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National Republican., 1883-03-08
NOTES.

Mr. Henry G. Peakes, the principal basso of the
Hess Opera company, now playing at Fords. is
an old favorite in Washington, and tho an
nouucemont of his name in company gives II
strength and importance. Mr. Peakes is one of
the most versatile actors upon the stage, beside
being one of the best singers. Mr.. Peal,es will be
the recipient of benefit to-porrow evening,
when he will appear Ns Mephistopheles in
Faust"
Janauschek is to play her new piece, "Zilla," at
tho National theater next week "Marle Stuart"
Bleak House, and "Mother aud Son." will be
acted early in the week, and "Zilla" on Friday
and Saturday,
Willie Edouins company will change tonight,
at the National, to "Fun in Photograph GAL
lery." Mr., Edouin is to play the photographers.
Carrie SWAIN new actress, in Nab" new
play. win invite attention ~ Ford,s next week.
National Republican., 1883-03-08
ADJUSTMENTS.
"MARITANAn AT FoRD's.

There is so much good music and dramatic
life in Wallace's "Maritana" that its infre-
quent performance might be made the subject
of curious inquiry. While there is nothing
especially magnificent about it, there is
much that is very beautifully melodious,
and very few operas have any more to
commend them in the way of symmetry,
sweetness, and honest musical value. The
performance given it last evening by the
Hess company was in the main good one.
| The principal parts were well sustained and
the chorus sang with general pre-
cision and well tempered volume Tho
deficient orchestra was less obtrusively poor
than might have been expected, the orches-
traton having been judiciously llghtened and
carefully governed by Mr. Taylor, whose efforts
to make piano do instead of half score of
musicians compelled respect even whilo they
failed to excite enthusiasm.
The title part was sung by Miss Abbie Car
rington Mr.. Appleby sang Don Caesar; Mr.
Mark Smith sang Don Jose; ; Miss Ellsner sang
Lazarillo; Mr.. James PcakeS was the King;
and Mr. Tams made a good comic bit of the
Marquis. Miss Carrington's performance was
I,musically excellent. Her voice is rather
brilliant soprano of considerable range
and very even power; and a thoroughly
good training enables her to make the most
of it. Mr.. Smiths Don Jose was much
better work than anything else he had
done during the week. 1t was good acting
as we'll as good singing. His "Happy Mo-
ments" brought one of the few recalls of the
evening-and thoroughly deservedit. Mr.. APP
pleby acquitted himself with more than credit,
considering that the illness of Mr.. Wilkie
(who is but slowly recovering from an acute
attack of laryngitis) has forced him to sing
all the first tenor parts of late and put him to
severe strain. The Lazarillo of Miss Ellis
nor was pretty performance, well sustained
in both music and action
Tho Mascotte" was sung at the matinee.
This evening " The Bohemian Girl" will be
offered.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
STOPPING STEAM ENGINES By ELEc-
TRTCTTY


Among the various uses to which cleo
tricity may be put, there is one of very
simple and practical nature which prom
ises to effect great saving of property
and life if brought into general operation.
The inventor of this new contrivapce is
Nr. Tate. But. 60 speak correctly, it is
rather IN application of existing electric
powers than a new discovery. Simply,
the continuance is an arrangement for the
immediate stoppage of steam engine by
merely pressing button similar to those
by which electric bells or fire alarms are
sounded. This button may be placed at
any distance from the engine upon which
it is to act. and Mr.. Tate proposes that
number of such buttons should be dis
persed throughout the factory or elsewhere
where the apparatus is in use. In factories
accidents occur almost daily through the
impossibility of stopping machinery on the
instant. Such accidents will. it seems, be
readily avoided by this method of instan
taneously stopping the engine from any
part of the building which it works. The
of the continuance depends upon
the action of an electro-magnet upon the
stop valve of the engine.-St. James Ga
zetts
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
THE BRAKEMAN.

The brakeman is man who is employ
ed by a railroad company to stand upon
the top of a freight car and work both
hands at the engine II. and help stop the
train when it is necessary.
Next to being a bareback rider in a
circus, the small boy pants to be q brake
man, SO he can SIT on the wheel of brake
and chew tobacco while the train is rum
ming at full speed The fact that brake
man if often seen pegging broadcast over
the land on aEwooden leg or minus one arm
often causes people to believe that he is an
old soldier, or has served d term in a base
bali dub.
There are two kinds of brakemen-the
passenger and freight. The passenger
brakeman is "a gentleman of considerable
leisure and, by the nonchalsst way in
which he comes through d car and tramps
on the passengers feet, is often taken for
the conductar.
He does not have much else to do but
slam doors. growl ut tie porter aad when
the train arrives st a station, to veil
"Ponooyah, when he should say
"Ponfchatoulas
The freight brakeman is an entirely
different man He is grim, silent and
dignified. He seldom speaks except to
curse the green hand on the rear end of
the train. whom he affectionately refers to
as pudding Despite his faults, how
ever, he works hard. and very often rises.
TO position of importance, unless come
day he tries to use his body as coupling
pin and fails.
AT night. when o. freight train lis side
tracked at q meeting point, and all his
companions Is sQuatted on pile of cross
ties, the brakeman is in his glory. He
then discusses dd li6itun the affairs of the
road and criticises everyone. from the
president down to the most humble official.
He does not hesitate to say that if the
president can't run road any better than
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

he does he should go off somewhere and
drive canal-boat.
After he has said this and other things
concerning the asninity of the officials in
general he turns to one OF his Compare
ions and says:
.sJimmie, did you ever know that old
fellow, Bill McGinty. who hiss just been
appointed superintendent of the j., *. and
CT"
What, McGintyg OF course I've seen
him; and you bet he's fine old plum to be
superintendent
well, should think he was. / was
brakeman on the southern division of the
l. G. and N. when he got his first job-old
Matt johnson was pulling us-and McGin=
ty was so green he didn't know draw
head from switch frog. No matter how
slow cid Matt Johnson backed up, that
fellow coaldn't couple car and sometimes
for half an hour we were backing up and
going ahead, until you could hear Matt
johnson curse for two miles of. III be
blamed if don't think he tried to kill Nc
Ginty He used to come back and Jam
the draw heads under the cars but when
he pulled ahead again McGinty would step
out without scratch on him. A road. [
tell you. Is mighty hard up when they take
such thing AS McGinty.'
At the conclusion or SUCH speech the
whole crowd of brakemen will review the
history of McGinty, and finally, without a
dissenting voice, will arrive at the eonclu-
sion that he is a fine old plum" The
brakeman is to be admired for the remark
able manner in which he gets wind of va.
rions aud sundry plans which the manage
ment intend TO place in operation and wish
to keep quiet.
The brakeman will sit ON the end of
cross tie. swap opinions concerning the
wisdom of the president in connecting such |
a plan long before the lab de dab clerks in
the general Office obtains the merest ink
ling of it. II an appointment is TO be made |
he will tell you the name of the man and
the time the appointments is to go into eff
fect.-Ne,o Orleans Democrat.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
Womau,s Power.

The mothers solicitude, the wifes
patience and anxiety, the sisters love,
have proved in nine cases out of ten the
strong cord that pulled at the haart of the
wanderer, till son. or husband, or brother
could no longer bear the strai nand loosen
ed it by coming nearer home. Some WON
ans hand holds the key, unconsciously and
carelessly perhaps, but holds it to almost
every mans heart, and the closed doors
win be unbarred to her, and yield to her
touch, when no other power will stir them
on their rusty hinges. Let any woman
who finds herself thus inside beware how
she works? In clearing out the darkened
chambers so that Gods light can enter, let
her work with such sskillful touches of
prayer and tenderness as shalt de some
thing better than stir, like an unskillful
servant, all the dust. only to see it settle
thicker in another place. 1t is no light
work, this leading of human souls, and
any woman who undertakes it needs to
bring to it all there is of her. She will
need her knowledge of God, and perhaps
never discover how little she possesses till
she tries to open it for another soul to
measure her treasure. She will need her
knowledge of people, her discrimination
of character, her intuitive discernment of
mental conditions, and her sympathetic
perception of feeling All the brightest
and best that she can command is NOT too
good nor too fair to be used in che saving
of what is best and fairest in others.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

An English workingman, just past the
middle age, found that his pipe, which for
many years had been a great comfort 70
him, was beginning to seriously affect his
nerves. Before giving up, however, he
determined to find out if there was no way
by which he might continue to smoke
without feeling its effects to an injurious
extent He accordingly wrote to a medi-
cal journal and was recommended to I'LL
the bowl of the pipe one-third full of table
salt and press the tobacco hard down up
on it. as IL ordinary smoking. The result
was very satisfactory During the process
of smoking the salt solidifies, while re-
manning porous, and when the hardened
lump is removed at the end of a days
smoking it is found to have absorbed so
much of the oil of tobacco as to be deeply
colored. The salt should be renewed
daily.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
ACTRESSES sPof1ED BIZ MARRYING
Atlanta Constitution.

Pretty Marion Elmore, the actress who
set the boys wild last week, is under en-
gagement not to marry for five years.
Billy Hayden, her manager, says: When
/ agreed to star her five years and pay her
500 week and 90 per cent of the profits,
made her go into writing not to marry
during the engagement"
- g Why did you tie her up this way %
Because actresses lose their hearts more
madly and more ahsHrdly than any women.
in the world. And marrying nearly always
spoils them. I've had more actresses
ruined by husbands than all other ways
put together. Miss Elmore is clearing
SO, 600 year, and in FIVE years-she will !
then be twenty-four-she can then marry
and quit the stage. But she can't think
of love until her time is up. Many young
actresses are bound up in the same sort of.
contract and held to it strictly.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
A MIsCHIEvOUs GIRL AND A wAGGIsH
MAN
Adjourned.
From the Boston Journal.

| From the Boston journal.
Most men will lose their presence of
| mind under moments of excitement Thus
it is no great discredit to a well-known
man in suburban that he quite lost his
his head yesterday in consequence of an I'm
expected and alarming accident. He was
at the railway station in place of his resi-
dence upon the arrival of the noon train
from Boston and saw descend therefrom q
half score of chattering, laughing land at
tractive young women. Gathered on the
platform to welcome them was another
bevy of maidens, who were at once set
upon by the detachment above mentioned,
and the accustomed scene of oscillation
fervent embraces and expressions of plea
sure which is to be noticed whenever two
or three women are gathered together
was enacted. The scongregation of as
sorted males who were present looked up
on this animated scene with mingled
amusement and yearning. and the man in
question, who was young and waggish.
began burlesquing the action of the young
women by Selling upon masculine friend,
embracing him with ardor and affecting TO
kiss him withmuch loud labial smaeking
While thus engaged one of the Iiveliest
girls observed him. and, stepping up to
him. remarked that if he was as anxious
for kiss as he seemed to be, he had bet
ter let his friend alone and kiss her. The
hilarity of the party thus challenged i'm
vanished; his jaw fell and his |
knees smote together. and he feebly ejacu |
lated in stammering accidents: Thank |
you; but I'm married. The girl /
laughed mischieyously and vanished. and
five minutes later the subject of the sketch
was seen stamping around the depot call
ing himself all sorts of names because he
didn't dare meet the audacious Young
woman half way.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

bill as the turning point to perfect civil re
form. If the democrats could stand this
bill now. he was SIRE the republicans, with
their fellows in Office, could He admired
his democratic friends who could talks
medicine nsghe shape of civil service ii
form bill after having wandered for twen
ty-foxn yearsin the Desert of Sahara For
this reason and many others he favored
the bill
Mr.. Atherton, of Ohio-Yon have lost
my vote by that speech.
Mr.. Willis, of Kentucky, said the demo
cratic party had demonstrated that it was
in favor of the bill, and that it was sincere
in its support.
Mr. Kasson closed the debate with a
short speech in favor of the bill which.
however he did not consider so efficient as
the bill previously reported by the house
committee. The people had revoled
against the tyranical ievying of assess
ments on Office holders and against what
was called ''bossism" in congress. and
there was provision in the bill to put a
stop to it. He did not favor prohibiting
private parties from asking for money for
legitimate election purposes, for to do that
would be to degrade the manhood of every
government employee.
Mr.. Thompson, of Kentucky, moved to
recommit the bill with Instructions to the
committee to report it back with an amend
ment prohibiting the assessment of pub
lie employees by private persons. Lost
ayes, So; nays, ia.
The bill then passed-ayes, 1856; nays,
Al.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
How . Noted DuelIst Died.
4 Sunday Reyiew


The Comte de Delaril1iere. one of the
well born among the bretteurs, met one
day in the street business man named
Castera walking with his young aud pretty
wife. He advanced to him and said, with
polite bow: II beg your pardon, but l
have made bet with-my friend here,
whom / beg teintroduce to you, that l
would kiss your wife while she was walk
ing with you'-here the other man turned
livid- after having given you q slap in
the face" Castera fought him next day
with pistols. The counts first shot hit
Castera on the right ear the second on the
left. Before the third he said Cette fois
je ferai mouche, !" and with the third he
shot Castera through the eye. .Castera
was avenged in manner dramatic enough.
One night, as Iaraillere sat in his favorite
seat in cafe, while q masked ball was
going on hard by, stranger ia q domino
and mask came up to him, overturned his
glass of punch and ordered glass Of err.
geat instead. Larilliere, fes the arss time
in his life, turned pale and cried: You
scoundrel, you don't know whe 7 am"
"Oh yes the stranger replied, Il know
you quite web, and with the words forced
him down int the chair from which he
had risen. The orgeat was brought and
the stranger holding pistol to Larilliere's
head said: Unless you drink this sff i
shall blow out your brains on the spet;
and if youdo drink 1t OF twill do you the
homer of fighting you to morrow with
the SABRE cried Lari1liere, who had lately
been practicing with that arm. s.How
you like, said the stranger. Then as
Larilliere drank on the orgeas he added.
i have humbled you enough to night.
put OF killing you till to-morrow.p The
morrow came, the adversaries met, and
Lariliiere found that he had met his match.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
Married Editors.

The leading journalists of New York
have with one exception, been married
men, notwithstanding the pressing ma
ture of their engagements. which SO
continually distract married life. How
they found time for courtship is sur
prising. Greeley married a school-teach-
er, with whom he got acquainted at his
boarding house. She went South to
teach. and they correspondent, but how
any woman could decipher his hand
writing is wonder. Whitelaw Reid.
who succeeded Greeley, was the only
New York editor to marry rich, his
father-in-law, ID. @. Mills, being worth
half dozen millions Reid. however,
works as hard rs ever, and will not be
lured from so important a position by
the temptations of ease. The senior
Bennett bad the most repulsive face /
ever saw. The woman who could say
she loved him must have been strange
~ fascinated with concrete and hideous
ugiiness, but still he got a wife whom
he allowed $4,000 a year to travel with
and thus a large part of their matri-
Inonal life was spent. The present pro-
prietor of the Herald has been under
matrimonial engagement, but this was
broken off In manner which seems to
have frightened him off the track, and
it is highly probable that he will remain
a celibate. His wandering habits and
other peeuliarities have untitled him for
settled life. David Hale, formerly of
the journal Of Commerce. was a very
able editor, and was also a remarkable
illustration of Yankee character. He
was married twice, having lost his first
wife early in life. The second wife was
one of the most remarkable housekeep-
ers on record, and while he was In
successful career, she voluntarily OPEN
ed large and fashionable boarding
house, which was well known as Mrs
Hale's." This was kept up for many
years, and was a popular resort for
hrst-class families. Henry j. RAYMOND
left widow and family His son is
now a young man, who has not thus far !.
displayed any of his fathers genius
Manton Marble, of the World lost his
wife few years ago. and after suita-
BILE time married again and took his
bride TO Europe. Since their return
Marble has lived in retirement. Hugh
Hastings, of the Commercial, is not only
married, but has children in the same
happy condition. One would not think
this from his countenance, but probably
he started married life at an early year.
Bryant was a widower during the last
ten years of his life. N. p. Willis, who
founded the Home Journal and was
more successful in this effort than in
book-makiflg. was married twice and
left widow. IF any woman nlarries
an editor she shonld first consider
she has call to this import
ant sphere. They say il requires q PEI
euliars character to be a minister wife,
or the wife of q physician Heaven
knows that it also requires peculiar
to succeed as an editors
wife, but ann not going to describe this
character The only bachelor editor of
any note is William II. Hurlbut. of the
World. He is native of South Caro-
lima, and isnearly 60 He was for some
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

The stranger left him not a moments
breathing space; but never followed up
his attacks, until at last Larilliere cried in
solently, When are you going to kill
mes2 Now, said the stranger. for the
firsttime using his sabre like a dueling
swo q, and lunging through Larillieres
heart. Masses were said in the churches
of Bordeaux for the man. who had rid the
town of ifs acnllroe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

years leading writer on the Worfd ana
when Marble retired, he was the natural
successor. He has fine bachelor es-
Establishment uptown. and having tele-
graphic connection with his paper can
manage it without leaving his rooms. s.
He keeps secluded as much as possible,
and is rarely seen by the public eye
Nes0 York Correspondence ofthe Ctnci1a-
aaate Gazette.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
Georgian Anhorisms.

Here are some timely aphorisms.
Many valuable lesson is conveyed in
these few lines:
Black sheep h,.o mighty easy in de
dark.
Better keep de rockin' cheer in de cab
in lof' tell Sunday.
You can't coax de mornin' glory to
elm de wrong way round the corn
stalk.
Smart rabbit go home TO de, snow
done fallin'.
Dead limb on de tree show Itself when
de buds come out.
Cussin' de weather is mighty po'
fsrmin'.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

The sand industry on the north shore
of Long Island has grown to extraordi-
nary proportions within the last few
years. Five years ago but four firms
were engaged in the business, with
capital of $50, 900. At present the capt.
tai invested exceeds 81, 6OO,O A care
full estimate shows that 4, 800 tons of sand
are taken to New York and BROOKLYN
daily by boats. The sand is used for
building purposes and sells in New York
for 81 per cart load.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
List of Iessers Mol.
Remaining uncalIed for In the Postoffice ut Rock
Island. Rock Isiard County, Illinois,
FRIDAY MORNING. JAMS.

Island Rock Isiard County, Illinois,
FRIDAY MORNING. JAMS
Axelson ia Holmes A
Anderson Mrs Sophia HOldorph
AddleQuist Oscar Hayden Nettie
Bolds A W Mccullough Alice
Berg McGregor JAS
Brown CS McCaa Mary
Bounsdean Berlin Mcdonald Pat
Bunnell ELLEN Jockhead
Brown Ella Jones Miss Mary
Barxuetta JAS Jacobson Olof
Braun John kiotJoe
Buck Lucy Kruse John
Baltman Mr. Koch JAG
Berg Nina Lisstead ehristine
Banker <ory Lee
Baker VIM Muller Barbara
Butterfeld W Momahan Arthur
Carlson Andrew Moller Emma
Clary Mary Murr1n John
christensen Tilis Mohernn C
Cnrry Doris A Moore w r
Brseoll Bessie Nystrom
Davis Alice Nilsson Augusta
Disoteu Gerhard Neal s
Erickson August Olstrand Louis
Eroman Albert Preston
Eggleston Clara Peterson Harvey
Fnller Albion Plog Hanna
Fennen Patrick Phillips John
Flack Wm2 Patrin Tena
Grebbs Frank Roberts
Graham fireman Reid r b
Gray Sam X Stearn AN
Gray Mary Schmoet Carl
Grady Maggie Smith Eisiew
GoardooR Wm Sundehn Era esr-,.
Hansman Anton Schmact Herman
HARDY Miss Schaaze Helma
Hanson G Stocker hargaretta
Hsnsen Frank Scally Patrick
aeorath Geo Truax Abram
deiber Henry Timmons Minnir
Give the number of the list when calling for adj
Tertised letters.
}. NJ BEARDSLEY. p. N.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
THE MOLINE SAVINGS BANK
Chartered by the Legislature of Illinois
MOLINE ILLINOIS
open daily from A. NJ. to $ p. NJ. and on Tuesday
ana Saturday Evenings from Z to O'Clock
Interest allowed on Deposits at the rate Of 4
per Cent. per Annum.
Deposits received in amounts OF 81
Deposits received in amounts OF 81
and Upwards.
SECURITY AND ADvANTAGEs

SECURITY AND ADVANTAGES
The private property of theTrusteesIsresponsible
10 tine depositors. The officers prohibited from
borrowing any of it's moneys. Minors and married
women protected by Special1aw.
OFFICERS IS. ". WHEFLocK, President. JoHsz
GOOD. Vice President; 9. r. HKmENwAY Cashier
TRUsTEEs:-S w. Wheelock, Porter skinner g.
~ Lobdel, Nelson Chester. II W. Candee c. z.
Srantz, A s: Wright Q. E. Hemnway, John
GOOD. J, n. christy, G. H. Stoddard.
, ES The only chartered Savings Bank in Rock
lsiAno COUNTY aug2dwy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
WILKINSON, KENwoRTHY BEARDsLF J
LA ERS

Have formed co-partnership for the general prsc
tice of the law. Office in Fries Block No le2f
Second Avenue, Rock Island, III.
Idly
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

New York and Philadelphia have each
Houses for Aged Couples