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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
SIBERIA'S hinged BREAD.
Makes Good Soup After Being Used In
Game of Quoits.


No homemade bread in the world can
vie either in indIgestibiIity or useful
ness with the small ringed bread OF ST.
IBERIA. probably the most extraordinary
bread in the whole world.
When the Russian engineering par
ties were constructing the Siberian
railroad this white ringed bread was
their chief food. AS its name implies.
it is made in the shape OF ring. II
Is cooked without salt or yeast and
Is first steamed and then lightly baked
TO expel the moisture. 1t IS eaten and
used in a wonderful variety OF ways
During the intensely cold winter
months Il is soaked in hot tallow for
a few moments and then eaten with
soup or dipped in tea and swallowed.
This tallow bread IS considered TO be
one Of the most beat producing foods
IN existence.
A curious use TO which It IS put is as
a lamp or stove. Half n dozen or eight
holes nre bored IN the "tallow ring
Bread and Rax yestas are placed in
them and lighted. This bread stove
will burn slowly for about an hour.
giving out Sufficient heat to boil the
necessary weter for tea CT coffee for
half dozen people
During the day. when time hangs
heavily. the Siberian peasants play
quoits with their Tinged bread. the
same breads appearing IN the soup 1T
tie evening meal.-Pearson's Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
DOCTORS Join IN
A WAR ON QUACKS

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 16.-The
Gath annual session OF the American
Medical association opened today, with
the first meeting Of the house of dele
gates. DR.. Abraham jacob of New
York, presided. The membership of
the association last year increased
from 34.2S3 to 1913, while member
ship of the So constituent state asso-
Citations during the year grew from
70,021 to 70,53S, according to report
of the secretary, DR.. Alexander Craig,
of Chicago.
The report of the board of trustees
showed the business of the associa-
ton in a prosperous condition. Spe-
cial attention was given to the work
of the Journal of the American Medi-
cal association in investigating and ex-
posing frauds and nostrums. The pat
ent medicine business is quackery, and
is become so widespread that world
wide effort is being made TO curtail
it," said the report.
The principal subject covered by the
report of the judicial council was it's
investigation of the secret division of
fees and the giving of commissions
by surgeons and specialists. These
so-called evils exist, the council found,
in some sections of the country, but
not others. In the New England
states and the south it is not prevail
ant but is found most frequently in
large cities of the central states.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
tate" and lie was buried in Ealing
hurchyard.-London Chronicle.
HE CAUGHT THE KHEDIvE.
A Breezy American Who Made tho
Nest of His Opportunity.

When +. Alexander Powell was the
consular representative of the United
States at Alexandria he received a call
one morning from the president of an
American concern engaged in the man
ufacture of agricultural and we'll drill
ing machinery. This man explained
that he was passing through Egypt
and asked If it would be possible to
obtain an audience with the khedive.
In The Last Frontier Mr.. Powell
gives an amusing account of the inter
view:
Agriculture and its attendant prob
lens of irrigation and fertilization
constitute the sole hobby and amuse-
ment of the khedVe. He is conse-
qUeutly a ready and liberal purchaser
OF all improved types of agricultural
machinery, which he puts to practical
use on his great estates. The request
of my compatriot was duly transmit
ted to the grand master of ceremonies,
and shortly thereafter a reply reached
me that named the day and hour when
his highneSs would receive us at the
palace of Ras-elTin.
Frock coated and top hated We drove
to the palace on the day appointed.
were received By the officials of the
household and shown into the audi
ence room. where his highEess stood
awaiting us. After cordial greeting
the khedive drew me down beside him
on small sofa and mOtioned to my
companion to take a chair opposite us.
'It gives me particular pleasure"
began. Ito present. Mr.. X. to your
highness. as he is an authority on agri-
cultural machinery. a subject in which
your highness is. know, much inter
ested."
Say. khediye." exclaimed my fellow
countryman. suddenly leaning forward
and emphasizing every sentence by
wagglinG his finger under the khe-
/ dives angus. nose. I've. got the nift-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
Mrs. Jack Mashburn.

she said. The second is that / Know
true love will triumph. My first mar.
rage doesn't count at all. The trou-
bic with Smith is that he tried TO In
terfere with true love and ne got bump
ed. He knows that don't love him,
and why doesn't he let me alone IN my
joy?"
She insists that she viii stick to
Mashburn, no matter what the out.
come OF her case.
They may send me to the peniteE.
tiary, but ! will claim my love when
get out" she said. If these judges
and officers knew Just how my heart
is bulging out with love for Jack they'd
have human feeling and sympathy
enough to turn me loose. But they
turned Jack loose, anyway, and thai
makes me happy. ! wouldn't have him
suffer for anything. They may do
whatever they choose with me, but ]
don't want them TO harm Jack"
The young double wife talked free
iy OF her matrimonial troubles, which
DO not seem TO bother her much as
long as she can claim Jack for a hus.
band. Incidentally she admitted tha>
she has been some little coQuette In
her day. having been engaged 70 at
least rs men, and having worn the
rings Of number OF them. she gives
some original advice 10 other girls re.
garding love and marriages, and how
TO make man person eat out OF your
hand,
BE a regular pai-that's the way
TO make a man crazy about YOU" she
said, TELL him he's nice. Show him
you like what he likes. TkAtIl DFing
him around every time. Lives heaven
II you've got love in it-but its bell IL
you haven't.
''Trnst your husband, eyea when
you know be can't be trusted. The
mere you go 70 stirring up things the
worse It'll be for you, Shut your eyes,
hold your mouth and hang on tight,
/ Is a mighty good motto for married
lie"
She said shs intended TO practice
bsF system on Jack and she knew II
would talks because II was the taking
kiRG. Sks knew il was tbs taking
kind because e friend had tEisd Il out
for her and raised 3 joyful husband.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
GREY HAIR RESTORED
TO YOUTHFUL COLOR
Why Have Gray or Faded Hair
That Makes You Look
Old.

Why Ioso your good looks that
youthful, natural colored hair always
helps ycQ 10 keep? There IS abso.
lutely no need for It. a few appIi.
cations CT Hays Hair Health will re-
flcre your grey hairs TO their natural
ooior and beauty. efmosS Immediately
and It VIII look even more beautiful
then eyeT-your money back g 1t
doesn't. Get c bottie today-proye It
to your own satisfaction.
Always esk fer Hays Hair Health.
Don't take ehanoes with any others.
Free. Sign this adv. and take Il
10 the following druggists and get a
soc bettla c! Hays Hair Health and
. CSC cake Of Hariinz Soap, for soc;
CT gIo0 bottio Of Hays Hair Health
and two CSC cakes OF EarfRa Soap
Free, for 81.
Fhomse Drug company, W. T. Hsrtz,
Red Cross pharmacy, john sensston.-
(AdY.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
TAVENNER IS AMONG THE
NATIONAL TOPLINERS"

wants to do, and that there are 2 lot
CT things he a-dently wants done by
himself.
He was born at Cordova, III, in
1882, and, even Is q boy, ambition
Hckled the soles Of his feet and made
his hair grow il a pom padour. His
parents we're poor-and in this respect
they nothing on Clyde. They
formed :! splendid trio Of poverty, and
at the age Of Z years he earned all his
own clothing by selling newspapers.
After that he made a newspaper
man out Of himself by starting little
journal, which he called The Boys
Bulletin and when he was 13 he start
ed to work. in q country newspaper
Office, setting type at the case for four
years. For this Unlike and inspiring
labor he received during the first year
81 week, the second year 81 a week,
and the third year So week. One
raw and rainy afternoon he took tum-
BILE to himself, went out into the drip
ping woods, and, like Demosthenes
without the pebbles in his mouth, ad-
dressed himself in a sepulchral tone
as follows:
"'By straining the greatest muscles
Of my vision I can discern upon the
horizon not even a cloud so big as a
mans hand containing silver lining.
Setting type is like building your own
lead coffin. / do not like lead. / do
not love collins for myself. I'm OF
that lead stuff
after that he whistled ditty from
a comic opera, dashed himself into a
mood of joy, and took up editorial
work on daily papers in large cities.
But ambition, with feathered fingers
was still tickling his FESTIVE and ram
pant feet. He conceived the idea that
he would like to be free to write his
own ideas of great public questions
without being hampered by the policy
Of any one newspaper. And he wen
to Washington to organize a syndi
cate.
Every gloomy afternoon, when Tav
euner had finished a grueling day.
work, some friend met him on thu
corner and sang to him this merry Lii
tie song:
You can't do it, my boy. Go t
work on one newspaper; for your idej
will never pan Out. 1t will put you il
the almshouse or place where tn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
inmates wear strait-iackets and man

inmates wear strait-iackets and man
acles'
"Whereupon Clyde whistled another
song and continued to write and mail
to the newspapers of this country
news letter every day. He wrote one
a day for 1,460 days, or four years. At
the end of his first year his total in
come was SO a week-whioh is not SO
good as the work of cid Captain Kidd.
But Clyde kept on Clydesdaling
and after a long time the editors began
10 print his stuff. Today 70 daily
newspapers throughout the United
States publish his Washington letters
on their first pages and brag about
them, and more than 1000 country
weeklies are running regularly his
weekly letter On Vital Washington
News
But the best thing Clyde ever did
was to marry Miss Isabel Martin, a
Washington girl whom he first met
when he was interviewing Senator
Robert NJ. La Toilette. She knew as
much about politics as Clyde. While
ES WAS uuTTylAS up d11u OONA LIE dIS-
trict handing out hot air, she was con-
! Quoting the campaign headquarters at
Rock Island, H., and taking in the
cold cash. Moreover, she had under
her Is stenographers, who were busy
for. eight weeks preceding the day OF
| election.
Everybody laughed at Tavenner
and his girl wife, and a few pitied their
self-confidence. On election day Mrs.
Tavenner announced that she had cal
culated that her young husband would
win by majority of 1,146. He was
elected by a majority Of 1,20S. And
when he did this he carried majority
in the district that had gone republi
can for % years by majority ranging
from 5000 to 10000.
'All of which goes to show that th'
red tail lights of lost opportunitie:
never throw a glare into Clyde's eyes
wherefore he finds his slender form
adjoining the political heights, pima
cles, and spires"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16

Atlanta, Ga. June 16.-PTetty IL
year-old Mrs. Jack Mashburn, former
Jy Miss Gussie Harmon OF Lagrange,
Ga, who was arrested IN Atlanta on a
charge Of bigamy, following her mar.
riage TO Jack 0iashburn, an Atlanta
machinist. admits that on Jan % last
sho was married TO Charles w. Smith,
q 47-year-old Troup county farmer, and
that she has never obtained a divorce.
Mrs. Mashburn declares she answer.
ed mo" 70 the cherish, love and
obey questions asked her by the Jus,
tice who married her 10 Smith and
that she was forced by her grand.
father and other relatives 10 wed the
elderly farmer. She says she inform,
ed the marrying Justice az the time
OF the ceremony that she would not
take Smith for her lawful welded hus,
band.
Il was forced TO marry him." the
giri cried. i never loved him and
] never win live with him. ] hate
the sight OF him. I'll go 70 the pent
Tertiary for life before I'll live with
him. love Jack, and won't i've
with 6 man ] don't love. Marriage
without love is hell and | don't pro.
pose 70 live in hell. IL makes me think
Of he'll even 10 look at Smith"
The girl is a daughter OF J. W. HaF'
mon OF LAGRANGE. She says her father
Is worth more than one hundred thous.
and dollars. but that he never had
much uss for her. At the time OF her
marriage 10 Smith, she says, she was
living with her parents on farm near
LAGRANGE, Smith, who lives Rboue IL
miles from LAGRANGE, is also reppted
10 be wealthy,
Mrs. Mashburn ts being held for
the TFoup county authorities, IL is
understood that Smith, her husband
plumber one, will prosecHte her for
bigamy, Mashburn declares that while
he has known HIS wife for mere than
a year, he did not learn that che bac
ever been married before until after
her arrest. RFs. MashbuER dsejsFes
she Jeff Smith seen after heF mafFiags
TO him, MashbHTn has been released
Mrs, kfashbHrR says she is supreme
ly happy for tive great fessonsi
Tbs FIRST is that Jack was tuFaso
Iooss and didn't have " 50 80 jail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
COURSE OF THE STARS.
Measuring How Fast and Far They Go
WhirIing Through Space.

Measuring How Fast and Far They Go
WhirIing Through Space.
Away out in space millions of miles
distant Is q star. To the eye il re-
mains, year in, veal. out, fixed point
of light. Even through the telescope
it does not appear 10 move. so slight is
its orbit compared with the enormous
distance that separates it from us.
Yet it is whirling through space as
we are about some sun which it obeys.
as we do ours. How do the astron-
omers learn this? Through the spec
troscope.
Every one is familiar with the fact
that when whistling locomotive is APP
proaching the pitch of the whistle
rises and as the engine recedes it falls.
This is because the sound waves are
crowded together by the onrushing en-
CINE and shortened as it approaches
and are drawn out longer as it goes the
other way.
The same thing happens to the light
of an onrushing star The eye cannot
detect ii. but the spectroscope does.
The astronomer allows the light of
the star to come through q slit and be
broken up by the instrument. He Sc
| lects single line of the spectrum of
| the star, chooses a guide line beside il
and watches it,
| If the star is approaching the light
waves will be shortened and the light
| will become slightly nearer the violet
! If it is Teceding the waves will be
| longer and the light will approach the
red
Red is low pitch in light and blue is
| high pitch. AS the star swings about
the curve at this end of its orbit the
light gradually returns to normal. be
cause the star. while moving just as
! fast. is not approaching us as much.
AS the star turns back the line goes the
other side of thenOrmal
BY continued observation the astron-
Omer finds how fast and how far the
star goes each way and how often it
does so. In the case of some stars he
discovers that what appears to be one
star is really two. which is shown by
the fact that line will divide into
two and one part move up and the 9th
er down the spectrum at the same
time. Such stars are known as spec
troScopic doubles.-New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16

James Hay, Jr., son of Congressman
James Hay Of Virginia, who is writ
ing for O syndicate Of metropolitan
paper Sunday magazine sections on
National Topliners" at the national
capital, had an article IN his papers
yesterday, which include the Chicago
Record Herald, ST. Louis Republic,
Philadelphia Press and Washington
Press, together with a dozen other
papers throughout the land, on Con-
gresham Clyde H. Tavenner. The ar
ticle follows:
fright at the go-off we rise to re-
mark that there are no such things in
the conglomeration Of natures freaks
as 'self-made men, Tha. is why we
DO not refer TO the Honorable and
Hustling Clyde II. Tavenner. elected
to the new congress at the age Of 30
years, as q self-made man. Man Is
made by his God and his circum-
stances-not 10 mention his ability to
catch with iron grasp the coat tails OF
each opportunity that flashes past his
vision.
when it comes to extoTting gold,
glory and prominence from every op-
pcrtunity, Mr.. Tavenner is on the job
like a pair of ice tongs. When the op-
portunities try TO hurry past him, he
tackles them by the coat tails or be
low the knee, throws them PROSTATE
upon the ground, does a rigadoon upon
their prostrate forms, and takes away
from them all chances Of pelf and
prosperity that they have buckled
about their waists. He never saw in
his life the tail lights of opportunity
glimrner away in the darkness. He
always caught them before the glim
mer had a chance to get OF so much
as even one glim.
"He confided 20 me not long age
thai the only serious handicap he had
ever had was his first name, Clyde
But st this time he appeals to the
world as the man who put the Clyde
into Clydesdale and then rode the
beast up and down the mountains o.
adversely and achievement. His pas
resembles q pyramid turned upside
down. II began at a point Of world!
achievement as big as a pinpoint, anC
today he cavorts and works upon tht
high and wide plateau of It, under tbs
fun belief that he can do anything h
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
To Identity the Corpse.

In the blanks which life insurance
companies provide their medical exam
liners for use in recording the data of
the examination OF the applicant for
insurance they provide space for per-
sonal marks which may be used 70
identify the insured after death. One
company recently received a report
from in examining physician with the
following in the Identification blank:
He has n strong Cornish accent
Lipplncott's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
AdVerbs,

In English speech the words that sin
most against clear expression are ad-
verbs. Thus under stress of dire need
you may say. Come here, quick" or
Come here quickly The former is
theoretically incorrect, but it carries
the idea. The latter is theoretically
correct. but it lacks force. Adverbs
are poor things compared with adjec-
tives. Indeed. IL an anti-adyerb society
should ever be organized desire to re-
cord here and now an application for
membership. -Eilwood Hendrick in At
iautic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
Teake'a Taste In Tcnha

Nelson provided his own tpfiiB. but
there have been men who carefully
prepared lheiF own tombs Horne
ToOke was one. a large block OF black
irish marble, specially procured for the
purpose. was its most striking feature.
and IL was 10 be placed In his garden
at Wimbledon. where he desired to
be buried. But ell his preparations
were vain. for after his death it was
decided that the presence Of q tomb
Eaaid rdeteT!orate tha Talne of his Is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16

very common occurrence and what We
must expect for June. The highest
temperature reached today up to 8
o'clock recorded by the weather bu-
reau was "a at 2:3O o'clock. This is
the warmest day recorded so far this
year. and the promise of the weather
man is that it will continue to be this
warm tonight and probably tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
A Steward.

feacher-Jobn. can you tell me what
Is meant by steward: John-A stew
aril is man who doesn't mind his own
business. Teacher-Why. where did
you get that idea: John~Well, l Look
ed 1t up in the dictionary. and it said.
"A man who attends to the affairs OF
others. "-I.ondon Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
Rheumatism Relieved In a Few Hours

rheumatism Relieved In Few Hours.
N. B. Langley, Madison, Wis, says:
81 was almost helpless with rheuma-
tism for about five months. Had 1t In
my neck SO could not turn my head,
and all through my body. l tried
three doctors and many remedies
without any relief whatever until /
procured DIR. Detchon's Relief for
Rheumatism. In a few hours the
pain was relieved and in three days
the rheumatism was completely cured
and l was at work" Sold by Otto
Grotjan, 1901 Second avenue. Rock
Island; Gust Schlegel G. Son, 220
West Second street, Davenport
(Adv)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
AUTO RUNS AWAY
AND is DAMAGED

A two seat Ford car ran away ON
Twentieth street last night and dashed
down the hill from Eleventh avenue,
crashing into telephone pole on the
east side of the street near Tenth av-
enue, smashing a wheel and tire and
damaging the front end considerably.
The owner had left 1t at the curb. and
despite the fact that the brake was
set, it coasted away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
A Man and a Dollar.

During courtship man easily
makes a dollar look like 30 cents.
After marriage he tries to make 30
cents look like a dollar. That is less
easy.-Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16

No legacy is so rich as honesty
Shakespeare.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16

= you do him a favor he thinks he
has you bluffed. and if you do him an
injury he is justified In his first i'm
preston Washington Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE
THIS YEAR is "a TODAY

a jump from frosting weather to
81 degrees in a week is some jump,
but the weather man declares it is a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-16
oftentimes the Way

When man takes dislike TO you
there Is no use OF trying to square t..