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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-30

The casting of the ornaments used on
jewelry, such as birds, flowers, leaves,
etc, is q very important branch of a
factory. Everything is done by steam.
The Furnishing is done exclusively by
women. The joints for bracelets are
the most delicate The eating of the
smallest hook or tiniest trimming is
done on what is known as a watch
makers wheel, a costly tool 800 low
est price which can be used to cut a
large bar of metal or to turn out the
most delicate screw Brooklyn U,aion.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28

his dark, handsome face close to hers
land my little darling, I have some
thing more to confess. Do you know
that, as I heard you sing, ! dete1mineaL !.
one day make that sweet voice and thest
sunny curls and laughing blue eyes AZ
my own?"
But we will not listen to the word,
he uttered as he told her the old, Ole
story that has kindled lovelight in th,
eyes of happy maidens from time i'm
memorial; the old, old story that en-
chanted Elise as no music had ever,
done, and called forth from hei
heart o confession of the love sht
bore for nina love that twas founded
on a rock" and was Is pure as her spot
less life.
Ere another commencement day rolled
around at the institute, the professor
kad made her his bride, and when he
came to sign his name to the diploms
that Elise had SO fondly desired, q thrill
of happiness and pride ran through hi
heart as he thought Of I'LL it had helped
him to gain.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28
THE -rHuNDERER,s ORIGIN.
John Walters Cranky Paper That He
came the London "Times."

S-~ Ta"|LN ~
From James Parton's Captains of Industry
The starting of this great newspape,
ninety-nine years ago was 8 mere &C
cident in the development of another
business. Almost every n who ha
stood in q printing office Watching com,
positors set type must have sometimes
asked himself, Why not have whole
words cast together instead of obliginp
the printer to pick up each letter sep,
arately? Such words as land" "the,'
"but," "if, 'is, " and eyen larger words.
like although" and Notwithstanding
occur very often in all compositions.
How easy it would be, inexperienced
persons think, to take upa long word,
such as extraordinary" and place it in
position in n stroke! In the year
1885 there was a printer named John
Walter, we'll established in bust.
ness, who was fully resolved OF
giving the system a trial. Al
great expense and trouble he had all
the commonest words and phrases cast
together. He would give his type
founder an order like this: "Send me
q hundred weight, made up in separate
pounds Of heat, cold, wet, dry, murder
fire, dreadful robbery, atrocious out.
rage, fatal calamity and alarming ex.
plosion. This system he called logo,
graphic printing. In orderto give pub
licity to the ley system on which he
held o patent. as we'll as to afford it q
fuller trial, he started a newspaper.
which he called the Daily Universal
Register. The newspaper had some lit
tie success from the beginning, but the
Geographic system would not work.
Not oniv did the compositors place OBJ
stacles in its way, but the system itself
presented difficulties which neither
John Walter nor any subsequent expert.
menter has been able to surmount.
"The whole language" said Walter,
in one of his numerous addresses to the
public, "lay before me in a confused ar.
rangement. Its multitudinous mass ]
reduced to about nine thousand by sep.
arating the parcels and removing obso.
lete words, technical terms and COM
mon Examinations" After years Of
labor this most resolute and tenacious
man was obliged to give it up; it was
too expensive, too cumbersome, too
difficult. 1t required q vast amount Of
space, and, Ill short, it was a system
which could not and cannot beworked
to profit. But though the topographic
printing VAS a failure, the Daily Uni
versal Register proved more and more
successful. It wes a dingy little sheet,
about twice as large as q sheet of FOOLS
cap, without q word of editorial and
containing a small number of wells Sc
lected paragraphs and news. It had
also, occasionally, q short notice of the
plays of the night before and a few
items of what we now call society gos-
sip. The advertisements after tho pa
per had been in existence three years
averaged about fifty a day, most Of
them very short. Its price was three
pence, English, equal to about twelve
cents of our present currency. The
paper upo which it was printed
was coarse and cheap. In the third
year of its existence, on the first of jan
uary 1888, the name was changed to
the Times.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28
Forty-fve Years Steamship Build.
ing.
The Cunard Steamship Compa

The Cunard Steamship Company
have recently put two of the larges.
and most powerful merchant steam.
ships afoat in the world. These are
the Umbria and the Eutruria. It is
now about forty-five years since the
Britannia was launched. That steam.
ship was considered the wonder OF the
world. She was the first steamship
put a1oat by the Cunard Company.
That ship was 207 feet long; her ton.
mage was l ,l55; she carried 500 ton,
of coal, and was of $50 horsepower
Her speed was eight and o half knot,
an hour. Her freight capacity was 22C
tons beyond her coal supply, and she
had accommodations for 40 passengers.
Forty-fve years afterward the same
company launched the Eutruria, o shin
500 feet long and of about 5000 tons.
She will carry 2, 800 tons Of coal. a.
supply her IA, 900 engines.
and is calculated to make a speed 81
nineteen knots an hour. and "a
accommodate 1,5G0 passengers, besides
q crew of probably not less than
100. The Umbria substantially
answers the same description. Two
or three years ago the Arizona.
owned by the same company, made the
passage across tho Atlantic, from land
to land, in seven DAYS and seven hours.
The owners of the Eutruia expect that
that steamship will make the PASSAGE
twenty fonr hours sooner or in six DAYS
and seven hours. Upto this date no
steamships have been built for the sole
transportation of passengers across the
Atlantic. A steamship enterprise was
planned on paper, but never got much
further. The builder of the Eutruria
intimated that the time had come when
there would be a profit in CONSTRUCTING
ocean steamers solely for passengers,
High speed good profit and ali the
Accommodations of q first-class hotel
were the conditions of success. The
travel to and from Europe by
steamships is now SO great that It is AZ.
firmed an exclusive passenger steam
ship line would have all the business
wanted. Passengers are ready to nav
Tor speed and accommodations. It now
looks as if in short time passengar
steamships would be constructed tn
make q five-days' across the Allan
tic M
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28
rxouaxr OF rzz 1ou1
TIE WEST.

This isno fable-land whore dreams
Are northumberland into the real:
No idler's Paradise where hopes
Fall, realized, from fortunes wheel;
No sluggard's kingdom, blindly ruled,
Where Chance sits on q golden throne,
And throws his doubtful favors out
To gid thelives of fools alone.
1t holds itself in higher grace,
1t keeps the cleaner, stronger course
And takes from chance what chance will Civ
But draws it's weekly wage from force.
Come, Drawn, and brain. and earnest soul
The patient manhood that can wait,
And hold its truth through bitter days
Wilnot knock vainly at the gate.
%. H. Rothacker, at the opening of the Den
yer Exposition.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28

In Vermont drinking men use litbo.
graphic prescriptions for cocktails.
Ihey read as follows: "R.-Spir. Fru.
menti, 2 fl. oz.-Ext. Angos. j DR.
Syr;; simp. I f. or" They are nut m
BY druggists, who charge from IL 10 M
cents a prescription. 10Y
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-28

& Z. J.. Clark, charged with cutting and pass
ing bills 30 as to make six into seven, was
formally arraigned in the United States court
at Milwaukee. A plea of no. guilty, with q
reservation allowing a change was entered and
the prisoner held in So 700 bonds for his ap-
p%earance ut the next term Of court What the
line Of defense will be is notyet determined.
but it is thought it will be mental derange
mont induced by business reverses and calami-
ties
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
UPS AND DOWNS.

The Vlcissitudes Of fortune are illus
trated by the New York Graphic from
recent events: Henry Willard Is to re-
turn to Journalism as one Of the editor
Ial writers Of the Tribune, which he
served in 1904. Norman Monroe. the
publisher of the dime and half-dime
novels, has been launching . Ane steam
yacht. He began Publishing OF Q shall
scale when Willard was an army CORES
pona6nt James Keene's heavily mort
gagged property at Newport has been or
dered to be sold under foreclosure. His
near heiGhbor at Newport; William
AstOr, has Just launched the largest
pleasure yacht ever built in Atherica.
Ex-President Grant, "whO made Could"
has been asking . loan from jay Gould,
who declined TO respect his
makers wishes. James D. Fish has
just made . ruin Of Booths theatre, and
is himself involved in such RUIN that he
may not be able to rebuild either the
theatre or his own fortunes. Nine.
Scalchi has Just sailed away 70 Europe,
full OF fame and flush of funds, at the
moment that the musical critic who first
made fame for her in this country is put
under bonds for stealing button hook!
And Henry E. Abbey, on the heels Of
his disastrous failure % in conducting
italian opera, has also sailed away to
Europe. taking with ham plenty Of mon
ey and leaving behind him troops of
friends, while Col. James II. MaplesOn,
fresh ficm operate successes u in San
Francisco, which are said (by him) to
have enriched him, is lingering still,
unable to tear himself away from the
loving grasp of the sheriff, and scoffed at
by his directors and the newspapers.
Such is life in the far easil
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22


S,nAtor Cullom, of Illinois, has intro
duced in the senate very important bill
which bears directly on the recent finan-
cIal complications in New York. 1t
provides that it shall not be lawful for
any president, cashier, teller, or other
chief executive officer Of any national
banking association having a capital
stock of 100000 or upwards TO engage
IN speculation "In stocks, bonds, or other
securities, or In grain, provis-
ions, produce, OF oil, or
in margins, on his own individual
account or for his own personal profit,
either directly or Indirectly, or to have
any partnership or other financial interest
In the operations OF any private banking
or brokerage firn or business" The
penalty for the violation OF such law, II
passed. Is fixed by the bill at not less
than one nor mere than five years
Such law would undoubtedly do much
to put . stop to the disgraceful defalca
lions which are occurring every week
th-oN ghout the country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22

TrIbune's Broadway Note Book ::
O'Connr and Judah p. Benjamin, the
one from the most western stock in Eu.
rope, the other from the cradle of races,
Celt and Semitic, died near together, 30
like in soul that the magnet can hardly
separate their metallic dust in the next
world. Both poor originally, both of
the disdainful Instincts arising from
mental pride, each arguing against the
conditions which upbore him, each go
much Pharisee that he seemed nearly
Sadducee, they ran careers which illus
iraie nothing, made the law seem any.
bOdy's chariot who could drive II, and
the one lived under no hotter light than
a moon all his cold life, and the other
wOrshipped brszen sun no bigger than
q sheckel
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22

Our readers Will not be surprised to
learn that the Modjeska engagement at
Kansas City was not financial success.
The lady herself was insured against
loss by the business acumen OF her
agent, who with an intelligent sppre-
hension of the popular taste at that po-
lite center. stipulated for a certainty
instead of percentage of the receipts
The plays pres ented were "As You Like
IT." Twelfth Night" and "Mary
Stuart" The frat two. by virtue of q
certain abbreviated popularity attach
ing to the costumes worn by the star in
her presentations OF ROsalind aud Viola,
compelled a mild degree of approx
al, but Mary Stuart was
received With such pronounced
evidences of disfavor by the people and
the local press that it is believed that its
reproduction will never again be at
tempted In that city by any actress
who values her personal safety
Cory Craig has manifested q holy
and beautiful ardor in labor
ing to advance the interests of high
art at Kansas City, but he now confesses
that his late zeal In that direction was
more than outWeighed by the knowledge
of the crafty Mel Hudson who scored an
electric success with Excelsior" at the
Coates, while his dramatic competitor
dropped money for three successive
nights at the ellis. The Kiralfy Broth.
ers have the call on Shakespeare and
Schiller at Kansas City, aud the public
is requested to treasure that fact in their
memories
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
WORTH REMEMBERING.

A national bank may fail, q number
have failed in fact, but no holder of
note issued by any of the falling institu-
lions, has ever lost q cent on that &C.
count. No one takes the trouble even
on receiving a national bank bill to ex-
anime it for the purpose OF finding out
whether 1t was issued by a bank which
hos failed. The law establishing nation
al banks protects the note holders,
which are the masses OF the people, so
cffectually as 10 relieve them OF all ap-
prehensiOn Of loss from the mismsnage
ment or dishonesty of bank officers. The
treasury of The United States holds 30
curiiies for every dollar of national bank
circulation, and so protects the holders
OF it. OF course there is nothing new
about this. Every body knows it and
feels secure. But it is worth while &C.
casionally to remind people of the fact
that they are indebted to the Republican
party for the establishment Of the na-
tional bank system with ali its safe
guards for the protection of the note
holder. This sort of protection which
even the free trad r will recognize as a
good thing, though he iuconslstently de-
mics TO government the right to protect
American industry.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22

A good deal OF healthy daylight is be-
ing let in upon the thievIng methods of
Wall street on account of the explosion
last week. An article from the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette Is published in
another column which will bear reading
with care. These articles not only
expose the rotteness of Wall street,
but serve as a warning 10 the insects to
keep away from the glazing blaze which
sooner or later burns. Immense for
tunes have been made in gambling In
stocks, but twice as much money has
been lost In attempts to get something
for soothing. Ninety days after date
We promise to pay $4,000. with 5000
profit" was the way Ward s. Grant ran
up an Indebtedness of fourteen million
dollars. The South Sea bubble has been
outdone. This proposition would seem
to bear warning on its very face and yet
hundreds of what are called good bust.
ness men bit at it. The melancholy
feature is that the name of General
Grant should be prominently connected
with such a concern.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
couldn't staud the Racket.

PIrTsBURG, Pa, May 21.-The Penn
s,Ivania bank, of this city, closed its
doors at 1890 p. m. and posted the fol-
lowing notice: lowing to a continued
run for several d avs we have decided it
wise tor our own depositors and all con-
cerned to suspend payment for the pres
emit" There IS great excitement and q
large crowd surrounds the bank. Off
GERS have been placed at the doors.
VIM. n. Riddle, president Of the Pen
psylvania bank, which has been doing
the largest business of any bank in Pitts
burg. got up from sick bed this morn
ing, having been Frustrated from hem
orrhagee, and is at the bSnk.
The fol:o9ing sta,ement was made 10!
the associated press representative: u
have nothing to say in detail now, oui
am here 10 face the music and do my
duty. Owing To unfOunded reports made
current By Interested and malicious per.
| sons there has been q run on Us for sew
| eral DAYS and our deposits have been de
creased from $5o0, 600 u SIC, 600 in fvt
DAYS We therefore deemed Il wise x
| take the action we have. Further have
/ nothing 20 say except that am iEdivid
uallY the Largest loser, having tn
/ largest deposit sn1 the largest amount o
| stock in the bank.
| 1t Is aid that Fumors we're SIT afioa
| BY intPrested parties that the Penn
sYlvsnia bank and two othe
Banks have b en- allow I'M
oil brokers "a over.ira~ ihriF accounts
and the result was a run One OF tn
stockholders of the Pennsylvania banl
says the suspended institution ls entire
" solvent and viii pay every dollar G
It's debt or money on deposit. The car
,tal stock $500 900. A full statement ]
promised this evening
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
MEMORIAL DAY.

The following win be the program of
exercises in this city on memorial day,
as arranged by q committee of the g. A.
II. appointed for that purpose:
The procession will form between Fifth and
Sixth avenues, on Commercial street, the head
of the column resting on Sixth avenue.
ORDER OF MARCH.
K. P. Band.
K. T. B md.
County and City OMcers.
Citizens in Carriages and on Horseback.
LINE OF MARCH.
West on SIKH avenue 20 Merchants street;
north on Merchants street to Eleventh ave-
nue.; west on Eleventh avenue TO West street /;
thence to cemetery.
ORDER OF EXERCISES AT CEMETERY.
Music by X P. band.
Prayer BY Rev. Snodgrass.
Address by Col A. n. Flory.
Decoration of graves
Music by X. T. band.
Assembly At stand
Meditation by Miss Spencer.
Lens
Music.
Benediciion by Rev. Nackay.
Returning, the procession will reASsemble
at Eleventh avenue, on West street; thence
east on Eleventh avenue to Neosho street
south on Neosho street to Fifth avenue; east
on FifIh avenue TO CONNER ciAi street
Marshal OF the day, DE-. Young. (Astist-
ranks whether belonging 20 posts or nos.
All persons having conVeyances are urged
to furnish them at West ct, eel and Eleventh
Averue, to convey foOtmen 70 the cemctery
and return to that point.
The iti1ens OF the county are earnestly
| invited to join In the procession and exer.
ciSeS.
Citizens are requested TO contribute noWeri
8 oil deliver them At the once OF Col. Ia Tor
in Masonic Temple, not later than 10 o'elOcl
| n m. Nav 80.
The ladies are requested to meet At Col
| T1ylor's once to arrange aoWFrs.
| RuSiBeSS men are requested to close theil
| o. aces ol hu- ineSs from y. m. to p. m. anS
Join IN the Observance OF the day.
| rhe .lumn will IN We promptly at 3
| m oGEtTrRR or ARnAHaEEzNTS.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22

The Junction City Union is having a
very bilious time over the prohibition
business. One would think the destinies
of the state and the Republican party de-
pended on what little DAVIS county does.
The editor Of the Union may haYe heard
the remark OF Jim SnoddY in the la
state convention on the proposition of q
few cOlored men who were quarrelling
and pulling and hauling in that body,
and who wanted the party run to suit
half dozen different colored men. The
same remarks might apply to the few
cranks up At Junction City who call
themselves Republicans provided they
can run the party TO suit their notions.
We think about the best thing Davis
county can do is to jine g. William Cur
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
STATE TPEASTTREP

The Republican takes pleasure this
week In presenting tO the Republicans
of the stale the name nt Hon. VIM.
Jacobs, OF Washington county, as a can
didate for the responsible Office of state
Observation-Disclosures (Kan) Repub-
lican.
We have no doubt but that Mr.. Jacobs
is all the Republican claims for him,
but We do not believe the people of
Kansas desire to make any change
In that Office this year Mr..
Samuel T. Howe, of Marion.
was elected two years ago,
and having served honestly and faith
fully, SO far as we have heard, it will he
In accord with the custom, and right
and proper. tn re-elect him for another
term. A few years ago Mr.. Howe WAS
elected sheriff of Marion county. He
served also as clerk OF the court and
county treasurer. His record is as clean
as . PIN and the people OF
Marion stand by him to a man. When
Q man stands we'll at bis home he can be
trusted by the people in other partitions
OF the state. Mr.. Howe has proven
himself 70 be q competent and honest
treasurer, end he ought 10 be nominated
by the Republican convention by accla
nation, and probably will be. That il
Just the sort Of treatment he deserves a
the hands Of the Republicans Of Kansas
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-22
shoHad aood Rense.

DODGE CITY, May 1s.-The agony is
over. The leader of the Kansas DrohI-
bitionists had his say and Ii still In the
land of the living. Rev. A. B. Camp
bell and r. B. WEIGH, the prohibition
lawyer of Topeka, arrived here early
yesterday morning. They were met at
the depot by committee
of ex-Whisky men, who now
head the prohibition element here, and
were escorted TO q hotel under protec-
ton of Sheriff Shugrue. This wss un-
necessary, however, as no demonstration
was made by the saloon or gambling
element to interfere with them. Although
the feeling was very bitter among the
saloon element, IL was decided by the
more conservative to allow the gentle
men to speak. st. John didR't come,
owing TO sickness in his family. A tenn
perance meeting was held in the after
noon at the new Methodist church. The
saloon men and their friends attended
en- masse and constituted three-fourths Of
the audience. The meeting was quiet
| and orderly, not a single interruption
marring the proceedings.