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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
DR. INK WRECKS
ANOTHER HOME
Father Squanders Wages Over
Bar While Wife and Chill
dren Go Hungry.
IS GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE
Man Prefers imprisonment to SUP
porting His 5abIes-Mother's
Story Pitifui.

After steadfastly refusing to support
his wife and six children, ]. c. Munroe,
1929 Fifth avenue, was this morning
sentenced to the county jail for 40
days. His arrest followed the recital
of a pitiful story to- the police by the
mans wife.
According to her statement, MuDroe
is one of the best carpenter foremen
In the middle west, and superintended
the work on the Best building. Since
that time he has taken to drink, she
states, and has lost all sense of honor
and responsibility. For some time
past the mother has been compelled
10 take in sewing to help pay expenses.
The husband, she alleges, has paid in
on an average but Sc a month, the re-
mainder of his wages going for booze
An eldest son, who earns but SO per
week, has turned in all of his wages
to the family. Three girls are in school,
one Is in kindergarten, and then there
is a baby. The family of eight has
been residing in a three room house,
for which the rental is but So per
month. It contains no city water.
FAMILY DESTITUTE.
Mrs. Munroe claims that many times
the children have gone to bed hungry,
while the fathers wages were being
spent over the bar. Last night. ac-
cording 10 Mrs. Munroe, her husband
came home intoxicated. beat her, and
destroyed the only chair in the house
Munroe refused absolutely to 60
back to his family unless he could
raise the children himself, run the
household and attend % his work at
the sash and door plant He wanted
the mother to have nothing to say.
Pm going to send you TO jail" sale
Magistrate Smith, "and it will be A
days"
"fou can make It six months, twice
a year and it will suit me-" snapped
the prisoner as he was led to a cell.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
WORK OF THE TELEPHONE.
Its Magic Has Enabled Us to Snap Our
Fingers at Space.


Fingers at Space.
Just how modern Is the essential and
ubiquitous telephone-now connectInG
over n half million houses and offices
In New York city-there is u casual
line in "Pinafore' which serves to in.
dictate. When the kindly chorus il
condoling with Ralph Rackstraw or
his separation from his Josephine il
chants these words to picture the tee.
Tor of his lot:
mo telephone connects with his dun
geon CELL"
The line falls fat today. But pima
fore" was produced for the first time
in 1878. and In 1876 the Bell patents
for the first practical telephone were
issued. Thus when the words were
written they related to q new and
startling invention that was the talk
OF the day, and the Gilbertian line was
really a gay. topical Jest.
1t is safe guess. however, that very
few OF the people who laughed at
"Pinafore" In the seventies foresaw
what the telephone would really prove
TO be. The years OF the telephone are
few. But already 1t has transformed
business method and social intercourse.
The railroads, the fast trains. the tele-
graph, wireless, the automobile. all
helped to make the nineteenth century
a century OF acceleration.
The telephone worked more renI
magic than all the rest together. The
discovery OF astral bodies would hard.
ly have done more 10 multiply human
effectiveness and enable US to snap
our Fingers at spaee.-New York Trib-
pne.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
STORIES AND THE DRAMA.
Harder Work to Write a Novel Than to
Construct Play.

Harder Work to Write Novel Than to
Construct Play.
One reason why a play is easier to
write than a novel is that a play is
shorter than novel On the average
one may say that-it takes six plays to
make the matter OF a novel. Other
things being equal. short work of art
presents fewer difficulties than a long
er one. The contrary is held true by
the majority, but then the majority,
having never attempted to produce q
long work Of art, are unqualified to
offer an opinion.
1t is said that the most difficult form
Of poetry is the sonnet. But the most
difficult form of poetry is the epic The
proof that the sonnet is the most diff.
1cult form is alleged to be In the few.
ness OF perfect sonnets. There are
however, few more perfect sonnets
than perfect epics. A perfect sonnet
may be heavenly accident. But such
accidents can never happen to writers
of epics.
Some years ago we had an enormous
palaver about the art of the short
story" which numerous persons who
had omitted to write novels pronoune.
ed to be more difficult than the novel.
But the fact remains that there are
scores Of perfect short stories, where
as it is doubtful whether anybody but
Turgenev ever did write a perfect
novel.
A short form is easier to manipulate
than a long form because its construc.
ton is less complicated. because the
balance Of its proportions can be more
easily corrected by means of a rapid
survey. because it is lawful and even
necessary in it TO leave undone many
things which are very hard to do and
because the emotional strain is less
prolonged. The most difficult thing in
all art is TO maintain the imaginative
tension unslackened throughout n con-
siderable period.-Metropolitan Maya.
zine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05

Ing a few coins to the mutiIated sur
vivors as he rose from his knees" He
would compel parents to slay their
children. and children to kill one an
other; and If there was a survivor
the amiable monarch would dispatch
him with his own hands, shrieking
with laughter at so excellent a joke"
In one of his lighter moods of froifc
he commanded the citizens of Moscow
to provide for him a measure full OF
feas for a medicine" and fined them
1000 roubles when they failed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
THREE WONDERFUL MIRRORS.
Used In place q . telescope In Noun.
Wilson Observatory.


From Los Angeles by trolley car and
burro back mp through the pine forests
one reaches the Wilson observatory.
No>dome or gigantic telescope greetS
the visitor when he gains tin summit
a huge NOah's ark OF canvas lestroyl
oil preconceived ideas OF what an oh
servatory should look like. and within
Elree wonderful mirrors take the place
OF the great tubular telescope Of other
observatories.
The observatory building is con,
structcd Of canvas, the sides being set
In the form OF tiers Of steeply overlap
ping ewes. This arrangement is cal
culated TO allow for perfect ventilat ton
and is REINFORCED by a vertical wall
OF canvas. which can be raised or low.
cred at win to obtain an even tesupera-
ture.
The peculiar arrangement OF mirrors
that replaces the familiar telescope is
the center around which all interest in
the observatory reyolveS. These mir
rors are constructed at the Yerlles oh
serTatory and are the finest products
Of the opticians manufacturing skill
The charging mirror, which "a sup
ported by pier Of stone at the farthe'
end OF the building. is of concave
glass four inches thick. and the scien-
lists tell US Il is OF twenty-four inch
aperture by sixty foot focus
The glass is polished ever so often
with jewelers. rouge upon pads OF
chamois skin aud 10 FURNISHED every
week or ten days. in order TO remove
all possible dust In addition gai-
vanized cover is kept over it when it
Is not in use.-Christian Herald.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
TAKES FOURTH HUSBAND;
SAYS HE WILL QUIT WORK

Aurora, ILL.,, Sept. 5.-Howard
Klinger, 20 years old, a Chicago
switchnlaR, and Mrs. Nellie Welcome,
10 years old, also of Chicago, were
married here yesterday by Justice Cor
tez Dutton. The couple, the bride
speaking and the groom nodding in
affirmation, told the magistrate to
omit the word "obey" from the service
and he did.
Mrs. Welcome Klinger told the jus.
tice she was mo new hand to the mar
riage game" and that she knew what
she wanted. She said she had been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05

All the news all the time - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05

At playing golf and tennis she Is an
adept Her costume in the photograph
consists of the regulation riding
breaches" partly hidden by long
coat. Riding boots complete the com
binatiole
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05

married three times before her last
venture.
Whether widowed by death or courts
she did not say and the justice re.
Trained from pressing her for infor-
nation. The bridegroom said that he
intended retiring. He intimated that
his bride had plenty of money and
that work was bore. He gave s25
fer wedding fee, and handed the
magistrates typist SIS tip. The bride
woIc many diamonds.
The couple went back to Chicago on
an evening train
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
Test It Out for 30 DAYS Free

We know that you'll take so much comfort
out of this mattress that you'll never part
with 1t for anything so we are willing to let
you try it in your own home for 80 days
at an initial out lay of only $3.50 IL you
don't think it the most comfortable mattress
that ever you slept on we will gladly re-
fund your money, but We haven't the
slightest fear on that score We know that
after you have tried it out for 30 days
you'll gladly complete paying for it at the
rate of $3.50 per month.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
$500 a One Month Intro
ductory Price.

$4,000 is the standard price of the Sterling
No-Tuft Mattress, for which it sells in all
any less except during a 30-day introduce
tory campaign, when the dealer is allowed
to sell them for $1,000. but then in only
limited number, and at the end of 80 days
the price must go back to $4,000. When
you consider that the lowest price for which
any other guaranteed no-tuft mattress is
sold is $4,000. you'll more fully appreciate
what a remarkable offer this is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
You'll "Sleep Like a Log"
on the Sterling.

There are no bumps or hollows, just a soft,
resilient, springy surface that fits every
curve of your body in outward appearance
it resembles an old fashioned Feather Bed.
butI don't confuse it with the hot, stuffy
Feather Bed. It's just as comfortable. yes,
far more so, for it's cool and buoyant. You'll
never know what real sleep comfort is until
you stretch out your tired body on the
Sterling and awaken the next morning re-
freshed and full of vigQr from your sound
slumber.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
EroIio, Of ivan t,. Terrible.

Ivan the Terrible. among his many
insane freaks, would let loose wil6
bears in the streets OF his capital ana
placidly say his prayers while watch
Ing the slaughter Of his people. fling
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
Why the Sterling Needs No
Tufts.

Tufts are placed in a mattress because they
are made from the short strands of cottoS
and need to be held in place 70 prevent
Jumping and becoming uneven. The Ster-
ling. being made of only the longest hbre
pure cotton needs no tufts to hold it, espe
cially when felted by the patented Web
Layer process. Being free from all tufts 1t
is far more sanitary, as there are no places
to catch dust and become breeding places
for yeTmin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
FOLLOW Thig mattress on LIS Course Through the
Factory
n.-..I.,--a.u,uu--...O-

The great bales of virgin cotton direct
and gins placed gigantic machine with revolving cylinders
with teeth that
length When the last combing
In its travels from the plantation to the factory removed 1t
like fresh snowfakes AS it leaves the cylinders fmy
is carried over automatic endless rollers that distribute these
hmy These
other forming bat feet high before being
1t is blow Of soft downy white pure
cotton bulb first burst into bloom ticking
H7d il is ready to be delivered your bed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-05
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
LEADS
ALL IN HURL|NC
ENTIRE CANES
Only One Team Knocked TwirIer
Off the SIab-Jim Scott Also
a Hard Worker.

w TALTER JOHNSON not only
wv twirled more victories last
season than any other Amer
lean League pitcher, but he hurled
more complete games than anyone
else. The Chalmers car winner went
the route 80 times, only being knocked
off the rubber once. Another hard
worker was Jim Scott, OF the Chicago
White SoX. Death Valley jim" la
bored i'll 26 compete games, while his
teammate. Rep Russell, did almost as
well, figuring in 25.
George Baumgardner of the
Browns, pitched "a full contests; Vean
Gregg and Fred Falkenberg of the
Naps. eacn %: George Dauss and
Jean Dubuc, of the Tigers. each 81,
and Ray Collins. OF the Red SoX. ana
Roy Mitchell, of the. Browns. each 20
OF the champion White Elephants,
~ Eddie Plank pitched more full
games than any of his teammates.
The Gettysburg Guide was In Is, while
Chief Bender" was only in 10. The
Indian was often used by Mack as a
rescuer. none OF Mack's young pitch
cleverness at being able to go the dis
lance.
Mack changed pitchers oftener than
any other American League leader.
The Athletic slabmen twirled only 81
complete games, the Browns gunners
turned in 104 full contests. The num-
Der of complete games pitched by the
other hurting staffs was as follows.
BY New York. 10; by Boston, IS; by
Washington, rs; by Chicago, 81; by
Detroit, Sc, and by Cleveland, So
ALL told. there was just II gun
- ners who were able to twirl com
plete games last year. The men who
twirled ten or more full contests were
as follows:
Complete Games Pitched.
29-Johnson. Washington.
26-,Scott, Chicago.
25--Russell Chicago.
24-Baumgardner st. Louis.
?3-Gregg and Falkenberg. Cleve-
land.
21-Dauss and Dubuc, Detroit.
2O-Collins, Boston, and Mitchell
st. Louis.
19-Hamilton. ST. Louis.
1S-Boehling. Washington: PLANK
Philadelphia; Cicotte, Chicago and
Willett, Detroit.
17-Groom, Washington, and We'll
man. st. Louis.
16-Mitchell. Cleveland.
15-Ford, New York, and Blandinz
Cleveland
14-Fisher. New York; Caldwell,
New York and Leonard, Boston
1S--Bender, Philadelphia, and Lev
erenz. St Louis.
12-Wood. Boston.
Thrown, Philadelphia.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
Johnston Steals 1913
Bases and Now Has
New World S Record

SAN FRANCISCO, oct. 27.-Jim-
my Johnston the san Francisco out
fielder drafted by the Chicago Cubs,
stole another base yesterday, max
ing his count for the season 1913, a
worlds record for stolen bases dur
ing a season. Johnston played seven
months. Hap" Meyers, Of the Bos-
ton Nationals playing with Spokane
last year stole 116 bases in five
months, Johnston is former South
ern League star.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
Ex-Atlanta Men Eight for lob
Dos
Keating May Oust Al Bridwel1

club next spring, but ii is a certainty
| that he will be given every opportI-
nifty to make good. Evers likes his
looks. And John also likes the ag-
gressive spirit that the youngester
showed during the snort time that he
was with the Cubs.
EVers was not the only major
league manager after young Heating.
His work down South dAring the past
season was of such cailher that ha
attracted the attention of the various
major league scouts who invaded the
Southern territory. Since the fans
have started figuring that the young
ster has q chance to Gust one of Evers
regulars out of a job next spring it
would probably be a good idea to tell
little of the youngster
Heating a Sand Lot Product.
Well here goes: Waller Heating is
? / years old He celebrated his TWEEN
ty-frst birthday while with the cubs
this fall. He was born in one of the
small towns around Philadelphia. bus
now resides in the place made famous
by a bunch Of Quakers and Connie
Mack. His early baseball education
was secured around the lots
keating's first real good job CT
leHhVN dNIullN Soou To nm at int
,lme) was secured last spring when he
signed TO play third base, or shortstop,
for the Atlanta Southern League club
After heine in the Atlanta party for .
few days he sprained an ankle. That
slowed him uN for the time being, and
BILLY smith, ,AtlantaS manager. sent
him down to the Columbus (Ga.) club
in the South Atlantic League His
ankle was soon mended and he inn
medlately started to burn up the
league.
lie hit over 800 and stole over 90
bases. So, You see there is something
in favor OF the bug who thinks that
Walter Heating will get a chance to
perform with the Club outfit next sea-
SON
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
Money in Modern Boxing Game
Packey McF arland Good Sample
N0ES it pay to be a prize ring
- star?

HOES it pay to be a prize ring
IL star?
Well, not long ago Paclley
McFarlands bit for a round bout
in New York fas $1,000, something
better than each of the Athletics
rake-off from the Worlds Series.
Which is lot of money for a
young man of 25 to draw down for
80 minutes actual work. And when
this sum is contrasted to the weekly
wage of the same youngster when he
worked about the stockyards Of Chi
cago and dragged down from $3.50
to "a every time the ghost walked,
there seems to be something in the
idea that clean living pays.
Mcfarland to-day is understood to
be worth at least 100000, and every
penny of 1t is his through the fact
that he decided that success in life
was worth more than smoking, booze
fighting and the other vices of those
with whom he began life, but quickly
passed in his climb upward.
Fighting, even Mcfarland acknowl-
edges. is not a very classy business.
He would much rather be a captain
of industry but when he determined
to make real business of boxing,
he went into the game to succeed,
and by strict attention to his bust
ness made a nice little fortune and
also made thousands of friends all
over the country through his gentle
manly behavior and right living.
pATRlCk MCFARLAND was born
in Chicago on November |, 1888
He began boxing professionally when
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27
PLAYINCSTATUS
Of ROBERTSON
Up TOM CRAN
'Muggsy' Must Decide Whether
He Wants a Fleet Slugger
or Good TwirIer.
BY Damon RunvOn.
T EW YORK. Oct 27-Whether a
VI fleet fOnfe Singer is moro

NV AORk- OCT. Wv neither
v ieetfopted slugger is more
valuable than a SENSATIONAL
pitcher is a question that must be
determined by John j. McGraw next
spring, when he settles the playing
status of Davy Robertson.
Reports from the South at the con-
clusion of the Southern Association
campaign this year were to the effect
that Davy's left arm had recovered its
pitching cunning, ana that he was
demonstrating in practice that he
could buzz the ball through With all
the speed that. made him one of the
most desired youngsters OF his time.
This report is confirmed by Mike
FINN who had Davy with him on the
Mobile club. While Finn did not use
Davy as a pitcher in 1913, Mike says
that would he RObertson's steady job
were he in McGraw's place. He de-
clares Davy has astounding speed and
curves, and that in his judgment he
would be a marvel az a hurler.
Robertson Sure Can Hit.
However, Davy can hit better than
800. or at least. he shit better than
that for Finn. Moreover, he is
streak on the bases, and he can play
first base and the outfeld-a little
better first base than the outtield,
perhaps. John J. MCGraw would not
exactly detest youngster who can
hit 800 in either place. although. like
any other manager, he can always
find room for a great left handed
pitcher
II all depends on whore Davy shows
the greatest skill. He was apparent
ly designed to be a pitcher, but then
Mike Donlin was apparently designed
for the same purpose, only TO find
real fame as an outtielder.
Started in Tidewater League.
Davy started his professional career
as a hurler for Elizabeth City in the
Tidewater League, where his record
caused legions of scouts to hover over
that section of the country until the
young fellow was grabbed by the
Giants
McGraw has been quite patient with
this lad. After signing contract
which contained stipulation that he
would not play football, Davy went
ahead and played Just one. more
game. winding up with an injury to
his shoulder that has left his final
fate in baseball way a matter of
doubt up To the present time
He is a wonderful all-around attn
lete 10 Davy, with temperament, as
Well as ability, and anyone who saw
him play in the Southeru League last
SeaSon does not doubt that he is
booked for regular job next year in
the National League
DaVy did not try out his pitching
arm until along toward the close OF
the season, and then only in practise,
hut from what Finn says, he has en-
tirely recovered from his injury. and
he no longer suffers the slightest
twinge when he cuts loose.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-27

10 years of age, SO now he has been
fighting man for nine years, In
that time he has made himself one
of the cleverest and most successful
men in his class, and were he few
pounds lighter, would have an excel
lent chance to win the lightweight
title. The stock yards boy has hadp
more than hundred fights, and hasl
never been knocked out The ma
jority of his early contests We're won
through the agency of his own good
knockout punch, but as he gained m
cleverness he lost" this punch, and
to-day is well satisfied to win Oh
points.
MCFARLAND is probably the great
AVN living master of the art of self
defense. He does not believe man
no matter how strong he may be- can
excel at the game If he is "sWinger
Even when Packey first made his
start he hit straight from the shout
der
There are only three blows 10
learn-a straight punch, short hook
and an uppercut. These blows must
be mastered so that they can be de-
livered with either -particularE,
the left. A good boxer does most oil
his execution with the left, holding
the right in reserve. and using il ar
most entirely as a guard.
Il think I'm at my best now, re-
marked Mcfarland the other day be,
fore his fight with Murphy. "Whie
have had lots Of experience, | learn
something from everybody box win,
and I'm picking up new tricks ana
new points all the time"