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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-08
Utterly Destitute.

OttCtty DSStieotSs
HICKMAN, KY. April s.-Work of
caring for 5000 homeless persons
occupied the attention of Hickman to-
day. The breaks in the levees near
Memphis relieved the flood situation
here considerably, the river falling
eight inches. Five hundred tents have
been erected on the hills back of the
town and the distribution of clothing
and rations has been started.
Pitiful scenes are witnessed on ev-
cry hand as men, only few days
ago prosperous farmers, are forced to
accept food and clothing from the
state, being utterly destitute
Practically every house within a
radius of twelve miles of Hickman
has been swept away. One thousand
refugees arrived here today.
Cairo Is Victorious.
CAIRO, Ill, April S.-The officials
OF Cairo are today claiming complete
victory over the Mississippi and Ohio
floods. Though the city is now an is
land, completely surrounded by a
wall 10 feet higher than the average
level of any city street, the levees
are still holding. A fall of one-tenth
of foot was noted in the Missis-
sippi this morning, and with the
breaks near Memphis, 1t is believed
the waters will now slowly but stead
lily recede.
Reports from Columbus, KY. today
state that 500 refugees arrived there
yesterday. Scores of persons in Ken
lucky and Arkansas refused to leave
their homes when the first warnings
were given and are now marooned on
roofs or in the upper stories of their
houses. Boats were sent out from
Columbus, Hickman and several other
points.
At New Madrid, Mo-, attention was
called from the flood situation long
enough to hold local option election
The town went dry" by 200.
Worst Is Past
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April S-Reports
received in Memphis from throughout
| the flooded Mississippi valley today
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Daily River Bulletin
Local observations .

April z, Z p. M, 49 degrees, clear.
April 8, a. M. 43 degrees, clear.
Mean temperature for April Z, Al
degrees; highest So; lowest 35; lowest
last night 40.
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suited. Hundreds OF head OF live
stock has been drowned and after the
waters recede, the big fight will be to
prevent an epidemic. Nothing but a
vast sea of mud, covering 1000 square
miles, and buried in the mire the
carcasses OF the live stock. will be
left behind by the waters.
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worst Is Past

Worst Is Past.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April S--Reports
received in Memphis from throughout
the flooded Mississippi valley today
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THE PAPER THAT BOOSTS kEo-
kuk ALL THE TIME.
eubscrlbers Of The Daily Gate City
| are Served the full Leased Wire scr
| Vice Of the United Press Associations.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
TWELFTH NIGHT CLUB.

\ ioint benefit FOR Stony Wod Sanatorum
and the Twelfth Night club Will be given
at the Lyccum Theatre on the afternoon
OF Monday March lS. The work of the
Twelfth Night club Is To take care ot un-
fortunate members Of the theatrical and
kindred artistic professions who. through
Illness, are deprived of the ability to care
for themselves The members of the
Twelfth Night club are well known in ar
tistic circles.
Among those who have pledged them
selves TO appear i'm the benefit at the ly-
Ceum are Otis Skinner who will make the
opening address, Lewis Waller, who VIII
give a recitation; George Cohan, in special
songs. and clifton Crawford, I'm a mono
logue Perclval Knight Sybil Klein. Ar
thur Klein and j. II. Metcalfe will appear
i'm a sketch entitled Detective Keen" Mr..
Campbell Gullan, the Thomas of the
"Bunty Pulls the Strings" company, will
appear in a one-act play Eddie Foy and
group of the prettiest girls in his COM
pany will give scene from over the
River" Beatrice Herford will render one
OF her inimitable monoogues Gertrude
Bryan and the ballet from Little Boy
/ Ilue" will do the "Flirt" scene from that
opeTetta. Mrs. Edward l.. kidder has
written special sketch, in which will APP
pear Mary Nash, Amelia Bingham, Alice
Fisher, Molly Pearson C"Bunty'O, Selena
johnson, Laura Burt, Lillian Thurgate'
Jessie Glendening, Ann Warrington, Ida
Waterman, Ruth Boucicault, John w.
Cope, Carleton Macy, Edwin Holt and Ed
win Arden
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
cJosrNA NoUlANo
Winter Garden

Mary NJ England and the proclamation ~
sovereignty at Debit Is reproduced with ac-
curacy i'm the marvellous color films. All
the films were taken by royal command,
and the extraordinary facilities afforded ny
the government to the Kinemacolor OK
Uerts. combined with the wonders Of the
process. make them one of the greatest
series Of motion pictures ever produced. An
effective musical accompaniment and the
explanatory chat Of Mr.. Lawrence Grant
add TO the interest Of the pictures.
Ben Greet still continues to narrate tho
words Of Sophocless tragedy, "CEdipus
Rex" with the natural color motion picture
arrangement OF that drama, which was
presented for the first time I'm America last
Monday evening at the Kincmacolor Thea
tire. i'm 10th street. The piece has had a
long run at the scala Theatre. London, and
present indications point To a long run In
New York. The Greek play occupies half
OF the evening the other part Of the en-
tertalnment including color films of the
Oxford Cambridge boat race and athletic
meet, the great motorboat races at Burn
ham-on- Crouch and n beautiful representa-
tion Of Niagara Falls.
Robes Knickcrbockcrs come 20 the
Murray Hin Theatre this week presenting
two one-act burlesques. called The Love
Kiss" and Casey the Piper" The organi-
zatiOn is headed by Roger Imhof and in
cludes James Lake, Hugh Conn. Duff and
Walsh. Marcelle Leslie. Carol Schroeder,
Suzanne Corinne, Harry Saubcr and others,
and there is an attractive chorus made up
entirely Of girls. Two musical numbers in
this show are specialized as features, They
are called "The Danydi Bugs" and The
Naughty YugooboO.
Tho Winter Garden offers a double on
tcrtainment-"A Night with the Picrrots'
and "Whlrl Of Society" The combination OF
white-face minstrelsy and the satire on so
ciety, with score of lively musical num-
bers interspersed, has proved to be popular
with amuse sement seekers. The internation-
al features OF the entertainment will be
enhanced this week by the appearance Of
Mile Bert Angere. assisted by Miss Nora
Lyons, I'm the sensational Captive Dance ~
Mile Angere could not appear last week,
as the scenery for her part of the enter
tainment was not completed. However she
will positively appear for the first time in
America tomorrow evening. The famous
Winter Garden star cast, including Stella
Mayhew, Lawrance D'Orsay, Al Jolson'
Blossom seeley, Jose Collins, Melville Ellis,
Barney Bernard. Kathleen Clifford, Martin
Brown, Jobyna Rowland, Courtenay Sisters.
Mildred Elaine, Clarence Harvey, Melissa
Ten Eyck, Ernest Hare, Laura Hamilton
and Doris Cameron, is seen in both parts
of the entertainment
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10

ed to be something else besides smudE.
| wanted 10 get laughs legit!mstely--'lt .,
good. legitimate comedy work. Ana
think | have succeeded. At least, | hope
have.
While | was trying to induce my man
ayers to let me work in whitetace he'e.
worried for a minute about II, Tor Ah,
that sooner or later | would nave 'n'
chance. don't believe in worry, you KnU"'
Il don't look it. either do |? ! wee"
more than 10 pounds, ana | don't ul ~ :,
get thin. | believe in taking good care -
myself but I refuse TO try any tat =.
ducing remedies. ] may be rotund' piUinr
stout or anything else but I'm glad o' ~
anyway. 49,.
so. YOU see my transition from VIZ.
hlackface comedienne To the wht'iS
lady of society which | play now nas
made me feel happier than anything e,.
has before. We are paying of tue fhO''
gage at New Rochelle, and then so"s :.
Billee and one of these days are s"l"s
quit work and have a real rest, ah''
tween YOU and me, the day is coming a'Vn
soon real rest You know wha' W
n,eansq II means sitting down To ,V''
Portable dinner in far-away. me I''
and not having To get up tlil y""
through"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
NEWMAN TRAVELTALkS.

T.. NJ. Newman has selected SCOTLAND
and Wales for The subject of his travel
talk at Carnegie Hall tonight la tlhs
tour Mr. Newman will bring before hls
fellow travellers in oolored Views ana III"
tion' pictures, the picturesque sections de
scribed by Scotland's poets. Burns ana
Scott Around Ayr. the birthplace %
Burns the route taken by Tam Shah-
ter Ia his famous ride, In Burnss best
known poem of that name, Will be toi-
lowed, showing the Brig o Douh ana o'ue'
familiar places In the country ol 'ne
Trossachs Lochs Katrine ana Lorhonu, tn'
section described in SCOTS "i.ady OF tnr
Lake" Rob Roy" and other works VII
he travelled over. En- route stop VIII
be- made at Abbotsford, the home of TIC
novelist FinCal's cave is one of the sight
to be included In Wales llh'elh Aoo,'
viii bc shown. as an example of the west
coast ruins and natural scenery of un-
Usual haailtu will hA SAAsaA
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
Gertrude J9ornes at Bellh 8 Proctor9
5@ Aye Jbeatre. lilo CI7| @o7"7" o'
.zZe ~ZH-.Izzz,z I35X .

(Which one Of us does not break INTO
singing or even whstlinG. dozen or two
times a day? 1t is involuntary and OK
presses the rhythm in us.
yet the difficulty in bringing this idea
properly into the drama is evident. Even
though | believe music is a great factor
in everyday life. feel that it is widespread
and subtle and hard to locate.
Il used music in a little stage sketch /
wrote called The Dream and ] also used
it in Prunclla.' / think it was in place in
both of these and added a good deal to
their effect"
Asked whether he preferred writing books
to writing plays. Mr.. Galsworthy let his
final choice rest with books.
You can express yourself more fully. goa
can be more impossible and realize your
fancy more" he explained. revealing with
out intending it his poetic tendency. "A
play has its limitation as to form. YOU
see. \ book has no limitations whatever"
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10

/ drawn from it all that is best and most
useful to him.
As To the acting, il was altogether ad-
mirable, so good, in fact, that one even for
got the presence Of a translation which is
far from perfect. IT is almost Impossible
among performances Of such equal merit
10 single out any particular one as better
than the others. The Hamlet however. OF
VI Katschaloff was undoubtedly the most
notable performance OF the evening. In his
rendering the character gained much by q
broader and simpler treatment than is
usual Ills moments Of passion we're ad-
m'rab'v concentrated and thrown into re-
lief b, 2 manner winch was otherwise re-
p,seCul and disuihed making his determi-
nation more Criuly resolute and less freh-
Ziod In the character Of Polonius VI.
|J.ushkv was particularly noteworthy. his
INTERPRETATION was most interesting com
bination ~ sonile im6eCility and low cum
ming The King cf Massaltinon and the
Queen Of Mime. Knipper were both adml-
rabIy acted and Mile. Gsowska as Ophela
was extremely touching in the mad scene
II there was any fault to lind i'm per-
formancc Of such remarkable excellence
throughout 1t was that the slowness OF die
tion and restraint Of action were AT times
a little over er-emphasizcd. But this. after
all, is a fault in the right direction. Alto
gether the production is remarkable tri-
umph for Mr.. Craig, and it is impossible
to say how wide an effect such complete
Iy realized success OF his theories may have
on the theatre OF Europe. Finally. the Ut
NEST credit is due to NJ. Stanislawski ana
his able management in the first place Tor
undertaking To carry out Mr.. Craig's ideas,
and. In the second place. FOR the energy
they have exerted in their realization That
Mr. Craig has won great personal tri-
umph in Moscow is perhaps NJ. Stanis-
lawski's best reward. The Times, London
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
DICKENS PoRTRAYALs.

Frank SpeaIght, who Is cai',u ,,,. /.
lands Greatest interpreter Of pi'H'"
win make his nrst New York appear
an Tuesday at Carnegie I.yceum. lie - -
IiracT % from his London season. brinsn,s
s,y,e Of dramatic recital. which hs nas ,n,
made popular In England TINS "n,'s VIM in
recitals are practically dramat.zSuo, n,o,
which all OF Dickens's story lha' ats.
he acted Is omitted. No costune ., an
up is used Mr. Spealght depahui"s 200,
facial expression alone In the si'sl,d nssId
the same version of David Coppsilf
viii be given as Charles Dickens n, ,,rx
used in his readings. and In the e, s.ns.
"pickwick, with the famous tTlsi s'
Will hs The programpaA
New-York tribune., 1912-03-10
STAGE NOTES.

You may dramatize any other religion
than our own IL you are an Englishman
They are doing a play called "Buddha" in
London. Mrs. James Brown Potter is the
principal actress In II.
When the banned play The Corona
ton" by Christopher ST. John and Charles
Thursby. Was privately produced In London
recently Israel Zangwill whose latest play
The Next Religion" was also banned by
the censor. wired 10 the producers: Sue
cess To- The Coronation God save the
king! God help the censOr!" Mr.. Zangwlls
play will be- produced IN this country next
season.
The steady flow OF European plays to the
American stage is beginning to he Offset
by = counter current OF American plays set
ting Europeward. Margaret Mayos Baby
Mine" has been played in Berlin all winter
and has now Just bcen translated into
Danish George Broadhurst has received
an offer for the Russian rights Of Bought
and Paid For" These are the latest In the
counter current. .tss- is.S sS--~S.asS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15

The people of Maine may wonder
if Mr.. Haines would allow a concern
with which the State was doing bust
ness to more than double its charges
under the provisions of perfectly
plain contract-and get away with It,.
and Maine folk may be quite sure
that Mr.. Haines as governor of the
State, would allow no deal to go on
under the provisions of contract
which the Supreme Court had declar-
ed void
Neither would Mr. Haines as COVER
nor for one moment countenance the
continuance in office of any public
official directly or indirectly interest
ed in a concern in contract with the
State.
1t will seem to the public that Mr..
Haines is in much better moral stand
ing than is any member of the ring
controlling the organ which is SO
hastily attacking him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
Some of Stevens Economies"

when 1t came to running the State Of
Maine the Democrats were totally In
capable - absolutely lost" said Mr..
Haines at Saco this week. For particu-
lars of Democratic incapacity in running
the State of Maine, see the monthly re-
port of State Auditor Stevens, showing
the economies effected and the reduce
tons month by month made in the in
debtedness piled up by the preceding
Republican administraton-an indebted
ness that was the monument to Republic
can capacity for running the affairs of
the State.-Portland Argus.
Can you tell us, dear Argus, if Mr..
Stevens is likely to embody in his
next monthly campaign document,
the State printing graft-the States
money in the use of private parties;
money advanced by State officials to
a private concern to buy the stock for
State work? There is real economy"
fol you-or, rather, for the Pattan-
gall-Davis printing plant.
Expert Stevens says iii is matter
of bookkeeping in the auditors de-
partment," that arranges these splen-
did economies.
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What Plaisted Wants.

AT Houlton Governor Plaisted said:
II want the next Legislature to unite
on some proposition to submit TO the peo-
pie for their approval the ultimate aim
of which viii be To preserve prohibition
i'm certain localities which desire prohi-
bition and TO substitute reasonable req
ulation of the iiduor traffic for nulliuca-
ton in local cities which do not desire
prohibition"
And in another breath the Govern
or said he trusts the people.
Governor Plaisted trusted the peo-
pie last year until they upset his
booze wagon and then he tried to de-
feat the verdict Of the people.
Now re is trusting the people"
again trusts that if he is given one
more chance he may give the booze
makers some return for their money
by the public declaration of his de-
sires, Governor Plaisted has plainly
shown that If reelected he viii de-
vote another two years to the Ser.
vice of the rum rnst.--he wants the
next Legislature to make some kline
OF law that the United states Brew.
ers Association and the Nationa
Wholesale Liapof Dealers Association
would be pleased with.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
Landscape Art in Japan.

kinto, that city of the soul, is the
paradise of lovers of landscape art For
more than thousand years the great
est gardeners wrought their MASTER
pieces there, and their creations en-
9ure. The city. lying In the long, level
valley Of the Kamogawa. has an adj
mirable landscape setting, the eontin-
nous, wooded hills of the cast and west
eonyerging aud breaking into the foot
hills of the noble mountain that domi-
mates the north. to form a compost
ton worthy of the greatest of land
seape artists.
Along the base of the eastern hills
stretches a five-mile chain of temples.
incnasteries and villas, each with
garden or many gardens within it's
walls. On the other side of the city
there is another such combination of
religious and landscape beauty three
miles in length. In addition. there are
innumerable palace and temple gar
dens distributed over the level city
One temple compound covers twenty
acres, and it's eighteen monasteries
have many separate garden courts
Century.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
Lightning singes Mans whiskers.

About $50 Monday afternoon, light
ming struck the new house recently
built by Joseph A. Noyes on High
sstreet, South Paris, and occupied but
short time. Mrs. Moves was
thrown from her chair in which
she was sitting. Mr.. Noyes' whiskers
and face were singed. Chairs We're
overturned. The chimney was demol-
ished. The -four barrel was partially
burned. The coffee can WAS perforated
aud the Joints in funnel We're separat-
ed. Castings, window stills were splin
tered and torn. No glass was broken,
but considerable plastering was torn
off and joists were split. Fire caught
under the sink but by the good luck
of having a tub of rain water, the fire
was put out the tub being near the
door. The fact was Thoroughly dem
onstrated that quick as lightning
at times means destruction. The
house and furniture were insured.
Large holes We're torn in the roof
where the bolts came through.
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get reelected than they do attending
10 the duties for which they are well
paid. When a man has been the
ranking member of two important
committees for years. public buildings
and census, and any member of Con-
pgress hasn't heard of him, the fact
is its own comment as to that mem
Der.
Thus far MIR. Gardner has intro
duced his Express bill. which was
TO bring him undYing pain. OF course
the Senate refused to consider it Sc
riously and even the Democratic
House would have none of it. These
closing days of Congress are worth
while. Many of the most important
bills of the session are being consid-
cred and acted upon. A senator's place
is in the Senate chamber. He is paid
sufficient salary for his services,
Senator Gardiner Is receiving SI50o
per year (not to mention allowancesl
or several times as much as he even
received before in his life, or even
will again. and instead OF attending
to the duties for which he is SO lib
orally compensated. he is paving
the earth, trying to belittle man
who has done things. in his useless
s'russ'e ioi o.
Vassalboro. Aug. II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
The Only Democratic Comfort.

The Wateryllle Sentinel accuses
Hon. William T. Haines of working
in "the interest of one William T..
Haines." while he was attorney-gen-
eral Of Maine. The Pattangall organ
might reflect that no one has ever ac-
cused mir Haines of devoting the
principal part of his labors when at
torncy- general to the interests of out
of State booze makers and sellers.
Mr.. Haines has never been given to
sending money out of Maine, and GER
tainlv he has never advised the peo-
pie OF Male to send their savings to
the liquor interests for investment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
Grandma Hayden Is Going Some.

The Long Island correspondent OF
the Portland Express-Advertiser. in
Tuesdays issue. had the following:
of the thousands of people Who saw
Atwoed's airship last week, few if
any. were older than Grandma Hay
den. aged So. She came with her
daughter, Mrs Charles Howard Of
Auburn to the 1-1o-29th Regiment
Cottage and there, for the first time
in her life. climbed on board a sail
boat, and enjoyed sailing trip in a
sloop, Even if she didn't see the hy
dro-aeroplane fly. she took great inter-
est in watching the craft in the water.
On her return to the barracks, she
showed her nimblenss and her spirits
by dancing an old-fashioned waltz
with Mrs Matte Libby. She closed
her day with a motor boat trip to
Town Landing, Falmouth Foreside,
where she is spending part of the
summer
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Woman Rewarded for Sherman
Gfays Capture.

Sheriff 4. Herbert White of Penob-
scot county has paid to Mrs. Susan
Hall of Brooks the $500 reward which
he personally had offered ITO the per-
son. or persons. who will deliver Sher-
man Gray to the authorities" In add
dition to this, Sheriff White gave
Deputy Sheriff w. O Estes OF Brooks,
who actually made the arrest, the
sum of SO. A like amount was given.
to George A. Jones, proprietor of the
hotel at Monroe WING telephoned the
sheriff's office that GRAY had been
there. 1t was upon this information
that the sheriff and his party started
from Bangor in an@ automobile tho
night Of Gray's capture, and it was
no. until they reached Mr.. Jones ho-
tel that they learned Gray had actu-
ally been taken. The capture, in fact.
was effected during the time they were
speeding over the roads toward Mon
roe. The circumstances attending
Gray's capture We're such that the
payment of the reward which Sheriff
White had offered became a some
what delicate matter. It was adjust
ed, howver, to the satisfaction of ey-
cryone concerned and after full con-
sultatiOn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-15
Where Wild Ducks Find Paradise.

Over in Hancock county there is a.
place. according to the Otis cores
pendent of the Bangor News, where
wild ducks do their billing and cooling
and rear their young. free from care.
and where fear of man is unknown.
Here is what he says OF this wild
fowls Paradise: AT the Warren
farm which is near ponds and
streams. ducks of all kinds and ages,
are daily companions for visitors at
this quiet resort, who watch their am
tics ard play from the shore. In the
early evening they travel from one
haunt to another, making friendly adj
vanees, talking in their duck Ian
guasc, going and coming. Often the
pretty things will bring their young
near for food that is always ready
for them. Much concern is felt for
their safety when a stray gunner is
seen in the vicinity"