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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

The citizens Of Peoria held a mass
meeting Saturday night. at which
preparations were made to go after
the democratic state convention in q
systematic manner. which it is be-
lieved there will bring success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

THE Unions report Of the Lincoln
clubs banquet in yesterday MORN
ing's issue would have been more at
tractive had it been preceded by a
few Of those plain matter. of-fact
deductions"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

Col. JoHSATUAs MERRIAM is out
of the race for the republican guber-
Material nomination. lie sees there
Is no use to attempt to stem the Tan
ncr tide.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

fr Is to be regretted that the pres
ident OF the Lincoln club in the ca
pacity OF host could not have forgot
ten for the instant at the banquet
Saturday night that he was not
speaking to hose house caucus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

WHILE the mayor was doing the
honors at the banquet Saturday night
the rain was developing the short
comings OF his administration, by
showing our modern streets to be al
most impossible in some instances.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

A li.rEAR.oiD girl and a boy of l6
were married in Middletown. Conn,
recently. The girl was on the point
Of being committed to the county
home for destitute children. when
the boy stepped in and married her
and saved her.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

The second Seminole Indian war be-
gan in 1856 and lasted until the close
Of 1858. The total number of men en-
listed for this war was 1861.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

The local factions Of republication
were all in harmony and love Satur-
day night-but oh. what difference
in the morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

The best salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores. letter. chapped
hands. chilblains. corns and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures
piles or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price IS cents per
box. For sale bv Harts q Whenever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

Gssd flainEs Co Asthma Sufferers.
foley's Honey and Tar gives quick
aud positive relief to all cases. 50
cents. For sale at NJ. F. Bahnsen's
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

WANTED-SCHOLARS To LEARN THE
French kellogg system at 1911 Second ave-
nue.. TIE comp etc system embraces the model.
complete instruc iors in cutting, fitting, French
oasilng AID boning for only $40. Usual price for
system complete. S25. Mrs. II. E. Lawson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

WANTED - HOUsEKEEPERS TO KNOW
w that Crystal marble enameled preserving
Eettie also Acme cake heater and Red Star silver
Sohsh, IS sold by agents permanently located at
oio twenty fourth street.. An quart kettle in
ending s'raiDer, patent cover. price 81. So
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

GYPSY QUEEN-JUST ARRIVED AND WILL
VI inform, the public of her wonder fnI mowers
in read h9 the palm OF the hand, telling the past
present and futur- lost. or stolen property. the
name OF your future companion whether false
or true. Private combinations. Call from . A.
m. TO p. m, 551 Twenty fourth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

pUPILS WISHING TO LSARN PROF ur-I.
ioen' new method OF playing the an,nhsro.
wn,ch req1ires ONLY three less sns call on Miss
Nellie Mover, sf05 Eighth averue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

WANTED-TO BUY FOR CASH SECOND
" hand goods OF every description Money t.
oan on cha tells and al articles OF value Goods
stored and sold OF commission. Leave your or
der q; 1922 Second avenue j. W. Jones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

HARRY 1RViN, Dealer IN NEW AND
u secondhand goods, slso goods hsndled on
commission Cash paid FOR all salasble furui-
ture Bef IRE buying give me a eall-I51I second
evenne, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

EOa sALE-A HOUSE WITH MODERN I'M
pr'Semenis- hot water betting. lanndr :.
cemen ed Easement; suitable to keep b arders or
roomers or both: II rooms; present income from
this Office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

%10O TO ANY NAV OR WOMAN WE
pLOO cannot teach to draw a crayon por-
trait by our patent method in three lessons. we
pay oar pupils $40 to Sis per week to work for
us al nome, evenings or spare time. Send for
WORK ana part'cularA. Hermann & Seymour sl3
South sixth street, Philadelphia. Pa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

FOR sAIE-A FIR,T-CLAss SHOOTING
gallery in good orie-. with or without rifles:
cream i'r cash II sold on cS. address Charles
Wolf, No. lei Eighteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-24

WANTED-ENGAGE By A CKRTI-
" fed professional nurse, late of Naucbeete or
England Terms very soaable. Apply ISL,
Fourth avenue.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

I'm my opinion" remarked the college
professor. who rose from the ranks during
the last war to the position of colonel, sage
the Washington Star, 1.-THE imagination of
men does more injury to the cause Of
courage than all the appliances of war
yet discovered. / had remarkable case
happen to me during the battles around
Richmond That ii to say, it happened
to another man. but l was part Of il. IL
was on a sktrmish line, and L was lylns
behind a log with two other men-I was
only private theu-One OF whom was an
inVeterate joker, and the other one was
of the imaginative kind of soldiers. IN
fact, he was so imaginative thdt he was
almost scared out of his wits, and wheH
bullets and shells began flying through
the woods, cutting on sapl1ngs, clipping
limbs al around us, and barking the
top OF the log behind which we lay, l
thought the follow would burst a blood
vessel, or 30 crazy, or do some other 1901
thing unbecoming a soldier. Tom the
joker noticed the mans terror and called
my attention to it.
Then he reached out and dragged in a
stick cut from the trees above us by a
bullet, and fixing a pin in il proceeded
to have his fun. The man was at the
far end of our log, ten feet from Tom,
and / was just beyond Tom on the other
side, and, 1 am free TO confess, was nerV-
GUS enough to wonder at Toms manner
at such a time. However, / couldn't help
watching his movements, and actually
laughed to see him sliding the pin-pointed
stick along toward the unsuspecting vic
tim Having got it at the right distance
he waited for a smashing volley OF bul-
lets, and just as it came he prodded the
soldier in the back with the pin. Well
it was really funny TO see the char
jump and yell and roll over, and we both
fairly howled. But it wasn't so funny
when the man didn't move after his 1irsl
startled action, and Tom looked around
at me in a scared kind of way. His sur
prise found expression in an oath, and he
called TO the man. There was no answer
and he called again with the same result
Then he crept over to him and gave him a
and Tom dragged him around so that he
could see his face. 1t was an ashy blue
with the eyes staring wide open, and TIE
man was as dead as Julius Caesar, Witr
never a mark on him save perhaps thai
one pin scratch in his back
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23
BRIGHT BITS.

queer. isn't it, that the fellows who
feel most festive about strawberry festi-
walls never go2'
Who are they?'
on, the man who sells the berries. -
Chicago Record.
You have a lump on the small of
the back" said the physician, which 1
should advise you to watch closely"
Thus did slight circumstance open the
career of the worlds greatest contor-
tionist.-New York Press.
You want to watch out for Sharpe.
Since he heard that you intimated that he
cheated you at poker he is thlrsting foi
your gore,
Great Scott! Have I got to be bled
by that fellow gain?"-Cincinnat En-,
quirer.
-Englishmen have introduced football
into the Lake Nyassa region in Africa
Whatever else may be said of them, the
English have always been foremost in
adopting the most formidable means of
eNtermlnatng their enemies. w Shing-
ton Star.
Saw an odd thing while I was out OF
town" said the Cheerful idiot. "A tenor
singer with a crooked neck"
what was his song?' asked the shoe
Coming through the wry, of course"
Exchange.
Il NTktdl bIdlU.-fNGGu-1O GU can make
all the fun of young Legalite for his
egotism you want to, but I tell you he
has a powerful brain.
Wright-By links. he must have, to
stand all the thinking he does about him
self-Cincinnau Enquirer
Why He Wept.-'T hear that the only
emotion Fizzle's client showed before he
went to the gallows was on parting with
Fizzle. l am told that he actually wept"
Yep. He said that if he only had a
chance to kill FiZzle for the way he man
aged his defense he wouldn't mind the
mere incident of being hanged. Indian,
aDolis Journal.
Anxious to Reform-"so," said the
philosopher, you want the price of a
meal?"
That's what I want" replied the men
dicant.
Are you aware of the fact that people
nowadays devote altogether too much at
tention TO what they eat? They think too
much about food
"Mebbe they do. I'm .willin', fer one,
ter quit thinkin about it, All l wants
is ter be KEEP from bein reminded of it
SO long before 1 get any. "-Washington
Star
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

A few days before Thackeray began his
career as a lecturer he met his friend.
Mrs. Kemble. and begged her TO come %
hear him. He was so nervous about IL. ne
declared, that he was afraid he should
break down. He was 10 lecture ia the
same nall that Mrs. kemble was accus-
toned 10 read IN, and when she GOT there
she found him standing like a fOrlOrn,
disconsolaJe giant in the middle of the
room, gazing about him. according 10
the New York Recorder Mrs. kemble
thus describes the remainder of really
Iunny interview and accident
'On. dear- he exclaimed. as he shook
hands with me, Il m sick at the stomach
with friEhrr'
spoke some words Of ENCOURAGEMENT
ana was going away. but pc held my hand
like scared child. crying:
"Oh, don't leave met'
But, Ihackerdy,' said I, you mustn't
stay here Your audicuce s beginning 20
come in" And 1 drew him from The midi
ole of the chairs and benches into the
"Oh,7 said he. IF could only get al
that cOnf0un6ed thing (this lecture) TO
have last look at it,"
Nv here IS it," L asked.
ION, in the next room, on the reading
Well said I. IF you don't like TO go
and get ii, I'll fetch il for you"
Remembering well the position OF my
reading table, which had been close TO the
door of the retiring room. / darted IN,
hoping TO snatch the manuscript without
attracting the attention Of the audience,
with which the room was nearly full
had been used TO deliver my lectures
seated but Thackeray gave his lectures
standing, and had a reading desk placed
on the platform adapted TO his stature,
so that when / came to get his manu-
script it was almost above my head.
Though rather disconnected, 1 was deter
mined not TO go back without il, and 50
made a half-jump and a clutch at the
book, when every leaf of ii came hutter-
ing separately down about me ! n2rdly
knew what / did, but / think L must have
gone down almost on all tours IN my
agony to gather up the scattered leaves,
and, retreating with them, ] held them
out in dismay to poor Thackeray, cry
ing:
ooh! see, look what a dreadful thing I
have dOner'
MY dear soul" said he. you couldn
have done better for me! I have just a
quarter Of an hour to wait here, and X
will take me about that to page this
again; its the best thing in the world
that could have happened
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23
a HONEYMOON Row.

Two men were riding homeward in the
front seat OF a West Side grip car yester-
day evening, says the Chicago Inter
ocean. One was reading an afternoon pa
per and commenting on what he read.
after the manner of men of intellect and
progressiveness. He had already elected
the men to I'LL the aldermanic seats, and
was reading the reprint matter, prepare
tory TO dive into the ethics OF bargain
day advertisements, .. when a paragraph
that an alchemist would have used. if he
had discovered the philosophers stone.
'Ah,' he repeated. Here is a clipping
from Philadelphia paper about a wi
doW's row. It's very wonderful. There
are seventeen living within half a block +"
Having impaired this stupendous infor-
nation, he looked about, expecting to see
his friend turned into a stone statue pla-
carded, 'Amazementp The friend was
buisily engaged in whistling Cast Aside :"
Doesn't that surprise you" demanded
the man with the paper.
Not by any means" responded the
friend. Why, there's a place within
half a block of my house that puts that
way in the moonshine"
The man with the paper was silent in
thought Then he Ventured to assert that
it must be that his friend lived near a
cemetery
NO, it's what we call the Dove-cote,
and there are forty newly married couples
of the building is, but it's at the corner
of Francisco and Walnut streets. It's a
nuisance. My house hasn't been swept
for month, because all the women folks
stand at the window and go into frances
over the conjugal happiness across the
way When get home late my wife never
stops until she gives me the exact time at
which the forty model husbands across
the way were welcomed by those forty
wives, who are not as model as she is be-
cause they haven't had the experience"
I've got in the habit of going to the
Office early lately, because l can't sleep
after Z o'clock. There is the most terri
BILE noise over there at that house you
ever heard. Some of them use the Olga
Nethersole kiss; those are the most re
cent arrivals; the older ones use the EN-
ma Abbott kiss and the rest use the Ma
RE Tempest kiss, or the Lillian Russell,
or some other sort that's just as good
Why, the walls of that building move in
and out with the pressure for half a
hour every morning and evening"
The man with the load of trouble got off
to brave another simeon, as he ran for
his doorway, while his fellow traveller
buried himself in the advertisements for
relief.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

The slverites in Atlanta are scared.
They are afraid 10 openly state their po-
s.r0n iu respect 10 silver. They had a
meeting on Wednesday night for the pur-
pose of forming an organization. Con
gresham Bailey Of Texas was present
and delivered his usual speech. and local
speakers made brief addresses. But the
resolutions that were adopted, how about
them? DID they declare for independent
and unlimited silver coinage at the ratio
Of is TO j. They did not. There IS nv
mention Of the ratio in them. They favor
ed the restoration Of silver 10 the posi-
tion it occupied prior To 1873. and com
ta.ned the following declaration: eve
hold 10 the use Of both gold and silver as
the standard money OF the country ana
to the coinage of both metals without dis
elimination against either or charge for
mintase as pledged by the democrats
platform"
Well, what was the position occupied
10y silver prior to 1873? Everybody knows
that no silver dollars were being coined
at that time. because the silver dollar
was worth three cents more than the gold
dollars. To restore silver to the position
it occupied prior 20 1873. therefore, would
be TO drive it out Of the mints and out
of circulation.
But the part Of the resolutions quoted
is especially interesting. 1t contains a
demand for the coinage of both gold ana
silver without discrimination agains,
either. In other words. the Atlanta sill
verites abandon the l6 to 1 ratio and in-
sist that both metals shall be coined with
out discrimination against either. Here
we have a distinct admission that coinage
at the ratio of 10 to 1 would be dis
elimination against gold. because at that
ratio gold dollar would contain 100
cents worth of gold and a silver dollar
would contain only 81 cents worth of
silver. yet both dollars would be legal ten
der dollars. II the Atlanta siiverites are
sincere in what they said in their reso-
luuons they want free silver coinage at
the ratio of 81 TO /. But are they sim
cere? We don't think So II they are
they are not in harmony with the silver
ties in all other parts of the country. Else
where the silverites are demanding free
coinage at the ratio Of 1G to THAT is. they
want a coinage that d.scriminates against
gold.
We are satisfied that the Atlanta sn>
verites are for the 16 to ! idea. but they
don't dare to say so. BY hiding their de-
sire to discriminate against gold they
hope TO capture few votes on June g.
They will not find the sound money men
mapping. however. The sound money
men know the silverites and none of them
will be caught by any of their campaign
lodges
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

The origin of the familiar phrases
straw hail" and "a man of straw" is q.
most curious one. 1t dates back 200 years
when the practice of entering worthless
bail was common. The exact methods
have not been transmitted to posterity
but in several old English works is to be
found reference 10 them. In one of these
-Fieldings Life of Jonathan Wild" the
thief-catcher-We read that Jonathan's
aunt married a man who was famous
for so friendly a disposition that he was
bail for above a hundred persons in one
year. He had also the remarkable honor
of walking in Westminster hall with
straw in his shoe" 1t seems that at one
time when English lawyers wished to
procure witnesses with elastic conscience
es, or men who would so bail for their
clients, they went into Westminster hall
into which the principal courts of law
opened, and there would quickly recoe-
niZe the men they wanted BY glancing az
their shoes, from which protruded q
straw or two thus indicating their call
ing. Because of this trade mark, so to
speak. these professional witnesses or
bail-goers became known as "men OF
straw, or ones who were willing for a
consideration to enter straw bail"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

The MORNING NEWS is published
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Subscriptions payable in advance Re
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letter. Currency sent BY mail At risk Of
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Transient advertisements, other tnan
special column. local or reading notices
amusements and cheap or want column
10 cents a line. Fourteen lines Of agate
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

The Holt will case, now in process of
trial in Washington, promises to be a
long-drawn-out, but an interesting one
Joseph Holt Of Kentucky was an eminent
lawyer, the postmaster general in Bucha-
mans cabinet, and judge advocate general
during the war. When he died it was
supposed that he left no viii But after
administration of his estate had been an
piled for, the register of wills of Wash
ington received by mail torn and partly
burned document purporting to be the last
will and testament of Joseph Holt, wit
messed by Gen. w. T. Sherman, Mrs. Sher-
man and Gen. U. S. Grant This viii left
the estate to Josephine Holt Throckmor-
ton and Lizzie Hynes, both of Kentucky
The proving Of this will is the basis of the
case now being tried. The partly burned
condition Of the document and the manner
IN which it came to the register Of wills
are mysteries.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23
That south DaiSota Howl

How ridiculous those silverite members
of the South Dakota democratic conven-
ton are making themselves who are as
sorting that the convention was carried
for sound money by federal office hold
ers. They insist that they win not act
with the democratic party in the future
but viii JON the populists Wen. when
they get into the populist camp they will
be where they belong. The populist party
is the only one that has ever declared
for free silver coinage at the ratio of is
to l, and the silverites of other parties
who join that party go where their in
clination and sympathies lead them.
This howl about office holders control
ling democratic state conventions for
sound money started with Vest. Black
burn, and some other democratic senators
who are afflicted with the silver craze.
They seem to forget that they are office
holders themselves, and that they have
been, and are st,I, doing their level best
to control state democratic conventions
in the interest of silver. In fact. there
are more federal office holders actively
working for free silver coinage than there
are working for sound money. The sill
verites, however, never have any fault
to find with federal office holders who
are arrayed on the side of silver. In
their eyes it is no offense for an office
holder to work to degrade the currency.
but it is an offense for one of them to
lend helping hand to the cause of sound
money.
In all the free silver states the majority
of the office holders are silverites, and
they are particularly active for free sill
yer. In the doubtful states the most en-
ergetic politicians and wire pullers are
snverites and office holders.
The less the silverites have to say about
office holders controlling conventions for
sound money the less their regulations
for honesty and fairness will suffer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Special Notices-Ten Days Neckwear
Sale Meyere & Frank; Soda Water, Ad-
ans Drug, Paint and Oil Company; AS
To Early Saturday Closing; For the sum
ner Drinks, Mutual Grocery Company;
Saturday Early Closing; 1t May Rain To-
Morrow. Beckmanns Cafe.
Legal Standardization to Amend Char
ter Of Commercial Guano Company; No
tice to Debtors and Creditors, Estate Ma
~ Finnegan.
Auction Sale-Residence, Corner Duffy
and Habersham Streets, by c. II. Dor
sett.
Legal Sale-Special Masters Sale OF the
Cuyler and Woodburn Railroad Company.
Mems White Duck Pants-At Collats.
Hot Wave Breakers-B. II. Levy & Bro.
Medical-Tutts Pills; Hoods Sarsapa-
rila; Cuticura Remedies.
Collars-Cluett's Collars.
Silverware- Gorham Manufacturing
Company.
Ladies' Shoesi-At Collats.
Fans and Towel Time-Leopold Adler
musements-Excursion to Daufusl1ie
Beach Sunday, per Steamer Gov. Stafford
Grand Exhibition by the Sorchos, al War
saw Island. Sunday.
Steamship Schedule-Ocean Steamship
Company.
Railroad Schedules-Georgia and Ala
bama Railway.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent,
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-23

The childhke simplicity that is some
times evinced by members of the astute
Senate is striking and beautiful The
other day the Senate was talking about a
new kind of torpedo, to be used in coast
defense. According to the description Of
the torpedo, it was to be guided by man
until within a short distance Of the threat
ening war ship, and then it was to be d.
rected by him upon the enemy. what
is to protect the MANI" somebody asked
Humanity would protect a man from be-
ing shot while he is in the water" re-
Piled Senator Perkins, in all seriousness.
The sedate Senate laughed, and the tor
pedo item was left out Of the bill.