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THE ROCTv ISLAND ARGUS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1913. 8 GROGAN INJURES PITCHING HAND Local Twirler Sustained Broken Thumb Shortly After Sign ing With Peoria. Within a few minutes of the time that "Happy" Jack Cretan of this city had returned a signed contract to the Peoria Three-Lamp team, he sustain ed n Injury to his pitching hand which will be the cause of his wearing bandage for some days to come. Grogan wu crossing Second avenue at Nineteenth street late Sunday after noon, when & reckless automobile driv er bore straight down upon him, with out sounding his horn. Grogan leaped to iafety. barely avoiding the radiator of the machine, which was traveling t a high rate of speed, but in ao do ing, slipped on the icy asphalt and fell with considerable force, breaking his right thumb. By the time that, the Rock Island boy starts for the south on his training trip, however, it is be lieved that his paw will again be in tact. Grogan signed aa a pitcher with the Pkin team of the I.-M. league last sea ron and latr att.ar.lifd his name to a Peoria contract. While with the Dis tillery city team Grogan pitched 14 frames, winning pine. ios.ing four, and ie being lost ij the forfeit shuffle. His work made a hit. with the Peoria manager and fans, with the result that he will mount the sla! for the "Whis ky" bunch once again when the gong rings for time. LAKE FOREST FIVE MEETS COLLEGIANS Augustana's basketball five will play one of Its hardest games of the season Thursday night when it meets the l.nke KoreBt collfge quintet on the lo cal college's floor. IntereHt In the com ing game Is running high, it being the flsl time the tvro institutions have met on the basketball floor. Lakr- Fo)'!'s prowess the game is well known, the I'realiji-. ,.n beit; contenders for Mate .rjiiors for several years. If Augustana successfully disposes of the Fcrester. the way is clear for bring ing home the state championship to Ai.gustana this year. . roach Conrad is putting the Luther at s through strenuous practice In prep nntlon for the game. It is probable t!ie same lineup will be retained as iii former games this season, with Sten and W. Swedburg at forward, At.dreen and Anderson at guard and V Swedburg at center. Next Tuesday. Willam and Vashti ernes here to battle with the local fiuintet The Ndo school has never von a basketball game from Augus tana. but ha." a strong team this year mid is determined to break the hoodoo. Augustana Is equally determined to keep up )s winning streak and a good ganio Is expected. WEN N ER B ERGS' TO U R TO BE THREE WEEKS The Wennerberg chorus of Augus tana college, the organization which has won distinction in many states by i's singing. Is planning a long trip at Raster tiiii;- through Iowa and Ne braska. The chorus will be absent three weeks cn the tour and will sing at 21 pla e.x, including some of the Iti'gevt cities in the two states. This year the organization, which is composed of 20 voices, is under the Ifadershlp of Prof. Berqulst. director of the conservatory. Judging by the work done so far. the tour should piove one of the most successful in years. The tentative schedule In cludes the following places: March 12 Galesburg. 111. March 13 -Burlington. Iowa. March 14 Ottumwa. Iowa. March 10 -Stanton. Iowa. March 16 -Fremont, Iowa. March 17 Had Oak. Iowa. March 18 Omaha, Neb. "Be Chummy" With Your Stomach Take good care of the digestion help the liver and bowels when necessary, and if there is any weakness' at anv time take a short couise of HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS right away. It 'will help ' your stomach "come back," relieve such ills as Loss of Appetite, Gas on Stomach, Heartburn, Belching, Indigestion, Constipation, Bil iousness, s ck Headache, Colds. Grip, Ma laria, Fever and Ague, and improve your health in general. KEEP A BOTTLE HANDY ALL THE TIME W. B. PATTON. WHO IS APPEARING IN APPLE BLOSSOMS" AT THE EMPIRE I J 1 .cr ,. .. .. 1- it Howard banjo act Brothers, in their flying ' constitute Xh topliner in Manager Doliy's bill for the first half ! at the Empire. Rare genius in muei-! cal art, in which the banjo is made 1 stunts. Frank Gcldie proves a grace to respond to the touch in the magic ful dancer, and Weston and 'Young of imitation, coupled with a novel convulse the house in song and mono acrobatic turn, make the act one ofjlogue. The bill taken in its entirety is th most pleasinsy that has been seen i creditable and should draw well for at the Empire this year. W. B. Pat-; the remainder of the first half. i March 19 Wahoe and Swedosburg, Neb. i March 20 Holdrege, Nejj. ! March 21 Bertrand and Funk, Neb. March 22 Axtell. Neb. I March 23 Lincoln, Neb. ; March 24 Okland, Neb. i March 25 Wahefield, Neb. i March 26 Wausa, Neb. ! March 27 Sioux City, Iowa. March 28 Gowrie, Iowa. Mar.Tj 29 Dayton. Iowa. March 30 Madrid, Iowa, i In addition to the chorus, a violinist !ar.d soloist will probably be carried on the tour. The Wennerberg chorus traversed jpiactically the same territory in a I tout four years ago and was hailed v ith enthusiasm wherever it appear ed, the banner audience greeting it at ! Holdrege. Neb. At that p ace the chor- Ud sang to a $300 house. ! The first concert of the season will be given at New Era. Iowa, on Thurs jdny night. January 20, und-.?r the aus ! pir es of the Zie.ler Memorial Lutheran hi',r?h. Other concerts will also be (given in Illinois ar.d Iowa in addition to tbebe included in the aunual tour. Collins Is Injured. St. Louis, Jan. 21. Nick Collins of Chicago, wrestling under the name of ; "Young Gotcb." was so badly hurt j when thrown by Albert Wasem of St. Iritis, UEing a toe hold, that he was ! unable to appear for the second fall. I The Chicagoan suffered a torn l;ga-' men in the left knee and a disloca- j ticn of the left ankle. The fall was j i secured in 55: 00. J Hobert McLean Best Skater St. Paul. Minn . Jan. 21 McLean of Chicago, international j championship ice skater, won bot'a j the mile and half mile races at the Western Skating association's carni- j val, which ended a three days' session. McLean defeated Harry Kadd and Walter Gunderson of Chicago in both events. 1J 3 J ton, the well known actor, company present a quaint and his comedy, "Apple Blossoms:" the Four Victors n their leaping gymnastic thrill AN UNPUBLISHED NOVEL Burnaby'a Handwriting Yas So Bad It Could Not Be Read. It was stated at the time of Colonel Burn;:!iy's death that he had left be hind him I lie mnnusript of a novel for which there was considerable competi tor among the publishers. This is o'lite true. The manuscript, a bulky jcirvel. was handed to me with discretionary power eitl.-er to pub lish it in self r to use it in connection with the proposed biography. Here a yitigti'nr and. as It finally proved, a fatal oiistaIc presented It self. Familiar for many years with Br.rafll'.v's hind writing. I could not after diliuei-t endeavor make out more than a i- nteii.-e here ami thore on the crowded page of manuscript. r.urnnhy's writlnjr v.ns. possibly with the exception of Oean Stanley's, the worst I ever saw. It loakt'd as if lie fore sitting rio'vn to write a letter lie h!d pulled a tivlx out of the hedge, mixed a litt'.e blacUinj; and then gone ahead. lie wrote the whole of his "KHe to Khivu" a:,d his "Hide on Horseback Through Asia Minor" with his own band. Hut before they reached the printer t!:ey were fairly written out by a copyist. , The hapless man used to make out as much r.s he could, then leave blanks for filling t:p which li had to soek the assistance of the author. Sometimes there were ir,r,re bhui'is in a page than words. Despairing of making anything of I the manuscript of the novel, it was ' submitted to a publisher, who turned upon it his , most skillful uecipherist. Neither head nor tail could be made of the manuscript, and the intention of publishing the novel was conse quently abandoned. Sir H. W. Lucy in Cornhill Magazine, CEMETERY CF SUICIDES. i I The Dreary Plot In Which Monte Carlo Buries Its Victims. Matiidn Betham-Kdwurds in her book "In the Heirt of the Vosges" advises ill visitors to Monte Carlo to go to the suicides" cemetery before those other places for which Monte Carlo is fa I mous. She describes the small inelo 6ure. walled in and hnving a gate of opet ironwork, always locked. "Mere, in close proximity to garden j rubbish." fhe s:iys. 'broken bottles ! and other n-fuse t-pst the suicides of ' Monte Carlo, buried by the parish ' graredi-y;er. without funeral and witn- oct any kind of religious ceremony, i Each grave Is marked by an up ' rlht lilt of wood, somewhat larger than thnt by which gardeners mark j their seeds, tir.d on which is painted a j number, nothing mf. Apart from j these are .stakes ilriven iuto the ground j which mark as yet unappropriated ! spots. The iudi'scribjihle dreariness of ; the scene !s heightened by two monu mental stones garlamied with wreaths and surrounded by flowers The first i records the memory of a young arti I sen and was raised by blR fellow j workmen; the second commemorates j brotherly aud ststeriy affection. Both ! suicides were driven to seif murder by ; play- "The remainder are mere numbers. There are poor gamesters as well as A I rich, end it is only or chiefly the poor ones who are put into the ground here. The bodies of rich t V.ks" relatives. If Identified, are immediately removed. Many suicides are buried at Nice and Mewoce. but the larger proportion fur ther off still." I That fellow Gotrox is a multimil lionaire. He has more iimnev than brains" uett. wn.it does he want brainsr-Xew York Time. wita ROLLER IS LOSER IN A ROUGH BOUT German Grappler Takes Two Straight Falls in Chicago Match. Chicago, Jan. 21. George Lurich, the big German-Russian grappler, not only wrestled but pummelled Dr. B. F. Roller into submission in their windup bout at the Globe theatre last night, taking two straight falls. Lurich gain ed the decision in the first fall with a chancery hold in 22:25 and in the second fall turned that trick with the same grip in 11:55. It was one of the roughest bouts ever seen in any ring and at various periods resembled a pugilistic encoun ter mqre than a wrestling match. In point of cleverness there was little to choose between the two, but Lur ich's great strength waa too much for Roller to handle. The men had been on the mat only a few seconds when rough tactics were started. There was jabbing, kicking and punching in a plenty, and neither man overlooked a chance to engage in the rough stuff. Lurich was the aggressor at every agle of the game from start to finish and he won by handling out more pun ishment than Roller was able to inflict. Only five times did the foreigner allow bis opponent to get behind him, and when he did get there i.t was for seconds only. Lurich's great strength enabled him to get away from Roller and to regain his feet. Whenever the foreigner got behind Roller it was a different matter, trj Roller was forced to struggle frantical ly to break the holds. Several times Roller essayed a toe hold, but each, time Lurich used his other foot to advantage, kicking his way out of trouble. Every bout of the four on the pro gram brought out an exhibition of rough wrestling. The 6emi-windup was a one fall affair between Ray mond Cazeau, the Italian, and Ilia Vincent, the Cuban. Cazeau gave the Cuban an awful mauling and so rough was the affair that three times the ropes around the ring were .broken. But the match went to the finish and after the dark skinned person had been badly punished by Cazeau. CHANGE IN W.-l. CIRCUIT Meeting Thursday to Decide Cities That Hold Franchises. Green Bay, Wis., Jan. 21. President Frank R. Weeks of the Wisconsin-Illi nois Baseball league yesterday issued a cal". for a special meeting of direc tors of that organization to be held in Milwaukee Thursday. The purpose PHILLY FANS ARE FULL OF OPTIMISM Charter DMla. Philadelphia. National league fang of this town have supreme confidence in Charley Dooin, and predict a bril liant season for him in 1913 if he doesn't have another run of hard luck. Dooin was baseball's bard luck man ager in 1912. A glimpse at the box scores will show that he hardly had his varsity string intact in the linefrp more than la days curing the cam paign. He was without Magee for weeks at the start. Just before the season opened Magee broke a finger and was on the shelf for a long time. Hans hobert spent more days in the hospital than he did at third base. Thougn the Phi.s played 152 games during the season, not one player took part in all the contests. Here is the number of games played and missed by the regulars: Played. Missed. Ludrrus H8 4 Knabe 126 25 Doolan 146 Lobert 65 37 Magee 132 26 Paskert 145 ' 7 Cravath 130 22 F M P 1 R V THEATRE -L' Where Everybody Goes Classy Act Pretty Scenery W. B. PATTON & CO. FOUR OTHER STAR ACTS Order Seats Early. Phone W. 708 Thursday, January 23 Golden Gate Girla 24 PEOPLE Phcne West 708. Only 4 More Days of Our 25 Discount on Hair Goods iLco opejujjyi stow cal. JtL of the meeting is to settle the ques tion of the circuit for 1913. At the last meeting the Aurora club, asked for two weeks in which to file an answer and state that city's posi tion relative to retaining its fran chise. Applications for membership in the league have been made by oth er cities and it Is necessary that the directors take steps at once to settle the question of the circuit. That a change in the circuit will be made is certain, and when announce ment is made of eight clubs it will be a surprise. Plans will be worked out at Thursday's meeting. Uvlck Is Easy for Brown. Omaha, Jan. 21. The 10-round fight in South Omaha last night between "Knockout" Brown and Billy Uvick was stopped before the end of the first round after Brown had all but knocked out his opponent. TO BE GOOD YEAR FOR WATERWAYS More Organizations Than Ever Before Engaged in Nation Campaign. Washington, Jan. 21. This year 1913 gives promise of being the great est in the history of navigation on the western hemisphere. Marking ex traordinary progress towards the es tablishment in the United States of permanent national system of wa terway improvement, with tjie nation al rivers and harbors congress strong er than ever, with more minor organ izations that ever before co-ordinate with it, embracing the interests of every river and harbor in the country, w ith the great railway systems becom ing more favorably inclined to co-op erate with other transportation inter ests in the solution of freight rate problems, and it is the year that will witness the opening of the Panama canal to the world's commerce, there- uy i s l7 71!,u f eventful 12 months in the hUHata h.s- tory of the engineer corps of the army of the United States. The canal will have been opened, and a civil government for the canal zone will have been organized, with an engineer officer at its head, in all probability, when, by reason of age (62 years), the chief of engineers. General William H. Bixby, will retire from active service just as the Christ mas season once more comes around. The valor and genius of American 6oldiers in war have a counterpart in the courage and ingenuity of Amer ican engineer officers fn achieving the victories of peace which have carried the nation forward on the highway to prosperity. The corps of engineers has been Intimately associated with every great public work, supplying j skill and inventive genius that have , wrought wonders in guiding aright the forward strides of the nation. The first steps taken in the direc- tion of employing the corps of engi- neers in the construction of public ' w orks was in 1824, when congress au- thorized a kind of mixed board of com- j mission to be appointed by the presi-! dent, composed of "two civil engineers j and such officers of the corps of en- gineers as he deemed proper to have ; surveys, plans and estimates made of j routes and canals, as he may deem of national importance in a commer- cial or miliary sense." j Next came the board of engineers ' for Internal improvements, which al- j though discontinued after a few years, j had in its place from time to time i special boards on rivers and harbors j improvements, confined mainly to the Atlantic and gulf coasts and to sur- veys of the inland water courses. : From this cr6talized the well and i highly organized work of the corps, I with the board of engineers for rivers ! and harbors. The corps of engineers j has always worked indispensab'.y with j the expansion of the republic. En gineer officers marked the foundation lines of the great system and reared upon it a superstructure whose strength and usefulness have illumi nated the intelligence of the whole nation with the great possibilities of its commerce. And tie Panama canal ! opening comes as a further splendid : revelation of the supreme usefulness j of the corps of engineers. j Two distinguished engineer officers Best Bargains ever Offered in this Dept. Still over $3,000 worth of hair to choos? Largest assortment in the tri-citic: Transformations off Cluster Puffs 2 off 1 8 inch human hair switches 69c 20 inch human hair switches 89c 22 inch human hair switch $1.70 32 inch human hair switch, $6.50 value now. . . $4.88 30 inch human hair switch, $5.50 value now . . .$4.13 Three separate strand switches $2.07, $2.87 and $3.57 PERFECT MATCH GUARANTEED. tfOUNG Emm Rock MRS. J. ST0CKHAM, Manager. will retire from active service this year on account of age. General Bixby will retire Dec. 27. Colonel William Rossell, next in rank, will retire Oct. 11. This will leave 11 colonels in the corps, from whom, pre sumably on account of rank will be chosen the next chief of engineers. They are in the order of their sen iority. Colonel Dan C. Kingman, who will retire March 16, 1916, in charge of the southeastern .division, Savannah district; Colonel William M. Black, northeastern division, first New York district; Colonel Solomon W. Roessle, second New Y'ork district; Colonel Fred V. Abbot, Boston district; Colon el Curtis McD. Townsend, president of the Mississippi river commission, St. Louis; Colonel George W. Goethals, engineer in charge of the Panama ca nal construction; Colonel John Mill is, Newport, R. I., district; Colonel John Biddle, at the head of the army war college, Washington, D. C; Colonel Harry F. Hodges, member of the Panama division, San Francisco dis trict, and Colonel Edward Burr, assist ant to the chief of engineers, Wash isgton, D. C. All are accomplished officers, honor graduates of West Point and all have brilliant records in the public service. TESTED AND PROVEN There Is a Heap of Solace In Being Able to Depend Upon a Welt Earned Reputation. For months The Argus readers have seen the constant expression of praise for Doan's Kidney Pills, and read about the good work they have dene in this locality. What - other remedy ever produced such convinc ing proof of merit? Mrs. W. A. Panell, 306 Fourth street, Kock Island, 111., saya: "1 think just an much of Doan's Kidney Pills aa ever. I am willing to confirm the testimonials I gave in their praise in lf'09. Nearly every member of 'my family has utsed Doan's Kidney Pills tnd we consider them excellent for ' kidnfiy troubIe- " Procured our , 6Upp,v of thJg remedy at the i Hou6e pharmacy and have Deen con. U inert of thir mrtta "When Your Back Is Lame Re member the Name." Don't simply ask foi a kidney remedy ask distinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that Mrs. Pannell had the remedy backed by home testimony. Fifty cents all stores. Foster-Mllburn company, pro prietors, Buffalo, S. Y. (Advertisement.) FOR LAGRIP AND MALARIA W TV rut waBMiiriMfl v a"i ... Scientifically combined, pure QUININE, pure WHISKY. NO SUBSTITUTES USED Taken before meals restores appetiM, taken before retiring insures sleep. A good medicine to keep in the house. A NATURAL TONIC. Protected by U. S. registered labels, to imitate is felony. Put up in bottles only and sold by all liquor dealers. MSB Island, 111. Umbrella and Parasols. Fashions change In umbrella n well as In clothes. We find on Tlsiting the London mntenm that George IV. nsed to carry a green silk umbrella fringed with gold and about twice aa large as the nmbrella of today. Parasols, too. have diminished in size since they first came into use. Henri Estienne, writ ing in 1373, speaks of a parasol as ca pable generally of sheltering four per sons from the sun. And when they diminished In circumference the ma terial remained of the heaviest. Red relvet parasols, with heary gold fringes, were carried by ladles of fash Ion in the days of Louis XIV. At that time it was possible, when crossing a bridge In Paris, to hire a parasol at one end and deposit It at the other, the charge for the "accommodation being a sou. London Chronicle. Why Madge Deolfned Tea. Madge, three years old. is of a posi tive nature and always ready with in dependent opinions. A woman visiting Madge's home sat next to the little girl at table and offered her a spoonful of her tea. which was declined with an' emphatic shake of the head. "Take a little." urged the visitor . "Just a little for your stomach's sake." "I ain't dot no tummlck ache." was the indignant reply.' Indianapolis News. All the Argus. news all the time The GRAND D. L. HUGHES, MANAGER. 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