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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
Took Opium for Inc cac.

HERRIcK FALLS. n. Y, May 26.-Mrs. ID.
A. Pruyn took powdered Opium Saturday
night in mistake for ipecac, and died yes
terday from the effects of the poison
Druggist Charles Smith is ae cused 0: re-
sponsibility for the fatal error.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
Canal Tow-Path washed Out

UTICA, N. Y, May 26.-The tow-path
bank of the Erie canal gave way six miles
west of this city last evening, washing out
the New York Central railroad tracks and
throwing freight train into the ditch.
The level is sixty miles in length, and the
water in the Mohawk is rising rapidly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
Tumbled into the River.

PITTsBuRG, May ga special to The
Times from Martins Ferry, o., says: Yes
terday the false work for the channel span
Of the Union bridge across the Ohio river
and 800 tons of the iron work was carried
away by the high water and driftwood.
The span is 900 feet The loss is $4,000,
and work will be delayed thrte months
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
CAPSlZED IN The BAY.
Eight Out of Ten Boaters Drowned at
Fall River, Mass.

Fall River, Mass.
FALL RIVER, Mass, May IA small
boat containing party of pleasure seekers
was capsized in the rough water in the
bay yesterday and eight persons We're
drowned. The names are: Samuel Wit
ties, aged so Mrs. Whites, aged -: Henry
Whites, aged 10; Samuel Whites, Jr., aged
-; Levina Buckley, aged IS; Fred Buck
ley, aged 3; Willie Buckley, aged s; Willie
Turner, aged S. The accident was caused
by the inexperience of one of the men who
were rowing the boat. Only one of the
party could swim and he succeeded in saw
ing one of his companions besides himself
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26

Another Victim of Jack the Ripper"
LONDON, May ga young girl named
Hunter was found Saturday morning near
Altenberg, and the body had been mutt
lated as were those of Jack the Ripper's"
victims. There is great excitement in the
neighborhood.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
A village Almost Ruined by Incendiaries

UTICA, n. Y, May ga special to The
Press from Port Leyden, Lewis county,
says: Thirty buildings, including hotel,
several stores, shops, and dwellings, were
burned here yesterday. Loss, $4,000 to
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. This is the
third serious fire, all of incendiary origin,
within three months, and the village is al
most rIliued
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
A Close Run for =, 900 Miles

New YORK, May 2G.-The Anchor line
steamer City of Rome, the Cunard line
steamer Aurania and the Guion line
steamer Alaska, which left Queenstown
respectively at 1870 and 1:3O p. m, May Is,
were sighted off Fire Island yesterday at
l:1O. 326 and $40 ID. m. respect ively
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
a south CuroIina Frntricide.

CHARLESTON, S. c., May 8.-At Lydia,
Darlington county, on Saturday, two
brothers, young white men, Murray and Ben
Knots, were working in field when an
old quarrel was renewed, and Murray shot
Ben to death. Murray is ready to surren-
der whenever called upon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
Republican Campaign COMMITTEES

WASHINGTON CITY, May 26.-Members of
the Republican congressional campaign
committe have been selected and announced
from all but five states and three territor-
les. TheIllinois member is Rowell; Indiana,
Cheadle; Iowa, Gear; Michigan, Senator
Stockbridge; Minnesota, Dunnell, and
Wisconsin, Sawyer
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26

Powerful Indeed. Mrs. Eastlake:
hear that powerful revival is in progress
at the Methodist church. Mr.. Eeastlake:
1t may well be called powerful. Why,
two members of the choir have been con
verified.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
Illinois Legislature and the Fair

CHICAGO, May 26.-The Worlds fair
committee have decided to ask Governor
Fifer to call a special session of the legis-
lature, to submit constitutional amend
ment authorizing Chicago to vote 5000,
600 for Worlds fair purposes.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
worlds Fair Commits. oner.,

TRENTON, n. j., May Ex-Governor Alb
bott has appointed Hon. Thomas H. Smith.
of Newark, and William !. Sewell as
worlds fair commissioners from New Jer-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26

TERNs-Daily, SOC per month = Weekly, 81 90
per annum.
All communications OF a critical or argumenta-
i've character, political or religious must have
real name attached for publication No such arti-
ucles will be printed over fictitious signatures.
Anonymous Communications not noticed
correspondence solicited from every township
In Rock Island county.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
BLACK HAWK.


HAMPTON, May 26.-Hampton's dele>
gates to the democratic county conven-
ton are Morris s. Heagy. James Winans
and Geo. McNabney.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
SOUTH ROCK ISLAND.

The South Rock Island caucus was
called to order by Committeeman
w. G. Maucker. Scott Gardner WAS
elected chairman and W. c.. Maucker
secretary. Thos. Bollman was elected
township committeeman. Delegates to
the county convention were elected as
follows; Geo. Lamont, w. c. Maucker
and CYRUS Valentine
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-26
SIXTH WARD
SEVENTH WARD.

Aid. James E. Larkin was chairman of
the Seventh ward caucus. and Aid. Paul
Thiesen secretary. Delegates were elec-
ted to the county convention as follows:
James E. Larkin, Paul Thiesen, James
Mccain, Edwin Ward.
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my heart, for Heavens mercy. knew
you were there at the window-I kner,
though my eyes were too dim to see;
and when signaled with my hand,
heard your voice answer: Leslie! Les
lie! l am comingv and l knew l was
saved.
my Carmine," he took her hand rev.
erently in his, ''had your love for me
been less faithful, you would never
have bridged space with that yearning
prayer which brought our spirits into
communion, and I would have died
there, beside those demon-bells!"
Leslie Kenilworth lived to bless the
bells that had so nearly destroyed him.
The great ocean steamer that sailed
away without one newly-wedded pair
sank in the storm of that fourth of Jan
uary, and all on board were lost. Had
the bells not startled the young man so
that he missed his footing and fell into
his horrible dungeon, he and his gentle
bride would have gone down with the
ill-fated passengers of the Assyrian.-
Annie Ashmore, in Demorest's Maya
zine.
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the head, relapsed again into his former
attitude.
He had sat thus for long time when
there was knock at the door.
"Come in" said the lawyer, without
looking up.
A servant girl entered, handed him a
note and withdrew.
Lawyer Flint opened the note, read it,
uttering an exclamation of impatience.
arose and paced up and down the room.
$50 Rolingold can't meet me to-mor-
row because it's Christmas" he NUT
tered, as he stalked across the floor;
''every day is important in this matter
and yet he, the one most interested, de-
lays proceedings twenty-four hours SIM
ply because it happens to be Christmas.
Cad! can't see how business man like
Rolingold can be SO foolish. WE'LL" he
continued, "let him take his holiday
and enjoy it if he can. 1 couldn't. It's
many and many long day since Christ
mas interfered with my business"
He returned to his chair, but the train
of his thought had been interrupted and
his face now wore a cynical, hard look
as he gazed into the cracking fire.
Once, long ago, his Christmas days had
been bright, too, but their brightness
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hung in q circle over a skele eCon-lke
bridge of planks, by which they might
be reached. As the door was opened,
the quarter after six set one bell swoop-
ing across the disk with stroke which
almost deafened Carmine, SO mighty
were the reverberations. At the same
moment a scream broke from dark
heap under one of the window-loops, and
it seemed to cover closer to the wall. 1t
was Leslie Kenilworth, the missing
bridegroom, crazed, as the sexton had
said, by the torture of the bells.
1t were useless to describe Mrs.
Haughton's stupefaction when this
wreck of humanity was brought to her
door. The explanation of his plight
was so simple and so natural that she
could not find word of blame for any
body. but just busted herself in doing
the best she could for the unfortunate
man. He was almost gone with hunger,
exhaustion and the pealing of the bells.
They had to be silenced while he lay
between life and death, SO terrible was
their effect upon him.
Maniac bells! be still! be stillr' he
would scream, striking fiercely upward,
and then, when strength failed him,
covering into his pillows as though
from raining blows.
As rest and nourishment restored the
wasted body, the frenzied mind gradual
" regained its balance, until Leslie
learned to recognize his plain little
bride-elect, and grew visibly stronger
under her influence.
It was a fortnight after his rescue
that he told his story to Carmine and
her mother. It ran thus:
'sYou remember I left this house at
ten o'clock that night, and went to my
hotel to complete my preparations. 1
worked for an hour, and then the beauty
of the night tempted me out for stroll
about the old place. I often used to
climb up the stairs of St. David's tower
when boy, and the fancy took me to
do it again; SO, without word to any
one, ascended the parapet, and stood
there, not looking at the old familiar
scene, after all. but at my Carmine's
lighted windows"
He took her hand, and in defiance of
mamma, kissed it.
"You had told me to expect little
gorgon, and I had found, instead, SO
sweet, 50 spirit-pure face"
''But ugly" interposed Carmine, with
an unsteady laugh.
Beautiful with the beauty that is
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eternalr' said Leslie, stoutly; and tiny
thorn was plucked forever out Of her
humble heart.
"Well," proceeded he, 81 forgot where
I was, SO that when great clang of
bells rose just behind me, I started and
meant to hasten down the stairs out of
the din. Instead, I stumbled headlong
into the open bell-tower. and lay, help
less, on my back, under the swinging
bells, just in the center where they all
met to deliver their Internal strokes"
'They had begun to ring in the New
Year." he continued, "and knew had
ten minutes of it to endure before I
dared move hand or foot: for as each
bell delivered its stroke the brazen lip
would almost touch my face, and the
wind of it nearly took my breath away.
I lay there staring up at my enemies
with starting eyeballs, as they swooped
at me like hungry eagles, and snatched
at my tossing hair. How they roared at
me! How they hurled themselves like
barking dogs at me!
''When they began to ring in the New
Year was in the prime Of youth and
vigor; when they stopped, my warm
blood had become thin and cold, my
hair was gray. I was an octogenarian in
his senile childhood. I laughed and
cried for joy when they were silent,
and then crept of the fearful network
and found the door. When I discovered
it was locked, suppose tainted; at all
events I remembered no more until
towards the evening. From that time
on-morning, noon, night, morning,
noon, nightcit all seemed to me .
troubled dream, cut into by lance points
OF torture whenever the demon bells
gave tongue. Sometimes the fifteen
minutes seemed to me days and weeks
apart; at other times they hurried on
each other so that I yelled at them to
wait and give me time to brace myself
for their crashing blows All hunger
or thirst was forgotten in the torture
of the bells: sleep had none-only in
sensibility.
ION that fourth night of my imprison-
ment, the furious storm which rocked
the tower brought me q strange relief,
although the frozen snow blew in upon
me, almost freezing me to death. Those
other sounds were healing to my deaf
ened ears; they diverted my mind from
the recurrent horror of the bells. As
the night wore on, had . mysterious
feeling that you, Carmine, were near
me; that your. spirit was calling upon
mine. I dragged myself to the loop
hole and waited for daylight, praying
all the time. with . newborn hope in
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trousers pockets, and his head bent for
ward until his chin rested on his breast.
On the table beside him lay couple of
newspapers and a yellow-covered law
book, open at the page he had been con-
sulting.
Lawyer Flint was deep in perplexing
thought. to Judge by the expression of
his face, for his brow was clouded and
his lips compressed; and occasionally
he turned his head toward the open
volume as if inclined to seek further
aid from it, bat, with slight shake of
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Merry


Change. sir; thank you. Merry
Christmas!''
The exasperated lawyer grasped his
bundle and hurried after the boots,
which now seemed anxious to get away
from the store. When he struck the
cold air and again drew his coat around
him he seemed somehow to feel less an
noyance. The excitement of the chase
had warmed his blood. It was a curious
feeling that began now to steal over
him, the like of which he had never ex-
perienced before, or at least not for
many years, he said to himself, as he
stopped before candy store and fol-
lowed the boots inside.
Candy for Christmas?" r, cniled
almost to think that he, Harders A. Flint,
should hear such question addressed
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was obscured by more vivid recollec-
tons of other Christmas times in later
years, when ambition and disappoint-
ment and poverty and greed had steeled
his heart and loft NO room for Christmas
thoughts. Oh! the years that he had
worked and starved and boarded to reach
his present condition of comfortable in
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How the glad peal broke upon the
midnight silence and set the heart OF
one happy girl thrilling with a joy al
most too keen for mortal to believe in
the joy of requited love! Ring out the
long years of patient waiting and meek
submission; ring in the coming bliss of
living for the noblest man on earth!
Carmine Haughton was to be married
to-day-this very New Years day-to
the lover who had been rejected by her
parents seven years ago. The Haugh-
tons were wealthy then, and she was the
eldest. the flower, the loveliest of the
four beautiful girls who went by the
names of Carrie, Ju, vi and Essie
Haughton. Leslie Kenilworth was one
of the richest physicians in Winnipeg
now, and Carmine was neither beautiful
nor wealthy any more. A wasting ILL
ness had robbed her forever of her love-
illness, and her fathers sudden death
had reduced the family to comparative
poverty.
Then, quite suddenly, Leslie Kenil-
worth had written to his old love, tell
ing her he had home worthy of her at
last; that he had never forgotten her,
and believed she had been as true to
him, and that he would come and claim
her whenever she bade him. What day
of Joy and terrors that had been! Would
he care for her now she was poor-and
plain? For the first she feared not; but
the last? All! the image in his constant
heart was not that poor, SCARED face.
She wrote him the truth, inclosed her
photograph and waited mutely. But his
letters only breathed the tenderest con-
stancy. He urged her to be ready for a
New-Year's day wedding, SO that he
might take her with him to Europe for
a winters sojourn before returning to
far-off Winnipeg, and her mother and
sisters gladly pushed on the prepara-
tions.
the very day before the wedding, and
when she beheld the tall, handsome
gentleman who had come to claim her
her courage altogether failed her and
she hid her ruined face in her hands,
weeping over its Disagreement. But he
raised it with tencerest reverence, and,
gazing into the fearful eyes, whispered:
my Carmine's soul is lovelier than
everv
And who could have doubted after
that?
Plenty of willing hands had decked
the church with flowers in honor of her
wedding day-the quaint old church
whose pealing bells had walked her to
the new year and the new life. Its
beautiful bell tower. was but stone s
throw from the brides chamber window
and its chimes were familiar to her n
the voices of her friends. It struck the
quarter before eleven-a bar of . six
teenth century madrigal-as the bride
went up the aisle in her simple white
draperies-
There she stood under the COLDER
bell. with her gentle face seen, mist
like, through the vail, bending down
ward. and filled with . holy serenity
There she stood-but where was the
bridegroom? The marriage Was fixed
for quarter before eleven. and the
steamer which was to bear them AVA,
started At twelve o'clock. Not . momen
could be spared for delay; why, then, VA.
not the bridegroom there to greet thu
bride?
Mrs. Haughton, in her marvellous toi
1ette Of heiiotrope plush and lace, whS
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A LIVELY OLD PAIR.
The Merry Christmas Caused by
Uncle Toms Old Boota

A h DERS A.
FLINT, Esq,
l a W y r, sat
alone in his
bachelors den
in a big easy
chair, his feet
encased in a
pair of dilapi-
dated old slip
pers, resting on
the fender, his
hand thrust half
11,o~ s~<0 Ls~
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- IF '- :::: 81: ::;:' ]: e: =: :;:::: :::s
ioned Christmas wealth
I remember the fields were
uIJ white with snow
WY As we stood by the stile
together.
In the woods the berries grew thick and red;
Yet fingered and called 1t Folly
When you said with smile: Let us cross the
stile
And gather some Christmas holly"
But over the fields by the frozen brook
We went where the boughs were sprinkled
With snow; and deep in a sheltered nook
The waterfall family tinkled.
A brave little robin sang out in the cold:
1t was only young lovers folly,
But we listened so long to the redbreast's song
That we almost forgot the holly.
Then the light died out Of the golden day,
And the moon showed her silvery bow,
And we never knew II our homeward way
Lay through rose-leaves or drifted snow.
One bright star shone IN the pale clear sky;
And my m .ther said 1t was folly
To listen so long to q robins song
But we brought home the Christmas holly.
You stir not now from our fngle nook
And my hair is white like the snow;
For the story you told mid the sunset gold
Is a story Of long ago.
As hand clasps hand by the winter fire,
Do you deem 1t an old wifes folly
That my eyes grow wet with a sweet regret
When look at the Christmas holly!
e. Matheson. in Chambers Journal.
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SWEET carlton
of bells! Ring
out the old year,
ring in the newt
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her plerc1ngly, aSln her very ear:
Maniac bells! Maniac bellsr'
It was Leslie's voice! Had she lost
her reason? What was that moving on
the face Of the campanile? A shred of
paper? A hand? A beckoning hand?
'Loslie! Leslie! I am coming!"
cried Carmine, as if he could hear her.
Perhaps he did. The pale hand was
withdrawn.
Five minutes later the sexton at st.
David's Church was summoned to his
door by young lady without q hat,
who said simply:
"Dr. Kenilworth is locked in the bell
tower. Gomez
Breathless with astonishment, he got
the keys and followed her flying foot
steps.
st. David's bells were managed by
clock-work down below. The sexton
vaguely remembered that he had gone
up to see If it was all right on New
Years eve before the midnight chimes.
He must have locked the missing man
in among the BELLS
Up and up they sped until they
reached the lOw-browed door. A stone
balcony ran around the belfry here, and
strangers often came up to see the view.
What more probable than for man to
stumble in the darkness through this
open door and be lost for months?
IF he's alive he's crazy, among them
demons" muttered the sexton, as he
slowly turned the lock.
Narrow rays Of light shone into the
place from the lancet windows cut in
! the walls, showing the monster bells
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with no seam except in the under part of
the sleeve and at the side, q slit being
cut at the neck through which to intro
duce the head. A slender twig, with the
half Of large peanut for q basket sus-
pended from each end, completes very
Jolly little Chinaman.
Did you know that you could also
make some very comical Chinaman's
faces upon egg shells with q pen and
brush? The shell must be carefully emp
tied of it's contents, by blowing them out
OF q pin hole at one end. Use the brown
eggs to initiate the proper complexion,
and be sure to make the eyes and eye
brows slant after the peculiar fashion of
that wonderful people.
Then make a broad-brimmed China
man IS hat out ofstiff yellowish paper. You
had better copy some pictures of one. [
should first fit asmall piece of paper with
glue around the small end of the shell for
the crown, then make hole in the other
piece which forms the brim, so as to pass
the crown through. OF course you will
have to try several times before these
funny little people will quite suit you.
Then after you have practiced on these
a while, you can make some grandmas
and old aunties with high crown caps
and poke bonnets. Make the frilled caps
out OF soft white tissue paper, the strings
OF pink or pale blue.
When the pretty little Mandarine Or
anges are ripe next fall, you can make
an old yellow faced little woman
this way: With sharp pointed
knife nick out from the peel the outline
of a face which you have drawn on the
orange. Then take a little stick of pro-
per length and thrust it into the orange
and place it into bottle that has neck
to it. YOn can now dress this queer
little yellow faced figure in any pretty
costume of tissue paper which you may
fancy. Try it.
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Letters from the Children.
Editor Household Department:

Editor Household Department.:
In the last issue of the AGRICULTURIsT,
| noticed two letters from little girls, and
as | am q constant reader of that paper
| thought 7 would write also. / can't
say that | am a ''little girl unless you
would call any one in her first "teens," a
little girl.
[ always like to read the ''Household
Department, as | think it is very inter-
esting, also the ''puzzler," and I try
to work out the puzzles. | sent some
puzzles to Mr.. Painter, but he did not
print them, so am going to try once
more, and | hope to see them in print
this time.
| go to the high school, and am in
the second grade of that school, there
are Jour grades, ninth, tenth, eleventh,
have very nice teachers and [ study
algebra, civil government, Rhetoric and
excepting. We also have calisthenics
which | think a&ESery beneficial. We
begin school at $50 and close at 4:30.
/ also go to Sunday school, but do
net belong to the church. I go to both
the Methodist and the Baptist Sunday
school and often to church.
| am much interested in the story of
"Allan Quatermain," in the AGRICULTURE
IsT
I'll I l. I Il I L
want my letter to be too long to print.
SAREPTA M.
Cairo, ILL.,
I'VE truely hope that our new CORE
spondent will favOrus with another letter
very soon. Some of the puzzles kindly
sent will appear in this week S issuc.-ED.
HI. D.
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A "view nalloo."

"This oatmealisn't cooked, remarked
Susie, pushing her plate away.
'Tm sorry said mother, looking care
worn.
"Wife, it does seem as if Bridget might
learn not to overdo the steak" said
father, critically.
Mother looked more careworn.
''But the omeIette is delicious, and the
corncakes melt in your mouth" sang
Bessie, from her watch tower on the
sunny side.
"And the baked potatoes cam be beat"
echoed Rob, ungrammatically.
Bess and Rob had entered into con-
tract: "When the wind blows east, and
Sue fuses at breakfast. and mother is
clean wore out with the baby, give me
View halloo 7 and I'llanswer back" said
Rob to Bess.
Here is q rare piece: I didn't see it,"
said father.
''Pd as soon have pear as the oat-
meal" reflected Sue: and those two con-
spiratOrs flashed looks at each other
while mother smiled knowingly. and-the
wind had changed.