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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-18
PRESIDENTIAL POVERTY.
THE WHITE HOUSE NOT THE PLACE
FOR MONEY MAKING.

Jefferson Died in Debt-une of the Wash
ington Family Peddling Trinkets-The
Adamses as Money Savers-Andrew Jack
son-Buchanan-Fillm
Most of the presidents have died poor, and
few of them have made much out of Office
holding. Just before jefferson died he was
SO much in debt that lottery scheme was
gotten up to sell his property and relieve his
necessities. He left practically nothing to
his children, and they received some two
sums of $4,000 each from the legislatures of
two of the southern states.
John Tyler left some property, but it all
went to his second wife One of his sons,
Gen John Tyler, who drove four-in-hand
while his father was in the White House, and
who was then called the handsomest man in
Washington, lives off position in the treas
ury department, and one of Tyler's most ac-
complished daughters, Il lady who presided
over the executive mansion after her mothers
death and until her father married Julia
Gardner, is guest of COrcoran's Old Ladies'
Home here. A man who claims to he one OF
the Washington family, and who, by the
way, has a face strkingly like that of the
president, peddles trinkets in little booth in
the pension building. Dolly Madison, tho
last days, furnished food by colored man
who had been in President Madison's service,
She got however, a large sum of money from
congress for Madisons papers, and it was this
that eased her declining years
PRESIDENT MoNRogs POVERTY.
Monroe was so poor that his latter days
were spent with his son-in-law, Samuel L.
Gouverneur, in New York. and there he
died. Harrison left nothing to speak of.
Polk left about Sl500OO, including Polk
place at Nashville, where his widow now
lives. 1t is valuable block of ground in
the center of the town, which has risen
largely in value since the presidents death.
Martin Van Buren, made money out of
politics. He started life poor and died well
to do. One estimate puts his estate at $780,
600, and he made money in real estate as
well as in the law. Both of the Adamses
were money savers, if not money makers.
The letters of John Adams, the second presi-
dent, to his wife, Abigail, repeatedly urge
her to cut down the household expenses and
to practice economy. He lunchcd himself
on oat cake and lemonade, and he walked
far oftener than he rode.
John Quincy Adams received nearly $780,
600 from tho government in salaries during
his lifetime, and he possessed the Yankee
thrift The Adams family ut present is one
of the richest in New England, and | was
told at Kansas City that Charles Francis
Adams has more than 81 100000 invested in
real estate there He has railroad stocks
and bonds in addition, and he makes his
money breed like Australian rabbits.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-18
CATAR q H

CA1 AK "a Ez
is a disease o. the mucous membrane, generally
originating in the nasal passages and maintain
ing its stronghold In tue head. From this point
1t sends forth poisonous virus into the stomach
and tlTough the Gig tstive organs, COrrupting the
blood and reducing her Troublesome and dam
gerOus symtoms.
A particle is applied into e9Ch nostril and is
agreeable Price 50 cents ut druggists; by mail
registered, 60 cents. ELI BROS, New York
office 235 Greenwich street.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
How to Cure HiccOughing.

A company OF young people, who had
evidently visited the Wild West exhi-
bition on Staten Island, boarded the
train at the South Ferry station. They
were jolly set, and passed the time in
laughing and joking until the train
reached Grand street, when one of the
young women was seized with violent
hiccoughing. The attack was so aggra.
waited that it seemed as if the girl would
choke.
Various suggestions as to methods of
relief were offered. One told her to
hold her breath as long as she could.
She attempted it and did as directed un-
til she became actually livid, but she
could finally hold out no longer, and
gave vent to a mighty hiccough which
sounded like an explosion.
'T've got sure cure" irterjected one
of her companions, "and if you'll follow
my advice will guarantee its efficacy.
Will you do it2"
She hiccoughed an emphatic assent.
He then stood in the aisle and bade
her to face him She obeyed implicitly.
Next, he raised his arms straight above
his head and placed his hands so that
the tips of the fingers on one hand
barely rested on the finger tips of the
other. The blushing but desperate
maiden did likewise, much to the
amusement of the people in the car.
But the cure was effected, for moment
after her finger tips had touched the
spasm passed, and had not returned
when the party alighted at Twenty
third street.-NeaO York Telegram.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10

The C551aeoc Itn9S, in an article on the
Capital of China, says that beneath the
superficial quiet and order of Pekin
there are many evil agencies at work.
The banditttl, for example, think moth
ing of seizing honest folks and holding
them to ransom. Their special victims
are the silver porters. The currency
consists of large Jumps of silver, like
partially consumed halves of monster
oranges. The carriers are said to derive
heavy emoluments from their iudicious
handling of the metal while it is in
their care, but they have their own trials.
When one is known to be going on duty
the banditti waylay him, and if they sue
Ceed in beating his guards he may be
held to ransom amounting to half q
years profits. These wealthy porters
seek the protection of the Princes, as
traders did in Europe in the Middle
Ages. If prince lends a silver carrier
his cart and mule, in return for share
of the profits, the bandits will not care
to meddle with the august veh Gle
Sometimes prize fighters are hired to sit
on the shafts, and have to be extravag-
antly paid for their protection. Pick
pockets infest the city in every direction,
especially in wet weather. Ladies are
often the victims, even when riding in
carts, the thieves springing on top and
snatching the valuable head ornaments
of the Manchu ladies within, the driver
taking no notice for fear of his own skin.
The thieves have regular depots, where
stolen property is placed, and persons of
influence can generally recover what
they have lost if they are persistent
enough. Near one of the city gates is a
market where stolen goods are regularly
sold for one hour at daybreak. Spurious
articles are often offered at this place; a
man purchases roast duck, and finds
on arriving at home that it is only a
clever imitation in mud; and rain boots
are counterfeited in paper which melts
away when wetted. Gin the social ar
rangements of the Chinese the philoso-
ply of grin-and- -bear-it has been cult
waited to an extreme perfection, and is
! also, no doubt, archaic. Bystanders will
never interfere with the commiss on of a
crime in the open street in open day,
and the whole system of predatory
crime is tolerated, as verm;n is, as the
ordinary lot of humanity. In fact, foul
ness, impossible roads, defective laws,
and all other forms of suffering, are
borne with for want of the energy to re
Sist and overcome them, and not as is
sometimes supposed, because the people
really love these thinps.n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
THE LABOR WORLD,

ELECTRICIANS are everywhere over.
crowded.
THERE are now nearly Is, 900, 900 organized
vage-workers in the land.
In Philadelphia 4310 houses were built
against o670 last year to this date.
The telegraph operators are preparing ia
form another national organization.
AMOS j. CUMMINGS is talked of as Labor
candidate for Mayor of New York
AN immense car factory to employ $500
men is to be built at Duluth, Mich.
OVER $6500 has been contributed to the
Knight of Labor Educational Fund
A CONVENTION of iourneymen type found
ers was recently held in Philadelphia.
THREE new blast furnaces to cost S700 900
are to be erected at Birmingham, Ala.
BROOKLYN labor unions will carry only
American flags in their Labor Day pro
cession.
A COOPERATIVE broom factory has been
started at Harrisburg, Oregon, by the
Knights of Labor.
TENS of thousands of laborers in the New
England and Middle States are paid one dol
lar day and less.
THERE is heavy demand for machinery,
boilers, engines, tools, electrical appliances,
and builders materials in all centers
lhEhE are Ofo rules necessary IOr Uraln
mems guidance under the new system of the
Old Colony Railroad in Massachusetts,.
AN order has been received at a saw works
in Beaver Falls, Penn, for large planer
toothed circular saws for Burmah, India
A MACHINE has just been completed that
will revolutlonlze the cooper trade With il
three men will be able to make GOO barrels a
day.
CANADIAN cigar-makers average four dol.
lars per week. They are required to pay for
gas out of that sum, whether they use it or
not.
THE knights of Troy, N. Y, purchased
the State Armory in 1888. but have had to
let it drop through because of lack of funds
to pay for the structure.
THE capacity of a locomotive is seldom
rated by the horsepower, Lut rather by the
number of pounds or tons load it will haul at
given speed on a level or on a given grade.
A MANUAL training school at Cleveland,
Ohio, has 121 pupils who are taught in car
pentry, turning, pattern making and forg.
ing. There are about twenty such schools in
the country.
THE steam engine is at last to have a com,
petitor in the petroleum engine now in quite
general use in England, where it is giving
general satisfaction, even with cheap coal ia
compete with.
MICHIGAN lumbermen have Just made a
purchase of A., 600 trees, each over two feet
at the stump, in North Carolina, nearly ali
white wood. 1t will be RATED to Chattanooga,
Tenn, and cut up, $4,000 feet Q day, -.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
New Way to Get Money.

The inventor of one of the latest
swindles in New York usually represents
himself as an Englishman. He has de-
cided cockney accent, is always we'll
dressed, and presents very genteel ap-
pearance. When he thinks he has an
easy prey he approaches his victim with
an eyeglass in hand. From one rim the
pebble is missing. He explains that he
has just dropped the glass and shattered
it. The remaining glass is simply shade
for an eye that is totally blind, and by
the broken glass he is unable to see at
all. He is stranger in strange land,
and is, unfortunately, without money.
II the gentleman would kindly loan him
the amount with which to replace the
broken glass he will be able to return it
soon, for when he can see he will be en-.
abled to attend to remunerative business.
Then to cap the climax, the fraud gives
an illustration of his blindness by walk
ing against the wall, or a fence. or q
building, as the circumstances permit,
and humping his head. This generally
catches the victim, who goes down in the
pocket and brings forth some change,
ranging from ten cents up to dollar.
The blind fakir is profuse in thanks, and
feels his way out from the presence of his
henefactor only to lay in wait for another
victim.
For the last week he has heen plying
his business in the vicinity of the Grand
Central Depot. .--New YorR Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
ISLAND POND VERMONT, AUGUST 10, 1885, NO.
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Most great works are accomplished
slowly.
Moral strength is the highest kind of
health.
A friend should bear his friends in
irmities.
He who buys hath need of hundred
eyes, and he who sells hath enough of
one.
In adversely men must discover pru-
ience; in prosperity, folly and extrava
gance.
A merchant should familiari,e himself
With every line of goods which he
handles
The way to gain a good reputation is
20 endeayor to be what you desire to
Ippear.
Be content to do the things you can
md fret not because you cannot do ev-
,rything.
Seasons of depression in trade are gen.
rally followed by years of success and
prosperity.
AS long as woman has to work toIsup.
port government she should have voice
its management.
Some people talk so smoothly and
iuently that they almost seem to believe
what they say themselves.
1t is love by proxy when a woman ac.
;epts the advice of another man how
he shall treat her husband.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye
hat never blanches, the thought that
lever wanders, are the harbingers of
7iCtory.
Some things, after all come to the poor
hat can't get in at the doors of the rich,
whose money somehow blocks up the
entrance way.
To read aloud is to assure ones self of
what one is reading. There are people
who read very loud and who have the
appearance of giving themselves their
word of honor as to what they are pc
rusing.
The best preliminary preparation for
even the studies of specialist is lib
eral education Such an education con-
nects him with the wide circle of
yhought and knowledge, and saves him
from narrowness and hobbies. The man
who can do one thing best is usually a
man who could have done other things
we'll,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
new ENGLAND NEWS

John 1aggart, a farm hand, employed at
c. Ii. Baldwins in Worthwhile, Mess, was
severely injured by mad bull, and his re-
eovely is considered doubtful.
1t was the general opinion of the officers
who were Investigating the case that Miss
Gertrude b. Whitney, the postoffice employe
at Boston, who disappeared recently, had
gone to Montana to meet an old lover, but
this theory has been exploded by news from
that distant territory.
All of the 35 cases against the Boston &
Providence Railroad company arising out of
the BusSey bridge accident have been settled
without trial, and it is understood that the
whole cost to the company was about 81 ,000,-
200. The bills of physicians paid by the
company were in the vicinity of 100000 1t
has been stated that the fees of Mr.. Wins ow
Warren, who acted for the company in
settling claims, exceeded $4,000.
Miss Carrie B. Morse of Charlestown,
Mass, has been elected assistant in the Dow
er, N. FL high school at 5000 year. She is
graduate of Wellesley.
Moses Moore, fishing for an anchor at
Dover, N. H., drew up the body of John
O'Brien Of Hudson, Mass, who had been at
work on the water works. He fell in from
the wharf.
The New Bedford board of trade is still
pushing the matter of a Sunday evening
master Carpenter promises to ask for the reg
istered mail but does not wish to take any
steps for Sunday evening mail.
The city of Dover, n. H., not being able to
purchase the land needed for laying pipes
across fields and for building pumping sta
ton for the public water works now in pro-
cess of construction without paying exorbi-
tant prices, the city government has asked
the county commissioners to award the
damages.
A paper of much interest to antiquarians
has been unearthed at Portsmouth, N. H,
| and records the first attempt to establish a
| playhouse in the state. The document is da-
| ted 1862 and is petition to Governor Ben
ming Wentworth that he grant permission
| for the building of the theatre. 1t is signed
by influential citizens, including John Went
worth, afterward the famous governor.
| The petition was not granted, however as
| it was too much then for Puritan New Eng
land to initiate New York and Newport,
where the project originated. Several petit
tions were handed to Governor Wentworth
in opposition, and the question aroused hot
| discussion.
! At special election Mt Portland Me-, the
lease Of the Portland & Ogdensburg railway
| to the Maine Central railroad was ratified
by the inhabitants of the city. The vote was
light the total poll being only little over
1900 votes The majority in favor of the
lease was 067.
Mr.. George Small, a salesman in the en-
ploy of Taylor Bros, Bedford street, Boston,
who mysteriously disappeared last Novem-
ber, has been heard from. He is now at New
castle, Australia. AT the time of his dis
appearance he had misappropriated $500 of
| the firms money, and he has recently written
that, although he intends to return every
dollar of the money, he viii never return to
this country.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
How Storms are Made.

Our earth only receives a small frac-
tional part of the SUMS heat; but, what
ever that may be in the year, more or
less than the average, the entire surface
of our earth must feel and be subject to
the effects. And one thing is certain
namely, that year or series of years, of
excessive sun-heat will inevitably be
years and seasons of atmospheric dis
turbances, because increase of heat will
produce excess of evaporation, excess
of electric action, and, necessarily, exces-
sive precipitation and, during preva-
lence of this sun-heat, there must be
over limited areas violent storms both
summer and winter.
When very large areas of the atmos-
phere have been, by excess of heat,
brought into an unequal state, as large
areas of lower stratum of highly-heated
air and vapor, which is also intensely
electric, the conditions to produce sand
spouts, water-spouts and tornadoes, are
fully ripe. The upper and colder layer
of the atmosphere cannot cool the lower
highly-heated aud por-ladened stratum
so even and quickly as to prevent vents
in the form of tunnels forming from the
lower stratum to the higher stratum,
and causing a rupture which takes up
ward in pipe form, just as water in a
tank or basin, having a bottom means
of discharge by a pipe, flows out with a
whirlpool motion-in our northern
hemispere always in the direction of the
hands of clock-and so heated, highly
elect ic and excessively vapor-l laden at
mosphere breaks into the cold atmo-
sphere above when at the level of the
''dew point" invisible vapor becomes
visible, parting with its latent heat,
which so rarifies the air as to force some
of the condensed atmosphere in visible
cloud, mounting thousands of feet above
the condensed dew point and into a re-
gion above the highest peaks of the high
est mountain.
To feed this pipe, or, as in some cases,
pipes, the lower stratum flows'in from all
sides to rotate and ascend with the in
tense velocity of steam power, sufficient
to produce all the disastrous effects of
the widest tornado, there being almost
a vacuum at the ground or water line,
as the phenomena may be on the land or
over the sea- On the land trees are
twisted and uprooted, houses are un-
rooted, solids of various kinds are lifted
from the earth, and human beings have
been blown away like dead leaves.
There are, also, records of railway
wagons having been blown off the rails.
In deserts entire caravans have been
buried beneath a mountain of blown
sand--camels, horses and men; while in
Egypt there are ruins of cities, massive
temples and monuments deep buried in
the adjoining desert sand. At sea many
good ship caught by tornado has
been overwhelmed and sent to the bot
tom whole. Pull Mall Gazette.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
Mysterious Warnings. ].

We see and hear through the medium
of the whole body. Close Or bandage
your eyes ever so tightly, and if the
visual organs be healthy radiations of
light, and even forms and scenery. will
singly or panoramicaIly appear. Stop
the ears ever so we'll and still sound is
not shut out There have been well
accredited signalling warning appari-
tions to closed eyes, and the clairaudient
nerves have repeatedly, when the ears
have been artifcially stopped, heard
warning words. In their natural condi-
tion both eyes and ears have seen and
heard remarkable things. Lord Broug-
ham and John Wesley had their expert
ences, and Proctor, the astronomer, has
averred his belief in such marvels. The
American Psychical Society investigated
the case of man at Oil City, Penn,
who, on approaching a clock in his room
which had suddenly stopped, although
wound up, heard the voice OF his brother
at Grand Rapids, Mich, utter the words
"I'm gone, Pm gone" The next day he
received telegram that his brother died
at that time, and four days afterwards
received letter stating that the last
words of the dying man were: "T'm
gone! I'm gone" The British Psychical
Society narrates the cases of two sisters
living miles apart, and who at night met
in their carriages at the crossroads on
their way to their mother, who had ex-
pressed dying wish to see them and
which the daughters had heard at night.
The evidence is cumulative. So, also, is
cumulative the testimony relating to the
transference of sounds of consolation to
living persons. Jessie Brown, while in
India, heard the Scotch pipers of Gen
eral Haveloek marching to the rescue of
Lucknow when no one else heard a
sound. The quick ears of some Edin-
burgh people are SAID to have heard the
voices in the air VIII ch told that King
James lay dead on Flodden Field with
many knight and noble around him.
The Ind ans have acute ears and aver
that they hear voices constantly by which
they are guided. The emotions are
mysterious but we know that they
quicken preternaturally the senses, and
especially the sense of hearing. There
are ears that can detect coming footsteps
when Others are deaf to them as posts
There are hearts that feel the approach
of loved ones.-NeU York. MecurQ.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-10
FOREIGN.

Patrick Berry, returned American resid-
ing near Listowell, has been arrested on
suspicion of numbering Forhan, the boycott
ed farmer, on Sunday last.
The cholera in Annoy seems for the time TO
be held i'll check, bu, at Changchon it is re-
ported that 5000 deaths have occurred in the
past go days.
The Cologne Gazette confirms the report
that Emperor William will meet Queen Vic
toria on Sept 80 during the latter's visit to
her daughter, Empress Frederick, at Baden.
The Berlin newspapers announce that the
EN- peror of Germany, the emperor of Russia
and the emperor of Austria will meet at some
point on the Austrian frontier in the au-
tumn.
A pillar of the cathedral at Seville fell,
causing portion of the roof of the nave to
collapse. The falling debris destroyed the
organ and did other damage to the cathe-
dral.
Japan papers state that q telegram from
Wakomotoa, Japan, dated July Is, alleges
that the volcano of Mt. Iwahassi suddenly
burst into activity, and in a short time 56
houses in Iwasenura were destroyed. A tel
egram received ON the 10th says the eruption
still continued, with great destruction and
loss of life. About 400 persons and 30 houses
in village called Bira were buried under
sand and ashes thrown out by the vocano
hot springs in he neighborhood.
On the death of Gen. Drentelu, military
governor of the Kieff district in Russia, ir
was announced that death was due to apo
plexy. The Wiener Algemeine Zeitung now
says it has learned that Gen. Drentelu was
murdered by a Nihilist at Kieff.
1t is claimed that the dominion govern
ment is investigating tho violation of the
Washington treaty by the American govern
ment in tho treatment of Canadian vessels
passing through American canals
Mr. Gladstone in expressing his thanks to
a Sheffield deputation for handsome pres
ent on the occasion Of his golden wedding said
that when he had secured home rule for Ire
land his political work would be finished.
Lieut. Weissman, the German explorer,
las informed the king of the Belgians that he
did not believe that Stanley was lost, and that
he hoped I o hear good news Of the explorer
at an early date.
The French cable station at North East
ham has been closed permanently. The rea-
son given is that the cable which lands at
Newfoundland is connected on the mainland
with a recently constructed overland tele-
graph line, and, consequently, the compile
tion of this line renders the line between
st. Pierre and North Eastman unnecessary.
Charles Arthur, formerly steward of the
British ship Dovenby Hall, who murdered
his captain, David Bailie, during the voyage
of the vessel from San Francisco to Liver
pool, has been convicted at Liverpool and
sentenced to death.
Silesia is being devastated by terrible
floods, the worst known in 80 years. Along
the rivers Rober and Zacken the damage is
especially great. Several mills at Greifen-
berg have been destroyed and the crops have
been ruined,