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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
III--PoK-ER CHIPS

Below tas stage. where the orchestra
is accastInmed TO retire when not playing
creepy music for the heroine's death.
Claude d lsoovers cards and poker chips.
To while away the tedium Of waiting for
their cues. the musicians are accustomed
to play tfe American game Of poker for
small sta les. They have left behind the
chips.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
Ssh RATES FOR WANT ADs s.
have horn AND FUNERAL NOTICES,

rho xrrT-John, May = 1917 aged "
A"o iIs . months. -. 49,,
nm. Wneral services will be held from
ey & Dorranoe chapel SATURDAY,
any des at 80 O'Clock >: m. lntermeat
At Lawn cemetery. Friends lnNieea'
The c-Cari. age 10 years. May ,, at 81
a.. a, .,sph's hospital. -,
rs III tbsral from Gentleman's chapel Sat
rood hN morning at 10 o'clock. lnterneht'
Sepulchre cemetery. Fuhetal pr'-
FREY-James, age u years.
1oNern5eral Saturday afternoon al IN
warn tvsnt Holy sepulchro cemetery.
Ids invited.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
IVA LAST HOPE.

As a last hope Claude decides to wrfts
a message on the white chips and to
push them through the crack In the floor
Of the stage. He hopes that one may
roll out through the stage door and at
tract the attention Of some pesse-by.
1t Is a slim chance. but then our haro
is unable to discover any othsr plan just
now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
Whist! THE COPS.

By a lucky accident one Of the chips
does roll out to the street. where 1t Ii at
once spotted by q Russian policeman.
He does not step to read any message;
he guesses there Is q game going on and
makes up his mind to raid It with the
weIl-foundsd belisf that he can. In the
resulting confusion. pick Mp some Of tho
stakes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
IA FOUL TRICK

Desmond. who has no sense Of lair
play. has made up his mind to beat
Claude by the use of some underhanded
method. Well the villain knows that In
a fair. stand-up Tight be would have no
chance with our hero. 30 he gradually
works Claude toward the trap door In
the stage and the unsuspecrng hero
plunges straight through
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04

TN the boyski!'' cries Desperate Des-
mond, but can't beat the copski" In
the nick of time for Rosamond. the Rus
sian policeman breaks into the tneeter
and, with drawn revolver, hats ths
Qight OF Desmond. the intsrnatonA
crook. Rossmond In saved and how
Claude svenses her capture VIII -
shown tomorrow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
1.-THE FAITHFUL HOUND.

{ cS On the stage Of the deserted thsater
s,,o-1si Claude and Desmond have come 10 grips.
Omaha BsRosamond. whose courage prompts her
4 TO 90 to her lovers assistance, is pro-
vented from doing by the famous
theatrical dog. which takes her for the
heroine Of the play and insists upon saw
STAT. a, n ing her as the hound does every night
Dwight IN the play.
At The 3
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Bag Manufacturer
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-05-04
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before IL o cfock M. ior
yeping edition and before s:So
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REST Used cars: guaranteed; all
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

hence of men over educated mummies.
with men," he said. the world might
get on without schools and colleges
and universities. These institutions do
not create education, though they
sometimes make it difficult"
He even went so far in his laudable
educational anarchy as to say:
When one reflects upon the raw
ages which have been committed in
the name of education, there is some
excuse for wondering whether it would
not be advantageous to agitate for COM
pulsory illiteracy"
The remedy for this is personality
according to DR.. Butler; personality
in the teachers, so strong and vibrant
and magnetic that it will seek out
the individuality in the student and
develop it. Just as water goes no high
er than its main source and wireless
messages only reach instruments in
tune with them, so it will take men
to makt men. If colleges and schools
are to be useful they must educate in
this way; turn out men and women who
know themselves and their own powers
and can use them to further personal
upbuilding and to the making of a bet
/ ter state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
ONLY A PRETTY GOOD TRUST.

Testimony in the government suit
10 dissolve the International Harves-
ter company brings out the interesting
fact that ]. p. Morgan received 3d.
100000 for organizing this combi-
nation.
Three millions is not much as pay
ment for such services goes, and
serves mainly TO show that the bar
vester trust is only a pretty good
trust after all. II can never rise TO
the height Of excellence attained by
the steel trust, for the organization of
which the same Interests friendly 10
US" received $120,OOO,OOO in money
and securities.
There is the consideration, OF
course, that the harvester combination
has acquired additional merit by its
contribution of George w. Perkins, a
personal manager TO the progressive
campaign. Even so. the value OF its
moral assets must be determined by
/ the relation OF its low cost OF organi
zation TO the standard established by
/ the steel trust.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JU
DICIAL ELECTION.

The importance OF the judicial cleo
ZION, to be held in connection with to-
morrow's general election, cannot be
too strongly impressed upon the vot-
ers. The fact that there is to be
separate judicial election involves the
danger of its being overlooked or neg
lected
There is no office that is of more i'm
portance to the people than the judi
ciary-none which should be nearer to
the people. The court is. after all,
their final bulwark of safety They
cannot afford to underestimate its i'm
portance; they should not fail to rec
ognize its importance in tomorrow's
election.
There are many reasons why Charles
b. Marshall should be elected. First,
and above all he is, by long expert
ence in the practice of law, by an es-
tablished worth and ability through
that long practice and demonstrated in
his career as a leading member of the
bar of this judicial circuit, qualified
beyond all question. He possesses,
too, the advantage of temperament and
squareness. He will be a fair and just
Judge and a business-like Judge He
will clean the docket, and thus save
money to the tax payer, and further
more. his election will mean the direct
saving to the people of the county of
between $4,000 and $4,000, the cost of
a special primary election and to
/ choose a successor to the present
county Judge, should he be promoted
l to the circuit bench
Beyond all this is the ques-
ton of n-partisanship in ju.
dicisl elections, an attainment TO-
ward which the people have been look
ing and striving for all these years
II is their conviction. often expressed,
that the bench should be free from the
entanglements Of politics. There
should be no partisan consideration in
the choice Of judges. The man should
be chosen who is best fitted to dis
charge the duties ably, squarely and
in a practical. common sense manner
Marshall is the man who fills the
bill from every view point
Do not overlook him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

81 bought a good scale the other
day" said a thrifty housewife, "just
because I've been reading so much
about the need of weighing machine
in every well equipped kitchen. 1
bought a good one, because 1t doesn't
pay to get anything but the best quail
ity, even for kitchen use, where most
people think any old thing will do.
"One result of possessing the scale
is that I've discovered l have a per
fectly honest grocer. Everything he
sells me by weight is correct to the
mark But I've got to have seance
with the butcher. l don't understand
his method of weighing. There may
be some kink about it that I'm not up
to yet-but you can wager I'll know
all about 1t before very long.
And the fruit and vegetable ped
dler that comes around here-Well!
In the first place he was insulted to
think I'd actually doubt his word. In
the second place he got insulting him
self and declared that no woman knew
how to buy scales that would weigh
right, anyway, and he wouldn't go by
any kitchen scales, not on his tintype
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
VOTING PoR PRESIDENT.

When you go to the polls you do not
vote directly for the presidential can
dictates.
The names of the presidential can
didates appear upon the ballot, but
there are no squares opposite their
names, and you do not and cannot vote
for them.
You must vote for presidential can.
didates indirectly by voting for candi'
dates for presidential electors.
There are names Of 29 candidates
for presidential electors under the
names OF the candidates for president
ard vice president.
The names OF the presidential and
vice presidential candidates are placed
on the ballot only as a guide TO the
voter
4 cross in the circle at the head
/ OF the ticket gives one vote each &c
the 29 presidential electors on that
ticket. Or. you may vote for the q
by placing individual crosses in the 2!
squares
II you place a cross in the SQUARE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
MEN BETTER THAN MUMMIEs.

The world fears the schoolmaster
when he goes abroad. He takes the
platform with him and lectures He
still carries the whip of DR.. Faustus
of Mother Goose fame. and tries TO
lash his scholars with it. He is all
for reforming according to his idea
and that, plainly put, is getting as
much into the head as 1t will carry,
irrespective of its usefulness.
But when the schoolmaster does IN
bend and confesses. then he is a vel
come talker. What he says adds to
the pleasure Of the world and it's profit,
especially when he is as big a man
as President Butler Of Columbia Uni
versity. and as frank and honest
Dr. Butler was the principal speak.
er, few days ago, when the magnif.
cent State Education building was ded.
icated at Albany, \. Y. At such a time
it might be supposed that he would
expend his eloquence in lauding edu
| cation; in the glorification Of the
| scholar above all the rest Of mankind
But he didn't He sailed on an en-
tirely different tack and made harbol
on il. too. He proclaimed with all hi:
wisdom and brilliancy the pre-emi.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
APOTHEOSIS OF THE BARBER
SHOP CHORD"

1t is still warm enough for young
fellows to parade the midnight streets;
singing as they walk. If you listen to
are always vOciferOus, if not strident
you will notice that the turn of the
melody is often interrupted by
strange, almost unseemly, harmony, as
much out of place in the current of
the song as a dam in a river 1t leads
away from the tune and then, strange
ly enough, leads back.
This is called the barber shop
chord 1t doesn't come, however from
the shops of the white barbers-cold
and formal places-but from the ton
serial palaces of the colOred man
warm, fragrant and emotional-where
the dusky BARRIERS, in the grateful leis-
ure between hair cuts and shaves,
strum banjOs and guitars and break
out into concerted song.
No white man could have invented
this barber shop cord" For the mat
ter of that, though the white race is
quickly assimilative, no white tenor
has been found who could wander
afield from the melody in this way
and then slide back to it as do the
negroes who invented and adorn it.
If the colored race could put its
music between bars it would furnish
the world with a new and delightful
music. Save, however, in the case of
the late Coleridge Taylor, who was
| only half African in blood, and so
wrote more like a Caucasian than the
other half of him, there has been no
cultured negro composer.
] Bob Cole and Rosamond Johnson,
1 both with a fair schooling in music,
were wise enough TO keep to their own
tunes and rhythms and harmonies.
And the unpretentious melodies they
turned out brought success and money
to them and good fortune to many a
musical comedy.
What they never succeeded in do
ing has been done, it is said, by Johz
Berry, a negro brushboy in a barber
shop in Frankfort, Ind. He used tc
sing as he worked, and both the word:
and tunes would be his own. An OBJ
servant travelling man advised him t.
publish his songs. Berry did more thar
this. He wrote comic opera. lock
stock and barrel, words, lyrics anC
music. A Chicago manager got holc
OF 1t and gave him $4,000 advanc,
royalties on account of its takin,
melodies. The barber shop chord
has now reached the stage in direc
way. From composer to consumer, a
the ads" would put it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
KNOW THAT DUNE Is VICTOR.

The attitude OF the Chicago Tribune
and the Chicago Record-Herald at the
tag end OF the campaign in coming out
earnestly for the reelection of Cover
nor Deneen indicates conclusively that
they recognize the fact that Dunno is
the victor. II is no longer a question
Of progressiveness or principle with
the republican partisans. They see the
machine crumbling. They recognize
the fact that an honest administration
Of state affairs is in sight and they
have become desperate. They have
came from cover and are making a
last ditch fight to remain in control
But Dunno will win. He has exposed
extravaganza and fake reform and he
has told the people fearlessly and
boldly what to expect from him.
And the peoples confidence in him
cannot be shaken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
AW0MANyOB DISSERTATIONS


or words to that effect Then he left
in huff and l guess l won't hear his
knock on the side door any more.
81 can see already where the scale
is going to pay for itself by saving me
money. When tradesmen once realize
that housekeepers keep tab on them
rkethis, they'll be more particular, and
the meatman is going to keep his
thumb off his own scale when he
weighs the steak. .
81 have the worst time getting my
butcher to send me anything l buy
l mean all the bones and the stuff he
trims off the meat after he weighs 1t
it all goes to make good soup, you
know. But now that he knows have
a kick coming unless I get the full
weight noted on his bill, perhaps he'll
not use my bones and trimmings for
other purposes. (You needn't smoker!
! Of course l mean the bones from the
meat 1 buy.) i
"On the whole. I think tradesmen
are more accurate than they used to
| be. There's been SO much stir about
the cheateries of some of them.
They're pretty careful what they do in
a community where people read the
newspapers.
Nowadays, when you get five
pounds of sugar. it's five pounds of
sugar, and not a quarter of a pound
of paper bag, or part water. l re-
member when was a youngster, they
used to wet the sugar to make II
weigh more and you couldn't carry a
bag Of it home without spelling your
clothes. That was brown sugar. We
used it for cooking, and bought the
cone sugar, in those days, for oul
coffee.
81 remember the first granulated
sugar looked awfully funny to me. The
only white sugar I had ever seen, ex
cept the cones, was pulverized sugar
and, if I'm not mistaken, we used t.
buy it in the drug store"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

opposite the name of only one elector
you are credited with voting for only
that one electOr. And so on with two
or three or less than 20.
Candidates for electors are not run
ming against one another. They are
running in groups.
Vote for Wilson by placing a cross
in the democratic circle and leave all
of the crosses opposite the names OF
electors unmarked, or else place q
cross in the squares opposite each Oi
the 20 candidates for democratic presi
Dental electors.
Vote to win with Wilson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

The Chicago Tribune, which the
Rock Island republican paper has re.
peatedly charged, during the past six
months, with butting into the affairs
of this district and assuming 10 die
tate to the people how they shall vote,
is at the 18th hour undertaking to give
Searle a lift for congress. The Tribune
habing thus changed front from Tav-
enner to Searle under pressure, Just
as It changed front from Funk TO De
neen under pressure, has probably
saved its standing and reputation in
the Union office IN Rock Island, If nc
where else in the state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
A MAN WHO DOES THINGS WELL

AS presiding officer of the nation
we want for leader not merely a
man who does things, but we must have
a man who does things well. In Wood
row Wilson we have a leader trained
10 see things in their proper relation,
a leader who neglects no interest and
who has the courage of his convictions.
While he has not been long in the pub
lie service he has been long in the
public eye His life is living rebuke
10 every sort of snobbery and specia
interest.
Certainly such a man is worthy of
the peoples votes on election day be
cause we can trust him to keep his
word and make good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Hurnor and
Philosophy
LONGING.

I'd like TO lead the simple life.
l. This life is too complex.
Too much 1t runs TO spending cash.
Too much to signing checks.
In each direction that turn
Is nothing but expense
I'd quit il but for this one fact:
Ny wife has too much sense.
We talk about II every day,
At night the same We do.
And when lay me down to sleep
I dream about 1t too,
But when I want to try II out
The thing that breaks my heart
In planning out my daily life
Is where to make a start
might give up my daily smoke.
] might give UP my club.
And might walk where now ride
And live on cheaper grub.
might decline the bid get
To join the merry dance.
And might put away from me
All draining games Of chance.
And would save II would live
On water and on bread
And in a year or even less
Be dollar bills ahead,
But would / really be ahead
BY doings of that kind.
Or would 1t get me anything
Except q mlser's mind7
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
WOODROW WILSON'S MESSAGE.

Governor Woodrow Wilson's mes.
sage to the people. which was read to
democratic assemblages throughout
the land Saturday, is conceded to be
one OF the most remarkable, forceful,
noble and statesmanlike documents
that has ever been addressed to the
American people. 1t discusses the is.
sues OF the campaign briefly con.
cisely but comprehensively and leaves
the case in the peoples hands.
1t is the peoples cause as they face
the final battle. 1t Is for them TO say
whether the government which is
theirs shall return to their posses
sion. and the last word from the great
champion OF their cause is God gram
we shall be worthy to prevail"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

Did you hear of the series of acct
dents at BrOwn'S|
NO. What happened thereF"
An automobile killed their pup,
somebody stole their lawn mower, his
aunt is sick and has to go to the hospi-
tai, and now his wife has lost her voice
with cold in her head"
Some men do have luck"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

In spite Of Senator Dixon's claim
that Roosevelt will carry the country,
betting on the curb in the Wall street
district is still to / in favor of vii.
son. 1t is worth while to note the fact
that no presidential candidate for a
generation, in whose favor the bet.
ting odds ran so strongly as to VI
to within week of election, has failed
TO win
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Those Reformersl

what gave you nervous prostitution
Mrs. Morrow"
Those people who always give you
advice through the papers" -
How was that?"
"well, 1 could have managed the fall
housekeeping all right and getting the
children started into school and the
canning and the picking and the pre-.
serving, but when l was urged to do
my Christmas shopping early just
naturally fell into the doctors hands.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
No Sport,

Betting on the presidential cleo
tion?"
Nope"
afraid, eh?'
"Well, the man I'd bet on would be
sure to lose; then l would have to pay
all my boys losses. and even if l did
win my wife'd take the money to buy
Christmas presents, so what's the
use?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
A Comparison.

"a horse is mans truest friend"
said the lover Of animals.
He's more Ike a relation than q
friend" replied Farmer Corntossel.
HE makes me think Of my boy Josh:
allus ready to eat an liable To kick If
you put him to work. Washington
Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Not Her Sort.

my husband never lies to me when
he has been out nights"
Dear mer'
"Wenw
81 should not like to have a husband
so devoid of originality and magma
ton"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

George W. Perkins has subscribed
another $4,000. Still it is a small
part Of what he and Morgan got for
promoting the Harvester trust And
the Harvester trust is Roosevelt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

Governor Hiram Johnson says: I'VE
are willing to stretch the constitution
to the limit TO accomplish things" In
other words, what's the constitution
between friends anyway?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

Some Of the Chicago newspapers are
showing their solicitude for the health
OF Jack johnson by suggesting that
he so 70 some southern resort for the
winter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Nov. 4 10 American
History.

1Sf6-Stepben Johnson tieid. associate
justice Of the United States su-
.preme court. born; died 1899.
lsG9-George Peabody. American phi
lanthropist in London. died: born
1Tg5
i90S-Dr Charles ". Eliot resigned as
president Of Harvard university.
Glory, ambition. armies. fleets.
thrones. crowns iaythings OF grown
chiidren-VictOr Hugo.
All the news all the time.-The Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

The democratic county ticket is the
best ever. Vote for It without a
scratch - Thompson. Blankenburg.
sommerson, Meyer. Hubbart and Gus
tafson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Full Menaoerie.

They kept a horse; they kept a cows
They kept a dog and cat;
They didn't have to keep a goat
For father, sure, was that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

The Chicago Tribune has come out
for Deneen, 10 which Roosevelt, the
Tribune's idol, quickly rejoins that he
is for Funk and against Deneen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04
Quite a Iinquist.

"My husband SPEAKS three languages
fnently"
English French and German
mo. Baseball. golf and aviatiol-"--
Chicago Record Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-04

coming out will be in the front of the
crowd watching the bulletins tomorrow
night.