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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
Jean Inselow,s Poem Divided -

Miss Jean Ingelow, in a letter recently
published, tells the history of her well
known poem Divided" She saws: al
wrote that nearly thirty years ago Ny
mother (newly widow took a house in
the country for Il few weeks, near Ongar,
about mile from where our friends the
Isaac Taylors then lived. Passing one day
through field between the two houses /
saw little Erook. We paused for some
reason OF its brink, being all on one side of
1t. 1t was too wide to be crossed, and we
did not want to cross; but in imagination
L followed 1t up to its source. 1t was a cause
OF division down there, but above it would
not be; and l naturally appeared 10 per-
ceive the two children at the source, and
how it would divide them as they followed
it. 1t was a symbol of those events in hui
man life which naturally and inevitably
divide That really is all of the poem. 1t
had only to be set down in words, and
what little art there is in it is mainly with
in the first few words; for an empty sky
is always TO my Imagination as solemn as
1T Is beautiful; and the beginning does not
satisfy my notions unless in work of art
1t belongs to the end.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

Althou III it is now nearly sixty years
since Cha rles Lamb died, the little cottage
in which ne and his sister resided at Ed
monitor shows but slight evidence of any
external change. Situated a few yards
from the railway station, the house, with
its gable facing the roadway. its red tiled
roof and whitened walls, its narrow door
way and small paned windows, gives the
impression of Old World comfort and Sc
clusion. A rowan tree. on the branches of
which hang clusters of red berries, stands
at the gsJeway, and its autumnal appear
ance imparts just now pictorial attract
iveness TO the interesting building, which
is still known as Lambs Cottage.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
THE FLOW OF GOLD.
ho~ the Tariff Depresses the Price ~
Our Farm Produce in Europe.

hoa the Tariff Depresses the Price q
Our Farm Produce in Europe.
The great expectation of our wheat to
EUROPE has caused some fear as to the
rate OF exchange, since a premium has
already been placed on gold bars and
coin by the banks of England and
France.
Now this simple little statement has
in it an important meaning for the
American farmer, and should eniighten
MIN as to one of the hidden evil effects
Of the tariff.
A premium on gold means that more
wheat must be given to get it; in other
words, it depresses the prices of wheat.
But why did these banks find it neces-
sary to put premium on gold? Let any
wheat grower look at the tables of i'm
ports which were recently published by
the treasury department to show how
the Mckinley law has worked. For the
nine months extending from Oct. /, 1890,
to June 80. 1891, there was heavy fall
ing OFF in many classes of goods that we
have been buying from Europe, and
our high tariff organs have been print
ing the figures showing these reductions
with the utmost satisfaction, claiming
stupidity enough that ''Europe's loss is
our gain"
In the first nine months Of the McKin-
ity law manufactures Of wool fell off
81. 900, 900: cotton lacings, edgings, etc.,
H,7OO, 900; manufactures of fax, hemp
]ute, etc.. s.. 700, 900: hats, bonnets, ETC.,
1890. 900; seeds, 81 500, 900; manufac-
lures of silk. $1,700, 900; buttons. 81
200, 600; corsets, $720. 900; fancy articles,
1926. 900. Tin plate increased by S13. 6OO.-
700. but it has fallen off enormously since
the Mckinley tax took effect on July 1.
Our imports of plates in June reached
E,016.O0O worth. and in July they fell
to $425, 1888 worth
These figures show that we are refus-
ing. thanks to our McKinleyism, to take
the very things which Europe has to of
fer MS IN payment for our farm products,
and Europe is therefore compelled to
trench upon her gold supply in order to
make payment. But Europe needs her
gold and will not willingly part with it.
Hence the price of gold begins to rise
just so soon as it becomes necessary to
send gold here to pay for our produce.
Thus our farmers are compelled to
take lower price for their produce
than they would if we allowed Europe
to pay US in goods. Europe has an
abundance of these, and they are so
cheap that our protected manufacturers
quake and tremble every time anybody
talks about lowering the tariff to let
them come in; and they are the very
kinds of goods that our people want.
Ii we take them in large amounts
there will be no need for premium on
gold in London and Paris, and our wheat
will bring full value.
Did you ever see the tariff in this light
before?
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

When the tariff shuts out goods en-
tirely it is always such goods as poorer
people buy: rich people buy what suits
their tastes, whatever the price may be.
An illustration of this is found in our
imports of carpets. The carpets i'm
ported in the fiscal year 1890 came in at
an average value of s1.16 yard. The
treasury report shows that the average
value for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1891. was secs IA yard.
But the report gives a still more inter
esting insight into the workings of the
Mckinley duty. One part of it gives an
extended comparison of the imports for
the nine months from October, 1890, to
June 80, 1891, with those of the same
months in the previous year. The Nc
kinley tariff went into effect on Oct. 6
last year, and the imports of carpets
from Oct. to June 80 were valued at
S2.4l yard
The same thing is shown in cotton
cloth. That which came in under nine
months of the Mckinley law was valued
at 49, cents yard as against II 2-5 cents
for the corresponding nine months under
the old law
These figures were gotten up by the
treasury department at the cost of much
labor and money to show the beautiful
workings of the Mckinley tariff law.
What they do show is that the rich are
going on buying European goods while
the poor are shut up to the tender mer-
cies of the ''home market" plastered
over as it is with tariff trusts and COM
binations.
These figures explode one of the most
deeply cherished superstitions of the
high tariff cranks. They say that when
you put up the tariff the foreigner will
reduce his prices in order to get into our
market, and in this way he Will pay our
tariff taxes. The figures just quoted go
to show that the foreigner is not doing
any such thing. They show that he is
continuing to sell high priced goods to
the rich people of America, while the
poorer class are simply left.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

The fol owing figures represent the mem
bership Of churches in the United States
according TO a compilation made by the
New YORK independent:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
Asss ;esNsMs 49,
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9-S % NsSe
MUSICAL FANcIES.
Traditional Stories the EMPLOYMENT
of Husic as a Medical Agency.

Traditional Stories on the Emplovu.ut
of Iusic as a Medical Agency.
As medical agency music has in times
past been much in request. At the present
day in semicivilized countries where il ia
commonly believed that sickness is pro
duced by the malignant influence of evil
spirits, the usual method of driving these
away is by music. In Burmah, when severe
illness of any kind has baffied all human
skill, it is customary to abandon all
further medical treatment, the patient,s
complaint being supposed to be caused nv
an evil spirit, which must be driven awav
before any chance of recovery can be, ex
pected. This is accomplished by means of
music, during the performance of which
certain n ystic rites are observed
But apart from the idea of demoniacal
possession as the cause of disease, music
has from early times been in repute.
Pythagoras and Xenocrates cured maniacs
by meiodlo us sounds; and, coming down to
modern times, music as cure for insanity
is alluded to by Shakespeare in Richard
ii" (Act V, scene 81, where the king saws:
This music MAIDS me, let it sound no more.
For though it help madmen to their wits.
In me 1t seems it will make wise men mad.
Burton, also, in his Anatomy of Melan-
choly' has given an account of the medical
Qualities Of music, telling US that besides
tnat power 1t hath to expel many her
diseases, It is remedy against despair and
melancholy, and will drive away the devil
himself" Indeed, music may be said to
form an interesting and important chapter
in the history of medicine of bygone years,
numerous remedies from its effects being
recorded n medical and other works.
NJ. Burette was of opinion that music
has the power of affecting the whole nerv-
Gus system 80 as to give temporary re-
lief in certain diseases" and Jacques Bon
net tells how on one occasion he was
entertained by friend, then in the service
OF the Pr nee of Orange, with the perform
ance of three first rate musicians. This
was the remedy. he informed him, which
his master employed to get rid of melan-
choly whenever Herewith oppressed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

Competition cheapens goods, say the
protectionists. and they are right. But
how can the tariff cheaper goods
since its very purpose is to cut off COM
petition' If it is competition that they
want, they can have that in fullest
measure by inviting it from every ma
ton on earth. The tariff wall shuts out
competition and gives the domestic man.
ufacturers the opportunity to get rid of
it entirely by forming trusts and combi-
nations And they do it
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
The Real Persian sherbet.

The real Persian sherbet seems to be sim
ply glass of cold water with lump of
sugar in it; but it may be favored end
lessly. Thus there are sherbets prepared
with sir1ps of raspberry or pineapple,
with lemon, orange or pomegranate juice.
The water must be always cold, and, If
possible, have blocks of frozen snow float
ing in the cup, but the mixture should
never effervesce. The most expensive of
all sherbets, popular only among the higher
classes. is made from the distilled flowers
of a part cular kind of willow.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

In Pittsburg we have had more fail
ures since the passage of the Mckinley
bill than was ever known in the history
of the city. This undue stimulation Gre
ates undue competition. During the
past three weeks we have had large
glass and an iron failure. Where is all
the milk and honey promised us upon
the passage of the Mckinley bill? We
are anxiously looking for it.-National
Glass Budget Qabor organl
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

The New York Fruit Trade journal
says: George s. Knight, of San Jose,
Cal. got three tons of dried prunes from
l60 trees-about an acre and half-be-
ing profit per acre Of $40" And the
good Major Mckinley doubled the duty
on prunes to protect such successful
growers As Mr.. Knight.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07

The term mother country is used to sig
nifty ones native country, but tue term APP
plies especially to England, in relation to
America and the colonies. The lnhabit-
ants of North America, Australia, ETC.,
are for tie most part descendants OF Eng
lish parents. and therefore England may be
termed the mother country. The Germans
call tbei, native country fatherlaud.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-07
A DGINIsTRAToR's NOTICE.

The I H'sate OF Jennie Gibbs, Deceased.
s,rsIriy ersigned having been appointed admin
ATE 90 VI The estate of Jennie Gibbs,
eiIllino;ssA s county of Rock Island, state
viii ao deceased, hereby gives notice that she
Island p ca before the county court of Rock
eO1rf ol.hly, at the Office of the clerk of said
Der lem n ,Ae city of Rock Island, at the Decem-
a,ESir5 81! On the first Monday in December next,
said e.i. ,,Ie al persons having claims against
iortbe MT are notified and requested TO attend,
Persons ;pI 3se OF having the same adjusted. All
maze rnueoted to said estate are requested to
DsieJ ~ ieGlate payment to the undersigned.
nv Iith day OF October, A. D., 1891.
ANNIt VI. WORKMAN, Administrative,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
FOREIGN,

THE governor of AMMAN, China, re-
ported the decapitation of twenty-five
of the ringleaders in the recent rebel
lion at Eichu.
PRINCE DoLGoRoUKoFF. for many
years governor of Moscow, died in
Paris. He had been dismissed by the
czar and eXiled because of his leniency
to the Jews.
MANY Jews were arriving in Pal
estiue-from 200 to 300 families week
ly. They were entirely destitute, and
the distress among them was said to be
terrible
DIR. SILVA JARDIN, Brazilian jour
nalist, made the ascent of Mount
Vesuvius and while gazing into the
crater suddenly fell TO feet into the
glowing lava.
THE death of Prof. Palkir. the re-
demptorist priest who devoted his life
for the past twenty-eight years to
nursing the lepers of Dutch Guiana,
was reported at Surinam.
RHENIsH Prussia was visited with
terrible cyclone and scores of people
We're killed or injured, and the damage
to property amounted to hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
A wATERsPoUr in the vicinity of
Nlurati Stira, Austria. destroyed several
villages and twelve lives.
DURING target practice on the British
warship Cordelia, in Australian waters,
a gun exploded, killing two lieutenants
and four seamen and wounding thirteen
other persons.
OFF Dover, Eng, the steamer Kin
loch collded with and sunk the steamer
Dunholme, and seventeen of the per-
sons on board the latter We're drowned.
PRINCESS LOUISE, of Schleswig- Hol-
stein, granddaughter of Queen Victoria,
and Prince A bert, of Anhalt, We're
married in Windsor castle at London.
The queen and Emperor William, of
Germany were witnesses of the cere-
mony.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
PERSONAL AND pollrloAl

THE republicans of Iowa held their
convention at Cedar Rapids and nomi-
mated Hiram c. Wheeler for governor,
George Van Houten for lieutenant gov
ernor, s. M. Weaver for supreme Judge,
Henry Sabin for superintendent pub
lie instruction, and Frank 7. Campbell
for railroad commissioner. The plat
form indorses the Mckinley tariff law,
commends reciprocity, favors liberal
pensions to soldiers, indorses the pres
ent silver law, indorses President Har-
rison's administration, declares against
resubmission of the prohibition ques-
ton and favors protection.
DIR WILLIAM MoTTRAM died at Kala-
mazoo, Mich, aged S4 years. He was
the oldest practicing physician in the
state.
JAMES NJ. LOVE, of Keol<ull, Ia, one
of the oldest United States district
Judges, died at his home, aged 72 years.
He was appointed judge by President
Pierce in 1856.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
William e. Simmonds, of Connecticut,
commissioner of patents.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, who was vice
president of the United States from
1850 to 1865, died suddenly at 6:15 p. IN.
on the 4th at Bangor, Me-, of heart dis
ease, aged 50 years. He was United
States senator from 1S47 to 1856. In
January, 1857, he was elected governor
of Maine, and week after his inaugu-
ration he was again chosen senator; in
1860 he became vice president, and in
1869 he again took his seat in the sen
ate and remained until 1881, when he
retired from public life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
LATER.

,EcULAR of advice issued through
official channels of the Farmers Alli-
ance to all members of the farmers Or
ganizations in the United States, urges
them to combine and withhold this
years wheat crop from the market until
the farmers can get their own price, or
at least price considerably above the
average. The circular will be sent TO
the 1000, 600 members of the Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union.
JAMES E. CowAN, postmaster at Dixon,
Wyo., has been arrested, charged with
being 81, 100 short in his money order
accounts.
THE steamer Danube has returned to
Victoria, B. c., with $4,000 sealskins
gathered from the Victoria feet in Ber.
ing sea. She reports that all the vessels
will continue sealing despite the order
in council.
THE first national convention of the
young peoples societies of the different
Baptist churches in the country con-
vened in Chicago on the 7th, over 1000
delegates being present. The object of
the convention is to form permanent
organization of the young people in the
Baptist church throughout the entire
country for the purpose of strengthen
ing church work.
THE employees of the Pottsville (Pa.
Iron and Steel Company, 800 in number,
have gone on strike owing to the refusal
of the pres dent to sign an Amalga-
mated association scale.
A DISPATCH from Rome says that the
villagers on the slope of Mount Vesuvius
are abandoning their homes and vine
yards, fearing that one of the greatest
eruptions in the history of the mountain
is impending.
IMMENSE damage was caused in the
vicinity of Omaha, Neb., on the 18th by
a rain storm. Many railroad bridges
were washed away and growing crops
suffered heavily.
THE sculling race for the champion
ship of the world and 81, ZOO side, be-
tween James Stansbury, champion of
Australia, and James Mclean, also of
Australia, took place on the Parametta
river, N ear Sydney, N. S. W., on the 7th.
The race was won by Stansbury.
The schooner Silver Cloud, of Mil
waukee, lumber laden, was caught in a
storm on Lake Michigan on the 18th and
capsiaed. Capt. Johnson, his wife and
child were drowned. The crew were
rescued by tug.
GENERAL SECRETARY TREASURER
HAYES, of Philadelphia, S notified
District ~ that the next Sc ssion of the
general assembly of the Knights of La
Dor will be held in Toledo, o., begin
ming Tuesday, November 10.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
Death of an ola Lake Captain.

CHICAGO, July Capt. Ira Ii. Owen,
one of the pioneer vessel owners of
Chicago died Thursday morning at his
residence in Oak Park. Capt Owen
was sailor from his youth and sue
cessful business man. He established
the Escanaba 81 Lake Michigan Trans
portation Company, the Owen steam-'
ship line, the Delta Transports
tion Company and the Escanaba
Towing and Wrecking Company. In
his business the captain had
amassed large fortune, which will be
inherited by his invalid wife and two
sons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
WOMEN who wear trailing @

WOMEN who wear trailing gowns on
the street and then brush them in their
houses, may be interested to know that
recent Investigations prove that the
dust and the mud of pavements are lit
orally alive with bacilli, these bacilli
being of the most dangerous character
and representing some of the most
loathsome diseases possible. When it
is told that large proportion of these
are disfiguring diseases of the skin, our
fair sisters may desert the train for the
sake of saving the more precious COM
plexion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

HOWEVER Bishop Wilberforce may
have stood on the labor question he
once came near going ON strike him
self, and by threat of so doing he car
ried point Entering crowded
church in which he was to preach one
day, he escorted inside lady whom he
met at the door, but who complained
that there was no room. To his order
to the beadle to find her seat that
functionary replied that it was impossi-
BILE. Thereupon the bishop declared:
"oh, if you don't, 1 won't preach" A
luxurious empty pew was quickly dis
covered
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11
SWEPT BY FIRE.
Flames Play Havoc with Grain, Feed and
Timber Land In California.

MILTON, Cal, July 3.-During the
last ten days over 10000 acres of grain,
feed and timber land have been burned
within 10 miles of this place. A large
fire has been raging east of here since
Tuesday, burning everything from Elk
horn station south toward Copperopolis.
So far it has been impossible to check
the flames. No opinion can be formed
as 10 the damage likely to be caused by
the fire. The heat for few days past
has exceeded that of any former years
The mercury Thursday reached l12.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

The good people of Hartford, Ct,
have just had their eyes opened to
very disagreeable state of facts. For
some time past the city, which has
population of over 81, 900, has been MAX
ing regular appropriations for outdoor
aims. This year the appropriation was
$25, 600, which, of course, did not in
clude the expenditures of charitable i'm,
stitutions. The result has been the
steady growth of pauperism of an un-
deserving and unwelcome kind. A re-
port made to a public meeting held a
few days ago showed that about fifty
per cent. of those who had been receiy-
ing aid were not entitled to it
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

THE United States of Colombia will
send an exhibition to the worlds fair
such as would do credit to country of
twice its population and wealth. There
seems to be a strong and growing con-
tinental spirit, and the exhibits of the
Latin Republics are certain to be among
the most interesting at the fair.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

DIR. CHARLES EASTMAN, the Sioux In
dian to whom Elaine Goodale was re-
Gently married, was good deal of an
athlete while at Dartmouth. His prac-
tice sometimes disturbed students un-
derneath and near his room. On one
occasion some eighty sufferers paid him
visit to throw him out of the window.
The civilized Sioux met them with a
revolver and dumb-bell 1t is unnec-
essary to say that he was not thrown
n,rf
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

IT has long been custom of the
Bayard family to bury with their dead
sprigs of ivy plucked from the old
church in Wilmington. The vine was
originally planted by the ex-secretary's
great grandmother. A spray has been
obtained to go abroad with the remains
of Count Lowenhaupt. His widow and
her brother, Thomas Bayard, jr., ac-
company the remains to Stockholm,
where the burial will take place.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

THE state land commissioners of Wis
consin report that millions upon mill
ions of feet of pine timber have been
cut by various individuals off public
lands, with no authority whatever,
1000, 900 feet having been stolen from a
single township within the past two
years This has been going on for
years, and the loss to the state is enorm-
OuS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

THERE will soon leave the port of
Boston feet of three steamships laden
with American products and manufact.
ures. 1t is to be called the American
armada, and its object is to introduce
American manufactures into South
America. Unlike the Spanish armada
of old it does not aim at conquest, ex'
cept the peaceful conquest of markets
and trade
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

THERE is an indication that many
American tourists broad will give Italy
the go-by this summer for obvious rea-
sons. Already the sbop-keepers in Rome
are beginning to bewail the loss of trade
by American travel diverting to other
countries. Italy doesn't want to lose
the friendship of the United States, for
she can already see what might be the
result
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

DIR. Won DoLcKE, well-known Ice
lander, of Detroit, has devised scheme
for transporting the entire population
of Iceland to Alaska, and there estab-
fishing a colony under the government
of the United States. He has gone to
Iceland to promote the enterprise,
which is said to have the approval of
our government
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-11

THERE is no let-up in the talk about
the big crops in the west On the con-
trary, the beginning of the harvesting
season finds the farmers in more
cheerful and confident frame of mind
than ever. 1t is good sign to find the
farmers happy.