davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14
ARE WISE STIPULATlONS,
ProvieiOns Under Which the Hospital
Contract Was Let.

froSielOns Under Which the Hospital
Contract Was Let.
Trustee Medill placed two wise
stipulations in the contract for the
new Western Insane hospital by pro-
viding that union labor and none but
citizens OF Illinois be employed in
the construction. 1t is understood
that the stone work has been sublet
to Peoria firm, which precludes
the possibility of the stone work be-
ing cut on the ground. Learning of
this com mittee Of stone men called
on Commissioner Medill this after
noon. who held conference at once
with the contractors. with the result
that late this afternoon Mr.. Medill
announced that every thing had been
satisfactorily settled and that there
would be no evasion of the require
ment as to union labor. The stone
should be cut on the ground, too.
Then but on, thing further
will be essential to meet all re-
quirments and that is that the Mil
waukee road put on a special train
between Rock lslaud and WATERFOWL
daily to take the workmen OF Rock
Island and Moline employed on the
building. up IL the morning and
bring them back in the evening
This is a provision which should be
provided for.
The trustees last evening elected
Grant Beadle. of the architect firm
OF Gottschalk & Beadle, of Gales
burg, superintendent Of construc-
ton
The proposition Of Arthur Burial
on behalf of the Colona Sand stone
company 60 furnish the material
at the actual cost Of production
was appreciated as evincing a lib
eral and enterprising spirit. but the
trustees could not under the law &C.
cePt it. The proposition was that
the Colona company would provide
the stone for the present buildings
gratis, ii the state or Its contractors
would sustain the expense Of quarry
ing. saving and loading, and to fur
Their give bond to furnish all the ma
tefial needed for the next ten years
at cost not to exceed 80 cents per
cubic foot sawed and loaded. Mr..
Burial is DESTROYS of building up
home industries and Of denonstrat-
ing more than fair disposition in
order to sustain such a position.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14
Now and Then

They get in line with Shields prices, but he
makes another dash and gets out of reach
again. Keep your eyes open for his Big bargain
snaps and profit accordingly. Here are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14
STREET FAKlR ON DECK.
Old Visitor Opens Up the Season with .
Good Business.

"
Old Visitor Opens Up the Season with t.
Good Business.
Market square was the scene of q
little gathering of anxious spectators
surrounding carriage from which
doomed the countenance of an oily
tongued orator and q gasoline lamp
last night.
The street fakir's season was form
ally opened; and the gentlemen who
occupied the platform was none other
than one who has occasionally shock
the city with his pockets well lined
with gold, leaving behind some
worthless tooth powder and articles
of that sort. Many yet have vivid
membranes of the man with the
black flowing locks who dumped
them so hard on the tooth powder
deal about three years ago.
Well. this was the same individual
But he changed his appearance some
what by dressing down his hair.
Last night he sold soap at 25 cents
a bar and gave with each purchase a
watch gratis.
''Of course. my good neighbours, -"
he said when they began to bite. ..of
course l am not guaranteeing these
watches to run very long after you
get them; but you have nothing else
to do but keep winding them"
Aud still they bit. He did very
nice business and without exerting
himself very hard. either. He pre-
faced his work with labor speech.
In this manner he holds his audi
ence. for he is convincing and in
teresting talker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14

Would give Us perfect health. Be-
cause men and women are not per-
fectly wise. they must take medi-
cines to keep themselves perfectly
healthy. Pure. rich blood is the
basis OF good health. Hoods Sarsa-
Pariila is the one true blood purifier.
1t gives good health because it builds
upon tfe true foundation = pure
blood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14
When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best to
render it promptly. but one should
remember to use even the most per-
feet remedies only when needed. The
best and most simple and gentle rem
edy is the Syrup of Figs, manufac-
tured BY the California Fig Syrup
company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14
Passed the ExSmim.,,o,

The civil service examination
board OF the Rock Island postoffice
has received notice Of the following
having successfully passed the recent
examination held in this city:
Clerk-John b. Coken. Aupust
Z. Nissen. Albert w. Diedrich, f.
W. Sauerman.
Carriess-Clarence d. Skinner,
Norman A. Christensen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14

The. unpaid book accounts Of the
Rock Island Heating and Plumbing
company will be sold at the Office Of
Davis company May 20. 1896. at 9
.. N. T. b. DAVIS, Assignee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-14

Hoods Pills are purely vegetable.
perfectly harmless. always reliable
and beneficial.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

1000, ono,ooD tons Of freight. Every year
the amount increases. Every pound of
this freight is carted and carried over
our roads and streets before it gets to
the railroads: millions of tons are
hauled in wagons and sold in the coun
try towns and consumed by the local
buyer. Here is the farmers end of it;
hay, 54.OOO,OOO tons-think of hauling
b4.OOo,OOO loads of hay to market on
roads like that; 9%O,OOO,OOO tons of
cereals; 100000 IONS OF potatoes; Q
100000 tons of cotton; total. $4,000, COO
tons, not counting the mud on the
wagon wheels.
"The road and the wagon are the twin
~handmaidens of agriculture that at
tend the farmer on every journey to
market and they are forever at odds
with each other. If the nan who sold
that wagon to the farmer had tried to
sell that road to him. homicide would
have become a virtue: 152. 600, 900 tons of
produce; $500. O0O, 900 paid for farm i'm
plements and machinery to harvest it
with; $1,000, 100000 invested in farm
horses and mules to drag it to market.
Think of it! Think of being director
in a corporation with that amount of
business on hand, with countless mil
lions of paid-up capital invested. and
think of doing business in a mortar
bed! Think of waiting for the mud to
dry up! Sixteen million horses and
mules idle in the stables; $4,000, 900 a
day for horse feed; $2s,0GO,0OO a week.
Tbi7k of the loss of time and labor, the
ds'arfed and shrunken values of our
farms, of the slack supply and good
prices, when the roads are npassable.
Think of the procession Of farlnfJs that
rush to town and glut the market in
the first days of dry weather, and think
of the paltry prices they get when every
body is trying to sell to an o~verstocked
market"
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
Valuable Agricultural Discovery.

One of my neighbors has made a re.
markable discovery. Agar ago he test
cd corn that had been soaked in coal
oil, in his green house, and after re-
peated experiments found that corn
soaked 80 hours would all terminate.
while a longer time caused a small per
tent. of loss. Seed corn thus treated does
not swell as it would in water, and after
draining will readily run through the
planter. In tests on clover sod last
year, seed treated thus was not at all
injured by common worms or grubs.
while the seed not treated was dug up
by squirrels, destroyed b. cut worms.
etc. But the most remarkable thing OF
all was that chinch bugs let the corn
entirely alone that had been treated.
Should another year confirm the results
of this year, a valuable discovery has
been made.-C. j. Norton, in journal of
Agriculture.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
An Exnertment with Peanuts.

Last year in corn planting time, a
farmer says he left a plat of ground for
peanuts. Marked the rows off just the
same as for corn, so when he cultivated
the corn he could cultivate the peanuts
at the same time. Planted them about
the list of May. They can be planted
any time after the danger of killing
frost. The seed should be very care
fully selected at the time of planting;
also carefully prepared SO as not te
break the skin of the kernel. He put
the kernel in a can, covered them with
coal oil and let them stand over night
This was to keep the moRs, etc, from
eating the seed. Planted. them in hills
t~p kernels in a hill, ons fpet apart IL
she row.-FaFmers' Voice.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
The ''Wherefores amt Whsnceres~."

| Inc "Wherefores amt ess:"
Naturally Of course there wasa WON.
an IN the case as Usual. It twas the rail.
road on one side and old Misses Gar.
heroine Of these plain, old. hjut-and
e'ee1 "olmen-on the other siie. And
IN the general wihd-up if thai old lady
aidn snow out ahead of the game she
mace the other side more than willir
to take out and quit even.
Now as to the wherefores and the
whenceness thereof would seen
like the railroad has been %rupnin o.
ITS cars 70 wild and reckless here lately
I'LL they had killed off a whole psssle
or Misses Garner's chickens and ducks
n the like of that-whirh, you under
stand, h lives right there on the bluffs
OF gravel cut. She had took her foot
ahd hand and went up to the station
two or three times and put in her CLAIM,
for damages, but the railroad wouldn't
cough up worth a cent. The agent told
her that they didn't pay for nothir
less than g hog, and she would have to
learn her chickens better sense than to
run back and forth across the railroad
tracks.
But finally at last one day last weel,
a heavy loaded freight train run over
the old lady's turkey hen-"and her
a settin on IA eggs"-and mashed her
into a thousand odds and ends and scat
tered fragments.
That was one too many for Misses
Garner. She fused and stormed and
cried, and stormed and cried and fused
till she saw hat wouldn't even pay her
for her time and trouble, and then she
tore off and pitched out up the road to
the station, with her fly bonnet in one
hand and the feet and tail feathers of
her dead turkey hen in the other.
She went up there to see the agent,
and she saw him. She told her terri
BILE story in plain United States and
give out some Of her strong personal
opinions in regards to the railroads
and the railroad men. But it vas also
pluperfect vanity and vexation of spirit.
lie wouldn't pay her a continental red
cent for her turkey, to say nothin of the
package on chickens.
II amt nothin but a pore wilder
woman" says the old ady as she
walked out through the crowd and
started off on her return back home.
but bless the heavens, I am 16 hands
high and heavy as buckshot. l was
livin right there before the railroad
was built, and right there 1 will live
till the last final shower comes and I
have TO go in. But in the mainline l
am jest is hands high and heavy as
buckshot!"
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
x TO THE FRONT.
Great Road Convention to lie Held a
Galveston, May 22.

Great Road Convention to De Held Mt
Galveston, May 22.
There is one especially encouraging
feature Of the good-roads movement.
1t is the activity in that direction in
regions remote from centers of popula-
ton.
A convention of delegates represent
ing the great state of Texas is to be
held in Galveston, beginning on May
%. In Arkansas a state convention was
held at Little Rock in February, in
which a resolution was adopted rec
ommending a constitutional amend
ment empowering county authorities
to levy a special tax for carrying on
a work of general highway improve
ment. Similar steps have been taken
III several other states Of the south and
west.
Another encouraging feature of the
movement is a general disposition to
profit by the experience of other coun-
~tries-notably of France, which has
perhaps the finest wagon-roads of any
country. Good roads are more easily
made and kept in order there han in
most countries, because of the scarcity
of forest areas, which conserve moisture
and render somewhat more difficult the
keeping of highways in repair. But it
is possible and well worth the while
to have good roads and still preserve
the desired areas of natural forest. The
time is not distant when the neglect of
either Of these innorfant ;nteres+s will
be a matter Of general public regret,
and will be viewed as a public misfor-
tune.-Youth's Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

As a milk and butter producer,
ground linseed cake has no equal. II
not only increases the flow of milk, but
adis greatly to it's richness in cream
With a COW accustomed to corn meal,
bran, shorts and the like, the increase
will be from n to two quarts at each
milking, within "a hours after begin
ming with the ground linseed cake. A
COW, to be able to give a full flow Of
milk, must have food richer in nitrogen
than would be required for any other
animal, since milk itself is composed
largely of albuminoids, and this cali
only be supplied from food containing
this substance. The first demand of q
COW upon the nitrogen of food is to sup
ply waste of tissue, and only the, sur
plus will go to milk.-Coleman's Rural
World.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

l6-inch space in the center is for the col
lector to walk: the handles are grasped
on each side. The 30 quarts berries and
carrier will weigh from 35 to so pounds.
Each handle should be nailed 5k inches
from the side piece and another piece
set 5h inches inside from the handle
piece. 1t is one Of the handiest carriers
| know of for bringing berries from
fields to asserting and Grating sheds
C.. w. Eddy, in Farm and Home,
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
GRICULTURALHINTS
tHE TAX THAT COUNTS,
Muddy Roads Mean an Annual Loss Of
Millions of Dollars.

Muddy Roads Mean an Annual Loss OF
Millions of Dollars.
Isaac b. Potter. chairman of the high
way improvement committee, in his adj
dress before the last annual convention
at Baltimore, February iC, said, among
bthet things:
sixteen million dumb and pHtieht
horses stand to-day in the farm stahlrs
of America, waiting for the drying Of
the mud which was left as a legacy by
recent freshets. | have said this much
to justify, briefly, tho wheelmcn's work
Tor better roads. Much more might be
said, but it is Unnecessary. People are
beginning to look upon the wheel from
a new, more correct, and more intelli,
gent standpoint. Bicycles have come
into common use. They nre ridden by
met, 1nu Nonch of all classes of So
ciety, BY officials in every grade of gov
ernmental employment in all parts Of
the world; by men engaged in the
learned professions, and in all the vari-
Gus occupations in which human in
uustrS is directed;
"With 100 years of experience our
American farmers are paralyzed by the
presence of a simple mixture of dirt anil
water. Last year u railroads carried
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
FOR BERRY GROWERS.
One of the Best basket Carriers for Coll
lectors Ever Devised.

One of the Best basket Carriers for Col
lectors Ever Devised.
Now is the time to make trays for
berry collections for use in berry fields
during the height of the season. Several
such trays are in use on an extensive
Connecticut berry plantation. The car.
rier contains 30 baskets. eight on each
side of each handle: tn" baskets are
shown in the cut as set in place but
without berries. The carrier should be
made Of strong but light material. The
handles are of seven-eighths inch stuff,
~ inches high and with a hand hole.
The four legs are six inches long.
Sides of ''2rrier are five-sixteenths
inch and ends of one-half inch material,
all two inches high. The carrier is A6
inches long and Al inches wide. The
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
FOOD "ADuLTERATION,
fruits and Vegetables in Which Il Il
Mainly Practlced.

Mainly Practlced.
Recent Investigations fy the depart
ment of agriculture Of the state of
Pennsylvania on the amount of food
aG%nlter"tioh lead 10 some interesting
results: 4 conservative estimate
places the value of the food consumed
by the citizens of the state at $780,
100000, and if to this amount is added
the average estimate of adulteratiO1i.
it follJhs TINT there is lost through this
means $2O:OO5. coo.
The examinations made by the de.
partment make it evident that the fol-
lowing items will mainly cover the
worst forms Of adulteration: The use of
salic.vllc acid in the preparation of
fruit Jams. catsGp. etc: in such cases
it is introduced for the purpose of pre-
venting fermentation, and when eaten
and il has entered the digestive organs.
1t p~reventSto an appreciative extent the
proper functions Of digestion. Of he
samples Of buckwheat flour tested, but
two We're found pure. Three-ffths of
the samples Of cheese selected for an
diAs BIS proved 10 De HlleH "neeSe the
milk had been skinned, the creAtn
used for other purposes; and foreign
fats: not butter, Lad been added with
the intent of making up the deficiency.
OF the samples OF mustards; tWo-thirds
were found to be adulterated. Ground
spices. such as cinnamon. black pepper,
ginger. etc, are seldom pure. Many
fruit jams, especially those claiming to
he strawberry and raspberry. were
found to consist largely of starch paste,
with only enough fruit. in some cases.
to claim the name. All samples of So
called French peas were found to con-
tain injurious amounts of metallic
salts.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
And She "Biled the Pot"

Patient and lo~ng-sutferin reader
maybe you don't know the old lady Gar
ner. But all them that have scrapeC
up acquaintance with her a tell 20,
that she is red-headed and rantanker
Gus and come from fightin stock. YOU
couldn't burn the woods and sift the
ashes and find another one exactly lik.
her.
From the station she struck a bee
line and burnt the wind for home, anc
durin the balance of hat day she was
the gonebyest most busiest woman il
the round created world. She dreened
the ash barrel for I've, and raked ant
scraped the kitchen for soap grease
Then she made the necessary mixtry
COR I've soap, and built a roarin big fire
and billed the pot. She biledit high and
she billed it hot, and she stirred it with
Il sassafrass stick to make the soaI
particular thick and stick.
But that want all-not by a whole
tremendous big lot. In tn" still and sol
m hours of the night she went forth
and got her old soap gourd and toted
that pot of fresh lye soap down to the
railroad. And she didn't stop there
She took and poured and smeared that
soap on the steel rails for 200 yards.
When the days work was done, and
when Misses Garner laid her poor old
body down to rest that night you may
know she was weary with the
storms and trials and tribulations OF
this vain and feetin world. Bu+
in my own mind ] have no
doubt but what the last words she
spoke before she fell off to sleep the
sleep of the just were: Sixteen hands
high, and heavy as buchshot.'
The next time you go over there to
the gravel cut if you will stop end look
up and down the railroad you can see
the tremendous heavy grades both ways
Right frequent it m to pass that
heavy loaded trains run down to a stall
end a dead stop along there-particular
soon after a rain when the track is wet
and slick.
But when it comes to maxim things
slippery and slick a little rain water
amt nothin to a whole passed. CT fresh
soft soap. So consequentially that
night when the next freight train come
thunderin down the road it had to stop
over there at the gravel cut. By and by
another one come thunderin up the
road and when it struck the gravel Gu.
the heavy grade and old Misses Gamers
soft soap was too much for it, and SO
there it was. They couldn't climb over
end they had to stop. They pulled open
boxes and sanded the track free and
heavy and promiscus. But still the
trains couldn't come across the cut.
Every time the engines snorted the
wheels would slip and run backwards
faster than they run forwards.
AT the break Of day next morning
there was four trains all jammed up in
d wad over there at the gravel cut, and
In the mainline they had two tail-end
collisions and ditched three loaded cars.
It took two or three railroad bosses
and the bridge gang til u o'clock that
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
Best Peas for tho Table.

The wrinkled variety OF peas are the
best for the table, but arc not preferred
for canning. Any of the early dwarf
peas may be used for the first crop. The
dwarf kinds give only about one pick.
ing. 1t is the standard varieties which
bear the heaviest crops, bu. they re-
quire supports that are later than the
dwarf kinds. The champion OF Eng1and
ia considered one of the best for quality.
but is not as prolific as some othevw, and
10 also 9 late variety.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

The soil for the orchard cannot be too
rich.
Do not plant a tree any ieeper than
Il grew in the nursery row.
The object in pruning the grape is to
lessen the quantity of fruit and improve
lis quality.
To prevent premature falling off of
the fruit keep the tree healthy and free
from insect pests.
There is no advantage in planting
tender vegetables until after all dam
ger of frost is past.
1t makes little difference about the
size of the top so long as the tree hsa
plenty of good roots.
The holes for the trees may be dug
before the trees are brought on the
ground for planting.
If there is a choice take plants of a
short stocky growth rather than such
as have %luxurant branches.
A moderate pruning in the spring
will cause the fruit to fill less than Oh
anpruned overburdened trees.
An apple tree may fail to bear be-
cause overbearing the previous year
has overexhausted the vitality.
Whether the vines run horizontally
or upright, they should be trained as
near as possible in straight lines.
Now is a good time to set out phsp-
berries and blackberries. Get the WORK
lone before the plants start to grow.
Plant for succession in the garden as
we'll as in the orchard. It is al item to
lave Il good supply of fruits and vege-
tables all the season.-St. Louis Re
public.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

The value of a newspaper as an
advertising medium consists iD
Its circulation.
When you can secure the com
Dlned circulation of two papers
tor the price Of one, it is money
Baved!
The st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the Sd Of
Mar.h, 1894, with The Opelou-
sas Courier" The advertising
RATES. have not been increased
while the price Of subscription
ila sI been reduced to 81 a year:
THE COURIER being by odds
ille best paper in the empire Par.
lsl OF st. Landry is therefore the
cheapest
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
RUFUS SANDERS.
otorles from Life In the Rocky
Creek Settlement
Ahc Old Lady Garner Still Lives ..
travel Cut-"Two Fools a F.sntin.-
aud the Weather Scan
atbus Hot.
e is most generally always way
where there is a ;r,,l,. r. ).

Is a woInah's
will and she
wants to have
her way. Ard
{ o n~se'stentia,-
iy they had a
tremendous big
rucCusanhr..r
f"etun IN ent
over at t |,
g e cut,
three IN e S
q n below
+ h n &.5 ,t,--.t
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13
Plenty Of Poker Chips.

Enough poker chips III manufac.
tured in the United States every year to
make stack over 60 miles high if placed
one on top of the other. For years the
novelty and speciality companies have
been turning out the chips, and, taking
into consideration the lasting qualities
of the disks, n may estimate conserv-
atively that there are many more than
$50, oOO, 900 of these tokens that are used
to represent the coin in the game of
chance.-N. y. Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

station, n day last week. They hot
'hings up SO hot and furious and raised
SIGH a scandlots big fuss over there. TIL
by gracious the air was blue for miles
around.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

FRS stopped free by DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restore", No fits afterhrst days use.
Marvellous cures. >1reatise and e. trial bot
tie free. DR.. Kline. 43l Arch St, Phila.. Pc.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

"WHERE are all the wicked people
buried!" asked a small boy who had been
reading the inscriptions in a cflurchyard.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-06-13

Cure your cough with Hales Honey Of
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.