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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfor, and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them ard it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but il is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
70. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
Test Of the Texas Prize Fight Law.

DALLAS, sept. l7.-Bcfore Chief Justice
Hurt of the court of appeals, arguments
was submitted in the habeas corpus pro-
cecdings by which Cavanaugh and Clark,
who engaged in n glove contest here two
weeks ago. seek TO settle the question Is
to the Texas prize fight law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
The Weather.

Generally fair and warmer today,
with conditions favorable for local
thunder showers tonight: fair
Wednesday; southerly winds. To-
days temperature. Sc.
+. J. WALL, Observer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17

Police Matters.

Magistrate Schroeder assessed
John Roseberg IS and costs for the
privilege of getting loaded last even
ing.
Christ Jensen attempted to make
a rough house at Peter Aq er's Twen-
ty-fourth street saloon dance Satur-
day night. 1t cost him IS and ex-
tras last evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
Laughter Lends a Charm

To beauty when it discloses a pretty
set of teeth. Whiteness. when ma
ture has supplied this element of
loneliness. may be retained through
life using the fragrant Sozodont.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
Found

at NJ. F. Bahnsen's drug store mar
velous cure for all kidney complaints.
weakness. 1t is the Clinic Kidney
Cure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
INTELLIGENCE COLUMN

EOR RENT-A NEW 5-ROOM COTTAGE
l. 212l Eighth and a half avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17
MCIntyre-ReCk Dry Goods CO.
and Second Avenue, RockI ILL.,
THERE ARE BLANKETS AND BLANKETS.

We bought ours months ago (when the weather was
too warm to enjoy blanket buying) all because
was cheap and wool was cheap and we felt that both
cost a lot more now. Our buyer. IN New York
writes he cannot buy anywhere for the same figures
but will let these early purchases at prices you'll
know cheap the minute you see the goods. Wise
people will buy now. Blankets will cost more later.
selling at 4sc
Others Sc, and they cheap that price
heavy feeced blankets ST. CheyW
that later) cost now s5c.
should &a at So No
price when these gone.
s,scrs and mica
lockers, worth 81 o. only 81 IS.
Wool blankets not ali wool the
longer, price ought TO be s. but it is
all blankets, quite You
q but elegant blankets
wrapper blankets So only
Sass.
special values in crib blankets up.
We would write whole page full about blankets,
but space can't be had Come and investigate.
FRI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17

Observation-Disclosures At the resi-
dence OF the brides father. Charles Detlef.cn,
Rock Island. Sept. Il. 1895, by Rev. W. A. Spen--
Ger. OF Philadelphia. William Johnston and Miss
Ellis beth Detl, fsen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-17

No family should be without Fo-
Iey's Collie and Diarahoea Cure for
all bowel complaints. For sale at NJ.
+. Bahnsen's drug store.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
Slack in His Geography.

A curious incident regarding n strait
occurred during the Russian war. 1t
would have been ludicrous, if anything
can be udicrous connected with war.
Commodore Elliott was blockading q
Russian squadron in the Gulf of Sagha-
lin, on the east coast Of Siberia. Think
ing he had the Russians in cul de sac,
he complacently waited for them to
come out, as the water was too shallow
for him to attack them. AS the enemy
did not come out, he sent in 20 investi-
gate, and found, to his establishment,
that Russians and ships had vanished
While he had been waiting for them in
the south they had quietly slipped cut
by the north, teaching both him and
the British Government a rather Sc
we're lesson in geography, as it had
been thought that Saghalin was an
isthmus; and they were totally una
ware of narrow channel leading from
the gulf to the Sea of 0khOtsk.-New
York Advertiser.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

gress from the Territory Of Michigan
and delegate from Wisconsin from 1885
to 1889, commanded the militia of Wis
consln for a time, and for three years
was its chief justice ToGeorge Wallace
Jones belongs the distinction Of nam
ing the Territories Of Wisconsin ami
Iowa.
Gen. Jones has known Intimately
most Of the proElnent men Of the COM
try. He was Chesterfield In polite
ness and very popular, He was u class-
mate at college of Jefferson Davis and
Zachary Taylor; in Congress he was n
friend Of John Quincy Adams, Andrew
Jackson, John G. Fremont, Martin Van
Buren, and Franklin Pierce; he was the
partner in business enterprises Of Dam
lei Webster; the colleague in the House
Of James X. Polk, John Bell, Abraham
Lincoln, and in the Senate Of Thomas
II. Benton, Charles Sumner stephen
A. Douglas, William II. Seward and
James Buchanan.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
STOCK AND FARM.

Topeka Mail; Elbrdge Higgins Is
feeding 100 head Of cattle this winter
as usual. Preston McComb is also feed
ing a nice bunch, and John Sims cor
rails show that he is fattening aocut l65
head.
Harris Hathaway, of Scott county,
claims to have raised 1856 bushels Of six
weeks potatoes on three-fourths Of an
acre, and to have received $3.50 bush
oil for them. He considers irrigation a
success.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: The win
ter feeding OF cattle was light, but as
most feeders made money and the mar
ket has steadily grown stronger many
cattle are being put on spring feed for
the summer market. Never before at
this season OF the year have so many
young cattle been taken at the Kansas
City, Kan, stock yards, for the country
for feeding purposes, as now. Three
hundred cars of stockers and feeders
we're taken for the country last week.
This is fifty cars more than during any
week in March, 1894, while in 1898, the
greatest number Of cars taken during
any week in March was 104, and in
1892 the greatest number during any
week was 1872.
In some portions OF southern KansIs
the cotton industry is an important fea.
| t,.o L. tbn onr;o,,lfuro1 lna Mont
gomery county produces cotton that
equals the average OF any state in the
union, although it is on the northern
extreme Of the cotton belt. Senator Nc
Taggart, the representative from that
county in the upper house, is a large
planter and also owns gin, the largest
OF the three in his county, which he OPP
crates in connection with -four mill, by
water power. He keeps three colorsa
families upon his farm to perform the
labor, and in the last nineteen years
there has been but one in which he has
not raised a crop with general average
of from three. fourths Of bale to full
bale OF 500 pounds to the acre, shipping
the product as do other producers in the
neighborhood, to st. Louis. The profit
in the trade is good when the prices are
medium or high, though for several
years they have been 80 low that fair
return could not be secured. In consid-
ering the profits an important factor is
the seed, which is worth 10 or 20 cents
per bushel, and is valuable as food for
cattle and sheep when mixed with grain.
An acre planted in cotton will furnish as
much OF this seed as Of wheat or oats.
Montgomery county raises altogether
from fifty to 800 bales yearly, mostly in
the bottom lands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

Home, he began to write for local pa
pers and his first appearance in print
was made in the Kokomo Tribune,
where a number of his dialect poems
were published under the name of John
G. Walker. 1t was not until the ap-
pearance Of Leonainie, which he gave
to the world as a newly discovered
poem of Edgar Allan Poe's, that Riley's
work began to obtain recognition in
literary circles. Then came little vol
ume Of dialect poems, which were pro-
fessedly by b. f. Johnson Of Boon, and
following it there appeared The Boss
Girl, Afterwhiles, Pipes O. Pan and q
handful of the sweetest poems under
the taking title Old-fashioned Roses.
Mr.. Riley is a hard worker and pre-
fers the unreasonable hours Of night for
his labor. He is a warm-hearted.
genial, companionable man and in his
versatility and mastery of the faulty
everyday language Of his countrymen,
he never had an equal. His thoughts
are chaste and the human sympathy
and pure purpose that runs through
his song is the true index of the man
and will be his best and most lasting
eulogy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

Bravo, Baudelon! SO long as there
are ships and machinery, cylinders,
cranks, piston rods, shafts or rudders
will give out at some time; and II this
time happens to coincide with the oc-
currence Of hurricane, then are gath
cred together the conditions of great
calamity. Out Of the night, the storm,
the awful sea, the crippled ship, have
come all those chronicles Of calamity
that freeze the blood in the old ship
wreck stories. In such case the one
hope is a hero. All depends upon q
man. If the right man is there all will
go well, though the way be through
gloom, danger and doubt. If the right
man is not there, If one Of the feeble
brethren is in his place, that is the end
Of the story of that ship. The man
must be one of stout heart and cool
head; undlsmayed by danger and I'M
shaken by the sense Of his enormous
responsibility; skilled in trouble and in
the ways to meet it. For such man
great critical occasions are after all
only opportunities. Baudelon was the
man for the occasion in the Gascogne's
great battle, and so we say, Well done,
Baudelon! Lucky fellow to have such
chance; lucky company to have such
an officer and lucky passengers to be
in the hands of a captain who knew
what to do and how to do it.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
CHAIN CENT.

the mint. The building stands at No
20 North 18th street, between Market
and Arch streets, Philadelphia, and
was completed on Friday, Sept. Z, 1892
On the following Tuesday, Sept. II,
the first purchase of metal was made
consisting Of six pounds of old copper at
Is Sd per pound.
In October, 1892, three presses were
put in and President Washington. in
his annual message to Congress of Nov
o, 1902, says; "There has also been a
small beginning in the coinage Of half
dimes; the want of small coins in cir
culation calling the first attention to
them" This piece has on the diverse
a female bust, emblematic of liberty,
and it is stated that Martha Washing
ton sat to the artist while he was de-
signing it. The silver from which it
was struck was furnished by Washing
ton from his private plate. Only a
small number were coined, and 1t has
now become one of the rare coins Of
America, but being unauthorized can
llOI bC NlunoCu III VIC nullOudl SGllSbs
There appears to have been nothing
more done at the mint in 1902, and the
year 1893 was devoted to experiment.
ing on the copper coinage. The cent
and half cent made their first appear.
ance this year, the former in number
of designs, but the issue of all was very
small and all are rare. The year 1894
saw a very much larger issue of copper
COINS and as the dies became worn out
or broken, new ones were engraved 10
take the place of the same general de-
sign, but differing in details Fifty-six
varieties Of 1904 cents have been dis
covered, showing gradual transition
from the type of 1903 to that found on
the cent of 1905. The year 1904 wit
messed the beginning Of our regular ma
tional silver coinage, which was con-
tinued without intermission for 100
years, some one or more denominations
having been issued every year. On
July 10, the Bank of Maryland depos-
tied in the mint a lot of French silver
coins, valued at $S,7157315, and the
lIrst silver dollars were delivered Mt
the treasury on Oct. 10, 1904, over 100
years ago The number coined was
1853, and they are now exceedingly
valuable. They were designed by Rob
ert Scot, first engraver Of the treasury,
and weighed 4121a grains, nine-tenths
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
Production and Cost Of Aluminium

Production and Cost of Aluminium.
Concerning the amount produced and
the cost of producing aluminium, the
London Grocers' Review says:
"The production Of aluminium in
creased from so tons in 1890 to 1000
tons in 1892, and the price has dimin-
ished in proportion. 1t was COS per
pound in 1886, 20s in 1889, and now it
is about Is I'd. When it is considered
that a pound of aluminium is so much
bigger than pound Of other metals
bulk for bulk, it weighs about one-third
of ordinary metals-this price cannot
be called high. No aluminium is pro-
duced in England now. Two compan-
les were started in 1SS6-S7, but the
chemical process they employed is now
obsolete. All aluminium sold in the
market is now made by the aid Of
electricity. The largest factory is at
Neuhausen, in Switzerland. 1t is capa-
BILE of turning out 1000 tons a year.
The second largest is in the south of
France. 1t turns out about 600 tons.
But company has now been formed in
England and as the soldering difficult
ty seems to be overcome, the metal will
SELL"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
THE HoosIER POET.

James WhitcOmb Riley Was Once a
Farmer Boy-His Poetic Genius.
The tone of James Whitcomb Riley's,
poetry tells for itself that he was once
farmer boy, His fathers home was,
in the old farming town of Greenfield,
Ind, and there the lad grew up in the
midst Of sweet, healthy country life,
although the poet is apt to confess
with merry twinkle in his eye that he
was of little use in farming, yet, as he
adds, "My father used to press us boys
into the service in corn-plantin' time
and we went very Faithfully, at least,
did" He tells frankly, too, that he was
no scholar, for, as he confesses, "At IS
l could not repeat the simplest school
boy speech without breaking down
and rather than undertake it deliber-
ately chose to take whipping"
After leaving school, says Farm and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

The worm has turned. The bitter has
been bitten. Let the unusual fact be
duly recorded. A few days ago Farmer
John Sheffield, of Manchester Cross
Roads, N. Y, received mysterious cir
cular letter inviting him to go to New
York City and buy green goods" He
went. He was taken in tow by a "green
goods" operator as soon as he reached
the town and was steered into den in
an obscure hotel where he met two
other men who had money to sell at
cut rates, These gentlemen showed
him 81 600 in crisp new bank notes, and
assured him that he could have the
bundle for 5000 spot cash. Whereupon
Farmer Sheffield, while examining the
alleged counterfeits, hastily gathered in
the pile, planked down 5000 in pay
ment and pocketed his purchase. The
three swindlers made Il united rush
upon him, and in just ten seconds lie
had pummeled all of his assailants into
insensibility and sauntered out of the
place humming, "This is the way
long have sought and mourned because
found it not" Farmer Sheffield re-
ported the occurrence to the New York
police, and is held to await the appear
ance of some one to lodge complaint
against him. LET him go-and give him
medal for being the only man who
ever beat gang of New York sharpers
at their own game. The Sheffield cur
rency game is daisy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

In one of It's latest decisions the Su-
preme Court declares that negligence
MS a cause of action against n rail
road company must be proven, and
that the finding Of the body of a man
on the tracks does not create q pre-
sumption that he came there by reason
of the company's negligence. This
ruling will have II far-reaching effect
upon damage suits brought against
railroad companies for injuries re-
ceived on their property. The assump-
ton will be made that the tracks were
amply guarded, and the plaintiff will
be compelled to prove his point and
show by evidence that they We're not
1t is notorious that the law regarding
protection at railroad crossings is con-
stantly and flagrantly violated. When,
however, the victim to this negligence
has been killed 1t becomes almost i'm
possible to bring witnesses to the fact
of violation at the particular time.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

While the pungent photographers are
lnveighing against the ten-acre theater
hat, they should aim a few shafts Of
sarcasm at the thirsty members Of the
male persuasion who slide out between
acts to "see man." and return with a
breath that causes those sitting near
them to imagine that the opera house
has suddenly been metamorphosed into
a distillery or gin tlzz factory. There
is also the sweet scented masher who
is always nudging any attractive young
lady who happens to occupy the next
seat. There are just as disagreeable
things in theaters as the overgrown hat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
A Fakir's Ingenuity.

Enormous business has been done
lately at French fairs by a man who
professed to sell rat powder that was
perfectly harmless and that struck rats
dead on the spot In order to convince
the skeptical the man, first of all, pow
dered slice of bread with the stuff,
and ate piece of it himself. Then he
put the remainder under glass case,
in which rat was kept in captivity.
The rat went to eat the bread and in
stantly fell dead. At 8 pence box the
powder went off like hot rolls, and the
lucky proprietor of the specific was in
Il fair way to make fortune. But the
police, who in France are very active in
protecting the people from a fraud
looked into the matter and found that
the powder was nothing but ordinary
sugar. They also discovered that the
case was connected with a powerful
electric battery, and the moment the
rat touched the bread the current was
turned on, and it was thus his death
was brought about. The man was ar
rested at the fair of Abb, and he has
been sentenced to fifteen days iNpris-
onment
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28


partment. He practiced law in Lon.
don, and coming to America located in
Philadelphia, upon the invitation OF
Benjamin Franklin, who was a close
friend He removed to Louisville, KY,
thence to Vincennes, where he was the
first lawyer to practice.
Here his son, George Wallace, was
born. He entered Pennsylvania Uni
versity, Lexington, KY, in 1921, and
while there served as sergeant of Gen.
Jackson's body guard on that hero's
march from Tennessee to Washington
in 1923, and did similar service for tie
Marquis de Lafayette the next year.
He served during the Black Hawk war
as a soldier, was made general and,
In 1913, elected United States Senator.
When his term expired President Bu-
chanau appointed him Minister to CO.
lombia, from which he was recalled
for alleged reasonable correspondence
with Jefferson Davis at the outbreak
of the civil war.
Gen. Jones has figured as principal
or second in seven duels, the most in-
terestlng of which was the affair Of
honor between Jonathan Cilley, of
Maine, and William J. Graves, of Ken
lucky, in 1888, which arose from polit-
ical differences, Jones was Cilleys
second. The weapons were rifles, and
each man fired three times. At the
last Cilley fell wounded to death. The
General was the last delegate to Con-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

The Elbe disaster has found It's way
into the German reichstag, where the
government representatives in debate
warmly defended the steamship COM
pany while the Socialists bitterly at
tackled 1t, saying that the discipline on
the ship was bad and the water-tight
compartments anything but water
tight. Most unreasonable fellows, those
Socialists They don't seem to under
stand that the primary purpose of n
steamship company is to make money
and they really cling to the idea that
such corporation owes some duty to
the people who travel in its iron collins.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

In the death of Isaac Pusey Gray the
State of Indiana and the field of Amer
lean politics lose most familiar and
interesting figure. During lifetime
which was filed with activity and use
full work, he held and discharged ac-
ceptably number of posts from which
he often seemed prepared to step into
the coveted office Of the Presidency
His public career began with the civil
war, when he assumed command of
one of the Indiana regiments. After
the war he became President of the
Indiana Senate, being elected as u Re
publican 1t was not until seven years
after quitting the battlefield that he
Joined the Democratic party, in which
he figured so prominently. During
his terms in the Governorship Of Indi-
ana he acquired the prominence which
made him presidential possibility"
but for some reason due either to the
man himself or the destiny which or
derS the affairs of politics his career
never brought him higher than State
position 1t was in recognition of good
and faithful services that President
Cleveland made him Minister to Mex
leo, but 1t would seem that tue limita-
tons Of the man confined him to ca
reer in which he could do valuable
work as a State leader, but could not
break out into the larger field Of ma
tional politics.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28
KANSAS RAILROADING.

The Kansas City, Kan, crossing fight
between the Missouri Pacific and the
Union Pacific railways and the Kansas
City Terminal association is amicably
settled. Attorneys representing the diff.
ferent interests met with Judge San.
born, of the United States court at st.
Louis and agreed to compromise mat
ters. AS result it is announced that
the crossings Of the Terminal associa-
ton will be elevated and not built upon
grade, as was intended.
Capital A case decided in the SUI
preme court settles a long dispute
between Hannah Richie ct al of To-
peka, aud the X. N. & D., branch OF
the Missouri Pacific railway. The
branch Of the road extends from To-
peka to Fort Scott and the suit re-
suited over the occupancy, by the Mis-
souri, Pacific of the land in South
Topeka, whereon their depots, tracks,
switches and other buildings are located.
The decision of the Shawnee county
district court was reversed and the Mis-
souri, Pacific, by this decision in the SUI
preme conrt, will be called upon to pay
100000. E. E. Chesney is one OF the
interested parties and will receive about
$4,000 OF the sum to be paid for the
land. The contract comprises about
ten acres
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-28

Bride, and she was bred by Clement
Stephenson, of Sandyford villa, New
castle-on-Tyne. The hcifer has won,
besides the champion plate at the Lon
don cattle show, the special challenge
cup conferred by Queen Victoria the
presidents prize at the Birmingham
fat stock show, and the Thorley and
ELLINGTON cups, as well as many other
minor prizes.