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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
THROAT CUTTING
ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN
Following the Lorimer Bribery Charge
the State VIII be an Exciting
Battle Ground.

CHICAGO, May 12.-Such thro-t
cutting campaign as Illinois has never
witnessed is predicted in the republi-
can party as the result of the sena-
torial corruption investigation. Gov
ernor Deneen and Mayor Busse have
Joined forces to Dust Lorimer from
the head of the party. Lorimer will
fight He said SO toiay in an inter
view.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
Americas Greatest a,t+,a.h,a

NEW YORK. May 12.-Amer'ca $
sfeatest battleship, the Florida, the
most massive all big gun ship OF the
World was launched at the government
navy yards at Brooklyn this morn
Ing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

Many Ills come from impure blood.
Can't have pure blood with faulty d.
gestion, lazy liver and sluggish bow
els. Burdock Blood Bitters strength.
ems stomach, bowels and liver, and
purifies the blood
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

Itching, torturing skin eruptions.
r'sngure annoy. drive one wild.
loans Ointment brings quick relief
ana lasting cures. Fifty cents at any
drug store.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

The public schools inside of the
city limits closed this afternoon at
three o'clock to allow the pupils and
teachers to witness the opening ball
game.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

WANTED Men to learn barber trade.
Few weeks completes. Time saved
by steady practice Careful in~truc-
tors, tools given, diplomas granted.
Wages Saturdays. Positions waiting
Splendid demand for graduates Write
today. Moler Barber College. St.
Louis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

For any pain. from top to toe, from
say cause, apply DR.. Thomas Electic
Oil. Pain can't stay where it is used
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
NOTICE.

All dogs running at large in the
city must Wear a license tag, issued
by the city clerk.
All dogs not tagged by June 18th
1910, will be killed
HENRY NJ. SCHEVERs,
City Marshal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
FOR SALE.

FOR sALE-Five room cottage, full
lot, fuel gas, electric lights, in good
repair. Address Cottage" this Of
fee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

FOR SALE-Cheap if sold at once,
kuebler property Address 1923
concert street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
NJ. S. ACMES
ssThe Real Estate Man.
Room. Z, Estes Building.
. ant Column
WANTED.

WANTED-A cook. man or woman;
good wages. Apply at once. Pres
colts Restaurant, "a South Third.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

WHILE the coal shortage is on phone
Harrison & Dietz for sawed wood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
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Pre-nuptlal Granite Shower.


The many friends of Miss Maggie
Howell assembled at her home on
Johnson street road, last Wednesday
afternoon, there being about twenty
five present, and pleasantly surprised
her with a granite shower, consisting
cf thirty-ive pieces which we're all
very useful. At four o'clock refresh
ments were served and all depart
ed for their homes, congratulating
Miss Howell, who is soon to become
the bride of Mr.. William Shafer.
An interesting musical program,
consisting of sixteen numbers will be
given this evening in the First Bap-
fist church The affair promices to
be a very ENJOYABLE one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

WANTED-Button cutters; exper-
fence not necessary. Hawkeye
Pearl Button Factory, Keokuk, Iowa.
1t
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
FOR RENT.

FOR Rents room house. Enquire
Mrs. C. A. Bowen, 61O High street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
O.. . HAT $

Do not throw them away. Have
your old hats made new. Hat
ter, Osburn's barber shop. sos
Main street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12

John II. eastman, by his father and
next friend, J. D. eastman, has
brought suit in the district court
against the e. l. Dupont de Nemours
Company for $1,95O damages,
because of an accident more than a
year ago at the powder works
works.
1t is alleged that during the year
1908 John H. eastman was in the en-
ploy of the defendant corporation. and
that on December 81 of that year he
was engaged in Banding and operat-
ing what is known as heading or cut
ting machine, in the plant of said de-
fendant; that the said machine is pro-
PEELED by power and is composed of
knives and plates and used for the pur-
pose of cutting out of steel, or sheet
iron, heads for powder kegs or cans;
that the machine was dangerous one
to operate and from frequent use and
want of repair. had got into such a
condition that q jar, or slight move
ment. would start it in motion; that
said minor, John H. eastman, was not
aware of the fact that the machine was
out of repair, and while engaged in op-
Grating it. the machine was Jared into
gear, started revolving and cut off a
portion of the palm of his right hand
the little finger of the right hand, and
permanently crippled the ring finger.
The petition represents that the in
inrins orb, f4na for
and carelessness of the defendant,
and that the injury is of permanent
character.
Kicked by Mare.
William r. Grail has brough suit
against Philip Doyl for $1,000 damages.
The plaintiff states that he was kicked
by vicious and unbroken mare while
In the employe Of the defendant, while
on the latters farm March 81 1910.
His injuries from the accident consist
ed of two broken bones in his left arm
and deep hole in his left hip or
thigh.
Suit to Establish TitIs.
Charles f. Buss and Julia III. Buss
have brought suit against Rev. R. c..
Mcllwain, c. j. Carr and A. B. Carr,
asking for Judgment and decree es-
tablishing their title in and to part
of lot 8, block 3D. and also of lot IL and
lot u, in block 1873; and also decree
ing the said conveyances to said Nc
Twain to be mortgage and establish
ing and enforcing tie right to a re-
conveyance to them of said property
by the defendants or cancelling the
said conveyances to the respective de-
PENDANTS upon the payment of the in
deotedness; that upon the repayment
TO said McIlwain in redemption OF the
property, the title to it be quoted in
,e plaintiffs names.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-12
Today is Last Day For Filing for May
Term and Docket Will Be
Made Up For Com
ing Session.
TWO DAMAGE SUITS
One is Against Powder Works Com
pany and the Other Against
Farmer Near Here,
One Wants $4,000.

John II. eastman, by his father and
next friend, J. D. eastman, has
brought suit in the district court
against the e. |. DUPONT de Nemours
Company for $3.50 damages,
because of an accident more than a
year ago at the. powder works.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
nThe ely Beantifuln

At the meeting of the Chamber of COM
meroe on Friday night Chairman Hill
Ferguson presented valuable report on
the Improvement of our new and far
flung city The report in question is a
suggestive document of a highly interest
ing nature and it deserves q most care
full reading on the part of every citizen.
Briefly speaking, Chairman Ferguson or
the civic. Improvement committee asks the
new city to shape it's growth in a SYSTEM
attic rather than in a haphazard manner
Conditions should be studied by an ex-
pert builder of cities and plans made to
be followed forfperhaps the remainder of
the century, Mr. Ferguson wants to be-
gin With
I. A civic center, preferably capitol
park.
?. A series of parkways connecting the
various parks of the city.
3. A Bessemer boulevard over the 90
foot sewer right-of-way.
4. A park commission.
And Mr.. Joseph added a fifth clause
when he urged the purchase of the State
Fair grounds as breathing space for the
Ensley and the Pratt City districts, and
really for all the rest of the greater city.
Mr.. Ferguson's report was justly con-
sidered by President Ford and the Cham
Der of Commerce as an important docu-
mont, and if it leads to the bringing here
Of competent, high-grade architect to
make plans for the future as well as the
present it will become almost epochal In
the city's history.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17

the short term and the next long term in
The United States Senate. 1t case thu
democrats of Mississippi vote in favor Of
Yardaman. Percy agrees to resign, leay-
ing Governor Noel free to appoint man
to fill his seat until March l. 1873.
This means in any event a good deal Of
politics. to the acre in Mississippi It
taeans that Vardamanlsm is still factor
in our sister state This unrest, too.
arises in a state that is the mother of
senators. Seven sons of that state hold
seats in the senate-Money and Percy
from Misslssippi Clarke from Arkansas.
Newands from Nevada Gore from Ok
lahoma. Chamberlain from Oregon, ard
Pailey from Texas. No other state has
seven sons in the Senate, and the current
wrangle in the state over a single seat is
But it is probably beyond adj
iustment unless indeed Senator Percy's
primary plan be accepted as the best road
to a solution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
Elumerating the People

As the census takers go along interest
In the outcome in each locality increases.
Especially is this true in the larger cities.
st. Louis. for example, is puzzled, some
of its prophets predicting a population
of $4,000, while others say the final rel
turns will disclose but 100000. The Post
Dispatch of that city at lengt tn Concludes
that mere population il an incidental
manifestation of a vars<ty of other things.
If the other thingsare good we need not
concern ourselves about numbers" St,
Louis is. intact. troubled with stateline-
tits. New York has the complaint even
wors< for it loses by it a million people
ang chance by and by to outnumber
london. thus becoming the greatest city
III the world
The chief purpose of the census is,
however. to ascertain a basis for appor-
tioning congressman among the states
The present apportionment is $4,000, and
the apportionrnent under the thirteenth
census will probably be about 225.O00
Does Jefferson county hold that many
people? This is really the most interest
Ing query before US. If the city has
125,0O0 people, the remainder of the coun-
ty assuredly holds 100000 more, and the
county would then become a congressional
district-an honor never as yet bestowed
on an Alabama county.
The census takers are working out
many problems but they have in hand
not one of more interest to jefferson
county than the possibility of making it
congressional district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17

I'm your edition of the 14th inst. l
notice communication in which tn 2
writer states that a buzzard has been
he identified by the tinkling of small
bell which in some mysterious manner
seems to be attached 70 his person, =
said an Admission man.
II have brought this matter to the
attention of several farmers of the
older class and think 1 can safely
say the said buzzard has never visited
his section.
LAS to the second query concernir &
the average age of buzzards.I can
give no information from personal
knowledge, but will give this story
for what it is worth, as related by a
good Georgia citizen, dentist by pro
fession:
~ was brought UP in the rural
districts of Buncombe county, North
Carolina. where my people for several
previous generations had resided.
~ have often seen a buzzard fly :
ing over this section, easily distin-
guished by deformed leg which pro-
truded at right angles from the body.
There were many older citizens
who testified to having seen this bur
Yard all their lives.
Later a farmer passing along
noticed dead buzzard by the way
side, which, upon examination, proved
20 be him of the deformed leg. Moved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT ROOSEVELT
THE MAN AND OF HIS DOlNGS

of Rome himself. through his court, has
been busy explaining his little affair with
this mere man of America. The rulers
of all the Old World have asked him to
be of them as well as with them.
He is a man who studies and thinks
and thinks well of hlmself-a man of
ambition, believing that 1t is the man
and of himself who can accomplish what
he determines that he of himself shall do.
This Roosevelt man is liable to come
back to the country and be President
again merely by the saying that Il am
ready to do the work IL you want me.
Not only has the Taft regime to fear
this man: but likewise the democrats.
Not in the present generation has there
been one so strenuous or one SO popular
with the American voter. They like MIN
because he is doing something every
minute; and the masses want to do
something for one like this every time
they can.
So look out for Roosevelt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17

lie tried to tell the truth whether or not
he killed in the telling.
When he finished his work according to
promise as to the length of time he should
hold the office of President of the United
States, he went off to shoot big game In
Africa. hoping for the same success that
lie had had in shooting the big game In
the American political preserve.
The fellow is a wonder He has done
everything he determined to do. He
started by raising a big family. Having
accomplished that he builded in war and
in peace; believing always in mans duty
tc himself, to his fellow man, to society
and to solving the problems of the people.
The fellow is of sinew and OF tissue and
does as he thinks he should do. He Ia
now chasing over the monarchial coun-
tries of Europe as he did over Africa,
studying the habits of the kings of the
countries as he did Of the kings of beasts.
The fellows nerve caused the lion OF
the wilds of Africa to come up and sur
render in the bush before him to receive
the bullet of the express rifle. The Pope
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
In the thick-and-thin worship of their
literary hero Burns lovers seem to outdo
every other class of admirer Forty years
ago the crowd fought for punch-ladles
in the Charles Dickens sale. Robert
Burns has been dead nearly ia years, yet
his cult shows no abatement of worship
His relics are sacrosanct Manuscripts
of his poems fetch hundreds of pounds
Five years ago the market went mad
over his family Bible when it was Of
fered at Sotheby's. Dealers from Edin-
burgh engineers from Glasgow and High
land farmers up for the cattle show
fought Mr.. Quaritch and found a second
Flodden. Yet after he had bid e156O he
generously released the relic and it now
reposes in the Burns Museum at Alloway
Yesterday in the same rooms the poets
old mahogany desk came up. The cata-
logger called 1t a bureau. 1t Is a shabby
piece of farm house furniture 3h feet
wide. usefully drawered and pigeon-holed
AT Ellsland or at Dumfres Burns wrote
upon it many memorable lyric, such
as Scots Wha Haer' and "Auld Lang
Syne." His widow. Jean Armour, kept it
in memory of her man. Through various
hands 1t went to Miss Annie Burns of
Cheltenham. Yesterday Mr.. Quaritch
again fought his opponents to a stand
still winning the relic against Mr. Snow
den, representing a commission on the
book, at the great sum of $500. Just be-
fore Daniel O'Connel's blackjack writ
Ing desk found nobody willing to go be-
yond guinea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
Worse Than The Opium Habit

The Chinese have stopped the eultiva-
tor of peoples, and closed all the opium
Joints in the eities of that vast country.
Nothing better illustrates the deterrni-
nation of China to put herself on a mode
ern footing than does this effort to rid
the country of a gigantic national vice.
The feat is in course of accomplishment.
and pretty soon there will be no opium
smoking in China.
America should study Chinese expe-
riepce and profit by Chinese example, for
there is in this country habit even more
deadly than the opium habit, and it is
not confined to the negroes by any means.
II extends to the whites, even to the
school children of Philadelphia, at any
rate This is the cocaine habit, which is
presented by unprincipled and grasping
manufacturing chemists in many attrac-
tive forms. The Illicit sale of cocaine.
says DIR. Remington of Philadelphia. has
grown to proportions that seriously
threaten future citizenship.
State laws are not sufficient, for what
one state forhids another does not, and If
a single state offers to ship by mail or
express the cocaine drug in all its man
ont in the United States. The mails and
all other interstate transportation must
be closed against the drug If its use is to
be materially restricted in this country.
And even then its sale should be forbid
den except by licensed druggists anu
physicians.
The magnitude of the cocaine habit is
imperfectly understood, although it is felt
largely in the south because of its use
among negroes. 1t knows, however. nc
color line, and 1t is fast assuming the pro-
portions and dangers of national habit,
What China is doing in the respect CT
opium we surely can equal In the matter
of cocaine. The latter is viler and dead
lier, and surely its use can by general
effort be strictly regulated in this coun-
oldly and uncompromisingly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
LOVES FIRST KISS

By Frank t. Stanton.
Sweetheart, twas but while ago ~
scarce seems yesterday,
Tho now my locks are white as SNOW ana
all your curls are gray
When, walking in the twilight bo,a ~.
stars had smiled above -.
l whispered soft, II love youv and Won
kissed me for that love!
Inc hrst KISS, dear, and then your hand
your little hand so sweet,
Ana winter than the white. white sand
that twinkled at your feet
Lala tenderly within my own! Have
queens such lovely hands?
NO wonder that the W hip-poor-wills made
sweet the autumn lands!
IL seemed to me that my poor heart
would beat to death and break
While all the world, sweetheart, sweet
heart, seemed singing for your sake;
Ana every rose that barred the way in
glad and dying grace
Forgot its faded summer day, apd, lean
ing, kissed your face!
I envied all the roses then, and all the
rosy ways ~
That blossomed for your sake are still
my life's bright Yesterdays; -
But thinking of that first sweet kiss and
that first clasp of hands,
LIES whip-poor-wils sing sweeter now
than all the winter landau -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
Politics Boiling in Mississippi

The Bilbo matter is but an incident OF
the campaign which led 10 the defeat Of
Ex-Governor Vardaman and the election OF
Leroy Percy to the United States Senate.
Bilbo is a state senator and vardaman
man. He says that one Delaney paid him
the sum of $465 in the last days of the
senatorial contest to change his vote from
yardaman to Percy. He turned the
money over to benevolent purposes and
then began raid upon the anti-Varda-
man forces, charging them with bribery
Nc one, however, believes for moment
that Senator Percy was connected with
or was cognizant of any corrupt influ-
ence. He is as clean as he is able.
Still, the Bilbo matter Is a reflection
upon his side of the situtaior, foi-he now
re presents, In the sense of leadership,
anti Vardamanism The senate refused
to expel Bilbo and he refuses to resign
These facts have induced Senator Percy
to demand a referendum next November
"A primary election between himself and
vMdaman-to decide which shall fill both
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17

"The statement and resolutions adopted
at the recent conference of superintend-
ents and field workers of the Anti-Saloon
league of the southern states, held in
Atlanta, were full of boasting," said
well-known citizen.
1.-THE action of the conference is being
sent out in the form of an address to the
temperance people of the south
IF the Anti-Saloon league would con-
fine itself to the work of opposing the
saloon, great many men now classed as
i-prohibitionists would be ready to CO.
operate with it. But the league seems to
grow more and more extreme. This liter
ature now being disseminated is hot with
Incorporate language. 1t appeals to IA
natics, no doubt, but it makes poor
impression upon thoughtful, fair-minded
men. From reading the statement or adj
dress it might appear that all the Chris
tian churches were combined under the
title of the Church of Christ in support
ing fanatical prohibition. Here is sem
tcnce from the statement: 1t must not
be forgotten that the liquor traffic has
been banished not by the political parties,
but by the moral forces of the country,
under the leadership of the church of
Jesus Christ. without any regard to pure
ly personal and political affiliations
1T is by no means true that church
members are united in opposing the legal
lied liquor traffic. Millions of them drink
IN moderation and not a few of them adj
vocate the licensing of wine and beer as
a reasonable temperance measure. While
certain church bodies have taken formal
action against liquor, 8 or 4 per cent
beer included, others have not. Many
good Christian people have regarded as
part of the church of Christ the re-
formed churches, including the Presby-
terrain, with something like 100000 COM
municants in this country; the Lutheran,
with about 100000 members in this coun-
try; the Protestant Episcopal with nearly
100000 members, and the Roman Catho-
lie with about 100000 in the United
States. While many Presbyterians are
found in the ranks of the ultra prohibit
tlonists, a good proportion of Presby-
terians believe in temperance, but not
in the recent methods of the Anti-Saloon
league. The Episcopal church, the Luth-
eran and the Catholic church will never
be found on the side of extreme prohibit
.ion agitators. One of the largest total
abstinence societies in the United States,
perhaps the largest, is in the Catholic
church. But there is wide difference be-
tween moral suasion or a voluntary alb
stinence from spirituous and malt liquor,
and drastic legislation.
Il am familiar with conditions in Geor-
gia, Tennessee and Alabama. Statewide
prohibition in Georgia has been prac-
tioally abandoned. 1t was never operative
in the cities OF Tennessee. And after
pretty fair trial in Alabama 1t has proved
TO be farce. 1t has promoted, not the
cause of temperance, but dsrespect for
law and hypocricy; and the cities where
the liquor traffic goes on get no revenue.
1.-THE abuse of liquor is shameful. The
liquor traffic should be regulated. But the
liquor traffic has not been abolished and it
x.,in tas
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
Charity Ball n Great Success

.'The ladies interested in the Dlstrlc.
Nurses association were much sratifleo
at the generous support given by the pup
lie to the charity ball, as evidenced by
the large cash balance turned in at the
meeting of last Wednesday, said frleno
OF the Nurses association.
Mrs w. E. B. Davis had the manage
nent of the ball, and to her good Judg-
ment. energy and personality was due It's
great success. This was the third charity
ball given for the benefit of the Nurses
Association, and though many unforeseen
difficulties beset the undertaking, 1t re-
turned to the treasury of the association
$500. a sum larger than resulted from
either of the former balls.
'erhe members of the board are much
encouraged with the result of their work
among the needy sick, and, embued with
tho Greater Birmingham spirit, are hop
Ing to secure an additional nurse, es-
recially to work among the foreign popu-
lation at Ensley, for the purpose of teach
ing those people methods of sanitation
and health in the sick ROOM"