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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

'In no case will the amount paid
under the arrangement exceed S25."
One OF the remarkable features was
that n large number took to the bank,
in addition to their gift check, savings
that never had been deposited. One
man brought $500 and large number
added TO the check enough to insure
the payment of a S25 check Nov. l,
1918.
Several OF the employees had savings
accounts already and merely added
the check to their savings. Two hun
dred and seventy-four opened savings
accounts the day the company issued
the check.
This is a really practical form of
profit sharing as II helps people to
help themselves and encourages the
formation OF a permanent habit OF
systematic economy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

n william Redmond. who has zone
10 var with the British army. f. the
same sort Of fighter his brother. John.
-. eventually there may be some basis
for The stories that are told OF the
part the Irish have been playing Ia
the counict.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

Governor Dune means that the
state free employment bureaus shall
be OF real service TO those who are
out Of work With federal and state
governments both actively engaged In
finding work for the jobiess a real re-
form has been accomplished
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
BY Maurice Elliott.


The st. Louis physician who put a
mans shin bone on his spine might
try to graft one eye to the ankle to
prevent slipping on icy sidewalks
WEEDS Chorus Girl on Sly" says
Davenport Democrat. Much better
than getting married on nothing, say
we.
A prominent club woman of San
Francisco has brought suit for divorce
declaring her husband would lock him
self in a room and read the comic sec
tions of the papers whenever she de-
sired to go to the theatre Some wom-
en- don't appreciate an economical
husband.
AT recent banquet In Keokuk
Iowa, members of the lodge under
whose auspices the event was given
had regular bona fide debate on the
question: rs the Keokuk dam of more
benefit to the bull frogs than it is a
detriment to the swapping turtles?''
IT'S a strange world. You never
heard OF a penniless old man being
accused by his relatives of inability
to manage his own affairs.
PROBABLY 80 wheat will be a So
luton of the mooted problem of how
20 keep the boys on the farm.
AN old subscriber writes advising |
overland auto travellers to give wide |
perth to Skidmore, Kan
THE uncertainty of European voy-
Ige these times is that the traveller |
nay cover a greater distance than his /
money calls for-for instance a trip |
n the air. JIM. C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Feb. 10 in American
History.
History.

i'1i .ana'ia aisG iia dependencies GEO
ed by the French to Great Britain
by treaty OF peace concluded 81
Paris.
ieo''- Federal troops effected lods'
tnenf on James Island. three miles
from Charleston. $. C.
l9Ui-Paul Laurence Dunbar, negro
poet, died; born 1872. =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

10 u stlli a question when the Three
Eye league will hold that deferred
midwinter session Somebody In an
ether city saw someone who heard
Tearuey say that IL would BE- called
In about tao weeks. which IL about
as definite a statement as one mas n
right TO expect under the existing
reSfme
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

a woman few alone over SeW York
for 80 minutes and scarcely got men
ton In the dispatches. Five years
ago such a feat would have set her
NJ I'm the vaudeville business with an
income OF $1,000 a week
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

The supply of corn and flour in
Norway is now believed TO be ade-
quate for the countryis needs for
some time to come When the war
broke out the supply was at a min
imum. but every resource was strain
ed TO get the necessary imports while
Importation wns allowed by England.
Each commune now has a store equal
10 % to So pounds a person.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Useful Hint

That list of commonly misspolled
words compiled by the assistant
clerk of the house for the guidance of
his subordinates, suggests that if some
politicians would spend more time in
night school and less in politics, things
generally would move along better
Indianapolis News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

Census bureau statistics Indicate
that gp 20 the close OF 1913 the horse
stili led the automobile as a cause OF
fatalities This seems strange. but
then u must be remembered that Dob
bin lacks the advantages % publicity
which the auto still enjoys.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

The present John p Morgan evi-
IDENTIFY does not share the tastes OF
the John r. Morgan OF oId-at least
not 20 the extent OF having S4.OOO.0OO
worth Of Chinese porcelain lying
around Ia the way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Thin Ice.

There are too many folks VINO don't
want TO see this country involved in
war who do want to see Just how far
they can go without involving it--Mil-
waukee Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Fond Hope.

The latest style of female hat is the
submarine. Perhaps it will torpedo
the deadly hat pin at the too fondly
gazing man.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

Members Of the Arizona legislature
have all been exposed 90 the smallpox
and an epidemic - feared Wonder
~ smallpox would have any effect up
on the obdurate gentlemen a. Spring
held.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Uncensored.

1t will be noticed that the European
censors never go so far as to flag non
combatant appeals to America for a l.
There's where our neutrality is very
present help in trouble. - Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

styles 20 suit every woman" pro-
ciaiua a newspaper head. suit. per
haps. but not please. no possible
range % fashions would please t,aem
all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
CHORDS AND
DISCORDS

1T might be well for those who are
taking a vocal stick in the fight across
the water to get up on the lines OF the
oath of American allegiance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

Some men are

Some men are failures because they
have pinned all of their faith to the
horseshoe over their door-Atchison
Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

REV. n. o. Patterson. pastor of the
La Sale Baptist church. was given
stag party by his widow and daughter
Monday evening.-Ottawa, Ill, -tepuo-
lican.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

YOU'VE oft heard some sweet thing
say she could just die dancing Well,
an Illinois girl has done that very
thing So, ease up a bit, girls
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

THE press agent with a story of the
stars stolen diamonds couldn't break
into the front page of a newspaper
these days with anything less effec-
tive than a dynamite threat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

MRS. Carter H. Harrison is still for
her husband for the Chicago mayor
atty She left a meeting of women
when one of the leaders declared she
was neutral in the contest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

UNITED States and Germany Unite
to Relieve Starving Poland" says a
St. Louis newspaper Well probably
that will be allowed to so in St Louis
without mass meeting to bawl out
the editor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
LoYaItv al a Discount.

Bourtzeff, the Russian revOlutionist,
has been sentenced to Siberia. Off
hand one is inclined to congratulate
him. Even a moderately coy domi-
Gle in Siberia seems preferable to
fighting on the snow-swept plains of
Poland. among the frozen boys of
Prussia, or in the bitter billiards. of
the Carpathians or the Caucasus. For
the first time in history the man
"agin the government in Russia
seems TO fare better than the loyalist
Cleveland Plain-DeaIer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
Hen Hicks Saws

Hen Hicks Says
Fellers who bought safety razors to
avoid barber shop waits may be seen
standing half an hour in the lobby of
a picture show craning fer seats.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

From the Court House Elevator.
Here's one of my own make:
Those English are all nuts"
"Why so?"
Haven't they been shelled by the
Germans?" BILL KERR.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

KANSAS cyclone survivors might
do a pretty profitable business giving
expert advice to Londoners.
IF this war goes long enough we
may have to suffer the disappoint-
ment of Bernhard farewell.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10
News Stand Comedy.

Customer-"Give me a Collier"
Jim Brough-"None left. All sunk
by the Germans"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

fusiish-s daily a. isss sseoz1 ave-
ns-. Eock IsI.nd- III CE<.t-rsD - trs
costo<-e- 80 s-eo1d-ci4ss snsttsrr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

AN old subscriber writes advising
overland auto travellers to give wild
berth to Skidmore, Kan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-10

PROBABLY 80 wheat will be a So
luton of the mooted problem of how
to keep the boys on the farm.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-09

Under normal conditions the indus
tries of Germany consume about
l0O0.00QO00 pounds cotton a year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
DEAD, RIFLE AT HIS FEET
Hotel Man May Have Been
Cleaning It-Coroner Silent.

Fred Liegibel, proprietor of the Hotel
Saratoga. 300 West Thirtieth Street.
WAS found dead in the sitting room OF
his apartment in the hotel, the top OF
his head blown away and a heavy pore
rifle lying at his feet. Coroner HELEN
stein refused to say whether 1t was an
accident or suicide Mrs. Liegibel
found the body.
The gun was the property Of Edward
Michsl. a brewery collector. The two
men every year went hunting, and last
year Nichal left his gun with Liegibel
The walls of the hotel are covered with
,bo heads of deer, moose and other
game shot by the men.
The theory OF suicide is offset by tho
fact that on the table IN the room were
found gun ell, ramrod and soiled
rags. Il is assumed that the rifle went
of As Liegibel was cleaning It,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
FAMINE IN GERMANY
NEAR, SAYS u. S. CONSUL
American Official in Berlin Depicts Grave Conditions
Notices on Street Cars and Bilboards Urge
Citizens To Be Sparing.

the newspapers official notices have ap-
peared, exhorting all to be sparlng, and
especially not to waste food, in order
that existing supplies may last until
the coming harvest. 1t is urged that
bread be eaten only in small guam
titles; that potatoes be prepared IN the
skin. and all left over from the table be
carefully retained and used. Similar
announcements have been made from
the pulpit, and in the press TINS SUD-
iect receives daily attention
Seeding Not Yet Done.
Germany can expect no wheat or rye
harvest before July out of which to
re-supply her sadly strained re
sources. The crops are not yet IN the
ground and the chances OF possible
crop failures add TO the general men
ace.
Mr.. Dreyfus writes that the rules
governing the baking of bread forbid
the manufacture of wheat loaves. only
rolls not to exceed three and one-halt
ounces in weight may be baked. Al!
wheat -four must be adulterated with
rye and all rye with potato -four. On
this point Mr.. Dreyfus says:
Wheat bread must contain 80 pei
cent Of rye -four, and up TO 20 pei
Continued on page 2. column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
tPrun The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington, March 4.-The threat oi
famine hargs over Germany Ike d
nall. according to a report received al
the Department of Commerce from
vice-Consul General Louis q. Dreyfus'
r. in Berlin. which was made puollc
today. The report, long delayed IN
transmission, was sent on January 20
from the consulate general. Inc re-
mort "a dated January %, and therefore
il is felt in Washington that with con-
ditions so serious more than month
AGO. the constant drain OF the war
must By this time have made the sl'ua-
tion infinitely worse. The opening
naragraph OF the report said;
Daily the problem Of food supply
crows in importance, and everything
nossible Is being done by the German
Government to regulate the use and to
further the conservation of existing
supplies. Conformity the civil populs-
tion has been called upon to do i's
share and practise rigid economy
an streetcars, on billboards and IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
WILSON CALLS THE
63D CONGRESS GREAT
fFrum The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington, March 4.--The fol-
lowing statement Was issued by
President Wilson at the close Of
Congress to-day:
"a great Congress has closed its
sessions. It's work will prove the
purpose and quality Of its states
manship more and more the longer
Il is tested. Business has now a
time of calm and thoughtful adjust
ment before II, disturbed only by
the European war. The circum-
stances created by the war put the
nation to a special test---a test Of
its true character and of its self
control.
"The constant thought of every
patriotic man should now be for the
country, its peace, its order, its Just
and tempered Judgment in the face
of perpiexing difficulties. Its dig
nifty and its strength alike will ap-
pear not only in the revival Of its
business, despite abnormal condi-
tions, but also In its power 10 think,
to purpose and to act with patience,
With disinterested fairness, and
without excitement, in a spirit of
friendliness and enlightenment
which will firmly establish It's in
fuence throughout the world"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
JAIL RAID SPOILS
NICE PRISON PARTY
Drugs and Dainties Hid
den in Cells When Un-
invited Guests Enter.

Elaborate preparations for party in
their cells in the workhouse on Black
wells island last night were upset
when thirty prisoners were marched TO
the bathroom and searched. A pris-
oner who had not been invite 70 the
party gave it away and Zurdette G.
Lewis, deputy commissioner of correc-
ton, was an unexpected visitor.
With Lieutenant Scherb and the drug
squad Of the Police Department Mr..
Lewis reached the island about 7
o'clock. The thirty men were stripped.
One man, Fred Ward, the Shy Kid,
tried to throw away pocketbook con-
tanning thirty-four decks of heroin and
cocaine into pile of shoes. Frank
Daniels, knowns as Checkers. had SIX
decks of cocaine.
When examined by the deputy com
missioner and Scherb, the prisoners
admitted that they paid SIS Sunday for
one blow" os heroin. They accused
one of the prisoners Fred Smith, alias
"Sailor" White. notorious pedler OF
drugs in Chinatown and the lower
Bowery. They said he was the agent
of the drug ring IN the workhouse, and
that the drugs had been smuggled to
the island through him.
The trick was made possible by a
new and ingeniou- invention of the
sailors confederates who are not in
Jail. A false cover was pasted on a
magazine, and the heroin and cocaine
powder concealed in it.
Later the cells of the prisoners were
searched. Plenty of money was found
and the dainties fer the evenings feast
included cake, tea, preserves and candy
In the last cell examined were the ar
rangements for the piece de resistance
"steak a la BlackwelPs." By means OF
fire under closely woven wire
spring, they planned to heat the spring
redhot and then broil the steak.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
FAMINE
AND RIOTSRACK
CITY OF MEXICO
Masses Rise in Despera-
ton, Only to Sink Down
at BayOnet Point.
Ry telegraph 20 The Tribune. J


Los Angeles, March a. Financial
panic, wholesale bankruptcies, bread
riots, no water, acute shortage Of food
stufFs, plague and battles at the city
gates for a week have followed the
Carranzists occupation of Mexico City,
causing the city to face municipal
death, says the Mexico City correspond
ent Of "The Los Angeles Times
"Starvation has goaded the masses Of
tn capital to desperation,' he adds.
"Only Carranzista bayonet points have
held them in check. Demonstration
after demonstration has been started,
bu each has been stifed at inception.
Qualification of all chihuahua money
b. Carranza has proved the most ter
rible Of the series of unbearable bur
dens forced upon natives and foreign
ers alike in the capital.
"Commercial and industrial houses
throughout the city have permanently
closed their doors. Fifty millions Of
worthless Chihuahua pesos are choking
the business life out of the capital and
the heart out of the people.
Starvation and disease, resulting
from lack of water and the unsanitary
Accomplishments, topping the acute
shortage and attendant high prices of
foodstuffs Of every description, are
killing off hundreds Of persons each
day.
every back yard in the old quarter
Of the city is a graveyard. Corpses are
buried in the nearest earth that will
furnish a hole. There are no cofilns.
Few get rough box. Even drygoods
boxes cost
"The poor arc absolutely penniless.
No relief is in sight. Those who had
a few pesos yesterday are beggared to-
day. Their Villa bills are worthless.
Glasses above the intelligence of the
peon are bewildered. Men in good
clothes stand on the street corners with
Villa money in their pockets and their
stomachs empty. Mothers whose
purses are full of it cannot buy food
for their infants. Milk is worth its
weight In gold.
"Pestilence has assailed the people
here. The Zapatista evacuation of the
CITY proper was Immediately followed
bv the severance of water connections
with the municipal plant at Xochimilco.
One municipal well and some private
wells controlled by the fortunate have
nrevented the worst. Bat water is too
costly to be used for sanitary meas
ures. and the city is in the throes OF q
Sauseating filth.
"Bc it remembered to their credit
that. though ignorant and barbarous,
the Zapatistas worked less hardship
upon the people when they were IN
soIe possession of the capital than
have either the Villista or Carranzists
forces. But their cause. too, IS split
by intriguing smbtionlsts.
"Rieid censorship at Vera Cruz OF
all press dispatches filed here has pre-
vented any mixing of the truth con
cerning conditions TO reach the Amefl-
can public"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05

Mavo factory. On the ground was a
bottle of some blackish fluid, believed
to be laudanaum. In her handbag were
bichloride of mercury tablets.
There was only one bullet missing
from the revolver Miss Ellen Wilson,
with whom Lily Cook lived at the
Young Womens Christian Association
in New Haven, and Mayo both said last
night, with other employees of the fac
tory, that they had seen the girl take
the self-same revolver, put 1t over her
heart and say, "Tiis IS the best way
to do it," Just as soon as the girl dls-
appeared week ago-to be exact, aIter
she went out to lunch Thursday, rep
ruarv 25-the revolver was missed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
HOLDS AUTO FORT
FOR SIXTEEN HOURS
Woman Keeps All-Night Vigil
with Hot Bricks at
Feet.
rBy Telegraph to Tie Tnhun

baltimore. March AFTER having
sat for -ixteen hours in an automobile
whose ownership she disputes with her
busband-and she sat as tightly as
though attached to the machine wlth
bolts and screws Mrs. Catherine NJ.
Wolley, shortly after IL o'clock this
morning, permitted the car to be moved
to neutral ground"
The neutral ground was garage,
where the machine will remain Until 1t
is legally decided just how much OF It
Mrs. Wolley owns. All last night, in
IN bleak March wind, she sat at the
wheel, while neighbors put warm bricks
At her feet and otherwise sought to
make her comfortable until daylight
came. Two years ago the Wolleys
owned a yacht, in which they sailed
from Maine down the New England
coast. Then they came TO Baltimore,
sold the yacht and bought the auto,
mobile. Tomorrow Mrs. Wolley VIII
fle a bill for limited divorce, allmony'
counsel fees and decision as to the
ownership of the machine in which last
nights vigil wa kept.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
DROPS DEAD AFTER
PLEA FOR GIRLS
Mrs. Higbee, Reform WORKER
Wanted to Die in
Harness.
By Telegraph to The Tribune

81. Paul. Mimi. March 4.-Mrs. = IT,
Hiybee. who began a statewide cam
raign twenty-five years ago in behalf
Of delinauent girls, died suddenly TO-
NIGHT with fame more than statewide
as q club woman and reform worker
Death came to her in the Capitol Just
after she had ended an earnest plea
.or s,a,e home for the girls so long
her chief interest in life.
She uttered words an hour before
- disd that were almost prophetic
OF her end.
"Nv too active heart is still botner-
ing me-" she told friends on the way 10
the hearing before the House Prison
Committee. but am going 10 continue
the fight even though I die IN hsr'
ness"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-05
D. LEROY DRESSER
WEEDS SECRETLY
Married Marcia Walther
Dec. 22-Lively Martial
and Financial Career.
BY Telegraph to the Tribune

Newport, March 4.-D. Leroy Dresser
and Miss Marcia Walther have been
married since December %. Mr.. Dres-
ser wired this announcement to friends
here to-day from Brooklyn. where Mrs.
Dresser. a sister Of Mrs. Albert
Steiner, lives.
u. Leroy Dresser, brother-in-law of
George W. Vanderbilt and brother Of
Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, of Proyi-
dence, has figured in many marital ru-
mors and financial entanGlements since
his marriage to his first wife, who was
Emma Louise Burnhan, daughter of
Douglas W. Burnham. on November 20.
1889.
Dresser was once head of the Trust
Company of the Republic and associat-
ed with Lewis Nixon in the promotion
Of the Shipbuilding Company OF
America. the shipbuilding trust. In
1902 he was forced into bankruptcy,
and soon afterward his wife began suit
for separation. She obtained di-
vorce in 1907, and Immediately took
their children TO Europe. after Dresser
had attempted by injunction to force
their stay in this country.
A year later Dresser was arrested
for larceny by an attorney for John
W. Young, son of the head of the Nor
mon Church, but was discharged under
the statute of limitations. He has
pever regained his financial position
and has peen regarded among his in
innate friends as man OF ability
ruined by Wall Street
For several years Mr.. Dresser has
been president Of the Law Enforce
mcnt League, of Newport, which has
driven out vice and graft from the sum
mer resort city. A,
Mrs Dresser is a sister of Mrs. AL
hort Edward Sterner, wife Of a por-
trait painter, for whom many Ncwpor'
societv leaders have sat.