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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
What ..yye.er.nc stock" Means.

II wonder how many of the people who
dabble in Wall street fluctuations know
how the term watering stock originated. y
said New Yorker last night odd Daniel
Drew, who was one of the most daring and
INSCRIPTIONS operators that ever lived and
who made and lost more money than any
man who ever dealt in stocks in Wall street.
or anywhere else for that matter, was a
drorer up In Putnam county, n. Y, for
years before he ever knew what a railroad
share was. and he was q middle aged man
before he ever bought or sold one. Dan
Drew was as tricky when dealing in live
stock as he was later when his business en-
braced the other variety.
when he was about to dispose of herd
of cattle, he kept them away from any
thing damp for "a hours before the selling
time occurred and mixed salt with their
feed Just before they were to be weighed
he wonld let them have free access to Gro
ton creek, and the way they would drink
would be a caution. They would store
away water until their sides were distend-
ed, and when they got on the scales they
weighed heavy, You may rest assured.
When Drew went into the street, he would
initiate the stock of any railroads he might
get control of by increasing it beyond all
rules of right or ju ,tice, and one day, when
some one spoke to him about it being rep
rehensible, old Dan merely winked and re-
marked that there couldn't be any harm in
merely watering stock. He was a marvel-
Gus man. At one time he was worth S25,-
OO0, 600, and yet he died poor.'-WashinG-
ton News
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
The Tory Objection to Democracy.

Whether We seek statesmen or generals
or bishops or managers of great concerns,
we all in practice insist on evidences of ca
pacity which cannot be given by the very
young. We see no foolishness in applying
the same principle TO electors. who are now
the masters of the world, and there is GER
tainly no unfatrness in it nor any affront to
that quality so valued on the continent
the dignity of the human being" We
write without keeping any thought in re-
serve. We doubt democracy, it is true, as
contrary to nature, which has ordained that
the wise shall rule the foolish, but we are
quite aware that the experiment must be
tried and cordially wish that, when tried,
it should succeed. 1t will succeed all the
better if we do not rush away with the IDEA
that, as all are to be equal. none need to be
subjected to any test
The new device leaves all Belgians as
equal in regard to voting as it is possible
for a people TO be and only extends the
principle that the experienced shall have
more power than the very young Nature
gave them that before NJ. Nyssen, and in
registering the fact in their constitution
the Belgians are not departing from the
most rigid logic. We should not at all
wonder if their idea proved fruitful and
suggested to much greater states mode IN
which absolute equality of rights could be
made compatible with additional power to
be reserved to the experienced and response
ble.-London Spectator.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
BRIEF MENTION.

Try ice cream soda at Krell &
Mathis.
Cream served with every glass of
soda at Krell & Mathis.
Phosphates that do you good to
drink at Krell & Mathis.
Found-Health by using Monroe's
Tonic-found at the Harper house
pharmacy.
We serve pure fruit juice and crys-
tai spring water in our soda. Re-
member this and try Krell & Mathis
soda.
Are you satisfied with your health?
If feeling run down try Monroe's
Tonic, it will cure you. Marshall &
Fishers.
One fact is worth thousand theo-
ries. It's fact that Monroe's Tonic
cures weakness, nervousness, etc.
Try it, Marshall & Fishers
The cars of the street railway COM
pany are coming out of the barns
fully equipped all around with life
guards, at both ends and on the
sides.
The family of the late Mrs. Anna
c. Faust desire to thus publicly ex-
press their sincere thanks to ali who
so kindly assisted during their late
bereavement.
Grand excursion on steamer Verne
Swain and barge Little Verne. to
Muscatine and return, Sunday. June
IL. Leaves Rock Island 1915 q. m.
Music by Hinrich's band of Clinton,
Ia, Fare for the round trip 81.
The vestry Of Trinity parish has
arranged for the annual vacation of
Rev. X. +. Sweet, rector, which will
occupy most Of the month of July
| and which will be spent for the most
part at st. Adams Summer camp
school, Michigan.
Miss Laura Dode, one of Fulton's
most estimable young ladies, and
one of the most valued employees in
| the office of the head clerk of the
Modern Woodmen, has been missing
since last Saturday and the mystery
surrounding her absence is causing
great anxiety. Her hat was found on
| the river bank mile from her faith
er's home, but no further trace could
| be found.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
a POSITIVE GUARANTEE.

In every case that the physi-
clans of the Stackhouse Medl-
cal Institute accepts for treat
ment between nov and July
LIST, the patient viii. if dissatis
fed with the treatment and de-
sirous of disseminating the same
at the expiration of the month,
be refunded tt e money paid for
the entire months treatment.
The charges for catarrh and
kindred diseases are not more
than S. per month in any case.
Under this guar >Dtee any pa
tent can go to the Offices OF
these physicians on any day
between now and the 1st OF July,
paw IS for one months treat
ment and me dicine, and ii not
satisfied at the md of the month
for which he pays. the physi
clans will promptly return h M
the IS which he has paid
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
So Rate and the Guarantee.

Let it be p ain.y uudersto that there will be
no advance in rates at the Stackhouse Medical
Institute during the term of the absolute guaran-
tee above announced. Catarrh and kindred dig
eases successfully treated and medicines fur
nished for s. per month. Charges for all other
diseases always moderate.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07

Every man, woman and child in
this community should carefully
read and understand the announce
meut here made by the physicians of
the Stackhouse Medical Institute.
DR.. Stackhouse and his associates
propose to demonstrate beyond all
doubt Q) the durability of the chronic
diseases treated at the Stackhouse
Medical Institute, and (2) the uni
form success of the Stackhouse treat
mcnt in those diseases.
And here is the straightforward,
simple, tangible and business like
plan adopted:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
Tho C-e..S...rcs CT ccenn Depths.

Itwould appear to have been definitely
established by the researches of the last 50
years that life in some of it's many forms is
universally distributed throughout the
ocean Not only in tie shallower waters
near coasts, but even in the greater depths
of all oceans, animal life is exceedingly
abundant = trawiing in depth of over
mile yielded eco specimens of animals be-
longing TO - species and 80 genera A
TRAVELLING In s. depth of about three miles
yielded over 90 specimens belonging TO -
species and % genera
a Even In depths Of four miles fishes and
animals belonging TO all the chief inverte-
brate groups have been procured. and in a
sample of ooze from nearly Eve miles and a
quarter there was evidence 20 the natural
lists of the Challenger that living creatures
could exist aS that depth--G. W. Little
bales In Popular Science Monthly.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07

The Burlington route &C., b. Il Q.
r. RI will well round trip tickets
from Rock Island to Chicago and re-
turn from April 25 to October 81,
1898, inclusive, at SIS; final limit for
return November Is, 1898. Contin-
uous going passage date of sale.
Continuous return passage on or be-
fore final limit. Children of five
years and under II years of age hall
of above rates.
H. d. MACK, Div. Pass. Agt..
Rock Island, Ill.
NJ. j. YOUNG, Agt.. Rock Island.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
How DIR. HoIs:es Read a Book.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes apparently
does not lose his gift Of fehcitous expression
as he grows der. A friend not long since
sent the genial ''Autocrat" a book, and a
few days thereafter came reply from
Beacon street: IT hardly thought should
find tinfeto read your book, for have had
q great influx of authors of late But dip
ping into it / became interested, and the
more read the more / was pleased, and SO
read on until had taken up every chapter,
every sentence, every word and the three
notes of the appendix-lappedt them up as a
kitten laps up a saucer of cream. Boston
Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
THINGSTO REMEMBER.
Important Facts in Convention With the
Absolute Guarantee Test.

The guarantee is stated in simple
language that cannot be misunder-
stood.
The time for the return of the fees
paid the physicians is definitely
fixed.
Should the test fail, it will be at
the expense of the physicians, not the
patient.
The guarantee is backed by tinan-
cial and professional standing of the
Stackhouse Medical Institute.
The Institute represents more cap
ital, treats more cases and effects a
larger percentage of cures than any
similar institution in this country.
There is nothing vague, nothing
indefinite or evasive in the PROPOSE
ton made by these well known ply
sicians. 1t is plain, simple and di-
rect and the results will be final, de-
cisive and conclusive.
At the conclusion of this test, the
durability of these diseases will not
be subjects for conjecture, and the
superiority of the Stackhouse treat
ment cannot by any possibility be a
matter of doubt.
You Need Not Suffer
From catarrh, ssthma, bronchitis. lung trouble,
weak and sore eyes, catarrhal deafness, rheuma-
tism. neuralgia, pleurisy, heart disease, dyspep-
STA, indigestion, constipation, chronic dyseniary.
disease of the kidneys, liver complaint, malaria,
nervous diseases, blood and skin diseases.
YOU CAN BE CURED.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07
a TYPICAL CASE.
Harrison Fauth, Cigar Maker With Ferdi-
nand Haak Gives His Testimony.

Mr.. Harrison Fauth, of No. 122
Harrison street, Davenport, cigar
maker employed at the mandatory
of Ferdinand Haak, No. lilo and hip
West Seventh street, says:
Before i began treatment with
DR.. Stackhouse and his associates, l
had been suffering for two years with
an unusually severe case of catarrh-
| had constant ringing sounds in my
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-07

ears and became nearly deaf. Spots
floated before my eyes and headaches
were incessant. 1 could sleep scarce
ly at all. 1t never seemed as though
l had sleep enough.
The treatment has completely
dispelled these symptoms and left
me enjoying better health than /
have since the beginning of my
trouble over two years ago. The
Stackhouse treatment is pleasant,
mild and agreeable, and as to its cur
alive value, any one who knew me a
few months ago and will look at me
now. can testify.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
A BUTTER VICTORY,

Every Vermonter expected that Inc
dairy exhibition f.om this state at
the Worlds Fair would make fav-
orable impression mall who inspect
ed it, and every Vermonter ought to
feel exceedingly grati6ed at the ease
with which the states dairy products
walked away with the honors at the
great exposition, The Vermont
building may be distressingly small
and unimportant in comparison with
the structures set upby other states;
but the quality of the Vermont but
ter shown out there proves to have
been very large" as the awards in
dictate. This is a pleasing fact for
our dairymen to contemplate, and
the success achieved at Chicago
should act as an incentive to every
butter maker in Vermont. The
best part of it all is that the choice
samples shown at the Worlds Fair
are backed up by tons and tons OF
the same relishable product, turned
out from farms in every part of the
state in every month of the year
The reputation which Vermont but
ter has secured at Chicago this yeal
will mean much for our dairy inter
ests, and it goes without saying
that the Worlds Fair judges have
spread it on none too thickly.
A list of the awards will be fount
on the sixth page.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
PROMINENT PERSONALS.

George KEENAN, is lecturing in
England upon the Siberian exile
system. A London paper says of
him, "He has a strong and striking
face with piercing dark eyes, and
speaks with the cool precision and
direct force of many Americans"
DR.. De Bossy of Havre, France, has
just passed his one hundredth birth
day. At birthday dinner he
stated that his father lived to be 107
and that he intended to do the same.
Rev. B. Fay Mills, the evangelist,
has declined the degree of D. D., which
was recently conferred upon him by
Iowa College, In connection with
this college it will be recalled that its
president, Rev. Geo. A. Gates, is a
native of st. Johnsbury.
The last number of the Vermont
Chronicle contains an excellent like
ness of the late DR.. Alfred Stevens,
who was pastor for so years of the
Congregational church in West
minister West. DR.. Stevens was
born in Waterford in 1910, fitted for
college at Concord, Peacham acad-
envy and at Meriden, N. H., and was
graduated from Dartmouth in 1912.
DR.. Stevens united with the church
in Waterford at the age of Is and
never removed his relationship from
that church.
The prudential committee of the
American Board have decided to ap.
point Rev. William H. Noyes mis-
sionary in Japan. The committee
twice refused to appoint him because
of his inability to affirm his disbelief
in the theory of probation after death
MIR. Noyes was sent to Japan by the
Berkeley Temple church of Boston
and is now located at Maibaish
Joslin, His great success as a mis-
sionary led the Japan mission of tn,
American Board to request his ap
pointment Mr.. Noyes was gradu
: ated from st. Johnsbury Academy il
} the class Of 1880.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
UNDESIRABLE ADVERTISING.

As the result of a recent indiscreet
public utterance, st, Johnsbury is
just now getting a good deal Of adj
vertising which she does not need,
and which, as matter of fact and
justice, she is not entitled to. When
it was stated that there were near
ly as many cases of typhoid fever in
St. Johnsbury during June as in New
York city, and more than in all the
rest of Vermont" the truth was
rather carelessly handled and a fight
of fancy was INDUCED in. But this
statement was made, and is now
travelling the rounds of the state
press, with an occasional trip beyond
the limits of the commonwealth,
with the result that, if people believe
implicitly in the quoted sentence, the
town will be looked upon as a
decidedly unhealthful locality.
One would naturally gather, from
comments made by our exchanges
that St. Johnsbury was pretty hard
up, physically, and sadly needed ar
expert council We submit that
the case has been over.diagnosed
and that the alarm sent out was i'll
timed. Other sections of the stat,
have been visited by typhoid fevei
the present season, and not a few
fatalities have been reported. st
Johnsbury has had her share Of tn,
trouble--no doubt about that, tn,
more's the pity but the sanitary con
dition here is not so black as it ha,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
FRANCE AND SIAM.

There is trouble between these two
nations-the latter a comparatively
small power-and the peace of the
world may be greatly disturbed as a
result. France, for a long time in
different to her interests in that far
away country, has all at once be-
stirred herself verindignities heaped
upon her citizens III Siam, and, TAX
ing that as an excuse, is now seeking
to further the commercial welfare of
her neighboring Cambodian posses
sion by demanding large indemnity
both in the way ofcash and a consid-
cradle concession of territory.
The king of Siam, thoroughly
frightened by the bullying attitude
of France, has yielded every demand,
and yet France is not satisfied, but
seems determined to push aggressive
ly on against the weaker govern
ment. The action Of the French pres
ident and his cabinet makes it pretty
apparent that they are not so deeply
interested in securing the amende
honorable for outrages committed on
citizens as they are to get hold of
more territory and bigger share of
the trade which comes down from
the east side of the peninsula and
now finds its way to Bangkok. If
France should score the point she is
after it would make her a next-door
neighbor to British interests in
Burmah.
The situation is peculiar one, and
at the present writing it looks as
though England would have some
thing to say about French inva-
sion Of any part of Slams territory.
Relations out that way are slightly
mixed, and any decided move by the
Frenchmen may create quite war
cloud
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
CURRENT COMMENT.
A DEPLORABLE HAIRY EST

The seeds of cruelty and injustice
toward the colored race that have
been scattered broadcast over the
South these twenty years and more
have surely borne their perfect fruit
when a community of five thousand
find the hanging of an innocent man
only an excuse for seeking other vic
tins, and not a Christian man or
woman of them all is even moved
to pity or regret.-[St. Adams Mes
senger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

Montreal bank managers have
been heard from on the financial sit
uation in the United States. They
believe that repeal of the Sherman
law will do away with much of the
present difficulty. They do not an
ticipate any disastrous consequences
in Canada as result of the failure
of so many Western banks. Possibly
the antidote the Montreal bankers
prescribe for us would prove effective.
Time will tell.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
New Advertisements.
Commissioners Notice.
HUGH X. MOORE,S ESTATE.

The subscribers having been appointed by
thehonorable Probate court for the district
of Caledonia, commissioners to receive, ex-
anime and adjust all claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of Hugh X.
deceased, and the term ofsix m onths from the
10Th day of July, 1898, being allowed by
said court to the creditors ofsaid deceased, to
exhibit and prove their respective claims
before us: Give notice that we will attend to
the duties of our appointment at the
dwelling of the late Hugh K. Moore in Rye
gate in said district, on the 10th day of
August and the 10th day of January next,
at two O'Clock in the afternoon on each of
said days.
G. A. GIBSON,
BENJAMIN MANCHESTER,
Commissioners.
Ryegate, VT, July 20, 1898
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

According to the Springfield Re-
publican the Connecticut river was
the lowest at the Holyoke dam last
week since the dam was built.
Within three days of last week the
water in the river fell eight feet.
Several paper companies have been
obliged to shut down on account of
the low water.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

Speaking of new water supply, the
village of Newport is agitating that
sort of thing, and talks of getting
plenty of good water from Derby
pond at an expense of $4,000; and
Burlington has just voted 100000
to improve the water system there.
The securing of good water and
plenty of it is problem that must
be faced in every growing town or
village.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

A Burlington woman stepped off a
moving train near that city on Tuesday
and strangely escaped injury, although
the train was making 40 miles an hour
Nobody knows why she did it. The same
afternoon another woman jumped from
the White Mountain train near Mont
pelier Junction and turned summersault
or two, but was unhurt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

been painted, and it is really to be re-
GREETED that any such extravagant
item OF news (?) should ever have been
set afloat. The public believe great
many things that are not strictly so
and this is one of them. If por-
tion of the water supply is not what
it ought to be, let the local ply
sicians and the legally constituted
authorities unite as one man to
determine what should be done, and
then do it at any cost-for the
public life and health are not to be
put into the scale with dollars and
cents. Over-drawn and extravagant
statements are not in order at such
a time; thoughtlessly sown broad
cast, they work an injury which it
takes some time to repair.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
Commissioners Notice
LOUIS JOHNS ESTATE

The subscribers, having been apno;,t
the honorable probate court for The as. BY
of Caledonia, commissioners to district
anime, and adjust all claims and demanedi.ex :
AL anhp ate Of seg pant the estate LOUIS
deceased and the term of six InM or
from the 18th day of July, 1893 "Gbn a!hs
allowed by said court to the credit oppeing
said deceased, to exhibit and prove tbeis q. o.
1p s s eles to se tbe d.s eye that
ment at the store of Joseph Gauthierp P; IL S
Johnsbury, in said district on the ~ 1S o.
day of August and the 10th day of Ianr 10Th
next, at ten. O'Clock in the forenoon ~
each of said days. on
DANIEL CARPENTER
JOSEPH GAUTHIER"
st. Johnsbury, VT, July "a, 1898.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

The New York Herald declares that
Hawaiian annexation is a swindle
and fraud of the first water, and
does not believe that this country
has any use for the islands over which
there has been so much talk.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
A NATURAL DECLINE.

In twenty years the output OF sill
yer has more than doubled; the
price has fallen nearly one-half. This
is the conspiracy about which the
silver men are raving. With no in
creased demand to hold up the price
in the face of the immensely increas-
ed product, the decline in price is as
natural as the flow of the rivers to
the a.-[Wheeling (Va.) Intelligent
GER.
WAS COLD IN SUMMER.
was very cold in the summer weather.
The sun shone all his gold,
But was very cold
These rhymes are to be found in a
volume of poems lately put forth by
a Boston bard. 1t is not stated
who the man is that finds these sum.
mer days so frigid. But very likely
the confession was from a Maxwell
struck fourth.class postmaster
IN. Y. Tribune.
BUSINESS is BUSINESS.
Whatever party is in power, the
business interests of the country can.
not be wholly disregarded by con-
gress. The party which deliberately
legislated against those interests
would sign it's own death warrant,
and it must be supposed that that
fact is recognized by a considerable
number of democratic congressman.
The people are not in the humor for
tariff smashing .-[Spring6eld Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

A curious coin, said to have been
issued from the United States mint
in 1877, bore this inscription on one
of its faces: mind your bust
ness" With more of that sort of
thing, there might have been less
financial difficulty in the air nova
DAYS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27

A snake charmer has failed to
charm and been badly bitten by
rattlesnake. The New York Herald
wants such barbarous performances
squelched.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
DAYS

The Peerless factory will be closed
next Monday for three weeks or
more to give the employees needed
rest Barton Correspondent.
ITO give the employees a needed
rest" is rather unique way of an
houncing a shutdown.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-27
Sunday.

The Worlds Fair gates were closed,
and the white city" was a quiet local
itv.-Four persons were seriously hurt in
an electric car accident at New Bedford,
Mass.-Severe wind storms are reported
from Dover and Laconia, N. H., doing
great damage to crops, trees and build
inpS