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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
State of Ohio, city of Toledo, Luca

State of Ohio, city of Toledo, Lucas
county-SS:
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business In
the city of Toledo, county and state
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of 500 for each and every
case of catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscrib-
ed in my presence, this 9th day of
December, A. D., 1856.
A. w. GLEASON,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally and acts directly on the blood
and mucuous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
TAFT MAY PAY VISIT HERE
Considering Tri-Cities as Stopping
Place on His Tour This Fall.

Place on His Tour This Fall.
Secretary Steel of the Davenport
Commercial club has received a reply
to letter inviting President Taft to
visit the tricities during a western
tour next fall. 1t is signed by Fred w.
Carpenter, President Taft's private
secretary, and is as follows:
White House, Washington, d. c.,
July 24.-Dear Sir: Replying to your
favor of the 22nd of July, the presi-
dent requests me To express his thanks
for and appreciation of the courtesy
of the Davenport Commercial club in
inviting him to stop in your city dur
ing a proposed western trip, and as
sures me that he will be glad to give
careful consideration to your wishes in
the matter of including Davenport in
the itinerary. Very truly yours.
FIRED W. CARPENTER,
Secretary to the President.
ITO Charles a. Steel, Commissioner"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
DEERE & co. ASK
FOR REDUCTION
Through Attorney the Moline Com
pany Makes Claim That Its As
SesSment is Too Heavy.

B. f. Peek, representing Deere &
Co., appeared before the board of re-
view at the court house today, and ap-
piled on behalf of the company for a
reduction of the personal and real es-
tate assessment of the manufacturing
institution. He produced figures to
show that the company's assessment
is not an equitable one. The question
of the assessment of the company S
capital stock has not been raised, but
will come up later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
July 27 In American History.

1S61-General George +. Mcclellan ap-
pointed to succeed the veteran
General Winfield Scott in com
mand of the United States army.
Montgomery Blair, postmaster
general in Lincoln's cabinet and a
very prominent supporter of the
war administration. died at Sill
YER Springs. Nd; born there 1918.
1907-Unitcd States Senator Edmund
W. Pettus of Alabama died; born
1921.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
AUC.25-26
Circuit Clerks and Recorders
of State Will Hold Annual
Meeting Here.
COMMITTEE HAS A SESSION
Matter of Program is Left With Sub
Committee Including George W.
Gamble of Rock Island.

AT meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Circuit Clerks and Re.
cordeTs' association of Illinois at CHI.
cago this week, arrangements were
made to hold the annual convention oI
the association at Rock Island, and the
date was fixed as Aug. % and &c The
matter of arranging program was left
in charge of committee which in
cludes George w. Gamble. circuit
clerk of this county, Frand George, re-
corder of Kane county. and John Al
len, circuit clerk of Macon county.
VIII Discuss Work.
The convention program will 1e
largely informal. and will be devoted
to a discussion of the different lines
of work in the offices of the circuit
clerks and recorders. The committee
this year plans to have some well
posted officer give a talk on the sub
ject of natura lization which under tae
new act, is part of the work of the
clerks of courts of unlimited jurisdic
ton. The naturalization of aliens Is
a complicated process, and the clerks
are not entirely familiar with it as yet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
DOG POISONER is AT
OLD TRICKS ONCE MORE
Not Only Are CANNES Killed OFF, but
Report Is Made of Several that
Have Been Abused.

The dog poisoner is abroad again,
and dogs are not only being killed
by some vicious person, but reports
are being received of instances where
dogs have been cruelty abused. Sun
day night two dogs belonging to res
idents on Twentieth street were the
victims of the poisoner. Valuable
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
Young Wanamaker NEEDS.

London, July 27.-Rodman Wanama.
ker. son OF John Wanamaker of Phil
adelphia, and Violet, daughter of the
late Eugene Guido Cruger of New
York. were married this afternoon at
st. Margarets church, Westminster, by
special license. Extraordinary efforts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27

summer by field men of the United
States geological survey, under a plan
for cooperation with the state. Mean
while biologists of the survey are en-
gagged in the collection of data from
drill records, and are taking sampl IS
of Goals and clays for analysis Each
quadrangle will include approximately
$50 square miles, located in an area
where considerable expansion of min
ing is to be expected
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
ONLY ONE IN EIGHT PASSES
Andrew Bradshaw Stands Test, and
Is Enlisted in Marines.

Andrew Bradshaw of Raleigh, ILL.,,
was the only one out of eight appli-
Cants for admission to the marine
corps who was able to pass the severe
examination which Sergeant William
Thompson, who is in charge of the
local recruiting station, gave today,
and he was accordingly enlisted He
left the city this noon for Mare Island,
Cal, where he will be assigned tenn
porarily before going to the Philip
pines, which will be his final destina-
ton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
do NOT AGREE
AS To CAUSE
Two of Three Physicians Insist
on Chemical Analysis of
Woman Stomach.
IN CASE NEAR HAMPTON
One Claims Mrs. Murkler's Death
Was Natural, While Others Hold
to Poison Theory.

The three physicians who conducted
the autopsy over the remains of Mrs
ChTistiaua Murkler of Hampton, who
died under circumstances that have
given rise to suspicion that she was
murdered, could not agree as to the
cause of death, and the contents CT
her stomach have been sent to the
Iowa state university for chemical
examination. DR.. J. H. Ellingsworth
of Watertown maintains that death
was due to gallstones. but Drs. J. w.
Wiese and ]. NJ. Bruner hold to tn cir
original idea that Mrs. Murkler was
poisoned with arsenic. They claim
that arsenic in small quantities is diff
ficult to detect, and can be found only
by a chemical analysis. They declined
to give evidence until the contents C
the stomach were subjected TO a chem
ical analysis and accordingly the cor
oner sent the remains to the univer-
sity.
Delay the Funeral.
The family has arranged to hold the
funeral tomorrow afternoon, but the
coroner states that. unless he hears
from the university the remains must
not be inferred and the funeral must
be postponed until after the inquest.
The inquest has been postponed until
the result of the examination is
learned
Information from Grinnell this after
noon is to the effect that Miss Tina
Murkler, the step-daughter of the dead
woman, who is wanted in connection
with the coroner's investigation, was
there yesterday, but is not at Grinnell
today. Where she went is not known.
The authorities will bring her back
here for the inquest if she can be
found Her actions gave rise to the
suspicion of murder
Had Property.
Mrs. Murkler was ~ years old, and
is survived by her husband and nine
children. She was married about a
year and a half ago. She is said to
have been quite wealthy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
and harmless pets are being malic-
iously poisoned.
THE w EATHE Err

Threatening weather, with possibly
showers tonight or wednesday,; no de-
cided changc in Temperatures.
j. VI. SHERIER. Local FOrecaHter.
Temperature at "a. M, "a. mt 3 p. M,
20. Maximum temperature I'm last "a
hours, 81; minimum, "a. Velocity of
wind at . No., miles per hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
ARE ADVISED TO GET OUT

Magistrate Suggests Absence to Sew
cral Offenders.
John Hines, William Flanagan, Mike
Callahan, S. Miller and Charles Viii
liams were arrested last night on
charges of being drunk and disorderly.,
and this morning they were ordered
out of town. All of them were of the
wandering class, and none of them
had any money with which to pay
fines. so the police magistrate decided
that their absence was preferable to
their presence. and he ordered them
to make themselves scarce, which they
proceeded TO do at once
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
Wants 1t in Constitution.

Montgomery, Ala, July 27.-ln his
message to the legislature which
meets today, Governor Conner advised
making prohibition constitutional so
the state never again would have aa-
looms or liquor license.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27

AS reported in yesterdays news
papers, the immense sum of mon
ey invested in the new store was
more than we had planned for
and we are pressed for cash.
All who have been through the
new store-and nearly everybody
in and around the Tri-Cities has
been here-knoW that no stone
was left unturned to give the peo-
pie of this vicinity department
store that would be a credit to
any city and a brand new stock of
the best kinds of merchandise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
RIVER BULLETIN.

Only slight changes will occur il
the Mississippi from Dubuque to Mus
catine.
]. M. SHERIER, Local Observer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27
All this required money, and lots
of H-more than we figured on,
and now comes the crisis. We are
crowded for cash and must raise
$4,000 in fifteen days.

1t is hard for us to sell our new
stock for less than we paid for it
new merchandise, every dollars
worth Of which we purchased for
the new store, but we see no 9TH
er way out Of it and Thursday we
will begin a fifteen-day Money
Raising Sale.
The immediate and urgent need
of a large sum OF money insures
our patrons of a wonderful op-
portunity to buy new goods at
drastic reductions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-27

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Sun sets ZIG, rises 4:49; moon sets
1912 a. IN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07

that they should kill critics who fail to
say nice things of their work-kind
heaven forbid!-but they should unfail-
ingly cherish a proper regard for the
dramatic demand of the moment The
dueling ground in the Park de Prince,
a section of the Bois de Boulogne long
sacred to "the code" was correctly set
for the scene of NJ. Bernsteins encoun-
ter with NJ Chevassu. The seconds, the
surgeon, all the others in the cast, in
deed, behaved with perfect dramatic
propriety. When the signal was given
M. Chevassu promptly fired in the gem
eral direction of NJ. Bernstein. But M
Bernstein, absorbed perhaps, in
thoughts of his next play, did not touch
the trigger of his own weapon. "I for
got to-" he said later, when asked about
the strange omission.
Which made a farce of the whole
thing. And NJ. Bernstein, tempera-
mentally, is not a farce-comedian, nor
professionally a maker Of farces. It's
great pity-even poor M. Chevassu, as
a sincere critic, must surely deplore
such a disregard of dramatic conven-
tiOnS
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
WOMEN DEMAND
PURITY IN DRAMA

Chicago clubwomen are organizing a
society to make common cause against
| indecent plays. One weapon they will
use in extreme cases is a concerted alb
sence from playhouses which cater to
coarse and smut-loving clienteles. The
idea was originally that of Mrs. j. w.
Meeker, vice president of the Evanston
(Ill) Dramatic club. More than 10000
names of regular theatergoers are re-
ported as enrolled. In referring to the
same general problem the Chicago
Daily News of recent date says:
THAT there has come to be a con-
siderable display of red-light morals on
the stage in Chicago is a lamentable
fact. 1t is well, therefore, that intelli-
gent women in this community are
preparing to make a united effort
against filthy plays,
Pieces Of dramatic CarriOn are being
forced more and more to the front by
the greed for moneygetting at any
sacrifice Of decency which dominates
a certain type of theatrical manager.
Unfortunately this type of manager
thrives upon open condemnation of the
filth which he exhibits in public. So
long as the police do not interfere he
is delighted with newspaper denuncia-
tion, since this sort OF opposition
brings the prurient focking into the
line in front of his box office. Oppo-
sition is not likely to be so joyous for
him if honest womanhood unitedly sets
the seal of her displeasure upon his
vile shows.
"One Of the elements of safety to the
red-light department of theatrical
management is the fact that pure wo-
men will excuse much in the way of
vileness when it is thrust upon them
on the stage. They do not like it, but
they think their bushes may be due
to some lack of real understanding of
what the evil language and evil stu
ations actually mean. If the things
said and done were really as bad as
they seem would others laugh and ap-
plaud? Would the police keep their
hands off? SO the women smother
their dislike. If the club women of
Chicago take the matter up and act
unitedly in accordance with the die
tates of decency they must exercise a
powerful influence for good upon the
local stage.
1.-THE theatergoing public needs this
kind of effective protest against de-
moralizing plays which INSCRIPTIONS
are foisting upon it,"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
EDDIE FoY COMING
IN "HAMLET" BURLESQUE

Shakespeare does not spell ruin for
Edwin Foy. comedian by direction of
nature, and Hamlet, the melancholy
Dane, by direction of the Shuberts.
Mr.. Foy's Hamlet, however, Is of diff
ferent genre. which accounts for the
enthusiasm of Broadway. Mr.. Foy's
Interpretation of the character is at
once striking and original.
The piece, Mr.. Hamlet of Broad
way" with practically the entire Ca
sino cast, will be seen here for the first
time November Is and the week, at the
Auditorium.
The story of the play revolves around
Joey Wheeze, a clown In a defunct cir
Gus, who appears at a summer hotel in
time to replace an actor who has been
engaged to appear as Hamlet at a lawn
party given by one of the guests of the
hotel. In the first act Mr.. Foy appears
as the clown and sings one of the song
hits, entitled Money" which is said
to pucker the lips as quickly as green
persimmons. In the second act he ap-
pears as a soldier, having been pressed
into service much against his will. 1t
is in this act that the Hamlet bur-
lesque is given.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
WRITES OF
ART OF MAKEUP

Grease paint Is the temporary eradi-
Gator of wrinkles. and also the means
by which they are acquired" says
James Young in his handbook on MAX
mig Up" which NJ. Witmark Sons are
publishing and in which both amateur
and professional may find many prac-
tical hints of value. The antithetical
humor of the epigram suggests the
moderation and sound sense of much
which the author says. 1t will be par
ticularly appreciated by local admirers
of the player, who Is appearing in a
dramatic sketch at the Orpheum this
week.
Mr. Young insists that theatrical
makeup is an art, no less than a
science. He names the ingredients
needful for a working dressing room,
but over and above all he emphasizes
the Importance of skill and discretion
In their handling. Besides the answers
to questions that will readily occur
to the mind of any young actor, the
book has its share of dramatic oddi-
ties, such as how to produce the false
effect of an unshaven face, when dis
inclined to raise an embryonic beard;
how to give the impression of increase
or decrease in height, expression of
Jekyll-Hyde villainy by the protruding
of tusk-like teeth, etc. The picturesque
examples chosen are typical of the
wide range of information covered in
the volume.
To the actor, the book will have a
definite and practical value At the
back are instructions as to makeup
for the various national types, and
finally a series of articles on the same
general subject as the authors by a
number of prominent actors. The vol
ume is amply and well illustrated. It
appears to bear the authority of per-
sonal experience, and is well written in
simple, terse English. w. II. b.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
"MAN OF The HouRD SOON

'The Man of the Hour" George
Broadhurst's popular play of American
political life, will play an engagement at
the Mason the week of November Is
under the management of w. A. Brady
and Joseph r. Grismer In the cast will
be Arthur Maitland, Felix Haney, John
Moore, William Cullington, T. S. Guise,
M. j. MacQuarrie, Paul Byron, William
Lloyd, II. j. Hewitt George A. Came
ron, F. e. Warner, Madeline Winthrop,
Anna Reader and Florence Mack The
appearance of this stirring play of
politics is well timed to the present
campaign, and the story of one sue
cessful battle with municipal corrup-
tion ought to. have elements of present
day inspiration to candid voters.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
VALERIE BERGERE
ON THE AUDIENCE

Miss Valerie Bergere, who comes To
the Orpheum this week, has this to say
Of audiences she has known:
The audience in front of you is a
composite mass, a resultant intelligenca .
arising out of different tastes and tenn
perament and training. When the
player steps on the stage he or she is
conscious of the influence Of that con-
glOmerate intellect and we know in an
instant whether we are going to please
it or not. We cannot always control it,
but sometimes we can. Usually it's
easier to control the audience in a
tragic or Weepy play than in a farcical
offering, the reason being that there is
more sorrow than joy in the world and
playgoers accept the reflection of their
own unhappiness without question, but
you've got to work to make em laugh.
For comedy give me an audience of
men. For pathos give me an audience
of women. 1t is as easy for a woman
to cry as it is for a man to laugh. It's
part of the experience of either, and
there is little demand on the part of
the player to supply the laugh or
the cry if the audience is made up
For instance, David Warfield made
me cry for two blocks when 1 saw him
in The Music Master in New York.
You have no right l told him after
ward, to make anybody suffer as you
do in your role Of Herr Anton Won Bar
wig. l Wept all the way from the
theater to my hotel, and that is just
two blocks. Aren't you ashamed OF
But Warfeld has the power to COM
mand the emotions with the mere in
Election Of his wonderful voice. l, being
D woman, was reduced to tears by his
art But men in the audience like
better, and are more easily
moved to laughter than to tears
Women, being more accustomed to
VeeD take to il easier"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
AUDIENCE HANDS
ITSELF A CHOICE BOUQUET

The difference between London and
New York audiences is illustrated by
which Charles Frohman is producing
simultaneously in the two cities.
m London the audience rcbelled at the
Paris version which requires them to
guess who Arsene Lupin is for two
acts, and Gerald Du Maurier was re-
quired to interpolate a piece of busl-
ness TO put them Ton" He now drops
a note at the beginning Of the play in
tended for his confederates which the
audience see. New Workers, on the
other hand, apparently have the French
quicluess of mind, for the mystery of
Lupin's identity is preserved by Mr..
Cnurtenay, who plays the role at the
Lyceum for two acts and seems to be
a source Of keen interest and enter
tainmnnt
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
NO BURLESQUE MAGIC IN
HENRY CLIVE'S COURTSHIP

Harry Give, burlesquer of magic at
the Orpheum last week, believes in love
at first sight, He met his wife and
married her, all within three days.
That his promptitude was natural and
highly creditable to his artistic judg-
ment, Orpheum auditors will admit who
have seen the pair playing in vaude-
vile.
Give declares that he saw the present
Mrs. Give first as she was entering a
hotel in Philadelphia. BY hard think
ing he came to the conclusion that hav-
ing entered she would probably emerge
She did. A mutual friend providen-
TALLY passed by and an Introduction
followed. The rest, of course, was in
evitable.
Give at that time was doing a little
parlor magic. His wife has helped
him develop and elaborate 1t into his
present vaudeville travesty.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07

visitor at the theater will seldom no.
tice this subterranean communication;
the constant attendant feels it in a
moment, even though he fails to grasp
its purport.
But there Is another signal of the
double entendre which never fails.
I And it, too, is a laugh. There is
neither elation nor levity in it. 1t is
rather a savage and a ghastly jeer.
1t signifies not pleasure, but disdain
and even hatred. 1t is ever ready to
greet the phrase of intentional double
meaning 1t recognizes IL as the pass
word to some vast and secret frater-
nifty of those who think evil. At some
playhouses and in the presence of
some plays il IS a constant and a mar
ketable quantity There are play
wrights who reckon with it in cold,
hard cash. There are tawdry and OBJ
scene farces which know no other Ian
guage of approval.
Smut is usually the last resort of
an unsuccessful humorist. A play
wright who cannot make his audience
/ laugh in any other way sometimes
turns feverishly back to Broadway
and dashes off a risque farce He has
his definite and circumscribed clientele
in any large city. His reward is sure.
The converse is equally true The
great playwrights of today do not deal
either in fiat vulgarity or the double
meaning. They have preferred to
struggle for the laughs that radate
good cheer and generous hilarity
rather than to tamely succumb to the
lowest tastes of the coarsest minds.
They will be jesteTs-a high and no
BILE office-not panders. Rather than
fail by a cheap success they will sue
ceed by a costly failure.
This determination has made the
American drama, with all its inciden
tai Ctross, a shining reelection of the
best and the finest ideals of the Amer
lean people. So long as a nation can
laugh at simple and primitively COM
ical things on the stage or in life it is
safe from the grip of the decadents,
whether of art or morals,
Speaking of failures, a friend and
close observer of the local drama
makes pertinent suggestion: "Who
will be the manager to give us the
failures of New York;" We have had |
our nil of the successes, from time to
time, and We can readily believe that |
they We're successes-in New York !
But why should it be so positively as
sumed that what New York likes the |
country will like?
New York is an island and insular |
Its prOvinciality is matter of humor-
Gus record in the treatment of west
efn news by almost every New York
New York easily ignores
the west. Why should the west trail |
New York? Its Judgment in no sense
is typicaly American, not half so
much so MS that Of any one Of half a
dozen cities I'm the central or far west.
Vet IT still is pointed out to us as
though it were talisman, that such
and such n Ulav was "a tremendous
New York success"
Considering the sort Of thing which
New York appears chiefly to like
which We have tried dlscreetly to
i'm some Of the foregoing
may look with a nat
ral suspicion ON that which New
York likes DER we'll Bv all means
give us the New York failures.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
ROBERT EDEsoN BEGINS A
TOUR TO PACIFIC COAST

Robert Edeson has just begun tour
in THE Noble Spaniard," w. Somerset
Maughams farce, at New London,
Conn, accompanied by the New York
cast, which includes Gertrude Coghlan,
Macy Harlan, Werner Charges, Corde-
liza Macdonald, Ann Murdock, Maggie
Holloway Fisher, Cyril Chadwick and
Desiree Lazard. Mr.. Blossoms appear
ance in the far west in his present vehi-
Gle will be the first time he has made
such an extensive tour since he played
the football hero in "Strongheart."