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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
Daily History Ciass-V0g. 8.

1888 Mime. Roland auillotiacd at Paris
1874 Warsaw fell and the second par
tltion and final extinction Of }'-
land followed, Russia Prussia SEE
Austria sharing
1891 Seizure by Quilted States eaife's
of Mason and SIideil. Confeiefi,is
commissioners TO Europe, waNs
sailing under The British sas
diplomatic crisis.
1914 Turkish troops crossed tie frln1
tier into Egypt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
" hen Arsenic IL Medicine.

/ am p, thin, scrawny, anemie, I'm
Ky APPETITE and frequently a victim Of
Inc thing you call eoryza, although
mueh IN the open air. An old doctor
ADVISES me to lake two drops OF Fow-
Ter solution of arsenic in water after
each meal. Is a safe peuture2
Answer-It IS sale, and. We mink.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

Contracts for railroad equipment LET
last month aggregated 100000 600.
Here is I'D item that viii not get In the
dope book Of the republican national
committees publicity department.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

Since the income tax Ia England
was increased lis per cent it Ia limited
that some Of fheexpatFiated Americans
there would be glad 10 try Ehls country
aMhila.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

An America is the only market for
diamonds at present the trade Is able
To announce that there will De no short
age Of them for Christmas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

THE Palm Beach suit almost came
back yesterday. Ignatz said his two
suits. still carrying some Of their I'M
expended energy due to the premature
summer recall, nearly sprang in his
face when he opened his clothes chest
TO give them the once over. But tbs
moth balls, gone to the hay for the win
Ter. protested, and the r. B. s fell back
again intb slumber
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

AT the First Christian church. In
Burlington. Iowa, Sabbath evening the
pastors theme was 'The Timid Wom-
ans Touch Dollars 10 doughnnts he's
married.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
Rock Is!and-From River TO
River

And only Al days left until Christ
mas. Have you done your shopping
early yet?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

Doing as Well az Could be Expected.
When Myrtle Shannon, hired girl in
the home of Attorney Stevens, started
out for walk Monday. the family bull
dog bit her between the Back Door and
the Gate.-kingsley iowa Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

AMONG those getting homesteads in
the recent federal drawing at sIinot,
\. D. was John Brightman OF Fulton.
III fon cant get away from il.
knowledge wins.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08
fewa soeEaI Sata

Mr., and Mrs. George Mutt and Mrs.
Lizzie sourwlne spent Wednesday In
Fort Madison Burlington Gazette
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

plls fuller school life, and make the
rural teachers bigger JOB. And
that's what she needs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

NEW York chaufeurs are on a
strike One might refer to this as an
other tootonic drive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

Christiania. Norway Correspond
ence Of The Associated Press. Nor
ways mercantile feet has developed
surprisingly since the beginning of
the war Every available ship. in
Guiding old sailing vessels discarded
years ago. has been reftted and mob
ilized for traffic. especially in the
North sea. High freight rates have
made this trade so profitable that one
or two successful trips pay for the
entire cost of the ship. and ship own
ers have become vastly wealthy. Even
the most conservative persons have
yielded to the lure OF speculation in
ship stocks and have invested all their
spare savings. Stock companies are
formed daily and even before the ship
has been delivered into the possession
OF the new company. shares have been
sold and rasold many times al in
creasing rates, The newspapers are
warning investors against over-spec-
ulation, explaining that as soon as
the war is over. scores OF ships now
tied up will again be available for
traffic, that the high freight rates will
drop and the overcapitalized ships
will be unable 10 pay their present
high rate of interest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

POLICE OF Syracuse. n. Y. declare
that burglars have Rocked to the city
for the Billy Sunday revivais This
should be cause for Thanksgiving
rather than complaint. Perhaps they
are beginning 10 see the light.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

tive company which was organized at
the beginning Of the war to take over
the insurance Of Norwegian shipping
against war risks, reports that its in
come for the first year was s5,055,000.
which is slightly more than the sum it
has paid out for losses.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

London-(Correspondence Of The
Associated Press The death is an
nouneed in London suburb of PhfIip
James King. who designed the first
balloon to e--ss the English channel.
he also designed the first fish bal
loon, iineaI forerunner OF the med
ern British airship. He was Is years
old
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

christiania Correspondence o.
The Associated ss.,-The eoopera-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-08

Rock Island Member Associated Press.
Fail Leased Wire Report
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
The MOF1d1r11r10ddrl
aAl1OXfOrd g

Islam world. II is the brain Of thae
vast religious empire which stretches
from the sunrise in the South of Asia
to the unset in the North Of Africa,
and binds together with an unbroken
chain of communication the Asian
and African peoples from the eastern
shore of China to the western coast
of Morocco.
In this vast ecclesiastical world Ell
Azhar has been for centuries a guild
ing and sta~ndardizing power. These
$4,000 Ell Azhar students are the Egyp-
tian literati; their 319 teachers are
the veritable intellectual monarchs Of
Islam.
Last year Gel foreign students en-
rolled in FL Azhar were preparing to
return to their respective Moslem ma
tions to carry as sheiks the authorita-
tive and stereotyped education of the
collegiate mosque.
This primaey of the Moslem univer-
sity IN the banks of the Nile has
made Cairo a more powerful lslamic
center than Mecca, the cradle of
Islam, toward which the pious Moham-
medan prays five times a day, and to
which he looks forward in pilgrimage
as to the eliminating goal of holiness.
This collegiate mosque has given
Cairo the primacy over Constantine
pie, the political center of Islam,
There is hardly a more vivid OIL
other worldly experience to be pos
sessed in Egypt than that which per-
vades the traveller as for the first
time he walks over the mats in the
outer court of this venerable temple
of learning. He finds himself in the
midst of a forest of marble columns.
majestic arabesque arches in oriental
colors. Thousands of student voices
~resound through acres of Enclosures
and deep recesses, rich in mosques,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
GOOD WAY TO SERVE STEAK
Planked, With Duchess Potatoes, lie a
Manner Popular With the
Best Cooks.

Wipe, remove superfuous fat and
parboil Z minutes a porterhouse or
crosscut of the rump steak, cut ~
inches thick. Butter a plank and ar
range a border of duchess potatoes
close to edge, using a pastry bag and
rose tube. Remove steak to plank,
put in a hot oven and bake until steak
is cooked and potatoes are Drowned.
Spread steak with butter. sprinkle
with salt, pepper and finely chopped
parsley. Garnish top of steak with
sauteed mushroom caps and put around
steak at equal distances halves Of
small tomatoes sauteed in butter, and
on top of each tomato a circular slice
of cucumber. You can use potato
balls, small onions, peas and carrots
diced as a garnish.
Duchess Potatoes.-To two cups hot
riced potatoes add two tablespoonful
of butter. one-half teaspoonful salt and
yolks of three eggs slightly beaten.
Shape, using pastry bag and tube
Brush over with beaten egg diluted
with m teaspoonful water.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
'VENlS0N STEAKS AND HASH
Recipes That Will Be Appreciated
by Those Fond Of Highly
Seasoned Meats.

To hash cold venison, cut the meat
In nice, small slices and put the trim.
mings and bones into a saucepan with
barley water enough to cover them.
Let them stew for an hour, then strain
the liquid into a stew pan. add to 1t
some bits of butter, rolled in -four,
and whatever gravy was left of the
venison the day before. Stir in some
currant jelly and let it boil up, then
put In the meat and keep it over the
hre Just long enough to warm through.
but do not allow 1t to boil, as It has
been once cooked already.
Venlson Steaks.-Cut them from
the neck or haunch Season them
with pepper and salt. When the grid.
iron has been well heated over a bed
OF bright Goals, grease the bars and
lay the steaks upon it. Broil them
well, turn them once and take care
to save as much of the gravy as pos.
sible. Serve them with some currant
jelly laid on each steak. Have your
plates warm.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Bread,

Much good bread is wasted on &C
count of drying and hardening on the
outside. This needless waste could
be easily prevented by wrapping the
.unusued portion of the loaf in a clean
piece of muslin or towel wrung out
of cold water before putting it away
after each meal; or it might be re-
wrapped in the waXed paper that
with some kinds of bread.
The so-called stale bread, SC much
of which is wasted, is really better
for ones digestion and health than
the freshly baked, Notwithstanding
article, for it is more friable and alb
sorbent and it really absorbs the sa.
Iva and gastric juice which penetrate
it and act upon every particle of it
The fresh bread is SO moist that like
a wet sponge it can take up no more
moisture, and it is acted upon by the
digestive juices on the surface only.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Shirred Eggs.

Two eggs, one tablespoonful butter,
salt and pepper to taste, a little grated
cheese, bread crumbs and parsley.
Melt the butter in a baking dish, break
the eggs in carefully and season to
taste, sprinkling a little of the cheese,
bread crumbs and grated parsley on
each egg. Or, put the eggs in indi-
vidual dishes. Bake in moderate oven
until set; serve at once in same dish.
Shirred eggs cook nicely if placed on
an asbestos mat on top of a fire and
covered closely.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

minarets, and graceful arcades, as far
almost as his eye can see.
Here the "dilapidation and usury Of
centuries" are revealed on every side.
The place is rich with the perfumes
of distant years; one feels the re-
ligious East of the seventh century;I
shut away from the whirlwind of mod
ernity that rushes us along with inev-
table swiftness, Ell Azhar says to us,
islam remains unchanged by time!"
All Standing and Swaylne.
In the lewan or main court are 140
pillars and each pillar is a center of a
class of Mohammedan students vary
ing in size from ten to fifty men. The
teacher or sheik sits c~ross-legged with
his back to the pillar upon a "dikkus,"
which rostrum resembles a low,
square table with a railing on three
sides. Students sit about him, some
on sheepskins, others on mats, often
beneath the white glare of a tropical
sun which beats down upon their heed
less heads through the uncovered
court.
All are desperately in earnest; they
seem to be thinking vocally, many of
them swaying backward and forward
as though their spinal columns were
on a hinge at the base.
1t is somewhat uncomplimentarily
stated that the rise of this traditional,
motory accompaniment of education
was for the purpose of preventing the
boys from going to sleep during the
iteration and reiteration of words
which held little meaning for their
~undeveloped minds.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

me hand the last bit O. money l owned
ten GER is. l was tryin' to make up
me mind how l should spend the dime.
but it was hard for me to decide
cause l needed three things an the
coin could only buy one. You see,
mister. l needed somethin' to eat, l
needed a shave. and needed q
drink,
by an by l decided to let chance
settle it; but the dime had only two
sides, SO ! had to cut one o. me needs.
III be honest with youse, mister; l cut
out the shave. Then ! tipped the coin
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

graduate of Ell Azhar. My ways, there
fore, were ways of pleasantness and
great honor. The e%ntourag9 grew in
volume, if not in quality, as we tar
ried a moment at the gate of the
mosque. Students, teachers, artisans,
donkey boys in blue galabeighs, sher-
bet sellers, goats, camels, all in a vari-
colored panorama threatened to over
whelm us by their kindly, democratic
proximity.
Meanwhile, a mosque attendant was
doing his best in the confusion to tie
over my shoes the sandals without
which l could not cross the sacred
threshold. But now we are ready and
are passing through the corridors
where in many a historic day
A gorgeous flood
OF jeweled sheik and emir Fastening
Before the sky the dawning purple
showed,
Their turbans at the caliph's feet to
fling.
This seat of learning, relic of olden
days, has been compared to oxford,
since the breath and magic of the
middle ages are alike ensLrined in
these old world institutions. Both
contain the c~hangeless laws and doc
trines of the past, grown old without
changing. Both were founded in the
tenth century, the one by King Alfred,
the other by the victorious Goher of
the Fatimites. Both began with semi
religious foundation, monastic and
collegiate exercises being carried on
side by side.
But even more potentially signih-
cant than Oxford is or ever can be to
Anglo-Saxondom is Ell Azhar to the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Chicken Patties.

Patty cases may be bought in city
bakeries, and will saw time and trou-
BILE in preparing this dish. For their
filling cut up cold chicken into tubes,
with sliced canned mushrooms and a
teaspoonful of chopped onions. Make
a white sauce, and add the mixture OF
chicken and mushrooms, with season
ing Of salt, cayenne pepper and a few
grains Of mace. Serve in heated patty
cases.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

Here is a sensible way of tagging
the, contents of a piece bag: On the
outside of the bag fasten the largest
procurable safety pin. When dress
making is over attach samples to this
pin of every remnant that goes into
the bag. A great amount of time and
patience is saved by this simple de-
vice, for one can see at a glance just
what the bag contains.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Pumpkin Pie.

One egg, one cupful brown sugar,
one cupful pumpkin, one-half tea
spoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoon
full ginger, milk to thin as desired. Cut
pumpkin and run through grinder or
meat chopper. Put in saucepan( add
ing only enough water to keep it boil
ing and @ prevent sticking, stirring
constantly. Cook until dry and soft.
Mix ingredients in order given. Line
pie plate with crust, prick and slightly
dry in oven. Turn in mixture and
sprinkle top with %granulated sugar,
just as it goes to oven.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

had been against him. the G. C.'s lib
erality frightened.
"Tll tell you what I'll do" said he to
the seedy looking individual. "You
tell me the story Of the cause that
forced you to beg. II it's a case Of
genuine hard luck, Ill help you out;
if it isn't. I'll call a policeman"
Honest. mister" said the beggar,
humbly. at was real, downright hard
luck that caused me to come to youse
a-beggin'.
"A little while ago, mister, ] was
arstanding on the corner, holdin' in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Europe,s Richest City.

Which is the richest city in Europe7
Neither London or Paris nor Milan,
but Basic, the great Swiss railway cen
ter, Zurich, in a neighboring canton,
coming second. This is proportionate
to the number of inhabitants. Basle's
richest citizen boasts a fortune of ST.
SOC, 900; another has $1,000. 900, while
no fewer than IS residents pay income
tax on a round $1,000, 900.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

"and this" he added solemnly, lis the
most famous university of the Mo-
hammedan world"
For at least a half hour we had
been in transit to this revered insti-
tuition. writes Clayton s.. Cooper in
the New York Times, indulging in
reptile s%curryings through the mar
row and congested streets and lanes
of old Cairo, where only persons, not
to speak of donkeys, carriages and
camels, can travel together who are
very much agreed; now and then look
ing up. we could discern in the dis
lance the six fantastic minarets of the
university mosque from whose towers
the muezzin call to prayers five times
each day $1,000 Moslem students.
Indeed, one can scarcely picture
wildly enough such wanderings
through the ancient city of Saladin, a
city as deep in the Orient as Canton
or Benares, a city which seems in
deed made for immortality, as I'M
touched by civilization as was Ora
NADIA before the Moors were driven
out of Spain.
On this day we were making our
way as best we could through the
confused tumble of men and things in
the streets where East and West
flow together, but lever mix, where
the proud Arab, turbaned and robed
as in the days of Mohammed, walks
majestically beside the half Occi
dentalized Egyptian and the half ORR.
entalized Levantine.
Escorted by a Sheik.
My escort through these medieval
precincts was himself one of the sheiks
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

into the air an said: Heads l eat, an
tails drink An ~then-right then the
most turrbell an unfortchnit blow that
could fall upon a human bein' hap.
pened to me-the dime fell to the
ground an rolled into the sewer! Now,
don't youse think, mister, that that
was genwine hard luck?"
The generous citizen hastily pulled
out a dollar and gave it to the beg
gar.
Get something to eat and get
shaved. but leave drink alone" he ad.
vised.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Ham and Cheese Dish.

One-half cupful cheese, one-half cup
full boiled ham (run ham and cheese
through chopper), three eggs, six soda
crackers, rolled fine, n tablespoonful
table sauce, salt and red pepper, one
teaspoonful baking powder, one cup
full milk. Stir beaten egg into han
and crackers, add milk. add other in
gradients, baking powder last. Bake
80 minutes. 1t is fine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Workings of a Watch.

In the average watch the balance
wheel vibrates 800 times a minute, 49,
004 times each hour, $4,000 times @
day, and 157. 7sS, 900 times a year. AS
each vibration owe about one and
a half revolutions. the shaft on which
the balance wheel is mounted makes
1865 s 2 900 revolutions in its bearings
each year.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

Shortly afterward
he learned that at
another m a C h 1 n e
shop they had need
ed men. If he had
known it he could
have secured work
at his trade and
have been clothed,
well fed and happy.
He had no means of
knowing except by
direct application
that at this place
there was work.
Today. as a result
of study of systems
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
To Clean White sweaters.

White sweaters or chinchilla coats
may be easily and inexpensively
cleaned by placing them in a pillow
slip and sprinkling them with ten
cents worth of plaster of paris. Shake
we'll until the garments look white.
then remove hang out of doors and
beat the remainder of the powder out.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Eyes of Fishes.

The eyes of fishes are in constant
use except when they are asleep. Most
fishes have no eyelids, their eyes be-
ing protected from injury b. a shiny
material or by a thick transparent
skin. The puffer, or swellfsh, which
habitually burrows in sand at the
bottom of the water, has eyelids which
cover the ~eyeballs when closed. the
lower eyelid being larger than the
upper.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
WON WITH HARD LUCK STORY
Generous Citizen Couldn't Resist Such
a Heart-Rendlng Narrative as
5esear Told.

The generous citizen had been ap-
preached three times that day by beg
gars who claimed that they we're in
hard luck, and to each of them he un-
hesitatingly gave money. But when
he was accosted by the fourth aims
seeker, who also asserted that luck
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
rrade wIth French oceanic.

America sends French oceania more
than AZ per cent of its imports. and
receives in return a trihe oyer so per
cen Of its exports.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Popular Individual.

when a man brags about likin'
work." said Uncle Eben, "he finds dat
everybody is willin' to help him have
q good time"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

An unfortunate being whom custom
imprisons between linen sheete and
obliges to use embroidered towels
Smart Set.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
Daily Thouoht.

If a nan does not keep pace with
his companions perhaps 1t is because
he hears a different drummer.-Tho-
reaS
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

vouring monster known as
unemployment.
The division of informa-
ton of the bureau of immi-
grafton not only is engaged
in the work of promoting
the beneficial distribution of
aliens admitted to the Unit
ed States, but under the gen.
eral power of the law is di.
recting the distribution of
residents and citizens of the
United States who wish to
avail themselves of oppor-
tunities for labor afforded
through its instrumentality."
Recently the post office
department and the depart
ment of agriculture have en-.
tered into a cooperative ar
rangement with the depart
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10
" W1INl

Dor; Anthony Caminetti, the commissioner gen.
eral Of immigration, and T, v. P~owderly, chief
of the division of information of the immigration
bureau.
Nobody knows definitely how many unemployed
men and women there are in the United States
today. One thing, however, is known definitely,
that the number probably is not as great nor any
thing like as great in proportion to the popula-
ton as it has been at times in the past. There
are enough of the unemployed, however, to make
the problem a serious one, but there seems to be a
belief on the part of government officials that the
broadening of the field of federal effort to help
men and women to work steadily will sap the
strength of that dreaded and at times actually de-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

HIS is the great sheik!"
said my Moslem friend as
we stopped before the
carved gates of the col
legiate Mosque Ell Azhar,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-01
OsAGE LEASING
RULES CHANGED

Washington, Nov. Ia modifica.
tion was made in the Usage reserva-
tion leasing rules by the interior de-
partment. Any su6-leasee holding less
than $500 acres of oil producing land
on November 1, shallfon that date file
with the superintendent at Pawhuska
plats showing legal subdivisions oil
such oil producing lands upon which
he desires new lease and shall file
not later than December Il plats show
ing legal subdivisions OF such other
lands on which the sub-lessee desires
new lease not in excess of the max
imum allowed by the regulations.
The new ruling will allow leasees
to surrender such Of their present
holdings as they desire and take un
developed territory. The lessees want
ed the time extended to January l.