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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09
CUBS HUMBLE GIANTS AND
START AFTER DETROIT
Three Findered Brown Pitches Cubs to Victory.
Chance Is Sure His Team Will Repeat in
Championship Games with Tigers.
BY G. A. FALZER.

XIX NAPOLEON McGRAw sorrowfuny looked over his scattered legions
H& after the battle Of Waterloo Oh Manhattan's heights yesterday.
"a y Everywhere defeat gloom, desolaton. Then. like the" Little Corporal
who surveyed his beaten army n saw hope, pride INT ambition crushed
solemny uttered these words: 1.-THE star Of Pitsburg las st. Chance RAJ
right. This is the en- of ALL"
And thus ended the greatest campaign tho National League has ever
known. Today New York is slowly recovering ron that stunning 4-o2 de-
feat, while the conquerfng Cubs are teaming back to Chicago m Thu pennant
special carrying with them a third cha mpionshtp. And next they will meet
Detroit, h pennant winner of the A American League, in he worlds cham
pionship series, which will be started omorrow in the Michigan city
in that Chicago I'M Of September Q g." was he wall that went up from
thousands OF fans as the disappointed throng left the Polo Grounds yesterday
afer he final struggle OF the season "Iad Merk1e only touched second
that dy there would a been n o pro test, 10 conference of the board of
directors n o unjust decision, n o extrag m The Giants would landed
Merkle"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09

While it is true that the loss of the
pennant may be traced to that play of
Merkle's. or rather the play he didn't
make, that poor unfortunate is more
to be pjtied than censured. His team
declared yesterday that Merkle
was a physical wreck from brooding
over the fact that he was the cause
of it all. Larry Doyle, his roommate.
said that Merkle has been raving for
the last four nights, never sleeping O.
wink. HE is practically broken down."
he said. land from the way things
look, may never play professional ball
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09

Woodbridge, N. j.
New Brunswick, N. J..
Perth Amboy, ~. j.
South Amboy, NJ. J.
SayreviIIe, NJ. j.
Piermont, N. Y.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09

"Give me surcease!" cried the poetic.
customer to the voluble clerk.
Sorry, we're out of 1t Just now" af-
fably returned the latter, but I can
hand you out a line Of talk equally as.
good."-Baltfmore American.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09
ROSEvILLES VS.. GENERALS.

Tomorrow afternoon at the Roseville
Oval the Rosevilles will stack up
against the Central Athletic Club. Carr
and Galen will form the battery for
the Rosevilles. Sunday afternoon the
Rosevilles will meet the Tigers of
vailsburg in the third game of a series.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
All for Stevenson.

The Freeport Bulletin, which led
the campaign in the state for the
Cemocratic nomination of Hon. Doug
las Pattison of that city for governor,
under the caption 1--WE Are for Stew
enson,' has the following editorial in
dicative of how all influences in the
party are lining up for the party
nominee:
Former Vice President Adlai Z.
Stevenson of Bloomington, one of the
most distinguished men of the nation,
was the choice OF the democratic
party of Illinois as its candidate for
governor at the primary election that
was held last Saturday. While the
Bulletin would have much preferred
the nomination of that dashing and
brilliant young leader, Hon. Douglas
Pattison of this city. to lead the DEM
ocratic forces in the state fight this
fall for we are confident if he had re-
ceiyed the nomination he would have
carried the party to most triumph
ant victory. we take exceeding pleas
ure in not only expressing our keen
appreciation of the brilliant and the
courageous qualities of mind and
heart of General Stevenson, but we
thus early grasp the first opportunity
to say that the Bulletin will enter
he9rtily and vigorously into the cam
naign, and will champion the election
OF former Vice President Stevenson
to the governorship of this state will
all the energy and enthusiasm tina
we have advocated the nomination o
Mr.. Pattison.
In the preliminary skirmish tina
has just closed the Bulletin has beer
keenly conscious of the fact that the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
Minority Representative Comes Back
to This County.

Rock Island democrats have once
more i'll their keeping, as the result of
Saturdays primaries, the honor of the
minority member of the legislature
from this senatorial district. The hon
or itself belongs to Henry l.. Wheelan
1t is fittingly bestowed 1t is reward
of merit for party devotion and service
Mr.. Wheelan is an old line democrat
He has served his party faithfully and
well since he attained manhoods es-
ton not only because of his record. but
because of the splendid canvass he has
made, one of the most thorough, con-
sistent and clean ever made by dem
ocrat for an Office at the hands of his
party. He is well equipped for the
Office, and will acquit himself with
credit.
The success of Mr. Wheelan does not
in the least diminish the standing of
the other Rock Island candidates. c. c.
Wilson and S. d. Hicks. Both are de-
serving democrats. The only dispar-
agement of candidacy that developed
during the campaign preceding the pri-
maries involved the aspirations of Hon.
Everett H. Werts of Henderson county,
the present representative. Mr.. Werts'
candidacy at this time was breach of
promise and a violation of pledge pure
and simple. During the existence of
the present district Mercer county
democrats have had the honor of TWO
terms and those of Henderson county
one term In the combination that won
the nomination for Hon. George l..
Cooke of Mercer county twice in sue
cession, Mercer county incurred a po-
litical debt to Henderson county. That
was paid two years ago. when Hender-
son, although the smallest county in
the district, and helpless without the
have had no voice, was given the nom
| nation. In order to remove any doubts
as to the success of Mr. Werts, the
pledge was made by Mr.. Werts
and vouched for by leading Mercer
county democrats, including Mr. Cooke
/: that in the event of Mr.. Werts' cleo,
| ton then, Henderson county would
yield the nomination to Rock Island
lcounty the remaining four years of the
Iexistence of the district. In the full
fillment of their obligation to Hender
son county at that time the same dem
ocrats of Mercer county were instru
mental in removing another possibl,
/ obstacle in the path of Mr. Werts, il
i what promised to be successful in
dependent candidacy.
Notwithstanding all these things, MI
Werts undertook to succeed himsel
this year. Mercer county, that ha
imade him. despite the claims of Roc
!. Island county. did its part il unmal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

Skill against that of the maker of vir-
tuosos. For Lucille Werner was not
the sort of girl who forgets. In her
one letter to Harry Wall from Ger
many she wrote:
You must never write to me again.
So long as my father is paying for my
education and supporting me. | shall
obey him. l will become Il great mu-
sician. By my artistic success | will
repay him for all the money he has
spent on me anu the disappointment
he has suffered through my sisters.
But when l am my own mistress
when l am great player, ] shall
marry you. You will be my manager.
| will have the career to please my
father and husband to please my
self. If you do not hear from me do
not fret. | will be simply waiting"
Over in the obscure little German
town Lucille was regarded as a
prodigy. Never had the great profess
or seen such capacity for work. He
sent glowing reports to the maker Of
careers. who showed the letters to his
wife and remarked with swelling
chest that they had one daughter who
took after her father.
Il knew u career and such opportuni-
ties as | am giving h"r Juld knock
young Walls asinine romance into a
cooked hat"
And what of young Wall?
He was making some talk in his
i trust for which he was working out
| inventions and improvements realized
| that it had found a prize worth hold
| ing
Here was a man who would work
eighteen or nineteen hours day for
! their interests. He must not slip into
the clutches of any rival concern.
| For. you see. it was only Dan Cupid
+, who knew that every time Harry Wal
scored Il fresh triumph. every time his
employers advanced him in position
and salary, he would set his lips 8
trife more firmly and mutter I'M
| der his sharply drawn breath: "Ap6
she thought I'd be the managerial hus
| band of Il musical star. I'll show tina
father of hersr'
Margaret had just pulled her mis-
sionary husband through Il dangerous
attack of mountain fever. and Jane
had just given a most brilliant Dime
at her husbands Washington home
when the maker of careers received hi
third and most conclusive jolt.
came in the form of an anonymou
letter. mailed in the obscure tow
where Lucille was performing sue
prodigics of labor.
Il presume you understand that t
marry German officer your daughte
must have a dot of at least S20,00t
write this in the most friendly spiri
1t is well she should not build air cas-
tles-as American girls WILL
Mr. Werner called to Lucille will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
Closing Paper Mills.

We see by the dispatches that four
paper mills. in the paper mill COM
bine. have been shut down, thereby
throwing 400 men out of employment.
The paper trust has also recently
cut the wages of its workinSmen 10
per cent; but it isn't cutting the price
of paper. The price has been raised
10 cents a hundred within week.
The paper trust is a great, big.
grasping, avaricious, unworthy con-
Germ. 1t is rohbing the people of
this country of sixty millions year.
An effort was made during the recent
session of congress to remove the
tariff on wood pulp but nothing came
of it-as matter of course. No tariff
reduction will take place so long as a
republican congress is in power.
1t is shame that the people of the
country should be robbed in this fash
ion simply to make multi-millionaires
of a few paper makers. We shall be
glad when we can select congress
that will do away with the tariff on
'yood pulp and print paper and thus
put the American paper trust out of
business.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
She Hrgus Daily Short Story
Cross Purposes By Cecily Allen.
Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Literar v Press

Daniel Werner had decreed that his
daughters should be man haters. Mar
riage should represent to them slav-
cry To this end he selected for each
of his daughters a career which, in
the estimation of Mr.. Werner, was the
infallible antidote for romance.
To all of this his daughters openly
subscribed-and inwardly rebelled. For
Margaret, who had commanding fig
ure even at seventeen and full, mel
low voice, he selected the profession
of the law. Had Margaret been al
lowed to choose for herself, she would
have studied sociology and gone down
into the slums to save the souls Of lit
tie children.
For Janet. who looked like his Uncle
Ezra, a noted upstate physician, he
chose medicine. Janet crawled under
the bed on Fourth of July and turned
white and sick at the sight of blood.
but if there was anything in physical
resemblance she would outgrow these
foolish ideas and surely she was her
great Uncle Ezra in petticoats.
For Lucille, because of her dreamy
nature and studious air. he chose
music. She looked the musician-and
therefore she could become one. He
did not know that her dreams were all
woven around baby faces and the one
music for which she would ever care
was lullaby.
Having thus arrogated the privileges
! and responsibilities of fate. he pro
ceeded to earn the money necessary to
provide the carecrs--and Cupid sat
back and laughed. This is the sort OF
task that appeals to Dan Cupid.
Margaret studied law by day and
by night read Janets medical books
Just before she graduated she had 9
call" Oddly enough, the same cal
! reached one James Borden-and to
gether they went as missionaries to the
poor whites of the south. where Mar
garet's medical knowledge. gained
vicariously through Janet. proved tel
times as valuable as her training il
the law, which had come high.
Janet graduated and obediently join
led her great-uncle Ezra, for her fathe
decreed that she should step into tn
family practice. In short time Great
uncle Ezra wrote that Janet's pies wer
the only ones that could touch tn
standard set by his dear mother. ant
he was glad TO say that young Bernar
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

majority would rule. and for this rea-
several candidates has so conspicu-
ously prevailed. This fact alone au-
gers well for a united stand in the
state and national campaigns. The
Bulletin espoused the nomination of
Mr Pattison for two good and sub
his brilliant leadership in the house
OF representatives and the command
ing position he has occupied in that
body entitled him TO be classified as
the logical candidate for the govern
orship: the second was, that Freeport
is proud of Mr.. Pattison and our citi-
zens believe he is great enough to
ably and faithfully discharge the
duties of any Office within the gift
CT the people of this great common
wealth
1T is indeed very gratifying to note
that the democrats of Illinois have
placed at the head of the state ticket
a man so Inherently honest in private
and public life; man who has occu-
pied the second highest Office in the
United States; and a man who has
not only been a credit to himself and
his party, but loyal and patriotic to
his countrymen. While Mr.. Steven
son was the president of the United
States senate his fair and impartial
rulings won him the admiration and
words nj an1 a
the republican senator's and an abid-
| ing affection in the hearts of his dem
ocratic comrades While Mr.. Steven
son was a congressman from his home
district the influence he swayed in
that great deliberative body was pro
foundly felt, and when he assumed
the onerous duties of first assistant
postmaster general under President
| Cleveland it was at once seen that he
Was entering upon a career that was
| destined to become indelibly linked
with the history of the nation
| General Stevenson is a man strong
in body, strong in mind and atrone
in purpose. He is one of the great
est champions of democratic princi
pies that the nation has produced
and under his leadership he will fine
no more faithful lieutenants in fight
ing the cause of democracy than Hon
Douglas Pattison of this city and the
Bulletin.
The Bulletin takes especial pleas
ure and pride in making this an
ncuncement. We believe that in Col
onel James Hamilton Lewis. John p
McGoorty. Charles f. Gunther, Judge
Eugene Kimbrough or James o. Mon
roe aside for either Mr.. Stevenson OF
Mr.. Pattison the democrats would
have made most excellent choice
EaG anyone of these gentlemen beer
chosen. Furthermore, We believe tha
/ they will all unite in fighting the cleo
ton of Charles S. Deneen again a!
governor of this state, and the miser
able failure he has made as the gov
ernOr for the past four years will b,
eXemplified at the polls in Novembe
in the most emphatic manner by tn,
election of General Adlai E. Stevenson
Of Bloomington as the governor o
this great state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

out wasting time on investigations:
"Return by s. s. Franz Gustave.
Passage prepaid"
She sat with hands folded. facing
the maker of careers.
When he had finished speaking she
arose. and the woman who stood be-
fore him was q new Lucille.
Now | have something to say. I
meant to be a great artist to please
You. to repay you. but you by your in
sane distrust have ruined my career.
Six months more and would have
been ready to face The critics. Six
months more and your DEAN would
have been realized. but you have
shamed me before my master. By
now his little world knows it all. and
refuse to go back. / never saw Lieu
tenant Heuser but twice. What he
may have said in the drawing room
of the American consul was no fault
of mine-and on such a rumor you
built your mountain OF distrust. | did
not love, | did not even admire the
| observation-disclosures | did love. / do
| love. some one else. and now-because
by your own hand. by saying that you
| will never raise your finger again for
this ungrateful daughter-you have
cast me off without hearing. ! am
going to him and tell him that l love
him."
| And, leaving the maker Of careers
| filled with the humiliation of self
wrought defeat. she went to her room
and wrote to Harry Wall:
| Come. The door of my fathers
house is open to you. My career is
ended. | ask only to share yours"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
MOLINE MAN IS PRESlDEk 7
illinois Branch of Luther League Holds
Annual Business Meeting.

Chicago. Aug. Preliminary to
the meeting of the national organiza-
ton yesterday the Luther league held
its annual convention yesterday at
Handel hall, about $50 delegates being
present. 1t was. a purely business
session. officers being elected as fol
lows:
President-John Hauberg, Moline.
Recording and corresponding secre'
tary-Miss Alvina Slut. Chicago.
Treasurer-B. o. Berge, Ottawa.
Statistical secretary-Miss Nellie
Swanson, Galesburg.
Library secretary. R. E. Hunt.
There are Isl local leagues in Hi
nois, with 5000 active members. Three
thousand dollars was spent during the
past year in practical work The
league has eight deaconesses and "A
students for the ministry in its mem
bership.
The opening session of the Luther
League of America will he held to
night at Emmanuel Swedish Lutheran
church, Sedgwick and Hobbie streets
Corporation Counsel E. j. Brundagt
will deliver the address of welcome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
Forces. Of Stone In Australia.

In Albany. in Australia. is to he seen
stone forest-in other words, petrified
trees. The trees are Of a gray stone.
1t is suggested as an explanation of
the strange phenomenon that in the
depths of past ages the forest was in
full vegetation and then through some
unheaval of the earth it was buried in
sand Little by little water acting on
the sand penetrated the branches and
solidified.
The wood gradually disappeared I'M
der the layer of stone and in time took
its form Then in succeeding years
the winds again carried away the sand
and the forest appeared anew, but OF
Stonc.-London Globe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
Tariff Revision by It's Friends.

The republican leaders have been
doing good deal of talk this year
about having the tariff revised by its
friends."{
Haven't the friends of our tariff
been revising It, for the last 40 years,
and making it higher and higher?
They sure have!
Why should not the friends of the
tariff go on revising it in the future
as they have in the past-upwards
The people of this country can have
no assurance that the republican
friends of the tariff will not revise ii
in the future precisely as they have
in the past Mr.. Taft, in his letter
OF acceptance, his latest utterance
specifically says that the tariff SEIZED
ule should be made higher in certain
places. This is good republican doc
trine; this the republicans believe.
Our high, tariff will never be re
vised downward so long as the repub
lean party is kept in power
No party in power can reverse it:
policies To do this means TO steI
down and out as governing party.
The republican party, while it is
/ in power, will never revise the tariff
i as the people of the country wish i
20 be revised, nor will the republican
party. while it is in power, ever de
/ stroy the trusts. The tariffs and The
/ trusts are the creatures of the repub
! lican party; and that party will neve
! DESTROY its own.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

Kelly. the newly elected member of
congress from the Steenth district, rec
Ognized a good pie and a pretty girl
when he saw them.
For all this treason of her sisters did
Lucille pay dearly. She was sent to
the severest professors, who snapped
her knuckles and pinched her tired
arms when her interest in music
tagged.
These professors all agreed that she
had the musical temperament. the
soul. but she lacked technique. They
did not appreciate that it was simply
the womanly soul of the girl seeking
expression in chords and runs.
Patiently she made the rounds of
studios. concerts. lectures and recitals.
Obediently she read the masses of
musical literature which her father
provided for her delectation and ad-
vancement.
But when Harry Wall happened to
| meet her on the avenue-and this hap
pened more and more frequently as the
season advanced-she smiled and for
got the miseries of acquiring career.
Harry Wall was nothing if not sin
cere, and i'm time he refused to confine
himself to chance meetings on the ave-
nue.. He demanded the right to call
upon Lucille under her fathers roof
and was repulsed by the supreme max
err of careers.
| Lucille went to Europe to finish her
studies. She sailed on the first boat
scheduled for Hamburg after young
Walls interview with her father. And
she carried to Germany not the men,
DRY of fathers blessing bat the recol-
lection of aspaternal frown.
Her mother went with her and set
tied her with a dependable frau in
an Immediately kept home under the
shadow of the professors roof. The
professor ranked first in the musical
world as a maker of piano virtuosos.
And the world which had known
Lucille Werner, the world which had
held struggling American musicians.
fretful American teachers and callous
American critics. thought of her only
as pawn on the artistic chessboard,
!. which the great professor in the OBJ
scure German town was moving at MS
; Will.
:, But all the while another great ches.
player. Dan Cupid. was pitting hi.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11
Humor aua Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
NARROW ESCAPES.

All. little did we dream in youth
AS down the stairs we stole
And skipped when mother wasn't near
Off to the swimming hole,
Where in the cool but mirky pool.
With mud banks soft and damp.
s That microbes were as plentiful
AS whiskers on a tramp!
Before we had consulted books
Or read up in the case
How could we know where dangers
lurked
Within that swimming place?
The awful knowledge did not mar
Those moments of delight
That microbes waited by the score
For something fresh to bite.
We shudder at the chance We took
With that man eating band.
And how we managed to escape
We cannot understand.
For now we know the microbes must
Have done their best to tease
BY trying to present each one
Some new and strange disease.
But somehow we escaped the snare
And lodged the threatened jolt
came
AS healthy as colt,
For. though the microbes aim was
good.
He only scored a miss.
It truly must have been a case
Where ignorance was bliss.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

The shah of Persia is said to have
pawned his jewels in order to raise
money to put down the party that
stands by the constitution. There have
been several kings in the history of
Europe who have had to pawn their
jewels after they had been driven into
exile for trampling on their own con-
StitutioDs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-11

At any rate, Deueen got the scalp of
Representative John w. Hill, the Chi
cago lawyer who stirred up the legisla-
tive investigation of state institutions
and was chairman of the committee.
He furnished much of the ammunition
which Yates used in his campaign.
Hill was badly beaten in his own ward
and his district went against him by
/ 900 votes.