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| tell you, and she has betrayed me. Lei
her 60 and find her fate. But am 60
ing, too. am weary Of my life"
surely, Carson, surely" said my
father, you do not mean
'No, NO: not that. Death comes SCOT
enough. But will leave this civilized
world that is living lie. We will &C
| right away into the wilds, my child and 1,
and hide our shame. Where? 1 dom know
where. Any where so long as there are
no white faces, 70 smooth, educated
tongues"
"You are mad, Carson" my father
answered. ''How will you live? How
will you educate Stella? Be man and
live it down."
Il will be a man, and will live it
down, but not here, Quatermain. Educa-
ton! Was not she-that woman who
was my wife-was not she highly
educated?-the cleverest woman in the
country, forsooth. Too clever for me,
Quatermain-too clever by halt No,
no; Stella shall be brought up in diff
ferent school: if it be possible. she shall
forget her very name. Goodbye, old
friend. goodbye for ever. Do not try to
find me out; henceforth 1 shall be like
one dead to you, to you and all knew"
and he was gone.
Mad" said my father, with a heavy
sigh. His trouble has turned his
brain. But he will think better Of it."
At that moment the nurse came hurry
ing in and whispered something in his
ear. My fathers face turned deadly
pale. He clutched at the table to sup
port himself, then staggered from the
room. My mother was dying!
1t was some days afterwards, do not
know exactly how long, that my father
took me by the hand and led me up
stairs into the big room that had been
my mothers bedroom. There she lay
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AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND.
How 1t Has Become Depressed and Ruined
By Her Free Trade POiicy-British Tcsti-
mony of Both PrOtectionists and Free
Traders "A Home Marke. Always the

| mOny OF bOth frOtectiOnists ana Free
Traders "A Home Marke. Always the
! Best.
England had protective policy until
| her manufactures were established and
| her foreign trade a fixed fact Now she
advocates free trade. She has not acres
enough to support her people. and she
must make goods to sell to other people
| to support her population. She must
| trade with others, decrease in popula-
ton. or starve. Sac must have the
worlds market She long ago supplied
her own.
To have that market she must pro-
! duce cheaply; cheap production means
cheap labor: cheap labor means cheap
food: cheap food means small returns to
the farmers. Great Britain has devel-
oped her manufactures at the expense
of her agriculture. The proof OF this is
abundant She had her corn laws, :"
which laid a duty upon breadstuffs i'm
ported into the Kingdom. These pro-
tected her farmers. To secure cheap
food for her cheap labor she, under the
leadership of Richard Golden, repealed
those laws. For forty years this has
been her policy. What has been the
result? Let us summon the witnesses.
Sir Edward Sullivan, writing since
1887, says:
There is a great and rapidly increasing
abandonment ct tiilage; We are rapidly
linquishing che power 20 supply our own
consumption. and we are rapidly increasi
our dependence on foreign nations for food
In every county land is going out OF tillage,
haFr l1i ~ ha;, t,ar DO
altogether During the last ten years I.OOO.-
coo acres. one fourth OF our whole wheat
area, has gone out of wheat cultivation.
During the last few years this process has
been going On at rapidly accelerated speed.
In the meantime agriculture in all its
branches is depressed and discouraged 1t
u looked upon as n ruined industry, and any
one who puts money into it is con sidered a
lunatic. A large portion OF the capital in
vested in agriculture has been lost.
The number Of farming bankruptcies has
increased SIX times in ten years. Bills Of
sale have multiplied ten times in fiye years.
But it may be objected that Sir Ed
ward is a protectionist and bis testi-
meny may be colored by his personal
views Well, here is another witness,
the great free trade statistician Mulhall.
He has recently published a book en-
titled Fifty Years National Progress
1S37-1SS7. 1t is written to show the |
progress Of Great Britain under fifty |
years Of free trade, and he marshals |
statistics to prove her advance in popu- |
lation, wealth, trade, etc, during those |
fifty years. yet he writes less than two |
pages of the introduction to his work |
before he makes this admission:
The only item which shows q positive de- |
cline 70 agriculture. which Is six per cent. ]
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SOUTH AMERICAN fire-fiies have been
called living diamonds. In the same part
of the world is also found pale gray or
particularly disagreeable-looking moth
which may be called living lantern.
Kept inclosed in q box for twenty-four
hours it will be found when the box is
opened that the body of the moth is Civ
ing forth sufficient light to enable one
to read plainly any ordinary type. A
number Of glass-fronted boxes contain
ing these mOths-Fulgaria canternaria
naturalists call them when placed
around the room afford nearly as much
light as so many wax candles.
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EXECUTION BY KNOUT.
The Most Horrible Instrument of Torture
Ever Devised by Nan.

With this horrible instrument an ex
perienced executioner could insure the
death OF the victim in very few strokes.
and when sentence was passed order
| ing the infection of large number it
was SO perfectly understood what was
| intended that in such cases the execu-
toner was frequently bribed by the Gull
pritor his friends to exert his whole art so
as the more quickly to release him from
the torture. So, again. when the Emperor
| Nicholas, anxious to clear his country
from the reproach of being the 'land of
| the knOut" to Western eyes. pompOusly
proclaimed its abolition. he was careful
to retain the power of inhicting corporal
punishment in manner compared with
which the knout itself was merciful.
The knout could compass the
death of its victim with some half
dozen strokes, but before the same
end could be attained by its substi-
! tute, the stick, it was impossible
to say how many blows might not be re-
| quired. An eyewitness of one of these
executions has described it as being
! more hideOus than any thing that could
be conceived. The criminal. having
been convicted of the deliberate murder
of one of the Emperor's Ministers, he
| we'll deserved to die. and it was de-
! termined that die he should: but capital
punishment and the knout had both
been abolished: so. in order to attain
the end in view, the wretched man was
sentenced to 5000 blows of the stick,
which no human being could receive
and live. The execution took place in
the public hay market: and when. after
bearing l, 400 or 1.5OO blows, the victim
fell, an unconscious mass of bleeding
flesh. he was bundled into an ordinary
peasants hay cart, and. with pieces of
hay sticking into his gaping wounds,
covered over with some rough sacks, he
was jOlted off to the hospital and never
heard of again. The surgeons were not
likely to be anxious to cure man
whose death they knew to be intended,
and even feeling of humanity may
have prevented them from wishing to |
recall poor wretch to life only to en-
able him to undergo further torture. till |
he should be released by death.-Edin-
burgh Review.
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literary executor. Among them found
two manuscripts, of which the following
is one. The other is simply record OF
events in which Mr.. Quatermain was
not personally concerned-a Zulu novel,
the story of which was told to him by
the hero many years after the tragedy
had occurred. But with this we have
nothing to do at present.
L have often thought (Mr. Quater-
mains manuscript begins that would
set down on paper the events connected
with my marriage and the loss of my
most dear wife. Many years have now
passed since that event, and to some ex-
tent time has softened the old grief.
though Heaven knows it is still keen
enough. On two or three occasions
have even begun the record. Once
gave it up because the writing of it de-
pressed me beyond bearing, once be-
cause was suddenly called away upon
a journey, and the third time because a
Kaftir boy found my manuscript con-
venient for lighting the kitchen fire.
But now that l am at leisure here in
England l will make fourth attempt
II succeed, the story may serve to in
terest some one in after years when I
am dead and gone. 1t is wild tale
enough, and suggests some curious re-
Elections.
l am the son of a missionary. MY
father was originally curate in charge of
a small parish in Oxfordshire. He had
already been some years married to my
dear mother when he went there, and ne
had four children, of whom / was the
youngest. l remember family the place
where we lived. 1t was an ancient long
gray house, facing the road. There was
a very large tree of some sort in the gar
den. 1t was hollow. and we children
used to play about inside of it and knock
knots of wood from the rough bark. We all
slept in kind of attic, and my mother
always came up and kissed US when we
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This is little different result from
that reached by our contemporary We
may not be warranted in assuming that
the price would have remained at Sc per
keg, but we maintain that our reason
ing is far nearer correct than our con-
temporary's. We might add that the
production this year is expected to ex-
coed 5000, 900 kegs and the price is still
going down.
The Globe-republican., 1890-08-27

An American amateur recently offered
SAG to the municipality of Genoa for
the violin of Paganini, which is relig-
iously preserved in the city museum a.
a mementO of Genoa's gifted son. The
instrument was made at Cremona by
Guarneri in 100. The American offer
was declined.
The Globe-republican., 1890-08-27

PROF. Asa GRAY, tie greatest botanist
Of our time, had wonderful keenness of
sight and manual dexterity. Until late
in life he delighted to use these powers
in queer kind of sport. Crouched on
the floor of his parlor or study, he would
patiently watch for mice and catch
them with the experiences of Grimalkin
herself
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FRENCH Canadians assert that . ma.
jority Of their fellows in Canada are in
favor Of annexation to the United StateA
The Globe-republican., 1890-08-27
AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
CHAPTERI.

l. MA L NC reulcIu-
bered that in the
last pages of his
diary, written just
before his death.
Allan Quatermain
makes alluSion to
his long-dead wife,
stating that he has
written of her fully
elsewhere.
W hen his death
was known his pa
pers were handed
RI myself aS his
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THE STRANGE STORY
OF
Allan guatermain'SWii

BY II. RIDER HAGGARD,
AUTHOR OF "SHE," liking SoLoMoN's
MINES" "JEss," "CLEo-
PATRA," ETC.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
ADVICE 10 kUTakhs.

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world Price 25 cents per bottle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
He Meant Wen.

On a Grand River car the other day
were thirteen women and two men, and
one of the latter, who was short and fat
and fussy, suddenly laid down a paper
he had been reading and stood up and
said:
Yes, that's so-that's so. perfectly
agree with him. Yes, ladies, it is my
opinion that every one of you ought to
learn how to swim"
All looked up in half scared way and
the man continued:
1T might save your lives. Suppose
you We're on steamboat, and the bottom
dropped out of the burned critter, and
what was left of it went under, where
would you be? You'd sink like so many
cobble stones. But suppose you could
swim? You'd simply kick off your shoes
and start for the shore, and every blessed
one of you would"-
Here the conductor entered and whis-
pered to the man, who followed him out,
saying:
But women orter learn to swim-of
course they had
Yes, but keep quiet" whispered The
conductor.
Keep quiet? Is it agin the law to say
that a woman orter know how to-
Yes, but this is not the place"
Not the place? Thirteen women
here, and yit you don't want me to ad-
wise 'em that they orter learn -
Come! Gomez
''Oh, you go to grass growled the
man as he made for the steps II have
allus said that women orter learn to
swim. | know they had. If women
could swim they'd have more confidence
in themselves. Women. my advice to
you isl
But the conductor helped him little
and he dropped to the street, and as the
car left him he walked after it and said
''Well, if they don't want to learn to
swim then let 'em git drowndedr'-De-
troit Free Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

another wonderful discovery has
been made, and that too. by a lady in
this country. Disease fastened its
clutches upon her and for seven years she
withstood its severests tests, but her vital
organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months she
coughed necessarily and could not sleep.
She bought of us bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption and was
so much relieved son taking the first dose
that she slept all night. and with one
bottle has been miraculously cured. Her
name is Mrs. Luther LutZ." Thus write
W. c. Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, N. c..
Get free bottle at Hartz & Bahnsen'
drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
100 i.afies Waued

Acd 100 men to call on any druggist fol
a free trial package of Lanes Family
Medicine, the great root and herb RENE
dy, discovered by DR.. Silas Lane while in
the Rocky mountains. For diseases OF
the blood, liver and kidneys it is posi-,
tive cure. For constipation and clearing
up the complexion it does wonders. Il
is the best spring medicine known
Large size package so cents. At al
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.

w. d. Suit, druggist. Bippus. Ind,
testifies: Il can recommend Electric
Bitters as the very best remedy. Every
bottle sold has given relief in every case.
One man took six bottles, and was cured
of rheumatism of ten years standing u
Abraham Hare, druggist. Bellville. Ohio.
affirms: "The best selling medicine ]
have ever handled in my twenty years
experience. Is Electric Bitters." Thous-
ands of others haye added their testimo-
ny, so that the verdict is unanimous that
Electric Bitters do cure all diseases OF
the liver. kidneys or blood. Only half
u dollar bottle at Hartz & Bahnsens
drug store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
No Intentions.

A man with a bundle under his arm
stopped at a fruit stand ON Congress street
with the evident intention of making a
purchase, but before he had said any
thing a person standing near beckoned
to him and asked:
''Were you going to buy a banana:'
Yes, sir
Going to eat it on the street,"
Very likely"
''Going to drop the skin ON the side
walk"
No, sir. I've got seven children at
home, and l can't afford any such ex-
travagance. Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
The Scheme EaiIed

Flipson-Young Waggles has got the
laugh turned against himself in his little
joke on the Blazes Fire Insurance com
pany.
Flopson-How?
Flipson-He insured 500 cigars, smoked
them, and then sen: in a claim on the
ground that they had been destroyed by
fire.
Flopson They laughed at him, l sup
pose.
Fhpson-No. They had him arrested
on Il charge of arson.-The Jester.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

In the pursuit OF the gooa things of
his world we anticipate too much; we
eat out the heart and sweetness of world
ly pleasures by delightful forethought of
them. The results obtained from the use
Of DR.. Jones Red Glover Tonic far exceed
all claims. 1t cures dyspepsia, and all
stomach, liver, kidney and bladder
troubles. 1t is perfect tonic, appetizer,
blood purifier. sure cure for sgue and
malarial diseases. Price, so cents, of
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

Uncle Dick Ito 5-year-old Alice, who
tries in vain to capture a sparrow in the
park)-Put some salt on its tail, Allie.
and than you can catch it easily
Alice-I used to do that, Uncle Dick,
but | can't now.
Uncle Dick-And why not?
Alice-Because I'm too old.-Harper's
Young People.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
An Accommodating Suitor.

where are you off to:"
ITO apply for the hand of one of
M, the bankers, daughters
(which of them:"
THAT depends. If he looks pleasant
I'll take the youngest; but if he's cross,
the oldest. ."-Humoristis Blaetter.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
To Nervons peb,lltatsd Men

If you will send me your address we
will mail you our illustrated pamphle,
explaining all about DIR. Dyes celebrated
electro voltaic belt and appliances, and
their charming effects upon the nervous
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appliances on a trial.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
Still Farther.

81 haven't seen anything of De Wigs
lately" said Squildig. ''Oh, he's buckled
down to work now, replied McSwilligen.
'Buckled down! If he's anything like
what he used to be he'll have to be
chained down to keep him at it. Pitts
burg Chronicle
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
Democratic senatorial Convention.

Democratic Senatorial Convention.
The counties OF Rock Island and Henry. COM
prising the Twenty first senatorial district, are
requested to send delegates to convention TO be
held at the court house in the city OF Cambridge,
On Tuesday July Sth. 1890.
at 9 p. m. for the purpose of nominating cand-
date for State Senator, candidate for Represen--
tative appointing a Senatorial committee and
transacting such other business as may properly
come before he convention.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for every two hundred votes cast for Cleveland
and Thurman in 1898, and one delegate for every
fraction of one hundred votes, as follows:
Rock Island County .3,6H votes-ls delegates.
Henry County IL
l.. c. BLANDING,
WM. McESiRY,
l.. F. DIMIcK,
Rock ISLAND ILL.,, May asth, 1890. Committee
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
RIICkLRNsARN1cA sAIyR

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
The Heaviest Attraction

Master Robert tells US of the glories of
his papa's new house. There is beau
tiful large entrance, with carved stone
windows, and on the top of the house
there is splendid cupola."
You don't say so:"
Yes; and that's not all. Something
else Is going to be put ON, l know, be-
cause l heard papa whisper to mamma
that he intended to have a mortgage on
the house. London Tit-Bits.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

A Great Card That's nice ad -
"What?" This museum advertises, we
have secured the Wandering jew. lie
will wander daily from 10 a. m. until 10
n. M ,"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
She Didn't Object,

w. Childers Kydd cooking for board,
oh, forgot to mention that two OF
my party of four are small children.
hope that will make no difference.
Mrs. Hashton (sweetly}-Oh, not at all.
l shall charge jus the same as if they
were grown up-Puck.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

Sweetam: She smiled on my suIt. Rob
bins. old boy. Robbins: Well, ] think
she might. The wonder is she didn't go
into MYSTERIES
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
A Change of Currency.

'.You've wretched quarters here, Joe. "
Eyes, I'm looking around for better
half. keystone.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

Billings: Well, my boy, are you satis-
fed with married life? Benedict: Satis>
fied2 Why. l am perfectly satiated with
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

FAST MAIL TRAIN with Electric lighted end
Stea n heated Vestibuled trains between Chi
cago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and Minneapolis.
TRAN CONTINENTAL ROUTE with Electric
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tween Chicago and Council Bluffs, Omaha or
st. Paul and the Pacific Coast
GREAT NATIONAL ROUTE between Chicago
kanfas City and St. Joseph, Mo.
500 NILE OF ROAD reaching all principal
poinrs in Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Iowa,
Miss onri, South Dakota and North Dakota.
For maps. time tables, rates OF passage and
freight, etc., apply to the nearest station agent
of the Chicago. Milwaukee q ST. Paul Railway, or
to any railroad agent any where In the world.
R0sW ELL MILLER, A. " H. CARPENTER,
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W-For information in reference to Lands and
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

A great many of our would>be reform
ers are lille the man who stays up all
night trying to get'people to go to bed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03

You can easily fill the public eye if you
only have the dust.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
The Great Benefit

In6 Vfeat 60nent
Which people in run down state of hea lth
derive from Hoods Sarsaparilla. conclu-
sively proves that this medicine makes
the weak strong" 1t does not act like
stimulant, imparting fictitious strength.
but Hoods Sarsaparilla builds up in a
perfectly natural way all the weakened
parts. purifies the blood. and assists TO
healthy action those important organs.
the kidney and liver.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
That Settles 1t.

Wife, am undecided whether to go
to Newport or Long Branch this season.
Husband-You had better remain I'M
decided until fall, for have no money
TO go to either place -Munsev's Weekly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
$ p &C G s .
IS. tLnAyE. ItARRrvE.

BURLINGTON ROUTE c., B. Il @. RAIL
~ vay-Depot First avenue and Sixteenth st.,
Nj j. Young, agent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-03
A Woman's Discl very.

Rock ISLAND. ILL.,. May ssth. 1890. Commi
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-03
An Exploring Party.

PEACH SPRINGS, ARR, Mach s.
Engineer Stanton and his
party of railroad surveyors reached
the mouth Of the Diamond creek,
twenty-five miles below this place,
on March LIST. Every one in the
party is perfectly well, not having
had any serious accident Ofany
kind since that of tOpcguapher
Minis on Jan. LIST. The trip through
the Grand Canyon, Colorado, has
been one Of much danger and ez-
element, but has been 50 far sue
cessful in every way. One boat was
lost in letting i Gown a fall, but no
one was in it. After that, the chief
bOatman in charge Of the fleet de-
serted the party. In running one
rapid, Mr.. Hislop was thrown
out of the boat, but his life
preserver kept him up till he
was picked up further down. a sud
den rise in the river last week Of
ten feet made a two days ride
through the narrowest and most
crooked part. Of the canyon, wild,
exciting and perilous. Every one,
however, came through without a
scratch. The party will be here for
a few days to get q new supply be-
fore going further.