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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
ADVICE TO MOTHER.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth? If so,
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. Its value is incalculable
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it mothers
there is no mistake about it. 1t cures
dysentery diarrhoea, regulates the stodl
ach and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces inflammation. and
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
tenn. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for Children Teething is pleasant to the
taste, and is the prescription OF one o'
the Oldest and best female physicians anC
nurses in the United States, and is fo.
sale by all druggists throughout TIT
world. Plice IS cents per bottle.
feb % m-W-s MI
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
The Convcnjences of Mexico City.
GChicago Herald

Newcomers in the City of Mexico are sur
prised on finding SO many OF the convenience
common TO large cities at home, such as the
telephone, tie electric light, police force
and an excellent street car service. The
electric lights are on the top of iron rods run
ming Up from the gas lamp posts. The police
are far more soldierly than the regular army
of the country They wear a blue flannel
suit, the coat buttoned'up, and their cap has
s'covering Of white which, with thestanding
linen collar, is alw avs immaculate. In their
belts Oh one side they carry club and on the
other large revolver. If one wishes to see q
policeman he has only to go to the nearest
corner, and he viii surely find him standing
there, for he has no beat to walk over The
speed at which street cars go is astonishing.
They dash along as fast as mules can pull
them and as they approach a corner the
driver gives a loud loot on horn for the
purpose of warning people on the crossing to
get out of the way
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
UNDISCOVERED AMERICA.
The Great Mass of Our People Un.
known to the English Tourist
Pail Mall Gazette,

Pail Mall Gazette
Even Americans themselves-that isto say,
town-abding and touring Americans-sel-
dom adequately realize the fact that the
great mass of th4ir low-citizens are the
most purely rural and even rustic people on
the face of the entire earth. 1t is in the end
less succession of white frame farm houses
standing in naked parts of scraggy ''yards, !"
and surrounded by treeless meadows with
bare snake-fences OF open cornfelds, that the
real American people Of to-day lives,
breathes and has its being. This wide and
unpicturesque America, with all Its strong
and weak points with its aesthetic unloveil-
ness, its intellectual narrowness Of view, its
firm and earnest moral purpose, its intense
physical and nervous vigor, its widely dit
fused general education, its unovoked YER
satility, its wonderful potentialities of fu-
ture Developments all but unknown, not
only to the English tourist, but even to the
great mass of the hospitable city Americans,
with whom he is likely 10 come n contact on
both sides of the Atlantic
For that well known cosmopolitan figure,
the travelling American, belongs, of course,
almost invariably to the city class. He is the
successful Spectator, the importer OF dry
goods the railway king, the Wall street gam
bier, the political wire puller, the Chicago
pork dealer, the San Francisco merchant,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
shoemakers' Conscience..

t4rie blIi III Chicago Herald.
Speaking Of lies and truths, have founl
cut taaa shoemakers must stick exclusively to
one OF the other Ny information Gomez
from a trustworthy nlsn who confines him
self. for business purposes, to the former.
lie IS a prosperous proprietor of Broadway
store. On the next block is an equally slsr-
cesstul dealer in foot gear who makes
specially Of comfortable shoes.
THAT man has got rich by telling thq
truth to his customers" said he, while
have had to stick to lying. In a money way,
we have come ont about even, but think OF
the advantage his conscience has over mine.
Here IS the whole thiug in a nutshell. den
and women general. want their feet to look
sfuaL \ sho AnlalleI dueeZes shoes on to
them & full size too i1'ia and assures them
tia; the tit is peri ct Their vanity makes
Them take his word for it, don't yoI s5eG
And that is thu way nine sales ont Of ten are
accomplished in my store Tnilk it over,
and you will see there IS no other plan for us
to do oar buzina@s on. Suppose we tell
customer frankly that q shoe that he tries on
is too small, and put In inat easily and com
foItably into one that fea. ) fits. He won't
like the looks of it, and Will go where he can
be lied 10. Same way with women, only
moe son
BAT how about the truth teller on the next
blockH
All! he long ago adopted the only scheme
by which a shoemaker can both get rich and
so to heaven, and there isn't room for many
20 practi ee it, lie set up boldly as an expert
"a kind Of shoemaker ana cEiropoiist com
biaei. Persons whom tigh. Shoes have Grip
plet hobbla TO his SHOP on their cornell and
buuioned feet aul he looks their cases over.
Then he says, afSet chipping AMI plaSt ring
the pain spots: I viii qua 'antee You perfect
comfort il you will wear the shoes that
make for YOU The customer agrees, and
soon fials himself shod IN an honest, vile.
b0ttC med, 81 able manner. His feet look as
if they had cnown sudienty by half, bat he
suhmits because an expert has prescribed for
hHa. That is the only way, sir, of prosper
Dusty telling the truth in this business. Half
dozen men have male it go in New York.
Eat ruom for it Is limited The great major
10y OF shpelalers must remain liars"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
How Ell Perkins Used Up the Light.
n5np

Mark Twain, Nasty and Eli Perkins, the
story goes, once got together to see which
could tell the biggest lie. Eli came last
and beat them all He broke in after this
fashion:
''Gentlamen it does me- good to hear such
truths. believe every word you say, and |
feel that ought to exchange truth with YOU.
Now, did you ever hear how | went to
prayer meeting at New London, Conn, in a
| ran-storm"
They said they had not
well, gentlemen" said Eli, zone day
started for the New London prayer meeting
! on horseback When l got about halfway
| there, there came up fearful storm. The
wind blew hurricane, the rain fell in tor
rents, the lightning CLEANED through the sky,
| and went and crouched down behind large
| barn. But pretty soon the lightning struck
| the barn, knocking it into 900 splinters and
sent my horse whirling over into a neighbor-
! ing corn-patch."
Did it kill you, Mr.. Perkins, asked Mr..
Twain, the tears rolling down his cheeks.
| No, it didn't XIII me, Eli said, but l was
a good deal discouraged"
| "Well, what did you do, Mr. Perkns?"
'sWhat did do3 Well, gentlemen, to tell
| the honest Connecticut truth | went right
| out into the pasture, took off my coat, bumped
I'D my bare back, and took eleven clips OF
| lightning on my bare backbone, drew the
electricity all out of the sky, and then got
| on to my horse and rode into New London in
| time to be az the evening prayer meeting"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

the educated New England gentleman. or the
wealthy descendant of Philadelphia Quase
Now, it is a curious fact that though the
American towns have their whole raison
detre for the most part as collectors of pro-
duce or distributors of imports to and from
the country districts, yet tho American towns
man generally knows and cares less about
the country than any other townsman in the
world-than even tine faneur of the boule-
wards, or the cooped-up workman of Belle,
vile or Montmartre.
1t is always fresh establishment to the
educated American to find that intelligent
Englishmen with whom he converses live
almost or quite entirely in the country. He
has no conception of anybody except farmer
ilving'by preference anywhere on earth except
in town. he seldom goes outside the town,
himself, taking his pleasure and exercise
rather in parks and gardens than IN fields
or meadows. 1.-THE country suggests to his
mind only picture, not of green hedges
and village churches embowered in trees, but
of long fenceleSs cornfelds, endless expanses
OF bare grass land and high roads running in
straight lines through more or less dreary
utilitarian real estate As an American
himself has somewhat well phrased it, in
the states there is great deal of
land, but very little country. So the
Americans whom the Englishman meets at
home or abroad are almost all townsmen who
have still to discover the vast mass of their
own fellow-citi2ens, or who know them only
at distance as a frugal race, dwelling in re-
mote frame houses, and driving buggies along
dubious roads, seen of urban eyes only at the
level crossings on the railways whore bell
rings periodically to warn the adventurous
driver of approaching trains.
When the Englishman goes to the states, it
is these same town bred Americas who offer
him a hearty and hospitable welcome; and 50
he comes back again after his three months
tour for the most part leaving the truest
America of all as UNDISCOVERED as it was be-
fore the days of Christopher Columbus.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12


Statisticians have pronounced the United
States to be not only potentially, but actu-
ally, richer than the United Kingdom.
Counting the houses, furniture, manufac-
lures, railways, shipping, Lullion, lands, cat
tie, crops, investments, and roads, it is esti-
mated that there is a grand total in the
United States of $40, no 000,01O Great
Britain is credited with something less than
$40, coo 013. 900, or neaely $4,000, 600 900 less
than the United States. The wealth per III
habitant III Great Britain is estimated at ST.
100, and in the United States at S995. With
regard to the remuneration Of labor, aSsum-
ing the product of labor to be 100, i'll Great
Britain Sc paris go to the laborer, q II
capital, and . to government In the United
States e parts go to labor, "A to capital, and
to government.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
DRAGON TIDD EXPLAINa
fBoston Post. !


He seemed innocent childhke, confding:
That youth who snapped horses with me:
But I've known of such mild manners hiding
Duphcity frightfpl to see.
And a horse trades horse trade. Each
party
Is always supposed to intend
To be crooked. therefore was hearty
In trying to keep up my end.
And he lied like the mischief, | knew it,
About his brown 5-year-old mare;
Why, l wondered, sir, how he could do it
With such frank, innocent air.
For my own part make no pretensioa
That all that told him was true;
What Is more, neglected TO mention
Some outs my horse had that | knew
But horse trades horse trade, rememhsrl
The day is supposed to be cold
As the coolest we get in December
For him who turns out to be sold.
Well, we traded, and, would you believe me,
I've found out by driving the mare
That the youth didn't try to deceive Ina
Bat told the thing honest and square.
had beat him like blazes! Howbeit
Ny conscience is clear, understand;
II | lied you have got to agree it
Is just what our customs demand.
But I've pondered deal for week on
Inc matter. Pm anxious to see
Just what particular sort of deacon
That Youth has discovered in ma
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
The Kentucky Coi0neIs Sisters Cat


'My sistah had cat once sab, and we all
called him Stonewall Jackson, because it was
SO hahd to kill him, sab. Well, sab. YOU may
believe me oh not sab, but diSarrange my
kidneys if didn't see Stonewall Jackson
PLAYING with dead leaves at IL O'Clock on a
wintahs night, sab, when it was cold enough
to give stone dowg they stomach ache, sab.
Yes, sab, and he all didn't have a sweetheart
within five miles, sab. 1t made they cold
chills run up and down my backbone, sab,
like monkeys climbing a rope Every once
| in a while that cussel condemned cat, sah,
would spring right often the earth with he
alls feet at the sam3 time, sab, like a
| bucking mule, sab Then he would turn
handsprings, and back summorsets, sab,
| chase he alls tail around big stump
! SO condemned fast that he all
would almost catch it, sab, and run up tree
so cussed fast, saa, that he all would look
| like black streak o. eat about ten feet long,
| sab, reaching from they ground to they place
whah he all lit, sab Oh, yes sal; Stonewall
| Jackson was no slouch OF a eat. They was so
much electricity in he ais fur, sab, that we
all could light they gas with him any time,
sab, BY rubbing he als back and turning on
! they gas, sah, and it was consolidated dangah-
! Gus to allow ne all to run loose in they cellah
whah they kept they measuahing machine,
sab"
''You mean the metre. suppose, colonel, >
suggested the reporter.
| Eyes, sab; It's Yankee trick to make
people burn gas when they all have gone
away fob they summah, sab. They gas
company charges you al ten dollahs fob they
lent of they meteor, sab, when you al
couldn't sell they whole business fob p cent
t. Junk shop sah.n
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

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as above-N B No risk is Incurred, as
thirty days trial is allowed.
dec - a WY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
Instead Of feeling tired and wo

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instead of aches and pains, wouldn't you
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tinue feeling miserable and good for moth
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
A yEXED CLERGYMAN.

Even the patience of Job would become
exhausted were he preacher and endeav-
oring to interest his audience while they
were keeping up an incessant coughing,
makingi it impossible for him to be heard
Yet, how very easy can all this be avoided
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
ROCHESTER, N. Y. March 80, 1888

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
The speaker Collapsed.
[San Francisco Bulletin. !

lhCetA uANiSSO AIAhAOlliAs
a philanthropic and Very modest gentle
man recently visited mission Sunday
school, and was prevailed upon to make an
address Children he began, and then
paused my dear boys and girls, /" he said
making a second start. Another awkward
stop, when he essayed for third time; "My
young friends" Just then lad in one o;
the classes, thinking he was waiting for
some greeting in return, cried out: "HelIo
yourselfl' The speaker collapsed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
Afraid or a Tree.
[Chicago Herald.]


One little girl who had lived in London all
her life and had never seen a tree was re-
Gently taken into the country, together with
many others, at tie expense of fresh air
fund.- She chung to one Of the teachers i'll
dreadful alarm on seeing a tree, and could
not understand what such an immense green
thing could be. why don't it keep still"
she said, in a paroxysm of terror, Us the wind
swayed its branches, and it was only after
some time that she could be induced " 80
near enough to touch it
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Pure Codliv Oil made from selected
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pure and sweet. Patients who have once
taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians
have decided it superior to any of the
other oils in market
Chapped Hands, Face, Pimplcs, and rough
Skin, cured by using Juniper Tar Soap,
made by Caswell, Hazard & Co. New
York
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Depression
Of Spirits and General Debility, in theii
various forms; also as a preventive "A
gainst Fever and Ague, and other Inter
mttent Fevers, the ''Ferro- Phosphorated
Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Ha
card & Co.. New York, and sold by AL
Druggists, is the best tonic; and for pa.
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sickness, it has no equal
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

The glory of man is his strength. If
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
very Sympathetic Children
Brooklyn Eagle.


The teacher of a country public school had
been absent for several days on account OF
the death of her husband When she re.
turned to her duties her pupils were so awed
by the remembrance Of her sorrow through
which she had passed that none of them ven
tured to address her. Finally meek looking
little blue-eyed girl mustered up courage
enough to remark; 1--WE are very sorry 70,
you Il know you are, my dears, !" said the
widow, tearfully Very, very sorry" CON
tinued the sympathetic child, @and-and We
hope it won't happen again"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
A QUICK RECOVERY

1t gives US great pleasure 10 state that
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the point of death from an attack Of
pneumonia, has entirely recovered by The
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lungs. Naturally he feels grateful for
the benefits derived from using this rene
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publicity to the statement We are aCtuatcd
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manner
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Disease, Propensity and Passion, bring
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

kemps Balsam for the throat and lungs.
1t is curing more cases of coughs, colds
asthma, bronchitis, Group, and all throat
and lung troubles, than any other med
icine. The proprietor has authorized o
Grotjan to refund your money if, after
taking three fourths of bottle, relief i,
not obtained Price 80 cents and 81
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Most violent explosions Of coughing are
stopped by Hsle's Honey of Horehound
and tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
The weak. worn, and dyspeptic should
take Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic. No
other. OF druggists
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
Bucklen's Aruica Salve.

The greatest medical wonder of the world
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

The Voltaic Belt Co, of Marshall,
Mich. offer to send DR.. Dyes Celebrated
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
Poverty is not crime until it is found O
Fatal Fanny Quarrel.

NEW York, Jan. 3-During quarrel "
tween William Smith. a laborer, and hi,
wife Rachel, at their residence PSI West Six.
teth street, Siaith stabbed his wife in tne
b.ae;:s. ii4licting, it is supposed, a fass:
wound.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
A Little Premature.


The New Jersey man who got his foot
caught in railroad frog and shaved off part
of his heel with his jaek-knife was sorle-
what put out to learn that the next train
did not pass for eight hours.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

If you suffer with Sick Headache, Con
stipation, Sour Stomach, or Bilious at
tacks. Emory's Little Cathartic Pills will
relieve you.-15 cents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Mr.. W. G. Firth, Galatia, Ill, says
Browns Iron Bitters entirely relieved my
wife Of weak stomach, headache and de-
| bility.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Trains -. = ), 9 anu 10 are Ma4G0keta brIncn'
I-..i.ts }HHI i, Accommodation for OXFORD JuuV
ion: aul = Passenger for telm@r. ,-
Elyiuy Dutehman' leaves Rock Island ~ a,
a, 'tr},yl- ii Y:u5 o. H.; arrives Dubuque lo:50 u
~ i.-,a.s. NJ - m arrives 1t St Pau 3: 80 p
m. leaves - It. N. arrives hlhht"Pols WV p
'''' b. il. ". HOLMES, Agent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12

Cleveland Herald: Tho whisper of beau
tiful woman can be heard further than tho
loudsst call TO duty.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
BURLINGTON ROUTE"
GOING EAST ARD WEST.

Elegant Day Coaches, ParIor Cars with Reclin
1g Chairs (seats free, Smoking Cars with Re.
volving Chairs, Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and
the famous &. H. & Q. Dining ars ran daily 10 aud
from Chicago 6 Kansas City. Chicago & Council
bluffs, Chicago & Des Moines. Chicago. Sc 10
seph, Atchis0n & Topeka. Only through line be
tween Chicago, Lincoln & Denver Through cars
between indianapolis & Council Bluffs via Peoria
All connections made in Union Depots l. Is
known as the great THROUGH CAR LINE.
Einoef Est,innars g aityaai in @t,,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-12
.,,,e,l.y. uUnl:yIT0A y QUINCY.
1.il.,ll,... aILNAuAEE & ". fAtl.

E,,K ISLAND TRAINS
..,,..s ol1Am ArriAt-..-. o'53 III
.... MO = ~ .'' ,V.t, a IN
.'. s Accom-. - - '-''- w.
n.,-.-...lL,r F.ALNs.