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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
Influence of the American College

1t does not seem too much to say that the
American college has profoundly influenced
American life 1t has not been the mother
of great movements, like Oxford, but it has
been the mother of great men, like Cam
bridge. 1t has not made great soldiers or
sailors, great artists or inventors, but it
has contributed vastly toward the worth of
the more considerable elements of thought
and character. 1t has not created poets,
but it has enlarged the vision of the poet
and sweetened his song. 1t has not created
historians, but it has given to the writer of
history subject, taught him to investi-
gate, to weigh evidence, to write with pow
er. If its influence has not touched GER
tain eminent preachers, it has added to the
knowledge and disciplined the powers of
thousands of clergymen. 1t has brought
and is daily bringing a larger offering to
the editorial desk, the lawyers office, the
medical clinic.
1t is significant that we call the college
not almus pater, but alma mater. She
gives to us intellectual life and cradles that
life in its first feebleness. 1t is almost as
rare to find son complaining of his col
lege as it is to find him complaining of his
first home. Happy the man who has two
| mothers whom he reverencesi Old Pres
ident Quincy of Harvard said that a man
got good deal out of college if he just
rubbed his shoulders against the college
buildings But he certainly does not get
much in this way in comparison with what
he gets by rubbing his head against the
cases in the library. For to the true man
of alert intellect, pure heart and strong
will the college represents new birth and
a new life.-Forum.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
Great Rock Island Route
TO THE EAST.

Best Dining Car Service in the World
The Rock Island is foremost in
adopting any advantage calculated
to improve speed and give that lux
ury, safety and comfort that popular
patronage demands. Its equipment
S thoroughly complete with vesti-
buled trains. magnificent dining
ears, sleepers and chair coaches. all
the most elegant, and of recently i'm
proved patterns.
Faithful and capable management
and polite, honest service from en-
Ployes are important items. They
are double duty-to the company
and to travelers-and it is sometimes
task difficult of accomplishment.
Passengers on this line will find little
cause for complaint on that ground.
REMEMBER
The Great Rock Island Route runs all
ocular trains to Englewood subur-
IAN station, close TO Worlds Fair
ron, dis, and YOU can save time and
~ouble by getting off at that point
nd avoid the crowd in the city.
For full particulars as to tickets,
maps, rates, apply to any coupon
ticket office in the United States,
Canada or Mexico, or address:
JNO. SEBASTIAN,
Gon'l rkt. & Pass. Agt., Chicago, III.
HIN. Gen'l Mgr. Chicago Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
The Old Esu Would HAVE HIS Joke.

Two boy. who owned a cattle farm out west,
Christensd it 'Focus,' at their sire's request;
The old man thought it quite good conceit,
For there the suns ray. meet-(the ,ons raise
meath
The lads prospered. and they and their families
enjoyed the very best of hea tn, DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets were always found in their me d.
icine ohest-the on,y positive bure for bilious
and sick headache, dizziness, constil alton. ind-
gestion and all disorders Of the bowels and
stomach. Strictly vegetable. small. sugar
coated; only one required for a dose. and their
action is gentle and thor ugh. The best liver
pill esr h
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell Dr. Kings New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds,
upon this condition If you are af-
flicted with cough, cold or any lung,
throat or chest trouble, and will use
this remedy as directed, giving it a
fair trial, and experience no benefit,
Won NAV return the bottle and have
your money refunded. We could not
make this offer did we not know that
DR.. Kings New Discovery could be
relied on. 1t never disappoints.
Trial bottles free at Hartz Il Ulle-
meyers drug store. Large size soc
and 81.
LEADER.
Since its first introduction Electric
Bitters has gained rapidly in popular
favor, until now it is clearly in the
lead among pure medicinal tonics
and Notwithstanding nothing
which permits its use as beverage
IT intoxicant, it is recognized as the
best and purest medicine for all all
ments of stomach, liver or kidneys.
1t will cure. sick headache, indiges-
ton, constipation, and drive malaria
from the system. Satisfaction guar
anteed with each bottle or the money
| will be refunded. Price only soc per
bottle. Sold by Hartz & Ullemeyer.
BUCKLENs ARNICA sALvE.
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum-
Fever sores, letter, chapped hands,
chilblains, corns, and all skin erup,
tions, and posi- lively cures piles or
nc pay required. 1t is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction, or money
refunded. Price % cents per box.
! For sale by Hartz & Ullemever
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14

When Baby vas sick, we gave ner Castoria
When The was Child. She urioI FOR Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gavethern Castor a
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
Saving the Soap.

A firm of manufacturers in Bridgeport,
Conn, are equipping hotels with powdered
soap. 1t is contained in a small cylinder
placed over each wash bowl, and when it is
desired to use it q spring allows a small
quantity of the powder to escape into the
hand. The firm supply the soap and lend
the nickel plated holder, the profit coming
in selling the saponaceous compound. Hotel
keepers are pleased with device that keeps
the Mushroom bowl in tidy condition.
Hardware
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-08-14
Wood Hundreds of Years Old.

Wood constantly wet in fresh water is
quite durable. Spiles were dug from the
foundations of the old Savoy palace in a
perfectly sound state after having been
down $50 years. The spiles of old London
bridge were found sound and perfect 500
years after they were driven.-Chicago
Times.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
NATURES REMEDIES.
The Debt of Medical Science to the
Aborigines of America.

Mature is Gods workshop" says DIR.
Bolus A brams, Of Ala bama. The forests
OF Alabama only few years ago werc
filed with Indians who had wrested
many secret from the heart of old
mother nature They ccncocted many
medicines, some of which have become
known to the modern medical world
and have been accepted as standard
remedies. For instance, look at the
case of the McDade Alternative formula
which has been accepted by the Royal
Medical society of Great Britain. and
is embraced in the United States
the Indians performing won
derful blood cures which he
knew were not of the power of the
old remedies. He watched the Indians
make the decoction. he attended the
mystic ceremonies one night, and saw
them dareing around caldron in
which were a lot of roots and herbs
and a large quantity of iron slugs,
scraps OF steel. etc. McDade studied
the remedy, threw out the iron slugs,
reduced it to scientific basis, and pre-
sented the world with one of the most
valua bic recipes of the last century.
Why 1t was only few years ago
when six thousand Indians We're re-
moved from Alabama to the Indian ma
ton west. They passed in review be-
fore old Gov. Fitzpatrick and one of
them asked for ali audience with him.
The Indian told the governor that the
latter had always been kind TO
his people and he wanted TO re
member the. governor. The In
dian then proceeded TO tell
the old governor the secret of a cure
for rattlesnake bite. He pointed ont TO
him the weed which is now popularity
known as 'rattlesnalSe's master and
said that If the leaves were chewed and
swallowed the person bitten would not
suffer any bad consequences. 1t was
natures remedy. for the Indians had
observed rattlesnakes fighting and had
seen them run to the weed and eat il
when bitten.
Every animal can find its own rem
edy if you will let it alone, concluded
the doctor. "A donkey may die II you
pen him upin the stable while sick. but
turn him into the woods and he will
find remedy, Catnip will cure eats OF
all their disorders. and who has not
seen the dog devouring certain grasses
when sick?"-St. Louis Giobe-Demo-
crat.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Yukon boasts of having shipped fifty.
two carloads of wheat last week.

Yukon boasts of having shipped fifty.
two carloads of wheat last week.
Last Sunday was the hottest day in the
history of Oklahoma, the thermometer
registering 106 in the shade at El Reno.
Cashier Dobbin of the National Bank of
Oklahoma has gone to Washington to
confer with Comptroller Eckels in refer
encs to the reopening of the bank.
When the length of time it takes to i'm
prove a claim is taken into consideration,
the Norman Democrat says it is possible
that it will be cheaper to buy farm in
Cleveland county than to take one in the
strip.
The Hon. William Connor, an Osage
has been admitted to the bar of Oklahoma
and has begun the practice of law. He
served in the Ninth Kansas cavalry dur
ing the war and has held many important
positions under the government.
Guthrie News: In order to give our
readers who do not know some idea of the
value of Oklahoma, we may state that the
true valuation of all her taxable property
is so, 600 600, and her assessed valuation
SIS, ,000. .0G0, and her present population
about I60,00o
FL Reno Eagle: Captaioi Labett, hay
contractor at Fort Reno, came in from
San Antonio, Texas, the first of the week,
bringing crew of men and teams with
him. His contract calls for the delivery Of
,000 tons, ut $3.50 He will begin work IN
day or two.
The Chckasaws were first to legisiate
against the white man, but have now vir-
tually reinstated him by permitting him
to participate In the payment for the part
of the leased district lands that was sold
The Choctaws cut them out entirely aud
will not allow them to participate In the
payment.
In opening the Cherokee strip to settle
ment the authorities, If able 10 prevent H.
legal settlement, will earn the gratitude
and good viii o. the people whose honest
intention it is to secure a hoine. Time
enough has been taken 10 devise such a
plan. but it is doubtful that il has been or
will be done.
The El Reno Eagle would Ike TO know
who pAIrned himself of as ". II. Uven
on the editors excursion, and how be pro-
eu-cd pass .or the trip. No one was
authorized 10 represent the paper or its
editor on that occasion, but the records
show that it was done, whereat VIII is
hot
Peter Lines, weli-to-do farmer living
close 70 H-nuesssy. sold MS claim and all
his personal property and lefE bis T. year
Old wife. Peter had beea married Eve
times, and each time was divorced He
was an eccentric man apout - years Oil
lie took everything he had and Jeff his
child wife penaiiess.
Oklahoma seems 10 be fairly loaded
down with farm products. There Will be
a big surplus oE wheat. surplus o. cora,
| eotten, hay, potatoes, cats. melons, and
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
atmospheric Envelope of the Earth.

The results of the experiments made
in the explorations of the higher at
mosphere have been given to the Paris
Academy of Science. The balloon
which carried the registering instru-
ments was constructed of triple gold
beater's skin vanished, its volume be-
ing $50 cubic feet. The lowest pressure
registered was less than one-seventh of
an atmosphere, which corresponds TO a
height of about so, 600 feet. The lowest
temperature recorded was 81 degrees
c. at 40, 600 feet, after which the curves
of temperature and pressure were in
terrupted by the freezing Of the record
ing ink. Subsequently. however, the
intense solar radiation seems TO have
have thawed the ink. so that the baro-
metric record was taken up again at
SO, 900 feet. and the thermometric curve
at 81 degrees C. The balloon could be
followed with the naked eve for three
quarters OF an hour, within which it
attained its highest altitude. 1t was
white, and brightly illuminated by the
sun.-Philadelphia Record.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
WsiInre.sed Troous.

The Germans are very thrifty in their
habits, and no one visiting q German
barrack-room would suspect their mill
tary authorities of extravagance: vet in
regard to uniforms they seem to us
extremely liberal Each soldier has
FIVE uniforms for varying degrees OF
work. The most inexpensive Is the
coarse linen one used in summer about
the barracks, and the most vaius bic
one Is that which he wears on extraor-
dinary festive occasions-as for in
stance, the grand review Of the guards
in the spring OF the year; but beyond
all those which he wears at more or
less frequent intervals is the uniform
which he puts on when the emperor
issues his order TO mobilize for war.
Then is taken on. the absolutely new
uniform and with this he IS marched 20
to the front The troops thas marched
to the front IN 1870 looked as though
ready for review rather than for tie
dirty work of campaigning.-HArr>rs
Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

The government Of New South
Wales has been driven to the creation
OF paper money, as there are nearly
A,o00.0 600 of current accounts. which
technically can not be called deposits,
locked up By the bank reeonstructions
The business men are, therefore, at
their wits end, and hence the govern
ment offers to issue paper for the
locked-up money 10 the extent OF 1000,
o0o. each customer receiving half his
current account By this plan, il the
reconstructions suecees, the govern.
ment viii get good interest for FIVE
years and then its money back, but II
they do not succeed the government is
simply the largest deposit holder and
must share the fate Of the rest
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

Kansas Democrats are not all from
Kentucky. but they seem to imbibe the
fsctional spirit that has long dominated
the dark and bloody ground. There is
this difference between the Kansas and
Kentucky species, however: The latter
do their scrapping at home, while the
former indulge in the favorite pastime
wherever they meet. For instance. the
Kansas Democratic factions at Washing
ton are at this moment, whetting their
scalping knives and grinding their
tomahawks for fresh encounters They
might make up their differences if they
were from other states, but as it is they
are not to be expected 20 seek peace Sc
long as they or their sons are above
ground. and herein is manifested the
genuine blue grass characteristic.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
Yhe daaitha Daily Eagle Saturday zoruie august 5, 18e

all kinds of vegetables. The Times-Jour-
nal declares that all that is nj ed ID to
make the Oklahoma people the most pros
porous in the world is money enough to
move the big crops.
Gov Renfrow promptly followed up bis
| order removing the old board of regents
for the agricultural college with the APP
pointment of the following new board.
| all Democrats: ". Il. Tate, Norman;
henry E. Glazier. Orlando; j. w. How
| afd, Edmond; S C. Caldwell. kingisher;
Jsohn X. Clark, Saltwater.
=Captain Willie, Greek Indian, convict
ei IN the federal court at Fort Smith, Ark,
about month ago OF mansiaughter. died
| in the hospital of the United States Jail at
| that place last Friday afternoon from
| internal hemorrhage. He WAS arrested
| in Oklahoma last fall on the charge Of
killing George Z. Thornton, United
States deputy marshal, in the Creek nation
three years ago.
The agricultural report for Lincoln
county shows h:t the county has 81, 336
apple trees, IS. 721 peach trees !, 430 cherry
tre s, 8, l62 pear trees, 81, $50 acres in corn,
2, 446 acres in oats, S14 acres in millet, 4 731
acres in wheat, /. AS acres in cotton, 2,692
acres in sorghum, $50 acres il potatoes.
In live stock there are 2. 705 cows and 4,S7S
horses. The sales OF poultry and eggs for
the past year aggregated s32. ITO, and OF
butter, 3l,0 pounds.
Great Preparations are being made for
the statehood convention, 10 be held III
Ell Reno next Tuesday. and the varions
committees are up 10 their eyes IN work.
The money needed has been raised, and
nothing will be left undone to make the
stay of the visitors pleasant. The Eagle
says word has been received from every
county That they would be represented by
full delegations, and that the visitors
would outnumber the delegates ten to one.
The weekly weather and crop bulletin
issued from the territorial station shows
that the average temperature during the
past week was 81 degrees very nearly or
slightly above the normal for the last
week in July. Highest, 106 degrees at
Purcell; lowest, 62 degrees at Keokuk
Falls. The only stations reporting rain
this week are: Arapahoe. IA on 24th and
25th; Marietta. LOO on 18th: Purcell, 20
on 24th, and Oklahoma City, .03 on 25th.
The weather during the early part of the
week was favorable to all vegetation. but
later the hot winds and almost continuous
sunshine have absorbed about all the
surface moisture, and everywhere
rain is needed to help out
cotton, late corn and vegetables.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
"a FALSE BALANCE Is AN ABOMI-
NATION"

TO the Editor of the Eagle.
There never WAS a larger volume of
money in the country, larger amount
per capita, both in the country and in cir
culatiOn, according to the most reliable
official reports than there is at this time
DR.. Z. N. Miller in yesterdays EAGLE.
The above statement is false as hell
and the writer of it knows it, because, l
can refer him to his published words
written in 1876, ana prove his present
assertion false. But wish to be brief,
so l will come down to figures, and
dates:
The above figures can easily be proven
by Treasurer F. E. Spinner's report. also
by President Johnson's message of that
date; also by the New York Tribune an d
the Chicago Inter Ocean of
October 1875, which positively states
over Hon. +. E. Sprinner's signature,
that the money issue of that date was
over $57 per capita. DR.. Miller also
makes the same statement in his own
publication, in New Yosk in 1876. So
much for that false statement.
Now what is our money circulation
today:
treasury nOleS- So4o. UUU.UOU
National bank notes. S................ lI2,000, 600
Silver certificates. Observation-Disclosures. 157, coo, 900
Currency certificates. eS................ %, 730, 900
Total currency. s7Os, ,7so, 600
Less than S11 per capita all told.
But you say 81 have not added ia the
gold and silver" Neither did you in
your estimate of 1866, when Andrew
johnson said under oath that there was
$500, 900, 900 of silver in 1866. But let us
inquire where the geld and silver coin is?
Let the United States treasurer answer:
5000, 4S5, 237 gold coin in the United
States treasury: S473, ,565, $50 silver coin
in the United States treasury; l,016,-
050, ,597 total coin in the United States
treasury.
Deduct that from your percapita esti-
mate and see where YOU are at"
might show you how about half of
the paper issue is not in active circula-
ton, but perhaps this is enough for one
time.
When you get this digested come
again. j. S. JENNINGS.
Wichita, Kan. Aug. 5, 1898.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

As result OF the recent experience
with France in Siam, the English gov
ernment manifests strong disposition to
join the Triple Alliance. II is also re-
ported by cable that Germany proposes
TO make stand with England against
France on the Siamese question. But
they are apparently too late. France
has obtained what she requires from
Siam for the present: the peaceful block
ade has been raised. and there viii be no
decent pretext for England and Ger
many 10 interfere in the business. At
any rate, Germany has quite enough to
do in watching the movements OF the
French on the Rhine; aud Russia prom
ises 10 give England sufficient employ
ment in the east.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

These irrepressibIe geniuses are no,
the rule. Shakespeares and DicSenses
and Whitmans and HaleS are nos
abundant. Most writers are conscious
of power, 5ut need some medium tn
connect brain and hand, some vital
force TO play upon the spiritual or
mental mechanism 10 bring all into
harmonious action.
Here and there writer Is inspired
by great informing purpose. IL IL
easy to believe that the poet Whittier
could never have come into the full
mastery of his powers had his soul not
thrilled TO the clarion call of free
dom. The same mighty throb pro-
peeled the pen of Harriet Beeclier
Stowe when she wrote her epoch max
ing story. For all that we can say To
the contrary the motive that impeled
the writing of Robert Elsmeren may
have been equally sj-eere and irrcsis;-
ible. Bunyan is by no means the only
miscalled profane writer who has taken
up the pen because a mighty spiritual
influence took possession of the being,
and ne heard voice from Heaven sav.
ing: Write
Next to a breath Of inspiration per
haps touch from the goad of neces-
sity is most potent in setting at work
the mental forces. sud such stimulus
5 by no means incompatible with ex--
eellent results. Such a goad might
even give To work, in whatever line 10
might be wrought ont. a needful touch
of earnestness. and ha~ing .ecessity
laid upon him the writer might delight
to do with his might what his hand
and head were forced To do. There
can bee no doubt that many an able bus
halting pen would do noble work.
worthy to endure, were the hand of its
holder 10 feel the sharp pinch Of neces-
sity.-Georgia Allen Peck, in Chau;sU
guam.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

That always frisky blanket-sheet of
sensations, the Cincinnati Enquirer,
showed Parson Talmage the other day
how to display one of his sermons. He
had sermon on Jeptha. Over this SER
mon these headlines thus appear:
"Jepth-The Old Freebooter-At an Ear
ly Age He was Forced TO Rough It-He
Held Up His End of the String in Great
Shape-And Sewed Up the Games of
Twenty Cities-On His Return From
Victory He Kept Promise-He Must
Sacrifice the First Person Seen in His
Door-He Looks-Holy Horrors-It is
His tOwn kFair Daughter-But Jeptha
Was a Man of His Woodland the
Beautiful Young Girl Was Slain.''
If DR.. Talmage had read these head
lines at the opening OF the sermon the
congregation would have kept their eyes
open during the sermon for the nonce.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
That's Just What Was Done.

From the Fort Scott Monitor.
If Republican speakers in last years
campaign had warned the people that
within six months after the second in
auguration OF President Cleveland Dusi-
ness would be deranged and half mil
lion laborers would be locked out from
the shops there would have been a
chorus of derisive howls from Demo.
cratic throats. And yet a much worse
condition is the visible result of that po-
litical revolution.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05
LITERARY INSPIRATIONS.
A Valuable Factor in the Production OF
Good Work.

A Valuable Factor in the Production of
Good Work.
Natures there may be that give their
best spontaneously, as the Folean
harp responds TO the play of the pass
ing breeze. They are attuned 10 life
and it needs no special agency TO draw
from them that which they are formed
to do. Let them be placed in any sur
their unique personalities would tri-
umph over circumstances: genius
would assert itself in its own ire
pressible way. and viii or nil the
world could not escape their message
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

The hoarders are getting very tired,
and while they are easily scared, the
simple fact that they have something to
hoard indicates that if they are not
greedy they are thrifty and they are get
ting terribly hungry for some revenue
from their possessions, which fact will
soon put lots of money in circulation.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-05

During the last fourteen weeks the
Bales of wool In Philadelphia, Boston
and New York have been 0,429. 1S4
pounds less than during the correspond
ing time last year. and this notwith-
standing marked decline in prices.
This Is the shadow of free trade. Manu-
facturers are afraid to buy, even at
much lower prices, and mills are closing
up every day.