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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-17
Chicago Live stock.

CHft AGO Nov. i6.
Live Stock-Prices at the Union Stock Yards
today ranged As PILLOWS: Ho-s-E-JlmateG
receipts for the d 5Lo1; sales ranged a:
s2.RgL5o pigs, Aoa4.55 light. SlI574 %
rough packing ShH1i.7O mixed. and si45t
4.90 heavy packing q "a shipping lots.
Cattie-Receipts d. the day so,1: quota
tions ranged at SJBidH4j choice = extra
shipping steers, $I.5,15.GD good 90 choice do.
$500 i.65 fair to gooi, S3J,rllO common to
medium do, S3.0tfti5fO butchers steers, 5000.
$50 siockers. se.sDat34O feeders. ST. a. =,
cows s24pG3.2O heifers, Sl.'Or5j bulls s2sJq.
30 Texas steers, S2.151Ii.-j western rangers
and $..OD =. 80 veal calves
Sheep-Estimated receipts for the da-
,,Gtl; sales ranged nt sl.5arSu westerns. 81 20
Gg2.l5 Texans, Sl.55G3 40 native, and 2.Uai.S
lambs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-17
MOSLEM DIABOLISM
Horrible Grimes Committed in
Asiatic Turkey.
SLAUGHTERED BY THE THOUSANDS.
Six Thousand the Lowest Estimate Of
Men, Women anu Children Who
Became the Victims of
Bashi Bazouks.

Atrocities That Would Shame she Darkest
Ages of the World Done in the Last De-
cade of the Nineteenth Century-A Crime
of Such Mammoth Proportions That if
True as Charged Should Wipe the Turk
from the Face of the Earth-Details That
Make the Blood Run Cold.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-11-17
Closing Quotations.

CHICAGO. Nov. 11.-whoat. higher. Nov 5 =.
May Gle Corr, steady, Nov. IA, May q C.
Oats. firmer, Nov. 25e. FORK higher. Jan. g.
50. Lard, higher. Jan. So -. RIBS, higher.
Jan. sG 10
Chicago stock
CHICAGO, Nov. 1d.-!loss, receipts - 90. &c
higher on belt Srades, Ca.ilc receipts, 4.C0l:
unchsng ID, Sheep receipts. 1000; ste dy.
New YORK Money Closing.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1i.-nouey "n call. easy at 1
per cent prime; mercaniilc paper. s9Q3i..
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Forging Big Guns.

Most people of fairly good informa-
ton know in a general way how mod
ern gun is built up. They know that,
starting with a long cylinder, technic-
ally called tube, which forms the body
of the gun, there is shrunk on second
cylinder. known as a jacket, and that
still other cylinders, called hoops, are
successfully shrank on, until the walls
of the gun have reached the required
thickness. But they do not know the
care with which all this must be done.
They do not appreciate that the bor-
ing of the tube must be as true and as
straight as die; that the diameter of
the tube where the jacket goes on must
not vary the thousandth part of an inch
from the calculated diameter; that the
physical characteristics of every piece
of steel which goes into the gun must
first be determined before the proper
shrinkage can be assigned; and that
this shrinkage must be so carefully cal
culated that no unequal strain is set
up, from the center of the bore to the
external circumference, when the gun
is fired.
Nor do they know what great atten-
ton is required from the workman lest
some stray particle of steel comes, un-
observed, between the tool and the
metal which is being cut and leaves its
mark there to the detriment of the gun.
The smallest scratch must be avoided;
the least imperfection must not pass
unnoticed. Then, too, the highest
class of workmanship is required in the
moving parts, in the closing of the
breech, so that not the slightest trace OF
powder-gas shall escape when the charge
is exploded. All of these points must
be looked out for in order that the Sn-
ished gun shall be satisfactory.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Catching Bass with a Blow Gun.

"You can talk about gill nets and
dynamite and trout lines for killing
fish, " said an old river man the other
day, "but there's man here in town
that's got the greatest scheme I've
struck yet, and he's killing enough fish
with it to stock boarding house. He
don't do thing but just shoot 'em, he
don't. l see him up the Lowgrounds a
week or two back with a string of bass
that must er weighed ten pounds. And
blame me eff he hadn't killed 'em all
with spitball blower.
"He had little brass pipe, about
four feet long and as thick as your fin
ger, and lot of little arrows made out
of fish hooks Strengthened out and cot
ton wrapped around the end. He was
walking quiet like along the edges of
the long ponds the low water left in the
low grounds, and when he'd see one of
the big bass that had got landlocked by
the water going down, and there's lots
of 'em up there, he'd just let fly his
blow gun at it and knock 'em through
six inches of water every time. He
had a silk thread to his arrows, and
hauled his fish in with it, and as he'd
hit 'em back of the gills they hardly
kicked.
81 tell you it didn't hardly look nat
ural, going fishin' that way, but he jest
laughed when spoke to him, and said
he learned the trick from the Indians
down in South America. Down by the
water he had some places ground baited,
and see him kill a big three-pound
catfish dead as hammer, and he shot
one of his little fish hook arrows half
way through carp about two feet and
a half long. 1 been fishing nigh on
thirty years now, one way and another,
but / never see man kill fish that way
before, and yer can say what yer
please, it amt natural. y Washington
Post.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
A JAvELIN IN HIS LEG.
Narrow Escape of British Captain from
Abyssinians.

81 went down to Jefferson Barracks
on Memorial day to witness the decora-
ton of the soldiers graves" said Capt.
r. Mansfield of London, England, to a
st. Louis Glo6e-Den1ocrat man, "and it
called back to my mind some of my ex-
periences in battle and how near came
on several occasions to occupying a
soldiers grave myself beneath foreign
sky. served all through the Abys-
sinian war, in 1867, as junior officer in
the royal naval reserves, and have got
at least half dozen scars on different
parts of my body as proof that I saw
considerable active service.
81 remember one narrow escape that
l had as clearly as if it had happened
yesterday, and which I would not pass
through again for all the wealth of the
Indies. While our ship was anchored
in Ansley bay, in the Red sea, 1 was
sent ashore in command of sixty-four
men on scouting expedition. We
had only proceeded short distance in
land when we were surprised by band
of fully 500 natives, who Immediately
attacked US with their spears and
javelins. l saw at once that it would
be folly for us to attempt to hold our
ground, as they outnumbered us nearly
ten to one. So gave the order to re-
treat, which order, must confess was
obeyed with good deal of haste.
"The enemy pursued us in our fight
toward the shore, all the while throw
ing their spears, which killed two of
my men. When within about 500
yards of the shore one of the javelins
struck me in the feshy part of my left
leg, passed clear through, just missing
the bone, and sticking out on the op-
posite side. 1 did not fall, but kept
right on with that thing sticking in my
leg until the shore was reached, where,
exhausted and weak from the loss of
blood, l fell in dead faint As soon
as the natives saw our ship they beat a
hasty retreat. l was picked up and
carried on board and my wounds at
tended to, but it was over two months
before was able to even bear my
weight on that leg"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Collecting Wishbones.

Strange what fads possess some peo-
pie. The delegate the other evening,
calling upon one of the sweet girl
graduates, was surprised to have her
make of him this peculiar request:
won't you," asked she, "help me in my
collectionp" "What, postage stampsP"
he asked. mo, indeed; that's only for
school children. You know, collections
are a present day fad. I am going to
be just a bit eccentric and have started
an original collection. You may think
it an odd fancy, but I'm collecting wish
bones" So saying, she displayed those
already gathered. She has vast as
sortment strung about her own room
and any number put away in boxes.
"Now, then," she poutingly said, II
think you might help me in my collec-
ton. If you can't get a wishbone when
you dine on game at the club or at the
hotel you can do another thing-save
all your empty cigar boxes for me to
put my gems away in, won't you?" Of
course, the promise was made. Then
she showed more and more of her wish
bones. Among them were those of
particularly large and small birds. She
even had the wishbone of a humming-
bird. Asked if any others were inter
ested in this fad, she said that all the
girls of "her set" were vying one with
another as to who could collect the
wishbones of the rarest birds. AS she
moves with very swell circle, and a
large one at that, the wishbone collec-
ton fad will probably soon be the rage.
-Ct7acI7l71GtG IG11eS-Stdr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
rhe Formu1a of Beautx.

There is formula of beauty, which
at first thought would seem to fully de-
fine its qualities. The small head, low
forehead, large, dark, not too promi-
nent eve, straight nose, full lips and
little ears, the complexion clear and
tinted like flower, the neck long and
slender-such was the recipe which the
Greeks gave long ago for the making
of beautiful woman. But it is not
necessary to demand all these, or Raph-
ael's grace, or Ruben's coloring, or Sir
Joshua's charm, or Lely's flowing
locks, for we sometimes find in face
which is deficient in some, if not all, of
these charms, the allure" the attrac-
ton of beauty.
Beauty has done much to disturb the
eighteen Christian centuries. Not dy-
namite has done more to disintegrate,
to tear up, to destroy, than this i'm
mense power.
The veriest tyro could begin with
Homer and not end with John Richard
Green in recounting the mischief which
beauty has done. The beauties have
enjoyed their little time of triumph.
Every woman enjoys being beauty; it
is her birthright; but the great beauties
have seldom been fortunate women.
Therefore we look at lovely face,
either in portraiture or in fact, with a
certain melancholy, sort of feeling
that "whom the gods love die young"
But is it fact or is it fancy that styles
of beauty come and go like styles of
dressp 1t is quite certain that every
age has its face; every country its type.
We all know the most patent of them
and say: "that is last century face" or,
"that is an Irish beauty" From Cleo
patra down we have a realizing sense
of what she and other bellies ought to
look like, whether she did.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS.
Our American Ones Are Very Kind to
Young Writers.

Successful authors who have made a
reputation in American literature, have
been singularly free from professional
jealousy. While there are exceptions
to the rule, the younger men are ordi-
narily welcomed by the recognized
leaders, and encouraged to do their best
says the Youths Companion.
William Winter has referred many
times with refined sensibility to his OBJ
legations to Longfellow, who interested
himself in the younger mans verse, and
intimate friendship. Longfellow had
suffered in his youth from Poe's jeal-
ousy and acrid structures upon his work.
His own bitter experience sweetened
his intercourse with all fellow-crafts-
men in literature. He was the most
sympathetic adviser of all beginners in
prose and verse who sought his coun-
sci.
Lowell was equally hospitable to new
men. He was stern critic, but gen.
erous in praise of whatever his we'll
trained judgment approved. Stedman's s
first book of verse was submitted to
Lowell for a critical opinion, and the
younger poets subsequent choice of
themes and methods was largely de-
termined by the masters Judgment.
Stedman himself had profted by the
example set for him in his youth.
Many an obscure author had been in
troduced to publisher through his in
tervention. His praise of other mems lit
erary work is at once discriminating g
and cordial.
Bayard Taylor had the same habit in
his relations with literary workers. He
was exceedingly quick to recognize
merit in new and unknown men of let
ters, and was delighted when he could
make himself useful to an amateur au-
thor struggling to rise to the surface
and to keep himself afoat.
Fond of praise and well pleased when
he was allowed to talk of his own work,
he was also good listener and not in
tolerant in his opinions. He interested
himself readily in the crude ideas and
inartistic methods of writer's, who were
encouraged by his amiability to over
rate their own merits and achievements.
| His advice was always salutary, but his
manner never caused irritation. He
sometimes seemed almost deferential in
listening to the opinions of younger
men, who had everything to learn from
him.
George William Curtis was critic o1
the highest degree of sensibility and re-
finement, but he never was anything
but helpful to young authors, who sub:
mitted manuscripts to him, or applied
to him for advice with reference to the
possibility of their making literary
career Severe in his Judgment, ht
was also most sympathetic in express
ing it, and hundreds of literary work
ers who solicited his aid and counse
have borne testimony to his kindness
of heart.
There is, indeed, no other profession
in which the masters can be more help
full to the beginners than that of liter
ature. Those who succeed in it anG
reach places of distinction invariably
consider it their highest privilege tc
recognize the promise of genius in un
known authors.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
why He stood Out for Acquittal.

81 saw man saved from life inn
prisonment or hanging once by the one
wise man on a jury, who stood out
against eleven FOOLS" said T. j.
Stephens of Baltimore at the Laclede.
'The man was found standing over q
dead body in field with knife in his
hand and blood smeared over his clothes.
He swore he had found the man lying
dead and had drawn the knife from the
wound, where the murderer had left it
sticking. It was shown that the men
were enemies and that the accused had
even threatened repeatedly to kill him.
On this and other circumstantial evil
dence eleven of the jury were for con-
viction. The foreman alone stood out,
and so steadfastly that at length, one by
one, the others joined him, and the
prisoner was acquitted. Many thought
the man guilty, and he finally left The
country because of the cold shoulder he
got from old friends. Years afterward,
when the foreman of the jury was dying,
he acknowledged that he killed the
man himself. 1t was in self-defence,
but he had no witness to prove it. When
the innocent man was arrested he man.
aged to get on the jury, determined to
save him, and he said if he had been
unable to do so otherwise he would have
told the truth. "-GLObe-D Democrat
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Tricky Lions.

Some of the most dangerous tricks of
animals are those Stimulating kindness,
says Pearsoaa's Weekly. Hyenas often
follow lions and finish carcass the mo-
ment the lions have left it. Sometimes,
however, the hyenas are too eager and
steal bits of meat while the lions are
still eating.
The lion rids himself of the nuisance
in the following way: He throws a
piece of meat aside. When the lion is
looking the other way the hyena lodges
in and rushes off with the meat. Pres
entity the lion throws another piece of
meat, this time little nearer. The
hyena takes that also. At last the lion
throws piece very near indeed. The
hyena having become reckless makes a
dash at that Also but the lion wheels
round and lays him low with a pat of
his paw and a growl of annoyance.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Platinum Hard to Get.

The discovery of deposits of platinum
in this country would be as welcome as
the finding of diamond mine. At
present the metal costs nearly half as
much as gold, having risen greatly in
price within the last three years. 1t is
absolutely indispensable for many pur-
poses, being non-corrosive and resisting g
acids.
1t is utilized for chemical apparatus,
scientific instruments and incandescent
lamps. There is some platinum in the
beach sands of Oregon but not enough
to pay for mining. Small quantities OF
it have been discovered recently in the
copper mines of Canada, where it oc-
ours in a combination with arsenic.
Two-thirds of the worlds supply OF
platinum comes from two Siberian
mines in the Ural mountains. The
metal is obtained there as by-product
of gold mining. The mining is done
by scooping holes in the ground to q
depth of about fifteen feet and then bur-
rowing, rat fashion, in all directions.
Twenty-nine hundred carloads of earth
are required to yield fifteen pounds o1
platinum. The biggest nugget ever
found was about the size of tumbler.
ST. LOaGS Globe Democrat,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
The Wicked Ice Man.

The ice man still persists in having
his little fiction about the scales, says
Hardware. Some of them go to the
dealer, and after obtaining the standard
article deliberately pass on to the grind
stone and weaken the spring. One
cartman not long ago, who was not
satisfied with this comparatively slow
process, hooked his scale to the cart
rung and weakened the spring in that
manner The English use nothing but
balance scales, but they are no more
honest than we. They have two sets
of weights-one light for ordinary use
and the other for the government in
spector who regularly appears to see
that the majesty of the law is Upheld. .
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
Most beautiful of Flowers.

The Raffiesia Arnold is a strange
plant. 1t grows in Sumatra and de-
riyes its name from Sir Stamford Raj
hes. governor of the island, and his
friend DR.. Arnold, who discovered the
wonderful plant.
The Raf1esia Arnold is said to be the
largest and most magnificent flower in
the world. 1t is composed of five
of brick-red color, covered with. nu-
merous irregular yellowish-white swell
ings; the petals surround a cup nearly
a foot wide, the margin of which bears
the stamens. This cup is filed with a
fieshy disc, the upper surface of which
is everywhere covered with projections,
like miniature cows horns. The cup,
when free from its contents, would hold
about twelve pints of water. The
flower weighs fifteen pounds; it is very
thick, the petals being from three-quar-
ters to an inch in thickness. With its
beauty one is led to expect sweetness
but, alas! its odor is that of tainted
beef, and DR.. Arnold supposed that
even the flies were deceived by the
smell and were depositing their eggs in
the thick disc, taking it for piece OF
carrion.
The Dion@a, or Venus fy-trap, is a
native of the sandy bogs of the Caro-
hnas. It is a little plant of from six to
twelve inches in height, producing 9
loose head of large, whitish flowers,
somewhat similar to the Lady's Smock.
The flower stalk rises from rosette OF
yellowish-green leaves, spreading on
the ground. Each leaf is divided by 9
deep incision into two portions, the
lower being a broadly winged foot
stalk, the upper the blade or true lea1
itself. This upper portion is the fly
trap. 1t is roundish and divided into
two equal parts by strong mid-rib.
The margins are fringed with row o1
strong bristles. The leaf is little hol-
low on either side of the mid-rib and
the upper surface is dotted with minute
reddish glands: each hollow is furnished
with three slender bristles. If an insect
alights on the leaf and touches one Of
the bristles the sides suddenly close
with force so great as to imprison the
little creature, despite its most frantic
endeavors to escape. The bristles on
each side of the leaf interlace like the
fingers of hand clasped together, OF
like the teeth of steel trap. After 6
time the leaf slowly unfolds.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03

The so-called magnetic shell, which
has been used at the trials of English
armor plates at Okhta, near st. Peters
burg, Russia, has made an extraordin-
ary record. The shell was fired at soft
ST. Chamond plate at right angles, and
the penetration was 10 1-2 inches; an
other shell penetrated 16 inches. One
shell was discharged at six-inch Har-
veyized plate, at an angle of 20 deg.
the projectile passed through the plate
and backing and fell about 400 yards
beyond, performance which filled the
scientific experts present with amaze
ment.
Further trials will be made, but for
the present no plates of the requisite
strength are forthcoming. those already
used which were manufactured spe-
cially for the purposes of the trial, be-
ing SO shattered as to be useless for
future tests. The general impression
among military experts is that the mag
netic shell is not new she'll at all, but
simply new invention adaptable to
any modern projectile.
One of the shells that had undergone
the secret process was exhibited. Al
though it had passed through one of the
armor plates, it was in an undamaged
condition, and, as it showed no traces
of fastening whereby the new invention
could be attached to it, the spectators
concluded that the improvement must
be cap of softer metal held on to the
top of the shell by magnetism. This
nurses the hard point of the shell at its
impact, and SO helps it to penetrate the
surface of the plate until it reaches the
softer metal behind. This, at all events,
is one of the guesses at the principle of
the novel projectile.-PiHsburg DIS
match
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-03
young supreme Court Lawyers.

Chief Justice Fuller was speaking the
other day of the large number of bril-
liant young lawyers that were appear
ing before the Supreme Court of late.
It was formerly the rule to intrust the
Supreme Court cases to veterans, and
until recently men under fifty years of
age were very seldom seen at that bar.
Younger men might prepare the briefs,
but old men were called in to present
them. But of late the younger gener-
alton of lawyers are arguing their own
cases, and Justice Fuller thinks there
are more brilliant youngsters at the
bar of the United States than in any
other country of the world. Chicago
Herald