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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
Post Notices in CHICAGO.

John Dickinson Company have post
ed notices on the Board of Trade say
ing all trades will be closed out at
once. They say the. have a very few
open claims and money enough on
hand to meet them
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03

excellent
training camp
tough timber the Southern
Giants forced championship ball
of in
has his wing hat will set the hottest the big
OF hill staff
and
relief other pitchers will able him big Six
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
The Black Mail Letter.

DELEVAN, April 3.-The text of
the blackmail letter received by Moon
is as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Luman Moon: These
few lines tell you in brief how you
can get your boy Harold, returned to
his home before this week is at an end
The boy will be in the vicinity of this
town the rest of the week l do this
at his request as he's tired of this life
and wants to come home. If you do
not comply with this you will not see
him soon. This needs no reply, if
you tell any persons or make any at
tempt to arrest you surely will fail
to get aim alive. This is what you're
to do. Next Friday night at $3.50 you
fix 1t so you can get here at $40 p.
M, that night in the time stated, by
yourself. go on tle street called Wall
worth avenue to small park with a
cannon in the center. Put $500 in the
mouth and return to the hotel and in
side an hour your boy will be there
o. K. 1t is all off if you fail to do
as asked. Dictated by your son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
CUMMINS GRAFT
VIEW OF TARIFF
Representative Kendall unwittinsIy
Brings 1t Out in House
Debate.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April s.
Governor Cummins' famous state
ment that the tariff graft exceeded
that Of all insurance frauds was quot
ed and applauded by the democrats In
the house Friday, during an attack On
the Payne BILL Representative Ken
dali unwittingly forced the Cummins
tariff views into the debate by tax
ing issue with Representative Clayton
of Alabama, who quoted Cummins as
having said the Dingley bill built high
walls around the country for the shell
ter of the trusts. Clayton declared
this was an Iowa idea.
"Pn accept no challenge from any
gentleman in the house" returned
Clayton, but III meet him on the out
side and fight 1t out
The house laughed at the fiery south
erner, but Kendall kept on, insisting
that Clayton had no authority for
quoting Cummins as he did.
endall was on his feet promptly
to assert that there is no idea in Iowa
that does not mean protection to
American industries. Il refer you to
the distinguished senator from Iowa,
Mr.. Cummins,' replied Clayton, "and
let you am him wrestle it out be-
tween you as to whether protective
tariff affords shelter for trusts be-
hind it's high walls" Il have no diff
ference with the senator from Iowa on
that subject responded Kendall.
"Mr. Cummirs says the tariff robbed
the American people of more than a
billion dollars ever year" shouted
back Clayton 81 challenge the state
ment of the gentleman from Alabama .
yelled Kendall. with equal vigor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03

Killed by Northwestern Fast Mail.
STERLING, H., April 3.-Lyman
Mcguire, Norris and Roy Dugan, of
Waukegan. were killed this morning,
being hit by thc fast mail train on the
Chicago northwestern near here.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
CLARK Settles Controversy.

Champ Clark the democratic lead
err, happened into the house just at
this time and declared that he could
state precisely just what Cummins
said about the tariff.
MIR. Cummins did say asserted
Clark, "that all the robberies COM
mitted by all the insurance compan-
les for all time did not equal one
twentieth of what the American people
are robbed of every year by the tariff" :"
Every d. ocrat in the house vigor-
ously applauded this statement, and
Kendall subsided.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03

Read The Daily Gate CITY, 10
cents per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
Daily River bulletin.
Stage. Height. Change. .Wea'h'r.

The river will rise slowly.
c.. B. & @. Bridge, Burlington, Iowa.
April 2.-The present stage Of the
river feet ) inches above tow water
mark, rise of inches since last
report. Boat up and Wenona.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
Luvran N. Moon, Father of Harold
Moon, Who Had Mysteriously
Disappeared Hears From
Supposed kidnapers.
GIVE BOY UP FOR $500
While Moon Was investigating Claim.
Of Grafters, He Receives TeIe. Il
gram That His Son
Was Drowned.

DELEVAN, Wis. April 3.-An arrest
in the case of Harold Moon, who was
found drowned in a lake at Flint,
Mich, this morning is expected here
momentarily, following the secret visit
to this place by Lumah N. Moon, the
father of the boy. Moon came mere in
response to letter from men purport-
Ing to be kidnappers of the boy. The
letter was written on cheap stationary
and was mailed at Delevan. 1t stated
the writer possessed his son, and if
his father placed $500 in the mouth of
a cannon at the park, the boy would
be returned to him N half an hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
Huries to pelevan.

Accompanied by the assistant super
intendent of the Pinkerton Detective
agency, Moon hurried here anxious to
run down any clue that might lead to
the recovery of his boy, and expressed
willingness to pay five thousand if
necessary. Moon did not place the
money in the cannon, instead, on the
advice of the detective he placed a
letter there asking them to substanti-
ate the statement that they possessed
the boy. If they could do so they
could have the five hundred. At night
fall detectives concealed themselves
in the park near the cannon. About
9:20 p. m. large man stole softly up
to the cannon and took out the letter
and disappeared.
Acting on instructions from Moon
the detectives did not attempt to fol.
low him. The detectives got {. good
view of the man and announce they
know his identity This morning
Moon received a telegram from Flint
that his son was found drowned. Moon
started back to Flint this afternoon.
The arrest of the blackmailer is ex.
pected this afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-03
Local Observations.

April. Bar.Ther, Wind. Weather.
2 I pm. !. 29.s1 81 w tt Cldy
8 Z am. %. 80 Sc w Clear
Rainfall for past "a hours, I hun
dredths.
River above low water of 1864 s feet
2 tenths.
Change in "a hours rise / tenth.
Mean temperature, 43.
Maximum temperature, "a.
Minimum temperature, 3D.
FRED 2. GoSEWISCH,
Observer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
The Children's Right to knowledge.

The great Southern patriot, John
c. Calhoun, once said: "I pity the
man who Is too poor or too mean to
buy books for his children. He might
as we'll refuse them bread and meat"
How any one 'can have less ambi-
ton than a desire to know as much
and as well as any one else, is in
deed strange, and yet how many farm
boys and girls fail to receive any en-
couragement to read and study and
learn all about the things they are re-
quired to do. No girl Is expected to
teach music or attempt stenography
without a thorough study of these
things. No boy attempts to practice
medicine or law without a long course
of study and preparation. The things
we know most Of and can do best are
those in which We are most interest
ed. An early knowledge Of the facts
and principles underlying household
and farm practices and operations
will do more to develop intelligence,
industry, and a worthy ambition in
our farm boys and girls than all other
things combined. How is this desire
for useful knowledge to be inspired
and the reading habit formed? They
will rarely be accomplished unless one
or both parents possess them and
then only generally when a complete
spirit of interest sympathy and COM
radeship is maintained between the
boys and girls and their parents or
teachers. Just as we believe the
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Queer Life In JOHANNESBURG,

Here Is an amusing description OF
queer life In Johannesburg residen.
tial block: Nearly every one has one
room. and into this you cram nearly
all your worldly possessions and learn
all kinds Of vanishing tricks and Jug.
Cling feats, such as having a combina.
ton bed and piano. using your wash.
Ing stand for your writing table and
converting your hip bath by day with
rugs and cushions into an armchair.
In this abode Of bliss you receive your
friends, male and female, and, If the
gentleman, sitting himself rashly on
the bed-sofa, vanishes into the piano
or the lady throws herself wearily into
the hip bath armchair and it falls of
the packing case with her inside 1t,
no one will turn a hair. You will in.
vite them to lunch or tea or dinner,
which ever is approaching, and the
gentleman will offer to go and buy
chops or kippers and fetch the milk
and when he returns will help you
cook. and you'll sit together and eat
1t on the washing stand, which also
does duty as dinner table on such
occasions. ns."-LOndon Standard.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
A Thrifty Hunuarian,

A certain Hungarian peasant named
Jan Hirsch made a business trip to
Budapest, and while there he had the
idea Of ordering hundred visiting
cards. When he returned home he
found, to his dismay, that the cards
bore the name of Mavisch instead Of
Hlrsch. 1t was only printers error,
but to Jan Hirsch it meant loss of a
shilling and sixpence unless he could
make use Of the cards. He according
ly purchased for the sum Of q shilling
an official form Of petition and filled it
with request to be allowed to alter
his name to Mavisch. His prayer was
granted. He is now Jan Mavisch.--
London News.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Why tho Menu Was Changed.

The culinary department of an East
Indian household, If the story of an
American traveller who has recently re-
turned from Calcutta is to be believed.
is managed far differently from an
American kitchen. "Here we employ
an Ethiopian expert at so much a
week." says the Philadelphia Record
There cook would disdain to place
weekly valuation on his services.
His conditions involve fiat rate Of so
many shillings weekly for the furnish
Ing and preparation Of provisions. This
system Of putting the culinary depart
ment out to contract causes a penurl-
BUSINESS on the part Of the chef which
frequently is not for the best health
and welfare Of the household. Short
ly before last Christmas the above
named American tourist had ordered
his cook to have steak for dinner.
Broiled chicken was served instead.
Pressed for his reasons for disregard
Ing the command Of the head Of the
household, the cook explained that the
chicken had taken sick and If it had
not been killed and served that day he
vas afraid he would have lost it."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
An Anticlimax.

II just dropped In to thank You for
that medicine you sent home by my
wife last night" said the grateful pa
tient, grasping the doctor warmly by
the hand. "I've been laid up off and
on for years, have tried all the patent
medicines on the market and been
treated by every doctor in the neigh
borhood. but your medicine was the
only thing that ever did me any good"
Its a pleasure to have you come
here to tell me this" replied the doc
tor, highly elated. "Most Of my pa
tients are not so thoughtful. But that
prescription is my pet favorite, and
never yet knew it to fail to cure a
cough If taken in time."
"Cough?" echoed the patient. "why,
didn't take it for my cold. I used it
as liniment for my rheumatism"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Fifty Dollar Dinners.

dinners at $50 q plate are as CON-
mon In New York as five dollar e.
ners are In London and Paris" ga \ q
chef. "Oux extravagant dinners are
no better than the cheaper foreign
ones. Their cost Is caused not by the
exquisite cooking Of exquisite materi.
ais, but by the use Of exotic foods
whose expense Is their chief recon-
mendation. What do I mean by ex-
otic foods? Well. I mean cane sugar
instead Of the ordinary beet root kind
for the compete; I mean wild rice In.
stead Of the cultivated for the canvas
back; I mean sole brought alive from
England and sterlet from Russia, when
our own native fish is better condi-
toned; I mean hothouse strawber.
ries as big as apples. pears as big as
cocoanuts and grapes as big as peaches,
all tasting rather like raw pumpkin,
hut looking very fine In blizzard
weather. Foolish foods; but, then,
it's only foolish people who eat fifty
dollar dinners. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
A College Education Possible.

Every boy and girl will not and
could not get college education, and
it may be asked why a college educa-
ton is necessary when knowledge has
and may be obtained through read
ing, studying and observation, with
out the aid Of the college. AS the
first thousand dollars is the hardest to
make and save, SO the first and fun
damental knowledge is most difficult
to get In fact, without help it will
generally never be obtained. The col
lege is there best, surest and quickest
means Of getting a start in education
and in most instances gives that of
value which is not obtained else
where. If we are to do justice to our
boys and girls we must do everything
possible to inspire a desire to ACQUIRE
a college education. We do not even
need to furnish them money to obtain
this college education if we can in
spire sufficient desire for it. To do
thls we must ourselves appreciate and
respect such education. Any boy or
girl with a sound body and mind who
desires it sufficiently can without fin
ancial help acquire a college educa-
ton. Our duty, then, is by example
and precept to inspire our boys and
girls with such a desire, and we may
do this with complete confidence that
it will pay. 1t may not supply the
boy or girl with common" sense but
it will enable a better use Of that al
ready possessed and tend to a broad
er, fuller and better life. knowledge
is power-the greatest power.-Pro-
gressive Farmer.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
DISPENSARY is OVERSTOCKED.
Liquor ON Hand I'm Orangeburg tn be
Sold at Bargain.

Orangeburg, Nov. 12.-The dispen-
sary board Of this county finding it.
self overstocked Tith LIQUORS will
have regular bargain sales of the STUFF
during the two remaining days of the
life of the great institution. and will
make the best disposition possible of
what may be left over.
Some extremists think it hardly the
thing for those counties going out OF
the liquor business because the use of
1t Is seriously harmful, to ask others
to buy the stuff for the purpose ofsell-
ing 1T again. If harmful Co our con-
stitutions why not harmful to other
people? This is logic that cannot
easily be downed. Dump it in the
gutter, they say.
Just how the financial end of the
dispensary will pan out cannot now be
told. 1t owes lot Of money, but has
lot of goods on hand. Everything
depends on the prices received for the
stock on hand. Some Of 1t will no
doubt be sacrificed under the provi-
sions Of the law.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17

mother wields the greatest influence
over the character or the boy or girl.
so we believe that the mothers of the
south are most largely responsible
1or the lack of knowledge and inter-
est in household economics among
our girls and for the lack Of desire for
farm life among our boys and girls
we fear the fathers and mothers will
nave to be regenerated or inspired
with a desire for knowledge for the
power 1t gives to do life's work.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Tho Chief luatiea.

There are very few people who know
the proper designation of the man who
presides over the supreme court" said
the secretary Of the senate.
Generally he Is referred to as the
chief Justice Of the United States su-
preme court In fact, he is the chief
justice. That's his official title. Most
OF our presidents In nominating men
for this Office have fallen into the error
OF giving him the long title. When
George Washington nominated Oliver
Ellsworth Of Connecticut for this post
he described It as chief justice Of the
supreme court of the United States.
Andrew Jackson made the same error
In nominating Richard B. Taney. So
did Abraham Lincoln when he appoint.
ed Salmon p. Chase. Grover Cleve.
land was the first president to give the
correct designation. When he appoint
ed Melville w. Fuller he nominated
him to be chief Justice and nothing
else. Future nominations will be
framed In this ion."-Washington
Star.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Pellagra Experiments OH Monkeys.

New Orleans, La, Nov. I'm an
effort to discover the cause and rem
edy for pellagra, series of expert
ments on monkeys is being conducted
at the local Pasteur Institute. Innoc-
ulated two weeks ago with the blood
from victim Of pellagra, the sim
ians are being carefully watched for
a possible development of the symp-
toms Of the disease. Today it was
said. however, that thus far they had
failed to respond to the infection.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
had Stomach Causes UnslrhtIy Com
plexions-DcLorme's Pharmacy
Has q Remedy.

Bad stomachs mean bad blood; bad
blood means sallow. unattractive skin.
Why? The stomach In a healthy
condition separates the nutritious
matter from the food and gives it to
the blood to supply the entire body
with nourishment.
III the stomach Is not In a healthy
condition IL does not separate from
the food the nutritious matter and IL
passes Off with the waste.
Thus the blood is impoverished and
has not sufficient nourishment to
supply the muscles. skin and body
generally.
III you have belching OF gas. dis
tress after eating. nausea, biliousness,
nervousness or foul breath. then your
stomach Is wrong and you want the
best prescription for stomach troubles
the world has ever known.
You want Ml-o-na tablets, the great
stomach remedy which DeIorme's
Pharmacys guarantees to cure indi-
gestion. no matter Of how long stand
ing. or money back.
Relieves stomach distress at once.
Ml-o-na Is sold by leading drug
gists everywhere and In Sumter by
DeLorme's Pharmacy for so cents a
large box. Test samples free from
Booths Mi-o-na. Buffalo. N. Y.
1O-1g-2s-1f-9-w 11-17
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
w. j. ARANT DRINKS POISON.
Former Charleston Man Commits Sui-
eide at Columbia.


Columbia, Nov. 12.--"Bury me In
these" was the brief note pinned to
the Confederate uniform Of w. +.
Arant, the story Of whose death is
told in the emptied bottle Of lauda-
mum that was found at his side this
morning.
Mr.. Arant was 65 years of age, and
before coming to Columbia lived in
charleston, where he was employed
in dry goods stores. He was with
Tapp's here. Dirctions were left by
the suicide to notify his son, Frank H.
Arant, of Camden, who left for CO.
lumbia by automobile and IA. B. DOL
ger and G. S. Hebrich, of Charleston.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Chances In oambilnu.

Henri Poincare, the leading mathe-
matician Of France. declares that
there Is no infallible martingale or
method Of doubling ones stakes after
every loss IAN one can do" says
NJ. Poincare. '1s to combine ones play
so as to have great chance Of win.
ming little and little chance Of los.
ing much or a few chances Of gaining
much and many chances Of losing lit
tie. One can arrange his play 90 as to
have one chance of winning a million
francs and million chances Of losing
a franc or q million chances Of win.
ming a franc and one chance of losing
O million francs-and that's all"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
A Suit OF RatskIn.

A thrifty Welshman at one time ex
hibited himself publicly In England at
tired In costume composed from top
to bottom Of ratskins, which he had
spent three years and half in collect
Ing. The dress was made entirely by
himself. 1t consisted Of hat, necker-
chief, coat, waistcoat, trousers, tippet,
CATERS and shoes. The number Of
rats required to complete the suit was
go. Most curious Of tho garments
was the tippet composed entirely Of
rats tails.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17

An auctioneer Of Philadelphia col.
lects all sorts Of objects pertaining to
his ancient calling. He has, among
other things. an interesting set of auc-
toneers' hourglasses. The auctioneer
q century or so ago concluded sale
not by saying Going. going. gonev
and rapping the counter with his ham,
mer. but It was his better method to
turn up free running glass toward
the end Of the bidding and to end the
sale irrevocably when the sand ran
out This saved confusion and dis
pute. The auctioneers' glasses In the
Philadelphia collection are picturesque
One Is Of tortoise shell and mother-of.
pearl. Another Is Of amber and gold
A third Is Of teak and ivory.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
just Before tho epanklna.

"Pop. does a chicken come from an
eggT
'Yes, my SON"
"And does an egg come from a
chicken?"
'Yes.T
well, # a chicken comes from an
egg, and an egg comes from a chicken,
which,
"Now. see here. II you are going to
prolong this line Of thought you can
60 right to bed"
'But, popr'
well. what?.
"How does a chicken come from an
eggT
"Oh, any hen can sit on an egg and
hatch It"
Gee! I'm glad I amt q hen. It
must hurt to sit on q hatchetr' Hasty
exit.6New York Times.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
The Od Once.

"Well have to give up the idea OF
putin pictures in the parlor, Jane"
remarked old John Turnipseed as he
threw the bride under the table.
"WhyT' asked his wife.
TOO dear! Why. priced one in
town today, and the dealer seq. ses he.
That's an old master; It's price Is
f5OO.'
why sea I, 1t looks like q second
hand pictur.'
Yes, It is,' sen he.
Then, thinks l, II a secondhand
pictur costs that much it's no use to
price new IN So. Jane, I reckon we'u
have to hang up a few notices, God
Bless Our Home and the like, and let
the pictur's go."-Pearson's Weekly.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-11-17
Approriata

A clergyman went to have his teeth
fixed by a dentist When the work
was done the dentist declined to ac.
cept more than nominal fee. The
parson, In return for this favor. insist
ed later on the dentist accepting a vol
ume Of the reverend gentleman's own
writing. 1t was disquisition on the
Psalms. and on the fly leaf he had in
scribed this appropriate quotation:
And my mouth shall show forth thy
praise."-Harper's Weekly.