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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
The Local Markets.
GRkTN ETN

Wheat-903e2c.
Corn-4SlI52c.
Rye-Ta6Slc.
Oats 32134c
Bran -S5c per cwt,
Ships 'uff-sl 90 per cwt
lay-Tfmothy. Sl1G1a; prairie, lo0li; clover
5000; baled. gil 90.
PRODUCE.
Butter-Fairt to choice, 12hc; creamery, 22024c
Eggs Fresh 14c; packed. I0c.
Poutry-Chickens, 1OG12K; turkeys f2kc
ducks, 12hc; geese, 10c.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Apples-S2. .250$2.7 IS per bbl. So
Potatoes-25c
Onions-S0GS5c.
Turnps-451 Soc.
81. LIVE STOCK
Satte-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
3Q4Kc
Hogs -4c.
Sheep-4G5c.
Hard-7 5N07 75.
Soft-2 1902 So
Common boards Sl6.
Joist Scanthng and timber, 12 to IS feet, s13
Every additional foot in length 50 cents.
A Shingles ~ IS.
Lath So SO.
Fencing 12to i6feet SIS.
ock boards, rough Sl6
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
Senator Hin at Asbury Park.

AsBURY PARK, y. j., June Ex-senator
David B. Hill visited Norman by the Sea
Saturday afternoon and was the guest of
General F. p. Earle. In the evening a
ball was given in his honor. Yesterday
morning Senator Hill drove to ST. Peters
church in Galilee. at Monmouth Beach,
and in the afternoon accompanied by
General Earle, drove to Seabright, return
ing by the way of the Highlands of Nave
sink. He returned to New York early this
morniuR-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Twenty-Eight Miles Wide at Burlington
Trains Abandoned.

BURLINGTON, Ia, June 26-The Missis.
sippi river at this point is now nearly
twenty eight miles wide, and boats can
run to Gladstone, Ills, twelve miles in
land. Many building are submerged in
the lowlands. All trains are abandoned on
the st. LOUIS, Keokuk and Northwestern
road, and the Carthage branch of the
Burlington road is in danger of being
washed out at several points.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
Failure of a Kansas Rank,

ERIE, Kan, June 27.-United States
Bank Examiner George A. Stone has closed
the First National bank of this place. The
extent Of the liabilities is unknown. The
heaviest loser is Neosho county, the taxes
for June having Just been deposited to the
amount of so 600 or $50. 900
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
A Minute aud a Hnif Session.

WASHINGTON, June 27-Before the read
ing of the iourpal Saturday Watson OF
Georgia maize the point that there was no
quorum present, and the house adjourned
after the shortest session on record, it last
ing just one minute and half There has
been no quorum for a week, but Speaker
Crisp Saturday notified all absentees to
come back TO duty and this week it is pro-
posed to rush business.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
Death of a Well Known rurfman

LEXINGTON, KY, June 27.-D. ID. Bell.
the well known turfman and capitalist.
died here yesterday afternoon of paralysis.
Mr.. Bell was familiar figure on the
western tracks, and leaves fortune val
ued at S5O0,O00.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
NOBILITY ABROAD.

THE new South Australian ministry
has premier aged forty-two. Hon.
Frederick Holder. The chief secretary
of the ministry is forty-two. The CON-
missioner for Crown Lanus is thirty
four.
yIR JAMES CREIGHTON BROWNE. an
eminent dental authority, is quoted as
authority for the assertion that future
generations in England are threatened
with toothlessness.
SIR RICHARD WALLACE says that
though Alexandra Dumas was famous
as a gastronome and culinary artist,
his favorite dish was beef left over
from the soup of the day before and
broiled.
BARON ALPuoNsE DE RoTHscHILD has
his principal pictures so hung that they
can be instantly countersunk into the
walls and protected by chilled steel
shutters lie is quite prepared for the
raids of the anarchists or the visits o1
the iconoclasts
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The parade on Tuesday will be .
magnificent spectacle, unusual trouble
and expense having been incurred in
preparing the floats and moving spec
tacles, while from the $4,000 gas
and electric lights brilliant rays of
countless shades will add to the splen-
dor and magnifcence of the scene.
Enormous crowds will view the parade
from points of vantage along the route,
and excursion trains will be run to the
CITY from various locations Specially
low rates for the carnival will be made
by the various railroads next week, and
it will be possible to secure round-trip
tickets for one fare from nearly every
depot in this section.
Advantage should be taken of this op.
portunity, for the attractions next
week are so numerous that fresh enjoy
ment can be found every day. The ex.
position, with its four concerts daily by
the grandest band in America; the fair,
with special attractions in the ring
every day, to say nothing of the Yelled
prophet and of the magnificent illumi
nations of Tuesday and Thursday, will
combine to make the first week OF Octo
Der, 1892, week never to be forgotten
by residents in, or visitors to, the great
western and southwestern metropolis
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
THE YELLED PROPHET.
Final Arrangements for His Maj
esty's Annual Visit.
Arrival by Water and Military Parade on
Saturday-Grand Parade and Ball
on Tuesday-Fair Week
Attractions.

ST. LOUIS, Sept 90. The Yelled
Prophet will arrive the day after to-
morrow, and every one is now discuss
ing the details of his grand entrec and
of the magnificent festival, parade and
ball of next Tuesday. For fourteen
years in succession the mystic monarch
has visited the city. arriving every year
in a secret manner, and not making his
appearance until the parade. But this
year the carnival at St Louis is so much
grander than anything which has pre-
ceded it, that His Majesty has decided
to make formal entree, and he will
accordingly arrive by boat on Saturday
afternoon. He will DE met by the First
regiment N. G. NJ, and by large dele
CATION of influential citizens. The
Prophet will hold reception at the
Exposition in the afternoon and will
then retire to his 'den," from which he
will emerge on Tuesday afternoon.
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Interrogation Points.

The owner of q small piece of ground,
forty feet, fronting on Randolph street,
in Chicago has executed a lease for the
use of it by another party for the UNI
usually long term of 1913 years. The
annual rental to be paid for the use of
this little piece of earth is $4,000. The
total in 1913 years will be s1,5s4, 900.
The ''owner" of the ground has been
holding it vacant for a long time, watt
ing for just such an opportunity as has
now opened up before his delighted
vision. He has not improved the land,
but has generously permitted other
people to improve the surrounding land
in innumerable ways, thereby steadily
enhancing the value of his particular
holding. And now the city is SO big
and growing SO rapidly that he is able
to lease his ground, as above stated,
to q man who will improve it and use
it. OF course Chicago and every other
growing city is honeycombed with such
object lessons, but / select this one
merely as basis for few plain, perth
nent questions, which, possibly, the
single-tax-hating Tribune would like to
answer:
Was the rental value of the ground
mentioned created by the present indi
vidual owner?
If not by him, was it created by the
community; that is, by all the people
who unitedly have made Chicago what
it is?
If that value was created by the en-
ergy and industry of the community as
a whole, does it not justly belong to the
community?
If not, why not?
If ground rent rightfully belongs to
the community, how does the commune
ty rob" anybody, or ''confscate" any
body's property, by taking for public
use that which the public made, owns
and needs?
Is not the '.robber' or 'confiscator"
the individual who appropriates to his
own use that which belongs to the
public?-Ralph E. Hoyt
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OUT or THE WORN PATH.
WEST INDIA people eat alligator egg

WEST INDIA people eat alligator eggs.
THE thirty-two teeth in the mouth of
John McDarby. of Salmon Falls, Mass,
are all double.
A woMAN's tombstone is the only one
In England upon which the epitaph is
written In shorthand.
a VIEW tree, said To be three thousand
years old, is still flourishing in q GENE
terry at barley Dale, England.
A PLANTER in A,palachicola, Fla, has
grown an immense cabbage; single
stalk with four well-developed heads.
A FREAK of nature, large tree which
possesses the characteristics of pine
and an oak. may be seen near Ashburn-
ham. Mass In the fall of the year pine
burs fall on one side and acorns on the
other.
TIE smallest Bible in existence has
recently been issued by the Oxford uni
versity press. II is three and three
quarter inches long, two and one-eighth
inches wide and seven-eighths of an
inch thick.
A NEW YORK halter has just made a
nat eight and three-eighths In size. Inc
length and width are nine and a quar-
ter by seven and half. This, he says,
is the size necessary to the comfort OF
the man with the biggest head in town.
JouN BOYD TEACHER, of Albany, N.
r., has presented that city with the
original bill signed by Queen Anne and
Earl Godolphin to compensate Albany's
first mayor, Peter Schuyler, for taking
four Indian chiefs to England in ITO.
A SWARM of bees took possession o,
the candy store of Frank 7. Theburg,
In New Brunswick, N. j.. and held the
fort and gorged themselves with con
fectionery for three days They were
eventually killed by the fumes of sui.
phur. There were over a barrelful OF
dead bees
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street on which my lot was located, I
thought it remarkable that I should
somehow get moro for nothing than
could make by three months work In
the school-room.
On the new lot which I had bought I
commenced to make some improve
ments. Having put around it a fence
at a cost of $50, / leveled the land,
sowed it with grass, planted two dozen
trees of rare variety, and thus at a cost
of about $500 made it look like an at
tractive building lot, instead of ridged
field. How unwise this was was soon
shown by the arrival of the assessor.
Because of these improvements the lot
was assessed at s2,250. / might not
have given a second thought to this sal
uation but for a contrast Opposite my
lot Spectator had bought five acres.
The land was still in cultivation, SO
that it looked like farm land. Although
it lay between my lot and the city, and.
therefore, nearer to population, and
moro desirable, its assessment was at q
rate just one-tenth high as mine.
This again struck me as queer. felt
that had been punished for building a
fence and planting trees.
Subsequently built house, which
was welcomed as great improvement
to that locality. The vacant lots adj
joining my property were owned by a
gentleman in New York city. His agent
told me. in delightful innocence, that
had doubled their price. This again
struck me as queer; that a poor school
teacher in Virginia should add hum
dreds to the wealth of a man in New
York, whom he had never SO much as
seen.
The queerness of these object-lessons
was fresh in my mind while was read
ing and rereading Progress and Pow
erty," and they helped me to appreci-
ate some of its revelations.
AS read on, / could not but see how
the homely events that had been going
on before my eyes in<that corner of old
Virginia were interviewer with the
greatest social problem of the day.
Since that time, whether in Virginia, or
Missouri, or Louisiana, or New Hamp-
shire, / have found no lack of similar
instances. The consolation is that.
wherever have been, have found an
increasing number of those who appre.
ciate the exposition of the master who
has thrown his light upon the injustice
of system which fosters such transac-
tions-Prof. James II. billiard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
Golden and Land Reform.

The reformation of the land system
had not become a political question in
the days of Golden, and when he
thought the time had arrived to make
it so, the hand of death was upon him.
In the last speech he ever made he said;
IF / were twenty-five or thirty years
instead of twice that number, would
take Adam Smith in hand, and would
have league for free trade in land as
we had league for free trade in corn. F"
Volumes have been written to explain
what Golden meant, for he died few
days after saying that, but the COM
ments are speculations only. What he
meant will never be definitely known.
That he intended radical change in
the land system is very likely. First,
because he was a radical in opinion and
practice, and secondly, because in a
hundred speeches he had shown his ha-
tired of landIordism and his contempt
for landlords. His ridicule of their pre-
tensions turned their wine into vinegar,
and he feared them above all other men.
One night in the house Of commons,
when they were masquerading as the
agricultural interest,"" he said: "a
landlord is no more an agriculturist
than shipowner is sailor. Gen.
Trumbull, in American Journal Of Pol
itics
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT,
Effect of the Single Tax.

All wealth being, in the last analysis,
tic product of land and labor, the whole
secret of its just distribution lies in
securing to every man the full reward
of the free application of his labor to
natural opportunities. Any laws, there
fore which tend to restrict the Use of
such notwithstanding some to
use them more freely than others-will
result in an unfair distribution of the
wealth produced. Remove such restric-
tons, cqualize the benefit of natural
opportunities. and just distribution of
wealth will follow without further leg
islation to that end.
Under our system of private owner
ship in land we find mines wholly or in
part shut down; great water power un-
used; thousand of acres of arabic land
untouched by the pillow; more than one
third of Manhattan Island unbuilt
upon; while thousands of men are
clamoring for work, and while thou
sands more, painfully toiling for scanty
wages, are forced to contribute from
their pittance towards taxes on thrift
and production. exacted to replace the
natural community fund now taken by
individuals
But let it be understood by the own
crs of all valuable natural opportuni-
ties-whether of mines or water power,
arabic lands or city lots-that they
must pay over to the community the
full rental value of their monopoly, and
they find themselves obliged, in order
to make such holdings possible with
profit, to develop them to their utmost
capacity With the communicated
in the commu nity's treasury, there is
an end of taxes on the products of la
Dor; and facilities for the production of
all commodities are consequently so in
creased that, together with the press
ing need of capital for labor, comes the
ability of labor to employ itself with
out the aid of capital. Labor, not
work, would then be the scarcity, and
an immediate consequence would be a
rise in the wages of even the unskilled
labor.
This increase in the purchasing power
of labor, coincident with the cheaper
ing of commodities, soon enables all to
call for the comforts and adornments of
life as well as for bare necessaries,
again raising wages by fresh demand
for labor, while indefinitely extending
the field for its exertions. This action
and reaction must go on, labor costing
more and more, and the things produced
by labor less and less, until--through
no legislative interference, paternal or
otherwise, but simply through the un-
hampercd action of the laws of produc-
ton and consumption-the laborer, al
ways and everywhere, receives the full
reward of his labor.
Under such conditions nothing but
incidence and vice can lead to want
Not grinding poverty, but unanxious
competence must be the lot of every
worker who enjoys the full product of
his work; while monstrous fortunes
cease to be menace when no man can
appropriate the wages of another, or
receive, unless by gift, more than he
earns.
To bring about such contamination
who would not devote himself?-Mar-
garet S. Littell.
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Some Object Lessons.

The following experiences are plain
illustrations of the rewards of land
speculation, and of the prevailing ideas
of assessment, and 1 therefore offer
them to the readers of the Standard. 1t
will be seen that the evils here typified
might have been considerably amelio-
rated by just and strict application
of present laws, and l am quite sure
that workers for the single tax cause
can hardly put forth their efforts to
better effect than by trying to get the
present laws rightly executed. Ninety
nine per cent. of the assessors of town
property, some in ignorance and some
in lack of conscience, sport with the
laws of taxation, virtually changing
them from lot to lot, from street to
street. There is no law for assessing
unimproved lots, and yet this practice
is well nigh universal. / should be
happy to join club which should make
its object that of trying to beat into
the heads of assessors the fact that va
cant lots are fused" just as much as
lots that are occupied, and that specu-
lation is use that does not deserve
special favoring.
In 1881, in Norfolk, Va. where was
at that time working as principal of a
private school, attended an auction of
lots in Brambleton. suburb not then
made part of the city. 1 bought for
SIS one of the last two lots that were
sold. Thirty-six lots had been knocked
down to a wealthy gentleman ut an
average price of about sS5. The rest
were bought by intending builders,
who, like myself, were looking for
lots whereon to make homes for them
selves.
In the course of few years, houses
sprang up as by magic. The streets
were graded, sidewalks laid, and Bram-
bleton became the growing quarter.
My lot being but thirty feet front,
concluded that wanted more land
therefore bought 125 feet, farther out.
at Is a foot, and sold the former lot.
This thirty feet, for which / had paid
SIS, brought readily SIPS cash.
Meantime, the thirty-six lots bought
by the rich man for speculation were
growing in weeds and value, and daily
becoming more and more an eyesore to
the community. ] knew of his refus-
ing $500 for a lot that had cost him
about forty; and yet he was making no
contribution to such improvements as
grading and sidewalks, which were car
ried en- largely by the voluntary contri-
buttons of those who were building
houses around his vacant lots. When
approached by world-be purchaser,
his reply was that he was saving his
property for his soma boy in knee
pants. He could well afford to hold the
land, since, as being considered unpro-
ductive. it was assessed at an insignifi-
cant amount.
That struck me as queer. Here was
a man who was positive drawback to
the progress of the place, and yet MAX
ing out Of it some thousands per cent
As to myself. while had contributed
ny das share V tAe grading OF the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

-Dominie-"Now, boys, what is tn e
meaning of the word ubiquitous?
Forty-six tongues are painfully si-
lent. Dominie-"Dear me. what igno-
rance! ubiquitous means existing
everywhere And now can you give
me an instance of something that is
ubiquitous?" Chorus of forty-six
tongues while forty-six arms were
simultaneously uplifted)-''Yes sir.
'Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay,' SIR"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
Another Cry for the Single Tax.

If the single tax system should be
adopted, we would not now hear Of
half as many complaints about the un-
just taxation of personal property.
Take for instance East ST Louis this
year. The assessor there has returned
as money loaned out by its people the
small srm of $500. There is to-day
$50, 900 leaned out by the citizens Of
East St Louis Therefore, we say, it
would be a blessing to the people if
nothing was taxed but land Let per-
sonal property 60 untaxed. and the
question OF equalization OF taxation
wiz b solved, ~Mascestah, w |HsgsA
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
THE MOST STUBBORl

THE MUST SI'OBBOktN
Skin and Scalp Diseases, the worst
forms of Scrofula, all blood taints
and poisons of every name and nat
urc, are utterly rooted out by DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
For every disease caused by q torpid
liver or impure blood, it is the only
remedy so certain and effective that
it can be guaranteed. If it fails to
benefit or cure, you have your
money back.
Eczema, letter, Salt-rheum, Fry
sipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Enlarged
Glands, Tumors, and Swellings, and
every kindred ailment, are COM
pletely and permanently cured by il.
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GiYa liz Rest.

This is tho prayer of the nervous who do
not sleep well. Let them use Hostetter'I
Stomach Bitters and their prayer will be
speedily answered. Insomnia is the prod
uct OF indigestion and nervousness, two as
sociate ailments, soon remedied by the Bit
tiers, which also vanqu' shes malaria. con.
stipation. liver complaint, rheumatism and
kidney complaints
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
Have You Asthma,

DIR. r. SCHIFFMANN, St Paul, Mimi, will
mail trial package OF Schiffmanns Asthma
Cure free to any sufferer. Gives instant re-
lief in worst cases, and cures where others
fail. Name this paper and send address.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24
A Celestial Body.

At the Circus "Who's the big In
dian smoking a cigarette?"
That's Moon-faccd Charley"
"What does he do?"
"He takes star part in the SUM-
dance. Judge.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

W. II. GRIFFIN, Jackson, Michigan, writes
Suffered with Catarrh for fifteen years.
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me-" Sold by
Druggists, 75c.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

DoN'T fool with indigestion nor with ,
dis0rdered liver, but take Beecham's Pill!
for immediate relief. 25 cents a box
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

THE mother tongue is probably tho Ian
guage of Mars.-YoDker's Statesman.
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The law allowing three days. grace ON n
note does not apply to a musician. They
must take up the notes at sight, as they be-
come due, or the whole will go to protest.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

If you want to be cured of q cough use
Hale's Honey of Horehouud and Tar
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

IT is an easy matter these days TO warm
up for any mergency.-Binghamton Re-
publican.
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HAND times may make us careful, but it's
good time that makes us tight.-Peck' $
Sun.
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If you do not want your feelings hurt
keep them out Of the way. Galveston News.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

"DoEs your wife know you werc out last
nightl' "Yes. But she doesn know how
much"
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! "THE A. B. q. Bohemian Bottled Beer
made by the American Brewing Co. OF St
Louis, is delicious. 1t is sparkling.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-12-24

LAWYERS may be poets; they write lots Of
''versus. Texas S.ftings
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SHE-"Do you summer in the country1v
Hc-"No; simmer In the city."-Puck.
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THE oyster. like good many other people
Of fashionable pretensions, is in the swim
during the summer, only to find himself in
the soup when winter comes.-Boston Tran
ecript