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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-14
TUM0R OF
FOu(RYEARS
GROWTH
Removed by Lydia E. Pink
ham, Vegetable Compound

q cyst tumor OF
four years growth,
which three of the
best physicians de-
clared / had. They
said that only an
operation could
help me. / am very
glad thatIfollowed
a friends advice
and took Lydia q.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
for it has made me
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DR.. CORAL r. ARMENTRoUT
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

ohce-Y. M. c. A. Building. Resi-.
dence 912 Fulton street. Office hours:
10 to a. M; 2 to p. M; evening
hours by appointment Iowa phone.
929-4, and Hub. phone 2o92, office
phone Residence phone. Iowa 12-M;
HUI 3515.
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Free Lover TO the pen.

KANSAS CITY, May 1s.-Charles
;, Nord, zeal estate broker, accused
OF winning the love of number of
women in various cities and inducing
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DR.. J. EATON JOHNSTON

III oICIAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing Oste-
opathy in the county. The Smith.
sonlan trus- fitted and guaranteed.
only truss that holds. Office
North side of Main street, third door
above Fifth. Phone SO. Residence.
Ninth am Webster. Phone asa. P,
Q. Lock Box, Al. Warsaw. Ill.
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PHYSICIANS.

DR.. f. C. SMITH
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: BIO Main street,
second floor.
Office Hours: 10 to IL a. M; 2 to 4
p. r.; to p. Ii.
Iowa phone. CAB.
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them to part with their money, was
sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary on the conviction of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
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The membership fee was changed
slightly, although members renewing,
can renew at the old basis, but new
members are charged the slight adj
vance which seemed absolutely neces-
sary in order to maintain the high
standard of work we are now doing.
We look forward to an increased men,
bership during the coming year. We
trust all of the new members will use
their utmost endeavors to bring IN one
new man during 1909
Respectfully submitted,
THE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE,
L. A. HAMILL, Chairman.
PHYSICAL Work Committee.
Board of Directors and Members Y.
M. c. A, City.
Gentlemen: Your physical work
committee would submit the following
annual report for the year ending May
Is. 1909:
We are glad to note the marked
improvements in the gym and bath
The gymnasium walls have been paint
ed and the capacity for lighting great
w increased. A piano has been pur'
chased for use during classwork.
A telephone has been placed in the
Office of the physical director. large
new locker room has been constructed
for the business men, and great i'm
provement has been made in the bath
and lavatory arrangements for both
boys and business men.
The gymnasium and athletic work
shows satisfactory results as is indi
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Membership Committee.

Keokuk Iowa, May II, 1908.
To the Members of the Y. M. c. A.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
Gentlemen-Your committee beg
leave to report during the past year
the membership committee have put
In some good work, and have secured
during the year number of new
members. The campaign for the
months of March and April resulted
in 81 new members and the COM
parative statement today is as follows:
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larger share of the work necessary to
keep all features Of the department up
to a full efficiency. There is too
much of disposition to be amused
instead of being used. This is, no
doubt, due to mistakes made by the
committee at different times.
While the year has been an active
one, and great good has been accom-
plished, it is the deliberate conviction
OF the members of the committee,
formally expressed at their last meet
ing, held the last Sunday In April,
that Keokuk needs a series of union
revival meetings. A resolution to this
effect was passed and signed by some
members of the committee, and pre-
sented to the Ministerial Union.
The bible study work has been the
best of any year, and the figures con-
corning that department of the work
of the committee given in this con-
nection are most interesting.
The suburban work was carried on
during the summer as usual, and with
definite good results.
The aggregate definite results of the
years work were that twenty-four men
and five boys confessed conversion,
and that seventeen of this number
are now members of churches. Hun
dreds of men We're, inspired to clean
lives, with a determination to resist
sturdily, in times of temptation, and to
serve Christ by serving men.
The religious work committee took
an active part in assisting in the
organization of the Federation of
Laymen and in promoting the Lay
Respectfully submitted,
H. C. BROWN,
J. E. FORNEY,
w. A. LOEFFLER,. :.
R. l.. REID,
E. S. PATTERSON
Committee
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19

ton. The body was removed from the base of
the oak about Is years ago. 1t never should have
been removed.
1t is said that Washington selected the place
where his body lies and left instructions
that day the change of sepulcher should be
made. The oak which guarded the first grave
must have been standing for three centuries.
The view from the place is inspiring enough to
enkndle the eyes of dead man. The view from
the tomb is fine in its way but it is as moth
ing to the grand sweep of river hilltops and for
ests which moves before the eye from the place
where Washington slept for 80 years 81
Hundreds of visitors go to Mount Vernon
daily They peer into the tomb and then
straightway go to the house. There is an inter-
est of course, which must attach to any of the
belongings of Washington, but it seems to be
legitimate matter of regret that of the thousands
who go to Mount Vernon the interest in the mir
ror which Washington used when he shaved and
in the spoon with which he ate his porridge, if
he ate porridge, is far greater than in the forest
trees under which he walked and in the garden
whose hedges Of formal cut were planted with
his own hand.
Indoors at Mount Vernon everything is dead;
outdoors everything is alive. The forest and
garden are instinct with Washington; the con-
tents of the house are as dust.
There is real interest however, in the
library of the old home. In the main the books
are simply copies of those which were the
shelves in Washingtons time. The originals, as
l understand it, are in several libraries of the
country. There are two originals however,
which open at the title page, that if the
light be good, one may read Washngton's name
written in his own hand and the title of the book
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two or three newspaper men, Inc scientists are
in the great majority.
1t costs a pretty penny to join the Metropolitan
club and to pay the dues and to live the life Of
the organization. The initiation fee at the Cosmos
club is rather small, ana the dues are light, but
there are scores Of members of the Metropolitan
club, 'the club of the nobs,' who willingly would
pay twice or thrice the Metropotans initiation
fee and the Metropoiitan's dues if the expenditure
could gain them admission to the club where the
"cranks" foregather.
Every Monday night is called social night" at
the Cosmos club. OF course the clubhouse is open
at all times, but Monday evening the members
make special effort to be present and there is
always large gathering in the great, sweeping
rooms of the house where once lived Dolly Madi.
IN
They don't intrude shop" upon you in the
Cosmos club. The members genial body of
men and they have many guests from all parts of
the world. They find out what the guest likes to
talk about and then some one who knows the sub.
ject is promptly introduced to him. There few
world subjects upon which you cannot get an
expert opinion in the Cosmos club.
The members, of course, have their hobbies
and they ride them. In corner of room there
will be an astronomical group, and there will be
another corner with fish group and another cor
ner with bird group and another corner with, II
may be, mushroom group. 1t isn't all science
however, in the Cosmos club. The members play
billiards and pool and bridge md they have fine
time Of it generally and at great expense, fol
it is of the hard facts of earth that de
voted to science have little money. Learnins
doesn't bring high pay in the market.
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Never Opened His Mouth.

"Not infrequent rays of unconscious
humor illumine the otherwise impos-
sible stories that come to my desk
from amateurs" says a reader for one
of the magazines. Recently CHANGED
upon this choice bit:
John. the husband, and Grace, the
wife, ate on together in silence. There
was Individually an i'll feeling between
them. The husband devoured a plate
of soup, half fish, an entree or two,
piece of roast beef. together with
sweet, without ever once opening
his MOUTH
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could be prevented and totally cured
if the man who wanted alcoholic
drink would confine himself to a
purely vegetable diet.
He argued in public and private
that by following up his course of
treatment and using only vegetables
in the diets, drunkards could shake
off the clutch of alcohol and become
proof against the habitual craving
for strong drink. 4
Graham was himself in delicate
health at the time he discovered his
vegetable theory, SO he started in to
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try his theories on himself. After
practicing his preaching for some
time he announced in public on vari-
Gus occasions he mad met with re-
markable results in his own case, and
detailed the improvement in his con
dition occasioned by his following a
vegetable diet.
He followed up his studies along
the line of dietetics, with the result
that he finally advocated a strictly
vegetable diet as a cure for all the
diseases which human flesh is heir to-
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
INvENTER OF GRAHAM BREAD

Sylvester Graham, native of Suf-
field, Conn.,, was the man who in
vented the bread, and it has borne his
name ever since.
Graham was the pioneer crank" on
the food question, and he popularized
his theories throughout the country.
While lecturing under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania Temperance so
ciety in that states about 1880, he con
ceived the idea that intemperance
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word "sentimental." me

wonder was, and the poor
light was responsible for It's remain.
ing a wonder, if the father of his
country had not in his quiet hours
been reading "a Sentimental Jour
ney." If the gentle Martha had
peeped into the pages and had re-
proved George because of what she
saw there lone can imagine his ready
answer that the book was written by
holy priest of her own chosen
church.
The man with the megaphone on
the Washington "rubberneck" wag.
ons tells his audience of passengers
as they roll by the Metropolitan club
house: This is the club Of the nobs.s
In another minute, as the big sight
seeing bus passes another clubhouse
the megaphone man says: "And this
is the club of the cranks."
''The club of the cranks." as this In
formation bowler calls 1t, Is the Cos
mos club, and most interesting or
ganization it is. Its membership is COM
posed Of scientists, some physicians
and clergymen. few lawyers and
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one of which, but with unerring inaccuracv she
made answers. This was travelled American
girl There is a fairly well-grounded belief that
she met and captivated her German husband
while she was doing Europe in an automobile or
was rhapsodizing the Rhine
Some day, perhaps-vedy likely, in fact-she
will go back to her husbands land and will
listen to his telling of his American trip and in
the enthusiasm of the nature which he made
manifest on the Potomac he will tell the "his-
toric truths concerning George Washington
which he learned from his American wife,
It may be that some OF the Germans who
know something of the life of the American gen
eral who the friend and fellow soldier of
Steuben will come, to think, as some Americans
nave come to think before this, that little
American history might be included in the course
of study Of the average American girl and that
i not dollar should be spent on her passage
money to Europe until she knows without stop
ping to think whether it was George Washington
/! or Abraham Lincoln who crossed the Delaware
and who. something later, forced the surrender
sof CORVALLIS at Yorktown. This may seem to
be a matter that is beside the mark, but while
the listener had none too thorough a knowledge
sof American history, there were some things
! said on the boat plying down the Potomac that
if they had been said by eghth-grade school
5 boy ought to have brought him fogging.
Mount Vernon has been written about by
pretty nearly everybody who has seen the place.
It hasn't fallen to the lot Of everybody to see it
in the fall It is noble place, fitting resting
ground for the first American.
II seldom falls to mans lot to see such he
roic trees. There is a giant oak which stands
sentinel over the first burial place of Washing
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
Grading Literary power.

Dean Smaller Mathews says that the
newspaper shapes the popular mind
more by it's headlines than by it's ed
itorials." BY the same token, au-
thors impress by the title of their
books, not by their contents, artists by
their themes, rather than by their ex-
ecution-and lecturers by their plati-
tudes more than by their sense.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
Sylvester Graham the First to Psau-
Iarize Article Of Diet That
Bears His Name.

The housewives of America make
many loaves Of graham bread during
the year, but few Of them know the
history of this article Of food, d nor
have they ever taken the trouble to
learn why and how it came to be tirst
prepared. ~
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
The Final Transaction.

Father" said little Rollo, what is
the ultimate consumer"
"He is the last person, my son, that
an article reaches in it's commercial
existence"
81 know what you mean. Hes a
man who goes into a hotel and orders
chicken hash" Washington Star.
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The man who has been down can
appreciate being up in the world.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
Ladies Can Wear Shoes

One size Ls aser can aef W nng s As Foot
Ease the antiseptic powder. 1t makes
tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen,
nails Always use it to Break in new
Shoes. At all Druggists. 25c. Don't accept
any substitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N Ny.
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Do You Know Him?

What sort of a chapis he?"
We'll, he's one of those fellows
who think that, anything mean is a
joke If 1t isn't on him"
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Only a disinterested third party is
able to realize that there are two sides
to question
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The Reason Why,

- wonder why men don't take more
interest in the primary"
Possibly because it is a secondary
considerations Baltimore American
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willing to lend you helping hand
he'll stand for touch.
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Gross $500 boxes Of Rough on Rats to
send I'd the Panama Canal Zone, because it
does the work. The old reliable that never
fails. The unbeatable exterminator. l5c,
25c. 75c.
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SPRAINS AND BRUISES
disappear like magic under the healing touch OF
Perry Davis Painltiler. During thisicy weather no
household Should be ithouiit. In 25c, 55c. bOc Sizes
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Lewis Single Binder straight Sc cigar is
made to satisfy the smoker.
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Mrs. Smiths Housekeeping.

Growells-Smith's wife must be a
poor housekeeper.
Mrs. Growells-Why do you think
30?
Growells-He declares he's perfect
ly comfortable at home every day in
the year.-Boston Herald.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19

The bravery of some men is like
that of bulldogs; they haven't sense
enough to be afraid of anything.
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Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children tectLing koftens the gums, reduces in.
nammation, ailays paiI cures wind coiiU 2ca botue
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LOSE NO SLEEP
through nagging cough or rritated throat. Aliens
lung alsam Will heal the affection quickly and
barlcssy. AL druggists. Csc. &c and 10 bottles.
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er, cease!" l don't know how many
thousands of Americans go yearly to
Mount Vernon to pay visit to the re-
pository of dead mans bones, but
the number is something enormous.
If George Washington never had
lived at Mount Vernon, never had WIS.,
tied there, never had died there and
had been buried in the antipodes there
would be excuse enough for the visits
to the place of seventy times seven
the number of the pilgrims who go
yearly down the Potomac to stand on
the towering hill and to look off down
the valley.
1t is with an utter shame that it
Is confessed that after four years.
residence in Washington one man
American born and with some lurk-
ing pride of patriotism in his make
up never until recently went to the
place where the father of his coun-
try and the exponent of the American
school teachers ideal of truth lies
buried.
Mount Vernon is the ultimate OBJ
ject of the voyage down the Potomac.
There. are other objects every paddle
wheel stroke of the way, for the hills
on either side are hills of rare beauty
crowned with trees that saw the rev.
olution and that in the fall are wear
ing the raiment which belongs to the
kings of the forest.
On the boat going down there was
a young German gentleman, who had
married an American wife. He was
much more interested in the beauty
of the Potomac's banks and in the
history of the country beyond the
banks and in the life history of
George Washington than was she.
The German asked his American wife
II George Washington was born at
Mount Vernon. She answered that
he was; which he wasn't, not by
many miles. He, asked her many
other questions, to each and avary
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19

Stop guessing! Try the best and most
certain remedy for all painful ailments
damlins Wizard Oil. The way it re-
wounds, burns, scalds. ETC.. is wonderful.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19

Nature helps every man to become
that which he desires to become. If
he put forth no effort Nature assumes
he wishes to be nobody, and grants
his ayer-iIlbert Hubbard.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19
Reducing.

Miss Elder-Dick says that this
rose in my hair makes me look ten
years younger.
Miss Younger-Gee! Why don't you
get couple more?
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-11-19

When duty calls en- man he is apt
to be out.
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Pettit's Eye salve Restores,

No matter how badly the eyes may be
diseased or injured. All druggists or How
ard Bros. Buffalo. N. Y.
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ASHINGTON.-In the novel
of "Ivanhoe," Isaac the
Jew tells the knight that
he knows it is the custom
of the Christians to put on
pilgrims garb and to walk
barefooted for miles to
worship dead mems bones.
There is something of a
sheer in Isaac's tone and
1vanhoe rebukes him with
a truly heroic. "BlasDhem-
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have been thoroughly tried out and
found satisfactory.
These devices save time, effect econ
omy and enable a soldier to enjoy we'll
cooked food and at the same time to
be comfortably served. They have rev
olutionized, General Sharpe says. the
old system of providing for subsistence
of troops travelling, and are solution
of what has for years been a difficult
problem.
General Sharpe says that the present
garrison ration is ample and satisfac-
tory.
The only change urged is that flavor
ing extracts and spices be stricken off
and the strip portion largely reduced,
and that the money amounts of these
articles be applied to the acquisition
of additional quantities of butter and
milk. The savings privilege and the
requirement that ration articles pur-
chased with company funds shall be
purchased from the commissary, added
to the provision forbidding bartering
of stores purchased or drawn from the
commissary, the commissary- general
says, removes practically all the abuse
complained of in the past and makes
the ration all the more effective.