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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-14
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CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE
AND ST. paul

tn"us and operates over 1880 miles OF road IN
northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
AHd pa@'irr ana IL main lines, branches and con
~, Tolls reach all the great business centres OF Inc
southwest and Far West II naturally answers the
description oi Short Line aud best route between
'AaA9o, Milwaukee, ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
'hiaago Milwaukee, La Crosse and Winnna.
chicago, Milwaukee, Aberdeen and Glendale
Nh'cA2o, Milwaukee, Eau Claire and saltwater
'h'-a2o, Milwaukee Wausau and Merrill.
lineage Milwaukee, Beaver Dam and Oshkosh.
NAi'aso, Milwaukee, Waukesha and Oconomowoc.
'aIoagor Milwaukee,, Madison. and Prairi du Chen
IW'a-o, Milwaukee, Owaltonna and Faribanlt.
O"cA@' Bcioit, GAINESVILLE and Mineral Point.
'A'eaSo Elsu, Rockford and Dubuque.
chicago, Clinton, Rock Island and Cedar Rapids.
'h'ca5o Council Bluffs and Omaha.
'ui.a=o Sioux City, Sioux Falls aud Yankton.
lA'ca-o Milwaukee, Mitchell and Chamberlain
H'sL Island Dubuque. st. Paul and Minneapolis
davenport, Cdimar. ST. Paul and Minneapolis,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-14

L. II. Z. Z.
SWEENEY & WALKER,

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT Law
dOffice in Bengstons block, Reck Island, III.
aug-l-dwy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-14
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
HUNSMITHS.

HUNSMITHs.
Wolf, Chas, III Seventeenth street.
HARNESS MANUFACTURERS.
Sauerman, John, 219 seventeenth street.
II HARDWARE
Stewart s. Montgomery, 800 second avenue.
MERCHANT TAIL0RS.
Nendt, II. 1909 second avenue.
NEWS DEALERS.
Wimans, J. NJ. Post Office Block.
NEWSPAPERS.
The Rock Island DAILY ARGUS published every
evening Sunday excepted) in Argus block, OPP
posite PostofiCe. Best advertising medium in the
city.
The Rock island WEEKLY ARGUS; published
every Friday. fine Job department in connec-
ton with the establishment.
d ESTAURANTS AND CONFECTIONERS.
| Krell, Fred, 1919 second avenue.
Eyers, Fred, 1911 second avenue.
STArIoNEFs'
| Wilmans, J. NJ, Post Office Block.
SALOONS
Westphal, John, 1872 second avenue.
| MATCH MAKERS.
Bromley. G. A, 1917 second avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-14
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND g. PACIFIC R,Y

Being
Southeast.
and the Pacific.
villages
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Experiment Farms.

Germany has the credit of organizing
an institution which promises to be OF
the Greatest importance to the world;
but more particularly to the agricultural
classes. cit is what is known as the ex-
pertinent farms. These are Govern
ment institutions designed primarily 10
assist the farming community. Through
this agency seeds of all kinds are tested
and distributed. The various artificial
manures are experimental with, and
the facts given to the farmers. The
latter have heretofore spent vast sums
of money upon well-advertised rubbish.
The experiment farm furnishes informa-
ton about dairying, the growth of
ruit and vegetables, and the drying of
fruit. 1t saves the farmer the expense
of trying new plants by testing their
value before money is spent upon them.
In short. the object of the, institutions
is to give farmers the benefit of all the
sciences and experience of the age.
This admirable German institution has
been initiated in q small way in New
York and Ohio; but its possible use
fulness does not seem as yet to be APP
preciated by the American people, and
by the farmers least of all. There
ought to be dozens of such Government
farms in the large States. Were these
institutions numerous and the farming
class wise enough to take advantage of
them. it would add amazingly to our
national wealth by utilizing the science
and experience Of the times for the
benefit Of the agriculture of the couu
try. The most active minded and in
telligent farmers would profit quite as
much as their more stolid neighbors.
OF course these experiment farms and
their appliances would cost money, but
they would return 4 hundred fold for
every dollar expended upon them.
These experimental farms will be usc-
full also in helping to collect agricultural
statistics. A correct knowledge of the
production of the country is essential
in forming an estimate of values, and
the farming class will never get all their
productions are worth until the Stats
ties of the crops arc well nigh perfect.
All good citizens should encourage these
Government farms.-Denorest' S Month.
lU
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Defective Vision.

An article in the London Times by
DR.. Brundenell Carter on the influence
of civilization upon the eyesight dis
cusses the causes of defective vision
among the adults and children of the
present day. DIR Carter says that few
things are more remarkable than the
imperfection of common knowledge
about all matters which relate to the
use and functions of the eye. One con-
sequence OF want of knowledge about
vision is that the evolution of the eye
has been left to be the sport of accident
In running, in jumping. in rowing, in
every game which requires skill. strength
and endurance. the young urban
Englishman excels: but his sight has
)cen suffered to decline in acuteness
by sheer neglect; and the conditions of
his lie have also. produced two kinds
of deformity of the eyeball-the short
sighted eye and the fiat or hyperme-
tropic eve, each of which constitutes
a serious deterioration in the organs of
the visual sense. Having explained
the nature and causes of hypermetropia,
myopia and astigmatism, DIR. Carter
mentioned that DIR. Cohn, of Breslau,
in the years 1864 and 1865 examined
the eyes 10000 scholars and found
1880 of item with eyes of defective
shape. OF these 1.0.2 were myopic,
139 were Eat-eyed, % were the sub, ects
of astIgmatism, and 800 were suffering
from the results of previous disease.
DIR. Cohn further found the faulty shape
of the eyeballs. especially in the di-
rection of myopia, increased steadily,
both in numerical prevalence and in
degree, as school life was prolonged:
being least frequent and least pro-
nounced in the elementary schools.
more frequent and pronounced in The
intermediate, most 'requent and most
pronounced in the finishing schools.
His researches have since been re-
peared and extended by many other
observers. and his results have been
fully confirNed in other parts of Ger
many, IL Russia, and in America; while
the American observations have shown
not only that fiat eyes have tendency,
from the strain thrown upon them by
their defect, to pass into the opposite
condition OF short sight, but also that
this change occurs with the greatest
certainty with under ed or unhealthy
children. and in schools where sanitary
onditions are neglected. DR.. Carter
concludes by asking whether there is
any reason why perfection OF sight
should not be made point of physical
excellence in all athletic contests.
If such change were introduced n
first effect would be to make people
understand what they ought to be able
to see. Important good results would
not be immediate, nor could they be
fully attained except in more than one
generation; but it can not be doubted
that they would ultimately follow
So. James Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
The Value OF SlaMg.

Slang has this value, that it shows
how language grows. The English
tongue is so vigorous that it seizes
whatever it needs tor growth, just as it
did in its infancy. Atthat period direct
made into words, as the young randals
o. to-day use '.chink" for money"
Farther on in the growth of the tongue
it took from ordinary speech these i'm
itative words, and converted them to
new uses, just as YOU say ''ticker" for
watch" and .put /" for advertise
ment." The contraction of words is
another stage. as .mob, NOW perfectly
good Engli n, was at first merely slang
for the Latin mobile, the tickle crowd,
as "cab" was slang for .'cabriolet, ?" and
"fur!ong" for ..iurrow-long, the
ength of a furrow, and as mob" is
slang for mobility"
We make words for men snames in tn
same way. suppose ''boycotting'-
may be good English soon. MARITIME
ct" now indispensable, was the name
Of n historic General over-strict in dis
cipiine., ..Derrick" was n famous hang
man of the seventeenth centurt, in honor
ofwhcm the roughs nicknamed the gai-
lows-like hosting apparatus; and these
are two, only, out of scores of cases.
Many ct the words that are now res
probabilities of conversation were once
gutter-children. Drag" for instance.
was a thieves word for carriage. and
''dragsmen the particular variety of
thieves who followed the carriage to cut
away the luggage from the rack behind.
Bat dag" is good English now for
private coach. .'Kidnap'' was thieves
slang for child-stealing; tat is, TO NAB
a kid" 'Tie," for cravat, was as
much the slang of low life as ''choker'
is now. .Conupdrum'' and donkey
and FUN" were all slang words. though
perhaps not so low. ''Boge" was slang
and so were ''waddle" and ''bother."
-Lucia Gilbert Runk,c, in 81. Nicholas
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Andrew Carnegie on Ceylon.

The Ceylonese guide thought that the
writer o the .splcv breezeS" was 80
fool; for saying that the CingalesG
bowed down 10 wood and stone" and
asked IF any one in my country be.
lieved that there was man, woman,
or hid in Ceylun who did not know
better than to bow down to any power
but Cod" The English planters he
met ''declared that uropean can live
there and enjoy As good health as at
home" The coffee business was then
rapidly extending, together with tho
prosperity and population of the isle in
spite the taNat on, as TO which one
fifth of the total revenoe the island
is derived from taxes upon the daily
food the people, two-thlrds of III =
from 4 tax upon imported rice, and tie
otter oae-third rom native grain. In
sc lon caste prevails as much as in In
d =. SO much SO, THAT the wealthiest
native in Ceylon to-day is a fisherman,
and yet he can no. gaia Abundance to
tie society OF po 'rer rati' es about him
of hi her caste" bat ur,ousiy enough.
.sof all the. aste, the ii Ter of the sol
stands at the head" But as w thin
orty miles the writer counted eleven
schools filled with young tingalese'
whp are being Taught English. and
there were in lSr, l.i6S of the c
schools in the island 10 population OF
zoo, 900. it is ob,ious that consider
be threads are being made on natlv
idea
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Earthquake Shocks.

The eastern coast of the United States
from Virgins TO Maine, was recently
distur ed by an earthquake. 1t created
10 little alarm. but did no damage.
Science is so far at fault in dealing
with earthquakes. 1t does not know
to what they are attributable. They
ere most frequent in tropical countries
Lear vol anic regions. Earthquakes
have been called suppressed volca-
noes. If not due to electricity, as is
suspected by some scientists. they are
often accompanied by electrical and
magnetic phenomena. One theory is
that they are due to disturl ances in the
liquid mo:ten matter that is supposed
TO underlie the crust of the earth. An
ether and very plausible explanation is,
that they are occasioned by the earth's
parting with its internal heat. As cool
ing bodies contract, it would follow that
portion IF the crust OF the earth
would be upheaved. and this would
account for the mountains and other
Irregularities on the surface of TIE
gjobe 1t may be that the recent earth
quake on the east coast of the United
Etates was really an upheavai of the
Alleghanies. and it may also be that in
time, that is hundreds of thousands OF
years. the Alleghanies may reach the
altitude of the Rocky Mountains or the
Andes. But of course this is all con-
lecture. Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Few Suggestions to a Son at School.

My DEAR Son: Your letter of last
week reached us yesterday. and l i'm
close thirteen dollars, which is all !
have by me at the present time. | may
sell the other sho:e next week and make
, up the balance of what you wanted. l
will probably nave to wear the old buff
falo overcoat to meetings again this
winter, but that don't matter SO long
as you are getting al education.
hope you will get your education as
cheap as you can, for it cramps your
mother and me like Sam Hill to put up
the money. Mind you, I don't COM
plain. l knew education come high.
but didn't know the clothes cost so
like sixty.
want you to be SO that you can go
anywhere and spell the hardest word. 1
want you to be able to go among the
Romans or the Modes and Pcrsians and
talk to any of them in their own native
tongue.
never had any advantages when l
was a boy. but your mother and l de-
cided that we would sock you full of
knowledge, if your liver held out, re-
gardless of expense. We callate to do
it. only we want you to go as slow on
swallow-tail coats as possible till We
can sell our hay.
Now, regarding that Bodybuilding
suit and that baseball suit and that
bathing suit and that roller-rinktum
su and that lawn-tennis suit, mind,
l don't care about the expense, because
you say young man can't really eeu-
cate himself thoroughly without them,
but wish you would send home what
you get through with this fall. and I'll
wear them through the winter under
my other clothes. We have good
deal severer winters here than we used
to, or else I'm failing in bodily health.
Last winter 1 tried to GO through with
out under-clothes, the way l did when
l was boy, but Manitoba wave came
down our way and picked me out of q
crowd with its eyes shet.
In your last letter you alluded to get
ting injured in a little "hazing scuffle
with a pelican from the rural districts. ="
don't want any harm to come TO you,
my son, but if went from the rural
districts. and another young gosling
from the rural districts undertook to
haze me, would meet him when the
sun gees down, and would swat him
across the back of the neck with q
fence board. and then would meander
across the pit Of his stomach and put a
blue forget-me-not under his eye.
Your father amt much on Grccian
mythology and how to get the square
root of a barrel of pork. hut he wouldn't
allow any educational institutions to
haze him with impunity. Perhaps you
remember once when you tried to haze
your father little, just to kill time, and
how long it took you to recover. Any
body that goes at it right can have q
good deal of fun with your father, but
those who have sought to monkey with
him, just to break up the monotony of
life. have most always succeeded in
finding what they sought.
l amt much of a pensman, SO you
will have to excuse this letter. We are
all quite well, except old Fan, who has
a galded shoulder, and hope this will
find you enjoying the same great bless
ing. Your FATHER.
BILL Nye, in San Francisco Ingleside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Cathedral at Moscow, built to
commemorate the departure of Napo-
Icons army, cost $12, SOC, 900, and will
accommodate 10000 worshippers.
DIR. John Hall has his church doors
closed and fastened now when he begins
his service, so that he and his congrega-
ton shall not be disturbed by late-com-
-Brooslyn Union.
The introduction of the optional
system in Yale College has been death
to Greek and Latin. Students take in
their political science, history and
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The two daughters of John Bell,
the candidate for President of Bell and
Everett fame, are teaching school at
Chestnut Hill, where they keep a young
ladies' academy. Philadelphia Press.
The city of Boston maintains one
normal, ten Latin and high schools,
fifty-one grammar schools and 404
primary schools. In addition to those
the following special schools are main
tanned: One for deaf mutes, two for
licensed miners. an evening high school,
thirteen elementary schools and five
evening drawing schools. Boston Jour
nal.
The .'amen corner" has its humor-
GUS as well as its solemn features. as in
the following instance reported of DIR.
Fulton. of Brooklyn. The preacher ex-
claimed: "Place me upon the polar ice
berg, where no verdure greets the eye,
and where naught but the white bear
growl can be heardr' when a deep bass
voice replied, "-Brookiyn
Eagle.
If North Carolina newspapers are
truthful the churches of that State ale
the only genuinely fire-proof buildings
known. 1t is declared that in recent
large forest fires the flames parted to GO
around the churches. In one case it is
said the fire not only burned up straw,
wood, lumber, ETC., around the church,
but underneath it without injuring the
church itself Chicago Herald.
The Japan Mad says that. as rule,
the educated classes of Japan are with
OUT any religion. Their attitude to-
ward theological questions is one OF
complete apathy, and while they are
content to observe the ceremonies of a
religious cult in certain matters of daily
life, they quietly but resolutely put
aside all the supernatural elements Of
that cult as things unworthy of serious
consideration"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Chestnut is the favorite color for
horses among the Arabians.
Il he will of the late Baroness Ma
than Rothschild leaves 100000 to
charitable objects.
-The Bible mentions 62o places in
Palestine, west of the Jordan, and $50
have been identi ied-l32 by the staff
of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
A Russian traveller journeycd two
years in the wilds of interior Asia with
out accident or sickness to any of the
party, which numbered thirteen per-
sons.
Boiled peanuts are favorite dish
with the Chinese. Long cooking be-
meath water extracts ali the oil and
fIavoring principle, and leaves dough
THAT can be used in the same manner
as that made from flour.
A relic of the olden time has just
died in Paris, in the person of won
derfully attractive old lady, the actress
Amalie Hainzinger. She was eighty
seven years old. and had acted in the
presence of Napoleon l., and of
Goethe, who mentions her in his writ
iIgs.
The porcelain industry at Weimar,
which has lain dormant since the last
century, and in which Duke Carl Au-
gust, Goethe and Schiller then took
deep interest gives promise of healthy
and permanent revival. For several
wears the present Grand Duke has IA
vored the. revival, and has gwen it
much encouragement.
-Hanlan was mourned as dead at
Keighley, England, by relatives AID
friends who thought that they found
his body in a pond. The widow got
the money. en- his life insurance policy.
and soon took second husband. But
Hanlan has emerged from hospital
alive and well, but greatly displeased.
Statistics as 10 the employments OF
women in England show that, while
nearly all of them are engaged in oc-
equations which re ,uire no high de-
gree of muscular development, .s47 OF
them are blacksmiths. The number OF
female teachers is lz3, 1895. The black
smith, thus it appears, has no reason
to view with alarm" the encroach-
ments of women into his shop.-Car-
rent.
According to the knowledge there
is sulphur deposit at Djemsa, Suez,
in perfectly rainless desert on the At
rlcan coas., very near the sea, and con-
stituting a hill 800 feet high, whose
sides are blasted down as in quarrying
stone. Some 200 Arabs, employed I'M
der French engineers, succeed in min
ing ten tons day. A similar deposit
occurs at tongo, 800 miles from Suez,
also near the coast of the African con-
tinent. which differs only in being bur-
led under other strata.
The old story of the telegraph OPP
orator in Hyderabad, who telegraphed
the central Office: "Tiger jumping
about the platform; what shall l do?''
was illustrated by the experience of a
station master on the Calcutta Railway
last month. A large and apparently
very hungry leopard came into the
waiting room and approached the
ticket-window. The railroad man bar
ricaded himself in and remained vol
untary prisoner for five hours, when
the leopard left. 1t was afterward
shot about mile from the station.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24

Chiefs. set subalterns against their
supcriors 1t is curious farrsgo of
nonsencc lad shrewd remarks, some
ma inns being especially good in re-
spect to the conduct IF civil war.
Meanwhile, It Is per ectlY clear that the
first and last lesson inculcated on a
Chinese general is to le. If he can
cheat hostile general in a negotiation.
he Will win ala ost Is much credit with
the Peiin Government as if he defeated
him in the field. -Rarper's Bazar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
While III. iron mills in the Mort

While the iron mills in the North
are nearly all idle or running on half
time in consequence of the stagnation
in trade. the most prosperous industry
IL the South oday is the iron manu-
featuring business There has not been
single furnace closed this year. And
an extraordinary. fact in connection
with it that me iron furnaces SIG
nearly all running on orders received
from North of the Chic River. NJ i
Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24

When horse has a good appetite
and eats well. it is a good indication o:
heaith and capacity 10 undergo hare
labor. For such horses nothing can bt
gained by attempting to improve them
with condition powders or stimulants
A good feeder can, in nearly all cases
be relied upon. Troy Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-10-24
Loss and Gain.
CHAPTEH !
slwas taken sick q year ago
with bilious fever


"iwas taken sick year ago
with bilious fever"
aMy doctor pronounced me cured, but
got sick again, with terrible pains In my
back and sides, and got 50 bad
Could not novel
I shrunkl
From 22S Iba to 1901 had bean doctor
ing for my liver, but II did me no good.
did not expect 10 live more than three
months. Ibegan to use Hop Bitters. Dr.
rectly my appetite returned, my pains left
me, my entire system seemed renewed as II
by magic, and after using several bottles,
am not only as sound as SOVEREIGN. but
weigh more than / did before To Hop
Bitters owe my life" r FITZPATRICK
Dublin, june 9, 81
CHATTER n.
"Malden, Mass, Feb. !, 1850 Gentlemen
suffered with attacks Of sick headache.
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in
the most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me re-
lief or cure. until used Hop Bittera
1.-THE first bottle
Nearly cured me;''
The second made me Is well and strong
rs when child,
Sand 1 have been 80 to this day.
My husband was an invalid for twenty
years with Q serious
kidney, liver and urinary complaint
Pronounced by B0s.0n's best physt
clans
"Incurabler'
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him
and know of the
ELVES Of eight persons"
In my neighborhood that have been saved
by your bitters,
And many more are using them with
great benefit
They almost
Do miraclesr' Mrs. E. d. Stack.
How 10 GIT SICK.-Expose yourself day and
night: eat too much without exercise; work
too hard without rest: doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrums advertised, and then you
will want 60 know h0sC to get tpeH, which is an
swered in three words-Take Hop Bltters!
None genuine without bunch of green
Hops on the white label Shuu all the vile, poi
sonous stun with Hop" or Hops in their
name.