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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27
And all othe
He may We'll be joyful.

5 TOPEKA. Kans., May 12, 1881.
FL. FL. WARNER 81 Co Siys After 10
years of unmitigated suffering from chro-
mic kidney disease finally found joyful
to health in your Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure. ID. B. owens.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27
cARsE AND RETIcKER

offer the following way down prices:
100 pairs ladies, kid button shoes for 81 rs
40 pairs ladies goat button shoes, 81 DO
$50 pairs ladies' kid opera slippers, 81 90.
3 cases mems calf boots, $2.25
And all other goods in proportion lit
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

A choice lot of flower plants, for sale
by Miss Annie E. Sutcliff, at the old stand
on Second avenue, near w. A. Johnsson's
shoe store. Floral designs speciality.
23-6t
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

De downfall ob a hypocrite is chen
enjoyed by all hypocrites demselves-
eff da doan b'long ter de same church.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27
FOR SALE.

Sixty lots in my addition to the city of
Rock Island. Terms, one-fourth down,
balance in one, two and three years, with
six per cent interest.
,apl Is dam BAILEY DAVENPORT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

De wise men spekerlates on de mys
teries OBJ death when da amt chen foun
out de mysteries Oh life
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

Ranavalomanjaka, queen of NADIA.
gascar, is said to spend half an hour on
an hour regularly every morning in
prayer and reading the bible.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

De cullud gentleman is cuis. He calls
himself a nigrer, but when de white
folks says dat he is a nigger. he gets
mighty mad
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

Poverty viii give whar riches will re-
fuse. Dis is one reason why de po' is
po' an why de rich is rich
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

Nine thousand Marshal Mel roses on
one vine IS the record for one year made
BY Q grower in Newport. r.. I.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

De troubles we hab in de beginnin' oh
life in ole age is looked back to as life's
pleasures
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

Nine men outen ten, what has a repu-
tation fur bein' smart, is oberrated, an
nine men outen ten, what amt got de
reputation, is moderated. De oberrated
man what is honest, may tell de folks
dat too high value is placed on his
sense, an da take it rs a reproach an a
expression oh de fack dat he feels dat
da doan think enough oh him; an de
moderated man may say dat he amt
valued high enough. an da has a was
opinion oh him den da did bcfo' =
ArkG7aSdsc Trdcelcr
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27
Plantation Philosophy.

Ice cannot cool de revenge oh hate,
an no fire can warm de chill oh death.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27
THE ROnIES

GRAND FORKS, D. T., April 25.-The
bodies of the Ward boys passed through
here to day on the way TO Chicago, The
general feeling is that the Wards brought
on their death BY firing first
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-27

De mos harmful influences OBJ dis
life is concealed under de brightest xiv
er DE black snake amt nigh so putty
as de copper-head, but he amt half so
pizen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
ATTEMPTING to Talk Quaker.
F'V''Is ; " n '@H1N = E'''19S7I
New Orleans Times Democrat.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
1t is no easy matter for a novice to fling
Quaker" fuently. The tongue becomes
confused with its triple choice of pronouns,
and flaps hopeessy around the palate.
l well recollect my clumsy efforts to en-
gage in conversation with farmer whom 1
met in Chester county, the Quaker strong
hold in Pennsylvania. When l happened
upon him he was sitting upon a worm-fence.
vacantly staring at a cream -colored cow IT.
the adjacent field. l at once OWNED him to
be a Friend in undress, and determined to
carrying on a skillful dialogue in his own
idom. This is how | succeeded.
''How do thee do, sir? Is-that is are thee
meditating?"
If he was delighted. he controlled his emo
ton admirably, All he did was to cape and
inquire.
Hep
'"The fields, the birds, the flowers" pleas
antly pursued, ARE enough to bring thou
dreams-I mean dreams to thou"
He was looking at me now, and critically.
[ felt that my syntaX had been very idiotic
instead of idiomatic; So wiping the sweat
from my brow and hat, l eyed him calmly
and observed:
CHOSE cows, are they thy's-or thee's--
that is thou's-dum it! mean thine's."
1t was very unfortunate. He crawled down
from the fence, nibbled at plug of nickel
nugget, an act of itself sufficient to I'M
Quaker him, and, as he ambled away, NUT
tered Indignantly:
go ate your pants; I'm tramp but gin
tlemann
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
The rurnings in the Lane.

The Topped tree in time may grow again,
Most naked plants renew both fruit and
flower;
The sorrlest wight may find release from pain,
The dryest soil suckes in some yst'ning
shower;
Times go by turns, and chances change by
course,
From foul to faire-from better hap TO worse.
Tie sea of fortune doth not forever flow,
She draws her favors to the lowest ebb:
Her tides have equal times to come and goe,
Her loome doth weave ye fine and coarsest
webbe:
No JOY great but runneth to an end,
No hap 40 hard but may in fine amend.
Not always fall of leave, nor ever spring,
No endless Dight nor yet eternal day;
The saddest birds a season find TO sing.
The toughest storm a calm may soon allay;
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That man may hope TO rise, yet fear to fall.
A chaunce may win ye, by mischaunce was lost,
The net THAT holds no great takes little fish;
In some things all, in some none ia crOst,
Fewe all they need but none have all they
wish,
Unmaddled JOYS heere to no man befall,
Who least hath some, who most hath never ali.
Robert Southwell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

Ia life so long that We nave time TO mourn
And sigh, with grief and heaviness Of heart,
Because goodly show of canine teeth
Have been uucurtained by eontraotile lips,
IN scornfui sneers, that thou canst not com
ma1o
Rainnent to clothe and food to eat as fine
iAs that which hides the shame and stays the
pangs
bOfthat high-stomached breed which keeps alive
bThe line of true descent from him who prayed,
And thanked his God within the temple doors,
fThst he OF ch0ce-selected clay compact
Was quite UNIQUE among the sons of menl
Poor fools and sycophants at heart eye,
Being honest men, to feel a sense of shame
J In presence of the proudest ones OF earth;
For surely one day Natures Tip-staff, Death,
Shall summons them, with courtesy scant
! As ever shown by act of theirs to thee,
And with CHASTITY leer oermatch the CLEAN
OF fangs through which they sought to show
their scorn
OF thee and thy coarse garb and canoused
hands;
Aud though they answer to the summons,
dressed
In filmy fabrics fine as ever spun,
And wrought by reed and harness of the loom
To costly cloths, or swathed in heavy folds
or richly 'brodered stuffs, the worms at meat
Care little for the cloth on which tits served.
Ben D. House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
TWO GUINEAs AND FOUR MEN.
a Scene of Unusual Interest on the Grey
hound of the Ocean.

a Scene of Unusual Interest on the Grey
hound of the Ocean.
New York Herald.
Four gentlemen we're seated at table in
the smoking-room of she steamer Alaska, of
the Guion line, on her recent remarkable
trip across. The sea was running heavy,
and the smokng-room steward found it
delicate matter to place glass and bottle
before each of the four gentlemen and to I'M
cork the complementary ginger ale other
wise than on his head. The conversation
turned upon the great speed the steamer
was making, and led to a bet. In cover
ing the wager of a sovereign upon trivial
matter one of the four gentlemen took from
his purse guinea OF the reign Of William
and Mary.
"There are only two of them in existence"
he said proudly" and this piece is worth q
hundred times its face value. Had l the
other the collection of two would be simply
invaluable to numismatsts."
He laid it on the table as he spoke, and in
moment after the coin had disappeared.
Nobody saw it fall or glide of the table. No
body saw ANYBODY else take it, Its owner
searched high and low; his three companions
and the steward helped him. No other per-
sons were in the compartment, and yet the
coin could not be found.
These four men had been strangers to each
other when the voyage began. They had
been five days out and were rapidly nearing
port Inc owner Ol IHe NdluaUle coin WAS
inconsolable, suspicious and profane by
turns
"Ill tell you what is the best thing to do"
said one of the party. The coin is not on
the floor: it cannot have rolled through the
ceiling. Somebody here must have it. Let
all of US be searched"
All agreed but one gentleman who had
! hitherto said nothing He positively refused
to suffer such an indisnity. When it was
suggested to him that where all others agreed
no single person ought to object, he simply
declined made his bow, took mis- drink alone
and left for his stateroom.
The good ship Alaska p:owed on to her
sixth day, and Just after her completing it
Fire Island was sighted. The gentleman
who had refused to be searched had been put
| in coventry; the three Others who had sat at
the table with him unanimously suspected
him.
But Just as the pilot came aboard the Alas
ka, the gentleman who had lost the guinea
found it sticking to the sole of his boot where
it mad been wedged ever since he had first
displayed it, He was overjoyed at his dis
cOverv and anxious to make amends for his
unjust suspicious.
but" said he TO the gentleman who had
refused to be search, why on earth did you
not agree, as we all did, to such a simple
test? That would have settled the matter in
stantly."
mo it wouldn't" answered the other.
"Why notY'
Because (producing his purse) there IS the
( only other coin of the kind in the world
| is the reason | refused to be searched for
nothing on earth would have made you be-
lieve this was not your own coin had you not
been so lucky as to recover it."
AS the Alaska steamed into port a social
glass removed all traces OF unpleasantness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

hear the sigh of seeds that yearn
10 deck with pomp their buriat-urn,
Ecstatc rhapsodies that run
Along the bark that feels the sun,
The laugh with which the buds untold,
The passion in the pollen's gold;
hear the FAINT, delicious beat
In hearts of roses, converse sweet
In airs that toy, at twilighPs hour.
With apple-bloom ana orauge-fiower,
The am'rOus whispers of the grass
As sky-larks brood and fire-flies pass,
The dew's desire, and griefs that make
Tue thunder's fiery heart-strings break.
To me are told the dreams that lie
Deep In the lily's languid eye.
Legends that ferns and cora's store
In books of rock and oceans floor,
The prayers that ont of pastures cry
When scOrched beneath brazen sky,
Strange syllables that from the ground
Speak like the naked soul of sound,
And all the birds in love relate
or happy flight and tender mate,
And what the tribes of insects tell
Of their incessant miracle,
Sea-song, and joy of human speech,
And awful lore the star-deptbs teach;
And touching thus the inner mind,
l go enraptured, awed, resigned.
-Horatlo Nelson Powers, in the Critic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
A Southern Dairy Farm.

Charleston Is. c. News and Courier
Conant & Emmons, of Beaufort, have
model dairy farm. They have just finished
harvesting their third cutting of long forage.
In spite of the unfavorable season for grass.
on account of the drought, in addition to the
ravages of the grasS-worm that almost COM
pletey ate out the third crop of Bermuda
grass, their severaI crops in routine consist
ing of the first harvest of vetch furrowed in
May, followed by the second harvest of Ber-
muda grass in July, and this third and last
moving of Bermuda, they secured ton of
vctch and and Il ton and a half of Bermuda
hay to the acre on an eighteen-acre field
throughout tile season. The ground upon
which they gathered fifty barrels of Irish
potatoes in May was Immediately sowed down
in German millet. which produced a ton and
quarter per acre. that was cut in August.
The third crop on the same ground, and
which is now a beautiful sward of cow-peas
nearly ready to cut was sown in August, al
ter the millet was cut will turn out about 4
ton to the acre on a twO-acre patch. They
have also an oat-field of twelve acres
harvested in May and sown in cow peas from
which they will gather an average OF ton
per acre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
A Maine Prohibition Party.

Portland Me- Argus.
William Andrews, an old farmer living in
the suburbs of Saco, has in his cellar nearly
fifty barrels of wine. He will neither driuk
it, sell it, give it away. nor throw it away.
As he made it all himself it's sale would not
only conflict with the State laws but with
national ones, and the valuable property
keeps increasing in quality every year, to
the wild evaporation of Mr.. Andrews's fell
low-ctizens. Some of it is now more than
twenty years old On rare occasions in the
past he has given away small quantities to
persons who really wanted it for medicinal
use, but the bulk OF this wine seems destined
for posterity only.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
Across the Plains.

The plains were wide and vast and drear,
The mountain peaks seemed cool ana near,
The sun hung low toward the west.
$50 near" we sighed, "are we to rest"
But journeying through the closing day,
Our feet are weary of the way;
Far, far before our aching sight
The plains lie In the waning light.
The mountain peaks that seemed so near,
And hold our rest forever there.
Are far across the desert lands
We vainly cry with lifted hands.
o. hills that stand against the sky,
We may not reach you ere we die;
Our hearts are broken with the pain,
For rest and peace we may not gain.
Upon the plains we faint and fall.
Dur faces toward the mountain tall;
Our palms are elasped, but not TO pray,
So die we with the dying day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

Meath a sunny April sky.
We went wandering. hand in hand;
Talking logic, scornIng nonsense,
Writing names upon the sand
Friendship true can never die:
I'VE were friends then, you aud H.
Friendship surely cannot die,
In the sunny April land!
Meath a glowing August SKY
We went wandering. hand In hand,
Whispering nonsense, quoting Byron,
Writing vows upon the sand
True love sure can never die;
1--WE were lovers, you and ID
Love like ours will never die,
In this glowing August land!
Meath gray October sky
Mute we stood. with parted hands;
Leaves fell dying at our feet,
Tides came moaning up the sands
Friendships gone and love has fed;
'tWe must part" you coldly said,
All our summer dreams lie dead;
In this gray October Land!
-Pittsburg Post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

Now, what want you to do, Miranda"
said white woman TO a new colored help"
"is to get up early, make two fires get break
Jast take care of the children while | am
eating; then. after breakfast, sweep the rooms.
make up the beds, aud do anything else that
comes handy" Whats yerse'f gwne ter
be dom all dat rime?' why, I'll be at
tending to my own affairs, Of course "An
seem me worKin' like a slahe? Lrdy doan
reckin we kin trade. lef de las place case
de oman ob de house got so proud dat she
didn't want me yer set in de rockin cheer.
an de way yerscfs startin' out Ise afcerI
dat yer wouldn't recoBnize me as Il member
OBJ 'cietv. Lake ter 'eommodare yer, lady.
but all de pnts is agin yer. -Arkansaw
Traveller
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
Noblesse Oblipe.

Ye climbers, rest not when We gain
The slightly ground above the plain;
Far up the mountains ancient snow,
We wait to see your signal glow.
Now speed. since all return Is vain.
II, looking downward, ye were faiu
In the sweet valley to remain,
A Voice would warn you from below
Hoblesse oblge!
Ye burden-hearers, that sustain,
And give no sign of cark or pain,
On you their loads will many throw.
Make broad your shoulders; blessings go
With those who help the mOillng train
Neblesse o5lige!
Edith NJ. Thomas, in November Manhattan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

A very Ornamental stand cover or small
table cover il made by cutting piece of fels
the exact size and shape of the table top. Ii
the table has scalloped or pointed top, tn.
cover must have also. At each point or
scaiope put piece of plush or velvet; a
square block Is preferable to any other form.
BlndStitch this TO the felt, and then around
the edge put fancy silk stitches, aud add y
tasse 20 each point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

walked out. Portland marshal was or
dered to take him back, and, thinking to
break the matter gently, said that Secretary
Stanton wanted to see him" The old man
drew himself up and replied: "Mr Marshal,
you write to Secretary Stanton aud tell him
it isn't any further from Washington to Port
land than it is from Portland to Washington,
and that if ne wants to see me he can come
here
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

WOman's Rights in the Lime-Kiln Club.
Detroit Free Press
Il hold heah in my hand" said the presi-
dent, as the meeting opened in due form, "a
petishun signed by 800 pussons, prayin' dis
club to admit de female sex to membership.
Tze sorry to see 'em waste so much time
When de time arroves dat dis club can't be
run widout de help of de odder sex, Para
disc Hall will be deserted ruin"
docs understan' the president to be op-
posed to what am called womans rightsP'
asked the Rev. Penstock, as he suddenly
bobbed up.
You does, sah-you does Take de
ago, to de present date, and it has nebber
included one true woman. 1t has been a
movement mapped out and followed
by a class OF males and females who
have somehow kept cl'ar of idiot
asylums, and yit who don't know huff
to be lunatics. To de wife an mother-de
true woman of de fahsde-I grant homage
and reverence. 1 class her second only to de
angels of heaben. To de female who ema-
gines dat de Lawd created her to be sunthin'
greater dan woman, | grant de same re-
spects as to man. an gin her de same chance
to stan up in crowded kyar doan want
to meet her nor talk to her nor read to her,
She am mighty poo woman an slim sort
of man."
docs de president mean dat it shall go
out to de world dat dis club am posed to
woman's rights?' inquired Penstock.
Yes, sab"
81 should like to see vote taken on de
queshun"
The roll was called and the vote stood: Fol
woman's rights AZ against, 1914. Elder Pen
stock sat down with jar which was heard
eighty rods away, and the routine business
was then taken up
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

"LYDIA e. PINKHAM's great laboratory. Lynn.
Tdass. is turning out millions Of packages of her
celebrated Compound, which are being sent to
the four winds, and actually fihd their way to all
lands under the sun and to the reuotest confiaes
of modern civilization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

W. D. OWEN, editor Logansport Saturday
Night, say s: Browns Iron BItters Ia the most
beneficial medicine lave ever taken"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

There was a young lady named Hannah,
Who practiced upon the piannah
SO loud and so long,
So fierce and 80 strong,
That her beau broke his arm In this man nah
He'd fan her,
This Hannah,
When at the piannah,
With his twenty-hve.eont red bandannah.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03
Ruddha.

wh0e'er hath wept one tear, or borne one
pain,
Tine Muster said and entered into rest.)
Not fearing wrath, nor meaning to be blest,
Simply for love, howbeit wrought In vain,
OF one poor soul, his brother, being old,
Or sick, or lost through satisfied desire,
Stands in Gods vestbule. and hears His choir
Make merry music on their harps OF gold.
What is 1t but the deed of Very Love,
To teach sad eyes to smile, mute lips TO move?
And he that for a score of centuries
Hath lived, and calls a continent his own,
Giving w0rld-weary souls heavens best sur
prise,
Halts only at the threshold of the throne.
The Snectator
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-04-28
NentEnacnl 80 80.

Every man has bis chain and his
clog only i is leoscr and lighter i
nae man iIsan AZ another; and he i,
more II ease Who takes il UP than he
Nho drags s.
Wisdom and truth, the offspring 81
The sky, are immortal; bnt GINNING
and deception, HE mearors Of the
earth after giittering for moment
must pass away.
The gsiety Of ilie wicked il like tbe
nowery Surface Of Mount Aetna, be-
neath Nliicll materials are gathering
for an eruption that viii one day re-
ahne al its beauties TO ruin and de-
sirnctiop.
The Christian graces are like per.
fumes, The more they are pressed the
hweeter they smell; like stars that
sllinc brightest in the dark, like trees
which, tie more they are shaken, The
deeper rect they take, nad the more
fruit they bear.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-04-28


There i 10 sneat 20 rlleaply raised
Aild fatfrnea NJ poultry. Most farm
efs families preflr fresh 70 salted
ineafs especially Daring wMm weailses
and slleFe " nane mere available
tsefs aIirfe that that Of fowls. 0ne
fSM makes ameal for large family,
Ind there Is none left 10 Be thrown
away or % be aalird 10 prevent Il
speiliHg. ghe next meal il running
around preserved naturally mil
sseoded. Il bnsl,el of corn will keep =
farmers fowl III good eating condition
for 4 year, The fowl viii lay 100
ogxa III oser, which viii more than
pay for Tie grain given, and the
butchers cart Is tilns always At tbs
flocr
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-04-28

George HoIgaie. Of Philadelphia,
inventor and maker Of half Of The
nysierious explosive machines that
Gnas their way across the ocean, and
credited with having constructed the
one deposited under The English GOV
eminent buildings ii London, lcfi
that city On Sunday morning last for
tlle Rocky Mountains. His object III
going IL The Rocky Mountains is To
lind lonely spot His purpose in
finding lonely spot Is to seclnde
himself from inqllisilive observation.
and his idea II seqnosiering himself
where The eye of lie cngions shall not
dwell npon him 10 perform certain ex-
pefiinents. ~ d reporter before
leasing, BE said he wished 10 expert
ment with a new explosive which be
haa iist discovered, far mere power
fill shan nifFD-gIycerine and MOI half
10 dangerous 10 handla--the most
ppwerfui known. IT'S Id The shape
0f a powder of dark color, and
senaewhat resembling gunpowdeF, AZ
though Of much finer texture. lex
Ficdes the same a. any other similar
Compound powder Or nitra-glyeefine.
Il can Be ased IN gun with cap oT
III an internal maciiinc. Il an ounce
were concentrated 10 All iron box two
inches i diameter placed in The
iafgnst building, not 4 stone wonld he
left standing after the explosion. A