necessarily has all to do
with such matters, solid alliance should
be made with the democrats by every voter
who is not believer in the passage of laws
regulating what the people shall eat and
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

The Democratic convention to nominate
members of the Legislature to represent
Hancock. Henderson and Mercer counties,
assembled at Dallas City yesterday.
About sixty delegates composed the con
vention. The following preamble and
resolutions being introduced. passed with
out a dissenting voice:
WHEREAS, The senatorial representative
convention, composed of delegates from
Mercer. Henderson and Han
cock counties, believe that Hon. p. l..
Cable is the choice of the democratic party,
as their candidate for congress in this con
gressonal district, therefore
ResoEoed, That this convention is unani-
mously in favor of Mr.. Gable for congress
that if he is nominated by the Mon
mouth democratic convention next week,
we pledge him a warm united and positive
support
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
A Sentry who Knew His Duty.

At the chateau of Laken, the resi-
dence of the king of the Belgians, one
night recently a singular incident oc-
Cured. There is a gate called LaPorte
Anspach. which gives n short cut, but
is always closed ut 10 o'clock in the
evening. The queen, driving her pref
ty ponies, returned at a quarter past ~
O'Clock in the evening, and drew up be-
fore the Porte Anspach. 'You can not
pass" said the sentry. Surely you
can allow the gate to be opened for me
for the queenr' 81 know very wen
you are the queen, but if were to let
YOU pass | should be put under arrest
The queen drove off. and the next morn
ING sent sum of money to the sturdy
sentry through his commanding officer
London Truth.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
Saratoga Bellies.
A Determined Effort on the Part of DESIGNING
American Mammas and Daughters to Induce
the Turkish Ambassador TO Marry.

Determined Effort the Part of Designing
American Mammas and Daughters to Induce
| the Turkish Ambassador TO Marry
The Saratoga correspondent of The
Philadelphia Press saws: 1t is an open
secret here that Sarotaga society is not
indifferent to the presence of AristarcE
Bey, the distinguished representative Of
the Ottoman Empire to this country
More than one matchmaking mamma
has her eyes already upon him. for
when one has numerous daughters to
marry off, the important question often
is, not whether the future husband be
Christian or Mohammedan, European.
American or Turk; but whether there
are available husbands enough in socie.
ty to go round, and whether they are
rich enough to support wife as youg
ladies brought zap in Vanity Fair expea
to be supported. But to Aristarch
Bey: There is evidently in society
doubt as to the proper mode of address
ing him. One maiden of advancing
years, pensive as a gillyflower hanging
on wall, and more romantic than any
jolly belle under twenty, this morning
accosted the Minister with: ''Now, really.
Mr.. Bey, do you find American beauty
superior to that of all other countries
Certainly. madam" courteously re-
turns the Bey, with that peculiar bow
which reminds you of the Turkish sa-
laam, and laying his hand upon his
heart-that is, upon the spot supposed
to be occupied by the masculine heart
although there must be frightful vacu-
ums sometimes in those regions.
An hour later q pretty and winsome
ont cI N-lE bn
-brimmed hat, with its dropping
the dark face of the Turkish Ambassa-
dor, and half whispers: please tell me,
Aristarchi Bey-it does seem too hOr-
ridly dreadful to ask!-but do please
tell me" Here blush and a sigh
and downward look of the guilty blue
eyes, t'please tell me how many wives
you haveP' The Bey looks unusually
grave and solemnly replies, Seven
The young lady looks aghast for mo-
ment, nearly faints, then remembering
it is the fashion in the Turkish country,
quietly RECEIVERS, smiles her sweetest
and murmurs: "Only seven? why.
somebody told me you had tent (Tab-
leau.) An anxious mamma then rush
es up and begs ''Mr. Aristarchi'' to
come and be introduced TO her daugh-
tiers, who are dying to know things.
A wife or two more will certainly not
make much difference to such a very
much-married man, and one who be-
lieves in such kind of matrimony might
be useful even in Christian cOmmunl-
ty, since he could marry oil all the
daughters at once. debutantes and wall
flowers too. And while Aristarchi Bey
goes off to be introduced to the ladies
to save them from dying" | may rs
well here remark that this gentleman
happens to be a bachelor, q Greek in
stead of Turk, although coming from
Constantinople, and would undoubtedly
have Christian scruples against wedding
more than one wife at a time. which
praiseworthy example is not followed
by all Christians here at the Springs.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

Some democrats tried to defeat Mr..
James Harrington of Kane, for the nomina-
ton to the legislature. The ARGUS is
pleased to learn that the attempted failed.
Mr.. Harrington cannot well be spared by
the democratic party just at this time.
He is one of the few men that can be re
lied upon at all times to do his duty beth
to the state and to his constituents, and the
people rallied to his support in his late
contest in the most gratifying manner
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
UNCLE RUFFs'' ADVICE.
Go, West, Young Man!
New York Hour.

The prophetic advice of Horace Greeley,
go West, young mani" was far more wise
than he knew, and we heartily approve it.
But our ADVICE does not apply TO the nam
by pamby youths who affect patent feathers
kid gloves, and a cane to lend style to their
daily promenade down Fifth avenue to
Delmonicos. They are not wanted and
would not be received with open arms in
the busy west. They had better remain at
home to grace the parlors of their fond
mothers. But the man who is willing to
put on cowhide boots, tuck his trousers
inside the bootleg, get up and 60 to work
at 6 o'clock in the morning, rough it with
the toughest, superintend and personally
oversee every detail, can make an easy and
early fortune, and then return to New
York as independent as lord.
A few instances of wealth thus acquired
came under our notice directly, and they
are only examples of a thousand more.
Engineer No. l, who ran on the New York
Central railroad twenty-seven years ago,
was afterward an engineer on the Michi-
gan Central, five years ago he went west
to the Northern Pacific, where he is now
the senior engineer that runs out of Fargo.
BY dint of industry and economy he be
came the owner of 400 acres of land
adjacent to the last named place, which
two sons who are the happy owners of
1000 acres of land. One son is a rising
lawyer.
Engineer No. 2 at Fargo ownes four
houses; his income from his rents is equal
to that of bank president in the
city of New York. These men still ride
in the caboose every day holding the
throttle of the ''iron horse, with 800 to
500 precious lives in their charge.
Akgentleman named Green, from Canada,
rented an improved farm of 1900 acres in
1881, paying one-third of the profits as
rent He melted $4,000 as his portion for
the season. This year he bought an i'm
proved farm of 5000 acres for $40 an acre,
to 100000. He assured me
that his net profits this year would be $685.
000., He was offered $50, 900 for the farm
after delivering the crop, and he thought
he could get 100000 if he was willing to
sell.
One more instance: A gentleman resid-
ing in st. Paul was check clerk on the dock
at $35 per month not many years ago. He
invested his savings in land, gained the
confidence of English capitalists, and to-
day he is president of the Manitoba rail
road, and is said to be worth Sc, 600, 600.
Nor are these examples of what energy. |
ability and common sense can do in the |
west confined to the graziers and far
mers. A young dry goods clerk went to |
st, Paul some years ago with So, 500 for |
capital, and is now partner in house do
ing 81, 000,O 900 of business per annum and |
$50 men and women. His in- |
come is altogether $500, 600 year.
A grocery firm in the same city sells
$13, 600, 600 of goods annually. There are |
many such large and successful business
concerns in the west and northwest.
What we have given are but fair samples |
of the prosperity of the western country, |
and the possibilities that are presented for
energy, enterprise and hard work to
achieve grand success.
RUFUS HATCH.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

This is the centennial year of Thomas
FL. Benton, John G.. Calhoun, Lewis Cass
Martin Van Buren,, and Daniel Webster
each having been born in 1882. OF these
States; Calhoun and Van Buren, were vice
presidents; Calhoun, Cass, Van Buren,
and Webster were secretaries of the state,
while Benton was a senator for thirty
years. Calhoun died in 1850. Van Buren,
in 1862 and Cass in 1866.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
Prince of the Household.

Here we have Baby. 1t is composed
of Bald Head and Pair of Lungs
One of the Lungs takes Rest while the
other runs the Shop. One of Them is
Always on Deck all the Time The
Baby is Bigger man than his mother
He likes to Walk around with his Father
at Night. The Father does most of the
Walking and all of the Swearing. Lit
tie, Girls, you win Never Know what it
is to be Father.-DeaaUer Tribune.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

There are three wicks to the lamp of
mans life-brain, blood and breath.
Press the brain a little, its light goes
out, followed by both the others. Stop
the heart a minute, and out go all three
wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs,
and presently the fluid ceases to supply
the other centers of fame, and all is
soon stagnation, cold and darkness.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

The Rev B. F. Eames, formerly a cir
cult preacher of Washington county,
Iowa, went to Arizona and bought eighty
acres of land. A silver mine has been
discovered on it that pays $3.50 to $500
per ton. He is now estimated to be worth
all the way from $2,000,0 900 to $40, 00O,
0O0
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

The congressional republican commit
tee, it is said by Virginia politicians who
ought to know, has decided to give Ma
hone $50, 900 to be used in Virginia in his
discretion, The theory upon which this
is done is. that Malone represents the ad-
ministration, and that he is able to secure
at least six congressional districts.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

Five steamers landed 1880 immigrants at
Castle Garden on Sunday, and it was not
very good day for immigrants either.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

One of the Malley lawyers described
the mouth of a witness as STRETCHING
across the wide desoIation of his face
the sepulcher of ruin and the fountain
of falsehood." No wonder they So'
off.
1t is difficult to be sick without care
and easy to be happy without wealth !
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
TOPEKA AND RETURN-Sl2. IS.

The Chicago Rock Island s. Pacific rail-
way viii sell Sept, 8, 8, 10, II. IL, ID, Ii
and Is for the soldiers reunion at Topeka,
at $f2S5 for the round trip. Passenger
station, Moline avenue. sept6 Ut
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07

This is not going to be good year for
the machine, and the engineers will find
it out to their cost
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-07
HONEY TO LOAN.

On good farm lands, at Z per cent. Nc
commission. QUINCY MCNEIL.