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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
Like Home.

Distracted Author lseekihg peace in
Sussex)-Mrs. Hodge, what is thia
pandemonium? Farmers Wife--Oh.
they're only putin tin roof on the
'en.house. sir; an KNOWN you was a
London gent. We thought the sound
might remind you OF ONE Punch
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

FOR SALE-House with three lots
fronting on Kilbourne park; house
we'll situated for building more resi-
dences on property Must be sold
quickly to settle estate. Sutlive Bros,
312 Main.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
LADY REPRESENTATIVE WANTED

LADY REPRESENTATIVE WANTED
We offer grand opportunity 70 any
ambitious woman. independence
Luxury-Money in bank. Absolutely no
chance for disappointment. We guar
antee big money for few hours work
and give valuable samples free. Don't
hesitate; don't doubt; don't be con
fused, This proposition positively diff
ferent from any other. Scores of our
representatives now have good in.
come. We give their names. What
they have done, you can do Write
now for particulars. Write quickly.
then have abundance of money for
Christmas. The Partisan Corset Com
pany, II, Cambridge Bldg. Cincinnati,
Ohio.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

SIS WEEKLY and expenses to trust
worthy people to travel and distr-
butte samples for big wholesale house.
c. Emery, Gal Plymouth, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

500 MONTHLY and expenses to trav-
ell and distribute samples for big
manufacturer; steady work s.
Scheffer, 1913 F. Chicago
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

FOR sALE-Ten acre farm, miles
from Main street, on Hilton road.
good house and barn, 100 acres, five
miles from Keokuk, near Mooar.
Nearly new house and barn. Inquire
SOL Morgan st. M. V. B. Walker.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

WOMEN to do plain sewing at home
for large Philadelphia firm, good
money and steady work; no canvass
ing; send reply envelope for prices
paid. Universal Co., Desk A, Walnut
St, Philadelphia, Pa. !?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

FOR SALE-Twenty-fve Barred
Rocks and Buff Orpingtons, thor.
oughbreds. Want to sell before We'd
nesday of next week. Wire coops. In
quire at S22 Blondeau Street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

START business for yourself; make
the goods at home. Will send you
three trade secrets for 25 cents Ad-
dress s., box 1853, Hastings, Mich
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

Watch charm, Masonic en-
blem. between union depot and 18th
and Leighton. Return to SOC No 18th.
Reward.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

PERMANENT, profitable business con-
nection offered one responsible man
In each county in Iowa, to promote
sale of Gem Ventilator. Best and
cheapest. Instantly adjustable any
window of homes, offices, factories,
public buildings. Highest endorse
ments. No competition. For territory
write Gem ventilator Co, Charlton.
Ia.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

FOR SALE-One Jersey COW, ! heifer,
calf year old. Apply at 1922 Nor
gan street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
One Redeeming Feature.

She--Poor cousin Jack! And to be
eaten by those wretched cannibals.
He-Yes. my dear child: but he gave
them their first taste in religion!--
London Opinion
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
LOST.

LOST-In front Golden Rlue store,
bundle containing stockings Find
er please return to this office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

FOR SALE-Re Rebuilt typewriters. Will
rent allowing rent to apply on pur-
chase. Collier Stationery Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
UP or = HeflEccTIo's!
70 80 c..

OPou IcllecIlOu, tiic Hldl
whose collar button pinches
his neck is always a pessimist.
No trouble with our shirts
and collars!
Keep you in an optimistic
mood, because Emery shirts fit.
Ever try them9
They're better than most
custom made shirts-and don't
cost as much.
Hence, the demand for so
many Of them-and the very
reason we're shirt headquar-
tiers.
Every desirable style in the
exclusive patterns for Fall and
Winter.
From $1.o0 to $500.
We're also underwear head
quarters.
For any kind you prefer,
and at any price from fifty
cents garment up.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

BARCLAY SISTERS, leaving on their
southern theatrical tour, must dis
pose of two black Australian lynx sets
OF magnificent large Russian shawl
and beautiful muff, elegantly trimmed
with head and tails; lined with shirr-
ed satin; worn few times on stage:
cost $50 per set; sell for $40 per set;
will send one or both c. o. d. with
privilege of inspection at their ex-
pense Address Murray Leibers, % e.
14th street, New York
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
The Want Column
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN-See VIM. Timber
man, 522 Main street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
WANTED.

WANTED-Woman or girl for gener-
al homework. Good wages to right
party. Call or phone w. A. Gilbert,
1917 Concert st.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

VIAvl--Non-surgical home treatment
Grace M. Heller, lock box 266. Fl.
Madison, Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

SECRETS FOR WOMEN-Send two
cent stamp for catalogue of special
rubber goods remedies and toilet me-
cessities Fairbank Supply house,
Dept. 80, j, go Wabash Ave, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

BECOME our representative. Posi-.
ton permanent. Income ever in
creasing. Others making $1,000 to
$50 daily. Christmas season best start.
ing time. Experience unnecessary,
Davis Toilet Co., Dept. III, 1923 Car.
roll Ave, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

LOST coats. one under coat and
one over coat. Return to Stone &
Webster garage Reward.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Full bred black Lanshang
ROSTERS. Inquire at once 1913
High street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

WONDERFUL new invention. Phe-
nomenal Sure seller to every
phone user, $500 daily profit. 25c
sample free. Prepaid live agents.
Samiphone Co.. Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

MONEY TO LOAN-On real estate.
F. NJ. Ballinger. rs North Sixth
street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CALIFOR.
nia-Literature will be sent to any
one interested in the wonderful Sac.
ramento valley-the richest valley in
the world. Unlimited opportunities.
Thousands of acres available at right
prices. The place for man wanting
home in the finest climate on earth.
Write to public organization that
gives reliable information. Manager,
Sacramento Valley Development AS
sociation, Sacramento, California.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

WANTED-Boys and girls at Shoe
factory. Steady employment, good
wages. Report Monday morning Z
o'clock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

WANTED-Bright energetic boy will
ing to work as office boy-sixteen
years or older. Kellogg Birge Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-26

WANTED Base burner, A-No. / con-
dition. Address NJ. b., this office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
From Pensacola to Jasper

The railroad financed by the Megargel firm continues to ignore Birmingham, while it builds steadily toward Jasper. The words, Prom Pensacola to. Jasper" are inscribed on its banner, and there is never the slightest reference to Birmingham. According to MT. Megargel the new railroad expects to carry "a vast amount of commerce, the least of which will be coal and iron, from the mineral district of Alabama" This commerce, otherwise known as freight, is to be collected at Jasper to be trundled straightaway to the new concrete piers at Pensacola that MT. Megargel is about to build.
 The road has bought the line that extends from Cantonment, Fla, to Local, Ala, and the gap between Pensacola and Cantonment will soon be filled, and by April 1 trains will be running on about 70 miles of the new railroad. Before the end of next year the road will be extended to Thomasville, Ala, and presumably to Jasper in the following year.
 The money needed for the entire line has not only been spoken for, but it is actually deposited in New York banks awaiting the construction of the new line. The financing of the road was apparently as easy as fall ing off log, and only construction troubles are in the way of the first road that ignores Birmingham as it passes by. This is new experience for Birmingham and any novelty is naturally welcomed. Where the new road will cross the Warrior will de- pend no doubt upon how much it de- sires to glide by Birmingham unbe- knownst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
UNDERWOOD IS GRooMED

Washington Correspondence New York
 Herald
 It became known here today that a serious movement for the nomination of Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama for President has been quietly launched by men prominent in the democratic party. New York city is it's center and, if everything is propitious, an effort will be made to send delega- tion from New York to the next ma tional democratic convention that will be favorable to the chairman of the ways and means committee of the House and chief democratic tariff maker.
 The mention of Representative Un- derwood for President is not new, but he has thus far remained in the '.favorite son" class. No state except Alabama was supposed to regard his boom seriously. MT. Underwood him. self said when Congress adjourned last summer:
 T have no hope that man from so far south as Alabama can yet be nomi- mated for President. The best we can expect for a while is the vice presi- dency."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
Mime. Curie's Nobel Prize

Women have been awarded Nobel prizes on account of imaginative lit erature, but the first woman scientist appears alone and unaided in the Nobel lists when Mme. Marie Sklod- owska Curie of the University of Paris walks away with this years chemistry honor. She did, it is true, share with her husband the prize for physics on account of the discovery of radium. Her husband is dead, and now Mime. Curie secures full Nobel prize-about $40, ,000-because she had succeeded in producing polonium, a new element possessing radio-ac- tivity superior to radium. She is at present the chief professor of sciences in the University of Paris. Her standing in the scientific world is un- questioned, and perhaps no woman has before her held equal or greater prominence in the realm of chemistry. The world has known great women astronomers and scientists. It is not easy to recall a chemist, however, of high enough rank to take a Nobel prize and to share in another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
Farmers Prosperous

q was recently in Pickens county and was glad to see evidences of marked prosperity among the farmers" said Jo- seph Beitman of Birmingham.
 ''The farmers are holding their cotton for a higher price, and they will get it. Of course, a good deal of cotton had been rushed to market, but a consider able percentage is yet to be sold. When the farmers hold their cotton the coun- try merchants complain of dull trade, but everybody is helped when the farmer is benefited. The merchant, therefore, can well afford to wait in view of the fact that the holding of cotton means higher prices and more money eventually for everybody.
 "A good deal of corn was raised In Pickens this year, and I believe that all through Alabama and Mississippi there is a material increase in the production of food crops. I travel over Mississippi and this state, and have noticed great progress in agriculture within the past two or three years. There will be steady increase in corn and hay produc- tion, and it is only a question or tlme when cotton will be the surplus money crop."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
Writing About Underwood

A very interesting article on "Un- derwood, House Leader" is that by Alfred Henry Lewis, which appears in the December Cosmopolitan mag azine. It is an appreciative descrip- ton of MT. Underwood's life and character that is sure to be read with much interest. It is accompanied by a number of attractive photographs.
 Inadvertently, in reproducing ex- tracts from the article in yesterdays Herald, it was credited to Will liam Allen White instead of to MT. Lewis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
What One Young Woman Did

Miss Emma Carola Woerishoffer, who was killed in an automobile acci- dent last September, left S750, ,00O to Bryn Mawr college. At the time of her death she was 26 years old. She was the heiress of Wall street pro- moter who left her many millions.
 Did this young woman spend her years in idleness and frivolity? Did she hand over large sums to organ ized charity while she sought the pleasure of life? No, indeed. She knew that if she hoped to alleviate the pain in other lives she must her. self seek them out. For this reason she became a settlement worker. Then a factory worker, and finally an inspector in the New York state bureau of industries, in which service she was when killed. Just before death came she murmured regretful- ly, "There is still so much to 'do."
 She gave her life to better social conditions among oppressed poverty, and no more inspiring story can be found in the annals of these times than that of the life work of Emma Carola Woerishoffer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13

From At Good Old Siwash." by George Fitch.
 Of course it is a sad thing to be re- garded with indignation and disgust by
 ones only paternal parent, but Keg
 bore up under it pretty manfully. He was a good student. Latin words stuck to him like sandburrs. That wasn't his
 fault, of course. Some men are born with @ natural magnetism for Latin words; and others, like myself, have to look up quoque as often as nine times in a page of MT. Horace's celebrated metrical salve singing. Keg went into a literary society, too, and developed such an unholy genius at wadding up the other fellows words and feeding g them back to him that he made the Kiowa debate in his freshman year. He also chased locals for the college paper, made his class football team, got on the track squad and won the freshman essay prize. In fact, he killed it all year long and likewise he trained all year long with his idle and vicious com panions-meaning us.
 It beats all how much benefit you can get from training with idle and vicious companions, if you are built that way. Of course we taught him how to play a mandolin, and how to two-step on his own feet exclusively, and how to roll a cigarette without carpeting the floor with tobacco, and how to make a pretty girl wonder if she is as beautiful as all that, without ,ao f li other pretty and harmless little tricks. But that wasn't half he picked up while he was loafing away the golden hours of his college course in our chapter house. Conny Matthews, whose hobby was Latin verse, plugged him up to sending in translated sonnets from Horace for freshman themes. Noddy Pierce showed him how to grab the weak point in the other fellows debate and hang on to it through the rebuttal, while the enemy floundered and strug- gled and splattered disjointed premises all over the hall. Allie Bangs had a bug on fencing, and because he and Keg used to tip over everything in the basement trying to skewer each other they got to reading up on old French customs of producing artistic conver- sations and deaths and other things, and eventually they wrote one of those ''Ha" and Bounds" plays for the Dram atic club. In fact, there's no limit to what you can absorb from idle and vicious companions. In one term alone I myself picked up banjo playing, pole vaulting, a little Spanish, a bad case of humps, and two Hunks. simply by associating with the Eta Bita Pie gang 27 hours a day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
CRITICS AND SHAKESPEARE

weird and wonderful criticisms, Here is faii sample, Hamlet being the play:
 There is too much chinning in this piece. The author is behind the times and seems to forget that what we want nowadays is hair raising situations and detectives. In the hands of a skillful playwright, a detective would have been put on the track of Hamlets uncle and the old man would have been hunted dowE in the manner that would have iiited the audience out of their cowhides. Our advice to the author is more &C., tion, more lovemalsing and plenty of spe- ciaities. The crazy girl scene should De cut out altogether and rattlinr good song and dance substituted
 When Miss Marlowe and myself pre- scented The Merchant of Venice at San Francisco last winter" continued tbe actor "one of the critics said: My sym pathles are all with the Jew who gets no sort of fair play at any stage Of the game. Portia's judgment is based on an odiouS technicality of the narrow- est sort. She ought to be recalled. She was, five times
 For some years there has gone about rom word of mouth the coster bov's crl,Iclsn Of Sir Henry Irving as sny- .,'n ine opening of this nonsense runs something like the following. I went to see Sir 'Ennerv Irwin. In Shyiock, bloomin' swine. always thought Sir 'Ennery a very nice feller. cieEer actor; but after this. s'eln ma pop' am done wiv him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 " H. SOTHERN says that very often N the critic, unable to treat the plays - of Shakespeare with dignity-which, of course, presupposes a certain degree of lovablo sympathy-is prone to indulge in few lively flashes of frivolity.
 ''When the amenities of criticism come to be written," MT. Sothern says, the section devoted to Shakespeare will have many scintillating pages. It is commonly supposed to be difficult to expose what is good' but this does not apply to the bard's plays. It is very easy to belittle what is great. Shakespeare is shining mark. and the actor who appears in one of his riays is an easy target to hit. So 1t is that when some critics go to see one of the plays they become as flippant as court coquette in an old comedy
 And it may as well be admitted that some of them have done very well. You can enjoy some of their persifage and laugh to dislocation, providing, of course, you are not the object of attack. Then it is different. St. Lawrence may have enjoyed the gridron, but he never boast ed about it. Chilling may be good for saints-and chops-yet 1t is mighty un- comfortable proceeding for actors. We actors are notoriously in profound sym patny with ourselves!
 "Voltaire wrote of Hamlet that 1t was a coarse and barbarous piece, which would not be tolerated by the lowest rabbe of France and Italy, Hardly an amenity, you will probably say. But If anybody thinks that Shakespeare has not been scourged even by fellow English I men let him read the works of Thomas l Ryiner, John Dennis, Aaron Hill and | John Gilden. The first of these was the most yndictive and likewise the most amusing One of the pleasantries was to tho following effect: There is not mon- key but understands nature better; not pug in Barbary that has not truer | taste of things.
 Forgetting the frolicsome Shakes pearean performances of Bernard Shaw, the bard, even in our day, is now and again placed on the end of pike Cecil Raieigh, worthy dramatist, facetiously remarked at the o. P. club dinner, Lon don, March, 1903 Beerbohm Tree has given London a most remarkable series of plays, with only an occasional regret able lapse into Shakespeare
 "There is no play by Shakespeare that has been so much the occasion of mirth as Hamlet Lately the play was pre- sented by a company in Indiana. The paper next day said:
 ".TIamlet was produced at the opera house last night. It was worse than ex- pected.
 1 '.An Austin (Tex.) newspaper, under the heading, Current News Items, printed the following:
 | ".Rainstorm in Galveston, lasting 2 minutes.'
 l Hailstorm in Langtry, lasting 10 min. utes.'
 ".I,arnstormers in Hamlet" at Aus | tin, one night.
 "Renry Watterson of the Louisville 1 courier-J ournal once criticised perform ance of Hamlet. He wrote as follows: | Hamlet at Macauley's theatre last night. My God. said the woodcock and it flew awav-' assgGlzvr,.g1 '"rhe minii'a pl4pHss; ts ipt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
TRAGEDY OF wOMANHOOD

From the Lamar (Mo.) Democrat
 The world has always been changing, and every change has left many waiting Women-most of whom waited and waited in vain for men who never returned. The first settlers upon this continent did not bring their women with them. They came alone, and much ado they had, when there finally came more prosperous days, sending across the seas for wives. In the ancient days of conquest and pillage, the fair haired Vikings left their women watching in their huts amid the northern snows, while they sailed away, perchance to tarry forever in the sunny climes Of the south, and forget their blonde spouses of the distant north, in the arms of the dark and ardent daughters of the south.
 Every newly settled community in the west has swarmed with unattached men, while their native east contained a plethora of single women. whose sap was destined to dry up in the whitening blight of confirmed spinsterhood Today, every rural town and village is thick with aging girls who are passing their zenith in barren celibacy, because the young men. who would naturally have married them. have been forced to the cities to earn their bread. The poignant and sud- den suffering that comes from struggle and defeat is mans. But the slow doom of waiting, ever waiting, for some cner- ished thing that never comes, as she pur- sues her lonely course amid the dull monotony of every day-that is the trag- edy of womanhood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Eocused Headlights

"I read in The Age-Herald week ago some account of conference that had been held between Mir. Mayor commas sioner Exum and officials of the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company with regard to the focused headlights used on the street cars" said chauf- feur. "A great deal of complaint IS oe- ing made by chauffeurs about the focused headlights. They blind us and 1T con- tinued will result, fear, in serious acei- dents These focused lights certainly en- danger life and property.
 q understood from what ! last read that if the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company did not discontinue these focused lights in populous sec tions, Mr. Mayor Commissioner Exum would order them taken off the cars. Am I right in my understanding of the mat ter?"