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Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
the authorities have been more success

the authorities have been more success
full
Important will be the work of the
search light in the defense of Portland.
General Gillespie has ordered installed
in the vicinity of the city twelve enor-
nous lights, with the aid of which
the watchers on shore can easily pick
up a vessel away out at sea. Last
year the search lights We're not alto
gether a success, and the result of
their employment In the defense prof.
ect this year will be watched in engi-
neering circles with keen interest. The
trouble with the search lights last year,
according to naval officers, was that
they were not properly managed. Ex-
treme precautions will be taken In the
coming maneuverssto prevent the cross
ing of the various search lights and the
consequent destruction of their useful
ness.
Two kinds of lights will be in use,
the searching and Illuminating lights.
The former are considerably more pow
erful than the latter. The searching
lights have been constructed well in
side the line of defense and so dis
approach to Portland and give the
proper authorities there as soon as pos
sible the news of Rear Admiral Bar
ker'S fleet.
During the day 1t is ordered that all
search lights shall effectively be hid
den from view, but that they shall be
located as near the shore line as pos
sible The Illuminating lights shall be
hidden while the searching lights are
in operation. Special effort Will be
made to avoid the crossing of the
beams of light from the search lights.
which results IN the creation of a dark
angle. When this beam comes between
the gun and its target the latter is
hidden.
The Illuminating lights installed will
be used to light up the advanced or
distant flank positions and in illuminat-
ing the mine fields. On the inner line
of defense will be placed reserve lights
which may come in well in the event
of interruption of communication with
the more advanced searching lights.
In installing the searching lights an
effort will be made to give them nigh
position and one near the shore line.
w nat army OIuCeTS on uuIy III tue ue-
fense district dread however, Is a fog
or thick mist at night, when Rear Ad
miral Barker would have an excellent
opportunity to make a dash for Port
land. The signal corps will have sta
tionS in the vicinity of Portland and
elsewhere along the New England
coast, where a sharp lookout will be
kept for a sight of the enemy. Co
operating with the signal corps will be
the weather bureau and the lighthouse
service. and observers at the various
stations on the New England coast, as
we'll as the lighthouse keepers, will be
instructed to watch out for sight or
news of the hostile fleet.
Wireless telegraph stations are being
established on shore, and these, to-
gether with the telegraph and tele-
phone systems, will be used to acquaint
the headquarters Of the defense force
at Portland with all news relating to
the enemy.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
Card Party Innovations.

AT summer card party given recent
~ in a cottage on Long Island by a
Brooklyn woman some pretty innova-
tiOns We're introduced, says the New
York Evening Journal The tables were
covered with Grape paper napkins in
different cOlors, pink, yellow. gre"n,
blue and violet being included I'm the
list. Candles in color to match the ia
bic covers were lighted on each table.
After the game had been played and
the prizes awarded dainty baskets of
grasses woven from material obtained
near the house were distributed among
the guests. Each basket contained dain-
ty refreshments, supplemented later by
ice cream and coffee. The guests then
adjourned to the wide piazzas of the
house, where dancing concluded the
programme for the evening.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15

fries, whom he managed until after
Jeffries had succeeded in wrestling the
pugilistic premiership from Fitzsim-
mons. But then Brady tired of pugil-
ism and determined to devote his at
tention exclusively to the drama. His
second wife, charming Grace George,
is thought to have been largely instru-
mental in causing him to arrive at that
determination. At any rate he has
made a successful star OF her, and her
pretty Peggy" is one of the strongest
attractions in the country.
Brady's start in the show business
came when he bought Dion Bouci-
caults old play, after Dark" for Il
few hundred dollars. Brady played
the principal role in this and is said to
have made more than $4,000 with it.
He had some downs as well as ups -
but when he got hold of Lottie Blair
Parker's WAY Down East and Clyde
Fitch's Lovers Lane" he found his
feet permanently, in a financial sense.
This season, besides Pretty Peggy"
Mr. Brady will have Wilton Lackaye
in 1.-The Pit" Girls VIII BE Girls"
two Foxy Grandpa companies, three
Way Down East organizations and
Aubrey Boucicault as the star of a new
play
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
ROAD and Not a Toad.

One of the queerest reptiles in the
world is the horned toad of Arizona.
In the first place. though it looks like a
toad and is so called, it isn't toad at
oil, but lizard. 1t lives nowhere save
fin the desert and feeds on hard shelled
beetles and other insects.
One of the oldest things about the
creature is its way of fighting. Two
horned toads will meet and fight like
bulls by butting, not apparently with
any notion of killing each other, but
each trying to turn its adversary over.
The toad that is finally upset goes
away humiliated and hides himself.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
-HARD A. MNN URDN, FICb
NEW YORK, N. Y.

F. A. Spencer, Peoria, ILL.,, Manager.
DIR. Paul Kersch and II. l.. Wheelan,
local agents for Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
JAPAN's GRAND OLD MAN.
Marquis Ito, Eminent AZ Statesman,
Diplomat and Soldier.

Diplomat and Soldier.
In the event of a clash at arms be-
tween Russia and Japan over the Man
churian question the latter will be for
tunate in having at command the serv-
ices of so eminent a soldier, diplomat
list and statesman as the Marquis Ito.
who may fairly be counted as one of
the worlds few really great men. 1t
may be trite, but not untrue, to call
him Japan's Grand Old Man, as he
bears to his country similar relations
as those of Gladstone to England, Bis
marck TO Germany and Ii Hung Chang
to China.
The story of Ito's career is essentially
the story of Japan's awakening and
moderniZation. Born in the province of
ChOshu in 1910 of noble parentage, ed
ucated mainly abroad. where he be
came imbued with progressive ideas. he
came into the political arena just when
his country needed a strong and able
man to drive deep the wedge which the
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
NEW AcroR-MANAGER.
William A. Brady's Remarkable Rise
In the Theatrical World.

William A Brady is one of the most
unique figures in the American the
atrical world. Beginning life as a
newsboy in San Francisco, he has sue
ceeded in winning recognition as a
thoroughly reliable manager of dra-
matte attractions. This is all the more
remarkable by reason of the fact that
an early acquaintance with James J..
Corbett in San Francisco tempted him
to undertake the management of that
fighter, whom he eventually succeeded
in making champion of the world, only
to see him lose his crown to the re-
doubtable Fitzsimmons. Then Brady
determined to make another champion
and to that end secured James j. JEFF
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
Not a student of Form.

Willie, if one horse can run
mile in two minutes and another
horse can do it in three minutes how
far apart will they. be at the end OF
eight miles?
WilIie-Madam, / was brought up
strictly. Above all things. my parents
have warned me to avoid horse racing
Consequently 1 cannot answer your
question.-Toledo Blade.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15

anese exclusiveness in 1852, and he has
since been closely identified with the
marvellous progress of Japan in oeci-
dental civilization. He is the author Of
the present constitution of the king
dom, under which Japan is one of the
most liberal of constitutional monarch
les. Ever since he entered public life
Marquis Ito has held one or another Of
the ministerial portfolios of the gov
ernment, being prime minister a great
er part of the time. He was minister
of war during the hostilities against
China, and it was largely due to his sa-
gacity and resourcefulness that Japan
was able to whip the Chinese empire in
short order.
Rock Island Argus., 1903-08-15
1t Might BE.

"Is kissing dangerousY"
'sWeIl, 1 wouldn't try it on an ath-
letic girl without her consent. Chi
cago Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
cULTIvATiNe TOBACCO UNDER SHADE.

The old coupet tobacco still holds good 1t is an
Indian weed and twas the devil that the seed.
Yet it has become of the principal crops of the
tobacco be bought in any average American town
than there places where any other single commodity
be purchased And this expensive. nervewrecking
stomach facilitating noxious crop grows Importance
and value every year. The annual cost of the
supply would for all the INDECENT of the land and
support all the asyums of the country leave big
balance for educational purposes Kansas
tobacco but the soil turns grade entirely strong
Besides the winds whip out and split up the leaves in
way that renders the crop unmarketable
So much has been said about growing tobacco under
shade in Connecticut that official statement of the
pertinent and its results will be of wide popular
The department of agriculture which advised under
taking reports that last year thirteen Connecticut farm
ers planted foryone of tobacco shaded with thin
cheese cloth stretched supports wey to
intercept the rays of the The total expense
S657 per and the average value Of the crop
1892 leaving profit of Sis per acre. The tobacco
brought average price of 81 pound and its cost
baled and ready for market 81 Il pound
variety planted mostly Sumatra, and it used
wrappers for cigars. The kind raised without art
fetal shade brings only about 20 pound The de
partment of agriculture thinks this is pretty profitable
farming, and is grated at having promoted industry
which yields such handsome returns to agriculturists
is said that shadegrown tobacco will be cultivated on
considerably larger scale this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
Is ANTI-FAT A POSSIBILITY.

The papers and magazines crowded with antifat
advertisements The must be profitable
The women of this country seem running to cor
pulency Every other middle aged fat woman
outside of the of very active laborous lives
All of diets and of medicines are recommended and
Talk" method for reducing which sounds logical
The writer, evidently a physician, says:
Drink large glass of Ktssingen water kept at drug
stores and fountains twenty or thirty min
ues after the three meals and similar glass
Vichy water the day. persstently continue to
take them thus. week after week until medium weight
is reached. Then their use should be discontinued
They may be taken the counter bought in siphons
even in five six gallon drink at home The
person should tally his her weight bust and hip
measure If less than couple of pounds lost week
squeeze few teaspoonfuls of the aromatic spirits of
ammonia into the Vichy increase its akalnity The
patient should assist by using sarches sugars fats aco
bol and all other fatforming foods sparngly Avoid
Overeatng neither nor alcoholics except at
the regular meals; also light suppes SO there may
be complete emptiness of stomach during sleep and
may then utilize some Of the superhuous fat 10
the shortage
Moderate outofdoor exercise in any way that will
When the is chiefly in the abdomen snug abdom-
inal binder makes the disappear from this locality
much more promptly"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
INTERNATIONAL LENDING.

It is only few months since large sums were loaned
in European business centers by American
bonds of the German empire sold largely the
United States Now interest rates temporarily higher
in New York than they in Berlin, Hamburg and
Frankfort and German capital is being used in New
York market for time loans and call
In little while the conditions may change so rad
cay that American money will be financial
centers of Germany. TO be loaned there highest
bidders. Or both Germany the United States may
find profitable to lend money III London The
of trade fucuate rapidly modern conditions enable
keen business to take instant advantage oppor-
tunities for international loans and investments.
Such conditions great trade disasters felt more
widely than they were in the times when communication
between distant countries slow and uncertain but
on the other hand they tend prevent serious trouble
anywhere. International connections in business and in
dUstry and important that three or four
great states find it to their advantage in several
ways, to help another tide a critical period in
finance and In certain degree the resources
of all nations be drawn upon business eer-
gences in country which temporarily in difficulties
but is sound at bottom.
Trade and industry WIDEN but the world grows curl
ously small in the business sense it becomes more
compact and easily dealt with in commerce and finance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
Haisn >gaale
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE FouLNEss OF A GREAT CITY

In discussing the sanitary conditions OF American
cities, the insciency the pollution OF the water sup
ply inadequate drainage the sources OF typhod
and other deadly fevers is often expressed
over the fact that 5000 900 of people in London with
only the Thames as water supply and the time
the receptacle of hundreds miles of And there
is Berlin with its million or inhabitants and only
artificial sewerage New York periodically scared
oyer conditions of the Croton watershed Cleveland
claims that the epidemic of typhoid prevailing IN
that city is traceabe a contaminated water supply
Yet Cleveland located great lake of the purest
water Chicago unnelled Michigan for miles for
then canaled her across the state ana
the Mississippi river from which St Louis Memphis
number of other cities get their water supply.
There complaint Cincinnati Kansas City and other
river towns of polluted water supply
But London in comparison something awful to con-
template 1t would seem only question of time when
some plague will sweep million of people or more
in the brefest time London has its underground rail-
ways or tubes they odor like nothing else
on earth very concentration of the organic products
of respiration dashed about by various conditions but
never really exhausted changed or renewed In plain
words, worn-out air charged with human poison. The
house has also smell that willis and debili
ates the members and often quite units them
for public The drainage is at fault repeated
investigations shown. The air nearly killed John
Bright member has recently described its effect to
the death of energy good spirits and sometimes even
good temper among the majority of its members Last
year minister after minister fell i'll The stencil
the treasury bench once overcame Sir Randolph
Churchill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
Will Lettuce Prevent Smallpox
(from Medical TAXI


Lettuce is an absolute preventive ~
smallpox. No one is in the least par
ticle OF danger OF catching smsllpox
who eats a little lettuce every day
Smallpox belongs 70 she scorbuuc class
OF diseases. Sailors az sea. deprived -
fresh vegetables. get scurvy. Scurvy is
a typical scorbUtic disease. Smallpox IS
another. SMALLPOX always RACES during
the winter season. when tire poor pcopl e
are deprived q fresh vegeta bic foods
Celery ard onions are good fo- this pslr-
pose but there Is such q long laterval
between their being gathered and being
eaten that they Iost most q their anti
scorbutic properties. Lettuce e served
shortly after IL Is packed, and hence coz
tains the vaiusb ole properties whsch viii
prevent smallpox.
We say without the least hesitation or
reserve that lettuce wiil prevent sua ~
pox II - a thousand times better than
vaccination. II haT M Liabilities. lke
vaccination. n proiuce other dlseases
We are willing 10 stske our pTofes- la7. rs
reputation on the brad Statement that
any one who eats lettuce daiIr wEl rot
catch smallpox. whether Dc D. ysrci1atesl
r~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
DRUNKENNESS AMONG WOMEN.

An American temperance reformer who has just re-
turned from Europe to York. announces that the
temperance standard that real temperance is so far
ahead Europe this country that he feels like letting
up on his crusade against drinking far as his own
country is concerned He presents rather discour
aging figures The increase of drunkenness among the
women of London is little less than startling as taken
from the official records Liverpool conditions but
little better In that great commercial entrepot an or
ganzaton which is taking practical steps TO reduce in
temperance does believe that this be brought
through prohibition has been making inquiry into
drinking habit especially affects 1t has
conclusion that given fair opportunity to
compete with man. can, in complete and bestal
drunkenness and in becoming addicted to alcoholic
to lose all self-respect far outstrip him.
Some figures that been coated from the records Of
the police for the past years far to confirm
this contention In time there 2531 females
compared with 1279 men, five times and over
for drunkenness. The following is the list:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN EMPORIA.

When get squarely into politics. with the legal
right any candidate sight church and state
will get mixed up great shape With the
man. next her family her church Her social
relations largely modified by her church leanings
the affairs of her family OF politics
escape her UNCONVENTIONAL procvities She will
be for the church against all Others
and without reference any high protection low
tariff Over at Empora they having two separate
Bnd distinct political ward church and state
They probably strictly political in that party
principle involved outside prohibition which is
longer party contention. But the fight is the
fact that a Baptist who is up to snuff, in
ward, and the members of high five club in another
ward, got away with solid delegations the city
ton bag and baggage For this the Presbyterian Meth
odist Congregational not propose to stand
AS for the Epscopaan contingent headed by the wife
of prominent lawyer when they found that they had
been confdenced of the game they became furious
The thing in order of course will be bolt unless
their husbands manage smooth down the
ational feathers of these rufed If the fail
to ring in satisfactory compromise Emporia is liable
go wet" In the time harpins and combs igur
atively fill the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
THE SARDtNE FAMINE

The sardne famine in France has been particularly
because thousands depend the sardine
fisheries for existence, and have therefore been
thrown upon charity What suddenly killed fish which
always supposed to be inexhaustibe? Il was IN
doubtedy the French naval maneuvers Of last September
when great many submarine mines torpedoes were
exploded in practice The killing OF fish in large
numbers is the result Of the submarine explosions
that are so much engaging the nsvies Of the world II
mines and torpedoes DESTROY drive away the
fish which have since the memory frequented the
the toilers Of will YET find empty nets
and the waters will become barren
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
WAR COSTS MORE THAN RAILWAYS

Crowns are not only expensive provocative Of war
Were all the nations of peoperued armies could
be safely sbanded and put TO carrying freight
Republics not given Still the United States
has had which not traceable to anything
onarchs did and but for which war the country would
have no debt The war with Spain was not only in
of itself very costly affair as the appropriations of
the last congresses reveal but il brought expensive
obligations and inspired the building Of navy which is
tc cost untold millions be provided Yet With it all
our expenses nowhere equal those OF Great Britain
The Siberian railway committee reports that this
mammoth enterprise, with length Of s7oo miles has
cost $lS25o000o including the first order Of rolling
stock Were labor anything like costly Russia as
even in England it would have cost far more We may
well congratulate ourselves that this project
for peace What shall we say, however when we read
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
MAKING Up for lost Time.

You dCa't cook Ike Mar. ny hTst
wife. used "a DC. Aiice he -ai3. s.
tcnes Il gentle. exzsperatlng reEToef.
No. Il seems 20 ne yog can; cnok Ire
she used u.
on another occasion re remarked
'.Toz are uot 20 smart a. getting aho1f
as Mary was You cont sErear - catch
OF vhere sh4 ieff OF
About this tire heaTF rolling =
cane n confsr1 ~fth BE bad
What 10 sou nzean D. that T0a--.
he exclaimed. n sE1uT
I'm sofrg fhe ~orE shat &arT reg
Iecfed sra rer5fe1
There vas zlore peace ia that family
afterwars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21

lou WAS pIdF4h utcau TOW, WASH [
YOU
Yes" cried Billie. excitesIiy 7 knew
It would come out. Here's ne play.
Fifty fat
It's more than come out" said Burk
who was not going 70 underact his part.
its come out IN both wheels
Both wheels, Then ! Kit a hundred -
Billie shrieked. His eyes buissd with
the surprise Of II all and he rose 70 a
sitting posture. but the eSertioa was too
much and he sank back w.th a gasp
Yes. you git a hundred ! brought you
the money
Burk counted out one hundred dollars
from the roll that fairly made the eyes q
the boys water. There was = suspicious
moisture n his own eyes Water Per
haus Billie ran MS hands lovingly over
the money and then handed II 70 Zen.
You can cit de brace now. guess I
won't last long. but you can git Dc brace.
anyhow
The lrnp seemed 70 Be rising again.
So Il had all been for tire sake q tire
little cripple Burx was su1e-f.s as -
had never suffered before Rum had
duliez The edge = the other sorroE. BIT
this was the kind of thing that woSid
last The h,fic rfncaec face q Esilile.
The newsbov would haunt his dreams
forever would rsse up between hin and
polIcy-yes. no~ vas TIE time % Close
THE shop
It'd yo-i bring slip - eouid see ths
ruu lsrs
Esiies voice vas weaker AID tAs T7or7
seemed q - growing darker ard darS ?
The EnG ztEE rain had Jeff Eir-2 ard re
fels very cornforta be snd Sro-sT
No. forgot 4. sad Eurs- prs-e7fi1z
70 sesrCh r. hts pocket. IN hr7ag yoz
ore IN ths morning
-Yes-s1-;hs morning sid Blliie, II
morning
Whc1 morning came IL so1zd TIRE Etie
cripple sitting sally BY TIE I'D lie
would S~t The h-sce sor hss roor. Ecas
hack bot Rs friend vas Krr~- ard re
ruEl % green paper n h.- hand seersec .
mean - Little after Aii--W. Culver Moore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21

There public houses in Liverpool in which women
catered to almost exclusively and unlike of the
soda water places in and about the shopping districts
in American Cities the greatest call is for GIN and gin
of the rawes and most vile character is served Occa
sionay there is call for and with which
dilute it, but the habtual prefers neat The organiza
ton referred to had the police of Liverpool spot of
these places for two days recently and the result
that they counted 71S women 1913 and % boys who
entered during that time After that protest against
the renewal of the license was entered
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-21
HOW NEW YORK las GROWN

New York City 10 celebrate the 258th anniveT
sary Of its municipal birth The city had 1870 In
hahants in 1858 and $50 years later in 1900 the popua-
tion eoooo and the citizens really began feel
they lived in metropolis Now the population close
100000 Formerly the buildings we're low: today
there eiihoes SEQ feet high skyscraper placed
by the cathedral of the City Of Mexico would dwarf
into relative iRsignifcaace