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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
Across the Continent

From the Atlantic seaboard daily journey
thousands of immigrants. hosts of enter
prising tourists for pleasure, occasional
European seekers for material for books
on America, multitudes of hardy native
and foreign agriculturists and artizsns,
all eager, all expectaut. but all unsccus>
toned to the new climate of the frontier,
and sll unft-unless protected with q
medicinal safeguard-to encounter ma
lsria, the chief foe to health in regions
newly cleared and opened up for settles
ment. The western bound travellers will
find in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters the
safety from malarial infection they might
vsinly seek from other sources. Tried in
all parts of the werld, under exigencies
the best fitted to show its value, 1t has
failed nowhere under the most exacting
conditions In so many lands is it in re-
quest that the demand for 1t may well be
termed universal. Not only malaria, but
constipation, dyspepsia, biliousness,
rheumatism, debility, nervousness and
inaction Of the kidneys, are thoroughly
relieved by 1t.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
Eupepsy

This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must have it, to fully enjoy life.
Thousands are searching for it daily. and
mourning because they find 1t not Thou
sands upon thousands of dollars are
spent annually by our people in the hope
that they may attain this boon. And yet
it may be had by all. We guarantee that
Electric Bitters, if used according to di =
rections and the use persisted in. will
bring you good digestion and oust the
demon dyspepsia and install instead eu-
pepsy. We recommend Electric Bitters
for dyspepsia and all diseases of liver,
stomach and kidneys. Sold at 80 cents
and 81 per bottle. by Hartz & Bahnsen,
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
ADVICE To aOrHIRs.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
Of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain Of cutting teethi If So
send at once and get bottle Of Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. Its value is incalculable
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm,
mediately. Depend upon it mothers
there is no mistake about it. 1t curei
dysentery, disrrhoea, regulates the stom
ach and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces Inflammation. snt
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
tenn. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrul
for Children Teething is pleasant to th'
taste, and is the prescription of one o
the oldest and best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and is 10
sale by all druggists throughout tn
world. Price 25 cents per bottle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

We will pay the above reward for any
case of liver complaint. dyspepsia. sick
headache. indigestion, constipation or
costiveness we cannot cure with Vests
Vegetable Liver Pills, when the directions
are strictly complied with. They are
purely vegetable, and never fail to give
satisfaction. Large boxes containing 80
sugar coated pills. 25c. For sale by all
druggists. Beware of counterfeits and
limitations. The genuine manufactured
only by John G. West & Co., s82 W.
Madison ST.. Chicago. III.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
A sugar Irust-candy on tick

Nearly all diseases originate from in
action of the liver, and this is especially
the case with chills and fever, intermit-
tent fevers and mslarial diseases. TIC
save doctors bills and ward disease. take
Simmons Liver regulator. medicine
that increases in popularity each year
and has become the most popular anC
best endorsed medicine in the market fol
the cure of liver or bowel diseases
TELEGRAPH, DUBUQUE. Iowa.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Is about 10000, and we should say at
least one half are troubled with some af>
fectiop of the throat and lungs, as those
complaints are, according TO statistics,
more numerous tnan others. We would
advise all our readers not to neglect the
opportunity to call on their druggist and
get bottle of Kemp's balsam for the
throat and lungs Trial size free. Large
bottles SOC and 81 Sod by all drug
pists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

interest
yourself in life insurance. You will find
the renewable term policy of the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance society of
New York to be the best, the cheapest
and the fairest. Avoids the unnecessa.
rily high cost of level premiums and the
uncertainty and insecurity of assessment
insurance Net cost for SIC, 600 for year
1887. Age 25. $107 90; age 35. 1921 80
age 40, sl69.O0; age SO. S19SS0
LIEBERKNEcHT & OLMsTEAD,
Local Agents,
No. 1712 Second ave, Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

BLUFFTON, Ind. J., Feb. 9, 1887.
l have been afflicted with blood poison
for twelve years. Have used prescriptions
from physicians offered me during tina,
period. Through the druggist, W. A.
Gutelius, l procured one bottle of B. B.
B. and since have used three bottles. and
am satisfied it has done me more good
than anything eyer used. / am almost
well, and am sure. within two or three
weeks | will be perfectly well, after
twelve years suffering intensely Write
or address JOSEPH FEIsT,
Wells Co., Ind. Baker and Confectioner
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

To allow prejudice or ignorance to get
the better of good Judgment. Ithas been
conclusively proven that constipation,
bad breath. dyspepsia, kidney affections
and all diseases of the liver, stomach and
bowels have been cured by simply taking
Simmons Liver Regulator 1t is harm
less, not unpleasant. and easily procured
so there is no reason to be ignorant O
this remedy we especially commend tC
your notice for trial.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Is natures own true laxative. Ii is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known TO cleanse the system
when bilious or costive; to dispel head
aches, colds and fevers; to cure habitual
constipation, indigestion, piles, etc.
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal
Hartz & Bahnsen, agents, Rock Island,
IL
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

The hest on earth can truly be said ot
Grgg's Glycerine Sslve, which is a sure
safe and speedy cure for cuts, bruises
scalds, burns wounds and all other sores
viii positively cure piles, letter and al
skin eruption. Try this wonder healer
Satisfsctit guaranteed or money refund
ed. Only 25 cents. Sold bv druggists
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Who OF us are without trouble be they
small or larger The blessings of health
are best appreciated when we are sich
and in pain. A hacking cough, a severk
cold, or any throat or lung disease are
very troublesome; but all of these nlay be
quickly and permanently cured by DR..
Bigelew's Cure. Safe and pleasant fol
children. Price so cents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER LIFE.

n SVItzkr Ut En- N rzo HhH LIT
1t was just an ordinary scrap of wrap-
ping paper. but it saved her life. She
was in the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incurable
and could live only short time; she
weighed less than seventy pounds. On a
piece of wrapping paper she read of Dr..
Kings New Discovery, and got sample
bottle; it helped her, she bought large
bottle, it helped her more, bought an
other and grew better fast, continued its
use and is now strong, healthy, rosy,
plump, weighing l40 pounds For fur.
ther particulars send stamp to ". II
Cole, druggist, For, Smith. Trial bot
ties of this wonderful discovery free 81
Hariz & Bahnsens drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Andrew Lang speaks of Napoleon l
as one of the most voracious readers o
novels that ever lived.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

The oest salve in the world for cats,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores. tetter. chapped hands. chilbains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-,
lively cures piles, or no pay required. II
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 cents pei
box. For sale 5v Hartz & Bahnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

The entire fruit pack, about 10000
tons, of three Fresno, Cal. canneries was
purchased by Eastern houses.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Two men in St Lonis and one in New
York have gone crazy on account Of the
election excitement
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
r. D. CLARKE, M. D.,
1876 So. Clark ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
Health is Wealth !

DR. E Vests Terve and Brain treatment q
guaranteed specific for hysteria, dizziness, con-
vulsions, fits, nervous neuralgia, headache. ner-
vous prostration caused by the use Of alcohol OF
tobacco. wakefulness. mental depression, soften
ing of the brain resulting in insanity and leading
to misery. de -ay and death. premature old age.
barrenBess, loss Of power in either sex, involun
tsry losses and spermatorThoea caused by over
exertion Of the brain. self abuse over indul
gence. Each box contains one months treatment.
81 box. or SIX boxes for s. sent by mail prepaid
m race nj Of nrice
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

Mining on the Yukon river, in Alaska,
has not been very profitable this season
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
CONSTIPATION

rs called the "Fatter OF Diseases" because
tiheTe Is no medium through which disease 20
often attacks the system as by the absorption OF
poisonous gases in the retention Of dec yed and
etfets mater in the stomach and bowels It i,
caused by Torpid Liver, not enough bile beine
eNcreted from the blood 10 produce Nature owl
c4tl srtic, and is generally accompanied with ruct
-psnlfs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

When be leaves he makes good use of hi
limbs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

A squash that was five feet four inches
in diameter was exhibited at fair in
Boise City. Idaho.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24
THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.

Chicago, Pacific Chicago Nebraska
Wichita
KANSAS-Colorado
afording ce older States all
Territory
and Seaports
SOLID FAST VESTiBULE EXPRESS TRAINS
Pueblo Similar MAGNIFICENT
TRAIN SERVICE daily between Chicago and Gopn Bluffs Omaha and
connections and transfers in Union Depots
THE FAMOUS ALBERT LEA ROUTE
hunting fishing
Minnesota, Southern Dakota.
THE SHORT LINE SENECA AND
Atchon
Folders
Ticket Office in the United States Canada,
E. ST. JOHN, e. A. HOLBROOK,
CHICAGO, Pass Agent
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

To cure sny case. With each order received by
us for six boxes, accompanied with IS, We will
send the purchaser our written guarantee TO re-
fund the money IL the treatment does not affect a
cure. Guarantees issued only by Marshall &
Fisher, Harper house drug store, soc agents,
Rock Island ILL.,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27
woefuI Beggars in Shanghai.

One class that is constantly met with
at Shanghai is the beggars; they swarm
in the streets and use every effort to
extort money. I saw one man with o
knife in his hand, the blood flowing
from many wound he had indicted
when denied aims at a shop. Seme-
times troop, stretched fat ON their
faces. entirely obstruct some public
way, crying ct the top of their voices.
But the most revolving is where q man
takes another with some horrible dis
ease on his back, and would enter o
shop or house, if not bought of / saw
enc coming, and fed, when suddenly
at the other end of the street drove
Of pigs appeared. % / was fairly
caught, and threw away handful Of
eoppers 30 make my escape. In Can
ION there are regular guilds where
beggars are looked after. Passing
through the streets there, I noticed
men standing with bowls of riae, eSv-
ing 9 handful 70 each mendicant Is
they passed. Asking the cause Of this,
I found that different shops had days
in whish they distributed certain
things, provided they were not trou-
bled 81 other times. In this way the
nuisance was abated. Boston Tran
script.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27
8. GILLIGS.
YREKA BAKERY.

A Western man, with too small a
farm, sighs: 20, had I Idaho"
A blushing maiden, whose leap year
destinations her bashful lover has been
unable to resist, coyly whispers, Ned,
am now won maiden"
Meeting the skeleton Of great ex-
tinct Australian marsupial in museum,
facetious naturalist said: mod, o tor
pid diprotodon.
A conscientious young man sought to
evade direct falsehoods by this appeal
to his partner in offending: Il did not
rub part tar on no rattrap, Burton,
did II"
A fairy being asked how she made up
her toilet, replied: "We don no dew. :"
In trying to content himself in his
Punishment, Napoleon was overheard to
soliloquize: evil Elba may amiable
live."
Witnessing the warlike preparations
in the East, the man in the moon ejacu-
lated: Evil Asia is alive"
The unfortunate daughter of scold,
after having borne her mothers re-
proaches and accusations until patience
was exhausted, tured upon hsr. ex-
claiming: @Rail on, ma; am no liar. !"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

MISS GERTIE BRosE, beautiful and
twenty-five Of Los Angeles, made an
election bet with Mrs. J. E. Wood,
and as . consequence gave the winner
long ride in q wheelbarrow. Miss
Gertie took the matter in good part,
and spent considerable time and money
on the costume in which she appeared.
She declares that she would be willing
to wheel Mrs. Wood or any other woman
across the continent. if SO doing would
assist in placing Mr.. Cleveland again in
the Presidential chair.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

The proposal which has been pre-
pared for introduction in the Kansas
Legislature to abolish the porter's fee
on sleeping-cars is nothing short of
revolutionary. It is interference with
avested right From the first trip that
the first sleeping car ever made the
porter has enjoyed the privilege of tax
ing the lassenger for service which the
corporation presumably pays him to
render. To deprive him of this privi-
lege now is high-handed interference
with the existing order. 1t woald be
less high-handed if it were proposed
to reduce the blackmail LIVED by the
sleeping-car companies. But it is not.
The bill drawn proposes to limit the
compensation of the companies, but
the limit is So per night for berth,
which is q ute as much as the most ex-
tortionats companies demand now.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
ought to interfere in this matter, not
in the interests of the porters but Of
the public, in States to the east Of
Kansas. If they are deprived the priv
ilege of bleeding The Kansans they will
become more leech-like than ever in
their demands upon travellers in other
States.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

WHAT at one time promised to be
brilliant and distinguished career has
ended suddenly in gloom, penury, and
disgrace. William w. Drummond,
ex-Chief Justice of Utah, died sudden
ly in low groggery, in one of the
most squalid districts in Chicago He
was in rags and was totte1ing with the
infirmities of age and dissipation. He
had entered the place presumably to
rest awhile. While sitting on chair
by the stove he suddanly fell forward
to the floor, and when the bartender
reached him he was dead. Ex-Judge
Drummond went to Chicago from West
Virginia in 1851 and practiced law
here. In 1853 he was appointed by
President Pierce Chief Justice of Utah,
but about that time he met woman
for whom he abandoned his wife and
family of five children, and on reaching
Utah he abandoned himself to life
of such notorious dissipation that in
short time he was forced to resign the
judicial position he held. He returned
to Chicago and resumed the practice
of law, but his reputation was such as
to render success impossible. For the
past eight years he has been fire.
quenter of low lodging-houses, and
eked out a livelihood by begging, and
has been arrested for stealing letters
from the street boxes and other like
offenses.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

mann sought In vain last winter, has
now been discovered il Alexandria.
The coffin is Of marble, and is covered
with beautiful decorations. Its breadth
is about three and a half feet and its
height three feet. The skull of man
was found in il. The coffin was found
in brick vault, about twenty feet
high, covered by about eight feet Of
earth. The keeper of the museum at
Boulak is going shortly to make .
thorough examination of the tomb.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27
Palindromic Oddities.

A variety of fit. enigmatic subjects
may be derived from palindromes, or
reciprocal verses, which ara words,
phrases, or sentences reading forward
and backward the same.
Many palindromes have been made
in French and Latin and in English,
the sentence of Taylor. the water poet,
"Lewd did live and evil I did dwell, !"
is we'll known
A veteran soldier, recalling his early
experience in the field, says: Raw was
I ere.I saw war;" and gives the rather
unnecessary assurance that he had
"Devil pap ere papa lived"
A temperance orator, soliloquizing
on the dangers of the times, exclaims !:
EVIL is murmur forever of rum! rum
as / live!" But the lawless vagrant
madly shouts, "Red rum drawer, live
on, level no evil, reward murder!"
while his companion in iniquity cries !:
Murder no evil; / live on red rum!"
An important fact concerning the
first SHINING is thus stated: Madam
Adam did live ere evil did Madam
Adam"
@To win is all sin, I wot," declares
virtuous young man, who nobly re-
sists the temptation to gamble, and
resolves to Give not on evil"
A druggist exposes the notice: "Red
root put up to order"
A young lady, on first meeting her
namesake, said: "Eve was I ere saw
Eve"
At circle the other day was given
this account of cruel boys deed !:
Madam saw Aaron tar a rat; Nora A.
was madam"
A sign in a cor. in California TOW n
reads:
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27
The History of Tobacco.

1t is asserted that tobacco was in use
in China from the earliest times, but we
have no certain knowledge that this
was the case. If it was 80, the knowl-
edge of the plant and its uses have
been carefully guarded by the Chinese,
for it was not introduced into any other
Oriental nation until after it's discovery
in America When Columbus first land
ed on the island of San Domingo, in
the West Indies, he found tobacco in
use among the natives there, who
smoked it when made in small cylin-
drical rolls and wrapped in maize leaf.
The Indians on the continent smoked
it in a pipe, and among all the tribes
from Peru to Upper Canada the first
discoverers found the plant to be in
use, and to have been known to them
from so early period that the time of
its first discovery was unknown. The
smoking Of tobacco with the Indians
partook largely of the nature of a
religious rite. The seeds of the tobac-
co plant were first brought to Europe
by Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo, who
introduced it into Spain, where it was
cultivated as an ornamental plant, till
atraveler who had noted its use among
American Indians called attention to
its narcotic properties. The name is
said to have been taken from Tabacco,
a province Of Yucatan, though others
derive it from Tobago, an island in the
Caribbean Sea, and yet others from
Tobasco, in the Gulf of Florida. The
practice Of smoking the dried leaf be-
came general in Spain, and its manu-
facture into snuff followed soon after.
1t was introduced into Italy in 1860,
and about the same time into France.
The first to bring the seeds of the
plant into the latter country was Jean
Nicot, the French Ambassador to Por-
tugal, in whose honor tobacco received
its botanical name nicotiano, whence the
nam. nicotine, applied to poisonous
extract from the plant. Tobacco is said
to have been first introduced into En-.
gland by Sir Walter Raleigh. From
these beginnings the use of the weed
spread over the entire eastern con.
tinent. 1t did not become known IL
Asia until the seventeenth century, bui
was taken up by the Oriental nations
with great eagerness, and they are now
the greatest smokers in the world
Netc York Graphic.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

rising TO the surfacn he made q rush
for his tormenlors Relieved of his
resistance, the boat shot forward, and
the boys, at first little frightened at
their antagonists demeanor, now saw .
means to accomplish their purpose by
stratagem. Morg knelt in the stern.
and leased the alligator With stick.
while Bob welded the paddle. Again
and again the huge reptile dashed for
ward in an endeavor to close his jaws
upon something tangible, but each
time the object eluded him.
Finally they reached the shore. Rob
sprung out and secured the painter to
tree. He turned Just in time to see
the alligator close his great jaws npon
the stern Of the boat, compelling Morg
to beat precipitate retreat. But the
latter soon regained his feet. and be-
gan to rain blows upon the saurian's
bony nose. This treatment, combined
with the realization of his danger, in
duced him to release his hold, and he
snllenly sank beneath the wa er.
The rope was now unfastened from
the ring, carried ashore, and tied about
the tree. The boys gave several pulls
upon it, but finding themselves unable
to move the leviathan at the other end,
gave up the method.
aMorg, said Rob, "you stay and see
that he doesn't get the rope off, and
I'll 60 home and get father TO let me
have the ox-cart. Til bring some plank
or something to lean up at the tail of
the cart, and then we can hitch the
oxen to the rope and snake him in as
easy
This brilliant idea was executed.
The cart being backed to within q
proper distance of the water, and the
wheels securely "chocked" to keep it
from rolling backward, an old door
was laid as an inclined plane from the
rear end to the ground. Then the
rope was removed from the tree, car
ried over the cart, and attached to the
yoke of the steers At the word they
moved forward, and in spite of his
struggles the alligator was soon
brought to the shore. But fearing their
rope was not strong enough to drag
him bodily over the ground, the boys
suspended operations until o thicker
one could be had; this was slipped over
the prisoners head and worked down
to position back of his forelegs. Then
the oxen were started again, and
amid shouts of excitement from his
captors and many frantic lashings of
his tail the gator was hauled up the
door and into the cart. He was so long
that his tail hung out at least two feet.
The boys drew the ropes tight and fas-
tened them to the front of the wagon,
and the procession moved toward the
house, not forgetting the pig.
The same afternoon the alligator
was hauled to town and delivered 10
his purchaser, who grayely measured
him with yardstick, and finding him
exactly eight feet and one inch long.
paid over the $40 without murmur.-
Haapef''s Young People.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-27

N. B. JONES, of River Bend, Ga,
has q SOW fifteen years old that has
raised him 1872 pigs. OF her progeny
he has sold twenty-eight breeders and
fattened enough meat for family us
and sold from $40 to $65 worth each
gear. Mr.. Jones says he fattened sold
Blue" two years ago to kill, but after
thu water was hot and everything in
readiness for the slaughter his heart
failed him and he spared her life. He
is now determined to keep and feed her
90 long as she lives.