Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-18
MOLINE E.

Col ]. W. Hartzel is in Chicago on
business.
Ye old folks will have a dance in
Armory hall on Christmas eve.
DR.. McKinnie and family have returns
ed, and are stopping a: the Keator house
The Moline schools will suspend for
Christmas vacation on Thursday evening
| next.
Toboggan slide, north of postoftice, in
| full blast day and evening. Electric
| lights and accommodations for all visi>
| tors.
Prof. F. L. Andrews, an Englishmsn,
will lecture in Wagners opera house, on
Sunday afternoon. His subject will be
Liberty and Law.
The rooms for ladies and gentlemen on
each side of the entrance to the Sylvan
rink are being moved to the shore this
morning The weight of the stones and
| lumber was too much for the ice.
| The Union street car line has had no
trouble with their track for over week
All the defective parts are being remedied
and the motors run as smoothly and with
as little noise as one of the passenger
cars. They run from Eleventh street in
Moline to Elm street in Rock Island, in
about seven minutes.
| Rock Island may boast of Mansill
and think it is far ahead of the neighbor.
| ing cities. Moline is willing to give her
| all the honor that she deserves. but has
| determined to no longer hide from the
world the fact that il also has philoso-
pher of whom it is justly proud. Here,
here. the greatest mistake of Moses was
when he said; dust thou art and unto
dust thou shalt return He should have
said air thou art and unto air thou shalt
return, tor not only the human being, but
every other organic animal and even the
dust ITSELF grew from the ait. The earth
grew from the atmosphere and it is still
growing, and is 80 feet more in diameter
now, than it was LOCO years ago. The
time shall come when the earth will have
sbsolved the whole atmosphere and be-
come one of the cold planets with no life
in it." This is from Professor Wixon.
There was quite respectable gather
ing in Y. NJ. c. A hall Thursday night
to hear ey-Gov. St. John on his pet
theme prohibition The gentleman
appeared to be IN excellent health and
spirits, knocking the democrats and re-
| publicans right and left, especially the
latter for violating promises they had
given previous to the last election, to put
a prohibition plank in their platform
| He prophesies that in IS this psrtv will
try and get into power with a church on
one shoulder and a saloon on the other,
and be badly beaten by the democrats,
who will oppose all sumptuary laws
openly and honestly, thereby winning
the respect, if not the confidence of the
prohi bitionists. An open and brave foe
is pre- fersble to pretended friend ready
to betray, and hypocrisy in man or party
is mean and dispicabie trait of character.
He said his party had gained one hund>
red per cent. in votes SINCE 1884, and
were making much faster strides toward
the object of their desires than did the
old abolition party in the same time.
60 back to those days when it was a
crime to feed colored boy in Illinois,
read a strong speech against the insti>
tuition of slavery. blot out abolition, in
seIt prohibition and you have it all
right" st. John is in favor of woman
suffrage, and wants not only the women
but the children to vote