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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10

SHOWS thaf the total debtof tn, subsidized rail
r r5as 81, 10 we United States was on Dec ri 1S0
80 ',,uio.V. A large pa I Of this debt is now
Iast approaching :aeturit . with no adaonst..
PROVISION for It's payment some ,nIi,t aar
ueaiihs Mith this debt with "A view to IFS niti
IL H,, y: zion, shonld be at once adopted 1t
io,s'e I-nicni well nigh impossible Tor So
large body a. the con sress to coniuct tLa
inrSIcesssarN negotiations and invesfigations
s alerieIore recommend that PROV ision be made
Ior the appointment of a sum,aission H., $3.50
d daHh ana report a plan for dealing with this
The wn~l< of the census 1urcan i ro,,. co.. -
ddNahc" "nd the great bulk of the ennrmons
iapor involved completed II will be rno,s
S ICY STATISTICAL exhibit and less encum-
Do.eu pS essays than its immediate predeces-
sors. The methods pursued have been fair.
careful and intelligent, aud have secured the
idyaI 80 Oh ihe statistic ans, who have fol-
1--we. them with IA scient fc and non-partisan
IntSrest. ne appropriation necessary to the
carry completion and publ alton of heauthor-
Zcd volumes should be given in time to secur,.
against delays, which increase the cost and nj
the same time diminish tn, value of the yyort
:; ihe condition of the territories are improv-
my anu large areas of land are brought into
cultivation by irrgating canals BIt tbciI.
!!uture depends upon wise legislation in reeyulat-
l lhg me distribution Of the water supply 4
Simple form OF town government is recon-
mended for Alaska.l
Repression of Toiy.amy.
The legislation Of congress for the renrnssion
o o. I'olygaiay mas after years of resistance on
the part OF the Mormons "A last brought them
TO the conclusion that resist anre is unproftable
ana unayall1ng. The power of congress over
thls subject should not bt surrendered until
We nave satisfactory evidence that the people
oil the state TO be- created would exercise the
exclusive power OF the state over this subject
IN the same way. The ques ton is not whether
THESE people now obey the laws of congress
AGAINST polygaTuy. but rath, T. would they make,
enforce. and maintain such laws themselves if
absolutely free to regulat, the subject We
can not afford 10 experiment with this subject
iof when state is once constituted the act is
tnal and any mistake irret ricvablc No com.
pact IN fhe enabling act cou d in my opinion, be
binding effective.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
LEGAL.
CHANoERY NOTICE.
STATE OF ILLINOIS

Rock ISLAND couNrr, SIS.
In the Circuit Court, to the January Term, A.
D., 1892 In Chancery.
In r. The petition of Zenas p. Ruggles for the
appointment of n trustee under the last will and
Testament of Sarah Is. Cobb. deceased.
Affidavit of non-residence OF William P. Rug
gles, william g. Ruggles, Sarah c.
nugsles, Lydia r. Gott, Richard NJ.
Ruggles, Lucy q. Ruggles Daniel Rupgles
dtrer Ruggles, Cordelia Paige, Lydia Paige. Cor
della Paige, Oren Paige and Frederick Allen, and
the unknown heirs at law of Sarah Il. Cobb. de-
ceased, having been filed in the clerks Office of
the circuit court Of SAID county, notice is therefore
hereby given TO the said nonresident defendants
that the complainant MED his petition or bill of
complaint in said court, on the chsncery side
thereof, on the twenty fourth day of November
A. ID 1881, and that thereupon summons iseued
out of said court, wherein said suit is now pend
ing. ieturnable on the first Monday in the month
OF January next, as is oy law required.
Now, unless you, the said nonresident defend
ants shove named. William P. Rugglee, Will, m
g Ruggles, Sarah c. Rugeles, LYDIA X. Cot,
b hsdsTd R M snsgles, Lucy s: RuggIes
timer r. Rursles. Gardiner Rugeles.
Cordelia Paige, Lydia Paige, Cordelia Paige, Fred.
erick Allen. and the unknown heirs at law of
Sarah b. Cobb deceased, shall personally be and
APP ear before said circuit court on the first day
Island in aud for the said county, on the irst
Monday in January next. and plead. answer or
demur to the sad complainants bill CT complafnf
the same and the matters and Ihing- therein
charged and sta ed will be taken as confessed and
decree entered against you according to the
Rock Island III November IS, 1891.
GEORGE w. GAMBLE.
Clerk Of SAID Court.
LUcIAN ADAMS, Compte Sol.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10

....,..i.sion. The Newark. Concord,
BIZ 20 nj Ninntonomoh have been add
Fshlt-r.,5., tEg wear, and an aggregate OF some
q IN; no. more tEau LOO tons: Iweni5y-iour
val s5 NV, in lie navy yards and private shops,
strNotLsfs M. work upon them l. going for
N, T"fi-fl.tnriy the completion OF the more
Na4u, y,.-lt-lS viii Vet require about a
imig ,..,.. some of the vessels now under
year ,.riru II j. bclieved will he triumphs OF
eonsIi' ,r.uriu,rrinr When il is recollected
pI.'tl,. .uri. ~ building n modern navy was
lI11. initiated ia the year lSSi, that our naval
'l1 ,t,,,..t,r- aud shiphuildcrS were practically
7IiIrIrf ryirricnCc in the construction of large
wy WIZ, W.T. Steel ships, that our engine shops We're
NgS.,niI4r with great marine engines, and
w.. th. manufacture OF steel fOrCtngS Tor
iA- ,F pittr- was almost a foreign industry
Hl-T,r..,ra,- tlat has been made Is not only
N,,Ii satisfactory, but furnishes the assur-
.'frgt the United States will before long
'.,sr IN thy construction OF such vessels,
af,i f.r.r engines and ornaments, the same
N.r.. 4.ury which IL attained when the best
,rriw,YT pt ocean commerce was the clipper
-..,4ru fh,. most lmprt SSlNe exhibit OF naval
r-r trr old wooden threc-dccker man-of-
Gun shop ut Washington.
rrsafHrars Of the navy and the proprietors
'r.,,sf,I,ars p3 our great private shops have
..,,I,,l with wonderful intelligence and pro-
y ,.rgI 7p.d 10 the confidence expressed by
'.,,r,,, tn It's liberal legislation. We have now
Washington gun shop organized and CON
&-ad Pos naval officers that III its system,
'.r.,fg and product. is unexCellcd Expert
mes with urlluT plate have been conducted
Ilsr.- -s. wear with most important results
.l.f..'irr.t that plate of higher resisting
..r.r fllau any ~ use has been found and that
il ..-. have demonstrated that cheaper
-..hl.l, af manufacture than those heretofore
= -..r. r,.,r.,.Ils IAN I've used.
Irrrmaut 60 ypur favorable consideration
d.. Communications of the secretary. who
~. -.u sure. given TO them the most con
.-.--.T~ study. There should he no hesita-
,.r In promptly completing "a navy of the most
r.ia-r rvra large enough to enable this coun-
,-sraL-,niar IFS flag in all seas for the protec.
..r 0t IT, .ilranu~ ard its extending commerce
n. world n,H.i- no assurance of the peaceful
,rrru-r-u. rh. United States, but we shall
l-fsi'r hH n the future more largely a com
,-l.lr tu tha commerce of the world. and IL is
...artg q. in" dignity of this nation and to
.r,,rrs.r-u. Influence which il should exercise
---- lsw sphere that its navy should be
54aa-r both Ipon the shores of the Atlantic
-t Pacific
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
The uat Trimming Cnse.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9-Judge Acheson
filed an opinion in the United States cir
emit court Tuesday morning granting a
new trial in the last hat trimming case.
in which the government was victorious.
The new trial was granted because pub
LEGATIONS were made in mum Der of morn
ing newspapers, most of them dispai ches
from Washington, or purportug to be-
which, it was held. precIuded the chances
Of a fair trial, and were calculated to
prejudice the minds of the jury.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10

A Singing Evangelist Goes Crazy.

SANDWICH, Mass, Dec Clifton Dem
mis-, well-known singing evangelist from
Chicago who has been holding revivals in
New England the past year, arrived I'M
expectedIy Monday night at the residence
of a relative. Later, with nothing on but
night garment, he walked to the resi-
dence Of a neighbor, where he broke down
the fence and front door. He was ar
rested with difficulty and is nowyunder
guard, a raving maniac He will proba-
bly, be committed TO AN asylum.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
ExECUToR's SALE OF REAL Es

Public notice is hereby given that on Monday.
December 14th next. at the hour OF O'Clock D m
Rock Island, county Of Rock Island, and state OF
Illinois. by virtue of decree of the circuit
court of sad county, entered on the 18th day OF
wherein the Board Of Foreign Missions OF the Pres
byterian church In the U. A. and others are
compliments and William Mcconnell and others
last will and testament OF John Mcconnell late Of
said county deceased, will sell public sale to the
highest bidder, the real estate, situated in said
Rock Island county, described ae follows to-wit: :
The southeast quarter OF section thirty-six f3S1.
township seventeen %, north range two IN. west
OF the fourth p. m, or so much thereof as may be
necessary TO satisfy said decree. Terms. cash.
Rock island, Ill Nov. 81, 1891.
SAMUEL MCCONNELL, Executor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RV.,

The Direct Route TO and from Chicago Joliet Ottawa
Peoria. La Sale, Moline R5Sk Island in ILLINOIS.
Davenport, Muscatne, OttuInwa, Oskaloosa Des
Mnines, Winterset, Audubon, Harlan and Council
Bluffs, in IOWA; Minneapolis aud ST. Paul. in MIN.
NESOTA; Watertown and Sioux Falls in DAKOTA I.
Cameron, St Joseph and Kansas City, in MISSOURI :
Omaha, Lincoln, FRirbury and Nelson in NEBRASKA:
Atehison, LeavenwOrth, Horton, Topeka, Hutchinson
Nichita Beiieyilie, Abilene. Dodge City, Caldwell in
KANSAS; kingfsher, FL Reno and Minco, in INDIAN
TERRITORY; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
In COLORADO. Traverses areas of rich farming
and grazing lands, aOring the best facilities of inter-
communication to all towns and cities east and wes.
northwest and southwest of Chicago and Pacific and
trans-oceanic seaports.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
ExECUToR's NOTICE

Estate of William Cook, Deceased.
The undersigned having been appointed exeer.
tor OF the last VIII and testament Of William Cook
late OF the county OF Rock Island, state
Of Illinois deceased, hereby gives notice that he
VIII appear before the county court of Rock
court, In the city Of Rock Island, at the Fetru
airy term, on the frst Monday In February neat,
atwaicn time all persons having claims againJ'
said estate IRE notified and requested to attend
forthe purpose Of having the same adjusted. A.
persons indebted to said estate are requested Ic
make immediate payment to the undersigned.
Dated this 3th day Of November. A. D., ie :.
JAMES NJ. COOK, Executor
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
EXECUToR's NOTICE.

Estate Of Jacob NJ. Wilson, Deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed ex-
ecutor Of the last will and testament Of Jacob n
Wilson late of the county of Rock Island state Z
Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice that he VIII
appear before the county court Of Rock Irl6
county, al the office Of the clerk of said court in
the city CT Rock Island. at the February term on
the First Mondayi in February next, st which Iime
notified and requested to attend for the purpose OF
having the same adjusted. Ali persons indebtsi
TO said estate are requested to make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
Dated this 4th day OF December A D.. iHys
ANDREW DONALDSON, Executor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
Typhoid Fever Epidemie.

STEUBENvILLE, o., Dec 9-The citizens
Of this city are much alarmed over the
prevalence of typhoid fever. Flfty-three
new cases were reported by the physicians
Tuesday. The cause is ascribed to the
bad condition of the water
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10

If this is accomplished We shall hen have the
three great departments of the government IN
grasp of the ''gerrymandcr, the / gislatiye and
executive directly and the judicif ry indirectly
through the power OF appointment An cleo
ton implies body of electors hay ing prescrib-
ed qualification, each one of whom has an equal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-10
sudden Death of Editor Clam.

BosToN. Dec. 9-William Clapp, for
many years editor of the Boston Journal.
died suddenly Tuesday night at the Hotel
Nendome.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
The Lifo of n Brakeman.

I will try to tell about the life, work
and wages of the railroad brakeman on
the Pacific coast. First, a good brake
man cannot be made from every young
man. He must have natural liking for
the business; be sober and quick witted,
as lots of times the lives Of his fellow
employees and the company's property
are liz his hands. In this country he
will get from $50 to S100 on freight
and from SIS to $50 on passenger trains.
His work on freight trains begins one
hour before he leaves the station. He
has got to go over his train to couple
up the hose, provided the train is fur
nished with automatic air brakes, and
inspect the train in general, to see that
the cars are all in good running order.
Most every day you hear of q brake
man falling from q train and, being run
over, or train jumping the track, and
engineer and fireman being killed or
manned. I would advise oil boys or
young men to leave railroading alone,
as they will find more hard work and
danger than in any other class of work;
and besides, you have no home, regular
meals or sleep. 1 can say the above
with truthfulncss, as I have served as
brakeman and conductor on western
roads for almost ten years, and would
gladly leave it if I could find any other
work that could do.-Cor. Detroit
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,irls Who Make Poor wives.

1 never see petted, pampered girl
who is yielded to in every whim by
servants and parents that l do not sigh
with pity for the man who will some
day be her husband. 1t is the wor-
SHIPPED daughter, who has been taught
that her whims and wishes are supreme
in q household, who makes marriage
failure all her life She has had her
way in things great and small; and
when she desired dresses, pleasures or
journeys which were beyond the family
purse she carried the day with tears or
sullzs or posing as a martyr. The par
ents sacrificed and suffered for her
sake, hoping finally to see her well
married.
They carefully hide her aultsfrom her
suitors who seek her hand, and she isever
ready with smiles and allurenentst to win
the hearts of men, and the average man
is us blind to the faults ola pretty girl as
o newly Matched bird is blind to the
worms upon the trees about him. He
thinks her little pcttish ways are
mere girlish moods; but when she be-
comes his wife and reveals her selfish
and cruel nature he is grieved and hurt
to think fate has been so unlkind to
him.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Ladies'
Home Journal.
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A Hint to Shoppers.

When shopping take as much small
change with you as possible Take
also supply of cards, with name and
address plainly engraved OF written.
When purchasing variety of small ar
ticles, which are to be sent home, give
the clerk, when q purchase is made, the
exact change and card and move
on" You can do two or three more
errands in the time you would have to
wait for change, and at the same time
clear the mind of the clerk and the space
at the counter for the next conner, and
so help ''oil the wheels" of the big shop
ping machine.-New York Evening
Sun.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
Deep Freezing.

For many years scientists have been
perplexed over the phenomenon of
certain we'll at Yakutsk, Siberia. AS
long ago as 1923 n Russian merchant
began to sink this noted we'll. and after
working on it for three years gave it up
as bad job, having at that time sunk
it to depth of thirty feet without get
ting through the frozen ground. lie
communicated these facts to the Rus
sian Academy of Sciences who sent
men to take charge of the digging OPP
Grafton at the wonderful well.
These scientific gentlemen toiled away
at their work for several years, but at
last abandoned it when depth of 3S2
feet had been reached, with the earth
still frozen as lard as Il rock. In 1914
the academy had the temperature of
the soil at the sides of the well taken ut
various depths. From tho data thus
obtained they came to the startling
conclusion that the ground was frozen
to a depth exceeding GOO fect.-St.
Louis Republic.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-01-17
Stocking BAG.


The materials needed are one and
half yards of cretonne, eight small
brass rings, one stick of braid and a
large piece of pasteboard. Cut three
pieces of pasteboard each six and a
half inches wide and seven and half
inches long. Round one end of each
piece. Tear strip seven inches wide
from ono side of the print the whole
length. Cover the pasteboards with
this. Cut a piece nine inches long and
the width of the remaining print. Hem
one side, and round the other corner
gather the end and rounded side and
sew to one of the pieces of pasteboard,
running an elastic into the hem. This
is to hold yarn Hem the ends of the
remaining print, gather the sides, and
sew one side to the piece that holds the
yarn, the other to another piece of
pasteboard. Put in leaves on this
piece Of flannel for needles. and put
the last piece over it, and fasten at the
top. Sew the rings to the top of the
bag, and run in the braid. Cost, thirty
ccnts.-Housclzcepers' Weekly.
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r.v,ov.-Onn nUus @Ur i t1rSrY c.nltS.
Terrible Havoc and Suffering Caused by
the Weapons of Africans.

Terrible Havoc md Suffering Caused by
the Weapons of Africans.
When we first encountered the tribes
who fought with poisoned arrows we
were not prepared to bc greatly i'm
pressed with the danger, but we re-
ceivcd a severe lesson in August, 1887,
during a fight with the Avisibba say
ages. Young fellows, inspired by the
example of Lieut.. Stairs, r. l., rushed
with bravo homicidal intentions to the
front. and the tiny arrows sailed in
showers past them, but some OF then
found their intended billcts and were
arrested quivering in arms and shout:
ders. With contemptuous smiles the
Young men drew them out and flung
them away, and some continued an
swerins the savascs with rifleshots,
while others sought the surgeon, bear
ing with them the arrows with which
they had been wounded.
When the days fight was over OF
course we had more leisure to examine
the missiles, and our anxiety was great
when we observed that they had been
freshly snlcared with a brown, gummy
like substance which emitted SUBTLE
acrid odor with a suspicion of asafOtida
in it. The arrows seemed to have been
plunged into pot containing a goodly
quantity of a resinous substance, and
twirled around in it and well soaked
and then lifted up in bunch and COW
cred over with banana or q piece OF
phryniun leaf. Quivers full of the
arrows showed us that the weapons
were considered by their owners to be
dangerous, for those so smeared were
tied together, head downward, and
apart from the Others.
Yet the wounds made by these slen-
der arrows were mere punctures, such
as might have been made by finely
pointed butchers skewcrs, and being
exceedingly ignorant of the effect, we
contented ourselves with Swinging
them with warm water and dressing
them with bandages. In some instan-
ces afFcctionate men sucked their COM
rades' wounds, to make sure that moth
ing of the substance should be left to
irritate them. In no instance was this
method of any avail. All who were
wounded either died after terrible suf-
ferings from tetanus ordeveloped such
dreadful gangrenous tumors as to in
capacitate them from duty for long
periods, or wreck their constitutions SO
completely by blood poisoning that
their lives became 4 burden to them
Henry NJ. Stanley in Scribner's
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He Had Discovered n Freak.

A weak, sickly looking Individual.
with a shawl and a pair of CATERS, en-
tered railroad restaurant and said to
the waiter:
Waiter, bring me a sirloin steak, an
omeiet and some baked potatoes.
eyes, sir; that
"And some baked ham, and-and a
small mutton chop, waiter"
Eyes, sir. Tea"
50 couple of bottles of beer and half
o dozen English mullins. f"
The waiter put down his tray with a
knowing smile. CHANGING over at the
counter to see if the proprietor was
looking he leaned over and whispered:
Say, mister, you n'twanta manager,
DO you?r-Alo.rican Grocer.
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when the Greeks ard Romans Ate.

Among the ancient Greeks and Ro-
mans, particularly the latter, it was the
general custom to partallc of the prin-
cipal meal of the day toward evening,
it being preceded by Light repast in
the morning and q luncheon in the
middle of the day.
The Greek usage corresponded very
nearly to the breakfast, luncheon and
dinner now in vogue in England. I'm
mediately after rising the first meal was
eaten, followed at midday by the sec
ond. 1t was not until after sunset that
the last and principal repast was par
taken of by all classes.
In Rome, during the reign of the
Emperor Augustus, the two first named
meals were very simple and hastily
taken, except among the luxurious
patricians, who INDUCED in a some
what elaborate midday repast. The
evening meal consisted Of three extern
sive courses, with a great variety of
viands. Louis T. Pcale in Detroit
Free Press.
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Longevity and Country Life.

How great tho difference is between
an urban and rural population in the
average age of ell who die may be con-
veniently illustrated from the registra-
ton reports of Massachusetts,, which
have been published for forty-seven
years In the thirty years from 1850
to 1880 the average age Of all the per-
sons who died in Suffolk county, an
urban county on the seaboard, was
80 1-2 years; the average age of all per-
sons who died in Barnstable, a rural
county on the same seaboard, was 81;
in Franklin, an inland rural county,
SIS 10; while the average age of all the
persons who died in the island county
of Nantucket during the thirty years
was very nearly double the average
age at death in Suffolk-namely, 46.15.
The same reports show that the an
nual death rate is uniformly higher in
the densely populated counties than in
the sparsc!y populated ones, Other
causes besides density of population
contribute to produce these striking re-
suits; but the main fact remains that a
family which lives in the country has a
better chance of continuance than one
that lives in the city. Moreover, if the
family history of the actual leaders, for
the time being, in business and the
professions in any American city, be
studied, it Will usually be found that
very large proportion of them were
country bred. The country breeding
gives vigor and an endurance which
in the long run outweigh all city adj
vantages, and enable the well endowed
country boys to outstrip all their com
petitors. President G. w. Eliot
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r. stops for passengers or signal teconductor
*"daily, except Sunday.
u.W. Dunno. Sup't,
Cape Charles City, Va.
Il. B. Cooke. G en'l Freight end Passen-
.er Agent, Nnrfnlk.Va
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Buffalo Bills cattle ranch in Ne
braska embraces 8, 900 acres lying With
in three miles of the town Of NORTH
Platte. On one of the larger buildings
are painted in big, white letters the
words Scouts Rest Ranch. Alto
gether, there are said to be 5000 cat
tie on the grounds
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Nothing to &c Gained.

Little Son-What was you and Mr..
De Bate tal1in' so loud about2
Father-We were having an argu-
ment about the duty on copper. He
thinks it ought to be removed, and l
think it ought not.
Would removing it make pennies
any cheaper2"
mo, my son."
''Then don't see the use of bother
ing with it."-Good News