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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
The Daily Short Story

room below 1T was dear of Keith
to remember" she thought, and the
old tune seemed to bring Uncle
Mark very near.
The bright tears came to her
eyes; she had finished packing and
was standing beside Keith III the
room which was filed with mem
cries of the past. How happy the
three had been and how quickly
everything had been changed
this would probably be the last
time they would ever see the old
house.
And then suddenly. to the intense
surprise of them both, the record
changed abruptly. Instead of the
round tones Of the soprano the
gruff voice of Uncle Mark took up
the refrain. and as the song came
to an end he recited the words. of
his last will and testament.
And TO my beloved grand niece,
Mildred N Arris, l beQueath my
house and furniture. To my friend,
Keith Walls. l beQueath my grand
niece. Mildred Arris, and as a we'd
ding gift to them the money found
in the bottom of the old music cab
met" So the dear voice went on.
not forgetting a single friend or
servant And at the end his old
servant and his doctor pronounced
themselves witnesses to this pecu-
liar yet characteristic will
Mildred was crying softly "And
to think" she said. that an hour
ago l was the unhappiest girl in
the world. Why, Keith" she con-
fessed, Il even doubted you, and
I'm so glad you came before we
discovered the will"
Keith laughed. I'm wondering
what your aunt will say when she
finds that everything isn't just
what she expected. I'll say one
thing. though, and that is that
Uncle Mark sure knew what 1
wanted"
Me, too" said Mildred, shyly.
And l am sure that he is happy
now If he knew how happy he has
made us. l wonder if he knows"
Il am sure that he does" said
Keith And he isn't really gone
away. you know. because he will
talk to US any time We want him
to. Dear old Uncle Mark"
And they put the record back ON
the shelf with reverence.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
With Other Editors
Woman's Inequality.
springfield Register.l

Married women in Illinois and throughout
the country Will be able to quote with great
satisfaction the authority of Judge Wanner OF
York county. Pennsylvania, as a good and sniff
Gent reason for not advocating the pronosed
sex equality amendment to the constitution
OF the United States, although it NAV seem a
very desirable and beneficial proposition IN
some lazy men
The chiValrous judge, most women will de-
clare, is 'veritable Daniel come to fudg
ment" He declares, with learned citations to
sustain his own judicial authority. that tbere
is no constitutional provision nor statute that
makes a wife liable for the support of her
husband.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that this
decision might serve as an appendix to Punch's
celebrated advice to young men about how to
get married.
Both by common law and statutes the
masculine member of the marital co-nartner-
ship is under the most rigid obligations to pro-
vide literally as his means will allow for
the maintenance of his bewitching spouse
But there is reciprocal obligation that the
wife shall, under any circumstances, contribute
to the support OF her husband. Here is one
OF the superior rights and privileges OF the
gentler sex, which militant sisters, with head
quarters in Washington, would endanger nv
their demand for equality OF the sexes in all
the relations OF life under the constitution sr5
laws
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
Pen Mightier Than Gun.

Bat Masterson is dead. Years ago, in the
days of pony express riders and Wells-Fargo
stage coaches, Bat was sheriff in Dodge City,
Kan, toughest frontier town and the end of
the Santa Fe cattle trail winding up from the
Panhandle Bat Masterson and Wild Bill
Hickok were the fastest men with revolvers in
the old-time west. They were kings in the
days when sheriffs, cautioned by judges that
it was illegal TO shoot an outlaw before serv-
ing warrant occasionally rammed the war
rant down shotgun barrel so it would reach
the victim ahead of the lead The west has
changed. So have the old-timers. Masterson
when he died. was New York editor. He
found the pen mightier than the sword or the
Colts As.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
OLD HOTEL NOW
Il AIR BTNG
PARLOR DE LUXE

New York.-A barber shop and
hair-bobbing parIor de luxe, where
tea and cake are served daily with
music from 4 to p. m, have been
opened in the old Hotel Knicker-
booker on the site where mauy
well-known along the Great White
Way were sent to foregather. mt
one foot on the rail, gaze at a fam
Gus picture of old King Cole and
do things now forbidden by an
amendment to the constitution and
Legislation supplementary thereto
As another mark of progress A
publication in pink specializing in
photographs of actresses and box
ers has no place in this barber
shop. 1t has given way to the
highest class of magazines. Ca
ruso used to live in the hotel. Since
prohibition it has been turned into
stores and Offices.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
UNCLE MARKS WILL.
BY Miss Pearl FarroW.
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, InC)

| Copyright, 1921, by wheeler Syn
| dictate, Inc)
! Standing in the lower hall Mil
bred Arris listened intently. She
| heard the drip of rain on the roof
of the porch, and within the house
| the steady tick of the tall hall
clock, rapid tick from the dining
| room, and even the staccato tick
| from her own bedroom. Until to-
day there had been no silence like
this, for in the little room opposite
| the hall Uncle Mark had always
been noisily arguing on the latest
| political news or swaying ponder
ously in the creaking rocking chair.
Now Uncle Mark was gone and
| Mildred, the only living soul who
had cared, was all alone. She
knew how all the village folk pit
led her, how they were talking be-
cause Uncle Mark had left no will,
and so, as they thought. she was
unpaid for her long services to the
eccentric old man. Because now
Marks sister. who had never been
near him during his long invalid
ism, was coming for what was nat
uTally hers, as the nearest rela-
tive.
After long time Mildred sighed
and moved. A gray cat came down
the stairs, his eyes cleaning in the
dull afternoon light. He sprang to
her shoulder and she strokeG him
gently; his nearness recalled a
duty, besides there was no reason
for standing there now. She must
gather together her few pitiful be-
longings and go away-she could
not stand meeting Uncle Marks
sister-and her offers of charity.
She did not know where to go; she
knew only that she would go away
from Greenville forever.
She wondered what Keith Walls,
to whom she had been engaged for
four years. would say. She would
never marry him before because
she couldn't leave Nncle Mark. and
now-oh, we'll, she hadn't heard
from him since her uncle's death.
and although it was hard to be
lieve that he was like all the rest
nothing seemed to matter now.
A deep sigh shook her whole
body ut isn't fair 1t isn't fair,"
she said with clenched fists. She
climbed the stairs as If her feet
were weighted and had scarcely
reached the top when she heard the
faint tfngling of the SoorbeIl. She
had dismissed the servants directly
after the funeral, so she hurried
down, giving a hasty look in the
mirror as she passed.
But it was not a Borrowing friend
offering sympathy who greeted her,
but Keith-keith Walls in the flesh.
who grasped her in his arms and
held her lightly for long, long
while
81 couldn't get here any sooner,
little sweetheart" he said. land
knew all the time how hard every
thing must be FOR you here. And
you mustn't stay in this lonesome
place any longer. Get your things
and we'll get married tonight. And
while you're getting ready TIL lis
ten once more to that record of
dear Uncle Mark's-remember-
three used to listen to for hours?"
And SO, while Mildred packed her
suitcase, she could hear strains of
I'm Ole Xirginny" I'LL the little
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
boasted New England colleges and their

boasted New England colleges and thei
successors:
II was the arst college in the United
States 10 have full faculty. the first to
employ the elective system, the first to
have a school of modern languages, the
first to teach political economy, and the
first to have a school of modern history.
1t was also the first in Virginia to es-
tablish a school Of medicine, to have
department for training men to teach in
the public schools and TO offer extension
courses. This is a goodly number of
"frsts" for an institution to hold, but
there is another which is to be put above
all these: the organization of the FIRST
intercollegiate fraternity for the pro
motion and recognition of scholarship
the Phi Beta Kappa It is proposed that
those who have since won this distinc-
ton in American colleges should now
unite to erect and equip building in
the quaint old town of Williamsburg
NEAR Jamestown in gratitude to the
men who in the year of the Declaration
of Independence founded this society of
scholars. No more fitting tribute could
be conceived than one which, while re-
membering the foundation service to
American national and intellectual life,
gives material encouragement to this
little college, whose stout-hearted presi-
dent, for considerable period, rang the
bell every morning to keep its charter
alive.
No more appropriate way could be taker
o commemorate and perpetuate the great worl
II this sturdy old college than for the fra
ernity men of the country to lend their assist.
nee to the establishment of the proposed
school of government and citizenship in honor
If John Marshall, its great graduate The
ions of Harvard should be the first to re-
'pond, for in these two old colleges the true
'pirit, and purpose Of our colonial ancestors
was made apparent
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
Perforafion of Eardrum.

Why do some people have per
foration of the eardrum? Is the
hearing entirely destroyed in time
the eardrum is cut will it grow to-
the ardrum is cut will it grow to-
gether again in time or will the
perforation be permanent? ". H.
Answer-The eardrum is a mem
brane dividing the middle ear cav
ity which houses the famous ham
mer, anvil and stirrup bones, from
the outer ear canal. 1t IS often
perforated by the we'll known sur
geon, Nature. to give vent TO pus
or matter which has formed in the
middle ear cavity as a result of in
lection and infammation therein.
Such a natural perforation is fire.
quently unnecessarily large-Na-
ture is a rather brutal and careless
surgeon-and may remain perman-
ent. with more or less impairment
of hearing: the impairment of hear
ing does not depend on the hole in
the eardrum but rather on the dam
age the Inflammation has done to
the hearing apparatus. Nowadays
the physician 1ances or incises the
eardrum early in the course OF
middle ear Inflammation or abscess,
and not only saves the patient much
suffering but conseryes hearing in
a great many cases because the in
lection is stopped by this prompt
drainage before great damage has
been done the delicate hearing ap-
paratus. The perforation made by
the physicians scalpel usually
closes completely when drainage
ceases. The physicians lancing is
seldom done earlier than neces-
sary; Natures is usually done
rather too late.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
The Weak Heart.


Now and then some reader as
sures me that he has the sciatic
rheumatism settled all over his
body, and quite a number affeci
fneuritis as a more exclusive ex-
PLANTATION for vague aches or pains.
| Therefore, I hesitate to drag in
myocarditis, but it has become SO
fashionable that I've got to do it
Dissecting the word, we find that
it signifies heart muscle infiamma-
ton. The Inflammation in this in
stance is not what is popularity IN
derstood under that name, but rath-
er degeneration and consequent
functional weakening of the mus
Gle which constitutes the heart
Dp Richard Cabot, that medical
OOnoclast, teacher and physician,
found that of SO cases of chronic
myocarditis subjected to necropsy,
slightly more than half did not
have myocarditis; slightly less than
one-fourth did have it-so let US
remember that taxes and one other
thing l am forbidden to mention in
Ibis column are the two things we
(can be quite sure of. A percentage
of % is not so bad when one re-
members having prognosed victory
for Governor Cox and Georges Car
pentier in their respective shindies.
A functional weakening of the
heart muscle. which is. as far as |
mean to commit myself, likely
explanation for such symptoms as
these-gather round, folks, and help
yourselves:
l. You find that you tire more
easily than you used to when you
were a healthier specimen.
,. YOU realize that your breath
is short when you exert yourself
moderately at something which for
merly did not tax your wind no.
ticeably.
5. You are conscious of some dis
tress or maybe actual pain upon
unusual exertion. Pain or distress
where2 Oh. never mind. Let's not
ne too specific Anywhere
A. You discover that your ankles
are little puffy or swollen at the
end of the day.
>. Perhaps you have a slight
cough, nothing very alarming. but
a long standing affair. in short, a
chronic cough which you try 10 kid
yourself is due to the climate,
touch OF catarrh or a slight irrita-
ton of the throat
Now remember, l said these
symptoms merely point toward
weakened heart muscle. Assume
you've got EN-. and you're proper
~ scared. Well. what are you 60
ing to do? Run around to the
druggist and call for some heart
stimulant or tonic? That depends
on your mental calibre If it is 30
calibre you'll do just that thing. If
it is 80 to As calibre. you'll slip
over 10 your doctor for an exam
nation, and if it is myocarditis he
will find:
/ Evidence of some enlargement
Of the heart. Not necessarily an
unfavorabie finding, either.
2. Evidence of irregularity or
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

@. Recently l came across an al
fusion to the Parliament of
Ounces. Can you enlighten me in
regard to this? CT B. E.
A In 1904 at Coventry, England,
a parliament convened by Henry
" was known variously as the
learned Parliament, and the Lack
learning Parliament. All lawyers
were excluded, and the name was
applied in derision, probably by
lawyers.
O. How large capacity must
the refrigerators on a ship like the
Olympic have? NJ. L.
A The refrigerators of the
Olympic have capacity of 500 tons
of food This ship when full car
ries $500 persons.
Q. Is there a machine for re-
neWing electric light bulbs?
A. There is no machinery manu-
featured for renewing ors refilling
electric light bulbs.
Q. What was the place where a
boy was shot because he was sit
ting on his front porch during
church time, and what was dom
about it? ]. F. A.
A The place was Tangier Island,
Nd. There is an old ordinance on
the law books of Tangier requiring
people to attend church and for
bidding those who cannot attend
from sitting On their front porch
during services. Young Parks was
hi ~
constable spied him and when he re-
fused to go to church or with the
officer Of the law, a fight followed.
The constable shot the boy and
claimed self defense. He was Civ
en- one year in prison.
Q. In what part of the whale is
the whaIebone found? C. J. S.
A Baleen, commonly called
whalebone, grows in the mouth of
certain whales. It grows in de-
pendent plates, ranging from to
IL feet in length, attached to the
upper jaw. and forms a fringe-Iike
sieve for collecting and retaining
food.
T. what is a wayz goose?s
a This is one name given to
an annual outing and dinner %
workmen in England. It is either
given by employers or subscribed
for by the workmen. Another name
applied to this holiday-making is
a bean-feast
q. Was William Congreve, the
inventor of the ~Congreve rocket.
also the dramatist? B. G.
A William Consreve.- the author
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

Lawyers representing Fatty Arbuckle are
running around the country obtaining affidavits
bearing on the past life of Virginia Rape, the
victim of the film comedians California hotel
jamboree- Fatty is paying the bills, of course,
but in time his bank roll will be gone, and
then Fatty will pass from public view. He is
a good thing now-for the lawyers and the in
vesdgators. But all the dispositions in the
world won't change the public view of Fatty.
He is through as a public idol
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

of the Mourning Bride, the Double
Dealer, Love for Love. the Way OF
the World. and other plays, was
born in 1870 and died in 1929. Sir
William COngreve. the inventor
was born in 1872 and died in 1873
@. Where can the most equabie
year-round Temperature be found
in the eastern part of the country
A. Such conditions are found
near the seacOast toward the south
The places of least change Of ten
perature are the small islands OIL
the Florida coast
Q. What is German silver made
of? ". n. D.
A. German silver is a white alloy
composed of nickel, copper and
zinc. The best quality consists oil
four parts copper, two parts nickel
and two parts zine. but in this pro
portion it is difficult to work For
some uses a small amount Of lead is
added.
@. Did Corot receive high prices
for his pictures. or did he die
poor man? U. M
A. CorOt, the French landscape
painter, exhibited his first picture
in the Salon in 1927, but it was mol
till nearly 20 years later that DIS
genius as painter was generahy
recognized. He was then about 81
years of age. The last - years 0.
his life were spent in different CIT
cumstances, as his professional III
come was very large, and he II
herited a fortune from his father
@. Will any material Withstand
temperature Of 1900 degrees q
1900 degrees Fahrenheit
A. The bureau of standards SAYS
there are a number of materials
that will Withstand this tempera-
ture. Among these may be me1-
toned magnesite, alundum, grapA-
tie, any brand of good mOldHs
sand. For the first three SUD
stances NJ entioned it would be nee
essary 10 use a pressure OF some
kind to form a compact mold.
Q. What is the penalty for littiH5
a ball from an unplayable lie III
golf? F. c. 81
A. Under the new golf rules
ball may be lifted any place unl5'
a penalty of one stroke and a.
tance, the same as bali out u
bounds or a lost ball,
Q. What was the first steamship
to cross the Atlantic C. r.. n.
A. The American steamship "a.
inaugurated transatl4n'-~
steam navigation in 1873.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

The morals magistrate of Pittsburgh has
asked the appointment of 100 women officers
to visit cabarets and hotels to warn girls of
the pitfalls of the city's night life There is
enough to keep the same number OF women
officers busy in the cities OF Rock Island, DAY.
export, Moline and East Moline. 1t might sur
prise and shock some mothers IL they followed
their daughters to the dances they attend in
these four cities.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

A prominent politician was shot in the door
way of his saloon in St. Louis the other night
When he was told that he was going to die he
said that he didn't know his assailant and
would tell his name if he did know it He
wanted to die as a good sport. Perhaps it is
Just as well. In this case perhaps the victim
realized that he was paying an old score with
life
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, NJ. D.
Noted Physician and Author.

uneyenuess Of the heart action In
itself of slight significance.
3. Sharpening of the first heart
sound
4. Diffuseness of the throb OF the
apex
5. Perhaps a blowing murmur-
but what's a murmur between
friends? Nothing, / tell you.
6. Sometimes galiop rythm.
Having found these signs, ana
wisely weighed your syInp soms, the
doctor is in a position to make a
fairly good guess whether you have
mvocarditis.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
QUESTIONS AND ANSYERS.
To TSmaaesS Inherited!

A young man proposes 10 marry
a Young woman who is lame in one
foot. Her left leg is about two
inches shorter than her right
Should this marriage take place,
and children be born, would the
children be crippled at birth?
W. NJ. c.
Answer-If the young woman
herself was born with the defect,
her children, one or more. may
have a similar defect at birth Ii
the lameness is the result or some
disease or injury which occurred
since her birth, there would be no
reason to fear transmission OF the
lamenesS.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02

James and Mary Thompson OF Dayville,
Conn., have been married 20 years He is 102
land she 90. And they are happy. They have
'had their troubles, but their lives have been
sweetened through the victories they have
gained by mutual effort and understanding
Their success with marriage simply proves
that it can be done-that there is long life and
happiness for those who assume the full re-
sponsibilities that go with marriage.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-02
The Miracle of the Mellon.
TFrom the Chitrib's Vox Pop. I

necessary for me for some time take
the morning Tribune to the laundry and
run it through the wringer before | could
READ it Yesterdays glaTing headline
Unlimited Beer for the Sick" was a
waste of so much perfectly good black
ink. The exclamation point at the end
of the sentence. being interpreted prob
ably means "Hooray,"
more becoming announcement for
the Worlds Greatest would have been
put in smaller type and the rest of the
ink used in a black line surrounding it.
Our Mellon has turned out to be
lemon. MRS. HERBERT BASSETT.
BOOSTING Music Week in Peoria Chi
Gamble concludes: 20. and while YOU are al
it, just hum or sing little more while YOU
are working"
Whenever the telegraph editor on The Argus
feels like committing suicide he starts to sing
little song while seated within five feet of
the telegraph operator.
And, by the way, how could a telephone girl
frinstance, sing at her work? Or a boiler
maker?
THE SPORTING EDITOR INSISTS HE
DIDN'T WRITE 1T THAT WAY.
Dear Mac: The following is humbIv sug-
gested to help along your Innovation in the
Oddities, namely, the "Athaletic" Denartman+.
The break came when Buck,s
punt, Iollowlng an exchange between he
and Woenig. left no advantage carried
line -.
Can it be that the cold Green Bay fog had
numbing influence on we sport eds brain
as well as on the Independents fngersq He
surely muffed this one ICNhTz
THE kedron Valley correspondent of tho
AnnaWan tiil-) News describes a party Civ.
by the Lanes Aid The house was decorated
with JACK O. Lanterns, black cats and witches
ana the refreshments, appropriately enorgh
WERE among other things, 'sandwitches".
GtNERALLY SPEAKING, THIS WIIJDO
FOR US, TOO.
lLifted from Friend Rios PiIlar1
Dedr ConGlbS: | have the done on +bic
man Rlquarius. He is glad to get vour stnfT
%tthough ne wouldn't dare say it for the world
ne uses All the available galley space to hold
sun unIl ne gets good N ready The onIv
eason Ne prints mine or yours is not because
~ Is Always good, but so bad he hates IN Ieave
~ out and hurt your feelings He likes noet-r
but prefers his own unique verse If ba baS 80
70 write II. Position of matter 6oesn'. count
out II you find your contribution ieaded ,ritt
d cash above and below rest assured IL !. 80
81 Important enough for all practical mr.
poses, ne usually gives ordinary matter a
ItSe-AoT-aiI chance Saturdays and MONDAYS. on
oIneI Gays Is more particular. He likes tyne
".en communications, preferably single
spaced. ana submitted without heads A ner
sUnai interview is unnecessary; in fact vo,
anonymity. r Rr1ns Ior
BACK Lloyd George on Erin" sbonts 8
Tribune headline q
>, OoCBTLESs> SO he will be in proper nos.
'1i0 70 receive good old-fashioned Irish NICK.
r. 2. MIG.