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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispclling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
cning them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
cists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, YOU will not
accept any Substitute if offered.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
Worlds Fair Visitors.

D. Roy Bowlby goes to Chicago to-
night to visit the great fair.
John Dindinger and wife expect to
leave this evening to visit the great
show at Chicago.
Mr., and Mrs. w. w. Bowlby leave
this evening for visit to the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
j. H. Wilson left yesterday for
Chicago to remain some time visit
ing the great Columbian exposition.
Henry Burns, of Henry Darts
Sons travelling mems corps, left this
morning for Chicago expecting to
take in the Worlds fair.
City Attorney Joseph L. Haas has
gone to Michigan City, Ind, to visit
his mother. who resides there. He
will make it an extended trip. taking
in the Worlds fair while away.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
Took it all at "A Dose.
EASIER IN TIE EAST.
Financial Stringency Letting up in New
York

Financial Stringency Letting up in New
York
George c. Blakeslee, general sec.
tary of the Rock Island Y NJ. c. A.
returned this morning from a /.
weeks visit to his old home in Bing.
hampton, n. Y, taking in the
Worlds fair on the way. Mr.
Blakeslee was surprised to find that
there was no abatement in the tight
ness of money matters in Rock Isl.
and As yet why, in the east, .
said Mr.. Blakeslee, they have got
ten over the money panic entirely
and forgotten all about H. may eay.
They experienced some Guea-;ne%s a
few weeks ago. but that has all dis
appeared now. and the further east
you. 90, YOU find times and prospect
better. The money scare seems 10
have moved like wave, and follow
ing in its wake has come the rcac-
tiOn of better times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22

An uptown contractor who has
been absent about six weeks looking
after work in Texas is expected home
tomorrow night, but when he returns
he will not find his home just rs it
was when he left ii 1t is often said
that little time works wonders and
in this case it seems to have been
true. The gentleman referred to
and his wife have always to all APP
pcarances lived happily, but sud
den turn in affairs has taken place
and when he comes home he will find
1t deserted. Just what caused her to
leave her home is not definitely
known and though all kinds of stories
are allOat as to the reason for her
strange action none of them are veri-
fled. At any rate on last Monday
she suddenly determined to visit the
Worlds fair, as she said, and to that
end disposed of Il portion of her fur
niture ut greatly reduced rates. her
sewing machine, easy chairs and
other articles going at a sacrifice
Her curtains, carpets and some other
articles she took with her while
others still she left in the house.
Her effects were all packed up in
short order and moved from the
house. She stopped in at 4 neigh
boris Just before noon saying she was
going down town and would be back
after dinner. After dinner came and
she did not return. nor has she been
seen or heard of since. Her husband,
it is said, is entirely ignorant of the
facts and if so his home coming will
certainly be 4 dismal one.
The STROLLER.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
A SERIOUS ERROR.
Mrs. Mary CahalI Takes Medi-
8 cine in Overdose.
UNCONSCIOUS FROM THE EFFECTS.

Found in an Alley in Dazed Cond.-
tion' She is Taken to Her Home, Where
Doctors Attend Her-Sbe Fails to OBJ
serve the Directions for Taking Medicine
to Relieve Her, With Alarming Results.
Mrs. Mary Cahall. a widow, living
with her son at 1903 Fifth avenue.
was found in an unconscious and
Supplied condition in the alley in
the rear of +. c. Hopes
residence on Fourth avenue, about
noon today, and the police were no.
titled, Officer Ryan at once going
down and conducting the woman to
her home. DR.. Assay was summoned
and soon after DR.. Sala was
called in consultation. From the
latter it was learned that
the lady, who is addicted
to the use Of morphine and opium
had called on him about II O'Clock
this morning for treatment for
her nervous condition which was
the result of the use of NOR
phine. Her family had forbid
WI i'lldI Hi'ttlSIS 10 sell ncr lne
drug, and she applied to DR.. Sala for
it, rs she had done before. He de-
.clined to comply with her request,
but instead gave her a prescription
to ease her nerves. 1t consisted of
"a solution of choloral hvdrate,
bromide of potassium and water,
which was to be taken at the rate of
a teaspoonful once in three hours.
This would amount to five grains
each of the principal ingredients
every three hours, the ordinary dose
being 10 to 80 grains. The bottle,
which was filled At .,peidel's drug
store in accordance with the pre-
scriPtion, contained "a drains each
Took it all at "A Dose.
The lady however, instead of fol-
lowing the directions took the entire
bottle full at one dose. with the effect
as noted. How she got into the alley
is not known, though it is supposed
she took the medicine shortly after
getting it, and in a dazed condition
wandered, she knew not where
The physicians administered anti
dotes and emetics. and also used a
stomach pump. but the woman is
still unconscious and her condition is
critical.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
Police Points.

Ferdinand DeJean, who was ar
rested yesterday on complaint of his
wife for flourishing razor and
threatening to do her bodily harm,
was held on peace bond of $500 by
Magistrate Schroeder this morning,
in default OF which he went to Jail.
j. q. Bailey was arrested by Officer
Ohlweiler last night for intoxication.
He VIII have hearing this evening.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22

Did you ever sit in Spencer square
OF an evening and listen to n session
OF the Light Head club? But per
haps you don't know there is such a
thing. Ii Won don't. then you are
away behind the times, for Rock ISL
and possesses ust such an organiZa-
ton, and a strong one it is at that.
The club is principally composed of
members who have Il constitutional
ailment THAR requires perfect rest and
quiet and who also have conscien-
cious scrUples against any movement
that viii result in anything akin to
eXertion. The principal qualification
necessary to gain admission to this
mystic circle of strong boys is to
wear tan shoes and look pleasant.
Many are the duties that this club
finds called upon to look after. the
principal one, however, being the
entertainment of visitors of the oppo-
site sex who happen to he in the city.
In this feature, it may be said, how
ever. that they are the double dis
titled quint essence of perfection. and
ii any young lady has ever visited
the city and gone home dissatisfied
with the attention she received from
the stronger sex, then the Light
Heads were either all sick or were
attending Black Hawk Tower in a
body. The meetings of the club.
which are held nightly in the square.
are characterized by their intensity,
and even though the boys may not
contribute very largely to the indus
trial wealth, they are an ornament to
the city and that ought to be enough
for anybody.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
Rolling Westward.

The recent panic at Denver seems
to give the truth to Mr.. Blakeslee' :
theory that the money trouble is roll
ing westward. and that a return to
the normal condition of The money
market is steadily coming after. Let
us hope the wave of difficulty viii
its westward way until it
tumbles off into the Pacific ocean.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22

This is the year for visiting
for renewing old acquaintance.
Probably most families will en-
terrain, this summer, friends and
relatives they haven't seen for
many years.
If, therefore, you want a new
chamber set for the spare room,
new dinner set for the table, or
new knives, forks or spoons, let
me remind you that can supply
those wants. You'll be surprised
to find how cheaply.
G. NJ. LOOSELY
Crockery Store,
1909 Second Avenue,
Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
Coming Contracts.

Mayor MedilI confidently expects
a mum Der of bids for the paving spe-
Gifted on Seventeenth. Nineteenth
and Twenty-third street at the next
meeting of the council, number of
contractors having signitied their in
tentiou of bidding The work is i'm
portant and for the most part neces-
sary, especially that on Seventeenth
and Nineteenth streets. and ii is
hoped the contract will be let ut the
next meeting of the council.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
CAUGHT ON THE CORNER.
Odd Things That Are Met by the stroller
His Rounds. =,

Odd Things That Are Met by the Stroller
on His Rounds. =
Many have noticed during the past
few weeks an odd looking little man
dressed in the resemblance of clerical
garb hustling along the street as if
he might be fastening to the bedside
OF some dying parishiner, or bent on
some other important mission of his
divine calling. The Stroller, stand
ing on corner one evening not long
since, noticed the little man pass
along at his swinging gait and heard
some one at his elbow inquire of a
friend who the stranger was. Why
that's Father McGugin. returned
the other. Haven't you ever seen
him before? Why he's been here
some time. Most everyone who sees
him thinks he is a priest but he isn't
and his name isn't Father McGugin
either. His right name is Gaughan
and he is tailor by trade, though
he Is known the country over as
Father McGugin on account of his
clean shaver face and the clerical
clothes that he always wears. His
home is in Chicago, and to use a
slang expression, he is one Of those
individuals you read about who
travels on his face What | mean is
that his close resemblance to priest
gets him a half rate fare without eX-
hibiting clergyman's permit and he
travels all over the country in this
way for just half what you and pay.
He has had mauy funny experiences
on the strength of his appearance in
his time, and being thorough Irish
man he aan assume all the priestly
carriage and do it in a way that it
would take an unusually close observ-
or to detect him from the genuine. =
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22
PAVING PROGRESS.
Fourth Avenue Completed to
Twenty-fourth Street.
WORK ON THE LATTER STREET

VIII the Single Course Withstand the
Traffic There - Eighteenth Street Next
and Then Twentieth Street Hiu-Tbe
Contracts Before the Council for Seven
teenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-third
Streets
At noon yesterday Edwards &
Walsh completed the paving of
Fourth avenue to Twentv-fourth
street, and the paving forces were
then turned into filling in the gap on
Nineteenth street, which was left
open pending the lowering of sewer
pipes. This was finished this morn
ing,and Fourth avenue is now a sub
stantial street from First to Twenty
fourth srrcet-two miles in length
and y blocks of which have been put
in this year. The curbing and grad
ing OF IVenty-fourth street between
Third ard Fifth avenues is now 90
ing forward, and the first OF the week
Mr.. Edwards expects to begin paw
ing, which he expects to wind up in
three days. Then he will turn his
attention to Eighteenth street south
OF Third avenue, where there are
four blocks to be paved under this
contract. This work he expects to
be through with by Sept. l, when he
will tackle Twentieth street south OF
Ninth avenue. an undertaking he is
not anticipating with any degree OF
fondness.
The Single Course on Twenty fourth.
Speaking OF Twenty-foUrth street
this morning. Mr. Edwards said he
had serious misgivings as to the dur
ability of a single course pavement
on a thorOughfarc which is so much
Travelled. There is probably no
street il the three cities that is sub
iected to more traffic than Twenty
fourth. leading as it does from the
viaduct to Moline avenue. and over
which passes daily not only a vast
amount of local travel, but all that
between Davenport and Moline.
The single course in these two
blocks said Mr.. Edwards. ..will
have a severe practical test as
anywhere. and if it stands it here it
will anywhere. For my own part
look for the pavement to succumb to
the pressure and give out here first.
| may be mistaken"
On the other streets where a single
course has been adopted. as is known,
tho y-pf rrht nf +ro,n1 will MT no q d.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-22

VIII the Single Course Withstand the
Traffic There - Eighteenth Street Next
and Then Twentieth Street HiI-The
Contracts Before the Council for Severn
teenth' Nineteenth and Twenty-third
Streets
The morning call., 1893-06-04
TROTTING QUEENS
Those Who Have Reigned
in the Past.
SOME FAMOUS LIVING MARES
Martha WiIkes-Is This to Be a
Record-Breaking
Year?
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

xviii this be record-breaking year ?"
This is question friends of the trotting
horse are asking themselves just and
the season just opened will answer it in
due time.
There are already mum Der of candi-
dates for new trotting honors in the field,
and. prominent among the lorenzo st, ex-
perienced horsemen are naming the COOL
mare Martha Wilkes as one likely to make
her mark very close to Nancy Hanks 2:04
before cold weather sets it. This great
daughter of Alcyone is already the racing
champion of the tr0ttng track, having
made her record of 2:0SA in race. She
has also time record Of 2:08, but her
mark of 2:oSA stands to-day as the best
yet made In an actual race.
1t is little curious, when one considers
1t, that the leaders in the trottiDg world
should all be mares-yet this has been the
case ever since trotting records began TO
be made.
1t was game old Lady Suffolk who first
beat 2:30. and if the truth were to be told
there are few horses to-day who can make
a prouder showing than did this old gray
mare. AS first queen of the trotting turf
The morning call., 1893-06-04
THE NEW MOON.

When with hammers of iron Cambyses had broken
The statue OF Meninon that ing to the
And the deSclate marble no longer gave token
I hat twiig L was ended and dawn had begun:
The priesthood who long had been punctusl and
choral
To wait on their God as the stars waned away.
Turned about IN their beds while the clouds
flushed aurora'
Or droned in the desscrate temple OF Day.
So the slow wave of fashion ebped down from the
And worshipers failed at the bountiful shrine.
Where never the shock of the sun aroused thun-
Or music welled forth from the stone undivine;
Yet when II had deserted. one chieftain came
Through reeds and through grasses when Men
non lay bare,
Night after duli night. when the priests were all
sleeping,
Came yearning and dreaming. and would not
despair.
To him, so the tale runs, one morning when slen-
The naked beam flushed on the shattered white
A word came In message. So thrilling 50 tender
1t sobb 81 IKE a harp string that dies IN moan;
My on all is done. all is done r'-and so ended;
He fell on his face. and by gift of the god.
In the blaze OF the day. that was African. splendid
His heart sank as cold as tue granite ne trod.
All so may 1t be with all of me that's mortal.
If ever that tyrant the World, should destroy.
The wonderful image which stands at my portal
And sings to my spirit OF hope and of JOY.
When the roSe-hame OF thought on that marble
illusion
Rings music no more from its sensitive heart
When l've waited and watched, and the faithful
deluSoE
Signs forth farewell. and 1 feel it depart:
All then in the gloom of my broken ideal.
In the coucave moon shadow away from the SUM-
When the horrors of earth are grown rugged and
real,
BY some fortunate str oke may my coil be undone.
A b ! better to pass to the sulen dumb hollows
Where sounds never jar on the ear OF the dead,
Than to learn that the air which destiny follows
BY some trick of hucxster is fostered ana fed.
EDM UND GossE
The morning call., 1893-06-04

woman holding a baby. AS Goldsmith
Maid and Occident came down the home
stretch she forgot the c. lid and jun ed
upon the seat of her chair. tossing her
arms in ecstacy. "Madam!' cried Kelly,
aghast, you've dropped your baby"
The mother neither heard nor saw the
hairless child, until Kelly rescued it and
endeavnred to hand ii to her. She mo-
toned him aside with an impatient gesture
and a remark to the effe that babies
were an everyday affair, but Goldsmith
Maid was only to be seen once in a life
time.
Goldsmith Maid was Nv Abdallah Is.
her dam Old All, by A5daIlah l. She was
a hay mare bred by John B. Decker of
Deckertown, n. j.. foaled in 1857.
Maud 5. the present equine qupen-dow-
ager, was the next mare who came to
the front. wrestling from the gelding St.
julien the crown which he had held for
a single briet year. This she did by trot-
ting at Chicago. September IS, $780,
mile in 2:l0%. Later at Cleveland, July
80. 1885, on the Cleveland course she re-
duced this record to 2:OS% which for
seven years has been the trottng record,
although TEMPORARY contention on the
subject was created bv the performance
Of Sunol. the Californian FLY, who, in
October. 1891, trotted mile in'2:0SA on
the kite-shapeG track at Stockton. Maud
is chestnut mare, by Harold, son of
Rysdyk's Hamhptonian. her dam, Miss
Russell. nv Pilot Jr.. grandam Sally Rus
sell, by Boston. She was bred by A. j.
Alexander. Spring Station. KY, and toaled
in 1874, so that t e queen-dOwdger is now
nearly twenty years old and it is not likely
that she will ever be heard from as can
didate for new track honors. She has no
need again to seek them, but can afford
to rest upon her well-earned laurels.
Nancy Hanks. the reigning queen, is
known to all. Her great feat is yet fresh
in our minds, and we are all looking 20 see
what she will do this year to sustain her
peerless reputation. Nancy Hanks is
brown mare BY Happy Medium. dam Nancy
Lee, by Dictator. the sire of Great Direc-
tor. "the Black Tornado" who left this
coast year or two ago. The queen of the
track was fonled in 1856, and ought to have
number of years of achievement yet be-
fore her.
There are other candidates in the field.
however, and Nancy must look to her
hoEors. Sunol may yet be heard from
again, and the great PalO Alto fillv Row
ena may vet nrove a dangerous rival. Had
the late Mr. Valensin lived that wonder
full baby, Frou-Frou. would never have
dropped out of sight as she did. and she
may yet Teappear. A bOve all Martha
Wilkes is still on the track and coming
very fast. and there is always the chance
that the other side OF the house may be
heard from and a king come to reign over
the trotting world.
In fact, there Is much to look for the
coming season. and in the language of the
immortal prophet I'VE shall see what we
shall see." MISS RUSSELL
The morning call., 1893-06-04
1t GUIDES THE MARINER
The Great Light at Point Reyes

more than soft blue mass which may be
ANYTHING; cloud a little more dense than
usual, mountain, the shadow of the tor
est, or anything one may fancy, for it is
not distinct enough just now to judge
whether it is substantial or not.
The bills back of the two upper houses
and the cliff behind the big one are both
covered with myriad blossoms of wild
flowers. which hide the grass almost, so
thick!y do they grow. But nothing taller
than the lupin dareS lift head here, sc
wild are the winds which sweep from the
ocean across the narrow point of rocky
land on which we stand.
Point Reyes stretches straight out int o
the ocean distance of nearly ten miles;
narrow neck of land which at Que point
diminishes in width until the point be-
comes almost an island, the distance
across from bay TO ocean being not more
than mile at most. II IS 700 feet down
from the spot where the houses stand to
the waters level.
From the plateau there is no sign of the
lighthouse nor of the signal sta ton: moth
Ing but the residences of the keepers can
be seen. A narrow walk runs along the
top of the height parallel with the sea
below, and walking down this you come TO
Hight OF stairs leading apparently
straight out to sea. Nothing but the
water of the ocean is visible before you as
you step down the shallow steps, holding
fast TO the iron rail beside them.
But sudden turn In the stairs and the
lighthouse is before you. You gaze at it
with feeling of dsappoin ment if it is
your first sight of lighthouse by day. A
tall round structure rises before you; win
dows on all sides, but windows curtained
and concealed by shades of yellowish
linen. A narrow balcony encrcled by
black iron rail runs around The building,
black iron roof covers it. The lower
portion looks more like a cheeSebox
painted white, on which the upper part
has been set for moment. This lower
part is connected with the land at the foot
of the stairs by walk, fenced on both
sides by railing, pain ted. as all parts of
the structure are, a giittering glowing
white. The black lines OF the balcony
railing show startllngly distinct against the
snowy paint while, if the sun strikes the
glass it is reflected from the shimmerng
surface in thousand iridescent rays. Bat
as you gaze the picture grows upon you.
The slim, tall object standing there backed
by blue sky and bluer water takes on q
beauty which at first you saw NOT, so diff
ferent was the sight from what you had
expected.
Down the steps to the light. There are
over 300 of them from the summit to the
lighthouse. and, though you take them
with all due deliDeration, you wonder how
The morning call., 1893-06-04

you are to get back. so tired are you by
the descent.
You have timed your trip down the long
stairs SO as to see the lighting up of the
beacon viii will all night long cast its
radi'nt beams far across the waters, that
seamrn longing for sight of its rays
which will tell them they are near their
destined port, may know how near is that
longed-for harbor.
The keeper does the best he can for your
entertainment. You want to see him light
up, anG, in order to do Ii, you must as
cend TO the lantern. and within those mar
row quarters is no room for CEREMONY
But first The long linen curtains which veil
the lenses from the sun are to be removed.
One after the other they fall and are
folded away. for the men are most me thod-
zeal and neat in their work Then those
covering the windows are also taken
down, and you See for the first time the big
lantern glowing in the setting sun. All
lights are to be burning when the sun dis
appears from view, SO the lamp is lighted a
little before sunset.
Step inside the lantern now, and watch
the keeper as he kindles the flame which
means safety to hundreds of sailors.
Imagine big argand burner multiplied by
twenty, the circling wicks, six or seven
IN number, decreasing in size as they near
the center. one within another. the outer
one some fifteen inches in circumference.
Imagine the glow which comes from these
wlcks burning together. The huge CHM