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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
MARGARET FuLLeR's FATAL VOYAGE.
A Picture of the Terrible Wreck of the
Elizabeth Off Fire Island.


Elizabeth Off Fire Island.
We, too, at this distance shrink at setting
out with her on that fatal voyage, with its
record of doom. First, the captain stricken
with malignant smallpox; his death and
burial at sea off Gibraltar, the body wrapped
in flag and lowered deep into the deep.
Margaret consoles and cares for the widow
Then little Angelina seized with the dread
disease, lying at the point of death for
days and rescued again only by tireless
watching and care Contrary winds detain
them, so athat two long summer months
wear away before they near their journeys
end.
On Thursday. July is, the Elizabeth was
off the Jersey coast. The passengers were
told to pack their trunks and prepare tc
land the next morning. At Q in the evening
the wind arose, and at midnight it was
hurricane. The ship tossed and pitched all
night, flying, no one knew where or how
swiftly, with the wind and tide, headlone
to destruction. At 4 o'clock on Friday
morning, July 10, she struck off Fire island
beach. First jar, then a crash and the
thunder of the seas breaking over them.
One hates to rehearse the horrors of that
awful dawn and awakening, yet how else
may we realize the test of the souls which
confronted thems
The passengers meet in the gray twilight,
exchanging hurried words, calm but des
perate And now for 10 mortal hours, amid
the wrack of tempest and fury of unclaimed
elements that doomed band of human be
ings awaited death-a hundred deaths. We
have glimpse Of Margaret singing her ter
rified child to sleep through the bowling
storm. Land was in sight, actually within
100 yards, only the raging breakers be
tween
Through the gray cloud Of rain and spray
they could see the gray sand hills, with
people moving on the beach and a wagon
drawn up, but not a hand lifted to save
them, not a ifeboat sent to the rescue
MorninG-noon-a fternoon-hOw endless
and yet how swiftly passingI The wreck
was going to pieces plank by plank. a sin
gle mast remained with u fragment of the
deck that rose and fell with every wave
Here the desperate group were clinginG
The last moment came. Some plunged
into the sea and succeeded in swimming to
the shore. Others trusted to a frail plank
and rope.
The last vision of Margaret was at the
foot of the mast in her white nightdress,
with her bright hair streaming over her
shoulders Ossoli hung for an instant &c
the rigging, but the next wave caught him,
and he sank, never to reappear. Neither
his body nor MarCaret's was ever recovered.
Only the little body of Angelina was washed
ashore some minutes later, still warm, but
stripped of every shred of clothing. One
has almost a regret that the sea gave him
up, and that he should not sleep with his
parents beneath the waves, in whose still
depths, no less than in the fixed and stable
earth, there is peace.-Josephine Lazarus
in Century
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
How Shall Savings BE Used?

The American method of investing saw
ings is the distribution of fortunes over
multitudes of industrial undertakings, the
investor trusting to the average and put
ting up with occasional small losses of his
capital This involves trouble, but it does
yield income and we do not know that it
is more venturesome than going on with a
profession or a business which must always
involve some risk. Another method, the
one we should advise, is to buy life annu-
to per cent, and the third is to expend
yearly strictly regulated portions of the
capital. 1t is curious to notice how ex-
ceedingly this last practice is now disliked,
though it was all but universal in the
eighteenth century and though it is
fundamentally more profitable than the
purchase of life annuities.
Men have lost confidence in their own
ability to stick to their own rules and
think if they begin spending capital they
will get rid of it all before they die
They are very likely right. but their self
distrust shows a decrease in the fiber of
their wills, even when their permanent in
terests are concerned, such as it would be
difficult to induce a respectable Hindoo or
Russian Jew to credit. If he made up his
and no more, he would go to prison for the
rest of his life before he would touch an
other penny. Our people have not that
tenacity of purpose, but they will be welded
into it if the yield of capital continues to
sink as it has been doing for some years
London Spectator
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
The Inventor of the Sleeping Car

have always been desperately puzzled as
to who was really the inventor of the sleep
ing car. 1t existed, as everybody knows,
prior to the time of Mr.. Pullman, whose
name is as well known in Europe as il is in
his native country, whose colossal carriage
building works / have inspected at Chicago
and whose hospitality, both in his own
house and in his own cars, l have more
than once enjoyed l have somewhere read
that our great engineer Brunei devised
while he was constructing the Great West
ern railway something approaching a sleep
ing car, but only for one paSSenger-him-
self All students of vehicular history are
likewise well aware that even in remote
antiquity sleeping litters poles support
ed on mems shoulders were common, and
they probably reSem bled to some extent the
native palanquins which one sees at the
present day in the streets of Calcutta
At the same time l cannot resist the
thought that the American sleeping cal,
with its tiers of lower and upper berths,
was suggested by the almost entirely iden-
teal berths in the saloons of the river
steamers on which, whenever il was posi-
BILE, Americans shipped themselves, when
ever a river lay in their line of route. in or
der that they might escape for brief pc
Rod from the discomfort and the vitiated at
mosphere of the railway cars.-G. A. Sala
in London Telegraph.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
Found Moral Support In the Sphinx.

1t was an American girl who found that
she talked too much and confided too frank
ly to a cold, cruel world the things she
ought to have left unsaid and conceived the
clever idea7pf surrounding herself with rep
icas of the Sphinx. 1t was in a doieful
spasm of Saturday night contrition over a
week of particularly reckless conversation
that the inspiration came, and next Monday
morning she went out and bought all the
pictures of the Sphinx she could secure in
the hope that by studying the calm, strong
face and inscrutable expression she would
gain the secret of dignified reticence or
as she expressed it with the originality our
might expect from such an original young
woman, that she would learn to Easily her
garrElity. New York Sun
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
Billy Florence's Hold Back"

Genial, big hearted Billy Florence told
the story of his first appearance on the
stage only a few weeks before he made his
last appearance before the public that loved
him so well. Yes" he said, Il remember
perfectly the first lines i ever delivered.
The play was 'Evadne,' and was cast for
one of the conspirators. Hold back was
my line. 1t was the first, last and only
speech had in the play, but didn't it make
a hit! II happened in this way. was nat
urally very timid at rehearslis, and l de
livered my Hold back in a manner very
unlike d conspirator. shout 1t out, my
boy said the manager. Let them hear
you. If you want to succeed in this bust
ness, have confidence in yourself. If you go
to market with one pound of butter to sell,
make as much noise as the man who has a
thousand. That's the way to get on
We'll, the eventful night came. l got
my cue, entered, and rushing down to the
footlights yelled Hold back in voice
that could have been heard block away.
/ can assure you that it went. The audi
enoe roared with laughter, and nothing in
the play that night called forth as much
applause or made as big hit as my Hold
backr-the first lines l ever delivered y
New York World.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
a Xounyster's Renly.

There is story of benevolent gentle
man who visited certain refornatory in
stitution near Boston, and while going over
the place engaged one and another of the
inmates i'll conversation.
The good man was quite unnindful of
the fact, known to all who have seen much
of that phase of life, that people in such
places do not enjoy being questioned as to
their personal history. At last he came to
very demure looking youngster, and his
heart went out toward the unfortunate
waif
We'll, my little man." he said, land
what are you in here for?''
PLEASE, sir" said the little fellow in
stantly, I'm here to set the other boys a
good example. Youths Companion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
Cheap Telephoninx In Switzerland.

1t is reported that the Swiss telephone
system, which is now under government
control, is the best and cheapest in Europe.
The government allows 800 calls year to
each subscriber, without extra charge, and
all calls beyond that number are charged
subscribers is s24 for the first year, so for
the second year, and less than $16 per year
from then on. kilograms are received at
the telephone Office and delivered to the
telegraph department at 2 cents each
Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC: The Roman
Catholics. of Macomb, H., are act
ing very fooiishly in taking any no.
tice al all of the know-nothing ora
tor who is slandering them. Their
attempt to stop him from speaking
il worse than foolish. If they will
let him alone no sensible person will
paw any attention to him.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

ATTACKS made on President Cleve-
land as an enemy of pensions for
Union veterans are absolutely sense
less. During the four years of his
first term he put more men on the
pension rolls than Alexander the
Great had in the army with which
he conquered the world.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

ONE of the oldest clergymen of
Chicago. the Rev. DR.. Robert w.
Patterson. and Mrs. Patterson. re-
Gently celebrated the. 50th anniver-
sarv of their marriage. They made
their wedding journey to Chicago
from Alton. Ill. by boat and stage
when Chicago had a population of
about 5000.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

JOSEPH DUNLOP, of the Chicago
Dispatch, was assaulted last week
by two thugs named Shakel and Hea-
ly. In the melee Dunlop had an an
kle broken. The Dispatch has been
waging a relentless war on the gamb-
lers and the assault on Mr.. Dunlop
was the outcome.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
travelling Friends Meet In Strange place,

Nv hat SadaboutS we nineteenth century
folk are!' laughed a woman down at Old
Point the other day as gentleman who
had been speaking with her walked away
1.-The last time l saw that man we met in
the streets of St. Petersburg Il know
responded the woman to whom she spoke
yesterday at the Arlington in Washing
ton, on our way here, who should occupy
the next table to ours but family with
whom we became quite intimate travelling
in India!" New York Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
The Beauty of q Face.

There are faces so fluid with expression,
so flushed and rippled by the play Of
thought. that we can hardly find what the
mere features really are. When the deli
cious beauty of ineaments loses its power,
it is because more delicious beauty has
appeared-that an interior and durable
form has been disclosed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

Never leave the light burning during the
evening when the room is unoccupied. This
is not only a waste, but the air becomes
vitiated and is considered unhealthful
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

The progress of the coeducation move
ment may be estimated from the fact that
of the 345 colleges and universities report
ing to the national bureau of education
R04 are coeducational
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

Although a soldier by profession. have
never felt any sort of fondness for war, and
4 have never advocated itexcept as a means
of peace.-U. S. Grant.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

Zerah Colburn, the mathematical WON
der, could mentally raise any sum less than
three figures to the sixteenth power.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
HOTEL DELAWARE,

Corner Cottage Grove Avenue and Sixty fourth
Street. Only five minutes from Worlds Fair.
Superior Dining Room. Elevated Railroad
Now Open. Rates Moderate Euroi eau.
WIN. n. PELoUzE, Supt.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12
HOTELS.
HOTELS.
Metropolitan Hotel,
Broadway, Cor Prince ST.. New York City.

Broadway, Cor. Prince ST.. New York City.
Reftted and renovated under new msnas cement,
on the European plsn.
Room rates 81 day and upward.
Re .auraat eQual to the best in the city at mod
crate rate
street cars from all r r. stations and steam
boat and ferry landings pass the door
HILDRETH & ALLEN. Pops
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-12

THE Quincy Herald is very pretty
in its new dress.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29

" harpening." remarks the society cor
respondent of the Rochester a. " fost
Express ''Now it IS said that Ralph
Waldo Emerson was Il great Whlsl'er,
Looked at specifically, It seems incredl-
bic. If we accept the popular ldea lhdl
whistlng indicates n vacant MIND. IL you
will stop. however, for a moment ana
ponder, 1 think you will say 1t Is rather
an indication OF a contented, even
thoughtful, mind
DID Won eyer hear a disconnected.
malevoent man pass you whlsuihs
Either mental. moral or physical content
mont win start many men into uncon-
scious whistling and when all are com
bined add extra vigor TO his notes. Inc
Southern negro of ante-bellum DAYS,
when he found himself well fed. Wen
housed and well clothed, and with only
enough work TO keep him from going 10
sleep, could and did whistle with more
Of the abandon of enthusiasm than any
one; but IL would be too great a stretch
Of Imagination TO think Of Emerson IN q
like case: or even like some happy farm iad
walking through country lanes, win isH1
springing step, with whistle "hlch lne
wild birds might envy. But u Is easy
enough to think we can hear MS low So''
note OF placid content -,
veneraton for the dramatic critics. lie
has rather q robust contempt Tor thehi
and rot long ago declared TO a irlehu
that only a few Of them ever go TO see a
play with impartial minds. why d0h
some OF these Heaven sent critics. ne
| exclaimed who tear other mems plays
TO tatters with such glee try 10 write
| one themselves? If they know II ALL Why
don't they give the public the pehsht ., VI
some Of their immensely or khoW4eu5e'
ACnes Huntington. who is now a mar
ried woman, has decided to abandon en-
tirely a professional career. For a long
time It was supposed that she would re-
turn TO the stage in spite OF her huspahu :
opposition, but the latest reports "hlCi,
she has authorized, state that she wiz
never appear IN public again AS mat
Ter OF interest to those who have seen
her as "Paul Jones" and Captain The
rese" and admired her superb costumes
Il may be mentioned that they sold re,
Gently in London for 5000 The original
cost is said TO have been $4,000.
At the luncheon given for Paul Bourget
he had a long and earnest talk with MIS-
Van Rensselaer, Cruger, who had LOT oiiy
read his books. but could discuss then
ably. On leaving her he turned 10 frleh'
and said "She is a woman OF a masculine
mind" He probably intended this as
compliment.
ut Is so long" remarks correspondent
OF a well known Northern paper, since
we have discussed the Bradley Martins
that everybody will be delighted to learn
that the Earl and Countess OF craven
have left Coombe. and have gone to Ba,-
macaan on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs BRAD
ley Martin, who have large and swas'
ger house party TO meet my soh-ih-ia"
the EARL"
That clever verse and story writer
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, was once eil'si
taired by a well-lnown womaifs ciup' ~
she entered the crowded rereplloh 49, 49,
the President OF the club, anxious 10 make
the dis,inp,lished presence known, an
nounced loudly and unrlistakablyi La
dies, this Is Mrs. Clara Baty Dotes.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29
/, WOMAN IN BUSINESS.
,,rs CYRUS w. Field on THE1oNEY
s1KINo MISSION or HERSEx.
, probIsn Of the Future some Present
Tendencies May Yet Effect Social
Revolution.


10 Is with d!ihdcnce mat 4 comply WIN
..,.,. fo~ my views OF voman's
ira. ...t..,. .....,r g.
sphcre Ia business INC ""o'e H'"''ei %
90 new 90 me that my opinions can hard-
iy paeqcsq the wcight Of experience !
.,....,.... ,,,,si,tor che tonic IN com
s'''' '''''
nccton with those more piActica aSpeo''
OF money-making with which i have al
I'D. .,...,o,. f.-,itt,r
''"'
In the hfst place the subject OF
An business necessarily involves con-
..1ar.fion 81 tho necessity which brought
..,., ,,of-
I't t"'iN' "i'"''-N ,''a F','.l ~ .'.'g,aorsd
teI t'eH9 moe 90 nave '- ,'..,.s az
ty th'Hc VINO profess 10 ''', ..i..r
some present tendencies lh ."o ,y,-
seH For Win tae average Dus'''. ~
man DO has usually been po and
l1'l'.',l'.'"a ,,t b,,ing pre-
those who object 90 ner no, ,, ,gIib our
IeIita TO sliIt e a''''' .+ r.itb lie
present Sot'ai Sl''''.'' better OF
woman. surely s0.i.,' ...f IN fhe
t woman enters business 90 ,oiobt
almshouae. Z do not say ''.'. 49, t.5 an
not Doe better siAl I "'i'''
enter either ......
Thus "a th1ueh,iul business "''l'"i 49, &c"
b. both amused ana NcA'd VIZ"
such uttcran. "a ,"'1l i'-' -.,i,t
distinguish, .... i.l,,.,l. .@l,l.e
u'. .'. .. Do, ..,-.. -, ,,,9.
I'"l,.. ' - .t.t. -, -
Jess '.'.. .,.... .'..., ,''..tie, iI,,,,e,. 6o
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29

clever trader is he who sells not what peo-
pile want but what they don't want /
know Of one immense concern. dealing IN
am article j have occasion 20 buy, but IN
the sale of which there is an absurd
amount OF expensive suam ia woman man
AGED that establishment DO would not be SO.
There would Doe more olrectness, great
or generosity in dealing with the humble
EMPLOYEES and better than an, less Vui-
g.riv i'm the business atmosphere. In
decd IL woman did nothing but bring
more refinement into the countng-roon'
She would have performed e. lasting SER
vice
Bv refinement I do not mean mere poll
ished brass and clean walls and hoors'
The business man VINO beIoss custom
,- into some purchase that 81 IS not
hIs interest TO make. does "a vulgar thing
n, yyau ms "a dishonest one IN this disin-
,.,,ne trader were dealing with q
woman who was worthy Of her sex az all
DE would see his conduct ln us true hsht
ana l,. more honest. CompunctOn once
ar8usa8 would surely lead 10 improve
rnent an around. our trader would be
brought to see that lac should look TO
his clients interests while looking 10
his own. thus winning their permanent
favor. instead of being determined 10
make money. no matter how
This brings me 10 what as a woman
I consider "a very curious phase OF busi-
ness Mfe. namely getting ahead or
competitors" There is dcsree OF SUP
u.tv. IL seems. in the process. Merchants
uI say nothing disparagng or COM
p.utors. Nor win they, openly az leasl
profess 10 be aware of their existence
but II they can secure any sort OF pubic
notice of themselves 20 the discontinue
NJ rivals. there is no hesitation IN TAX
irs advantage Of the opportunity / nave
ir mind thc case of large concern
which deliberately placed the price or
certain commodity below the profit point
for thc sole purpose of destroying a rivais
business When one questions the
Inevitable fetch: business is Business
Ir0pleiy OF such conduct, there is the
] am quite sure that the man who IN
vented this expression was too ignorant
ever to have heard the fate o. the philoso-
pher who first defined n concept by itself
To set back 10 business Din a very lit
crate senscDI feel certain that women are
making barter and sale less mercenary
and more elevating. IN any one doubts Il.
Jet him see Tor himself. I'm my own brief
experience, I have found that where
women are connected with the commercial
process. n SIS more honest, more satisfac-
tory, and. tr the suggestion Of such
tf'nG De not TOO great q departure from
tradition. absolutely refining. For IT is
as true IN business as ia other phases OF
human life that 81 you isolate a lot OF
pen they are sure TO detenorate: n you
s'eluae party OF women. they become
!nos, sorry creatures; but bring them on
together and they viii begin 10 fn,nro,s
az once. '0'0
II should De borne IN mind that by bust.
ness women I DO not mean that nurner-
Gus class OF females now earning money
IN subordinate positions IN offices ana
shops. The performance Of routine worry
a. % much week can hardly be called
u''"s business 10 be sure, the presence
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29

made out upon the integrity OF Conhden-
tial clerks and L heard to-day OF book
keeper who is regularly chained TO the
Office safe on pay day 60 MAKE sure that
ne will not abscOnd with the salaries of
everybody 1 am quite sure no woman
would do business in this opera b0ulfe
STYLE. If the sex ever had such thing
as a mission, it would be that Of affecting
a change in all these respects. That they
are doing 81 now and will complete the
task in time l have no doubt
Have i found business life destructive
Of the feminine qualities? / was once
asked. I suppose this means does business
make women harsh. sordld and unsym-
pathetic? on the contrary, / think women
who earn their bread are more cultured,
refined and gentle than their sisters. For
what is business but a means Of devoting
its profits TO ones own ends? And If q
woman be naturally superior, the money
she earns viii contribute to her deYel
opemcnt and elevation.
And she viii lift up others too.
Tor when woman succeeds in bust
ness does she not give employment to
others just like a man? But there is this
difference: the woman is tender and SYM
pathetic. She is capable Of interesting her
self in the people who earn their bread
by toiling for her She can see what is
The Old quality Of character which makes
a man one being In his Office and another
creature entirely outside Of it, is no part
of a wOman's nature. For a woman is
always a woman. She takes pleasure In
the happiness of others, and she does not
define business by saying that II is bust
ness. Al the risk Of seeming reckless Of
words, l viii say finally. that woman's
entry into business life may wear the
solution OF many vexing problems. She
may settle the disputes between labor
and capital. become arbitress of the dis
h-bution Of wealth. and meanwhile con-
fer a hundred incidental favors upon So
ciety.
1 hope that these ideas are not expressed
oracularly. Woman's sphere in business
ness is the very last thing upon which l
had ever expected to express an opinion,
even assuming that l have already gained
experience enough 70 give that opinion
any value-which / am inclined 70 doubt
SUSIE NJ. A. FIELD.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29

The Emperor Duc-Tu. Of Cochin, China,
protects his treasures by placing them in
followed trunks OF trees which float
about a huge tank situated in the centre
of the royal palace. There are twenty
crocodiles I'm the tank as well. When he
wishes 10 draw upon this bank all the
reptiles are killed; but this cannot take
place without the joint consent Of the
Emperor aud his minister Of finance.
A physician points out that fat people
endure most kinds Of Illness much better
than thin people because they have an
extra amount Of nutriment stored away
in their tissues 20 support them during
the ordeal, Moreover, there are many
other consultations for persons Of album
dant girth. They are generally optimists
by nature, genial and jolly companions,
whose society is universally preferred TO
that Of people with angular frames and
dispositions.