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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18
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Aledo, Dec. 18.-Arthur Damp
vss at home from Davenport over
The weekend returning to the
Mercy hospital at Davenport today.
Nr. Damp was slightly injured
some time ago by running silver of
wood into his hand. Blood poison
developed and the shand becoming
serious, he entered the hospital for
treatment. Although improving, he
will remain at the Davenport clinic
for treatment until danger Of
further injection ia gone.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18
ANNUAL ELECTION
or GEF1ESEO O.E. S
[SpeciaI Correspondence.

(SpeciaI COrTe1ponQence.J
Geneseo, Dec. 18.-Annuai elec-
ton OF officers for the Geneseo
chapter, Order Of Eastern Stars,
will be held at the meeting tomor-
row night. Refreshments will be
served by a committee in charge.
A feature OF the meeting will be
the radio concert given by Lester
Ross.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18
ROYAL NEGHBORS
LODGE AT ERIE IN
ANNUAL ELECTION
Especial Correspondence. !

Especial Correspondence
Erie, Dec. 18.-The following are
the new officers for the Royal
Neighbors OF Erie: Oracle, Carrie
Holland; vice oracle, Louise Cling
er; past oracle, Inez Oakley; chan
cellor, Sarah Sawyer; recorder,
Nell Bare; receiver, Louise Lun-
ming; marshal, Ruth Klendworth;
Assistant marshal, Pearl Stoudt;
inner sentinel, Ida Quade; outer
sentinel, Lena Doll.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18
ALEDO CAGE MEN TO
PLAY GAME AT ORION

Especial Correspondence
Orion, Dec. 18.-The Orion COM
munity high school five will play
the Aledo high school quintet to-
morrow evening in the high school
gym here. The game is scheduled
to begin at s sharp. There will -
a curtain raiser at 1880.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18
MILAN PIT. A. WILL
MEET ON THURSDAY
Especial Correspondence

Milan, Dec. Is. The regular
meeting of the P. T. A. will be held
at the school Thursday, Dec. 81,
when Mrs. John Leckie, Mrs. Oscar
Stapp, Mrs. Fred Peterson and Mrs.
Kathryn Nichols will act as host
esses. After the business meeting
a program will be given and light
refreshments served.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18

The bible is published BY the
British and Foreign Bible society
In, $50 different languages.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18

Bishop Hill- IAs pspils q ~
local schools ufu give . Christmas
peoGr1m Friday afteFnoon, De& ~
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-18

Cinders soaked in parafin are ex-
cellent to light q fire.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
The Best Mans Toast.

At the club last night the business girl was the center of a group of interested listeners. Fragments of con- versation containing the words brides maids" simply adorable" wonder ful house." pearls" Japan" fioated over to the Woman and induced her to put down the magazine and un- blushingly seat herself on the Ches- terfeld directly behind the animated narrator, just in time to hear her de- scription of the best man.
 "He was very good looking, though rather conceited, and in responding to the bridesmaids toast said: All through our school and college days the groom and I have been the best of friends. In games and sports I have usually beaten him out, but in this great race for a bride the better man has won, and I'm sure he's well come to her. Of course the poor thing meant to say: I'm sure he's worthy of her. But. he can never, never explain it away, and the bride says she cer- tainly won't invite him to another wedding of hers!'
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
GIaced erasshoppers.

A sight that would have gladdened the heart of John the Baptist Is shown in photographs of the newly discovered grasshopper glacier in the northern corner of Yellowstone Ma tional park.
 These pictures, just received by the geological survey. show imbedded in the ice thousands of strata of grass hOppers of extinct species of a time long before the period in which the insects were considered delectable.
 These glaced grasshoppers must have been flying over the mountains in living clouds of millions when they were caught in snowstOrms and frozen into the glacier.
 Motorists are visiting the remark able glacier by the thousands this summer.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
LITTLE KINGDOM OF TONGA
One Remaining NomlnaIIy Independent State in Pacific Is Under Limited
 Monarchy.

Tonga, little kingdom of 100 isles, is the one remaining nominally in- dependent state in the Pacific, and, though under British protection, 1t still flies its own flag. Its government is limited monarchy.
 Time was when its legislative as- sembly gathered only once in three years, and steamship companies with vessels plying to Tonga advertised the fact as a tourist attraction.
 George Tubon II was then on the throne. He was man six feet seven inches in height and weighing some thing over two hundred and eighty pounds. He was wont to open parlia- ment with great ceremony, the boom of brass saluting cannon and much gold braid. Attired in a scarlet coat, blue trousers, plumed helmet, with an ermine-trimmed plush cloak, trailing from his shoulders and held by two velvet-clad pages, King George would march from his palace to the parlia- ment buildings. Guns popped at in- tervals, while the populace stood around and bowed low in honor.
 But George IFS daughter Salote now rules and parliament meets once a year in less Gilbertian display.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
London Papers.

How many morning dailies are now published in London? Most people, journalists included, would answer off hand that there are not more than a dozen. Actually the addition of the Westminster Gazette to the list brings the total number up to 30. Lon dOn's morning publications are consid- erably in excess of the evening issues, whose number Is 12. A few of the constituents of the latter list are also not to be found in the ordinary book stall.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
SIXTH SENSE" SAVES TRAIN
Railroad Passenger Engineer Had "Hunch" and Stopped
 Just in Time.

His sixth sense" caused Robert Getz of Sunbury, a passenger engineer, to determine that something was broken under his engine as 1t raced along with 100 passengers on his train.
 Getz stopped and found brake rig ging hanging by small shred of a broken chain under the tank of the locomotive. Had it dropped, railroad men said, nothing could have pre- vented a bad wreck.
 Getz said something" just told him all was not right under him, and he stopped-Sunbury Pa.) Dispatch.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
WASHINGTON

The Interstate Commerce COmmis- sion has declared that an emergency exists in transportation in territory east of the Mississippi river, which re- quired it to direct the routing of ship ments of all essential commodities and to fix preference and priority for the movement of food, perishable products, coal and other fuel, and live stock.
 American relief work in soviet Rus sia will continue for three or four months at least, Secretary Hoover an- nounced upon his return from New York, where he met with Col, William N. Haskell, head of the American .re- lief administration forces in Russia 1; former Governor Goodrich of Indiana and other officials to decide. the fu- ture program for Russian relief.
 Former President Wilson, "as an American citizen and as a native of Virginia" has written Commonwealth Attorney Thomas H. Lyon of Manas- sas, Va, thanking him for the part he took recently in saving Alvin liar ris, negro, from a mob.
 Warnings against unofficial promo ters of colonization schemes in South America has been issued by the Con- merce Department which added that such promoters have been particular ly active in the Western states. Many Americans going to South America as colonists have found that they invest ed their savings in land in the remote wilderness, the department said
 Vice President Coolidge left Wash ington recently for Boston, starting a trip that will occupy two or three weeks and take him to the Pacific coast The vice president plans to leave soon for San Francisco, where he will address the American Bar As s0ciation convention Aug. 10. The present itinerary of Mir. Coolidge calls for visits to Portland, Ore, and Seat tie, but no speeches are planned. He will return east through Canada with out making any stops,
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
Reaches Away Back.

A baldheaded society man tells this one on himself. He was at a lawn party, and a matron who thought he was too busy talking to a pretty girl to notice what she was saying re marked in low voice to another ma tron, "What a nice face Mir. Blanh has,"
 Just then he happened to remove hh hat for a moment and he heard thG other reply, ''Yes, and how much thers is of it."-BostOn Transcript.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
sporyI

Boss, I'm hungry"
 Here's a nickel.''
 Thanks, boss. Are you spOrt?' q hope so."
 "rll match you for a nickel. couldn't stay my stummick with less than a dime."-New York Evening World.
The St. Johns herald., 1922-08-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT.
 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
 PEOPLE,
WESTERN

Three small boys, the children of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Ajax, were drowned when the automobile in which they were passengers with their parents, backed off the St. Johns ferry at the east side of the Willamette river at Portland, Ore.
 Armed raiders in automobiles swooped down on the South Pacific railroad shops at Colfax, Calif., and after firing several vOlleys at the win dows, which were shattered, and at the walls of the plant, withdrew as mysteriously as they had come. No body was injured
 Lives of scores were imperiled re- gently as the Japanese steamer Hawaii Maru cOllided during dense fog with the Puget Sound passenger steamer Calista off West Point, eight miles from Seattle. The Calista sank with in ten minutes after the accident. All the Calista's passengers and crew were saved.
 Union printers will return to their former positions in the newspaper and job departments of the Billings Ga zette, according to an announcement. Printers in the newspaper department have been on strike since May 1, while those in the job office have been out for more than a year. The press rooms are included in the settlement.
 Isadore R. Eidelstein, alleged by To- cal police to be notorious safe bur giar, with a long criminal record, Is accused of having burglarized, single handed, eighty vaults in the Paulsen building at Spokane in a first-degree burglary warrant sworn out by Detec- tive Chester Edwards. There are now out for the arrest of the vault rObber and the recovery of stolen bonds, re- wards aggregating $9,500.
 Deputy Sheriff Forest Charters of Grass Range, Mont, attached to the local office at Lewiston, was acciden- tally shot at the court house when his revolver fell on the concrete floor and was discharged, the bullet entering the abdomen, passing up through the lung and into the shoulder. He was rushed to a hospital and was under the sur geOn's care within five minutes. His general condition remains surprising Iy good, though the wound is neces- sarily a very grave one. He is son of Former State Representative J. H. Charters, now candidate for state senator.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
WOODROW WILSON

Congratulations and best wishes 60 out to Woodrow Wilson
today on the occasion of his ~sixty-sixth birthday. He must be a
petty, narrow-minded SOU, indeed, who is not glad that the former
President is greatly improved in health and gives every indica-
ton of taking a more active part in public affairs. Few men have
been more universally admired and respected or more thoroughly
hated than Woodrow Wilson. As time passes, however, there is
every reason to believe that the admiration and respect will grow
and the hatred and malice will die out and that history will give
him a place among the most notable characters Of the age.
Woodrow Wilson is perhaps the greatest liberal leader this
country has ever had. He is an idealst who actually tries to put
his ideals into practice. In doing so he naturally goes up against
the practical side of life and a clash is inevitable. He is a leader
In the sense that he has an ideal and a policy for carrying out that
ideal. Even today in his retirement he towers far above any of his
Democratic contemporaries and to him the leaders of his party
might well turn for advice and guidance in handling the problems
that now confront the nation. No other mind among the Democrats
Has shown such a grasp of the world affairs.
So, today, at sixty-six years of age, the country greets Wood
cow Wilson, rejoices in his returning strength and activity ard
wishes for him many long years of service to humanity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
TERRIBLE DEATHS

A widowed old document, dated 1859, is discovered IN
Poland. 1t describes the execution of a certain gentleman
named Casimir Lyszynski. After death, his body was burned,
his ashes put in a cannon and shot into the air toward Tar
tary. This happened in Warsaw, and was an event not un-
usual in those days.
Casimir's crime was denying the existence OF God.
Today he could deny it until he talked himself blue IN the
face. All intelligent people would pity him for his vanity
ignorance and stupidity. But no one would think OF execut-
ing him. A few would argue-possibly convince him OF the
truth.
Compare then with now, and realize progress.
1t is only 1873 years since counterfeiters were considered
guilty of treason and often burned alive in England. The law
was repealed in 1890.
A heartrending instance was a little girl, only IA, sen
fenced to be burned at the stake in 1882. The House OF Com
mons stormily debated her fate. When Sir William Mere
dfh pardoned her, the fagots had been piled up for the IRE.
She had been convicted Of concealing counterferhrs dies
inside her corset. at the command Of her employer.
Executions for ~witchcraft were common IN the old days,
1000 being sput away in England during the Long Parila-
ment. -.
As late as 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her nine-year-old daughter
were HANGED at Huntington for "seling their souls to the
devil and raising a storm by pulling OF their stockings ana
making a lather of SOAP
The authority, Darlington, estimated tnat oo'oVo . .
ecuted in England on witchcraft charges. -
IT'S a terrible past that we have come out OIL. we no
ort;relv ont vet. Superstition and injustice still have then
noisonous talons in humanity. But compare mooern
With those old DAYS, and no argument is needed that wers
getting better. h.,.,ss
T. must have been Satan who invented the expression
"the good old days"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
NEW KIND OF SENATE
FOR u. S.
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

upon the possibility of trying sue a
revolutionary idea in the United
States and how it might be worked
al amendments would first be In or
der, but assuming that they had
out. Federal and state constitution
been effected, here is what might be
done:
Qualifications of senators would
be the same or substantially the
same as provided in the Irish Free
State. In order not to increase the
membership of the senate to I'M
wieldy proportions, the apportion-
ment would give n senator to
each state and forty-eight to the
country at large, instead of W TO
each state as at present. Fixing
the term at twelve years, thirty-two
senators would be elected every four
years, instead of every two years.
Three candidates would be placed
in nomination for each seat to be
filled. Two of the nominees for each
senator representative of a state
would be selected by the state legis-
lature and one would be named by
the national House of Representa-
tives. Such senator's would be elect
ed by the popular vote of the people
of their respective states. Two
thirds of the nominees for senator's
at-large would be selected by the
National House of Representatives
and one-third by the senate itself.
These senators would be elected by
a nationwide popular vote.
To carry, the speculation a step
further with a view of arriving at
some idea of the kind of men who
would find their way to the United
States senate under such a system,
iA 1aau ha ~ona1In1 that Soma TINA
ago a New York newspaper invited
a. large number of representative
men and women to submit lists in
answer to the question as to who
are the twelve greatest living Amer
leans. The twelve ame included
most often in the lists were those of
an inventor, a college president, a
manufacturer, an engineer, a law
yer, a general, an industrial chief
tain, another lawyer, an artist, q
judge, a novelist and a publicist.
They were: Thomas A. Edison.
Charles w. Eliot, Henry Ford, Her
John J.. Pershing, John d. Rookie
Teller, Elihu Root, John S. Sargent,
William Howard Taft, Booth Tark-
ington and Woodrow Wilson.
Other great Americans mentioned
frequently included an editor, an
engineer, a. labor leader. another
engineer, an actor, a publicist, a
naturalist, a revivalist, \ a prohibi-
ZIONIST and a baseball player. They
were: President Harding, Charles
P. Steinmetz, Samuel Gompers,
George w. Goethals, e. H. Sothern,
William J. Bryan, Luther Burbank
Billy Sunday, "Pussy-foot" Johnson
and Babe" Ruth.
But, to return to ireland for q
moment, who ever would have
Dreamed that It would be the Irish
who would be the first to suggest
taking the politicians out Of politics
or taking politics away from thu
politicians? Think of the Murphys
the S%uIIivans, the Crokers, the Tag
CARTS, the F1ynns, the ~Fftzgeralds
the C~ockrans, the Burkes, tn
O'Conners, the O'Rourkes, the-oh
what's the use?
Think of the boss of your war
and Of your precinct leader!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28

n What part of the food that
consume. do they raise? +.
A. T. .h.+
A. A survey reveals the TACT that
.ho,,r 10 per cent Of their foo -
raised by farmers, or exchanged 10
caIIy. The rest is brought IN oy
railroad. Possibly another IL per
cent could be produced
calIy at home.
O. What country is known as the
shadeless' land? N. A.
A. Australia has been so-called.
The leaves of some of the trees
there are SO arranged as always 10
present their edges to n SKY,
others have foliage composed OF
mere needles, and others dispenIe
with leaves altogether.
Q. What States produced the
most gold last year? j.. r. H.
A.. California stood first with a
good production valued at $15.704,-
S22. Colorado was second with So
835.32S and South Dakota third
with S6,6O5,167, Our possession,
Alaska, came between California
and Colorado with an output of
gold valued at ~$S,07S,540.
@. In cribbage, if both persons
say go" who counts it?
A. The one who comes the near
est to 81, that is the last player,
counts the 1 for the go.
@. What is a lanista? J. II.
A, This was a term applied to
the trainer of Roman gladiators,
also to a fencing master.
@. Who invented the Rule of
Eleven used in Auction? M. r. w.
A. This rule was invented by K.
3. Foster in the days when Whist
was in vogue. 1t Is, OF course.
| equally applicable to Auction.
@. Do animals lap UP water, or
suck it up? s. ].
A.. Carnivorous animals lap up
water with the tongue. H~erbivorous
animals, as the horse. and the OK.
suck 1t up.
@. What is meant by the saying.
go to Bath and get your head
shaved?" P. T. N.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28

A. At one time persons who
showed symptoms of insanity were
sent to drink the mineral water At
Bath. Shaving the head was gen
orally performed when insanity was
suspected. The obvious meaning II,
s~atiricalIy. 'You are going mad.
YOU had better go to Bath and get
your head shaved"
O.. Does "Iingua Franco" mean
Language of France?" G. G.. A.
A, 1t is a dialect Of corrupt ItaI-
ian, mixed with many words OF
modern Greek and other languages,
which Is spoken on both coasts CT
the Mediterranean Sea-.
@. What sort of fish is the soap
fish? Has 1t q great value? r.. A. Il.
A. This is a West Indian fish re-
lated to the sea bass and locally
called jabon and jaboncillo. 1t IL
Of small value.
@. What is the wood best adapt
ed for shipbuiIding? +. T.
A.. Teak has long been known as
the best shipbuilding timber in the
world.
@. What LIS the difference be-
tween gutta percha and other rub
Der? s. c..
A. Gutta percha Is not q rub
Der, for 1t is plastic rather than
elastic.
@. How many tunnels are there
through the Alps? A. o. N.
A. At the present time four
great tunnels pierce the Alpine bar
rier between northern and southern
Europe. The Mont Cents and the
Saint Gotthard connect France and
Italy. the Arlberg places Austria in
communication with Italy. while the
Simplon forms a direct connection
between Italy and Switzerland.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28

Retail prices are being increased
by the wholesale.
II you see a c~elebrator in a stupo-
he may be hipnotized.
Every girl likes to wash dishes
until she gets past six years old.
Several who did their Christmas
shoplifting too late were caught.
In York, Pa, bandits carried off
| the p~ostofice safe, but there was
| only money in it, no coal.
The Walla Walla. Wash, man
cutting his third set of teeth will
wear them out saying where he
lives.
Over in ireland, Dublin will be
called Bail Eatha Oliath, but condi-
lions there are much better than
this. sounds.
Absence Of presents doesn't make
the heart grow any fonder.
1t takes one to start a fight, which
is always the other one.
They are recruiting soldiers by
| radio now, the only drawback being
recruits can't drill by radio.
You hear arguments over football
coaches for 1928, but nobody cares
who college presidents are.
Aurora Borealis cut off the cleo
trio current in Louisville, Ky. 1t
I a~A-Aa fha4 ShA ~Arfh nAlA ~ N
south for the winter.
Pedestrians are getting so partic-
ular they want to be run ever by an
expensive car, not a cheap car.
Women have the most sense, but
1t takes a man to marry me-.
Our language tickles US. Being
artlesS is an art.
You often find a hard-boiled egg
not what he is cracked UP to be.
Minneapolis man claims robbers
left him in the street naked, which
may be true because playing poker
Is against the law.
This MAJ be an awful country
but in Persia it is considered effemi.
nate to laugh.
The trouble with being a dywsigh
champ 10 you may get swatted.
It will soon be next year. unies
the calendars are wrong.
Naturally a hen-pecked mar feel
J like a worm.
Some peoples object in life IL OBJ
jecting.
Get on your a and someone wi
step in your face.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
Answers

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o,adieiuai and financial troubles.
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i've research on any subject. Wfi.e
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oostage. All replies are sent direct
10 the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
COUGHS AND COLDS IN WINTER

0OOGIfo kaND WILLIE AN "lNAAAs
Indoor sedentary life in Winter
Las a direct bearing on the prevail
ence of coughs and colds. Keep the
bowels active and overcome consti-
patton with Foley Cathartic Tab
cts. Colds, coughs, Group. throat.
chest and bronchial trouble quickly
relieved with Foley's Honey and
Tar. Contains no opiates-ingredi-
ents printed on the wrapper.
Largest selling cough medicine in
the world. "Foley's Honey and Tar
is wonderful for attacks of coughs
and colds" writes w. H. Gray. Ven
ice, California. Sold everywhere
Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28

NATIONAL CASH REGIsrER co.
"KREBs~ only authorized agent q
Middlesex County: new ind second .
Cash Registers n monthly payments
Repairs. supplies. 10 West Grand Street
Elizabeth. N. J..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-28
Bible Thought For Today

~ MANS APPEAL--O Lord, revive thy work in the midst
of the years-Habakkuk 81.