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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

kThta most astute manager living
never knows what Will prove sue
cess or what a failure. Even the
most favorable notices of the press
do not always mean the financial
success and on the other hand, the
most unanimous condemnation of the
Press does not always mean fail
ure "Florodora' was not highly re-
garded by the critics and yet II proved
Ito be one of the largest money makers
OF the decade. Plays that have met
with success on the road have gone
into New York and Chicago and died
an instant death, thus blighting the
hopes of their promoters and prov
ing that theatricals are game OF
chance. 1t is a cruel game of chance
too.
The audience waiting for the cur
tain to rise on the opening night
falls to realize all the preparations
and expenditures, the hopes and am
bitions at stake Not infrequently,
sums ranging from $4,000 to 5000
have been wagered on the result =
The chorus girls who smile bright
ly and dance gracefully have been
rehearsing for anywhere from sew
en- TO eight weeks. The principals
have been compelled to learn long
parts and perhaps during the last OF
the rehearsals the principals ana
chorus alike have been putting on
the finishing touches for twenty
hours Il day.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

Don't forget the Chinese wedding
TO be held at the y, b. church Thanks
giving evening, 1880 p, m. Admis'
sion 10 cents. III
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

Three million dollars will be spent
in building a subway for electric cars
under the harbor at Sydney, New
South Wales,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

The corps of officials OF the Penn
"ylvania road, which passed through
fere Tuesday appeared TO be much
pleased with the equipment here.
According TO their statements every
thing Is in good running order on this
division.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

The German Empress has started
many philanthropic organizations in
Berlin and one of the latest and most
useful is known as the Central Asso-
citation of German Actresses.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24
RAILROAD NEWS

troupe which passed through this
,ity Tuesday, suffered an accident at
trestline later in the day. On one
of the trains, which was going 1T the
ate OF forty miles an hour, John Ans
cot, a driver, looked out of an open
door, lost his balance and fell. He
struck upon the cement walk at the
station and had 1t not been for those
about the station he would have rolled
heneath the train. The crew did not
notice the accident and they sped on.
The man was placed on the second
section of the train,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

On the Columbus division of the
Fig Four Monday evening, flying TIM
bers in the miniature cyclone which
occurred at Worthington, struck Il
Pig Four passenger train and broke a
Number of the window panes. Several
passengers were slightly injured.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

return 20 the East for prolonged
visit
Local theatre goers who miss this
production will be sorry. 1t will un-
doubtedly pc worthy OF capacity
house and the audience can be assur-
ed that tie play will be strictly first
class in every respect.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-24

The Coburn players, who were to
have been the attraction ut the
Grand Thanksgiving evening have
cancelled their date and the house
will be dark.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Cry NEWS.

The Jacksonville( HID Courier,
an afternoon sheet which was
"scooped" by almost every newspaper
of Importance in the country upon the
story of the Central association meet
ing and by it's lack CT enterprise
failed to give its readers the news last
evening that Jacksonville had been
dropped from the circuit, made the
following foolish comment that looks
mighty funny today: while Jack
sonville would like to, and has made
formal APPLICATION for berth in the
Three-Eye league. it is highly prob
able that she will retain her member
ship in the Central until the meeting
of the Three-Eye league is held as 1t
is likely that the officials of the Three
Eye and Central will get together If
any changes are made and talk the
matter over Either one suits us,
though as we say, tae Three-Eye is
preferred. AS to dropping us from the
circuit we are not scared of anything
( like that, provided we want to stay in.
1 or course we know that Ned Egan has
! said that he would vote against us re
i naming in another year. 1t is not
| likely tlat Ned will have much to say
at the meeting despite the fact that ne
won the pennant. A city of Bur-
1 lington's size that can play to only a
few more than $4,000 people with a
remnant winner should not have much
to say who should or should not re-
main in the circuit. Jacksonville can
i play to that many people with team
] at the head of the second division and
with team fighting for the nag we
could easily reach and pass the 10000
mark. We will be playing league bail
next season In the Central If we
want to stay. In the Three-Eye if we
can land there
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Davenport, the High Wire King Has
His Troubles the Same as
Any other Human
Being.
WIFE's FATHER GOT IT
Father-in-Law Fixed Matters So That
Davenport Didn't Come in For
Anything After Farm
Was Settled For.

When Davenport, tle great high
wire king was here five years ago, he
said at that time that he would never
again walk the tight wire after that
season was over and that he would
again go into private life and live on
his recently homesteaded farm in
South Dakota where he would spend
his time in trying to be an agricultur-
ist or tiller of the soil, raise sheep and
all of those other rural life stunts that
make man independent if he keeps
at it long enough.
Yesterday when the high wire man
was approached on the subject, and
asked why it was he was still in the
wire business, after what he had said
when he last appeared her, he said he
was driven into it and guessed he was
there to stay.
Several years ago, with his father-in-
law as a partner, he purchased good
farm in Dakota, which was duly paid
off but when Davenport came to claim
his share of the farm, he found that
his dear father-in-law had arranged
matters SO that the son-in-law would
come in for nothing at all, so the high
wire artist was left in the cold after
an expenditure of seven hundred dol
! lars or more which went for improve
ments of the place he had purchased
with his wife's father. Now the high
wire man is left without anything but
his exceptional talent which he turns
into coin amounting to several hun
dred dollars week and with his wife
assisting their act is one of the finest
ever procured for celebration.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Davenport are
excellent people to meet. Mrs. Daven.
port being very pleasant to converse
with and her husband, the king of high
wires, exceptionally so.
Their act will be seen by thousands
of people at next weeks celebration
and will no doubt be the chief attrac
ton of the fair.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
IOWA TO MEET
MINNESOTA
One Of the Best Teams in History Of
School viii go to the Goph-
ers' Field Saturday.

IOWA CITY, Oct. Especial The
finish of practice this afternoon found
the Iowa football team all ready for
the great battle with tae Minnesota
Gophers Saturday. Every man is On
his mettle. All are in the best of con-
dition and nothing but a most unlock
ed for accident can mar the prospects
for a great fight Saturday. All of the
twenty-five hundred followers of the
team are sure of it's success: on every
hand complete satisfaction is manifest
ed by the student body which has been
watching the progress of the team
from chaos of the first few days to the
orderly lineup of eleven men this
week.
The men have come to know each
other. Like compact mass they run
their signals and the preciseness with
which each play is executed stirs great
hopes in the hearts of the old SUDDEN s.
Unless something that was never
scheduled in the events Of the season
takes place between now and Satur-
day such a team will go out from Iowa
4 City to meet Minnesota as never left
this old town before. Not in the past
six years has the football material
been equal to what Iowa has produced
this year.
No one has failing; in fact only
the best can be spoken of each mem
Der of the team. All have been drill
ed and hammered into such shape in
the past seven days so that nothing
but superior material can force its way
through them. O'Brien and Stewart
were troubled with sprained ankles
but the injuries are scarcely notice
able now and although Stewart viii
probably weaken it is believed thai
j O'Brien can stand the entire game.
Decision has not been made def
ifinitely as to the team that start the
j great MinnesotaIowa fight Saturday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Truth About Catarrh
Sensible Methods Will Cure it. Wiki
inson & Co. Guarantees Hyomei
to Cure Catarrh.


Catarrh can never be cured by TAX
ing medicines into the stomach nor
bv sprays, atomizers or douches
Intelligent physicians have long ago
discarded such ideas ana not one of
them would be worth consideration
were it not for the fact that unscru
pulous persons prey upon the ignor-
ance of the people in regard to new
discoveries.
Catarrh is caused by germs and just
as long as these germs thrive in the
folds. crevices, hooks and corners of
the mucous membrane that line the
nose. throat and chest, just SO long
will YOU have catarrh.
There is only one way to cure
catarrh, and that is to kill the germs.
There is only one remedy that will
kill the germs when it gets where
the germs are, and that is Hyomei
Hyomei is made chiefly from Aus
tralian Eucalyptus and Eucalyptol
combined with other germ killing an
tiseptics. Just breathe it in through
the hard rubber inhaler that comes
with each outfit and relief is immed-
late. Used regularly for few weeks
Hyomei pronounced Higho-me) will
cure chronic catarrh. Complete outfit
s1.OO at Wilkinson & Co., and leading
/ druggists everywhere
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Ladies Of the Benevolent Union Will
Have Committees Everywhere,
to Tag Generous
People.
FOR A WORTHY CAUSE
The Money Which Will be Raised Dur
ing the Day is to Install
Heating Plant in the
Home.

Thursday Of next week will be Tag
Day.
Nearly everyone in Keokuk known
what Tag Day means, for it was first
! brought to public notice last year
when Tag Day was inaIgurated by
the ladies of the Benevolent Union on
Thursday OF the street fair of year
ago.
The same general plan will be adopt
ed for this week Many ladies and girls
will take their positions upon the var
ious corners along Main street, armed
with tags and boxes. The tags are for
the people, while the boxes are for
money.
BY the payment OF any sum the don.
er desires, a tag is placed upon them
and they are at liberty to go onward
on their journey, happy with the
thought that they have received their
tag fer doing good act of charity.
In the game of Tag as adopted by
the ladies, there is no rule to prohibit
man. or woman, from securing as
many tags as they wish, but each tag
must represent donation and be re-
ceived from different party.
The money which will be raised dur
ing the day, will go to fund being
raised by the ladies of the Benevolent
Union, for the purpose of installing a
new heating plant in the Birge Home,
the institution conducted for aged
ladies and which is one of the prides
of Keokuk
Keokuk people are generous and the
Benevolent Union has no fears but
what large sum will be raised dur
ing the day.
Thursday will be the one day de-
voted to the game and everyone
should be prepared to play it and en-
| joy it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01

A neat little pamphlet has been
issued by the fire committee which
contains the rules and regulations of
the department. A copy has been
placed in the hands of every member
of the department.
j. H. d. Chenoweth entered his
new office at the depot this morning
as transfer clerk. Today begins a
quarter in the government service for
that department.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01


Several positions are yet in doubt and
the fight that the different players
have made to secure them has certain
ly been spectacular. Griffith will take
about eighteen men with him to Min
neapolis and the probable lineup at the
start will be as follows:
Kresensky-Left end.
Hull or Alexander-Left tackle.
Hazard-Left guard.
O'Brien-Center.
Gross (c)-Right tackle.
Hyland-Left end.
Ehret-Left half.
Murphy-Right half.
Wright-Fullback
Stewart or Quarterback.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Bin Car Plant Busy.

NEWCASTLE. Pa, Oct Full
working hours with the complete num-
Der of employees busy were resumed
by the Standard Steel Company's plant
here today. The plant employees 1,4oo
men, all OF whom are skilled workers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Other Big Games.

Carlisle Indians vs.Syracuse at
New Haven; Brown VS.. Colgate at
Providence; Penn VS.. Dickinson at
Cambridge; Princeton VS.. Dickinson at
Cambridge; Dartmouth VS.. Bates at
Williamstown; Holy Cross VS.. New
Hampshire at Worcester.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-01
Little Soldiers

III your blood are the n1IIIlons
OF corpuscles that defend YOU
against disease.
10 make and keep these little soldiers
healthy and strong, is simply to make
and keep the blood of the right quality
and quantity
This is just what Hoods Sarsaparilla
does-lt helps the little soldiers in your
blood to fight disease for you.
1t cures scrofula, eczema, eruptions,
catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous
ness, dyspepsia, general debility, and
builds up the whole system.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11

transmitted to us through the operation of
these powerful laws of inheritance.
With profound sense of my response
bility to my fellowmen, and with an ardent
desire to aid in the good work of rescuing
some of my countrymen from the calling
bondage of superstition, | shall continue
this series Of articles until every rag and
fg-leaf is removed from this hideous mon
ster, and expose it to the Mortified gaze of
the many thousand readers of these pages
The awful horrors and terrors Of I'M
numbered millions of the human race that
are now being tortured in the flames of
an endless hell as described by Dante and
Jonathan Edwards, / would have each Of
you know, do not exceed the agonies and
sorrows and sufferings that have been in
ficted by the bloody hands of superstition
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11
THE BLUE GRASS BLADE.
Another Freethought Funeral

Leonard Knapp was born in Lewis
county, N. Y, Feb. II, 1925. He came
West at the age of 3D. Located in Dodge
county, Wis, where he remained until the
spring of 1854, when he came to Olmsted
county, Mimi, locating on section 26, Dover
Township. He was married in April, 1854,
to Miss Sarah Thompson a native of New
York State, and who died in 1864. His
children were Pete, Kate and Wright.
Kate and Wright are still living He was
again married in 1867 to Lucretia Harris
who died in $780, Geo. L. is the only child
of this marriage. Married again to Martha
Y. Waterman who still survives. He was
the second in family of eleven children,
four of whom, two boys and two girls, are
still living.
He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife,
three children, Kate, Wright and Geo. L.,
two grandchildren, also two brothers and
two sisters.
When the spring-time touch is lightest,
When the summer-eyes are brightest,
Or the Autumn sings most drear;
When the winters hair is whitest,
Sleep, old pioneer!
Safe beneath the sheltering soil,
Late enough you crept;
You were weary of the toll
Long before you slept.
Well you paid for every blessing,
Bought with grief each day of cheer:
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11
(By DR.. u. j. Bowles.)

The dead past still molds, in large de-
gree, the thought of the living present.
Heredity, tradition and vested interests are
powerful obstacles to overcome, and
through these forces many of the customs,
faiths and institutions of the savage and
barbarous peoples of early ages have come
down to us and seriously poisoned the
stream of modern life.
In all civilized countries large number
of good men and good women are now at
work to rid the world of barbarsms, stu
pidities and superstitions that have been
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11
Beautiful Tribute Paid to Departed Free
thinker at St. Charles. MINI.
(By B. Peabody. j

(bv Is. feaDOdyI
Recently we buried lifelong free
thinker; one Of the early settlers, being the
first settler in the town of Dover, and the
third in the county of Olmsted. Following
is the address read at the funeral by the
writer, held under the trees in his front
yard. He requested that there should be
no singing and no flowers. sheaf of
ripened wheat rested on the coffin which
was very appropriate.
The Address.
Again we are brought face to face with
that mystery which man .calls death. But
however mysterious it may seem, and by
some said to be an unnatural thing, | be-
heve it is just as natural as anything under
the sun. 1t is as natural to die as it is
to live; just as natural as ne born; and
although the many have denied this, it has
been recognized and advocated by all the
greatest and most learned of the past
ages. But life concerns us more than
death. 1t is life we sympathize with, the
throbbing, the moving things of the uni
verse; not the dead, the silent, the notion
less. 1t is the joy of life our hearts call
for, and yet we all know that the day must
end, the word must grow cold that the clasp
must loosen, and the red tide of life must
freeze in the veins.
Our dead brother lying here, lived long
and useful life He was an absolutely hon
est man; a man who always kept his word,
fulfilled all his contracts and never tried
to overreach his neghbor in any Of the
affairs of life. He was true to his ideal
true to his thought, and what his brain
conceived his lips expressed. The first win
ter in the West he took a job of chopping
wood in Wisconsin. He built shanty in
the woods and boarded himself. The only
reading matter he had was bible his
mother gave him when he left home. He
read it great deal, and has always kept
a copy lying on the table in his sitting
room.
He had gathered quite a library of books
together but think the bible was referred
to, oftener than any other book. He car
ried much of it in his head, and could re-
peat more of it than any one ! have ever
met lie soon came to the conclusion that
there was more evil than good in it, and
that instead of being written or dictated
by infinite wisdom, it was written by ignOr-
ant fallihle men
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11

Nature arms around you pressing,
Nature lips your brow caressing,
Sleep, old pioneer
When the hill of toll was steepest,
When the forest frown was deepest,
Poor, but young, you FASTENED here;
Came where solid hope was cheapest
Came-a pioneer.
Made the Western jungles view
Civilization s charms;
Snatched home for yours and you,
Among these prairie farms.
Toll had never cause to doubt you-
Progress path you. helped to clear;
But today forgets about you,
And the world rides on without YOU
Sleep, old pioneer!
Careless crowds go daily past you,
Where their future fate has cast yon,
Leaving not a sigh or tear;
And your wonder-works outlast you-
Brave old pioneer
Little care the selfish throng
Where your heart is hid,
Though they thrive upon the strong,
Resolute work it did.
But our memory eyes have found you,
And we hold you grandly dear:
With no work-day woes to wound you-
With the peace of man around you-
Sleep, old pioneer!
At the Grave.
With MORN. with noon, with night, with
changing clouds and changeless stars, with
grass, with tears and birds, with leaf and
all the sweet influences of Nature, we leave
our dead. Again farewell.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-07-11
Persistence of Superstition

Discussion of Sunday Laws and Their In
fuence Upon the Race-Other Laws
Enacted by the Devotees of
Orthodox Faith.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-17
Insurgents Satisfied.

The vote for Cannon as candidate
for speaker was not unanimous. Out
of 1S6 votes cast. Cannon received
1862. Cannon did not vote. Sturgis
of West Virginia arrived too late for
the roll call Following the nomina-
ton of Cannon, Stennerson of Mimi
esota named Tawney for speaker.
Reederof Kansas placed in nomina-
ton Smith of Iowa and Rowland of
Ohio named Keifer. The roll call
resulted: Cannon 1872, Smith 10,
Tawney Z, Keifer ). Representative
Crumpacker of Indiana and Repre-
sentative Mcguire of Oklahoma each
received one vote.
Representative Murdoch of Kansas,
speaking for thei Insurgents, after the
caucus, declared that the result of the
caucus tonight only served to further
encourage the insurgents He claim
ed victory in sight.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-17

civil war but his greatest fame was
as a railroad builder.
He built the Kansas-Pacific rail
road (Union Pacific in 1S69-70; the
Denver Pacific between Denver and
Cheyenne, and was president of the
Denver & Rio Grande until August.
1883, when he resigned to give great
er attention to his railroad in Mexico,
the Mexican National, but he contin-
ued to be president of the Rio Grande
& Western, extending from Grand
Junction to Salt Lake, until April,
1901, when he withdrew from per-
sonal participation in its affairs. He
founded Colorado Springs in connec-
ton with the building of the Denver
& Rio Grande and lived there since
the summer of 1871.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-17
TO ERECT APARTMENT HOUSE.
Realty Concern Plans Modern Build
ing at Nachcs and Chestnut.

II. +. Boyer and b. S. Snyder OF
this city are identified with the re-
Gently incorporated First Realty
Trust company and within few
days will open offices in the Miller
building. on the fifth floor. Other
offices are to be in Seattle, Tacoma.
and Spokane and in addition to put
ting its own land on the market the
company will do IA brokerage bust
ness in lands in this, Kittitas, Benton
and Klickitat counties Among these
lands are some valuable properties
on the Columbia river.
A four-story apartment house Will
be one of the first undertakings of
the new company In this city. The
building will be at Naches avenue
and Chestnut streets and will be-
modern in every detail with elevator
service. janitor, etc. II is intended
also to erect and sell good class
of modern dwelling houses.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-17
PATENTS TO LAND ARE ISSUED
Land Office Makes Large Number Of
Homesteadcrs Happy.

Patents to land have been issued
through the land office here, to the
following Edward Slavin. Tampi-
co. GO acres; Willis X. Birge. M.btOn-
100 acres; William A. Liable, Red
Rock, so acres; Joseph Miller. Black
rock, 40 acres; William T. Bigger
staff, Mabton, lG0 acres; Lewis Z.
Friend Mabton. so acres; Louis f.
Foiles, lied Rock, so acres, Laban
A. Hovis, Alfalfa, 100 acres Lconi-
das Kimmel, Prosser, 165 acres;
James c. Berry, North Yakima. $50
acres; Benjamin Chittock, North
North Yakima, 100 acres; Joseph
Poulin, North Yakima. 100 acres,
heirs of Harmon e. Carr. ElIensburg
100 acres; John A. Davies Ellens-
burg, 100 acres