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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26

Worn linen Is a most deceptive addend
in the sum total of apparel. \ pair of old
cuffs will look so bewitchingly respectable
after visit to a good laundry that You
will take them up with thankful tender
ness and adjust them while a look of be-
nightly wanders all over them. didn't
know l ever could wear them again." you
say, and you feel so satisfied at having
counted one against that dreadful oppo-
nent, the raCgedy man. OF course you
have felt just 50. and just as surely as you
have glanced down soon after and found
your wrists encircled by a pair Of soiied
and shaggy cuffs. \ little rub here and a
little rub there, few grains of dust from
mother earth and benediction from a rain
drop and your cuffs have gone back whence
they came from outside the pale of respect
ability. Next time you treat those cuffs as
exposed falsifiers, but some fine day when
spasm of economy IS contracting the
muscles which open your purse you'll &c;
caught again. See if you don't-Toronto
Globe.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
ALoNDoN CHARACTER OF LONG AGO.
Thomas Britton, the ''Sman-Coal Man,
and Founder of Modern Concerts.
OF Thomas Britton, Gray Boy,
And Britain ought to know;

and Founder of Modern Concerts.
OF Thomas Britton, Gray Boy,
And Britain ought to know;
To Thomas Britton, ''small-coal man."
All Britain thanks does owe.
In 1910 there was to be seen in many Lon
don streets a very remarkable man He
carried bag over his shoulder, a measure
in his hand, and cried out Small coal for
sale" in so musical a voice that he not only
appeared different to all other traders Of
the same calling. but he attracted passers-
by by his peculiarities. He would stop at
every bookstall on his way, and at once
purchase every book of rare quality. Gen
tlemen of position and standing would
stop to speak with him. If you had in
quired of any one you met ''Who is that 2"
you would have been told that was Brit
ton, the small-coal man." lover of learn
ing and a superior musician, the friend of
some of the best known people of the day.
We may ask, at a glance at the above
rhyme, why does the United Kingdom owe
Brltton thanks. Surely not for selling
Goals. Because Thomas Britton was the
founder of modern concerts Now let US
follow him, when his days work is done
to his little coal shed, and small house by
the side of it, in Clerkenwell Very soon
all signs of his calling have gone, and in an
hour or so friends begin to arrive Mean
while, what is he doing? Opening music
sheets and tuning up his violin. Now look
at his friends. Listen to that stout man,
speaking our language with difficulty; that
is the great Handel. Near him celebrated
painter, Woollaston, and by his side Hughes,
the poet. Who is this entering the small
room to be a guest of the small-coal man?
1t is the famous Duchess of Queensbury,
come 10 enjoy sweet music. These gather
ings began in 1918, and continued until
Britton's sad and cruel death. Britton's
guests must have been devoted admirers of
music, for we read, his concert room was
situated at the corner of a passage in Ayles-
bury street, Clerkenwell Green, and could
only be reached by stairs from the outside
of the house. But these true lovers of
pleasant sounds thought that the end well
made up for the troublesome journey
Poor musical small-coal man, his end
happened thus. A friend, for the sake of
practical joke, introduced a ventriloquist
at one OF the meetings, who made his voice
appear TO proceed from heaven, calling
upon Britton TO prepare for immediate
death and to repeat the Lords Prayer"
This, through superstitious fear, he did,
went home and died. But from his small
room birth was given TO concerts, 10 the
opening of sundry music shops, and the
institution of the Academy of Ancient Con
certS
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26

THE Union announces the calling By
the Illinois state republican committee of
q conference with editors to be held al
Chicago, July 2S. tits to be hoped the
Union will be present and that through
consultation and sdvisement it may
learn that manliness and influence in
journalism are TO be found in straightfor-
ward, out and out policy in campaigns,
political and otherwise, and not sinking
the responsibility of the position ad-
vanced by snewspsper by having its POI
sition stated over anonymous signatures,
which merits ridicule from the opposi \
ton, and indignation and disgust from its
own party and friends.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
A DISHONEST APPROPRIATION.
Protection Always Claims the Credit Due
to Invention ano Experience.


to Invention ano Experience.
The absurdity Of the claim made by
the protectionists, when protected manu-
featured goods have declined in price,
that such decline is the direct result of
the protective system" may be seen
from a case in which protection could
not possibly have had any effect.
Our corn canning industry affords an
excellent example of how indust les may
be developed and costs be lowered by in
ventions and improved methods, entirely
apart from any outside stimulus like a
protective tariff. OF course there is a
duty on canned corn, but this duty has
had absolutely no effect on the industry,
being simply one of those bogus duties
put into the tariff to hoodwink farmers.
Thirty years ago." says a leading
corn packer, corn was cut from the
cob by hand at the rate of a bushel an
hour, placed into handmade cans, the
labor cost of which was S1.25 per dozen,
cooked six hours and sold for 8. so per
dozen. Now machine with the aid of
one hand will cut 125 bushels an
hour. Another machine will fill the
can at an equal gait, the labor cost in
cans will not exceed three cents per
dozen, while improved cookers have run
the time for processing down to a single
hour and the corn is sold at a profit of
81 per dozen. The revolution has been
from a horde of unsklled laborers. doing
all the work by hand, TO fewer but
better laborers, who are intelligent
enough to use machinery; while in
creased facilities, the emanations from
the brain of a Norton, Sprague, Chisholm
and host of other tireless inventors,
have reduced the creative cost over so
per cent"
The same thing has of course caken
place in many protected industries, not
ably in steel rails. The protectionists
never weary of telling Us that protection
has brought down the price of rails from
S166 a ton to $50; but every man Of intel
igence knows that the reduction was
caused by the great invention OF Sir
Henry Bessemer, an unprotected Eng
hshman. This reduction, too, has gone
to much lower point in England than
in the United States, the price in Eng
land being now from S21 80 to So. 90 per
ton, against the trust price of $50 to S31
here.
When protection claims the fruits of
invention it is like the jackdaw stealing
the canary's feathers. But protection is
quite accustomed to appropriating what
belongs to others, and is true TO its char
acter again in this matter.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
A Point Well Taken,

Mckinley put needles on the free list,
and in his New York speech he explained
this piece of free trade thus:
DO you know why we put sewing
needles on the free list? We did it upon
the great underlying principle of protec-
ton, because we didn't manufacture
them at home"
why, then, esteemed SIR" asks the
Utica my Observer, did you put duty
on tin plate, which was not produced in
this country any more than needles? In
order to have been consistent you should
have clapped duty of 100 per cent. on
needles, and then we would hear the
Utica Herald assuring US that in the
course of a couple of years needles would
be produced in this country, and that
the duty was grand good thing; and
we would see American needles distrib-
uted among the delegates to Republican
conventions amid the bowls of the faith
full
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
A REJOlNOER.

Why should you deem my faith is gone,
Because my locks are turning gray,
In pixie, gnome and leprechawn,
And all Titania's glad array?
With me it's quite the other way.
For all around me, as I walk
Through verdant tokens of the spring,
! hear the tasSeled larchers talk
OF gifts the elves have toiled 10 bring,
While nesting birds new love notes sing.
Estrays from Wonderland they come
Each year, despite what science tells;
From jeweled corniced cave and dome,
Where flower born sprites endure theiI
spells,
And everlasting summer dwells.
By lake and woodland, sea and strand
All beauty OF the year TO be
Is forged for Us in Fairyland.
And, fashioned where we cannot see.
For bird and beast, for flower and tree.
While ofte1times frost gnomes are fain,
When all the land Is white with snow,
To picture on each window pane
Foreshadowings of what months will show
When with all odorous hues they glow.
And so I think that Life, not Death,
Is always potent. always true;
That after we have stayed our breath,
Love Will its own fair germs renew
And open DreaInland TO full view.
John Moran in Youths Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
What Fog Means.

Professor Reynolds gives practical IL
lustration of the effect of fog in connec.
ton with some new betting which had
been running for four hours at Owens col
lege during a heavy fog. The betting
which was new and bright when started
was found, when stopped, to be black and
loaded with dirt. 1t had been running al
1000 feet an hour. Professor Reynolds
pointed out the resemblance to the dirti
ness of an express train, the phenomenon
in both cases being due to the fact that
the rapidly moving body comes in contact
with greater quantity of air in a given
time than a stationary body, and, there
fore, picks up greater quantity Of atmos
pheric pollution.-New York Commercial
Advertiser
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26

"OLD HUTCH is in New York and on
the produce exchange. The old man
seems to be making trip around the
the circle, and he may be getting pointers
on how to corner the market. When he
returns to Chicago look out for some
finn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26

MAJOR MCKINLEY is undoubtedly fine
man personally, but as the Peoria Herald
remarks, he represents wrong principles
and it therefore becomes necessary for
the democrats to defeat him this fall.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
Veteran Campaigners.

Captain Wavely-There is old General
Wildfire over there. They say he has been
in no less than one hundred engagements
Colonel Fetherton-Yes; his wife, they
say, was also in a number of engagements
before she captured him.-Epoch.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
Convinced Against His Will.

Judge-Guilty or not guilty?
Prisoner (dazed) II thought was guilty,
your honor, bat my lawyer says l amt,
and he's proved it, and believe it, and
when you hear him talk, your honor, you'll
believe it too--Enoch- y
Tsilors wanted at Hopes.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
Explained.

McCorkle-I wonder why it is so easy to
borrow trouble?
McCrackle-Because everybody has more
than he wants.-Epoch.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
FRIDAY, JUNE 90, 1891.

AMELIE RIvEs CHANLER and Rudgood
Kipling are both TO issue new novels
soon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-26
Two Cases.

One swallow does not make a spring.
Neither does a matchmaker nowadays. He
usually buys it.-Jewelers' Circular
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
THE DOODLE BOSS.
Rees Drops Into Poetry Again-A
Nickel in the Slot.

lREEs TELLS THE STORY AND NAMES THE BOSS. !
Thus spake the Times one morning bright,
As 1t fumed and rallied with all its might:
"Right in our midst we've ouud man
Who thinks he can boss the Republican clan,
He's joined every order (the Times doth an
nounce)
And ridden all goats that give the grand
bounce.
So he and his friends, when election days
here,
Can handle the coin, and serve out the beer. f"
The mention OF beer and the reference to
Makes US long for that "boss" as bees do for
honey.
"Just give us his name," says the event ng
paper,
Or we will declare he's myth and vapor."
"Now little tumble-bug," screeches the Timss,
You'd ike his acquaintance, and likewise
his dimes"
The HERALD next started, with view to dis
The name OF the man who'd boss the chef
deuvre.
1t quickly decided his first name was "Hervey,"
But his friends said No, and called the charge
They thought "aeneral Johnson" was surely
the man,
But he was up north with Burns (christened
Dam.
Then Hazard was mentioned; yes, all thought
twas Harry,
But the latter with veto the charge soon did
parry.
Said he, 81 can name him with the greatest of
ease.
know it's none other than Councilman Rees,"
Then Rees became wrathy, and loaded his gun,
With the dog-gondest verses that ever were
When he catches the mayor you bet there'll be
fun
All joking aside, I'll tell you, my hearty"
The bosss real name is Republican Party"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
THAT STOLEN BAGGAGE.
A SECTION BOSS'S WIFE BUYS A
SUPPLY OF WORTH DRESSES.
Constable Carpenter of Banning Receivers
Part of the Booty-The Tramps Man
age to Escape.

Some of the booty stolen from the
Southern Pacific baggage cars last week
has been recovered. The west-bound
overland that ought to have reached
Banning at 80 Monday evening did
not get there until O'Clock Tuesday
morning on account of washouts in New
Mexico. 1t was heavy train and next
to the engine was a box car filled with
baggage, and unlocked The train
stopped at Glamis to take on passen-
ger, and at Mammoth Tank two men
were seen to emerge from the freight
car of baggage. The baggage master
went in and checked up the baggage
and found that two leather trunks and
several fat valises were gone. When
the train reached Banning Constable
Carpenter was notified, and in company
with the Glamis passenger, who saw
two tramps at that station, he left in
pursuit OF the thieves.
Constable Carpenter of Banning, on
arrival at Mammoth Tank, found that
the tramps had been to the section
house there, and had sold several hun
dred dollars worth of silk dresses to the
wife of the section boss for $40. In
hunting around the brush, half
emptied trunk was found containing
many articles of ladies' wear. A place
was found where the other. articles of
baggage had been burned. The old
clothes of the tramps were also found.
showing that the tramps had arrayed
themselves in the dude suits and silk
shirts which one of the trunks con-
tanned. The recovered baggage wa 8
sent into Los Angeles but the tramps
escaped.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
UNITED BALL PLAYERS.
The League and Association Bound b
an IrOncIad Agreement.

The League and Association Bound by
an Ironclad Agreement.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 18.--The consoli-
dated ball league, now known as the
National league and the American asso-
citation, adjourned at O'Clock this
morning, received the final reports of
committees, terminated their affairs and
dissolved. Alta meeting that lasted all
night, Nick Young was elected president
and secretary and treasurer OF the new
league, and Zach Phillips was chosen
solicitor. Headquarters will remain as
in the old league, at Washington. The
board of directors was drawn by lot, and
was composed of members equally from
the eastern and western circuits.
The members are: Brush; Cincinnati !;
Won Der Abe, st. Louis; Hart, Chi
cago Soden, Boston, Vanderhorst,
Baltimore, and Scanlan, Washington.
President Young has yet to name the
schedule and playing rules committees.
The new league is organized on an iron
clad ten-year basis, and no club can be
dropped without the unanimous con-
sent of the clubs, including the one to
be dropped, and three-fourths vote is
necessary to change the constitution.
The terms of settlement with clubs
dropped are said to be satisfactory to all
parties. The exact figures will not be
given out for some time. 1t is under
stood that Boston has received $37 500 !;
Philadelphia, $4,000; Columbus, $16,-
600 Chicago, $4,000 Milwaukee,
$4,000.
A fifty per cent division OF receipts
was adopted. Admission was fixed at
so cents general, and 25 cents pecial.
The schedule committee meet the first
Monday in March in New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

GorgonzoIa Sage and English Dairy
Cheese
At H. Jevnes 1876 and 1873 N. Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
NOT FAMINE-S E-STRICKEN.
Reports of Distress in Mexico Greatly
Exaggerated.

Cry OF MEXICO, Dec. 1S.-Reports
from reliable sources in every state of
the republic have been received to the
effect that the rumors OF great distress
caused by famine and OF rioting by the
impoverished people are untrue. In
Chihuahua. Durango, Zacatecas,
Chiapas and Potosi crops fail
ed, causing some suffering, but
measures for the relief of the needy
have already been taken. No actual
starvation has been reported in any of
these states. The federal and state
government and private individuals are
importing sufficient provisions to sup
ply all needs. Exaggerated reports
have been sent to Europe regarding suf-
fering in different states. No state has
asked for outside help. An English
syndicate is buying up coffee land in
Tamalipas.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

Total for the principal cities of the
United States 81, ,23S, AGO 900; increase, 10S.
Drink DELBEcK CHAMPAGNE. H. ]. woolla.
colt agent.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
ART HAS NO SEX.
A Well-Formed Man Poses as a
Nude Model

Nude Model.
LONDON, Dec. 16.-The ruling topic
this afternoon was the scene that took
place yesterday, at the studio OF Mrs.
Jopling Rowe, one of the bestknown
women artists in London.
Sandow, the famous strong man, who
is of an unusually handsome, symmet-
rical figure, posed in the nude before a
large body of ladies for at least an hour
and quarter, with nothing on but
pair of socks and Roman scarf. The
occasion of his appearance in this prim
tive costume was a lecture on anatomy
delivered by Mrs. Jopling Rowe to her
fellow artists, and illustrated by Mr..
Sandow.
News having got abroad of this at
tractive tableau, there was great rush
OF Mrs. Jopling Rowe's friends, and the
studio was crowded by people who evil
IDENTIFY took great interest in the study
of anatomy. The strong man, Sandow,
is said to have gone through the ordeal
without flinching.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

trains, tight clothing and other
frivolities.
OF the eighty ladies present, thirty
five announced themselves as the wear
ers of no corsete.
The club adjourned for the holidays.
The next meeting will be held January
s, 1892.
Mrs. Wells will present paper on
The Poetry of the Elizabethean Era, and
Mrs. Tolhurst, one on The Manners and
Customs OF That Time.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
NICKELL DISSENTS.

Why, Rees, If you had but the sense of "hoss"
You d know that the party itself as boss
Twangs psalms through its nose and shouts
Yankee Doodle,
But is getting away all the time with the
''boodle."
Quay, Elkins. Dan Burns and Clarkson, "my
hearty"
Are the "hairpins" that run your G. o. p party.
NICKFTJ,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19
CLEARING HOUSE RETURNS.

Los Angeles and Portland Alone of the
Coast Cities Show an Increase.
New York, Dec. 1S.-Bradstreet' re-
turns show the following clearings, with
the per cent of increase and decrease,
in the principal cities of the United
States during the past week:
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

CREAM PUFF ready raising -four.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

To be in the swim, buy yourself full dres
suit. We carry a complete line, the latest cut
at moderate prices. Globe Clothing Co., Spring
street, near Third.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

DR.. o. G. Baldy,
Veterinary Surgeon, has returned to Los Ange-
les to stay, and mas his Office at the Eureka
Stable, on Fifth, between Broadway Nnd Hill
streets. Telephone u
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

For your little ones buy nice Jersey suit for
O Christmas present. most complete line
from $4 up at Globe Clothing Co., spring street.
near Third
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

rather have suit of clothes than any other
present. Do your holiday purchasing OF
Mullen, Bluett & Co,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-19

Buy a mufiler or silk handkerchief for
Christmas. See Mullen, Bluett & Co.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-30
pETITIoN TO SELL REAL ESTATE.

STATE OF ILLINOIS. lss.
Rock ISLAND COUNTY
County Court of Rock Island County, to the July
Term. A. ID 1891
Charles Kent, executor OF the last will and
testament of William Cook, deceased. vs..
Margare II. Cook, Elijah B. Cook, Emma L.
Rolf, Catherine ". Risley, Julia NJ Ash. Mel
lie French, Jessie J. COOK, william l.. Cook,
Frederick ;. Coax, Charles Ii. Cook. Emma
Mi Ter, Emma hing, AMce Mason: ! omas W
tion To sell real estate to pay debts.
Affidavit of the non-res deuce of John II. Tay-
lor, Eli h B. Cook, Emma L. Ro fl, Catherine ".
Rsley. Julia NJ Ash. Nellie French, Jessie
Cook. William L Cook. Frederick :. Cook,
Charles II. COX, Ell ma Miller. Emma Thing d
Alice Mason. defendants above named, having
been fled in the Office Of the clerk of the county
court of Rock Island county. notice Is hereby
given to the "a John Taylor, jah b. Cook,
kmma L; Rolf, Catherine w. Ri=leys Julia
Ash. Nellie reuch. Jessie j. Cook, vii lam L.
Cook. Frederick :. Cook, Charles II. Cook, Emma
Miller, Emma Thing and Alice Mason, that the
said plant fl. Charles II. Kent. execut ? Of the
last will and testament of William l.. Cook. de-
cea ed. has fled his petition IN the said county
court of Rock Island county for an order II sell
the premises belo ging 10 the estate of said de-
ceased or so m CHI of il as may be needed to nv
tie deb.s of said deceased, and described as To-
lows. to-wit:
That certain tract Of land commenc ne one hun
dred and twenty seven and one-half Q21ts' feet
south from the northwest corner Ct lot number
one %, in block number two r in Charles
Buford's addition TO the city of Rock Island. on
what was formerly known as Washington street,
and runnin- thence east para lei with what was
formerly known as Green street one hu dred and
seventy I70) feet 10 what was formerly known as
Cherry street, thence south forty-four (+4 feet,
thence ives one hundred ard seventy uI0l feet
TO sail Washington street, then north with said
Washington street 10 the place Il beginui1 2, sit
uated in .he county of Rock lsla and ate OF
II nois, and that summons has been issuea out
of said CONT azains' you. returnaole q the July
term, A. D. 1891 of laid court, TO he holden on the
first Moid 4y of luy, A. D. 1891, at the court
house in the city Ct Rock l. and III Rock Island
county, II iIois.
Now unle s ycu, the said John II. Taylor, Elijah
B. Cook, Emma l.. Rolf, ca theriEe W. Ri ley,
Julia NJ. A-h, Nellie French, Jessie j. Cook, VII
Ian L. Cook, FredsrickS Cook, Charles Ii. Cook,
Emma Miller, Emma ! hing and Alice Mason
hall pcrsot ally he and appear b. fore said county
cour; OF Rock Is and county and plead, answer or
demur to the sad compartments petit ion filed
herein as required by law, the same and the mat
tiers and things therein charged and stated will be
taken confessed, and decree entered against
you according TO the PRAYER Of said bill
Rock Island, Ill June "a, 1891.
j. cKsoN 4 burst. HJALMAR k0HLER,
Compartments Solicitors. Clerk OF said Court