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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
State Banks.

The talk about wild cat money" is
all folderol. This country never takes
any steps backward. Soft-headed peo-
pie who believe that the Democracy
would reinstate slavery and paNpff the
Confederate war debt, if again in poses
sion of the reins of government, may be
persuaded to believe in the wild cat
money" scare. Sensible people know
that our national bank currency is
based on our Indebtedness and is safe.
Likewise state banks in the south,
where there is a demand for a greater
circulating medium than now exists.
the new currency in all probability
would be issued on deposits of state
bonds in the treasury as collateral secur-
itv, the same as government bonds are
now placed in the national treasury as
collateral security for the money issued
to national banks.
The south was run in debt many mil
lions of dollars during the interval of
carpet bag rule and the bonds issued
will furnish stable collateral for their
banks of issue for the next hall century.
Whitehall Register.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

HARPERs Weekly very truly says that
the wildcat" outcry of the republican
organs and spellbinders is absurd. first.
because modern conditions IN Ike wildcat
currency impossible; and second, because
Congre ssman Hsr.er, author of the mea-
sure to repeal the tax on state bank cir =
culation, is one of the soundess of the
sound money men in public life" Hsr-
rer's Weekly might have added that Mr..
Clevelanjs character and record are the
best possible guarantee, il any is needed
of a sound currency system while he is
president of the UBited States
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

The sacred games of Olympia were IN
stituted nearly seven centuries before
Christ and au oath. con firmed by sacrifice,
was imposed on the athletes before they
entered the lists, binding them to play fair
and take no fraudulent advantage over
the other competitors
reference to these national festivals OF
ancient Greece calls to mind their extraor
binary duration There is no modern par
allel to them in that respect. We reckon
our derby, our university boat race, our
Elton and Harrow cricket match to be ven
cradle institutions, but they are very
ephemerel observances, in sooth, COM
pared with, say, the Isthmian games,
which, founded about B. c. $50, still con-
stituted three centuries and half later a
sufficiently important anniversary for Fla
minus to select it as the occasion for pro-
claiming the liberty of Greece in B. G. 1876,
and two centuries and a half later still for
Nero to repeat the proclamation in \. d.
90. Such permanence puts to shame the
life of dynasty, and there is certainly no
important event in our sporting world
which derives its origin from the year 1900.
But there is another remarkable feature
about these gatherings-namely, the I'M
changing character of the performance en-
acted at them. Assuming the era of Homer
to have been five centuries earlier than the
inauguration of the Isthmian games-that
is, about b. c. 1000-the sports which he
enumerates as taking place at the funeral
of Patroclus were identical not only with
those of the Olympian, Nemean and 18th
milan celebrations, but strangely similar to
a programme of the present day. Chariot
and foot races, boxing, wrestling and put
ting the stone are counterparts of competi-
tive exercises of the Nineteenth century,
Blackwood's Magazine.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

WARREN County Democrat: Or special
interest to the people OF this district is the
selection of a congressman aud the demo
indicates, is worthy of every vote in the
district. People are tired and worn out
with voting for a chronic office seeker
like Marsh and are glad to have an OPP
portunity to Cas-. their ballots for this
worthy young man, Truman Plantz.
Elect him and forever dispose of this
old chronic Office seeker who has been q
political nuisance since before the war.
Vote for Plantz.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
Gen. RAGS stand for Cleveland.

The following letter has been received
by Joseph w. KAY, of New York. from
Judge John P Rae, formerly comm an
der of the Grand Army OF the Republic
My DEAR SIR AND COMRADE In an
swer To your favor of the 9Th inst. would
say that l distinctly remember meeting
you at the Ebbtt house In Washington
At the time to which you refer, aud OF
speaking with you of my most sa,isfac-
tory interview with President Cleveland
on the subject OF pensions Your state
ment of what l said is substantially cor
rect 1 well remember that the inter
view with President Cleveland concIu-
sively convinced me that he was not AN
enemy, but friend of the Union soldier.
He listened with great interest to my
views ON the subject OF pensions and
when / was done, said: "What you say
the soldiers want is in accord with
my views and is right" / stated to you
and to many others at the time that
] had never talked with anyone on the
subject of pensions whose views CORES
pond more nearly with my own. He was
earnest. full of sympathy. and in that. as
in everything eise, absolutely homes, n
fidelity to his CONVICTIONS [ i,s Bev
at any time since. when occasion offered.
failed to express my opinion of him in
this regard or to defend him from the
charge of being an enemy of the Union
soldier / have felt keenly the injustice
of that charge, and have felt Inundated
by the fact that any intelligent soldier
should believe it. There is no issue in
this campaign on the subject OF pensions
No one can consistently ask more liberal
legislation than we already have. Never
theless I take pleasure in writing on
this letter in the interest of truth. and To
yindicate an honest man from a most
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
Pearl Buttons in Prison.

In his letter of acceptance President
Harrison spoke with peculiar kindness
IF the pearl button industry. which had
been wrested from pauper hands abroad
and put in the way of employing hun
1reds of American laborers at American
rates of wages. Within week after
his letter appeared the pearl button fac
;ory in Chicago Suspended because, as
The chief owner said in his application
for a receiver, the business could not be
made TO pay in this country. But the
Republicans have found a way to make
t pay. They are making pearl buttons
with convict labor in the state prison at
Chester. Right there, under the hands
Of sixty men convicted of crime is the
only flourishing pearl button factory in
America to-day. Is that what Presi-
1ent Harrison meant when he congratu-
lated the country on the transplant
ing" of a foreign industry? How is
American labor or the American nation
protited by rejecting the Austrian pearl
buttons and paying three times their
price for the crime-stained product of
American prisons?-Lincoln Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
4 Comparison.

Secretary OF State Pearson's friends are
trying to make capital for him among
the workingmen by citing his action in
paying union rates to men working for
the state under his directions and re-
quiring them to WORK only eight hours a
day. This is state law and he dare not
do otherwise. He has never employed
union men or paid union rates where
the money came from his own pocket.
On the other hand, his opponent w.
II. Hinrichscn, has always employed
union labor and paid union rates. While
the proprietor o. the Quincy Herald he
voluntarily paid wages higher than the
union scale and employed nothing but
union men. and he made no fuss about
ii either
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
Colonel Galloway on the Eayonet.

1.-THE most ridiculous weapon known to
modern warfare is the bayonet," said Colo
mel Michael Galloway. civilians seem
to suppose that the bayonet plays an i'm
portant part in all battles-that the tide is
invariably turned by this romantic, hump
shouldered frog sticker. Now as a matter
of fact you could bury in ten acre lot all
the men who have been killed with the
bayonet during the past century, and the
graves would not be crowded either. The
bayonet is supposed to transform a regi-
ment of musketeers into a Macedonian
phalanx for close fighting, but it doesn't.
1t supplies the place of neither the spear of
Greece nor the short sword of Rome. 1t is
a hybrid weapon, fit only to prod camp loi-
terers with.
"a regiment will come sweeping up to
breastwork with fixed bayonets, but once
inside the men turn the butts of their guns
or go for their side arms. They realize
that the bayonet is but dress parade
weapon. In our modern battles the an
tagonists seldom come into actual contest
Battles are now fought with bullets in
stead of bayonets. and the latter, always a
clumsy affair of doubtful utility, has be-
come an altogether worthless incum-
brance. st. Louis Globe-Democrat
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
BEWARE.
they Are Un-American i'm Every Particu-

They Are Un-American i'm Every Particu-
Democrats in Illinois should be careful
about joining any of the so-cailed Amer
can societies, no matter under what
name they may masquerade. Whether
ihey call themselves the American Pro-
:ective association. the Patriotic Sons
Of America, the Junior Order of Ameri-
Fan Mechanics. the Ancient Order of
Deputies. They are lsnOwnothing socie-
lies outright and are sIIeShows of tn
Republican party. While the Republi-
IAN candidates are begging for the votes
Of foreign born citizens and the votes of
he sons of the foreign born they are
nearly all members of these societies
whose creed is that no one but native
born shall hold an Office or vote at an
election. Their emisaIieS. some of them
drawing pay as state employees, are out
among the people attempting to organ
re these societies, HE their offices in
.he state house are made the depots of
distribution for knownothing documents
They place the negro above the foreign
BORN as a citizen simply because they can
Use he of the black skin. In every
county OF the state the paid emisaries of
tifer. Ray. Pearson and the other Re
publican candidates are attempting to
Draw Democrats into these orders. who,
when they find themselves members,
earn that they have been led into a
scheme to aid the Republican party.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
The Gar at Home.

The car as a family man is an example
for other European monarchs. He passes
his evenings with his family and often
reads to his wife while she EN- broiders. His
love for his wife is very great, though not
perhaps so great as in former years when
at a court reception in Paris in 1867 he met
Eugene, and on being asked who was the
most beautiful woman present turned his
back on the queenly empress and pointed
to his own wife.-Exchange
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
a Valuable z medY.

Hon. Edmund l. Plus. tn late presi-
deu' OF the New York State senate,
writes:
State % New York. Senate Chamber.
Alnnr, Merch Il. $50 i have used
A'lrCcks Por' us Pss1ers in my family
for 'hr p st FIVE Yeas. and can truth-
fnilv s'y tnry sre = v4lcab'e reme"y and
Eff Yfeat cures. would not be with
GU In' IN ] hive in several instances
Civ n some "a friends suffer ng with ives k
M 'sue h Cks and hey have iuvaris
hly lilo d d cert IL md speedy relief
%. "-nDnr ne '"n hirhlv commended "
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
Siam csc Tobacco.

The best tobacco in Siam is grown at
Petchabun. 1t is planted in open fields
near the town after the floods in Septem-
Der or October, and the first crop or tips,
which is considered the best quality, is
gathered about February and the last
about the beginning of May. The very
best quality cannot be purchased, as it is
reserved for the special use of the king and
sent down 10 Bangkok, where it is smoked
in the palace and distributed to the chief
officers OF Ntate.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

The great mountain ranges that extend
along the Pacific side of the continent from
Alaska to Chilli, and which contain many
volcanoes and earthquake centers, suggest
a ready line of communication for such dis
turbances of the rocky shell of our planet.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for Peter Frey for circuit clerk
and save the taxpayers the burden which
the incompetency OF the present incum-
bent imposes upon them.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for Plantz, Hunter and Black
and you cast a vote each for three demo-
cratic members of the next congress.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE three for Mulligsn and sit dowr
on the bolter. George W. Vinton.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

THE republican national ticket should
have been Carnegie and Reid. Really
that is its equvale
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for Howard for coroner and John
son for surveyor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for McEniry and elect mar
who is in every way worldly of the office
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE the democratic ticket from top to
bottom. 1t is the winner this year.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for Plsntz and lift up the labor
ing man and put down the chronic aristo
GRAFT
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
WEDNESDAY. NOV. 10th.

Returning eUeFy month 10 remain ftrO ddyS during
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He will give $50 FOR any case thst h" can not
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this year to remain two days.
Treats all urdbie Medical and Surge diseases,
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Epilepsy Fits cured positive guarantee
YOUNG AND MIDDIE-AGED MEN
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the result of self-abuse youth or excess in ma
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BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES.
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Speedily cured by reatmen mt that has IA ed
He undertakes no fncurable cases, but cures
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II Cases and CORES pontcnce confident and
treatment sent by express wit b full dir rs for
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HbR. -. -. TRUTH
$500 Lake Ave chicago.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

A VOTE for Harrison is a vote for Car
negie.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VOTE for Cleveland and Stevenson.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1892
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICK f.

For President....... GROVER CLEVELAND
For Vice President. .ADLAI f. STEVENSON
STATE.
For Cong ressman at large ANDREW j. HUNTER
For Lieutenant Governor.....-- JOSEPH GILL
For Secretary of state. WIN II HiNRICHH EN-
Ut <huuitpTs' ia ' III u .Nt
or Treasurer. RUFUS y. RAMSEY
For Attorney General. Nh II. MALONEI
For Elector, 1lih ID st............ j Ii HANLEY
For Cong ess, 18th list. .TRUM PLANTZ
Eor Member Board of Equalizat on,
ii. X BARTLESON
For Representative, Twenty-frst Dist.
JOSEPH Ii, MULLIGAN
COUNTY.
For Circuit Clerk. .-.-....... PETER FREY
For Coroner. ........... WISSIOW HOWARD
For Surveyor. PETER j. JOHNSON
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05

VoTE for Altgeld and Gill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-05
DR.. q. @. FPUTH,

Late Surgeon in the Provfdc1t &c5ical Dispen-
sary Of sew y ork.
Who has created such n sensation n and around
Oh Cago by CuriI isCnscs that almosl hafllCd the
med ical fra crnity OF tn" COun ~.
DR. FrU'F Il President OF The FrDth Medical
Co, and mcmbc OF the l. ternar onal Associa ion
of Expert Specials :. He will visit
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
A Good Combination.

It is rumored that Col. c. W. Johnstone will b candidate be- fore the republica county conven- ton for the nomination of county recorder.-Phenix Herald. If a re- publican is to be chosen for recor- dor of Maricopa county there is no more worthy citizen for the trust than Col. Johnstone. He has been a most indefatigable worker for the county. He is eminently qualified for the place and would serve the county with honor to himself and the people.-Star. It was never doubted for moment that Colonel Johnstone would receive the en- dorsement of the democratic papers for any position he might desire. His services to the party as editor of the Gazette entities him to rec ognition from the dem ,cratic party. If John O. Dunbar, the present alleged republican editor of the Gazette, could only persuade the re- publicans of Maricopa county to run him, as candidate for treasurer. the ticket would be complete. Dun4 bars experience as treasurer of Go chise county might be used to ad- vantage as treasurer of Maricopa county in case of his election.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
POLITICAL POINTERS.

A book of Cleveland's speeches has been issued as a campaign doe ument. The New York Mail and express says: "They are having a large sale. chiefly to hospitals. Nor phine is by no means the only sop orific."
 First Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Adlai Stevenson, in the first three years of Cleveland's adminis- tration, decapitated 55,373 postmas- ters, or s2 per cent. of the whole number. It is we'll that Andrew Jackson could not witness the gilt ter and hear the swish of the Ste venson machine. Civil service re- form would have made him weep Cincinnati Times Star.
 Already the democratic organs of the north are playing the bunco game on the southern democrats by telling them that Cleveland will carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other republican states. And the southern democrats, innocent fellows that they are, put up their good money, get their little box of green goods" and tote it away never dreaming that the confidence men are standing around the corner laughing at them.-New York Press,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
Do Lying wi.a..... Away. Y.wnY

Do Lying Witnesses Always Yswn?
 A few evenings ago half a dozen men were sitting out in front of the Capital hotel discussing various top ics when Judge Yost, of the superior court, in telling an anecdote of a trial, remarked that the witness yawned and he knew he was lying.
 How did you knowi" was asked
 "Well, sir, l have seen witnesses lie and not yawn, but l never knew one to yawn that he was not telling a lie."
 Judge Sims, the member of the legislature from Trigg, remarked. ''Yes. always know a witness is lying when he yawns.
 Senator Dave Smith said, Tt is al most invariably the case"
 Judge Wall, the senator from Ma son, came up and corroborated the statements of the others, and just then Judge Brent of the superior court, joined the group. Yes" he chimed in, when a witness yawns he is telling lie, and he knows it"
 Several other lawyers were ap- pealed to, and all bore out the state ments made. None, however, could explain the phenomenon. Judge Yost was the only one who had theory, and that was that when q fellow was swearing to lie he could not face the music and his embarrassment found expression in yawns.-Louis. vile Oourier-Journal.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
Done on Roth Sides.

A Malta correspondent sends us the following: On Good Friday this place is alive with processions, and the native is on his best behavior and full of religious zeal. An Eng fish visitor was walking quietly among the "Strada Reale" when a procession came along. and he stopped to inspect 1t.
 He refused to salute the image of the Virgin Mary as she was borne along, whereupon he was promptly bonneted, and retreated down the street Later on in the day he was going to the club in a very nice new bowler, and seeing a procession com ing along he decided to pay due re- spect at the shrine and promptly removed his hat, when there arose a howl, and he was chased down sey. erl streets and escaped in a boat The unfortunate man had saluted Pontius Pilate, whom they were go- ing to burn in efiigy.-St. James Ga zette.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
Ohieetionahle Devices.

Some of the devices employed by the lighthouse board are regarded by residents on shore as extremely objectionable. Worst of all are the steam sirens" which are truly a diabolical invention from any other point of view than that of utility. They utter a series of unearthiy whoops, which ascend the scale note by note until the unwilling listener feels as if, in case they should go a few notes higher, he would be- come suddenly insane. Nearly as bad are the ''whistling buoys," the establishment of one of which near any inhabited spot Is sure to excite most frantic protests from dwellers in the neighborhood. .-washington Star.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
General s,.ren.on.. Military Career.

The Rev. G. c. Snedeker, well known Methodist preacher who lives at Abingdon, Ill, says:
 In 1864 myself and Stevenson, with others, were drafted. MT. Stevenson hired man to go to the front ir his place, and there was also one sent in my place. I see that MT. Stevenson says that he was in the army for thirteen days. Well, 1 think I can explain that record. When the draft was made Stevenson was appointed by the disloyal peo- pie to go to Springfield to see that the drawing was fairly done; he made some objections to the manner in which the drawing was done, when the officer said to him to get upon the box and be blind-folded and see if he could do any better. Stevenson mounted the box and, so the story was told, the first two names he pulled out of the box were my own and his. He was then sat isfied and let the drawing go on. At that time he spent some ten or fifteen days at Springfield, and that was the nearest he ever was to the war.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-07-27
The Fate ofsRss.

In the neighborhood of Burley the other day gentleman, looking over a wall, saw a dead hen in the field. Presently rat ran up, sniffed at the defunct fowl with much satisfaction and went away in some haste. The onlooker, who Is a student of natural history, knew what that meant, and removed the hen from the spot. In 6 minute or two the rat came back with half a dozen friends, with the evident intention of removing the carcass for future use.
 Arrived at the spot where the fowl had lain, the rat raised a loud squeak of astonishment at its absence. In a trice the other rats fell upon him so savagely that they left him dead on the field, as warning not to play practical jokes with his friends Leeds Post