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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-27
SPORT CALENDAR
FOR THE WEEK

Monday.
Thirty-seven cars in the Munsey re-
liability automobile run from Wash
ington to Boston reached New York.
Football team of the United States
Naval academy began practice at An
napolis for opening of season, Octob-
er 6.
Harness races begun in connection
with Tri-State fair at Trenton, N. ].
Entries include famous horses of New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Airship fights started in New York
in contest for $4,000 prize of New
York World for best record between
New York and Albany Wilbur
Wright and Glenn Curtiss chief COM
petitors.
Aquatic sports begun at New York
under direction of the Hudson Fulton
commission.
Horsemanship tests for army Of
ficers began at Fort Meyer.
Tuesday.
Racing season opened at Belmont
Wednesday,.
| Annual Horse show will open at
| Park, New York, to continue until
| October IL.
/ Interstate Fair association races
began at Hamilton, Ont, under the
auspices of the Hamilton Jockey club
Count Zeppelin arrived at Frank
fort-on-the-Maine, Germany, for Sc
ries of balloon flights.
Annual Horse show opened at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, with many en-
tries belonging to we'll known New
York sportsmen.
/ Brown football eleven plays Rhode
Island college. at provideace, R. l.
l Yale meets Wesleyan university on
the gridiron at New Haven, Conn.
Harvard's eleven tackles Bates,
at Cambridge, Mass.
Boat races form chief feature of
sports at Hudson-Fulton celebration,
New York Today's program CON
fined to rowing races.
Fifth annual seniors tournament
will be at Apawamis Golf club, Rye,
/ N. >.
Contests in race of Aero club of
Switzerland will gather at Zurich and
begin practice for Gordon Bennett
balloon race.
Thursday.
Annual field Club Horse show will
open at Morristown, N. j.
England's star soccer team will ar
rive in New York for series of inter-
national soccer football matches
Motor boat races begun at New
York in connection with Hudson-Ful-
ton festivities.
Friday.
Illinois State Fair will open with
splendid racing program for eightday
session. Night Horse show to be a
feature of meeting.
Fifth annual Tri-city golf contest
for the Lesley cup will open on the
links of White Marsh Country club
near Philadelphia, to be held for two
days.
Open season for duck, brant and
goose shooting will open on Long
Island and will extend to Decembes
81.
Saturday.
A large number of gridiron con
tests fills the sporting calendar on
this day. Following are the most
important games:
Carlisle Indians VS.. Syracuse at
New Haven, Brown VS.. Colgate al
Providence, Penn VS.. Dickinson at
Philadelphia, Princeton vs.. Stevens at
Cambridge, Dartmouth VS.. Bates at
Williamstown. Holy Cross VS.. New
Hampshire at dorchester.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
DEATH At 4 PIG FAIR.

Nc1c and Humorous Light on an old ScBH9.
From The London Spectator.
l am sure your readers will appreciate this
luminous and hitherto unpublished commentary
on a phrase, signifying unqualified cundenna-
ton. the logic of which is uJl evident as its
f,icturesqlieneSs: 4 wouldn't lie seen dead in it
IOf a garment at pig fair Ii was recently
sent TO me, in reply 10 my request for eilclda-
ton, by Martin Ross Goint author OF tile i'm
mortal IL. ~, who has kindly consented TO my
repTintng ii in your columns.
Il have never given a ueCkue to a male friend,
or even enemy; but a neCktie once given to
me l showed it TO d person whose opinion on
such matters l revere. He said at once, 1
Would not be seen dead in it at a pig fair The
matter Of the tie ended there; to use the valua-
be expression OF q female friend, l gradually
threw it away That was my first experience
OF the pig fair trope, and have mover ceased TO
ind comfort in Il. nor ever questioned ITS COM
pleteness. 1 am aware that nothing, presuma-
bly,, VIII matter to me when / am dead, yet
casting my mind forward. ! do not wish the be
holder of my remains. casting his mind back
ward. to be scandaiiZed by my taste in ties OF
other accomplishments while I alive. I do
not myself greatly care about being alive at i
pig fair, neither IS It an advantage, socially or
otherwise TO be dead there. Yet this odium
might be enhanced could even De transccnded,
in the eye Of the heholder, by the mtamy Of my
necktie. To this point ] have treated tie be
holder a person able to appreciate the dis
credit not only Of my necktie but also of being
dead at q pig fair. There remains. hovevcr. and
in a highly intensive manner. the pig fair itself
We trust and believe that the pig jobber is crit
zeal about pigs; but we DO not expect from him
fastidiOusness in artistic and social affairs. He
will not, hope realize the diScredit OF being
dead at Il pig fair but there can be necktiaS AZ
which he Will draw the line. Considering there
fore. the disaprrobation Of the pig iobber
joined to that Of other behOlders. and finding
that foreknowIedEe Of the caIIousness Of death
could not allay my present sense of these ignO-
mics, ! gradually threw away the uecktie."
As reference has been made to the Il. H. your
readers will be amused 10 hear that French
sportsman who had asked the name OF good
sporting novel. ana had been recommended the
work in question, said with some surprise:
But I did not think such things existed in Ire
land" He imagined the title To lie Some Rem
inisCences OF an Irish HaTem."
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

The published statistics of church membership
are considered so untrustwOrthy by Mr.. c. Ber
trand Thompson that he makes no use of them
in his inquiry into the cause and cure of the
separation between The Churches and the
Wage Farmers (Charles Scribner's SOns). Many
reasons for the estrangement are. he finds, Of
fered by the critics: the archasm Of rituals, the
subservienCy of the churches to wealth, the
femininity of their appeal to the world. and the
abundant ineffcienCy Of the clergy. many Of
whom seem to be unaware of any but "individ-
ualistic' interests. Whether these reasons are
sufficient or not, there is the fact says the
author, that large number of wOrktngmen are
out of touch with the churches. Obviously. to
the author this alienation will cease when the
Church breaches and practises a social gospel.
Were it not for Mr.. Thompsons dislike for fig
ures he might derive some encouragement from
a recent article in The Times" of London. in
which the membership of the churches Of the
United States is reported TO have increased more
than sc per cent in the past eighteen years.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

Fleet Street and Other Poems" has just been
published here by Mitchell Kennerley. In view
of his mysterious disappearance and presumed
suicide a certain pathos attaches to the book
and this is deepened by the opening sentences Of
his brief PREDATORY note. The time has come.
he says. ito make end. There are several
motives 1 find my pension is not enough; /
have therefore still to turn aside and attempt
things for which people will pay. Ny health
also counts. Asthma and other annOyances 1
have tolerated for years: but I cannot put up
with cancer" The reader is naturally stirred to
compassion and turns to Davidson's verses with
every wish to apprehend them sympathetically.
This is the sort of thing that he finds:
That railways are inadequate appears
Indubitable now For sixty years
Their comfort grew until the train de luxe
Arrived, arOusing in conducted Cooks,
And other wholesale tourists. an envtous smart,
For here they recognized the perfect art
And science Of land travel Now we sing
A greater era, hail happier spring.
The motor reveals tneptitude
In railway trains; and travellers conclude
The railway is archaic: strictly true,
Although the sounds false as new:
Railways democratic. vulgar. laic:
And who doubt DemOCracy's archaic?
This fragment is fully representative. It sup
plies a crushing answer to those sentinentalists
who have sought to blame the public for the
failure Of Davidson's career. He not
inspired poet The story Of his bitter struggle
with fate wakes regret but with it criticism has
nothing to do.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
4 DOG STORY.

Edward :. Robertson in The London Spectator
Some years ago ! was walking along Upper
Lesson street, Dublin, and saw King Charles
spaniel standing on a doorstep looking up at the
bell handle and whining. As soon as he saw
me approaching he trCtted down the steps got
IN iTont uf me ana sat up begging" OF course
went and rang the bell, and as soon as the door
was opened the little creature tgrned round and
held up his paw 10 shake hands / did not at
the time know his owner, but ! made the
woWan's acquaintance some time afterIyard
asked he1 i the dog had been Taught to beg
have the door opened and 10 shake hands
by way of thanks She said he had not, he had
been Taught 10 beg, pet dogs usually : ra
taught by feeding him with daintias after sitting
W. and to shake hands after being Ted.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

THE English Vegetable Garden" new vol
ume imported by Charles SCrbners Sons. is de-
scribed on the title page as Written by Ex-
perts" 1t is a very practical compilation. and
should be of service to workers on American soil
1t is pleasant to observe the spirit in which the
kitchen garden Is taken in England. Evidently
abundant care IS given not only to its Unitarian
functions but to its appearance. Box, by the
way. is commended as the best edging for the
walks, inasmuch 1t is both hardy and hand
some. These pages are freely illustrated with
good halftones from photographs. in which the
humble bean or carrot and the arfstocratic arti-
choke and cauliiower are portrayed with posi-
lively artistic effect.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
FICTION.

THE INFAMOUS JOHN FRIEND BY R s. Gar
12mo. pp- $40. tHenry Holt < Co)
Reviewed In another column
POPPEA OF THE POSTOFFICE BY Mabel Csg1oI
Wright t3arbaral VITA frontispiece by the KIN
news. I2mo pp. 34T CThe Macmillan Company
Reviewed another
A CERTAIN RICH MAN Bv William Allen White
12mo. pp 434 THE Macmillan Company
A study OF American life and character
RED CLOUD OF THE LAKES. BY Frederick r Bur
Illustrated by Edrieda Burton. I2ynO pp. S74
CDufheld Co)
The history OF a Indian family through three
generations.
WHEN | An RICH By Roy Mason Illustrated by
Roy Marteu Mason l2no. pp. S45 c. w UHlins-
ham Company
The adventures Of young college who Is
stranded In New York
JASON A Romance. BY Justus Miles Forrnan- IL
lustrated by W Hatherell. Il l. l2mo. pp- 35I
NHaTpeE Bros)
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

could only conclude. therefore. that the dog as
ISOLATED the sitting up attitude with request 70
be given something he wished for, when IN tnlS
case happened to be the ringing of the bell He
would naturally enough associate the ringing
of the bell with the opening of the hall door
But the shake bands" gesture caps the climax
He evidently had been taught to associate this
gesture with feeling of gratitude for food
which had given him pleasure; he felt pleasure
at his wish to be let into the house being COM
plied with and so showed his gratitude in the
wav he had been taught TO show it for food.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
REpRINTS.

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New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
AZ OLD H4N'S ANSWER.
M The London Snectator-

From The London Spectator
The correspondence you publish on the reason
ing powers Of animals prompts me to write 10
you Of the fine saying many years agd Of man
in CoIyton. Devonshire. He had a breed IF
mastiffs, and was greatly attached to an his
dogs one Of them died. He was much dis
trcssed. few days later friend met him and
finding him still very despondent, said. Why
do you go grieving2 After all, il was only ii
dog" The old man replied. only d dog Do
YOU know that it has pleased the Almighty to
endow the dog with TWO Of His own most divine
attributes -unchanging constancy and unpur-
Chasa bic love?
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
Literary Neses and Criticism

her readers have grown used to looking for IN
all the Barbara" books. There is Tragedy IN
this volume-enough TO give movement TO the
somewhat old-fashoned plot. and TO hold the
reader in suspense. Poppea IS charhllhs
heroine. and her romance is unfolded Win que
regard to the dramatic unities- we remark
again the authors skill in the portrayal OF
rustic
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

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former h1.t OF r-- United 9-a-s--o p2 =
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Modern Methods --- -.- - 81 D. -
Problem Ev Al..-..S a.s
xxxii gq4 sN-r5t Narf S '.' % ~.
MISSION FURNITURE How ~ g. S1Si YSissalai' =
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New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
EOETR RY

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New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

It IS pleasant news that the Harpers are re-
printing Lafcadio Hearn's 'YOuma." 1t is Gus
tomary to regard his Oriental writings as those
best expressive Of his talent, but the truth is
that he never did better work than in his West
Indian tales.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
HIVE EMILE.

THE AIR-sHIP BOYS or -E--- sSsv-11 Lss5SS
by F r Harper 12n-o, ~. sl'- '
& Erittun C.ullEyl
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

An article which ought to be Of interest to
readers of Dickens is promised for the August
number of "Harper's Magazine" 1t Is written
by Mr. DeshIer Welch, who has hunted down
the house in Genoa in which the novelist llVed
when he was at work upon The Old Curiosity
Sbon" Mr.. Welch describes this palazzo and
discusses at divers points Dickens's life in the
Italian city
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
RELIGIOUS

CHRISTIANITY. IT'S nature ana IS tI~
: Pals1. D. D- l-aa, ps-
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
M ALLEN WHITES nouek
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present and
to Come.
to Come.

translation Of NJ SOLOMON Reinach's -Or-
pheus" a history of the worlds religions. Is
coming from the press of the Putnams.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

The scenes OF this modern r7uaa,s
Paris me heroine is lr American -v -r--s
,zr,.s Der4zr r-. philosophy q H-s 5-e
TRANSLATED and e5itez lv Lr- tl-- lsI&
German Of Wilhelm Busch. -'----s Fs"
Orer court Publishing ,U.15-s|
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

THE Osbornes" is the title Of the new novel
by the author of 'Dodo." Its serial publication
has just begun new novel which is coming
out in book form is Mr.. Bran Stoker's 1.-THE
Lady Of the Shroud.''
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

The Lfppincotts have made uncommonly raplo
progress in the publication of The WORKS oI
James Buchanan" which Professor J. b. Moore
has been collecting and editing. They nave re-
Gently issued the eighth volume, which covers
the period from 1S4S to 1853 and its successors
will not ne long delayed. The work will prob
ably. be completed in twelve volumes, though the
exact number has not as yet been fixed
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

That is an excellent popular series which the
buttons publish under the general title Of The
Worlds Story Tellers'' In this series, CeverIy
edited by Mr.. Arthur RansOme, We have already
"eceiyed several volumes given to Gautier
Hoffman. Poe and others. and now we have
three more containing. respectively. stories by
Balzac. Chateaubriand and THE Essayists'
which is to say such writer's as Sir Thomas
Overbury. Steele, Addison. johnson. Goldsmith
Lamb, Leigh Hunt and De Quincy There are
brief introductions the frontispiece portraits
are picturesque drawings in black and white
and the books, though very cheap, are neatly
printed and bound.
Friends Of the late DR.. Lowell Mason who
have letters from him or any memorabilia are
requested 10 communicate with his grandson
Mr. Henry I. Mason. who is preparing a biog-
Taphy of him. The biographer's address is No
1SS Bay State Road, Boston
Mr.. Robert Barr has written 4 new novel
which the F. A. Stokes Company will bring out
in the autumn It is romance Of France under
souls XIII. and it is entitled Cardiac"
The late John Davidson was a minor poet who
turned hopefully to the life about him for in
spiraton. 1t was of little service to him. how
ever. since he i'll equipped to deal POLITICALLY
with the material at his hand. His last volume.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

a New York business man, Mr.. Herman Behr.
who is interested largely in patents. has recently
made rather unusual excursion for person OF
his occupation. He has put fifty English and
American poems into German. and Pierson, the
Dresden publisher has brought them out under
the title of 'PerIen EugIisher DlChtung," or
Pearls of English Poetry" LOngfellow opens
the collection with nine poems, a greater num-
ber than Mr.. Behr has chosen from any other
writer. The book also includes translations from
Shelley. Keats and Tennyson. In making these
versions Mr.. Behr has sought TO preserve the
spirit Of his originals rather than to find a lit
eral equivalent for each word.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

Lord Morley's speech before the Imperial Press
Congress continues to find echoes in the English
newspapers His definition of journalism as
literature in a hurry moves Mr.. Andrew Lang
to observe that at least Journalism has no time
for afectations, but calls a spade a spade, not
"a monumental shovel" He adds:
The old style thirty years ago. in journalism had
one stern rule, but that unhappiy, favored the
glossy periphraSiS. You must not repeat the same
word. \ man I knew. great oxford coach
fell 10 Journalism, and had to write an article on
the Twelfth of Augusta topic OF which he was
eXhausuvely ignorant He mentioned grouse sew
erai times You must not repeat the word" said
his editor. Then what an I to call the fowis?S'
"Oh, say the feathered deuizenS of the mOors'
replied his editor man of experience. The
brown bird that is PhilOuel also suggests itself
and The fowl that seems to clamor Come back
come back One might venture The bird OF
the red eyelids. and, after that, take refuge in
literal translation from the Gaelic Still. Just as
ThaCkeray preferred to say "a hat rather than
"a swart somhrerO" or "a glossy four-and- nine
so now we journalists call a grouse grouse.
Would that some learned person presented
with annotated Thackeray How could hat
topper be purchased for four-and nine? Here
Is room for a learned eXCursus.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17

Readers of English history who give any
thought at all to the cause of the death OF
Charles II accept the belief that ne dleu IIoIH
apopIexy. DR.. Raymond Crawford has had MS
dorbts on the subject. and in a book soon TO De
published on The Last Days of Charles IL he
IS e>pected TO advance some novel conclusions
sfgnor Pornpeo Molmenti, whose valuable WORK
on Carpaccio, written in collaboration with the
late Gustav Ludwig, appeared IN an EhsI1sl
edition two or three years ago. has just issued
in Milan another book which it is to be hoped
NAV also be translated. This is giovanni BAT
tista Tiepolo: His Life and His WORKS. FoF
an exhaustive study in English Of this brilliant
painter the student has long been waiting. 81
gaor MoImenti begins his book with survey OF
Venetian art in the time of TepOlo, then relates
the biography of the master and proceeds upon
? minute examination of his paintings In Italy
and elsewhere His etchings and drawings are
dealt with and chapter is devoted to his dis
ciples and imitators Eighty full-page plates
and more than three hundred smaller reproduce
tions illustrate the work
New-York tribune., 1909-07-17
THE SPECTATOR" "
Some odd aspects Of Journalism IN
the AuguStan Age.

THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE sPECTA-
tory and Manners Of queen Anne.s .,I England nd
as they are Reelected therein, as Wei as an
illustration Of the Origins of the Art Of Ad-
vertising. With Appendix Of rspreSiSntatrae I've
printed and an INTRODUCTORY Note by George
Lyman Kittredge. BY Lawrence Lewis. 12mo'
Iii 3nS Honchfon Mitf7in COmranY.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-30
BONDHOLDERS OBJECT.
Terms of Sugar Company Suit Set
hement Unsatisfactory to Them.

Bondholders of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re-
finding Company will oppose the terms of the
settlement of the suit against the American
Sugar Refining Company, It was learned yester-
day This settlement must be approved by the
Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, which
appointed George H. Earle jr.. receiver of the
Pennsylvania company. MIR. Earle began the
suit.
While counsel for the plaintiff and defendant
in this action were pledged TO secrecy regarding
the terms of the agreement to settle the action,
il was said there to be a cash payment by
the American company Of $750,000, surrender of
the securities for the loan to Adolph Segal Of
81 100000 and the cancellation of the loan.
The papers submitting the settlement to the
court prepared by J. De F. Junkin, counsel for
Mr. Earle were completed in Philadelphia
yesterday, and will be filed probably this week.
A little less than one-third of the value of the
bonds of the Pennsylvania company is repre-
sented by those who viii contest the settlement
The contention will be that the cash payment
was not large enough in view Of the years the
plant was closed and the consequent deteriora-
ton in the value of the bonds. 1t was said
Yesterday that if the court should disapprove of
the terms of settlement it might mean a re-
sumption of litigation.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-30
ITALIANS SHOOT WOMAN.
Pedestrian Fictim Of Fight Bet1oeen
Hostile Bands.

While walking quietly through East 18th street
last night with her three-year- grandson Mrs
Mary Conmerato. forty-eight years old, of No
49, East 18th street. was shot through the alb
domen by one of crowd Of men who ran
through that street firing at each other from op-
posite sides of the street After the shooting
the men in the fight got away without their
identity being learned. and the woman was taken
to Bellevue Hospital. where it was said her con-
dition was serious.
The shooting seemed to result from a meeting
of hostile gangs of Italians. The words Black
Hand were on every tongue after the affair
but the police were unable to learn that the
shooting was a result of Black Hand trouble Of
any kind
From witnesses the police learned that half
dozen Italians in one party and like number
in another met at Avenue A and 18th street and
began shooting at each other Immediately At
least a dozen shots were fired Policemen ran
toward the corner from all directions at the
first shot and the two bands started east through
18th street