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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15

ceny. under $500 bonds. which he was
unable to furnish.
Moore, who halls from Des Moines,
went into Young L McConbs' Depart
ment store about o'clock yesterday
afternoon. He walked about the store,
finally stopping Id the silk department
His actions were suspicious and EN-
ployes watched him closely, although
he did not know that he was being
scrgtinized
He is accused Of having picked up
bolt Of silk and 10 have started away
from the counter. when be vas caught
by several clerks He dropped the
cloth and started running A great
commotion was created among shop
pers in the store.
Makes for Alley.
Officer john Kinney was passing the
place and he saw the man running
He gave pursuit and ordered Moore to
halt. Moore DID not heed him, how
ever. but continued running south on
/ Seventeenth street, darling east in the
alley between Second and Third ave-
nues hoping TO lose the officer His
attempt was futile, for Patrolmap Kin
ney caught him after few minutes
chase
! W NJ Bailey. whom police nabbed
/ IN Young * NcCombs store last
Thursday after he had stolen a muf-
fer, was dismissed or a charge Of
vagrancy when arralgned in police
J court today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15

an accumulation OF uric acid wlthin
the body Send TO Or. Pierce OF the
lnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo, y. y. Tor a pamphlet on An
uric and send 10 cents for trla'
package Of 1An-uric" Tablets.
II you feel that tired worn-oat
feeling, backache, neuralgia, or il youf
sleep is disturbed by too frequent ar,
nation, go to your best drug store ana
ask for Doctor Pierce's 4An-uric' Tar
let's.
Doctor Pieree's reputation is back q
this medicine and you know that hls
Pleasant Pellets" for The liver and DIV
"FaTorite Prescription" for the Ills y
women have had splendid reputation
for the past fifty years.-fAdv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15
DEVOTEES OF SPORT
ENJOYING COASTTNG

The Young people are enjoying the
coasting sport on the hills in the city
for the first time this year. Last night
the Seventeenth, Twenty-frst and For
ty-fourth street hills were crowded
with merrymakers. The recent heavy
snow and continued cold has made the
incljnes one glare of ice and deyotees
of the sport report that coasting was
never better.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15
Want Early Meet.
ANNEXATION OF SEARS Is
SUSTAINED.

Continued from Page One.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15
ARRESTED AFTER
EXCITING CHASE
Hundreds Of Holiday shoppers Wit
ness Apprehension Of shoplifter
After Long Pursuit
TAKES BOLT or SILK ~ STORE
Later Drops Ii When Employees Catch
Him and Breaks Into Run. Bnt
Officer kinney Lands Him.

Hundreds Of holiday shoppers on
the streets IN the business part Of
Rock Island and In a department
store witnessed an exciting chase
which resulted in a uniformed patrol
man apprehendng an alleged shop
litter
Today George Moore Ia imprisoned
IN the county Jail awaiting hearing
before the grand Jury He was bound
over from local police court for lar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15
Fancy Dress Ball

Attend Court OF Honor carnival Of
nations, fancy dress ball. Davenport
Coliseum, Thursday evening. Dec. I6.
Admlttance TO public $50 D. nj.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15
THREE EYE MEET
AGAIN POSTPONED
Tearney in Letter to Moline Club
States That Date for Session
VIII Be Jan. 10.
WILL DELAY LOCAL DECISION
Committee Appointed 10 Settle Rock
Island Dispute viii Als0 Wait
Until Next Year.

Not until next year win It be deter
mined whether Rock Island belongs
to the Three-Eye or to the Central
association. Information to that effect
was contained in a letter received to-
dav by the secretary OF the Moline
club Of the Tbree-Eye league from
President A. r. Tearney
The letter. Il have your letter Of
the 10th with reference to the Three
Eye league meeting. / have been sick
for a fortnight. being laid up with the
grip. | have taken the matter up with
Mr.. Chviugton and he informs me
that his committee cannot possibly Wis
it Rock Island till early in January.
/ l have agreed with him to call our
meeting at the time Of the committees
visit to Rock Island. when the terri
toriaI rights question there will be
discussed and disposed of for all time.
| The meeting will be called before the
10th of next month.
Want Early Meet.
/ The mid-winter meeting of the
/ Three Eye league, set for the first
week in December. will not be held
] till next year. Club owners through
out the circuit are DESTROYS of having
this meeting as early as possible but
il would, Of course. be useless to get
oil ff,1,
regarding this city is settled Mid
winter meeting is scheduled to he held
in Moline
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-15

In making up your Christmas lists
look into the advertising appearing in
The Argus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
IMMENSE QUANTITY
Of WHEAT TIED UP
There viii Still, However, Be a
Heavy Deficit of the Worlds
Normal Crop.

A grain expert who has been watch
ing the grain markets and the worlds
grain fields for a number of years,
says:-
There is at the present time about
two billion bushels of wheat, the pro-
duction of the countries at war, tied
up. This is about one-half the worlds
total production of wheat, which is
four billion bushels. One writer ar
CUES that, granting that the warning
nations produce a one-half crop in
the coming year, a deficit of one bill
lion bushels will still be shown The
three countries upon which the filling
of this deficit of one billion bushels
will rest are the United States, Can
ada, and Argentina. The combined
output of these three countries is only
1,249, 900, 900, their exportable surplus
would of course be much less, so i
can easily be seen that the question
is not one to be easily solved and /
behooves all the above countries t
increase their respective production
as much as they possibly can, 70
when the war is over and trade begin
to re-estabHsh itself and the nation
undergo a process of rehabilitation
the demand for all breadstuffs will b
enormous.
During the three years followin
the declaration of peace the farmer
of all neutral wheat-producing cOul
tries will have ample opportunity t
market their wheat at good price
and it may safely be assumed that til
demand will be heavy. Canada ha
an unusual opportunity in that sb
has the natural environment for whei
production; she is under the prote
ton of the British flag, and she wi
not be molested upon the water I
any great extent; she can increas
her acreage and greatly enhance h
production. In other words, she ca
become a far greater wheat-producin
country than she is at the presel
time"
If the summing-up as made by this
pert be correct, is there not the vel
best reason for the continued efo
that is being made by the Governme.
of the Dominion of Canada to secu
settlers on the productive vacal
lands of the country? Not only al
these lands capable of producing hie
class wheat in large quantities, b.
cattle, pigs, sheep and horses also {
well. The climate is admirably suite
advertisement
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01

just his little life to its awful mys-
teries.
We moderns of today can have no
adequate conception of what the adj
vent of spring meant in the child
hood of mankind. In a way we have
conquered the seasons and adapted
ourselves to their changing moods But
even few centuries ago, man was al
most hopeless in the grip Of a relent-
less, pitiless rhythm of superfuous
plenty in summer and starvation and
death in winter. 1t was only the
strong and vigorous who survived the
winters fight with hunger. The an
cient Lent was in very fact a period
of wailing and lamentation, for at
this time the gods seemed to have
deserted mankind, and the earth it
self, the great mother goddess of fer
tiIity and fecundity, appeared to have
died beneath their feet. The coming
of spring, the resurrection of feTtil-
ity, meant that mans despaiTing pray
ers had been answered, that his sac
rifices had been accepted, and that
his battle with hunger was over. In
the sharp prod of biting hunger which
ancient man viewed as a punishment
inflicted by the gods presiding over
the various aspects of nature and the
seasons, can be found the reason for
much that seems strange and mon
strous to US in the old religions.
1t was in Asia Minor and Egypt, the
sources of our own Christian Easter
festival, that the ancient Easter
reached its ripest development in the
long centuries before Christ, and
many of the mystic rites connected
with the worship of Adonis, Attis and
Osiris engrafted themselves upon the
Christian Easter ritual and are OBJ
served today in many parts of Eu-
rope. 1t gives us new sense of the
universal brotherhood of man to know
that the same words in substance
with which we today invoke heaven
in praise of the risen Christ made vo-
cative the great temples of Adonis
in Antioch and Paphos, thrilled the
Phrygian worshipeTs of Attis and
aroused to divine ecstasy of the fol-
lowers of Osiris in ancient Memphis.
Adonis was the god who represent
ed the yearly decay and revival of
life, an annual death and resurrection.
His worship spread from western
Asia throughout the Mediterranean
littoral He was pictured as bleed
ing to death with the red leaves OF
autumn and coming to life again with
the fresh green of spring. Often Ado.
mis- was unprecedented by a living man
who was sacrificed upon the harvest
! field. In the great Phoenician sanctu
airy of ~Astarte at Byblus the death OF
/ Adonis was mouTned to the shrill wall
/ ing notes of the flute, with weeping
| lamentations and beating of breasts
/ but the next day the dead god was
! believed to rise from the dead ant
TO ascend TO heaven in the presence
/ of his worshipers, amid hymns of JOY
| and glad shouts of "Adonis is riser
| from the dead" 1t is in the worship
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
New TeIeqraph Code.

A new form of code chart for sim
plifying the teaching of the CONT
mental telegraph code has been
evolved by a Chicago inventor. In
place of the usual method of repre-
senting the different Geographic equiv
alents for letters and figures in the
form of dots and dashes, the charac-
tiers are indicated by small and large
letters or figures; the former repre-
senting the dots and the latter the
dashes. For instance, the letter "a"
is represented as "a A." meaning dot
dash. The letter "B" is shown as "B
bib" or dash dot dot dot. Thus, by
this simple method, the inventor has
eliminated the great confusion arising
from the dash-dot representations of
the various characters. The letters
and figures are fixed in the memory
of the student as large and small
characters instead of in the form of
complicated mass of letters, figures
and combinations u dots and dashes.
It is stated that this chart has greatly
simplified tie learning Of the code.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01

er, until it paused at the lilies of the
valley. I'D choose them" she said.
The man gave little start. "Why?"
he questioned, not unkindIy.
oh" said the child, because they
are such weeny little things-fairy
flowers, 1 think; but" she added,
primly and with a strangely old air,
flowers do not become me-"
why not?"
Because" replied the child, turning
her eyes resolutely away from the
window, eve are too poor"
The man slowly drew his hand out
of the pocket of his rough frieze coat
and glanced at the silver in his palm.
You stay here a minute, little CIR"
he said.
He went into the florists. How
much for a bunch of lilies of the val
Iey?" he asked the pert, buxom young
woman behind the counter.
Dollar a dozen during Easter" she
responded.
Oh, Easter, that was it! He had for
gotten there was such an institution.
We'll, do the best you can for so
cents" he answered, laying the money
on the counter.
When he came out with the lilies
in his hand, his quaint little friend
was still f1attening her face against
the window. Here, child he said,
take these"
She did not speak at first; but her
thin hands trembled with excitement
as he bent to give the flowers to her.
She took them, and for a moment held
them close against her face. How
good you are!" she said.
The Ishmaelite smiled bitterly II
am not good" he said. His eyes grew
gloomy. What a fool he was, when he
had only enough money to keep him
going another day, to throw away SO
cents on a kid who was nothing to
him!"
I must hurry home" said the child !;
my papa is very sick. Good-by, sir;
thank you"
His eyes involuntarily followed her
slight figure as she ran across the
! crowded thoroughfare. Two unkempt,
savage little urchins suddenly de-
| scended upon her and snatched her
flowers. The child shrieked in pitiful
terror and brief. In an instant Bowl
by was at the heels Of the small high
waymen. He took one in each hand,
cracked their skulls together.
wrenched the lilies from their grimy
| paws and restored them to the weep
ing child.
Now, Id better walk along with
you he said gently, ''or some other
| thief may modest you"
They came to tenement, before
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01

of Attis, however, that occurs the
most striking resemblance to many
of the observances of the Christian
Easter. Attis was believed to have
been miraculously born of a virgin
mother and like Adonis to have died
a violent death, rising from the dead
at the time of the spring festival.
Hideous orgiastic rites marked the rit-
ual of Attis worship in Rome. Days
of blood and atonement preceded the
hilarious joy of the great day Of res
direction While devout multitudes
fiocked to the sanctuary, the unseXed
priests of Attis and Cybele, to the
music of flutes, drums and cymbals,
slashed themselves with knives, and
in wild, frenzied dances splattered the
affairs with dripping blood. The eftgy
of Attis bound to a pine tree played
an important part in the ceremony.
The Day of Blood" witnessed the
period of mourning over the effigy of
the god which was afterward buried
in a sepulcher. The worshipers prayed
and tasted in wailing and lamenta-
mental meal But when night had
fallen the grief of the worshipers
turned to ecstatic gladness in the Fes-
tival Of Joy. Suddenly a light shone
in the darkness. The tomb was opened
and the temple thrilled to shouts that
told that Attis had risen from the
dead. And as the priest touched the
lips of the mourners with balm he
softly whispered in their ears the
glad tidings of salvation. The resur-
rection Of Attis was hailed by his
votaries as a divine promise that
they, too, would issue triumphant
from the corruption of the grave
A blessed sacramento meal and a
baptism Of blood were among other
ceremonies for the initiates, a ritual
which included a sacrifice of virility
1t meant to them a new spiritual
birth and remission of sins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01

enough, no doors strong enough, to
keep him from his enemy when once
he had found him.
1t was the end of Holy week, and
the florists windows were a glory.
Roses, Annunciation lilies, yiolets, jon
Qulls-a mass of beauty and perfume
tempted the eyes of all passers-by,
Even the mantle Ishmaelite. the
jailbird-paused and looked in at the
banks of bloom in the window of a
shop. His somber eyes roamed over
the Haunting tulips, the stately roses,
and rested on cluster of tiny white
flowers, modestly hiding under their
waxen leaves. Yes, there they were
his mothers fiowers-the flowers
his young wife had loved.
"O-o-oh!" sighed a childish voice by
him
Bowlby, the jaiIbird, looked down. A
little slip of girl stood there look
ing in the window at the elaborate
floral display. She was a tidy little
girl, although her clothing was worn
and thin. She had solemn eyes and
a quantity demure air One poor
scrawny little finger was pointing at
the flowers. That's mine" she was
murmuring, AN that's nine" the
finger shifted, "an' that-oh! an
that" She drew a long breath as if
the cup of her joy was overfowing and
pressed her solemn little face closer
to the window.
The man looked sharply at her He
found himself smiling at her enthusi-
asm. Then he thought differently
about it and scowIed. But still he
fingered watching the child. Some.
thing about her went to his lonely
scared heart At last he spoke. $50
you own them all, do you, little grip
he asked, and was amazed at the
sound of his own voice.
The child looked up. 81 was just
making believe" she said shyIy.
Would you like to own them aIl?'
he asked, still wondering why he
should speak to anyone.
q love flowers" she hesitated
Tell me, said the man, IF you
had to choose, which would you
take?"
She looked earnestly in the window
again, and once more the little claw
like finger came into play. 1t wan
dered meditatively from flower to flow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
Manning of the Lily,

About 1875 a Philadelphia woman,
on returning from Bermuda, brought
with her two lilies in bloom and pre-
scented them to a Philadelphia florist.
The bulbs were increased to one hun
dred in the next three or four years,
when the plants were seen by w. X.
Harris, an enterprising Philadelphia
gardener. The brilliance of bloom, and
proIixity of bulbs, were strong fea-
lures, and led to their purchase by
Mr. Harris.
In 1882 the lily was introduced to
the trade under the title of the lilium
Harrisii and has ever since retained
name and fame. After period Of fear
and anxiety, they are pronounced this
season to be in better shape than they
have been for years. and it is evident
Iy a case of the survival Of the fittest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
New Subterranean Fauna.

Deep mines present conditions like
ly to evolve a new subterranean fauna
from animals accidentally imprisoned
and having sufficient endurance to sur
vive the change. At a depth of $50
feet in a mine of the Midlothian Coal
field, Scotland, DR.. James Richie has
found Is animal forms, and he con-
cIudes that many others may be car
ried into deep underground workings.
These animals were away from any
ventilating shaft reaching the surface,
the main shaft being quarter of
mile distant. They are supposed to
have been introduced mostly on the
props of Norwegian fir and with the
horse fodder, but some may have been
drawn in by the suction of the venti-
lating fans. The species noted were
the common mouse, the brown rat, the
house sparrow, the great slug, a small
spider, two beetles, two flies, the
springtail or pit flea, two earthworms
and a mycetozoon on the pit props.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
HAIL Miracle OF
DEATKLESS life
Throughout the Ages the Spirit
of Easter Has Voiced the
Highest Aspirations of
the Human Soul.

FTyS He spirit of Easter had its birth
in that dim past when mans
wondering eyes first vaguely
sensed the promise of the swell
ing seed. the mystery of bursting bud,
the miracle of resurrected life in leaf
and flower Down through the count
less ages have Numbered the no
sannas of vernal JOY, peans of welcome
to the reborn earth pregnant with its
gift of immortality. In every land,
savage and civilized, in every step Of
mans uplift from barbarism TO cul-
ture from prehistoric to modern
times, each passing year has wit
messed the passionate rhythm of wall
ing, lamentation and agonized despair
ing prayer for the dead god. until
at a mystic moment, penitential sacri-
fee and fasting, weeping and mourn
ing give way to transports of joy
which hail the resurrected deity who
has broken again the grim gates of
death.
We Christians have no monopoly
of the undying Easter idea of death.
deity who dies to save the world and
who rises triumphant from the dead.
That has been the radiant principle
OF humanity's instructive religion
from the early dawn of mans spirit
uaI life The ancient temples of d
hundred different religions have re-
echoed to the lamentations for dead
deities and their old affairs have Vi
brated and thrilled with the joyous
hymns in honor of resurrected gods.
The germinal idea is found in almost
all the myths of savage peoples. 1t
was the pervading idea in the faith of
the old Hindus; it inspired the an
cient Egyptian belief in Immortality;
in the pre-Christian religions of Baby
lon. AssyTia and Asia Minor it was
fundamental; while around this idea
in Greece, Carthage and Rome cen
tered the most sacred of rites and
mysteries. Strange and sometimes
horrible in sacrifice were the cere-
monies which ushered in the reborn
world, rituals OF worship which
drenched affairs with human blood in
imitation of the god who died thCI
the world might live. In other places
the great spring festival took the form
of Joy transformed into the abandon
of license. But in all these perver-
sions the central idea remained as an
expression of mans attempt to fathom
the secret of the universe and to ad-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
The Practice of Kicking.

Kicking, like charity, should begin
at home. 1t ought to be the duty of
everybody at home to object, per
sistently and effectively, to the spe-
cific overcrowded street car, the badly
paved road, the encroaching doorstep,
the neglected yard, the malodorous
cesspooI, the irresponsible motor car
and the reckless railroad-especially
if he have any personal part in the
maintenance of similar abuses. If the
tendency of these evils we're rightly
apprehended, if part only of the eff
fort that is expended, presumably, in
Directing to .generalized, foreign and
futile subjects were bestowed on spe-
cific and tangible details, if we would
forego the emotional pleasure Of the
impersonal muck rake" to assail the
evil at our very feet-especially if
each one of US were careful to avoid
offense in matters of the same kind
our country would surely be a much
fairer one.-The Unpopular Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01

The linseed oil in paint naturally
resists the drying effect of the atmos-
phere, and because of this it is nee
essary to add something to the paint
mixture to overcome the resistance.
Drier is prepared for this purpose, its
function being to absorb oxygen rap
idly and convert the film into a hard.
insoluble product. During this proc
ess the Hnseed oil is changed into
linoxyn, and the drier continues it's
oxidation until the paint film is eventu-
ally destroyed.
Drier is made by adding salts to a
certain amount of linseed oil which
is heated up to about 500 degrees F.
The temperature is allowed to drop
and turpentine or a mixture of tur-
pentine and benzine added.