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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
Fire Damages Residence

The home of MT and Mrs. A. NJ. Allen was slightly damaged by fire Saturday night. The house, which is located at 1870 Pike avenue. caught fire from a spark on the roof, and practically one side of the building was burned. Splendid work was done by the firemen and none of the contents were damaged as the blaze was extinguished with chemicals. The house was owned by W. E. Dan iel Another run was made by the department to 1446 Thirty second street, to the home of MT and Mrs w H. Yenni, where the blaze was found to be of the spark variety Damages at this time amounted to about $t0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16

You will find this service costs about what you'd pay the negro washerwoman to do the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16

When food fs scarce md weather cold One has to he a little bold.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
The ChiIdren's Crusade.

President Harding very properly refused to
receive the children's crusaders organized to
storm the White house in behalf of wholesale
release of those serving terms in federal pris-
ons for unlawful activities while the nation was
at war. The attorney general with equal pro-
priety replied TO the leader of the crusaders
that there could be no general amnesty, but
that each case would be considered on it's mer-
it's. The proposal for general amnesty rests
on the assumption that these persons are politi-
cal prisoners, and that they confined mere
ly because they expressed their opinions pub
lcly about the and about American inter
vention. This assumption, of course, is entirely
erroneous. The man who breaches sedition
and disloyalty when the life of the republic is
in jeopardy is not political offender at all;
he is traitorous criminal The man who tries
by public argument to prevent the enlistment
of young ii the military forces that are
being mustered in to defend the country's
safety is not political offender at all; he is
a traitorous criminal.
The sentences imposed on these prisoners
were just The government cannot admit by any
action it may take that injustice has been done
Since the is over, and the danger is past,
and since the offenders have been in part pun
ished the government may very properly ex-
tend mercy in deserving cases. Those offenders
who have repented of their crimes have been
exemplary prisoners and have given promise of
becoming good citizens may we'll be released
Such action has already been taken in a num-
Der of cases. But it is plain that wholesale
release is another thing entirely The plan of
sending the children of these prisoners to
Washington was a piece of sentimentalism de
signed to win public opinion by its maudlin
appeal. The children of criminals always suf-
fer. That is one of the evil results of crime
But society cannot afford TO have the criminals
turned loose for that reason alone. There is
in fact, no proper way to Judge these cases
except as the attorney general has promised
to judge them-separately and on their indi-
vidual merit
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11

cents will buy package Of dates brought from
Arabia. box of beech nuts from China or tin
OF crab meat from Japan.
wouldn't it be interesting TO turn the
clock ahead 200 years and see what the steady
expansion of quantity production leads to by
then? II is not at all improbable that air
plane some day may sell for few dollars
This may seem ridiculous, but no more SO than
a suggestion that watch might sell some day
for 81 would have seemed only few centuries
ago when timepieces were so costly that only
kings and the very wealthy could atSord them.
Expensive Injuries of today are le cheap ne
cessities of tomorrow. Sta><ards Of living
steadily advance-but on9< by increased popu-
lation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
Trailing congressman.

Attorney General Daugherty is accused O!
employing government agents to shadow mem
bers OF congress II. L. Seattle, former investi-
gator for the department of justice, is the ac-
cuser. The charges are contained in letter
which has been addressed to the attorney gen
eral by the former investigator. One purpose
of the letter, of course. is to show that Mr..
Daugherty has been misusing the power OF his
office to reach members of congress with
whom he is not on agreeable terms. The same
issue in regard to the use of the secret service
by the administration for personal ends was
raised in the quarrel between President Roose-
welt and congress in 1908. Agents Of the de-
partment of justice were then used to shadow
members of congress.
In resentment congress undertook to re-
duce the appropriations for the secret service
and to prescribe restrictions. President Roose-
Welt replied by declaring that congress opposed
the secret service appropriations because con-
gressmen did not want to be investigated. 1t
was an answer that certainly did not justify
the administrators method of spying. The
result was that the efficiency of the secret
service was weakened in way to be felt later
in the emergency.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
Doing When You CAN'T.

You are envied by the cripple in the wheel
chair when he sees you breeze by in the FULL
exuberance and enjoyment of. physical and
mental health. The cripple sees you climb into
car and ride several blocks. He is disap-
pointed in you and feels more contented with
his own misfortune. He argues that walking
can't be so wonderful after all, if those who
can do not enjoy it more. writer in Golfers
Weekly remarks, What a wonderful thing it
is to walk when you can't" northern woman
brought a little colored maid home with her
from the south. The maid was lonesome. The
lady reminded the colored girl that she had
nice room and easy work and good friends in
her new home and that she should not be lone
some. The girl replied. ITS not where am
that am lonesome for, but where 1 isn't"
The mandate. You can't" has stirred man
kind to fight. The woman who can't sing wants
to. The man who can't dance is anxious to try.
The man who can't afford an automobile wants
one. The man who can't make a success of his
business is often the most successful in the
end. When man finds out he can't have or
accomplish something he desires his compIa-
cency is thrown aside, his indifference and
easy going ways are checked up and he throws
his full force toward his desire If he is not
a fatalist mans can'ts often make him. The
pleasures of anticipation, which are-said to be
often sweeter than those of realization, are not
to be compared with the flights of fancy one
may enjoy in contemplating the impossible
The man who wins out is the man who does the
impossible practical test of a mans metal
is the spirit in which he faces the test1of life
There are some can'ts that man accepts
simply as social duty. There are can'ts he
recognizes as protection for his own safety
but there are hosts of can'ts that we all meet
every day that must be stormed and battered
and defeated The things these can'ts deny
US become terribly attractive as long as thew
remain can'ts Often when they are realized
they are disappointing. 1t is therefore matter
OF good judgment to know what can'ts to leave
alone and shisa onsa Il go after and conquer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11

deceived himself? Had he believed
wrong of her? Certainly not. He
had seen her that night by the
lake path. But she was speaking
to him now, in her low, sweet
voice-low and sweet, but, he seem
ed to sense, firm, accusing.
To-day is the first time you have
been here since that night l wait
ed for you so long by the lake path
You never came. You weren't even
here at this house. Nobody knew
where wou went. Why? Why did
you go? Because you didn't care
as l did care?"
"You-cared?" asked the man
searching her face, as though he
feared to believe.
Il cared so much that I could
not forget. l came here every day,
even though / was criticised for it.
My brother came home from the
West the night I waited for you:
he came by the lake path and found
me. He was glad that 1 was hap
Ipy-with you. but now he is an
CRY because I still cling to
Melody Mari" cried the tall.
dark man, suddenly, taking both of
the girls slender hands in his own
strong ones, Melody Mari. For
give me for having believed what
l did; sing to me-please-pIease
-sing," -
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
Tampering With Commandments,

In order to preserve the sacrosanctity of
modern taste a certain commission has sug-
Tested the blue penciling of five of the Ten
their form of expression, not their spirit
Others would like to go much further, and alter
them radically, if they could not totally erase
them. Giving houor to a Supreme Being
how many of use prefer to worship strange gods
| Of our own setting up, or our own sweet wills
alone? Holding sacred things sacred-some
scf US would like to erase that one. We would
kdo for ourselves by ignoring its spirit Work
ing six days. Why not alter it to seven? Others
sFould like it best if work were abandoned en-
I tirely Honoring father and mother-that
ishould be left out, so many of the modern
youth insist by word and deed Thou shalt
not kill Not so commonly overlooked, this
zone. but enough to prove a menace today
! How many would eliminate the seventh
Tournament? Writers of sex novels, who
teach the supremacy of ones own way, those
Forgetting its vows; the youth caught in the
flaming whirl of youth; the consclenceless who
make desire their master-all these Stealing
bearing false Witness coveting. all are COM
mon sins today. How many transgressors in
these ways would toss aside the sacred law as
they do its observance. if they could?
i The Ten Commandments have stood the test
diving. We may tamper with them, ignore them.
~ We please. but their essence of truth re-
mains fundamsnkaEnot to be altered.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
When Luxuries Become Necessities.

kE a new house is rising in your neighbor-
hood. Go over there. pick up piece of shin
shg metal out of key and the carpenter will
tel you it's ten-penny nail Penny, in con-
nection with nails, is measure OF size. Orig
inally 1t designated the price per hundred.
ut1us ten penny nail means one that costs 10
cents hundred Wholesale. The name has lost
its old time meaning because today you can
buy the nails dirt cheap Yet years ago the
price was not considered high. for previously
Buildings were put together with hard wooden
Hks. Maybe you have noticed them when an
ancient house was torn down. In the name
81 sthe ten penny nail you have the key to the
whole scheme of modern life-cheap prices
made possible by quantity production. Nearly
fir Of mans important productive inventions
were discovered within the last 200 years. For
Thousands of years before that human muscles
were in a general sense the only important
Aaehinery.>
sfiCaligula, the spendthrift Roman emperor. at
m4 banquets served tongues OF birds brought
ff9m great distances by relays Of the swiftest
Tslnners at tremendous expense There is no
HFnand today for bird tongues TO tickle the
palate II there were this ancient delicacy
would be put up in big canning plants or
rushed in refrigerator cars by fast express
The price would be extremely low, compared
WITH, Caiigula's time. For instance, a few
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, M.
Noted Physician and Aurnor.

present in the blood and other It's
sues is greater than in health. For
instance an increased amount is
generally found in cases of chronic
lead poisoning, arterioscleros1s 5,
chronic nephritis, leukemia and ad-
vaneed desk-charitis. Oh. yes, L
suppose it is only fair to include
.gout in this list. But the point l
wish to make is that none OF these
morbid conditions, not even govt,
can be intelligently ascribed 10
uric acid as a cause. Wouldn't 1t
be silly, now, to imagine that uric
acid causes lead poisoning or the
deadly desk chair disease?
At the risk of seeming teratolog-
ical, on the one hand-and dom
let it worry you if you're not on
that hand@-or homely on the other,
| give it as my own crystallized
opinion that increased uric acid
simply indicates decreased oxygen
absorption, diminished metabolism,
to be continued tomorrow.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
How Not TO Raise Children.

1
the course of the years, have ask
ed me to tell them how not to raist
children, and u have invariably de
clined to give such Information OF
the unreasonable ground that I d.
not like life in prison. l tried i
once and l don't want to go tt
prison again. served a whole
night there, and that was plenty
But here is a question so wordet
that 1 have concluded it will bt
safe for me to answer it here il
print, telling folks how not to raist
children, and l doubt the law car
reach me for this offense.
Would you. asks n. D. c., advise
giving young children a bite OF
yeastcake once in a while?
Answer-No.
Great Stuff for Youngsters.
I am the mother of three chill
dren, and every one of them at the
age of or 4, coaxes for egg-nog
l put very little sugar in it and beat
the egg thoroughly before putting
in milk. 1t usually has an incl
Of foam on it They want it daily
People tell me egg-nog is just fol-
sick folks. Please give me your
suggestion. MRS. W. A. A.
Answer-If you have mentioned
all the ingredients it is fine stuff
for the youngsters. But eggnog
usually means a dash of wine OF
whisky, and that would be mighty
bad stuff for children.
1t Would Depend on the Lady.
Would you advise a lady of sc
years to submit to an operation for
the removal of bunion joints when
said person has serious leakage OF
the heart? N. D. G..
Answer-It would depend entire
ly on the lady. That is a question
for your personal physician.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
The Trie Acid Rugbear.

l.
A healthy adult has about two
and a half ounces of uric acid in
his blood when he is insgood fight
ing trim
This will come as sad blow to
the hopes and aspirations OF the
confirmed almanac reader and 1t
may give an unhappy hour to those
who delight to dope and diet them
selves for an imaginary morbid
acid condition of the blood. Physi-
ology is indeed an unpopular sub
ject. and unlike castor oil it is
something people just hate to take.
yet, unlike castor oil. it is really
good for what ais folks. Unlike
castor oil, physiology doesn't come
in bottles or packages from the
drug store.
A very good doctor caught a bad
coryza and the germs settled in
his antrum, if you know what |
mean. Anyway the doctor had to
remain at home as a patient for
few days, while a colleague attend
ed to his large practice. Well, the
colleague was young, scientific and
altogether too honest. Among the
patients he looked after was a child
with scarlet fever. The child made
fine recovery. But, when the reg
ular doctor got back on, the job the
family gave him the gate, as they
say at Vassar. Seems they were
tearin' mad because the substitute
physician had prescribed no medi-
cines. People are like that. The
young doctor will learn in time to
give people what they want-if he
means to remain in practice. 1t is
entirely futile and exceedingly bad
for a doctors health to attempt to
give people what they need Every
body knows he knows wee bit
more than the doctor thinks he
knows about what people should
have. Take grandma If grandma
is around, I'd earnestly advise all
young doctors, make the medicine
snappy, make it taste like a trial
package of the fiend's own broth,
and you've got grandma hooked.
On the other hand, make the medi-
cine mild and pleasant, or, if you
are reckless enough, just neglect
to prescribe any at all should the
conditions call for no medicine at
the moment, and you may rest as
sured you won't have that family
on your list much longer.
The amount of uric acid present
in the blood land the other issues
of the body in health remains
practically the same Irrespective Of
the diet. Thus it is the acme O.
absurdity for the misguided indi-
vidual with the uric acid obsession
to avoid tomatoes, red meats and
maybe cherry pie, although many
a deluded victim of this obsession
ina gines he must do so.
In certain morbid or diseased
conditions the amount of uric acid
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
The Daily Short Story

Mari that he loved her She would
be waiting for him under the big
| tree. and glad, very glad, he hoped.
She would sing and talk.
That did not happen. He would
forget that he had seen her lovely
ard wonderful, in the arms of an
other man - a strange man He
would forget the terrible ache that
filled his heart as he stood there,
mute, half dazed, and watched
them He had left that behind
him and had gone away to lose
himself in whirI of color and ac-
Ition- He had come again to Flow
Ierdale-older, but still strong He
would stay there. always. In sim
pliclty, he could, he believed, find
big things to live for.
Slowly he opened his eyes. A
twittering bird darted past him, al
most brushing his arm with its
wing. Leisurely he followed its
course to the bluebird house. And
then. suddenly, he saw the blue
bird house, which was red when
he went away, had been painted
brown, with a soft green roof. It
looked like a miniature Flowerdale.
He unused and wondered over it.
Who had visited his lonely bunga-
low and painted the bluebird house?
Little children, perhaps. Little
children with rosy. chubby faces
and shining eyes, who loved the
birds. They must have user a lad
der or chair, and how triumph
ant they must have felt, when they
had their task completed. Maybe.
too, little children splanted the
smiling pansies which he discover
ed, in bloom, near his feet. He
would like to have seen them while
they were at work
Suddenly the man rose to his feet
and listened. From the direction
of the garden came low, sweet
voice, trilling as gracefully and as
free as a bird. Melody MART
Swiftly, as though she were used
to frequenting the spot, she came
toward him. her eyes upon the
ground. She was startled when she
lifted them and saw him.
oh" she said, laughing, you
here?"
The man strobe toward her. Half
fearing, half expecting, he looked
into her deep eyes. YES" he said.
land you-what made Won
come-here? You surely didn't ex-
pect me?"
"You? Oh, no, You are never.
never here when 1 come, Duff Nc
Keene,''
Her voice was gay-Iike it al
ways was-and yet. he thought,
sincere. Was it that which gave
him courage to speak again? but
what made you Gomez" he repeated
She laughed again, laugh that
was not, he was sure all joy. 81
come every day-and sing, like I
used TOTO the bungalow and the
birds and you You haven't seen
my pansies and the new color of
the bluebird house? 1 don't like
your color scheme, Mr.. McKeene.
Red. A red bluebird house in the
midst OF that pink and yellow gar
dem"
But what do you care about the
garden-about me?" asked the mar.
almost fiercely. 81 don't under
stand you"
81 don't either understand You
either" she replied, quietly.
AS she spoke, the man watched
the expression of her face change
from its gayness to sudden anger.
What did she mean? He had never
seen her face like that Had he
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11
MELODY MARI.
Hester CalderwOOd Cunningham.

By
Hester CaIderwOOd Cunningham.
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
Flowerdale. 1t hadn't changed
brown bungalow with its soft
green roof and white doors. Leafy
trees and shrubbeTy grew about it
the same trees and shrubbery
that had been there for years. The
path to the garden was still there
the garden was there, too, full OF
roses and hollyhocks. sweetly frag-
rant ones that sWayed lazily in the
afternoon breeze. Maybe, the same
fleecy white clouds floated above it
and the same tiny bluebirds played
about the bluebird house that stood
so straight on a slender pole.
Duff Mckeene, the owner of the
little brown bungalow, Flowerdale,
had been away from it a year: a
long year of confused, whirling,
cramped city life. 1t had not pleas
ed him, so he came back.
Eagerly, yet slowly. the tall,
dark man, who was young in years
but old in his face, moved about the
cottage and the yard. Home again.
Always, he believed, when one
came home one found it sweetly
familiar, yet painfully strange. 1t
looked like some big, almost hui
man thing-this empty house-his
home. 1t seemed to him as though
it was almost. ready to speak to
him, perhaps, or tell him how it
had spent the long, long days alone.
YEARLY the man sat down on the
brown door step. A moment be-
fore.> gay butterflies had danced
above it, making fleeing, lacey
shadows upon its surface. 1t was
good to be back in this secluded,
quiet spot. 1t gave him strength,
he thought, and courage. The
hum of the bees, busy over the
wild. SPRAYING blossoms, came
dreamily to his tired ears. It
soothed his nerves. The same did
the rustIing of the leaves in the
wind and crickets' hum. Some
where, down along the green slope,
where the pastures were, he could
hear the faint, CHEEKY tinkle of
single cowbell. He fancied, too
that he could hear children's voic-
es at play, and the ripping of
little brook.
Ha. But this was not paradise
not now! 1t may have been once,
perhaps, when Marjorie Melody
Marj-was there to make it. Mel
ody Mari! Where was she and her
low, sweet voice now-her voice,
SO warm and happy. and yet. he
had learned to know, so insincere?
The man suddenly closed his
eyes tight. He had come back to
where memories of her were al
ways before him. But he would
forget. He would forget that she
had given him pain-that he had
ever hoped. He would forget the
sweet melodies she used to
sing to him and to the little brown
bungalow and the bluebirds.
Yet, even as he vowed to forget.
he recalled 1t made him feel old
er than he looked-and alone, ter
ribly alone. There had been a
moon-big and yellow-and the
smell of growing things, refresh
insly fragrant. after a summer
shower. was in the air. He had
gone down the lake path to meet
Melody Mari. They met there al
ways and sat close by the Quiet.
blue water. He was happy. very
happy, for he would tell Melody
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11

NOTING the headline, Fire Cuts Des
MONIES News Plant, and repetition of the
second word in the story beneath, a gentleman
phones us that probably the natives never
sausage a fire before.
'Eaven 'Elp Hus! Ha Bloomin' Cockney Hin
Ha German HunifOrm!!
From the Clown Princes Memoirs1
Their tongues are loosed Thew are
all thoroughbred Berliners Most of them
know me. At first they grumble at the
length of the war, but they add: We'll.
well set the kid on It's toddIers"
Soon have to leave for other troons
An old chap stands up-a man of quite
sand holds out his horny hand TO
me. saying: You're our ole WiIlem and
we shant forget your comm to see ms
ere; when we goes back to the front
we'll think O. you, and you shant ave
no cause to complain O. us" thunder
of hurrahs echoed over the blood soaked
Chemin des Danes.
THE foregoing would seem to answer our
recent query to who is writing the frIorn
Princes memoirs. Obviously the author is an
Englishman.
REWRITING Cor rather, descendins) To the
Clown Prince note that according to the
w &. n headline. he calls Argonne attack bv
u s. i'll arranged.
The German defense must have been q
% s<zl.eE arranged. R E. NC
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-11

O. How may grass stains be re-
moved from a child's rompers?
F. P.
A. To remove grass stains. dip
the portion of the article affected
into molasses, and wash out in
clear water. Alcohol applied to
the sports also eradicate them.
@. What is colloidal chemistry ?
s. H. T.
A. Colloidal chemistry is the
chemistry Of systems consisting of
extremely finely divided material,
such as bubbles, drops, grains. fila
ments, and films, in a state of sus-
pension in other material. The
chemist calls this system a "hetero-