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TTIK ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. WEDNESDAY. XOVFrPEIl 11. 101- THE ARGUS. Puhltshd daily at 1I4 Ewond v .nue. Rock Islam.. III. (Entcrril at the -. fostofflo a aerond-clasn matter.) I HK-k Ialaa4 Mrmdrr f Aclte BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. t- TKRMS-Tfn crnts r" week by cmr- rter. In Rx k Island; S3 per year toy malt In advance. - Complaint of delivery service should 'be made to the cirmlntlon department, which hou! l rli be mMinvd In every Instance where It Is desired to njv,!ine which narados as news not only , rper dUeontir uc.l. as carriers have T :uthory m the r re ir. !. ;. A-.: communication of ara-nmentative i character, p.litioal or relml""". mu-t Thar re! r.ar.ie attached fnr publica tion. No such articles will be printed ,cver fl-'.itiot;a alsrnaturea. Telephones In all departments Cen tral t'aion. Rck l!and li. IH1 and : J 146. Wednesday, November 11. 1914. Plavine football for the benent or ;war victims from one aspect is some - thing like fighting f r peace. The American farmer will get $5, for his crop this year, the department of apiculture tells us. How many automobiles this " uy eh manulacturer or cars win uac to figure out for himself. The course of the Russians in sub- stituting "Teargrad" for Constantino - pie is an offset for the disposition of t'le Turks to insist on holding to the name "St. Petersburg instead of Petro- grad. Thus the war drags on A defeated progressive candidate for congress in Kentucky reports that h did not roend a cent in his cam paign. If the shoeing he made was no better than that of most of bis as sociates up this way he just about got his worth. While Rockford destroyed Rock Is land high school's hope of the state title and Davenport did as much for the tri-citv honors, nothing but MDline stands in the w ay tf ,ne tw in-city j ficient Banitary precautions water-sup-c nampionshlp. and that is worth flght-j pics are jlkciy to become infected. ine for. i Thcrpfnrp in tho nattuneo nf In rrn hnrl- Suctess mapazine. which suspend ed publication a couple of years ago and has been throush bankruptcy wjij pay one cent on the dollar, it is now stated. This may be an indication of one kind of success, but not the soft the magazine preached. A student of sociological problems, sneakies at Kansas City the other day. declared thai undesirable fathers j are a great menace to me uunon. i iv- uwuvni iu, puts dad In bad acain. About the only j spread epidemics of such diseases thing left for him tt do is to fall back may he pre-ented. It has been sug on the assertion that not much is ex-: gested that the coming of w inter may retted cf him. anvhow. ' e,d In preventing the spread or chol- era. However, The Journal of the One rallroadne Southern Pacific, j American Medical Association thinks has inaugurate.! a noitseless campaign i j... ii . -r-w . k : f Dii'in(, r ' Oil 113 lilirn. 1 IJ-T lAoutuu i few whistle blasts at dead of night.) cutting off a few hours sleep along toward morning, has been found by that company unnecessary when trains re passing throueh cities. Some of the college beads are con sidering a two-year collece course for business men who are not able to spare the time for the full literary an technical course. They have no m'.s-j giving about the value or rractiea- j bility of the proposed program fori adapting the institutions to the need. - - i traders w ho are alreadv laying phins Since it has been demonstrated that f(jr fla arl,sve reaclionary pro. the seating of the !"-rJ mayor of l-on-1 . , ,... ., , ,, gram. Kncournged by the reduction don commands about as much atten-1 " - . lion when the Britifh are fighting for I ut the democratic majority in con their existence as it does in times of j gress at the recent reelection, the re peace it may be that there i some-1 turn to the national lawmaking body thing subsantial back of the . flub-dub i with which his oflice appears to lie in vested. THE PUBLICITY GRAFT. 1 A Spanish grandee once obaerved j that all royal and nobl Spaniards agree that the public wa zr: ass and should be ridden. The only point ui on which disagreement was possible was who fchould occupy the fcaddle. All special interests agree that the American press is an ass, but tlx re is no disagreement about who shall ride it. The various Interests are in ( will be possible to get back to the healty agreement that everyone who prBent on ,ne roa(1 to pPrma. has need of free advertising or "P"b-!nent prosperity. liclty" as it is called, shall make free TheHe men assert that the progres and unlimited ue of the news col-jeiveB w m De compelled to return to umns. It is due, eays the Louisville i tne foId chastened that there Is no Courier-Journal, to the folly of the , other place for them to go and it is press that the burden of free adver- j proposed to make them come in sack tising has been long and patiently J cioth and ashes to do penance at the borne. It is time, surely, to rebel. Thej(;. o. I. shrine. No inducements will Interests of the newspaper as a bust- t,e i,ei,i out to them and they prob ess enterprise; the conscience oi tue press as a gatherer and distributor of news; the reasonable demand of the reader that advertising shall bear a label, are lrrtuences which should com bine to put an end to the riding of the ass by everybody and anybody who wants "publicity." Even the riders are beginning, many of them, to grasp the fact that they nave made Inordinate demands upon good nature. The American Newspa per Publlbhers association, in Bulletin 3204, reprints a speech of E. A. Moree, representing the State Charities Aid association of New York, at the chari ties conference in Philadelphia, in which it is stated that attempts to filch valuable space from newspapers should be abandoned even by organi zations f ghting tuberculosis. Mr. Moree is quoted as rollows: We do sot ask tie stationer to contribute the paper we use. We do not ask the owners of the building we nccupy to contribute our quarters. Hut we lo auk tlie newspapers to do the equivalent by giving us space which l like money to them. Buy space. Advertise your work as busmcss houses do, and the world, and you will ease a lit tle of the resentment that the newspapers are beginning to feel for you. If you do anything worth a picayune the newspapers will print it as news and without your solicitation. Advertising that is frankly adver tising commands respect. Advertis- . i,sseng t1ie respect of the public for newspapers as vehicles of Information. hut aJso breeds contempt in the mind pf ,n, rpajor wIlo might, if properly ; approached, become Interested In the enterprise, the commodity, the article, .the individual, advertised. I Nowadays a very considerable pro portion of the readers of the press 'quickly recognize, and as quickly re sent, "publicity articles" designed to impose upon them by passing off ad vertising as news. The paid advertisement challenges attention and disarms criticism. It is an open and above board claim for consideration: not an effort to trade upon a lack of intelligence, more often presumed than actual among readr9. Publicity bureaus are onen so ex- j pensive that paid advertising would be Mnntlv- TKa nmc m rrtllld And w- do .ho volume of free publicity. The result would be ; more iniorming ana rename eo "i- j umns That reform ..? , more th h d ' ' ing as news. CHOLERA AND THE WAR. 1 Epidemics of cholera are reported to be threatening the various armies, especially those engaged on the Rus-so-Austrian frontier. But it will be remembered that even in the normal state of affairs cases of Asiatic chol era In this neighborhood are not un usual. Cholera is a disease whose spread is dependent largely on in fected drinking water and carriers, ap parently healthy. So far as is known infection occurs only when the germ is swallowed. It seems probable that in addition to water as a source of in fection, food when exposed may be come contaminated through the agency of flies. Unless there are ef- ies of troops, when sanitation cannot!"1 this country. be perfect, an outbreak of this dis- ease may be expected. The cholera organism is especially sensitive to drying and there seems to be a doubt whether or not it is able to multiply outside of the body in impure water. In the recent Balkan war cholera was reported in many places and many cases occurred, but the disease never became epidemic. With the asslst- ance of the highly efficient sanitary "" ,"""sru u'u,",u"! "u "i age ox surface water carrying con taminating material as well as the closer contact of human beings en gendered by the winter season make infection still more likely. As an aid to protection, active immunization of men with the HaffKine vaccine may be practiced. Possibly conditions in this war will be the means of deter mining still more exactly the status of this protective measure. THP 'Pffl riTlflMiUV nrvKAfv ..... . j llltle " 8Pem o ''ej turnra me neaas oi tne republican j t such men as Cannon. .McKinlev, Rho'lenberg and Penrose, and the ; .rollapue of the progressive movement sef-m rounaeni mat tl.ey w ill be j at,le ,to p"1 ov,'r a!",ut an-vtnlnB " I nanir,er to lhe Kreat reconstructive movement which is now gaining iiu-1 petui in tt.is country is manifest in this attitude of the heads of the re-! publican party, if given free rein 'iity w ill undo most of the roallv lm. i portant work of the last few years j and besides, they w ill endeavor to ere. I ate such confusion In the public mind that it will he mnnv vears before it ably will be required to profess that rlitry have no grievances against the party and what they got at the Chl- cago convention was deserved. Al ready these leaders are framing up a national ticket for 1916 ard it is of the mutt reactionary type. me p.-up.e k..u n-i " J know that special privilege will be in the saddle if they are returned to control of the national government and that "big business" will come back to Its own and proceed to ex tract the fat from the land by the same old processes. With the peo ple awake to these facts and wltii the story of the struggle to release the tentacles of the trust octopus fresh In their minds it Is barely possible that these republican reactionaries may be arranging the music for tiicir n funerals. Government Report on Jti recent years there has probably be n no announcement which attract ed a more widespread attention in '.his country than did the announce ment of the Krledmann treatment for tuberculosis. This was due to skilful handling of the publicity work in the daily press. The sensational newspa per reports of alleged Improvement and cure of cases of tuberculosis fol lowing the use of the treatment, the reports of persons of high position in public life,of lay workers in tuber culosis, and even a few physicians who became enthusiastic supporters of Friedmann will be recalled by evfry one. When a note of warning was sounded by the Journal of tho Amcriian .Medical Association and others the assertion was made that Freidmann was being hindered in bis great work. The fact is otherwise. Immediately on the arrival of Dr. Friedmann in this country, the United States public health service took up an investigation of the validity of the claims for the treatment. A board was appointed consisting of Surgeon John F. Anderson, the director of the hygienic laboratory, and Surgeon A. M. Stimson. to make a thorough study of the results of the use of the treatment. The report of this board has just appeared and its findings are a complete refutation of Friedmanns claims, not only for having developed a specific cure for tuberculosis but also for the harmlessness of his treat ment for man and animals. The board had an ooDortunity to observe the effect of the treatment In 94 cases of nigh many more for treatment and observation, but owing to Dr. Fried mann's delay and dilatoriness it was obliged to limit observations to the 94 cases. The claims made for the treatment were, that by means of injections of a living organism, harmless of Itself, it was possible to cure cases of tuber THE RIGHT Chicago Herald.) President Wilson, on the recom mendation of the interstate commerce commission, on Thursday awarded W. A. Holley. a railroad switchman of (Jreenville, Texas, a medal for brav ery displayed in saving the life of an aged woman in imminent danger of be ing killed by a train. The incident is not an isolated one Exhibitions of brav ery and self-sacrifice are frequent. Wherever weakness is in plain danger and distress there is always somebody willing to risk his life to save it. There is always somebody willing to for get the cost and dare the deed. Where men join together and march away to defend their country and to offer thetr lives, if need be. as a costly ; sacrifice upon Its altars, the sight is more impressive. But the heroism Acute chorea, or St. Vitus' dance, is a nervous disease characterized by ir regular, twitching, purposive move ments of nearly all the muscles of the facp, limbs and trunk. It is self- limited, terminating almost invaria- Lly in full recovery, but it runs such ia variable course a few weeks to many months that charlatans, charm- sellers, venders of nostrums and sharks of all colors find it a wonder ful opportunity for opportunity for doing business. while parrnts sometimes go to the I tuier exiieme ana tn:nK tuai uecause a disease is self-limited it therefore requires no medical treatment, and on this illogical eround assume to ninri.i pa fhe rucA tlifiniiiitlret; u'thmit! . .all duvii ni itt '.iw w H ii ill lion lu jr. Vrn nrssitile cnninlicutinna Typhoid and pneumonia are self- imiu.d diseases. That does not mean that clos- medical attention is super- " t-hlkiren from o to 13 years of age -i--u w.iu lhorea' anl Sirls outnumber boys lhre to one - uorea is a nervous urease oniy in tne sense mat It ar- fecU nerv tissue, like neuritis; neita- er OI 'nt ,,e unientsr are particularly apt to anect individuals oi a nervous temperament. The exciting cause of S.. Vitus' dance is bacterial infection, and bacteria are not especially fond of nervous people. The Tonlliti Decade. From 5 to 13 years of age the child is mobt vulnerable to sore throat germs. Tonsilitis is invariably a bac terial infection, and communicable, whatever type of tonsilitis it may be. And in every case of tonsilitis, follic-j ular, simple, or quinsy, there is al ways a possibility of certain compli- j cations r sequeliae namely, multiple arthritis (rheumatic fever, or acute articular rheumatism i. unite valvular I heart rfi.. .i,,.ro Tim. tho prevention of St. Vitus' dance, as well as the nrevention nf "rhnma.i and valvular heart trouble. Is the pre vention cf sore throat the reasona ble Isolation of every case of sore throat or "slight cold." The Treatment of Chorea. Rest U the first essential In the care of St. Vitus' dance. When the muscular twitching ls seven a day or two of complete rest in bed will accomplish much in the way of Im provement. The tepid or hot pack, applied in the evening, brings quiet and lep more certainly than will drugs. In chorea liie condition of the heart pri,,aI1, Brady.M gd st-vitus Dance iifii Friedmann Treatment culosis which had not advanced to hat stage where death was Imminent. From the way hi which the claims were put forth and from the fact that successes only and not failures were reported in the public press, the reader of Friedmann's claims could assume that such Tesults were only the rule. In other words, it, was claimed that a sovereign remedy for tuberculosis had been discovered. Investigation did iot confirm the claims. On the contrary. It was found that the prep aration used was not devoM of dangerous properties of itself, and still less so when Injected into nersons with tuberculosis. A favor able action on tuberculosis processes bv the treatment was not the rule. The iboard made extensive studies of the organism used In the prepara tion of the vaccine, both by cultural methods and by animal Inoculation. It was found that the injection of the organism In animals caused abscess formation in over 25 per cent of the animals treated. Animals treated. with the organism rabbits and guinea-pigs either before or subsequent to Infection with virulent tubercule bacilli, developed as a rule an increas ed susceptibility to tuberculosis. The treatment did not show either cura tive or protective properties In mon keys against tuberculosis. It Is a matter for congratulation that this painstaking report from the public health service has appeared; it is a pity that It could -not have been given publicity at the time when con sumptives were being so widely ex ploited: but scientific work of the kind done by the public health service in this instance obviously requires a long period of time. It Is a report that shows the absolute flimsy evidence on which the Friedma-nn method for the treatment of tuberculosis was based. The evidence shows that the commer cialization of the Friedmann cure was a grisly hoax on the unfortunate but ever hopeful consumptive. REWARD is no truer than that which prompts the exhibitions of bravery so often recorded in the daily press. It is not beneath the dignity of a great government to note these things and give expression to the public sentiment. It is the privilege of every citizen to feel a pride in these many proofs that the capacity for self-sacrifice and forgetfulness of the cost is an essential part of the national char acter. Where things are rightly judged the figure of a humble individual who risks his life to save another may seem of heroic size beside the figure of men whom 'the world has crowned as kings and conquerors. He, at least, is brave without self-interest. The military cape Is popular. It's invariably lined with startling stripes or checks. must be watched carefully by the phy sician. The attack averages three months in duration. Some cases recover in a few weeks. Others last more than a year. I here is no specific cure kimu n Besides guarding the heart it is wise i to look -to the anaemia which almost always accompanies the disease. When the choreic twitching persists during sleep the child should be kept iu hed for several days, as a precau tion against exhaustion. St. Vitus' dance is one more count in the indictment against the much too common "cold." As long as peo ple persist in thinking they can catch cold from the weather or drafts the germs of the household blague will le freely passed around, and fate will! attend to the consequences. Questions and Answers. Mrs. M. R. J. writes: Your Health j Talks interest me more than the war news. Vill you enlighten me on the causa and cure of ringworm and if you lay the blame on the cat, please say where the cat gets it? We've had two cases In our family, and it seems to be very hard to cure. Reply Well, so to speak, our Talks sometimes partake of the character of war news and the allies write strong protests to the editor. An article on ringworm will soon appear. Cat not guilty. J. K. R. asks: Will you klndly'send me. in the enclosed stamped envel ope, advice regarding the relief of pimples on the 8kin acne, I think the doctors call it? Reply Your request has been com plied with. J. K. R., and it is a pleas ure to respond to such a brief com munication. We have had to hold up dozens or similar requests because they forgot to enclose the indisnens- aDle stamped addressed enveloo and ,he papt r won t Sive us "Pace to M,er tn'8 question every day C. M. we will tions. G.: Send your address and gladly answer your ques- F. J. w hether w n.i., , , i it u hen i ! It is beneficial to take cold pluuges immediately after getting out of hed in the morning. Reply Ve8 and no. Yes. for young people; no, for older persons. Be guided largely by your own comfort; do you feel better after the plunge? If so. It Is a good tonic. I)o you feel chilly or depressed after the plunge? Then stop it. CHORDS AND DISCORDS ONLY 44 days until Xmas. Have you paid Tor your last summer s Palm Beach suit yet? SEVKRAL cannon balls have been stolen from the city hall park at Macomb. Probably a new vauaevjue act is being organiaed there. THE Decatur Review expresses fear that Joe Cannon is aging. The same rumor was spread before the Civil war. HENRY Watterson declares Wood- row Wilson will be the next president of the United States. It's pretty safe to offer odds on the colonel's political prophesies. STORY that Chicago man found a $150 pearl while eating a 90-cent oys ter supper sounds suspiciously like advertising to boost bivalve consump tion. Watch your oyster shells close ly. MAYOR of Boston has decreed that classic dancers appearing In his city must be fully clothed. We'd like to know when a classic dancer is sup posed to be fully clothed. THE bull moose party seems to have been having too much light. The'national committee now holds its sessions behind closed doors. ACTORS are reported starving in London. Perhaps a suggestion that some of them return to their legiti mate vocations as farm hands and hash slingers might not be out of order. AN American has just wed a French girl who saved his life In the war zone, he having been twice sentenced to death as an alleged spy. Now it is hoped he will prove that he was worth saving. Grief for Hand-Holderc (Muscatine Journal). Great grief and lamentations! The favorite "spooning preserve" of the city has been violated by an unthink ing and hard-hearted city council. No longer will Muscatine beaux hold hands with Muscatine belles on the famous "high steps" near Bellevue hospital that is they won't if they care who sees them for this sacred place has been robbed of its attri butes. For untold years, young people here and hereabouts, have wandered to the "high steps," picked out a soft pine seat and proceeded to hold hands and gaze soulfully out across the Father of Waters. But It's all over now. From now on hence, there will be "nobody home" on the "high steps." For many years the only light thrown on the scene was a dimly burning gas affair, placed at such an angle as to not greatly inter-1 fore with the aforementioned beaux and belles, and which, incidently, did interfere greatly with ordinary folks who were In great danger of stum bling over a love-lorn pair locked in each other's arms. The stern city dads, thoughtlessly no doubt (?), have placed one of the brilliant electric street lamps directly above the steps and when the current Is turned on, it will be possible to sit on the steps and read a newspaper. As an out-of-doors library, the steps will probably prove popular but as a rendezvous for the lovesick, they will be decidedly de trop. NORA Bayes says she fooled the newspapers by not taking the final UI',1f5n while she 'as 111 in London Jtather, we would say, Nora would have fooled the newspapers had she really died. ACCORDING to evidence coming out at a trial at Freeport all you need to be a successful faith healer is a flow ing Vandyke beard. False alfalfa will not work, however. Red Heads Winners. Cheer up. r - heads. Red hair is a fine thing to have. When it's a girl who has red hair it sets' susceptible male hearts to patter ing like rain on a tin roof. When it's a police desk sergeant it makes him easy to find. A St. Louis visitor to Chicago went to a police sta tion to ask directions and was so pleased with the sergeant's courtesy that he sent him a postal card. He had neglected to get the sergeant's name, however, so addressed the card to "A Red-Headed Desk Sergeant. Chi cago." Chief Gleason had the card sent to all the red-headed desk sergeants in Chicago, and It was claimed yesterday by Sergeant James Regan of Desplalnes street station. Ballot on Bossle. (Port Angeles. Wash.. Tribune-Times.) Cow Election Notice. Notice is hereby given that the question as to whether or not cows for milking will be allowed to run at large within the city of Port Angeles will be submitted to the electors to decide by ballot at the primary election to be held in this city on the 10th day of November. 1914. A separate ballot will be cast by each voter in addition to the nominating ballot, and will be placed In a separate box. which will be supplied for that purpose. The counting and returns of the voters to decide this question will be made and returned by the pri--mary election officers and in the same iu in me Mine nner as required for the primary election election. Hen Hicks Says The louder some men talk the less they say. The wiser the man the more he learns from observation and less front experience. J. M. C. The Daily Story The Good the 111 Wind Blew By Virginia Biair. Copyrighted, 1914, by ARoi?ated Mrerarjr curcau. "Nothing could be more nate." saW Miss Cyntbiu. Mar.ie agreed dejectedly. nnfortu- "If she bnrt come at any other time. "She will expect to be entertained." Miss Cynthia chimed In. Marie, tying on ber veil before the mirror, decided: "We can hove noma good times with the girls. But there won't be any men. and Constantia can't exist without men." "Nonsense." salel Miss Cynthia. "She'll have to when she comes to Hil ton." Mazie talked the situation over later with Serena Sears. "You see. 1 met Constantia at the seashore the summer I went with the Merrills, and I bad lovely clothes, and we lived at the best hotels and did everything In the most approved way. "I told Constantia that when I was at home with Aunt Cynthia I didn't have all the advantages and that my outlns with the Merrill was Just their farewell treat before they went abroad. But Constantia can't under stand what life at Hilton is, and she will expect a gay time." "Well, It's an 111 wind that blows nobody any good," said Serena senten- tlously. "Perhaps she will Hven ns tip a bit." "Constantia conld liven tip a nnn nerv." Mazie told her. "but Hilton Is hopeless." Letters coming from Constantia told of ber preparations. "She is getting lots of pretty clothes." Mazie reported to Serena, "and where is she going to wear them?" But Serena, true to her name, would not worrj-. "She will delight our eyes with them." she said. "I haven't seen an up to date gown for so long that I'd rather gaze on it than on a Rem brandt." The day of Constantla's arrival Ma zie put the big old fashioned bonse in order, while Aunt Cynthia baked de lectable things. Serena Sears came in the afternoon. "If Constantia hasn't the good taste to enjoy this lovely old room and Annt Cynthia's tea and muffins and cocoanut cake she's a benighted individual." said she. "But think of Constantia trailing pale bine broadcloth on this old rug!" wail ed Mazie. Mazie walked to the station, but she brought Constantia back in the only cab the town afforded. It was shabby and ramshackle, but the little horse was plump, and so was the driver. "We feed people and animals well in Hilton." Mazie explained to Constan tia- "Eating is our only diversion." Constantia dimpled. "I think Hilton is dear," she emphasized. But after they had driven a little way she said suddenly, "Mazie Langley, I don't believe I have seen a single man since we left the station." "There aren't any," Mazie informed ber. "I warned you. I told you in my letters that HUton was deadly dull." Constantla's laugh rippled. "Oh, you goosle," she said, "as if I cared! It will be a rest, if the girls are nice a sort of bachelor girls paradise." , Mazie nodded- "There is nothing for men to do in tbese Hampshire hills," she said, "and except a few merchants and the minister and tbe doctor there aren't any." "Well. I wish Bobble Dwyer could hear that." Constantia murmured. "Who is Bobbie Dwyer?" Mazie de manded. "Bobbie." Constantia explained, with elaborate and strangely earnest scorn fulness. "Is a lord of creation. I was engaged to him until one day be tried to dictate to me! Then, of cours, I broke It off and told him there were some worse things than being an old maid, and he flung back at me that he should live single, for be could never trust a woman again, and then I told him that an old maid was happier than a bachelor, and be said if I tried it I'd Jn& out, and. oh, I wish you had heard us!" And in spite of the trag edy of ber recital Constantia laughed. "And I'm glad there aren't any men here I hate them!" Marie's face glowed. "We will have a lovely time if you feel that way." she ssld. Just then the ramshackle cnb round ed a curve, and there was tbe old house, with Aunt Cynthia at the win--dow and tbe light shining out behind ber. and they went in and had tea and muffins and little cakes, and Ma zie feasted her eyes on the picture Constantia made in ber modish gown. The next day Serena Sears came over.- "Mazie told tue how pretty you were." she sold quaintly, "and I told her I'd rather see j-ou thnn a picture, but you are better than a whole art gallery." And that afternoon a lot of girls came, pretty and fluttering creatures, who huns about Constant!.! ndmir insrly. v "I love girls' she said when they bad gone nway. That night more girls enme. and In the afternoon there was u girls' ten, and nt nlgbt a feminine pnlaxy cnnie over nnd sat around the fire nnd pop ped corn and sang college soors. When Conntantiu nnd Mnrle went to bed tbnt night the pretty guest re markenl. "I love girls." but her voice lacked eager enthusiasm. Several days later Serena Sears gave a dance. "Of course there won't be any men." she said, "but we can all dress up and dance with each other, and the glrla are crazy to see that white chiffon of yours, Constantia." But when Constantia was arrayed in all her glory Khe surveyed herself thoughtfully lu the mirror. "It seems a Silt wasted." she murmured. "Bobble HlwiIVS I M.-Aii mu In xi'lil,.. .The dance was not a great success, 1 It lacked something, nnd (Tint sv,in. tblni; ConHtnntia s;iid equivocally wag men. In the days that followed the gir! still fluttered and admired, btit Con stantla looked at theiu with specula tive eyes. "It's a pity." she said over the tea. cups to Mnzie, "that so many lovely girls should not marry." "I thought old rn.iiiJisrn was the ban. piest state, Mazie ventured. "Of course, for me," Constant!) navi hastily, "but for you and Serena and b.Vbers oh, you ought to meet some nice men" And all that evening she was dreamy, and before she went to bed she wrote a letter. Then she planned to give a 'cotillon before she left town. "I will have tbe favors and refresh ments sent out from tbe city." she said. "Everybody here has been n kind that I want to be hostess before I go." Aunt Cynthia was induced to cos sent, and the girls of Hilton got oof their best gowns. When tbe caterer came with his boat of assistants Aunt Cynthia sought Con stantia in a great state of excitement "You have ordered far too much," the said. There was a faraway look in Con. stantia's eyes. "They will eat it np," she promised. "But girls have such delicate appe tites," Aunt Cynthia protested "Oh, girls!" Constantia murmured and dropped the subject But when she came downstairs to greet her guests she was so radiantly beautiful in pink and silver, with her eyes like stars, that Mazie caught her breath as she looked at ber. "Constantia!" she cried. "What has happened?" Just then from without came tbe "honk, honk" of a motor born, which was echoed by another and another, and as Mazie flung open the door, with tbe bevy of pretty girls behind her, there rolled up to tbe step a big red car in which were-half a dozen radiant youths, and in the second car and In the third and tbe fourth, so that in all there were twenty-four men to mates the twenty-four girls that Constantia had invited. "I told Bobble to bring them," Con stantia said as she made the Introduc tions, and when they had all danced away together she said to Bobbie Dwyer, who was banging over her adoringly. "Men have their place at a dance." "How about husbands?" he demand ed very promptly and authoritatively. Constantia dropped her lashes over her happy eyes. '"Oh, well," she capit ulated, "I should hate to condemn you to bachelorhood, Bobby, dear." But it was Serena who summed things up when three months later half a dozen engagements were an nounced in Hilton, among them Ma zie's and ber own. "I told you tbe ill wind would blow some good," she said. "It blew Cupid -into Hilton with Constantia." A Costly Mineral. The number of rare minerals found to exist in Tasmania is constantly be ing added to, and the latest addition is molybdenite, which is used in the manufacture of "molybdenum steel," to which it gives a special hardness and toughness that make it suitable for use in propeller shafts, guns and boilers. It is also used to a lesser extent in the making of pottery, glass and other things. The price of molybdenite Is now $2,500 a ton, or nearly four times the present price of tin- Argo naut A Gentleman. "On the whole, the finest gentleman I have ever met," says a writer In the Unpopular Review, "was the Japanese Samurai and art critic, the late Oka kura Kakuzo. I recall as vividly his courteous and expectant silences as I do his always eloquent and brilliant discourse. Indulgent to the small talk of others, he declined to share it. If he ever- gave utterance to a mere prejudice or to any petty personal con cern, it was not in my hearing. He appeared to husband himself until the talk should take a wide impersonal range, and then his comment was fervent and illuminating. A noted American poet critic has somewhat similar habits. His prolonged si'.ences are comfortable, even deferential, h:s rare speech instinct with sympathetic understanding with men and books and nature. The late John 1-aFarge, who wa3 in congenial society a con tinuous talker, offered an interesting equivalent for reticence in the allu siveness of his touch and in a beau tiful perception of the kind of sympa thetic response you would have made had you not been better occupied .in listening to him. He had what most free talkers signally lack, perfect tact." Retort Courteous. Lady (to trump) How dare you come here agaiu after I had forbidden you to call on a previous occasion. Tramp Begging your ladyship's 8ra- cious pardon, but my secretary rauhi have forgotten to tick you name off my visiting list. Kxchange. The darker the day the clearer the call for you to shine. Nov. 1 1 in American History. 1SKO Lui-rvtiu Mott. itUilitUni :iilviM t!te and ploitfer wm-IhI reformer- oa equal suit nit; 1st. died: Uru 1 ' 1SSl-VsUlu;Uii admitted t- the L'n ion s a Mate. I IKM! Esther Djiiuou. hist widow P'"' siouer on the roll of t!ie wr ot tue Kevolutiou. died; boru lbH-