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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-11

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ct present Latters have ~ ct
out to many Othusiasts - 2ock "
land. and mucA snppostsue ~ e ~
and oil Scoutingl activitiel3hao -
evidenced By . financial ro0onGn
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miIIion Packets ol Flower Seed FreO

We believe in flowers around the Aemes of the South. Flowers brighten np the home surroundings and give pleasure and satisfaction to those whs have them.
 We have set aside more than one million packets of seed of beautiful, yet easily grown flowers to be given te our customers this spring for the boautifying of their homes.
 Hastings 1s30 Seed Catalogue is now ready. Brilliant cover in natural colors, 100 pages of garden and farm information, profusely illustrated. t's the one worth while seed book for southern gardeners and farmeN. This catalogue is absolutely free to you on request Your name and address on . postal card or in letter, will bring it to you by return mail
 This 1920 Catalogue will show you just how you can get five packets of flower seeds five different sorts) ab- s0luteiy free of cost this spring. Send for this catalogue today without fail. No obligation to buy anything unless you want to. H. c. HASTINGS CO, Sesdsmen, Atlanta, Ga.-(Advt)
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TOLD BY THE THUMBS

If you curl your little finger, you are blueblooded
 The spendthrift may be told by the 3humb turned back.
 Interlock your fingers with another and you will quarrel.
 4 weak character is indicated by . small, narrow thumb.
 Coarse, heavy, wide thumbs belong ts crude, ignorant folk.
 The second division of the thumb re- seals your power of determination.
 Thumbs that curve downward are those of the shrewd and the miserly.
 One who hides his thumbs in the paim of his hand is not to be trusted.
 Some one is jealous of you when the skin tears at the roots of your finger nails.
 The length of the upper joint of your thumb determines the strength pf your will power.
 Wide-awake minds are indicated by 1As middle finger being very much Isa9er than the palm of the hand. 
 If you can make the tips of the first nnA fourth finger meet over the ;4aek of your hand ysu can attain any 1Ains your heart desires.
 Te hnd out if you arc going to bs nc ruler of your house clasp your lands together, interiace the fingers ii the right thumb comes on top you win rule. If the left you will be ruled.
 If the end of the little finger reaches Higher than the last joint of the ring Anger hs or she shall rule the house. If ene's little finger is below the third 3sant oe the ring finger you will wed twice.
 There is . belief that the first Anger should never be used to rub elntment on with because the power If cure has been deprived of 1t since Ju- 0As Iscariot betrayed our Lord by point h6 him out to the Jews.
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man needs all his religion when he undertakes to teach 8 calf to drink from a bucket.
 A lawyer should never despise . horse. Both ger their living by draw ing a conveyance.
 Behind horse you see a lot of a lit- tie country. In an automobile you sec . little of lot of country.
 Don't stint yourself in order to save ID money for your relatives to quar- rel over after you are gone.
 A fog can be blown away by . breath of wind, and misunderstood ing by . word of explanation.
 Better do the butchering after the children have gone to school. Blood shed is heart rending ts a sensitive child.
 No man on earth is go happy as the man who loves his work and goes home at night with a contented heart because of a good days work we'll l0ne.
 Putting of the thing that needs do ing right now means putting on big ger load for another day. Come on; let's 90 right down to the barn and clean up the biz nsor nowl
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WORE NO SHOES
 FOR TWO YEARS
Los Angeles Woman Lived in Bed and Pillowed Chair Until She
 Started on Tanlac.

'I had to be cared for just like baby before I began taking Tan lac," said Mrs. Alice Murphy, of 15O1 Pennsylvania Ave, Los An geles, Cal.
 1.-Two years ago had very severe attack of muscular rheuma- tism," she continued, land no one knows the pain and torture I have suffered since. My hands swelled until I could hardly work my fling CTS and I haven't been able to put on a pair of shoes because my feet were swollen so. l had sharp pains through my back so bad at times that I simply could not keep from screaming. Some times l get so dizzy everything seemed to spin around and then I would have sharp pains and chilly feeling after wards. I was so helpless that lived propped up with pillows in a chair or in bed all the time and had to be helped from one place to another.
 'I tried every medicine or treat ment we could hear of, but it was money thrown away and l got so blue did not care to live. Then my husband read in the papers about Tanlac and by the time l had taken it four or five days l saw it was helping me. Now, after talk ing several bottles can't praise Tanlac enough. My nerves are so much better I sleep like child all night long. I am already doing my house work again and it is the first time in two years have been able to get around at all and wear shoes"
 Tanlac is sold in Marianna by all druggists.
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ESTRAY NOTICE

Taken up on September |, at my place at LaGrange, Ark, one red SOW, weight about 150 pounds, two slits in each ear. Owner can have same by calling at my place, paying for this ad and her keep for the past six months.
 MONROE DAVIS, "27p LaGrange, Ark.
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ITEMS WITH \ POINT

Tyranny begins when . small boy is made to eat the fat as we'll as the lean.
 Why not add to the gayety of na- tions by again introducing panta- lettesl
 Boys would like to 70 to school if the schools knew how to make the boys like to.
 A man having brains and eccen- tricities will be remembered mostly for his eccentricities.
 When a person who knows all abouf books and doesn't want any sue- gestions. goes into book store 1t doesn't take long to find it out.
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KILL RATS; MAKES MONEY.
Farmer Has Negroes Exterminate
 Grain Eating Pests.

Grain Eating Pests.
 Greenwood, Miss, March 9.-De- termining that his farm should be rid of fats, MT. w. L. Craig offered the negroes on his plantation five cents for every rat killed, and Sat urday a rat hunt was inaugurated on his place The negroes went to work in earnest and succeeded in killing 150 rats.
 It is estimated that rat will eat two bushels of corn during year Accordingto this estimate, by the extermination of the rats on his plyce, 300 bushels of corn, valued
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Children who have worms are pale, cross, fretful, and sickly most of the time. To rid the little body of these parasites WHITES CREAM VERMIFUGE is an approved reme- dy. When the worms have been driven out the child grows strong, healthy and robust. Sold by Har- rington Bros.
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YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED

Life doesn't ask much from . man for all 1t gives to him.
 Ever notice what q superior air . man assumes when he is arguing with his wife?
 The reason some people don't succeed Is because they're per fectly satisfied if they finish somewhere in the second divi- sion.
 It takes all sorts of people to make . world, including those who can make themselves look happy while riding in the bath tub attachment to . motorcycle.
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If prohibition has emptied the jails, fill them with profitters.- Detroit Journal.
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T. .. I.ahol1o e7 mn to diseoV

It cost Isabella S7,0O0 to disee's America, and nobody knows M much it cost the ex-Kaiser, but both instances it was worth Y money.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Mir. Colby might keep in na the place where he hung ms hs when he went in.-Little Rock S Zette.
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Having been last to get in the war, the senate seems to be deter mined to be last in peace and last in the hearts of it's countrymen.-- Nashville Southern Lumberman.
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FARM JOURNAL SAYS

Durrow lOng-furlong.
 Spending . day with . friend suits Joms better than spending q dollar.
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at $2 per bushel, enabled the owner to actually save $500.
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The slogan of borrowing European nations is, "See America First. "- New York Evening Mail.
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MONEY TO LOAN On improved farm lands. Quick ac- ton, low rate of interest. "tf ROBERTSON & BENHAM.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
Whales Breathing Apparatus.

An eminent naturalist says concern
ing the breathing apparatus of the
whale: "The windpipe does not COM
municate with the mouth hole is, as
it were, bored right through the back
of the head. Engineers would do well
to copy the action of the valve OF the
whales blow-hole; more perfect
piece of structure it is impossible to
imagine. Day and night, asleep or
awake, the whale works its breathing
apparatus In such a manner that not
a drop of water ever gets down into
the lungs. Again, the whale must OF
necessity stay a much longer period
under water than seals; this alone
might possibly drown it, inasmuch as
the lungs can not have access to fresh
air. We find that this difficulty has
been anticipated and obviated by a pc
culiar reservoir in the venOus system,
which reservoir is situated at the back
Of the lungs"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
CALIFORNIA WOMAN
IS HELD FOR TRIAL
NOTED LECTURER CHARGED
WITH CRIMINAL SYNDICAL-
ISM CALLED BEFORE BAR

OAKLAND, Cal.-The case of Miss
Anita Whitney, member of women's
clubs, lecturer and social worker, who
is charged. with violation of the Cali
fornia criminal syndicalism act, was
set for trial in the superior court here
today The law makes it felony to
advocate violence as means of ac-
comprising a political or industrial
change.
She was the first woman in the
state arrested under the law. She was
said to be friend and sympathizer
of Miss Theodore Pollok who was con-
victed early last year in the United
States district court at Sacramento
CAL, and later fined $500 for violation
of the espionage act.
Authorities here charge that Miss
Whitney was an organizer for the
Communist Labor party. She was ar
rested after an address she delivered
before the Oakland civic center.
Her attorney, J. E. Pemberton of
San francisco, failed in an attempt
through habeas corpus proceedings to
have the law declared unconstitu-
tional.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
TO ALLAY PAIN OF sTINGs
Use of Ammonia to Be Avoided in
the Case of an Attack by an
irate Wasp.

Ammonia promptly applied when q
bee stings you prevents serious con-
sequences and allays pain. 1t has gen
orally been supposed that this was
true also of wasp stings but Edward
r.. Speyer, an Oxford university spe-
cialist, points out in a letter to the
London Times that the application of
ammonia or any other alkali to a
wasp sting makes it worse.
The reason is that the poison Of a
bees sting is acid; that of wasp's
sting is alkaline. Hence alkalies, like
ammonia, neutralize the acid of the
bees sting, but aggravate the toxic
effects of the wasp's alkaline sting.
The best thing to apply to wasp.s
sting is vinegar, being the nearest
acid In domestic service Onion juice,
lemon Juice, or any other handy acid
will do as well.
The Lancet says these facts ought
to be widely known, "for not uncom-
monty the sting proves to be not a
simple puncture but the beginning Of
toxic process sometimes fatal. A
wasp sting on the moist mucosa, as
in the mouth, invariably leads to seri-
Gus inflammation, with most distress
ing results. If the simple gargling or
washing of the attacked spot with an
acid fluid in such a case keeps down
the swelling lives may well be saved"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
visiting Moscow and other towns in
her work with the Artisan lodge.
LAST YEARS FIRES
COST MILLIONS
FIRES IN UNITED STATES COST
THE PEOPLE MANY MILLIONS
DURING 1919

ST. PAUL, Minn.-The charred re-
mains of one years fires in the United
States would line both sides of high.
way 1000 miles long, and yet 80 pei
cent of this is preventable, says a re-
cent issue of the Bulletin of the State
Fire Marshal of Minnesota
A summary of the fire causes in va
rious states shows that fires attribut-
able to chimneys amount annually to
from 10 to rs per cent of the total
number and in winter, the percent
age has reached as high as so. Es-
pecially in rural districts where there
are no organized fire-fighting agen-
cies, builders should give unusual at
tention to the construction of Chin
neys that they may be made as nearly
fire-prOof as possible.
Chimneys should not be built on
brackets, they should extend suffice
lent distance above the roof, their
walls should be at least eight inches
thick, flues should not be less than
ga square inches, the flueholes should
never be filled with inflammable ma
terial and good flue Innings of fire
clay or terra Gotta should be provided.
The cost of such lining in an ordinary
two-story residence would be nomi
nal.
With the present tremendous de-
mand for new buildings and the con-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
BACK 0.sCHOOL"
CAMPAIGN STARTS
CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN FEBRUARY
2 IN SOUTHERN IDAHO FOR
IDAHO SCHOOLS

University of Idaho graduates anc
former students have been asked tc
cooperate fully in the to-school
drive which will be launched in south
eastern Idaho February 2, according
to an announcement made this morn
ing from the office of President
Ernest H. Lindley.
DR.. E. A. Bryan, state commission
er of education, and President Lind
ley are among the principal speakers
whose services already have been
schedules and the committee which
has the drive in hand includes Presi-
dent c. R. F'rasier of the Idaho Tech
meal Institute, President George S.
honey Of Kicks academy, Superin-
tendent W. R. Sanders Of Pocatello.
President c. W. Tenney of Cooling
college and President C. E. Bocock Of
Albion Normal. State schools and
private institutions are working to-
gether In the interests of the move
ment, the suggestion having been
made originally by President Romey
of Kicks academy.
Designed to interest particularly
young persons between the ages Of
10 and ~, the drive proposes to Sc
cure the return to local schools of
those who because of big wages or
other causes dropped out too soon; to
interest young persons of sufficient
maturity in taking vocational train
ing; to interest high school graduates
IN going to normal school, junior col
lege or university and to stimulate
community interest in continued
schooling by making parents more
familiar with the advantages offered
by Idaho institutions.
At least three meetings a dav
Will be held and either one or two
days will be spent in each county,
Whenever feasible the flying SQUAD
ron of speakers will be divided into
5wo teams, making possible six meet
ngs day. The following counties
Will be visited in order beginning with
ne meeting at Burley, February 2:
Jassia, Minidoka, Power, Bannock.
caribou, Franklin, Bear Lake, Onida.
suite, Bingham, Bonneville Clark
Jefferson, Madison, Fremont and
Felton,
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
MINNIE H. SARGENT
CALLED BY DEATH
PIONEER NEWSPAPER WOMAN
OF PULLMAN DIED AT SONS
HOME IN CHARLESTON

A dispatch from Charleston, Wash.
says: "Mrs. M. H. Sargent, mother OF
E. G. Sargent, died midnight last
night at the home of her son, Seventh
and Poplar streets. Mrs. Sargent
who was SO years old, came here from
Seattle about month ago for visit
with her son. She has been suffer
erfrom rheumatism, and heart trouble
developed She has been residing for
some time at Seattle with another
son, R. G. Sargent, and the remains
will be taken to Seattle for interment,
it being her request that the burial
occur there.
"Mrs. Sargent was member of the
Artisan and Highlander lodges and
the Congregational church."
Mrs. Sargent was pioneer of Pull
man and for many years was editor
and publisher of the Pullman Tribune,
which she sold bout IA years ago to
L. E. Wenham. She was woman of
much ability and after leaving Pull
man went to Seattle where she oper-
ated a job printing office under the
name of ''That Woman Printer" She
also wrote for Seattle daily papers,
under the name of ''Aunt Meliss" and
her writings were widely read and
quoted Her death will come as
shock to hundreds of Pullman and
Moscow people who knew her during
her residence of nearly 20 years in
Pullman; where she was active in
church and lodge work, frequently
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
ENGLAND TO CURTAIL
INFLUENCE IN CHINA
RADICAL CHANGES IN GREAT
BRITAIN'S PLANS FOR
CHINA TRADE LIMITED

| SHANGHAI.-Abo of spheres
of influence in China was recommend
| ed in resolution adopted at a recent
meeting here of the association of
British chambers of commerce in
China and Hongkong. This associa
ton includes representatives of most
ests in the Far East.
It's action is regarded here as sig
nificent because it has long been
claimed that Great Britain has been
able to obtain dominant position in
trade in China chiefly by reason of
the vast extent of British spheres Of
influence, which is said to over
shadow those of all other countries.
The conference resolved that the time
had come to reaffirm the abolition of
the "open door" as an essential com
mercial principle and that abolition
of spheres of influence should be ac-
complished by international agree
ment.
The British government was asked
by the association to remit portion
Of the Boxer indemnity and devote
it to the education of Chinese along
British lines.
The association expressed it's sym
pathy with the desire of the Chinese
to abolish the plan of extra-territor-
iality. But declared stable govern
ment should first be established, a
satisfactory code of laws enacted and
that the Chinese judicial system
should be reformed.
1t asked also that the British gov
eminent should put into immediate
effect the measures adopted by the
International Opium convention in
1912 restricting traffic with Chinese
in narcotic drugs. It demanded that
piracy on Chinese rivers should be
suppressed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
DON'T Leave Milk Bottles.

DR.. F. NJ Leitch, city health officer,
asks milkmen to refrain from 1eav-
ing milk bottles at any home where
quarantine signs. are posted. He
said: There is one case of scarlet
fever and one Of chicken pox and no
one knows how many cases of influ-
at these places. The families under
quarantine are requested to have some
kind of a vessel in which the milkman
can empty the milk when it is deliv-
cred and take his bottles, cans or
buckets in which the milk is delivered,
away with him instead of leaving it
there to be washed and returned the
next day."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
VETERINARIANS TOOK
POST GRADUATE COURSES

PULLMAN, WaSh.-The annual post
graduate school for practicing veter-
inarians has just closed one of the
most successful sessions il history
here, and the attendance, though COM
paratively small, was scattered up and
down the Pacific coast from San Fran
cisco to northern Washington. An
analysis of the enrolment shows vet
Urinary graduates from w. S. c., Ohio
State University, McKillip, the San
Francisco Veterinary College, Chicago,
and Cornell University. Most Of those
attending were formerly students
here, and since graduation, engaged
in veterinary practice.
Those in attendance were: DR.. J..
H. Bailey, Palouse; Dr. E. T. Baker,
Moscow, Idaho; DR.. T. A. Eliot, Union
town; G. B. Fast, Ritzville; A. R. Gal
braith, Garfield; R. L. Gillian, Cakes
dale; w. v. Glaisyer, CoQu1lle, Ore;
w. T. Johnson, Puyallup; Otis A.
Longley, San Drancisco, CAL; John f.
McKenna, Freano, CAL; Robert Prior,
Yakima; J. C. Thompson, Pomeroy,
Wash; H. A. Trippeer, Walla Walla;
James H. Woodside, Redmond.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
CONGRESSMAN FRENCH'S
BILLS GET A HEARING

WASHINGTON, D. C-The com
mlttee on pensions today held hear
lngs on bills, H. R. 9418 and 81. R
1446, by Congressman French. pro
vlding for clearing up the pension
laws under which Indian war veterans
and their widows are pensioned. II
many instances there is no record al
the War department or treasury de.
partment of the service of Indian wa,
soldiers and no records in the state
archives of such service. On the other
hand it is notorious fact that the
soldiers saw complete service and
comrads who served with them and
who are more fortunate, in that rec
ords of their service are with the
war department or treasury depart
ment, have been receiving pensions
since March 4, 1917 under the general
law of that date.
Congressman French urges that
evidence should be accepted such as
the testimony of two or more com
RAIDS who saw the same service or
other equally strong evidence showing
that the service was rendered.
The hearing was well attended and
Mr.. French's bills were supported bv
congressman Smith of Idaho. Hawlev
OF Oregon, and various other mem
bers from the west.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
MRS. HANS JOHNSON HAS
PARALYSIS AND DIES

Stricken with paralysis while trad
ing in the Moscow Hardware com
pany's store Monday afternoon Mrs.
Hans Johnson, wife of well known
pioneer living four miles southeast
of town, toward Paradise mountain,
died last night. She was taken to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Claude
Taught, in Moscow where death came
at IL o'clock. Two daughters in
Spokane were notified of her condi-
ton in time to reach here on the night
train. Another daughter, Ida, is
hurrying from Portland and will ar
rive here tonight. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson had lived on the farm south
east of town for 80 years. She is
survived by her husband, four
daughters and two sons. The sons
make their home with the parents on
the farm. One daughter is Mrs.
Claude Taught, Moscow; the others
are Mrs. James Roach and Miss Mar
garet Johnson, of Spokane and Miss
Ida oJhnson, of Portland. The
funeral arrangements have not been
perfected but the funeral will be held
Grice's chapel. Mrs. Johnson was So
either Wednesday or Thursday at
years old.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
Must Get Rid of Dogs,


If Moscow wants to keep her name
And reputation down,
She's simply got to keep the ours
That over run the town.
If all the dogs were made to pay
Or get the marshall's ak,
The money thus collected
Would have paid the sewer tax.
When you see dogs all around you,
The spitz dog and the bull,
1t makes person wonder
How the owners get their pull.
Why the marshal and the mayor,
And the men who run the town
Should collect from all the good dogs,
And pass up the worthless houn,'
1t the ours that roam the campus
So that no one near can sleep
Should happen to get hungry
And attack the purebred sheep,
Would the marshal, who has always
let
These stray dogs run at will
Be SO very badly treated
If compelled to pay the bill?
Mrs. Mary E. BARLEY.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27
Novel Stunt in Advertising.

They are NOT so slow in Russia as
lates that while In Moscow before the
war he one day saw crowd gathered
around little fellow who was bawl-
Ing at the top of his lungs. Many
asked him what the trouble was, but
he kept on crying, and the crowd in
creased; then all of sudden he stop
ped and said in clear, loud voice: 81
am lost. VIII somebody please take
me home to Ivan Tobinsky, the cham
pion clothier of Moscow, who has
full supply of autumn overcoats, suits,
neckties, shirts, hats and umbrellas,
which he will sell cheaper than anyone
else in the city"-Boston Transcript.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-27

sequent speeding up of work, especial
care should be taken to prevent care
lessness in chimney construction.
Along the same lines the National
Fire Protective Association dwellings,
and the extreme necessity of protect
ing from the fire the homes we al
ready have. 1t advocates care about
matches, smoking, lighting and heat
ing apparatus and gasoline, and urges
a clearing out of rubbish, inspection
of flues and cleaning of chimneys that
sparks may not fall on combustible
roofs.