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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

gamble with George Par
lsh for possession of the famous Nine.
Vespucci.
This particular novelist shows a
fondness, uncommon in American liter
ature, for dwelling on the political ad-
venturess-a type that has not been SO
common In the history of political
leaders In this country as 1t has been
In the lives of statesmen and rulers of
Europe. Such a woman was the prin-
cipal character In his second novel,
and to the limited few who keep alive
in their memories the story OF Nine
Vespucci's career In America 1t was
perfectly plain that she was the proto-
type of the novelist's heroine. And
now, in his third book, as If in revela-
ton of how strong a grip this fascinat-
ing womans career and personality
have on him, the novelist tells the lit
tie known tale OF how she once was
the stake in game Of cards between
two men, one of whom was not as ex-
allied parsonage as the novelist
leads his readers to believe.
The incident that makes one of the
characters In this last historical novel
tell the story of the game of cards
played for Nine. Vespuccis favor Is a
proposal that this parsonage, a state
senator of Missouri in the SOS OF the
last centlH0. makes to captain in
the United States army that they too
shall play game of poker for the TEN.
porary possession Of the heroine of
this tale, whom the senator believes
to be "the same kind of woman" as
= Nine. Vespucci was. The captain does
not understand the full meaning of the
senator's proposal, fand to this the man
from Missouri replies:
The Precedent
Come now. You, as an army man
ought to know something of the his
tory of poker In these United States
Listen, my friend. Do you recall g
certain game played by man higher
In uthority-younger than he is to
day-a game played upon snow
bound train in the north country? DE-
you remember what the stakes were
then? Do you recall that the mar
later became president of the United
States? Come. There is a fine prece
dent for our little enterprise He played
then much as you do now. There wai
against him then, as there is now
against you, man who admired no
so much Just one woman In all the
world, as, let US say, one particular wo
man then and there present Perhaps
you remember his name-Mr. Parish
later ennobled by the German govern
In New York. Come! Think of It
Picture that snowbound train, tina
great citizen, and Parish, playing ant
playing until at last it came to tn,
question of woman-not so beautiful
as this one here, but In her own wal
shrewd, the same sort of a woman,
might say-mysterious, beautiful, ant
no, don't protest and I'll not describe
You remember very well her name. l
was pleasant property not so long ag,
for everybody. They played for tn,
love, not for the hand, of that woman
Parish won her. Do you remembe
now
Why deny yourself the luxury o
remembering such game as that? ]
was mans game. and well worth tn
playing. Your former head Of tn
army. at least, lost: and he paid, TIL
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
Farm Helm.

Married men should be employed by
the year and furnished with a house.
This would help to solve the farm-la-
Dor problem.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

The pleasure of love is in loving.
We are happier in the passion We feel
than in what we inspire. Francis Duo
de Rochefaucauld. o.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

You are not treating yourself or your
family fairly if you don't keep Hamlins
Wizard Oil in the house. It's the best
substitute for family doctor and a mighty
good friend in case of emergency.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
Important to Mothers
Chilisome.

Il once proposed to a girl in a
conservatory"
with what RESULT"
"A lot of expensive plants were nipt
by frost. Washington Herald
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

We always like those who admire
us; we do not always like those whom
we admire-Francis Due de Roche
faueauld.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

succeeded in tearing 1t loose from Its
fastenings of hatpins. and when last
seen was sailing away across the
river. .r.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums reduces infiamma
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc u bottle.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
Covered.

Mother-Did you paint the table?
Father-Yes, | gave il coat and
two pairs of -Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

A man doesn't have to be detec.
tive In order to find fault.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Take Garfield Tea in the spring to purify
the blood and cleanse the system.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Eye ShIve IN AHeptfc TUBES
Prevents Infection-Murine Eye Salve
In Tubes for all Eye Ills. No Morphine.
Ask Druggists for New Size 25c. VAL
liable Eye Book in Each Package.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
Sure.

What is co-wo-ker?"
'One who helps you work some
body, of course"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Envy is Furnishing ourselves for be-
ing inferior to our neighbor.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
HERE is HER OWN STATEMENT.

very severely with Displacement could not
be on my feet for long time. My physician
treated me for several months without much re-
lief, and at last sent me to Ann Arbor for an OPP
GRAFTON. was there four weeks and came homo
suffering worse than before. My mother adj
vised me to try Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and did. To-day 1 am well and
strong and do all my own homework. owe my
health to Lydia f. Pinkhams Vegetable Conn
pound and advise every woman who is afflicted
with any female complaint to try It, Mrs.
Orville Rock II. II. No. D, Paw Paw, Mich.
@There never was a worse casen
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Prince Edward Island was named
after Edward, duke Of Kent
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Full life exists in three dimensions,
art in two, and science In one; like a
solid, superficies, and line.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

saskatchewan is an Indian word
In the Cree dialect, meaning swiftly
flowing water.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

For 80 years Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit.
-. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
w. to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
JACKS NEW DISCOVERY

JACKS NEW DISCOVERY
is positively guaranteed to cure all skin troubles
Greatest complexion remedy the world has ever
known Send four cents in stamps for sample vial by
mall JOHN r. ROLAND, CO., Memphis Tennessee.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

R6ckpOrt Ind.-"There Of woman's
fills than mine, and cannot begin to tell what suffered
able anything in bed
doctor said nothing but operation would
MY father suggested Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable
Compound; him took it, and improved wonder
able travel ride horseback take long rides and
feel Ill effects from it only ask other suffering
give Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable COmpOnd trial
before submitting Mrs. Margaret Meredith
II. F. ID. No. B. ROckpOrs Ind.
We will handsome reward to who will to
that these letters not genuine and that either
these paid their testimonials that the
published without their permission that the original
letter from each did not to entirely unsolicited
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
Madame Vespucci

RESIDENTS of the United
States have been accused
of many offenses, but a
prominent novelist, whose
fame rests on three sto-
ries based on important
incidents In American his
tory has broken the rec
ord. In his latest novel
he has Martin Van Buren,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Manitoba is also OF Indian deriva.
ton. "Manitou-be" means the pass
ing of Great Spirit.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20
@eEzu
MnainAm
@osaAan
Please Read These Two Letters.

The following letter from Mrs Ove Rock will how unwiso
It's submit dangers surgical operation when
may be avoided by taking nkham Vegetable
hospital and home suffering
before. Then after all that suffering Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable Compound restored her health.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-04-20

Alberta was named after the sixth
daughter Of Queen Victoria, wife of
the Duke of Argyle, Louise Caroline
Alberta.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12

Missouri is a honey" state. Its
1910 production of that commodity
amounted to 7,649.915 pounds, accord
ing to advance figures from its Of
fetal Red Book for the present year.
At fifteen cents a pound, fair whole
sale value, this mass of sweetness,
which 1t took many millions of bees
to extract, sip by sip, as tribute of
existence, from flowers and other
plants, was worth s1,147,4S7. 1t is
figured that at the same time nearly
10000 pounds of beeswax was pro-
duced, which, at thirty cents a pound,
was worth $4,000. Some OF the big
honey producing counties of Missouri
are Audrian, Monroe. St Louis. st.
Charles, Charlton, Greene. Randolph.
Nodaway. Jackson, Pettis, Jasper,
Buchanan, Lincoln, Marion and prob
ably eight or ten others. Every one
OF Missouri's ia counties has its
apiaries, large and small, but the
smaller producing counties generally
yield only enough honey for home use,
which annual consumption includes
what Is sold by the farmers in their
surrounding towns and villages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
IOWA CROPS EXCEL.

Crop conditions are far better IN
Iowa than in any other middle west
ern state and Iowa's corn crop Will be
larger this year than the 1910 crop,
according to the monthly report OF
George A. Wells, secretary OF the
Western Grain Dealers association
just issued.
Secretary Wells asserts that rain
thin the next week will give Iowa
a bumper corn crop, but that the ex-
IRENE heat of June and lack of rain
fall was disastrous to the small grain
crop. The oats crop suffered the
worst and the percentage Of total pro-
duction will be SIS per cent Of the 1910
crop. The hay crop Is extremely short
with percentage Of 81 per cent OF
last years crop.
The report shows that Iowa has not
suffered as much from the drouth as
Oklahoma, Kansas. southern Nebras-
ka and Missouri. The crops in these
sections are reported as complete fall-
ures. Crops in northern Nebraska.
South Dakota, southwest Minnesota
are badly damaged. Southeast Iowa
and northwest Iowa suffered more
from the drouth than other sections
of the state. The following table
giving comparison of crops forms
part OF Secretary Wells report:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
PosTMAsTERs AT BLUFF PARK

| POSTMASTERS AT BLUFF PARK.
The annual meeting of the third
and fourth class postmasters of the
First Iowa Congressional district will
be held at Bluff Park, Montrose. July
19 and 30. The program includes dis
eussion of the following topics:
Penny Postage ". E. Whetstine
Work of League During Past Year,
C. o. Berry.
Compensation of Fourth-class Post
masters Chas. Stevens
Sunday Mall" AL Roberts.
How to Improve Rural Service" S.
NJ. Brinton
Difficulties of New Register Sys-
STEM" R. A. Gardner.
Accepting Checks and Drafts" Miss
Alta OFT and Lew Walters.
Trouble in Rural Service Lew
Walters.
"A Handy. Well-equipped Postoffice, .
William Garden.
Improvements In Past Year" T. L.
Parish.
Postal Savings Banks ]. A. Max
we'll
Recommendations of Postmaster
General" S. w Moorhead.
Shortcomings of Postmasters." In
spector.
Postal School for Instruction. j.
P Kennedy.
Excess Postage" AL. Roberts and
T. E. Maxwell.
I'm Civil Service" A Begar of Nau-
VOC, Illinois.
An interesting and enjoyble two
days meeting is in prospect Bluff
Park Is one OF the most delightful
summer resorts on the MISSISSIPPI riv-
er and is a strong drawing card in
itself. 1t is proposed to devote one
half the time to business and the 9th.
er half to pleasurable diversion. This
arrangement should appeal to all and
ensure a full attendance OF First dis
trict postmasters without regard to
age, sex "or previous condition of ser
vitude."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
EINp OUT BEFORE GOING.

Before going off to some summer
resort it would be worth while to find
out about health conditions at the
place you intend to visit Many re-
sorts are not what they should be in
respect to sanitation, purity of water
supply and such things. A committee
OF the American Civic Association acts
wisely In Offering the suggestion that
all those contemplating trip to sum-
mer resorts write letter to the pro-
prietors along this line:
Before making plans for the sum-
mer vacation | wish to be assured that
the sanitary conditions of the resort
which | select are such as to make my
stay permanently beneficial as well as
pleasant for the time being. VIII you,
therefore, kindly advise me what are
your sources of water-supply and your
methods of sewage and garbage dis
posal? | prefer to spend my vacation
where ] need have no fear OF malaria
from mosquitoes, or typhoid fever
from flies and polluted water supply.
Is your drinking water protected from
contamination by your own sewage or
that of others, and are your guests
protected from flies and mosquitoes,
not only by screens for doors and win
dows, but by precautions taken to pre-
vent the breeding of these insect pests
in your neighborhood?
you are doubtless well informed as
to the dangers of health arising from
neglect of the sanitary precautions
on which physicians are now laying
much stress. | believe you will
agree with me that whatever raises
the reputation of resort for health
fitness, raises the revenues OF its
proprietor"
More and more is the campaign for
better health conditions becoming one
OF economics rather than of sentiment.
AS soon as hotel and clearinghouse
keepers are convinced that cleanliness
I Is profitable and that filth will dimin-
ish their receipts and increase their
expenses, perfect sanitary conditions
! in summer resorts will become as
much business asset az are pine
woods, beautiful lakes, cool breezes
and low temperature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
GEORGE FITcH,s SUGGESTIONS.

A new law in Illinois forbids the use
Of public drinking cups on railroad
trains Some Of the railroads have
provided individual cups for their pat
rons, but others expect travellers to
provide their own cups. Many persons
have failed 10 make the necessary
provision, and it is to these that Mr..
Fitch addresses himself He tells
them that
One of the handiest substitutes is
an old envelope FIJI it full of water
and spill what doesn't GO down your
collar into your dusty gullet. Envel-
opes are swarming with microbes on
the outside. but the interior unless the
flap has been licked by suspicious
character, is as pure as an Illinois
statesmen according TO jury test.
n you have no envelope buy an
orange from the train boy, remove one
half Of the peel carefully and drink
out of that II you have no quarter
and cannot buy an orange borrow the
brakeman'g cap and take a long re-
freghing draught from II. Brakemen
are always accommodating that way.
/ Another good plan is to abstract
/ stealthily one of the long green bottles
/ containing fire extinguisher fluid.
! break 1t at the neck, throw the fluid
out of the window, wash out the bottle
and fill yourself to the neck with cool
water. Some people are using their
shoes but this is not considered tidy
in most circles. A very neat way OF
preventing death from thirst Is to pry
the works out Of your watch case and
fill that with water. This also enables
you to carry watch full Of water con
! stantly.
OF course great many people will
use the old style hand cup, made by
clasping both hands tightly together
and drinking from them through the
nose. This, however, is highly nn.
sanitary unless you are extremely
careful to shake hands only with
: friends who have just had their hands
/ boiled in hot carbolic acid. A very
! handy method is a small rubber tube
e which can be carried in the vest
q pocket. Turn on the water with one
hand, hold the tube in the stream with
: an$ther and support it with third
: willie you draw in great gulps of pure
retef. Another plan and one which
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
Great Is Iowa

Cedar Rapids Republican: One hun.
dred dollars was carried home by one
Linn county farmer Friday, as the pro.
ceeds of one load of potatoes He had
fifty bushels of potatoes in the load
and they were exceptionally good
ones. The dealers bought them for
50 bushel, which is cheap at this
time Of the year. The man who has a
good patch of potatoes this year has
something that is akin to a gold mine.
A real good patch at that rate ought
to bring from s40o to $500 acre. If
they had such an instance In Cali
fornia they would have it photographs
ed and sent all over the country, as
showing the productivity Of Cali
fornia soil In Iowa, however, we
treat 1t as merely ordinary event.
We raise such crops as that all the
time and think nothing OF 1t. OF
course, potatoes do not always com
mand such price Compared with
the good old times that we some.
times hear about. the 50 bushel
potatoes are quite contrast. What
farmer who can remember back
thirty years can not recall the time
when he hauled potatoes to market
for ten cents bushel?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
Live Wires.

Tungsten, used in making metal
filament lamps, is being mined extern.
sively in Nova Scotia.
The electric fireless cooker is here
Electricity supplies the required
amount of heat and the fireless cook
er stores it away until the cooking is
done
Electrically operated belt conveyors,
elevators and chutes have been in
stalled in big new railroad station
II New York to handle mail from a
nearby sub postoffice.
Fifteen thousand horse power will
be developed along the Okeena river
in British Columbia The energy will
be transmitted to Prince Rupert, q
distance of forty-two miles.
The use of electricity is rapidly in.
creasing in Switzerland owing to the
development Of numerous water pow
ers. Electric light is driving out the
candle although two million pounds OF
candles are still made in the candle
factories Of that country annually.
Birds, it seems, rarely ever get ac-
customed to the sound OF electric
bells SO as not to be startled at the
ringing of one. Knowing this, the
head master of an Austrian school has
patented an electric scarecrow, in
which clock makes the connection
at irregular intervals to electric bells
scattered over his orchard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
PUBLIC SPIRIT

Jacksonville Courier: The char
acter OF any town is determin-
ed by its permanent not It's tran
sient citizens. Most of the people
living in this town either have lived
or will live here during good part OF
their lives. These people are there.
fore largely answerable for the towns
past and its future. If they are enter
prising and broad minded the town as
political unit will adopt an enterpris-
Ing and broad gagged policy. Making
ones home Is not wholly comprised in
the building of house on a lot with
fence around it and a walk in front.
or necessity the influences within the
home are OF paramount interest to
the head of family. But the influ-
ences outside Of the home-the atmos-
phere OF the communities almost as
important to the individual home max.
er as is the atmosphere of his fire
side.
NO citizen can safely live for him.
self alone. He is one of the compo.
nent parts of this community and
whether he be active or passive-he
exerts a potent inflence in determin-
ing its character. Knowing as every
body does know, that early environ
ment leaves permanent impress up
on the child it is difficult to explain
the indifference Of citizens with re-
spect to their part in making the en-
vironment in which they, their chill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12
preach alternately Sunday evenings,
Everybody made welcome.

preach alternately Sunday evenings,
Everybody made welcome.
Sunday morning Mrs. Lizzie Girls
valid. who submitted to a surgical OPP
Grafton for appendicitis, died, death
resulting from the effects of the opera
ton. Size was nearing her seventy
fifth birthday, which was on Thursday.
Deceased was a native of Ohio. The
funeral was conducted by the Rev.
Rhodes, using the beautiful burial SER
vice of The Christian church Those
who survive are her sister, Mrs. NJ. e.
Morrison and her brother, F. H.
Clancy. Interment at Fort Madi.
son.
Friday afternoon a solemn mass was
held at the home of e. J. Welda, the
Presbyterian minister, Rev. Alexander,
paying the last tribute of respect to one
who had fallen asleep. Mr.. Welda at
the time of death was fifty-four years
and ten days old, his faithful com
panion was with him till the end came
and acquital was made at Hickory
Grove cemetery beside his two chill
dren.
An osteopathic physician from Fort
Madison was In the city Thursday,
looking after paralysis cases.
A negro escaped from the Mt. Pleas.
ant hospital and was taken into Gus
tody by Marshal Kendle after quite a
chase, the assistant superintendent ar
rived and returned with him to Mt.
Pleasant on the 2:1S O'Clock train
Thursday.
THE Vision OF Life will be present
ed by the Rev. Alexander at city park
on the evening of July %.
F. M. Johnson passed away at his
home in this city Thursday morning
in the eighty-fourth year Of life from
a complication of diseases, being a
faithful soldier Of the cross, was a
veteran of the civil war serving as
lieutenant; member of Tip Best
Post G. A. r. and christian gentle
man. Deceased Is survived by his
wife and three daughters and three
sons. The interment will be made at
Denmark.
The remains Of the late Jacob
Rempe were brought from Keokuk to
this place Saturday morning for bur-
ial. He formerly lived here.
Geo. T. Bowen Of Quincy is spend
Ing few da-s with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. P. W. Brown
Mrs. Rose Harlin of Revere was
called here by the illness of her amt.
Mrs. Perlina Chessman, who is SEEM
ingly better
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-12

dren and their neighbours children
spend the formative period of their
lives.
Time out of mind everybody has
talked Of the Importance OF proper
moral, mental and spiritual atmos-
phere. But why not give due considera-
ton to the business atmosphere? Mer-
chants and their patrons recognize
the value and importance of individ-
ual business enterprise, but they Of
ten overlook the value and Importance
of community enterprises. Every COM
munity is organized for business pur.
poses-to carry on the public business
Of its citizens. The methods, the
economy and the effectiveness with
which the business of this community
is conducted depend upon the enter
prise OF the community's business
managers-public officials The char
acter OF these officials is determined
by the character of the citizenship OF
this community. II we want the public
business conducted in an enterprising
anu eiHCieHl HidHHeF, We must eiecl
enterprising and efficient men to Office.
and we must support them in their
work. To do this all good citizens
must show their interest in the pub
lies business to the extent of learning
what shall be done. how 1t should be
done and whether it is being properly
done. To do this is to be broad gaug-
ed. public spirited and enterprising
citizens.