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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-08-25

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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-08-25
Sin lieher Meffe.

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-06
CLAIM LANDLORD TRIED TO
GUST SICK FAMILY

Dr. John D. Robertson of the health
dept will investigate a report today
that Anthony Sticintino, landlord at
1914 Penn St, tried to evict Mrs.
Chas. Badni and her 18-months'- old
baby while the sqUald rooms were
under a health dept quarantine. If
the facts are as shown, the landlord
is liable to a 5000 fine.
According to Mrs. Badni he tried
to GUST her when she fell $3.50 be-
hind in her rent. She lost one child
a few weeks ago in an attack of
whOOping cough; when the second
youngster was taken i'll Mrs. Badni
was unable to work. Her husband
left her a month ago.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-06

weight title in 20 rounds at Colorado
Springs Labor day. His opponent
will be picked from Charlie White,
Ever Hammer, Benny Leonard and
Johnny Dundee. Welsh bit is to be
$17,50O, according to the Z press
agent. This sounds ambitious, but
until Welsh actually enters the ring
for such a fight we can be excused
for being skeptiCal.
The regular putting greens at Mar
qUette park public golf links were
opened for play yesterday for the
first time since the course was built.
The green's are large and the turf is
in splendid condition for play. The
grass will improve with usage, expert
greenkeepers say. The wet weather
has not deteTiOTated the course, Ow-
ing to new drainage.
If the contest board of the Ameri-
can Automobile assn will grant the
date, the fourth race to be held on
the Chicago speedway this season
the American speedway grand prize,
for which cars must average better
than 100 miles an hour to qualify
will be staged three weeks from Sat
urday, on July %, according to Pres.
David F. Reid, of the Speedway Park
assn, who is awaiting a favorable
reply to his request for a sanction.
Influenced by the important entries
already announced for the betIess
race meeting Of the Illinois Jockey
club, at Hawthorne, July Is to 20,
John E. Madden, probably the lead
ing breeder of thoroughbred race
horses in America, with a farm at
Hamburg place, near Lexington, KY,
has entered GilIie, a 3-year-old by
Ogden out of Golden Drop, for a re-
vival of the $4,000 American derby
on July. The entry was received yes
terday.
In the same mails came an entry
from California. A. B. Spreckels, a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-06
PARKER TO STAND PAT
BY ellison Gardner

Washington, July 8. - Some time
before November some folks are go
ing to wake up and discover that
John M. Parker is still the Bull Moose
candidate for vice president. When
the Obsequies of the Moose party
were held in Chicago everybody for
got Parker. Just before adjourn
ment Perkins came over and sat
down beside him. well, John, what
are you going to do do?" he inquired.
Your question comes rather late"
replied Parker, "but I will tell you
what I am going to do. I am going
to stand pat. l am a candidate for
vice president on the Progressive
party ticket; that entities me to place
on the ballot a list of electors. We
have a nice party down in my state
and there is still a legal Progressive
party in numerous other states.
see no reason why I should not run"
-O-O-
TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY
July s, TIA. - The French gov
eminent came to an agreement with
Monster CrOzat, a French merchant,
to manage the trade of the Missis-
sippi. Formal letters patent were is.
r1Iad shOrflv affnryUaTsd
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Honesty Extraordinary.

A traveller writing in an Italian mag
azine says that, the Swiss canton Of
Ticino is inhabited by the most honest
folk it is possible to imagine. In most
Of the Ticinese villages, the writer
says, the oldest inhabitants do not re-
member any case Of thieying, however
petty, within lifetime. Lost objects
when found must never be taken
away. They must be left where they
were dropped or placed In a conspicu-
GUS position, so that the rightful own
er can find his property more easily.
The case is cited Of an American wom-
an tourist who lost her purse on an
excursion In the Val Capriasca. The
purse contained gold coin and jew
eled watch. Upon returning from her
trip she found the purse with its con-
tents intact on a little heap Of leaves,
SO placed that 1t could not fail to at
tract her attention.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
CuriotIs BATHS

In her book, MY Siberian Year."
Miss NJ. A. CZaplacka, speaking of the
social habits of the Siberiaks, says:
1.-THE celebrant of the fortnightly rite
Of the bath fills the banya with a dense
cloud Of steam by sluicing water into
kind Of open mouthed oven In the
wall Of the stove and sits on a dais
over against this, dabbing himself all
over with water he has taken from the
cistern and tempered to a just endur-
able heat In a tin basin with colder
water from a barrel in the corner.
Having put himself into state border
ing on suffocation and raised his own
temperature several degrees above fe-
yer point, he pulls open the door, rushes
naked into the open air, rolls over and
over in the snow, covers himself with
it and lies there till the heat Of his
body has made a pool of water under
him. Then he runs back to the banya
and fagellates himself with a bunch
Of twigs as he stands surrounded by
a fresh cloud Of steam from the oven"
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Our First Theater.

In 1852 the first theater In the Unit
ed States was opened in the colony Of
Virginia at old Williamsburg. The
originator was an English actor, Will
liam Hallam. ST., who brought his own
company from overseas and presented
'4The Merchant of Venice" as the in
itial performance. The idea spread
rapidly, and soon New York, Philadel-
phia and the other leading communi-
ties Of colonial America each had its
theater. While the Virginia playhouse
was the first in the United States, &C
tors had played in the colonies before
this date. The fist is said to have
been the English strolling player An
thony Aston, who was known as Mat
Medley. The actor and his art Of that
day were generally despised by the
Puritanical colonists. The Massachu-
sets legislature passed law shortly
after amateurs had given THE Or
phans" at the Coffee House In Boston
In 1749 which forbade such perform
ances, prescribing a penalty for &C
tors and spectators alike Of $25 each.
Exchange.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Dawn and the Darkest Hour.

THE darkest hour is just before
dawn" is an old English prOverb which
expresses more POLITICALLY the homelier
adages. When things are at their
worst they soonest mend" When gale
Is highest boat is highest" The long
est day will have an end" after
storm comes a calm" and finds an
equivalent in other languages, as in
French. by dint Of going wrong all
will come right" In Italian, Ill is the
eve of WE'LL" In Persian, 1T Is at the
narrowest part of the defile that the
valley begins to open," and In Hebrew.
when the tale of bricks Is doubled
Moses comes"
That the nights, as rule, are dark
est just before dawn Is doubtless true,
for the moon has then reached far on
to the western horizon, while the sun
Is still below the eastern horizon.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Transformed Mine.

An old abandoned mine near Saal-
field, in the Thuringian forest, which
In the time Of Luther was worked for
silver, copper, alum and vitriOl, has
been discovered by a Berlin geologist
to have developed into one Of the most
beautiful caverns. In the course of
centuries the water percolating through
the minerals has built up throughout
the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stall
actites and stalagmites, thrown to-
gether with a profusion and brilliance
of color which is said to be without
parallel. Deep greens, vivid blues, the
purest white, yellows of all shades-in
fact, the entire scale of color Is repro
duced over and over again, and yet
the colors melt into each other so
gently that nowhere is the impression
Of disagreeable contrast produced.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
What the SoIdisrs Eat.

The food Of soldiers in the field va
ries according to their nationalities.
The principal meal Of the Russian sol
der consists Of stchee, something be-
tween a Cruel and soup, the chief in
gradients Of which are cabbage, pota-
toes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably
pork. These Are boiled together, with
salt and other seasoning, the result be-
ing a thick, nourishing and by no
means unpalatable dish.
The Italian soldiers, who are splen-
did marchers, live largely on a farina-
ceous diet-macaroni, spaghetti and so
on. They are also very partial to fruit,
which is issued, together with wine
and cigars, as part of their rations
whenever possible.
No German soldier considers his dali
ly menu complete without a sausage Of
some kind or other, and the stronger"
its flavor the better. A nutritious pea
soup is also staple Of the army ration.
The mainstay Of the French soldier
consists of his beloved 'soup," as he
calls it. 1t is really a thick, nourish-
ing stew, made Of meat, potatoes and
various other vegetables.
The English Tommy" is omnivor-
Gus, but the things he loves above all
else are bacon and jam.-Youth's Com
nanton
The broad ax., 1916-12-23

loidal poisons habitually is safer from
every standpoint, save. the antijoxic,
power of the habit-forming alkaloid.
If he has no toxins to counterfeit, the
aikaloids will prove to be toxic. 1t is
possible that even his germs and their
products will not be acted upon by his
alkaloid. His alkaloid is then a waste.
The mouth is portal of entry for all
nourishment and common sense requires
that it be kept clean. Unclean teeth
shoW neglect just as decay in a tooth
shows it. If the mouth is thoroughly
cleansed before and after meals, many
of our diseases, mental and physical,
will be cured and prevented. The gum
chewing habit has az good points at
least; ~ it takes food particles from
between the teeth, the seat of most be-
ginning decay, (2) it sweetens the
breath, (3) makes pleasant taste and
az hence-a pleasant disposition.
Teeth and mouth poisons show so many
different symptoms in different individu-
ais and even in the same individual al
different times that it is gigantic task
to enumerate them. Some are mental
and some are physical; some acute and
others are chronic; they may be toe
mild to attract attention and they ma.
be severe enough to produce death OF
tissue, the liberation of cancer or ever
the dissolution of the body.
1t is significant that cancer of vari-
GUS parts of the body occurs most fire.
quently after the age that teeth show
the effects of lack or proper daily care
We speak of the cancer susceptibility
in persons.
Teeth and mouth poisons may enter
the body and never cause pain, yet il
is possible for their toxins to caus'
palpitation of the heart and even sud
den heart failure. Insanity and vary;
ing degrees of mental deterioration has
been traced to defective teeth. Com
mon symptoms of tooth and mouth poi
SONS are socalled rheumatism, neural
gia, wry neck (torticollis), headache,
nervousness, loss of appetite, diseases
of organs far from the focus in the
mouth.
Much of the bad temper that is
shown is due to a pathology which can
be cured by proper teeth and mouth
care and treatment.
Lung diseases follow oftener from
that source than is supposed.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
How They Are Sai1tsd.


Salute to the national flag, the presi-
dent and ex-president Of the United
States and the presidents or sovereigns
Of foreign states. twenty-one guns;
vice president of the United States and
foreign ambassadors. nineteen guns;
the president of the senate. speaker OF
the house Of representatives, cabinet
officers. chief justice. governors within
their respective states or territories,
governors general of foreign states,
civil governors of the Philippine Is
lands, general of the army, admiral of
the navy and same ranks in foreign ar
mics and navies. seventeen guns; Unit
ed States and foreign ministers pleni-
potentiary. vice governor of the Philip
pine Islands. assistant secretaries Of
war or navy. lieutenant general or ma
jor general commanding the army and
corresponding ranks in the navies, If
teen guns; ministers resident, major
generals. rear admirals and correspond
ing ranks in foreign armies and navies,
thirteen guns; charge daffaires, briga-
dier generals and corresponding ranks
In foreign armies and navies, eleven
guns: cOnsuls general. nine guns.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
She Became q Bore.

Most persons who talk about them
selves are bores. A writer In the
American Magazine says:
"One Of the most companionable wo-
men ever knew was so completely
transformed by an operation that she
unconsciously became a bore to her
friends and to her family by tedious
repetitions Of her hospital experience.
Her idea Of its Importance was so ex-
aggerated that she lost all sense Of
proportion. Truly her operation be-
came the alpha and omega Of her ex-
istence. From 1t all events in her life
history dated. 1t was her sole topic
Of conversation. No matter how skill
fully one might steer the conversation
al bark away from the dreaded topic,
she adroitly brought 1t back. As re-
suit she became self centered, intro
spective and bore to her friends. Her
efforts to entertain merely annoyed.
Where she hoped to arouse admiration
she created disgust, and where she
sought sympathy she received only in
difference"
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Old Ironsides.

Old Ironsides Is such a cherished M.
honal treasure now that it seems In
credible that 1t was once proposed In
all seriousness to tear it to pieces for
what little value could be got out Of
the material, remarks the Boston Post
Holmes was a law student at Harvard
at the time. He was only month
more than twenty-one years old. He
wrote his immortal poem with a lead
pencil on a stray scrap Of paper, yet
Il has been said:
"This probably is the only case In
which a government policy was chang.
ed by the verses Of college student"
Originally Old Ironsides was one Of
four sister frigates, the Constitution.
the Constellation, the United States
and the President OF the other three,
alas, only memories remain. The Con-
stellation was broken up, as they in
tended to break up Old Ironsides. One
Of the others rotted away at a British
dock, and the fourth was lost at sea.
Curiously enough, the story Of these
four sister frigates is one Of the least
known chapters in American history.
Yet 1t Is well worth reading up.-Chi-
caRo News
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Sound Waves.

Science says that the loudness OF
sounds varies inversely as the square
Of the distance. This is merely another
way of saying that If you walk three
times as far away from the source OF
the sound as you were before its loud
ness will not be a third what 1t was,
but a ninth Of what 1t was, for nine Is
the square of three.
On the other hand, the density Of the
medium which conveys sound Is very
important. On a frosty night the air
Is dense. One consequence Of this Is
that an automobile runs better be-
cause the engine gets larger supplies
Of oxygen. Another result is that
sounds are heard more loudly. How
ever, the report Of a gun high up In
the mountains Is like the sound OF an
exploded firecracker.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Brevity,

Robert Louis Stevenson was a close
student Of style and has left more than
one interesting discussion Of the tech
nique Of writing. In letter to r. A.
N. Stevenson. dated October. 1888. he
says:
There Is but one art-to omit! Oh,
II knew how to omit would ask no
other knowledge! A man who knew
how to omit would make an Iliad' Of
q daily paper"
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Names Gum Industry.

Gathering spruce gum has long since
become one of the steady minor indus
tries of Maine, where every year about
5000 tons of crude gum, valued at
third Of million dollars, are harvested
The crude article is formed as the re-
suit of injury to red and black spruce
trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner
bark of trees, and the injuries they
cause, known as "hog CUTS" are fruit
full sources of gum. Lightning scars,
frost cracks, old blazes and the abra-
sions caused by falling trees and even
sap sucker drills are other occasions
for gum formation. Around the edges
of such wounds little nodules appear
and gradually develop into Jumps or
teats. A wide scar heals slowly and
may produce gum around the entire
wounded area, while a narrow seam
closes so quickly that only single row
Of these nuggets" is possible.-Argo-
naut.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
saI.rie. With Silver Iinino..

The highest salaried man In Japan
does not receive enough money in that
form to pay for the gasoline used by
his automobile, for salaries Of the man.
ayers of business corporations are In
significantly small, says the Japan
Times. Salaries, however, are not the
total income of business men. Under
the japanese custom there is a liberal
bonus system, and the bonus amounts
to 300 or 400 times the monthly sal
airy in some cases.
The Mitsui company is regarded as
the biggest corporation in Japan, and
its directors are noted for their large
incomes. Each director Is said to re-
ceive in the form Of a bonus about
100000 a year, although his salary
may be only $3.50 month.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Why ls IF

Why Is it that when there are two
swinging doors IS per cent Of the peo-
pie open the left hand door? Why don't
they open the right hand one?
Why is it that 60 per cent Of the peo-
pie walk on the wrong side or III the
middle Of the sidewalk? Why don't
they walk on the right side?
Why is it that 30 per cent of the peo-
pie don't know how to turn a corner or
enter a store?. Why is it that they
keep close to the building when they
ought to be on the outside edge of the
sidewalk to enter.as they should?
Why is it that people will stand like
this . on the sidewalk and talk. Why
is it they will not stand like this. :?
Thereby taking up one-half as much
space. Why is it?-Boston Post
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Father of ENGLISH Poetry,

The first English bard to attain last
ing fame was Godfrey Chaucer, who
was born In London about 134O 1.-THE
father of English poetry" was the
son of vintner named John Chau
Ger and in his youth served the king
as a soldier and was taken prisoner by
the French. The English king paid
$50 for his ransom, which was quite q
high price for a poet. Chaucer's most
celebrated work, 'oThe Canterbury
Tales" was written between 1873 and
400. 1t consists Of a series Of tales
supposed to have been told by COM
pany Of pilgrims to the shrine Of St
Thomas a Beckett at Canterbury, and
in its pages we get such pictures Of
English life and ways Of thought as
are found nowhere else.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS.
Charity Finally Took 81 That Railway
Official Refused to Accept.

Findlay, o. Philosophers for CEN
turies have attempted to >analyze the
conscience Of the human race and what
prompts it, but have been unsuccessful.
That such a thing does really exist,
Charles F. Smith, general manager Of
the Toledo, Bowling Green and South
ern railway, can now testify.
Recently he was sitting in his Office
when two men walked in and each
threw a fifty cent piece on his desk, ex-
planning that twenty years ago they
had ridden from the north side to the
Tangent depot without paying fare.
That was because they were compelled
to stand most Of the way. During all
this time their consciences, they said,
had troubled them and they got no rest
until they had returned the money
with interest.
Mr.. Smith refused to take the money,
but DR.. ]. 2. Baker, head Of the As
ISOLATED charities, who happened in
Smiths Office at the time, confscated
the money for that purpose.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
Very Free Verse.

Vers libre is certainly taking hold.
Much might be said in this connection
Of its form, its content and whether
proficiency in it is innate or acquired.
Let it suffice for the moment to record
what happened when a music teacher
asked her pupils to make up little
verses and then make melodies to ac-
company them. One little boy said he
never had made up verses.
"Just little verse;" said the teacher.
WELL" said the boy, dreamily:
Sometimes the sky at night
Looks like a spotted egg.
New York Post.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
GETS S6s A WEEK WASHING.
Girl Gave UP stenosraphy to Take In
Clothes


Clothes.
Norristown, Pa.-Quitting her posi-
ton as stenographer to go to the wash
tub, Miss Georgianna. Cuthbert Is max
ing $6S q week, and she handles only
five washes to do it, according to her
testimony in the equity action in which
she Is defendant and Mrs. Marie LUIS
son, her neighbor, plaintiff:
Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz
that one family alone paid her $50, an
other SIP, two SO and a fifth So week.
She gets the business, she says, be-
cause she does not use bleach or acids
In cleansing them.
"None Of the clothing 1 handle Is
soiled, only mussed," she said.
Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent
Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in
the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa.
Mrs. Lusson says that laundry there
would be undesirable, unhealthy and
In violation of building restrictions.
In the testimony experts said laun-
dry would be unobjectionable; that
there would be no dirt, no noise, no
smell and, in fact, no reason why this
woman should not be permitted to pro-
coed with the laundry.
The broad ax., 1916-12-23
LEGAL Wit.

A lawyer was walking into court re-
Gently with his length of arm taxed
to hold pile Of law books.
To him said friend, pointing to his
books:
"Why, 1 thought you carried all that
stuff In your head"
$50 I do" quickly replied the learned
counsel, with a knowing wink. These
are for the judges"