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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

A woman who throws herself at mans
head Will soon fiud her place at his feet 80
Louis DesnOyers.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

st. Paul Lodge No. 1917, X. of P. meet
in regular convention Friday even
ing at 500, sharp.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

| chose my wife, As she did her wes!.ris
gown, Tor qualities that would wear Well
Goldsmith
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

You can get cut rates over any railroad
at Blake's ticket Office 1908 Second
avenue. d1Yi
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

Welcome to the parents the puny strug-
g!er strong IN his weakness: his little arms
more irresistible than The soldiers; his lips
touched with persuasion, which Chatham
and Periclss IN manhood had noL-Emer-
son
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

Mrs. buckingham, the richest woman
-ruit farmer in California, has an orchard a
mile long. with row after row OF pear,
cherry, peach and apricot trees chicago
Herald
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17
Expensive Young Ladies' in Atlanta.

Expensive houhs Lauies IN Atlanta.
The most expensive young ladies in At
anta spend about 500 a year each for
dresses, and when one OF these lovely Great
ures has wedding, they say her father is
lucky if he comes out of it for less than
IL, ,00. Atlanta Constitution.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17
HALF-CENT A WORD.
PER CENT MORTGAGES

EOR SALE-A NEW HOWE SEW
L ing machine with all the modern improve
ments. Enquire ut ARGUS office.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17

The coarsest father gains a new impulse
to labor from the moment OF his baby 5
birth, he scarcely sees il when awake, and
Yet it Is with him all the time Every
stroke he strikes is Tor his child. -Higgin-
SON
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-06-17
ENTERED TokoW.
The Clubs that will Participate In the
Mississippi valley Contest
nj Mnliue

A fine list of entries has been pre-
pared for the regatta of the Mississippi
Valley Amateur Rowing association at
Molina next Wednesday and Thursday
The naRes of the clubs entered are ap
pended;\
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
For "THE UNION"
The Word of Life.
"Whosoever ,ciH lose his life for my sake shall
find it,"

"Whosoever ,ciU lose his life for my sake shall
find it,"
Men, signing, say: "Our lives depart;
We cannot keep one precious day,
Though every slant, receding ray
Pierce like an arrow through the heart.
'sWith lettering pace our childhood went;
Like singing birds our youthful days
Flew swift beyond the yelling haze,
And soon will manhood's strength be spent"
Leaning on Him of old, who spake
Words that the centuries have told,
I, his disciple, will make bold
An echo of His truth to wake.
Within the soul power lives
To keep its life forevermore,
And walk rich laden to Heavens door
With all the wealth that earth-life gives.
But like riddle dim and strange
The words of hard condition read;
No life is won in very deed
Save by life lost in exchange.
Flowers yield their breath in gentle wise,
The great sun throws his glory down,
And neither fragrant flower nor sun
Could be, without the sacrifice.
Deep Human Heart, the secret read,
Lose and be evermore content
To see thy strength and sweetness spent;
Of them the dear Lords world hath need.
And when in sunset glory dying,
Earth's light shall fade before their eyes,
Upon thy raptured sight shall rise
The day, this twilight world outlying.
And in they soul shall childhood's faith,
Youths earnest love and burning zeal,
All good, that manhood's years reveal,
Laugh at the poweress aim of Death.
And thou shalt know that earth's revolving,
Brought loss of naught but night and death,
And the sharp pains of parting breath
Were but of prison bands dissolving.
So in the heart, this word up-springing
Shall be we'll of endless life
This word that Christ, in mortal strife
Taught us, from Heavens own Language bringing
New OXFORD, Pa, 1885. j. S. G.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
StoOp-ShOuldered People.
Halls Journal of Health.


A stopping figure is not only famil-
lar expression of weakness or old age,
hut it is, when caused by careless hab-
its, a direct cause of contracted chest
and defective breathing. Unless you
rid Yourself of this crook while at school
you will probably go bent to your grave.
There is one good way to cure. Shoulder
braces will not help. One needs not
an artificial substitute, but some means
to develop the muscles whose duty IS to
hold the head and shoulders erect. l
know of but one bull's-eye shot. 1t IS
to carry weight on the head. A sheep
skin or other strong bag filled with 20
or 90 pounds of sand is good weight.
When engaged in your morning studies
either before or after breakfast, put the
bag of sand on your head, hold your
head erect, draw your chin close to
your neck, and walk slowly about the
room, coming back, if you please, ever
minute or two to your book, or carry
ing the book as you walk. The muscles
whose duty it is to hold the head and
shoulders erect are hit not with scatter
ing shot but with rifle ball. The bones
of the spine and the intervertebral sub
stance will soon accommodate them
selves to the new attitude. One yeal
of daily practice with the bag-half ar
hour morning and evening--will give
you noble carriage, without interior
ing moment with your studies.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
The Wrong Girl.

His name was Augustus Smythe; he
was clerk in the dry goods store and
did not earn enough to starve decently
on, but with that sublime assurance
which distinguishes the lah-de dan young
man of the period, he was paying atten-
ton to tie prettiest girl in Detroit. He
managed by not paying his washerwo-
man and tailor to take her to the operas
and theatres, but as times were getting
hard he concluded to marry her and
save the expense of boarding. By some
process of mental arithmetic known to
the genus he decided that what was not
enough for one was enough for two,
and forthwith he concluded to pop.
He knew that his persistent visits had
kept other young men away, and so he
had no fears of rival. When the time
came and he found himself in the COM
pany of his Laura in her papa's COM
Portable parlor, he leisurely seated him
self by her on the sofa, took her little
dimpled hand used only to Jingle the
piano with, and said in bronze yaice;.-
Dear Miss Laura, | have concluded
to marry
Laura started, as he had intended she
should Then he resumed, grandilo-
quently: 4 want dear little cir! about
your size, with great big heart, just
like yours, to share my lot.
1T is on Jefferson avenue7' murmur-
ed Laura
NO, dearest, it is on Croghann street,
but what are localities to hearts that
love? l want girl who is good tenn
pered, smart, economical, and who
loves me. Darling, do you know of
such one?'
Laura, family: yes, oh yes, I'm
sure | do
'One who would rather live with me
in poverty than dwell with some others
in riches? Who would esteem it a
pleasure to serve me, cook my meals,
keep the house tidy and listen for my
footsteps? who would rise early and sit
up late for my sake2'
%, how beautiful, murmured Laura,
Just like dear, self sacrificing man.
DO you know such one my angelo
'Yes, l do responded Laura. fer,
vently; but you must not call me an
gel, for she's in the kitchen now wash
ing dishes, and she told mother this
morning that she'd just as leave get
married this winter as live out, if she
only felt able to support husband.
She just the girl you want, and she'll
love you within an inch of your life.
But Augustus Smythe has fled into
the outer darkness; the too muchness
of the occasion overcame him like
summer cloud.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
Don't Undervalue the Boy.

The following sound reasoning we
find in the american Agy7cuAnrzSt. 1t
would be benefit to both fathers and
their sons if its precepts were more
often regarded.
Too many men make their boys feel
that they are of little or no account
while they are boys. Lay response
bility on boy, and he will msS,'>N
| a .1aanful opirit. On 10 accoz.sr-.s
their disposition to investigate. Help
them to understand things. Encourage
them to know what they are about. We
are too apt to treat boys seeking after
knowledge as mere idle curiosity. Don't
ask questions is poor advice to boys.
If you do not explain pulling things to
them, you obhge them, to make many
experiments before they find out; and
though experimental knowledge is best
in one sense, in another it is not, for
that which can be explained clearly
does not need experimenting with. If
the principle involved is understood,
there is no further trouble, and the boy
can go ahead intelligently.
Do not wait for the boy to grow up
before you begin to treat him as an
equal A proper amount OF confidence,
and words of encouragement and advice,
and giving him to understand that you
trust him in many ways, helps to make
man of him long before he is a man
in either stature or years.
The Rastnn- Z01aUaL at Commerce also
makes good suggestion TO parents
apropos to the above.
Give him tools, says the writer, and
let him find out for himself whether he
has got any mechanical taste or not.
Do not discourage him, as parents are
apt to do, by saying: 'Oh, 1t is no use
for you to try to do anything with tools.
| never have any taste that way, aud OF
course you have not If boy finds
he can make a few articles with his
hand, it tends to make him rely on him
self. And the planning that is neces-
sary for the execution of the work is a
discipline and an education of great
value to him. The future welfare and
happiness of the boy depends on the
surroundings of his youth. When he
arrives at that period in his life when ne
is obliged to choose what profession or
what line of business to follow, it is
highly important that he should take
no false step. And if in his youth he
has cultivated a taste for any particular
branch, the choice of profession OF
business will be made more easy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22

sa~ Daughter-'What is the subject
of this piece of sculpture2 1t is beau
tiful.' Mother-'I'm sure l don't know,
dear Bystander with cold in the
head, overhearing)-'Id's Nydia from
Bompeii' Mother-'He says it's an
idiot from Bombay
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
Mistakes of Life.

Somebody, says an exchange, has
condensed the mistakes of life, and ar
rived at the conclusion that there are
fourteen of them. Most people would
say, if they told the truth, that there was
no limit to the mistakes of life; that
they were like the drops in the ocean
or sands of the shore in number, but it
is we'll to be accurate. Here, then, are
fourteen great mistakes: 1T is great
mistake to set up our own standard of
right and wrong, and judge people ac-
cordingly; to measure the enjoyment
of others by our own; to expect uni
formity of opinion in this world to
look for judgment and experience in
youth; to endeavor to mould all dispo-
sitions alike; to yield to immaterial
trihes; to look for perfection in our own
actions; to worry ourselves and others
with what cannot be remedied ; not to
alleviate all that needs alienation as far
as lies in our power; not to make al
lowances for the in6rmities of Others;
to consider everything impossible that
we cannot perform; to believe only
what our finite minds can grasp; to ex-
pect to be able to understand every
thing
Rk9FNo woman ever answers a call by
telephone without smoothing down her
hair, working up smile, and trying to
make good impression on the trans
mitter.
Bar Mother, kin a noun be compar-
ed?' No, Johnny 'I'll bet | know
one that kim We'll, what is it1
Sarah, Sally, sallivate.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22

nG~'Do you know of any mitigating
circumstances in your case? said a
Texas justice to Sam Johnsing, accused
of stealing.
Lemme off dis time
1T is your first offense?'
sFust offense, sah.
'IIow did you manage to get the
chickens so cleverly without disturbing
the dog that was in the yardP'
Dat comes from practice, boss, said
Sam, who felt fattered by the remarks
of the court.
, 1886-04-21

Congressman Whiting, Of Holyoke,
make a little speech recently alta dinner
in New York, and in the course of his
remarks upon the influence of paper he
stated this incident: THE introduction
of blue paper is another interesting item.
The owner Of a small mill in England
wen to London to sell his product, leav-
ing his wife at home. 1t was washing
day-presumably Monday-and the good
wife had a ~bluing-bag tied to her apron,
She visited the mill and, leaning over the
engine, dropped her bluing-bag, and in
stead Of white paper she had lot Of blue
paper. She met her husband upon his
return with a good deal of apprehension,
and informed him of the misfortune. He
felt as If a serious mistake had been
made until he sent the product to market
and received 8 cents per pound more
than for his usual article, and thereafter
his mill was run on blue paper, and it
brought him a fortune. Chicago Times.
, 1886-04-21

That a nature SO gentle and amiable az
longfeilow's should ave been subjected
to bereavement in the most tragic and
appalling form seems a stroke of fate as
cruel as the brutal bruising Of a flower.
The catastrophe is thus recounted by his
~biographer: -On the 9th OF July his wife
was sitting in the library with her two
little girls engaged in sealing up some
small packages OF their curls, which she
had just cut off. From a match fallen
upon the floor her light summer dress
caught fire; the shock was too great, and
she died the next morning. Three days
later her burial took place at Mount Au-
burn. IL was the anniversary of her
marriage day, and on her beautiful head,
lovely and unmarried in death, some hand
had placed a wreath Of orange blossoms.
Her husband was not there-confined TO
his chamber by the severe burns which
he had himself received.
These wounds healed with time; time
could only assauge, never heal, the
deeper wounds that burned within. He
bore his grief in silence; only after
months had passed could be speak OF it,
and hen only in fewest words. To a
visitor who expressed a hope that he
might be enabled to bear his cross with
patience, he replied; Bear the cross,
yes; but what If one is stretched upon itT
When-not till five years later-he began
again to write verses of his own, it is
only infrequent phrases and lines that
reveal the sorrow lying ever at his heart.
New York Sun.
, 1886-04-21

Some curious researches have recently
been undertaken by Swiss and Swedish
physicians on the color of the eyes, but
without any apparent purpose. For con-
venience all eyes were divided in blue
or brown, the various shades Of gray
eyes being classified according to the
prominence of blue or brown in their
color. Some of the conclusions from a
great many observations are these: That
women with brown eyes have better
prospects of marriage than those with
blue; that the average Of number Of chill
dren is greater with parents whose eyes
are dissimilar. In children both Of whose
parents have blue eyes, 93 per cent. in
herit blue eyes; but in children both Of
whose parents have brown eyes, only 80
per cent. have brown eyes. The above
results were reached in Switzerland. In
Sweden the discoveries were not quite
the same. The women with brown eyes
were more numerous there than the men
with brown eyes, but brown eyes are APP
parentiy increasing there as in Switzer-
land.-Philadelphia Ledger.
, 1886-04-21

GhAfmA OF hAriy herman POETRY
The old Aryas has medicinal charm
for ruling the power OF nature, love
songs, songs celebrating heroes, choral
hymns and ceremonial music and dane
ing. The Oldest German lines Of poetry
are alliterative. All solemn legal pro-
ceedings were accompanied by poetry.
Oaths were sworn and sentence of banish-
ment pronounced in alliterative verse.
The early ALTERATION remains to this day
in such expressions as house and home,
spick and span, veal and woe, stock and
stone, kith and kin, bed and board,
wind and weather.
Heroic songs, were chanted by wander
ing minstrels in the days of Attila and
Charlemagne, but they are lost. The
epic singers of that age appeared before
an audience and acclaimed in musical
recitative. Germany has but one literary
fragment Of that day-the som of
Hildebrand. Small as is the fragment
left to us, it is a noble fruit, and from it
we may infer the grandeur Of the tree
which bore it." The German poets
learned to rhyme from the Roman ma
tons. The first traces of rhyme in Ger
many appear in the ninth century.
Beginning about the year 600 two Lam
guages. he High German and the Low
German, began to be formed. The author
says that among all the Teutonio lam
g,Iages. whether Of olden or more modern
times, none can compare for melody with
the Old High German, as seen in the
rhyming poets of the ninth century. 1t
Is rich in vowels, melodious and plastic
as Italian. The mother tongue of Charlie
magne was High German, and from that
monarch date the first connected records
in the German language.-History of
German Literature.
, 1886-04-21
The PROBLEM OF Lire.

! walk through the streets, | look up at
the sky,
I know no more than a babe at the
breast;
tremble and thrill with a vague unrest
To get at the heart of LIES mystery.
What does 1t avail that my thoughts go
out
Through the trackless wastes Of a star
gem'd space
II they bring nothing back to my dwell
ing place
But Pigments of error and Pigments of
doubtf
How do I know that the vanished and
dead
Have buuded them homes on that calm
azure scar
What is the faith Of another to met
Yet how can l live II live but by breadi
OH not for myself these hopes n these
fears,
think of the lives that went out long
ago;
think of the graves that are under the
And recompense seek for the value of
tears
The lips that have kissed, n the hearts
that have bled
For other torn hearts. And they who
made rhymes,
And all the great souls that ever rung
chimes
Through the loves OF the race-they nave
died. Are they deadf
This body SO intricatel How do we know
That the fair m flower matured by
the earth
birth
or a soul through the pangs of its infinite
woei -Woman's World.
, 1886-04-21

On Sunday last a blatant orator, adj
dressing a workingmen's meeting in New
York City, advised his hearers to pur-
chase arms and ammunition and thus pre-
pare themselves for future troubles, This
occurred in the course of what pretended
to be the discussion of the labor question,
but was in reality a fierce denunciation Of
things in general-and wholesale fault
finding with the universe. Such advice
is of a piece with the rabid rawlings of
Herr Most which. not long since, drove
an indignant public to question even the
right of free speech in the cause of anarchy
and crime. Such apostles of rapine are
wholly ignorant of American laws, enter
tain views wholly foreign to American in
stitutions, and wofnlly mistake the class
of Americans whom they address, when
they endeavor to stir up a hatred for or
der and peace. and to advocate the sub
version Of all personal and property
rights. The aim Of the American work
man is to better his condition and TO have
equal opportunities for SO doing by means
Of industry and thrift. He is what he
Processes himself, corks. and only com
plains Of unfairness in compensation allow
ed or the conditions exacted by cor
porate employers. More than this, he is
a citizen, and generally a patriot; has a
home or expects to have one, and to use
his savings for the aquisition of property.
Above all. he would scorn the alliance and
disdain the fellowship OF men whose OBJ
ject is destruction, and who proclaim that
property is crime. These crazy fanatics
have, in most instances, sought refuge
on our shores only to abuse the very laws
that protect their lives, and accord to
their venomous utterances the fullest free
dom. Not Satisfied with the civil liberty
which accords and guarantees equal politi-
cal rights to all, they would have uniyer-
sal license. Labor strikes, and other oc-
casions of discomfort afford them oppor-
tunity, but they are no more to be classed
among the ranks of honest w~orkingmen
than is the skulking thief whs seeks the
field to rob the slain, to be ranked with
the soldier. To creatures Of this stamp
may generally be traced the outrages
which SO often mark periods of disturb
ance and bring unmerited disgrace upon
men innocent of all criminal intent.
Speaking Of these Nihilist orators, a dis
tinguished writer has well said: ut is
idle to ask them what they mean; they
tell US plainly: they mean murder and
arson; they mean the disturbance of social
order, that anarchy may take its place.
To such a frenzy no answer is possible.
When these men begin to carry out their
threats we shall know exactly what to do
with them; and the business will be
speedily and thoroughly done"
, 1886-04-21
IMPORTATION OF ARTIFICIAL EYE,
The Finest Come from P.ris-Chat with n
DeAlor-Cost

The Finest Come from P~aris-Chatw with n
DeAlor-Cost-
Nearly all the artificial eyes used in this
country are imported from Europe. At
tempts have been made to manufacture
them here, but the industry has neve
fiourished. The finest eyes are made in
Paris, and good ones come from Ger
many N Switzerland. The eyes are
made Of glass. and are in the shape OF a
hollow hemisphere. The pupil is formed
OF colored glass, and its execution re-
quires the greatest skill on the part Of
the workmen. The white OF the eye is
initiated with wonderful accuracy. It is
Of cream white, yellowish white, blue
white, or any other shade so as to ex-
actly match the white of the remaining
real eye. Before the final glazing is put
on small red veins are traced with a PEN
Gil on the surface. There is a slight
ridge along the edges which enables the
muscles of the socket + take hold, and
move the ball.
Dealers in artificial eyes keep them in
separate boxes, which they call the blue
box, the black box, the brown box, and
30 on. These boxes contain eyes of all
sizes, from as large as a marble to one as
large as a pigeons egg.
A dealer in artificial eyes said: I'VE
fit the eyes to the sockets by heating and
softening the ball, and her cutting it
with hot scissors to the proper size and
shape. The hollow part fits over the
stump of the aye. When this is neatly
done the eye moves as readily as the
other eye, and it is difficult to tell which
one is glass. The great majority OF
artificial eyes are used by workmen,
especially those in iron foundries, where
many eyes are put out by sparks. 1t is
seldom that a woman has a glass eye.
Artificial eyes are used not only to
improve the appearance, but also to
protect the stump from injury, which
would be apt to affect the other eye. An
artificial eye costs IS, and lasts from one
to five years. 1t is acted upon by the
salt Of perspiration and Of tears, which
dulls and roughens the surface. For this
reason it is customary to take the eye
out at night, which also gives a rest to
the socket. II the lachrymal duct has
not been destroyed, a mar can cry as
well with an artificial eye as with a good
one."-New York Sun.
, 1886-04-21

The long and searching examination Of
Attorney General Garland by the Pan
Electric investigating committee has
elected nothing to the discredit of that
officer. or impeaching his official integrity.
There are few of the wealthier senators
and representatives who do not own stock
in some enterprise liable to be affected
either directly or indirectly by legislation,
but it would be a rash and sweeping
charge even to insinuate that public duty
must yield. in such cases, to the demands
of private interest After the successful,
though not altogether s~alutarY digestion
Of a herd Of camels it is sheer aifectation
to strain at an imaginary gnat.