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with hight younger than her face
light that attends the eternal wistful child
within us-but beneath the shining gaze
were shadows and her cheeks were over
pale. She was slim enough to look tall in
spite Of the clOak-hke affair Of dark blue
glove cloth that fell from her shoulders
to her ankles in overwhelming folds.
Through all his inspection the mans
face never changed. He looked her over
deliberately and deliberately let down the
little ladder that gave access to the OBJ
servers seat. He helped her up without a
word, strapped her in and then turned to
pour out voluble instructions in dialect to
the bronze statue that stood at attention,
black eyes fixed on his masters face, red
lips repeating like prompter at Latin
theatre all that his master said"
When they had gone some fifty miles
Andrea commands the silent aviator to
take her back at once.
"'You asked me to take you with me-
said the man in the same calm voice, and
l don't happen to be going back"
He does not go back. And Andrea Pei
lor presently finds herself set down in
mysterious colony Of natives in an IN
known wilderness, with no other person
of her own color save the bird man, whom
for lack Of any other name she calls White
Man.
Since the plot of this book is the chief
thing, it would be criminal to reveal it to
any prospective reader. One must find
out for ones self the reasons and the out
come of this unusual adventure, must ex-
perience for ones self the thrills which Mr..
Chamberlain has so lavishly provided.
White Man isn't at all contribution to
literature, but it will give honest pleasure
TO those who like novels with plenty OF
action and romance.
WHITE MAN BY GEORGE AGNEw CHAM
BERLAIN. BObbs, Merrill Company. $l.75.
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"White Man"
By DOROTHY SCARBOROUGH.

N/HITE NAN, by George Asnew
~ Chamberlain, is an extremely en-
tertaining yarn. You don't believe that a
bit of it could actually have happened, but
that, of course, is inconsequental and ir-
relevant. Ii you are depressed with read
ing overmuch Russian gloom, or blud-
geoned with war books, or nauseated with
sex stuff, try this for change. You can
for time forget your agitation over the
prices of things, or your mental strain
connected with income tax returns, or
your perturbation over the approaching
aridity of the nation by giving an evening
to this romance, even though you'll not be
permanently enriched by the experience.
The scene Of this adventurous love story
is In South Africa, where the climate is
temperamental and dramatic, and where
all sorts of creatures, from mosquitoes to
bull elephants lend excitement TO the sit
nations, and where natives furnish local
color in abundant blackness.
The events of this whizzing novel move
win scenario rapldlty and variety. Andrea
Pellor, impoverished British maiden of
aristocratic family, is on her way to marry
her fance in South Africa. As she is IS
and he So, with much wealth but little be-
sides to commend him, she is not enihu-
siastie over the prospect. TO escape for a
few minutes the boredom Of hotel dance
she slips away to the beach, where she
sees white man and native making
ready to mount in an airplane. Craving
q new sensation for half hour, she says,
please, Mr.. Man, take me with you"
We read:
'She was certainly something TO see and
TO wonder it. Her brown hair was a bit
musSed like sea leased into catspaws by
puffs of air. Her eyes of Irish blue danced
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century, from Muybridse's "Zoopraxo-
scope TO the familiar product OF to-day,
is told in sympathetic detail; the nlcchan-
ism of the camera and protector are de-
scribed and the methods by which various
screen results are obtained explained in
terestingly. One learns that the "ani-
mated cartoon" requires the services of
thirty artists working constantly for
week to produce 500 foot strip of film,
known in the trade as "iiaif reel; that
audiences do not laugh when custard pies
are thrown into ladies' faces, though this
is the most humorous of all screen stua-
tons when the victim is man; and that
cannibals get 50 day for "aeting in the
movies" Why some good actors fail as
screen stars and vice versa, what makes
vehicle wheels appear 10 Turn backward
on the screen and why actors don't break
their necks when they fall off the pyra-
mids are among the curious and interest
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that extraordinarily alert person from
Scotland Yard, Furneauxf From The Isle
of Jersey, if you please.
The ingredients of Mr. Tracy's novel;
a book to be read at one sitting, or at
least in one day-are extremely good.
They are highly picturesque, "colorful,"
without being bizarre. The story is,
furthermore, nearly all action. 1t would
make superb movie play. 1t is not so
satisfactory as it might be, in cloth COW
ers, because Mr.. Tracy will interject his
little conventional remarks on the marvel
of all this happening in staid Londan and
because the love theme is trite and too
obviously written into the action so that
love story will be present. Americans viii
think Frank Theydon very stupid in
despairing of his love because the girls
father had millions and he had not much
more than enough to live on, earned by
his pen. Americans will like greatly Mr..
Tracy's use of one of their countrymen, a
Chicagoan, to work out the plot, while de-
ploring the queer dialect Mr.. Tracy puts
in his mouth.
1t is disappointing, too, not to so more
deeply into the story that lies back of the
eliminating events. Too much is left to
conjecture there. Conjecture, which is the
life of mystery story for several hun
dred pages, has no place in the last dozen.
To compare Number Serenteen with 4
good story by Wilkie Collins, would be
harsh. Suffice to say that it provides a
restful exciting evening or afternoon.
NUMBER SEVENTEEN. BY LorTIs Tracy.
New York: Edward j. Clode. $50.
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ing phases of the motion picture indus
Try discussed by the author.
For one who has been SO intimately as
ISOLATED with the motion picture business
Mr.. Croy is singularly frank in discussing
its literary shortcomings. He admits that
the general run Of screen ''storics" are
about fourth reader grade and that the
men who control the industry are much
more concerned over the present nickel
than the future dollar.
1--WE got something big" exclaimed q
scenario writer to one of the film mag
mates. I've got the finn rights to Pudd''s-
head IVilsOn!'
The film magnate, Mr.. Crov records,
took the announcement calmly. With an
expressive shrug he replied:
ave don't want TO knock the Presl-
dent"
now MOTION PICTURES ARE MADE.
BY HOMER CROY. Harper Brothers. -.
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Number Seventeen"
Louis TraCy's Latest
BY GRANT M. Overflow.

In his novel published last fall, Diana
L Of the Moorland, Mr.. Louis Tracy
achieved mighty good murder mystery
tale, as Mr.. w. B. Mccormick certified
to readers Of Books aud the Book World
and as many readers have since certified
10 themselves. In Number Seventeen,
which Mr.. Clode has just published, Mr..
Tracy does it again. Perhaps, as a mat
tel Of fact, did it earlier; for footnote
TO a conversation informs us that Num-
Der Seventeen was written before August
], 1914. Which, we hasten to add, is en-
tircly immaterial to the main action Of the
tale
4 successful young author living at IS
Inncsmore Mansions, London, observes a
caller at No. IL, next door, where resides
a g.ntlewoman. The caller is very evil
IDENTIFY 4 gentleman and person of some
distinction. He appears at IL 80 p. NJ,
but remains not more than five minutes
The next morning the gcn1ewOman is
found strangled to death.
Our author 1.-THE hero, not Mr. Tracy
has an appointment to meet the next day
a very rich man interested in aviation and
in preventing the use of the airplane in
war. The meeting is purely to- enable
Frank Theydon 70 prepare a magazine
article Naturally Mr.. Theydon is dis
mayed to find that Mr.. James Creighton
Forbes, millionaire and philanthropist,
and father of a lovely girl, is presumably
the last person who saw his neighbor alive.
Have We sand enoughl We think so.
But what is a reader to make of a murder
Whrre an evilly grinning ivory skull, very
tiny and carven Of ivory, is the token of
Il slayer? What is reader 10 make of
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| IOmer Croy on "HOW Motion Pictures Are Made"

through the same medium of the speaking
are. All education will be by means of
films, the author believes, and he indicates
in some detail methods of adapting the
motion picture to the teaching of ancient
history, mathematics, science and Seog-
raphy. Indeed Mr.. Croy's enthusiasm and
confidence in the power Of the unaided
film to convey any sort or human mes
sage leads to the suggestion that mankind
may, through the cinema return to some
thing approaching the picture writ
ing" of the primitive Indians if
not the photographic word signs of
the Chinese; certainly the range of reeog-
nizable emotions and ideas already in
cluded in the repertoire of any motion
picture star and almost completely stand
ardized, so that the registering" of any
one of them conveys always and To every
one the same meaning, is much greater
than the possible range of even the most
complicated combination of brush strokes.
Mr.. Croy writes from the inside when
discussing the movies, for he has been
motion picture actor, one gathers, see
mario editor, one suspects, and a producer
OF director Of film productions. He was
in Singapore making motion pictures
when the European war began and ran up
against rigid censorship that put stop
20 photographic activities in the British
POSSESSIONS No such censorship obtained
in the Spanish war, the first armed con-
flict after the development of the motion
picture camera, and not the least interest
ing incident related by the author is of the
movie operator who risked his life at the
battle of Santiago only to find, after dodg
ing Spanish bullets all day, meanwhile
turning his crank industriouslv, that some
thing was wrong with the mechanism and
he had not made single foot of pictures!
The company that sent him ont, however,
was not to be baked so easily: the battle
of San Juan Hill was staged in New
Jersey and shown to huge and delighted
audiences all over the world In tragic
contrast is an episode of the battle of
Verdun. Motion picture photographers
in the war just ended used cameras con-
tanning a gyroscopic stabilizer operated
by compressed air, so they were not under
the necessity of mounting their "boxes' on
tripods being mistaken for ma
chine gun operators. The gyroscope
keeps the camera level and steady while
held in the hands and the compressed air
also operates the film mechanism. J. A.
Dupre, French photographer, advancing
with the troops at Verdun, was killed while
seeking shelter; his camera, the mechanism
still in operation, fell across his knees
with the lens still pointing at the advanc-
ing Germans, and one of the most won-
derful pictures of the whole war resulted!
The marvellous development Of the mo-
ton picture in less than quarter Of
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Johan Bojers novel, The Great Hunger,
went into second printing ten days after
publication. Joe Hcrgcshcimcr was
credited with an assist by Box Scorer
Howard w. Cook.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
MONTHLY REPORT
OF NURSE GIVEN

Forty-four patients were cared
for during January by Miss Alice
Thompson, visiting nurse, and her
assistant of the Rock Island Visit
ing Nurse association, according to
a report submitted by Miss Thomp-
son. Her report follows:
Calls, 302; patients, A; patients
dismissed, 10; patients removed to
hospital, 1; patients given to the
care of the family, 2; patients leav-
ing town, /; deaths, 8; patients re-
naming, 27; metropolitan calls,
81; metropolitan patients, 2; met
ropolitan collection, $1,000; fees
collected, S4S; incidental expense,
So: articles loaned, one wheel
chair, two sheets, three pairs of
blankets, eight binders, u mater
nifty pads. three dOuche cans, eight
air cushions, three bedpans and
one basin.
Donations of supplies were made
by the Rock Island Red Cross chap
ter, Horace Mann school, Parker
laundry, Mrs. I. s. White, Covenant
bible class, Mrs. S. s. Davis and the
City Steam laundry.
Drs. Snivefy, Paul, De Silva. VIII
liams. Friedman. Souders and Brad
ford of Rock Island, and Drs Beck,
DondanvilIe and Human Of Mo-
line.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

making preparations to collect the
taxes which it provides and is put
ting all it's efforts into airing the
taxpayers to fulfill the obligations
imposed.
The bureau has arranged to seno
an advisory force of several thOus-
ands of deputies and agents to as
sist taxpayers. These officers Will
be stationed at convenient points
where they may be consulted with
out charge. Taxpayers should take
the initiative and get in touch with
these revenue men for any needed
advice and assistance in preparing
returns.
The forms for the taxpayers for
use in making their returns are
being printed and will be in the
hands of collectors between Febru-
airy Is and March /. A supply VIII
be mailed to all banks, postmasters
and corporations; while forms for
individuals will be mailed to all who
made and filed a return for last
wear"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
TESTING J1NGLES
Fake Insurance.
By o. Bonney Brink


The guy who comes into my house,
When I'm away and works my
spouse
To buy his cheap insurance;
Who calls again whenever he
Thinks he'll unload policy
Is not without endurance.
Just such a gink as this arrived
And, by hypnotic eye, contrived
To get my wife's consent
To sign her name upon the roll
That sure would put US in the hole
And cause us to repent,
This guy, endowed with kindly
heart,
Assured friend wife 1 might depart
For wonder realms hence;
And thus he proved to her that she
Would not be left in poverty
But get kale from his minis.
He only wanted ninety-three
SimoleOns every year, you see
Until ten years elapse.
For this amount, two thousand
bones
Would be the sum friend wife owns
When I'm dead, perhaps.
The profit thirty dollars give
Pays them enough so they can live
And wallow deep in wealth,
The while they keep secure my
kale-
The sixty-three, until I fail
And die for want of breath.
I'm not immune to death. Who
knows
How soon I'll turn up my pink toes
And join the angels grouped?
Who'll want to know of my de-
mise
If I was fastened to the skies
By simply being duped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
new METHOD
COUNTY SAVING
approximately $4,000 in Fees Is
Accrued Through Treasurer
Collecting Taxes
PAYMENT WILL BEGIN TODAY.
Books Ready for Business in Rock
Island and MOline-One Week
Later in Country.

Approximately $4,000 in fees
will be saved through the county
treasurer acting in the capacity of
township collector, according to
County Treasurer W. H. Whiteside.
The cost of the new system, it is
estimated, will not exceed $4,000,
while the two per cent fee hitherto
allowed various township coliec-
tors aggregated about $4,000.
Citizens of Rock Island and Mo-
line began today to pay taxes under
the new state law which abolished
the office of collector and gives the
work to the country treasurer. Col
lection in the rural townships will
begin about week later.
1t was at first thought that no
fees would be allowed the country
treasurer for the collection of taxes,
any expense incurred thus it was
surmised would of necessity be paid
from the county general fund An
examination of the statutes reveals
supreme court decisions, however,
which authorize the county to col
lect the usual two per cent fee for
merly allowed township collectors.
convenient pldCCS AOl SOilSSbioi
of taxes in addition to the county
treasurer's office in the court house
have been arranged by Mr.. White
side. They are:
Moline, South Moline and Hamp-
ton townships at Moline city hall.
Port Byron and Coe townships at
two Port Byron banks.
Cordova township at Cordova
bank.
Canoe Creek and Yuma townships
at Hillsdale banks.
Drury township at American
Trust & Savings bank, Muscatine.
Buffalo Prairie township at Buff
falo Prairie bank
Edgington township at State bank
of Reynolds.
Bowling township at Taylor
Ridge bank.
Coal Valley township at store of
Knapp & Leas, Coal Valley.
Black Hawk, South Rock Island
and Rock Island township books
will be in the office of the treas
urer at the court house.
Each of the banks will receive
$50 for this work. The tax payers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
BOOZE POURING
ACROSS BRIDGE
Hundreds of Gallons of Liquor Be-
~ ing Struggled Into Iowa, Au-
thOriies Believe.
MARSHAL'S OFFICE Is NEEDED
Lack Of Enforcement of Zone Laws
Only Permitting Numerous
Violations Daily.

That hundreds of gallons of Ii
quor are being transported into
Iowa by way of Rock Island is the
firm belief of local authorities, who
also set forth the need Of a United
States marshaPs force in Rock Is
land now as never before
During the several months that
a marshaPs Office was maintained
in the city great quantities of Ii
quor were con6scated and most of
it was taken from those attempting
to wend their way into Iowa in de-
fiance of the bone dry laws.
Friday night Davenport federal
agents seized 200 quarts of whisky
when they stopped an automobile
driven by William Speth as he was
crossing the bridge into Davenport.
THE Davenport federal men say
that Speth stated that he had pur-
chased the whisky in Rock Island
and was trying to get it into Daven-
port.
He was released Saturday under
bonds amounting to $500 pending a
hearing next Saturday. The con-
fisCatiOn of the liquor marked one
of the largest hauls made by the
Davenport federal agents for sew
eral months Enforcement of the
federal laws in Rock Island prob
ably would put an end to the Illegal
transportation of liquor, the au-
thorities say.
Others, who claim inside knowl-
edge" Of conditions, say that ring
Of professional liquor transporters
has been working in Rock Island
and Davenport since Jan. !, when
the enforcement of the federal Ii
quor zone laws was practically
stopped with the ending of the
United States marshaT's office here.
Mostly Absent.
Although Deputy United States
Marshal John Murray was sent to
Rock Island to reopen the local Of
fees, his presence has been limited
to but few days because of other
duties out of the main Office at
Springfield Under presidential
order, the Rock Island marshaIs
office is allowed to remain until
March l.
Taking advantage OF the mild
weather experienced during Janu-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
MODERN wOODMFN OF AMERI-
"a ATTENTION.

All members of the NJ. w. A. are
invited to attend the meeting Of
Camp No. % on Tuesday evening,
Feb. Il. at the I. o. o. F. hall. Mat
tiers of Importance in regard to
rates viii be discussed. Delegates
to the head camp will be there and
other speakers. All Woodmen are
urged to attend.
PIERCE KANE,
Venerable Council.
L. K. EIHL, Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

airy, liquor -smugglers are said to
have broken paths across the river
before the ice passed out in order
to transport liquor across to Iowa
in rowboats Residents with homes
near the river in the west and of
the city assert that they have wit
messed such performances on nu-
merOus occasions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

must be on inspection one day in
each township before the collections
begin and Mr.. Whiteside is arrang-
ing to make that provision this
week. In each township the time
and place of their exhibit will be
advertised and after the books have
been there one day they will be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

are expected to make payment at
the banks or places enumerated
above on or before April Is or be Ii
able to a publication fee as penalty.
The collectors books were turned
over to the county treasurer by
County Clerk Henry B. Hubbard
Friday Under the law the books
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
TAXES MUST Be
PAID PROMPTLY
No General Extension of Time Be-
yOnd March ID for Settling With
L. S, McCabe Says.
MUST CARRY OUT PROGRAM.
Filing of Reports Should Start at
Once and All Accounts Set
tied By Date Set.

That there will be no general ex-
tension of time beyond March Is for
the filing of returns and for the
payment of income and excess prof
its taxes due on that date, is the
decision of Daniel c. Roper, COM
missioner of internal revenue. The
announcement was made today by
Collector Z. D. McCabe at Peoria,
Immediately following the approval
by the senate and house of the re-
port Of the conferees on the new
revenue bill.
1T is necessary to get the initial
tax payments in by March Is, says
Commissioner Roper mo other
course is possible. Some months
ago, the treasury issued Certifi-
apprOXImating $500 100000 matur-
ing March is. The first payment
of the income and excess profits
taxes for 1918 was planned for the
date, to meet this huge obligation.
THE American people have
proven that there is no emergency
too great to meet or to be solved
by cooperation. This situation is
another emergency which can be
overcome by cooperative effort.
The bureau extends its every force
toward this end and l am relying
upon the people to meet the situa-
ton intellectually.
The internal revenue bureau
must carry out the program pre-
scribed in the new law, which re
quires all returns for 1918 to be
filed on or before March IS. 1919,
and requires the first quarterly
payment or the entire payment to be
made on or before that date.
Every taxpayer who can pos
sibly do so is urged TO make full
payment of his income tax on or
before March Is. The quarterly
payment method is intended for
taxpayers whose financing of the
tax at one time would tend to upset
local financial conditions.
Practically a Law.
1.-THE approval of the report of the
conferees by the senate and house
of representatives brings the new
revenue bill to the point where ii
may be assumed to be a law. The
internal revenue bureau has been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

The of Csco has many advantages and all of them
help add to the stock of satisfaction in the kitchen
Crsco is economical 1t stays and you the
last spoonful without waste Crsco adds to household
conenent in that good cooks become better cooks
You make cakes with Csco and be sure that they will
be delicious and stay moist and fresh unusually long time
Your pastry will melt in your mouth. Fried goods
at all greasy.
E=@r Crisco comes to you in alright, sanitary
packages free from all the impurities
==-zzzp--ss1 which bulk lard is exposed. 1t costs
HEx7f: about the same as fats sold in bulk You
= -: get it in various sizes, one pound
FAN and 1n,yard net vva;obt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10

turned over to the banks for col
lection.
Taxes Higher.
Owing to increases in township
school and city taxes, assessment
will be a trifle higher this yea
than last. State taxes, hoWeve
will be slightly lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
tn Cure q Gold in One nax

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUN-
me (Tab]ets) It stops the
Cough and Headache and works off
the Cold. E. W. GROVES sigma
ture on each box 30c.-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
SCHRIyER FOR MAYOR.

I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for mayor of the city Of
Rock Island subject to the will Of
the voters at the primary election.
H. NJ, SCHRIVER,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-10
Happiness IL, the Kitchen

Wouldn't you like to Join the supremacy contented house
wives who have found that Crisco much better than
lard?
With Cnsco is possible to have cleaner kitchen
Cscc has neither odor flavor. Crsco does smoke
easily as lard or other fats.
Crisco wholesome creake, wholly vegetable fat of
such consistent quality that the housewife need worry
about it, She knows that when where she
Crisco she can depend upon its purity.