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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-30
REPORT NON-UNI0N MEN
ATTACKED IN ARKANSAS

Fort Smith, Ark, Nov. 30.-Several
reports of attacks on non-union min
ers in Hartford and Prairie Creek,
centers of recent mining troubles in
the Hartford Valley district, reached
here, but they were not definite. 1t
is asserted that there had been no
trouble at Omaps, where federal
troops are stationed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-30

nounced an attempt would be made to
get accurate analysis of all financial
transactions in which the road had
been involved. Testimony then would
be turned over to the interstate com
merce commission. The first witness
was Clarence Sykes, auditor for the
receivers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-30
GOVERNMENT BEGINS QUIZ
OF PERE MARQUETTE ROAD

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 30.-Federal in
vestigation of the financial affairs OF
the Pere Marquette railroad, now in
the hands of a receiver. was begun
today. The attorney for the inter
state commerce commission an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-11-30

well known farmer of Black Hawk
township. was held yesterday after
noon at o'clock at McConnelrs chap
pei near Milan. Rev. Alfred Dixon
had charge of the services with inter-
ment in Chapel Grove cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
USE OF THE CANAL.

Grain for Europe, from north Pa
cifc ports OF the Unittd States. has
so far formed the largest single item
OF cargo carried through the Panama
canal. says tht Canal Record. In the
two months and half OF canal opera
lions ending Nov. I, the canal was
used by - eastbound vessels in this
traffic. and eight vessels have passed
through from the Atlantic 10 the Pa
cihc in ballast. TO return with grain.
The laden vessels have carried through
an aggregate of 1872, 25s tons of grain,
consisting Of 1882 tons OF barley and
1926 tons OF wheat Counting 81
bushels OF wheat and 4s OF barley to
the long ton. the cargo amounted to
1.S25.O62 bushels OF wheat and 1854,
s72 bushels of barley. a total of o.
1884 bushels OF grain
The next largest single item OF
cargo handled through the canal dur
ing the same period was nitrates. prin-
cipaNy from Chile. This was carried
in II vessels, and amounted 99,l26
tons. an average OF 1850 tons to the
vessel. That the grain shipments
should have exceeded those OF nitrates
f. contrary TO the prediction that the
latter would form the largest item.
but does not disprove that prediction
as applied to any considerable period
% normal world business. II appears
that the grain traffic is largely sea
sonal. and has been stimulated recent
" by an increased demand in Europe.
coupled with a heavy crop IN the Unit
ed States, while the traffic in nitrates,
which is perennial. has been, during
the gerlod under consideration, con
siderabIy depressed by business con
ditions. II IS reported that Atlantic
ports Of the United States have estab-
Iished new records OF grain exporta-
tions TO Europe during this period.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
THE RED CROSS SEAL.

There were approximately 10000. 900
Red Cross Christmas seals sold in the
United States during the holiday sea
son OF 1913, which means that about
100000. 600 were spent by the people
of our country in order that the fight
against the great white plague might
go on successfully.
The CHEEKY message of these Christ
mas seals has gone out on holiday
letters and packages for six years and
each penny spent added to the great
est crusade OF modern times.
And every year since 1905 the ma
tioual work has gone happily on. In
round numbers the gross receipts that
have been gained through the idea
that Miss Bissell gave to the Red
Cross society have been for the years
1908 TO 1913 inclusive, nearly $4,000
600.
The society estimates that the aver
age person in the first stages of the
dread tuberculosis can be sent 10
better climate properly nourished, and
made well again for the average sum
OF $500.
Five hundred dOllarS 10 make d wen
man-and the idea that the little moth
er of the Red Cross stamps originated
has brought in almost S2,0OO,0OO.
enough to make 1000 people whole
again, to enable them to take their
places in the world, happy and healthy,
SAYS The Mothers Magazine. The
Red Cross society has many resources
other than the sale of the Christmas
seals. but think what help the stamps
have been. When you do your Christ
mas shopping this year look at the
sell and think what it stands for.
Jolly old Saint Nicholas will be smil-
ing at you from the 1914 stamp, but
perhaps some day we will see Miss
Emily p. BisselTs face smiling at us
for surely it belongs there.
II ever a woman has been a true
mother 10 the world, Miss Bissell has.
MOtherlike. she prefers to sit back
and let all OF the glory 90 to the thing
that she has given birth to-willins
to take no reward for what she has
done. anxious TO conceal herself from
the eyes of the public. satisfied and
happy in the fact that she has been
help TO humanity.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
Geography Basis of the Prestige
Great Britain Has Won in the World

That geography after all is the basis
of the greatness of Great Britain, and
that the great national ability to save
and conserve the earnings of centuries
that has resulted from her geographic
position stands her in good stead in
, these days of trial is the conclusion of
DR.. Roland G. Usher, who has just
J prepared for the National Geographic
I society an incisive study of the fac
tors that have made 1.-The tight little
isle" across the channel for CONT
mental Europe far greater power
| than her area and natural resources
would bespeak.
I'VE must not lose sight of the
fact" says DR.. Usher, that the
strategicaI geography of Europe has
given the English advantages of posi-
ton which were more important in
the past than great armies; that the
English channel was, in the days of
sailing ships, a more effective barrier
against invasion than any army could
have been. The strategical Importance
of Belgium and Holland, too, vital to
England, was fortunately also vital to
Germany and France. The English
have never, single-handed, been able
to keep either France or Germany out
of those countries in time of war; but
they have, somehow or other, always
managed to play off France against
Germany, or Germany against France,
and in the long run keep them both out
of Belgium and Holland. England has
protected herself by arousing the fears
of others. and it must be admitted that
Orr irn pnl oyitt Do e.,
a good deal more effectively than she
does London, and that Louis XIV in
Holland was even more distasteful to
the German states on the Rhine than
he was to the English"
DR.. Usher calls attention to the
fact that England has never known,
since William the Norman harried
Yorkshire such ravaging by armies
and consequent economic loss as con-
tinued in Europe for centuries. In the
long run England became proportion
ately richer than larger countries with
much more extensive natural re-
sources which were decimmated by
war. Neither extraordinary diligence
nor skill needs to be brought forward
as the explanation of the beginning
of England's capital fund. II was by
that most unusual but simplest of all |
things-saving"
While England was free from the |
wastes of an invading warfare, Ger
many was being literally eaten up by |
such conflicts as the thirty years war. !
In order to rest secure from attack |
by the more powerful land empires on
the neighboring continent. it was nee
essary for England to dominate the !
channel with its fleet. This domino
tion was established beyond question
by the English defeat of the Spanish /
Armada. But, DIR. Usher explains, in
control of the channel, the
English also found themselves domi-
mating the oversee commerce of the
nations of Europe. The English chan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
Legal English.

The circumlocution of legal docu-
ments is the penalty of having a BIZ
lingual language and descends to us
from those countries when the English
and the Normans were slowly amaIga-
mating into one people. So the two
races, in the market place or in social
converse, to make their meaning clear
er, Joined a French word to an English
or vica versa That is why in the
prayer book words so often run in cou-
pies: Humble and lowly," "acknowl-
edge and confess, assemble and meet
together" The English was for the
English, the Norman-French for the
French. Chaucer is a great user of
such bilinqual phrases: Hunting and
venereye." wright and carpenter"
care and heed" And that is whence
lawyers get such talk as laid and
abet,' will and testament" and use
and wont."-London Opinion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05

mel was the needles eye which all
ships had to thread that sailed from
French, Belgium, Dutch or German
ports upon the channel and the North
sea. The dangers of the seaway along
the western coast of the British Isles
make it impracticable even for the
powerful ships of the present day.
Among the essentials OF national
strength, Dr. Usher enumerates those
of territorial unity, or natural state
boundaries; a racial unity, or con
seriousness of the citizenry that they
are one people; a religious unity
which, in the case of England, Consists
in a broad, workable liberation OF III
dividual beliefs; patriotism, or the con-
seriousness of the people OF common
aims and purposes; and unity OF au-
or a condition where an
overwhelming majority of the people
are so we'll satisfied with the form ol
as to desire no radleai
change. All of these various elements
entering into national strength. ac
cording to DR. Usher were achle'eu
by England centuries earlier than D!
any of the modern peoples OF cohu'
mental Europe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
(wallace's Farmer.)

Every year since we have cham
our readers to drag their roads just
before the ground freezes up for the
winter. No one knows when that will
be. and the only way to be certain
that the road freezes up smooth is to
drag il after every rain, so as to keep
IL smooth. In a good many sections,
our readers have not followed this
suggestion. and by the time this
reaches them, there will have been a
heavy rain, then travel, and then
freezing, so that the road is macs
of humps and bumps. The travelling
public will have TO smooth these
down. if they are to take any comfort
at all. This smoothing will be done.
not by the drag, the use OF which
about twice after the last rain would
have made the roads smooth, but by
tires, to the great waste of team labor,
the great physical discomfort of the
men, and the torture of the women
who are obliged to go TO church or
town over roads so inexcusably bad.
The automobile will have to be put up
for the winter. or until heavy wagons
have smoothed down a track, which
it can follow, except when it has to
turn out for a team
Come to think of IL, how easy II is
to have smooth roads all winter long
when the roads are frozen, but not
covered with snow; and what heavy
penalty We have to pay for neglecting
to use a tool so admirably adapted to
the purpose We hope those who have
allowed their roads to freeze up rough
will think this over and determine
that never again while they live will
they fail TO drag the road in front OF
the farm. pay or no pay, every time
il is liable to dry off rough in the fall,
or any other time in the year, for that
matter. The passer-by will shower
blessings on the head OF the man who
has been so thoughtful and consider
ton along the sides of his farm; and
words unprintable will be thought, II
not said, about the farmer who neg
lected such an easy prevention OF
abominable roads and such an mex
pensive insurance against them. What
IL you don't get any pay for it? What
II some county trustee has been paid
for this work? Make him do IL but
il he doesn't do IL. do it yourself. A
farm in the corn belt, worth from one
hundred to two hundred dollars an
acre, should not be disgraced the
whole winter long by its owner allow
ing the road to freeze up rough.
In the southern part of our Terri
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
How UnreasonabIeI

Many business men actually believe
that spelling should be an accomplish
ment of the average college graduate.
A young bachelor of arts was recently
put to work running a small printing
press in the back room of a bankers
office. He was to set up and print a
number of circulars to be sent out to
customers of the house. When the
work was finished II was found to diff
fer decidedly from the standards of
spelling set by the late Messrs Web
ster and Worcester. The young man
was summoned to an audience with
his chief The interview was not
pleasant, and the young man showed
as much by his face when he rejoined
the rest OF the office force
What's the matter. John?" some
one asked him.
Matter enough" replied John. The
boss expects an educated man to spell
Just like a blooming stenographer."-
Youths Companion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05

out all over him. Fanny had no..
looking for bottle in the closet in ~.
brothers room. not Billy's. She cor
tainly had given him the wrong dosa
Great heavens! Could she have ~,
soned him?
A third application Of the nok.-
This time 1T seemed to Billy that soroa
( one had gripped him with redbot ~
GERS. He sprang out Of bed. ran :.
Tom Roberts door and hamuered =.
1t. Tom came out IN his pajamas ga
asked what was the matter.
Bring me an emetic as soon an vor
cany cried Billy. Pm afraid D.
swallowed poison"
Tom ran to bis sisters door. caI,aa
her up and told her to go downstai-.
and bring up some mustard and war
water. She tried to find out who had
been poisoned, but Tom told her m 800
on and be quick about it" When she
brought up the emetic she found BiIlv,.
door open, the room lighted and ber
brother bending over the groanine in.
valid
Then for the first time she unda-.
stood the cause of the trouble. She
few TO the closet, opened the door
took out vial and read the label
Then she put the vial back again and
gave Billy look, but said nothing.
81 took a dose Of that" said Billy
between groans. "WilI it XII meY'
NO" replied Fanny.
"What is IT."
"a preparation of ginger and red
pepper"
'Ts that all?"
Yes; it won't hurt you"
That's past praying for. It's eating
my vftals."
THANK heaven It's no worse"
Its bad enough as 1t is"
"How came you to take tip queried
Tom.
This was a poser. Billy took advan.
tage Of another internal frebrand to
invent a story. When the paroxysm
had passed he said:
"Just before 1 came up here felt
sick and went to a doctor. He said |
bad anthropomegaphone and gave me
some medicine for it. 1 forgot to take
It before going to bed; got up and hunt
ed for 1t in the dark. / must have got
into the wrong place"
By this time the emetic took effect,
and Fanny took advantage of the fact
to withdraw. While Billy was reich
ing he thought he heard a te-hee in the
next room.
"Confound that girlr' he said men.
tally-he was doing something else
physically-"catch me trying to shield
her again. Next time she tries to give
me a dose III turn it down her own
throat"
But the next morning he felt better
and was doing lot of spooning-not
with medicine either.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
Lake winnipeq.

OF the lakes of Manitoba, Lake VIII
nipeg is the largest, being 275 miies
long and from 40 TO 60 miles wide Us
area being about 1000 square miles
and it's total coast line longer thah
that of any of the great lakes except
Lake Superior No other province VI
state has entirely within its bouhuai
les a body of water at all approach
ing it in magnitude. Great salt iahe'
in Utah. is only one-fifth OF the ca
tent OF Lake Winnipeg, The Iarges-
Of its tributaries is the Saskatchewan
river, one of the four great rivers .,
the continent east of the continents
divide Its total length IS 1890 mifes
The Red river. 700 miles in lengh' anu
the Winnipeg river. SOC miles ~
length, and many minor rivers alSo
pour into Lake Winnipeg. The Nes
son river is its principal outlet anu
connects it with Hudson bay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
The Daily Story
A Fiery Dose-By John Y. Larned.
Copyrighted. 1914. ny Associated Literary bureau

When Billy Olcott was invited to
spend a week with his friend Tom Rob
erts he was delighted He had met
Toms sister, Fanny, and had fallen be
fore a pair Of liquid brown eyes, pair
OF coral lips and a pair OF dinpies,
one in each cheek. Since that meeting
he had thought of her by day and
dreamed of her by night He received
the invitation on Monday for the fol
lowing Friday. Then followed the
four longest days of Billy's life He
counted the hours till at last the day
of his departure arrived, and an hour
before dinner he was under the same
roof with the girl who had enthralled
him. Now for the wooing.
Toms brother, Jim, was iii in bed
and did not make bis appearance. On
the second night of Billy's visit he
went to bed at II o'clock and was soon
asleep. He was awakened by hearing
some one moving about the room
Whoever it was tried to light
match. It sputtered a moment and
went out, but not before Billy saw by
its light the face Of Fanny Roberts.
There" she grumbled, 1.-The last
match gone. and 1 don't know where
to find another! However, 1 know ex-
actly where / left your medicine-1n
the closet on the third shelf from the
bottom in the right hand corner.
don't believe in giving medicine in the
dark, but I'll risk it this time"
Billy heard her cropping and FUN
bling, and finally she came to his bed
side, put a glass half full OF some
liquid to his lips and poured 1t down
his throat Then she left him with
good night
Olcott was one of the most modest,
sensitive young men in the world, and
he considered young girls to be even
more sensitive than himself. If Fanny
knew that she had come into his room
at midnight by mistake to give him a
dose of medicine she would never get
over the shock. This Is the reason
why he had not made her mistake
known to her and why he had permit
ted her to pour down his throat a
medicine he did not need.
He lay congratulating himself on the
delicacy with which he had handled
know Of her mistake, 1t would set him
up in her opinion. Girls were some |
times caught by trihes, and he wouldn't
wonder If this bit of sacrifice would |
cause her to fall in love with him.
Then he felt something down in his |
stomach where the dose had gone that |
felt as il red hot poker had been ap-
piled to his Intervals. He started. A
dose in the dark had been given him,
and might it not have been the wrong
medicine? Another application of the
hot poker. He sat up in bed, his hair
stood on end and a cold sweat broke
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
Dragged Roads and Other Roads

I tory there is yet time to insure
smooth roads during the winter. We
have pointed out time and again ho1
| easily they can be kept smooth, with
nothing to interfere with comfortable
| travel all winter except snow, or In
/ the extreme south, mud. But when
roads are in mud-shape any time OF
the year they can be smoothed down
by the use of the drag.
Farmers in the corn belt are very
slow to learn how valuable this sim
pie tool is. We noticed In our travels
that the Eastern states are adopting
it; and 1t is not half as well adapted
for use there as it is here, on account
of the stones. When we learn to use
the drag in the fall OF the year, again
at the first thaw in January or Febru-
airy, and again In the spring as soon
as the ground begins to thaw, we will
have gone farther to solve the prob
lem of good roads than all the engt-
neers and good roads boosters from
Maine to California.
While we are on this subject, per-
nit us to say word about macadam-
ICED roads where the material is lime
stone, as 1t must be in the corn belt.
They are a fraud, delusion and a
snare. In travelling over a road in
Pennsylvania we asked a friend, a
man of great intelligence, what he
thought of the macadamized road. He
said 1t was an utter and inexcusable
failure, and described 1t something in
this way: An automobile will pick
up one stone not bigger than the end
OF your thumb. The next one that
comes along will pick up another. and
each succeeding one will pick up more
stones and throw them out. Then
there will be holes and gullies. making
automobiling anything but pleasure.
We were in New England, where
they have trap rock or Gome other
rock. Where they have gumption
enough to use sand and clay, it is
possible to make hard roads that
serve a good purpose. We get pro-
voked when We hear men in the corn
belt refusing to use the drag, and yet
talking about macadamized roads
made out of limestone. For very
many years, nine-tenths of the roads
in the corn belt must be dirt roads.
These nine-tenths are the roads that
lead TO the schools and to the church
es. BY the diligent and intelligent
use of the road drag, they can be
made better than the macadamized
road, and at one-tenth of the expense
necessary to maintain a macadamized
road even after II has been built at
an expense or from five to ten thou
sand dollars a mile.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-05
A PROGRESSIVE TOWNSHIP.

a remarkable instance of what a
rural township can do in sanitation
il It really makes up its mind to be
progressive is given in an article just
published by the United States public
health service. Cape Fear township
in New Hanover county, n. c., start
ed out last summer on a sanitary cam
paign under the combined leadership
OF the county board of health, the
state board of health and the United
States public health service in VIII
mington, y. c. AS a result there has
been great Improvement in sanitary
cond, ions. According to reports tnat
have just come in, every school house
and every home in the township is
provided with sanitary conveniences.
II there is any other rural township
in the entire south that can show
progress equal to this. it ought TO
come TO the fore and let itself be
known. When a study of several
hundred counties shows nearly one
half of the farm homes without any
sanitary conveniences at all il is
matter of pride TO point TO the achieve
ment of a township like Cape Fear IN
New Hanover county which demon
strates itself as being so far ahead of
the average.
While il has been repeatedly claim
ed by some public speakers that the
south is making more rapid strides
in improving its sanitation than any
other part of tht country, an exam
nation OF tens of thousands of farm
homes in the South Atlantic states
shows that there are yet many town
ships where the sanitary index is less
than on q scale of 100.