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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
RarnacIPs and Birds,

AS a rule, the Scotch fishermen be-
lieve that the common ships barnacle
develops into a bird. How has this
metamorphosis been so long held to be
a fact, with no experience in its favor
and all experience against it? It is so
held not only in Scotland, but, for in
stance, in Jersey. 1t is not long since
a Jersey parlor maid ran to her en-
ployer in much excitement with bar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Sincere Regret.

A seedy looking individual in West
street saloon turned from the free
lunch counter, where he had been
helping himself generously, and said
to the barkeeper:
Friend, can you trust me for glass
of beer till tomorrow"
No" said the barkeep.
"a am sorry to hear that" said the
seedy one. 1T seems kinder mean to
eat the amount of free lunch | have
and then no buy nothin'. New York
Globe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
The Man With the Iron Mask.

The Man With the Iron Mask" was
a mysterious French prisoner of state,
whose identity has never been salts
factorily established. He was closely
confined under the charge of NJ. de St.
Mars at PigneroI in 1879, at Exiles in
1851, at St Marguerite in 1857, and
finally was transferred to the Bastile
in 1898. where he died on Nov. 10,
1903. and was buried the following day
in the cemetery of St. Paul under the
name of Marchiali. Dumas made him
d twin brother of Louis XIV
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
SERVES ON LIBRARY
BOARD FOR Is YEARS

Twenty-Five years ago today Mayor
McConochie appointed J. ". WEIGH to
the library board for the first time
Today, after a quarter century of ser
vice on that body, Mr.. WEIGH was re-
appointed by Mayor McConochie. The
municipal commission this afternoon
confirmed the appointment of Mr..
WEIGH, c. W Foss and C. P. Comegys
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
PERSONAL POINTS

Mrs. Fred T. Hirst has returned
home after a visit with relatives in
Burlington, Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. David Garwick and
son Charles of Cleveland, Ohio, are in
the city for a weeks visit with rela-
tives.
County Clerk H. B. Hubbard left this
morning for Chicago to attend the ma
tional convention of the republican
party.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Funeral of Joseph H, Moorehead.

Funeral of Joseph H. Moorehead was
held yesterday morning at o'clock at
the home of his sister. Mrs. C. H.
Smith, in Milan. Rev. ". G. Oglevee
of Rock Island was in charge of the
services. Burial was in Chippiannock
cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Funeral of Mrs, Anna Wpndt,

Funeral of Mrs. Anna Wendt was
held this afternoon at 100 at the
home, 623 Thirty-eighth street, and at
II o'clock at the German Lutheran
Lutheran church, Rev. Phi Wilhelm
officiating. The services at the home
were private Burial was in the Ger
man Lutheran cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Funeral Date Changed.

Late today change was announced
in the time of the funeral of John
Ennis, originally set for 8 tomorrow
morning 1t will take place at the
same hour Wednesday morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Funeral of William F, Teschke.

Funeral services for William f.
Teschke were held at 10 o'clock this
morning at the home. 500 Ninth ave
nue., with Rev. f. ]. Rolf, pastor of the
German Evangelical church, N charge.
Burial was in Chippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05

nacle in her hand Look, aam
she said; its off a ship and it will
soon change to goose! London
Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
Value Of the kangaroo's Tail,

So important is the kangaroo's tail
in his rapid progress that experienced
hunters with guns are accustomed to
fire at the point where this appendage
joins the body. when, the tail being dis
able for its office of balancing, the an
lmal is as effectually stopped as if
hamstrung. Hit elsewhere, except with
a rife bullet at point blank range. the
kangaroo is pretty likely to get off
One popularity of the kangaroo is that
after being started up. he very rarely
swerves from his course, through
which popularity he is easily ported
by hunters, who conceal themselves
while man on horseback drives the
herd toward them.
All the news all the time-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05

Captain W. H. Patterson of Chicago
will be in Rock Island Wednesday to
inspect Company A of this city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05
(ftyR1IofJ

Buy a home of Reidy Bros.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For express, call William Trefz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-05

All the news all the time-The
Argus
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
MANAGING THE CITY
The Change in Pennsylvania
By Frederic ]. Haskin
BY BRIGGS

cities of the third class. including all
those in Pennsylvania except Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton,
were thus summarily placed under
commission government in December,
1914.
The Pennsylvania law provides for
mayor and four commissioners
elected at large on nonpartisan bal
lot. The other city officials, with the
exception of the comptroller, are
chosen by this commission. The State
act also provides for an initiative and
referendum, but there is no recall and
no civil service board.
This wholesale change has been
emphatically a success. Under the
new form of government, Reading has
attained a new municipal efficiency,
and what is more, a new municipal
spirit.
If you visit this city some June, for
example, you will witness one of the
most interesting displays of municipal
common sense and civic righteousness
that has ever been staged in America.
The people of Reading, like people
everywhere else in the United States,
had been reading a lot about conser-
vation for several years before the
commission government law was pass
ed. Now they have acted on their in
formation. Instead of sitting down
and pining because the magnificent
hills surrounding the town were de-
nuded of trees of generations ago by
hungry lumbermen, they have under
taken the job of reforesting them.
CONTINUED on Page 1871
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
Ehrntttg Glrat

Referring to the "reminiscences =.
College block and the old Board cs
Trade building in this column la.
night one of the older residents of the
city remarked that before the day of
the latter as the home for Harris
burS's commercial organization the
site was occupied by a three-deckeg
amusement place. 1t was owned bE
Joseph Poulton and there is nothing
like 1t in Harrisburg to-day. 1t was
bowling alley, pool room, billiard
room and the like and was a very
popular place among the young men.
This was back in Civil War days and
Immediately after. When the old
building was destroyed, the present
structure was erected and about all
the Board had to do was to take out
the arrangement OF the rear room.
which had been used for billiard ta-
bles and it had a meetingplace. In
addition TO the political meetings
which were held in the old Board
building it was used for formation of
a number of business and other or
ganizations. When the bicycle fad
teen years ago the bicyclists used tc
meet in the Board of Trade room tt
organize movements against magis-
trates and constables who were too
free with arrests and the Harrisburg
Division of the League of American
Wheelmen was formed in the hall.
The College Block property was in
great danger during the Opera House
IRE in 1907 and it was scorched with
the intense heat, also at the time tho
Astrich store in Third street was
burned out there was considerable
danger that the whole block would
go. The Astrich property adjoincd
the block. on the site of the present
Security Trust Company. The fire
men of Harrisburg made a remark
able hight both times and deluGed the
building with water in their success
tul efforts to save the property. whose
occupants had prepared to move out
their valuables.
There is a certain wholesale dealer
in the city whose business necessitates
| the transportation to and fro of Il
considerable number of boxes and
signs. The other morning one of his
clerks noticed on the sidewalk a most
unusual looking sign with unique
hieroglyphics engraved thereon, the
like of which it had never before been
his lot TO witness. Not being a stu
dent of Esperanto, nor an interpreter
of the Babylonic language, nor even
being particularly expert in hog
latin" as they say in boy circles, this
! somewhat surprised clerk refused to
accept the sign, announcing in most
determined tones that il didn't belong
to his firm and he didn't want it,
hadn't ordered anything like 1t. Per-
haps you will not blame the clerk
when you see the sign, which looked
something like this:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
LIKES MRS. WILSON
kansas CITY Journal

hdlSdS lily JOuFIldl'J
The President asked the members
of the local reception committee to
meet Mrs. Wilson and the following
are among some of the classic defini-
tions applied to the first lady of the
land:
"A pippin, sure enough"
"A good scout, take my word for
it,"
Thoroughbred, all the way
through"
Nothing stuck up about her, that's
what I liked"
Looks and acts like a good fellow,
all the way"
'I give it to Woodrow for picking a
real peach when he picked the
Missus."
say. that smile she hands a fellow
is some smile
Glad to see fellow and acts just
like she means it
Woodrow ought to make tour OF
the country and take the bride along
by all means
you can't help but admire the
Presidents splendid judgment after
meeting Mrs. Wilson. She's a bird
that's all there is to it,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
NOT FROM HIM
BY Wing DinEer

A friend Of mine. who's much in love,
Met me downtown to-day,
And said: Dear Wing, I'm feeling ,lue
1t happened in this way:
Last evening 1 went out to call
Upon my girl, and, gee,
You should have seen the many smiles
With which she welcomed me.
"She thanked me muchly for a box
OF candy which she got,
OF which told her truthfully
I honestly knew naught
But she just took 1t as lot
OF Valentine Day josh,
And kept insistin' that l was
The guilty chap, b. gosh"
well. what of that?" I asked of him.
"You might have known that you
Could not fool her, why that's the way
That all the fellows do"
"Oh, that is not wnat worries me"
He answered, with a wall,
"Twas not from me-some other guy
Is camping on my trail"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Don't exercise your privilege of
kissing a Polish bride when the re-
Gently husband is not in the
mood for such promiscuity is the ad-
vice which two Polish gentlemen of
Chester might give this morning if
they were in any condition to talk.
According to custom, the bride per-
mits each guest to kiss her as the con-
tribution plate is passed around and
IDENTIFY the amount was not up to ex-
pectations and the husband took it
out on the two men who happened to
be the most recent kissers.
At meeting of the Bradford
county medical society in Towanda re-
Gently a few good points were
brought out by the speaker who was
discussing influenza" The only
good point that we can think of is
the custom which the bird "enza" in
variably shows of flying out of the
window as well as in.
Eight little "Pollyanna'' glad girls
have organized themselves into 'The
American Girls Club" of Hanover,
ndNlIB UtSh llO uOuDL ny
the "Pollyanna" production now
playing at Philadelphia to get into
the habit of doing something for
someone else.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Pottstown COM
pleted three days campaign last
week to obtain 800 new members and
exceeded that number by 35.
The next annual Berks County Fair
will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, September IL,
10, IA and Is, it has been announced
at a meeting of the directors of the
Reading Fair Company.
Westmoreland county will spend
half a million dollars for the con-
struction of roads during the year.
The County Commissioners will issue
$500, 900 worth of bonds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
S<S a Huo

you poor boob" replied the car
rier of the sign, whence hailest thou?"
and anon, turning the sign at right
angles, the clerk read just as you
will read when you turn this paper to
portland silently withdrew from the
scene.
Friday night of this week the Gov
ernors Troop and it's former members
or alumni, as they might be called,
will celebrate the anniversary of mus
ter into the National Guard service.
The Troop was mustered on February
IS, 1888, and the interesting thing
about it was that General ]. P. S.
Goblin, of Lebanon, commander of the
Third brigade, was the mastering Of
ficer, and Captain T. J. Maloney, who
commanded Company D, conducted
the election of officers.
Capitol Park was a favorite place
for visitors yesterday in spite of the
intense cold. Many of the people who
went to the park did so for the pur-
pose of feeding the squirrels and pig
cons which were on friendly terms
with everyone, the snow and ice hav-
ing prevented any foraging. A num-
Der, however, went to take pictures.
Now and then President Judge
George Kunkel gets little quiet fun
out of the spectators that crowd the
courtrooms, especially during MUIR
der trial.
AS rule 1890 is the luncheon ad-
journment hour. The Shuman mur-
der trial was we'll under way yester-
day and a whole courtroom full OF
more or less restive folks were ready
to leave. Promptly at 1880 they
thought they could go when Judge
Kunkel gravely turned to the jury
"The hour for adjournment having
arrived" he began.
Several hundred spectators prompt
ly arose in their seats.
but court has NOT yet ad-
journed," finished the judge.
The several hundred spectators
sank resignedly back in their seats
Whereupon President Judge Kunkel
murmured to Court Crier Young:
Adjourn court until 2 o'clock"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
BROOKS CAREER

TN few lines of type the other day
the country learned of the death of
Belvidere Brooks, president
and formerly general manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
Brooks career ought to be an in
spiration to every lad in uniform, for
he began work as a messenger boy and
rose to the very top of the ladder as
the directing force of the company by
hard work and application. He had
neither riches nor influence when he
started. He had no friend at court to
push him along in the service. He
was not different from the other boys
with whom he was associated, except
in two things-he was ambitious and
than the other boys and what be did
he did well. That was all.
Always he did the most he knew
how and always he did his best. AT
first he did more than he was paid for
doing. After a while the company
learned his worth and paid him well.
SO that while he began poor, he died
rich. The company to which he gave
Sl.50 worth of service for every dollar
he received in pay as boy at length
rewarded him beyond the fondest
dreams of his early days.
Service" was young Brooks watch
word, and the world will patronize and
favor any lad who pins that motto to
his shield. Any young boy in the em-
ploy of the Western Union to-day may
be Brooks of tomorrow. The way
Brooks went is a we'll marked path
and there are no barriers in the way.
II all depends on the lad himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
TN Pennsylvania commission gov
ernment has been most thoroughly

ernment has been most thoroughly
- tried, for it was imposed upon
twenty-nine cities by an act of the
State Legislature. Reading is a typi-
cal example of how it has worked.
You should not get the idea, how
ever, that commission government was
forced upon the Pennsylvania cities
without any initiative on their part.
Municipal government in this State
was particularly cumbersome before
the change, as is attested by the fact
that forty-two cities, having a popu-
lation of more than ten thousand, had
remained boroughs rather than adopt
the clumsy municipal machinery pro-
vided by State law.
All of the Pennsylvania cities were
awake to the disadvantages of the old
system. AS long ago as 1910, the
cities of the third class, which in
hundred thousand population, held
a convention at Williamsport and or
ganized an Allied Civic Bodies Com
mittee for the purpose of studying mu-
nicipal reform.
The constitution OF the State of
Pennsylvania prohibits special legisla-
ton, and this makes it impossible to
pass a law which would leave the
adoption of commission government
optional with the cities. If the change
were going to be made, it would have
to be a sweeping one, compelling all
the cities of a certain class to change
their form of government After sew
eral years of agitation, such a law
was passed in 1918. Twenty-nine
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
WILSON AND A CONTEST

DRESIDENT WILSON in Consent
ing" to become a candidate for
reelection takes dangerous lib
critics with language when he says he
is unwilling to enter a contest for
the nomiHation." II that is really the
way he feels about it the President
may just as we'll quit right now, for
one named Bryan and another named
Clark will see to it that he has oppo-
sion in the convention.
May be President Wilson thinks it is
so one-sided that it will be no real
contest; but, be that as it may. the
present incumbent of the White
House job will learn before long that
the ex-Secretary of State is not so
peaceful as he sounds and his "un-
Willingness" to face opposition in his
own party may soon rise up to haunt
him. Presidencies are not being pass
ed around, these days, on a silver plat
ter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
INTELLECTUAL WIVES

4 CCORDING to the Milwaukee
n Sentinel, the following were
some of the points brought out
in a woman's club debate in that city
illustrating the topic Resolved, That
man is hindered by an intellectual
Wife:
She hasn't any domestic tastes
She can't sew--iler children show
it, and her husband has been known
to go around blessed with only
three available suspender buttons.
Her piano stands undusted for
She can't cook. but depends upon
bakers bread.
She hasn't enough business sense
to manage the household finances.
She corrects hubby's grammar be-
fore company.
She keeps him down, too-he be-
comes known as Mrs. So -and-So's
husband"
Maybe so, and again, maybe not.
What. for instance, of the wife
whose intellectually runs along the
line of keeping her husband out OF
debt by making his measly little salary
go twice as far as his massive mind
could stretch it? Or she whose men,
tality is of sufficient caliber to enable
her to be her husbands best adviser
in q business way?
If by intellectual the Milwaukee
club means to define the type OF
woman who makes her home second
airy to the cultivation of fad or the
riding of hobby, the Lord deliver us
from the "intelIectuaI." But. on the
other hand, who wants a brainless
bunch of curls and curves for a wife ?
Female loveliness is only skin deer
and it doesn't wear we'll past forty;
but a bright brain, a cheerful dis
position and a mind that can give as
we'll as take are things of beauty and
joys forever in welded life. BY al
means let's have Intellectual wives
Heaven knows most of us need EN-.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
JIM HAM SEES A LIGHT

NTHILE it is pretty generally
wv agreed that Senator James
Hamilton Lewis. of Illinois, is
not much of statesman, his success
in getting into public Office in various
states indicates that he is a good read
er of the public mind. He has re-
Gently been saying things that cannot
be interpreted otherwise than as an
tagonistie to the Wilson administra-
ton. He is shrewd enough to know
that public opinion is running against
the present occupant of the White
House. Pink Whiskers are not always
indicative of a drab brain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
HOW TO LIVE LONGER

FOOD-Ruie 8-Do not force yourself
to eat too much, even If you think that
you should weigh more than you do.
Weight may be gained by sleeping as
we'll as by eating.
Chew your food well. If you swallow
your food half chewed it will make your
stomach work too hard.
When your body gets hard exercise,
it uses up more heat and needs more
food. The food gives back the heat. If
you do not get exercise in your work,
you should eat less. or you may get fat
Do not eat between meals. You
may overwork your stomach.
Do not eat heavy meals just before
heavy work. Do not eat heavy meal
when you are very tired or overheated
It is then sometimes better to skip a
meal or to eat fruits or salads. II over
heated. eat foods that take up room In
the stomach but which do not make
much heat.
Eat a little less food in hot weather
Food makes heat, and in hot weather
YOU need less heat
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
DENNY AND BILLY
ISunday School Times. ]

One of the delights of the Chris.
tan life is to sit upon a high seal
in the arena of the Passing Days and
witness the wonderful transforma.
tions made in the men who are born
again and given the Christ mind
There was Denny O'Neil, Pittsburgh
political worker and a McKeespori
merchant. In the beer saloons ol
Allegheny County were beermugs will
his picture on them and the inviting
legend, Take one on me- Ther
BILLY" Sunday came to McKeesport
Denny chit the sawdust trail" The
other day this same Denny O'Neil wa:
in Coatesville talking for temperance
and religion. Christ minded Denny
-O'Neils are multiplying all over thi:
great land of ours.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
REASON ENOEGH

ToNGRESSMAN EVANS (Dem.),
" of Montana. does not intend to
let Secretary McAdoo and other
Department chiefs at Washington be
alone in the practice of nepotism. He
has secured the appointment of his
brother as postmaster at Bozeman and
his brother-in-law at Missoula. He
reminds us Of the Pennsylvania Con-
gresham, who. commenting on the
appointment of a brother as postmas-
ter said: ''Ie is the best brother that
ever lived And that is reason
enough for any deserving Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
SHOOT FIRST
lLPhiladnlnhia Innulrer. /

philadelphia lnqulrer.I
Germany and Austria have both given
notice that on March / they will begin
TO treat armed merchantmen as W
vessels That is to say, they will a.
tack and torpedo them.
But how is a submarine to determine
whether a merchant ship is armed or
not?
Merchantmen are not bristling with
great guns. 1t has been customary for
many Of them, especially those engaged
I'm trade with the Far East by the way
of the Mediterranean and the Suez
Canal. to carry small piece or two
purely for defensive purposes. This has
been lawful. and. of course. still is.
These small pieces are rarely observ-
able. How, then, is submarine to pick
out an armed liner with any degree of
certainty and sink it as it would a
cruiser?
Is it going to take chances, shoot
first and investigate afterwards2
This new proposition is fun OF
danger. It is one that the administrs
ton at Washington cannot sympathze
with unless it has conG>ietely lost its
head.
that it has.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-15
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Might does not make right, nor does
right make might-New York Sun.
All we want is a couple of guns on
the stern of the Ship of State. lust for
defense.-Philadelph Record.
That horse-meat they are eating in
New York wouldn't be so much out of
place if served a la cart.-NashVtlle
Southern Lumberman.>
No sooner did the peace pilgrims
visit Sweden than there were renewed
rumors that the country was about to
enter the war.-Boston Herald.
Miss Jane Adams assertion that Eu-
rope wants peace proves once more that
a woman can't keep a secret.-Wash-
ington Post.