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THE AKGTJS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1898. 3 1 Professional Sards. I ATTOBKlTg. gMcCAJKBIS McCASKSIN, ; ft g Attorneys M Law. SItok Island and sfllaa. iMtlilul one orer Krau Mtibi nor; mum g onn on iiu aim. ti 10 B. C. COHHUXT. B. ft COmtHXT. I g CONNELLY & CONNELLY, O Attorneys at Law. S Money loaned. Office oyer Thomas' drug store, our. becond avenue and as ! beveotcectn street. O. L. ANDERSEN, Real Estate, Txan, Insurance and Collection Agency. Room 6, ISuford block. ALEX B. LIDDERS, Attorney at Law. General legal hii'lnesn, collections. notary public. 1707 Second atenue, ' Uuford block. JACKSON HUB3T, Attorneys at Law. Z b Otfiom in Mom Ulan Rational Bank e ' WM. L. LUDOLPtf, fi 9 Attorney at Law. Honey to Loan. General Laval Bust- a neas, Nutsry Pnbilo. 1TH Baeood at a) nue.uuforauioo. t? a. a ituin. a. l. wsiksb. U SWEENEY A WALKER, i I Attorneys and Coons lior at Law. OfBea In Banrston Btoek. CHARLES J. SEARLE, Bute's Attorney. Counsellor at law. Offlaa la aonrt i nojse. MOKNIRY MoZNIRY, l j Attorney at Law. Loan money on rood ae"nr1t; maka eolleoilan. Reference, Mitsnau A Lynde, bankers. Uffle, aUtauaU I i.yuaa punaina;. CHA3. H. HUBBELL, i . ! Attorney at Law Justice of the t l'eace. Office In the CI tt Hall. Telephone US. DAVEMfJKT. 1UWA. rHTSIClAHS. S F. 11. FIRST, M. D. ! 8 ! tg Physician and Surieon. j p ITione 4 on IM7. OfBoe, Cfl Twen- I W tletb street. OOoe Hours- 10 to It a I 14 m ; t to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Banday, 8:30 ! ft to :J0 a. m.i l:S0 to i p. m. I DR. CORA EMERY REED, g 5 Homoeopathic Physician. , f! Bpecl1 attention to dlseanea of worn rt en ud children. alM dweaxes of eye. it e-. n.NM- nd throat. Office hour jjt.il li ti m , I to 4 p. m. S-Jl Six- . 0 teenin street, Kock Island. 3 jg Mt. C. W. (JKAFTOX, 3 I'hysiclan. tf V ftimrm H nr.rl IV Mitchell A T.ynde I hull. Unit itinve hour from H to IJ a ui. and I to p. tu. DaKTlIT. C. L. SILVIS, Dentist. h 0er KreU A Hath a, mi Baooad are- S nue. DI. S 11. MILLER, jj Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. . n All diKpasr of horse nnd citttlc IK Imitirtl on nrovrl principle.. Sur a .ii-ul titra'.Uin performed ia a scle:i jj line miUMU'r IKitft treated All cll m pioiDBUT attended to. ncslderce, M Ki'-h arecue Telephone I on ivr. (S times and Itflrrnar, IMI5 Mi; Fifth I av.-nue (Jacir. Maucker's stable.) op (I rnmiLc No. I urc house. ! t 1 I! 3 3 cs 9 BfiHITVCTA 3 JAtfrs P. HUB8KLL, J2 arettlMet aad Bc- rloterdent J tf Roots l. internal A Lynda buUdm, third flo,M 3 i a Architects and Superintendents, S cire I'ork. tk N eocd foor i S I i etonsT. HkNSY (4AKTJK P cp ' O Oauefiaaaoek Noimwrf. 2 Cat noert aed Daatfas etal Eisd !ttf store. 1st Seeoad Tecue, Tait shone, 19 il. I 2 X Ill WILD EXCITEMENT Statesmen of Spain Seek to Find . Solace for the Manila Defeat SCANDALOUS SCENES IN CONGEESS. Republicans and Carlists Hurl Insnltlng Langaas; at Sagal but He Has a Large Majority Mob Cries "Down with tbs Queen Regent" Newspapers Critl. clft (he Condition of the Spanish De. fennei at Mnuila. Madrid, May 4. In the congress yes terday a "resolution of hemage" In honor of those killed in the naval en gagement oft Cavite was adopted unan imously. The message from the queen regent was then adopted, the Republic ans. Carlists and Conservatives voting in the negative. The congress assem bled ami;! scenes of wild excitement un paralelled during the last twenty years. There were great crowds present long before the deputies came together and the galleries ar.d lobbies were thronged. Intense excitement prevailed, and so fearful were the authorities of a public outbreak of violence that th? full police ftrereth of the city was put under requisition, nnd the troops were kept In barracks under arms. Scandalous in cidents occurred during and after Sa gasta's speech, srenes that filled the moderate members with shame. The Iepubilc3ns and Carlists shrieked abominable and insulting d?nunciatirn3. In the vote the government had a very large majority. Some I'nlnt from the Dehnte. During the debate Penor Canalejas, editor cf Heraldo, said it was preferable to give Cuba Independence to embark irg on a foreien war without proper preparations. Ss.ipta. In a determined reply to criticism, declared it impera tive that Spaniards show themselves energetic and united. In the name of the soldiers and the fatherland heurged the chamber to adopt the necessary war credits, falmeron renewed his demands for an explanation of the eanse of the rever?e the fleet had sustained. Just at this moment General YVeyler entered the chamber and seated filmslf between the Republican and farli.at groups. 5-al-memr. continued deploiirg the unpa triotic attitude of the Conservatives, nnd attributed the country's ills to "the worn-out regime under which we live." "flown with the linrt-n Urgent." Lordon. May 4 A special dispatch from Madrid via Raycnne says: "In the mob Monday night were officers In mufti civilian clressl who were fore most In inciting the people to attack the niinlfters' residences and were loudest in caKin? f..r cheers for Wcyler. There I n.- doubt these men desired to provoke tl:? government into firing upon the n. b, nnd. so pave the way for its down fall. Pome cf them were arrested, but were subsequently released, the govern ment fearing to let it be kr.cwn thatoffl cers of the army formed a part of the .mob. The Republicans were even more busy than the officers In urging on the crowd and shouting 'Down with the queen regent.' More than ence they led the mob toward the royal palace, but each time the police drove them back." rRi;s sri-UKs oit aisoit Manila. tVitnts to Know Why the Forts There Were Not I'rrpiin-d for War. Madrid, May 4 The censorship of the press Is loudly complained of by all fhe newspapers. El Naoional criticises the government's unpreparedness at Manila. It says that the ministry tried to waive the '.ack of preparation and to "direct public attention to the immense superiority of a squadron of ironclads over a squadron of wooden vessels, dried up by the heat in those latitudes. Spain undoubtedly sees therein the heroism of our marines, but she sees also and above all the nefarious crime of the gov ernment. It Is unfair to blame the ene my for possessing forces superior to ours; but what is worthy of being blamed with ail possible vehemence is this infamous government, which al lowed our Inferiority without neutralis ing it by means of preparation." With reference to tUe catastrophe El National continues: "A good battery on Corregidor island, with great re flectors and guns capable of sweeping the seas for mil?s around, would have kept the American squadron out of the hay. In Corregidor tere were only a few wretched guns taken from the war ships a few days aco. This is the truth. Our sailors have been basely delivered, over to the gr.ipeshot of the Tankers, a fnte nobler and more worthy of respect than those baneful ministers who brought about the fir?t victory and its first victims." El Heraldo de Madrid says: "It was no caprice of the fortunes of war. From the very first cannon shot out fragile ships were at the mercy of the for midable hostile squadron. They wtro condemned to fall, one after another, tinder the fire of the American batter ies, powerless to strike and were de fended only by the valor In the breasts of their sailors. What has been gained by the illusion that Manila was forti fied? What us was made of the fa mous island of Corregidor? What was done with its guns? Where were the torpedoes? Where were those defensive reparations roncemir.g which we were requested to keep silnce?" I'l Liberal demands that parliament Insist or. having light thrown upon the causes of the Manila disaster. It says: "These of whom In these columns we hv requested an explanation of the occult causes whlrh brought about the catastroph" of Manila have met our dtmands with silence. They have em ployed force to silence those who In the sfiets have protested against the real authors of our grat misfortune, and for th: hae proclaimed a state of siege. fit fortunately we are all de pressed with a presentiment that the disaster of Sunday will be repeated in other places owing to the same causes." Engineers and the t'ninn Parlflc. Omaha. Neb.. May 4. The conference between the engireers and officials of the I'nicn Pacific over wages and rules ended yesterday after a session of sev eral weckc A new wage scale was adopted, but no information Is given out beyond the statement that it does not differ materially from the old. MODERN BATTLESHIP. i - Electrician Dablinan Says It Is a Regalar Bundle of Electric Ncrres. "The modern battleship," said Mr. W. E. Dahlraan, a well known New York electrician, in Washington the other day, "is a regular bundle of elec tric nerves, through which circulates the current performing various offices for the comfort, safety and convenience of the crew. It light the Ehip in every part; it brings up ammunition front the magazines; it helps to load the guns, and when they are loaded it fires them. It aids in steering tho ship; by its agency the officer on the bridge di rects the engineers and the man at the wheel; it sends torpedoes on their dead ly errands, and it furnishes the power for the great searchlights by which sig nals are sent at night and by which the sea is patrolled. "Onr war with Spain will be largely t war of electrical machinery, and one sf our great advantages lies in the fact that we are a nation of machinists, our specialty being in the domain of elec tricity. In that we escel the rest of the world, and our mastery of the subtle force will be one of the greatest factors in the struggle that will end in the hu miliating defeat of the Spanish nation." Washington Post The Law of Blockade. There are complexities in the law of blockade, bet its essentials are simple enough. A blockade must be proclaimed so that Ehips of all nationalities may be notified cf its existence. Ships already at sea when proclama tion is made must upon arrest be noti fied and jjennitted to depart for some other than the blockaded port. Until 6ucu notice the ship is not liable to cap ture. ,. hips so notified and all ships sailing after proclamation of blockade has been made are liable to capture upon at tempting to pass the blockade. In case of capture they and their car goes are confiscate, but neither their of ficers nor seamen, if the ship carries a nentral flag, are subject to any other penalty. They are gnilty of no crime. Ko neutral nation is bound to respect any blockade till it has been made ef fective. If it is not so, neutrals resent and resist the seizure of their ships at tempting to trade with "paper" block aded ports. Ships of the enemy are subject to cap ture anywhere at sea, without reference to the pcrts from or to which they are going. Neutral ehips are subject to cap ture only when trying to break the blockade. This fcr information. New York World. Old Ab Drake. Old Ab Drake was ouo of tbo "odd sticks" that flourished in a Vermont rural neighborhood a good many years ago. His wife was a meek, obedient, spiritless woman, over whom Ab tyran nized for 50 years, whea she quietly slipped out of this world. Old Ab's pauegyrics on his tlead wife's virtues were loud and long. Uefore the funeral ho said to one of his neighbors: "She was the best woman on the top of this earth. I jess thought the world and all of her yes, I did! I always thought it, and hanged if there wan't times when 1 come mighty near telling her so yes, sir ! And I would 'a' told her ho, only I've always held, and I still hold, that it ain't safe to uraise anvthins that w'nrs j petticoats. 'Ceptiu for that, I would 'a' ioki jjizy tuien wnat I thought of her many a time yes, I would!" Boston Journal. Famous Three R's. The originator of the famous three "r" alliteration "reading, 'riling and 'rithmetic" was Sir .Yilliam Curtis, a lord mayor of London. In 1 T05 he pro- rinKprl it bd n tons lii.fnra tlm 1.., ' education. THE MARKETS. Cllli njo Gr.ilu and Produce. Chioarr. M,iv 8. Followlng were the quotations on the Board of Trade today: Wheat May, opened Jl.li. iosed SI.ISI4: July, opened SfJc, closed 3:tVsc; September, opened 81c, clored -Sl'.ic Corn May, opened S2'.c. closed 3-"jc: July, opened S.lc, closed .""'ic: September, opened "4t.c, closed S4rv. Oats May. opened ruVc, 1 , , . rl ?, - T ! K- r.n.ii j 2'54c: September, opened "."o. closed ' 2:,c. I'ork May. opened $10.70, closed' SlA fCU.; July, opened $l?n. dosed i J11.12'r. Lard May, opened JS.TO. closed S.-..W; July, opened $3.75. clcred $o.90. Prcduce: 13 utter Extra rrecmery. IS'vC per fb; extra dairy. fresh peeking slock, IL'e. Ezgs Fresh stock. li''.)C per doz. Live Poultry Turkeys. a H'c per tb; chickens. T'ic; din ks, 8 (S'ic. Potatoes Common to choice. 65 "'te per bu. Sweet Potatoes Illinois, $J 30'a 1.C0 per brl. t'hiragn Live S:c. Hogs EstiT.ated receipts for the day. r.OOti: FHles ranged at ?.10fl4C for pigs, tZ.Mfi 4 05 for light. .;.!'.& 4.00 for rough parkin?. f3.S0St4.12s for mixed, and $4.MV.'4.17' for heavy packing and shipping it ts. Cattle Estimated re ceipts Tor the day. I.j'.'O: quotations ranged nt Sri.fjCiT; z.zh for choice to extra steers. $4.4"1S4.Hri for good to choice do., S4.15M.T0 fair to gor.-l. S.S"4.-5 com mon to medium do.. J;'.?r? 4 23 butchers' steers, ft. Cij 4.90 fed western steers. $.1.754:5 stackers. $4.f74 feeders. J2.r.Oii4.40 cows. $.1.1Ci4.70 heifers. $2.70 6 4.25 bulls, cxen ar.d stags. $.".C'?j 4.6C Texas steers, and $4.t"1Tifi.i5 veal calves. Sheep and Lambs Estimated receipts for the day, lS.OOo: quotations ranged at S3.60;i4.r& westerns. ".Uj4 6i na tives, and $4.Hi 5..V) lambs. Milwar.ke (initn. Mflwauke-, May 3. Wheat Lower: Xo. l northern. $1 H; No. 2 northern, $1.101.12; May. $1.13",; Jt:ly. $1 iac. Cats Lower: SifrSl'c. Rye Firm: Xo. 1. 2c. Carle;- Firm; Xo. 2, Lie; sairp'.es, iSc Local Mmi krt. Cora-!R330s. twis-SSc Hay-Ti'wothr. 310; wfid, Pjil Straw H5s. Pot atoe .V.Q65C Uutter Fair to choice, 14 j; frehh creamery 1 F-firit Pe, t'h.ckens Turkey 10i Ducks Alire. 7c; dressed, 10a .foal-S. ft 10 j. Cattle Bute tiers r f"r cent f.d steers 4Wute: sows and belters, lazttc: calvea. Hor 333.75. Boecp iittttc THE DEACON'S PIETY, 11 WAS EQUAL TO ALL OCCASIONS AND LASTED OVER EIGHTY YEARS. Suspended Bsligiotis Serrlcrs Indefinitely to Narse the Victims of a Smallpox Epi demic An Example In This us Be Was la Devotion to the Flag. Deacca YTilliam Trowbridge wes a small farmer living near Sheboygan Palls. He went there ever 0 years aga Besides tilling a little patch of ground the deacon, who was indeed the very soul cf honor and ever had the respect and confidence of all in that commu nity, was in the habit, before regular preachers were sent there, cf reading a semicu or exhorting. There was co sham about Deacon Trowbridge's piety. He wtis sincerity itself. Fifty years ago the little villago was visited by a smallpox epidemic an old fashioned, widespread and spreading epidemic and they didn't know how to scotch it as well as they do now. The first Sunday after the dreaded disease made its appearance the deacon's congregation was quite large. At the end of the services he made an announce ment in about these words : "These services will be postponed un til after tho smallpox disappears from the community. From this on I 6hall give my services to tho stricken fam ilies. I shall minister to their wants, help to uorso them, and when they die follow them to the grave. It may be a long term or it may be a short term, bnt, however long or however short, it is my ph'.iu duty to help my distressed neighbors." Tho word was well snitod to the ac tion which followed. The good old dea con hurried to his home, changt d his clothes, bade his family goodby and at onco began his work of mercy. What a work it was ! The epidemic la.sted near ly all winter. Large numbers died. Few in the village escaped tho disease. Tho deacon's example was followed by oth ers. Men went to their homes, told their wives cud children what the deacon had said and was doing, arranged their busi ue.'s, provided fuel and provisions, kissed their dear ones and went to the aid of tho unfortunate. Like the deacon they went without reward or hope of reward. Like him they spout weeks and some of them mouths in that service without daring to go home lest their dear ouea catch the disease. Tho strangest cf all this strange cs perieuco is the fact that neither the dea con, the good souls who imitated his ex ample uor their families were overtaken by the malady, notwithstanding the fact that the watchers, helpers and nurses were almost constantly in the presence of tho suffering patients and not with standing tho fact that they laid out and helped to bury the dead. Nearly half of tho dencon's congrega tion had disappeared when, the ueiit spring, ho resumed services in the schoolhouse. It was a sorrowful Sun day. Tho?o in the audience who had not lost members of their family had lost neighbors and dear friends. When tho good old Christian had read a chapter, prayed and talked a practical sermon, he referred feelingly to tho scenes through which tho community had passed. I think every man, woman and child in tho room, including the deacon, wept. At the close of the talk he asked all present to join hitu on their knees in asking that the community might escape such visitations for all time to come. It was a most earnest appeal. I bt'Jieve that that prayer has been an r?rered. Thera stay have been a few cases of smallpox there since then, but there has never been an epidemic. The Sunday after Sumter was fired upon, and while Deacon Trowbridge was conducting services in the Baptist church, the denomination to which be belonged for over 80 years, he and his congregation were disturbed by a great commotion in the street right in front of the church. There were beating of drums and sounds of fife much out of tune. It was so uncommon a thing that most of tho congregation walked or ran out of the church. Finally the dea con closed the Bible and slowly follow ed his fleeing flock. When outside, be asked the cause of "this unseemly dis turbance on tho Lord's day. " Some one told hint that tho president had called for soldiers to uphold the lrouor and the flag of tho nation and that they were going to raiso a company right then and there. ' Tho old deacon's eyes flashed a3 he walked out into the street, where a young fellow was irregularly pounding a bass drum, and said: "Nathan, I know it is Sunday and that all but the Lord's work should be abandoned, but the saving cf our country and the shielding of its flag from dishonor is the Lord's work. Give me that drum." And that model of piety strapped cn the big drum and went to pounding, greatly outdoing Nathan in two re spects he made more noiso and kept perfect time. He drummed as no one before had never drummed in the little village. As if it had gone on lightning wings, word flew through tho com mu ll ity that Deacon Trowbridge had left his pulpit to beat a drum, and on Sunday too. Within half an hour nearly every ouo in town and many from the outskirts bad gathered around the old drummer, all cheering him, and on Sunday too. That night Nathan Cole, who had been relieved as drummer by the deacon, went to Sheboygan with enough men to make up what became Company C of the Fourth Wisconsin. J. A. Watrout in Chicago Times-Herald. ' Shakespeare's Autograph- The rarest antcgrapbs in the world are probably Shakespeare's. Only seven are claimed to esist three signatures to his will (two of which are doubtful), two to conveyances of property, one in the folio edition of big plays (doubtful) and one in a translation of Montaigne. This last is in the British museum and cost over 300 guineas. "HE SPLIT INFINITIVE. C. Ccrnard Shaw Says the enactor Aborts It Is All Nonsense. In a letter to the editor of the London Chronicle G. Bernard Shaw writes: I chonld have tiionght, now that we Lave an acadsmy if letters, that it might resect- 05 from tbo gentlemen who cca sicualty vrite to yon to explain how English should be written. Some time ago yon let loose an unhappy creature to w horn tome competent person had incautiously pointed cut a common blander in the uso of "and which." Net understanding the matter, he bean accusing cvsry writer in whose works he could discover "and which" of writing bad English. With your per mission, I have extingnisbed him, and ho Las not since been beard of. There was some exenso for that poor wretch; because there unquestionable is a wrong way of using "and which." but for the "spilt infinitive" pest there is no excuse at all. There is nothing whatever to mislead him except his own nature. If any man wcro to object to a split indic ative snch as "I greatly regret," or a t-rlit subjunctive soch as "I should greatly prefer," or a split imperative such cs "come slowly up," what news paper would waste an inch of epaco on his foolish iguorauce? And yettbissplit infinitive nousecso is taken cjnito seri ously by editors who aro sufficiently goad writers to repeatedly use it them selves. The infinitive is a mood in which the position of tho adverb cannot possibly produce ambiguity; consequently tbe order of tho words is not a matter of grammar, but of style, of which the car is the only arbiter. Tho car often de mands the split iufinitivo and will have it in spite cf nil tho eilly pecple who do not know what stylo means. When theso infinite insects are dis posed of, you will no donbt bo attacked in duo course by the even more impu dent impostors who, though they pro neunro the word "color" so as to rhyme with "duller," and never bear it and never have heard it and never will hear it pronounced in any ether way, from time to time pretend to be shocked when it is spelt without a "a." I trust yea will always insist on these nui sances definitely stating whether they pronounce it or "honor" or "neighbor" or "favor" or "behavior" so as to rhymo with "our" or "poor," as the case may be, or whether tbey are merely bogus etymologists century belated Johnsons. In either case yon will be justified in re commending them to the care of their relatives and suppressing their bab blings. Warm Water Baptism. We would impress upon the clergy the necessity of bavins the water warm ed. Baptism, it is true, in seldom or never administered by immersion, but even when affusion is UFed tho cotitact of cold water with a child's bend might injuriously uffect one with an already sufficiently low power of resistance. Lancet. Tim in Eat Well, Sleep Well Get Strong, TRY AT ONCE HI -HI BITTERS It's the World's 1 ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS 1 Lrer..,4aJLr:. li 111 p i m mill AVcgelabk rTcparation, for As siau!ating hV Food and Regula ting the Stomachs and Bowels cf PrtOTOtesDigcsUon,Chcerritl Trcss and Rest .Contains neither Opmm.Morphinc nor jfincraL Hot Narcotic. govt tf Old TtS-VXTLPITCSEl AmptL, Sal' jilx Smnr fUrmSrrf - tut tunr. A perfect ncmedy forConstica- tion. Sour Stomach.Diarrtioca. Vcrnns .ComTtlsrons .Feverish' ncss and LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature cf NEW YORK. EXACT C0PYCF WRAPPER. Housewives Should remember we have a large and complete stock of Refrigerators, Cook and Gasoline Stoves, and all kinds of Household Goods. 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