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2 THIS AKGUtt. MONDAY. AUGUST -'4, 1801. THE AKGU8. Fabliahed Daily and Weekly at 1624 Second Av enue, Bock Iriand, 1U. I. W. POTTER. Publisher. Thou Dally, Wo pet month; Weekly, JS.00 par annum. All commanicattons of a critical or argumenta tive character, political or religions, moat nave 1 real name attached for publication. No each arti Ucles will be printed over fictitious signatures Aaonvmoai common leattons not noticed. Correspondence solicited from every township i Bock Island to only. Monday. August 24, 1891. Gen. Russell A. Alger sajs that Blaine told him personal? tbat he was candidate for president. This settles a question tbat never has been very doubt ful. In commenting on President Harri son's speech at Albany, tbe London Daily News says that tbe evil effects of tbe Mc Kinley law are disguised by the coinci dence of good crops in America and bad harvests in Europe. Mrs. Langtrt has signed with Man ager Reynolds f or a tour of America, be binning January 11. Tbe story tbat a lover who bad bought and furnished a bouse for her recently discolored her eyes in a fit jealousy remains uncontra dicted. Chicago Mail: "Those Chautauqua dress-reformers who insist tbat "a wo man's dress should show the lines of the female figure from armpit to heel" should give Minnesota a wide berth until her presert race of anti-tights fanatics dies out." Now tbat ex Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has begun to loom up as a candidate for the presidential nomination, bis son Pierre has taken charge of his literary bureau and already there is a hatful of newspaper clippings favoring tbe Hooeier aspirant ready to be pasted up in the scrapbook. "How soon we are forgotten," re marks tbe Peoria Herald and then it con tinues, "Barbara F.ilcbie's grave, in the German Ref ornud ehurch near Frederick, Md., is covered with briars and creeping plants, and marked by . a beadstone on which are inscribed her name and aee, and the suggestive date, '1602.' " The rolling stock of railroads in tbe United Slates, aggregated by Poor's Man uel from the company returns for their fiscal year's end at different perio ds in 1690, were represented as follows : Lo comotives 34 241. passenger cars, 22,958, baggage, mail and express cars 7 253, freight cars 1,061,970; total number of cars 1.092,241. These figures indicate an increase of 1,200 locomotives aad 11, 134 cars of all kinds in the preceding year. As many of the company reports from which statement is made are now from six months to more than a year old tbe present equipment of tbe roads is considerable greater than the totals show (provided tbe latter contain no duplication) and it may be siid tbat in round numbers there are now in tbe Uni ted States at least 33.000 locomotives and over 1,100.000 cars. TAXING AMERICAN WOMEN. They Wickedly Wear CorwK, and They MuhI I'ay fur the Indulgence. Now it is corsets. Dress reformers would do away with this article of dress, but most women are not dress reform ers. Perhaps the tariff for once may prove a blessing in disguise, for it cer tainly has made it more difficult for poor women to tiny corsets. A. H. Kel lam writes from New Haven to prai- the McKinley bill because it has Hiuiii lated the manufacture of corsets in that city. He is delighted because the in creased manufacture of corsets has given employment to more workinmen. Ue does not Bar how many more, but sup pose it is 1,000. Wkat then? These meu find employment by the levying of a tax upon the women that wear corsets. Perhaps Mr. Kellain will say that tii) price of corsets has not risen. Ent if i: Las not then the quality of the goods ha' suffered. The object of increasing tho tariff on corsets was to keep out foreiga goods, shorten the supply and iuak room for homemade goods at prices higher than that of the foreign frooiix. If this was not the object, and if tho home manufacturers were able to sell as cheap as the foreigners, why iucreace the tariff and cut off foreign competi tion? But a German firm is coining over to make corsets in New Haver. "What gain is here? Are American wom en any better off because they pay a higher price for German corsets made i a Connecticut than for Genrmn corsets made in Germany? Why not let Amer ican women buy and wear what they will? How It Raises Wages. At Hornellsville, N. Y., several com panies hold what promise to be valuable patents on barbless fencing wire. Much of this wire is already made there, and Hornellsville promises to become a prominent center for this industry pro vided that it can get wire at fair rates. The wire trust, however, controlling as it does tbe manufacture of wire, and being the only manufacturer also of barb wire, is exerting every effort by hig prices for wire to crush out this indus try. The farmers prefer the barbless wire, but the McKinley tariff by im posing high duties on wire1 in the inter est of the barbed wire trust tells them that they must bny of the trust only. Pozzonl's Complexion Powder pro duces a soft and beautiful tkin; it com bines every element of beauty and purity AMONG CAPE COD FOLKS. BILL NYE ESCAPES TO THE SECLU SION OF COHASSET. Bow lie Let His Light Shine lon Jo Jeffe ton, Edwin Booth and Stuart Rob on A Thrilling; Interview with a Bear. Cads with Cameras. ICpyrigbt, 1801. by Editar W. Kye.l Caph Cod, Mass. Marvelous are the ways tf travel in these days, and how little sj mpathy is given to the tale of the tired old "tie wij" of other times who moans over the loss of "them good old days." So far as I am concerned, he is welcorre to his good old days. I, too, have tasted of the times when travel was free frcm conventionality and coal dust. HIS OLD TIME CLOTHES. but I do not pine for the return of those days. I cau recall the days when our family clothed itself from the wool of our own slei der flock, and when my mother cut out ny clothes by means of a pruning knife. People w-ho criticise my appear ance now should have cast their eye over me then. But leuk now at the swift and beauti ful scbelules of our vast railway sys tems, g-idironing as I may say the great and prosperous land. .Everywhere, too, new pleasure and health resorts are springing up. From Bar Harbor to St. Augus-tHte. the entire Atlantic coast is fringed rith beautiful seaside cottages and taverns for the rich, the middle sized rich, and even those who can af ford only a day or two by the side of the odd smelling sea. 1 starti d a few weeks ago from my .North Carolina retreat, ami in twenty JViur enji yable hours was in New York ithont chitiige. It was not the first time I hi.d fonnd myself in New York without i.-hange, and by a recent arrange ment the Pennsylvania railroad which, by the w ty, 1 have always regarded as one of our most talented and gifted rjads h is established a sleeping car l-ervice, by means of which, without change, Ihe New Yorker may, inside of twenty-fmr hours, find himself in the high and healthful hills of western Korth Carolina with an appetite certainly out of proportion to his income. Revers ng this order 1 came up on a train, arriving at Jersey City at 4:30. I then wal-ied on board a Fall River loat at 5:30, oj whose decks as 1 arrived a delightful band was playing "See the Conquering Hero Comes." Hastily doff ing my d ipper little speckled straw bat I placed ia charge of the steward, Mr. David W ishington, a large watermelon, which I had hurriedly lought and con cealed in a shawl strap, and going for ward wa soon seen chattini; gayly with a bunco i tan, who said that he had often been delighted by my rare genius and such things as tbat. He was a man, too, whom I dj not remember ever to have saw before nor since. How mauy new acquaintances one may pick up about New York if he shows a pleased and joyous nature. New York is tbont eitrht sizes too large for me 1 sometimes think. Co'nasset is more my size. Large towns make me shy and snort like a grass fed elderly farm horse at the Fall of Babylon fireworks. Inferior people notice me with scorn in New Yorl: and comment on my sylvan methods, but up here associating with Mr. Cleveland and Herr Joseph Jeffer son and Mr. Booth and Mr. Gilder and Mr. Robfon, all of whom are sturdy woodsmen, raising their own vegetables at euoruous expense. I feel less skit tish. Mr. Jefferson said: "Come up. Here you are ssfe. There is not n bnnco man on Buzzard's Bay." So we took passage on tbe Why? a new steam yacht which Mr. Robson is having repaired most of tbe time, he says, for the rare exhilaration afforded by knowing that he has a nice yacht at the paint shop or the plumber's "just getting the finishing touches pt.t on it." He claims that a yacht most always needs son ething done to it tomorrow, and then it takes a day or two for the paint to dry, and then you suddenly look at your wrtch and find that the summer is gone a:id work begun. Is it not so generally in this life? Oh, how often 1 sometimes think that terrapin aud Jo harinisberyer go with insomnia, while health and hunger often go with low spirited bread and prune sauce. Oh, take me back, I often cry at night, ta the soft winds moan through the cost ly laces of my casement: take me back and la- ma once more across my moth er's knee as of yore, only taking care to have me placed the other side np. Charles Jefferson was the pioneer of Buzzard's Bay. He bought at thirty two dollars per acre what is now selling by the frcnt foot along the beautiful waters of Buttermilk bay, I think it is, au arm of Buzzard's bay. aud now one may see at eventide the hale and sleek Charles gloating over his ill gotten gains, while near by is the hospitable roof of his father's cheery house on one side and the pretty cottages of Tom and Mr.ijef ferson's sister Conny on the other. I was surprised to find Mr. Booth's health so good and his endurance so great. He listened to an entire play of mine wl then walked two or three miles. He said he did not mind to walk after hearing the play. There is more hnmor about Mr. Booth than I had thought after seeing him as Hamlet. Hamlet, he says, does not give him much chance that way. I have of fered to brighten up Hamlet for him on a royalty and he is going to think it over for & few weeks. As I wrang his hand at parting he said he might not do it the coming season and possibly not the sea son after, so 1 will have plenty of time to do it in a satisfactory way. Mr. Booth, 1 have no doubt, is reserved and quiet with strangers, and on short acquaintance does not seek to be the life of the party, but when he is among old friends he is at his best, and his fine eyes often twinkle in a way to make yeu for get the Cordelia affair and the bad break made by Hamlet's mother. With Mr. Booth's consent I could put into "Hamlet" a scene which would of fer opportunities for bright dialogue and Sheffield puns that need not detract from the diurnal character of the play at all, but still give a modern color to it. Mr. Jefferson is a good host because he is not a host at all. He does not restrain you by taking yon in charge constantly. His air is that of one who gives you the key to the premises and then says help yourself. Tbe etiquette of being a host cannot be learned from books or bought with money. Kindliness of heart and nnselfishness of purpose are the spinal column of hospitality. With them fried mush and molasses are toothsome, and without them magnificence is misery and pomp and pie are powerless. Good hunting and fishing occur near the Jefferson and Cleveland homes. Deer are plenty, and we ran upon a bear while out walking. "Hist!" said Charles. "1 will creep np on him." 1 said why not go home and spend the evening pleasantly at baccarat? Why kill, per haps, a parent bear whose little ones might come to want? At this I started toward the house, deftly bounding over a sassafras bush aud carroming on a tree by means of my head. At that moment the crack of Charley's rifle rang out through the gathering twilight. 1 saw the head of the low, coarse brute droop and fall from the log over which it had been jeering. Then we all rushed forward to see him, .though I hung back a little, leing only a guest, of course, ami so a little reticent, also remembering, too, that one of my ancestors who once went tip to take the temperature of a wounded bear never came home any more, though over one hundred years have now crept slow ly by, Lorena. When we got there we saw that the bear was dead. We also saw a string a long, white string attached to the bear and leading off toward a !:irge tree. It was attached to Thumas Jefferson also. The bear was a taxidermed rng, which the reader may see at the home of Mr. Jefferson on a still day. Several present laughed at this. I laughed with them, but it was like the hollow and simulated mirth of a man who has a bright little son of his own, bnt who is compelled to laugh at the humorous remarks of another boy ar, given by his father. Buzzard's Bay is destined to be a very prosperous and well known locality possibly too much so to please those who have gone there to make a quiet home. While we sat on Mr. Jefferson's porch several carriages were driven in over th. private drive, came np timidly, turned so that the occupants could get a good view of the group, a kodak lunch box clicked and then they drove reluctantly away. At snch times it was amusing to see Mr. Booth and Mr. Jefferson appar ently take it for granted that they were the objects of the visitors' curiosity. I allowed them to think so. They still think so. Pleasant people also drive up in front of Mr. Robsou's and Mr. Crane's and Mr. Barrett's homes at Cohi.sset; thei', having mentally criticised the house keeping and checked off the clothes on the line in the back yard, they go away with a distorted 2-inch phot .graph an 1 a happy i-art. The American people are certainly a pushing people. They will some d;iy become so confident and so self possessed that every country home will have its drawbridge, its cata pult and its shotgun. Sometimes visitors get Robson and Crane mixed up an.l so put theui in the wrong residences. For iustance, we will V', 7') Wl I BOUNDED AWAY. say Robson is raking up some of his justly celebrated lignum vitie seek-no-further apples. Seeing Mr. Suiarty and his party drive np to survey the grounds and enumerate the servants he turns his back on the audience, hoping to be taken for his gardener. He is success ful. Great men are often mistaken for their employes. I was taken for my wife's coachman last summer, and I may add that it was the proudest moment of my life. 1 The visitor now begins to shed and exude information over those in the car riage. "This," he 6ays, "is where Crane lives. : Robberson lives over in the red house. They used to play the 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' and you couldn't tell which was which." While doing this he gently runs Robberson down, and then he goes over to Crane's bouse and runs him down, at the same time ' i ! OXFORD Special inducements to buyers. All Oxfords and Low Cut Sh- go at COST AND LESS To make room for Fall Stock. BOSTON SHOE STORE, 1623 Second Ave., under Rock Island House. P. S BIG NEW LINE OP SCHOOL SHOES. giving pleasant items ot recollection and reminiscence regarding the drama. He is generally one of a group of peo ple who were present when the Elder Booth drove Richmond off the stage. Mr. Booth says that if all the peeple were present at that time who have ad mitted to him that they were there, his father must have had a good deal bigger business than he used to let on to his family that he had. Mrs. Clevehind called at the Jefferson lome while I was there. She seemed to think that I was a good deal younger man than she had expected to see. This will help Mr. Cleveland very much in the coming campaign. People who find roe much younger and more attractive than they had been led to believe will always find in me a stanch friend. Mrs. Cleveland also looks more young er, brighter and more charming than I had expected even to find her. She still shows the same elasticity of Etep and straightforward glance of sincere and unstudied welcome that made her the first lady in the land. In closing, I may add that whatever Mrs. Cleveland's age may be, she doesn't look it by at least a year and a half. Da You Coogal Don't delay. Take Kemp's Balsam, the best couth cure. It will cure your couth? aod colds. It will cure pains in the chest. It will cure ioSueaza ami broui t iiis and !1 di.-eases pertaining to the hint's because it is a pure balsam. Hold it to tbe light and see how clear and thick it is. You will see tbe excellent effect fter taking tbe first dose. Lirge bottles 50a and 1. A Mother's Gratitude. My son was in au m most liopelets condition wild flux when I comnieuced using Churnberlain's Col e, Cholera anj Ditr.hoea Kemdy. It Cave Dim immediate relief and I am sure it saved his life. I take grtst plensure in recommending it te ail. Mrs. M L. Johnson. Evtrett. Simpson county. Miss. 25 aud 50 cent rmttles tor sale by Hartz & Buhusen, druggists. Mr. Clark, to the public: I wish to say to iny friends and tde public, that I re tard Cbauiherlain's Colic, Chokra tod Diarrhoea remedy as the best preoaration in use for colic and diarrhoea. It is tbe rinet selling medicine lever bandied, be cause it always cives satisfaction. O. H Clark. Orangeville. Tex. For sale by Hartz & Bahcsen, druggists. Albert Erwin, editor of the Leonard. Texas, Graphic, says: '"For tbe cure of cramps in the stomach Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the best and most BDeedy I ever used." Many others who have tried it entertain the same opinion. For sale by Hartz & Babnsen, drusgists. In the pursuit of tne goon things of tais world we anticipate too much; we sat out tbe heart and sweetness of world ly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. The results obtained from the use of Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic far exceed all claims. It cures dyspepsia, and all stomach, liver, kidney and bladder troubles. It 1b a perfect tonic, appetizer, blood purifier, a sure cure for ague and malarial diseases. Price, 60 cents, of druggists. I was troubled with catarrh for seven vears previous to commencing the ue of El j's Cream Balm. It has done for me what other so-called cures have failed to do cured me. Tbe effect of the Balm seemed magical. Clarence L. Huff, Bid diford, Me. After trying nianv remedies for catarrh during psst years, I tried Ely's Cream Balm with complete success. It is over one year since I stopped using it and have bad no return of catarrh. I recommend It to all my friends Milton T. Palm, Reading, Pa. I csn recommend Ely' Cream Balm to 11 sufferers fiotn dry catarrh from per sonal experience Michael i Herr, Phar macist, Denver. i . S3TOIE3 Ye hurrying people, STOP, DROP Your glittering money, DROP, And you will get your money's worth, If you are satisfied short of the earth. SALE : HOTEL ORLEANS KIT U AT tO ON NORTH SHORE, IfflKE WILL be under tbe supervision of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids at Northern Railway. W. J. MORRISON, Manager, and will be open for tbe reception of g-uests June 1 5tb in each year. Visitors will And THE ORLEANS is first-class in all of Its appointments, being' supplied with pas, hot and cold water bathe, electric bells and all modern Improvements, eteam laundry, billiard balls, bowling alley, etc, and positively free from annoyance by mosquitoe. ROUND-TRIP EXCURSION TICKETS will be placed on sale at the commence ment of tourist season by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids it Northern Railway and all of its connecting lines at low rates to the following points: Spirit Lake, Iowa; Waterville. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Lake Minnetcnka. Minnesota; Lake Su perior points; Yellowstone Parle and points in Colorado. Write for "A Midsummer Paradise" to the General Ticket ard Passenger Agent, Cedar Rapids. Iowa; for hotel rates to W. J. MORRISON, Manager, Spirit Lake. Iowa. C. J. IVES. J. E. HANNEGAN. Pre t 0111 Sup t Gen" Ticfcet Mid f au'r JLgt&t. John Yolk Sc Co., GENERAL- CONTRACTORS AND HOUSE BUILDERS. Mannfactcrers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Biding, Flooring, Wainscoating. atd all kinds of wood work for bonders. Elshteet.th St.. bet. Third and Fonrtla sves. Rock island. A psmp ii of Information and so- i strat-i .. the laws, sLodii.k lli.w lo J i;n meitts. avvut, 1 ntlr S murtN a. CO. if Urondttay. jfZi. New lark. i'l'V,. Da BANOEN'S ELECTRIC BELT wmuusPTxuKY VflAKMEH iMonvrn-f -tsr. ro-f-Bi atiT ana cmi HtOB1 llfcKtlOfLrS,,iiQi;T. M.ie Xr thii citir put. pM. Cr mi WstrrmlW WkMw, 9iD( ri;. Bllst. Kih" tr. (MiiiMM Urtftti of H-trtri!r throurn i'l WF.AK P A BTM, rcttoriDc i hem to II MLTH J IMlRUI t STBWdTH. Klrf 4'iutmii rHt IntMaRtU. or c forfcil S .iM 10 cub. BKLT amd mpmmmr Vmipteir i. mm. WOrsl wevlff t "arM la rhr luontha. MBphla Free 'AISLFJI ELECTRIC CO.. i9Lmii-, M,R R0TAG0N R OF.OI EFFEN BACH'S tUHl CSM tocftSllSAl, ERTDUS 4 siiiAit naiULis in Towie. JI00Lt-atl on . M STOMACH BIEBICATISS, RO UHU- Tuin h nsafairrMEiT,Hixo- m&r teller tb nit tua in Si boon, MratMiUf nnrlD 1U04.T. ISduS raMsvtsSasitrlslar nun nil r.rl. Oircalartne. THE PERU DfJt'O CO olssis.teUiaU.& r8tt tJlt. tTMtiWalrta. Wli -A A ,i r i i ij i i r ww ai ah. A lsfcHJLAIIh Sure Cures v. Z ' wr.ic-go, ins. iCj;, l&tiVwf-lfttl i:il r- Ic stiil Treat t. SKILL aid SE tonic, Nemns aiiSFnli1 WNERVOU3 DEBILITY. Irk nood. railing Msroory. ExUjstTjlx lerriDie urea:ns Head and Back to sumption or Insanity, ir--.tc -w.s. methods w.ih nrver-fi.t rr t'.,cc WSYPHILI3 .in-1 ai tadE-L Uiseases permanent. y cured. -KIDNEY and CRINAEY r-:: Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Stricture, Y::;m all diseases of ihe Genito-l - r- i promptly withoat injury to r i other Orrans. No experiments. Age i-c ei?r important. Consuita'icn freesvsirt "AU cor!t--p- in: -nc i- - -Forty Yt-arV Pra'-tirt- I antee Ome; p' " -.-. l Srrofula. SvphilN. P'n.!:-r m: L :i eaM. Lrurorrh ra ami rt-ti.alr Ti I Complaint. aurrh. ail IiiH-i. .6 ii( tous DiM-aM. No ma:itr who bas f. ;IM t ::rr":' Dr. Clarke a fnil h:strry ct -b to b ; Sunday s, o to 12. t .ili : F. D. CLARKE, M.D., 186 So. Clark St.. CHICACG i. TO THE AFFLI0T3 Why partis f. .w it.fi'.rxf Bti .tl tr-;itli T:tr:1f. t.-'-' ai')' Iri 'I ! 1 ' TiM i -i . rt-u lrt'Mi tr.11 ?Tt - r., 1 - ttouns ENr.-.rv.-v: lxum ejriy inti- rt!- r'r r :i . Tier anil K.-l-lt-r Xt- uM !-.. w. t - ni Trt-uttuvr.t 11 SEMINAL PASTILLES rifif'irfir. Q ' li:; iv. n ;t . a" (liM-utt f 'T lit.:: v . :tT- ' nal la!i:l ..-1 'i' t :"' Ihriii .-1. 1:1. . !. .-. : J. HOME TF.E'TMEST-:";, Yi'illumis pri :it" pr:t 1 SPECIFIC K0.8I J: UTERINE E'JTROPKiC I Otiultmt: :N THE THE PERU GEViiCJl W;. 59 'A'ismiiStN Sibslt 103 nisuKaiH aiKtL VETERIRAR Fcr Es::es, Ca:C. Ztxr. 500 Pa BP Book cm TrMiimrclsl'' aud t hrt !- ol rrf' , rmESFriTer.'oiii:-tiiiii";"" ,M A. A. i opinal .1l.-tiiiii"- - Ji.VH '. . HiKirmprr. '' ' I.l.-H..l or J.rul... 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