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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-26
FOLLY AS TO FIFER.

Tha Unions Continued Efforts at Defense
of the Republican Management of Re-
formatory Institutions.
In its issue Of this morning the Union
devotes q column and half to further
effort at defense Of Gov. Fifer and his
penitentiary clique, in view Of the unan-
swered--or rather confessed charges
made by Judge Altgeld as to the pecul-
lar manner in which our state institutions
are conducted. The fact that the gov
ernor is to be in Rock Island next week
has aroused the morning organ to psr>
ticular vigilence in the matter of at
tempting at least, to make
respectable defense of
the republican ring rule Of our state in
stitu,ions owing to the light thrown upon
them by Judge Altgeld. But it will take
more than the explanations the governor
has made so far TO satisfy the public
mind in illinois that the state institutions
are being conducted as they should be.
The morning paper merely quotes line af-
ter line from the governors so-cslled de-
erly stated in his speech in Rock Island.
is evasive of the point at issue. and
while it enters in some measure into q de.
NAL it does not present fact of counterfeit
ing force in the face Of one of Judge Alt-
geld's grave charges. Instead it goes into
q TRADE OF personal abuse Of Judge Alt
geld because he dared to make public ex-
posures of the way institutions which are
supported by the peoples money are con-
Quoted, and more than all that. to do it in
an irrefutable, undeniable straightout
manner that demands q straightout ex-
PLANTATION, which Gov. Fifer and his clan.
unfortunately. are not capable of making.
This is an aggressive campaign in Hi
noise, fearless and pointed on the part OF
the party headed by Judge Altgeld and
an anything the ground
policy on the part of Fifer and his re-
naming followers. Tho latter will be
kept explaining until election day-and
then will find that after all. their explana>
lions didn't go.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-26
Western Investments

Orchard State bank. of Orchard, Me-
braska, mekes investments in real estate
securities; per cent interest net to in
vestors. No loans made except upon
the personal inspection Of the officers
E. W.Dart. president; j 8. Dart. cashier
Mitchell & Lynde. bank
ers; j. F Robinson, cashier Rock leland
National bank; . G. Carter, NJ. D.
Henry Dart's Sons. wholesale grocers.
Correspondence solicited.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-26
The black Hawk Inn.

The Black Hawk Inn will cater to the
orderly class of citizens Questionable
characters are not permitted on the
grounds, and an Q icer will be in attend
ance to enforce this rule. Dishes, cut
lery and tableware for rent, and coffee,
cream. sugar. hot water. etc, for sale to
picnic parties. j. E MoNTROsE
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-26

Boys, here is a chance to earn suit of
clothes easily. Let every enterprsing boy strive
for the prize.
NOTICE TO CONTESTANTS-Subsc for
this will only be counted when handed
of the above blanks. None will be printed except
those appearing in THE DAILY ARGUS. If the paper
received at your home does furnish enough blanks
orders, your neghbor will undoubtedly allow you to
clip this essential matter from his
Who will be the first send in name2
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-26
CaStOria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren Mothers have repeatedly told ms OF its
good effect upon their children"
d. G. G. Osooop,
IoWoll Nass
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
How An Indian Doctor Works.

In a recent address, read by Dr.. susan
Fiescne, an Indian graduACe Of the
Hampton School for Indians, in Hamo-
ton, Va, she interestingly describes
some odd phases OF professional life
among the members Of ner tribe. She
said:
"The practice Of medicine among the
Indians is very different from that among
the whites. The Omaha reservation IS
thirty miles long and fifteen miles
broad. Ny practice covers that extent
Of country. The roads are very bad and
the Indians are scattered all over the
reservation. / found should have to
do a great deal of travelling, so l bought
horse, keeping it in the Government
stables.
81 had received the appointment from
the Government of physician to the
Government Boarding School at the
agency. | began to work at the school,
not supposing should have much work
outside 1t IN the tribe. There was
another physician there. But | found
that had most of his practice in three
months time, for | understood their
language and they felt l was one OF
them, so had the advantage. After he
left | had all the tribe on my hands
diseases among the Indians are diff
ferent IN some ways from what they are
among whites. They are very apt to
run into epidemios. For instance, one
person will have sore eyes, and almost
Immediately every woman and child in
the tribe will have the same trouble.
Last fall a number had it, but | told
them how to use separte basins and
towels, and many were saved from it.
Then almost every one had winter colds,
and then in December, January and
February came the grippe. l was out
every day through three months in all
weathers. One Indian man came to me
and said: we are very grateful to YOU
for coming to see us when we are sick.
but we wish you wouldn't 90 out in
stormy weather. 1t will be too much
for you told him had to, for that
was my duty, and he sand no more "
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
PETTY ANNOYANCES.

HAVING Il squalling baby in the samo
car.
HAVING the ferry boat push out just as
you get in sight.
HAVING . beastly drunken individual
in the seat in front of you.
HAVING to pay 10 cents for the morn
ing paper that at home costs you 2.
HAVING your washerwoman fail to
send you your clothes in time to leave
HAVING some one get into tho
sleeping-car berth above you just as you
bave reured.
EAV1NG he brakeman bawl out tho
stations and not be able to distinguish
a word ne says.
HAVING the hotel walters limiting a.
every meal that they expect you to give
them something.
HAVING the conductor inform you
just after you have started that you ara
on the wrong train.
HAVING somebody in front keeping
the car window up when the dust and
cinders are flying in.
HAVING to wait in the corridor until
the elevator goes two floors above you
and comes down again.
HAVING your bag gage 90 astray just
when you wanted your best clothes 10
make good impression.
HAVING a street car pokng along al
funeral gait when you have only ten
minutes 10 catch the train.
HAVING the Pullman conductor wake
you up and ask YOU .or ticket JUS .
after you have fallen into u sound
snOOZe
HAVING ihe car porter, as you arc
about to leave after he has brushed tho
dust off, ask if you have not forgotten
something"
HAviNo forty Jehus poke their whips
under your nose when you arrive at
your destination, each wanting TO take
you 10 your hotel.
HAVING packages of lozenges and
copies Of The Red Demon Of the Wild
West" thrown into your lap every five
minutes uu fle twin
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
AUSTRALIA CROANING
Under Tremendous Public Debt Anu W
InsIgnifcant Rural Population

Tremendous Public Debt and an
magnificent Rural Population.
According to dispatches from Aus
+ralia that island continent IS "a
had way. In Sydney and Melbourne,
the two principal cities, thousands %
starving men are housed or kept WORK
inc at public expense. The dlsease
from which the country is suffering 10
collapsed boom. To be vulgar, Aus
+ralia has bitten off more than she can
chew At the close Of 1888 the AUS
tralian oo,onies had borrowed, IN me
form of public debts, 1891, oIo'OOu'
sin 600 coo of this being spent on
II 600 miles of railroads. The deotS
borrowed on the security OF borouSu9'
nublic institutions, and private prop
er+v have amounted TO S2oO,0Oo,ooV'
Even five wears ago there were sixteen
AngIo-Australian mortgages quoteu Oh
the London Stock Exchange, ana iUr
the most part, owned in England, VIII
a capital Of $50 ,0G0, 900. Since theh
great increase has been made In the9e
Companies. The past three years nave
seen additional public and private aepIS
incurred. which make an aggregate ol
at Least 81 250. COZ 900. This has beeh
Iayishlv spent on railroads and pupllc
works. and it has built up group OIL
colonies whose population IN Decem-
her 1880. amounted to 3, $50, 900. ms
nonulation is now over 4,O00,00H, OF
about the population of this country
century ago. when it found itself I'M
able TO bear debt a fifth as large as
that of Australia.
Railroads and modern commerce
have. however, created population
altogether different from the scattered
rural communities in this country a
century ago, not onetw ntleth OF
whom were gathered in cities. Han
the population of some of the Aus
traIian States are in cities. A great
trading. railroad. and house building
population has grown up, but not .
great agricultural population. In 1907
the total land under cultivation was
s.G26. 600 acres. and while this was an
advance OF IS per cent. over the lane
cultivated in 1877, this area was barely
3 per cent. of the land under cultivation
In this country in 1880, though the Aus
tralian population was 7 per cent. O
ours. On the other hand, the Austria
Han colonies had in the 1G0, 1913 ,o0'
sheep in j. S7 perhaps the most valuable
single article OF property ever contain
ed in a country of small population
THIS was one-sixth the sheep in the civ
iIized world and produced iii value near
" one-third the worlds wool, while
/ this flock doubled every twelve years
The product Of these sheep, Joined t
grain and the pre- ious metals, CAV
Australia in 1880 exports amounting t.
S303, SIG, coo, and Australian import
amounted to S331 100. 900, or one-fifth a
large MS those OF the United States
with Jess than one-siXteenth Of GU
population.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
CURIOUS FACTS.
"a n.ares the hottest FIRE.

Coke makes the hottest nv
Nutmeos are very strong narcotics.
The Giraffe will soon be extinct IN
Africa.
In ancient Rome there were buildings:
of from four to seven stories in neignt'
The St. Louis Chief of Police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city TO De
photographed.
One child in every five in the northern
half of the United States dies before IL
has lived year.
A Lock Haven PENN horse has
black coat in winter, but in summer ne
becomes a beautiful roam.
The first suspension bridges ever built
we're made in China 1000 years ago,
being constructed of iron chains.
Guipeas were SO named from the fact
that thew were first coined with gold
brought from the coast of Guinea.
The average ministerial salary IN the
United States is 800. DR.. Morgan
Dix, of Trinity, gets $25, 900, and Dr.
Talmage $4,000.
A Newburg IN. " young lady, Miss
Isabel Campbell, has been kllled rom
having swallowed a single bird shot
while eating game.
A French boy has broken two black
cats to harness. He drives his pets IN
single as well as double harness up and
down the street every day.
Philalelphia's great City Hall is to
have number Of magnificent aluminium
plated columns, twenty feet high and
weighing six tons each.
Madison, Ga, has queer dog that
has complete figure Of the moon and
seven stars on one side Of his head. The
effect is produced by the different col
orino of the hair, in black and white.
The elevation of Denver, COL, being
1870 feet-over one mile-above sea
level, makes the atmosphere rare, dry
and clear, there being on an average less
than six days each year without sun
| shine.
During a review of several regiments
in France, whittier he was sent, Hugo
| Grotius, one OF the famous men OF the
seventeenth century, retained IN his
mind the names OF all the soldiers that
were named and passed before hlm.
Ventura County, California, has pro-
duce1a wonderful Mission grapevine. 1t
has grown from cutting planted two
wears ago last spring, and the trunk IS
now nine and half inches III circum-
ference and forty-two feet in length. By
actual count it has 450 clusters OF
grapes, and covers an area Of AS square
feet.
Mica is widely difused and plentiful
mineral, entering largely into tue com
position of granite, micl-slate and some
other rocks, veins and assures OF which
it also often fills up. The largest aud
best specimens of MICA are found in Nor
way, Sweden, Siberia, Peru and Mexico,
large plates of it, often yard in dl-
ameter, being found in those countries.
salI9. wG4Rditplr uitbi eer9o o. Wt6d,
iron aud plaster. The time Of its cree
ton and t4e name of its designer are in
dispute, but it is known to nave been
dedicated TO Hachiman, the god OF war.
In height it measures tlty-tour feet, the
head alone, which is reached by a Wind
ing stairway IN the interior Of tne figure,
being capable of holding twenty per
| sons.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

There is a curious group OF nc f t'da
near Milan which form the olC,de,
n ncribed Natures City" An Irregular
r nao9 h a citadel. Below are five
[ 6enressions. Of which oneis agisantic
ampbitheatre, the second anec cth >
a third the parade, and the 1ourIn it, d
regularly laid out city quarters, WIN a
nnbiic monuments, gates. streets e aoo
The whole of this city covers -oo
eros -nmo and If is surrounded by a ma
+nral wall 800 feet high
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
Salt Fish 10000 Years on.

Perfectly preserved salt fish, probably
10000 years old, are found in Nevada,
Utah and Arizona, where salt strata are
often struck in making excavations a
hundred yards beneath the surface.
These fish resemble the pike and pickerel,
and are wholly unlike the living fish
found in the same region. New Orleans
PicaYune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best to render 1t
nromptly. but one should remember to use
even the most perfect remedies only when
needed. The best and most simple ana gentle
remedy is the Syrup of Figs manufactured by
the California Fig Syrup Co.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN YOU FIND THE woRD2

These is a 8 inch display adver isement In
this paper, this week. which has no two words
ali }, except one word The same is true no, Of
each new one app airing each week, from Inc
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a
Crescent on everything they make and pub
lsh. Look for it, send them the name of The
word and they will return you BOOK, BEAUTi-
sUL AUTOGRAPHS or SAMPLES FREE.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

AT the better class OF Partisan cafes.
writing paper, envelopes, pens, ink, etc.
are furnished to the guests free; in hotels
Of the same city the guests have to pay
for them.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

MALARIA cured and eradicated from rom the
gvstem by Browns Iron Bitters, %1lc di, u
ZION Acts like a charm on persons IN genera
III health, giving new energy and Strength
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Browns Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Ma
laria, Biliousness and Genera Debi lty. GlVes
create. appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Coningsby Ralph Disraeli. the nephew ny+o oi
BENJAMIN Disraeii. who has just been elected
to the English parliament, is only twenty
five years of age.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

The hypophosphites of
lime and soda combined with
cod-liver oil in SCOTS Emul-
sion improve the appetite,
promote digestion, and in
crease the weight.
They are thought by some
to be food; but this is not
proved. They are tones;
this is admitted by all.
Cod-liver oil is mainly
food, but also a tonic.
In SCOTS Emulsion the
cod-liver oil and hypophos-
phites are so combined as to
get the full advantage OF both,
Let us send you a book on
CAREFUL LIVING; free.
sco1-r & BOVINE, Chemists, 1872 South s'h Avenue,
New York.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Ex- Governor Berry of Bristol, n, H, has
observed his ninety-sixth birthday IN goou
health
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Sir Andrew Clark started the title of
"Grand Old Woman for Mrs. Gladstone,
and it is going the rounds of the British
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

T. A. johnson, Medina, y. y, says: Halls
Catarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by Druggists
15c.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Ifaflfcted with sore eyes use Dr, lsaac Fhomp'
sons Eye water. Druggists sell at 25c bottle
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

August Stringberg, the Swedish author, Is
famous for his hatred of women.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

LIFE is a battle field on which We fight for
fame" To preserve health IN TINS Hghe use
Beecham's Pills. % cents a box
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
ro,,paiIroads Ovcrlo ok ed.

I'D At ran f1 1sS pipelines, nine miles from
JAY f. Dwgss 4 Co. when they iald 9 houses 5as
town of Griffith. -Four factories 6ics@o News
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Bv the death of Elk Governor Myron III n,
Clark Hamilton Fish is now ielI tne s1,e
survivor of these distinguished I men WI VIZ
have held the governorship OF Ne" LII
nrior to 1879
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

IN Gods army the man who wants
his meals regular must stay at the
'front.'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
August
Flower"

81 am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satisfactoryresults. Forseveralyears
she has been a great sufferer, has
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in.
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for it" L, c. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. o
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

sco1-r & BOWIE, Chemists, 1872 South sth Avenue,
New York.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13

Hoods Pills cure all Liver Ills, bilious
ness, nausea, sick headache, indigestion.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-10-13
g-sssYsssS 81 HAS CURED HUNDREDS OF
es 5000 GASES or SKIN CANCER.

Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
Tree. SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19
What a "Sweat. Shop" Is.

In an article entitled "Among the
Poor in Chicago" published in scribner,
the writer says:
The "sweat-shop" is place where,
separate from the tailor-shop or clothing
warehouse, n "sweater" (middleman) as
sembles journeymen tailors and needle
women, to work under his supervision.
He takes a cheap room outside the dear
and crowded business centre, and within
the neighborhood where the work-people
live. Thus is rent saved to the employ
or. and time and travel to the employed.
The men can and do work more hours
than was possible under the centralized
system, and their wives and children can
help, especially when, as is often done.
the garments are taken home to "finish.
Even the very young can pull out bast-
ing-threads.) This "fnishing" IS what
remains undone after the machine has
done its work, and consists Of "lelling"
the waist and legends of trousers (pald
at one and one-halt cent pair, and, in
short. all the "felling' necessary on
every garment of any kind. For this
service, at the prices paid, they cannot
earn more than from twenty-five to forty
cents day, and the work is largely done
bv Italian. Polish, and Bohemian women
and girls.
The entire number Of persons employed
in these vocations may be stated at
5000 men Cot whom 500 are jews, and
from 20, 900 to 5000 women and chill
dren. The wages are reckoned by
"piece- work, and (outside the "fnish-
ing") run about as follows:
Girls, hand-sewers, earn nothing for
the first month, then as unskilled work
ers they get 81 to $3.50 week, g
week, and (as skilled workers. S6
week. The irst-named class constitutes
6fty per cent. of all, the second thirty
per cent, and the last twenty per cent.
In the general work men are only en-
ploycd to do button -holing aud pressing,
aud their earnings are as follows:
"Pressers," IS to Sl2 week; "under-
pressers," 81 to 81. Cloak operators
earn So to S12 week. Four.ftths of
the sewing-machines are furnished by
the "sweaters" (middIemen); also nee
dies, thread, and wax.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19
Derivation of "D )IIar.

Few persons have ever troubled them
selves to think of the derivation Of the
word dollar. 1t is from the German
thai (valley) aud came into use in this
way some 300 years ago. There is lit
tie silver-mining city or district in north
ern Bohemia called JoachimSthal, or
Joachim's Valley. The reigning Duke
of the region authorized this city in the
sixteenth century to coin silver piece
which was called "Joachimthaler. The
word "joachim' was soon dropped, and
the name "thaler" only retained. The
piece went into general use in Germany
and Denmark, where the orthographY
was changed to "daler," whence it came
into English, aud was adopted by the
Americans with still fuither changes in
the spelling. The Mexican dollar is
generally called "piastre" in France, aud
the name Is sometimes applied to the
United States dollar. The appellation
is incorrect in either case, for the word
plaster or piastre has for the last fifty
years been only applied with correctness
to small silver coin used in TurkeI or
Egypt, which is worth from five to eight
cents. boston Cultivator.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-19
siranna Effecis Of Extreme Cold.

DR.. Moss of the English polar expedi-
ton of 1857, among mauy other
things, tells of the strange effects of the
extreme cold upon the candles they
burned. The temperature was from
thirty-fve to fifty degrees below zero,
and the doctor says that he was consider
ably discouraged when, upon looking at
his candle, he discovered that the flame
"had all it could do to keep warm" 1t
was so cold that the fame could not melt
all of the tallow Of the candle, but was
forced to eat its way down, leaving a
sort of skeleton candle standing. There
was heat enough, however, to melt odd
shaped holes In the thin walls of tallow,
the result being a beautiful lace-iike
cylinder of white with narrow tongue
of yellow fame burning on the inside
and sending out many streaks OF light
into the darkness. Louis Repub-