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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-14
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-14
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-14
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-14

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-14

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THE DrSGRUNr1ND PopUh1srs.

Watson's letter has either not been sent or it has not been received. or if it has been both sent and received it has not been published. Meanwhile there are some occurrences which are not calculated to give the Bryan mana gers confidence in their scheme to hum- bug all the Populists. For instance. the resignation of Populist Elector w. H. Felton of Georgia, Watson's State. MT. H'elton has not only declined to be any longer candidate for Populist elector, but he will vote for Mckinley. His action has made a great stir and it is taken as indicating that there is beginning to be a general defection to Mckinley from the Populist ranks in Georgia and adjoining States. MT. Felton probably speaks for many other Populists when he says that he feels indignant at the treatment of the Hon. Thomas F. Watson by Candidate Bry-
 
 Bryan responsible for the insult pass ed upon southern Populists when his chairman, Jones. remarked us back to the negroes where he. said we "be- longed." It was a gratultous insult to a million of southern men, who of fered to vote for Bryan upon condition that MT. Sewall was withdrawn and MT. Watson be made the regular nom- inee. The insult was so gross and un- called for that Candidate Bryan would have been justified in displacing his man Jones as the smallest reparation that he could offer
 Many Populists believe that Populism was sold out at St Louis. Whether it was or not the weakness of the attempt to run candidate for president with two candidates for vice president is certainly manifesting itself.
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manager, "but we are not afraid of them. We know how to handle the niggers. For example, let me tell you that I have four colored men working on my farm, and bet you a suit of clothes that not one of them gets to the polls on election day. l will see that they all have important work to do for me in the other direction, miles away from the polling place"
 Yes, coercion of voters is wicked thing,
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IN ENGLISH HOP YARDS.
Scenes at the rlme of the Harvest D

Scenes at the Time of the Harvest De-
 scribed by an American Visitor.
 If a visitor to England should ask a Londoner who knows his island what is
 q good thing to do to make acquain-
 tance with rural England, it is almost
 certain that run down into Kent at
 hop picking time would be one of the
 several admirable recommendations. My own experience teaches me that
 there is scarcely any object lesson more interesting or more instructive in the sociological survey of our ancestral country. AS you rush down into the emerald and purple and brown and yell low of this justly styled Garden of England" you whirl by innumerable round, CT square, buildings with high conical tile roofs, capped with a sort of elongated cowl, flattened on the open side, from which projects an arm to catch the wind and keep the opening all ways in the right direction for the draught.
 | These curious, windowIess structures which you see on farm or in village or | in town inform you that you are in the | midst of the greatest of hop regions | for these are the cast t-houses, in which | hops are dried and compressed for the 1 market If you enter one of these oast- 1 houses you will find furnaces on the l first floor, in the mouths of which burn i small but intense coal fires, the heat 1 from which escapes through lateral | flues into the chamber, over which, at l the height of the floor above. are the | bins into which the fresh gathered hops l are tumbled from the great coarse
 sacks filled by the pickers in the field. l The bottom of the bin is a flooring of wide woven canvas stretched over the i rafters. For about six hours the flow
 CTS, being raked over occasionally, are
 subjected to this drying Then the bins
 are closed. cakes of sulphur are placed
 in the fires, and the oast-house is shut
 and abandoned. The fumes pass through the hops. killing insects and l giving to the flowers a fresh, clean, l golden tone, so necessary to their suc-
 cessful marketing. When the white | smoke of the sulphur has ceased to is ] sue from the hoods-which are at the | apex of the cone and directly over the
 bin, each bin having it's own separate | cone-the men return to the bins the hops are removed and mechanically
 compressed into long, stout bags, and
 are then ready for the next train to | their market
 Yesterday I spent at Mailing. an an-
 cient market town about thirty miles
 from London, which is in the midst of :. one of the most fertile and extensive 4 hop districts in the world, the soil being
 of the rich quality that produces the
 famous golding hop. I stood on an em- | thence and surveyed in every direction
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AROUI THE SIZE NF IT.

In expressing his regret that his en- gagements would not permit him to accept an invitation from the Wage Farmers Patriotic League of Maryland to deliver an address at Baltimore, Sec retary Carlisle said: If there is any la- boring man in the United States who really believes the money he receives for his toll is too good, that it will buy too much food and clothing for him. self and family, or pay rent for better house than he should have, then 1t is his duty to vote for free and unlimit- ed coinage at the ratio of 16 to l. If there is any laboring man who has saved money out of his earnings, and has deposited it in a savings bank or in a building and loan association or life insurance policy for the protection of his family, and he desires to have the proceeds of the investment return ed to him in dollars worth half as much as those which he paid, he also should vote for free coinage of silver at 16 to i.
 That's about the size of it.
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show in wide panel between the edges of the front of the bolero. The skirt of the stylish gown will be perfectly plain, very full at the back and will match girdle and bolero. She will wear her hat tipped slightly over her forehead, or if that is not becoming, she will let it be very small and right on the top of her head. Then it will be fitted down comfortably to sides and back by head hold and the rosettes, bows or rolls at the back of either side of the hair through which the hat pins are passed.
 As handsome in it's way as the cos- tune just described was the theater dress that the artist puts here. It was figured pale green silk, the bodice hav- ing fitted apple green taffeta lining and being draped with the same shade of chiffon, which was simply gathered at neck and waist. It was trimmed with a short jacket arrangement of rich cream guipure, leaving a square yoke free at the neck back and front. It had a series of slashes at the lower edge in front, but only one in the cen ter in back. Large bows of green satin ribbon forming a bow fastening with a silver buckle decorated the front with ends tucked into the belt The latter and the collar were green mirror velvet. The fitted lace sleeves had puffs of the skirt material. FLORBTTE.
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In June-Opposed to free coinage, and for an honest dollar. In September-In favor of free coin- age and the Chicago platform. What spectacle is this we see that
 staggers on unled? 'Tis a party, donkey-labelled with it's
 ears tied round it's head, Which shutters contradictions, and was
 made a "holy show By fakirs at New Haven, and by freaks
 at Buffalo. Twelve weeks are but little space
 when everything is told, And just that little time ago it's dollar
 mark was gold; But now, among the Gadarenes, it
 plunges in the sea, And mumbles rubbish of "the crime of
 '73." Its creed is but crazy quilt of Popu-
 list dissent; It's so-called moguls might have come
 from Falstaff's regiment; For all it's foremost leaders that of late
 we used to know Are either dead or missing (thank
 Heaven that this Is so.) Now why should any voter who heard
 the truth in June Give heed unto the falsehoods which
 make it's present tune? If twas wrong to cheat in Summer, or
 debase good coin at all What makes 1t any better to attempt it
 in the Fall2 Are principles but footballs, the prey
 of scurvy tricks, And Regular" when rascally, the cue
 in politics? Are fiesh-pots and their drippings the
 only end and aim That one who cares for country should
 hold up for our acclaim? If Marcy, Seymour, Tilden, and glori-
 ous Silas Wright Could gaze upon these claimants" in
 their vile and shameless plight, What looks of bathing horror from
 their high seats would ascend To see their ancient party-name such
 rottenness defend! But the third day of November is now
 within our sight, When the lightning Of the ballots this
 heresy will smite; Then gloom will strike their cohorts
 and all the world will know New Haven's leap to iuin and the
 fraud of Buffalo
 Joel Benton In Harper's Weekly.
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''The boy stood on the burning deck,
 Whence all but him had fled'
 And we can't tell to save our neck,
 Who wrote down all he said.
 l.. A, w. Bulletin. Social Tactics.--''W MT. Desmond, did you go to the dining room before greeting the hostess?" Yes; the host ess will keep, but the refreshments seemed to be getting away "-Chicago Record.
 City Young Man (watching the skirt dancers gyrations on the stage)- Graceful, isn't it, Aunt Emiline? Aunt Emiline (fresh from wayback)-Grace- full? Disgraceful, I should say.-Som- erville Journal
 How It Failed,-"And you four broth CTS were named Edmund. Edgar, Ed ward and Edwin, were you? What could have been your parents object In that?" "They wanted to keep us from ever being nicknamed." And did it have that effect?" Not exactly. We've always been called Chuck, Snor- key, Flipps and Pilgarlic "-Chicago Tribune.
 Magolong Mosey-"say, wot dye mean by keepin' us waitin' like this? Weary Works-Wot's eatin' youse? Did ye ever know me to hurry? wuz lookin' in an ash barrel for a shoe string. Mogalong Mosey--Oh. wuz dat it? Weary Works-Yes, dat's 1t. You didn't tink I wuz stoppin' ti insert gold clauses in me leases, did you?-- Washington Times
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MISTAKES OF MOTHERS.
They often Worry Over Trifles and
 Overlook Real Dangers.

They often Worry Over Trihes and
 Overlook Real Dangers.
 "A great many mothers are worried and anxious about the wrong things; they are annoyed by earth stains which a little patience and water will take away" writes Mary c. Stetson in the October Ladies' Home Companion. If Jennie or Tom comes in covered with mud, there is great outcry, when really that should not be unexpected event. I wouldn't give much for the energy of child who couldn't soil a dress: but-let me whisper it-what is a real cause for anxiety is 8 little deceit, a little lie, a little moral contamination of any kind. Mothers should rejoice that there Is time when all impurities are outward, and pray that they may never see a time when all their tears will fail to purify a soul
 Since girls, as a class, are not phys ically so strong as their brothers, they are shielded in childhood by greater care, and the habit grows. It has really come to be a tradition that girls should be taken care of, but boys can take care of themselves. The educated woman does not so much believe in traditions. She will study her children and their needs as though they were the first beautiful experiment on earth. She will
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23
COZ RCION.

Chairman Jones of the Popocratic committee is dreadfully troubled about coercion. So is a member of the Bryan campaign committee of Kentucky. He is so troubled about it that, like Chair man Jones, he feels moved to talk about it. "The only thing we are afraid of" said he the other day. 'tis the CO., ercion by employers. If they do not intimidate their men we shall have a big vote in Louisville. Intimidation of men who work for wages and corrup- tion of voters are the curses of this campaign, and the only things that can beat Bryan" How about the colored vote out in the State" he was asked. Are they yot all for McKinley?" "Yes, they are," replied the Bryan
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LOOK orr FOR LATE LIES

These are the last days of the cam paign, and, judging from what has all ready been done, we may expect some lively and picturesque lying from the managers of the Bryan business, It is quite probable that attempts will be made to influence the voters by stories which have no truth in them, like the recent story of a letter purporting to have been written by Major Mckinley six years ago, in which he denounced the giving of pensions to English and Irish "hirelings.'
 Look out for the late lies. Pay no at- tention to any startling story that may be put forth when it is too late to effec- lively contradict it. The sound money cause Is all right and the sound money candidates are all right Don't be in- fluenced by late lies.
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BECH USE,

Mrs. Grumpy-Why don't wives rise up and make their husbands stand around? Grumpy-Because men never propose to that kind of women.-De- troit Free Press.
 He (angrily)-Was there any fool sweet on you before I married you? She-Yes; one. Pm sorry you reject ed him. But I didn't reject him. I married him" ."-Yonkers Statesman.
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Advertising Rates.

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 Display Advertisements--Per inch, one in- sertion, l,20; each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; ono week, $520; one month, Slo; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, ill prose or verse, ll cents perline. Notices of births Marriages, Deaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, 15cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own 1mmeilte business (all matter to be unoo- jectiouable), and their contracts do not ln- clude Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Discounts-On two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches
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District Electors.

District Electors. 1st Dist. GARDNER HALL, JR., of Will- ington. 2nd Dist. GEORGE I. ALLEN, of Mid dletown. Sd Dist.-GEoRaE A. HAMMOND, of Put nam. 4th Dist.--J. DENYING PERKINS, of Litchfleld.
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FASHION NOTES.
A Trick With Bolero and f,ird,e.


 The woman whose desire for complete stylishness has already led her to &C., cept the tight sleeve, can go a bit fur ther by wearing very high glrdlc. fit- ting snugly and laid in folds to beneath the bust. The line of this will seem to be an unbroken round, but it must real- ly be shaped carefully to set off the curves of the figure A tiny bolero comes now, being cut at the back and sides just short of the girdle top. Bole- TO and girdle will match and between the two the under bodice will show in a contrasting line which by it's hand some curve will emphasize not only it. self but the tinier round of the waist. From under the arms the jacket will curve down in a. pair of handsome points, which will end we'll above the waist line, and the under bodice will
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Time is money. At the opening of the shoe and leather fair in London the principal speaker said that when he entered the business it took a matter of three years to prepare a hide into shape fit for shoemaking, while with the methods now in use it was possible for a bullock to be wearing the hide on his feet shoes made from that same hide on the following Tuesday.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CErY. o CENTS WEEK, bnCRNTs A MoNTR, g. FOR SIX MONTHS, $b A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BYMAn.
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Between wheat and politics the goo

Between wheat and politics the good people of Chicago seem to be getting dangerously excited. The report of the health department shows that deaths from apoplexy, heart disease and kin dred troubles of the nervous and circu- 1atory systems had increased 60 per cent. for the week ending Saturday last, compared with the week before.
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According to a report just issued in London by the English government concerning the little British colony at Alden, at the southern entrance of the Red sea. the United States has captur- ed the whole of the cotton goods trade of Arabia and northeast Africa, to the exclusion of Great Britain. Tn fact, American cotton goods have liter ally driven those of Lancashire and Bombay out of those markets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-23

A law passed last year by the Wis consin legislature permitted the killing of deer in November, instead of in Oc- tober, as under the law of 1893. The change was made because in the later month the does resort to open glades in the forest, and were slaughtered in large numbers, while in the former they hide themselves in impenetraole thick cts, and it was opposed because in the cooler weather of November pot-hunt- CTS could easily preserve and ship to market great quantities of venison. Now the new law has been declared invalid, and, as the decision came in id-October, the open season this year will be only fifteen days long. The Wisconsin papers rejoice at this, for it will give the deer a comparative rest from pursuit and a chance to multiply in peace.
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When the Union generals" reached South Bend, Mich, on their stumping tour there was an impressive incident. A man came forward to see General Sickles, who recognized him as the sol dier who carried him wounded from the field of Gettysburg thirty-three years ago and whom he had not seen since that eventful day. After the rally the veteran called Sickles to his carriage, and both became completely unnerved by the memories which the act aroused.
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pravity. When policeman finds d girl in the streets after 10 o'clock at night, he must take her to the nearest Justice of the Peace or clergyman, and If he does not find him in, to the house of some married person of good repute, and then find out who she is and why she is out. Another Is a bill against undesirable immigrants, designed to keep consumptives out of the colony The captain of ship landing a pas senger afflicted with lung disease is to be heavily fined. An additional fine is to be imposed if he allows sound pas senger to room with a sick one, and he is held responsible if lung disease de- velops in 8 passenger within three months after his landing.
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begin early. and not turn away her boy when the new baby comes. When she is able. she will leave the infant, whosewants are only physical and take her little boy up to bed, hear his little his sorrows and joys She will greatly desire that a feeling of dependence on her love and advice he kept alive, be- cause she knows that if she sends her boy away from her when he is little, he will be beyond her call when he is grown"
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Some queer measures, have been in troduced into the New Zealand legisla- ture by the party in power. One is bill for the suppression of juvenile de-
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Did you read that story about the House on the Bluff?'" asked the liter ary boarder.
 ''No," answered the Cheerful Idiot. What was it--a boarding house ?"--In- dianapolis Journal.
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A German newspaper aserts that about thirty thousand of the inhabit- ants of Berlin hear considerably better with their left ear than with their right. This has been observed in con- tinually increasing measure for fifteen years. When the cause was sought for, it appeared that those who are thus affected are frequent users of the telephone. The listening part of the instrument is generally held in the left hand and put to the left ear, while the right hand is often used in taking notes, etc. In the cases observed the subjects heard the slightest sound through the telephone with their left ears, but could understand little or nothing if the instrument were put to their right ears. It is therefore con- cluded that the telephone has an appre ciable stimulating effect on the audi tory nerves, and the recommendation lS lllclt tilt liloNA tiiiSiAt M oHSNs alternately at the right and left ear.
 A recent illustration of the color line in religion at the South Is furnished In a reply made by the Charleston Pres- bytery to charge made by the Synod, and affirmed by the Assembly, that the Presbytery had rejected a black candi- date for the ministry because of his color. The reply is unique. The Pres bytery does not deny its color preju- dice. On the contrary, it expressly states that it has not receded from its time-honored opposition to the amalga- nation of whites and negroes in social and ecclesiastical relations. Such amalgamation the Presbytery believes to be unnatural and unscriptural, and it will continue in every proper way to oppose and resist it." But while 1t might exclude black candidate solely because of his color, if no other reason existed, the Presbytery explains that 1t has other reasons in this instance. It rejected the colored candidate because it was dissatisfied with the policy of the Assemblys committee on colored evangelization," because it wished to hasten the continuation of the assem- bly's plan,'' with which it was dis satisfied, and because it wished to in- crease the contribution for colored evangelization."
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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,

FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
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Statc Electoral Ticket.
 ELECTORS-AT-LARGE, GEORGE POPE, of Hartford. JAMES GRAHAM, of Orange.
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For Judge of Probate, l.. w. CLEAVELAND, of New Haven.
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THECARRINGToN PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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T. ATTWATER BARNES and FRED
 BRICK l.. AVERILL.
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For Coppressnan.
For Senator,

Second District-N. D. SHERRY, of
 New Haven.
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For Representatives

Sth District WILLIAM s. BEECHER
 of New Haven.