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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
INTEREST IN ELECTION.

While. technically. Rock Island lost
In the election date controversy with
Moline. e. is perhaps Just a. well that
the decision OF the supreme court
favored the third instead OF the first
Tuesday IN April While IL Is true
that u necessitAtes holding two eiec-
tions. township and city. On different
dates and therefore increases the ex-
p~nss and that new petitions are nee
essary. u viii avoid confusion in the
parts of the city which are In South
Rock Island township Had township
and city elections been held here. as
hers.ofors. on the same date Il would
have been almost impossible 70 have
avoided mistakes and ones which
under the laW would have made those
guilty Of them liable 10 serve penal
ties
Important as u - 20 avoid such
situation 10 g. possibly not more so
than the benefit OF added interest
which wiil be given 20 the campaign
by reason Of the longer time In which
70 prosecute g. The public generally
has been SLOW Ga awakening 20 the
fact that there g. a city election this
spring u has been apathetic.
The advertising which has resulted
from the issue over the legal date
has aroused a lively interest and Il -
certain that there VIII from now on be
D sufficient discussion Of men and IS
sues 20 insure an intelligent verdict at
the polls
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
BY MAURICE ELLIoTT,

One lone man in New Jersey grad
uated in class of 136 girls. don't
know how he felt, but he must have
looked like nail file in a manicuring
set.
Nix Janko and Anna Brick have
been licensed to we'd, according to the
Philadelphia Telegraph. Nix evident
" expects TO build.
At meeting of the United CONNER
cial Travellers 275 members pledged
not to tip Pullman porters. Better
still. carry your own pillow and sleep
in the day coach.
New York man whose beard was
jerked five times wants $1,000 dam
ages. Party who did the pulling GER
tainly must have got away with a lot
of hay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
The Daily Story
How They Became Acquainted-By May G. Etheridge

Mr. Tinkham came home from din
ner tired after hard days work Us
ually his wife listened for him to come
home after business and either mel
him in the hall or called for him to
come upstairs for the connubial kiss
Today she did neither Mr.. Tinkham
hearing or seeing nothing of her, went
up to her bedroom. She was sitting
I before the window with her back to
him.
My dear" he said, and paused.
No reply.
Whats the matter?"
Without turning she pointed to the
bureau. Her husband went to it, and
there lay an envelope, unaddressed.
He took from it bit of tissue paper
neatly folded. Opening the paper, he
uncovered a strand of hair arranged
in circular form and fastened with a
bit of very narrow blue ribbon.
Well" he said, what about it ?"
What about it?" rising and facing
him. Il found it in the pocket of
your overcoat that you left for me to
put away for the season.
My overcoat?"
Yes, your overcoat."
How did it get there?"
Don't ask me how it got there You
doubtless know how it got there"
do you mean to tell me that you
found that in my overcoat pocket"
II do"
Where's the coat?"
There" pointing to the closet.
Mr. Tinkham opened a closet door
and took from it his winter overcost.
He had bought it at Stevenson's ready
made. 1t was the same pattern as the
one he had purchased, and the max
er's name was on the back. He was
that he had not exchanged
coats with any one. And yet such an
exchange was possible. He had lunch
ed st a restaurant, and a waiter had
hung his coat on a hook. Some one
who had bought a suit from Steven
sons made from the same goods, !
might have got the Tinkham coat. and !
Tinkham might have got the I'M
knOwn's coat Mr. Tinkham gave this |
explanation 10 his wife as a possible |
It did not work
Without making any reply Mrs |
Tinkham put on her wraps and sailed
downstairs and out of the house Her
husband called after her not 20 make i
= fool of herself but come back and /
lelp him solve the mystery. She did
lot heed him.
Mr. Tinkham debated what he should
10. then sat down to dinner. hoping
hat his wife would come back be-
ore he had finished. She did not
,Ome, and after vainly trying to make
vat dinner he arose from the table.
nut on his hat and overcoat and went 4
mt, intending to go to the restaurant
yhere he had lunched and try to dis ,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

! cover if any one had exchanged coats
with him.
Mrs. Tinkham, nursing her wrath
walked aimlessly about for awhile
when she began to feel faint for want
OF sustenance. Too proud or TOO win.
dictive to return to her home. She
went to restaurant to get a cup Of
/ tea There was one best restaurant in
+ the town, where she had often been
with her husband, and thither She az.
irected her steps. While sitting al p
table handsome young man stepped
UP to her. bowed politely and said:
rs this Mrs. Tinkham ?"
at is"
"The proprietor has told me that he
has seen you here with your husband
/ lunched here today. and when left
a waiter handed me my coat Happen.
ing to put my hand in my pocket.
felt a paper, and on examination If
proved to have Mr. Tinkhams name
on it, This I discovered only half an
hour ago and came here 10 learn
where / could find Mr. Tinkham."
The young man held up the counter
part of the coat from which Mrs. Tink.
ham had taken the lock OF hair. Mr.,
Tinkham asked him a few questions
about the coat, and while she was do
ing so the young man dropped into
seat opposite her.
Meanwhile Mr. Tinkham, who had
been approaching, entered the restau-
rant at the same time as a young
and pretty woman. The lady spied
Mrs Tinkham and the young man sit.
ting at the same table and, with fire
in her eye, approached them. Mr. Tink-
ham, too, saw his wife and followed
the lady
This is the way you are detained
at business" said the latter. "and
break your engagementsi Please nm
derstand that all is off between US"
"And this is the way" cried a voice
behind her, addressing Mrs. Tinkham
that you contrive to meet a loveri A
clever device to put a lock of hair in
my pocket and then fiounce out Of the
house to come here TO keep an appoint
ment."
"a lock of hairl" exclaimed Mrs.
companion. Did I leave a
lock of hair in the coat?'
Whose hair?" cried the young lady
Yours" snapped the young man.
Excuse me. ladies and gentlemen"
said the proprietor, who, hearing the
Yrangle, approached. 81 can have no
ljrarreling in my restaurant"
After considerable more talk the
natter was finally explained, where .
lpon Mr. Tinkham proposed that they
Ill have dinner together. The young
nan introduced himself and his
iancee. a good dinner was served
nd every one was happy. Later when
hey parted, the ladies agreed 10 eX-
hange calls, and in time they all be
anne fast friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

I government. The Tribune has criti-
cized President Wilson, Secretary
Bryan and the important personages
of the government upon innumeraoie
occasions: but here division OF opin-
ion almost comes to an end
There are high occasions when ma
ton must solfdify itself behind its gov
eminent. Decatur. whose words head
this editorial. put that thought in
phrase which has lived. In America
this devotion has not meant and 1t
cannot conceivably mean in our times,
or in times which we might forsee,
devotion to low and sordid practices.
Our foreign policy might be mistaken,
but we may trust IL to be sincere The
people of the United States Will not
be betrayed by the designs of their
government. But. with error or with
out error. a nation as unit is needed.
Matters are approaching the possibii-
ity OF extreme delicacy in Europe. Ger
many has served notice that zone OF
war surrounds the British islands and
envelops the coast of France and that
neutrals must be guided by an under
standing of this.
The Germans say that neutral ship
ping will be in danger because 1t is
understood by them that British ships
will endeavor to conceal their identity
under neutral flags. They also give
warming that il may not be possible
in every case to treat the people
aboard merchant vessels with the hui
manity TO be desired. In other words,
a merchant vessel may be sunk by a
submarine and its crew lost And,
furthermore, that merchant vessel
may be a neutral. and, still further.
II may be an American.
We consider the fact that the Ger I
mans. intending to continue their sub |
marine raids upon British shipping as /
occasion offers. have sought TO get the I
most good from the moral effect and |
to carry the intimidation through 10 /
its. greatest effect. We have no way
of knowing what German intent IS or
what they will do in furtherance of
that intent. We merely know that the
time has come when this must be a
solidifed, united nation with one
thought. and that the thought OF De
catur.
In questions which may arise our
government stands for us and we
stand for the government
This is a nation. not difference of
opinion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
William Drady.M.D.

The first essential in the treatment
of any case OF "catarrh" OF the nose is
a local examination by means OF the
head mirror and nasal speculum.
whereby the physician may see just
what he has TO deal with. Any treat
ment which is prescribed without such
examination is necessarily a good
guess and nothing more.
Looking into the nostril the physi-
clan or specialist sees the condition of
the mucous membrane. notes whether
II is thickened. liberated or atrophied
(wastedD He observes the relative
size and consistence of the turbinate
bodies, the steam radiators OF the
nose" and whether they are so over
grown or hypertrophied as to demand
local applications TO reduce them or
possibly surgical operation for the
same purpose. When the doctor re
moves a bone from the nose he sim
ply removes a portion OF thickened
physiological part, and not a new
growth. as is often imagined.
Next the doctor uses a throat mir
ror and looks at the back door of the
nasal cavity. where. as a rule, the
worst OF the trouble shows itself Here
he sees whether the rear end of the
body impinges upon the op- |
ening OF the Eustachian tube TO a de- /
gree sufficient TO interfere with nor
NAL ventilation OF the ear and cause 1
deafness Also he observes in the
mirror the appearance of the adenoid /
tissue on the back wall and roof of the
throat. whether 1t is involved in the
process.
Besides this. he will give the pa
tient a general examination to deter
mine whether any disturbance of
health is contributing toward the
nasal trouble.
Armed with definite knowledge he
s now prepared TO treat the conditions
nteiligently. by applying precisely the
'emedy required. be IL medicinal.
iietetic. hygienic or surgical, Thus
5 "catarrh" to be satisfactorily
reated.
You see IL is not a definite disease
nut only an indication OF some gen
raj or local arrangement. which must 4,
'e discovered and suitably treated IL
ermanent relief Is expected, II
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Questions and Answers.

Questions and Answers.
a. J. w. writes: Is it possible for
butter TO convey tuberculosis?
Reply.
Yes. But probably this very rarely.
if ever occurs. However, tubercIe
bacilli have often been found in but
ter-good, fresh country butter OF the
highest food value, at that II the COWS
are tuberculous it is easily possible
for the germs to be present in but
ter. Butter made from certified milk
never contains tubercle baciIH.
Mrs. Herbert Jayne asks: What
causes adenoids in young children?
And is there any cure other than an
operation?
Reply
All babies have n third" tonsil in
the roof of the pharynx or throat be-
hind the soft palate. From repeated
Infection, such as simple head colds"
and sore throats, this tonsil-like tissue
becomes permanently thickened so
that eventually ii obstructs natural
nose breathing. Then we say the child
has adenoids. Surgery offers the only
cure. Sometimes mild cases may be
treated by the family doctor without
operation.
Policeman writes: am very fond
of what is called "cannibal' sand !
"ich, which, as you probably know. /
raw meat. Is there any dan |
ger OF tapeworm infection.
Reply.
Man acquires one specie of tape 4
worm by eating raw or insufficientIy /
cooked pork which is infected with the
arvae or "cysticerf' called bladder
Vorms-the tapeworm growing in man
icing called taenia solium. Another
ind OF tapeworm comes from eating
aw or insufficiently cooked beef
which Is infected with the larvae of
aenia saginata. Although meat in
peetion usually eliminates the in
ected carcass, you do take chances
With raw meat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Feb. 8 in American
History.

iFis- beginning OF the French allianc,
with the Americans France
formally recognized the independ
ence of the American colonies. the
government or which was revolp
uonary- rhere was no exccuii;-
mead. and congress was SEprrfne
Nu' Rear Admiral Albert kautz.
y. retired veteran OF the civl
war. died: born 1899.
ioi2-GeDeral }. r. Weaver. congress
man and presidential candida:e
Greenb'fck-i.e bori In 1850 a1d II
1897. died; born 1885,.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

cruiser Tennessee showed by taking
refugees from Turkish ports and "a
hAs again been demonstrated IN the
assistance given 20 the japanese war
ship which was wrecked on the Lower
California coast
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

When tho Texas trust busters got
through with the Crane company to
was glad 20 pay a fine Of $4,000 and
agree TO quit business In the common
wealth Looks as n there might be
some big league material tn the Lone
star states legal department.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

The sportiveiy inclined have a fine
nsId for speculation IN the race between
the Chicaso wheat pit sharks and the
agents OF the federal department or
Justice Who are trying 20 catch them
before they make their killing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

E'ricads In and out % the demo
cratic party will be pleased with the
selection OF Champ Clark By the demo
cratic caucus a. speaker OF the house.
The Missouri member has proven one
OF the most able. most fair and most
popular speakers the house has ever
had
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

England - threatened with a dearth
OF Doctors We have a number In
this country Who can be spared. al
though u would be about 80 and 81 be
tween them and the Zeppelins.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

Increase OF pleasure travel In the
United States. particularly in the south.
- pointed % "a evidence that cOndi-
tons are once more approaching nor
NAL II II doesn't prove that the peO-
pie have more money II az least shows
that they are more willing TO spend
what they have.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

A Peorfan. IN the primo OF life and
apparently IN robust health. died OF
fright when brought before a justice
IN that city 20 give bail for a minor
orense. Other !. p-s and police mag
istrates the country over will be fever
tsh to know what method their Peoria
contemporary uses TO throw the
xcare~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

Germany expects "a loss % revenue
90 St0.000. 900 this year because % cut
ting down % income taxes OF men who
are fighting the nations battles. There
- hiat ia this for Americans who OBJ
fcct 90 this forru % contribution 20
the expenses OF the Eoverument.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
SideIights on the European War

London Correspondence Of the As
/ sOciated Press) The soup kitchen or
/ ganized in Brussels by the American
Commission for Relief is now undoubt-
edly the largest in the world Nearly
fifty thousand people entirely desti-
tute wait in the bread lines" every
day and over six thousand gallons of
soup and four thousand Kilograms of
bread are daily distributed to them
unlike the bread lines 1 have seen
in America" says a report from one
of the representatives in Brussels,
these are all people of one nation
ality and all with a common and I'M
deserved misfortune They are OF
all classes but we know none of them
save by number because no matter
what their station or tie extent of
their misfortune they still have
famour propre and many of them, if
they were compelled TO write their
names on coupons when they get the
soup would rather starve than take
it. None OF them think that they will /
always have 10 be in the bread lines .
and every one of them feel that when .
it is all over they will want TO forget /
that they have been destitute.
ne soup iOT these LlIilul UOLSa IN I
and jetsam of war is all prepared in
the large storehOuses of the Interna-
tional Express company Van Gand.
More than one hundred people are en-
gagged in this work Among them are
former chefs of some of the leading 4
hotels of Brussels. who give directions
rs TO the kind and quality of the soup.
its ingredients and their proportions
Under them are those who clean the
vegetables potatoes. carrots, beans.
ets.-and prepare the meat This en- 5
ire staff is composed of volunteers ex- {
sept the chefs who receive at the /
most half a crown a day Z
From 3 O'Clock in the morning. s
when the cooking of the first 5000 gal z
ons of soup is started. the scene in a
he circus-like storehouse of the ex- j
'ress company is one of tremendous ]
.ctiyity with the moving figures of il
he hundred Whitehead chefs, the fires t
blaze under scores of immense cauld- p
ons-all dimly seen through the S
hitting clouds of pungent steam ris- A
ng from the boiling soup q
When the soup is cooked il is t
ent, under the seals of the commits
ion and under the protection of the
merican flag, in large lorries to the
1 canteens, scattered all over Brus-
els These canteens were formerly
chools, dance halls, Turkish baths. -
tc. During the morning, whenever 1
ne goes, women and children may be
zen coming and going with pitchers
steaming soup and their ration of
read under their arms"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

As sooa as the Illinois legislature
gets around TO Il. doubtless l. will On
deavOr TO do something for the protee-
ton Of candidates whose friends in
sist upon circulating petitions for them
and thus getting them involved in cam
paigns against their will The penal
ties ought TO be severe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

The German prOclamatiOn Of a
blockade Of British ports f. not eaicu-
lated % Contribute TO John BuIl-s peace
% mind. REGARDLESS Of whether the
Teutons are able 20 CARY out their IN
nOuncsd program OF reprisai
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

One % the curious and unexplained
things about present conditions e the
marvellous Increase % our beef exports
in spite % the much-harpsd meat
shortage IA this country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

An electrical engineer told a Chi
cago audience the other day that by
utilizing the afinity OF the element
scienium for light II Is possible to Ar
range n btrgiar alarm which will pho
tograph the thief red-handed- Given
plenty Of seIenium and printers ink.
the world has some basis for n moral
regeneration
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

The passenger department Of one
railroad has figured out 40 ways to
travel from Chicago 10 the san Fran
cisco fair. Dollars % dOughnuts Meth
" walking nor flying - included among
the 90
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

The meutal collapse OF n Thres-Eye
league player about the time he had
been offered his contract for another
season ought 70 furnish Srist for the
legal mill OF the Feds With a theme
like that the lawyers who appeared
before Judge lands recently would
have moved even an umpire 10 tears
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
The senate,s STRENGTH.

The United States senate need not
conduct a hlibuster of many days du-
ration to demonstrate that it is long
on talk, if short on some other valu-
able attributes.-St Paul Pioneer
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

Champaign. II-Dissatisfed be-
cause he had left the farm and moved
TO town. J. Everett Smith. a retired
farmer OF Homer. drank carboIic acid
and was found dead in his haymow.
His brother shot himself 10 death a
year ago with no apparent motive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Warning to Lotharios

A Maine jury has awarded a woman
$4,000 damages for breach of prom
Use. Tickle gentlemen had best be
ware las Maine, so goes the nation. ="
Cincinnati Times-Star
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
INDISPENSABLE to the Pastor,

In spite of the cold weather on We'd
nesday. Rev. Schultz drove his Ford
car out from Rock Island on Wedues-
day. and says he did not suffer any
very great inconvenience as result.
-Sherrard Bulletin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

Whatever the deficiencies of the L.
:. navy may be as far as fighting Is
concerned. IL is able to give efficient
service IN The hfc-saving line. as the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

IL f. a wonder that somebody did
not remark that Egg. winner Of the
sixday bicycle race. was fresh a. the
nnish
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

SULLIVAN and Penrose are tar
gets" says a dispatch from Washing
ton telling of proposed inquiries into
the Illinois and Pennsylvania senator
ial elections. II every shot aimed at
these veterans in the past had taken
effect they would now be as full of
holes as a Swiss cheese.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Long and Short Of II.

The wedding of Miss Polly Small of
523 Cross street and Nathan Tall took
place last Wednesday evening in the
hall at $50 Dickinson street--PhiladeI-
phia Exponent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

Al Americanizsd French reservist
has startled France by esta5lishins
pure food sqHp kitchens az Noisy Al
any rate hs picked good town for
soup kitchen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

EVEN white man may go too far
in the south. One of his color has
just been lynched in Georgia for as
saulting a woman.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Much Travelled.

First Tourist-Did you ever see the
Satskill mountains? Second Tourist
No, never. but / have seen them
kill mice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

though the chlorin content OF untreat-
cd -four may run as high as $40 parts
per million. chlorin-treated flour Will
contain over 500 parts per million
Chlorin-treatment increases the acid
ity of the -four. The gluten tests run
practically alike for the bleached and
unbleached -four. The baking experts
report that there are no differences
in loaf volume; but the bleached -four
give loaf having an Objectionable
color and texture. In nearly every
case the bread made from the IN
bleached flour graded better Accord
ing 10 The Journal of the American
Medical Association, the chlorin-
bleaching cannot be defended on the
ground that bread-making qualities of
the flour are improved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06

n il easy enough 10 map out a sue
eezrfni career. bat following the map
q. another matter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-06
Not Judicious.

The trouble with the average knock
er is that he never does his knocking
inside where it viii do the most good.
but always outside. where it does the
most harm Detroit Free Press.