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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-08
.CASADA'S EXPORT LIVESTOCK.

Ottawa, Ont.-Canada'S export
livestock trade has shown remark
able development in the last few
years. according to government
statistics. Live cattle exported
) last year exceeded 100000 and were
.valued at $50,000,OOO. a sum equal
to the combined values Of live cat
tie exported in the five previous
years. More than 80 per cent of
: the exported cattle went to the
United States either as butcher
cattle or stockers and feeders.
During the same period Canada ex-
ported 112.709.5l7 pounds Of fresh
and picked beef valued at 500
s37,S4S. The total value Of cattle
exports, exclusive Of canned meats,
4 exceeded $40. 900 900
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-08

ing 70 ~ Of the effort being made
ii Illinois:
The legislatures Of about forty
states will convene in 1891. and II
II highly probable that in . Aum-
bef of these states . proposal to
establish . state police will come
mp for lsgislative confederation. In
Illinois efforts will undoubtedly pc
renewed to obtain legislation alons
the lines embodied in the Dunlap
bill Of 1918, . copy Of which 10 an
nexed to this report. A state po-
lice auxiliary committee, with head
quarters in Chicago. Is conducting
a vigorous campaign Of education
Its Representatives are appearing
frequently before meetings OF farm
ers' Organisations and bankers' As
sociAtions and other bodies to ex-
plain the nature and operations
and need for such q force in I'LL.
nois. The committee issues . dig
nified and attractive monthly peri.
odical entitled State Police Book.
which Is being widely circulated
among legislators, bankers. farmers
and other classes. Already thu
movement has received the Ofiicia
endorsement Of automobile associ
atoms, numerous farmers organic
atoms and the Illinois State Bank
ers' association. The latter especi
ally feel the need OF . state polic'
force in view Of the fact that 81
per cent of all the bank robberie.
committed in the United States IL
1919 occurred in Illinois, many o
them in rural communities"
Owing largely to the educationa
propaganda and agitation OF tn
state police auxiliary committee, 1
begins to look like the bill will
pass the next session.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-08
CASCARETS
They Mc7k while you Sleep

Do II! Do it, Take Cascarets
tonight for your liver and bowels
Ind wake up free from constipation,
biliousness, sick headache or a bad
cold. You will feel as happy as q
bird, your head will be clear. your
stomach and breath sweet and skin
rosy. No griping-no inconvenience.
Children love Cascarets too. 10, rs,
5" cents.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
MODS ACTION SELDOM lust
Henry Watterson Wrote Feelinsly on
the Brute Nature of Mankind,
When Herded In Groups.

The people en- masse constitute what
We call the mohs. Mobs have rarely
been right-never except when capa-
hly led. II was the mob. In
Paris that made the Reign of Terror.
Mobs have seldom been tempted. even
though they had small chance 10 go
wrong. that they have not gone wrong
The people" is fetish. II was
the people, misled. who precipitated
the South into the madness of seces-
sion and the ruin of hopelesSly I'M
equal war of sections. -.
This is merely TO note the mortal
faIlibiIity OF man. most fallible when
herded In groups and prone to do in
the aggregate what he would hesitate
10 do when left TO himself and his
Individual accountability.
Under a wise dispensation of pow
err. despotism, we are told, embodies
the best of all government. The trou-
BILE is that despotism is seldom, IL
ever, wise. II is its nature to be incon-
siderate. being essentially selfish,
grasping and tyrannous. As rule.
therefore. evolution-usually of force
has been required To change or re-
form II. Perfectibility was not de-
signed for mortal man. Henry
Watterson in "'Marse Henry an Au-
photography"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
FORGERY A CAPITAL oFFENSE
Under English Law II Was Punishable
by Death Until Comparatively
Recent Years.

Forgeries are not modern crimes.
In 1862. the fifth year of Elizaheth's
reign, the British parliament passed
n special act against forgery ITO
amend the small, mild and easy pun
ishment" then I'm force. By this act
any person found guilty of forgery
was sentenced TO pay double costs and
damages, was TO be set in the pillOry
in some open market town, and there
publicly TO have both ears cut Off, his
nOstrils slit and cut. and scared with
q hot iron, so as they remain for n
perpetual mark of his falsehood," the
unhappy forger to finally lose all his
possessions and be imprisoned for
life.
In 1884, according to Edward III
Smith, in the Saturday Evening Post
forgery was made capital offense
without benefit of clergy" which meant
that a man might not escape the gin
bet on account of high birth in case
he were convicted as a fOrger. This
monstrous law remained in effect un'
til 90 years ago, when many types OF
forgery were taken off the lists OF
capital crimes, along with such IA
mIliar offenses as burglary. brigand
age, picking pockets and stealing
bread.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Happiness Not Found in Crowds.

Contact with great crowds is no
guarantee of happiness. Almost every
man at some time or another gets the
fever for tpe great city. If he could
only mingle with the crowds that
throng the streets and rub shoulders
with multitudes striving for success
or Unlimited pleasures he would be
sure TO revel In happiness. How rude
the awakening must be when he tries
it. The great city doesn't know you
have entered it. You may be the
oracle of your own town but you may
stand on the street of the city and
watch the passers-by for hours at "a
time and no one will say word to
you. There is no more lonesome feel
ing In the world than that of feeling
yourself alone in The midst of people.
It's as bad as being thirsty in the mid
die of the ocean. Crowds do not give
MISUNDERSTANDING
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
DEER PROFITABLE TO RAISE
Said to Require Little Care and Thrive
on Diet Of Weeds and
Leaves.

Many years ago over most of the
United States the deer roamed free
and happy; but he has been hunted
and driven back 10 give place to the
towns and cities, until. like the In
dian, he is a rare sight. In the last
few years, however, deer are growing
in favor as an easy and profitable kind
of stock to raise.
Deer can thrive where a goat would
starve TO death. They do not eat
green grass until there is nothing else
TO eat They will reach up six feet
TO get leaves from bushes and trees.
No shelter is required in winter. as
for other stock. as the deer prefer to
stay out in the open.
Deer have their young in June, usu-
ally twins, except the first year. They
are by far the healthiest animals there
are. A deer is great homebody. He
likes to drink at his own drinking
place. a
Deer are very contented to Craze
with the cows. keeping the weeds down
in the pasture.ZThrift Magazine.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
HISTORY REVEALED BY NAMES
BY Them II Is Possible to Ascertain
What Races Have Inhabited
Different Districts.

In the earliest days of the human
family, all known persons, places and
groups Of human beings must, have
had names by which they were recog-
niZed.
The study of these names and their
survival in civilization enables us Of
ten to ascertain what races inhabited
districts now peopled by those of en-
tirely different speech.
Phe names of mountains and rivers
III many parts of England, for in
stance, are Celtic.
Ancient local names are, as rule.
purely descriptive. A river is called
by some word which merely signifies
'the water" q mountain may have
name which means "the peak" 1.-THE
CASTLE" ''the point"
English place names generally state
some simple fact, and often denote
no more than property: the name of
a town or hamlet being formed by
adding "ton" or "ham" to the name
of some early landhOlder.
Quite often a bit Of even half-hu-
morous description will survive in
such name. as when stony. starved
and weedy district is called Starvacre.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
LOTUS PLANT A MYSTERY
Scientists in Dispute as to What Kind
Of Food Had Such Remark
able Effect&

What was the plant the "lotus eat
ers" ate. which so destroyed their
pep" strangers who visited their
land and partook of the remarkable
vegetable losing all desire to return TO
home and friends?
There has been no end of dispute
on the subject. One thing is certain.
however. is that it could not have
been the Egyptian lotus. which within
recent years has begun TO be widely
grown in water gardens. This plant
develops tubers. deep in the mud.
which are about the size of hens eggs
and good TO eat. but the eating of
them has no such deleterious effect as
that above described.
The Egyptian lotus is a kind of
water lily, whose superb flowers look
like huge pink tulips. Once upon n
time It grew wild along the banks OF
the Nile. and the surmise is that orig
inally 1t was fetched from India,
where IL is native. 1t was regarded
anciently as the emblem of the Nile,
and the symbol of the creation of the
world from the waters. To the Egyp-
tians it was sacred plant. They
cultivated IL In ponds and tanks,
wreathlng their heads with the bios
SONS on festive occasions.
The lotus has had a wonderful influ-
ence upon architecture, Its leaves and
buds appear IN the capitals of classic
columns and lin every sort of antique
decorative carving it is the motif most
frequently chosen. The art work of
Japan Onto which country 1t was inn
ported is inspired by it to a greater
extent than by anything else I'm ma
ture.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
WASTED ENERGY OF THE SUN
Only Minute Fraction Of It's Trenen-
dous Heat Strikes the Earth and
Becomes Useful.

A depression on the energy OF the
past sun may be permitted. All that
the earth has caught, for all the mil
lions OF years that IL has existed. is
the merest fraction of what the sun
has radiated i'm the same time, accord
ing 10 a lecture by Sir Oliver Lodge,
reported In the Scientific American.
The earth 10 the sun is like a print
er's full stop at distance of ten feet
from a halfpenny. Some of the radia-
ton from a globe one inch in diameter
falls on the spot one one-hundredth
inch in diameter ten feet away. but
that little speck only catches the hun
dred and fifty milliOnth part of the
whole. What has become of the rest
of the solar energy? 1t must still be
careering through space. The ether is
perfectly transparent and only when II
encounters matter Will the radiation
be mopped up and turned into heat.
Not our sun only, but all the mill
lions OF other suns, have likewise been
always pouring out radiation into
space. Is there any hope of catching
and utilizing il? l trOw not. In spite
of all this constant flood of energy
space is cold; very near absolute zero.
The reservoir is so enormous that all
these taps. running for ages, have
made no impression on II. have not
raised the level perceptibles amount.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
BUT ONE THING LEFT UNsAID
Seems Something Of q Pity That
Writer Did Not Complete
"a Punaent EpIstIe. ss.N

Not long ago. the story runs. a trav-
cling salesman visited a certain small
town and sold the proprietor OF its
general store an order OF jewelry, the
Youths Companion relates. When the
tewelry arrived II was not as repre-
scented. and the merchant consequently
returned IL. But the wholesale house.
nevertheless. attempted TO collect the
bill, and drew a sight draft on the
merchant through the local bank,
which returned the draft unhonored.
The wholesalers then wrote TO the
postmaster. inquiring about the flnan-
cial standing Of the merchant, and
the postmaster replied laconically that
Il was o. X.
BY return mail the wholesalers re-
quested him TO "hand the inclosed
account to the leading lawyer" OF the
place for collection.
This is the reply that they received:
The undersigned is the merchant
on whom you attempted TO palm OF
your worthless goods. The undersigned
is president and owner OF the bank TO
which you sent your sight draft. The
undersigned is the postmaster.to whom
you wrote. and the undersigned Is the
lpwyer whose services you sought to
obtain for your nefarious business. III
the undersigned were not also the
pastor OF the church at this place he
would tell yOu where to CO."
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Mind Working One Way.

Hopelessly imbecile. an inmate OF a
Devonshire (England) poor-law home
for the insane possesses a wonderful
memory. If the number Of any psalm
be mentioned this man can at once
tecite the whole psalm. Given the
number of hymn, he can repeat all
tue verses. But, more wonderful still,
II he be given date In any year. he
chn tell the day of the week on which
that date occurred.
Here is a poser, for mind experts.
This poor mans brain lacks all the
Qualities which make for sanity, save
on.. The faculty Of memory may have
bc..n normal at the mans birth, and
constant practice may have marvel
lously developed 1t. Whatever the ex-
plaAatIon may be, the marvel is that
a l1lnd capable of such a tremendous
feae did not grow into an organ of
reasson.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02

Mems love of color can be traced
TO the dawn of history. Perhaps the
rainbow offered itself as a color card
To the Babylonians. Egyptians and
the Chinese, for history reveals the
fact that centuries before the Chris
tian era color played an important
part in their art and architecture. In
Egypt. water colors made of powdered
pigments. mixed with gums and water,
were used in the temples and on the
monuments of the ancient dynasties.
Specimens of Egyptian art color work
are exhibited in the University OF
Pennsylvania Museum of Art; the ear
lest, date back about 5000 years.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
VISIONS NOT ALL REALIZED
But Even So, There 10 Something Fine
In the Dreaming Of Beautiful
Dreams.

There seem TO be a great many dis
appointed people I'm the world today;
the explanation apparently Is that
many OF us DO not find our dreams and
hopes realized in quite the way and at
the, time we expected. How many
times have there been conjured up be-
fore us a kind of magic day in which
all fine and splendid things would be
easily possible. and life would, OF ne
cesslty, lose very much that was sOr-
did and un-ideal7 We had beautiful
visions that seemed so easy of reallza-
tion. But I'm the cold light of the day
into which we have now come there
are many hard and anyielding I'M
Ideal facts, and what we fondly pic
tured fails to shape itself in actual
life. OF course, we are disillusioned
and. disappointed. But ought we to
be? Was there. after all. anything the
matter with the vision that we cher
lshed?. Is Il possible that the trouble
with us is that we have not the faith
and the wisdom TO see the vision be-
ing realized, though In ways and fash
ions of which we had noe dreamed?
Columbus did not discover what he
locked for. but were his faith and
dreaming not justified nevertheless?
And would he ever have discovered
anything but for the faith and the
dreaming7-MOntreal Herald.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Street Nomenclature.

The practice of giving numbers and
letters instead of names TO the streets
and avenues of our cities is SO familiar
to us that II excites no thought, ex-
cept of its convenience. But it is a
practice often remarked upon by for
eigners as peculiar to the United
States and as evidence of the matter
of fact, unimaginative character of our
people.
Historical dates have been called
picturesque names for streets. The
French set the fashion in this respect
Paris has its Rue du % Juliet and its
Rue du Septembre. This fad has
spread even to South America. Bue'
nos Aires has its Parque 3 du Feb
zero. its July Promenade. its 10Th of
November square and also It's 25th of
May street.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Tomb a Tramp's Home.

A tramp who had solved the pres
ent-day problem of where TO live by
taking up his abode in one of the old
Roman tombS at Aries. on the Rhone,
gave two Dutch tourists the fright of
their lives.
They had gone out TO see the re-
mains by moonlight. when suddenly
out of tomb emerged human form
which the moon caused to appear ex-
ceedingly ghostlike. The tourists fed
at top speed for the town, declaring
that they had seen resurrection. The
ghost" was interrogated by the police
and will be prosecuted for the French
equivalent of wandering without visl-
BILE means of subsistence.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Overcoming Insomnia.

The treatment of insomnia or sleep
teSsness is a simple matter. Psyche
analysis or physical examination dis
closes the real source of the disorder.
Insomnia has its foundation in loss
of general health. worries, bad habits,
need of ventilation and sunlight. Re
tire early at night. even If You cannot
sleep. This restores the normal habit.
Take q glassful of hot milk. a few
crackers and a hot bath before you re
tire, A cold pack to the head and a
hot water bottle to the feet help to
WOO slumber. A triple efferyescent
bromide tabloid or two in glassful
of water before bedtime will usually
soothe the sufferer back into the land
of Nod and a good eight hours of
sleeps
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
shakesneare as Poacher.

In the description of the amenities
of the Shakespeare hotel, STAFFORD
on-Avon. which was recently put UP at
auction. the story is revived that
Shakespeare came before Sir Thomas
Lucy on a charge of stealing deer
from Charlotte park. The charge is
open to the comment that in the time
of Elizabeth there was no deer park
at Charlotte. To this it is retorted that
deer were To be found in many parks
not described, as deer parks. AS to all
which 1T may be suggested that
Shakespeare may have been brought
before Lucy for stealing any deer
within his Jurisdiction.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
IA. Parents Assistant.

The son of Mr.. Newly-Rich wanted
to be an auctioneer. His father had
intended him for a learned profession,
but promised TO think it over. Meet
ing a friend. Mr.. Risen-from-t Ranks.
he confided 20 him the dilemma, and
asked for his view of auctioneering as
a calling. "Well." said this authority
on short cuts to wealth, sits like this:
Al auctioneer orter ave an 'ammer
and an cad, an the 'anlmer amt q
hatom o. use without the cad"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Diamond Thieves. Easily Detected.

Diamond stealing In the South At
friean mines is becoming precarious
business. The blacks still swallow
them or hide them in self-infiicted
wounds, but these methods no longer
suffice. Coolidge X-ray tubes are so
mounted in frame as 10 illuminate
the whole body of the stripped native
standing before them. The entire body
of the hundreds of miners can thus be
brought into view in the Horoscope in
a few seconds. and any diamond pres
ent, even If behind thick bones, is
quickly detected. The glow of the dia-
mond under the X-rays, as we'll as its
dense opaqueness, aids in detection,
1t Is said.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Partisan Mementoes of Napoleon.

The statue of Henri os Navarro on
the Pont Neuf. the oldest bridge in
Paris, is a memento of Napoleon, for
ii was cast from the bronze of the en-
peror's statue which was torn from
the top of the Vendome column in
1914. This column was erected TO
honor the victories of the great SOL
dier. his martial deeds being depicted
in a spiral strip which covers the sur
face of the pillar. His figure, in the
robes of a Roman emperor, has since
been placed at the top. The Exchange
bridge was erected by Napoleon and
still bears his monogram, the arches.
The famous colonnades of the Louvre
district are his work. He designed
them in memory of his native Corsica,
where that type of architecture is
common.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
FRIDAY. JULY 2, 1920.
THE KINGsHIP OF COTTON

Remembrance of the lean
years" is present among the. cot
ton growers of the South, al
though its keenness has been well
blunted by the enormous pros
perity under war conditions.
Cotton has been king in vaster
sense than ever before, but what
of the future?
A London correspondent of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger
quotes rather lengthy article
from the Manchester Guardian
on the $5O,000,O00 project just set
on foot in Lancashire for encour-
aging the raising of cotton within
the British Empire. Evidently
the Manchester cotton spinners
and allied trades are proposing
to embark on a large scale of
substituting production. 1t is
given out that while primarily
the scheme looks to home
growing" of cotton, - that is
within the colonies of the mother
country, - If 1T is possible to
get quicker returns from some
cotton field outside the empire,
no objection would be entertain
ed by the trade organizations
and the government.
The meaning OF this, OF course,
is that England proposes to seek
control of the raw cotton supply
she needs, and to produce it her
self. if she can.
Whether the scheme is entire
ly feasible depends upon develop
ments. The experiment is to be
made, and in way that has
lgreater promise of success than
heretofore.
Because of natural resources of
soil and climate and peculiar la
Dor conditions the Southern
States have for many years en-
5oyed a monopoly, practically, OF
cotton production. Probably. the
monopoly will continue to be
theirs. Efforts that have been
made to grow cotton on a large
scale in other parts of the world
have not served to dethrone
King Cotton in the South.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02

When a traveller returneth home. let
him not leave the countries where he
hath travelled altogether behind him !;
but maintain a correspondence by let
tiers with those of his acquaintance
which are of most worth. And let his
travel appear rather in his discourse
than in his apparel or gesture; and in
his discourse let him be rather advised
in his answers, than forward TO tell
stories; and let it appear that he doth
not change his country manners for
those of foreign parts; but only prick
in some flowers of that he hath learned
abroad into the customs of his own
country.-Lord Bacon.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
First RoIshevIk Republic.

A writer in French newspaper has
discovered that a bolshevik republic
existed in China seventy years ago, at
Cheslga, In Manchuria. 1t was found
ed by conscript miners who had been
sent by the Chinese Emperor to dig
for geld. These men. treated as slaves,
deserted and established Commupist
republic In the mountains. Their ex-
ample was followed by an entirely diff
ferent class. a race of brlgands, who,
however, continued to spoil the
Egyptians" while leaving their com
munist neighbors unmolested. Their
menfolk are now policing Manchur.a
on behalf of Japan, which adopted the
plan OF setting thieves to catch thieves,
and in return for their services pro-
tected them from Chinese and Russian
prosecutors.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-02
Great Secret of Success

The secret of success is I'm oneself,
not in pulls" outside influence. CAPT
tai. This is one of the reasons that
the poor young man and young woman
who find themselves utterly dependent
upon their own effort are largely the
ones who win out in life, because their
very lacks drive them into themselves
as their only chance.
The history makers are those who
have been forced to make their own
way in the world, compelled to "sink
or SWIM" on their own initiative.
They are the ones who have pushed
civilization up.-orison SWEET Marden,
in Chicago Daily News.