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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
LITTLE THINGS IN THE SPARE ROOM.
Few Articles That Will Make Your
Visitors Stay More Pleasant.

Visitors Stay More Pleasant.
And that spare room--is it heated? If it
isn't, have you put sufficiency of clothing
on the he'd? | was once a visitor at place
where was expected to sleep in the mid
die of winter, under nothing beyond sheet
and a Counterpart. If l hadn't known of
an old physicians recipe for keeping the
feet warm in a cold bed should certainly
have sat up all night. This simple remedy
is the putting of an extra pillow under the
sheet, on that part of the mattress where
the feet will come. 1t is infallible, and
worth remembering. But as all guests
have not such ideas at call, be sure there
sare plenty of extra coverlids in the guest
room.
See that the window curtains are prac-
ticable, and that your guest knows how 70
manage them. Nothing is so unpleasant
for visitor as to- be, compelled to pin arti-
Giles of clothing to the window frames be-
cause the shades won't come down. OF to
experiment with noisily working curtain
fixtures at - o'clock the night after the
party. Be sure there are the following
articles in the room, however small: Some
good soap, a large jug of fresh water
clean glass for drinking water, a supply of
towels, both fine and coarse, to suit all
tastes.
vi bLS totISJ ictbIc place a manu- 8!dSS,
pair OF small scissors for cleaning nails,
clipping bangs, etc; bunch of wooden
toothpicks, so that your guest can make
use of these necessary articles without Of
Tending your taste at the table. Be sure
the pincashion is well supplied with pins,
and that there is ar easy, soft cushioned
rocking chair in the room.
Supply the bed with plenty of pillows
If any one does not use many they are
easily removed, and some people cannot
sleep unless well bolstered up In the
room place bottle of black ink, some note
paper and envelopes, a medium sized new
steel pen in holder, two or three stamps
and a postal card or so. But you say. why
should | supply my guests with postage
and stationery?
Your guests, | am sure, will always see
that when they leave the stock Of stamps
and paper in your spare room Is by no means
diminished, and how convenient the handy
supply will be to your visitor when. on the
morning of her arrival, she wants to drop
line to the folks at home and has not yet
learned the way TO the local postoffice.
Also place in the guest chamber few en-
tertaining nCvels-Edith Miniter in Home
maker
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
A Real Balsam is Ksmp's Balsam

The dictionery says, IS bslssm is q
thick, pure, aromatic substance flowing
from trees" Kemp's Balsam for the
throat and lungs Is the only cough medi-
cine that is real balssm. Macy thin,
watery cough remedies are called balssm s
but such are not. Look through bottle
of kemp's Bslsam and notice what pure,
thick preparation it is. If you cough
use kemp's Balssm. 1T all druggists +.
Large bottles soc and g..
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

Ia the pursuit OF the good things Of
this world we anticipate too much we
eat OUT the heart and sweetness Of world
ly pleasures by delightful forethoueh, Of
them. the results obtained from the use
Of DR.. Jones REQ Clover Tonic far exceed
all claims. Il cures dyspepsia, and all
stomach, liver, kidney and bladder
troubles. 1t is perfect tonic, appetizer,
blood purifier. q sure cure for sgue and
ns!srial diseases. Price, so cents, OF
druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
To Nervous and Deblta,ed Men.

If you will send me your address We
will mail you our illustrated pamphlet
explaining al about DR.. Dyes celebrated
electro voltaic belt and appliances, and
their charming effects upon the nervous
dabilitatet system, and how they will
quickly restore you to vigor, manhood
and health. Pamphlet free. If you are
thus afflicted, we will send you belt snd
appliances on trial.
VoLTAIc BELT Co. Marshall, Mich.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
COMICAL BIRDS.
Tie NIischievous Trick Which Two little
Puffins Played Upon Poor Mr.. Rabbit.

Tie NIischievous Trick Which Two little
Puffins Played Upon Poor Mr.. Rabbit.
Do you know what a putin is? Well,
the putin is a funny little black and white
bird, about foot in length, with a big,
colored beak, which makes the creature
look rs if it had put its head into tea
coy. On the rocky cliffs of some sea
coasts you may see rows of puffins, sitting
and bowling aud nodding to each other in
very comical way. They sit very up
right, as diving birds generally do when
they are ashore. and they look like a lot of
stout old gentlemen in black coats and
white waisteoats chat0ering together. If
you look at the first picture, You will see
how easy it is to turn putin into an old
gentleman.
The puffins make their nests in the
crerices of the rocks. and very often they
use a rabbits burrow for home, turning
out tie poor Dummies Well. the puffins
am going to tell you about We're two mis-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

A Mothers Gratitude. My son was in
an almost hopeless condition with hux
when l commenced Using Chamberlain S
Colo, Cholera AMI Disr hoea Remedy 1t
gave him immediate relief and | am sure
it saved his life. | take great pleasure
in recommending it to all. Mrs N L.
Johnson, Everett. Simpson county. Miss.
25 and so cent bottles for sale by Hartz
& Babnsen, druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
Do Yen CouPh!

Don't delsy. Take Kemps Balssm, the
best cough cure. II will cure your
coughs and colds. II will cure pains in
the chest. 1t will cure iudueEzs and
bronchitis and all diseases pertaining to
the lungs because it is a pure balsam.
Hold il to the light and see how clear and
thick it is. You will see the excelle ct
effect after taking the first dose. Large
bottles 5Ne and 81.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

MIR. Clark, to the public:-I wish 20 say
to my friends and the public, that re-
gard Chsmberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Disrrhoea remedy as the best preparation
in use for collie and diarrhoes. 1t is the
finest selling medicine ever handled, be.
cause it always gives satisfaction. o.
II Clark. Orangeyille, Tex. For sale by
Hartz s. Bahnsen, druggists.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

Albert Erwin, editor of the Leonard,
Texas, Graphic, says: For the cure Of
cramps in the stomach Chambe rlain's
Collie, Cholera and Disrrhoea Remedy is
the best and most speedy ever used. "
Many others who have tried it entertain
the same opinion. For sale by Hartz s.
Bshnsen, druggists
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

''The longest sleeper l ever saw was
on western train"
81 didn't know that any one could
sleep long on western train"
THAT is true enough; this sleeper was
the cal was lying awake in."-Lowell
CitiZer
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

After trying msnv remedies for catarrh
during past years, / tried Ely's Cream
Balm with complete success. 1t is over
one year since Istopped using it and have
had no return of cstarrh. l recommend
it to all my friends-Milton T. Palm,
Reading, Pa
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
The FauIt Lies with the Man.

Some one has well and truthfully SAID
that it is mans own fault if he is I'M
happy with his wife in nine cases out of
ten.
1t is very exceptional woman who will
not be all she can to an attentive husband,
and gore exceptional one who win not
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31
A Supposition Confirmed.

"Jim, did that clock strike 10 OF III
asked Barnaby.
Eyes, SIR" returned the darby.
Eyes what, you rascal?
at struck 10 or 11."-Truth.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-31

THE FEEO CSlaif G-L g.
sSg WlscCas.T ST5I--.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
Paraguayan Idea. OF No,,,.

A French gentleman who has organ
lied colony called Villa Sana, about
twenty leagues northeast of Villa Con-
cepcion, on land belonging to the Para
guayo- Argentine Land company, told
me that in the beginning, when he
went to survey the ground and to as
certain its exact whereabouts-alwa
troublesome business in these coun-
tries, where there is as yet no topo-
graphical survey-he had the greatest
difficulty ia inducing half a dozen
Paraguayans to accompany him. They
told him that he would never find the
land, that he would be unable to cross
the river Aquidaban, and, in short,
that his was a wild goose chase. How
ever, when they arrived at the river
and the Frenchman simply jumped in
and SWAN across, their amour propre
was touched and they swan after him.
These half dozen Paraguayans have
remained attached to the colony, but
they have lost the esteem of their coun-
trymen. When after the exploring ex-
pedition, our Frenchman started from
Villa Conception with his sixty colon
lists and his train Of bullock carts and
impedimenta, the loafers of the town
said to the few Paraguayans who ac-
companied him and were helping In
the loading. WHAT Are you as big
fools as those Europeans, to work like
thatf-Theodore Child in Harper,s.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
Forrest,s Casio.

The wreck of his home brought about
by Forests jealousy is still visible to
the eye, and passengers by the Hudson
river steamboats, may even now see the
half ruined and partially completed
baroniaI castle which Forrest built
upon the banks of the Hudson, some
thirty miles above New York, and
where it was his purpose to entertain
with true princely hospitality. The
building of the castle was an attempt
something like that of Alexander Du-
mas, who with his earnings from the
sale of ''Monte Cristo," undertook to
erect near Paris a castle which he called
by the name of this great romance, and
which would have required the income
of duchy to maintain.
Had Forrest lived as he proposed do
ing, his earnings must have been very
great to have maintained the life he In
tended to live in this estate upon the
Hudson. Mrs. Forrest never saw It
after she left it. Although after eight
years litigation she won victory over
her husband, yet victory In her case
was tempered with sorrow. As she
grew old her heart softened toward
Forrest, and in her declining years she
only spoke of him in terms of endear-
ment, which suggested that her recol-
lections of him went back to the earlier
days when she was his bride and was
Philadelphia Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
THE MAN WITH The Muske1.

They are building as Babel was built. to the
with clash and confusion Of speech.
They are Piiing up monuments massive and
To lift a few names out of reach.
And the passionate green laureied god Of the
In whimsical riddle OF stone.
Has chosen few from the field and the state
To sit on the steps OF his throne
But III will pass from this rage Of renown.
This ant hill commotion and strife:
Pass by where the marbles and bronzes look
With their fast frozen gestures of life.
On. out OF the nameless who lie meath the
offhe pitying cypress and pine;
Your man IS the man of the sword and the
But the man with the musket is mine.
1 knew him. 1 tell you'll And also know
That the poor battered body that lay there IN
Was only n plank In the bridge
Oyor which some should pass to n fame
That shall shine while the high stars shall
Your hero is known by an echoing name.
But the man Of the musket is mine
rknew him, An through him the good and
Ran together and equally free;
But Judge. as trust Christ has judged the
poor lad.
For death made him noble to mel
In the cyclone OF war. In the battles eclipse.
Life shook out its lingering sands,
And he died with the names that he loved on
his lips.
His musket still grasped in his handsi
Up close to the flag my soldier went down.
In the salient front OF the line.
You may take for your heroes the men Of re-
nown.
But the man or the musket is minei
There is peace In the May laden grace of the
hours
That come when the days work is done.
And peace with the nameless. who under the
flowers
Lie asleep in the slant of the sun.
Beat the tapsl Put out lightsi and silence ali
There is rifle pit strength in the grave!
They sleep well who sleep. be they crowned or
uncrowned,
And death will be kind TO the brave.
milwaukee Sentinel
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
PADDLE WHEELS OR SCREWS.

Reasons Why the Screw Is Superior for
the Long Voyages of Steamers.
The paddle wheel was obviously the
first instrument accepted by the early
engineers as a means of propulsion.
Long after the experiment of Fl. B. NJ.
s. Rattler had demonstrated the con-
trary the public faith in the visible
wheel was greater in reality and more
sincere than that in the invisible screw,
and it is probable that it was more the
question of cost than anything else
that gained the victory for the screw
for ocean and general service.
The paddle engine is in itself heavier
and occupies more room than the screw
engine. 1t is as a rule more expressive
per l. III. p, and in wear and tear-es-
pecialy of the propeller itself-it far
exceeds the screw. 1t occupies the
best part of the ship. and its posi-
ton is not matter of choice, as with
the screw engine, but is of necessity at
or near the middle of the ship. 1t Is
evident that a paddle steamer must re-
quire more room, and that in moving
among ships or other distractions the
liability to damage the propeller is
greater than with the screw steamer,
and in the case of long voyage the
paddle generally worked at disad-
vantage, as at the commencement it
was too deeply immersed and at the
end not immersed enough for efficient
working.
If the sails were set so as to steady
the vessel, or If set in sufficient guam
tity to be of any use in quickening
the speed, she was inclined until the
lee wheel was ''buried" and the 'weath
er" wheel doing very little work, be-
sides there being general tendency on
the part of the ship to turn around,
which had to be counterbalanced by
the rudder. The race of water from
the wheels past the ship being at a high
velocity, and raised above the normal
level, causes a resistance to the ship be-
yond that due to her passage through
the water, as in the case of a screw
ship.
On the other hand, the paddle boat
is more readily got into motion and her
speed more rapidly arrested than is the
case with the screw steamer; and it Is
claimed for the paddle ewheel--although
the foundation for such a claim is rather
nebulous-that when at full speed the
ship is prevented from excessive rolling.
"A. Z. Seaton in Scribner's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
one PoIiceman,s Power.

The Paris prefect of police is today
the most unaccountable and the most
powerful man in France. His functions
are highly varied. He controls not
only the ordinary police that patrol the
streets and keep order, but also the
detectives and officers who constitute
the 'police judiciaire, and who work
up criminal cases. Besides these, he is
master of the political police-the
governments secret agents-and he
has in his hands a secret service fund
to spend unaccountably except as
regards his immediate superior, the
minister of the interior
His department covers the mainte-
nance of order everywhere in streets
and public places, the punishment of
misdemeanors, the inspection of weights
and measures, the organization of i'm
portant life saving and sanitary services,
authority to permit or to forbid public
spectacles, licenses of numerous sorts
such as omnibuses and cabs and river
steamers-the regulation of certain
trades and caIlings, and, in general, the
control of a great number of services
that affect the security of life and
property, the public health and the
convenience of great community
DIR. Albert Shaw in Century.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
THE czAa,s CAR IS sAoT PaooF.
a Ruler Who Travels contin.aarly Be
tw.en T,rn FfIes of SoIdInr.


A Ruler who Travels contin,aany Be
tween Two Files OF Soldiers
When the car travels in Russia the
precautions taken for his safety could
not be greater If he were in an eneIny's
country. A battalion of infantryis de-
tailed for every two miles of distance,
and allowing 500 men as the effective
force of each battalion, every spot of
ground on both sides of the track Is
covered by sentinels within easy dis
tance of each other. The car is sud
denly whirled of to the station, ac-
companied by the chosen twelve of his
body guard without pomp or circum-
stance. swiftly and silently The car
always travels in a train of Eve car
riages- His carriage is built in pc
culiar style.
The windows. while ample for light.
are high, so that person sitting down
Is invisible from the outside, and the
sides of the car are fortified with plates
of steel concealed in the ornamental
woodwork, but strong enough to resist
bullet. There are two sentry boxes
In the carriage, one at each end, and
each looking out at an opposite side
from the other.
The guardsmen on duty in these
apartments are shut in from any OBJ
servation from the interior of the car
riage. but at intervals of about two
feet, the whole length of the saloon, are
electric buttons, communicating with
the guard chambers, as well as with the
two carriages, one containing the suite,
and the other. in the rear, occupied by
the guardsmen not on duty. So far,
therefore, as the train itself is con-
cerned, the czar could be no more Sc
cure in st. Petersburg
The train speeds on to its destination
without a halt, except on account of
accident. At distance of not less
than five miles ahead is a pioneer train,
in which the imperial director of rail-
ways and the chief engineer of the par
ticular railway on which the car Is
travelling always ride. As the pilot
train whizzes by the reserves along the
line rush to arms and guard the tracks
of the railway, waiting until the impe-
rial train has passed, SO that the spec
tacle is presented of continuous lines of
soldiery for hundreds of miles. Ar
rived at the end of his journey, the
czar is escorted to the quarters intended
for the imperial family.
The streets are guarded by special
constables, in the attire of citizens.
Every property owner has been called
upon to supply one or more of these
men at his own expense to do duty
when the sovereign makes public APP
pearance. The constables average one
in ten of the crowd that throng the
streets, and being in ordinary dress
they can mingie with the people, note
what is said, and, perhaps, do some
thing that will obtain them regular
employment among the secret police.
With one-tenth the population en-
gagged as spies upon the remainder,
with troops enough concentrated to
stand formidable siege and his faith
full guardsinen dogging every step, the
car goes through the forms of visit
to the ancient capital of Russia, or
whatever city he may choose to honor
-Philadelphia Telegraph.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
treatment OF indian Babes.

The conditions of existence among
many savage tribes are so severe that
only the ''iittest," the sturdiest and
yiriest constitutions can survive. There
Is n very fine and intelligent tribe of
blacks in the neighborhood of the
Cameroons, named the Duallas, which
imposes from the first very violent
test upon the constitutions of their Off
spring. Like the ancient Germans, the
Duallas take a child when only four or
five days old and plunge 1t In the river.
This is repeated every day till the child
is strong enough to bathe itself, or till
it has succumbed under the treat
ment. Other less intelligent and more
savage tribes OF Africans train their
children to endure torture from n very
early age.
Even the average nursing of the
negro mother is enough to try the
toughness of the child's constitution.
When the child is being fed he Is set
astride his mothers hip, and he must
hold on how he can and get what nutri-
ment he can, while his mother moves
about her ordinary duties. When he
Is not thus attached to his mother he
lies on a bed of dried grass on the
ground, in all the simplicity in which
nature brought him into the world,
and Grams himself with earth, or what
ever he can lay his hands on--Strand
MaDazfna
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
Advice to n Young Man.

A successful young business man Of
Atlanta tells this story: He said that
when he was boy he had occasion to
borrow twenty dollars on a gold watch,
and went to bank to secure the loan.
He found there venerable gentleman
whom he had since come to know as
the father of Mr.. Darwin Jones. The
old gentleman spoke very kindly to the
boy, told him the bank did not lend
money on watches and referred him to
a pawnbroker. Then Mr.. Jones said
slowly and earnestly, "But If 1 were
you would not borrow the money!
''Whyp was asked by the fmpetuous
youngster. "Because'-and every word
weighed pound-''because you VIII
have to pay it backi" The wisdom OF
a lifetime was in that sentence.-At-
lanta Constitution.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
A Russian Baby,s craaI..

In Russia cradle is used, contrived
rudely as to both structure and motion.
It is an oblong box or wicker basket
with cord from each of its four cor
ners converging to the hook or the
rafter from which it is hung, and with
a looped cord underneath, in which the
mother puts her foot to swing her baby.
In winter-which In Russia is long and
severe-the cradles or sometimes the
hammocks in which the youngest chill
dren sleep, are slung around the great
stove upon which the parents and other
adult members of the family pass the
night, wrapped in their sheepskins.-
Strand Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
HAPPY HOLSTERS

VIM. Timpaons, Postmaster of I6aville
Ind writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from Kidney and Liver trouble" John
Leslie, farmer and stockman, OF same
place, says: Find Electric Bitters to
be the best Kidney and Liver medicine,
made me feel like a new man" ]. w.
Gardner, hardware merchant, same
town, says: Electric Bitters is just the
thing for man who is all run down and
don't care whether he lives or dies; he
found new strength, good appetite and
felt just like he had new lease on life.
Only SOC. bottle; at A. G. YanGilder's
Drug Store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-02
VIVA. kIna q q slor. Ne. 1la

BE walked into a Kearney street dry
goods store and asked for q pair of
overalls. It was evident that lie had
not been long in town, and the clerks
eyed him with amusement depicted
plainly ON each face.
Every sorry, my friend, explained
the polite gentleman behind the coun-
ter, but this is dry goods store and
we have no overalls in stock
.'Aint. ehl Well, just give me three
of your best flannel shirts and won't
kick
Sorry. but we don't keep them.
either
''show me a pair of long legged
boots, then"
'.No boots eithern
Got any plug tObaccor'
Amy pipes or taIlow candlesr
''Skillets or fryin' pansP'
Not here. You'll have to 90 to
hardware store"
.swell, have you got any blood and
thunder novelsgs
Sorry. but
''See here, old man, I've come all
the way from Alpine to lay in my sup
plies, and the first place strike run
mp against snag. 1 always had
kind o. sneaking idea that you fellers
down here was frauds, and now know
it There amt one of them things but
what can get in the little store up to
home, and here you don't keep 'ern.
So longl" and he strolled out with a
look of disgust on his face and disap-
peared in the throng on the street.
San Francisco Call.