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Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

Word comes from Porto Rico that the
natives of Yanco and Adjuntas have
taken UP arms against Spanish rule.
Word comes from Madrid that the fore
going is lie.
Nelson Morris, Of Chicago, denies that
he is going into the sugar beet industry
In Indiana.
Mrs. Henry E. Abbey denies the re-
port that she is to wed a wealthy Eng
lishmen.
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that "swipe" means to steal.
General Gomez says his plan is to
make Cuba q desert waste and useless
to Spain.
A mysterious person who has been
at Northampton. Mass, for the past
month has been captured. 1t is Caro-
line Belle Nealley, who was graduated
from Smith college last June.
Representative Simpson, Of Kansas,
has taken to wearing golf stockings.
This doubtless comes from riding the
bicycle which Simpson started some
years ago.
The measure providing for q tax for
free library building in st. Louis was
lost at the polls.
The president has appointed John T..
Bressler. of Nebraska, q government
director of the Union Pacific railroad.
He succeeds ]. Nelson, whose term has
expired.
The z. 8. Dean brokerage concern,
whose suspension Of operations at New
York and elsewhere already has gained
general notice. has been formally barred
from the mails
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
WHAT FoGs ARE MADE or.
Esbuls Pulveres and Their Airy Relatives
Of Town and Country.

Esbuls Pulveres and Their Airy Relatives
Of Town and Country.
A Convenient though not strictly sci
entifc classification Of fog types is sea
or coast fog, valley or hill fog and town
or dust fog. The last named has been
given the euphonic designation nebula
ptlverea. It is an artificial rather than
q natural condition. The Rev. Clement
Ley, who gave large portion of his life
to cloud study, says, in his book,
"Cloudland, that in some parts of the
globe nebula pulverea is occasionally 50
thick as to obscure almost totally the
sunlight and in Abyssinia has led to
the tradition that the plague or dark
ness in Egypt was in reality an unusual
dust fog. The amount of moisture varies
go much in different fogs that the terms
dry" and "wet" are used, the scien-
tific name Of the latter being nebula
stillans. In wet fog the particles are
apt to be larger than in dry fog. A still
further division, due, we believe, to
Robert II. Scott, is anticyclonic fog, or
fog in which no. rain falls, while the
temperature, generally low in the morn
ing, continues to rise during the day,
ard cyclonic fog, in which rain does
occur, while the temperature remains
about temporary.
Before leaving these town fogs we
may notice the part played by them in
affecting the health of the community.
Mr.. Scott has given figures showing the
mortality from diseases of the respira-
tory system for some of the more memo
rable fogs of London. We have room
for but one Of the many periods he gives.
From Jan. 26 to Feb 6, 1880, London
experienced eight days of fog The aver.
age temperature at 6 O'Clock in the
morning was &c degrees F. The total
death rate was 4S.1 per 1,000, a rate
unequaled since the last cholera cpl
demic, and there were no less than 1,557
deaths from diseases Of the respiratory
organs.
1t is not always an easy matter to
trace direct relationship even where the
statistics are carefully gathered, but
there can be little doubt that these town
fogs are unwholesome. Indirectly they
affect the health Of the community in a
way few would imagine. A town fog is
an excellent trap for noxious gases, hold.
ing them close to the ground DR.. r.
Barnes, studying this question, found,
by inspection Of gas plants near London,
that in foggy weather the escaping gas
was held in concentrated form in and
near the works. There are other sources
of contamination in foul emanations
from the ground, sewers, etc. On clear,
bright days, even if no wind is blowing,
the law of diffusion of gases acts more
effectively and helps disperse the gases
-Harper's.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
Opportunities.

I'm proportion as communities be-
come more settled and populous, Phil
ip," said Mr.. Gratebar, "the great op-
portunities that exist in them fly higher
and higher and become more and more
difficult to capture. For this reason men
often seek new fields, where the shoot
ing is easier. But in this, Philip, as in
everything else, one must exercise judg-
ment. He must find field in which
game actually does exist, and one that
is likely to produce such opportunities
as he is able to turn to account. No
snow shoveler, for example, should To-
cate in the tropics. Nor could the best
boat builder that ever lived reasonably
expect to succeed in q desert, even
though it were hundreds of miles in ex-
tent and he had o monopoly of the bust
ness.
What am endeavoring to point out
to you, Philip, is that not all new fields
are sure to yield profit. AS q matter
of fact, many are quite barren. A man
must find the right place, and the dis
cernment that would enable him to do
this would almost certainly qualify him
to stay right here and fight with the
giants.
And that is just what should ad-
wise you to do. Philip. Here is where
the big game is to be found. But, as
have before in substance remarked, you
must be prepared to meet it. Don't fool
away your time waiting at bear lick
with a gun loaded for snipe, Philip. -
New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
THE MARKETS
Chicago Grain and Produce.

CnlcagO, April 3.
Following were the quotations on the
Board of Trade today: Wheat-April,
opened 65Ac, closed 65ssc; May, opened
66Ac, closed 66&c. Corn-April. opened
nominal. close 23Ac; May, opened and
closed 231sc; July. opened 24&c, closed
24kc. Oats-April opend nominal, closed
16Bc; May, opened 161kc. closed 1890;
July, opened 175sc, closed 17Ac Pork
opened SS.15. closed sS22k. Lard-May,
opened and closed $4.O71s. July, opened
s4.15, closed $4.111a.
Produce-Butter: Extra creamery.
1s1sc per n; extra dairy. 17c; fresh
packing stock. 9@10c. Eggs-Fresh
stock. SIC; per dozen. Live Poultry
Turkeys. SG9c per 10: chickens, 7Hc;
ducks, 9910c. PotatOes-Burbanks 1sc
Q24 per bu; Hebrons, $4,000. Sweet
Honey-White clover. 11@12kc per 10;
imperfect. 7G9c. Apples-Common to
fancy, $1.00q1.75 per Dbl.
Chicago Live stock.
Chicago. April 8.
EEstimated receipts of cattle, $500; in
fair demand ard steady. Receipts of
hcgs, $1,000: roungh and common sold
at $3.eGGa. $50; prime heavy packers and
good mixed, $3.90Q3.95; prime mediums
and butcher weights. $397k04o0: prime
light, s3.90G3.S5. Receipts of sheep and
lambs, 12o00; prime native lambs sold
at $3.50 $50. and few spring lambs at
50 per 100 It's.
The Local Market.
Corn-20l PC.
asy-TiSots,. ss; wild ssas7
Sfraw-A-
Potsfoee-30c.
Butter--Fsir 70 choice. i5e; fresh creamery
iSc.
Egg.-Freeh. g..
Chicxcne-6nc.
Turkeys-9c.
Ducks-7c.
Coal-Soft, 10c,
&c; cowe and heifers. exec 3xe; calves -
0Sxc.
Hcgs- Ssh0l4
Sheep-So-
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
ARCHITECTURAL ART.
eineteenth Century Experiments and Re-
vivals Which Have Been FfuifleaA

Etneteenth Century Experiments and Re-
vivals Which Have been FruifleaA
The best that can be said Of the archi-
lecture of the nineteenth century is that
it has been an architecture of exception
ally learned, ingenious and accomplish
ed individualities. It has been an art Of
experiments which have failed and Of
revivals which have been fruitless.
These Municipalities, with their con-
sciousness highly educated and trained,
have been embarrassed rather than aided
by their knowledge of the great achieve
ments of the past. It does not seem to
have occurred to them to appeal to the
sympathies Of the people by uttering
their inspirations in the vulgar tongue,
but they have labored with immense
talent and ingenuity to interpret and
apply dead languages Their efforts
have been reminiscent exclusive and
experimental The architects have an
alyzed, theorized, disputed and argued.
They have formed schools conserving
classic or romantic traditions-schools
which have fallen apart because prog
ress has been found to be impossible on
merely archaeological lines.
Many of the individualities developed
under these conditions have been bril-
liant and powerful and have had a great
following of lesser men. As the century
has advanced certain Of these individu-
alities have been inspired by nobler and
loftier motives. The architecture of the
century, because it has been nourished
in the same soil that produced the elec-
tic telegraph, the telephone and all the
other triumphs Of industrial art, has
exhibited certain sporadic vitality, has
occasionally thrown out mighty branches
full of the possibilities Of q great frui-
ton, but because it has not enjoyed the
advantage Of concentrated effort it has
not fiowered as it flowered in the thir-
teonth and sixteenth centuries, still less
as it Powered in the ages of Pericles and
Augustus. Henry Van Brunt in At
lantic.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
A Scotch Child.

have a small cousin, aged 8, who
has already contracted the very bad
habit of smoking whenever he gets a
chance.
The other evening. after he had been
put to bed, his father went up stairs to
the room where he was and began to
search the youngsters pockets
The boy lay watching him fer a few
minutes, then suddenly sat up and ex-
claimed:
"Oh. father, I clean forgot! bocht
pennyworth of cigarettes the day for
. present tae ye."
And just then his father drew four
:iearettes out of one OF the small pock-
eta Needless to say. he escaped that
time-AnswexA
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
Globe Savings Bank Failure.

Chicago, April 9.-The local trustees
of the state university met yesterday to
consider the situation in which the
failure Of the Globe Savings bank had
left the institution. At the conclusion
of the meeting President F. M. Mickey,
of the board, gave out the following
statement: "Spaulding's bond is for
Sc. 600, which we are44iformed is good. He
holds approximately $130,OOO in cash
belonging to various funds. He also
holds about 100000 in bonds belonging
to the endowment fund. The trustees
have no definite information as to the
condition Of these funds"
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09

Swedish emigration is slowly increas-
Ing. The total number Of emigrants for
the three-quarters of the year is II, ,618.
In 1895 the emigration was 10. 781, and
in 1894, 7,O47, against 80, 900 during the
years 1899, and 1898 respectively. In
connection with the Swedish emigration
to the United States the report Of the
Swedish postmaster general, just pub
lished, is interesting. For the year 1895
81, S11 800 was received in money orders
from the United States, while $277, 7,310
was sent from Sweden, leaving a bal
ance in favor Of Sweden Of 1904. .610.
Probably an equal amount was sent to
Sweden through the banks and emigrant
agencies
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
Bryan Hurt mt q Speaking.

st. Augustine. Fla, April 9.-Hon. w.
]. Bryan was injured here yesterday af-
ternoon by the caving in of the piazza
from which he was speaking. Nearly
400 men and women were precipitated
about twenty feet to the ground and
many Of them were injured, but none
fatally. Bryan was picked up uncon-
scious and removed to q physicians Of
fice. where an examination revealed
that he had received no injuries Of a
serious character
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
XneW Hl0 Pl0co,
"Moye forward, please" said

"Move forward, please" said the
conductor in the crowded cable car.
''Not ON your life, F" replied the gen.
tleman addressed. taking . fresh grip
ON the strap.
''But there are gentlemen on the plat.
form who wish to get in" continued
the collector Of fares.
well, they can't have my place.
This lady is my wife, and I know thia
road from start to finish. II anybody il
going to sit in her lap this trip I'm
that person. I'm on to this road q
eurves ''-Yonkers Statesman.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
Assets Exceed Liabilities.

Quincy. Ills. April 9.-The ]. r. Day.
ton Tablet company closed yesterday
under chattel mortgages Of $25.0oO to
Kicker National bank. Of Quincy; $l4. 900
to Mrs. ]. Kibbe. Of Springfield, and
$1,000 to Kimberly and Clark company.
Of Appleton, Wis. The total liabilities
are SIS. 200: assets said to exceed s1O0.-
600. The company will be reorganized.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09
Two Points of visv.

On one occasion. at . party given by
Sir John Millais, Lady Halle rose to
play the violin, when to her intense
amusement she heard LAndseer exclaim:
GOOD graciousl A woman playing the
fiddler On the other hand, IN old
fashioned nobleman. when he saw .
gentleman sis down 70 he piano. con-
temptu0usly remarked II Wond9 4
~ VlatU0 @ AsW.y--- -
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09

Detroit. April 9.-Many young women
prominent in various lines Of Christian
educational work are among the 200 odd
delegates TO the sixth biennial conven-
ton of the international Association of
Young Women's Christian Associations
Of the United States and Canada, which
began yesterday in the Woodward Ave-
nue. Baptist church.
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09

others and q number
OF remedies. spending
o large amount of
money. but finally be-
came so bad that it wss
unsafe for me to leave
home. I commenced
using DIR. Miles Heart
Cure two vears nm
Rock Island Argus., 1897-04-09

II Fart DISEASE Is curable. For over
forty years" writes Daniel Myers Of
Two Taverns. Pa. on Aug. 10. 1896
Il suffered with heart disease. First slight
palpitation. gradually growing worse. Then
shortness OF breath. sleeplcssness. smother
Ing sensations and much pain In the region
OF the heart alarmed me and I consulted q
physician. Receiving no benefit I tried
Evening star., 1897-03-13
THE SECRET OF JoLLITY.
LeypOldt, the Butcher. Answered ID
by His Actions.

LeypOldt, the Butcher. Answered 1t
by His Actions.
From the New York World.
A fine, jolly butcher is Leypoldt, and
when you tell him you want the best you
can go away cortent, knowing that 1t will
come and that the price will be fair and
honest.
How is it you are always so fine and
jolly?" the reporter asked him.
"Oh, don't know said Leypoldt. laugh
ing fit to kill. Good conscience perhaps.
Perhaps it is good digestion.
Just then a voice broke in. 1t came from
an old colored woman.
Amy help fo.- the poor today?'
why, yes, Mrs. Rushmore. 1 guess
we've got a little something for you to-
day" And the jolly butcher cut off big
chunk IF beef and placed it In the trem-
bling hand. The old woman thanked him
and went out.
'Oh. she's all right said Leypoldt.
heartily. A hard-working woman when
there is any work to do. I've know her for
years. Many of them? God bless you, sir
you ought to stand behind this counter for
a day. You'd get an education. No,
don't give to every beggar that comes
along. but II 1 know that one is worthy
we'll, what's a scrap Of meat. anyway"
And that's why Leypoldt is fine and jolly.
Evening star., 1897-03-13

Are ye sure? seq he. Sock sure sez 1.
but av ye lave thin stoppin' secession bull
lets an maxim no return sez ], they'll
soon be out O heart intirely sez !. I'll
take me oath ye're right seq he. but /
don't know how to cure It, sez he, thin
rebels is just knocktn the dandruff out ov
us livery way. sez he. Well, Gineral Rose
Grams, seq l. so long as ye ask me- seZ /,
L wud just ordher a charge sez i, be way
av divarshion.'
so wild that in we wint an in FIVE min
utes more We could hear mouse squeak.
SO quiet ii was an the inimy dhrove moiles
from the fell av kyarnage. JEFF Davis said
himself that charges was what tuck all the
marrow out O. his bones"
And yet had all the truth been known
that same silly fellow, with his outrageous
romancing, had perhaps really borne him
self that day so bravely that had he served
prince instead of people he might have
fairly worn medal for gallant conduct.
When the Gun Missed Fire.
l wonder II the incident recorded Of an
Illinois Irish infantryman at Shiloh was
adapted from an ancient tale or was really
based on an approximate, fact? AS given
over camp ires II ran that the soldier in
the mad seUrry of firing at will at close
range, got a second cartridge rammed
down his Enfield, the first having missed
fire, and In the smoke and excitement went
on ramming down another after each un-
succeSS1ul attempt TO fire the piece. His
lieutenant seeing that he was in trouble
angrily took the rifle, and. with better sue
cess, discharged it himself with an explo-
sion like that Of twenty four-pounder.
The private. from behind the tree he had
Jumped to as the officer raised the gun
yelled out as the lieutenant went over
back ward: For the love o. heaven lieu
tenant. howld her sthrong; there's foive
more loads to come out"
However this may be. j have known SOL
dlers. not necessarily. but probably Irish.
to load up even more dangerously by filling
their rifle barrels with stolen whisky put
ting tiny plug in the nipple. and with the
muzzle tonpioned. carrying the weapon SO
carefully on the march as to confirm sus-
picions created by a strong smell Of VIII
lainouS whisky. The recklessness of this
Is not realized until one considers that in
campaigning a soldiers life might easily
hang on his ability to use his rifle promptly
With all its rollicking deviltry, the Irish
regiment was model in its relations with
its chaplain. These chaplains were usually
priests who held their lives cheaper than
dirt when duty called. and who apart from
their clerical influence with the soldiers
were looked up TO as men of courage, edu-
cation and great good fellowship. They led
better lives than their fellow officers, but
when IL came TO personal risks sneers were
turned to praise.
At Nicksburg sisters of charity came
among us. II made one think better of
our rough common soldiers-Protestant and
Catholic anke--to see them hush their
curses and stand uncovered to let these
holy women pass through the muddy lines
Evening star., 1897-03-13

died atoms and made Irish regiment
Happy the commander who had one OF
these in his line when the enemy lay be-
hind Obstructions and had 10 be rushed out
by a charge. II the officers would but show
good mettlc, :he Irish regiment would go
at AN earthwork with a glad shout as
of men meeting sweetlearts in Wilder
ness. But in camp the Irish volunteers
seemed 10 put in such time as they were
not uslIg in inie-necine fights in Matching
devilments and pitfalls for the authorities.
1t was all Irish captain of Ohio volun-
tesr infantry who. having failed in being
elected to the command of the first com
pany he raisJd-narrOwly escaping being
mustered in as a private in the company
of his own crsation-with the next COM
pany H.. recruited anticipated the action
of the mustCring-in officer by drawing
his men up in line and administering an
oath like TINS:
'Yez do. ache an livery wan ov yez. SOL
EMMY schxare TO bear thrue allayjance to
Evening star., 1897-03-13

some soldiers who had escaped from camp
and were reported as amusing themselves
riding terrified contrabands down a coal
shute in the vicinity. Within half mile
from camp I met coming back fine-look-
ing soldier, whom I had often noticed as
one who had evidently served In the Brit
iSh army and who was, so far as l knew,
a model man.
"O'Neil l am sorry 10 see you here"-the
fellow had evidently been drinking-"but
my orders to arrest and send back all
soldiers out of camp without permission.
There's no help for it..
He brought himself together and. hand
at visor of his cap, hiccoughed "Plaze. sir,
just what did We say was the ordhers?
TO arrest all soldiers out of camp with
out permission
Then, sir" said he, throwing his hand
cut full length in exaggerated salute be
gorra. I'm all right. I'm bugler. There's
lets o sodgers down below there-mostly in
a terrible state o dhrink, I'm sorry to say
There's nothing SO name as dhrunken
sodger. I despise EN- mcself.
l did not get that properly through my
brain until he had escaped, nor did I re-
port him. he made no trouble later.
Green Troops in Battle.
The first battle for entirely green troops,
where officers and men alike new to
the business, generally brings a good deal
of solemn feeling until the boys get warmed
up and realize that every one is not going
TO be killed or even hit Immediately. and /
think green troops more engaged in
thinking each of himself than of anything
else. Probably a good many unexpressed
prayers and resolutions to do better in the
future, if any future is mercifully left
might be discovered by a mind reader. but
even in those moments the reckless Irish
Eumor comes out. Many man beside the
chaplain shocked and then had to
laugh Irish regiment. in September
1851. ordered to go in for the first time
under heavy fire, heard a blatant railway
brakemans voice call out from the ranks
Passengers for h this way,
Are any of you able to remember the
with his honest head afiame with injudi-
invented soon enough. The talk OF such
preserved.
What was I? A sarjint. An We
know anything o throops yed know
sartint has dale more to do whin it comes
TO fghtn' than a company officer. The
officers is all very well in camp an on
pa rade. but it's mostly sarjilts takes charge
o the fightin': that is, next to the ginerals.
i reminder very well Gineral Rosecrans
comm up TO me at the battle o Perryvile
an wipin' the forehead of him as he seZ:
Clancy. l. m afraid its all up wild us. the
t0ys is mostly out O kyartridges an the
rebs is firm wickeder than iver- What will
we do Clancy seq he. an | sez to him. seq
!. 'GiEeral Rosecrans. he a man an don't
lose heart. The boys isn't licked yet, SELL
Evening star., 1897-03-13
Her Mistake.

From the Detroit Free Press
They were twins, as much alike as TWO peas
and even their mother mad trouble some
times to discriminate between them. But
careful scanning of their faces usually
decided her, because one of the two wore
serious look, while the other was always
smiling. They were five years and a half
old and full of mischief.
Here was a peculiar feature of their
characters. The serious boy was brimful
o. fun, while the one that was always
smiling hadn't a particle Of fun in his COM
position.
One day their mother found them in the
china closet, which was forbidden terri
tory, and both boys had been eating pre-
ana neither could prove an alibi.
''Ill whip you both,' said the mother.
and not show any partially. You both
look like little pigs"
Off came the maternal slipper, and Mas
ter David had a good trouncing and the
mother had seized Claude to give him the
same, when she was disturbed by a caller
who stayed SO long that the punished twin
had stopped crying to listen TO the con-
versation.
Nov, Claude it's your turn said the
mother and whack. whsck! went the slip
per SOLE while the wriggling youngster
howled and bawled.
"'Tain't fair he sobbed; you got the
wrong pig by TIL ear. mamma"
DO you mean to say. Claude, that you
are not as guilty as your brother?"
But the boy kept on bowling, and then
the other twin said. with a calm intona-
ticn that spoke of an unruffled disposition
you've whipped Davy twice, mamma :;
this little pig didn't get any.