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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
Oufte Distant.

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
ave Patience.

Here is the ring" he cried. Now Will you b
From this time forth engaged TO marry mey''
wv ait till papa see it" said the elf.
I'm not fudge OF diamonds myself
washington Star
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
HOW Kind Some Women Are,

Mrs. Caudle-My husband ages much
more readily than do.
Mrs. Keene (ambiguously}-Of course;
he has so much more to worry him.-Bos-
fOr, Globe
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21

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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
WouId EMMY the Hall

Fair Soprano (having finished her trial)-
Do you think my voice will fill the halls
Grim Manager-I fear it would have just
the opposite efTect.-Boston Courier.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-21
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE ALCOHOL ALPHABET.

A stands for Alcohol; deathlikc it's grip
for Beginner, who takes just one sip.
for Companion, who urges him on
ID for the Demon OF drink that is born
for Endeavor he makes TO resist
stands for Friends, who so loudly insist
G for the Guilt he afterwards feels
H for the Horrors that hang at his heels
his Intention to drink not at ALL
J stands for Jeering that follows his fall.
K for his knowledge that he is a slave.
i stands for the Liquors his appetite Graves.
M for convivial Meetings so gay.
n stands for No that he tries hard to say.
o for the Orgies that then come TO pass.
stands for Pride that he browns In his glass.
Q for Quarrels that nightly abound.
r stands for Ruin, that hovers around.
s stands for Sights that his vision bedim.
stands for trembling that seizes his limbs.
u for his Usefulness sunk in the Sums
v stands for Vagrant that he quickly becomes
W fer Waning OF life that's soon done
X for his exit regretted by none.
Youths OF this nation, such weakness is crime.
Zealously turn from the tempter in time.
DIR. Cyrus Edison, in North American Review.
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are secured, then put out the lights
and get quiet I'll stay here"
Halfway to Gray's ranch, Fowler
met one of the cowboys who told him
that Mr.. Gray was not at home.
Guessing at once that he was the vic
tim Of false message, he rode frantic
ally back to Big Elm.
1t was nearly midnight. and dim
light burning in the post Office assured
him that something must be wrong.
Jumping from his horse, he flung the
door wide open, and stood staring at
the unexpected picture that met his
gaze
Tom Hartley, with his right arm in a
sling, sat on table, which had been
placed directly over the trap-door
Bessie with her fathers trusty Win
chester stood beside him. Strange,
muttered curses came from the cellar.
tom Hartley! You here?" cried the
postmaster. recovering his speech.
Eyes; l thought l was needed, so
came" Tom answered.
what does it mean? ! feared some
thing was wrong"
Some villains tried to rob the post
Office. but have them trapped" and
Tom pointed Significantly toward the
cellar.
In as few words as he could use Tom
related to Fowler how he had over
heard the plot, and how he had hast
ened to the cabin and prepared things
for the reception of the robbers, send
ing them headlong through the trap
door the minute they had entered
through the window.
Tom" and the old mans voice was
husky as he grasped Toms left hand,
you've saved us haven't words to
thank Won. But it's all right. Seer
and he pointed to the old clock on the
wall 1t was ready to strike twelve,
the midnight hour. THE Old Years
dying; let the old fuss die with it."
"Amen!" said Tom and Bess together,
as their hands joined.
And the old bitterness passed out
J with the Old Year, and the dawn of the
New smiled upon the revival of the old
| friendly feeling between the Hartleys
and the Fowlers
The robbers were turned over to the
proper authorities, and the Hartlcys
came over to Big Elm to celebrate the
reconciliation by partaking of good
old-fashioned New Years dinner with
the postmaste,'s family.
"Accordin' to my thinking" said
Fowler, carving the wild Turkey
Drowned to a turn, folks who keen
nursing old fuses throws away lots OF
golden time to do good to each othe~. "
/ AID. ii. GIBSON.
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Ing escaped worse injury, he started
toward the stream, resolved to refresh
himself with sup of water, then hur-
ry to the ranch, where he knew the re-
turn of his horse without its rider would
create alarm.
he was picking his way around a
bluff when voices suddenly attracted
his attention.
Two men we're earnestly engaged in
conversation not ten feat from where
he halted.
He was about to pass on when he
heard them pronounce a certain name.
This determined him to listen, and,
slipping into dark niche of the bluff,
Tom Hartley overheard the following
dialogue:
$50 Old Fowler never mistrusted the
message wasn't o. K?"
mo. worked it slick. You see he
owes Mr.. Gray for money loaned him
to pay off his mortgage, and when l
told him that Gray wanted to zee him
at once on important business, he
racled right out on his pony without
asking me another question"
"Then there's nobody at Big Elm but
the old woman and gal?"
That's all. It'll take old Fowler
till after midnight to get to Gray's, and
by that time we'll have that registered
letter in our own paws"
"How did you find out Old Tompson
had registered letter at Big Elm?"
From his COW puncher, Rum Char
ley. We're good friends, and met
Charley as he was riding back from
Gag ,slnf shis Afseruc3n. Vie Was
swearin' high at Old Fowler for not
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-29
NOTES BY THE WAY.

DELuRIUM tremens kills four people
per day in England
WHISKY causes drunkenness in tho
Bowery, alcoholism on Wall street and
heart failure on Fifth avenue, New
York.
OF the wholesale liquor dealers in
this country sixty-five per cent are
foreigners; of the brewers seventy-five
per cent, and of the saloon keepers
ninetythree per cent
The commander in chief Of the In
dian army sets personal example Of
total abstinence to his men. Over sew
enteen thousand soldiers belong to the
Soldiers Total Abstinence association
of India.
In some recently published results Of
q mess room census, a French journal
list implies that out of two hundred and
ten army officers, but thirty-four could
boast of abstinence from the habit Of
absinthe drinking, the most deadly in
its results of all forms of alcoholism.
THE Zurich (Switzerland) society for
combating the alcohol habit has circu-
lated an appeal on the continent point
ing out the dangers which menace the
future of Europe through the use Of
intoxicauts and calling upon people TO
show their patriotism by becoming alb
staiEers.
WHILE certain Englishman was in
Egypt on business, he was invited by
the governor of the place to dine, with
the explanation that the governors re-
ligion would not allow him to offer
wine. When he heard that his guest
was an abstainer, he exclaimed, with
surprise: "And he is ChristianT"
ISTEMpERANCE, like treason, should
be made odious in the land, and there
is very close similarity between the
two The reasonable man endeavors
to dethrone the rightful sovereign, and
incompetence dethrones reason from
her throne, and reason is the presiding
spirit of our soul the ruler of our soul.
The temperance cause was born in
America but it will never die here. The
lofty sly-piercing Alleghanies were
never built for its monument; the great
valley of the Father of Waters was
never followed for its tomb; the ocean
voice of Niagara will never sound its
requiem; and our starry banner of
freedom will never be its funeral pail
THE Christian Temperance league
aims to secure the organization of
leagues in all churches of all deuomi-
nations. The plan of campaign is 70
have a company 10 every church,
regiment in every town, a brigade in
every county. a division in everv eitv
an army corps in every state, a con-
quering army in the nation. q country
without a saloon
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lettin' him have Q registered letter
that had Just come in for the boss
Fowler said he'd deliver it into no
hands except Tompson's own He
wouldn't accept Rum Charley's receipt
for it, and that's what made him so
mad. It's an important letter, contain
in one thousand dollars from Hepley's
bank in payment Of a check old Tomp-
son had there"
Maybe Old Tompson will post right
over to Big Elm this evenin' for his
letter"
Bother, man! Old Tompson's away
from the ranch and won't be home for
two days. | got everything straight
from Charley. A half pint of brandy
in my pocket did the work. The
moneys at Big Elm. Old Fowler's on
his way to Gray's, and all we've got to
do is to help ourselves"
But what if the women give us
trouble."
"We'll wait till they're in bed, before
we raid the post office. know the
ground well. It'll be easy enough. but
if Bess and the old woman give us
bother, know how to silence them.
Come on over to the cabin, Pete. We'll
need something to brace us up. The
nights gettin' cold"
So the plotters walked away. leaving
Tom to digest as well as he could what
ne had heard.
The post office to be robbed" he
repeated to himself. as he crept
cautiously away from the bluff. "Fow-
Ter summoned off by false message,
and Bessie and her mother alone! He
told me l wasn't needed at Big Elm,
but rather think am now, and as I'm
nearly five miles away haven't min
ute to spare" and, despite the pain in
his arm, Tom walked briskly away
across the prairie.
He recognized in the leader of the
plotters Dave Mowley. a new settler of
questionable character, who had a
small cabin ne ar those bluffs. By some
few persons he was secretly suspected
of having some connection with an out
law gang of Indian Territory; but he
had managed to keep up a semblance
of respectability by working part of
his time for Gray, a wealthy stockman,
some twenty miles from Big Elm.
"Mowley has appeared in his true
character at last" Tom remarked, as
he hurried along toward Fowler's cabin
But I'll foil him"
Then he remembered his injured
| right arm. He could not use his revolt
yer easily with his left hand. What was
he to do?
IN prove poor match against those
two villains, my arm this way," he
said. There's not a house along this
trail where can stop for help, and it's
too far to go home and tell them. The
least delay now is dangerous. must
SAFE Bessie or die in the attempt"
Bessie Fowler was putting out the
light, preparatory to retiring, when a
gentle rap on the window-pane startled
her.
'Oh, Tom! What's the mattere"
Hush! Don't alarm your .nother
yet Let me into the kitchen at once. "
She quickly complied As she closed
the door behind him. she cried;
"oh. Toni Is something wrong with
father9"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-29
Between the Years.

A minutes pause while DER the face OF night
solemn silence reigns, and far and near
A million tongues are hushed, ere wings his
fight
The spirit of the old and dying year.
moments pause, and on the city's heart
pail has fallen, and a mufled bell
Proclaims the hour OF midnight as the dart
OF Time descends-then dies the old years
knell
Then, Changing wildly 10 the listening ear,
From spire and steeple comes the Joyous neal
OF bells that welcome in the infant wear.
Fraught with the wish OF happiness and veal:
And, ere the shades OF night again descend,
The spoken wish has passed from friend tc
friend
walter Sedwin- u Opee Week
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tie shoe off ter git It Seems ike as ef
she's thar ter keep him from it. an 50
he jes groans an comes back ter bed
again. We hain't never said nothin'
more about the buildin' sence. but this
fall, eff the crap turns out good, mebSy
we'll put up another room"
That night slept or tried to sleep
in the bed upon which the baby died.
The next morning we pushed on to d.
Union Signal.
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A DESPERATE CASE.
What . Man win Sometimes Do to Get
Drink.

What . Man win Sometimes Do to Get .
Drink.
A great many students of life as Il
passes have frequently pondered over
the problem of what victim of
alcohol would-or, rather, would not
do for drink when his system craved
1t Of course, they admit that there Is
no crime which a man crazed by liquor
may not commit, but the question has
been to what length will man in pos
session of his senses go when his appe-
tite hungers for stimulant. Col Phil
Trounstine, of Colorado, told story
which illustrates what one individual
would have done il taste Of the ardent
had not been forthcoming.
Along the latter seventies" said
the colonel, II found myself suddenly
called upon to make trip about .
hundred miles into southern Colorado
There was to be no stage for three
days, as the regular coachhad left that
morning, and the business was so
urgent that l had to start at once. 1
looked around for some sort of convey
ance, as l had to carry some traps thaA
/ couldn't pack on horseback very well,
and struck fellow who had a pretty
comfortable wagon ana two pair Of
horses. Well, we struck bargain and
started. Il was evening when curled
up and took a nap. Eariy in the morn
ing my driver asked me to give
him drink. had quart to use in
case of accident you know, but I
told him | hadn't drop. About three
hours later he asked me If l would
drive. l didn't relish driving four
horses. | had paid somebody else to,
and asked him what tue matter was
He said that he would have to lie
down. because he felt that he was GO
ing to die. He said that he had been on
ten-day spree just previously, and had
only brought half plat with him,
thinking that he could fight down the
craving, but he couldn't. and he knew
he was going to die. took pity on
him when understood his condition
and gave him drink An hour or SO
afterwards he asked me for another,
and when | refused, seemingly accep-
ted the inevitable, but begged me to
let him lie down for a few minutes.
and did so. Pretty soon heard says
"'Throw up your hands and give mo
that bottle
Il turned my head u find myself
looking into my own gun, as l had
taken off my belt and laid it in the
wagon bottom.
lyon wouldn't kill me for that bot
tie, would your asked.
81 must have some LIQUOR he re-
piled, and 1 saw he was desperate.
Promise me you will give me drink
when ask for it and 1 will take your
word and give You this gun; but must
have it!'
II promised him and he handed me
the weapon. He only asked for q
drink every hour or two, and when we
reached our destination next day I
asked him if he really would have
killed me il had refused him. He
looked me square in the face and said:
81 would have killed my mother at
that time yesterday II Il had been nee
essary to get whisky and knew she
had it. And believe he would have
done it. too. "-Washington Post.
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"He's all right. believe. only gone
on false Grand"
False errsnd! What do you mean.
Tom?"
mo matter. Is there a valuable let
ter in the post office for Ranchman
Tompson?" he asked.
Yes"
"You must be brave, Bos3fe, and help
me. Mowley and another villain will
make raid on the post Office tonight
to get possession of it." and he briefly
related the plot of the robbers whom
he had overheard.
what can we do?" said the girl,
with white face. We're SO far from
all aid, and your arm hurt that way"
Never fear, Bessie; we'll battle
them some way. Let us go into the
post Office. want to take some
notes"
The post Office of Big Elm was kept
in room which had once been used
as the Fowler kitchen. A long table
surmounted with box divided off into
rude pigeon holes for holding the mail
stood in one corner. The table had one
large drawer, which contained the
postal supplies and all valuable letters
coming to or leaving the Office.
The room had only one window,
while Just beneath it was a large trap
door, leading into the cellar. Tom re-
ceived an idea
Bessie, is the outside cellar door
locked?"
Eyes; securely"
"Well, you take Tompson's letter
AID all the stamps and hide them in
your rocma See that all the windows
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ages which she had purchased at the
country store six miles distant
IL was the last day of Decam Der, and
n lovely afternoon. There was no
SNOW on the prairies of southern Kan
sas To welcome in the New Year to be-
grin on the morrow. Cattle fed on the
Wild grass, and red birds fitted glee-
fully among the sun1ower stalks that
lined the roadside.
Suddenly Bessie became aware of the
approach of horscman across the
prairie to her sight. Something in the
manner OF his riding told her who it
was, and warm flush spread itself
over her fair face.
Good morning, Bessie" he greeted
her, refining his horse in by the side of
her pony, scd looking the love which
nc could not conceal.
GOOD morning. Tom," she returned,
somewhat confused under his beaming
gmze-"I-I mean MIR. Hartley" she
Quickly corrected herself
Let it be Tom as it used to be, =" he
pleaded.
'-lf it wasn't for that old fuss" she
returned.
Bother that old fuss. We needn't
Aeeep that up between us if our dads
DO" lie laughed. There's no sense in
Il. and it's time they turned that old
leaf down. But il they don't it's New
Years tomorrow, Bessie. aud well be-
gin Il new one on our own account.
rta bound to win you"
nrt &ha .,srl,, fa.~ ,o-l.ul
and she strove to change the subject
'Whcn did you get home, Mr.. Hart
isyr"
''Only this morning. Miss Fowler"
Initiating her formality. "And behold
how ] am repaid for my devotion
Hung the Mr. uartleyr"
.'0h. Toni"
That sounds better, if the tone were
only more cheerful See here! I'm
going to ride back with you to Big
Elua, and have talk with your
father"
Bessie, knowing her father as she
did. might have warned Tom of the
1sctessness of such an interview But
he was so handsome, so much i'm
proved by the two years spent in a
northern college, from which he had
Just returned; then what girl does not
possess sufficient faith in her lover to
believe him capable of accomplishing
whatever he undertakes, even to the
stornlng of an obdurate parents
heart?
So side by side, the young couple
rode away together toward Big Elm,
IA isolated country post Office, kept by
Bessie father. Here, twice week,
ehe scattered settlers and cattlemen OF
hat region received their mail. which
was carried from a little railway
station thtty-seven miles to the east
Tom Hartley, a handsome, manly
fellow of twenty-four. just home from
. good college, was the son of pros.
porous ranchman, who lived nearly
eight miles from Big Elm. Time had
been when his and Bcssie's fathers
were famous friends As boys they had
grown up on adjoining farms in Illinois.
Miscu men they had married play.
Naates, two lovely girls, and with their
families had come to Kansas. They
1sxd feruaed a partnership in the cattle
N9Siaess, and for several years they
AR6 Prospered reasonably we'll Mrs.
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as tnc Keeper OF tne Keys
C,ncc in the year IL opens,
At the solemn midnight hour.
When the children sleep, and the old clocks
Awake in the tall church tower.
And then, as It swings on its hinges,
Whoever might peer inside
@guld catch glimpse OF the centuries
That behind in the silence hide.
Egypt and Rome and Tyre.
MI in that mythical place
where the old years rest that were once pos
sessed
nv tho wonderful human race.
The shadowy door swings open,
And q pilgrim enters in,
Hayw-d with o twelve-months struggle
In this world OF strife aud sin
Wsyi him farewell greetingl
1c viii pass no moro this way
THIS weary year who must disappear
In The haven OF yesterday.
The door stir swingeth open.
And outward another comes,
With o stir OF banners and bugles
And the beat OF friendly drums:
kffs hands are fun Of beauty
The cluster the song the sheaf
Inc snow-iakes wing, and the budding spring
And the foam on the crested reef
This Is the New Year, darlinas,
Oh, haste 10 give him cheer.
Only the Father knowcth
The whole of his GRAND here
1'his is TIE New Year. darlings;
year for work and play.
For doing our Test, and for trusting tho rest
To ibc Maker 81 night and day
-hargaret +. Sangstc., in Harper's Young
People.
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ESSIE FOW L.
Err, her pretty
face glowing
with exercise,
W as ri d i n e
home, her lap
full of pa ok