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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
CHAPTER Kill,
The Gate of Dreams.

In my heart ! was anxious to do
justice to Gillespie. Sad 1t is that we
are all so given to passing solemn
judgment on trifing testimony! Imy-
self am not impeccable. / should at
any time give to the lions a man who
/ uses his thumb as paper-cutter; for
such one is clearly marked for bru.
tally. My prejudices rally as to a
trumpet-call at the sight Of a girl
wearing overshoes or nibbling bon
bons-the one suggestive of predatory
habits and weak lungs, the other Of
nervous dyspepsia.
The night was fine, and after re-
turning my horse to the stable l con-
tfnued on to the Glenarm boathouse.
was strolling along, pipe in mouth,
and was halfway up the boathouse
steps when woman shrank away
from the veranda rail, where she had
been standing, gazing out upon the
lake. There was no mistaking her.
She was not even disguised tonight,
and as / advanced across the little YER
anda she turned toward me. The Ian
tern over the boathouse door suffused
us both as greeted her.
Pardon me, Miss Holbrook; I'm
afraid l have disturbed your medita-
tions," ! said. "But II you don't
mind"
You have the advantage of being
on your own ground" she replied.
II waive all my rights as tenant If
you will remain"
1T Is much nicer here than on st.
Agatha's pier; you can see the lake
and the stars better. On the whole"
she laughed, II think shall stay a
moment longer. If you will tolerate
me-"
/ brought out some chairs and we
sat down by the rail, where we could
look out upon the star-sown heavens
and the dark floor of stars beneath.
Helen bent forward with her elbows
resting on the rail, her hands clasped
under her chin. The lamplight fell
full upon her slightly lifted head, and
upon her shoulders, over which Law a
filmy veil. She hummed dreamily for
a moment while l watched her. Had
she one mood for the day and another
TOT the night? had last seen her
that afternoon after an hour of ten.
mis-, at which she was expert, and she
had run away through Glenarm gate
with taunt for my defeat; but now
the spirit Of stars and of all earth.s
silent things was upon her. / looked
twice and thrice at her clearly
outlined profile, at the brow with its
point Of dark hair, at the hand where
on the emerald was clearly distin-
guishable, and satisfied myself that
tnere could be no mistake about her
You grow bold" said, anxious TO
near her voice. you don't mind the
pickets bit"
mo. I'm quite superior to walls
and fences. You have heard of those
East Indians who appear and disap.
pear through closed doors; we'll, we'll
assume that l had one of those fell
lows for an ancestor! It will save the
trouble OF trying to account for my
exits and entrances. will tell YOU
IN confidence, Mr.. Donovan, that |
don't like to be obliged to account for
myself"
(TO BE CONTINUED
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
CHAPTER Xll-continued.


IT, myself" he continued, taking a
chair near me and placing his feet in
an open window, Jam cursed with
rugged health. have quite recovered
from those unkind cuts at the nunnery
thanks to your ministrations-and
am willing to put on the gloves with
yon at any time"
'You do me great honor; but the
affair must wait for lower tempera-
ture."
CAS- you will! It is not like my
great and gracious ways to force a
fight. Pardon me, but may I inquire
for the health of the ladies at Saint
What's-her-name's?"
They are quite well, thank you"
IT am glad to know it;"-and his
tone lost for the moment its jaunti-
ness. Henry Holbrook has gone to
New York"
Good riddance!" I exclaimed, hear
tily. And now"
And now II | would only follow
suit, everything would be Joy plus for
you!"
He laughed and slapped his knees
at my discontinue, for he had read
my thoughts exactly.
you certainly are the only blot on
the landscape"
Quite so. And II would only go
hence the pretty little idyI that is be.
ing enacted in the delightful garden,
under the eye of a friendly chaperon,
would go forward without Interrupt
ton"
He spoke soberly, and I had OBJ
served that when he dropped his chaff
a note of melancholy crept into his
talk. He folded his arms and went
on: she's a wonderful girl, Donovan.
There's no other girl like her in all
the wide world. l tell you it's hard
for girl like that to be in her posi-
tion-the whole family broken up, and
that contemplate father of hers hang
ing about with his schemes of plumber.
It's pitiful, Donovan; It's pitiful!"
ITS cherries mess. 1t all came
after the bank failure, I suppose"
Practically, though the brothers
never got on. You see my governor
was bit by their bank failure; and
Miss Pat resented the fact that he
backed of when stung. But the Gil
lespies take their medicine; father
never squealed, which makes me sore
that your Aunt Pat gives me the icy
eye"
Their affairs are certainly mixed"
replied, non-committally.
"They are indeed; and have studied
the whole business until my near
mind is mussed up, like scrambled
eggs. Your own pretty idyl of the
nunnery garden adds the note pi.
quante. Cross my palm with gold and
I'll tell you Of strange things that lie
in the future. l have an idea, Dono-
van; singular though 1t seem, I've a
notion in my head"
Keep it." l retorted, ito prevent a
cranial vacuum"
Crushed! Absolutely crushed" he
replied, gloomily. Kick me. I'm only
the host"
We were silent while the few sounds
OF the village street droned In. He
rose and paced the floor to shake off
his mood, and when he sat down he
seemed in better spirits.
"Holbrook will undoubtedly return"
/ said.
"Yes; there's no manner of doubt
about that"
And then there will be more trou-
ble."
"Of course"
But / suppose there's no guessing
when he will come back"
He will come back as soon as he's
spent his money"
| felt delicacy about referring to
that transaction on the pier. It was
a wretched business, and / now
realized that the shame OF it was not
lost on Gillespie.
How does Henry come to have that
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

The couple in Connecticut who mar.
ried to evade the immigration laws.
and now seek relief from the penalty
OF defying 1t, ought to be deied relief
to vindicate the majesty of the law.
It is adding insult to injury to try and
make the law party to its own eva
sion.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

Mord Rosebery says that Europe
nis9st stop building Dreadnoughts and
maintaining big armies or % int
bankruptcy. If mis- lordship keeps on
making these reckless predictions he
will get himself called Little Eng.
lander" or some equally obnoxious
term.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

The war against the pompadoured
heads has developed the fact that
while woman will flee for her life
f7om mouse, she will stand by a rat
20 the death.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Most Obstinate Thinus.

A bachelor says d mule is the most
obstinate thing on earth. but married
men know better.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28
Rivers immense Traffic.

In the River LEX. Holland, and its
connecting canal to Amsterdam the
traffic amounts to over 10000 vessels
OF all kinds per annum.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-28

Housewife-You always seem to .,
Joy eating my food. but my Husband.
never suited with Il,
Beggar-Say. get divorce a.,
marry me!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
HOW KENNEDY
IS GETTING ALONG
Congressman from This District Has
Been Placed on Subcommittee
in Charge of the
Rivers.
CAN HELP DEs MONIES
Upper Mississippi May be Allowed
Two Millions for the Improve
ment Work of Coming
Season.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. rep
resentative Kennedy has been placed
on the subcommittee in charge OF
river surveys for the house rivers
and harbors committee. This is an I'M
portant assignment and puts Mr.. Ken
nedy in position where he can be Of
great service to Iowa. Every river
survey proposed in the United States
will have to come before the sub-com-
mittee of which Mr.. Kennedy is a
member, which will give him great in
fluence over river i1npr ~ sements.
This assignment is especially fortu-
nte for the Des Moines river improve
ment as Kennedy is now In a posi-
tion where he can assist on the per-
manent survey of that river, If the
government engineers report favor
ably on the project, as now seems GER
tain.
Mr.. Kennedy has been busy all
week attending hearings of the rivers
and harbors committee It is believed
the committee will recommend ex
tensive improvements of rivers and q
generous appropriation for the Miss
issippi The upper Mississippi may
be allowed $4,000 600 for the next ter
years for its improvements. In al the
rivers and harbors bill may carry an
appropriation of s5o.oo0.ooO this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
TO THE POLE
AND RETURN
Chief Of the Weather Bureau Predicts
That 1t will Some Day Become
an Excursion Trip
Feature.
NOTHING rs IMPOSSIBLE
Aluminium Airships, Properly Heated,
to Make the Round Trip in
from "a to So Hours
Time.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Looking
heavenward, with weather eye out
for amazingly quick traffic facilities
between New York and the north pole,
before the house committee on agri-
culture, Prof. Willis l.. Moore, chief
of the weather bureau and president
Of the National Geographic society,
explained his official estimates for the
coming fiscal year, particularly in con-
nection with the Mount Weather (Va.)
kite observation station He suggest
ed to the committee, "We are ad.
vancing so rapidly that it is a dan
gerous thing to say anything is impos-
sible.
q look forward he said, ito the
time when passengers will embark in
aluminium cars in aeroplanes, lighted
and heated by electricity, and sail up
and around the north pole in from
twenty-four to thirty-six hours and re-
turn to New York; but we have no
estimate here for that kind of work.
Mr. Chairman"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
caliente was the Victim Of the Rivers
Wild Rage and People Are
Homeless Out in the
Cold.
HOUSES FLOATED AWAY
Railroad Company Suffered Great Loss
which will Take TWO Months
to Repair and Make
Good.

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan. T.
The little town of Caliente, New.
focdswept by torrents from melting
snow in the canyons, is today scene
of indescribable desolation. Rising
above all marks previously touched in
flood stages, the muddy current level
ed whole hlllsides We're the railroad
ran and swept over the town like an
avalanche. The wrecks of dwellings
foated off like so many houseboats.
At the worst stage of the disaster
people deserted their homes and fed
to the hills. Here they are passing
the days and the nights unsheltered
and exposed to temperatures many
{ degrees below zero. So far as
is known, however, but one person
has perished.
Every house in the town that re-
mains standing has been rendered I'M
fit for occupancy. The interiors are
veritable mud puddles. At the Hot
Springs resort water poured over the
transoms of bathroom doors.
No secret is made of the fact that
through traffic over the San Pedro
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
is a prospect too remote for specu
lation.
Gust what the damage is we dc
not know said General Manager
Wells, .but it looks as if we could be
in fair shape in couple of months
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Peace Seems to be Coming Down in
Nicaragua, Where the War
Has Been Going on for
So Long.
NEW ELECTION CALLED
If Congress Calls for One and Madriz
and Estrada Are Not candi.
dates All will be
Well.

MANAGUA. Jan. President Ma
driz, after conference, announced to-
day that he is willing to retire from
the presidency just as soon as ar
rangements can be made for a general
election, He hopes this proposal will
meet with the approval of General So
moro Diaz, who is now enroute to
Managua as the representative of Pro-
visional President Estrada, whose
hopes are to negotiate peace terms.
Congress will insist. however, that
neither Madriz or Estrada shall be
candidates for president There is
hope that Estrada will agree and that
the revolution will end.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
ANOTHER COLD WAVE
FOR NEXT WEEK
Due to Reach the Pacific Coast Today
and Start HoWiiny Across
the Country.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA special
forecast issued last night by the Unit
ed States weather bureau, says:
The next important disturbance
will reach the Pacific coast Friday,
cross the Rocky mountains and plains
states Saturday and Sunday, the cen
tral valleys and lake region Sunday
and Monday, and reach the Atlantic
coast about Tuesday.
"This storm will be preceded by
temperature above the average for
the season. The next well-marked cold
wave will appear over the extreme
northwest the beginning of next week
and will advance eastward and south.
eastward to the Atlantic coast by
about Thursday
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
TWO HUNDRED
ITALIANS HELD
Chicago Police Takino Active Steps
to Unravel the cienni Mur-
der Case.

CHICAGO, Jan international
combinations may follow the efforts
Of the police to capture the three men
who murdered Beneditto Cienni yes
terday.
One hundred and ninety-seven Ital-
ians had been arrested on suspicion
at noon. Guido Sabetta. Italian con-
sui here, announced that he would
start an investigation of the crime and
would ask his government to demand
an explanation from the United States
state department of what he character.
lied as high handed police methods
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
CUTE WILLIE
GIVES LECTURE
Eleven Year Old Wonder Who Goes to
Harvard and Tells the Profes-
sors Things.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 7.-Wil-
liam j, Sidis of Brooklyn, mathe-
matical prodigy whose intellectual at
tainments enabled him to enter Har-
ward University as special student
last fall, although he is only eleven
years OF age, addressed the Harvard
Mathematical club upon the subject Of
Four Dimensional Bodies"
For over two hours Sidis entertain
ed 100 students and professors il.
higher mathematics with his views of
the mysteries of the fourth dimension.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
WAS COOL ON SNOW
COVERED SCAFFOLD
Even the Assurance Of Being Hung
Failed to Heat Up Young
Earl Hampton.

wILI.IAMsToWN. KY, Jan. -
Earl Hampton, seventeen years old, a
negro, was hanged early today by the
dim light OF lanterns. He was hanged
for thirty minutes before the doctors
pronounced him dead The scaffold
was covered with snow.
Wagers were made on the boys
gameness and those who bet that the
lad would die game won. for he was
the coolest person on the seaffold.
Hampton tried to assault a white
woman.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Nav Bust the Union.

MUsCATINE. Jan. THE refusal
of Secretary e. L. Moody to obey a
suspension order from Supreme Presi-
dent Gleason, of the Button Workers
Protective association, will probably
result in an eruption in that organiza-
ton. Branches are established at a
dozen different towns. Hints of SEN
sational character are frequent. Spe-
cific charges are expected to be made
at meeting of the various branches
delegates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
ALL GOOD CITIZENS
READ NEWSPAPERS
Judge said That Man is Not Good
One If He Nealects to Read
Them.

MACON, Mo-. Jan. while law
yers were asking the talesman sum-
moned in the Roy Bolin murder case
whether they had read the newspa-
pers, Judge Shelton interrupted.
Il suppose, as matter of course,
thev have all read the papers the
Judge said. They would not make
good jurors If they had not. A man Is
not COED citizen unless he reads the
newspapers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
CANNED REkNS
AND CREAM PUFFS
Several Cases of Ptomaine Poisoning
in Syracuse. as Result o.
This Bill of Fare.

SYRACUSE, y. Y, Jan. Twenty
seven cases of ptomaine poisoning. all
but one traceable to the eating OF
cream puffs or chocolate eelairs, have
been discovered in this city. Six mem
bers of one family were stricken Mon
day, three of another Tuesday and
the remainder have come to light with
in the past twenty-four hours.
Three of the victims are critically
i'll. Canned beans are said to have
been contributory to one case.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
TWO DOCTORS
UNDER SUSPICION
Death Of Denver Girl Is Being lnvesti'
gated by the Police
Officers.

DENVER. Colo, Jan. Two doc
tors and the fance of Miss Viola
Edison are under arrest today accused
OF criminal knowledge of the woman's
death. The prisoners are Doctor Al
bert f. Max and DR.. H. o. Bicker, fel-
low graduates of Rush Medical college
and Phillip E. Lincoln.
The girl left signed statement de-
claring that she had performed a
criminal operation upon herself but
DR. Max admitted to the coroner's
jury that he had dictated what the
girl wrote.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Famine at Mason City.

MASON CITY, Jan. THE coal
famine is getting worse. The cement
plant has no lump coal and the brick
and tile plant has partially closed
down. Memorial university will not
reopen because of lack of coal. Deal
ers are cutting all orders in half The
Iowa Central seized car load OF
coal billed to the Odd Fellows Orphan
home and the Odd Fellows are after
he railroad officials for redress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Built Tunnel from His Home Toward
Big Bank and JeweIry Store
and was Working for
Loot.
MOST MARVELLOUS PLOT
Had His Secret Passage Not Been
Discovered the World Would
Likely Have Heard Of
Big Theft.

NEW YORK, Jan. Last wednes-
day evening Isaac Finkelstein. a
painter. who lived with his family at
So Ludlow street, went into the cellar
of tho house next door at 6 o'clock,
saying that he was going to get
bundle of wood for the stove. There
is six-story building next door that
has not been occupied yet 1t was
reported that Finkelstein had been
accustomed to go to tie cellar often
and come back with kindling wood.
Finkelstein did not return that
night, and in the morning Isador
Garvis. brother of Mrs. Finkelstein,
was told by the latter of her hus-
bands disappearance Garvis ran to
the Elbridge Street Police station He
told the lieutenant that he had been
in cellar of the building at SIS Lud-
low street and that he had heard
groans there. 1t must be Finkelstein
groaning. Police headquarters was
notified and Garvis went with several
policemen to the cellar.
Garvis and the police descended the
ladder leading to the cellar. They
discovered large hole in the front
wall and tunnel loading from it
across Ludlow street as far as they
could see.
The bottom of the cellar was GOV.
| cred with loose earth, which had evi
IDENTIFY been thrown there by the per
sons who dug the tunnel. Building
Inspector Reville entered the tunnel
with difficulty, for the mud was slip
perry and the passage small, just
large enough to admit grown mans
body. Straight ahead crawled the In
spector until suddenly he was forced
to turn sharply to the right. He fol
| lowed the front wall of the building
for few feet, and then he began tc
drop lower and lower; it became also
darker and darker. All of a sudder
there was a great dip and the inspec
tor found the tunnel led directly
across the street in the direction o.
a jewelry store and bank, in the
vaults of which was stored $4,000,
4 600.
Inspector Reville approached a cave
in about 25 feet from the mouth o
the tunnel, and he decided not to at
tempt to go in any further. There
was more tunnel, he was certain: bu
it was terribly dark and cold and wet
so he turned around with great diff
ficulty and crawled back on his hands
and knees. The police arrested Garvi
as suspicious person.
4 Bags of loose earth were found il
Finkelstein's rooms. 1t was decided
to dig to the top of the tunnel b.
4 ripping up the street. Workmen re
moved the Tagging from the sidewall
and worked out toward the middle o
the street. Police lines were formed
for a large crowd of East .,ideri
gathered.
The excavation in which the shovel
ers are working takes in the curb o1
the west side of the street and ex
tends about foot into the roadway
In the corner of the main hole Fore
man Gallagher of the diggers found
crevice which apparently led int
Finkelstein's tunnel
The plan was to get down as sool
as they could to the base of Fink
elstein's tunnel and then process
along it until they come to Finkelsteil
himself, if he is there.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
United Railways Co., Has Faith In the
keokuk Project and Expects
That the Big Dam will
be Built.
NO DEFINITE DATE SET
Like keokuk, St. Louis is Hoping and
Has Been Given Assurances
That They will Get power
from This City.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7-Officers of the
United Railways Co., interested in the
proposed power plant at Keokuk. to.
day declare they believe it will be
only a short time until the work
starts.
The work is in the hands of COM
pany, headed by Cooper & Powelson,
they said, and from some intimations
given by these men, something will
be doing soon in the power plant
work.
Nothing definite as to the date of
the start was known. however.
Powelson is supposed to be in st.
Louis, but none of his business asso-
ciates knew where to find him. They
say it may be several days yet before
the men interested in the proposed
power plant will be ready to make a
definite statement
In the meantime, they have been
assured that the power for which they
have a contract, will be Forthcoming
and that the plant will be built.
A Gate City representative inter
viewed one of the water power mel
and learned officially that Mr.. Powell
son was not in St Louis. but was II
Montana, where the firm of Cooper s
Powelson has some engineering worl
of great Importance, requiring his at
tention. 1t will be remembered tina
Mr.. Powelson recently made a trip t
Montana in connection with the work
The gentleman said nothing definit
had been determined with reference
10 the Keokuk plant, but that he, hk'
&c St Louis people, hoped it woult
be success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
GIRLS PAID FINES
IN $500 PENNIES
TOOK TIE Clerks Almost Half an Hour
TO Count Money While the
Girls Laughed.

NEW YORK. Jan. -Four striking
shirtwaist makers, who We're fined s25
collectively for their activities as
pickets, paid their fines in pennies,
1t took the entire CLERICAL force of
the court nearly half an hour to count
the . 500 pennies
Meanwhile the girls looked CT with
amusement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
LATHAM BREAKS
THE HIGH RECORD
Went $500 Feet up into the Air in
an AeropIane in Flight
Today.

MoURMILLAN, France, Jan. =
Hubert Latham today established a
new record for height when he sent
his monoplane to an altitude of $500
feet, beating by more than 1000 feet
the previous height record.
Latham used barometer and there
is no question of the reight reached.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Ed. P. Howard. Of Eldon. Dead.

ELDON, Jan. Ed P. Howard,
aged seyenty-seven, one of the best
known business men of this place.
is dead. He was life deacon of the
congregational church.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
laEnlIett Still BUSY.

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 7.-More
open criticism of President Taft for
me course he has pursued since TAX
ing over the reins of government are
contained in this weeks LaFolletts
Magazine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-07
Idaho is Released.

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. THE
battleship Idaho weighed anchor at
1880 this morning and proceeded to
Sandy Hook.