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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
STAKE RACES CLOSE
Entries for the October Trotting Meet
to Close June /.
WILL RACE FOR BIG STAKES
There VIII Also he from sixteen TO
Twenty Glass Races with Purses
of $1,000 and More During
Ten Days Racing.

NEW YORK, May 2o.-Twelve take
races will be closed June / by the Ken
lucky T~rotting Horse Breeding association
for its ten-day meet at Lexington october
S to Is. New features, events at a mile and
one-half Of the handicap class for %trotters
and PAGERS, have been put on and each will
be Of 5000. They will be known as the
October prize and the Blue Grass.
Conditions will not be onerous. The en-
trance fee is Sl75, payable in three INSTALL
ments OF SIS each and 800 before the start.
First payment is June l, the next July is
and the third on September /. The handi-
cap will be announced before the starting
fee Of 500 comes due, giving owners every
chance.
The money division in the handicaps will
be also alike, namely, $1,000 to winner,
$1,000 to second, $3.50 TO third and $3.50 to
fourth, with no deduction from winners.
The other stakes of the meeting are the
Pennsylvania $1,000; Tennessee, 5000; Nc
Dowell, 5000: Walnut Hill, farm cup. 5000;
Stoll Johnston, West Kentucky, Lexing-
ton and Wilson. 5000 each. In addition to
these there will be the $21.0 600 Kentucky
Futurity, the pacing Futurity, 5000, and
the 2-year-old Futurity, 5000.
There will be from sixteen to twenty
class races, with purses of 1000 or more,
to be announced later. All of the races,
with the exception of the Kentucky and
the Lexington, are best three in five heats.
The handicapping will be somewhat like
the plan OF Readville last year, with the
exception of lessening the distance PEN
atty as the classes grow faster. The merit
and justice of this system were fully dem
onstrated in the Boston event, while since
then all well posted horsemen have ad-
vocated IL.
Fnst Horses at Scratch.
In the racing event, which will be known
as the Blue Grass handicap, entries with
a record of 2:l0 or slower will be the
scratch horses at the mile and a half, and
others will be penalized as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
TENNIS DETAILS ARE IN THE AIR
Can't Decide Where to Play PreIIm-
mary Matches.


NEW YORK, May ~2.-England's National
Lawn Tennis association and the American
governing body nave been ~endeavoring to
settle details as to the Davis InternationaI
Challenge Cup matches during the last
month. The controversy as to whether the
preliminary England against United States
matches of the ties will be played in Eng
land at Wimbledon, near London; in this
country, or in Australia, seems destined to
be arranged during the coming week. Sec
Rotary George r. Newburn OF London has
been In correspondence with DR.. James
Dwight, emphasizing the fact tina England
sent NJ. ]. G. Richie and John G. Parke
to this country last year, and that this
year it is the turn OF the Americans to
visit England.
1t is the wish of the Englishmen to play
the International ties Immediately follow
ing the ~all-England championships on the
courts at Wimbledon. and this meeting be-
gins Monday, June p. Should the Amer
leans aceede to this proposition team the
matches would be played about the first
OF July. As an American team is a long
way from SEEING got together, for such a
team would necessarily nave to sail IN a
few weeks. IT is evident that the American
officials do not look with favor upon an
invasion of the English courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Danny Dreamer Durbin is making a
record at trading stock anyway. He is the
4most traded man in the business Cincin-
natl which got him from the Cubs, has
snapped him to P%ittsburg for outfie.s@E
Miller.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

In the trotting handicap, which is named
the October Prize, horses with records of
2:15 or slower will be at the scratch or at
the mile and a half, which will be the full
distance for both events. Final handicap
ping will be done according to the records
of public showing, or authenticated trials
of each entry.
Horses at the scratch will. trot a distance
of 1890 feet and others with marks of from
2l4 TO 2:0 will be penalized as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

In the penalty the 2:6 horse goes AS feet
behind the scratch horse. or seventy-two
feet less than ~trotters on the same mark
at Readville last year. 1t is generally con-
ceded that the heavier distance penalty i'm
posed upon slower classes in favor of
faster starters will result in a fairer con-
test.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
YOUNG ATHLETES USING DOPE
Handlers Put Youths to severe Tests
BIZ Use of StImuIants.

by Use of S~timuIants.
EBW YORK, May 29-One Of the banes
si the Marathon craze that is sweeping the
country from end to end IL the use OF
dope by many young alleged Marathon
runners. This custom at present is all too
strong in the amateur ranks. Youngsters
who are fit to run ten miles at the outside
start in the Marathons, and at about fif-
teen miles they lag and are urged along
mercilessly by their handlers. At twenty
miles out comes the pillbox, and the dop-
ing begins.
The doping is not prevalent among the
hardy and seasoned Marathoners who get
the prizes. II is the youngsters who, under
normal have no chance TO finish, who seek
to stimulate themselves over the line.
The clubs that promote Variations can
In no way be blamed for this condition of
affairs. Neither Is there any wa" TO seek
out the cuIprits as a class, but any runner
caught doping should be suspended for
ITO ny the American Athletic union.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Denver is happy, it's team is losing. II
IL wasn't for that perennial habit of
knocking and that yellow streak as wide
as the foul lines out there, perhaps the
team could do better. one OF those yell
lowhamuers calling himself Rich in big,
black type lays Denver's defeat in omaha
10 the ennul OF this city. That's good.
coming from a town that derives its sus-
tenanee from the pockets of the sick who
are forced to go there, But ennui or not,
We have those four straights neatly tucked
away and that's what we were after. Was
II also the ennui that kinned the Teddles
over at Des Moines?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Pa Will have 20 make still greater sE-
tensions to his grandstand, also hleachers,
next year, to meet the demands OF that
American association proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

some folks are betting that Mistah john
son will never get in the ring with Jeff
ries May not be a bad bet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

SH@ season of dead srandmOthers Is On
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

ma what was the name OF that great
hicago catcher? II began with *"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Fnst Horses at scratch.


The following table shows the extra dis
lance the horses of the different marks
will have to trot behind the scratch horse:
~TROTTERS. PAGERS.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

The year 1905 is notable In history as
the year in which Washington did not fin
ism last.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Bee Want Ads stimulate trade moves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
THIRTY DAYS FOR
STEALING A GUN
John Eads Serving Sentence In coun-
ty jail for Trouble at Shooting
Gallery.

John (Rope) Eads, charged with the
larceny OF & rifle valued at Sc, wa
given thirty-day sentence in the
county jail l.y Judge w. l.. McNarama
Saturday morning.
According to the story told In court
Eads went to the shooting gallery be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth on
Main and INDUCED in little target
shooting for which he refused to pay.
After shooting ten times he desired
to proceed at the proprietor's ex-
pense, and When the latter strenuous
ly objected Eads picked up a rifle
from the counter and walked away.
The charge of larceny was fled
against him, to which he pleaded
guilty.
Court also was called upon to deal
out instice in the case of Ben Wright,
charged With intoxication. Wright
also Pleaded guilty and went to the
county Jail with Eads to keep him
company for half Of his Incarceration.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
WHEN HER BACK ACHES.
A Woman Finds All Her Energy and
Amb. Slipping Away

Keokuk women know 'i,w the aches
and pains that come when tie kidneys
fail make life a burden. Backache,
hip pains, hes aches. dizzy spells, dis
tressing urinary troubles, all tell Of
sick kidney and warn you OF the
stealthy .pproach of diabetes. dropsy
and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney
Pill; permanently cure all these dis
orders. Here's proof Of it in Keo.
kuk woman words:
Mrs. r. Jones, III South Sixteenth
street, Keol--k, Iowa. says: IF am
In position to speak highly of
Do;.n's Kidney Pills and will always
do so when the oppo rtunity occurs. /
have used them OF and on during the
past eight years and they have always
given me relief from pains in my back
and other symptoms of kidney trouble.
n first procured Doan's Kidney pills
from Wilkinson & Co.'S drug sto-s
about eight years ago and they were
80 beneficial that | was pleased to rec
ommend |. I'm publicly. oday glad
IL confirm that statement"
For sale r all dealers. Price So
cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo
New York, sole age It's for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan 's-ant
take no other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

Read The Daily Gate City.
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derstanding and sympathy will result
in mutual helpfulness.
It is hoped to have at intervals
other such meetings. They may take
little different form from the one
Friday night, but the Importance OF
the work thus begun IS too great to
allow it to drop without really ac-
coInpiishins anything definite. There
are definite problems confronting both
teacher and parent which can be
wisely settled only by cooperation of
each with the other.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
supe. Intendent Aldrich.

The discussion for the evening was
closed by few brief but very point
ed remarks from Superintendent AID
rich. He said that while our city is
not large enc, there is nevertheless
one sense in which it may be fairly
called cosmopolitan, and that is in
the line of amusements. There are
very many ways in which the higs
se1col student may spend his time out
Of scnool-picture shows, skating
Kinks, bowling aIleys-things. which,
wnlla rot lid in themselves, take the
boys time and energy at the expense
Of his more important school work.
This again emphasizes the need for
discrimination Is It the purpose of
parents 10 make the life purpose OF
their high school boys and girls tn,
mere having Of all the sensational
good time possible? II SO the school
work should not be allowed TO inter.
fere with that Or is II their purpose
that these boys and girls shall now
get all the preparation possible foi
the place which they are later TO take
as responsible men and women? II 81
then the mere temporary pleasures
should not be allowed 10 encroach on
that purpose
In closing the meeting DR.. Reid ez
tended 2 cordial and Urgent Invitation
and request on the part o. the higf
school faculty that the parents visf
the school and see for themgeIye,
what their boys and girls are besni
taught and controlled. and how, s,
that they may get IN closer .touct
with the teachers, and mutual un
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
Woman Author at Home.

Homemade jam is gradually disap-
pearing from the twentieth century
European household And yet go years
ago George Sand, who treated most
of her domestic duties somewhat
lightly, was discovered by visitor
wearing a cotton dress and big
apron. and skimming painful of fruit
destined for the iampot. 1T is not
easy work. she remarked. Il find it
harder to make good jam than to
write Valentine or .Mauprat'; but
there are some tasks one cannot leave
to others
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

When cold becomes settled in the
system, 1t will take several days treat
ment to cure it, and the best remedy
to use Is Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. 1t will cure quicker than any
other and also leaves the system in a
natural and healthy condition. Sold
by Wilkinson & Co. pharmacy, and j.
F. Kiedaisch & Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

Fairy Hay Wagons
Black Boards
Pacing Joes
Never-st stop Push Toys
Gray Beauty PAGERS
Never stop Humming
Tops
Toy China Closets
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List Of letters remaining In the Keo-
kuk postofice uncalled for, for week
ending Nov. 20, 1909:
Ladies'.
Miss Myrtle Campbell.
Mrs. Minnie Huntley.
Miss Lilly Meyers
Mrs. Bette Samuels.
Gentlemen.
American Sales Book Co.
Benham Garment Co.
E. J. Bode.
E. w. Crooks.
Joseph Dillon.
Alfred Howard.
Clarence Huffman.
Joseph Knitted Show Case Co.
Ben Koechle.
GIN. McCurty.
Abner Nelson.
e. Patrick.
Elwen c. Spur.
Ed. Vim.
Persons calling for letters In above
list will please say they are adver.
tise.,'.
s. W. MooRHEAD.
Postmaster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

emphasize the social functions, which
are in themselves temporary. but the
things of knowledge which are a per-
manent asset to the student. There
fore the social side should not be al
lowed to interfere with the regular
work OF the school"
Faculty Side.
Being called upon by the chairman,
DR.. Reid spoke briefly, saying that it
was the feeling Of the faculty that. as
Mrs. Brown had said, there must be
some attention given to the develop
nent of the social phase of high
school life, since the students must
take their places in society as social
beings, but that the question was
how far, and how often, and when,
shall the social affairs be permitted?'
Mrs Board expressed herself as fully
agreeing with Mrs. Brown.
On Athletics.
Mr.. H. E. Radcliffe was then intro
duced, and vigorously and effectively
championed athletics in the high
school. He showed that clean athlet-
les makes for manliness in every way,
training the boys to keep themselves
clean in habits, as no fellow who dis
sipated could hope to become sue
cessful athlete; the members of a
team learned cooperation, as it was
necessary for success; they also
learned respect for authority. the
authority of captain or coach; they
were also taught to play fair, as the
rules of the game could not be yiolat-
ed with impunity; also there was In
stalled into them the necessity for
clear gri-, determination, and tina,
this habit passed over into their after
life, and thus became of incalculable
value. But most Of all the speaker
emphasized the fact that sound, well
balanced, al round mind presupposed
a healthy. well developed, well con,
trolled body He also showed thar
athletics aided to keep in school boys
who would not otherwise continue,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21

and that the records for the high
school shovel that the boys who had
been among the best athletes of the
school had also in some cases made
the best grades.
DR.. Fuller further emphasized GER
tain of Mr.. Ratcliffe's points, and add
ed that athletic work was worth
while if for nothing but to feel the
stimulus of ones own strength, and
enjoy the sensation of feeling the
bounding life within a well nourishei,
well developed body.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-21
Business life by c. r. Joy.

Mr.. Joy was introduced. and briefly
enumerated the essential virtues in a
business life-promptness reliability,
thoroughness, concentration, ETC.
and showed how these are also essen
tial for success in any department of
the school life. Another thing which
Mr.. Joy especially emphasized was
the ability Ct discrimination. 1T is
not the things which we must often let
alore which are wrong or harmful in
Themselves. but that they take our
limited time from other things much
more important. The test is one OF
discrimination"
Mrs. H. c. Brown also briefly dis
cussed the points brought forward by
Mr. Joy, emphasizing them and ado
ing the virtue of economy, especially
economy of time.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03

pended, streets kept in good repair, sanitary reg
~ulations carefully enforced, every feature of COM
fort and cleanliness urged and insisted upon by
the health authorities. AS a result Pawnee City
Is one of the healthiest cities in the state.
The enthusiasm and struggle for supremacy
which naturally follows and belongs to the devel-
opment of a resourceful little city was kept un-
der control and the greed of gain was not allowed
to overshadow the higher principles. Educational
interests were encouraged and insisted upon,
schools were supported, modern houses built as
times demanded. This sentiment has had its in
fuence on the lives of all classes and is evident in
business and private life. Churches of almost
every denomination are indicative of a strong re-
ligious and moral element. These features have
led to the establishment of an excellent library
where every fancy can be pleased. Public i'm
provements of every description are forwarded
with a determination that is pleasing and inspir-
ing and every man who is worthy of the name
feels a generous pride in the u~puilding of the city.
Materially this little city, within the last few
years, has made rapid progress. But this is not
all, nor is 1t Pawnee City's greatest glory. While
the citizens have been striving for and making a
place for themselves and their town in the world
of affairs, and while they have been building up
the city commercially and industrially, they have
not neglected to provide for the comfort, convent.
ence and educational well-being of the children
of the city and of the entire county. The county
has been very fortunate in securing for it's school
superintendent E. M. Avery. In the three years
that Mr.. Avery has held this position he has made
the public schools the pride of the county. He is
not only an able and efficient educator. but he is
a constant, intelligent, continuous worker for the
public schools, which means for the best interests
for the entire county.
The county has 432 square miles and has a
population of $500. The county derives its in
come almost entirely from the sale of pork, beef,
wheat and corn, yet the raising of fruit has as
sumed quite large proportions, as Pawnee City
alone shipped over fifty cars of apples this season.
The location of the county is an ideal one for the,
establishment of wholesale bakeries and cereal
mills because of its distributing facilities, and the
fact that the vast grain fields in every direction
produces wheat and other grains adapted to these
purposes in almost limitless quantities. Some
day the manufacture of breakfast food and fancy
biscuits, now shipped from eastern states, will
realize the advantages presented here and plants
for these products will be established.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03
SHIPMENT OF HORSES FROM PAwNEE CITY BY FRANK HowARl
Office Seekers Do Not Infe,

on the park benches at the finish. and all
that sort of dead and gone thing, but that
is all ancient history.
THE joke still in active circulation
about the chap who at the beginning of a
new administrator comes to Washington
with the idea Of mailing the billet to the
Court of st. James and who, after a long
period of hope deferred and dismal waiting,
finally accepts a Job juggling waste paper
baskets in ole of the departments is just
about as live a joke at this stage of the
game as the custard pie at the picnic and
the throwing the bootjack at the cat and the
sewing the button on the shirt Jokes.
There are people coming here all the
time from all parts of the country to take
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03

quest of their senators or representatives
when administrations change to be intro
duced to the new president and to have
their applications considered. But after a
visit or so at the White House these men
quickly go back to their homes.
Up to about twenty years ago the
cheaper Washington hotels and boarding
houses were haunted by hundreds and even
thousands of these seedy hunters of govern
mental billets. They'd get away in arrears
with their board bills and after long months
and even years of waiting their few remain
ing friends would have to lake them in hand
and ship them back to their homes. They
hung around Washington as long as they
could because they hated TO go back to their
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03
Infest Washington as in the Days of Yore

jobs in the government employ, but they're
not office seekers of the type that existed
before the civil service law. They're office
getters. They've got their billets before they
get here. They've passed their examinations,
got their rating papers and most of them
their appointments before ever setting foot
in Washington.
"once in a while when man has passed
a particularly good examination, with an I'M
usual percentage, he comes on to Washing
ton before actually receiving an appoint
ment, having excellent reason to expect that
the appointment will be forthcoming in due
time. Most OF these people. too. look around
for something to do on the outside while
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03

waiting for their government appointments
TO mateTialize.
Blu they don't haunt the corridors OF
officials and legislators. nor sit around ho-
tel Hobbies telling their woes, because they
know just where they stand. have no woes
and are in general just as different from the
old-time typical office seeker as l am from
a Papuan.
Even when the administration changes
there are no longer any clamorous crowds
here looking for the higher appointive and
unclassified offices-professional place hunt
ers. that is. Men engaged in business or the
professions come here. It Is true. at the re-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03

~ HE part Of Nebraska around Pawnee City
should be seen through a variety of
temperaments, looked at through the
the experience of years from large per-
sonal contact with it and from many
points of view. Otherwise much that is written
about Pawnee county, and much that is justly
said of it, will seem to the casual visitor mere ex-
aggeration. We are to look at it chiefly as the
land of the farmer and are 70 see how diversified
are its industries connected with the soil, how re-
munerative is the work and how nearly ideal are
the conditions of country life.
This county not only invented expansion and
progress, but made it contagious. The traveller
through this part Of Nebraska may look from his
car window and see some little evidences of the
frontier, but in the next few moments his train
rushes into a town with all modern Improvements,
possessing a refined and progressive people. A
visit to the villages and farms of this county make
a lasting impression. Most of the farmers make
money. Their residences are comfortable. a few
of them even pretentious. The public schools are
good: life is simple; there are few rich men and
no really poor ones; there is little of the hardship
of farm life or of country life of the east; the
labor is light compared to a timbered country;
skill and GOOD Judgment are required rather than
sheer toll; there is no iso~- your next door
~neighbor is often within speaking distance; in the
towns and villages the streets are we'll kept; the
O0 VI III Ao 6OhSB SOu AVE yOuT
local papers; the express trains bring the papers
of the larger cities early in the day; you are not
shut out of the world in fact or in feeling, yet you
are a farmer with from eighty to a hundred and
sixty acres of land which, not many years ago,
was a bleak prairie. Its most important period
of development Is since the railroads came, and
one city that is situated on a main line of railroad
is in many respects as near as another to the CEN
ter of civilization (f anybody knows where that
isl The soil IS rich, almost inexhaustible; the
climate is mild. More important than all these
facts, perhaps. is the difference in methods. Ex-
cept in the great wheat fields and on the large
cattle ranches agriculture in Nebraska is intense.
The pleasing fact about all these towns is that
every community itself takes it's own development
in hand. 1t is not left to the real estate agent.
Pawnee City is the center of the county's pros.
perity. Here the varied interests OF the farm,
the live stock and the orchards finds a center.
The city has not grown one-sided. nor has any one
interest been allowed to develop at the expense
of another. Public funds have been wisly ex-