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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-01
More to be Found Out.

We asked the twenty (20) constables who
appeared before US to give us their opinion
as to what percentage of the crimes of the
county are traceable to the liquor traffic.
Their replies, averaged, show that in theil
opinion SO per cent of the crimes of the
county are from the use of liquor; one of
them placing it as high as 100 per cent, others
at 10 and 25 per cent. while one believed
there were no crimes committed in his
district traceabie to the traffic. as there are
no liquors sold in that district. Fully 10
per cent of the business coming before us and
consuming the greater portion of our time is
caused by the same business, thereby costing
the county large sum Of money.-Gramd
Jury Report.
This paragraph will probably afford
immense comfort to the prohibitionis:s,
some of it undue.
The consideration which most in
validates its accuracy, however, is the
wellknown lack of current con-
stabulary knowledge of the most tiex
ible rule in arithmetic-percentage.
But, accepting 90 per- cent. as a low
average, the next problem is what
ratio of the Is per cent. of the the peo-
pie who are workingmen contributes
to the "53 per cent" of crime?
That is, how many dowutrodden
workingmen are there who get wages
enough to buy whiskey, but not enough
to waste in the purchase of bread
These are pregnant questions-so
much SO that the JOURNAL, with all
Difference to their Honors, the Court,
suggests that, inasmuch as inquiry
into the origin of crime has been in
stituted by the late grand jury, the
next be instructed to ascertain what
percentage has been conceived in the
iniquity of low wages?
Aud whether any portion of the ''o3
per cent" is the product of multiplier
and multiplicand involved in the semi
monthly pay law blessing?
And, that nothing may be omitted,
it might be all-important to learn
whether any part is distinctly due to
the absence of "the initiative and
referendum ~
The JOURNAL must not be reckoned,
however, as an advocate of low wages
nor an opponent of-the semi-monthly
pay law, but as it is so sure that in
many instances there are two drunks
now where there was one before, it
would like to ascertain "officially," as
the Admiral in the Pirates OF
Penzance" SAID, what proportion of
the '53 per cent" the evil has occasion
ed, and how much the fortnightly
blessing has contributed to it?
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-05-05

The Proprletors of the B0tetin
MerCGRtN " have the honour of
requesting English advertisers 70
hand their orders to MN. MAYENCE,
FAVRE and c., who are the scle
Agents for all English aad French
A.srertiSinq.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-05-05
BOLR1lN .ERRCAN1L do PUGRQO-RICv.

BULLETIN akkRCANllL DE PUEkIO-klCC.
CONSAGRADO LA DEFENSA LIE LOS-IN
TERESES NACIONALES EN- AMERICA. ORGANC
DE LOS ESPANOLES INCONDICIONALES EN- PTO.RICC
OONDlC1ONES GENERATES 0cordgdos nor la DSrecci6p
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Cuando lmpos de
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Para los del BOLETN enss comunics.
do remido en- seci6n correspondents OENTAVOS
Los suScrptoFss tendn precO
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Ell impor do los suscpcones
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1897-05-05

De CUENrAs FOkMADAS

De CUENTAS FOkMADAS
aplicables al cohro de lorna,
les, fracclonados estos en- :
tayo de dia, principiande pc.
IN cuarto y terminando en- I
dlas, con precloS escalonadca
desde un real fuerte hasfa tre,'
pesos, y explesando cara fra,
ci6n su valorintrfnseco en- pe-
SOS, centavos y c6ntimos dc
centavc,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09

the biographer becomes grossly abusive ana I'M
pertinent. Nothing unjust, unfounded or rnn-
lcious has ever been said of Laura heehe' ho
actress living or dead, was ever more coplousiy
praised; and the venomous resentment nourisheu
and expressed by Mr. Creahan Is resentment Oh
an offence existing nowhere except In MS own
ill-regulated mind. How little fitted this peppery
person Is to perform the delicate Office Of dog
raphcr may be gathered from the fact that he
quotes one of Miss Laura keenes daughters as
saying of her own father: Il never knew my
father; only know that he was loater' MISS
Keene's own felicity OF emphatic comment could
alone do Justice to such an ebulliton as that inc
book Is tedious In every way, but collectors or
stage records will find II moderately useful IL
thev take care TO verify its dates and statements
nv reference to more competent authorities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09
LITERARY NOTES.

The Century Company has just issued the Thru
volume OF Professor sloane's Napoleon Bon..
parte" II carries the narrative down to the eyacu
alton OF Moscow The fourth and concluding val.
ume is being FASTENED through the press. but the
date Of publication Is not yet announced.
Mr.. Basil Thomson Is one OF the few writer's VIVA
can deal with exotic motives In fiction and kesn
them Enthusiastically real. He has romance, PLENTY
OF II, and imagination that can touch poetc
levels but in his stories OF life in the South Seas
which have done more than anything else to max.
him known among writer's. he has kept his stranss
personages upon the solid earth Like Mr. La
Farge's beautiful pictures OF the Happy Island.
his tales are fantastic one moment and passionate
" true and vivid the next The late Archbishop A.
York was his father. ne was educated at Eton
and OXFORD but the conservatism implied by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09

Meanwhile the problem itself interests Dr.
sigwart 1t furnishes, II anything does the Key
TO the plan OF his work. In his opinion the prob
lem is not insoluble On the contrary the ques-
ton OF evolution must bring its own answer. on
the principle that everything which exists has
become what ii Is by process the Intervals or
which may be retraced by Investigations In other
words 1.-The history of reality corresponds to the
logical development and differentiation OF con-
cepts: the laws by which becoming is controlled
have under given circumstances developed diff
ferences in what was previously undifferentated.
and have made necessary just these particular
differences" It Is this thought, or It's equiva-
lent which leads him to enlarge upon method
oiogy, to which the whole Of his second volume
Is devoted at the expense of what he calls the
analytical and normative divisions OF logic Hith-
erto method has been relegated to a subordinate
place In the science. whereas Dr. Sigwart would
make 1t the special. final and chief aim. The
reason for this though he does not give 1t as
reason. but as an additional fact. is that method
ology must have for its principal object the
growth of science from the natural data Of
knowledge" This Is just the same to say
that logic in practice is an evolution from those
elements OF mental procedure which from the
human point OF view are Indispensable. 1t can
not be merely formal. abstract and barren. but
must include a theory OF knowledge and this
for the Darwinists must be retrospective and
historical In the logical sense thought Is sim
ply absorbed In the effort to arrive at PROPOSE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09
DARWINISM AND LOGIC.
AN EPISODE IN sIGwART's STUDY OF
THE LAWS OF THOUGHT.

LOGIC BY Dr. Chrstoph sswsrt SrofessTN ran ..
lated by Helen Dendy. Vol i The Judg an,saS
Concept and Inference, Second EditHn' fes scs
Methods Pr. viii. 5si The Macmillan CO.
THE ESSENTIALS OF LOGIC. Eeings p Ten
Lectures on Judgment and Inference, Sy ner .
nard Bosanquet formerly Fellow OF lniverslty
College. oxford. PIP. x, is' The Mach'i'ia" w.
Those who remember their Barbara Ceiarent
Darii Ferio and the rest of the jingle OF scho-
lastic logic will look in vain for more thah
conte.nptuous allusion to the time honoreo
verses, either in the thousand pages W DR.. sig
warts work as translated by Miss Denny OF III
the little book Of Professor Bosanquet' but
they will look for much else In vain' ana "nu
much that they never expected to see' Logic Is
about the last science. 1t might be supposed 10
fee, the touch of Darwinism. But 1t has felt IL
and has gained what would have grieved OAR
win himself to the heart-a headlong impetus
toward final cause At least that is the view Oh
the case given by DR.. Siswart
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09

Predecessor skeat is about to publish tnrousm 70
Macm,l,an Company supplementary vo.u", ,ss
his monumental edition Of chaueer s"'. Titled
brought out in 1894 The new DOCK e"rtsin
"Chauceran and other Pieces" ana 70 nn.ared
numerous fragments that have n'.".s" rost. but
IN ann.nd,ces to other editions OF the po's sAteA
-s,ch profe.,or skeat has collAtsd ana
.n.~' rhsrs viii also b some new nassF'ss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
Rabbits That Climb.

A correspondent writes to the London
Field that while he was hunting rabbits
with ferrets in January he found rabbits
on three occasions IN willow trees which
overhung the water of a mill stream.
The miller said that 1t was not an un-
usual circumstance. Some months ago
The Field told of other rabbits which
had been shot, like raccoons or opos-
sums. out of trees in England. In re-
cent years cases of rabbits in trees have
been reported with increasing frequency.
From Australia has come the most re-
Variable story of rabbits as climbers.
The only way in which rabbits could be
kept out Of certain tracts Of land in
Australia was by the building of wire
fences about them. the fences having
meshes SO small that the beasts could
not crawl through and being so high
that they could not jump over. The rab-
bits have elawed at the wires until their
nails gradually have become hooked.
Some of the rabbits learned to scale the
fences, and then great additional ex-
pense was necessary, for the top of the
fence had to be bent over like q ] up
side down, with the hook out, go that
the rodents could not get over the.top.
Australian rabbits are said to be learn
Ing.to climb trees for the leaves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
A Bible Sled.

A friend of the Listener saw q funny
sight down in Maine. At place there,
which needn't be named, there lives a
small boy named Jonathan Longfellow,
who is third or fourth cousin of the
poet, and he is great boy too. One day
this friend of the Listener was driving
past young Jonathan's house and saw
the bog engaged at q. little distance in
sliding down hill on the slippery crust
ON something that was not sled. What
could it be: Evidently the scrutiny of
the passerby was. observed by the boy,
for he stopped his coasting and called
out amiably. I'm sliding down hill on
the Bible" And it was the fact too. He
had got the smooth, leather bound fam
lily Bible. containing the generations of
all the Longfellows, and was coasting
ON it with magnificent success. Boston
Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
Free of CbsrGs to sufferers.

Cut this out and take it to your
druggist and get sample bottle free
OF DR.. Kings New Discovery, for
consumption, coughs and colds.
They do not ask you to buy before
trying. This will show you the
great merits of this truly wonderful
remedy. and show you what can be
accomplished by the regular sized
bottle. This is no experiment, and
would be disastrous to the proprie.
tors, did they not know it would in.
variably cure. Many Of the best
physicians are now using it in their
practice with great results, and are
relying on it in most severe cases.
1t Is guaranteed. Trial bottles free
at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug store.
Regular size so cents and 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
HOLDING HIM. BACK.
Why an EnterIrising Man HISS No Chanc
co Bccone o millionaire.

Why an Enter1rising Man HISS No Chance
60 Eccone q millionaire.
Blummer is one Of our citizens who
live well and do nothing. He tolls
not, neither does he spin, and yet he
and his family live in comfort that is
not many removes from luxury. This
has subjected Blummer to adverse crit
icism, which fairly lacerates his sensi-
tive feelings, and he unbcsomed himself
to IA few friends the other evening while
they were enjoying the good things he
keeps on tap.
There's not lazy bone in my body, :"
he began aggrcssively. I'D rather work
than eat, and I've always thought that
/ had a great business head on me-. But
the records against me. My father set
me up i'll mercantile business, and
when had II balance struck at the end
OF year there was not enough left to
make a decent assignment. On his
death I came into u handsome fortune.
and I just thought I'd show my rela-
tives how had been misiudged by in
vesting secretly i'll a great southern
land scheme. went down gleefully to
look over my new purchase and gloat
over my prospects. Most of my real es-
tate was at the bottom of lake, and
what was ON dry land wouldn't raise a
hill Of corn to the acre.
MY brother got me nice position as
travelling salesman, and l had sold
whole carloads of goods at half price be-
fore the house could head me off. They
told me that I must SCH to hold my
place, and that was what I was doing.
but they discharged me so hard that ]
never got rightly over it. Mother bought
me farm, and again started to aston
ish my folks by my business shrewd-
ness traded the farm for the state
right to patent fence. All l got out Of
that was Judgment against me in an
infringement case. Mother left me
what l have now, with proviso that ]
should forfeit every thing if l tried tc
do business Of any kind. That's why ]
have no chance to make myself a mil
honaire. y Detroit Free Press
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
A WARNING NOTE.
Those Who Heed 1t Not
Have Much to
Fear.

A note Of warning.
At first the faintest echo.
It strikes the back.
A peculiar warning not heard, but
felt.
1t increases day by day.
The back cries out-rebels.
The aches, pains and lsmeness
Make life missry-become un-
bearable.
DO you understand the warning?
Do You realize tits kidney talkP
The Kidneys are on q strike;
They have been overworked,
Nature intends you to know this,
And has only one way to warn you.
The kidneys are located near the
small of the back.
They are composed of delicate
fibres that filter the blood. -a.
STOPPING positions, q strain or
cold often clog the filters.
This is serious when you don't
know what to do.
Backache is the beginning; lame
and weak back follows.
The filters fail to do their work.
Kidney disease develops. ii.
The urine Is too frequent.
The calls Of nature wake you up at
night.
A brick-colored deposit shows the
trace of failing kidneys.
The uric acid is going the wrong
way. rs
1t is passing through the blood.
Poisoning the whole system.
Rheumatic pains and many aches
appear.
All this from a small beginning.
So easy to cure, too, when you
know how. "
Get at the cause
Break up the kidney blockade.
Doan's Kidney Pills do this.
That's their SPECIALIZATION the kid
neys only.
One thing at a time is why they
succeed.
Doan's Kidney Pills are not cure
all. but kidney cure.
Doan's Kidney Pills are sold for
80 cents per box by all dealers, or
mailed on receipt Of price by Foster
Milburn company, Buffalo, N. Y.
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
For sale by Marshall
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05

fire and grit. Having been engaged
to manage the great Chicago horse
show, he has been continually pes
tered. embarrassed and insulted by
the Illinois state board of sgricul-
ture, which, being dominated by
much the same spirit that usually
characterizes q county board of SUI
pervisors, has imagined that it knew
it all and was responsible for oil, and
that any ideas not fully comprehende d
by it or in accord with its own, were
vain and unworthy Of considera
ton. much less execution. MIR.
Logan was accused of introducing
unnecessary frills and running the
show on too high q plain. and the
board took it upon itself RI c. elk.
mate him wherever irsax Mr..
Logan put up with the indignities
until patience ceased to be virtue.
and last night he sent the board
an ultimatum-it could either
apologize for what 1t had
done and its employees had done,
or the show would cease then and
there. MIR. Logan's proposition was
sustained by the biggest exhibitors
and the board was given until
O'Clock to make up its mind. MIR.
Logan was firm, and the board came
around with the most humble apol.
ogy and conceded all his demands,
Without entering into q discussion
of the merits Of Mr.. Logan's position,
the board OF agriculture. from its
methods. needed the lesson it hal
been taught.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
He Had Fallen or.

Patrick was new man in the light
horse regiment, but his cheerfulness and
witty replies had already established
him as favorite. He had one draw.
back, however, and that was his awk-
wardness when ON horses back. Nat
urally his position required the opposite
of this, and Patrick worked hard and
faithfully to acquire the ease and natu-
ralness Of his comrades when riding. He
congratulated himself that this was at
last accomplished. But one day when
on parade his horse SHE'D and threw him
with considerable force. When he re-
gained consciousness, he found that his
arm had been broken with the fall. With
his usual characteristic good humor the
poor fellow smiled in his pain as he said:
well, well, it's too bad thought
had improved In my riding q greae
deal, but instead have fallen OF -
HaTper's Round Table.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05

THE following is the closing por-
ton Of an editorial in the Blooming
ton Paragraph (rep.) on the dis
graceful affair at the Kankakce in
sane asylum last Saturday: 1.-The
spectacle Of body of men, employ es
OF the state Of Illinois, breaking in
the doors Of hall where a number
Of young ladies were holding party.
turning the hose OF the fire depart
ment on them and using brute force
TO break up the entertainment, is
enough to bring.the blush of shame
TO every citizen of the state. The
toughest communities in tho noun.
tain regions Of the far west would
not tolerate sach treatment of
women; much less should the state
OF Illinois tolerate it in an institu.
tion whore humanity and decency
are presumed to be inculcated. The
matter should not end with the dis.
missal OF the guilty men. 1t is q
case that calls for the attention Of
tho grand Jury"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
Ii VII, Surprise You,

In order to prove the great merit
OF Ely's Cream Balm, the most effec-
tive cure for catarrh and cold in the
head. your druggist will supply a
generous lO-cent trial size or We will
mail for 10 cents. Full size SO cents.
ELY BROS, IS Warren street,
N. Y. City.
Ely's Cream Balm ha, completely
cured me OF catarrh when everything
else failed. Many acquaintances have
used it with excellent resuIts.-Al-
ired W. Stevens. Caldwell, Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
NEW PUNCTUATION MARK.

a Badly Needed Invention Suggested by
r1oa the Caustic Copy Reader.
II shall be famous I have an idea
that will send my name laundering
down through the ages" remarked the
copy reader.
''Humphr" replied the humorist 1T
will be the first idea you have ever had.
You spend most of your time destroying
the good ideas of others. -
"Well, that may be, although you
never have any idea to destroy, seeing
that you get those which you have from
Joe Miller's jokebook and the old al
MANAGES.
''Oh, we'll, let's have your ideav'
ITO tell the truth, it was suggested
to me by YOU
"Ahi Thought as much, and yet you
say
Don't be in too big a hurry. You
haven't heard my idea.'
what is it?'' -. SD.
II have invented q punctuation
mark for humor. 1t is intended to show
the reader where to laugh. In olden
times, you know, the point of the joke
used to be printed in italics Nowadays
there is no way to show the point, and,
as many of the jokes, such as yours,
have no point, it is impossible to print
the point in italics. Now, Isuggest that
a punctuation mark be placed at the be-
ginning and/at the end of everything
supposed to be funny, so that the reader
may be prepared to laugh when he be-
gins to read and know when he has
reached the point and it is time to
laugh I would suggest that the mark
be two little squares placed above the
line, and ! shall call it by my name.
What do you think of that for an idea:
1t was suggested by your stuff, as I told
YOU
But the humorist had given tho copy
reader look of scorn and had vanished.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-11-05
MELTED SNOW POWER.
Swiss Towns That Utilize the Mountain


Streams.
BESIDES a considerable number of
large water power installations Switzer-
land Is full of small power plants, nearly
every town in that land Of mountains
and waterfalls being we'll supplied with
power from tho white COAL" as the
melting snow ON the mountain sides has
well been called. When there are no
large streams, many small ones are i'm
pounded and collected in reservoirs ON
the hillsides, and it is rare to find q
place of any size which is not well
lighted by the power of some mountain
stream.
AT Montreux the electric tramway
gets its power in this way, and from the
old Roman town Of Vevey to the me-
dl1val castle of Chillon one may ride in
a trolley car propelled by the power of
an insignificant little stream which may
on may not be noticed when climbing
up the hillsides just above.
The capabilities Of this general util-
1zatlon of natural power are beginning
to be understood everywhere, and, with
the appreciation Of the possibilities Of
the best methods Of long distance trans
mission. the Developments of many noun
tam streams must surely come. There
are lnnumerable streams, which, while
very small, are yet very high; and these
can with comparatively little difficulty
be impounded and carried down many
hundreds of feet, thus making ND fo,
their lack of volume by the great pres
sure readily obtainable, and, either by
the use of electricity or compressed air,
the power may be transmitted to many
points of application with but little
loss. Magazine.