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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
HUGHES WEAK BESIDE VIII SON

language, but their nouns and verbs
have no specific meaning. If Mr..
Roosevelt's denunciations of the ad-
ministration mean anything at all
they mean that he would have
gone to war with Germany,
that he would have gone to war
with Mexico That is the popular I'M
derstanding of what he is driving at.
He was the indicated and logical can
didate, the only candidate by whose
nomination the republicans would
have clearly manifested their aversion
to Mr.. Wilson's policy of peace, their
preference for policy of war. ... ,
| Mr.. Hughes will not be elected. His
defeat is to be desired, among many
other reasons, for this good and suftic-
| lent reason, that the invasion of the
supreme courts chamber by needy
politicians in search of a leader, now
| for the first time in American history
successfully accomplished, may be re-
! buked and made a precedent too dan
gerous for following The ermine that
we have been taught to believe should
| touch nothing less spotless than itself
must not be dOnned for a few sea
sons wear, to be stripped off by a
reckless party convention forcing its
wearer into the dust and turmoil OF
the political arena.
The republicans have assailed the
purity of that great bench. They have
put the judges who sit there under the
almost irresistible temptation to turn
their minds aside from the questions
that alone concern them, to let their
thoughts wander to fields of conten-
ton where they should have no part
1t is disturbing and a menace to that
judicial claim and impartiality which
should prevail in that chamber and tt
which by the acceptance of appoint
ment justices of the supreme court
should devote their minds and theil
| lives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Cardale to Relinquish Post.

Athens, Greece. - Correspondence
Of the Associated Press. 1T is an
nounced that Rear Admiral Hubert
S Cardale, the acting head of the Brit
ish naval mission in Greece and at
present the ranking officer of the Roy
al Hellenic navy on active service,
will soon relinquish his post and
leave Greece. He has been one of the
most prominent figures in Athens dur
ing the war, for in his dual capacity
as a Brtisher and an admiral of the
Greek army, he has been a factor in
quoting many Of the internal dissen-
sions in this country, which, ever
since the war started, has been the
scene of continual pulling and haul
ing OF warning interests.
One day Admiral Cardale has been
called upon to pronounce for the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
GEORGIA sOUsOMETER

A southern statistician, who ought
to know something about it, has fig
ured out that under Georgias new law
limiting the amount Of liquor allowed
to each individual per month, a pru-
dent colonel can manage TO exc out
one good swig Of whisky per day with
cut transgressing the statute, He
says:
zone Of the well known dispensers
in discussing the situation declared
that there were so average size drinks
il every gallon Of WHISKY. Accepting
his as authority, and it should be, for
tie dispenser Of liquids knows the bus
mess thoroughly, there are about 10
good drinks in every quart, and since
the drink allowance is two quarts a
month. then the man of thirst in Geor-
gia viii have 80 drinks a month, or
one a day IN all months having 30
DAYS. but where fhemonth has 81 days
he Will have to lay of some Sunday in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
The Daily Story
An Ancient Mariners Tale-By F A. Mitchell

CROWN palmer The ole man come
on deck all Of a sudden. He'd heard
the toIlin' and couldn't make It out.
1t drifted past US In the darkness,
soundin' clear for awhile, then CROWN
fainter astern. The ole man couldn't
bear to lose It without KNOWN what
It was and give an order TO put the
ship about and stand by or follow IL
needed till dawn, which was couple
O. hours off. So we did, and durin'
them two hours, the dolefulest ever
experienced, we kept within the sound
o. that bell
"Mornin' come at last, and couple
o. miles away we saw somepin black,
which. as the light growed, turned out
10 be a dismantled ship, She was
a-rollin' and a-plungin'. and every time
she rolled or plunged we heard that
solemn tollin'. That's what we'd been
hearin'-the wrecks bell
1.-THE old man allowed that she was
a dereiict with no one aboard of her
and her bell rope had rolled away or
become unlashed. We sailed up to
within a short pun Of her. and the
second mate boarded her, bein' one
O. the boats crew to take him there.
Her decks were awash, and 1t was
plain there was nothin' alive on her
before we got to her. We went on to
her deck for'ard, which was little
higher than the stern. and looked
around, but we didn't go below. One
o. the men looked down hatch, and
his report was not encouragin' for rs
to 20 down among the dead men, and
we let 'em alone.
well, now, I told you that I'd
known a case where the dead tolled
their own funeral bell. This was II.
The crew. KNOWN they was doomed,
had nailed board up near the bell
and had painted on It message
All hope gone. The ships bell VIII ton
our requiem.
"They had cut away the bell rope
entirely.
Wed brought blast with US to
sink the ship, and we put it where it
would do the work, but the ole man.
fearin' we might fail, had ordered the
mate on no account to leave that bell
a-tollin' to give persons on other ships
the shivers We'd brought axes with
US, Of course. and before firm the
blast we chopped away the bells sup
ports. And, would You believe me,
sir, when it rolled down on to the deck
! 1t sounded like a dytn' wall.
"'Heave the cursed thing overheard
yelled the mate.
I'VE did that too and when It struck
the water it sounded like dead mans
last gasp"
My man had proved veritable An
cient Mariner, and with as grewsome
a tale. I was glued TO my seat till he
had finished. then, muttering some
thing like thanks for his story, left
him. Fortunately for me, as did SO
the tolling of the funeral bells ceased.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
The Coffee Shruh.

AS rule, the coffee shrub first flow
ers In its third year and then bears
only small crop of fruit. The fifth
year is usually the time of the first
considerable yield. In Java three gath
erings are made annually, called the
early the chief and the after
crop but only the second is of great
Importance. The flower enjoys but a
very ephemeral existence as the set
ting of the fruit generally takes place
within "A hours. and the petals wither
and fall off almost Immediately A
coHee estate in full flower is a very
beautiful sight, but its glory is very
soon Westminster Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Daily History CIaSS-June Is.

1902 Frances Burney, later Nine.
D'Arblay, English novelist, born;
died 1910.
I'so-Brevet Lieutenant General Win
Held Scott L. S A. born; died
1866. Scott enlisted while at col
iege. Soon after that he was APP
pointed captain in the regular ar
my and turned his attention to
military science. In the Mexican
war he was general in chief.
le9s-The Fifth army corps. under
General w. Il. Shafter. sailed from
tampa. Fla. for Santiago de Cuba,
islo-Teutonic armies under Won Mack
ensen renewed the offensive and
drove back the Russians along a
front OF forty-three miles in East
Galieia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

The bells were tolling In a fishing
village where l was temporarily stop
ping. On a wooden bench facing the
ocean sat an old man, and /, having
time on my hands. sat down beside
him. l asked him the cause OF the
tolling, and he said that sea captain
who had long been resident OF the
place had died and was being buried
| remarked ON the dismal effect Of the
strokes, each stroke following the one
before after long interval in painful
regularity.
You think that dismal sound, sirf"
said the old man. What would you
think If you heard a bell a-tollin' for
the dead that had been rugged by their
selves for that particular purpose? In
this yere case sexton is pullin' on
the rope; in the case I'm talkin' about
the dead was a-tollin' the bell"
I looked aside at the old man curl
ously. There was something about
him to indicate that he had been a
sailor and light in his eye that
caused me to wonder II he were not
an Ancient Mariner with tale to tell.
Though the light did not exactly indi-
cate insanity, the fact Of his speaking
of the dead tolling their own funeral
bells looked suspicious. | asked him
to explain, and he did so as follows:
when was younker | sailed from
this port every two or three years for
the east. There was no Suez canal in
them days, and we always went around
the Horn or the Cape. On one O. them
voyages when we was in the Pacific
what I'm goin' to tell you happened.
The Pacific Is so big that it's kind o
lonesome. When a pusson has seen
nothin' but water for a month and
nary. ship or sighted land, even a
sailor will sometimes feel as If he's
lost in never endin' space.
Zone night when we'd had reason to
feel that way was one O. the watch,
and, sailin' along in the darkness
there was neither moon or stars-I
thort heard the faint sound of bell.
l listened hard and heard it again.
When / heard 1t third time l asked
one O. the watch if he heard 1t too
He listened and said he did. Then
knowed it wasn't my fancy.
"One after another the rest O. the
watch heard the sound. It wasn't reg.
ular; the strokes come any way. There
wasn't no bell at sea that ever made
such sounds except bell buoy. But
we was In the middle O the Pacific
ocean, where there wasn't no need OF
a bell buoy. And yet the strokes kept
comm, sometimes near together, some
times far apart, sometimes heavy
sometimes light, and in that big ocear
O blackness atop and below they was
awful melancholy.
Either we was movin' toward tbs
| sounds or they was movin' toward us
or. mebbe both. Anyway they wai
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

Children are children, and accidents
Will happen in the best regulated fami-
lies. Nowadays everybody knows that
the most trivial wound from fireworks
or firearms is liable to open the way
for infection with tetanus, lockjaw.
The annual list of fatalities from this
cause after the Fourth of July is dim
lnishlng year by year, because more
and more people realize the import
ance OF having the trivial injuries
treated at once by the doctor. Lock
jaw is preventable in every case, but
| durable in only exceptional cases
Salves, poultices, peroxide of hydro
gen, and rags" have 20 place what
ever in the treatment of toy pistol or
other powder wounds. Such maltreat-
ment invites the fatal lockjaw.
The injury, though only a puncture
or bruise, should be treated immedi-
ately by the doctor 1t is a scientific
fact that the less bleeding and more
trifling the wound the better the op-
portunity for infection with tetanus
germs, and hence scratches, slight
burns and skin abrasions require
prompt surgical attention.
For home treatment, while awaiting
the doctor, not as a substitute for the
doctors treatment, it is wise to give
any such wound, superficial or deep,
one thorough swabbing with pure tine
ture of iodine, which sInarts momen-
tarily and seCOndarily relieves pain.
If it is a mere abrasion or scratch,
leave it exposed to the air, or, better.
allow direct sunlight to battle it. Ii
it is a raw or bleeding wound, pro-
tect it Temporarily with a freshly
washed and ironed pad of muslin or
gauZe.
Children playing about fires are apt
to catch fire from the flying, infiam-
mable character of their clothing.
Flannelette, used for little girls petit
coats, is VIGOROUSLY infiammable. Any
and all clothing may be made practi-
cally fireproof, as lace curtains and
the like are so rendered, by allowing
the material TO soak for five minutes
in a solution Of one pound of ammoni-
um phosphate in one gallon of cold
water, and then hanging up TO dry.
The chemical does not injure material,
is non poisonous and keeps infinitely,
so that it may be used over and over.
When the clothing is washed, or wet
through by rain, the chemical must be
reapplied. In carnivals and pageants,
when fimsy draperies are freely used,
this solution offers insurance against
deplorable accidents.
ANY puncture, stab wound or injury
which doesn't bleed freely, be it due
to a bright nail or rusty one, toy
pistol or a real one. or any abrasion
from white. black or colored stockings.
deserves prompt surgical treatment in
warm weather A dose of antitetanie
serum 0ockjaw antitoxin) soon after
the injury is the surest preventative
of lockjaw.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13


order that his allowance may fill out
the month"
This is close figuring and worthy OF
southern gentleman. But 1t leaves
one disqueting question evolving it
self in our, thinking machinery: What
assurance have we that the average
Georgian, willing in spirit but weak
IN the flesh. will have the fortitude TO
distribute his thirst over a period Of
80 days instead of lavishing his whole
monthly allotment on "a two-day' 6
spree?
Georgia means all right; no doubt.
But in attempting to standardize the
extent of the true Georgian's indulg-
ence she has tackled a problem as
hard to solve as that other unanswer-
able riddle, How long is a piece of
string?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
ELECTRIC NOTES
Electric signs have practically re
placed all others for night service.

Electric signs have practically re-
placed all others for night service.
Extensive waterpower sites in Brit
ish Columbia are to be developed.
Nearly three million dollars worth
Of electrical apparatus was exported
in February.
Electric flash lights Of the pocket
type are extensively used by soldiers
in the European war.
German engineers are using zinc
wires in place of copper which is re-
quired for military purpose.
There are $500 communities in the
United States and Canada where cheap
electricity is available for electri
cooking purposes.
The General Electric company has
1880, 900 square feet of floor space
available for the manufacture of cleo
trical machinery and devices.
Thompson, Iowa, has a population of
but 431, but it has a 24-hour electric
service all its own. The plant is prac-
tically automatic in operation.
The Arkansas state capitol is now il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

Illuminated by food lighting, the in
stallation being made by the Little
Rock Railway & Light company. 1t is
said to be the first state capitol in the
country TO be lighted in this manner.
The entire exterior of the building is
covered with light from thirty 5O0-kil-
OWatt units,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Where Once a Home Stood.

And what is more melancholy than
the Old apple trees that linger about
the spot where once stood a home
stead, but where there is now only a
ruined chimney rising out of a grassy
ana weed grown cellar? They offer
thelr fruit to the wayfarer-apples that
are bitter-sweet with the moral Of
times vicissitude.- Hawthorne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

More than 100000 women will be
able to vote in the United States this
Year, and that will bring the total
possible vote for presidential electors
lp TO nearly 30,00O,000, or double the
fNtmber cast four years ago. There
are Just about twice as many women
keters in our country as there were
plsn who voted for Lincnln's reelec-
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

Facts are facts. American workmen
are highly prosperous in the wholly
unprotected shoe industry and in the
wholly unprotected agricultural i'm
pIement' industry, and much less pros
Pafous in the highly protected cotton
and wonlen~industries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

s9 erhaps the colonel sent Mr..
bortelyou to Chicago to have charge
n the last-ditch fight on the theory
That it takes d silent man to beat a
silent man At any rate it is evident
that going to the other extreme has
not been a success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
cM0RDS a Nd
ID DISCO r DIS

DISPATCHES report that Villas dog
has been located. 1t appears as IL
somebody had been kicking the amman
around, subjecting him to the same
treatment his master has Deeh re-
Ceiving.
"UNITED States Commission Takes
Tn Gasoline Prices Today. -Headilne.
what the consumer wants the commits
sion to do is not to take the prices up,
but to knock them down.
EVANSTONIAN declares he saw two
snakes on the principal street OF his
town the other night while returning
home. He ought to pull through II he
didn't see more than that number.
AMONG others who, for business
reasons, will not support the republi-
can national ticket, might be men
toned the manufacturers Of Palm
Beach suits.
IN the griefs and disappointments
that beset mankind on the wearis0me
wiggle through this valley of tears
happily there is an occasional occur
renee that hoists a sigh Of relief and
gratefulness. For instance the 0rigi-
nator of coon shouting has lost his
voice.
HUGHES and Fairbanks can't eX-
pect the support of the BARRIERS unions
of the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Did They Expect More!

Mrs. Asselin carried $1,000 life in
surance, the house was insured for
$500 and the contents for $500. An ac-
cident policy on the life of little Marie
amounts to $50, Mr.. Asselin and his
Borrowing Family have the sympathy
of the entire community. -Cheboy-
gon (Mich.) Daily Tribune.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
New Diversion.

There was candy biting at Lee
Browns Saturday night and quite a
large crowd attended. The Stont Coun-
ty (Ark) Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

EThe whipping a woman gave her
1sband in a New York hotel evident
Z had a Christening, effect He baled
.er out when she was arrested
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Tuesday, June IS, 1916.
Rock IsIand-Frum River to
s River.

aver 100000 people and nearly 1000
ehicleS pass over Park Row in New
-ork CITY in 10 hours Of each day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

Speaking Of harmony, true and IN.
Aulterated. we recommend you to
n meeting to be held at St Louis
rs week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

81 has been figured that digging of
e trenches in Europe means a total
gcayation twice that Of the Panama
anal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Fruit Makes Blood More Alkaline.

Does not the acid of fruits make the
blood more acid and SO render rheu-
matism worse?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
Their Conception of Art,

VERNE Van Noy is a regular attend
ant at singing, and while he does not
know anything about vocal music, or
even enjoy it, he amuses himself by
drawing pen sketches of the singers,
and does it well. OF course if fellow
doesn't do much he should do it we'll.
The Van Buren, County (Ark) Dem
ocrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
But Why!

Mrs Odella Upton, wife of Rev. ]. ].
Upton, pastor of the Otway Methodist
church, rendered noble service in as
sisting families to remove their eff
fects. Starting in at the lower end OF
the village she hurried from house to
house, sometimes with almost super
human strength. jerking pianos and
other heavy articles out OF the homes
while the excited owners helpiessly
looked on. - The Portsmouth, (0D
Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13
LOVELY BUT DIFFICULT JUNE.

Try 10 Wrlte OIL lovely June
And all her pleasant ways
To put my thoughts in time and tune
And give her ample praise
But goodness! when l think of brides,
And words that rhyme with. bliss,
And fiowers-and other things besides,
My pen will go like this:
"a pickle fork for Cousin Bess-
A cut-glass dish for Sue
And then there's Mary, Jane and Jess.
| wonder what would do,
Those candlesticks for Marguerite
Dear me, without doubt
l find that June, the fair, the sweet
Is hard to write about!
Martha Hart poems, Des Moines
Tribune.
THE difference between the republi-
can and national conventions is that
the organization in control of the for
mer could tell you weeks in advance
who was not going to be nominated
while the latter has been concerned
only with the question of being able
to hold the delegates in session long
enough to fulfill the contract with the
St. Louis interests that came through
with the bonus to insure the staging OF
the national gathering in that city
The democratic convention has no enc
my to punish. 1t has only a faithful
servant to reward.
| WHEN a movie stars face no Longer
attracts the newspapers as a feature
! Tor publication her next move is Il
| design bathing suit with herself al
the model. OF course in the execution
of this space-bidding stunt her face
doesn't count.
ARTHUR Knock was a member O
the class ordained to the Lutheran min
istry by Augustana synod at Galesburi
the other day. You're wrong. The gen
tleman is described as an enthusiast,
/ booster for his church.
CHARLES Hilles, chairman of III,
republican national committee, Wa!
mistaken for a waiter in one of thu
Chicago hotels. Well, hasn't he beef
and isn't he one? You should hav,
seen him performing in his official ca
pacity on the platform of the Coliseum
in Chicago last week.
1T develops that Senator Sherman
and George B. Cortelyou, one of tn
Roosevelt managers, were guests a
the home of Charles G. Dawes in Chi
cago through convention week. Sher
man was supposed to have been il
Springfield. Sherman does not appea
to have suffered by his close associa
ton with the colonels booster. 1t i
not unlikely that it was bunch from
the New Yorker that prompted the Hi
noisan'S surrender to Hughes in tn
early morning hours of Saturday whel
he put one over on the other favorit
sons while they were asleep.
"CRANE, Full of Optimism. Goes t,
Talk With Hughes" Headline! Some
body ought 10 have suggested to tn
gentleman from Massachusetts that h
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

"CRANE, Full of Optimism. Goes to
Talk With Hughes" Headline! Some.
body ought 10 have suggested to the
gentleman from Massachusetts that he
carry foot warmer with him,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

LAST week Chicago was the Windy
city. This week the democrats are
meeting in st. Louis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-13

I'm Chicago they have cafe they
call the Harmony postcards lgnatz
AT least that's the sign on the win
dows After hearing few of the GUS
toners consuming celery I'm further
convinced that one should not believe
an sigma"