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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18
Underwriters Change.

Mr.. w. +. Ross. Of Davenport, has re-
signed the position Of manager OF the
Underwriters Union, which he has held
for seven years. and is to be succeeded by
Mr.. Geo. Z Redheld.
Mr.. Ross was this afternoon presented
with hand some gold headed cane at the
Office of Mr.. ]. NJ. Buford as token Of
regard from the Rock Island compact.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18

If the young men who call to see their
girls these long winter evenings do not
wish to be met on the steps with the
words, Miss Laura Is sick with cold,
and cant be SEEM" they would better
keep her well supplied with DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18

McInfire Bros. have o new and reliable
kid glove cleaner; cleans perfectly and
leaves no oslor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18
MUST RESPECT THE LAW.
Firm Pos ton of the Board Of Edu.
cation.

Truant Officer KimbaIl Instructed 10
Prosecute All Cases OF Violation
Either or Compulsory Education or
or Vacchiatien---Last Nights Meet
Ing.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18

E.E. Psrmenter, attorney NJ law !.
Makes collections. loans money and VIII
q ttend to any legal business intrusted to
him. Office, postoface block. Rock ISL
and, Ills. os0Wly
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18
IYeather Forecast.

q. 8. SIGNAL OFyIcE, [
Washington, d. c., Jan,ls
For the next "a hours for Illinois
Fair; warmer.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-18

Wanted Fifty cavalry horses in the
next ten DAYS by Lorton Bros. Davenport.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
stanley's Remedy For Slavery.

There is only one remedy for these
wholesale deyastations of African abor.
igines, and hat is the solemn combina.
ton of England, Germany. France.
Portugal, south and east Africa, and
Congo State against the introduction
Of gunpowder into any part of the
continent except for the use of their
own agents. soldiers, and employees, or
Selling upon every tusk of ivory
brought out, as there is not a single
piece nowadays which has been gained
lawfully. Every tusk, piece, and scrap
in the possession of an Arab trader has
been stepped and dyed in blood. Every
pound weight has cost the life of o
man, woman. or child; for every five
pounds a hut has been burned; for
every two tusks a whole village has
been destroyed; every twenty tusks
have been obtained ut the price of a
district, with all its people, villages, and
plantations. Ii is simply incredible
that because ivory is required for orHa.
ments or billiard games the rich heart
OF Africa should be laid waste at this
late year of the nineteenth century, sig
nalized as it has been by so much adj.
vance; that populations. tribes. and ma
tons should be utterly destroyed
Henry II. Stanley, in Scri6ner.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
Mr.. Montgomery's Break fast.

'Oh, dear, Ferguson" said Mrs.
Montgomery, as the $50 whistle blsw
the other morning, II do wish you had
been born a woman, so You might know
how mean it is to get up and get break
fast"
Mr.. Montgomery had been wakeful
that morning, says the Minneapolis
Journal. and he determined to teach
his wife a lesson. Stretching his arms
up and yawning vigorously he said:
Why, am ashamed ofyou. my dear.
It's no cross for me to get up. You
just lie still and I'll show you how
breakfast ought to be put on"
Mr.. Montgomery leaped up and into
his p%antaloons, and his wife subsidized
into the pillow with little deprecatory
murmur. When Mr.. Montgomery found
himself in the kitchen he looked around
and felt a little out of his element. But
he soon had the fire going and the ket-
tie singing merrily.
well" he said to himself, as he
rubbed his hands and inhaled the soft
morning air as it came through the open
door, this is famous. Now we'll fry 0
little of that mashed potato that was
left over and a chunk of steak, and
everything will be as merry as a mar.
riage bell"
But he had made one little mistake.
And alas! he did not know it. What
he took for mashed potato was lard.
First he heated the spider and dropped
in a little butter, watching it sizzle.
Then he took "A big spoon. and mold
ing little Jumps of the lard dropped them
them into the pan. A dense smoke
arose. and Mr.. Montgomery went TO
put up the windows. When he went to
see if the potato was done brown the
material had disappeared and the spider
was half full of bubbling fat.
suffering Bad!' said Mr.. Mont.
gomery in amaZement. II believe
there's some ~witchcraft here"
Then he took a closer look at the
potato and sat down a moment to dis
like himself. At this moment his at.
tention was attracted by the tea kettle,
which had stopped singing and was
cracking ominously. The water had
boiled out. Mr.. Montgomery jumped
up to lift it off. The handle was red.
hot.
Blank the whole billy-be-dashed-
BANKED b~usiness!" howled Mr.. Mont.
gomery, nursing his hand and growing
very red in the face. BLANK my fool
soul for a blank idiot"
And with this he seized his hat and
fled downtown just in time to escape
Mrs. Montgomery, who, looking ove
the ruins, said m~editaHvely to herself
II wonder if Ferguson was trying tc
fry d%oughnuts? Well, / just knew
something would happen, so nowr
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
eces Of velvet and apoloojzed for hay.

pieces Of velvet and apologized for hav.
ing kept the company SO long in sus-
pense as to the prototype Of Rosiland.
Mrs. McLatchet at ono appreciated
the fact that the distinguished original
of the picture had at the last moment
disappointed Hamish, for nobody In
the person of a beautiful woman,
beautifully dressed, such as she had
pictured to herself as the original OF
Rosalind, was TO be seen. The COM
pany, too, began to express their
doubts and fears, yet the face of Hamish
McLatcbet was not that of a man who
had suffered disappointment. On the
contrary, it beamed with good-humor
and contentment.
"Ah. mother" he said stepping for
ward. ''you are just handy. Please
take this piece Of velvet and owe over
the lower part of the face Of Rosalind
with it as far as the eyes"
Mrs. McLatchet obeyed, inwardly
wondering what was going to take
place. At the same time her son
covered the lower part of the Smith
girls face with a piece of velvet.
A cry of establishment arose as the
exact resemblance between Rosalind's
head and eyes and Gwendolen Smith:
head and eyes was at once apparent.
OF course Mrs. McLatchet perceived
it, and her face at that moment was in
itself a study.
Now then, mother" said Hamish,
"cover Rosalind's head and eyes"
Mrs. McLatchet could but obey, and,
as Hamish at the same time hid Miss
Huggs' head and eyes from sight, tho
general delight aud astonishment a
the evolution of a face, the beauty o.
which had taken the town by storm
from the faces of two servant girls
who, to say the best of them, were buI
ordinary looking, broke out into
chorus Of applause and congratulation
But the storm within the mind o
Mrs. McLatchet at the complete turn
ing of the tables on her was so terrible
that she could have dashed the velve
into the grinning mouth of Miss Hugs
Perhaps Hamish felt for his mothe
in her humiliation, for he remarke,
hurridly:
Capital trick. wasn't it? My mothe
and | %concocted it together; didn't we
mother?"-LOndon Truth.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
Saying OF bismarck.

A French writer has made a coilec.
ton of the sayings attributed to Bis.
marck. and some of them are queer
enough:
"A Bavarian is something between
an Autrichien and a man."
IF Austria has astonished the world
by her ingratitude, England will as.
tonish it by her cowardice."
God made man after his own image
and Italians after that of Judas"
THE powers are generally repre-
sented by men of mark. but France is
sometimes represented by marked
men. queer fellows, who are really en-.
voys extraordinary"
1T is easy to recognize the Ambas-
sador of France. because he never
speaks the language Of the country To
which he Is sent"
..Thiers q diplomatist! Pshaw, he
wouldn't know how to sell a horse!"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
Unmasked.


We had danced together beneath the CLEAN
or the warm gaslight from the chandeliers
And / told my heart twas - ficeting dream.
But my heart was bold and would have nc
fears:
For I felt her breath rs IL touched my hair.
And her great brown eyes, with their piercing
gaze,
Cleaned out from her mask, while her lip so
fair
Lay close 10 mine In the whirling maze.
] led her away. as the music died
In ~ plaintiyc strain on the midnight air.
To a cosy nook In the hallway wide,
Whcr the light o dim on the oaker
stair,
And ] held her hand as my heart beat time
To the rhythmic tones of the ancient clock
And tho words | whispered were set In rhyme.
While the clock kept time with a dull tick
took"
Then my arm stole gently around her waist
And ! pressed a kiss on her thrObbing brow
But Just AZ that time her mask, displaced,
Fell down nj her feet i scarce know how.
] do not remember what followed then,
For ~ MI seemed sbrouded In clouds OF
mist.
only know that | faintcd when
saw twas my sister that ! had kissed.
IN. Y. Sunday Mercury.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
The Producer PAYS 1t.

New York Weekly World: The farm
ers of the United States comprise one-
half the working males. They bear
one-half the burden. They are the
chief borrowers. They must pay their
debts by labor. If with them we include
those engaged in the trade and trans
portation of farm products-who sink or
swim, survive or perish, with them
nearly three-fourths are interested in
agriculture, and are in the same CLASH
cation. Every cent that is made by the
rich through the dislocation of gold and
silver must be lost by the workers, the
producers, and the farmers must pay
from one-halt to three-fourths.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
Farmers Not Represented.

j. j. Mills in Texas Farmer: There
Is a bill before congress in regard to the
business of the supreme court. 1t will
become a law without a doubt, and a
few more favored men will get a pull at
the treasury teat. That bill was agi-
tated by the lawyers, Of whom there
are 50, 900 in the United States. There
are "a, 900, 900 farmers in the United
States and what has been done with the
only bill that was before congress for
their benefit? Alas! it sleeps the sleep
that knows no waking, and it forces US
to the conclusion that farmers are not
represented, but that this government
is run, managed and controlled by sub
sidized corporations or their plant
tools.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
No Homo for Ayarice.

Universal Republic: The man who
produces the wheat owns it; the man
who grinds the wheat has a right to a
portion OF the -four; the men who make
the sacks and carry the -four to market
are justly entitled to shares. These are
equitable property interests. But the
bulk of the lands and the medium of
exchange are claimed and held by those
who do nothing. Interest taking is
slave making, and the most abject slave
OF all Is the slave to the vice OF avarice.
Poverty may be freed and receive a
heavenly endowment at death; avarica
cannot,
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16


The above is a fair estimate Of the
cost of raising an acre Of corn in Cass
county, and the yield given is a good
one. In order to come out without any
loss the expense must be reduced S2.s5
per acre, and it cannot be done. But
on that same corn on which the farmer
losses in unrecompensed labor nearly
5 cents per bushel, the railroad makes
a net gain of Al cents per bushel.
Now you know who owns the farm.
The railroad owns it and owns it by vir-
tue of the laws the people have made
and the laws the people have neglected
to make. Without n investment,
without any taxes, repairs, insurance,
without any bother Of any sort from
nominal ownership, the roads take a
net income of 80 IS to S3. 50 per acre on
every fifty bushels of corr shipped over
their lines. This is what Stanford
called ''the essence of ownership" and
he knew what ne was talking about.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
yaterans of WaterIoo.

The Brussels correspondent of the
London Times writes: ''The Dutch gen.
eral, Van Merlen, who was at the bat
tie of Waterloo, has made IN appeal to
the Dutch Waterloo veterans to cele-
brate with him the seventy-ffth ami
versary Of the battle. Seven veterans,
the youngest Of them born in 1895 and
the eldest in 1898, have answered the
appeal. Six Of them state they are in
want of assistance. which they will, OF
course, receive"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
No Occasion for His services.

Chicago Tribune.
Madame" said the caller in q sub
dued, respectful voice, ~ have been in
formed by one of your neighbors that
you have met with a bereavement, and
/ have ventured To-"
II nave had no recent bereavement"
interrupted the lady somewhat stifiy.
II was told you had lost your hus.
band" he rejoined alphabetically.
"Yes-more than two years ago."
'May | ask If you have placed a mon
nment as yet over his re-"
HE was blown up in a powder mill"
The tombstone agent took his hat and
went away without another word.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
Good News for Fat People.

Or. Snyder, herbalist, 243 State street,
Chicago, whose adver tisement appears in
this issue, is no doubt the great reducer OF
the age. He takes 'fat folks" overloaded
with adipose tissue until they are q burden
to themselves and a charge upon their re
lations and friends, and In a short time re
duces them, at the rate OF fifteen to twenty
FIVE pounds per month, and making differ
emit persons of them. What was monstrous
becomes trim, well built and able to run a
foot race with a trained pedestrian.
A once very fat friend of ours is not now
recognised by half the people he meets, SO
great has been the change in his weight.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

The turning point
in woman's life brings peculiar
weaknesses and ailments. DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings relief and cure. 1t is a
powerful, invigorating, restorative
tonic and nervine. 1t imparts
strength to the whole system IN
general, and to the uterine organs
and appendages in particular.
Rundown" debilitated and deli
cate women need it. It's a legiti-
mate medicine - purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed
to give satisfaction in every case, or
money refunded. Nothing else does
as much. You only pay for the
good you get. Can you ask more?
AS a regulator and promoter of
functional action, at that critical
period of change from girlhood to
womanhood, "Favorite P~rescrip-
ton" is a perfectly safe remedial
agent, and can produce only good
results. 1t is equally eficacious and
valuable in its effects WHOM taken
for those disorders and derange-
ments incident to that later and
most critical period, known as "The
Change of Life"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

1t is said that the common cowcatch-
or attachment to locomotives Is about
the only article Of universal use that
has never been patented. Its inventor
was ID. b. Davies Of Columbus. who
found his model in the pillow. Red
lights on the ear Of trains. II Is further
said, were adopted at the suggestion
Of the late Mrs. Swisshelm after a rail-
way accident in which she had . mar
row q
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
DISTINCTION without difference.

Smith, Gray ~ CO.. Monthly.
Walking on the beach at Coney Is
land I met two Irishmen swho were adj
miring the observatory, which, after
doing duty at the centennial, was re-
moved from Philadelphia and set up ON
the island.
s'Oh, Jenny" said one, '.iist look 81
the high thing!"
s'Niver mind the height, Pat, but get
onto the length ov itr'
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
LABOR NOTES.

The Georgia farmers alliance has
'orced another congressman to with
lraw from the race.
ST. Louis unions win form a central
organization, and unionise all non-un-
on OCCUPATIONS.
New York cake ba kers won two
The boss orde red his men : o
Join the union.
The street car hands Of Ind. .napolis,
Just organized, have the largest union
in that city.
ii vesuvio says some New York Ital.
ian BARRIERS charge Is cents for a shave.
The Molders' union has cut a days
work from twelve and thirteen to ten
hours.
The United States have twenty-nine
If the forty-seyen bridges over 400 feet
long.
The Ashland, Wis, mill hands will
work ten hours at ten and a half hours
pay.
The New York upholsterers talk Of
,bolishing overtime and Sunday work.
Brooklyn marble and granite cutters
ire working nine and ten hours for SO.
They say forty unions in New York
building trades have go, 600 members.
Outside laborers at the Streator, H.,
window-glass house struck for Sl.75.
A New York man committed suicide
because he could not get work.
The two furnitupe unions at San Fran
cisco have consolida ted.
Barry claims hat the United Brother
hood has $50, 200 members.
There are thirty-two cotton mills in
and about Charlotte, N. q.
1t is said that there are $4,000 women
typewriters in the states.
Five OF the H~avemeyers have been
insured for 500, 900 each.
Wilton weavers at Palmer, Mass,
now get IA cents a yard
Grand Rapids street car men won
twelve hours and Sl.75.
New York reporters rave organized
under the X. of l..
Near Santa Cruz, Cal, a hotel has
rooms in the big trees.
Fall River spinners held their annual
clam-bake on Sunday.
Chambersburg, Pa, moulders lost a
strike for an advance
One factory at San Francisco has put
on union moulders.
Kentucky Knights of Labor held a
state convention.
Brooklyn cigarmakers won six strikes
in a week.
San Francisco mill carpenters struck
for eight hours.
An electrical mining machine mines
$50 tons a day.
The Pacific Coast Seamen's union has
1900 members.
At Denver tho bricklayers have the
largest union.
ne San GEduSlsCO NlcThS uHlOl mas
$50 members.
The journeymen tailors have 1874 To-
cal unions.
Card clothing manufacturers have or
gained.
Eggs Is cents a dozen at New Berlin
vile, Pa.
New York has a German coopers'
union.
Lynn leather workers want nine
hours.
Haverhill, Mass, makes the most
shoes.
A match machine cuts TO- OO, OoC
sticks q day.
New York furriers want nine hours.
Gladstone never travels on Sunday.
France has se~venty-six m~illionaires.
Stuttgart, Eng, has electric cabs.
Hudson, n. Y, moulders are out.
Weldless steel tubes are made.
Rare coins are counterfelted.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
A Lady Doctor OF Laws.

Following the brilliant success Of
Miss Fawcett at Cambridge, Mile. Bel
cesco, a Roumanian lady, took her de-
gree recently as doctor 81 droit at the
Paris conservatory, Like Miss Faw-
Sett, hhe obtained the highest place at
the examination for the licentiate's de-
gree, and her success was not less bril-
liant at the examination for the doctors
desIee. A question which was raised
as TO whether she should wear a cap and
gown was decided in the negative, one
OF the professors remarking that as in
heraldry, metal should not be upon
metal. nor color on color. One gown
ought not, therefore, to hide another.
The subject of Mile. Belcesco's thesis
was the legal status Of the mother I'M
der the Roman and tho French laws.
Mile. Belcesco during the six years in
which she has been a student has never
missed a lesson at the Law school. She
Is a fine looking burnette, with a large
but well shaped mouth and dazzling
set OF even teeth, and is % years
old. Her parents gave her a boys
education, and there are few
AhoIe dccoLH pllsnSu LdllnlStS OF hellen-
lists than she. At the Sorbonne she was
from the first well received by the pro-
f%essors, but at the law school she met
some opposition. The young lady was
dressed on her graduating day in a
plainly made black silk dress with col
lar and cuffs, and her dark hair was ar
ranged "a la Greque." The thesis was
read in a charming voice, but with a
slightly foreign accent. After ii was
over she was warmly congratulated by
the jury. Two other ladies, one French
and the other Russian, gained places
behind Mile. Belcesco. A correspond
ent met the latter as she was leaving
and asked whether she intended to stay
in Paris. She said she did not, but was
returning to Bucharest, TO be called
there TO the bar. II shall never plead
unless for women too poor to pay coun-
sell" said the new doctor my
father is well of. My great aim has
been to open a way for young girls OF
talent who are not so fortunate"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16
California Kidney Tea

Has cured more cases of kidney and liver
complaints than any other known remedy.
II has never failed, and thousands owe
their present health to it. California Kid
ney Tea conquers disease and drives IL
from the system. No liver or kidney dis
cas- has ever bafied IL. Buy It Of your
druggist at 80 cents for n large package.
IL he does not keep 1t send to California
Kidney Tea Co, Fairfield. Ia.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

The newspapers are now trying 20 find
the man who spent the most days in rebel
prisons during the late war. so far as
heard from yet, L. W. Ware, of Bangor,
is ahead, he having suffered go days In
Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh,
Goldsboro and Greensboro prisons.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

New York Sun.
They say there's been q dreadful
accident at the county fair"
what h~appened?"
"a lawyer stood up before the whole
crowd and shot of his mouth"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

The largest apple tree in Ohio is in
Washington county and was planted in
lT9l or lTt!. The trunk, where it is small
est, girths - feet , inches, and the largest
branch girths ! feet. IL is Il seeding, which
bears Il large yel. ow apple of excellent
quality for cooking.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

"A writer upon birds says hat In the
fields and groves there are many old maids
and bachelors who apparently never had
any inducement to marry. There 10 no
do.bt that the rivalry In bird courtship
Is extremely keen and the choice 10 q de
uteratc one.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

Bonneville Journal.
"Will you review my next book?"
asked M author Of another.
with pleasure, my dear fellow" was
the brother authors reply, ''if only YOU
won't ask me to read it."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

Henry Peters was a poo, everyday la
boring man at Elk Rapids, who died the
other day and willed his few hundreds to
his employer, Henry Noble, q man of many
thousands. Mr.. Noble is at the read of "a
great corporation whose heart is as big as
his business.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

The largest saw mill in the world is at
Christ ania, in Norway, and is owned by
one man. II runs thirty-six gang saws.
From forty to fifty ships load at one time
at itsdocks The same man owns two
large -four mills. The lumber yards Of
this mill extend more than a mile.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

"A young lady of Altoona observed by
branches of which was growing q small
bunch of bun RS. healthy and perfect in
every particular, as was also the rose
bunch to which they were singularly at
tached, q freak of nature which is unex
plainahls.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-16

Ask for DR.. Bulls Worm Destroyers.
Don't let your druggist sell you some
other kind OF worm medicine. None other
are 50 safe and yet SO sure.