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

Hard Catastrophe whose blood is
pure are not nearly SO likely to take
hard colds as are others. Hoods
Sarsaparilla makes the blood pure;
and this great medicine RECEIVERS the
system after cold as no other med
icine does. Take Hoods.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
New York journalism.

See this society belle about her
rumored engagement" Yes. sir" III
she admits it, get ten lines. II she
denies it, get half column and he.
photograph.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

You can come down to the Gulf
Coast and grow crops just like
Mr.. Devers produced; you can
buy plenty of land similar to his;
the sum required to set you up in
a little city business on a side street
would have you rolling in riches
within a few years.
The Gulf Coast is new; but be-
fore long Gulf Coast farms will be
valued higher than those of Iowa and
Nebraska they will sell in the open
market for more money than Cali
fornia orange lands.
Time and time again you have
complained of Fortune. This is
your summons, opportunity is max
ing an effort to attract your atten-
ton; it may be the last time you
will ever get real chance to be
rich man.
This is not a lonely pace, but a
little empire SO progressive that
three year old cities have their
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

Christy Mathewson has signed a
three year contract with the Giants.
This is the first time he mas ever
signed contract calling for his ser
vices for more than one season
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
keokuk Baseball Directors Have De-
cided to Hold Big Bazaar for
Benefit of Game-Money
is Needed.
THE TENTATIVE PLANS
Advisory Board of Twenty Will
Meet This Afternoon to Start
Observation-Disclosures Of
Manager Deferred.

Following the time-honored custom
of raising money to finance baseball
II Keolluk, the Keokull Baseball Asso-
citation at its meeting late Yesterday
afternoon decided to hold a rouslng
-iye-day carnival in Woodman hall
commencing on Tuesday, November
-, and concluded on Saturday even
ing of the same week. The carnival
according to the tentative plans, will
carry with it many features, attrac-
tive and entertaining, which should
make it big success
Such baseball .enefit was decided
on at the meeting of the newly-elect-
ed directors held in the Elks club
rooms late yesterday afternoon. At
the meeting the following officers
We're reelected:
e. P. McManus, president
A. d. Ayres, vice president.
Louis Sterne, secretary-treasurer.
Belts Appointment Deferred.
The appointment of a manager for
the coming season was to have been
made at the meeting, but for several
reasons it was deferred Belt is the
directors choice and it is said that
he will be given the reins at meet
ing to be held this afternoon There
were several matters which the di-
rectors wished TO confer with Belt on
before making the appointment and
an early conference viii. be neld to-
day. That Belt is the choice is a
certainty
At the special meeting to be held
this afternoon the baseball directors
will meet with an advisory board of
twenty men, who will form com
mittee to assist in conducting the
baseball carnival
The Girls Viii Assist.
The carnival will be conducted in
such manner that it will not be a
heavy drain on any one. All that the
merchants will be asked is small do.
nations of snx..kind in the way OF
merchandise that can be sold
during the five nights OF the
carnival, The affair will be one of rne
good natured bazSars, with side fea-
lures in the form of vaudeville acts.
Booths will be built and young ladies
from the various churches and clubs
of the city will be asked to contribute
their time to grace them.
On every night there viii be one or
more vaudeville acts in which keo-
kuk's leading amateur minstrel men
will participate. On the first evening it
is possible that the first part of a
minstrel show will be staged, lasting
for about an hour. On the subsequent
evenings the entertainment Will be OF
shorter duration. A dance on one ey-
ening is also being talked
Organization Nights.
According to further plans outlined
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Strive to Be Optimistic.

The optimist makes his own heaven,
and enjoys it as he goes through life.
The pessimist makes his own hell,
and suffers it as he goes through life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Dr.. Miles Heart Remedy

is kept in thousands Of homes as a
friend always to be relied upon in
time Of need.
Sold by all Druggists If the first
bottle fails to benefit, your money
Is returned. Ask any Druggist.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

Illinois will meet Syracuse at foot
ball Saturday, this being one of the
important games between the east
and the west.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

II wastroubled with heart disease,
and after reading about DR.. Miles
Heart Remedy, 1 got a bottle. Be-
fore got the Heart Remedy / had
to sit up most of the night, and felt
very bad at my stomach. Whatever
Iwould eat made me feel worse, and
my heart beat very fast. But thanks
to DR.. Miles Heart Remedy, I am
all right now. I eat good, sleep
good, and feel like new man, al
though / am almost IS years old. I
have been soldier in the late war
of the rebellion, and was badly
wounded" CHARLES HOLMES,
Private Co. B. 54th N. Y. Infantry
Volunteers. Walton, Delaware Co,
N. Y.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
should Get Away Gracefully.

LET it be understood that The
Journal Is not saving that these fis:
rres are absolutely correct; but in
our judgment they are not far from
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
A. J. Devers shipped 1923
crates = Of onions from a
Gulf Coast farm in one
month at a profit Of $5,994 96

Gulf Coast soil is almost worth its weight in
gold-as rich as mine. Point to any other
section that can equal such returns.
He raised this bumper crop
on twelve acres Of land
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Il am all right now,
thanks to Dr.. Miles
Heart Remedy"

The same relief is ready for you.
Are you sure you do not need itl
If DR.. Miles Heart Remedy helped
Charles Holmes, why won't it help
vau2
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

Touch of Sarcasm.
lie Sage: wish you all sorts of
prosperity with little more taste.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15
Sporting Views
By the Editor

Danville. H., claims the state high
school football title over in Illinois
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

It won't much
Every first and third Tuesday Of each month purchase
Chicago $4,000 and from ST Louis Kansas City $500
Through standard operated by
Lines from Of thesep points.
Let tell about thi. Fill the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-15

hotels, steam laundries and ice
plants. There are schools for your
children, churches Of all denomina-
tons; allthe conveniences to which
you are accustomed.
Hunting in season, the best fish,
ing in the world, and on the Gulf
beautiful resorts few hours distant
from every point to which you can
take your family for inMgoratine
outings.
The climate will make a new
man of you; the same mild days
throughout the year; the nights are
always cool.
Here you are drudging like a
slave, worrying every week how to
meet your household bills and de-
spairing constantly that you can't
save enough money at your present
employment to guarantee future
for your children-well, what do
you think of it,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-11-24
Annie Box LEGISLATION.

A correspondent writes to ask if we
look for any apple box legislation dur
ing the coming session of Congrcss.2a
a We DO not. The short session which
convenes in December next will concern
itself only with appropriations, the
completion of the labor and anti-in-
junction bills proposed last year, the
establishment of a permanent tariff
board and other unfinished business.
Legislation appertajning to the fruit
industry, while it may be referred to,
is not likely to be pressed, because it
would be very difficult matter to
obtain action upon it during the few
months which the Congress will be in
session. Fruit Trade Journal
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-11-24
BAILEY GATZERT
PAYS $4,000 CHECK

Just a little over three years after
the sinking of the dredge Portland by
the steamer Bailey Gatzert at Post
office Bar a check for $40, 036.54 was
received by ClerksDoyle, of the Port of
Portland Commission, Monday morn
ing from The Dalles, Portland &
Astoria Navigation Company, owners
of the vessel which was held by the
courts to be at fault.
The original judgment against the
Gatzert in the United States Circuit
Court here was $l8, ,O58.28, but when
the case was appealed and affirmed by
the Court of Appeals interest at the
rate of per cent was added by the
decree Of the higher court.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-11-24

When n cold becomes settled in the
system, it will take several days treat.
ment to cure it, and the best remedy to
use is Chamberlaiu's Cough Remedy,
It will cure quicker than any other, and
also leaves the system in q natural and
healthy condition. Sold by all dealers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
His Death a Snre Loss

Birmingham will feel sorely the death of William H. Woodward Although Il years of age he seemed remarkably ac- tive. Indeed few men of middle life give closer attention to business affairs or feel a Keener interest in the progress of this city than did MT. Woodward up to the time of his sudden taking off. He was one of the pioneers of the Birmingham district and was one of its most en- ergetic developers in the industrial field. He was a prophet of Birmingham from the early days and his faith in the fu- ture of the city never wavered.
 In recent years MT. Woodward had turned his attention chiefly to office buildings. When Birmingham had grown large enough to need modern steel frame structures he was the one man who had the means and the pluck to lead the way. Hs erected the Woodward and then the First National bank building During the depression resulting from the panic of 1907 MT. Woodward gave still fur ther evidence of his faith in Birming- hams stability and its future by acquir- inc the Brown Marx and adjoinings prop critics and erecting the largest office build ing south of Chicago. He had been plan ning many other extensive improvements and 1t is known that had his life been srared he would have led in the move rnent to erect magnificent hotel at Fifth avenue and Twentieth street.
 In manner MT. Woodward was singu- larly unassuming. He was always straightforward and honest and If he may have seemed brusque to those who did not know him well. he was gentle comrade and was greatly endeared to wide circle of friends.
 By helping to build up Birmingham MT. woodward was esteemed as a genuine henefactor. and in his quiet way he was a model in those civic traits which make for the advancement of city and state. Peace to his ashes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
Colonel GOethaIS the Right Man

After a tiresome period of stumbling in finding a superintendent of the gigantic task at Panama President Taft. then Secretary of War, selected Major Goethals of the United States engineer corps for the work, and Pres ident Roosevelt appointed him. Every day since has made it palmer that the right man was selected to carry the work to completion. Naturally the President takes great pride in the suc- cess that is attending Colonel Goe- thals efforts at the isthmus
 It has encountered landslides and heavy washings by the irrepressible Chagres river, but none of his plans have proven abortive. The enterprise has been conducted without friction or serious Illness among the employees, and all things point to the comple- tion of the canal even before Janu- ary 1. 1915.
 To Colonel Goethals will go the chief praise for the execution of the great project, and President Taft will nc doubt be ready to see him get 1t. He has proven to be the right man in  the right place, selected after a long list of failures had been recorded From start to finish he promises to pre- sent nothing but conquests over the stubborn facts of nature In the big gest job ever undertaken in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
aANsNA
SOME SAYINGS ,oF NAPOLEON


 From "The Corsican A Diary" by R. M.
 Johnston.
 In politics an act that degrades can never be lived down.
 It is the guns capture Actresses.
 l can forgive; but forget-that is an other matter.
 I had the Town Councillors (Pavia) shot. Today everything is quite calm.
 I will cashier any officer who travels by stage and is not with his company. said to the Austrian minister: Come, before we begin you had better have that chair taken away, because I have .never yet seen a chair set higher than others without immediately wanting to get into it. l General Berthier has handed me the treaty of peace, which this time l am sure vii please the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, for 1t is all splendor and gilt edges. The rear conquests-those that leave no regrets behind-are those made on ignorance. | Paris has a short memory. | Severity is needed to govern the Turks. I order five or six heads to be sliced off every day in the streets of Cairo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
Two Great Postal COnVenienGeS

The initial postal savings bank in this state will be put in operation at Besse- r7er on January 1. The small depositor receives at first a deposit card, and when his deposit becomes s1 he receives a cer- tifeate of deposit. These certificates bear interest at the rate of per cent. The certificates can be exchanged for SEQ Tinted States bonds bearing interest at the rate of 21a per cent. In this way every adult can become, by economy and prudence, a bondholder. If he secures great number of such bonds he would become. of course, a bloated bondholder.
 The postal savings banks will become popular with the rank and file, and no doubt they will be rapidly multiplied next year in every state. The sole objection to them Is. the withdrawal of local funds, especially if much refunding in United States bonds takes place.
 One public convenience calls for an- other, and Postmaster General Hitch. cock has decided to ask Congress to start a parcels post by authorizing the delivery on rural routes of parcels weighing as high as Ii pounds, which is the weight | limit of the international parcels post.
 Mr. Hitchcock will not recommend the carrying of 11-pound parcels in the mails at the outset, but he will confine his recommendation to the delivery of parcels mailed at an office by the rural free de- livery carriers starting from that office. This would enable the farmer to send butter and eggs to market by parcels nost and it would enable the home mer- chant to supply customers on rural free delivery routes with goods in packages up to Il pounds.
 A better, beginning of a parcels post could not well be devised, and Congress should affirmatively meet the suggestion of the Postmaster General. The people or the farms and the merchants in the towns would alike be benefited, and the big package houses of the Sears -Roebuck sort will have to await the second stage of complete parcels post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
That Democratic Conference

The proposed democratic conference in Baltimore could scarcely be more definite or more authoritative than the platform of the last democratic national conven- tion. The democrats who are ready to stand on the platform of the party need no conference in Baltimore to tell them what to do.
 Who indeed are to be invited to make out new democratic programme? If the conference is to consist of eastern men wholly or chiefly it will in no sense represent the party, and already some democrats, notably MT. Bryan, have dis countenanced the proposed gathering Self-selected delegates from a few states will not be able to lay down a new plat form for a victorious party to stand on Those who disagree with its conclusions will simply say the conference wa, packed, and will go their way as be- fore.
 The Sixty-second Congress will moi meet in the ordinary course of event. until December, 1911, and by that time all good democrats will be able to see what the people want and what can b. accomplished in Congress. Time has ar excellent influence in such matters, ant time should in the present juncture O party affairs be afforded an opportunit, to do it's work.
 In the meanwhile the proposed con ferees should study the last national plat form of the party. It is very explicit al
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
rr.ruERs MAKE WHISPERS

When Cecil Yapp, who plays the role of the cat in 'The Blue Bird' now at the Majestic theatre. game to devise his makeup he found his greatest difficulty was in creating whiskers. These whis- kers had to be large enough to be seen by the audience; stiff enough not to break, and flexible enough to conform to his facial expression. After trying almost every known substance, Jacob Wendell, Jr. who plays the Dog, made a sugges- tion which solved the problem.
 "Take some hens feathers about six inches long and cut the plumes close to the quill," he said, but not so close that a little down will not show"
 MT. Yapp obtained handful of feath- CTS, did as suggested. and then attached the base of each quill to a bit of cloth which would adhere to the upper lip. The result was perfect. and the best of 1t is the whiskires will last as long as ''The Blue Bird" runs, or, should one say, flies-and that means till Spring, at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
CHEAP OPERA SEATS

From the Chicago News.
 Here is a simple little problem, brought 1 into existence by grand opera, which three Chicago women have worked out to their satisfaction. The problem stated is: are selling at $5 apiece, how can three persons obtain seats in the first row at the total expenditure of s10.75?
 Can't be done, is the nasty conclusion reached by some literal and unlmagina- tive soul: but 1t can. By division-simple | division-of the party it was all worked out and demopstrated clearly at recent Saturday matinee.
 The three women clubbed together and bought two seats close to the stage not that closeness to the stage for opera is always desirable. but when a new opera is on or great star just making her bow to the public 1t is something to be able to see everything at close range, Now, seats in the gallery sell for 75 cents, so one seat there was bought, but all three women went to the Auditorium ar rayed In their best for front row exhibi- ton purposes. Throughout the first act and remained together in the front row and c ascended to the gallery, com ing down at the close of the act to ex- change places with B, who went upstairs, leaving A and together.
 At the end of act more scramblng, gathering up of wraps and programmes and opera glasses and A betook herself to the upper, rarefied regions, while B returned and enjoyed with c the last act of the opera. Thus each had two acts downstairs and one upstairs in the most economical way; each was able to say she had sat within few feet of the stage and at least s425 had been savedl And that with only the slight inconvenience of leaving their seats frequently, and the very best people" go out between acts for a promenade, so they were in fash ion. True, the people in neighboring seats were amused by the proceeding, by the agitated whisperings over which should go and which stay. and the more or less disturbed wonder as to how many more would appear as oc ,upants of the two seats, but the scheme worked per fectly. t. fsHsaiM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
The evil that men do lives after them.
 Julius Caesar.
Woman Suffrage In England

No matter how obstreperous the British women may be it Is plain they have gained from Premier Asquith an important concession, for the premier says, in the event of a liberal victory, he will bring In a bill extending the right of suffrage to women. He says, too. he would secure facilities for the considera ton of the bill and oppor- tunities for free amendment of it.
 The dissolution comes next week, and no bill can be considered by this parliament A liberal victory is more than probable. and a suffrage bill would then be brought in, and this should be satisfactory to the suffra- gettes. If the tories win it is reason able to say that no suffrage bill would be presented.
 Public sentiment in Great Britain Is crystallizing in favor of extending parliamentary suffrage to women. It has been materially changed by the efforts of the suffragettes. who have been imprisoned and jostled for prin- ciples sake. Their earnestess has left a deep impression in the public mind They want the right to vote and they are in a fair way to get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26

guished Chicago conductor Is work of importance and interest. It is me- lodious, but 1t is at the same time modern and very interesting rythmic- ally and polyphonically; and. moreover, Stocks polyphony is notable for in dependent treatment of the four in- struments, so that the voice progress sions are full of individual interest. Stocks knowledge of string instru- ments, acquired by his long practical service in the orchestra, stands him in good stead in writing chamber mu- sic; here Is revealed a thorough knowl- edge of the characteristics and pos abilities of the strings. There are three movements and the principal theme of the first is made use or throughout the entire compositions Stock happily is not cacoph onist; ne has the gift of writing at once In the modern spirit and yet euphonlous- ly. He also understands the value or contrasts. The first movement IS a pas sionate allegro and it interests at once' both because of it's thematc contents and it's workmanship. it also oners some unusual rythmical problems. The sprightly, charming scherzo mas yearning cantabile middle part which affords delightful contrast to the rest of the movement. The finale Is writ ten in the free form of fantasy and Is now and then reminiscent or the first movement the closing bars In harmonics and pfzzicato chords come as a pleasing surprise All in all, this Is an interesting contribution to modern chamber music literature. The novelty was well played and warmly received"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-26
DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI

By Clark Adams, in the St. Louis Post. Dispatch. Down the Mississippi In the fall O the There's a shanty-boat a-fioatn' like a
 dream,
 sweep ahead to steer, An the wood is red an yaller' long
 the stream O, what's the use O riches when yer home Is where you bitches? o. what's the good O sweatin' for yer
 bread tg With a million punkin' patches on the
 road from here to Natchez. An a Paradise O Dixie land ahead? Down the Mississippi in the fall O the There's feller sort O baskin' by the
 door. The hills is lit with glory, an the days
 is growth drear, f An the smell O possum gravy comes
 ashore. O. what's the use O Twin where there's
 only one Thanksgivin'? O. what's the good O payin' as you go When the woods is full O. mama all the
 way to Loosyana, An the Paradise O Dixie is below? Down the Mississippi in the fall O the
 year
 There's a woman singin' som'ere like a
 lark, She's kind O found her Eden, an her
 voice is sweet an clear, M An the world is sort O purity like a
 park 0, what's the use O money through the
 land O milk an honey? O, what's the good O workin in the
 end When there aiN't no alligators ct the crop
 O. sweet pNtaters, An it's Dixie land awaitin' round the
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