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THE ABGrUS, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1891. ''HQ Per, 'e'Jtn I) NEON l-JOO. ar" THE ELEPHANT AND f BROOKLYN. of Teana; M"n Wh "Tv.th.ng I C How He Becama . . f.l.r W. NVB.1 Koveraber.-Several years write, very able Sn the Herzog te,esfrve: iffcrent things by pressing i.. niacin;, i ' .f..,i I mention this .j.Bffnui'"' B , fnn at the teleserve in a 'y a" so "n' 81,16 wncere la r ff-: .'8513 : r-viit of fun with this y, (Hi the dial of which you ji anyti'i'iS from the morning . sMir ot Imrsos. lesteruuy I i.J-rz ". loosing ns wen as ne .'jv attack on unn, and I was it 6ml at my hotel and in lyii.itt'lj since, the little ma- i , ,i 1 . i li the stret-ts. as i say. tne power or the -Ib'w a fearless writer with A of L-iiiirnaze mav oftpn r :u fteat good by attacking a -s thmir. vr I come to New York, even 1,1 irks. I like to full into th I .'molil New Yorker who knows a, for it gives me a feeling of t-ir.il confidence which nothing li Day before yesterday I started hp town with an old resident of p. ac! as we went np the elevated Li stairs i toia ti im now clad 1 be as often as nossible in th if mold citizen of the nlace. for l iiJ not have to worry over de- ' be said, "it mnst be a eood liacouifort to one who has not s.1-' I jvi-1 in tiie citv to be with one Is perfectly familiar with New 1 13 nothing but time and years can cm. Now, for instance, the man rawest or from the country may nimsell that lie is entirely at here after a week or two, and be ake it easv. That is the time ha liimself.antl the first thin? he does la experiences this feeling of false rry is to climb the elevated stairs "Comrades" softly to himself. I a find when he gets here to the see as we are that he has come tedious iron stairs on a hot day :oknw after he has his ticket that t n the down town side when he p to go up, or vice versa. It is f 7 humiliating and makes him look foolish, I think. And so hv p: that's just what we have done i l you II a?ree not to say an vthinir E;fis I will pay for the lunch." iril not say anything about it. - wning l visited Central park for -me; its qmet walks in order to l-Te a stiontaneous aftr dinner f- for the Lambs' club and also to pae with nature and the child r, tne baby hippopotamus. I am il of wild beasts born in captiv i often EMid hours in front of "aw contemplating their singular -; 3a;y li-.p;). ipotumus is, I may safe- plain as Senator Peffer, of tae hirsute wonder of the bound- ("''i. She has A lnnaltr fiHinu j ...B -i uiuouy leus. and is now abont 'Me of her mother and one-third I'r'i''ips. as her proud father, great quantities of hay and ? int.. the water. Her life is - one. After being in the ' t a time she may be seen by jsr.-viii- student coming out again. -.itutHM i,Hr iife Work. Instead J'":- a pnriiose in life, she does no "it iinr ra(.e or or history tnan m .''a -y nt a summer resort. 'Jjraife always strikes me as a sort ""rri l,rut(, somehow, while the Wamus child and baby elephant u" air ff L'pttini thtir xlntlica tK. Lojk for one moment p:i:mt. The seat of his trousers l .u mm one oacK 10 r C5t r,.; , . - - M-iuueiu maae Dy one s poor r m draping a narrow and bony l Have i . i ..'Lwa-vtotue academy wearing a I-, like that and 1 can 8ti11 I rr how Ipular I was with the wyj who hadn't had anything to ;emfwtt good while. i .jj-10 lueni like a ray of sunshine -vlUj rossea ocean of life. 1 ?""ng them like a large, juicy nhv crowaea aen ot ny- a ;en 25 suffering with Upeworra. ., Joyfully they hailed me, with tW? ,ta.nzy nted atmoaphere' Wtx,kLW ot me and wanted W a ma,le my dejected trousers I V.i , P eated melancholy! I, elephant is mnch like a country ard .7 ,me- He hae an air of Ifcj9 "uppity which Is often mis 'orthe Wi, . i a r teachh nature by whicb J700 wiinout running a not oitchfork into him. He also hna . of espressing I imself at the proper time in sue". manner as to win reepeot and esteem after hit has stood abont enough funny businesr. At such times he man ages to make those who have reviled him before beg to know the name of his tronser maker so that they can get a fit like his. Central park is a very valuable and beautiful strin of woods. Vint if Ar. touch the parks of Chicago, except that j. i ii , ii una i ao rutgeu Deanty or rocks and hills which the Chicacro narta An Few Eastern people realize that Chicago is quieuy ana wun a timid and almost shrinking modesty, which is almost pain- ini, sailing on toward the top of the list, and I have of en wished that she would attempt at least to assert herself thrnno the columns of the press in such a wav ii. t i , . J umi, uer grea ness and ner wonderful and uninterrupted growth might be snown totne piopie ot the satisfied East Why doesn't s ie speak of it? In Brooklyn last week 1 RAW tVlA mvaf re fined barber eicm that I PVpr nam a across, I think. It was called the brooyJ.yn- hair cuTTnia": : studio. : Where the b: rber has such high 'and clone! niercintr notions, in it. tr ...... dered at that the city itself is so refined ana so excelsior.' The day, I dare say, is uoi laruiscam w nen tne sausage making atelier will be as common in Brooklyn as the man wi: h the long divided skirt frock coat is n w. The red net ktie is nertninl ing in a spirit d manner for the New - 1- ... ions ana urcoKij-n right of way with the frock coat, which h sweep of kilt, reaching considerably be- iow me Knees, some attribute this im ported English idiocy to some to anothi r, but you will find when j ou come to ngure it all out that the able and brai ay tailor wislips not nnlu to make for you a new style of frock coat, but top csat also, for otherwise you expose your unw and astonishing skirts. It is rather u pretty custom for those who have trim hips and a natural and beautiful swei p of iournure, but for the pumpkin seed order of rrrhit-tn. hm. sloping shoulders and broad, intellectual nips, togetner wim a gait which occupies the entire bresdth of the long frock coj.t simply emphasizes the eccentricity aid advertises a doubtful attraction. I met sevend davs aero a bricht. ktvvm- men of the college graduate. He is an old friend of minn. nnA u li.-inn. i'n(1 tion of the advantages of a collegiate education. He is very prosperous, though not m me line ot any profession. This is, of course, a disappointment to his parents, but not to him. He always hated the nrof-sainna. hnt nriminul ntw,r avenues for ottaininar a livelihood H earned his firtt money as a child by re turning a valuable Maltese cat on which there was a reward of twenty dollars. beeiug tne advantages to be derived from this branch of trade. h turned other valuable cats for which there was a reward offered, and soon after that he ndded to his trade that of the valuable dog. He has been verv Kncoessfnl in tne i-nt. tie industry in the far west, he says, and with nothing to start with but a tired steer, a tirelesj branding iron and no bility of purpose. Coupled with his col lege training, he has made out by the natural incre:ise and penmetrifnl nrn. gression, as w-i call it in mathematics, to vwa a large a:ia very nne nera or eight thousand head of good cattle. "And do vo l attrribnt.A inv menanrA nf your success," I asked him the other day. -to a couege Education: 'Not to the r.nlleo.0 erinnnHnn n a rm, regard it, perhaps, but to the stimulation which natural genius receives at college." "Ah, and tow so, pray? There is a good deal of discussion going on all the time over this question of a college educa tion versus pnctical education. Where in now do yon regard a college training as especially simulating to genius?" "Well. I will admit that I n tint, a success from u collegiate standpoint. I was practica.ly blackballed and sent home Reverul times t.n mv nnranta Yint j i - they had a pa 1 and I was returned. My gCUIUO U1U UUl AAV 1U bUt? UllWUUU Ul LUtS r.lsasins or of h 'irlier mftthenijitina fir rhet oric or the languages, but in the direc tion or invention and evasion or arbi trary rules. For illustration, it was fnnnd sifter 1 had hetm in mllefe twn years that eery examination had in J THE TRAYELEKS ttClDE. ( l I 1 TF1T HEW PBOCK COAT. fact been a 'farce, for I had worked the printer so that we had advance sheets of the exam que itions, but at that time all was discovered. "I now bejran to fear that I would 1 A. A mv 4rtllalTA never grauuuw: suu w friends wbo liad been bo deftly assisted - x. 1 A 111 by me began now 10 uesen u& looked dark. It looked to me as though Td have to really learn all that rot out of the books or "fail of my graduation entirely. "One day I thought of a new ssheme. This is what makes me favor the college and hurrah ft r my alma mater, on whose tender bosom I have Wn mlM tYlttV, ARM observed to lie. - "The cast iron rule now was that every sheet of mtriniHnn should be counted before and after print- uis, toe nne xor voting by the Aus tralian ballot or the custom in the United States treasury printing establishment So I resolved if possible to beat this game, and I did. That i. t the discipline which has made me a suc- uma in me stocit business. That is why today I own eight thousand head of fat cattle on the Colorado hills, where I ouureu m wren a rusty branding iron and a melancholy steer, whose celibacy was ? waiter 01 gossip an over the state. "Well, how did you pass?" "Pass? Why, I got the job printer, a wjoii namea uriando Taylor, to wear wmie unen trousers while doing his col lege work, and after be XX U U ll m 1 an3 had delivered his printing and Kefnm he had washed the forms, to sit down in me enure oxo page accidentally. "Then I gave him five dollars for the trousers. "Oh, there's nothing like a college ed ccation for developing a boy's talents." What ia mi. o. .- . .. face with a fresh, bright comp'exiont For iu use i-ozzon: s t'owaer. G. E. W1SWALL & GO,, Chicago's Finest Shot Store. Stock the Largest. Goods the Finest. Prices the Lowest. Men's and Ladies Hand Sewed Welt Shoes. Send for Catalogne. C. E. WISWALL & CO., 160 State St., Chicago. HUMPHREYS' VETER NARY SPEC FICS Par Horses, Cattle, Sheep, logs, Sors. Aim Pnrrr.T-DT 300 Pace Book on Troatnent f Animals Bnd IlkflVt Mam Vkao ctntra 5 'Peyers.Cona'pstiona.lBflammatlaB A.A.twpinal menlnariti Milk Fevrr. li. H. Ni ralnn, Laaenem, Rartiam '''"" lrr, K.ul piacaarsea. E.E. Toubbs, Heaves, Pat-amoala. 'E't010 r "Grlaes, Bellracae. .r...niacarrlae, Beaaarrhaaes. 11.11. -1 nnary Kidary Diaeasea. I.I.Erapiive niaeaaeo, Mana-e. J.lv. Diaeaseaaf Viseattoa, Paralysis. Single Bottle (over SO dote . . ,qq Htable Case, with Specifies. Manna, " vvu nau j vrai BUU 2U9tUCaUOTa M . fj If Jar Veterinary Care Oil, - 1.00 Spld by DrntTKuts; or Sent Prepaid anywhere and many quantity on Bsceipt of Price. HUMPHREYS' MEDICnil! CO Corner William and John Stm., Hew York. (TjaniiPHSETS' SPECIFIC N0.6O In uw a jein " w 7- 9 i n mxj muoomerxa Twnedj tar neirous ueoiuiy, vital weakness, and Prostration, from over-work or other nnM VI per viaLor S riala and large Tial powder, for SA. bou ar Prdouikth, or sent postpaid oareosiDt of prloe. HUMPHREYS MEDICINE CO., Oor. William and John Sta, N. T. lft For sale ty all first-clasB Grocery dealers. I PARKERS' Laundry, No. 1724 THIRD AVE. A. M. & I. J. PARKER, moriuiTORa. wVFintxlaM work and special stteEtlon to prompt dellyery. RING US TP, - Telephone No. 1214 1T.1 lW IJ ' 1 .BBaaj mm L A Mmn tlaW nJ lml . I eX r- - iwiuiariiVH MTU t0-. v.tirmdo tne Mws,tiutng II ow to, .Obtain PnteoU, Cbtmi, Trmde vsivn, vn'ynirnts, mm jm, Brtndwar, . -nmw li G 8rft HICaGO, ROCK ISLAND PACIFIC KAIL- -iwinirr ran avenue sad Thirty street. Frank H. Plnmmer. tgtvL S- tLBAVB. tABBlVB. Cooneil Blan. Minneao-1 UDaTBrpre....rnrl t:s5am lH)0am I-"1?" i'HT ?7 xpreea. . . :W am line pa Whintton KxnreM.. 8:8pm U.-OSpoi Council i. loffa A aUaneto- ( v ta x-reee.....TTr. TaOpm nMJsm Oooncll filnffs A Denver Limited Ver-tibale Sx f , S:S9sbi f 5"? Limited 10 'K pm :54 am Atiantlc Accommodation.... 8-aO am g;i5 Dm tOoingwegL tOolngeaet. 'Daily. BtJHLINGTON ROUTB-C, B. Q. RAIb u T 7-Iepot First arenne and Sixteenth s at. J. Yonng, agent, SAIN8. t.sa.1 nmn Bt. Lome Kxprees 4 an. :4fam BxPjeas B:4S pm 7.M am artetown Paeaenfter 8:65pm 10:38 am 5y ElSi (Monmonth) ... 9 : am 1 :50 pm '7,.FreWht 8terl"g) 18:85 pm 10:10 am Sterling Passenger 7 :20 am 6 :8 pm nnhnone 1fl:g am :0gpm Daily. CHICAGO. MILWACKKK A ST. PAUL EAIL wT Rcine A Southwestern Division De pot Twentieth .treet. between First and Second ayenne, B. D. W. Holme., agent. TRAINS. Lbats. Asbivb. Mail ana Kxprea. :45iani B-bbpm St. Paul Bxpr 8:16 pm 11:88 im t A Accommodation t:00 ;n 10:10 ate Accnn modat'on 7:88ng i:l(inm OCK ISLAND A PEORIA RAILWAY DB pot First avenue and Twentieth street F H. Rockwell, Agent. TRAINS. Lsavs. aswivb. Fast Mail Express 8:10am 7:30 pm Erprem 2:pm 1:80 pm liable Accommodation 9:10 ami 8:00 pm 12 -nnpmt 8:Ofi am MOST DIRECT BOUTS TO TEE East, South and Southeast, BAST BOUND. Lv. Rock Island . Ar. Orion Cum-r. dee ... Gilra Wyoming.... Pncceville . . Peoria Blroraington.. Springfield. .. Jacksonville. Dfcatnr Danville Indianapolis. Terr- Haute.. EvansMlle..., St. 1 onis Clncinnai.... Louisville.... Fsst i'l. 8:10 im 8:51 am 9:15 am 9 :44 am 10:30 am 10:89 am ll :13S sm 1:15 pmi 9 S:4S in 4 4-00 pm IS 8:50 pm a :ai pm 6:S5 pm 7:10 pm 1:30 am 8:110 r.m 10:00 pm Exnrtras S aoim 8:04 , m 8:27 pm 8 57 pm 4:35 Dm :51 pm o:so p :15 pm 30 pm 05 n't :00 pm :10 nt :15 am :00 am :85 am :00 am :00 WEST BOUND. T, PmH, iin.fE . . i .41 Ar. Rock Island l :30 pm 7:30 pm a -'.. Lining cave no a jb ana at 8:00 a. m. and 6 45 p. m ; arrive at Peoria 8:45 D. n anil 4-IU1. n. I Tl 1 r . ..uu.w ua. . i t i ciuiB o;w a. ni . ana 7:15 p.m; arrive Rock Island 4 :00 p. m. and 8:06 p.m. All trains r-n daily exrept Sunday. All m..iiiir..tnlT.. ... J . tt., deroi, Peoria. rn.,l,n,in.l'..l V. . " ' " " B.tu J V I I WIL U1ICV lUUh iri . .1 . . ... ... i urougn iicKei o an pomia; Daggafe Checked CABLE BBABCB. . . , , lAcccm. Acrcm. Lv. Rock Island 9.10m 4.00 pm Ait. Reynold. 10 80 c m 6.06 pm " Cable Ill.OOam 6.40pm Acrom. .Acrom Lv. Cable , 8.2 am 19..'0pm Ar. Reynolds 7.00 ami 1.45 pm " I Bock Island... . . 7 55 am' 8.00pm H. H. SUDLOW, K. BToChHUUMt, Superintendent. Gen'l Tkt. Agent. IS.UWU wiuuMMiua treuu a itudt or THB baP of THE (Mcap, Eoci Isliani & Pacific Ey The Direct Route to and from Chicago, Jollet, Ottawa, Peoria, La Salle, Moline, Rock Island, in ILLINOIS ; Davenport, Muscatine, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Del Moines, Wlntersct, Audubon, Harlan and Council BluflS. in IOWA : MinnMnnlia anil , tl I. iitv NESOTA; W'atertown and Sioux Falls, in DAKOTA; vanieron, su josepn and Kansas City, in MISSOURI ; Omnba, Lincoln, Falrbury and Kelson, in NEBRASKA ; Atchison. Leavenworth. Hnnnn Ti... u..,i.i Vlchlta. Belleville, Abilene, Dodge City, Caldwell, In aasioas ; ivingusner, m iteno aud Alinco, in INDIAN TERRITORY ; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. in COLORADO. Trst-mea nw ..r i..i. e . and grazing land., affording the best facilities of inler- MHHiuuiiiaiiiuii to aii lowns ana cities east and west, northwest and southwest of Chicago and to Faciuc and trans-oceanic seaports. MAGmriCEirr VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS Lead In all eoronetltnva In anlmilA - -I v. Vl UIJ.UJVII., between CHICAGO and DES MOINES, COUNCIL ju.i'rra ana umaha, and between CHICAGO and DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS and PUEBLO, Til KANSAS CITV and TOP FIT A nit bt iiwrnn Flrst-Claas Day Coaches, FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS, and Palace Sleepers, with Dining Car Service. Close connection, at Denver and Colorado Spring, with divenrinc railway lines, now fhrmtiMr picturesque STANDARD QAUQE TRANS-R O CKT MOUNTAIN ROUTS Over which raperbly-equlpped trains run daily "auii vnAniis so ana from Salt Lake City, Ogden and Ban Fwctsco. THE BOCK ISLAND is also the TMrart T i from klanitou. Pike'. Peak and all other sanitary and sveurc iwonsanuciue. ana m wing district in Colorado, DAILT FAST EXPRESS TRAINS Fran St Joseph and Kansas City to and from all Im portant towns, cities and sections in Southern Nebraska, Kansas and the Indian Territory. Also via ALBERT LEA BOl' 1 K from STanaui mtv .ml m.l. n- town, Sioux Falls, XINKEAFOUS and ST. PAUL, wuaacuong ror su points north sad north west between tbe lakes and the Pacific Ooaat. For Tickets. Kfana VaIAam v - - - - spply to any Coupon Ticket Omee ia the United States E. ST. JOHN, JOHN SEBASTIAN. GtBT Kanager, GsnlTkAPamAat. " ' cbxcl :o. jii: , ; t biaWeiie tbe wild liTyii tl At . grows, are f be bio wmc of beaiber: ' , s r MIR-BANK, in fiVor And rnk in i rxvw 'ir !srr Sfmm xPm ; CK7 iQg&w.jrx MADE ONLY BY (UCGURBANK&ca Chicago. ROLIilN RUICK, Succeseor to Aaameon & Rnick, PRACTICAL nACHINIST, Hock Island. 111. Shop Nineteenth St., bet. First and Second Avenue, u , GeneralJobbing and Repairing promptly done. ttySecond Hand MacMnery bought, eold and repaired. H. SIEMON fc SON, DKALEB8 IN- toves and Xil, BfUter Banner Cooking and Heatinjj Stores and tbe Gcneseo Cooking BtOTSa. Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Work. 1508 8ECOND AVE., ROCK ISL AITO, . HaL. S J. lYEa Steam Cracker Bakery, MAIUFACTDHEH CF CRACKERS 1ID EtSCUITS. i Ask Yonr flroc er for Them. 1 tjgj are Best. SPECIALTIES: The Chriitjr "Otstbb" sxd Christy "Wim." BOCK ISLAND. SEIVERS & ANDERSON, CONTRACTORS and BUILDERS. All Kinds ot Carpenter "Work Done. general Jobbing aoss on short notice and satiafactloa guaranteed. Offloa and Skop 1412 Fourth Atcmims ROCK ISLAHD. Fall and Winter Stock OF GOODS EECEIVID BT- HOPPE: The Tailor. RCall and Examine. fpen for the Season. (moltni: Avenue) joe Huber's Garden, A magnificent place for plcnice, partlcc. etc. NICOLAI .JTJHIj, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Shop corner Twenty-second street snd Ninth avenne. Residence 3855 Thirteenth avenue. tTe prepared to make estlmatos and do all kinds of Carpenter work. Give him s trial. CHAS, DANNACHER, Proprietor of theBrady Street Ail kinds of Cut Flowers eonataatlw on haiui Green Bonnes Flower Store One block north f Central Park, the largest In Is. 80 Brady Street, Dacapott.Towa. C. T. W. SCHBEINEB, Contractor and Builder, 1121 and 1123 Fourth avenne. Residence 1119 Fourth avenue. Plans and specifications furnished on all elsrse. of work : also .sent of Winer's Patent tnaida Sliding Blinds, something new, stylish and desirable. SOCK ISLAKD, ILL. GEOBGE 8CLUFES. Proprietor. MOT Second Avenne, Corner of Sixteenth Btree . Opposite Harper's Theatre. The choicest Wines, Liquors, Beer and Cigars always on Hand ree Lunch Jyery Day M . BaBdwiches mr&libed on 81x t Kotlea