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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Remiuiscences Of Dickens.

1t :Tas at tbs Juvenile birthday par
ties that Dickens seemed in all his
Glcry. At tie supper table, in helping
some little miss TO ''trife," he would
assure her with all possible gravity that
it was 10 trif1e at all. When the writer,
urged to make little speech on the &C.
casion Of Charities birthday, came to a
full stop at the words II am sure"
Dickens at oncn came to his assistance
and enabled him to retire from the plat
form, however ungracefully, with the
remark, among others, always be
sure. my dear 10y, and you'll get along
all right"
At the little theatrical entertainments
Dickens was the alpha and the omega
Of the proceedings. He was sometimes
autEor, adapter, condenser, musical d.
rector, manager, prompter, and even
stage carpenter. He overhowed with
energy.
Dickens, doubtless remembering his
own acute sensitiveness as child, could
not Willingly wound a child's feelings
He made fun with, not Of, uA No par
ty ever came off at Dickens without
"Sir Roger de Coverley" being intro
6uced. Dickens shouted with laughter
as some novice got badly mixed up in
"all hands down the middle" OFF he
darted after the lost sheep-generally
an awkward boy-and turned his blush
es to smiles by saying, "What dancer
this boy will make when he's tackled a
little more roast beefP' or, Isn't Tom
my nice young man for small par
tyr"
There was nothing of the pedagogue
about him-no vulgar attempt to pose
as the brilliant Boz. He was simply
big boy, and he came down the lad
der Of his fame to meet his fellows On
their ordinary platform-to be one of
them in their own simple way for a
time.-IIarper' Round Table.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Remark BETRAYED Him.

He sat in the smoking compartment
OF the parlor car complacently putting a
Perfecto. His easy manner and hiA pol
ished language proclaimed him I'd be q
man of the world.
''Of one thing I am certain, +" he said.
"and that is that understand women
thoroughly and completely"
His fellow passengers looked at each
other uneasily and made various ex-
cuses to leave the compartment
Two keepers boarded the train at the
next station and took the solitary smo-
ker into custody. he had escaped from
an insane asylum that morning.-New
York Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
QUEER WEDDING BANQUET.
Where the Cnbidden Guests Scrambled
For Bits From the Table.


Where the Cnbidden Guests Scrambled
For Bits From the Table.
was married in India, writes Phil
Robinson, the author and traveller I en-
gagged for our honeymoon little house
lie miles or so from any other habita-
tion of white man-that stood on the
steep white cliff of the Nebudda river,
which here flows through canyon of
pure white marble Close beside our
house was little hut, where a holy
man lived in charge of an adjoining
shrine, earning money for himself and
for the shrine by polishing little pieces
of marble as mementos for visitors. 1t
was wonderful place altogether, and
while my wife went in to change her
dress the servants laid breakfast on the
veranda overlooking the river At the
first CHATTER of the plates there began to
come down from the big tree that over
Swallowed the house, and up the trees
that grew in the ravine behind it, from
the house roof itself-from everywhere
"a multitude Of solemn monkeys. They
came up singly and in couples and in
families and took aeir places without
noise or fuss On the veranda and sat
there, like an audience waiting for an
entertainment to commence And when
everything was ready, the breakfast all
laid, the monkeys all seated, went in
to call my wife.
Breakfast is ready, and they are all
waiting" said.
who ara waiting?" she asked in dis
may. II thought we We're going to be
alone, and was just coming out in my
dressing gown"
Never mind" I said. "The people
aboute here are not very fashionably
dressed themselves. They wear pretty
much the same things all the year
round"
And so NY wife came out. Imagine,
then, her establishment. In the middle
of the veranda stood her breakfast table,
and all the rest of the space, as we'll as
the ratings and the steps, was covered
with monkeys, as grave as possible and
as motionless and silent as if they were
stuffed. Only their eyes kept blinking
and their little round ears kept witch
ing. Laughing heartily-at which the
IIouAtys Oiiiy IOOheu all tQe STdVSI-
my wife sat down.
"Will they eat anythingY' asked she
TRY them,'' said.
So she picked up biscnit and threw
it among the company. And the RESULT
About 800 monkeys jumped up in the
air like one, and just for one instant
there was riot that deties description
Tho next instant every monkey was sit
ting in its place as solemn and serious
as if it had never moved. Only their
eyes winked and their ears twitched.
My wife threw them another biscuit,
and again the riot, and then another
and another and another. But at length
we had given all that we had to give
and got up to go. The monkeys at once
rose, every monkey on the veranfla. and
advancing gravely to the steps walked
down them in solemn procession, old
and young together, and dispersed for
the days occupations. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Test Cashmere.

Cashmere, that unobtrusive, graceful,
hanging material, conspicuously the
gentlewoman's fabric, is with us again,
and word of warning as to the puppies
and blues may not be out Of place. A
late purchase at reliable shop after
being made up somewhat extensively
was found after one wearing to be STAIN
ed down the front breadth with some
drops Of water that had accidentally
fallen upon it. Moral, apply water tests
to samples Of the cashmere before pur-
chase,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Bryant's TRANSACTIONS.

After Mrs. Bryant died, in 1866, says
Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr., in The Attain
tic, Bryant betook himself for consola-
ton to the 'Iliad" and the Odyssey,
which he completely translated before
December, 1871, at the age of ~. There
are few things more touching than this
comfort tenderly given by man to man
across the gap Of 2, 500 years. Nothing
furnishes more eloquent argument of
the worth Of poetry and of its profound
humanity than this. The translation of
Homer is very personal matter and
seems to stir some of those fires in the
human breast that burn only in front Of
its own penates. Pope's translation was
a success, Cowper's was success, so
were Lord Derby's and Mr.. Bryant's.
Mr.. Lang and his associates, also Pro-
fessor Palmer, have made excellent
translations.
All these renderings are very differ
ent, one from another, and doubtless owe
their respective successes to the variety
among readers. There is one class of
people which has never read the Greek,
another that has read and forgotten, a
third and small class which compares
the translation and the original, and
there are other persons still who con-
denim all translations of Homer without
reading them. Bryant's work is said to
be faithful to the original, but the sto-
ries of Ilium and of Odysseus feel some
what i'll at ease in English blank verse.
The Greek spirit is SO different from
Dr1r ,r,.if f1,., =.
like our language, that almost all trans
lators, and Bryant among them, must
rest content with moderate praise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
THE ARGUS, THURSDAY. NAY Is 1897.
The Only Cure.

at makes me boil with indignation,
exclaimed Mr.. Meekton's wife as she
laid down the paper.
He waited in silence for her to con-
tinue and then responded in tone Of
cautions inquiry:
docs it, dear?"
"Are you attempting to carry On a
conversation with me?''
eyes, DEAR
"Then, perhaps, it would be a good
idea to find out what we are talking
about before you venture any remarks. /"
THAT'S what I was trying to do,
Henrietta You wouldn't mind telling
me, would your
Its about burglars. -
'Those you insisted were trying to
get into the house last night, till we
discovered there weren't any?"
II suppose you want to be congratu-
lated for bravery because you took the
poker and went down cellar, while I
stood on the top step and held the light?'
"No, Henrietta That was a privi-
lege. appreciated the manner in which
you took my gallantry for granted and
stood aside and yielded me the right of
way. 1t was one of the proudest mo-
ments of my life
well, that has nothing to do with
the case. was reading of how a wom-
an, with all the weakness of SO many
of her sex, chung to housebreaker
even after he was sent to the peniten-
tiary. 1t happens every day."
Il have noticed ever SO many cases
OF that kind" was the reply. land the
more think about them the more mys-
terious they become. The remedy is a
heroic enc, but the cure seems to be
complete in every case''
"What are you talking about?"
Don't mistake me, Henrietta.
don't advise it at all But it does seem
that the only way woman can get
over being scared almost to death over
burglars is to marry one. ''-Washing-
ton Star
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
he TURNED ON THE GAS.

A10eAeR Incident Of the Y0ufh q Georeo
Meaningless.
Ma Pickett, the widow Of General
Pickett, hero Of the desperate rebel
charge at Gettysburg, relates an anec.
dote Of an old nanny whom she dis
covered at Fredericksburg and who YER
itably believes that she was Washing
toms first nurse. Here is her story:
"She was an old woman in a linsey
woolsey petticoat and a bright turban,
and we found her in one Of our jaunts
around the city and took a kodak picture
OF her. One Of the company asked her
in fun if she remembered Washington
you see, she was very old"
Deed an deedy I do. miss, she an
swered glibly.
Perhaps you were one of his nurses
nanny -
dat am jess SO, missy-I nursed
him when he was leetle mite er baby.
Oh, then, you must have known
about the cherry tree?'
but she did not, and it was explained
to her and she listened with much in.
terest.
lie don know nothin bout no cher
~ tree, missy, but I members 'zactly
when his nav found him in her room
an de gas Albumin cause he done turn
it on
Ibid he tell her he turned It ON,
mammy?
" Deed an deedy he did, fob he neb-
Der tole no lie
." But, nanny, there wasn't any
gas in those days.
Yes, dere was, honey. members
dat too"
We decided that old nanny had been
the servant Of some George Washington,
but not our own immortal George, and
we left her to enjoy her peculiar delu-
sion undisturbed. York Mail and
Express.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Just shrcwd Judgment,

She-I went 10 fortune teller today,
just for lark, and she told me o lot of
things.
He-Yes; some Of them hit it pretty
closely, but l hope you don't think there
is anything supernatural about their
powers. They just use shrewd Judgment;
that is all.
THAT may be true, dear. She told
me was married to man who fell far
short Of what ! deserve. Indianapolis
Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Some Wesley Letters.

a number Of papers Of interest %
Methodism have been discovered in two
boxes at the Wesleyan conference Office
in London. Among them are IL letters
OF John Wesley to his brother Charles
and so by Selma, countess of Hunting
don, the founder of the sect known as
tho Countess Of Hunfingdon's connec-
tion. written to Charles Weslu.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

An old rule of civility says, :" IT'S no
less disrespectful to bite the nail Of
your thumb by way of scorn or derision,
and drawing your nail from betwixt
your teeth, to tell them that you value
not this what they can do"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13
Ornitholor.

Tonmy-A bats bird, amt it, ma:
Ma-Yes, Tommy.
Tommy-An it's a great deal bigger'n
a eagle, amt it, ma?
Ma-What makes you think 90, my
boy?
Tommy-'Cause heard pa say be an
H. 4nkins was on one last night
Richmond Dispatch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

Editor in Chief-I think our new
dramatic critic will fill the bill exactly.
Managing Editor-Why?
Editor in Chief-He tells me he spent
i've years in the diamond trade.-Phil-
adelphia North American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

The origin Of soap is q mystery, but
we have many evidences of its antiquity.
1t is mentioned at least twice in the
Bible, under the name Of "bouth, at .
period corresponding to several centuries
before Christ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

An original autograph Ct Jack Shep-
pard, accompanied by George Cruik-
shank's sketch of Jonathan Wild, sold
at Sotheby g tor $40. A letter of Thack-
Gay to Aiuswoeth went for cl0 lSa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

Friend (making call)-You are not
looking very robust. Do you enjoy good
health?
Mrs. Stayatt- Holme with sigh)-
Indeed dol But hardly ever have q
chance to.-Chicago Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

Are the most fatal of all diseases.
Foley's Kidney Cure, . guaranteed
remedy. or money refunded. Sold
By N. F. Bahnsen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-13

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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19
FRANK THOMAS, president
PENNSTLVANII RAILROAD.

AT meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
held at the General Office in Philadel
phia on February Sd, Frank Thorn
son, First Vice. President, was unani-
mousiy elected President.
In every field of American develop
ment Scotch ancestry is conspicuous.
Many Great men of the learned pro
fessions, the factors of the business
world, and the high officials of our
commercial and railroad interests look
back with pride to lineage of the
land of the thistle and heather, A
family of this description is that of
Thomson. In III Alexander Thorn
son sailed from Scotland and settled
as pioneer in the Cumberland Valley.
Among his children was son, Alex
ander, who, after winning distinction
at the bar of his State, represented
his district in Congress from 1924 to
1926. Returning to the practice of
his profession, he became Judge of the
Sixteenth Judicial District, and sub
seQuently professor of law in Marshall
College.
His son, Frank Thomson, was born
in Cham bersburg, Pa, July 9Th, 1871.
His rudimentary and classical educa-
ton was received at the Chambers
burg Academy. but he did not inherit
the paternal taste for the law With
the foresight which has been one of
the distinguishing characteristics of
his life, he saw in the practical work
of the railroad an attractive and
promising field of action, and at
seventeen years of age he entered the
Altoona Shops of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for instruction. A four
years course of training in this great
school of applied science graduated
him n mechanical engineer, who could
build a locomotive through every
stage of the progress, from the crude
iron to the finished engine on the
rails, while it also fitted him to operate
as engineman the product of own
skill.
1t required little time for Col. Thos.
A. Scott, General Superintendent of
the road, to detect in the young en-
gineer evidences OF unusual ability,
and the outbreak of civil war furnish
ed the opportunity OF testing his judg-
ment.
Colonel Scott had been appointed
by President Lincoln, Assistant Score
tary of War, and placed in charge of
all matters relating TO the transpor
tation of troops and supplies, and he
called Frank Thomson to his aid as
Chief Assistant.
Mr.. Thomson took the field immedia-
tely, the scene of his operation being
the South and the upper Southwest,
where he constructed railroads and
bridges, repaired those which had
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l'uetica1.
SILTE HIIR.


The meadow larks were calling so sweet and
slow and pOndering,
And bObOl nCCln shook their bags of money
i'll the air,
And long, long ago caIpe, through the mead
OwS wandering,
Little Silverhair, my little Silverhair.
Twas long. long ago, but the DAISIES shone as
brightly,
The old, old daisies and the buttercups of
gold;
And the od, old butterflies, they iluttcrcd on rs
lightly,
For then the time was young that now is so
old.
Her check was like rose-leaf, her eyes were
blue and glistening,
Her heart was like an open flower below the
cioIIdless SIX es;
Twas long, long agu, and she went 50 Sun and
listening,
With the blue deep of heaven sinking in her
eyes.
And she saw the blue shy y ing down upon the
daisies,
And wandered on and dreamed the rim OF
Heaven was there;
And she dreamed how she would climb, and
find the starry places
Little Silverhair, my little Silvcrhair.
And when she gained the hilltop, the sky lay
still beyond her,
Rests on the mountains. oh, far and far away.
And she wondered, shall ever through the
. fields of Heaven Wander"
And life seemed so long, that old. old summer
day.
Twas long, long ago when che vanished in the
shadow,
Her children called her old, her locks were
white and fair,
But oh, did life seem longer than your Journey
through the meadow
Little silverhair, my little Silverhair?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19
A.CLEIR DESCRIPTION

The average man usually finds him
self,at sea when undertakes the de-
scription of Il ladies dress. An Cd
farmer returning from the wedding If
Il niece in town, was eagerly question
ed by his family as 10 to the brides
costume. We'll, : said he, she hid
on some kind of dress, with a 1T
of ilubduberry of some sort or mott r.
down the front of if, and a thin 2
amajig on the back of it, with Il 10. z
tail of some stuff don't know VIII 1
it was-dragging out behind, and a
lot of tiip-nop flounces over the VIII e
thing. There want no aims to it
and she had lot of white truck, Sc t,
and fioppy like, on her head, d
that's Just all know about it." II
of which must have been unsatisl, 9
tory to the ladies of his household.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19
500 REWARD.

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, BEL AIR.
~ JANUARY 4, 1897.
The County Commissioners of Hartford coun-
ty hereby offer a reward of One Hundred Dol
lars for the arrest and return to the Hartford
county Jail of Joseph Davis, alias David HOr-
witt, who escaped from Jail the night of Satur-
day, January ID, 1897.
By order,
GEORGE J. FINNEY, Clcrk.
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SURETY =oN )
OF EVERY KIND
UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY.


OF EVERY KIND
UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY
Home Omce-S. w. Cor. German and Cal
vert streets, BALTIC, hd
StockhoIders Liability 5OO,OOo.OO
Total Resources $1,000. 900 90
HON FRANK BROWN, President, Governor
OF Mary land from 1892 to 1896.
JoUE Il. BLAND, First Vice-Prrs., and GeH'l.
mar ger, Sec'y. Merchants and Mfg. Association
from 1880 to 1896.
j. X EMP BARTLETT, il .SecOE Il Vice President.
ALEXANDER PAYSOS KNAPP, ~cCretary.
TOWNSEND SCOTT. Treasurer, Bankers estab-
lished 1882.
GEO. w. TRUITT. Superintendent of Agents.
Hon. ISIDOR RAYNER, General Counsel.
MARTIN LEHMAYER. WIN. b RAYNER, Assist
ants to General Counsel.
Deposited with the Treasurer of the State of
Maryland for security of all BondhUlders
S100,OO0.00.
GIVES SECURITY FOR
Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Receiv-
ers, Officers OF Banks, Officers of Corporations,
Officers Of Lodges and Societies, Contractors,
Clerks. Messengers, Conductors, Motormen and
all other employees.
EE Guarantees the fulfllment of Contracts.
WALTER w. PRESTON,
Agent and Attorney for Hartford Co.
25se1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19
VARIETIES.

Men, like planets, have both Il
visible and invisible history.
-Gorman-1ou know Beblcy?
Well, he has run through with II
that money his father left hi 4.
Midget-Dissipation Gorman-Sta s
ed newspaper.
prisoner at the bar" said his loI T.
ship solemnly, having donned e
black cap, you will shortly have
appear before another and-perhe IS
"a better Judge"
"A bald-headed man, who IS
heard that the hairs of a mans he d
are numbered, wants to know if tn, re
is not some place that he can obti IL
the back numbers.
First Manufactured thou, 1t
YOU favored tariff for revenue on =.
Second Manufacturer-So | do. IL
the tariff brought me no revenue l
wouldn't favor it.
They say it calms the mind 0
let the eye rest on the distant hC i
zon." That's n fact. When | see u
man to whom l owe money, it alwa IS
quiets me to look steadily into t lie
distance"
II always try to make as ma y
friends as possible" said the WON n
who gossips. ''Of course" repl d
Miss Cayenne. "If one had no frien :,
how could one discuss their priv; IL
affairs?n
Did I ever tell you how l st
licked in school once?n NO. 1--WE |,
/ got it. You see, half dozen of IS
boys arranged to jump on the teacL r.
at a given signal, and'-"Gou weret re
only one that jumped?" Exactly"
Extraordinarily five dollars for
procuring a divorce? Lawyer-1 5,
madam, or we would make a to
years contract to procure any divol &c
you may need during that time, not
to exceed six, for one hundred dollars.
Strait Watters-Ah, my poor
man, Don't you know that, by leav-
ing liquor alone you might accumu-
late money? Redmond Lyckers-
Cum'late moneysh.-tha 'rootsh all
evils! Ge' theshe behin' me, Shat'n
The world is Gods journal where
in He writes His thoughts and traces
His tastes. The world overtlows wish
beauty. Beauty should no more be
called trivial since it is the thought of
God. Through beauty things become
useful. 1t is a religious duty for q
man, so far as he honestly can, 10
surround his children with creations
of taste and'beauty, that their finer
instincts may be cultivated and
gratified. The love of beauty is the
gift of God, and it is born in the heart
of every child.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-02-19

John BoIgianO's Horse Fly Liqnid Is
the Rest.

None genuine without our signature on each
can, John Bolgano." Beware of false imita-
tons We manufacture nothing but the best.
Drives flies and insects of all kinds of horses
COWS, dogs, &c. Pint, 25c ; quart, SOC; gallon,
$3.50. We also manufacture }. B. House Fly
LIQUID. Drives mosquitoes, reaches, ants,
chinches and all other insects out of the house
permanently. Bottles, DC. and 25c.; pint
quart, 81 .25. The John Bolgiano Co., Manu-
fscturers 2I East Lombard ST., Baltimore, Md.
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REWARD OF $500!

Office of the County Commissioners, |
Bel Air Md July IS, 1896. {
A REWARD OF FIVE DOLLARS will be
paid for the arrest and conviction of any per-
son or persons depositing brush, tin cans or
rubbish of any kind in the water courses, or
along the banks of any of the public roads of
this cot lty. By order of
iv17 GEO. J. FINNEY. Clerk.
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w nted-

A good Steady Salesman to show a line of
staple everyday goods. Good salary to good
man. Send references, as the goods are sold
on time Address,
DRAWER d. @ Greensboro. N. G.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS,

Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers Of
the Fifth Election District tnat the undersigned
Tax Collector will be at WESLEY MCDOON'S
Store. Dublin, every TU ESDAY, and at JOHN
o. STEARNS' every SATURDAY, from 8
O'Clock A. NJ. to 3 p NJ. during September,
October, November and December, 1906, for
the purpose of receiving State and county
taxes. A discount will be allowed on all
county taxes of per cent. if paid in Septem
Der, 4 per cent. in October, 3 per cent. in No
vember. per cent. in December, 1896.
+. j. COOK, Collector,
Tau Glnnvillc, Md
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7 UIHER G. HENDERSON,
IL AUCTIONEBR,
For the sale of Real and Personal Property.
Terms moderate. Will serve in either Balti-
more or Hartford counties. Orders left either
at Pleasautville or at this Office promptly at
tended TO.