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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.
TRAINS

CIiICAGO, ROCK ISLAND s. PACIFIC NAIL
- way-Depot corner Fifth svenge and Thirty
hr street, G.. ii Skelton, agent
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Another Trust in Prosnect

1t is reported by The New York Com
mercial Bulletin that the manufacturers
OF ingram carpets are in a bad way.
prices being very low and competition
very keen, and that a combination scheme
is on foot.
This will be another one of the numer-
Gus trusts which are intrenched behind
the tariff bulwark. Carpets of the kind
named pay a duty equivalent to nearly
half their cost abroad.
Here, then, is a case where protection
has done its work Its first work. Sharp
competition has been developed and
prices have gone down. Hence protec-
tion must now do its second work-it
must give birth to trust for the pur-
pose of getting more protection in an
other form. The president of the sugar
trust remarked recently that the great
trust over which he presides was simply
endeavoring to do for itself what con
gress had undertaken to do for it; in
other words, to protect an industry by
keeping prices up, and thus making
goods dearer to the consumer.
But the protection of the carpet max
ers has had another effect. The high
price of the wool they need has fostered
the use of shoddy to an extent never be-
fore seen. The common coarse wool
used In carpet making pays duty of
two and one-half cents pound, thus
adding about 25 per cent. to its cost. The
senate bill of the last congress proposed
to raise the duty to four cents a pound,
or about 40 per cent. ad valorem. The
present demands Of the wool growers
seem likely to result in an increase equal
ly great. and perhaps greater, in the
forthcoming tariff bill of Mr.. McKinley's
committee.
Where are those eminent Republicans
| in congress- who have said that those in
| dusrries which form themselves into
trusts should havethe tariff prop knocked
from under them?
Let them speak out now.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
England's Boom.

England is one of the countries which
are spoken Of by high tariff delegations
before congressional committees as 1.-THE
poor and poverty stricken nations of the
earth"
But the commerce of England for the
month OF January reached a point never
before attained by her, and was, couse.
quently, greater than the commerce OF
any other nation at any time in the
worlds history.
The manufacturing industry of Eng
land is Just now on such boom that
labor Is reported to be actually scarce.
The labor unions are not able to meet the
demand for skilled laborers, and over
time is general in most of the larger
establishments. The present year prom
ises to be the most prosperous that Eng
land has ever had.
Will the protectionists then drop Eng
land from their familiar old "pauper la
bor' argument? Or will they change
their tune and demand all the higher
protection because the British laborer
has full work and higher wages:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
Their us,nss Booming.

Probably no one thing has caused such
general revival of trade AT HAITI &
Bahnsen's drug store as their giving
away to their customers Of so many free
trial bottles of Dr. Kings New Discovery
for consumption Their trade is simply
enormous IN this very valuable article
from the fact that it aways cures and
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
EPOCH

The transition from long lingering
and painful sickness TO robust health
marks an epoch in the life of the individ-
ual. Such remarkable event is treas
ured in memory and the agency whereby
the good health has been attained is
gratefully blessed. Hence it is that so
much is beard In praise OF Electric Bit
ters. So many feel they owe their res-
toration to health, to the use of the grea,
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28
ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 2s, 1890.
THE FARMERS, TOO.
A Prohibitory Tariff for the Hop Growers.
Our Large Expectations.

| A Prohibitory Tariff for the Hop Growers.
Our Large Expectations.
1t is not to be wondered at that at
time when the tariff mania is attacking
so many people of all conditions and oc-
cupations some of the farmers have
caught the infection, 500. The farmers,
as is well known, have almost no pro
| tection," and all the other protected
classes prey upon the farmers as upon no
other portion of our population. The
farmers are so numerous and are so scat
tered over the land, have so little organi-
zation and so little means for getting
their case heard by those in authority,
that they get feeced right and left, and
are then told that it is all for their own
good.
| 1t is almost natural, therefore, that
limited number of farmers, pursuing a
| special form Of industry like hop grow
ing, should take advantage of their posi-
tion to join in the universal clamor for
| high and higher protection.
The hop growers of New York have
petitioned congress to raise the duty on
hops to 25 cents pound. The duty now
| levied is 8 cents a pound, and this is
equal, at present prices, to 40per cent.
ad valorem. The duty asked for would
equal 125 per cent. ad valorem. Mr.. De
Lano has accordingly introduced a bill
to make the duty 90 cents pound, equal
to 100 per cent. ad valorem.
The hop merchants of New York city
have presented counter petition, in
which they make out a strong case
against the claims of the growers. Ac-
cording to the treasury reports we i'm
ported last year 1884 900 pounds of hops,
and we exported 0,03S 900 pounds. As
we are able to sell abroad twice as much
hops as we buy, it is somewhat curious
| to see the reason for any increase.
The growers state that the hop industry
is in deplorable condition; their prices
are lower than formerly; therefore con-
gress must come to their relief. But the
prices of wheat and corn are also much
lower than formerly, and no amount of
pretended protection can benefit the
growers of those grains. Their surplus
product, which is simply enormous, goes
to foreign markets, and prices are regu-
lated there by conditions beyond the
reach of the strong arm of congress
The same is true of hops; one-fourth of
our total product is sent abroad and re-
ceives the price prevailing in non -Ameri-
can markets.
Our growers will doubtless get their
prohibitory duty through congress. But
they should remember that it is matter
of much graver Importance to them to
have a market abroad for ten million
pounds of American hops than to exclude
from the American markets five and one
half million pounds of the foreign arti-
Gle. Retaliation abroad may result; for
there have already been expressions of
dissatisfaction among growers in foreign
countries that American hops were in
vading their home markets If there
should be retaliation, the American
grower may know who will be hurt most.
But is it not comical thing that the
American grower should ask a prohibi-
tory duty against the very foreigner
whose markets he successfully invades:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

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What It Costs

Must be carefully considered by the
great majority Of people in buying even
necessities Of life. Hoods Sarsaparilla
commends itself with special force to the
great middle classes. because 1t combines
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BURLINGTON ROUTE c., B. & @. RAIL
~ Way-Depot First avenue and Sixteenth ST.,
NJ J. Young, AGENT.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-28

The Lake Shore railroad horror DEM
onstrates the necessity for brake that
win not break.
The morning call., 1890-08-25
MlMlCS GRASSHOPPERS.
A Little Brown Bird That Initiates I
Insac.,a scnn

Little Brown Bird That Initiates the
Insects Song.
But we have in our own August fields a
grasshopper mimic, which leaves Kirby's
bird far behind. So good mimic indeed,
that little is known of its song except as it
is credited to the common meadow grass
hopper or one of its kindred.
For years during my boyhood I heard
this fine insect-iike strain, and was COM
pletely deceived. 1t is a peculiarly August
song, and Is in such perfect harmony with
the locust and grassh0pper din that takes
possession Of the meadows at this season.
the bird-songs having now almost entirely
ceaSed-that few listeners would ever
imagine it to proceed from the throat Of
bird.
We all know the song Of the meadow
grasshopper, Zip, zip, zip, Z-e-e-e-e- -e-e-e-e!'
with the last strain considerably prolonged.
We may hear it anywhere in the fields al
most any sunny summer day, but it is es-
pecially prevalent in the vegetation of the
swamps; and if we steal sIyly upon its
source we may discern the green, gauzy-
winged musician head-dOwnward on the
sedge, and with his shrlling taborets vi
brating over his back.
Perhaps, however, as we approach the
sound the song may suddenly cease, while
tiny brown bird fiutters out close by, and,
skimmlng over the grass tips, disappears
yOpde- among the nerbage, whittier the
the graSshopper seems to have suddenly
flown unseen. for the buzzing sound is now
heard again from the immediate neighbor-
hood of the bird.
A few lessons like this will soon fix the
mimic's song in our mind and enable us to
detect it even amid the meadow din, for, al
though most excellent imitation, it has
still peculiar bird quality which soon dis
tinguishes /. from the wing-music of the
''high-elbOwed grigs" in the grass, espe-
eially if we learn to identify their individ-
ual songs.-William Hamilton Gibson, in
Harper's Young People.
The morning call., 1890-08-25
EARLY PRINTING.
The First Book Printed in America Was
Puhiiahed In The Year Ib35.

The First Book Printed in America Was
Published In The Year 1888.
In an article on the first printiDg-press
upon the soil of either North or South
America, Charles Sotheran writes to Ex-
port and Finance as follows:
The first book printed in America is a
translation of devotional treatise by st.
Johannes Climacus, i. e. San Juan Clim-
AGO. Its full title is: "Escala Esprtual
para llegar al Cielo, traducido de Latin en-
Castellano por ell Venerable Padre Fr. Juan
de la Madalena, Regi0so Dominica" Its
printer was Juan Pablos, the place of pub
lication the City Of Mexico, and its date
1886.
These facts are recorded In two authori-
ties, viz: Fray Augustin Davila Padilla's
History of the Foundation of Mexico"
dated Brussels, 1925, and Alfonso Fernan-
dez's Ecclesiastical History OF Our Times, !"
dated Toledo, 1911.
Tho "Escala Espiritual," OF "Climax," or
Ladder of Heaven" is an artistic treatise
deriving its name from the conception that
there are thirty steps to lead the soul TO
perfection. Its translator into Spanish
was Juan de la Madalena, the cloister
name of Juan Estrada, who is claimed to
have been native Of Mexico and to have
died in 1879. 1T is also in evidence that he
joined the Order of st. Dominic in 1885
and made this translation during his no.
vitiate.
Davila Padilla. upon whose evidence this
information as to the first American book
comes, was born in the City of Mexico in
1862, and received in 1893, from Philip Ill
OF Spain, the appointment of Archbishop
of Santo Domingo. AS an historian he
stands in the front rank and vast amount
of information relative to early Mexican
matters is Incorporated in his chronicles
The morning call., 1890-08-25
IRELAND'S PRETTY GIRLS.

The Rosy and Buxom Woman of the
Rural Districts.
In the remoter districts, away from the
villages, among the peaty bogs and tie
hawthorn hedges, the roses bloom red in
the cheeks of the Irish peasant girl. writes
a correspondent from Limerick to the Sa-
vannah News.
However shesmanages on the stiraboul
and potatoes, she grows lush and vigorous
and full of sap, like the green things thai
fill the island.
The colleen bawn is straight, she is moi
infreQuently tall, her shoulders are broad,
her waist large but supple, and she looks Is
stro ng as young man.
Her hair is brown, perhaps with shade
OF chestnut; sometimes it has ripple in it,
but oftener it is lusterless and straight
and, possibly, so heavy as to be almost
mop-like.
have seen peasant girls with braids that
were like clubs, the tresses when unbound
reaching the knees.
Her forehead is low, and the wave of hair
is drawn back to leave it uncovered; her
eyes are frank and blue, her complexion
clear. though exposure to the weather has
darkened It and put into it shades of yell
low-brown, and the red in her cheeks is as
deep as In the poppies that brighten the
wheat field.
~ IL pidSn Ol COlOI, uaIlug, as III dn az
tlst had flung it on dark spot of lis can
vas, more brilliant than one ever sees in
the drier climate of what they are here
pleased to call "the Staues," spreading It's
warm blush quite from cheek bone to chin.
The peasant girl is often fine looking,
sometimes superlatively handsome. but
never with what an American would cOn-
slider any delicacy of beauty. She has few
Of the soft curves Of more luxuriously nur-
tured young womanhOod.
Her arms are not rounded. They look
muscular and hard. Her bust is flat, like
an AmaZons. She is not dimpled. but She
is sturdy, as becomes scion of the "foin-
est pisanthry in the world"
Her greatest charm is her fresh and
splendid vitality.
She wears red kerehief, over her head
or folded about her shoulders, and petit
coat of brown or dark blue stuff, whicn she
weaves herself, and which stops half way
between her knees and her ankles.
Six days in the week her feet are brown
and bare. They are large feet and look
better in their naked shapeIIness than when
disguised for Sundays and holidays under
coarse yarn Stockings-these she knits-and
the cheap laced shoes, with the peculiar
combination OF thick soleS and high heels,
which come 10 the small market towns.
For defense against the weather she has
long black cloak gathered at the neck aud
provided with hood, and which is prob
ably the most characteristic article lett Of
the old peasant costume.
The morning call., 1890-08-25
HAGGIN'S CHAMPIONS.
He Is Proud Of Salvador and EireHzi
and Will Keep Them.

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-J. B. Haggin was
seen by a reporter who remarked: "It is
said you are going to sever your connection
with the turf" II cannot say whether
am OF not" was the reply. "My business
takes up almost all my time. For instance,
this year. except in the Suburban, l have
not seen one of my champions run. l could
not be present at the Champion stakes,
more especially the great Salvator-Tenny
match. The man who loves racing from
his heart must naturally wish to see his
horses win. especially in great races, but
will not admit am going to quit the turf"
''It was generally surmsed that, owing to
your taking Mackay with you, you intended
buying some OF the best blood stock in En-
gland"
"There is not the least truth in tina t."
said lIaggn. 81 think have got as good
stock in California as there is anywhere in
the world. As to taking my manager, Mackay,
l simply asked him to come along. Mackay
visited all the chief stables in England
and the best races. He tells me he did not
see horse in the old country that is any
better than ours. There is not an ounce OF
difference between their champions and
ours. With regaad TO myself, did not go
near racecourse, and the only horses
saw were those of Leopold de Rothschild,
at whose house l was guest"
"There are rumors that you are going to
sell your stable"
II shall sell some very youngsters. most
probably" was the answer, "but that / am
going to sell my brood mares and my good
ones you can most distinctly contradict, In
so far as Salvador and FrenZi are concerned,
/ will never part with them. When their
racing days are over they will have their
home in Rancho del Paso. IL | live long
enough they will have royal home and a
great burial in the hOmpstpad Naturally L
am proud of owning the champion mare and
stallion of America and OF the world"
Haggin is looking well, but is a little
tired. Tuesday lie starts for California.
The morning call., 1890-08-25
CATCHING LIVE BAIT.

A New Way OF Procuring Minnows That
Comes From Across the soa.
A new device for sportsmen to enable
them to catch minnows is called the "glass
minnow trap" 1t is a cylindrical vessel
abou; foot long and eight inches in diane
ter. One end is drawn out like the neck of
bottle and fitted with cap of wire gauze,
which may be screwed. on and removed at
will. The other end is folded inward like
the bulge at the bottom OF a bottle. In the
center of this bulge is a hole an inch or
more in diameter. Wires are twisted around
the trap ia two rings prolonged into stand
ards with spreading bases. A wire handle
connects the rings at the top.
To operate the trap, which Is, by the
way, of pure, transparent glass, the cap is
screwed on and the interior is partly filled
with crumbled cracker. 1t is then let down
into water not over three feet deep, where
minnows congregate, the standards keep
ing 1t off the bottom. To the handle float
is attached by bit of string. The mill
nowS soon see the moving particles OF
cracker and begin nosing around the glass.
Soon the funnel-shaped opening is found,
with the convenient hole through which ac-
cess to the coveted cracker can be gained.
Mnnow after minnow darts in and in an
ast0nishiugly short time the trap is full of
them. The more there are in the more
those on the outside want to get in, and
once in not one in fifty has sense enough
to get out again. When the fisher has all
he wants he pulls up his trap, unscrews the
cap and pours them out into pail.-Lon-
don Times.
The morning call., 1890-08-25
A WOMAN'S HORRIBLE CRIME.
On Trial for the Murder OF Her Aged
Hush md.

On Trial for the Murder of Her Aged
Husb,nd.
One Of the most remarkable murder cases
in the history of West Virginia is on trial
at Mddlebourne, Tyler County, says the
Philadelphia Record. In May, 1887, Jacob
Morgan. veteran of two wars, who had
recently secured large amount of pension
money, was murdered in his home in broad
daylight, being literally shot and cut to
pieces. Morgan's young wife declared that
the murder was done by stranger, who
shot iier husband dead while at supper.
beat her senseless and escaped with the
money.
Detectives were put on the case. and a
few months ago Mrs. Morgan was herself
arrested for the crime. The trial, which
has proceeded three days, has shown that
she was intimate with two other men, and
repeatedly quarreled with her aged hns-
band. Evidence has also been adduced
showing that she put drug in Morgan's S
supper to stupefy him, and then called in
her param0ur, who did the murder, the
woman herself finally severng her hus-
bands throat with dirk. Mrs. Morgan is
an exceedingly handsome WON an, and her
demeanor in the courtroom is naughty to
an extreme.
A late dispatch announces tho conviction
OF Mrs. Morgan, and that the verdict was
received BY the great crowds with demon
StratlonS OF satisfaction,