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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Electricity at the Fair.

In all quarters of the Electricity build
ing are new and astonishing uses to
which the subtle fluid is put, sometimes
when only the slightest force is desired:
at others when mighty and irresistible
power is applied. There are splendid
exhibits showing the application of cleo
tricity to mining.
Leaving this building. one watches the
electric trains glide along the intramu-
raj road, or the electric launches dart,
silent and smokeless. about the beauti-
full lagoons. Turning cityward, he sees
Chicago covered by the lowering, i'm
penetrable pail of smoke belched from
myriad chimneys, and wonders when
the equivalent of light and heat will be
generated at the big coalfelds and
waterfalls and sent broadcast through
out the land; when cleanliness and quiet
shall prevail.-New FORK Evening Post
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Is the oriental Dance to Come.

The peritoneal paroxysms of the dam
GERS at the Chicago fair from Cairo and
Constantinople, from Teheran and Tan
gier, from Ispahan and Algeria, have
met with a prompt public condemnation.
Energetic criticism has forced the police
to action and the dancers to compare
tive quiescence which saves the suscep-
Utilities of the occidental audience and
the risk of the oriental dancers from an
attack of peritonitis. Accustomed as
the dancers are to their peculiar move
ment, it has been stimulated by Chicago
applause to an insane exaggeration of
the flexible and sinuous swaying of the
eastern dance, dangerous to the dancers
and disgusting to the audiences.
Condemned as the dance has been.
however, it has proved so popular and
awakened such masculine applause as is
certain to cause its appearance on the
variety stage. At first it will doubtless
be suppressed, as it has been in past APP
pearances, but the American public has
singular habit of accepting in the end
with applause what it earlier suppresses
with the police court.
The prospects are therefore excellent
that the danse du Yentre, which has first
come before the country as a part of the
chronological section at Chicago, over
which Professor F. W. Putnam of Har-
ward university presides, will yet be seen
on every stage. This Is, we believe, the
first instance in which college profess
sor has superintended so remarkable an
addition to our amusements, but we can
assure theater managers that this east
ern dance is mild and meaningless by
the side of some dances and displays
which a study of the fascinating study
of ethnology will reveal to them and
the public.-Philadelphia Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Matches and Insurance.

Man IN GS wants some parlor matches.
He says these eight day sticks are con-
founded nuisance" the bellboy said to
the clerk in one of the hotels yesterday.
Tell him he'll have to get along with
the old style MATCH answered the
clerk. The insurance companies don't
allow parlor matches IN the rooms.
Yes, that's a fact" he continued in
answer to a surprised questioner I'm
surance policies of nearly all companies
prohibit the keeping and use of parlor
matches in any part of hotel, but they
are generally kept in the offices because
they are in greater favor and more con-
venient than the sulphur match, and the
requirements of the policy is to that ex-
tent overlooked by both its holders and
the issuing company. There isn't much
chance for an accidental ignition of a
parlor match to do much harm in a hotel
office, but they are dangerous things in
rooms where carpets or curtains or stray
paper are liable to catch fire from them.
They are not only more easily lighted
by accident, such as stepping upon them,
but. as Is not generally known. they often
break out III flame from spontaneous
combustion. You may judge how easily
this is liable to happen by holding a
bunch of them in the dark and watching
the flame that continually arises from
them. The sulphur match is not so dan
gerous in any of these particulars"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
MIR. Cleveland and Mr.. stewart.


Chicago Post
Whatever may have been Senator
Voorhees, motive for that tribute to
President Cleveland which he delfv-
cred in the senate Yesterday. it is not
necessary TO inquire into it. The
tribute itself was so Just. so we'll
deserved. so timely and so strong
that every true American. without
political distinction. will applaud
both it and the author of it.
Senator Stewart. who represents
the 1900 miners. Indians. Mexi-
cans and MormonS Of the rotten Dor
ough Nevada. was continuing his
malevolent and disgraceful attack
upon the personal honor of President
Cleveland. He had been interrupted
and rebUked by Senator Palmer, but
had returned to the charge WHY, s"
he inquired, ''do the presidents
friends maintain silence in re-
gard to these allegations with
which the public press tcems?''
Senator Morgan. of Alabama.
replied in effect that it was
not necessary 10 break that silence.
Whereupon Senator Voorhees, arose
and uttered these self-ennubling
words:
Il am very glad to hear the remarks
of the senator from Alabama in re-
gard to the assault which has been
made upon the president in the last
two days. | desire to account for the
attitude OF silence observed on the
democratic side of the cham Der in
the face of the assault. 1t is that it
has not been thought necessary to
say a single word in defense OF Mr..
Cleveland, from the time he was born
in New Jersey up to the present hour.
On my side of the chamber, and |
have reason to believe on the other
side Of the chamber, and all over the
country Mr.. Cleveland's defense has
been fully made by the American
people themselves. His great and
powerful career disarms all such as
saults rs have been made upon him.
Whatever fault the senator from Ne
yada may find in Mr.. Cleveland's ca
reer. the American people have not
seen it in that way. Whatever crit
icism the senator from Nevada may
indulge in, the American people do
not share that criticism with him.
Nobody is perfect. Human nature
is intirm. The loftiest d. of char
acters are not infallible. But ! ven
ture to say that in American history
the career of Grover Cleveland, his
character. his achievements. his
honor. his patriotism and his abili-
ties vii. stand in the foremost line
in spite of all the assaults which have
been made. Whether senators differ
from Mr.. Cleveland or agree with
him, nobody fails to recognize his
stalwart and powerful character and
his high integrity"
True, every word of it, Mr.
Cleveland has already taken his place
in history. He is far out of reach of
the venom of selfish and unpatriotic
politicians who are eager to sacrifice
the prosperity of the country to their
already bullying pockets.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

The government Of Trinidad has passed
an ordinance for the determination OF
parasol ants, so far as its power extends.
The pest has become unbearable. In
fact, from the nature of things wherever
this ant is found a growing civilization
must wage war to the death with it, fo1
the creature strips trees of their leaves.
which itneatly trims to the size and shape
of threepenny bit and carries to the
nest. An army of EcOdoma cephalotes
at work is one of the strangest sights in
tropical America. The column may be
followed for mile, 3 or 4 inches in
width, serried mass of ants, each carry
ing aloft upright as a flag its green disk.
They will strip a large tree of which
they fancy the leaves in "a hours. Kew
Bulletin.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

a MEXICAN newspaper publisher
finds that he is sued because he ad-
.vertised a rival merchants goods,
% thus enabled the latter TO get the
larger share Of the trade. 1t is a
curious view of law that this non
advertising merchant takes. Usually
newspaper circulating widely brings
more trade to place, and if only the
advertisers get this additional trade
the non-advertisors have nobody 10
blame but themselves.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Where Their Wealth Came From,

The New York sun has been investi-
eating the -Four Hundred and prints a
number of receipted bills of the last CEN
fury showing that Stuyvesant sold
handkerchiefs; DePeyster, beans; a
Rhinelander, hats; Brevoort, pewter
spoons; a Beekman molasses, and a Roose-
welt, lampblack. Their plutocratic de-
scendants may not like it, says the Allan
ia Constitution, but if the old pioneers
were honest traders THERE'S nothing to be
ashamed of in their record.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Another Walker Wanted.

There was once an American named
William Walker who played a bold
part, for a while, as dictator of
Nicaragua. He needed but sixty-two
American fighting men for the con-
quest of the country, which was un-
der his dictatorship for nearly year.
He was shot at last, but had given
evidence that he understood business.
He was a propaganda of slavery,
and deserved his doom. If there
were now in Nicaragua a good and
active man, possessed of Walkers
ability, he would find there an open
field FOR the exercise of his moral and
physical powers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Secondhand Pinto Glnss.

One of the novel business trades of
Boston Is that Of dealer III secondhand
plate glass. Nearly all of this glass Is
bought by the dealer from insurance
companies. The large plates Of this kind
of glass are insured when put in win
dow, and when any Of them Is broken
the owner Of the injured glass usually
prefers that the insurance company
should replace the broken piece rather
than that he should be paid its price.
The dealer in the secondhand glass con-
trives to utilize what remains of the I'M
broken part of the glass.-New York
Tribune
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Frenchwomcn In Trousers.

For the privilege Of wearing trousers
the French government charges women
a tax Of from so t. $12 year. This by
no means gives every woman who is
willing to pay the tax a right TO wear
trousers. The government instead con
fers the right as a tribute to great
merit. Trousers are, in fact, a sort of
decoration given to women rs the ribbon
of the Legion Of Honor Is given TO men.
The only women to whom has been
granted the right to wear trousers are
George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, Nine.
Dieulafoy, the Partisan archaologist:
Nine. Fouclult, the bearded woman.
and two feminine stonecutters. Nine.
Fourreau and La Jeannette.-NewY York
Evening sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
CHRIST AND THE SOUL.

When thou turn'st away from i'll.
Christ Is this 81 lie of thy hill.
When thou turnest toward good,
Christ is walk lg in thy wood.
When thy heart says, Father, pardonf
Then the Lord is in thy garden.
When stern duty wakes to watch,
Then his hand on the latch.
But when Hope thy song doth rouse.
Then the Lord IS in the house.
When to love is all thy wit,
Christ doth at thy table sit.
When Gods wi is thy hearts pole,
Then is Christ by very soul.
Macdons Id in London Spectator.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

FROM the readiness with which
Thomas. Richard and Henry Jump on
the worldV fair management, they
evidently imagine that anybody can
run worlds fair just as easy as he
can an ocean greyhound And prob
ably he could.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

THERE is a tribe in Central Africa
among whom speakers in public de-
bates are required to stand on one
leg while speaking and to speak only
as long as they can so stand. This
rule might be profitably introduced
into congress now.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

The inhabitants Of this earth have
never seen but one side of the moon
The explanationistlis: The moon makes
one revolution on ler axis in the same
period of time that she takes up in re-
volving once around the earth; thus the
same geographical region of the lunar
surface is always toward us.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

A business man of Canada of an enter
prising nature has established float
ing bank" on Kootenai lake, Canada
1t is in steamer which journeys from
place to place along the lake, thus ena-
bling its owner to.supply the inhabitants
tiles
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
A Singular Cornstalk.

Apeculiar growth from stalk of corn
was grown recently on the farm of 10
seph T. Robinson, near Ringgold, Ga.
About the center of the stalk, where the
shoot first appeared, there matured Pc
culiar bushy ending about 2 feet long,
on which there were nearly 100 little
ears the size of mans fnger.-Ex-
change.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
studying our Architecture.

Tatsuzo Sowe of Toxic, japanese ar
chitect, is in Boston studying the archi-
lecture of notable buildings-the new
public library, Trinity church, the state
house and others. He told me: Il came
to the United States rather than Europe
because the United States has the latest
and newest designs. Europe still clings
to the old styles"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
Ten Years of Crime.

Quincy Herald.
1SS4-''In the Cleaning"
Silver Threads Among tn
Gold"
lSS6-.'Only a Pansy Blossom"
lSs7-"White Wings"
1SSS-''Sweet NiOlets.'
Annie Rooney"
1880. Down Went McGinty."
lS91-.'ComradeS."
1S92-.'Ta-ra-ra Boom-dc-ay."
lSg3-'After the Ball"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

The Bombay officer of health protests
against the destruction of the crocodiles.
He says they are the best and only scav-
engers possible of the water reservoirs
in which they dwell.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

The greatest courage is to bear perse-
cution, not to answer when you are re-
viled, and when wrong has been done
to forgive.-"The Newcomes."
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

A frog cannot breathe with its mouth
open Its breathing apparatus is SO ar
ranged that when it, mouth is open its
nostrils are closed. To suffocate frog,
it is necessary only to prop its jaws so
that they cannot shut.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

Now that Rudyard Kipling has
built him new house up in Brattle-
boro, it would not be surprising if
he concluded to get naturalized and
run for Office The Vermont climate is
said to be very bracing.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

Recent discoveries have demonstrated that
ali the organs of the body are under the con-
troll OF the nerve CenterS, located in or near
the base of the brain, and that when these are
deranged the organs which they supply with
nerve iluiiare also deranCcd. When it is re-
mcmbcrcd that n serious injury To the spinal
cord Will cause paralysis of the body below
the injured point, because the nerve force is
prevented by the injury from rc1 hing the
plrIiyzed portion, it will be understood how
the deron cement OF the nerve cen.crS viii
cause the arrangement of the various organs
winch they supply with ncrTN fOrSC.
IwO-tnirdS OF chronic di eases are due to
the imperfe:t action Of the nerve centerS at
the base of the brain, not from q derange-
meat primarily originating in the organ it.
self. The great mistake OF PHYSICIANS in
treating these diseases i that tley treat the
organ rather th-l The nerve centerS which
are the cause Ok the trouble.
DR. FRANK. IN niles. the celebrated spe-
cia.i-'. has profoundly studied this subject for
over - years. and has made many important
Dis 'oyer.c5 in connection with it, chief among
them being the facts contained in the above
statement, and that the ordinary methods OF
treatment are wrong. All headache, dizzi-
ness. duilncSS, confusion. pressure, blues,
Inll4l, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, st.
Ni,uS dance, etc, are nervous diseases no
matter how caused. The wonderful success of
DR.. Miles Restorative Neryine is due to the
fact that il Is based on the foregoing principle.
Dr.. MILES RESTORATIVE NERvINE IS sold by
all druggists on a positive Cuarau e, or sent
direct by DIR. MILES MEDICAL Co. E.khart.
lad, on receipt of price, 81 GER b tile, six
bottles foc -, express prepaid Ii contains
nSt~Lcr opia-es no" dangerous drugs.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20. 1898.

A North Carolina woman only learned
to write after she had passed the age of
eighty-two.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
4 Sewer Gas Destroyer.

Some of the English towns and cities
have introduced device for ventilating
sewers-a Bunsen gas burner operating
to heat to high temperature a series Of
cast iron cones over the surfaces of
which the sewer gases have to pass on
their way out to the atmosphere, which
by such contact are entirely DESTROYED.
In order to obviate all danger of explo-
sion caused by Leakage, this new safety
furnace consists of a series of cylindric-
al rings or segments, each mechanical
ly fitted. An intermediate ring divides
the combustion cha mber from the verti-
cal air passages formed between the in
ner and outer ring Of the furnace. The
heat of the furnace is conveyed to the
outer ring by meals of thick cast iron
webs that form tiers of air channels
through which the uprising sewer air
passes, and the burner Is supplied with
air taken from the outside of the ode
structor column. New York Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the Seat
of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.

No mystery has ever compared With that OF
human life. II has been the heading subject
OF professional research ana 81 udy in ali ages.
8Lt not vii hsta nding this t.lcL il is nor Cener
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

FITs-All fits stopped free by DR.
Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Nc
fits after the first days use. Marvel
Gus cures. Treatise and 81 trial bot
tie free to fit cases. Send to DR.
Kline, 93l Arch street, Philadel phia
Pa For sale by al druggists: cal
on Yours
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
They will straighten the first case Of
Cross Eyes that apply FREE of
charge Send word to
YOUR friends.

YOUR lTieuQS.
Call early.
DR.. Coffee has treated over 200 patients in
Rockford and Freeport and over 100 in and about
Gslena Co sultation free on first trip.
He will straighteu CROSS or SQUINT EYES in
two minutes.
Pteryginne or film over the eyes one minute.
I-idectimy-two minutes.
Turning in or out of lids and wild hairs, etc,
r, moved quickly.
Stopping of Lachrymal (tear) Duct, causing an
overflow Of tears permanently cured.
Polypus TumorS in nose or eaIS removed in two
minutes.
Opening of the Eustachian Tube leading from
throat TO ear in two minutes.
Removing Tonsils and Clipping Uyula, one
minute.
Every one OF the above operations perform.
except cataract, and patients go home with
out danger.
CATARACT. PTERYGINNE (for film over the
sighD Opocities of Cornea, blindness weak
watery eyes, granua ed lids, chronic red sore
eyes, wild hairs, entropium or turning in Of eve
lids, diseases OF lachrymal duct (tear duct) tu-
mors of eye, exterpation of eye ball. All sur
gical diseases of the eye and its nerves.
ACUTE AND CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH
in all its forms cured permanently. Ozama,
polypus, tumors, hawking and splitting, enlarged
tonsfls, loss OF voice, eranulatcd sore throat.
toarseness.
DEAFNESS can cure 60 per cent OF these
cases. Can tell in five minutes If durable. /
core many cases in one treatment.
NOISES IN EARS-I can cure in every Gaze
D1SCHARGIG EARS-I can cure in every case
BRONCHITIS AND LUNG TROUBLE cured
from catarrh can be cured.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29
yes and Ears

have we that we may see and hear; brains, that
we may reason and understa al d so there's little
excuse for much of the ffelhg that is tolerated
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi, al Discovery is fast be
coming the one recognized remedy for all dis
eases resulting from thin, impure ard impo' err
ished blood
lndi. est on and dyspepsia, scrofu!ous affec
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inps. catarrh and consumption. are blood sfec-
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guaranteed biood-pmifer and liver inVigorator
Sold on trial! Money promptly returned if i
doesn't benefit or cure.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-29

ally X n o " n
that the seat
of life is lOca-
tedin the up
pcrpart Of the
spinal or d,
near the base
Of the bra in,
and so SCnSi-
tive is 1 h ! :
portion of the
nervous syS-
TEN that even
the prick of a
needle VI i | |
cause instant
death.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-17

ing the signal. AZ that supreme moment [
eagerly clutched the fatal handkerchief
and kept within foot of my unconscious
victim. 'Jey kaleep shouted my father.
1t was tho signal and instantly obeyed.
Qulck as thought the cloth was round the
wretch's neck. 1 seemed endued with
superhuman strength. L wrencbed his
neck. deep into which ! bad thrust my
knuckles: he struggled convulsively. and
was dead before he touched the ground. l
WAS mad with excitement; my blood boiled.
One turn of my wrists had placed me on
an equality with others who had followed
our holy profession for years.
I'VE descended into the bed of the stream
md were led To the grave. We proceeded
along the bed for one snndred yards, the
OF nen. Passing through thorns. which
tore our garments at every step. and in pro-
found darkness-the moon could not pierce
the dense foliage above our heads-we came
suddenly upon the grave. There was only
one big hOle-it occu pied almost the whole
breadth of the stream. 1t was very deep:
the lugghaes were sitting at the END. sharp
ening their stakes wberewith to pin down
the bodies. My father com mpliment-
ed the diggers upon their dex-
low. clear voice. is grave
that would battle even he nose of a hyena.'
As each body was thrown in an incislOn
was made in the abdomen. through which
stakes werc driven. and In this way room
was made for the gases TO escape. so that
the corpses might not swell The hole In
the bushes through which We had crept
was closed with great care. and after the
grave had been filled with huge rocks and
stones and covered with prickly bushes at
the top we turned and went on our way
without a word. The bindmost man broke
of thickly leaved branch. and. trailing lt
alter him. obliterated every footmark In
the dry aand."
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-17
New Method of Begging.
Philadelphia Press.

please. sir. will you give me five centsi"
Give you tive centsp echoed the yOung
man in s1rprise. for his supplIcant was o
pretty. rehned-Iooking little girl of about
ten summers. whose clothing looked as
though she were u child of fortune. not of
want
''Yes, sir; want 1t TO paw my car fare
with. | lost the nickel mamma gave me-"
OF course the young man gladly gave the
girl the desired five cer t.. and she fairly
beRmed upon him. The incident happened
ct Broad and Chestnut. Not long after the
young man was waiting for a Car on Wal
nut street. and it so happened that he was
thinking of the pretty face of the child.
Well" unused he TO himself. ''Pm glad
happened to be there In time. some parents
are awfully careless of their children.
thOugh. Think of the little thing having
TO ask for money; IT'S shame"
There came q slight pull at his coat sleeve.
Then IL sweet. weak voice that seemed ia
milIar said: please. sir. will you give me
five cents2"
The young man turned as if stung. he
could hardly believe MS own eyes "You
see. SIR" began the sweet voice again.
'les. l know all abOut IL. You lost the
money your mother gave you for fare"
ltDeyer pbased the little one. She smiled
divinely and answered: ~ es: how did you
guess IL" But the young man had caught
"a passing car, and the look on hls face set
several OF the passengers wondering.