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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
The Daily Story
He Won His Betty Louise B. Cummings.

! was n reader for prominent mag
azine. Perhaps / should explain to
those who are not familiar with cdr
torial work that a reader 10 one who
reads manuscripts Of unknown au-
thors. A manuscript is brought In to
the editor, who sits at a mahogany
desk and listens with apparent intent
ness to long account Of the merits
Of the work submitted, smiles benign
1y on the author and as soon as he is
gone losses the manuscript to the read
er without word.
The magazine | was with being for
women, most of the readers were wom-
en-, being one of the women.
At one time when the editor was
i'll those who insisted on seeing the
editor were referred to me. One Of
those who left manuscript with me
was a. man who seemed to me to be
of such caliber that either he should
be successful writer or should not
be a writer at all. But successful
publish their works; we asked them to
do us the honor to permit US to pub
fish them. l was certainly impressed
with Mr. Horatio Beardsley-the name
on the title page Of his story-and
promised him that I would give his
story careful reading.
! did most Of my work at home and
took Mr.. Beardsley's story, called "a
Fool For His Palms." there to read 1t.
But a great many manuscripts were
crowding upon us at the time, and we
were especially successful in getting
recognized literary lights In the liter
airy world to give us their works for
publication. The consequence was that
| omitted to read "a Fool For His
Pains" for some time.
One day 1 looked in my closet for
the manuscript, where I had left 1t,
and did not find it there. I asked my
mother what had become Of 1t and
learned that she had burned an accU-
mutation of pasteboard boxes recently.
The manuscript was In pasteboard
box, and it was apparent to me that
it had gone up in smoke.
! was terror stricken. If through my
carelessness a manuscript committed
to my care were destroyed and there
was no other copy in existence would
not only suffer terrible modification,
but would lose my position, on which
1 was dependent for living for both
my mother and myself.
! When l went again to the Office of
the magazine a letter from Horatio
Beardsley was handed me, stating that
he had made arrangements for the pub
| LEGATION Of "a Fool For His Pains
and asking them to return the manu-
script. I said nothing at the Office
about its destruction, for 1 had not
| sufficiently recovered from the shock
| to make up my mind what to do or say
| in the matter went home and tried to
/ think out way by which might save
myself from the loss Of my position,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
William Brady.n.D.
Non-SurgiCaI Goitre Treatment.

At least seventyfive per cent Of
the cases of exophthalmic goitre are
durable by non-surgical measures, de-
clares an eminent Philadelphia
diagnostician.
There is of late years growing
tendency to subject patients with ex-
ophthalmic goitre to operation. Sur
geons claim that less than five per
cent Of the cases operated on sue
cumb-but successful" operation
is of course not always cure of the
disease. An operation, too often, is
considered a success If the patient
leaves the hospital in due time. after
what is called an "uneventful recov-
cry"
Some cases Of exophthalmic goitre
recover spontaneously, without any
treatment. Some cases recover aft
er several years Of intermittent
treatment. Some cases recover only
after weeks Of confinement to bed.
And some cases must be subjected to
operation as e-saving measure.
If we had exophthalmic goitre we
should sidestep surgery until non
sugical treatment carried out
through a period of at least six
months proved futile.
Against operation are these con-
tingencies:
l. The possibility of post-opera-
tive myxdema (due to the want of
sufficient thyroid secretion)..
2. The mortality rate, which is
several times as great as that of ap-
pendicitis.
3. The fact that the majority of
cases will recover without surgery,
if treatment is persisted in for a rea-
sonable length of time.
In favor Of operation are these
points:
l. The prompt relief Of hyper
thyroidism, or poisoning by the ex-
cessiye thyroid secretion.
2. The conservation OF the pa
TENTS energy-a very important con-
sideration in severe cases.
3. The saving of time. Some pa
tients elect to be operated on, because
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

Correspondence of The AS
sociated Press.)-Important as the
opening of the Danube may be for the
central powers during the contlnu-
ance of the war, the hopeful prophe-
cies for the future that have been
based thereon are not justified by the
streams economic history, according
! to writer in the Vorwarts. A typ1-
cal prophecy, one of scores that have
appeared in newspapers and maya
zines, is that of DR.. Paul Lensch in the
magazine Greater Germany, where he
asserts that the opening Of the Danube
will open the water route to Central
Europe for Rumanian and Bulgarian
grain and Rumanian mineral oils"
/ The article in Vorwarts asserts that
| before the war, when the stream was
open to all traffic, the average yearly
traffic upstream and downstream at all
Austrian stations, from Passau to
Pressburg and including Vienna, was
about one and one-half million tons.
/ Traffic on the River Spree in Berlin
and Charlottenburg averages about
nine million tons. Significant of the
! inability of the Danube route to COM
pete with other routes is the fact that
up to 1903 bar-iron from the great
Austrian ironworks in Witkowltz was
shipped to Rumania via Oderberg and
Hamburg and thence by the sea route
b 40 w r,thoY Anc tria
ceeded in securing cheap rate from
the Austrian Lloyd for the Levantine
trade the iron ore was sent via Triest
to Galatz. Even then the Danube did
not come into consideration.
Still less did it play any part so far
as Germany was concerned. To send
a ton of wheat over the Danube from
Galatz to Mayence cost up to few
years ago 81 marks per ton; by sea
route, 10 to IS marks.
The negligible role played by the
Danube, says the Vorwarts writer, has
in part been due to political reasons
but mainly to the difficulties of navi-
cation presented by the stream, and
to the fact that. unlike the Rhine, Elbe
and other important rivers, it does not
flow into a great ocean. The chief OBJ
stacle. however, is presented by the
so-called Iron Gate" below Orsova
where the river narrows from 100 met
ers to Sc. and its fall increases from
four centimeters (slightly more thar
Il inches) in the kilometer TO IS met
ers. At the completion OF the dam
ming, dredging and blasting operations
which in 1896 gave the Iron Gate Its
present form. test showed that tug
of 500 horsepower required one hour
and quarter to tow a barge carrying
$50 tons through the stretch of about
one and one-eighth miles. The Hun
garian government eXacts toll of 2 29
francs per ton for the passage, but the
traffic has remained so inconsequential
that expenses of maintenance and the
interest on the 100000 crowns spent
on the work have never been met by
the income. The government, indeed
has had TO make up a deficit running
Into millions.
The writer quotes with approval an
depression made 70 years ago by the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
THE KAIsER's COUP.

Following the sensational drive of
the Teutonic forces through Galicia
and eastern Germany, in which all
hostile forces were driven from terri
tory Of the central powers, Emperor
Wilhelm sent this message to his sis
ter, the queen Of Greece:
Germany has driven all hostile
foes from German territory, and l am
about to deliver coup on the western
front that will make the entire world
tremble"
The kaiser is evidently making good
his word, for in the past three days
the Teutonic forces have initiated an
offensive in northern France and Bel
GUM that is causing much worry to
the entente powers.
A dispatch of Wednesday reports
that the Teutonic forces have pene-
trated the first line Of allied trenches
on the western front "by a sudden
smash against the lines southeast OF
Ypres." The gain is reported in the
German official statement as the first
important advance against their foes
since the fighting around Loos las,
September.
That the Germanic powers haven't
enough men to attempt such a move
is the argument advanced in the allied
capitals.
The claim that the kaiser's govern
ment will have all they can handle by
holding the Russians on the western
front.
Quite different view, however, is
taken by George B. Mcclellan, son OF
the famous Civil war general, and
former mayor OF New York and
several times member of congress
Mcclellan, in a series Of articles on
the war situation, maintains that with
the coming of spring over two million
German troops, the flower OF Won
Hindenburg's fighting force and with
out doubt the finest army that ever
set foot in the field" will be released
from the Russian front and turned
against the French and the English.
| The former executive Of Gotham Is
recognized as military authority in
the United States and his accounts
were published In New York news
paper after an extensive tour through
Germany, Belgium, France and Italy
He was not permitted to visit Eng.
| land
| This "stragetist" points out that
there are now three million German
troops against the Russian lines a,
present, and that only one million
men are necessary to keep up the de.
| fensive.
With the capture of Calais by the
Germans" says General Mcclellan
the war will be over so far as France
is concerned" If this surmise il
correct, probably this is the aim of the
German kaiser-to subdue France
now, as he attempted to do when the
war first broke out
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
All, There. Charley.

Huckleberry Charlie Sherman came
down to the city from Pine Plains to-
day to celebrate his 74th birthday. He
had the rainbow blushing as regards
colorature as he passed along the
square, "the cynosure of neighboring
eyes" He wore derby hat on part of
his head and over the left half of his
face. A regulation collar supported a
flaming scarlet, flowing tie, which
shone out wildly over a white waist
coat. His overcoat was opened and
flung to the breeZes in order that the
Announcements might be better viewed
by the enthusiastic spectators.-Water-
town IN. " Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

though there was no possible
escaping the modification tn rhs.. VI
would be subjected. Aa
What I decided upon Wa. ia.
wrote a note to Mr. Beardslev =
Tossing that his manuscript had ~ s
burned and askL.g him If he b.a -
other copy and begging him y. = ~
present to say nothing about tn ,.s s
ter. My note brought him to a. ' ~
at my home, and It was plain ths. - =
was much chagrined at the loss ~ =. =
manuscript. told him | couIa - -
$50, which knew was more thsa =.
author unknown to the puhI,c 49,.
get for a story Of the same leny.s =
the one he had submitted. Hs loo...
up at me with curious exnrs..s.s
when ! said this, but made M -
He left me, saying that he would ~.
over what was best to do, but in =.
meanwhile / need give myself M =.
easiness concerning 1t. This wa. -
good of him, and felt very grafton,
A few days later l received a nv.
from him saying that he had dec4a.s
to rewrite the lost story. Work ha ma n,
over second time was always batt.-
than his first effort. II could v.,.
the time to become his amsnuens,s =.
the work he would not only excuse n.
for the destruction Of the original man.
uscript, but II he received a b,vh.,
price for the second draft than he bsd
been offered for the first be wonla
divtGS the excess with me.
1 wes only too glad to escap. ~.
this penalty and accepted the nronr.
sition except as to any pecuniary inter.
est in what he received for his storv
I gave him a couple Of houns eyery
working day for a month, at the end
of which time the story was finished
In the course Of another week I ~
ceived note from the author conta,n.
ing check for $3.50. which he uu
was my share Of the excess over what
he had been offered for the first daft
of his story. And what was nv cco.
sternation TO see In his signature Tia
name Of one of the most gifted witt.
ers before the public.
He had made a bet with a friend
that he would submit a story TO Our
magazine under an assumed name and
nothing would come Of it. Something
more than he expected did come Of Il.
his story was burned. Time showed
why he treated me so nicely. It seems
that he had taken the same fancy 10
me that had taken to him. That 3
why he wished me for his amanuensia
He desired to be with me, to become
acquainted with me, and as 1t turned
out he was afforded an opportunity b
make love to me. I have been his wife
several years and have not yet heard
the last Of the burning of bis produc.
ton. Indeed, never expect to hear
the last Of it. What troubled me at
the time was that I could not tell a
gifted writer from a common scribblef.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

Gradually all the romance is disap-
pearing from the Marian Lambert
poisoning case, thereby disappointing
those followers of the sensational in
newspaper stories who had hopes that
it would furnish food for weeks to
come The latest is that William
Orpet, held in connection with the
death of Miss Lambert, was not en-
gagged to marry Miss Celestia Youker
OF De kalb, whom he had named as
his fiancee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.


Is color blindness hereditary or can
it be acquired through disease of the
eyes?
Answer-It is hereditary About
one in every twenty-five males and
one in every two hundred females are
color blind Color blind males do not
transmit the defect to male children,
but to female children's sons.
Andseptic Tooth Pastes.
Isn't it necessary that tooth-paste
be antiseptic?
Answer-no. In fact the best dem
lists assert that antiseptics tend to in
1ure the normal mucous membrane
and should not be habitually used. II
antisepsis is needed for son. particu-
lar purpose, let the dentist or physi-
clan prescribe suitable one.
Eye Strain and Headache.
In reply to our recent request for
detailed experience from wearers OF
glasses the vote stands about even
Some correspondents declare them
selves discouraged, while others have
found complete relief from headaches
through well-fltted glasses. The occu-
lists have big lead over the opticians
but the vote is not complete as yet
we hope. We must give the due credit
to the well-known fact that a cured
patient is ungrateful, and hence I'M
likely to bother about writing of his
experience.
VIII Miss f. G., please send stamped
addressed envelope for private reply
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

Henry ]. Allen, the progressive lead
er in Kansas, announces that he has
deferred his return to the republican
party because 81 found that the same
old crowd of republicans was running
things and that the progressives were
not expected to join the procession
until the old guard nominate their
candidate for president"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

Colonel Roosevelt may be out Of the
country In the flesh, but he fingers
with US in spirit, one G. Perkins di-
recting the campaign from little old
New York. BY the time the date OF
the national republican convention
rolls around 1t looks as though it
would be unanimous for the colonel,
not because the party really wants
him, but because it has to accept him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

The newest war tonic for the allies
Is Erzerum. The Russians took one
dose of it and testify that they found
1t wonderfully strengthening. The
allies, if they ever expect to get on
their feet, will have to take more
doses of Erzerum or something akin
tn 1t
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
Pointed Paragraphs,

A loud gong may call one to a poor
dinner.
Patriotism always stands in with
the government.
1t takes a silly woman to make q
fool of smart man.
The average man wants others to
see him as he sees himself.
If leap year girl has tact she can
make her victim believe he did the
proposing.
When a man helps his wife with the
house work it takes her about twice
as long to finish.
After putting on the boxing gloves
man realizes why it is far more bless
ed to give than to receive
You may have noticed that a man
who says life isn't worth living is the
first to make an effort to save himself
when danger threatens. - Chicago
News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
Rock Island-Frcm River to
River.

no NOT litter the
IL streets 18th 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, 1916-02-21

they can't afford to be Indefinitely
disabled with the disease,
4. The relief of dangerous pres
sure symptoms which develop in GER
tain cases of exophthalmic goitre.
5. Evidences of malignant changes
in the gland-always an imperative
indication for surgical interference.
The very competent authority
quoted above asserts that large ma
jority Of the cases are well on the
way to recovery within six months
of conscientious non-surgical treat
ment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

Today's dispatches announce that
the Russians have captured Mush. We
believe our war expert some weeks
ago prophesied this would be pretty
soft engagement for the cars forces.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
Sidelights on the European War

famous economist Frierrich List (who,
banished from his mother country,
went to America and wrote one OF his
best known works in Philadelphia
List wrote, after an extended tour
along the Danube: 1.-THE North Sea
already connected with the Black sea
by a natural canal 1t flows past Gil
braltar and Constantinople. A land
canal will never be able to compete
with it,.
London.-(Correspondence Of the
Associated Press)-Sea water turned
into a disinfecting fluid at the cost Of
cents for a hundred gallons IS ths
novel method of disinfecting hospital
ships which has been suceessfuiiy
tried out on the Aquitania and is nov
adopted in the other transports OF inc
sick and wounded.
The apparatus consists OF an elee-
trolytic cell, reversing switch cap,
able of carrying 100 amperes, am
some ordinary insulated electric caols'
costing in all about $3.50. Inc CELL
in order to insulate it, is placed on
rubber mat and is raised upon loN
/ table to enable the contents to De pour,
ed out easily. 1t is filled with eoa
sea water. A current Of 60-35 ampefes
at 10 volts is turned on and in apoas
five minutes there is obtained sola-
ton containing two parts OF soiiun'
hypochlorite or available Chlorine "
! 1000 parts.
The solution is excellent as stern
! izer of drinking water, one part ehlo''
inc to one million parts, and as an Az
tiseptic for wounds used undilutea -
obtained from the electrolyzer INV
fluid is besides used in the butcher
department and in the Laundry y.
soaking undyed cotton and linen soOus.
1t is added 10 the ships swihihias
bath in the proportion OF one pa,' =
two million parts, reducing the Vas
| terra in the water by 30 per GENT
This use dof electrolyzed sea sas'
has affected great economy py
placing expensive coal tar disihi' :.
ants such as carbolic, cresoi ana :.
| like. In the case of the AQuitania' ~
saving paid for the cost OF the apY' :,
atus in the course OF a single UP :
three weeks.
Vienna.-(Co Correspondence on tue =
sociated Pressi.-W the huhu'ee ,ss
fifty thousand male teachers ~ :. ana
German Teachers association Ss,s
have been called into the army. s.,s
have been captains, 1890 lieuteaa ~.
2.25s deputy neutenants and zo'sos ~. -
geant majors and other under oius ss,a
In addition 5,161 teachers IN tas w
have received the Iron Cross.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
Daily History Class-FeD' Z

UUNJ IFiutVF WV .,es,,9
1So4- Eugene de Beauhariais' n,ss
of Napoleon Bonaparte anu -,
of Lencbtenberg. died; born il -.
ls4S-John Quincy Adams, siA'u AID
ident of the United STATES
born 1851, r d
1al5-Gerrnany announcer osp .,,ss
100000 Russians and SV aa,ss
in the East Prussia
which ended the 2oth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
She Was Born in Old Kentucky.

Claiming the presents which Hop
kinsviIle business men had offered to
the first bride who popped the question
during leap year, Miss Sallie Eldora
Brown, a pretty Crofton girl, appeared
at the office of Circuit Clerk Harris, ac-
companied by James Herbert Tweddell,
a young North Christian farmer. Both
made affidavits to the effect that on St.
Valentines eve she proposed matri-
mony and he accepted. A free license
was given them and they were married
without charge by County Judge Wal
ter Knight at the entrance Of Richard
Leavells sales stable. In the back
ground was a fine mule presented to
the couple by Mr.. Leavell. Among the
other gifts were $500 worth of pre-
MUM tickets, a wedding ring, cake,
a shower bouquet, meat, groceries, a
dress, a rocking chair, two settings of
eggs, life size photographs, 1000
pounds of ice, box of cigars, we'd
ding supper, a years subscription to
the New Era, II bottles of Castoria,
and a tombstone.-Lou Courier
Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

The prosperity wave continues I'M
abated. Trenton, N. j., yesterday gave
Billy Sunday a free will offering Of
$32,95S.03.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

II. M. JOHNSON. a former employe
of the International Harvester con-
pany, is to become manager of the Chi
cagO Grand Opera company. We may
expect this to result in an inquiry at
the hands of the United States senate
also.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
What Makes Anarchists.

FuAb hbhl tihSbss
1.-THE bride carried a fan. studded
with diamonds, gift from the groom,
the cost Of which is understood TO have
been $4,000"
1T was probably one OF the most
elaborate banquets ever held in this
country. The plates were $50 each"
1.-THE Wanderbilts are planning an
entertainment for next week at their
New Rochelle home in which a COM
pany of Russian dancers, imported
from Petrograd for this one occasion,
will be the feature"
miss Jessica JASMINE, who made
her debut before the screen little
more than three years ago, has signed
a long time contract with the Film
Picture company at a salary Of $4,000
per year Her hobby is automobiles,
she already having a collection Of a
dozen of different makes"
JOHN Imasavage is a resident OF
Sioux City, Iowa. AS might be expect
ed John has been acting badly. He is
under arrest on charge of burglary
THE dry and anti-dry forces in Rock
Island county are reported to be hold
ing secret war councils. 1t Is under
stood that both sides will use gas in
their campaigns.
SEVEN Days in New York" reads
billboard announcement. At last ever
the show people are evidencing some
regard for truthfulness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-21

CHICAGO woman is suing for d.
Vorce because her husband went as
long as month at time without a
bath. Chances are there was a water
meter in the house and the poor hus-
band was merely trying to hold down
the cost of living. Women are becom-
ing more impossible every day.
SCANDAL in Air Corps of the
United States."-Headline. Hitting the
high spots rs rule eventuates tlusIy
CHARLES Schwab, who last week
declared that brains were more val
liable than money. has just bought con-
troll Of the Pennsylvania Steel COM
pany business. or course Charley
who is a smart fellow, didn't need any
cash to pull off that deal. He merely
had more brains than the men who
owned the Pennsylvania concern.
ROCK Island republicans have called
their township convention for March
IL. Sounds like play for the Irish
vote.
SIMPLY because yOu hear it charged
that some one Of your acquaintance is
nutty II does not necessarily follow
that he is-but what we started to tell
y0u is that down at Warsaw, Ind, the
other day Walter Linn, aged 90, at.
tempted to follow squirrel as il
Jumped from one tree to another. The
squirrel proved the better performer.
Walter fell. The funeral was held yes
terday.
j. NJ, c.