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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
NEIGHBoRHooD PEACE.

a little town named Carmen in Ok
lahoma has inaugurated a new day
for observance. The mayor has Off
cially announced it as Take Back
What You've Borrowed Day" Every
article subject to the unwritten law of
neighborly courtesy which had been
borrowed and its return neglected dur
ing the past year was restored to its
rightful owner. il the owner was alive
and had not removed from that state.
II Is said that many a forgotten lawn
mower. silver spoon, jelly glass, plate.
saucer. cup and dish. saying nothing
Of quantities of coffee, tea and flour
found their way back home. Every
body in the town is feeling better over
it, The mayor OF Carinen-his name
is J. +. Treyer-says he hopes the
Take Back What You Have Bor-
rowed Day" may be observed by all
cities. And there is no reason why
it should not be. II might not equal
the Fourth of July. or Bunker Hill,
or Gettysburg in pomp and circum-
stance. but II would have its merits
in promoting that internal peace and
good will in the community without
which the republic is not al its best.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
SENSIBLE GIRL.

When Miss Margaret Wilson. daugh.
ter OF President Wilson. arrived n.
Chicago this week 10 attend the meet.
ing OF the General Federated Women's
clubs. she stunned notoriety. She
sought 10 be quietly received. to be
recognized not as the daughter OF
her father for the attention II might
bring her. but as. a delegate to the
conventions woman's club member
That attitude OF the presidents
daughter was highly creditable to her.
but she must excuse public interest in
presidents daughters. That interest
IS perfectly natural
Particular interest centers in Miss
Margaret Wilson because OF her inter
est in civic questions. She IS
thoughtful. studious, philosophical
young woman.
She is a young woman worthy OF
emulation by young women OF the land,
both as to her modesty and her good,
sound sense and interest in questions
which concern the welfare of. the
whole people. rich and poor. young and
old, fortunate and unfortunate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
CAPITAL Comment
BY CLYDE H. TAvENNER
Congressman from tho Fourtssnth District

I the habit Of handing over valuable
railroads which he owned to the mrs
conner without money and without
price. IL is suspected that the house
OF Morgan cleaned up some $4,000,
900 on this deal, which has been kept
completely out of the sight of inquis
itors.
The story of the c. H. & ID is this
The road was faltering under the man
agement OF some Boston financiers,
but these gentlemen believed they saw
prosperity ahead If they could link
the c. ii. & ID. with some road further
north and thus form north and south
trunkline system. Accordingly they
acquired the Pere Marquette railroad
and proceeded with their splicing.
These activities came to the atten-
ton of the late +. II. Hartman and
the late J. p. Morgan simultaneously,
and both kings agreed that it was pre-
sumptious for anybody else to be
thinking OF forming a new railroad sys-
tenn without consulting Hartman or
Morgan. Accordingly the little game
was broken up. The C. II. & ID. was
thrown into a receivers hands, and
shortly afterwards was brought by
Morgan.
II was Morgan's next move to I'M
load this property at a good profit on
some railroad with a plethoric treas
ury. He picked out the Erie railroad
for the goat, but Hartman. although
he was then dying, opposed this mer
ger and Morgan desisted, fearing war
with Hartman.
So the b. & o. was selected to be
the victim, the transaction having the
sanction of Hartman. Perkins did the
How the job was done is
yet a mystery, for the B. & o. books do |
lot show the purchase price. II will
De the task of the commission to I'M |
ravels this skein of jugglery. The case
will be heard in the fall
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

One visiting the National Hospital
for seamen at Greenwich, England
any clear day will see lot Of old
seadogs summing themselves in the
grounds. They resemble the vessels
they sailed mold hunks laid up In
some shipyard waiting for the scrap
heap.
one day a group OF these old salts
were sitting together. keeping each
other from dependency by reminis-
cences.
Did any of ye ever fall in with
ghost Ship" asked one, taking his pipe
out of his mouth and scanning each
countenance os the group in turn.
There was no affirmative reply, but
one of the party declared that he had
henrd there was such a craft. and her
name was the Flying Dutchrnan. but
he knew nothing about the legend that
has been a favorite theme both in song
and story.
.Like enough you've fallen in with
Craft o. that description yourself,
said one of the party.
well, 1 wouldn't say as I ave, and
/ wouldn't say as / 'aven't," replied
the old fellow seriously. He was
somber looking old chap, and 1t SEEM
ed that If any of the party had had
such an experience it was he. II 'ad
n 'sperience wot looked like wot I'm
taIkin' about, but ghosts are not in
the 'abit o. 'splainin. Howsomever,
a ship can't talk. and 'ow can she tell
whether she's a ghost or real wood
and iron?
But if I'm goin' to spin the yarn 1
must go back to port, get up anchor |
and clear the 'arbor. No ship ever be- |
gun a voyage out in the middle O. the |
ocean, and no more can I. When
was in the midwatch, bein' fifty years |
olG, I'd saved some money, and, comm
down with rheumatic. which isn't par
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
PEACE CENTENARY.

The Chicago Journal believes that
Governor Dunno has named a worthy
delegation to attend the conference OF
the committee which will meet next
month TO formulate plans for celebrat-
ing a hundred years OF peace between
the two great English-speaking ma
tions. the British empire and the Unit
ed States.
Never" says the Chicago Journal,
did the world witness IN anniversary
better worth celebrating. For two
thousand miles the boundary between
the United States and Canada Is an
imaginary line On either side OF that
slender barrier is a pushing. agrees
sive. energetic nation. Yet for a
century peace has been kept on that
far-extended line.
1T has been a genuine neighborly
friendliness, not a mere armed truce.
No Notifications have been piled up
along the frontier, no huge armies
glare at each other from under oppo-
site flags, no war fleets cumber the
great lakes.
1T is an object lesson in disarma-
ment. When the world is ready to
learn that lesson, when alp frontiers
are as unvexed by military forces as
that between Canada and the United
States is now, there will be a better
chance TO abolish the poverty and dis
ease which are the real enemies OF
mankind"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

peared from the New Haven Golfers
and which is shrewdly suspected to
have found a safe hiding place in the
vaults OF ]. p. Morgan & Co.
But IL the public gasped when Mel
len told the story OF the New Haven. a
still greater sensation Is coming when
the Commission begins TO probe into
the mysterious c. II. & ID. AFFAIR. For
apparently the B. & o. absorbed the
c. II. & d. without the payment of
penny-that is, so far as the company's
books show any transaction. The
company's books are absolutely inno-
cent of any clue leading to the pay
ment for the c. II. & ID.
Yet prior to this absorption the c.
H. & d. was owned by J. p. Morgan,
and the late Mr.. Morgan was not in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
WORST TO COME.

The general baggage agents in SEES
sion at Detroit, have taken strong
ground against the new style trunks
which have goitres on one end, max.
ing II impossible TO stand them upside
down IN a car II was 20 be expected
nat there would be some kick from
fhe beavers. but in this case they pro
pose 10 go before the Interstate com
nerce commission and ask for PROFIT
5ftion Of other than rectangular trunks
and also limitation OF the size OF those.
IL the baggagemen succeed they may
eventually drive America TO the horri-
pie custom OF the old world where few
larry trunks a. all. most people going
Pom home with apparently all Of their /
Foridly possessions strapped In enor- /
nous bags and bundles and carried in
Q the passenger compartments, max
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
OUR LOP-SlDED BODIES.
Legs, Arms, Hands and Ears Are Rare
ly Perfectly Matched.

ly Perfectly Matched.
81 venture to assert that if you meas
ure the legs of every one in this
court you will not find a person who
has a pair of equal length said DR..
c. w Cooke in giving evidence in a
London court.
The human body is not symmet-
rical. as is commonly believed" said a
widely known doctor. The legs vary
in length and circumference. and the
arms as well. The right hand is usual
ly bigger than the left, becuse it is
used more. The head is by no means
regular in form--in fact, it is often as
not lopsided.
THE left leg is generally a little
longer than the right, presumably to
the overbalancing effect on
the body of the right arm, which is
usually somewhat heavier and longer
than the left, since 95 out of every
100 people use their right arm more
than their left. The eyes, too, are
nearly always different, both in shape
and strength, and through sleeping
more on one side than another every
mans ears are tilted at different an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

be loved as he loved her Of old;
She envied her neighbor and murmuredi
"Ah. me-
Her husband still loves herl How happy
Ia be
To be loved as she is. to be cherished
alas!
How our idols are broken. how soon the
dreams pass!"
Her neighbor. SO blessed and so cher
ished. had praise
For him that so loved her; IN many glad
ways
She showed that she thought him ex-
allied and wise;
She fattered him fondly; she watched
with glad eyes
To see him approaching, to. greet him at
night;
She brought his cigar and she gave him
light;
When he made q mistake. as the wisest
may do,
It was never his fault, that she told him
she knew.
She was satisfied just as he was; she
would not
Have him changed by the very least tit
tie or lot.
And Though days that were fair and
through days that were gray
She loved and was loved and went sing
ing way.
There is nothing more sure. more abso-
lutte than
That no woman can scold love into a
man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
THE PE11oANP EXCLAIMED MOLLY.

ticularly helpin' to goin' aloft. 1 lait
up for awhile in a small town nigi
on to the mouth of the Thames.
II boarded with a lady wot KEEP /,
sailors boardin' 'ouse, and she 'ad &
darter, a youngish craft wot was allu.
dancin' about like ships boat on 6
choppy sea. Molly was her name, ant
It seemed to fit her we'll enough, though
mebbe another might "a done as we'll
| When she was dom nothin' she used
to come to me and wish me to tell
her sea yarns. She was such a lively
little thing that she braced me up when
the wind was east with me and 1 was
lookin' for dirty weather. She was the
only pusson I ever felt like tyin' I'D
to, for never sailed on the catamaran
| o. matrimony and never 'ad any chill
! dren o. my own.
Not that Molly was a child, for she
was seventeen years old, and in them
| days girls went into commission as
| wives earlier than they does today.
And that was wot Molly begun to
think about when / was boardin' with
her mother on the bank o. this we're
river, for young sailor boy come in
from voyage that 'ad been a play
mate OF Molly's when they was chill
dren. Wot was playin' together when
he left was somepin VERY different
when he got back. 1 met 'em walkin'
together on the shore one day, and
Molly unfurled flag In FER cheek, and
1t wasn't no skull and crossbones rag
neither. If ever there was a signal
o true love it was the one Molly run
ND on that. occasion
''Arter awhile the sailor boy-his
name was Jim-went Off on another
voyage. Molly wasn't the same arter
that; she didn't seem to take an inter
est in anything. though she got closer
TO me than before and KEEP me spin
MIN sea yarns to her till my yarn lock.
er got empty and 'ad to spin 'em all
back ag'fn. She didn't care about the
yarns except they was a kind o. franz
In for her thinkin' about Jim. But
when got into rough waters and
weather and shipwreck and ar that
she put her hand on my mouth. and /
was obleeged to go about and take the
other tack. You see, it made her worry
about Jim.
4 stayed where 1 was till nv rheu-
mahz was givin' out and wasn't quite
so sur as 'ad been. and / begun to
mink o gittin' the barnacles often me
holystonin' my decks. overhaulin' nv |
rlggin' and my sails and goin' into COM |
mission ag'in. l found a chance TO |
snip on vessel sailin' for South Amer /
lean ports. and signed.
found it hard to part with Molly.
out she didn't find It hard to part with
me- You see. Jim was cruisin' som'ers
around Cape Horn. and it made 'er
'eei good TO think ] was goin into
Ihem waters. She asked me if l was
likely TO meet Jim's ship down there
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
METHOD OF TEACHING.
Wherein Our Educators Often Put the
Cart Before the Horse.

Wherein Our Educators Often Put the
Cart Before the Horse.
This simple principle Esprit before
disciplinel We sometimes seem to lose
sight OF in our education, consistently
putting the cart before the horse
In the DAYS of the renaissance, when
I people had caught a vision OF a new
world, they studied Greek with ayidity
because they believed il was a path
into that world. We reverse the pro-
cess. We set our students TO grind
ing Greek verbs in order that in an in
definite future they may come in con-
tact with the Hellenic spirit. when
what they wanted was a touch OF the
Hellenic spirit To transform the Greek
grammar into a book of magic.
We set them 10 cutting up earth
worms when what they wanted first
was 10 have their thoughts turned to-
ward the mystery OF physical life. We
put them TO studying Italian. trusting
that in due time a knowledge OF that
language may prove ar incentive 10
read Dante. never perceiving that a
craving for Dante might be made the
strongest incentive for studying Ital-
ian.
We red ink and blue pencil their !
believing, with a touch |
Ing faith, that there is some intrinsic |
beauty in correct spelling and perfect 1
punctuation that will appeal TO the uu-
fergraduate mind. and all the while |
What they needed was a sense, how.
'ver dim. OF the wonder OF literary Gre
ition--Harold c. Goddard in Century.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Early Italian sura.rx.

Benvenuto Cellini q5OO-157O) tells of
early Italian surgery. He had got a bi;
OF chipped steel in his eve. so far into
'he pupil that il was impossible to get
II out. so that / was in very great dan
ger Of losing that eye. But the surgeon
came 10 the rescue with the pigeons.
The surgeon. making lie lie upon my
back, with a little knife opened a vein
IN each OF their wings. so that the
blood ran into my eye. and ! was there.
by greatly relieved. In he space CT
two days the bit OF steel issued from
my eye. and found that I had re-
ceived considerable ease and in a grea:
recovered my s.Pbt"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
GETTING THE CROWD.
Bloomington Bulletin)

Bloomington Bulletin).
Lee O'Neil Browne has just been in
vited TO make the Fourth OF July ora
ton at Potomac. Ill, and the drys are
circulating petitions protesting. That
is where they are shortsighted. He
will draw the crowd and cannot pos
sibiy hurt the Fourth OF July as an in
stitution- The protest is about as
foolish as the uprising OF Secretary
Harry Woods against Senator Joe
Bailey as an orator.
a good many years ago Blooming
ton got up a Fourth OF July celebration
and realizing that the people wanted
something besides the balloon ascen-
sion and fireworks. engaged a New Or
leans lawyer named Parkinson, who
had just led mob that lynched half
a hundred OF the Italian Malta The
result was a record breaking throng
and business men were counting their
money for three days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Where Poets Fail.

Trouble bout these Eere poets
said the Georgia farmer, none OF en-
make good field hands. They won't
piow for fear they'll hurt a wild flow
er, an they won't Swear ar a mule for
fe ar the animals got soul. But it's
my public opinion that they're all af
ficted with downright laziness. AT
lanta Constitution.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

vestigation or the
New Haven rail.
road. II will turn
its attention TO an
other chapter in
high railroad fl
nance, the story OF
how the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad
was made TO alb
sorb the c. II. &
ID. under the kind
ly direction of
George II. Perk-
ms. right hand
lieutenant of j. Z.
Morgan.
There is a mys-
terry in both cases.
In the New Haven
matter the mys-
terry concerns the
$12,000,O00 which
completely disap-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Genius.

81 think our son is going to be an
inventive genius"
"Why?"
He has found out how to take of
hi clothes at night without separat-
ing them SO that he will have to put
on one garment at time when he is
dressing in the morning"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
William Brady,M.D.
An Elephant Cough.

He was a hustling young grocer, too
I busy to bother much about his health
but he developed a cough that begar
| to get on his nerves. His friends eact
took a turn trying to kill or cure
that cough, with only Indifferent sue
cess. AT the end of a month he still
had the cough, yet he was lively and
well as ever.
So he sneaked out one morning and
slipped up to the doctors office on the
next corner.
Morning. doctor, got anything good
for a cough"
Lets hear your cough" said the
doctor.
The young man coughed accommoda-
tingly. ut sure is an elephant cough, .
he remarked. Got everybody scared
TO death
The doctor took up a stethoscope
Just slip of your clothes and Wen
see about the elephant cough" he sug-
gested.
oh, never mind examining me
just fix me up a prescription or some
thing. We're awfully busy at the store
apd l ought 10 be back"
NO. you. come in when you've got
time to be examined" insisted the
doctor Il won't treat you unless 4
have some inkling what the matter
is"
''All right. go ahead. then" compro-
missed the young speed specialist.
The doctor went over him like grand
ma used TO 20 over him with a fine
Tooth comb. There wasn't a sign OF
.rouble in the chest. Not an abnormal
sound to be heard. The throat and
lose were likewise negative. The doc |
or was puzzled-but being a good doc |
-or he didn't say so. He simply told |
he patient TO come in again next day |
or another examination, and this scar
ID the young man just enough to make |
him obey orders
However. luck was with them both.
FOR when the young man called the
leNt morning he had a new complaint.
Ear gone bad can't hear anything
With it," he reported. Game on sud.
emily while l was taking a bath last
light"
Get up here in the chair" ordered
he doctor. He turned on a light, don.
DR.. Brady will answer all questions
ion is of general interest IL will be ans
I will be answered personally il stamp
Dr.. Brady will not prescribe for indiv
ress all letters 10 DR.. William BRADY
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Sorrows of the Rlch.

His clothes were rich: but was he gladf
All. no! His look was very sad:
He owned a splendid limousine
And had such wealth power begets,
But he had caught his son-siXteen-
Consuming Turkish cigarettes.
He was the richest man in town;
But was he pleased7 Alas, a frown
O'erspread his face; his heart was sad:
His check for millions he could draw,
Yet he complained because he had
A numbskuu for a son-in-law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

Roosevelt will have at least one
sympathizer in the loss Of his voice.
Bill Rockefeller. you'll recall. has not
been able to speak above a whisper
since the money trust probers sent
out S. o. s. for him TO tell what ne
knew on the subject
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
The Eternal Marathon.

Man." declared the old-fashioned
preacher, lis a worm"
And said a man who had baen
married three times and who was &C.
cupying small space in rear pew,
woman is the early bird. Chicago
Record Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

ned head mirror and peeked into
the ear canal. Have to wash it out,
he announced. And he took a syringe
and warm water and washed out pro
digious plug of hardened wax. Then
in wiping out the canal with bit OF
cotton on a probe, he touched the wall
and the young man nearly coughed
his head of The doctor waited, smil.
| ing. When the coughing fit subsidized
he again touched the spot. This time
the cough was truly elephantine in
character
Pressure of the irritating wax on
Arnolds branch of the pneumogastric
nerve" explained the doctor. Same
effect as irritation in the throat or the
chest. you know. Same nerve sup
plies both places"
And how about some cough medi-
cine?" asked the patient
You won't need any" said the
doctor.
And he didn't.
Questions and Answers.
E. P. Cedar Rapids writes: / am
a painter 40 years old Have had
something | call rheumatism in my left
shoulder for five years. Constant pain
under left shoulder blade, sometimes
extending down to the small of the
back. 1t has disabled me for days at
a time. Have catarrh of the head very
badly for several years Can you sug-
gest anything for me? Years ago | had
chronic urethritis.
Answer-Some of the possible causes:
Neuritis of brachial plexus of nerves
in chest. Chronic inflammation of gail.
sac. Gallstones. Chronic pIeurisy.
Chronic inflammation of pericardium-l
the heart sac. Bursitis of pad under
tip of shoulder joint-in which case
patient cannot raise arm outward with |
out Increased pain. Localized result /
OF some chronic pus-focus in one or an
other of the bone cavities of head
the sinuses-which patient may call 4
'catarrh.' Localized infection caused |
by smouidering infection left from old
chronic urethritis. These suggestions
show how foolhardy it would be for
the patient 10 experiment with "rheu-
matism cure or with the advice here
of1ered. unless he is under the care OF
IN Intelligent home physician.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
WILLING to Accommodate.

Are there any feuds going on
around here?" asked the man who was
seeing Kentucky for the first time.
NO" replied the native, I'VE haven't
had feud heah fob three weeks, sub.
But you all can staht one right away
by insinuating, sub, that the best
whisky, the finest horses and the most
beautiful women are not to be found
in Kentucky, suh."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
{ . 45fEaB}iiliE:
HENQY ROWLAND
HOW NOT I
TOHARMHIM

She rallied at the
man who had
wooed her. be-
cause
He was not such q
man as another
man was:
She scolded him
over the tea,
cups and when
The market went
w r O. q 9 h .
scolded again;
She complained
w n q n h .
smoked. II was
sinful, she said;
8 he complained
when he took
up his paper
and read:
Each day she COM
planned that his
love had grown
cold
And she sighed 70
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20

The New York World wants to know
how Uncle Joe Cannon can excuse a
2OO, 100000 busheI wheat crop under
a democratic administration" He
can't and he won't He'll just deny IL,
and call II a democratic lie"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Knew His Dad.

Teacher-Several of your examples
in arithmetic are wrong, Johnny. Why
didn't you ask your father to help you
Johnny-'Cause l wasn't looking for
trouble, that's why.-Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
His Foolish Fear.

Would you marry a man whose
income was under $1,000 q year,"
he asked.
How much under?"
We'll, quite a Bit
'Is it between $4,000 and $4,000"
81 might put it that way"
Dearest. Why did you think
would let money stand in the way?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-20
Not Much TO Him.

What kind of fellow is he, any
how?"
One Of these people who can go
out OF room without leaving a va
cancy or any kind"