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windmills, owing to the German fear
that they will send signals to the iy '
"We are therefore face to face with
a fact which has rarely If ever, oc
curred in the history of the world
an entire nation Is in a state of fani
Ine and that within half a day's jour
ney from our shores."
The heartrending distress of Bel
gium is repeated to a smaller degree
in other parts of Europe. The Duch
ess of Marlborough has spoHen of the
numbers of women at present out of
work In England. In Austria food
prices have risen beyond the means
of the poorer classes. It is reported
that the consumption of horse flesh in
Vienna is Increasing rapidly. As
many as 200 of the animals have been
brought into the market in one day.
And at the end of a report from Ber
lin of a hard fight near Verdun. Is ap
pended the brief statement: "The pop
ulation of the district is starving."
fH A C C S ' " C OUNCl
Wednesday, November 18, 1914.
If more alcohol were put into the
automobile radiators and less into the
drivers, the bill for damages all around
would be materially lessened.
This country is well fitted to make
plowshares out of swords, but so far
no order of this character has come
to American manufacturers.
GIVE US A REST. -
Isn't it about time to call a halt to
the farce that is being made of the
prosecution of Sheriff Bruner. ex
State's Attorney Maglll and Dr. John
son? For two ears the controversy, orig
inating as a purely republican dirty
linen washing, has dragged along
through grand jury after grand Jury,
taking up the time of the circuit court
and piling up a stupendous bill for the
county to settle.
The failure Special Prosecutor
George W. Wood has made was to
have been expected. Floyd Thompson,
the regular state's attorney, went to
the bottom of the case and discovered
to his own satisfaction t"iat convict
ing evidence was not to be had. There
is no doubt there was cause for in
vestigation, and there should have
Austria, taking satisfaction out of
the fact that it has been able to
retreat "without hindrance rrom me Deen an investigation in the interests
enemy" seems possessed of a truly i of justjce; but between furthering the
thankful spirit. I end8 0f justice and trying to pet some-
body for political vengeance is a wide
Concern professed in Indou dis- difference. Past trials honestly con-
patches over the reported wasting of, ducted have shown the utter impos-
THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 10U.
CHORDS AND
DISCORDS
At Beginning of a New Era
ammunition on the part of -the Ger
mans is one of the unexplained mys
teries of the war.
The manner in which the Vnited
States government kept the secret of
the fate of the ,British battleship Au
dacious warrants the suspicion that it
mar have more of the same kind up
its sleeve.
Klbilitv of conviction. And yet .Mr.
Wood has gone ahead for. a year try
ing to make out a case and drawing
a blank every time.
What the costs will amount to no
body knows, and no one outside the
inner circle in county affairs Is likely
ever to know. Mr. Wood has not
turned in his bill, and the size of it
is problematical. It is to be hoped,
however, that he will hold the propor-
Instead of finding fault with thel tions down to something like a reason-
democratic tariff the high duty ad vo-. able ratio to the results he has ob
cates ought to be rejoicing over the; tained.
perfect protection which the war has, what object there can be for going
given American manufucturers by j further with either of the three cases
wiping out their foreign competitors. ! j3 a mystery. The election being over,
- I the republican scores should by all the
The suggestion of the Council Bluffs i rules be considered settled. So far
man that the president elected in 191C, as the public Is concerned the fiasco
for the good bf the republican party, has ceased to be even entertaining
appoint Taft to the supreme bench j or anything more than a bore,
and Roosevelt to one of the important i Kefs have a rest and pay off the
ambassadorship is all right only the ; county debt.
next president probably will prefer to I ..
continue to appoint democrats. DISEASE AND POVERTY.
(Chicago Tribune.
The opening of the twelve reserve
banks inaugurates, it is hoped, a new
era In American finance. If the Owen
Glass act is not perfect it represents
a tremendous advance over the vicious
system, which had grown out of civil
war necessities and which persisted
like a latent disease in a sturdy con
stitution to break forth in violent
crises whenever resistance weakened.
The curse of the "panic" in its pe
culiar American form should now be
a thing of the past. We shaTl not es
cape recurrent periods of "hard
times." but the line of our normal
financial and business Enterprise will
not be subjected to the excessive and
unnecessary penalties of a rigid and
archaic currency system. The new
reserve, plan is basically sound and
provides a means of mobilizing our
financial resources to meet changing
conditions and even critical emergen
cies. The organization of the reserve as
sociations and opening of the twelve
district banks should relieve substan
tially the domestic credit situation.
There is no doubt that 'business men
in increasing numbers have chafed at
the checks put upon them by the
banks and have felt that an energetic
revival was obstructed more by bank
ers' policy than any other factor. With
the opening of the reserve banks, with
their ample resources for rediscount,
there should be a general easing of
the money rate as well as an improve
ment of the psychological factor in
public confidence.
But the great problem for the imme
diate future. is the adjustment of our
international credit ' relations. To
fhls difficult but critically important
task It Is to be hoped the federal re
serve board will rise. It is fortunate
that at least one of its members, Mr.
Warburg, is an international banker
of the highest training anil experience,
and it may be that the present un
precedented emergency will inspire a
masterly treatment of our internation
al credit situation. Opportunity has
given the republic great men in moat
of the crises in her history. Certainly
we have at this moment need for cour
age, determination, and sound think
ing to meet both the dangers and the
tempting opportunities created or en
larged by the European disaster.
By the first of the year our trade
balance ahould be well above $200,000,
000 and that balance steadily will
grow. But the certainty of a heavy
counterflow of our securities presents
a very serious problem which it will
tax our financial abilities "to the full
to meet. It will tax more than the
abilities or officials and financiers. It
will tax the spirit of the American in
vesting public. Now if ever Is the op
portunity for the American people to
show that the people of their sister
republic, France, are not their supe
riors in patriotism and self-confidence.
Now if ever la opportunity for
Americans to show that they believe
in America and Americans. As the
French rushed to the payment of the
huge German fine of 1870, so with less
sacrifice and more security the Amer
ican people might well absorb the
sound stocks which foreign holders
will send back, not because they are
intrinsically less sound than they
were, but 'because of their foreign
owners' imperative need of liquida
tion. Before the war there had been a pe
riod of depression during which even
the best securities sold off without due
cause. But now American investors
should take counsel of their hearts
and their brains and not tf their liv
ers. It is time for them to ask
whether the United States is a good
Investment or not, whether the pres
ent and future of this great country
with its rich resources and its hundred
million of energetic Americans Is
worth betting on.
The question answers itself, of
course', when It is put. But Ameri
cans haven't been putting it.
We shall pass through a period of
rather drastic readjustment, but the
whole tremendous groundwork of the
national wealth and prosperity is as
sound as the foundations or the earth. .
What we need most is a courageous
certainty of this truth and the good i
sense to back ourselves against the
world.
GOTHAM'S slippage towards Chica
go is increasing at a rate that must be
alarming to the former. Charles
Frohman announced he would make
the Windy City his producing center
and then a rich New Yorker came all
the way from his home town to Chi
cago to pass in his checks. That's
rubbing it in, say we.
BOYS can grow altogether too fa
miliar with their fathers' autos. An
Illinois lad who persisted in taking
dad's machine to joy ride with neigh
borhood playmates has just been plac
ed on probation for a year by the
court.
Prosperity Note.
(Gibson, 111., Enterprise.)
The Daylight Special of the I. C.
R. R.. is doing a big through business
now days. On Sunday R. R. Bailey
went to Vinta, Okla., using the special,
as also did Dr. and Mrs. Butler, going
to St. Louis.
The Man With the Front.
(New Glasgow, N. S.Enterprise.)
We had a delightful call on Tuesday
from Rev. Mr. Dawson of "The Moun
tain" church. Rev. Mr. Dawson is a
most charming man to meet a man
well read In the topics of the day a
genial man, in short a man with no
side.
POETS are complaining that a New
York music publisher defrauded them
out of $15,000. This allegation may
lead to an investigation to ascertain
where the poets got it in the first
place.
The Daily Story
A Scrap oi Paper By Bath Graham.
Copyrighted. l"I4. by Associated Literary Bureau.
The normal person will not sink into
. . iiinAuu .Iwu'iuo flfnrinit v
ble in framing up his proclamation to ; F" - . , '. ' ,
.r ii i.. ,.. land weak-mindedness are subnormal.
The sultan of Turkey had no trou-
David Starr Jordan says:
"Strong
the army and navy. He simply took
. w-r ntrn f r i hcaiI Ki- thn Til l'T1
. .. . " i "j 7 i men seek education and make oppor
archs of the countries already ravolv- " . .. , .
ed in the struggle, making such
changes as were necessary to adapt it
to the Mohammedan religion.
Chicago has just won a suit to col
lect an assessment levied during the
world's fair which has been in the
courts for 21 years before being pass
ed upon finally by the I'nlted States
supreme court. It would take a long
stretch of the imagination to picture
any stronger argument for court re
form in this country.
A contribution to the reduction of
the cost of living on a magnificent
scale is proposed in the national abo
lition of the $2,0n,000.o00 annual
drink hill, with its contribution of in
efficiency and waste and crime. That
is the standard put up by the Ameri
can people in the convention at Atlanta.
The Society for th Prevention of
t'tteless Giving at Christmas has found
a worthy outlet for its benevolences.
It is turning the tide of Christmas'
gifts into the channel of employing
girls out of work to make garments
tunity," and to t'.iis might be appro
priately added: "They bring things
about: they make events occur." Wearf
men are the opposite of this, says Dr.
J. N. Hurty in the Journal of the
American Medical Association. Dis
ease is Itself not an evidence of physi
cal or mental strength. Syphilis is a
great cause of poverty, as it is also ot
insanity. "We were getting along
splendidly," said the poverty-stricken
woman, "until my husband took con
sumption." And who must be told oi
the great poverty that trails consump
tion? A farmer diej of typhoid fever
when the mortgage, given in part pay
ment for his farm, was only one-half
paid off. His wife and little daughter
took the disease and survived only fin'
ally to fill fuller the slums of a city
where she went with the child when
the rich man foreclosed the mortgage.
Yellow fever prevented the French
from building the Panama canal, and
thousands who bad invested their all
in canal shares were pauperized.
In Mexico there are thousands who
have been made blind and pauperized
by smallpox. There are at least two
Rented Wedding Cake.
There was something wrong with
the cake, the baker said. It looked aK"
right, and it smelled all right, but his
artistic sense told him It would not
taste all right.
"Then fix it up with an extra coat of
Icing, and we will keep It for a rent
er," said the proprietor.
"Who in the world would rent a
cake?" some one asked.
"Wedding parties." said he. "They
want a big cake in the center of the
table for show, but a cake of that size
good enough for a wedding would cost
uiore than they can afford to pay, so
they order fine cake put up in indi
vidual boxes for the guests and use
the bride's cake just as an ornament.
They don't, buy it, they just rent it.
Sometimes a cake Is rented a dozen
different times. After each wedding
it is freshened up 'with a new coat of
icing and looks as good as new for
the next occasion. A good renter
fetches about S3 a wedding." Wash
ington Star.
In the central part of the battle line
not far from Rheims, French bat
tery was well hidden, and despite a
close search by a German aeroplane,
the position remained undiscovered
for several 'Says. Then German shells
began to drop around it, 'and shortly
afterwards the major in command
found that white linen had been hung
out right behind his position, ostensi
bly to dry, but, in reality, it was plac
ed there by a German spy to indicate
to German airmen the exact emplace
ment of the French guns.
wiiiiam uraay.n.u.
Whooping Cough.
million blind beggars in China, all
and comforts of other kinds for the ! made blind by smallpox. It is only
men la the armies in the European J when
war.
Laying off thousands of men a fort
night before election aid putting them
on again a few days after election is a
corrupt practice which no law yet de
vised Is expected to reach. -It is worse,
ays the State Register, than south
ern bootlegging and worse than brib
ery. It 1 a combination if intimida
tion and purchase. It seems to have
been worked with great success in
many places this fall.
WANT THROUGHOUT EUROPE
The suffering of the peasants as a
result of the war is naturally most se
vere in Belgium. There are unem
ployed and starving people in every
country of Europe but the fearful des
olation and ruin of Belgium is with
out parallel. Hundreds of thousands
of non-combatants, who, a few short
weeks ago were dwellers In quiet and
happy homes, are now wanderers on
the face of the earth. The reports of
their condition are unfortunately not
exaggerated; the whole countryside
has been ravaged and whole cities,
town and villages burned. As the
New York Evening Post reports. Mr.
Whitebouse says: "The whole life or
the nation has been arretted. Food
epidemics come, when the great
er proportion of lives are threatened.
that we realize the meaning of sick
ness and disease'. The ramifications
of disease are so complex and far
reaching we can have but a hazy' idea
of what disease means.
It is curious to note that, because
of our stupidity, one's very industry
may bring poverty. This is illustrated
by the occupational diseases. Until
very recently society permitted greed
to force phossy jaw on workmen who
afterward in many instances became
paupers. To rear and protect indus
tries, one product of which Is poverty.
is a queer condition. The prevention
of phossy jaw will certainly also pre
vent all the poverty which might come
from It.
Cigar makers, printers and tailors
are especially afflicted with tubercu
losis; and on the pauper records ap
pear the names of hundreds who have
followed these occupations. A propri
etor who does not surround his em
ployes with the best conditions ol
health Is a breeder of disease, poverty
and crime.
Feeble-mindedness Is a disease con
dition and produces a world of pover
ty. There Is no cure for feeblemind
edness; It may only be prevented;
and there are only two rational meth
ods for Its prevention. neither of
supplies wnicn wou'.U ordinarily reach whir h society w ill adopt. And so it
"i .......
the civilian population are being tak
fa oy in uerman troops for their
own support. The peasant and poor
are without the necessities of life and
conditions of starvation grow more
acute every day. Even where there
is a supply of wheat available, the
peacants are not allowed to use their
happens, as we "blunder c-n through
love and hunger," that the highest ser
vices of medical science are rejected,
prevention. Is disregarded and disease
fallows civilization with Its ever
lengthening train of degeneracy, de
fectiveness, delinquency and dependency.
Most cases of whooping cough oc
cur in children from two to five year
old. But young babies, especially bot
tle babies, and elderly persona,, es
pecially lovers of the fireside, are also
susceptible to the infection.
It is due to a bacillus which is giv
en off In the sputum. Contact with a
patient or a convalescent seems to be
essential for he transfer of the in
fection. Whooping cough cases ought
to be Isolated from contact with all
other children so long as any cough
or expectoration continues. The dis
ease Is reportable to the health de
partment, and the child is excluded
from school, but that Isn't enough;
the patient should be labeled with an
arm band, so that all might see at a
glance what is the matter and keep a
safe distance.
The incubation period, or the time
intervening between exposure to the
disease and the appearance of the
first signs of illness, is from one week
to two weeks. But the onset Is very
gradual, first a simple cough not un
like an ordinary tracheitis or bronchi
tis, lasting a week or ten days. Then
the cough becomes more spasmodic,
fits of coughing at frequent intervals,
and in a tew days the whoop devel
ops. It is at first a mere gasping in
take of breath following the cough
ing spell: but eventually it becomes a
loud sound which gives the disease its
name.
The Prevention of Complications.
The disease in itself is painful to
witness, but the average child can
weather it successfully if he is inot
handicapped too greatly by an aver
age mother. With all respect to moth
ers, but with greater anxiety about
the children, we insist that too many
ly over the undershirt In the rear.
This supports the child's abdominal
muecles. renders the spells less of a
strain on him, and prevents possible
rupture.
Questions and Answers.
-Mrs. H. S. M. writes: W enjoy
your health talks very much and dis
cuss them in the family circle, but
without wishing to criticise, we wish
you would feel free to suggest more
remedies for simple conditions than
you do.
Reply Thanks. When we please.
tell ;the editors; when we don't, tell
us. If you will send in a list of the
simple conditions you refer to. we
will consider your request in future
articles. However, we cannot attempt
to prescribe.
L. J. C. writes: I am 20 years of age;
stenographer. My health is fair, but I
am somewhat anaemic. Would you
kindly inform me what is your opin
ion of eisenzucker?
Reply It Is excellent.
"Anxious," Mrs. S. P., U E. U. C.
W. C. Personal questions cannot be
answered unless stamped addressed
envelope is included with your letter.
Mrs. W. H. B. inquires: (1) In what
condition does pericarditis leave the
heart? (2) Is it well for one to work
after (having an attack? (3) What
are the symptoms of ,a weak heart?
(4) Is a nervous heart dangerous?
.Reply 1 Pericarditis Is an Inflam
mation of the double-walled membran
ous sac which covers the heart. Ad
hesions are likely to ochur between
the two walls and interfere with free
beating of the heart. The late re-j
suits of pericarditis depend upon thel
victims of whooping cough are done to! character of the adhesions left be-
death by bad air. The sleeping room ! hind. The heart may be permanently
embarrassed or apparently as good as
ever. 2. Ask your doctor. 3. Loss
of efficiency. 4. Not if it is only dangerous.
THE Soo is batting to form.
ALL possessing rich parents will
applaud the idea adopted by wealthy
Ulinoisan, who. In splitting his estate,
says' he, does not believe in waiting
until death to fatten his children's
bank accounts.
THIRTY-TWO tons of postage
stamps have been shipped from Wash
ington to postoffices over the country
in preparation for the holiday rush. A
watermelon will be awarded the first
customer giving the exact number of
stickers in said consignment.
"I AM a private of the privatest
kind. I decline to be interviewed."
This is what Colonel Roosevelt said
while spending the day in New York.
He must have come to a realisation
that the public no longer gets excited
over his comment on current topics.
He was given his first hunch when the
newspapers switched him from the
front to the market page.
CHARLES Pope, testifying in a gov
ernment anti-trust suit, said the corn
products refining combination paid
him $3,000,000 for two plants that were
worth only $300,000. Which causes
one to feel that some of the trusts
really are benevolent institutions. Or
was the glucose folk' simply being
sweet to Mr. Pope?
Edward Olcott was convalescent, and
the morning was a marvel of sunshine.
There Is a delicious feeling about first
convalescence that I fancy is explain
able from the contrast between suf
fering and the relief from suffering.
It seemed to Olcott that be was never
so well in his life, and yet it would
have been well nigh impossible for him
to get out of the invalid chair in which
he had been wheeled to the glass In
closed porch of the hospital.
He had not been there long before
an attendant dropped a newspaper in
bis lap. Unfolding it, he noticed some
words written la pencil in a woman's
hand on the margin. They read:
Dear Patlent--I am very sorry for you.
I hope you will get comfort from this
paper, which I Intend to put in the box
at the terminal of the railroad for pa
pers to go to the hospital. 1 pity you
especially being- conflned on account of
Illness when ThanksglrlngT la coming on.
Cheer up! On next Thanksgiving da
I trust you will be In condition to enjoy
a One Thanksgiving dinner.
This communication to an unknown
dear patient was signed with two ini
tials, E. A. The newspaper was a
weekly issued at a place called Edge
water, some twenty miles from the
city.
"That little note," said Olcott to him
self, "was written by a girl. No one
else would have signed her initials.
The place in which she lives Is made
up of residences of well to do people.
I question If In all there are BOO houses.
I shall have no difficulty in discovering
who E. A. is, and I propose to dine
with her next Thanksgiving. I would
do so this year but for the fact that
there isn't time and I couldn't eat a
Thanksgiving dinner."
Olcott was a young man of means.
The reason why he was at a hospital
instead of his own home was- twofold
first, he was a bachelor, without a
near relative, and, second, he had been
recommended by his physician to go
to a hospital as the most convenient
place in which to be HI. Possibly In
his convalescent state he was especial
ly impressible. Be that as it may, he
read the paper that had been given
bim, conjuring up visions of the per
son who wrote the message on the
margin. When he had finished the pa
per's perusal he tore off the message
for preservation and futnre use.
Olcott was at an age when an ap
preciation for the pleasures of social
life begins to lose Its edge. When he
was twenty he fancied that he was
courted because of his attractiveness.
Now that he was twenty-seven he' had
come to understand that he was court
ed principally for what his income rep
resented. He bad not lived at home
since the death of his mother, when he
was nineteen. His illness, during
which he had been under the care of'
paid nurses, had made him .
what might be the trt.. ..TTT10
one wbo loved bim a
ladles be bad met In societj
deavored to make it apt,' T
that they appreciated him for
h01 W-j
but he believed that o,!i'n
who could give them a home ."
do as well.
For these reasons be'wM tttfl
to this person who had a hetrt
ifUI
in an unknown person in i..
from whom thara . .
slblllty that she could derive tl,
tit. 1 BS(-
She might possibly be old ni
ly. but he did not believe ,h.
At any rate, as soon as h
charged from the hospital be tmJZ
ii ue Ut4 u
uiere w&ft
much hope of finding her
When the next Thanksgiving
uou maae tbt
attain ta nr of Ml cmui. . .
Edgewater end had proved by
ing a specimen of her h.adw
that nhe via the n.wA, v. . .
.OUU WOO gag
trlbuted the newspaper that be W
read as a convalescent There ul
been no great difficulty In this, ajT
had to do was to go to Ed?e,.
Join a club there, consisting of jxZ
men and women, make the tcn
ance of the residents and look out tt
a girl whose initials were E. A.
Miss Arnold was, as be had mppowt
very young. She was barely eight
Olcott paid her a great deal of .tie
Hon. at which she was nahwiDy til
tered. He discovered that ber bent
was as tender for the afflicted u he
naa supposes, ana it was not lonr be
fore he had won that heart for him.
self.
All this while be bad the pencil me
sage that he had torn from the sen.
paper in his portmanteau. But he Mil
nothing about it to Mis Arnold. h
supposed that their meeting' bad oc
curred by chance. Olcott bad rewired
when in the hospital that be would eat
his next Thanksgiving dinner with bet,
and he was working tip to that point
This. too was very easy, for a tew
weeks before Thanksgiving be asked
her to be bis wife, and she accepted
bis proposition. Under the clrran
stances it was quite in order that b
6hould be invited to take bis Thanks
giving dinner at the Arnolds'. Toward
its close be took from his portmanten
the scrap he had torn from the new
paper and passed it around the table.
It was easily recognized at Edith's
work. Then Olcott said:
"When 111 in a hospital I tore this
message of sympathy from newij
per that fell into my bands. I vowed
that I would eat my next Thanksgiv
ing dinner with the writer, and I hati
kept my resolve."
MEXICO again got so close to peace
that it caused another explosion.
Ah, Yeal
(Stella M. Ware, Eureka. Kan.)
The autumn, oh the lovely harvest
time!
When color riots wild o'er hill and
dale;
'Twas then, my dear, so many years
ago.
Our lives were joined with love that
cannot fail.
Our wedding day, how dear it seems
to me!
These cool sweet days, blue skies
and mild sun ray.
They bring It back so vividly to me,
It seems, it must be only yesterday.
The years, the years, they pass relent
lessly;
Time adds its marks of care upon
. your face;
Your eyes grow dim, your step, my
a ear, grows slow.
Your morning and your noon to
night give place.
But oh 'tis love, 'tis love that keeps
us young!
In spite of age the heart remains the
the same;
And on this happy wedding day, my
a ear.
We'll be as gay as on the day I
took your name.
Sidelights on the European War
never requires better ventilation than
when whooping cough is prevalent in
the house. It is a well proven fact
that the more thorough the ventila
tion, the less frequent and the less
severe are the spells of coughing. The
great danger in whooping cough is
broncho-pneumonia "suffocative ca
tarrh.'' b our medical fathers called
it and this complication la certainly
Invited by inadequate ventilation. Day
times, of course, the child should have
every possible advantage of outdoor
air.
An excellent appliance I a an abdo
minal belt: about ten inches wide,
having an insertion t.f two Inches of
woven elastic material on either side,
and eyelets and tape to Uce it suu-
Ambltious states: I am a girl not
yet 2, always well, but of late dull,
tired, sleepy. Eat and sleep well, but
seem to be lazy. Is It malaria? Please
give cure. What 1 good for catarrh?
Reply We supposed only boys de
veloped this complaint at 20. It isn't
malaria. Walk four miles a day with
low, flat heels and plenty of room
for your toes to wiggle. Breathe a
mile deep. If breathing is difficult,
have the nose and throat and chest
carefully examined to determine what
causes the symptom, catarrh.
From Nat Goodwin's Book.
I have been addicted to th naa e
alcoholic stimulants but always with
uisunguisnea and worthy companions;
deserted home and fireside, always
oy request, dearly bought and paid
ior. nea to myBelf for recreation!
cheated the undertaker: deceived
only "yours truly;" been a reveler
during the day, always too busy at
night; been a gambler on the green -
a rambler on the nod; an actor on
the job; a hypocrite? no. by God;
Aiarriages are made in heaven
cancelled in Reno.
I have had many sweethearts, but
onty one survives mv mother.
If a man steals your wife don't kill
hlmi caution him!
My whole desire was by repetition
to prove that hope can conquer expe
rience! My home is by the sea. My lot is
100 feet wide. Its height is intermin
able. It is a thousand fathoms deep!
My front yard extends to the anti
podes. Am I not to be envied? I won
der. King-Cole.
Married at GaleBburg. Saturday,
Bert U King and Lulu Cole.
AS was to be expected, the opening
of the New York grand opera season
was a brilliant success. The jewel
and back displays outshone those of
previous years. The singing was also
enjoyed.
. J. M. C. ,
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
Venice. A news letter from Vienna
tells some Temarkable instances of
the censorship in the Austrian capital
and pays a compliment to the consid
eration shown to foreigners who are
still in Austria-Hungary.
"That the warning from the police
against adverse comment on the mil
itary operations is to be taken ser
iously," says the letter, "is evident
from the fact that a man who had re
marked casually in a Vienna cafe that
the Austrian soldiers were cowards,
was promptly arrested and sentenced
to two years' imprisonment with hard
labor, with a fast day once a week,
and a day's confinement in a dark cell
once a month. Another man who had
been overheard saying that the Serv
ians' would be victorious received ex
actly the same sentence."
Newspapers from America have
been held back at the postoffioe for
more than three weeks, according to
the letter, and telegraphic communi
cation has proven so difficult that the
people have practically given up try
ing to dispatch messages. For cor
respondence with the soldiers at the
front special postcards and envelopes
are provided, and each man may be
addressed by a code number, but his
whereabouts are not divulged, and the
news exchanged is subject to such a
rigorous cersorship that only a few
commonplace matters are written.
"It must be admitted," writes the
Vienna informant, "that the Viennese,
and indeed the Austrlans generally.
have treated the foreigners here, in
eluding even those of hostile coun
tries, with a great "deal of considera
tion. There have been no demonstra
tions against embassies, or legations
or individuals. In a few instances
Englishmen have been the victims of
some unpleasant incidents in the
streets, but these cases were rare and
of Blight Importance. It is the rule
to avoid . speaking either English or
French, and in that event one may
feel safe from annoyance.
"The local official news agency has
taken It upon itself to remind the
people that there are over 90.000.000
Americans whose mother tongue is
English, and that in their midst are I
living many thousands of Austriaus
enjoying the hospitality of the freest
country in the world. It therefore be
came the Viennese to extend the
greatest courtesy to Americans here.
There are, of course, a number of
young Englishmen and Frenchmen
under (arrest to make t certain they
will not fight against 'Austria-Hungary.
but they are being Well treated, with
the exception of the fact that they
have to sleep on the straw-strewn floor
of the detention camps. They are al
lowed to correspond m German with
their friends within the monarchy.
The French women governesses
mainly have given the police more
trouble than the men. They freauent
the cafes and often talk loudly b
abuse of the Austrian authoritlea.-
Berlin. An Interesting exhibit d
things connected with the war U to
be seen at the International Boot
exposition at Leipzig. Because of iti
popularity this branch was ordered
kept open after the close ot tne a
nosition proper. The German govm-
ment regards it as necesBary to tt
education of the people and as UN
ft missffYn
.One section is devoted to pron
ently displayed copies of foreign P
ipers with absurd or deliberately i
ppnnrtu concerning Germany. Ta
reports are Iieavily bordered, and tt
oho oooh ia n translation. Germfl
nnwsnaners from cities oeaupied
the Russians are also displayed, t
tainlng the proclamations and ordeo
nf th Russian commanders f"
blank columns where the Rul
sor trohibited the publication of ce
tain articles. ,.
A collection of articles rrom "
battle grounds of Belgium tacW" j
five valuable old miniature i"""
saved by a German soldier fro '
hnrninir chateau in Hasuero.
uraaui. a
r, . . hv tne -
represented by a large coiiec-.
includes cartoons from hostile id
eations, letters
and postcards ft"
the front one of the latter
ing of a section cut from
com
Betf-'
aeroplane which had been brmwi
various ms'" -
down, and
paintings
to
Another section is gl
uniforms, projectiles . cap ur
pons aTia nags.
eludes a knout taken from
of
. . - n mi m tor
lir. VV. J. uuimuuci, reoatt-
Cafnegie museum, has been rw"
ed bv several collectors and Eurj
municipalities to become ca8" B,.
some of the most Importan t '
master painters and sculptors o
centuries until the war . "
has answered mat u i"" "".
be brought here the
gladly guard them againsi
vandalism.
Nov. 18 in American
History. -
1SU4 I'htlip John Schuyler.
the Revolution, died: born
lead I
1733.
1SL' rrans sigei. ut'"u -
.... in the C"
became aistiugui-iu -
. .It.. 1 1UV -
war, wrui uiru .
minder
tu.ra
Vnrt: '
New
1SS1 -George Law.
moter: died iu
1S0.
law cnesier Aian
first president of the Vnitea o
died: born JS30. ' JL,
1009-Ricbard Watson Glider.
nud editor of the Ceuturj
sine, died; born 1S13.