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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22

The cast of characters for the play
let was as follows:
Gypsy girl-Florence Lewis
Gypsy boy-Ernest Dorm.
Basket makers-Ellen Welch ard
Anita Evers.
Playmates-George HelpensteI. Ed
gar Hanna. Mildred Summers, Herbert
Lowry. Frances Murray.
Baby girl-Analine Wagstaff.
Lost children-Charlotte Dorm, Eli
nor Benson.
Morning glory-Jakey Viner.
Daisy-Margaret Counley
Butter cup-Bessie Schroeder.
Violet-Madeline Lamansky.
Arbutus-Jeanette Arnold.
Queen-Marian Tremann.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Whenever and
Wallace Bowlby
Prince Sunshine-kenneth FreWert
Robin-Herman Silverman.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Lewis.
Tiger lily-Frances Pearson.
Poppy-Opal Crum.
Buttercup-Ma.gare Garretson.
Pansy-Blanche GipnerL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
AUTO BANDITS IN
CUSTODY IN iowa
Men Who Stole Car of A. G.
Stouffer From Harms Hotel
Arrested at Harlan.
BODY Is LEFT AT BOONE
Machine Was Taken Saturday Night
Thieves Confess 70 Crime and
viii Be Brought Back.

R. J. Wright, Superior Wis, and
James Roulette. Hartford. Conn, were
arrested last evening at Harlan, Iowa,
charged with stealing the automobile
of A. c. Stouner. Moline, which was
taken from in front Of the Harms no.
tel. Saturday evening between II and
u O'Clock.
The machine was a Ford roadster
and MIR. Stouffer offered a reward OF
$50 for the arrest OF the parties who
took the car and SIS for the return OF
the car without the thieves. Sheriff
o. l.. Bruner was given the case and
he telegraphed all OF the towns within
a large radius OF the crime. Last eve
ming there came a telephone message
10 the sheriff-s Office from J. J. Nc
Mann. chief of police, that he had the
two men in custody and that they had
confessed.
Body at Boone.
They said the body of the machine
had been left at Boone. Iowa \ grip
full of goods and marked "Hodgson"
was also found with the men. Wheth-
er they picked this up at the Harms
or elsewhere is not known. 1t is ex-
pected a deputy will leave this evening
b bring the bandits back to the city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
KEMBLE PUPILS
Give A PLAYLET
Entertain Parents With Exer.
cises at the Gymnasium of
the Y. M. G. A.

A full house greeted the Kemble
school pupils in their parents day en-
tertainment at the Y. NJ. c. 4. gymnas-
ium this afternoon. The program was
a most pleasing one. the main part be-
ing playlet from "A May Day in the
Woods" rearranged by the teachers
TO fit the circumstances. In addition
there were duets by Irene Ross and
Madeline Brown and Helen Tremann
and Elizabeth Rowland. and a dumbell
exercise by the boys of the fifth and
sixth grades.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
FRANK MILLER HEADS THE
1915 TRACK AGGREGATION

Frankie" Miller. 10. was last night
elected captain OF the 1915 track and
field team of the high school. This is
the first year that Miller has been on
high school team. but his work dur
tng the past season has proved that he
ms enough fight and pluck to make
one Of the best captains that has ever
lead an Islander. In the Big Eight he
ran the prettiest race of the meet and
finished second only TO Chalk. His
spectacular. plucky finish excited COM
ment. and his selection as captain or
the 1915 aggregation is regarded as an
exceptionally fine choice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
BELL DISMISSES
ANDERSON CASE
Holds Venue to Be in Henry
County-Charge Sending
Threatening Letter.

Judge b. s. Bell this morning in
county court dismissed the case OF
Henry V. Peterson, Moline. charged
with extortion by threats. holding
venue TO be in Henry county Peter
son was alleged TO have written a let
ter to Lawrence Warner, postmaster
at Warren. Henry county. in which he
to expose the official for
opening a letter. IL he did not come
across with the price"
II is now expected The suit viii be
started in Henry county where the let !
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
So. S
Robbers KIN Station Agent

New York, May 22.-Eugene hV''
ling. station agent for the West snv.s
railroad az Tappan. a suburban -
tion on the west bank of the Huosy-
was shot and killed yesterday oy -, q.
men who tried to rob the safe IN ~
office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
SOUTH HEIGHTS HAS
FIRST COM M ENCEME NT

Six graduates of the eighth grade of
the south Heights school received di-
plomas last evening at the first an
nual commencement of the institution.
Today at noon the annual picnic din
ner OF the school was served at Long
View park and was a thoroughly en-
joyable event
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
BEAUTIFY
YOUR HAIR

with simple. safe. home made tohie' AS
from any druggist ounces ". ard
Rum. ounces LaVona de ConposIs, roa
y drachm Menthol Crystals II ser-
like. add drachm of Nc:= f1Npslehs, md
fufue. Min thoroughly, apply ils.r and
morning with fingers. Ter danursuas olor.
falling hair. Contains no dye or I'D.
ing matter, but one ingredient, ~ iate
ing 10 authorities. actually tVfSSSs
renewed action the dormant pls nrs.
forming cells and thereby restore .aalor
maturely gray hair TO its natarai ,Srxsr-
This same ingredient is also y, hais
ful s'tmulant To the growth OF ne"
-SAdv.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
MANUAL ARTS EXHIBIT
WILL OPEN OH MONDAY

The annual manual arts school ex-
hibit will be held Monday, Tuesday
and "Wednesday of next week in the
manual arts building The public is
invited to attend. Examples of all
kinds of work will be shown, drawing.
cooking, sewing, writing. carpentry
and many others of interest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
Laurel
z In |
Range

Come to our store
and let US show you
this twentieth CEN
fury marvel range.
Every home needs
one-every house
wife will want one.
All made of solid
cast iron and abso-
lately guaranteed for
20 years. Be sure
and see it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
MOLINE YOUTHS ARE
PLACED ON PROBATION

Walter Chaplinsky and Adolph
Scheib. Moline youths. were this morn
ing tried by Judge b. s. Bell on a
charge OF delinquency. They were ac-
cused of stealing a number OF bicycles.
Judge Bell placed them under proba-
ton for 4 period of six months.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
Use Coal.
Wood and
Gas

Just think of a range
that will allow you
to use coal and wood
and gas all at the
same time. No tools
required to burn diff
ferent fuels. Ready
at all times to burn
either. You no long
er need a separate
gas range as this
la urel takes the
place of two stoves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22

Daffodil-Florence Gippert.
Violet-Martina Taylor.
Observation-Disclosures Brooks.
Narcissus Stancliffe
Sweet pea-Malvina Totten.
Butterflies-Helen Vale, Analine
Wagstaff. Aletha Marshall. Dorothy
Arnold. Agatha Medill. Irma Geppert.
Martha Gelwicks. Frank North. Helen
Brown. Frances Wilkinson, Kate
Moore.
Two orphans-Irene Ross. Madeline
Brown.
Good fairies-Fifth grade girls.
EVIL fairies-Sixth grade girls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
LAD BACK TO ST. CHARLES
Otis Rodisues, II Years Old. Wanted
to Join Carnival Troupe

TO Join Carnival Troupe.
Otis Rodigues, 12-year-old Rock Is
land youth who ran away from home
10 join show troupe. will be sent back
TO St Charles training school. Several
days ago Otis told his parents, who re-
side at 535 Twelfth street, that he was
going to run away with the carnival
company. Yesterday the lad left school
for Exposition park where he was ar
rested by Officer Kinney.
Otis was committed to the training
school at st. Charles last year, but was
paroled several months ago on his
promise to reform. The lad is at pres
ent in the care of Mrs. Margaret
Schroeder. police matron. a parole Of
fee viii probably come from st.
Charles 10 take the lad back.
All the Rsws all the time - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22
FINAL COLLECTION
FOR YEAR Is MADE

The State Bank OF Rock Island made
the last collection for the school year
of the school savings deposits Friday,
May %. Hawthorne, Eugene Field
and Irving School made especially
rood sbou,fnos THE racuIt folIou,s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-22

ter in question was received. Ander-
son was indicted a year ago States
Attorney F. Z. Thompson prosecuted
and G. A. Shallberg defended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
The Emnernr on Tnnr

Nor did the horses lack for exercise Imperial progresses were forever on the schedule. and daily his majesty in his gold coach, with all brakes set and with the postillions cracking their whips even while they leaned back on the reins coasted down the perpendicular streets of the capital, his grand marshal, his mill tary governor and his grooms gallopine at the wheels. He did not pause until he had visited all the little hamlets which. With rustic arches of triumph, with chil- dren scattering flowers in the imperial pathway with priests chanting Te Deums bravely tried to outrival one another in honoring their sovereign.
 The Emperor graciously made due al . loWance for the awkwardness of his unlutored eourtiers. whose insular and pastoral democracy never before had been called upon to render homage 10 q crowned head. But when a militia surgean in an excess of kindness and strength too vigorously aided him to mount his horse which he ever found q difficult feat, by seizing him bodily and pitching him kicking and pro testing into the saddle. he could not condone such conduct on the part of a common soldier. Instead of punishing the sergeant. however. he adopted d Gilbeftian expedient and promoted him to lieutenancy. a rank that some what excused the liberty he had taken with the sacred person of his maj csty
 In the very first fortnight of his reign the forts and the 12345G were in spected most of the mountains were ascended and every mule path in the Island was traversed by the Emperor who left behind him wherever he went his command for public Improvements. When the wagon roads left off he took io the saddle and when even the paths stopped he pressed on afoot walking under a broiling sun for 10 hours at stretch and working the flesh off the bones of everyone to quote again the chronicler of the empire
 When he had completed his explor- alton of Flba he sighed for more islands and sailed away to the south where he found the midget slet oi I1unosa inhabited only by wild sheep AnneSing 1t on the instant. he fitted out and dispatched colony with or Icrs to fortify and cultivate it T. the same era of expansion the islanc OF Pnlmaiola also was annexed anr fortified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
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pretty. modest and nodish, and the men kind. honest and self-respecting in their welcome of the stranger who comes among them seeking the shrines and me- mentos of the empire that rose and fell in 10 months. #t rls
 The custodian of the Municipio. vet eran of Solferino, gently unfurls in the salon of the Emperor the flag of the empire, while the librarian proudly dis plays the cherished remnants of Ma poleons tllban library. The books were specially bound for him over in Leghorn and include Caesars Commentaries early editions qf Rousseau, representa- lives of the works of Anne Radcliffe, Mime. de Sewigne and Voltaire, and Rob ertson's History of America, published in ITS.
 The ianitor of the theatre, for church was made over into an imperial theatre seats hls callers In the Emperors box while he lowers the original drop curtain. wlth..ts pictorial alegorx of Apollo fallen from the. skies to shepherd little flock, even as Napoleon descended from the throne of Eruope to ca1e for the Elbans. While one good man is showing some empty wine bottles which he treasures because they bear the ''N" in the laurel wreath Signorina, his daughter, arrays herself in the gown her great grand mother wore at the imperial court. The Elbans. even havea young man who suf- iiciently resembles their Emperor to have satisfied the requirements of the opera tors of moving picture concern who came 10 make some films of the exile and the flight. and this Napoleon of the Movies has become added exhibit.
 The Empire has day all to itself in the island calendar. This day of days is May ,, the anniversary of the Emperors death on another island less fair. Each ioir r. to the breeze the flag of the empire and solemn services are held in the church of the Miserecordia, which is hung in black and gold From niche in the wall behind doors covered With crowns and eagles, coffin in Imitation of the Elm perors at the Invalides in Paris, is rev erentlv brought forth and borne to the altar rail. where the worshippes passing by may see through a glass the death mack of Napoleon resting on a pillow within he9coffin.
 This yearly memorial service was es- tablished for all time by the provision of Prince Demidoff's will and the prince also left a legacy for the poor which is distributed on each 5th of May. when delegations come from Italy. from Cor sica sometimes from France to attend the ceremony.
 But visitors al any time arc es.- '- npmber and the E,lbans have not be,x tempted to conimefclahze their past and exploit it. There are neither guides nor guide books in the little unsophisticated capital The sturdy island race is yet unawed by the condescension and uncvs.- rupted by the tips of tourists. who pass by Elba with the thought perhaps, tn~S 1t must he a dreary prison isle the limbo of the condemned, instead of the rare lit- tie gem that t really is on the ieweled bosom of the tideless sea.
 (Copyright, 1913-194, by James Morgan)
 Next Sunday-The Return from Elba- France and His Recapture of the Throne Without Firing Shot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
Napoleon. Farmer

With that accumulation of furnishings te was enabled to set up housekeeping at the Mulini and have surplus for his new ly erected country villa of San Martno. This St Cloud of the Elban empire lies about three miles from Portoferraio' s only gate. which is made trebly difficult Tor assailants and invaders by taking the form of long. dark. twisting tunnel through the broad wall
 Just outside the gate, the smokestacks or modern steel mill smudge the azure sky. Beyond the mill the dusty road, the only read from the town. stretches about the beautiful little hay until the pilgrim to San Martlno leaves it for the byway that winds up a pretty green hill where Napoleons simple suburban retreat nestles in a sylvan shade
 Here the banished lord of all Europe settled down to the. task of tillng a few acres of earth and to establishing farm that should be model for his subjects
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
M1lZZ1Z I5z T6HY RaZ4CE

to give the finishing touch to Napoleonic victories on the battlefield. The Imperial household necessarily had it's prefects of the palace, it's court chaplain, its cham berlain, it's physician, it's musical director its keeper of the wardrobe and it's foot men and ushers. Inevitably, too, there was a mameluke This was d decorative detail indispensable to the Emperor $ background, and when Roustan, the orig inal. stepped out of the picture, as under study at orce assumed the role. This niame1uke was a Frenchman, to be sure, but he looked the part well enough when properly arrayed and renamed Ali
 An empire must of course have a mill itary establishment An army lieutenant, although a prey to violent sea-sickness, vas the commander of the fleet, which consisted of the flagship Inconstant rotten old French brig of 16 guns and 50 men; the Caroline, of one gun and 16 men; the feluccas Abeille and Mouche, each with eight men, and the xebec Etoile of six guns and 16 men.
 The foremost figure in the army was Cambronne, a gallant fire eater of the Old Guard, who declared that his .'uni- form and it's very lining commanded him tc follow Napoleon. Arriving at Porto ferraio with 700 Poles of the Guard some time after the empire had been set up. the veterans at sight of the Emperor ''wept eopiously into their mustaehes, as the imperial chronicles record Once the army was completely organized it consisted of a Corsican battalion the Po- fish Lancers, mameluke contingent and the Grenadiers and Chasseurs of the Old Guard, with a grand total of 160O officers and men.
 Not only did his veterans of the Guard follow Napoleon to Elba, but his war horses also came to eat their oats in banishment. There was the little white arab Wagram, who paved his stall and whinnied for sugar whenever the man whom he had borne to the conquest of Vienna and the capture of bride came near. There were also bays and chest nuts who. in Spain or Russia or Ger many had sped him down the hill from the heights of glory. silvery Persian, although gift from the Czar had never theless returned to Russia as an invad- ing foe, and 1t was on his back that Ma poleon viewed Moscow from Sparrow Hill On his back, too, he would vet fight anA other battle-at Waterloo, Other and less distinguished tenants of the imperial sta ble brought up the total to more than 100 horses and mules. with about 20 car iiages and so attendants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

He planted grove of mulberry trees and he introduced the potato into the island. But tablet on wall in one of the hamets thus records his overthrow as plowman: Napoleon, while passing by, took the blow from a peasant, but the oxen rebelled against the hands that had guided Europe and broke away from the furrow."
 Since the Emperor was resolved to be farmer, San Martino is but farm house of 12 modest sized rooms and even less palatial than the Mulini It's two story front contracts into a one-story cottage in the rear, where the rising hill cuts off the lower floor, and whither the driveway leads. The entrance, therefore, is to the upper floor and into the Hall Of the Pyramids. sunken fountain is in the center of this room. the wells of which are covered with imitation columns and carvings that some simple artist of the miniature empire crudely designed to recall the campaign on the Nile. On one cf the columns the Emperor caused to be painted this inscription, calculated at once to taunt and reassure the monarchs who sent him to Elba
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
In N,no,eop's Garden

Having surveyed and organized his empire. the Emperor next turned to inc erection of his emperial palaces. To scape from the little suite. up one flight in the city hall. with its noisy square, it's drumming and piping ser enadcrs and the surface drainage that flowed by in odorous rivulets, he pur- chased Il windmill, at the top of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

prophetic soul had foretold the coming of rainy days, and whose maternal thrift had made provision for them, came 10 him as soon as he was fairly settled, and she faithfully stayed by his side. Mnle Mere's companion was her daugh- ter Pauline The needless sayetys of this princess had been Napeleon's torment in prosperity. hut now she just as gayly shared her brothers fallen fortunes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
An Ancient Sun Dial

From the -Ruffalo News.
 Record is contained in the Bible of sun dial set upsin Fl B. C.. by Ahaz. to commemorate the miraculous healing of his son. Hezekiah "A very ancient one was recently discovered lying in the grounds of the ruined castle of Finiarig. Kilin. Ferthshire, Scotland. For many ceEturies the occupants of the castle deciphered its many angles ss it stood reared on q tallspedestal,s reflected in the waters of fountain. The interval of nearly 2o00 years between this dial and that set up by Ahaz shows for how Iona the dial held. it's own as an object of util5t-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
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The Prlnce thought- to form 9 grcat

The Prince thought to form great Napoleonic museum, but he had no more than gathered together all the relics of the Emperor in the island than his feverish interest in Elba seems to have subsided and the collection was carried off to Florence, whence in time it was dispersed through the world. Thus the Elbans have hardly an old shoe or hat to show for their vanished Empire. For tunately they still have the walls the Emperor reared but those of San Mar tino are held in precarious proprietor ship. They passed from the Demidon family into the hands of an islander who had grown rich from the Elban mines. But while this new landlord was at tempting to fill the bare cabinets of the museum with a natrual history eoflec-> tion he lost his fortune, and some ltal- ian creditors took his property, including the historic but deserted villa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
'FF 'F - '' 'E
 Napoleon Is Happy Everywhere


 The room of General Bertrand. the grand marshal. opens from one side of the Sale des Pyramides, while on the other side is the imperial salon. where two doves fiutter in the blue sky that over spreads the ceiling, the Emperor hav- ing commanded that they "be fastened together by cord the knot of which tightens the farther they fly apart" It It was the exile's expression of his hope and longing for Marie Louise But alas. only a ribbon unites the doves. while swords and bayonets cut asunder the inn perial pair.
 In the next room beyond the salon of the doves the Emperor slept, while be- heath 1t down a steep stair which has orly a rope in place of banister rail. is his bathroom, where above his marble tub the naked figure of Truth painted OH the wall. continues to peer into a mirror with this moral inscribed below. "He who hates the truth, hates the light"
 San Martino Today
 The charm of San Martino lies not within it's now bare and almost humble walls. but ont of doors. where nature was the imperial furnisher and decorator. There one may tread Napoeon's path into the depths of lovely grove over a sing llR brOOk ana to .tfle SplinS, where Ht used to fill his leathern cup. Or the visitor may step from the imperial suite in the house out upon the terrace where with his spy glass pointed straight ahead the Emperor could examine every sail en- toring the harhor of Porteferraio, and bl turning a little to the left could survey the forts and roofs of his cap ital
 Long after the Elhan exile was over and even six feet of earth suificed foi Napoleon. San Martno was purchased by Prince Demidof, the husband of Princess Mathilde daughter of King Jerome Bon aparte. Unfortunately the prince was not 60 much interested in preserving the sim pfcitv of the place as In glorifying his uncle-n-law In his rnisdirected zeal he set I'D a high iron fence of tipped srears and costly ornate gates with bees rnd eagles and wreaths wrought in them
 But the capital offense of the nephew hv marriage was tho erection of a big stone temple with high columns and pill lars. which he planted sauarely In front of and against the villa as if to hide it from the world. Ohtrusive as this structure is when viewed from the road happily it is not seen from the house itself. but disappears beneath the ter race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
The Mimic Empire

Two of his generals had followed him Into exile. General Bertrand was grand marshal at the palace. while the military governor was General Drouot, the artil- 1ery commander whose guns were wont
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

The story of Napoleon's first exile and his Empire of Elba is among the most amusing of the satires of hls- tory and as droll as comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan.
 Mir. Morgan sets the stage of this chapter with the backgrounds of the brief imperial reign as he saw them on his recent visit to the Emperors palaces and haunts in the beautiful but seldom visited island.
 Napoleon al Elba
 DATES AND EVENTS. May 1. 1874, Napoleion landed al Porto- ferraio.
 May %, 1874. annexed island of Planosa. May 26. 1874. the guard landed August 9. 1874, Mime. Mere arrived. September 1. 1Sli, Mme. Walewsko ar rived.
 November l. 1874, Princess Pauline ar rived.