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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
"A Modern Treatment

"A Modern Treatment
THE NEAL is A PHYSIC-
IAN'S CURE for the drink
habit; it is the most modern
and perfect of known treat
ments, originated by a ply
stefan, and administered by ex-
perienced physicians.
The Neal is Physicians Cure
1t you have taken a number of
old cures and gone to drinking
again worse than before, what
is the use of taking another old
cure? The Neal is the latest,
improved, up-to-date, best
three day cure in the world.
Institute or Home Treatment
LII unable to come to the insti-
tute send for the Home Treat
ment, which is just as effective
as Institute Treatment. Call,
write or phone Iowa 1868, Mu-
tual 1855, for free book and
copy of contract; Neal Institute
Co., K. G. G., so2 Fifth St, Des
Moines, 10. All communica-
tions strictly confidential.
Bank references given.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
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The Care of the bathroom.

To keep the bathroom In q sanitary
conditionsand insure safety from disea SO
germs, it should be given daily clean
Ing and weekly scrubbing. Each time
the tub is used, 1t should be cleaned,
ter than a solution made by dissolv-
ing two tablespoonsful of Gold Dust
washing powder in a gallon of water.
Once a week thoroughly scrub and scald
tub. basin and other fixtures with hot
suds made from the washing powder,
and pour down the pipes boiling water to
which has been added Gold Dust in pro-
portion Of two tablespoonsful of Gold
Dust to every gallen of water. Lint and
other Instructions may be removed from
the water pipes by small hooks or bent
hasr-pin. Clean the nickel and brass fixtures
In bathroom by rubbing with equal parts of
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
Consider This Advice.

LUCK, MlLI.
Consider This Advice.
No.woman should submit to a surgi-
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. made exclusive
~ from roots and herbs, fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and invigorator of
The female organism. Women resid-
Ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
i mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydia
%. Pinkham' s Vegetable Compound.
1t cures female ills, and creates radi-
ant. buoyant female health. If you
are Ill, for your own sake as well as
those you love, give it trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to- write
her for advice. Her aa vice lis free,
and always helpful.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04

manship could find much to criticise
IN scrawls and lines. The grammar
and rhetoric were not SO good. Pune
tuation was poor. Commas where
there ought to be periods. But l did
not look for that in the letter. I want
ed message. A message of love.
Punctuation and grammar and spell
ing go hang. | was looking for the
heart of my loved one. / found it.
Not in errors in spelling but in the
message it brought. | wanted COM
fort in the message. So there comes
time when we need to come to the
Bible not for correct spelling, and
dates, but for a message. / read and
the lines run together and the words
seem to be scraWled but it is Gods
love letter to me. He says He must
speak. | find a message. We must
learn to lay life on the altar to be
given as a service.
"Inasmuch as ye did it to the least
of these my brethren, is the test.
Never say mo- to God, when God
speaks | never say no. said Covy, the
missionary. When sin and wrong says
do this say no. When duty and God
say do this, say yes
You are never strong until you
can say yes to the right and no, to
the wrong.
God tests our faith not to secure
what we have but to possess our wills.
An Evening of Song.
Miss Lettie NJ Early, assisted by
Miss Mary M. Boas, accompanist. will
give an evening of songs at the
church this evening, which is free to
members Of the congregation and
others who wish to attend Her pro.
gram will be as follows:
With verdure Clad (from Creaticn)
........'. ......... $4,000. Haydn
az Time of Roses 80. Reichardt
b. Bendemeer's Stream Crish melo-
dy) ............ ....... Gatty
q My Ain Folk (Scotch ballad) -.
....9.,... ............. Lemon
"One Spring Morning" ........ Nevin
Part II.
20 spring .................. Gounod
sunshine ................... Greig
Song Cycle, THE Wandering One
........... ........... Caro- Roma
az Absent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04

could not do any of
my homework. My
sickness was called
'Retrofexion. When
/ would sit down 1
felt as if | could not
ge t up. 1 too k
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v e &c t a bic Com
pound and did just
as you told me and
now / am perfectly
cured, and have a
big baby bow"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
Hoods SaYsapariIls

Edward Vinson, accompanied by the
full Miller orchestra.
Special pledges made during the
day were the following:
Ten gentlemen for $3.50 each.
Sunday School for $500.
Ladies Aid society for $500.
Junior c. E. society for s25.
The following officers of the various
boards of the church are responsible
in a large measure for the successful
termination of the new edifice:
Church officers: Rev. J. C. Mccain,
pastor; Mr.. W. J.. Walker, class lead
er; Miss Louise Schwarz, secretary;
Miss Emma Schwarz, treasurer; Mr..
Edward Vinson, chorister; Miss Alice
Watson, organist.
Board of trustees: Mr.. w. j. Walk
er, president; Mrs. Gertie Meister,
secretary; Mrs. Addie Banghart, treas
urer; Mr.. William Kinnaman, Mr. Will
liam G. Thon, Mr.. F. G. Oilar, Mr.. s..
E. Mccoy.
Board of stewards: Mrs. F. A.
Oilar, chairman; Mr. F. A. Oilar, sec
rotary; Mr.. S. B. Mccoy, treasurer;
Mr.. w. F. Jones, Mrs c. A. Anderson,
Miss Emma Schwarz, Mrs. c N. Raber.
Sunday School officers: Mr.. w. c..
Thon, superintendent; Miss Hazel
Brown, secretary; Miss Gussie Wal
lace, treasurer; Mr.. Raymond Walker,
librarian Miss Alice Watson, organist
Christian Endeavor officers: Miss
Mae Ashley, president; Miss Bertha
koeber, vice president; Miss Margaret
Leighton, recording secretary; Miss
Effie Mccoy, corresponding secretary;
Mr.. c. Ingrim Meister, treasurer;
Miss Alice Watson, organist.
Closing Services.
The closing services were held in
the evening and the church was again
filled. At o'clock beautiful SER
mon was delivered by Rev. c. s..
Queen, d. d. His subject was The
Test of Faith
And Abraham called the name of
the place Jehovah-Jireh AS is is
said to this day. In the mount of the
Lord it shall be seem Gen. 22::14
We have come to time in human
experience when the scientific spirit
has thrown aside reverence for ac-
cepted Interpretation of truth and
boldly challenges the foundation of
any fact or statement 1t is no less
true today than in Abraham's day, that
we arrive at the highest fulfillment of
the promises of Jehovah by winding,
tortuous path, which dips into the
vale before it rises to the mount of
it's final test.
Even today men have not found
the ultimate in knowledge, with all the
skill of experiment, investigation, in
duction and deduction
There has never been found rest
ing place for the spirit of man, as he
has scared above the mighty floods of
destructive criticism. He returns to
the ark to be taken within until the
bow of promise tells him it is time to
go forth, and there he rests at last,
in peace, only as he has arrived by
faith and not by sight
The soul of man finds its ulti-
mate in faith which counts not God
slack concerning His promises even,
if the waves of distrust covers ALL 1t
is a significant fact that all the worth
les of the most high are at last sum.
med up with the statement, BY Faith,
they wrought.
1T is further more significant that
the highest conception of Jehovah for
man is reached through faithfulness'
Grown of life) and though we may
not be able TO explain the term faith,
nor arrive at fullest knowledge by
study and experiment. yet there is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04

Church officers: Rev. J. c. Mccain,
pastor; Mr.. w. j. Walker, class lead
er; Miss Louise Schwarz, secretary;
Miss Emma Schwarz, treasurer; Mr..
Edward Vinson, chorister; Miss Alice
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04

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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
OCCASIONAL
DRINKERS
Will Become HabifuaI Drinkers

The Neal internal treatment
cures the periodical, occasional
or moderate drinker, the habit
ual and excessive drinker and
the nervous man who has to
drink to keep from booming
nervous. 1t takes away all in
clination to drink, all desire
and craving for drink by neu-
Trailing the poison of alcohol
in the system and Kidding tht
blood of the poison by rapid
process of elimination, leaving
the drinker in the same normal
condition he was in before
tasting liquor, so far as the eff
feet of alcohol may be concern
ed all appetite for drink gone
and he is a new man.
No Hypodermic Injections
The NEAL internal treatment
effects perfect cure in three
days without hypodermic in
jections.
A Guaranteed Contract
A guarantee bond and contract
is given each patient agreeing
to effect a perfect cure, or re-
fund the money at the end of
the third day.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-04-04
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Black Duck, Mimi About year
ago / wrote you that / was sick and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
TRIES HARD TO JOIN LOVER
Grand Rapids Girl Attempts to Enlist
but BaIks on Request to
Remove Clothes.

Grand Rapids. Mich.-Held back for
attire and evidently wishing to join
her sweetheart in the east has just
come out of the local United States
marine corps recruiting station.
The young man" in question en-
tered the station stating che" wished
to enlist in the service to be sent to
New York as soon as possible. Not
understanding why the applicant
should be sent so hurriedly to the
training station, the officer asked the
applicant to explain Faint, but very
determined, the answer was given
that a close friend by the name OF
Brown was sent by the local recruit
ing officer and is now in New York
very i'll. and it was Ibis" wish to be
near "his" friend as soon as posi-
BILE.
The preliminary examination was
hurried through and the prospective
recruit shown to the next room where
"he" was asked to remove "his" cloth
ing that the remainder Of the exam
nation might be finished. After wait
ing for an usual length of time for
the clad" to appear, the officer called
him" No reply being received the
door was opened The room was not
occupied The window leading to the
hall was open and on the floor near
by was found a lady's handkerchief,
wet with tears. which had an initial
"B" in the corner
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
PECULIAR MISHAP TO HAWK

More than 80 years ago a farmer
living in Shasta county, California,
set out number of small steel traps
to catch the gophers that were play
ing havoc with the crops.
One day while looking after these
traps the rancher CHANGED to see a
very big yellow hawk swoop down
on one of the traps.
The bird was caught sure enough,
and while it was struggling to free it.
self from the trap, the slender wire
chain was torn from the fastening
and away the hawk flew, carrying
with it the trap and chain-both dan.
Cling to the left foot.
Recently farmer living in Sac.
ramento county-more than 800 miles
from the rancher, shot and killed g
very large yellow hawk Securely at.
tached to this hawks left leg was a
No. 3 steel trap and more than a
yard OF small chain. Beyond all
doubt this was the very bird that had
carried off the other rancher's trap
over three years before and had flown
with it several hundred miles.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
BOYS SCHOOL LIFE

did not agree with the bishop of Here
ford's opinion. =
"Take the case of, say, little Tom.
my Jones, who is day boy at Sec
ondary SCHOOL, he said. 'He is hit
by another boy and goes home crying
to his mother, who consoles him and
dries his tears.
Tommy is comforted and weakened
at the same time. If Tommy was a
boarder, and had no mother to fly to,
he would soon learn he must stand up
for himself and become self-reliant
and brave.
Either by hitting back at his ag
gressor or showing him that he was a
good fellow and didn't mind chaff,
Tommy becomes happy and self-con-
fident"
Speaking at the conference on the
merits of the elementary school, Dr.
Mcnamara said he could confidently
say that it had worked nothing short
of a social revolution.
1t was not only in the improvement
of the children themselves but he was
not sure that the school had not re-
acted even more upon the parents
than upon the children
Even the poorest and most hard
worked woman in the back street had
made struggle day in, day out to see
that her Eliza should have as clean a
pinafore as the rest of them.
Amid laughter, DR.. Mcnamara add
ed that he could guarantee to say that
many a man had held on a steadier
course because of Tommy's little
framed certificate upon the mantel-
piece.
DR.. James Cantie, honorable secre-
tary of the Royal Institute of Public
Health, gave some useful hints on chill
dren's- clothing.
He deprecated the use of babies
"comforters" and unsuitable clothing
for children. especially Elton jackets"
for growing boys.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
TROUT ALMOST KILLS A DOG

Wallace Short of New York state
has dog. It's name is Skip. 1t was
long-haired, but it isn't any more.
The other morning it went fishing.
Short said no, but the dog said yes,
and then it took a flying leap and
with bobwow of delight landed in
the center of one of the pools OF
Frank Drumboller's trout hatchery on
the Tranquility turnpike. The
dog was bit hungr., and when 1t
jumped it had it's gaze fixed on a
large trout that had been basking in
the sun, with one eye on Skip and
the other on a bread crumb near by.
The dog had long, shaggy coat
when it entered the pool. 1t had
seen but one, and had no means of
knowing or even suspecting there
were 5000 other trout in the same
pool, all full grown and hungry. for
it was feeding time. Scarcely had
Skip struck the water when it began
to bark or nelp. Short and Drum
boiler ran to the edge of the pool,
and what they saw made their eyes
pop
The thousands of trout had mass
ed themselves about the dog, and
swimming around and around had en-
quilted him in perfect piscatorial
whirlpool. Occasionally one of the
large fish would make a side leap
and take bite at the dog. Skip
was in bad way when the men ar
rived. The silent mass of fish grad
ually would have forced him under
the water. He had gone in long
haired, but came out like a hairless
Mexican dog. The secret was that
Skip suffered from skin affection,
and his master had rubbed him with
olive oil, appetizing to the fish So
they almost skinned him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
MAN MAKES HIMSELF YOUNG

full, and he has also had much sue
cess with number of eminent pa
tients on the other side of the At
lantic. His treatment consists of
electrical applications by means of a
special battery and systematized mas
sage.
: A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette
says he walked with Sir James a dis
lance of half a mile and could not
help commenting on his vigor and
energy. He asked Sir James if he
wore spectacles. and Sir James re-
piled:
Eyes, do wear epectacles. I have
worn them for forty years-until
such such time as I began to treat
myself with electricity and massage;
today I do almost the whole of my
reading and writing. without using
any spectacles at all My hearing is
as good as ever. and I feel that have
the energy of man of forty
II notice that your city: is full of
taxicabs.. but, so far as II, am. con-
cerned never ride where 81, can
walk. and indeed. If were chal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
WILD DEER KICKS A MAN

Carl Muller, member of a party
of politicians returning to San Mateo,
Cal, from Halfmoon Bay, tried to
capture a deer single handed near
Aqua lake The deer kicked Muller
on the chin, rendering him uncon-
scious, and made its escape.
Five deer were in the road when
the automobile party, of which Dis,
trict Attorney J. ]. Bullock was a
member, approached. No one in the
party was armed, but Muller con
ceived the idea of capturing one OF
the animals alive.
He jumped from the automobile
and sneaked up to the herd AS he
got within striking distance of a
young buck the animal let fly its
heels and caught Mr.. Muller squarely
on the chin. That ended the chase
1t was five minutes before the deer
chaser could be resuscitated and the
trip resumed.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
BLIND TAUGHT FARM
Two New York Boys Learn Art
in Clinton Park.
One of Them Becomes SO Expert Can
Separate Lettuce and Carrot
Seeds and Tell Color of
Different Flowers.

New York-The Children's Farm
School in De Witt Clinton Park has
taught two blind boys to raise crops"
equal in every respect to those of the
children who can see. In fact, Mrs.
Henry Parsons, in charge of the
school, and Mr.. Brady, the boys teach
er, insist that in the matter Of beets
and carrots the blind children's work
was superior.
The subjects of the experiment are
Carl and Peter, each Is years old and
strong boys for their years. Peter is
totally blind and has to be led every
where. Carl, who can't distinguish
anything more than four inches away
from his eyes, has just enough vision
so that he can go and fill Peters wa
tering pot.
CarTs sister used to bring him to
the park playground. Leaving him on
a bench she would run off to the
swings, and the boy would sit there
listening to the other children play
ing. A gymnasium instructor saw
Carl sitting there day after day and
tried to think of some occupation for
him Finally the instructor suggest
ed that a plot in the school garden be
given to the boy. Then one day Carl
came bringing Peter, and Mrs. Par
sons decided to try the experiment of
teaching the blind gardening for
pleasure if not for profit.
On June 10 they began teaching
Peter and Carl to raise beans, beets,
carrots, onions, radishes, lettuce and
corn, just as the other children do
A wooden fence was built around
Peters plot, along which cords were
strung to serve as guides to the five
rows Of crops which were to be
planted. Feeling these and measur.
! ing the distances by his fingers and
arm Peter drew his miniature burrows
and dropped or sprinkled his seeds
| In his first attempt to cover the seeds
| he knocked the rows askew, but then
| by placing his hand on that of his
teacher while he did a row in the
right way Peter mastered that art.
No grown-up farmer would like to
weed with his eyes shut, but that is
what both Peter and Carl had learned
10 do. They were taken to other chill
dren's plots, allowed to feel the differ
ent seedlings as they appeared, and SC
taught to distinguish the tiny plants
! from weeds. Hand hoes not more
than a foot long were made for them
BY keeping their left hand fingers a
! few inches ahead of the blade thew
| did their hoeing without cutting down
! the vegetables.
Several weeks ago came the time
for the first harvesting on the Chill
| dren's Farm, which raises two rounds
of crops in a summer AS radishes
beets and beans approached maturity
the excitement among the small far.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20

feat which beats that of the girl in
Grimm's fairy stories who had to pick
lentils out of the ashes That girl had
beautiful blue eyes, and even at that
she had to call on her fairy godmOther
to help her out. But Peter, who is
totally blind, can take lettuce and
carrot seeds mixed together and sep
arate them correctly, though they are
enough alike to deceive many persons
who have their sight.
Peters latest accomplishment is to
distinguish bright colored flower pet
ais one from the other apparently by
some subtle difference in the texture
of the blossom. That doesn't mean
that he could tell whether it's pale
pink or a light blue aster or recog.
nize any fine graduation of tint, but he
knows a rel petal from a yellow one.
Altogether the instructors are much
pleased with the summers experiment
and are as eager as the boys to con
tinue it next year.
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mers waxed so tense that the distinc-
rion between meum and tuum was
frequently lost to view and the boy
whose beans matured early was like
ly to find himself minus the beans.
Even the observation plots in charge
of the instructors were robbed of their
prize products. But to the credit Of
the farm be it said that while the de-
struction walked around them the
blind boys crops were left undis-
turbed
This harvesting was followed by
the second planting. In this Peter
and Carl showed such marked i'm
nrovement that Mrs. Parsons believes
that gardening in some of it's branches
can be made an employment for the
blind. The sowing of beets and car
rots by the blind boys was the best
done on the farm.
In few weeks Peter and Carl have
learned to distinguish the different
seeds entirely by feeling. Peter has
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
Extraordinary Success Claimed for
Sir James Grants Method-W-
*aity ATazes.

London.-Sir James Grant, the we'll
known Canadian physician, receipt
ent of many foreign honors. believes
that he has discovered, not exactly
the elixir of life, but at any rate a
means of greatly prolonging youth
back to some extent.
Sir James is himself the best adver-
tisement of his method. for he pos
sesses amazing vitality for his age,
now nearly seventy-seven years. He
is visiting London. and he looks like
a man in his fifties. His secretary.
a young man, says it is difficult to
keep up with the work his employer
does.
Two years ago Sir James created
a sensation at a meeting of the Brit
ish association by paper on the ex,
traordinary rejuvenating powers of
electricity He has since then treat
ed himself by his own method with
results that he describes as wonder
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
WHEN THE ALARM WENT OFF

An odd thing happened in Paris the
other week, where a woman named
Charlotte Berdulli was arrested out
side a shop on the Place de la Bas-
tile, and charged by one of the shops
private detectives with stealing some
cheap jewellery. She denied the theft
Indignantly, and refused even more
Indignantly to allow herself to be
searched. 81 am the wife of magis-
trate," she declared, land will have
you punished for the indignity to
which I am being subjected" Unfor-
tunately for her, an alarm clock which
she had stolen went off at this mo-
ment. Mrs. Burdulli was searched,
and three alarm clocks, small size,
two watches, and eight brooches of
small value were found in specially
made pocket inside her skirt.