The El Paso Journal from El Paso, Illinois (2024)

September 1, 1888

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The El Paso Journal from El Paso, Illinois

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El Paso, Illinois

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Saturday, September 1, 1888

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES WORK MAN The EL PASO JOURNAL BY ANDREW RUPP PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY THE ARMEE EEDETH ALL Jlme Alice worketh broidery well Mi JOSEPH IER of McLean was a GEORGE HI NT of El pt 1 0" ill i 1 County Ticket iiEyrtOiiiL' i Hs liij41 time that GROVER CLEVELAND The 1 failed to read Woodford county State Ticket (anion Co SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1 A A pen Clay tested political canvass Gentleman stick to the issues if there be any the opposite are furnishing their pat rons with very poor reading matter Such stuff may do to fill up space but I'AVEV My lord rides through his oajace gate My lady sweeps along in state The sage thinks long on many a thing And the maiden muses on marrying The minurel harpeth merrily The sailor ploughs the foaming sra the Pontiac 'tuztii and will henceforth 1 run it in the interest of their partv Ellingsworth of Springfield was sentenced to one year in the iem tentiary on the charge of countei feit olks abe Doing and the Way IS WHICH THEY Do It Shears and Paste Pot soldier wars without i lear Ru fall to each whale er please pa Here lannel shirts 'are becoming all the rage nowadays Even United States senators wear them Senator Ed munds the iceberg of congress is among the many who have joined the procession Jtntercd as second class matter in the postoffice at El Paso An exchange makes the' following 'remarks which is worth noticing It tlie persona to whom it applies would follow its advice the readers of politi cal papers would be saved much dis newspaper po litical editors who fill their papers with startling announcements that this man A Peru young lover and his maid were having a word battle the other evening in which she was getting rather the worst of it and on losing her temper lie remarked should retain self much! I want some one else to take possession of me I am tired of this self possession she replied I nil SURVEYOR GEO Cazenovia Democratic National Ticket or Vice President ALLEN THERMAN of Ohio Another lady has been accorded a prominent place in politics Miss Vir ginia Lewis of Dubuque Iowa is the democratic candidate for recorder her county 'Belva Lockwood says is a comprehensive term embracing wo man" Now Belva old girl you are all right as long as the man is permitted to chose the woman he desires to em brace um a little taffy and they are ready dotlie)) printing Suffer us to sa all those kindly disposed gentlemen county Ticket for circuit clerk IRVING of Metamora OR STATES ATTORNEY TJIO KENNEDY of Metamora OR SURVEYOR CHAS LA ENSTEI of Clayton OR CORONER Dr A SMITH of El Paso ginators will i Beside Ins present situation is subject line by pas' political fluctuations while the onemiiX which be is about to assume is not same firm Kiner of the Geneseo so tullx exposed Those hightoned gently seeking to get free ailve disHm must Jo hns HENRY PALE oMinonk mouths wide open to be humbugged IU SECRET ARY STATE I) RICKS of Christian Co OR AUDITOR AClol'NT ANDREW WELCH of Kendall OR STATE TREASURER A HOMAN Ji of Cook OR AT TORNEY GENERAL CREIGHTON of Wayne Co OR LEGISLA TORS WHITE of Tazewell JONAS BALL of Marshall SENATOR NEWELL of Woodford The JJopedale Jiu inc is mistaken when it says that a state central corn mlttee was appointed at the democratic senatorial convention in Washington That convention had no power to ap point such a eomipittee You are thinking about a senatorial committee Bro llendeison Such a committeeAir was appointed and our own Albert Briggs represents Woodford county The Ih vine Is all right but should be moie precise 4 The Woodford Sentind in the course of itsacconnt of the proceedings of the late republican convention rtjs: by A 0 Rupp and carried by the convention that the following narne gentlemen be appointed "a com mlttee on resolutions: A 0 Rupp1 Gill and Mr Snyder of Nenfliidcrra in thus presenting the case The motion referred to called for a committee of three to be appoint ed by the chair and did not specify to who was to serve on said committee The therefore appointed the 4 Electric! Detective Camera The relation of electricity to crime which began with the invention of bur glar alarm 'devices has been extended in the shape of an electrical detective camera invented by two Newark men Their idea is to have the device fixed in the walls of banking houses behind the tellers and so arranged as to photograph whoever stands at the window in case the man's picturfe fa wanted The little button that does the work of open ing tho camera shutter making the ex posure dropping the plate and putting in a new plate will be under the 'teller's desk so that he can without betraying himself instantly take the picture of any one who excites his suspiciou This sama camera can be put up in police stations in the same way Snd as the prisoners are brought in they can be photographed Lexmrton has been the scene of! 84 vp ii ffiM'id rarp thiu mimmftr The Urbana postoffice received its I first daily mail August 14 1S54 Virgin is iu Montreal meet ing his latest importation of horses prohibitionists held a series of meetings at Lexington last week republican county convention of Livingston was held on Tuesday of last week Billy Myers is to have another I match His next contestant will be I Needham ulton county lias a county seat! light Lew iston Cuba and Canton are BECK Eli St Clair Republican National Ticket or President BENJAMIN HARRISON of Indiana Colfax shaft is supplying sev eral towns of McLean county with coal The coal seems to be in great demand i city council of Bloomington lias made a contract with the Jenney electric light company for the lighting of that city i grain elevator at Lexington 1 formerly owned by John A Campbell has been purchased by Haynes Gordon A Co of Chenoa i Mann formerly of Gilman and at one time editor of the Chenoa lliiztllt is City attorney of Hyde Park at a salary of $2000 per year journeymen barbers of Bloom ington have petitioned the city council to pass an ordinance requiring the bar ber shops to close on Sunday Pratt of Tremont has sold his farm of 219 acres adjoining that town to red Becker and Peter Garber Consideration ninety dollars per acre Young formerly of Decatur now of Wichita Kansas in the butcher business won a prize for killing and dressing a beef in the shortest time He did the work in nine minutes family ticket loses the fair association hundreds of dollars every year It is astonishing how respect able men and woman will lie in order to save a half Champaign Ga zette young farmer from Mendota visited Bloomington thejother day to see the sights Before lie had com pleted his survey of the city be was fleeced and relieved of most of liis money man who was arrested in Cham paign for robbery at Monticello gave the of William Day lie was recognized as William Reynolds He onceresidediat Champaign and recently completed afterm in the northern Indi ana penitentiary He is a tough one Bloomington canning factory says the Bulletin is commencing to make itself felt as a valuable industry in this city They now employ upward of one hundred hands and Saturday they turned out 2 5000 cans of corn and 5000 cans of tomatoes and'they intend keep up this lick during the season I A Qnlilcnt noor UWIUVIIU VVAUAIVM UV ta Hilton in Tazewell county A young man had been engaged in run ning a threshing machine among the farmers and was moving with his ma chine which is a self propeller toward Washington crossing a small bridge on the wagon road the bridge gave way The machine turned half way over and the young man was turned with IU A steam pipe broke and he was fearfully scalded and he will die speaking oftliesuppiyof fish in the Illinois river the Chillicothe BullA tin says that the fishermen report a scarcity of the variety known as the Various theories are ad vanced to account for the present ab sence of the buffalo fish in tne Illinois river but prove unsatisfactory im mense quantities are said to be found near the mouth of the river but their feeding ground seems limited to a dis tance of forty or fifty miles above the influence with the Mississippi The water for a considerable time was sufflciy high to permit them to pass ovefute dams Relief tor Ivy olsonlajt 4 I was repeatedly poisoned by iw when boy' and found no relief till an uncle told my mother to give me a tablespoon ful of thoroughwort tea each morning before eating during the month of May and I never would be poisoned again She followed directions and the re salt was I never have been poisoned since although I was exposed to it more or Jesi each summer for a number of years afterward The above may not be a sure cure in all cases but it fa worth trying as it can do no liarm if it does nogood zUbert 8 Trank in ScientificAmerican II AMBROSE of Tazewe ini: sENAim nf the re igiifd pi'sitiuu in older to accept a similar wi state i i fmmatmy in ma The warden is a very 11 is reforms will go down as masterpieces of ex Majoi Me latighry's reason an for resigning is that he can better carry A in her of ole have made their homes in county Kansas ami it may not be without interest to some of The Jour nal readers to hear a word from them and especially so since it seems to be commonly supposed that Kansas bas become a barren desert by reason ofhot winds" and dry Those who live east of the Mississippi river should remember that Kansas is a large state that she has to answer for the drawbacks failings and cussedness of a strip of country about as large as Illinois ami Indiana combined Crop in some parts of the state may fail and yet other parts of the state will have crops as good as Woodford crops are when reports a failure or when some remote township in comity Indiana is paralyzed with a cyclone The fanners of Clay county Kansas are no more affected by the failing crops in southwest 2(H) to 400 miles than are the farm ers of Woodford county Illinois I have seen many fine crops in Illinois but I never saw any county there with I a more abundant harvest of corn wheat oats flax hay fruit and al) kinds of vegetables than bas Clay county Kansas this year I will say a word about some of the Woodford county people who live or have lived here John Schwindler who came from near Panola about ten years ago died about a month ago leaving no heirs with unincumbered property valued at $2000 a part of it being money loaned out at interest He died of old age at seventy nine years He lived alone until about three days before his death Under the laws of Kansas his property will become a part of the school fund unless heiis claim it within three years John Cook who came here about the same time has a good farm good crops and lots of stock Joe Engel Joe Gingerich and Sam Engel all from Woodford county are alPmodel farmers and they are slavery prosperous Cavan who came here last spring says life has raised more grain this year with the same working force than he raised during the two years te i fore coming here Will Cavan is a i prosperous coal dealer in Clay Center Mr Isaac rench who formerly i lived at Panola but who has since lived at armer City is now at Clay Center purchasing grain Although he began to buy only about two weeks agOj he has purchased all the grain hp can handle from the first day he started I write nothing against my native country but I make comparison only for the purpose of convincing I llihoisans that Kansas is not a desert couptry by any manner of means a The reason why Kansas is so much abused by reports in the east is that certain interests of the east are suffer ing by the continual drain of labor and capital that is alway going west and there are persons hired to come here to write evil reports order to prevent immigration and capital from coming west If you will provide a place for my letter In the Journal I shall consider it a nnmnliment ahd a favor and if Opportunity affords itself the same will without knowing it and having a chance be cheerfully returned to distort their features when sitting tor ILLLAM New York Sun feet high and 1000 feet in circumfer ence The inside living hollowed out gives it the apx arance of a natural fort which has frequently been used by stock 1 men as a sheep corral and is capable of holding comfortably 3000 head of sheep The inside walls on the south are very abrupt and overhanging and are cov ered with many ancient paintings 1 roughly resembling sketches of men dogs snakes lizards tortoises and vari ous characters the significance of which was perhaps even unknown to the painter So we are inclined to think that each character is a record of some historical event and that if we but un derstood them they would lie very inter esting to us The paints used are ot three distinct colors red white and black And although vac know nothing of their mode of manufacture or mate rials used we can say this umc1' that they have a power of durability and of retaining their color unsurpassed by modem productions In the western part of this county at the outlet of the Antelope valley on the Tulare plains is vvliat is called thePoint of On top of the most prominent of these rocks is a large beautiful water tank about 7 feet deep and 20 feet long by 12 feet wide Its capacity is between 4000 and 5000 gal lons of water and although evidently it has been formed by nature still judging by its location being such as to catch all the rain water that falls to the surface one can be led to believe that it was human art and design The lieight of the rock is about 100 feet and its walls are quite steep but by the aid of steps chiseled into it is no difficult task tb as cend and return with a pail of water rom on top of the rock one has a mag mficent view of the surrounding country for miles and miles There being no other water for a long distance makes it a very convenient resort for stockmen and travelers On adjpining i rocks can be found a great many similar tiuiks also two small ancient paintings Scores of mortars and pestles are found in places Some are made very roughly and others are shaped out of a fine quality of stone with elegant taste Marvelous skill is displayed in the art of making arrow heads and knives of the hardest flint How they can give a de sired shape to so brittle a substance by chipping off bits fa easier to tliink about than to Cor Bakersfield (Cal) Echo The Second Hand Book Trad One of the many peculiarities of the second hand Ixxik trade fa that the sales are heavier on days of stormy weather The business men find slow sales on in clement days and those of a literary turn of mind or who have a pen chant for collecting books on any special subject will drop into a second hand book store and while away several hours in looking over the stock 1 remember one snowy day last winter a prominent gentleman of this city came into my store and while waiting for the storm to pass by he became interested in sev eral Yolumes of books on a line he was collecting and I sold him $65 worth be fore he left Customers who have a hobby to which they are devoting atten tion will find a book sometimes which to the eye fa only worth ten cents but they will value it at $5 and if a dealer asks that price they will readily pay it Ed ward Mills in Globe Democrat or Vice 1'resiilent LEVI MORTEN of New York State Ticket Decatur creamery will be re built is building a $6000 Bap tist church Work is being pushed rapidly in tne Cbenoa shaft loan association lias been formed at Champaign has fifty four saloon mak ing a revenue of $27000 juay through the world Let di on them hard Remarkable Relics of an ration in California Tn many parts along the coast and in Mexico can still be seen relics and re niarkaNe evidence of some of the most skillful arts practiced by the so called that once inhabited this land which by forcibly dispossessing them we now inhabit unless perhaps xeome more civilized race possessed this country prior to its discovery by Christo pher Columbus whose tribe has long since been exterminated and whose record is lost One of the most wonderful of these relics is the indication of a solid pavement road in Arizona made of granite or slabs alxjut ten feet long hewn square conveyed and placed Bide by side by some menus uiikuuwu to the sjiectator This pavement or road was undoubted ly built thousands of years ago as these blocks and indications can be traced for miles along the mountain sides through which deep canyons have washed their way Some of these sla'us are said to weigh nearly two tons and there being no granite ledges nearer than several miles from where they are now situated indicates that they must have hail some powerful mode of conveyance as well as powerful machinery to shape and locate them To these ancient people also was known a pn cess of tempering brass so it could lie converted into tools equal to the liest of steel Numerous ssciniens of this temjiered brass have been found where the city Mexico now stands as well as on the Pacific slope and while tbechemist has no difficulty removing the temper yet he cannot return it or the redis covery of this teiujiering process scientists and chemists have labored and the United States government has offered a premium in vain Nor can they even by having tempered metal before them gain the least light on the subject Bringing the discourse a little nearer home on the ede of the plains but a short distance from the stock ranch of Brumley can lie seen hat is known as the "Painted Ruck" This THE AIR There is no place that a person can see such a mixed gathering' of people representatives of ever) i lass of society as at the animal fair other meetings call together but a part: but at the fair the student of i imman nature and human life and of the kind of civilization that develops I from the soil and climate of rural life can see and stud) and cannot but ad 'mire the whole The various church i I associations enable the student to i study the official church life the busi ness associations enable him to studi i the business life the political conven tions bringing together as they do some ot the best men in the state and some of the most designing and unscrupulous enables him to study the political life but the fair and that alone enablesliiin to study the whole life of the people The politician is there and may be detected at once by the shrewd observer the business man is there with his prompt brisk ways and is easily discernable the preacher is there and finds it one the best places to study human nature the farmers are there some intent on study forni jng their ideal animal carrying in their mind's eye their own stock at home and comparing what they see with what they hate and others studying grains and grasses and fruits and others still bent on sight seeing and pleasure taking a day or two of well earned rest and recreation The ladies are there also as they ought to be for none are more worthy of the opportunity fjr rest and recreation and their sharp and discriminating minds see and compare many things which their husbands miss The sons are there seeing with clear open visions" of youth undimmed by pre judice or tradition many things the father cannot or will not see and re solving that when they come to farm forthemselves the scrub stock must go With many farmers the fair is simply i a great holiday recreation giving them 1 the opportunity to break away from the dull routine of the farm to see their 1 friends and acquaintances who live at 1 a distance and in general to have a good time There is however every year an increasing number who while not forgetting the recreation combine it with study and observation Thej regard the fair as a great school in which they can'Btirdy theanimal forms and bv comparing this breed with that and this animal with that in each herd form an ideal type which they aim to realize in their own: herd and settle down on lines of breeding and methods of feeding that will enable them to re alize that ideal This is but one of the thousand lessons to be learned at the fair The fair is a great object lesson kindergarten college and university all in one to the man "who has eyes to see and ears to hear Therefore go to the fair and profit by the examplestbatare around you in such profusion Gluttony Versus Intellectuality Gluttony tends to' cynicism Coarse ness and extravagance of speech and manners go hand in hand with dietetic excesses as for cognate reasons the re pulsiveness of voracious animals is gen erally aggravated by a want of cleanli ness Among the natives of the Arctic regions where climatic causes make gluttony a pandemic vice personal clean liness is an almost unknown virtue and Kane's anecdotes of polar household hab its depict a degree of squalor that would appall a gorilla Habitual abstemious ness on the other hand is the concomi tant of modesty thrift self control and evenness of temper and is compatible with heroic perseverance though hardly with great energy of vital vigor The dietetic self denials of Luigi Cornaro a Venetian nobleman of the Sixteenth cen tury enabled him to outlive the third generation of his epicurean relatives During the latter decades of his long life he boasts of having enjoyed a peace of mind unattainable by other means There are intellectual voluptuaries whose enjoyment of mental triumphs in controversy or cogitation seem for the time being actually to deaden their crav ing for material food Isaac Newton on the track of a cosmic secret would send back plate after plate of untasted meals Percy Shelley in the words of his sprightly biographer re fused to alloy the nectar of poetic inspira tion with boarding house and in his creative moods rarely answered a dinner call without a sigh of regret Benedict Spinoza amid the parchment piles of his bachelor den would fast for days in the ecstasy of his trunk meditations Dr elix Oswald in Open Court Medic! Value of Peppermint ofl In addition to being from its potency and other advantages the beet of sur gical antiseptics it fa possible that there lies in oil of peppermint a power for good and a field of therapeutic utility vaster in extent and importance than any yet known or suspected Some cases phthisis in which I have employed it as an inhalation lead me to hope that we may find in it a remedy against the scourge to which we pay annually a tribute of 10000 lives "i In diphtheria the greatest of all de siderata lias always Uvi such an anti septic as this one which nicy lie fear lessly in the greatest quantity and the greata frequency winch is in nocuous whether it be swallowed during its application or be respired into the air passages and which by absorp tion into the blood and its ready vola tility is enabled to penetrate to every re cess and be carried through all the tis sues Two cases of typical diphtheria in male adults part of a small epidemic some among the victims of which died with its worst features have been treated by applications of oil of peppermint These cases afford ground for believing therefore that this drug may be also a potent weapon in diphtheria Recover ing so completely and bo speedily as they did their progress resembles neither that of Ulcerated pharyngitis i treated or not by the usual means nor of diphtheria as it has progressed in cases I have seen treated by the inefficient local antiseptics in London Lancet 11 I Ii Conk The Index fry at Two hundred fanneis attended VanValey of Heyworth I raised a cucumber that weighed four I and one half pounds I Mackinaw fail the Logan eomity fair anil the armer (jty fair I till tiAiL rJu'U 1 1 i uuL' 1 city council of Champaign have decided to erect a city building The st will be about $1'(W TOO MUCH CHEEK Lr that man in some foreign state lias Hardly a week passes but we receive I forsaken his old party and gone over to from one to three or four i to please publish the enclosed notice as it is believed that many readers will be benefited by its appearance in our it counts for naught in a hotly con paper etc when the fact is the closed" is nothing more or less than an advertisem*nt and will benefit no one in particular except the advertiser We notice many papers publish them but we emphatically decline to do so unless they are paid for as to publish them i to rob our readers and our i selves The Bureau County Vor ex presses our views exactly in the fol (SrTwo dollars pier year if not paid i lowing: "We received a few weeks sti icHy in advance Lo4fmic Wiii Koox Tfku Subscribers receiving their paper Kan article taken from the lm in single wrapper must pay two dol l'i LoiAir puffing up this firm very lars per year Positively no deviation mgtjy and were kindly informed that from this rule 'thev had several friends and customers within the range of our circulation and if we would please to publish thisas an item as news (worth at least three duliars) that this excellent firm would i appreciate our kindness and hoped: their institution would become an ad ivertiser A similar communication i was received about a month ago from Relics In a Swiss Museum in KonMiafpl is an vmn i 111x2 MiaJ'xjAim ill a Ancient cwni What Some of OUB abjacent County guallv interesting one and traveler i Anontmn at i does not experience I weariness which is often felt in visits to i similar places One room is filled wiA in trrth (THE rUUlJA MJ xaajvv found in the higher Alps many of which are now extinct Wolves white and brown bears "oxes white hares chamois rteinlwcks all are there most beautifully stuffed and preserved I have said that some of these animals are rm longer to be found in the mountains but it would have been more correct to have stated that they have retreated before the civil izing hand if man for it is believed that bears and certainly wolves are to be found on the higher peaks where no foot of Alpi i te limlier has penetrated I nwzx tho mnlpls rtf the i in i i aa i ia' 1 i is ini nt iv i lake houses and the ctirfous relics of the ages of stone and bronze wtjh have been fromJ imho1lcwi in fhp mmi and Slime at the bottom of the lake The date of 1 Iwx Warm inpfi vnese reuianis vaxiuvL Opinions differ but all agree on one point that they certainly existed before the time of Julius Csesar The houses were cleverly built on four iron rods sunk deeply in the mud at the bottom of the lake and supporting a kind of plat on which the hut rested and the inhabitants reached the shore by means of made of hollowed trees The reason apparently of their choosing the lake as a dwelling place was to protect themselves from the numlersof wild and tierce animals with which the country was infested Indeed it is evident that it was then little more than a vast marsh or morass In the same room with the models are some grotesque ornaments worn by the woman and some equally extraordinary weapons worn by the men In another room are the skulls of some of these an cient beings Very flat and receding are they and the inspection goes far to strengthen one's belief in theory that their possible ancestors may have been an ape like tribe I here is no national costume worn by th'1 Neuchatel asantry now but in many of the cottages you may see old ih iures roughly but brightly colored(presenting the dress worn in days long gone by A delightful excursion is by the little lake steamer as far as Morat a I quaint old world town about three distance irorn neuchatel Here are funny old streets narrow and furnished with arcades built of stone under which are the oddest little shops imaginable Cor San rancisco Chronicle tried to plus then i Our Kansas Letter wouhln't work id Ciai Kan August 2R editors expose the' Tn the Although not ae 1 that expect to dead head their quainted with you I presume to write a letter to 1he HHliNAl on the grounds that at no time since 1 learned to read have TERMS SUBSCRIPTION WEEKLY JOURNAL Year Invariably in Advance A nt tii committee.

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