Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-27


lice -. Henry Herman
Tommaso Marriott. Garibaldian
.... George c. Boniface
lCommendatore Angelelli, Chief of
Police in Rome. .Adolph Lestina
Father Pifferi, a Caquchin Friar.:.
C. Leslie Allen
General Nora, Minister of War;
President of the Military Tribun-
al ......... jefferson Lloyd
Colonel Cayilli, Public Prosecutor
to the Military Tribunal. -. -
Thomas Graham
Sir Evelyn Wise, the English Ann
bassador .......... j. r. Furlong
General Potter, the American Am
bassador -....... Arthur Southby
Felice, footman' ..... William Eville
Don Camille Murelli. a Roman no.
Bile. -. Joseph Lawrence
Major Doria, Governor of the Cas-.
tie of St. Angelo. -.
Cardinal Secretary of State.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ..Smith Purcell
Secretary. 49,. Harry Ford
Guard Francis Lewis
Monsignore Frank Bixby
A Carbineer.. ........-..J John l.. King
Princess Bellini. Ina Brooks
Elena ..........A ffie Warner
Nattalina ..............R Rose McNicar
Donna Roma Nolonna. Miss Allen
I Charles w. Allen. Miss Aliens broth
er, will be the acting manager, with
THE Eternal City" Frank j. Will
stach will have charge of the press
work, Alexander Haig will be the
musical director, and the play will
be staged by +. w. Presbrey, direc-
ton of the stage afterwards being
The Vinegar Buyer" the play in
which Ezra Kendall is to tour the
country next season, is play woven
about the character of j. Whitcomb
Riley's Jap Miller poem which
has been read and laughed over in
every household in the land. Here is
the poem:
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the
blamedest Teller yit!
When he starts in a-talkin' other
folks is apt to quit!
Pears like that mouth q his'n wuzn't
made fer nuthin' else.
But ies' to argify 'em down and geth-
er in their pelts:
He'll talk you down on tariff; er he'll
talk you down on tax,
And prove the pore man pays 'em all
anu, them's about the fac's!
Religen, law, or politics, prize-fight-
in err baseball
Jes' tech Jap up little and he'll post
you'bout 'em all.
And the comicalist Teller that ever
tilted back a cheer,
And tuck a chew tobacker kind % like
he didn't keer-
where the feller's stren'th
lays-he's so common-like and |
plain
They haint no dude about old Jap, |
you bet you-nary grain.
They 'lected him to Council and it |
never turned his head.
And didn't make no difference what |
anybody said.
He didn't dress no finer, ner rag out |
in fancy clothes;
But his voice in Council-meetin's is Il |
turrer to his foes.
He's fer the pore man ever time! And |
in the last campaign
He stumped old Morgan County, |
through the sunshine and the rain,
And helt the banner up'ards from a
trailin' in the dust,
And cut loose on ,monopolies and
cus'd and cuss'd and cuss'd!
He'd tell some funny stories ever now
and then. you know.
Tel, blame it! it wuz better'n a jack
o'-lantern show!
And I'd go furder, yit today, to hear
old Jap norate
Than any heightened orator at ever
stumped the State!
wy. that-air blamed Jap Miller, with
his keen sircastic fun,
Has got more friends than airy candi-
date at ever run!
Don't matter what his views is, when
he states the same to you,
They allus coincide with you'rn, the
same as two and two:
You can't take issue with him-er,
at least, they haint no sense
In startin' in to down him, so you
better not commence.
The best ways just to listen, like
your humble servant does,
And jes' concede Jap Miller is the
best man ever wuz!
Mr.. Riley and Mr.. Kendall are
warm friends. and the actor has
sought many times to persuade Mr..
Riley to write play for him in which
Jap Miller would be the central fig
ure; but all his persuasions were in
vain.