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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea

Natures great herb remedy. This
simple but marvelously eficacious
preparation is Natures Magic Key to
health and happiness!
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea is
a perfect blend OF native medicinal
roots, herbs, leaves and seeds-going
straight to the seat of trouble--heal-
ing and curing--building up and
strengthening. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea is sold at 35c. by all druggists, and
makes los cups of health Tea. Tryit-and be well
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

DR.. J. EATON JOHNSTON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
The only physician practicing osts
'athy III the county. The smith.
Aonian truss lifted and guaranteed,
ehe only truss that holds. ONCE
Worth SIDE OF Main street. third door
above Fifth. Phone W. Residence,
Ninth and Webster. Phone 4SA r.
>. Lock Box II. Warsaw, Ill
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

DR.. c. r. sLANKENsH.P
Physician and surgeon.
onlce-Y. ID. =. A. Bldg. residence
sis North Fifth street Office phones
Iowa S0e-R, Hub. 157: resldenca
phohes--iowa IU7U.B. Hub. S6si.
ONCE hours: $3.50 to ~ 4 ta.s 4 U
y. III. And to y .. n.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
INCURABLE
DISEASES

frequently follow close upon what ap-
pears to be but trihing ailments. I'm
perfect digestion is the certain fore
runner of dyspepsia-which, neglect
cd, becomes chronic, leading to that
deadly diseasc-CANCER OF THE
STOMACH! Keep your health while
you can! Use
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
DR.. w. p. SHERLOCK.

Dh. w. +. ShEHIOVN.
Office, Is North t1ftn street, in
Howell Building.
Office hours. ~ to IL a. ~, 2 to )
p. NJ. Evenings I, TO 3. Sundays ii to
y. N.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Cooper and Allen in Chicago.

TT 0''fSd90s
Engineer Cooper and Secretary.
Treasurer ]. P. allen are IN Chicago
today for the purpose of buying ma
chinery to be used on the dam. This
material will continue to arrive DUR
ing the winter and as fast as receiv.
ed will be assembled and everything
in mechanical way put in shape fol
ye-y speedy operations as coon as the
coming spring arrive. The work of
carrying out the ditch of the dam
proper toward the river is going for
ward as fast as men and teams can
perform the work and unless the
weather is too severe cement will be
laid this winter
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
w. N. Sage Employed.

w. N. Sage, whose connection with
the water power dates from the time
Mr. Cooper became vitality interested
in the proposition, was yesterday
permanently employed to take charge
OF the real estate department. He was
The first man that Judge Logan Sc
lected to take the options and his
familiarity with conditions and land
values makes him a very valuable ac-
QUESTION. He is certainly well qualiti.
ed for this responsible position.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
The Cooper Announc ment.

The positive statements from En-
gineer Hugh l.. Cooper, published in
The Gate City extra Monday noon
and republished in the regular edi-
lion of this paper last evening, clear.
e. away all skepticism and put to
rout the doubling Thomas es. There
viii be no cessation of water power
activities from this time on. The ii
nancial affairs are decided in their
character and not few financial
men found at the last moment they
were unable to get in on the deal.
The Mississippi river dam PROPOSE
ton looks better to the investors
lhan at any time since the PROPOSE.
ton was presented and the money has
been amply subscribed, yes, more
than subscribed.
The tedious wait of this city and
Hamilton for the big dam has at
last been relieved and there will be
steady ind generous upllft all along
tie line.
Twenty-three-M Mr.. Knocker
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
RowIana and cIifford's New Produc-
ton, "The Rosary"

The following is the story OF The
Rosary which comes to the Grand
opera house next Friday, matinee and
night:
Bruce Wilton has amassed for
tune which he has lavished on his
wife Vera
Their household is happy one,
but into it creeps a note of menace.
No one hears it at first save Father
Kelly, a priest, the former tutor OF
1 Bruce. Quietly he goes to work with
his sharpened sense to find the per-
son who is causing adverse influences
in the household. Almost on the
verge of discovering the cause, calam-
I ity descends upon the Wilton house.
Bruce's fortune is swept away, and
in such manner that he believes
his wife the cause of his ruin.
Husband and wife are separated
the home is destroyed and yet the
cause of all this disaster is unknown
Father Kelly, with faith that
moves mountains, goes on quietly
serenely and confidently with but one
purpose in view, the happiness OF
those he loves.
He solves the mystery and lets the
white light of truth into the minds
that have been darkened by evil.
! More than this. he finds the on'
who has caused all the misery and
restores the home.
"The Rosary" is probably the mot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Yesterday the Company Took TWO
Year Lease on the Rand Build
ing With option to rur-
chase II at End Of Time.
PROCTOR HERE TODAY
attorney Arrived From the East and
Has Plunged into His Work
w. NJ. Sage Retained In
Real Estate Dept.

Yesterday the Keokuk and Hamil-
ton Water Power Co., took a two
year lease on the Rand building, the
quarters at present occupied, corner
OF Third and Johnson streets, and
will Immediately begin the recon
struction of the interior and make
Improvements that will call Tor an
expenditure of approximately $500
and give to the water power people
a modern office building. The COM
pany also acquired the right to pur.
chase the building at the end of the
lease the option price being $4,000.
The interior will be papered and
painted the vault enlarged, linoleum
laid and improvements made that
will materially change the appear
ance. The telephone people will in
stall a private switchboard and the
latest methods of transacting office
work will be employed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
alJncIe TOMS Cabin

In many respects AL. W. Martin
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is the most I'M
portant Of the seasons productions.
In the first place it serves to exploit
the masterpieces Of two OF Europe
noted artists, l. e. Ralph Brunt's elao-
crate painting entitled The Celestial
City" and Martz Verion's picture OF
the New Orleans slave mart; and
secondly it has brought back into
prominence the memories OF that
grand old lady, Harriet BeecNer
Stowe, and serves to reveal the beau
tiful lessons really to be learned ny
careful attention. Second to the HOLY
Book does Uncle Toms Cabin rank
as sacred instructor The pulpit
has endorsed it as moral teacher
worthy of mankind's support, while
the board Of education in many OF the
large cities has encouraged scholars
in witnessing the worthy dramatiza-
ton of the story that was instrument
ltal in making our country religious,
free and happy. Like poorly COM
posed book, there are many versions
of Uncle Toms Cabin now being
forced upon the public under en-
bossed covering, which are detrimen-
tai to the greatest degree. They are
usually short-lived for the people OF
today are not to be hoodwinked as
easily as those of not SO many years
ago. 1t is known fact that All. w.
Martin possesses the original version
of Mrs. Stoves story, and that it has
been unanimously accepted by the
press, pulpit and public of America
and England The Martin revival
Will be brought to the GRAND this
evening. A special train of cars is
required for the productions trans.
portation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
Lead Kindly Light.

Cardinal Gibbons declares that the
way to restore public confidence in
the management Of the affairs Of big
corporations is 70 insist upon truthful
publicity. Sound business needs no
walIed-in privacy 10 make it safe. Il
needs no subsidy to make it profitable.
This is only a mere application of the
old saying, The truth is mighty and
will prevail" Precisely what the good
cardinal advocates in the conduct OF
business Woodrow Wilson Las strong
" urged in the conduct Of politics.
Inthis country the people are sovereign
and the real source of power. 1t is the
contention of Wilson that there need
be no fear of the ultimate judgment
OF the people when they are rightly in
formed If this be not true our sys-
TEN is a failure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
The Argus Daily Short Story
Santa Claus Joe''-By Annie Hinrichsen.
Copyrighted 1910. by Associated Literary Press.

meeting you on a corner and sneaking
along back streets"
There is no other way we can see
each other. You will come tonight,
won't you?"
She shook her head. Il graduate
next spring" she said. a little visit
fully. Cant we wait till then to be
friendsf"
What's the use Of waiting? No one
will know. But if you are found out
your previous good record will save
you"
The words and tone were blunt and
careless.
Miss Merton did not answer. She
fastened Joe's bandage and left the
room.
AS she passed him DR.. Knight saw
her face, hurt, proud and angry, all its
sweetness gone.
For many days Mr.. Knight saw Miss
Merton only in the presence of others.
She avoided him In the corridors and
met him only in the rooms Of patients.
There was nothing he could say to
her.
n
for a wordless insult, and he cannot
by appealing. penitence expressing
looks affect a moving, marble statue
that never sees him.
Christmas was near. and the nurses
were preparing for 1t. Joe was po-
litely interested in the decorations of
the ward, but he seemed unconscious
Of the reasons for them.
Those are Christmas greens. Joe"
said Miss Merton in answer to his in
Quiry.
Joe looked puzzled.
Have you ever seen Christmas
greens before, Joe?'
Nom: l never seen Christmas
green's before"
But you know all about Christmas,
don't your"
Nom: 1 didn't never know nothin'
at all about that"
Joe, have you never heard of Christ
mas?'
Nom. No one never tole me about
it neither.
Nor of Santa Clausw
Nom. Who's Santa Claus? No
body never tole me about Santa Claus"
Have you heard of Christ, dear?"
Nom
''Nor of God?"
Joe pondered. he believed he he'd
heard something about God.
In words simple enough for the chfI
20 understand Miss Merton told hIra
the story of the Christ Child.
Joe liste ned with his great black
eyes wide oren.
els that alp he asked when the
story was finished. Tell me another
''But. Joe. this is a real. true story
Joe looked skepticaL Its nice
gtory,' he sad. but 1 don't believe
it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

Joe was a Portuguese urchin, SIX
years old and untidy with the accu-
INFLATED soil of all his seasons. He
lived with his father and mother and
numerous brothers and sisters in a di-
lapidated cabin in the outskirts OF the
city.
Their neighbors were fellow expa-
triates speaking their own tongue and
continuing their own customs. ard
Joe's only knowledge of the world that
lag beyond the truck farms bad been
gained when he went with his father
to peddle vegetables in the city.
A bullet intended for rabbit enter
ed Joe's leg, and he was brought to the
hospital
Miss Merton, a senior nurse, was his
lady" she was with him through the
days when all his world was full of
horrors.
She was his first nurse and the one
he first felt was his friend.
In 4 hospital living and dying move
according to certain laws. The prog
ress OF a case is routine to the expert
enced ones. Dissolution takes place in
certain known steps.
But one element of which no account
is taken. for which no calculation is
made. is the love of a man and a wo-
man.
In the hospital life there is no place
for it 4 nurses time and thoughts
are devoted to her work. Her love
and sympathy belong to her patients.
Concerning the relations of doctors
and nurses hospital etiquette is strict
1t demands that these relations be alb
solu,ely professional. The reputation
of hospital depends on the discipline
maintained within its walls, and the
laws OF st. Anne's were enforced with
severity.
When interests quite unprofessiona!
drew together senior nurse and one
Of the young physicians of the hospital
staff there appeared difficulties and
embarrE 'ments, and the courtship, un-
der the adverse circumstances of dis
appreciation, conscience and lack of
time, place and opportunity, made
slow and hating progress. with fire.
quent backward steps.
''Wiil you go for a walk tonightT
asked DR.. Knight one morning when
with Miss Merton's assistance he was
dressing Joes wound.
with you!"
Certainly
And meet all the heads and few
doctors and nurses
There are places where heads and
doctors and nurses don't CO.
Yes, on back streets. l hate that
sort of thing-going out alone and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
Ships ard Subsidies.

What is this mysterious sorcery
which has smitten the American mer-
chant marine with the blight of decad-
ence, and, in the ship subsidy form of
disease, we may we'll say with the lep-
rosy of corruption?
Partly, it is that peculiarly sordid
kind of greed which induces power
full martial interests to keep clear
Of ship-building. preferring to hide
American commerce under foreign
flags, fin the hope that if this is Contin-
ued long enough, it will induce the
government to purchase the cOOpera-
ton of these interests by paying them
a bonus for American built and owned
vessels.
But what paved the way for the
ship subsidy scheme of loot, was the
repeal Of the early navigation laws
those maritime statutes for the pro-
lection of American shipping, which
were in operation during the admin
istrations of the first five presidents
OF the United States, and which are
chiefly associated with the terms Of
Jefferson Madison and Monroe.
The trend of events, from the aboli-
ton of these policies till now, tends to
prove the contention of Congressman
William Sulzer and those associated
with him in the movement to restore
to the statute books the laws under
which American shipping was started
on its one-time career Of growth.
Il is clear that a profound game of
diplomacy was played in bringing
about the repeal of navigation laws
sanctioned by the fathers of the Repu6-
lie. and that the United states had
the worst of The bargain. The removal
Of these barriers against foreign COM
petition was of a piece with the "orh
which later fitted out cruisers in Brit
ish deck Yards to prey on American
commerce.
The names of three of the greatest
democratic presidents this country
has ever had, confirm the sound dc
mocracy Of the proposed revival Of
the early navigation laws.
The plan presents a plain, specific,
feasible way of restoring American
proprietOrship in the keels which car
ry American trade. and doing SO, not
by innovation. not by subsidy. but by
return to tried and proven precedent.
A precedent so old that it has been
a national heritage for a century, yet
so flexible. so adaptable to present con-
ditions. as to make it the manifestly
obvious method of creating anew the
merchant marine which was lost Meth
or by war. cheap labor nor lack of mate
rails. but by foreign astuteness work
ing on American gullibility.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
President Names Ideal Jurists.

President Names Ideal Jurists.
President William Howard Taft's
specially is selecting good men for the
United States supreme court Being
of high judicial mind and training.
this may be his hobby. If it is, he
rides it well, and the people are the
gamers. Surely he has been moved
by lofty motives in al! the selections
he has so far made. He has endeavoT-
ed to select able men. clean men, and
worthy men, and he has drawn the
cIear-cut line of non-partisan distinc-
ton He has nominated democrats as
well as republicans. Since his incum-
bency of the White house he has here
tofore appointed one democrat and one
republican TO fill vacancies, and now
he has picked two democrats and one
republican in completing the list. IN
this respect he has borne out the prec-
edent established by President Grover
Cleveland. He has shown, as has often
been argued and as was maintained in
this judicial district of the supreme
court of Illinois, when Hon. George A.
Cooke was elected to succeed the late
Justice Guy c. Scott, that politics
should be eschewed in the personnel of
the high judicial tribunals And the
only way to eliminate politics is to
recognize worth in both great political
parties. Cooke, a democrat. was elect
cd in this district because his prede-
cessor> was a democrat and the choice
of a republican would have made the
supreme bench of Illinois extremely
lop-sided politically. This would have
been an unfair appoTtionment, and the
people so recognized it.
President Taft has Been very broad
minded and fair in the recognition of
the opposing political party. While he
has distributed the legitimate plums
among his own party. yet in the make
ND Of the councils and tribunals whose
duties call for the exercise of high
minded disinterestedness that far out
reaches the considerations of politics,
he has included democrats as we'll as
republicans. This was his policy in
the makeup of his cabinet. It was his
policy in the first appointment he made
TO the supreme court of the United
States, and it is his policy still.
Furthermore, the president has
shown that he is strong enough 10
throw off interests and influences 9TH
er than these Of a political nature. as
well as of a strictly partisan charac-
ter He has disrogarded the claims of
narrow-minded politicians and has like
wise recognized worth. In the appoint
nent of Justice Edward Douglas White
to the chief justiceShip he has advanc-
ed a democrat to succeed a democrat
and has honored experience and learn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

ing. Associate Justice Joseph RUcker
Lamar of the supreme court of Geor-
gia, who has been named for another
vacancy, is likewise a man of recog
nized ability as is Circuit Judge Will
lis Van Devanter of Wyoming. The
first of these is a democrat and the lat
ter a republican. In his search for
men of the right calibre the president
has turned from the east to the south
and west, his evident aim being to
pick the right men wherever found
The president has given a deaf ear
to the politicians of his own party who
sought to make of the highest tribunal
in the world a refuge for repudiated
Office holders of the Tom Carter type
He has, in word, made the supreme
court bigger than any party or cause
or influence, and whatever else he does
or how grievously he may fail in other
respects, he will, when he retires,
have left the standard of the supreme
court of the United States no less eff
cient for having by virtue of his Office
had hand in its composition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
PRESSING Want.

I wish ! knew a factory where
They furnished good excuses,
Ones that were guaranteed to wear
And stand some small abuses.
Part of the product / would take
If fitted with such pledges,
For the excuses that / make
Are frayed around the edges.
Some people make them as they 90
And never get q calling.
But my excuse machine Is slow
And needs some overhauling.
When / essay to try them out
They wabble and get dizzy.
And. though / strive 10 have them stout
1t keeps me pretty busy.
Ia like 70 have them classified
And to occasion fitted.
That when they came 10 be applied
I'd stand 20 be acquitted.
The very choicest in the line
For standard. strong campaigning
Would never be too good for mine
When ! went forth explaining.
For when a man comes home alone
From one nights frenzied acting
To make excuses OF his own
Is really too eXacting.
There should be places he could get
A nice. alluring cluster
OF good excuses firmly set %
And ready TO pass master.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
Life Lines
BY BASILEUS.
FAITH
copyrighted, 1900


Faith finds what foresight sees but
dimly; faith is the feeling of power
that pulls all things TO you.
Faith that does not end in work is a
fraud; fellow cannot feast long in 4
fairy-land.
Man can only see what his destiny
in the tomorrow will be, through the
single eye Of faith; all faith in the fu-
ture rests on mans notions Of the
now
All that is within divine, will not let
my heart repine, Il do not get what
I think is mine-when 7 am real man.
Faith may start from the faintest
glimmering Of hope and grow 10 the
strongest power; faith is the fruitful
seed from which spring all our sue
Cesses.
Faith in many people is only a feel
ing of fullness; faith to be fulsOme
must be found in the famine as well as
in the feast.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
Dec. IL in American
History

1745-John Jay, colonial statesman.
diplomat and jurist. first United
States minister to Spain and first
chief justice of the supreme court
appointed by Washington, born in
New York city; died 1929.
1S72-Edward A Pollard, noted war
time journalist in the Confederacy.
editor OF the Richmond Examiner
and a merciless critic of Jefferson
Davis, died; born 1928.
1S95-Allen G.. Thurman. ex-United
States senator and noted Demo
cratic statesman. died; born 1918.
19o1-First wireless communication be-
tween America and Europe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

will be held throughout this country
aud Canada tomorrow and the of
fetal returns announced al the ma
tional convention in January. The
reelection of Thomas /. Lewis OF
Bridgeport, Ohio, as president is op-
posed By a large faction, whose can
didate for the Office is John p. White
of Iowa, a former vice president Of
the. national organization. The or
ganization now has nearly $4,000
members.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

They have named a new gem
"Morganite, in honor of J. P. Nor
gan. The reason is that those who
like precious stones figure that Mr..
Morgan will be content to let others
have this new gem so long as it bears
his name.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
NEW FARM INSTITUTE HEAD

Prof. Confer Succeeds +. II. Hall as
State superintendent.
bloomington, Ill, Dec. 12.-Announce-
ment is made of the election of Pro-
fessor o. u. Center OF the department
of asronomy Of the University of Hi
nois to the position Of superintendent
of the Illinois Farmers institute at an
annual salary of $4,000. He succeeds
Professor z. Y. Hall Of Aurora, who is
in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

New York physicians are going to
charge for telephone consultations.
There seems to be no rebate on the
increased cost of living for the graft
er who likes to get his advice free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

When aerial freight transportation
begins to become q fact we shall hear
some railroad men arguing that there
is not enough air for the success of
the DIan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

a sPrained ankle VIII usually disable
the injured person for three or four
weeks. This is due to lack of proper
treat nent. When Chamberlain's lini-
Tnent is applied a cure may be effected
in three or four days. This liniment
is one Of the best and most remark
able preparations in use. Sold by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

New York is Witnessing q play
called THE Nest Egg." which Amer
lean heads of families recall as some
thing that a benefcient government
taxed out of existence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12

Sterling, H., Dec. l2.-WalteT Craft,
a veteran of the civil war. aged IS,
committed suicide yesterday by taking
Carboic acid. He became respondent
as a result of i'll health
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
rhev SURF VIII.

''well. when you women get the vote
what will you doF'
Wen have a reception every election
day for one thing"
"Ohw
And we will have some really arts
tic emblems for the party for another"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-12
HurnOr and
Philosophy
By DUNCAN N. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

STRANGE that with all our unsel1sh-
- ness in reforming others we should
he 50 unappreciative when others wish
to return the compliment!