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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
TlErE DAILY SHORT STORY

leaving with her 1t was probably
strictly a business call, yet I en-
We'd him the privilege of knowing
the peerless beauty.
Fortune favored me. I was en-
ployed in special work for large
detective agency and CHANGED torbe
off duty one day when a>fire broke
out in the building across the court
Smoke did more damage than flames
direct. was instrumental in check
ing the blaze and l rescued<a half
smothered canary from the room of
my charmer. She came home while
I was speaking to the landlady, who
introduced US
/ persisted as a friendly neighbor
in inducing Miss Langston to allow
me to assist her in setting the room
to rights. [ called two evenings
later. We spoke Of the window
plants, laughing over merry guess
work as to when the Towering vines
would meet and merge, presenting
a gorgeous festoon across the court.
noticed that she was engaged in
a curious piece of work. Upon the
table lay fully q hundred thin but
SLTCng pieces Oh Steel II was n6T
task to wind these round and round
with silk and set them fixedly IN
eyeletted sockets IN two stout silk
en- ropes.
"a ladder?" surmised at my
third call.
YES" nodded CecilIe, "the gen.
t1eman who has ordered It says It
is for use in some spectacular ira
peZe work for an acrobat. I-expect.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

quite liberal pay. There was a
great, heavy hook attached to a
rope that 1 covered with the same
silken strands. Isn't it a wonderful
ladder? See, you can roll it up and
carry it in an inside pocket"
Next evening 1 was entering the
the man who had engaged her to
make the ladder came out with a
package, as I found later, contain
ing the finished ladder and hook.
AS he turned from the entrance
q man crossed the street and joined
him In a flash my detective intui-
ton was aroused.
''F1ler!" I soliloquized. almost
aloud.
l had named one OF the most no
torious cracksmen in the west, just
out of prison. The two men ming
led with a crowd and were lost to
me while I was analysing the situa-
ton.
1 did not go in to see Ceciiie then.
Now l knew the purpose for which
the silk-covered hook and steel lad
der had been constructed In half
an hour I was at headquarters,
You surprise me-" said my chief.
When Filler left the penitentiary
he was headed for New Orleans,
He has boasted that he has one big
haul to make and retire. Make
Filler your special ears"
Which I did, His associate who
had employed CeeiIIe did not ap-
pear again. I ran upon him.
shadowed himas4 % Glst&aeesby<the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Relapse and Recurrence of Infiu-

Relapse and Recurrence of Inffu-
enxa-
Influenza seems to confer little or
no acquired immunity upon one
who has had the disease and recov-
cred from the attack. In this re-
spect it differs from most infectious
diseases, for, as every one knows,
when a patient RECEIVERS from ty-
phoid fever or diphtheria or meas
les he is not likely to have another
attack, at least not nearly SO likely
as a non-immune person is to de-
velop the disease.
And yet, a number of physicians
who have made considerable use of
anti-infiuenZa bacterin (vaccine) in
the treatment of influenza and for
the purpose of immuniZing persons
who have been or are likely to be
exposed to the infection, declare
that the bacterin is very effective
preventative and also a valuable
remedy for influenza.
Unfortunately there has been no
unanimity in the choice of bacterin.
One physician is content to use a
ready-made or stock bacterin of
the shotgun type-a bacterin con-
tanning not only killed influenza
bacilli but also two or three other
germs which may or may not be
concerned in causing the disease,
all the germs killed, of course. He
reports glowing results. Another
physician uses an entirely different
bacterin. He reports glowing re-
suits. Still another uses a third
variety of bacterin. And he gets
the same happy results. Then we
all begin TO question the reliability
of these glowing reports. We have
been victimized so often, in medical
life, by medical enthusiasts whose
discoveries seem so epochal at first
flush and peter out so discouraging-
ly on more sober investigation.
The weight of such evidence as is
available seems to favor the belief
that a vaccine, preferably one pre-
pared by a bacteriologist from Gull
lures from the patients sputum, is
of some value in the treatment of
a prolonged attack of influenza ian
tack lasting more than three daysl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
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Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is girl
Is too young to think of love when
her mother and father do not love
her and she has to have some one
to love or live in sorrow?
UNHAPPY GIRL.
A girl of Is is too young to have
a love affair with some boy. Out
of loyalty to the man she Will some
day marry, she should not permit
any boy to make love to her or
kiss her.
You will not be sorrowful il you
give your thought to making other
misunderstood children happy
Many other girls of your age are
wanting something they should not
nave. Perhaps your companionship
and sympathy with them would
help both of you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I was en-
gagged to a soldier who has been
across long time. Since l met an
other soldier, who begged me to
marry him, and promised to do so,
then l realized that l love the
one was first engaged to. Both
are soon 10 TetuTn. DuOulu LCil
the last one after his return, that
no longer love him, or write him
overseas? COLUMBIA.
Write to the man now and tell
him that you find you do not love
him. Under the circumstances 1t
will be well to disentangle the af-
fair as soon as possible.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: have
been keeping company with young
man for about seven years and al
though he seems to think q great
deal of me he has never asked me
not to go with anyone else, and we
are not engaged. He has never
gone with other girls in all this
time to my knowledge.
I think great deal of this young
man and do not care TO hurt his
feelings, but l do not think he is
fair in not telling me his Intentions.
DOUBTFUL.
The man is far since he is will
Ing you should have other men
friends, If you do not like his
methods 1t Is your privilege to give
him up entirely. but under the cir
cumstances you cannot force him
to declare his intentions, II" /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

Washington, Jan. 27.-The casual
ty list made public today by the
war department has a total OF $50
names.
SsECTIQN ONE.)
The following casualties are re-
ported by the commanding general
OF the American Fxpeditionary
Forces: Killed in action, 80; died
from wounds, 18; died OF accident
and other causes, 2; died of disease,
81; wounded severely. 1874; missing
in action, 81. Total, 294.
Killed I'm Action.
CORPORALS.
Ralph Swank, Neoga, III.
PRIVATE
Raymond J. Sutton, Chicago.
Died of Wounds.
PRIVATES
Henry r. Richtermeier, Maple
ton, Iowa.
George W. Grigg, GreenvfIle, III.
Ellie Peterson, Radcliffe, Iowa
Died of Disease.
PRIVATE.
Otto Thomson, Newell, Iowa.
wounded severely.
PRIVATES.
Arthur Sanders, Benton, Ill.
Verl B. Holmes, Mount Erie, Ill.
Charles C. Behrens, Chicago.
William r. Blanton, Chicago.
Charles J. Bloom, Pesotum, Ill.
Charles E. Duvardo, WillisviIle,
Ill
George Fl. Ellsworth, Macomb,
III.
Walter A. Havron, Panama, III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Chr Rnll nf 6uttur

Carl HEIDI, Stanford, Ill.
Oscar V. Howe, Tiktonia, Iowa
Harry Johnson, Rippey, Iowa -
William Kacamrcik. Chicago.
Lyle Weese, Morris, Ill.
Missing in Action.
PRIVATES.
Charles A. Matusch, Edgewod,
Iowa.
Ben vaIentosh, Chicago.
(SECTI0N TWO.
Killed in Action.
PRIVATES.
Christopher Wolfe, Garlinville.
Ill
James Zarove, Chicago.
Died Of Wounds
PRIVATES.
Bryan Fellows, Round Grove, Ill
Died of Disease.
PRIVATES.
Roy Russell Brooks, Kewanee, Ill
Claude Firth, Morris, III.
Bill Luchsinger, Minten, Iowa
Arthur II. Watson, Cisne, Ill
Wounded Severely.
CORPORALS
Thomas Janczak, Chicago.
Benjamin II. Slusser, Sugar
Grove, Ill.
PRIVATES.
Nicholas Marie Briglio, Chicago.
Henry Gilmore Dunbar, Ina, III. :
Clarence Holmes, Chicago.
Joseph r. Moffatt, Springfield,
Ill
AxeI w. Olsen, Ottumwa, Iowa
Harry Stokes, Chicago.
John J. Sullivan, Chicago.
Richard A. Urlab, Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Pinchot's Open Letter.

Clifford Pinchot evidently feels that Roose-
velt's mantle has fallen upon him and it is his
duty to assume the lead in the fight against re-
action within the Republican party. In an
open letter given to the press today he makes
it clear that the standpatters are not going to
have things all their own way. His letter is
addressed to Senator Boies Penrose, who is in
line in the next congress for the craftsmanship
of the committee on finance. Mr.. Pinchot says:
Like millions of other Republicans,
am anxious to see the Democrats beaten
In 1920. Like them, I see in the posi-
hility Of your election to the chairman
ship OF the senate committee on finance
one of the principal obstacles in the way
Of such a victory.
1t is we'll known that the middle west
VIII cast the deciding vote in the next
presidential election. The middle west
knows you mainly as the most perfect
living representative of the worst type of
politics in America Indeed, 1 am in
clined to think it is fair to say that no
other man in our history has ever repre-
scented to many Americans all that is
worst in American public life. If this is
true, it is a record, and you are entitled
to whatever credit goes with it
The people of the United States know
that the great monopoHes are your
friends, and that you accepted a check
for $4,000 from the Standard Oil COM
pany and thanked them for il.
They know that you have always been
the champion OF the liquor interests
The women know that you have stead
lily worked and voted against equal suf-
frage and child labor legislation
The farmers know that in 1911 you
for ha Canadian
which left farm products unprotected
and put high tariff on trust products.
The railroad men know that you vot-
ed against bill providing for block sig
nal systems on all railroads, which would
make travel much safer for employees
and public alike.
The wage earners know that the
American Federation of Labor has Off
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

to introduce you to new brand of
'Biff! Bang!'"
Saying this, I struck an heroic
attitude, but it seemed to produce
no starting change in their calm,
deliberate examination of me.
He'll do, 1 think, as show
girl" the dance-master unused
dreamily. Like a cabbage, every
one of his features is bad, but the
whole effect is not revolving" At
this point the musician broke in.
HE amt agoing to dance to my
music if L know it. He'll ruin it."
AT which remark l executed a few
rather simple but nevertheless neat
steps had learned at the last char
ity bazaar to which l had contrib
uted my services, and these few
steps were sufficient to close the
deal. was signed up on the spot
From that day on my life has be-
come one of unremitting toll. To-
gether with the rest of the show
girls 1 vamp and SLOUGH my way
around the clock with ever in
creasing seductiveness. We are
really doing splendidly. The pom
les come leaping lightly across the
floor waving their freckled, mus
cular arms from side to side and
looking very upattractive indeed in
their B. V. DIS, high shoes and
sock supporters. 81 can see it all, +"
says the director, in an enthusiast
tic voice.
Us show girls, of course, have to
be a little more modest than the
ponies, so we retain our white
trousers. These are rolled up,
However, in order to afford the mos
quitoes room to roost on. And sad
to relate, the life is beginning to
affect the boys. Only yesterday 1
saw one of our toughest ponies
vamping up the aisle of Moss hall
No. . with his tray held over his
head in the manner of a Persian
slave girl.
My career SO far has not been
a personal triumph. In the mid
die of a number, the other night,
the dancing master clapped his
hands violently together.
"Take 'em down to the end of the
room, boys" he said. 81 can tell
three minutes ahead of time when
things are going to go wrong. That
man on the end didn't have a
thought in his head. He would
have smeared the entire number"
was the man On the end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Lots Of StOmaehs.

Please tell me in your column
what you would consider a good
cure for stomach trouble caused by
gas. r. L.
Answer - Come, come, friends,
haven't you got me mixed with the
almanac? No stomach trouble that
l have ever encountered was caused
by gas. You have the cart before
the horse. Moreover, as a general
rule, an excess of gas in the stom-
ach, or excessive belching, is due
to some cause outside of the stom-
ach itself.
,SaRtpetre and Creduiity.
I have heard of the use to which
saltpetre has been put in the army
camps Is il possible to use II in
that way at home? II so, how can
it be taken and how much at a
time? B. c. NJ.
Answers aItpetre Is put to no
use in army camps different from
it's ordinary uses. Somebody has
evidently sized you up as a credu-
lous fellow and sprung an anttN,
quated lie on you. However. there
is just as much truth and sense in
this particular bit of imaginative
gossip as there is IN the rest OF the
lies banded about by degenerate
minds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Who Invented Swabs Anyway!

May 81 am just after having
been killed in a sham battle, and
SO consequently 1 feel rather
CHASTITY today. don't exactly
know whether 1 was a Red or a
Blue, because / did a deal of fight
ing on both sides, but always with
the same results. l was killed in
stantly and completely. People got
Sick of putting me out of my misery
after a while and l was allowed to
wander around at large, shooting
my blank bullets into the face of
nature in an aimless sort of manner
whenever the battle began to pail
upon me.
Most of the time l passed pleas
antly on the soft, fresh flank of
h9ll where for while l slept until
a COW breathed heavily in my face
and reminded me that it was war
after all. My instructions were to
keep away from the guns, and get
killed as soon as possible. l car
ried them out to the letter. l stayed
away from the guns and l permit
ted myself to be killed several
times in order to make sure it
would take. After that ! became
a sort of composite camp follower,
deserter and straggler.
May 11-Nothing matters much
now, for 1 have been selected from
among all the men in the station
to play the part of a show girl in
the coming magnificent Pelham
production, "BiffI Bangl" AT last
l have found the occupation to
which by training and inclination
l am naturally adapted. The grand
moguls that are running this show
came around the barracks the 9TH
er day looking for material and
when they gazed upon me I felt
that their search had not been in
vain.
"Why don't you write a nut part
for him?" asked one of them of the
playwright as they surveyed me
critically.
THAT would never do" he an
swered. Real nuts can never play
the part on the stage. You've got
to have a man of intelligence"
Look here" broke in. You've
got to stop talking about me be-
fore my face as if I wasn't really
present. Nuts I may be, but I can
still understand English, even when
badly spoken, and resent it. Lay
off that stuff or I'll be constrained
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

spark of fire in the lighted end of
his cigar.
1 resolved to run this man down
at all hazards, for two nights be-
fore daring bank robbery had re-
suited in a loss of one hundred
thousand dollars to the institution.
It looked like FIIer's work.
l CROPPED my way along the dark
corridors Of the building the man
had entered. He must have sus-
pected my surveillance, for sudden
ly the door of a lighted room in the
top story was thrust open. The
man swung a satchel at me. I was
knocked down half a fight of stairs.
but got on my feet swiftly and after
him. He ran up a ladder and dis
appeared. AS I followed him I saw
him swing the muff1ed hook eight
feet up to the coping Of % higher
roof. He gained it, drew the steel
ladder from his breast, ~affixed one
end around q chimney and 1t un-
coiled like q snake.
I guessed that the satchel held
the plumber. I fired. I must have
hit his hand, for he dropped the
satchel, sped down the ladder, kick
ed In the window, and disappeared.
I assembled the hooked rope. I
did not capture either Filler or his
accomplish, but in the satchel I
found The fortune stolen from the
bank.
Naturally that institution reward
ed me handsomely. Cecflle reward
ed mo with O. kiss the day told her
OF MY love-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Cookies and Cake.

EgeIess Ginger Bread-One-half
(scant) cup brown sugar, one
fourth cup shortening, one round
ing tablespoon conrstarch, one-haif
teaspoon ginger, one teaspoon GIN
namon, salt. Mix together and add
one-half cup baking cyrup, one cup
white flour, one even teaspoon bak-
ing powder. Stir smoothly; add
one-half teaspoon soda dissolved
in one-half cup boiling water; stir
good. 1t is rather thin. Bake in
square pan in rather hot oven.
Oatmeal Cookies Without Eggs
One cup sour milk, one large cup
brown sugar, one-half (scant) cup
shortening, one tablespoon corn
starch, one teaspoon cinnamon. salt,
one cup rolled oats, one-half cup
chopped raisins, one tablespoon
soda dissolved in water, white flour
to make batter to drop On creased
pan. Nuts or shredded cocoanut
may be used. Bake in moderate
oven.
Crurnb Cookies-Three and one
half cups flour, one and one-half
cups sugar, one cup lard and -oleo,
one teaspoon baking powder, one
small nutmeg grated. Rub this to-
gether and save one-half cup
crumbs to use on cookies. Take
one-half cup sour milk (scant) with
one teaspoon soda dissolved In hot
water Zone tablespoon), then put
In milk, then add two well beaten
eggs and mix all together. Roll out
rather thin and cut into cookies,
putting O few crumbs on each be-
fore baking. This makes about
eighty cookies,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

cially declared you to have been uni
fOrmly hostile or negligent to laboTs
interests in the United States senate"
The Progressives know that you op-
posed Roosevelt in the Republican, ma
tional convention of 1912, when the peo-
PIE of Pennsylvania had declared over
whelmingly for him. They know that
you were largely responsible for the
split in the Republican party in 1912 and
the election of a Democratic president
The progressive Republican senators
are fully aware Of the danger to party
harmony and success in 1920 through
your candidacy, and they have been fight
ing it hard.
The name of the chairman of the
committee on finance will be inseparably
attached to the coming Republican tariff
bill, which probably will be more widely
known and discussed by our people than
any other bill before the next congress.
It will be argued by the Democrats that
you could not be chairman of so impor-
tant a committee and in charge of so
crucial a bill unless the old guard were
in control of the Republican party.
This argument is likely to be effective
with great numbers of progressive Re-
Npublicans, as well as with Democrats
Disguised with Wilson and anxious to
vote against him if they can.
If you write the next tariff bill, the
people will believe, and they are likely
to be right, that it is unduly favorable to
special privilege and monopoly. The
Payne-AIdrich tariff bill was fatal to the
a Penrose tariff do to it in 1920?
You are a liability The undivided
support of all the forces you represent
would fall far short of carrying the Re
publican party to victory in 1920, even
if the liquor interests had not lost their
stranglehold on American politics.
On the other hand, the Republican
party cannot win against the Democrats
unless the farmers, the women, the Pro-
gressives and some of the organized
workers vote with US. Your name as
chairman of the committee on finance
would go far to insure their hostility to
the Republican party.
The obvious fact is that you ought
not to be chairman of the committee on
finance. The mere possibility is a Re
publican misfortune. You know, better
than any other man, what a burden you
have been to the Republican party. You
cannot fail to know how much the sue
cess of the Republican party in 1920
means for the welfare of the nation, and
how you are standing in the way.
II you are not a good enough Repub-
1ican, are you a good enough American
to withdraw your name?
Without doubt there was many a sig
relief, heaved privately, but none the less sil
erely, by such Republicans as Senator Pei
Use when they learned that Roosevelt VIZ
FAD. One can imagine burrows Of care r
Irning to their brows with the reading of NJ
inchot's letter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
Household Hints

Ione-half cupful chopped nuts. Place
the stuffed prunes on a lettuce leaf
and serve with a teaspoonful of
salad dressing placed to one side.
Prune Whip-One-half box gela-
tine, sugar to taste, juice of one
lemon, two cups prune juice, one
half cup cold water. Dissolve in
the heated prune juice. Remember
that gelatine mixture must never
be placed over the fire). Add SUI
gar, stir until dissolved, add fruit
juice. Set aside until partly jellied.
then whip with an egg beater until
it becomes white and frothy. Serve
as above.
Prune PuddingAOne cup cooked
prunes (seeds removed), three
quarters cup milk, one tablespoon
vegetable fat, one cup bread crumbs,
one teaspoon baking powder, one
teaspoon vanilla and a speck OF
salt. and place in an oiled baking
dish. Mix ingredients in the order
given. Place the dish in a pan of
hot water and bake until firm, never
allowing the water in the pan to
boil.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27

were you I would cut down on hts
calls and Show more interest in
other men.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: VIII you
please tell me where I can obtain.
a place where I can sell crocheted
yokes and edges? PRUNES.
Just now there is very little de-
mand for crocheted Jokes and
edges and I am afraid you will
have trouble to dispose of your
work. The fancy departments OF
the department stores may be able
to handle your work under special
terms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-27
SONGS OF THE WAR

For the meetings held to welcome the boys
who are coming home the army Y. NJ. c. A. has
produced a number of parodies popular
songs, especially the songs that were sung
when the boys were on their way ''over there. "
Several of these parodies have been arranged
by the local Y. M c. A. men and will be sung
in Rock Island. Here is one of them:
CTune: Smiles.
There are smiles for Woodrow Wilson,
There are smiles for Grant and Lee,
There smiles for gallant General Pershing
Who our foes said could not cross the sea-
There are smiles for all the allied nations,
For they fought to set this old world true,
There are smiles for all our boys in khaki
And there are smiles for our boys in blue.
Notice, N B.: Feel not disgruntled by the
non appearance of your contribution. Every
thing must take its turn and, like the doctor,
you must have patience. Taking this oppor-
tunity for suggestion to you and others who
want quick action your stuff, permit me to
say: MAKE EN- BRIEF!
The Pastors Remarkable Memory.
port Byron Globe).
Rev. Morton surprised the people by walk
ing in the church Sunday evening. He had
been mustered out at Camp Grant on Saturday
and had not forgotten the NJ. E. church of
which he was pastor before going to war.
1t doesn't seem at all strange that the low
iowa, was earned by Mrs. A Shirk.
Though a little too early in the season for
the Easter parade of f1nery, a large number
of natives took advantage of the opportunity
yesterday to sport
Their January Clearance sales bargains.
0. D. K.