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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29
WASHINGTON ANXIOUS.

Fears Russian Tariff Discrimination
May Cause III Feeling.
Washington w the initiation IF
retaliatory measures By Russian lcgis.
lation Is vleved with apprehension ns be-
Ing likely II develop iIl-feeling between
the two countries, the good temper
shown by the Russian foreign office II
diplomatic exchanges leads state depart,
ment officials 10 more than hope their
efforts 10 secure a new treaty will be
successful.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29
Selling cut.oyer Lands.

Hatticsburg.-E. L. Thompson has
opened Offices in this city to handle the
10000 acres Of land owned BY the Lamp
ton company in Jackson county. This
company Is among the large land own.
ers Of the state.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29
Two Escape From JAN.

Columbus.~-Two prisoners, y. +.
Shirley, d white man, and Ernest Kea-
ton, d negro, escaped from the Lowndes
county Jail, having made their exit by
forcing open the rear door 81 the bride
well with am iron bar.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29

BiIoxi.J- B, Humphreys, who vent
East recently, returned with my Bp-
hemlians for the Biloxi Canning com.
pany, which hss an uprto"date plant "a
Back Bay.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29

ElIisyille.--N. WrkwIrei special agent
Iof The an wuitnll department, in
charge u tick crallating work IN My
sissippi, viii At oAm begin the work
al freeing he ratila Ii thin county q
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29
Child Burns tolDeath.

Meridian.MA u Eddins, the three
and . half yeah Old daughter Of y.
V. Eddins, met horrible death, her
clothes catchingl ire and burning her
until sie was 30 ily injured that death
followed M about hree hours.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-29

MISUNDERSTANDING Yerger Of the pen
itrntiary board states thai they have
succseded IN dispensing of 1 thousand
bales Of Parchman farm cotton at 1917
cents per pouna.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18
Copyright. 1917

IS by a vote of 800 to 1, reads as
follows:
"RESOLVED, by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled:
THAT the people of the United
States assert as fundamental prin-
ciple that the rights of its citizens
shall not be impaired at home or
abroad because of race or religion;
'That the government of the Unit
ed States concludes it's treaties for the
equal protection of all classes of it's
citizens, without regard to race or
! religion;
'That the government of the
| United States will not be party to
any treaty which discriminates, or
which by one of the parties thereto
is so construed as to discriminate, be-
tween American citizens on the
ground of race and religion:
''That the government of Russia
has violated the treaty between the
United States and Russia, concluded
at St. Petersburg Dec. lS, 1882, re-
fusing to honor American passports
duly issued to American citizens on
account of race and religion;
THAT in the Judgment of the Con-
gress the said treaty, for the reasons
aforesaid, ought to be terminated at
the earliest possible time;
THAT for the aforesaid reasons the
said treaty is hereby declared to be
terminated and of no further force
and effect from the expiration of one
year after the date of notification to
the government of Russia of the
terms of this resolution, and that to
this end the President is hereby
charged with the duty of communi-
eating such notice to the government
of Russia
The closest vote in the House on
an attempt to modify the resolution
was ia yeas to 1856 nays.
This was the amendment of Rep
resentative Olmstead to strike out the
charge that Russia had violated the
treaty of 1882 and to insert the state
ment that the discrimination against
Jewish Americans was construed as
violation of the treaty..
Hi,
The senate today is considering
this matter and should it conform to
the action of the House, the Russian
ambassador makes the threat that
diplomatic relations with Uncle Sam
will terminate at once. '''
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

Cheer Up" Says the Times.
We admire man who when whips
ped and sent 'sway back to sit down.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18
LAWRENCE HOPES FOR REFORM.

Tomorrow the people of Lawrence
Mass, will elect officials to take office
under the new charter, which will
come into effect on Jan. 1. The adop-
tion of the new charter, which pro-
vides for modified commission form
of government, is expected to result
in untold benefits to the city and
the people. Under the old plan the
affairs of the municipality had been
going steadily from bad to worse.
The situation reached its climax
some months ago when the mayor,
the chief of the fire department and
Jail for conspiracy to defraud the
city The Citizens Charter Associa-
ton was formed to wrest control
from the hands of the alleged "graft-
ing" politicians and to aid in the re-
demption of the financial credit of
the municipality, which had been all
but destroyed under the old regime
At the November election the new
charter was adopted by an over
whelming vote. At tomoroow's elec-
tion a non-partisan mayor, a school
board of four and four aldermen at
large will be chosen. The mayor will
be chairman of the school board and
also director of the department of fin
ance and public affairs Each of the
ther~departments of the municipal
government. The iniative and refer
endum are features of the new char
ter. Another provision requires that
all city supplies costing $25 or over
must be purchased from the lowest
competitive bidder. saE=f< .&
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

can look pleased and come up smil-
ing, showing no signs of defeat The
Bemidji Pioneer may be placed in
that category in reference to it's at
titude before the St. Cloud conven-
tion and its determination to submit
after the cloud of discomfort has
passed over. Bro. Wilson is young
man, and though not much pleased
with the outcome of a scheme which
bore all the ear-marks of probability,
when the shell was finally cracked
was found to be an ~''addled' egg.''
Cheer up Brother, times and things
will change sometime and the world
will not be managed entirely by the
politician.-Cass Lake Times.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18
, @ @ @ o o o o o o o o @ O. Ok
THIS DATE IN HISTORY <
DECEMBER IS,

" DECEMBER IS g
o 1909 Empress Elizabeth of 9
" Russia born. Died Jan. Q
9 5, 1862. o
<" l7O9-Remains of George @
" Washington deposited in 9
" the family vault at Q
" Mount Vernon. Q
I" l8l l--MOrace B. Claflin, 9
<. eminent New York. mer- Q
<. chant, born in Milford, 9
o Mass. Died in Fordham, .
3 H. Y, Nov. IA, 1885. @
:" 1S12-Bonaparate arrived at .
(" Paris from his Russian 9
9 campaign. .
p 1SS0-Philip Freneau, the poet .
" Of the Revolution, died Q
-" near Freehold, N. J. 9
" Born in New York City Q
@ in 1852. 9
9 1865-Thomas Corwin, Ohio Q
:: statesman, died. Born Q
o July 29, 1894. 9
. 1S77-The Protestant Episco- .
9 pal diocese OF Spring. 9
<. field, Illinois, was organ
- lied. 6
8 1S99-Lord Roberts appointed
. commander-in-chief of
<. the British forces in 9
(. South Africa. g
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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

Following a few days of warm
weather Chicago editor sprang this
one, and still lives: "Winter appears
to be doing it's stopping early this
season.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

Perhaps Mr.. Bryan will display
special interest in the assertion of
those who ought to know, that
canned oysters are the best.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

If anyone thinks the world is not
growing better just let them observe
little Willie any times between now
and Santa Claus day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

Thomas Cat, of back fence fame,
will view with alarm the announce
ment that Thomas Edison has invent
ed concrete furniture.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

Only six more days until the
Christmas tree and Santa's whiskers
begin to burn.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

A nice gift for mother to make to
father is a new set of dishes charged
to dads account.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18
o O O @ @ o o o @ Q o O o O g
. WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY. %
PAYS Tribute to Middleton.

Pays Tribute to Middleton. ''.&
Attorney c. R. Middleton and
Mayor J. U. Williams returned Mon
day from the big Convention at ST..
Cloud, in a very disgusted frame of
mind. The triumph of the politicians
in the extra session fight was a bitter
pill to swallow. However both gentle
man covered themselves with glory.
Mr.. Middleton was on the committee
dealing with reapportionment, and
found himself practically alone in
the plea for justice for Northern
Minnesota. -s tsi8
He made rousing fight, however,
and forced the issue into the con-
vention hall and got it before the
delegates. While he did not win he
made a name for himself as one OF
the big men Of Minnesota He showed
that he was not at the call of the
politicians and the interests, and he
made many friends among those who
have the real interests of Northern
Minnesota, at heart. Mayor Williams
gave him able assistance Baudette
has every reason to be proud Of its
delegates. .-Baudette Region
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18
THE PERIL POINT.

: The Sulzer resolution providing
for the termination of the treaty with
Russia as passed in the House Dec.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

AS 1912 will be leap year, it will
be up to the girls to hop to it.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1911-12-18

PILES CURED IN TO "A DAYS
Your druggist will refund money if PA
20 OINTMENT fails to cure any case
Of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
ing Piles in 6 to IA days soc. =,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
GOOD PRICE FOR IOWA LAND.
Big Farm Near West Union Brings
$f25 an Acre.

WEST UNION, Nov. 22.-The sale
of 242 acres of his $50 acre farm by
Jacob Yearous to NJ D. Thompson for
SIPS an acre, a total of $50, $50, makes
several records. The price paid is the
highest cash consideration ever
known in Fayette county on farm
deal, and with one exception the larg-
est consideration on record for cash
or trade
This is the second time that this
has been true of the same farm, as
when Hon. W. E. Fuller sold the en-.
tire place of $50 acres to Mr.. Yearous
eight years ago for $50 an acre or a
total of $2S,3SO the consideration was
the largest that had ever appeared of
record in this county.
1t is also claimed that this sale is
the largest farm sale in northeastern
Iowa during the present season. The
place adjoins West Union on the
southeast. Several other places have
sold at higher price per acre.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
SALEM.
: = = . . : : = : : : = : =

Mrs. Kate Carlisle went to Dan
vile Wednesday to remain until after
Thanksgiving with her daughter, Mrs.
Lou Albright
|. o. Powers and wife of Ottumwa
were recent guests of the latters
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Bickler
Miss Libbie Smith came from
Pleasant Plain and spent a few days
with home folks.
Miss Anna Cramer, primary teacher
in the Mt. Pleasant schools, spent sat
urday with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
c. Cramer
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Widdifield
are enjoying a visit with Mrs Hill
from Argyle, wisconsin
| District Superintendent Tenant de
livered fine discourse at the NJ. e
church Sunday morning. 4
Mrs. w. M. Mcvey has returned t,
her home at Centralia. Missouri.
The F. M. S. of the Congregations
church met with Mrs. Frost Frida,
afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Pidgeon vii
spend the winter with relatives il
California.
The Ladies Aid societ..r of the Con
gregational church will hold theil
bazaar and supper December 6.
Quarterly conference was held a
the NJ. r. church Saturday afternoon
Mrs. Enoch Berry spent last weel
with relatives in New London
Miss Bertha Lester has gone t
spend the winter at the homes Of E
e. Bell at Leon, and her sister, Mrs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
WHAT TO READ AND HOW

The long winter evenings are an.
preaching and What shall read?" is
q question in many minds Ambassa.
dor James Bryce, author. of "The
American Commonwealth" in an adj
dress at the charter day exercises of
Rutgers college, indicated how to
make reading most profitable. He
suggested that one should always
try to find and read the best book nm
any subject, BY the best book" he
explained. he meant the book from
which one can carry the most away.
He went on to say:
me test of the value of book is
mat 1t should give what you can nrofit.
ally make part of your own mind
ana by a good book | do not near
what used to be called an improving
DOCK, a book containing solid infor-
matlon, but | include books of every
klnd, so long as they are good of their
kind; that is to say so long as they
give you something new and fresh
something stimulating or enliyening
something on which the mind can
work, and which leaves the reader
knowing more or better able to think
than 1t found him. The dry book is
not necessarily better than the lively
book; on the contrary, it. is. other
things being equal, presumably worse.
because every book ought if possible
to be SO written as to be interesting
that is to say, capable of being read
with enjoyment"
Mr.. Bryce declared that life is too
short for reading inferior books. Moth
ing OF our time, therefore, should be
wasted on third rate books, or seconc
rate books, If first rate ones are To h,
had. In this connection he said.
What can be more tragic than t,
md an earnest and Industrious ma,
srending upon poor book the energ
which he might spend upon a goo,
one? second maxim is that on
4 should always read with sufficient al
tention and concentration to obtain
mental reaction. There is no use I
merely carving your eyes over prin
unless you get something from it, an
when You find that you are gettin
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
WOULD CHARTER BIG TRUSTS.

a definite program of government
control of the affairs of all corpora
lions capitalized at a million or more
and doing an interstate business has
been submitted by Samuel Untermey-
err, the noted New York corporation
lawyer, for a subcommittee of the
National Civic Federation. His re-
port takes for granted that the peo-
pie want the existing law enforced,
at least to the extent of preventing
the further consolidation of compel
ing industries. 1t also asserts that the
present law nor the machinery of the
courts is adapted to the effective disin-
tegration of Illegal trusts but that en-
forced competition that is ruinous is
not an economic benefit or necessity
and that any law forcing capital to
compete at loss is incapable of en-
forcement.
His plan would require all corpora
tons worth million or more to take
out federal charters. For the purpose
of passing On applications for such
charters and otherwise supervising
the affairs of the corporations, Inter
meyer proposes that an industrial
commission of seven members be APP
pointed by the President, with the
powers similar to those now exercised
by the Interstate Commerce Com
Emission.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
If Professor Holden is wise he will at
tend to his present Job of knitting.
God has quit making land, but has
not quit making people. Young man
get home now" says the Radcliffe
Signal
With Kenyon, Funk and Garst for
Taft, 1T cannot be said that the pro-
gressive vote of Iowa is unanimous
for La Toilette says the Boone News
Republican.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that the progressives in South
Dakota have reached the point where
they are challenging each other to
Joint debate. adding: Its in the
blood"
Although it has been beaten to
death, chloroformed, and otherwise
put hors de combat several scores of
times, the Wilson resignation rumor
has bobbed up again." observes the
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The Dubuque Telegraph-Eera
says 1t would be suicide for the
Democratic party to attempt to go
ahead in defiance of Bryan. He will
not be the candidate himself the
Telegraph Herald continues, but he
will name the candidate unless the
party is disposed to commit harikari :
The Des Moines Capital says that
the chief supporters of December
presidential primary are those who
have long been identified with the
Any Thing-to-Beat-Taft movement
They imagine" the Capital con
tinues. that by jamming through a
presidential primary scheme in the
latter part of an off political year they
can reap the benefits of a chaotic
state of public mind and of the preiu-
dices which insurgent strife promot-
Eers are constantly seeking to gener-
ate, and thus win victory which
might be more difficult at a later
date"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
Newspapers and Advertiser RS.

Cedar Rapids Republican: A letter
was recently shown us in which the
statement was made that 1T seems to
me that newspapers should not at
tempt to print anything that would
injure the men who advertise"
That is an extreme doctrine that
has recently been much combatted. II
is overstated to say the least and to
the extent that it is stated in the
sentence quoted no self-respectine
newspaper publisher could subscribe
to it,
Broadly speaking, as well as truth.
fully speaking. no newspaper should
attempt to injure what is proper or
decent or right, whether in business
or in other matters But if it is a
question between right and wrong
and an advertiser, then the paper
should sacrifice the advertiser. To dc
SO would be better for the advertiser
in the long run for he SO could not be
benefited by newspaper that should
lose the confidence of the people. The
fact that advertisements appear in a
newspaper should have some influ
ence for the advertiser. If the news
paper were controlled by the adver
Users the reader would not have
much faith in the newspaper, neither
in its own utterances nor in the utter
ances paid for by the advertisers.
If the policy enunciated in the sen
tence quoted should be made the pol
icy of newspaper then even a rascal
who had some fake or other to pro
mote could still the newspaper on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
THE DAILY GATE CITY

painstaking affections of father.
leg them to remember that such dan
ger lies not only in the obvious
temptations to enervating luxury, but
in the inducement which a fortune
coming from another carries to the
recipient to withdraw from the whole
some duty Of vigorous, serious, useful
work. In my opinion life not largely
dedicated to such work cannot be hap
Ply and honorable, and to such work it
is my earnest hope, and will be to my
death, that my children shall, so far
as their strength permits, be stead
tasty devoted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
JOSEPH puLITzER,s WARNING.

From the will. of the late Joseph
Pulitzer: During my life. and now by
my will and codicils. | have given
considerable sums OF money to pro-
mote public or humanitarian causes
which have had my deliberate and
sympathetic interest. If any of my
children think excessive such gifts of
mine outside of my family ask them
to remember not only the merit of the
cause to which have given and the
corresponding usefulness of the gifts,
but also the dominating ideals Of my
life. They should never forget the
dangers which unfortunately attend
the inheritance of large fortunes, even
though the money came from the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22

Islam, the Drums Of God Resound.
The seed you sowed of death and
hate
Are bearing fruit now at your gate.
The crimson dusk of ruin stains
Your mosques and minarets and fanes
Your star grows dim. your crescent
wanes
And Vengeance marches on your
plains.
Your towers stand on cursed ground.
The Drums of God, Islam, resound,
And in their graves martyred host
From Crete to the Dalmatian coast
Awake and damn you from the tomb /;
The babe stabbed in the mothers
womb,
The virgin spoiled, the greybeard
slain
Defending hearth and seed in vain;
The spirits of the men you smote, S
Armenian, Albanian, Croat:
The ghosts of Greece and Macedon
Will guide the ship and aim the gun
And guard the sleep and point the
path
For those who come to do Gods
wrath
Herbert Kaufman, in Woman's
World.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
FEDERAL PERMIT NOT EVIDENCE

The first opinion in an Iowa court,
declaring unconstitutional the new
law to the effect that possession of a
federal liquor permit is prima facie
evidence that the law is being violated,
was given in the district court at
Marshalltown last Saturday. II an.
pears that one J.. F. Madden of
demons had government license to
sell liquor. but the state had no furth,
ther evidence against the defendant
o.her than the record of his license
Madden's counsel argued that the law
was unconstitutional because it de
stroyed the presumption of the ac
cused's innocence, presumption thai
must be held until guilt is proved be
yond reasonable doubl. The state
largued constitutf0nality on the groune
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22

The flat-foot scare has revived in
this country because Sir Alfred Mos
ley, the British educator, declares
that few English boys have fiat feet
One of the school authorities in New
York City finds that the same cannot
be said of the boys of that place, and
1t is believed the girls are likewise
defective. This official estimates that
one-third of the boys In the New
York schools have fiat feet, that is, do
not have well-arched insteps. Scent
lists say that fat feet injure the spine
by throwing the body out of correct
position and thus weaken the en-
tire system
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-22
PREVENTION OF TYPHOID.

The state beard of health has been
| investigating the epidemic of typhoid
fever at Cedar Falls and other Iowa
cities and makes a number of plain
and practical recommendations for
the abatement and prevention of the
disease. Keokuk has had very few
cases of the dread malady in recent
years, and if the good advice of the
state board is needed it will have still
fewer in future The following are
the rules laid down:
l. Typhoid fever is contracted
solely by the mouth If you do not
put the germs of typhoid fever into
your mouth you will not contract ty-
phoid fever. Therefore, watch the
mouth.
| g Do not eat or drink anything
| (water milk, oysters, fresh vege-
tables or anything else) unless it has
| first been boiled, broiled, baked, fried,
roasted or otherwise thoroughly heat
ed.
8. Do without all food or drink
which has not first been thus heated.
| Canned or bottled foods or drink
| (other than milk or water) are not
included in this)
4. If living in the same house with
a typhoid fever patient. do not handle
your own food or food intended for
anyone else, even If 1t has been heat
ed, except with hands that have been
thoroughly washed with soap and hot
water. PREFERABLY also with anti
septics, ask your physician about the
antiseptic to use.) Wash before ev-
cry meal in this way and before
cooking, serving or eating anything
or putting the fingers in the mouth,
5. No person who has recently
recovered from typhoid fever should
be engaged as cook or in any way
handle articles of food including milk
to be used by others. Such persons
should thoroughly wash their hands
with soap and hot water before every
meal
6. Typhoid fever does not usually
develop until two weeks after the
germs enter the body. Therefore
cases may develop from typhoid
germs already taken in sometime
after typhoid is discovered, but after
flat any cases must come from the
failure to carry out infinitely the d.
rections here given.