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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-11
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
MI. e. SWEENEY.
E. w. HURST,

A ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR At LAW
IL Office Bnford's Block, Rock Island.
A
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-11

J The use of the term
''Short Line in connection
with the corporate name of
Il greri road, conveys an
idea of just what is requir-
cd by the travelling public
IL Short Line, Qnicg Time
and the Best OF accOmmo-
datiOns-ail of which are
1t railway in America,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-11

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law
II Office in Masonic Temple block, over Rock Il
land National Bank Rock Island. ILL.,
,t-..c,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-11
81. G. CONNOLLY.

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law
IL Rock Island lis. Office in Post Ollie Build-
ing, over Mitchell x Lynde's Bank, Rooms No S
and TO- nov afdw1V
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
No American Sailors.

A stranger in walking through the
groups of men that stand about, APP
parenlly idle, in front of the saloons,
the s!lipchandlery stores, and the ware
houses al"Ig south street might not no.
tice that they differed from laboring
men seen elsewhere, except possibly
that they are, rs rule, of a more e, m
Portable appearance. ut if one stops
to listen he will hear them talking. al
ways with a foreign accent, of ships.
news, and places in foreign land. They
are sailo or seafaring men, or men
who get their living by dealing with sea-
faring men.
In part of the street where the
crowds are thickest was a little red and
white sign Yesterday. which read
..Give the old man chance. Uncle
joe bayles. Shipping office" A mar
row stairway led to third-story front
room with a low ceiling and rail NC
that divided the room across the mid
die. Colored prints gave variety to the
walls. Men of var Gus col, rs and con
ditions and in all comfortable attitudes
served the same purpose for the rest of
the room. Behind desk within tie
ra ling was Uncle Joe and a partner.
When asked whether any difficulty was
found in obtaining sailors, they said
'.None whatever. We are overrun with
certain kinds of men, and can get a
good crew without any delay"
''How many of the crews placed by
yOu are American sailors, or what por-
portion of each crew is composed of
Yankee sailors?"
The two. men looked ut each other
and then at the guestioner fer a minute.
and then one sa Il: HE wants to know
if any Yankees are shipped out of this
port"
"Oh!" said the other. ..Ye-es. L'mme
sec. Was it two or three We shipped
this summer?'
What nationality do you ship then?"
.'Swedes and rermans mo tly. Now
tons under the sun; except own.
aptains who come in here tell US they
want Swedes or Germans. Some take
negroes, especially tor the West India
trade du ing the sick!y season. They
never call for Irishmen.
Can you give any reason for this?"
"ies. Swedes as class the best
sailors shipped. They have to serve
some sort of an APP rentieeship in their
own vessels when they hrst 90 to sea.
Then they will stand more abuse than
any other national ty. They are docile.
They are as hea thy men as can be found
anywhere. Negroes are good in SIN
mer, be 'ause they can lie down on deck
when the tar is running out of the seams
and DIR piping from rigging, and
81 ep soundly. In winter the cold kills
them. lrishmen are dreaded, be; ause
when disciplined W tn a marlinespiAe
they are pretty sure to kick up me
sort of a mutiny. The Dagos and the
West Ind negro are treacherous.
The Fngl sh are good sailors, but we do
not have many of tuem. They stick by
their line steamships"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
Don't Keep q Horse.

No" remarked Fogg, Il don,
keep horse. | have trouble enough
natu ally without adding to it by pur-
chase. Why. wien / t. ink of the suf-
ferings of the horse owner | feel Ike
singing for joy. Why. look you, while
| am en- iOy Nc my best nap in the morn.
ing. tie man who owns horse is per-
ambulating wet stable, laying in a
stock Of pneumonia and pungent per-
fumes, and iunning momentary danger
of being bitten or kicked by his noble
property. When meal time arrives,
feed myself; the man who owns horse
must enter to the beasts stomach first.
TIE horse must be nursed more
carefully than baby. He must have
his bed-clothing aired in the morning
and his bed made night. He must
be given so much to eat, and no more,
and at stated intervals. He must be
scraped and rubbed and WASHED. He
mus be blanketed an unblanAeted as
Il mercury goes up or down. He IS
care and burden from the lime lie is
born until he DROPS dead. and you have
to pay somebo " for carrying OF his
remains. And what good is he? When
the weather is warm the horse can't go
out. If You have anywhere to go
you must mount shanks mare. The
horse might have the blind staggers.
If it be very cold, it is proper for the
horse owner to freeze himself, but his
horse must be kept in the stable. The
man who owns horse, his wife and his
sons wife, and the neighbor that is
within his gates, male or female, must
wade through the knee-deep snow; but
the fprse might strain himself. No;
the horse must be excus d. Horses
were not made to wade through snow.
dri is. No. thank heaven | dom
keep horse. n--Boston r. anscripss.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

in Kanawha County, w. Va. forty
Baptist congregations worship in
schOol-houses or halls.
I'm Pennsylvania there is a large
falling off in the number of male teach
srs in the public schools.
Press.
Hon. Alden Speare has given to
Boston University $4,000 to endow a
chair of liberal arts, in memory of his
daughter.-Boston Post.
-Adolphus Bixby, ninety-four years
old, the oldest man in Marlboro, N. H.,
has earned and deposited in the bank
two hundred dollars by selling needles
since he was ninety years old.-Troy
Times.
If church building is any evidence
Of prosperity the Methodist Church
must be prospecting, for she is erecting
churches all over the country. Her
journals record in every issue dedica-
items, new organizations and other evil
dences of progress and UNCONVENTIONAL
sxtension.-N j. Herald.
The Children's Aid Society of New
York City has twenty-one day and thir-
V,ccc
and 4,63l,girls are taught by eighty
nine salaried and forty-eight volunteer
teachers. Of the pupils. 1872 are chill
dren of drunken parents, and 1,213
were engaged in street begging.-N Y
Sun.
Mr.. j. b. Peaslee, Superintendent
of the Cincinnati schools. says that one
of the greatest powers for evil is the
low and degrading writings our boys
and girls are reading. Even educators,
he fears, are not fully aroused to the
terrible influences this reading is exert
ing upon the lives and characters of the
young.
--Tolman Wheeler, CT Chicago, who
has given about $4,000 to religious
corporations. has set apart piece of
land on Washington Boulevard, near
California street, for theological SEM
mary. and to it he will add 100000
for the buildings and 100000 for the
endowment of the seminary.-Chicago
Herald
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
THE ALL-WOOL SHIRT,

My father bought an undershirt
Of bright and flaming red
" All wool. I'm ready to assert,
Fieece-dyed.' the merchant said.
Your size is thirty-eight, think;
A forty you should get.
Since aii-wool goods are bound to shrink
4 tribe when they're wet"
That shirt two weeks my father wore
Two washings, that was all
From fcriy down 90 thirty-four
It shrank like leaf at fall.
wore il then day or two.
But when twas washed again
Ny wife said "now twill only do
Fer little brother Ben."
A fortnight Ben squeezed into it
At last he said il hart:
We put it on our bal e-the fit
Was good as any shirt.
We ne'er will wash il more while yet
We see its fiickering light.
For il again that shirt is wet
Twill vanish from our sight.
Eugene Field.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25

tablishment. She went away again with
a check for five thousand dollars in her
pocket In exchange she had given 8
written promise never to return. As I
have suggested elsewhere. it was an
easy thing to impose upon McWilliams.
A month afterward she was lost in .
storm, while on her way to Europe.
=. -
Last winter, while standing as an idle
visitor in the correspondents gallery in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ngton. l heard a strong, steady. famil-
lar voice deliver speech on the tariff
question. The honorable member went
at his subject hammer and tongs, and
by his logged earnestness claimed the
close attention of the whole House.
Something in his gesture, in forgetfu
moment, spun me back to the oil re-
giOns. 1t was McWilliams!
As he finished his speech he saw me
and fastened up stairs to meet me. His
grip was stronger and even more per-
sistent than his speech.
'How's your luck, McWilliams?' ]
asked, when the first explosion of good.
will on both sides were over
He laughed.
.'Oh, hang the luck said he, 81
never think of it. All the luck there is
in life is that which you can pound out
with your fist. It's hard work and
plenty of it But come down to VIII
ards; my wife will be delighted to see
you -
"Your wife?"
"Yes; not the first one-she's i'm the
bottom of the sea, poor thing-but Miss
Child; she Kept the school at Oil City,
you know"
What, that little girl from New En-
glandp"
THE same
'1ou must have had luck with YOU
there, McWilliams'
mo; not exactly. She said it wasn't
luck; but that l kept at it so persist
emily, so perseveringly, she lad to marry
me. But cOme-come along"
And went.-W William W. HoUard. in
The Continent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25

At intervals. dating back over hall
a century, strange partie, have m de
searches in The bed of Wood Geek.
near Comstock anding. N. Y, for a
traditional cannon filled with gu meas
that was sunk at the time of Burgoyne's
fight with Colonel Longs American
oops over that ground. The last in
e!fe tual searcher was man name,'
Collin from New Jersey. who worke
about week and left a few days ago
saying he would Be back again in IN
spring. He claims to have located thf
placer by magne'. The creek a
that point is used as thecanal bed. anu
the land belongs to /. V. Baker. Sr. / he
tradition is silent as to whether the can
non was sunk by Burgoyne's or Longs
men-IrOy Tines.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25

Carlo eander Clark was the name
of a late lamented eighteen-year-old
Liack-and-tan OF Philadelph a. bis he
reaved mistress had his remains EN-
bal , ed, and they will repose in the
family vault in Woodland Cemetery.
The dear departed's demise was duly
recorded, with poetic attachment. in the
obituary columns of the Public Ledger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
-Fiobt hundred dollars in green

Fight hundred dollars in green
backs were found tucked away in the
corner of a sleigh owned by firm in
Portland. Me-, when it was brought out
for use after the late fall of snow. The
money is supposed to belong to tramp
who slept in the stable for while and
was sent to Jail for three months for
vagrancy.- Boston Tran ,rip..
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25
TO coRaEsPoNDENTs.

All communications for this paper should be accom-,
panied by the Of the author; not necessarily 70
publication. but rs evidence OF good faith on III
part of the writer Write only one side Of the pa
per B. particularly careful In giving nance AID dat
To have the letters and figures piain and dstInca
Proper names are often difficult to dccipher becaus
sf thr careless aispner In which they wrtias
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25

-England's new hangman has
card reading: "B. Binns, succe ssor 10
W. Marwood. Executioner, Denton
street. Dewsbury."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-01-25

water turn to fire and go blazing heav-
onward. When it became known that
the water well on the hillside was
be ching forth a torrent of oil. the fire
lost all attraction except to the hotel
prOprietors and persons financially in
ieres Ell. For full description of the
scene 1 cheerfully refer the re der to
the flowing English of the Pithole Rec
ord of February D, 1866.
McNilliams received this gift of fort
une with sullen thanktulness; much
in the same spirit as that in which an
"ngry, W llful child accepts favor that
i, has fought for. He look what was
given, but there was no concession in
word or thought. 1t was part of his
resolution to take things as they come
he had already lie rned to part with
them as they go; which was much the
harder.
need not detail the events follow
ing the discovery of the Pi,hole surface
wells. Having served their purpose
these wells fell away to nothing. They
were but the heralds Of that greater fall.
in which Pithole itself went down in O
material oblivion. Flower and fern
bloom md wave over its ruins now.
McWilliam, sold his lelse when
prices sat on the very summit of their
wild glory, and follow ng the line OF
development into otter fields bought
caut ously and wisely. He gained The
repu alton of being careful operator
IA man W o. having not ing to
chance. pounded aw Y. unit success,
through sheer WEAKNESS. gave up her
store of we lth. For une. tried to play
with him once or twice, but gave up in
d spar. Nothing could withs' and the
care ul attention to detail W tn which
he hammered away at his own chosen
ideas.
Mrs. McWilliams returned w tn the
intention OF setting up Drl.iant es-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-28
The Worlds Great Bells.

Russia is in the lead in the line of
bells, some of her manufacture being
the most famous of the world. 1t is
said that in Moscow alone before the
great fire, there were no fewer than
LOG large bells. One called the giant,
which was cast in the sixteenth GEN.
tury, and broken by falling from its
support, and recast in 1904, was so large
that it required twenty-four men to ring
it; its weight was estimated at 2SS, 200
pounds. 1t was suspended from an i'm
mense beam at the foot of be tower,
but it again fell during the fire of June
19, 1907, and was second time broken
to fragments, which were used with
different material in 1882 in casting the
King of Bells, still to be seen at Mos
cow. Some falling timber in the fire
Of 1897 broke piece from its side.
which has never been replaced. The
bell is estimated to weigh 49, 1852
pounds; it is 10 feet 3 inches high, and
measures round the margin 60 feet 9
inches. Its value in metal alone is esti-
mated to amount to upward of $780,
600. st. Ivan's also in Moscow. is 40
feet inches in circumference, l6I feet
thick, and weighs 127. $50 pounds. The
bells of China rank next to those of
Russia in size. In Pekin there are seven
bells, each of which, according to
Father lie Compt. weighs 10000
pounds. The weight Of the leading
great bells of the world may be seen in
the following:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-28
g A Miserable Man.

"Watch that trunk" said the driver
of stage-coach to a negro passenger,
"and if it falls off, tell me-"
"All right. sah."
The coach had gone quite little dis
tance, when the driver. looking back.
asked:
lis the trunk all right?"
"Doan' know, sab. 1t fell off,"
What"
FELL off bout three miles back yam
der"
"Why in thunder didn't you tell me?"
didn't low dat yer wuz in er hurry"
81 told you to tell ME if it fellr'
"Wall, amt dun tole yer? Yer
didn't say ter tell yer when it fell.
'Clar' ter goodness de common white
folks is er gettin' so cuis dat er 'tclligent
pusson kahn hardly un'erstan' 'em.
Oh, I'll get off ef yer say so." proceed
ing to climb down. "Hab er fine time
er liudin' dat trunk, er haw. haw. For
gets de time dat yer fused ter len mo
er quarter. Now yer's got dat trunk
ter pay fur, Law. haw. Say, genner-
man." addressing passenger, 'wush
ver'd han down my baggage. Dat
amt de one. De udder one is it. No
tain't. don't belebe. Fore de Lawd.
dat wuz my .runk whut fell off! Did
anybody eber see sich er caper? Err
homes man amt got no show. Dribe
on yer miserable trapshun, an let dis
miserable man d ic in de shade. "-.Ar
kdalSQU IrQreier.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-28

by anyo..,. But the Emperor must
have two pieces of it one for himself
and one for the Duke of Austria. Many
people came to see the wonder, and ii
remained in the church for three
hundred Years. In the turmoil of the
French Revolution, 1890, it was re-
moved to Colmar, for greater safety.
and afterward restored to its resting
place. A fragment of this interesting
relic has been secured and placed in
the British Museum, and one in the
Garden of Plants, Paris.
On the 9th OF November, 1927, Pierre
G2ssendi. a noted astronomer. witnessed
the fall of an aerolite surrounded by a
halo of rainbow colOrs. 1t was in the
southeast corner of France, and the
stone weighed fifty-nine pounds He,
with others, then supposed it TO have
come from a volcano. In 1875, Decem-
Der 13, afternoon, a man plo wing in a
field in the County of York, England,
heard loud explosion. followed by a
kissing noise. He looked and saw
stone falling, which went several feet
in the ground not far from where he
stood. Its weight was tifty-six pounds.
In Normandy, Northeastern France.
seen passing through the air with
about one o'clock in the after
noon of the Goth of April,
1903, a very brilliant fire-ball was
rapid motion. and soon violent explo-
sion was heard, the sound of which was
prolonged five or six minutes Then
fell an immense number of mineral
fragments, of which about three thou
sand were picked up, many of them
weighing several pounds, but none
more than seventeen. A stone weigh
ing nearly seven hundred pounds. and
about one thousand smaller ones, fell in
Hungary in 1866, and on April 20, 1876.
n mass of meteOric iron. nearly eight
pounds, fell at Rowton. England. The
fall of this meteorite was preceded by a
noise like thunder, tina. shook the air
for many miles. 1t occurred near four
o'clock in the afternoon, and was quite
hot when dug from depth of eighteen
inches an hour afterward. These are
only few of numerous meteoric phe-
nomena which have been observed ut
different times in many parts of the
world. w DdWSOn, IN Indianapolis
JOUrnQI.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-28
kcrguCicn's Land.

In former years the kerTnelen group
Of islands was noted Is 4 favOritc breed
ing- g-piace for the sea elephant. On this
account it has been much frequented by
scalerS for the last forty wears, and re-
sorted to by whalers as "A wintcring
place The elephants have been SO
reckles>ly killed. that they are now
quite rare. hut are still found in con-
siderable numbers on Hurd's Island.
Probably they would long ago have
entirely abandoned the Kerguelen
Island, but for the single Inaccessible
stretch of coast called bonfire Beach,"
where they still "haul up" in the
months Of October and November, and
breed in considerable numbers. This
beach is shut in by precipitous cliffs.
across which it is quite impossible to
transport oil in casks. nor can boats
land from the sea. or vessels lie at an
ch0r in the oiling, on account of the
heavy western winds which prevail a
great part Of the time. On capturing
n small female some scientists made
careful examination of it with
this result: 1t was eight feet and zen
inches long, and in girth eight feet and
four inches, being enormously fat. The
LAYER of fat, beneath the skin, was four
inches thick. and the body seemed al
most fOrmlesS, aud the fat quiyered
like jelly. Another specimen which
they killed, a bull elephant, measured
twenty-three feet in length. These fel-
lows, which alone are provided with a
proboscis, take charge of each, of a
large number of females, guarding them
from the approach of other bulls, and
prevent them from returning to the sea
before the young are old enough to do
SO with safety. During the breeding
the bulls are very pugnacious, fighting
fiercely with each other. and even at
tacking the sealers themselves. AL
though seemingly so unwieldly. they get
over the beaches with surprising speed
advancing both ilippers at time and
using them like crutchcs. The beaches
of the Royal Sound are fringed by in
Vulnerable wallows or cradie-shaped
pits, in which the animals lie during
the breeding season, recalling the buf-
falo wallows of our Western prairics.
Besides the sea elephant the sea leop-
ard often visits the island, as do several
species of seal. The leopard is hunted
for its oil, but is less valuable than the
elephant, being much more active
animal. and therefore less heavily loaded
with blubber. The king penguin is said
to be its favorite food. which speaks
well for the sea leopard's activity in
wafer. the penguin swimming rapidly
enough, of course. to catch the fish upon
which it feeds. The leopard is described
as pursuing and overtaking the penguin
under water. rising to the surface and
tossing it into the air. SO as to catch it
more securely, crosswise, in its jaws.
1t is also said that many species of
whale and porpoises abound in the
neighboring seas. In the early days Of
whaling in the Indian Ocean. the Deso-
lation Islands are said to have literally
swarmed with whales, for which the
numerous inlets and bays of the archi-
pclago furnished secure and sheltered
breeding places. Even now this region
is one of the best whale-tishing grounds
Of the Antarctic Seas-N. Y. Observer.