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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-20
TURKISH BifH noon;

Baths of all kinds, including
Turkish, plain. shampoo, cleo
trio, electro-thermal, etc., may
be obtained at the Sanitsrium
Bath Rooms, on the first floor OF
the Harper House.
ROOMS OPEN.
For Ladies-From 3 .. m. to
IL m. on week days For Gen.
tlemen-From 2 p. m. to 10 pm.
on week days On Sundays the
rooms will be open from Z .. m.
to IL 0. m. for Gentlemen onlv.
Electric and Electro-thermal
baths may be obtained at any
time during business hours.
Gymnasium connected with bath
rooms
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-20
THE TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

CHIcAGo, ROCK BLAND . PACIFIC
Railwsy-Depct corner Fifth avenue and
Thirty -nrst street, Frank b. Plummer, Agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-20
q Per Cent Loans.
Government Bonds.

The following is a partial
list of completed gilt-edged
first mortgage loans on hand,
which we offer for sale, sub
ject to previous selections,
for their face and accrued
interest. These loans have
been carefully selected by
us, and are first-class in
every respect. They are all
PER CENT net to the inves-
tor. We have many other
loans to offer, if these are
not in amounts to suit the
investor:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-20

Daily. pDaliy except SUNDAY. fIoing north.
$Going south and east. No. 10 runs between
Cedar sapids and West Liberty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-20

Notice lie hereby given that on Tuesday. tn
eecoId day Of April A. D., 1895. ia the city O
Rock Islard, Is., An election will be held for tn
following ofacere yo-yit-
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

Father Tom is the parish priest of an
out-of. the-world village in Ireland. He
is king of the village, one of those kindly.
hearted, mild-mannered rulers whose
subjects obey them because they love
them, A correspondent of the London
Globe describes one way in which the
father rules:
A stranger listening to one OF Father
Toms sermons, if sermon it can he
called, would be both surprised and
amused. He takes the congregation
very much into his confidence. When
he has read the epistle and gospel of the
day, and made some pious comments
thereon, he quietly turns to parish af-
fairs. Something like this might be
heard
dearly beloved, am sorry to say
some person or persons unknown
mind, | say unknown-have stolen poor
Mary Ciancey's duck, and poor Mary
has husband and six children to feed
Now, let me solemnly warn whoever
has taken it, that that duck must be re-
turned lit may be done at night, when
no one is lookingl, for no one, man oil
woman, can enter the kingdom of Goo
| with that duck on their sowls."
And the priests warning seldom passe!
unregarded. He is worth dozer
policemen and whole bench of magis
trates in settling disputes.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

"Had knowledge of Hts own knowledge
of All Finance Question:"


With a vain man hardly anything
goes farther than compliment hand
somely, but not delcately, administered.
This is the point of n Washington story
told by the Detroit Free Press, about a
member of Congress well known for
his knowledge Of his own knowledge
about all questions of finance.
This wise statesman was approached
by reputahle-looking man, who said,
with deferential but not servile
manner:
Excuse me, sir, but are you not Mr..
Blank p
Il am" said the Congressman with
affahle dignity.
81 believe you are wellinformed upon
all financial questions ?"
"My friends and the press are kind
enough to say So"
You have given much attention to
the subject, think"
More than TO anything else"
Ard no doubt you could give sat
isfactory answer to almost any question
| might ask "
The member saw that he was being
interviewed, and wished 10 say some.
thing that would look well in print.
Perhaps could if any man could"
he answered.
Well, l have question in finances
that | should be greatly pleased If you
would answer to my satisfaction"
Very good, what is it?"
Will you lend me dollar for day
or two? I'm broke"
The Congressman produced the dollar
by Georgew he said afterward, she
could have caught me for five just as
well, if he had only known it,"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
OF INTER EST TO WOMEN.

The board of elections of Berlin, Wis,
refused to permit 10 women who had
registered to vote. The ladies now pro.
pose to make the legal fur fly.
Mrs. Edward Clarence Stedman is not
literary in her tastes, and is so averse to
taking up a pen that she usually gets her
husbands private secretary to write her
social notes for her.
Nine Carnot, widow of the late Presi.
dent of France, has detached all the
ribbons from the wreaths sent at her
husbands funeral and has decorated q
small drawing-room with them.
Miss Ellen Terry is native of Gov
entry, the English lace and stocking
town, and has recently contributed
freely to the fund for the rehanging of
the beautiful peal Of bells IN the parish
church tower.
Mrs. Sophie Hayward, wife Of Gerald
S. Hayward, landscape painter, an
English woman, took the oath of full
citizenship in New York on Monday.
She declared her intentions in 1889 and
she took the step she did, it is said, sin
order that she might legally own prop
erty in New York State"
At the battle of flowers at Nice no
one at first ventured to throw any
flowers into Queen Victoria's carriage,
An intimation was given to the crowd
by Col. Bigge that the Queen would moi
object, and her carriage was soon filled
with small bouquets, several Of which
the Queen threw back with evident en-
| joyment
The present Queen of Madagascar
Ranavalomanjaka I'LL, is the SECOND
daughter Of Andriamanitoa Raketaka
herself the daughter of Razatinandri
amanitra, niece of Rodama the Great
and granddaughter of Andrianampoinie
merina, who Is the head of the presen
Hova dynasty. She is still young anc
very charming woman.
Since John Oliver Hobbies" resolved
himself into Mrs, Craigie, reviewer
have been Suspicious Of strongly mascu
line MONS de guerre, and when "Johl
Smith" reproduced district visitor
impressions of "Old Browns Cottages,
he was blandly informed that he was
"lady of humor." AS matter of fact
however, John Smith belongs to tn
sterner sex. He has even written
sporting manual for the Badminto
series.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

the fugitives. Warwick, who had fallen
slightly. behind his companions, raised
his gun and shot the foremost dog dead.
Then he dashed off to one side and dis
appeared among the trees. lie was
more fortunate than his companions,
for he was just in time to escape the
savages, who had almost kept pace with
the animals. The other dogs followed
Conner and Woodman, who saved them.
selves from the faugs of the beasts by
loaping among the limbs of the nearest
trees and scrambling out of reach,
They, too, might have shot the>brutes,
but that would not have helped them,
for close behind were half dozen
dusky figures fully armed, and as feru-
cious as the hounds themselves. Con-
nor and Woodman had no choice and
surrendered.
The good luck of Warwick lay in the
fact that none of the Seminoles knew of
his presence with the other two, II was
too dark to note his trail and they sup
posed that the third dog had been shot
by one Of the captured mon. Among
the Seminoles were two full-bloodod
negroes, who gleefully informed their
captives that IL was their trail which the
dogs had first taken. They made
straight for the Indian camp, where
they arrived few minutes ahead of the
brutes, with whom all made friends
Then, as already shown, the same dogs
were guided back until the track of the
white men was reached, when the merry
pursuit began.
"Dis yeah am dc sort of fun dat we
likes" remarked one of the grinning
negroes. "If yo' hab any more dogs OBJ
dat kind, fotch 'em along"
The prisoners were in no mood for
testing, for they expected to be put to
death and scalped, and such doubtless
would have been their fate but for Il
fortunate state of affairs. Among the
Seminoles was chief whose brother
was prisoner at Fort King, learning
which Conner proposed that he and his
| companion SHOULD be exchanged, The
proposal was rejected at first, for the
reason that the Indians distrusted the
white men, but after much persuasion
the attempt was made, and in u short
time was successfully carried out.
Warwick, relieved of all pursuit, did
not reach camp until two days later
| During that time he had not eaten O
mouthful of food, had narrowly escaped
capture more than once, and, when he
staggered up to his friends, was in a
famishng condition. AS it was, he and
his companions were ready to agree tina
there was nothing to be gained by try
ing to use bloodhounds against the
Seminoles.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

A story at the expeno of the Appala-
chan Mountain Club of Boston is
related in Happy IHot7hL An excur.
sion party frcm the clul, itappears, had
gone to a rural part OF TIC State, and in
default of sufficient hoi,l accommodate
tons, some of the members were
Obliged to seek quarters il farmhouse.
simplicity was the ord,r Of the day.
Everything was scrupulor sly clean, but
there was natural abseuro of some Of
the Injuries OF high-pricei city hotels.
Some OF the ladies' of tie party dis
covered that there were Mt keys in the
locks Of their rooms, and waited upon
the farmers wife.
That good woman was surprised.
"Why," she said, 1--WE don't usually
lock our doors here, and tn res no one
here but you But then, ! suppose you
know your own party best.
The visitors cid not insis upon the
KEYS,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
sNablsn PAPER soPrLr.
Its Manufacture from Eaparto Grass and
from Wood Pulp.


II is curious now to remember the
panic which prevailed In England
among papermakers as to the duty on
rags, and the difficulty of obtaining raw
material for the manufacture of paper.
Stationers INDUCED in the most gloomy
forebodings OF the future of their trade.
DR.. Lindlcy was among the formost to
snow tine quantity of fiber available for
the manufacture of paper in the com
mon furze, and now nearly all our best
paper is largely composed of esparto
grass, while in the common kinds wood
forms an important factor, Instead Of
the English paper trade being ruined, it
has advanced by leaps and bounds.
The entire weight of paper for the
whole of the Kingdom in 1859 (the duty
was repealed on the let Of October,
1861 amounted to Just over 1924 tons,
At the present time four Scotch mills
send out a quarter of this quantity, the
whole Of which is used for newspapers
and publications Of high class. Last
year two well.known publications,
Lloyd'S Nous and the Daily Chronicle,
consumed, the former 4,250 tons, and
the latter 4,200 tons of paper. Previous
10 the repeal Of the duty these would
have had to pay tax of $50, 500, and
E5s, 800 respectively, Sittingbourne Mill
produces 400 tons weekly on seven wide
machines.
In the manufacture of paper, as in
most other branches of trade, the ten
dency is for the smaller makers to be
absorbed in the larger ones. In Scot.
land there are fewer mills than there
used to be, and in Ireland, although
within the century there were tiitytwt
mills, at the present time there remain
only eight; this great decline is mainly
due to the absence Of coal.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
DIR. Temple was "a Just Beast.


When DR.. Temple (now bishop of
London) was the head master of Rugby
School, Il boy came up before him for
some breach OF discipline, and the facts
seemed so against the lad that he was in
imminent danger Of being expelled. lie
had defence, but being neither clear,
headed nor fluent in the presence Of the
head master, he could not make it clear
He, therefore, wrote home to his father,
detailing at length his position aud his
explanation. His father very wisely
thought the best thing he could do was
to send the boys letter as it stood to DR..
Temple, merely asking him to overlook
any familiarity of expression. APP
parently, the father had not turned
over the page and seen his sons post
script, for there DR.. Temple found the
following words: "If | could explain,
it would be ali right, for. though Tenn
pie is beast, he is just beast" The
bishop, in telling the story, is accus.
toned to say it was the greatest COM
pliment he had ever received in his life
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

When / go into bank l get ratified.
The clerks rattle me; the wicKets rattle
me; the sight of the money Tattles me;
everything rattles me.
went up to tue wicket marked
Accountant" The accountant was
tall, cool devil. The very sight of him
ratified me. My voice was sepulchral.
Can | see the Manager" | said, and
added, solemnly, "alone." | don't know
why said "alone."
Certainly" siid the accountant, and
fetched him.
The manager was grave, calm man.
held my $56 clutched in a crumpled
ball in my pocket.
Are you the manager" | said.
YES" he replied.
"Can see YOU ?" asked, "alone ?"
didn't want to say "alone" again, but
without it the thing seemed self.evident.
| The manager looked at me IN some
alarm. He felt that l mad an awful
secret to reveal.
Come in here" he said, and led the
way to a private room. He turned the
key in the lock.
We are safe from interruption here"
he said; sit down"
We both sat down and looked at one
another. | found no voice to speak.
You are one of Pinkerton's men,
presume" he said.
lie had gathered from my mysterious
manner that was detective. / knew
what he was thinking, and it made me
worse.
mo, not from Pinkerton," | said,
seemingly to imply that came from a
rival agency. 40 tell the truth"
went on, as il had been prompted to
lie about II, II am not detective at all.
have come to open an account. in.
tend to keep ali my money in this
bank"
'lne manager looked relieved, but
still serious; he concluded now that
was a son of Baron Rothschild or a
young Gould.
"a large account, suppose" he said
Fairly large" | whispered. II pro
pose to deposit $50 now and $50 d
month regularly"
! The manager got up and opened the
door. He cal ed to the accountant.
| "Mr. Montgomery" he said, unkindlS
7 loud, "this gentleman is opening an &C
2 count, he VIII leposit $50. Coed morn
ing"
E | rose.
J, A big iron door stood open at the sid
1 of the room.
t GOOD morning." 1 said, and stepped
4 into the safe.
e "Come out" sid the manager, coldly
aud showed me tie other way.
d went up to tie accountants wicke
- and poked the blll OF money at hin
# with quick, coryulsiVe movement, u
K if / were doing tonjurlng trick.
!. My face was ghsstly pale.
o Here, II said, deposit it." The ton
p of the wotds seemtd to mean, Let u
c, do this painful thing while the fit is q
III us"
m He TOOK the money and gave it to ar
le other clerk He maze me write the SUI
" on slip atd sign m. name in book.
II no longer knew wha was doing. III
n bank swan before NJ, eyes.
;p us it deposited = | asked, in
ID hollow, vibrating voice.
at is" said the accountant.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
A PRETTY H.lRD CASE.
Considerably Well Known, However,
Among Most Communities.
ynuth'a rnmnanion

Considerably Well Known, However,
Among Most Communities.
Youths Companion.
1t was said of Hiram Wilson's con-
versational powers that they were
"enough TO turn the most knowledgeable
folks scntter-witted for the time bein',"
and when he began to tell story groups
of men melted away as il by magic.
81 was goin' by the Widder Toilets
this mornin'," he began one day, as he
joined the group around the new village
pump. "at least | say goin' by,
an dunno why | say goin' by, for
want exaclily. was just goin' along,
as old Sum'l Gill used TO tell about
leastways dunno why say old, for he
want SO turrible old, not much older'n
most of us here--leastways dunno's Id
orter say most of us, for there's Pete
Franklin that I've heerd te!l-that is I
say amt ever exackly heerd, bein' al
I'm so def from the rheumaticks settlin'
in my ears, an dunno's I've any call
| to say rheumaticks mother, for there
was one doctor told me-leastways l
| dunno's he act'lly was doctor, but he
made out--an' | dunno but made outs
kind Of hash way to put it, but we SEQ
| he"
At this point Mr.. Wilson paused and
looked about him; the legs of his last lis
tener were vanishing around the corner
of the postoffice, and he was left alone.
"Well, never see anythin' like it,"
said Mr.. Wilson, in an aggrievcd tone,
US he proceeded to follow his late audi
ence. "Seems IS if man couldn't tell
a succumstance-an' dunno s I'd orter
say succumstance, for it wan't"-his
voice died away in an inarticulate muir
muir, as the postoffice door closed behind
him
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

MEDICAL RECORD.
A tabulnted statement published by
the Marine Hospital Bureau gives the
number of deaths from small pox which
occurred in each State and Territory OF
the Union during the year 1894, as we'll
rs the number of cases. The deaths
were as follows: Arizona, Il; Arkansas;
ID; California, 2; Connecticut, II; Dis
trict Of Columbia, G; Illinois, S77; In.
diana, 10; Kansas, Z; Kentucky, i;
Louisiana, /; Maine, !; Massachusetts, %;
Michigan, 81: Minnesota, 4; Missouri, 2;
New Jersey, IL; New York, 1857; Ohio,
8; Pennsylvania, 81; Rhode Island, b;
tennessee, l. Wisconsin, 1855. In sew
era States the disease has been moro
virulent since the beginning OF tho
present year than it ever has been
\ before
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

VIuUIViEI ItoVUtU'
The influenza epidemic in London
has been most severe. During two
weeks in March there were 7G1 deaths,
exceeding tho mortality for tho entire
year 1894. The disease has prevailed
also throughout tho British Islcs. In
Scotland tue deathrate for February of
this year was 40 per cent higher than
that of any previous February since
records have been kept. This increase
was almost entirely in deaths from in
fiuenza and pulmonary affections re-.
sulting from it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
Klcn sfneRI.fN nsncHANrs.
MonEnl Tea Merchants with Incomes
$4,000 and &IbO,OOO.


American Grocer,
In Southern Siberia, close to the
boundary line which separates It from
Mongolia, is Kiakhta, the port of entry
for the famous Overland" and brick tea
OF China, which is brought to the border
IN caravans. AT Kiakhta the "over-
land" tea is repacked and sewn up in
raw hides, in which condition 1t is sent
nearly 1000 miles to Mimi. Novgorod,
Moscow and St. Petersburg. KEENAN,
states that some of the merchants in
Kiakhta are very wealthy, ana have
annual incomes ranging from $4,000
to Sl50,000. Many fortunes have been
made in the tea trade. Ii is common
occurrence TO find the coins of the
United States in use with the money Of
other nations and exported to China.
Six hundred feet south from kiaklho,
and separated therefr0m by plank,
wall and screens, is Maimachin, the
Chinese border city Of Mongolia. The
two places, though close together, are
entirely and Enthusiastically different.
Mr.. KEENAN,, who was entertained in
Chinese fashion in Maimachin, says:
Zone moment you are IL Russian pro-
vlncial village with its characteristic
shops, log houses, golden-domed churches,
droshliies, soldiers aud familiar peasant
faces; the next moment you pass be-
hind the high screen that conceals the
entrance to the Monaghan tower, and
find yourself apparently in the middle
of the Chinese Empire. The town left
behind is no more like the one you are
in than a Zuni pueblo is like village
in New England, and for all that ap'
pears to the contrary you might sup.
pose yourself TO be separated from the
Russian Empire by the width of the
whole continent.
1.-THE narrow, unpavcd streets are
shut in by gray one.story houses,
whose windowless walls are made of
clay mixed with chopped straw, and
whose roofs, ornamental with elaborate
carving, show a tendency to turn up at
the corners; clumsy two-whceled OK
carts, loaded with boxes of tea, and
guided by swarthy Mongol drivers,
have taken the place OF the Russian
horses and telegas; Chinese traders in
skull.caps, loose Tapping gowns and
white'solcd shoes appear at the doors OF
the courtyards, instead of the Russian
merchantsin op.boots, loose waistcoats
and shirts worn outside their trousers;
Withholding sunburned horsemen, in
deep orange gowns and dishpan.shaped
hats ride in from some remote en-
campment in the great desert of Cobb
followed, perhaps, by a poor Mongo
from the immediate neighborhood
mounted upon slow.pacing OK
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30

PItts5urG NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Two girls were riding in Pittsburg
cable car, and one OF them was reading
comic paper.
II don't see the point to this joke"
said the reader, US she displayed to her
companion picture. II represented
man in his shirt sleeves with tiny baby
on his lap, and was labeled "rhe New
Woman"
The other girl was Thoughtful for E
few moments, and then she said:
80, that's plain enough. The baby is
q girl, aud of course its quite new.
Don't you sec 7"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-30
Burrows on Their Heads.

An agent of the English firm that is
constructing the extensive system Of
drainage canals near the City Of Mexico
told an American tourist that when they
first employed native workmen their
methods seemed too slow, for they put
the earth and rocks in bags, placed the
bags on their heads and marched off
with them. So the firm ordered large
number Of wheelbarrows. The natives
filled the barrows with earth and put
them upon their heads, too. Il was of no
use--they had been doing business that
way for too many centuries.