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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-09

j. B. Dunnick and family departed
Monday for Huron, S. D.. where they
will make their home for the present,
His father accompanied them to Man
ming.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-09
Il Neze, Shirt
Two Timely Views of This Store for Men
The Business Viesg

You buy and continue to buy
where you receive the largest degree of
value-we are thinking of the broad
definition of the word "value" - cost
value, service-value and satisfaction
value, all combined.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

From woeburg to Joyvtlle seems but q
little way
Sometimes;
The road Is very pleasant and the COM
pany Is gay
Sometimes.
You can go there IN a minute IL O woman
who is fair
Sits beside you in a corner-or, well. al
most anywhere,
limiting that you are a wonder from your
toenails to your hair
Sometimes.
quickly made
Sometimes;
The road is broad and rutless. with a
very easy grade
Sometirnes.
You may journey there as quickly as
hen may wink an eye
II the people you're afraid of have the
decenoy to die,
Or the stock you've bought advances. or
your child quits asking 'Why?"
Sometimes.
From woeburg to Joyville the way is
long. and steep
Sometimes;
The rocks are big and jagged and the
ruts are very deep
Sometimes.
It is hard to md q lodging on the tedious.
dismal way,
When your tailor treats you ooldly ana
your ventures fail to pay
When She casts you of for having been
well, Just little gay
Sometimes.
From woeburg to Joyvi1le there seems
no way at all
Sometimes;
Through the deep, dark, dismal valley
kissing serpents seem to crawl
Sometimes.
It may be, indeed, that Joyville IS fig
ment of the air,
A mirage out on the desert, but If so It
be dare
Still to thank the Lord for letting me be-
hold 1t cleaning there
Sometimes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
THE MOTHER LOVE

We saw her falling straight forward
upon her face and her baby. But be-
fore she reached the stones-in the air
as she fell-she turned, and held the
baby in safety. Her bones were b-ok-
en- in the fall-but she saved her baby!
At the end of a blistering July day
a cyclone swept along a prairie coun-
tryside, scattering its dwellings like
chaff before the wind. 1t found
mother alone in her home with four
little children. Seeing the house would
go. she seized bush in the yard, set
her back to the storm and gathered
her children under her body. With the
wind came furious blasts of heavy hail,
that beat her as with clubs and cut the
hair from her headl This sounds in
credible, but there are at least two per-
sons living in Chicago now who saw
this woman and her wounds.
Help was quickly organized and she
and her babies, with other victims,
were brought into the little country
town. There the good women of the
place gathered about her and heard her
story as they ministered to her. She
told 1t simply and in few words. AS
they pitifully exclaimed over her sh I'm
and battered head she said:
81 hope my hair will grow again as
1t was. / used to be proud of my hair.
But 1 saved my babies!"
And some who saw her when she
said that, and noted the light in her
eyes. and saw the proud lifting of the
weary and wounded head, felt that they
knew why the shepherds knelt when
they entered the stable at Bethlehem
and saw Mary the Mother beside her
Child of whom the angels had told
them as they watched their fiocks by
night upon the hills.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
The Daily Story
The Lost Art-By Chauncey Thomas.
Copyrighted. 1919. by Associated Literary Bureau

mo, SIR
"But why notT
Young man, I have not the slight
est objection to you personally. Your
family. your character. are above re-
proach, but financially, my dear sir.
financially. Ethel has been raised ac-
customed to everything that money
can buy, and to be candid, my dear
sir, what have your
Old Harrington. millionaire president
of the First National bank, tilted back
in his chair and gazed, half in compass
sion. half in amusement, yet with
show of regard, at the doleful young
man before him.
A fine, strapping speciman of man
hood Philip Stone was, but just now
he appeared all detection.
Then I cannot marry Ethelr he
asked ruefully.
81 am very sorry, bat must say
no."
sBut could had the money!
"weIl, my boy, that is another Ques-
ton, but am not certain. Yes. will
say positively that If you were able
to support her you would have my full
consent"
How much?" asked the young man
laconically.
Good! That sounds like business"
responded the banker, bringing his
feet fat on the floor. "Well, think
would risk you with hundred thou
sand dollars"
"a hundred thousand suns" mutter-
ed the young fellow. 'To tell you the
fiat truth, Mr.. Harrington, have moth
ing but an income of less than hun
dred dollars a month from my salary"
my dear Stone" said the elder man
earnestly, 'T admire you immensely,
and of all young men 1 know I would
choose you, If you had the money, for
Ethers husband. Now, Ethel is barely
eighteen and can well afford to wait.
You may have her on this condition:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
TIGHTEN STORE BURDENS.

An exchange takes the people to
task for lack OF system in buying at
the stores. Il says: If people who
have goods delivered at their homes
were Just a little forehanded and
thoughtful in their buying they could
materially tighten the burdens of the
men, the boys and girls, and the
horses that are required to serve
hem. In some homes delivery boys
call three and four times per day. 1t
would be possible in most of these
homes to reduce these calls to three
times per week. And, out OF this
'thoughtfulness for the comfort and
well being of others. there would come
grace. strength and pleasure to the
doors. Doing things OF this kind is
religion in action. You need not nee
essarily belong to church to practice
the doing of such work"
Rock Island housewives are having
a lesson along this line today because
OF the retailers annual picnic, all mar
kets being closed, so that those who
failed TO lay in supplies yesterday are
forced to borrow or do without.
The foregoing advice need not be
lost for lack OF a good beginning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

to month II the companies in these
cities cited can make a satisfactory
showing on monthly income and out
put, then the statistics of the whole
Industry should indicate a condition
of stability and good health, even
though the companies in cities of, say.
$4,000 population and less were in a
state OF stagnation. The business of
the smaller companies is by no means
stationary. although their percentages
OF increase over last year are not as
high as those shown by the larger
companies. The statistics also show
that, whatever the size of the COM
munity served. the local system which
is under syndicate control and opera
q; seems to maintain its gross in
come through a period OF slow gen.
eral business with a greater measure
of success than docs the independent
company II Is thus interesting to
note that the arguments in favor of
syndicate control and operation of the
smaller utilities seem fairly well sub
stantiated by actual experience.
Combined data from Is OF tn larg-
est cities show that in an average
month these companies handle some
thing like six and one-half million
dollars OF gross sales, Ind the total
gross income OF all electric light COM
panies from the sale of electric energy
Is a little more than $30.000.000 a
month The total for the companies
operating in the % principal cities is
known to be over $4,000, 900, or over
40 per cent of the income for the en-
tire industry. The rate of increase OF
1914 over 1913 as shown by the May
r. turns is not so high as that given by
the April figures, although the percent
age increase is considerably higher
than for March. Reports from 2S of
the so largest cities show a combined
gross income from the sale OF energy
of S7.671, S3S for May, 1914, against
1893 ,64S for May, 1913-an increase
of 9.S per cent, while the combined
energy output of all the stations oper-
ated by these companies is 329, 069, 269
kilowatt hours, against POI, 600,6 32
kilowatt hours, an Increase of Is per
cent. The rates OF increase over 1913
were respectively los and 15.5 per
cent for April, and rs and 1874 per
cent for March. These figures are
probably fairly true for the operating
companies scattered throughout the
country, as there are hardly any in
stances of phenomenal increase or de-
crease for single companies which
would affect the average figures to a
misleading extent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
CITY FORESTER NEEDED.

: Rockford is demanding a forester.
a man who will look after the shade
trees in their streets and prosecute
sthe linemen who hack and destroy
everything that comes in their way.
This city forester will be the only
man allowed TO tamper with tree.
This is good sense. says the Peoria
Star. An idiotic idea prevails among
some people that the way to trim a
tree is TO cut OF the top. The result
Of IL is that some Of our streets are
defaced with poor, ragged and insight
" stumps that put out a few feeble
shoots to try and repair their raw
ages. but eventually they decay and
perish. II there are too many trees
they should be thinned out by removal,
but to hack and butcher and mutilate
their tops is an offense against decen-
cy, good taste, good sense, and every
thing that contributes TO the beauty
of a city
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
Chicago IIerald.)


When Mrs. Mary Sullivan, with her
year-old baby in her arms, started
across jackson boulevard at State
street the policeman had blown his
whistle and traffic had stopped to al
low pedestrians to pass. She was with
in her rights and the law, and she
seemed to be safe.
Suddenly a heavy automobile lurch-
ed forward upon the mother and her
child. She had but a second to think,
had Mary Sullivan. and she thought, as
mothers always do, for her child. AS
the cruel wheels struck her she threw
her baby, and safe into the hands of a
quickwitted man there.
Let us hope that as she went down
under the wheels Mary Sullivan saw
and knew that she had saved her baby.
Let us hope that she had that knowl-
edge. for then her soul will be less op-
pressed with the fear she cannot
speak now, as she lies in delirium up
on her hospital bed with conclusion of
the brain. And let us all hope that
she will get well and feel the mother
pride in after years of being able to
say: II saved my baby"
o wondrous heart and soul of moth
erhoodl What will it not drive the
frail bodies and the slender strength
of women to dare and endured Thus
armed women will accomplish physical
feats that the trained athlete would
pronounce impossible and glory in suf-
fering that makes the beholders of its
marks shudder. Here are two cases
that happen to have come within per-
sonal observation:
A woman with baby in her arms
was alighting from a Chicago street
car. The car moved, or she tripped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

the world and the greatest outdoor
people in the world. Sometimes, out in
the newer parts of Canada, people are
willing to argue that. A western bish-
OPP hired a new come Englishman to
cook, as he was the only one in the
party who could not cook, and caution
ed him to be sure to wash the meat
before cooking 1t. He did-with soap.
1t was an Englishman not yet across
the water who wrote to find out about
the proper outfit for Canada and who
inquired whether moccasins or snow
shoes were regarded as the warmer
for footwear.
1t was an Englishman on the Atha-
basca river who bored hole in float
ing scow to let the water out. And yet
another Englishman, when asked to
set watermark at night to determine
whether or not the river was rising,
carefully made a mark at the water
line on the side of floating boat.
On the whole, there seems to be a
great difference between colonizers
and colonists.-Saturday Evening Post
Poverty, my dear, is no disgrace"
know that, but, on the other hand,
you know it's nothing to brag about
either.'-Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
WHAT HAVE YOU ?"

7 will advance you 81 900 in cash today
upon your promise not to see Ethel for
a year, and if at the end Of that time
you have not 100000 In cash or the
prospects of it, which I alone must de-
eide, then you will never see Ethel
again. On the other hand, if you have
the money you may marry her a year
from today If she Is willing"
The young man looked up eagerly.
Eyes, Philip, that is what 1 mean"
The young man gaZed thoughtfully
at the carpet for many moments.
Agreed" he said, putting out his
hand.
With one hand the banker took the
proffered grasp, while with the other
he reached for his private check book.
Three minutes later Philip Stone
was bidding his all but to be father-in-
law goodby. In his pocket was check
for $1,000
TEL me. Mr.. Harrington, what shall
do to get this fortune and Ethel
within year, for get both Of them I
wiil?"
go to the ant, thou sluggard," smil-
ed the old man, with kindly grasp OF
Philips hand that took all the sting
out of the epithet.
Philip Stone left the bank and
sought the -seclusion of a quiet, sunny
nook In the park. For awhile he sat
and planned and schemed. but to no
purpose.
Then the old mans advice came to
his mind. go to the ant. thou slug
gard" and as a forlorn hope he be-
gan idly to watch a city of insects at
his feet.
Red ants they were. busily engaged
in repairing the havoc wrought by a
passing hoof.
Then an inspiration thrilled him.
With his penknife he carefully tore
the ant hill to pieces, stepping here
and there and brushing vigorously to
avoid the stings OF the brave little
home defenders. In his handkerchief
he placed a double handful OF the
white larvae-embryonic ants.
Gently knotting the handkerchief to-
gether and putting it carefully in his
coat pocket, he caught the nearest cab
and gave the order. ''Keen 6 Bishop.
Broadway, bullion dealers"
An hour later, when he returned
home, in one pocket was d pint OF red
ants eggs, in the other thousand
dollars In the shape of six pounds OF
unrefined gold dust.
Then he sent Jones, the man of all
work about the house. TO the florists
for some very fine earth free from all
sandy particles.
On Jones return he took q pecS -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

If 1t is too high the doctor can tell
him how to conserve his arteries.
Questions and Answers.
H. H. Y. asks: Please advise what
can be done for bunion.
Reply.
A bunion is partly dislocated great
toe joint covered by an infiamed or
suppurating bursa protective pad). 1t
Is caused by pointed shoes, the inside
lines of the soles of which do not
hang together but deviate in an out
ward direction from the heel shank to
the toe Get properly built shoes
which do not throw the great toes out
OF alignment. The only cure for an
established bunion is operation.
n. o. asks: What causes a baby
year old to be ruptured at the
navel?
Reply.
Congenital failure of the abdominal
wall to develop normally. This, plus
unnatural strain, as obstinate con-
stfpation, whooping-cough or other pro-
longed cough.
Anxious Mother writes: Our 2
months-old baby has always looked
pieded and red. Would it help if we
have him scarified?
Reply.
/ can't make out what you mean by
the word "pieded., And 1 never heard
OF having babies "scarified." Won't you
explain?
p. E. H. states that he has had a
discharge from his ear for many
years, that the ear is perfectly deaf,
that he syringes it daily with perox-
tde and water, and that he has been
told the drum is perforated like a
sieve and operation is the only cure.
He asks for our opinion.
Reply.
p. Z. II. is too intelligent to imagine
a physician can safely advise him by
mail about such a condition. The per-
oxide is risky, we should say; its ex-
plosive force in contact with the dis
charge might drive the infection into
the mastoid cells back of the ear
which is the ever present danger in
chronic discharging ear. An exemina-
ton by his doctor or by a specialist
recommended by the doctor, is the best
advice we can offer.
/ invite p. E. H., w. r. NJ, Mrs.
G. N. Mrs. X. b., Mrs. ]. G., Mr.. ]. p,
Mother and Laundryman to read the
daily notice appended to these Health
Talks. Note particularly that we do
not diagnose or prescribe. Each OF
these parties should consult their fam
lily physicians.
} pertaining to health. II your ques-
swered through these columns; IL not
ped. addressed envelope is enclosed.
vidual cases or make diagnoses. Ad-
care of The Argus. Rock Island, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
How Absinthe Is Made.

An old Moor to whom trader tried
to explain the tyrannous nature of the
order forbidding the sale of absinth in
Morocco took a wholly unexpected at
titude.
"Absinthe," he said, "is an invention
of the evil one. On its roots he pours
the blood of a peacock; then when the
leaves begin to grow he sprinkies
them with the blood of a monkey;
then he dips the stalks in the blood of
bear; lastly he mingles with the
juice of the plant the blood of pig.
$50 that when the faithful drinks
absinthe at the first glass his appetite
awakes, and he arises proud as a pea
cock; at the second glass he becomes
excited and gesticulates like a mon
key; at the third he becomes quarrel
some and spiteful. like a bear; at the
fourth he becomes besotted and falls
to the earth and rolls like a hog in
the mire.
May Allah protect us. the order is
right."-New York Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
Kindness,

His head was bald and wrinkles hung
In folds beneath his chin;
But. fsncying his look was young,
He drew his waist-band IN.
His shoulders dropped. his step was slow,
His sight was growing dim;
He thought the knowledge of Il, though,
Belonged alone to him.
I did not tell him that I knew,
Nor hint that could see;
It may be that SONS morning you
VIII be as kind to me.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
MORE ELECTRIC LIGHTS.

There has been a marked increase in
the electric light business of this coun-
Try over what IL was last year, &C
cording to statistics compiled by the
Electrical World. Returns from the
electric light companies operating in
a majority OF the so largest cities of
the country show that their average
gross revenue for the recent months
OF March, April and May has ex-
ceeded that for the same period of last
year, although the rate OF increase
varies over q wide range from month
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
K
W
Brady,M.D.
Result of High Blood Pressure.

In a study of 100 cases of high blood
pressure by DR.. T. c. Janeway, now
of Johns Hopkins school, shortness of
breath on exertion was the most fire.
quent symptom noted, IN As cases.
Shortness of breath appeared at times
during rest in "a cases.
Pain about the region of the heart
was present in is cases. Swelling of
the legs in IL cases. The kidneys ex-
creted excessively in 80 cases.
Headache was a prominent symp-
tom in 10 cases, eight of which de-
veloped gradual uremia.
Fourteen cases showed loss of
flesh. Sixteen were called "neuras-
thenic."
A Man Is as Old as His Arteries.
These hundred cases were the fatal
cases selected from a group of 500
patients with high blood pressure.
They were under observation for some
eight years.
Only five of them were persons
under 40 years. Eighty-five were be-
yond the half-century mark. The
youngest was 16, the disease of the
arteries in this instance following two
years after a mild attack of scarlet
fever. The oldest. was 80. This latter
patient had arterial hardening and
urinary retention from an enlarged
PROSTATE gland. But the 16-year-old
lad was as old as the SO-year-old man.
A man is as old as his arteries.
Senility is largely a question of
N,.I fe oNas
Drink from the Fountain Of Youth.
Twenty-Five of these cases succumb-
ed to gradual heart failure, 20 de-
veloped chronic uremia, Is had uremic
commissions or coma, IA had apoplexy,
and various complications terminated
the history of the rest.
But what does the study teach?
That high blood pressure is a strain
upon the heart, brain and kidneys.
That nephritis or Bright's disease, apo
plexy or a stroke OF paralysis, and
heart failure In most instances, are
primarily arterial in origin. They are
various ways in which high blood
pressure manifests itself.
The factors of arterial hardening
are pretty well understood. Let
every man pause at 80 or 80 and take
stock OF the rate at which he is living.
Is he putting on weight? Is he growing
a corporation" Is he losing his wind Z?
Can't he tackle the physical stunts
he formerly found easy? Maybe he
needs drink from the fountain of
youth. Let him settle the question
by going to the family doctor and
having his blood pressure measured.
DR.. Brady will answer all question
ton is OF general interest 1t will be an
IL will be answered personally IL stan
DR.. Brady Will not prescribe for ind
dress all Letters to DIR William BRADY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

McDonough county will be long
way ahead OF the game even if the oil
field which is being developed there
fails to pan out. 1t is estimated that
from $500, 900 to 100000 has been ex-
pended already and not a barrel Of
petroleum has yet been sold.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
FATHERS FooLIsHNEss.

What did ia
Their S ay W b e n
you asked him If
you could have
me?"
He told me to
wait a year and
then II ! still
W a n t g d you to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

TERMS1Ten cents per week by car
rier. In Rock Island; So pc yea by NAL
in advance.
Complaints OF. delivery service should
be MADE to tho circulation department
which should also be notified In every
instance where Il is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have NO
authority n the premiseS-
All communications o. arguuentASiEe
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached fer pubiica-
ton No such articles Will be printed
over nrtirious signatures
Telephones in all departments. Cen
trail Union. Rock Island 1875. has and
zI45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

Lawmaking is done badly enough in
most states when the usual course of
procedure is followed, but Indiana has
found an act on the statute books
upon which it is said the legislature
never took action Probably the Hoos-
Ter solons will remedy the oversight
at the next session.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

Enforcement of the blue laws at
Galesburg forbidding the sale of news
papers. soft drinks, cigars and candy
On Sunday and permitting only hotels,
restaurants, drug stores and livery
stables to do business doesn't improve
the prospects of that city for a berth
in the Central baseball association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

II Huerta waits for that expected
call to deliver the country before re-
turning to Mexico he will need all Of
that pile he is said to have taken with
him to keep the wolf from the door in
the interim.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
July % in Amerlcs'
History.

179S-Roger Sherman. "signer
born 1T21. -
1S64-The famous painuns'
Emancipation Proclamauoh ,,.,.l
+. B. Carpenter, was first uS ass
to public view at the White = = 8.
1SS5-General u. s. Grant aieu a;
Drexel cottage at Mount ~
or. n. Y: born lS22-
He alone has energy who caA
deprived of it.-Lavater.
All the news all the tine--ans =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23

George Fitch, author of the "Siwash"
series, Is accompanying ex-senator
Beveridge of Indiana on his speaking
tour of Illinois in the bull moose cause.
II George is looking for humor in the
situation he is advised to lose no time
in coming TO the Fourteenth district.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-23
An Enthusiastic Believer.

An Enthusiastic Believer.
do you believe in capital punish
ment?" asked the lawyer.
YES" replied the prospective jury
man, 'I do. My wife has a big, husky
brother who insists on living with US
instead of getting out and finding a
job and he has threatened to lick me
unless I furnish his board and look
cheerful"