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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets G:i3. rises 5:1J: moon seti
10:3S n. m: 10:41 p. m. eastern time,
moon at first quarter in constellation
Lihra.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
Airsnip Falls in Seine.

Paris. Aug. 29.-Bayard Clements
dirigible balloon. after making a
flight here today fell into the Seine
The aviators on board the airship
were saved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

Elite Theater Opens. The Elite
theater opened last evening for the
season and good line of vaudeville
was presented. Monsula and Russell
open the bill with an aerial act of con-
siderable merit. Both performers are
old hands at the work having been in
circuses since early childhood The
Still City quartet is the next number
and ii is a daisy attraction. Comedy
is. mixed in with its work 10 just the
right extent and its harmony is such
that the audience always wants to
hear just one more song before il CON-
Ipletes its act. Syengali. hypnotisI
holds down the boards for awhile with
a demonstration of the mystic power
which he possesses over the wills of
others. and Miss Pearl Stanley sings
for the illustrated songs. Miss Stan
| ley is well known here and the man
ager feels that he is TO be congratu-
| lated on having secured her services
| The feature attraction of the entire
| bill is Miss Cleon Pearl Fell, young
lady who Is an adept at singing, dane
ing. and putting on comedy talk.
| Miss Fell did not arrive in time to APP
pear at the opening performance last
evening but she will be here tonight.
The moving pictures close the per-
| Torrance as usual.
Manager Friedenwald has arranged
for a free act which takes place in
front of tho thaafer. oach ayenin1 dur.
| ing the entire week The act includes
a slide for life by woman who hangs
| by her teeth from pulley which runs
| down rope extending from the top of
telephone pole to the pavement. The
rest of the act is on a slack wire and
is done by man.. The free act takes
place at o'clock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

ler) second: best time. FOG.
SINGLE CYLINDERS. 5 NILES.
Excelsior (Myers) first. Excelsior
BARR second, Excelsior (Scheppers)
third: best time. 6:44
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

of cattle that grazes contentedly on the
dried grass of the prairie
The ranks of l0l Ranch show cow
boys are alike hardly two days in SUI
cession. The .'punchers" fiuctuate be-
tween prosaic ranch duty and slow
display. Today they are riding buck
ers" and twisting the lariat for the
edification of the amusement loving
public; tomorrow, they may be on
their way 10 The Oklahoma prairie. re-
placed by comrade fresh from the
thirty square miles called home"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
SPANISH CONVOY ATTACKED
Another Clash at Mclilla Results i'm
Loss to EurODeanS.

Loss to Europeans.
Melilla, Aug. Pa Spanish con-
voy was attacked by Moors today at
point near Sidimusa. After severe
We're wounded the convoy was extri-
Gated from its position. The Moors
are receiving reinforcements in large
numbers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
HIT BY SNOWMAN
Eugene Hayward of Davenport
Victim of Wrath of Carni-
val Attache.
UNCONSCIOUS FROM BLOW
}. \. COPELAND Charged With Assault
and Battery, Posts Bond and
Then Ships Town.

AS one of the final features of the
carnival held in Davenport last week
Eugene Hayward. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Il. Hayward of Bridge avenue, was
struck with a heavy wrench by an in
furiated Snowman. j. T. COPELAND, and
Knocked unconscious from the blow.
When COPELAND was let out, on posting
SIS bonds. tina; was the last seen of
him. He had evidently skipped town.
According 10 the story told by those
who were with young Hayward at the
time of the accident, he with several
of his companions. was taking a ride
on the merry-go-round when COPELAND
ordered Hayward off the platform.
Hayward did not move as soon as Cop
land thought consistent with his or
derS and he was dealt a severe blow
on the temple He was knocked to the
ground and when picked up by by.
ISLANDERS was unconscious. No serious
results are expected from the blow.
blow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

Step by step one goes very far
French Proverb.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
LINE O. DOPE.
Continued from Page Three.)
the umpire and then assaulted Wais
at the hotel.

the umpire and then assaulted Walsh
at the hotel.
y contemporary across the river re-
marked last Friday that the layout for
the next series looked very good. as
ington. where they ought TO take some
easy money. and the Islanders were at
Springfield. where one Mr. DAILY re-
sides. Especial emphasis was laid
Upon the fact that Mr.. DAILY resides IN
Springfield. Wonder if the Davenport
scribe noticed what happened 10 one
Mr. DAILY in the first and the third
games of the series there.
President NJ H. Sexton of the Three
| Eye has thrown out the game IT
Bloomington week ago protested by
| Peoria on the ground that Manag Il
| Donnelly was chased from the field hy
an officer after he had engaged in a
wordy war with Manager Novacek
| The umpire had not ordered him put
off the field and as there was no pros
ecution of Donnelly afterward the pro-
| test seems to he justifiable. even
though Bloomington evidently would
have won anyway AS il is the game
will have 90 be played over.
President NJ. II. Sexton has received
| checks from the arrangements at St.
Paul and at Lincoln for the repurchase
| of Paul Mclean of the Islanders and
Nunamaker Of the Dubuque club. TO-
| spectively Both these men were pur.
chased 1T the beginning of the season.
but the purchases were both optional
ones which allowed the original own
ers to buy the men back at the end
of the year if they saw fit From the
records made by both players, it is not
to be wondered at that they saw fit
Mclean. especially. has made an envia-
BILE record so far this year, and he will
Undoubtedly make good even among
such stars as compose the ST. Paul
team.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
A Thinkers
Thoughts

If you are Il thinker your brain
wears away in proportion as you use
it and this waste must be rebuilt by
food tthere's no other way else the
brain grows dull and is poor in
strument.
In Grape-Nuts food all the ele-
ments required for this brain build
ing are found in the most liberal
proportions, the parts of grains that
supply the phosphate of potash and
albumen being especially selected in
making
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

FOOD

Let n trial 10 days tell any BRAIN
weary or nervous wreck its own taie
of better feelings.
There's Reason
Read the little book, THE Road
to MELVILLE in packages.
POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY, Ltd,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23
Carnival n Success

That the Davenport carnival is to
he placed in the category of success
full entertainment enterprises is vouch
ed for by the large crowds that
thronged the park each afternoon and
evening that the shows were in oper
alton. The shows given by the com
pany were of high class and the car
nival committee is TO be congratulated
on the success of the undertaking
The city street decorations We're far
superior to those that decked the
thoroughfares last year.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
Ocean Bed Contour.

BY using the soundings shown on
the Admiralty charts, Professor Ed
ward Hull has demonstrated that a
series of iso-bathic contours can be
drawn, showing the form of the
ocean bed. In this way we can de-
termine the margin of the continental
shelf, which breaks off into deep
water near the 100-fathom contour
as Also the channels of the sub
merged river valleys which traverse it
down to depths of about 1000 faith
oms. BY this means those of the
English Channel River" and those
of the Loire, the Gironde, and the
Adour, off the coast of France; also
those of the CAMERA, Arosa, Lima
Douro, Mondego, and Tagus from on
the coast of Spain and Portugal, have
been determined. The existence oil
these channels, formed by erosion I'M
der land conditions, indicates great
changes of level in late Tertiary
times, resulting in the climate of the
Glacial period Scientific Ameri-
can.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
DIES TO GIVE WIFE 500
Jefferson Leaves Letter Cursing
the Landlord.
Suicide Was Too Hasty, as the Sheriff
Raised Money Needed For the Rent,
Preventing Widows Eviction.

Philadelphia, Pa.-William A. JEFF
ferson, who died in the Presbyterian
Hospital, committed suicide with poi
son that his widow might obtain 500
death benefit from his lodge. A baby
is about to come to her. Jefferson
had been out of work for six months
and could not pay his rent His land
lord had ordered their eviction.
Jefferson, loving his wife, would
have been a murderer, most prob
ably, had not his devotion to her
turned him to deed almost as des-
perate. When he was arrested, he
swore he intended to kill the land
lord with revolver he had.
His last letters we're made public
by the Coroner. To his wife Jefferson
wrote:
Dear Nell: cannot collect the
money due me, and there is no other
way out of it. | take my own life be-
cause think it will be better for you
and the children There is 500 COM
ing to me from the lodge.
First settle with that old landlord
and then get me the cheapest funeral
possible. do not want anybody i4t
my funeral but you. Get the cheap
est coffin you can and bury me in the
cheapest spot you can find. do not
want any preaching over me. but DR..
Fulton may make few remarks tell
ing of how was raised in my boy
hood in Tomyille. Goodbye, dear"
And he cursed the landlord
God may forgive you; / cannot. I
hope He will put His curse on you
for the rest of your life. You would
have got all your money in a short
time If you had waited Now you
have my life on your hands. l hope
you will never be able to sleep again,
for you knew of the condition my
wife was in"
Even in his suicide Jefferson was
too hasty. Constable Murray, who
was sent to eyict him, learned the
state of affairs in the household, and
instead of turning Mrs. Jefferson out
of doors, alphabetically raised $50
to pay the rent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
OUR EXPORTS NOW ARE $4,000, 600, 900.
Manufacturers Big Shars-Steady Increase Shown
They n iron and Records

Washington, D. C.-The exports
of American manufactures for the
100 years from 1889 to 1909, accord
ing to report just made public by
the Bureau of Statistics of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor,
amounted to $4,000, 100000. OF
this amount two-thirds were exported
within the last twenty years, and one
half, or $4,000, 900, within the
past eleven years of the present de-
cade
The total exports of merchandise
from 1889 to date amounted to $46,-
900, 100000, of which &c per cent,
were manufactures. Steady increase
has been shown in the share which
manufactures form of our exports
from 6.5 per cent. in the decade 1890
1893, to S7.6 per cent. in the decade
ending with 1909.
Iron and steel products were not
recorded until 1890, when the value
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21

or died, when | read about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so j
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved of all my suffering. - Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Marlton, NJ.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, made from native roots and
herbs. contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know of, and
thousandsof voluntary testimonialsare
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form Of
female complaints, Inflammation, Ill
ceration, displacements,f ibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodicpa backache,
indigestion and nervous prostratiOn.
Every suffering woman owes it to her.
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkbam, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
TAFT DEFENDS TARIFF LAW.
Says All of 1t rs Good But the Wool
Schedule.

OCneuuie.
Winona, MINI. President Taft de-
livered his defense of the Payne
tariff bill here.
1t was the speech for which the
country has been waiting ever since
he affixed his signature to the bill.
The President talked frankly and
fearlessly to his audience.
He pointed out the things in the
law that he does not like and arrayed
against them its good points
On the whole he conceived it the
best tariff law the Republican party
has ever passed, and therefore the
best ever enacted in this country, and
as he views the law it is on the whole
revision downward in accordance
with his own and the party pledges
He acknowledged that the wool
schedule is too high and ought to
have been reduced, yet the fact was
deplorable, as it seemed to him, that
the interests of the wool products of
the West and the wooden manufac-
turers of the East were so strongly
intrenched in Congress that to have
insisted on reduction of the wooden
schedule would have defeated the en-
tire bill.
For President Taft to have vetoed
the bill would, in his opinion. not only
have demoralized the party but de-
stroyed all chance for the accomplish
ment of other reforms to which he
and the Republican party were
pledged. The President spoke with
great earnestness when he came to
this part of his speech. 1t was APP
parent that he had felt the sting OF
the criticism of his signing the bill.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
u S. ALONE CAN SAVE STARVING FLOOD VICTIMS.
MEXICO CANNOT SUCCOR ITS $1,000 SURVIVORS
Plea Tor Assistance Comes From Republic Across Our BderKen and
Children in Inland Towns Greatest Suferers-Number Of
Dead Now Placed as High as $4,000

ment in the dried or navy" bean,
and flour and meal do great deal to-
ward supplying them with sustenance.
Mexican Consular representatives
here and in other points of the State
have issued appeals to relieve the suf-
fering.
A number of the Texas railroads
and the express companies have
agreed to carry free such supplies as
may be sent to the relief committee
at Monterey, which is now most active
in distributing food to those places
can be reached by railroad or over
land transportation.
$4,000 Raised by Women.
In this city alone more than $4,000
was hurriedly raised by public sub
scription. Women of the city gath
cred supplies, both clothing and food,
and rushed several cars to the border
and into the capital of Northern Mex
leo as soon as railway transportation
was restored.
The Republic of Mexico also came
with a hurried response to the first
stories of distress. 1t is not sufti-
cient, although the Mexican people
we're as liberal as finances and condi-
tons would permit. For this the peo-
pie of Monterey made grateful &C
acknowledgement, but the need of sue
cor is still great Unless the United
States, which has always been 'liber-
al to those in distress" rushes to the
assistance of her near and good neigh
Dor across the border, the increase in
the number of dead and the extent OF
the suffering in the flooded district
will be frightful to behold,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN.
At Last, There is ON Sale Book
Brimful of American Humor.

Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
to reply that the race of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies. written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran-
teed to make you roar with laughter.
The author presents to the public a
volume of the great TESTERS most
pHngent jokes, oomic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes, sketches Of adj
venture, original songs and poetical
illusions; wise and witty, serious.
satirical, and sentimental sayings of
the sawdust arena of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the
famous lone Horse Show" was more
of national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
you postpaid for $3.50 by Book Pub
fishing House, 134 Leonard street.
New York.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21

of these exports amounted to S117,-
900. The million-dollar mark was
not passed until 1910, and from that
time forward a steady increase was
shown in manufactures of steel. Last
year a grand total of nearly $780,
100000 of manufactures of steel ex-
ported was reached.
The total value of manufactures
exported during 1908 was $750,00O,-
900. OF this amount Europe re-
ceived approximately one-half, or
$36S, 100000; North America,
$1S9, 100000; South America, $71.-
10000; Asia, $71,700,0OO; Oceana.
$40, 100000. and Africa, 100000
900. OF the amount sent to Europe
$97, 100000 was copper, $55, O00,0 900
mineral oil. $4,000, 900 manufac-
lures of iron and steel, $4,000, 600
manufactures of wood. $4,000. 900
naval stores, and $14,000,000 agri-
cultural implements.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21

San Antonio, Texas.-Message re-
ceived here indicate that the report
sent to the State Department from
Monterey, Mexico, relative to the suf-
fering there is not an exaggeration of
the real conditions. The latest re-
ports puts the number of dead as
high as $4,000 and the number of
sufferers and homeless fully as many.
There is great deal of relief work
to accomplish in Northern Mexico.
In addition to the extremely heavy
toll of lives collected, to say nothing
of the immense property damage,
hundreds of square miles upon which
there once stood happy communities
have been swept clear of both houses
and crops. For the survivors there is
nothing left to do but extend hand
in quest of aims.
In consequence of the wide area af-
fected the Mexican Government is
called upon to shoulder burden for
which it is not prepared just at this
juncture. The Government has been
heroic in its efforts to relieve partial
ly the distress which is now greater
in the outlying sections rather than
in the cities which have rail connec-
ton.
Anguish Greatest in Towns.
1t is in these smaller places from
which the survivors must come on
foot that the anguish is the greatest.
Both women and children are starv-
ing. Many have died while awaiting
the relief which the father, husband
or brother set out to procure.
For these people only the simplest
kind of food will suffice. The Mexi-
cans will find great deal of nourish-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21

The union people of Brooklyn are
going to, build tuberculosis sanato-
rum at Riverhead, L. l., to cost ST.
100000.
State Labor Commissioners Will
Jams, of New York, issued bulletin
stating that only ZIG per cent. Of the
100000 organized laborers of that
State are unemployed.
BY unanimous vote of the conven.
ton in Newburg, N. Y, the Union oil
Iron Ship Builders and Boiler Makers
Of America determined not to ANAL.
gamate with the International Shir
Rnildinn and Boiler Makars
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
QUEEN ELIzABETH's METHODS.
One of Her Atrocious Deeds is Now
Basis Of Search For Treasure.

One of Her Atrocious Deeds is Now
Basis Of Search For Treasure.
Three hundred and twenty years
ago, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
of blessed memory, the Spanish Ar
NADIA, broken and beaten by the Eng
fish fleet, fed northward and around
Scotland to meet with storm and
wreck on the Scottish coast. One of
the great ships, the Florida, more for
tunate than others, found her way
into the Bay of Tobermory, on the
Sound of Null. The Spaniards, think
ing themselves safe in those neutral
waters, leisurely began repairing the
ship and provisioning the troops.
Scottish visitors came to the vessel
and were Hospitality entertained.
News Of these happenings came to
Queen Elizabeth. She was advised
there were costly stores and much
money on the Florida She deter
mined the vessel should be destroyed
and not be allowed to escape to Spain
The man chosen for the work of de-
struction was named Smollett, an
ancestor, it is said. of the novelist
He went to Null as a drover, and as
he spoke Gaelic and wore the High
land dress, he had no difficulty in go
ing aboard the Florida. Watching his
opportunity, he placed combustibles
in the magazine, and shortly after he
went ashore the ship blew up. Near
ly all on board persisted, including a
number of Scottish visitors.
The vessel and the treasure were
gone but not forgotten, for in this
prosaic money hunting age an effort
is being made to recover the treasure
buried so many years in the sands of
Tobermory Bay.
Queen Elizabeth, not by any means
always nice in her methods, as wit
ness her participation in the murder
of Mary, Queen of Scots, by this act
did most atrocious thing, as the law
of nations should have been a pro-
lection to the Florida in this neutral
port. This, an almost forgotten Incl
dent in history, would indicate that
the title of good" Queen Bess is
hardly appropriate to this daughter
Of Henry VIII.-Indianapoli News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
The Middle Splash.
"Thatis impossible said Senator
Aldrich Of a socialistic proposition.
Io,.otoi

'Thatis impossible said Senator
Aldrich Of a socialistic proposition.
He laughed.
In its impossibility, he went on,
"it reminds me of Joe Jobson's mid
die splash.
Joe Jobson, very ignorant and
pig-headed chap, presented himself
at the church with his infant son for
the christening. The following dia-
logue then. took place between Job
son and the minister:
What name do you give this
child?'
: Peter Ananias Jobson'
'Ananias? l refuse to christen
the child in that name. Do you know
who Ananias WASP
"I don't know who he was, and
what's more don't care.
But Ananias was the greatest
liar in all biblical history
Well, that's nothing to me. MY
baby amt no liar, so what's the diff
ference? ] want him christened Ana
MAS because like the sound of it.
"'I won't do it, 1 will christen
the child. Peter jeremiah Jobson.'
'And the minister was as good as
his word, and as he repeated each
name he sprinkled little water on
the infants face.
And rub out that middle
splash, said the father, heatedly. He
rubbed his sleeve across his child S
wet face and sprinkled little more
water over it. T rub out that middle
splash, substitute this one for it, and
christen him Peter Ananias Jobson.
And that settled it." - Washington
Star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-21
Prominent People.

]. P. Morgan, who has been enjoy
Ing a yachting trip, returned to New
York City.
Former Solicitor General Hoyt was
selected as the State Department.
new counsel
John T. McCutcheon, the artist and
cartoonist. of Chicago, went to Africa
to paint wild animals.
Governor Hughes. of New York, en-
tertained Governor Fort, of New Jer-
sey, at Saranac Inn, N. Y.
President Taft and Secretary Knox
began work on the new Far Western
bureau Of the State Department.