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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
The Daily Story
A Double Robbery-By Ehnor Marsh.

did to me-" cried Miss Granger. trs,.
| bling with excitement.
The clerk looked puzzled.
"She took it from under my ptIlor. -,
continued the lady, and put II In r.
stocking. Then she tried to steal ~.
of the room without my KNOWING !.
But she dropped the stocking, and ~.
got my money back"
"Oh, my goodness gracioust~ cr,.a
the roommate. What d story tn No..
up a theft! ! heard you moving ahor,
the room, and
you didn't hear any such thing -.
torted Miss Granger. Il didn't gel or,
of bed till after you had left the roor, =
Maybe you were nervous" said n.
clerk to the roommates. The la,
person TO occupy this room complains5
of mice in the walls"
"Why don't you make her show wb.,
she's got?'' replied the roommate to ~
clerk
did you have money with your,
asked the clerk OF Miss Granger
when you came here?'
Yes, a whole lot of it,"
How much?"
"A thousand dollars, besides money
for expenses"
Let me see It,"
Miss Granger produced the ron aha
had taken from the stocking.
What denomination? ?" asked tha
clerk before making an examination
Ten 800 bills and $50 in smaller
bills"
The clerk opened the roll and found
ten, two fives and six one dollar
bills.
ooh, heavens!" exclaimed Miss
Granger.
You contemplate thief" snarled
the roommate triumphantly.
Miss Granger did not hear. Without
remembering that there was a man
present and she was in her nightgown,
she jumped out of bed ard began to
pull it about. While she was doing so
the clerk took up another roll OF bills
from under the head Of the bed
Opening them, he found that they tai
lied with Miss Granger's description
of her lost funds.
What rot" he exclaimed Impatient
", "to make all this racket for moth
ing! I'll know better another time
than to put two women in the same
room"
He gave each lady her funds and
was about to depart when the room
mate refused TO pass the rest Of the
night in the same apartment with Miss
Granger, and he was obliged to put her
in another chamber. Miss Granger
locked herself in, but there was no
more sleep for her that night The
next morning she paid off the mort
gage and found herself infinitely more
contented and happy with bundle OF
Cancelled documents than with good
money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
PRESIDENTS DIPLOMACY
AGAIN,

In his efforts to adjust the threaten
ed railroad strike President Wilson
has been applying the peculiarly
striking brand of diplomacy that has
proven so signally successful in his
international negotiations He has
been fair. but firm The press dis
patches Of yesterday attempted to
show that the president had put the
burden of agreement on the men. In
stead. he has put it up to the man
ayers to say whether or not a calam-
ity shall be prevented.
The president has made fair prop
oslt1on which the brotherhoods have
accepted. and it is now up to the rail-
roads. II is this, that the principles
for which the men are contending-an
eight-hour day and time and a half
for oyertime-be given a reasonable
trial, and at the expiration of a GER
tain period a federal commission de-
termine whether the resultant ex-
pense to the corporations is prohib-
tive.
If the railroads concede this much,
the danger will be past. It is up TO
them. The presidents proposition
must be accepted. however, as a
square deal all around.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Products will be forbidden to be moved
from one state to another if they have
been derived from mines or quarries in
which children less than 16 years OF
age are employed, or from mills,
workshops, factories, canneries or 9TH
er manufacturing establishments which
employ children less than IA years of
age.
This legislation if it stands the test
of the courts, will have a marked ten
dency to elevate the standards under
which the great army of child workers
performs its tasks. Under the various
state laws standards have been far
from uniform. Consequently these
laws have been difficult of enforce
ment. With the federal law in opera
ton the tendency should be to unity
and strengthen state laws and to still
the common cry of unfair competition
due.to differences in standards.
Generally speaking the effects of
careful enforcement of the national
child labor law should be highly bene-
fetal in various ways and should
lead soon to correlative legislation,
such as a national measure for the
promotion of vocational training.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
The Kanearoo's Kick.

When a big "old man" kangaroo
stiffens his tail and converts it into
sort of revolving pivot bearing ins
whole weight of his body leaving hls
tremendously powerful legs free LOT
attack or defense, everybody who does
not want to be ripped up or thrown 10
a heap for a considerable distance wiz
give the marsupial a wide berth. olr
ly those who have seen the full grown
kangaroo in his native Austrian busn
with his back TO a tree. scattering
dogs, bleeding and torn, right and lell'
can form any adequate idea OF the
prodigious strength the animal is cap
able of exerting when he finds HIM
self in a tight corner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
PORK" AND THE NEAR
RELATIVES"

Candidate Hughes has INDUCED in a
humber Of silly statements in his
knocking tour Of the country but in
none has he been more inconsistent
than in his attack upon the administra-
ton alleging the distribution of pork"
among favored friends and sections
and the bestowing of political recogni-
ton among relatives of those in power
10 the utter disregard of cne public
service and the civil service restric-
tions.
The pork barrel" like the Mexican
situation, came down to the democratic
party as a legacy of long years of I'M
interrupted republican rule. It be-
came so fragrant in its use under Pres
1dent Roosevelt that upon entering Of
fee Pre.t dent Taft cried out in protest
against it, and solemnly declared there
was TO be ''no pork barrel" while he
was president. But the pork barrel"
continued undisturbed as a somewhat
necessary evil, a striking evidence of
which WAS the erection of a palatial
pOstoffice building in Speaker Joe Can
mons home city of Danville. The
structure occupies a square block, was
erected at a cost of a quarter of
million dollars, is finished in marble,
and is one of the costhest and most
magnificent federal buildings or Its
size in the country, notwithstanding
that il was designed exclusively for
postofice purposes. 1t is an institu-
ton TO which the people of Danville
point with just pride-and no one be
grudges 1t to them. Government build
ings are a good thing, and We are all
after the best. But speaking of pork"
and the influence of a political pull
with the party in power, there is a
monumental as well as enduring ex-
ample of it And there are scores Of
others.
AS TO the accusation that the rela-
tives of representative democrats have
been taken care of. the charge is
equally far fetched and ridiculous
When the democrats went into power
after 20 years of republican rule, they
found the public service in Washing
ton honeycombed with the relatives
and near relatives of leading republi-
cans Cabinet ministers, senators and
representatives had taken care Of their
kin and next of kin. IL was not only
so in Washington, but IL reached out
vice In the country where those in
charge had gotten their relatives into
permanent jobs sheltered, by the man
tie Of the civil service There has
been no disturbance of these ap-
pOintees By the democrats on assuming
control in the majority of Instances.
They have been allowed TO remain so J
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
MECHANICAL TESTS OF THE
HEART.

No examination of a patient with
heart disease is complete without a
chemical and microScopical analysis
to determine the state of the kidney
function, for excretion from the kid
neys depends largely upon the effici-
ency of the heart.
Any individual who can hold his
breath for 80 seconds or more by the
watch, has a competent heart, no mat
ter whether the valves leak or the
muscle is damaged. In surgical prac-
tice, if the kidneys are not seriously
impaired and if the patient can hold
his breath Is seconds or more, an OPP
Grafton is deemed safe. Inability to
hold the breath, however, does not sig
nifty heart disease; it is more definitely
a sign of acidosis, the accumulation of
carbonic acid gas in the tissues and
blood carbon dioxide) and of other
acids, being particularly noticeable in
diabetes, uremia and other severe
forms of administration. The nor
NAL breaking point, the point at which
one is forced to take another breath, is
40 seconds for an adult. Some indi-
viduals in excellent general condition
can hold the breath 45 or even so sec
onds, without preparation. OF course,
by preliminary deep breathing for two
or more minutes. without hurry or
overeXertion, any normal individual
should be able to hold his breath 90
seconds or two minutes.
Mechanical tests disclose the re-
serve power of the heart. Obviously
the patient will not respond to the test
normally if the reserve power of the
heart is being drawn upon by any
handicap, such as high blood pressure,
pronounced autointoxication, hardened
arteries or acute illness.
In the normal individual the pulse
rate increases from four to eight beats
per minute when the standing posture
is assumed. That is, the pulse is four
to eight beats faster than it is when
the individual is lying down. If the
heart is diseased the pulse rate is 10
TO 20 beats faster when the standing
posture is assumed.
If the pulse rate is, say, 65 per min
ute in the horizontal posture, and 70
per minute in the standing posture, il
should be from IS to 95 per minute
Immediately after 20 deep fiexions of
the legs at the rate of one per second.
1t should return to the normal rate
within three minutes after the fleXions.
II the heart is incompetent, that is, If
the reserve power is reduced by dis
ease, the increase of pulse rate is
greater after this exercise, and ii is
from five to ten minutes returning to
normal rate with rest. 1t is but fair
10 state that mere nervous irritability
will produce exaggerated reponse TO
all of these mechanical tests, but if
nervousness is the sole underlying
condition there is always a prompt re-
turn TO normal with rest or course,
nervousness and organic disease often
go together.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Don't is an admonition which moth
ers often use. Here are few 'don'ts"
for mothers themselves which have
been framed up by the department of
public safety of Syracuse, n. Y, which
asserts that 1.-THE A B. c. of safety first
is" Always be careful:
Don't keep matches in anything but
closed metal receptacles.
Don't allow young children to turn
on or off the gas range or gas heater.
Don't dry-clean the house.
Don't touch electric light or cord
with wet hands.
Don't lock up the children alone in
the house.
Don't allow your children to play
with matches.
Don't allow the children to play with
or build bonfres.
Don't leave broken glass, crockery
or tin scattered around.
Don't allow children to coast down
inclines into the street.
Don't allow children to hold onto
moving vehicles to catch a ride.
Don't allow children to skate or play
ball or other games in the street.
Don't allow children to jump on
moving cars.
Don't allow children to put pencils,
money or pins in the mouth.
Don't use go-carts without springs
and back Supports.
Don't use a thermos bottle for the
baby's milk.
Don't rely on others to observe traf-
fic rules; use your judgment.
Don't value your time more than
your life at crossings.
Don't get off a car backwards.
Don't forget to label all medicines.
Don't forget to keep poison out of
the children's reach.
Don't store rubbish under the stair
ways or in the attic.
Don't fail to watch all traffic signs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
Nominating Cardinals.

The ceremony of nominating cardi-
nails. which takes place at Rome, is not
without its picturesque side. The con
sistory of the Sacred college meets IN
secret, though particulars OF the pro-
ceedings are afterward given 10 the
press, and following upon a brief ad-
dress the pope names the persons ne
wishes TO elevate TO the purple his
nomination is final. but in accordance
with the old custom when the cardl-
mails voted for the election OF their
comrades he asks. What is your de-
sire?' The cardinals then silently Jay
down their red silk caps. rise and DOW.
1t is the formal assent. and the new
cardinals are declared elected.-Lon-
don Standard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
Daily History CIaSS-Aug. 10.

1777-British invaders from Canaan
repulsed in a desperate battle q.
Bennington. VT, by New EngiAho
militia.
1SS0-Adelaide Nelson. remarkably
beautiful actress. died. horn lSa"
1e14-Japan demanded that Germany
evacuate Kiauchau, China. Aus
trian battleships Zrinyi and tnreo
ironclads sunk I'm the Adriate sea
by French warships.
l915-Tropical hurricane flooded "a
weston with waters OF the gun
other points on the coast invaoeu,
Loss estimated at $3oo00OOO anu
deaths upward OF 800. with many
missing. A German submarine
bombarded Parton, NhitehaNeA
and Harrington. west c(bastaol hnsi
land
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
REGULATION OF CHILD LA
Dor.

About 100000 children less than
Is years of age. according to a rough
estimate, are employed in gainful oc-
equations in the United States. Be
tween the ages of 10 and 10, as was
developed by the last general census,
one-sixth of the boys and one-twelfth
Of the girls are so employed; between
the ages of IA and 16 two-ffths of the
boys and one-fifth of the girls are so
employed.
1t is for the protection of these i'm
mature workers that the senate, at the
urgent request of the president and
following the example of the lower
house. has passed the so-called child
labor bill. Protection will be brought
about under this measure through the
regulation OF Interstate commerce.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

A new difficulty confronts the farm
tractor. The farmers Of Saline county.
kas., in preparing their wheat ground.
have been working shifts of hands with
tractor engines "a hours a day, using
electric headlights to guide them at
night. But people in the town near by
have complained of the noise as max
ing sleep impossible and a new law
may be demanded to meet the case
The Growing rooster may be disposed
Of in some way but how to stop the
midnight tractor so that the neighbor-
hood may be composed in sleep pre-
sents new problem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
DON'TS FOR MOTHERS

Don't patronize unsanitary soda
fountains.
Dom cross the street unless there is
a regular crossing.
Don't patronize crowded and poorly
ventilated places of amusement.
Don't have lace curtains in the vi
cinity of gas-jets.
Don't set kitchen stove close to
woodwork; put metal sheet behind
the stove.
Don't throw away lighted matches.
Don't put ashes in wooden boxes or
barrels.
Don't use kerosene to quicken a
slow fire. 1t may result in death.
Don't leave anything to the land
lord. Inspect his house or your own
home.
Don't fail to learn the nearest fire
alarm box TO your home.
Don't fail to have at least one fire
extinguisher in your house.
Don't use telephone during severe
electrical storms.
Don't allow employees or the family
to search for gas leaks with lamp or
matches.
Don't let electric irons stand with
power on.
Don't employ carpet bag cleo
tricians
Don't ignore quarantine notices.
Don't enter quarantined houses.
Don't tolerate flies. but swat" them.
Don't tolerate the use of patent med
icine samples left at your door.
Don't allow anyone to spit about
your premises or walks.
Don't harbor stray cats. They carry
disease.
Don't tolerate rats or mice about
your home. Eliminate them.
Don't fail to exercise the utmost
care when passing through revolving
doors.
The moral is-be careful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

him some day unless he kept himself
clean, and slept with his bedroom win
dow wide open and got a proper
amount of good food and rest and
plenty of sunshine.
He was warned that he must not
spit except In a paper napkin or cloth
which must be burned. He was told
that to spit anywhere else or to cough
Or sneeze without covering his face
with a cloth, would endanger others
and probably cause them to contract
he same disease.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

The fact that James Whitcomb Riley
left an estate estimated at 100000,
practically all Of it the proceeds of his
poetry, tells a story of appreciation of
his verse even more eulogistic than
the friendly words to be found in near
~ all American newspapers. No re
cent poet in America was more pOpu-
lar than Riley, and the appreciation
took a substantial monetary form.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Professor Munsterberg of Harvard
claims that the allies of the future will
be America, Germany and England.
Anybody who leaves out France in fig
uring on what is going to happen in
this world during the next hundred
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
What sSweet OH Is.

Question-Please tell me what sweet
oil is. and whether ii is as good as
olive oil for medicinal uses.
Answer-It is olive oil.
It Is Large Field.
With DR.. Bradys delightful book on
Personal Health and DIR. Brady's valu-
able department in our favorite news
paper. we feel pretty we'll insured
against illness But here is a question
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

It must be awfuIly hard for Ger
man officials to assure the world that
they have more than enough food,
while at the same time they explain to
the Germans that 1t Will be necessary
to go easy on the victuals
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

ILLINOISAN, doubtless known as a
clever cuss in his home town, has sug-
gested to Chairman Wilcox of the re-
publican national committee that Pres
ident Wilson be dubbed the lemon
candidate" Sounds like the idea Of
some squirt who got squeezed out of a
election.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

with the chara cteristic insolence
they decry the right of the govern
ment to conduct and operate it's
own factories to the same good pur-
pose. They want the government
to furnish the money, themselves
only to obtain il. Their stand
ard of patriotism finds fitting ex-
preston in unlimited appropria-
tions, with no thought of economy
in expenditure.
Your letter indicates that you
would have the people agree with
out question to appropriations adj
vOcated by parties directly inter
ested. | believe the people should
know who advocate increased tax
alton and who may profit thereby.
You would have the people to
know only of a doubtful half
truth; l would have them to know
the whole truth. By law a mem
Der of congress may mail under
his frank all or any part of the
Congressional Record. From care
full examination | pronounced the
extract from the Record sent YOU
to be good seed, and sowed some.
Only that which fell on the rock,
as in the parable, has failed to
grow. You indicate that because
the seed would not grow under
such circumstances 1 should not
have sowed any. l see my duty
quite otherwise.
Personally I have no quarrel
with you; but as the representa-
tive of the people of Denver in the
congress of the United States my
duty requires that your f1ippant
letter should receive some atten-
ton
Yours, very truly,
B. c. billiard.
Every time a man of Mr.. WILCOX
ype hits or scorns Tavenner, he make
he Rock Island congressman just tina
much stronger with the masses of tn,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

The new president Of the Iowa state
university, DR.. Jessup, is but 80 years
old. The day is past when man must
have long gray beard to be boss of a
college, or any other kindsOf boss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
Thought He Was Smart,

My purse is always well filled. "
stated the chronic bachelor. because
IL never feels the
He grinned with all the pessimism of
a Gagged hyena.
touch of q woman's hand
Judge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Mr.. Hughes is said to be fond of
dime novel literature. In a presiden-
tial campaign the worst in a man is
bound to be dragged out
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
OUr Office Comedians.

"I see that Justice Brandeis can't
serve on that joint commission
That's strange Why?"
well, you see, it would i'll become
the dignity of his position for him to
mix in joint affairs"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Who said the war had not produced
any great literature? How about the
imaginative masterpieces produced by
the writer's of official reports?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

DISCUSSING pork, you may be in.
terested in knowing that the watch OF
Chairman Wilcox has been stolen
from republican national headquarters
in New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Europe should be about ready to
concede that its hank notes are getting
into the scraps of paper class.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Lord Derby says the Germans are
being gradually beaten. But Derby
will have to admit it's some ''hoss"
race.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

Any chauffeur Will tell you that a
thorn in the flesh is worth two pune
lures in the tire
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
Rock Island-From River to
River.

You can't always distinguish sound
Judgment by the noise il makes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

II Oscar could be taken to a sanA-
torium even now, while it might be
too late to be of much benefit to
him, It would protect the rest of us
from that dangerous and nasty habit
of promiscuous splitting.
And among other things, Oscar
would learn at the sanator1um that
night air" is the only kind OF air there
is at night and that the fresher It
is, the better 1t is. Anyway, some
thing should be done with Oscar and
his splitting habit don't you think?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
THE MYSTERIOUS FOE

nlnoi Men, Women and Children
StatsA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

YOUNG women in the military train
ing camp at Lake Geneva, Wis, are
served bananas at their dinners. Bet
ter watch your step, girls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
GH01RDS A no
DI S c O r ID S

IT NEVER TRIM" declares Colonel
Lowden, who wants to be the repub
lican nominee for governor. Neither
does Mr.. Hughes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

TWO SIDES.
In life all things are not what they
seem;
There's many a crooked deal,
And many a man wears an auto cap
Who hasn't an automobile.
We know there's very much deceit
In this old world of toll,
For many a man smells of gasoline
Who is not in Standard Oil.
In all of this cosmic whirl
Our dreams are shattered-blim,
And many a girl sees the last of a
guy,
When she fastens string to him.
No things are not just what they
seem,
And many illusions are punk,
For many woman wears real" mar
ten furs
When everyone knows they are
skunk.
ROY K. MOULTON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16

THE federal district attorney al
Chicago appears INCLINED to suspect
that there was an African in the wood
pile during the recent sensational
furry in wheat prices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-16
an vour eve-ou this man.

Keep your eye on this man.
His first name is Oscar and IT may
be that he is related to Typhoid
Mary"
1t is q sure thing that he is Just
as much OF a menace to the fellow
humans with whom he comes in daily
contact, as the well-known domestic
who left behind her wherever she
went. a long train OF disease-ridden
victims.
Oscar has q cough. He was told
some time ago by q well meaning