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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
The Pone is Ick.

ROME, Feb. 13.-The Pope's health has
been slightly affected by the damp,
changeable weather that has recently
prevailed here. His holiness, however,
is moi confined to his bed, nor is he pre-
vented from attending mass, but his
doctor has ordered him to take the great
est care of himself and not to hold long
recaptiOns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
TO HELP NEWFOUNDLAND.
Boston to Take Steps for the Sufferers on
the Island.

BOSTON, Feb. ia meeting was held
at Young's hotel last night at which
twenty-one natives of Newfoundland
discussed means for relieving the dis
tress of the people of Newfoundland
who have been reduced to want by the
recent financial troubles.
Letters from st. Johns were read in
cluding an appeal from clergymen exc
planning the state of affairs and com
mittee was appointed to wait on Mayor
Curtis today to request him to call q
meeting of citizens to consider the mat
ter.
The natives of Newfoundland in this
city and Cambridge will hold public
meetings this week to secure funds and
clothing for the sufferers. An appeal
will also be made to the clergymen in
other New England cities and towns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
IN HIS WILL.
The Late Senator Gibson Gives Advice to
His Sons.

NEW YORK. Feb. ia decree has
been signed by Surrogate Arnold. ad-
hitting to probate the will and codiciIs
of the late United States Senator Randall
Lee Gibson of Louisiana, who died at Hot
Springs on Dec. 10, 1892.
In concluding MS will. the senator
gives this advice to his sons:
81 hope my sons will defer to and con-
fide in my executors and trustees, and
above all. that they may realize early in
life that the only one thing more
difficult to build up than an independent
fortune and more easily lost is character,
and that the only safeguards of charac-
ter are the ten commandments and
Christ's sermon on the mount
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13

BALTIMORE, Feb. 13-The Iron Hall
funds in Maryland, amounting to $75,
900, will be sent to Indianapolis for dis
tribution. A decree to that affect will be
signed by Judge Dennis in the course of
few days. The receivers here Will
keep in their hands some $4,000 pend
ing the settlement of certain attach
ments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
nr TvndaII Reetrna-

New YORK, Feb 13.-Rev C. Fl. Tyn-
dali, who has been the pastor of the
Broome Street Tabernacle for the past
six years, has rendered his resignation.
He expects to start with his family about
June / for trip to Europe, where he
will spend year in travelling and study
at one of the universities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
Barnum'4 Grand-dauShter suer.

NEW YORK. Feb 13-In the supreme
court, Helen B. Bennell has commenced
an action asking that more than one hun
dred lots of land belonging to the estate
of P. T. Barnum, be partitioned among
devisees The plaintiff is grand daugh-
ter of F. T. Barnum and Caroline G..
ThnrnInsnn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS TONIGHT.
1t Will BE Held to Determine on the
Order of Legislation.

There will be a caucus of the Repub-
licaus both houses in the senate cham
ber at 8 o'clock tonight to consult as to
the order of legislation. The call was
circulated this morning by Representa-
tive Sutton and has been signed by ten
Republican senators ard about sixty five
mem bers of the house, so the caucus is
assured.
1t has become apparent that a great
many of the bills before the legislature
cannot be acted on and the caucus is for
the purpose of determining what ones
shall be put through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
struck a Broken Rail.

CARTHAGE, Mo-, Feb 13--'Frisco pas
senger train south bound, due here at 5:35
a. m, struck broken rail a mile this side
of Cretline, Kan, this morning. The line
and baggage cars. two coaches and a
sleeper left the track, the latter being
turned upside down. Strange to say, no
one was seriously hurt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13
Nara- Aator Gsoea fO EurOne.

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Mrs. William
Astor will be one of the passengers on
the steamer Teutonic, which will leave
today for Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13

seems to bear 6de tn e aarges made at
that time.
The people of Kansas want the pro-
/ hibitory law left rs it is. Let it alone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-13

Decorative Art Display
By the White Sewing Machines, at 3S5
jackson street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Hard Fighters In Law.

"Clients love hard fighter, and the
onlOokers are impressed with his zeal"
says Richard D. Doyle in an article on
Law and Lawyers in The Southern
Magazine. "In my own experience I
have had cases where I advised my eli
cnts not to sue because I was sure they
had no chance, and although they fol-
lowed my advice, instead Of employing
other counsel, they refused to pay o
reasonable fee and in one case left me
to pay the court costs. And have sell
dom advised client to compromise or
submit to arbitration that did not dis
please him. 1t requires moral courage
to advise one against his inclinations,
but it is sometimes q lawyers sacred
duty. Whatever may be said as to its
morality or true wisdom, yet I must
say I regard this aggressive and partisan
spirit more conducive to modern success
than profound Judgment, for I have
seen lawyers succeed chiefly by reason
II it in whom the logical faculty was
not at all conspicuous. In speaking of
success, it will be observed that do not
mean the eminence Of such men as Err
skine, Writ, Webster, William Pinckney,
Rufus Choate and Charles O'Conor, but
such success as is attained by the lead
ing members of the bar in every town
or city Of the United States. who have
q good practice. sometimes very lucra-
tive, though they are unknown to fame
and forgotten outside their neighborhood
when they are gone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

That ants can actually kill snakes is
q hard thing to believe. There is IRE
futable evidence, however, that they do,
and scientists have discovered that the
snake has hardly a more dangerous enc
my. The large red brown forest ant is
the sort that is the most fatal to snakes,
and curious thing about the attack of
these tiny creatures ON this comparative
~ enormous reptile is that they kill it
for food and not on account of any nat
ural antipathy.
When some of the ants catch sight of
q snake, they arouse the whole commu
nifty at once. In platoons and battalions
the little fellows set upon the reptile,
striking their nippers into it's body and
eyes at thousands of points at once.
With such rapid movement and such
splendid concentration is the attack
made that the snake has no chance at all
Of escaping. 1t is like a thousand cleo
trio needles piercing him at once The
snake soon becomes exhausted, and dies
ignominiously.
Then the ants set harder at work.
They begin to tear off the flesh in
small pieces, gradually stripping away
the skin and working underneath. Not
until they have carried off everything
except the bones and the skin itself do
they retire. Parsons Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
HEROIC ACT OF A SOCIETY GIRL
Braves the Shame Of . Patrol wagon Ride
to Please . Little Boy.

Braves the Shame Of Patrol Wagon Ride
to Please . Little Boy.
She was not only herself a member
OF that society which considers itself
entitled to capital letter. but her fam
lily had been members thereof in good
aud regular standing for at least three
gen erations. She was shopping on State
street one bright midsummer morning
when . crowd at Washington street at
tracted her attention. Being curious,
she investigated that crowd. She found
in the center thereof q small boy Sob
bling bitterly under the guardianship
of two big policemen. To her horror.
she recognized in the small boy her cous-
ms little son.
The little fellow had slipped and
broken or sprained his ankle. He knew
where he lived, but he could not get
there. The policemen had sent for the
patrol wagon. the only vehicle at their
command. for the little sufferer.
The child was in perfect agony at the
prospect Of being carried of in a patrol
wagon by two policemen. The society
girl interfered. She told the policemen
this was her nephew. She told them
where he lived. The address CORE
sponded to that which the little fellow
had himself given them.
"ill get cab and take him home"
said the society girl, reasonable sug-
gestion enough, surely. but the police
men would not hear to that. They had
sent for the patrol wagon, and some one
must have q ride in it. 1t was not to be
ordered ont for nothing. They could not
let the child go home in cab. We'll
take him where you say he lives, lady,
but he must go with NJ. p"
The patrol wagon came. The child
was almost convulsed with terror. He
implored the society girl not to let the
policemen take him. The policemen
were obdurate. Finally the society girl
gave up. WELL" she said, eff he must
go home in a patrol wagon, I'll 20
home in it too" So they lifted the
small boy in, and the society girl climb.
ed in after him, and the policemen
mounted guard on each side.
And thus it happened the few society
people who were by chance shopping on
that midsummer morning instead of en-.
joying the country breezes Of the sum.
mer cottages were Mortified at seeing q
daughter Of one Of their first families
rolling swiftly by in a patrol wagon
under the charge of two stalwart police
men. And others who were not society
people wondered what THAT nice, re-
spectacle locking girl could have done
that the police were taking her away.
And they mOralized on the deceptive
ness Of appearances.-Chicag Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Slept Twenty Years In . Conn.

1t is seldom that man dies in o cof-
fin, but that is exactly what old Barney
Frickers of Alliance, O., did when he
finally gave up the ghost in the fall of
1890. For more than 20 years old Bar
ney had been haunted with the idea that
he was on the verge Of tho grave. Ev-
cry evening he declared that he would
never again see the sun rise. He con-
stantly brooded over his queer halluci-
nation and never allowed himself to 60
to sleep without being carefully pre-
pared for death and burial. Every night
he robed himself in his grave clothes
and solemnly laid down in his coffin
and passed the night firmly believing
and probably hoping that for him the
day would never dawn again. Finally
death came; but, grim and sly as he
was. he did not find old Barney unpre-
pared. The coffin in which this queer
old character had so often awakened
disappointed was Of his own make and
was said to have been a curiosity in it.
self. being literally covered with all
kinds, patterns and sizes of allegorical
carving st. Louis Republic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

The most famous and most puzzling
Of all gold mines is the Mount Morgan.
1t appears, from one Of the Sydney pa
pers, that it contributes more precious
metal to the worlds treasure than any
other patch Of the earth surface Of the
same extent. Mount Morgan is supposed
to be the product Of thermal spring
and is simply mountain of gold, but
of gold that has already been treated by
nature. In some faroff age the hill has
been a huge natural crucible, and all
the gold it contains has been already
mined. chemically dissolved and precip-
itated by nature herself. No speck of
gold larger than pins point has ever
been discovered in the mount. The pre-
cious metal exists in a sort Of golden
-four. dissolved through ironstone. -
Westminster Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Cars Numbered Thirteen.

A man carrying heavy satchel chased
q crosstown car half a block the other
day, and byreason of slow going truck
on the track in front of it was enabled
to overtake it. As he was about to get
aboard his glance rested on the side Of
the car for a moment. With an express
sion Of alarm on his face he turned
around and trotted bAck to the sidewalk.
There 8 another, I" remarked the con-
ductor.
"What 8 the matter with him? Wrong
carr" asked passenger. g7"r 81.
"No. Guess not. He probably saw the
number. replied the conductor, point
ing to an oninous 10 painted on the
woodwork. "You wouifn tbelieve there
were SO many superstitious people in
New York until you We been thirteener
for awhile. This car don t do two-thirds
the business of any other car ON the line
Women don't mind it as much as men,
as rule. but some of the men will do
anything rather than take this car. A
chap chased MS up yesterday, jumped on
and jumped right off again. I called to
him. and he yelled back:
I'll miss my train, but I'd rather
do it than ride in that hearse.'
"Yet, as far as I've heard, this car
never had an accident. There's num-
Der of lines in town that won't have IS
car on their tracks. New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Tho Famous Old Willow Ware.

You may know a plate of old willow
ware by this decoration: On the right
there is mandarin's country seat. In
the foreground there should be a pa
vilion, in the background an orange tree
and to the right peach tree. The place
is inclosed by fence, and through the
estate there should wander q brook, and
in this brook there is an island high at
the left side with a cottage ON it. Over
tho brook there is bridge. and on it
there should be three figures. The will
low tree, the famous willow tree, is at
one end and n gardeners cottage at the
other. Two birds are high in the air
above the picture. The whole is sup
posed to tell the romance of the man
darin's daughter, who is one of the fig
ures on the bridge. The others are her
lover and the mandarin himself. The
birds are turtle doves into which the
lovers were changed by the gods that
they might escape to wrath Of father
mandarin. who pursued them. New
York Post,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

We Want 4osO All 8o0DA Wo996
Il is clear that we cannot look luund
and take note Of our contemporaries in
any department in life without feeling
certain that many who stand in the first
rank are not indebted in any way to any
physical powers which they may have
cultivated for the development Of their
mental organization, and may include
in that observation also some men Of
past history. Yet. as a matter of his
tory, the physical development comes
first and proves that good physical work
should be cultivated. The danger lies
not in the cultivation Of it, but in the
generalization, and the tendency now
10 toward the latter.
can remember when exercises Of q
physical kind were limited in number /;
when cricket and rowing were almost
the only ones, and when rowing was the
only exercise that led to any considera-
bic risk Of overstrain. Now both these
exercises are being pushed to excess,
while others which are very popular,
such as football. cycling and pedestrian
ism. are alluring men to an overcultiva-
ton Of certain parts Of the body that
should be Stunned: that destroys its
own object, in SO far as bodily perfec-
tion is concerned, and that certainly
when it renders the body imperfect, in
jures the mind Of the owner and Of
those who unfortunately spring from
him.-Sir B. W. Richardson in Satur.
day Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
An ABRUPT covarsAup.


RVW - E411ish Methodlst Preacher
Woesd and Was Accepted.
ga good story is told Of an English
minister who lived about 20 years ago, I"
said Uncle Dave. 1--WE may call him
Smith, and he was a bachelor. He re-
sisted many persuasions to marry, which
his friends wore constantly making, nm
til he had reached tolerably ripe age,
and he himself began to feel the need
Of or at least began to have new ideas
Of the comfort of being nursed with wo-
mans gentle care. Shortly after enter
ing one Of the. circuits q maiden lady,
als0of ripe years, was strongly recon-
,lnended to him, and his friends AGAIN
urged that he would better get married.
representing that the lady named would
not refuse to sccept him, notwithstand-
ing his eccentricities.
"'Do you think tho?' said the domi-
ME, for he had a very perceptible Lisp,
Then III go and thee her.
"He was as good as his word. His
ring at the doorbell was answered by
the serving maid. 18th NTH p. within?'
briskly but calmly asked the lover.
Yes, sir. Will you kindly walk imp
No, thank you. Be kind enough to
thay to NTH P. that with to thpeak
to her a moment Miss P. appeared and
repeated the invitation to walk in.
"'No, thank you. I'll thoon explain
my bithneth., I'm the new Methodist
preacher I'm unmarried. My friends
think Ia better marry. They recon-
mend you for wife. Have you any OBJ
jections?'
"'Why, really, Mr.. Sm-'
There, don't anther now. Will call
thith day week for your reply. Good
day.
ION that day he appeared at the door
Of Miss P. 3 residence. It was promptly
opened by the lady herself.
"'Walk in, Mr.. Smith
"Can t indeed, ma am. Pleath anther
me. Yeth or no?"
"'Well. Mr.. Smith, it is a very eeri-
GUS matter. should not like to get out
Of the way Of Providence
81 perfectly understand you, NTH
r. We will be married thith day week.
will call at thith hour. Pleath be
ready, ma am
HE called on that day week at that
hour. She was ready. They were mar
ried and lived happily several years. +"
Boston Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
LEGAL
N0tioo 0f Publlcation.

NOt100 q Pu6l1CotlO0.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, L.
Rock ISLAND COUNTY. 20
In the Circuit court in ehsncery, January tenn,
John =: Albreeht W. Patrick Beatcs. Mary
MARIA Beates and Ann Maria hurry.
Amdavlt Of non-rssiderce Of the defendants,
Paf'iek Bestee. Mary Maria Beates and Ann
Maria Nufry, the above defendants, having beeo
hled in the cierk'e ONCE Of the circuit court a
said county, notice 10 therefore hereby ajye1
to the said non resident defendants that
the complainant fled his bill Of conulains
In eaid court, On The chancefy side thereof
on the 3lst day Of October, 1885, and that
thereupon summons issued out Of paid cOuft,
wherein ssid suit Is now pending rsturnable %
the lrst Monday in the month Of January nc1f,
q IL BY law required Nov. unlsss you The ssi1
Beates, Mary Maria Bestes and Ann Mar Num-.
shall personally be aud appear before said c:rcuit
court, en- the irst day Of the next tern thereof.
to be holden ct Rock Island in and for the soid
county. GU the int Monday In January next, and
plead. answcF or demur to the said c0mplainapI'e
bill Of complaint, the Same and the DGf1cu on6
thiDsst ercin charged and sisted will be takoo
a. confessed, ana . decree ENTERED asainet you
according to the prayer Of said bill.
Rock Island, ILL.,, Nov !, 1895.
GROR0E W. GAMBLE, Clerk.
CARL kusHL, Complainant's Solicitor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

1t is seldom that a man 30 masters q
foreign language that he can express
himself therein when greatly excited.
A Welshman. after attempting to
take part in prayer meeting conducted
IN English aud finding it very difficult
to express the fervor of his heart in the
partially acquired tongue, suddenly
broke the halting and laborious sen.
fences with a joyful exclamation:
Lord. I thank thee that thou know
est Welsh and straightway launched
upon the sea Of gutterals which came so
readily to his hps.-New York OBJ
server.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

A strange sight was seen in London
at the great fire in the grain warehouses
near Blsckfriars' bridge. As the build
inRs, which were ON the waters edge,
were burning black mass was seen in
the river floating from the Surrey to the
Middlesex side. Il was composed Of
thousands Of rats, cut OF from escape on
the land side. About 10000 of them
succeeded in crossing the river. Init were
then unable to get mp the smooth side
Of the Thames embankment and were
carried down stream and drowned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Location Of Eden.

We are now informed that the true
location of the garden of Eden is in the
interior of Africa, somewhere near the
sources of the Nile. We are told that
all the conditions" favor this location.
1t il sad fact that the friends of other
locations are equally sanguine For in
stance. President Warren of Boston uni
versity wrote volume to prove that
the true location of Eden was at the north
pole. 1t will be noted that we have no
mention Of Eden anywhere in the Bible
after the first chapter Of Genesis.
Hartford Religious Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

From q. letter written by Rev. j.
Gunderman, of Dimondale, Mich, we
arc permitted to make this extract:
IL have no hesitation in, recommend
ing DR.. Kings New Discovery, as the
results are almost marvellous in the
case of my wife. While was pastor
of the Baptist church at Rives juno
tion she was brought down with
Pneumonia succeeding Ia grippe.
Terrible paroxysms of coughing
would last hours with little Interrupt
ton, and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recon-
mended DIR. Kings New Discovery;
it was quick in its work and highly
satisfactory in results" Trial bet
ties free ut Hartz 4 Ullcmeycr's drug
store. Regular size SOC and 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Milk.

Milkmen sometimes find in summer
that the morning s milk will sour. while
that of the evening before is still sweet.
The reason for this is milk when drawn
from the COW is at temperature best
adapted for bacterial growth. The
nights milking is cooled overnight,
whereas the mornings milk is poured
directly into the cans. and the bacteria
which have entered it are well started
on their growth before the nights milk
is warmed by the air.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

Then you have learned to love me
already" he rapturously cried.
Straight into the eyes Of the man
with million looked She
Yes, she answered, and her words
thrilled him strangely. 81 was given a
thoroughly practical education. DE
troit Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

"Mystie Cure" for rhematism and
neuralgia cures in 1 to 8 days. Its
action upon the system is remarka-
bic and mysterious. It removes at
once the cause. and the disease
Immediately disappears. The first
dose greatly relieves, IS cents. Sold
BY Otto Grotjan.a druggist, Rock Is
land and Gust. Schlegel & Son. 22O
west Second street. Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

The wise are instructed by reason,
ordinary minds by experience. the stu
pid by necessity and brutes BY instinct
Cicero
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01

Some natures are like pens-they
may be driven; but others are like PEN
ellis. which are better when they are
lead
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
Because


Other people who have
not already done 20 are
setting 4 wise exan,ple
BY becoming easolIed Is
subscribers. thus show
ing that thsy, know z
good thing .rq and TINE"
ARGUS IS pushing It
along.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-01
II N. BRIGGS.
Real Estate, Insurance, Loans
AND HOUSES TO BENT.
Office 1912 Second Ave-, Rock Island.

Bsve on hand % lnts in South Rnck Island on
wstef; lou taxes, ana chsap fnsunacs. Tn loto
On Thixty-eishsh street s6d glfteosth avenuo
ruR'eerc u rieces Of property il shs city for
sale aud Fsrf.