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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
DEATH DEALING couPLERs.
statistics Showing the Need of Compelling
the Use of Better AuDliances

Statistics Showing the Need of Compelling
the Use of Better Appliances.
At the session in Washington of the state
railway commissioners with the interstate
commerce commission, ex-Commissioner COT
fin, OF Iowa, now representing the Brother
hood of Brakemen, made an address which
was received with marked attention. In the
course of it he said, referring to the slaughter
Of men by the old link and link coupler and
the hand brake: "Our commission in Iowa
has caused a law to be made that has been on
the statute books ten years. to the effect that
the railroads shall report to the commissioner
the accidents occurring along their lines, and
it Is shown that In ten years we have killed
and MANNED Q, 424 men in the state of Iowa
by these two causes alone
"These are astounding facts The average
would be something like 240 a year These
reports commenced when we only had 5000
miles of railway, while now we have 5000
The commissioners report last year shows
that there were killed and wounded by these
two.causes Alone $40 We think In Iowa our
roads are managed as carefully as any roads
We are temperance state, and our railway
men are temperate and careful, and still last
year there were over $40 men killed and
MANNED by the two causes have spoken of.
There are 1900 miles of railroad in the
United States and over 5000 of their active
strong men were either killed or manned for
life from those two causes alone last year.
state these facts SO as to inspire sort of en-
thpsiasm on the part of the interstate COM
merce commissioners to induce them to use
their influence to pass an act by the national
legislature compelling the adoption of safety
appliances l have a table in my hand, in
condensed form, showing that In all the great
accidents in the last fifty years there were
less killed and MANNED than there were killed
and MANNED by the two causes have spoken
of last year. These facts are astounding.
The resolution which you have passed
looks toward national legislation in regard
to these safety appliances. The only legisla-
ton needed, in my judgment-take it for
what it is worth-is that In regard to coup
lers and brakes The matter of heating cars
will take care of itself. As a matter of ad-
vertisement, every main line will have these
safety heating apparatus, but you and will
send our car load of hogs or steers, or what
ever it may be, on any train on any road
that Will take them, no matter if half
dozen brakemen are killed at time in
coupling the car in which our freight is to
another car in a train that is to carry the
load on
Let me give you another fact. Last year,
in the state of Iowa, there were 20, 1876. $40
passengers who travelled Not one was
burned by fire heating stove, while at
the same time we killed and injured in that
state by the pin and link coupler $50 Sci
entific American.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
THE SWEDISH SYNOD.
The Buslnessssessien this Morning
Finaacial Reports, Etc.

The Buslnessssessien this Morning--.
Financial Reports, Etc.
This mornings session of the Swedish
Lutheran Evangelical synod at Angus
tana college was devoted entirely to bus
mess, the time being nearly all occupied
with the hearing of the financial report
Of Augustana college and of the building
fund.
Prof. Svard offered his resignation as
member of the constitutional commits
tee. but it was not accepted. A. o. Ber-
sell resigned as a member of the lethargy
committee and it was accepted.
The synod proceeded with the election
OF the Augustana board, but without
reaching a choice this morning.
The hours of session were altered 30 as
to be from a. m. to 12 m. and to s p.
M. and speeches limited to five minutes
each
Later three members of the college
board were elected-H. o. Lindeblad, p
Weterlund and G. q. Thulin.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
A Clever Woman.

One of the cleverest women In Boston h
Miss Lillian Whiting, literary editor of The
Boston Traveller. She lives cozily at the
Brunswick She goes to her little den in The
Traveller Office at $50 a. NJ, and remains
until l, oftentimes later. The editor Of The
Chicago Inter Ocean said once that Mis-
Writings letters were the most acceptable he
ever received
This busy woman makes about 5000
year. The pile of books she can review in
twenty four hours some one said Is almost
Incredible She is close friend and enthusi-
astic admirer of Kate Field, of Louise Chand-
Ter Moulton and Of Genevieve Ward. She
gathers about her the most interesting liter
airy people, men and women. She is extrava.
gantly fond of Boston, and prefers living
there to living in any city in America. She
was born in the west Mary Clemmer wal
one of her valued friends. Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
The ChiIdrens' contribution.

The juvenile entertainment given al
the residence of F. G. Hoppe Saturday
afternoon proved success in every par
ticular. The exercises were heartily en-.
ioyed and IS SO cleared, which Mr.
Hoppe left at the ARGUS today to be de-
posited in the fund for the Johnstowr
sufferers. This was done. the money
having already been placed in Treasurer
Paups hands. The little peoples effort
was very pra seworthy and their success
is . matter of great qualification al
around.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
Locarsd in Davenport.

|. Doctors of the English staff Of spe-
ciallsts have opened a permanent Office at
room 16. Masonic Temple, Davenport.
To establish wide reputation within q
short time, they viii render their services
until Wednesday, June 10th, free of
charge. To show the extent of their
skill they offer large premium If they
fail to cure any case they undertake of
chronic, special or nervous diseases.
Head Office. London, England; estsb.
lished in 1870.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17

nice brick residence with good improvements
lot 173x 215, cheap on easy terms.
One of the best money making restaurants and
boarding houses in the city near C.. r. & p de-
pot. well located Cor any kind of business
good building, with store 1Sx32, and rooms,
counters, shelving, ETC., on first fool, and rooms
above; water up and down stairs good cellar,
barn, etc.. lot 25x150, well located for business
upper part of 4th avenue; cheap.
A good property, story, lot 20 by 80, well To-
Cited on Secon avenue, between 18th and 10th
street. for ono kind OF business; cheap.
One Of the best located three story brick stores
on Secone avenue; cheap.
One Of the best paying meat markets in the city
brick buildings, good location.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
Clalrvovant.

Mrs. Sotel e. the most celebrated ma
tural seer in the United States. will re-
main for Q short time at the Commercial
hotel, room 3 and parlor, where she can
be consulted from 9 q. m. to 10 p. m.
Entire satif faction given and charges
moderate. English, French, German,
Spanish and Italian spoken.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17

County Clerk Donaldsonis today send
ing out the Offices of special election to
ill the Office Of states attorney, the date
of such elect on being July IS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17

Ask some friend about Ponds extrac
for pain. Try it for any inflammation or
hemorrhages. Ask your druggist for the
genuine. Refuse init atoms.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17

Cant eat thing" Hoods Sarsapa.
rilla is wonderful medicine for creating
an appetite, regulating digestion and giv-
ing strength.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
Men Wanted.

Fifty or one hundred stone quarry men
wanted three miles below Andalusia at
once. A. ]. WHITNEY, Contractor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17

Creosote is proposed as fuel for tor
pedo boats.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-17
Lace Mitts.

.,iruation of the sale OF Lace
'o", Sc lie. lac and 1Sc pair Gall
!, silk
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
Questions for the ssCivilized.

Is there anything more unsatisfactory
than perfect house. perfect grounds,
perfect gardens, art and nature brought
into the most absolute harmony of taste
and culture? What more can q man do
with it? What satisfaction has a man
in it if he really gets to the end of his
power to improve it? There have been
such nearly ideal places, and how strong
nature always working against man and
in the interest of untamed wildness,
likes to riot in them and reduce them to
picturesque destruction! And what
sweet sadness, pathos, romantic sug-
gest1on, the human mind finds in such
a ruin! And a society that has attained
its end in all possible culture, entire re-
finement in manners, in tastes, in the
art of elegant intellectual and luxurious
living-there is nothing pathetic in that?
Where is the primeval, heroic force that
made the joy of living in the rough old
uncivilized days? Even throw in good
ness, a certain amount of altruism, gen.
tleness, warm interest in unfortunate
humanity-is the situation much i'm
proved? London is probably the most
civilized center the world has ever
seen; there are. gathered more of the
elements of that which We reckon the
best. Where in history, unless some
one puts in claim for the Frenchman,
shall we find man so nearly approach
ing the standard We have set up of civil
ization as the Englishman, refined by
inheritance and tradition, educated al
most beyond the disturbance of enthusi-
asm, and cultivated beyond the chance
of surprise? We are speaking of the
highest type in manner, information,
training, in the acquisition Of what the
world has to give. Could these men
have conquered the world? 1t is pos
sible that our highest civilization has
lost something of the rough and admira-
bic element that We admire in the
heroes of Homer and of Elizabeth?
What is this London, the most civilized
city ever know? Why, a considerable
part of its population is more barbarous,
more hopelessly barbarous, than any
wild race we know, because they are
the barbarians of civilization, the refuse
and Stag of it, if We dare say that of any
More hopeless, because the
virility of savagery has measurably gone
out Of it. We can do something with a
degraded race of savages, if it has any
stamina in it. What can be done with
those who are described as "East-Lon-
doners ?"-Charles Dudley Farmer;
in Hdrper'S Magazine.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
A Widows Strategy.

A man of considerable wealth, who
died in New York City some time since,
made q distribution of his personal
estate which did not suit his disconso-
late widow. Among other unsatisfactory
things, he bequeathed the proceeds of
certain land and stocks of value to a
brother, while he left to the widow the
proceeds of other stocks and lands COM
paratively valueless, as portion of her
legacy. But the widow was sole execu-
trix of the will, and when she came to
sell she disposed of the land and stocks
in a lump. setting q high valuation on
those of which she was to have the pro-
ceeIs and low valuation on the others,
the valuation of the two lots taken to-
gether making fair price for the whole.
By this means she exactly reversed that
portion of her husbands will relating to
the land and stocks in question.
The brother, not relishing such sharp
practice on the part of his sister-in-law,
brought suit to recover the actual
value of the bequest made to him,
whereupon the widow proposed that in
stead of spending the estate in law they
should marry each other and enjoy it to-
gether. This proposition struck o re-
sponsive chord" in the breast of the
brother. They were married accord
ingly, and are said to be having jolly
time in spending the fortune which the
deceased gentleman was so kind as to
for them.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
Tired OF Washington Society.

The daughter of high official, whom
the writer of the Waterbury american,
at Washington occasionally meets, said,
in burst of confidence, the other night !:
Il am only four years older, according
to the almanac, than when 1 came here,
but in experience it seems to me / have
lived century.
Sometimes actually get scard when
l think what a change has come over
my way of looking at life in these four
years. 1t seems that have almost lost
my old individuality and that another
consciousness has got into my body.
Il came here simple, innocent
country girl, Just out of school, and
with the most glowing and romantic
ideas about society, now 1 am as hard
ened and artifcially polished, if you
please, as society woman of twenty
seasons, and can smile and smile and be
villain with any of them. have been
forced to play the hypocrite, as all wo-
men in society must, to such an extent
that l have almost ceased to know who
my real friends are, and treat everybody
with the same stereotyped smile and
pretend to be as deeply interested in
affairs of Sallie Jones, whom 1 met for
the first time ten minutes ago, as / am
in those of my own sister. 1t is dread
full, and 1 am glad We are going away
There is scarcely person who has
been much in society here for the last
four years whom have not met, and of
all those thousands there are not really
half dozen 1 ever care to meet again.
You see so many people, You go SO
much, that your head is in whirl all
the time, and you not only don't have a
chance to get attached to any one, but
you don't even get acquainted with
them. Of course, 1 have often thought
in the midst of it all what magnificent
time I was having, but now that it is all
over I fell very much as do on seeing
the curtain fall at the end of a grand
spectacular performance at the theater.
My eyes are tired from the glitter of the
costumes and the glare of the calcium
lights, and 1 am glad to hurry home and
20 to bed"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
TROUBLESOME NxIGHBoR..

o, could there in this world I've found
Some little spot of happy ground
Where village pleasures might 60 round
Without the village tattling;
How douhly ble5t that spot would be,
Where ell might dwell in liberty,
Free from the bitter misery
OF gossips' endless prattling.
II such a spot were really known,
Fair Peace might claim it as her own,
And in it she might fig her throne
Forever and forever;
There like queen to reign and live,
While every one would soon forgive
The little sights they might receive,
And be offended never.
'Tis mischief-nakers that remove
Ear from our hearts the warmth Of lore,
And lead US all TO disapprove
What gives another pleasure.
They seem to take ones part. but when
They've heard our cnres unkindly then
They soon retail them all again,
Mixed with their poisonous measure.
And then they've such cunning way
OF telling ill-Ineant tales; they say:
Don't mention what I've said, pray;
! would not tell another!"
Straight to your neighbor house they 60,
Narrating everything they know.
And break the peace of high and low.
Wife, husband, friend, and brother.
o. that the misunderstanding crew
Were all reduced TO one or two,
And they were painted red or blue.
That every one might know them:
Then would our villagers forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
Or fall into an angry pet
With things SO much below them.
For lisa sad, degrading part,
To make another's bosom smart,
And plant dagger in some heart
We ought to love and cherish.
Then let us ever more be found
In harmony with all around,
While friendship. joy, and peace abound,
And angry feelings perish.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
What Nature BlesseS.

Go ont if you will and walk alone on
the hillside in the evening, but if your
fayorite child lies i'll at home, or your
lover comes tomorrow. or at your heart
their lies scheme for the holding of
wealth, then you return as YOU went
out; You will have seen nothing. For
Nature, ever like the old Hebrew God,
cries out, Thou shalt have no other
gods before me" Only then, when
there comes a pause, o blank in your
life, when the old idol is broken, when
the old hope is dead, when the old de-
sire is crushed. then the divine COM
pensation of Nature is made manifest.
She shows herself to you. So near she
draws to you, that the blood seems to
flow from her to you, through o still,
small cord; you feel the throb of her
life.
When that day comes, that you sit
down broken, without one human crea-
ture, to whom you cling, with your
loves, the dead and iving-dead; when
the very thirst for knowledge through
long-continued thwarting has grown
dull; when in the present there is crav-
ing. and in the future no hope, then,
oh, with a beneficent tenderness, Ma
ture enfolds you.-The Story of an
african Farm.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18

the week my client came again in high
good humor, with the news that he had
won the suit.
you did just splendid" he said.
MY old woman was there, an she said
at when you va, pitchin' in the hot
shot bout that yaller dog sneakin' round
an KILN my poor sheep in the night,
she most cried. Wall, what's the dam
age?'
Icharged him S., quite large fee in
those days in "a new country" He
cheerfully paid it. and had got outside
the door on his departure before it oc-
cured to him that he had forgotten
something.
Il say" he said, thrusting his head
into the room, you hain't felt sick no
way nor nothin' since you was out to the
Corners-hev you? No?-wal, hope
you won't Thought I'd tell you, though,
that child he'd the smallpox. Hope
you won't ketch."
My agonies of apprehension for some
days following this revelation may be
imagined. was SO fortunate as not to
~ketch;' but my opponent did, and has
the worst p;tted face in the country to.
day, in consequence.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18

1t hardly seems possible that the money
rald In one month for a ten-cent article.
could, If pennies were used in PAYMENT
weigh one hundred tons. Yet one of our
Fright school boys has figured that this is
true OF Diamond Dyes. To judge from the
stocks OF our dealers in dye stuffs. Diamond
Dyes own the field of package dyes, and are
a complete success. OF course they have
iin'i5 tors. Nothing is a success until imi
lated Bat no one wants to risk counter
feit when the genuine can be obtained at the
same price. Three new colors have lately
been added TO the list OF Diamond DYES:
Fast Stocking Black, Turkey Red for Cot
ton, and Brown for Cotton The manufac
turers, Wells. Richardson & Co, Burlinp
ton. Vt, Will send colored samples of these
new dyes, with book of directions. to any
address, free of charge These additions
seem TO have made the line so complete that
any shade can be matched with some color
OF Diamond Dyes. The beautiful sample
book of shaded colors. lately sent to ali deal
crs IN dyes, will delight the eye Of any lady.
Its easy 10 dye with Diamond DYES !, is 40
absolutely true that home dyeing is no longer
difficult aud disagreeable task. Almanacs.
with their hints as to proper times for diff
ierent work, tell Us that now is the time for
Spring dyeing. This. together with the
thought of that hundred tons of money
leads us to ask what school boy can figure
how many thousands Of ladies are now saw
ing that this is the time to use Diamond
Dyes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
A Crazy Idea.

A gentleman wished to visit hospital
for the insane. He saw the medical
Superintendent, and said:
Il don'twish to go over the asylum in
the usual way, but to mingle with the
patients as if were - an officer, o
surgeon, or even one of themselves.
By so doing, 1 shall be better enabled
to Judge of their intellectual state, anc
of their progress in the direction OF
sanity"
with pleasure. said the doctor. at
is Saturday, and We usually have o
dance on Saturday night. If you &C
into the ball room, as We call it, YOU
will see them dancing and talking with
out reserve"
Would it be Objectionable if I "A
danced with them?" asked the visitor.
Not at all" was the reply.
The stranger walked into the ball
room, and selecting the prettiest girl he
saw for partner, was soon keeping up
Z very animated conversation with her.
LIN the course of the evening, he said to
the doctor:
do yon know, that girl in the white
oACoo Wien D4uS opus III IL, - d very
curious case? I've been talking to her
and l cannot, for the life and soul of
me, discover in wha. direction her men
tai malady lies. OF course, I saw at
once she was mad-saw it in the odd
look of her eyes. She kept looking at
me so oddly asked her if she did not
think she was the Queen of England or
whether she had not been robbed of
large fortune by the volunteer move
ment, or Tilted by the Prince of Wales,
and tried to find out the cause of her
lunacy; but 1 could not, she was too
artful.'
Very like" answered the doctor;
you see she is not patient; she is one
of the house-maids, and as sane as YOU
are"
Meantime, the pretty housemaid went
to her feilow-servant, and said:
Have you seen the new patient? He's
been dancing with me. A fine, tall
man, with beautiful whishers, but as
made as March hare. He asked me if
1 wasn't the Queen of England. if vol
unteer hadn't robbed me of large for
tune, and whether the Prince of Wales
didn't want to marry me. He is mad.
Isn't it q ty?-such a fine young
man ~
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
Wrestling With o Bear.

A couple of hunters from the Catskills
followed bear trail for three days.
Near Shutdown, charming little nook
entirely shut in by great mountain
peaks, the hunters came suddenly upon
their prey. There was an old bear and
three good-sized cubs. They all ran for
their lives at sight of the hunters, but
Levi Small rushed headlong in pursuit
of one of the cubs that had made q
senseless detour, and, slipping on bit
of treacherous ice. he went tobogganing
down the side of the mountain. The
cub was tripped mp by one of SmalPs
cowhide boots, and the shaggy young
ster took funny tumble along with the
hunter. Seeing her offspring in danger,
the old bear rushed to the scene, but
the companion of Small fred shot with
such good effect that Bruin fell in her
tracks. Another ball finished the game,
and then attention was directed to the
tobogganer, who was having
q rough and tumble fight with the cub.
1t was quickly dispatched and the other
cubs were taken alive.-Philadelphia
Times
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-18
How Franklin Mastered Italian.

Probably no young person ever
learned modern language in more
ingenious way than Benjamin Franklin.
He tells us, in his autobiography, that
after mastering French he undertook
Italian. An acquaintance who was also
learning it, used often to tempt Frank
lin to play chess with him. Finding
that this took up too much of the little
spare time they had for study, the flu
ture philosopher hit upon the happy
plan Of allowing the victor in any game
the right to impose some task in con-
nection with their study of the language.
This task, to be performed upon honor
before their next meeting, was either
parts of the grammar to be learned by
heart, or an exercise in translation. As
they played chess about equally well,
they fairly beat one another into the
knowledge Of italian. Was not that
ssudhls use Of q game?