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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL.

The Voltqc Belt Co. Marshall, Mich,
will send DIR. Dyes Celebrated Electro-Vol-
taic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial
for thirty days to men young or old) who
are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vi
tality, and kindred troubles guaranteeing
speedy and complete restoration of health
and manly vigor. Address as above
n. b. No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed dec 22-d-w 1 yr.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
Thursaas January Il. 1883.

Gloomy predictions over democractic
successes have not come to time. The
country has not gone to destruction, val
ues have not become unsettled, business has
not been demoralized, and even the SEN
sitive stock market does not show any
sudden change.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
Executors Notice.

Estate of Andrew Whitbeck, Deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed execu-
tor of the last VIII an Testament of Andrew Whit
beck late of the County of Rock Island State of Hi
nois, deceased, hereby gives notice that he Vii =
pear before the County Court of Rock Islam Cornty
at the office of the clerk CT said Court, the Citv
of Rock Island, at the February Term. on the third
Monday in February next, which time all persons
having claims against said Estate notified and
requested to attend for the purpose of having the
same adjusted. All persons indebted to said Els
tate are requested 10 make immediate payment to
the undersigned.
Dated this 9th day of January, a. d. 1888.
THOS. 5. SILNlS, Executor.
jan-6-dtd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
interest allowed On Deposits At TIE rate o.
per Cent. per Annzm.
Deposits received in amounts OF 81
and Upwards.
SECURITY AND ADVANTAGES

SECURITY AND ADVANTAGES
The private property of the Trustees 1sresponsibe
to the depositors The officers are prohibited from
borrowing any OF its moneys. Minors and married
women protected by specialIaw
OFFIcERs:-S. ". WHEELoCK, President: JoEN
GooD, Vice President; Q. T. HEMKNwAY Cashier
TRUsTEEs:-S w. Wheelock. Porter Skinner C.
W. Lobdell, Nelson Chester. 81 W Candee- G. T.
Srantz, a S; Wright, G. f. Hemnway John
t1oo1. y M Christy 4. H. StOddard
~ The only Chartered savings Rank in Rock
lEand County ant[od,tyy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
TEN CENT COLUMN.
LOST.

A Gold Watch Locket on Sunday about noon, in
the east end of town. Finder will please return to
this office. jan-S-d1w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-11
HOUSE.

Mr.. Mills, of Texas, offered resolution
calling on the attorney general as to the
persons employed as attorneys and others
in the prosecution of the star route case,
the term of the contract with each. and
the probable amount, entire cost of tn
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Earths March through the Heavens.

1t is difficult to comprehend that in addl-
ton TO the earth's motion around the sun, the
latter is also moving through space at the
rate of 100, 100000 miles year. The astron.
omers of the last century dscov, red that our
solar system was flying through space in the
direction of the constellation Hercules in
other words, if the spectator were TO take q
stationary point in the heavens, he would
see our sun with its attending planets
passing through space at the rate of 100000
miles per day. Six thousand years ago, it is
computed, our solar system was million
millions of miles farther from the stars of
Hercules than it is to-day. The region in
which we are entering is more thickly stud
ded with stars, that is, with suns of other
solar systems, than the heavenly regions we
have left behind us. What a marvellous uni.
verse we live in When we travel on rail
way car at the rate of fifty miles an hour, il
makes our head swim; but when we call tC
mind that the earth revolves on its axis once
in twenty-four hours and around the sun
90 900, 900 miles distant, in 365 days, and thai
sun is flying through space 100000 900 miles
in year, human consciousness cannot com
prchend the mad whirl of worlds by whiCl
we are surrounded. What fairy tale o.
Arabian Nights story is half so marvellous NJ
the simplest and most ordinary facts in rs
tronomy?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Life in the Polar Regions.

1t is impossible to form an idea of tenn
est in the polar seas. The icebergs are like
floating rocks whirlcd along rapid current
The huge crystal mountains dash against
each other, backward and forward, bursting
with roar like thunder, and returning to
the charge until losing their equilibrium they
tumble over in II cloud of spray, unhcaving
the icefelds, which fall afterwards like the
crack of whplash on the boiling sea. The
sea gulls fly away screaming, and often
black shining whale comes for an instant puff
fing to the surface. When the midnight sun
grazcs the horizon, the floating mountains
and the rocks seem immersed in Il wave of
beautiful purple light The cold is by no
means so insnpportable MS is supposed. We
above zero to AZ degrees below zero in the
open air without inconvenience. A much
higher degree of cold becomes, however, in
sutIcrable if there is wind. At 10 degrees be-
low zero q steam, as if from boiling kettle,
rises from the water. AT once frozen by the
wind it falls in u fine powder. This pheno-
menon is called ice smoke. AT 40degrees the
snow and human bodies also smoke, which
smoke changes into millions oftiny particles,
like needles of ice, which fill the air and
make light, continuous noise, like the rus
tie of stiff silk At this temperature the
trunks of trees burst with n loud report, the
rocks break up and the earth opens and
yomts smoking water Knives break in cut
ting butter. Cigars go out by contact with
the ice on the beard. To talk is iatiguing.-
AT night the cyclds are covered with crust OF
ice, which must be carefully removed before
one can open them.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

DR.. Hall is authority for the following
thoughts upon breakfast before much exer-
else in the open air, particularly in the dis
tricts where fever and ague are abundant
Breakfast should be eaten in the morning be-
fore leaving the house for exercise or labor
of any description; those who do ii will be
able to perform more work with greater alac-
rity than those who work an hour or two
before breakfast Besides this, the average
duration of life of those who work will be n
number of years greater than those who do
otherwise Most persons begin to feel weak
after having been engaged five or six weeks in
their ordinary avocations.
A good meal reinvigorates; but from the
last meal of the day until the next morn
ing there is an interval of some twelve
hours; hence the body in u sense is weak,
and in proportion cannot resist deleterious
agencies whether of the fierce cold of mid
winter or of the poisonous masm which rests
upon the surface of the earth wherever the
sun shines on II blade of vegetation or a heap
of otlal. This miasm is more solid, more con-
Centrated, and hence more malignant about
sunrise and sunset than any other hour of the
twenty-four because the cold of the night
condenses it, and lis on the first few inches
above the soil in its most solid form; but as
the sun rises it warns and expands and as
cends to point high enough to be breathed,
and being taken into the lungs and swallow
ed with the saliva into the stomach, all weak
and empty as it is, it is greedily drank in,
thrown Immediately into the circulation of
the blood and carried to every part of the
body, dcposting its poisonous influence ut
the very fountain head oflife. II early break
fast were taken in regions where chills and
fe yer and ague prevail, and if, in addition, a
brisk fire were kindled in the family room for
an hour, including sunrise and sunset, these
troublesome maladies would diminish in any
one year not ten fold, but thousand fold, be
cause the heat of the fire would rarity the
miasmatic air instantly and send it above the
breathing point. BUTT is troublesome to be
building fires night and morning all sum
mer; it being no trouble" requiring no effort
to shiver and shake by the hour, weeks, and
months together
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Footprints of Past Ages.

Heavy stone blocks lately taken from the
Portland free stone quarry about eighty feet
below its top, bear some remarkable fossil
footprints of birds and beasts A lower stra.
tum has the depression caused by the steps
of the antediluvian animals which roamed
this region when the sea reached to the place.
and the next lying stratum above took a cast
of the marks in projection. One of these
tracks measures fifteen inches by eleven, and
was probably made by some animal of the
eephantine species, although the footprint
is larger than that which would be made by
an elephant of the present age. There are
three of these tracks in slab a yard wide
and two yards long. Another slab has the
impress of some three-toed bird, supposedly
II member of the ostrich family. The stride
is about foot and half. Another slab ten
feet long, has the impress in relief of part of
tree trunk. The tree from its shaggy bark,
is thought to have been n hickory.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Democratic VS.. Republican Rule i'm
MARYLAND.

No State in the union has been better gov
erncd for the past sixteen years. No State
has better financial standing, and her tax
rate is lower than that of most all of the
other States Peace and prosperity reigns;
her laws are equitable and sternly, but gent
ly enforced the ballots are free; the judi
ciary non.partisan and juries are non-partisan;
her educational facilities are good and grow
ing. This is bright picture compared to
our condition under Republican rule. Then
debts were being piled up I; courts were par
tisan juries were partisan, the balot-boX
polluted and soldiers stood at the polls to
keep Democrats away Democrats had no
security nor protection and were bounded
around and arrested without warrant or
cause. All this has been changed by Demo
cratic rule and the Democratic party should
put forth its greatest endeavor to retain its
ascendancy. We must Judge the future by
the past. The Republican bosses and man
ayers are the same to day that controlled and
directed affairs prior to 1867 Westminster
1GEOrdte
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
How to Vote This Fall.

No more important election was ever or
will ever be held in Maryland, than that TO
be held this fall. 1t is peculiarly important
from the fact that next year President of
the United States is to be chosen for four
years from March 4th, 1885. Every voter in
Maryland who wishes to continue the FEEDER
al Government in the control of Ratlicalism,
and perpetuate the administration of the
past twenty odd years, will vote Republican
or Independent tickets in November all per-
sons in this State who favor the rape of the
Presidency in 1876 will do likewise; all per
sons who believe that corporations are the
Government all persons who feel that they
are cats paws of capital and bosses; all per-
sons who believe that laborer is not worthy
of his hire; all farmers who believe that they
are not interested in having a popular and
free government, and all mechanics who be-
lieve that their inventive genius belongs to
their employers, will go to the polls and vote
against the Democratic nominees, in order to
establish for ever and Il day Republican CON
troll of public affairs in this county by des-
troying the chances of success of the Nation
al Democratic party in 1884. AS you make
your bed so shall you lay We ask our far
mers who believe in rotating their crops, to
vote as they SOW. Our opinions is that anoth-
er four years of Republican control of the
Federal Government will so firmly establish
corporations in the power of government,
that thereafter it will be next to impossible to
break their hold upon the rights and liberties
of The people. This is no child's play; it is
serious and dangerous, and no one except a
fool or knave will hesitate to vote to put an
honest Democratic President in the White
House in 1884, and the way to accomplish
that is to vote to multiply the Democratic
victories of 1882, in the fall of 1888
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

FATHER HUBBARD.-The other dav
when old Major Solman announced his read
mess to proceed in the direction of the
church, his wife appeared wearing Mother
Hubbard dress. The old man regarded her
for few moments, and asked:
MARY, what sort of coat do YOU call
that?"
Its a Mother Hubbard Jeems."
Air you goin' to wear it to church ?"
"Why, certainly, Jeems The Mother
Hubbard is all the fashion now"
"Well, Pm glad to know it," the old man
replied Just wait until get ready and
Wen 60"
The old man went out into the kitchen,
took n couple of meal sacks, cut the bottoms
out, seWed the tops together and put them
on in imitation of pantaloons When he re-
turned, his wife uttered q loud cry of aston
ishment, and exclaimed:
Great goodness, Jeems, what's that ?''
"Father Hubbard" the old man replied.
"4Ou're not goin' to wear them sacks are
you?"
"Ive got to be fashionable to keep up with
you. I've got as much right to wear these
meal bags as you have to go in that bran
sack"
"Ill take it off"
"All right; off goes the Father Hubbard"
and turning away, he added to himself:
"Ony one way to beat woman, and that is
by agreein' with her. Eff it hadn't been for
the Daddy Hubbard I'd Il been in mighty
bad fix"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

NEVER SATISFIED Thaddeus Stevens
had been conducting an important suit for
wealthy old Pennsylvania farmer. During
isprogress he was the latter's guest While
rolling over the farm, Mr.. Stevens observed
that the farmers corn crop, which was just
ripenng, was remarkable beyond anything
he had ever seen.
"My friend" said Mr. Stevens to the far
mer, "this is truly magnificent! There is
nothing left to be desired in your corn yield
this year"
WELL" responded the farmer, guarded
", "it is purity fair; purity fair. But" and
this with with noticeable tinge of sadness,
"thar might be few more cunnels--just a
few more cunnels-at the end oft cob"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

A Docs SAGAcITy. "A flock of sheep block
ed up the entrance to bridge spanning Mill
Greek, near Chester Park, Ohio. A large
shepherd dog had been trying to induce the
sheep TO cross the bridge, but they were sus-
picious and held back. Presently the dog,
discouraged at hisunsuccessfu effort to drive
them leapcd into the backs of the sheep,
which in their crowded condition, looked
like one wooly floor, ran along to the bridge
entrance, leaped upon the floor, and Selling
in his mouth the neck of one of the ewes,
dragged her along on to the bridge. Once
ON the floor of the bridge, the old ewes sus.
plcions were allayed, and she trotted across
followed by the whole flock, while the dog
stepped to one side, let them all pass, and
then trotted along behind. e.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

DEEP WELLs.-The following places con-
tain the deepest artesian wells in the world
st. Louis, Mo-, 1881 feet j.; Rochefort, France,
1876 feet; Columbus, o., 2,575 feet Louis
vile Ky, 2,0SG feet; Grenelle, France, 1,77S
feet Charleston, s. G., 1850 feet Artesian
wells are in use in the Lybian Desert, where
rain never falls, and where consequently
springs and streams are not found
In such a region their value cannot be es-
timatcd. They are also of great service in
some parts of London, where, bored to the
depth of400 to 500 feet, they bring up from the
chalk beds below an abundance of pure
water
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Terms-si.5o a Year, In Advance.
pnctiCal.


when the Frost IL On the PunIkin.
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder.
in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobler of the strut
tin turkey cock.
And the cacklin' of the guineyS and the cluckin
of the hens,
And the ROSTERS hallylooyer he tiptoes on the
fence,
o it's then the times Teller is feelin at his
best,
With the risn' sun to greet him from a night of
gracious rest,
As he leaves the house bareheaded and goes out
to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the folders
i'll the shock.
They's somepn kind O. hearty like about the
atmosphere
When the heat of summers over and the GOBLIN
fall is here
OF course we miss the flowers and the blossoms
on the trees,
And the humble of the hummin' birds and buzz
lin of the bees
But the airs so appetzin, and the landscape
through the haze
OF crisp and sunny morning of the early
Is picture that no painter has the celorin' to
mock
When the frost is on the punkin and the folders
in the shock.
The husky. rusty rustic of the tossels of the corn
Aud the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden
as the morn;
The slubble in the furries, kind o. lonesome like
but still
A preachn sermons to us of the barns they
grGwed to fill;
The strawstack in the meddcr and the reaper in
the shed;
The horses in their stalls below, the clover over
head
o it sets my heart cckn' like the tIckin of
clock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the folders
in the shock! Indianapolis J0u'nm.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
10 WOMAN'S SECRET.

10 WOMAN'S SECRET.
She is over-worked, poor thingg
Proud, honorable, faithful, womanly,
she determined to keep expenses
down, and do the work herself. Right
nobly has she done it, but at terrible
cost. The sparkle that was in her
eye when she was a bride is gone.
Her once plump and rosy cheeks
are now hollow and colorless. She
used to step lightly and gracefully,
but now she drags one foot after the
other with painful WEAKNESS.
For the sake of the family she
does not mention her aching back,
her acutely-painful nerves, her rheu
matte twinges, herdyspeptic troubles,
or the heavy weight she feels in her
right side, that tells her her liver is
going wrong. She thinks nobody
knows about all that, and she will
suffer on in quiet and unrepining pa
tiencc. Alas! her secret is an open
one, for it tells its own tale.
Whisper this in her ear, she ought
to know it: Madam, Broaw's frm
BikeyY heaIyoW bach, calm yoHr
nerses, k7Iyowrhenmatismdy10eOW
your DYSPEPSIA, andcoyvect1owh0er
Dollar bottle. SNearest druggist.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

How TO GET SIcK.-Exposc yourself day
and night, cat too much without exercise,
work to hard without rest, doctor all the
time, take all the vile nosrums advertised,
and then you will want to know
How to get well.-Which is answered in
three words-Take Hop Bitters
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
Miss MILDLY Morgan, the livestock

Miss MILDLY Morgan, the live stock re-
pprier of the New York Times, happened TO
be left IN charge of II cottage inn New Jersey
village, whrr" she WAS visiting, n few days
ago. 10 her appeared two villainous looking
lramps. well, have yon anything for us
old womna?' asked one of the fellows ooh
yes" was lh" answer; lust wait and III
bring it down" Miss Morgan went quickly
M stairs and in half minute returned will
II seven shooter firmly grasped in her righ
hand "This is what | have for YOU" sale
She. "How do you like it?" The tramp'
did not wait to answer the question, but go
| out AS fast as their legs could carry them.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21

| old Beeswax: No sir; never contradict
| n lady. It's waste of effort Just give her
time and she'll do it herself
"A noted physician says that nearly all
women have smaller chests and trunks then
they ought. Baggage men don't think so.
1t is said that the philosophers of the
Concord School have not yet determined how
woman should act when her hands are in
the dough and an aggressive fly alights on
her nose
-Longfellow said: ain this world a man
must be either anvil or hammer" Longfellow
was wrong, however. Lots ofmen are neither
the active hammer nor the sturdy anvil
They are nothing but bellows
-"How is it John" said Scotch clergy
man to his church officer" that you never
60 a message for me anywhere in the parish
but you contrive to take too much spirits
People don't offer me spirits when I'm max
ing visits in the parish" "Weel sir" said
John, II Gamma precisely explain it, unless on
inc supposItlon that I'm wee mair popular
wi some O the folks"
-"Thcre Is nourishment in truth, as well
rs in wheat" said Thoreau, and Aristo-
tie wrote what Matthew Arnold calls the I'M
mortal sentence All men naturally desire
hhoWieuPc. Leu us therefore, rejoice in
every instance of mental awakening; let the
light spread; let science and art be populariz-
ed; let literature be made easy and attractive :;
let the best IDEAS be brought within reach of
the unschooled masses let all forms of "thc
True, the Beautiful and the Good" become
the property ofall souls. Society, as whole,
VIII be brighter and cleaner, when the lower
appetites and coarser passions are held in
check by the love of wisdom.
In joiner's shop rather green trades
man got door to make AS a natural con-
sequence he mahe a fearful and wonderful
job of il. So bad was it, in fact, that he
covered it over with wood and shavngs, and
commenced to make another, which he had
just finished when the master came in. On
coming up to the bench where the second
door was lying, he stood aghast, and exclaim-
ed
We'll, have seen many door, but any,
thing like this never saw. | would cheer
fully give half sovereign to the man that
could show me n worse door than that
Would your said the man, pulling to light
the first door, "then come on with your
money, for here tits"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
StVII EIkl
EXHlBITORS, ATTENTION..

The Entry Books of the Agricultural Society
will be opened at the office of the Secretary, in
Bel Air, Md, TIL thursday, September 20th and
will continue open until TIL TUESDAY, October
4th, ut which time the entry books will be closed.
In Trials of Speed entries for all classes must
be made before i2 M. October list.
Exhibitors will take notice and make their en-
tries within the time specified
The grounds will be open for the reception of
Animals and Articles
ON MONDAY, OCTOBER Sth, 1883,
and no Animal or Article will be received for ex-
hibition after 10 o'clock A. M, Tuesday, October
9th. BY order of the Board
sep14 GEO. j. FINNEY, Secretary.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-09-21
rI,mE CECIL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL

THE CECIL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL
l. SOCIETY will have their FOURTH FAIR,
mt Elkon, Md, TUESDAY, WEDN ESDAY,
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, October I'd, I'D, 4th
and 9Th, 1888. COMPETITION OPEN TO ALI
The premium List is full and liberal. There
will be a large collection of choice breeds of
Horses and Cattle, of Sheep and Swine. There is
full accommodation for them and for their dis
play.
The exhibitions of products of Farm, Garden,
Orchard, &C., promise to be numerous and supe-
rior.
Those of Poultry, Pigeons, &C., unsurpassed.
The Household, the Ladies' Fancy, and the
Floral Departments of the greatest variety,
will be superior.
Several TRIALS OF SPEED of interest on each
day, over their track, which is one of the best
half-miles in the country. On the last day a
Mixed Race of TROTTERS AND PAGERS. All
under Rules of the National Trotting Association.
Farm Machinery and Manufactures of all
kinds will be there in great variety.
A band of WILD INDIANS will be in camp
and exhibit their War Dances and other customs.
CHEAP EXCURSION RATES from Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Smyrna, oxford, Peach Bottom,
and from most intermediate way stations.
No charge for Freight on return of Exhibits
frem the Fair.
Entry Books for Exhibits open on the 2ith OF
September.
Entries for Trials of Speed close September Eth
at II p. NJ.
tB- For Premium Lists, send to
JOHN PARTRI DIG II, Secretary.