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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04

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Sr,r r Of Frs IS taken; It is pleasant
nj refreshing to the taste, and acts
csn;lv vet promptly on the Kidneys,
iTer and Bowels, cleanses the syg-
,-m efac.ually, dispels colds, head
.,bos and feyers and cures habitual
|c,pstination. Syrup of Figs is the
|qIy remedy Of its kind ever pro-
irced. pleasing to the taste and &C.
|csrtabl6 to the stomach, prompt in
/ 4: action and truly beneficial in its
| Effects, prepared only from the most
|isalthv and agreeable substances, its
|rsuy excellent qualities commend it
|n al and have made it the most
|r5pular remedy known.
| Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
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rsts Any reliable druggist who
nav not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04
To Younr Motherf,

who are for tue first time TO undergo
woman's severest trial, we offer You. not
the stupor caused by chioroform. with
rick of death for Yourself or your dearly
loved and longed-for offspring, but
Mothers Friend" q remedy WEIGH will,
IL used as directed. invariably alleviate
the pains, horrors and risks of labor and
often entirely do away with them. Sold
by Hartz & Bahnsep.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04
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A safer and better investment
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Money loaned at lowest rates.
Il. a. DONALDSON, Secretary.
OFFICE, Rooms 3. a. and G Masonic Temple,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04

sit is no scandal. nor aspersion, upon
a great and noble person" to say that he
is lost to all sense of the responsibility of
taking care of his health, if he continues
to suffer with cold, waen he knows one
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. will
cure it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04

Pozzonis Complexion Powder pros
luces a soft and beautiful skin; it com
bines every element of beauty and purify
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04
Every Tub.

EVERY tub should stand on its own
bottom" That is where Krause's Ger
man Oh stands 1t makes no compar,
lsons with other preparations of a sim
liar nature, but broadly claims as an ex-
ternal application it has ne superior.
For sale by all druggists. Harz s. Balm
sen, wholesale agents.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04

Listed" as the brokers say. al 100
Doses One Dollar" Hoods Sarsaparilia
is always fair equivalent for the price.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-04

Judge Henry Goldsborough. Baltimore,
Nd, says: 1t gives me pleasure to
recommend Salvation Oil TO any one suf-
ferlng from rheumatic or other pains.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
A LACK OF CONSIDERATION.
Rather Severe Criticism of Woman's Man.
ner to Others of Her Sex.

Rather Severe Criticism of Woman's Man.
ner to Others of Her Sex.
at is surprising how discourteous
women are to women" said Wash
ington physician to a writer for the
| Star.
II will assert with confidence that
women, although nominally of the
gentle sex, are not nearly so courteous
| in their treatment of one another as
men are. The reason for it, l think, is
that men are afraid to treat each other
with disrepect. You may remember
the story of the tenderfoot in new
city out west who remarked that he
had never seen such polite people in his
life before The reply was
"'Why, stranger, the fact is that
when one man knows that another man
carries pistol and is dead on the shot
he finds it healthy not to be imperiite.
Every body here goes loaded and it pays
best to be civil.
Take notice when you ride on the
street car and you will observe that the
women who expect so much courtesy
from the men show little or none to
their own sex. They spread themselves
over the seats so as to prevent others
from sitting down, the excuse being
that they are anxious not to have their
dresses crushed by crowding, and if
they have children permit them to wipe
their feet all over the next neighbour
In the shops they VIGOROUSLY lack con-
siderateness for the clerks, crowd one
another outrageously and refuse to
await their turns for attention. On
board of sleeping cars they are apt to
exhibit the utmost Indifference to each
others comfort, two or three occupy
ing the washing quarters by the hour,
to the exclusion of the rest. 1t would
not be a bad idea, l should imagine, to
introduce in the training of little girls
q slightly more vigorous discipline re-
specting the consideration which they
ought to show for their fellow beings
in petticoats.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
OPPOSITION OF SEX TO SEX.
A Happy Medium Which Should BE oh.
served by Both Men and Women.

A Happy Medium Which Should BE OBJ.
served by Both Men and Women.
There is quite too much opposition
of sex to sex. A certain order of smart
men" are prone to publicly descant on
the ''follies of women" and on the 9th.
er hand women are too much given to
denunciations of men. There is a hap
py medium which ought to be observed
by both sexes, for both are weak and
human, and there is not enough differ
ence to- warrant either in doing the
Pharisee act. Here is timely hint
from the graceful and appreciative pen
of Canon Farrar: ''If it is true that the
cornerstone of the commonwealth is
the hearthstone, how important is the
sphere of family life which many are
tempted to despise as too narrow for
their energies, Every woman should,
indeed, aim at doing good in wider re.
gions of life, and should endeavor by
the irresistible force of sweet and silent
influence, if in no other way, to raise
the whole tone of national thought and
conduct But even 1T woman, wheth>
err married or unmarried, be never
heard of half mile from home the
purity and loftiness of her ideal, the
devoted unselfishness of her life, may
tell with immense and continuous pow,
err upon every member of her family
The bright invisible air produces eff
fects more stupendous when no whis-
per OF breeze is heard than all the
fury OF the passing hurricane: and the
influence conscious and unconscious,
of thousands of women entirely UNI
known to fame, may go to the ennoble-
ment of the moral being of generations
unborn. Men are, and ever will be.
what their wives and sisters, and above
all their mothers, tend to make them,
| by influence which begins with the cra-
die and ends only with the grave" =
| Detroit Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27

sent you he asked ra.hcr grufiy IS
Susie uni lded it.
''Nobo Y sent me-. Nobody knew I
was coming | knew you were sick,
and ther, isn't any medicine, only this,
will cure you. Won't you please sign
it? and then I'll put my name down,
too"
Mr. Bartlett's eyes grew very wet
and tender. He lifted the little girl on
his knee.
Susie, willsign it, and, with Gods
help, keep 1t, too. and you shall put
your name right after mine. have
been myself ever since you left me at
the gate, and / have resolved never to
touch another drop of liquor"
Mary" he called to his wife, as he
put the pen back on the table, ''come
and see what Susie and l have been
doing. Help me, all of you, to keep it.
Kiss me, Susie, now, and run home
and tell your mother what you have
done"
And Susie did run as fast as she
could. 'You see there was use in
trying again" she said, in Ter grave,
oldfashioned way.-The Look sat
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMAN'S LIFE.
The Many Joys and sorrows of Which 1t
Is Composed.

The Many Joys and sorrows of Which 1t
Is Composed.
A wee mother is carefully putting her
favorite doll to bed. With tender solicit
tude she carefully removes each dainty
garment and fastens on the tiny night
gown. Then with fond kiss, she hugs
her treasure to her and places it in its
little cradle. After patting it gently
she tiptoes out of the room as the
twilight peeps curiously in.
A fair maiden stands before her look
ing glass adding the last touches to
her evening toilet Her lover will soon
be here! Her eyes are full of innocent
lovelight! She looks eagerly at her re-
Election in the glass! How glad she is
that she is pretty She frowns little
at crimp that will not stay just as it
should. A ring comes at the door and
she hastens away to meet her beloved.
A young wife sits anxiously watch
ing for her husband. At each ap-
preaching footstep her heart beats rap
turously, and then grows heavy with
disappointment. She will not go in
doors, it is SO sweet out there! The
sweeping shadows cheer her trembling
soul, SO she waits and wishes, and the
shadows lengthen into darkened night
A mother is rocking her baby to
sleep. He looks at her gravely while
they move to and fro, as if asking how
the bright sunshine must leave him and
the ugly shadows hide her dear face
from him There is a wealth OF wis
dom in his great, sweet eyes He holds
tightly to her dress as If to keep her
near him.
When at last his eyes are closed she
disengages the loving hand, kisses him
| lightly-as he must not be awakened
and arises to put him into his crib.
Then she sinks back into her chair and
begins to rock again. 1t is so pleasant
to rest in the twilight, and he is &C
sweet to nurse
A woman kneels by a fresh-made
grave. The headboard stares coldly a,
her and seems to say over and ovel
again the words inscribed upon it. lie
was her only child and she was .
widow. With tear-laden eyes she bends
down lower and lower. till her lips rest
upon the earth. She longs SO to kiss
the quiet form it is hiding from her
And the twilight seems to hurry past
and lose itself in the darkness.
A careworn old woman sits watching
the shadows come-they are friends tt
to her-friends that she welcomes, fol-
they always sing the same old song tt
her, Zone day nearer home" And 81
life.-woman's life-goes on in the twi
light till rest comes to her weary bod.
and Joy to her aching heart-til he
spirit reaches its home, where never
shadow can fall upon it-Chicag
| Herald
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
An Eloquent Lecturer.

Miss Eugenia Sellers, whose lectures
on the sculptural and the dramas of
Greece caused no little talk in London
art and educational circles, is rapidly
winning for herself high place among
the savants of the old world. Miss Sell
lers is a native of London and received
her early education at sisterhood near
Versailles. Later she studied in Athens
and finished her school life by gradual
ing from Girton college. Her object in
lecturing is to inspire her hearers with a
love for the antique in art and literature;
and it is said she invests her themes
with so much that interests and charms
that she is succeeding remarkably well,
rs the increasing popularity of her lee
lures attests.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

REV. AUGUSTA CHAPLIN, of Illinois,
has been appointed chairman of the
committee on religious congresses for
the Columbian exposition, on the wom-
ems side.
THE governments of Bosnia and
Montenegro are advertising for good
women physicians, whom they will en-.
gage for their hospitals at liberal sal.
aries. The women of these countries
have adopted the prejudices of their
Musselman sisters, and will not allow
male physicians to treat them in their
illness This news was received with
great pleasure at ST. Petersburg, and
quite number of Russian women
doctors departed for the Balkan prov
inces.
A REMARKABLE law firm, under tho
name of pier" exists in Milwaukee,
and consists of a mother and three
daughters, all graduates of the law de.
partment of the Wisconsin State uni
versity. BY recent act of the state
legislature, Mrs Pier was made court
commissioner, and is now allowed to
sit among the barristers Miss Kate
Pier is the trial or jury member of the
firm; Miss Harriet is in the office with
her mother and sister, and Miss Caro-
line is making a special study of the
admiralty law,
CHARLOTTE BRoNTE utters some wise
sayings about the condition of women,
in her recently publish, but hitherto
unknown, letters She believes that,
under ordinary circumstances the
necessity of earning ones living is not
an evil, and that life of honest indie
pendence, however exacting, is prefer
able to ignoble dependence. The list.
lessness of idleness infallibly degrades
a woman's nature. All women, espe
cially all single women, owe it to them
selves to seek some profession or EN-
ployment which will give an interest 4
their lives.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
TEMPERANCE SPECIALS.

GRAND temperance work is being
done in the English navy through the
efforts of Miss Agnes Weston and 9TH
ers. On some ships ten per cent of
the ship company are enrolled as total
abstainers.
The wife of United States Senator
Spooner, of Wisconsin, is credited
with saying in a recent interview:
THE woman or girl who offers one of
my sons glass of wine will personally
affront me-"
DR.. KELLEY says the white paper in
which the tobacco of the deadly cigar
cite is incased is bleached with arsenic.
He finds it even more difficult to cure
the cigarette smoker than the con-
firmed drunkard. - Herald and Pres.
byter
The opinion of the w. c. 7. U. on
the subject of tobacco is we'll expressed
in the following letter to a recent Chi
cago daily: king Tobacco rules the
country, on land and sea- Our nation,
our intelligence. our life is clouded by
the tobacco delirium."
THE slums and the saloon are insep.
arabic allies. We are accustomed to
think of London slums as being not
only the darkest spots in darkest
England" but SURPRISING in misery
and crime anything in our own coun-
try. But good authority asserts that
in the poorest district of London there
/ is one saloon to each one hundred and
thirty-six persons, while in less pow
erty-stricken section of Chicago there
is one saloon to each sixty-tive persons.
AN eminent surgeon gives the fol-
10 wing opinion: Few people outside
/ the medical profession have any idea
of the large number of deaths which
occur every year, and are certified ac-
cording to the organ or organs princi-
pally diseased, but which are in reality
attributable to alcohol The loss to
tbs country of persons in the prime of
| life from this source is enormous. Fat
ty degeneration of the tissues OF
the body. or, as it might other
wise be called, premature old age,
is one of the most frequent physical re-
suits of taking alcohol, even when
taken in what some might call modera-
| ton"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
First Author, Then Sculptor.

The first and only book of poems
ever published by Miss Annie Whitney,
the well-known sculptor of Boston, was
spoken of by the critics in the very
highest terms but Notwithstanding the
praise it received she never wrote an
other. One day she began modelling on
an overturned pot of damp sand and
became fascinated with the work.
There were then no teachers of sculp-
ture. but the same artistic temperament
and capacity for work which made her
poems such success carried her over
all the obstacles in her path to her
prcsen. height of fame rs n sculptor.
Among the products of her studio
which the world prizes is the statue o.
Lei Ericsson in Back Lay,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
Musical Item,

'What pity it is that women do not
wear feathers" remarked New York
society man to a friend.
"They do"
"But l mean feathers growing all
over them, as in the case with canaries
and parrots"
''Why do you entertain such singu-
lar wish?"
"You know birds moult several times
year, don't you?"
"Yes."
sand while they are shedding their
feathers they don't sing?"
"Just So"
swell, I've got sister who is train
ing to join church choir Texas
Siftings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
---------------------V-
CURES FOR DRUNKENNESS.
The Farcical Reform by Artificial
Stinulants.

The Farcical Reform by Artificial
Stimulants.
credible citizen of Kansas reports
that many of the reformed drinkers in
that state, whose reformation was
largely due to the difficulty of obtain
ing liquor under the prohibitive Iegis-
lation in that state, have taken to- such
stimulants as antipyrine and quinine.
1t is a well-known fact that there are
slaves to the ginger habit" no less
firmly shackled than the rum slave
himself. Even the number of tn ose
who are addicted to very strong tea
made, contrary to all cookery canons,
by boiling the tea and water together
is fast increasing; and they are ap-
parently so bound to that kind Of tea
that tea properly drawn" is not what
their appetite Graves
Now all of these subtances are in
furious to the human mind and body,
and through them to the morals of this
class of habt-slaves While they do
not intoxicate, it is certain that their
habitual use is debasing. The serious
question arises: If the drinker
abandons his alcohol and fees to these
habits, has he really reformed? The
answer must be in the negative.
After abandoning the alcohol, the
only proper substitute is well-cooked,
nutritious food: not only bread and
beef and milk, but also special food for
the nerves to strengthen the will-pow-
err and induce sleep in season. The
artificial and transient stimulation of
alcohol must be supplanted by the
stimulation of healthful food, clean,
well-aired apartments and regular rest,
at proper intervals, for mind and body.
Nature will assert her supremacy if
artificial hindrances are removed. The
young and middle-aged habitues of al
cohol have, on this view of the case, no
excuse whatever for relapse. The farce
reform" of giving up one species Of
excessive artificial stimulation and
adopting another, is probably the most
serious obstacle in the way of curing
the drink evil. In the case of older
habitues it must be though regretful-
ly-admitted that as they have lived
they must continue to live-stimulant of
some kind they must have They are
past the stage of nature in which phys
ical upbuiloing is sufficiently active to
eradicate a lifelong craving and to
partially repair the natural waste of
the body at the same time. Hence
healthful food, drink, fresh air and
rest--nature's stimulants-will not be
sufficient for them.
In word, cure of drunkenness sup.
poses nature assisting In the reform.
In addition to this temptation must be
avoided. The victim must suffer for
awhile, and must expect to suffer; to
be strong against his failing; to feel
an aching void; to tear himself aw =
/ from his former life; to be calm, anJ
watchful, and patient. Unless he in
tends, at the beginning Of his strug
| gle, to do these things, it will be use
less for him to enter upon it. No mat
ter what the ''cure" may be-in these
matters the patient must minister unto
himself. Week.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
ORGANIZED WORK OF WOMEN.
The Widespread influence for Good Ii
Has Welded.


Has Welded.
In an article in the Forum, on "Ths
Achievements of Women's Clubs" Mrs.
Alice IL Rhine points ont that associa.
tions of women have accomplished i'm
portant results for the advancement of
their sex Women, she shows, have
gained the right to vote on school mat
tiers in twe1ty-eight states of the
Union; to serve in hospitals as physi-
clans and nurses; to protect the unfor-
tunate of their own sex as matrons in
police stations They have also OBJ
tanned equal facilities of education in
many of the colleges, and there can be
no doubt that they have made substan'
tial progress in securing a greater de-
gree of independence and an increase
in the number of avenues of employ
ment 1t is largely due to the agitation
and concerted action of women's clubs
or associations that these changes have
to magnify the Importance OF the re-
formatory and benevolent movements
of which women have been the propel-
ling power The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, in particular, has
welded widespread influence fof
good, and may be regarded as one Of
the great humanitarian agencies of our
time and country.
1.-The organized work of women as
yet however, may be said to be in its
infancy. 1t would seem to have future
of splendid possibilities before it, and
may be expected to branch out in vari-
Gus directions. To achieve lasting and
wholesome success in any line Of eff
fort, however, it must adhere" strictly
to the distinctive capabilities for good
of the sex. All men worthy of the
name acknowledge and yield docilely
enough to the influence of woman if
exerted in the true womans way and
for purposes not inconsistent with what
is elevating, refining and helpful in
femnipity. But if women descend to
the average mans level there is grave
danger of injury to both-to women in
the coarsening Of their natures, which
may result; to men in the destruction
of that innate. cbivalrous respect for
womanhood, which even the toughest
of them, in the existing condition Of
things, are seldom without There is
nowhere better opportunity of exer.
eising the characteristic tact and dis
erection of woman than in guiding
Alright the various woman's movements
and keeping them in safe and reasons
BILE channels.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
A Hint to the Wise.

$50 you are going to write to the
girls father to ask him for her, are
you?"
Yep"
"Why don't you go and see him in
person."
1.-THE mail is better, guess"
81 think not"
"But do"
"Come off. Why is it?"
sob, well, the old gent won't choke
the letter. or hit it in the neck, or kick
it downstairs, or anything like that,
don't You know?'
"Oh!"-Detroit Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
Why He Failed.

Teacher-I don't see what's got into
7ou lately. You have always known
-FOUR lessons perfectly, and now you do
lot seem able to comprehend thing,
40 matter how much ] explain it. Are
you sick?
Boy-No, ma'am; but papa and man.
ma is away on visit, and now there
isn't anybody home to explain your ex-
plantations so can understand EN-
Good News
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
There WAS Moro of It.

Little Mamie, whose parents are
poor, is eating dinner with some rich
relatives, one of whom says:
"Well, Mamie, how do you like your
dinner-better than at home?"
st doesn't taste much better, but
don't get through as soon as l do at
home. Texas Siftings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
Needed Finlshing.

Caller-Your daughter is at home
now, is she not? heard she had grad
dated at the Artistic literary and scien-
;ific university
Hostess-She is not at home. She
has gone to n finishing school,
''Why, what for?'
"Oh, to learn how to enter room,
and sit down, and hold u fan, and
blush, you know. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
Eutile MalevOlence.

''There were more than three hun
dred people at Gibson's funeral" said
Watts.
Pm not surprised at hearing it" an
swered Potts, who had once bought a
lot from the late Mr.. Gibson. "They
wanted to be sure they had seen the
last of him. indianapolis journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
Fitted to BECOME "a LAWYER.

Eminent Q. C.-And so you really
think, Bobby, of becoming lawyer
when you grow up?
Bobby-Yes, sir; my. Uncle James
thinks ought to be a lawyer.
@. C.-Does he indeed? And why
does your Uncle James think so? Be-
cause you are so bright and smart?
Bobby-No, sir; because l ask so
many foolish questions.-Demorest's
Magazine.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-27
The Condition.

Benediclz-I'll give you the money for
your shopping on one condition.
Mrs Benedick-I know what that
condition is. That | don't ask for toe
much.
Benedick-No; that you don't ask me
TO go with you.-Puck.