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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03
DUPLICATION NOTICE.
In the Circuit Court, in Chsncery.


In the Circuit Court, in Chencery-
Sept. term A. D., 1893.
Home Building and Loan ssscc ation Of Rock
Island vs.. Harry Fischer.
Affidavit Of non-residence of Harry Fischer
tie above defendant, having be,n filed in the
clerks Office OF the circuit court, notice is hereby
given 10 the sad nonresident defendant that the
complainant fled his bill OF complaint in said
court, on the chsnCery side thereof. on the
Twenty fir day of My, 1893. and that thereupon
a summons issued ont of said court. wherein said
suit is now pr ndins rttuinab'e On the first Mon
DAY in the mouth of Septen- Der next, IS IS by
law required. Now. unle you, The said non =
resident defendant above named, Harry Fischer,
stall personally be and appear before said circuit
court on the first day OF the next term hereof, to
be holden al Rock Island in and for the said
county, n the first Monday in September neat
and Plead, answer demur to The said COM
plainant's bill Of complaint, the same and the
II alters and things therein charged and sta ed
will be Iasen confessed. and decree entered
agains: you according to the prayer of said bill.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Ro k Island. Illinois. July q. 1928.
JACKSON & HURST.
Sol citors for Comp ainant.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03
silver and Whisky,

The Sherman silver purchase law
has set n kentuckian to thinking.
and he comes forth in the Louisville
Courier-Journal a follows:
The truth is that if the government
is to continue the policy of making q
warehouse Of itself for the storage of
products which it does not need and
cannot use, it would do better to buy
Kentucky whisky than Colorado sill
yer. Since il began buying silver
under the Sherman act silver has
gone down nearly 80 per cent, and
the government has now a stock of
dead silver stored away in its vaults
which represents loss of millions
of dollars. If it had put that
money into Kentucky whisky it
would have put it in something
which would have been growing bet
ter all the time, and which would
have continued to grow better with
age. 1t could have kept that whisky
for hundred years if it chose, be-
fore attempting to put it into circu-
lation. Think of Kentucky whisky
issued by the government and known
to be 100 years old! Instead of suf-
feripg loss for it, the government
coaM dispose of it at a profit suffi-
cient to pay off the national debt and
pension every silver miner in Colo
RADIO for life.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

The once thriving industry of rails
ing leeches for the doctors has fallen
into decay, since people are now anx-
ious to preserve rather than to de-
plete their vital forces when sick,
but it is noticed that the leech of the
human species is as persistent and
as greedy as at any time in the
worlds history.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

HERMANN. the prest1digitateur,
testifes in court that the performers
on Wall street made seventy five
Thousand of his good dollars disap-
pear last year and all his skill failed
to make them return to his pockets.
The animals and things he is won't to
pull out Of plug hats are not in it
with the bulls and bears of the Wall
street breed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

JACK the ripper has begun his in
fernal work again. 1t is hard to be-
lieve that a monster such as he must
be can exist in human form. 1t
would be comforting to our human
nature if we could believe that these
atrocities were perpetrated by an
ourang outang, as the Murders in
the Rue Morgue' in Poe's tale were
committed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03
THE PILE OINTMENT
LEGAL
A SsIGNEE's NOTICE.

In The matter OF Gus r. Engiin debtor
The undersigned here by gives notice that Gu:
K. Englin, dong business in The city of Rock Isl.
and, in the comfy of Rock l. and. and state Of
Illinti did on the 29th day Of June A. u. 1898
transfer TO the undersigned as sssgnee all his prop
ty for the benefit Of his crt dtiors according tc
the provisions Ct the act conc, rning assignment Is
All persons having claims sgaiust said Gus R
Englin are hereby notified 10 present such clsims
under oath or affirm alton, 10 me IT Roe Island
in said county and state witt in three months
from this date.
Dated this SOthoay Of June 1858
III. CT ELAND. assignee
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

New YORK has an infant prodigy
OF years who has been expounding
the gospel for twelve months. Boy
preachers have been known before
but baby preachers are new. The
suggestion that the phenomenon be
spanked and put to bed is thrown
out for what it is worth, and it is
worth more than the parents seem to
realize.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

IN order to bring the q. at grain
regions of Winnipeg nearer to the
European market it is now proposed
to build railroad from Lake Winni-
peg to Fort Churchill on the west
side of Hudson's bay, distance of
zoo miles. This shortens the dis
lance between Winnipeg and the
European grain market by 700 miles.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

GRAND DUK; -.ICHAEL, the son of
the car is going to the fair. We
hope he will be so impressed with
the advantages of freedom that he
will go home and influence his
father to give Russia a constitutional
government and a little nineteenth
century liberty.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

THE officers of torpedo boats are
obliged to wear goggles to save their
eyes when the boats are going at
high speed. One of the French tor
pedo boats has obtained a speed of
twenty-siX knots. Such a speed
taxes the most experienced weather
eye" if it be not protected
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03
LAUGH AWAY.

Z Away. away with all tears, my lads
Hurr al for the boy that smiGs,
Give me the heart that's all sunshine
Fen in the darkest whites
Give me the dear little maid that laughs
While tears I'LL her poor, soft heart,
For she is the maid that IN after years
Will )ear womans noblest part.
So away and away with all tears, my lads
Hurr.lh for the boy that smiles.
Give M the heart that all sunshine
Fen n the darkest whites
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

THAT idea Of compelling all tho
worlds dynamiters and bomb-throw-
ers TO join an internatioral penal
colony at Paraguay is all very well.
But what have the people of Para
quay done to deserve such an inhic-
tion? Better and them to Pata-
gonia, by far
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

TURKEY has sentenced seventeen
people to death for sedition. This
crime. as gathered from reports, con-
sists in living in that country and
not being a Turk. Several nations
are advising the ruffled Turkey to
adjust its plumage, and the chances
are that if it refuse it will have less
plumage to adjust.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-03

THE Chadron cowboys rode twice
or three times as far as did the Ger
man and Austrian calvary officers
last year, and yet their horses were
neither tortured or injured, while
most Of those of the cavalrymen were
ridden to death, All OF which is a
credit to America, American cow
boys, and American horses.
The morning call., 1893-10-29

In the center there is inclosed in circle
feet inches in diameter the representa-
ton of the sun In its four ages. or 'Nahui
Ollin Tonatiuh.' 1t is surrUuned by a
belt containing twenty figures. each repre-
senting the symbol of one day of the reli-
gious month. Next to this belt comes a
border in four divisions, separated by four
figures shaped like arrow-heads, each di-
vision containing ten little squares and
each square five little dots. the number of
days in the ancient Mexican week. Other
borders follow. as can be seen by in spect-
ing the accompanying cut taken from a
photograph of the original.
In the year 1890, while making some
excavations in the piaZa of the City of
Mexico in front of the cathedral, several
large and very remarkable archaeological
relics were unearthed. Among them was
the one now called the Aztec calendar
stone
Don Antonio de Leon v CANA. the
greatest Mexican antiquarian Of his time.
mace drawing OF it and after great deal
of study attempted the first Interpretation
OF 1t. lie gave the supposed meaning of
he different figures and afterward the
uses of the stone itself. According to
Cana the stone was a calendar aud in
combination with another stone, which he
supposed to be similar to the one referred
to and is as yet undiscovered. served the
AZtecs for astrOn omical purposes. Indeed
he describes system of computing the
time by the AZtecs by means of such
stones far in advance of any of the meth
DDS used BY any of the modern nations.
ITO Cana are due nearly all the ideas
now prevalent regarding this stone and
also the name of Aztec calendar.
"For half century all the authors on
Mexican antiquities followed Cana. and
his drawing OF the stone. very incomplete
and in many respects incorrect, is repro
duced IN the works of Alexander Won
humboldt, Albert Gailatin, Brantz Maver
and the rest. Even our own II. H. Ban
croft copies that drawing with all its errors
and adds some Of his own.
About the middle of this century tn g
most prominent of Mexican antiquarians,
Fernando Ramirez, expressed his doubts
about Gama's theories of the calendar
stone, and Orozco Berra. the most pains
taking and conscientious Of Mexican anti
quarians. suggested that it might be a
Cuauhxicaili This idea was taken up and
elaborated by Alfred Chavero who wrote
ana published an extremely elaborate de-
scription of the stone, calling it the Solar
stone,' which. according 10 him. was used
The morning call., 1893-10-29

Interpretation of the ancient Aztec calen-
dar. It was declared to be the most i'm
portant discovery of its kind made within
the century, as it furnished a key TO much
of the domestic life. religion. architecture
and arts of at least six nations of the early
in Dhabitants of Mexico, and promises to
lead to the anslation of the hieroglyphics
on the RUNS in Mexico and Central Amer
lea.
Though the claims made for Mrs. Nut
tails work are phrased in positive Ian
guage and many details Of her achievement
are given, local arch@ologists are not in
clined to put great deal OF faith in this
new Interpretation of the famous so-called
Aztec calendar stone.
Among The local scientists who have
taken deep interest in the subject OF this
famous Aztec relic and made close study
of it is Z. j. Molera, vice-president OF the
Board of Trustees of the California Acad-
emy Of Science. honorary member of the
Geographical and Statistical Society Of
Mexico. and member also of many Amer
can and foreign scientific bodies. Mr..
Molera is gentleman of considerable
wealth. and though he was educated as a
civil engineer he has not followed his pro-
fsssi0n for some fifteen years, but has
given large portion of his time to scien-
The morning call., 1893-10-29
ANTIQUE LORE.
An Engrossing Field for
the ArchRol0gist.
MEXICAN CALENDAR STONE.
Evidence of a Civilization That
Antedated the
AZteCS.

While wealthy and powerful companies
have been organized and costly expeditions
fitted out in this country for research by
excavation ON the sites of the ruined cities
of ancient Egypt. Greece. Italy and Asia
Minor. fields of equally interesting charae-
ter on this continent have been compara-
lively neglected.
There is now no question that the pre-
historic era of this hemisphere, when its
story is deciphered, will lival in interest
in many particulars that of the countries
OF the Old World. Researches, with this
end in view, can be said to have only
begun, but they already show many re-
markab ble and unexpected DEVELOPMENTS.
One OF the most interesting arcb8ologi-
cal fields lies in the country whose north
ern border is coierminous with that Of the
United States, and that the opportunity
offered to the American lover of antiQu-
ties to indulge his tastes has not been more
generally utilized is certainly surprising.
Recently interest and discussion in Mex
lean archaeology was revived by the tele-
graphic announcement from Chicago that
Mrs. Zelia Nuttall read paper before the
Archaeological Congress at the World S
Fair, claiming to give for the first time an
The morning call., 1893-10-29
HEAVY BLASTING.
Suggestions Regarding the Use of
Dynamite.
Now York Sun.

New YoEk SUM-
A very interesting paper has lately been
read before the New Zealand Institution
of Civil Engineers on the subject of heavy
rock blasting-granite. gneiss and lime
stone-in large blocks. 1t appears that in
some recent operations on an extensive
scale for public works. large blasts were
employed. the rock varying from bedded
and jointed gneiss to homogeneous masses
of granite, and on an average one pound
Of dynamite dislodged ten tons Of stone.
the total amount of charge being usually
decided on this basis. The separate
charges were proportioned in the ratio of
the cubes of their least resistance, and
this latter was divided by 35 for dynamite,
80 for blasting gelatine and IL for blasting
powder.
1t SCENE that blasts containing three
tons of explosives and another of seven
tons were each failures. as they broke up
the rock too much. 1t was fonnd that
charges of from one-fourth ton 10 one and
half tons were the best, but this class Of
least resistance exceeding forty feet; be-
yond that the elasticity Of the rock along
this line becomes too great for the resist
ance of the back-off which the charge
works. and instead OF throwing the front
out the explosion may merely develop an
undulating motion radiatlng from the
charge. The best results were obtained
where the rock had one or more loose ends
with nearly vertical face, strong toe al
the quarry floor level being usually first
removed by hand blasting before firing the
last shot. The length of the adit was
made as nearly half the length overhead
as practicable, while the most even results
were obtained if 6fteen multiplied by the
least resistance was adopted for the inter.
val between the chambers, and even less
with irregularly shaped blasts.
The morning call., 1893-10-29
BIBLICAL CURIOS.
Some Odd Items Cleaned From the
Old and New Testaments.
St LOUIS Republic.

St. Louis Republic.
The capital "a" occurs 1892 times in tht
New Testament and 14,020 times in tht
Old Testament.
The capital letter 20" will be found bu
twice in the Old Testament and three time:
in the New.
The total number of capital letters in the
whole Bible is LOG, 800. of small caps 6s97
ana of lower case 3.452. 5e3: grand total ol
letters, including one 'E," 3,566. .4S1.
There were no italics used in the bibli
cal translati0ns until the time of the King
James version. 1911.
Stephen Langton, Archbishop Of Can.
terbury, first divided the Bible into chap
ters and verses. this about the close OF the
twelfth century.
The word "its" is lot to be found in the
first edition of the King James version.
1911. but has been substituted for "his" in
the edition of 1863
The shortest names mentioned in the
Bible are All. Ar. Ed. Og. III
and Uz. See jeremiah, xix :3; Numbers
%; jeremiah, XVI :25; Genesis, xli:45; II
Kings, xvii:4; Genesis xi :2S. and Job i. 1.
The quotation, He shall be called a
Nazarene." used by Matthew In the last
verse of bis second chapter. is not to be
found in the Old Testament.
Rebekah's brothers name was Laban.
and the name of AbigaPs husband was
Nabal, which is simply Labau reversed.
The nineteenth chapter of ii Kings and
the thirty-seventh chapter of Isaiah are
alike, with the exception that verse Is OF
the former comprises verses Is and 16 01
the latter.
Neither the word "God" nor lord" i:
found in the book of Esther.
The Ephraimites ould not pronounce
the word "Shibboleth." but said ''Sibbo
lith" instead. See proof of this in Judges
xii:6.
The quotation used by Matthew in the
third verse of the third chapter is not, a:
is generally supposed, from the Old Testa
ment.
The following words are to be found bu
once in the Bible: Ash. atonement, immor
tai, millions and reverend.
The morning call., 1893-10-29

principal ones are shying, bolting. rearing.
kicking, lying down, plunging, shoulder
ing and running away.
Of these shying is the one most fire.
quentiy met with, and is the one in which
the individuality of a horse is most
frequently shown. Some horses will face
q locomotive engine, or q TOad-roler, for
instance, who will nearly 90 into fits over
a bit of paper in the road. One animal
Lha. | occasionally ride will pay no atten-
tinn to paper, blowing rubbish. bicycles or
even Daby-carriages, the bette nor of most
shyers, but let hen appear, and she will
make a flying leap to the opposite side of
the road. Madame, for instance. who will
scarcely wink when firecracker Is thrown
under her feet. can never pass pile OF
brush. OF ever the broken branch of tree
by the roadside, without making little
fuss over il. The sight of mig will cause
almost any horse to shy. They seem to en-
tertain a natural antipathy for the grunt-
ing rooters. When an animal has habit
of sbying at some particular object, and
not at others, il is generally because at
some time or other hurt or fright has come
to them from that sort Of object In
Madame's case, as n very young animal.
she was terribly frightened by a snake is
suing from under a brushheap. and cross
ing her pathway. The peculiarity in her
shying is that she never does it at sight of
Il snake, anu never iallS TO Sle6r OH lTOm
brushheap.
The majority of inexperienced drivers
punish horse for shying. This never
does any good. In general shying is due
to defective eyesignt. 1t Is obvious that
punishment will not remedy this. The
best thing to do is to remove horses
binders, if YOUR harness carries these dis
graceful adjuncts. and give him a chance
to see clearly. Ii you note the symptoms
of alarm in time, and the watchful driver
can usually DO this. distract the horses al
tention by speaking encouragingly to him.
and. if necessary, by two or three sharp
taps with the whip, administered before,
never after, the object is passed. | have
seen drivers punish a horse after the ami
NAL has summoned all his courage and
gone By the object of his freight. What
the creature needs then is encouragement
and praise. for he had done right aud not
wrong. Let him have chance to learn the
harmlessness of the feared object. LII you
can get him to go up to and smell or it his
fear is usually conquered.
l once drove very bad shyer, who not
only SHE'D violently at every strange OBJ
ject, but would made rush after each of
fense, showing that she was accustomed to
The morning call., 1893-10-29

nothing against his. If mounted ON the
offender you can readily defeat his object
by turning his head to the wall. instead Of
from ii.
Running away is dangerous in crowded
thorOughfare, and some horses seem to go
crazy when tney run. and will often dash
headl0ng against distractions in their
pathway. When IA horse gets running the
quickest and most etfectual way to stop
him is to pull first one rein, then the other,
saving his head from side to side. This
has he effect of confusing him so that he
cannot run. About the only other advice
10 be given is keep cool and don't desert
the ship. Stay in the vehicle or on the
saddle. You are safer there than in jump
ing. 1t is worthy of note In passing that
large percentage of our runaways occur
through accidents to the bride. whereby
the binders that usually cover horses
eyes fall, or become so far unad1usted as
TO permit the animal TO see the vehicle
behind him. It frightens him. He runs
to escape it. 1t pursues him, and he fees
in mad frenzy. The rider may be hurt
or killed. The horse is effectually ruined.
The Out-of-doOr vices of horses. like
those the animals contract in the stable,
are almost invariably traceable to physical
causes. They are due to such, whether
traceab!e or OF. and may usually be helped,
if not entirely cured, by kindness, gentle
frmness and commOn-seDse on the part OF
rider or driver MISS RUSSELL.
The morning call., 1893-10-29
OUT=OF=DOOR VICES.
Some That Our Horses Fall Into.

If your horse does not stand still. orhesl-
tates then abrate him with a terrible voyce /;
and then beat him yourself, with good sticke,
upon the head between the ears, aud then
stieke him in the spurripg place iii or Iii
times together, with one leg after another, as
fas! as your legges might walk. Your legges
must 60 like two bouncing beetles.-Early
work on horsemanship.
saw a sight the other day that would
have delighted the heart of the Norfolk
trainer of Queen E.izabeth's day, who
wrote the advice quoted above.
Madame and L were trottiug along a
pleasant country road, at peace with our
selves and all human kind. 1t was one OF
these exquisite October mornings we have
been having this fall-the air balmy and
delicious. full of the fragrance of late au-
tumn fowers-a gray haze over the whole
world, and tie brown hills just aiight with
the first tints Of the sun, who must have
turned newspaper man of late, judging
from the hour al which he has taken to
making his appearance.
AS l say, Madame and | were enjoying
a morning trOt together when. turning
sharp bend in the road, we came upon
sight that effectualIy marred our enjoy
ment.
Justahead of US, intbe road, a splend idly
built, spirited roam horse was reari ne.
plunging. whirllng about and backing. In
what seemed to me at first desperate
effort to throw his rider, an intelligent
looking, well-dressed man, something
above middle age. Whatever prompte
the animals demonstration of viciousness
he was certainly being terribly punished.
Every time the iron-Shod front hoofs rose
in the air down across the slim legs came
heavy riding whip. With every whirl and
turn the same instrument fell with a whiz-
Zing cut on hind legs and f1anks. The
blood was flowing freely from the sides
into which the spurs had been thrust,
again and again. and the horse was COW
cred with white foam. In the dust under
him the sweat from his dripping barrel
made little pool.
Without waiting for me to draw rein,
Madame stopped short and then made
half turn. In another instant she would
have fed in terror at the unwonted and
terrible spectacle. but / pulled her in and
awaited developments. Seeing me, the
rider made an effort to get his steed in
The morning call., 1893-10-29
FOUR-MASTED SHIPS.
They Are Not of Such Recent Origin
as Generally Supposed.

as Ueneraliy Supposed.
The British ship Somali, one of the larg-
est sailing ships afloat, now loading at
Hong Kong for this port. is of 1886 ton
register. 1t is generally thought that four
masted sailing ships and of such large
dimensions are of recent origin. but such
Is not the case. In copy of the Prince
Edward Island Register of July, 1924,
there appears notice of the launch at
Quebec on the 18Th of July of that year of
the four-masted ship Columbus of 300
tons register. Her dimensions are given
as follows: Register. $500 1924 tons
length, 301 feet inches: beam, 30 feet Z
inches; depth of holi, 90 feet inches. 1t
was calculated that she would carry 5000
tons of lumber.
The paper spoken of in its issue of July
22. 1925, contains an Item headed, "Loss OF
the timber ship Columbus" detailing how
the vessel on May IL. 1926, encountered q
dreadful storm in latitude 46 deg. 81 min.
north, longitude 29 deg. min. west, COM
menced to leak and was abandoned. she
carried a crew of ninety men. Another
Ca adian-built monster-the Baron OF
Renfrew-was afloat at the same time as
the Columbus. Her dimensions we're !:
length on deck 303 feet, beam Gu feet depth
Of hold 50 feet, measurement tonnage 5ZoO
She carried nearly 5000 tons OF lumDer In
her hold. besides 800 tons on DECK. one
carried a crew of eighty-four. She ran
ashore and was wrecked near Calais,
France, on October 81. 1925