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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-23

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 22-Wheat - Excited
unsettled; November, 95c; December, S5$4c
January, 97c; May, SL051. Corn-higher
No. ., 491<c. oats-Scarce; No 2 29e in bin
Rye-Higher; No. / 5613c Barley-lower
No. 2, 59s5c, January &c, extra 81 5l}z@5l2zc
Detroit.
DETROIT, Nov 22.--Wheat-Dul; cast
Sc llers, 81. .04sk; November, S1.04; December
81 1.O41%; january, S1.05$4; No. red casl
sellers S102s4; No. 2 white, Soc. Corn.
Quiet; No. 2 cash, 53c. Oats-Neglected
n o ,..hita 2le- No 31I6c
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Fond of FelinCS.

\ correspondent of the Woodstock
Vt, Standord had occasion last fall tC
call at the house of A. c. Kendall, who
lives on a farm in Bridgewater, adjOin-
ing Barnard. He says:
T knocked at the door, and, no one
appearing, opened it and looked in. And
there I saw a cat sitting up very soberly
in each Of the chairs in the room and
two on each window sill. The unusual
sight of so many cats in one room led
me to make precipitate retreat. But l
have often thought of those cats since,
and the other day, seeing one Of Mr..
Kendal's neighbors, inquired about the
cats and how many Mr.. Kendall kept.
He replied:
'"WeL. can't Just say how many cats
Mr.. Kendall does keep, but one Of my
boys was mp there the other day, and he
counted eighteen cats in the house and
heard several more outside. He thought
there must be twenty-five cats in all
But that is not so many as they some
times have. They are short Of cats now
[ have known them to have thirty-threC
cats. They think a great deal of cats
Mr.. KendalIs folks do, especially Mrs
Kendall. She always keeps a pot O
milk for them to go to, and she has (
cushion for each cat Oh, they like
cats. Mr.. KendalI's folks do
| 7 q C,,oo with him, +bq+ Nh. EaD1o IT.,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
As a Waterman.

President Arthur performed duty as a
Waterman at the Treasury Department
in Washington for short time on Tues
day afternoon. He called at the west
door about two o'clock. The Waterman
did not recognize him and was about to
inform him that "the department was
closed to visitors when the President
asked the messenger to see if Sec
rotary FoIger was in his Office. Still
in ignorance Of the identity Of his visitor,
but believing him to be some high Off
cial, the messenger volunteered to go to
the Secretary's Office if the stranger
would stand watch for him at the door
and see that no one got in while he was
gone up stairs. The President complied
and took the watchman's station. He
didnot keep it long, as the Waterman soon
returned with the information that ;hc
Secretary had gone ont ON visit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
The Persistcncy of Some Women

'"Thcre are women who come to this
store regularly almost every week and
look over all our stock, ask questions
and bother us to death, never were
known to buy anything, but they take
up cur time more than paying custom
ers, complained a drygoods clerk.
'There are women who come in here
looking for things We never had i'll stock
in the world, which they are perfectly,
positively sure they saw on our counter
the day before. There are women who
come back, looking for parcels or purses
which no argument under heaven could
convince them that they hadn't left lying
on my counter five minutes ago; they
are 50 sure of it, that they can point out
the exact spot where they deposited
them a short time ago, and they look
and act as if they thought if they could
only get in behind the counter they
would find the missing article secreted
among the boxes. The only thing for
us to 60 under This complication OF evils
is to cultivate hypocritical surveillance,
a bland ain and serene countenance. [
know some men who have got this down
50 fine that they will almost weep when
a woman thinks she has lost anything,
while all the time they are inwardly
IaurhIno at her"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
The FalIacy of the ''Free'' Lunch.

The sturdy and industrious mechanic
the backbone of American prosperity
is a believer of and patron of the free
lunch. It suits him, without in the
slightest degree jarring upon his indie
pendence or upon his sef-respect. He
earns good wages, but his well-furnished
home is far from his place of toll. As a
prudent and thrifty man he so manages
that his principal eating shall he done at
home, in the bosom of his family. The
free lunch fills up a vacant corner.
For the ''good Of the house" he supple
ments his free lunch with a modest drink
Now ga drink costs precisely the same
sum, whether the drinker imbibe thin
bleful or tumblelfuI; and he who
drinks for ''the good of the house" is, as
a rule, content with small modicum of
the liquor he chooses. And it is this
system of One-priced drinks that makes
the free Iunchnot only possible, but in
directly profitable, If liquor dealer
can sell a tumblerful of liquor for ten
cents and make a living profit out of the
sale, it is clear that his gain must be
considerably increased when he gets ten
cents for a thimbleful. The same sort
of thing obtains in the matter of lager
beer and porter and ales. a largo
schooner of lager costs five cents, and q
pony, about a third of a schooner, like
wise costs five cents, which is at the rate
of fifteen cents a schooner. Thus taking
a pony for the good of the house, )"
simply means bestowing ten cents On the
enterprising dispenser of free lunch.
Again, man can i'll one brief hour drink
Il good many ponies for the good of the
house, but he cannot stow away a good
many free lunches for the benefit of him
self In other countries, notably in
England, fermented and distilled liquors
are stringently sold by measure, so that
the only profit realized is the difference
between the cost at wholesale and the
price at retail. The extra profit on a
small drink as compared with a large
drink in no way comes in.-BoSton Post
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
A Mystery Not Easily Explained.

Considering how severe a winter we
have had, it IS quite wonder in its way
that pleurisy and pncumonia have not
made more work in the upper circles foI.
the undortakers, remarks writer in the
Hartford Times. Woman must be a
pretty hardy sort of mortal, after all Ii
men went around with as little covering
on their upper stories as women manage
to get on with, at parties and the like,
the mortality would be fearful to think
Of A piece Of lace on a woman's shoulders
seems as potent in keeping off the cold
as broadcloth and thick mderclothinn
on mans. How in the world the wo-
men who leave most of their clothes at
home when they go to balls or parties
manage to survive a single season Of fine
consequent exposure, is mystery fhat
| no ordinary person need ever hone TO
find out. Which Is sufficient reason for
not pursuing It any further, Just now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Cadets in Prison.
SCENES OF DISORDER AT THE NAVAL
ACADEMY IN ANNAPOLIS.

Thrty-nine Naval Academy cadets at
Annapolis, Maryland, who participated
in the cheering in ranks recently, have
been placed in confinement on shipbOard,
to remain there until further orders. As
a further punishment the participants
in the disorder referred to have been
declared the privilege of holding any
intercourse for the present with outside
associations, and of visiting the several
places of amusement in the academy.
the cadet hops have also been indefinitely
postponed in consequence of their
demonstrations. All the cadets confined
on the Santee are members of the first
class. The affair created much excite
ment among the cadets, who naturally
feel deeply impressed with their situa-
ton i'll the light of mutineers.
During the semi-annuaI examinations
at the Naval Academy, one of the cadets
was reported for attempting to give as
sistance to his classmates. This cadet,
who was a cadet officer and who was not
only very popular with his own class,
but also with the other cadets, was de-
prived of his cadet rank by the Superin-
tendent, Captain F. NJ. Ramsay. Be
sides this punishment he was given
| twenty-five dement's. To express their
sympathy for the severe punishment,
the cadets cheered their classmate after
dinner Although the cheering was
done by a very large number, only few
of the participants in the cheering were
reported, one Of whom also happened to
be a cadet officer.
This cadet was also ''broken," or re-
duced to the ranks and, as he was also
a great favoritc with the division of
cadets Of which he was in command, he,
too, was chcered by his fellow students.
When the battalion was formed after din
ncr, the names Of all the cadets who took
part in the cheering were taken. Many
however, refused to answer. The pun
ishment inflicted upon these cadets, is
regarded by their companions as being
| very severe, and the action of the Su-
perintendent was generally discussed and
criticised at the Naval Academy.
The cadet officers of the battalion Of
midshipmen, have resigned and none of
the first and second classes viii accept
these positions. The third and fourth
classes are either incompetent or afraid
to accent them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Talmage on DefalCatiOnS.

In his weekly talk at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, DR.. Talmage referred to the
defaIcations that have marked the past
few weeks. Following the defalcation of
the Treasurer of Tennessee, he said,
comes that of the Treasurer of Alabama.
Three hundred thousand dollars of pub
lie funds stolen. 1t was not the pressure
to steal which those felt which have no
means of subsistence, but the wicked
ness done by men on competent salaries
promptly paid. Another echo of Wall
street Gambling in stocks One man
makes fifty thousand dollars and tells
his friends, and they become crazy for
success in the same direction. If all the
losses of Wall street We're reported on
the bulletin boards the fascination would
soon be broken up. Such a defalcation
as that of the Treasurer of Alabama
ought to put the entire nation on guard.
One should get a livelihood i'll legitimate
lines of business and be careful what
use he makes of other peoples money.
One might for while fix up accounts
and hide susancc, but sooner or
alter he would have to meet two judg-
ments, one at the hands of indignant
society, and the other at the hands of
God. No man does hugely wrong at
the start. Such Il one probably began
at three hundred cents and got gradu-
ally hardened in the descending path of
iniQuity till he could take three hundred
thousand dollars and laugh at the achieve
mpnt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22

If you are sick Hop Bitters will surely aid
Nature in making you well when all else fails.
If you are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffer-
ing from any other of the numerous diseases of
the stomach or bowels, it is your own fault if
you remain i'll, for Hop Bitters are a sovereign
remedy in all such complaints.
If you are wasting away with any form of
Kidney disease, stop tempting Death this mo-
ment, and turn for a cure to Hop Bitters
If you are sick with that terrible sickness
Nervousness you viii find Balm i'll Gilead"
in the use of Hop Bitters.
II YOU are q frequcuteT, a resident of a
niasma tic district harricado your system asairsE
the scourge of all countries-malarialc epidemic,
bilious and intermittent fevers-by the use Of
Hop Bitters.
If you have rough, pimply, or sallow skim
bad breath pains and aches, and feel miserable
generally, Hop Bitters viii give you fair skin,
rich blood and sweetest breath, health and
comfort.
In short they cure all Diseases of the stomach,
Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's
Disease. $500 Will be paid for case they will
not cure or help.
That poor, bedridden, invalid wife, sister,
mother, or daughter, can be made the picture
of health, by few bottles of Hop Bitters, cost
ing but a trife. Will you let them suffer?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
The Aged Millionaire Mechanic.

Regarding the venerable philanthro-
pist, Peter Cooper, the scribe Of the
Rochester DcmOcrat says he will be
plump ninety-two on the 10Th of next
month. He is still able to attend to
business, but the infirmities of old age
are upon him, and he is rarely found at
his Office in the Institute. Forty years
ago, when the present phiIanthropist
was merelya business man, says the cor
respondent. | used to see the sign upon
the warehouse in Burliqg slip: "Pcter
Cooper, Glue and Iron Wire" How
little did then imagine the distinction
this name would hold both in enterprise
and benevolence. The Office was very
small, and everything had quiet look,
for it was in fact merely a place for talk
ing orders which were served from the
factories. The quiet, methodical man
who sat ut the chief desk might have
been taken by a stranger for Il retired
mechanic who had become a clerk He
spoke in a calm and subdUed tone. and
rescmbed one of the more favored mem
bcrs of the working class. Such, in
decd he was, and in the light he has
ALWAYS view 4 himself, and hence he now
stands before the public as one Of the
most wonderful mechanics III the worlds
HISTORY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Works of Human Labor.


Nineveh was IA miles long, miles
wide and 46 miles round, with a wall 100
feet high and thick enough for three
chariots abreast. Babylon was so miles
inside of walls, the latter being IS feet
thick and 100 feet high, having 100
brazen gates. The Temple Of Diana, at
Ephesus, was 400 feet to the support Of
the roof ; it was 100 years in the build
ing. The largest of the pyramids meas
ured 481 feet in height and 953 on the
sides =; the base covers II acres, and the
stones are about 60 feet in length, and
the layers are 2O8; it employed 100000
men in building. The Labyrinth, in
Egypt, contained 300 chambers and u
halls. Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins
q miles round, and 100 gates. Garth
age was 20 miles round. Athens was %
miles round, and contained $50, 600 citi-
zens and 400, COO slaves. The Temple Of
DelphOs was so rich in donations that it
was plmdered of G1O, OOO 900, and Nero
took from it 200 statues. The walls of
Rome were - miles round.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
THE OFFICE-SEEKER.
How He Settled Matters with His Friend
Lew.

A story was told of Lewis Cass and an
old friend of his earlier years, by Gen
eral Wetmore, of New York than whom
few then living in Washington enjoyed
more keenly good story.
Lewis Cass, ON arriving at the Depart
ment of State Che was then Secretary,
found on his desk the card of a gentle
man from his native State. The door
keeper was told to show him in, which
he did. A blunt old farmer grasped the
Secretary's hand with "WeIl, I'm
mighty glad to see you, but mebbe you
don't remember me-" OF course the
Secretary received him cordially-he was
a constituent-he looked him over care
fully-couldn't recall him, and was COM
PEELED to say, Well, no, sir; you have
the advantage of me-" Then the farmer
gave his name and Cass remembered the
comrade of his youth, through all the
changes forty years had made. The
Secretary was profuse in his expressions
of pleasure at seeing his old friend again,
and all that, and finally said:
"Well, now Joe, what brought you
down here? am curious to know. Is
there anything I can do for You? You
know I would do anything in the world
for you, in my power. -
"There, now! Lew? That's just
what [ told 'em. [ said, I knew Lew
when he was youngster, and [ knew he
wouldn't change like that
Cass-" Well, now Joe, what is it?
How can I help you? Just say it; if it
is in my power, [ will do it for you most
willingly; you know there's nothing in
the world that I wouldn't do for you
Now what is it -
Farmer-''Well, [ don't know ius+
what it IS, but [ thought you might get
me 'sinum-curem, believe they call
it, anyway it's where there's plenty pay
and not much to do. You see, Lew, [
amt able to do much now, and wouldn't
a-come down anyway, if things hadn't
gone so powerful bad-but [ won't
bother you about that. [ jest knew
you'd put me thro', if you knew my fix.
You see [ amt partiklar, only some
thing"
Cass-''My dear old friend, you know
1 would do anything in the world [
could for you, but, you see, I am afraid
I could not explain it to you, you cannot
understand how many persons there are
trying to get an office, and how few get
any. You see you would not understand
it. do not see anything just now, but
Joe, I'll keep my eye on you Just call
in whenever you can; I shall be pretty
busy now for awhile"
The farmer called the next morning.
The Secretary was Every much engaged, "
but in a hurried manner said:
TN on the lookout. I'll keep my
eye on YOU
It is unnecessary to leDgthen the story.
Day after day the answer was the same
in efect-''L Looking out for him." "any-
thing in the world he could do" and
keeping his eye" on him.
Ten days passed in this way, the old
rustic had seen Washington. His pa
ticnce was used up, and he had only
money enough left to get home with; he
would see Lew once more.
Joe called; he was shown in with the
same prOmptness as ever.
The Secretary ''was very busy" but
the old farmer was not to be put off this
time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Gen. Neal DOw's Rat Story.
THE STORY THE FATHER OF THE PROHIB-
TORY LIQUOR LAW TELLS.

The Boston CongregatiOna1i$t tells
this rather curious rat story as coming
from Neal Dow, of Portland, Me-:
My house is supposed to be rat-proof,
and was so when quite new, but at one
time, more than twenty years ago, we
had large colony of the rodents, greatly
to our annoyance, and it was with us a
matter of daily wonder where they found
a weak spot in our defense against them.
One evening a young lady from a
friends family, living in large, fine
house nearly mile away, was with us,
and the talk turned on rats, as we heard
ours galIoping in the ceiling and scam
pering up and down the walls. The
young lady said that none had ever been
in their house, and she did not think
there was any point at which they could
enter. My eldest daughter, great wit,
said:
Give heard that, if politely invited to
do so i'll writing, rats will leave any
house, and go to any other to which
they may be directed, and [ will tell ours
that at your house they will find spa
cious quarters and an excellent commits
sariat.'
At the moment, before us all, she
wrote a most grandiloquent letter to the
large family of rats that had so long fav
ored us with their presence, pointing
out. to them that at No. Go Pearl street
was a large, fine house which had never
been favored with the residence of any
of their family, where they would find
ample quarters and fat larder. When
finished, she read the missive to the
company, ard we had a great laugh over
it. As al approximation, she then
.--'t lard r and carried it into the
attic, where :. would probably be found
by those to whom it was directed. A
few days after, the young lady was at
our house again, and burst into a laugh,
exclaiming: "Our house is OverTTn
with rats p That recalled to us the fact
that we had heard none in our walls. My
daughter went to the attic and the letter
was gone. While we were talking and
laughing over the curious affair a friend
came in, and, hearing the talk, said that
two evenings before, in the bright moon
light, he saw several rats running down
Congress street, which was the straight
road to Pearl street. We have never
been troubled with them since, but [
have not heard how it has been with the
house to which our beneficiaries were
directed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Post Office Expenses.

EX-Postmaster-Ge General Thomas L.
James has prepared a long article on
the postal service and railroads, which
viii appear in the first number of the
Railroad 1ge. In this article Mr..
James says that the cost of the railway
mail service for the fiscal year 1881, was
81, 4ll,120.90: in 1882, So, ,GO1,
and the estimate for 1888, S13, ISL, GO1,
he bulk Of which is paid to the railroads
- transporting mails. The greatest OBJ
S.t the mail service has to con
rs the increasing expenses
service occasioncd by the
kfh which small villages grow.
If~hich places a post-ofiice must be
established which does not make the cx-
penses charged by the railroads totrans-
port mails to AID from these points. The
problem, writes Mr.. James, should be
given to Il commission composed of per
sons haviag practical knowledge of the
subject, to ascertain tn cost and profit
Of the business done on trains carving
the mails, and frame law that would
cover the requirements Of the service
and give the people more efficient mail
facilities at lower rates of postage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Sending the News.

\ distinguished Boston clergyman de-
string to inform his mother Of an inter
esting domestic event, sent her a postal
card containing the following directions:
"Trom sweet Isaiah's sacred song, ninth chap
ter and verse SIX,
First thirteen words please take, and then the
following afiiX:
From Genesis, the thirty-ffth, verse seventeen
no more,
Then add verse twenty-six Of Kings, book sec
oud chapter four;
The last two verses, chapter first, first book Of
Samuel,
And Won will learn, what on that day, your low
ing son befcll.'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
For the benefit of our hommo-

For the benefit of our homeopathic
readers desiring to call on the hOmmo-
pathic pharmacy when visiting some OF
our large cities, We give the addresses OF
the best known and most reliable Of these
establishments, namely: Boericke & Ia
feI's. The New York address is 145 Grand
street. half block cast Of Broadway
Philadelphia, 1O11 Arch street and 12lC
Girard avenue; Baltimore, 1876 West
Fayette street; New Orleans, 100 Cana
street, and Chicago, 234 Wabash avenue
(MattesOn HOteD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Poverty and Distress.

That poverty which produces the greatest
distress is not of the purse but Of the blood.
Deprived of its richness it becomes scant and
watery, a condition termed daemia in medical
writings. Given this condition and scrofulous
swellings and sores, general and nervous
debility, loss of flesh and appetite, weak lungs,
throat disease splitting Of blood and con
sumption, are among the common results. If
you are sufferer from thin, poor blood en-
which enriches the blood and cures these grave
affections. Is more nutritive than cod liver
oil, and is harmless in any condition of the
system, yet powerful to cure. By druggists.
I HAVE found by experience that there is
nothing better for a man than mildness and
cemency.-Terence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22

The Fredcy7chton (Nc10 By7ns,cick,
Cmt.) Reporter says: "NobOdy can
but admire the persistent enterprise
manifested by the owners of st. jacobs
Oil in keeping the name before the
public. It received a big send off in
the House the other day by the Hon.
Mr.. Perley, who warned his colleagues
in the Government of the danger of
Bear Killers receiving two bounties for
one nose; the judicious use of tile OIL
causing rapid growth"