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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18
MAYS GROCERY.
The Largest, Finest and Lowest Price
Grocery House.
Simon q Mosenfelder.

Simon 3 MoSenfelder.
Quotations for today:
Mems gauze undershi,ts 10c. worth
Csc.
Mems lawn tennis shirts, 2ac, worth
soc.
Better quality tennis shirts. Soc, worth
IL.
Mems good wearing suits, % So, worth
IS.
Splendid boys suit at 81. worth %.
Prices must move this stock to make
room for fall goods.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18

McIntire Bros. have new sad reliable
kid glove cleaner; cleans perfectly and
leaves no odof.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18
Weather Forecast.

q. 8. SIGNAL OYFIcE,
Washington, D. c., July 10
For the next "a hours: Fair; slightly
cooler.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18

After all. the best way to know the
real merit Of Hoods Ssrsspsrills. is TO
try it yourself. Be sure to get Hoods.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18

Chocolate. strawberry. lemon and va.
nilla ice cream at Krell & Maths.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18

Excursion on the Libbie Conger
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday even
ings.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18

A washwoman wanted at the Rocl
Island house.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18
END OF The FIRST WEEK.
The Annual Rock Island County
Institute,

Gratify Ing Attendance and Interest
Manifested on the Part OF the Teach
ers.-.Appreciation or the lnstruc-
tors.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-18
A GOOD FENCE.

- - - --r'~A%% 1lGeL
- ear
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
Yankee Enterprise.

Some of the newspapers sometimes
refer to the enterprise of officeseekers
as new thing, but, says the New
York Sun, it is not. Fully thirty
years ago, at a certain custom house
on the American border, one of the
local appraisers was one day found
dead in the warehouse. The man
who made the discovery covered the
body with tarpaulin and then start
ed to break the news to the widow.
He found her seated on the voranda,
and saluted her and asked if Dan was
home. She replied in the negative,
and he sat down and talked about the
weather and other matters for quar-
ter of an hour before saying:
"Mrs. Philbrick, you and the col
lector's wife are friends, are you not?"
"Oh, yes, the best of friends"
"And through her you could inffu-
ence the collector ?'
"Idon't know about that"
"But if there should be vacancy
among the appraisers would you be
willing to speak good word for me ?"
"Why, yes, l am sure | would"
"If, for instance Dan should resign,
could | count on your kind efforts ?"
"Oh, certainly"
He returned to the warehouse, re-
discovered the body, gave the alarm
and had it sent home. Three hours
later he called to offer his services as
one of the dead watch, and as he took
the sorrowing widow by the hand he
said
"Poor Dan! Cut down in the prime
oflife, and without warning. Let me
assure you of my heartfelt sympathy,
and please don't forget to pull that
wire for me when the collectors wife
comes over to extend her sympathies.
All! how true it is that life hangs by
a brittle thread"
And it is matter of record that he
received the appointment.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
Talk with the Boys.

Writes a boy from New Jersey:
"Be sure to tell me of some trade l can
get rich at, and something where the
work isn't very hard"
If the boy who starts life with this
idea will only persevere in it he will
become a sharper and swindler and
gambler, and perhaps forger or
burglar. Looking for something easy
has filled the country with tramps and
led hundreds of young men into evil
paths. The desire to get rich rapidly,
and that without much exertion, is the
very characteristic that the swindler
preys on. When he finds man who
expects to get something for nothing
he finds a willing victim. What
should a boy look forward to? The
young man of 1S who is so situated
that he knows he must earn his own
way and create his own fortune, will
have to bend more or less to
circumstances, but he should think
well and seek advice before taking a
decisive step. Has he natural bent
towards any particular trade? Does
he believe himself, and do others be-
lieve him, made for mercantile life,
law or medicine? What he believes
himself best fitted for, if the belief be
concurred in by friends competent to
Judge, should be his aim and objective
point.
1t is an old saying that the girl who
expects to marry rich husband
always dies a poor woman. The
young man who starts out with de-
termination to become wealthy will as
likely land in state prison as to become
the possessor of a hundred thousand
dollars. Few of the men of to-day
hope tor anything beyond a comfortable
living. Few secure it, whether they
hope or not. One who gives his time
to his business, whether he be a ma
chinist, merchant, lawyer or doctor,
will, in the natural order of things be-
come little better off each year. To
each one may come opportunity for
profitable speculation, but this cannot
be counted on. Out of one hundred
boys who may ever be wealthy-per-
haps not even one.
While men may acquire wealth
honestly, no boy obliged to start out
for himself should have the vision of
riches held up to him. He will find
this a practical and rather cold
hearted world. He will be expected
to earn all he gets, pay 100 cents ON the
dollar, and judge of matters and things
for himself. No matter what he goes
at or turns to, his future rests with him
self. Ambition, energy, perseverance
and economy will pull him up above
the average, while the opposite quail
ties will keep him poor and make him
bad citizen.-M. Quad in Free
Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
Wild Rush of the New Fast Mail,

Engineer Bill Downing, a grim
looking fellow, said he could make up
the lost time in his run down-grade
from Evanston to Ogden. The dis
tance between these two points is 70
miles and the descent 80 feet to the
mile. He began to race his engine at
Evanston. At this point the road
runs through canyons, which are
rounded on sharp and reverse curves.
Not a soul OH the train that dark
night will ever forget the ride. The
engineer seemed possessed of a devil.
Though there is not 90 foot stretch
Of straight track in all that 72 mile
run he opened the throttle and plung-
ed ahead like a mailman. One mile
was run in So seconds and 13 miles
were left behind in Is minutes. The
passengers in the private car turned
pale, their coach rocked like a cradle,
and the noise sounded as though the
flanges on the wheels were cutting
through granite. Behind the car was
a trail of fire which filled the canyons
with incandescent fakes. A news
paper man from Ogden was taken
violently i'll and fell helpless near the
door. Captain White was also seized
with nausea and forced to seek his bed.
Even General Manager Dickinson
was scared. He staggered to the door
and set brake. Then he sent i'm
perative orders to the engineer to
slacken his speed, but Dare Devil
Downing was making night of it.
Through gorges and sheds, under and
over hanging crags whose black sides
looked like ink splashes OH dark sky,
over trestles spanning some of the
broadest wrinkles that ever cracked
the face of the earth the train swept
until it rolled into Ogden. Engineer
Downing now left the train and those
who were able got out of the private
car TO look at him. Captain Whites
watch showed that 38 minutes of the
lost time had been gained, but the fly
er was yet 20 minutes to the bad
Downing, with face as black as night,
looked at the men who had survived
to congratulate him with an air Of dis
gust and contempt.
"If you fellers had left me alone |
would bin here on time" spoke the
fiend as he hitched up his trousers as
sailors do.
Eyes, or in hell" exclaimed the
neighborIy Mr.. Dickinson, with true
Omaha suavity.-Chicago Herald, |
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
Selected Her Wedding Gifts.

Not long ago an Atlanta young
lady was about to be married-she is
married now, may heaven bless her
and keep active the business tact with
which she is endowed, says the Atlanta
Journal.
The following story has leaked out
by merchants comparing notes from
time to time:
About two weeks before the time the
wedding was to take place this young
lady visited the various stores in the
place.
At each of the jewelry stores she
called the proprietor aside and told
him of her approaching marriage, and
then said:
"Now it is very probable that some
of my friends may come in here and
select me present. It's horrid 10 get
something you don't like, so 1 want
you to look out for me, and if you can
satisfy yourself that present is about
to be purchased for me, induce the
purchaser to buy something will now
select"
The proprietor could see nothing
wrong in granting such request. and
the young lady selected number of
pieces of jewelry which suited her
taste. They were marked and the
clerks notified.
This was repeated at the crockery,
music and book stores.
From all that can be learned the
scheme worked well, and on her we'd
ding night the happy bride had few
presents with which she was not
pleased.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

"You smoke too much," said w. B.
Reynold to Sam McLane, who is bald.
headed.
"May be SO"
"4f haldheaded man stops smok-
ing he will have q full head of hair
in short time," continued Reynolds.
81 can't believe it.
Eyes, it's true; for / know bald
headed man who quit smoking, and in
less than a month had as thick head
of hair as ! ever saw"
do you mean to say that the hair
grew out all over his head ?"
mo, of course not but as soon as
he stopped smoking he saved up mon
ey enough to buy wig."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
The Niagara Falls Route.

Daily. Daily except sunday. Parlor ear on
day tlins and sleeping ears on night trains.
The dirs,t line TO Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New
York Boston, Toledo, Chicago, Cincinnati and the
South St. Louis and the Southwest.
Through tickets TO all points IN the United States
ana Canada. Steamship tickets sold to al Euro
osan points, via the Cunard Allan and Hamburg
lines.
j. WHITING, Ticket Agent.
O.w. .RuGuLEs C.. p. & r. Agt.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Gwendoline-Did Jack Handsome
press his suit warmly last night?
Guinevere-No; he pressed mine.
Toledo Blade.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

When money is tight it has more
sense than a man in the same condi-
ton, for it makes itself scarce.-Balt-
imore American.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
WIT AND HUMOR.

WIT AND HUM0R.
A high minded girl-Ella Vate.-
Elk.
The liquor question is an absorbing
theme.-Washington Capital.
There is one thing every "bud''
must have, and that's a blow out
Boston Herald.
A man is not always popular SIM
ply because he plays cards in a win
sum way.-Merchant Traveller.
Titles of nobility are as old as the
human race. Adam was the first
bare 'un.-Pittsburgh Chonicle.
If man really wants to know Of
how little Importance he is, let him
go with his wife to the dressmaker's.
-EX.
Gwendoline-Did Jack Handsome
press his suit warmly last night?
Guinevere-No; he pressed mine.
Toledo Blade.
When money is tight it has more
sense than a man in the same condi-
ton, for it makes itself scarce.-Balt-
imoro American.
"What is sweeter than to have a
friend you can trust ?" asked Sawkins.
"To have a friend who will trust
YOU" replied Dawkins.-Ex.
A sufficient cause. "What makes
you so lame to-day ?"
81 have got an accident policy for
$27 a week. Amt that enough to
make anybody lame PIX.
She (laughingly)-Why are you
looking so intently into my eyes? Are
you looking for the mote?
He (seriously)-No; for the beam.
Then she ed.-Lawrence Ameri-
can.
Mr.. Romanza-"It is fall now, and
everything green is turning its color"
Miss Modern-"Not exactly, Mr..
Romanza. He fell into a reverie and
when her meaning dawned on him he
changed color, too.-Grip.
Father-Willie, what is your teach
er going to give you for Christmas
present?
Willie-A holiday.
Father should call that an abb
sent, instead of a present.-Puck.
A legal persecution. Widow-"I
hear Jones has been arrested for keep
ing a cow"
Bitso-"For keeping a COW! What
an outrage !"
eyes, she belonged to another man"
-Ex.
A man aroused his wife from a
sleep the other night, saying that he
had seen a ghost in the shape of
donkey.
ooh let me Sleep" the irate dame
replied, "and don't be frightened at
your own shadow. Texas Siftings.
Miss Winters-"It's all nonsense,
this talk about young men putting
their arms around girls waists"
Miss Rosebub-"How do you know
it is ?"
Miss Winters-"How do | know {?
Well, | guess not single one of 'em
ever tried it on me. Epoch.
Sunday school teacher-"Now tell
me what the epistles are"
First scholar-"I dunno"
Second scholar-"I does"
Teacher-"Well, Johnny, what are
the epistles 2"
Second scholar-"The epistles are
the wives of the apostles "-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

She (laughingly)-Why are you
looking SO intently into my eyes? Are
you looking for the mote?
He (seriously)-No; for the beam.
Then she beamed. Lawrence Ameri-
nan
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Jack (impatiently)-Why do you
want to yowl. Rats !" for in that idiot
ic manner whenever you hear an old
story?
Ned-Probably for the same reason
that you yell "Chestnutsl" when any
body springs an old gag on you.
Jack-But there's some sense in
that. There's story connected with
chestnuts- :.
Ned-Exactly; and there's tail
connected with rats.-,Judge.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

"What is sweeter than to have a
friend you can trust ?" asked Sawkins.
"To have friend who will trust
you," replied Dawkins.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

A high minded girl-Ella Vate.-
Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

A sufficient cause. "What makes
you so lame to-day ?"
81 have got an accident policy for
$27 week. Amt that enough to
make anybody lame PIX.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

There is one thing every "bud''
must have, and that's blow out
Boston Herald.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

The liquor question is an absorbing
theme. Washington Capital.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

If a man really wants to know OF
how little Importance he is, let him
go with his wife to the dressmaker's.
Elk.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Teacher-"Now, children, | want
you to remember the meaning of this
word, 'transparent'--anything you
can see through f; that's what it means
Now, can any of you give me an ex-
ample of something transparent ?"
TOMMY can, teacher !'
Teacher-"Good boy, Tommy, what
is it ?"
Tommy-"A hole, teacher" ."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

A man is not always popular sim.
ply because he plays cards in a win
sum way.-Merchant Traveller.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

"Perhaps," said the fresh young
man, as he pumped himself down on
the sofa between the two giddy girls,
perhaps you were discussing some
choice secret? ?"
"Oh, no." said one of them, 81 was
just saying to Minnie that nothing
should separate us, but really didn't
expect it to happen so soon." And
the beating of his own heart was all
the sound he heard. .-Ex
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Freddie (down-hearted at the cool
reception)--"Really, Miss Smell,
should think you would go to st. Paul
for while"
Miss Snell-"For what reason, sir?'
Freddie-"They are having some
trouble in freezing the ice palace.
You might hell them out."-Kearney
Enterprise.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Sunday school teacher-"Now tell
me what the epistles are"
First scholar-'I dunno"
Second scholar-"I does"
Teacher-"Well, Johnny, what are
the epistles 2"
Second scholar-"The epistles are
the wives Of the apostles "-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Mr.. Romanza-"It is fall now, and
everything green is turning its color"
Miss Modern-"Not exactly, Mr..
Romanza." He fell into reverie and
when her meaning dawned on him he
changed color, too.-Grip.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Titles of nobility are as old as the
human race. Adam was the first
bare 'un.-Pittsburgh Chonicle.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22
Detroit, Bay City & AIpena R.R'

Mail and Accom- Mail and Accom-
Express. mediation, EXPRESS. modatlOn
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-01-22

Miss Winters-"It's all nonsense,
this talk about young men putting
their arms around girls waists"
Miss Rosebub-"How do you know
it is?"
Miss Winters-"How do | know
Well, guess not single one of 'em
ever tried it on me" Epoch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-04

performed on the violoncello, permission was
obtained from the pastor to introduce this in
strumeDt into the gallery to sustain the voices.
On the first Sunday that 1t appeared no sooner
had the unlucky Crispin drawn his bow across
the strings to give the singers the pitch for the
Velite than Miss Smith, in the front pew below
turned swiftly around. the bows on her bonnet
trembling with the agitation which shook her
pious frame. and cried out in loud tones:
''Stop, stop. take that thing out. / won't have
no fiddle in my church."
And now what the Scotch Covenanters called
''the DEVILS box of whistles" has invaded every
meeting house in the land and never will be
ousted from its place.
ing house of the last century. What religious
society in our day erects a barnlike structure
and calls il house of worship? So we must
have Gothic, though il be but carpenters
Gothic, and we must have buttresses and SPAN
drels and corbels and hideous gargoyles
though they do not serve the useful purpose Of
a water spout but only symbolic the demons
cast out OF the sacred precincts; and we must
have spire with ornamental crocketings and
finals, and, however reverent, to crown ALL a
cross.
Some fifty years ago, when the shabby spire
of old st. Peters church was restored the am
bltlous young rector had it surmOunted by a
gilt cross. venerable spinster who had long
been worshiper in the sacred fame, wander
ing among the graves some DAYS after to while
away TIC vine DeloTe service, caught slgnt OF
the new decoration and so overcome at
the sight OF a symbol on her church which was
associated in her mind with every thing
popish and dreadful. that as she afterward de-
scribed it, her feelings so overcame her that
she was compelled to retire behind a tomb
stone and weep.
Then look at the question of floral decora-
ton. Time was when the introduction of a few
flowers to decorate the chancel of new church
so offended an eastern bishop that he positively
refused to consecrate the church until the
fragrant and beautiful offenders were removed,
and Ri Rev. Father in the south actually
issued bull-not against the comet, but
against flowers in church-as frivolous and
papistlcal And now every preacher must have
his pulpit decorated with fresh bouquets the
Episcopalian. high or low, must have floral
adornments on the altar. and on Easter the
Methodsts vie with the church people in the
beauty, extent aud value OF their floral decora-
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-04

A second reason for the popularity O, how
choristers Is found in the growing love for the
beautiful in matters o: worship. Ii is not con-
hned TO sect or party; II Is not limited to one
department of art or single element of what
concerns public worship. Apart from the
mere question of worship the artistic develop
ment OF the age has made itself felt in every
part of the religious body, and the very fact
that this artistic development has taken place
has widened the general public thought, has
led men TO look at aud admire the artistic
element IN itself and quenched the suspicion
that there must De an underlying evil concealed
beneath the beautiful exterior.
The pious Methodist sister Of fifty wears ago
dressed like Quakeress and the preachers in
weighed against flowers and feathers on the
girls hats as the very signs and badges OF the
eyll one, and the young man who dared array
himself In the gay attire of .'the worlds peo-
pie" had small hope of salvation. A musical
instrument in the ordinary meeting house was
thing unknown; the pitch must be obtained
from a fork or reed and the simple psalmody
performed by voices alone.
VIII Carleton IN one of his inimi.able ballads
embodies the lament Of "a sister good and true"
over the introduction Of an organ into the old
meeting house:
Death viii stop my voice. know.
For he IL my track;
And some day 10 church viii 20,
And never more come back;
And when tns folks gets up TO sing
wnene er that time shall be-
do not want patent thing
sqQealin' me-"
venerable woman had built and endowed
an Episcopal church in one Of our northern
states and il was 50 identified with her that
everybody called 10 Miss Smiths church. There
had been great trouble in keeping the singers
Up to the pitch, aud, as the village shoe maker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-04

the most beautiful woman in New England.
sumptuous brunette with perfect features and
Italian eyes and love Of color. With her
grace and clearness Of compile ion restored
she is now q favorite entertainer Of Lon
don society, giving lectures and recitals
of her own composition, like Ethelberta in Mr.
Hardy's peculiar novel, Some one who sew
her speaks Of her in st. James hall standing
dressed in white damask like the draped figure
OF goddess, the deep rose on her cheeks. her
brilliant, liquid eyes and crown of dark rufied
tresses completing a picture which draws the
elite Of English aristocracy to admire. She
amasses wealth and moves in charming society,
and the result seems quite worth her three
months penance on pine nuts, chestnuts and
grapes in her California garden home.
Her husband was equally successful. although
his figure was the worse for years of good liv-
ing at home and under the temptations of the
best continental cookery. If a bon vivant of
fifty, with a figure il would be fattery to call
stout which had remained so for years can re-
duce himself to trim proportions for frock
coat that is certainly all that can be expected
from Edenic or any other diet.
SHIRLEY DARE.