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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
FEAST OF PURIM
JEWISH CELEBRATION
Story of Esther Is RetoId in the Syna-
gogs on the Eventfu
Cay

The story of Esther is retold in syna-
sogs. 1t is read from the Maglliah. a
parchment scroll printed in Hebrew,
containing the Book of Esther in full.
Customs vary among the Jews with
reference to the celebration of the
Feast of Purim, which Is the annivers-
AIRY of Mordecai's victory over Hannah
and the rescue of all the Jews of the
Persian empire from massacre
Purim is a great day for children.
In orthodox synagogs the day is de-
voted to the reading OF the Megillah.
Noisemakers OF every possible kind
are brought into the synagogs by the
little ones, especially the boys. The
cantor chants the Magilliah and at ev-
cry mention of the word "Haman, the
noise-makers are put in commission.
In reform temples noise producers
are things of the past and instead
dramatic performances of the story of
Queen Esther, of which there the
many, are given, and occasionally the
cantata of Esther is sung.
Another characteristic of this holt
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
QUICKLY CURES COUGHS,
COLDS AND CATARRH

If you dear reader, could spend an
hour looking over a, few of the thous-
ands of testimonials that we have on
file, you would not go on suffering
from catarrh, that disgusting disease
that will surely sap your vitality and
weaken your entire system if allowed
to continue.
You would have, just as much faith
in HYOMEI as we have, and we have
so much confidence in its wonderful
curative virtue that 1t Is sold the
country over under positive guaran-
tee to cure catarrh, Group, sore throat
coughs and colds or money back.
No stomach dosing when you breathe
HYOMEI. Just pour few drops OF
the liquid into the inhaler, and
breathe in it.
1t is mighty pleasant to use; it opens
up those stuffed-up nostrils in two
minutes, and makes your head feel as
clear as bell in short time.
Breathe HYOMEI and kill the ca
tarrh germs. It's the only way TO
cure catarrh It's the only way to
get rid of that constant hawking,
snuffling and splitting.
A complete HYOMEI outfit, which
includes a bottle OF HYOMEI and a
hard rubber pocket inhaler, costs
st.oo. II you already own Hyomei
inhaler you can get an extra bottle of
HYOMEI for SO cents. Sold by Will
kinson and Company
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
NO BETTER WAY TO
BREAK A BAD COLD
Surely Cures the Most Severe co.d
and Ends Grippe Misery in Just
a FeW Hours.

The most effective and harmless
way to cure the Grippe or break ST.
we're cold, either in the head, ch,st
back. stomach or limbs, is a dose of
Pape's Cold Compound every two
hours until three consecutive doses
are taken.
You will distinctly feel the cold
breaking and all grippe symptoms go
ing after the first dose. 1t promptly
relieves the most miserable neuralgia
pains, headache, dullness, head and
nose stuffed up, feverishness, snesz-
ing, sore throat, running of the nose,
soreness. stiffness and rheumatic
aching
Take this harmless Compound as d!.
rected, with the knowledge that thsfe
is no other medicine made anywhere
else in the world, which will cure
your cold or end grippe misery as
promptly and without any other as.
sistance or bad after.effects as a5e
package of Pape's Cold Compound
which any druggist in the world Cd 4
supply
After three years research We
have conclusively demonstrated that
quinine is not effective in the treA.-
ment Of colds or grippe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Well Known Police Character Taken
Into Custody After Being Ae-
cused Of Firing
House
WANTED TO KILL SELF
Foreigner Supposed to Stay Out Of
Town Returns and Trouble
Brewing Between Him
and His Wife.

keokuk's only known Filipino, Law
renee Delo, has worked himself into
the hands of the police again. The
light mulatto-looking, notorious jail
bird is accused of incendiarism and
was arrested after O'clock Thursday
evening by Deputy Chief Pearson at
Fourteenth and Main.
Several conflicting tales about Delo
going to the Milestone grocery store
earlier in the afternoon and phoning
to the fire station that there was a
fire at Seventeenth and Concert. are
told.
Delo also telephoned to the Weber
hardware store and asked the price
of gun. He gave another young ne
gro by the name of Phillips $3.50 to
purchase revolver, after having stol-
en- nine dollars in money from the
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Syl-
via Bennett, at 1923 Concert street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
THE WEARING OF THE GREEN.
Oh! Paddy, dear, and did you hear the

OH. FduuS, uedT, anu ulu you near Tue
news tha's goin' round,
The shamrock is forbid, by law, to
grow on Irish ground;
st. Patrick's day no more we'll keep,
his colors can't be seen,
For there's bloody law agin' the
Wearing of the Green;
l met with Napier Tandy and he TUX
me by the hand,
And he said: 'How's poor auld Ire
land, and how does she stand?
She's the most distressful country
that ever you have seen;
They're hanging men and women there
for the Wearing of the Green. :"
Then since the color we must wear is
England's cruel red,
Sure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget
the blood that they have shed;
You may take the shamrock from your
hat, and cast it on the sod,
But twill take root and flourish still,
tho under foot it's trod
When the law can stop the blades of
grass from growing as they
grow,
And when the leaves in summertime
their verdure dare not show;
Then ] will change the color l wear
in my caubeen,
But till that day, please God, I'll stick
to Wearing of the Green.
But II at last our color should be torn
from Ireland's heart,
Her sons with shame and sorrow from
the dear old soil will part;
I've heard whispers of a country that
lies beyant the say,
Where rich and poor stand equal, in
the light of freedoms day;
Oh. Erin, must we leave you, driven
by the tyrant's hand,
Must we seek a mothers welcome
from strange but happy land?
Where the cruel cross of England's
thraldom never shall be seen,
And where, thank God, Ven live and
die. still Wearing of the Green.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17

day is the sending Of gifts to friends
and the giving of aims to the poor.
but interesting features of the day, or
more properly speaking, the night of
Purim, especially in cities where there
is large Jewish population, are the
quarters, made up of boys and girls
and moving from house to house.
These little travelling dramatic COM
binations are CARRIED in the clothes OF
Esther, Mordecai, Hannah, Abasuerus
and other characters necessary to cos
tune the dramatic story which took
place more than 500 years before the
Christian era Sometimes the costum-
ing is rather grotesque. A bathrobe
might answer the purpose of royal
robe and pasteboard crown covered
with gilt paper often passes muster as
the crown of Abasuerus or Queen Es-
Their. These little companies produce
the Esther play in tabloid form, con-
Guiding occasionally with a modern
rag-time song or dance. Then one Of
the boys passes the crown around,
the curtain drops theoretically and the
wandering players invade the next
home.
Abasuerus is the Xerxes OF history.
He ordered the massacre and then re-
gretted it, but according to the laws
of the Modes and Persians, royal
edict once issued could never be re
voked, so Xerxes gave the Jews the
right to defend themselves. The Jews
took up their swords and fought for
their lives, defeating their enemies.
After the battle Esther and Mordecai
sent letters to all the Jews in the
kingdom. telling them to keep that day
every year as time of feasting and
gladness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Says Aunt Gretchen JAMS.

A woman's sphere is first to be a
mother--second to be good mother.
After that she can be doctor, law.
yer, carpenter, society leader or
suffragette. But IL she isn't a mother
first, in hundred years from now
there won't be any women left to have
any spheres The Spendthrift.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
FIremen Smell OIL Burning.

While the firemen were putting out
the blaze at Mrs. Bennet's home, they
claimed they smelled coal oil burn
ing. The blaze was confined to bed
in the second story of the house and
had been burning some time before
the arrival of the apparatus.
Delo had been home during the day
and at police headquarters it was re-
ported that he and his wife, formerly
Hester Bennett, another. character in
police circles, had been having trou-
bic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17

When you have rheumatism in your
foot or instep apply Chamberlain's
Liniment and you will get quick re-
lier. 1t costs but quarter. Why
suffer? For sale by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Say Wished to Kill Self.

Delo this morning said that he want
ed to buy a gun to kill himself as he
is tired Of living and has been hound
ed so much that he is unable to keep
out of trouble.
The Filipino disclaimed all knowl-
edge Of how the fire in the bed room
started and denied that he poured oil
on the bed and tried to burn down the
house where his wife and mother-in-
law are living.
Delo says that he had been lying
on the bed smoking cigarettes and
had thrown the ends Of them onto the
floor many times in careless man
ner and gave that as a possibility of
the manner in which the FIRE started.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Just a. Good.

did he leave footprints on the
sands of time?" mo; but they took
his thumb prints. Judge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Told to Keep Away.

About three months ago Delo was
sent out of town by the police and
was under bond of his own signature
at the time to keep the peace Upon
his return he was thrown in jail.
Delo claims that he has been in the
city many times since and has been
playing a game Of checkers with the
police. darting in and out at will.
He has been working at the powder
works since the first of December.
on which date he was married to
Hester Bennett at Burlington and the
two returned here to live at the WON
ans mothers home
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17
Grand Jury for peIo.

Arraigned today, Delo took time to
consult counsel. He was charged with
larceny, breaking and entering the
home of Mrs. Sylvia Bennett, intoxi-
cation and disturbance of the peace
at Seventeenth and Blondeau by the
use of loud and indecent language
On the drunk and disturbance
charges the prisoners bond was fixed
at 500 on each count and for the lar
ceny charge against him, $500. The
latter is an indictable nisdemeanor
and the offenders case was transfer
red by Judge Mcnamara to the grand
jury. now in sitting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-17

Don't think that piles can't be cured
Thousands of obstinate cases have
been cured by Doan's Ointment so
cents at any drug store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
His LIGHT Diet.

The actors sense of humor is al
ways uppermost. He will jest about
his hard luck. his i'll luck or almost
anything that offers an opportunity for
joke. Generally. too. he has cour
age-the courage to smile when his
heart is. heavy. A comedian. who was
known to be in desperate straits. was
invited to social gathering one even
ing. When the poor actor arrived he
was seen to be thinly clad, although
the weather was bitter cold. He look
ed also as if be had not had any too
much nourishment for some time. The
hostess greeted him cordially.
81 am so glad to see YOU she said
.'How we'll you are looking"'
Yes" replied the comedian; the
wind has been very nutritious of late "
Saturday Evening Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21

Ruth Calkins entertained her friend,
Gladys Batchelder over Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Clarke of Orleans
visited Mrs. C. H. Atkins Sunday.
Miss Ruth Emerson of Lowell is
visiting at the home of her uncle, Geo.
Nutting.
Albro Hunt spent few days at M.
+. Calkins' recently. His mother
returned home with him.
Wayne French entertained his
friend, Arthur Welch of Barton, sew
eral days the past week.
Mr.. Twomhly has sold his cottage
"Minewawa" to Charles Gibbs of
Orleans.
The promenade passed off yer.
pleasantly at M. E. Calkins' Friday
night. It was we'll attended and al
seemed to have good time.
Children's day was very pleasan
affair. The children did exceedingl,
| we'll and much credit is educ to those
who worked to make it success.
DR.. Jenkins and Royal Egleston ha
quite an encounter with bear recent
ly. while out fishing. They battle,
with Bruin for awhile, got him en-
tangled in the troll line and he go
away troll and all.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
THEY PLAYED CHESS.
The Loser Afterward Learned With
out Askinq Why He Lost.

OUT ASKING why TIC EoSe'
Baron Hengelmuller. the Austrian
diplomat. a man famous for his chess
ability. one day at house in Wash
ington met young man whose name
he did not catch when the introduce
tons were made. Chess was the topic
of the conversation by all those in the
company. and presently the young
man suggested efficiently that he
would be highly honored if the baron
would play game with him.
The baron consented. They sat
down. After a few moves the baron
looked up from the table checkmated
and found the young man reading a
PAPER The chessmen were placed
again and. after not so many moves
as before. the baron looked up to find
the young man reading the paper and
himself checkmated.
After his dinner the baron came
back. He wanted another game. being
somewhat chagrined at the ease with
which he had been beaten. As he
came in be found the young man who
had played with him that afternoon
blindfoded and playing against six
teen opponents at the same time. The
Young man was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!
Evening Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
ORLEANS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE.

Rash, Floyd Rash, Candis Wing, Guy
Wing, Antoine Wing. Those one-:half
day absent were Marion Corley and
given the teacher last Wednesday eve.
ming at the home of Mr.. Chase. The
year was successful one.
Beginning Monday, June rs, the
letter box on Main street will be
opened at 8 80 in the evening instead
of 5 AS in the morning, owing
to the change of time on account of
the summer schedule. The "accomo-
,, dation'' north in the morning will be
taken off but the New York flyer will
stop in the morning. The Monitor
has not received the timetable for
| Orleans but the Barton timetable ap-
pears on page one and will give an
idea of the time of trains here. A
few important changes have been
made: ..:.@ u..A ..sz. ~
When Rev. G. wv. Burke arrived at
Little Metis, P. O., to inter his wife S
remains Che was sorely disappointed
with the unkempt condition of the
cemetery, no attempt being made to
keep it in repair. Then too it is prac.
tically a Catholic cemetery. With
these thoughts in mind he could not
reconcile himself to the fact Of her
remains resting there. He therefore
secured lot in Pleasant View GENE.
terry and left yesterday morning to
bring the remains here for their fna
resting place. His many friends here
helped him bear the Financial burden
by a liberal subscription. go s... ~
His Own Critic.
Son-But accidents are liable 70 hap
pen, father. in the best regulated fam,
lilies.
Father (angrily)-That may be. sir
but l would have you to understand
that mine is not one of the best regu
lated families.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
Earliest Stars and Stripes

The earliest suggestion of stars as a
device for the American flag is found
in a poem published in the Massachu-
sets Spy on March 10. 1774. in which
Is the line. THE American ensign now
sparkles a star" The first instance
known Of the use OF thirteen stripes
upon an American banner is found
upon a standard presented to the Phil
adelphia troop OF light horse in l7115
and which Is now in possession of that
troop.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21

A GROUP of grave. worried men
"a gathered in hall at Philadel-
"a phia 1856 years ago July 4.
They were grave because they
were called upon to decide the whole
future destiny Of nation. They were
worried because the penalty for such
work as they had in hand was death.
They were the council called tOgeth
er from all over the country to decide
whether America was to remain
downtrodden. unjustly prosecuted Brit
ish province or should become free.
independent nation, On their decision
hung our country's fate.
During the years since Americas
first discovery England had little by
little won from France and other pow
ers the lions share OF control OF the
continent. The thirteen English colo
MES scattered along the Atlantic coast
had grown strong and prosperous. 10
these cOlOnists rather than to the moth
er country itself was due Englands SUI
premacy on the western hemisphere.
for they had fought her battles. eXplor-
ed and cultivated her wilderness and
swelled her revenues.
In return as years passed on Eng
land had done less and less for her
American colonists. She had reduced
TO the rank of subsidiary provinces the
land their lifeblood and life work had
conquered. She had sent incompetent
governors to rule them. She had tried
to crush them with unjust taxes. She
allowed them no voice in their own
government.
Men whose heroism had carved a
home and an embryo nation out OF a
savage. hostile forest land We're not
the sort to submit forever to such lg'
nominy. For a long time they sought
to appeal to Engands justice. When
these appeals were vain they tried tC
bring the mother country to her senses
by armed resistance.
At last. however. nothing remained
but the chez e.e bet weeeeEE slavery anC
absolute independence. Delegates from
each of the thirteen colonies met ii
Philadelphia in the early summer Of
1776 to make that choice.
And without one 0lSSenung vote tney
declared for liberty.
Thomas jefferson. young lawye
and farmer. drew up a paper embody
ing the colonies defiance OF oppression
and their intention to form a nation
for themselves. independent OF ever.
foreign power.
This paper was called the Declare
ton of Independence. 1t was adopte
on July A, 1916.
That was the birthday Of the Unite
States OF America. In memory OF tina
first Fourth OF July-the day when W
ceased to be subordinate colonies an
became free nation-we have eve
since celebrated the anniversary.
When one remembers all the dat
really means and all that it commend
rates. there should surely be as muc
room in every American heart for gra,
itude and patriotism as toc mere racke
AMI fun.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
What the Fourth
OF July Means
Albert Payson Terhune In
New York World
New York World

A GROUP Of grave. worried men
"a gathered in hall at Philadel-
"a phia 1856 years ago July 4.
60 49, u,I,o,- xryaro GRO vo hooonSo fhov
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
A Kicking Deferred.

Aunt Clara ITO her young nephew
who has just brought a bucket into
the paror where she is sittingl-(food
gracious. Tommy: What are you DO
ing with that bucket? Take it down
TO the kitchen at once. TOMMY
want you to kick it. Aunt Clara. cause
| heard papa saying when you kick
the bucket we'd get at the very least
$4,000.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
Our Sleep,

AS a race we sleep too little. An
infants life Is nearly all sleep, Grad
uallv as the child grows older the
hours of sleep are shortened to half
the day or about eight hours. Youth
until the age of twenty is reached re-
uuires fully ten hours sleep. Although
nature demands fewer hours sleep Id
summer than in winter. it has Deen
nrovpd that eight hours Of sleep are re-
ouired for the average adult in good
health. BY this. explains the plttS'
burg Dispatch. is meant not slmf'i!
eight hours in bed, but that amount OF
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
His Objection.

Mrs. Richquick-John. | want you
to buy new parlor suit. Mr.. Rich
uuick-Maria. I've been agreeable
enough so far to get different clothes
for morning. noon. afternoon and
night. but I'm consarned if I'll change
'em every time | go into a different
room.-Brooklyn Life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21

good. sound. restfur sleep night after
night. Our power to work is intimate
>Iy related to our ability to sleep, anu
there is no more reliable indication OF
sound health than the capacity to sleep
naturally. and the more active ana en-
ergetic the waking life the deeper the
SleeD
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
HYPOCRISY.

While charges of Inconsistent
cy, maladministratio ton and graft
are occupying public attention.
it may be pertinent to remark
that the political crime of the
present decade is not larceny,
but hypocrisy.-Job E. Hedges.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
Feminine Ideals.

look for the day when women will
cease to be initiative, copying men,
but will become completely. perfectly
and proudly women.-A Woman's Let
ter in London Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-06-21
Her Gain.

Mrs. Jones-Does your husband re-
member your wedding anniversary ?
Mrs. Smith-No; so l remind him OF
it in January and June and get two
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-12-01

lage the missionary, passing through,
had left a few pages of the gospel in
the Indian tongue. Our Indian read
and rejoiced. Measuring the mission
ary's footprint, he fitted it with mag
nifcent moccasins, and travelled 200
miles to give them to the missionary
as an expression Of his gratitude.
Thus the missionary was enriched by
the present, but the Indian was en-
riched by the Thanksgiving.
The best thanksgiving is a happy
heart. Blossoms mean nothing on a
dead stick. Once when the car Wis
tied Paris the ingenious French, it
being winter, fastened to the bare
boughs Of the trees innumerable paper
lowers, very pretty as a spectacle, but
very unworthy as a symbol, since they
were false. Our praise will be quite
valueless unless it is rooted in the
daily life.
Train yourself to be grateful for the
common blessings. There had been a
great cotton famine in Lancashire.
England. For lack of material to
work upon, the mills had been idle
for months, and there was great dis
tress among the operatives. At last
came the first WagOn-load of cotton,
the earnest of returning opportunity
to labor, With what new eyes did
the people look upon that common.
place material! They met the Wagon
In an exultant procession. They
Rugged the bales. At last, moved by
a common impulse, they broke out in
the noble hymn, Praise God, from
whom all blessings flow" There arc
In every life a thousand blessings.
now little noticed at all, of which if
we were deprived. their return would
be welcomed with equal transports.
But the going does not excuse us
from the sending any more than send
ing Reuse us from going. If giving
still! went by the rule Of the tenth. as
in the scriptural days, then ten av
erage Christians could anywhere con
stitute themselves into a church and
support a pastor; and twenty coulc
support both a pastor and a mission
airy.
No work is done at its best until II
is done in an atmosphere of thanks
giving. Beethoven understood this
He had his piano placed in the mid
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-12-01
Death Bed Jest.

Among what may be called death
bed jests, that Of the Rev. James
Guthries of Stirling. one of the Coven.
anter martyrs, deserves a high place.
Lord Guthries recalls the story in
From a Northern Window" Mr..
Guthries was executed at the Cross
in the High street, Edinburgh. The
night before he asked for cheese for
his supper. His friends wondered,
for the physicians had forbidden him
to eat cheese. But he said, with q
smile, Il ain now beyond the hazarc
Of all earthly diseases.'-Uncle Re
mus Magazine.