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The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

year in Congress-" she said 'T will stand
for the Progressive platform-for the Pro-
hibition laws-end more than anything
else / am for beneficial changes in the
laws for women
Since her announcement was made hc-
correspondence has increased until even
the postmaster grumbles sometimes. She
is her own secretary and is scrupulously
attentive about answering all letters. In
ract' the real inside story Of her candi-
dacy came from her capable letter writ
ing. This is the real story of how she
came to be urged to make the race.
William Allen White wrote a letter to
Mr.. Murphy. who Is . member OF the
Progressive State committee. Mr.. Murphy
was not At. home and Mrs. Murphy an
swered the letter, giving the information
Mr.. White had asked for in such a COM
prehensive and complete form that II won
his admiration. He wrote back imme-
diately.
Such q weli-written letter calls for an
answer by return mail" he wrote. "It
strikes me that you are a better COM
mi.tee man than you husband, good as
he is. Announce yourself for candidate
for Congress and there won't be a man
in the district presume to run against
you for the nomination.
He wrote to prominent officials and told
them about her letter. After several let
ters had passed between Mr.. White and
the Murphys relative to the matter he
bundled up the package ofletters he had
received from leaders all indorsing the
idea or her candidacy, and sent them to
her.
There's your CALL" he wrote. you
cannot refuse to heed it."
No other candidate could be found who
had any aspirations to run for the nom
nation, once she had announced. Her
is a cinch.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
simple LIFE ADVOCATE
HAS A POCKET Home
Londoner to Prove at Exhibition Man
Can Garry All He Needs
on Person.
DESIGNING PORTABLE BATH

Special Cable 10 The washington Herald.
London, March 7.-This month will see
the opening Of the Simple Life and oper
Air Exposition and Conference at the
Horticultural Hall. in London.
One OF the prime attractions is certain
to be the Fully Furnished Man." He
has reduced the simple necessities of life
to a fine art. He will appear on the plat
form in clothes OF normal capacity, but
while he is talking to the audience he
VIII produce from one pocket his bed, and
from another his home residence. He
VIII prove to his astonished auditors that
ne can walk about not only comfortably
clothed but comfortably furnished as well.
his house is really a tent, but 1t is
such a marvel Of lightness and compact
ness that 1t folds up quite easily so as
10 occupy only a corner of an ordinary
coat pocket. His equally portable bed
SIPS into another. He is now designing
q pain that he can carry in his waistcoat
POCKET without enlarging it,
IN Illustrating this system of living, he
VIII tell his audience how to do without
,ninss' and he will make it clear to all
now 10 live as comfortably in a pocket
eoition or a home as it is in a mansion
in Park Lane.
otner shows will include how to camp
OUT IN an open boat. how to cook in
camp. and the joys of living in a cara
van as shown by the Caravan Club of
Great Britain an6 ireland. The caravan
VIII ne ftted with all the latest space
saving devices and will show that a home
on Wneeis-now becoming more fashion
sition. 'N'o
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

believe such a policy could continue for
decades. He went to the Postal DEPART
ment to find out. He knew from his
short experience that heads of depart
ments know little about the detail OF
their work. He went to a clerk under the
Second Assistant Postmaster General who
had charge OF the contracts and asked
him how the average was obtained
Takes to Mathematics.
We weigh the mails seven days in
the. week and divide by six to get an
answer" said the clerk
Murdock obtained all the figures on Tho
matter and began to add and subtract
ard divide and multiply. He soon found
that the government was losing s. ,ooO 900
year by overpaying the railroads. The
railroads didn't kick and there was no
one to kick for the government. He
asked the clerk why he did not report
the matter so the order could be changed.
The clerk shrugge- his shoulders and
said IL would do no good.
Then Murdoch wrote his speech. He
went to the floor of the House and
showed where the government was losing
XCo.O0. Most OF the Representatives
were not interested. They thought the
young gentleman from Kansas was max
ing speech which would look good in
print back home. Such speeches arc often
''oSS wi ehcCt VI selllnE votes ana
not for the results in Congress Many of
the Representatives went out of the room
while the speech was being made and at
tended to other business. Murdock pre-
sented bill to change the evil. but the
bill was put in a committee where no
attention was paid to it. He tried to
force the bill out. but the iron rules of
the House cut of his activities. The old
men in the House did not want the young
Representative disturbing their peace
They did not want to vote against the
railroads. and did not want to 20 on
record as voting against the people. So
they allowed the bill to slumber in the
room.
Long Fight on Bill.
For months Murdock fought for the bill
in Congress He was hsmpercd by the
rules. Those who did not know the facts
thought he was Srandsta nding and he
was much in di=favor. Those who did |
know the facts wanted him to shut I'd. |
Even woman politics was called in to |
silence the red. headed insurgent Mrs.
Murdoch was snubbed right and left be-
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

elected to the United States Senate and
there was vacancy 4 special election
had to be called and Murdock was nomi-
mated by his party to make the race.
Il don't want to go to Congress- Vic
protested when first his name was pro-
posed. I'm a newspaper man. / don't
know anything about Congress. / am
only a writer.
But the majority ruled and Vic went
to Congress. Victor Murdock is still
there. His colleagues from Kansas, one
by one have been retired and new men
have been sent in their places. Chester
/. Long was recalled from the Senate
to make room for another. Men from
other districts in the House Of Repre-
sentatives failed to suit the voters who
hire them to be Congressman and at sue
cessive elections have beep fired from
their jobs.
Murdock had an idea that a man had
had to learn to be Congressman just the
same as he had to learn to be an editor.
When ne went 20 Washington he started
in as a cub to study the business.
Interested in Mails.
AS he looked over the pile of things
to learn he decided il was too much to
learn all at once. The small brain OF
one man was not big enough to master
the currency, tariff, trusts suddenly. He
decided to study the postoffice question.
He had been connected with the Wichita
postoffice before going to Congress and
the mail problems interested him. He
knew there was a constant deficit from
year to year and started out to find IL
this deficit could not be eliminated.
One day when talking with a mail
clerk he learned the government had a
peculiar way of weighing the mails. In
the old days before there were Sunday
trains they weighed the mail six days a
week and then divided by six to get an
average. The law said to weigh the mail
carried by a railroad for the entire week
and then divide by six to find what the
railroads should be paid for a days haul
ng of the mails. The contracts for the
year were based on that principle. Later
the railroads began hauling the mail
seven days in he week. The old law
still held. In letting a contract for haul
nG the mail between two points they
Weighed the mail the railroad carried for
seven and then divided by six TO get anil
average.
Murdoch was so astounded by the stu
,idity of the coVernment that he did not
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
Kansas Woman Will Try
To Become Congressman
Mrs. Eva Morely Murphy, Motherly in Mien, to
Run for Seat on Capitol Hill on Progressive
Ticket and Will Stand for Legisla- =
tion Faporing Women.

ton with the party leaders, and had not
yet glanced through her mail, Of which
she has loads every day. TT was the
men, at first, who urged the race; but
the women quickly fell into line, and
had letters from many organizations Of
fering their help. After several weeks of
this. I asked my husband what he thought
about It."
Her husband is e F. Murphy. attorney
for the Progressives. ard his answer was
characteristic of him.
You go right ahead and think It out
for yourself" he said; IF you decide to
run. I'll pitch in and help all I can. II
you are beaten. 1t won't kill you-and
you will have gained considerable experi-
ence. while IL you are elected, you will
be the first woman Congressman ever
sent to Washington.
So Mrs. Murphy decided to announce
her candidacy. She wrote her own an
nouncement, just as she made her own
decision.
you may rest assured that am going
to make my own speeches." she smiled.
Some OF the men at the Topeka banquet
asked me in Joke IL my husband wrote
my speech, The Signs of the Times ;. I
told them that while he was capabIe Of
writing much better ones, 1 was roinp foI
prepare all my own speeches for the com
ing campaign. as well as deliver them"
Reform for Women.
What will you do If you are elected
to Congress?" Mrs. Murphy was asked
Have you in mind any reforms or par
ticular measures to bring before N.
'Ae
She smiled her Pleasant, womanly smile
that Is one Of her greatest assets. y
Well. you know II requires an unp,,.,
amount OF force to t-ing new, member
prominently before the public the srst
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CASTLES HIS THEME.
Special Cable to The washington Hena.

SPECIAL cae'e to Tne Washington Heah.
Berlin. March lat the. instance of a
number Of prominent educators who are
especially interested in promoting cor
dial German-American relations, Prof.
Bodo Ebhardt architect. and expert on
medieval castles. Will be invited to de-
liver a lecture before the American col
ony in Berlin IN the history Of European
castles. As tho interest Of the crown
prince mas peen enlisted in the plan Il
is assumed that he will accent.
Prof. ;Ebhardt Is close friend of the
Kaiser's, and has been engaged by MIN
on several occasions to supervise the
restoration Of sacient German caxtiea
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
DRExEL TO GO ON A CRUISE.

spscnl Cable to The Washington Herald.
london. March I-Anthony ]. Drexel,
OF new York and Philadelphia win short
~ leave aboard his steam yacht Say
Soafa Tor . cruise Of the Me3iterraneau.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08

Kansas City, March 7.-Kansas has the
first candidate for Congress among the
women voters ever announced by any
state in the Union. Mrs. Eva Morley
Murphy has no opposition for the Pro-
gressive nomination, and will be the
candidate.
VIII Mrs. Murphy, who aspires to rep
resent the big Sixth district. be a woman
Congressman, il elected, or merely q
CongTesswoman%
Mrs. Murphy, herself. who lives at
GooLiand, kans.. the largest town In her
Gissric:. has solved this question
If they will just eject me to the ofiice,"
smiled ars. Murphy, "the title will follow.
-tIst IS II does when a man Is elected. I
viii be simply a member of Congress from
,nc Sixth district. Kansas
Mrs. Murphy is the last woman in the
world you would pick out for politician.
GowneG in shirtwaist, with a smart tie,
rather like a comfortable, motheriy lit
tic lady, ready to pat you on the head and
give you a couple Of cookies or a nice.
fat, brown doughnut for being good. And
they say she can make both of them to
perfection, too
With all her knowledge of politics she
has the taste OF an artist as is shern in
the soft browns and greens and subdued
French gray color values of her rooms.
The library, where she does her literary
work-for Mrs. Murphy is one of the
widely known Kansas authors, and has
published several books of merits
walled and lined with books
The Washington herald., 1914-03-08
Put II Up to Spouse.

MIR. Murphy and I had a lot OF fun
over the first letters that urged my can
didacy." said Mrs. Murphy. tossing a
big, pile Of mail on the table She had
t.st returning from a trip to the Progress
i've banquet at Topeka, and a corsulta-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
PERSONAL POINTS

Mr.. and Mrs. John Volk, 1903 Fifth
avenue, left yesterday for a trip TO
Charlevoix, Mich.
c. H. March. 1O45 Twelfth street,
has returned from a three weeks bus
mess trip TO Florida.
T H. Dolly and family. 931 Tween
tieth street, left this morning on an
extended trip to Petoskey, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs Ben Mitchell, 735
Twenty-second street, left this morn
ing for two weeks trip to Penbine,
Wis.
Misses Mable Hamilton and Freda
Klockau left this afternoon on the
steamer st. Paul for a vacation trip to
St. Louis.
Mrs. James Thorne returned this
morning TO her home in Reading, Pa,
after spending several weeks with
friends and relatives in the city.
Mrs f. T. Dolly and children. Helen.
Ann and Edward, S36 Twenty-third
street, have returned home after
spending five weeks at Gary, Ind.
John {. Bothner of Fort Wayne. Ind,
is a guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. 4. COrcoran. 6O2 Thirteenth street.
Mr.. Bothner is one of the leading real
estate dealers of Fort WAYNE. He is
a relative OF Mrs. COrcoran.
Mrs. S. d. Ruggles OF Grinnell. Iowa,
stopped here last evening on her way
from the east for a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Sarah Lamont. Mrs.
Ruggles lived here for many years
and hosts of friends will welcome her
on her visit here.
Miss Marguerite Foote. who grad
uated recently from the stereotype de-
partment OF Browns Business college
OF this city. has taken a position as
stereotype teacher in Changers Bust
ness college. Aberdeen, s. ID. She will
begin her duties about Sept 1. Miss
Foote is an excellent operator of the
stereotype and no doubt will make
good in her new position.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
DECIDE TO HAVE
SINGLE NOMINEE
Democratic Senatorial Com
mittee Determines to Have
Candidate for Assembly.
Especial to The ArgusD

Aledo. Aug. Sat a meeting of tho
democratic senatorial committee for
the Thirty-third senatorial district,
held here yesterday. it was decided to
have but one candidate for the general
assembly. A resolution was passed en-
towering the committee to fill any
vacancies on the ticket which may oc-
cur.
The session was attended by A. NJ.
Thornton, Oquawka, chairman; John
Braucht, Aledo, secretary, and Louis
Funkenstein, Rock Island. There are
but two candidates out for the demo
cratic nomination for the state legis-
lature-W c. Maucker. Rock Island.
and E. l.. Werts, Oquawka.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
CHANGE OF VENUE
HAS Been TAKEN
Judge Bloodgood of Whiteside
County to Hear Objections
to Street Extension.
DRAINAGE CASE SETTLED
Agreement is Finally Reached in Old
Hampton Suit Which Has Been
Pending for Years.

A change Of venue was granted this
morning by Judge B. 5. Bell in coun-
" court in the hearing of objections to
the extension of Nineteenth street.
Moline. The court has property on
that thoroughfare and Judge Blood
good of Whiteside county will hear
the matter tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock.
Judge Bloodgood will also hear OBJ
jections to the paving of Seventeenth
avenue. East Moline. \ motion for
a change OF venue was asked by A
y. johnson. representing the objec-
tors and was granted by Judge Bell.
Yesterday objections Of the Tri-City
Railway company to the paving OF
Fifth avenue. Moline. were heard by
Judge Bell and the case taken under
Amusement Dietz < Dietz and Lane
& Waterman represented the conf
pany and J. VI. Johnston appeared for
the city The objections Of Margaret
Pierr 81 al 10 the small assessment
of the TRICKY Railway company will
be held Monday morning at o'clock.
Old Case Settled.
The Hampton Drainage district case
which has been pending in county
court for years, was dismissed yester-
day by agreement. the parties to split
the cost NJ J. McEniry appeared for
the district and Searle & Marshall for
the directors. An appeal TO the su-
preme court had been prayed by the
directors but this was withdrawn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
HUNDREDS HEAR
LADY ORCHESTRA
Pittsburgh Organization Pleas
es Crowd in Program at
Watch Tower.

The several hundred music lovers
who attended the initial concert of
the Pittsburgh Ladies' orchestra at
the Watch Tower last evening were
amply repaid by the excellence of the
program rendered. These ladies un.
der the direction of Albert ID. Lie
field organized three years ago and
the music was enjoyed by the gather
ing TO the fullest extent. Miss Ger
trude Harris. the famous WEIGH So
prano, featured the program with
some well rendered solos and Miss
Marie Dauberger, cornet soloist and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
NABBED ON FIFTH
AVENUE BY CAREY
H. ]. Bromley Fined in Police
Court for Not Bringing to
Halt in Rear of Car.

H. J. Bromley was the second often
der to be fined in police court
since Special Traffic Officer Pat Carey
changed his beat to Fifth avenue.
Bromley plead guilty TO violating the
section of the ordinance relating to
coming to a stop when driving a We
hicle in back of a street car which
was loading and unloading passengers.
He paid a fine of So and costs.
DIR. Perry Vessel, Moline whom it
will be recalled was arrested several
weeks ago by Special Officer Carey
on Seventh avenue on a charge of
speeding and who later informed Mag
istrate Smith that he was making an
emergency call at the time, was dis
missed this morning by Magistrate
Smith. The latter made personal in
yestigation of the matter and found
that the Doctors statements were
true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
FOREIGN PARCEL
POST SUSPENDED
Uncle Sam Cannot Take Pack.
ages Bound for France or
Germany at the Present.

Postmaster General Burleson has
advised postmasters throughout the
United States that the postal admin
istration of France and Germany hav-
ing informed the department by cable
gram that the parcel post service be-
tween those countries and the United
States is suspended until further no
tice.' Postmasters must decline to re-
ceive parcel post packages for mailing
to said countries until further ad-
vised.
Such parcel post packages for the
countries named as have been mailed
or which may be mailed inadvertently
hereafter will be returned to the send
ers and the postage prepaid refunded
to the senders."
Notice to Stockholders.
To all whom 1t may concern, and to
all the stockholders of Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05

Savings Bank, an Illinois corporation,
of Rock Island, Illinois.
You and each of you are hereby mott
fed that a special meeting of the
Stockholders of Rock Island Savings
bank is hereby called to be held IT the
banking office of said Rock Island
Savings Bank, number 231 Eighteenth
street, in the city of Rock Island, I'LL
nois, at the hour of four Cd o'clock in
| the afternoon on the eighteenth day of
August, A. d. 1914, for the purpose of
considering and acting upon a propo-
sition to consolidate said Rock Island
Savings Bank with the Rock Island
Savings Trust Company, corporation,
and under and pursuant to the banking
laws of the state of Illinois, and for
the transaction of such other business
as may lawfully be transacted at such
meeting.
Dated at Rock Island, Illinois, this
fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1914
II. S. CABLE,
P. GREENAWALT,
PHIL MITCHELL,
FRANZ HAPP,
E. w. HURST.
H. z HULL,
JOHN VOLK,
NJ O'CONNOR.
Constituting a majority of the direc-
tors of the Rock Island Savings Bank.
Jackson, Hurst & Stafford,
Attorneys.
All the news ali the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05

Miss Edna Keary, violin soloist are
artists on their respective instru-
ments.
Many of the people present at the
park last evening brought picnic bask-
cts with them in the afternoon and
enjoyed outdoor supper before hear
ing the concert.
The orchestra will give their
last program this evening at the Tow.
er with a varied program of instrp
mental and vocal selections, both old
time favorites and new and real
novelties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
DIVORCE ACTIONS
STARTEDIN COURT
Mrs. Bessie Golf Wants Decree
From Husband on Ground
of Drunkenness.

Two suits for divorce we're filed
this morning in circuit court. Mrs.
Bessie Con brought action against
her husband Harvey Golf. The couple
was married in this city August II,
1911 and separated April l, 1914.
Drunkenness is charged. The custody
of a two year old daughter is asked
as we'll as So a week temporary ali
mony.
Desertion is the ground on which
Mrs. Esther Mcguire seeks a decree
from her husband Daniel l.. Mcguire.
They were married November %,
1910 and on March 1, 1912, the de-
PENDANT is alleged to have left his
wife H. NJ McCaskrin is the attorney
in both suits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05

cools ana rests those feet and you
fOrSet they are there. Do your feet
sweat ana smell bad? Then you want
TONGO quick, for TONGO makes
them healthy again. 1t restores cir
culation. II gives them a nice. soft,
clean skin like baby's, and your
tight shoes won't hurt any more
Nothing like TONGO for foot com
fort and foot health. Csc all drug
gtsts. or sent prepaid. by Dennison
Pharmacal Co, Chicago. Get il today
and have well feet Tomorrow.
You Will always ind Tongo at John n.
Rchneider's. GbaE. D. Strat.'s. Otto y.
Ever's, A. .. Keiss and College FhCr-
macy, Rock IslS1d, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
The New "POIo Boat Hats" are Here

If you admire Smart Millinery you'll want
to- see these GILLETTE cables, the "Polo
Boat hats are the latest craze in Paris"
The Directoire and the revised Merry
Widow" brought out by Georgette are also in
high favor, both abroad and at the fashion
centers in this country. Our showing of these
is meeting with most enthusiastic approval
Among the novelties of the hour in Millinery
are huge Pansies and Poppies of Velvet
combined with some rubberized material.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05

Pittsburgh sends $4,000 soldiers,
Cleveland 5000 Immigrants from
Austria and the Balkans in these
days should have round-trip tickets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
C.S.M cebe.& Go:
For Gracious Sake,

Stop talking and looking blue, as though
the whole responsibility of Europe's trou-
BILE rested on your shoulders.
Look Up and Talk Up.
This, your biggest store is full to the limit
of all kinds of goods which you need and can
buy as you want. Our system-Buy Low
Sell Low, has never worked better than right
now Hundreds of new customers are find
ing out definitely that their greatest saw
ings are found here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
GOLF CADDlES' TOURNEY

Boys Employed al Rock Island Arsenal
Club Course Having Contest.
The annual caddies' tournament is on
at the Arsenal Golf club. the first
match play taking place today In the
qualifying round, played yesterday
afternoon. Arthur Johnson made low
score. with Billy Willis, last years
champion, a close second. The scores
follow:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
CITY CHAT
(Advertisementrl

(Advertisements)
Buy home OF Reidy Bros.
For express. call William Trefz.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Independent Express & Storage.
Z. l. 9Sl.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05
HolU Lucky Women VIII
Be If The Buy Silk Petit
coats at These Prices.

Just now Women may buy good re-
liable silk petticoats at $1.39, $1.95 and
S2.45.
Just received some white cambria
double panel petticoats with scalloped
embroidered bottoms, both regular and
extra large sizes, underpriced at $1.00.
Those Women's beautiful crepe night
gowns will be on sale again Thursday
at o'clock, at just 32c. None to deal
ers at &c.
More of those handsome house dresses,
at 8 o'clock for 36c. Don't crowd-one
to a customer, 36c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-05

but why tor
ture them furth-
er ? Get TONGO
and them out
OF their misery.
TONGO gives in
slant relief. 1t
: q OF n es and