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THE AHGUS; THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 18111. THE ARGUS. Published Daily and Weekly at 1634 Second At enae. Bock I eland. 111. J. W. POTTER. - Publisher. Tbbjis Daily, 60c per month; Weekly, $8.01 per annum. All communications ot a critical or argumenta tive character, political or religious, mast have reel name attached for publication No each artl tidee will be printed over flctitlona UKnaturee aVnonymoas communications not noticed. Correspondence solicited from every township in Bock Island connty. -. Thtjrsday. September 10, 1891. Phesidest Harrison is seriously handi capped by bis son. Peoria Herald. 8ure thing. Senator Peffer has kindly consented to postpone the election of the third party president until 1806. Thanks, senator, awfully. Mr. McKinley says he is anxious fr r Got. Campbell to get well, because "there is not much glory in whipping a sick man." This is pretty tall talk for a man who is exerting his utmost energies in trying to dodge an encounter with tbe Ohio sheep. Indianapc lis Sentinel: If tbe bounty on domestic sugars is a good thing should not a bounty been giyen for domestic He? In 1890 we imported 86 per cent of tbe sugar we UBed and 100 ptr cent of the tin. Up to this time a bounty on do mestic tin would not have co6t the peo ple anything, but tbe increased duty has cost them several million dollars. Col. JohnS. MosBY'sloDg residence in China has cot caused him to forget how to do the old fashioned American knock-down-and-dragout act if it is fair to iudge by tbe newspaper reports of how he threshed the conductor and the grip man on a cable train in San Francisco tbe other day. About 27 years ago Mosby was rated as one of tbe most dangerous men in this country, and the old man isn't played out yet. laritrinftoenrt . Burlington Gazette. No country has ever existed where wealth has been created more easily or been more rapidly massed in tbe hands of the few than in this country during the last tniriy years. JNow why has th scon- ' centralion of ihe wealth of the couniry into the bands of the few been so marked ' and noticeable? There is perhips more than one reason or cause for so disastrous ; a result. But we pretend to say that j none have been more effective ia bringing ! about this state of affairs thsn has been ; the high tariff which the war forced upon the country. And yet those who clamor for a high protective tariff were not satisfied with ihe one left as a legacy by the late war, but they have just emerged from the re modeling of that tariff upon a more in iquitously high protective scale a sche dule which is to more certainly fleece tie poor, that tbe r:ch may become still more rich and lordly. Is this what a free people are to expect in the administering of a free government upon a people panting for the mainten ance of constitutional libert5 ? If this h to be tbe result, how long will the pillars of a fe government stand erect, as the founders placed them and erected the mag nificent structure thereon? Let aneducat cd people who have been reared um!er the the iLfluences of our free institutions look well to tie tendencies of legislation since tbe war. Capital always has its lobbies to thwart legislation which may have a tendency to curtail tbe encroachments of wealth ard power upon the rights of the people. Now let us see the influences of a high protective tariff upon the transfer of me wealth of a nation from the hands of the many to those of the few. There are. perhaps, somewhere from four to six millions of our people who directly are interested in the manufactures of the coun'rv say one in 10. It Is not claimed that the tariff directly benefits any but tbe manufacturers and those thus employed. Suppose we take a community of a hundr d persons to illustrate the work ings of the tariff. Ten of these are en paged in manufacturing cf different kinds. Tbe principle of the tariff would say that tne other 90 must be taxed 50 per cent on all tbey consumed of the manu factured articles to put into the pockets of the oil er 10. How long does this progress eo on before 90 become very poor and the 10 very rich? This is the theory upen which a protective tariff op erates. T. is kind of squeezing has been going on very elaborately for the last 30 3 ears In the last success of the republicans ., e are told this squeezing process was not sen wed djwn to its last drippings, and const quently the late congress caught hold of the lever and gave "it anotner twist, to see if there was not a little more SLbstauce tbe people would give up be fore revolting, so that tbe rich could pi e up still higher their wealth and ill go .ten we overstate tbe bearing of this ques'io ? The percentage of protection is nearly twice as great as it was in 1832, when the country was so convulsed over the matter that a reduct':on was forced Those infant manufactures in those days thought 33 per cent was all sufficient. But now, when this country has developed resources never dreamed of in those days, we are asked to take 50 per cent of all m nufaciured articles consumed by the masses and hand it over to tbe "infant manufactories," that those whoss wealth is so employed may riot in their ill-gotten fain. luis is the great question to be settled in tbe near future. The election of this fall is to cast lis shadow before it upon this viul is ue to tbe people. Iowa is especially taxed in tt is direction, because she is largely an agricultural state She is a grext consumer of those very articles npoo which a republican congress has made heavy exactions. Now is tbe time to start tbe vessel of state in tbe right direction. Music all week at the London. M'KINLEY'S WHIP TRUST. A Combination to Pat Up Prices McKin ley's Helping Band. . We have a brand new McKinley trust, a trust of tbe whip manufactur ers. McKinley got in the work of his fine protective hand last fall in the du ties on whips; and now the manufactur ers of whips have combined to enjoy McKinleyism. A very natural thing to do; for shrewd bnsiness men do not en gage in manufacturing industries for the good of the dear country, but to fill their own pockets. The whipniakers do not understand what protection means if it does not mean higher prices. They know of no other way to realize what Major McKin ley calls the "beneficences" of protec tion than through higher prices. Hence it is announced that whips are already higher now than ever before, and one of the monopolists adds, "with a chance of a rise in price as the stock grows scieree." This enterprising infant trust has pro vided, moreover, that stocks shall "run scarce." The trust got control of the rattan market and shut of the smaller whip concerns from their supply of this indispensable material. Without rattan whips cannot be made; and with the Bmaller whip factories closed up and their workmen out of employment, where does labor come in for its portion of the blessings which were to follow McKinley's increased duties on whips? Labor simply gets left once more, and as usual a grasping monopoly pockets the tariff plums. The Whip trust is a McKinley trust. Under the old tariff whips covered with leather were taxed in a general "basket clause' at 30 per cent.; but this "basket clause" of the leather schedule was pushed up by McKinley to 35 per cent. Most whips, however, are covered with flax, and here McKinley got in more of his "basket clause" work, by which whips of this kind were made dutiable at 50 percent, in place of the old duty of 40 per cent. The McKinleyites have no right to condemn the Whip trust. This trust, like all the tariff trusts, is simply a means by which to harvest the tariff plnrns. The purpose of a protective tariff is to enable protected interests to charge higher prices for their goods, since this is the only possible way in which protection can protect. But a trust seeks to bring about precisely the same result. The trusts themselves understand per fectly that they are working to accom plish, by combination, exactly the same thing that protection aims at by so called legal methods. President Ilave meyer, of tue sugar trust, blurted out this kinship between protection and trusts last year when certain high tariff organs were assailing that great m. nopoly. Here are the frank and hout-.t words of the sugar king: "The great cry of one of the great parties is for protection that is, they cry for it loudly during campaigns. But when we proceed to give ourselves some protection a howl is raised. They de mand protection for the industries. When an industry protects itself it is said that it is illegal." Propre Xotwitliitamlioc Protectiou. That our country is making enormous progress in nearly all lines of indust y no one doubts. As to the causes of this progress there is a radical difference of opinion. The protectionists hasten to claim it as the natural and inevitable re sult of their policy of protection to American industry not seeing that such a claim does little honor to American enterprise and American inventiveness, and overlooks entirely our vast resources, which are not equaled by those of any other connt.y on earth. We make progress, but it is as Edward Atkinson expresses it, A strong man can run, although he has a pebble in his shoe. -Suppose some Rip Van Winkle of the Middle Ages ;i time when steam was unknown should now wak-; up on board of one of our magnificent ocean steam ers. He sees the shores rapidly receding behind him, although the vessel is steam ing directly in the teeth of the wind. The fact puzzles our Rip Van Winkle. He has never seen a ship moving directly against the wind, and yet he has never ?een a vessel propelled by any other than wind power. Hence he is sure that wind power is still the only pjwer that can propel a ship, although he must admit that the ship is steering straight against the wind. In his inexperience of the preat strides which m jdern enterprise and invention have made he overlooks the throbbing engine which is forcing the vast buls forward and persists in his antiquated notion that in the same way the wind is getting in its work. Thus with the Rip Van Winkles of protection. They are sure that only the wind of protection can propel the ship of state. They forget the mighty motive power our broad acres of wheat and corn, our rich mines and forests, our in ventiveness and enterprise which are driving the ship of 6tate to its port. The protectionists are a curious folk. Safety Apparatus for Mine Cages. A greatly improved safety apparatus for miners' cages has been introduced. A current of electricity is conveyed dow n the nanling rope to four electromagnets, -rhich sustain tbe gripping cams. While t.he current passes tbe cams are kept away from the guides, hut directly the rope breaks and the current is cut off the cams immediately grip the guides and so sus tain the cage. The. rope is, to all intents und purposes, the ordinary hauling rope, except that it has two insulated copper tvires in the hemp core. New York Tele gram. Slips for the broadside docking of vessels nave been built at three of the principal ports of France. By this means vessels lire to be hauled out of the water without f training, and the cost is less than by the eTdinary means of placing in a dry dock. Gall stones are concretions formed in the (all bladder from some of the constitu ents of the bile. They vary in size from millet seed to a hen's egg, .and occasion ally are much larger. FASHIONS IN WALL PAPER. New Ideas and Artistic Patterns Described by Decorator and Furnisher. The dado of wall paper is little used at present, and is not needed except in large rooms with high ceilings. A deep wainscoting of hard wood or a movable banging fastened by hooks to a rail or moldiug is bonesr. and serviceable, and should be employed when such hori zontal division of the wall space is desira ble. Tbe frieze still remains in favor and re tains its place in nearly all schemes of wall decoration. Its width depends, of course, on the height of the room, and with the dado or wainscoting it aids in modifying the unnecessary height of the ordinary modern room. The lowering of the ceiling in many of the new houses will have the effect of narrowing these finishiug bands into the old fashioned borders, or of dis placing them altogether. . Where uatural forms in decoration are desired, a frieze of flock paper, with a bold ly painted design, may be used above the door spaces in panels. A trailing spray of wild roses ou aground of soft yellow in clining to brown, great bunches of crim son and amber tinted roses on a field cf turquoise blue, or a dull gold background, with stalks of tall red lilies, may be used with excellent effect. In many of the finest patterns lilac effects are introduced, lilac being a fash ionable color. Another departure in the present sea son's goods are the new embossing effects in silk goods. In one range of papers the ground is embossed with a daisy pattern: in another the ground is a minute repn sentation of combed work, and in another line of papers the ground is heavily em bossed to represent burlap. rueful and Convenient Aprons. Aprons are now to le seen in many dif ferent materials, including white lawns, plain and embroidered checks, pompadour prints, embroidered zephyrs or sateen. A very dressy apron for afternoon wear has a gathered bib and a Swiss belt, below which is loosely tied a girdle of silk passe menterie to match the principal color in the print sateen or zephyr, which is em ployed. Artists and ladies occupied in pur suits that soil the dress find a pair of sleeves which converts a plain apron virtually inta a dress, a useful addition. V r TWO NEW APKOXS. Two useful and becoming aprons are here represented. One is in soft muslin with embroidered edge, tucks at the bot tom and a bil. The other is made long with a large pocket at the side; the upper portion is formed of two separate braces, with a plaited frill, gathered into a wide pointed band, which encircles the waist. The pointed bands of these aprons add greatly to thestyleand fit of the garments. Tretty Ways of Snrvlug Fruit. Tastefulness in preparing and presenting fruit tor the table makes it doubly deli cious. Muskmelous cut in half and thor oughly chilled oa ice liefore serving are tempting and much used as the firt break fast course on hot mornings. Canteloupes ought not, however, to lie kept in a refrig erator with milk and butter, as they give a bad flavor to these latter. In the country a good way is to tuck them away in the grass over night, as the falling dew gives them freshness and crispness fur breakfast. Large, fresh, juicy peaches should not ha chipped up into little bits, but cut, after peeling, into two or three large, luscious looking pieces. Sprinkle granulated sugar over them and half freeze them in the freezer, which will take about an hour. Just before serving take them from the freezer and sprinkle on a little more sugar: serve in a glass dish. A very pretty way to serve orange or lemon ice is to mold it in halves of orauge peel. A Cool Closet. A novel device for keeping food cold, where one has no ice, was recently seen, and if one were snre of always having as cool, well ventilated a cellar as that house wife had, it would certainly save many a weary btep. It was a box very like au ice box, built into the pantry floor and ex tending into the cellar four inches below it. It was about 4 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 eet4 inches high, with a bottom of narrow slats placed 2 inches apart. The top opened back by hinges, and across each etid and one side was a shelf. Country Gentleman says that the housewife uti, loud in its praises, and it was cold in sum nier and warm in winter. Corn Oysters. Corn oysters are made from grated sweet corn. Useoneaud one-half dozen ears of sweet corn grated as fine as possible. Mix three large tablespoonfuls of flour and the yolks of six eggs, beaten till very light, with the grated corn. Have in the frying pan an equal portion of lard and butter. When boiling drop in portions of the mix ture the shape and size of oysters. Fry tbem browD and serve them while hot. They should be about an inch thick. Coffee rudtliue For coffee pudding beat together one cup ful of butter, one and a half cupfula of sugar, one capful molasses, one egg, one cupful cold coffee, four cupfuls prepared flour, one tablespoonful of cloves, one table spoonful of cinnamon, one grated nutmeg; add one-half pound each of raisins and cur rants, if desired. Bake and eat with any sauce preferred. Peacb Dumpling. Line half a dozen well oiled cups with paste and fill them with finely aliceu peaches, sweetened to taste, cover with more paste, then set them In A pan half filled with boiling water and bake or steam forty minutes. Turn out on a dlah and errc with liquid sauce. U iaV School - Shot Bring in the BOYS and GIRLS ond we will fit em out with good, solid, serviceable shoes that will WJER WELL. BOSTON SHOE STORE, 1623 Second Ave., under Rock Island House P. S. BIG NEW LINE'OP SCHOOL SHOES. There is more catarrh in this section of the couniry than all other diseases put together, and until tbe last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science bas proven catarrh to be a con stitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Citarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the onlv constitu tional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer 51(H) for any case It faiis to cure. friend for circulars ard testimon ials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 73e. Kow Try This. It will cost you noining and will sudly do you good, if you have a ougb, coldor any trouble with throat, chest or lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery for consump tion, coughs and colds Is guaranteed to give relief, or money will be paid back. Sufferers from la grippe found it just the thing and under its use bad a speedy and perfect recovery. Try a sample bottle at our expense and learn for yourself just bow good a thine it is. Triil bottles free at Hartz & Bshnsen's drug store. Large size 50c and $1. tpecmen Ca?e. S. II. Clifford, New Csel, Wis., was troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach was disordered, his liver was effected to an alarming degree, tppetite fell away, and be was lerr My reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bittt-rs cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisbursr, 111., had a running sore on his leg r.f eight years' standing. Used three bottfes of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklcn's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound ard well. John Speaker, Catawba, O.. bud five sree fever soies on his leg, doctors said be was incurable. One bottle Elec tric Bi'ters and one box Burklen's Arnica Salve cured htm entirely. Sold by Hartz & Bahnsen. BCCKLKX'8 ARNICA SALTS. The best salve in the world for cats, bruises, sores, ulcere, eait rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and posi tive cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For aale w Hurt A- Bahnseo. For Over Fifty Tears Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup bag been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If dis burbed at night and broken of your res by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth send at once and get a bottle o "Mr. Wirslow'g Soothing Syrup" for children teething. It will re lieve tbe poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it. mothers, thereisno mis take about it. It cures diarrhoea, regu lates tbe stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion and gives tone and energy to the whole system, "Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething is pleasant to the taste and is tbe prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States. Sold by all druggists throughout tbe world. Price twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs Wtnslow'eSoothing 8yrup Harvest Excursions To Iowa, Mo., Kan., Ind. Ter., Colo., Neb., Minn., or tbe Dakotas, over the Great Rock Island route. Sept. 15 and 29 are tbe dales you can buy tickets low rates round trip. Ask any ticket agent for tickets over the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific railway. This line runs to all tbe states above mentioned, and offers superior through car equipment. Limit on tickets, 30 days. Enquire of or address K E Palmer. Pass. Agt. Central District. Peoria, El. John Sebastian G. T. &P. A.. C . R I. & P. Ry Chi- CigO. 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For fiill infor ion astopneesof land a ml rates of f;ue, address t.eii 1 Tteket and I'a-senuer Atient. All of the Passenger Trains on all Divisions ' Ins Hallway are heated lv Meant troin the enefn?.aml the Main l ine I a'v I'sstnucr Trains are lighted will; the K'.eetrie Light !:;, Time Tables, Thrmih Kates and all in flation furnished on aoplieation to AL-eiif rt Kets on sale over this route at all prominent uoints in the Vnion. and i, its Airents to all f-tsof the 1'nited stji'es aiid t 'anada. iWer amioiiiicenn r.ts of Excursion rtates, Bnd local matters of H.l: rest, please refer to the IJcul columns of this paper. t. J. IVES. J. r. MANNEGAN, Paea't 4 Gen'l Snrt. Gen'l Tkt. t Past. Agt cror. 4ap,dis. icwa. C. O. D. Steam Laundry, 221 and SS3 EIGHTEENTH ST. Al. Laundry Work done on short notice. A specialty ot Dress Skirts. Pricf s as Low as the Lowest. CARL ACHTERMAN, 4 Proprietor. PARKERS' Laundry, No. 1724 THIRD AVE. A. M. & L. J. PARKER, rBOFRIETORS. 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MIDDLE-AGED MEN ' " noy and Bi;:Jht tr--;:: -. : .. ' if Trvat incut a t ; - - SEMINAL PASTILLES. I1- 'vvh. iin L''vc:: .- - : itwax s . r j r ." )'' nut I'u.-ti;n :' " ": than t. l' : Clii:, if Ui- t ; - ; HOME T.iEJTVEii!"'" William' private r-r:.' t!- . ' ': SPECIFIC Na.Ei;.:.' UTERINE EUTROPH'.G T. ' Call or writ? fort, at'1 ' -..'l'-' THE PERU CfiCKIC'LC3-.. 189 Wisconsin Stree. f . .TV- "v r'l' 7 . lr...-t .-!.- ..- 1 : t. Murk?. - - '- ." , f krfc: " - A DRMENi Or the Unuiir '' "V by aMoimi.Tin nr. satlrft-n """'J;., j:" It Is manufactured s P"c?f "n. ' ' In a lass ot baw.a cup o! bartnleM. and wiil er7.--t cure, whether the pa-ieut !.",, . to alcoholic wtwk It 1. r ot caaes. and in every lowed. It never r ert wtth the Hneeitle.ll tieeo T. - for the llouor apoetrte :i ei:- - i n.. " 48 pace book of jarticunr- J For sal by Marfb.il iFWrt' as, arogKitia, ll-elf fell"" . ' imtweotoa trial tyr plMffi 1 mm .... "'--- olc avts. Tor toe v.o