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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26
DIE OF STARVATION.

Amsterdam-Th death of six
children al the German reform
school in Tiefenort. Sake Weimar.
from what practically amounts TO
starvation. although it is politely
called "under-nOurishment" in the
official reports, has caused wide
spread comment in Germany.
Assailed in the grand ducaI par
lament for tOlerating such condi-
tons, the government put forth
the diverting excuse that the chill
iren died from tuberculosis
brought on by deficient mental con-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26
CALL FOR BIDS.

Bids will be received at the may
or's Office, city hall, Rock Island,
Ill. until 10 O'Clock a. m. July 27,
1918, for painting the outside of the
city hall building. Specifications
on file at the mayors office.
City reserves the right TO reject
any or all bids.
JOHN A. MURRIN,
Commissioner, Department of Pub
lie Property.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26

Concentrated fruit syrups
Beardsley's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26
Cotton Hose f2bc

Women's black and white
cotton hose. qualities sold regu-
larly at 15c and 18c, per pair
l212c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26

Women's fine thread silk
hose, both black and white, our
regular $3.50 quality, SLOO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-26
Fibre Hose $50

Women's extra quality of,
black fibre silk hose, all sizes,
all day, per pair 35c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
This is the opinion of the Red
The Useful Penny.

Introduction of the penny transfer
in the operation of the Indianapolis
street car system, which caused the
Indianapolis Traction and Terminal
company to supply itself with 5000
pennies the first day, brought to the
mind Of ]. ]. Mahoney, superintendent
story Of the eighties when Tom
Johnson, afterward mayor of Cleve-
land, was treasurer, and supply of
pennies In the hands of the company
helped to stop q run on a bank. Mr..
Mahoney has been connected with the
Indianapolis street car system for a
long, long time.
In those days passengers dropped q
nickel fare In a box and sometimes
they put In five pennies. The COM
pany was usually overstocked with
pennies, and had to send them to the
United States mint to get rid of them.
The pennies were put In bags. 1t hap
pened that the company had a lot or
bags full of pennies when a run start
ed on a bank. There was a great
throng of people at the bank demand
ing and getting back their deposits.
Through an understanding, the bank
and the street car company resorted
to camouf1age. Several street car en-
ployees were called In and directed to
carry the bags Of pennies into the
bank. It was an impressive sight, as
bag after bag was passed through the
cashiers window, and Mr.. Mahoney
says It had the desired effect.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO
Secret Of Sir Walter scott's Marvellous
Literary Achievements Told In
Few Words.

"Never to be doing nothing" was the
simple but effective rule that enabled
Sir Walter Scott to get done the enor
nous amount of work for which he is
noted. A passage In Lockhart's life of
the poet and novelist reads:
Those who observed him the most
constantly were never able to under
stand how he contrived to keep him.
self so thoroughly up with the stream
of contemporary literature of almost
all sorts, French and German, as well
as English. That a rapid glance might
tell him more than another man could
gather by weeks porting may easily
be guessed; but the grand secret was
his perpetual practice Of his own grand
maxim. never to be doing nothing. He
had no 'unconsidered trifles' Of time.
Every moment was turned to account !;
and thus he had leisure for everything
except, indeed, the newspapers,
which consume so many precious hours
nowadays with most men, and of
which, during the period of my ac-
quaintance with him, he certainly read
less than any other man / ever knew
that had any habit Of reading at ALL
should also except, speaking general
ly, the reviews and magazines of the
time. OF these he saw few, and of the
few he read little"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
HHardy and "softn News.

Japanese newspapers, according to
Prof. T. L. Martin of the University
Of Missouri's school of journalism. d.
vide their news into ''hard" and soft"
The hard news consists of serious, i'm
portant events. The soft news includes
all sorts of human interest" incidents.
What is called the third page" of the
soft news department consists of trivi-
al stories which would be called gossip
In this country. Here is sample of
third page" soft news:
"Since Etsunaka, resident of Osa-
kusa, has separated from her master,
a coal dealer, she has lost a good op-
ponent for her noted powers Of quar-
reling. The neighbors are breathing
freely again at the prospect that they
need no longer hear embarrassing
quarrels which have made the neigh
borhood famous. The reaction has
been so great that Etsunaka has been
downhearted. She says: I feel sick
now that have no one to quarrel
with Outlook.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
SYSTEMATIC BATTLE
WILL STOP RODENTS
Little Animals Effort Heavy Toll
From the Farmer.
Annual Loss Caused to Crops EstI-
mated at 100000, ooo-Active Co.
operation Of Neighbors Need
ed for determination.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Systematic and organized cam
paigns, in which the entire community
Is interested, are suggested as means
of successfully DISCRIMINATING injurious
rodent pests on the farm by the bu-
reau of biological survey of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
There are about $50 forms of rodents
inhabiting the United States, and the
annual loss which they cause in food
and feed crops is estimated at fully
$300,000,000. They feed upon crops in
the field and in storage, in some cases
destroying grass land so completely
that erosion follows. In the irrigated
sections of the West some species bur
row through the bikes, releasing the
water and flooding the crops. Meth
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
Find Historic Relics.

Excavators for the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit subway tunnel to Brooklyn, I'M
der Whitehall street, came upon large
number of piles which had been Inn
bedded In the mud at that point since
Revolutionary days. The site of the
historic find was, at one time, that Of
the old Whitehall ferry, whence Gen.
George Washington embarked one De-
cember day In 1888, Immediately after
he had hidden farewell to his officers
at Fraunce's tavern, at Broad and
Pearl streets, four blocks away. While
the diggers were hoisting up the old
piles they also found some old wooden
mains used during the administration
OF Aaron Burr as water commissioner
Of the city. Many old relics have been
dug up In this section of the city with
the excavating for the new tunnel.
Two blocks away the hull Of an old
wooden ship was found Is feet be-
meath the surface Of the street, a year
or two ago, while further 'Inshore,"
near Broad and Front streets, huge
clam shell beds were dug up, showing
that at one time the shore line had
been further inland
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
Pocket Gopher.

DDS of discriminating these pests by
trapping and poisoning, which the in
dividual farmer as well as the commu-
nifty can employ, are told in Farmers
Bulletin 932, recently published by the
United States department of agricul-
ture.
Any farmer may, by care and indus
try, free his own premises of harm
full rodents, but he is helpless to pre-
vent an early recurrence of the trou-
BILE unless he can secure the active
cooperation of his nelghbors. The de.
partment of agriculture urges, there
fore, that whenever possible the de-
struction of these pests be a commu-
nifty undertaking. In the past, individ.
ual efforts often supplemented by the
payment of bounties by state, county
or township have been only partially
successful in reducing rodent depreda-
lions. In many western counties the
amount paid out in a single year for
bounties on pocket gophers and ground
squirrels, would, If wisely expended in
poisoning operations such as have
been practiced under government SUI
pervision on public lands, secure the
destruction Of nearly every such ami
NAL in the county and make unneces-
sary much further outlay for the pur-
pose.
A few of the rodents which inhabit
the United States are not classed as
injurious as they live In deserts,
mountains or swamps and rarely come
in contact with cultivated crops. Some
are valuable because they feed largely
upon insects, some because they pro.
duce fur and others because they are
useful as human food. Of the iniuri,
GUS species all are native to this coun.
try with the exception of four-the
house mouse and three kinds of rats
but these four cause approximately
two thirds of all the damage. Field
mice, kangaroo rats, pocket gophers
ground squirrels, prairie dogs, wood.
chucks, and rabbits are among the
most destructive of the native species
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
PROOF THAT BEETLES REASON
Experiment Made by Scientist Shows
Insects Have More Than Small
Amount of Intelligence.

The psychological value of NJ.
Fabre's work and testimony is great,
quite apart from its passing interest
for him who runs as he reads. Once
for all he must surely have exploded
the myth that instinct is reason in
little. or that reason grows out Of
Instinct. Quite obviously they are
plants Of a different species. He
quotes Lacordaire, in his Introduction
to Entomology" referring to the bury
Ing beetles, as q glaring instance of an
advocate of the reason-ex-instinct
myth: 1.-THE following case he (that
Is, Lacordaire) continues, recorded by
Gledditsch, has every indication of the
Intervention of reason. One of his
friends, wishing to desiccate a frog,
placed 1t on the top of stick thrust
Into the ground, in order to make sure
that the Necrophori (burying beetles)
should not come and carry 1t off. But
this precaution was of no effect; the
Insects, being unable to reach the frog,
dug under the stick, and, having
caused it to fall, buried it as well as
the body "-Westminste Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
SIZE DIDN'T COUNT
Thought That Heartened Young
British Soldier.
Helped to Overcome Natural Nervous
ness Of His First Physical I'M
pact With the Huns-Realized
IL Was Flight or DIE"

Tommy Kehoe. sixteen-year-old
English boy. tells how he got his first
Hun" Not a hundred feet away they
were when our lads were jumping to
the parapet to meet them with their
bayonets. made a leap for the top
Of the ladder, grabbed at II, missed
and slipped back. Somebody reached
cut hand and pulled me up.
Almost on us they were. Oh, never
In my worst dreams-and I've had,
many a bad one since then-have
seen more dreadful sight than that.
They came at US out of the dark like
f1ends from another world, like the
pictures I've seen Of men from Mars,
for their heads were covered with the
most evil looking masks that anybody
could imagine, masks with huge round
eyes and long. piggish shouts. Shells
were bursting above them, machine
guns were tearing through their ranks
and their masks were white and ghast-
~ In the light Of the rockets. Many
time had thought of what war would
be like, but never had / thought /
should look on such a sight as that.
flight or die. Tommy KehoeI Fight
or del"
That's what told myself as /
crouched in front Of the sand bags.
with my bayonet ready for them.
Whopping big men they were, head
and shoulders above me. But as
WQtfad fharo %hnr oh 90 Cd
through me Of the Bantam regiment.
little fellows scarcely bigger than !,
who had made good against even those
giant Prussians. Size didn't count be-
hind bayonet. It was quickness that
counted. was sure Of it. II 1t didn't,
then It was all over with me.
Even then, when they were almost
up to US, how the guns were moving
them down. 1t looked as IL none could
be left In moment or two But those
that didn't fall came on like madmen
and poured through the lanes where
the big guns had leyeled our wires.
One-he was six-footer If he was
an inch-ran straight for me with his
bayOnet. crouched and thrust at him
thrust upward. His bayonet went
over my shoulder. He staggered and
fell over my gun. had got himi I
had got himI In the stomach
Twas lucky for me there was no
time to think over 1t or to stand there
gaping at him-the dead Hun hanging
over my gun with his masked head
almost touching me-for 1t was horri-
Bile. For a second or two I turned dir
zy and sick. But 1t was fight again or
die. ! jerked my rifle back and STUN
bled over the dead man as he topped
to the ground.
make for their stomachs, Tommy
Kehoei Make for their stomachs To I
told myself. "Size don't count"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
Clouds.


"The height maintained by clouds
Is very variable and is generally less
than you might suppose" writes Jean
Henri Fabre. There are clouds that
lazily trail along the ground; they
are the fogs. There are others that
cling to the sides OF moderately high
mountains, and still others that crown
the SUBMITS. Tire region where they
are commonly found Is at a height
varying from 500 to 1900 meters. In
some rather rare instances, they rise
to nearly four leagues. Beyond that.
eternal serenity reigns."
Monte Carlo Put to Good Use.
Monte Carlo, the once famous gam
bling place, is still crowded, but there
are no players there now. The tables
instead Of being loaded down with
chips, are piled high with offerings
for the wounded; with cushions for
wounded limbs, crutches, ice bags and
pneumonia jackets. And instead Of
the crowned heads that once frequent.
ed the resort the new patrons wear
"1eWei above the forehead In the
shape of Red Cross.
Promising Opening.
The travelling Snowman was waxing
eloquent as he described the charac.
teristics of his wild horse from Tar
tary.
Ladies and gents.' he said, "this
hanimal Is q real terror. If there's
any gent In this comp'ny as fancies
hisself as a rider, I'll give him five
pounds for every minute he sticks on
this boss. I've rid bosses all my life,
but this boss is beyond me. I've tried
I'm every way, but e shakes me off
In ten seconds"
"Why not get inside himf" queried
a humortst.
The Snowman waited until the
laughter had died down.
MY lad" he said, witheringly, "Tve
thought of that. But nature has been
unkind to I'm In the matter of mouth
1t amt big enough. Now. If It 'ad
been yours
But the humorist did not wait to
hear the logical conclusion Of the
hypothesis.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
Garlic to Be Imported.

Because Of the scarcity of food In
Europe and the difficulty of transporta-
ton. the war board discouraged the i'm
portation of food products from Eu-
rope, hoping to save them for home
consumption and to save tonnage. Gar
lie from Italy was included under this
general prohibition until the Italian
government represented thar great
financial loss would result. due to the
vast acreage planted with garlic in
Italy. The supply Of this years yield
would be far too great for home con-
sumption. Due to this, the war trade
board issued a permit for the present
year, with the understanding that
after January. 1918. fewer acres would
be planted to garlic. but would be de-
voted to the cultivation Of other food
products, which would be used for
home OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
News Bureau.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
NATIoH DEPENDS UPON HOME
Great Truth Revealed by the War Is
Not Likely to Be Forgotten
When IL Ends.

IF the health Of the people had
been looked after properly, Britain
would have a million more fighting
men at the front You cannot have
an Al nation with CD population"
declared Premier Lloyd George In
recent speech at Manchester. Here in
America the same thought was forced
upon us by the disclosures of physical
untitness In the selective draft, and the
comment was made that the military
loss thus represented was just as
much loss to the nation industrially
and economically.
The British statesman proposes to
do more than talk about It. He says
the abolition Of the evil social condi-
tons Of pre-war days will be the
greatest problem after the coming Of
peace. He uses smile that will ap-
peal to Pittsburgh: with our ma
chinery we take the greatest care. The
way we look after 1t If the steel is de-
fective through badly-ventllated or ILL.,
constructed furnaces or insufficient
fuel! The quality Of the steel In the
national fabric depends upon the home.
II 1t is unhealthy, ill-equipped, ill-man-
aged, the quality becomes defective
and 1t cannot bear the strain"
To enable the nation to bear the gi-
gantic burden Of debt the war will Inn
pose on 1t and the still greater burden
OF recuperation and reconstruction,
Lloyd George warns the national re-
sources must be developed to the full.
First among these is the human factor.
Just as today everyone Of us was ex-
pected to do his or her part toward the
winning Of the war, when the sense Of
common peril brought to each and all
the sense of interdependence, Lloyd
George insists that In the years to
come we must carry the same spirit
into the everyday life Of the nation.
We must concern ourselves with the
care Of our fellow citizens, the steel
in the national machine upon which we
all depend. We cannot after the war
withdraw ourselves into our pre-war
selfish isolation. We must constantly
keep before us and act upon the same
enlightened spirit of comradeship we
exact today from every fellow citizen.
If we want to remain an Al nation,
we must see that we have the fewest
possible CO men, women and children
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
A Woman's Beauty.

There was once a movie queen who
had ears that stuck out like door
knobs. Likewise in a moment of an
ger a jealous husband bit piece out
of one of them. Did 1t leave her q
broken-hearted wreck on the shoals Of
beauty? 1t did not. She forthwith
did her hair up in cute way that Gov
cred her ears completely from the
critical gaze of the public. Now every
woman In the world is wearing her
hair the same way. The bovines and
the Ratchet faces are all in the same
class. The girl whose greatest physical
charm was her little, pink, shell-like
ears now has them buried meath q
whirligig Of hair. The fashion makes
most women ugly, but they are still
in fashion. Women are said to be
quite clever, but a lot of them never
learn how to do up their own hair to
advantageous Angeles Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
How Banana Grows.

What most people regard as the top
Of a bunch of bananas is the bottom.
In the stores the bananas hang bottom
side up, the way they grow. The
lunches on each stalk are called hands
the hands grow alternately on the
stalk, the hands that number odd mum
bers are on one side of the stalk and
those that number even numbers or
the opposite side, and on a full stalk
the number Of bananas to a hand can
De definitely computed, as the number
of bananas in hand contains one
less than the previous hand this be-
Ing invariably true. A section of a
banana divides naturally into three
pieces shaped like piece of pie. Ma
ives Of banana-growing countries al
ways scrape the mealy coating off the
banana before eating it.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
One of Branches of County Agent
Work in South Is Interesting Boys
in Better Farm Methods.

does not include cooperative organiza-
tons not formed by county agents.
even though they gave active support
and assistance to the county repre-
sentative and served in the capacity of
local community organization. Such
associations include local oranges,
farmers unions and church and civic
organizations of varied character. 1t
is estimated that 100000 farmers are
enrolled in all these community organ
izations which are assisting county
agents.
Since this report was made there
has been great increase in this work.
At the present time the total number
of agents is approximately 2,200, con-
sisting in part of $50 county agents,
815 county home demonstration agents
and So negro agents (men) and 20
women.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
Two Canine Heroes.

Two French war dogs, which well
deserve the honor, have had their
names and numbers posted up at all
the French army kennels for a deed
of valor. The story is that, at the time
of the German offensive, the dogs
keeper stayed in the rear to the very
last moment, waiting for his dogs to
return with an important message.
When they did come, the only way left
to escape capture was by swimming
the Marine, and the man could not
swim, so he coupled the dogs together,
and clinging on to their iron chain,
was dragged across the river by them,
the three escaping unhurt in spite of
rain of bullets from German rifles.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
CAPRI HAS WORLD WONDER
Ellcits Admiration From All Priv
LEGGED to Visit 1T.

The Blue Grotto is one of a number
la the high cliffs on the isle of Capri,
Italy. There are several of these
grottoes. There is the Red Grotto
with rosy lights and gayly-tinted wa
tiers, and the Green Grotto with moss
agate-colored walls and lacy draperies
Of green fern, but the Blue Grotto
with its silvery sands and waters and
the wonderful blue dome, and blue va
por seeming to envelop everything, Is
conceded by most visitors to be the
most beautiful of all.
The single opening of the Blue Grot-
to is a low arch, hardly three feet in
bottom of the boat and his guide
stoeps low. Thus they wait until
generous wave happens along and
sends the boat shooting through the
opening. Once into the cave, the WIS.,
ltor is allowed to raise his head. The
boat he rides in seems silvered and the
sands and waves beneath his boat are
like mercury. If the traveller dips his
hand oves the edge of the boat into the
water 1t likewise turns to silver. The
guide, as well as the lights and domes
of the cave, assume cerulean tints and
the visitor wonders if he has become
permanently dyed with the color of
this subterranean sky. The rocky walls
at the side are black and it is hard
to realize that this wonderful ia
Grotto Azzurra" of the Italians is only
trick Of the gay southern sunshine.
In the days of ancient Rome there
were secret passages to the Blue Grot-
to from the villas on the cliffs, but
since those days either the sea has
risen or the island has sunk so that
for long period the Blue Grotto was
lost to the ken of man. In 1926, it
has been said, German poet named
August Kopisch dived through the
present tiny opening and became the
first of modern men to find himself in
the azure and silver enchantment of
the Blue Grotto.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-17
MIDGET Had Soldier Son.

Admiral Dot, P. T. Barnum's mid
get celebrity, who died a short time
ago, lived to give stalwart son to
the American army In France. Both
his parents were Of normal size. AS
unldgets go. Admiral Dot was of lesser
eminence than Gen. Tom Thumb, but
after the latter's death in 1888 he re-
taained first among his kind until his
retirement to become a hotelkeeper a
quarter Of century ago.
Admiral Dot was American born
and purely native celebrity. He
Eved to be fifty-nine years old, while
Gen. Tom Thumb died at forty-six, and
the Polish dwarf Borulwasld missed
becoming a centenarian by two years.