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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-02-02

he saw three doors one etidrnlf lrt
Into the kitchen. me Int" ranlri
and one into = hall. II 8as eloaf The
women were alone. or som" onp would
have come IN answer 10 his call Ahe
conid teil when they would come
There was no time TO he lost. " NJ
an instinct, which proved correct. IL
opened the door leading into The OH
kitchen. and there, tied. and with pub
faces, but In no other SENSE diSur
dered, were Sheila and her mother lie
put his fingers 10 his lips then hastily
cut them loose from the ropes Of bain
boo. and helped them To their feel.
Can you walk" he whispered n
Airs. Llyn. She nodded assent. and
braced herself. Then here" he said
us a pistol Come quickly. We mas
have 10 fight our way out. poD'l b.
afraid to fire. but take good aim iirsl
| lraye some men In the wood bey"uf
whore YOU shot the native" he ad''e
to Sheila. They'll come ~ once if +
call, or Shot is fired Kerp your
heads, aud we shall be nlI right
They're a dangerous crew. but We'll
beat them this time | think Come Us
quickly as you can"
Presently they were In tie refet.
tory, and moment after thai they
were over the stones, aud near the On
trance OF the ruins and then n native
appeared. armed and running in With
ont an Instants hesitation ltvck ran
forward, and as he entered pun his
sword into the mans 4,ials. and IL
fell. calling Out ~ he fell.
THE rest will be ON uS now" said
Dyck. "and we must keep going"
He was about 10 issue FROM IA,
place when three more uaiitrs mp
peared. and he shot two without waii
ing. Catching n pistol from Sleiln h,
aimed al The third naiivr and wound
ed him, but did noi Kill him The mar
ran into the wood snrron5uin. TIN
monastery. Presently morn Maroon.
came-a dozen or more. and rn>he,
for the entrance. They Wrrp mel by
Dyck's fire. and now also Sheila iired
and brought down her man. Dyct
fred again aud wounded anoIher. ana
With great skill loaded again. bnt n
that moment three NJ The Maroou~. in
a whrlwind of rage. rushed down I'M.
the ruins.
II was dark and they were aston
ished to see that Dyck was 1nrre. am
they were more astOniShed /" rccciv
first one and then 1nothcr-his iron
in their bowels. The lhird man mad,
a stroke nj IINck with his lance an
did no more Than cash nyck.S lef
arm Then he turned and He'd on lutr
the open. and was mel by liaIf-tloZrl
others. They all We're about In ruSl
the entrance when suddenly fon
shots behind them hrnu.hl three o
them down. and the RESI- He'd into ia
wood shouting In another mornrr'
Dyek and The ladies' were in the opeh
and making for. the woods, the women
In front, the nlen behind, loading their
muskets AS they ran, and alive TO the
risks of the moment.
The dresses of the ladies' were
stained and soiled with dust and
damp, but otherwise they seemed lit
| tie The worse for the adventure. save
that Mrs. Llyn was shaken. and her
| face was ashcn gray.
How did you know where we were,
md why did you Gomez she said, aft
er they had mounted and had got IN.
Ter way, having secured the hurses
which Sheilu and her mother had rid
den.
Briefly p!rk explained hoX. ~ soon
rs he had dealt with the revolt OF
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with fair mind and he had around
MIN mon savage and irre>pnnst,,le
BLACK and ruthless. they would sion
at nothing except the sword M their
threats ar lie teeth in ,hetr flesh"
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with a grim smile. Yes. that i tho
only way with Them. Naurlit can pnt
the fear of God into them excent hln,rl
hounds aud Than Lord Mallow Will moi
have He has been scr against II ma.
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him lie may change his mind po,y
s,ncc what no cores FOR ts In danger-
his Mace and bis I,dio.up
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lard oi Thinks

wish Ia state my appref iattn ani
thanks for the Kindness OF my fren1a
and neiEhbors during my recent con
huemont on account OF accident. !
am especially indebted 10 them for
their aid in filling my ice house.
Raymond \. Kicker
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Expensive Economy.

designations have recently been occurring
in such large numbers in the patent office in
Washington that more than half of the pres
ent examining force is made up of men ap-
pointed within the last two years. These new
men are inexperienced; they have generally
no knowledge of patent law and no legal train
ing. The resultant conditions in the patent
office said to be deplorable. More than
fifty thousand applications for patents are
awaiting examination. In several of the divi-
sions the examining force is so overburdened
that it takes from eleven months to a year be-
fore the first action is taken.
When it is considered that large and COM
pick industrial interests are vitality affected by
the way in which the patent office operates it
can readily be seen that for every dollar saved
by policy which cripples its efficiency the
country loses a hundred. 1t is universally rec
ognized that the industrial progress of the
country is to a great extent based upon its
patent system which is considered to be the
best in the world and largely responsible for
the nations remarkable industrial develop
ment. To permit this instrumentality of gen
eral well being to fall into disrepair at this
time, when industrial activity needs every pos
sible assistance and encouragement, is little
short of crime. And it is peculiarly mex
cusable in view of the fact that the fees re-
ceived from inventors more than cover the
cost of running the patent office, and would
suffice to meet the expense of adequate sal
aries. A bill to remedy the evil is pending in
congress, but its consideration appears to be
blocked by MIR. Mondell the Republican house
leader, on the ground that the patent office will
be taken care of in the general reclassification
bill for government employees. But this will
at best not go into effect for year, and in the
meanwhile enormous mischief will be done
through the inefficiency of the patent office.
There is no excuse for delaying the restoration
of that office to it's former condition of COM
jetent and adequate service.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
School for the Plumber.

Master plumbers of the state have adopted a
resolution requesting the University of Illinois
to develop course in plumbing to prepare ap-
prentices for the trade. This action Of the
plumbers opens up great possibilities in the
line of vocational training. If the state uni
versity is to train apprentices for one trade
it must prepare to train them for all other
trades. The University Of Illinois would there
fore become vocational institution, or,
perhaps, double-nstitution. one devoted to the
higher cultural education and the other to the
purely manual and vocational subjects AS
requisite to entrance 10 instruction in these
trades the same educational qualifications
could not very well be imposed as are required
for admission to the professional or technical
schools.
On the other hand, it is contended, the uni
versity trains farmers and stock raisers and
conducts schools in certain branches of en-
cheering and mechanics. But there is a very
marked difference between these schools and
the supposed vocational schools. The colleges
in engineering and mechanics are highly spe-
cialized. They are designed to equip men for
leadership in these lines, to be instructors, de-
signers and craftsmen in the very highest realm
of their professions There is another angle
to the request of the master plumbers They
realize that plumbing has developed to such a
degree that the old methods OF instructing APP
prentices are no longer sufficient. Scientific
and modern plumbing is requiring higher
order of preliminary training and experience
Can this be secured in the shop or must work
be supplemented by special college prepara-
toni
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Another Conference.

1t is gratifying to observe the willingness
of Peru and Chile to send representatives to
Washington to settle their territorial dispute
with the aid of Uncle Sam. There will be an
othef Washington conference, of limited and
strictly American character The acceptance
of Chile is especially pleasing because that
not been generally considered by Americans to
have so good a case Peru. The obvious duty
of the press in this country is TO preserve a
wholly neutral attitude while the diplomats
work out solution in the friendly and peace
full atmosphere of Washington. If the owner
ship of the rich provinces of Tacna and africa
can be settled there satisfactory machinery
be created for settling it, it will be a triumph
for American diplomacy more notable than the
rather brusque settling of the row between
Panama and Costa Rica.
1t may seem rather odd that Chile and Peru
have not yielded to the overtures of the League
of Nations, and taken their dispute to that tri-
bunal, for they both members of the
league 1t may seem odd that the Pan-Ameri-
can league, which was organized by the United
States and which maintains its headquarters
in Washington, and will soon have a meeting
there is not entrusted with such a problem
Our own people would doubtless like to have
such purely American disputes settled by this
part would free the United States from any
appearance of dictation arrogance. But as
long no international organization is
handling the job, Uncle Sam has to do it, to
keep peace in the American family of nations.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

demanding more servfceable construction. And
those responsible for road building are begin
ing to be aware Of this condition Scientific
study of the best type OF road for this or that
section of the country. for given amount OF
traffic and for the materials that are most
readily available, has been undertaken with
promise of results that may mean the ultimate
elimination of much gueswork from road build
ing, together with much better roads and con-
siderably more return on the money invested.
For several years the United States bureau
of public roads and, in limited manner, GER
tain state highway departments, have been
investigating the value, under given conditions,
of various types of road. But in recent months
there have been in operation two tests OF road
construction that are decidedly distinctive and
practical, as well as highly scientific. These
are the tests on the Bates experimental road
in Illinois and on an experimental highway at
Pittsburgh Calf In both these limit
ed amount of road built of certain mater
ials by sections, and trucks of varying loads
were run over the highways for weeks and
months. Results have been carefully noted
In the Illinois experiment it has been discov-
cred, among other things, that elimination Of
moisture from the subgrade is an impossibiiity
and that the moisture must be considered a
permanent factor in the building. 1t was dis
covered, too, that laboratory tests as to the
stress of a certain load must be accepted at
not more than fifty-five per cent in the build
ing of a road that is meant to withstand act
ual wear of traffic. A four-inch concrete sur
face that might appear satisfactory in the labor
atory would have to be made an eight-inch sur
face for a real road.
In the California experiment there were
tests of 10 types of road including the type
used extensively by the state highway depart
ment. The startling result was that this type,
upon which millions of dollars had been spent,
was the first of the Is to break down. 1t was
a five-inch concrete surface. reinforced by 20
tons of steel per mile. 1t found also that
the same surface thickness with "a tons of steel
reinforcement to the mile would not stand up.
Plain concrete of eght-inch thickness, how
ever, showed better results. as did the iive-inch
thickness with SIS tons of steel reinforcement
to the mile. What kind of road should not be
built appears to be the clearest demonstration,
far, of the California experiment But the
kind of road that should be constructed in both
states, as we'll as in other states where
ditions are similar may be revealed by these
and like experiments elsewhere when sufi-
GENTLY prolonged.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Second Birthday of League.

The League of Nations has completed its
second year as a growing organization. VITAL
conspicuous, unique in its vast field. By no
means has the league accomplished the tasks
that lay piled up before it at its momentous
birth. That is partly due to the fact that its
membership still has lamentable gaps. 1t
should include Germany, the key to continental
Europe; it should include Russia, which must
in some manner resume its work of developing
northern Asia, and its own wide steppes; it
should include the United States, more respon-
sible than any other nation for its existence,
and more necessary to its operation.
Nevertheless, with 81 member nations, in
Guiding a number of the greater powers, the
league is the sole sanction behind the restored
authority of international law, the peace of
Versailles is the latest expression. 1t is the
one authority giving a wider than national
meaning to the old American aspiration for an
assurance of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. The strongest claims that the
league is doing nothing come from those who
have done and are doing their worst to keep
it from doing anything. And those claims
false
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Wages OF Neglect.


Men undergoing for the first time
careful physical examination. as
for army service or for life insur-
ance, are often surprised to learn
that they have some functional dis
turbance caused, perhaps, by cardio
vascular degeneration. 1t may be
trace of albumin, or blood pres
sure little too high, or inability
to hold the breath 40 seconds, or
faulty heart action. Such men are
surprised by the adverse report of
the examining physician. They pro-
Tess to believe that their health has
been all right up to the time of
the examination. But what the av-
erage man considers fair" health
is not necessarily the normal physi-
cal condition for one of his age.
"Oh, yes" the patient with cardio
vascular degeneration grudgingly
admits, when cross-examined, I've
have stomach trouble, more or less
occasional headaches, little rheu-
matism, and such things, but not
bad enough to have a DOCTOR
What is cardio vascular degen-
Grafton? 1t is literally heart artery
wearing out too early in life. 1t
includes insidious heart muscle
failure, hardening of the arteries,
high blood pressure, chronic ne
phritis (Bright's disease)-but not
the imaginary kidney trouble the
almanac reader has when his back
hurts-and apoplexy cerebral
hemorrhage, 'stroke of paralysis.")
All of these varying expressions of
cardio vascular degenration come,
not suddenly nor without warning,
but very slowly, insidiously and
with years of the most unmistak-
able warnings. But, unfortunately,
the victims of cardio vascular dis
ease usually prefer to interpret
these warnings in their own way
and to deal with them as Tom, Dick
and Harry recommends. Not until
they are really down and out do
they at last feel i'll enough to have
care.
1t is the most incomprehensible
thing to my mind that most peo-
pie, though shrewd enough in gen.
eral affairs, seem determined to
gamble year after year until they
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Guessing and Road Building.

Building roads that would not stand up un-
der traffic has been favorite pastime in Amer
lea for a number of years. Aside from graft
and political manipulation in the construction
of roads the situation has been due to the fact
that America entered the road building game
rather late and has been under obligations to
meet wide demand with the least possible de-
lay, under conditions that made of small avail
the experience Of foreign countries in the
field. Fortunately, the evil of this form of
procedure is being recognized. 1t is becoming
evident that. in view of the vast sums that are
going into road work. the public is insistently
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

@. Isn't an American who served
in the Canadian army entitled to a
Canadian victory medal?
w. S.
A. An American serving with the
Canadian army is entitled to a vic
tory medal from the Canadian gov
eminent. 1t may be obtained by
writing to the secretary military
council, director of records, Ottawa,
Ontario. Can.
@. What are the Greek and Latin
words for corn or maize?
B. L. NJ.
A. There are no Greek or Latin
names for the plant because it was
unknown to the Greeks and Ro-
mans.
@. Did the United States pay COM
missions for the sale of bonds dur
ing the World war? T. F. o.
A. The treasury department says
that the government paid no COM
missions to banks or individuals
selling liberty bonds.
@. Which is sweeter, brown or
white sugar? D. /. X.
A. The brown sugar that is on
the market today is not as sweet
as granulated sugar, because in the
present process of making granu-
lated sugar, the brown sugar is
worked over and over again to OBJ
tain the greatest amount of granu-
lated sugar possible.
@. What is dowager? B. e. F.
A A dowager is a widow with a
dover. This title is usually only
applied to widows of persons Of
high rank as the Queen Dowager
or DOwager Duoh hess.
Q. How long does it take>to tame
al elephant2 G. H. S.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
Questions and Answers.

Discharging Ear-Please tell me
the cause and effect upon health of
a discharging ear. Z. L.
Answer-The cause may be abb
scess or boil in the outer ear canal,
but If the discharge has continued
for some weeks or months it is more
likely chronic middle ear infiam-
nation. Cause, usually infection
reaching middle ear from nose or
throat, by way of eustachian tube !;
result or complication of adenoids,
enlarged tonsils, simple rhinitis
(head cold, scarlet fever or other
throat and nose infection. A run
ming ear is menace to health and
life until the disease which pro-
duces it is cured.
Free and Untrammeled Infancy
Which is better for the baby's belly
band, cotton or wool? MRS. A D.
Answer-Wool. being elastic, re-
tains the dressing better than a
cotton binder. As soon as the ma
val dressing can be dispensed with,
of course the belly band should be
discarded.
Vaccination and Health-When a
group of children are vaccinated,
and it works On some but not on
others, is that an indication of good
or bad blood? NJ. D.
Answer-No. 1t may be faulty
or exhausted virus, faulty tech
niQue, natural immunity to small
pox inherited from well vaccinated
parents. Usually the vaccination
takes the second or third time. The
state of the childs health is i'm
material so far as the success of
vaccination is concerned
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Any question Dy 0FibnS Inc argus AA4OiI-
:. Washington. D. T. Give full asme -
return postage. Be brief Al inquiries a.
To each individual 80 s1tsAIon AL
A. The Asiatic elephants are rs
ually tanned within a few months
after being captured. There seems
to be no reason why the African
elephants could not be tanned ana
educated as well as the Aslallc
species, except that the African
native has no use for it.
@. Please let me know whether
Sir Francis Drake had flagship
E.W.
A. THE Golden Hind" was me
flagship of Sir Francis Drake.
@. What is the warmest part Of
British Columbia and can corn Do
raised there? {. J.
A. The warmest part Of British
Columbia is on the western coass
where the climate is exceed hsLy
mild, being very similar TO thal u
southern England. Corn anu
peaches are two of the staple crops
@. What is gehlenite! u. =
B.
A. The geological survey slys
that gehlenite is a silicate OF alum
mum. 1t is used in the manaIa-
ture of pottery.
@. What is the temperature Oh
Popayan?-A NJ. p.
A. The City of Popayan, Colon coon.
bia, is on a high plateau. ana '"i
climate is spoken OF as peTPe''"'
spring.
@. How does the sun compare Id
brilliancy with electricity?
A. 1t is not easy to make q con.
parison of this kind. but louU
Astronomy says that "the sun
nearly four times brighter than nv
brightest part of the electric ar
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, M. Z
Noted Physician ard aurnor.

have lost the most precious thing
in the world. and then spend their
final days uttering libels upon the
doctors who can't undo the harm
wrought by years of self expert
mentation. What a fool l should
be, knowing nothing of the mechan-
ical part of an automobile, to drive
the car to rack and ruin and never
seek the experts skilled assistance
when little troubles developed from
time to time because Of my own
negligence!
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Chicago Divorce with S40,OO0.OOO, who Is
to marry a poor mechanics declares that wealth
does not insure happiness. Now that she has
a man who really loves her, will she proceed
to divest herself of her fortune? ~She will not
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Law is proposed in Massachusetts to pro-
bibit sale of candy to children under ID with
out consent of parents on ground that sweets
decay teeth. If this kind of business continues
eventually there will be no fun in being young.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Champaign railway official was horse
whipped in street by former young woman en-
ploye about whom he said to have made
defamatory remarks. If what the young wo-
man alleges is true he got what he deserved.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-03

Because of fear of influenza women guests
at the wedding of Princess Mary OF England
are to cover their backs and wear hats. Strange
that the wedding wasn't postponed until the
danger had disappeared.