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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-29
LEGAL
ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE.

Estate OF Anna :. Knowlton, deceased
The undersigned having been appointed admin.
istrator of the estate Of Anna s. knowlton late of
the county of Rock Island, stare Of Illinois, de-
ceased. hereby gives notice that he will appear
before the county court Of Rock Island coun-
ty, 81 the Office of the clerk of said court IN
the city Of Rock Island. al the July term, on
the first Monday in July neyt, ut which
time all persons having claims against eaid c.
tate notified and requested to attend for the
purpose OF having the same adjusted. all per-
sons indebted 10 said estate are requested to
make immediate payment to the undersigned.
W. o. NEGUs.
Administrator.
Dated this asih day o: April, A. ID. 1894.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-29
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Proeramne 81 the snver Men.

The silver men in congress are against
currency legislation. It Is expected that
the most Of them viii vote against the
Carlisle currency bill or any other bill to
reform the currency. They viii do this
because they believe that the passage Of a
bill that would permit an increase in the
volume OF the currency would put an end.
practically, to the agitation for the free
coinage Of silver. A majority Of those who
are now clamoring for the free coinage OF
silver are doing so not because they are
welded TO silver, but because they want
the volume Of the currency increased. II
they get the increase in paper currency
they won't be so anxious for an increase
OF silver currency.
The genuine silver men. however, insist
upon free silver coinage principally be-
cause they are silver monometallists.
They would like to see the finances of the
country upon silver basis. and they are
working to accomplish that object
Representative Bland is the leader OF the
silverites in the House. His time is short
in that body. His constituents are tired OF
him and his silver nonsense, and at the
last election they selected a sound money
man TO succeed him. Mr.. Bland is going to
try to get the House to pass a bill provid-
ing for the free coinage of silver before he
becomes a retired statesman. He cannot
get his committee on coinage to agree to
report free silver coinage bill, because
it would be a waste of time to discuss such
a bill If it could be got through the House
and Senate the president would veto it.
There is no probability. however. that the
House would pass a free silver coinage
bill
But Mr.. Bland has plan to get such
bill as he wants before the House. 1t is
this, namely, to offer it as a substitute for
the currency bill, which will soon be re-
ported by the committee on banking. It
is quite certain that Mr.. BANDS plan will
not succeed. The speaker will probably
rule that coinage measure cannot be sub
stituted for a currency measure, and the
House would sustain the speaker. That
would end Mr.. BANDS effort and prac-
tically close his career as a statesman.
And the country will not grieve when he
goes into retirement, because he is largely
responsible for much of the silver legisla-
ton with which the country has been af-
ficted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
BRIGHT BITS.
Kind Lady-How came you to lose one
eve? oA'O

eye? 04'o
Tramp-Lookin' for work.-Exchange
Potter-The scientists say that the wav
Tor a man to sleep is to think of nothing
hldder-But they are wrong. The wav
TO sleep is TO think it is time to get VI.
Il have just had a narrow escape from
death 1t was delightful"
How delightfulT'
Why, a close shave and no questions
asked. detroit Tribune.
.Clara-Mr Sandstone wanted me tn teu
MN your age last night.
Maude-But you didn't.
Clafa-Not exactly; | onlv gave II 70
MN IN round numbers.-Life
How did Scrawlins get his reputation
for originality"
Very simply He makes a rule to know
n4 Iil Whatever about. the topic on
Hardluck-So you are prospecting at last
en- Suinclently so to be able to keep
Struekitt ION the lookout for the fourth
Wlthin a MOUTH Emo; only to hire
them.-Buffalo Courier ~v
Stranger (reading the local paper of a
Highland town. suppose the birth Of
M is rather common occurrence in
Intelligent Natve-Certainly; for that
reason we nave to adopt the system of
bookkeeping by double entry at orr req
lister otfice.-Kasseler Tagespost
Old Lady-Beg pardon for interrlpting
English?
Teamster with balky horse)-I do,
Old Lady-Then won't you please do
your swearing in it2-New York Weekly
Bather-Why don't you work. nv son ?
If you only knew how much happiness
work brings you would begin at once.
Son-tather, am trying to lead a life of
self-denial in which happiness cuts no
figure. DO not tempt me.-Detroit Free
Press.
Nooritch-Here, sir, is a painting bv
Corot that l bought for $4,000; regular
bargain, too. What do you think of it?
inc?
Nooritch-Of course it is. / don't know,
much about art, but I'm able to tell a
handsome picture from a chrome, 1 guess
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
work for the Next Session.

At the next session Of the Georgia legis-
lature one of the first measures TO be in
troduced should be a ballot reform bill en-
bracing the principle Of the Australian
system. The general registration law
passed on the last day Of the recent ses-
sion was a long step in the right direc-
ton. but 1t does not go far enough to re-
move all reasonable grounds for complaint
against our elections. 1t provides for the
qualification of voters; now a law is
wanted which will permit qualified voters
10 express their viii at the ballot box
without interference and without fear. and
which Will insure the qualified voters bal
lots being counted as they are cast. and
prevent ballot box stuffing and fraud.
Between this time and the date Of the as
sembling Of the next session there is a
good margin Of time. during which the
champions Of honest elections should pre-
pare to make a winning fight The sub
Ject should be studied, bills drawn to meet
the demand and cogent arguments ar
ranged. For it is absolutely certain that it
will require hard fight to get the reform
scheme through. The practical politicians
will do all they possibly can to prevent the
adoption of the Australian system. They
look upon it as did the Clinton (Ky.), edi-
tor who denounced the system in unmeas-
ured terms because "it lets a man who is
mean enough vote against his party with
out fear Of discovery" Read boss" in
place of party in the quotation, and it
will be seen why the practical politi-
clans will fight the system in Georgia, as
others Of their class have opposed its adop-
ton elsewhere.
The Republican party bosses in Maine.
New Hampshire and Vermont are making
efforts to have the Australian system abro-
gated, for the reason that under it they
cannot control the voters. Removed from
the influence of the heelers, the voters
manifest such independence that the bos-
ses are perpetually in suspense and this
they find irksome and announcement. The
secret ballot is a discourager of indulgence
in jobbery or chicanery and they long to re-
turn to the good old days when the will of
the politicians. and not of the people, gov
erned. 4 bill to repeal the system is to be
introduced into the New Hampshire legis-
lature, and as that body is republican and
boss-ridden, the repeal bill may be passed.
We want no manipulation Of elections in
Georgia. We want genuine democratic
government, of, for and by the people. To
get that, the people will have to turn down
election manipulators by the adoption
Of a secret ballot system to go along with
the general registration law.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
MONDAY DECEMBER u. 1888.

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Pork Packing in Georgia.

The Valdosta (Ga.) Times announces the
completion of arrangements for the cree.
tion at once at that place of a pork pack
ing establishment. to be in operation by
the middle of January, 1895. Mr.. B. w.
Bentley, the leader of the enterprise, re-
turned a few days ago from Cincinnati,
where he purchased the necessary appa-
ratus and employed two experts to super
intend the curing and packing of meats.
The plant purchased will cure fifty hogs
a day, will try out 100 pounds of lard
in two minutes. and prepare eighty pounds
of sausage in four minutes. The plant
will be operated by and under the man
agement of the ice company, hence the
temperature in the curing rooms can be
kept down to the requisite degree at a.
minimum cost All the modern improve
ments for keeping the establishment clean
and sweet, for burning foul gases and de-
stroying the ORAL, will be utilized The
company proposes to turn out sugar cured
hams. breakfast bacon, smoked shoulders
and jowls, dry salt meats, picked pigs
feet and tongues, lard, head cheese, sau-
""6Ns AAfNA PAAhAh6ot anu al OlneE DOTk
products, and promises that each product
shall equal in quality the best produced
by any other establishment.
This is an enterprise that means much
for Lowndes county; and indeed, for the
whole state of Georgia. If the Valdosta
people demonstrate that small pork pack
ing establishments can be proftably op-
Grated in connection with ice plants. other
and similar packing plants may be estab-
lished in various sections of the state
1t is probable that Georgia sends north
and west more money for meats than for
anything else that she uses. Heretofore the
cotton crop has been depended upon to
purchase the meat supply. If Georgia can
raise and cure her meat at home, there
will be no necessity for raising so much
scent cotton, and new source of income
will be opened for the farmers.
1t is understood that the Iowndes
county farmers are already pre-
pairing to plant peanuts, peas
and corn to turn into pork to be
sold to the Valdosta packing establish
ment next year, and even this winter
a considerable Offering of hogs will be
made.
! This pork packing venture is one that
deserves encouragement. 1t is quite
| as important to the south that her meats
should be cured at home as that her cot
ton should be spun at home: and on ac-
count of the relative cost of the plants.
it is, or apparently should be- much easier
to get the curing establishment than the
cotton mills.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
PERSONAL.

$, Prof. Humphreys, in a book just pub
Hshed on longevity, states that physi-
clans, as class, were found TO die below
the average age
Princess Alix will be the third czarina
from the Hesse-Darmstadt family. The
hrst was the wife of Paul L.. the second
Of Alexander II.
Prof. Milne. the earthquake expert,
states positively that the prevailing belief
OF relation between earthquakes and
magnetic disturbances is unfounded.
=. Bishop Taylor says that there is a dis
ulery IN Liberia, which the natives call
tief- S 1Go9 JesIs factoIy, so closely N
lne,r minds is the liquor traffic associated
with Christianity.
The Emperor of Germany has sent s3s
apiece as a Christmas present to the wild
1SW Vs OF the nremen and workmen who were
hlIIec by the explosion on the Warship
Brandenburg last February.
Col. Stairs, bachelor Of 40, and editor
OF ,popuilst newspaper al Dover Ky.
calied the Searchlight, was recently mar
RED TO a widow of q. who is the owner
OF an estate worth not less than $3.50, 900.
:. Gen. Lees grandson. Robert E. Lee.
lives on his fathers estate in Fairfax
county, Va, but goes to Washington
every uay 10 practice law. Mr. Lees
physique would attract attention any
where. He is about feet 3 inches in
night, and weighs 200 pounds.
Dean Holes views on the propriety of
Tidng a bicycle on Sunday are interest
ing: Personally" he saws. 81 am NOT
enamored of bicycles am too old and
too heavy to enjoy them. But the
pleasure, the refreshment of body and
mind which they give is. compared with
the harm they do, as Niagara to a lemon
squashy
Hartford, Conn, modestly claims to have
had closer connection with American lit
erdture tnan any other city of its size in
the country. 1t bases its claim on the
fact that it has been the home of Mrs.
Sigourney. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isa-
DelIa Beecher Hooker, Mark Twain, ].
hammond Irumbull, Richard Burton.
William Gillette, the playwright, Noah
webster, the photographer, and a host of
others OF greater or less fame.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
. -

The investigation by the New York city
board OF health OF the tenement houses
owned by the Trinity church corporation
discloses a surprising state OF affairs.
There are 14S houses under surveillance,
but the inspectors have yet examined only
about twenty The results show that
no tenements in the city were In a worse
condition than those owned by Trinity.
The compiled official death statistics show
that the death rate In Trinity's tenements
during the last five years was So per cent.
higher than the general rate OF the city
The wives Of the vestrymen of Trinity par
ish have taken the matter in hand and will
see what reforms they can effect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

William H. Hayne, in Harper's Bazaar.
A thing so fair ii would appear
That Queen Titania made it;
But f she did the truth is hid,
And no one has betrayed it,
So, ] aver twas made by her
Rare theme for song or sonnet
Whose winsome face of peerless grace
Peeps blithely from the bonnet.
Such blue and white and anchorite
Would move to sudden passion
Without delay he'd seek the way
To long-neglected fashion.
Her hats blue brim would dazzle hin,
I'll stake my life upon it;
His senses five could ne'er survive
The face beneath the bonnet.
OH If a kiss were not amiss,
I'd lift that brim unbidden:
For brighter far, like sun to star.
Those lips and eyes half hidden
Were a bridges, mark my word
I'd sing q song or sonnet;
I'd do my best fold wings. and nest
Safe in that dainty bonnet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
oldest Scheme of All.

You can talk about burglars" said
Lieut.. Blow of the United States navy
when his turn came, says the Chicago
Times, but the oldest scheme in the way
Of protection l saw in big downtown
office the other day."
Go ahead with the story" remarked
one of the little group of professional
men.
"Well, it was one of those big, roomy Of
fees with desks planted all over the floor
l was waiting for one of the firm to come
in. While l sat there another partner
came in. opened his ,roll-top desk and
pulled off a silk lined overcoat, siipped
one end of it into sleeve
of the coat passed the chain
around an arm of the chair
and joined the ends with a spring paddock
After that he folded the coat, put it down
on the seat Of the chair and sat on it. and
began work. He did it in the most every
day sort of fashion When l looked
around the Office again 1 noticed that ev
cry man in it had his coat chained to his
chair"
When the lieutenant had finished eVerv
man in the group was looking at the din
ing room clothes rack
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
The Harms of Home.

In my early youth" said Mr. Billions
according to the New York Sun, Giving in
house with windows whose sashes We're
not held tightly together by fasteners as
Sashes are nowadays, we found pleasure
in listening to the music of the Aeolian
harp. The manner of making it is doubt
less familiar to many. Two little wedge
shaped sticks of wood, to the upper ends
OF which the ends of a stout silk thread
had been tied were driven in between the
upper and lower sashes of the window. as
far apart as the thread would permit, and
so that the thread was stretched tight
80 placed where the winter
wind as it sighed in through
the opening between the sashes
could play upon it, this harp of a.
single string made music in cadences ris-
ing and falling with the rising and fall
ing of the wind
well, for years that music had been
but a recollection; there is no place in orr
windows now to drive the wedges, and
even if there were such gentle melan-
choly music would scarcely seem in keep
ing with our busy, busting age; and fond
as the recollection might be, 1 had no
hope that we should hear the music again
But listen, what harp is this whose notes
we hear?
'Bing-ng -g-g-ng-g-g-ng chug-CHUG
Zip-pityzip, zipzip, klank, klankityklank.
zip, chug: Bingg-ngg-g-g- ing-ng-g-
tbs the singing not of the old the
melancholy, the antediluvian, but of a
harp modern and run by steam-the radia-
tor in our fiat"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Discrimination Must Be Removed.
From New York Maritime Register Qnd)

The Savannah Morning News complains
that great deal of cotton has gone to
Charleston and other ports this season
that should have gone to Savannah The
reason for this 1t does not know beyond
the probabilities that cheaper ocean
freight rates and discrimination in favor
of other ports by the railroads turned the
cotton away from Savannah This is no
doubt the cause, and Savannah must find
a way OF removing it. AS the News says
If business once gets out of its natural
channel II is not an easy matter to get it
back again
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Worried About Carlisle's Future.
Raleigh IN. c. News-Observer Dem.

The country seems to be at a loss Just
now to know what to do with Secretary
that he will be made governor of KEN
lucky, others think that if his financial
plan proves to be a good one he will be
tial nomination, while still Others hear
that he will be a member of the law firm
bearing the name of Cleveland and Car
Isle - -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

1t was understood that Mr. Thomas E.
Watson desired that the consent election
in the Tenth district should be perfectly
fair and unquestionably legal The legis-
lature passed a registration law designed
to make the election fair The law is
impartial. 1t gives the populists as good
chance to register as it gives the demo-
Gratis. Yet our dispatches say Mr. Watson
will probably withdraw from his agree
ment with Maj. Black and make a con-
test before congress. 1t appears that Mr..
Watson, as a matter of fact, doesn't
want an honest election. He probably de-
pended upon the laxity of the old law
and the shrewdness of his managers to
help him through in the proposed election:
but since law that will reduce the op-
portunities for sharp practice has been
passed he will jump his own bargain
and appeal to the prejudices of the repub-
licans in the next House TO give him the
seat.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Cleveland and the Civil Service.
From the Atlanta Journal DemO.

We are quite sure that the country an
proves Mr.. Clevelands civil service poll
cy. For many years past the Democratic
and Republican parties have We'd with
each other in platform declarations for
civil service reform, but Mr.. Cleveland is
the only President we have who has acted
on this profession of his party. In this.
as in all other things, he has been a
President on principle and has made an
honest endeavor to carry out the pledges
of his party and to improve the morals of
the government
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
For Exhibition Purposes.
rom Griffin (Ga.) News and Sun Deml

The Georgia legislature declined to vote
for summer session instead of a fall ses-
sion because II wanted to make an exhibit
of itself before the visitors to the cotton
states exposition. 1t is a spectacle that is
worth coming thousands of miles to see
grafton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

The Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst
the New York reformer, has been made
an associate member of the Jekyl Island
Club. The club. as is well known. owns a
small paradise on an island on the coast
Of this state, and is one of the most ex-
elusive organizations in the country. It
numbers among its members the Wander
bits, the Astors, DR.. Depew, Marshaf
Field, n. K. Fairbanks. and many other
wealthy people of the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

A New York man played practical joke
on his wife a day or two ago by frothing
at the mouth and declaring he had taken
he turned the joke upon the joker by re-
fusing to believe his confession that he
was only "fooling' and operated on him
with a stomach-pump until he retained
only his inner consciousness.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17
Not as Bad as Populism.
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican

Senator Allen frothed at the mouth
because Coxey was kept off the grass. but
toes, he smugly votes not to take I'M the
sugar bill. So, also PETER and Kyle fu-
rious anti-monopolists. AS between Don
us a bellyache. - e-'e
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

The persons and papers that are arguing
for free silver on the ground that great
increase in the volume of the currency
would result in the payment of higher
wages to workingmen are pointed to these
facts: In 1873 the circulation amounted to
S77l, 100000 In 1898 it amounted to more than
s. OO0OO 900. an increase of 81 400 OOO 600; yet
wages are lower in amount now than they
were in 1873.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

Under the new democratic tariff bill a
Pennsylvania steel firm has been able to
secure contract with the Russian gov
eminent for naval armor plate. bidding
against the whole of ''pauper labor Eu-
rope for the work The contract will
keep the great works busy for year,
and the workmen will receive their usual
wages. If an American firm is able to
secure such a contract with protected"
iron and COAL how much greater would
be the field for American enterprise if
iron and coal were made free.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

The fund for the proposed statue in
Central Park, New York, to Robert EN-
met, the Irish patriot, which was first
subscribed to a year ago, has met with
so many discouragements that it is now
said the project will be abandoned.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

The statement in the cable dispatches
that Ii Hung Chang is in danger of losing
his head must be accepted only in fig
urative sense. In China a rich man under
sentence of death need not suffer execu-
ton, or even inconvenience, unless he is
too stingy to pay the cost of a substitute
The law win accept the payment of a
penalty by proxy and call it square, no
matter what the crime. Gen. Wei, the
Chinese commander who showed such ar
rant cowardice at Ping Yang, running
away at the first approach of danger,
is still fat and happy, notwithstanding
he was condemned to death for cowardice,
and the sentence was some weeks ago car
ried out-upon a substitute procured by
Wei. Ii Hung Chang is very rich. so
that even if he were to be dozen times
over sentenced to death he could buy sub
stitutes and go right along living.