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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
A RICH revenge
Coming MONDAY
A Comedy of the California Oil Fields
Will be at Dodses Mon
day Night
April II
GIVEN TOMORROW NIGHT
A Rich Revenge, the Latest Biosraph,
With the Famous Little
Biograph
Girl.

Tomorrow night at Dodges will be
shown the Biograph comedy "A Rich
Revenge" Harry and Bill, two young
ranch-owners, are deeply smitten with
the charms of pretty little Jennie.
Jennie is as lively as cricket, never
serious moment, hence the solemn
tones in which Bill declares his love
frightens her; but Harry, jolly and
light-hearted, seeming to consider life
a huge joke, appeals to her, and she
accepts his proposal. They are mar
ried and start on their new life's
journey more like a couple of kids
playing house." than serious, sober
married folks. Bill, of course, is en-
ragged at being thrown down, and
swears to be avenged. Hence, he
bides his time. First Off he induces
the villagers and store-keepers to boy
colt Harry by refusing to buy the
products of his farm. Harry's farm,
like many others in California, is ir
rigated by means of a flume, the gates
of which opened, sends water through
bitches to all parts of his ranch. In
to this flume Bill ponrs several bar
rels of chemically treated oil, which
ruins the productive quality of the
land so saturated. Harry and Jennie
are in sore straits, and cannot i'm
agine why their land is SO bald
While they are thus bemoaning their
helplessness, an oil Spectator is seen
to drive along the road. He sudden
ly pulls his horse up for a delightful
odor has Initiated his olfactory nerve.
| Leaping out of his carriage he makes
for the field. Jabbing his proboscis
| into the center of one of the rows
/ he shifts. "Oil, by gosh! and the poor
! fool don't know it. Here's find"
/ Rushing UP to the house, where he
finds Harry and Jennie still sitting on
4 the veranda in deep despair, he offers
\ them $4,000 for their land. They are
so flabergasted that they cannot but
nod their heads. The Spectator
promises to call back in an hour with
the money. An hour has elapsed and
no Spectator; then they feel that
4 it has been but a dream. However,
after consulting several clocks they
find that they indicate time so diverg-
4 emily that there may still be hope,
and this thought is prophetic, for in
a few minutes the man arrives with
the wad of long green. Ten thous-
and dollars. Whatll we do with it,"
4 1t doesn't take long to decide for in
a short while they have logged up
and procuring an automobile, they
start for the east. AS they bowl
along the road they see the specu-
lator with his laborers just about to
start digging when Bill comes up, and
proves he has been done, for instead
of an oil field he has lemon patch =
Harry and Jennie, by this time, are
out of reach. Bits move was indeed
a Rich Revenge slightly twisted.
4 This great picture will be shown at
Dodges tomorrow night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
new MUNICIPAL
rule ON MONDAY
Mayor Elder and Commissioners Gray
and Schmidt to Take Charge
Of City Affairs Next
Monday Night
SOME POSITIONS FILLED
Ralph 3. Smith and oxe sandbera to
be City Attorney and City
Clerk ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Young Men.

The commissioners who have been
elected to conduct the affairs of this
municipality for the next two years
will take on the robes of authority
Monday night. 1t is arranged that
Mayor Elder will have personal charge
of public accounts or finances and
that Commissioner Gray will take the
responsibility for the public safety de-
partment, while Commissioner
Schmidt Is to have the streets, parks
and cemetery. This division has been
agreed upon by the three officials and
they are making the selection of Of
ficers for their departments irrespect-
i've of the wishes of the other, but
with the understanding that all seIec-
tons are to be confirmed. All of the
appointments have not been decided
upon but the majority have end the
undecided places will in all prob
ability be filled before the new coun.
Gil meets Monday night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
Later Appointment Dope.

It was learned late last evening that
the appointments Of Henry Schevers as
marshal was determined. He will
have for his deputy John Pierson, who
was a former member of the force.
There will be no change in the fire
department. It will not be disturbed
in any particular. The commissioners
already consider that department un-
der civil service.
Clifford Want of Omaha is expected
to be in keokuk today or Monday and
will confer with the mayor and the
commissioners. He will in all proba-
biity be the next city engineer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
BROTHERHOOD
MEET AT CHURCH
Fifty Members Gather at Westminster
Church-Rev. w. r. King Is
Guest of Evening.

Friday evening the annual meeting
of the Brotherhood of the Westmins-
ter Presbyterian church was held in
the chapel officers were elected and
a supper was served by the ladies of
the Chapel Fund society.
Rev. w. R. King of Monmouth, Ill,
gave talk, the subject of which was
The Social Mission in the Church,
that was very much to the point
The officers elected We're:
President-Dr A. B. Hughes.
Vice. President-James Young.
secretary-Dr. C. NJ. Covell.
Treasurer. c. Kellogg,
Chairman Outside committee-Dr.
Frank NJ Fuller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
MT. PLEASANT
RAISES FUND
Iowa College Completes Endowment
Of 100000 and Will Try to Get
hlore if Possible.

A dispatch says: At the Iowa Wes-
leyan university tonight it was an
bounced that the 100000 new endow-
ment fund has been completed OF
this amount $4,000 was given by An.
drew Carnegie, $4,000 by Mt. Pleas
ant and Henry county residents and
the rest by friends and alumni of the
college in southeastern Iowa and 9th
er places.
A campaign will be started for $780,
900 additional needed to complete a
quarter of a million fund
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
Some of the Winners.

The position of city solicitor is to
be filled by Attorney Ralph B. Smith,
who has been all along one of the
foremost workers for the commits.
sion plan.
oxel sandberg, who years ago work
ed with Mayor Elder ON the K. G. W.,
mas been selected for city clerk
Thomas Breheny is to be street super.
visor and John Anderson will be re-
tanned as chief of the fire depart
ment. Police Officer Henry M. schev-
ers is reported to be slated for mar
shall to succeed Henry kesseI-
ring. The clerk and baiIiff of
the superior court are to be
Happy Holieaned.' BY what
authority the commissioners in
tend to dispossess the bailff of the
superior court is not clear, as the
county pays that official.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
OFFICIALS WERE
MUCH PLEASED
President DeIano and Party of Wabash
Officials Grateful for Courtesies
Extended by Commercial Club.

Pres. Wells NJ Irwin is in receipt
Of letter from Pres F. A Deiano OF
the Wabash railroad in which that of
fetal on behalf of himself and the 9TH
ers of the official railroad party which
visited KeoIuk on Friday, express
their appreciation for the courteous
treatment while here and during their
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10

Assist Nature. There are times wien
you should assist nature. 1t is now
undertaking to cleanse your system
il you will take Hoods Sarsaparilla
tn undertaking will De successful.
This great medicine purifies and
builds up as nothing else does.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-10
l-.oeWens stein
Music Store
GIG Main Street

visit to the dam site on the Illinois
side of the river Following is Presi-
dent Delano's communication to Mr.
Irwin:
On the line of the C. B & Q.
April s, 1910.
My Dear Mr. Irwin: | wish to thank
you-and, through YOU, the CONNER
cial club of Keokuk-for the very
pleasant trip you gave us through
Hamilton and Keoluk on the occasion
of our visit today.
Our party are all most thoroughly
grateful TO you and the members OF
the club for all you did for us.
Very cordially yours.
F. A. DELANO.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
LIFTED
BY FERYENT PRAYER
Experts Locate OH Well on Farm of
DevOut Petitioner.

Gueydan La, September WAS
f, Nye's prayer answered is the ques-
tion being asked by more than 200 men
of this parish, who have invested
money in the Lake Arthur Oil Fields
Company Ltd, of Lake Arthur.
Mr.. Nye is a farmer living near LAX
Arthur and has been much agitateJ
over tie mortgage on his farm. Being
devout Christian, he prayed that tt .
Lord would show him a way to list
the mortgage. He had a dream one
night and in his dream saw a stranger
approaching who told him oil was at 4
certain grassy knoll on his farm. A
few days later Professor William II.
Drumet, an oil expert arrived and Mr..
Nye recognized the man of his dream.
He examined the place and spotted the
Identical grassy knoll. Later j. o.
Smith, another oil expert, located the
same knoll, and AlpIpnse Guerny, a
third Oil expert, did the same. AS a
result the Lake Arthur Oil Company
was organized and is drilling hole ia
to the grassy knoll. If paying oil is
found in all probability others will
resort to prayer for plans to lift their
mortgages.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
Desirable Farms
FOR SALE
BY SOUTHERN LAND co.
AmericuS, Ga.

125 acres gray, pebbly, level land,
extra fine and well improved, 3 IL
miles Americas, Ga.
200 acres red and gray level land,
1O5 acres in cultivation, balance IN
woods, good tenement houses, 5
miles City of Americas, at give-away
price.
50 acres fine gray, pebb'y land, a
fine investment, 4 miles City of Amer
icus. Small investors should see this
LOO acres gray pebbly level land,
we'll improved, to 3 miles good town,
Sumter county, Is plows running.
balance of land in original forest. -ex-
ira fine renting proposition. VIII dt-
vide and sell 230 acres up to amount
desired Good terms; price will iii,
terest you,
Call and see and buy from agents
who will finance any purchase vol
make. List your lands with people,
who arrange loans for buyers. Agents
who do the business.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
Gimp SING OF TIE
PARIS FASHIONS.
Skirts of New Tailor -MadeS
Look the Same.

Paris, France, Sept. 13-After loo'l-
ing at two Of the most important COZ
Iactions IN Paris this week, / am fore
Ell to confess that the new modes for
autumn ana winter do not slow very
wide skirts Tailor-made skirts are
short and slightly fuller They e1-
press very much tie same lines IS
those of the present season, only thay
have hidden depths which allow the
movements OF the wearer to be much
freer.
Some of the prettiest models are
those which have wide pleats, vel
stitched down to about six inches from
the feet, and back ana front fat pan
els falling loose from the knees over a
Width Of plain material. The waist
line is raised, and the semi-htting
coats are in many Instances, half
length showing fairly tight sleeves and
wide collars.
turs for wearing with tailormades
are very unpretentious and sensible. A
short neck fur drawn close around
the taroat, with tong or short ribboa
ends, and big, fiat, muff of cloth like
the gown, trimmed witk fur and drawn
together at the top by bunch of rib
bon. | saw one model in mouse-cot-
ored cloth deep pansy velvet collar ana
cuffs and Gars of excellent skunk tied
with mouse and purple ribbons.
Beads are everywhere on evening
dresses, and the wonderful pattern.
into which they are woven certainty
make a strong feature of the new
models. II is obvious that these pat
terms have been inspired by Eastern
designs, and the exquisite blending of
cotors is a work OF art in itself> EN-
broidery at any rate. is not lost art,
and is not likely to become one. If 50
much is to be needed by the dress
makers; and a high tribute is due to
the women who work behind The
scenes and produce such beautiful
trimmings, without which the modern
fashions would be nothing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
WHY 1T SUCCEEDS.
Because It's For One Thing DULY, and
Americas People Appreciate Thsl.

Nothing can be sccd for everything.
Doing one thing well brings success.
Doan's Kidney Pills do one thing
only.
They cure sick kidneys.
They cure backache. every kid
ney i'll.
Here is Americas evidence to
prove it.
M. w. Rigsby, 443 Hampton street,
Americas, Ca, says:
81 consider Doan's Kidney Pills to
be an excellent remedy for kidney
trouble. 1 suffered a great deal from
backache and my kidneys were disor-
dered. | at length procured box of
Doan's Kidney Pills at Dodson's Phar-
macy and they helped me so much
that continued using them until |
was entirely cured. now keep Doan'a
Kidney Pills on hand all the time"
For sale by all dealers. Price 90
cents. Foster-MiIburn Co, Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember tn enamel oan's-and
take no other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Euctachian Tube. When
this tube is infiamed you have rumb-
ing sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed. Deafness
is the rebuilt, and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which IS nothing but an infiamed con-
ditiOn of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars.
free.
f. ]. CHENEY e. CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
VALUABLE REALTY FOR SALE.

New Ten-Room House and Lot 'front.'
ing east on Lee street. Good barn,
etc.
One Two-story, Nine-Room House
and Lot fronting east on Lee street.
Good barn, etc.
Two hundred acres we'll improved
farm land. Four plows, running wa
ter, seven miles west of Americas, two
miles from railroad station.
Two Hundred Acres, we'll improved
farm, four plows, three miles railroad
station, southeast of Americas.
Lot of land four miles east of Amer
lcus, five plows nothing better.
Five Room House and Lot, Reese
Park on College street.
One good gentle Buggy Horse ana
Good Buggy.
See ]. o. Macarthur or W. T. Lane.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
SOUTHERN WOMfN
REFUSE TO FOLLOW
Not Foolish fnOugh.-to Try
Styles Absurd.


New York, September 1Z-Nrs. Fe-
lix Williams, of Louisiana one of the
three daughters of the great planter
j. NJ. Foster. has not been impress,
ed Wits the New York women sac
says:
Il t1tnk the Southern women have
maintained their fascinating indiyid
uality, and she knows she is more az
tractiye in maintaining this than in fol-
lowing the hideous fashions and habits
Of the New York women With the
exception of the South the women 81
the country seem mad about adoptine
the New York women for thei
model
Mrs. Williams, who spends consid-
cradle time at intervals visiting i
New York every year, says she never
knew New York wo1len to have al
tanned such height of folly in dress
ing as they have at present.
After my wholesome life in the
South. Size said, New York seems
wholly grotesque Anyone wac lives
the delightful. natural, normal life Of
the South must feel the same way that
| do.
= he awful hobb,e skirts of these
women! Surely, the New York wo-
mans dress is an index to her life.
for she is hobbled to her whims and
her fancies and her neurotic disp0
sition.
The New York womans dress is
an index to up-to-date style, but Il
she keeps up these bizarre institutions
of dress we will loathe the expressioH
'up-to-date' when we see her strapped
into a gear which reverses every. Law
OF nature and transforms her into a
grotesque figure. She is deliberately
deforming her physical intellect, whicG
carries down the mind with it.
'Iiayeyou seen the lamp shade
hats? You haven't? | saw samples OF
them in the fashionable F'iftl avenue
shops yesterday. They are an exac;
copy of the fiat shaped lamp shades
edged with narrow fringe. One !
saw was made of dark blue silk wits
fringe to match It had a Wreath OF
rosebuds around the top on the ordst
of the decorated lamp shade
I had jl~t recovered from ms
amazement when l visited another sh9p
and the hats there exceeded in grotes-
queness all record breaking ventures
in this direction. ! found that the
new theatre Eats were really little
gold lace cap. with two gold tasseiA
fastened to the side. Set down over
the cap is a wide brim of black satin
You go to the theatre, take off ths
brim and retain the cap. l prefer my
hat in one rather than in two sections
and / should think New York woma1
have enough to worry them withou.
having their clothes come in sections
| suppose it viii be quite common this
winter to see advertisements appear,
ing in the papers for lost hat brims
at the theatres Now. isn't it ridicu.
lous?
Outside of Paris YOU would find n1
city in the world that could mater
New York women in bizarre dressing
That number OF Newport womef
should try to lace 50 tight in the
new Slim figure gowns that they faint
from exhaustion, is another mark o
the grotesque life lived by New
Workers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
lnflammatOTy Rheumatism Cured In
\ DAYS.

Morton T.. Hill. of Lebanon. Ind,
says: My wife had Infiammatory
Rheumatism in every muscle and
her body and face we're swollen al
most beyond recognition; had been in
bed for six weeks and had eight ply
sicians, but received no benefit until
she tried DR.. DETCHON'S RELIEF
FOR RHEUMATISM. 1t gave immed-
late relief and she was able to walk
about in three days. / am sure it saved
her life" Sold by Eldridge Drug Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14

may be alert Be in love with some
thing all the time, whatever else you
may do. You can at least be in love
Wits your work. You can at least for
get that YOU are q pedagogue, with
certain rules to enforce, and remem-
Der that You are a human being with
love to give and love to receive. Love
leaeneth all things
Now, how is a teacher to instruct
a boy and a girl who are in the early
stages Of love fever innocent and
harmless enougf as it is-if she her.
self has never experienced the sensa-
ton? Somebody or other has said that
to the impure al things are impure,
and So the teacher that does not under
stand or has passed the age Of under
standing vital things, may see harm
where there h only happiness evil
where there is only good, and vice
where there is only purity
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
REAL DEEP SNOW FOUND
OUT IN INDIAN
It's Been in Sand Pit There Since
war Last necemher.

Michigan City, Ind. Sept 13--Mich-
igan City is probably the only place II
Indiana that has three feet of snow
Workmen opened a sand pit at the foot
of Hoosier Slide, sand hill near the
shore Of Lake Michigan, on December
> last. The place became filed with
snow during the winter anu drifting
sand covered the snowdrift. Workmen
opend the sand pit and found bed 81
snow three feet deep.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14


In Life Insurance, there are but tWc
main points to consider; absolute SAT
ETY., and lowness of cost.
AS to the first, The Union Central is
absolutely unquestioned.
AS to the latter, our very economical
management, together with the high
est percent of interest on our invest
ments Of any life insurance company
makes it possible for us to furnish in
surance at the lowest cost.
That We are doing this is proven by
the net results given our many policy
holders here in Americas ard Sumter
county.
Let me prove this to you by your
policy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
Remember the Date and the Place.
TERRELI'S RATE Is HIGHER
IN ASSESSMENT OF TAN
Twelve Dollars is Assessed There This
Year by Board.

Dawson, Ga. September 12-At the
last meeting OF tie board of county
commissioners The tax rate for this
year was fixed at 81 on the thousand,
which is an incTeas eof 81 per thous-
and over the preceding year Tlis,
with the state tax rate OF five mills,
viii make $12 per thousand. wlicn
will be required this year of property
owners of Terrell county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-14
ALL SCHOOL MARMS
SHOULD TASTE LOVE
Knowing Not Love They
Are Not Fit to leach.


Muncie. Ind September What
would you spinsters do. asked Pro-.
Arthur Holmes. Of the University o.
Pennsylvania, as he waved lis arms
comprehensively over his audience Of
teachers attending the annual Deia-
ware County Teachers Institute, il
Suddenly there were thrust upon yea
the duties of wifeaood and mother
hood?'
There was a rustic throughout the
assembly and a passing of whispers
back and forth. Apparently such q
condition had never before been
brought to the attention of the audi
ence, or such possibility considered.
How many of you" the speaker
continued. know anything understand
ingly, and not pedagogically, Of toe
child mimi, the child intellect, tGe
childish idea of life, and Of living, ana
finally, what do you know of love?
"Supposing you see in one of yotf
classes a little boy in the act Of slip
ping a love note to "a little girl taat
sits in an adjoining seat, DO YOU know
what to do? Do YOU lenow what /
have known you to do? The teacher.
the principal Of the school and any
other powerful authority that may be
at hand, will rush down upon the an-
fortunate boy and girl with an impe-
rious demand for a surrender Of the
papers, If the characters were old
er, it would SAVIOR entirely of the ten
twenty-thirty melodrama, but 1t is on
Iy a pitiful bit of ignorance and lack
.of sympathy of the teachers.
Try to Make Love a Crime.
Instead of trying to deal understand
ingly with the primal instinct of man,
the instinct of love and treating It as
natural and pure and holy, you try %
make it something half criminal. aud
thereby conjure up in the minds of ~
growing boy and girl ideas that would
never have place there except for
your wrongful Interpretation Of inno-
cent acts.
ut is time for the veil to be lifted.
It is time to treat matters that are Of
highest import to the race in a sane,
red-blooded, sympathetic way and not
try to outlaw nature as a criminal. We
are not barbarians ana are not, ex-
cept remotely, products of the dark
ages.
Some states have passed laws
against allowing married women to
be teachers in the public school. what
is wanted is that not alone married
women, but mothers maternal ldld-
loving, hasband-loying women-be the
teachers in orr schools.
Il may be an iconoclast, an image
breaker, and l hope / am While
have said earlier in this institute that
| believe the school system Of tie
United States is superior to that of any
other country, / wish l might be abe
to WELD the axe that would tear +,
all down and allow us TO build anew
on the solid foundation Of hursan SYM
pathy for children hannah understand
| ing, fitness for practical life aud love
And / say that all of the essentials
Of life, love Is the most Important
Nothing is worth while, it seems to me
without it.
Il hope that some day the first cues
ton asked Of every teacher applying
for a license to teach school viii be-
Have you ever been in love- Whal
YOU teachers, most OF YOU need = e
be in love now, OF 70 nave been
in love some time, 50 that 517rlr sym
pathies and understanding Of children