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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Henry Smith Was Determined on Sui.
eide and Gave Hotel Guest
Chance to stop Him If
He Could.
MADE SWIFT
Beat His Pursuers to the Water Where
He Plunged in to His Death
After Waving Hand to
the Crowd.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 11.-Henry Smith,
27 years old, who lived at the River
side Hotel, 30 ST. George street,
raced with two other guests Saturday
night to the Mississippi river and ac-
cepted death as his prize. Smith, an
employe of the American Steel and
Foundry company, had been drinking
heavily for several weeks, and short
ly after 6 o'clock he left the hotel.
On the outside he met Edward j.
Kouri. to whom he announced his In
tention of committing suicide, at the
same time keeping out of Kouri's
reach.
you and l are going to run a race
to the river Smith said. "If you get
there first you win my life; If get
there first | die"
After delivering the dramatic chal
lenge Smith darted east on st. George
street, and Kouri yelled for help. viii
liam B. Smith, another guest, but nc
relation of the Respondent man, join
| ed in, and the chase began. When
Smith ran across the railroad tracks
on the levee Kouri and the other guest
were about Is feet behind. He rar
down the levee, and, after pausing or
the bank only long enough to wave
his hand at the men he had defeated
he plunged into the water.
Kouri and Smith reached the wa
ter's edge in time to see the man ris
to the surface. He sank before the
could decide upon any plan of actor
and, after making a futile effort t
recover the body, the men reporte
the episode to policemen of the Sou
ard Street station.
Smith was a bachelor, and littl
was known of his past at the hote
4 where he had roomed for the last veal
He worked as carpenter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Gar to Italy.

ROME, Oct lit is expected that
Emperor Nicholas of Russia will visit
King Victor Emmanuel within week
Sig. Melegari, the Italian ambassador,
to Russia, already has returned to
Italy in order to receive his majesty,
The strictest secrecy is being main
tanned as to where the meeting be-
tween the emperor and king will take
Place; but it probably will be at Raco.
nigi, the summer castle in Piedmont
where the Italian sovereign has made
a prolonged stay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
President Taft Has Travelled Over Six
Thousand Miles and Has Made
One Hundred and Twen-
ty-seven Speeches.
rs GAINING IN WEIGHT
Banquets and Dinner Parties Are
Having Their Effect and
He is Heavier Than
Ever Before.

LOS ANGELES, Oct 11.-When
President Taft reached here at 7:05
a. M today, he had covered 6,a66 miles
of his 1888 mile trip, or about half
of the journey. which ends November
49, The 81 sech, or sermon he deliv
cred at Fresno yesterday was the
127th he has made fince leaving Bev-
erly. During that time he has spoken
in IA states to million and half
people. In addition to the 5000 odd
miles he has travelled by train. he had
probably gone 500 by automobile. 60
or 70 by carriage and 80 by stage. In
spite of the strenuous work he has
performed on the trip, the loss Of
sleep and worry, he has put on weight
and probably is now back to the figure
that he read on the scale before his
summer vacation of golf playing and
physical exercise at Beverly Except
at Seattle and Portland. he has not
been able to plav any golf during the
three weeks on the trail He has also
been obliged to attend many dinners
and luncheons that, had he been given
his choice, would not have been on the
program, and the inevitable result has
been found in added averdupois His
general health is excellent, however
and unless the unexpected fappens tc
break down his health. he will finish
the trip in as good physical condition
as when he started, From here he
starts eastward Tuesday evening.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
The Docket For the October Term
Contains $50 Cases and They
viii be Taken up
Tomorrow.
Squirt BIGGEST BURDEN EVER
More Cases Than Ever Before and
the Term Promises to be
Very Busy One at
Washington.

WASHINGTON. Oct. lin total
of $50 cases on the docket, the SUI
preme court of the United States. be-
gan it's October, 1909, term today un-
der the biggest burden of litigation 1t
has ever experienced. 1t is customary
for the court to adjourn Immediately
after convening on the first day of the
term in order to pay a visit of cere.
mony to the presid mt. This year.
Taft is away and the court after meet
ing at noon, merely received motions,
transacted some other routine bust
ness and then adjourned until tomor.
row when the full docket will COM
mence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Tart Will Speak.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-President
Taft has consented to give the open
ing address at the great missionary
convention which will open in Wash.
ington on November IL and last four
days. The first meeting will be held
in d. A. r. continental hall in the
evening. The convention is under the
direction of the laymen's missionar,
movement of America, an organization
founded three years ago with the pur
pose of uniting the laymen of Protest
ant churches of America.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Parade for eompers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-As a trib-
ute to the homecoming from abroad
of President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, one
of the most representative gatherings
of organized labor ever assembled in
this country will welcome him. To
signalize his return arrangements
were completed for a mammoth pa
rade of organized labor and recep.
ton in his honor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
DAMAGES for Hat.

JACKSON, Mo-. Oct. 11.--As the re.
suit of fire in the Central Hotel
here Saturday Mrs. Michael Owens.
wife of the proprietor. listed claim
with the insurance ,diuster for S17.50
damages to a new fall hat She said
it would take her three weeks to find
another she liked and asked If she
she would be allowed damages for tho
time she would lose. The fire was
extinguished after it had caused 500
damages, but it caused alarm among
the guests, who made hurried exit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
THE WEATHER
indications For Iowa, Illinois and Mis-.
souri, Wired From chicseo.

For Keokuk and vicinity: General
ly fair tonight and Tuesday. Cooler
tonight with frost.
For Illinois: Rain north; fair
south tonight. Cooler tonight with
frost central and south portions.
Tuesday fair.
For Iowa: Rain and cooler to-
night. Tuesday generally fair.
For Missouri; Generally fair to
night and Tuesday. Cooler with frost
tonight.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
DO Not Use creosote.

Creosote should never be put into a
hollow tooth for toothache 1t relieves
the pain, but in time destroys the sub
stance of the tooth. Leave creosote
to expert use.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Local Observations

Oct. Bar Their Wind. Weather.
10 Z pm. %. 80 4S sW Misting
II I am. ). 2972 AS NV Cldy
Rainfall for past "a hours, II hun
dredths.
River above low water of 1864
feet tenths.
Mean temperature, SO.
Maximum temperature, 61.
Minimum temperature, 45.
FRED q. GOSEWISCH,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Show Worthlness!

Do something worth living for,
worth dying for; do something to
show you have mind, and heart.
and soul within you,-Dean Stanley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Score One for Sweden.

1t is to the honor of Swedes that the
fact OF a woman working for her liv-
ing in no way lowers her social posi-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Uncle Ezra Saws:

"a man amt half SO apt to hide his
light under bushel ez he is to hide
somethin' thet won't stan the light" !"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-11
Daily River bulletin.
River Forecast.

The river will rise slightly during
the next 4S hours.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
STRIPED BEETLE.

Cucumbers, melons, squashes and
some other plants are injured by the
striped beetle, with which all farmers
and gardeners are acquainted. Spray
or dust with paris green solution or
powder. If the patch is small, each
hill may be covered with screens.
The same plants and their fruit are
liable to injury from anthracnose
and downy mildew. Repeated spray
ing with Bordeaux mixture about
every ten days will help in keeping
these diseases in check, thus enabling
the grower to make fair crop where
otherwise he would have made very
small yield.-Farmers' Home Jour.
nal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
THE RACING DRIVER
AND HIS CAR.

To the professional driver, the car
that has carried him to victory is
his pet, his baby, the apple of his
eye and the idol of his heart. What
spectator who witnessed the acct
dental burning of Auguste Hemery's
cup-winner on the Sunday morning
after the Vanderbilt race of 1905
can ever forget the plucky French
mans dramatic despair when his be-
loved car was consumed? He raved
and wept, and had to be forcibly re-
strained from throwing himself into
the flames that soon reduced the ma
chine to twisted and blackened
mass of metal fit for nothing but
the junk-heap. With his own hands
Hemery had put the engine together
from the bed up; every nut, bolt and
screw had been tested and fitted with
infinite precaution, and all the parts
assembled with affectionate care. To
his emotional Latin nature, the throb-
bling machinery was endowed with
life and intelligence, and the dark
blue bonnet covered the seat of a
living soul, and it's destruction was a
veritable tragedy inna Irving, in
Putnam's and The Reader.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
SEED BED SOIL.

Amateurs are often perplexed oven
the best kind of soil to use in starting
plants. There is no need for anxiety
over this question. The two great es-
sentials for soil for seed sowing are
humus and sand. Any garden or
farm soil can soon be put into good
condition by the addition of sand and
vegetable matter, such as leaf mold
that can be had in any community.
In the preparation of such soils,
very common practice is to use two
parts of soil, the best procurable, one
part of sand and one part of leaf
mold. If the soil is naturally of
loamy character, the addition of sand
and leaf mold may be unnecessary,
A soil is desirable which will take
water freely and will not bake.-In-
dianapolis News.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
FRUITS.

The cultivation in the orchard
should be discontinued about the first
of the month. At the last cultivation
sow a cover crop of vetch or some
thing similar. This will take water
from the soil, thus helping the trees
to ripen up the wood and will also
serve to catch snow for protecting
the ground during the winter.
Plant pot-grown strawberries for
fruit next summer. Prune the rasp-
berries; take out all the old wood,
leaving all the new growth, which
was made this year. The old canes
should be burned.
You can increase the number Of
currant bushes by making cuttings of
the ripened wood during the latter
part of the month. Tie them up in
punches and pack them away in damp
sand and store in cool cellar. Next
spring the cuttings will have CAL
loused, when they can be planted out.
in the rows. Have the cuttings six
inches apart in the row and the rows
far enough apart so that they can be
cultivated.
Spraying must be continued during
the greater part of this month in
order to check the diseases, particu-
larly on the apples. Where the fruit
is large and there is danger of spot
ting it with Bordeaux mixture, spray
with an ammoniacal copper carbon
solution; it will not stain.-Indians
apolis News
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
SETTING FRUIT TREES.

There was a number of orders for
fruit trees delivered by local agent
to farmers in this section last Novem-
Der, just after the full of the. moon.
Some of the farmers set their trees
out Immediately, while others heeled
theirs in until after the new moon,
claiming that trees set out in the dark
of the moon would not come into
bearing near so soon as those set in
the new or light of the moon. Will
the editor, or some of the fruit grow
ers that have taken any notice of this.
in setting trees, answer through the
columns of the Farmer?-A Sub
scriber.
We have taken no notice of the re-
suit of moon influence on tree plant-
ing, but have no faith in the theory.
If the trees were we'll heeled in they.
will come out oil right in the spring,
and if the ground was moist enough
and the trees were we'll set in Novem-
they will do we'll next spring, moon or
no moon.-Indiana Farmer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
FLOWING.

Draw your furrow straight, my lad;
First one crooked. all are bad.
Cut the sod and turn it over.
Bury down the weeds and clover,
Give your pillow steady hand,
Never take too wide land.
When you're done your work will tell
II you did it i'll or well.
Always do your very best;
God will surely do the rest
And at last, when done with blowing,
And you've no more need of sowing,
No more need to NOW and reap,
Going out of life to sleep
Sleep beneath the bloom and blade,
In the furrow Death has made.
All the world will know that YOU
Drew your furrow straight and true!
VIII F. McSparran.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02


ana makes the best Il COUNT
she
DAY as cir
kes 70 have young people about her. For she says Sure MISS
we are All young together, and do a time
Dear little old woman! kindly as
paoys and that the heart
70 DO other than deal gently her.
ou can all keep getting into rut and keep
your interest in people and things
Gray hars and wrinkles will the spirit that really keeps
you young your heart face for
windows
you are unmarried typical old maid
existence.
Don't be ktenish Nothing than the tenish
woman But keep
Keep ABREAST with the their
dongs and don't withdraw a of
90 out and visit friends them
yourself
Doh get into things the
only way; and don't fall appreciate is
Look m nothing preserves youth
fulness.
Inc mere fact that
woman you take yourself getting plenty
sleep will be
yourself to cheerful
and don't lose great
that this
friend proved t?-New York; Evening Journa
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

boy, with another grimace and app
preaching closer. Say, how'd'j' like
to have me hand you spank on the
ankle, hey?"
II wouldn't let you," was the
prompt and spunky reply Of the man
ly little fellow swinging on the front
gate. Indeed I would not, he add
ed, the sense of wrong yelling up
within him.
"Aw, g'wan, v reed bird" said the
bully boy, obviously meaning by that
tc refer to the somewhat pipestemmy
legs of the new little boy. GO bag
y'r head" and he continued to ap-
proach.
Don't you come any closer to me,
earnestly warned the new little boy
in. the neighbornood. This is my
gate and I've got right to swing on
it all l choose. l don't wish to have
you bother me-
"Oh-ho, y don't, hey?" said the
bully boy, whose face was freckled
and tanned. Say, FIR two cents I'd
leave shoe in y'r ear, dye know
that, Ethel?" and he kept right on
getting closer. in a menacing way, to
The nice little boy.
"You leave me alone or shall fight
you," was the out and out challenge
that the new boy uncoiled right then
and there.
Suiting the action to the word he
climbed down from the gate, stepped
outside the gate, closed the gate with
the determination of somebody burn
ing his bridges behind him, and
stood awaiting the onslaught of the
bully boy, who, with confident grin,
walked up and
However, the place for the pause
has now arrived. Right here. This
isn't one of those comic supplement
things.
If it were it would show how the
new little boy in the neighborhood
walked into the bully boy and biffed
him all over the sidewalk and rolled
him in the ditch and tossed tar from
the nearby paving gangs tar pot into
hAo anu puOnCu It'll d
line of sewer pipe about to be laid
and kicked him up and down the
street for block or so and finally
landed on top of him, pinning him to
the ground and asking him if he had
enough.
However, it didn't come off that
way, not at all.
The new little boy in the neigh
borhood with the mujik hair and
things had no sooner advanced bold
ly upon the bully boy of the neigh
borhood than he caught clip on the
starboard side of his peachy chart
that sent him to the brick walk for
the count, and while he beloved at
the top of his voice and lay and
kicked on the pavement the bully
boy walked up the street whistling
cheerfully.
And then the mother Of the nice
little boy came a-rushing out of the
house and picked him up and asked
him what it was and who had hit him
on the starboard jowl, and later on
in the day she went over to the home
of the bully boy and complained to
the latter's mother, and the bully
boys mother said that, yes, indeed,
she'd see to it, while she was secretly
tickled to death that she had an off
spring that could wallop any kid on
the block, and when the bully boy got
home his mother told him that he
really ought to be more careful,
deed he had; and so on and so on
and so on.
Hateful business, this thing of hav-
ing to scalpel these comic supplement-
pipes. But facts is fact just the same
as eggs is aigs.-New York Sun.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
Just Between Lady Fren,s.

Sadie-"s Say, honest, now, do you
like Maggie?"
Pauline" Well-she's got a good
heart-an' she means real well, but
-
Sadie Neither do Puck.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

The young man picked himself pain
fully up from the front steps and
limped away.
Il wish / could get poke at the
duck who said all the world loves
lover" growled he.-Hodston Post.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
Not Mined.

"a man wrote me that he had
caught me repeating a joke"
81 s'pose you are disguntled?"
ION the contrary" responded the
press humorist; Il feel gratified to
find that somebody has been reading
this column. Louisville Courier
Journal
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

spring it to put in the rounds. This
ladder is excellent for picking fruit,
as the top end is handy to put up
against any crotch of the tree, while
the two ends at the bottom keep
it from turning"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

The best masts are made Of the
Norwegian fir. The next best in or
der are spruce fir, American white
pine and Scotch pine.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

An advocate of the vegetarian diet
has stated that the nut trees of the
world are capable of supplying food,
all the year. to the population Of the
globe.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

1t takes some people long time
to find out that things are not al
ways valuable because they cost
dearly.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
;pL1T-PoLE FRUIT LADDER.

SPLIT-POLE FRUIT LADDER.
To make a split-pole fruit ladder
a Kansas subscriber writes as fol-
lows: RIP pole until within about
foot and half of the end and here
wrap wire tightly around it to keep
it from splitting further when you
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

midas gold output in 1908 was
worth $12,OOO,OOO, or about an eighth
of that in the United States.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
NAN...aN..
SGsOs~QN-. ssJ1~~sQeCg,
The Bachelor Tax
BY LUalfer c. Michel

HAT wonder do the lawmakers of Wisconsin, Iowa. Texas
and other states accomplish by their bachelor
tax? they think that they will benefit anybody by tell
ing that he either marry or pay tax think
that they are badly mistaken
In the first place. why there bachelors? Do they
exist just for the fun of the thing they don't want
home because they to be different from other peo
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

The main they
wife,
Why wife? Simply
Why the manageable
don't certainly the
the house should
likes
bors position
a
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02

its something appalling
The
fellow laborers
borhood
climb
mighty around The ancient
their shorted signihcance
persistence ingenuity Irresistible doomed
Outing Magazine
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
TO DEFY Old .Age,
Keep
The Heart Young
ssa,Aup AH~a~aQAes Ey Beatrice Fairfax ~

KNOW little old 70 whose heart is as young as
though she In the wenes Her hair Is as White as
but in her eyes there the fire and vim OF YOUTH
She has worked hard all her life and has saved quite
sum of Her people anxious that she should stop
working and live comfortably her savings for the rest OF
her days but she says she young give up work YET
for while.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-02
FEELING a Great Tree
sy CLifto. JOHNSON


sometimes a diameter of dozen feet
particular reach vast girth, and in the valley
roadside with circumference the
another that had a Gothic cut
*%*%%%4 the tales the frs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-15
COL. ]. NJ. BURNS WAS
VERY PAINFULLY INJURED
In Driving Accident on the bennett
Road on Thursday Afternoon.

While Col. J. M. Burns, of Mountain
Lake Park, was out driving last Thurs
day being accompanied by Miss Thistle,
a house guest, and his driver, the horses
attached to his carriage took fright at
at an automobile that was passing and
after kicking loose from the traces one
of the animals plunged forward and dis
connected the neck yoke from the pole
of the vehicle. This allowed the pole
to drop to the ground and added fright
to the almost frantic horses and they
gave a leap when one of the driving
reins parted and they with a plunge up
set the carriage, throwing the occu-
pants out.
Col Burns received a slight concus-
sion. of the brain, number of scalp
wounds and other bruises to his body,
while Miss Thistles arm was painfully
wrenched and slight scalp wound re-
suited. Since the accident Col. Burns
has been confined to his bed and is being
kept perfectly quiet by his family as
serious results may ensue should he at
this time overexert himself.
Drs. iMcComas and Legge attended
the injured occupants of the vehicle,
which was almost wholly demolished.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-15
HOW The GRANDFATHER" CLAUSE
WORKS IN PRACTICE.

The result of the municipal election
in Annapolis yesterday demonstrates in
a striking way the effect of the elimina-
ton of the negro vote by the grand
father clause. The city, which is
normally close, was carried by the
Democrats so overwhelmingly that
there was no contest. The registration
was cut from POO to 1885, leaving but
46 negro voters on the books, while
heretofore there had been 1900.
There may be room for difference of
opinion as to whether Annapolis is bet
ter off underian election law which per-
mts only white illiterates to vote, but
thelelection returns there would seem
to settle conclusively what the effect
of the elimination of the negro vote
will be. The testof the law is irrefuta-
bic evidence of what it will do if applied
to the whole State.
1t is still possible for the advocates of
the DISTINGUISHING law to advocate its
merits, but it is no longer possible for
them to contend that it will not make
Maryland one-partv State. The pur-
pose of the law is to do with the State
exactly what was done in Annapolis,
and the manly thing to do is to meet
the issue.
The elimination of the negro vote
will make both the city and the State
so strongly Democratic that it Will be
almost impossible, at least for many
years, to turn the party out of power,
no matter what sort of government is
given at the City Hall or at Annapolis.
In discussing the alleged benefits to be
derived from adopting the amendment,
its advocates should be honest enough
to admit its logical result. Baltimore
News.