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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

! form is "all right" These words do
not follow the reasoning advanced
for the words already" and alto
gether." These have meanings
quite distinct from the words when
. separated into the TWO words al
ready" and all together"
z. Is the housing shortage as
acute in England as in the United
States? F. H.
A. The housing situation is as
serious in England as it is here. Al
the time OF the signing of the ar
mls6ce, the minister of labor re-
ported shortage of 10000 work
ing classes houses" These are
houses built before the war 10 re-
turn fair per cent upon the invest
ment at d rental of about 500 a
year.
@. What is the difference in the
population to the square mile in the
United States and Canada? L. o. K
A. According to a survey mace
by the Canadian government IN re-
gard to the soldier settlement prof.
ect, Canada has only two and one
half persons to the square mile ana
the United States 80 persons.
Q. Where can the lines "A thias
of beauty is a joy forever &c
found? H. +.
A. "a thing of beauty is a Joy
forever" is the opening line o.
'Endymion."
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11
A RAPID TRANSITION,
Helen McDOnOugh.

Copyright, 1871, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc)
]. Van Arden Perkins (the 81
Van Arden" lately substituted 70
plain john laughed heartily from
the depths of the fraternity sofa.
Don't miss this, fellows" h
cried. use your Imagination ant
, dramatic instinct to picture a coun
. try lass in a calico dress sitting il
a hair-clothed, family-portrayed OF,
parlor-a mouse-colored creature
and then listen to her metropolitan
nerve:
Sunshine wouldn't be sunshine
Skies wouldn't look so blue,
| Life would be so drear, dear,
Without a thought of you
And here's a snapshot How d
you like the inscription? Taken thc
day we parted, when you asked nlt
| to wait for you. Waiting, as ever
Nell"
Look out" warned a gay, cynical
voice, "thera'n be breach ot
promise, old mani"
Arthur Minton, serious-faced
chap, took the picture, first respect
fully-then reverently. IF a girl
like that-a girl who can look at
| the world with so level and inno-
| cent a gaze-with lips from which
only sweetness and charity fall
with hands worn with service-if
such girl loved me I'd go to the
ends of, the earth TO win her-and 1
wouldn't make her loyalty a lest of
my fraternity"
With that he flung himself out of
the smoking room and locked him
self in his own. So, he reflected
Perkins was the man Nell loved so
oevotedly-the man for whom She
refused him.
He went back over the golden
summer days two years ago when
he first met her. He had been TOM
ing through the wonderful north
ern Vermont country-when there
had been an accident to his ma
chine and ne was hurled over the
embankment. Nell, off on a solitary
stroll, found him lying senseIess. a
mass of decorations.
Rich in tho lore of simple nedi-
cal help, she did what she coulj
then rode miles for a doctor.
All summer he was at their farm
mouse, and Nell, despite her many
household duties, delegated herself
as his special attendant.
He was amazed at the dexterity
or her hngers-surprised that one
small pair of hands could accomn-
llsh SO much. In the long after
Rooms, when he was able at last to
sit up, he would read to her. AT
first, simple love lyrics, then SbeI-
ley, Browning and Keats.
Her thirst for poetry delighted
him, and especially her naive ouer-
les as to some deeper or symbolicaI !
passage. She always sewed while |
be read-exquisite pieces that She
admitted were for her
CONFIDENT that there was no one
else, he asked her at last to marry
him, telling her that she was the
most adorable girl he had ever met
1t was only then she told him she
was promised to another. whose
,amily suddenly becoming heir to
IN unexpected fortune, had moved
away. He had gone first to pren
school, from which he had yrittep
frequently, then to college. and al
hough she heard from him almost
lever now, she knew he would re-
urn for her some day.
Minton pressed his case and came
,ack to see her more than once
'ut though there was an EXQUISITE
between them, she sti1
,ept her faith in her first love.
Minton WINGED when he thought
hat Perkins-weak-wil siIIv
5le-was the unapnre, !
iative recipient of her constancy
He Immediately made up his
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

cowboy lassoed a fleeing thief in Chi.
cago the other day. Which suggests that what
Chicago needs most right now, while the city
is stunned by epidemic of crimes, is a school
to teach policemen rope throwing. The lasso
appears to be more effective than the revolver
and billy club.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11
Suggestions.

"nen fingers are stained in peel-
ing Iruit, preparing green walnuts.
OF IN similar ways, dip them in
scrong tea, rubbing them well with
q naiiorush and afterwards wash
Inen IN warm water and the stains
will disappear. - IL D
CucumDers, marinated in French
pressing, chives, butter and pan
SIiced cucumbers. hard boiled
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

1t may turn out that the TelIegen-Farrar
divorce scandal is clever bit of press agency
TO obtain publicity for a new play in which
the husband is to be starred this season Well,
IL it is, the stars are welcome to the notoriety.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

Japanese soldiers have increased
TWO lnches in height on an average
rations. 'Neii
Bibles are prohibited in Russia
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

The kicker waits for business to pick up,
while the hustler gets out and picks it up.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11
FUTILITY.

10
CSrom "Memories")
We said that we would forget, dear heart;
We would bid goodbye and go our ways.
Leading US, steadily far apart
And would WOO visions of yesterdays
Twas easy, 1T seemed, the resolve to make:
Twas hardG, 1 grant, the resolve to keep
For memory, soon or late will wake
Keen as it was when it sank to sleep.
thought l had triumphed Your step. your
face,
dreamed l had left them behind at last:
Forgotten the thrill of your warm embrace,
Forgotten the hours of the tender past
But sudden, today, mid the hurrying throng-
The careless, joyous one lost to view
Were whistled the notes of an old sweet song
And straight 1 was crying for you-just
you!
And it came back All, how strange. how
strange
That no matter how hard we try and try
love once given. through stress and change
Lives on forever and will not die,
smile IN the crowd voice half heard
A poise of the head or well known strain
A Jest, laugh or a subtle word
And the years of forgetting have been IN
vain. AUTHOR UNKNOWN
SPEAKING of woman's intuition las we
WEREN'T, Madalynne Obenchain seems uncom-,
monty gifted ut seems to mean." she writes
rererring to the situation created by Belton
hennedys murder. that life's complexities
grow greater for me-"
WITH our thoughts dwelling on the state
capital and the ungainly rail splitter who once
practlceo law there we came near achieving
a pert paragraph.
h1ngs with small. r N.c
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-11

BEN TURPIN congratulates himself be-
cause he has stayed married to the same wife
Tor almost sixteen years. But it seems to us
MIS- Turp1n Is the one to be congratulated We
don't, OF course, expect Ben to see things as
we do.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
: S:;mUGGLERS RUN WILD
Traffic Carried on Huge Scale on
German Border.
Customs Officials Are In Plots and
Go, eminent ls Unable to
Check Evil.

Notwithstanding over the Dutch
and Danish frontiers, which the Ger
man government had gone to great eff
fort to suppress, again Is fiourishing
"on colossal SCALE" and at some
points with the full knowledge ana
connivance of many government OIL
Gals, according to reports reaching
here.
Smugglers are declared to be out
bidding the government for the aid
of dishonest officials, and the "ver-
liable army of customs officers on the
borders have permitted millions OF
marks worth of tobacco, cigars, ciga-
rettes. coffee and sugar to cross the
border duty free within the last few
months"
Flying squadrons of customs officers
have been organized by the govern
ment to catch the smugglers who are
said to have so thoroughly system
atiZed their operations that customs
receipts are rapidly falling back to
nothing for custom control Is again
only on paper.
Fifty thousand pounds of coffee are
being smuggled over the border daily
at one point. a report says, and SNUG
glers everywhere are working with the
sympathy and assistance of all dwell
lers along the frontiers.
Men, women and even children, are
said to be engaged in this trade. High
prices. low wages Of customs officials
and the deprecated value of the mark
Is credited as one Of the principal
causes for the widespread violation
of import and export regulations.
The smugglers are described as be-
ing so well organized and so conf
dent they carry on their business "by
land and wholesale scale, and quite
openly"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
SHE FEARS GIRLS IN OFFICE
Wife Forces Husband to Give up Posi-
ton, Then She Persecutes Girls
and Is Arrested.

Baltimore, Md.-NIrs. Bessie Hartze'S
determination that no pretty girl shall
steal her husbands affections landed
her and her husband in the police
court.
Harry Hartze has been for 80 years
employed ut Lerch Brothers. When
the firm decided to employ women In
the office Mrs. HartZe became worried.
Employees at Lerch Brothers said
Mrs. HartZe ordered her husband not
to converse with the girls. Thereafter
HartZe communicated his inquiries
through another man or made notes.
Finally, however, Mrs. HartZe decided
these precautions were not sufficient
and demanded her husband give up
his position. Harry obeyed. Then
Mrs. IlartZe. hel wrath aroused
against the girls whom she considered
responsible for her husband losing his
position. used the telephone to tell
them about it.
Finally the girls had Mr.. and Mrs.
HartZe arrested on the charge of dis
orderly conduct. Magistrate Stanford
was ANXIOUS to know If the girls had
really done anything to cause Mrs.
HnrtEe to believe her husband unsafe
in their presence, but all admitted.
even the HArtze couple, that the girls
had always acted like perfect ladies'"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
JAP'S DAUGHTER DENIED PLEA
WlthdraWs Application for Citizen
ship After United States Agents
Protest

New York.--Nliss Phyllis Miri Ko-
mort, an art student of White Plains,
n. V, whose application for citizenship
was held up some time ago by Justice
j. Addison Young of the Supreme court
because her father was n japanese. al
though her mother is an American by
birth, withdrew her application when
federal agent appeared before the
jurist and announced the government
would not permit person of Japanese
origin to he naturali2ed.
The case of Miss komori, who was
graduated from the White Plains high
school two years ago with high honors
has attracted wide attention In West
chester county Her mother Is pub
lie school t., cher in this city. Her
father is no, In Japan, where he has
been since she wns orc year old. when
he aban Toned her mother in London.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
BOYS ARE C.VEMEN AT HEART
Pulling Girls Hair Merely a Nantes
taticn of Ills Affections,
Says Educator.

Phiiadelphia.-W n ScEoolboy
pulls the hair of a girl IT is Il cuveman
sign that he loves her.
This Is the conclusion of the psy-
chologist of the Philadelphia schools,
Miss Gladys G. lde director of special
education.
manifestations of early love are
found in the kindergarten and are com
mon enough through school life said
Miss Ide.
"Scuiiiing, wrestling, tWitchinS OF
hair braids, placing pins in advanta-
.eous positions and many others are
direct evidences of favor from one per-
SOIL to another.
"The ways of young man of
twelve with II maid are many and
varied. from tie placing of himself In
periuus positions in efn'a ion Of
deeds OF valor To the writing Of notes
and the draNi ing 81 pictures"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
GREENLAND Is MOVING WEST
Danish Scientists Figure It Has Trav.
eied 875 Miles In 100000
Years.

Copenhagen.-Greenl Is slowly
moving in a westerly direction. Ac-
cortling to observations made in 1907
by J. =. Koch of the Danish Mylius-
Erickson scientific expedition, Green
land was three minutes further west
than in 1870. when German expedi-
ton made Astronomical observations.
In both instances the same northern
latitude was found. Therefore, Green
land moved west 1888 yards In 81
years.
The first observation of the longi-
tude of Greenland was made in 1923.
Comparing the findings in 1923 anu
1870 one arrives at the conclusion
that Greenland wandered" ten yards
westerly every year. That tends to
show that Greenland and Norway,
now about S75 miles apart, once were
connected, the separation taking place
$4,000 or 100000 years ago.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
GAIN IN FARM WAGES
Pay for Labor Has TripIed In
the Last Twenty Years.
Hired Men Get Four Times as Much
for Their Services as They Did
in 1879.

Observation-Disclosures Of hired men
on farms have more than doubled in
the last ten years, tripled in the last
twenty years and were more than four
times higher last year than they were
in 1879. These changes are shown by
statistics of the Department of AgrL
culture.
Wages paid by the month, without
board, averaged $64.95 for the country
as a whole last year; ten years ago
they averaged $3.50 anil In 1879 they
were Sob.
Day labor at harvest time last year
averaged $L3G. without board, and at
other than harvest time $3.50. Ten
years ago harvest-time labor was paid
$1.S2 and at other than harvest time
was paid S1.13 and non-harvest-time
labor 81 cents day.
California and Nevada farmers paid
their labor the highest prices without
hoard. the average in those states last
year having been $1O7 month. The
lowest average was in Mississippi,
where $41 was paid. The average for
the country as whole was S4695;
the northern Atlantic states averaged
$1a.54. the south Atlantic S50.5G. the
northeast central states 5000, the
northwest central states S79.79, the
south central states $751; and the far
western states $G9.43.
For harvest-time labor, without
hn,rl N,r.h Dal.nfa aid tIa btphHSI
rate with $40 a day, while at other
than harvest time South Dakota paid
the highest rate with $500 day.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
FLAGS TRAIN, AVERTS WRECK
Unidentified Hero Disappears After
Saving Fast Train From Being
Thrown In Ditch.

Casper, Wyo.-Westbound Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy train No. 70 was
narrowly saved from a serious wreck
by an unidentified man who tagged
the train as ii was approaching II part
Of the track a few miles east of here
that had been torn up. The train was
travelling fifty miles an hour at the
time and railroad officials said thu.
the train would have been ditched
completely had 1t struck the torn-up
track.
Who was responsible for the al
tempted wrecking of the Burlington
train is still complete mystery, ac-
cordlng to police and railroad off
Gals. 1t was thought possible that
the person who tagged the train was
originally one of the party intending
to wreck 1t, for when the train
stopped and its crew made an investi-
CATION no one could be found.
The spikes had been pulled out Of
the ties and the rails torn up COM
pletely for nearly 100 feet, only four
miles from Casper.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Prisoner Guides Lest
Cop 10 Prison Door

East View, n. " Harry
ONei!l's middle name is "Ac-
communicating"
Senlcu,ed to three months
Imprisonment for conviction of
q minor uiTeuse, O'Ncill was
Shaci:led TO Il policeman AT Phil
lipSluwn. They started in ali
automobile for the penitentiary
here.
An hour after midnight the
policeman stopped the machine
in the middle of a wooded sec
lion Of Westchester county.
ST." asked the prisoner.
The policeman pleaded guilty.
Let ne show you the way"
officer and prisoner changed
seats. Thirty minutes later the
latter brought the machine to
stop in front of the prison gates.
"rhankS," said the officer.
Don't mention It," replied the
prisoner.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Weasel Leaps Into Jaws
of Gator for Safety

Pascagoula, Miss.-A party of
hunters which has just returned
here from Bayou Casotte reports
that on Saturday the men saw an
alligator prepare to attack
weasel, whereupon the weasel,
with remarkable alacrity, leaped
into the gators extended jaws
and slid down into its stomach.
The hunters say they were as
tonished at the actions of the
weasel and awaited results.
Within fifteen minutes they OBJ.
served the weasel eating its way
through the entrails of the mon
ster.
According to the hunters, the
fondness for eggs prompted the
slender animal to take Its
chances in the alligator.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
The Nursery.

Bright colors, plenty of light. clonn
windows. an abundance of good colored
prints and toys without number are The
proper furnishings for nursery. MUIR
sery! Why. the very name tells you
what 1t ought to be-the home of child
hood-the most important room In the
house-a room that will greatly tend
to stamp the character of your child
for the remainder of his life.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
No Call TO Interfere.

My neighbours little four-year old
girl Ia very old-fashioned was cut
ting off some dead limbs from my tree
across the street from her and she was
watching me. She called to me and
said: "What are you doing7" an
swered, "Oh, only cutting some dead
branches off. It's all right. isn't III"
She thought minute and replied, N
guess SO; it's your tree."--Exchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Get Along Without Meat.

Whole races of men. comprising
many millions of individuals. live
their entir' lives without meats of any
sort. and when fed sufficient amount
Of other foods are wonderfully Wig.
oruus. prolific, enduring and intelli.
gent Witness the Brahm!ns of India,
the Buddhi>iS of China and Japan and
the teeming millions of Central Africa.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
mo POCKETS" AID TO THEFT
Tacoma Probation Officer Says Boys
Steal From Women, Rarely
From Men.

Tacoma, Wash.-Because women's
clothing is not provided with pockets
stealing IL increasing among the juve-
nile population, in the opinion of s.
S. Hea'y, county probation officer.
Having no place In which to stow
away her money and valuabes the
average woman flnunts them in the
faces of youths too weak TO resist,
and careers Of crime are started, he
says.
Mr. Heaiy reports that almost every
day complaints are made OF boys
stealing money from women, but that
very rarely does boy steal from q
man,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17

DR.. Donald Is. Macmillan American
Arctic explorer, who is again planning
an expedition into the frozen North.
Doctor Macmillan is now nj New IIar-
Dor, Me-, arranging to attempt to cir
cumnuvi%a' e iinain Lind and penetrate
Its western coast, which Is ABOUT L.
900 miles long. the longest stretch of
unknown coast line in the world. With
party of six men Doctor Macmillan
will sail from Boston early In July
aboard the auxiliary schooner Boy
lon. Doctor Macmillan has been on
six expeditions into tie northern re-
gi0ns. three of which he commanded.
lie was assistant to Peai'y on the lat
ter's successful dash to the North pole.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Speed MAY Overcome Weiqht.

Professor Edward V. Huntington Of
Harvard university. showed by An
elaborate mass Of figures printed IN
Science that man on train moving
along the equator westward at 1900
miles an hour or eastward at l6.IW
miles an hour would weigh nothing,
as measured by an observer OIL the
train.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Not So Nice When He Was Mad.

Ethel was wheeling her little hahy
brother about the yard and l. stopped
and exclaimed over him. saying how
smiling and good natured he looked.
But Ethel interrupted with: "Oh, he
isn't always so nice-when he's mad
he stlffs himself so you can't even
make a crack In him."-Exchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Consumers Back Textile Mills

Gera, Germany.-A great consumers
association has been formed at this
manufacturing center of Thuringia to
purchase the products of the Gera tex
tile mills in an attempt to force down
prices and relieve unemployment.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
Timely Love.

Jack, four. could tell the time for
his mother by locating the nearest
numbers. One day when he came hack
to tell his mother his eyes were as
big as saucers, as he said: why,
mother They're both at tenl They're
loving each other!"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1921-02-17
FIT Of Coughing Saves a Fit Of Coffin.

Huntington, w. Va.-Five years ago
Carl Jacobs, while chewing a piece Of
locust wood, "inhaled' thorn which
had come from the bark. Since then
his health has been bad and he has
suffered violent pains in the chest. 1t
was feared he had tuberculosis. He's
recovering now following fit of
coughing In which the thorn was ex-
PEELED.
The New York herald., 1921-01-12
RESULTS AT HAVANA.

First Race.-Purse, 800; maiden three-year-
ods; claiming: five and half furlongs.
Lolita Speed. 104 (Wilson). to 2, even and
TO 2, won; Josephine X. 100 CHoffler). 9
HTletcher). 8 to 1. to I. 8 to 5. third: Time
Il 100 1-5. Also ran: Scintilate. Felix M.
shortys First. Mr.. Jiggs. Kentmere. Auto
Second Race.--Purse $700; four-year- -olds
md upward; claiming: six furlongs. Perl
gourdine. 10 (Dawson), 5 to 2, even and
to 2. second; Huntress. lo2 (McLaughlin).
1l2 ButwelD, 5 TO !. to and even. third.
Time-1 IA Also ran: Semper stalwart.
Nettie Walcut. Galop In. King Ezi,. Far
Third Race. = Purse 500: four-year-olds
and upward; claiming; six furlongs. Koran,
pS Penman). to ], to and to 8. won:
Gus scheer. l12 tButwelD. 8 TO >. to 8 and
S TO and to 8. third. Time-1 1928.
Also ran: RedlanH. The Blue Duke. Discus
sion and The Belgian II.
Fourth Race.-Purse 5000; three-year-
ana upward; five and half furlongs.
Fright. o. (Wilson), to l. TO and to
D. won; Belle ofElizabethtown, 103 (Hoffler)
to 2. even and to .. second; Just Fancy.
l0i (Pickens), s to l. 2 10 and even; third.
Time--1 :o7. Also ram Orleans Girl. San
Diego, Haran. Out the Way and Tacola.
Fifth Race. = Purse $500; four-year.olds
and 1os claiming one mile sna Har01S ri
won Faux Collie (Fletcher). even. 1 TO 8
and to O, second; Hocnir. 113 (Meehan). 8
to 2. to 10 and 1 to 3. third. Time
Sixth Race.--Purse 800: four-year-olds
and upward; claiming: mile and fifty yards.
Cur Nephew, 1903 (wilson). to 1. to 2
to /, TO 3 and to 3. second; Duke Ruff.
113 (Crumps), to 1. TO and 2 TO 3.
third Time :43 is. Also ran: O'Malley.
Mildred. Constantine, Okemus. Leinster and
James.