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A attorney AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Il Office Buford's Block, Rock Island
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-7EW OiEh, Dec. T.
Wheat-1E@ &c lower, heavy, extremely
duil: No White, nominal; No, 2 red, Jan
1I5@6; Ala c:l, SIITh4 {. '.l5y4; May, 5I.4I i "a
l@I@5. Corn-Dua, 14@5se tower; mixed
western spot, 4oG65c, fu,ures, Gi%s0t69l5c
Oats-Wlthoat quoCab,e change. Proviaion,
Beef steady, quiet; new extra, Si251 Pork
firm, very quiet; spot new luev-s, s15G ID 80
Lard dull, lower; spot steani-!9naeEe ;, - 25
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with or without collar. The no collar
vests will continue popular so long as
coats are made TO close SO high on the
chest.-Americaa Fashion Recietc.
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Religious Reading.
HOW WILL TT BEa


How viii It be. when. life's last conflict over,
ana soar away the glories to discover
VI worlds beyond the flight of moon ur
stars!
When the loved ones passed on that way be-
fore u.s. -
So mourned, so missed from out the dear
home-place,
But who, the while have kent thar bind
sratch DER US.
With angel welcomes meet us face 70 faaa2
ished ~
Where earth's high dreams are Heavens
e,ernal truth
Where failing eyes, white locks and bowed
forms vanished,
We stand TRANSPORTED in immortal youthp
when he, who meekly died for mans saliva
ton, '
Upon the throne of all the worlds we see
And hear Him say: From out earth's tribu-
ye blessed of my Father, come to Mem
Ear hath not heard, sealed unto human
vision,
Their rest and peace and blessedness must
be, ~
Who, pilgrims here, have reached the Land
Elysian,
And gained, through Christ, that won,lrous
victory.
Take heart. earth-weary one. nor droop nor
anguish
though dark and lone and roupb tho ,vs,,
may be;
They're worth the struggle, worth the main
and anguish, f
thee!
-Ffances A. sha,c. IN Chicago Advance.
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A Fresh Romance.

Mr.. Thomas Evans. of Louisville. Ky,
was formerly photographer In the
hopes of lettering his fortunes he went
to Arkansas on prospecting tour
That was in the early part of 1892 1t
will be remembered that last wear a
series of most destructive floods oc.
CURED in Arkansas. Cities and villages
were invaded by the relentless element.
One night the rain came, and with
scores of others, Mr.. Evans awoke to
find himself i'll the grasp of the waters
He was rescued by some adventurous
boatmen, but in such 4 weak, uncon-
scious condition that for eight hours he
was believed to be dead.
He was taken to a hospital, where he
was seized with an illness which kept
him in his bed for twelve months, and
welknigh proved fatal. When he grad
ually recovered he found himself para
lyZed in the arm and hand so that he
could not write. The letters he die
tated were either miscarried or never
sent. so that the on y intelligence he re-
ceived from home was q report of the
death of his wife. He recovered all but
the use of his hand after awhile. and
then it was months before he was able
to return to look up his children.
In the meantime it was reported here
that he was drowned in the flood, from
which. indeed, he so narrowly escaped.
Mrs. Evans refused for a long time to
believe what every one else accepted as
truth, until; as the weeks and months
rolled on, with no other tidings of either
good or i'll, she was at last forced to
conclude herself a widow. The pros
pect ahead of her was a dreary one.
A joyous surprise was, however, in
store for her. As she sat at her window
Thursday, near noon, looking out on
the street, her eye was caught by what
seemed a familiar figure. Her heart
beat wildly, and looking closely, she
saw what seemed to be the ghost of her
husband hobbling along the street on
crutches and looking eagerly around
for the house to which he had been di-
rected. Had thunderbolt struck her
she could not have been more aston
ished, and, almost fainting, she sank
into a chair, deathly white and
trembling. Her little daughter, fright
ened at her mothers unnatural appear
ance, ran to her side, and in weak
voice was told to run down to the door
and meet her father. The child went
to the window, and looking out, saw
her father approaching, but the crutches
deceived her, and, returning to her
mother, she said the man was not her
papa. BY this time, though, he had
reached the door, and in anoth-
er moment was in the arms of his WIFE,
The meeting was an affectionate one
Husband ana wife were alike overioyed
at the discovery of the cruel mistake
under which they had been laboring,
and the children were almost insane
with happiness.-LouisviHe (Ry.) Cour.
ier-,TOuT.uQl
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History OF Fishing.

Fishing was n far earlier mode OF
supporting human life than agriculture.
However far back in the stream of ter.
restrial events we may suppose it nj.
lowable TO date mans appearance on
the scene, still he must have been pre-
coded by fish. The rivers, lakes and
seas, when he first looked upon them,
must have been peopled very much a.
they are Mt this day. There was a
great variety of species, and probably
much the same iniinitude of individuals
in some of those species. And rs .
savage population must be always
sparse, and in any locality few in num-
Der, theii supply of food from this
source could only have been limited bv
their inability to capture il. What the
wild game of the forest and of the open
plains were TO the inland hunting
tribes, the fish of the fresh and
of the salt water were to the riverine
and the maritime tribes. Between
these early days and the first be.
ginnings of agriculture vast periods OF
time must have elapsed. First, be-
cause in these, and more or less in all
ATTITUDES, nature offered to man nc
plant that in its unimproved state was
worth cultivatiRg. The suitable form
had to be evolved or created bv long
processes of observation and selection.
This Is why we know nothing of the
parentage of wheat, barley. oats, rye,
beans or maize, and why the tropical
bread-fruit, plantain, banana and sugar.
cane have lost the power of producing
seed. Snd so of reproducing themselves:
this must have been a result of long ages
of human selection. Nothing of the kind
had to be done for fish. There it was as
tit for human food on the first day that
man stood.on the river-bank or the seq
shore as it is at this day. Agriculture
also required implements to clear and
stir the ground. and to gather in the
crops, and these implements we know
were the result of a long series of dis
coveries. Improvements and advances.
Primeval man, therefore, as we now
read his history, could not have lived
by or known anything of agriculture.
Nor could he have lived by wild fruits,
Tor they are not continuous throughout
the year. They have their season, and
that brief one. He must then have
lived by hunting and fishing, and of the
two fishing would be thu most contiuu-
Gus and unfailiug throughout the chang
ing seasons, the most valuable of All
qualities for those ill-supplied times. Ii
would not be more difficult TO hook. and
spear. and net. and trap fish. and to
gather mollusks from the rocks and
sand-banks, than to trap or pierce with
arrows wild game Our immediate
comparison. however. is with agricult-
ure, and we may be sure that not in il
were the foundations of society laid, but
In hunting and fishing, and that of these
two. as the great carnivors at first had
possession of the forest and plain against
intruding man. fishing was the primeval
occupation and means of subsistence
kdeDItldn's Magazine.
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luircs heroic spirit to stand true to

quires heroic spirit to stand true to
duty.
And it is men of just this character
that are wanted. They are needed in
every State, city, town and church; men
who scorn brides and hate iniquity; men
who will dare to be true, and honest,
and cody. Such men and women are
to serve and to save our Nation; are to
strengthen and glorify the Church Of
the living God. and send it forth on its
mission among the nations, clothed witk
grandeur and power, and "as terrible
as an army with banners"
But this moral and religious courage
does not relate alone to the sp ritual life
of the Christian; that is, to the higher
and purely spiritual life, but it takes
hold of and affects all our church work
and all our religious enterprises. A
church which has this spirit can accom-
plish what it undertakes. II it be united
in all its aims and activities. it is well.
nigh impossible to stop its onward
march. Such a church goes on from
victory to victory.
Soldiers tell us that, when in battle,
their courage never fails so long as they
can keep in solid rank. So long as they
can feel the touch of their fellow-sol-
diers. they are bold as lions. So it is
in the church. Let all the members be
united, and standing so close together
that they can feel, not only the inspir-
ing touch of their brothers arm, but
the warm love-throb of their brothers
heart; and SO close to their great Lead
er, that His word and look will inspire
them with courage that is divine. Let
them be thus united and there is no
work which may be appointed them
they can not do, no enterprise in which
they may not succeed.
1t is courage that goes on to life's
battle-fields and meets the enemy with
out fear; courage that goes down into
life's deep wales and walks its rough
and darkened pathways with unfalter-
ing tread; courage that climbs the
mountains of difficulty, pressing ever its
way onward and upward until it reaches
the promised goal, and grasps with its
hand the immortal prize. n crown of
glory that fadeth not away.-Gollcn
RUIp
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Christian BOldness.

We are told that when the Jews saw
the boldness of Peter and John they
marveled. Boldness is set forth all
through the Bible, both by precept and
example, as an essential element in the
Christian character. Not that the great
distinctive quality of the Christians
character should be boldness. but even
this age requires great degree of
moral courage. When error is so rife.
80 bold, and often so strongly entrenched
in high places, it requires courage to
stand up for the truth, for the defense
of the Gospel, against the shame,
full Dissertation of the Sabbath, and
against the many popular evils and
pernicious fashions and follies of the
day. 1t is very easy to be bold when
you are in the majority, or when the
multitude stand ready to applaud You
with loud huzzas; but when you are to
bet in the face Of bitter opposition it re-
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cross the road within quarter of q
mile of the school-house. They re-
ported that it was very large and only
had three legs. No doubt was felt that
the bear had made the inroads on the
pastures and pig-stiles of the settle
ment, but an extended hunt failed to
Drlng Bruin down, although his trail
was struck several times and followed
lor miles. He exhibited more than the
usual cunning of his kind in escaping
from his pursuers. 1t was decided
hnally, to give up hunting for him, and
10 set nightly watch at the pastures,
In the hope that he m ght return for
nor more mutton or veal and be captured.
Inc watch was kept up without being
rewarded until last Sunday night.
William HAYNES, George Wing and
harvey Strang were acting as sentinels
at the sheep pasture of the first-named
wnen, about ten O'clock, a huge dark
OBJECT was seen to mount the rail-fence
not more than a hundred feet away
from where they sat concealed behind
clump of elders, and limp slowly
toward a knoll on which a flock of
sheep were feeding, 1t was evidently
the much-hunted cunning bear that had
Ventured once more on a foragino en-
petition. He was short rifle-shot
away, and Haynes fired. The bear fell,
but was on his feet in moment turned
and made back toward the spot where
he had entered the field at speed which
was remarkable if he had only the three
legs he was reputed to have Wing and
Strang sprang over the fence. and made
haste to head Bruin off. HAYNES fol-
lowed the bear. which scaled the fence
only to meet the other two men on the
other side. They both fired. and the
bear fell to the ground again. Once
more he regained his feet, and. finding
himself brought to bay, raised on his
launches and rushed at once upon
Wing and Strang. A ball from Haynes
rifle stopped the huge brute again, how
ever, and he fell on the ground, unable
to rise. Another ball, which was sent
through his heart, ended his career.
The noise of the rifles gave the signal
to other watchers and to the entire set
Element, and every man, woman and
child had gathered around the PROSTATE
bear almost before he was dead. The
rejoicing was great. The bear had but
three paws. the right fore-paw being
gone. The stump had apparently been
healed long time. The general be-
lief is the bear was the one which cs.
capped from Ehrout's trap in 1879, and
which, after wandering about the coun-
try. had returned to his old haunts. The
carcass weighed over four hundred
pounds.-Ld Porte Cor. n. Y. Times.
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Merits OF Mature Meat.

1t is well enough TO speak Of "spriDg
chickens" and TO extol their qualities
and merits, for it pays handsomely to
raise them for market purposes, but
when we come to look at them from
health standpoint, or economic one
either, they do not appear as desirable.
Those who know a good thing in the
eating line, when they find it, seldom
take an immature bird of any kind in
preference to a matured one. We do
not mean to say that an old bird is bet
ter than young one, but we do say that
a pullet or cockerel from twelve to fif-
teen months old is better every way Gin
an epicurean sense) than a three or
four months old bird, even though the
latter would bring more in the early
spring than would the former in the
large city market For our part we are
more than willing that consumers
should have their choice, when they are
so ready and willing to pay roundly for
it; hut when we have our choice we
always choose matured birds, which are
fatter, juicier, more nutritious and
wholesome, than which nothing is bet
ter, not even the much-lauded "spring
chickens"
We would advise our breeders, how
ever, to raise spring chickens by all
means, as long as there is such pay
ing demand for them in our large city
markets; but when you want any fol
your own use, use matured young birds.
I--N0.ionas Poultry Monitor.
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Gems Of Thought.

The serene silent beauty of a heir
life is the most powerful influence In
the world, next to the might of the
Spirit of God. -SpurgeOn.
Opposition Is what we want and
must have, to be good for anything.
Hardship is the native soil of manhood
and self-reliance.-JOtn Neal
What science calls the uniformity
of nature, faith accepts as the fidelity
of God. 1t is wonderful sermon that
science is all the while preaching to us
from the text: God is faithful. ~.
MdrtineGu.
i know nothing that more realizes
Christ to us than when we read Him in
one of His own living epstles, when we
see His workmanship before us in the
heart and habits of a fellow Christian
DR.. Chalmers.
DO not wade far out into the dan
gerous sea of this worlds comfort.
Take the good that God provides you,
but say of it lit passeth away, for in
deed it is but a temporary need" Never
suffer your goods to become your God.
uOCS 81 Tile
mind-amid the railing and turbulence
of present things, as both look above
them and look beyond them-above
them, to the steady and good Hand by
which they are ruled; and beyond them,
to the sweet and beautiful end to which
by that Hand they will be brought
Jeremy Taylor.
Our sun is shining. therefore, we
argue, our day shall linger-and we
plan more, and do more, and Times
meshes Irvine thicker round our hearts
and it's all a mistake!-we are reckon
ing by the sun, and not by Him who con-
trolls the sun-and in the midst of our
work, and the many things we say must
be done, 10! our sun goes down-while
it is yet day! Incomplete
unexpectedly is always so. Our
watches never mark the appointed hour.
They reckon by the sun and the sun
reckons to God. Tomorrow we
say
"-And tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time"
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How TO Cure Gossip.

A New York pastor has this advice to
give on the subject. 1t is certainly an
original plan:
Adopt this rule: Let all who come to
you with stories about mutual acquaint-
ances know that you intend, as soon as
your duties allow, to wait upon the par
ties spoken of disparagingly and repeat
just what was said, and who said it
Still better, take out your memorandum-
book, and ask the party to allow you to
copy the words, so that you can make
no mistake.
You will have to do this probably not
more than three times. 1t will fiy
among your acquaintance on the wings
of the gossips, and persons who como
to come to talk against other persons in
your presence will begin to feel as if
they were testifying under oath.
But you ask: "Will it not be mean to
go off and detail conversational Not
at all, when your interlocuter under
stands that he must not tax against an
absent person in your presence, without
expecting you to convey the words to
the absent person and the name of the
speaker. Moreover, what right has any
- W oPpiOstCu YOU
bind you to secrecy, and then poison
your mind against another? If there
be any difference in your obligations,
are you not bound more to the man who
is absent than the man who is present?
you can thus help to kill gossip, it
Will not matter if you lose friend or
two; such friends as these, who talk
against others to you, are the very per-
sons TO talk against you TO them.
Try our rule. We know it to be good.
We use it. 1t is known in the church
OF which we are pastor that if any one
speaks to us disparagingly of an
absent member we hold it our
duty to GO to that absent mem
Der immediately, and report the con-
versation and the names, or still
better, TO make the party disparaging
face the party disparaged. We have
almost none of this to do. Amid the
many annoyances which necessarily
come to the pastor of a large church,
and stllI larger congregation, we think
that we are as free from the annoyance
OF gossips as it is possible for a man to
be who lives among his fellow-men.
Try our rule; try it faithfully, with
meekness and charity, and if it does not
work well, let us know.-M Y. Ezaps-
isser.
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The Avalanche Of Death.

Some Swiss peasants not very long
ago were feeding their flocks on one of
the lofty upland valleys. On one side
of the pasturage stood a number of
chalets or wooden huts, in which thew
were accustomed to live during the
summer, poor shelters which were left
as soon as the winter set in. One day
they heard a strange rumbling up in the
lofty Alps, and they understood what it
meant; it meant that mass of rock or
come crushing down in the form of an
avalanche. In brief space their fears
were realized, for they saw tremen-
dous mass come rushing from above,
bearing destruction in its course
What did it destroy? Only the old,
crazy chalets, that was all. Every man
of the shepherds was safe and I'M
touched: the event was rather to them
a matter which caused TIE Deum to
be sung in the village church below
than a subject of mourning and sorrow.
They said: 1.-The avalanche is terrible.
but it has not slain the aged mother, nor
crushed the babe in its cradle; it has
injured none of us, but only buried y
few novels which we can soon rebuild"
Their case is picture of ours. The
avalanche of death will fall; but o We
saints, when it comes this is all it will
do for you-your earthly house will be
dissolved. Will you fret over so small
loss? No evil will come nigh to you:
the poor hut of the body will be buried
beneath the earth, but as for yourself,
what will you have to do but to sing an
everlasting TIE Deum unto Him who
delivered you from death and danger,
and raised you to His own right hands
Death, as it pulls away our sackcloth
canopy, will reveal to our wondering
eyes the palace of the King wherein we
shall dwell forever, and, therefore, what
cause have we to be alarmed at it? l
have set out the whole catastrophe be-
fore you. and surely no believer trembles
in view of it. -SpurgeOn.
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4 BUNDLE or LETTERS.

Strange how much sentiment
Nlinus like n fragrant scent
To- these lovc-lcttcru pcnt
In their pink covers:
Day after day they came
bee ling love tickle fiamc:
Now, she has changed her name-
Then. We were lovers.
I.oof~n the silkcn band
Round the square bundle. and
See what dainty hand
scrubbed 20 all IL
full of facctious chat;
Fancy how hong she sat
MOlding the bullets that
Came with each billeti
An. I remember still
Time that 7 uscd 90 XIII
Waiting the pU-tman's shrill.
nrart.stirrinR whistles.
calling vague doubts 90 mind,
Whether or mo- Ia ind
one hC had let behind
OF her cpistlcs.
Sccouds become IN ARE
AZ This exciting stage:
Two cuECr eyes the page
scan for minute.
Then. with true lovers art.
study % part by part.
NIL they know bY hctrt
Everything In H.
Whit is it all aboutY
uushrs for wurl- loft out
fruuOuns bgyuu u duubt!
Very devoted.
HowCils she's just begun:
DUh.un her heart has won:
Locker aud TcnnysOn
Frequently quoted.
Cris4-crus- The reading goes.
NupturUus rhyme aud pr So
Words which don't suppose
Look very mrigC In
Hooks ON the "OlpViCs:"
Then there "a tiny frirxe
lull 81 sweets in n squeeze.
Worked ON the margin.
lastly don't pause 70 laugh
That D. her autograph
signing This true tor hnlf
Her hearts surrender:
st-eCriptum. ono and two
Desserts the dinners thtnuph!-
Linking the " and " You
IN lOngings tender.
Such H. tho type OF all
-uVr ono. uni let mo call
Htiuf notice % this small
Note neatly written.
liz but carl you srC,
tscutly informing mo
That u can never bot
This u the milton!
nm btmIs'sr ShrrmdH, m Century Ndo
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-"For fifty-four years / was an in
veterate cigar-snoker, says -Thnrlow
Weed in his autobiography, Though
never using tobacco in any other form.
During that period learn, by some
what careful computation, that / must
have smoked or given to friends at least
eighty thousand cigars
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A CHANCE WORD.

IWIN y TnN mITTTnI
sinr.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-05-17
v TOO GOOD TO BE True.
4 Report that the Davitt Company will
Erect . Acton Smelter. Plant.

4 Report that the Davitt Company will
Erect = Acton Shelter. Plant.
1t is stated that Superintendent
Chase. of the Dav,tt mine, on Dee,
Creek, is taking definite action toward
the construction of q Acton smelter.
plant adjoining the HALEY Samplina
Works, below town, which will have
al the latest improvements, including
Cornish rollers, and all needed appli-
ances for successfully treating Wood
Rives ores, the works to be finished
early this season. Nh. Chase has had
considerable experience in the smell.
iag of ores, and proposes to take one.
soarth of the stock himself, and an,
other fourth for Mr.. Scott, owner of
the Davitt. He desires to have the
remaining half subscribed for by Hal
ley merchants and mine.owners Of
Bullion, Deer Creek and other gulches
or districts near HALEY.
The project seems to be so far we'll
inaugurated, and if the works are
there will be another home
market made here for ores, and the
number of men which will be steadily
employed by the work will add to the
prosperity Of the town.
Mr.. Chase and the Davitt COMPANY
are said to mean to have . smelter
here, even if they are compelled to
build it themselves.