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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
HEALTH TALK
W
William Brady,n.D.
he Most Harmful AntiSepticS

Gradually we are overcoming the
hoary old superstition that anything
with a powerful odor will keep off
disease. And the best of our modern
antiseptics or germicides are odorless.
Carbolic acid, in solution or in salve,
does not have a nice, healing sort of
odor, if you like that sort of smell.
But it is one Of the most harmful anti
septics you can use.
Carbolic acid is an alcohol, not an
acid. Phenol is the official name for
it. 1t received the name Of "acid," be-
cause Of its caustic effect in contact
with living tissue. The local antidote
for that caustic or burning effect is
alcohol-grain alcohol. One may
battle the finger with pure phenol for
a minute, and when it has turned white
battle it with pure alcohol, and the
effect is completely neutralized. Re-
member that, in the event of an acct
dental burn with carbolic The rem
edy is alcohol, freely and continuously
applied.
This caustic action of phenol rem
ders it utterly unfit for antiseptic use.
No one would think Of dressing a
wound with carbolic dressings now
adays, unless he were willing to as
sumo the responsibility for any poison
Gus effects which might ensue. A
strong carbolic acid solution. kept for
considerable time on a simple cut or
wound, sometimes causes gangrene. II
always delays healing, because 1t de-
stroys the delicate new skin cells. Car
bolic was the original antiseptic intro
duced into surgery by the Father of
Antisepsis, Lord Lister-but Lister
himself eventually learned the dread
full poisonous properties of phenol
Carbolic is the type of all germicjdes
the standard with which any alleged
germicide is compared in tests. But
the drug is so exceedingly harmful
that there is no longer justification for
employing 1t as an antiseptic, whatever
other uses it may have in medicine
There are plenty of safer antiseptics
10 take its place-for instance. boric
acid solution, or tincture of iodine.
Peroxide, that other standby of the
household medicine chest, is a Joke, II
will grow germs if you don't watch
it-and 1t will drive germs deeply into
the wound II you do And the watch.
Ing Of the bubbles constitutes the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

bad chosen an hour for her can n.
tween daylight and dark, when tbov
would not get well defined view =,
her, and Frau Won Frauenbofen sps
pected that she had chosen the tirna
for this very purpose. When the fran
proposed to light the lamps the visitor
objected on the ground that a briyb,
light hurt her eyes.
Caspar stood looking at his proposed
bride with Indifference. for the los. q.
Amelia to him absorbed all hi.
thoughts, and IL he must give her nm
one woman was the same 10 him "a
another. After some chat the fran.
lein said to Herr Won Frauenhofen
This is a business transaction
There Is no pretense TO love on either.
side. | have had hard time In max.
ing up my mind with regard to It, and
If go back home without having been
married l shall probably give 1t up.
am ready for the ceremony now. bnt
If not now cannot promise for the In.
ture"
The three Won Frauenhofens with.
drew to another room for consultation.
Herr Won Frauenhofen was strongly
in favor Of acting on the principle that
fortune in the hand is better than
one in some other persons possession.
Frau Won Frauenhofen was sy1npathet.
ic with her son and left the matter to
him. He told them that he had made
up his mind to obey them, and 1t mat.
tered not when the ceremony was DER
formed. This settled it, and they re.
turned to the waiting woman. A min.
lister was sent for, and the two were
made one.
No sooner were they man and wife
than the bride asked to be shown to
private room for few minutes. When
she returned she was transformed into
Amelia Schlotter. The black had been
washed of her teeth, a hairy skin
pulled off her chin, and her cane had
been discarded. All looked at her In
wonder, and Caspar started forward
to clasp her In his arms.
"Let me explain" she said to him,
and then to his parents she added:
1--WE Germans are nothing II not
obedient to our parents. Knowing that
your son would be always miserable
If he disobeyed you, conceived this
imposition. But 1 am happy to in
form you that l have learned that the
bride intended for your son Is not so
rich as stated. My father is Weather
than is supposed and has given me
dowry equal to Frauleln Hauck's pos
| sessions"
At this Caspar started forward again,
but his bride forced him to give prefer
ence to his mother, who embraced her.
| A little later all got into the carriage
| in which Gretchen Hauck had come
and were driven to Herr Schlotter's,
where a wedding feast had been pre-
pared in expectation of happy issue
of Amelia's scheme.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

DR.. Brander Matthews has rendered
a genuine service to the cause of en-
lightenment by defining a 'highbrow"
in such succinctly vivid terms that it
will hereafter be easy to recognize
one on sight He described him as a
"person who has habitual attitude of
contempt toward that which is popular
and also as a person who, generally, is
educated beyond his intelligence" DR..
Matthews also says that the highbrow
would be a menace to dramatic art
were not that art so great that he is
powerless to iniure it, and in the same
breath he reminds us that "in all the
arts the really good things, the vital
things have always been popular"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

Toxic, Feb. 15.-(Correspondence of
The Associated Press. 1.-The great
boom and prosperity for Japanese
shipping as result of the war is be-
ing taken advantage Of here to the ut
most. Fortunes are making in the
shipping business and prices for
freight steamers have risen to prac-
tically limitless figures.
The continuing demand for more
ships has induced the Japanese de-
partment of communications to sum
Marie the exact situation Of Japan
ese shipping. The investigation
shows that Japan's progress is not
due to the war alone, though it has, of
course, been immensely stimulated by
it, but has been going on for the last
Is years. Japan now has 2,132 YES
sells of over twenty tons register with
total tonnage of 1,604,900 while the
number of vessels of over 1000 tons is
146 with total tonnage of 1881 1908.
There are IS merchant steamships,
ing under the flag of Japan. Six new
freight-carrying steamships have
been launched within month.
The shoStage of shipbuilding mater
ial is being felt in all docks, but as far
as the stock is available the work is
being pushed on day and night and
some ship-owners have even offered
prizes for the completion of a ship be-
fore contract dates. A striking ex-
ample of quick building was the steam
| err Taisho Maru, recently completed
for the Hokuyo Steamship company
which was launched within three
months and a half after the laying OF
the keel, and trimmed for navigation
in three weeks That a ship of 5000
tons was completed in such short
perio dis a record in the annala of
Japanese shipbuilding.
Japan's great commercial feet has
come into existence since 1884 when
Japan really began to build ships of
iron. For period of about 200 years,
between the 18th and 10th centuries
the building Of vessels of over so tons
net was prohibited by the government
and it was not until the arrival OF
Commodore Perry from the United
States that Japan became awakened to
the necessity of laying down ocean
goin gvessels. The first steel vessel
was built in 1890
| In recent weeks the ocean trade has
! shown signs of increasing activity and
everywhere is heard complaint oil
shortage of tonnage. In the cement
market, for example, the paucity OF
| freight space has caused big conges-
ton. At the Moji alone 10000 barrels
consigned to Singapore are waiting for
ships to take them away. The tonges-
ton in cement is partly due TO a con-
troversy over carrying rates, the ship
perS offering rs cents per barrel as
against 40 cents some time ago. The
| shipping companies are standing out
for dollar a barrel. Similar dis
putes are arising weekly in other lines
of goods as the boom in .rade ad-
vances.
l On the New York-Yakohama OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
THE DEMOCRATIC TOWN
NOMINEES.

The democrats of Rock Island town
ship have nominated an exceptionally
strong ticket considered in the indi-
viduality of the candidates and COL
lectively as we'll. All are well fitted
for the Offices they have been named
for, the party having also distinguished
itself as being the first in Rock Is
land township to recognize the worth
of woman for a public office-Mrs. T.
I. Medill the choice for collector, lend
ing peculiar grace to the entire ticket.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

The administration is justly indig-
nant that certain newspapers have de-
liberately distorted news from the Dor
der in an apparent effort to promote a
feeling in Mexico which will make gen.
eral intervention inevitable. Some OF
these journals are animated by self
interest, hoping that certain invest
ments will profit by American inter
vention, and some by political animus
Freedom of the press is fundamental
American principle, but treachery OF
this sort would seem to call for some
sort of punishment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Van in q knockout.

During the evening Mr.. Van Pelt
rendered some impressive musical Sc
lections with the technique of a master
that was a marvel to the guests who
sat gasping en- rapport with the spirit
of harmony, from the vibrant chorus Of
the weird and thrilling, to the grand
climax in volume of melody echoing
and rebounding throughout the apart
ments and then with tremulous way
ering was hushed into distance like
the faint calling of the wild.-Frazee
(Minn.) Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Side1ights on the European War

Shanghai line the boom is now at its
heia-t on account of the temporary
closing of the Panama canal and the
prolongation Of the route. Returning
to the far east the vessels from the
United States are loaded with war
munitions for Russia.
On the Bombya route trade is more
active than ever, because the Japan
ese-Indian trade in cotton and other
goods is progressing with wonderful,
rapidly. On the outward trips every
liner has her holds full Of miscellan-
eous articles for India and on the
homeward voyages raw cotton fills up
every inchof space. The average rate
per ton has ruled at % yen or about
$3.50 during the past week.
A new plan has been started by
some shipowners who have made the
most of the recent shipping boom to
stabilize their position against pos
sible reaction after the war is over. 1t
consists in floating a big baking es-
tablishment designed to deal in all
forms of loans secured on the mort
gage of ships. The project has al
ready assumed a definite form.
The house under contemplation will
have its headquarters in Kobe and
branches in some important cities in
terested in the trade. The authorized
capital will probably be S5,000,000
Capetown. Union of South Africa
| Correspondence of the Associated
Press. )1Only one isolated mountain
outpost consisting of a company of ma
tive troops and four German officers,
remains of the German army in Kane
run. This outpost is at Mora, on an
almost inaccessible height which forms
one of the INST northerly spurs of the
Mandara range in the far north OF the
country. From its high fortressed
position, this German garrison looks
down on the plains, several thousand
feet below, stretching northward to-
ward Lake Chad. For year and
half the imprisoned garrison has been
blockaded by British and French
forces and cut off from the outer
world Today they represent all thai
| is left of German power in Kamerun.
The remainder of the German forces OF
a colony which has an area larger than
that Of Germany, Denmark, Holland
and Belgium taken together ana
population of over 3,500.000, have been
killed. captured by the allied forces, or
driven into Spanish territory, whence
! they are being collected by the Span
ish government for interment either III
Spain or In the Spanish island OF Fer
nando Pc.
| The great colony thus wrested from
the Germans represents so years oil
steady work and expenditure. IL IS
estimated that In the Victoria and Buca
districts alone more than S5,OOo,VVe
has been spent on the development Oh
cocoa, rubber and other tropical pro-
ducts. The vast forests Of the south
abound in wild rubber. which was eA-
ported TO Germany mainly from MIDI
The total external trade, of the colony
| in 1912 amounted to $l5,00U,000 OF
which 80 per cent went to Germany.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
NATIONAL GUARD AND WAR.

The brush of Mexico may, from the
present looks Of things. furnish an
opportunity for testing what sort Of a
mainstay the national guard would be
to the nation in event OF need. Unless
the aspect changes the national guard
is likely TO find itself called into serv-
ice to preserve order along the border
during the absence Of the regulars
across the Rio Grande.
Just at this moment pressing the
national guard into service will be f.
happy expedient to demonstrate to
such congressman as Chairman Hay
of the house military committee, how
loosely Joined are the national guard
bodies of the different states and how
utterly unfit for immediate service
against an active enemy. II may re-
suit in completely changing the err
roneous notions on military prepared
ness which congress persists in hold
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Compulsory Military Service-From
the Great Speech Of Martin Dies.

At the beginning of the Civil war the
standing army consisted Of 10000
men. During the progress Of that
war it grew to large proportions, but
after the close of the war President
Grant reduced the regular army to
$4,000 men, and so it stood until the
outbreak of the Spanish-American
war Since this last war the stand
ing army has been increased, under
now numbers something over 100000
men. Large increases are proposed
at the present session of congress.
1t has never been possible to recruit
the standing army to it's full author
lied strength, for the reason that the
young men of the country will not go
| into the army. OF those who join
many become dissatisfied and refuse
to serve out their terms of enlistment.
! The reason for this is manifest. Our
country is at peace, and one one feels
it to be his patriotic duty to join the
| regular army as a private soldier
where the most difficult feats awaiting
the private consist in drill and druid
gerry.
If our boys will not join the army
of their own free will and accord, how
IS this great army to be provided? The
answer of our army officers, with one
voice, is compulsion. That is what
they call universal service. But call
it what you will, 1t means that when
an American youth arrives at a GER
tain age, say IS, he is compelled to
join the army, in time Of peace. That
system exists in every nation Of Eur
ope, excepting England, and has exist
ed for a great period of time. With
out compulsory military service no
nation was ever able to maintain a
large standing army in time of peace.
The United States is no exception to
the rule. That is the direction we are
headed for. and every young mans
mother should begin to ask herself if
she is ready to send her son Tito the
uniformed idleness of the standing
army. In Europe, even in peace
: times, it is said that every laborer has
a soldier on his back, because, after
all, someone must feed and clothe all
these soldiers. Are your farmers, la
borers, men in all the walks Of life.
r ready to increase their burdens by
taking each soldier upon his back
Our fathers were afraid of the in
1uence and effect of a standing army
They dreaded the military spirit
Among the standard works upon free
government may be mentioned De
Tocqueville's Democracy in America
He was profound student of govern
, ment in the old world, and in about
1S45 he came to America to study our
system. Would you like to know
what he thought and said of this ques-
ton? Here are some pertinent quo
taations from his writings. They con-
tain food for thought. De Tocqueville
in his standard work, Democracy in
America, which has been quoted from
! and approved in every country where
= the people aspire to free government
= makes the following insignificant ref
! erences to military men and the mil
= itary spirit:
2 "All men of military genius are
l fond of Capitalization, which increases
Y their strength; and all men of cen,
Y Trailing genius are fond of war
= which compels nations to combine all
= their powers in the hands of the gov.
S eminent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Daily History CIass-March IS.

171S-LAdy Mary Wortley Montagu n
Belgrade inoculated her infant 80.
for smallpox with success and lat
er introduced the practice In Eng
land.
l776-The Revolutionary army made 2
formal nry into Boston. MARTA
law was established and rigidly
enforced.
t9l5-Durlng an allied naval attack Fl
the Dardanelles the British battle
ships Irresistible and Ocean al
French battleship Bouvet wer
sank BIZ Turkish mines.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
Still OutgrOwing 1t.

l am % years old and have had a
running ear for IS years. Doctors
have given me medicine and told me |
would outgrow it. l am almost deaf
in the bad ear, and my other ear is in
fected. An ear specialist gave me vac
cine treatment, which improved the
conditions. but did not quite stop the
discharge
Answer-We supposed the doctors
had outgrown the habit, but evidently
they are still at It, Why not keep on
with the vaccine treatment? That,
plus the open-air life. Here Is a rule
without exceptions: No one ever out
grows any disease.
Thyroid Treatment.
" What effect would thyroid tablets
have on very stout person If taken
under doctors prescription? 1t wor-
ries me some, as many doctors say thy
roid is harmful
Answer-If your doctor prescribes il
for you, and sees you at regular inter-
walls, it is absolutely right. 1t will
work miracles in proper cases. But
thyroid is like surgical scaipel-not
for self-treatment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Selected by Tavenner

man who becomes an officer sewers
all the ties which bound him to civil
life; he leaves it forever; he has no
interest to resume it. His true coun-
try is the army, since he owes all he
has to the rank he has attained in 1t;
he therefore follows the fortunes OF
the army, rises or sinks with 1t, and
henceforward directs all his hopes to
that quarter only. AS the wants OF an
officer are distinct from those Of the
country, he may perhaps ardently de-
sire war or labor to bring about rev.
olution, at the very moment the ma
ton is most DESTROYS of stability and
peace.
"After all, and in spite Of all pre-
cautions, large army amid demo-
cratic people will always be source
of great danger; the most effectual
means of diminishing that danger
would be to reduce the army, but this
is a remedy which all nations have 1t
not in their power to use.
"All the ambitious spirits of DEM
ocratic army are consequently des1r-
GUS of war, because war make vacan-
cies and warrants the violation OF that
law of seniority which is the sole priv
ilege natural to democracy.
"a thousand circumstances indie
pendent Of the will Of man concur to
! facilitate the maintenance of demo
! cratic republic in the United States
! The Americans have no neighbOrs
and consequently they have no great
wars or financial crises or inroads OF
conquests to dread; they require
neither great taxes nor great armies
nor great generals; and they have
nothing to fear from a scourge which
| is more formidable to republics than
all these evils combined, namely, mil
itary glory"
1t was George Washington in his
farewell address who said:
Cultivate peace and harmony will
all nations. Overgrown mill
tary establishments are, under any
form Of government, inauspicious tt
liberty, and are to be regarded as par
ticularly hostile to republican lib
erty"
The wise and prudent Benjamin
Franklin supplied this prudent rug
| gestion as to armies:
"An army is a devouring monster
and when you have raised it you have
in order to subsist it, not only the
fair charges Of pay, clothing, provis
ion, arms, and ammunition, with mum
berless other contingent and jus
charges to answer and satisfy, but yot
have all the additional knavisl
charges of the numerous tribe of con
tractors to defray, with those of ever.
other dealer who furnishes the ar
ticles wanted for your army, and take
advantage Of that want to demand ex
orbitant prices
Thomas Jefferson, author of thu
Declaration of Independence, Offered
this substitute for war:
War is not the best engine for III
to resort to. Nature has given us on,
in our commerce which, if properl.
managed, will be better instrumen
for obliging the interested nations o
Europe to treat us with justice"
Those who espouse the fve-yea
program do so in the face of the con
stitution,. which provides that con
gress shall have power
ito raise and support armies, but n
appropriation of money to that us
shall be for a longer term than tw
years"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Press Notices of One Life.

Miss Saidee Smith denies the report
of her engagement to Ephriam Oof.
Miss Sara Smith has gone to Elk
Vile to teach school.
Miss saba Smith has been elected
president of the Ladies auxiliary of
ST. Gaby's church.
Miss Sara Smith is in New York
studying Peruvian art.
Miss Sara Smith will lecture tonight
on THE Problems Of Middle-Aged
Spinsters.'
Died-On the til inst, Sarah
Smith, IS years old.-New York Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
HOgpe's Horse.

Hogge's Horse. at Buxted. Sussex.
England, in the center of the old iron
district. was formerly the residence of
Ralph Hogge, an ironmaster. He is
celebrated as having been the first
to cast cannon in one piece. This
occurred In 1545.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

Why this clamor of the republicans
for Justice Charles E. Hughes? Who
knows what he is politically? He has
not expressed himself on any public
question for years. His opinions on
current issues are unknown. He is
the biggest enigma in public life today
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Queer Death Customs.

The Egyptians, believing that dead
people needed the things they used
when alive, sometimes killed the ia
vorlte slave and horse of the dead man.
In India, for the same reason, widows
were burned with the corpses of their
husbands.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

"The costume is a draped skirt
from underneath which there daringly
appear the furbelows of dainty pair
of pantalettes," says the latest bathing
suit news from Palm Beach. There is
nothing quite so daring as a dainty
pair Of pantalettes unless it be two
pairs of daring dainty pantalettes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

YOU may not believe in signs, but a
wealthy Bostonian, who is deaf mute
does. Des Moines woman sang Near
er, My God, to Thee in the motion
language, and he said he was ready
for the journey. So was she. Now
they're married.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
Rock Island-From River to
River.

no NOT litter the
- streets with waste
paper. Destroy it or place
it in the proper recep-
tacles, thus contributing
to the municipal commits
sion's efforts in behalf of
clean streets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

A University Of Iowa professor
gravely announces that poverty can be
wiped out in 10 years. In many cases
a ten dollar bill would wipe it out in
ten minutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18

whole charm of this antiseptic. You
see it work-whether to your advan-
tage or your disadvantage doesn't mat
ter. 1t looks interesting. And it
comes high.
Take away the odor, the foam and
the fancy price from these two chemi-
Gals and what have you left?
Just enough danger TO make them