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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20
THREE BATHING IN
RIVER LOSE LIVES
Two Brothers and Their Brother-in-
Law Victims OF Drowning Near
gamaHche, Iowa.
MARE ATTEMPT 70 SAVE BOY
Willard Thompson. Gerald Thompson
and Ray Ratcheler Of Lyons, Iowa,
Are Victims.
SPECIAL to The ArglIs.l

Camanche. Iowa. aug 20.-Three
persons. residents of Lyons. Iowa,
were drowned near here yesterday
afternoon. The victims are Willard
Thompson, aged 81 clerk for Curtis
Bros. b Clinton. Gerald Thompson,
s. his brother, and Ray Batcheler, p,
machIuist for Climax Engine COM
panv of Lyons
The three were in bathing when
Gerald Thompson ventured beyond his
depth His cries for help attracted
the attention of the other two, who
went TO his rescue. They struggled in
the water for some time when their
cries were heard hy George Schwartz.
who put ont ID q boat but they sank
bef0ra he arrived near them.
Recover Bodies.
He summoned help and dragged the
river for the bodies. which were re-
covered within ten minutes A physi-
clan had been summoned from Clinton
with a puImotor All efforts to revive
the trio were Of no avail
Ray Batcheler was married Dec
GRAFTON day TO Bernice Thompson. sis
ter Of the two brothers who drowned.
She was grief stricken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20
BOOZE FIRST MEANT DRINK

The word booze" came to US before
the 14th century. seemingly from the
Dutch. iu the form 'bous" or "bouse."
AIT that time. as noun or verb, It meant
merely drink" and to speak Of a
gentleman as housing" HIS wine was
not Ifbeloue or even derogatory, Some
how fl acquired the added suggestion
OF excess and bad company. and by
the time Of Shakespeare we find it IN
elosaarfes of the argot Of thieves and
Eypsies The process may be under
stood when we think Of the sinister
meaning we often attach to the simple
word drink" which might conceivably
run the same course if we misuse It
often enough,--Harper's
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20

Mrs. John II. Curran, successful
novelist Of St. Louis, No, refuses to
take any credit for her literary
works. She says her books are writ
ten by q spirit who lived il the
seventeenth century, and who die
tates TO her through the ouija board.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20
INSTRUMENTATION
READY FOR ACTION
Armies in Field in Next Few Months
WIN be Larger Than Federal
Forces During Civil War.


United States has arrr1xs~7z-rfv
49, - 49,.
'99'5oo volunteers ~-'~si al -'-7 IN
war with Germany
OF this 100000 men in addition To
the thousands ia the navy fehting on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-20

All the news all the time-The
Argus
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
STORY OF A REVIVAL HYMN.
The "GIory Song" Was Not Written For
Financial Gain.

Financial Gain.
Nothing can be more inspiring than
to hear a great congregation singing
Charles II. Gabriels revival hymn,
known as the GLORY Song" 1t Is one
of the most recent OF the hymns of
its character, having made its appear
ance In 1900.
The author was born in the early
fifties of the past century, in Iowa,
and spent his earlier years on farm
In that state. His melodies are popu-
lar.
During the early summer of 1900,
while bicycle riding with Chicago
publisher for whom he was at the
time preparing manuscript, he said to
him, i've got song that is going to
livew He then gave the title of and
made brief quotation from 20 that
will be glory"
1t will doubtless be Of interest to
state that its author received only $40
for the copyright and sole use of 1t,
and this illustrates the fact that gospel
songs are not always written for gain.
Charles NJ. Alexander the singing
evangelist of TOrrey-Alexander fame,
has made the GLORY Song famous
wherever the English language is spo-
ken.
Alexander states that to his knOwl-
edge the GLORY Song" has been trans
lated intO' at least fifteen languages
and three Indian languages. Detroit
Free Press.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Add Fifteen Years
BY Right Living

Fifteen years is the length of time
one may add to his life by applying
what Is now known Of personal ny
gene This statement was made by
the Roosevelt conservation commission
in its report on national vitality. The
findings of the commission reversed
the impressions of a generation ago
that the average human lifetime was a
fixed allotment decreed by fate. 1t
teaches now that our doom is a varia-
bic thing and that it is more or less In
our power TO control.
Learning how to live is the secret of
how one may add fifteen years to his
life. Individual hygiene, or the by
giene of personal habits, according to
the commission, contains possibilities
Of self improvement far beyond what
ninety-nine persons out of hundred
have ever realized. In other words,
only ] per cent Of people today know
how to live. The other 30 per cent are
victims of improper living habits ana
the customs of our bOasted civilization.
They have not learned to order their
lives according to their physical needs.
They are content to tolerate bad air,
bad food, imperfect teeth, wrong pos
ture, improper clothing, constipation,
self drugging, alcoholism and other
conditions of the average life.
The 90 per cent who have not learn
ed how TO live, says the commission,
are responsible for the increase OF Al
per cent in the cOuntry's death rate
from wear and tear diseases in twenty
years. Wear and tear diseases are
suid TO be the byproduct of civilization,
not that civilization is all wrong, but
that people have not yet learned to ad-
Just their habits of living to its de-
mands.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

before her, she remembered with sud-
den vividness the almost forgotten
scenes of ten years before-of little
Jewish boys in the back room of a
synagogue, after public school hours,
swaying back and forth in concert as
they shouted out long passages from
the Talmud; of the girls in the sew
ing classes listening hungrily to
stories, with their quick racial re-
sponse to anything dramatic.
Her own imagination quickened,
she felt deeply moved, and humble
to address them, thinking Of their
eagerness for knowledge, their pas
sionate desire to be young Americans
these poor children from many
lands.
AS she told them about the Red
Cross, it was almost as If in their
childish minds they carried the re-
membrance of the sufferings of their
people. The speaker stepped bacR
and tripped and almost had funny
fall, but not one Of them laughed
With heads bent forward they were
concentrated on the war and what
the Red Cross did.
And later, to their teachers, from
their scanty earnings and savings,
they brought money that was to have
been spent perhaps for candy and
hair ribbons, and sour pickles and
one pair of hockey skates-offerings
that suggested to the woman who
had seen hungry children on both
sides of the ocean-gold, and frank
incense and myrrh.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

Sir William Watson has earned the
right to be termed Ireland's poetical
champion, although he was born In
Yorkshire and is Of Yorkshire ancestry
on both sides. Home rulers say that
there Is no more terse description Of the
position of Erin than that contained in
the famous lines of his lode on the
Day of the Coronation of King Ed
ward VII"
The lovely and the lonely bride
Whom we have welded but have never
won.
His first volume Of poems was pub
lished at his fathers expense. Ten
years later not twenty copies had been
sold Six years after the publication
of his second volume he had gained no
success. Today he is regarded as our
greatest living poet.-London Standard,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Company

derful things" on the French front.
according to a Chinese prediction,
has just been received in New York.
Parish-Watson & Co., Chinese art
importers, $50 Fifth avenue, received
large "Tang" jar, valued at $4,000,
last week. The jar was made 1000
years ago. When 1t was unpacked
a piece of blue paper was found at
the bottom, upon which were four
rows of Chinese characters which
when translated read:
Some day one American young
and famous general will achieve Won
derful things in the great front or
France, and this great war will be
ended in September, 1915"
1t is supposed the prediction was
made by some Chinese scholar" or
philosopher, and was placed in the
jar before it was packed for shipment
at Hankow, China, last summer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
How to Test Fish
To Determine Age

All fish must, Of course, be strictly
fresh. If 1t is easily pulled from the
bones It il sure sign the fish is stale
Tho brightness of the eye Is another
test Of freshness and one that cannot
be remedied altiiclally For this reason
a purchaser should be suspicious of any
fish from which the eyes have been re-
moved or fish offered for sale without
the head, The skin should be smooth
and unwrinkled and the color fresh and
clear Dip in scalding water for few
seconds to remove the scales or skin.
Always soak salt fish in salt water
instead Of fresh water The strong
taste usually so difficult TO destroy will
be entirely removed and the fish will be
more palatable than when soaked in
fresh water.
Fish contain the same kind of nutri-
ents as other food materials. When
accompanied by bread and butter, po-
tat0es, green vegetables and fruit, they
provide a diet that will supply all the
demands OF the body. All sorts of fish
may be boiled steamed, baked. plank
ed, fried, stuffed, scalloped, served in
cream, made into ramekins, croquettes
salads, served hot or cold in jelly, pot.
ted and picked. At conventional
dinner fish follows the soup and may
be served with potatoes and cucumber
or lettuce salad. At home dinner II
takes the place of meat. Do not serve
a sweet or heavy dessert at the close
Of fish dinner, as the combination is
not good, Coffee may be served, but
tea Is to be avoided after fsh.-Wash
iAgton Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Thriv.d on Stone Diet.

The most curious of all diets is that
of stones. In an old volume Of the
Gentleman's Magazine read the other
day of the discovery Of the stone eater
lin a northern. inhabited island by the
crew Of a Dutch ship. They brought
him to France in May, 176O, where he
was submitted TO all kinds of artificial
tests. 1t was proved that he throve
better on stones than any other food,
and his dinner usually consisted of
large sized flints. with powdered mar
bles for dessert. He became great at
traction at fashionable gatherings,
where he amused the guests by swal-
lowing stones and afterward cOnvinc-
ing them that there was no deception
by making them rattle in his stomach.
Dundee Advertiser.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Farmers Encouraged
To Produce Stock

Under the new food administra-
ton regulations governing the price
of mill feeds, substantial encourage
ment is offered to the farmer and the
stock raiser and the administration
now hopes for their full cooperation
in capacity production during the
coming year, of hogs, cattle, sheep
and poultry"
The above is the statement of AS
sistant Federal Food Administrators
w. X. Newell, who points out that
the way is now clear for the farmer
and the stock raiser to plan for the
greatest possible output of food ami
mails.
There is every assurance of q
steady and profitable market" said
Mr. Newell, with as ample a supply
of feed as can be had by milling all
the wheat possible in the northwest.
The raising of food animals, particu.
larly hogs and beef and dairy cattle,
is not only the patriotic duty of every
citizen so situated that they can do
so, but it will be a splendid business
investment as we'll. For several years
to come, because of world conditions,
the market for food animals will in
eyitably be strong and steady, and
now that the output of grain feeds ac
the mill has come under government
control through the new licensing
system, with a fixed price basis, the
cost of production will no longer he
prohibitively high or too uncertain
for a safe investment. Let every
farmer and stock raiser in Oregon
make his plans now for the fullest
possible production Of all food ami
mails, particularly hogs, which are
most needed and which will prove
the most profitable to the producer.
"Under the new regulations the
miller must not charge the dealer
more than 3S per cent of the cost OF
a ton OF wheat at the mill door for
bran. All feed dealers must now
operate under federal license and
must not charge more than a reason
able profit for the handling OF any
mill feeds. ANY cases of overchargs
by dealers should be promptly report
ed to the Federal Food Administra-
tion office at Portland for investiga-
tion."
The new prices of mill feeds, from
miller to dealer, will be $29 or $50
per ton for bran, 81 higher for
shorts. and 50 higher for middlings
in carload lots, with a differential OF
not more than so cents for less than
carload lots. This is a substantial
reduction as against the prices
charged for mill feeds heretofore.
With this cut in the cost of feeding
stock and the assurance of permanent
government control of mill fe 4 OUT
put, risk is reduced to the minimum
for the stock raiser, who is now
urged to do his utmost to help the
food administration meet the tre-
mendous demands of our own armies
and that of the peoples and armies Of
our associates in this war.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
One Answer Given
TO the Red Cross
(By Marian Bonsall Davis. }


There is home for crippled chill
dren, a Protestant institution in
Pittsburgh, where the little ones were
told something about the Red Cross,
and how it took care of many chill
dren and soldiers and hurt people
who otherwise would suffer. Per-
haps because their own arms and
legs were so much awry, and they
had no prospect of the running, jump
ing, jubilant youth of other Ameri-
can children, their eyes saw straight
into the very heart of suffering. This
is what they did: They poured their
precious savings, pennies and nickels
which had been given them from
time to time, a few larger pieces and
a bill or two, into white box marked
with the Red Cross.
Some Influential men Of the city
were seated around table talking
about raising money for the Ameri-
can Red Cross. That small white boz
was there and some made as if to
drop in contributions. But one OF
them held it up and said: "No-no
further gift is permitted here We
could not add to this" And in the
presence of this gift to the American
Red Cross from the home for Grip
pied children, there was sudden
quietness among these men of the
world.
In the Convent of the Sacred Heart
in New York, where two or three
hundred sheltered children, rich in
kindness, receive their early educa'
tion, the Reverend Mother speaks Of
ten of the children abroad. Without
asking for direct sacrifices, she has
mentioned that sometimes when one
is about to buy new hair ribbon or
pair of silk stockings, on stopping
to think one finds they are not need
ed so much, perhaps, as food and
clothing may be needed for children
of the war. And so many a radiant
little gift of girlish sacrifice has been
placed in her hands to send to them.
One day-it was long before we
too were in the war-these children,
girls from four to fourteen years,
held a conference among themselves.
They decided to ask the Reverend
Mother how much it would amount
to in money or barrels Of flour II
they gave up their "gouter" for the
rest Of the year; that little daily treat
at half past four, Of plain cake or
toast and sweet-the party that
was at the high point of the day.
Learning its equivalent, they asked
tnat this be denied them ana the
money sent to those other children
overseas.
A woman who had done war relief
work in France was speaking for the
Red Cross war fund, last June, to
several hundred school children in
an American public school. They
were nearly all Jewish children in
that particular assembly room, and
very poor.
The woman had lived in social
settlement in the center of the jewish
district of the city at one time, and
as she looked at the rows 'of faces
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
THE NEW YEAR.
(By Elizabeth Yockey)

(By Elizabeth Yockey.)
Nineteen-eighteen
Finds a serious state in
The country We adore.
Give him a chair,
Bespeak him fair,
For he will come no more.
This world awrE
He does decry,
And hopes to live it through
But when he goes
There's no one knows
If he'll leave me or you.
It 'hooves each one,
Ere Eighteen's gone,
To do his stunt right now.
So "Hooverize"-
Don't criticise.
To Heaven and Fate we bow.
Eighteen can't rest
Til efforts best
Have been put forth with skill
Then watch and pray
And hope Away,
And work with right good will
Ashland, Ore, Dec. "a, 1917.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

The hotel men over the country
seem to have struck snag in their
attempt to explain their failure to
observe meatless and wheatless days,
by alleging that the travelling men
would not "stand for it," Now come
the United Commercial Travellers and
Indignantly deny the charge, main
tanning that they are as ready as any
other class of men to follow Mr.
Hoover's recommendation to the let
ter. It seems to be up to the eating
house men.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
NOT A RIVAL OF THE SUN.
This Shows How Puny Is the Worlds
Biggest Artificial Light

ol9Ycot H'hihN'o' 6'9's
Perhaps the biggest artificial light in
the world is the 50,0O0,000 candle pow
er light installed at the falls Of Mag
ara. When this gigantic installation
was made 1t was claimed to be the
nearest approach to real sunshine ever
devised by man, and that may be true.
But 1t is interesting to ascertain, II
possible, how much 1t fell short OF the
actual output of light by our great
luminary, and, strangely enough, there
are figures in existence which enable
a comparison to be made, Yet 1t may
be stated at once that these figures
are so stupendous as to leave the hui
man mind absolutely Sin the dark"
| Professor Young made calculation
some years ago. based upon careful
and repeated experiments, Of the total
quantity Of sunlight given out by our
; sun, and he found 1t to be a guam
tity represented by candles running to
/ twenty eight figures, candle power be
| ing the official unit.
How many lights equal to the Mag
ara installation would 1t require to
match Dame Natures big installation
which appears above the horizon Sc
regularly day by day? More big fig
ures! 1t would require 81 100000, ,0O0,'
000000,000 lights just as powerful as
the biggest man has accomplished ION
his own" SO even Uncle Sam will
have to try again. The Niagara illu-
minatiOn Is "some" light, but old Sol
is equal to three and one-half quintil-
lions of them!-Pearson's Weekly.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
An Historic Battle.

The great battle of Crecy was fought
on Aug. "a, in 1874. 1t was here that
Edward the Black Prince gained hon
or The blind king of the Bohemians
was slain and the ornaments on his
sword were adopted as the coat of arms
of the princes of Wales, the coat Of arms
being three ostrich feathers with the
words "Ich Diem" 1t was at this bat
tie also that cannon were used for the
first time in history.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
He Liked Candor,

'Ladies and Gentlemen-lt has never
been my lot to face more empty head
ed, silly looking bunch Of people, and 1
hope | will never be booked for this
town again. 1t is not pleasure to be
here, and 80 per cent of you won't be
able to understand what | am talking
about. We shall now proceed with the
lecture. My subject is, Truth-Candor
Know Thyself.' '"-Richmond Times
Dispatch.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Wood No Longer
Rurally Popular

Everyone is talking these days
about the shortage of coal. Every
one is wondering what has caused
this shortage and practically every
one has some pet idea as to at least
one of its many causes. There is,
however, one angle of this serious
question which has never been writ.
ten of, at least in the daily press,
and that is the immense amount OF
coal now used by the rural popula-
tion of this and other states.
Not so many years ago practically
every farmer used wood for the COOK
ing stove in the kitchen, and a great
many Of them used the small air.
tight wood heater for several of the
rooms in the house, while some few
even burned wood in big, old-fash-
ioned fireplaces, says the Louisville
Courier-JournaL The burning OF
wood for heating purposes has its
decided disadvantages. One very
great disadvantage is the time II
takes to fed the fires either in stoves
or open fireplaces, and the second
great disadvantage is that it must be
cut by the farmer or his hired hands.
In the past, when the farmer was
selling wheat at very low figure,
when his hogs brought him a bare
living wage, when his tobacco was so
low in price that he frequently came
out in debt to the merchant in his
neighboring town, he, of course,
burned wood. The wood was on the
place and could be gotten by the
farmer doing a certain amount Of
extra work. He used it because II
cost real money to buy coal, and he
had very little money. Since the
farmer has been getting higher prices
for everything he has to sell, 1t has
been noticeable that he buys coal for
heating his home and for cooking his
meals. He can be seen hauling coal
ten or even fifteen miles from the
railroad. All of this has made a
huge demand on the mines and rail-
roo dc nf tho nountrv
At first glance it appears rather
queer to the city man that the farm
er would rather use coal than wood.
The city man wonders why the farm
er would not be glad Of the oppor-
tunity to WELD an AK or pull cross
cut saw and set his blood to tingling
these cold days. The city man, how
ever, forgets that the farmer usually
has more exercise than he relishes
The farmer, has always hated the
wood pile and so has his man of all
work. They have both thought of it
as the added work which, if possible,
should be eliminated.
This feeling on the part of the
farmer and his hired man explains
why the tobacco tenant far back in
the hills will haul coal for miles if
he can get a good price for the weed
he has grown on steep hillslope.
He believes that he can use his
strength for something which will
pay him better and he knows that
coal will give him more steady heat
than he could hope to get from wood.
The chances are that now that coal
is scarce and high priced the small
farmer will go back to the use Of
wood and will thus help solve the
coal shortage problem which is con-
fronting the whole country. All Of
which proves very conclusively that
this twentieth century is full of queer
and complex problems which touch
everybody everywhere.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

"You know that car | bought last
month";" began the purchaser.
"Yes. What of it?" asked the dealer.
isn't it good CARP
"I've seen worse ones, but it comes
a long way from being what your agent
represented it to be"
"Of course it does. Why, man alive,
il our cars were as good as that we
wouldn't need to employ agents to sell
them. New York World.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
SHINE Men Are Brutes.

"Ah," sighed Mrs. jenkins, "we're new
er sure of anything in this world
"Yes we are" replied her husband.
"Whenever you are quiet for half a
minute am sure that you'll say some
thing soon or bust, and I've never miss
cd it et."-Boston Transcript.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

It is to be feared that If they put
the real American motto on our coins
it would not be "In God we trust, )"
but 81 should worry"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31

The American soldiers in France
object to the name "Sammies," but
our old uncle with the striped trous-
ers hasn't asked yet to have his name
changed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-12-31
Nor For Anvthinn Else,

"That messenger boy could never
make n political success
"Why not?"
Because he never could be induced
TO run for office. baltimore American.