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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20

He was silent a,minuse. Hh body BE-
came rigid and then couvulsive
Their combined strength was barely
sufficient 20 hold him His whole frame
became contrted- and crying out in .
terrible voice: There lac comes. There
he comes! He is there ON the carpet,
vet and drippingf' he fell bach, frosh-
ing 1t the month
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20
CHAPTER XIX.
THE LION AND THE CTR

CHATTER xix.
THE LION AND THE CUR
Maxey's first impulse was to call as
sistance, but the discovery that Mr.. Dye
had not wholly lost consciousness deter
red him. By the aid of wine, which he
was able to procure without exciting
any suspicion as to the use he would
make of it, he succeeded in resuscitatine
the stricken man. After swallowing the
contents of several glasses Mr.. Dye was
able to sit, or rather to recline, upon the
sofa and to speak. His first dread was
OF the portrait His first utterance was:
Turn the accursed thing away from
mep'
Maxey moved the easel, but even then
the faded eyes would occasionally wan
der in that direction with look Of un-
easy suspicion. as if he more than half
mistrusted that it was able to turn back
upon him of its own volition.
The sOmber Dye was utterly crushed.
The theatrical air and oratorical -four
ishes, which even in his most earnest
moments he had never wholly forgotten,
had vanished, but the despair in his
AeSO W oo uCCpCA OutA cNcI.
He asked Maxey to draw the center
table, on which had been placed the de-
canter of wine, closer to him that he
might reach it without assistance. FIRE.
quently nervous tremor would shake
his whole frame, and then he would
seize the glass and swallow a mouthful
with the desperate energy of q man who
was fighting his last fight. Meanwhile
he talked rapidly, fiercely, like one in q
delirium
why do you have that here? Why
was it necessary for you to scare me to
death? You certainly could suspect moth
ing. You told me that she drew that
face. ! should have seen through the
humor of that joke. Ha, ha, ha! Bright
of you, wasn't it? You are SO much
craftier than you look, sir But you
weren't crafty enough to detect me in
playing part the first day came here.
Say, you never would have believed that
/ had been in this house before, would
you? Didn't do my part well? Ask
Belfry if showed the least tre1aor if
l faltered in my step, when l saw the
house into which he was taking me.
am strong, but cannot bear everything.
But the picture? You bought it of course!
OF course you bought it! Why did he
have his face drawn like that? It's the
expression am talking about The ewes.
the eyes! There! There, it is around
again looking at me. Turn it about, I
tell you; turn it about!'
Il have turned it about. 1t is not
looking ut you, said Maxey nervously.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20
DIS. StackhOuSe and Daniel.
Have Cured Hundreds of
Cases in This Vicinity.
They present Below the Statement
Of Another Prominent
Citizen.

Mr.. Peter Cewe, a well known far
mer of Rapids City, Ill. is the latest
person TO testify TO the success of
these eminent specialists, Drs. Stack
house and Daniel. Mr.. Cewe SAYS:
my trouble dates back Is years. and
the past year / became greatly dis
couraged, as most Of the time i was
unable to work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20

A terrible trembling came upon ev-
cry portion Of the eomber mans frame.
he cried out in a hoarse voice:
"The Jews face! The Jews facer'
There was . rush like the breath of
unseen wings from over the darkened
river. The ghostly hand raped at the
window, and Mr.. Dye fell down upon
the floor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-20

My eyesight was failing. my nose
was stopped up first on one side,
then on the other. My mouth was
dry and tasted bitter in the morn
ing. / had considerable stomach
trouble and was also q sufferer from
rheumatism. Ibegan treatment with
Drs. Stackhouse and Daniel two
months ago. and am now feeling
better than for Is years. I have
gained in flesh and am free from the
above symptoms.
Ors. Stackhouse E Daniel.
Suite 1. Mccullough Building. No.
124 West Third street. between Bra
dy and Main. Davenport. Iowa
Once Hour-ea .. m. to Il n :. . too ana 10 Q
p. n; Sundays. 70 p. n ealy.
6P ECIATTES-Catarrh. Asthma Diesaeee Of
the Eye. Ear. Nose, Throat and Lun0, Nervous
Diseases, Blood and skin Diseases. Chrocie Die-
eases.
Successful treatment by mail
Send for symptom blank.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
The Cause of Waterspouts.

A waterspout is meteorological phe-
nomenon of peculiar character, which is
occasionally observed on land, but usu-
ally occurs at sea. It consists of cone
shaped pillar of condensed vapor, which
descends, with the apex downward, from
q dense cloud and at sea attracts a
somewhat similar cone in reversed
position from the surface of the water.
The two may not inaptly be compared
to gigantic hourglass. The cause Of
this phenomenon is supposed to be the
gyratory movement of the air with such
swiftness as to produce vacuum in the
axis of rotation, and the contact of the
lower extremity of such an axis with
water would effect the elevation o. d
column of the latter to a considerable
height. The most probable solution of
the phenomenon is that waterspouts
originate in adjacent strata of air of diff
ferent temperatures, running in oppo-
site directions in the upper regions of the
atmosphere. They condense the vapor
and give it whirling motion, SO that it
descends tapering to the sea below and
causes the surface Of the water to ascend
in pointed spiral till it joins that from
above.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
A Mechanical Harp.

Harp playing by machinery is one of the
novelties. The subsection of the harp has
been. effected in the following manner: To
begin with, it is arranged so that the plane
of the strings is horizontal, the instrument
lying upon a table, after the fashion of a
either Then, as regards the written music,
the notation of the traditional stave has
been abandoned and sheets upon which are
impressed mysterious groups of numbers
are used in it's stead. When one of these
sheets is slid into a frame made for the
purpose the meaning of the figures is in
terpreted.
Each of them falls under a string of the
instrument. and by picking at them in
numerical order with beveled pencil of
ivory the operator performs tune. Time
and phrasing are indicated by the spacing
and alignment of the numbers, nor are the
requirements of harmony forgotten. When
the melody of the air is adjudged INSULT
Gent one of the figures is accompanied by
a letter indicating that a button attached
to the instrument, and bearing the same
symbol, should be at this juncture pressed.
This action, by bringing small saw of
ivory points into play, produces a chord
suitable to the occasion.-New York Tele-
gram.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
An Admiral by Any Name.

When Admiral de Horsey, who some
years ago had command of the British
fleet in the Pacific. was admiral of the
north Atlantic squadron, he was one
evening dining on shore at Port Royal,
Jamaica. On returning to his flagship
alone after dinner his way to the boat
led across tho barrack square. A black
sentry of one Of the West India regi-
ments halted him at the gate with "Who
goes darY' Great was the admiral's an
noyance to find that he had neglected
to get the password before leaving the
ship. That's all right" he said care
lessly, hoping to overcome the mans
scruples by Indifference. "You know
who am" Dunno nobody, sal" re-
piled the man pompously. You can't
go in dar." "Why, I'm Admiral de
Horsey." well. you can't go in. I dom
care If vou's Admiral de Donkev."
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17

stances before he took to the road, and his
tale aroused the interest of a Record report
er, who catechised him as follows:
"What makes you lead this vagabond
life-yOu an educated MANI"
"Well, l was Disguised. Suppose you
had wife that was jawing you day and
night, jawing, -jawing, jawing all the time.
It's enough, isn't it, to make man crazy?"
"Then you were not happy in your do
nestle experienced"
"Well, / should say not. That's why l
became a tramp. I'd sooner sit under the
trees and hear the birds sing than stay in
the finest home and listen to a scoldin9
wife,"
where is your wife now?"
"She is in London don't want to hear
anything about her. We have separated. {"
"Then it was your unhappy domestic life
that made you turn tramp"
"That's about it. I don't care to talk
about it, but I'd rather any time live like a
tramp than be obliged to live with scold-
ing woman"
The Kansas City police were communi-
Gated with regarding Clay's self confessed
embezzlement, but as no answer was re-
ceived Clay was told that he could 60
his lOea, IN explanation OF Ine ldck VI pros-
ecution, was that the bank had compro-
missed his offense by accepting the bank
stock which he turned over before his flight
from Kansas City. His apparent good for
tune in escaping the penitentiary did not
seem to impress Clay as an unmixed bless
ing. There was no rejoicing in his words
nor any expression of thankfulness. APP
parently he would rather have remained in
a warm cell in any lookup than to face the
biting cold of the open air.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
To Prevent Calamities by Fire.

The first thing which a civilized COM
munity should require in the erection of
houses which are intended to be used for
hotels and theaters and halls is that they
shall be practically tireproof. If people
are willing to take the risk" the public
should refuse to permit them to take it.
If proper and reasonable precautions for
safety increase the expense of building
rents may be increased, and the price Of
lodging. There need be no fear that
hotel which is known to be practically
6reproof will not be amply supported
because it's rates are higher that those of
Q death trap. Calamities like the burn
ing of the Hotel Royal have become so
common that it is not without serious
apprehension that travellers now enter
their rooms in hotels. The coil of rope
which is supposed to be designed to help
them in direful emergency merely re-
minds them of their peril and of their
probable inability in a sudden alarm to
cope with it.-Harper's Weekly.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
A Giant Microscope.

The Poeller Physical Optical institute,
of Munich. has under construction an
enormous microscope for exhibition at
Chicago in 1893. 1t will magnify to
1900 diameters, or, as ordinarily fitted,
to IL 900 diameters. An electric light
Of II 900 candle power is to be used for
Illuminating the image, which is to be
projected as screen. As the heat from
this powerful light would derange the
focus by expansion of the metal, an in
genious device is used to cool the metal.
This is small copper cylinder filed
with liquid carbonic acid, connected
with the microscope in such manner
that an electric regulator automatically
opens q valve and allows drop Of acid
to escape in spray on the metal to be
cooled: the liquid Immediately evapo-
rates and produces intense cold. The
whole cost of the instrument is said to
be nearly $40. 000.-Boston Budget.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
A Toast to Georgia.

Alexander H. Stephens used to recite
speech made at dinner III Washington
whereat were gentlemen from several
states. among them Georgian not accus-
toned to such occasions. He had already
become embarrassed by listening to the
toasts in compliment of the other states,
and the graceful responses made by a
citizen of each, and when Georgia was
announced, vexed that nobody was there
more competent to do justice to the theme.
he rose with a feeling much like anger.
and shouted:
Gentlemen, dod fetch it all! can't
make speech; but that amt goin to
bender me from drinkin' to the state O.
George. I'll do it, and I'll do it Free
Here's to her! She come from nobody, she
amt beholden on nobody, and yous better
believe she don't care continental cent
for obody!''-Colonel r. M. Johnston in
Century.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
One Trouble with the New Dimes.

! One Trouble with the New Dimes.
The new coins out from the mint this
year have run against various objections
based on aesthetic grounds. 1t has re-
NAMED for a Washington man about
town to discover that the dimes are
failure from practical standpoint. He
has detected a defect beside which the
bullheadedness of the goddess of liberty
and the eagles attenuated wings are
mere trifeS.
This gentleman dropped into the thea
ter on recent evening, and being seized
with q desire to ascertain whether the
diamonds worn by the star were genu-
inc, turned toward the opera glass case
attached to the back of the next chair.
He fished new dime from. his pocket
and was about to drop the same into the
slot, according to established usage,
when he found that his dime would not
enter. Further investigation with other
dimes and slots in the vicinity showed
that the new coinage is mistit for one
Of its most universal purposes.
The grave question arises: What is to
be done with the machines when the old
dimes drop OUT of circulation? The slot
machine men would do well to have an
understanding with the director of the
mint before any more coinages are pro-
observation-disclosures Post.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17

PRINCE ENGALlTCHEFF.
sian continued his attentions. and Mrs.
Coudrey was sent a short time ago from
the hotel where she was living with her
husband to her fathers house. Thence she
was removed to the asylum.
The intimate friends of Mr.. Hill declare
that the relations between the couple were
entirely guiltless. They say that Mrs.
Godfrey was simply crazy for admiration,
and thatwhen Prince Engalitcheff f1attered
her in his foreign way, without perhaps
meaning the slightest harm, the young
woman's head was turned and she acted in
discreetly.
Engalitcheff is handsome man, mag
nifcently built, with brown, wavy hair and
mustache, light olive eyes and delicate
complexion. He dresses in the height of
fashion and certainly looks a man to en-
tangle woman's heart.
1t appears that the prince" has lost
caste by this affair, as when he appeared in
the St. Louis Merchants Exchange the:
other day he was hooted off the floor by the
virtuous brokers. .-.,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
AristocratiC Ants.

The slave holding ants are of several
kinds, and differ greatly in the manner In
which they treat their vassals. Some make
them do all the work under the direction
of overseers; others share their labors.
while still others have fallen into such
habits of luxury as to be unable or IN
willing to wait upon or even to feed them
selves, and are carried about and provided
with food by their body servants. In many
cases this sybaritism is the mere ostentar
tious love of being served. The incapacity
is not physical but moral, and arises from
an aristocratic aversion to any kind OF
mental labor.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17

The Crown Prince and the ''Plug' Hat.
The little SONS of the emperor of Ger
many were shown the mysteries of cha
peau claque, or crush hat. Shortly after
ward, in the anteroom of their father,
they found tail hat, and Immediately de-
sired to test their skill in shutting it up.
Being an ordinary hat, and without the
claque mechanism, it naturally refused to
shut.
At last one little prince, growing impa-
tient, said to his brother, ''Sit on it, Fritz
chen!' Fritz obeyed, there followed a
loud crack and roar of laughter from the
authors of the mischief. The emperor
sent out to ask the cause of the disturb
ance. Pointing to the smashed hat. the
young crown prince replied, with mill
tary salute, 1.-THE obstinate thing wouldn't
shut at first, but among us we managed to
make it change it's mind!'
The wrecked hat was replaced by a new
one. which the owner will doubtless keep
as a souvenir of very amusing episode in
the life of his country's future head
Youths Companion.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
A Woman to Direct y Building.

The Arkansas building at the Coluln-
bian fair is to be built by woman.
Miss Jean Longborough has been mott
fed that her plan of the building has
been accepted and that she will be made
superintendent of its construction. The
design is in the rocco style of architec-
ture, which prevailed in the Seventeenth
century in France, as the first settlers
of Arkansas were French. On the
ground floor will be fountain con-
structed of the many colored crystals
found at Hot Springs. Chicago Letter.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.

Life is too short for any vain endeavor,
For useless signing over vanished days:
No time for scorn no time for needless praise
Life is too short.
Life is too short for envy to be nOurished.
For sin to cumber up the path we tread
Think of the suffering! hear the cry for
bread!-
Life is too short.
Life is too short for avarice to devOur
And rob mems souls to seek its evil end.
No time for bitter thought, you know. my
friends
Life is too short.
Life is too short to waste in tears and griev.
ing
Over the love that came but did not stay.
IT'S sweet to dream. but dreams, too, pass
away
Life is too short.
Life is too short-forgive and be forgiven.
While yet we linger: everything is brief.
There is no time for idleness or grief
Life is too short.
M. G. Shirley in Yankee Blade.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
An Electric Equine.

George E. Benton, who resides ON In.
diana avenue. has discovered an electric
horse. Benton stepped from street
car at Wabash and Eighteenth street
while the horses were being trotted. He
placed his hand on the flank of one of
the animals, bay mare, and received g.
tremendous shock. The car was at
tached to cable train and sped onward.
After it had gone block Benton re-
turned and experienced a succession Of
slight shocks, which gradually died
away as the mare became cooler from
standing. Benton then had the mare
trotted up and down the street for ten
minutes. She came back in foam and
was taken at once to the damp ground.
"A dozen men then formed hands, first
,wetting the soles of their shoes thor
oughly in the horse trough. AS Benton
put his hands on the mare every man
distinctly felt the shock. ."Now one
man let go at time," shouted Benton,
and they did so, the shock intensifying
as each man fell out, 80 that at last, when
the number was reduced to three, the
fellers catch hold again; can't stand
this"
Mr.. Benton sent the mare trotting
again. and meantime climbed lamp
post. Another man climbed after him
and caught hold of his hand. He clasped
the post firmly with his legs and gave
his disengaged hand to a third man, who
in turn placed his hand on the mares
flank. Benton turned on the gas jet
and put his index finger on the nozzle of
the jet. Instantly series of sparks
flashed through the living chain from
the excited horse and the gas blazed up.
Benton was so exhausted by this last ex-
pertinent that he had to be taken down
from the lamp post. The manager of
dime museum has offered large sum
to the company for the privilege of ex-
hibiting the horse.-Chicago Cor. Kansas
City Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
The Jaffa-J crusader Railway.

Rather striking illustration of how
trade and money getting make strange
bed fellows is furnished by the Jaffa-
Jerusalem railway. The concession for
the railway was obtained by a native of
Jerusalem, it was built by a French
company. while the engines and car
riages, manufactured in the United
States, run over rails made in Belgium,
and most of the remunerative part of
the passenger traffic is drawn from
British tourists.-London Tit-Bits.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
An Extraordinary Shower.

An extraordinary meteorological phe-
nomenon occurred in the eastern part of
this country by the recent fall of about
one inch of strange looking snow. It
was of darker color than ashes and
looked like mill middlings or shorts.
This snow when melted makes muddy
water. and when allowed to settle de-
posts a fine sediment, which to the
naked eye presents four different ap-
pearances, viz, two powders Zone of
gray and the other of a black color),
among which are mixed ragged flakes
that look like sawdust and others that
resemble scales of mica or copper filings.
When seen through microscope the
gray powder appears to be the debris OF
myriads of broken down, semitranspar-
ent cells and tibers. The black powder,
which is about five times as coarse as
the former and about one-tenth in guam
tity, appears to be made up OF little
pear shaped, buglike ani1aalcul@.
The copper colored scales are of hard
substance, and when magnified become
translucent and appear to be of fibrous,
cellular structure, OF purple or OIOOd-
like color, in which are set the little
black, buglike creatures before de-
scribed. This is considered the original
life substance from which all the other
is derived. The little ragged, sawdust-
like flakes are but the former in course
of disintegration and look like white,
fleshy cellular tissue in which the black
objects are set like seeds in a fig. The
substance can easily be found, as it
forms uniform dark crust, like stratum,
with considerable depth of ordinary
snow both below and above it. The fall
extended over quite an area of country
and has attracted a good deal of atten-
ton. The matter is no doubt worthy Of
a thorough scientific investigation.-La-
porte (Ind.) Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-17
The Business Of Hotel Keeping.

inc buslness OF Hotel KeeP1nG.
Some idea of the enormous proportions
Of the business of hotel keeping has as
sumed in this country may be gained
from the fact that there are in the
United States upward Of $4,000 hotels,
exclusive of what may properly be
termed inns and taverns and what are
commonly known as apartment houses,
although the latter are in many instances
conducted as hotels in that they have a
common kitchen and dining room.