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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
ARMY AND NAVY.

NINETY per cent. Of the crew of tho
United States cruiser New York are
Americans.
A NEW substitute for powder is used
In a firearm just invented in England.
1t is compressed gas.
A CANADIAN has made q collection of
the buttons of officers of every rcgi-
ment and department of the British
army.
BICYCLES for military couriers and
big dogs for sentries and ambulance
service are curious features of the
tented field.
IN 1866 an experimental cruise of all
the ironclads in the British navy,
thirty in number, was made during
very rough weather, to ascertain how
they would behave during a storm;
result deemed successful.
DURING the twelve months just
ended there were 1,259 desertions from
the navy, $50 men and 800 boys. OF
this number 776 men and BOB boys de-
serted at home ports and 1853 men and
II boys at foreign ports. The number
Of enlistments was about Z, 900, out of
nearly twice that many applicants.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
HERE AND THERE.

"A young colt is an animal that
seems to meet with more accidents
than any other, and should be carefully
looked after until weaned.
1t costs something to grind the cor n
for hogs, but if the corn is soaked be-
fore feeding it will be more highly rel
ished by hogs. and be in the best con-
dition for them.
Fall pigs should be narrowed this
month so as to give them a start befo1 G
winter. If pigs are narrowed during
cold weather they are liable to be stunt
ed and make but slow growth.
Salt is beneficial to animals in
many ways. 1t is destructive to some
forms of parasites, and, when sulphur
is given occasionally with salt, worms
in the intestines may be prevented OK
destroyed.
The old-fashioned, bitter herb,
tansy, has other uses than that of mix
ing with liquors for drink. Rubbing
tansy on horses will drive the flies
away, and it has like effect on COWS.
The cow that receives the same al
lowance of food daily may be better
than is known. There is no such thing
as an allowance of food for a pro-
ductive COW. She should have as much
as she can eat at every meal.
If the stock for market comes into
the winter fat and in good condition
literally and push them forward for
market. Never allow a pound that has
been gained to be lost, as it doubles
the cost of production.
The farmer who takes up the sheep
business with the idea THAT the out
side of the animal is worth more than
the inside-the wool more than the
carcass-gets hold of it at the wrong
end. Mutton first and then wool.
xyo,, think IT. too 6rv f<, r01Oxy it q
an excellent time to haul out the ma
nure that has accumulated during the
summer. Clean out all sheds and
corners The manure is only teaching
there. On the ground for next years
crop, it will do some good.
Formerly there was no mode of
harvesting corn but to cut down the
stalks by hand, but the corn harvester
a come to stay and is saving labor.
But little work is now necessary in
growing a crop of corn that can not be
done with horse power and at but a
small outlay for labor compared with
the work of former years.
If your manure pile is under the
caves of the barn the best investment
you can make with a dollar is to get
some troughing the first time you go to
town and hang it SO it will carry the
water beyond where the manure is
piled. Do this much at least to save
the teaching of the manure. To shelter
it would be better.
Farming is 4 business which de-
ponds on many little details and condi-
tions affecting each other farm. The
frost may appear on a plot of land,
while but a hundred feet away its ef-
fects, if any, may not be noticed. Ono
plot will be more difficult to work than
another adjoining it, and the exposure
of the land to the sun, its drainage, its
nearness to timber the texture of the
soil, the kinds of crops previously
grown, and other matters, make farm
entirely different from the next. each
farmer being governed by circrm.
stsucss affecting his farm only.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
y1I,r AND WISDOM.

"A man's own good breeding r. the
best security against other peoples III
msnner2-L.ord Chesterfield.
The bull dog has q pretty tight
grip In this world. though he often es-
cApes by the skin Of his teeth.-Truth.
1t u not . lucky word. this Same
'1mpossible;'' no good comes of those
who have it so often In their mouth
Carlyle.
What springs from earth dissolvea
70 earth again, and Heaven-born things
dy to their native seat An
toninus.
-..The early bird catches tho worm;,"'
therefore, the wise worm will take an
other nap, and cultivate habits of lazi-
ness. Puck.
Send q boy upstairs after anything
and he will yell out before he reaches
the head of the stairs that he can't find
h-Atchison Globe.
-"Bihins appears to have taken a
rather obscure place in the cOmmun-
ity." ''Obscure? Well, should say so.
Why. nobody even brings him a petit
ton to sign Star.
"A Paisley gentleman, hearing that
two of his female relations had quar-
relied, asked: ''Ha'e they ca'ed each
ither ugly?" ma, ma" ''Ah, weel
then, I can max it up atween them
yet'-Tit-Bits.
-Singleton-In her .girlhood days
your wife was possessed of a very sum
ny disposition. Has she any of it yet?
Longwed-Well-er- to make
things warm for me occasionally.-Buf-
falo Courier.
Cousin Barnes-What dye call this
party. a function, or a ssvarry? Cousin
Bess-Neither, cousin. Do you see Mr..
Einstein over there, watching the ladies
with diamonds? Well, this is his loan
exhibition
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
"a LITTLE NSENSE."

The so-called Self-made man is
generally nothing less than the slip
per-made man.-Galveston News.
-Tramp-.'Madam, was not always
thus" Madam-"No. 1t was your
other arm you had in a sling this morn
ing."-Detroit Tribune.
-Frauk-''Were you actually sur
prised, as you said, when proposed %
May-''Yes, indeed; 1 really had all
but given you up"'-Vogue.
-Hicks-''Isn't it strange that while
my hair is getting gray. my mustache
is not?" Mrs. Hicks: ''Oh, I don't
think SO; your mustache is about TWEEN
ty years younger, you KNOWN. Y.
Herald.
-Casher-''I hear that you lost a
whole lot of money in one of those
mushroom boom towns out west.''
Rasher-':It wasn't even mushroom
town. 1t was just plain toadstool -
Indianapolis Journal
DIR. M'Sikker-.Aweel,in the fairst
place, ma guild man, we maun soup less
whuskey." Patient-'I never drink
any whisky at all, doctor.'' DIR. M'Sik-
ker-"Weel, then, We fechless gom-
meril, we ought taer'-Judy.
Tourist lin Ireland)-"I should
like a room with an iron bedstead.''
Hotel Proprietor-''Sorr, OF haven't an
iron bedstead in the place-they're all
soft wood. But you'll foind the mat
tress noice and hard, sorr."-Tit-Bits-
A Rift in the Lute.-''I don't know
what you ever saw in me to admire"
she remarked demurely. "Oh, we'll.
you know, little one, a fellow who is
anything doesn't look for mere beauty
in a girl; it's He stopped, because
his heart was all right; and, beside, he
wasn't entirely a blamed fool-only inn
petuous and thoughtless in his way
Puck.
Police Justice - 1.-The policeman
says you were found going along the
street wearing three suits of clothes
from which the price-mark had not
been removed. What have you got to
say for YOURSELF" Baryl Howes-
Seems to me, jedge, dat a cop wot
will pinch a man jist fer bein' little
overdressed is too much of q dood to be
allowed to stay on de force. "-Wash-
ington Star.
A small boy in one of the German
town public schools wrote a compost
ton on King Henry VIII. last week.
1t read as follows: ''King Henry wat
the greatest vvidower that ever lived.
He was born at Annie Domino, in the
year 1866. He had $40 wives besides
children. The first was beheaded and
afterwards executed, and the ed was
revoked. Henry was succeeded on
the throne by his great-grandmother,
the beautiful Mary Queen of Scots
sometimes called the Lady Of the Lake
or the Lay Of the Last Minstrcl'-
Philadelphia Record,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
August
Flower

''What is August Flower for p
As easily answered as asked. It is
for Dyspepsia. It is special REM
edy for the Stomach and Liver
Nothing more than this. We believe
August Flower cures Dyspepsia.
We know it will. We have reasons
for knowing it. To-day it has an
honored place in every town and
country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. 1t does one thing,
and doesit right. Itcures dyspepsia
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

Render Harmless the Postilential Vopor
q course Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at
the beginning of those seasons when MAS
e Is sae a1a sha
remedy long tried and proved. Liver COM
plant, dyspepsia, constipation, incipient
rheumatic and kidney trouble and nervous
ness are promptly relieved by it. The debil
itated, elderly and delicate benefit greatly
bV it8 use.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

BsxcaAAx's P11ls have q pleasant coating,
Disgusting the taste Of tho ptll. withcos a0'
pairing its ehacacy. Is cents Q box.
You never can tell what germs Of great
ness may be in q prison convict, Tor he tSn't
allowed to s.let himself out.'-Gleno FallA
Republican.
PLEASANT, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

Halls CATARRH CURE is q liquid and is
taken internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system
Write for testimonials, free. Manufactured
BY F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

A MAN never has 80 much use for his
watch as when listening to q long sermon.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

IT is the illiterate correspondent who often
holds the editor spellbound Cour-
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
Apples ~ Food.

Chemically, the apple is composed Of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar. guns,
chlorophyl, malic acid. GALLO acid. lime
and much water; and the German an
larger percentage of phosphorus than
any other fruit or vegetable. This
phosphorus is admirably adapted for
renewing the essential nervous ma ttel
-lethicin-of the brain and spinal
cord. 1t is. perhaps. for the same a'ea-
son, rudely understood that old
Scandinavian traditions represent the
apple as the food of the &c DIS, who.
when they felt themselves growing
feeble and infirm, resorted to this fruit
for renewing their powers of mind and
body. Also, the acids of the apple are
of signal use for men of sedenta y hab-
it's, whose livers are sluggish In action,
these acids serving to eliminate from
the body noxious matters, which if re-
tanned, would make the brain heavy
and dull, or bring about jaundice or
skin eruptions and other allied trou-
bles- 1t is also the fact that such fresl,
fruits as the apple, pear and plum.
diminish acidity in the stomach rather
than provoke it. good. ripe, raw
apple is one of the easiest of vegetable
substances for the stomach to deal
with, the whole process of its digestion
being completed in eighty-five minutes
-Engl1Sh Paper.
Poultry Notes.
Fowls that get no milk need mora
meat
Let the young poultry have FREQ
range as soon a s possible.
Feed only soft feed in trough, scatter
grain of all kinds on the ground.
Cooked foods fattens more readily
because it is more thoroughly digesteJ.
Poultry should be fed fat-producing
food for several days prior to market-
ing.
Charcoal is blood purifier, AMI
should be kept where the hens eau get
it.
When duck eggs are set under a hen
it is best to make the nest on the
ground.
Ducks grow faster than chickens,
are free from vermin and less Liable to
disease.
Feed for growth or for eggs and not
merely for subsistence if poultry is to
pay profit.
Always have the nests SO that tho
hens can walk into them rather than
jump down.
Feed and water the setting hens
regularly, and have grit and dust
bath in the ROOM
Hens should never be fed SO wall
that when they are given a good range
they will not forage a good portion CT
the time.-Kansas Farmer.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

ORAroR-"Wheree else will you ind In ono
spot such products ~ marble, iron, clay,
chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose, fruits Of
all kinds, hemp. fax. and all manner OF
grains7n Man In Audience-ss1n my boys
Docket.''-Waif
The college graduate thinks he knows
everything until he undertakes to hitch up
q mule.
I'm Olden Times
People overlooked the Importance OF per-
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fed with transient action, but now that 1T ts
generally koown that Syrup OF E1gs WI
well-informed people will not buy other lax
atives, which act for time, but finally In
lure the system.
s'TRA1x robbers are after big game out
vvest.'s ayes, they're tacklin' the porters
now.'-Atlantn Constitution.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16
H0uSEKEEPERS NOOK 4! 1!s; ssft 9!

e1LvEn sEssONe. in sets Of six. al.eSs re9sier
o. order OF the merits Oe
thes. Sood.. we wm send on recetpt e IT,,
beauty. you send eents A1se siz
ssso rss"isr prics doods sent 20 your .ad:s.s
prepaid Remit postal A0dF0eO
w, RILEY. 4Seb
MISREPRESENTATION Mercantile Agency, C61ca4o,
III, Dunns Agency, Memphis. Tenn; First National
Sank. Helena, Ark
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-16

Hoods Pills cure liver ills, constipation.
jaundice, sick headache, indigestion
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
BRIEF MENTION.

Cook wanted at the Maucker house.
Try ice cream soda at Krell &
Mathis.
Cream served with every glass of
soda at Krell & Maths.
Phosphates that do you good to
drink at Krell & Mathis.
A competent girl wanted. Good
wages. Apply s42 Nineteenth street.
Kramer, Bleuer & Co., printers
and bookbinders. Telephone 1887.
A $40 Gibson wheel for sos at j..
w. Jones' second hand store, 1922
Second avenue.
Something good to eat can be. had
at Gowen Bros, European restaur-
ant, No. 1910 Second avenue.
We serve pure fruit Juice and crys-
tai spring water in our soda. Re
member this and try Krell & Mathis
soda.
Cheap lots for sale in South Rock
island, on easy payments, taxes low,
location healthy. Inquire of NJ. NJ.
Briggs.
Lost or Strayed-A young st.
Bernard pup; color, spotted yellow
and white. Finder Will return to
Club saloon and receive reward.
The lie Claire Journal has been
sold by F. c. Pinch, the owner, to
ID. G. Owen, of the Port Byron Globe,
who will publish both journals here
after.
W. p. Quayle has large number
OF the souvenir number of his Trade
journal on hand, which may be had
at his office, or at r. Crompton &
Co.'S, at % cents a number
1t is announced that the wedding
OF Miss Grace Ball, of Moline, to 5.
Chaplin Wheelock, of San Diego. Cal,
will take place in Moline in Septem-
Der. and after a bridal tour the hap
Ply couple will settle down on the
bridegroom's California ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Koenig, of
93l Nineteenth street, lost their IL
months-old daughter, Adele Lydia,
at ) O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
death resulting from whooping cough
and brain fever. The funeral occurs
from the late home at Q O'Clock to-
morrow morning.
George T. Williams, of Denver,
who is visiting at the residence of
DIR. j. r. Hollowbush, paid hand
some compliment to Black Hawk
Watch Tower last evening. He has
travelled the length and breadth of
the land, and he says it excels any
thing in the way of natural resort
he has ever seen.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
PORT BYRON.

PORT BYRON, July 26-About a
dozen young people spent jolly day
picnicing at f. n. HOLSTERS grove
on Tuesday. making the trip up there
on hay wagon.
Harry Springer has purchased n
house and lot. Don't know whether
this means anything or not.
A good many relatives and friends
attended the funeral of George Mar
shall at his old home in Cordova to-
day.
Rev X. w. Newland's household
goods have arrived and they are get
ting nicely settled in their new
home.
Mrs. Harry Torpin, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs h.
6. Hollister, departed for her home
in Nebraska this evening. She was
accompanied as far as Clinton by her
brother George.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Maxwell. of the
Maxwell house, are soon to move in
to the house just north of George
Moore's, and we are sure they will
enjoy rest from the busy life they
have led for so many years.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
Coniugai Wi.dom,

''She who meier answers till her husband cools,
Or, II she rules him, never show. the rules"-
is type OF wife happily be"omn common in
these days when women may have good health,
cheerful dispositions, strong nerves and clear
minds, mp'y through the use OF DR., Pierce's
Favorlte Prescription. Before the reputation
and use of this remedy became world wide, irrita-
bic. cross, nervous, dehilitated women, suffer-
ing with displscements. hysteris, and every fe-
male disease, were the rule rather than the ex-
cepton. The "Favorite Prescription has prov
en- to be the key to long and happy life-the key
which effectually locks out that old array OF ut.
rerine disorders, periodical pains, weak back,
prolapsus, Inflammation, liberation, neryou. ex-
haustion and general debility. See printed guar
antee on wrapper. Money refunded il it doesn't
give satisfaction in every case.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
UNANIMITY OF OPINION.
But One Expression.-.sThey Are the
Largest and Best.

But One Expression.-.'They Are the
Largest and Best.
There is at hand the always relia-
bic evidence of the largest and best
of the daily newspapers, which are
upon the exchange list of this office.
Wherever the Adam Forepaugh
shows have exhibited thus far this
season the newspapers of this class
as well as the smaller ones express an
astounding unanimity . in their
praises the of Adam Forepaugh shows.
Judging from the tone of these pa
Pers, in which may be placed implicit
confidence, the Adam Forepaugh
shows are not only the largest and
best of tented exhibitions. but with
the enormous addition made to them
OF the scenes and battles of 1776-the
American revolution. they are simply
unparalleled in their extent and in
their merit, while the actually water
proof tents, the prohibition of all
sorts of peddling, gambling, and
every manner of offenses to law and
good taste, and the cempulsorily cor
rect and gentlemanly department of
all attaches. place the Adam Fore
paugh shows absolutely beyond crit
icism. They will exhibit here on
Saturday, Aug. 3.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
was troubled with catarrb {

| was troubled with catarrh for
seven years previous to commencing
the use of Ely's Cream Balm. 1t has
done for me what other so-called
cures have failed to do-cured me-
The effect of the Balm seemed magi-
cal.-Clarence l.. Huff, Biddeford,
Me.
After trying many remedies for
catarrh during the past II years, l
tried Ely's Cream Balm with COM
plete success. 1t is over one year
since / stopped using it, and have
had no return of catarrh. recon-
mend it to all my riends.-Milton
L. Palm, Reading. Pa.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
COAL VALLEY

Coal VALLEY, July 26. - Mrs.
Reuben Lewis, of Cable, visited here
last week.
Miss Lizzie Framing, of Montana,
is visiting here.
Mr. You'd, of Moline, is the guest
of F. NJ. De Witt
Mrs. James Fritts left on Saturday
for her home in Bureau county.
John Lupkey has almost entirely
recovered from his recent illness.
Ernst Roell has returned from a
2-weeks' visit to his sons in Mercer
county.
The young people will have a pic
mic at Black Hawk Watch Tower on
Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Naylor and the Misses
Cauhey are attending the Columbian
exposition this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Haurpson, of
Rock Island, and son, visited their
folks the latter part of last week.
Fred Freeberg has given the front
of his hardware and harness building
coat of paint, which improves the
looks very much.
In the near future two of our young
people are to be made one, in the
eyes of the law. Invitations are out
already. A large gathering is ex-
pected.
Our village is full of convassers,
one selling work on Masonry, an
other dress patterns, another specta-
cles, another representing accident
insurance, etc.
John Stevens, formerly known as
Jack, " was here a couple of DAYS
last week. He lived here about 20
years. He seems to have renewed
his age in various ways.
The butter and cheese company
will stop operating today, goth, on
account of a shortage in the supply
of milk. The directors concluded to
shut down for the present.
Charles Shafer, of Nebraska, ar
rived here this morning. He has
been called on account of the illness
OF his mother. His brother, George.
will be here probably today.
A fire was almost started one day
week by a small boy of Herman Mil
ler's, of the Coal Valley hotel. set
ting box on fire at the south end of
the hotel. Some one saw it and
smothered it ere the flames caught
the house.
F. c. Killings new threshing ma
chine, with complete outfit, arrived
here on the 25th. Its from Gaar.
Scott county, Richmond, Ind. 1t has
a 36-inch cylinder and 54-inch separ-
ator. 1t cannot fail to do rapid
work, as it has the power. and F. c.
X. is natural machinist, so he is
amply able to make it give satisfac-
ton.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
Worlds Far Rates.

The Burlington route &C., B. & Q.
K. r. will well round trip tickets
from Rock Island to Chicago and re-
turn from April % to October 81,
1898, inclusive, at SIS; final limit for
return November 10, 1898. Contin-
uous going passage date of sale.
Continuous return passage on CT be-
fore final limit. Children of five
years and under y years of age half
of above rates.
II. ID. MACK. Div. Pass. Agt..
Rock Island, III.
M. j. YOU'VE. ACT. Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
Sustain Home Industry
Calling for Rock Island
Brewing Co., Beer.
The Best Beer Made,
On Tap everywhere.
TRY IT.

The Rock Island Brewing Company, success
ors to George Wagner's Atlantic Brewery, |
Huber's City Brewery and Rable & Stengels
Rock Island Brewery, as we'll as Julius Junges
Bottling Works. has one of the most complete
Brewing establishments including Bottling de-
partment in the country. The product is the
very best. Beer is bottled at the brewery and
delivered to any part of the rri-cities, and may
be ordered direct from the head offices on Mo-
line avenue by Telephone.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
. COUNTY BUILDING

25-Ruth A. Dickson to Rebecca
and Ada Johnston. eco feet lot u.
block >, William Dickson's add. Mi
Ian, 81.
George Schafer to John Conwel.
part lot l, block 80, Lower add, Rock
Island. 500.
Hugh Conwell to James Wivill, sub
lot 9, block IA, Spencer & Cases add,
Rock Island, 81. 900.
James Wiyill to Mary H. Conwell,
sub lot 9, block IA, Spencer & Cases
add, Rock Island, $1,000.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
The Delaware's sunda, Dinner

The table of the Hotel Delaware is
the best in the Worlds fair district.
Here's last Sundays dinner:
Mock Turtle soup aux Quenelles
owes Radishes Cucumbers
Fillet Of Ocean Trout, sauce tartare
Boiled Spring Chicken on Toast French Peas
Frog Legs, Dreaded. sauce remoulade
Roman Punch
tllet OF Beef, pique aux champiquous
New Potatoes n cream Lettuce Asparagus
Orange Gus ard Neapoitan Ice Crerm
Lemon Pc Edam Cheese Gateaux
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
Novel Medal.

what decoration is that you are
wearingP" said recruiting sergeant
to new recruit.
The man blushed deeply and re-
sponded, Its medal our COW won
at the cattle show
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-27
When travelling.

Whether on pleasure bent, or bust
ness, take on every trip bottle of
Syrup of Figs, as it acts most pleas
antly and effectually on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, preventing fevers,
headaches and other forms of sick
ness. For sale in SOC and 81 bottles
by all leaking druggists. Manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrup
company only.