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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22
TING Et.ancn-Chinese War.

LONDON, Nov. CA dispatch from
Shanghai states that the French
consul in that city has made over
lures to the English and American pilots
now employed in the Chinese marine ser
vice ON the Yang Use Kiang to enter the
service of the French government The
pilots have demanded 40,000 taels each to
make the change Chinese officials com
plain bitterly against the action of the nou-
trail powers in the matter of the Franco
Chinese difficulty. The peace negotiations
have been suspended and hostilities are about
to be renewed. Admiral Courbet declines to
release Che Fcrus and has detained the
English officers found on board of her
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22
WARS AND RUMORS.
BUDGET OF ITEMS FROM ACROSS
THE SEA.
More H;oodshed Expected in China-The
Eaers Getting Ready to Fight John
HuII--News from the Nile---A
Terrible Story.

VIENNA, Nov GA tragic incident is re-
ported from eastern Hungary. A clergy
man, with his wife and child, was driving a
sledge from Krasnisora to the neighboring
village of Kislonka, when pack of ravenous
wolves pursued them. The mother, terror
stricken, let the child fall from her arms.
The father thereupon leaped from the
sledge to save the child. The father
and child We're at once fercely at
tackled by the wolves The distracted parent
fought desperately and killed two wolves,
but was at last overcome, and both he and
his child devoured Meanwhile the horses
had rushed onward with the sledge, still
bearing the agonized mother In her agony
of terrier she gave premature birth to child,
which died The terrible shock, with all she
had suffered proved too much for the poor
woman and when the sledge reached Kis-
lon;a she, too, was dead.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22

A TTORNEY At LAW, Solicitor in Chanccry and
II Notary Public, Abstracts. Loans and Co}lcc
tons. Office. Bufori's Block I'd avenue, oyer
Bakers Icwelrv store nov-2n-ilV
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22

rgmen of various sects held meet
day at New Haven, Conn, mrI
:, hold con,ross of American
-, in that city next May.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-22
WATKINS u HILL,
Dealers in
Dry and Green Wood

VIII also attend to Hauling Of all kind.
ohlce at yards, corner Of 25th street or A..
avenue. Telephone No 1871; orders y" ,n Mo'le
left at either place may he
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Mingling with Reporters,

"Hawkeye" Burdette relates that the
first time ne ever saw the late Bishop
Simpson was years ago when he Bur
dette) was amassing a large but not
unwieldy fortune as ubiquitous re-
porter for the Peoria Review, and
was assigned to chronicle the doings of
the Central Illinois Conference, over
which Bishop Simpson presided. He
and the other reporters went early,
seized big table belonging to the
conference secretaries, took possession
of their stationery, ETC., and waited for
the services to begin. "First thing
after the opening exercises" says Bur-
dette, "a good brother arose and called
attention to the presence of the re-
porters, within the bars; and suggest
ed that they be assigned place with
out the sacred precincts. We felt very
badly about it, as the suggestion was
warmly seconded, but while we were
wondering if we would carry tho big
table with us the bishop looked down
upon us kindly and said, in soothing
way: oh, well, brethren; never
mind. If the reporters can stand it, 4
guess the brethren can"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13

Is THE GREAT CONNECTING LINK
liz main line run. fr91 Chicago 70 ce s.'sa
Mees i:snS %s:t
Des Moines che capital Of 1oya). Stuart, Allan.
tic. and Avooa with branches from Bureau
5nnct'Sn e RsSs Mtso yn Rsts. e
GestreSisae n Fsneeton. T!enson, as:.,n Cs@s:
ron, J,eavenworth Atchison. and kaneee CITY;
Washington to sikourney, Oska!ooss, and Knox
s Ks9kSt on
vile. esFalooss. Peila, Monroe. and Dss Moines;
Newton to Monroe; Das Notnes 70 Ineienols and
Winterset; Atlantic to Lewis and Audu6on; ana
M 1sias ana !;
line from Chicago into the state of Kansas- :.
Through Express Passenger Trains With Pail.
nan PALACE Carr sttached: aLeran esGn Ny Saaly
BGras i1a ma Sesf
lie and Kansas City: via the "Ailwaskss and
The Great ROCK island" 10 nassniacently
equipped. Its road bed 10 sinDly DSr10ce. and It,
track is laid with steel rails.
What will please you YOU, most III! % Sae pieosIre
beautiful prairies Of Illinois and lows, IN one e
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains You get an entire
for sew enty Ave cents.
Approaching the fact that . majority OF the
people prefer separate apartments Tor dinGent
81 tGis line wsrrantins is. ve 40 pi3ssed 8 .:
Sleeping Cars for sleeping purposes. and Pssses
PULE.MAN RALACE GA1e sES r
COTECIL RLUFFs: ~ 9TH rs.
For informatlon net ohtalnaslo - y
a. KINIBALL,
0enl 6upsrintsndeoS
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
VContinued from last .ceek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

Imitation always follows successful
article, and imitation is one of the best
proofs of real honest merit; and thus it is
that the James Boss Gold Watch Case has
its imitators. Buyers can always tell the
genuine by the trademark of cro,vn, from
which is suspended a pair of ,.,r MANY
scales. Be sure BOTH crovn and K 4
scales are stamped in the cap of the watch
case. jewelers. are very cautious about en-
dorsing an article unless they not only kno,O
that it is good, but that the character of
the manufacturers is such that the quality
Of the goods will be kept fully up to standard.
W1LL1AMsPoRT, Pa, Feb 10, 1882
The James Boss Gold Watch Cases go like hot
cakes. Each one sell sells another. Don't need
to recommend them they sell the e One Of
in for 20 years. and it s good ever With this
case do not hesitate to give my own guarantee,
pecially with the new and improved cases, which
seem to be everlasting. JESSE 7. LITTLE, Jetoelsr.
New BRUNSWICK, NJ, Jan. g. 1883
This gold case, No 6666, known as the James Boss
Gold Watch Case came into my possession about 1855
has been In since that time, and is still In good
case when bought It, and its condition shows that
the cage has really outworn the movement, which II
playedout MARTIN A. HOWELL,
Of Board Of Directors N. j. r. Il. d Trans. Co.
stamp Keystone Watch Case Faetsre Phila
depha handsome illustrated Pamphlet chewing how
James Boss and Keystone Watch Cases nsds.
ITO be C0ntinued.]
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
How She Saved tho Interest.

A woman's vanity is at times her pro-
tector. A New York correspondent
tells an incident Of the panic in the
metropolis:
I am told how one lady saved her. in
terest on her deposit in the Second
National Bank at the time of the brief
run on it q month ago. She drew q
check and went with her brother to the
bank, he carrying the check. In the
crowd they became separated, and when
the brother reached the paying teller
the drawer of the check was some
distance away The paying-teller made
some inquiries of the presenter of the
check, probably to gain time, and among
other things asked him to describe the
lady whom he claimed had given him
the. check. He did SO, and the teller,
doubtless to gain more time, turned to
the clerk who keeps such records and
asked for the booked description of Mrs.
-. It happened that the lady at this
moment was very near the clerk and
heard him read the books record of her
gifts of person: @Fat brunette, about 40,
with gray bangs and wart on her nose"
In rage she rushed to her brother and
Indignantly drew him away, declaring
she would not deal with such nasty
bank officers" The check was not paid,
and her interest goes on uninterrupted
~, as the run amounted to nothing.
Eno's defalcation being made good, her
vanity saved her considerable interest.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Fumigatfon Pronounced Useless.
x1>~ n l..


The process of disinfection carried
on at the Lyons terminus is most I'M
pleasant, and medical authorities de-
scribe it as utterly futile. When q
train arrives all the passengers having
tickets from Marseilles and Toulon are
ushered into . large room and locked in.
A railway porter then pours into an
open vessel q mixture of sea salt, biox-
ide of manganese, water and sulphuric
acid. This mixture evolves q thick
acrid vapor, which is most painful to
the eyes, mouth, nostrils and throat,
and induces in most people severe fit
81 coughing, and turns all the silver in
their pockets black. For four minutes
the travellers are subjected to this fumi-
cation, which medical men assert has
no effect Whatever on the cholera
microbe or bacillus, after which they
are released. Their luggage is turned
out and fuInigated for fifteen minutes.
The Temps states on authority that
these measures are imperative and de-
cidedly unpleasant, and suggests the
Swiss system baths and, above all, q
change Of carriages when the infected
zone is passed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Deceived by a Mocking Bird.

lETUW TIC NOW 1Ork 6uusl
In second STORY window of dwell
ing in Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, around
the corner from the Fatbush Avenue
depot of the Long Island railroad, and
overlooking the watering place for the
horses on ex-Deacon Richardson's
Seventh and Fifth Avenue car lines,
hangs talented hooking bird in cage.
It pipes all day and keeps it up till late
at night. Regular passengers on the
horse-oar have learned to look for the
birds notes. It whistles like q master
for his dog, chirps like robin predict
ing rain, clucks like q hen with her
brood, and s4ueaks like hurt chicken.
OF late it has learned to initiate the
whistles which conductors on the
open horse-ca use.
To the grief of the hostler with the
water pals, the bird succeeds to perfec-
ton in deceiving the horses. The water
supply is kept in three pals on low
bench placed between the tracks. To
save time both of the horses are watered
simultaneously by two men who hold
the full pals Of water. to the horses
mouths. When the horses thirst is
satisfied the conductor sounds the
whistle twice, and the driver loosens
the brake. Then the horses start. Now,
while yet the horses noses are in the
waterpails the bird sounds two Whistles.
The horses, taken by surprise, and
expecting the whip if they delay, tip
the pals Of water over the hostlers
with their noses and plunge forward.
OF OOurse thew cannot 90 ahead fnr the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
Rocking tho Baby

Rocking tho Baby.
Ihear her rocking the baby
Her room Is next to mine
And fancy ! feel the dimpled arms
That round her neck entwine,
As she rocks and rocks the baby
In the room Just next to mine.
hear her rocking the baby
Each day when the twilight comes,
And know there's world Of blessing and
In the sDaby-bye'' she huns
can see the restless fingers
Playing with mammals nngB,"
The sweet, little, smiling, p0uting mouth
That to her in kissing cl1ngs,
AS she rocks and sings to the baby,
And dreams ~ she rocks and sings
I hear her rocking the baby
Slower and slower now,
And hear her leaving her good night kiss
From her rocking, rocking, rocking,
wonder would she start,
Could she know through the wall between uf
She is rocking on q hearth
= While the empty arms are aching
For form they may not press,
And my empty heart is breaking
In its desOlate Loneliness.
list to the rocking, rocking
In the room just next to mine,
And breathe prayer in silence
At mothers broken shrine,
For the woman who rocks the baby ,
In the room just next to mine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Digging Wells,

The Massachusetts Ploughman gives
hint about constructing we'll SO as to
have the water free from impurities:
After digging as low as desired, q
cement pipe, some two feet in diameter
and two or three feet long, is sunk at
the bottom and worked down as low as
possible by digging out the inside.
The pipe should be covered over with q
fiat stone, through the middle of which
q two-inch hole has been drilled;
directly over this hole stand in drain
pipe, then begin to ill up the hole, and
add drain pipe as the filing proceeds
till it comes near the surface, when q
pump can be attached. A we'll of this
kind is reliable and permanent, requir-
ing no repairs; the water is cool and
free from impurities that open wells
are subject to; no insects or animals can
find their way into it, and the cost is
not more than one-ha]f that of q well
that is stoned. If dug, as it should be,
when the springs are low, constant
supply of water that is as pure as the
underground spring is secured. As
the well is always full, there is no
chance for bad air to injure the water.
and, in fact, but little danger Of being
polluted by surrounding cesspools,
compared to that of open wells.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. R

BETWEEN THE EAST i TIE WEST!
xreat feature Of our Palace Cars Is = SMOKING
At ali hours Of the day:
MAGNIFICENT Iron Bridges span the Mississippi
and Missouri rivers 1t iii points crossed b this
.:d :sses a
TaIs aREAT THROUGH LINE ARB AS
a caiexse with al Aivsrsine lines for tho
a INsEIwcop. With tie l. a&A.s.' and r.
'1tW1s1i n TO-; H.1aHrs, with r., G. 4 st.
AZ la SALE, with NJ. Cent. k.R
PE r. VA With sn, i y; kis p: II D.
y" IL kecH s i. 11a 5 With ;9iIxsukee Rex
Island short Line" ana Rock 1sra Pee: KS:
a. DAxENrsRg: with the Davs'Port Oiv''aon
a. WEST LIBERTY, with theB. c. r, 4 MR..
q aR1NNSLl. with GestFHsi io E s. 81 R E'
1tGSS S1MA VII hhT Z. W. IL. r i Nee
1tCoLVHSus FUNCTION, With =. C. +. 4 n. RI
A. oTIghwA. Tite t GeAtta Ri iowa \. n w.
IL kIe1Gx. VIII TeI., Pee: Z MsE.; W 81 st.
Al CAMERON. WITH =: q !, 4
Ate a A1f Nes. Sd csa D. & hds e@1..
~ LE1yENwsKTK, With Kan. faa. sa1 Kaa'
oe Ask = crrr. With IN lia.s for the West
\ thresgA = PEORIA, DE1 l[0INED,
TCAls3N. and LEAyENWoKTH;.
= Aeae tieket sAes, address,
e. ST. JOHN,
asaa TIT. and PasssE Agt:, :,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
aallie on Cow.

Rows gives milk. A COWS bruther
is cald q OK. Mi bruther is cald 10. I
guess. If I wux kow you bet Ide
have good time kckin the milk-made
over the Tense. Mi pa saz he woodent
be kow becoz he coodent stand It 20
carry to horns so cloas to his mouth oil
the time newer git chance to swiiR
EN- dri. ! don't see what man wants to
drink horn fur when beefe is 90
mulch more tenderer an more film.
Ma sex pa takes to menny horns for
his oan good, but neuver, see him
goin to the butcher shop after en-.
Milk is nifty good. THAR is white
milk an blu milk an mi sundy skule
teecher ser thar is the milk ov human
kindness, but our milk man newer
sells nun ov that kind. I reckin il Is
IN mutch . quort fur common foxes to
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13

Go for somebody, quickl There's a
bug down my back!" cried young
girl to her lover in the park Wednes-
day evening. Hadn't I better 20 for
the bugi he suggested. Then she
tainted dead away, and when she had
unswooned the bug had finished its
evening stroll and gone home. list.
Paul Herald.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Household Hints.

To prevent mould on the top of
glasses of jelly lay lump of paraf6ne
on the top of the hot jelly, letting it
melt and spread over it. No brandy
paper and no other covering is neces-
sary. If preferred the parafine can be
melted and pored over after the jelly is
cold.
Before dipping new pen into ink,
thrust it into a fresh cut potato, and
the ink will never cling. When the
pen is thickly gummed with dried ink
q few thrusts will clean it perfectly.
When not in use, some accountants
leave their pens sticking into potato
kept on the desk for the purpose.
An easy and effectual plan to keep
tinware from rusting consists in rub
bling the new vessel inside and out
with fresh lard or butter; then placing
in the oven and keeping hot for several
hours. The heat must not be so great
that it will melt the solder; still it is
essential that the tin be kept very
warm.
A writer on the subject Of diet Ct the
farmer says that mutton and lamb of
his own raising should be SO common
on his table as to make unnecessary the
continued use of sailed meat, or of the
weekly or almost daily visit of the
butchers cart. Fresh fruit and vege.
tables, bread of wheat, rye or Indian
corn, sweet butter and fresh eggs, with
a nice bit of lamb or mutton, make up
a most appetizing bill of fare:
A most appetizing sauce for fish is
made of gill of sweet cream, one table,
spoonful of -four, half tablespoonful
of butter; flavor with little powdered
mace. Cook this by setting bowl con-
tanning it into pan of boiling water !;
let it stand in this until the -four is
cooked and the sauce about like GUS
tard or gravy. Pour it over the fish
just before serving, SO that it will go on
the table hot. If you wish to make it
still richer add the yolks of two eggs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
AN AFTERNOON,

Twas in the garden chatting
Amid the mingonette,
She with her snowy tatting,
with my cigarette.
Still can see her fingers
Fit softly in and out;
With rapture memory fingers
To view her lips a-p0ut.
A happy sunbeam glancing ..
Upon q hayward curl
Set every pulse to dancing,
And turned my brain a-whirl;
And when she looked up shyly
could not help, you see,
But stoop and kiss her slyly
Behind the apple tree.
Strange that some mote forever
Should mar the rays of bliss!
Though conscious had never
Yet won 80 sweet kiss.
Alas! the act of plumber
So gracefully she bore,
Icould not choose but wonder
Had she been kissed before?
samuel M,nturn Peck. in The Century.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Amber Cane for Fodder.

found the stalks of the amber cane
so much sweeter than those even of
sweet corn that cultivated it to a mod
crate extent for three seasons; but as in
the case of the Jersey agricultural for
age crop, spoken OF in the Rural on page
4O1, the stalks were so hard that my
cattle would only eat the tops, thong III
the seed was sown so thick that the
stalks were standing as close as possible
together in the row when growing, in
order to render them more tender. As
/ do not want to be at the trouble and
labor of cutting and crushing them, T
prefer to contine my cultivation to
sweet corn growing not over five to six
feet high. The stalks of all such sorts
are nearly as sweet as those of amber
cane, and they are SO tender that cattle,
horses and swine eat up the whole to
the end of the butts, cut close to the
ground. Corn of this sort can be
planted for soiling and fodder as late as
July Rural New Yorker.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13

TIE wealth Of the United States is
$50, O00, O0O, 600. or $500 to each inhsb-
liant; that Of Great Britain Is 4lO, OOO.-
O0O, 600, or 81 600 TO each inhabitant.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
Fruit in California.

The State Horticultural Society held
a session at San Francisco on Friday
and discussed fruit drying and can
ming. Several members are preserving
fruit for exhibition at the New Orleans
Exhibition. Fruit growing, drying and
canning are industries attracting gen
eral attention and interest in all parts
of the state which are best adapted to
fruit culture. The business bids to be
doubled within few years, and it will
soon be practically demonstrated
whether the business can be overdone
in California. So long as there is an
unlimited market, to be reached by
cheap carriage, there is no danger of q
surplus. The county of Yuba is one
of the most favored localities in the
Sacramento Valley, and orchards and
vineyards ought to multiply rapidly,
and interior canning keep pace with
them Marysville Appeal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
utilizing straw and stubble.

In California, the waste from the har-
vesting OF grain is allowed to reseed the
land, and q second, or volunteer" crop,
is often raised without any blowing or
additional seeding. The cold waters on
the Atlantic slope, in most of the states,
would render this sort seeding inoper-
alive, except in the case of wheat and rye
which are waterproof. It would,
doubtless, surprise many farmers to
know that, by blowing their wheat and
rye stubbles in the autumn, the land
would be reseeded to these grains from
the waste of the harvest. Straw can be
turned to such good account for fodder
in winter, that it should be in the best
form. There will be moro and better
grain by cutting it as soon as it begins
to turn white, and the straw will be in
q much more valuable condition. Far
mers should take pains to secure their
grain crop at this period of growth.
Straw is worth much more to feed
than simply to throw into the barnyard
to rot for manure. Fed with little
grain, it will keep stock in as good con-
dition as, if not better than, hay alone,
and the manure will be more valuable
than that from hay alone.
1t is evident, then, that by harvest
ing the straw when in the best possible
condition, large amount of stock may
be kept on the farm, and the farmer
can thus add to the value Of the ma
nure pile; or he may, if he choose,
utilize his improved straw for fodder
and sell portion of the hay, letting
the straw and some grain take it's
place. The day for burning straw, OF
letting it go to waste, for the man who
has any wisdom, IS gone by. This fact
is made more emphatic, because meats
of all kinds are so high, and the expert
ence of some farmers has shown chat by
good management, as have indicated
the straw may be turned to valuable
account in the rearing of animals and
in enriching the farm. This stubble
rom straw, cut when full of juices, is
worth more tor fertilizing the soil, to
pillow under, and it will pay to turn il
under as soon as can be done, while il
retains it's moisture and the juices
stored in it. Such stubble is quite an
important factor for the next crop
whereas an old and dried up one is com.
paratively worthless.-]Rural New
Yorker.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-08-13
The Water Question.

The water question is of the greatest
Importance both to Western stockmen
and farmers, and yet it is greatly neg
lected. There are thousands of loca-
lions where the supply is ample for ten
times the number of stock kept, if it
were only economical. I have seen
cattle driven miles to water along roads
a foot deep in dust, and where an ami
NAL was invisible twenty feet away.
After drinking at "a stream trampled with
mud, the herds were driven back again
through the dust, and were as badly off
at the end of the journey as when they
started; and a month before that every
gully was a raging watercourse. If these
gullies or streams were damned prop
erly large ponds could be made which
would hold thousands of acres of water,
preventing floods, avoiding the waste
OF the precious fluid and saving millions
of dollars every year. I know a case
in which the water of stream is backed
up into broad valley for 1900 feet in
width at the dam and for three miles
in length, and the dam cost less than
81, 900. Many similar dam could be.
made for 800 which would save stock
water for the whole of the driest sea-
sons Rural New Yorker.