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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

There are now 53,7S4 Daughters of the Revolution, and the hope is to find 100000 of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Uncle Sam is in control of the Philip pines, but not of the Filipinos This is the story of the first ten years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Beveridge is now called the Hobson of the Senate. He is four-battleship man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
IT IS INDEED.

 "You say Tottie Simpkins was robbed of diamonds valued at SCOOP That's what I said. "And she is only chorus girl?' "Only that" What do you suppose her salary is?' Twenty dollars a week. Isn't it wonderful how far some of those chorus girls can make a little money go?''
 AND HE DID. 'Td like to hold your little hand a minute," Said William Smythe to Anna Lulu Lee, The maiden said, q fear that you're not in it. Why don't you try your luck at hold ing me?'
 WARMED UP. "Why do you think he got fired?" "He was so hot when he went away"
 INTERRUPTED. He called her "Dear"-< In accents sweet and low, Which straightway made her eyes And cheeks divinely glow. He called her Dear
 While passion deeply stirred him, And might have said much more, Had not his wife oerheard him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

The friends of Senator Aldrich make it point not to mention currency bills when they meet him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

New Yorks 400" has become a "1100." The city grows and so does sassiety
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Don't wait for the clouds to roll by, for a clear sky means frost nowadays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Tulsa, Okla, is getting almost as much free advertising as Abruzzi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

AUTOMOBILING. Bubble, bubble, bubble Up and down the hill, Through the sunshine valleys Where the woods were still. Bubble, bubble, bubble Down a leafy lane, While the birds were singing Summer times refrain. Bubble, bubble, bubble Everywhere we durst. We'd have gone to glory, Had our bubble burst!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHAT HE MISSED.

Mark Antony had rare old time in his day"
 ''Plutareh says so." 'sWent to a great many banquets." That's right"
 Had a big appetite and great ca pacity for drink"
 .'I believe so."
 Played the races, loved the ladies and rolled 'em high in Rome" History declares he did" ''And yet, the poor duffer never saw baseball game"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
From What to Eat.

From what to Eat
 @ HE cocktail, according to Miss (0 Phoebe Couzins, should be re-
 garded quite differently from what the prohibltionists would wish the credulous public to believe.
 "The cocktail is of patriotic origin" says Miss Couzins, "and its inventor, Betsy Flanagan, ought to be immortalized by her statue being placed in Statuary hall in the capitol alongside Miss Frances E. Willard
 Betsy Flanagan was an Irish lass and lived in Virginia at the time of the Amer ican revolution. She was known every where as 6 good cook and a good, whole souled, hot-tempered American patriot, who hated the British red coats with all the intensity of her nature She was a good looking girl, and an officer in the continental army made her his wife. It was always her innermost wish to follow her husband on his marches and through the battles of the war, but he would not permit it. He was wounded and died, after which his wife moved to New York state, where she opened up an eating and drinking place located between White Plains and Tarrytown. Here it happened that she had for a neighbor British tory,
 
 need sleeping accommodations here for two nights That is dollar. For an- other dollar they can easily stay here two days, have all they want to eat, see at least one show and indulge moderately in tobacco. I know one youngster who comes over from New Haven every week of his life, and, outside the fare, he never hits town with more than $2. One dollar goes for a room. For a nickel, if need be, he can buy the "makin's" and roll his own cigarettes. Gallery seats at vaudeville Friday and Saturday night run his expenditures up to s1.55. That leaves him 45 cents to throw away on food, and he has never been hungry for moment. One visit to the free lunch precedes the glass of beer or milk he orders in eacn place, and one visit to the free lunch fol- | lows it. At 15 cents a day he assures me one can live on good food, we'll cooked | and in sufficient quantity. Which fits | neatly into the figures recently prepared | by statistician, who declares that the | free lunch offered the patrons of New | Yorlx's cafes each year costs the proprie- | tors mt less than S10.00O coo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
WORSE.

"Can you imagine anything worse than a bachelor being asked to hold some body's baby?"
 "Yes, a married man asked to hold somebody else's baby"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
THE AMERICAN COCKTAIL

who was fond of chickens and game cocks. Betsy hated the tory because he was against us,' and she considered him at once her personal enemy, and decided to institute warfare on his chicken coop, with the result that the flock of cocks dwindled day by day, much to the dis comfiture of the loyal red coat.
 Betsy was celebrated for a certain brand of drink she brewed for the Amer ican continentals. She called it 'bracer.- On one particular evening she invited the American and French officers to chicken supper. After the cookery of Betsy had been sampled and praised by the patriots. she invited them into a back room where she has prepared surprise for them. On the sideboard there were lined up as many 'bracers' as there were guests, and in each glass there was placed bunch of feathers from the tails of the game cocks, legitimately confiscated by patriotic Betsy from the barnyard of the Briton. Toasts were drunk to Betsy's patriotism, but it was left to a Frenchman to lift up his bracer in one hand and the feathers in the other, and with bow to Betsy and the O1flcerS, eXclalmed: 'NlVa la COCKTAIL. The word struck home, and has ever since then been with the American people,"
  be very bad indeed, and senators are incapable of making such. All attempts in that way during the debate on the naval appropriation bill Wednesday aft ernoon reassure us that the Senate does well to stick to seriousness. An item in the appropriation bill was for money to purchase and feed cows. It might have been a natural question as to whether a COW is legitimate part of a navy, but the proposition to amend by calling them "sea cows'' was out of or der. Senator Hale spoke of ''horse ma rines" Senator Perkins was atrocious in suggesting an item for ''dog watches, and Senator Hepburn even worse in pro- posing another for ''sea dogs" Both of these puns on the dog were reprehensi- ble in the highest degree because they led directly to Senator Bacon's question as to the '-nne-tails." However, since this was the last straw, and ended the punishment, the gentlemen who brought it on may be forgiven. But don't do it again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
About Persons.

Judge J. J. Mayneld. candidate fo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05
ENOUGH.

ENOUGH. 'On what grounds do you seek this di- vorce?" asked the judge. My wife declares that Three Weeks is the grandest book she ever read, your honor"
 The decree was immediately granted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

the grandest book she ever read your honor" The decree was immediately granted
 CRANKY
 That man has cause
 The gods to thank
 Who 44eyef has
 Been called crank.
 Most every chap
 You meet, gee whiz
 Inclines to think
 His brother is!
 FORCE OF HABIT. 'What is his most distinguishing trait?n .'He Is a confirmed listener" ''Meaning?'' He is married"
 TO ALL.
 Cheer up, my friend,
 And happy be,
 Remember this
 The climates free!
 REPLIES. Shhh! Have you taken 'em off yet? A political convention in the stone age must have been something fierce. Family jars are all right-when they are filled with jam. Footprints on the sands of time are not made by the bare-footed races. When girls face is her fortune dim pie considerably increases it's value. We have an idea that the leading citizen of Skidoo, New, is an up-to-date person.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Entered at the Birmingham Ala'' postoffice as seeond-class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-05

Washington Bureau Age-Herald, 142l G street, N. w.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
VOTE EoR SENATOR.

Republican voters should not forget
that on election day they have an OPP
portunity to vote on the question
whether Cummins or Lacey shall go
to the United States senate. and that
the majority will rule. Every Repub-
lican candidate for the legislature and
every prominent Republican in Iowa
is pledged to accept the result of this
vote as final and conclusive. The vote
will be by ballot and on separate
slip from the general Australian bal
lot In order to vote 1t will be neces-
sary to make written request for a
ticket The following must be signed
and only Republicans will be per-
mitted to vote:
Il request a primary election ballot
for the purpose of voting at this pri-
mary election for a candidate of the
Republican party for the office of sen
ator in the congress of the United
States. | declare that I affiliate
with and am in sympathy with the
principles of the Republican party;
that it is my intention to support
generally at this general election the
nominees OF such party; that have
not enrolled with nor participated in
any primary election or convention of
any other political party since the
first day of the last preceding year"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
officials of the Illinois Glass Com

Officials of the Illinois Glass Com
pany at Alton state that many condi-
tional orders are being received, in
which the option is reserved to double
the order in case of Republican sue
cess at the election next Tuesday.
One southern firm instructed that il
Taft is elected to double it's order,
but if Bryan is elected to allow it to
remain as given. AS the writer of the
letter and the officials of the company
are all Democrats, the letter is free
from suspicion of being political in
character. One of the officials Of the
company is quoted as saying that at
ter the election it is probable the last
of the glass factories at Alton will
be fired up and the plant will resume
in full, if Taft wins. So many orders
that have been coming in are condi-
ton on Bryan's defeat the glass com
pany will not start another furnace
until the situation is cleared.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
Vote For Thirteen Electors.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Mention
was made in the news columns of the
Nonpareil few days ago of the cir
cumstance that the forthcoming, pres
idential election will be the first in
Iowa since the establishment Of the
Australian ballot system without the
party circle at the head of the ballot.
This is matter of more Importance,
of greater possibilities for political &C.
cident, than the attention 1t Is receiv-
ing would signify.
Iowa is entitled to thirteen votes in
tae electoral college. There is no such
probability, but it would be possible,
in the confusion likely to characterize
the polling, for one or two Of these
votes to stray into the Bryan column.
Such a thing would, of course, be &C.
cident, solely so, but accident is no less
to be guarded against than any other
form or degree of calamity.
Heretofore, with the circle at the
head of his ticket, the Iowa Republi-
can, to cast vote for all of his party's
candidates for presidential elector, has
had simply to put a cross in tae circle.
Now, with the cirlce gone, he must
travel down the column and put a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
Democratic. Republican
NEW DEFINITION OF PARAMOUNT.

Timothy Hay has another letter in
the Peoria Transcript on politi-
cal subjects. He says the Democrats
in his township won't give a man 10
peace" and adds, giving in his com
munication new definition of para
mount issue:
You can't lick them often enough
to keep them quiet We licked them
on free silver and the Philippines and
the tariff and now they want US to
lick them on the bank guarantee. Thev
this word up and ] find that para
mount issue is one that Democrats
amt been licked on yet"
That isn't bad, by any means. Mr..
Hays idea is that it isn't as import
ant what you do with your money af-
ter you get it as it is whether you get
( it or not He thus explains himself
4 The Democrats want to have free
/ trade and a bank guarantee But if
we have free trade we don't need any
bank guarantee because there ain
ANYTHING to guarantee. I didn't lose
cent OF money out of any bank when
Cleveland was President because |
didn't know bank when I saw it.
Mr.. Editor. the way this campaign
is fixed YOU have either got 20 have
plenty of money and risky banks OF
no money and safe banks. If you hay
no money what is the use of safe
banks? If / have plenty of money ]
reckon ] can take 4he risk on n good
stout bank a few years longer"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

The supreme court of New York has
handed down an interesting decision
constituting statute prohibiting the
use for advertising purposes of the
portrait or picture of any living per-
son without first having obtained his
written consent, or, if the person be
a minor. the consent of the parent or
guardian. In the case at bar minor
asked for damages and an Injunction
forbidding the use of her name, and
the court held it no defence that the
original of the picture gave the de
fendant the right to sell or otherwise
use copies of it, even where the. consid-
GRAFTON was a reduction in price, as
minors cannot evade the plain provis-
ions of the statute requiring written
permission from the parent or guar
dian
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

cross in the square opposite the name
of each Of the candidates. In all
there will be thirteen of these-two at
large and one from each of the eleven
congressional districts.
1t is easy to foresee that not all
voters will do this. The method ia
new and 1t will not be closely followed
by all. This OF course, will be equally
true among Democrats and Republ.
cans, except as greater vigilance may
be exercised on one side or the other
to bring the matter to the attention
of the individual voter and to send
him to the polls fully informed and
prepared to cast a complete ballot.
1t is matter Of genuine Importance,
point essential to complete Republi.
can success in Iowa, that each Republi.
can shall appreciate the necessity
properly to mark his ballot in the
square opposite the name of each and
every candidate for elector.
1t will not be sufficient merely to
vote for the two electors at large and
the one district elector from the voters
own district. Tae cross must be made
opposite the name of each of the thir.
teen electors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

The thing to remember in voting
for President and Vice President this
year, now that there is no circle at
the head of the ballot for the first
time, is that all the thirteen electors
whose names are on the ballot must
be voted for. The facts in the case
are briefly stated in the follow
ing paragraph from the Cedar Rapids
Republican:
A cross must be put in the square
opposite the name of each of the thir-
teen electors. In Iowa there are two
electors at large and two from each
congressional district; and we vote
for all of them without regard to dis
trict lines In other words, we elect
our electors at large and not by con-
gressional districts. The way to vote
a straight Republican ticket this year
is to put cross in the square OPP
nosite the name of every man on the
Republican ticket.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

The surgical operation which sep
arated Spain from its colonies proved
blessing in disguise. The country is
progressing in gratifying way; and
is the only nation in Europe which has
not felt the depression of the year
past. In fact, it is the only nation on
the continent showing gains in the
last six months in imports and exports,
and its offer of an issue of bonds was
heavily oversubscribed by it's own peo-
pie. In material way Spain has
been a substantial gamer by the war
of 1898
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
FIGURES For FARMERS.

in one of his recent speeches in
West Virginia Mr.. Bryan demanded to
know what the Republican party has
proposed for the relief of the farmers.
1t may be news to Mr.. Bryan but it is
not news to anyone else that the farm
ers are not in need of relief. They are
enjoying the best times they have ever
known. Particularly is their lot
happy one compared with what it was
under the last Democratic administra-
ton What the Republican party has
already done for the farmers in shown
by the higher prices they are now
receiving for their products. This
mornings Quincy Wing, just at hand,
contains some interesting figures use
full in this connection. Prices of farm
products for the closing year of the
last Democratic administration are
compared with those OF the present
time under Republican administra-
ton. The figures are taken from the
exact quotations on the Quincy market,
are of record and cannot be disputed.
On October 26, 1897 (the figures
are given for that year because the
26th fell on Sunday in 1880, wheat
brought 30 cents, corn 80 cents. and
new corn 90 cents, oats Is and II
cents, cattle $3.50 and s275, hogs
1925, sheep $3.50, butter IA cents, eggs
II cents, chickens cents pound,
Here are the prices of October 81,
1896, compared with the prices of Octo-
Der IS, 1908.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

The Iowa supreme court has decided
in a case from Davenport that pas
senger has right to step off the train
and walk upon the platform while the
train stops and still be regarded as a
passenger 1t also decided that pas
senger has right to regard Pullman
porter as train employe. 1t was
damage case which the court had
taken from the jury. The Rock Island
had killed passenger who tried to get
back On the train and missed his foot.
ing, the porter telling him the train
would stop ten minutes, and there be.
ing no signal given.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY.

The indications are that Congress
man Kennedy will get much larger
vote in Keokuk next Tuesday than he
did two years ago. Advices from all
parts of the district are 20 the effect
that this will be the case elsewhere
as well as here. Mr. Kennedy was
then new and comparatively untried
man He had had up to that time but
limited opportunities for demonstrate
ing his ability and industry. The
great mass of the voters of the dis
trict did not know him for ais real
worth. But a majority of them We're
willing ne should have chance to
show what was in him. They took
him on trial. 1t is not overstating the
case to say that he more than made
good. Within few months he had
given indubitable evidence that he was
not only capable but energetic and in
dustrious as WELL He demonstrated
promptly that he was one of the most
efficient representatives the district
has ever had. This good record, made
early in his congressional career, he
has steadily maintained ever since. In
looking after the interests and needs
of his immediate constituents he has
been especially active and successful,
as witness tae appropriate, for post
office site at Fort Madison, a supple
mentary appropriation for the Bur
lington postoffice building. charter
for bridge at Burlington, grant of
money for river improvement and
many private pension bills. Mr.. Ken
nedy has secured all these things at
the very beginning of his career as
congressman. With further expert
ence, better. committee assignments
and wider and more intimate acquaint-
ance with fellow members he viii be
able to accomplish still more during
the next two years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has just announced two important
decisions affecting passengers. One of
them is that passes may be issued to
bona-fide ex-employes of a railroad who
are travelling to re-enter the service
Passes can not be extended to the fam
lilies of employees who died natural
death in the service of common car
riers, though that privilege is accord
ed to the families of emp Dyes killed
in the service. The commission also
holds that railroad may provide in
its tariff that whenever, becarse of
wash-outs or other accidents, passen-
gers are DELAYED beyond their ticket
limit, or so as to curtail their stop
over privileges, the conductor or other
agent may, by endorsement on the
ticket, extend the time to cover such
detention This is to be honored by
succeeding conductors on the com
pany's lines; but no carrier can pro
vide such extension over lines other
than its own except when provided In
a proper joint tariff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

Through inadvertance the name of
Hon. A. E tombstone was omitted
from the list of the stockholders OF
the Keokuk and Hamilton Water Pow
er company printed in these
columns yesterday. Mr.. John
stone was not only one Of
the original stockholders, but
served throughout the life of the local
corporation as one of its officers, first
as a director and later as president.
He was the last president OF the
/ local corporation prior to the sale of
the franchise to Messrs. Cooper and
Powellson and their associates. sue.
ceeding the late Hon. John n. Irwin
( in that capacity Both as director and
president Mr.. tombstone did vast
! amount of laborious and efficient
/ work. Acknowledgements should also
have been made in the same connec
ton OF the fact that the city of Ham
ilton appropriated total of $500 ir
4 furtherance of the water power pro
iect. This fact was made clear il
the news columns of The Gate Cit,
+ yesterday. but editorial acknowledge
ment is due as well. The officials o
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

Republican voters in this state
should not fail to call for senatorial
ballot at the polls next Tuesday That
ballot must be asked fort will not
be rendered by the judges,-and the re-
quest for it must be in writing There
will be blank requests ree iy for sign
ing at the polls. Having obtained such
ballot the voter should mark an X
in the square before John F. Lacey's
name.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

When the time comes for distribu-
ton of the bouquets not few of the
largest and best will rightfully go to
Raymond Patterson and John T. Nc
Cutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for
their part in the Republican national
campaign. They have done exception
ally good and effective work and de-
serve recognition accordingly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29
keokuk, Iowa. October 90, 1908.
REGISTER OR LOSE A VOTE.

Saturday next, October. - is the
last day on which to register for the
election November 3. Any voter il
Keokuk or Fort Madison who failed
to register on one OF the former reg.
istration days and who fails to reg
lister Saturday will have no right to
cast ballot at the election Novem-
Der 3. Registration booths will open
at a. m. and close at 8 p. m.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

Lyman d. Cooley. the wel-known
hydraulic engineer, told the Chicago
City club the other day that the
proposed deep waterway in Illinois
can be constructed in six years
ano fully paid for out of its water
power earnings in eleven years there
after If the voters approve the 500
100000 bond issue next Tuesday. he
said the state will be able to make
the best paying public investment
that opportunity ever offered.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-29

Lieut. Gov Warren Garst advises
all Republicans to vote "the entire
Republican ticket" Garst's tympanunl
is horizontal. Waterloo Courier.
The esteemed Courier is badly off
in its anatomy. If Garst's tympanum
is horizontal he is lying,-which he
isn't doing when he advises all Repub-
licans to vote the entire Republican
ticket