davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

down on his programme to roll ont Of bed
with the coverings 'w8psed' around him
till 1t took two minutes 10 kick himself
loose. DuriI the interval he was Yelling
Fire and directing Mrs. B0wser to tele-
phone to Tho police station. She had the
bedroom door open for him to run down
stairs, but ho got into the hall to canter ND
and down and dodge into the various rooms
and ont again
Mr.. Bows y. be caIm," she called TO him
as she seized his arm and tried to hold him.
"Nes-yes-I am calm-Firei Police. The
house i on fi-e.' he shouted in reply as he
broke away and continued his cantering.
Mrs. BOwser let him go and hurried down
stairs. where she found the covering of the
lounge smoking and smoldering from con
tact with the cigar be had smoked just be
fore going to bed. She ran into the kitchen
and filled the first dish she could find with
water and hld the fire out ut one dash
She had turned to go up stairs when there
was fall and a great humping and clat-
tering, and down rolled Mr.. Bowser with
his arms tiGl tly clasped around a soapbox
full of old hats and shoes which he had
pulled out Of the storeroOm at the back of
the house.
Our child!' she screamed as he brought
up in the hall
''Yes-our clild be hanged. Police. We
shall be burned alive.' he yelled as ne
struggled up and few up the stairway.
She followed a minute later to find him
galloping around the upper hall with foot
bath under one arm and an old picture
frame under the other, and he didn't come
to a realizing sense Of the situation until he
had raised a back window and heaved them
into the yard. When he had learned what
caused the smoke and that all danger was
passed. he sat down on a chair and waved
his arm euthu 5iastically and exclaimed:
Didn't tel you sog Didn't say should
be as cool as &c and make every move &C
cording to programme? BY George, but
that was a close shave. You were perfect
ly helpless, and between having to look out
for you and tie child and put the fire ont
had business enough for any two menu
Mrs. Bowser looked hard at him and was
going to speal-. but on second thought she
didn't say "A word and to this hour Mr.
Bowser continues to brag Of how he did just
the right thing at the right time to save
them all from being cremated
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

-.
o. o. 'ne yo.il2 man lace a. ne started Tor
s,e a'I 80 80 ol ',l i-'.'l OF tne lrLi-
ID 20 . aC ~ q. lo--'I d i'i'ii Ice Wen
ie IiH' d. IA. iL''I =. -7 nina TO GO or o!e'
! anoch' =. i "A, iA'-'oN.
~ - 40
-. !o"nS ti1H ''s-, ''''1 Tor tle NIL
ilolla part OF " Ne-.'ho ana drew 4 long
pre- ple,,,ti IL was ''.'',.>' ,..e rules OF the
mouse lor an emg.oFee 10 draw long
breath curing WORKING hours, but our hero
cn ..II- IL L.
l~eL.5'' "a. i-''-,' O. 'ne iiril as
nc IooA@ - ~ WIN IL! &c! gre IN ms eyes.
VT OFefa!i' pe5ait the Young man -
ne mace d great eiie4' - control his emo
tlonS' l lave '@e-t Win you over lou
years.
les.
.fuSV that curing thus long period my
CONDUCT mas been SucA thai
but this l. no tins - come to me with
any saca request
UT, OFefa.i' was ADVISED to come TO
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
Back from the Dead Letter Office.

The average citizen Is prone TO de-
nounce the postoffice department and
everybody connected with it upon gen
eral principles until he encounters a case
of dead letter Office ingenuity and atten-
ton in which he Is personally interested.
after which he is thoroughly convinced
that the postoffice department is the only
really good establishment conducted by
Uncle Samuel.
One Of these fellows mailed a photo
graph TO lady at Wilkesbarre some
weeks ago, and when it was not deliv-
cred to her he fairly boiled over in Sian
dering the department. Last week he
received a nicely worded request to call
at room 90, postoffice building, for "a
valuable letter" He called, and a most
polite young woman handed him the
missing photograph, which he had mis-
directed
"How III the world did yos locate
me- he asked.
"Oh, the photographer, who was fur
nished with the number of your mega
tive, supplied your name and address to
the dead letter Office, and the photo
graph was forwarded here for delivery"
Philadelphia Record.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

widow who had just arrived from the east,
and il she panned out favorsbly TO propose
marriage. A friend over there had put us
on by telegraph. and we almost killed our
racing mule il our impotence to get there.
1t may be superfuous to explain that we
are single man and have had our eye out
for the coming woman for several years
rnst. In due course Of time we reached
Rockville, which hasn't even good game
of poker to recommend it to an Arizona
editor, and in further due time we were in
troduced to the widow we fully intended
to go into partnership with and place in
control of the Sunday school department
of THE KICKER
We were prepared for large feet, snub
nose and few missing front teeth, but not
for the spectacle which sat down on chair
before u.s. She was a short, sawed off wom-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

Chauncey N. Depew was passing along
the corridor Of the parlor floor at thu
Auditorium the other afternoon about ?
o'clock, and noticing a large number of
handsome young ladies in the south par
Tor with mans curiosity he stroIled up
TO the door, reduced his brisk step to a
dead march anl turned his eyes upon
the gathering. Il started back IS q fair
haired yoUL- lady exclaimed:
'Why, there's Mr. Depew." and run
ming up to the doctor seized his two
hands, and before the noted orator could
recover from his surprise his handsome
young captOr half led and half dragged
him into the center Of the room, cHb-y
talking 70 him all the while.
Doctor, you're a member Of our class.
and you must 90 along up TO dinner and
make the class a response"
The doctor said. i don't quite under
stand this, but 1 am willing to acknowl-
edge membership in this class and at
tend three sessions of school a day and
never ask for a recess. Now, who and
what am T.
You are" said the young lady who
had discovered him passing the door
way, IAN honorary member of the class
of 80 Of Wellesley college. This Is the
annual meeting of the Western Alumni
association"
He spoke to the members then and
there, but could not be present at the
dinner Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
Bullet Waves.

One of the interesting results of the
recent experiments in England in photo
graphing flying bullets has been to show
that the disturbance in the air travels
faster than the bullet itself.
The photographs exhibit air waves in
advance Of the bullets, even when the
latter are moving faster than the veloc-
ity of sound.
In one case where the bullet was NOV
ing considerably faster than sound trav-
els III the air it was preceded by an at
mospheric disturbance which, at the
moment the photograph was taken, was
half an inch in advance of the point of
the bullet. Even when the bullets were
travelling four times as fast as sound the
atmospheric disturbance kept ahead of
them.-Youth's Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

not Nnth the FNcnt Iakes race he
p,,csn't eaite Come Up to the siark-But
I,'s Vesy Different When the Fire Is All
Cat.
tCorS-isAt, 1876. by Charles B. Lewis
Mrs fSowser," said Mr.. Bowser as he
looked NJ from his paper the other even
ms, has il ever occurred to you that this
aousc might get afire some night"
How could it.n she innocently asked.
How could it, Why, in 10000 different
ways. That's just like a woman. So long
As nobody builds bonfire in the basement
she argues that the house is safe from
,oufagra,ion. You should go to bed every
night with the possibilities of a fire in
view"
do yous"
Certainly do. and 1 know exactly how
should act under the circumstances.
should be just as cool and calm as at this
very moment. Have You ever given q
thought a to what you would dos'
! never have, but know l should go
out of the house, - she answered.
That's the woman of it-no thought. no
plan, but trusting to luck. There isn't one
chance in a hundred, Mrs. Bowser-no, not
one chance in million-that YOU would
escape with your life unless l assisted you.
You woulC awake to be confused, mistake
the clotheSpress door for the back stairs,
and having got in there You would remain
until overco ONE by smoke and heat"
In your confusion you might go into the
bathroom, quietly observed Mrs Bowser.
In my confusion, Are You talking TO a
man - years old or TO a boy of 81 It's no
wonder thu women are the ignorant, help
less creatures we ind them, The minute =
husband baEins to talk sense his wife loses
all interes5 in his conversation and even
ridlcules him! It's all right, however-all
right. Ii YOU want 10 leave your charred
skeleton amidst the blackened ruins of the
house, l have no particular objection. |
suppose could hire man 10 gather up the
bones in q soapboX and bury EN- some
where for a couple of dollars
and Mr.. Bowser crossed his hands under
his coattai.s and proceeded to pace back
and forth across the room and utterly
ignore the fact OF Mrs. Browser's continued
presence. \ night or two later, a. he slept
and dreamed, something nudged his ribs,
and he heard a voice saying:
Wake up, Mr.. Bowser. Wake up,
Can't You smell the smokes do believe
the house i on fire.
II was the voice Of Mrs. Bowser. and he
sat up in bed and rubbed his ewes and
shouted Fire" and Police at the top of
his voice
Get out Of bed and hurry down stairs
and see If you can put it out" she called to
him as she sprang out herself.
Mr.. Bowslr had declared that he would
be calm and that he had figured out n reg
ular programme TO follow. Perhaps it was
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
"yess that's me y

''Ysss, that's me-
''Get drunk pretty often, but considered
harmless
"Yass, git drunk about once a week,
and never kick up no rows"
Getting out saw logs last Monday,
weren't you!"
"Yass."
And rsAile skidding log the chain
broke and tbs log rolled back and crushed
you as fat as pancake, didn't it,"
NO. That's whar you ar mistaken. /
got outer the way, and it was my brother
Bill who got fattened. Bill was chunky
Teller about feet high, and that log took
him endways and flattened him out till he
was feet long"
do you mean to deny that you were
killed." roared the editor as he pounded on
his desk
WAL, as l was sayin, it was Bill
who .
Bill! Bill What does this paper know
or care about your brother Bill. Here's
whole column Of matter, and tomorrow we
60 to press, and I'll be hanged if fill that
space with patent medicine ads! This thing
has got to go.''
But it was Bill who was killed.
Didn't / say Bill be hangeds Do YOU
suppose I'm going to throw away whole
column of matter already in the form?
That log hit you. Is u were dead when
they picked you up. You left a wife and
10 children in destitute circumstances
You were buried yesterday That's all.
and if you go around denying it I'll give
you a licking which viii keep you in bed
for month";"
Mr.. Thompson's hair stood up as he hur-
ried down two flights Of stairs Then an
idea struck him, and he halted to say to
the editor, who was watching his descent:
Its all right, but you might tack on
line or two at the bottom"
What shall l say:''
About as follows: The deceased will
continue to come to town and get drunk as
usual, and we hope he has found his reward
in the land abover"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Suffering n Collapse From the Hands of a
Corpulent Widow.

APOLoGETICtL.-For the third time in its
career THE KICKER is obliged to issue a
half sheet this week in place of the usual
eight page monster aggregation of artistic
illustrations and interesting reading mat
ter. Our cocoanut headed contemporary
will of course make great howl over il,
but we trust that our excuses will be found
ample and our ems of thousands of readers
forgiving. AS an offset for the limited
quantity of matter we have filled the half
sheet with art cles OF unusual interest
Readers will find fair accounts of 10 differ
ent lynchings, three regular hangings, two
cold blooded murders, several highway rob
berries and three escapes from Jail
After the issue of our paper last week we
took a run over to Rockville, just across
the Utah line. Our object was to size up a
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
IT HAD 10 GO.

He Was a Dead Man and There Was No
Way Out of II.
Look a-here, he began after climbing
the four flights Of steep stairs which led TO
the Office of The Golden Era and being di-
rected to the editorial sauctum, I've heard
that you heard that l was dead.
Whats the Names asked the editor.
joel Thompson of Hickory Corners"
Yes, we had a report Of your death"
Heard I was killed under saw log.
didn't you:"
Yes. ! sent n man out there, and he has
written about q column in regard to j.
which will be published tomorrow. Would
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

WILL somebody please take hold Of
the cogs in the wheel OF time and
launch it forward a little to get US
beyond the frazzled end of the base
ball season? There has been so
much of Smith swiping a three
Dagger and OF earned runs. stolen
bases and the like that the frosts OF
January, with linen buster and no
fuel, would be precious relief
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

A GOOD many people do not know
that when anything whatever is at
tached to a postal card, except an
address tag, it is thereby rendered
unavailable as postal card. and can
be sent in the mails only as frst-class
matter A newspaper clipping or
picture pasted on postal card makes
a one-cent stamp necessary on the
other SIDE.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

THE close of the Behring sea con.
troyersy is very much like what
happens after war. Neither side
will own to having been entirely
beaten. The seals alone have won
an undoubted triumph. They are to
be protected except against such reg
Mated destruction as wall prevent
them from determination.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
TUESDAY, OcroBER 5. 1898.

PRINCE HENRY OF Prussia has been
decorated with a cross for distin-
guished service, not the least inter
esting circumstance being that the
Young man seems to have deserved
the distinction.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

THE worlds fair is $500. 900 ahead
OF the game on past business. and its
best two months are yet to come.
There are no conspicuous reasons in
sight why Chicago should regret her
great undertaking.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
Your Ii oney OF You Lii, :"

such demand. Il tie month Of s 'six-snoot
or,' se's man tiinfing pre- Is lively, With a
little mere thinking there wouIt be less suffer
ne.
Think Of the terrible re.u = cf neglected con-
sumpt on hiCh mi-h, cas- Is be ayerted by the
timely use OF Nalures Great spec tic Or. Pierce s
Golden Medical Discovery.
Consumption. which j. LING scrufula. is a con-
stitUtional disease, and requ'r u such i thor
ouCh and ef ctual constitutional remedy Taken
in time, before The luuG-tssues are wasted. il Is
guaranteed radical cure, Equally certain in
all scrofulous sffecticns and blood disorders.
Large bottles. one doIar. Of any oruGg;sr
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03

New Zealand cheese is becoming a
considerable competitor Of the American
product IN Great Britain. \ single ship
ment of $50 tons was landed in London
in perfect order a few weeks ago.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-03
HE WAS VERY CALM.
5oWSsR TELLS HIS WIFE WHAT TO
90 IN CASE OF FIRE.

Ea, Whom the Event Takes Place He
Doesn't oeite Come Up to the Niark-But
Is's Vesy Different When the Fire Is All
put.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-15
A Brighten Outlook

There is noticeable relaxation in the
currency stringency in New York The
imports of gold and the increase in the
national bank circulation having a
good effect. There has been marked
decline in the premium on currency, and
large loans of time money arc being made
at per cent. The Bank of England is
Directing to parting with any more of its
gold, but the Bank of France is showing
a willingness to part with some of the
yellow metal it has received from the
United States within the past year
The increased ease in the time money
market has created a better feeling in
New York, and unless something happens
to change the situation the money strin-
gency in the near future will be much less
apparent than it has been for the last two
or three weeks.
There seems to be a disposition in con
gress to let national banks issue currency
to the par value of their deposited bonds.
A bill for that purpose has already been
agreed upon by the finance committee Of
the Senate. Should the bill become a law
the volume Of the currency would be
largely increased. The financial situa-
ton. though bad enough, certainly has
some signs of improvement.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-15
A settIcnent. but whenp


There will De some sort Of % settlement
! % the silver question. but when That
1 question is Just now receiving q good deal
/ of attention. Tho House viii begin vot-
/ ing on various propositions relating 10
I silver after two weeks debate. and 10
I will be known probably on Aug. D or a
/ dav or two after that date. whether that
| branch Of congress favors tine unCondi-
/ tional repeal Of the law authorizing the
| purchase Of silver or free coinage Of
/ silver at an increased ratio. But when
will il be known what the Senate favors
| There is no rule in that body to prevent
| unlimited debate, and no agreement has
been reached as there has been in the
House in respect to a day fer taking a
vote The debate in the Senate may
run along for q couple Of weeks after the
House has acted
But if a vote is taken in both branches
of congress at about the same time, it is
believed they will reach different conclu-
sions 1t is thought that the House will
act in accordance with the Presidents
message, and that the Senate will pass a
bill pE~viding for free coinage at an in
creased ratio. Should such be the case
there would follow a considerable delay
in all probability in a committee of con-
ference. How long the delay would be it
is impossible to predict with any degree
of certainty. From present indications
there will be no definite action by con-
gress on the silver question until some
time in September
There is a chance that if the business
men continue TO speak out strongly and
emphatically for prompt action congress
may feel the pressure to such an extent
that it will pass some sort of a silver bill
by the end of this month
How much better it would be for the
whole country, and even for silver inter
ests, if congress would comply
promptly with the Presidents recon-
mendation and then devote itself to
fixing the place of silver
in the currency. The suggestion
that the purchase of silver be stopped
and commission appointed to settle the
silver question, is receiving some atten-
ton. The suggestion has some merit,
but there is nothing now to indicate that
it has a chance of being adopted. The
prospect is that the silver battle will be
fought to the finish on the floor of CON
gress. If the House has as large major
ity for the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman silver law as it is claimed it has,
the result will be, probably, the uncondi-
tiOnal repeal of that law, because the
Senate would find it necessary to yield to
the House. If the House hasn't a major
ity for unconditional repeal, or only
very small majority, the result will be a
compromise measure providing for the
free coinage Of silver at an increased
ratio. But the result of the silver battle,
whatever it may be, will hardly be
reached before the first week in Septem-
Der, if so soon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-15
A RFmARKApLE CASE.
A Little Scare Caused by Two Bruins
wick Ladies'.

Gainesville. Fla, Aug. l4.-The negro
Beasley, wounded on Saturday by Archie
Jackson, is still alive. and his case is a
peculiar one. One ball went through his
brain from front to rear, and one lodged
in the throat, or lung cavity, and has not
been extracted. How he lives is the won
der Of even the doctors. jackson was ar
rested and held to bail in the sum OF 500,
which he readily gave.
Two very old ladies, Mrs Zittrour and
Mrs. Blake, died in the vicinity OF Ro-
chelle Saturday They have been here
ever since the Indians were driven out,
and have many children, grand and
great-grandchildren.
All vegetation here is covered with a
small white fly. which is said 10 be doing
much damage to the orange trees
The unStableness of the financial in
terests north does not seem TO worry the
people in Florida one 1.-THE as much as
the coming into town yesterday of two
daughters of Judge Arrow who had been
living at Brunswick. II is said that Mayor
Burnett has wired the state board of
health for permission to isolate them.
Another, Mrs. Avera, is expected
to come from Brunswick to-day. Had we
no state board, our county would have
had corps of quarantine officers out on
all the roads long ago, and our citizens
would have had no panicky feeling as at
present
Notwithstanding the previous very hot,
dry weather, the country is remarkably
free from diseases incident to the sum
mer months. Many of our people are
away in the mountains and at the resorts,
and a case or two of yellow fever in the
interior would send the remainder of the
population after them
a curious instance of canine intelligence
occurred here a few days ago. w. M.
Bradford has a smart little black gyp
that gave birth to a number of female
puppies, and in the mothers presence the
hired man Essex was told to drown all
but one. She saw him take them off and
when he returned without them realized
that he was the cause of her trouble.
Again in her presence Miss Bradford said
to Essex Il think youmay as well take the
remaining puppy and drown it." At this
remark Cora grOwled fiercely and ran and
got into the box with her offspring. Yes
terday while Mr. Bradford was telling me
the story Cora came to where we were
and |, telling him the story of Sir Walter
SCOTS dog and the pigs, asked him to
repeat without emphasis of any sort his
order to Essex to drown the puppies, He
did so and Cora pricked up her ears, gave
a note Of fear and away she went TO the
box where her single child was sleeping
to guard it from harm.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-15
WATSON TO SPEAK AT wAYoRoss
Only Few Populists Now in Ware
County.

Waycross, Ca, Aug. 14-''Tom Watson
will speak in this city on September 4. :"
That is what T. H, Morton, chairman of
the Peoples party club says. Mr.. Morton
has written Tom Watson a letter inform
inn him that the people here are anxious
to hear him. Mr.. Watson may come, but
if he has been told that he will have a
large third party audience here, he, like
Gen. Weaver and Mary Ellen Lease, at
the opening of their Georgia campaign in
this city last year, will leave n wiser if
not a Sadder man. Ware county is demo
cratic to the core The third party is
simply out of the ring The Peoples party
enthusiasts invited Weaver here last fall
assuring him that this section was for
Weaver and the third party. The people
here remember well how many
third party men heard Weaver speak
There has been gradual falling off in
the ranks of the third party since the
last election. Those who strayed off from
the democratic faith into the third party
and saw the error of their way, have re
turned to the democratic fold. If Mr.
Watson comes, many democrats will, out
of curiosity, go to hear him, but not from
a desire to be instructed. Mr. Morton is
of the opinion that Mr.. Watson will have
TO speak in the open air as there is no
building that has seating capacity suffi-
Gent for the crowd that will probably
flock to hear Watson.