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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
Reserve Power a Necessity.

1t is not wise to work constantly up
to the highest rate of which we are cap
able. If the engineer of the railroad
were 10 keep the speed of his train up to
the highest rate he could attain with his
engine, it would soon be used up. If a
horse is driven at the top Of his speed for
any length of time, he is ruined. 1t is
well to try the power, occasionally, of a
horse or engine, by putting on all the
motion he will bear, but not continu-
ously. All machinsts construct their
machines so that there will be reserve
force. If the power required is four
horse, then they make six-horse pow
er. In this case it works easily and
lasts long A man who has strength
enough to do twelve honest hours Of
labor in twenty-four, and no more,
should do but nine or ten hours work.
The reserve power keeps the body in
repair. 1t rounds out the frame to full
proportions. 1t keeps the mind cheer
full, hopeful, happy. The person With
no reserve force is always incapable Of
taking on any more responsibility than
he already has. A little exertion puts
him out of breath, He cannot increase
his work for an hour without danger Of
explosion. Such are generally pale,
dyspeptic, bloodless, nervous, irritable,
Respondent, gloomy. We all pity them.
The great source of power in the indi-
yidual is the blood 1t runs the machin,
cry of life, and upon it depends oul
health and strength.
A mill on stream where water is
scanty can be worked but a portion Of
the time. So man with little good
blood can do but little work. The re,
serve power must be stored up in this
fluid. When the reserve. power of an
individual runs low, it is an indication
that a change is necessary, and that il
is best to stop expanding and 60 to &C.
cumulating, just as the miller does
when the water gets low in the pond
Such a course would save many a per
son from physical bankruptcy Herald
of Health.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

There is no lead pencil; and there has
been none for fifty years. There was q
time when q spiracle of lead, cut from
the bar of sheet, suficed to make marks
on white paper or some rougher abrad-
ing material. The name of lead pencil
came from the old notion that the pro-
ducts of the Cumberland mines, Eng
land, were lead. instead of being plum
bago, or graphite, carbonate OF iron,
capable of leaving a lead-colored mark.
With the original lead pencil or slip,
and with the earlier styles of the lead
pencil made direct from the Cumber-
land mine, the wetting of thepencH was
a preliminary of writing, But since it
has become manufacture the lead PEN
ell is adapted, by numbers or letters, to
each particular design. There are
grades of hardness, from the pencil that
may be sharpened to a needle point, to
one that makes q broad mark. Be,
tween the two extremes there are a
number of graduations that cover all
the conveniences of the lead pencil.
These graduations are made by taking
the original carbonate, and grinding it,
and mixing it with fine quality of clay
in differing proportions, regard being
had to the use of the pencil. The mix
ture is thorough. the mass is squeezed
through dies to form and size it, is dried,
and incased in its wood evelope. -Scie,s.
tifc american.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
The Fine English Gentleman.

In an incisive essay in the CentltYV, on
tie characteristics of London W. J.
Stillman describes the English gentle
man, and contrasts him with the best
American type, as follows: "And it is in
this very class which | have. in no dis
paraging sense, termed Centauric, the
aristocracy, where social independence
has reached its highest, that we find
here and there, cased like the flower Of
this mighty growth, in extraneous and
deeiduous LEAKAGE, that best type of hu-
mainly as the world knows it, the true
English gentleman being whose ex-
terror decorum may be counterfeited by
his emulator, whose inmost gentleness
and courtesy may be Swallowed forth in
peer or peasant-who loves his kind,
and feels the common bond of divine
birth, but whose most perfect union of
noble demeanor and large-heartedness
can only be found where the best type
of mind has been permitted the largest
and richest culture and the cempletest
freedom of hereditary development in
the most favorable external circum-
stances. There are mobiles and noble
men-men who seem to be conscious
only that surrounding men are lower
than they, and others whose illumina-
ton pervades every one near them and
brings all up into the same world of
light and sweetness. The prestige of
nobility is founded on true human in
stinct; occasionally one finds an English
nobleman who justifes its existence. and
makes us snobs in spite of our democ-
racy.
i could. am certain, point to
Americans who, in every essential trait
of the gentleman, viii stand comparison
with any aristocrat born-men in whom
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
A March Of 5000 Miles.

Noticeable at the Spa Hotel is the tall
figure of an old soldierly-looking gentle
man, whose military career is interest
ing. 1t is General A. w. Doniphan,
man seventy years old, who, at the be-
ginning of the Mexican war, in June,
1916, stepped from large practice into
the ranks, whence he was elected to
the Colonelcy of the First Missouri Regi-
ment of Mounted Volunteers. The
similarity between the names Xenophon
and Doniphan has been noted, but the
resemblance does not stop there, Cen
eral Doniphan, like the Greek leader,
made one of the longest marches on
record. Starting at Fort Leavenworth,
the First Missouri Volunteers marched
TO Mexico, then around Chihuahua and
Del Norte, conquering New Mexico and
other States, participating in the battles
of Drastic and Chihuahua, losing but
one man in both, but capturing five
hundred and killing the same number
of the enemy. The hardy band of less
than thousand men, without cent
pay till their return, made a circuit OF
eight thousand miles in thirteen months,
ten of which they were constantly in the
saddle. General Doniphan finds at Ida
no Springs C. c. Bangs, q member Of
his regiment, and in the State ex-Gov-
ernor Gilpin, Major under him, and
Commodore Decatur, one of his vol
unteers. An uncle of Doctor Hall, OF
the navy, now here, was in his regiment,
and was elected from the ranks to Con-
gress. He, with General Doniphan,
framed the present laws of New Mexico.
The General is still hale and hearty,
and seems to enjoy his advancing years
as he deserves to.-Idah0 Springs Ga.
zette.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
Of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If so,
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslows 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 stom-
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 OF
the oldest and best female physicians and
nurses in the United States, and is fol
sale by all druggists throughout the
world Price % cents per bottle.
feb % m-w-s m 1y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

gentlehood has grown to hereditary
ripeness; the third and fourth genera
tons of men who have cultivated on
American soil the virtues of honesty,
morality, sincerity, courtesy, self-abne-
CATION, humanity, benevolence; men and
women whose babyhood was Graded in
those influences which make what we
call good breeding, and to whom the
various vulgarities of our parvenu
princes are as foreign as to the bluest-
blooded heir of Norman fortune; and
this is to me more grateful and SYM
pathetic type of humanity than that of
its English congener. But to this will
always be lacking one grace which that
may possess--the majesty of the born
legislator and ruler; the air of habitual
command and control, hereditary as are
all generic traits, good or bad, and
which imposes itself on the conscious
ness Of ali men. This. be it for the bet
tering or the worsering of the type, is to
our democratic. ruled, leyeled and
ballot-boxed civilization forbidden for
ever; and the fustian heredi-
ties of quickly and perhaps ill-made
millionaires, for ever so many times
told, will never be other than curious
earicature oft. Theoretically, we must
gainsay it; but when all is said, be it
of our original-planting, or a devil s
graft got among the thorns and thistles
of our exile, the growth of a certain
reverence for a time-honored nobility
has become part of every gentle nature,
which only time and assiduity can, but
which they certainly will, eradicate but
not to-day, nor while the English nobil-
ity is what, as a whole, it is -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
Filial Devotion OF d Bird.

We have saying that charity begins
at home, and it has been added that a
great deal of the charity that begins at
home stays there, OF this narrow sort
Of benevolence, too, we find examples
among the animals There is the bar
bet, for instance 1t is solitary bird,
and sits most of the time in morose
silence on twig, waiting for its food
Tin the shape of an insecD to fly by.
Sometimes it is said to rouse itself and
make descent upon the nest of some
smaller bird and eat all the little ones.
Certainly, one would not look for any
sort of beneyolence from such bird;
and vet it offers very striking and
beautiful example of the begin-at -home
and-stay-there kind
The celebrated naturalist, Leyaillant,
who has told so many interesting things
about the birds of Africa and South
America, says that he discovered bar
bets nest in which there were five birds
-Four of them were young and yigor-
Gus, but the fifth was so old and weak
that when it was put into cage with
its comrades it could not move, but lay
placed.
When food was put into the cage the
poor old bird could only look at it long
ingly, without having the strength to
drag within reach of it. Then it was
that the younger birds manifested a
singular spirit of kindness. Quickly,
and even with an air of tenderness, as it
seems, they carried food to the decrepit
old bird, and fed it az if it had been
only iledgling. Struck by this spec
tacle, the naturalist examined the nest
from which the birds had been taken,
and found it was full Of husks and the
| remains of insects, showing plainly that
the old bird must have been maintained
long time by its vigorous companions,
which probably were its own offspring,
Further study of other birds of the same
species convinced the naturalist that ii
was the custom for the old and intirm
birds to be cared for by the young and
strong.
There are several different species OF
harbets found in Africa and South
America, and though not graceful in
| shape, many of them are exceedingly
beautiful in plumage. They get their
name of barbet from the French word
barbe, meaning beard. because they
have tufts of stiff hair at the base of the
bill. Naturalists place them in a genus
called Bucco, and some persons call
them puf-birds, because they have an
odd way of putting out the feathers all
over the body, which then looks more
like Q bale of feathers than bird
| VII Hoodn1ar7, in st. Nicholas.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
Personal AND IMpERSONAL.


The Philadelphia Press estimates the
property of Governor Butler at twelve
million dollars.
William Lynch, the meter at the
Bath (Me,) Iron Works, will run his
hand right through the red hot metal
aud part it as it is being poured off.
They call him Cast Iron Bill.-Bosto3s
Post
Henry Dennis, of Grayson County,
Tex, boasts thathe never took adose of
medicine in his life, never bought 3
bushel of corn or pound of meat never
was in court; never owned watch;
never owned or carried q pistol, and
never called his wife by name.
William Marshall, of Schenectady,
n. Y. CLAIMS that he was the first Of all
American passenger conductors. He
ran the first trains on the Mohawk &
Hudson River Railroad, which were
hauled from Albany to Schenectady by
stationary engines.-Albany Journal.
Judge W. R. Rankin, one of the
ablest of Ohio lawyers and an esteemed
citizen of Columbus, has four sons
'.Fletch, VIII Rit and Carl" He marked
| out great careers in law and litera-
ture for the bovs-they are now on the
| road as MINISTRIES, every one of them
| Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Episcopal clergymen of Boston
and vicinity have formed a Monday As
ISOLATION, which meets weekly, and at
which papers are read on important
subjects. The object is to discuss the
current topics of the time From thirty
to forty meet and enjoy the hour, keep
ing thier doings from the ears of the
ubiquitous reporters. 7. Examiner,
Mrs. Barnnm, Hampstead, L. l., is
one of the leading women of that coun-
ty. She manages large farm and has
done much for the amelioration of the
poor for many years past. As slight
recognition of her services in this re-
! gard the Board of Supervisors named
after her the island which is now oc-
cupied as the home for the poor of the
county, r. Times.
"A remarkable couple recently
passed through Macon, Ga The gentle.
man was Mr.. Thomas G. Smith and the
lady was his sister. They were born in
Sandersville, but at the age of eight
years MIR. Smith went to Texas, where
he lived and prospered up to few
weeks ago, when he returned to Georgia
and met his sister after seventy years o.
separation. They were on their way
down the Southwestern Railroad tt
visit relatives. Catjcago Times.
Little Henry" negro who ha;
followed boot-blacking on the Delaware
steamers since he was freed from slavery
died in Wilmington, Del, recently
Little Hem was one of the most famil
lar characters along the wharves; the
sport of the children and the river men
ard the most popular negro on the vii
mington boats. His figure was a curios
ity. Scarcely three feet high, hi
weighed over two hundred pounds, AMI
was over seventy years Of age.-Ptjla
2e{phia Press
Jesse McTeer. colored, died il
Blount Comfy, Tenn, the other day
aged between one hundred and eigh
and one hundred and ten years. ]
Marysville letter to the Knoxville Iri
b,tne says: He was born in Rock
bridge County, Virginia, and came int
this county previous to is organization
and could relate many incidents con
t nected with the Revolutionary war H
remembered having seen many OF tn
wounded soldiers who returned from
the battle of King Mountain"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

William J. Coughlin, of Somerville
Mass, says: In the fall of 1875 | was
taken with bleeding lungs followed by a
severe cough. | lost my appetite and flesh
and was confined to my bed, In 1877 |
was admitted to the Hospital. The doctors
said l had hole in my lung as big as a
half dollar At one time report went
around that l was dead Igave up hope,
but Il frieud told me of DR.. William Halls
Balsam for the lungs | got a bottle,
when, to my surprise, | commenced to
feel better, aud today | feel better than
for three years past.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
WIDE AWAKE DIR uGGIgs.

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Trial Bottles free. Regular size $1,00.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

The Voltaic Belt Co. Marshall Mich,
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Depression
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various forms; also as preventive a
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mittent Fcvers, the "Ferro- PhosphorateG
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tienis recovering from Fever or Other
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
ROCHESTER,, n. Y. March 80, 1888.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
I.OCA ISLAND & MERCER CO., R. r
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RAILW AY.
SHORTEST ROUTE To THE
EAST AND SOUTH

Trains leave Rock Island
100 a. m Way Freight
SO d" Fast Express.
40 D. m. Mail and Express
$50 Through Freight and Accommodation
Trains arrive at Rock Island:
80 a. m. Through Freight and Accommodation
T. As p. IN. Mail and Express
$40 - Fast Express.
40 ~ Way Freight.
The FAST EXPRESS leaving Rock Island at S.3t
=. IA arrives a. Peoria RID p. M, al Springfield
t23 D. IN, at Decatur 400p. IN, jacksonville ~
.. m, Alton 72O p. H., 81 Louis SIS p. m, and
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The I.30 p, IN. train makes close connection a
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
A SENSIBLE MAN WOULD USE

Kemp's Balsam fer the throat and lungs.
1t is curing more eases Of coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis. Group, and all throat
and lung troubles, than any other med
icine, The proprietor has authorized @
Grotjan to refund your money if, aiteI
taking three-fourths of a bottle. relief il
not obtained. Price 50 cents aud 81.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

Pure Cod liver Oil made from selected
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have decided it superior to any of the
other oils in market.
Chapped Hands, Face, Pimples, and rough
Skin, cured by using Juniper Tar Soap,
made by Caswell, Hazard & Co. New
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

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Pixies Toothache Drops cure in ont
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The weak, worn, and dyspeptic should
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

. -Minnesota, according to pamphlet
just issued BY the State Board of Immi-
grafton, has still a vast tract of unex-
plofed territory within her borders. A
number of counties are as yet verita-
bic terra incognita, neither surveyed nor
explored,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
A FAIR OFFER.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
Mr.. J. J. Lavender, Galatia, H., says
II used Browns Iron Bitters for indigest
ion and found great relief"

Malaria positively cured with Emory 8
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Y; purely vegetable, contain no quinine,
sugar coated 25 cents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04

If yeu suffer with Sick Headache, Con
stipalioa, Sour Stomach, or Bilious at
taeks. Emory's Little Cathartic Pills will
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-04
COINC EAST ANn wrST.

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