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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
poets to leave soon for South American
countries.
NEW TREASURER NAMED
FOR SILVIS TOWN BOARD

]. j. Welsh was elected treasurer of
Silvis, Tuesday evening in a holly con-
tested election in which the president
took no part. There were four candi,
dates for the Office and the president
announced that he would not make an
appointment, but would leave the
choice with the trustees. The result
vas that a secret ballot was cast, six
being taken before Mr.. Welsh was
elected. DR.. A. c. Hansen rendered his
resignation as health officer to the
board, assigning no cause for his &C
ton. DR.. w. d. Chapman was appoint
ed his successor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
JEWELERS. END
CONVENTION AT
SESSION TODAY
State Meeting Comes to a Close
and Delegates Are Leaving
for Homes.
HAVE HAD A FINE TIME
Take Drastic Action Regarding Time
Guarantee on Gold Filled and
Plated Watches.

The fifth annual convention Of the
Illinois Retail jewelers. association
came to a close this afternoon after a
three days session, and the majority
of the delegates took the Chicago spe-
cial train which left the city at 4:45.
A radical move was taken at the bus
mess meeting held this morning, when
the organization adopted resolutions
favoring the elimination of all time
guarantees on gold-filled and gold
plated watch cases, and that all other
similar articles of jewelry just be
stamped with either the name of the
manufacturer or a registered trade
mark. Legislation will be urged pro-
hibiting the stamping or attaching of
time guarantee in any form on the
watch cases.
ONERTHROwS ALL PRECEDENTS.
In the past the time guarantee has
always been customary, and the abol-
ishment of the practice is a decided
innovation. The reason for the above
action is that two identical cases will
in all probability not wear the same
length of time with two different per
/ sons. a lawyer may buy a watch case
and il will last longer than the 20-year
term Of the guarantee, whereas a
miner or laborer, purchasing the same
case, would not receive the same ser.
vice owing to the harder usage 70
which the case would be submitted
through contact with dirt, grit, etc
The jewelers. merely wish to glaran
tee that the article will give satisfac
ton.
ELECT OFFICERS.
The delegates held the annual cleo
ton of officers while on their rivel
excursion trip this morning, the en-
tire body boarding the G. W. Hill at !
O'Clock. Jacob Ramser of this city wa!
strongly favored by many of the dele
gates for the office of president. bu
owing to the fact that his time is 5,
completely taken up with his bushes!
interests, Mr.. Ramser absolutely re
fused TO become a candidate.
The officers elected were:
! President-John Schneider, Contra
liza
First Vice President-A. w. Johan
son. Chicago.
Second Vice President. F. Kuss
LaSalle.
Secretary and Treasurer - Charlie
F. Manahan, Chicago.
1t was decided to abolish the offic
of treasurer and combine it with tina
of the secretary, to which Mr.. Mana
han was reelected.
LADIES HOLD MEETING.
The ladies' auxiliary also held
meeting this morning, at which tim
i; adopted resolutions, thanking tn
Rock Island and Moline ladies for tn
efforts put forth for the entertainment
: and comfort of the visitors. Officer
= were chosen as follows:
President - Mrs. A. W. Johansor
: Chicago.
Vice President-Mrs. B. S. Felbey
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
FIRST CAR RUN OVER
NEW MUSCATINE LINE

The first car was run over the re-
Gently completed line of the Daven-
port-Muscatine interurban today, the
run being merely in the nature Of a
test for the track. A car containing
the officials is to make the trip to-
morrow. Just when a schedule will
be started, depends on when the new
interurban cars which have been Or
dered far the line arrive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
WOMAN PRISONER IS
GIVEN HER FREEDOM

Rose Taylor, arrested a month or
so ago on a charge of disorderly con
duct. in connection with one of the
police raids, and committed TO the
county Jail until the payment of a
S2Oo fine, was today released by order
of County Judge Il. w Olmsted II
was shown that the woman could not
pay the fine and under the pauper act,
having served a sufficient punishment,
she was allowed her liberty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
What Texans Admire

Is hearty, vigorous life. according to
Hugh Tallman Of San Antonio. I'VE
find" he writes, that DR.. Kings New
Life Pills surely put new life and en-
energy into a person. Wife and ] be
lieve they are the best made" Excel
lent for stomach, liver or kidney trou-
bles. % cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
MansilI Returns.

Thomas Mansill, recently returned
from tour through the European
countries and the Orient, has a few
novel experiences to tell OF his incar-
ceration in Turkey last November,
when he, with a party of other tour
lists, was held under guard because OF
quarantine. Mr.. Mansill returned to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
Factory Inspector Coming.

Edgart T. Davies, chief factory in
spector of Illinois, and Barney Cohen,
chief assistant, both of Chicago, will
be in the city tomorrow and will de-
liver an illustrated lecture in the
evening at Industrial hall on child
labor, and the safeguarding OF hazard
GUS machinery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
PARALYZED LINEMAN
RECOVERING NICELY

George Bean, 24O4ia Fifth-and-a-
half avenue. who was temporarily
paralyzed by fan Of -G feet from a
telegraph pole yesterday morning at
II O'Clock. has entirely regained the
use of his limbs and is reported as al
most entirely recovered. While
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
sTODDARD FUNERAL.

The funeral of A R. Stoddard, who
died at his home in Hampton yester-
day morning, was held from the Hamp.
ton Congregational church this after
noon at o'clock. Rev. G. r. Cady off
ciating. Services at the grave were in
charge of the Woodmen. The funeral
was held jointly with that of Mrs. V.
C. Pettingill, his sister, who died at
Hampton Monday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
FIRST W00DMAN CLASS
UNDER REVISED RATES

The honor of initiating the first class
under the revised rates of the Modern
Woodmen, goes to the lodge at Crooks
ton where a large number of new
''neighbors" are soon to become full
fledged Woodmen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
Personal Points

Miss Minnie Lothringer Of Chicago
is visiting relatives and friends in this
city.
Frank III has returned from Ocean
Springs, Miss, where he spent the
past winter.
Simon Ziffern of Chicago is visiting
at the home of his father-in-law, 5.
Rich, 2319, Fourth avenue.
Commissioner Jonas Bear and NJ. S.
Heagy went to Hampton this morning
to attend the funeral of A. R. Stoddard.
County Judge r w. Olmsted was
the principal speaker this afternoon at
the graduation ceremonies of the class
of 1912 of the high school at Cordova
Mrs. John Konosky, 2S2S Fifth and
a-half avenue, left last night for Grand
Island, Neb., to visit with her daughter
Mrs. William Bleuer. She will spend
three weeks in the west.
Judge F. d. Ramsay of Morrison
will motor in the east during August
in company with Mrs. Ramsay and
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. H. Potter of Morrison
No particular route has been mapped
out, but four weeks are expected to be
consumed on the trip.
Mrs. Edna Petcher-Boehm has re
turned to her home in Houston, Tex
as. having been called here TO attend
the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Mabe
Petcher-Simpson George Fletcher
and George Fletcher, Jr., left for Chi
cago for a few days visit before re
turning to their home in Houston.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
Storm Cuts of Town,

La Crosse, Wis, May 23.-All wires
between here and Black River Falls,
the scene of the flood last fall went
down during a storm today. 1t is i'm
possible to communicate with the city
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23

cashed in Monmouth saloons and Woo
ley, claim the saloon men. got away
with the coin. In the local instance,
the case was investigated before pay
ment was offered and so Wooley
brought his visit here to a sudden and
unknown.
The case against Louis Dorrance,
held under a charge of receiving stol-
en- property as the outgrowth of the
theft of poodle belonging to Dav-
export woman, was continued from
yesterday to Saturday in police court
of the poodle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23

Police authorities in Monmouth and
Rock Island are seeking to apprehend
one John Wooley, until recently EN-
ployed on farm east of Monmouth by
T. P. Groves, now fugitive from jus
tice as the result of the appearance of
forged signatures to three checks, one
Of which Wooley attempted to cash at
the Beardsley & Bailey liquor house in
this city. The other checks were
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23

Afternoon Excursion Decoration Day.
On the big side wheel steamer
Morning Star TO Muscatine and re-
turn. Leaves Rock Island at PAS
p. m. Returns at 1890 p. m. Fare
so cents round trip.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23
Police News

Clarence Becker, arrested by De-
tective William Caulfeld, while try
ing to peddle "a pounds of brass fit
tings stamped with the Rock Island
road name, is held on a charge of
larceny in Magistrate c. J. Smith
court. Information is to be filed in
the county court against Becker. The
fittings have been identified by road
employees. Becker claims to have
picked them up from along the road
Iright-of-way near Silvis.
DR.. S. II. Miller plead guilty to a
charge of disorderly conduct, the out
growth of information filed by his
wife in police court, and paid a fine
OF 81 and costs-$9. 10-this morn
ing.
George Geitman, peddler, was fin
ed So and costs this morning for ped
ding without a license. He was ar
rested by Officer Herges. He carried
an antiquated license. When arrest
ed, there was a copious flow of tear
drops which only ceased when Geit-
man had taken out a license after
paying a fine.
Mrs. L. ]. VESSEL has preferred
charges against John Swanson, own
er of a dog which bit her daughter
and badly lacerated the latter's leg
Yesterday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23

LaSalle.
Secretary-Mrs. H. c. Stern, Chi
cago.
Treasurer-Mrs. T. H. Craig, Cham
paign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-23

Mr.. Mcintyre stated that the gres
est jewel Of all was peace of min
which must come only through since
and honest contact with ones fello
man He plead for the forgetting
the past and the redeeming of the I
ture- The terrific competition of
day saps a mans energy. and witho
relaxation there can be no peace. tt
speaker advocated a spirit of unseIfis
ness and good fellowship in one
everyday life as the secret of trl
happiness.
The remainder Of the program
, GUIDED music and other entertainme,
Evening star., 1912-09-15
RED Cross NURSES In The field

was endowed with S2J00Gn from the
American relief fund.
Next came the Armenian massacre I'm
which fanatical Mohammedans butchered
5000 Christians burning their houses.
pillaging their villages, outraging their
women and leaving nearly a million in
nocents destitute and homeless. At once
the American Red Cross established
headquarters at Beirut, from which relief
was distributed.
Within the present year President Taft,
as head of the Red Cross. has issued an
appeal for aiG of the famine sufferers OF
China. and the large fund collected was
expended to help keep the wolf from the
door of 3,0O0.0Oo who had to face starva-
tion until another harvest
You are wondering where the Red Cross
annually obtains the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars needed for such enor-
nous tasks those described. I asked
Secretary Magee as to this also. He
told me that the tuberculosis aid work is
paid for by the little Red Cross Christ
mas stamps with which You are familiar
Over a million dollars has been yielded
by these thus far.
In the same mail. some time ago, Miss
Boardman received for her relief fund
$4,000 from John ID. Rockefeller and
$3.50 from a negro mission which had
taken up a collection for the benefit Of
the society. That illustrates how the so
ciety's revenue comes in from all kinds
of philanthropists-poor and rich. Little
children have come to Red Cross head
quarters. bringing their dolls to be do
mated to children left homeless by some
reported catastrophe. Once poor boy
visitor took off his shoes and offered
them for some San Francisco earthquake
sufferer. Il won't need them," the lad
assured the Red Cross representative.
.'Sprng'll be here soon" For the relief
of the Chinese famine sufferers S. was
given by a poor Russian woman in Min
nesota. who explained that, having nearly
starved during famine among the Jews
in Russia, she knew what it ia TO be
hungry.
That its source of money for emer-
gency relief may be more dependable ths
Red Cross now seeks to accumulate an
endowment fund of at least $4,000
whose income only will be expended.
Nearly half of this has already been en-
dowed
Copyright. 1912, by John Elfreth watkinsD
Evening star., 1912-09-15

stage and indulge in long, uninteresting
dialogue in monotonous voices and then
go OF to make room for others. 1t is
almost impossible to follow the story,
which doesn't amount to anything when
it is finally run down. Nation says he
paid q man to translate the play from
the original French and then added bit
here and there myself" or the musical
comedy 1t is impossible to speak seriously
Nation admits he is largely responsible
for the words and almost wholly responsi-
BILE for the songs and music. There are
five principals in the cast and a chorus
of the same number-two soldiers and
three attendants Of a court which IS as
elusive in its identity as Anthony Hopes
"Ruritania'' The scenery gives no clue
for II is made up of a Moorish interior
through the wide portal of which can be
seen a Venetian canal, a bit of Luna Park
and newly harvested wheat field. The
last is necessary to excuse the inclusion
of Nations Harvest Song" in the seconA
act, which really has nothing whatever 10
do with tho show.
X
Night after night these two produc-
tions are given to empty seats in one
Of the largest theaters in the heart of
London. Outside there is a regular box
once, In which the official dozes and
sighs for the audiences that never come.
Of attendants who never attend" any
body Inside the theater there are pro-
gram girls and ushers, managers galore,
a full orchestra and rows upon rows of
empty seats. The actors and actresses
come on and do their turns, taking encoreS
Evening star., 1912-09-15

IelIOW got TO go so Idr and take along
so many fxin's that pound of fish rep
resents more actual outlay than pound
of filet of beef
Just for eXample-and my friend talk
ing about the costly brook trout he was
eating made me think of it-last summer
l was spending my vacation at a semi
fashionable hotel up in Canada. One day
man came along and said he knew
where We could catch mess of trout.
So two or three Of us said, very well, let
us by all means start out and catch some
trout. The place the man had in mind
was about twenty miles away, and it'd
be necessary to drive We'd be well re-
paid, though, he said, and he went on
to talk learnedly about trout until he got
us all wildly enthusiastic. The fishing
outfit I'd brought along wasn't suitable
for trout, and so I went down to the
village store to stock up.
II bought a perfectly lovely little split
bamboo casting rod for SIS. basket to
sling over my shoulder jauntily the way
you see them in pictures on the backs
of railroad folders. an automatic reel.
flies, pretty red leather book to carry
the flies in, a lot of oiled silk line and
a number of other attractive little ap-
pliances that the man said I ought to
have by all means The rig we drove
over to the trout fishing place cost us SO
for the round trip, besides feed for our
horses after We got there, and we took
along two guides that we had to pay $3
day each.
when we reached the little lake that
was said to be stocked with brook trout
the owner explained that he was accus-
toned to receive $1.5O a day for fishing
privileges from each victim. He had
couple Of old leaky boats with oars that
Evening star., 1912-09-15

Red Cross to railway men out of proceeds
from its special William Howard Taft
fund of 5000. and to other competitors
out of the organizations own funds.
Prizes of $50, So sl5 and so have just
been awarded out of these funds. The
winners of first prizes are Christian ID.
Fisher, an employe of the Pennsylvania
railroads Camden, n. j., shops, who
gave first-aid treatment to sixteen brother
employees last year and John Brown a
mine foreman of Pittston. Pa, who dur
sg the same year rendered very excellent
service to three victims of a gas ex-
plosion in shaft of the mine wherein he
was employed.
Let me tell you, also. of some of the
recent field work which the Red Cross
has done. When the San Francisco earth
quake unhoused nearly a third of mil
lion people this organization set immedi-
ately to work collecting all manner of
supplies needed by the sick and home
less-food. clothing, blankets. linen and
other articles too numerous to mention
which. it distributed from rs relief sta
tions scattered about the stricken city. Ii
constructed temporary relief camps, for
which the army loaned tents. 1t built
row upon row of cheap wooden houses,
and put up a great sanitarium for aged
and feeble minded victims of the disaster
To every lot owner who sought to re-
build a home costing S1,2iD or under II
advanced half the cost. 1t furnished tools
and implements to those who would help
themselves, ana III QlSDuTSeC the idI St
fund donated to the sufferers by foreign
powers Altogether it spent for the re-
lief of San Francisco So, $4,000.
~
When the terrible Calabrian Sicilian
earthquake destroyed Messina and Reg
gio, leaving over a million people home
less, the American Red Cross uttered
another appeal for assistance. and at Its
behest squadron of our naval vessels
sailed for the scene of death and de-
struction The organization cabled
$4,000 for the benefit of the sufferers
and furnished plans for 300 houses that
were Immediately erected for the COM
fort of the homeless. An orphanage for
the hundreds of children left parentless.
and often friendless, by the catastrophe
Evening star., 1912-09-15

we have a division of field corps and hos
pftal corps men, trained and drilled in the
duties OF the regular hospital corps OF
the army. This is only start in this
particular branch of our Organization.
.sThe relationship between the govern
ment and the Red Cross will now be very
close. In the first place the Red Cross
is incorporated by an act of Congress-
which prescribes it's organization. func-
tions and scope. BY the same act it is
recognized by Congress as the official
volunteer relief society of this country
under the terms Of the Geneva conven-
tion, and there is now a law recurring It's
accounts to be audited annually by the
War Department, and a copy of each
audited report to be transmitted to Con-
gresS.
yet the Red Cross receives no financial
support from Congress. Its funds-for
running expenses as we'll as for relief
work-are all received from the volunteer
sources. The Red Cross management has
limited its expenditures to come within it's
at present Is less than 100000. were in
creased to S2.OOO.OO0 the first aid and
rural nursing departments could do
much more extensive and useful work.
Few people have any conception of the
present scope of the reorganized Amer
lean Red Cross beyond its function of
caring for the wounded in time of war.
Although 1t was organized originally for
the relief of suffering on the battlefield. 1T
has grown to be an agency for the allevi-
alton of all phases of human suffering
and the conservation of human life under
all conditions. Not alone the soldier and
sailor MANNED by hostile guns. but our
annual thousands of victims Of the rail-
way juggernaut; the hundreds who are
annually entrapped in dark, dank mines:
the hundreds more, Of rich and poor, who
fall before the relentless automobile; the
vast industrial army who are yearly
manned or mangled by factory machin-
ery-all now are objects of the ministra-
tions of this beneficent organization.
Just a few words to refresh your mem
ory of how the Red Cross grew into
being. 1t had its prototype in the sanitary
commission which cared for our suffering
soldiers and sailors during the civil war,
and which used the Greek cross as its
insignia Toward the close of that war
one Durant, a European, who had been
Mortified by the unnecessary suffering
during the Crimean war, conceived the
international organization first brought
into being by a convention of the powers
held at Geneva in 1864. Reports of our
sanitary commission were used as
partial basis for this organization, which
adopted a red cross as its insignia. For
Evening star., 1912-09-15

when the ushers and program girls ap
paud. just as If they were playing to
record houses.
In the wings of the stage sits little
old round-shouldered man with long
silvery gray hair and beard. He fol-
lows with rapt attention every word
uttered by the performers. When they
forget their lines he prompts them in
a voice plainly audible to the audience
of attendants in front His long, thin
hand beats time to the curious music,
and when the artists come off after solo
numbers he can hardly contain his joy
in hearing his own work rendered. and.
grasping them by the hand, he launches
into effuSive congratulations.
This little man is w. III. c. Nation,
author, composer, producer and man
ager Every morning for several weeks
before his season opens he is to be
found rehearsing the members of his
company Even during the run of his
plays he holds a rehearsal every morn
ing. arriving at the theater about noon
ana not leaving until the fall of the
curtain upon the evenings entertain
ment, some time after IL o'clock.
IL is really remarkable feat for a man
or sixty-nine years. whatever one might
think OF the result of all his hard work
Evening star., 1912-09-15

nTHE other day." remarked the
prosperous looking diner in a
popular downtown eating
place, "a friend of mine came in here
ordered brook trout and then spent
twenty five minutes telling me what an
outrage it was in a free country like
this for man to have to pay for the
privilege of eating fish.
HE said he'd eaten hundreds of brook
trout that didn't cost him a cent and
that it CALLED him a lot to have to dig
IS cents for one little pair of trout
when he knew of plenty of lakes and
streams where they're just waiting to
he caught.
Il let him go on thinking he'd eaten
fish that didn't cost him anything. but
I knew he hadn't. The chances are
that the trout that lay there before him
on the restaurant platter were about
the most inexpensive trout he'd had
a-hold of in long time. 1t used to
be when we were kids that man could
go fishing and catch fish that didn't
represent a high overhead cost per
fish. A fellow would go out to the
barn. pick up long jointless bamboo
pole from where 1t rested on two or
three pals along one side Of the barn,
and go f1shin'. That'd be all there'd
be to it. He'd just go fishin', and by
and by he'd come back with a fine
mess of fish that his mother would
cook for the table, and they wouldn't
represent a cent of cost except his
time, which was worth in the neigh
borhood of 80 cents less than nothing
per day.
But those times are about as extinct
as the old-fashioned high wheeled bicy-
cles. To catch any fish nowadays q