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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

They showed me two things among many
down at the Joliet prison the other day that
linger with me like dash Of bitter in the
old lady's cup of sweetened tea. One was a
baby with face like young tough and an
inherited disposition like that the wolf cub
draws from its dam, which they were caring
for and rocking in a clean and pretty cradle,
while its depraved convict mother served
out her term for revolving crime. | gues-
ton the policy of warming and succoring
young rattlesnakes, but 1 go further back
and question the law that allows criminals to
propagate their species. If it is against
humanitarian usage to give such babes to the
heather huntsmen for crocodile bait, then,
for mercy's sake, get back of the humanita-
rian view of the matter, and make it against
The law for criminals to raise children.
1t seems an impractical thing to do, but is
it any more so than half the things accom-
plished in the march and progress of reforms
don't pretend to say how it can be done,
but know that if a lot of flesh devouring
wolves were loose on your prairies there
would be a a way found soon enough to cut
OFF the increase. A colony where the Off
spring Of bad men men and evil women could
be taken at birth and reared in habits of vir-
tue and industry at public expense, would
strike more telling blow for the abatement
of evil in the world than any mission work
or prison reform A glance about us at the
houses and the neghborhoods where the
worst children swarm is enough to make a
pessimlst out of anybody who looks into the
in Chicago Journal.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

pels would reject sooner than countrymen
the oldest merchants sign known to man.
Emblematic signs need pushing. They
ought TO be still good advertisement.
Why, some of them, particularly the life
figures, are works of art. There are wooden
and metallic Indians and beasts in stock that
pretentious sculptors would not be ashamed
Of. Look at that bulls head and at that
bust of Gambrinusl Look at the care and
timo il took TO carve even 50 simple thing
as gun and get it true to life Emblematic
signs are carved no more. Those that are
built are made of iron, either cast or spun.
A use for which some of them yet command
a good price is as weather vanes and as the
tops of fagstaffs. There are numerous men
in town who have expensive emblematic
vanes on their stables | heard of one man
who took his indoors at night 1t was so
costly he WIS afraid !. would tempt thieves.
"But business in other kinds Of signs is
brisk enough he continued. I'VE make
them of wood iron, glass mirrors, porcelain,
copper, wire, silk, velvet and plush. The
signs in this city, as whole, are second in
artisticness only to those in New York, and
that city's signs. are second to none. The
tendency is all toward display, with as much
guess how many hundreds of thousands Of
dollars worth of gold leaf the signmakers Of
the country use up in year. Carved signs
are the most expensive. It's no uncommon
thing for a merchant to plaster 81 800 to
81, 900 worth of signs on tho front of his
store &C Chicago Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Dynamite, when handled with ordinary
| care, is not nearly so dangerous an explosive
as ordinary gunpowder. In fact, dynamite
does not explode easily, but requires "a sharp
detonation to cause it to exhibits its immense
strength To fire dynamite a illuminate cap
is employed, which is itself exploded by an
electric current from what is known as a
ratchet machine The electric current in its
passage through a small portion of platinum
wire in the cap raises the temperature of the
platinum to white heat. This igntes the
illuminate, which detonates, striking the
dynamite cartridges with a blow of about
700 pounds, and exploding them. An ordi-
nary blow with pick or iron drill will not ex-
plode dynamite cartridge, but will explode
the cap.
The whole source of danger lies in the fact
that the men using the explosive do not I'M
derstand that it is the cap and firing machine
they must handle with care. properly
prepared and electrically connected charge
will seldom if ever fail to explode Careless
ness in connecting the wires from the caps
and in giving the firing machine more work
than it can do, often results in leaving por-
tion Of the charge unexploded to the immi-
neut danger of the men on resuming work
The employment of dynamite in all rock
work has been carried to such an extent in
recent years that ordinary miners, men who
from the nature of their education are totally
unable to comprehend the requirements for
absolute safety, and allowed to place and fire
charges. This is all wrong and should be
prohibited by law. No one unfamiliar with
the requirements should be allowed to under
take such work. Putting ignorant and care
less men in position to handle any of the
modern high explosives is almost certain to
result in disastrous explosion and the con-
sequent killing or manning of number of
men too ignorant to protect themselves
George H. Benjamin in New York Tribune.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
NEW YoRKs WINTER eAa.EN.
Bermuda's Great Profit in Raising Early
Vegetables for the MetropolIs.

Bermuda's Great Profit in Raising Early
| Vegetables for the Metropolis.
Bermuda, the winter paradise of the guide
| books, possesses deeper interest for the ma
| jority OF New Workers than as a pleasure
| resort aIcne. 1t supplies the wealthy with
| fresh vegetables in winter There are
| thousand who eat Bermuda potatoes, Ber-
muda onions and Bermuda beets to one who
goes to bask in the genial climate of the
| island. Although the Bermudas are in about
the same latitude as Charleston, the prox
unity of the Gulf Stream gives them warm,
moist climate that wonderfully stimulates
vegetation The soil is very rich, and all
| conditions combine TO make the islands the
most perfect garden spot in the world The
statistics of the production of the Bermudas
are something startling.
The principal island of the group is shaped
somewhat like the letter s, and is only
twenty-five miles long, following its curves,
or eighteen miles as the crow flies. AT its
widest part the distance across the island is
only one and a half miles The total area is
12,37S acres, of which not over 400 acres
are cultivated. The remainder is made up
of rugged hillsides and timber land The
soil suitable for gardening lies in pockets
and basins, and the largest plots cultivated
do not exceed four acres each. SO prolific
are the 400 acres that the wants of the
population Of $1,000 people are supplied, and
in one year produce valued at over $500 600
was exported
The island is divided into small farms Of
from twenty to thirty acres each. The land
is valued at from $50 to $3.50 per acre, and
farms of twenty five acres with good dwell
ing and outbuildings rent for $500 year. A
little over half of the population are negroes
Tho whites first came to the island from
Virginia, but have been largely increased
by English settlers in recent years. Fruits
and grain are raised for home consumption,
but the chief occupation is vegetable grow
ing. The Bermuda onions, which are cele-
brated for their mild flavor, large size and
handsome appearance, are planted in hot
beds in October. In December they are
transplanted in the open fields, and the first
bulbs are shipped to this market about the
middle of March. The potatoes and beets
are planted in December and January. Some
of the roots are pulled and shipped as early
as the first Of March, and by the end of the
month these vegetables are at their best. The
tomato crop is planted in December, set out
in January, and ripens from the middle of
March until June. The largest production
in any one year was in 1882 The average
value of the crop exported is S400,0 900 Ninety
per cent. of all the produce shipped comes to
New York.-New York Mail and Express.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Aropos of "reminiscences concerning Gen.
Grant is this, which comes from his old
home in Gnlena
Gen. Smith, one of the old residents of the
place. was at dinner one day, before the war
was fairly inaugurated, when a servant an
nounced:
some one to see you, sir"
"A gentleman, Jamesn
"Well, no, sir; he's just common man. |
gave him a chair in the hail.
The common man" was the tanner Grant,
the future commander in chief of the army
of America.
A few years later two gentlemen called on
a young man who was located in Chicago
boarding house. Two pieces of pasteboard
were sent to his room; on one was written in
pencil the name U. s. Grant. The other
bore the cognomen of Gen. Grants friend
and chum, j. Russell Jones'
The young man on whom Gen. Grant was
calling was Eugene Smith, the son of Gen.
Smith, of Galena. The common mans
name was then foremost in the world.
At one time the ladies of c certain church
in Galena gave series of tea parties for
some charitable organization Mrs. U. s.
Grant belonged to the church circle, but
would not give the tea party.
~ haven't a whole set of china in the
house. she said in excuse, land l viii not
ask company to eat off broken or nicked
dishes Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
IOWA's OBNOXIOUS LAW.
a Rock Island Case brings Out some
OF It's Most Infamous 'Features---
The kohn a Adier,suit In the Fed

The kohn d AdIer,suit In the Fed
eraI Court.
The SUIT of Kohn & Adler. late whole
sale liquor dealers in this city, against
Foster g. Strait, of Atlantic, Iowa, cre>
ated furore in Judge Loves federal
court in Council Bluffs the other day, and
threw the judge himself into a state of
wrathful indignation.
This firm of Foster g. Strait, drug
gists, began in 1889, to.purchase liquors
of Kohn s. Adler-snd continued to do
so up TO July Z, 1885. The accounts
during this period amounted to So, 800.
Payments reduced this sum to $319 .75.
for which note was given in settle
ment. Suit on this note was begun in
the state court and.ths case was subse.
quently transferred to the federal court
The defense of the Atlantic druggists
is that the note was void under the Iowa
law, because the consideration was in~
toxcating liquor. MOI only do they seek
to get out of the honest debt, but they
also have q counter claim by which they
demand E. judgment against the plaintiffs
for the amount of money paid on account
So, 4S0. So. In other words, after get
ting the liquor and selling it, they now
want to recover in addition what they
paid for it, and to avoid payment of the
sum they still owe. The Iowa law per
mits just this sort of villainy. In fact it
directly encourages and promotes it.
Not only is the law such, but the SUI
preme court of the state has a number of
times upheld the swindling statute.
In this condition the case came before
Judge Love in the United States circuit
court at Council Bluffs. and what hap
pened is best told in the following report
of the Omaha Republican:
The case came up for trial at the term
of the United States district court last
week, having been transferred from the
state court. The parties appeared and
waived jury trial. agreeing to submit
the case to Judge Loves The trial was
commenced and considerable evidence
was introduced before the court took re-
cess. Upon converting again, the case
was taken up, but before the first wit
ness had finished Judge Love stopped
the case and burst out with bitter exc
Grafton of the liquor law upon this point.
declaring it to be so infamous and unjust
and contrary to equity that he could not
conscentiously try the case; that while
strictly speaking the party might be en-
titled to recover back the 2,4G0, yet he
could not conscientiously try case un>
der such law. 1t WAS a question of
fact and must be tried by jury. He him
self would be party to no such outra
geous proceeding. He ordered the case
continued until next term. This break
on the part of the court created quite a
considerable excitement, and there has
been a great deal OF comment on his ac~
ton. There are not few of the legal
fraternity who agree with his honor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

The Dixon Sun voices these whole
some truths:
Whether the Hennepin canal is built
during the present generation or not,
there seems to be disposition in con-
gress to give periodical employment to
surveyors aud civil engineers in that
line. The report of the committee, pre-
scented about a week ago, favors another
survey for the canal and sppropriates
$50, 600 for that purpose. What another
sorvey can establish beyond what has
already been shown, it is hard to see
Previous surveys have abundantly prov>
en- the feasibility and established the ap
proximate cost of the canal. Its de,
sirabilitY-nay, its necessity, has been
shown in accumulated reports Some
congress will recognize the importance
of this internal improvement, connecting
by the most direct rohte the Mississippi
with the great chain of lakes.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

1t WINS way back in the fifties when "Alad-
DIM was having run at the old Bowery
theatre that John Williams, now the property
man at the Academy of Music, then boy,
conceived the idea of having some sport with
the supers who composed the army of the
Chinese emperor. Suspended over the center
OF the stage in those days was a property
elephant, stuffed with straw and sawdust.
and which, from long disuse, had become
almost pulp from dry rot. When the army
of supers were being unanswered on the stage
Williams slipped aloft and cut the ropes
Down came the elephant and, bursting into
a Thousand fragments, completely enyeloped
the army in cloud of dust and straw. The
supers were put to flight and the action of
the play suspended for the moment. Search
was made for the culprit but when found be
pretended sleep and SO stOutly denied his
guilt as to carry conviction OF his innocence
1t was not until some months later the truth
was known-New York World.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
lie Consumption Incurab,e?

Read the following: Mr. G. Ii. Nor
ris, Newark, Ark. :, says: WAS down
with abcess of lungs, and friends and
physicians pronounced me an incurable
consumptive. Began taking DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, am
now on my third bottle, and able to over
see the work on my farm, II is the fin
est medicine ever made"
jesse Middlewart. Decatur, Ohio, says
Had it not been for DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption l would have
died of lung troubles. Was given up by
doctors. Am now in best of health.
Try 1T. Sample bottles free at Hsrtz &
Bshnsen's drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
A slGNMAKeR's LAMENT.


Decay of Branch of the Painting Bush
ness-Works of Art.
Any person anxious to know what has be-
come of the majority of the emblematic signs
which ten or fifteen years ago hung half
dozen in every block should visit any large
signmaker's workshop. The once familiar
wineseller's bunch of grapes, the glovers
hand, the locksmith's key, the carpenters
saw, the blackslniths mighty arm, the
butchers boar's head, the hundred and one
figures that formerly stood in front of tobac-
conists' shops inviting customers to enter,
are all on dusty shelves in the storerooms.
"They are all gone out. said u signmaker,
ruefully looking over his collection True,
the idea of painting tobacconists' signs white
and making them look weird and ghost like
revived that particular sign for a time and
brought back same of its old time effective
ness, but emblematic signs in general belong
to the past About all we sell nowadays are
mortars, boots and clocks Singularly
enough the demand for them is not from
country houses, but from the city. One
would think that city people in the hunt for
originality that business competition COM
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

SO ran the dire warning which Dante
read on the portals Of this Inferno. So
runs the cruel verdict of your friends if
you are "vertakeR by the first symptoms
of that terrible disease, consumption.
"Leave hope behind! You days are
numbered And The struggle against
death is given up in despair. But while
there is life there is hope! DR.. Plorce's
Golden Medical Discovery has cured
hundreds Of cases worse than yours, and
it will cure you. if taken in time. But
delay is dangerous. No power can re-
store a wasted lung; the Golden Medical
Discovery however, can and will arrest
the disease.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Here comes striding through the press a
gaunt, wild looking specter nude to the
waist, his huge bones seeming to start
through his brown. leathery skim and his
fierce, black eyes gluring out beneath for
est of shaggy hair. There, with the slow
step and stately bearing of u man who knows
his own Importance, comes a tall form with
the shaven crown, long yellow robe, and red
fan of a Buddhist priest, carrying me back
in a moment to tho barbaric temples and
island monasteries of siam. Then, perched
in the eastern fashion astride of its mothers
hip, with her arm around it, appears a native
child-the prettiest little bronze statuette
imaginable-with huge silver bangles glitter
ing upon the dark skin of its tiny wrists and
ankles, and all its splendid white teeth dis
played in a constant laugh of wondering en-
ioyment at the surrounding stir and hustle.
And now we might appropriately Eing
"The Tamils are Coming" for round the cor
ner file perfect battalion of the famous
Malabar race whose conquest of Ceylon ages
ago is one of the chief landmarks in its
stormy history. Their snow white turban3
and spotless tunics look delightfully."- cool and
fresh in the blistering glare of the MONDAY
sun; but their faces, though smooth and
sleek as that of a Greek statue, have an I'M
mistakable coarseness in the outline of their
broad, blunt noses and thick lips which would
contrast very unfavorably with the small,
delicate, sharply cut features of genuine
Hindoo. Next passes at all Malay in the white
'bajun (jackeD and particolored ''sarong"
(close fitting skirt of his national costume,
looking doubly picturesque by contrast with
the queer nondescript garb of a group of half
caste women, whose shabby black European
gowns and i'll shaped hats add something even
to the ugliness which bountiful nature has so
lavishly bestowed upon them. Then adj
vances a short, stout Cingalese, whose thick
black hair is gathered into kind of club on
the top of his head and fastened there with a
huge crescent shaped comb of tortoise SHE'LL
Ccylon Cor New York Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

This remedy is becoming so vel
known and so popular as to need M
SPECIAL mention. All who have useC
Electric Bitters sing the same song o
praise. A purer medicine does not exs
and it is guaranteed to do all that il
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diseases of the liver and kidneys, will re-
move pimples, boils, salt rheum and 9th
er affections caused by impure blood
viii drive malaria from the system anC
prevent as well as cure all mslarial fe'
vers. For cure Of headache, constlpa'
ton and indigestion Try Electric Bitters
Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded, Price SO cents and 81 pei
bottle at Hartz & Bahnsen's drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Time tried and true is DR.. Bi@elOw's
cure, which combines the good qualities
of all the hest cough remedies, without
the defects of any of them. II cures
promptly and permanently coughs, colds,
Group, whopping cough, influenza, hroni-
chitls, hoarseness, incipient consumption.
and all throat and lung diseases, healing
the lungs. Safe and pleasant for chtldS
rem. Price, 50 cents and 81, of drug
gists
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
Are there any such In Rock island ?

An exchange draws a comparison on q
subject applicable, more or less, to every
town; BLESSED is the man who stitch
not in the seat Of the kicker nor mingles
himself in the congregation of the moss
back, but his delight is new railroads and
brick blocks and in schemes to build up
himself and his own town. And he hall
be like an evergreen tree planted by the
river of waters; his leaf shall not wither
in the early fall like the cottonwood, for
the Eli Of the boomer shall get there,
but the kickers shall be left to hold the
bag"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

What pure air is to an unhealthy local
ity, what spring cleaning is to neat
housekeerer, so is Hoods Sarsaparilla to
everybody, at this season. The body
needs to be thoroughly renovated, the
blood purified and vitalized. the germs of
disease destroyed. Scrofula. Salt Rheum
and all other blood disorders are cured by
Hoods Sarsaparilla. the most popular
and successful spring medicine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
BucKLEN's ARNIcA sALyE.

The best salve in the world for cats,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chiibiains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price % cents per
box. For sale by Hartz g. Bahnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

A philanthropist in London estab-
lshed a spectacle mission. where poor
printers. tailors, shoemakers and seam
stresses can have their eyes tried and OBJ
tain spectacles for little or nothing.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

The best on earth can truly be said OF
Grigg's Glycerine SAlve, which is o sure,
safe and speedy cure for cuts, bruises,
scalds, burns wounds and all other sores
viii positively cure piles, letter and ali
skin eruption. Try this wonder healer.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refund
ed. Only % cents Sold bv druggists
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
WILLIAM Ii, WADE.

TToRNEY AT LAw-Solcitor in Chancery
IL and Notary Plblc: Collections promptly at
tended to office in Col. Curtis office, Second avo
nue. and Eighteenth street. feb 13dwGn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

A new sort of pavement consisting of
alternate hard and soft blocks gives a
surface which will never grow smooth
and slippery.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

A correspondent who writes from Hon>
duras says that more than $4,000. 900 of
American capital is invested in gold
mines in that country.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Insure in the Boylston Insurance Co. of
Boston, Mass, organized 1872. Assets
nearly 81 100000. E. w. Hurst, agent,
Office over Rock Island National Bank.
Barth Babcock, Dentists.
No, 1874 Second avenue. Special stten
ton paid to saving the natural teeth and
inserting teeth without plates
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

as there anyone in this town named
Afternoon" inquired a Mississippi post
master, as he held up letter directed
up M
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

ST. LUKE'S COTTAGE HOSPITAL,
IN THIRD AVENUE, between Tenth and
UElevcnth streets, feb 14-tf
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Tenderness makes a woman grateful; a
noble manhood compels all her deep In
stincts of love.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20
GABLE BRANCH

Accommodation trains leave Rock Island At6:OO
A m. and 80 p. m; arrive at2:05 a. IN. and $40
o. m.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-20

Will pay for THE WEEKLY SENTINEL p,,,
after the Presidential election. Addres J.
THE INDIANAPOLIS sPFSISEh