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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
HAVE TAEEY PULL.

Misses Andora Harrison and Cora
McPearson entertained a company of
ten friends last evening at a taffy
pull, at the home of the former, S14
Forty-third street. Musical numbers
were enjoyed, games were played and
after the candy had been made, a
buffet luncheon was served in the din
ing room where Halloween decora-
lions were used. The affair proved a
decided success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
aNILcan1s FAVE RAR1Y.

The An;i-Cants o. Spencer MemOr-
I'll Methodist church entertained their
trisrcs a. a most enjoyable Halloween
party last evening IN the church Tar-
iorz Tie rooms were decorated with
autumn leaves. jack o1anterns. black
cats. ghosts and witches. and games
suitable 20 the season were played
refreshments also were suggestive Of
tie season. the AFFAIR proving merry
round q pleasure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
LoSeFELLoW PUPILS HAVE
PARTY

The pupils % the eighth grade o.
Lorgtellow school. claperoned by Mr.
AID Mrs Harry Ellis and Mrs Ida
Indy. enjoyed a Halloween masquer-
tts party last evening in the school
gymnasium The room was decorated
beautifully with novelties OF the sea
son. corn stalks. pumpkins, autumn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31

leaves. etc. and games OF every de-
scripuon were played. Music ON the
victrola was enjoyed, and the merry
company was served with refresh
ments. Many unique and splendidiy
gotten up costumes were worn by the
young people. the whole being a most
successful and enjoyable affair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
SPEND DAY SEWING.

Thirty-three ladies. members of the
Ladies' Aid society at the First Bap-
fist church spent the day yesterday at
the church sewing for their annual
sale. Al noon dinner was served TO 81
people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
HosTEss.AT HALLOWEEN PARTY

Miss Ehma Kouski entertained a
company OF friends last evening at her
home. 11I2 Twenty-first street. at a
Halloween party. Games were play
ed and before the evenings close re-
freshments were served.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
BACHELOR GIRLS HAVE PART<

The Bachelor Girls entertained
tssir boz friends az a progressive Hal
love'en party last evening. The first
course was served az the home OF
Mss Anna Lin1quist and Miss Esther
Godean: the second at the home OF
tie Misses Eva Mabel and Edith Bee
ls- and Stella Baker. and here games
were then played. The company went
for the third course 20 the home OF
Mss Edith Kinks in East Moline.
where more Halloween games and
'1-tune telling were enjoyed the re-
1zinter q tie evening Out-of-toEn
Eles;s we're George Baker and Marion
Weeks. both o. Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31

Fourteenth avenues. The board rec
commended it to the council. The en-
gineer's estimate for the job is 1925.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
Social
CENTRAL MISSION SOCIETY.

ne woman's Mission society OF
cs-trzl Presbyterian church held a
meeting yesterday afternoon with Mrs.
" " Phillips. 100 F'ourteenth-and-a-
hsk street, as the hostess and a large
number Of ladies' attending. The home
topic was given by Mrs. E. Ziezler.
vho spoke on the subject OF the Nor
no1s and the foreign topic. the Phil
ippines, vas discussed by Mrs. F. D.
G. Walker. During a pleasant social
hour the hostess served a nice lunch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31
COURT GIVES $500 FOR
LOSS OF INDEX FINGER

Lloyd Birkel, who was injured Nov.
40. 1912. while working for the Velie
Motor Vehicle company. was award
ed 5000 damages. in a lump sum by
JudRe r W. OImsted I'm circuit court
yesterday afternoon. A board OF ar
bItrators under the worlimens com
pensation act gave Birkel damages 10
the extent OF SAIL and an appeal was
taken by the company. B. A. Stewart
appeared for the young man. who iost
his index finger on his left hand In the
accident.
Italian union printers In New nork
city have received 81 week increase
All the news all the time - The
Argus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
to Grandmama
By DOROTHY DIX

q man to have a dark past IA con-
sidered rather romantic than other-
wise In those halcyon days, and II
later on she was called upon to help
him harvest his wild oat crops she
called 1t all a mysterious dispensation
of Providence that she could never
account for. and so ESCAPED all heart
~burnings and regrets.
The modern girl can't marry that
way. h knows so much hat she
is torn with a thousand fears and
doubts and she goes into marriage
burdened with the sense of her re-
sponsibility to her possible children.
That's the reason that there are fewer
love idyls now. Hygiene la sort of
knocked Cupid out of the ring.
Then grandmama never had to
bother her head about keeping grand
papa fascinated. Probably men were
just as much as a rowing nature then
as now, but nobody had invented the
theory that in order to retain a hus-
bands love a wife should keep her.
self young. and slim. and beautiful,
in addition to raising a family, and
that h should be able to be a whole
vaudeville entertainment upon such
occasions as grandpapa elected to stay
at home.
= "Grandmama could read whatever
sort Of hubdub she liked, because no.
body expected a married woman to
know anything except the cookbook
or to be able to talk about anything
except her babies. She didn't have to
be conversant with the latest scientific
discovery, the newest political scam
dial the m~ost-talked-of picture, the
biggest book of the day, the last de-
velopment in the latest war. Grand
mama could get fat as she liked, or
scrawny as she pleased, because hav-
ing caught her man, she had no FUR
ther use for bait. n nobody noticed
whether h was pulchritudious or
not as she moved sedately around her
sedate little circle.
"Grandmama didn't have to keep
up with the fashions nor bother her
self about the latest Paris craze. BY
the time a woman had gotten to forty
she was supposed to be so old that
she was lone with all earthly vanities,
and to have turned her thoughts to-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

ward heaven instead of the millin ers.
"Grandmama didn't have to worry
any about how things went with the
world, because 1t had never occurred
to her that she had any RESPONSE
bility for any human being outside of
her own home. If her daughters
walked in silk attire 1t was none of
her affair that other young girls per-
ished in sweatshops or were driven
by want upon the streets. II her chill
dren had contagious diseases 1t was
not her business to keep the scourge
away from other children.
When grandmother's babies sick
ened and died from sour milk bottles
and lack of sanitation and from the
ministrations Of ignorant nurses.
grandmother never laid wide-eyed
through %torturing nights, as the mod
ern mother does, blaming herself.
Oh, no., grandmother meekly bowed
her head and said, The Lord loveth
whom He chasteneth,' and went on
bringing other anaemic little creatures
into the world to die.
"Oh, believe me, grandmothers
had a cinch," said the woman regret
fully. Now I'm fifty. When my
grandmother was fifty she had already
attained to a special chair and a Chin
ney corner and a black silk dress and
n lace cap and no corsets and fat
heeled shoes. and had become a placid
onlooker at life.
And look at me, worked to death
trying to keep young, doing with
out things to est 1 like to keep my
figure, giving more care to my clothes
than 1 did when l was twenty, be-
cause a middle-aged woman Is so de-
pendent on her dress, snatching every
moment to read and study in a vain
attempt to keep up with the times,
rushing from one board meeting to
another because my heart is torn with
all the miseries of the world, and 1
feel hat my. sole salvation depends
on my doing my tiny bit to help hu-
mainly!
And that's why I say that our
grandmothers had the best of it.
We've got progress. but they had rest
fulness. They had a cinch, those
dear, placid ladies whose world was
bounded by the family circle" 3
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
Roosevelt Observing
His Doctors Decree
By Associated Press

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 6.-ColonS.
Roosevelt gave to-day a fresh dem.
onstration of how he mean to observe
the doctors decree for a six weeks
rest cure. AS a special concession to
his medical advisers, the ex-President
slept a bare half lou longer than
usual. Then for an hour he was al
work with John McGrath, his po-
litical secretary. AS soon as that was
over with, the horses were brought out,
and with his daughter, Mrs. Richard
Derby, Jr., he galloped off for a long
ride. Later in the day he was to see
his secretary again.
The one rule which the Colonel said
he would enforce i~nexorably for the
next six weeks was that of seeing
few visitors and none at all with
whom he had not made appointments
previously.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

couldn't vote, and she couldn't en-
gage in gainful occupations, and her
conversational range reached from the
kitchen to the nursery, n she was
old at fifty. Dear me! What a sad
lot was grandmama's! And so, when
ever we thought of her we went out
and dropped a tear on her grave.
But there are times when I'm
in doubt about whether pity, like
charity, doesn't begin at home, and
when I'm inclined to think that
grandmother had a cinch, and that
we poor modern women are the ones
that stand in need Of sympathy.
For If grandmama didn't have many
opportunities, neither did she have
many responsibilities, and she was
beautifully and g~loriously selfish.
"She hadn't assumed the burden
of the world as we have. She did
not feel responsible for society, nor
posterity, nor anything in the wide
world. AS long as everything went
all right with her household, the
balance of the universe might go hang
for all she cared.
when grandmama fell in love
with grandpapa she married him
right off the bat without beinng both
cred with any eugenic doubts. She
didn't trouble her head with any in
vestigation into the ancestry of his
family to find out what c~ongenital
traits or diseases their possible chill
dren might have. Nor did she in
quire into grandpapa's morals. For
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
Prices of Meat Animals
Compared by Department
By Associated Press

Washington, July 6.-There was a
decrease of 10 per cen in the level
prices paid to American producers
for meat animals during the months
from May Is to June Is. last, the De-
partment of Agriculture announced
to-day. For the same period last
year the price level showed an in
crease of 1.6 per cent.
During the six months from Deceb-
Der 10 to June Is, the level of prices
for meat animals increase ga per
cent. as against 1870 per cent. during
the same period a year ago.
On june Is, last, the averages
(weighted) price of meat animals
hogs. cattle, sheep and chickens
was 1922 per 100 pounds, three cents
more than it was on June Is, 1913.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

wore a new suit of clothes. The po-
lice believe the clothing vas stolen.
The noise made by the invader awoke
the Grimwoods and the husband seiz-
ed a club kept beside the bed. The
robber had picked up an ice pick.
Neither could see the other and they
ldnged about the room striking furi-
ously.
At length one of Grimwood's swings
crashed upon the robbers head and he
fell. Mrs. Grimwood awakened by
and grasped him by the throat. She
choked him while her husband went
after a rope to bin the man. The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

time of the convicts. lie conferred
with his new foreman and Montgom-
cry declared the plan feasible. By
having crates and boxes built In the
carpentery division and in readiness
the work of shipping out the displaced
machinery could be rushed while the
new was being put up,
Montgomery busted himself with
these preliminaries and among the
boxes he had constructed was one
about six feet I'm length and oblong In
shape. He found it necessary to make
certain changes in the construction OF
screwed down and an opening was
made at one end. The headpiece was
so built that 1t could be closed ard
made fast from within.
The last shipment out at night would
be at II o'clock. When the whistle
blew half an hour before the call for
supper Montgomery went to his cell
to wash up. The other convlcts were
being marched from the shops to their
tiers and the stone walls echoed the
tramping Of their feet Ranks were
broken in the corridors between the
cells In the dormitories.
Bill and Montgomery reached their
cell together. The time was at hand
for the attempt at escape. The bur
glar ripped open his mattress and
drew out the gray suit
BE fast now" advised Bill. 'IIl
cover the door. Get out of your
clothes and get the suit on. then slip
the regulars over them"
Montgomery had stripped off his
blouse when the signal for assembly
sounded suddenly.
Both men started with fear. The
signal meant an inspection and had
come, as it always does. without warn
ing. For a moment Bill hesitated In
thought. Then he grabbed the suit
of gray from Montgomery's hands and
swathed 1t about his own body under
his blouse.
The men were already lining up In
the corridor, and they joined them.
The cause for the assembly was soon
made known In whispers and signs
passed along by the convicts. Some
one in the cutting room had stolen two
pairs of scissors and a bodkin, both
dangerous weapons. The cell of every
man working in that department
would be searched.
There were only five men, including
Bill. in that tier who worked at tailor
ing. Two guards searched their cells
and the five men were ordered to step
to the front. Guards searched them
carefully. One of the searchers pulled
up Bills blouse and saw the hidden
suit of clothes. He looked up with
establishment, for he had expected no
such find.
The warden in charge of the tier
was summoned, and the suit was ex-
amined carefully.
"Who Is his cell mater" the warden
asked Of a guard.
mo. go, 10S." was the reply.
And he didn't know a thing about
It," grunted Bill surlily. I'D have been
out by now but for that milksop in my
cell. He's one of these guys who says
his prayers every night. | was afraid
he would tell on me and SO I never
let him In on it."
Bill had saved his friend and with
no mean sacrifice. The star and disk
on Montgomery's sleeve had helped In
the free acceptance of BilIs story.
A guard found the scissors and bod
kin in another convict's cell, and ranks
were broken and the men permitted to
finish the washup for supper,
ITO BE Continued
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

"S,omebody n a 8
called this the wo-
cans century" said
the woman of fifty.
land we women go
about beating Gym
balls and emitting
whoops of Joy and
congratulating our
selves u p o n t n Q
our sex has
made, and on how
much better off we
are than our grand
mothers were.
Poor gra n d =
mama couldn't go
IN COLLAGE and She
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
Meets Death in House
He Had Planned to Rob

Yorkville, Ill, July Elm a desper-
ate fight in the dark early to-day with
a robber who had invaded their home,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Grimwood, an
aged couple killed the intruder. The
man died as Mrs. Grimwood was
throttling him.
The robber, apparently so years old,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06
CHAPTER VI.
The Getaway"

"HE prison warden desired to in
stall the new machinery at
night SO that he could save all
possible loss of actual workbnn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-06

'~ NN
The skirt that is much draped at the
back while it is comparatively plain at
the front is one of the latest developments
of the hustle idea. This one consists of
one big piece plated and gathered to
produce the desired effect. 1t is closed
at the back and, below the hustle, the
edges are Tapped. For the summer
dancing gown, the skirt would be charm
ing made of white or light coIored taffeta
with bodice of lace. For a simple after
noon gown, it would be pretty made of
taffeta or crepe with bodice of net or
lace owe a chiffon lining matching the
skirt in color and, for the street costume,
it a be made of taffeta or any seasonable
suiting.
For the medium size, the skirt will re-
quire Az yds. of material IT, 81 yds. SO
or A in. wide. The width at the lower
edge is I yd. and IA in.
The pattern $3.50 is cut in sizes from ~
to 80 inches waist measure. 1t will be
mailed to any address by the fashion
Department Of this paper, on receipt Of
ten cents.
Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
No Oyertures from Huerta.

DISPATCHES to the effect that Huerta'
provisional President of Mexico, has re-
opened or is seeking to reopen negotia-
tions with the government OF the United
States are difficult to reconcile with past
events and the present situation IN
Mexico. Latest news, if it may be re-
lied upon. indicates that Huerta is win
ming in the struggle against his enemies,
the enemies who are armed with
weapons placed in their hands through
the action of the United States govern
ment in lifting the embargo upon their
expectation. This action. by the way, 1t
was confidently predicted, would result
in the overthrow of Huerta's rule IN
from sixty to ninety days; and just now
signs of verifcation of such predictions
are lacking. On the contrary, victory
seems to be lowering about the stand
ards OF Huerta.
Therefore. assuming that all reports
of the progress of warfare in Mexico
are true. it would seem to be only logl-
cal to reject any suggestion that Huerta
IS making overtures for a resumption OF
negotiations with the United States. 1t
is to be presumed that by negotiations
il is meant that Huerta is again seeking
recognition for the government OF
which he is in control. All that We are
permitted to know of the character of
Huerta indicates that he is not the man
to sue for recognition from what he
must regard as a hostile power when
the game is going his way. Under any
circumstances such a course could only
be regarded as futile.
President Wilson's administration has
proclaimed that it will never recognize
Huerta's rule and it has armed his foes
to accomplish his overthrow.
With his cause in the ascendancy in
spite of these obstacles, it is difficult
to imagine Huerta in the position of
making overtures. With the United
States as yet without policy in Mex
leo Huerta's diplomatic role, so far as
this government is concerned, would
seem to be one of "watchful waiting" for
overtures from this side or for the
complete triumph of his arms to bring
recognition for the simple reason that
it can no longer be denied.
Meantime the rebels are making boast
full claims, while murder and outrage
continue in the territory in which they
are supposed to dominate. Surface in
! dications are that, automatically at
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

Eleven more "aycs" out of the sixty
nine votes cast in the Senate would have
carried the resolution submitting to the
States a constitutional amendment pro-
viding for woman suffrage. There was
nothing surprising about the vote
Everybody knew in advance, for in
stance, that such names as Ashurst
Jones, Poindexter, Shafroth, Sherman
Thomas, Perkins. and Works would be
found in the aye" column, while no one
would think of looking there for Bank
head. Martin, Smith, of Georgia: Smith
of South Carolina; Swanson, Tillman
Vardaman, or Williams The suffra-
gists have a long fight ahead, and ever
the "antis" must admire their pluck and
persistence. When they win one or two
more States we would advise members
of the brute" creation to begin mend
ing their ways
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

If all the money, time, and eloquence
expended in the effort to induce Hon.
Jefferson NJ. Levy to sell Monticello
could be converted to the use and bene-
fit of the aforesaid Mr.. Levy. he could
hardly resist giving up the estate in re-
turn. The desire to see the home OF
Jefferson in the possession and custody
of the nation is. of course, patriotic,
but some of the methods adopted in
the attempt to accomplish such result
cannot be called polite.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

If Senator Sherman's plan with ref
crencc to the plaza condemnation awards
will bring relief to the small property
owners, who are facing severe hardship
as a result OF the Presidents rejection
of the jury's appraisal and the courts
confirmation, it should be adopted with
out a days delay. Several legal ques-
tions are involved. however, and it i:
important that they be cleared up in
order that the situation may not be still
further entangled.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
COTTON FOR WARSHIP ARMoR

The battleships of the future will he
Cotton-plated instead OF armor-pIated, If
a plan submitted to Secretary of the
Navy Daniels by Col. Marcellus f. Thorn
ton. Of Hickory. n. G., yesterday. ma
teriaIizes. Col. Thornton informed Secrc-
tary Daniels that he has perfected a
species of projectile-proof armOr out o.
cotton. but that he does not care to di-
vUlSe the details of his secret.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
NAVAL ORDERS.

Lieut.. Commander W. c. Roper. detached Mis-
sssippi: to Naval Hospital Washington. ID. C.. for
treatment.
Surg c. ID. Langhorne. detached Marine Barracks,
Washington D. G.. March q. 1914: TO Vermont
Cable frum commander-in-chief, Asiatic feet, Ma
nils F. l.. March t. 1914:
Lieut.. Commander V. S. Houston detached naval
station, Olongapo. p. l.; to home, wait orders
Lieut.. Commander Sinclair Cannon. detached COM
mand Elcano: to home. wait orders
Lieut. Commander c. r. Ksar. detached naval
station. Cavite. =. l.; to command Elcano.
Lieut. Lewis Coke. detached Saratoga; to naval
station, Cayite. +. I.
Lieut. Frank R0rschach. detached MOnadnock; to
Saratoga.
Lieut. Junior gTadcl X. F. Smith. detached Gin
cinnati; To home. wait orders
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

No man should be an American citi-
zen," says Gov. Walsh, of Massachu-
setts. unless he feels and knows that
this is his government" In other words,
let's disfranchise the Republicans and
Bull Moosers.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
ARMY ORDERS.

Leave Of absence for ten days is granted Mat.
Joseph p. Tracy Coast ARTILLERY Cops
The resignation Of Second Lieut. Carlo A. Pivirctto.
Philippine Scouts has been accrptcd tg the Presi-
dent
Leave Of absence for month and fourteen days
is granted Mai. Alexander NJ. DAVIS, Quartcrmaster
Coru~
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
A Line o Cheer Each Day o
tn Year.
written Expressly for The Herald)
BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
AN EOUINOCTIAL THOUGHT.
Copyright. 1915

Copyright. 1914
Why groan about the weather? Don't
you know
Despite the clouds that lower in the sky
And all the drenching storms that rage
below.
An hours an hour. however wet or dry?
An hour for work. or possibly for play:
An hour for contemplation and review
Great Scott. my friend, don't throw that
gift away
In useless plaint when there's so much
to do,
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21

In the distribution of hero medals
don't overlook the man who took a
horse named Colquitt to Juarez, Mex
ico. and won a race with him. At that
he must have known that the horse had
more of a disposition to run than his
namesake.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
Trouble for the Gardener.

THE sparrows seem to be getting at
these peas. John. Couldn't you put up
some kind of scarecrow?''
''Scarecrow wouldn't be no use. Miss.
Why. il you was to stand there yerself
all day, doubt IL ye'd keep en- Off
London Opinion.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
bOrIy.

Observation-Disclosures, Bridget, where is
our telephone?
Bridget-Mrs. Jones sent over. mum.
askin' for the use av it. and I sint 1t
over. but I had the divviI's own tonne
gittin' il off the wall, mum.-Exchange
The Washington herald., 1914-03-21
Caddic's Limit.

How many have 1 taken?"
Il dunno"
You call yourself a caddie and don't
know how many strokes I've had?''
Look ere, guv-nor, what you want is
a clerk, not a caddie. l can only count
up to ten."-The Tat!er.