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The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET.
(F'. o. B. Denver. Carload Price.)

Hay.
Buying Prices-per Ton.
Colo. upland, per ton. .$18.00@20.0
Nebr. upland, per ton..... 17.00018.OO
Prairie hay (new CROP,
Colo. and Nebr., per ton. 16.00@18.O0
Timothy. per ton., 2O.OO@21.00
Alfalfa, per ton ....... .16.OO@1S.00
South Park per ton.. 2O.0OW21.00
Gunnison Valley per ton. 18.O0@2O.0O
Straw, per ton ......... 900
Grain.
Oats, Nebr.. 100 lbs, buying. .......2 .2.55
Colo. oats, bulk, buying ......... .2.5S
Corn chop, sack, selling .......... 1888
Corn in sack. selling ng...,.... $50
Gluten feed. sacked. selling. .. 2.97
Bran, Colo. per 100 lbs, selling. LIST
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08

A mans good intentions seldom add
to his income.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08

The anglers baited breath catches
the big fish stories.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
DRESSED POULTRY.

Hungarian patent SO lbs, sacked,
subject to discount. .$4.75
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Prices Quoted for Metals.
New York.-Lead, $7.00@737h.
,Spelter, $231214.
Bar silver, 991gc.
London.-Bar silver, 4S%d per
ounce.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
Important to Mothers
Its Kind.

Its Kind.
"This paper says that eating car
rots will make you beautiful"
"Oh, that's only yellow journalism"
The world belongs to the energetic.
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
B Butter.

Creameries, ex. 1st grade, lb... "A
Creameries. I'd grade. Id. ..... 40
Process 36
Packing stock k................2 ..28 @30
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08

st. Louis.-Spelter, $7.26.
oulder.-Tungsten concentrates, so
per cent, $20.0O@225O per unit. Crude
ores, 60 per cent, $2200@2S0O; rs
per cent, $12.OO@12.5O; 1O> per cent,
$9.40@1220
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
Vegetables.

Fruit.
Apples. Colo, new fancy, box. 2.50@ $50
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
Eggs.

Eggs. graded No. net, F.
O. B. Denver. ............. 81
Eggs, graded No. net, f.
.. B. Denver. IA
Eggs, case count, misc.
cases, less commission. IS 8.25 @ $50
The Benson signal., 1918-06-08
Live Poultry.
(PriceS net r. O. B. Denver

BOOSTERS, h. ..............1O @12
turkeys, IL lbs. or over. .26 QSO
1A0AAo ss....s....s.s.. VSo
Ducks, young ..............25 OPT
Ducklings, Id. ............... 80
SSOSO W61
Broilers, 1918, lb. 40
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Preparing for Liberty Loan.

The 81 counties of northern and central Illinois
lying within the Seventh federal district are
making rapid progress in the work of organizing
for the third Liberty loan campaign. Heman Clifford
federal director of sales for Illinois, is conf
dent that the state OF Lincoln and Grant will be
found to have gone over the top" when final tabu-
ations of war-bond subscriptions made The pre-
campaign enthusiasm thus far shown is of one var
iety-not 57-and Mr.. Clifford believes that this Ell
thusiasm given vent through practical channels will
result in the expected aid to the government in its
prosecution of the for the freedom the world
Illinois did not subscribe its full share of either
the first second Liberty loans In the last cam
pagn the fell approximately $40 600 900 behind
We are now approaching further test of our pat
riotism which will be severe. Committees
will go into the campaign fully realizing their
task. but firm in the belief that the patriotism and
loyalty of the people Of Illinois will accomplish the
desired result
1t has been charged that the farmers OF Illinois
have not given full support Liberty bonds While
this undoubtedly has been fact In many localities
the records show that in counties where the cam
pagn we'll organized subscriptions from farmers
excellent. and there confidence this time with
better organization everywhere they will be greatly
increased
The same situation exists in communities where
there many people German ancestry During
the first campaign subscriptions from these eommuDt-
ties were very SMALL yet many Of the people sub
scrbed their full in the second csmpaign The
issues involved in the have now become more
clear. and there is conviction that every community
Of this kind in ths state will welcome new oppor-
tunity TO give practical expression is American
ism.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
CHAPTER TEN.
Concerning Nothing Much in Par
ticaiaT hut Quite d Lot i'll
General.

There is one who has been look
ing over our shoulder as We write.
OF what we have written that one
says:
"AlI very we'll, perhaps; but too
light
Too light? Mayhap. And yet OF
what have we written but trouble
and worry and care. Of sorrow and
suffering and starvation. OF pain
and OF hunger and of torture? Of
misery. we have written. and OF
woe: of grief and of unhappiness.
OF FIVE deaths we have told; of the
burying of two corpses. OF the bit
ing bitterness that mankind and
womankind can know and feel and
live we have been told. and of what
makes man and woman doubt life
and long for death And yet that
which we have written is light?
Is it indeed so? Or Is It,
perhaps. that the way in which we
have written it makes so seem
For some people live happi-
ness with a frOwning brow and
fingers cIosecienched; even as 9TH
ers live unhappiness and grief and
sorrow unUtterable with smiling
lips and clear eyes.
This it *. ! think. 1t is not so
much in what we say, as the way
we say i. Even as II IS not
so much in what life is as the way
we live it. Which it were well
worth your while, and mine, to
think over and carefully.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Second Relief Fund.

The campaign for the second war relief fund of
the American Red Cross will start May 20 and
continue for seven days. The people of the country
will be asked contribute another fund of 500 0OO
900. Five moving picture films showing Red Cross
work in the United States and in Europe will be sent
through the chapters to be displayed in the local
picture theatres In the first relief drive, babe last
summer, the fund reached 500 ,099 257 The war
lief fund should be confused with the member
ship campaign of last Christmas week, when the
total membership brought up to 23,500 GOO Since
then about O00 junior members have been add
ed, with the result that the combined membership
takes in nearly half of the population of the
country One hundred million dollars sounds like
huge sum- and it is but it is small the cause
weighed against the patriotic spirit of the American
people who ever ready to give down to the last
dollar where the has the appeal by the
Red Cross
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Baker in France.

Newton D. Baker, secretary Of war, is in France
He has gone across for short stay to inspect the
man power that the United States has on the other
side and TO do what he may toward speeding the
rival of additional units will bring from
this side TO such proportions that it will prove for
Germany has boosted so much of a proposed spring
drive that. while it has not unnecessarily worried
the United States it has been spur TO all OF the al
lied nations TO be prepared for any eventuality 1t
has been known that for weeks Germany has been
switching fighting from the east to the west
front in consequence Of the surrender of Russia II
front than have been stationed there any time
since the outbreak OF the war Mr.. Baker knows what
America has the other side and the condition Of
the troops that there, but it HIS for the
Individual view that has prompted his present
journey.
For several months the secretary has been
eager to see for himself the situation at the
front and talk over with General Pershing the
fany problems that have impede the carry
lg or Of the depa rtnents plans. II impossible
for General Pershng 70 home for such a
ference Mr. Baker therefore determined after con
=ulfation with President Wilson go himself d
Inspection which will believes, better IA him
for meeting his great responsibility In meeting
efsl Pershine's requirements in hghting men and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Unfair to Patriots.

one dav last week The Argus printed a list OF
slackers as issued by the Rock Island exemption
board. They young men to whom question
nares had been addressed but which they had failed
to fill in and return to exemption headquarters
Since publication of these names there have been
frequent calls at The Argus office by relatives OF
most of the young fellows published protesting
against the unfavorable classification that had been
given them and explaining that they had entered
other branches OF the service volunteers before
their missionaries were forwarded to them OF
course in great many instances relatives returned
the missionaries TO the local board and gave in
formation that saved the young men the embarrass-
nen of being advertised slackers In other cases
they did not understand that the of the ques
tionnare necessary. taking it for granted that
the exemption board had a record of every man that
had entered the service of his from this dis
trict
II appears that the navy department, through its
recruiting branches, maintains system whereby as
soon as a man is accepted his name is sent TO the
exemption board in the district in which he resides
showing that already in the service of his
try whereupon his is eliminated from the
script list this is the plan that fol-
lowed prior the introduction Of the QUESTIONABLE
After the QUESTIONABLE had been adopted could
not volunteer. He obliged to fill his question
naire be examined for draft without having the
alternative of choosing favored branch of the
service.
. However, such precautions have been taken
by the war department TO save the youth who has
entered that branch of service from being published
by his home district board Stacker and draft
evader. When young man enlists in the de
partment does not take the pains employed by the
navy division in keeping the home records of the
recruit regular The youth himself could look after
this detail, but naturally has assumed that war
department recruiting officials would look after his
welfare and interest at least the mentioned
Hence the confusion which has resulted in so many
of our patriotic youths getting black temporar
lily. It's blunder that Immediately ought to be cor
rected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

teraIs and keeping operation supply line more
than three thousand miles long.
Mr. Baker is the first member of President VIII
sons cabinet to go the battle Out of his con-
ferences not only with General Pershing' but with
the leaders of the French and British governments as
we'll will come direct information for the president
as to what is developing in the allied countries to aid
him in shaping his future course
The war secretary is in Europe as the president
official representative and the fact that it is his war
secretary and not diplomatic representative is re-
garded as evidence the determination of the presi-
dent to press the war aggressivey to victory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
QRDS and
d ESc o d S
THE MONTH OF MARCH.

like the stormy month OF March
with all its winds and rain, when
winters grasp is loosened up and
boys are raising cain. The joyous
song of birds is heard from every
neighboring tree and cooling lovers
stroll about like prisoners just set
free. We blossom forth at Easter
time in all our fancy rags and hast
en- to the nearest church to watch
each dress that says. 1t is the time
when maidens fair, ditching their
pet troubles, paint all life a rosy
hue, with dreams as bright as bub-
bles. The goldman haunts us with
his bills. the iceman's lying low,
and when he has a half a chance
he's sure to get your dough. The
kids lat keeps" are playing hard,
there's music in the air, for gentle
spring is on the wing and all the
world seems fair.
F C. x
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Someone and Somebody
Porter Emerson
GIFTED h The BIS Merrill

OF the pleasant gentlemen, he
asks, earnestly:
Hash you forty million dol
larsh? ,"
The pleasant gentlemen shake
their heads and smile
No" they say humoringly, have
you?"
Our hero mods profoundly.
Il hash" he says Forty mil
lionsh. Forty. Count emf"
Comes to the two pleasant gen
tlemen. for they are as you may
now have guessed, the clerk, recol-
lections of the name that our hero
has inscribed upon the register
Comes conformity the same name
head-lined of red in an evening
print. And now synchronizing the
nomenclature, he finds it is the
Samei
In amazed awed tones, he cries,
You are Walsingham Van Dorm %
Our hero mods, with yet added
arofundity
Mot the Walsingham Van
Dorm :" the clerk insists.
"Abslooly," assures our hero.
Him. | mean he. Walsin ham
Van Dorm. Forty. Count EN-" he
urges
The two truculent persons have
turned to the two pleasant gentle
men, while the two walters crowd
up to listen.
Has this guy got forty million
beans demand the two truculent
persons daZedly.
The, two pleasant gentlemen nod.
On the leyel?' gasp the two
truculent persons.
Again the two pleasant gentle
men nod, helplessIy.
The two truculent persons don.
BILE in the middle as of a bad cramp,
murmuring at the same time some
thing anent being of fusilatory
parentage: the pleasant gentlemen
continue to stand dazed and help
less. While the efficient walters
hurry forth frantically in search of
a cocktail.
Such, then, is the power of
money
There is made ready by scurrv-
ing maids the suite lately occupied
by the Bildad of Shush when that
oriental potentate recently toured
these United States in company OF
his First, or Most Pleasant, Wife
and his eldest son. the CHA. Are
summoned Wallets and things. And
then. TO an accompaniment of awea
whispers and doubly-awed gazes.
our hero. parading down two lon
bies past interested bystanders all
of whom are twins. is taken to two
rooms, undressed by four menials
whose normal stance seems TO Je
that of an inverted l. and. after, par
taking two more cocktails al the
same time tanother unexplained
and only mildly interesting phe-
nomenonl, is tucked into two beds
OF not quite half acre in area.
Two main chandeliers and twenty
two side lights are extineuished
and now neither glad nor sad over
world so complex as to look al
most blurred. our hero sleeps.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
CHAPTER ELEVEN.
In Which We Return To Our Hero

Whom already we have too long
neglected. We left him. if you Will
remember. shedding bitter tears
into his cafe parfait because of the
bitterness and the cruelty of life
that could hold a man so poor as
not 10 be worth forty millions Of
dollars, while two Rocky Mountain
goats gloomed sympathetically
down upon him from the wall OPP
posite.
I AS flowed the well-springs of his
cocktail-engendere grief. came a
nickel-plated house detective.
| don't know whether or not you
have ever noticed it but all house
detectives are nickel-plated. They
are intended TO look like the Real
Thing; but somehow or other they
never do. Their mustaches are too
, back. and their collars are too
white and their shoes too shiny.
Also their manners are in that neu-
trail ground that lies between the
insouciance of ultrabreeding and
the embarrassment of nhderbreed-
ing. Whereby they simply don't
| belong. And they are as easy to
distinguish as lighthouse or a
sore tongue.
AS | say, came house detective.
Draping himself against the door
jamb like a counterfeit count, he
surveys our hero with the catholic
and hypernegligent boredom that
he has SO often noticed among the
Idle Rich VINO are idle because they
haven't brains enough to think of
.ovtbiup m do FOur Minutes
later. with a jerk of his head, he
summons the efficient waiter. The
latter responds like cash register.
Says the house detective, in his
polished and manner way:
Who's the hick stew cryin' In
his icecream
The waiter says he doesn't know.
HAS he paid f'r his oats?" says
the distingue house detective.
The waiter says he hasn't.
Then, says the little stepbrOth-
er of the rich, ''yuh better elect.
FIR in a mint I'm going To slam
that leakin' souse plumb in the
alley"
The waiter approaches our hero
/ The latter looks up. Seeing two
walters, he asks one of them to
| bring him a cocktail
Two walters, coughing behind
two discreet palms, exland to him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

Men with technical training land good jobs
in several governmental branches these days Hun
dreds are wanted for the supervision of the produc-
ton of aircraft the engineering bureau of the
office of the chief of ordnance of the department
desires to obtain a number of technical graduates,
who if acceptable be given commissions in the
United States army. Highly skilled chemical and
mechanical engineers capable of engaging in re-
search work, in the preparation of chemical COM
pounds and in the designing of intricate mechanical
devices, needed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
WHEN BABY WRITES.

When baby writes,
He puts a piece of pencil In his
hand.
And gets a sheet of paper, large OF
small,
And then he makes some letters
that are grand.
Although you cannot read the
things at all
When baby writes.
When baby writes
He makes a square and then a
curving line,
Perhaps he makes a mark across
the sheet,
And every daddy says his writings
fine,
And that his letters are so clear
and neat
When baby writes.
When baby writes,
He doesn't use the language that
you know,
He's got a little language all his
own,
A cross means i0ve--a dots a kiss
To dads and mas and babies they
are known
When baby writes,
Peoria Journal.
WE lind this item in the London
observer, and We print simply Il
disprove the statements that En-
land has been sending to America
that the Irish have quit quarrel
ing: 1t is with mingled feelings
OF Reproduction and envy tat the
evidence of plenty that we read
that Sim Fem meeting at Newr,-
Countess MarkieWics was struct-
on the Jaw ny preserved egg
But il is not the first time the ladv
has been In doubtful odor."
:. NJ G.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Red Cross

George Won L. Meyer. former cabinet member and
diplomat is dead in Boston. He had been ailing
eral weeks. suffering from tumor Of the liver. MI
Won Meyer had served ambassador Italy and
ambassador st. Petersburg during the period
He did much to adjust the indemnity problem which
threatened to upset the negotiations Mr. Won Meyer
served postmaster general under Roosevelt and
secretary of the navy four years under Taft He
was deep student of international affairs, and
proved efficient in every public to which he had
been called.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
A Sullivan STORY.

The death of John l.. Sullivan
has recalled a number of vivid IN
Cidents 10 old timers among De
troit's sporting fraternity. for thai
CITY used to be one of John LIS
stamping grounds. But of all the
stories Of the great pugilist's do
ings in Detroit, the favorite seems
to be the one which recounts his
encounter with bantam.
More than two decades ago there
lived at Saginaw, Mich, mite %
/ man who was popularity known
as Little Jake" He was preside n
of a bank and at one time was re-
puted to be wealthy. although in
later years he was reduced almost
10 poverty.
Little Jake" was widely known
as a keen follower OF sport events,
a lover of fair play and a student
Of the arr of spectacular self-adver-
! Using
! In Detroit ore day he met Sulll-
: van in the bar room of the famous
/ Russell house, since destroyed
/ Sullivan, with i crowd around him,
was roaring a welcome to his
] friends Little Jake" stepped into
| the bar room Unnoticed
John l.. threw a $50 bill on the
( bar and, in booming voice, urged
/ those about him to drink it up. .
| 1t did not take long for the sup
plies to disappear and just when
! the party was about to break up. Il
piping voice, coming seemingly
! from the floor. sQueaked:
Now everybody, including Sulli-
van. must have drink on me"
! Sullivan looked down at the
midget and smiled Everybody
drank. Then Little Jake" took a
sheet of currency from his pocket
/ The money was fresh from the
mint and the sheet contained four
500 bills.
Little Jake" whipped out his
fountain pen, signed one OF the
( bills, cut it from the sheet and
tossed it on the bar
Nov, go as far as you like" he
laid.
Sullivan seemed dazed. The feat
was new to him. He picked Little
Jake" up and deposited him on the
| bar
Nov, little fellow. tell me ho9v
YOU can make money and why I
! can't"
The Saginaw mite explained that
| it was the privilege of a national
bank president to sign bank notes,
thus putting the money into circu-
latiOn, and the fighter left the ho-
tel in a thoughtful mood
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Oh. YOU LUCKY BALDHEAD!

1t doesn't seem so long ago when
a haircut cost two bits,
But then they added on an extra
dime.
And for a while we thought we
would have epileptic fits
And thirty-fiye be good for all
the time.
The barber is pirate bold ana
owing TO conditions
He sOaks US for an extra recon-
penSe
With spuds and -four and all
things high despite our stern
petitions
A haircut now will cost you fortv
cents.
OTTO, MILF AND BECkE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

The American Bible society has lust completed
the furnishing of 100000 copies its service tesla
ments bound in khaki to the American soldiers and
sailors through the Young Mems Christian associa-
on being half OF its promised gift 900 900 copies
1t appears If the total amount will be ready for
the army and navy before the time promised in spite
of all UNPRECEDENTED delays due to the severe winter
fuel and transportation conditions
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

don't have German measles in Rock Island
any In order be patriotic where the disease
has broken out in a household it is referred
foreign measles. Has patriotic ring, it
In Kansas the board of health has decreed the
name shall be changed to Liberty measles. That's
better than foreign measles a name.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
Continued tomorrow
BLACKLIST WORKS QUEERLY.

Mexico City.-The American
blacklist has had something OF The
effect OF commercial tornado or
certain business houses I'm Mexico
And. like the Kansas species OF the
phenomenon, 1t has performed
some queer antics. For instance
a French business man, with SIS
relatives In the trenches figure
on the first list Slips like this.
however have been rectihed read
ily through the various legations
al the capital
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
NO BAD RECORD.

Rev. Salmon also reports that he
has had a rather pleasant eXpe-
rieuce with new type of chick
ems during the last year. He now
has a flock of 80 Rhode Island
Whites, which he started about a
year ago from four of the birds.
During the cold winter month s
Rev. Salmon marketed from two
and one-half to three dozen eggs
daily.-Worth County MOO Times
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

from the highest 10 the lowest AAf
.InCited. or wanted, this war.
in Essen, Won Nirpitz raliess
British mammonism and eap.'s ~
ism. Germany hourished ohi'
honest labor, he said. liz,
In Essen. Non Trpitz p,sass
for public spirit and unselfishhHs.ssl
In Essen. Won Tlrpitz thuhas' n
AGAINST the trust magnales
America and England .As
I'm Essen. are the krgpps WI H.L.. = Z
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

Fifty thousand people heard Billy Sundays open
ing sermons in Chicago yesterday. He held three
meetings. in which he went after rum. society the
cabaret and the kaiser, lambasting each in his pc
culLarly original style The outlook is that the Chi
cago campaign is 10 be the biggest Sunday has yet
held
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11

The BolsheviN talk of getting up a holy
war" against the Teutons, into whose hands they
have betrayed Russia. The BolsheviM reject religion
but will find a for it if they make somebody
fight their battles for them the name of religion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-11
TIRpIrK IN ESSEN.

Amsterdam Following ~ re
port IN the German Socialist paper
Vorwaerts OF a speech by Admira4
Won Tlrpitg al meeting OF the
Fatherland party IN Essen:
In Essen, Won Tlrpitz told his
hearers that no one IN GERMANY.