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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
THE FORTUNATE FARMER.

In his contribution TO the economics
OF the American food supply James J.
Hill of the Great Northern railroad.
who is something of a farmer and
statesman of agriculture himself, calls
attention to the fact that while the
agricultural population is substantially
at a standstill in numbers the urban
population dependent on the food pro-
ducprs is making enormous increase.
in the 30 years closing with the last
national census the percentage of peo-
pie in the urban classification grew
fr5m less than 80 per cent of the whole
people to more than 46 per cent, while
the population engaged in agricultural
pursuits has declined from about 20
a. cent to less than 81 per cent.
The American farmer may we'll be
satisfied with the prospect for his
market. Rain or shine, good times or
bad, his output is sold in advance to
a demand which cannot stop. That
demand is rising every year. The
prospect looks so good to all other
classes that it is yearly calling many
rom city to country; from Industrial
and professional life TO the outdoor
life which has so assured foundation
in the economic situation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

to hear him that day expected him TO
take up some factional moral question.
but the preacher instead talked of good
roads. improved church and school
buildings. agriculture. sanitation and
to the interest OF the young folks
amusements.
That section OF Missouri awoke sud
denly to know that Mr.. Green's Har-
mony church was something more
than a religious congregation devoted
to worship of a far-distant Supreme
Being and to preaching eternal damna-
ton TO all who took interest in worldly
affairs. The church was thrown open
to meetings for the organization of a
good roads association The young
men formed an athletic club under the
preachers encouragement and ball
grounds. tennis courts and football
diamonds were laid out near the
church.
Harmony church took on a new life.
II grew fast because IT was showing an
interest in the peoples material well
fare and pleasures as we'll as in their
welfare hereafter. Among its staunch-
est supporters are many who do not
belong to any church but who have
been benefited by the sort of campaign
waged by Mr.. Green
"A church and a public welfare or
ganization labor for the same end de-
clares this country pastor. THE
movement for good roads is pretty
close to religion nowadays" he as
serts. Incidentally. Harmony church
has become so great a factor that
dancing. card playing and swearing
have given place to other things in
this community.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

"a patient on the operating table was
killed by bullet while his wounds
were being dressed" The number OF
wounded men needing care after a
great battle is entirely beyond our
comprehension today. In the three
days fighting at Gettysburg over 81
600 wounded men, union and confed-
crate, were left on the field. All OF
these men were cared for and their
wounds dressed and the men under
shelter inside of "a hours after the
close of the three days battle. BY
way of contrast, DR.. Mitchell said that
IL was 10 days after the battle of Wa
terloo before all the wounded had been
cared for. In the Wilderness cam
paign, $500 men were cared for in
two days One hears in novels and
sometimes in histories of bayonet
charges. DR.. Mitchell said, Il never
saw a bayonet wound, and of 25,Vvu
wounds in Grants battles, there were
in all IA bayonet wounds; there were
probably as many men severely kicked
by mules" The demands { n the sur
geons were heavy. Surgeons dressed
wounds and did the most serious OPP
erations until they tainted beside the
operating table, or fell asleep at their
work. One surgeon has record or
Sc hours continuous operating and
dressing of injured men. At Gettys-
burg 13 surgeons in the union army
were killed or wounded. During the
war 81 army surgeons were killed. four
died in prison, and PSI died of diseases
contracted in the service. The entire
country, north and south. was we'll
nigh stripped of surgeons to supply
the demands of the army Out of ia
members of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia in 1864, 100 of them
had seen service in some form in the
medical departments of the army or
navy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Few of the men who had practical
experience as military surgeons in the
civil war are left. While hundreds
OF volumes have been written on the
military operations OF the armies,
north and south, there is but little
record of the personal experiences of
surgeons in either army or of their recol-
lections. whether on the field or in the
military hospitals. For this reason
the article by DR.. S. Weir Mitchell OF
Philadelphia on The Medical Depart
ment in the Civil War; recently pub
iished in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, is of great in
terest. This paper was one of the
last written by DR.. Mitchell before
his death. In il he describes, with
the C>arm of the novelist and the ac-
curacy of the scientific man, the ex-
periences of the army surgeons OF
1876. Little record has been left
by the thousands of medical men who
gave their services and often their
lives for the relief Of the sick and
wounded Yet their experiences were
in many cases, as thrilling as those
of the soldiers on the firing-line. I'm
der the plan of organization followed
at that time, each regiment had one
assistant surgeon, who gave immediate
care to the wounded in action. When,
as sometimes happened, the location
selected for the dressing station came
under fire. the surgeon moved his pa
tients farther back. DR.. John S. Bill
lings operated under fire back OF
Round Top at Gettysburg, and at his
next move had again to retire under
a rain of bullets. In some cases this
was not possible, and it often hap
pened that surgeons stood for hours
at the operating table with bullets
flying over and around them. I'm one
case that know Of said DR.. Mitchell,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Formation of Long Island.

According TO biologists, Long Island
affords particularly clear evidence as
10 the history of the great continental
ice sheet which covered the northern
states many thousand years ago. The
southern margin OF this great ice sheet
extended 10 Long Island. ii is said. and
remained there for long time. depos-
iting a thick layer of intermixed bowl
ders. sand and clay as a terminal mo-
raine. which IS now the backbone" of
the island. The fee moved southwark
and brought these materials from the
north. dropping them at its melting
edge. This peculiar method Of deposit
ting developed a very peculiar topog-
raphy, consisting OF an irregular ag-
gregation OF hummocks and holIows,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
REFORMING THE CHURCH.

Man is a social animal and IL you
organize him in the right way he Will
always pull hard for the general good"
So saying. a country preacher Of near
RayenwOod. Mo. turned his little strug-
Cling church with fits 90 members a
few years ago into q large and ener-
getic religious. social and public serv-
fee center Of 500 active workers. Rev.
c. r. Green. the pastor, has done moth
fng that cannot be done anywhere else
either in urban or rural district and
HIS methods are 20 be commended.
Mr.. Green began the development OF
his congregation by asking everybody
20 come out He promised that II
would not be a religious service after |
the ordinary fashion but just a little
OF the nesds Of the commun-
Ity. Perhaps some Of those who went
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

An. mark how the powerful packet pro-
ceeds,
with q rush and the roaring of steam.
Spreading waves that are high and that
hiss in their might
Where many a boatman Is swept out OK
sight
And left to float down with the streamt
Are strewn on the rocks and the shores,
And many a boatrnan is calling for aid,
And few are undaunted and many
afraid.
And many lean limp on their oars
The banks of the river are barren some
times,
Or gracefully sloping and green.
And the winds that blow over them often
are wild.
And now and then fresrantly scented and
mild, /
with orchards a-bloom on the scene:
And ever the river Is winding about.
For the channel keeps changing by ntgnc
and by day.
And the streams that flow in tempt the
many away.
While a few journey upward alone
The city men call by the name of Success
Is beautiful city to sec.
With domes that are lofty and gilded and
bright
And walls that are graceful and splendid
and white.
And proud vessels moored at the quay
But never from unexpiored regions above.
Whence the waters eternaIy flow,
Has ever a craft fioated down on the
stream,
To be moored where the columns and
cupolas CLEAN
For those who toll up from below
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Bed Time TaleS
BY Clara Ingram Judson.
4 MeU Game

OF COURSE you like to play
circle games both in the school
yard and mornings and eve
nings in front of your own house.
But don't you sometimes grow tired
of drop the handkerchief and Fox
and Geese" and the other games you
have always played3
Here's new one you must try
its name is Spring flowers" though
sometimes il is called "Sunbeams."
Let's pretend we have twelve chill
dren 10 play though really you can
play with any number-the more the
merrier:
One child is named Storm" four
are Niolcts and the other seven are
Sunbeams.
Then the fun begins.
The Sunbcams form a circle by
holding hands and stretching out
into just as big ring as they can
possibly make.
The Violets stand close together
In the very center of the circle and
Storm stays anywhere he pleases on
the outside of the ring.
The point of the game Is to get all
the Niolets safely into the sunbeam
circle without letting Storm inside.
Any Sunbeam may rush into the
center, grab a Violet by the arm
and rush back to his or her place. ,
If the Sunbeam can grab the Vio-
let and, with the Violet, get back
into position in the circle before
Storm reaches the place that Sun
beam has left. everything is alright
the Violet may stay in the sunbeam
circle and may help get more Vio-
lets out of the center.
But if Storm reaches the Sun
beams place before the Sunbeam
gets back, then the Violet must go
back 10 the center. Storm becomes
a Sunbeam and the slow Sunbeam
takes a turn at being Storm, and so
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

The report of the department of san
itation OF the isthmian canal commits
sion for September, 1918, showed that
during that month not a single white
man, woman or child from the United
States had died from disease on the
canal zone. The report for February.
1914. shows that another record has
been established. During that month
there were 1892 white employees.
Among this number, equal to the pop
ulation of a good sized city, there was
not a single death from disease during
the month. Two white employees were
killed by accident, one by electric
shock and the other by injury received
On the railroad, but no white employe,
either American or foreign, died from
disease during that time.
AS might be expected, the death
rate among other classes was equally
low. OF the 5000 white employees from
the United States, there was only a
single death by violence. OF the 1876
white women and children from the
United States. there was one death
from accidental drowning and three
from disease One child of years,
died of diarrhoea: another. woman
of 30. died of old age, and third.
woman of "a. died OF pulmonary tuber-
culosis. Out of a total of 9,1S4 white
American employees and their families.
there were only three deaths from
disease and two from violence, while
among the total 1O,963 Americans on
the canal zone. there was only a single
additional death from violence, max
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Clean Health Record in Canal Zone

ing a total of six deaths for the month
among nearly IL, 900 persons, equal to
an annual average death rate of $50
per 1000.
Nor are the benefits of improved san
itary conditions limited to white en-
pIoyes and their families. In Febru-
airy, 1914, there were 44,S67 colored
employees, and among this number
there were only % deaths from dis
ease and six deaths from violence, MAX
ing an average death rate per thous-
and from disease of 6.31, equivalent
to a total annual average death rate,
for the entire 49,459 employees, of 5.34
per thousand. OF the % deaths, four
were from pneumonia, seven from tu-
berculosis and one each from organic
disease of the heart and typhoid fever,
leaving nine deaths from all other dis
eases. After living for five or six
years amid conditions which have pro-
duced such startling reduction in
the death rate, will the men who have
dug the Panama canal be able to find
any city in the United States which
is sufficiently Clearly and healthy for
them to live in? Let us hope, says
The Journal of the American Medical
Association, that the ten thousand
Americans, returning to this country
after a practical demonstration of
what modern scientific knowledge can
do TO prevent disease. may prove to be
the little leaven which will leaven the
entire lump. If this is the case, the
indirect benefits of the Panama canal
will be incomparably greater than its
commercial or military value
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

A man run down by bloodhounds in
connection with a robbery at Sterling
the other night was able TO prove that
he was in the city jail from s p. m. to
a m. on the night the crime was
committed, thereby establishing a sat
isfactory alibi. The incident might
be used as an argument against blood
hound evidence or. on the other hand,
IT might be construed as redounC<1g
10 the credit of the dogs in picking out
only the trails of suspicious charac-
ters TO follow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

which have produced the many beauti-
full details of configuration that make
the higher parts of Long Island so at
tractive to lovers of nature. The most
notable of these hollows in the mo-
rainal ridge is the old holding the pic
turesque Lake Ronkonkoma, which
lies in a depression fifty feet below the
surrounding ridges. Several other
similar pits are tightly to eighty-five
feet deep, and several of the large, ir-
regular holIows are several miles in
length-Argonaut.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
fRPWJNAPDWNAR

Far up on the River
Of Life there
stands
A stately city and
fair;
And below Il ara
shadows Q n d
r q pi d o and
curves
And whiripooiB that
strain on the
steadtest nerves.
And many 60
laundering there.
while O few stanch
vessels pass up
ward and on,
Stemm.ng W ! { b
splendid force
The current that
now is terribly
strong.
But tomorrow may
glide like the Hit
OF a song,
Serene in its beau
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
WIIIIna TO Extend sxmnathx.

Willing to Extend Sympathy.
YES" he said, after explaining to
his wife that the lodge meeting had
been a very important and a some
what protracted one. thus making it
impossible for him to get home a min
ute earlier than he did, and there
were two fellows there who made the
worst fools of themselves you could
imagine. You couldn't find two worse
chumps in a row OF counties clear
across this state"
81 suppose not she replied. who
was the other one? I'd like to sympa-
thize with his wife"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Terrible PredIcament.

MY husband has threatened to sue
me for DIVORCE" sobbed the beautiful
actfes
"Chc er up" said her manager.
''Nez -ly every actress has been sued
for divorce.
Il know, but think what the public
Will say. l have always tried to be
all that wife should be. Now no.
body will believe it"
IF you're innocent, why don't you
fight the case?"
That's the trouble. I'm afraid il I
fought the case they wouldn't give,
him the divorce"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
The Cruel World.

Before him nowery pastures spread
He hears a glad brook how along,
And from a branch above his head
There falls sweet Juno shower OF song.
There IN mild fragrance IN the breeze
That blows from orchards far away,
The n1usipg COWS beneath the trees
Are being peaceful while they may.
His limbs arc straight and young ana
strong
He gaxes forth from updimrned eyes,
But, thinking thst the worlds gone
wrong.
He secs q Sar-oH cloud and signs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
PICKED THEM UP.

"a n d W b a t.
asked the Sunday
school teacher, "is
your name?"
Arthur Henry
Brown Williams
Gre en- Joyc e
Brown Corwin."
Gracious, How
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Mr. Mellen, former president of the
New Haven railroad, told the inter
state commerce commission during his
testimony yesterday that he would not
have been averse to talking to the
devil IL il were necessary in further
ance of his rail merging negotiations.
There are those who will be unkind
enough to predict that Mr.. Mellen
may yet have an opportunity TO have
converse with the horned demon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

ready to run with a Sunbeam the
instant chance comes. While the
poor old Storm gets no rest at all,
but must watch and run till SUM-
beam is caught.
This game may be played any
time of the year. but it is really the
most fun in the spring when the real
sunbeams are trying to bring the
vioIets and spring flowers from the
ground.
TomorvOy-Ths Early Worm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

TERMs-Ten cents per week by car
rter. in Rock Island; So pc year by mail
in advance.
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made to the circulation department.
which should also be notified in every
Instance where 70 is desired to have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority in the premises.
All communications OF argumentative
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for pubiica-
ton No such articles will be printed
over fictitious signatures
Telephones IN all departments. Cen
trail Union. Rock Island I45. 1145 and
2I45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Ex-Governor Sam VanSant of Min
nesota celebrated his birthday the
other day by taking 1O-mile walk
from Minneapolis to ST Paul. His
Rock Island friends were not aware
the governor was nursing any further
political aspirations at this time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
May IS in American
History.

1796-PreSident Washington appeaieu
to the Austrian emperor TO release
General Lafayette from war prison
and permit him TO come TO America'
1S64-General Sherman's troops broke
through the Confederate defense al
various points around Resaea' ga
At night general Johnston's army
abandonea SITS position and retreat
ed toward Rome. Federal loss al
Resaca. 200 killed and wounded;
Confederate. 1880 in all.
All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

In Sterling, which is the dryest of
the dry since the saloons were abol-
ished and the druggists have agreed
not to sell intoxicants, they are agitat-
ing an ordinance to compel the soft
drink parlors to lake down the screens
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Prosperous Young Actor returning
tired after a matinee and evening per-
Torrance OF successful play)-Ah. dear
boys. really think it's time all good
actors were In bed. Grumpy Trage-
tian Cooking up from his paper5" They
are.-Exchange.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

The decision of the Iowa supreme
court giving a husband damages for
the death of his wife, trained nurse,
points the way for the new woman
movement to become an aid to matri-
mony.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

on till all the Violets are rescued
and the game begins again.
OF course you see, the Sunbeams
must be very wide awake and quick
must watch their chances to rush
to the center while Storm is clear
on the opposite side of the circle
And the Violets must watch and be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Aid Pupils Savings Bank.

New York, May 15.-The board of
education of Greater New York has de-
cided to establish savings banks in the
public schools of the city, so as to
take care of the pupils pennies until
they reach an amount sufficient for
individual accounts with the banks
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Oscar Hammerstein always was a
great fiatterer. Now he has sued a
young woman opera singer for $1,000
600 because she dubbed him "a dead
duck
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

St. Paul women are accused of wear
ing such tight skirts that it is impos-
sibIe for them to kneel in prayer. What
chances women will take to keep up
with the styles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
Strange Neglect.

There's one thing. though said
the stranger. that can't under
Stand"
Whats thatf" asked the old set
tier.
Nobody around hero has assured
me that this is the garden spot OF the
state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Henry Ford's edict against the cigaret
differs from that of a number of the
states in that he will probably enforce
p
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Some one has found the tomb OF
Aristomenes. Sounds ike a new Fed
eral league pitcher.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

old your parents ever happen to give
you all those names? p"
They didn't give me all OF them
My step-parents helped"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Floor finishing and polishing ma.
chimes are now driven by electric
power.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

Why worry about Huerta? Let the
VfIla-Zapata twins do the work
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
oouidn't Lose enc CHANCE.

My husband always remembers my
birthday and our wedding anniver-
AIRY"
II should think you would positive
" hate him" replied the other woman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15

All the news all the time-The Argus
The citizen., 1914-09-25
His Freak Memory.

, The possession of a freak memory
was revealed during the course of q
case of robbery tried some years ago
at Melbourne. The prisoner declared
that when the crime was committed
he was in the hut of a man named
Lane, hearing him recite Walpole's
"0ld English Baron" which occupied
two hours and half in the delivery.
The jury disbelieved this statement,
SO Lane was called to prove that he
was capable of the feat. He stepped
into the witness box and started re.
citing the story in way that showed
he knew it thoroughly. When he had
gone on for some time without a mo.
ments hesitation, the judge wanted
him to stop, but counsel for the de.
fense insisted upon proving his case
by having the whole story repeated.
Eventually 1t was decided to admit
the evidence If Lane could repeat the
last page of the book. This being sat
dsfactorily accomplished, the alibi was
allowed and the prisoner received hi
discharge.-London Chronicle.