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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

stairs and stopped the pendulum. The
reason she did this was that she feared
if her husband awoke and heard the
ticking he would be annoyed by it. In
the middle of the night the count
awoke, feverish and in pain.
Immediately he noticed that the
clock was silent Had he been in
normal condition he would doubtless
have thought it had run down, though
it had never been known to run down.
for Hans Schlotter attended to its
winding and had done SO for half a
century. He boosted that in all these
years he had never permitted it to
run down, but once though he admit
ted that this had occurred shortly be
for Count Kerchoff's death.
Unfortunately the<old man had told
this to his young master. Therefore
when Count Adolph awoke feeling Ill
and did not hear the ticking of the
clock he at once inferred that its ceas-
ing presaged his death, Having al
ways concealed what troubled him
from his wife, fearing that she would
conceive a contempt for him on &C
count of it, he did not now reveal It
to her But he awoke her and told her
that he feared he was going to die.
The countess at once awoke the
servants and sent for a doctor, who
found the count in state of collapse
He could not tell what was the matter
with his patient, for all his organs
seemed to be in fairly good working
order. The counts nerves were evil
IDENTIFY affected, so, not knowing what
else to do, the doctor gave him a soda
tive, which put him to sleep.
A daughter of Hans Schlotter, going
downstairs after having carried up a
kettle of hot water for the invalid, no.
ticed that the old clock had stopped
Surprising that her father had let it
run down, she started the pendulum
going; but, noticing that the weights
still hung high, she refrained from
winding it. When the count awoke
Hans was standing by his bed. The
invalid, hearing the clock ticking,
asked Hans If he was aware that the
clock had stopped during the night.
Hans said he was not.
'It stopped to give me warning" re-
piled the count. "and it has gone on
again" Thereupon the poor man went
off again into a nervous chill.
The countess coming in at this mo-
ment, Hans told her that her husband
was about to die, for the clock IN the
hall always stopped when the count
incumbent was approaching his end.
Fool" cried the countess. II stop
ped it myself"
The count heard her and, sitting up
in bed, said, 81 am the fool"
The next morning the count was
quite well again. 1t was the clock that
was dead The countess had chopped
it into junk and kindling wood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

is beyond the reach Of any deep sea
diver who ever dove. There is no
chance of fishing it out and it is be-
yond hope of resuscitation If it could
be recovered.
With the frenzy Of failing conscious
ness it has grasped at everything in
reach and has endeavored to pull
others down with it. PROFESSIONALLY,
it has used the names Of citizens Of
Rock Island without their consent.
The Argus is loath to believe and I'M
willing to concede that any true cit
izen would be voluntarily placed in
such a position.
It is a sad case. The Argus shares
with other unprecedented observers in
a feeling Of deep comp passion, and be-
lieves that the incident ought to be
considered closed. And SO it will be,
as far as this newspaper is concerned,
unless the organ of obstruction is so
reckless as to resurrect it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
THE PROPOSED RACE MEET

Rock Island has an opportunity to
secure big racing meeting this fall
and it is one that should not be passed
up. 1t has been many years since a
program of such high class track
events as are proposed has been given
here. 1t would draw heavily and
would be a big advertising asset to
the city.
Messrs. Jones and Kenney, who
have offered their services in con-
nection with the meet, are leaders in
this country in the promotion of the
sport of kings" They are held in
the highest regard by horsemen and
patrons of racing everywhere and
their connection with the project now
offered to Rock Island is to be ac-
cepted as a guaranty of class. Rock
Island has no fair and no other sim
liar attraction which draws the peo
pie from all parts of the county, but
it can have a racing meet and a
horse show this fall If a little enter
prise is shown.
Messrs. Jones and Kenney do not
come begging. 1t is not necessary for
them to do this. All they ask is a
guaranty that 5000 tickets will be
sold during the four days. These are
reasonable terms and the city's COM
mercial interests cannot lose in &C
cepting them.
The dates that are proposed, early
in October, will find the county fairs
nearby all ended. 1t is just at the
close of the racing season in the mid
die west, which will be filled with
good horses ready to be shipped south.
The purses it is proposed to offer will
draw heavy entries. Usually at this
time of year the weather is good.
Farm work is not especially pressing
and farmers can be relied upon to
patronize good races in large num-
bers.
But it is not this one race meet
alone that is in view. Horsemen are
not satisfied with Davenport's facili-
ties and most of them would prefer
some other city for the opening of the
Great Western circuit season next
summer. Rock Island is most favor
ably located. If a meet is held this
fall and patronage is what it should
be there will be little trouble in land
ing Rock Island in the Great Western
next year. That is a big thing for any
city of Rock Islands size.
So the offer now made should be re-
garded as an opportunity. The city
as a whole cannot lose and on the
Of or hand II &c n RI 10 hi o.
gamer. This has been an off year for
Rock Island in the way of public at
fractions. Let's grab up this race
proposition and let our neighbors
know that the city is still on the map.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
PROSPERITY, WHICH FLED WITH WARS
OUTBREAK, RETURNS in GREAT TIDE
FIRST HALF OF 1915.

Industrial trend upward Steel
mill operations better than 80 per
cent of capacity. Copper, lead and
spelter mines work to capacity.
Automobile, rubber, chemical
plants and coast shipbuilders
busy. Makers of woolens, gar
ments and knit goods increase op-
erations. Exports large.
Stocks rise, industrial shares
boom.
Railroad earnings, beginning
with June, show general increase.
Europe pours securities in,
markets absorb them.
Gold streams in, 100000 900
since Jan. l.
United States citizens and in
situations loan foreigners and for
eign governments aggregate in
excess of $500, 000, 900. United
States in practice a creditor ma
ton.
Crop promise good. Prices
moderate.
Money abundant in banks. Re-
gional banks rich in gold not
needed by commerce Emergency
currency retired.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
CHANCE FOR NEW PARK.

If it is definitely decided to abandon
either or both of the tracts the city has
bought for tuberculosis sanatorium
purposes neither should be allowed to
pass out of the hands OF the munich
pality. Both are well located for
parks and in parts OF the city where
there are as yet no provisions for
places of this sort If the city sells
them now it will be buying them, or
other tracts no better suited to the
purpose, back again at no distant date
and paying two. three or four times
as much as the land now held will
bring at present prices.
OF course it would not do TO impair
the resources of the sanatorium board.
This body should be compensated for
whatever has been expended in con-
: ection with its purchases. 1t should
OF, however, expect a profit if the
eity Is the purchaser.
This is an opportunity which will
be appreciated more and more as the
years pass.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
The DISTINGUISHED Guest.

The special tribute to the distln-
guished guest, which was acknowledge
ed by Mr.. Jonas with visible emotion,
was a written address signed by all
the banqueters. which reads:
We are full of appreciation of the
wonderful genius and the masterful
soul so ripe and beautiful in its per-
fected stage of mortal existence. We
are thirsting to drink of the atmos-
phere which such power gives off. To
be in the presence and enjoy the asso-
citation of one whose pulse OF the hui
man soul reaches out and joins itself
TO the throb of eternity is a privilege
with which every heart beats with a
deep sense of qualification. We are
students of the divine art worship at
the shrine of such consummate mas
tership whose influence is a divine in
spiration and we do endeayor to
fasten our ship TO the cogs of the wheel
which will at every turn lift us higher
and higher until we, too, may feast as
one whose soul is in perfect harmony
with this grand life and world of ar
tistry. Believe us, we are indeed proud
of the privilege to associate with you
and will ever remember the life and
works of Alberto Jonas as flaming
sword whose both edges are sharp and
whose activity in this earth has been
an inspiration to humanity and will
live and thunder down through the
ages of time to elevate the mind of
man."-Salt Lake Exchange.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
NO PLACE FOR THEM.

Those so-called American citizens
who are protesting to be ashamed of
this country in it's course toward for
eign nations, and who very evidently
are in sympathy with some other gov
eminent more than with this, should
be given free transportation to the
land of their choice, declares the
Bloomington Paragraph. They should
not be permitted to enjoy the privi-
leges of a republic while giving COM
fort and aid to its enemies and ought
TO go voluntarily or be compelled to
go, if necessary, where conditions
would be more congenial to them.
Such expressions as are heard almost
every day. discrediting this govern
ment, can have no other effect but to
encourage foreign nations with whom
we are dealing with the idea that our
people are divided and not in full SYM
pathy with the demands made by our
government for the protection of
American rights.
Language of this kind comes dan
gerously near constituting the highest
offense against the republic, as defined
by the constitution. The freedom of
speech is guaranteed. but it is not
presumed that this freedom will take
the form of assailing the government
in the hour of danger, or putting it in
a false light before an enemy.
This business has gone about far
enough, and 1t is time for a show
down. This country, it is just as we'll
to admit, is passing through deli
cate il not positively dangerous crisis
While We may not be actually in a
state Of war with any of the great
nations of Europe, we are in a situa-
ton that might easily lead to it The
dignity and honor of the republic are
at stake and possibly its very exist
ence. If, as Lincoln said, it could not
exist half slave and half free, no more
can it exist half American and the
other half something else
1t is time for all to stand together
and let the world know the fact. A
whole-hcarted Americanism should
assert itself now, for it is needed if
it ever was in our history 1t cannot
be that the more Incorporate utter
ances of these half-Americans repre-
people, but their influence upon the
less thoughtful and especially their
effect in encouraging foreign nations
that have assailed US in believing that
We are not united in supporting the
is most hurtful. This is
no party question, and the mention of
politics is quite out of place. 1t is a
question whether America is good
enough Cor us and whether We shall
stand by this republic under all con-
ditions against the world. ]
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

aniStS over $50 years ago is evidenced
by the fact that two large varieties
were described by Matthiolus as early
as 1854, but for many years it was
only in southern Europe that the
value of the fruit for use in soups and
as a salad was recognized. 1t was
quite generally used in Spain and
Italy during the 18th century, but in
England and in northern Europe gen.
orally the plant was grown only in
botanical gardens as a curiosity and
for ornamental purposes. 1t was sell
dom eaten, being commonly regarded
as unhealthy and even poisonous.
This belief probably arose because of
the close resemblance of the plant to
it's allied relative, the nightshade, or
bel1adonna, and had, of course, no
the early part of the 10Th century that
the tomato came into general use as
a food in northern Europe and even
in the United States. Since about 1885,
however, the use and cultivation of
the vegetable has grown to an extent
that it has now become one of the
most important of our garden crops.
When a successful process of can
ming the fruit was evolved the tomato
industry at once assumed large pro-
portions. 1t was found that for all
cooking purposes the canned fruit was
as good as that fresh from the vine,
and as a result the tomato has become
a staple food the year round, and
millions of dollars are now invested
in canning factories in the United
States whose chief output consists OF
tomatoes From statistics compiled
by the National Gamers association
for the year 1914 it is learned that
among the tomato-producing states
Maryland ranked first with a produc-
ton of 5,S50,000 cases of canned toma-
toes; Delaware second, with 1,335,000
cases; Indiana third with 1,295,O00
cases. The total production for the
whole country amounted to 15,222,000
cases of tomatoes and about 100000
cases Of tomato pulp FUSED in making
catsup, sauces, soups, etc.. The total
was therefore over 20,000,000 cases of
"a two-pound cans each, or an output
of 4SN000,00 cans, weighing 100000
tons, and having an approximate value
of 2S,0O0,000 If these cans were
placed one on top Of the other the re-
sulting column would be very nearly
81 900 miles high or if placed end to
end in a row would encircle the earth
one and half times at the equator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

But first, why take sun baths at all!
For the following purposes: % To
cure tuberculosis of any part of the
body; here we deliberately use the
word cure. you will notice. (2) To
stimulate the glands which produce
red blood corpuscles; sun baths cor
rectly taken will increase the red blood
corpuscles some 10 per cent in less
than a week. 49, To improve metabol-
ism, the burning up and eliminating of
waste products which cause so much
general i'll health when retained in the
body. Sunlight is the most powerful
tonic, if judiciously taken.
Schedule of Exposures.
First Day-Linen cap or awning
over head of bed or couch to protect
the head. Smoked glasses or towel
over the eyes. Uncover only the feet
to the direct rays Of the sun for 10
minutes, four times in the day, with
intervals of an hour between each ex-
posture.
Second Day-Expose feet 10 minutes
and legs from ankles to knees FIVE
minutes, tnree or TOUR IllQeS WIN Lne
same intervals.
Third Day-Feet exposed Is min
utes, legs 10 minutes and thighs five
minutes, three or four times with
hourly intervals.
Fourth Day-Increase time of all ex-
posures five minutes.
Fifth Day-Increase another five
minutes, and expose chest five minutes
three or four times.
Sixth Day-Increase all previous ex-
posures five minutes each time, and
expose neck and head five minutes
each time, with same hourly intervals.
Seventh Day-The patient is turned
over on his abdomen-prone, not SUI
pine-and the same course as de-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
TO A WAR ORPHAN,

They have taken, child, your heritage;
They have wronged you, little son;
They have darkened your youth and
robbed your age,
They have stripped you, little one;
For daddy's arms and daddy's kiss
And daddy's seeing eyes
They have taken, son, to give you this,
A need that ever cries.
When through swift years you grow
apace,
When avs come thronging fast;
When you have lost your baby grace
Away back in the past;
When all life's doors are swinging
wide
And some may tempt o'ermuch,
No daddy, then, will help to guide,
No strong, sure, father touch
Will be at hand to point the way
Past shoals and breakers bleak;
They have blotted the sun from your
glad day.
But, hush, we may not speak;
The country calls SO loSd our cries
Are never to be heard;'
Then smother pain that never dies
And speak no staying word.
And miss through years your father
shield,
And miss through years his strength;
Perhaps a future day may yield
Due payment for their length;
The length of weary years, while you
Still miss a daddy's touch;
The country claimed him as her due,
Nor thought the gift too much.
FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
Drady,M.D.
How to Take a Sun Bath.

scribed repeated Systematically, until
the whole body gradually becomes tan
ned
At Perrysburg, y. Y, where this he'll
iotherapy is used for tuberculosis, the
skin is rubbed after each exposure
with spirits of camphor on a rough
glove.
1t takes weeks to make an exposure
of hours each day safe and endurable,
Sunburn must be avoided; the idea
should be to tan the whole skin, grad
ually but deeply, chocolate brown.
When that stage is attained the pa
tient is not only immune to exposure
to sun and bad weather, but generally
is a bowling subject of increasing
health.
While the schedule as detailed is for
invalids, it would be we'll for persons
going to seashore or country to take
it as guide.
Sunshine, like most powerful rem
edies, is capable of causing a lot or
harm when earelessly taken.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
IMedicated Cotton" Not Medicated
What is the difference between cot
ton batting and indicated cotton used
by doctors and nurses?
Answer-Cotton contains more or
less oil The absorbent cotton, pop
ularly called "medicated cotton Is
purified Of oil, bleached, and sterilized
by heat, but otherwise it is cotton bat
ting.
Can Warts Be Electr0cutedE
have a wart on the side of my
nose about the size of a small pea.
Could it be removed by the electric
needle?
Answer-Yes, if you are tempera-
mentally opposed to the equally pain
less and more rapid surgeons knife.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
Sidelights on the European War

Rotterdam-( Correspondence of The
Associated Press-So that no useful
information may escape attention, the
German government instituted a very
travellers crossing the frontier from
Holland.
To deal with Americans there is on
the staff of the commandant of the sta
ton on the border three officers who
speak perfect English and have a thor
ough knowledge of the United States
and Canada. One of them halls from
Milwaukee, where he was educated in
the public schools, another from st.
Louis and the third from Montreal.
After the traveller has undergone an
examination at the hands of a German
non-commissioned officer, whose chief
aim seems to be to find out whether
he can speak or understands German,
for Germans are suspicious of German
speaking foreigners, he is handed over
to the three English-speaking officers
who entertain him lavishly and pro-
coed to extract all the information
that they can, especially if he has
spent any time in England. When, as
it often happens, the traveller scents
the object of the inquiry, the trio seek
another and probably more voluble
passenger.
Cairo Correspondence of The AS
ISOLATED Press EARLY closing is the
ruIe in Eovpt opd foIIox,-c tho nrob;b;
ton of the sale of absinthe. In Cairo,
Alexandria, the Canal, Suez and else
where within radius of five miles of
any military camp, the sale of alco-
holic liquors of any sort is stopped at
10 o'clock at night and is not allowed
to begin until the following morning.
Ten o'clock closing is also compulsory
in these districts for all cafes, restau-
rants and theatres.
The early closing combined with the
half lighting of the streets, which is
purely a measure of economy, has
given rise to the belief among the ma
tives that Zeppelins are stationed in
Syria and intend to raid Egypt.
Correspondence of The
Associated Press - The American
cruiser Tennessee leaves the Mediter-
ranean station with the gratitude of
thousands of refugees rescued from
Syria. Her presence in these waters
tranquilized the panic-stricken inhabi-
tants at the time of Turkeys entry in
the war. and every week load of ref
ugees, mostly Jews and foreigners, has
been transported from Syrian ports to
Alexandria under the American flag.
On her last voyage, over 700, including
many we'll 10 do Italians. arrived. The
Tennessee is relieved by the Chester.
London.-Eo the South Kensington
museum there is a large model of a
scheme for a national memorial for
Serbia, designed by Ivan Mestovic. the
greatest sculptor produced by the
southern Slavs.
The design is that of a temple to
symbolic the rebirth of Serbia. II is
proposed to build it on the battlefield
OF kosovo. Perhaps it will be bany
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
WAY DOWN IN THE WELL.

With Commissioner Juhl in the city
council demanding to know when and
with what degree of good faith any
offer ever has been made by any citizen
for the paving OF part of Ninth street
with asphalt-macadam on terms ad-
vantageous to the property holders
and the city, and with E. D. Fisher.
president OF the South Side Improve
ment association. and who has attend
ed all meetings where the paving of
that thoroughfare was considered, de-
claring positively that no such prop
organ OF obstruction has been pushed
away down in hole in the ground. 1t
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

These chilly mornings bring dismal
forebodings to denizens of the county
temple and long term inmates of the
county jail when they gaze-out at the
ruins of the heating plant and think
Of the long, cold, dreary days in the
fall when there will be nothing but a
few incandescent lights to keep things
warm. Injunction or no injunction,
the builders will have their work cut
out TO get the new heating plant ready
for use in the six or seven weeks that
will intervene before the season of
probable frost arrives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

Testifying before the federal trade
commission, Harry Edward Freund,
managing director of the National
Association OF Makers, stated that the
unregulated use Of the national trade
mark, Made in L. 5. A." will do in
estimable injury to American COM
merce, unless used in connection with
the makers name and trademark un-
der an adequate system of safeguards
He cited the disaster to the piano in
dustry to show what in domestic COM
merce had attended the contrary poll
icy and what was to be expected in
foreign commerce if similar lack of
safeguards was to be continued.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04
LAST HALF OF 1914.

Industrial trend downward
Steel corporations mill opera
tons sink to % per cent of ca
pacity. Metal mines of all kinds
reduce output. Export and i'm
port trade decreases.
New York stock exchange
closed. All securities except short
term notes down
Railroad earnings make dismal
exhibit
Nation fears deluge of stocks
and bonds from abroad will de-
range all business here, drain
country of gold.
Gold streams out, 1925, 900. 900
in 1914. disproportionate amount
from beginning of war on.
United States a debtor nation.
Owes in September an estimated
$500. 900, 900.
Crops good Prices high.
Emergency currency issued,
total s3s4,4s2.000
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-04

A true wife acts like one possessed.
Don't throw kisses, young man; de-
liver the goods.
The silver lining to a great many
clouds is nothing but moonshine.
When a man begins to lose ground
he is naturally dissatisfied with his
lot
You may have observed that hotel
keeper at health resort is seldom
there for his health.
The man who confines his remarks
to one subject for an hour has told
all he knows about it.
Many a man would find it advan-
tageous to ask his neighbors to for
give him instead of the Lord.
The average woman expects to get
her reward in heaven, but the aver
age man wants his here on earth.
Maybe you know it all, but its dough-
nuts to fudge that you can't tell off
hand who ran against George Wash
ington for the observation-disclosures
News.