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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
HENRY JAMES.

In the immediate or ultimate esti-
mates Of the place that Henry James
his father likewise-and William
James played In the intellectual activ-
files OF their time, account will no
doubt be taken OF the dominatingly
Celtic ancestry. They were partly
Scotch, and hence speculative. They
were mostly Irish, and hence intently
interested in humanity, and sensitive
TO all the shadings of sentiment and
conviction that men and women can
know.
To the educator the career OF
Henry James, novelist, must have sig
nifcance because Of its informal and
eclectic quality, because OF the large
part that parental training, cultural
environment, intercourse with emf
nent men and travel had upon a
youth, and because Of the correspond
ing lack of that formal, pedagogically
orthodox and vigorously disciplined
sort OF education which the ordinary
man, and not q few men of letters
with the academic stamp upon them,
undergo. His champions no doubt at
tribute much of his achievement, as
thinker and stylist. to the individual
istic quality Of his education, and to
the fact that he was SO free to go
where he pleased and to make his
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
Selected by Tavenner

been selling armor to Japan for 500
ton less than its price to the United
States" And this paper goes on to
say:
ut has not declined to go into COM
petition with government-owned arm
or plate factory Of Japan, even though
1t was forced down to figure which
it claims will be ruinous as applied to
it's contracts with the United States
government
1.-THE armor-plate trust in the Unit
ed States Is part Of an international
combine which affects all countries in
the world excep. Japan.
How much patriotism is there in
armor-plate manufacturers who would
dismantle their plants rather than sell
armor to the American government at
their price to the japanese govern
ment?
at matters not whether the Japan
ese contracts were taken by the Beth
lehem company, the Midvale company,
or one of the others-their prices to
the United States are so nearly iden-
|tical that no competition exists, and
they are all mixed up in the Harvey
trust
The New York World reminds us
that in the investigation of 1896 it was
shown that whereas the United States
had been charged $40 ton for armor-
plate. the product was regularly sold
to foreign governments for $249 a
ton" OF the present attitude of the
manufacturers The World says:
"Monopolistic arrogance has never
gone further than in this instance. Our
armor-plate makers are the chief ben
eficiaries of the traffic in munitions of
war. At the expense Of many
friendships the government has sup
ported them in their legal rights, but
there is not denial of the fact that
they are coming money out of blood
and hatred. The hands that they now
raise menacingly against nation by
whose neutrality they have profited
are filled with the gains of a business
that ignores the moralities and is con-
tent to stand upon the strict letter of
the law.
These are the men who have COM
plicated the question of national de-
| Tense by their gluttonous attempt to
bend the whole movement to their own
selfish interest. With pockets stuffed
as result of the agony of Europe,
they have sought to make of the ne
cessity for reasonable defense at home
an opportunity to Cypress a people at
peace. They want the government to
protect them, their property and their
trade. They even expect the govern
ment to go to war in their behalf. Yet
suggestion Of independence on the
part of that government is met by the
terrorism of monopolistic prices to-
day and of dismantled plants tomor-
row."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
NEW HEAD OF TUSKOGEE

and disciplinarian at Hampton 1nsti-
tute, directly assisting DR.. Frissell,
and has had every sort of administra-
tive problem to meet, with both negro
and Indian students. To him also has
fallen many of those delicate adjust
ments in the relationship Of the white
and negro races around which center
the most difficult problems In south
ern life. For this delicate labor Major
Motion has had rare training in con-
tact with white men both north and
south. He has made many trips north
with the Hampton speakers and sing
ers to help in the money-raising cam
paigns. and his work as a trustee of
several negro institutions and organi-
cations has brought him into close
touch with white opinion"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04

own cultural environment. His crit
les. with equal certainty, will prob
ably claim that II he had been less
detached from institutions, religious,
political, academic and domestic, he
would have made more positive eth
ical contribution to his time and to
posterity, and been less hayward and
vague and tenuous as a stylist.
Though a native of the United
States, and of late a subject of the
British crown, Mr.. James undoubted-
ly had gone farther on the way Of
being citizen Of the world" than
any other man of letters yet bred and
educated in the Anglo-American ira
ditions, says the Christian Science
Monitor. Long years of residence on
the continent, in centers where the
typical fruits OF varying sorts Of occi-
dental civilizations could be studied,
enabled him, with his searching eye
and subtly analytical mentality, to
study Slav, Teuton, Briton. Latin, and
American as none Of his Anglo-Amer-
lean contemporaries could do. So
that in the production of the distinc-
lively international novel, written
alphabetically from many points of
view, and knowingly because so OBJ
jectively done, he stands In a class
by himself.
AS for his books descriptive of ex-
Of hn
presence of great works of art, and
studies at close range of the leading
men of letters of his time, they also
gain in authority and value because
of his comprehension Of more than
one sort of culture" and because of
the slight quality of racial partisan
ship to be detected in his works. Nor
are critics lacking who claim for the
essays and studies of this man, who
knew his Paris and Rome as well as
his Boston and London, much more
enduring respect and fame than for
his fiction, especially the novels writ
ten during recent years. But, be the
verdict of time what 1t may on his
style, or on his method OF registering
his own or his fictitious character s
gradations of impression and inner
reactions on experience, the fact re-
mains that, in his prefaces to the
definitive edition of his novels, and
in his critical essays, he has lef,
some carefully ordered disquisitions
on his calling as novelist and as crit,
ic, about his motives as an artist, and
! about the conditions under which ar
lists have had to work during a
complex and far from idealistic stage
Of society," in western Europe and in
America, which will become more
valuable with the passing years If he
was not simple, neither were his
| times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
THREAT OF THE ARMOR.PLATE
MAKERS.
(The Literary Digest.)

About the most audacious warning
ever given congress by private inter-
ests remarks the Chicago Tribune Qnd.
Rep, is the threat of the armor-plate
manufacturers to add Immediately
$500 ton to the price of their pro-
duct, and eventually to dismantle
their plants if the bill providing for a
government armor-plate plant becomes
law. Not often" agrees the Cleveland
Plain Dealer Dem.), has a govern
ment been offered more openly de-
fiant proposition" rs this result of
the long years of tariff-nursing? it
adds, remembering that a pampered
child is first to turn against its par
ents. Comparing the threat of the
manufacturers to the methods of the
BLACK Hand" the New York World
(lnd. DEM asserts that the situation
calls for something more than mo-
mentary Indignation And 1t sug-
gests that it is the duty of the Senate
to arraign Senator Penrose, through
whom the threat was conveyed, and
the men for whom he spoke.
The intentions of the manufacturers
were announced by Senator Penrose to
| the senate committee on naval affairs
when that body was considering the
| Tillman bill to provide for an 81 ,000,-
1000 government-owned armor-plate
plant. The Brooklyn Eagle Und.
Dem.) reminds us that Of the three
private plants now making armor-
plate. two-the Bethlehem and the
Midvale-are in Pennsylvania, Mr. Pen
roses state. After listening to the
warning of the Pennsylvania senator,
| the committee Endorsed the bill by a
vote Of to 8.
| Senator Tillman, chairman of the
naval committee, is reported as "ab-
solutely certain that my bill will pass,
and a New York Tribune dispatch
quotes him as saying: 1--WE will find
some way to beat that aggregation OF
robbers" Another senator pointed out
that if the armor manufacturers made
good their threat and eXacted the eX-
ira 5000 a ton on the naval-building
program outlined by the administrar
ton, it would mean an added cost of
$24,000,00O, as the big ships proposed
would need about 10000 tons OF
armor. Uncle Sam has been paying an
average price of about S439 for his
naval armor, we are told, and Repre-
sentative Clyde H. Tavenner Dem
Of Illinois, who introduced the bill in
the house, estimates that the govern
ment could make its own armor-plate
for $500 ton. Secretary Daniels, we
are told, places the figures as low as
1852 ton. 1T is worth recollecting, >
remarks the Des Moines Register and
Leader Qnd. Rep, that the armor-
plate trust. of the United States has
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
HEALTH TALK
William Brady.M.D.
Worms.

Grandma is as sure the sun as she
is that babies and older children have
worms. And once in long while she
just happens to be right-about the
worms. But this is coincidence, not
a diagnosis. There are no symptoms
which can, with even a fair degree of
probability, be attributed to worms. In
fact, what grandma insists is worms
fever, nausea, vomiting, heavy, sweet
breath, flushed cheeks, white lines
about the mouth. etc.-are usually
symptoms Of acute intestinal indiges-
ton or acid intoxication, from dietetic
errors. But occasionally the trouble
really is due to round worms in the
bowel.
The only way in which a correct d.
agnosis Of worms may be made is by
finding worms or their eggs in the
stools. Makes no difference whether
it be round worms, thread worms (pin
worms, seat worms, tapeworms. or
hookworms, the diagnosis cannot be
made unless the worms are found in
the stool of their eggs discovered by
microscopical examination.
But supposing child really has
been convicted on something better
than circumstantial evidence, towit,
the passing of one or more round
worms or pin worms, what should be
done in the way of treatment? Give
the poor. helpless child somebody's al
legged "worm-expeller" for a few
weeks? Feed him worm powders I'M
til he rebels? No.
Be 1t hookworm, tapeworms, round
worms or pin worms, this is the ideal
treatment:
Send the patient TO bed with sup
per Of only bread and milk. In the
morning administer to a child one cap.
sule of five drops of oil of chenopod-
ium (American wormseed), or give the
five drops on little sugar. Two hours
later a dose Of castor oil or aromatic
syrup of rhubarb. That ends the
treatment II NO worms come away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04

cents His brother. Ben, had bss,
Ing bis money and had got enouuh !.
gether to begin TO think about mat
an Investment on a larger scale n wa
soon after Sans return that tho 80 ~
inal owner Of this property died ps
not having enough money to carry =.
his enterprise called on his Mo-. ~
to go In with him. Sam said tb.t !.
didn't want to make any more NOW.
than he had already, but he ro-,.
loan Ben all he wanted.
II was then studying law with D..
Rogers attorney and know wbs,.,.
I'm going to tell you. Sam pa,d :.
attention to the securities his bro.h..
gave him and one day voka nm :.
learn that he had been svindlsI ~.
Of all he possessed. He never .o,d
any one how he lost his fortune .rs
enJoined secrecy on bis brothers :.
torneys. BY this time he was too IA
to make another fortune and lived
precarious life till he finally died fro,,
want of proper sustenance and md,
cal attendance. A number Of no,.o..
whom he had befriended bought i.
In the cemetery and buried him tb.,.
Ben Rogers became the most ,nsu.
entail man in the town, and when snr
important town matter was to b. A..
cided he was called upon for his on,n.
ion He built a church on a wortbl...
tract Of land he owned and sold Off n.
rest Of the tract for another forum.
he established other institutions. eon
irving to make money out Of an 0.
them.
When he died he left money for
suitable monument, desiring that bs
should be buried In the park that ho-,
his name and which It had given him
30 much pleasure to have provided for
the enjoyment Of the people Of his M.
tive town. His executors had been In.
structed by him before his death n
provide that statue, for which and in
pedestal $4,000 had been provided IN
the will"
When the narrator had finished hia
story expressed a desire to visit the
grave Of Samuel Rogers. He told me
that the cemetery was not half mile
away, and I determined to take a
stroll in that direction. He also told
me where to find the grave in among
the less desirable lots I thanked him
for his story and passed on.
When 1 reached the cemetery l ask
ed a we'll to do looking person I saw
there II he could direct me to the
grave Of Samuel Rogers. He looked at
me doubtfully, then said:
II reckon you're looking for the mon
ument Of Benjamin Rogers. the philan-
thropist and founder of Rogers park.
It's In the center of the town"
I passed on and presently at little
distance saw a grave covered with
flowers. Approaching 1t, I read on
cheap headstone the name Samuel
Rogers, the friend Of the poor"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
The Daily Story
Divergent Paths-By Donald Chamberlin.

Having business In a small town tn
the west l found within its limits a
very pretty park bounded by substan-
tial Improvements. In its center was
bronze statue Of man in civilians
dress, In one hand roll Of parchment.
fancied that the original was either
a distinguished public man or a philan-
thropist-quite likely the latter. Meet
ing a man who appeared to occupy an
average position In the town accosted
him and asked him whom the statue
represented.
There's a story connected with It"
he replied, "and If you will sit beside
me on one Of these benches I will tell
it to you
We seated ourselves, and he told me
the following story:
This is Rogers park, and that is a
statue Of Ben Rogers, who founded it
More than fifty years ago Ben and Sam
Rogers were boys, somewhat ragged,
playing marbles and ball and such 9TH
er boys games right here where this
park is now located. It was then a
vacant tract and considered worthless.
Now the property bordering on 1t Is
worth millions.
Sam Rogers, the younger brother,
was picked out for failure In life be-
cause be couldn't hold on to his money.
He was what was called chicken heart
ed, and whenever he saw any one In
trouble for want Of money down went
his hand into his pocket. Ben, on the
contrary, was marked for a rich man.
He looked out for himself and rolled
up money In a small way from the time
he was ten years old.
Ben Rogers stayed right here IN
this town and accumulated money
slowly till the man who owned the land
on which we are sitting died, and it
was sold out for a song. Ben bought
it and conceived the idea Of making q
park Of It. He secured options on all
the bordering property, then gave his
original purchase to the town on con-
ditlon they would make park Of it.
Sam Rogers when about twenty-five
years old left the town, regretted by
every impecunious person in 1t. The
more successful citizens said, "a good
radiance" At the end of a dozen
years Sam came back and surprised
every one by bringing fortune with
him. When asked how he got 1t he
said 1t was by pure luck This was
all they could get out of him, but l
learned the truth long after his death.
He had loaned a man a hundred dol
lars to save a piece Of property he
owned, the property afterward be
came very valuable, and when the
owner died, having no one else to
leave 1t to, he left 1t to Sam Rogers
Sam on his return resumed his CIV
ing to needy persons, only he now gave
$40 where formerly he had given 10
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
The Night l Slated With Kate

The Night l Slated With Kate.
There is no provision against COLI
sion
When lovers don skates for a glide.
It's Katie and Satie-the time it is
"matey"-
With Jim and in on the side.
Jim does all the fancy of blades
necromancy,
Can cut a love-knot on the ice;
But | am pusher of the outer slider
rusher-
Plain skating considered not nice.
We're gliding from troubles the while
the heart bubbles
Jim's cutting Saties name; it was
To see his blades shifty do such a stunt
nifty
Whilst l plainly glide on with Kate.
Rates eyes so enhancing, they set my
heart dancing;
Her little hand tucked meath my
Grips me till Jingle. We hit In a min
gle
OF love that is mixed to charm.
We met in the middle Of the pond; the
riddle
Is easy to solve. found Satie
Grown chilly to Jimmy-and, say,
well, by blimy
/ got her, and Jimmy got Kate.
Horace Seymour Keller.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04

Writing of Major Robert r. Notion,
who has recently been appointed
principal Of Tuskegee Institute to sue
coed the late Booker T. Washington,
in the March issue of the Worlds
Work, Ray Stannard Baker says:
Motion is perhaps little less mag
netic as a personality than Washing
ton, and lacks little of the rare
strain of poetry and humor which so
well fitted Washington for his difficult
pioneer work. But he is a strong and
able speaker and a sensible.
and tactful man. And he has had a
training in methods of discipline and
organization which the older leader
never had. He has been for more than
20 years the commandant of cadets
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
Lowest Pauperism Record.

London.-The record for pauperlSm
for England and Wales during the past
year is the lowest ever reached. Com-
pairing 1875 with 1915, the ratio shows
a decrease from 29.2 10 1913 per thou
sand, falling away of practically one
half. Pauperism in London separately
has not declined in the same proper
ton, nevertheless the percentage has
in this period been cut down from za's
to 1879. AS compared with 1914, las
year showed a decrease in every dlsi,
sion of England and Wales OF 6s'fV-
persons, or IL per cent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04

your diagnosis is wrong, or else your
family doctor will have to help you
out Of the predicament. For an adult
the same treatment may be applied,
except that 10 drops of the oil may be
given, and repeated two or three
mornings if necessary. But for a child
once is sufficient. Any alleged worm
medicine" that is given at intervals
over a period of days is worse than
useless.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
"PureIy Vegetable Nonsense.

Is there any hygienic objection to
taking purely vegetable laxative tab
let every night?
Answer-The same objection that
applies to any drug habit. Purely
vegetable" would, of course, not ex-
clude strychnin. opium. belladonna,
hyoscine, and various other drugs one
should not take lightly.
HemOrrh0ids.
What would you advise person Of
SO to do for an obstinate and trouble
some case Of piles?
Answer-Send us a stamped, ad-
dressed envelope for monograph upon
the subject.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
Picking Excited Over Street Car Talk.

Il
Peking-(CorresponGence of the AS
ISOLATED Press. Picking is again alive
with rumors that the city is to have a
street railway system. Although the
city has a population of about one mil
lion inhabitants, it has never had any
sort of street cars Rickshaws drawn
by coolies afford the chief means Of
transportation. Old-fashioned Chinese
and Manchus cling to the clumsy Pek-
ing cart, which Is a heavy, two-wheel
wooden cart, without springs, drawn
by single horse or mule. The cart
has an ark-like cover, under which
passengers sit in crouching position.
The driver sits on a small extension
in front of this cover with his legs
dangling at the horses heels.
Roads about Picking are so bad and
many of the streets are so narrow
that automobiles are little used, and
even carriages are not as satisfactory
as rickshaws which can worm their
way into the narrowest alleys.
An American company Is now re-
ported to have made overtures for the
street car franchise. Several months
ago an English and French combina-
ton was bidding for the street car
privilege in Picking, and at one time il
was reported to have entered into a
contract with the government. The
minister of the interior, Chu Chi
CHEN, who is acting director of the
Picking municipality, has called gen
eral meeting Of officials for discus
sion of the proposed street car lines.
The Chinese are eager for an improved
transportation system.
Picking has two railway stations
which are on the opposite sides of the
city, distance of more than four miles
apart This trip requires nearly an
hour in rickshaw. In the days when
time was of little value to the Chinese
suggestions concerning electric stree,
railways were ignored. But now time
has come to be more of a factor in
Chinese life, and there seems to be
little opposition to electric cars.
The summer palace, which is prob
ably the greatest show place in the
vicinity of Picking, is about twelve
miles from the legation quarter, and
in the vicinity of Using Hua college
which is sustained by the Boxers in.
demnity funds RENTED by the Amerf
can government. These two points Of
interest are much sought by tourists
and will probably be connected up by
electricity when the city gets stree
car system. The Ming tombs, the Nan
kou pass on the great wall, and score:
of other points OF interest less than
one hundred miles from Picking, AFFORD
a great opportunity for an electric in
terurban system. Tien-tsin, the sea
port for Picking, is only so miles away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
P0ck Marks.

How can peck marks be removed
from the face? If olive oil or an ONT
ment had been applied to the sores,
would it have prevented pitting?
Answer-They cannot be removed
Maybe the anti-vaccinators could tell
you how to remove them. Neither
olive Oil nor ointment would prevent
pitting in smallpox. Be vaccinated-
that is the only preventive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
New Method of Raising Fund.

acknowledgement, a southern SUI,
urb of London. has grown tlreu y.
flag days, bazars and other methoas u
collecting for the numerous War-til'
charities. So it has passed an olu-
nance banning them all, replaotse
them with a scheme formulated by tne
mayor. Under the scheme two ceh'S
a week will be collected from ea0n
family in the borough, thus creating .
fund from which the mayor VIII pay
out specified weekly grants " NV
various war funds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
Needless Worry About LeprOsy.

III a certain publication receives let
ters from a leper. and publishes the
letters, is there any danger to readers
In handling copies of that publication?
Answer-Leprosy is no more con-
tagious than tuberculosis,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04
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, 1916-03-04

Colonel Roosevelt is having the
stage set for a sensational rampage
in the republican national convention.
He is refusing to permit his name to
be used in the primary elections. He
wants to take them by surprise on the
convention floor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-04

1t is safe to assume that Britain
was the prime mover in the seizure
of German merchantmen by Portugal,
which is Britain's ally, but, like Italy.
holds an anomalous position in the
war