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THE ROCK ISLAND AIIGUS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. H)1. THE ARGUS. Published amy at lt Beeooa v Rock Island. I1U (EntrS at Ilia postofflc cond-cIaM matter.) Mc tUa4 MtaWt f tk As rimt BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TEAKS Tin cants per wack by car rier, la Rock Island; IS P r ys-r by mall la adranca. Complaints of delivery aerrtra shoulJ ba nada t the circulation department which should aviso ba notified in ererj aataace . where It Is desired to have paper discontinued, as carriers have authority to the premises. , All eoiEZBanlcatlons o ararumentatlvs character. political r- reiIloaa, must hare real, name attached for publica tion, j?o such articles will bs printed ever Ootltlous el (nature a. Trlephonea In all departments. Cen tra Union, Rock Island 14S. 1140 a&d Thursday, September 24, 1914. Better call off the peace dove before - somebody with a run mistakes it for an aeroplane. To climax the confusion and turmoil which is distracting the civilized world Lillian Russell had to hare her appendix cut out. The French international aviation contests have been called off for this year, bul that doesn't mean dull times for the aviation corps. CTHADCS rvVi? COUNCti-3 It is surprising what long chances I . people will take on a mushroom, cs pe ' clally when dietetists tell us that there ' Isn't a molecule of digestible material - la a bushed of the fungi Harry Thaw, the dispatches state, has gotten hold of a piece of the coke trust's money. As a consumer of coke In his early day Harry probably had something coining from this source. The Federal league pennant race is interesting, no doubt, but as yet the Insane hospitals in this part of the state are not seriously crowded with those who have lost their reason OTer it. Of course the reception to Colonel Roosevelt was aimed to be more or less nonpartisan but it was noticed that the G. O. F. old guard did not take reckless chances with the big moose. The e:te of the old Commercial house must look to republican leaders more than ever like pictures of places where the Zeppelin bombs struck, now that the colonel indulged in an explos ion there. The department of agriculture has taken come pains to show the farmer why he should not kec-p his eggs so long before sending them to market. If he farmer hadn't before eu?pected the reason it Is time somebody tipped it off to him. The beer glass has been considered a dangerous weapon and its use as inch pointed to as an argument against the saloon, but over in dry Am boy the other diy one man killed an ither by hitting him over the head sith a lemonada mag. If one bull, unaided, can kill IS armed Germans, and one Spaniard with a sppr can kill a bull nine times out of ten the allies might profitably employ their diplomatic corps, which hare nothing else to do, trying to get Spain Into the fracas on their side. The department of agriculture has begun a search for a wireless station secreted somewhere In the mountains of the Pacific coast which is said to be handling messages In violation of the rules of neutrality. Successful polar explorers ought to be especially trained for such a task. Why not try out Doc Cook? THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. In six weeks the November elections ' will be held. Seldom have elect! ns during an "off"' year been so import ant as those of this year. For the first time since President " Wilson's election In 1912 the voters , of the country have the opportunity presented to them on Tuesday, Nor. 3. to express their approval at the , polls upon the faithful service be and his administration have given the . country. There can be no doubt, says the State Register, as to what the con . census of these views are. The Maine election points with almost unerring I i, ... . i. ,u . ...i-i "T-.the services rendered them by defeat "Ting reactionary republican candidates ' .- for office. The only thing that can prevent a verdict of endorsement cf President -Wilson and the democratic party is ' that many voters will feel so satisfied and In full accord with the democratic "policies that they will neglect to go to the polls thinking that there will be no need for their votes. The possibll ' ity of such a result of over-confidence '. . can be orercoma by the earnest work r of the local committees and the active . - workers to perfect organization that will insure a full democratic vote. Ev '. ry locality must have a share in the -work. Every democrat can hare a . share la It. IX democrats In Illinois put In their f best licks" the democrats will carry ' the state. If the democrats of every congres- ; Hlonal district exert themselves every (democratic congressman now on duty will be returned to congress and some seat rained from the republicans. If the democrats of the senatorial districts do not fall to attend the polls. Illinois will Iiave a democratic legis lature. If the democrats of Sangamon coiin ty all go to the polls as they should do, the county democratic candidates will be reelected. There is no doubt that all these things will come to pass on Tuesday Not. 3. If democrats do not become too confident and neglect the duty of go ing: to the polls and casting their rotes democratically and right. THE COMING OF ROOSEVELT Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, twice president of the United State, made Rock Island a brief visit thla morning. As ono who has enjoyed the greatest honors the greatest of nations can confer, 'lie was worthy of the attention he received. He was greeted by a tre mendous throng on Market square, as any man of his prominence would at tract. Colonel Roosevelt entered Illinois for a two days' tour at Rock Island, his mission being purely political. His object was to boost the progressive r-arty. H:s speech, a very tame one. was devoted mainly to the lauding ot the bull moose organization, which he said lias a definite purpose, and held that republicans who are progressive at heart should vote their convictions, and not stick to their old ticket for the purpose of getting back at the dem ocrats, for by returning the republican party to power it would only be a question of a short time iwhen t"e country would return to the demo cratic party. He referred, only to the United Suites senatorship campaign in Illinois by eaymg the people should compare the records of Robins. Sullivan and Sherman. While the disposition of the crowd seemed to be to see, rather than to hear, the colonel taking It altogether, seemed to have had "a bully time" in Rock Island, and everybody is glad if he did. DO COLONIES PAY? A very blight young man named Norman Angell recently wrote a very interesting book entitled "The Great Illusion." in which he attempted to show, among other things, that colon ies have proved a hindrance rather than a help to the people of colonizing European nations. He marshalled plausible arguments which seemed to warrant the conclusion that any coun try might consider itself fortunate la deed whenever it happened to be dis possessed of a part or all of its col onial empire by some other power. He mentioned Spain as a shining example. Spain's possessions In the new world as well as In the old, he showed, were weak spots in the Don b armor. When Uncle Sam ap propriated the Philippines and Porto Rico and helped Cuba gain her Inde pendence he did Spain a great favor. The Spanish people, he pointed out. Immediately following the Spanish American war began to prosper as they had not prospered before, while the cost of running King Alphonso's government was materially de creased. Mr. Angell brought forth facts to show that governments no longer de rive a revenue from their colonies beyond the cost, of governing them. and that frequently colonies are a positive bill of expense. He showed, too, that bo far as trade Is concerned, the possession of colonies helps but little. France, with her vast colonial empire, has been steadily losing her trade, wh'le Germany, with compara tively unimportant colonies, has been rapidly gaining possession ' of the markets of the world. Mr. Angell, it i3 everywhere agreed, made a strong case against colonies. But he failed to grasp the significance of one important fact, namely, that colonies may be of tre mendous assistance to the mother country In times of war. It is said that the Turcos from Africa are the best fighter in the French army. Seventy thousand of them are today helping to win vic tories from the Germans. A much larger number of native fighters from Africa can be mustered by France if need be. These black men from the dark cdatinent are not only hardy and fearless, but they have mastered all the finer points of mod ern warfare. They would be a wel come addition to the army of any nation. Almost as much can be said of the native fighters from India, who form a part of the great tfriuen tig tiling machine. For weeks East Indians by thousands have been pouring across Canada on their way to the seat of war. They are likely to give a good account of themselves on Eu ropean battlefields. Canada. Australia and New Zea land are all furnishing picked armies to the mother country in her titanic f iniKKJB Willi urriuaur. x.eu me Boers of South Africa have declared their wQliLgness to help. And Can ada has assorted her willingness to aid with millions of hard cash as well as with tens of thousands of fighting men. Colonies may prove expensive and troublesome at times, but England and France Just now are not worry ing because they have them. PEACE ENVOY ENDS LIFE Guido Fusinato, Italian Delegate to The Hague, Kills Self. Venice. Sept. 24. via Parla-Guldo Fusinato, a member of the Italian chamber of deputies, and formerly under secretary for foreign affairs, committed suicide here yesterday by shooting himself The act is ascribed to lUnea. Signor Fusinato represent ed Italy at the last Hague peace conference. ILLINOIS STATE Illinois stato debt National debt .... World's debt .$ Z273.000 . 1,028,000,000 . 42,000,000,000 The United States department of commerce and labor has Just com pleted a report giving the indebted ness of the different states of the union, iho nation and the world. The data contained In the compilation re late to the year 1912. The state debt or Illinois is shown to be $2,273,000 that year, compared with SI. 446.000 thirty years previous, which is an In crease of 1327,000. The per capita Unpolished and Some health authorities advise the use of unpolished rice, but tne average housewife knows little about the dif ference between the polished and un polished grain, except that the former is the kind which is generally sold by the grocer. The department of agri culture, in Its weekly news letter to crop correspondents, toow explains the difference, as follows: Rice from the threshers, called in the Philippine Islands palay. Is hulled in many places by pounding by hand, but usually In a machine designed to remove the outer coat without injuring the seed. This product is almost al ways polished in order to please the fancies and conform to the established requirements of the consumers. The polishing process, as understood in the orient and by the best authori ties In this country, refers to the rub bing or scouring of the grains in var ious machines by which most of the bran coat or pericarp is removed. This product is often coated to improve its appearance. The coating process re fers to the addition of glucose, talc, or other foreign material to the surface of the already polished grain. The peoples of ABla use some true unpol ished rice; that Is, rice from which the hulls have bee's removed but on which the bran coat remains nearly In tact. Such an article Is very seldom furnished In the United States where the market supply is composed prin cipally of polished rice, most of which has also been coated. Polishing re moves a considerable portion of the fat, fiber, and inorganic salts, as well as flavor from the grain and some sub stances vital to nutrltlotn. . The whole question has aroused con siderable Interest in this country be cause it has been shown that the dis ease known as beriberi, which Is com mon in the orient, is due to the con sumption, as the main article of diet, of rice that has had the rran coat re moved. This bran layer, in the case of the people who live largely otn rice, is the only source of certain compounds Fog Signals. All the up-to-date light stations pos sess fog signals for warning the mar iner of the presence of rocks and oth er dangers In foggy weather. Tho larger ones are so powerful that their blasts can be heard 25 to "0 miles out at sea. Most of them are worked by compressed air. a gas engine of per haps 20 or 23 horsepower being - In former days, before the use of bacteriological cultures in diagnosis. there were two different diseases called croup. First there was spas modic or catarrhal croup. Then there was a deadly disease that resemblevl It only In that it affected, the throat, and this was called membraneous croup; it Is now called diphtheria of the larnyx, for we know what it Is. Taking advantage of this confusion of names and of the natural fears of a mother, a fellow with an alleged "cure" to sell begins his story In these words: Got a baby? Want to keep it? And then he soes on to tell you about his nostrum. Croup is a Symptom, Not a Disease. The truth of the matter is that spas modic or catarrhal croup is never fatal, but diptherla is very fatal when It af fects the larnyx. U Is true that in rare cases a mother might mistake diphtheria for simple croup and so delay seeking medical assistance. iut the average intelligent mother can or dinarily recognize the severe prostra tion which accompanies diphtheria. Spasmodic croup Is a symptom, not a disease. In young children the ner vous system is irritable. The slight est infection of the larnyx, the slight est catarrhal attack or so-called "cold" is liable to cause a spasmodic contrac tion of the throat muscles croup. Spasmodic croup comes on only at night when the child Is asleep. He goes to bed with a "slight cold" or sore throat that is to say an Infec tion acquired from contact wth an other "cold" or sore throat. His mother bundles him and coddles him and shuts out all the cold air she can. foolish, misguided woman. The Inev itable result is that the Irritated, suffo cated nervous system rebels, and the stridor or wheeze of croup comes on. Fresh Air Prevents and Cures. The reason the attack comes on at night is simply because the air Is too warm and close at night. A child sleeping In a cold, well ventilated rooms, tor on a porh, inever suffers with roup. And the quickest reme dy for 4bf attack is a full supply of cold fresh air from open windows. The worst cases of croup doctors see and it la becoming lees common INDEBTEDNESS state debt of this state in 1912 was 39 cents, and 40 cents In 1880. At the present time about 6.1 per cent of the population of the United States Is in Illinois, and seven;tenihs of one pef cent or the total debt is credited to this state. The national debt of the United States is $1,028,000,000, and the in debtedness or all countries ofl the world is S42.000.000.000. European countries owe about two-thirds or the world debt, and their proportion Is rapidly Increasing, as the preseut war, according to experts, Is costing on an, average of $50,000,000 per day. Uncoated Rice necessary to the processes of nutri tion. The absence of these compounds in the ration results in beriberi. Those who eat a varied diet get these ele ments in other foods. Formerly In the orient rice was milled to a great extent by hatad or by inadequate machinery, s that little more was done than to pound off the coarse outer hull, leaving the bran layer of the rice nearly intact. With the introduction of modern machinery into the orient the extensive machine milling of rice has developed. Much rice in the orletat is now very highly milled, so that all the bran coat la re moved. It is believed by the health authorities of the Philippine islands that highly polished rice tends to pro duce beriberi among the natives. For this reason the Philippine government permits Its hospitals, jails, and public Institutions to use only rice that has not been highly polished. The elimi nation of beriberi from these institu tions has resulted. This fact has been made use of by certain manufacturers and food fad dists In this country to frighten the public, and by so doing to gain a mar ket for their product. They have call ed their rice "unpolished" when as a matter of fact in many cases the rice they were selling would not be per mitted in the institutions controlled by the Philippine government. All the circumstances In the case should be considered. Since it has been proven that Filipinos, Chinese. Japanese, and other Asiatics and Malaysians con tract beriberi by eating highly milled, polished rice, it does not follow that eating such rice in the United States Is dangerous. If the American people lived almost wholly on rice, as do many Filipinos. Chinese, Japanese, and other peoples it would certainly be danger ous. However in America rice consti tutes only a small proportion of the diet, and with the variety of foods usually consumed no danger whatever of contracting beriberi or similar dis eases is likely to come from eating pol ished rice. brought into requlsitlon.Tor this pur pose. The siren is blown periodically every 78 or So seconds or so, the actu al blast lasting perhaps about two or three seconds. It means that while the siren is running, in the case of the larger apparatus, something like 500 horsepower is being expended (n the production of sound. Scientific Amer ican. every day are in hot stuffy bedrooms among the poorer class people who are commonly supposed to suffer most from "exposure." Remedies that stop an attack or spasmodic or catarrhal croup are (1) large moist compresses applied cold and allowed to remain on for an hour on the throat. (2) Lots of moist cold ulr. (3) If the breathing be comes very labored the spasm may be relaxed by a dose of syrup -of Ipe cac one teospoonful, repeated In 20 minutes if vomiting or relief is not ob tained. When a child is subject to attacks or typhoid fever before it fully devel proves the parents don't give the child enough outdoor air. Questions and Answers. F. W. K. asks: Is there. any known remedy which wyi break up en attack o ftyphoid fever before it fully devel ops? Reply: No. "Breaking up the fev er" usually means waiting and hop ing It will prove to be something less serious than typhoid. G. M. A. inquires: Will you advise me exactly what course to pursue for my case (a nervous disease) If I keep you fully informed by mail of my pro gress and pay you in advance for your services? Reply: George, don't tempt me to play a crooked part. Give the fee to your family doctor at home, or to a specialists he will refer you to, if you will ask him. Another victim writes: Referring to your recent answer to Mrs. J. II. S. regarding the Vlava cure-all, ptr mlt me to quote from the verdict of a coroner's Jury which investigated t' death of a woman under Vtavl treat ment in East Sussex, England, Feb. 25,1900: . . . we also think that the life of the deceased might have been prolonged had she been placed under properly qualified medical treat ment, and from the evidence brought before us. we consider the Vlavi com pany a fraud." Reply: I wonder If the Jury knew how miraculously this outrageous fake -feeds" its victims t i Why Croup Is Not Fatal, j j CHORDS AND DISCORDS Interviewing Colonel. I was the first one on the car when the train pulled In this morning. The colonel was asleep, but when my card was slipped Into his berth he did not hesitate a moment. In a few minutes we were in the miJst c-f our interview. While we talked we enjoyed a' pair or long black cigars and Indulged In a bowl of milk each. In mine I detected a flavor of a foreign Ingredient. A rooster crowed in a coop nearby. "Early risers here," remarked the colonel. "Yes," said I. "But that may be one of the chickens that has not turned in yet" "I get you," chuckled the col. We wasted no time. "Yes, the river is there. I found it. No doubt about It." "Water wet?" "Real thing. Reminds me of that magnificent stream that glides by your doors here, only not so clean. Wild surroundings and all that" "Colonel," I ventured, a3 I moved closer In order "to be heard above the clanging of the bell of a switch engine that booted our - car several times. "Will you be a candidate for president in 1916?" "I insist on you having another glass of that milk." veered my host "It's bully. Nothing equals it as a stimu lant for we men of nervous tempera ment." "But " "You know I am not supposed to talk here." "But " "My physician has laid down strict orders. Officially my next talk is at Gales burg." "But " "How fortunate you are to live on such a beautiful river. I tell you the common people are not getting a square deal in this country. There must be a greater equalizing of things" "I say" "Too much money in a few places. I am fighting the battle of the common people, bless them." "Suppose " "There is nothing more annoying than sore throat. And the trusts. See how I fixed them when I was in posi tion to do bo." ' "Isn't" "It's a chance for the ordinary man that we're battling for. There goes that rooster again. He's getting on my nerves." "But" "They're all liars. Perkins is a no ble man among men. Five o'clock? Yes, John, I'll turn in in a minute. Glad to have seen you, Grubb. Glad to have seen you. Come any time you hear I am in the vicinity. I always delight in seeing my friends and talk ing freely with them." When I reached the open air I be gan to realize that my mission was a fozzle. I believe the black cigar and the milk must have steered me off in the wrong direction. GREGORY GRUBB. And Again the Baby Wins. Score another for his babyship Mrs. Medill McCormick of Chicago, one cf ithe .leaders n the woman's suf frage movement, will stay at home in definitely, leaving the cause to which she has been devoting herself so stren uously to other hands. Mrs. McCor mick's new cause is a little McCor mick. recently arrived at the Chicago home. . One of the Rough Riders. We ran into Tim Collins this morn ing while he was tackling his rolls and coffee. "Were you down at the train to see Teddy come in?" "No, I staid at home and let my valet off. You see, my man was a rough rider with Roosevelt that is. he rode the bumpers from 'here to Pe oria on a Teddy special once upon a time." We Don't Believe That Larry Magill is to serve as cam paign manager for George Richmond, republican candidate for sheriff. Zero In Actors. Our notion of a cheap actor is one who passes out -acidic remarks when his audience fails to go into paroxysms of Joy over his alleged Jokes. One of this type was performing in a local vaudeville house the other night He kept constantly referring to New York in an effort apparently to impress his audience that it was his home town that he was just passing through the west on a holiday. He said something involving Gotham that was supposed to be funny. Probably three of his hearers giggled. In other words, the pun fell fiat "Evidently a few folks from this town have been there" (meaning New ork), said the man on the stage. Chances are this ham never has been closer to New York than the pic tures and maps. If we were the man ager of a theatre where these insults are offered we would take half the salary away from the offending per former. Actors are paid to entertain, not to criticise, and some of them are lucky that they get out of town with out a vegetable shower. Why Editor, Vanish. (Englewood. 111., Economist) Miss Ellen Gilbertson was united in marriage to Mr. IjouIs Andersen, Sat urday evening, at Ebenezer Norwegian Lutheran church. TELEPHONE FOR A NURSE. Normal 3293. Hen Hicks Says. Ever notice that wimmen seldom talk when they're doin' up their hair? Don't blame your wife's relit Ions. You picked them yerself, didn't yer Wimmen may not be much on math ematics, but most uv 'em do a lot uv flggering on their Aggers, by panmips. J. &l. C. J The Daily Story An Army Campaign By F, A. Mitchel, Copyria-hted. in. pjr Associated Literary Bureau. Colonel Edgar Garrison was a sol dier from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet He considered his profession the noblest of all and con J tPmjel that nothing should be permit- ted to creep into the army to destroy its efficiency. He looked with con cern upon the many weddings that were taking place among the officers and declared that unless the matrimo nial fever were checked the army would become useless except for show purposes. "What is a soldier inteadod for?" he would say. "To be killed. He is paid to- hold himself in readiness by the government for that especial purpose. Then, too, women and children are en cumbrances to an army even in peace fal garrison life. An officer is ordered from one post to another. What does this Involve? The transfer of gun and caisson, of sword and bayonet? No. The bulk of the Impedimenta is women and children." A number of officers' wives were ac customed to gather mornings on the porch of the quarters pertaining to one of them, when, seated in rocking chairs, they sewed, chatted and rocked. One morning the colonel, whose remarks upon matrimony in the army had been repeated by the husband of one of them to his wife the night before, passed this "rocking chair brigade," as be had dubbed them. He took off his forage cap with a flourish and smiled, benignly on tbem for it is a matter of fact that a man who Inveighs against the softer sex is especially deferential to them and passed over the parade with a strut Intended to show tbem that If he had the power he would, banish every one of them. Forthwith the rocking chair brigade resolved themselves Into a council of war to consider the most advantageous method of making the colonel eat his words. But, first and foremost, every rocker was pledged not to reveal to her husband any plan that might be de- SHE SAT ANX CHATTED WITH HIM. cided upon. And before going further I would say that the softer sex has been much maligned as to the keeping of a secret, for of the eight ladies who com posed the brigade not one was found to betray the camp, though it must be admitted that each and every one con fessed afterward to her husband that it almost killed her to keep "mum." The ladles having kept the secret, far be it from the narrator of this sto ry to give it away. Suffice it to say that on the very morning that the colo nel shrugged his shoulders at the rock ing chair brigade and showed his back to them, never turning till he had dis appeared within the portals of his of fice, a plan of attack was decided upon, to be executed by Mrs. Major MacCal Ium, the ranking lady of the post the commandant being a bachelor. However, before the campaign was Inaugurated there was a long period of watchful waiting, during which the ladles of the posf smiled on the colo nel,. the colonel became more npd more careless in the expression of his army matrimonial opinions and the leaks through the married officers widened. As the ocean wave tosses its head most defiantly before breaking, so did the colonel, ignorant of the impression he was creating, air his opinions that the noblest work of God Is a soldier ex cept one encumbered with a family, when it is his bounden duty to resign and give way in the line of promotion. One morning the colonel while cross ing the parade to his office saw the nost enrrvall drawn bv a n.nlr of mules ft. ?lllZT?ZJiriZ face of a girl about eighteen years of age. Whether this lady was fair or not makes no difference in this story. She was young. Every other woman at the iost had reached middle age, and all had borne their husbands more children than the aitny regula tions provide. Some of tbem bad lost whatever beauty they may have once possessed. But the face at the coach window! The colonel had seen uothiug like it since he had been promoted and order ed to this frontier post Its owner hud evidently Just arrived, for on the rack in the rear was a trunk bl enough, the colonel thought to fill an army wagon without any other baggage. The commandant went on to his office, sat down at bis desk and went to work looking over a bundle of requisitions left by the quartermaster for his ap proval. But somehow that mild face at the coach window, wearing the pleased look of one visiting new and attractive Bceues. got between the tnuu and the requisitions. He turned down Qua. .SsiZ rcptiU'a . on. the . gimrdlututisx which wpri tinillv .o.t.j - . - oa tDDrnx ed one for laundry Implements mvi out noticing that had It not been for , overplus of married soldiers at L post the present supply would h been ample. Be It remembered that Colonel Cj rison was forty-two years old, a pJ when a rnnn feels that be has oassrf beyond the time when be ha, attraction for young girls; that be bj seen no woman for more than a ttr except those attached to the po u commanded, none of whom wa itZ young or beautiful. When, therefor, the next day he passed Mm. MacOt lum sitting oa her porch in front of h quarters with the girl he had seen the coach window he stopped to pan a few compliments. Mrs. MacCailoj introduced Miss Madeline Badger, her niece, who bad come to make her brief visit. "I fear, colonel." said the lady, -fcjt you are such a devotee to bachelor habits that we shall see nothing o,' you while my niece Is here: otherwise I should hope to have you aid la ester taining her." "I assure you, madam, with aeTersl youngsters having nothing to do but an occasional tour of duty the yonng lady will not need the attention of an old fellow like me." Miss Madeline Badger made no re ply to this whatever in words, but tat looking at the colonel with admirin eyes. One would have thought ihe was looking at an Apollo. There li something very attractive to a middle aged man in an admiring gaze from t young girl who has not yet learned to keep her admiration to herself. The" colonel was much affected, and at be walked away, feeling that those mid eyes were following, he felt more proud of himself than ever before In his life. But 'probably, he thought, when the youngsters appeared they wonld be turned in anotcer direction, Mrs. MacCallom decided to gire t dance for her niece, and great prepa-, rations were making therefor. "Colonel Garrison," 6he said, "I an in trouble about the matter of opening the ball. I assigned Mr. Twining to open it with the guest of honor, mj niece, and she has refused him for a first partner." "What's the matter witt Twining!" asked the colonel. "Nothing. Madeline has no objec tion 'to him whatever. But she con siders that since the ball Is given for her it Is her right to open it with the commandant" "What! Does she wish to open It with me?" "She declares that she will open It with no one else." "My dear madam, please tell your niece that I shall be charmed to open the baU with her." The colonel dancing with Miss Made line Badger was surely an lntereatlng sight. To be preferred to young men who had been recent girl killers at West Point was a triumph that he had supposed impossible for a man of his age. Jupiter leading Terpsichore In the dance could not have appeared more godly. Nor was the first dance all When it was over Miss Badger led the commandant to a window seat where she sat and chatted with him, and since none of his inferior officers would venture to take her away from him and she made no excuse to leave him he was forced whether or not to stay where he was till the man who had been assigned to her for the next dance approached. Mrs. MacCallum had seen to it that the colonel was down on Miss Endjert card for a number of dances, and when the function was over he went to hi quarters, his head whirling as bis heels had whirled during the evening The major's wife had gained a victory In the very beginning of the campagta- Miss Badger Instead of making short visit made a long one. Bnt she made short work of the colonel Those who were in the secret that she w being used to pnt him hors de combat in his fight against women In the array did not dream but that she would throw him over in the end for one of the younger officers, any one of whom would have been glad to get her. Those unadvised wondered what it H meant Every one knows that in the choice of a mate a man is subject to influence, and what he will 1" may be foretoM from those influenc fcj As for a wo man, in the matter o hor choice resembles a crab. No one can teu whether she will go forward or ba ward or sitlewise. Miss Badper in t end astonished those who had put b forward to sting the colonel by sudden ly announcing her engagement to MM- The conspirators builded better tM they knew. Colonel Garrison In speaking of wom en in the army has nil the enthusiasm "Why. my dear fellow.- he wlil f to a brother officer, "what wcuia in come of the discipline necessary to t . . AAntnf in arm r were It not ror tue - Ouence of women? There would perpetual mutiny." Sept. 24 in American History. 1755 John Marshall, eminent cb.f Justice of the United States -preme court, born; died 1U 1S(H Discovery of Pikes peak. . lW6Capture of Mouterey. Me by Amerlcaus under General i ary Taylor. lSC4-General Sterling Price 8 the Missouri border from Arkan sas with a Confederate army off vasion. estimated t l-'.WO to 13. 0VO men. 1S7G-First explosion under tne structions to navigation t Ciute. East river. New York, in let's roiat reef destroyed. .