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Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
FACTORY PLAY THAT WITH MARY PICKFORD
Wonderful Exposition of Hu. man Nature Seen in Para
 mount Offering.

Sadly bedraggled and ragged, Mary Pickford wearily opened the heavy door, paused before the time clock punched it, leanded heavily against the wall, wiped a tear from her half-closed eye, sighed and stumbled listlessly through the second door through which long lines of sewing machines could be seen.
 All right. Lights out" shouted Di rector John O'Brien. and his assistant recorded the taking of another scene for the Famous Player-Paramount pro- duction. The Eternal Grind," which plays again today at the Royal. It is factory drama in which Miss Pick ford plays the sympathetic and touch ing role of the overworked, hard driv- en little slave of the machine, as only the highest-paid actress in the world could interpret it. But in the charac- ter enacted by the celebrated star as the slave of the machine she is the mistress of everything else with which she comes into contact.
 It is the story of an indomitable will battling against any odds with
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
.BARNUM AND BAILEY
 AT DOUGLAS OCT. 1
Big Attraction Booked for the Shelter City-Unable to
 Find Tent Space Here.

The day of all days in the calenda, of the small boy has almost arrived and the youngsters of this civinity are anxiously counting the hours until circus day. It looks now as though a | large percentage of the lofcn popula- tion, both young and old, will be pres ent at one of the performances when the Barnum and Baily Greatest Show on Earth exhibits in Douglas. on Oct 4. Not in several years has so much To- cal interest been evinced in a circus event as has been displayed this sea son in the coming exhibition of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. It is prom ised that the show will display more new and novel features than ever be- fore, including 100 new acts from Flu rope.
 The principal feature is the new Ori- ental, spectacular pageant, Persia, or the Pageants of he Thousand and l One Nights This great display, which is portrayed by 1850 persons, and hundreds of horses, elephants and camels, depicts in pageantry the famous tales of the Arabian Nights. In New York City, where this pageant was produced for the first time this spring, it was announced the most gor- geous and stupendous Oriental display ever presented in America.
 Among the foreign circus novelties to be seen for the first time this sea son are four troupes of wonderful Chi nese performers direct from Pekin, the Great Hanneford family of riders; Signor Bagonghi, famous dwarf eques- trian from Italy; James Teddy, cham pion jumper of the world; Pallenberg's two troupes of trained bears, and a host of other novel acts too numerous to mention invidiually.
 The Barnum & Bailey circus is trav- cling this season on five trains, made up of S9 cars. More than 1,400 persons are carried in the various de partments of this great show, which also included an enlarged menagerie of 10S cages and 41 elephants.
 A brilliant, new, three mile street pa- rade will be given on the streets dur ing the morning hours preceding the first performance.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
DYNAMITE PLOT MAY
 HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED UNDER BELMONT HOUSE
Stick of Powder, Cap and Fifty Feet of Fuse Found in Pile of Paper, Suggesting Plot Against Unknown Person.

What might have been a dynamite plot, gone astray, was unearthed yes terday morning when the proprietor Of the Belmont House, located on School Hill, in looking for her cat which had escaped, discovered a stick of dyna- mite and fifty feet of fuse, ready for splitting under the middle portion of the building.
 The discovery occurred early yester- day morning. The woman had crawl ed under the building hoping to locate her cat. In moving about she kicked up a small pile of paper and debris and saw the stick of powder. It was wrapped up in some old piece of cloth. The paper, on top, appeared as if it had been partially burned at one time The fuse had never been ignited, but it was attachced to a cap and the cap in turn, was properly fixed on the dy- namite.
 Rust, however, had worked upon the cap, suggesting that the powder and fuse had been laying under the house for many months. The partially burn ed paper suggested that it had been lighted but due to the lack of suffi- cient air, under the house, had eXtin- guished itself before the fuse had been
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
SERGEANT KILLED
 PREVENTING FIGHT
Texas Ranger Arrested for Staying Peace Maker in
 Saloon at Fl Paso.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

FL PASO, Sept. 21-Sergeant Wen Bierne, Twenty Third United States Infantry. was shot and killed in a sa- loon here today.
 Subsequently, Wm. Sands, a state ranger. was placed under arrest. Bierne, who was a provost guard, was said to have been attempting to ar rest an intoxicated soldier
 Sergeant Wen Bierne, who had only eighteen months to serve to complete thirty years of service, and was per haps the most popular enlisted man in his regiment, had gone into the sa- loon to remove some soldiers engaged in dispute with the ranger Accord ing to reports at police headquarters he asked the ranger for information, who answered with shots.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22

which she comes into contact. Mary for that is the name of the charac- ter-has two sisters, one a moral weakling and the other a chronic In- valid. They are all employed in the same factory, the owner of which, James Wharton, is a grasping man who refuses to make any concessions to guard the lives or happiness of his employees. Wharton has two sons, owen and Ernest. he former is a big, whole-hearted chap and the other is worthless.
 Mary's sister, Amy, captivates Er- nest, who finally succeeds in enticing the girl away from home. The invalid sister. Jane, meanwhile grows weaker and finally collapses. In helping her home, Owen first meets Mary. and the friendship ripens into love as he as- sists her in moving into smaller quar- ters when her slender savings are expended in doctoring Jane. Realizing that the girls life depends on her be- ing taken out of the city. Mary goes to Wharton, ST, to beg for an advance on her salary, but is refused. Her beau ty attracts Ernest, who succeeds in winning her appreciation by promised fayors. He proceeds to make violent love to Mary until Amy. becoming sus- picious, follows him to Mary's new abode with a revolver. bent upon averaging his duplicity When Mary discovers Ernest's relations with Amy. she takes the revolver from the girls hand and holds him at the point of the gun while a minister is obtained. Then.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22

Henry c. Prick says: "The finan- cial. industrial and general situation is just splendid; we could not wish for better. The presen excessive prosperity is due to some extent to the war, but I believe conditions will continue good. I am sure they will un less we have too much labor agita- ton. The railroad crisis apparently is ended unless the AdamsOn bill is found unconstitutional. which is not altogether improbable. HOstilities in Europe are certain to drag on and on at least for a year and a half more. One of the encouraging conditions is the domestic demand for steel and Oth CT industrial products" Mir Prick predicted Hughes election. saying re- suits in Maine were gratifying.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
FIVE

concealed behind a curtain, with the muzzle of the gun pressed against Er- nests back she forces him to 90 through the wedding ceremony wilh Amy. But that is only one of the tre- mendous battles that Mary wins in her struggle against poverty and ayar.ce in tins great story which furnishes Mary Piekford with a tremendous op- portunity to demonstrate her remark able histrionic powers to the full. In support of the star there appear sev eral notable players, among them LO- retta Blake, Dorothy West, John Bow CTS, Robert Cain and J. Albert Hall
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
BRITISH FRONT UNCHANGED

LONDON, Sept. 21.-The general situation is unchanged says the off cial statement from the British head Enemy bombing attacks in the neigh borhood of Fleurs failed. A hostile kite balloon was brought down in flames today. One of our aeroplanes is missing"
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
Many theories were advanced for

Many theories were advanced for spit.
 the presence of the powder. It would appear that a man, now dead, lived in the room immediately above many months ago and that he was the object of an attack. With such a slight clue the officers are working with but little hope of ever unearthing anything defi- nite of the affair.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22

Miss Dixon Gerard, the prima donna, took stroll along Fifth ave nue, New York, a few days ago, clad in these wooden shoes. She explain ed to her wondering friends that the scarcity of leather had given her an ambition to start a wooden shoe fad in this country.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-22
DIAMOND A CATTLE
 MAN KILLED BY HORSE

DENYING, N. M., Sept. 21.-Pat Nunn, one of the best known cattle men in the southwest, died at Lord burg today from a fractured skull, re- sulting from a fall frfom a fractious horse. He had been a manager for the Diamond A Cattle Co. for 20 years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
ENCOURAGING THRIFT.

The Rock Island banking institu-
tons have, through the local clearing
house, entered upon a campaign to
encourage thrift. 1t is laudable I'M
lertaking and a commemorate enter
prise
Thrift taught and encouraged as one
Df the chief of human virtues on the
way to success in life, in the individual
as well as in every form of pursuit,
commercial, industrial and financial,
and in public institutions, is the object
Of the campaign.
1t well behooves all to read care
fully what Rock Islands financial in
situations will have TO say on the sub
ject so intimately related to human
success, which means human happi-
ness. 1t involves the highest ideals of
Social welfare and enters into all that
makes for the realization of mans
Inns and ambitions.
Thrift is a subject worthy of most
careful cultivation; it is study thai
should command the closest attention
and affords lessons for every day
practice for every man, be his income
great or small.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS
TRI- CITY VISIT.

The coming of President Wilson into
this community, or rather the occasion
Of his passing through, should have
been made a tri-city event No one city
should have undertaken to monopolize
such an honor. Had the arrangements
been in the hands of the Tri-City Press
club the only tri-city organization of
this character, it would so have been
managed. All three cities would have
had glimpse of the nations execu-
tive and he would have had an op-
pOrtunity to speak in some conven-
lent common point, where a multitude
could have seen and heard him. His
stay would not have been limited to
the mere snatching of time on the way.
Further than this he would have
been given an extended visit to Rock
Island arsenal, at least an hours stay
ut the greatest ordnance industry in
the world which is particularly appro-
pirate and important in view of his
mission to talk preparedness.
AS it was, more of less uncertainty
attended the plans until the last mo-
ment, because each city was striving
on its own account and there was not
the unity OF purpose that should at
tend all public-spirited endeavors in
this community.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01

without the physicians sanction, in a
case of pyorrhoea with secondary
joint LESSONS, it might prove disastrous
for the dentist to curette or surgically
attack number of pus-pockets at one
sitting-it is always better to do lit
tie at time, and at intervals of sew
eral days, because each curettage or
opening of pus-pocket effectively vac
cinates the patient with his living vac
cine, very helpful thing for the Sec
ondary lesion If homeopathic, very
risky and sometimes disastrous thing
if in large dose
Success, then, in the attack upon
pyorrhoea is to be anticipated by team
work. Most people look upon their
dentist much in the spirit in which
they look upon their dressmaker or
barber. That is wrong. A dentist is
a force for health if you give him an
/ opportunity. He should be approach
ed as specialist, by and with the CO.
operation of the family doctor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
TALKING FOR FREEDOM.

Eddie Mack, leader of the bank BAN
dts in their recent raid IN Chicago. is
reported to have told a grand Jury that
he and others had paid police officers
for protection"
Don't let story of that kind disturb
you, that is, when it comes from a man
like Mack, leader of band of robbers.
When before the grand jury he was en-
deavoring to tell story big
enough to secure immunity for him
self Mack is the sort of man who has
an active Imagination. He was talking
10 get liberty. thing that he appre-
ciates probably more than the one who
has never lost IT, Under the circum-
stances We should expect Eddie Mack
10 make the story sensational. But We
do not have 10 swallow all he tells.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
BIG MEN WILL BE NEEDED,

The New York Journal of Commerce
discusses the question whether there
can be such a thing as nonpartisan
tariff board. This question is of spe-
cial interest since President Wilson
has come to the point of indorsing
tariff commission. The Journal of
Commerce mentions the two divers
theories regarding a tariff of customs
duties on imported goods One is
that the sole object should be the rails
ing of revenue for the government
with the least possible interference
with the normal progress of trade IN
der economic laws The other is that
duties should be laid in such a way as
to build up industries by protecting
them against the competition of i'm
ported articles with their products in
the domestic market The Journal of
Commerce then says:
Neither political party has aband-
oned its theory or its policy in this
matter, but this plan proposes, in its
avowed purpose, that both shall do so.
Is that possible? 1t will be difficult to
/ constitute board of competent men
with no views on the proper tariff the
/ DRY or on fiscal or political policy
They must have some conviction about
I it. But suppose they discard this and
study only the various effects speci-
| fed as the object of inquiry. How are
the results to be applied To be con-
sistent with its past. one party would
use them to adjust duties with refer
ence to protection and the other with
reference to working free from protec-
ton. II this is to be a permanent
board and not merely one for investi-
CATION with view to revising the tar
if, it will work under one administra-
ton with an eye to the support of its
avowed policy and under another with
a view TO sustaining its own policy AT
least the results of its work would be
used in that way, unless one theory OF
the other is 10 be given up; and if this
implies the retention OF one it must be
that of protection. That can hardly be
contemplated by the present admins
tration."
The practical difficulties in the way
may not be as great as the opposing
theories would imply. The two lar
over each other in application some.
times. The commission, if appointed
might safely incline to protection, as
the democrats have not objected to il
in the form of incidental protection
Unless internal taxes are greatly in
] creased a considerable tariff will have
to be kept up to meet the defensive
program upon which the nation is en-
: tering and no section will be found OBJ
, jecting seriously to the protection af
forded In that way. The two theories
: are wider apart than their practica
application. The chief difficulty in ere
ating such a commission will be il
finding men big enough for the job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01

Senator Kenyon of Iowa has enter
ed the lists as one of the champions of
an embargo on the shipment of mu-
nitions to warning nations. Wheat,
corn and oats from Iowa go to feed
the armies of the allies in the field.
Iowa beef and pork also go to make
their rations. Iowa horses go to make
up part of their transportation facil-
tiles. Will the senator be consistent
enough TO enlarge his embargo de-
hands sufficiently to embrace all
these products-which are materials
Of war" in the same military sense as
powder and guns? Or is Senator
Kenyon like Representative Shackle-
ford of Missouri-merely DESTROYS of
putting an embargo on the other
fellows wares?" asks the Peoria Jour
hal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
UNFOUNDED COMPLAINT.

The National Boot & Shoe Manu-
facturers' association, in convention
In New York issues doleful story of
hard luck, which, in its opinion can
be changed only by two remedies.
The immediate remedy is to make
another advance in the cost of shoes
averaging about so cents a pair. This
the members have within their power
to apply, and there is not much doubt
Of their doing it,
The second remedy" says the
Sioux City Tribune, lis the restoration
of such tariff on shoes as will cover
the wage differential of the American
over the foreign workman" This, OF
course, they would obtain by a return
10 the high tariff system.
AS 10 lust how much the boot and
anoe manufacturers were being in
3ured under world wide normal condi-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
Ito Be Continued.l

speciment of spessartite, variety of
garnet that seldom provides stones
large and clear enough for jewelry
purposes. Weighing over six carats
and beautifully cut in the modern
fashion, the stone stands practically
alone in the literature of gems.
The collection includes the most
varied series of zircons in existence,
and there are also excellent assert
ments of tourmalines, topazes, emer-
aids, opals and spinels. The opals in
clude two fine stones of jet black COL
or.
The museum trustees have decided
to store the collection for the present
in a place where it will be safe from
war and ZEPPELIN risks. and it will
therefore not be exhibited until after
the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Diet Of Baby From Is Months to Two
Years

Will you kindly suggest a normal
diet for a baby of 16 months?
Answer-Breakfast & a. m.D-Cup
of milk, a slice of bread and butter,
or soda, graham, oatmeal or similar
biscuit. Or boiled egg or poach-
ed egg with bread and butter and cup
of milk, or porridge.
Lunch 30 a. m)-Bread and milk.
Or bread and butter with brown sugar
on it.
Dinner q p. m)-Boiled rice or
baked potato with gravy; glass OF
milk. Or cup of chicken, mutton or
beef broth, with barley or RICE in II.
Some fresh fruit juice. Bread and
butter with sugar on it. Custard, tap
i0ca, cornstarch or rice pudding
Supper t6 p. m)-Bread and mix
or Dorridge,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01

in government plants for "a cents per
pound. and the officers in charge state
that the more we manufacture inc
cheaper we can produce it. A hundred
similar illustrations could be cited II
time permitted.
MIR. SABBATH. Mr. Speaker, will the
gentleman yield?
THE SPEAKER pro tempore. Does
the gentleman yield?
MR.. Tavenner. Yes
MR.. SABBATH. Where are these am
munition materials being manufac-
tured? Is it not fact they are mostly
manufactured in the state of the gem
tleman who interrupted the gentleman
from Illinois a moment ago-n the
state of Delaware? applause on the
democratic side.)
MR.. MILLER of Delaware, Mr..
| Speaker
Mr.. TAVENNER. Of course, it is not
pork" when it goes to the Morgan
controlled war trust.
MR.. MILLER of Delaware. Mr..
Speaker
MR.. TAVENNER. I cannot yield to
the gentleman. l am anxious for the
gentleman to have an hour or any 9th
er amount of time he desires to an
swer me in his own time.
Mr.. MILLER of Delaware. should
like to reply to the question of the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. SABBATH
MR.. CALDWELL. May l ask the
gentleman if the arsenal costs include
the overhead charges?
MIR. TAVENNER. All overhead
charges are included-even some tha
should not be charged. OF course. it is
a very strange thing, but the army
officers do not want it to appear tina
they are manufacturing things too
cheaply at the government arsenals
because they want to give as mucl
business as possible to private manu-
facturers.
MR.. TILSON. Mr.. Speaker
MIR. TAVENNER. 1 cannot yielt
any HUI
THE SPEAKER pro tempore. TIL
gentleman declines to yield.
MR.. TAVENNER. The illustration
given Of the economy of government
manufacture are not exceptions bu
the general rule, as may be shown b.
: the fact that on a contract GOVERNS
a wide variety of war materials, val
ued at $1,900,O64, the governmen
, saved by doing the work itself, 1919
$40; or, in other words, the govern
: ment saved approximately 100000
on a $2,000,000 CONTRACT, as compare
with what it would cost had that orde
been given the private contractors.
ITO Be Continued
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-01

MIR. TAVENNER. Two hundred
and forty million dollars, raised by
taxing the American people, have an
nually been expended on the army
and navy under the general assump-
ton that in return for this colossal
expenditure the nation was being
reasonably prepared" But it is now
asserted by men occupying high and
authoritative places in public life and
in a position to know what they are
talking about, that our country is
"pitifully and hopelessly unprepared"
and that "if war were to break oul
today it would be found that our coast
defenses have not sufficient ammuni-
ton for an hours fight Surely to
any thinking person this state of af-
fairs must suggest an indictment Of
the policy of giving the bulk of army
| and navy contracts to private NUM-
ton and shipbuilding concerns. If we
are not prepared as we should be, it is
not because the people have not paid
in taxes the price of adequate prep
aration, but because too much of the
money appropriated for preparedness
! has gone into the pockets Of the stock
! holders of the war-trafficking firms,
some of which stockholders are men
| occupying high position in official life.
At least a hint as to what has be-
come of the staggering sums appro-
priated for preparedness is to be
found in the fact that four firms which
have enjoyed practically a monopoly
Of the large army and navy contracts
have received since 1887 orders aggre-
eating S20O00O,000, and have been
paid for their wares from 20 to go per
cent more than the same could have
been marufacurted for in government
arsenals and navy yards.
1t is possible to give definite and
specific information as to the economy
of government manufacture. The wal
department in 1918 purchased 1000
4.7-inch shrapnel from the ammuni-
ton ring, paying S25.26 each therefor
At the same time precisely the same ar
ticle was being manufactured in gov.
ernment plant at a cost of $15.45. The
war department paid the ring $17.5(
for a 3.S-inch common shrapnel, wher
, it can manufacture the identical ar
ticle for $7.94 The government ha!
manufactured at the Rock Island ar
senal caissons for gun carriages at
cost of S1,12S.67, for which private
manufacturers had been paid S1744.1O
which is SAG per cent greater than tn,
arsenal cost. Take powder The gov
eminent has purchased $25,O00,OO
worth of powder from the powde
) trust since 1905, paying therefor al
the way from 50 cents to so cents pc
pound. We are manufacturing powde