THE ROCK ISTAND ARGUS, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1915.
THE ARGUS.
Published dally at 1624 Second arc
ane. Reck Island, III. (Entered at the
postofSoe as eecon d-claas matter.)
BY THE J. W. POTTEE CO.
Bock Island Member Associated Pre
Full I,eae3 YTlre Report.
Member Audit Bureau cf Circulations.
TelphoaeB in all departments. Cen
tral Union, Rock Inland 145, 1145 and
2146.
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Tp.(!a.T, .Inly 20, 191.",.
The fallow who works in a powuer
plant is even wor.v? off these days than
the one who ilvt s in a glass house.
Thaw is out of the custody of the
state, but hi still figures with our
most prominent oitltT.s w ben it comes
to the doling- out of newspaper space.
The Argus has m bj;-tion to being
termed tin "ever mg organ" if it
pleaees anybody to indulge the term
especially as the eff.-ct is to designate
it as the only newspaper in the even
ing field in the city.
Even the :i-t.infr9 are turning
against John Parleycorn. for they are
finding it more profitable to make de
natured alcohol to nil war contracts
with foreign governments than it U
to manufacture the kind customariij
USftd to fill these who at" tstliirst.
The steamer Steel City, which has
JtiBt completed the. trip from LaSalie
to New Orleans in 75 hours, break
ing all river riords, had 25 Chl
cngoans on beard on the way south.
It is scurcely to be expected that the
craft would have made that time if it
bad'- carried a cargo of lower muzzle
velocity molasses, for instance."'
Whales, which long ago were re
ported to have been driven out of the
North sea by mines ami oilier devices
of war, arc now having a hard time
of it in the Adriatic, one of thorn be
ing attacked by an Italian destroyer
the other day and killed before it was
discovered that it was not a subma
rine. It is getting so that a well mean
ing cetacean scarcely knows where to
find a safe place to lay its head.
This newspaper docs not feel that
it has been called to go to the front
for the Second avenue asphalt, al
though it may have its faults, and still
it. is reasonably certain that the ma
terial used on that thoroughfare would
possibly stand us good a test as that
which is insisted upon in place of
brick by certain Ninth street paving
objectors and which if adopted might
pave the way to removing some of the
existing obstacles. And The Argus has
no prejudices against the new mater
ial, either.
THE JAIL RULING.
It must bo more or less irritating to
the organ of obstruction to know that
Judge Church based his denial of the
Jail site injunction on (he contentions
of the counsel for the contractor,
rather than on those cf the attorneys
representing the county. It was for
benefit of the contractor that the
court's advice was given in which he
said though he felt it necessary, from a
luga! standpoint, to decline to grant
the writ, lie believed it wise from a
business standpoint to discontinue
operations til! the question reaches
iinai ajudieation.
It would appear to be extremely im
portant, iu view of the fact that more
consideration was given by the court
to the validity of the contract than to
the action of the board ia defying the
law which ia on the statute books, al
though held not in force at the time,
and its bearing, of course, will be taken
into consideration when the case is
wrought before the state supreme court,
to which it surely will be taken.
FALLACIES OF PROTECTION.
Adverting to an editorial by that old
stand pat newspaper, the St- Louis
Globe-Democrat, in which our heavy
trade balance against Europe is dis
cussed, with the war blockade held
tip as a vindication of the protection
theory. The Public says:
"From so prominent a protectionist
source this admission is important
We now have protectionist authority
for a fact that baa long been obvious to
all not protectionists; that we have
protective tariff conditions in the
country In spite of tariff red notion.
The Glofce-Detnocrat's admission con
stitutes a clear confession of the fact
that protection la a fraud.
"That the war has artificially check
ed Imports is no cause for eongraiula
ti iHL No goods would be imported at
any tfene if Americans did not want to
boy them, and they would not want to
bay them if It were not evident that
these goods offered the beet value for
money spent. Now comes the Globe
Democrat and considers ft cause for
congratula Ion that Americana are
hindered by the war from getting as
mudt for their money a under ordi
nary circumstances they could get.
That such a state of affairs must be
narmfal la the only reasonable con
clusion. That it baa cot made the coun
try prosperous, but. on the contrary,
has made conditions worse, Is attested
by hundreds of protectionist organs
and protectionst politicians who have
for the past year teen telling about the
industrial depression."
The Public hits a farorfts protec
tionist fallacy a deserved wallop, com
ments Peoria Journal. No worse fate
.could bofall a people dan to bs dt
liens of a country which "buys every
thing end sells nothing." The block
ade which the Globe-Democrat par
allels with a protectee tariff has
helped a few American Industries and
mad millions to a few Americans,
but it has crippled hundreds of
American industries and made living
a bard problem for millions of com
mon people.
PUTTING THRILLS IN THE
MOVIES.
That motion, pictures in the making
often inquire the players to face real
and serious danger, and even the pos
sibility of sudden death, is a feature of
the movies that few persons realize.
The popular notion is that any act in
volving danger is "faked" that in a
fail for instance, tie actuai fall ia
made by a dummy and not by a living
player. This was true of motion pic
ture making in the past, and to a lim
ited extent, is true even at the present
time. Some of the feats shown on the
srreeen could never be performed by
a living person without the certainty
of death. Rut competition between the
loading producers has become so keen
and the taste of the public so exact
ing, that a thrilling act mu ft as a
rale bo the perfection of realism, and
this usually means that it must be the
real thing. How the players go to
the limit of safety and beyond in
meeting this requirement is shown in
a number of pictures appearing in th
Popular Mechanics' Magazine.
One of the moat daring of these
feats is a fall now being shown in one
of the big plays. The actor is seen
KtaTiditi on a balcony 20 f.. t nbrvc
fho ground. Suddenly he clutches at
his breast as if shot and pitches back
ward off the balcony, turn
ove
i: a i
i d urine the descent, rots e
j is performed by a living actor who
i makes failing his business ami who is
! said t-o have fallen a tola! cf more than
I five miles in the part time jcars. In
an act like this, the actual tumble
l would formerly have been trade by n
j dummy, and the effect, of continuity in
i the pictures would have been given by
stopping: end starting the camera u
just the rielit, instant as the dummy
was substituted for the actor and
I the actor took his position on the
j ground in place' of the fallen dtimrt.y.
I Another act of a startling nature $
; that of a fugitive droppint from a si;t
j na! bridge to the top of a moving loco
motive. This feat was performed
without injury to the actor while the
locomotive was running at a spt-i of
i IT miles an hour. A fijjl-.r on the pilot
of a. liiiTiiimiffl was stayer with the
locomotive rnnnine at a Kneed of 2d
miles an hour and the pictures were
made from the rear of a. train alfed.
A Finale careless movement, of either
of the actors might easily have r-'-Mt'.fed
in the death of one or both.
HOUSES IN THE WAS.
The 1'nited states department of ott-
I rirulture has
issuc
to'iowinc; j
r on Ku-
ept erabt-r i
(bulletin on horse
trie w;
i rope;
! During the four months
i to December, laH, inclusive, about
j 75.0O0 horses were exported from the
il'nited States. In addition to the.e
several thousand more have necn pur
chased for export by the aseuts of
the warring nations, it has been fear
ed by some that there would be aucii
! large numbers exported as to cause
'an acute shortage of horses in this
! country. There is. i.owev er, no appjr-
out innne. liate dancer of thia.
j The J9J0 census gave 3,1;,79 as
ithe number of horses not. on farms
; There has probably not been any ap
I preciable decrease in that number
since then. That number added to the
; 21,195. 000, the number estimated by
i the department of agriculture, on
farms Jan. 3, makes a total of
lover 24,000,000 horses in this coon'ry,
land we could sell two or three times
ithe number already exported without
there being an appreciable shortage
of work horses. Three times the num
(ber exported during the last four
j months of the past year, or 225,000,
j would be less than 1 per cent of our
; horse stock. Furthermore, the kind
'of horses which have been purchased
j are for the most part very mediocre
animals, which would ordinarily sell
j for less than $100 per head, and are a
! class of which we can wUi afford to be
j rid. But a small percentage of the
animals exported are mares, and most
of these are doubtlessly either old
mares or non-breeders.
The big demand for horses will
probably occur after peace has been
declared. At that time the countries
now at war, with the exception of
Russia, will no doubt be very short
of horses for their agricultural and
other work. According to the best
information obtainable, European Rus
sia had, prior to the outbreak of the
war, about 25,000,0000 horses, and is
the only country having more horses
than the United States. This country
and Russia together have 50 per cent
of all the horses In the world. The
world's stock is estimated to be about
100,000,000. A very large number of
the horses in Russia will ba destroyed
in ths war, and remainder will no
doubt be needed by Kossia for her own
agricultural and other work.
The demands of this country, which
has ona-fourth of the world's supply
of horses, will therefore be large, and
will probably continue for a number
of years, for the rehabilitation of the
depleted horse stock of any country
is a slow process. This country, how
ever, will be in position to meet this
demand If the farmers owning good
mares will see that they are bred.
The owners of such mares should see
that they are bred to high-class stal
lions and produce the kind of stock
for wliich there is always a good ciar
ket. The production of superior aai
mals cf any kind is generally profit
able, while the production of inferior
ones is seldom so.
The Lloyds, of London, have recently
issued a form of insurance against
appendicitis. The claims have become
so numerous that they have found it
necesaary to double their premiums.
William
Diphtheria
Tears ago it was a very common
tiang to hear of cases of paralysis of
the throat, or heart or other part fol
lowing an attack of diphtheria. The
"neighbors," in those dark days, look
ed upon this misfortune as a visitation
of providence and said nothing about
it.
Occasionally, even today, an at
tack of diphtheria will leave some
serious paralytic condition behind
it, or leave the heart greatly weak
ened. Now come the neighbors, or at
least the chin-wagging kind, to explain
that the evil effects are due to the anti
toxin the doctor administered. Never
theless, the death rate from diphtheria
is less than a third of what it was in
the days before antitoxin was discov
ered; and the cases of paralysis or se
rious heart damage following diphthe
ria today are so rare as to excite more
than passing interest. This, if you
please, neighbors, notwithstanding the
universal use of antitoxin.
The real reason why paralysis or
heart trouble still follows diphtheria
in rare instances is plain enough;
either antitoxin is tised too late in the
illness, or not enough is administered
at the first dose.
Of course, a doctor has no way of
measuring the degree of diphtheria
poisoning the patient's blood will
suffer tomorrow; he can only see what
the condition is today, and gauge his
dose of antitoxin accordingly. But
while false economy or a sad defer
ence to the prejudices of the neigh
bors may prompt hira to use too little
antitoxin for the f.rst dose, it is prac-
ally impossible for him to give too
BLOCKADING THE
"A survey of the coast geography of
the British Isles shows some things
of tremendous interest when consid
ered with reference to the blockade
undertaken by the Germans, the first
serious blockade ever attempted
against the United Kingdom," begins a
bulletin Just issued by the National
Geographic society, which sketches a
few of the difficulties in the way of
maintaining an effective blockade of
the many-harbored, sea-encircled na
tion. The bulletin continues:
"Great Britain is a land of harbors
and highly developed ports. Its foreign
commerce clears from more than 120
seaports, that are situated upon every
sea washing the islands. To shut off
Enei'.sh commerce with other lands
would require an almost impossible
sea-sini-rif-'th. Moreover, besides its
wealth of w idely scattered harbors, the
United Kingdom has a particularly ir
regular coastline, which would serve
to creatiy multiply the labors of a
blockader.
"lireken by rocky headlands, bays
and ih eidy penetrating inlets of the
s.-a. the Kngiish coastline alone
stretches for a distance of 2. .".50
if.iles. To the south, upon the Kngiish
channel, lie the great seaports of Ply
mouth, Southampton. Portsmouth,
UrifrUton and Dover; to the east, to
ward the North Sea. are the ports of
London. Harwich. Great. Yarmouth,
Mult and Newcastle, and to the west,
toward the Atlantic and the Irish Sea,
are Bristol. Cardiff, Swansea and Liv
erpool. Hundreds of smaller ports
are sprinkled in between these great
harbors of world-fame.
"Of these English ports, Liverpool is
said t i have the best developed har
bor in the world; more coal is shipped
fror.i Cardiff than from any other sea
port ; Grimsby is the fishing capital of
the world, and London is more inti
-I
AUTHOR'S PART IN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Illinois authors, historians and com
posers will play an important part in
the 191S centennial celebration if
plans which are now -in embryo can
be worked out. It is hoped a com
plete list of Illinois authors, histor
ians and composers can be obtained
and further that a complete file of
their works may be exhibited at the
time of the celebration. Members of
the centennial commission desire to
secure all the information that is pos
sible from different localities through
out the state relative to old-time his
torians, authors and composers who
may have resided in those localities
daring the early history-making days
of the state.
Little thought is ever given to the
fact that an Illinoisan, George Fred
erick Root, wrote, among other songs,
"The Battle Cry of Freedom" and
"Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March
ing." "The Battle Cry of Freedom"
was first heard in Chicago at the time
of the Civil war and it immediately
became so popular that the ture was
WORK FOR ALL IN 60 DAYS, PREDICTS CLARK
Immediate and country-wide pros
perity was proclaimed hfers at Ban
Francisco this week by Champ Clark,
speaker of the house of representa
tives. In an address before the Com
mercial club of San Francisco.
"I predict that Within sixty days
every person in America desiring to
work will find employment at a fair
waga a great desideratum, be said.
"Nobody will ever be able to esti
mate the damage done to American
business by ths Enropean-Asiacie-Afric
war," tho speaker continued,
"but business is rapidly righting
itself, and I bMleve we are on the
verge of a long era of prosperity. '
"We are beginning to harvest the
biggest all-around crop that ever grew
Drady,rl.L.
and Paralysis.
much in the first dose. If. perchance,
his first injection contains more units
of anti-toxin than there are units of
diphtheria toxin (poison) in the blood
at the time, the superabundance will
at least be harmless, and in truth fa
vorable, since it will be right there
ready to neutralize any furtier poison
given off by any germs which may
still be doing business in the throat
A dose of 10,000 units of antitoxin
may sound large to the lay mind, but
it is really a very minute quantity of
antidote, as compared with the aver
age degree of diphtheria poisoning in
the blood. Often enough it is not only
safe but absolutely necessary to ad
minister 30,000 or more units of anti
toxin in the first dose, in order to
completely antidote the poisoning of
the disease and thus save the nervous
system and the heart from the damag
ing influence of unopposed diphtheria
poison. Weak children require many
times more antitoxin proportionately
than do strong adults.
He who objects to antitoxin or to
a sufficiently large dose in the first in
jection, through misconception of the
character of the remedy, is to be pitied
if he is himself the patient. If his ob
jection interferes with the use of the
life-saving antitoxin in the case of a
child, he is indeed worthy of the worst
indictment.
Eraetin and Eigtr's Disease.
"What is your opinion of the emetin
hypodermic infection treatment for
pyorrhoea?
Reply it gives very satisfactory re
sults. BRITISH ISLES
mately connected with the ports on
every sea than any other harbor. Eng
land has expended with freehanded
foresight in the improvement of her
seaports, and so the war finds her with
adequate harbor facilities upon every
hand, with dry docks and shipyards in
every more important harbor, with
equipment to carry on a great foreign
trade from more than 100 different
points.
"Scotland is a still more baffling
problem to an intending blockader.
Probably, its most sinking feature is
the irregularity of its coastline, and
its coast upon the east is shielded by
an intricate mass of blood, rocky is
lands. Though much smaller in area
than England, Scotland, has v. coastline
of 2,300 miles, or one mile of coast to
every 13 square miles of area. Le;:.h,
Dundee and Aberdeen are important'
ports upon the North Sea in the. east;
Inverness s-ncis its shipping to the
north, an i Glasgow, with its famous
shipbuilding works and vast foreign
trade, lies toward the North Channel
and the open Atlantic. Few places in
Scotland lie more than 40 miles from1
the sea, and smaller ports dot t lie en-,
tire coastline. i
"Ireland's, greatest ports, Belfast .
and Dublin, are situate ! upon her east :
coast, on the Irish Sea. The restless ;
breaking of a rough Atlantic over the j
rocky r.eedies of her western coast has j
retarded the development of cojnnier- j
eiai harbors there. Limerick, upon I
the River Shannon, gives Ireland an :
important Atlantic harbor, while j
Queenstown is an outlet in the south
and Londonderry in the north.
"With its more than (5,500 miles of
coastine, and i's well-developed liar-1
lioi-s all along the way. the United!
Kingdom presents a problem of ex-
treme difficulty to any power intend- !
ing to maintain blockade against it." j
whistled on the streets and within the
short space of 24 hours thereat'"
was being whistled upon the streets
of Galesburg. The author resided in
Chicago when he wrote and produced
the song the first time.
At this time the members of the
centennial commission are bending
their energies to secure all possible
information which will put them in
touch with the work of other early
authors and historians and composers
who were residents of Illinois in the
early days, and anyone having such
information will kindly send same to
Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, secretary,
Illinois centennial commission, Spring
field.. Miles City, Mont., shouts "yippee
ippeeippee" and lets 'er buck annual
ly at the round-up and frontier day
celebration. Among those, present
this year were the governor, 600 pio
neers (count them 500), 500 cowboys
wearing chaps and a few assorted
hordes of Sioux, Cheyennes and Crows.
May the old-timers be ever with them.
out of the ground and, after all, agri
culture is the root of all prosperity."
A merchant marine and rural cred
its, Mr. Clark said, were the most
Important Questions for the next ses
sion of congress.
Cotton is said to be fetching 30 cents
a pound in Germany at present, which
is three times the price a syndicate
could have bought it for in the United
States about the time syndicates were
quietly reaching out for the southern
surplus last year. The quotation is
particularly interesting in view of the
general maritime situation. In fact,
if it were not for the general maritime
situation cotton would not be bringing
80 cent ia Berlin,
CHORDS AND
DISCORDS
"BEATS His Wife; Police Hold
Him." Headline. If they had held him
until his wife had returned the com
pliment their job would have been
complete.
HARRY Thaw pays he will devote
his time to looking after his property.
The lawyers having had the first look
Harry had better take a lantern along.
ONE of the warnings to men on the
Chicago bathing beaches is not to
"duck strange women." This is not
quite understandable, inasmuch as po
lice advice heretofore has always been
to the contrary.
VILLA has engaged an aeronaut at
$15 per week. In Mexican money, of
course. He'll have to live a long time
before he accumulates enough to in
duce a quarrel among his relatives
over his estate.
COUNT Von Bernstorff says the Lu
sitania incident will not be repeated.
This should be comforting to those
whose loved ones perished with that
torpedoed liner a few months ago.
YOUNG man shot in a drunken brawl
in Chicago the other night apparently
does not take much stock in the effi
cacy of the Illinois liquor cure insti
tution of which his father is presi
dent. Or has he been parading as a
horrible example?
if vor corii) kott.
If you could know the half of all I '.
yearn to be to you, dear heart! j
Each day that dawns I struggle to be !
strong and do my part, ;
Yet when at last the night comes
softly down I humbly pray j
"Lord, grant me still to prove my ten- !
dor love just one more day!"
i
Just one more day to strive to rise i
! above small troubles, petty care, ,
; That my cramped soul may break its i
I earth-forged bonds, at last to j
dare. j
To face the future and to gladly live, '
with courage new, :
Loyal, and cheerful, facing toward, the
light for truth and you. ,
j And yet, I feel, in spite of all the j
! heights which I can never scale, i
In spite of ail the many tests in which
I daily fail,
; That my deep love mere deep and I
pure and strong than I can ever ;
show i
You somehow, through my failure, ;
doubts and fears, will come to
know. i
Tiie dreary clouds can't hide the sun s
for aye; it jriimmers through.
The sweet, wet violet, struv:t::,?r
through dead leaves, show :
its blue. i
And so I trust, though oft I strike
Love's chord with clumsy hand.
You'll f.-e! the melody I tried to play
and understand.
MAHKL A BUNNELL.
lietipcehei!. 1
Lor.g Uhiri l man kid his money in
the barn in prevent his who from get-I
tii-g it and the chickens got away with
most of it. Hi nperked husband. Hen- i
pecked money. Bad conibiiiatioii. .
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Hrect Car Citiivci sa! imi. j
"I see viiore you wore arrested for :
speeding."
"Yes, and such a joke." i
"How is that?" !
"You have seen that car of mine in j
motion? The officer sai l I was going
25 miles an hour. I invited rim into:
the car and told him if he could make
it go 20 miles an hour the car was his. ,
1 was on the souare about if. too. Ke :
said he didn't know how to drive a
car. I told hini I would teach him.
Believe me, if he had accc-ued. hie.'
family would have an automobile now." ,
PAT Fanning was ., .ested in 5
Bloornington 'ho other day during an
argumcu. over a baseball game.
BEN Grogg is president of a total
abstainers' society in Mississippi. i
REV. Paul Rader, a Chicago minis- ;
ter, stole home in a baseball game ;
the other day. This likely was shock
ing news to some of the members of
ids flock.
IF, perchance, some brilliantly hu
morous outbreak should appear in tills
column during the next few days be
careful not to misdirect your enco
miums, inasmuch as the perpetrator
of this pinnacle of penance is off on
a jitbus ride to Springfield, where lie
has been summoned to give expert ad
vice to the state public utilities com
mission in its efforts to solve the local
transportation problem which has aris
en as a result of the invasion by the
automobile of the Tri-City Railway
company's field. The utilities commis
sion must suspect that we have inside
information. We have appealed to sev
eral friends to fill our shoes during our
absence, but had not received an ac
ceptance as we closed our desk. How
ever, some one may volunteer in the
meantime, and we ask our readers to
be prepared for a possible treat. There
are some real jokers at the neighbor
ing desks la this office, but thus far
they have shown themselves to be too
self-respecting to permit their vapor
ing to get into print. We have dared
them, and now they have an opportu
nity to do their best or their worst
DISPATCH says the village lights.'
have been dispensed with in Masthope, '
Pa., because there are so many fire-j
files. We may .text hear of an appli- j
cation ror an Injunction by the light
ing company to suppress the flies.
"THE Call of the Child" is to be one
of nezt season's new nlavs. We Dre-
dict there will be a milk bottle in the
cast i
'..- J. M. C J
The Daily Story
Fate of the Brig Ivan By M. Quad.
Togo is the southernmost island in
the Cape de Verde group, situated in
the north Atlantic. I was there in a
bark which had brought lumber, hard
ware, agricultural implements and oth
er stuff, and on our arrival we found
the brig Ivan already at anchor.
The commander of a Russian man-
i of-war on a cruise has more power
than the czar at home. The latter
must at least have some excuse to
! scud a citizen to his death. The for
j mer has only to report him dead, and
the details are never asked for.
j Several of the crew on the Ivan were
! triced up and flogged in plain view of
i us on the first day of our arrival, and j
! it wasn't long before we learned that
the brig, was a floating hell.
One dark and rainy night, while I
was standing anchor watch on our
craft, one of the Russian sailors swam
off to us. He had come for a talk.
He knew nothing whatever of geogra
phy and could not tell in which di
rection any coast lay. He asked par
ticularly about the coast of Brazil,
the distance, the people, the rivers,
etc. He finally told me the crew of
the brig to a man had decided to mu
tiny, kill the officers and run the craft
ashore and each man shift for himself
until the excitement had blown over.
The days went by. There was the
usual routine of Sog-ging aboard the
! Ivan, and a sailor who sprang over
board rather than be lashed was cool
ly sh"t down alongside the brig with
out being even ordered to return.
The next day at 5 o'clock in the after
noon the mutiny suddenly burst forth.
There were six merchantmen in thel:
harbor, hut had the Russian com
mander called for assistance it would
not have been afforded. At least fifty
of us saw the Russian captain shot
and thrown overboard, and after him
went his first lieutenant. Then fol
lowed the paymaster and two others,
and the crew had the brig to them
selves. Before going out of the har
bor men were sent to every vessel to
shosv their raw backs and tell how
they had been wronged, and as the j
brig turned her head to sea she was i
cheered. j
It w as a week after when we got I
ready tor sea, bound for Kio janiero.
We had mo idea of ever hearing from
the Russians again, but when four
days out we ran across a New Bed
ford! whaler named Scott, wliich gave
us some exciting news. Two days be
fore she had been brought to by the
Iran in rnidocean. An armed boat's
crew had come aboard and robbed the
whaler of whatever they fancied.
The next news came to us two days
liter. A gale sprang up from the
so.itb.w-frt, arel before it was four j
hours old we were compelled to lie to. I
Sidelights on the
London. t Correspondence of The
Assoi sated Press.) The war on the
French, front has now developed into a
race between Lloyd George and the
ih-rma;; general staff for Calais, de
clares J-ovat Eraser, a prominent Brit
ish writ-.-r, in a letter to the Mail, urg
ing that everything else should be tem
porariiv hod aside in England for the
work cf reinforcing the efforts of the
Ufcw minister of munitions.
"With the Germans and their mon
ster guns at. Calais, we should lose
control of the narrow seas," writes Mr.
Eraser. ' If we get enough shells and
guns In time Calais may be saved.
"There is every reason to believe
that the Gentians will soon strike an
other blow at Calais. It is no answer
to say that .hey tried and failed last
November. The first battle of Ypres
was a hurried affair which developed
ou Idih. sides without careful prepara
tion. Tito next time the Germans try
to burst through they will throw into
the attack every ounce, and they will
only move when they are able to ad
vance with, a strength which they think
overv, iounung.
"The enemy regards the seizure of
Calais as an essential prelude to the
destructio of England. The question
is far graver than the country thinks,
and this attack will probably come this
summer or autumn.
"This country still laughs at talk of
invasion. Not many months ago it
was laughing at eppelins. No one
laughs at Zeppelins now. Far strang
er and more unlikely things than th
invasion of England have already hap
pened in this war. The German talk
of invading England is more than a
dream. They began to think about it
very early in the war, and in their us
ual practical manner began to prepare
for it. They have ready today the
transports, the wharves, the railway
sidings, and the stores.
"If they make the attempt, it ought
not to succeed, but there is more than
a chance that they might affect a land
ing. The problem does not admit of de
tailed public discussion, but it ought
to be regarded quite seriously and
gravely. The best authorities now be
lieve that the Germans wilt try to
land."
Mr. Eraser i3 not sanguine as to the
situation in Russia or the Dardanelles,
but believes that England must fight
out the war right at her doorstep, in
Northern France.
"The Germans," he observes, "believs
they are winning the war, and if a
stranger from another planet aligted
among us and Judged by surface indi
cations alone, he would probably think
so too. Take the western theatre; the
allies are stuck fast; the French, who
have done wonders on their own front,
are waiting for the Eritish. The Brit
ish are waiting for more weapons and
mora shells, and as we have now
reached midsummer, they will wait a
long time. All through Europe there
is not a single big man visible, for Uua,
It struck us about 4 o'clock in the aft
ernoon and did not reach its height un
til about 7 next morning. Everything
was boiling and howling when we
caught sight of the Russian down in
the southwest. She must have run be
fore the gale much longer than we did,
for she was not in sight when it broke
upon us. Being higher out of the wa
ter and more heavily spurred, she wan
also drifting faster. About !t o'clock
she drove slowly past us at not more
than a cable length away, and we srw
many evidences that things were rmt
shipshape aboard her.
Just at sunset the brig red a gun
for us to heave to. There was an
ugly cross sea running, and we doubt
ed if they would lower a boat. Wa
obeyed the command to luff up. The
slovenly way the brig was handled as
she made ready to take a position rt
our starboard quarters proved that ev
erything aboard was at sixes and sev
ens. There was a fight on her decks
before the boat was lowered., Hn.j 6ft.
er pulling halfway to us the yawl,
which had eight men in It, returned.
It was lying alongside the brig when
a solid shot was fired at us. Owing
to the heavy sea the aim was bad, and
it flew above the topmosts. This ac
tion startled us all, and the captain
had determined to put the bark on
her course and try to run away when
there came a sudden and awful explo
sion. We soon realized what had occnrrel.
The Ivan had blown up. Sh" was to
windward of us and about kaif a miio
away. There was a dar. cloud, an
awful shock, and she Steraed to he
lifted bodily up to a height of inn f , t.
and then to dissolve. Some of the
fragments fell upon our r, :', 8r.-l
the sea was littered for a mile around.
One man escaped Just, one solitary
mam He was one of the eight men
in the boat. Perhaps the ot'o-r fcvph
had left the boat when the explosion
came. The boat wa3 not injured and
came floating down upon us with the
man sitting bolt upright on a thwart.
He wasn't cut or bruised, but the
shock had acted altogether on. his
mental faculties. Ho had becotne an
idiot and was deaf and dumb on top
of that. His face took on a childish
grin which never left it. and he cm
ducted himself Just like Idiots do.
We couldn't get any news from the
man, nor did w pick up any wreck
age except the bout. Man and bo.it
were turned over to a Eussiati mat,,
of-war at Rio, and it may be that tiui
poor fellow suffered death for his
share in the mutiny. Every rare
was taken to hush the matter up, but
the news got abroad and was touched,
up by various correspondents. I have
seen three or four accounts of it, but
none was halfway correct
European War
Is a war of myriads directed l.y
pygmies.
"The country ought also to know the
real signillcanco cf the Hui siau r. treui
in Galicia. There has been tor. r.i
talk about magnificent withdrawal s
and the unimportance of Lemberg,
I The fact is that though Russia ha
! fought bravely, sb.- can do no'! ore;
Imuoii more this summer owing to he
lack of munitions and ether ruv.-va,
and unless the comiag whiter is mura
harder than the last, her movements
may be greatly restricted until n-s.t
spring.
"The Dardanelles is nl:ont too p'on
ful a subject tow rife about. W r:w.C
stick to it now, but we. only vsiit our
way there by inches and at grat e ri di -:,
; and to get through we may ro-ed di-o r
! sions from other quarters which are
not yet forthcoming. '
London. A leaflet on rabbi hrefd-
jing has been issued by the lieeri ?
Agriculture with a view of t.etr.o.g out
the meat shortage. In norma! tinus-.
nearly $3,500,000 worth of rabbit tie?,-,
is imported into Great. Itritian arum. 1
ly, mostly from Australia. Double t; s
! quan'ity, it is pointed out, could -aUr
j be raised in the kingdom by f,-.d!r.z
I the rabbits on potato petdii;y.s ao i ct a
j er vegetable waste.
London (Correspondence of The
Associated Press.) Tho newest of
London's six hundred rail ray stations,
which has just opened its d .ors in the
Maida-vale section of the city is staff
ed entirely by women from st-.Lt I on
master to porters.
London (Correspondence of The
Associated Press.)- The war baa
brought what, might be described as
a trampless era to Emrlaiui. There hi
not a workhouse in the United King
dom that has not reported a great de
crease in the number of vagrants dur
ing the past few months. Those who
still use the "casual wards" arc men
of 00 years or over. Officials fay
there are practically no young or
znfddlcagad vagrants left.
July 20 in American
History.
1811 Congress of the Southern Confed
eracy convened at Richmond rr
the Cr3t time.
1S6S Austrian-Italian naval battle cf
Lissa, in the Adriatic; Italy
feated.
1870 Beginning of the Franco-Prussian
war. French troops marched
to the frontier, and Napoleon's dec
laration of war -was received and
acted upon in Berlin. Tlur war grew
oct of dispute over the succession
to the throne of Spain.
190(5 Peace between Guatemala and
the Salvador-Honduras alliance
signed on board the United butel
cruiser Marblehead. '