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Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
Dt ath of Protection.

CLINTON age.
The high tarlffites ale wondering whv
the tariff reformers don't lay down and
give up the fight now that everybody is
likely to make money the coming year
The fact is the more prosperous the
times the more necessity for tariff re-
form. The more money the people ham
die the bigger the steal and the more
likely they will realize the extent of the
steal.
The next u months the people wi he
lavish with their dollars because forced
economy for years has made their wants
quite numerous. As a rule they will
spend 50 TO 81 spent in the past wears
of depression. This will make the ,rib ,
ute to protection three times as large as
heretofore.
When times are far from prosperous
aud when all man earns goes for one
thing Or another, and there is nothing to
lay for rainy day, it don't matter
much 10 that man whether be is robbed
or not. But let him see something in
sight TO lay away for future use, AMI ne
becomes strong and independent and de
mands to know all about the way the
government carries on business. In fact
he is in fsr better condition TO learn Il.
about the operstion of the tariff. when
he is laying up money than when he is
spending all he earns
This year of prosperity is the time to
push the campaign of education. Men
will listen and read now who have been
too discouraged to listen or read hereto.
fore. The government has been robbiug
the men who were down and who didn't
care whether they were being robbed or
not meG who, even if satisfied OF the
robbery that was gong on, had
not the courage to resist. Now
things are changed. The farmer and
wage Garner are having new life instilled
into their blood. II the laws Of the land
take from them part of their earnings
without consideration, they propose 10
know just how 1t is done and the object
and purpose of doing it. The robbery
may 60 right on, but the robbed will ask
lots of questions and do lots of thinking
The high tariff party should study human
nature little. Then it would be better
able to comprehend the effect of pros
perity and thrift on protection It's edi.
tors and orators would likely change their
tactics and never quote big crops and big
prices to men who toll, as an excuse for
robbing them. The democratic party IN
the fight for tariff reform cannot ask for
q more powerful ally than the prosperous
times which are now envelopipg the
land. Let the campaign of education 60
on.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fernan-
dez, is now tenanted by former Austrian
officer, Of whom the Detroit Free Press
gives the following account: Baron Won
Rodth, after being forced by the terrible
wounds he received at the battle of Sadowa
in 1855 to leave the army, determined to
devote his fortune to life of adventure.
For the past fifteen years he has been iv-
ing on the island with a small colony of
natives and of European deserters from
civilization, and only communicating with
the world once year, when he sends his
sailing yacht to Valparaiso for provisions
and supplies"
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
THE Australian ballot question has n,

THE Australian ballot question has now
become the most important feature in the
Pennsylvania constitutional convention
question. Mr.. Powderly, who says he
never voted the republican ticket, is wills
ling to take republican nomination for
delegate TO the convention. on account of
his interest in ballot reform. The Phila-
delphis Press, which a few days since
was for the convention, is now against
it. That sagaeious organ knows that
with ballot reform the days of republican,
ism and monopoly in Pennsylvania Will
be gone.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
a New Fast Tram.

The Chicsgo. Rock Island 6 Pacific
Railway Will. on August 16, 1891, put on
another daily train between Chicago snd
Denver that will run via their new line,
just opened, through Omaha and Lincoln,
the capital of Nebraska.
This train will be com posed of Iew cars
throughout-palace sleepers, chair cars
and dining cars, and new modern pattern
day COACHES, and will be vestibuled
train.
1t will leave Chicago daily at S:35 night,
arrive at Denver second morning
Leave Denver : night, errive Chicago
7:45 second morning.
e. ST. JOHN, JNo. SEBASTIAN,
Gen1 Manager. GrDl TIT & Pass Agt.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

THE congressional party is now su-
preme in Chill. Its troops, sfler de-
festing the army Of Balmaceda. entered
Valparaiso on Saturday last, and now
they are in possession of Santiago, the
capital city. Bslmsceda has fed, the
$4,000 600 of paper currency which he
recently issued is to DE redeemed by con
fiscation of the property of his adher-
ents. and tie victorious party will govern
the country by junta until a presiden t
has been chosen. for
the so called revolu;ionists that the ns7y
sided with them. for with it's aid they
secured control of the seaport cities and
incidentally Of the customs revenue. Had
the navy gone against them, Balmsceda
would have established himself in the
dictatorship, and the constitutional gov
ernment would have been destroyed.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

''In ten years, from 1880 to 1890" saws
The Manufacturers Record, we have
added S2,OC0,O00 600 to our capital in
vested IN manufactures, an increase of
nearly 10 per cent. In the same time
the value OF our manufactured products
has risen from 5000. 900 600 to S, ,G0O.-
600, 300, gain Of s., 800. .O00, 600; or, in
other words, we are now producing man
ufactured goods at the rate of $780,
100000 a year more than we Were ten
years ago"
That Is a splendid exhibit for manu-
fact Tres; but how does the matter stand
with agriculture IN Wa4 II .he
staple crops prod-cet IN 1850 was actual
ly less than IN 1850, although there were
more farms and more farmers. For the
past three or four years the average
value Of our crops has been very much
below the value ten years ago. Manu-
factures go forward by leaps and
bounds, but agriculture lags behind.
although farmers work Just as hard as
ten years ago and cultivate more
ground.
Yet. in the face of such facts as these.
Census Superintendent Robert 2. Porter
tells the farmer that ''the direct benefits
he receives from the protective tariff are
far III excess of the benefits received bv
any other class" If the farmer is get
ting 50 much more good out of the tariff
than the manufacturers are it ought to
be shown in the growth of agriculture
A money making business always at
tracts enterprise and capital, and the re-
suit is expansion and progress. But our
protected manufacturing industry has a
monopoly of the expansion and progress.
and griculture, with Its excess of bene-
fits from the protective tariff" is not able
to show those benefits when figures are
added up at the end of the year.
Is agriculture attracting people from
other callings nowadays to quit their old
business and come and grow rich on
farms protected and encouraged" by tar
itf duties on wheat. corn, oats, ETC.? But
manufacturers are constantly swelling
their ranks with men drawn from other
callings.
The figures show world wide differ
ence, Mr.. Porter
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
E|M:'Q|l,Ylllig':( 6, li' g:(Aoe=: i :
BLIND HORSES.
Entertaining Facts and Theories About
Their Singular Perceptive Powers.

Entertaining Facts and Theories About
Their Singular Perceptive Powers.
The way in which blind horses can 20
about without getting into more difficult
ties than they ordinarily do is very remark
able. They rarely if ever hit their heau.
against a fence or stone wall. They will
sidle off when they come near one A
writer in London journal says: 1T ap-
pears from careful observation | have
made that it is neither shade nor shelter
which warns them of the danger On an
absolutely sunless and MINDLESS day their
behavior is the same. Their olfactory
nerves doubtless become very sensitive, for
when driving them they will poke their
heads downward in search of water fifty
yards before they come to a stream cross,
ing the roadway. 1t cannot be an abnor-
mally developed sense of hearing which.
leads them to do this, for they will act
alike though the water be stagnant pool
Men who have been blind for any great
length of time develop somewhat similar
instincts to blind horses. Some one saws
that none of the five senses has ANYTHING
to do with this singular perceptive power,
but that the impressions are made on the
skin of the face and by it transmitted to
the brain, and this 'unrecognized sense
he calls facial perception But possibly
this perceptive power may have its origin
in such conditions as prevail in somnam-
bulism or in the hypnotic state. Are all
such phenomena in man and horse as l
have mentioned to be accounted for bv the
two words facial perception if they
mean anythingi However, speaking of
blind horses, why should they cas-. their
coats as winter comes on and grow long
coats at the advent of summer, and so re-
verse the order which is the invariable rule
IN the case Of horses possessed of perfect
vision2"
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

In tie pursuit ~ tne goo1 things ot
this world We anticipate too much. we
eat out the hesr, and sweetness oi world.
ly pleasures by ielightfui toretbougnt Of
them. The results obtained from the use
Of DR.. Jones Red Glover Tonic far exceed
all claims. Ii cures dyspepsia, and al
stomach, tiver kidney and blsddeI
troubles Il ie d perfect tonic, appetizer
oiood purifier, 1ur. cure for agUe and
nSlsrial diaestes Price. 50 reuts. ,t
drug9,sts.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
The Eose of HiIdesheim,

The famous rosebush of Hides helm is
said to be fully $40 years old The little
town where it is found lies on the river
lnerste in Germany, aud once belonged to
the Hanseatic league. The bush, or rather
tree, grows on the wall of the chapel at St.
Anne. 1t is asserted by some that the
slip was planted by Louis lie Debonnaire,
son of Charlemagne, who died In $40, but
more creditable tradition assigns its origin
to the year 500. 1t died to the ground dur
ing the last years of the last century, and
its present height of thirty feet represents
ITO years of growth from a root 500 years
old The Hlldesheim rosebush is called
the Oldest and most famous in the European
world
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
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Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

THE New York World thinks the pro-
hibition interest will look with suspicion
on this remark IN President Hsrrison's
recent speech: "a compound can only
be made homogeneous by thorough
mixing"
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
. Rea, Bslsan /. Ksmp's Bsl.am

The dictionery says, - balsam is Il
thick, pure, aromatic substance flowing
from trees" Kemp's Belsam for the
throat and lungs Is the oniv cough medi
cine that is real balsam. Ma thin,
wstery cough remedies are called b.ls am :
bnt sucb sre not Look through bottle
of kenp's Balssn snd notice wtat i pure.
thick preparation it Is. If you cough
use Kemp's BAlssm at sll druggists
Large bottles soc an / g..
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

had cstsrrh of the head and throat
for five years. used Ely's Cream Balm.
and from the first application l was re-
lieved. The sense Of smell. which had
been lost. was restored after using one
bottle. / hav. found the balm the only
satisfactory remedy for catarrh, aud it
has effected cure in my case H L.
Meyer, Waverly, N. Y.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
Do Tou CouPht

Don'tdelsy. Take Kemps Bslssm, the
best cough cure. 1t will cure your
coughs and colds. 1t will cure pains in
the chest. 1t will cure influenza and
bronchitis and sll diseases pertaining to
the lungs because it is pure balsam
Hold ii to the light and see how clear and
thick 1t is. You will see the excellent
effect after taking the first dose. Large
bottles SOC and 81.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
Progress.

1t is very important in this age of vast
material progress that remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and to the eye, easily
taken. acceptable to the stomach and
healthy in its nature and effects. Pos.
sessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is
the one perfect lsxative and most gentle
diuretic known.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

THE short crops in Europe make it
almost certain that there will be no war
there this year, the Pekin Times holds,
Notwithstanding the strained relations
between France and Germany.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

Trotter-What are those men standing
there n bunch for.
Baraw-They're looking at the ther-
mometer. They want to find out how
hot they are.-Life.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

DAVENPORT Democrat: No man can
be elected president of the United States
who puts his canvass in the hands of
such political rascsls as Quay and For
aker.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
Tvn Ea,vearIxcnra,nn.

On Tuesdays. Aug. 25 and Sept. 90,
special harvest excursion tickets will be
sold to points on the Chicago, Milwaukee
q St. Paul railway at one and one. third
fare for round trip
E D W. HOLMES. AGENT.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1891

The St. Louis Republic heads an &C.
count Of an accident: "Girl-Gasolene-
Gone"
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

E D. ". HoLMEs, Agent.
Rock Island daily Argus., 1891-09-03

will be placed on sale at the commence
ment OF tourist season by the Burlir gton
Cedar Rapids s. Northern Railway. and
all OF its connecting lines at low rates to
the fOllowii g points: Spirit Lake, Iowa !;
Waterville, Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Lake MinnetCnka. Minnesota; Lake Su-
perior points; Yellowstone Park and
points in Colorado.
Write for "a Midsummer Paradise" to
the General Ticket and Passenger Agent,
Cedar Rapids. Iowa; for hotel rates to
". j. MORRISON, Manager, Spirit Lake.
Iowa
c. J IVES ,E EsEHEGlN
PTest and Gsul Sspt Gen" ..Sai md Iass' AGENT
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
nidn,t Meet Them.

Mrs. Hayseed-D Did ye see any O.
them sharpers in the city.
Mr. Hayseed-Not one, Miranda,
not one. But met some old friends
| never expected to see again. Do ye
remember old Mr.. Bigcrop2 Well,
met a son of his. Thought both those
boys was dead an lynn out there in the
cemetery; but this one said he was
snatched by grave robbers, and just as
they was sellin' his body to a medical
college he came to- Good enough fer
book, Miranda, good enough fer a
book, and told him he ought to
write it, and he said he guessed
he would, and he'd dedicate the
book to me as his fathers old friend
There's one queer thing Miranda
This mans hair is black, while the Big
crop boys had red hair, but he said it
turned black from fright. He's way up
i'm society, Miranda, and introduced me
to young men named Vanderbilt and
Astor and Gould and Drexel and ever
so many more tell you. Miranda,
these young fellers spend money Some
bills fer cigars and things came in while
we was talking, hundreds o dollars
worth, an they whipped out the cash
like breeze. One of EN- happened to
run short, and so lent him all had,
but he said he'd send it by express to-
morrow. t,Il you what Miranda, a
smart man like.ne is just as safe in the
city as in the country. Good News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Hotels and Housekeepinr.

The other day | heard a prominent
merchant say that the building Of so
many elegant hotels uptown would lead
trade to follow them. and that the day
was not far distant when Fifth avenue,
below the Cathedral. must be given up
wholly 10 stores and club houses. It was
with this thought in mind that | went
into the Plaza hotel and looked at its
parlors and dining rooms, it's cafe and
restaurant. While wandering about /
came to the conclusion that American
women are fast becoming, indeed that
they have already become, indolent.
The new hotels afford beautiful resi-
dences for people who can pay for the
high cost of living in them-the man
agement at the same time taking upon
itself all the cares of housekeeping.
| Fashionable women, as a rule, detest
housekeeping, for it interferes with their
society duties. and | thought, while re-
! fiecting upon this subject, that the time
may soon come when there will be hotel
cliques composed of rich families that
/ belong to the same set. Such family
| hotels will have no transient custom, but
win be constructed solely with the view
of meeting the needs Of rich, indolent
women, with ballroom and private
dining rooms at their disposal In such
a hotel family could maintain a pr.
vate establishment and pay only one
bil-the landlord s-for which individ
ual, by the by, society may yet invent a
more elegant title. Epoch.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

1t Is delightful 10 read Of two persons
In the same profession who are happily
married Identical tastes aud pursuits
bring about certain harmony of re
Iation which is both rare and beautiful
Grisi. the great singer, married the
tenor Mario. and some incidents told
of them and their children prove an
unusually happy domestic life.
The prima donna identified her own
success entirely with that of her hus-
band, always preferring his advance
ment to her own. Perhaps the clever
reply which she made to the Emperor
Nicholas of Russia was half serious in
embodying this spirit of self surrender.
so" said his majesty loosely.
pointing to her children, these are
your little Grisettesi"
No, sire. she returned, they are
my little Marlonettes. y
The children themselves tell an anus
ing story of their own sensations at one
of their mothers public triumphs in
Dublin. Crisis admirers had dragged
her carriage to the hotel, and she had
sung to them again, las if she were
tearing the harpstrings asunder and
singing from the depths of her heart.
The enthusiasm Of the listeners knew
no bounds.
They climbed up the lamp post, "
said one of the children, in after years.
I'VE thought they would come into the
room, and when one of the speakers
called out, Leave us one of your chill
drenp our fright was awful In a
chorus of pitiful little voices we begged
mamma not to leave us behind; we
would be such good children. Youths
Companion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

great orators from - "
1885 TO $50. and when he is in a reminiscent
mood his talk is more fascinating than
poetry or romance.
Henry Clay. Ben Hardin and Tom Mar
shall are his favortes, but he has pleasant
recollections also of 5. S. Prentiss, 10 Holt
and Abraham Lincoln. He was boy com
paniou of lincoln's, and met the future
liberator again many years later when
both were soldiers in the so called Black
Hawk war. In boyhood he was often put
mp TO race with Lincoln, and it was an even
thing between them, but when they met in
the war he was nowhere. Lincoln easily
Outran every man in the command, aud in
wrestle there were but few who could
match him. He could also throw the iron
bar farther than any competitor "But it
was in story telling says Colonel Greene,
that Lincoln won the admiration of all
Night after night his tent was crowded.
and we all forgot his LONELINESS when he
began to talk. We agreed he would grow
to be- considerable of n figure in the world,
but none of us dreamed he would become
as great as he did or in the way he did
Colonel Greene was born on farm near
Albany and titled the soil at various west
ern places TO the age of twenty-eight, when
lie went 60 Kentucky. When the Black
Hawk war ended he engaged in collecting
claims for his fellow soldiers and was so
successful at it that his friends advised
him TO study law. The 800 he had earned
as a claim agent was expended in getting
his law knowledge and his library, aud in
1884 he began to practice in Louisville,
where he has ever since resided. He takes
long vacations, however, he and his aged
wife spending the hot weather with their
daughter in Chicago.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

Whether Carlyle was dead failure
or not is a moot point, but he certainly
did not know how to put up with
bores. THE art of being savage to
those people" or such things as he
would have designated them--which
Scott so signally lacked, was possessed
by him in it's perfection. What he
could least endure, we are told, was
being bored. The anathemas which
he heaped on unfortunate bores exceed
Ernulphus' in exquisite variety"
A whole museum might be filled with
Carlyle's bores alone. He obtained
access to the immortals, and they bored
him. To his acrid humor Charles
Lamb was something less, almost, than
bore. Coleridge, whom he had not
been disincIined to revere, was a bore
of the most oppressive kind. HE
hobbled about with us, writes the ir-
reverent Thomas, talking with a kind
OF solemn emphasis on matters which
were of no interest Nothing came
from him that was of use to me that
day, or in fact any day. - Exchange.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
Queer superstitlons About stones.


The most wonderful properties were
ascribed to the chimerical stones which
many creatures were supposed to carry
in their heads Most readers have no
doubt heard of the precious jewel which
the toad carries in his brain box, and so
called toad stones, which were in reality
the teeth of fossil fish, were formerly
worn in finger rings as a protection
against poisons, at the presence of which
they were supposed to change color. 1t
was thought that the best stones were
those voluntarily elected by the living
toads, but as the latter were not addict
ed to freely giving up their treasures in
that way, it was necessary to procure
the coveted articles by other means, and
the recognized method was to decapitate
the hapless batrachian at the instant he
swallowed his breath.
The feat naturally demanded consid-
cradle CELEBRITY, such as could only have
been acquired by constant practice; and
it is not unreasonable, therefore, to as
sumo that although the endeavors to
gain possession of the jewels were per-
haps numerous, they must invariably
have been unsatisfactory, especially to
toads. The eagle stone was considered
an excellent thing to wear during preg-
nancy, and the swallow carried in its
stomach stones of great medicinal value.
Chambers Journal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
The Editors Hone.

We hope this is true. We should like
it to be true; to put it on record among
the wonderful doings of Northampton
citizens This is the story: w. II. Pratt
was fishing in the old bed in about three
feet of water when he noticed a fine
pound and half pickerel chewing his
hook. Slowly, carefully he began to
haul him in, when around the captured
fish the waters rolled in wild commo-
ton and huge fish about three feet
long was seen making frantic efforts to
swallow the pickerel. Mr.. Pratt waded
out to catch closer glimpse of the mon
ster, who, with wicked roll of the eye,
turned tail and made off, leaving track
as large as the wake of a steamer
Hampshire Gazette.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12

A recent census bulletin says that in the
territory OF Utah there are 9.i24 farms that
are irrigated out of total number Of TO-
ISL The average size OF the irrigated
farms. OF more strictly, Of those portions
of farms on which irrigation is practiced,
is twenty-seyen acres The average first
cost ef water right is $lO55 per acre, and
the average cost OF preparing the soil
for cultivation, including the purchase
price OF the land is sl6.lO per acre The
average present value OF the irrigated land
OF the territory. including buildings, ETC..
is reported as SS4.25 per acre, showing an
apparent profit, less cost Of buildings, OF
Isl. 20 per Hcre The average annual cost
Of water is 1891 per acre, which deducted
from the average annual value OF products
per acre, leaves an average annual return
of Si7. IL per acre.