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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

some of their answers. 1 remember a
talk 1 had with a charming English
man. We were deck chair neighbors
in a big Atlantic liner, and he hac
told me that his married life hao
proved unhappy, and that he didn't
mind the divorce, but that he missed
the children He showed me theiI
pictures taken with their mother.
whose face was one of the most beau
tiful 1 have ever seen in photo
graph. l remarked how lovely the
mother was, and he said yes but that
they just couldn't get along. After
long study OF the picture gave it back
to him with the remark:
well, l feel that it isn't her fault
"'No.' he said, as a matter of fact,
it isn't
Having many idle hours at sea, and
being anxious to put my pet theory
about marriage to the test, 1 asked:
What attracted you TO her when you
first met her.?
THAT is just the whole trouble he
her parents sent her to
France to be educated, and she came
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04
BERKELL ENTERS
new SHOW CAME
Farmer American Theatre Man
sger Has Become Interested
in"The World at Home"

charles f. Berkell. formerly lessee
=, the American theatre. Davenport.
,,s become identified with one OF the
,.,rest summer amusement enter
.-s.es in the United States. Together
-5,h c. F. Barnes and King Lee
v-.,ss he VIII put out THE World at
uone." a wagon front amusement Of
ar which will employ between 400
"a 900 persons. Booking has already
n.en made and the company will start
= Illinois IN April and close in Texas
.hout Christmas.
mis- is not TO be carnival com
,,ny or a circus. but is classified as a
slxh class amusement Offering which
III be given in connection with festi-
v.Is Of the nature of the Mardi Gras.
We Ak-Sar-Ben and similar first class
annual festal enterprises
The concern represents an outlay OF
t1o0 600. and Is directed by three of
he best known men in the show bust
,sss Messrs- Krauss and Berkell are
wsu known to amusement heads
Everywhere in the country.
The World at Home" will have ex-
merit performers in almost every line
Of work and from nearly all countries.
I; Is a new venture. and has set the
mace IN original conceptions for out
Of door amusement. There Will be a
special light plant in connection with
the enterprise.
Mr.. BerkeH will be part owner in
the concern. holding about $4,000
worth OF stock. Krauss will hold about
The same Barnes Will have perhaps
a trine more. and the remainder viii
be held by several Chicago theatrical
nsgnates. II Is a well financed and
planned proposition and is looked up
on Is 2 certain winner.
As soon as his contract with the
rsnily theatre in Moline expires.
which will be next month some time,
NJ Berkell will leave to assume per-
sonal charge of his part OF the enter
tsfument- The show Will travel in a
special train. and viii make all the
important cities OF the west this sea
son.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

New York, March Al do not care
for Paris" was the surprising state
ment OF Nine. Leone Georges
Reboux, painter OF porce1ains, and
one OF the most beautiful women in
France. who has just arrived with
her husband on the White Star liner
Olympic. Il prefer the open country.
but / mus: say have been delighted
with my first day in New York. 1t Is
wonderful"
The sentiment was echoed by VI.
Paul Reboux. who is president of the
association of Literary Critics in Paris
literary editor of the Journal and au-
thor OF several novels. He said lie
had come to the United States to get
material for a new novel that he is
planning dealing with the negro.
II am not a suffragist." said Nine.
Reboux. Il live for my husband and
my art. II had no husband I might
become a suffragist, but after all,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

again astonished and agreeably so, by
the excellent company and the fine
acting of the players presenting "The
Traffic" on tour. Indeed, the critics
of the play were unanimous in COM
mending both the company which are
enacting it and the mastery manner
in which it is staged. 1t will be staged
and acted in this city in the same per-
feet manner that won for it the in
slant approval and enthusiasm of
every audience that has yet Witnessed
it at Joe Towards theatre, Chicago,
where it is playing to the capacity of
the theatre at every performance and
bids fair to remain there for months
to come. An exact replica of the orig
inal scenic production is being carried
in its entirety and the management
has supplied a cast of well known
players to interpret the various roles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

Married folk who stay happy mar
ried. are always of intense interest to
me-" seid Rose Stahl. the star OF
Maggie Pepper" recently. when
meet them I'm my busy life. they fill
me with a sort of reverence that
makes me want TO hold my hands over
their heads and bless them. / look
upon them as people who have solved
the most difficult CT life's many diff
cult problems. and feel that not only
must they have qualities of an amaz-
ingly high order. but that thei- mar
ried life is built upon that most beau
tiful OF all foundations, a mutual re-
spect. And that seems to me the
secret OF every lasting marriage-re-
spect The marriage may begin with
just love, but no matter how intense
that Joy may be, IL will not. 1t cannot
last, unless each day passed together
adds to their mutual respect. To love
is so easyi In some IL is inspired by
the pretty turn OF a wrist. the arch
OF an instep, or the curl of an eyelash,
Ask some OF your. married friends
what first attracted them to each
other, and you'd be astonished at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

The Illinois tomorrow night viii be
the scene of much interest for our
best theatregoers. Although the per-
Torrance will be given in Yiddish
still the interest need not be lessened,
as Nine. Bessie Thomashefsky, whom
every reading theatregoer knows, is
one of the foremost soubrettes of the
Jewish stage, will be seen in one of
her latest and best comedies. So far
as the art side of this company is con-
cerned there need be no hesitation on
the part of the theoartgoers of other
nationalities, as the Interpretation by
Nine. Bessie Thomashefsky and her
company is on plane which does not
require a thorough understanding with
the words for a full knowledge o the
play. Nine Bessie Thomashefsky will
be supported by an excellent cast.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

The attraction at the Illinois next
Sunday will be THE Traffic" in a
return engagement. Industrial injus-
tice is disclosed in THE Traffic" as
the chief cause for the desperate but
gradual descent of the decent girls
from virgin squalor to the "glories"
of the brothel The incidents of this
drama are taken from federal records
of a case which was investigated by
the authorities enforcing the Mann
white slave act. and the story itself
is one of poignant interest, emphatic
ally dramatic and of swift and thrill
ing onset. Laughter and tears have
about equal share in the audiences
reception of 1.-The Traffic" for it is
said TO abound In the most whimsical
and clean humor. The pathos of It
and the solemnity. of the lesson which
IL teaches are not minimized or lost,
but the stirring action and the fash
ing dialogue of the piece give it that
fine dramatic texture which largely ac-
counts for the enthusiastic approval
with which il has been met Those
who have been willing TO accept the
promise of dramatic sensation with
out any expectation of an extraordi-
nary. cast or investiture have been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

very late arrival of caller who
should have been among the FIRST to
salute us. He replied that money was
scarce, and he was obliged to wait for
the cheapest day TO secure u fine robe
already donned and doffed by dozen
of others. During these ceremonial
days the whole community seems to
give itself over to indiscriminate gam
bling. practice Illegal and condemned
both by Chinese law and standards OF
morality. but winked at during this
season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04
New Year calls In china.

New Year calls are the custom in
China, and you have TO pay them in
festive attire of silk or satin
These fine clothes tsays Archdcacon
Moule in the Chinese People, can be
hired, the price being gradually lower
ed rs the hours OF the first six days
pass by. We complained once of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

woman was not made for battle and
worry-at least not French women
and that is ell that suffrage seems to
mean. when my husband is writing
am painting. We work together and
play together. That is ideal"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

Only One "5.omo oUININE"
To get the genuine. call for full name.
LAXATIVE Bromo Quinine. Look for
Signature OF z. W. Grove. Cures a
coId in One day. 25c.-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04
zGE,eafeg
THE ILLINOIS

THE ILLINOIS.
March 5-Yiddiah Players
Aarch 6-Rose Stahl in Maggie
Pepper"
March S-'"The Traffic
March 9-"Excuse Ne"
March 15--Peg O. Ny Heart
March 16 - ''Bunty Pulls the
Strings"
March Thought and Paid For"
March 22-EEa Tanguay and her
vaudeville company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04
Good Board.

Bill-Do you get good board where
you can eat now? Tom-Good board;
Why, l eat off the arm OF chair every
meal.-Boston Transcript
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

back with a slight French accent that
fascinated me. OF course she lost the
accent, but / don't know how to eX-
plain it, but everything seemed to go
with it
away to join the energetic ninepim
players at the other end Of the deck. I
sat and unused about it al. / felt that
my theory was proved again. There
had been no growth of tolerance and
mutual respect, and SO, in spite of her
beauty and the fascination which had
at first brought them together, they
had grown away from each other"
Miss Stahl will be seen in Maggie
Pepper" at the Illinois Friday night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-04

Deiton Buck. Eyota, MINI, writes:
Finally the catarrh began to affect
NJ eyesight and hearing, and becoIl-
ng alarmed I wrote 10 DR.. Hartman.
He advised me the use OF Peruna and
salt water eye baths, which advice
followed.
i continued the above treatment
several months until l was entirely
cured. and now. after nearly three
years. have had no return OF the dis
ease. / consider myself permanently
cured. and cheerfully recommend Pc
rana TO all those suffering as / did"
March, April and May are good
months to efIectuaIly treat catarrh.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
VICTIMS OF A WRONG SYSTEM

J. J. MirhIstein. building and plumbing in
spector. evidently has used his public office to
swell his income But wrong system is re-
spOnsible for the unfortunate situation in which
he finds himself.
Consciously or not, he has used his office for
work on which he bases bills that seem even TO
q layman to be- entirely too high and are de-
cIaretl by the debtors to he eXOrbtant.
Employed as city inspector, he has person
ally participated in work which, in the line Of
his official duties. he ought afterwards to pass
upon.
On evidence brought out by Supervisor Pa,
checO, Mr.. Mehlstein is not proved dishonest
official He is shown to have driven Il bargain
with the fishmarket prOpretOrs which is hard
bargain. 1t appears that he exacted as large
profits as possible and some Of his methods
would seem to be questionable We say "wOuld
seem to be-" for the hearing before the board of
supervisors was not thorough enough to admit
Of final Judgment upon some phases of the
charges which were barely outlined 1t appears
also that the Chinese stallmen felt that Miehl-
stein was using his official position as a club to
make them accept his prices.
Intentional dishonesty or conscious graft have
not been proved
The Star-Bulletin repeats now what was said
when the Miehlstein charges were first brought
that the fault is with the system that allows
public officials to participate in private bust
ness transactions along the line of their official
duties. 1t is not confined to the building and
plumbing office. -. .....< ....".@-
The supervisors must have known for a long
time past that this unauthorized practice is of
fairly common occurrence To the extent that
the supervisors have allowed the practice to con.
thu, they are responsible for. whatever abuses
have come out of it, And to this extent ATiehl-
stein will be unfairly used if he is now dis
charged. He will be as much the victim of the
system as the fishmarket proprietors. The real
question is whether the practice shall be allowed
to continue
1t is for the supervisors to end it. -.-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
LeyegSkElMEK TOPIC ol!Gy(

in the territorial treasury. After the
shortage was discovered the treasurer.
w. H. Wright was allowed TO escape
in steamer tor San Francisco. He
was later heard OF in Mexico. but no
effort to eNtradite hin was made.
Wray Taylor. made an excellent rep
utatiOn during a long residence here.
first as a Observation-Disclosures
the edtorship OF the Advertiser, in
which capacity he exposed and caused
the elimination of an infamous resort
in the heart of town-later as seCre-
tarv Of the board of immigration, do
ing a great deal toward securing good
treatment of plantation laborers. and
finally as commissioner of agriculture.
He was also a leading musician OF Ho'
nOlulu. being the organist for many
years of st. Andrews cathedral and
latterly of Kaumakapili church as we'll.
While on furlough in San Francisco
from the agricultural department his
health broke down and he retired, dy-
ing in that city within a few years
afterward.
AN OLD FRIEND.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
CHEGPtEIEG THE SCHOOL BUILDING

There is positive danger in the persistent
striving to cheaper the cost of building schools
in Hawaii
The danger is that the school-building will be
degraded into an undignifed and unlovely struc-
ture whose only advantage is that of penny
utility
The school-building should stand for some
thing more than mere utility-the mere housing
OF pupils. 1t should have some beauty. of line,
some architectural worth This can be achieved
in the bungalow type as well as in the costly re-
inforced concrete and lofty-pillared structure.
1t is particularly desirable that in Hawaii,
where the children of thousands of aliens must
perforce absorb at school the american ideals
they cannot find Mt home, the school building
should be more than shed, more than bare
and mean shell of a building
This does not mean that the department of
education or the supervisors OF Hh&aii have
done wrong in trying to put up buildings econ
omically. 1t is "ground-hog case" in Hawaii.
Retrenchment is necessary in public just as in
private expenditure. Utility is the first de-
mand, beauty the second. Those who want
learning will get it from a bench under the
caves as well as from patent foldngdesk in a
spacious room decorated with the maximum of
appropriate taste Small available funds must
for the present be stretched as far as possible
But in accepting cheap and probably ugly
school buildings now, Hawaii should not permit
its taste in school architecture to be permanent
" vitiated. The monuments to education should
be worthy of the high purpose to which they are
devoted America is full of horrors of munich
pal art and architecture. Hawaii should not
add to them. Good taste in art and architec-
ture are bred in the schools, and the school
buildings themselves should be exemplary of
this good taste.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
GET INFER THE LID

For some wears it has been said Of Honolulu
that nowhere in the United States has the liquor
business been better controlled, more closely Pc
stricted to legal methods, than here.
Ii has been favorite saying of the liquor
men, "The business here is clean"
In the light of the revelations before the
liquor license commission concerning the high,
financing of the Pacific Saloon, what about this
fayorite saying?
What about these deals, allegations of fraud
of untrue statements as to ownership, OF trick
cry, of a brewery managers participation in the
retail business? Certainly the latte. j. against
the spirit If not the letter of the regulations.
DO all the liquor men of Honolulu stand for
and indorse the methods attributed to Bartlett?
The truth is that here in Honolulu, just as in
every other place that tolerates and legalizes
booze selling, the day of the liquor business is
passing shortened immeasurably by the blum
ders, the greed, the quarrels, the underhand
practices and law violation in many cases. of
the liquor men themselves.
GET UNDER THE LID AND GET THE
FACTS!
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
DEAD MAN DEFENDED.

Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin,
Sir: Serious injustice is done the
memory of a dead man by the Adver-
tiser this morning, when it accuses the
late Wray Taylor with having embez-
zled the Chinese fund balance Of $11.-
600 and odd. Mr.. Taylor had absO-
utely nothing to do with the Chinese
fund. The money formed part of the
Hawaiian postal savings bank depos,
it's, and when the hank was abolished
at annexation it was treated as spe-
ell fund, to await claimants upon II,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
4 FRIEND OF THE SCHOOLS

dacy yesterday for reelection to the house of
representatives, ought by all means to be one of
those chosen by the voters of the fourth district
He made good" in his first term and he now
combines ability with experience
"The public schools of the territory should be
further developed along the line of vocational
Ieducation,' he declares in his announcement
This is plank important enough to serve as
a whole platform. The subject of vocational
education has been given but scant attention by
the legislators in Hawaii and the presence of a
man in the lower house actively interested in
and intelligently informed on vocational train
ing in the public schools will mean much to the
schools of Hawaii. " "
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
LARGER HARbOR
Means MILLIONS
FOR HONOLULU
Continued from page one)

per would be able to charge a reason
able rate for the outbound trip, rest
ing assured that he could find some
thing for transshipment to some
other portion of the world. .
The same would apply to Austral-
ian vessels and in fact to vessels from
any portion of the world. For exam
pie. say a vessel from Australia
brought cargo of coal to Honolulu.
Under present conditions that vessel
must sail to British Columbia or the
Northwest of the United States to
pick up a cargo of lumber for the
return trip, in order to avoid sailing
empty. With the bonded warehouse
established at this port the vessel
could pick UP the cargo brought here
by the Boston vessel and carry that
back to Australia.
Another Improvement that would
be noted with an enlarged harbor and
bonded warehouse would be the adj
vent in Honolulu of ship-supply con-
Germs. At the present time this port
has a black eye with the shipping
world, owing to the fact that it is al
most an impossibility to secure need
ed supplies here. and those supplies
that can be secured here are charged
for at exhorbitant rates. | know,
from experience, that the majority of
shippers endeavor to miss touching
at Honolulu for that reason alone.
With the bonded warehouse and the
commerce of the world being COM
PEELED to touch at Honolulu this con-
dition would be materially altered.
Vessels would touch here; they would
stay from 10 days to three weeks,
taking on water. oil and provisions,
while the sailors would spend liber-.
ally. - s&
There is a splendid opportunity
knocking at the door of Honolulu but
the door is locked and barred 1t is
up to the entire community to get
busy and put in some hard ticks, pro-
vided that $10,000,00O looks good. It
may be had but it takes hard work.
If the political candidates set the ex-
ample 1t should be easy to secure the
cooperation of the citizens" 49,.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
HER PETS.

She saw the pleasant living crea
lures; bright birds scattering music
in the air, fish like darling lights in
the dark water. Therefore to her
house she brought them, in cages and
glazing jails of glass she kept them,
prisoners and exiles ALL
Out of the green boughs of the for
est, the refreshing rain, the winds
and the wide sweet light of sunlit hill
and valley; come the yellow SONG
birds which she loves; come over land
and sea in small light wicker cells
come to prisons of gilden wires scarce
larger; come to the smothering house
air, the dull constant dreary walls, the
sick heat, the smell Of coal gas and
smoke of oil-Charlotte Perkins Gil
bert (adapted). %
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

We have in recent years witnessed
the suppression of many ancient prac.
tees less barbarous than this; but 1t
is still permissible for any person to
take a wild bird and shut it up for
life. At very short intervals the bird
becomes conscious of restraint; the
impulse to fly comes suddenly to il
almost every minute of it's waking
life. You see it in the sudden droop
ing motion and swift upward glance,
and the bird does not spring to flight
because it sees no opening through
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

lThe Star-Bulletin invites free and
frank discussion in this column on all
legitimate subjects of current interest
Communications are constantly re-
ceiyed TO which no signature is at.
tached This paper will treat as con.
fidential signatures to letters if the
writer's so desire. but cannot give
space for anonymous communica.
tions.)
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07
A. NEW MARKET FOR HAWAII FRUITS

market for Hawaiian preserved and canned
products is opening up automatically in Central
and South America through the completion of
the Panama Canal A report by Consul Man
ming of Rarranquia, Colombia, says:
Scanned table fruits, jams preserves, iellies.
etc, find a ready market in Colombia, but at
present these come from New York or Europe
and are rather expensive. Many of those on sale
here are California or Western products, which
have to stand the heavy freight charges on trans
continental transportation. When the Panama
Canal has been opened there will no doubt be
direct lines of steamers from San Francisco and
other western ports, to the north coast of Co
lombia, opening thus market on larger scale
for western products"
The market is being automaticalls created but
it will not be profitable unless the Gamers and
preservers cater to it intelligently With li-
rect route in the near future, Hawaii should
build up considerable trade in small fruits
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

The Promotion Committee is in re.
ceipt of information to the effect that
new automobile service has been
established on Hawaii for the purpose
of taking tourists and others from
Waimea to different points on the Big
Island as far as Kealakekua.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

In China the little gold fish, a ma.
tive of that place, is treated better
than in England, being placed in chi.
ma bowls, which have holes made at
the bottom as places of shelter. Even
in our glass bowls such places might
be provided and some suffering pre-,
vented.-A Wise Fish.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

P. n. FOLSOM, a professor in the
Mckinley High School, and Mrs, Fol
som left for the Orient on the last
steamer for a Two months tour OF
Japan. w.. ...
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-07

George Fred Williams, late of Athens, Greece,
now has opportunity to reflect that President
Wilson can look after all the diplomacy that
Uncle Sam needs H.