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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Did you ever notice the difference
busy whirl of the outside world?
Doubtless you have. In way 1t Is the
difference between a cemetery and that
which is without the Enclosure. But
the cemetery contains the ashes and
the living souls are elsewhere. while
the library contains the living souls,
the ashes being elsewhere.
Yet who has not realized the effect
of situations? The influence OF the at
mosphere OF library once came home
to me in a very telling effect. | am
something of a dreamer, and doubt
less any such influence would draw me
more powerfully than another But
that is merely matter TO be noted. il
is this effect of the atmosphere Of Ii
brary upon myself, an effect that in
fiuenced my whole after life, that l am
going to recount
After a season Of hard work I was
enabled TO take rest. Instead Of go
ing pleasure hunting | sought quiet
country town where there were no pos
sible means of excitement. The people
living there must have been intellectu-
ally above the average, for they had
established a very good library. 1t
seemed to me that this was the very
place l needed, so / went inside. There
was not person there save the libra
rian, and, since there was no one to
disturb, it was not necessary for me to
tread softly in going to her desk and
speaking to her in a low voice. She
doubtless had become accustomed to
uniform tone no matter how few or
how many persons were there.
l received permission to nose about
among the books and passed the morn
ing doing so.
Frequently during hours when there
was no one but the Librarian present
| went to her desk ostensibly to ask
her a question about some book, but
really to chat with her. There was
that in her voice, being in keeping
with the place, that added to its other
influences. Under this spell she grew
to be to me d thing of beauty. Perhaps
it was because she was the only living
thing except myself there. Just as
man chooses epresentative-even If
a stone idol-to symbolic his god, so
did 1 choose the librarian to embody
the myriad of thoughts inclosed in the
silen books. She became to me the
goddess of wisdom, Of romance, of sci
ence, of poetry.
l spent a month in the place, and
nearly every day was in the library.
1t is to be expected from what l have
said that 1 was falling in love with
the librarian. Whethel or no l was, l
thought l was At any rate, l made
love to her. There is a difference be-
tween mere making love and making
an avowal of love In other words, l
looked love and acted love.
One day the librarian asked me to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
THE PAPER SITUATION

have protected themselves from extor
ton, print paper has been monopoliz-
ed in this country for almost a genera
ton. There is a pretense of competi
ton, but the consumer who enters the
market soon finds that he has been
allotted to a single producer and that
nobody else cares to do business with
him. This is combination at its worst.
"Of late purchasers not protected by
long time contracts have met prices
almost prohibitive on all sides, and
the evidences of conspiracy are too
numerous and too plain to be disre-
garded Extortion in this line can
make no plea of necessity. 1t is to be
attributed to nothing but the ethics of
highwaymanship-t power to rob
and the helplessness of the victim who
is to be robbed.
Perhaps a vigorous protest on the
part of the trade commission will
bring this buccaneering to an end. If
not, the case should go to a federal
grand jury without further delay"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
Use Salt TO Counteract Sweat

Berlin Correspondence Of The As
ISOLATED Press. )-Encouraging results
from the administration Of common
salt as a remedy against the enfeebl-
ing night sweats of consumptiyes and
against excessive perspiration in the
case of marching soldiers are report
ed by Company Surgeon Link in an
article in the Munich Medical Weekly.
Sweat contains about six parts OF
salt in the thousand. a hard march
of a few hours on a hot day results
in the emulation of five or six liters OF
sweat. with a salt content of "a 10 81
grams. A strong night sweat OF
consumptiye cXudes as much as ~
liters, causing salt loss OF ID grams
This amount is far from unimportant'
since the blood contains altogether
only about twenty grams OF salt an
amount about corresponding 70 the
maximum daily consumption OF salt N
foods.
DR.. Links first experiments were
made with sufferers from tuberculosis
IL occurred to him that their eXces-
sive fatigue mornings might well Dc
due 10 the loss of salt, and that TINS
might be counteracted by salt "a
ton. He began by giving a level tea-
spoonful OF salt tabout hYe grams) ~
on the following morning, but the pa
tients either had no night sweats OF
else very slight ones. All patients eh-
cept those suffering also from stomach
catarrh and high fever stood the sa1
dosing without any i'll effects Wha''
ever.
His experiences led Or. Link 70 eA,
pertinent with healthy persons, anu
especially soldiers. About one nun
dred soldiers of one regiment NeiS
given a teaspoonful OF salt at o.H
o'clock in the morning before b2gll.
ming their days march. After marc
of nearly twenty miles In mugE
weather the soldiers thus dosed eAhlp
tied much less fatigue tnan their con-.
rades. and their perspiration was pu'
a fraction of that of the others.
a small glass of water just before ~
tients retired. The result was A great
er freshness and absence oi WEAKNESS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
FAMOUS EDITOR CHOOSES WILSON

Consequently, for Mr.. Hughes to sup
port such a treaty would be TO invite
an expe ri Snce similar to that which be
fe1 Mr.. Taft. Yet adjustment OF Col
ombia's wrongs is important for the
United States, not merely as matter
of national honor, but as matter OF
dollars and cents in orr commercial
dealings with all Latin America. where
sympathy could be gained to so large
degree by no other one act.
Under Mr.. Wilson's Leadership the
democratic party is today better in
Strument of progressive government
than in generation, if not in its en-
tire history, and, what is more TO the
point. better instrument, IN the opin-
ion of this paper, than the republic
can party promises at this moment to
become under Mr.. Hughes. Various
episodes have emphasized the fact that
the democratic party has had COM
paratively few outstanding leaders OF
national reputation. But it IL one OF
the chief items of Mr.. Wilson's lead
ership that during his term progress
tive and enlightened democrats such
rs Newton D. Baker, secretary of war
have been brought more and more 10
the front while tho reactionarie5 have
been sent more and more to the rear.
Inc party has De6n III IIdiuIHS dlu =
has gained. But i'll spite of any COM
parative lack of leaders, the democrats
meeting in caucus, whenever caucus
has been necessary, have threshed
things out and determined to support,
enc after another, a long series Or
soundly constructive Legislative meas
ureS of historic mpOrtance-notabl bic
among them the income tax, the bank
| ing and currency act. the rural cred
| its act, the child labor bill, the federal
unemployment service, the human1tar-
| ian features of the seamen's act AMI
| the provision for vocational training
! for civil life while in the army. To
achieve such a record without leaders,
| if it were literally true that the demo-
| Gratis had had no leaders, would be in
| itself triumph of democracy and
better promise than any amount of
| leadership stamped with the political
conceptions of Boias Penrose-
Admirable as was Mr.. Hughes's
record at Albany, there can be no
definite assurance that he would be
able to force Penrose and others of
that ilk to a back seat in the degree
| to which Mr.. Wilson has vitalized the
| democracy. Mr.. Hughes would make a
good president; it was a matter of ma
| tional good fortune that he was nom
| mated at Chicago. But Mr.. Wilson,
by reason of his exceptional experience
! in Office and his now overwhelming
| evident leadership of his party along
progressive lines, is, in the opinion of
| The Republican, better fitted to meet
the problems of foreign relations and
social evolution, in the broadcast sense,
which the next four years hold i'll
store"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

There is nothing new about neurl-
tbs. The disease is as old and as COM
mon and as vulgar as the rheumatic. p"
Perhaps it used to masquerade under
that convenient blanket title, as many
another disease did.
Neur-itis means Inflammation of a
nerve. Any nerve anywhere, or many
nerves at once may be involved. But
whenever a nerve or nerves become
inflamed the Inflammation remains for
at least several weeks, and does not
skip about, or come and go, as the
pain of other diseases does.
Taking a common situation, the
brachial plexus in the neck, shoulder
and arm, causes of neuritis are lead,
arsenic, alcohol or tobacco poisoning;
altered metabolism accompanying the
condition known as administration,
from intestinal decomposition of GER
tain protein foods excess of meat, for
instance; uremia from kidney INSULT
cheney; diabetes, severe strain of the
shoulder; working with the arms ele-
waited; crutch pressure: direct injury;
focal infection of the nerve from some
septic focus, as root assesses about
the teeth, infected tOnsils; lying on
the arm at night.
Characteristic symptoms of a neuri-
tbs are severe, aching pain, worse at
times, but never entirely absent ag
gravation OF the pain on movement;
great tenderness to pressure along the
course of the involved nerve; gradual
relaxation and wasting Of the muscles
supplied by the nerve; atrophy of the
skin, shown by thinning, blue nothing
shininess; the chronicity of the dis
ease; and finally the slow but COM
plete recovery after months, or in
some cases a year or two.
The first principle of treatment is
complete rest OF the affected part.
The arm must be carried in a sling
sometimes splints, or plaster casts give
grateful relief and hasten recovery.
The cause must be sought out by the
doctor in every case and removed. The
pain must be controlled by whatever
means seem most effective and safe.
There is certainly no medicine which
eXerts any specific influence over neu-
ritis. The same remedies used to re-
lieve the pain or discomfort of all 9TH
er painful diseases are used in neuri-
tbs. 1t is not true that salicylic acid.
the salicylates or their derivatives (as-
pirin, novaspiran and the like) infu-
ence the disease. though such pain
killers are grateful 10 the patient.
However, these drugs are more or less
10 the heart, like all coal
tar products. and must be used with
caution if at all.
Baking the limb in the hot air ma
chine is one excellent remedy. Heat
applied in any way is a relief
After the acute symptoms subside,
massage and regular pas
sive movements by a skilled operator
will go far toward bringing about
restoration of function. This may be
learned by a member of the family
and continued indefinitely. II joints
become rigid or their motions are linn
tied, then an anesthetic must be given
and the adhesions broken up forcihly,
else permanent deformity will follow.
After the acute stage has passed. cleo
tricity in various forms is of great
value in the treatment. Throughout
the course OF the disease careful at
tention must be given 10 diet, bathing,
air, clothing and the general hygiene,
according to individual requirements.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
STILL DEADLoCKED.

At least three correspondents VINO
have visited the German front recently
unite in the opinion that the German
army is now so perfectly fortified and
dug in as to make the allied attempts
to break through hopeless.
It is certain the allied advance,
which was never comparable with the
rapid progress of the Russians, has
been growing slower, and ii IS safe TO
guess that when the Germans found
they could not hold their old trenches
they built better trenches on their new
line. 1t is easy to believe. therefore
that there will be no breaking through
on the Somme front. and if this should
prove true it would only be in accord
with the history of the war on the
western front. The Germans did not
break through in five months fighting
at Verdun. No break has been made
anywhere since the present lines were
established. although the lighting IN
the west exceeds in fury, ingenuity and
barbarity anything that was ever seen
before.
Big guns. bigger guns. machine
guns. trench mortars, gas and ire
have all failed to make way for any
continued advance in the west, and
even the allies, notwithstanding their
early enthusiasm over the big push,
admit that the break seems much more
likely to occur in the east than in the
west if it is to come at all. Austria.
facing enemies from both directions on
her own soil presents the most likely
field for a decisive stroke. Austria is
again looking through the reserves
born as early as 1866 in search of men
fit to fight. and this is not the first
picking over of Austrians who have
SO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Many of the larger papers of the
country are intimating very strongly
that all of the raise in price of print
paper is not justified on the grounds
Of increased cost of labor or raw ma
terial, but that a combination of print
paper manufacturers is responsible
for the greater portion of the increase.
These same statements were made be-
fore the federal trade commission in
vestigation at Washington. The fol-
lowing editorial from the New York
World is a fair example of the attitude
Of many Of the most influential papers
of the country:
when the federal trade commits
sion reassembles in August it will
meet an important problem relating
to the price of print paper. If this
government agency for the correction
of rapacity in business is ever to have
an opportunity to prove its value it
can ask nothing better than that which
now presents itself
Except as individual publishers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

about, and make these reincarnations
of Huerta seem more fatiguing and
pointless than ever.
But what chiefly CRATES upon a SEN
sitive nerve in these Mexican passages
by Hughes is their harshness of spirit,
their lack of considerateness. and their
want of humane Imagination.
Mr.. Hughes has the air of hitting a
man when he is down. We don't mean
hitting Wilson. He will have to take
no end of blows. But why be so dis
dainful of an unfortunate people as
Mr.. Hughes appears TO be of the Mex
leans? Not one word of allowance or
pity for them escapes his lips
TO listen TO him, you would think
that Mexico had strong and wicked
government which was forever infiict-
ing outrages upon Americans. and set
ting the United States at defiance. Mr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
ORDINARY HUMDRUM.

The New York Evening Post, indie
pendent has some very interesting
comment upon a portion of Candidate
Hughes Detroit speech. Questioning
whether the speaker scored in his at
tacks upon President Wilson's Next
can policy, the Evening Post said
I'VE think not. All this looks like
straining Governor Hughes acts in
this affair too much as if he were just
an ordinary humdrum republican
orator. striving hard 10 find an issue
For our part. We do not believe that
the people will respond to this kind of
reiterated railing at Wilson. They
will get tired Of it long before the
campaign is oVer-eyen if some turn
in the Mexican situation does not give
them something quite different to think
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Hughes speaks of the need of a firm
attitude towards Mexico, just as if it
were question of standing up to some
great power-England or Germany
impairing American rights. Nowhere
is there hint of the revolutions and
struggles and the desolations and mis-
cries which have for the past three
years made Mexico a nation to be dealt
with in the most long suffering way
by strong neighbor.
All this clustering and threatening
seems siDgularly out of place when
addressed TO a bleeding cripple. Mr..
Hughes tone is hard throughout, and
does not, in our opinion, represent the
true feeling of Americans about Mex
leo. And we believe that the course
OF events and the logic of the campaign
Will compel him TO take a different at
tltude before November comes."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
: From The Argus Files of 1891

picnic to be held Sept on the grounds
of E. J. Searle-the old Rodman place.
The Rodman rifles are at the annual
encampment near Springfield with the
Sixth regiment
S. B. Stoddard, Jr, and wife left
last evening for Minneapolis and the
north
Aug. ia lone cornetist appeared
at the Spencer square last night, pro-
ceeded to the band stand, played sew
eral OF the popular selections, and
disappeared as quietly as he ap-
peared
John Strabbe, a recluse, who had
lived for many years in a shack on the
Wilson homestead in Rural township,
was found dead this morning. About
$1,000 in notes and currency was
found hidden about the shack.
Henry Limburg, who left Rock Is
land few weeks ago TO secure work,
was run down and killed near Little
Rock, Ark. last night while in the
performance of his duties as brake
man.
Aug. 1S-Frank Bahnsen and Aid
erman A. d. Huesing left last night
for Wausau, Neb.. on a hunting ex-
petition
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ]. Collins are the
parents of a SON
Aug. 19-John A Mills, a knight of
the road. who was found unconscious
in cornfield near ColOna and brought
to Rock Island yesterday, died last
night at the armory
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

isIators 1900 for a two-year term
lust So 600 less than the Illinois law
provides
If. as is generally admitted, says the
BLOOMINGTON Paragraph. the Illinois
legislature could easily limit it's bien-
NAL sessions to three months the
$4,000 salary provided by the old law
would be more than generous. There
was never any lack of candidates I'M
der that law and there is no 1ndica-
ton whatever that the Illinois legis-
lature will rise from its present low
state under the $500 provision, the
only effect of which will be to add
the sum of SS0S, 900 every two years,
which must come out of the pockets Of
Illinois taxpayers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Is it not beautiful-serenely beau
1iful-with what fervor the railroad
managers are now contending for ar
bitration as a means of settling labor
disputes? Do you remember the words
of the Pullman palace car moguls,
when the great strike was on some
twenty years ago, in answer to the
supplications of the men striving for
a square deal? There is nothing to
arbitrate," said the moguls then. And
there would be nothing TO arbitrate
now. if the railroads did not know
just where they are heading.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

If Samuel Gompers is a public
nuisance" what is the Sherman
Thompson-Lundin machine which is
attempting TO annex the state Of ILL
nois to Cook county? Maybe the sena-
tor from this commonwealth, who a0-
mits he looks like Lincoln, can en-
tighten u.s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
Il LEI
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ReYMLLLAn BRADY. MOR
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Drinking Lemonade.

Drinking Lemonade.
Question: am very fond OF lemon
ade. L drink several glasses a day
Will it hurt my complexion, as my
friends declare?
Answer-Keep drinking Il and your
friends will soon be doing likewise.
1t is great for the complexion.
Fistula and Fissure.
Question-What is the difference be-
tween rectal assure and fistula?
Answer-Eistula is a discharging
sinus or opening resulting from an alb
scess. Fissure is a mere ulcer or
crack in the junction Of skin and mu-
cous membrane-and by far the more
DainfuI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Under the farm loan act, the mort
gage on the farm will not be held by
an individual, but by the regional land
bank Thus viii pass the bearded vii
lain of TIE play who threatens to fore
close on the old homestead unless its
prettiest daughter marries him-if he
ever existed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

With one voice the hotel stewards Of
the country, in convention in New
York city. spoke for the bill OF fare
printed IN English. This is recogni-
ton of every tree citizens right TO have
his food in the tongue under which he
acquires his appetite.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Passports no longer run in Ger
many; to get in or get out ore must
have special permission of the govern
ment, to be granted only in case of
urgent necessity. On the whole it will
be simpler for those who are out to
stay out. Does the measure portend
some extraordinary measures Of STRAIT
egg for the discontinue of the allied
armies?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
GH0RDS A Nd
ID I S G. O r ID S

BILL.
You don't know Bill? Well, he's just
an ordinary sort,
One of them fellers that doesn't
crave for others favor.
But, say, he knows me and / know
him. We're great pals.
It's he who greets me first at end
of my days labor
And such a greeting: Bill meets me
down the street and
Seems TO try to help me finish the
trip home. He laughs
And cuts up so that | forget the wor-
ries of the day Land
l don't know what I'd do without
Bill. You should know him
Bills my dog.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Physicians are now warning people
from purchasing mail order goods, eX-
planning that such goods may carry
infection from other centers. Buy
your goods at home, II you can.
They're apt TO be safer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Cooking by wire is gaining in
popularity in southern California,
says the Electrical World, especially
among the feathered tribe. Two trans
mission line short circuits were re-
Gently caused by birds dropping snakes
across the line The snakes were beau
tifully roasted
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

Aug 13-Fred Head is in Kansas
City on business.
c. H. Stoddard, who has been very
i'll, is able TO be up and about again
Bids are being received by the
South Rock Island school board for
the proposed new school house.
Aug. IA new scheme to construct
a bridge across the Mississippi river
above Moline is being advanced in
that city. The c., B. & Q. and B., c.
r. & n. railroads will be asked to CO
operate in the movement
Mrs. J. Stroehle is visiting friends
in Chicago.
George Weber and Miss Elsie P.
last evening at 1928 Ninth avenue
Magistrate Wivill performed the GER
emony
A pipe leading from the waterworks
to the Rock Island stove works broke
last night with the result that the
plant was shut down today.
Aug 15-The new fire wagon for
the city of Rock Island is now in the
hands Of the painters in the firm at
Chicago and will be shipped within the
next week. A team of iron grays has
been purchased.
Ex-Sheriff SiIvis was painfully
bruised when he was thrown from a
Milan trailer yesterday afternoon
The car jumped the track.
The executive committee of the
Rock Island County Old Settlers asso-
citation has arranged for the annual
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19

The same man who four years ago
placed the name of William H. Taft
before the convention which led to the
formation of the progressive party,
made the keynote speech at the con-
yention which nominated Mr.. Hughes
and also the speech notifying that gen
tIeman Of his nomination for the pres
idency. How do progressives warm
up to that?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
We Are for Simplified Spelling.
Chicago dispatch SAYS

n tIItdbU uIapdItU says
Because he tried to spell his extra
ordinary name, which contains AZ let
tiers, over the telephone to fire head
quarters is the reason today that a
fruit store belonging to Nicholas Palip-
on isoringapapacopoc
gloggoulos is no more a fruit store.
The building at No. 1853 Halsted street
burned entirely up while the excited
man attempted to establish his identity
over the telephone. The man is des-
perate today, but too considerable of
stonecutters to die, for they could new
er get enough CT his cognomen on the
tomb TO tell who he was"
N