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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06

We were not afraid of death-it was
all part of the game, but we did not
like to die there in the darkness. How
long can we stay here" Jean asked
again. There is plenty Of air and the
gallery is roomy, but there is moth
ing to eat L replied. Well, what's
the good of few hours more or less"
he said Why wait? | for one have
already made up my mind He took
out his revolver but stopped him and
said Don't be a fool. Let us wait
awhile, we may hit on some way out.
The first horror having passed
over, we began to discuss ways and
means, Let us wait patiently for our
mine to explode If it make a big
enough hole we can dig through into
it, | said.
We sat down in silence and could
hear all the sounds of battle above
US, for the earth is a good conduc
tor of sound. We tried to distinguish
the character of the various vibrations
so as not to miss the noise when our
mine exploded. Finally we heard 1t
and we rushed forward through
wave of hot air. Hope strengthened
our arms and we piled our picks fur
iously but our packing had been so
we'll done that it took us two hours be-
fore we got into the empty mine
chamber. | listened but the sound of
firing seemed so far off that | judged
there was a thick layer of earth be-
tween us and the outer world. Then
drops fell upon us. We're we going to
be flooded? SO much the better, we
shall die more quickly said Jean.
Something triCkled down on my
lips and | recognized the taste. 1t was
blood. and l realized that if blood
was coming through we could not be
far from the surface With renewed
hope we set to work again but rather
clumsily, for we started a fall OF
earth which nearly buried u.s. We
were all injured, Bernards leg being
broken. Jeans head cut and my left
arm broken. Despite our pain we con-
| tinued our efforts and after while
we came on a number of dead bodies
of Germans which had rolled TO the
bottom of the crater which the mine
explosion had made
After an hour of digging and crawl
ing among these bodies. we got out
i into the air. Both my comrades were
so exhausted that they tainted
Watching over them | was shell
tered from shells and bullets by the
steep side of the crater After eight
hours of waiting, ambulance attend,
ants found us and by that time we had
but little life left in us"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06
BRYAN is NAMED FOR
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Zurich, March G.-Dr Alois He'll.
niger, a prominent member OF the
Austrian parliament, has addressed
a letter to the Nobel committee at
Stockholm, recommending that the
Nobel peace prize for 1916 be award
ed to William J. Bryan for his en-,
deavors to stop American export of
munitions, which, Dr. Heilinger
writes. would have already ended tbs
war and brought about peace nego,
tiations under the powerful aid OF
America.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06

communion daily through Thursday
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at
4:30 Wednesday evening at 1880,
Good Friday-Morning prayer and
litany $50 Three hours devotion
Y to 3.
Easter Eve-Baptism at 4.
Easter Day, April go - Celebrations
of the holy communion at 6, and
10:45 a m. Children's festival at 4.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06
POPE IN APPEAL FOR
HALT OF WORLD WAR

Rome, via Paris, March 4. DELAYED }
Pope Benedict has again raised his
voice for peace. In a special letter,
written for the Lenten season, the pom
tilt says he cannot sit silent, indiffer-
ent to the terrible conflict which is
rending Europe.
lie recalls all that he has done TO
induce the contending nations to lay
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06

There is no prospect that any plank
changing the president term will
this year be incorporated in the plat
form Of either party. But a sugges-
ton which has the interest of novelty.
if nothing else, is that national cleo
ton be held every eight years, the
president being elected for six years.
the vice president to succeed him for
two years preceding the next election
Insofar as this is intended to lend
dignity to the Office Of vice president.
its purpose is commendable. But the
proposition TO elect man who shall
definitely succeed TO the presidency
after an interval Of over six years.
hardly needs discussion. even as an
academic theory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06
DANDRUFF?
YOUR OWN FAULT

Do you realize the unsightly. disa2reea..r-ss
features OF this scalp diseasef You, wn9 49, 49,
so neat and careful IN other matters o. ~
toilet, should take every care 20 eraaica'c
hair trouble, 4! IS HsaeCsSSG, >. lhere -
sration on III. market which VIII Keep s, ,s.,
pore open and so healthy and fsrfhAa ~, ~,
there Is no chance for dAndI ut 70 aecaiha'ess
This welcome helps the suampoo 1o-u ",ors
II is an AmericaEized version OF the iaa ia IA
product o. the Philippine ISLANDS Az 80
responsible for the marvellous hair % ~
natives. They use the plant 5000 In eos
nection with cocoanut oil, This mas 80 80
prepared tor the American market IN VIZ
attractive form, and does wonders loi nv
head to which 1t Is applied. II thotonh.a,
cle<pses every strand and leaves the hsa p ~
anly clean but bright. fluffy and vita - -
appearance of great luxuriance, wh, en -
2H0as issl.ty after steady use. raAe''S's
lions ON every bottle, SOC.
FOR SALE By ALL DRtt1loi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06
Masonic Temple Destroyed.

Springfield, ILL.,, March Fire
early yesterday destroyed the Masonic
temple and the Debruler building al
SheibyVille, ILL.,, with a loss of $4,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06
Attention, Members.

Members of Barbara Frietchie tent
No. 80, Daughters Of Veterans, are re-
quested to meet at the court house
Wednesday at l p. m, to attend the
funeral Of Mrs. Burns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-06

All The news all the tins The
Argus,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
German officer
Would w eLcOme
War With u. S.


AMSTERDAM, Holland, Feb. 90
Via London. 1.-The Frankfurter ZeitunS
publishes an interview on submarine
warfare credited to a high naval official
whose views. In substance, follow:
"A majority Of German naval officers
believe that a complete breach between
Germany and America would be condu-
Give to a far earlier victorious termina-
tion of the. war but only if Germany de-
rived all the results logically arising
out of such a breach.
AS soon as Germany was i'll such
position that she need have no more con-
sideration for America she could declare
all Great Britain blockaded and announce
that every ship of whatever flag which
attempted to enter a British port would
be regarded as blockade runner, and
destroy it without warning.
This policy would lead to the star
walton of Britain and thus to her sub
mission and then automatically the sub
mission of Russia and France. Ameri-
ca then would be isolated and would
have to submit because Germany, hav-
ing obtained all the entente battleships
and submarines, would be far stronger
on the sea than America.
America when defeated would have
to surrender all German merchant ships
which she had seized and also to pay
all war costs of the central powers and
their allies"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
STATE MARKETING
Of CROPS LIKELY
TO START A ROW
Herbert Quick Sees Opposition
to California Plan as Set
Forth by Harris WeinStock,
Director of Markets

WASHINGTON. Feb. es.-The direct
tor OF market OF the state of California
Is AR. Harris Weinstock. a man of pro-
gressive ideas who has become well
known all over the country because OF
hts service on the federal commission
on Industrial relations. He is one OF
the great business men OF the Pacific
coast. Therefore his novel and far
reaching proposal that the state OF Cal
tfornia take over through a state agency
The whole matter OF the marketing OF
the enormous crop of his state in per-
fshable fruits viii attract wide atten-
ton.
- He has been in Washington for the
purpose. IL is said. OF finding out wheth-
er or not there is anything in the plan
which Is likely 10 be looked upon with
disfavor by the department OF justice
OF the federal government. and has re-
turned TO California to present the plan
! 90 producers and shippers.
AS soon as any state sets itself up as
The marketing agent OF any class Of
Consumers the tendency TO copy il will
manifest itself IN other states. If the
scheme works in the marketing Of per-
ishable products. IL will soon be dis
covered that there are grievances in
the business OF producers OF those which
are non-perishahls also.
=WeinstOck will no doubt find that his
pian Will not be adopted without OPP
position IL he does get IL going sue
cessfully, IL may be stated with conf
Dance that IL will be found later that
he has certainly started something.
Says the general epistle OF James,
Behold what q great matter little fire
kindleth"-and there can be no doubt
that there Is much dry fuel for the flame
arfI Fwr n hn NJ
marketing.
II viii be one OF the wonders OF the
world when any state Of this well-known
union becomes a real servant OF the peO-
pie In any such way as this
I am perfectly confident that the pow
ers OF evil viii find some way OF pre-
venting IL
For see what it viii do. 1t will estab-
nsh the state as the agent of all the
people in getting the food. clothing and
shelter from the land to the life.
And when the state handles our food
stuffs will the cost OF living fall?
Please don't ask me I don't know.
But IL after the state had marketed
the produce and the cost OF living con-
fInued 10 ascend we should at least
know that We have been on the wrong
scent all these years during which We
have blamed the railroads, the middle
nan, the tariff. the currency system and
one thing and another
Next TO knowing what a thing Is.
knowing what IL isn't is the most val
liable; and II 1 can't be informed just
What il is that causes the farm pro-
ducs 10 rot on the hands OF the farmers
while people are hungry for il in the
sities and towns nearby or Tar away
I'd Ike 10 know what IL isn't.
Maybe the California scheme will tell
one or the other OF these-and maybe
both
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
I6-Inch Guns
Will Be Used
On New Ships
Target Practice and Lessons
of European War Convince
Navy Board That Increase in
Calibre Is Necessary

WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.-Experiment.
al long range firing by the Atlantic fleet
and information about naval battles in
the European war have virtually con-
WINGED the navy department that bat
tleships TO be authorized this year
should carry ten I6-inch guns each in
stead OF twelve I4-inch guns.
Details OF gunnery are confidential
but it became known tonight that the
next target practice of the fleet will be
held at ranges up 40 $4,000 yards be-
cause OF the lessons taught by the bat
tie between Germany and British battle
cruisers in the North sea, where 1900
yard shots scored hits
The navy general board recommended
some time ago that new battIeships be
designed for the 16-inch rifles and pro-
posed other military characteristics that
made il necessary to increase the ton
mage from 32,OO for the California
class OF $4,000. Officials of the board
have urged their views upon the house
naval committee in connection with the
pending appropriation bill, although the
1917 building program is not yet before
the committee. Many officers OF high
rank, however. have considered il I'M
wise to mount the bigger guns or build
the bigger ships. Secretary Daniels
has not as yet announced what his rec
ommendation to the committee will be,
but confidential reports from the fleet
are said to have about convinced him Of
the desirability Of the bigger ship pro-
ject.
An order for the first kite balloon to
be added to the navy's aerial fleet has
been placed, 1t was learned today. and
this latest device to increase the accu-
racy OF gun fire may be tested out dur
ing the spring target practice. 1t is
proposed that each battleship be equip
ped with a captive kite balloon which
will rise 900 feet above her decks. The
officers observing the fall Of shots. now
stationed in the fighting tops $50 feet
above decks. will be stationed in the
balloon basket communicating with the
ship by telephone. From their great
elevation they will be able, il is thought,
to direct salvo fire with deadly accuracy
at targets invisible from the ship Itself.
The navy's biggest guns now have a
range OF twelve sea miles or more, and
this probably will be increased mate
rally with the new 16-inch. Before
the committee recently Admiral Wins
low said he had seen weather condi-
tions in which ships were plainly visible
at 80. 900 yards. or fifteen miles. It
pFooaoig was uNt' nc 0eAiN' ~ . -
but IL he had had guns OF suf1cient
range he thought he could have guaged
his shots so as to make bombardment
effective.
Another new feature probably will be
added TO the fleet this spring when the
armored cruiser North Carolina, carry
ing six aeroplanes and their crews AMI
a device for launching the aircraft In
any weather joins Admiral Fletchers
command. The aerial scouts for the
first time will play an important part
in the maneuvers and possibly in tar
get practice.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
Valuable Health Hints
For Our Readers

out, but have no medical value. Ec-
zema, letter, acne and all such erup-
tive diseases should be treated with
POISONED BLOOD.
So many different things contribute
to poison the blood and the effect is
so startling that the sufferer becomes
panic-stricken and is led to use harm
ful drugs. IL you have any blood trou-
Bile, get a bottle Of 8. s. S. and take
according to directions.
Don't take anything else. Poisoned
blood is bad enough without running
your bones, joints, teeth and vitals
with minerals. S. s. s. so stimulates
cellular activity that they reject all
poisonous influences and select only
those materials in the blood that make
healthy tissue. This is why its assist
ance toward recovery is so noticeable
and at times remarkable.
8. S. 8. is welcome to the weakest
stomach and is assimilated just as
has helped to cure host or sufferers.
RHEUMATISM.
In any form OF rheumatism give the
blood a good effectual cleansing WITH
Use this remedy for three days and
take hot salt water bath to open the
pores. This relieves the lungs ano
kidneys anu dSSlSLS .. .. .. W uIAAi4o
the skin as the principal avenue OF
elimination.
Avoid salts, calomel and other dras
tic purgatives, as they absorb the mois
ture from the walls and membranes OF
the intestines, weaken the muscular
action, produce chronic constipation
and thus stagnate the system with
rheumatic poisons. Get bottle Of
s., s. 8. at any drug store. Don't
oFHhcfffNTtn
8. s. s. is purely vegetable and lie
prepared only by the Swift Specific
Co., 271 Swift Bldg. Atlanta, "a. Write
for special booklet on any OF the dis
eases mentioned and IL medical advice
is wanted, write for that also to ad
dress given above. Both booklet and
medical advice are free.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
cATARRh

GA IAHHh
Just because you hawk and spit and
your nose is wet, cold, red, sore and
q nuisance, don't merely plug it up.
You can't cure catarrh by greasing
your nose. Take s. 8. s. regularly
and you will drive catarrhal poisons
out of your blood. The membranes
will soon recover and no longer con-
tinue to accumulate the mucous that
gathers and thickens into catarrh.
s. s. 8. stimulates the cells OF the It's
sues to select from the blood their own
essential nutriment. Rapid recovery
from catarrhal inflammation in the stom-
ach, kidney, bladder and all MEM
branes is the result,
MALARIA.
Throughout the country, wherever
malaria abounds, are happy, joyful
people to whom s. s. 8. has given won
derful help In the treatment Of mala-
ria after, the most sickening torture
The gaunt complexion Of malaria's
victims, the chills and fever, the ma
larial dysentery that seems to defy all
other treatment, the malarial leg, the
enlarged liver, the persistent anernia
where the blood turns to water and
the system wastes away. These are
the conditions that 8. s. 8. SO effectu-
ally ASSISTS in overcoming, by helping
to restore the blood to its natural vigor
STUBBORN SORES
Sometimes a sore spot becomes indo-
lent. The tissues surrounding 1t lose
tone and are unable to provide suffi-
cient nutriment to stop the drain. It
is then chronic. Just saturate your
blood with s. 8. s. This is quickly
accomplished, as s. s. 8. is naturally
assimilated the same as milk or any
other healthful liquid.
Nature acts with marvellous raniditv
when given the proper assistance, and
8. s. 8. so stimulates cellular activity
that the parts surrounding an ulcer Sc
lect from the blood the materials that
make new tissue Thus the sore spot
rapidly heals in a natural way.
Local applications for any skin dis
ease will afford protection from with
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
IF CONsTIPATED OR
BILIOUS "CASCARETs'
For Sick Headache, Sour
Stomach, Sluggish Liver
and Bowels work
while you sleep
Get a 1O-cent' box.

Take a Cascar-t tonight TO cleanse
your Liver Stomach, and Bowels, ana
you will surely feel great by morning
You men and women who have head
ache. coated tongue. a bad cold, are
bilious, nervous, upset, bothered with
a sick. gassy, disordered stomach or
nave backache and feel all worn out
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets-or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts.
cathartic pills or castor oil7
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the sour.
undigested and fermenting food and
foul gases; take the excess bile from
the liver and carry off the constipated
waste matter and poison from the
bowels.
Remember, a Cascaret tonight VIII
straighten you out by morning. A 10
cent box from your druggist means
healthy bowel action; clear head and
cheerfulness for months. Don't forget
the children.-(advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29

dering a policy of 'watchful waiting I'M
avoi6able."
ain the meantime" he continued, we
can wait upon the gratifying assurances
coming alike from our own state de-
partment and from the German foreign
office that an amicable adjustment Is
now hoped for. There is no purpose
to stay or force the hand of diplomacy
so long as there is no danger of IT in
volving us in an irretrievable situation
or jeopardizing the sovereign and ex-
elusive control by congress over the
question of peace and war. This end
and the three principal objects sought
to be accomplished by the passage or
the resolution have already been accom-
plished by it's introduction and attend
ing public discussion.
I'm the first place American citizens
characterized by Senator Stone as moral
traitors who would recklessly travel on
armed belligerent ships, endangering
their own lives and the safety or the
country, have been practically, If not
officially. warned that they must travel
at their own peril and without the moral
OF legal support of the congress.
IAN UNESSENTIAL RIGHT"
I'm the second place the country has
been treasured that congress will not
secrifice millions of lives and billions
of treasure in defense of a useless and
unessentiaI right that ought to be with
drawn with dignity rather than conserV-
ed with butchery, and that the congress
will not abdicate it's constitutional au-
thority over peace and war in favor or
irresponsible Adventures who would, If
they could, usurp the power to precipi-
tate the whole nation into whirlpool
of blood, carnage and war.
"In the second place, 1t has been made
impossible even for the purchasers of
the five hundred million-dollar bond is
sue of the allies to bait Germany into
a declaration of war against the init
ed States and thus compel the United
States to underwrite their investment
and guarantee the continued sovereignty
and the ultimate success of their deb
tors.
Last but not least, II is demonstrated
to the country and to the world, 1t is
demonstrated to those who place the in
terest of Germany above that of Amer
tea and to those who place the interest
OF the allies above that of America, that
the congress places the true, the vital
interest of America equally above the
interest of Germany and that of the al
lies"
Senator Lewis, of Illinois, Democratic
whip of the senate, today notified SEN
ator Stone that the supporters OF the
president were ready for the Gore res
olution to warn Americans against sail
ing on armed merchantmen to come to
a vote at any time.
1--WE have made a thorough canvass Of
the senate" Senator Lewis said, and
are convinced that there will be a safe
majority against the resolution"
1t was a certainty, he added, that the
senate would stand by the president.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29

I'm the spring of 1893 l was attacked by
Muscular and InflammatOry Rheuma tisn. | sut-
fered as only those who have it know, for over
three years. I tried remedy after remedy. and
doctor after doctor, but such relief as received
was only temporary. Finally, found remedy
that cured me completely. and it has re-
turned / have given IL to a number who We're
terribly afflicted and even bedridden with Rheu-
matism, and II effected cure in every case.
Il want every sufferer from any form of rheu-
matte trouble to try this marvellous healing pow
er Don't send cent; simply mail your name
and address and I Will send it free to try.
After YOU have used it and it has proven itself
to be that long-loOked-for means of curing your
Rheumatism, you may send the price of IT, one
dollar, hut, understand / do not want your
money unless you age perfectly satisfied to
senG II. Isn't that fair? Why suffer any
longer when positive relief is thus offered yon
froef Don't delay Write today. MARK IL.
JACKSON, No. 718 Quincy bldg. Syracuse
y. Y."-(Advt.D
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
DR. KILMERS SWAMP ROOT PROVES ITS GREAT
VALUE In THE MOST DISTRESSING CASES
Unable To Work

This is TO certify that l, Jerome H.
Mccormack, OF 81 Ivy street. Johnson
City. Tenn, suffered from Congestion
Of the Kidneys, so that at times / was
obliged TO move about the house with
the aid OF a chair and unable to work
until / used three bottles of your
Swamp-ROOt. l keep Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-RoOt in my house at all times,
as l know from experience that it is
the best Kidney medicine ] can use.
Very truly yours,
J. NJ. MCCORMACK,
Johnson City, Tenn.
Sworn and subscribed TO before me. a
Notary Public, this March 3Ist. 1914.
SAM t WILLARD.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
Will Rush Reply
To Lansing Note

WASHINGTON. Feb -6.-Great
Britain has informed Ambassador Page
At London that II will reply 10 the
American notes regarding interference
with neutral mails and the trading with
the enemy act at the earliest possible
moment. The notes were dispatched
several weeks ago and recently the state
department asked FOR replies. IL is in
dicated that Great Britain is awaiting
the results Of conferences with her allies
before responding.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-02-29
WOULD BUILD u. S.
DYESTUFF INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Democrats
of the ways and means committee eX-
pect to lay before President Wilson next
week for his approval, a draft of a hill
to build up an American dyestuffs in
dustry, which may include an anti
dumping provision. II will be designed
as a substitute for a bill introduced by
Representative Hill, Of Connecticut, Re-
publican.
a mass of data on the dyestuffs in
dustry and legislation which the depart
ment Of commerce has been collecting
will be placed before the president at
the same time