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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24

American hen pleases him about Easter;
but when incubation is completed chick
ems from bantam eggs do not prove any
bigger than year ago. Protection has
not encouraged the breed to grow any
larger. And so the chicken industry re-
mains very little inspired to higher eff
forts. and bantams cannot grow into
Plymouth rocks under protection any
more that bantam statesmen from Indi-
ana develop into far seeing and sagacious
PATRIOTS
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24
Coleridge,s C1assiflcation of neaders.

Coleridge says. Readers may be divided
into four classes: l. Sponges, who absorb
all they read, and return it early in the
same state, only a little dirty. > Sand
glasses, who retain nothing, and are con-
tent to get through book for the sake of
getting through the time. 3. Strain bags,
who retain merely the dregs of what they
read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare
anC valuable, who profit by what they
real, and enable others to profit by it
also -
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24

Lord Wellesley's aide-de-camp, Keppel,
wrote a book of travels and called it his
personal narrative. Lord Wellesley was
quizzing it, and said to Lord Plunket:
Personal narrative-what is personal
narrative, Lord Plunket? What should
you say a personal narrative meant?"
Plunket answered: "My lord, you know
we lawyers always understand personal as
contradistinguished from real. San
Francisco Argonant. r
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24
PIaint of tho Texan Editor.

We do not expect thanks as an editor
People who do their duty seldom receive
thanks. But sometimes we wish those
who criticise us most could get behind the
seer es for even one week and see the labor,
the decision Of character, the self sacrifice.
discernment, the knowledge of men and
thin -, and the faculty of doing full jus
tice and no one an injustice it takes to
make up lust minded editor-Waco
(Tey) Advance
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24

No northern people are harder or more
spirited than the Finlanders, with their
clear compilations and dark blue eyes. In
spite OF their harsh climate they have the
most healthful living of perhaps any of the
northern races, and keep equal degrees of
romance, daring and good feeling in their
natures. You do not find imagination,
force and adventure in n race without
coarse, plenteous fare, pure air and clean
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24

UNCLE SAM will spend S1,200000
year for 10 years to build and operate
ships to carry letters to foreign countries
except Canada.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24
Pertaining to Election.

Fond Parent-What are the elective
studies at your college, John?
John-Political economy. guess. That's
about politics and elections and such
things, isn't it?-West Shore
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24
FRIDAY, APRIL "a, 1891.

THE town of Berlin. Conn, has been
taken possession of by wild cat. which
is having things all its own way.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-24

UNITED STATES ENGINEER PERRY is
going to start afoot for the north pole
from place called Smiths Sound.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08

And now, my darling Ella" said he,
" / have surprise in store for you. My
name is not Mansfield, as have led you
to believe, and | trust you will forgive
the deception when | have time to ex-
plain. | purposely concealed the fact of
my wealth, that | might win a woman
who could love me for myself alone.
This property belongs TO me, and am
Alfred Walpole, at your service
The surprise didnot affect Ella enough
to cause reaction in her feelings toward
her lover, and they returned to her
fathers house as happy as mortals can
be in this wicked world.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Forester were ap-
prised of the state of affairs they gave
their consent with good grace. 1t is to
be supposed that the property question
had something to do with their part of the
programme, but then / dare say the
reader will not blame them much for
that, as it is part Of the depravity of
human nature. New York Weekly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
Earthquake Prophets.

Ii is said that in the volcanic regions
of South America, especially in Chill and
Peru, every community has III 'alivino,
or earthquake prophet, whose business it
is to foretcll earthquakes, and some of
them succeed remarkably well, even set
ting the hour when the disturbance will
occur. The great earthquake of 1870
was thus foretoid by a bed-ridden invalid,
and there is a tradition Of an old lady
who left her lodgings and wandered about
in the open fields during the night before
the destruction of Caracas, in 1912.
The earthquake of Lima is said to
have been anticipated by watchdog,
who suddenly set up an unearthly howl,
increasing in emphasis till his owner
stepped out in the yard. just in time to
dodge an avalanche of tumbling bricks.
Like our mediums, professional adivinos
are generally persons of a nervous organ
ization, suffering permanently from that
abnormal constituencies.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
DIED ON HER GRAVE.
GEN. BOULANGER TAKES HIS
OWN LIFE.
The Notorious French Impostor Ends His
Stormy Career Beside the Grave of His
Late Nistress-He Had Reached the End
of His Financial Tether.
He was Once Great.

The @brav' General" Georges Ernest
Jean Marie Boulanger, ex-Minister of
War of France, shot himself through
the head at Bru sells while standing by
the grave of Mines Bonnemain, the
woman who had been known as his mis-
tress since the stirring days of 1888. He
fell forward on the grave, and was
found by an attendant. who rushed in
stantly to the spot, quite dead. The
ball had been fired into the suicides left
ear, and the revolver was still clinched
in his right hand.
Nine. Bonnemain was the mistress of
the house in the Rue de Berri, Paris.
whittier Boulanger resorted so frequent
ly when he was at the top of his power.
Though the place was constantly
watched by spies it was from this house
that Boulanger fed to England and with
him went Nine. Bonnemain. She was
his constant companion in London, in
Brussels and in Jersey, following his
broken fortunes with the same fatuous
devotion which she paid to him in the
days Of his apparent prosperity. Her
fortune of 100000 francs was freely
his.
Nine. Bonnemain died July II last OF
consumption, and since then Boulanger
has been in state of unbroken melan-
choly. He frequently visited her grave,
over which he caused to be erected an
elaborate tomb. On the morning Of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
Island Customs.

Natives of the Maldive Islands hold to
certain ways Of domestic life that to us
seem decidedly unsociable. TO cat alone
insures their highest idea of happiness;
to retire into the most secluded corner of
their homes, to draw down the cloths
serving as blinds, that there be no loop
hole through which an outsider might
peer in, is essential to their pleasure
while refreshing the inner man. One
writer suggests that such caution may
arise from fear of enemies providing
about; possibly, says another, lest mean
tations, rudely traced in hieroglyphic
touch, be cast upon their food, or, by
some wildwood tramp, rites of hospitality
DO demanded at their hands. In the
latter case the interloper would probably
be an inferior, and to break bread or cat
salt with any one beneath the host in
rank, riches, or dignity is among these
peculiar people an utter impossibility.
Philippine Islanders are quite the re-
verse; sociabiIity is their very life, and
hearty companionship at meal-times the
height of pleasure; if no person is near,
search will be made i'll haste for, how
ever hungry the savage may be, he will
not eat alone.
D'Israeli says that the Otaheiteans are
naturally social in feeling, and even gen
tie in their intercourse with one another.
At the hour of repast the members of a
family place themselves at a distance of
two or three yards from each other, turn
their backs, and in such modest fashion
eat, each from his own basket, in pro-
found silence. Harpers Bazaar.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
A CITY OF PALACES.
A Glance at London i'm the Middle
Ages.

You have now to learn, what believe
no one has yet pointed out, that if Lon
don could be called city of churches, it
was much more a city of palaces. There
were, in fact, in London itself more pal
aces than in Verona and Florence and
Venice and Genoa all together. There
was not, it is true, a line of marble pa
lazzi along the banks Of IL Grand Ca
nal; there was no Piazza della Signoria,
no Piazza dell Erbe, to show these build
ings. They were scattered about all
over the city; they were built without
regard to general effect, and with no
idea of decoration or picturesqueness;
they lay hidden in the labyrinthine
streets; the warehouses stood beside and
between them; the common people dwelt
in narrow courts around them; they
faced each other on opposite sides of
the lanes.
These palaces belonged to the great
mobiles and were their town houses; they
were capacious enough to accommodate
the whole of Barons retinue, consist
ing sometimes of four, six, or even eight
hundred men. Let us remark that the
continual presence of these lords and
those following did much more for the
city than merely to add to its splendor
by the erecting of great houses. By
their presence they kept the place from
becoming merely trading centre or an
aggregate of merchants; they kept the
citizens in touch with the rest of the
kingdom; they made the people of Lon
don understand that they belonged to
the realm Of England. When Warwick,
the Kingmaker, rode through the streets
to his town house, followed by five hun
dred retainers in his livery; when King
Edward ". brought wife and children to
the city and rode out to fight for his
crown; when u royal tournament was
held in Chepe-the Queen aud her ladies
looking on-even the boys understood
that there was more in the world than
mere buying and selling, importing and
exporting; that everything must not be
measured by profit; that they were
traders, indeed and,yet subjects of an
ancient crown; that their own prosperity
stood or fell with the well-doing of the
country This it was which made the
Londoners ardent politicians from very
early times; they knew the party leaders;
they IelC DOunu 10 TAKE Stue3 anu thcy
quickly perceived that their own side
always won, which gratifed their pride.
In word, the presence in their midst of
king and mobiles made them look beyond
their walls. London was never Client;
nor was it Venice. 1t was never Lon
don for itself against the world, but
always London for England first, and for
its own interests next Harper's Maya
zine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
OYER THE RANGE.


Over the range
The rifted range, where the purple and gold
OF the high halls lit like picture unroIled-
We pitch our tents.
By the groves of the gnomes, by far-voiced
streams,
That cry like lost Pan in our lotus-dreams;
Where our dream-duIIed ears catch the sor-
rowlul sigh
The piteous plant of the pines as we lie
In their shadows dense.
Over the range
Bohemia blest; while the suns sandaled
Still circle afar in their fiery beat
Through dust and heat
By the marts of men Here the COLL and
blue;
And the star-strewn was are our ways, and
you
And will forget tolls pitiIess rods;
Aye, forget, while we drink the wine of the
gods,
For the grapes are sweet.
Over the range
HI pC1h-pcHC heteu poahS1 w ufHl- oiHieu
groves.
We lay down our lives and lift up lost
loves,
eir heartseasel
We kiss them swift, for these dreams are
brief
AS the breeze that fondes the falling leaf
They vanish away as the red rivers run
1hro' tangled hills to the fugitive sun
By the sunset seas.
Over the range
TIE purpling peaks-when orr dole il done;
Our locks grown gray meath an oIden sun
LIES love grown strange.
We will close the book that is read, and
hence,
With holy hands, We viii pitch white tents
BY shimmering streams on shadowy shore
And wake from idyllic dreams no mora
Over the range
-[Tom II. Cannon. in Chicago Times.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
The Loan for the Fair.

The Worlds Fair asks for loan OF
$4,000 People thought the fair was
to be built of wood and iron, but appar-
emily it is to be constructed of steal
Minneapolis Times.
Chicago wants Congress to appropri-
ate IS, 900, 900 to help the fair along. It's
all right. We don't object; but didn't
we hear something about Chicago foot
ing the whole bill?-Bro oklyn Times.
The Worlds Fair managers are figur
ing on borrowing $5,OO0,O0o from the
United States Government. 1t is the
only thing in Chicago not mortgaged,
and it begins to feel it. louisville Com
merciai.
Of course the Chicago Worlds Fair
managers are ready to ask the Govern
ment for loan or gift of a few mill
ions. The citizen who did not expect
this did not know Chicago. It's hogs are
not all four-legged Most likely the
Government will respond literally. If
it be proper for Government to pay for
raising sugar, it ought to be equally
proper for it to help Chicago to a big
show Cleveland Press
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
Wall Street Wolves.

Pity for the losses that have befallen
the Goulds has not yet found popular
expression. New York World
Every abroad property in which Jay
Gould is prominent, either as an owner
or manager, seems to be dead weight
in the stock Market AS wrecker Jay
is shining success.-Denver Republi-
can.
Poor Mr.. Gould! So he has been de-
ceived by the wicked directory of the
Union Pacific. It is sad sight TO see
an innocent and trusting man like
Gould made the prey of designing
sharpers. kansas City Journal.
Deacon " s. White of New York
earned his first dollar cutting cord wood,
and by patience, industry, and attention
to business lived to fail for over mill
ion in trying to put up the price of corn
against a warm September st. Louis
Republic.
1t is gratifying to note that the at
tempt to corner corn, and thus hamper
the efforts being made to extend its usein
Europe, meets with universal cOndemna-
ton. "Dea on" S. V. White gets very
little sympathy in his failure. He de-
served none.-Fh Philadelphia Press.
1t is to be hoped that some time in the
next century people will learn that when
g great capitalist combines the business
of railway management and Wall street
operations, the only way to best him is
to put their money into good real estate
or sound sa ings banks. -Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
Providence and the Rainmakers.

Liz TdIumdhOTS SnOuIQ make sure
Is going to rain before entering upon
their experiments Boston Traveller.
"Can We Make 1t Rain?" is the title
Of the leading article in the North
American. "Can we raise the wind?"
Is "the" question Louisville CONNER
cial
Melbourne, the rainmaker, is getting
up so cloudy reputation that, like
Crockett's coon, the rain comes down be.
fore he has time to load or point his
weapon. At any rate, as he approached
Topeka to put an end to the drought, the
rain fell before he reached the station =
Detroit Journal
General Dyrenforth has written an
essay on rainmaking with artificial
thunder, and Professor Simon Newcomb
has written another to show that you
can no more make it rain by shooting off
the surplus than you can condense the
steam from teakett'e spout by clap
ping your hands over it.-St. Louis Re-
public.
Rainmaker Melbourne arrived at
Goodland, Kan, in heavy drizzle. 1t
was the first rain in six weeks, but fell
before the rainmaker had chance to
display his powers. Somebody must
have been monkeying with the weather.
or else Jupiter Pluvius was too previous.
Rain should fall after, not before, the
rainmaker's adjuration OF the heavens.
Detroit Tribune
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
NEWS OF WISCONSIN,
A WEEKS RECORD OF STATE
HAPPENINGS.

Fearful Devastation by Forest Fires Sew
eral Missing Men Reported-Bears Ramp
ant Near Plover-OsseO Township Raw
aged by Diphtheria.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
HeresY.

\
When opinions are again challenged,
as they were in DR.. Briggs case. the
fact is revealed that scores of the lead
ing teachers in the church have been
thinking for gears in ways forbidden by
the church's law, if the law be ri@dly
construed. 1t has been made plain by
this controversy and by that over s're-
vision" that very large proportion of
Presbyterians are not Presbyterians at
all if their soundness be measured by
the test Of exact conformity to belief
New York World.
The Issue is squarely joined. The
position of the seminary is unmistakable,
and it now remains to be seen what the
Presbyterians will do in the premises
They are challenged to battle, and they
must fight or allow Dr. Briggs to be
their leader The controversy will be
long continued, for he will have his APP
peal to the synod and the general as
sembly, and he has back of him the
richest of the Presbyterian seminaries
and many OF the most powerful of the
| clergy. 1t seems probable that the re-
suit will be split in the Presbyterian
ranks, if it does not lead to actual and
complete disintegration. - New York
Sun.
n III nlSJor VINO does not bel eve The
doctrines of the church with which he
is connected ought not to remain in it,
and he ought not to be perm tied to do
so. He is not sincere, and not being sin
cere, he can do those he undertakes to
teach no good. He is forced either to re-
press his convictions and teach what he
does not believe, or cause trouble in the
church by condemning the. doctrines of
church. Having so EMMY asserted that
he believes the doctrines of the church,
he is expected to teach them, and if at
any time he fees that he has made
mistake, he ought to say so frankly,
and ally himself with church in which
his views are acceptable. Savannah
News.
The movement in the Presbyterian
Church is of vast interest to the world
in general, being as it is one of the most
important bodies of the Protestant COM
munion. 1t is. there fore. ccrta My to be
deplored that question primarily a
matter of scho arship, of historical and
critical research, should, by the over
Jealous acts Of individuals, assume the
aspect of bull-baiting spectacle, with
DR.. Briggs as the bull and the lower
criticism advo ates-such as the New
York Mail and Express and some few
presbyteries-as the bandilleros, picadors
and chulos, who only irrtate the ami
mails, while Princeton Seminary and
New York Presbytery, as the rival
matadors, stand ready for conflict 10
the death -Philadelphia Press.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04
BONE YARD VALLEY.

Aug. 23.-Mrs. John Wnlake and her father
visited Coopcrstown Tuesday to obtain mcdi-
cal assistance for the later.
Mrs. A. r. Baker and Mrs. Lara;nore were
visiting at J. &. Browns Friday.
Mr.. James Hellmic, OF Hatche's Vile, Ind.,
says le has been used to seeing good wheat
but the piece of M. G. Ferguson's that lie is
helping harvest takes the cake Of anything he
ever saw in Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin or
Minnesota.
Allnos: every body is through haying and a
person driving through the country would
think we expected hay famine fol the next
few years judging from the mammoth stacks
that meet his gaia at every point Of the COM
pass.
As VIC look out to day we wonder at the
carclessness Of some people that lit smudgcs
last night and neglected them to-day 80 they
have spread and are burning up the pasture
for miles around the light frost OF last night
has put the grass in good burning condition
and with the breeze of to-day cannot fail to do
lots Of damage as so many hay stacks stand
yet with out FIRE guard. Have we law in
regard to setting fires or is it dead letter?|
S. J. Pounds wheat is the worst damaged
of any we have heard from yet.
M. G.. Ferguson has bought tl,reshing rig
| and will thresh near Mayyille this season to
| the great disappointment Of the people in the
Valley, of course lie will make success OF il
| that we are sure.
John Milm has grown tired OF his bank barn
aud is building a new one.
S. J. Pound is spending tho week in the
Valley.
| "PLUM."
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04
Hone Wheat Market.

North Dakota Patriot: Tho elevator muddle
seems now to he in fair way for settlement.
A West Superior dispatch says that the North
Dakota railroad commissioners have about
closed arrangements with West Superior ele-
vator companies whereby they agree to accept
the North Dakota wheat inspection. West
Superior has 100000 busliel elevator capacity
and it is said that the owners of half Of this
have already agreed to this arrangement. Il.
is not stated whether the grain Is to be in-
apected Mt the state line or Superior.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04

Mr.. Lorenzo Fromwiilcr returned Thure-
day OF last week from Detroit. Michigan where
he took in the National &. A. R. cncampment.
Mrs Fromwiller accompanied him, and re-
manned at Otter Lake, Mich, for visit with
relatives. Mr.. Fromwiller reports a splendid
time at the encamrnrnt. He said there were
10000 people In the grand prncessior The
people of Detroit were very hospitahle, throw
ing their doors wide oren ard telling the old
soldiers to take possession. He says he will
take in the encamrmcut next year at Wash
ington, sure.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04

Emmons County Record: A Hood hinder is
now bclng made to use slough grass twine. at
half the expense Of other twinc. 1t is about
twice as large as ordinary twine, and one can
he substituted for the other on The same ma
chine with only minrte's delay. Rye straw
twine can also he used. A machine, costing
less than $40, is sold, with which, during the
winter months, enough straw twlne 10 supply
a whole neighborhood can he made. The new
appliance has passed the experimental stage
and is pronounced success. 1t las been
tested in the Red River Valley as well as else
where.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04

Mr.. Jas. D. Brown bad the misfortune to
lose by fire about twenty five acres OF wheat
in shock, a few days since, on his farm NORTH
east Of town. Tho fire caught from an old
smudge, which had been smouldering for
several days. Every effort was mado by Mr..
Chas. Chalmers, who lives on tho place, and
his hired help to save the wheat hut the fire
was not nut out until it had burned over about
twenty-five acres. One connot be too careful
about fro this year. The stnbhle is so heavy
that it burns very readily, and it is very easily
fired.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04
COLGATE.

Sept. 1st.-Our town shows much quietness
on the streets though outside of its limits the
hum Of the harvester from early dawn to suu-
set rpsoundGth.
Samples of wheat still continue to flow in,
with no marked improvement Tor, or against,
what was first anticipated.
It is said here that tho "big ~ at Hope are
in exp citation of tall trade as soon as their
strongest competitor is safely hooked by the
hook that hooked Jonall's whale.
II is also reported that tho Hope branch will
be completed some time IN the near future.
Threshing will commence Thursday, the 3rd
il we don't have rain.
U. N. O.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1891-09-04
Mfr. F. GIL. Hunt. Of St. Paul. Mlnn. a,

Mr.. F. GIL. Hunt, of st. Paul, Mnn. ad :.
vertising the Minnesota State Fair, while in
town Thursday, made this of1ice pleasant
call. Mr.. Hunt is travelling on a safety b.
cycle, hult especially for the roads, and has
made the tour OF several states in that manner
He has Travelled on an average, a distance OF
so miles each day for about three months,
billing the fair. Mr.. Hunt is a newspaper
man, having reported for several Of the lead
ing daillcs, and is very pleasant gentleman
to meet. Tho Minnesota State Fair is to he
held Sept. 7lh to 18th, and tho attractions this
year are 10 be moro numerous than any dis.
play of former years.