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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

OF the Sums. Three meetings are being
held daily in Madison Square Garden,
and they Will be continued to Nov. l.
Meetings will aTso be held in Carnegie
hall from Nov. to Nov. 8, inclusive.
These latter meetings will be especial
ly for the purpose of organizing
branch of Dowie's church in New
York.
The army includes in its ranks repre-
sentatives of almost every language
known TO civilized or semicivilized
man, so that the heterogeneous popula-
ton of New York is being eXhorted in
familiar tongues. Syrians, Cingalese,
Hindoos. Japs, Chinese, Australians
and Dutch are among the peoples rep
resented, and for each nation that has
no member in person in the organiza-
ton there is a linguist to exhort in the
language of that people.
The army, which is tagged, number
ed and photographed for purposes Of
Identification, will require a quarter of
million dollars for its maintenance.
but it expects to take back millions to
be used for God and Zion"
Each member OF the army is required
to keep a diary during the New York
crusade and must render strict account
of everything he does. These diaries
viii be gathered up on the return, and
from them Dowie will learn what his
people have done for him.
Rooms in the vicinity of Madison
Square Garden were Secured in ad-
vance for the invaders, and they are
being fed in the Garden, two meals
being served, breakfast at 8 and din
ner at 5 O'Clock No pork is eaten by
the restoration host"
Ample facilities are provided to bap-
tie the New York converts to Dowie-
ism. The floor of the Garden was torn
Up and big pit dug in front Of the
platform for the baptismal tank. This
tank is near the center of the Garden
and is % feet long, 10 feet wide .aad 5
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

she has won from the critics, the OPP
inion of so conservative a writer as
Acton Davies, of the New York Evening
Sun, is well worth while to quote. "She
swayed and held a Broadway audi
ence last night" says Mr.. Davies, '.as
she has never done before. You could
literally have heard a pin drop in the
prison scene last night. Miss Walsh
threw all her charms to the winds.
Every trace of beauty in face and
form was sacrificed. With her brandy
bottle in hand she sat there in the
prison yard a befuddIed, besotted
creature beyond despair, and so far
past recollection that when her first
love. her betrayer comes to her, pro-
testing repentance and prOffering
aid she does not recognize him, and
merely greets him with the profess
sional leer that habit has taught her
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
erd Miss Taliaferro received warm an
proval from both criticssand public.
BATHING AT OsTEND.
The Contrast Between Belgian and
American Beach Customs.

American Beach Customs.
How differently from Yourselves Eu-
ropeans do some things is shown by
the marked contrast between the bath
ing customs and methods at the typical
American beach and those at a leading
seaside resort abroad, such, for in
stance, at Ostend, Belgium. The Amer
lean way is too familiar to our readers
to need description. Att Ostend bath
ing, which is the most striking thing
about the city, is carried on in ac-
cordance with continental ideas of pro-
priety most shocking to the average
American. Instead of the ordinary
dressing rooms, Ostend was the first
place to use the little individual houses
on wheels, into which the intending
bather goes to disrobe and don his or
her bathing suit. The house is then
wheeled out in the water by q horse
driven by a man employed for that
purpose. The steps are let down from
the little house, and the bather enters
the water without having to prCune-
made over the sand. At the end of! the
bath the bather mounts the step3' into
his little house and, calling the driver
again, has his dressing room hauled up
high and dry on the shore, where, hav-
ing dressed at his leisure, he leaves
the key with an attendant andJ goes on
his way The bathing costumes seen
at Ostend are noted for their scanti-
ness, the striking popularity rof which,
however, lies,in the fact that the suits
worn by the women rarely if ever,
have any skirts attached tO(them, ev-
erybOdy-men, women and children
alike-wearing tight. fitting suits, the
suits furnished by most of the public
bath houses being identicallyat the same
for both men and women.
The scene on the beach is one of
great animation, and when the bathers
engage, as they frequently do, in a
game resembling basket ball, played
with a large inflated rubber ball, the
mingling of varicolored bathing suits
and the darling hither and thither of
the bathers at play, now on the beach
and again in the water, is a sight new
er to be forgotten.-Leslie's Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
DOVES GREAT CRUSADE
How Elijah III, the Restorer is Trying to Re-
claim New York From It's SINS
His Plans.

feet deep. y I-snt of steps at eITner
end enables converts to enter the wa
ter and pass out in a continuous line.
Bodily infrmities as well as sin are
said to be washed away in the tank
At the early morning meetings at
Madison Square Garden Dowie speaks
OF the commandments of God. at the
afternoon meetings divine healing dis
courses are held, after which Dowie.
his wife and other officers pray for
those who seek to be healed. At the
evening meetings Dowie delivers dis
courses in his role Of Elijah Ill, the
Restorer." Occasionally there is an
evening testimony meeting. During
these services the white robed choir Of
$50 voices and 500 officers and speak
ers are on the big platform.
Concerning. his title, ''Elijah the Re
storer," Dowie says:
''The name is not a title; it is reali-
ty. 1 firmly believe, in common with
tens of thousands of my followers, that
1 have been sent by God in the spirit
and the power of Elijah as the third
and last manifestation of that prophet.
THE first manifestation was in Eli
jah, which means Jehovah is my Cod
twenty-eight centuries ago. when the
worship of Baal was triumphant in
spirit. This was Elijah the Destroyer.
"The second manifestation was in the
person of John the Baptist OIatthew
Y, ID, IA. He was Elijah the Proper
The third manifestation OF Elijah
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

W0IIN ALEXANDER DOWIE,
p head of the Christian Catholic
e IL Church In Zion. who has invad-
ed New York at the head of
restoration army nearly 1000 strong
to fight Satan in the metropolis, is a
man Nof marvellous versatility, for be-
sides being preacher, prophet, crusader
and ruler of a theocracy created by
himself he is a skilled financier and
captain of industry
Dowie and his army made the march
from Zion City, on the shore of Lake
Michigan, on eight special railway
trains. Altogether there were 2.S46
members of the army who left Zion
City on the crusade, and another thou
sand came from other sections of the
country and joined the main army at
New York.
DOwie's standing army of peace, a
band with all the enthusiasm of mid
die age crusaders, but unarmored and
swordless and equipped only with the
Bible and religious tracts, is attempt
ing to establish the creed of elijah
Ill, the ReStorer" as DoWie styles
himself, in New York city and is petit
tioning at the door of every house that.
the jewellers reform their lives accord
ing to Dowie's plan. Visits are made
both to the masses and the classes, and
special efforts are being undertaken to
convert Mayor Low, J. Pierpont Nor
gan and all other leading residents Of
the city as we'll as the loyvIy residents
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

is in my person, OF whom Christ spoke
after John the Baptist's death, when
he admitted the correctness of the rab-
binicaI contention, Elijah must first
come saying. Elijah indeed cometh
and shall restore all things
ct am Elijah the Restorer."
Born in Scotland and graduated from
a divinity school. John Alexander
Dowie failed to achieve more than
mediocre success as a minister of the
gospel. He went to Australia and
there formulated and first preached
his doctrine of divine healing on which
his Christian Catholic church is based
He was ridiculed, mobbed and impris-
Oned.~ Then he went to England and
finally came to this country and for
several years lived on the Pacific coast.
Inspiration or foresight took him to
Chicago just before the Worlds fair.
In a rude tabernacle of boards he
launched his faith cure creed.
Soon his followers grew so numerous
that he formed the Christian Catholic
Church In Zion, made himself overseer
and began the building of his city. He
erected schools and charitable institu-
tons and established industries that
attracted workers to his church and
paid big dividends.
Zion City has grown in few years
from small village of 500 to a city OF
more than 10000, and Dowie's power
is every day increasing. His creed
teaches the healing of disease by pray
er and forbids the employment of ply
sicians. 1t forbids the use of tobac-
co and alcohol, prohibits attendance at
theaters and condemns the Masonic
fraternity.
AS general overseer DOwie demands
one-tenth of the earnings of the faith
full. All the property of the immense
organization is held in Dowie's name,
and he has 10000 followers. Their
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

Wednesday. There can be little
doubt that the engagement win eN-
cite considerable interest among the
theatregoers. Since the New York
run much humor has been written
in, and many songs added, among
them Polly, Pretty Polly" THE
Bathing Lesson ''The Country
Club" I'm Not at Liberty to Tell
You" and Different Ways of Pro-
posing" Mr.. Brady has furnished
pretty girls to sing in the choruses
of these ditties, and pretty costumes
for the pretty girls. Joseph Hart and
Carrie DeMar head the company to be
seen in this city.
When Tim Murphy returns next
Tuesday to the Illinois, his admirers
will again have the opportunity of
seeing him in play of Washington
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
Home influence.

1t was during the reading lesson in
one of our public schools that a little
lad read in jerky, expressionless way,
Mamma, see the hawk"
The reading was so very poor that
the teacher said, John, you know you
would not talk that way to your moth
err
NOM replied the lad.
"Well, now" said the teacher in a
kindly way, you read it exactly as you
would say it to your mother"
And here is his reply: Look. nom,
at that there hawkw-Philadelph
Ledger
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

that the great diva has changed but
little in the decade or so that has
passed since she last appeared in Amer
lea. Indeed the latest, photograph of
Nine. Patti at sixty looks the portrait
of a beautiful woman of half that num-
Der of years.
But Nine. Patti is q remarkable wO-
man in more ways than in retaining a
youthful appearance. 1t is not merely
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

1t is called .'The Man From Missouri .
What sort of man primitive type
of Missourian might be, what might
happen to him in the national capitol,
what specialist to American charac-
terization as Mr.. Murphy is, might do
with the role, are left to the imagi-
nation. 1t is bound to be native to
the soil, realistic and natural, an ag-
gressive yet honest fellow, amicable
yet knowing, and typical of the good
old couplet, IT'S good to be merry
and wise. it's good to be honest and
true" The new play is by f. f. Rose
and George V. Hobart, two of the
best known men today writing plays.
They devoted their best energies to
1.-The Man From Missouri" and the
success Mr.. Murphy has achieved is
less of a surprise than it might other
wise be. Character and play have
made a pronounced hit. The produc
ton is a heavy and extensive pictorial
display and the company is the largest
that he has ever carried
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

to extend to each new customer. 1t
was an awful sight and made your
blood run cold. Then when he dis
closed himself, when Maslove finally
realized that this handsome prince
in furs was not only her betrayer,
but one of the men that sat on the
jury which had found her guilty of a
murder she had never done, she turn
ed on him and withered him with a
scorn which was made the more SPLEEN
did from the very source from which
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
A Great Kindness.

Van Schmidt don't believe old Kerr
Mudgeon ever had a gentle impulse.
Fitz-Bile-That's where you're wrong.
He's been very kind to at least one wo-
man, I'm sure.
Van Schmidt-How so?
Bitz-Bile-Well, isn't he bachelor
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

Blanche Walsh in Resurrection Tim Murphy
in "Man From Missouri and Other
Attractions of Week.

it came. In no role that Miss Walsh
has played has she shown so intellec-
tual grasp of a character. Her later
notes of sorrow, repentance, tender
ness and final love were all touched
honestly, surely. Her Maslove in fact
was the triumph of her career
Among the good attractions list
ed here is w. y. Brady's production of
Foxy Grandpa" which will be seen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

LATEST PORTRAIT OF NINE. PATTI AND
BARON eEDERsTRoM.
that she is a Wonderful singer; she is
a wonderful woman as well. Many
times in her career she has faced dan
ger-that most horrible danger of
panic stricken mob in a great theater-
faced it down by her own self control,
imposing self control by others and
saving hundreds of lives.
The daughter of an Italian father
and n Spanish mother, the greatest
singer the world has ever known was
born in Madrid in 1913 Her voice
was inherited in a measure from her
mother, Nine. Barilli, who in her day
was noted singer. Nine. PATHS
childhood and youth were spent in
America, and she may be said to have
begun her professional career at the
age of eight, when she made her debut
at the Italian theater, New York.
Much of Nine. PATHS later life has
been spent at her beautiful estate in
Wales, Craig-y-Nos. X was at Craig
y-Nos that she was married to Baron
Cederstrom in January. 1899, a little
more than a year after the death Of
her second husband, Signor Nicolini.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24
a Ronton Ernedient.

Fidgett-Really, now, do you think
there is any way whereby a man can
retain the respect of his children?
Midgett-He might send them away
from home as soon as they began to
take notice,-Boston Transcript
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

~ LANCHE WALSH will be seen
at the Illinois theatre Monday
evening in Resurrection" the
play which has had the CAPT
tails of Europe agog, and which
has astonished the playgoers of New
York. Much, however, as has been
said of the play, Infinitely more has
been said of Miss Walsh's superb por-
trayal of MaslOvia, the leading char
acter. As an instance of the esteem
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

w. S. Cleveland, president and gen
eral manager of the w. S. Cleveland
Amusement company, a corporation
capitalized at 100000 for the building
and leasing of theatres and conduct
ing of gigantic amusement enterpris-
es, has put his best foot forward in
the building of W. S. Cleveland's new
theatre at Wabash avenue and Hub
bard court, Chicago. He has construct
ed in the pace-beating record of 60
days, a complete and admirably equip
ped theatre, safe, spacious and sump-
tuous. He has secured for the open
ing attraction Miss Nance O'Neil, of
worldwide fame. The inaugural sea-
son will begin Saturday, Oct. 81, the
support being supplied by Cleve-
lands company of dramatic stars, ito
which is the AIDED the prominent
players accompanying Miss O'Neil; z.
Rankin supervising all of Miss O'Nei's
productions, as he has done in all
her grand tours. The opening bill will
be ''Magda,' one of the strongest
and most exacting of the roles as
sumed by the lady, and one in which
she never appears for more than
single week during any engagement.
Herr Sundermann's masterpiece will
be followed by elaborate and expen-
sive revivals of Elizabeth, the Jewess,
and Macbeth. Mr.. Cleveland, being
manager of very large experience, has
selected for his regular season the
very best of the most capable actors
of repute, and his theatre will achieve
deserved success on the lines of high
art, combined with reasonable prices.
Nine Ade1ina Patti, the great pr1ma
donna, in private life Baroness Ceder-
strom, wife of a Swedish nobleman,
has announced her intention of making
a last really and truly" farewell tour
of America and will arrive in New
York the last week of October to begin
a series of sixty concerts in this coun-
try on Nov. 2 at Carnegie hall.
As a preliminary to her tour Nine.
Patti has had her picture taken with
her husband ~ hee stda. and it shows
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

Mrs Madge Carr Cook, who is now
playing the title role in Mrs. Constance
FleXner's dramatization of Mrs. Annie
Hogan Rice's' popular story, Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" is ia
miliar to theater gOers for her excel
lent work in Clyde Fitch's THE Climb
ers," Haddon Chambers 1.-The Modern
Magdalen' and also in Mr.. Fitch's
''The Frisky Mrs. Johnson"
For the past three seasons Mrs. Cook
has been connected with the Amelia
Bingham company, and her admirable
acting in the plays presented by that
organization gained her the engage
ment for the title role of the new play.
The dramatiZation of Mrs. Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch also includes the
principal character and a part of the
plot of Mrs. Rice's later story, "Lovey
Mary" Miss Mabel Faliaferro, wle
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24


the name would indicate. The scenes
are laid in and around San Francis
co and the San Rafael electric foun-
tain and the breaking of suspension
bridge are among the scenic features.
To telegraph across the continent
and back again, 1000 miles all told,
over mountain tops, past raging rivers
and through fertile valleys for one
piece of chewing gum was the particu-
lar experience that once befell hand
some Miss May Bouton, who is now
appearing as one of the "Only All
DANES" in Nixon & Zimmerman's new
production of Miss Bob White" Be
fore Miss Bouton discovered she had
voice of sufficient strength and
quality to be utilized on the stage,
she earned her living as telegraph
operator in San Francisco in the office
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany. She was in charge of the direct
wire between the Golden Gate city
and the metropolis of the east, and
her particular friend. who was only
removed from her distance of few
feet, was in charge of the receiving in
strument for all messages that came
from New York and San Francisco.
One of the strictest rules of the oper-
ating room of the Western Union of
flee is the one about enforcing abso-
lutte silence. The operators are not
permitted to speak to each other
while on duty. On particularly hot
afternoon. Miss Bouton's mouth felt
parched and looking around she saw
a nice and inviting piece of chewing
gum on the table in front of her
friend She dare not break the rule |
of the company by asking her chum |
for a slice. so she touched the in !
strument to New York and asked the !
operator at the New York end to re-
peat her message to the girl at the |
end of the receiving line at San Fran |
cisco and inform her that Miss Bou-
ton would be very much pleased if
she would leave her instrument for |
moment, go over to Miss Bouton's |
table and leave her piece of the |
valuable chewing gum. The operator
in New York fell in with the joke and |
did as she requested When the |
young lady at the receiving wire at
San Francisco got the message, she, |
of course, burst out laughing, but |
Immediately got up, walked over to
Miss Bouton's table and left her |
little bit of the chewing gum. The |
action, of course, created a great deal |
of amusement among the operators |
who saw what was going on, but not |
until the girls were released from |
work for the day, did they obtain
proper information as to how the |
thing was done.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

"a Hidden Crime will come to light
at the Illinois tomorrow evening. 1t
is said to have all the thrills which
the name would Indicate. The scenes
are laid in and around San Francis
co and the San Rafael electric fOun-
tain and the breaking of a suspension
bridge are among the scenic features
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

Continued on Page Twelve.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-24

YGIIN ALEXANDER DOWIE,
! head Of the Christian Catholic !
Church In Zion. who has invad- |
OIL Now YOpI- at tho head Of n |
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-13
cHoKlNe>cATARRH CURED.
Mr.. Caswell Says "Hyomei Cured
Him. Your Money Back If It Does
Not Cure You.

Use Hyomei and be cured of ca
tarrh." is what all who have tried it for
that disease say to their friends.
y. S. Caswell of North Middleboro,
Mass, writes, "Hyomei has relieved me
from a choking catarrhal trouble and
cleared my head. I am glad to recon-
mend it to my friends"
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
stop catarrh or a catarrhal cold at it's
beginning if you use Hyomei. Just
breathe the health-giving balsamic air
for few minutes and your catarrh will
be cured. In the worst cases of this
disease, chronic or acute, Hyomei used
four or five times a day is all that is
needed to soon effect a cure.
In this city and neighboring towns,
there are today hundreds who can
testify to the remarkable powers of
Hyomei to cure catarrh. Many of the
staunchest friends of this remedy to-
day began it's use with little hope that
they would be cured, but as their
druggist offered to refund the money
if it did not cure. they decided to try it
on that plan, and were soon restored to
health.
The fact that in this city Percy w.
Means and Bowditch e Webster have
refunded the money for only two out
fits out of the hundreds they have sold
is the strongest proof that can be
offered as to the truth of the statement
that Hyomei cures catarrh and all
troubles Of the throat and lungs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-13
TRINITY EASTER SERVICE.
Sir Knight Hayden Addresses Tenn.
plars at Universalist Church,

About 100 Sir Knights of Trinity
Commandery, No. Z, in full Templar
uniform, marched from the ASYLUM 70
the Universalist church at O'clock
Sunday afternoon, where special SER
vices were conducted by the pastor of
the church, Sir Knight c. A. HAYDEN.
They filled the center of the church.
and the side pews were occupied by
their ladies and friends. Prominent
among the masses of beautiful flowers
about the pulpit was a great crimson
cross, the semblem of the order. and
the standard of the commandery was
just to one side. The flowers were
from the conservatory of Sir Knight
w. H. Gannett. The music of the SER
vice was by the regular Universalist
church choir. Previous to the sermon
We're the special Knights Templar SER
vices, the Sir Knights rising and Join
ing in the Lords prayer, in responsive
readings and in the recital of the
Templar creed.
The subject of Mr.. Hayden's sermon
was THE Maniness of Christ" and the
speaker dwelt upon Christ as the in
tellectual man, the physical man and
the spiritual man. From the character
istics of Christ as seen from these diff
ferent points of view, Mr.. Hayden drew
lessons we'll calculated to inspire and
help the members of an order founded
upon the Christian religion and the
practice~of Christian virtues. 1t was
an earnest, straightforward talk from
one loyal member of the order to
others, and made a deep impression
upon all present. Every Knight
Templar left the church more devoted
to the principles of the fraternity, and
more determined to be faithful to it's
vows and to keep untarnished it's
name.
After the sermon a collection was
taken for the City hospital and the re-
Spouse was most generous, the plates
being heaped with silver and bills.