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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
Attention. G.. A. A. +!

The Burlington route-C., B. & Q
RAILROADS. the only line making rate of
$40 25 for the round trip via three gate
ways-Chicaec. Peoria and ST. Louis, to
Washington, d. G.
Tickets on sale Sept 18th to Goth in
elusive. with final limit for return Oct.
10th, 1892.
For further Information apply to any
G, B. & @. ticket agent. or to
H. ID. MACK
Div. Pass. Agt.. Rock Isle nd, Ill .
P. S. EUTIs.
Gen. Pass. Agt.. Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
Catarrh IN Colorado.

fused Ely's Cream Balm for drv ca
tarrh. 1t proved cure.-B, F. NJ
Weeks, Denver.
Ely's Cream Balm is especially adapted
as a remedy for catarrh which is uggrs-
waited by alkaline dust and dry winds.
w. A. Hover, druggist. Denver.
l can recommend Ely's Cream Balm to
all sufferers from dry catarrh from per-
sonal experience Michael Herr, phar-
mscist, Denver.
Ely's Cream Balm has cured many
cases of catarrh. 1t is in constant de-
msnd George w. Hoyt pharmacist.
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
Pure and Wholesome Quality

Fure anu w NOISSOnle NudIIty'
Commends to public approval the Cali
forria liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of
Figs. 1t is pleasant to the taste. and by
acting gently on the kidneys. liver and
bowels to cleanse the system effectually,
it promotes the health and comfort of all
who use it. a. with millions it is the
best and only remedy. For sale by
HartZ & Bahnsen
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
USING HIS INFLUENCE.
She Was 81 Lucky Woman to Find Him
About.

An OK cart put her trunk off on the de-
pot platform, and she came waddling down
to where the colored porter was sweeping
ont the waiting room. She was very
large and corpulent colored woman, and
her trunk was very old and lean and tied
around with piece of BEDFORD.
''Mawnin, sah," she said as she came to
a halt.
''Mawnin,' - he replied as he leaned on his
broom and looked from her to the trunk
and back
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19

Always order brick ice cream for you
party. Three kinds in each brick
nrell & Math cac supply you
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
ARIZONA KICKER.
THE EDITOR WANTS THE NOMlNA
TON FOR THE STATE SENATORSHlP.

And He Is Going to Hump Himself to
Get It-He Gives His Views in His
Own Frank Way and Shows Up His
Opponents Character.
Copyright, 1892, by Charles B. Lewis-l
OUR PLATFORM.-We do not only believe
that we are eminently qualified to fill the
position of state senator, but we make no
bones of the fact that we are humping our
self to secure the nomination from this dis
trict. We have received quite number
of letters inquiring as to our views on GER
tain matters, and we hereby append few
of them:
but will get right down to spring water
and hang to it if. the rest of the crowd will.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19
STEALING A GRAVE.

But She Felt Very Sorry About It After-
ward.
We had stopped to talk with woman
driving a pair of old mules to covered
erniprant wagon full of children and house
hold goods when an old man, with long
hair, bareheaded ard dust covered, rode
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
The Worlds Consumption OF Coal.

A statistician has lately been engaged
in estimating the worlds consumption of
coal. He divides his figures into four
groups, embracing respectively the guam
tity of coal used in heating steam boil
ers, in the production of gas, in the ex-
traction of metals from their ores, and
for household purposes. It may be
taken, he says. that the total steam en-
CINE capacity of the globe is equivalent
to 10, 000, 900 horsepower, and that,
having regard to the utilization of other
fuels, the quantity of coal burned with
the object of producing steam averages
"A pounds per horse power per hour, or
an hourly aggregate Of 1900 tons. In
all probability, however, this is an under
estimate, as the efficiency of the worlds
steam engines is calculated by some to
be %, 1000, COO horsepower. With re-
spect to the manufacture of gas, the
hourly consumption of the illuminating
aeriform fluid is gwen as 5 700. 900 cubic
metres, which would necessitate the dis.
tillation of at least 10, 600 tons Of coal
per hour. More difficult to calculate is
the consumption of coal for the produc
ton of power and heating gas; it may
be estimated, our authority thinks, at
$500 tons per hour. A large quantity
of coal is used in the reduction of metals
from their ores. It is calculated that in
this way some 5000 tons of the mineral
are consumed every hour. A special es
innate gives the quantity burnt hourly
by works and factories at 5000 tons.
The most difficult calculation is that of
the domestic consumption Of coal. 1t il
estimated at $1,000 tons per hour, OF
1920, 900 tons per day Of twenty-four
hours. This figure, however, appears
rather small considering that in Great
Britain and Germany alone the daily
output of coal in recent years has aver
aged 600, 900 tons, and that the extrac.
ton 10 all other countries may be reck.
oned as n and a half times this guam.
tity.-London Iron.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

a recent visitor TO London says that
in that city long tandem ~tricyclcs, Ca
pl'le OF seating eight or more passengers,
havg been introduced, and one is now
being used as q rival to the tram OIL street
cars. The owner of the vehicle occu-
pies the front seat, collects the fares and
steers, but the passengers have to pro-
vide the motive power, and if they don't
move their feet freely very poor time is
made on the journey. Such q means OF
loc7motion would not prove a success
here, but it is said that in London the
seats are booked aud paid for a week in
advance.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

the ground, and the dying, who sang
their own breaths away in the grateful
chorus.
When the injured had been cared for,
and there was once more time for Or
binary matters, Parson Pladtey called
Abner True to him.
''Son Abner, thou didst well SO Gun
ningly to avoid those ruthless savages,
and privily warn US betimes. For this
thou meritest reward"
Aba-r looked up, astonished.
"And this shall be thy reward-that
for thy wilful tarry1ng away from the
sanctuary thou shalt receive no discipline
from the church"
"But my father will" stsmmered
the boy.
"of a surety he WILL" placldly replied
the minister, "and I trust it may do
thee good"
"Come with me, Abner," said Deacon
nos.-Youth's Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

It may not be generally known. thinks
the Chicago Times, that Nebraska has
one.third Of all the beet-sugar factories
in the United States. Here is the list:
The Alvarado Sugar Company, at AL.
varado, CAL, was the first, built IN 1879,
and ia still operated BY 3. II. Dyer; the
second is that Of Claus S~prcckles, al
Watsonville, Cal, built in 1887; the
third wss built by Henry r. Oxnard, at
Grand Island, Neb., aud worked its first
crop in 1890: che fourth one was also
built BY Mr.. Oxnard in 1891, at Nor.
folk, Neb. the fifth is at Chino, CAL,
and the sixth has just been completed
this year By local capitalists at Lehi,
Utah. Thus it will be seen that there
are At this time but six bsetsugsr fac
tories in the United States.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
WISE

Faith makes men work.
Dollars dominate their owners.
A good mother is a beautiful woman
Newspapers find all faults except thei
own.
A verse may find him whom a sermon
flies.
Cooks more than kings have made
men better.
Mans ambition is the teterboard c
hope and fear.
Opportunity makes more men thai
men make opportunity.
The brain compounds the healing
balm, the heart administers 1t.
When a person loses respect for him
self nobody ever finds it for him.
Those who are bound by their animal
desires have no conception of real free
dom. The spirit is cruci6ed within
them.
The despotism of custom is on the
waue; we are not content to know that
things are; we ask whether they ought
to be.
In the lottery of life there are more
prizes drawn than blanks, and to one
misfortune there are fifty advantages.
Dependency is the most Improbable
feeling a man can indulge in.
Almost every one in his turn has Ia
mented over something which afterward
turned out to be the very best thing for
him that could have happened, or re.
joiced at an event which became the
source of his greatest suferings.
On with your mission, and neve
summing of results in hand, nor thirst
for prospects, nor counting upon har-
vests; for seed sown in faith day by day
els the nightly harvest of the soul, and
with Vie soul we work, with the soul we
see.
Duty is a power which rises With US
in the morning and goes to rest with us
at night. 1t is coextensive with the &C.
ton of our intelligence. It is the shad'
ow which cleaves to US, go where we
will, and which only leaves US when We
leave the light of day..
It is a cowardly soul that shriaks or
grows faint and Respondent as soon as
the storm begins to gather, or even when
the first cloud appears on the horizon.
Our motto should be, "No Surrender, ="
and, far from yielding to the ills of life,
let us take fresh courage from misfor.
tune.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

Il is often said, notes the Boston
Transcript, that II the white people
could live most Of the time in the open
air, like the Indians, they would never
have consumption and, in fact, certain
physicians attempt to cure consumption
by keeping their patients outdoors nearly
all the time. But Dr., A. B. Holder, OF
Memphis, Tenn; noW n forward
with statistics to show that the Indian is
peculiarly subject to pulmonary diseases.
Reports which be secured from the Tndi-
ans Of Yankton and sisseton, Devils
Lake, Green Bay, Wis.,. Tulalir. Wash
ington; Standing Rock, Lower Brule,
OAK; Usage, Indian Territory; Grow
Greek, Cheyenne River, and Western
Sheshone, New, all teemed with data as
to the fatal ravages Of consumption. OF
1453 deaths from all diseases in 1888,
5I4 we're from consumption alone.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
SELECT STIFFNESS.

As late as 1772 ZONE rode astride.
France has the cheapest rate of postage.
Alaska has yielded $33, 900, 900 in seal
skins.
There are 1000 'haunted" houses in
London.
seyen-eighths of the forest growth of
The State of Washington consists OF the
Douglas fir.
Idaho is said to be the only State whose
name has never been satisfactorily ac-
counted for.
In midsummer the coasts of Spitzber'
gen are icebouad and practically mac.
cessible to vessels.
The street surface roads of New York
City carried 226, $685. passengers
during the year 1891, a daily average
of 629. 1877.
The religious fatalism in the Hin1oos'
life extends also to their intellectual
state. In grammar, as in faith, kismet
fules supreme.
A "camel" and s'beauty" are synony
nous in Arabic. An Arab widow gen,
orally mourns her husband with a cry oil
80, my cameli"
The Indian measures distances whlls
canoeing by s'pipes." One pipe is the
interval between the haltings he is al.
lowed to make for a smoke.
The bees of Guadeloupe, West Indies,
are stingless, aud do not store their
honey in combs, but in blaaders of wax
about the size Of a pigeons egg.
An Indian sold a Shoshone idaho
business mar some finely polished buffalo
horns the other day, and positively re-
fused to take silver in payment, demand.
ing gold.
The Chinese have a kitchen god which
is supposed to go to the Chinese heaven
at the beginning of each year to report
upon the private life of the families
under his care.
Hannah Dale, known throughout Eag-
land as the girl g~iantess, died recently
at her native place, Now Cop, near Tuu.
stal, in the Potteries. She weighed 4541
pounds at her death. She was eleven
years of age.
The year 1889 is famousin history for
three events OF national Importance. The
Government was organized under the
Federal Constitution, Washington was
elected President and the order of Gin.
'cinnati was founded.
In the base Of the Statue of Liberty on
Bedloe's Island, New YORK Harbor, is
the largest artificial stone in the world.
1t was made OF broken rock, sand and
cement, 500 carloads of sand and over
twenty thousand barrels Of cement being
used in its manufacture.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

Louis Kossuth told a recent inte--
viewer that he did not believe the Hun
garian Austrian empire would hold to-
gether more than one more generation,
and that Che Magyars would form the
nucleus of the new State to be formed
out of the wreck. He had faith in the
nearness Of a republic in Italy and
anotheRon the Iber.an Peninsula; while
the Radicals, of Great Britain, are sure
TO shelve the Guelphs eventually.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
THE MODEL

Most wives will end their story with:
"Ah, well, men are but human"
Hong to tell the secret Of
A truly happy woman
Through all the sunshine-lighted years,
Lived now in retrospection,
My husbands word brought never tears,
Nor caused a sad reflection.
Whate'er the burdens of the day,
Unfinching, calm and steady,
To bear his part-the larger half
always find him ready.
House cleaning season brings no frown,
No sarcasm, pointed keenly,
Through carpets up, and tacks head down
He makes his way serenely.
Our evenings pass in converse sweet
Or quiet contemplation,
We never disagree except
To keep up conversation" =,
And dewy morn of radiant June,
Fair moonlight of September,
April with bird and brook atune,
Stern, pitiless December
Each seems to my adoring eyes
Some new grace to discover.
For he u~nchanging through the years,
Is still my tender lover.
SO life no shadows hold, though we
Have reached the side that's shady;
My husband? Ohta dream is be,
And Pm a maiden lady.
Ladies' Home journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

Famine and cnoiera nave made war
npon Russia and prevented Russia from
making war upon her neighbors. But
psstiIence as a peace-promoter is worse,
the Washington Star admits, than the
war which It obviates. The forces of
destruction now issuing from Russia
move far more rapidly than an army,
their attack is far less avoidable and far
more deadly, and they threaten the new
world as well az the old.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
Cause Of I~lI.Smslllng Books.

The abominable smell often noticed
ahout very cheaply bound books is caused
by the carbolic acid which is put int
the paste to preserve it and keep it fres
from ~cockroaches, which wilJscent pure
paste a block sway and come to it in
shoals. Under ordinary circumstances
cloves will do as we'll as carbolic acid,
but in bookbiudsries, where there is al.
ways a good supply of paste and where
the other attractions for cockroaches are
numerous, carbolic acid is really the only
efectual preventive. In the cas-. of bet.
ter bound BOOKS very little paste 10 used,
and the leather has generally sufficient
perfume about it to counterfeit . little un.
pleasantness.-St. Louis Globe emo.
erat.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

r. d. Armour, Of Chicago, Is said By
the New York Post, to bs interested in
s project to establish q geological garden
In Lincoln Park. The idea was sug-
gested By the proposal Of Carl Hagen
beck, of Hamburg, Germany, to exhibit
animals from his gardens IN Berlin and
Hamburg at the Worlds Fair. Mr..
Hagenbeck and Mr.. Armour believe that
the exhibition could be male permanent
with advantage TO the city. The former
SAYS: 81 have never known a better 10.
cation for 3 public garden Of the kind
than lincoln PARK. The great lake
with its fne, refreshing breeze, the
beautiful lower beds. and other features
make it an ideal spot for the purpose
which I have Id mind. I shall be back
10 Chicago again in january, and Mr..
Armour is then to have d consultation
With me upon the matter. he is deeply
Interested IN the project. / am of opin-
ion that 4 geological garden wonld adj
immensely to the attractions Of Chicago.
We have b De some kind 81 other Ia
every city il Europe. a nm Of $500,
600 would b sufficient for the complete
establishment Of the gardens, while one
fifth Of that amount would make i very
good beginning. ! en- not personally
interested, but ! have simply promised
ny aid and advice when the matter hae
maturaa
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
The Governor was Trespsssine.

Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
during a walk in the suburbs of Phila-
delphia recently, sat down to rest on q
rustic seat beneath q tree which was on
private ground, although he did not
know it. He was soon informed OF the
fact by a little girl, WHO, approaching
him, said: sDo you know that this il
private property, and that my father
will prosecute trespassersa' Aud there
upon the Governor, who was too much
amused by the situation to make any
protest, vas escorted of the groun 10 By
the little girl,-PieaTuae.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
The Peoples Party, of Kansas, insists
that Congress shall appropriate the sum
Of $500, 000, 900 to build good roads.

A useful innovation has been intro
duced into the public schools of Balti-
more, in the shape Of sewing lessons for
the girls. A directress of sewing in the
public schools has been appointed
under whose direction weekly lessons
will be given in all the schools. Fine
samples of work are provided for che
pupils, who are required to initiate
them
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPRIoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, LA
PENSIONS

R~Acr OF JUNE 81. 1s9o-Pensions sold rsa and Sailors 0 + the var Of III
Isbslion wac served 80 days AMI wa, hoaoraby dinhuged from the services md
|dren, dependent parents, fathers aui mothers All pensions under this Act will
Commences from the date of fling tn, fornd application Gher the pnng, Of the
6 nd uoless fled in the Pension B ral o OF after June 81, 1890. Ciate of thu
Ac) OF if not 10 the form, substantially, prescribed by The Secretary The rates.
child of soldier under sixteen re .r; All ii thu widow dies the child u children
can draw such pension. The soldier is entitled to any raef from s. to So pr
may apply under this one Or a peni)ner under this one may apply under ohn
laws, but car draw only one pension at the san, tine. Ths, law rsq Tires in asot
diersor sailors case:
~ An honorable discharge.
() That he served at least ninety lars.
vicious habits. CT need not have oiginsted in the servics5
CASE OF A WIDow:v
az That he was honorably discharged.
G9 Proof of death, but it need not have been the results Of his Army n
NsThat the widow is 'wthout other mem of support than hs. daily
% That she married soldier prior to June 81, 1890, the date of The Act.
~ That the soldier or aaier died of wound, injury or disease, which, IN
der lior law, would have given him a pension.
~ That he left n o wife or minor child.
90 That the mother Or father rs at present dependent on her or his own
manual labor; being without other present means of support than their owl maIs
The benefits Of the first section Of the Act of jane 81, 1896, are not conf9d 6
the parents of those who served in the war Of the rebellion, but are extended TO
all parents where reasonable dependence has arisen on account of the death ota
son who served. since said war, in behalf of the United States as we'll as for dis
abilities contracted before or since discharged.
~ That in case . minor child is insane, idioic or otherwise permanently
helpless, the pension shall continue during the period of such disability, and tau
proviso shall apply to all pensions therefore, granted, or hereafter to be ganssaa
of application therefor after passage of this Act.
The rules and regulations Of the Department will govern all applicants ana
~ Under Act Of June ~, 1890 pension, ore granted to Soldiers and saa1'
RrNOTICE!-Dr. W. r Lastrape- having recently been appointed uA
irxanining Surgeon fer Pensions 1t Opelousas, La, it is now offs special inhTstTrss
6alnants OF pensens to come to me and make out their applications. :
Civ Orleans for medical examination, at which place they have heretofore oM
sthected to 60.
HART n. SANDoZ,
R-3Rssw ita H,a JsAa Y. alSsA. a,elsun3 T. 4i..4t
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
PARs0N PLADLEY.
By MANLEY ii. PIKE.

T was Injecting.
time" in Hudder.
field, Massac
Bay Colony, on a
Sunday morning in
June, 1875. The
fifty or sixty log
buildings whic b
made up the settle.
ment stood silent
as SO many tombs
among the black
stlfmps of fhe half.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

There were 1900 railroad accidents In
New JerseY last year.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

Christianity was introduced into Japan
IN 154o.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17

the ranks of the pikemen who met the
charges of Prince Rupert's Cavaliers,
and repelled them, too.
As if he remembered this, the minis
Ter lifted up his strong voice in a stern
Psalm which had Numbered over the bat
tleields Of Naseby and Narston Moor
tie war song of David the King, re.
joicing over his victory;
II have pursued mine enemies and
overtaken then; neither did I turn
again till they were consumed.
II have wounded them that were
not able TO rise; saey are fallen I'm.
der my feet.
"For Thou hast girdei me with
strength unto the battle; Thou has sub
dyed under me those that rose up
against me-"
The Indians were like wolves conbat-
ing lions. Tney shark. waverei and
were pressed back to the door, through
it, and outside of it. Taea, BY one last
rush, they were broken, scattered and
dispersed. They ran in every direction
for the shelter OF the woods; many OF
them fell By the way under the pikes
and swords 81 their pursuers. Hudders.
field waa saved.
Within the meeting. house, now half
ruined, dim with powder 5 noke and
heaped with broken benches, arrows and
dead bodies, the congregation gathered
around Its minister, who, blackened ana
bloody, with gown torn to shreds and a
great slash across his forehead. once
more raised up his voica-shis time in
the glorious strain Of one Of their tri.
umphant hymns.
All joined in it-even the rounded
who could scarcely lift their heads from
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-06
Ivy on Walls.

A friend recently called attention to Il
case which he thought subverted oul
view that the ivy growing on walls
tended to make them dry rather than
damp. On looking ut the case we find
that the wall was covered with the
Ampelopsis veitchii, or, as it is called
Japan ivy, and that the vines had bee.
suffered to grow over the single roof oi
the house some four or five feet from
the gable end. and that the sponts and
other water conduit We're completely
choked by this growth OF vine and till
ing up with leaves.
1t is no wonder that q house should be
damp under such circumstances. II
should not be forgotten that Ia. vine:
on walls must never be allowed to reilrl
the roof or Chamber in the cutters, bu
must be confined entirely to the vertical
surface of the walls on which they grow
The innumerable number of small root
lets absorbing moisture continually gen
orally make walls so dry and hard thai
1t has been found ut times in the Old
World. when necessary to take down
building. almost impossible to do so or
account of the extreme hardness Of the
mortar, which has been kept dry for sc
many years through the agency of these
roots. The case we have referred te
shows how often good idea may he
spoiled 10y reason of the thoughtles.
manner in which the idea is carried out
-Meehan's Monthly.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-06
Travelling In China.

In north China you may perhaps have
your choice of three methods of travel
ing. You may, if you will. take youl
place in springless Picking cart. Il kind
of box or cage with no seat. The pas
senger is obliged to squat on the tlool
cross legged, or to sit with legs stretched
out at right angles with his body. and
as the cart jo!ts over great stones OF
through the deep ruts in the road, be is
liable to be bruised black and blue.
If such cart looks uniaviting, you
may conclude to try a mule litter. This
consists of an oblong box slung between
two mules. which never keep step, and
not infrequently quarrel. and the sway
ing, unsteady motion is as bad as that OF
ship in heavy squall. Or, once
more. you may prefer to ride a donkey
with backbone like razor, and proba
bly, with no saddle and single rope fol
bridle.-Exchange.