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Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
Mile and . Quarter ef SALT.

Silver Springs. n. Y. Jan. The
great salt train. a mile and q quarter
long and bearing 100000 pounds of
salt. left there at Z a m. over the Eric
road for Worcester. Mass. II is the
largest single shipment ever made Of
Wyoming county products
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
"fer He's . Jolly Good FeIioo..

London. Jan. THE Daily News cx-
prcsstes the hoI% that :he report that
Colonel John Hay H. to succeed Bsyara
as ambassador to the court of St
James will prove true. BESIDES hts
high ability" says The News. he Is Al
exceedingly good fellow"
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
On the Following
COnditiOnS-

]. The winner must be al resident of
Rock Island.
?. He or she must not be kss than *
or more than II years of age.
3. All subscriptions must be for six
weeks or more.
4. No credit will be allowtd for sub
scrIptions OF persons who discontinue THE
ARGUS after this date.
s. The contest will close at &p. m. Sat
q. ufday. Feb. 20 1897. All names bust be at
the Office by that hour.
6. A consolation prize to thebne getting
next to the largest number of subscribers
will be given in the form of a dip to any
place the winner desires within ! radius of
200 miles of Rock Island.
?. A committee to be compoSd of Su-
perintendent of Schools r. G.. Yd,ny. Hon.
William McEniry and Rev. ri l.. Sweet
have consented to superintend thl count in
the interest of fairness to all the bntestants,
their decision to be absolute
8. Every contestant must register at
THE ARGUS office and be protided with
the proper blanks before beginning work.
g.. The names OF subscribers must be
Drought to itE ARGUS office 90 the day
they are obtained, or the day following at
the latest.
10. To win either prize il will be neces-
sary Tor the contestant to get a total Of go
subscribers.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
VIII Work BETTER with Les. starch.


Denver. Jan. THE eleventh biennial
session Of the Colorado legislature con-
vened at noon yesterday. The Populists
and silverites captured the organization
in both the senate and the house with
the aid of the few Mckinley Republi-
can members
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
SCrIbner'S
Magazine.
a Red Letter
Year fOrI807
The Entire Novelty of many of the
plans for 1897 is noticeable. For
instance the series devoted to

"LONDON AS SEEN BY CHARLES
DANA GIBSON" MIR. Gibson has
not before appeared as a writer.
He visited London last summer for
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE. for the pur-
pose Of depicting with pen and
pencil those scenes and types
which the huge metropolis pre-
sents in endless variety.
OF like novelty. is the first consid.
erable
NOVEL BY RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS, "Soldiers OF Fortune"
The hero is one of the most vigor-
Gus men that Mr.. Davis has drawn.
illustrated by e. ID. Gibson.
"THE CONDUCT OF GREAT BUsI-
NESSES." A beautifully illus
trated series of articles Of which
the following are already COM
pleted:
"The Great Department Store
..The Management Of Great
Hotel"
1.-THE Working Of the Bank"
"a Great Mandatory"
"UNDERGRADUATE LIFE IN
AMERICAN COLLEGES" A Sc
ries Of articles touching upon the
life of the older universities as rep
resented by the doings of the stu
dents them selves.
Judge Henry f. Rowland writes
on ''Undergraduate Life at Yale"
Mr.. James Alexander on "Prince.
ton."
Robert Grant and Edward S. Mar
tin on "Rarvard."
JAPAN AND CHINA SINCE THE
WAR" will be- most interesting
group Of articles richly illustrated.
1.-THE UNQUIET SEX" Under the
title Of The Unquiet Sex," Mrs.
Helen Wattersou Moody will writ.
series of articles: Women and
Reforms. ""The College-bred Wom-
an" ".'Woman's Clubs." aud The
Case of Maria" & PAPER on do
mestic service).
w. ID. HOWELL'S "STORY OF A
Play" In this Mr.. Howells gives
ua tho best novel he has ever pro.
duced in his delightful vein of
light comedy.
GEORGE w. CABLE. In addition
to the fiction enumerated there
will be a series of four short
stories by George w. Cable. the
only oues he has written for many
years.
HOW TO TRAVEL WISELY with a
minimum of wear and tear must
be regarded as an art little under.
stood. Nix. LEWIS MORRIS In.
DIN0s, in two articles, will offer q
variety Of useful suggestions and
data on ocean AND LAND TRAY
EL." This will be happily rounded
out by an article from Mr.. RICH
ARD HARDING DAVIS Tn "TRAvEL-
ERs One MEETS: Their Ways and
Methods" The illustrations by
American and foreign artists will
be highly pertinent.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07

New York. Jan THE first gold
landed from . foreign port In several
weeks was received yesterday from
Port au Prince. Hayti. 10000 in Amer.
lean coin.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
STATE or Hro, CRY or ToLEpo, 4
Lite COUNTY.

Frsnk J. Cheney makes oath that he 10 ,h.
senior psrtrsr nf the 6rE Of 2. J Cheney q Co. i.
doirg busir c,s In The city OF foleco, coanty and
staie afs ressid. ard that cad firm vii psv The
ssn OF ONE NJ SLR SD DOLLARS for eses
and every cssc u eaar.h that esnno, Be cured b,
he use Of Hah's Ca srrh Cure.
PRANK CHENEY.
eworn 10 btfsrs ne q, d sahscr.bed in uy prc .
nee this esa day Of December, A. D. Ises.
1skAL- Z 4 ". GLsAsox
tb Not ny Pubic.
Hahs Csfarrh Cure ts fale1 informally md sese
directly on the blood and 1seoas surfaces Of the
sysfsr- eend re tesiiooaiak, fee.
R.J. cnsxsI 4 Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Oold by druggists, sc.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
FAIRBANKS TO WIN, SURE.

HIS No0lnAtl0a to Wear v00fhees' ToGo .
Foregone Conclusion.
Indianapolis, Jan. THE nomination
by the Republicans Of Charles w. Fair
banks for United States senator is now
assured. The other candidates have not
withdrawn from the contest. but they
are practically out of 1t. If there was
any doubt as to the real strength of
the Fairbanks forces, 1t was cleared
away when his supporters in the senate
and house met in separate caucuses to
talk over the situation. In the two
caucuses. there were actually present
forty-eight senators and representatives
who are pledged to him. and there were
absent six senators and representatives
who have been all along active in the
support Of the Indianapolis man. max
ing total Of fifty-four men that are
Outspoken for Fairbanks.
This is eleven more than enough to
nominate. 1t is estimated that the
caucus will stand as follows: Fair
banks. 81: McKeen. 16; Wallace, 8; Tay-
lor. 3.
The house caucus will name Henry
c. Petit, of Wabash, for speaker. and
Charles r. Lane locks like the coming
secretary Of the senate.
Michigan Legislature I'm Session.
Lansing, Jan. The thirty-ninth
general assembly of the state met yes
terday at noon. and organized. The
house ratified the action of the Repub-
lican caucus in re-electing William u.
Gordon as speaker. The other caucus
nominees were also elected The senate
completed its organization in similar
manner. Governor Pingree was beaten
in the election of Gordon as speaker. as
the governor was opposed to that gentle
man. The messages Of Governors Rich
and Pingree will be read this aft
ernoon before a joint session.
Vest Has . Sure Thing, Apparently.
jefferson. City. Mo-. Jan. The
Missouri legislature convened at noon
yesterday and after temporary organi-
cation adjourned for the day. George
L. Collins. of Scotland county. was
elected temporary speaker of the house
and T. J. Lingle. of Sedaiia. temporary
clerk. The Democrats have a safe ma
jority in each house and will elect their
officers and United States senator to
succeed George Graham Vest. Senator
Vest will have no opposition I'm his own
party.
Will Work Better with Less starch.
Albany. n. Y, Jan. 7.-Governor
Blacks message was read to the legis-
lature yesterday. In speaking OF civil
service reform the governor says: In
my judgment. civil service will work
better with less starch. A scheme Is
not necessarily effective or high toned
because II lacks of common sense, and
they are not necessarily hostile who
think that common sense would i'm
prove it,"
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
The Trip
A Feature

The contest will be decided so that the
lucky boy or girl may leave the city in time
to be in Washington "Wednesday morning.
March The trip will be made over the
GREAT Rock ISLAND ROUTE in connection
with the BALTIMORE & ONO, one of the
best scenic routes known, both of which
trunk lines have made cXhaustye arrange
ments for the comfol. OF the travelling pubic
at that time. The trip itself over these lines
will alone be a feature, making. as they do,
one of the best routes that could be planned
II the winner wishes L, arrive in Washington
Thursday. March 4. the day of inauguration.
this may also be done, which would make. il
possible to be there over the following Sun
day. The details may be arranged by the
winner. Remember the whole expense of
the trip. including 4-days' stay in the city,
is to be borne by THE ARGUS.
Register at Once and Get % Work.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
A Funny Eagle.

A Russian grand duke, one Of the
czar's predecessors, was once .io grest
of u German prince. I; Was early in the
century. In Russia the imperial double
headed eagle is to be seen everywhere
and on everything throughout the en-
pire, stamped, painted, embroidered or
sculptured. At that period the education
of grand dukes was somewhat limited.
This grand duke went out shooting in
Germany and, among other things, shot
a large bird. He asked an experienced
huntsman who accompanied him what
the bird was. can eagle, your high.
ness," was the answer. The grand duke
turned on him in an irritated way.
How can it be an eagle" he asked,
when it has only one head7''-San
Francisco Argonaut.
THE MARKETS.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-01-07
RUSSIAN WOMEN.
not Long Ago They Were Treated - the
Turkish Women Are.

Not Long Ago They Were Treated ~ the
Turkish Women Are.
It is curious to think what a short
time it is since the emperors Of Russia
treated their womankind in the same
way they are still treated in Turkey,
says a writer in the Montreal Star. In
those days the czar chose his wife from
among his subjects, and she was never
considered his equal. The matters were
arranged in this wagon a certain day
the mobiles brought their young daugh-
ters to be looked at. and she who took
the emperor's fancy was forthwith cho-
sen to be his wife.
The princesses were kept with the
same strictnesS as eastern princesses,
and marriage only changed their place
of residence, but gave them no more
freedom. They were allowed occasional
ly to be present when guests were re-
ceived, to whom they would hand cup
Of wine and then retire to their apart
ments, there being a suit Of rooms at
the north side of the palace reserved es-
pecially for them.
If they were i'll, the room was dark
ened before the doctor was admitted,
and he was not even allowed to feel
their pulse, and when they drove out
the windows of their carriages had
drawn curtains.
The first czarina who emancipated
herself from this state of slavery, and
so instituted new and happier era for
Russian women, was the beautiful Ma
thalie Neryschki, the second wife of
Alexis Michaelovitch and the mother Of
Peter the Great, and her first triumph
was when she obtained her husband s
consent to drive with him in an open
carriage to the monastery Of Troitzky, a
proceeding which at the time occasioned
q great scandal.
Naturally, when the Russian princes
began to intermarry with other Euro
pean royal families, they were obliged
to treat their wives differently, bat it
was long time before the court of Rus
sia became as civilized as the rest of
Europe.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
The Eve of the Storm.

The modern science of meteOrOlOgy teaches us that in great storms, both on sea and land, the wind circles in spirals, which may be hundreds, or even thousands, of miles in diameter. At the center, especially when the storm occurs on the level surface of the sea, there is a calm called the "eye of the storm" Here the sun or the stars can sometimes be seen shining through a vast opening in the clouds while all around a furious tempest Is raging. Recently Prof. Cornu, the French savant, gave an illustrated lee. ture on storms in London, at which he reproduced the phenomena of a great cyclone on his lecture table, including the "eye of the storm" His appara tus was a flat, circular disk, some three feet in diameter, which was caused by covered with pins carrying little flags The flags indicated by their motions the direction of the winds set in circLIa tiOn by the Whirling of the disk above As the disk was moved across the table the eye of the storm moved with it, and wherever the eye was the little flags lay mOtionless, while those around them were Tapping and snapping in the min iature tempest. A barometer placed beneath hole in the table indicated a decrease of pressure as the center of the mimic storm passed over the hole. X similar fall of the barometer occurs in real storm.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
Egg Candling Business,

The business of egg candling, or eg. testing, does not look difficult and ap parently requires no especial prof ciency. The South Water street ex pert in that line paused in his worl long enough to tell a different story.
 Egg candling," he said, lis no foo job and only the man who has been al 1t long time can make good money It requires keen sight and a practical eye and just about one man out of ten is good 1t the business. You've got to have q steady hand, too, and the man who drinks much can't candle eggs very long. The breakage would soon take all the profit off every crate of eggs. In New York they have an egg candlerS, or egg testers, union and one of its rules is that no man who drinks steadily can be admitted It is com posed mostly of east side Hebrews and is very old, one of the oldest labor or- ganiZations in New York. Men in our business who are really first-class get good wages. You can always tell q good man by the light, easy way he touches an egg. He can tell an egg that is added at glance. where even people quite familiar with the article will say it is in first-class condition" " Chicago Chronicle
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
The Cost of Butter.

A very close calculation was made by a writer, ''F. J. s." in the Farmers Advocate last year on the cost of but ter in Eastern Canada. He divided the question into three parts: Grass but ter" 'fall butter" and winter butter" and worked it out on the basis that cow gives 5000 pounds of milk, yield ing 200 pounds of butter and that she milks nine months.
 Labor is charged at 10 cents an hour, board included. The strictly grass but ter season he puts at two months, May 20 to July 20. The total cost for feed labor, milking, caring for milk, churn- ing and marketing he puts at S5.SO per cow for sixty days. He then charges up to this grass butter the proportion of cost of keeping the COW three months in idleness, which is $1.33, making a total of $713, which brings the cost of the ninety pounds of butter which was produced on grass by d twO-hundred- pound cow to be eight cents pound.
 The fall period he placed at ninety days. For this period the cost per pound of butter was found to be tif- teen cents.
 The cost of winter production for q petiod of 1ao days, with ensilage nsed, is placed at 2O1@ cents, while the cost Of milk per 100 pounds was found to be 5S cents.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

San Francisco ArgOnaut: Military men generally recognize necessity for stimulants other than tea and coffee for soldiers. Such additional stimu- lantS are required to revive tired troops just before battle after forced march eS, or after long fighting. For this pur- pose any form of alcoholic beverage is not appropriate. Not only does the al- -lowance of such beverage cultivate drunkenness, but the stimulation is dis orderly, and is followed by a depres- sion that is apt to render the men in- capable of duty. Our War Department looks for Stimulants In articles that do not intoXicate and do not cause de- pression. Beef-tea is highly stimulat- ing, and has long been recommended, but 1t fails of complete satisfactoriness. So does the famous coca plant of South America; its active principle. cocaine. destroys the mind when taken cOntin- ually. There Is another vegetable prod uct, however, which has a similar eff cacy, without any injurious properties. This Is the kOla nut, which has been known to the negroes of Africa for more than one thousand years. Our War Department is contemplating eX- perimentS with it. Quite number of proprietary preparations alleged to be made from kola nuts are being widely advertised just now. Nearly all of them are worthless. the nuts used by the manufacturers being imported in the dry state.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

Shipping circles in England are at last thoroughly alarmed by the great danger which constantly threatens by reason of the large number of dere- licts afioat in the Atlantic. The gener- ally accepted explanation of the mys- teriouS loss of the White Star steam ship Naronic now is that she went down after sinking one of these menac- ing obstacles to navigation. The acci- dent to the steamer Glendower, which struck a derelict about 300 miles west of Queenstown, has aroused general public interest in the subject. There are now no less than twenty-One dere- licts floating about in the Gulf Stream, some of them in the direct track of transatlantic travel. The matter is to be brought up in Parliament early ill the coming session.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

The New Jersey courts are reported in the New York Tribune to have de- cided that passengers on railway cars in that State are bound by the stipula- tions imposed on them by the tickets they purchase As the courts have de- cided this to be law in New Jersey, it must be presumed to be law there un- til Overruled. But we have no hesita- tiOn in saying that it is bad law, and will be repudiated when 1t comes be- fore the Supreme Court for final adju- dicatiOn. The New Jersey decision makes much of the point that the par ties are competent to make a contract
 But this is not the case. When a citi- zen buys a ticket he takes the only means possible for him to avail him. self oe the Corvicos nf tho railroad which as a common carrier chartered for this purpose by the State is under obligation to perform the service for which its charter was given. Other State courts have thus decided. and have held that the printed conditions upon the backs of tickets cannot be used against the passenger, who only buys 1t to secure the transportation which for the stipulated fare every chartered railroad is obliged to furnish
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
Tea Drinking,

The tea-drinking habit that only a
 few years ago was supposed to be an infallible sign of an old maid, now
 numbers among its vOtaries many men who, for one reason or another, think tea better than more potent drinks Nearly every big club ill New York counts its tea drinkers by the score
 They order tea when others around them order whisky. Five o'clock is the tea drinkers time. and in support of their habit they say that 1t does not interfere with their appetite for dinner and is as pleasant an aid to a social chat as whisky or beer. One of the regulations of the navy says that noth- ing stronger than sherry shall be serv- ed ill the wardroom. but this doesn't prevent any officer who chooses from keeping whisky in his room. As q matter of fact, however, there is con- paratively little heavy drinking done by naval officers in the service. 4 vis- itor to one of the boats in the navy yard was talking with several officers in the wardroOm one afternoon last week when the senior lieutenant. who had been on deck for four hours su- perintending the shipping of several small boats. came below, looking thor oughly chilled through. He ordered the Japanese boy who was on duty in the wardroom to bring him a pot of tea. The captain joined him in this drink, and when the visitor expressed his surprise at the mildness of the bev- craze on cold day, both officers de- clared that it was better than whisky when a man was cold.-New York Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

What is to be done with vagrants! Shutting them up for the winter ID
 warm jails is exactly what most or
 them desire, and Is a reward rather than a punishment for their offense;
 while any proposition to set them at work, and thus not only recoup the cx- penses of maintaining them but make them useful members Of sociaty, is sternly opposed by the labor organiZa- tions. The depression of labor is max ing tramps of men who, at the start, would work if they could, but who soon grow fond of living without work, and thus the problem becomes more press ing every day. while no practicable schemes for solving it are being offer
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
C0VerPd RuuS.

X covered run is absolutely neces- sary for the well-being and comfort of poultry. If it rains and snows, they must have shelter; if the fierce rays of the sun beat down upon them, they like to be able to get into the shade. If your fowl-pen is small, It should be covered over with roofing felt, boards or zinc
 There is an objection to two-story poultry-houses. The ground floor may make a neat-loOking run, but It has it's disadvantages, and the main one is that if it snOws or rains during the day the fowls crowd under, and very probably remain there all night long rather than step out into the storm for the purpose of going to rOOst in the proper place.
 In summer, the fowls would not take much harm, but in winter one night of exposure like this would mean death or disease and certainly it would not be likely to add to the supply of Massachusetts PIoughman.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

In South Africa, the Transvaal Coy ernment and Folksraad have made con- sessions to the Uitlanders with regard to the elementary schools, also certain fiscal regulations. and the application Of mining titles to the underground working of gold reefs beyond the limits of the allotted surface ground On the other hand, very stringent measures for the Uitlander newspaper press, and law for the arbitrary expulsion of of foreigners suspected of treason, have provoked some additional resent ment.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01

There is not business man in the country who does not know the sugar trust and its methods of dealing. And yet the sugar trust is pursuing a business course that has for many years been considered unfair and un- iustifable. It escaped conviction on technical grounds once. It has been driven out of one State. Nevertheless, it can go into almost any State in the Union and transact business. If the States had proper laws against trusts it could easily be broken up. but until they do the trusts will continue to tour- ish and Haunt themselves in the pup lie view.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-01
Feeding for StrenptI,.

It is not accidental that oats, the grain which, next to whole wheat, is best for furnishing growth to the mus cles, should have always been the fa- vorite food for horses. They are better than wheat for all animals except man, and as good also for man, if properly prepared. It is the large proportion of hull which makes oats superior for horse feed, as the hull distendS the nu- triment and prevents it from compact ing and heating in the stomach. Oat grain not only contains large amount of nitrogenOus nutriment, but 1t has be- sides certain stimulative substance, which is peculiar to the oat.