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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-31

Fall colds are quickly cured by
foley's Honey and Tar. the great
throat and lung remedy. The gen
uine contains no harmful drugs.
Wilkinson & Co. j. f. Kiadeisch &
Son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-31

CONTRACTOR AND BUILDERS.
John w. Young, Builder. Superin-
tendent and Contractor for all KINDS or
construction. Also general repair
work. Prompt and careful atten-
lion given 70 plans and estimates
Your patronage solicited. OFFICE bvt
Blondeau, Iowa phone. office, 2143:I
residence. 3342.
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The Hunters.

A good many people go about look.
Ing for quarrel. But it Is our ohser-
walton that only 4 very limitsa num-
Der go about looking for a fight.--To-
peka Capital.
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nAncient and Honorable" Pastime In
weighed Many Players During
the Past Country
Club Season.
CLUB HOUSE is CLOSED
Custodian Has Left But This viii Not
interfere With the Game Be-
ing Continued For
Month.

The closing of the Keokuk Country
Club house Saturday brought to
termination the most successful sea-
son in the history of the organization.
Although the custodian has left, the
golf season is by no means at an end
and for at least month play will
continue.
The ancient and honorable" game
seemed to have invaded the atmos
phere with telling effect. Not only
did members, who had not played for
several years, return to the game, but
new players were added and the
links were thronged more than ever
before. When driving to and from
the Country Club youths could BIZ
seen swinging imaginary golf clubs al
imaginary elusive balls; even the
custodian of the club found little
time now and then to take on one
Of the caddies, for a nine-hole contest
The game has penetrated deeply anG
extended it's influence everywhere.
"A Wide Score.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-31
Providing for the Future.

More than 5000 camphor trees have
been set out in Florida.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-31

ACHEODOsIA.
Gold Medal Flour makes llghtest bread
Sue
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OR. J. EATON JOHNSTON.

OR. J. EATON JOHNSTON.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing Oste-
pathy in the county. The Smith
sonian truss fitted and guaranteed.
tn only truss that holds. Office
North side of Main street, third door
above Fifth. Phone SO. Residence.
Ninth and Webster. Phone .S4. p.
.. Lock Box Al. Warsaw. Ill.
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w. M. HoGLE. M. D,

co. Main street.
Office houis, to 5 and Z to p. N.
Residence, GOA High street.
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A Wide Score.

The game of golf seemed to have
inveigled business and professional
men of the city, who found in it a
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
Capital Is Cordial to Little Counties

Bernstorffs made her debut in society
at Cairo, Egypt, where her father was
his country's representative UP to a
few months ago. She feels as if she
were making second debut since COM
ing to Washington. for she has taken
part in all the affairs given for Miss
Ethel Roosevelt, as we'll as in many of
the official functions.
Since the dismantling of the German
embassy by the Baroness Won Stern
burg, who recently sailed for Europe
with her mother to spend the rest of
the winter on the Riviera, the house
has been placed in the hands of dec
orators and furnishers, and the ambas-
sador and his family have been obliged
to live at one of the hotels. The en-
bassy is expected to be ready for &C.
cupancy in April.
The Countess Won Bernstorff and her
daughter wish to know all about the
city in which they live, and they are
seen frequently on pleasant mornings.
guidebook in hand, learning about
historic houses and places. They have
strayed already outside the foreign and
official circles to meet people Of inter-
est, and it is confidently expected that
the German embassy will be thorough
ly cosmopolitan and democratic during
the present incumbent's regime.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

THE Countess Luise Alexandra Won
! Bernstorff. only daughter of the
German ambassador and Countess Won
Bernstorff, has found the national cap
ital of her mothers native land much
to her liking. Ever since the arrival
in Washington of the kaiser's new rep
resentative and his family, they have
been entertained constantly. To all az
fairs given for the younger set the
little countess" as she is frequently
called, has been invited.
Countess Alexandra was born and
educated abroad, and is making her
first visit to this country. She speaks
the language with only slight accent,
for her mother, who has lived in for
eign countries ever since she was Is
years old, has never dropped the Eng
fish tongue, but has spoken it to her
daughter and. son, the latter now
student in Germany.
A year ago the daughter of the Won
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
Clerk WEEDS Prince in Travel Romance

Der bound for Manila, but stopped in
Denver to visit friends before leaving
the country. While visiting in Denver
she became acquainted with friends of
her hostess who were also bound for
the east and who had taken passage on
the steamer which was to carry her to
Manila. Miss Jeffrey learned that they
were to make several side trips and SO
she obtained an extension Of leave
from the Philippines and decided to
join the party of tourists.
Whether the prince was member
of this party or whether Miss jeffrey
met him after the ship passed through
the Golden Gate has not been made
known. At any rate, he was passen-
ger on the steamer, and the acquaint-
ance which formed then resulted in a
pretty little love affair. The prince con-
tinued with the party through their
travels in China and japan and the
love story progressed in the most sat
isfactory way.
While in Hong Chow the party went
for an outing. The funny little native
rig In which Miss jeffrey was riding
collided with carriage. Miss Jeffrey
was thrown to the ground and injured
painfully, but not seriously. 1t was
not long after this that the marriage
took place.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

r HERE Is no abler servant of the
/ United States in the capitol build
ing than James C. Courts, the diminu-
tive clerk of the house committee on
appropriations. Without him the great
committee would be often Mt sea.
It would be almost an utter impos-
sibility for Chairman Tawney or any
other head of that great committee to
carry in his mind the vast details Of
the appropriation bills which it brings
into the house. carrying amounts vary
ing from few to more than 500. O0O.-
600. Some member of the house wants
to know about some item in every
bill and frequently the whole house
wants to know about good many of
them. Chairman Tawney can answer
Offhand as many questions as any
other chairman who ever stood in his
shoes, but 1t Is Courts who, when he
sits down, is almost hidden by the
desk in front of him, but is, the ready
prompter when the chairman's men,
DRY fails Between Tawney and Courts
practically no time of the house is
wasted in getting necessary informa-
ton for all corners.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
House Committed Clerk Courts in Demand

When congress recently voted $780,
600 for the relief of the Italian earth
quake victims, an unusual scene was
enacted in the house. A misunder-
standing had arisen between the presi-
dent and congress as to the amount Of
the relief and the bill prepared by the
house committee on appropriations
did not fit with the presidents mes
sage by 100000. Courts was sum-
moned by a general alarm and re-
-sponded readily. pen in hand. A con-
ference was held at the speakers ia
BILE lasting about two minutes. and
those two minutes brought $3OO,O0O
more relief to the sufferers of Italy.
Courts and his pen fixed the bill and
Courts later rushed the bill to the en-
crossing committee and had it in the
senate in record time
When congratulated by members
and civilians alike later, Courts mere
ly smiled. When, however, some one
ventured to suggest that it was an in
spring sight to see congress act SO
generously and SO quickly, Courts re-
piled: Il once knew a congressman
who made & speech in Faneuii hall,
Boston, and Dragged about the passage
of a pension bill carrying over $780,
100000 in forty minutes. Finally he
swelled up in his patriotism and ex-
claimed: Can you beat that?' some
body in the back row replied: Lord. I
hone not There is S,,ch a thine aS
being too quick on the trigger"
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

and misery. advise all suffering
women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound" -MRs. EMMA
WHEATON, Vienna, w. Va
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con-
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or HARM
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi-
cine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prOstratiOn.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound q trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write q cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice Is free,
and always helpful.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

NJ ASHINGTON.-F'rom government
W clerk to princess is the change
made by Miss George Jeffrey. former
ly a clerk in the Office of the auditor
of the post Office department.
She is now the wife of Prince Alfred
Ahrenheim-Gagarin, adjutant to his i'm
perial majesty, the car. The wedding
took place in Canton, China. The
prince and princess are now travelling
in the far east, but will ultimately go
10 ST. Petersburg, where they will
make their home.
The romance which eliminated in
the marriage Of the American girl and
the Russian nobleman had its incep-
ton on an ocean steamer bound for
the far east. Miss Jeffrey. who was re-
garded as one of the best clerks in the
post Office department., was transferred
at her own request from that depart
ment to the Philippine service.
She left Washington early in Octo-
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

HERBERT LIVINGSTON SATTER-
IL LEE, son of the late Bishop Sat.
terlee and son-in-law of J. Pierpont
Morgan, recently appointed to sue
coed T. H. Newberry as assistant sec.
rotary of the navy, was one of the
board Of visitors at the Naval acad-
envy last June and entered into his
duties with a zest and interest that
was particularly pleasing to the acad-
envy staff. He insisted upon seeing
everything there was to be seen. ate
in the mess hall. went out in the
launches and watched the drills. At
last he decided that he must slep in a
midshipman's bed; so he was assigned
to a room on one of the decks.
Now at the very time the board of
visitors was at the academy the West
Point-Annapolis baseball game was on
and the West Point team were to be
given a rousing send-off when they
took their departure, which was fixed
for very early in the morning of the
night that MI Satterlee played at be-
ing a midshipman and slept in Ban
croft, or Bankrupt" hall as the mid
dies facetiously call it. apropos of
their cronic penniless state. "A,I OUT
was called promptly and those who
did not tuSn out quickly enough to
suit the MILDLY officers were uncere-
moniously dumped out on the floor,
mattress and all. The officer of one of
the decks rushing hurriedly around
at the last moment to see that all had
obeyed his summons came to a room
whose occupant had not stirred, but
with his head buried in the pillow was
soundly sleeping. Here, you, get up"
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
Secretary Satterlee's Test for Dutv

called out Mr.. Midshipman, and meet
ing with no response, said, "Oh. you
wont, won't your With that he
rushed toward the bed and taking
hold of the mattress was about to
jerk it down on the floor, when a
sleepy voice said, What's the mat
ter?" and a sleepy face, wearing a full
beard, emerged from the bed clothes.
1t was Mr.. Satterlee of the honorable
board of visitors who had been SO I'M
tremendously aroused. and when this
fact dawned upon the brain of the en-
terprising midshipman he beat a
hasty retreat.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
To Farm Insanity Plant

So terrible are the effects of mari
huana that law was passed by the
Mexican congress making it a peni-
Tertiary offense for a person to use
the plant in any form. 1t is said that
ii is so seductive in it's effects that to
smoke one cigarette made of it will
addict one to its use. Nothwithstand-
ing the stringent Mexican law, it is a
common practice for cigarettes made
of it to be smuggled to the soldiers in
the barracks, producing more than one
dangerous riot.
Love believes that the plant can be
put to good commercial use as a drug.
He says it is cure of asthma and is
also thought to be valuable in the
treatment of tuberculosis. 1t is far
more powerful than India hemp, of
which it is species, he says. India
hemp is recognized in the materia
medica as valuable drug.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
DeadIiest Vegetable Known to Be In
troduced Into Texas.

The deadly marihuana plant is to be
introduced into Texas from Mexico by
special permission of the state agricul-
tural department Ernest Love, who
conducts an agricultural experimental
station near Guerra, has returned from
a trip to the marihuana producing
region of Mexico. bringing with him
ten pounds of the seed of the plant.
says a dispatch from Austin to the
New York Herald. The weed is known
as the most harmful of narcotic drugs
Its leaves, when smoked in the form
Of cigarettes. produce a species of in
sanity which frequently ends in hor-
rible death. The story is told in
Mexico that Empress Carlotta. the ILL
fated wife of Macmillan, had her
mind dethroned by drinking coffee in
which marihuana leaves had been
placed. She left Mexico an incurable
lunatic at the time of the overthrow
Of the French in that country and has
Eeyer regaiDed her faculties.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
GAVE HER DADDY AWAY.
Little Ones Innocent Remark Thas
Len the Deacon caspinQ.

Every Sunday some one threw .
button into the contribution box Of the
little church. The annoyed pastor
confided to his wife that he suspected
the button thrower to be stingy old
Deacon g.. who had so strongly OPP
posed his cali to the pastorate. but
that he dare not accuse him Of It for
lack Of evidence.
At a church ''sociable" that week
some one suggested the playing Of
games. Deacon G. had just partaken
Of oyster soup ut some one else's ex-
pense and felt warmed and expansive.
why not play Button. button
who's got the button!' he inquired OF
waiting children.
"Oh. yes!" exclaimed his youngest
daughter with enthusiasm. And You
lend us the button, papa!" Then she
drew back. timorously. Unless You
want to save it for next Sundays con-
tribution," she added. considerably.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
NEW IDEA
Helped Mis-. Couple.

1t doesn't pay to stick too closely to
old notions of things. New ideas often
lead to better health, success and hap
pineSs.
A Wis. couple exaEliced an idea new
to them and stepped up several rounds
on the health Ladder. The husband
writes:
coffee drinking, were sleepless,
nervous, sallow, weak and irritable
My wife and 1 both loved coffee and
thought it was a bracer." (delusion.)
Finally, after years Of suffering. We
read of Postum and the harmfulness
of coffee. and believing that to grow
we should give some attention to new
ideas. we decided to test Postum.
when We made it right we liked it
and were relieved of ills caused by
coffee Our friends noticed the change
-fresher skin, stsadier nerves, better
temper. etc.
These changes were not sudden,
but relief increased as We continued to
drink and enjoy Postum, and we lost
the desire for coffee.
Many Of our friends did not like
Postum at first, because they did not
make it right. But when they boiled
Postum according TO directions on
pkg, until it was dark and rich, they
liked it better than coffee and were
benefited by the change" There's
q Reason"
Name given By Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read 'The Road to Well
vile" in pkgs.
Ever rend tic above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
interest.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

Year. the statue of the city god was
borne in solemn procession to the
palace, where the king did homage,
grasping the hands of the god in
token of his fealty. At the beginning
of a reign this act was equivalent to
a coronation ceremony. and whenever
the king was in Babylon at the New
Years festival he renewed his allie
glance in this fashion to the national
god.
1t was. surely. no mean achievement
to lay bare once more to the sunlight
this ancient holy way, the worn blocks
of which had been trOdden by the feet
of priests and kings. To pace the
courts of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS palace.
and to gaze upon the very spot where
he had sat upon his throne dispensing
justice or directing his affairs of state,
was certainly some return for the Ia
Dor of years. But, for all that, DR..
Koldewey and his assistants were dis
satisfied. For up till then scarcely a
fragment of sculpture had been dis
covered, and no object of great artistic
or archaeological value. All that met
the excavatOrs' gaze were bricks.
burnt and unburnt, spread in bitumen
as pavements or piled up in massive
walls and terraces. The massive
fortress wall ON the east side of Nebu-
chadnezzar's southern palace is older
than the palace, and was filed in by
NebuchadneZZar las may be seen In
the photography when he raised the
height of the platform on which the
palace is built. The very temple walls,
which were found standing and in
place. were bare: they were lined with
no rich carvings or painted tiles. but
were covered with thin lime wash
like any modern Turkish serai. It is
easy to imagine that the spoilers of
the city would have stripped her pal
aces and shrines of all treasures and
portable objects of value-but they
would not have scraped the walls. DR..
Koldewey was inclined to regard the
story of Babylon's former splendor as
another bubble that had been pricked.
ly afterwards, when he had trans
ferred his main body of men from Tell
Amran again to the Kasr, he discov-
cred the great Gate of Ishtar, which
has fully made up for the want of
decoration upon the buildings found
up to that time. Ishtar. the goddess
of love and war. was the most favored
lady in the Babylonian pantheon. and
the gateway which Nebuchadnezzar
erected in her honor was a worthy
tribute to her greatness. It is a dou-
BILE gateway. with interior chambers,
fanked by massive towers, and was
erected at the end of the Sacred road
at the northeast corner of the south
ern paIce. But its unique character
consists in the scheme of decoration
on its walls, which are covered with
row upon row of bulls and dragons
represented in brilliant enameled
bricks. Some of these creatures are
Nat, others are raised in relief. and
the effect of these professions of mon
sters. even in the present ruined con-
dition of the structure, is remarkable.
L. W. KING, NJ. A.. F. 8. A.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

The mounds which now mark the
site of Babylon lie about eight hours
distant from Baghdad, upon the left or
eastern bank of the Euphrates. and
they extend for about three miles from
north to south along the course of the
river. The nearest modern town to
the ruins is Hillah, about five miles
to the south; this. too. is on the Eu-
pirates. which divides it into quarters.
connected by a bridge of boats. It is
a military post of some importance.
and the photograph gives a view of
the barracks, with the Euphrates In
the foreground. The town is built
mainly from the bricks of ancient
Babylon, which for many centuries
has served as quarry for building
materials to the whole district. Hillah
Is famous for its date-palms, and the
houses are nearly hidden in the lux
uriOus date plantations which fringe
the river banks.
The bare mounds of Babylon form
a striking contrast to the green and
feathery palm tops along the winding
course of the Euphrates. The mounds
break the fiat line of the barren
nitrous plain. and are now pitted and
scored by years of excavation. At
points around them great ridges of
earth branch out, like the heads of
railway entertainments under construc-
lion. These are the heaps of earth
and debris cleared by the excavators
from the surface of the ancient city,
and dumped clear of the mound, on
virgin soil where possible, so as not to
cucumber the area of future work.
Along the tops of some of these ridges
little iron tip-trucks may be seen.
pushed by couple of Arab workmen
along light railway to the end of the
shoot; while others at the other end
of the line. and nearer the excavations
in progress. are filed by lines of Arab
basket-carriers who clear away the
soil as the diggers loosen 1t. For
years this busy work has been in
progress, and the photographs here
published will give the reader some
idea of the results which have been
obtained.
At first sight some of them may not
strike one as very remarkable. and it
certainly requires some Imagination to
conjure up from them the glories of
ancient Babylon. But in this connec-
ton we may remark that the excava-
tors themselves were, for many years.
in a like frame of mind, and for time
they even doubted whether the stories
of her ancient pomp and luxury might
not have been inventions. On March
&c. 1899. Dr. Koldewey began work on
the mound of the Kasr, or 1.-The
Palace" as the natives term one of
the largest of the city mounds, and
from the very first considerable sue
cess of a sort rewarded his efforts.
Two palaces of King Nebuchadnezzar
were uncovered, and small temple
of the goddess Ninmakh and a larger
temple dedicated to the god Ninib
were thoroughly excavated within a
comparatively short time. The next
important discovery was the site of
the great temple of Bel, or Marduk.
the city god of Babylon, in the mound
Tell Amran. but the ruins of the build
ing were covered by such a huge &C
emulation of debris that only a cor
ner was laid bare. Then DR.. Koldewey
traced the course Of the Sacred road
of p. bylon. which led from the Tenn
pie of Bel to the royal palaces. Along
this road. at the Feast Of the New
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
Yacht Built of Concrete.

Daniel b. Banks. a member of the
Baltimore Yacht club, has had in use
for II years yacht constructed of
concrete REINFORCED with steel rods.
The craft is a slow sailer, but rides a
heavy sea easily. Several years ago
the yacht was driven on the rocks in a
storm, but was not injured.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

Pills, which he said had made q bad
back well, enabled him to sleep bet
ter nights and feel more fit for work.
The treatment also cleared up the
urine. On January S. 1909. Judge Law
confirmed his previous testimony. Il
have recommended this remedy to
many people since I first used It,"
said he.
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents box.
Foster.Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

The extraordinary popularity Of flno
white goods this summer makes tho
choice Of Starch a matter of great i'm
portance. Defiance Starch. being free
from all injurious chemicals. is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity a
Starch necessary. with the result Of
perfect finish. equal to that when the
goods were new.
The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03
Knit Stockings by Electricity.

From the gigantic task of hauling
freight and passenger trains over the
electrified branch of tae Canadian Pa
cific the Aroostook falls. in Maine, per-
forms such little chores as knitting
stockings. The falls have recently
been harnessed to drive electric gen.
orators which supply current to the
railroad and to the knitting mills of
the vicinity. An electrically operated
machine will knit stocking in less
than two minutes.