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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
rired Eye. ana ,n.omni..

"Among other evil results from abuse Of
the eyesight," said a medical expert in the
treatment of eye and ear, sis the fact that
to it may be attributed the great increase
in recent years of the much dreaded in
somnia. From my experience with the
hundreds of cases of eye affections l am
satisfied that three-quarters of the cases of
sleeplessness come from nervousness di-
rectly traceable to undue strain upon the
optic nerve. In these days of unceasing
work the eyes are not given the rest to
which they are entitled. Clerks, lawyers
and professional men generally are con
tinuously porting over books and papers,
and the result is apparent not only in the
actual injury to the eye itself, but in the
retroactive effect upon the nerve and brain.
Even the amusements and recreations in
which they indulge after the days work
are of character to be a still further
strain upon the eye.
Insomnia in women comes largely from
too much work with the needle or pro-
tracted occupation in some clerical posi-
ton. There is a simple remedy for sleep
lessness, which by its upfailing success
proves that the trouble largely comes from
the overstrain of the eyes. Ii the sufferer
will take small piece of toweling or other
soft cloth and fold in it two small bits of
ice, and then lie down and adjust the cloth
so that the ice will exactly cover the closed
eyes, he will shortly find himself dropping
off into refreshing sleep. This, of course
is only temporary relief, but the insom-
MIA victim can readily cure himself by
shielding his eyes from overmuch strain. {"
New York Telegram.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
What Abroad" Means to Us.

We are getting plenty of illustrations
this year of the value of the foreign
market to orr people. Not only are the
farmers going to derive the whole of
their renewed prosperity out of the ex-
port trade instead Of out of the tariff.
but even the coal miners of Pennsylvania
are looking to increased demands for
fuel on the railroads that are bringing
the surplus crops to the seaboard to take
off their hands the surplus coal produc-
ton and raise prices thereby. It is this
abroad" demand which we have af-
fected to despise and even tried to cut
off that is bringing hope and saliva
ton to the majority of our people this
year.-Providence Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
Disease Carried by Flies.

Any one who has been in Egypt will
have had an object lesson on the propaga-
ton of disease by flies. The many victims
of ophthalmia to be seen there usually have
their open sores covered by swarms of flies,
which makes the presence and obtrusive-
ness everywhere in that country of this in
sect pest doubly abhorrent, from the posi-
bilities of contagion by contact with them.
The prevalence of ophthalmia in Egypt is
attributed specially to these swarms of
flies, which convey infection from affected
subjects to those unaffected.
In our own country there is no specific
malady which may be thus mainly attrib-
utable to the germ carrying action of flies,
but it is quite possible that many cases,
where the sources of infection cannot be
traced, may have had their origin in the
presence of flies unwittingly admitted from
tainted places.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
CARPETS UNDER A LOW TARIFF.
The Carpet Industry Under n Thirty Per
Cent. Tariff Before the War.

The Carpet Industry Under Thirty Per
Cent. Tariff Before the War.
The protectionists claim the carpet in
dustry, both in its great development
and il its cheapening of carpets, as Pc
culiarly bright illustration of the bless
ings of high tariff This claim they
make for the high tariffs which have
prevailed since the war period, the low
tariff Of 80 per cent ad valorem in the
low tariff period beginning in 1916 not
being considered by them as protection
period at all. They refer to it as the
revenue tariff period" and even as the
free trade period" with such contempt
do they regard the little 30 per cent.
duty on carpets in that day.
But even under that low tariff our
carpet industry was Furnishing and was
teaching Europe how to make carpets.
In a document sent to the ways and
means committee at Washington in 1857,
and signed by all the leading agents for
the sale of domestic wool in New York,
the following language was used, "In
Brussels and Wilton carpets our manu-
faoturers challenge the world, and Eng
land has but recently supplied herself at
considerable expense with the patent
right to an American loom"
In the same year the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, in describing certain
carpets, said, These velvet and tapes
try carpets are now made by a New
England worsted company so perfectly
equal in every respect to the best foreign
article that not merely the ordinary
buyer, but even the English manufac-
turer himself is unable to find in them
any inferiority to the best imported"
This was possible under the 30 per
cent. duty before the war, yet the 40 per
cent. duty on carpets proposed in the
Mills bill was looked upon with pre-
tended alarm by the high tariff cranks
and was denounced as little short of
free trade
Although our carpet industry demon
strated its ability to prosper under 30 per
cent, Mckinley came forward last year
with a grand flourish of trurnpets and
gave the manufacturers protection run
ming all the way from so to S. per cent
Did he thir that our manufacturers are
suffering from European pauper COM
petition? We imported only 605.O0
square yards during the fiscal year 1890,
the very time when he was so industri-
ously engaged in putting mp the high
tariff wall.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
TIE Kelley cure for drunkenness has

The Kelley cure for drunkenness has
its IFS and ands. Oc. Demmery. of Au-
rora. slave to both whiskey and NOR
phine, had been cured, but fiend in a
friends gard dared him. after months
abstinence, again to taste whiskey. The
first drink made the victim very sick. but
he shortly overcsme his repugnance to
the vile fluid and had soon absorbed a
sufficient quantity to render him drunk
and disorderly. and he had to be run in
BY the police. The fellow who induced
him to overcome his good resolutions
and once more fill up with liquor, ought
TO have been run in with him, or kicked.
or shot
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
LYMAN E KNAPP. governor of Alssl

LYMAN E. KNAPP. governor Of Alaska,
in his annual report to the secretary of the
interior says the products of Alaska ex-
ported during the year and their value
were: 6Ss, 332 cases of salmon, valued at
2,753. 1928; Also pounds of ivory, worth
$9.507; 231, 2s2 pounds of whslebone,
worth 81, sos. 1888; IA. 500 gallons of whale
oil. worth $4,467; LBS, 900 Goldfish,
$3.50. 900; 1900 barrels sailed salmon,
ga. 900; gold and silver bullion. s1,000,-
600; 21,5s6 fur seals taken under lease,
S647. $50; go. 600 skins taken by poschers.
$1,000. 600; other furs and skins, $3.50.
600; curios. $25. 600; other products.
$1O6. 900; total, Ss.941,51
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
What a Traveller Saw I'm America.

A German scribe relates that during a
visit to America he saw three journals
printed on sugar cakes flattened out
Rolled chewing tobacco formed the sheet
on which two other journalists recorded
the news of the day. Five offices utilized
fly papers, and the genius of seven editors
was displayed upon pocket handkerchiefs
The climax of establishment was reached
when the Teuton purchased a newspaper
formed of porous plasterl He went on to
relate that three publishers defy competi-
ton by having their subscribers photo
graphed yearly, several give their sub
scribers free burial, five invite them to a
dinner once month, and 260 provide them
with medical advicei-London Tit-Bits
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
Catarrh In New Eng land.
Ely's Cream Balm gives satisfact

Ely's Cream Balm gives satisfaction to
every one using it for catarrhal troubles.
&C. K. Mellor. druggist. Worcester, Mass.
believe Ely's Cream Balm is the best
article for catarrh ever offered the public.
Bush d Co., druggists. Worcester,
Mass
An article of real merit &C. P. Alden,
druggist, Springfield. Mass.
Those who use it speak highly of it
George A. Hill. druggist. Springfield.
Mass.
Cream Balm las given satisfactory re.
suits. w. T. Draper, druggist, Spring
field. Mas.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
Editor watterson's Brilliant Oru,ory

At the Army of the Tennessee ban quet
in Chicago few days ago, Harry Wat
terson, editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, delivered a most eloquent ad-
dress. The force of the address is appar-
EFT when it is considered that the
speaker was soldier who fought on the
other side. These were his closing re-
marks:
Il recall nothing in history 80 sublime
as the spectacle of that brave spirit,
(Grant) broken in fortune and in health,
with the dread hand Of the dark angel
clutched about his throat, struggling
with every breath to hold the clumsy,
unfamiliar weapon with which he sought
to wrest from the jaws of death little
something for the support of wife az
children when he was gonel If he had
done nothing else that would have made
his exit from the world an immortal
epicl
"a little while after l came home from
tine last scene of all l found that a
woman's hand had collected the insignia
had worn in the magnificent melancholy
pageant the orders assigning me to
duty and the funeral scsrfs and badges
and had grouped and framed them; un.
hidden. silently. tenderly; and when re.
fleet that the hands that did this were
those of a loving southern woman whose
father had fallen on the confederate side
in the battle, / said: the war indeed is
over; let us have pescer Gentlemen,
soldiers, comrades, the silken folds that
Irvine about us here, for all their soft and
careless grace, are yet as strong as hooks
of steel. They hold together a united
people and great nation; for realizing
the truth at last-with no wounds TO be
healed and no stings of defeat to remem,
berthe South says to the North, as
simply and as truly as was said 5000
years ago in that PARKWAY meadow upon
the margin of the mystic sea: Whittier
thou goest will go; and where thou
lodgest will lodge, thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God.''
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
Vulgar Wealth.

On Pullman coach, on my way to Mar
quette, on the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic railroad, colored porter asked
me if / knew certain other passenger.
did not. WELL" said The porter, "he has
just given me a five dollar bill, and said he
did it for starter Dat Teller is jist reek-
ing with money, for sure" A man who
will give porter five dollars for starter
where others expect to satisfy him with
twenty-five cents is vulgar fellow, no
matter what his wealth or position may be-
Julian Ralph in New York Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

Mckinley frankly admits that the
tariff is ''skin game" when he says it
s taxing somebody else's property
:ather than our own; taxing the prop
srty of other nations seeking a market
IN the United States"
And the man does not see the down
right dishonesty of the thing! What if
Indiana could invent some. curious
scheme to make Ohio pay the Hoosiers'
taxes? Would he not be the first to de-
nounce it as dishonest?
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

SPRINGFIELD Register: Ex>Czar Tom
Read denies the report that he is to re-
sign his seat in congress to engage in
business. This is perfectly satisfactory.
People generally will be glad Tom is to
remain in the house. They want to see
him wiggle when Speaker Springer ad-
ministers to him generous doses of his
own medicine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
An Ore Concentrator.

A new ore concentration has been devised,
which operates by crushing the material to
about quarter of an inch in size, and
which, exposed to the action of powerful
magnets, separates the particles of iron ore.
The particles of ore are again crushed to a
finer state, and again exposed to magnetic
action, resulting in concentrated con-
ditiop of the iron.-Exehange.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

A SILVER shekel has been found in
Galveston ofithe time of Simon Macca-
beus. who livec 142 years before the be-
ginning of the Christian era, and conse-
quently is 2.O33 years old The coin is
e stimated by competent judges to be
worth for its numismatic value $1,000,
while the intrinsic value of the silver it
contains does not exceed 81 or SO cents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
BuckLEN's AHNIcA saLyR.

The best sslve il the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers. salt rheum, fever
sores, letter. chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. L,
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price IS cents per
box. For sale bv Hartz s. Bshnsen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
Fresh Water Pearls.

Fresh water pearls are found in many
streams of this country in the shells of
mussels, called ''unios." More than $40, 900
worth of them were sent to New York at
one time within three months from Wis
consin, one specimen being sold for $780,
Washington Star.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

PEORIA Herald: Ex-Congressman Gest
of Rock Island, is talked OF as republi-
can candidate for attorney general next
year. 1t is understood that the men who
make the proposition pronounce the ex>
congressman's name with the soft sound
of G,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

The only complexion powder in the
world that is without vulgarity. without
Injury to the user and without doubt a
purifier, is Pozzonis.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

THE Chicago Globe incidentally re>
marks that it has not noticed that hilar-
ious enthusiasm among republican news
papers which those organs said would be
occasioned by the result of the Ohio joint
debate
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15
THURSDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1891.

DOES the objection raised by the Moline
Republican Journal to the candidacy OF
Hon. W. H Gest for attorney general,
imply that Moline has candidate in view
for place on the republican state ticket?
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-15

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Whitewashing Nero.

According to Signor Lanciani, the learned
italian writer in Iron, the Emperor Nero
has been libeled Instead of being the
cruel tyrant he is generally represented to
have been, he was benefactor of mankind
and well-intentioned sanitary reformer
1t has for centuries been commonly under
stood that Rome was set on fire and burned
by Nero, in the year Ga, either through
brutal malice or drunken incapacity and
indifference. Signor Lanciani's investiga-
tions put a very different Interpretation
upon the matter Nero desired to make
many changes in the streets of Rome by
increasing their width and making many
of them more direct, and also to introduce
many improvements by reconstructing pub
lie buildings. His efforts in this direction
were met by an opposition from property
owners-it is a strange thing that property
owners have not changed since Neros
time-and were also embarrassed by the
fact that the city abounded in temples,
affairs and shrines which were inviolate.
While he probably made light of the prop
erty interest, religious sentiment the EN-
peror knew ought to be respected under
all conditions and at all times, and he
acted accordingly.
He directed two architects, Severus and
Cellar, to prepare plans for the rearrange-
ment Of streets i'll certain parts Of the city,
making them as near to straight lines and
right angles as the hilly confguration
would render feasible Numerous public
squares were laid out, and system of sew
ers was planned Regulations for build
ings were prepared, in which it was pro-
vided that the height of houses should not
exceed double the width of the street, that
each house should be completely cut off
from the adjoining buildings, that each
house should have portico in front, and
that wood ceilings should be excluded from
the first stories of buildings Tents and
booths were secretly prepared, and vessels
were sent to various Mediterranean ports
after grain, with orders to meet at the
mouth of the Tiber on certain date
In accordance with Nero's plan, the city
was fired in numerous places, and, of the
fourteen wards, three were entirely destroy
ed, and seven were burned in great part
The crowds driven out of their homes
found the booths in the outskirts of the
city ready for them. The grain-laden
vessels appeared in time, and the towns
people were fed and housed during the
rebuilding, the whole plan having been
carried into effect without exposure, famine,
or loss of life, although the population of
the city at the time was very large.
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WELL, NOW.
'QUEENsWARE.

Tea Sets at $2.s5 per set. Iron, Stoneware
and all Ware in proportion. | will not be
undersold in any of the above goods. Call
and examine my stock and prices and be
convinced. Tobacco and Cigars. Country
produce taken in exchange.
Eay- Ice Cream Parlors upstairs.
JOHN d. BOWERS.
AZ E. Main ST., opp. Catholic Church.
mar28 If Westminster, Md.
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4uetrpp.
LITERARY CURIOSITY.

From Good Housekeeper
A lady occupied whole year in searching fol
and fitting the following lines from English and
American poets. The whole reads almost as il
written at one time and by one author:
LIFE
Why all this toll for triumphs or an hour?
Life's a short summer-man is but a flower.
DR.. johnson.
By turns we catch the fatal breath and die
Pope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas so nigh =
To be is better far than not to be-
-SqueR
Though all mans life may seem a tragedy;
Spencer.
But light cares speak when mighty griefs ar,
dumb
-Danid.
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
Sir Waller Raleigh.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
-LonQtelow.
Unmingled joys here to no man befall.
-SouthpeH.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere;
-Coalgrere.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.
-Ch,nchiR.
Custom does often reason overrule;
-Roeheser.
And throw a cruel sunshine on fool.
armstrong.
Live well-how long or short permit to heaven;
Million.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Bailey
Sin may be elasped so close we cannot see its face
-Ffench
Vile intercourse where virtue has no place.
-SomerriIe.
Then keep each passion down. however dear;
Thompson.
Thou pendulum betwixt smile and tear.
Byron.
Her sensual snares let faithless pleasures lay;
-SmoHeft.
With craft aud skill to ruin and betray.
-Crab6e
Soar not too high to fall, to stoop to rise;
-Mdssinger.
We masters grow of all that We despise.
-Crotley.
Oh, then, renOunce that impious self esteem;
-Bedtiie.
Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream.
-Coqper.
Think not ambition wise because lis brave
Sir Waller DdueRdRt.
The pains OF glory leau put 10 the grave.
Gray.
What is ambition? 'Tis glorious cheat
Willis
Only destructive to the brave and great.
Addison.
What is all the CANDY glitter of a crown?
-DrydeR.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
f QudrleS.
How long we live not wears Int actions tell:
-Wdtkhis.
That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
Make, then, while yet ye may your God you
friend
Mason
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
Hill.
The trust that's given guard, and to yourself /
just,
Dana.
For live howe'er we may, yet die we must.
Shakespeare
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camphor in Place of Fly Screens.

oI LOUIS t1iODe-DenOCrAl-
1t amuses me to see the weary clerk or
assistant carrying home window screens on
warm evenings, or taking advantage of the
new patent and securing sections of frames
to adjust and put together at his leisure,
and at the expense of his fingers and
thumbs Window screens are not really
necessary at all, and in many instances
they keep flies in as well as keep flies out.
In our house We burned the frame on our
last screen door some years ago, and have
had the full benefit Of the unobstructed
breeze every ensuing summer A little
camphor placed on every window sill will
keep out flies, except in the kitchen,
where the temptation is stronger, and the
remedy of necessity little more stringent.
But a little camphor sprinkled on the
cook stove now and again will drive out
the pests and keep them out, while it viii
also neutralize the unpleasan, smell of
cooking.
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MAGISTRATES OFFICE.

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and the public that have opened an Office
for the transaction of the
DUTIES OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
in the Haines & Co. Building, next door to
the store, nearly opposite the First National
Bank, and respectfully solicit patronage.
GEO. W. MATTHEW'S, J. p,
mays If Westminster, Md.
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ICE CREAM PARLOR,
I 20 AcREs-s2 800.

The best offer over $500 will buy the
Leatherwood & Day Farm, l29 Acres, near
Woodbine. Terms to suit purchasers.
CHARLES E. FINK,
Attorney at Law,
novI5 If Westminster, Md.
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Indiana has a new road law which for
bids hauling more than ton on narrow
tired wagons or more than ?, 800 pounds
on bread-tired ones, while the roads are
soft, under penalty of from IS to $50.
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EoR SALE.

THOROUGHBRED BERKSHIRE PIGS
for sale, for stock or breeding pnr. M
poses, with full Certified Pedigree. 2ztN
Farmers wanting 10 improve their 3
stock, apply to
B. F. SHRIVER Il. CO.,
Union Mills,
sept ly Carroll county, Nd.