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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-18

paPsE s II has alreSdy served my eppr+
poee. have received afplt cafa b rs
from sYfticIe MT nplntser NJ
10 superiuteud the cultIyaty lon lot rs5y
whole county if 'plan nted IA ftclr &
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
He Ate Cabbage and Lived.

Wonderful are tho whims Of the hu-
man stomach. What kills one man gives
another life. Orc Of the s;rangcst cases
Of q craving fer food ON the part Of n
sick man is narrated by Mrs. Hazen in
Our Army Nurses" She was mt the
time Us64) nurse i'm the Columbian
hospital mt Washington. Among her pa.
tients was n "boy"-though nc was n
veteran Of four years stapding-who
had come TO the hospital several months
before with q wounded knee. This ID
her strange story:
The surgeons had held many exnmi.
nations. He was failing rapidly; could
not retain anything. even cold water
causing hcmorrhagc OF the stomach.
"What is the verdict, doctor:" asked
one morning.
HE can live but q few days ut the
longest, was the answer, ''and may
die in few hours
'Thcn, doctor. please let him have
what he wants while he does live"
81 give him into your hands, Miss
Titus. DO what you please for him"
The bandsges were mt once removed,
rs he had complained that they were
uncomfortable. Thon, ms soon ms the
other patients were cared. for went q
q market garden and bought n head Of
cabbage. He had often said he wanted
something green, If only 'boiled grass. 81
When the cabbage was cooked. carried
him some. with cider vinegar. and fed
him.
He ate all there was on the plate,
asked for more, which WIS brought,
and still third and fourth plate. till
he had eaten the whole cabbage.
From that dinner, i'm May, Inc began
to improve, and on the l4th Of Juno
started with him on strefchcr for hi.
home in Pennsylvania, rs his life ever
then depended upon his diet. and suct
meals rs he ate would have made q vel
man sick.
He recovered, but had o stiff knee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

IN DANGER FROM uNoeRrow
Aov . Qaiek wIssea Bo.sessss Saved
Three llv~a.

Aov . Qaiek wifse1 Bossessss Saved
Three lIvcs.
Here IL q story which 10 too much 60
the credit Of two ladies and n gentle.
man 20 be wholly suppressed. They are
all strong swimmers and can battle
with the waves in valiant fashion.
They charccd 60 be in the eco nj one
time and or shore where the under
tow IL irresistible o short distance oct.
The man suddenly felt himself In that
strong. terrible. outward pull 81 the wa.
tiers of the mighty deep. lie understood
Immediately that he and his cotnpau-
ions would shortly be no rcc-c unicss
By tremendous. Instant. individual exer.
tion they pulled for the shore. In that
treachcrous cnrrent net one could help
another. How to get 'fbese girls
ashore without terrifying them and put
ting them In still greater danger
through their fears was the problem IT
that terrible moment.
The man solved IL like a hero. Tie
made . sign. q sound IL personal dis
tress and began swimming inshore.
HIS companions in the waves heard and
saw his white face. Both believed, as
he meant them TO. that he was threat.
ened with cramps and swan ipshoro.
too, calling out cheerful. encouraging
words TO him a. they pulled for the
shore, assuring him that he would soon
be all right: that they could set him in
safely IL nc really should give oct. and
other words 90 that effect. II was not
long before this man Of mortal courage
stood upon tho beach in safety, and
those he had thus rescued from death
stood On either side Of hin and heard
what il would have meant for them all
to have spent another moment in tina,
outrushing tide.
1t was noncomta;ant in the strife
for life who remarked: "That follow
was n great philosopher. He know how
to appeal to the new woman WHOM swim.
ming her strongest against the old or.
der Of things lie only offered his plea
TO tho eternal womanly.' TO woman's
maternal need Of taking care Of the sick
or the helpless. Those girls will prob.
ably always think il was their own phys.
ical strength and powers that rescued
them from death by drowning. hut il
was really the eternal womanly. bent
upon helping one they believed i'm dan.
ger and need. Boston Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03


Ei;is of the Rock Island Lui1bec Co
aryregating S5i.02, and IA. ID. Blakc-
more, sf33.i0. were allowed AMI aided
d, Tie OIL finance previous II passage
md other bills referred.
Alderman Winter, from the Ordi-
nance Committee, presented the draft
If an ordinance granting the Rock ISL
md & Peoria Railway Co. right of way
for track across Tenth street into
OF 6. block /. leased by +. u. MekowB.
Alderman Fender moved immediate
consideration. which was ordered. Il
20 1 (Maucker). The ordinance teen
passed by vote of IL TO on motion
If Alderman Kennedy.
alderman Schreiner offered rcso
luton calling for n meeting of the
torn drain contractors with the sew
CT committee and engineers on Wed
lesday next at p. m. Adopted.
Alderman Fender, from the Water
works Committee. submitted a report
recommending acceptance of The bid
of the Sterling Co. for boiler fol
he waterworks. Report adopted b.
unanimous vote.
alderman Foss moved that tho
iayor and City Clerk he authorized &
inter- into contract with the Sterling
Go. Carried.
Adjourned till next Monday NIGH
m motion of Alderman Gall.
\. ID. Hucsing. City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
Your Toy Won't Live . Mo.sh.

So Mr.. Gilman Brown, OF "a Mil
street, South Gardner. Mass, was
told by the doctors. His son had
lung trouble. following typhoid ma
laria, and he spent e375 with doc
tors, who finally gave him up. say
ing: .'Your boy won't live q
month" He tried DR.. Kings New
Discovery and few bottles restored
him to health and enabled him to 90
to work q perfectly well man. He
says he owes his present good health
to the use Of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery, and knows il to be the best
in the world for lung trouble. Trial
bottles free at Hartz & Ullemeyer's
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

man to heap up riches if in doing so he
ruins his health and his capacity for the
enjoyment of wealth. There is no such
thing as happiness without health. All
the gold in the world will not make a
man happy, who feels in his veins and
sees in the reflection of his own face. the
slow but sure advance of mans deadliest
enemy, consumption.
If a man will but take the right care of
himself and the right remedy he NAV
protect himself against this relentless
enemy. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
discovery is not only a sure preventive.
but an absolute cure for CONSUMPTION. II
cures oS per cent. of all cases. It acts
through the blood, directly on the lungs.
1t drives out all disease germs and i'm
purities. 1t is the great blood-maker
and flesh-builder All wasting diseases
yield promptly to its action. Thousands
have testified to its merits. Druggists
sell it.
II want TO express my heartfelt thanks for DR..
Pierces valuable medicine" writes Mrs Rufus
Bell, of Wise. Monongalia Co, w. Va. MY eldest
daughter, girl OF IS, caught cold and we had
the best doctors but could get no lasting relief
Oh how she suffered Often have heard her
pray for death to end her sufferings 1 bought
one bottle of each of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, Favorite Prescription and Pleasant
Pellets Before our daughter used half the med.
icine her cough was all gone and she was on the
high road to health-which means to happiness"
Rosy cheeks. The rich, pure, red blood
of health makes them. Keep the blood
pure and you will have them. Constipa.
ton causes impure blood. DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets cure it promptly and per-
rnanently and never gripe. They are
purely vegetable and perfectly harmless.
No other pill acts so naturally and per.
fectly. Druggists sell them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
No fiunbng.

F"ley's Honey and Tar does not
Claim to perform miracles. It does
rot claim to cure all cases OF con-
sumption or asthma. But it does
claim to give comfort and relief in
advanced stages Of these diseases and
to usually cure early stages. II is
certainly worth trying by those AZ
hicted or threatened with these
dread diseases. Sold by NJ. Z Balm
sen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
Ensli.h Versus German Cniycr.Itics-

II tho tree is to be judged by its
fruits, we shall find il difficult 90 dis
pute the proposition that university
education, at all events in 80 far ss IL
bears upon the physical sciences is
somehow more satisfactorily managed
in Germany than in England. The the
oretical and technical output Of Ger
many is far larger. more regular snd
Of better quality for practical purposes
than our own. the proof being that Ger.
many is rapidly monopolizing the high.
Or and more lucrative branches Of man.
ufscture, and in addition IL exporting
large numbers Of technical experta-
London Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
Tolssoi Answers Ques.ious.

An admirer Of the great Russian re.
Gently wrote to him asking o reply to
these questions:
First.-Ought man of medium in.
telligence TO express publicly and prop.
agate the principles Of life which he
considers to be truths?
Seconds it worth while TO try tc
know ones self perfectly?
Thirdly what principles can g
man know at a decisive moment wheth.
er it is really his conscience which
prompts him or whether il il only his
reasonings corrupted by natural weak.
ness?
To the first two Tolstoi said "Yes -
To the third he replied that treason is
given TO us by God, and therefore i;
must be listened to where conscience
has to decide New York World.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Omeiai Proeesaings VI Last Nishi's Ceu
eta AOettaG.

CITY Council Room Rock Island, Nov
City Council met in regular
sen,i-monthly session at p. m, Mayor
Knox presiding and all the aldermen
present except Tindall.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
On motion of Alderman Kennedy the
rules were SUSPENDED to at, on the
pay roll.
Alderman =. IS, from the Finance
Committ,c, reported IN o;1iuance
which was passed by unanimous vote
bills out of the various funds
as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

cd 2Oyears. MANY
doctors trcate1
me, but none wer,
able to give relic.
A boxeach of Wild
Olive and Myrtl,
Tonic have Curet
me. Four week:
ago Icould not dc
my own work
now / have nc
symptoms at all
MRS. THERESA
THOMAS, Paint
ersvillc. o. Thi:
lady is prominen
in her county. Al
know her and re
joice in her recov
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

''Mystic Cure for rheumatism
and neuralgia cures in I TO 3 days.
Its action upon the system is re-
variable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves At once the cause, a1d Il Q
disease Immediately disappears. Tie
hret dose greatly relieves. IS cents.
Sold BY Otto Grotjap. druggist. Rock
Islsnd. and Gust Schlsgel & Son. 720
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
rs.I.pd,.dy. ops.,s..

Old Boarder-I understand, madam.
that Our new associate at the festal
board is q graduate Of Elton.
Landlady-Don't yen believe iti
He'll never graduate from cstin as long
ms there's anything 10 css.-Bostoa
Courier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

that cured her arc tot ally different from Others
on the market. Wild Olive is q local applica-
uo1i-harmless. yet quick and certain to re-
1ievc all infiammat tons Disbursements dis
charges and irregularities. Myrtle Tonic
builds us the system-Takes the cure pcrma a
ucnt. reliable scientific. cOmmon-sensc and
economical plan of home treatment. Rene
dies 81. each. Mild cases need Wild Olive
only. Samples and an instructive treatise
free. VICTOR MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
South Bend, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
A WOman'S Happiness,
twenty years - hopeless invalid.
Becomes in 4 month, well
and strong.

The number of1adics who are wholly or il
part, invalids. Is marvellous. Complaint
secular to the sex undermine the hcaItl
itickly. They are too seldom cured Yet ;
urc is not difficult with the proper remedies
This lady tells the secret. Il have been affiict
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

too well known ~ those who have ruf-
fcred. M, sc viii impress upon every
one that these a-e the ncvcT-sailing
symptoms of serious womb troable.
and Enlcas relieved 3; o:scc. lsfe will
be forfeited.
Lydia l.. rin,.l.s;;,'s Vegetable Com
pound never iailatr rclicyc 49, dia;ress-
ing irot,i'ies above r,fc-rsl -; IL has
held tie faith of the women of AmcT1ca
Tor twenty years
IL gives :nrc 60 Tho 'yoaia, strength
ems t;c muscles. PARISHES hacleache
and rclic-cs al pairs iaeiden. 70
Women discai -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's All druggists refund the money
II IL fails 70 cure. - cents-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
Men and w

"CA anu ~"
m en- dig a ID
ldelve their lives
away in order to
pile up gold with
never a thought
of the most pre-
cious endowment
a human being
may have, good
h ealth. What
does it profit a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-11-03
CATARRH

IL . local ,,,ee -, enc
IL the result 81 cod
and sudden climatic
cnsrcee.
II can be c rtd by Q
pleasant rrsnedy which
~ applied dirccus iato
tbs nostrtls BENZ
quickly nb~o nd u
givoo relief II once.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10
a Rad Old Hnmhug.

The Denver Republican calls for
more money as the cure all for the
people's woes. "They must" it says
ego back to the good old American
policy of bimetallism. under which the
country enjoyed such extraordinary
prosperity from 1892 until the COM
plete demonstration Of silver" Oh,
those good old days." when less than
1000, 900 silver dollars were coined in
the 81 years from 1892 to 1S73-less
than in the first six months of the
present year-and when no man ever
saw silver dollar, except as a curl
osity! Never once in all this time did
the country have as much money per
capita as it now has. Never once, ex-
cept during the war, were wages sc
high and prices so satisfactory as in
the Il years following the resumption
of specie gold payments in 1878. The
talk Of good old times is simply bad
old huM'bug.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10
Ex- President Harrison ON the Powers
Of Government.


I will tell you what this govern
ment can do alone It can fix it's mon
ey unit. It can declare by law what
shall be the relative value of an ounce
of gold and an ounce of silver, but it
cannot make that last declaration
good. It is unquestionably fully with
in the power of this government to
bring this country to a silver basis
by coming silver dollars and making
them legal tender. They can do that.
This government can say you shall
take one of those dollars in discharge
of any debt owing to you for 81, not
Withstanding you may have loaned
gold dollars; but it cannot say, and
enforce its decree, if you should call
out the regular army and navy and
muster all our great modern ships and
add the militia, and put William J..
Bryan in command of them-it cannot
enforce the decree that 1 ounce of gold
is the equivalent Of 16 ounces of sill
yer. Not only that, not France and
England and Germany can do that I'M
less the markets respond. Why? You
may make me take a silver dollar for
debt but if have bought my goods
at gold prices you cannot make me
give as many yards of cloth for sill
yer dollar as I have been in the habit
of giving for gold one.
If 1 have a gold dollar in this hand
and silver one in that, and you de-
clare they are equal and | can take
that gold dollar to a bullion broker
and get So for it, know it is a lie.
If | have nothing but a gold dollar,
and sugar is 20 pounds for 81, 1 will
not give that gold dollar for 20 pounds
Of sugar. / will take it around to a
broker and get two silver dollars for
it and get the 20 pounds of sugar and
have one silver dollar left So it is,
my friends. We can of ourselves, of
our own wisdom, declare the unit of
value. We can coin silver freely, but
we cannot make 16 ounces of silver
equal to 1 ounce of gold unless it is.
And it is not unless the merchants
take it at that rate. That is where
all this thing comes in. 1t is trade, it
is the merchant, it is the man who ex-
changes and deals in these things that
fixes the relative value, and if you do
not take the value he fixes the gold
dollar will go back to the gold vault,
and the gold will 80 out of circulation.
-Ex-President Harrison in his New
York Speech.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10

Well, here I am, Maria! I'm back
again, yer see
That is, ez fur as thet's concerned,
I'm back, what's left of me.
The more I learn and more I see since
all this talk began
Makes me the more inclined to be a
Bryan silver man.
You know he SEE in that thar speech
I read to you last night
That produce hain't gone down bit,
but COLDS up outer sight
WE'LL when got to Louisville, at hall
past five o'clock.
There want another man had squash
but me on Pierce's dock.
started In a-selling mine, ten cents
apiece, I swar,
And at that price I'd say that gold
stood just about to par.
Bout six O'Clock three other teams
came on the dock, by gosh.
And every gol darned one of 'em was
full of summer squash!
Well, thes and there gold started Up.
and she began to RISE
Five cents apiece for summer sQuash9
I jumps right up and cries
BY thunder, didn't gold go up as quick
and slick as grease,
For them there fellers offered theaun at
just cent apiece.
But still gold kept a-going up-+a~azfttng
up she went,
Till I sold out what I had left. two
squashes, for a cent.
You know darned we'll that squashes
amt apt to fluctuate,
So Bryan's got the thing dead right
it's gold as sure as fate.
It stands to reason he is right when
he SEE it's because
There's something out of killer with
them thar silver laws.
So, darn the stuff, I'd full as Heve nave
old Bill Ketchum's note.
And when election comes around Blu
BRYAN gets my vote. II. II.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10

WILLIS &. SILVERTHORN, OF Wausau,
was nominated for governor by the
democratic state convention Wednes-
day night. Mr.. SilVerthorn is a lawyer,
and has resided in Wausau for thirty
years. He was born in Canada in 1888
and came to Jefferson county when a
boy. He has been district attorney of
Marathon county and twice a member
of the assembly in 1868 and 1874. He
was a candidate for congress on the
democratic ticket in 1882, but he was
defeated. The nomination of Mr. Sill
Verthorn is one of the results of the
fusion agreed to by the democrats,
pOpulists and silver party, by which the
officers are to be divided as follows:
To the democrats: governor, attorney
general, state treasurer, perintendent
of public instruction. railroad commits
sioner. To the populists: secretary of
state, insurance commissioner, three
presidential electors. To the silver
party: lieutenant governor. By this
action it appears that the republicans
must beat the whole outfit in order to
win, and we believe they can do it and
have votes to spare. We now know
who and what we have to fight. 1t is
the grand old republican ticket against
the field. and from now until election
day let every republican doff his coat
and go to work for victory.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10
GODS
SarsapariIIa
Is the best in fact the One True Blood Purifier
=, D., are the best after-dinner
Hoods Pills pills, aid digestion 25c
webster on Money and Wage Farmers.

Webster on Money and Wage Farmers.
The very man, of all others, who
has the deepest interest in a sound cur
rency and who suffers most by mis-
chieyous legislation in money matters
is the man who earns his daily bread
by his daily toll His prop
ertv is in his hands. His reliance, his
fund, his productive freehold, his all,
is his labor. Whether he work on his
own small capital or another's, his liv-
ing is still earned by his industry, and
when the money of the country be-
comes deprecated and debased, wheth-
err it be adulterated coin or paper
without credit, that industry is robbed
of it's reward. He then labors for
country whose laws cheat him out OF
his bread. I would say to every owner
of every quarter section Of land in the
west. would say to every man IN the
east who follows his own pillow, and
to every mechanic, artisan and laDorer
of every city in the country would
saw to every man, everywhere, who
wishes by honest means to gain an
honest living, beware of wolves IN
sleeps clothing" Whoever attempts,
under whatever popular cry, to shake
the stability of the public currency
= stabs your interests and your
happiness to the heart.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10

THE study of the silver states should
be full of instruction. At Wallace,
Idaho, a banker who pays the pay
checks of the silver miners finds that
every miner who applies for the cash is
willing to take all but about 500 of his
monthly pay in any kind of money, but
the last $40 he insists shall be in gold.
When this is paid to him the miner
keeps and boards this $40 per month
for the good reason that he does not
pay it out to any business men and it
never gets back either to the post Office
or to the bank A dealer there re-
ports that he has been selling from
three to seven dozen coin sacks pei
month and his stock has become ex-
hausted. There could be no better
proof of the fact that the miner is bit
smarter than his boss, knows that free
silver means that gold will be worth So
for ST., aud the miner, hearing only one
side of the silver question, naturally
thinks that free silver may win. He is
therefore hedging against the future
and does not intend that he shall be
without profit if America allows Mexico
to dictate to her what kind of money
she shall use.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-09-10
"Frss Coinage Problem"


"The Free Coinage Problem" is ths
title Of a penny magazine or pamphlet
by Lewis N. Lembitz Of Louisville
KY. It contains one Of the fairest ant
best discussions of the money Ques-
ton to be had at any price. It con
tains in very brief space and in SIM
pie language as much Of the early his
tory of money, especially in this coun-
try. as is necessary to understand the
present situation. It discusses In
logical. unbiased and impartial man
ner the probable effects Of the proposed
free coinage legislation upon all class
es and especially upon farmers and
wage-earners. It presents q vivid pic
ture of the present hard lot Of many
farmers and shows what kind Of mon
ey will be for their best interests.
This little 4S-page magazine contains
more of monetary history and facts
and more of sound argument than
many books which cost 100 times it's
price. 1t makes it possible for any
intelligent laborer or farmer who can
spare one cent to become well informed
on the money question before he casts
his vote. Ten OF fifteen copies can be
ordered at once for ten or fifteen per-
sons. Otherwise it will cost two cents
to send one cent. Address Present
Problems Publishing Co., 50 Park
Place. New York City.