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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
CONVICT SLAIN AT TABLE
IN JOLIET PENITENTIARY

Joliet, Ill, Sept. 1s.-The assassina-
ton of one prisoner by another in the
dining room of the penitentiary here
yesterday formed a tragic interruption
to the MONDAY meal. Frank Repetto,
siezing a carving knife from the table,
plunged it into the heart of Charles
McMasters, who died instantly.
Both men were sentenced from Cook
county, Repetto in 1910 for larceny
and McMasters in 1913 for burglary.
At first they were close friends, but
recently a mysterious coldness, still
unexplained, sprang up between them.
Repetto, working on the rock pile,
requested and was granted a transfer
TO the quarry where McMasters work
ed. The latter. upon the advent of
his former friend, asked to be trans
ferred 10 other work. The murder yes
terday is believed to have been the
climax OF that feud.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
The Potato Habit.

Potato eating has become a habit
not because potatoes contain enough
nourishment to carry on life, but be-
cause they are cheap, easy TO prepare
and bulky enough to fill up the stom-
ach. The potato consists almost en-
tirely OF starch, and though this has a
place in the diet IL is not capable of
building up strength and muscle. Con-
slant reference is made TO the hardi-
hood OF colonists and early settlers,
They were not raised on a potato diet,
for the potato was a luxury as late as
1900 to be served with sugar, nutmeg
and mace. 1t is a product Of more re-
cent years, part and parcel of the
struggle TO keep down the living ex-
pense at the cost OF the body.
This does not mean that potatoes
should be eliminated from the dietary.
for like every other food they have a
definite mission to fulfill. but they
must be used with discretion and in
proper combination. Excessive use
brings an inevitable trail OF anaemia,
obesity and autointoxication.-C
Gentleman
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
WHERE LAWYERS FAIL.

The late Associate Justice Lurton
of the United States supreme court
left will written by his own hand.
When it was filed for probate it was
found to be void, because it did not
have the attesting witnesses required
by the District of Columbia statutes.
This recalls the fact that the late
Samuel J. Tilden, one of the greatest
lawyers of his time, drew his own
will, but it was thrown out by the
court.
Here are two men trained in the
law, having passed their whole lives
in drawing and supervising legal doc
uments, the one the great corporation
lawyer of the United States, the other
a justice of the highest legal tribunal
of the land, and neither one of them
capable OF executing so simple docu-
ment that can be written in five lines,
and the formalitios of which are ex-
ceedingly simple. There is an old
adage that a lawyer Who pleads his
own case has a fool for client. Per
haps, observes the Peoria Star, a eli
ent who employs a lawyer is also
fool, but this may be stating the thing
too broadly. Men can do that for 9th
ers which they are unable to do for
themselves, and this is fact that is
a matter Of everyday experience, not
only in law. but in business.
There are first rate men who can or
gan!ze. There are second rate men
who can obey orders. and there are
third rate men who can neither exc
cute nor obey, but who can only grum-
BILE. The late John Comstock used to
put 1t in homely way h. saying there
are men who can steal, but who are
unable to hide; there are those who
can hide, but are unable to steal, and
occasionally you find a rare genius
who can both steal and hide
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
A FRIEND OF ATHLETICS.

In the death of James Z. Sullivan
the world of athletics has lost a man
who has done more for it, perhaps,
than any other In his youth he was a
famed athlete, having won American
championships in all round, running.
jumping and boxing competitions. AT
ter completing his education in the
public schools of this city he entered
the publishing business and eventually
rose to the presidency of the largest
sports publishing concerns in the Uni
ted States.
After his active athletic days were
over he held various offices in the
Amateur Athletic Union of the United
States, where he was one of the found
ers. He was national and sectional
president and in late years held the
position of secretary-treasurer of the
a. a. u, as well as being chairman of
the American Olympic committee and
delegate TO the foreign conferences of
the International Athletic Federation
and Olympic councils. He spent sew
eraI weeks abroad this summer as the
chief representative of American ath-
letic bodies at the international con-
ferences at Paris and Lyons.
His greatest athletic fame came in
held in Europe beginning in 1906. He
was appointed special Olympic COM
missioner at the Athens. London and
Stockholm meets, by Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

graphite. stone. potash. and magnesite.
This country has an abundant supply
Of most OF these mineral products that
are now imported in large amounts.
and as to them it can be Independent
OF foreign countries. The only essen
tial minerals OF the first rank of which
the United States has no known supply
at all commensurate with its needs are
nitrates. potash salts, tin. nickel and
platinum, the list thus comprising two
essential mineral fertilizers and three
very useful metals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

Angleworm extract and rattlesnake
oil still bring a good price in some
parts of our glorious country where
the rheumatic is exceeded in pervers-
ity only by the weather. Genuine dyed
in-the-wool skunk oil, too, has consid-
cradle vogue with horned doctors"
When a faith healer sits around
and thinks-at about a dollar a min
ute-or goes away off somewhere
and gives you $40 worth of absent
treatment, while Old Doctor Nature is
making a cure, you give the testimon-
iaI to the faith healer and not to Ma
ture. But that is all right. a regular
ly qualified NJ. d. will paint a swollen
Joint with iodin and watch the swell
ing disappear with great satisfaction,
if not with much profit, attributing the
improvement to the change of color he
has given the skin.
Not All Faith, But Works.
Liniments serve several good pur-
poses in medicine. They often re-
lieve pain. You can't rub it in"
massage, which is a very effectual
ments also keep the patient con-
IenIeQ III lllt lAdl SOHuGlHlHS
is being done for him.
In these days of elegant pharmacy
the good old turpentine and croton
oil mixtures have been superseded
by various refinement - liniments
put up in neat collapsible tubes. with
parlor-car titles. liniments dispensed
in solidified form packed in attrac-
tive jars. liniments guaranteed not
to blister (as long as they are kept
in the original container) and lini-
ments warranted to cure man or
beast OF any incurable affliction
either victim may happen TO have.
Local Effects Are Feeble at Best.
No oil. no opiate can have any
particular effect when locally ap-
pied. These things do not enter
the skin. no matter how
we'll you rub It in"
Certain drugs do possess more or
less local action. Menthol and its
salicylic acid, aconite,
chloroform. the irritant !
essential oils. and some OF the coal /
tar derivatives are absorbed through |
the skin IN amounts sufficient to |
have a general influence. or else act |
as local sedatives or stimulants.
Liniments relieve pain. then, by
their local action and by the massage
their application demands. But no
one liniment Is suited to all require
ments, any more than one medicine |
VIII help all diseases. Odor and ap-
pearance cut some figure II you are
easily impressed. In fact the odor
and color OF many liniments seems
TO be about the whole ex.ant of heir
remedial virtues
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
HAVE NEARLY ALL MINER
AIS.

: Probably no other nation IN the
world SO nearly approaches absolute
Independence in respect 10 mineral re-
sources as the United States.
A glance at the statistics of mineral
Imports affords a means Of compre-
hending in a broad way how great and
Complex IS the task of attaining ma
tional Independence in the mining,
fnetallurgical. and chemical industries.
Last year the imports OF mineral prod
nets. both crude and manufactured, ex-
cseded $270.0OO.OOO. OF this total
probably 5000. 0Oo. 900 represents raw
materials and crude metals, the value
of these imports being about s per
cent OF that Of the domestic output. IN
fhas list OF imports the larger items
inamed In he order OF value are IN
manufactured copper. precious stones,
flitrate OF soda, copper ore and matte.
inickel. tin. iron ore. pig iron and steel,
petroleum products. manganese ores
md alleys, platinum. aluminium, pyrite,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

The use OF the E-ray IN war is not
the least OF its services to mankind.
II is used TO locate bullets in the body
of the wounded. In 80 seconds it can
give the exact location of a bullet in
any part Of the body. and in the hand
in four to six seconds. That gives the
surgeons a chance to give first aid
while the chances are best. 1t may
be remembered by some that when
the X-ray was first discovered it was
pronounced a notable scientific discov-
se-y but fanciful and probably not of
practical use.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

L. Y. Sherman. addressing the San
Canon county Dick Sullivan conven-
ton, attempted TO give the democratic
national administration the laugh. He
compared the party with a group who
went out for a long boat trip with a
load OF life preservers and no provis-
IONS All OF which calls TO mind, says
the State Register. that the republican
party Is adrift without either provis-
ions or life preservers and with the
same old crew OF stand-patters and
Lorimerites in command who wrecked
the ship on progressive rocks in 1912.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

over an American ship has never Deen
seen before. The trip will be taken
at middle water when the jutting
rocks of the dangerous Yangtsze
gorges have been submerged and be-
fore the river swollen by the rains has
developed it's great whirlpools ard
eddies which add great risks 20 navi'
cation.
The gunboats-alike as two peas
are the first of the type built for the
United States government. They have
100 tons designed displacement and a
designed draft of feet and inhes.
| They make Is knots an hour. and with
their four rudders answer their helm
with remarkable alacrity. The ships
were completely built at the govern
ment navy yard at Mare Island, Cali
fornia, knocked down" and erected at
! Shanghai. There are odd economies
such as the shower bath on the for
ward deck and the cupboard under the
stars and stripes astern, but
the whole adaptation is for difficult
river work and for defence. Numerous
rifle loop holes peep from the armored
cabins on deck and the heavy" arma-
ment consists of two six Founders, one
fore and the other aft. A set of long
bamboo poles is a unique part of the
defensive equipment. Their intended
use is the repelling of pirates. who
have a way of drifting down upon a
ship in their unweildy junks and
swarming over the sides upon the sur
prised crew. The ships carry crews
of 90 men. In command of the Mono
cacy is Lieutenant A. f. Carter, and
of the Palos, Lieutenant Rohershef 1t
is the intention of the officers to gather
photographic and topographic data on
their trip up the Yangtsze.
London.-The proposition of insti-
tuting a distinctive form of mourning
to be worn by the relatives of British
soldiers and sailors killed in the war
has attracted much attention. Severa:
titled ladies have interested themselves
in the subject, but the form which the
mourning should take is still unde-
cided.
A Red Cross worker writing to
Queen Mary's NeedIework Guild sug-
gested that all towns and villages Or
ganize local committees of women to
gather DldCh ClOlHiHS, uSSub Jul III
good condition, to be distributed among
poor mourners who lose relatives in
their country's service. To dispense
with mourning at this time, the writer
said, in answer to another proposal,
would be to entail further hardships
upon the poor. THE average rich per-
son." she said, hasn't the slightest
idea of the enormous Importance that
working women attach to mourning.
They will even starve themselves and
their children to obtain money for its
purchase. To urge them to dispense
with mourning at such time as this
would add sting to the horrors of
death" She suggested that mourning
supply committees furnish men and
children relatives with a black band
bearingsa miniature union jack.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

: In order to prevent dissension
among the school children and main
tain peace in the classroom" all refer
elce to the war is forbidden in the
public schools OF Philadelphia, and
lessons in geography are restricted to
countries not in the war zone This
is carrying the neutrality injunction a
trifie farther than might be expected
OF any sensible community. But of
course it's merely Phiiadelphia's Pc
culiar way OF doing things.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
IFALTHT TALL
William Brady,M.D
liniments and Faith.

| Miss A. L. c. wishes to know
whether olive oil will increase ones
weight if taken in doses of tea
spoonful three times a day.
Reply.
IT will increase ones weight at the
rate of about half an ounce a day. But
ter does better.
X. r. asks: In case of an out
break of scarlet fever in the home,
what precautions can we take to
protect the other children?
Reply.
With the permission of the attending
physician remove the other children at
once from contact with the patient-if
possible remove them to another house
Beyond this there is no other precau
ton except the general sanitary con.
duct of the sick room.
Adelaide observes: So many moth
ers permit children with whooping-
cough to go about in company with
others on the street. Can nothing
be done to prevent this crime?
Reply.
If your local health department can
not stop the abuse you ought to start
war of determination on the health de-
partment. 1t is crime, and the health
department is accessory.
Mrs. F. z. P. writes: One of your
recent talks urged certified milk for
the babies. We have no certified
milk in our city, but we have pas
teurized milk. Is that good?
Reply.
Pasturized milk is the next choice.
1t is safer than ordinary market milk.
r. w. B. asks: Is there any truth
in the allegation that a dog can carry
diphtheria?
Reply.
We once took a culture from the
throat OF mastiff in the hospital and
sent II TO the health department. Next
morning the bacteriologist reported
diphtheria germs present. The dog
was isolated and the epidemic ceased.
Dogs and cats are probably common
carriers OF contagion.
J. OH. F. inquiries: Can a man
have a valvular heart trouble and yet
live a fairly active life and feel per-
fectly we'll?
Reply.
Many men do. The heart muscle I
undergoes compensatory develop |
ment sufficient to keep the circulation
about normal, SO long as the patient
Is subject to no serious strains. Life
Insurance examiners often discover
heart trouble in applicants |
who are ignorant OF the condition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
The Brandy,~Ine River.

The Brandywine river was first
named the Fishkill. Bunce says that
the stream was renamed by the Dutch
10 commemorate the loss at its mouth
o IA vessel loaded with brandy. An
other authority says the name was
given on account OF a famous dlstilIery
on It's banks.-Exchauge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

Hostilities are also on in Muscatine,
where the board of health has offered
a bounty OF one cent each for rats. I'm
less the rodents there are great deal
more numerous than they are in Rock
Island the small boy will hardly be
able 20 rise to affluence by this route
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

Someone has suggested a tax on
war talk as a means of raising all the
necessary revenue in this country
Across the Atlantic il claims of vic
tories passed as legal tender the
armies might fight on indefinitely.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

In voting four to one against issuing
bonds for the improvement Of the city
waterworks the people of Galesburg
merely indicated that they remained
of the same mind as they were last
spring when they voted out the sa-
looms. Since then the city has been so
dry that sagebrush and soapweed are
said TO have sprouted in the streets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

: Some OF the European soldiers are
afflicted with headgear almost as afro
eious as that which the British SOL
diers wore when they came over TO be
licked by the Americans or else the
war pictures now being printed are de-
.uherate fakes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

Italy may be having some trouble
with few of it's people who want war,
but is nothing to what some of the ma
tons who have war are facing later
at the hands OF the people who want
ed, and still want peace.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

TERMS-Ten cents per week by car
risr. In Rock Island; 50 - year by NAH
IN advance
Complaints OF deIiV cry service should
be made to the circulation department.
which should also be notified IN every
instance where n is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have NO
authority IN the premiseA
All communications OK argumentaSive
character. politica, - religious, must
have real name attached for publiea-
ton No such articles viii be printed
ever fictitious siRnaturcS.
Telephones IN all departments. Cen
trail Union Rock Island 1875. 1145 and
zll5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

II the Austrian army holds out as
tenaciously in the face OF defeat as
the aged Austrian ruler has done IN
the face of rumors of his DEATH the
cars army has its work cut out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

The Sioux City Journal remarks:
1.-THE big European armies are eating
up the commissaries. and the big ar
tilIery is eating up the armies. And
the world is devouring the news"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP

Paris-.Already women and children
In black are growing more and more
numerous on the streets OF Paris. To
day the officials communique declares
that while our losses Tin certain
engagement) were heavy those of the
enemy were far greater" The newt
able toll of the war IS being paid.
A tear-stained. trembling mignon-
cite told today how she heard OF the
death of her only brother yesterday.
He had sent her no word since he
went north with his regiment on the
second day of mobilization There are
no Official lists OF the killed and
wounded. For five days she went to
the ministry of war, seeking news. On
Friday they seemed to be preparing
her for the worst Come tomorrow
and we will have news of your broth
err" On the morrow she was told
simply, He is dead" All further in
quiries were in vain Where and how
he died she could not learn, or wheth-
er his body would be brought home.
Simply, I'll est mort"
faTlS.-A drawing VI AlSdSe' d hdHN
some maiden, flying joyfully into the
arms of a French soldier, is the most
popular drawing of the war so far, and
It is being reproduced in all sizes, in
Guiding postal cards. The war seems
to have paralyzed the artists. There
are many indescribably coarse postal
cards, picturing the German emperor
as a pig. or sausage, or worse. King
Albert is the hero of the war up to date
and his photographs are for sale every
where. Flags are worn on lapels,
borne on taxicabs, and displayed over
the door of almost every home and
shop. There are many more British
flags in Paris than there are French
flags in London.
Paris.-All Paris newspapers are
printed on one sheet only. The sup
ply OF paper is limited, most of the
stats have gone to the frontier and
nobody cares for anything but war
news. The police have forbidden ven
ders TO cry out anything but the names
of papers, so there are no shouts about
big battles and big losses. There is
far less yellow" or exaggerated news
in those papers than in the evening
papers in London where "the big bat
tie" has been dressed up daily for two
weeks.
Shanghai. China.-Destined for one
OF the most interesting expeditions
taken by vessels of the American navy.
the two little sister gunboats, "Palos'
and "Monocacy," commissioned on
June 25 at Shanghai, left here recently
and are now at Hankow, 600 miles up
the Yangtsze river. This fall, after
performing patrol duty on the lower
Yangtsze, they will start upon a trip
which will take them above Chunking
almost 1000 miles up China's great
river and almost to the borders of
Thibet, where the American flag flying
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
Friday. September 10, 1914

General French ought to make
strong fusion candidate for command
er-in-chief OF the allies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
Sept. Is in American
History.

Founding OF st. Augustine. ~
the oldest town in the
States. eor.
t7sS~<seorge Washinsto& laiu .ne
nersrese ef sias original cap.'o ..,ss.
1seO-Dioa Boucrc~uft. scsss sne
Alright, died: born ISL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18
The Sole Factor

The Sole Factor. a
"That fellow is hopeless. mes IN
one person, and only one, WY %
ever have an uplifting influence
him"
who is that%' ,.,,,ors
'The elevator boy" - DaiA
American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

j. OH. F. inquiries: Can a man
have a valvular heart trouble and yet
live fairly active life and feel per-
fectly well?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

There's a letter for We the post
man Just brought. dearie.' said Mrs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-18

THE New Mr.. Howerson," by Opie
Read, contains a plot of unusual in
terest and develops it in a very read
able manner. If it be protested that
its theme is not new 1t can be said
that it is one that is ever welcome.
It tells of the regeneration of a strong
character-a big man whose life had
come to be a misfortune to himself
and others. There is an affecting
relation between the man and a child.
All of it is told most sympathetically
and humanity and with many touches
Of the authors rare humor. More,
there is a love story in the book that
is refreshing indeed after a perusual
of much that is offered us today. The
pleasant blend OF humor, philosophy
and old-fashioned sense give the book
great charm and complete a novel of
no common worth. (The Reilly G.
Britton company.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-20
Constitution upon the question o.
hnnHnd Ir,.lnhAn.lrnr1.

Constitution upon the question of
bonded indebtedness.
Sec. 2. That the question of adopt
ing this amendment shall be submit
ted at the next general election for
Representative to the electors as fol-
lows: Those in favor of the amcHc
ment will deposit a ballot with the
following words plainly written OF
printed there: Constitution, rclat-
ing to municipal bonded Indebtedness,
as proposed by Joint Resolution TO
amend Section T. Article VIII, OF the
Constitutions relating 10 municipal
bonded indebtedness by adding a pro-
viso thereto as to the City of Flor
ence-Yes." Those opposed to the
said amendment wit danosit 81 hallnt
with the following words plainly writ
ten or printed thereon: 'Constitu-
tional Amendment to Section Z, hrti-
Gle VIII. OF the Constitution, relating
the municipal bonded Indebtedness, az
proposed by a, join Resolution enti-
tied "A Joint Eesoluticn to amend
Section z. Article VIII, of the Consti-
tuition, relating to municipal bonded
indebtedness by adding Il proviso
thereto as to the City OF Florence
No."