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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29
POLITICAL POT
MAY | OVER
sI,ys.s Turmoil a. 81 Among he
Democrats Tint has Ever I,
eeen stirred " NJ Any
Party.
FIXING ~ SLATE = !
ons Alderman IA Resigned and TWO
Others Are sstd % BE Con-
templatIn1 jumping
Overheard.

j The outbreak IL the Young Tur,,s
.ra,nst the Sultan tia snerpetual an..
,rcl,v 81 Russia against the car. thts
Intrigues Of the court 81 seryia and
ri 81 the South and. Central a mnrs
,can revolutions nut together ara 10
nothing compared to the troubles In.
the court of King Charles the First,
Mayor Of Keokislk. IN
Mayor on announced his police an.
pointments to the public yesterday.
I Whenever any mayor announces his
police, the list does not please every.
/ on but there never was SO much
dissatisfaction Ia Keokuk as there
was last evening after the democrats
Of the city read the Hist Of appoint.
n,ents In The Gate city.
A. score or more people called up
the city Office and asked If the list
vas correct. The mayors telephone
rang almost constantly to register
! kicks from citizens and Mr.. on had q
bad evening.
OF the ten policemen appointed,
Ave are from the second ward. two
/ from the fourth ana three from the
| SIKH No -orth side democrats re-
ceived any appointments.
-, 3.
:: u, 49, 49, = a =
.ne ~ "a ,sie pulce iorcs
,,s9s w. = s.e = l'is' .nayor
80 - - -
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YOUNG MEN WANTED
travelling Statesmen Earn from $4,000
to $4,000 Year, and Expenses
Thousands Now Needed.

IHouSanuS NOW NeeQcu.
There is man in Rochester, N. Y.
who has successfully trained by mail
thousands OF experienced young men
to become travelling statesmen, and Sc
cured them good positions. His method
is so ,imple that any young man with
ordinary education can master the s'b-
ject in six weeks.
This man is president Of tie Brad
street System, and any reader of The
Daily Gate City who wants to be some
thing in this world. should send to-
day for his new book. How to Sue
coed as a Salesman" The book is
free. Write for it to-day to President
Bradstreet Systas. 217 Cornwall Build
ing, Rochester, N. Y.
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kuk postoffice nncalled for, for week
ending May 20, 1909:
Ladies.
Mrs. David Austin.
Mrs. Emma Carter.
Miss Mamie CHER.
Miss Cushman.
Mrs. Nellie Davis.
Miss Mary Hewell.
Mrs. Tippel Lacen.
Miss Jennie Mcclure.
Mrs. Geo. Milligan.
Miss Matte Pate.
Mrs. Matte Smith.
Mrs. Susie Wardlow.
Gentlemen's
C. e. Adams.
Harry Blankenship.
James L. Carter.
w. o. Davis.
Robert B. Harding.
Keokuk Grocery Co.
R. E. Morris ~
John Stewart.
Talcoma Lumber Co.
Edward Thurston.
E. A. Wilson.
EN-. Westfall.
Persons calling for letters in above
list will please say they are adver
tised.
S. w. MooRHEAD.
Postmaster
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29
The Question:.

Where oh, where has my waist-line
gone;
Where, oh, where can It: be?
with the waist cut short andthe waist
cut long
And now it's down to my knee!
Puck
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29
A scaIded Boys Shrieks

Mortified his grandmother, Mrs. Maria
Taylor OF Nebo, KY. who writes that,
when all thought he would die. Buck.
lsa.s Arnice salve wholly cured him
Jnfallihlc for burns, scalds, cuts. corns.
wounds. bruises. Cures fever sores.
boils, skin eruptions. chilblains, chap
4 e. hands. Soor routs piles. Csc at
Wilkinson & CO.. and ]. +. K.edaish &
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29
was stricken with apaplexy while
watching a ballgame here Thursday,
died suddenly today. He was at one
time consul general to Mexico under
Cleveland
A Bad Tasre IN the Mouth.

1t is anything but pleasant to awake
with a bad taste In the mouth. TIL: J
always arises from disordered stom-
ach, and may be corrected by taking
a dose o. Chamberlain's Stomach and
liver Tablets Immediately after sup.
per. They cleanse and invigorate the
stomach, improve the digestion snd
give one relish for his food. They
are easy to take and pleasant in effect,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29

The flag on the staff at the first
lock was at half mast today in oDsefv'
ance of memorial day.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of letters remaining in the Keo.
kuk postoffice uncallrd for, for week
ending May 20, 1909:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-29

ofI1cla.. -.fcIle j In,
strictly enforced hid s,sois5ili$
be imposed on its violatols
there be violations reported.
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81 causing heavy damage was felt
rom Merena Peninsula. in
"a Greece. The information is
ere, and it is feared many lives
e lost.
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[kead the Daily Gate City. 10
p per week.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31
FERTILIZER FROM BOOSTS.
Scientific Tests to Ascertain Value Of
Poultry Droppings.

Poultry Droppinss.
The average farmer does not appre'
ciate as he should the value of the
fertilizer made by poultry. This may
be mainly due to the fact that many
times it is not properly stored, so that
much of it's chemical constituent ma
terial is lost.
Professor Morse of the New Hamp-
shire experiment station, after refer
ring to the loss Of fertilizer value and
answering the question how best to re-
tain it, says Athe best materials for this
purpose are gypsum or land plaster,
acid phosphate and kainit, cheap
potash salt. Each Of these chemicals
has the power to form new compounds
with the ammonia as fast as 1T is set
free from the original combination.
Wood ashes and slaked lime should
never be used, because they cannot
combine with ammonia, while they do
force it out of its compounds and take
its place. Plaster is apt to produce
dry, lumpy mixture when used in large
enough quantities to arrest the ammo
mia, while kainit and acid phosphate
produce the opposite effect of moist,
sticky mass.
Bulletin 9S Of the Maine experiment
station says that, using their results
as basis of calculation, the weekly
droppings of a flock of twenty-five
hens when scraped from the roosting
platform should be mixed with about
;nht dc nf lot init ootI nj,
phate and half peck of sawdust. If
one desires a balanced fertilizer for
corn and other hoed crops a mixture
of equal parts of kainit and acid phos-
phate could be used instead of either
alone. The same authority tells us
that "good dry meadow muck or peat
would be equally as good as sawdust
if not better, to use as an absorbent"
Fresh poultry manure at the present
values of fertilizers would be worth
60 cents per hundred pounds Figures
from different experiment stations
would give the product of twenty-five
hens for the winter season of six
months as 375 pounds for the roost
droppings only.
Poultry manure Is especially adapted
as top dressing for grass because of
its high content of nitrogen in the form
of ammonia compounds, which are
nearly as quick in their effect as nj,
trate of soda. A ton Of the manure
preserved with sawdust and chemicals
would be sufficient for an acre when
compared with a chemical formula fo1
top dressing.
On the same basis of comparison 100
fowls running at large on an acre
should in a summer season Of six
months have added to its fertility the
equivalent of at least 200 pounds OF
sulphate of ammonia, 100 pounds OF
high grade acid phosphate and sixty
pounds of kainit.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31
CROSS SECTION WORKBENCH.

a workroom. Two pieces of 2 by 4
inch scantling, each sixteen feet long,
will be. sufficient to construct the
framework Of the bench. All lumber
entering into the construction Of the
workbench should be thoroughly sea-
soned and dressed to uniform width
and thickness.
A clamp for holding materials should
be constructed from piece of hard
wood and attached by the aid Of a car
penters bench screw. This clamp
should be provided with notches or pin
holes at the lower end so that it can be
set to hold materials of any thickness.
Along the front of the bench two or
three holes should be provided, into
which pins may be set for supporting
boards or other materials that are too
long to be held rigid by the clamp
alone.
A "stop" for holding materials that
are to be planed can be inserted in
the top Of the bench, near the left
hand end, as shown in the cut. If a
regular stop is not employed its place
may be taken by small piece of
nOtcneu DO8ru ndlleu On Top VI tHe
bench.
A pair of trestles or sawhorses, each
consisting of piece of by inch or
by inch timber, about four feet in
length, supported upon four legs, as
illustrated in the second figure, are
very convenient for working upon
while marking saving, boring or CHS
cling. The sawhorses are an accessory
to the workbench and should be con-
structed at the same time. The cost
of the materials with which to con-
struct both the workbench and saw
horses should not exceed So. Among
the accessories to the workbench
there is no device that will give great
er satisfaction than a good inter box,
to be used for saving small wood ma
terials either square or at an angle.
For the construction of miter box
three pieces Of board one inch thick,
six inches wide and three feet in
| length should be selected and nailed
together in the form of a square
trough, taking care that the nails are
driven well out toward the edge of the
boards Vertical cuts are sawed
through the sides to the bottom board
to guide the saw when the box is in
use. Near one end cut is made at
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

away as the child said distinctly: "Tll
kiss you after dinner. 1t can't be done
here, can it, Eileen?"
Selwyn, beside Eileen, had ventured
on the formalities, his voice unsteady
and not yet his own.
Her loveliness had been a memory.
He had supposed he realized 1t to him.
self, but the superb fresh beauty of
the girl dazed him. There was a
strange new radiancy, a living bright
ness, to her that seemed almost unreal.
Exquisitely unreal her voice, too, and
the slightly bent head, crowned with
the splendor of her hair, and the slow
ly raised eyes, two deep blue miracles
tinged with the hues of paradise.
"Are you remaining to smoker ask
ed Eileen as Selwyn took her to the
doorway after dinner. Because If you
are not I'll wait for you"
ION the lawn out there-farther out,
in the starlight" he whispered, his
voice broke, my darling
She bent her head, passing slowly
before him, turned, looked back, her
answer in her eyes, her lips, in every
limb, every line and contour of her, as
she stood moment looking back.
Austin and Boots were talking volu-
bly, when he returned to the tables now
yelled in fine haze of aromatic smoke.
Gerald stuck close to him, happy, ex-
cited, shy by turns. Others came up on
every side-young, frank, confident fell
lows, nice in bearing, Of good speech
and manner.
And outside waited their pretty part
ners Of the younger set, gossiping in
hall, on stairs and veranda in garru-
lous bevies, all hlmy silks and laces
and bright eyed expectancy.
The long windows were open to the
veranda. Selwyn, with his arm through
Gerald's, walked to the railing and
looked out across the fragrant starlit
waste. And very far away they heard
the sea intoning the hymn Of the four
winds.
Then the elder man withdrew his
arm and stood apart for awhile. A lit
tie later he descended to the lawn.
crossed 1t and walked straight out into
the waste.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

ShecloSed both
eyes and pulled the trigger. Something
knocked her fat against the wall, but
she heard no sound of a report, and
she pulled the trigger again and felt
another blow.
The second blow must have knocked
her down, for she found herself rising
to her knees, reaching for the table to
aid her. But her hand was all red and
slippery. She looked at 1t stupidity,
fell forward, rose again, with the acrid
smell Of smoke choking her and her
pretty fur jacket all soaked with the
warm, wet stuff which now stained
both hands.
Then she got to her knees once more,
groped in the rushing darkness and
swayed forward, falling loosely and
fiat. And this time she did not try to
rise.
1t was her way. 1t had always been
her way out Of trouble-the quickest,
easiest escape from what she did not
choose to endure.
AS for the man, they finally con-
trived to drag the dog from him and
lift him to the couch, where he lay
twitching among the dolls for awhile,
then stopped twitching.
Later in the night men came with
lanterns, who carried him away. A
doctor said that there was the usual
chance for partial recovery. But it was
the last excitement he could ever ven
| ture to indulge in.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

DOLLAR OUTFIT.
the right angles with the length Of the
box to be used In making square cuts.
For making bevel cuts for right an
gled miter joint the sides of the box
should be sawed down on obllque
lines running at an angle Of forty-five
degrees with the length Of the box.
For the benefit Of those who contem-
plate the purchase Of tools for use on
the farm the following combinations
are suggested:
For a two dollar and fifty cent out
ft-a hatchet, a handsaw, a small
square, screwdriver and a pair OF
pliers.
For a ten dollar outht-a hatchet a
hand ak, a twenty-six inch handsaw, a
twenty-four inch steel square, draw
ing knife, a brace and six bits (one-
quarter, three-eighths, one-half, five-
eighths, three-quarter and one inch), q
pair of pliers, screwdriver, a cold
chisel, twelve inch fat file, a monkey
wrench, a Jack plane, two chisels lone
half and one inch), a rivet punch,
riveting hammer, a leather punch ana
a small oil can.
Other outfits, according to the arti-
eiss desired, can be had for from go
20 S2a
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

Selwyn said that he would 90, hesi-
tating before consenting. A curious
feeling Of age and grayness had sud-
denly come over him, a hint Of fatigue,
Of consciousness that much of life lay
behind him.
So Austin went to the telephone and
called up his house at Silverside, say
ing that he'd be down that evening
with guest.
Nina got the message just as she
had arranged her tables, but woman is
born to sorrow and heiress to all the
unlocked for idiocies of man.
Dear" she said to Eileen, the tears
Of uxorial vexation drying unshed In
her pretty eyes, "Austin has thought
fit to seize upon this moment to bring
a man down to dinner. So II you are
dressed would you kindly see that the
tables are rearranged and then tele-
phone somebody to fill in-two girls,
you know? The oldest Craig girl might
do for one. Beg her mother to let her
come"
"Whom is Austin bringng?" Eileen
asked.
"He didn't say. Can't you think Of a
second girl to get? Isn't it vexing?
OF course there's nobody left-nobody
ever fills In in the country. Do you
know, I'll be driven Into letting Drina
sit up with us-for sheer lack Of ma
terial. l suppose the little imp will
have fit II / suggest 1t and probably
perish of indigestion tomorrow"
Eileen laughed. "Oh, Nina, do let
Drina come this once! 1t can't hurt
her."
And 40 it happened that, among the
jolly throng which clustered around
the little candle lighted tables in the
dining room at Silverside, Drina, in
ecstasy, curly hair just above the nape
of her slim white neck and cheeks like
pink fire, sat between Boots and a
vacant chair reserved for her tardy
father.
For Nina had waited as long as she
dared. Then Boots had been summoned
to take in Drina and the youthful
Craig girl, and, as there were to have
been six at table, at that particular
table sat Boots decorously facing Ell
leen, with the two children on either
hand and two empty chairs fiankinS
Eileen.
At dinner Drina and the younger
Craig maiden also appeared to be bent
upon self destruction, and Boots eyes
opened wider and wider in sheer
amazement at the capacity of woman
n embryo for rations sufficient to
maintain a small garrison.
"Therell be couple of reports" he
said to himself, with shudder like
Selwyn's chaosite, and then there'll be
40 more Drina and Daisy. Hello"'
lie broke off, astonished. "Well, upon
hy word of words! Phil Selwyn, or
I'm broker!"
"Philg exclaimed Nina. "Oh, Aus
in, and you never told us!'
"Train was late, as usual" observed
Austin. philip and 1 don't mean to
butt into this very grand function
Hello, Gerald! Hello, Gladys! Where's
our obscure corner below the salt,
Nina? Oh, over therew
Selwyn had already caught sight OF
the table destined for him. A deeper
color crept across his bronzed face as
he stepped forward, and his firm hand
closed over the slim hand offered.
For a moment neither spoke. She
could not. He dared not.
Then Drina caught his hands, and
Eileen's loosened in his clasp and fell
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31
L arm ana
Garden
FOR FARM EQUIPMENT.

Cheap and Efficient Helps For coun-
try Life.
The successful management of
modern farm depends largely upon the
efficiency Of the equipment with which
the work is performed. In addition to
the outfit of tools obtainable from
hardware dealer, there are a number
of special devices that may be made
on the farm and that will prove of
great assistance in general repair
work. A workbench of some kind will
probably be the first essential. For the
construction Of workbench like that
shown In the first cut there will be
needed four boards seven-eighths inch
thick, twelve to fourteen inches wide
and about twelve feet in length. The
length Of the bench, however, will de-
pend upon the size Of the shop or other
space that may be available for use as
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31
A Novelty at Cards.

Those who give card parties are al
ways anxious to get new and clever
methods of keeping individual scores
Everything that can be thought Of has
been done in the way Of ingenious
cards.
At a recent card party "A novelty
was introduced by giving each guest a
wire bracelet. Every time game was
won a colored bead was strung on It,
These made rather pretty souvenirs to
take home.
As gold wire was used and vivid
stones Of large size were chosen, the
bangles of the winners were quite gay
ornaments before the evening was
over.
Another hostess elaborated this idea
by using tiny ten cent toys instead of
beads. These were hooked on the
bracelet with bits Of gold wire. This
idea was enthusiastically received. and
1t might make a good suggestion for
hostesses of coming card parties.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31
The song of the sea was rising now.
In the strange little forest below, deep
among the trees, elfin lights broke out
He halted to ksoen.

across the unseen Briar Water, then
vanished. He halted to listen. he
looked long and steadily into the dark
ness around him. Suddenly he saw
her-a pale blur in the dusk.
"ElleenP'
''Is it you, Philip"
She stood waiting as he came up
through the purple gloom Of the moor
land, the stars brilliancy silvering her
-waiting-yielding in pallid silence to
his arms, crushed in them, looking into
his eyes, dumb, wordless.
Then slowly the pale sacrament
changed as the wild rose tint crept into
her face. Her arms chung to his shoul-
ders, higher, tightened around his
neck. And from her lips she gave into
his keeping soul and body, guiltless as
God gave 1t, to have and to hold be-
yond such incidents as death and the
eternity that no man cllngs to save in
the arms of such as she.
THE END.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

can hold the boards as long as that
where the bill must be renewed three
times u day to hold even the passing
attention of those who themselves are
eternal understudies in the continuous
metropolitan performance.
AS for Selwyn, few people noticed
his presence at the funeral. But even
that episode was forgotten before he
left the city six hours later under an
invitation from Washington which ad-
mitted of no delay on the score of pri-
vate business or of personal perplex-
ity, for the summons was peremptory
and his obedience so immediate that
telegram to Austin comprised and con-
cluded the entire ceremony Of his leave
taking.
Later he wrote a great many letters
to Eileen Enroll, not one Of which he
ever sent. But the formality Of his 81
lence was no mystery to her, and her
response was silence as profound as
the stiffness in her soul. But deep into
her young heart something new had
been born.
In April the armored ships left the
southern drill ground and began to
move northward. A destroyer took
Selwyn across to the great fortress in
side the Virginia capes and left him
there. During his stay there was al
most constant firing. Later he contin-
ued northward as far as Washington,
b,,t 4 ,ot Tn thot hn taln.
graphed Austin:
Government satisfied. Appropriation
certain next session. Am on my way to
New York.
Austin, in his house, which was now
dismantled for the summer, telephon-
ed Nina at Silverside that he had been
detained and might not be able to
grace the festivities which were to
consist of a neighborhood dinner to
the younger set in honor Of Mrs. Ger
aid. But he said nothing about Sell
wyn, aud Nina did not suspect that
her brothers arrival in New York had
anything to do with Austin's detention.
AS Selwyn came leisurely up the
front steps Austin, awaiting him fe-
verishly, hastened to smooth the fiorid
jocose mask over his features and
walked into the room, big hand ex-
tended, large, bantering voice undis-
turbed by the tremor of q welcome
which filed his heart and came near
filling his eyes:
$50 you've stuck the poor old gov
ernment at last, have you? Took 'em
all in-forts, feet and the marine cav
alryT
"Sure thing" said Selwyn, laughing
in the crushing grasp Of the big fist.
'How are you, Austin? Everybody's
in the country, suppose" glancing
around at the linen shrouded furni-
ture. "How is Nina7 And the kids
Good businessf And EileenT
"She's all right" said Austin. "GadI
She's really superb specimen this
summer. Where's your luggagef oh,
ia 1t all here? Enough, mean, for us
to catch a train for Siiverside this
afternoonr
HAS Nina any room for mer' asked
Selwyn.
Room! Certainly! I didn't tell her
you were coming, because If you
hadn't the kids would have been hor-
ribly disappointed. She and Eileen
are giving a shindy for Gladys-thata
Gerald's new acquisition, you know,
30 II you don't mind butting into q
baby show wen run down. It's only
the younger bunch from Hithsrwood
House and Brookminster. What dc
you say. Phil?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

laying his own plans to marry some
day in the future, and at first the news
staggered him, leaving him apparently
no immediate incentive for securing
his freedom.
But Ruthven instantly began to real
ize that what he had lost he might
not have lost had he been free to
shoulder aside the young fellow who
had forestalled him. The chance had
passed-that particular chance. But
he'd never again allow himself to be
caught In a position where such q
chance could pass him by because he
was not legally free to at least make
the effort to seize 1t.
Fear In his soul had kept him from
blazoning his wife's infrmity to the
world as cause for an action against
her, but he remembered Neergard's
impudent cruise with her on the Mo
brara, and he had temporarily settled
on that as a means to extort revenue,
not intending such an action should
ever come to trial. And then he
learned that Neergard had gone to
pieces. That was the second check.
Ruthven needed money. He needed
II because he meant to put the ocean
between himself and Selwyn before
commencing any suit. whatever ground
he might choose for entering such a
suit He required capital ON which to
i've abroad during the proceedings II
mat could be legally arranged. And
meanwhile, preliminary to any plan. OF
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-31

mered, stepping
forward, fearful
Of the weapon
she clutched.
B ut at the
sound Of his voice
s he screamed,
crept back clos
err against the
wall, screamed
again, pushing
Ine SHINING muz-
zle of the weap-
on deep into her
fur jacket above
her breast.
"F-for Gods
sake" he gasp
ed, don't fire
don't"-