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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

Colonel Roosevelt and Billy Sunday
had tea together In Washington yes
terday. No casualties were reported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

There have been only 20 deaths
among $4,000 men at Camp Grant
since Aug. 25. This health record
eclipses that OF any civilian commu-
nifty In the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

The kaiser says right now that he
will yield nothing. But there is such
a thing as changing even the Prus-
sian mind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

do you think he'll come out for the
Officer"
Il declare / do not know. heard
my husband say that he was in "a
what do you call ia respectable
mood"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

ANOTHER way of conserving tho
home coal pile is by attending cburnh
tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26
HEALTH TAG K8
sY W ~ 49, ~! BR RAJ: no.


names are Isr Hintea Only nauir @ Of general
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

On one page you read that a coal
famine is still imminent and on the
next you are advised that the tenn
perature Is due for another drbp and
that 1t will be very cold Sunday
Would that cause the buttons on your
vest to rattle?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26
NOT EXACTLY AN UpLIFT TOWN

Hilary Mahin did not stay in Lex
ington, Mo-, and enter the Wentworth
Military academy as was planned.
His father, Frank Mahin went with
him, and upon investigation found IA
saloons running wide open in the
town. Naturally he did not think that
sort OF a town a very good place for
his son.-Smith County (Kan.) Pho
neer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-26

WHEN boy asks a girl for her
picture he may be doing it simply to
make some other admirer jealous.
Girls will always do we'll to consult
their mothers in such circumstances.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
Temperance
AssNOteSn n
Conducted by the National Womnn's
This FROM ncoIIlERs,n.

In few years the statisticians
ought to have some curves showing
what no booze really means to our
big cities. Under decent and good
government the results are startlingly
similar. For example, here are Seat
tie and Birmingham in opposite cor
ners Of the United States, different in
almost every detail of racial makeup,
business interests ETC., but both tell
ing the same "dry" tale. About one
half as many arrests, fewer murders
and suicides, but more bank clearings,
less fire and more building, increased
trade and emptied jails-such are a
few of the items. The drug problem
is easier because whisky hasn't done
any subsoil plowlng for 1t. These
facts, and more like 'em, are noted
by such papers as the Manufacturers
Record and by keen business men who
wonder now why on earth they ever
thought prohibition would hurt busi-
ness. (Probably they had read 1t in
the liquor adsD The sameness is
tiresome except to those who like to
note social progress, and to the un-
fortunate women and kids who some
times wonder drearily how long 1t will
be before their homes, too, are in out
Of the wet.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
A Babylonian Epic.

In the midst of 1t all, man in Phlla.
delphia, professor, is calmly trans
lating a Babylonian epic. He has be-
fore him certain tablets which were
buried in Mesopotamlan ground thou.
sands of years ago, upon which, In the
time of Abraham, certain queer cone
shaped characters were inscribed. Not
many years ago the key to these char
acters was discovered, in the form OF
an inscription In two languages, one
of which was known, and the meaning
of the queer characters slowly
emerged. The Philadelphia professor
has discovered that the tablets bear
an epic poem. He Is translating the
epic and finds it to be the story of the
way in which a half-barbarous chief
tain, named Enkidu, was redeemed
from a career of tyranny and violence
by the love Of woman. And day after
day, while the papers are full Of woes
and wickedness, and the drums of war
beat on the streets, Indifferent to all
the uproar this patient man goes on
translating into good English the poem
of Enkidu and his love.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
WHICH SHALL WE BELIEVE?

The liquor interests continue to send
broadcast false statements concerning
conditions in dry states. This is one
of them:
"In Colorado $4,000 were rendered
jobless by prohibition; they glutted
the labor market; Industrial condl.
tions became chaotic; wages were re-
duced; thousands were thrown on pub.
lie charity"
The Colorado state labor commits.
sioner, Mr.. Alex Swanson, thus re.
plies:
prohibition did not make $1,000 job.
less. When the 1000 Colorado sa-
looms closed some 10000 persons were
affected. This number included bar
tenders, porters, walters, brewery
workers, etc. They were quickly as.
simulated in other lines. There was no
Cutting of the labor market. Our
great trouble has been TO get men
enough for the jobs. Wages have not
been going up. Thousands were not
thrown upon public charity. Perhaps
few saloon hangers-on were, who
would not work anyway. You will al
ways find such in any town. There
are more demands for men to fill the
jobs since prohibition than there are
men to fill the jobs"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
And so, the "real adventure"
Of marriage begins for Rose
Stanton. You'll find the next
installment Of extraordinary in
terest.
GRO BE CoNTINUED)
WAS MODEL FOR "PEER GYNT"
lbsen Inspired in Creating Masterpiece
Partly by an Eccentric
Young Dane.

There are many models back OF
Peer Gynt," and among them n young
Dane. lbsen met the young man fire.
quently in Italy. He was peculiarly
conceited and affected young buffer,
Georg Brandes writes In the Century
Magazine. He used to tell the Italian
girls at Ischla and Capri that his father,
a schoolteacher in reality, was the best
friend Of the king Of Denmark, and
that he himself was one of the great
est men In Denmark. To prove this,
he often appeared in entire suits OF
white satin. He called himself poet,
but could find poetlcal inspiration only
In the wilderness or In desolate, dreary
spots. He once went to Crete to write,
he said, a great drama of tragedy. lie
returned, however, without having ac'
complished his purpose. He averred
that he could feel tragic emotion only
In the mountains, and lived In SELF
delusion and Illusion.
Some of his characteristics have
passed In "Peer Gynt." Otherwise
peer Gynt" is supposed to be an In
carnatlon of Norwegian foibles. Peers
lies are not really falsehoods, If this
implies the intention to deceive others.
They are rather self-deceptions. peer
Gynt" has something In common with
Cervantes' "Don Quixote," and is more
closely related to Daudet's "Tartarin."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
WHY CHANGERS ARE DRY.

"The answer is easy to give" says
Mr.. l.. ]. Tabor, master of the Ohio
State Grange, explaining why the
farmers are active in the fight for
statewide and nationwide prohibi-
tion. "The grange is a constructive
forward-looking organization. The
first plank In the grange platform is
not more money for the farmer, but
better men and women on the farms
and in America. This high purpose
leaves but one course of action that
the grange could possibly take in a
moral issue. 1t must be on the right
side of the question.
"The grange, state and national, Is
for absolute prohibition, not for fa-
natlcal or sentimental reasons, but be-
cause common sense and the cold
facts in the case conclusively demon
strate that while the saloon is the
greatest enemy of the church and the
home, 1t Is also n great enemy of ru-
raj progress, Of national development
and the best things in life."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
Blind Children learn.

Here is an original method used to
teach little blind child her alphabet,
that l hope may help other mothers
who have little ones afflicted with the
same handicap. Use the raised letters
from old felt pennants and paste on
four pieces of cardboard. Dividing
the alphabet into four parts prevent
the child from trying to learn too many
letters at once. When the alphabet Is
mastered, the letters can then be made
into words and put on small card
boards. The little ones touch soon
learns to distinguish between letters
and 1t is interesting to note how soon
it grasps both letters and words.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03

him clearly, but she saw his hands
clench and heard him draw long
breath. Then he turned abruptly and
walked to the window and for a NOR
tai, endless minute there was a silence.
Something happened during that
moment while he stood looking into
her tear-nushed eyes-something mo-
mentous-crltical-which no previous
experience in her life had prepared her
for. And 1t had happened to him, too.
His silhouette us he stood there with
his hands clenched, between her and
the window, showed her that.
What underlay her quiet was Won
der and fear, and more deeply still, n
sort of cosmic contentment-the acqul-
escence of swimmer in the still, ir-
resistible current Of a mighty river.
1t was distinctly relief to her when
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
Heiuht of a Camera.

A safe rule In most cases, Is to
have the camera at such height
that the lens is about level with the
eyes of a person Of average height,
standing. This implies that most tri-
pod stands, all ultra portable ones, are
too short In the leg, as even those
which allow the camera to be at this
height only do so when the feet are
so near together that the stand Is
unstable. With lenses Of short focus
1t Is usually advantageous, especially
in interior work, to have the camera
lower, while with very long focus
lenses 1t may be higher to avoid q
foreshortenlng Of the ground. In the
case of domestic interiors, 1t Is I'M
portant to have the lens well above
the level of table top, as the effect
Of the furniture seen from a lower
viewpoint will be unsatisfactory.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
CHAPTER ~.
How IL Struck Portia.

II was just q fortnight later that
Rose told her mother she was going
to marry Rodney Aldrlch, thereby
giving that lady greater shock Of
surprise than, hitherto, she had ex-
perienced In the sixty years Of a
tolerably eventful life.
Rose found her neatly writing a
paper at the boudolr desk in the little
room she called her den.
Mrs. Stanton said, "What, dear?"
indifferently enough, just in mechani-
cal response of the matter-Of-fact In
Election Of Rosalind's voice. Then she
laid down her pen, smiled In a puzzled
way up into her daughters face, and
added: my ears must have played
me funny trick. What did you sayf"
Rose repeated: Rodney Aldrlch and
l are going to be married"
But when she saw look Of painful
incomprehension In her mothers face,
she sat down on the arm Of the chair,
slid a strong arm around the fragile
figure, and hugged 1t up against her
self. ~ suppose" she observed con-
tritely, "that ought to have broken
1t more gradually. But / never think
of things like that"
AS well as she could, her mother
resisted the embrace. II can't be-
lieve," she said, gripping the edge of
her desk with both hands, shat you
would Jest about solemn subject like
that, Rose, and yet It's Incredible =!
The mother freed herself from the
girls embrace. rose, and walked away
to another chair. "If you'll talk
nationally and seriously, my DEAR" she
said, I'VE can continue the conversa'
ton. But this hippant, rather-vulgar
tone you're taking, pains me very
much"
The girl flushed to the hair. u
didn't know / was being flippant and
vulgar" she said. ~ didn't mean tc
be. was just trying to tell you-all
about It."
you've told me-" said her mother
that Mr.. Aldrlcb has asked you to
marry him and that you've consented
It seems to me you have done SC
hastily and thoughtlessly. He's told
you he loves you, I've no doubt, but
don't see how it's possible for yor
to feel sure on such short acquaint
ance."
"why, of course he's told me-" Rose
said little bewildered. "He cam
help telling me all the time, any more
than l can help telling him. We're
rather mad about each other, really
think he's the most wonderful per
son In the world, and"-she smiled
little uncertainly-"he thinks l am
But we've tried to be sensible abou
It, and think 1t out reasonably. Ill
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you didn't. You've never been hurt
never even been frightened. You
wouldn't know what they felt like.
And the result Is . :"
Portla eyed her thoughtfully. The
result is," she concluded, that you
have grown into big, splen-
did, fearless, conflding creature, that
It's perfectly inevitable some man like
Rodney Aldrlch would go straight out
Of his head about. And there you
arel"
A troubled, questioning look came
into the younger sisters eyes. "Tve
been lazy and selfish, know" she
said. perhaps more than thought.
haven't meant to be. But do
you think I'm any good at all?"
"That's the real injustice to It,"
said Portia; "that you are. You've
stayed big and simple. It couldn't
possibly occur to you now to say to
yourself: Poor old Portla She's al
ways been jealous because mother
liked me best, and now she's just
green with envy because I'm going to
marry Rodney Aldrlch.'"
She wouldn't stop to hear Roses
protest. IL know it couldn't" she
went on. "That's what / say. And
yet there's more than little truth In
1t, suppose. Oh, don't mean I'm
sorry you're going to be happy-I be-
lieve you are, you know. I'm just a
little sorry for myself. Here l stay,
grinding along, wondering what It's all
about and what after all's the use
While you, you baby are go
Ing to find out"
Portia began unpacking her pillows.
"Open my window, will you? There !
Now, kiss me and run along to by-by !
And forget my nonsense"
The wedding was set for the first
week In June. And the decision, in
stantly acqulesced in by everybody,
was that 1t was to be as quiet - as
strictly a family affalr-as possible.
Indeed, the notion of even simple
wedding into the Aldrich family left
Portla rather aghast.
But this feeling was largely allayed
by Frederlca's first call. Being cele-
brated beauty and person Of great
social consequence, didn't, 1t appeared,
prevent one from being human and
slmple-mannered and altogether de-
lightful to have about. She was so
competent, too, and intelligent (Rose
didn't see why Portla should find any
thing extraordinary In all this.
Wasn't she Rodney's slsterT that her
conquest Of the Stanton family was
instantaneous. They didn't suspect
that 1t was deliberate.
Rodney had made his great an
nouncement to her, Enthusiastically,
over the telephone, from his office.
'Do you remember asking me, Freddy,
two or three weeks ago, who Rosalind
Stanton wasf Well, she's the girl I'm
going to marry"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
nd he might remember suddenly and

and he might remember suddenly and
stop.
In the deeper sense-and she was
breathlessly conscious Of this, too
he hadn't forgotten she was there.
He was telling 1t all because she was
there--because she was herself and
nobody else. She knew-though how,
she couldn't have explained--with
that lntuitlve certainty which Is the
only real certainty there is, that the
story couldn't have been evoked from
him in just that way by anyone else
in the world.
At the end Of two years In the
states attorneys Office, he told her,
he figured he had his training and was
ready to begin.
81 made just one resolution when l
hung out my shingle," he said, "and
that was that no matter how few
cases | got, wouldn't take any that
weren't interesting-that didn't give
me something to bite on. / wasn't
willing to be bored for any reward
they had to offer me. It's cynical to
be bored. It's the worst immortality
there is. Well and / never have BEEN"
1t wasn't all photographed and
narrative. There was lot Of his
deep-breathlng, spacious philosophy
of life mixed up in 1t. And this the
girl, consciously and deliberately,
provoked. 1t didn't need much. She
said something about discipline and
he snatched the word away from her.
"What is disciplinef Why, It's
standing the gaff - standing 1t, not
submitting to 1t. It's accepting the
facts of life-of your own life, as they
happen to be. 1t isn't being conquer
ed by them. It's not making masters
of them, but servants to the underly-
ing things you want"
She tried to make reservation
there-suppose the things you wanted
weren't good things?
But he wouldn't allow 1t. "What-
ever they are" he insisted, "your de-
sires are the only motive forces
you've got. No matter how fine your
intelligence Is, 1t can't ride anywhere
except on the back Of your own
passions. Learn to ride them-control
them-spur them. But don't forget
that they're you just as essentially as
the rider Is"
1t was with curiously relaxed
body, her chin Graded In the crook Of
her arm, which lay along the back
of the couch, her eyes unfocused on
the window, that the girl listened with
more and more poignantly vivid con-
sciousness Of the man himself, the
driving power of him, of something
carelessly exultant in his own strength.
She got TO thinking of the flight of Il
great bird wheeling up higher and
higher on his powerful wings. Sud-
denly and to her CONSERVATION, she
felt her eyes flushing up with tears.
She tried to blink them away, but they
came too fast.
Presently he dropped short In his
walk-stopped talking, with n gasp,
in the middle of sentence, and
looked into her face. She couldn't see
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03

her mother came In and, presently, Por-
tia. She introduced him to them, and
then dropped out Of the conversation
altogether. As If 1t were long way
Off, she heard him retailing last nights
adventure and expressing his regret
that he hadn't taken her to hi9 sister
to be dried out, before he sent her
home.
She was aware that Portla stole
look at her In a puzzled, penetrating
sort Of way every now and then, but
didn't concern herself as to the basis
Of her curiosity. II wasn't until he
rose to go that she aroused herself
and went with him into the hall.
There, after he'd got into his oyercoat
and hooked his stick over his arm, he
held out his hand to her In formal
leave-taklng. Only It didn't turn out
that way. For the effect Of that warm,
1.-the grip flew its flag in both their
faces.
you're such wonder" he said.
She smiled. $50 are y-you." 1t was
the first time she had ever stammered
In her life.
When she came back into the sit
ting-room, she found Portia inclined
to be severe. 'Dld you ask him to
come again?" she wanted to know.
Rose smiled. ~ never thought Of
it," she said.
perhaps It's Just as WELL" said
Portia. "Did you have anything at
all to say to him before we came
home, or were you like that all the
whilel How long ago did he comeT
IL don't know" said Rose behind
a very real yawn. IL was asleep on
the couch when he came in. That's
why | was dressed like this" And
then she said she was hungry.
There wasn't, on the whole, hap
pier person in the world at that mo-
ment.
But Rodney Aldrlch, pounding along
at five miles an hour In direc-
ton left to chance, was not happy.
Or, II he was, he didn't know 1t. He
couldn't yield instantly, and easily, to
his intuitlons, rs Rose had done. He
felt that he must thlnk-felt that he
had never stood In such need Of cool,
level consideration rs at this moment.
But the process was impossible.
Anyway, 1t was remark Frederick
had made last night that gave him
something to hold on by. Marriage,
she had said, was an adventure of
which no amount of cautious thought
taken In advance could modify the es-
sentlal adventurousness. There was
no doubt In his mind that marriage
with that girl would be more Won
derful adventure than anyone had
ever had in the world.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
NEW SLOGAN.
"Beer and whisky,
They're a curse;
We drink water,
Safety first"
THE NATIONS GOING DRY.

There are now 25 prohibition states.
The District Of Columbia is dry by act
of congress. Alaska Is dry by 2 to /
vote of the people ratified by con-
gress. Including the dry territory in
wet states, more than 81 per cent of
the area of the United States and more
than 60 per cent of the population are
under prohibition.
Eight states are in submission cam
paigns. At least two Of these will vote
on the question in November of this
year, the others in 1918. Ohio Is in
a wet and dry fight.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
"a Guess Perhaps | Underst
Mother"

humbly-resignedly, as II admitting
that the situation was beyond her
powers.
Its the one need Of n woman's
life, Rose DEAR" she said, "the corner
stone Of all her happiness, that her
husband, as you say, wants her.
Doubt of 1t is the one thing that will
have the power to make her bitterly
unhappy. That's why 1t seems to me
so terribly necessary that she be sure
about 1t before it's too late"
ayes, of course" said Rose. "But
that's true of the man, too, Isn't 1t?
Otherwise, where's the equalltyf
Her mother couldn't answer that ex-
cept with long sigh.
Ever since babyhood, Rose had been
devoted, by all her mothers plans and
hopes, to the furtherance Of the cause
of women, whose ardent champion she
herself had always been. For Rose
not Portia, was the devoted one.
The elder daughter had been born
at q time when her own activities
were at their height. AS POrtia her
self had said, when she and her two
brothers were little, their mother had
been too busy to-luxuriate In them
very much; and, during those early,
and possibly suggestible years, Portla
had been suffered to grow up, as 1t
were, by herself.
She expected Rose to marry, Of
course. But In her day-dreams 1t was
to be one Of Roses converts to the
cause. Certainly Rodney Aldrich, who,
as Rose outrageously had boosted,
rolled her In the dust and tramped all
over her In the course of their argu-
ments, presented violent contrast to
the ideal husband she had selected. In
deed, 1t would be hard to think Of him
as anything but the rock on which her
whole ambition for the girl would be
shattered.
That night, during the process Of
getting ready for bed, Rose put on
bathrobe, picked up her hairbrush,
and went into Portals room. Portia,
much quicker always about such mat
ters, was already upon the point Of
turning out the light, but, guessing
what her sister wanted, she stacked
her pillows, climbed into bed and set
tied back for chat.
81 hope" Rose began, shat you're
really pleased about 1t. Because moth
er isn't. She's terribly unhappy. Do
you suppose it's because she thinks
rve-well, sort Of deserted her, In not
going on and being lawyer-and all
that?'
"Oh, perhaps" said Portla, indlffer-
emily. ~ wouldn't worry about that,
though. Because really, child, you
had no more chance of growing up to
be lawyer and a leader Of the cause
than / have of getting to be briga-
dler-general."
Rose stopped brushing her hair and
demanded to be told why not. She
had been getting on oil right up to
now, hadn't she?
"Why, just think" said Portla,
"what mother herself had gone through
when she was your age: put herself
through college because her father
didn't believe In higher education -
practically disowned her. She'd
taught six months In that awful school
-remember2 She was used to being
abused and ridlculed. And she was
working hard enough to have killed
camel. But you'll Why,
lamb, you never really had to do any
thing In your life. II you felt like
It. all right-and equally all right If
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
CRIME AND ALCOHOL,

In granting probation to offenders,
California courts require that the de-
fendant shall, during the probationary
period, absolutely and totally refrain
and desist from the use Of intoxicating
liquors in any form" If this provision
could come before the man committed
crime, would 1t not act as preven'
tive?