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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18
Cniia-ea Cry for
Pitchers CaStcria.

Coughing leads to consumption.
Kemp'> Balsam will stop the cough
Ut once
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

Lanes Family Medicine moves the
bowels each day. Most people need
10 use il.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18
Great Rock Island Route
TO TEE EAST.

Best Dining Car Service il the World.
The Rock Island is foremost in
adopting any advantage calculated
to improve speed and give that lux
ury, safety and comfort that popular
patronage demands. Its equipment
IS thoroughly complete with vesti-
buled trains, magnificent dining
cars, sleepers and chair coaches, all
the most elegant. and of recently i'm
proved patterns.
Faithful and capable management
and polite. honest service from en-
ployes are important items. They
are double duty-to the company
and to travelers-and it is sometimes
task difficult of accomplishment.
Passengers on this line will find little
cause for complaint on that ground.
REMEMBER
The Great Rock Island Route runs all
regular trains to Englewood subur-
San station, close to Worlds Fair
grounds, and you can save time and
trouble by getting off at that point
ind avoid the crowd in the city.
For full particulars as to tickets,
maps, rates, apply to any coupon
ticket Office in the United States,
Canada or Mexico, or address:
JNO. SEBASTIAN,
Gen'l Tkt. & Pass. Agt., Chicago, Ill.
E. ST JOHN. Gen'l Mgr. Chicago Ill
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18

Accommodation trains leave Rock leland .:
5:00a. and GEO p. m arrive 81 Peoria $3.50 p.
n. and rs d. n. Leave Peoria 600 q. n. and
? rs p. II arrive Rock Island 90 2. m sid I:25
- n.
AL train I'm daily except Sunday.
al passenger trains arrive aut doTa-' Union
aeUot Peoria.
Free Chz.r -a-ou Fast Express between Rock
.slOud aud Peoria. both directions.
Through tickets TO AL points; baggage cnecked
through 70 dgs nation.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18
DENTISTS.

DRS. BICKLE & sCHOEMAKER,
RENTAL SURGEONS - Mitchell Il Iyndc'.
" block. Rooms 1881. CTake Elevator
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-18
TRAINS

sDaily. &c ing east. .Go'nr wesf.
F. II. PLUMNER. ACt.
L NJ ALLEN. Gen. Agt Pass. Dept. Davenport
DCRLINGTu* RI Sc c.. B. q Y. RAIL
A. wsy-DepJt fir-s srcGue and Sixteenth 81.
J Yong, agent,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
MILLIONS BRIDE.
A Separation Caused by a Pussy
Mother-in-LaW.

Good Words.
1t was in June, 1913, that there was that
extraordinary fiatter of silks and muslins
in the house, which was caused by the re-
turn of Milton from a brief visit in the
country, bringing with him his young bride.
Mary Powell, and bevy of her sisters and
bridesmaids. The two boy nephews, who
had known nothing of their uncle's pur-
pose in his holiday jaunt, were greatly sur
prised By the "feasting held for some days
in celebration Of the nuptials," and the sur
prise was more general when it came to be
known that the bride was of a strongly
royaliSt family, living close to the Kings
headquarters at Oxford, and that Milton
had actually fetched her from that focus OF
royalism.
But the wonder was not yet over. The
beyy OF sisters and bridemaids having de-
parted, the young wife had not been much
more than month without them when, ac-
eustomed as she had been to great house
and much company and jOlity." she found
the philosophical life" she was leading
with her husband in the Aldersgate-street
house very dull and iTksome. Would he
give her leave to nave few more weeks
with her family in their Uxfordshire home
OF Forest Hill before settling down
definitely to the duties of her new home in
London? To this request, sent from the
family, but cOntrived apparently by herself
Milton ylelded-and with very unfortunate
result. When the time for her promised r.
turn came, not only did she not return, but
the correspondence on the subject ended
with an Insulting message from Forest Hill
70 the effect that she would never return.
The King having about this time had come
successes in the war, the Powells had begun
to repent them OF having matched the
eldest daughter of the family to a person so
contrary to them in opinion" and Mrs.
Powell, the mother, a very resolute
woman. had taken the matter into her own
hands
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
A BIG MINING CAMP
The Richest and Wickedest
Town in the Union.
a GLANCE AT BUTTE CITY.
Vast Sums Paid to Laborers in the
Mines "A rIiIIionaire's
Bathtub.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL

Butte City is the greatest mining camp in
the world, and there is no city like it in the
universe. Montana has given more than
S4O0,oO0000 worth of precious metals to
humankind, and in the neighborhood of
S40,OO0,OO0 year are shipped away from this
State. 1t has more minerals perhaps than
any other State in the Union. and the city
of Butte makes about $50, 600. 600 annually
out of mining. Il is one of the queerest
cities have ever visited. II you could sail
up into the air mile above the sea level
you would be within GOO feet of the altitude
at which these people live the year round.
The town is located right up in the noun
tains, and on all sides the great peaks rise
upward and the sides of the hills are lined
with vast smelling furnaces. which pour
out day and night sulpburous smoke
A large part of the production here is cop
per-. and the copper ore has to be
roasted IN order 10 get the sulphur
out OF 1t in its reduction. The result is that
the air is filled with birthstone, and though
the city IS as close TO heaven as any other
In the Union it has more of the sur
rOundings of hell. These sulphurous
tunes are so great that they destroy the
vegetation. The grass never grows here.
The flowers never blossom and the trees
have long since shed their leaves for good.
Untl few years ago no one supposed
that Butte would be a permanent city, and
the people built houses only with the idea
OF leaving them when the mines were played
out or late, however, it has become evil
dent that this will always be great mining
center Tbs Anaconda mines, the largest
copper veins of the world. have enough ore
IN sight to last for ninety years, and the
other copper and silver mines here seem in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
The Weight of Comnact Rodies

The load which is produced by a den3e.
crowd OF persons is generally taken at so to
100 pounds Der square foot and is considered
TO be the greatest uniformly distributed load
Tor which floor need be propOrtiOned. That
this value may be largely exceed ed in an
actual crowd was pointed out by Professor
w. Z. hernot Of the Melbourne University.
Australia, In recent paper before the Vie
torian institute OF Engineers, copied into En-
cheering News In an actual trial class
oil students averaging 1855 pounds each in
weight were crowded in lobby containing
1873 square feet, making an average floor
load OF l34 pounds. There was still room
10 nave placed another man, which would
nave brought up the loading to 1881 pounds
per square foot. Professor Kernot also
quoted from Stoney, who placed ffty-eighr
irish laborers, averaging 145 pounds each
In weight, in an empty ship dtckhnuse
measuring 81 square feet floor area. This
was load ST 1914 pounds per square foot
In another test, with seventy-three labor
ers crowded into a hut feet by S feet
inches, Stoney produced a load of 14S pounds
per square foot and estimated that two or
three moro men could have been squeezed
10. 1t appears from these experiments that
while the figures ordinarily assumed of 50
TO 100 pounds are sufficiently correct for
spaces on which there is no cause to Induce
the collection of great crowds, larger
hgures. say 140 to $50 pounds per SQUARE
IoDt, should be used for railway stations
and platforms, entrances and exits to places
oil public assemblies or of office buildings
bridge sidewalks, pavements over vaults
ana other places where dense crowds are
likely to gather
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30

mine at this time. and that he thought that
he was doing well until he found he had to
pay dollar apiece for eggs and 500 for
sack of flour. The most of the placer min
lug of to-day is done by Cinnamon, and you
find these pig-tailed, almond-eyed, yellow
skinned mortals washing gold everywhere
you 90. They herd together in little cot
tages, and every one of these Rocky Noun
tain towns has its Chinese quarter. There
are about thousand in Helena and q great
humble in Butte City.
The chief mining now done is quartz
mining, and IL takes n fortune 10 devotion
these mines. The result is that the best
mines are owned by wealthy men or by
large corporations. and mining is as
systematically done here as any great
business OF the East. The very best
machinery and the most costly is used
and every mine has skilled scientists
connected with it. High wages are paid
and you Will find as finely cultured men
can find in any of the clubs of Boston or
New York. Think of a mine like that of
the Anaconda, which has actually expended
S4l.OOO,O00 In ten years, and you get some
IDEA OF Montana mining. The smelters of
Butte turn out about $500 600 worth nf
metal n year, and the Butte mines dprine
the last ten years have turned out consid-
erably more than S1C0, COO, 900 and have pnid
III ore than S50000.000 in dividends.
You would think with all this that there
was plehy OF money IN Butte and that you
could borrow 1t for nothing. The truth is
that the bankers get from 10 to u per cent
throughout this whole region, with gilt
edged security, and that 10 per cent is not
uncommon. The most Of the men / have
met claim TO be making money, and quite
number OF he Eastern men told me that
they would not stay here without they could
make IT, find the necessaries of life which
are sold in the stores not much different
than those of the East and the cost OF the
same things in the East, aud the only thing
mat seems to be higher is labor. [ saw
pantalOons in a store in Anaconda with tba
price mark OF 81 80 on them, and it would
seem to rae that place where a man
can make 50 30 day and can buy his trou-
sers for 81 90 ought to DO good one. Sery-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
DREAMING AND WAKING.

Beside The road dreamed of he.veu;
heard its far-ofT fountains play;
heard the song OF souls forgiven,
like birds that chant the birth of day
l dreamed saw an angel come
Down from those heights to lead me home.
His eyes were kind; his robes dropped dew
And fragrance OF that unknown land.
He spoke, but in no tongue l knew
y o language l could understand;
ANA with a6Iance of plying pain
He turned him back TO heaven again.
pilgrim passed. land dilst thou hear"
asked nm. what the angel said ,"
Whispered the Traveller in my ear,
Ere onward into light lie sped;
" heard the angel sigh, Not yet,
This soul knows not loves alphabet
Oh, comrade mine, thou dreamest in vain
OF heaven, If here thou hast not found,
In soothing human GRIEF and pain,
That earth itself is holy ground.
Unparalleled in loves idiOms now,
foreigner to heaven art thou.
Colo wouldst thou walk, and blind, and dumb
Among those naming hosts above,
homesick alien; for the sum
or all their thoughts OF deed Is love.
And they who leave not self behind,
No heaven in heaven Itself can find.
Reiolc, that with the sons OF men
4 little While thou lingerest yet.
Go, read thy Book Of Life again:
90 back and learn loves alphabet
OF Christ The master. He viii teach
Thy lips to shape the heavenly speech"
Hooked within: dreary scroll
or ioyrleSs, dun, self-bllud ell days,
SAW my humbled past uurou
Not even my felloT-pilgrm's gaze
Could uplift my eyes u meet,
Such glory played around his feetl
He went his way turned again,
Ashamed and weeping. to the road
Thron2ed By the suffering sons Of men:
a becHontng face among them gloweG.
Sweeter than all the harps OF heaven
heard voice; NThou art fOrgIYeni
" Come follow me, and learn of me,
And Will teach thee how to love"
My master now l turn to thee;
sigh not tor heaven above.
These human souls are angels bright:
Thy presence here IS heavens own light!
Lucy LAHCoM-her last poem.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30

business after another, making in each
small purchase for which he had no use and
invariably Offering gold piece in payment
and asking for his change in silver he
pursued this course for several days. until
silver began to grow obserYably short in
Sacramento, when he proceeded to San
Francisco ana there resumed his assaults
upOn the silver of the retailers, after having
vainly endeavoTed to purchase 1t In quantl-
ties at the banks.
Remaining in San Francisco until the
most Of what remained of his gold had been
converted into silver, he returned to Sacra-
mento taking with him more than q ton of
silver, packed in strong boxes and marked
either lead solder" or Type" he. had
boxed his Sacramento silver from time to
time as it had been accumulated and quietly
deposited it as printing Type in a storage
warehouse on Front street. Every one was
too thoroughly engrOssed In his own
schemes at that time to pay particular at
tention to the affairs of others, and Dalrym-
pies eccentric actions probably did not
attract more than passing notice in any
quarter. While the very careleSSness with
which he left number of boxes of silver in
his room in public house, removed them
from place 10 place, aud finally stored them
in an unguaTded wooden warehouse was
something of protection to the property,
il would probably have been in no great
danger had its character been undisguised.
Thefts were rare at that time, and the
amount.of silver when man could carry
away OF seerete was scarcely equal 10 the
hazard OF detection in attempting to steal
it. When the great safe of the FL Dorado
gambling saloon was robbed by running q
tunnel under it from the opposite side of the
street and cutting out the bottom the silver
was left in the excavation, as if beneath the
notice of the ingenious operators. 1t was
regarded less as money than as medium
through which fractional payments OF gold
could be made, and few cared to accumu-
late it in quantities bevond the near neces-
sites of its use in that capacity
As the banks declined 10 give certificates
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30

spent the silver lie had saved in Prospecting
no and down the forks of the American,
Yuba and Feather rivers, in search OF the
great deposits of which he had dreamed,
but nowhere could they be found, and no
where could he discover spot that would
yield him more than average wages.
At length, mOrose. diSheartened and ply
sically broken. he returned To Kelsey,
where he remained until The close of his
life in 1859. He made but few friends,
seldom conversed with any one and worked
only when impelled by necessity and then
alone. By degrees he impaired to two OF
three of his friends the story of his trans
actions in silver in 1850. One of them was
a merchant in The place, with whom the
doctors credit was always good for a sack
of flour or slab of bacon.
While on a visit to Kelsey in 1857 the mer-
chant introduced me TO the old MINER and
gave me such details of the story of his
life as he had been able TO gather from con-
versations with him. The promise that no
public use would be made of the iufOrma-
Iion at the time was not violated
Hence. the story will be new to very many
to-day. X. NJ. DAGGETT.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30

exhausiible. The result Is that Butte CItv
is now founded on substantial basis, II
has population of about 10000 people, and
it has substantial business blocks, which
pay better interest on their investment
than the average of business property any,
where in the United States. Rents are
high in Butte. and business buildings
bring In from 10 TO % and 40 per cent
on the Investment. There Is probably no
cityin the United States that does so large
business in proportion to its population as
Butte and there Is none which has so big n
payroll. Nearly million dollars in wages
are PAID here every month, and the lowest
wages are 81 80 day for eight hours work.
Inc smelters turn out about 300O0 0CO
worth OF ore in year, and day and night.
week day aud Sunday, the streets are
damned with people The majority of
them are miners, but yOI see many well
dressed men and fine-ooking women. Butte
has very cultured society, as well as a
decidedly wicked one, and there are
churches and Sundays schools. literary So
cieueS ana ChautauQua circles as we'll as
gambling bells, daucehalls and all Of the
mining Accomplishments of vice.
GU see the vicious element first, for this
is the more prominent The main streets
OF the city have amblinS hells sandwiched
between banks and stores, and gambling ia
licensed by law. l asked a leading citizen
whether he did not hope to get RID of this
soon. He replied that the first stem yyonId
gambling on the first floor, and after that
they hoped to get rid of the gamblers en-
tlrely. This will. however, be long time
hence. Miners take naturally to gambling
and the hig wages find their way To the faro
tables. Other forms of vice are lust az
oDen. Some Of the saloons make YOU think
Of the Bowery OF New York and Others
would not be ont of place in Five Points.
These places OF vice are, however. de-
creaslng every year, ana Montana will
eventually come down to a solid business
basis. The mines are rapidly going into the
hands OF big capitalists. Placer mining
could be done by any one, and the millions
that were taken out of the State in the
latter part OF the sixties and in the seven
ties were largely PANIED out Of placer dig
glngs. Right here at Butte City about
SS,OOO,O0O were taken out in this way be-
fore they began to work the quartz, and one
claim which sold for $500 nrtted the pur
chaser S250,000 Another claim near this
produced $1,000 day for long time, and
one man found nugget which was worth
SleOO. AT this time water was very scarce
In some of the claims and fortunes
were made in selling water. | talked with
an old.miner yesterday who said that he
hau to give up mine because IL cost him
Sl4O day for water to work it, and though
It eventually panned out well lie could not
afford to wait. Another man told me that
he used to get S. day for working in the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
THE STEAMER NARoNIc.
Various Theories Considered of What
May Have Befallen Her.


May Have Befallen Her.
Steam and Sail. April 10.
There is, unfortunately, no longer any
reason for hoping that the splendid White
Sar steel freighter Naronic is still af1oat
One Of the theories is that she foundered
after a collision with an iceberg Many
ms tances can be recalled where vessels not
nearly SO well built as the Naronic have
crushed their bows against one of these
glacial masses and eventually reached port
in safety.
The theory that the Naronic was in col
lioion with some other vessel is equally
unsatisfactory, although the loss Of the
Oregon is cited as an example of what
might have occurred. The ship was so well
equipped with bulkheads that she could
stand considerable in the way of collision
without ueinC reduced to a sinking condi-
ton. Besides, there must always be Two
parties TO an accident of this sort, and as
no other craft which was likely TO have
been in that locality at that time is reported
missing, that conjecture must also be dis
missed.
A marine paper SAYS that the vessel cap
sized. THIS solution may be accepted by
the mlsintormPd. but those who have read
the report OF Captain Wilson OF the steam
snip Coventry VIII hesitate long time be-
lore attaching any weight to II. That
officer states that on March 1, at > p. NJ. the
Coventry passed Il ships boat bottom up.
Twelve hours later lifeboat, on W hich the
name Naronic was plainly legible, was
sighted. The boat was half full of water.
1t was attached 10 sea anchor, which coli
sisted Of Two boat masts and oars dashed
together. The report plainly indicates that
whatever the nature of the accident which
betell the Naronic there was time for the
boats 10 be launched and manned. Ships
that eapSlZe In seaway do not 20 about il
IN such leisureIy manner.
Coming to theories that deserve attention,
the possibility of boiler explosion may be
considered. There is no record of such an
accident ever having occurred on board
modern-bGilr steamship, but that is no
proof that il could not happen. Many such
explosions have taken place on smaller
craft, and none of them has ever survived
the experience. That theory, however, is
con idered as hardly tenabe, as the Mar
onic's boilers were new and of the most
improved pattern.
As the Naronlc was too big steamship
to have been conquered by the elements
While she retained the use Of her ma
chinery, the last conclusion reached is that
one or both OF her engines broke down
while the vessel was labOring in a heavy
gale. First, one propeller shaft NAV have
given away, and the additional strain may
have caused the other to break. Then. un-
able to keep her head to the sea, the vessel
foundered before the storm abated.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
BATHTUBs FOR spARRoWs.
Made by a Peg-Legged Mariner in a
Brand New Sidewalk.


The merriest man in all New York is an
old sailor who lives up in Harlem on a COM
Portable pension awarded HIM for the loss
Of one Of his legs in the Civil War His ar
tifcal limb is simply a straight stick of
hickory with an iron-shod end, and is Just
bit too long, so that when he puts it out to
swing himselffOrward, it goes down in earn
est and makes an noise that heralds his
coming for blocks.
Like many other old seafaring gentlemen
he likes a drink Of grog now and then, and
he can spin such delightful yarns of his ex-
periences that his auditors sometimes treat
him to more OF it than is quite good for him.
The way on which he naVgates for home
on these occasions Is irreSstibly funny to
every one but peighbor who recently re-
placed the hagstOnes before his home with
an expensive concrete walk.
he Kept u covered with straw and boards
for week, but on the evening of the very
day when it was deemed hard enough to
bear the tread of the average pedestrian,
and when the covering was removed the
peg-legged mariner got 10 telling stories and
had to make many tacks on the voyage
home.
When the householder awoke next morn
ing lie was in state of-mind bordering on
insanity on finding four holes of VARYING in
cllnation and depth bored in tine beautiful
smooth surface OF his new pavement The
mariner has expressed his deep sorrow over
the incident and now always walks on the
other and muddy side of the street The
four holes are utilized as bathtuhs after
every rainstorm BY the myriads OF sparrows
in the district
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30
A TRICKY HOG.
1t Got Even With the Man Who Set
His Doc on If


Laurenceburg Dispatch TO the Cincinnati Enquirer
Henry Truitt is one of the jolliest fellows
in this city and can stand joke as well as
any man, but says he draws the line on
animals indulCing in pranks at his expense.
His reason for this distinction was caused
by an amusing but dangerous incident that
occurred TO Him few days ago.
He had assembled a tall ladder TO mako
some repairs to the roof of his residence
and while standing on the top rounds of the
ladder he noticed large hog enter his yard.
Not wanting the animal on his premises he
called his dog and melted the brute to attack
the intruder. The hog stood still for some
minutes, with It's head turned to one side.
as II contemplating with contempt the bark
ing dog and considering what was best to do
in the ease. ~ Wv
The man on the ladder called mora
earnestly to his dog. and his words seemed
to put decision in the head of the hesitatibr
hoP, Tor 1t instantly made dash for the foot
OF tie distant ladder. and running souarely
against the end resting on the ground
knocked 1t from It's perpendicular position.
throwing Truitt headlong to the earth from,
height Of nearly twenty feet. AS the