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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

our craft down and secured her. w.
were within ten rods Of small va,s,
course, and while was filing our va.
ter keg Mazam shot a few birds. ana
we cooked and ate them On ths sno,
and decided TO make night Of y
where we were. Judge It was abon,
midnight when Mazam shook ma .ra
whispered:
Come; here is sight worth seeing
Be careful not 10 make any unneces.
sary noise"
As I looked over the basket ssr
two immense lions, standing sbon.
twenty feet apart and facing eaeb
other.
The animals approached each osh.,
slowly with growls Of defiance. each
carefully lifting his paws, but they d,d
not diminish the distance over a rod
before both stopped aud stood AZ n
cut from stone. Suddenly one Of thu
beasts made a rush 50 swift that ua
could not follow him with our evas
and they grappled and rolled over and
over on the ground. Just a. va
thought that both would be killed IN
the fray one Of them turned tai, and
ran. being hotly pursued by the victor
The remainder Of the night passed
without incident, and as daylight cana
a breeze from the north came with r.
After cold bite We lifted our anchor
and were off, but we had scarcely Ia.
gun to move before we found ouyselvs.
above long. drawn out caravan. which
had Just taken up its line of rnarch
Perhaps all knew our craft to be q bal.
loon; perhaps they believed It to be
some great bird. At any rate they be.
gan firing at US, and the very first bul.
let struck the basket. It was an ooen
country, and such men as were mount
ed on horses could keep up with US.
NOW, then" said Mazem as the bull.
lets continued to sing about US, "over.
board with that keg Of water, all extra
clothing, everything to give Us q lift
out Of range"
Inside Of an hour the balloon began
to approach the earth again, and as Va
were driving toward Murbat we threw
over all the rest Of the ballast, even In.
Guiding the spyglass and the box Of
bread. In short time we began to de.
scend again, however. finally landing
in field Of maize Just outside Of Muir.
bat.
1t had been most delightful and e1-
citing balloon trip, and, although I was
anxious to go again, It turned out that
1 was not to make another voyage
among the clouds. Shortly after our
ascension married a Bombay girl who
had horror Of balloons.
Poor Mazam! This intrepid adven-
turer had made six successful ascen-
sions in India and was getting an inter
national reputation as an aeronaut
when he met his fate. On his seventh
trip something went wrong with the
balloon and he fell with it from a ter
rible height.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
IRELAND AND FINLAND.

The world has heard a great deal
since the war began of how stubborn
" ireland has resisted British bland
ishments and how constantly Irishmen
have refused to enlist in England s
armies, and despite all England's eff
forts to refute the facts the statistics
on enlistment have proved Ireland's
case.
There is another stubborn nation,
however, of which the world has heard
little, that has been just as stubborn,
perhaps even more obstinate, and
which has kept its sons at home
against the possible day when they
may be useful to fight for liberty and
independence. Ireland, divided into
two political parties, has sent some
soldiers from the unionist ranks into
the kings service, but Finland has res
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
The Daily Story
Over the Desert - By M. Quad.

/ found myself IN Bombay in May of
the year 1862, after a year and a half
In other parts Of India, and very soon
thereafter 1t was announced In the
local papers that Professor Mazam,
the celebrated French aeronaut, would
soon make an ascension from the pub
lie gardens" Three or four days later
I ran across the professor and was sur
prised and gratined to find him to be
none other than an old friend whom I
had Travelled with In China
Mazam was now going into balloon
ing Just for the fun and adventure It
might bring him, and when he invited
me to accompany him On his first trip
I was not five seconds in accepting the
invitation. We packed the car with
provisions enough to last a week, took
rifles, revolvers and ammunition along
and made all preparations for . long
journey.
Without her burden Of baggage the
balloon could have carried Ave or six
men. AS 1t was, she shot up like
bird when all was ready to let 60, and
in few seconds the city and its har-
Dor were far below o.. We 1t once
started on our Journey, making q pace
Of about fifteen miles an hour.
When night came we added 800 feet
to our altitude as an offset to the dew,
and as the weather was fine we both
lay down to sleep. I awoke twice dur
ing the night, but to find all quiet. and
when 1 turned out first at sunrise It
was to find the Arabian coast almost
under our feet, and soon We were sail
ing over land.
We had no sooner ieftthe water than
the breeze began to subside, and our
pace was reduced to FIVE or six miles
per hour. We knew that countercur-
rent would soon be met with, and both
Of US were looking over the edge Of
the basket at the morning panorama
below when we suddenly espied ma
tive village. 1t was, rather, the camp
Of some wandering tribe. all the shell
tiers being of canvas or skin. We saw
camels, asses, goats and horses, with
many people moving about, and we
had only got sight Of them when they
saw us. Some fell down and others
ran away, and We were laughing at
their fright when we heard the report
Of gun and the sing Of bullet
"Over with the ballast- shouted Ma
Fam, and the next instant we were 50
far above them that their horses ap-
peared to be mere specks.
Along In the afternoon, while sailing !
about thousand feet above the earth |
at slow rate, we came to an open |
country which seemed to be destitute
OF human life, and the professor an
nounced that we would descend and
replenish our stock Of water and see
what was to be seen. After the anchor |
had trailed along the ground for about |
a hundred yards 1t caught In the limbs |
of fallen tree, and we soon hauled |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
ERRONEOUS POLICY.

It is a mistaken policy, in the opin-
ion OF The Argus, for the Rock Is
land county board Of supervisors to
surround its acts with secrecy. The
county board is public body and the
taxpayers are entitled to the fullest
knowledge Of its transactions. Secrecy
only tends to suspicion, to lending
color to any suggestion of wrong
doing that might be advanced.
The board yesterday elected a chair
man. A spirited contest had been
waged among the members In behalf
Of the candidates. of John Upton, the
incumbent, and Roy s. Daley of Mo-
line. Both are good men, honest and
capable. It was no reflection on the
previous administrations Of Mr.. Lip
ton that there were those of the board
membership who wanted a change.
They felt that the Office should be al
ternated between the cities and the
country district. Mr.. Upton Is from
Bowling, and Mr.. Daley and a num-
Der Of his associates felt that the
time had come for transferring the
Craftsmanship TO one of the cities. It
was such a contest as might arise in
any public body. 1t is better that such
conditions prevail.
The campaign over the Craftsmanship
had aroused no inconsideTable amount
of public interest in the county. Each
candidate had his supporters. How
each member voted as between the two
candidates should not have been con-
cealed from the taxpayers of the
county, yet an attempt to do this
was made by leaders in the board.
The only announcement made was the
vote received by each candidate, the
members, IN voting. simply indicating
their choice and not writing their
names on the ballots.
When the legislature elects a speak
er, or when similar action is taken by
the national congress, the vote is made
q matter Of record. The Argus can't
see that there is anything to be
ashamed of In a man coming into the
open and saying to whom he gives his
support. Thus, II is maintained,
the board made a blunder yesterday.
It should refrain from secret ballots in
future, no matter the proposition IN
der consideration. The public should
know where members Of the board
stand on every question that comes
before that body for a vote
The Argus in this issue is giving the
alignment Of the vote on the chair
nanship as nearly accurate as 1t has
been able to obtain It. If 1t has put
any member where he does not belong
1t will gladly rectify its error.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
ROMANCE OBLITERATED.

Now that the agitation for eugenics
has taken all the romance out Of mar
riage, nothing that may be suggested
is at all surprising. For some time we
have been leaving God out Of the dis
cussion and giving all the credit to
the stork, and now along comes a
scientific gentleman, who demands
that youth restrain itself contending
that the progeny is superior when the
parents are mature. He has been Civ
ing money prizes for proofs on the
subject and now goes so far as to de-
mand a law to prevent the marriage
Of minors.
This business is liable to be car
ried so far that We shall eventually
have system like that of the early
Mormons with sires graded as If herd
books were being kept.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Selected by Tavenner

times In Keystone politics. The Brum-
baughs and the Penroses would all
have to sit up and take notice Henry
Ford might not carry Pennsylvania, as
he carried Michigan, but he would
have sufficient support to make him
a formidable factor in the contest.
The friends of peace all over the
country might do worse than take the
hint which Michigan has offered. There
Is manifest room in this presidential
atruggle for some candidate repre-
senting the aspirations and the seated
convictions Of the millions who bear
the heat and burden of the day and
who look with scant favor on the huge
schemes of military and naval ag-
grandtzement which are being so We
hemently urged In many quarters
Johnstown pa Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
A Blind Girls Ideas.
(By Helen Keller.)

Step by step my investigation OF
blindness led me into the industrial
world. And what a world 1t is! l
must face unf1inchingly world OF
facts-a world Of misery and degrade
ton, of blindness, crookedness, and
sin, world struggling against the
elements, against the unknown,
against Itself How reconcile this
world Of fact with the bright world
Of my imagining? My darkness had
been filled with the light Of intelli-
gence, and, behold, the outer day-lit
world was stumbling and cropping in
social blindness At first I was most
unhappy; but deeper study restored
my confidence BY learning the suf-
ferings and burdens Of men, be-
came aware as never before of the
life-power that has survived the
forces Of darkness-the power which,
though never completely victorious,
is continuously conquering. The very
fact that we are still here carrying on
the contest against the hosts of ami
hilation proves that on the whole the
battle has gone for humanity. The
worlds great heart has proved equal
to the prodigious undertaking which
God set it. Rebuffed, but always per-
severing; self-reproached, but ever
regalning faith; undaunted, tenacious,
the heart Of man labors towards i'm
measurably distant goals. Dfscourag-
ed not by difficulties without, or the
anguish Of ages within, the heart lis
tens to secret voice that whispers:
BE not dismayed; in the future lies
the Promised Land"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
dEALTHT TALKS
William Brady.n.D.
Too Much Study.

Although "overwork" and excess
i've study" are seized upon as conven-
lent explanations for a lot of dismal
failures, which are in reality due to
other and less admirable causes, 1t is
impossible to escape the fact that a
great many young people in high
schools and colleges lay the founda-
ton for lifetime of i'll health in too
much study. Competent pedagogues
recognize this fact when they list
among the essential requirements for
promotion the essential requirements
for promotion or graduation such ath-
letic accomplishments as swimming or
fencing.
1t is a sad and rather frightful
thing to see young high school girls
dragging home night after night a
great armful of books to pore over, in
stead of devoting the evenings to mu-
sic dancing, visiting or some healthful
recreation. Rather an ordinary, but
well balanced young woman than
prodigy of learning with a poorly de-
veloped body and nerves" or delicate
health.
At the risk of bringing down upon
us the ire of schoolmasters. we say
that a normal boy or girl should be
able to get along satisfactorily in high
school without night work-that If the
five hours spent at school each day
will not suffice for all necessary study,
something is wrong with the system OF
instruction.
Five hours per day is ample for &C
tual brain work, at least for young
people. If more than that is attempt
ed health is endangered. If more than
five hours were required for the nor
NAL, the average, our schools would
have longer sessions.
The evening should be the students
own. Not to be spent In dance halls,
or anywhere except at home, or at
the home of responsible people, or at
least under the supervision of relia-
BILE adults.
Eye-strain, spinal curvature, neu-
rasthenia, anaemia, tuberculosis, and
sometimes actual mental alteration
may be brought on or favored by too
much study.
Better a healthy "bonehead" than a
sickly marvel.
Somehow, in real life. the head of
his class" rarely shines conspicuously.
In fact. 1t is rather a misfortune for
boy or girl to graduate with honors.
NO night study. Let the young brains
nave change of work. Don't allow
ambitious teachers to convert your
home into school annex.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Daily History Class-April 19.

1660-Philipp Melanchthon. reformer
and coadjutor of Luther, died.
born 149T.
1775-Hostilities between colonials ana
British broke out at Lexington and
Concord, Mass.
17SS-Washington published TO the ar
my the proclamation OF peace with
Great Britain.
1906-Fires due TO the earthquake RACED
In San Francisco. over S0oOV
homeless people,
19l5-Germans repulsed British at
tacks around Ypres. French re"
ports stated that the Germans
fred fifty incendiary shells On
Rheims.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

When Dr.. David Jayne Hill laments
over loss Of prestige because we do
not fight, he forgets that nations with
arms In their hands are in far worse
plight and to bring US down to their
level are trying to draw US into their
shameful conflict. There is such a
thing as prestige Of reason and right
and the United States is the only great
power that has any Of it worth men
tiouing,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

Marriages In Great Britain at the
present time will be regarded with
suspicion inasmuch as married men
will not be forced into the army. The
patriotic girl will refuse to be led to
the altar until her intended can show
that he is not afflicted with cold feet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

Many business men of Decatur, Ill,
were arrested last Sunday for violat-
ing the so-called blue laws and the
town is all wrought up over the mat
ter. The silly laws OF this character
that intrude in our statutes should be
annulled, but the law-maker with suf-
ficient moral courage has yet to come
forward to move their repeal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Pointed Paragraphs.


Transgressors should be made to
pay road tax.
It's easy for the average woman to
keep secret-going.
When all is lost save honor some
men get on their dignity.
You're not the only one; there are
others who talk too much.
Marriage isn't necessarily a failure,
but It's seldom what it ought to be.
You can soon fill your purse by add
ing little more than you take out.
One Of the ambitions OF the average
man is to do those he has been done
by.
A man without a collar button is az
most as helpless as woman without
hairpin.
There's something wrong with the
bride who doesn't select a homelier
girl than herself for bridesmaid.
Blessed be the tie that binds not"
would be an appropriate slogan for the
Ohio woman who has been divorced
seven times.-Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Vigorous.

Victim-If your hair restorer 10
good, why is It that you are bald your
self? Barber-Well. sir. once l had
a very big order for ladies plaits, and
to execute it l used some extra doses
OF my restorer over my hair and got
dozen long plaits. sir. But il drew all
the hair out of my constitution, sir
London Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
An Amateur Mother.

Is it advisable for an expectant
mother TO have small amount of dem
tai work done? Please name a good
book on the care of a new baby.
Answer-By all means have any
necessary dental work done. THE
Care of the Baby" by DR.. Griffiths Nv.
B. Saunders Company: Our Baby"
by DR.. Clock (Appleton'sl; THE Care
and Feeding of Children" by Dr.. Holt
(Appleton's). are all suitable.
Why Do Some Eyes Look Larger Than
=. Others!
Please explain why my sisters eyes
look larger than mine. yet measure ex-
actly the same.
Answer-She may have wider palpe-
bral commissure-lids wider apart
and perhaps larger pupils, and shading
about eyes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Sentiment and Grnnch.

Upsen-There is no sadder moment
in a mothers life than that when she
is putting a patch on her boys pants.
She needs must think that the day will
come when some other woman will be
doing the Job.
Downs-Yes. and the other woman
will also be filed with sense of grief
to think that she can't wear en-
Richmond Times Dispatch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

And now Holland has sent over two
agents who say they are going to buy
100000 or S10,000,O0O worth of stuff
a year! 1t looks as if business were
not going TO get any rest at all
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

Answer-We will gladly help teach
you that, if you will spend four years
in medical school and about year
as inferno in the hospital. 1t can't be
done In less time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Too Much Prosperity.

A fine Plymouth Rock rooster val
ued at $3.50 dropped dead In his coop
at the Fort Worth poultry show. I'M
mediately after having been awarded
the first prize.-Terry County TEX
Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Rivalry In Mackinaw.

Byron Barnard is adding a large
front porch to his residence in the west
part of town. Clarence Smith, on the
same street, is building an addition to
the back of his home.-Mackinaw cor
respondence of Peoria Transcript.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

Vote as you will, accept or reject the
Legislative measures put before you
1t will not affect the ministry now in
office as whole. whose existence de-
ponds on your continued support of its
foreign policy and not on its home leg
1slative proposals"
That this new constitutional prece-
dent should have startled some people
and led members of the opposition
parties Of the right to ask: what has
become OF ministerial responsibility?
is not surprising. 1.-THE basic rule that
ministers are responsible that was
introduced into demonstration when
the liberal party was at the height of
its power, Is thus set on one side by
the government, by this classic liberal
prime minister" says the Tyd. The
debacle Of the liberal administration is
consummated by this extra-parliamen-
tary cabinet. Begun by breaking the
continuity Of legislation, continued by
suspending collective responsibility, it
ends by declaring ministers no longer
responsible" Such sharp criticism
may be we'll founded, but most people
in Holland seem to be agreed that
forms and precedents must not stand
in the way of the vital interests and
safety Of the country.
Paris.-(Correspondence Of The
Associated Press.)-Charles Valiant,
head of the photographic laboratory Of
the Lariboisiere hospital in Paris, has
announced successful means of re-
placing the present costly process Of
X-ray photographing on a glass mega
tive with printing directly on to paper.
Vaillant's new process uses ordinary
sensitized paper for taking radium
photographs. The cost of the paper is
only Goth part of that of the glass
negative, and there is also a saving in
weight and space.
Valiant has only three fingers left
out of ten, namely two foref1ngers and
thumb. the forefnger of the left
hand and the thumb and forefnger of
the right. The rest of his fingers he
lost, one after another by holding
them at the end of a tube thus trying
on himself the penetrative effects of
the radium rays. Repeated amputa-
tlon, however did not lessen Vaillant's
enthusiasm. He is already the dis
coverer Of photographic method of
determining whether or not an infant
was born dead or alive.
The infant born dead comes out on
the negative completely dark, whereas
It's having uttered a cry, or lived an
instant, an hour, or 10 hours, is proved
by the development on the plate first
OF the stomach and then of the lungs.
The practical legal result Is that in
iantlcide can now be detected without
recourse to an autopsy.
For the moment Valliant's mind is
on getting the most out
OF photography for the benefit of the
wounded In war. 81 want" he saws
TO extract all the secrets | can from
so as to help the surgeon IN
operate with greater certainty and
save as many heroes as possible. NV
little personal war is with science and
mean TO make her pay me my ampu-
tations."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Rock Island-From River to
River.

Speaking Of preparedness and also
OF the trend OF events. Kansas City
high school boys are being taught to
cook.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
c ORDS and
D I S CO R D S
Observation-Disclosures

SOME people call villa coward"
writes John Dough. "Remember-he
has three wives!"
FARMER friend was discussing the
shortage OF chickens just as we were
opening our mail this a. M, one Of the
letters, which was from F. l.. c., ad-
vising that Miss lima Teeny Fowle
is resident of Cedar Rapids"
DR. Elizabeth Baer is running for
congress in Pennsylvania. And her
supporters declare she Is all that her
name implies.
SPEAKING OF commercial candor,"
says B. l.. T. in the Chicago Trib, I'VE
observed yesterday the truck of a
whisky concern loaded with cases of
Peruna."
Il SEE by a paper from my old home
town in West Virginia." postcards L.
T. E.. that Andrew Goat is seeking
the Office Of constable. Despite that
he butted in at the 18th hour, it is
said that he Is the strongest OF the
several candidates in the field"
GLADYS Hanson, the actress, has
married her press agent. Charles EN-
erson Cook. She couldn't very we'll
refuse a man who had said so many
nice things In print about her as Cook
had.
ONE thing his friends have always
claimed for Judge K M. Lands Is that
he is not afraid Of any proposition, no
matter how complicated. AS proof of
this assertion, 1t might be mentioned
that he is to personally examine %
Chinese who are fighting deportation.
THE Standard Oil company of Ohio
has announced 100 per cent divi.
den. John D. will probably be In
mood to address the Sunday school
this week on the Joy Of doing by your
neighbor as you would have him do by
you.
CHICAGO democrats are using
bombs in their efforts to get political
control" says the Peoria Transcript
And the republicans are using buns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
Doesn't Even Pull.

Ad In a London newspaper: mo
manned Osman. hair cutter and clean
shaver. Gentlemen's threats cut with
very sharp razors with great care and
skill. No irritating feeling afterward."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Ii Would Take Five Years.

Please tell me how to diet and treat
nervous mother who has attacks sew
eral times Q day,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-19

AN Ohioan killed an heiress and then
committed suicide. Police have failed
to discover a motive. Our Office de-
tective suggests that inasmuch as
money is the root of all evil, it
wouldn't be a bad guess to say that
there was another man getting closer
to the cash than the one who pulled
the trigger.