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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-09
ROTARY HEARS
TALK ON STATE
CONSTITUTION
Club VIII Send Big Band With
Delegates to 1920 Convention
n Bloomington.

Rotarians in regular session this
noon heard an interesting dis
course by r. w. Olmsted on the
constitution of Illinois. He told
the history of that document,
showing that there were three COM
plete revisions since the original
constitution in 1918 and telling
other facts.
He said that the principal thing
of note in present tendencies was
the one toward the short ballot
system in elections. This leaves
the governor power to appoint a
much larger number of state Of
ficers than ever before, removing
the responsibility froSn the people,
who, because of the length of the
ordinary ballot, do not give the
subject proper consideration, and
sometimes put undesirables into
Office.
VIII Attend Dedication.
The Rock Island Rotary mem
bers will attend, 100 per cent
strong, the dedication of the new
East Moline Rotary club in that city
I'LL LII L-Ou4S OoNA jill CpO4 ICI
that the crowd of children from
Bethany home, whom he took out
TO see The circus two weeks ago,
enjoyed the trip to the utmost, and
had one fine time.
One of the biggest and best bands
in the state is to be taken to the
Rotary convention by the local
club. This event takes place in
next February Dur
ing its stay at that city, the ex-
pense to the Rotarians for the
band will be $4,000, and to furnish
this fund an assessment will be
made upon each member, of $3.50.
Songs by all of those present
closed the meeting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
THE LOVE GAMBLER
BY Virginia Terhune Van de Water

turbed state of mind. She was so
agitated by what had occurred that
she wished there was some further
action that she could take. Her trip
to her fathers office had been made
because she could not rest until she
had heard his assertion that he be-
lieved in Smiths innocence. Now
she longed to get the chauffeur right
in the eyes of all concerned.
Suddenly she remembered Mr..
Perry, the jeweler. In her over
sensitive state she felt she must in
form him that the missing property
was safe, thus further exonerating
Smith. Stopping at the Fifth ave-
nue. shop, she went into the rear of
the store where Mr.. Perry's office
was.
He rose at sight of her and came
forward. She greeted him eagerly.
Good morning, Mr.. Perry, I Just
stopped in to tell you that my pend
ant has been found, 1 will bring
or send it and the chain down to-
morrow to make sure the stones and
catch are secure"
The man looked surprised. "It
has been found, has it, Miss Leigh
ton? I congratulate you. How did
you happen to locate it?"
ut had been misplaced by my
maid" Desiree replied. 80. you
see, I was quite right in insisting
that it had not been stolen"
''Ah, yes-I see. But how did the
box happen to be all tied up, yet
empty?"
An Intimated Rebuke
"Oh, it was a foolish mistake" ."
the owner of the pendant evadad.
nd hxr u i,
serve as a lesson to some of us not
to be too ready to suspect others of
dishonesty, of which they are quite
incapable"
Mr.. Perry flushed. but tried to
laugh.
my dear Miss Leighton" he pro-
tested. IF you saw as much dis
honesty as we do
Il am glad I do not" she inter-
rupted. Then. repentant of her
brusqueness, she smiled.
L just happened to be passing, so
stopped in to tell you about the
matter" she said lightly. "You were
very kind to take so much interest
in my property"
Not at ALL" the man demurred
The pendant is very valuab'e-za
wonderfully beautiful article. Your
father showed it to me just after
it came into your possession. 1t
was an heirloom, if I am not mis-
taken?"
at was left me by friend" she
said briefly. Good morning!'
She had done all she could to
clear Smiths name of suspicion.
She had hoped that after doing this
she would feel at peace.
Yet now, as she went uptown, she
was wishing that she could do
something more for him. She had
not sent for the car this morning, as
she felt bashful at meeting him after
what had happened last night. Her
| father had said he was going to send
for Smith to come to his office. That
being the case, she would better not
order the car for this afternoon. n
might interfere with her fathers
| plans.
| To BE Continued.
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Reduce Y Your WEIGHT
Quickly and Easily

If you are too fat. or il your figure
has become flabby and you are
carrying around a burden of annoy-
ing unhealthy flesh. the cause is,
ten chances to one, lack of oxygen
carrying power of the blood and
faulty assimilation of the food. Too
little of the food is being made into
good hard tissue and muscle and too
much into little globules of fat.
Every man and woman reader of
this paper who is too fat, whose
flesh is soft and flabby should try
the new preparation, Phynola, a
simple. but remarkably efficient
formula put up for convenient home
use.
Go to Gorgas. the druggist. stores,
16 N. 3rd ST.. 3rd and Walnut streets
and Pennsylvania r. r. station.
Georges Drug Store. or c. Kellers
Drug Store, today and get a box of
these wonderful Phynola tablets;
take one after each meal and one
at bed time. They are pleasant to
take, entirely safe and give splen-
did results quickly and easily No
dieting, strenuous exercising, drastic
massaging or appliances. Just a
simple Phynola tablet four times a
day and in a short time your weight
is reduced on all parts of the body
to what 1t should be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
Scientific Discussions
by Garrett P. Serviss

The chances are that you never
heard of Joseph Barrell. now that he
he Is dead American biologists,
who knew him and knew how to val
ue him, have set up his memory as
on a pedestal inscribed with words of
high honor.
The ordinary man. who is no geol-
ogist or paleontologist, but who may
be a person curious about his an
cestry, will certainly feel an interest
in Joseph Barrell, on account of the
singular picture of the first man, the
Adam of geological Genesis, that he
hung in the gallery of the sci
entific Imagination.
1t is a picture that tells a story"
or, rather, 1t is the product of a story
which begins very far back in time,
and is concerned at first with crea-
lures bearing no resemblance to him
whom Eve so admiringly accepted for
husband and master:
20 soul in whom my thoughts find all
repose,
My glory, my perfection, glad I see
Thy face"
1t is a strange story of evolution
controlled or guided by changes of
climate, an epochal drying up of the
earth. If you would understand Jo-
seph Barrell's picture of the earliest
man and his surroundings begin. if
you please, with a fish. Barrcn be-
lieved that the race of fishes took
origin in fresh water and migrated
from the land to the sea under the
stress of increasing aridity-in a
word, too much dryness.
Now, it is important to remember
that the fishes are in our line. They
were the introducers of the reign of
the vertebrates. and geologically
speaking, they brought it on sudden
ly. So the story of the fishes is, in a
broad sense, our own story. They pre-
ccded the cave man by aeons, but
they started the backbone for him.
Then another step. The primary
fishes, water-breathers, or breathers
in water. using air bladders, under
the same kind of stress. /. e.. of in
creasingly arid conditions. developed
another most important organ, which
man was to find Indispensable, viz,
the lung. So all the fishes did not mi
CRATE to the sea, but only those which
were unable to develop lungs.
And out of those that remained in
land environment sprang the am
phibians, /. C., animals capable of
living in both air and water.
The next step in the story is a
broad jump-all the way from am
phibian to man. And, having taken
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1t, we are confronted by the figure
of our first ancestor. not with "hya-
clnthine locks" lying under the trees
OF Paradise. in the cool of the eve
hing, hand in hand with his fair mate.
but "a powerful. terrestrial, bi-pedal
primate. largely carniverous in habit"
transform I'd from an arboreal, fruit
eating ape. Then the picture changes
and We see this beast-like man.
banding together with others of his
kind in the struggle for existence,
and by that means achieving success
in chase and war" The scene, be 1t
remarked, is laid in Asia, the might
est of the continents, which nearly all
spectators on this subject have Sc
lected for the place of mans origin.
We seem now to have got a long
way from the fish, with his first back
lone and his air bladder changed in
10 the first lung; but single stroke
descriptive of the cause of the trans
formation from ape to man in the
dwindling forests OF Asia, brings us
back to the starting point: THE grad
ual elimination, first, of the food of
the forests, lastly of the refuge of
the trees through increasing semi
aridity, would have been compelling
cause, as mandatory as the semi
aridity which compelled the emer-
gence Of vertebrates from the waters,
transforming fish into amphibinns."
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"When q Girl MQrYieS"
By
New, Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problem of Girl Wife

| you and me and-the police. Won't
! you send for them now and end
! this?"
AS she spoke, Daisy came and laid
the ring on the orchid negligee ]
had flung over the arm of my chair
Then she backed away witha quick
| jerk and fiattened herself against
the wall, and her voice jumped out
in little staccato bits.
Il didn't dream 1 would ever be a
thief. But | am. 1 hated you, And
l wanted the ring. So 1 took it
the way you were taking Carl. /
guess that's how I reasoned. Well,
| it's over now. I don't blame you
for not wanting to touch me and
take the ring out of my hand Or
for not speaking to me. I'll be glad
to go to prison, SO you needn't mind
bad as lying awake nights and
thinking about it and waking up
and going through the days. l put
package there on the couch when
l first came in. It's the dress you
gave me. Please-oh, please--send
for the police and tell them you
have the thief"
TIL do nothing of the kind!" My
voice sounded amazingly brusque
as l broke in vigorously.
You won't do that and get it
over? I can't bear any more!"
Daisy crumpled back against the
wall and covered her face with
shaking hands. Sobs shook her.
She covered away when I laid my
hands on her shoulders.
You're not a thief, Daisy" I said
feeling my way slowly. You
stopped being a thief the minute
you walked in here and returned
the ring. A thief wouldn't do that
No one had discovered you. The
thing the other You had tried to do.
You and I are the only ones who
know about that other You. And
we can keep our secret"
Daisy's arms dropped to her side.
She stood staring at me incredu-
lously for a moment, and then she
laid her fingers timidly on a fold of
my sleeve.
No" she said. mo. 1t isn't
right I don't deserve it. 1t isn't
| possible. No one could be so kind
You must make me pay. You can't
let thief off"
Daisy" l cried, shaking her
dropping shoulders vigorously. stop
NiiiiiS Soul oGll IL llllSl. Ou We met
temptation and you've overcome it.
And all the rest of your life, you'll
| fight down your temptations before
! they threaten to destroy you. You
owe this to meas a debt of honor,
now. And l think that's all we have
to say to each other
The tears were running down
Daisy's ashen cheeks. Her face
was working piteously so that she
had to struggle to teady her mouth
to form words:
You can't mean it! How can
you let me off? How can you let
me stay on at Mr.. Masons? How
can you touch me?"
Daisy" l said quietly, "One
greater than l said the words long
ago: Neither do I condemn thee.
Go thou and sin no more Both of
us know that never again so long
as she lives will Kate Condon's little
sister touch what isn'ta hers. And
We'll lock this story up in our hearts
and be the better friends for shar-
ing it. You were brave enough to
come to me and offer to pay. I
think that deliberate act of courage
makes up for the moment when you
yielded. You've known all along
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
The Dessert That
Saved Betty's Party

Betty wants me to give a party
for her on her sixth birthday next
week." sighed Mrs. Ford. "and 1 just
dread to think about it."
'I know just how you feel" sympa-
thized her neighbor.
"It is so hard" she continued. "to
know what to have for refreshments
that won't hurt them. Custards are
no treat for them, my cornstarch pud-
dings are always thin and lumpy, and
ice cream is so expensive"
Have you thought about having
Puddine?" questioned her neighbor.
My children love it, and it's so pure
and wholesome"
What is Puddine?
1T makes wonderful creamy
mold of dessert. Costs 15c box, and
one box of Puddine serves 15 peopIe.
rs it hard to make?"
That's the nice part about Pud-
dine" replied her neighbor, enthusi-
astically. 1T always turns out right.
and it is not a bit of trouble to make.
All you need do is to add milk. either
fresh or condensed, and sugar. and
boil for three minutes. Pour it into
a mold and after it has cooled, you
have a firm, smooth mold of delicious
orange, lemon in fact, whatever
you like best, for Puddine comes in
a number of flavors."
"I've a mind to try it, and let
Betty have her party after all, said
Mrs. Ford
"As matter of fact" suggested
her friend" you could have some
homemade ice cream. Puddine makes
ice cream as smooth as velvet. And
not only that, but for cakes and pies,
Puddine makes wonderful filing"
Some time later the two friends
met. I've been waiting to call you
up" exclaimed Mrs. Ford. "Puddine
is wonderful. i had the party for
Betty, and l don't know when 1 have
seen children enjoy anything as much
as they did that Puddine. l had
enough left over for supper that
night, and Henry said he had never
tasted such delicious dessert.
Order some Puddine with todays
Rroceries!-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
By McMdnus

the back seat? Why should you let
your diffidence and self-conscioumess
master you while you watch some one
with perhaps not half your ability and
with no more opportunities than you
have distancing you in the racer
You may say: II wouldn't stoop to
his or her methods" If those meth
ods are dishonest or unfair. you are
quite right. He will not be able to
keep his success long.
But IL his methods are those of
the importunate widow, IL he keeps his
eye open to every chance and profits
by it, you cannot begin too soon to
emulate him.
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you'd have to come to me. I've
known too. And you came. We
must both be deeply happy for
that"
you've known all along?" gasped
Daisy. And you've waited and
hoped know you've hoped. oh,
how can l ever repay you? How
can l? If it's my life and you want
it say so''-
'Hush" I cried. "I hear jim
that's his key in the lock. Come,
I'll hurry you out the back way.
This is our secret, always and for
ever!"
Selling her almost roughly, I
hurried Daisy down the hall and
through the kitchen and so to the
back elevator. flushing her storm
of praise and prayer and thanks, I
hurried back to my room.
There stood Jim holding in one
hand my orchid negligee, in the
other my pearl ring.
To Be Continued
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
Copyright, 1919, Star Company
CHAPTER LXIII.

Samuel Leighton was seated in his
private office that morning when his
daughter entered. He raised his
brows questioningly as she followed
the clerk who announced her.
Il understood you were alone,
Dad" she began as soon as the door
had closed behind her.
II hoped you were resting, my
dear" her parent said. kissing her.
Il hardly expected a call from you
"In the subway"
1T must have been something im-
portant to make you come in that
way" he teased. DO you want
some money!"
She shook her head smilingly.
mo, sir, l came to tell you l have
followed your instructions and have
questioned Annie about Norah-and
Smith"
Yes? But you could have told
me that tonight"
Perhaps So" the girl hurried on,
but Annie proved so plainly that
smith was innocent that | thought
you should know about it. This is
what she told me-"
Then, as nearly as possible, word
for word, she repeated her queries
and her maids answers. Leighton
ilstened graVely, nodding from time
to time.
Well" he said, when she had
i1nished, "as the girl had no object
IN eXaggerating, we must believe
her. 1t is plain that Norah had a
grudge against Smith"
Because he was not the kind she
thought he was, Dad" Desiree in
sisted. "I know this because / saw
that letter she wrote him-as you
may remember"
Then, although her breath came
fast, she explained how she had read
the paper which she thought at first
her father had dropped.
Desiree Is Confused
oamuel Leighton shrugged his
shoulders. 1t is evident that the
Ieilo"s ) good looks caused Norah
10 make fool of herself, that's a11
My respect for Smith increases soc
when I find that he did not enconr9
age her. Still, that is no concern of
ours. All we care to learn is that
the pendant is safe and that it was
not stolen. Do you suppose Smith
gueSses that we suspected hin, 90
why, yes sir-of course he knew
III from my surprise when I found
my property last night" she asserted
illogically. 'oN
What did he say?"
l.l-don't just remember-onIv
that 1t was all right or sometime
OF that sort when I told him that
when | tried to explain to him
She stopped confused when she re-
membered how much moved she had
been. 1i''''
II am afraid" she added lamelv
that l was so excited that I said
something foolish-perhaps- mean
| did not explain
"Of course, you did not" her
iather interposed kindly Nor was
it your place to do so. I will send
for Smith and make it right with
him." '''
Desiree started uptown in a per.
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Copyright, 1919. Star Feature Syn
dicate, Inc.
CHAPTER CCCXH

There was one moment of brava-
do as Daisy Condor stood facing me
across the bright spaces of my room
Then she crumpled and stood with
bowed head, abject and pitiful. And
in the palm of the hand she held
toward me my pearl ring.
So she was a thief after all. Kate s
little sister was a thief. I'd been
right all along. There was my ring.
My beautiful ring How l hated
it!
Standing in the thick, damp sill
ence 1 couldn't break, that was the
one outstanding thought in the tur-
moil of my mind.
Il hate my ring. 1 hate my ring.
See what it's done. See what it's
made of Kates little sister,"
l found myself staring at the lus-
trous pearl unable to speak, un-
able to do anything at the moment
Or to decide what I must presently
do. The little enamel clock on my
dressing table licked loudly. The
sound of Hedwig's footsteps as she
shuffled up the hall rapsed on my
ears like the scrape of a giant emery
board. Then I heard some one
clearing her throat gratingl" and
Daisy's voice creaked out:
won you ever say 0nNInlnE I!
Please-please send for the police
and get it over with. can stand
that. What I can't stand is this
facing you and knowing what l am
and what you think of me. I don't
deserve any mercy. but show me
some anyway. Send for the police
and get it over"
I'm not going to send for the
police"
My voice was low. 1t seemed to
come from far away. I wondered
for a second if I'd actually said this
or if I'd only thought it. Then I
heard Daisy repeating in an incred-
ulous shrek:
you're not going to send for the
police? You're not going But you
must! Don't you see you must ?
I'm thief. I have to be sent to
prison"
Don't say that" I gasped, sink
ing down in the nearest chair and
covering my face with a shaking
hand. Don't say that Kates sis
ter"
Leave Kate out of this" Daisy
broke in passionately. "She doesn't
belong in it. I'm glad she's-gone
and doesn't have to bear the shame
of being my sister. This is between
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
LIFE'S PROBLEMS
ARE DISCUSSED

smallpox, so there are certain reme-
dies which will alleviate and ultimately
cure unsatisfactory conditions. One
of these remedies is to hold on--hold
on to your belief in yourself and in
brighter. better circumstances. The
most noted example of the effiacy of
these remedies is the character known
as the importunate widow" whose eX-
periencse is told in very brief and
great short story.
And he spalie a parable unto them
to this end: That one ought always
to pray and not to faint
Saying: There was in the city a
judge which feared not God, neither
regarded man.
"And there was widow in that
city, and she came unto him, saying
Avenge me of mine adversary.
"And he would not, for while, but
afterward he said within himself
Though / fear not God, nor regard
man. yet because this widow troubleth
me 1 will avenge her, lest by her con-
tinual coming she weary me-"
There is the whole secret of sue
cessful human endeavor. To pray is
very often to act.
There are people who have what
seems to be an insuperable difiidence
WHich StdnuS III the way OIL tneir aa-
Nancement. They say: II just simply
can't push myself. If things don't
come to me because of my merits,
why l prefer rot to have them"
But how is anyone going to know
about your merits. unless you put
them in the show windows?
A person of small attainments who
not only makes the most of them, but
who also wears them all over his
sleeve like service-stripes and all over
his chest like medals, is apt to get
the things he is after much more
surely than the one who retires into
his shell and waits for some one with
patience and x-ray eyes to come along
and discover him.
Why should you be the one to take
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30

1t is n condition and not theory
which confrontss most of us.
There is something in our lives that
hampers us, keeps us back and is
continual source of worry and irrita-
ton. There it stands like some great
rock across our pathway. We realize
how helpless we are before It. No
matter If we exert all our strength we
cannot make it bulge.
What are we going to do? Sit
down in the roadway before that hor-
rid rock and cry and let the rain
beat down on us and the sun bake us
cruelty of the fate which has placed
such a stone in our path?
That is the natural and easy thing
to do, but it doesn't get us anywhere
and it doesn't get the stone anywhere.
So it is impracticable.
What is the practical thing to do in
any situation? Face it; and face it
calmly and with your eyes wide open.
IT you shudder and try to avoid look
ing at it you will only exaggerate it.
1t is n fact, and very hard fact /;
but there is something strange and
mysterious about even the hardest
facts. They have way of changing
and takin on diffrent outlines when
we least expect them to do so and
could not have believed it possible.
The darkest lyour is always before
dawn. and when things get so bad
that 1t looks as if they couldn't pos
slbly get any worse, they begin to
veer toward good again. We have
al heard people say:
I'VE went through an awful strug-
gle for several years. Everything un-
der the sun seemed to hapen to us.
And then we came out all right
If things did not take an upward
turn, if streak of bad luck did not
seem to exhaust itself in time, the
world would be strewn with a good
many more wrecks than 1t Is.
Just as there are certain remedies
to be used in cases of typhoid or
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
Sure Way to Regain
Robust Bloom of Youth

4 smooth, velvety-soft skin, with
delicate peach-like bloom, is one of
fhe Creators most exquisite works
When the first blush of youth is over.
this beautiful tint and satiny luster
are rarely seen. How to preserve
.them-that's the question. Famous
beauty experts abroad long have
known that ordinary mercolized wax
works wonders in this direction. 1t
actually gives a new surface to the
skin, restoring that marvellous girlish
color and softness in a remarkable
manner. Announce of this wax, pro-
durable at any drugstore, will con-
vert a faded wornout, discolored,
freckled or pimply complexion into
one of captivating loveliness in less
than two weeks.
No special skill is necessary in
applying mercolized wax. it being
Emeared on at night like cold cream
and washed off in the morning.