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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-03

SOME one, not an editor, has made
the novel dicovory that the cat is no.
where mentioned in the Bible.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-11-03

by Proclamation of the President, to bc
Observed as Day of Public Thanlssgiv-
ing and Prayer.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
I.asco;nn a WiTd-EIat.

While talking to my companion,
Drake. who was on his horse. and had
his lasso on his saddle.se Ssremendous
wildcat, fully fouE~sssr long, jumped
UP in front of lis and started for the
brush. But the rowe!s were already in
the TANKS of brakes horse, and at
break-neck speed. the lariat curying its
graceful coils above his lead, went
pursuer and pursued. Whom within
twenty-five fee of his caiship, the lariat
was thrown, and, encircling like the
world chain Of n magician, landed the
fatal moose around oudon's neck. Never
was cat of any description in a tighter
embrace; horse at full run, tire rope
fastened to the horn OF the saddle, and
the game making unwilling jumps of
twenty to thirty feot. This, however,
only lasted few hundred feet, when
the cat, catching the rope with It's teeth,
snapped it as if it were tow string.
Drake finding that his line was empty
and his hook gone Gas fisherman
would say), returned 10 look at the
dead quadruped.
Dead! lie was not dead but sleep
ing For with n veil and two bounds
he cleared at least forty feet, and fasten-
inc one set of claws in brakes leggins
aud the other in the hip of the horse,
he seemed to insist on a ride and a dim
ner at the same time. But for the pre-
seuce of luind of the rider and his luck
in having a three-pound loaded quirt,
with which he broke the animal skull,
we rather think the wildcat would have
been the best-mounted quadruped in
the castle regions Of the West.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Workers in Electric Lighting,

The non-technical papers, says the
London Electrician, totally ignorant of
the scientific aspects of the case, have
introduced into the popular mind ideas
altogether erroneous, yet so abidpg
that they still exist. The divisibility of
the electric light is what the ninety
and nine say the inventors are endeavor-
ing to find, and think that, to certain
extent, success has been achieved. 1t
is impossible to drive away the illusion
and enforce the doctrine that in this di-
rection nothing new has been or is
likely to be DONE Mathematicians
knew years ago as much about resis-
lance, lamps in sfseries'" or in '.multi-
pie arc" rs they know now. It was
not in this direction that science was
working at all. The men who have
developed the properties OF electric
lighting are those who have worked at
the perfccting Of the steam-engine as a
motor for the dynamo-machine, who
have improved the dynamo and mag
neto machines, so that. the current is
more economically generated, who have
experimental in every direction, and
added minor improvement after i'm
provement to the arc and incandescent
lamps-these are the men who have
made electric lighting not only practic-
able, but the light of the immediate
future
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Ehaek.

It will be remembered that when
President Garfield was shot he immedi-
ateIy sank to the grounds his tenlpera-
ture descended b low tie normal stand
ard, and tho palior Of death settled on
his features Had this condition gone
n little further, the heart would have
ceased its beating. And yet we now.
know hat no vital organ of the Presi-
dents body was injured. This was
what IS called shock. 1t was not caused
by fright, nor by any effect on the feel
inos. Tt was purely physical 1t IS
often among the mast dangerous effects
of accidents Indeed, many person
has died of an accidental physical ill.,
jury who would have fully received
could The body have rallied from the
shock.
Precisely wherein the shock consists
tits difficult to say. It seems to be
somewhat analogous to the effect or q
blow on the head, which instantly. ant
for 4 time. arrests consciousness apd
the power of motion. Light depends
on n certain wave-Eke movement III the
molecules of either. aud sound on
similar movement in the molecules OF
air. Now, to touch a vibrating bell, or
musical string. at once ARRESTS the
sound. So it is thought THAT al merry
Gus action depends on q Ike undniatIon
in the molecules of the nerve substance,
and powerful disturbing cause, act
ING suddenly, somehow arrests, par1Iai-
lySor wholly, these movements back
even to the nerve centres
Every case of shock involves danger
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Garfeld,s Savings.

a pound of pluck is worth ton q
| luck.
Liberty can be safe only when suf-
frage is illuminated by education.
The granite hills are not SO change
less and abiding as the restless sea.
Great ideas travel Slowly, and for q
time noiseIessly, as the gods whose feet
were shod with wool.
We no longer attribute the untimely
death of infants to the sin of Adam, but
to bad nursing and ignorance.
Throughout the whole web of nation
al existence we trace the golden thread
of human progress toward a higher and
better estate.
The flowers that bloom over the
garden wall of party politics are the
sweetest and most fragrant that bloom
in the gardens of this world
Poverty is uncomfortable, as / can
certify; but nine times out of ten, the
best thing that can happen to young
man is to be tossed overheard and COM
PEELED to sink or swim for himself
Political parties, like poets, are born
not made. No act of political me-
chanics, however wise, can manufacture
to order and make 4 platform, and put
party on it which will live and flour
ish.
After the fire and blood of the battle
field have disappeared, nowhere does
war show its destroying power so GER
tainly and so relentlessly as in the
columns which represent the expendi-
lures of the nation.
l look forward with joy and hope to
the day when our brave people. one in
heart, one in their aspirations for free
dom and peace, shall see that the dark
ness through which we have travelled
was but part of that stern but be-
neficent discipline by which the great
Disposer of events has been leading us
on, to higher and nobler national life.
The man who wants to serve his
country must put himself in the line of
its leading thought, and that is, the re,
storation of business. trade, commerce,
industry. sound political economy,
hard money and honest payment of all
obligations; and the man who can add
anything in the direction of the accom-
plishment of any of these purposes is a
public benefactor.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Hou TO Know Your Friend.

A misery old earl had fallen heir to
an estate worth some thousands of
pounds. Being always reputed poor.
his relations looked askance at him.
Unaware of his altered circumstances,
he tried the following ruse to know who
Were his friends. At the beginning of
hard winter old sl1inflint applied to
his relations individually for little as
slstanee to tide him over the winter.
Only one. niece, a poor teacher, re-
sponded by sending five pounds of her
hard earned pittance, with a promise
of more when her salary became due.
Shortly thereafter the old man sickened
and died, and to the astonishment and
chagrin of his host of relations he be-
queatled to the poor teacher, whose
heart was in the right place, his whole
estate, amounting in all to twenty
thousand pounds.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Teas

Gunpowder is heavy tea, of dark
green hue. and the leaves rolled into
hard balls. Twankays are known by
tue large, yellowish, badly-rolled leaves
and strong odor. The infusion is a
deep yellow. and of clear, sharp taste.
Oolong teas are very highly dried. of
wirv, bitter leaf, and valued according
to degree of strength and pungency,
and freedom from dust. Imperials are
in larger grains than gunpowder, and
In color a silyery green. Souchongs
are the strongest black teas. The leaves
are large, thin, and often broken. The
infusion is clear, golden, and aromatic.
- Food aud Heath.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
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Euffer


sure cure for the Blind. bleeding.
| lItcnIng and liberated Piles has been
discovered by DR.. Williams ran Indian
remedy, called DR.. Williams indian
Ointment. a single box has cured
the worst chronic eases of IS and SO
years standing. No one need suffer
five minutes after applying this won
derful soothing medicine. Lotions.
Instruments and Electuaries do more
harm than good Williams Ointment
absorbs the tumors, aIIays the intense
itching particularly at night after
getting warm in bedl. acts as poul,
tice; gives instant and painless relief.
and is prepared only TOR Piles, itching
o. the private parts. and nothing else.
Read what the -tlon. i. NJ, Coffin
berry, of Cleveland. says about, DR..
Williams Indian Pile Ointment: I
have used scores of pile cures and it
affords me pleasure TO say that | have
never found anything which gave such
immediate and permanent relief as DR..
Williams Indian Pile Ointment.
For sale by all druggists, or mailed
on receipt of price 81 90.
s. E. Henry & Co.. Props.
Cleveland, Ohio
For sale by Mccabe Il Wheaton. Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Self-Made Men and Women.

1t is an interesting study to observe
how many men of vast wealth may be
counted in little circle on the piazza
at Saratoga. Millionaires may be num-
bered by the dozens, hob-nobbing to-
gether, smoking their fragrant Havanas,
and ofteesestking over the days when
they were poor boys and had to
scratch for living. There is a
chief Justice of q neighboring state
who was once apprenticed to a country
LAWYER -had to do all the family chores,
such as splitting wood and deity band
ling the pounding-barrel in the old
method of washing clothes. Another
luminary, who reioices in the title of
Governor" learned the carpenter s
trade, and still another, who ranks
higher than all-sitting in the United
States senate-was s.bound out" to q
New England farmer until he was 81,
and taught himself to read during that
period. Your self-made man is gener-
all proud of his ability to rise in the
world he loves to recall the DAYS of
ms early poverty, and to contrast it
with his present luxury. He is not
ashamed OF the lowly beginning which
has led to such grand results, and is
right to glory in the energy and the
ability which has raised him to wealth
and distinguished position in society.
But not so with his wife and daughters.
They wish to conceal their early poverty,
and think it ''dreadfully vulgar when
pa refers to such things. They blush
beforeathe society swells who throng
around them-the heiress-hunters who
are longing for the old mans wealth
and wonder what they will think. They
cannot see that their father, bluff and
sometimes regardless of fashionable
proprieties as he is, is solid gold in
comparison with the young jacknapes
in faultless ties and immaculate gloves,
of whose attentions they are SO fond
Saratoga Letter an Albany Journal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
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. well as the power
and value of the article of which they speak, we
publish herewith the fac-simile signatures of parties
whose sincerity is beyond question. The truth of
these testimonials is absolute can the facts they
announce be ignored.
MOLINE H., July II, 1891. :
Fl. H. Wdg,ner d. Co., Rochester, n. y.
GENTLEMEN: Your remedy, the Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, mas been used by both my wife and my
self She used IL ION general principles, sys
tenn and liver regulator: / took the medicine for
long standing kidney trouble. which has been the
source of much Inconvenience, and which failed TO
yield to the doctors remedies or any Others until !
used your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. We both
unite in proncuncins It to be the best medicine
ever used. and in recommending il to others as a
safe remedy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
Current Conversation.

elbow is your cistern?n inquiries a
HackenSaeker, who is not blessed with
water from tho reservoir, of neighbor
Similarly afflicted.
Dry rs y toper- How is yours?"
Same. thank you; darn it!'
Don't YOU hope it will rain soon?'
You bet I do. We've all been pray
ing for rain, but Tn afraid this time
the prayers of the righteous are of no
avail.
"W FELL, bere's good luck TO you"
Aud the clinking of beer mugs seems
to prove that ''while there's life there's
hope" - Hac6cnsack Republican.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03

the uanger nat Issr vaGssl orc 81 nc
on from the force tla at works them. ra:as
cease to act WHIST Is aaecsfssd ftlssl, IL
cases : to stimulate the heart youths
Companion.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03

R, @ Germany oWs ell iscHds il heavy Inca
kooc aneR asoupo neEz
nsdc asfn Pasea Sas n SAFES
nco by Il TEg o } things
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
LYDIA E. PaNKEAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
The Positive or
For All Female Complaints.

This preparation, itg name signifies, consists OF
Vegetable Properties that harmless the most del
ieate invalid. Upon trial the merits of this Com
pound VII be recognized relief Is immediate and
when its use III continued, ninety nine cases
red permanent cure effected thousands Will
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the country.
It VIII ca1azsntfreiv tho worst form OF faIlins
of the uterus IeucorrhGa, irregular and painful
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liberation. F1oodngs, all DIsTaccnents and the con-
sequent spinal weakness aud Is especially adapted to
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from the uterusin early stage of development The
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In fact &c has proved to be the great
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Of the stomach
Itcures Btoatirg, Headaches, Nervous Prost-ctien
General Dossltr slespeasness Depression a1.d Insi
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weight and back ehe, is always permanently cured by
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For kidney Complaints of either seq this compOund
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ispreparett ut and ess Western Aven,e r,, usss
Price s1eo six bottles fog $780, Sent by mail In the
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freely answers all letters of inquiry. send Ger pam
phlee. Address as above MENTION this paper.
No family should be without LYDIA z. FINKHAsr
LIVER PILLS. They cure CONSTIPATION E..iousness
and Torpidity OF the Liver. % cents per box.
NoRRIsoNs PLUMMER & co
Gener Agents, CHICAGO, lie.
& sold cy dccahe Wheaton. Rock Island
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
RAILROADS.
Rock Island { peorisl
RA-IIWA
ssHoRTEsr HourH TO rrn
z A S T 4 Nd SOUTH.

Trains leave RockIsla
$3.50 o m Way Freight.
$3.50 : Fast Express
80 p n Mail and Express
$50 Through Freight and Account odatina
Trains arrive at Rock Island.
2:30 N Through Freight and Acconn oaAtfon
u AS Il Mail and Express.
$40 = Fast Express.
4.50 Is Way Freight.
The FksT ExPREss leaving Rock Eel ind at s so
4 arrives Peoria 1890 N, atsSpriagfeld .25
m, as Decatur 400 n. Jacksonville = 100 D M,
slton 7:2o N, st LouisS f5 n, and T5rre Hause
l.55 p m. THE SANE D4x. Making this the best
nd QuIcKEsr route q all points southeast.
The 1s30 p N. tram makes close connection 1T
alva with q @ for points West ;afrlving ut
alesburg at 4.25 m; at Burlington 80 D m sslf
eoknk 1925 pm: and IT Quincy l0:e5 b m
Arriving ut Peoria eft $50 D m maxine clOee con-
sctions With - q W and T p q Wfor Indlanap-
e. egansctiHg there with all fact trains for est
gaFAsT TIME. SURE CONNECTIONS. and
assss lev E as by any other route.
y. " MAHOEEY.
A,ee.so 9en'l Ticket ACT.
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17
The Rice Crop Of 1882.

Editor Morning Mems: There is a fallacy
going the rounds that the rice crop OF this
year will be large one.
venture the assertion, without the fear
! of contradiction, that the outturn OF each
individual crop will fall short Of the esti-
mates placed upon it, while growing or
ready for the harvest, from 10 to Is per cent.
at least.
speak with so much confidence because
1 have three-fourths OF my own crop
threshed and marketed, and the other
fourth is ready and will be IN market in
week.
On account of the rains in June, July
and August my own rice crop cost 20 per
cent. more than usual to keep it clear Of
grass. The prospect of the yield when the
sickle was put into it exceeded anything l
ever saw before. When thershed the result
fell 25 per cent. short of the estimate placed
upon It. am satisfied that all the best
river bottom clay lands VIII turn
ont in the same way as the
one described. The light black lands on
clear rivers will show better turnout; stin
they, too, will fall short OF expectation. In
other words, the best lands will show the
worst results. Being so far advanced In
marketing my own crop did not suHer Dy
the freshet, but the damage on the Alta
mahs river is quite serious. The freshet
and the perigee and spring tides came to-
gether, and then the waters were backed up
by strong northeast wind, so that the river
swept over the plantations on the various
islands and those on the main, wetting all
the rice stacked in the fields and in some
instances floating It off. The actual loss in
quantity will be quite heavy, besides the
sample of the rice, saved in a wet state, will
be injured, and low price will have to be
accepted for such samples.
The freshet on the Savannah river did not
do the general damage that 1t did on the
Altamaha, but certain places were dam
aged more seriously-those above the
freshet bank and those having late rice;
some places suffering damage estimated
from % to so per cent.
The cost OF making a crop of rice this
season has been unusually heavy. Besides
having grass to contend with, caused by the
incessant rains. most planters had to buy
their seed.
doubt II any Of our planters viii get OH
short of $35 TO $40 per acre where seed had
to be purchased, while the yield on the best
lands will hardly exceed thirty bushels per
acre, and at the present price of good rice
81 to SIC. per pound-the net to the
planter viii be but a fraction over 81 per
bushel after deducting freights, mill charges,
commissions and interest.
should like to hear through the columns
of the NEWS from some OF the rice planters
on other r'-9rs. ALTAMAHA,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17
Aid for Pensacola.

Elsewhere we publish letter from the
Mayor of Pensacola, acknowledging the
receipt of thirteen hundred dollars from
Savannah for the benefit of the yellow
fever sufferers in that stricken city. This
is in accord with the reputation which
our city has always enjoyed for charity,
and promptness in coming to the relief
of sister cities in their hours of afiiction
and distress.
Liberal as this donation is, however,
it is principally manifest that the Pensa-
cola sufferers are in sore need. Mayor
Tarble states that when the $500 last
sent from here through Mr.. George G.
Freeman was received but $151 remain
ed IN the treasury of that city. From
this, as well as from the telegraphic re-
ports daily received, it would appear that
the funds to be spent in relieving the
distressed victims of the dread scourge
must be well nigh exhausted. Under these
circumstances, it is to be hoped that our
generous citizens will not weary in well
doing, but will continue to contribute of
their means to so laudable an object, as
far as they feel they can afford.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17

The Comptroller of the Currency is to
be credited with a new plan for provid-
ing a basis for the national bank circula-
ton, which is considered to be the best
yet presented. 1t is that any outstand'
ing 4 per cent. bonds may be converted
into per cents, having the same time
for maturity, at 1174 per cent. That is
10 say, bank which owns 100000 of
4 per cent. bonds may deposit them and
receive $117, 500 in per cent. bonds to
mature in 1907, like the present fours.
The bank now receives on its bonds
$4,000 interest a year. After the con-
version it would receive only So, $50 in
terest year. But the loss of $475 will
be made up to it in twenty-five years by
the payment of larger capital. The
merit of the plan is, that while it takes
in the aggregate no more money out OF
the Treasury than would be paid upon
the 4 per cent. bonds, it enables the banks
to make use of the premium which they
must now pay to obtain bonds.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17

Bogus silver dollars have been dis
covered in active circulation in Buffalo,
and it is believed that in that n eighbor-
hood a gang of counterfeiters are flood
ing the State with spurious coin. The
imitation is said to be very fine, and
even experts would be deceived. Rub
biDg against genuine coins is the only
means which has been yet found of dis
covering the base metal. 1t is not stated
that this counterfeiting establishment
was founded to procure an easy means
of corrupting voters on election day, but
they do say the Jayhubbell fund is not
panning out as well as was expected. land
it would be we'll when any one is offered
money for his vote by any Jayhubbellite
that he test the coins he receives
thoroughly, else he may in the end find
that he has been sold.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17

In his address at Cincinnati, the other
night, Mr.. Sullivan, the most conserva-
tive and clear headed of the Irish lead
ers, gave Mr.. Gladstone due credit for
having granted to Ireland that measure
of reform, the land act Mr.. Sullivan
takes more favorable view of this act
than any of his colleagues. He says it
has wrought so great revolution in
Ireland that there is not a tenant now
who can not "snap his fingers at the
landlords"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17

The Boston Globe concentrates some
frozen facts in a very few words when it
remarks: while the Republican party
is retained in power the revenue laws
will not be revised. The policy of the
party is to protect special industries, and
to postpone all reduction of the taxes, so
that the jobs and schemes of lobbyists
and spectators may be promoted at the
public cost, and close districts be carried
by the aid Of special appropriations"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-17

Judge Freeman, Assistant Attorney
General for the Post Office Department
who returned few days since from ar
extended tour through Texas and Next
co. reports that the eastern part of Mex
leo is becoming rapidly Americanized
that the railroad, telegraph and hotels
are all run exclusively by Americans,
and that thousands of persons from the
Northwestern States are settling in Texas
preparatory to entering into the cattle
raising business.