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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
Burned While at PRAYER

IOWA CITY, Jan. 29.-The badly
burned body of Peter Rogers. aged IS,
was found in his home near Tiffin. He
had evidently upset the lamp when at
prayer and was overcome by the
smoke from the FIRE, His grand
daughter found him this morning when
she crawled through a window. The
house was only slightly damaged
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
[Gate City Leased wire Service ]

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.]
LONDON, Jan. 2s.-That the full
story Of the devastation and suffering
caused by the French flood is being
carefully suppressed and censored out
Of kilograms by the French govern
rnent, is the statement made here to-
night by refugees arriving from the
French capital. "The half has not
been told" these refugees declare.
"The French government does not care
to scare away the horde of tourists
whose millions annually make Paris
the city that it is, and for that reason
the true situation Is being kept away
from the outside world"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
The New Paris.

An agitation was started tonight to
have the $1sO,o0o,00O recently voaed
for the beautifying of the city of
Paris, used in repairing the city.
1t was suggested that should many
buildings have to come down there
would be general arrangement of
the "old" city to make the streets
wide and to arrange them more order
IL,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, d. C., Jan. 2s.-
For Iowa and Missouri: Unsettled
Sunday, preceded by snow furries;
Monday rain or snow and warmer.
For Illinois: Snow fiurries Sunday;
Monday partly cloudy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
Everybody Happy.

The Comedie Franchise, Nouyeautes
Paliais, Royal TLeatre and several
others gave performances tonight and
every stall and box vas taken. Men
and women were taken frop their
homes in boats that they night at
tend the performances. csner places
having no acetyline lights were com
pelled to forego performances and to
refund the money to their patrons.
Tonight it was discovered that water
was enterting the basement OF the
Louvre department store and The
1900 employees were ordered out o.
the building. which is opposite the
famous museum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
The Gaycst City i'm the World, Freed From the
Clutches OF the Demoniacal River, Laughs
and Sings as the Flood Subsidies.
NEWS OF DAMAGE BEEN CENSORED
The Halt Has otBeen Told According to Refugees
From the Stricken City Which Was
Washed I'm Slime for Week.

towns in the neighborhood Of Paris
have sustained heavy losses. Summer
homes of the wealthy along the banks
OIL the Seine have suffered irrepara-
Bile damage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
Bon Fires for Liahts.

In all the flooded districts flremen
and bumpers are at work getting va
ter out of the Easements of the build
ings They are using torches ana
blow lamps while big bonfires are
lighted at many street corners to
guide pedestrians.
Scores of persons received duck
ing tonight when a small footbrldge
across the flooded Esplanade mvades
gave way beneath their weight and
plunged them into water waist deep.
They were all fished out and stood
shivering and Joking about camp fires
until they were dried out The police
are carrying hand torches tonieht as
they patrol their beats. for no electric
lights on the streets are in working
order. Late tonight cracks appeared
in the walls of school in the Rue
Admiral, which was being used to
house. homeless refugees, and the 100
persons sleeping there were given
lodgings in other buildings Prefect
Of Police Lehine sent out bulletin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
Local Observations.

Jan Bar.Ther. Wind. Weather
80 Z am. 1890 "a NV Cloudy
80 I pm. !. 2ss7 2s NV 1t. snow
Rainfall for past "a hours. trace.
River, frozen.
Mean temperature. q.
Maximum temperature, 2S.
FRED GOSEwIScH,
v Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
Americans Are Liberal.

AIUCTlCdUS fAtS LlbSIo'.
Already $4,000 has been subscribed
by Americans to the flood sufferers
J. Pierpont Morgan, the New York
banker. led the American doners with
a subscription of $20,000 The firm of
Morgan & Hartji, the Paris branch
of the Morgan banking house, gave
$4,000. American Ambassador Bacon
contributed $4,000, while James Haz-
en- Hyde, former owner of the Equita-
BILE Life Assurance society. who now
lives in Paris, gave $1,000. An un-
named woman in San Francisco donat-
ed $4,000
Along the Boulevard Mont Martre
and in the Latin quarter, great car
nival was carried on tonight, cafes,
restaurants and dance halls being
lighted with candles, lamps. acetyliue
lights and japanese lanterns, @hile
the apparently care-free Parisiens
danced wined and made merry
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-30
100 Miles of Now Paving.

100 Miles of Now Paving.
In Paris 100 miles of streets Will
possibly need repaving. Even where
the streets were not Hooded and
where they have not caved In to the
sewers and subways, the sogged earth
is causing breaks In the asphalt. 1t
is impossible to estimate the damage
done to the thirty-one famous bridges
across the Seine in Paris. The water
is still too high to permit more than
a cursory examination of them, but
it is believed drift wood lodged
against the abutments has caused
great damage. Premier Aristide Bri.
and issued instructions tonight to the
military and civil authorities to insti.
tute rigid prosecutions against all
dealers who raise the prices of food
stuffs. He further ordered that all
trains bearing food should have the
right of way over passenger trains
to Paris and all surplus food in the
flooded districts has been requisi
toned to be sent to the capital. Min
lister Millerand ordered that all de
pots be kept open tomorrow, though
they are ordinarily closed on Sun
day.
The Prefecture of the Seine official
ly announced tonight that all DANCE
of the flood was over and notified .citi
zens that they might return to thei
homes. AS result, the places Q
refuge are less crowded tonight ant
more accommodations can be givel
to the thousands of people from tht
rural districts who sought refuge il
Paris when driven from their homes
by the floods.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
ELECTION BETTING OUTLAWED.
Little Joe Brown Signs Important
Legislative Act.

Atlanta, Ca, August S.-Bett1ng
on elections became illegal N Georgia
to-day, when Governor Brown signed
the anti-betting bill just passed by
the legislature.
The house to-day passed an anti
lobbying bill, requiring any person
representing a person, firm or cor
poration for, or against any legisla-
ton" to register his name, that OF
his employer and the designation OF
the bill he is interested in. Viola
ton is felony. The bin applies only
to paid agents engaged in lobbying.
It goes to the senate.
The house by vote of SO to IL
passed the so-called white slave bill,
making it unlawful to procure re-
male for immoral purposes or to rob
her of virtue by payment of money,
promise of marriage or promise OF
employment, or to bring female into
the State or take her out of it for
immoral purposes. The penalty Is
IMPRISONMENT for from one to two
and a half years. The bill now goes
to the senate.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
GETTING INFORMATION.
A Travellers Experience with "Piny
Woods Native.

1t Is not wise, says the Youths
Companion, to base final conclusions
upon outward appearances. Mr.. Ste
phen Powers made this mistake once
while travelling in the South. In the
'piny woods Of North Carolina it
is hard to get direct answer, yes or
no, from tue natives. Mr.. Powers
made up his mind that he would
force a decisive reply, and one day,
meeting an old clay-eater astride a
donkey, hauling load Of wood, he
thought his opportunity had arrived.
The mans legs were so long that
he could have doubled them round
the animal he rode. On one of his
callous heels he wore mighty spur.
lis there any tavern on the road to
Fayetteville?" I asked.
Reckon you mout find one if you
look in the right place." was the re-
sponse.
This is the direct road to Fayette-
vile, I suppose?"
You'd be pretty apt to get there
if you keep a-going straight ahead.
do you sell much wood in Fay
etteville?"
II reckon this ere jack thinks he
has to haul a right smart chance"
docs wood bring good price
now?"
Its jest according. Some fetches
more and some agin not so much.
"Oak fetches more than pine, l
suppose?"
1T mout, and then agin 1t
moutn't."
81 believe you Southerners burn
green wood mostly?"
"'Tain't particular. Every fellow
to his liking"
"Well, now, my friend I said,
determined to get something out OF
the man before 1 gave up, I'm writ.
ing a book on the subject of wood,
and I want to get all the informa-
ton 1 can. If you were called upon
in court of law to give your personal
and unbiased opinion, you would, de-
clare on oath, would you not, that
100 pounds of green oak would weigh
more than 100 pounds of dry pine?"
The man gave me one quick
glance, then looked steadfastly at his
donkey's ears.
well, now, stranger" he drawled,
you can jest set down in your book
when you git to that place, that all
the people of North Carolina were
such fools you had to weigh it your
self"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
Terrible Toll Of Human Lives.

St. Petersburg, August 6.-Russia' s
scourge, the cholera, continues to
spread with most alarming rapidity,
particularly in the Southern mining
districts and in St. Petersburg, where
the conditions are fast approaching
the proportions of the great epidemic
OF 1908.
Figures furnished to-day by the
central sanitary bureau show that in
the week from July "a to July 80 the
latest available complete figures,
there were 150,244 cases of cholera,
and 6,944 deaths. OF these 4,7SO
cases and 2,233 deaths were reported
from the Province of Yekaterinoslav
and the interior Of the Don Cossacws
in South Russia. The provincial as
sembly of Yekaterinoslav to-day as
signed 100000 for the cause.
The desertion of the work by Ia
borers extends also to the railroad
employees and the workmen in the
ports in South Russia, threatening
to cripple the export movement of
grain. Advices from Yekaterinoslav
report that the transport of the crops
is at a standstill.
The epidemic continues to make
enormous progress in the capital
where the daily average of cases
Jumped last week to thirty. Yester-
day 1872 cases or suspected cases of
cholera were taken to the hospitals
and there were thirty deaths. The
hospitals now contain 962 cases OF
cholera. The high record reached in
1908 was 412 cases per day.
The outbreak of bubonic plague at
Odessa, however, against which Aus
tria, Roumania, Bulgaria and Tur-
key have instituted strict quaran-
tines, is not spreading. Only one
suspected case was reported yester-
day after a two-days' interval. Gen.
Tolmacheff, the prefect of Odessa, has
thrown a Gordon of troops and po-
lice around the infected ward OF the
city and allow no one to pass in or
out except the doctors. assigned to
fight the plague.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the
cases of the plague were first report
ed from a bakery, in the same house
in which the epidemic of bubonic
plague started in 1902.
Odessa has been afflicted with a
scourge of rats since May, and the in
effective measure taken to kill OF the
rodents by the authorities is blamed
for the present outbreak.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
Per Capita Tax for Public Schools.

According to figures prepared by
the census bureau the larger cities
of the country pay more for schools
and for police and fire protection and
related service than on all other ac-
counts, and of these two items the
payment on account Of schools is
much the largest, the average per
capita expense for schools being
s4.70, as compared with 1925 for
police and s1.75 for fire protection.
The figures are given out as part
of the bureaus report covering the
financial operations of cities during
the year 1908. The report covers all
cities of more than 10000 population,
of which there are 15S. The aggre-
gate cost of operating all these cities
was $4O4,997,312.
The report includes a general in
crease in the cost of maintaining city
governments. In 1902 the average
was s13.36 per capita. By 1908 it
had advanced to S16.81 per capita.
Boston heads the list with an ex-
pense account of S27.5S for each per-
son. Of the large cities New York
comes next with cost OF S2o.7l,
while Washington with cost of
S24.63 makes a close third. Of the
first-class cities New Orleans paid less
for city government than any other,
the cost being only s12.76 per capita.
Salt Lake City paid more per capita
for schools, SS.1S. Montgomery, Ala
bama, made the lowest expenditure,
S1.63 per capita.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
Branchville's New Depot.

Plans for the rebuilding of the
passenger station at Branchville, on
the Southern Railway were approved
Tuesday. The new depot will be OF
brick and large enough to accommo-
date the traffic at that place. There
will be two large passenger rooms.
Additional sheds will be erected. The
platform will be of concrete. This
will give the town of Branchville
the handsomest passenger station on
the Southern between Charleston,
Columbia and Augusta, and we con-
gratulate her on her good luck.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY.
Large Increase in Imports of the
LuXuries of Life.

Prosperity in the United States is
on the increase, if the purchases
abroad by Americans during the past
year of works of art, diamonds, fine
furs and champagne can be taken as
a criterion. Whereas, there were
brought into this country during the
fiscal year of 1909 only $3,S00,000
worth of art works, millionaires and
other citizens brought in during the
fiscal year just closed art works to
the value of 100000. In dia-
monds the increase was from s24,-
100000 to s39,00O,OO0, and in un-
dressed furskins from 100000 to
SIS, 5,2O0,OO0; in dressed furs and
manufactures thereof from s9,400,-
900 to s11, 100000.
While no more automobiles were
imported last year than during the
previous twelve months, their value
in each case having been s2,900,000,
this is accounted for by the fact that
most Americans are buying machines
of home make; and whereas only $5,-
100000 worth of automobiles were
exported in 1909 this country sent
abroad this past year ss'5oo'ooo
worth. Increases are shown by the
figures prepared by the bureau OF
statistics in imports Of many other
articles, and the total increased from
s1,311,9O0,OOO in 1909 to $685.
100000 last year. The imports OF
manufacturers materials during the
fiscal year 1909 were the largest on
record.
The exports for manufactures for
the year also exceeded those of any
previous year. The value Of the ex-
ports was 81, 1000, an increase
of s72,0OO,OOO. The increase in the
imports was s246,O00,000.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
Nations Population About Ninety
Million.

Washington, August Tt will be
October before people of the United
States learn their true numbers as re-
vealed by the official count of the
18th census. 1t is generally believed
that the number will be about 9O,-
100000, and census officials are
known to share in this general be-
lief, although they know nothing
about this.
This belief is based on the fact that
an increase slightly in excess OF the
100000 increase during the pre-
vious decade would bring the popu-
lation in 1910 to the 90,00O,OOO
mark. About 300 of the more than
$4,000 clerks in the census bureau
are compiling population figures,
while the others are working on otter
statistics. Contrary to the general
opinion, all the counting of the peo-
pie is done by clerks, the tabuiating
machines being used only in classl-
fication as to race, sex and other con-
dition.
Enumeration figures will continue
to be given out day by day for the
next two months or more, while the
sociological and industrial figures
will come later. All enumerated
figures are counted from three to
four times, and an investigation is
ordered if there is any suggestion OF
error. In two cases evidence OF
fraud had been discovered and in one,
that of Great Falls, Mont, prosecu-
ton has been undertaken for fraudu-
lent enumeration.
The intention of Director Durano
is to tabulate first the population OF
the large cities, after which the
figures for the States will be given
out as they are ascertained, the re-
turns for all counties in the State
being announced at the same time
as the figures for the State.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
Personal Mention.

Mr.. A. NJ. Brabham has gone to
Hendersonville, n. G.
MIR. H. H. Copeland is at home
from Hendersonville, n. G.
Mr.. ]. D. Copeland, Jr., has
gone to Eendersonville N. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones A. Williams
and children have gone to Glenn
Springs.
MIR. and Mrs. j. A. Murdaugh are
visiting relatives in Charleston this
week.
Mr.. G.. A. Lucas, of Aiken, Is
spending a few days in the city this
week.
Mr.. Glenn Hutto, of ST. Mat
thews, spent Sunday here with his
fathers family.
Mr.. Leroy Price is at home from
Charleston, where he has been un-
der treatment.
Mrs. NJ. A. Adams is visiting
the family of her son, Mr.. c. u. g.
Adams, in WATERFORD.
Mrs. C.. R. Brabham and little
daughters. EVELYN and Vista, left last
week for a stay at Saluda, n. c.
Misses Lucille and Jauanita Mat
thews, of Blackville, were the guests
of Miss Mary Matheny last week.
Mrs. W. NJ. Brabham has gone
to the seashore at Charleston on &C
count of the illness of the little boys
Mr.. Brabham went down with them
yesterday morning, but has returned
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
battle as pictured at the Charleston
Exposition, having the sheriff for a

battle as pictured at the Charleston
Exposition, having the sheriff for a
guide, and seeing the old scrag of a
tree where the limb was buried, the
old house where he was taken and
allowing this to come to the memory
and taking it as sample of how the
war must have tasted, it should make
every one bow with tender reverence
to every Confederate soldier.
The ladies were never more at their
best as CONSIDERS of the inner man
than on that occasion. I think they
must have each established a little
competition inwarly to outrival her
neighbor, for the tables fairly groan-
ed under their loads, and I'm sure
not going to waste paper at an at
tempt to give the menu.
True Southern hospitality was
made manifest and every one made
to feel as being at home.
MT. DdFlu I'LL, IuOuSu StlAA IL AAS
teens, made a manly address on
"The New South" in the afternoon,
showing how the North and South are
becoming more and more united. A
collection was taken last of the after
noon to defray the speakers expenses
and others occasioned by the re-
union. The services were opened in
the morning by Scripture reading and
prayer by Rev. J. Earle Freeman and
closed in the afternoon by God be
With You," by the choir.
Briefly speaking, the last was the
best in the annual reunions. The SOL
diers were happier, the weather
pleasanter than on many, the boys
more manly, the girls more winsome,
the ladies were ever at their best, but
on this were better than best and
may each and every one present be
there on next reunion day.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11

Mr.. A. NJ. Brabham has gone to
Hendersonville, n. G.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11

The city council of Spartanburg
has appropriated $1,000 to entertain
the Confederate veterans, who Will
hold their State reunion in that city
the 18th and 18th instant.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11
PERSONAL MENTION.
People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.

People Visiting in This City and
at Other Points.
Mr.. G. W. Garland is at home
from trip to Beaufort.
Mr.. and Mrs J. w. Stokes are
at home from Glenn Springs.
Mr.. ]. o. Hartzog, of the Govan
section, was in the city Tuesday.
DIR. and Mrs. v. W. Brabham, Of
Cope, spent Monday in the city.
Miss Marie Sease is spending
some time with relatives in Kline.
Mrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr. and
children have gone to Saluda, N. C..
Mr.. H. A. Ray, of Blackville
was in the city Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. H. W. Beard and children
are visiting relatives in Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Minnie Owens, of Ehrhardt
is visiting Miss Lena Miley.-Brunson
News.
Mr.. M. A. Moye, of Fairfax, is
visiting relatives in the city this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Spann,
Of Wewahitchka, Fla, who have been
visiting relatives here, left for home
yesterday.
Mrs. R. Lee Klauber, of St.
Matthews, is visiting Mrs. W. A.
! Klauber.
Mrs. C. P. Desportes, of Charles
ton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Cole
man, in this city.
Mrs. w. H. Zeigler, of the Cope
section, has been visiting her father,
Mr.. D. F. Hooton.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Wright, of
Orangeburg, are visiting relatives in
the city this week.
Mr.. O. A. Simmons left yester-
day for trip to West Florida to visit
his wife's relatives.
Mrs. Henry F. Bamberg and
little son, Henry, left last Friday for
a stay at Hendersonville, N. c:
Mrs. Wade Faust, of Denmark,
is here on visit to her father, Mr..
w. V. Blyth.-Greenwood Index.
Mrs. Susan Platts and son, OF
Bamberg county, visited Mrs. ]. B.
Harter last week.-Brunson News.
-Messrs. H. J. Brabham, Jr., and
w. A. Klauber left last Saturday for
a business trip to Baltimore and New
York.
Mrs. NJ. B. Kennedy and little
son, of Ridgeland, are on a visit to
her mother, Mrs. NJ. r. Brickle, in
this city.
MIR. and Mrs. J. C. Matthews and
daughters, Misses Lucille, Juanita and
Blanche, spent Wednesday in BAN
berg.-Blackville Courier.
Mrs. J. D. O'Hern and little son
of Lakeland, Fla, are in the city on
a visit to her father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. A. Jennings.
Mr.. Ed. Hays and Mr.. G. Frank
Bamberg, of Bamberg, were here last
week visiting Capt. F. S. Evans fol
a few days.-Greenwood Index.
Tofh nd
sons, Masters Dewitt and Hugh, oi
Washington, Ca, spent Sunday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. R
Matheny.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Robinson
of Ehrhardt, after visit to Mrs
Robinson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
J.R. Scurry, returned home on Sun
day.-Newberry Observer.
Miss Pearle Sandifer returned
to her home in Bamberg after
months visit to friends and relative:
in Johnston. She was accompanied
by her sister, Mrs. w. NJ. Sandifer
Masters Marion and Alvin Sandlfer.
"A merry party of young folk:
spent a few days last week with Mrs
w. S. Bamberg, near town. The!
were Miss Myra Hooton and Mrs
F. B. McCrackin, of this city, Mis-
May Zeigler, of Cope, Miss julia
: Fender, of Georgia, Mr.. W. P Muir
ply, of Bamberg, and Mr.. ROPER
Graman. of Charleston.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11

The Denmark Realty Company Is
delivering the goods. Try them If
you want to buy or sell real estate or
stocks. c. Il. MILHOUS, Manager.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-08-11

Big line of ladies' and children's
oxfords now on sale for cash at
big discount at Klauber's cash store.