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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

DOM; modern; pleasant: dow ntown.
Call evenings. 1873 Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

ROOMS; modern: good sized. house
keeping: near car line; no ob1ec-
lions TO small child. Il. l. 46l4-L.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

ROOMS; modern; furnished for
housekeeping; two or three adults !,
near Tractor and Arsenal. SOC For
ty-fourth street. 3672-k.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
LODGE DIRECTORY.

ROCK ISLAND LODGE NO. 65s. a.
N L. * 4. M.-Stated meet
~ ings first Friday OF eacn
A% Month r ! T. B a 5i9iaoG sccr ":
tary. Special meeting March 10 At
p. m. FOR work on ~. M. degree
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

ROOMS: modern: furnished for
housekeeping 23I2 Fifth avenue.
ROOMS: also board and room; SIS
Twenty fourth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
WANTED-MALE HELP.

~~|~--~--~~>>-~~~-~~-
ALL around man for wood working
DlachinerV. Bennett organ Co,
Eorty-fourth street and Second aV-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

ROOM: mouern: furnished; gentle
man. 1908 Second avenue. X. a. 1861.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
Found Fist Diamond.

The first diamond discovered in
Griqualand, Soutl. Africa, was found
by the children Of a Dutch farmer,
who for a time used it as a plaything.
The stone was later sent to Cape
Town, where its true nature was rec
ognized, and it vas subsequently for
warded to Paris, where it was ex-
hibited and sold for $1,000. The valu-
able discovery soon led to other re-
searches, and diamonds were I'M
earthed in various places in Griqua-
land West, with the result that, 40
years ago, the coz ntry of the Griquas,
a mixed race spring from Dutch set
tiers and native women, was annexed
by Great Britain.
Diamond hunting was at first con-
fined to the banks of the Vaal river,
but in the year of the British occupa-
ton mines were opened in the locality
known as "dry diggings," which has
since received the name of Kimberly.
In 1872 the world was startled by the
discovery of the Stewart diamond of
2SS% carats. The daily output of the
consolidated mines at Kimberly just
prior to the outbreak of the war was
valued at 100000.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
TAKING THE HUBBY SHOPPING
What Trouble the Wife Always
Has to Experience.

AS to the ACCESSIBILITY of taking ones
husband to the shops, much may be
said OIL both sides, observes Simeon
Strunsky, in Harper's Magazine. On
the n hand, 1t is certain that after
he has spent three hours in a chair
while his wife tries on spring suits, a
man will have a very definite idea of
what women suffer in the daily task.
The next time his wife comes home
from the shops with a headache he is
likely to be more sympathetic.
But then again it may be that the
memory of his own bitter ordeal will
prevail, and he will carry away with
him a more vivid sense of the utilities
in which the life of wOman is spent. 1t
all depends on the man, of course. But
the husband endowed with just a bit
of philosophic reflection, planted three
solid hours in a tapestry chair, in an
audience of 300 women and so sales
girls, will watch the strained and
tired faces, the ~tryings-on and divest-
ings, the search after the unattainable
ideal, the final purchase made more
out of WEAKNESS than out of satisfac-
ton; and he cannot help asking him.
self; For whom is it ALI" And he
will say to himself. "For us males?"
And 1t will make him thoughtful.
Taking along ones husband to the
store as critic and appraiser is of no
use at all. In the first place, his prin-
ciples of criticism are utterly unlike
n urapaon,C IIfc ar1t;o;cpn &c, af thu rn-
mantle, impressiopistic school. He
looks at his wife in the green cloak
with fur edging and says, 81 like that"
Or else he says, "YOu look well in
that" AS if the mere fact that a
woman looks well In a green coat or
that she likes it were the deciding
factor!
Woman belongs, In the matter of
dress, to the scientific school of. criti-
cism, which bases itself on universal
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Taine, Bruno
there. 1t is criticism which does not
ask whether a woman looks well in
a green cloak trimmed with fox, but
says: "How does this green cloak fit
into that woman's life, her tempera-
ment, her likes, her friends, her duty
of being duplicated by the m next
door, on the other hand?" 4.
A man likes his wife's new dinner
gown when 1t looks well on his wife
in the shop. A woman Is bound to
think of the gown in relation to the
wallpaper and the lights at home, the
fact that she hao a dark-red dinner
gown year before last, the fact that
her color is somewhat higher than it
was two years ago, that she has taken
on three pounds in weight, that her
husbands income has materially in
creased since last year, and that next
year people will be wearing green's
and puppies.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
Communal Kitchens.

The latest proposal for the elimi-
nation of waste in food and the sup
ply of meals at minimum cost in Eng
land, includes, what for a better term
is called, communal feeding. The COM
munal kitchen has been proposed on
several occasions but, save Tor a few
spasmodic experiments, it has not been
given a thorough trial. Lord Rhondda
is interested in the new proposal and
acting with a committee of social
workers he is deyising plans to give
the scheme a real test. With so many
women doing war work and with con-
sequent neglect of household duties,
some such plan as is proposed will
have to be carried out If the rising gem
Grafton is not to suffer seriously in
health.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01

Billy Louise fought back an answer
ing a~ntagonism. She must be just /;
she could not blame Marthy for feel
ing hard toward her. She had insulted
them horribly and killed Marthy's dog.
81 want to tell you I'm sorry l was
so mean, Marthy," she said bravely.
ST haven't any excuse to make for 1t;
only you must see yourself what a
shock it would be to a person to find
those cattle down here. But l know
you're honest, and so is Charlie. And
I know you'll do what's right. I'm
sorry I shot your dog, Marthy."
Apologies did not come easily to
Billy Louise. She wheeled then and
rode away at a furious gallop, before
Marthy could do more than open her
grim lips for reply.
Ito Be Contlnued.D
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01

along the river. I know one place
where 1 believe cattle a get down to
the bottom, if they're crazy enough to
try it. You didn't look there, did
you?"
mo, / never looked down there. I
know they can't git down nohow."
swell, all right; maybe they can't"
Billy Louise slackened the reins, and
Blue went off with short, stiff-legged
jumps. 1t had been a long time since
he had felt the weight of his lady,
and his mood now was exuberant.
Blue threw up his head, lifted his
heels, and ran like a scared jackrab-
bit over the Uneven ground. They
were not keeping to the trail at all;
trails were too tame for them in that
mood. They ran along the rim-rock
at the last, where Billy Louise could
glance down, now and then, at the
river sliding like a bright blue ribbon
with icy edges through the gray, snow
spotted hills.
Hold on Bluel !" Billy Louise
nulled up on the reins, "Quit II, you
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
Weighing En- Route.

A unique weighing scales at Proc
tor, Mimi, enables ears of ore to be
weighed without stopping a train,
says the Outlook. AS the train APP
proaches the scale platform track it
slows down to eight miles al hour and
the weight of each car is automatically
recorded as it passes. Thus an other
wise unavoidable congestion of cars is
prevented in what is described as the
biggest ore yard In the world.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01

didn't you let Peter do it, or Marthy?
You could have done a better job than
that, couldn't you, Marthy?"
Poor old Marthy, with her rheumatic
knees and a gray hardness in her
leathery face, had come down the path
and stood squarely before Billy Lou.
Use, her hands %knuckling her fabby
hips, her hair blowing in gray, strag-
Cling wisps about her bullet head.
Better than what? Come in, Billy
Louise. I'm right glad to see We back
and lookin' so well, even If yuh do
pear to be in one of your tantrums.
How's yer maw?"
Billy Louise gasped and went white
"Mommie's dead" she said. "She died
the ninth" She drew another gaspina
breath, pulled herself together, and
went on before the others could begin
the set speeches of sympathy which
the announcement seemed to demand,
"Never mind about that, now. Tn
talking about those Seabeck cattle you
folks stole. I was telling Charlie how
horribly careless he is, Marthy. Did
you know he let them drift down the
river? And a blind man could tell a
mile off the brands have been worked! !"
Billy Louise's tone was positively ven.
omous in its contempt. why didn't
you make Charlie practice on a COW.
hide for a while frstT" she asked Mar.
thy cuttingly.
Marthy ignored the sarcasm Per.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01

SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER V-Spring has come, but
Billy Louise Is not affected by the beau
ties of Wolverine canyon, for she is brood
Ing over, her. discouragements and is on
the brink of nervous breakdown when
she finds one of her finest cows dead,
and she has a machinery note due. Two
men approach on horses looking about for
missing stock. She rides to Wards cabin,
but he Is not there.
CHAPTER Winding along a flat-bot-
toned canyon she sees a horseman resem-
bling Ward disappear in the hills and later
discovers a hidden corral such as she re-
member being told about by her father.
She Is late in arriving home and finds
her mother Ill, and a physician Is called.
CHAPTER vII-Billy Louise does not
hold changeless her broken faith In Ward,
although she has learned to Q v MN;
at her apparent GOODNESS toward him.
Ward writes her offering any assistance
he can give.
CHAPTER vIII-Riding over the hills
looking for cattle branded Y6 Ward dis
covers a hidden corral and sees three men,
one of whom he believes to be Buck Oh
ney. Upon their leaving he investigates
and finds stock on which the brands have
been changed to his own mark.
CHAPTER Ix.-After celebrating the
brands Ward deduces that Buck Olney
about the plant. He cautiously keeps out
of the way until his patience ~frazzles out
under the strain. He discovers BUCK OIL
ney hiding behind rock and takes him
prisoner.
CHAPTER x-With Buck bound to a
chair, Ward cooks a mess Of prunes,
close watch on his prisoner through a
mirror. Buck is conveyed. to a cotton
wood tree where Ward fashions a hang
mans moose, pins the prisoners written
pedigree to his shoulders; the work done
Ward rides away, having slit the rope so
1t would not hold any weight.
CHAPTER XI-Returning,. riding down
a steep slope near his cabin, his horse
Rather steps into a pile of rock, throw
ing Ward in such a. manner as to frac-
ture his leg. Riding to his cabin he splints
and bandages the broken leg, realiz-
ing he will be helpless for some time, and
prepares for any emergency. Buck Olney
discovers he was not to be hanged.
CHAPTER XII-Billy Louise writes
'The Brave Buckaroo" a CHEEKY Christ,
mas letter, also telling of "Mommie's'
illness, not expecting an answer before
New Years, but it was not delivered;
another letter also undeliyered told of
Billy Louise's "Mommie's" death.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
CHAPTER XIII.
Seven Lean Kline.

&c a ND you looked good, all up
~ above here?" Billy Louise
held Blue firmly in a curved
neck, circling stand, while she had a
last word with John before she went
off on one of her long rides.
"All up in the hills, and round over
by Cedar creek, and all over" Johns
gesture was even more sweeping than
his statement. 81 guess mebby them
rustlers git 'em."
WELL, I'm going up to the Cove. ]
may not be back before dark, so don't
worry If I'm late. Maybe I'll look
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01

house, rode on to the stable, and
stopped Blue with his nose against the
fence there and with his reins drag
ging. Then, tight-lipped still, she
walked determinedly along the path to
the gate that led through the berry
jungle to the cabin.
She opened the gate and stepped
through, closing it after her. She had
not gone twenty feet when there was
a rush from the nearest thicket, and
Surbus, his hair ruffed out along his
neck, growled and made a leap at her
with barred fangs.
Billy Louise had forgotten about
Surbus. She jumped back, startled,
and the dog missed landing. When
he sprang again he met a .30-caliber
bullet from Billy Louise's gun and
dropped back. 1t had beer a snap shot,
without any particular aiming; Billy
Louise retreated a few steps farther,
watching the dog suspiciously. He
gathered himself slowly and prepared
to spring at her again. This time Billy
Louise, being on the watch for such a
move, aimed carefully before she fired.
Surbus dropped again, limply-a good
dog forever more.
Billy Louise heard a shrill whistle
and the sound of feet running. She
waited, gun in hand, ready for what
yer might come.
"Hey! Charlie! Somebody's come /;
the bell, she don't reeng." Peter
Howling Dog, a pistol In his hand,
came running down the path from the
cabin. He saw Billy Louise and stopped
abruptly, his mouth half open.
From a shed neal the stable came
Charlie, also running. Billy Louise
waited beside the gate. He did not
e her until he was close, for a tan
gled gooseberry bush stood between
them.
"What was 1t, Peter? Somebody in
the Cove? Or was it you"
mo, it wasn't Peter; 1t was me-"
Billy Louise informed him calmly and
ungrammatically. II shot Surbus,
that's ALL"
"Oh! Why, Miss Louise, you nearly
gave me heart failure! How are you?
I thought"
"You thought somebody had gotten
Into the Cove without your knowing it.
Well, somebody did. 1 rode up from
below, along the river"
"Oh-er-did you? Pretty rough
going, wasn't 1t? I didn't think it could
be done. Come In; Aunt Martha will
be"
II don't think she'll be overjoyed to
see me-" Billy Louise stood still be-
side the g~ooseberry bush, and she had
forgotten to put away her gun "I
drove up those cattle you had down be-
low. You're awfully careless, Charlie Z!
I should think Peter or Marthy would
have told you better. When Ia man
steals cattle by working over the
brands, it's very bad form to keep
them right on his ranch in plain sight.
It-isn't done by the best people, O
know" Her voice stung with the con
tempt she managed to put into it. And
though she smiled, it was such a smile
as n seldom saw upon the face of
Billy Louise.
whats all this? Worked brands !
Why, Miss Louise, IL wouldn't know
how to-"
&" know. You did an awful punk
job. A person could tell in the dark
1t was the work of a greenhorn. Why
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
Knew His Business.

did you tell your wife you had a
new typewriter"
81 did not! I told her 1 had bought
a new typewriting machine, and I
made it doggoned good and explicitT'
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-02-01
simpIe Mathematics.

Wife-What would you do If you
had no wife to look after your mend
ing?
Husband-Do? Why, in that case l
could afford to buy new clothes.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-28

lana soldiers who are so bravely going forth
world safe for Democracy singing as they
hat good Indiana song-are proud of their
e.
do their part as loyal Americans and proud
lie Sam can count on the boys at the Front.
'ays be ready and willing to do their full
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-28
'Back Home Again In Indiana"

share-but, how about those of us behind? Are back
ing up the boys in the trenches?
There are many ways by which daily prove
loyay-one of the best is by putting up money
The first statewide W.S.S campaign begins May 27th
Let's do duty by the Indiana boys at the front.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
STYLES of Furniture


HANDBOOK or FURNITURE STYLES. BY VA.
Ter A. Dyer. illustrated. Svo, Up WV 80.
The Century Company.
We hear much from the cognoscenti
about Chippendale and Heppelwhite
and Boule and Empire and Louis Qua
torze. but who of the multtudinous
commonalty knoweth these things, and
whether they be truly precious or
merely good Grand Rapids? He who
would be wise, and who at the same
time would be vastly entertained with
the details OF most fascinating art,
let him--or more probably her-con-
suit these pages and plates which Mrs
Dyer has provided. For here will be
found compact yet Juicy conspectus
Of furniture lore and the woodcarvers
and cabinctmakcrs' fine art, luminous,
Informing and authoritative.
The volume viii indeed serve two
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
"Crocker Land


-FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE NORTH. BY
Donald Il. Macmillan. Illustrated from photo
graphs by the Author ROYAL Svo ~ 4g6 Har-
yer y Bros
The salient features of the story Of
the quest for the non eXistcnt "Crocker
Land have already been made familiar
to the public; fact which should whet
curiosity and eagerness to read the
complete authentic narrative as here
set forth by the leader of that gallant
expedition 1t is a story of -four wears
OF battling with the elements. often
IN circumstances OF almost unimagn-
able difficulty and hardship. though at
tunes. too. amid scenes OF beauty and
experiences of humor and pleasure 1t
IS, however more than that. 1t is a
record which throws much light upon
the great lone lands and seas around
The Boreal Pole. and upon the rem
nants of the vanishing race which in
habits those regions. Here. for OK
ample, is a conversation with an EsQul-
mau. which viii be a revelation to
those who have imagined those people
TO be little more intelligent than ami
mails:
A chance remark by ln-a-loo. one
of the most intelligent in the tribe,
was interesting.
"This land was at one time all UNI
der water"
why do you think so ?" inquired
"There are clam shells high up on
the hills in many places, and have
seen north Of Kab-loo-na- ding me
the bones of large whale high up
on the hill above the water This
shows that at one time this was all
sea bottom
"Ths must have been before the
time when there was only one man
and one woman.
The book is profusely illustrated
from photographs taken by the authoN
some of which are of marvellous cN-
ccllence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28

distinct and worthy purposes. One is.
to give information so that we shall
recognize the various styles and makes
OF furniture when we see them so as
to know at glance which is Chippen-
dale and which is Boulc. an accom-
lllshment no less desirable than that
Of distlnguis hing Turner from n
Corot, or indeed AN oak from an elm.
The other is, to guide and to cultivate
our taste so that we Shall not merely
furnish our homes comfortably which
indeed we might do with black walnut
"Eastlake' aud crimson rcpp but shall
adorn them artistically. There are
many who are sticklcrs for correct
ness in paintings and china, who give
no thought whatever to furniture. quite
unmindful of the fact that art and
taste are as much involved in it as in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
IuIes Verne de Luxe

THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND BY Jules Verne
Illustrated by :. C. Nyeth. 40 rp. 493.
Charles serienets sons.
There were two good reasons for
publishing this book. One was because
the classics Of Jules Verne should be
published and republishcd 50 as to keep
them constantly in the stream Of cur
rent literature. In their KIND, and it is
kind worthy of high esteem, they
have never been surpassed. Perhaps
the nearest approach to some OF them
was made by Poe in his Narrative of
Gordon Pym." That was undoubtedly
a masterpiece OF invention. Yet in
sheer imagination, untrammelled BY
any thought Of restraint within the
limits Of scientific fact ard possibility.
Poe did not surpass. II indeed he
equaled. the marvellous fascination
which Verne was able 10 create within
those limits. There are few details IN
the one of which the reader can say
that was quite possible" and there are
fewer in the other Of which one can
say that VAS impossible.' Yet the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
America Arrives
The Vision of Our leeions on
the Battle Line

.o,. GLORY OF THE COMING. Nv irwin : COBB
TN TN, ND M. ass. George h. porSn Company
mes newspaper correspondent
.r,,e oitersture Can hmomst
,.sl adequately with matters of tran
,csndent pathos and tragedy THIS
,,lume gives the answer. We have
u Known MIR. Cobb as a brisk, up-,o-
!.ts journalist and as q specialist in
.oetuous and rollioking humor The
attitudes who read the subject mat
.,- Of this book as it appeared from
Nv 70 day and week to week, IN cable
scratches ana mail letters never
s,und it dull, or lacking in news
.,r;ehtlness Yet here. reproduced in
s.rmsnent form it impresses the
.ssader with its dignity as we'll as it's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
\ Romance of Strange Lands

THE SHIELDING WING By VIII Ieyingtcn Con-
fort W.th a cc.oied itgHtispieee by Howard L
smith. i-mo. rp 5sI. Small. Maynard X TO-
1t IS an adventurous romance of
TRANCE peoples and distant lands that
Mr.. Comfort tells Us here; beginning at
.he edge Of the great war IN Austria.
and moving northwara and eastward
through Siberia, Mongolia and China.
I here IS much in it that appeals strong
~ to human sympathy. much thai is
picturesque, and much that is heroic
and self-sacriiicing Going far from
the beaten tracks of current fiction. it
has refreshing novelty and spontane-
ity OF motive and of color which viii
be welcome 10 many faded taste
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
4 Famous 'SSigner''
Charles Carroll of CarrolIton

, ,,- - , , -
Lev Er I Lr shAi1S oARRoL OF CARRol1T9N
YARD K Co ~
This volnmo renresents laho,. of
love and local VIDA ;Jsese It's a+ l@po' .,
Narvlandcr imbrod With tla tradi+ions
and spirit of his native Observation-Disclosures
and eaocr IA re,,;Te Tho fa,De of ore
Of it's most admirahle and u.ortb,, cons
1t ia rorret+abln +bo4 ro bato bod
nc adequate lie Of CHARLES Carro,l Of
Carrollton. As Mr. Leonard TENS rs.
sketch Of Carroll was written for
Sanderson's Lives Of the Signers of
the Declaration Of Independence" bv
J. II. B. Latrobe. who had been for
many years Mr. CARROTS private sec
rotary. Latrobe's manuscript would
have filed cightv-fivc pages Of Sander
sons book. After Mr.. Carroll. who was
extremely modest. had cut out what he
thought could be spared, and after San
derson had made further copious cuts.
put twcnty-one printed pages remained.
- IS pity that Latrobe never fulfilled
ms lntentlon TO make completer BIO
graphy. lie was man OF great learning
ana OF versatile accomplishments. Mr.
leonard was inspired by close personal
ASSOCIATION with the eminent Mary
lander to undertake. the present work
me keynote OF the volume is struck
IN lncse Carroll: "Aic Car
roil was the richest man who signed
the DECLARATION of independence. the
nrst man that signed, the most useful
man that signed, the only Roman Cath
ono that signed and the last man 30
. "le OF 'hoSe VINO signed IT, Also;
OndlicS NaIro1l OF Cafrollton easily
a "a rec, neNo 10 asn1ng'on IN the value
81 inc services rendered the patrlohsG,
'"q qT III our revolutionary struggle
=; nc sooi,e .! H'. 'alroll 3 l'eNolu-
Donaiy ac''V'lles vas. IN tact. enor-
nous; nough tho lncncst man i'm
Mary ana ne Was from the hrsi
one OF the most radlcal advocates Of
Sephrail"n rom the mother country
Anu OF separation by force. Tor he
hne" England well and realized that
'ncre couid never be peaceful &C
1ommooation OF grievances. He was
,ne chlef inquire IN the government Of
Maryland for twenty-five wears from
me stamp tax agitation TIL the e &c
non OF Jefferson At The same time
ne was rhe state, chei agent IN the
analrs o. the confederatlon and Of the
goNernment under the Federal Consti-
tuton. ne was an intimate Of Wash
lngton ana mad much to do with break
ing up the Conway cabal, with promot-
ing the treaty with France with