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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
AMERICA MAY
BECOME SOCIALIST
British Member Of Parliament Says
We Have the Most Moving
Picture Shows.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16.-"America
may be the first of the great countries
to adopt socialism, declared J.. K
Haride, socialist representative in the
British parliament here, in discussing
the development of the movement on
this side Of the Atlantic.
When | first came here a few
years ago there were a few socialists
but no working class movement. Now
the movement ranks with that of Ger
many and France. We shall perhaps
poll 1,5n0,o0O or 100000 votes in the
approaching election If we apply
the law of progressive development to
the movement, it is reasonable to de-
duce that at the following election,
four years hence, the socialist voters
will number four or five millions, and
at the one to follow that, eight years
hence, we may have plurality over
all votes and elect a president and
majority of congress. AmeriAl has
more newspapers, railroads and NOV
ing picture shows than any other
country. These are the educational
forces that will bring the working
masses to proper enlightenment Of
their relation to others and promote
the revolution in government.
The United States has no stand
ing army or throne to overthrow and
for this reason is likely to become the
first socialist state
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
TO PROMOTE $4,000
R. r. POSTAL. CLERKS
Hitchcock viii Issue Orders Today
for Salary Increases Totalins
$1,000, 900.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-Promo-
ton for 10000 railway postal clerks
On October / will be provided in or
ders to be issued today by Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock. In the rail-
way mail service there are 16,7O0
clerks and majority of those not
promoted on October 1 will receive
more pay before the end of the cur
rent fiscal year. More than million
dollars will be expended in making
the promotions.
reorganization of the railway
mail service and increased pay for
postal clerks were authorized in the
recently enacted post office appro-
priation bill. The project was urged
hy Postmaster General Hitchcock in
the belief that it would result in far
greater efficiency in the service and
in the making of promotions along
fairer lines.
Although more than $1,O00,O0O a
year will be involved in the increases,
it will cost the government no more
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
perfected plan to save that amount
by a Encouragement of railway mail
car space and the amount the govern.
ment pays annually to the railroads.
The new law provides for these
classes of railway postal lines with
their transfer and terminal Offices
The composition will be highest for
lines on which work is heaviest. Be
ginning with $500 a year all clerks
who render faithful and efficient ser
vice will receive annual promotions OF
500 until they reach the maximum OF
the successive annual grades, after
which they may be promoted for
specially meritorlcus service until
their pay reaches $500 a year. Chief
clerks will receive salaries of $4,000.
Hitherto it has been the custom tc
promote railway clerks only wher
vacancies occurred through death
resignation or removal
| This is the method applied salts
factorily for several years in adjust
+ ing the compensation Of post Office
clerks and city letter carriers; but the
range of salaries for railway clerks
will be higher because of the hazard
ious nature of their employment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
PARTICULARS
OF HIS DEATH
The Belfast Newsletter Of Recent
Date Tells Of the Last Days
Of John Bal
1antine.
WAS SIXTY YEARS OLD
Held in the Same High Esteem in
His Native ireland Home
as He Was in
keokuk.

Sunday morning from meagre par
ticulars The Gate City printed an an
nouncement of the death of John Bal
lantine at his home near Belfast Ire
land, and some memories of him and
his family, during their residence
here. saying that Belfast paper was
expected by friends in Keokuk which
had not yet arrived. That paper, the
Belfast Newsletter of Saturday. Au-
gust 81, was received this morning in
which are found the details of his
sickness and death and something of
his honorable and eventful career in
the land of his birth. 1t seems that
he and his estimable family were
held in the same high esteem in their
native home which characterized their
standing in Keokuk.
Under appropriate caption the
Newsletter says:
The many friends Of Mr.. John Bal
lantine will learn with regret of his
death, which as already announced
in our obituary column, took place on
Friday last at his residence, Leslie
House, Carrickfurgus. The deceased
gentleman, who belonged to Head
wood, Kilwaughter Co., Antrim, was
a cousin of the late Joseph GILES Big
ger M. p. for Cavan and acted as his
confidential friend during the stormy
parliamentary days OF that period He
was highly respected in business
circles in Belfast having been a di-
rector of Messrs. Coey and CO., Ltd,
Tomb street, which firm he represent
ed for many years in the American
trade at Keokuk, Iowa. OF retiring
disposition, he took no active part in
political or public affairs, and though
often invited to accept office or local
public boards he always declined In
early life he was prominent figure
| in athletic circles in Belfast, and was
/ especially interested in the Carrickfer
| gus Recreation society. of which he
! was one of the founders. The de
| ceased, who was a member of st
Nicholas Catholic chapel, Carnickfu
! gus, leaves a widow and two daugh
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
at the death of Mr.. John Ballantine,

at the death of Mr.. John Ballantine,
which occurred yesterday afternoon
at his residence. Leslie House, Joy.
mount, Carrickfergus. The deceased
gentleman was about 60. years of age,
had been in frail health for several
months, and for some weeks was con-
fined to his bed. During his illness
he was attended by Dr.. James Hus-
ton, Carrickfurgus, who with the as
sistance of DR.. w. j. Mcguire, late OF
Belfast, but now of Dublin, did all
that was possible to bring about his
recovery. About a fortnight ago he
had SO far recovered as to be able to
undertake visit to Belfast The re-
suit, however, was renewal of the
malady, which ultimately proved
fatal"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
IOWA LOOMS UP
AS WHEAT STATE
The Yield This Year 17,4e2,ooo Bush
els as Compared with s,5oo,ooo
Last Year.

DES MONIES, Ia, Sept. 16.-Iowa
looms up as wheat state this year
with 17,462,S00 bushels, as compared
with 100000 bushels last year, ac-
cording to the state weather and crop
report just issued.
The wheat yield is the greatest in
the history Of the state. Many farm
ers, discouraged by the long dtouth
last season running their corn, put in
wheat crop, which natures earlier,
and have greatly profited
The spr ng wheat yield is Oils, 500
bushels, comInred to 4,674,50o bushels
in 1911. Winter wheat is estimated
at S,342,5oo, as against 3,959,0Oo in
1911. There are almost 100000
acres in wheat now. against 100000
acres for last season.
Gaia CITY want ads hrin rae,,1t.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
drunken OFFICER
RESIGNS PLACE
u, mean Is Asked for Resignation
Following ! jag That Lasted
saturday Night and All
Day Sunday.
THREATENED CITIZENS ZEN
Actions Of Drunken OFFICER Fr'ahtens
residents Of Upper Main Street
and He Is Relieved
Of star.

After a night and day Of drunken
mass Patrolnlan Carl Dean of the
ideal police department was relieved
II his star, yesterday afternoon, and
l. no longer a member OF the Keokuk
police department.
Numerous complaints were made OF
nean,s conduct saturday night and
Sunday and when the officer appear
Cd at the station about five-thirty
Yesterday evening, Chief Of Police
schevers, noting his condition gave
him a chance 10 resign, which was
taken by Dean.
Ii is said that Dean started drink
inc Saturday night and came down
town about midnight in uniform and
went to the upper end Of Main street
and Immediately began causing
trouble and striking terror to the
hearts of residents Of that neighbor-
borhood by his actions and flourishing
his gun Several times he is said to
have drawn his gun and threatened to
4
shoot people unless they told him
who they were and what they were
doing. About two o'clock Sunday
morning he picked up a couple Of
negroes and brought them to the sta
ton and made charge of drunken
ness against them. Night Captain
shepherd refused to lock them up
saying that they were not as drunk as
the officer.
Yesterday Dean called In regularly
every half-hour as usual but reports
from his beat said that he was very
much intoxicated, staggering around
the street and finally going to- Rag
alley. where he spent most of the aft
ernoon pitching horse shoes with the
residents Of that place. Jteis also said
that he became insulting to women
whom he passed on the street. CHIEF
Schevers heard this report and went
4 TO the officers beat but failed tofinc
him.
About fiye.thirty o'clock, Dean ar
rived at the station and was told b,
the chief that he had better resign
He Immediately took advantage o.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
Jack Johnson,s Name.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept 16.-To
bar Jack Johnson's name from news
papers in the SOUTH a Nashville editor
has addressed three hundred editors,
asserting that in marrying the woman
who killed herself last week Johnson
affronted every white woman and
defeated the purpose Of the caucas.
ian race The letter requested that
no publicity be given the movement
because publicity would defeat it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

the opportunity and turned in his
star.
Dean was known to be an unreliable
man when the heads of the depart
ment put him on the force, several
men who we're acquainted with him
telling them that he could not be
trusted. This was the statement OF
enc of them this morning. It is said
that he was discharged from the
water power on account Of his drink
ing, according to a foreman on the
works today.
A great deal of talk has been occa-
stoned by the question as to where
Dean got his liquor yesterday. Many
persons say that colored mans
shop on Main street near Ninth was
the place but this could not be veri-
fled
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

tiers with whom much sympathy will
be felt in their bereavement. The
elder daughter is married 70 DR.. w.
]. Mcguire, Dublin. (national insur-
ance commissioner, and the younger
TO Mr.. Samuel steele, managing di
rector, Millbrook Weaving Co.,
Larne.''
The announcement in the obituary
column of the same paper is in part
as follows:
Regret will be felt in a wide circle
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

train 473-Leaves keoKuk. TAO am
-Train 741-Leaves Keokuk. $3.50 pm
TRAIN 472-Ar-iyes Keokuk. TAO PIN
Train 470-Arrives Keokuk. 1905 IN
Local Freight Trains.
sTrain 86-Arrives Keokuk.. $50 pm
'Train S5-Leave Keokuk.. 700 am
sDaily excep. Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
THE COMBS MORNING STORY

You know the story the comb tells.
It's very discouraging story, too.
Day by day, few more strands are add.
ed, of hair that is turning grey, losing its
vitality, its strength and its health.
Grey hair is as unbecoming as old age.
Natural pride should have its own say.
You wish to look young and it is your
DUTY to appear so. You CAM evenLoOK
young if the silver threads begin to show.
Bea Young Woman" in looks, always.
The grey hairs belong to the chaperon and
to the grandmother.
Stay out of the grandmother class, until
your years justify it, by using
HAYS HAIR HEAITH
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

ternational Cigar Makers union will
be discussed at the convention that
will begin in Baltimore tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
c.. q. q Q. RAILWAY CO.

Trains leave from the Union uepot.
Berths and tickets. Fifth and John.
son streets.
Southbound.
xNo. 8, st. Louis, west and
south leaves .12:4 5am
xNo. 10. ST. Louis, Kansas
City. west and south, leaves s:b0am
xNo. arrives. 1:15pm
Leaves Observation-Disclosures. 1:20pm
mo. 10, Quincy. Hannibal and
Kansas City. arrives. 1885,. S:25pm
mo. 40 leaves ............... S:35pm
Northbound.
xNo. Z. st. Paul and points
west, leaves ............ 2:35am
xNo. Is, Chicago, st. Paul and
points west. leaves. ....... 7:s5pm
mo. 8. Burlington, Chicago
and east. leaves. ........ 1:55pm
xNo l, Burlington and Chi
cago, leaves .............. 7:35am
mo. 81. Donnellson, c., B. &
K. G. and North road, leaves 3:30pm
mo. 90. from Donnellson, O.,
B. & X. G. and North road
arrives ....................1 1:3Oam
mo. l. 4. & W.. west, leaves s:o5am
No. s, Centerville. leaves Sun
Gay only ................. 7:35pm
mo. 3, Centerville, leaves -. 9:10pm
'No. 4, from Centerville and
i points intermediate. arrives 1:15pm
mo. 2, from Centerville and
points west, arrives. s:1opm
No. 6, from Centervi!le. ar
rives. Sundays only 55am
4 < Daily. 'Daily except Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
Is|IE =

Sl.00 and Soc at Drug Stores or direct upon
receipt of price and dealers name. Send l0c for
trial botte.-Pho Hay Spec. Co. Newark. N. j.
~. ea,e ana Recommended by MO
Grath Bros. Drug Co,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
Char Makers Pensions.

{ United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 16.-old
age pensions for members of the In
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

Gate City want ads bring results
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

Thursday Morning.
A whole meal will be cooked by
steam in a "Wear-Ever" Aluminium
Rooster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
All This Week

We have Arranged to Conduct Interesting Demonstra
ton of Wear Ever Cooking Utensils
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

Trains leave from the Union uepot.
Berths and tickets. Fifth and John.
son streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16

The same rooster will be demon
strated as a preserving utensil
Preserves may be allowed to
stand in aluminum).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
Waking the Sleeper.

0CCASIONALLY householders re-
~ quire services of policemen that
seem extraordinary, even to men who
have grown old on the force. Said a
boy to a patrolman:
Are you the new night policeman
on this beat?"
The policeman said he was.
house would like to fix things up with
YOU" said the boy. Can you Gomez"
Mentally rehearsing the crushing re-
Duke that he should deliver if request
ed to condone counterfeiting or kim
dred illegal practices, the patrolman
accompanied his guide to a first floor
fiat, where a very innocuous- looking
young man sat reading a newspaper.
Ger would be on duty that night, the
young man said:
II shall sleep in this room, and If you
should happen past here about 2
o'clock and hear me yelling my lungs
out don't get scared and think some
body is numbering me, but just reach
through the window and shake me
good and hard. 1 shall be in the
throes of nightmare, that's ALL and as
these folks are all strangers to me,
maybe they wouldn't like to come in
and wake me up. The night policeman
in the street I just moved away from
and I shall be much obliged if you
will do the same"
The policeman seemed disinclined to
assume the role of dispenser of night
mares, but he finally accepted the
unique commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
Strange Beds.
From Harper's Weekly.


Habit conceals all sorts of absurdities.
1t makes one ache to see an illustration
of japanese sleeping block, followed
out just enough to permit of the neck
being adjusted thereto. The Germans
notion Of night repose does not come
much nearer our idea of comfort There
are many i'll made and unsatisfactory
beds from the American point of view
to be found in the kaiser's domnions
German beds, almost without exception
are single-so much SO, indeed, that the
occupant. If he attempts to deviate an
inch or two from his position. finds him
self sprawling on the floor. The sheets,
bed blankets. etc. are made just to fit the
beds. and are never wide enough to tuck
in. They are seldom more than an inch
or two wider than the mattress, and it
requires the skill and experience of an
eigner, to keep the bedclothes evenly bal
anced over one.
Many of the German hotels use the
French pillow. which is about half the
size of the mattress and stuffed out so
hard and plump that about the only ben
eft the tired traveller gets from it is to
have 1t serve as a rest for his back while
he sleeps in sitting position The ma
jority of pillows found in Germany, how
ever, are wedge-shaped, of the same ma
terial as the mattress, and come to a
point near the center of the bed On
these the sleeper Gf he sleeps rests on
an inclined plane, and looks like a body
on one OF the narrow planks at the
morSue In Paris, with sheet thrown
over it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
PLANTS AND FOREST FIRES.
The Waffle and Waratah That Grow
on Burnt-0ver Districts.
From the London Globe.


A retna rka BILE fact i'm connection with
forest fires Is that after their occurrence
different vegetation usually springs up.
Thus after the burning of the larger tim
Der trees in australia there grows a crop
OF wattles-various species of acacia-evcn
iu places where none has been known
within the memory of man.
In the case of a scrub fire which has
swept away the underground, leaving the
forest trees still alive. but with bare and
blackened trunks, the plant TO spring up
IS the waratah
The waratah has been said to be the
handsomest wild flower in the world. in
it's brilliant color 1t seems a reflection of
the fire which caused its birth. A tray
cler through the bush writes of it:
Among the charred trees little tongues
of fame seem 10 lick. They are the wara-
tabs. each plant bearing on a stem six
feet high a single burning-red flower
shaped like heart and the size OF a
mans closed .fsf. Imagine many hun
dreds OF red stamens. greater in size than
those OF the tiger lily, packed closely to-
lcticr to make a heart shape and you
have the Australian waratah.''
Some interesting experiments recently
Carried out I'll Australia by Prof. Ewart
OF Victoria have suggested TO him a pos
sible explanation OF the above remarkable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18

guage and that she had on more than
one occasion heard the men servants of
the house say that they would not be as
tonished II murder ensued one day. Well,
we have these two witnesses. and can
easily get hold Of the two or three foot
men who expressed those particular
views. So much for the past six months.
is out there waiting for me to see him is
Frederick Power. hall porter at the Vet
Grams Club. The story which he told to
our Mr.. TraverS Is So important I'm it's
minutest detail that 1 have decided to
question him myself SO that may leave
no possible loophole to doubt or to mac
curacy in the retelling. I am going to
send for the man now. You come and sit
round here, the other side of my desk;
from this position you will be able to
watch the mans face, as well as hear
what he has got to say. Now. would
you like that?"
Right you are. Tom." was Col. Har-
ris brief method of acknowledging his
brother-in-law's kindness in thus break
ing piece of red tape and setting aside
very strict official rule. He did as Sir
Thomas directed, and sat down in the re-
cess behind the chiefs desk. in q COM
Portable armchair, with his back to the
curtained window.
He would not acknowledge even to him
self how deeply stirred he was by all
that he had heard, and now by the an
ticipattOn OF what was yet to come. Emo
tion-like he was experiencing now-had
never come his way before now. He had
lost his only SON on the Modder river
that had been sorrow of an acute kind
he had laid q much loved wife TO rest in
the village churchyard close to his state
~ home In Kent, and he had escorted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18

phenomenon. Experimenting with seeds
of acacia fifty or sixty years old, he has
found that these will terminate il the
hard coverings are previously softened
or oiled
In the case of the Australian forest
fires Prof. Ewart thinks that the alkaline
ashes produced by the fire may act on
the hardened coats of the waffle seeds
lying i'm the ground and soften them. Or
the heat may partly char these same
hardened seed coats. In either case the
seed is able to terminate. Thus the idea
seems to be that the covering of seed
may get so hard that the embryo cannot
penetrate it, and that it may be preserved
in the ground Indefinitely in this state
without losing its power of growth.
Is there here a hint for the gardener?
1t is said that the waratah is difficult to
grow in gardens, but that some have sue
ceeded in growing it by first Of all roast
ing the seeds. And those who grow can
mas are i'm the habit of sleeping the seeds
in hot water before sowing them. Such
effects of fire are not confined to for
eStS.
After the great fire of 1866 there sprang
up on the site Of London immense quanti-
ties of a yellow cruciferous flower, hence
known as London rocket. 1t was so
abundant that there was supposed to De
on this spot more than in all the rest Of
Europe And it does not appear to have
been noticed there previously.
Another example of the same plant
springing up on the site of a smaller fire
is given by Baxter in his British Flow
ering Plants" A spot in the Oxford bo-
tanic gardens on which rubbish had been
burning for two or three days was trench
ed and prepared for plantation of will
lows. This was in 1884. and in the fol-
lowing year an abundant crop of London
rocket sprang up, ION part Of the gar
dcn, writes Baxter where l never re-
member seeing it before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
THE HEART OF A
WOMAN
BARONESS ORGY

4 Copyright h =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-18
abroad, If you can. and Keep Ehghsn
newspapers away from her.
"She won't come,'' said Col. Harrfs.

abroad. If you can. and keep English
newspapers away from her.
"She won't come,'' said Col Harris.
firmly.
"oh. yes. she will. if you put it the right
way"
Which saying, on the part Of the acute
chief OF our criminal investigation de-
partment. was but a further proof-if. in
deed. such proofs were still needed nova
davs-Of how little clever men Know or
commonplace women.
.The case will be extremely unpleas-
ant. - resumed Sir Thomas, who was quite
unconscious of the ignorance which he
had just displayed. ut will be hateful
for you and quite impossible for Louisa.
always supposing," retorted the other,
that Luke Is guilty. which neither nor
Louisa will admit for moment"
..That," rejoined Sir Thomas, is as you
please"
He put down his cigar. crossed one leg
over the other. leaned back in his chair
and folded his tapering hands together.
putting finger to finger. with the gesture
of one who Is dealing with q youthful
mind and has much to explain.
Look here. WILL" he resumed, II have
three men standing in my outer Office at
the present moment. Two Of them have
come back after having questioned the
mast servants OF the Grosvenor Square
household. There was the butler, Parker
and an elderly housekeeper, both of whom
are in service in the West End. The
woman tried to screen Luke, and to make
light Of the many quarrels which broke
out between the cousins on all possible
occasions: but she broke down under our
fellows sharp questions. She had to adj
NIT that the arrogance OF the one man
often drove the other to unguarded Ian