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THURSDAY THE BOCK ISLAND ARGUS JANUARY 5, 1922.
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3. . , . THURSDAY, JANUA KT 5, 1922.
Wj-p'Now -we are to have the "peace dollar." But
3" " we'll still have to fight to get it.
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It's also the season of the year "when the
water pipes are subject to hardening of the
arteries.
Judging from his official kick oa the" cost of
living. Attorney General Daugherty must be so
hard put th:it he has to brew his own.
' j Petitions for a receivership of the Ku Klux
: -KJan have been asked by "bona fide members."
""All goblins a'ud kleagles are equal before the
1 .. law.
If we were a musical critic we might be
!,': forced to admit that in the concert of powers
?at Washington the French horn may have been
played a little too loud.
Chicago artist declares that Inharmonious
color schemes in home decorations are re
sponsible for much domestic discord. The yel
low streak for instance.
The attorney general of Nevada, seeking to
have her divorce decree set aside, terms Mary
Fickford an aharchist. The attorney general
will ke?p talking about this case until he says
, something that will hurt Mary's feelings.
Girl in Colorado, who walked 11 miles in her
sleep the other night, explaind that she hasn't
been feeling well lately. When she gets in
condition she'll probably go for a sprint around
the world during one of her slumber periods.
lis announced that the Prince of Wales
will ik his future wife during the present
year. Wat should be stated is that the prince
will publicly approve the arrangements that
have beeni made by the parents of the prlncU
pals.
During tlie past. year 1,561 persons were
kflled by EutG.mrjbiies in the state of New York.
Most of these, fatalities were avoidable. They
were due to the carelessness of drivers. De
spite the increase in the toll taken each year
by automobiles persons who drive'them persist
In flirting witji the fates.- And these doesn't
seem any effective way of preventing them
doing so. ' '
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Large quantity of liquor was stolen from
the home of tuihu Root, one of the American
representatives at the disarmament conference.
Mr. Root, being a man of peace and a firm
stickler fcjr the constitution, of course approves
the prohibition law. Which probably explains
his offering of a reward for the capture of the
thi&ves who broke into his home. Mr. Root
'eels that he should have been permitted to
have his liquors expire among those who had
grown to love them through long association.
Interpreting Our Laws.
When it was revealed that Mr. Wilson, at
- Paris, had told Mr. Lansing that he did not
: propose to have the peace treaty drafted by a
lot of lawyers, or-"Wors to that effect, the for
; mer president was roundly denounced for his
". heretical notions. Yet now we have Mr. Root
..telling the naval committee of the Washington
conference: "I am not going to be buried under
j a committee of lawyers myself, and these rales
I (regarding submarines) cannot be buried under
: them." Here's a howdy-do. '
What Mr. Wilson and Mr. Root had in
mind, of course, is that the letter killeth while
: the spirit maketh alive, and that the conven-
tional lawyer ie more likely to regard the letter
' than the spirit. As to give point to their con
tention, we read how all but one of the indict-
xnents against Governor Len Small of Tlinols
have been quashed, not because he may not be
guilty of the offenses charged, but because, in
; the first place, the foreman of tbs grand jury
. -signed his name in the wrong place on the back
of the indictment, and, in the second place, be4
. -cause a typist left the word "feloniously" out
I ot one count, ant! for other technical reasons.
I These, to be euro, are faults of our judicial
' system rather thas of our lawyers, but in this
: connection it must be remembered that the
f lawyers make our laws. No wonder we have
. had 79,000 different laws placed upon the
, statute books within the last 20 years. No
: 'Wonder most of those laws admit of interpreta
' lions so different that legal advice is generally
necessary either to follow or io flout them. No
,wonder that men accused of crime so frequently
; wscape on technicalities.
Unfair Trade Methods.
The United States supreme court has just
' landed down a decision declaring-It unlawful
for a manufacturer to arbitrarily fix the price
t at which his product is to be sold by a retailer.
J The ruling was on the case of a concern that
, refused to sell to parties unless they agreed to
S hold the price of Its product at a figure fixed
' hy the manufacturer. v
- 11 "oald be a dangerous precedent In this
; rrountry- if it ewer became- permissible for the
, pnaJter of a product to control the price 6t an
article after it had passed to the ownership oi
other hands.
While It Is known that there are agreements
tn various lines of manufacture in this country,
these chiefly apply to only one branch of an
Industry. For instance, those engaged In the
manufacture ot millinery goods may put their
beads together and agree on a scale of prices,
but after the bats reach the retailer we know
that each merchant sets the prices at which he
is to dispose of his merchandise to his patrons.
He might be influenced by the Quotations made
by his competitor, bat the two are not taking
Orders from the wholesalers on the prices' they
are to charge their customers.
Wtthoat competition it would be a doll and
uninteresting world. Competition extends to
every human activity. As an illustration, if
all the grocers in Rock Island were compelled
to make uniform quotations on all of the goods
they handle the incentive for supremacy would
be destroyed. ' Every merchant hopes some day
to be the leading merchant in his line in his
community. That's human. He wants to grow
and expand, and In order to do so he must
adopt methods of doing business that will
bring an increasing number of customers to
his store And the way to bring customers to
his store is by offering the inducements to do
So. It Is not enough for people to know these
days that yon are in a certain line of business.
If yon wish to interest them and get them to
buy you must have the right merchandise at the
right prices.
It must be left to the individual merchant
to say at what prices he is to retail his goods.
He can't affaord to have his business run by
others. The individual merchant may be. trust
ed to regulate his volume of income so that he
Will make satisfactory gains. Universal price
dictation would destroy individual initiative.
The merchant who sat in the rear of the store
and waited for customers to come him would
prosper equally with the merchant with ideas j
of creating new business.
Competition can be carried too far, hut
where common sense rules among the mer
chants of a community, the more competition
among them the better it is for them and the
better it is for their patrons.
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HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, M. D.
Noted Physician and Author.
S05G OF THE MASSES.
Infinitives we love to split:
To cleave them wide asunder
Aad then to loudly boast of it.
Infinitives we love to split
And watch the purista have a fit
. The while they give us thunder.
Infinitives we love to split: '
To cleave them wide asunder.
Baseball in Rock Island.
It was good to see an interview with Jack
Tighe on the sporting page of The Argus last
evening. Rock Island baseball fans have rea
son to respect the judgment of Tighe when he
discusses the national 'game. He gave Rock
Island some of the fastest baseball teams in its
history. Several players who graduated into
the major leagues received their training under
him. When Tighe was manager you were
alaways assured'of a baseball game when you
bought a ticket into the park.
Tighe likes the plan to form a new league
with Rock Island and several nearby Iowa
cities as members and is confident that such
an organization would be a success, assuming
that it would be administered along the eco
nomical lines that have been suggested, form
ing the teams from young players from the un
professional ranks and holding the salary rolls
within reasonable bounds.
Tighe Was manager for Rock Island in the
days when the teams were made up largely of
youngsters recruited from the country towns.
In those days it was rare when a major club
player was farmed to a minor league team.
To be sure, thi3 was done, and it will likely
be done in the future, but the practice did not
become" an abuse that brought injury to the
minor league teams.
During the past season In the Three Eye
league several of the teams were carrying a
number of major league players, men loaned
temporarily or until such time as their services
were needed by the clubs that owned them.
This created a situation in the Three Eye that
was manifested in an increasing lack of inter
est in the teams by the fans, as the latter re
fused to "warm up" to players that did not be
long to the home team.
Professional teams in cities the sizfof Rock
Island are the developers of major league
stars. Here is whefe the amateur breaks into
professional company. Those with whom he
plays ought to be in about the same class.
Then you get -honest-to-goodness baseball.
Rock Island always has supported base
ball of' the right kind. When the city becomes
populous enough to maintain an American
league team it will be time enough to b,ave an
American league team. In the mean time, the
city, if it expects to survive In professional
baseball, should not try to play out of its class.
IN captioning the foregoing "The Song of
the Masses' we mean to include divers gentle
men who holdTiigh places in the worlds of
journalism and litrachoor. Frinstance,-let ur
quote Editor and Publisher:
"Reports that William Randolph Hearst ii
preparing to publicly announce ..."
And the editorial writer on the Chicago
Henrstyammerer pulls this one:
"They refuse to even countenance this way
0--L"
Then 'behold this eight-column streamer
headline from the Pittsburgh Leader:
"Ulster Likely To Finally Accept Irisn
Peace Agreement."
THE family of infinitive splitters believes
neither in birth control nor race suicide. Its
name is legion.
And Here Isa Word About the "vThomers.
From F. P. A.'s Tower. 1
The employment of whom for who, is
another abominable vice, and yet very
common: as "whom he said was ill"
intended." '
"whom I intended should be sent for"
that is, "whom was ill, he said"
"whom should be sent for, I intended."
It is a long, dispiriting fight. The
preceding is taken from The New York
Mirror for April 4, 1833.
B. L. T. ONCE said that persons who read
the bible never were in doubt as to the use of
"who" and "whom". Using that as a basis one
computes the number of bible readers at about
one-half of one per cent.
NOPE, ART CALENDARS AND US IS
UNACQUAINTED,
near Sir: I don't want to appear? arbitrary
or pedantic, but did Bill, the demon compositor,
Ingrewin? 'aiL
That mythical condition known
to the barber surgeons of onr day
as "ingrowing hair" or "dead hair,"
is serious only because some men
of limited intelligence still permit
the barber surgeon to do an ex
ploratory operation and incidental
ly to present the victim now and
then with an interesting case of
blood poisoning for his further
amusement and delectation.
"Ingrowing nail" is quite as much
a misnomer as is "ingrowing hair."
If you park your front tire hard up
against the sharp curb and make
quite a dent in the tire you don't
deal with it as a case of ingrowing
curb. The nail does not grow into
the flesh; the flesh ("proud flesh")
grows over the edge of the nail.
A recent examination of the feet
of 258 pupils in New York schools,
ranging from grammar school
grades to teachers' training classes,
The prevention of ingrowing nail
is the simplest thing in the world.
Wear shoes built to fit feet. The
cure of ingrowing nail is another
health talk.
QUESTIONS A?iD AXSWEpS.
Aspirin Effects.
A lady takes 10 grains of aspirin
about every two honrs to prevent
headache and neuritis. She seems
to have a weak heart. She says a
doctor told her 10 grains is a better
balanced dose for her , than five
would be. She has been taking it
steadily now for over four months,
and she says she is miserable with
out it. M. H. S.
Answer She won't be a Jady
long if she doesn't break the habit.
She'll be nothing but remains. The
drug, acetyl-salicylic acid, does kill
pain and drown sorrow and all that,
but it is a heart depressing, blood
destroying chemical, and habitual
Frederick .Haskin's Letter! I
ceetal Cumwiiitwi mt ka Arrw.) '
Latest News from Mars.
wasnmgton, Jan.- 5. All or tneiunaerwear iney win need, t,
latest scientific dope on tne most I many uiaiiKeis at cignt ana all th.
luivresiuLg o an planets, mais, is . ew t w luius
conveniently gathered together in aj In the first place, they are t
recent publication on the subject by i to compute the size of Marg
Professor William H. Pickering, , great accuracy. It is 4.200 miles ..
wno nas cnarge oi me - narvara j uiamcicr nuicu means mat it
astronomical station i Jamaica,: only about 12 per cent as great
ana wno nas aevotea mucn ot nis ; me earm in uuiit quite a Bnu
place as stars go, a sort of g0ph,
prairie among the habitable pi-d-
As a result of being such a ligt
meiem worm, -.iars enjoys aa ei
showed the following defects and.' use of such a poison is certain to
deformities:
Thirty-two per cent of the boys
and 41 per cent of the girls in a
grammar school toed out.
Sixty-four per cent of the pupils j
bring sad re3ults.
More School.
My physiology says 6ne should
not go to bed until four hours after
. .i.. v i. .-.-. eatinir. We eat sunner at 6 or 6:30
for teachers toed out. which would make my bed hour 10
That indicates weakness tending ! J 10:80. it I follow the teachings
toward flat foot. Of course a man ! of Physiology and in that case I
or woman with normal feet toe ' wonId not !he nours ' sJeeP
straight ahead.
Forty-seven per cent of the boys,
74 per cent of the girls and 86 per
cent of the embryo teachers had
weak feet.
That indicates that physical edu
cation is still in its puling infancy
in New York, and that shoe clerks
are still good, enough "foot speci
alists" for the average metropoli
tan simpleton.
Ten per cent of the boys. 17 per
cent of the girls and 19 per cent of
the teachers-to-be were equipped
with ingrowing nails. Vanity hath
charms.
That indicates that the older we
grow the less we know about the
hygiene of footwear.
icgruvv ing nans are causea oy
run out of hyphens when he wrote -Wadroit-luring shoes too narrow too
Harding and Hughes.
Some of the great minds on the Democratic
congressional committee have been gleefully
giving out at Washington a discovery of their
own. It relates to the differing views of the
meaning of the four-power treaty apparently
held by the president and his secretary of
state. No chance and temporary misunder
standing will account for the incident, declare
these Democratic readers of the riddle. They
see in it a deliberate and fell design. The pres
ident was becoming jealous - of the praise
heaped upon the secretary. Mr. Hughes was
getting too much of the limelight Talk was
springing up that he would be irresistible as- a
presidential candidate in 1924. Hence Mr.
Hardnig had to intervene, in- the guise of an
innocent misinterpreter of the treaty, so as to
give the country the impression that the sec
retary of state had done an unwise and unpop-J
ular thing. Thus, according to the Democratic
wise men, the trail of politics was over it all.
The theory is too clever by half. Its in
ventors could easily be put down by a plain
tale of what actually happened. When a per
fectly natural explanation can be given of an
unfortunate official blunder, why go so far
afield to seek hidden motives? There is, in fact,
not the slightest friction between the secretary
of state and the president Of Mr. Hughes' en
tire loyalty to his chief4here can be no ques
tion. And in the whole matter of the nego
tiations at Washington, Mr. Harding, with a
fine sense of the fitrress of things, chose for
himself a self-effacing role. As for the next
presidential nomination, it is almost a certain
ty that neither he nor Mr. Hughes is giving it a
thought. Both of them have subjects of anxiety
nearer at hand; the senate, for example; the
course of legislation in congress; the congres
sional elections of this year. If they can get
through the present year safely they will be
ready to let 1924 take care of Itself.
lv" into that pot of ink you flung into the
column the other day? But, no matter. What
1 really want to ask is: have you received your
quota "of art calendars depicting: (a) Decol
lete Indian maiden in white silk, pink wam
pum, feather in raven tresses," langourously
paddling Old Town birchbark through xpath of
moonlight on Kickapoo Slough? (b) Pensive
Indian maiden, also decollete in white camise
ana red blanket about to slip off rosy Cauca
sian shoulder, no wampum, feather in braided
r. t.. standing carelessly upright, paddle
poised., in Old Town drifting athwart path of
moonlight on the Pettifer; brave on shore
struggling to launch canoe for pursuit? (c)
Immaculate but slightly-tanned Indian maiden
in fringed buckskin, much wampum,, f. in r. t.,
amorously gazing at shafts of moonlight pierc
ing silhouettes of Norway pines; Old Town
tethered to shore? SCAMOZZI.
SCAMOZZI must not blame the compositor
because "maJadroitly" appeared with its hy
phen elided. We cannot tell a lie; we did it
with our little hatchet. The Standard die.
agrees with Friend Noah in printing it
"maladroitly". But let us look further. These
revered volumes scatter merry little hyphens in
the most unexpected places. Frexample:
' Mala-dy", "mala-pert", "Ma-lay", "malcontent",
male-diction", male-factor", "ma-levolent",
"nial-feasance", "ma-licious", " ma-lign",
"mal-treat", and so on ad infinitum. And
does one see any of uiose words in current
print carrying its hyphen? One does not.
In most instances we swear by the diction
ary as Wilecat Vitus Marsd-en swears by (and
at) bis galloping dominoes; but when Noah
says it should be "male-diction" we hurl
"malediction" (and perhaps a few anathema)
at his bulky form.
Unlike Scamoz' we have no scruples against
being arbitrary or pedantic; therefore wevcan
not admit that "langourous" is a proper way
to spell "languorous". . . . The contributions
of Scamoz' are as a breath of ozone to us, how
ever, and we await the next breath with an
ticipatory delight .
Speaking of the Dictionary
IFrom the St Louis Star.
Admiral Beatty, returning to Europe, says
he had a "perfectly hectic" time in the United
States. Apparently it's no use; our long cam
paign is a failure, and we advise F. P. A. to
surrender, too. Nobody is on our side, but
Noah Webster, and he's dead. "Hectic," says
Webster, means:
Habitual; constitutional; pertaining
especially to the slow waste of animal
tissues, as in consumption.
It is from the French "hectique". meaning
"habitual", and that comes directly from the
Greek word for "habitual". It has no other
legitimate meaning whatever, but the" medical
phrases "hectic fever" and "hectic flush'
meaning a habitual fever or flush, have caused
people to think "hectic means "feverish",
'flushed" or "exciting".
So we surrender, first, because when an
error is once implanted in the British Admir
alty it can never be eradicated, and. secondlv,
because in a prolonged struggle between the
dictionary and the people the dictionary al
ways gets licked.
Dictionaries have no stamina: thev never
carry a ngnt tnrougn to tie end.
pointed and too far outdared from
the natural straight ingde sole line.
you say a girl of my age must have
in order to keep well and look well.
My daddy says it is better to go to
bed at 9 o'clock, no matter what
my physiology says. K. B. S.
Answer And that's what I say,
too. As a matter of fact, the nat
ural and healthful time to sleep is
after a substantial meal not a
gorge, but just a good, substantial
meal.
Hot and Cold.
Your articles are "interesting and
profitable. I saved a friend from
several hours of pain from earache
by giving her a hot mustard foot
bath in bed, as suggested by you.
But one thing puzzles me. You say
there is no harm to be feared from
cold baths, etc., at any time, and
yet it even my feet get coldI have
severe cramps which can be reliev
ed only by hot drinks. I am worse
This vanity is almost-as prevalent I off now than I was as a girl in this
among persons purporting to be of
the masculine sex as it is among
pupils in the New York training
school for teachers. There are still
a lot of people in America who
think it is graceful to toe out and
who therefore favor shoes built on
that plan. Some street car conduc
tors and policemen are afflicted
with the same painful delusion.
respect. MRS. F. H.
Answer I was referring to nor
mal coniitions. Of course, I did
not mean that cold baths would
cure any functional or organic
trouble a woman might have. Do
you have cramps because your feet
become cold or do your feet become
cold because you have some mor
bid condition which causes cramps?
time to looking at Mars through a
telescope and speculating about
conditions on the sister planet.
Like most strictly scientific rev
elations, what Professor Pickerinz
has to sav is somewhat disillusion-, tremely low force of gravity, i
ing to the layman. Mars has held 1 e surface of Mars the force f
high place in the popular imagina-f gravity atout two-ntths of th;
tion for a long time. It has beenjat the surface of the earth,
eenerallv assumed that Mars is in-1 means that if you weigh v
habited by intelligent beings, some-! Pounds here on earth, and y0
thine like men. How these' bntrs went to Ma"s. you would weigh be
differ from us and how they resem- pounds, though you would sr.
ble us, whether we can hope everVave the same strength. You con
to communicate with them these! jumP more than twice as high, -questions
fire even the dullest in general you would have a rao
imagination. All sorts of fantasies unusual lightness and buoyant
have been based on imagined visits i wanclnS would be vastly more ot
of Martians to, the world, or of in
habitants of the world to Mars.
Whether Mars is inhabited by in
telligent beings is a highly debat
able question, as Professor" Picker
ing shows, but it is extremely prob
able that life in some form exists
on Mars. That alone is enough to
keep human curiosity about it at
the highest pitch.- Men have been
squinting at Mars for centuries,
finding out more and more about it
as their instruments improved.
There is -now an association of
Martian observers who look at the
plant from all different parts of
the earth and exchange observa
tions and opinions. Professor Pick
ering himself has worked out in
theory a giant heliograph by means
of which is would be possible to
signal the inhabitants of Mars, pro
vided they are intelligent beings
with as much power of sight as we
have.
A Trip To Mars.
The time may yet come when we
will get daily communications from
Mars. After all, at times it is only
35,000,000 miles away. Should a 'situation.
pleasure and not nearly so hard o:
the girls toes, but on the otht
hand a flivver striking a bump i:
the road would bounce about t
and one-half times as high. Bl
then, distances in Mars are s
short that one would scares;
need a car.
Is Mars Coin Dry I
As a result of this conditior
Mars has an atmosphere of ver
slight density, and such an atmot
phere does not hold water well a
all. Mars is probably losing wa
ter vapor into space all of the tinu
and it would probably have gon
dry long ago were the supply n
renewea irom some inner sourct
Professor Pickering thinks th
there is not more than one-tho4-
sandth as much water on Mars &V
there is on the face of the earth.
It does not follow from this, how,
ever, that life on Mars is made spe
cially difficult by lack of wator. V
have a great deal more water thaJ
we need on earth. In fact, if Tt-J
could drain an ocean or two inta
space, and use the land for farm
ing, it would greatly improve ou
means of traveling through inter
stellar space with a supply of can
ned oxygen ever be- perfected, as it
well might an expedition to Mars
would doubtless be launched. An
In Mars, the scientists now bv
lieve, there probably are no ppr
manent seas. The water in th;
form of vapor seems to perform
sort of seasonal migration froir1
The Daily Short Story
aeroplane traveling at the rate of pole to pole. In the winter it covi
100 miles an hour might reach i ers the poles in great snow cap
Mars in about forty years, provided I that are visible from tee earth. I
Wt set out at the right time. The spring, these snow caps molt wit:
chief of the expedition, a youth of I great rapidity, for evaporation i
20. would carry with him a few very rapid on Mars. Water boils a
WORDS. OF A ME.H0RY GEM.
Clara ('. Holmes.
Coypright, 1921, by Wheeler -'
Syndicate, Inc.)
Martha-Ntood at he window of
her "blueberry" cubin, watching
the fire-blackened skeletons of pine
trees being shattered in the Decem
ber gale. It was only four days be
pletely when folks gossiped, after
she had gone, saying that I had
abused her. I suppose I was over
sersitive, too, in regard to Carlton;
but I assert now, as I did then,
that I liked Carlton for himself
alone and not for his heirship to
the mill property, as Carlton was
led to believe was true. I am stav-
li
aged about one year. These would
be men and women at the height of
melted snow forms' great marshes
which are also visible from th
their maturity when Mars wasj earth. As these evaporate, til
reached. They would do the ob-j winds carry the water vapor b;i i
serving, and their progeny would : toward the Martian equator, ami i
carry the dope back to earth, along ! falls along the way in the form o
with a delegation of Martians. The ! ram
l; j f n.
cuiuc ujjjaiiuii uccu uui. Luunuiuc
more thau three generations.
It is only fair to add that Pro
fessor Pickering is not responsible
for any of the above speculations.
He did invent the signal system, it
Our climate is tempered bv t!
oceans, and 'the Martian d-mait,
lacking this influence, must be suit,
ject to terrible extremes, bui
from season to season and betwer.
day and night. It is quite possibl.
' Beside her upon the windowsill
purred Bumpus. fche stroked him j
aud confided to him her troubles.
"It might have been very differ-
iwie LimaiuiM, jci aiduuds iiM.imemory of Lina and Christmas-
was as aesoiaie as mat loroiauin - and our own eary friendship. x an,
naaieicLHU Sll ULl-lHIlg ttLica lis tut:
eastward.
j truly wishing you. and all the old
i friends, a happy Christmastide.
"Your. once confidante,
Martha Bradwell."
Martha courageously wcat out
ent with us, Bumpus, if someone into the storm to carry her letter
had not erred so fearfully." j and parcel to her mail box, which
Coincidental!, the words, "To
err is human," fitted into her mind.
Her face brightened.
"I'll do it, Bumpus! Anything is
better than living a UEeless exist
ence, because one hates somebody..
But oh, Bumpus, Anne did wrong
me so spitefully! She may not
have invented the unreasonable
falsehoods; but slfe encouraged
was nearly a mile away. When she
returned, she passed long hos.rs in
suspense, wondering how Ann
would accept the gift. Aimless, she
watched the Deceruberale in-.
crease in fury; she heard the skele
ton trees creak and fall, and she
shivered when the blast Kent out its
shrieks. Toward evening, mad
outbursts of rpin'and hail battered
she persuaded Carlton Burns into i the stout cabin
believing them. I could see how Morning dawred on a dull, gray
Carlton's mind was upset, though ominously still world. Snow bunt
he tried to tell me that he couldn't, ings and chickadees flocked around
wouldn't believe what seemed to ! her door, and, for diversion, Martha
him to be unjust. Because I was ' fed them. She knew well enough
sensitive, I was hurt terribly; so! that in that vast ciience. the storm
I raa away to free Carlton yes, king was gathering strength for an
Bumpus, I ran away from him,': overwhelming drive the first great
she concluded, bursting into sobs, snowstorm of winter. Bv noon the
"Anyway I'll send Anne a Christ- j postman came, having put hiruself
mas greeting," she continued cling- out of his way in order to deliver a
ing to ner purpose, "but 1 can't buy letter. The message was from
anything out here. What am I to j Anne.
do, Bumpus?" j -My dear old chum we are so
a moment, alter iviartna naa ask-i glad to bear from
is true, but he does not seem to be that the water in puddles boils a
at all sure that there is anyone on ; noon on some days and freezes a
Mars worth corresponding with. ; night. The Martians must bo ;
Although the scientists have the hardy bunch,
greatest difficulty in ascertaining Lack of space makes it impossi
what kind of life there is on Mars, ble here to discuss in any d. 'ai
they are able to supply a surprising ; the Martian canals. The claim tiiaU
amount of information as to living j. Mars is innaDitea uy intelligent dp
conditions there. When the Mar-j ings is based almost wholly on ;h
tian expedition sets sail, science ! contention that these long straiu'h:
will probably not be able to tell
the members what sort of crea
tures they will encounter, but they
will be able to tell them all about
the climate in Mars, what, kind of
canals could not be the work of na
tnre. The canals will have to bt
studied a great deal more b, t ire
science will have any inrelli Lvnt
conclusion to offer about them.
Argus Information Bureau
(Any reader can set tbe answer to any question br writing The Argus JnTorm
Mm Bureau. Frederic J. Haattin. Director. Waeninglon. D. C. iive ful: nam- a'4
duren and enclose two-cent atamu tor return pcia;e. be bnel. a:; luuu.n-s .r
confidential, the replia bene eul direct u e'lcn luovlcluai. o a.tsw.;iuu m i -A
paid to anonymous if-tu-rn i
Q. How large is a township? G. 1 equilibrium by use of srvro-.-- ,
j j - - j This type car is used in i'v-
ed the question, the cat jumped
down from the windowsill and ran
for the loft stairs. How Bumpus
happened to do an intelligent thing
like this, Martha never understood;
he led the way up fhe loft stairs,
and Martha followed him.
Like the rest of her cabin, this
attic was model for neatness. There
were a few boxes and chests and a
Martha glanced around, her atten
tion was caught by a trunk whioh
had not been opened since her sis
ter had died, more than a year be
fore. .
Poor Lina's gowns used to fit
When th
people misuse a word, the lexicoeraohers all
shout, "You're wrong, you're wrong". Then spare cot-bed. Bumpus stationed
if the people go on misusing It, the dictionary himself vigilantly at the eaves. As
uiaacrs oajr, very well, nave it your own
way."
From now on, The Star will confine its
efforts to proving that "like" does not mean
"as if".
THOSE who thus Tar have been bored fcy
the dissertations on grammar and orthography
may agree that it is timely to mention that
Miss Ermyl Klock joined hands with Mr. Fred
Do Pauw Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock in
Geneseo. And, unlike Mary Landon Baker
Miss Klock was on time for the ceremony!
lll-, Ull.
Excusable, in the Clrcnm stances.
Albany Corr., The Argus.l
A daughter was bornNionday morning
to Mr. and Mrs.Vjrover Naftzger. This is
their first child.
Business was practically suspended on
New Year's day in -Albany.
MR. FRED HASKIN, writing on the pre
Christmas mail rush some time ago. gives this
sample of misusing the word "hectic":
"la, this final hectic period, delays and losses
are bound to occur."
HORRORS! We have just discovered a
typographical error in our pome printed Jan
3. Distinctly we remember writing it, "A smile
or two" and the printed line appears, "A small
or two". The proofreader ought to be kicked.
. . . How does one go about kicking onesslf?
MME. MARIA IVOGUN has arrived in
America to join the Chicago Grand . Opera
company.
vou no one
knew whether you were livinir or
aeaa. lou. mention some erosKin.
Will you kindly reflect that there
were others ambitious for Carlton's
friendshp as well as myself? We
are sorry you were so deeply hurt.
Do you mind if we plan a sleigh
ing party, and drive over when the
road gets good?
"I am sure you never will regret
having shown so genuine a Christ
mas spirit. That this may be your
happiest, merriest Christmas, is the
wish of
"Anne Grant."
"Happiest Christmas!" Martha's
eyes nnea witn btter tears; the
words, were filled with hniinw
Anne Grant. Anne has become im- j mockery. Suppressing her anger
poverished; it seems as if she is Martha. watched the snow begin to
being punished for her jealous in- j fall, slowly, loiteringly, but steadilv
triguing," reasoned unsophisticated and more steadilv, intil the flake's
came thick and fast. By night the
Martha.
"I can't bear to wear these pretty
things; I wonder if I can persuade
myself to give Anne this silk ki
mono," she faltered, lifting a beau
tiful gown from its place.
"Oh, the ribbon binding has fad
ed," she despaired.
She reflected that she had dye on
hand. The ribbon could be ripped
off, colored, and then replaced.
Martha spent the remainder of
the morning renewing the kimono,
and the result of her work glad
dened her the Japanese silk again
was fresh and bright-colored.
Then she sat down to write a
note, but her hand trembled and
teardrops fell on the script.
"Dear Anne Grant The Bank
ville News says you have had ill
luck. I want you to 'know that I
am sorry. I am mailing you a
Christmas remembrance the ki-
I mono Lina never got able to wear.
L.ina was fond of you
"I nrPfillTTIA 1 n,, 1 1 T
HEY! Mary! Hadnt you better see ihii ' mm J rvnli TT, J V.r J.7
Maria is disarmed? r. e, M'G ' grandmother-it crushed me corn-
wind was in the battle, driving the
air forward -in heavv, blinding
waves. When Christmas morning
dawned, Martha wept again in lone
liness; one glimpse at the drifts
told her that there would be no
postman, no one; no cheerfulness,
nothing. So she filled her heater
with logwood and sat down to lose
herself in the depths of a. book.
Suddenly she sprang up! Some
one was knocking loudly, and she
dare not open the door to a
stranger. She huddled herself iu
a corner, but Bumpus jumped up
on the windowsill. Getting no re
sponse to his rapping, and seeing
the cat, the intruder came to the
window. ' -
"Don't be afraid. Martha; for
Jupiter's 'sake, let me in!" he com
manded. She was soothed by-the familiar
voice; mechanically, she opened the
door. ,
It takes something more than a
northeast blizzard to deter a Yan
A. Townships are now pomi :.u
subdivisions of counties. They
with sui'fcfs.
O.. What was dividi-d ab
battleship ".Mnine?" Was ii.
up from the outside? F. F.
A. The court of inquiry . .
are often based on the division of
territory followed in surveys ot
nnblic lands. Such a township is
six miles long on its south and . no decision on this point ami
east and west boundaries, which j iicial opinion was n-ndi rr.i
follow merit'aans, and is couse-1 q j nave some meaur
ouently slightly less than six miles ! an(j tj,ey include one for "
on its north border. It contains
approximately 3S square miles.
O. Did General Grant ever
serve as a United States soldier on j tathmcnt of the sheve
What does this mean? C
A. The syce is the anulio,.
opening in a garment fcr xh-':
the Pacific coast? H. K. F.
A. Ulysses S. Grant served as a
lieutenant in an infantry regiment
on the Pacific coast in 1S52 aud in
1854.
Q. Why are bungalows so
named? T. D.
Q. Can work on the public h!u-
ways be done during the v.nm r
the interest cf decreasing u:.. :
plov merit? O. O. P.
A. Much outdoor w.'ritcr
is done in Cauada in 'an elfor;
equqali?e work throughout
A. Bungalow is an Anglo-Indian j year. Minnesota has sjenified h-r
word adopted from Banga, mean
ing Bengal. At first the name was
applied to the one-storied house of
light construction made usually if
unbaked bricks with a thatched
roof and surrounded with a ve
randa. Q. Is there a car that can run
on one rail and is it a success? J.
G. R.
A. There is a car which runs
on one rail and maintains its
"Hullo, Martha," he greeted,
"aren't you going to welcome a fel
low who has wallowed miles to get
to you?"
She let him seize her almost in
animate hands.
"Martha," he bantered to dispel
her bewilderment, "honest, I am
real and human, even if I am cov
ered with icicles. Anno sent for
me to tell me you were her. She
mejto tell me you were here. She
about somebody's grandmother, the
great Jupiter knows what, I don't."
Martha forced back a flow of
tears and flashed Carlton one of
her winsome smiles. She thought
just then about h'er memory gem ;
and, 1 looking down to the furry
bundle on the floor, she effused:
"Bumpus, isn't Anne Grant
divine?"
intention of putting s.:ou m
road work. Gravelling, grad'n?.
and paving wiii be done.
Q. How much cotton was grown
lust year? C. B. II.
- A. The department of agricul
ture says that the world's :ot:;.n
crop for 1921 is estimated at !".
533,000 bales. This is the suui!le-i
crop in 20 years and is a falling oif
of 5,000,000 bales from last .-.. r
Q. Whut is the origin of ti e
bull dog? W. S. C.
A. Bull baiting, a sport on. e
popular in Kngland but now i -clared
illegal, consisted in at!:., k
ing bulls with dos especially tr
ed for that purpose. The bulldog
seems to have been developcu for
this sport from a short-eared mas
tiff called "alaunt."
Q. What was the first important
battle of the Civil war? N. A.
A. The first battle of Bu!: Rut
is considered the first important
battle of that war. It was !i:fiht
on Sunday, July 21, 1SG1, ami re
sulted in a victory for the Coufeii-erates.
Q. What was the date of '.he 1-5' j
severe hurricane at Galveston inCI
Houston, Texas? K. X I
A. The latest record appear? tfjj
be that of a severe hurricane '' f
passed over tbes two cities durinl'j
the night of Aug. 16-17, 1315.
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