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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-14
Conference Notes.

\ large number of tho delegates arc
taking dinner and supper at the Y.
NJ c. A., where the Association Help
ers serve them in the chapel room.
Yesterday $50 patronized the Helpers,
and all praised the Service. The ladies
prepared for greater numbers today.
The assignments for the coming
year will be made Monday. There i
no set program for Monday but it is
understood by the delegates that bu 81.
ness will extend over on that day and
that the assignments, one of the most
important conference matters, will he
the main feature of business.
There is little doubt as TO the re
appointment to the local charge for
another year of Rev. r. b. Williams
DR.. Williams has served here for siS
years, coming here i'll 1901 upon tn
transfer of Rev, c. O. McCulloch, wnc
at present has the Monmouth paste,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
Monumen to Humorist.

Word comes from St. Joseph, Mich. the birthplace of Ben King, that his fellow citizens are to honor him with monu- ment. The world has not been accustom- ed to erect monuments to humorists-prob- ably King is the first to be so immortal ized But the movement is typical of an age appreciatng humor, and why should not stones be erected to men who make us laugh as well as to the soldiers who have caused the world to weep?
 Ben King did not live to taste any of the sweetness of fame, not even the joy of seeing his work in book form. When col lected after his death by Nixon Water man and the Chicago Press club his verse passed from publisher to publisher for -- four years before firm of young pub fishers GTorbes & Co., against the ad- vice of literary friends, decided to make 1t their first publication. In the nine years since 1t appeared thousands of copies of Ben Kings Verse; have been sold and It has become A staple in every bookstore with the demand greater than ever. Of the many whimsical verses which King wrote none is better known than hls
 IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT.
 If I should die tonight And should you come to my cold corpse and say. Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeess clay
 If I should die tonight And you should come in deepest grief and
 woe
 And say, Here's that ten dollars that 1 cMsffA=..
 I might arise in my large white
 craVat
 And say, Whats that?"
 If l should die tonight And you should come to my cold corpse
 and kneel,
 Clasping my bier to show the grief you
 feel
 I say. If I should die tonight And you should come to me. and there and then
 Just even hint bout payin' me that ten,
 I might arise the while;
 But I'd drop dead again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

diced. Butt whether old or new in the business, the conscientious umpire steels himself against any loss of nerve by the feeling that he has done his best in rem dering the decision that is criticised and he Is fortified further by the knowledge that he was closer to the play than any one save the players and therefore knows.
 "1 think the thing that gets an umpire most is to have old friends among the players jump on him. Of course he ex- poets his best friend to protest If a de- cision on a close play Is against him, but when 1t comes to profanity and that sort of thing, an umpire. being a human being feels just you would. It's a hard job at best. but I guess no harder than any other, and when a man does his best he finds satisfaction in that which outweighs all the jers, hlsses and groans. You may get notion of how effective Is that philosophy when you consider how few baseball umpires ever answer back or give any sign that the protests of the players have ben noticed by them'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

clothes and leaves the field to mingle with his fellow men just as the ball player does, for, understand thls--I don't believe there is a man umpirng who doesn't do his level, conscientious best. Therefore, when tha game Is at an end whatever may have marked the progress of the game, he has clear conscience and Is in much better condition to enjoy his dinner than some of those who have treated him like crook during the game"
 Tell me-" Emslie was asked. how a man feels in the middle of an arena with 10000 people on all sides reviling him, calling him robber and demanding his blood"
 Emslie smiled.
 "If he's a new man in the business. he probably feels scared" was the reply. 'If he has had experience, he feels in clined to smile, for he knows that they don't mean it; that they are wrought up with a desire for their home club to win and are therefore pardonably preju-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
Most Important Work.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A reporter recently took a journey of considerable length for the purpose of in- terviewing rising literary light as to his next novel.
 On reaching the house he discovered the author seated in his garden engaged in earnest conversation with a little boy who had a large towel pinned around his neck. The author received his visitor cor dially, but seemed rather absent-minded
 Are you willing to tell me little about your next important work?' asked the reporter.
 The literary man clicked a pair of shears and patted the boy on the shoul- der.
 We were just talking about it as you came up," he said Willie thinks ought to do 1t with a bowl, but I think can at 1t without. What would you adviser You see, his mother has always cut 1t before, but she's away just now!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

The New York Central has been one of the reads to suffer distinct loss of confidence on the part of the investing pubic. It has become known of men that the prosecution of the stupendous work incident 10 the reconstruction and improvement of the New York terminals and Of work in Buffalo and elsewhere along the line has been sadly handicapped by absentee management. There have occurred vexatious delays in every ouar ter and universal complaint of misman- agement and of mi directed effort is heard. This has been doing on for months and Is unquestionably having n stock market influence. This thing of directing the affairs of a mighty eorpora- tion like New York Central from steam yachts in the Mediterranean and the race courses of Great Britain and the conti- nent has it's drawbacks
 The Vanderbilt official expenditure and the history of the past year and a half Is full of Incidents of almost total ston- page of work because of inability to connect with W. K. Vanderbilt and hls personal machinery and thereby securing necessary authority to proceed with inc mourning of liability and the payment of accounts. The immense system has continued to do a stupendous business. but this is because 1t had to- The ton mage moved has been at unnecessary ex- pense and Wall street hears on every hand criticism which Is having weight with patient investors. Analysis of fiscal reports reveal unsatisfactory background conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
THE JIM PIRE.
How He Feels When the Excited Mob
 Demands His Blood.

From the New York American.
 Bob Emslie, the veteran umpire of the National league was asked the other day where he kept himself when he wasn't on the ball field.
 T mind my own buslness.' he replied. But say. here; come back. I didn't mean that in an offensive way. It is literally true. l go away from the field and try to forget all about my buslness.'
 But what l meant" said his friend, was that baseball umpire seems to be such general outcast from all human kind that l have frequently wondered if he didn't creep into hole as soon as the last man was out and remain there until the bell rings for the next game.
 Not at all," was the reply. "The base ball umpire goes to his dressing room when the game Is over, changes his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
Strawberries a DentifrIoe.

From tho Minneapolis Journal.
 Perhaps 1t Is your sunburn that deceives me, but I really believe" said the first girl, as she foated on the sunwarmed pillows, that your teeth have turned three shades lighter"
 The second girl, taking a huge breaker very skllfnlly, laughed and replied:
 No, 1t Is the truth. They really are white. It is new wash that l use"
 Tell mo what it is"
 ''It is nothing but crushed strawber- rior You take two or three fresh strawberries, crush them and rub your teeth with them for five or six minutes a day. The improvement begins at once and in short time the yellow est teeth are as white and lustrous as pearls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
The Market is Found to Be
 Overloaded
THE BULL MOVEMENTS
We're Never Carried as Far as the Market Generals Would Have Liked-PubIc Interest
 Was SIoW
BY w. G. NICHOLAS.

New York, August 3.-(Special) )-Nith almost tiresome reteration the manlpL. lative character of the recent advance Ii, the stock market has been proclaimed in these letters. The correctness of this posi- ton has been demonstrated. On every hard spot on the advance insiders shoyed out the goods, and at the continuation of the rise the market was found to be over loaded The bull movement was not car ried as far as he market generals vould have liked. At no stage could the public be enlisted although a semi-professional element which is sometimes mistaken for the public, took hold and bought stocks freely under the belief that the game would be played through and prices estab. hshed on considerably higher level The hollo%ness of the market was shown this week when the insiders began competiny too eagerly for the thin market that had been made by manipulatlve methods.
 The motive back of the impotent bull movement was q desire to get rid Of as much of the load of stocks as possible anu transfer, the burden and sweat of carryiig the same upon the public before the ar- rival of actual tight money To help che same along the banking interests made call money cheap, hoping thereby to i'a- bue the light waisted and short thinking speeulators with the idea that the biz people would carry on the campaign an- til at least the beginning of Septem- Der. The defect in this scheme was the Tact that important people all saw it's weakness, and could not resist the temp taton to feed out the stocks whenever the chance offered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
IMPURE WATER

Typhoid in nearly every case, as well as malaria, dysentery and the other hot weather complaints that so often end fatally, has been traced to Impure water.
 Because to the naked eye the water appears clear is no guarantee that it is pure. Often one has but to look at 1t through a magnifying glass to see millions of deadly microbes.
 The water supply in many country places. small towns and summer re- sorts at times becomes contaminated with sewage and other impurities ow- ing to one or another of several causes that are common.
 Doctors of all schools claim that eeaspoonful of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04


 Not all of the stocks have suffered im- portant reaction in price. Many securl- ties arc dirt cheap at going quotations, an. they are being absorbed steadily on every soft spot. Southern Pacific. nsylvania, Steel preferred. Shelters, preferred, the Rock Island issues and St Paul seems to be well thought of by a sturdy class of buyers not afraid of adverse market fluctuations. The mar ket appears to be undergoing a process of quotation readjustment which Is bring ing things better into line than they have been for a good while back This process is far from being completed
 The copper metal market continues weak and sales of electrolytic have been maue as low as 20 cents Large con sumers are holding off and stocks of copper are accommodating on the hands of producers and their selling agents The general impression Is that before lorg the market will be re-establshed on an IS cent basis. Producers are now try ing to make themselves believe that any thing above that figure had always been regarded as merely temporary and was in reality against their desires All of which is put out for what it is worth
 It looks as though there would be q renewal of gold exports to a considerable dIIlouiN.
 Judging from the preaching heard in many quarters the country is going to get new impulse along the road to prosperity out of the railroad tonnage which the transportation companies are going to get from crop deficiencies and that the industrals and business gen erany will thrive on the discharge of several hundred thousand working men. The good old doctrine of the benefits to accrue from wholesale bloodletting gains in popularity,
 The sensation of the curb market was the slump in Nipssing. which broke under Sla All sorts of explanations were of fered to account for the decline. Among ot CTS was one which represented the in- siders as having split up. one faction marketing its holdings and getting out This is probably true. Reports from the mine are favorable in the main. de- spite the strike which has been on in the Cobalt district A great deal of stock thrown over by disgruntled factions has been picked up by conservative buyers, who feel themselves qualified to form Judgment as to the outcome of that par ticular mine. Nipissing at going prices Is finding favor. IL Is likely to sell 10 points up before ponts off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
tho continuation of the ordained bull cam

Everybody who has anything to sell IS
 trying 10 pump the wind of confidence into the stock market situation. Inter views without number from every man of
 high standing who is willing to go on record are finding a way to print testify ing to the satisfactory trade and indus
 trial conditions. These interviews al- most unfalllngly end with a confession that whoreas everything is lovely, lndica- tlons point to some failing off in manu- faeturlng activity and volume of general business They harp on the chord that nothing could be healthier or better for the general welfare than a citing down of speed in order that everybody may have a rest.
 Ii Is actually being hailed as grand beneicenee that industrial corporations are almost unanimously supporting re- duetion in orders for the future. This ia going to give them a chance to catch lip and put themselves in shape for the next great boom which is coming along Immediately. In these interviews ID mention is made of the suffering which Is to follow upon the wholesale discharge of great armies of workinemen, or of the cnrtailment in buying power which might ensre rehcetng Immediately upon rail- rolds. mercantile traae and every other line Of activity. The one thing which seems 10 stand out foremost fin the minds of these preachers of the gospel of hope and courage is that the impending hard times will result in a bling up of idle capitol which will enable the corpora tions to fund their enormous floating in- debtedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
Duffy'S Pure Malt Whiskoy

in each glass of water you drink acts as germ killer. For over fifty years Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey has been prescribed by doctors and used in hos. pitals in the treatment of dyspepsia, Indigestion, typhoid and malaria, and all forms of stomach troubles It is Il positive cure for cramps, dysentery, sunstroke, cholera morbus and chills. It quickens the circulation, purifies and enriches the blood. builds new nerves, muscle and brain tissue, and gives fresh life and vitality to every part of the body
 Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is dis tilled wholly from matted grain, and its softness, palatability and freedom from injurious substances make it ac- ceptable to the most sensitive stom- hch.
 All druggists, grocers and dealers or direct $1 bottle. Illustrated Medical Booklet containing some of the many convincing testimonials re- ceived from grateful men and women who have been cured. and doctors advice sent free. Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.,, Rochester, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

You FORCED pay whatever article marked Or not be bought for nnety-nine cents.
 Jacobs price policy changed this condition of fasgv prices which obtained in other cities of equal importance with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

The publication of si5.o00O O00 earned by the Steel trust during the last quarter had q singular effect upon the market. That such unprecedented income should not have been accompanied by an in- creased dividend on the common stock, even ever so slight. struck the trading element as conclusive evidence that some thing was wrong. The verdict was at once arrived at that the paragraph of the report to act upon was that which confessed to a sharp falling off in or ders for remote delivery. The market was found to be in about the frame of mind of Addison Cammack when Jay Gould made that famous window display of S70oO0,OO0 of unpledged assets
 The exhibit was for the purpose of in- spring confidence. Good God" said Cammack, has the old devil got that much stuff yet to sell2' He thereupon fell upon the market and beat 1t to a pulp. Great Scott" said the crowd when they heard of the colossal Steel trust earnings, If the trust is making all this money and can't pay it's stock holders anything then there must he something rotten in Denmark Bln!
 Simultaneously with the boomerang eff feet Of the Steel trust report came q flood of evil reports bearing on the money market conditions here and everywhere over the world Nothing seemed to satis- fy, and every ear was alive to the re. ceipt of unfaVorable developments. The eye and the understanding could take in nothing that was hopeful or rosy The industr'als felt more than most people were willing to confess the demonstra- ton by the Ohio republican committee of an intent to favor q Taft platform for friendly tariff revision This issue is thus showed into the front in way which cannot be ignored, and which gives genuine alarm to the standpatters True. the manufacturers in convention assem- hled not many weeks ago, declared for this kind of platform, but real progress along that line Is nevertheless dlsquiet- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

Not much has been heard about the North Carolina incident except express sion or general relief that the railroads had the good sense to amend their policy or fesistence to popular sentiment by taking d more pacific course In bring
 ing the Issues before the supreme court
 strong measures were necessary to ef- rect this change of front. Just now Wall street is extremely sensitive and willing to make almost any concession to escape aggressive attack. In this particular case the railroads really lose nothing by the shitt made and no great principles are sacrificed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
NEW SKETCH is HIT OF
UNIouE'S CURRENT BILL

Roberts and Fulton, in laughable
comedy skit, sis in Service" head the
olio bill at the Unique this week, and
introduce several new stunts in the
comedy line. The Mizuno Japanese
troupe of acrobats do some very clever
midair balancing and acrobatic work.
including several difficult turns. Mile.
Stantonne, violiniste. introduces some
beautiful and novel electrical and pic
ttfre effects. Her handling of the
violin shows much skill and she is
bound to be one of the favorites dur
ing her engagement at the Unique.
Tracy McDermott is heard again in
illustrated songs and the Unique COM
edy company presents another of Rich
ard Cummings snappy one-act come
dies Loan of Wife," full of laughs
and comical situations, in which sew
eral real babies play leading parts.
The entertainment closes with the
unique o-scope and the latest moving
pictures The Thursday amateur night
is still in effect with bunch of near
actors who certainly work hard to earn
the prizes given to the best three This
is feature inaugurated by the Unique
several years ago and one that its
many patrons appreciate.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
sideIlahts Of the Panic

A stock broker who has, been nagged
to death the last few days by a nerv-
Gus friend who owns about four shares
of stock, got even yesterday when he
was called to the phone by the fretful
one.
What's the news?" asked the ex-
cited man.
brooklyn bridge suspended" shouted
the broker.
Heavens. what else?'
'"rhe subway is in a hole"
I've got twenty shares of Inter
Mets.l" yelled the nervous man. What
else?"
"The Singer building has gone up"
Good GodP'-New York World.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
KEPT FROM SCHOOL,
BOY TRIES TO DIE
UnfuIflIed Desire to LEARN to Be
Great" Leads Lad to Hang Him
seIf-Rope Is Cut by
Mother

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Unhappy because
he could not go to school and learn to be
a great man." John Gerlock, 13 years old,
of 4057 Fulton avenue, the Bronx, hanged
himself He was discovered and cut down
by his mother before he had suffered to
any extent. He was taken to the Chill
dren's society rooms a prisoner.
Anson Gerlock, the boys stepfather is
janitor of the house in which they live.
A year ago the lads mother married the
second time In Poland She and her hus-
band came to America and left the boy.
The youth was ambitious, saw nothing for
him in Poland, and wrote to his mother.
She saved money and brought him here.
When he arrived he wanted to go TO
school, but his stepfather refused to let
him, he says, and scoffed at his desire 10
study.
Mrs. Gerlock says her husband made the
boy do all the janitor work. The young
ster fretted under this and often told
neighbors Of his desire to learn. His
slight knowledge of English grew.
Mrs. Gerlock yesterday morning found
the fire in the furnace burning low. She
whipped the boy. Brooding over the chas-
tisement, young Gerlock looked out of the
basement and saw dangling above him the
broken end of clothesline. He raised
the window and clambered out on the sill.
Tying the rope several times around his
neck he jumped. His feet hung Within six
inches of the ground. The rope had not
been tied tight enough to make death
sudden.
Neighbors saw him hanging in the area
way. They set up shout.
Mrs. Gerlock heard the cries. ran from
the street, grabbed kitchen knife as
she rushed into the house and cut her son
down
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-10
CONFESSES IMPLICATION
IN CONFIDENCE GAME

: PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 9-Oscar Fred
erick Spade, alias Reginald Spaulding, tho
young Englishman who was arrested on
Saturday at the Henry hotel after having
made appointments with over one hun
dred young men who desired to become
his secretary on a world tour, each to
furnish $500, admitted today he formerly
lived in New York and Buffalo, and had
operated in both places.
Spade was taken to a Bertillon opera
tor, Joseph Lindon. He became detected.
and said that If he had an opportunity he
would make away with himself.
Lindon affected to take Spade seriously,
and, saying he also was member of a
suicide club, offered to help him. Lindon
sent for some EPSON salts, and, prepar-
ing a glass, handed 1t to the Respondent
Spade, who thought it was poison and
drank.
Death did not come as expected, and
in a short time Spade felt brighter, and
laughed when he found the joke.
At the hotel where Spade had arranged
for interviews with his prospective Sec
retaries, there was a continuous stream
of people inquiring for him. Each appli-
cant had his $500 cash forfeit ready, and
1t is estimated that had Spade not been
arrested he would have had between $685.
900 and $4,000 before night.