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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
C. A. GOSSIP

The Fort Madison Gea City IA.
the following 10 sy Of George
Wheeler who sill TT CIT with TIE
Eganites this spring:
George Wheeler. the vel knozn
athlete. who occupisa the space BE-
hind the bat for the Fort Madison
baseball team lat Summer. lezyes
this evening Hor Davenport Nhe-e
he will try oct with the Ottnm7a
team of the Ceatral Association for
the same position. He will be corR-
peting with come OF the fastest pro.
fessionals In this part of the country
but the faf.s who admired his finishes
work of backstopping during the past
season aae confident that he zIll
iTtick With the proteges OF Manager
Ned Egan.
Kewanee will not report their mer
until around the 18th of April. No
tices have been sent the men advising
them &c show themselves about the
middle of next week, the exact time
TO BE- made known to them later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-03
Thomas Sheraton did not
= care to become rich.

He made beautiful furniture for the love
of it. Probably if he had been more com
mercial and less of poet in wood, he would
have been forgotten a century ago. AS it is
he left his name to the ages.
The Berkey & Gay Furniture Company,
whose product we sell here exclusively, makes
some Sheraton pieces that do credit to the In
f1uence of that master.
Sheraton is a style that possesses rare ele-
gance when properly executed, otherwise it IS
hopeless. The Berkey & Gay pieces more
than satisfy connoisseurs. Expert critics com
ment upon them in magazine articles.
Any woman who contemplates the pur-
chase of furniture should favor herself by com
ing here and looking at the Sheraton pieces
we show, direct from the Berkey & Gay shops.
Nobody else can show these pieces.
Selections from Berkey & Gay and other
lines on our floors.
Invite All Trustworthy Peopleto Open Charge Accounts
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Joke OF ENGLISH JUDGE
Found Scotsman's Case so Exceptional
That He Excused Him From
Jury Duty.

Summoned to serve upon a special
jury In the kings bench division, Sir
George Douglas Of Springwood Park,
Kelso, who has town house in En-
nismore gardens, asked Mr.. Justice
Darling to excuse him from service
on the ground that he had not occu-
pied the latter place for a year and
half. He said he had come from
Scotland in answer to the summons
and wished to return at once.
Mr.. Justice Darling-Have you
served on juries in Scotland?
Sir George have never done SO,
but | am liable.
Mr.. Justice Darling-Do you want to
go back to Scotland?
Sir George-Yes.
Mr.. Justice Darling-When do you
want to go back?-because thought
that Scotsmen never wanted to go
back to Scotland. Oaughter.)
Sir George want to go back i'm
mediately-tomorrow II / can.
Mr.. Justice Darling-As a tempta-
tion to stay you may earn guinea
II you care, but in the circumstances
a Scotsman wishing to return to Scot
land when he might make money in
England being so exceptlonal-I think
/ will excuse you. (Renewed laugh
ter.)-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
DEFENDING THE GUILTY MAN
Frederick A. Browns Story illustrates
the Conditions That Sometimes
Confront the Lawyer.

Frederick A. Brown, we'll known
Chicago lawyer told the following
story at recent dinner:
Attorneys are frequently asked
how they can defend men whom they
know to be guilty. The reply Is that
we seldom II ever know that they are
guilty. l once, however, became the
unwilling attorney OF man whom /
knew to be guilty.
81 was in Judge Brentano's court.
waiting for a trial to be called, when
a negro was brought in. charged with
highway robbery. Judge Brentsno,
finding that he had no attorney, d.
rected me, against my protest TO de-
fend him.
81 took the colored man aside and
said Well are you guilty. and to my
surprise he replied, Well, boss, they
found the pocketbook on me and have
twenty witnesses to prove it. He then
went on to tell me that he had
snatched a woman's pocketbook on
Thirty-ninth street and Cottage Grove
avenue on a Saturday afternoon, ran
west in Thirty.ninth street, turned up
an alley. with a crowd after him, who
caught him as he was getting over
six.foot board fence
"In looking at the indictment
found that he was indicted under the
habitual criminal act, under which he
could be sent to the penitentiary for
forty years. returned to the court
room and insisted that Judge Bren-
tano should appoint some other lawyer.
which he refused to do. then made
the proposition to the prosecutor that
II he would waive the habitual crimi-
nal count would have my man plead
guilty and save the cost Of a trial.
"This was agreed to, the darky was
delighted, pleaded guilty, and received
the minimum sentence. After 1t was
all over the darky turned to me and
said Boss, that was so easy that I
believed II, you half tried you would
have got me clean on"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Peculiar Western Banks.

The difference between the Amer
lean east and west so strongly empha.
sized by rhetoricians and meteorolo
gists extends even to the banking sys,
TEN. In the west they lend money on
reputation, in the east on security.
On a day in June last, six little banks
In Seattle had lent on individual OF
firm notes without any other security
than the names $S,597 900; while the
whole national bank group in New
York had lent on similar paper only
a little more than $9,000000. On that
same day, in San Francisco, the loans
of this sort amounted to more than
$47,0O0,0O0
The western system is one of credit
based upon industry, and upon much
closer and more accurate knowledge
Of the man himself than can ever be
possible in the bigger eastern cities
Worlds Work.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
NEW WAY OF SAVING MONEY
How a Number Of Working Girls Are
Accumulatlng a Fund for
Vacation Trips.

Some girls working in a certain
trust company have organized most
unusual method of saving money for
their vacation trips. Two Of the girls
out of the thirty-flve that have en-.
tered into the plan are appointed trus'
tees, and the first Saturday in July
(any month can be chosen) each girl
pays Just two cents. With thirty-flve
girls that makes seventy cents, which
is duly deposited by the trustees in
the bank,
Beginning with the week following,
the assessment grows to four cents
then six cents the next week, and so
on. increasing two cents each week,
but the increase is so very gradual
that Il is no great effort to put the
amount away.
The following June the money is
drawn out and each girl receives the
amount that she has paid in, which
would be $3.50, the saving beginning
in July plus about 81 interest. You
will readily see that the amount saved
will provide a girl with a nice two
weeks vacation and 1t is almost like
finding money. Until Christmas,
when they need money most, the as.
sessments are nominal, the big" ones
coming In Lent, when one does not
need so much spending money.
As the rule was made in the begin.
ming that anyone who failed to pay
would lose what she had already put
In, everyone makes 1t point to pay
promptly. One good clause in the
laws stipulates that II any girl loses
her position or marries she can with.
draw the amount that she has put in.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
German Court Balls.

In the German court balls not ali
those who are invited are permitted to
take part in the dances which the
Kaiser witnesses.
The Kaiser has no love for "the
quick and slovenly." Many months
before the ball the selected couples
rehearse the dances under the direc.
ton of Fraulein Gasperni, mistress OF
the court ballet. The Kaiserin criti.
cises freely the ladies and gentlemen
who show any shortcomings. The or
dinary rehearsals take place in one
Of the chambers OF the palace, but the
final rehearsal is held on the eve OF
the ball, at the residence of one of the
invited.
The Princesses royal carry trains
held by two pages, but the other la.
dies have to manage their own. For
married ladies the length prescribed
is about II feet 6 inches. the trains
of the other ladies being rather more
than half yard less.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Allen Property Holders.

The law Of the land respects the
right Of citizen and alien alike to have
and to hold property. The alien res
ldent in the United States may dis
pose OF his property by will with the
same feeling of security as the Ameri.
can. This is equally true Of the
allen who has taken steps to make
himself q citizen Of the country.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Centre Street at Elm, Oil City, Pa.
Whittall Rugs.


We handle Wha Rugs and Carpets from 6 years.
ience they the best without exception.
wearing
home, Whttan Rugs luxury.
senddly Whttal products, stock
variety
we invite your inspection.
The Leading Whittall Rugs.
ANGLoPERSIANhe
s-a11o $780, $780,
ROYAL woRCESTERThe quality
s-sx1o $780, s4soo $74oo
BRUSSELExampe feet
$3.50; s2S75; $3.50;
Whittall Carpetings
Have qualities patterns
ongs coings every
the
Body Brussels in Carpet bordera and match
Full line of Whitar Matchess WItons o match rugs
Whital Pushes plain colo o exquisite beauty
Range of price from s1s6 1886 per yard
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Newspaper Comes First.

Men may read the newspaper hur
riedly, but they are never too hurried
to read 1t. The newspaper covers IN
terests that they cannot neglect. A
magazine will safely bear neglect for
month or two. But nobody wants to
overlook today's newspaper.-Print-
Ars' Ink.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Good for Evil,

A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this,
that when the injury began on his
part the kindness should begin on
ours.-Tillotson.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
A Sign.

Whenever two pretty girls kiss each
other It is sign that there is some
thing wrong with the system Of con.
serving our natural resources.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Women That Need Rest.

1t Is not the women who work who
need rest cures, but those who are
worn out doing nothing, and doing II
badly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27

Mr.. Naggitt-It was a good thing for
Jonah that you weren't his wife.
Mrs. Naggitt-Why so?
Mr.. Naggitt-You would never have
accepted that whale story as an excuse
or staying away from home for three
lays and nights.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-11-27
Followed Each Other Closely.

Knicker-"Do you have new cook
often" Slbbubs-"We have them
close enough together to be twins
Puck.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
The Rebuke of the Governors.

tFrom the Richmond Virginian.)
The resolution adopted by the Con-
ference of Governors yesterday sig
nifying the disagreement of its mem
bers with the anarchistic sentiments
of Governor Blease, of South Caroli-
ma, and expressive of their belief in
the sacrcdness of the peoples laws
voices the sentiment of all the law
abiding citizens of the United States.
Governor Mann's resolution which
was adopted, while moderate in tone,
is clear and emphatic. The people of
all the States of the Union will en-
dorse the language. "All the States
because we believe that the law-abid-
ing people of South Carolina are in
the majority, though for some rea-
sons, good or bad, best known to
themselves, they have seen fit to
elect to high office the man whom
those resolutions rebuke.
Governor Blease may declare his
unconcern that he is the object of the
disapproval and the censure of repre-.
sentatives of the vast proportion OF
the people of this nation, but if this
declaration be not pretense Cole
Blease is a worse man than ever
his enemies were inclined to believe
him to be.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
The Ringing Roll of Dixie"
Crank L. Staunton, Atlanta Consti-
tution.)

Crank L. Staunton, Atlanta Consti-
tution.)
The old brigades march slower now
the boys who wore the gray
But there's life and battle spirit in a
host O. them today!
They hear their comrades calm from
the white tents far away,
And answer with the ringing roll of
"Dixiew
They feel the old time thrill of it
the battle plains they see
And they charge with Jackson and
face the fight with Lee;
And the shoutin' hills are answered
by the thunder of the sea
When they rally to the ringing roll
of "DiXie"
The battle fields are voiceless-once
wet with crimson rain;
Der unknown graves of heroes wave
golden fields of grain;
But phantom forms-the leap tc
life and cheer the ranks again,
For answering to the ringing call OF
"Dixie!
Beat, drums, the old time chorus, and
bugles, blow your best;
And wave, o Flags, they loved sc
we'll above each war scared breast!
Till THEY vanish down the valley tc
their last eternal rest,
Still answering to the ringing roll OF
"DiXieW
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Premier Carrier of the South
Schedules frem Union, South Carolina

Schedules frem Union, South Carolina
WEST BOUND
No. 9-For Spartanburg, Asheville,
Knoxville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Bir-
mingham and points west, 9:20 a. m.
No. 27-Carolina Special to Ashe-
vile, Knoxville, Cincinnati and all
points west and northwest, 3.07 p. m.
No. 13-For Spartanburg and Ashe-
vile, 3:45 p. IN.
No. 41-For Spartanburg and local
stations, $40 p. m.
EAST BOUND.
No. 42.-For Columbia and local
points, 900 a. m.
No. 14.--For Columbia and local
points, IL :55 a. m.
No. 28.-Carolina Special for Co
lumbia and Charleston, 2:37 p. m.
No. 10--For Columbia, Charleston,
Savannah and Jacksonville, 9:22 p. m.
Nos. 27 and 28-Carolina Special
Through electric lighted train, CON
sisting of day coaches, Pullman cars
and observation car between Charles
ton and Cincinnati.
For further information call on To-
cal agent, or address l.. d. Robinson
C. p. & T "A, S. H. Mclean, d. P. A..
Columbia, S. c.; w. r. MCGEE, A. G.
p. A., Columbia S. c.; S. H. Hard.
wick, P. T. NJ, E. H. Coapman, v. p
& G. NJ, Washington, d. G.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
MistOok His Audience.

(From the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot.) J
South Carolina's Governor evident
ly has the courage Of his conviction
that convicts are on the whole rather
superior to the average law-abiding
citizen. Before the Conference of
Governors at Richmond he faunted
his sympathy with crime and Grim
inals without an apparent idea that
his sentiments aroused nothing but
disgust among his auditors. His ad-
dress would doubtless have been re-
ceived with applause if delivered to
the inmates of the Virginia peniten-
tiary.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
South Carolina Has the Nation
Sympathy"

South Carolina Has the Nations
Sympathy"
(From the Atlanta Journal.)
Our good neighbors of South Caro-
lima have the sympathy of the entire
Union, and especially of the South,
over having been represented by such
a swashbuckler and demagogue as the
person who now happens to be their
Chief Executive.
They find it intolerable enough, we
are sure, to have Bease at home, but
what must be their chagrin when he
ventures abroad.
There are few men of even his type
who are so thoroughly lost to every
sense of decency that they would pur,
posely seek to disgrace their Com.
monwealth at great national gath.
ring.
He is not only coarse and dema.
gogic and anarchistic, but he is boast
full of being so; he is defiant TOWARD
the law and toward the most reas
sured traditions of his State.
South Carolina is, indeed, to be
pitied.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
Not Wanted.
(From the Buffalo Enquirer)

NTTUTII IHe DUH dIU EHQuITeTI
The speech of Governor Blease was
an insult to the assembled Governors.
South Carolina lacks the virtue either
to defeat Blease at the polls or turn
him out of Office he shows himself
unfit to fill. The blouse Of Govern
ors," however, should have the virtue
to command him to absent himself
from it's sessions.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13

Miss Bette West of Jonesville is
visiting Mrs. Robert G. Williams.
Mrs. J. II. Danner and children
have returned from visit 10 rela-
tives at Seneca.
Mrs. F. M. Whitlock of Santuc is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. o. E.
Smith.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
the consequences to God"

the consequences to God"
No more accurate description of
Cole Blease, Governor of South Caro-
lima, could be written. But how long
are the people of that unfortunate
State to tolerate the Blease type of
public official? Has no South Caro-
lina's humiliation at Richmond been
sufficient lesson?
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
Railroad Man is Killed.

Greenville, Dec. 9.-J. l.. Hunnicutt,
a we'll known railroad construction
engineer of Chattanooga was killed
this morning near the city by a
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13
South Cardinals Humiliation.
(From the New York WORLDLY

Lincoln used to tell about the
Southern orator who mounted the
platform, threw back his head, shined
his eyes, opened his mouth and left
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-12-13

freight train. The engineer was di-
recting gang of workmen when he
was struck by the locomotive, being
knocked 40 or more feet and instantly
killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
Peace and Heroism.
len. H. NJ. chittenden, in the Forum

Gen. II. M. Chittenden, in the Forum.
While war, in the very nature Of things,
abounds in opportunities for valorous
exploits. and its every deed is written
large on the page Of history. the humber
and quieter sphere Of private life affords
even more keener opportunities for the
display Of true heroism. The physician
or nurse who voluntarily goes into a
plague-stricken district, the miner who
braves the fire damp to rescue his i'm
at their posts while their vessel is sink
ing, the fireman who scales q tottering
wall to save a human life, the patrolman
who enters q den Of desperadoes at I'M
minent personal Eisenhower. in the
pursuance of duty, no matter how
humble, subordinates his personal safety
to that Of duty-is as much entitled to
the commentator of heroism as q soldier
who does his duty in war can possibly
be.
War against physical nature and the
evils Of human nature, and their ultimate
subjugation to the intellectual and spirit
ual dominion of man, constitute q strug-
gle which will give ample scope to the
energies OF the race beyond our remotest
ken. We cannot even guess its ul-
innate possibilities. but so long as
there are mountain barriers to be
overcome. floods to be controlled. deserts
and swamps to be reclaimed. or SO Ions
as men are denied equal opportunities.
than q historic meaning. man need not
feel that war Il necessary to call forth
the best there Is in him. The age of
true heroism. the age Of the ideal "stren-
uous life'-when some philosopher of the
distant future shall write history of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29
The French Drift Cityward.

From the New York Tribune
France appears Enthusiastically to have
Joined in the cityward drift Of population
which in late years has been clearly oh.
served in other countries, including the
United States. The returns of last years
In 1906 the total population was IS, 252,
243: ina911 it was 80. 6O1 500, the increase
Of 348, 264 being q Enthusiastically un-
satisfactory rate of growth. In thirty.
five years the actual increase from al
sources has been only 1905, 721, or almost
the population Of Germany has increased
nearly Al per cent. The circumstance OF
present interest is. however. that in the
last five years the increase of France &
urban population has been considerably
greater than that of the whole country.
Thus. in the Department Of the Seine.
which is practically all urban, the in
crease was SOC. 424. or about 81 per cent
of the whole national increase. In twenty
three departments, being those containing
the large cities and towns. there was an
increase, while In the remaining sixty
four there was decrease. In large
number of departments, moreover, there
was q loss either as a whole or, at any
rate. in the rural part, while there was q
gain in the chief town. Thus in lille ct
Vilaine the population Of the whole de-
partment decreased by 3.7O7, while that
Of its capital town Of Rennes increased
by 3.732.
This movement cannot be considered
salutary. 1t does not mean an influx Of
foreigners to the Industrial centers, be-
cause the number of foreigners domiciled
In the republic Is steadily decreasing. but
1t Enthusiastically means that the French
themselves are drifting from country to
city. There is q strange irony. too. in the
circumstance that young Frenchmen
should be forsaking the land. when 1t was
for their sake that the land system was
adopted which has largely induced the
slow increase Of population.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-29

From Engineering.


Some interesting information about the
history OF the match industry was given
in the first meeting of the Chemical So
ciety Of this season by Mr.. e. G. Clayton
in paper on ''The Characteristics and
Chemical Composition Of Some Early
Matches" Chemical matches, compounds
like sulphuric acid and CELEBRATES. which
would ignite on being mixed, were used
more than hundred years ago; q phos-
phorus compound, ignited by friction, Is
supposed to have been introduced by
Derosne of Paris in 1916.
Mr.. Clayton spoke Of matches which he
had been able to anaiyze, and he con-
sidered many generally accredited state
ments to be Inaccurate. Samuel Jones
introduced "Promethean" matches in
1S28 They were chemical matches con-
tanning chlorate, sulphur and lycopodium,
and in the small glass tube sulphuric
acid. He also made friction lights" In
1882, containing sulphur. anthony sui
phide. chlorate. iron oxide and gum. and
called them "lucifers."
But friction lights were previously
made in 1926 by John Walker; these were
coated with sulphur and ignited by being
drawn through the sandpaper. Phos-
on the box, so-called ''congreves," were
probably introduced by Sir w. Congreye,
the inventor Of the war rocket, early in
the thirties. They were chiefly taken up
under that name in Germany and In
Austria, and contained. In addition to in
gradients already mentioned, frequently
nitrates. powdered glass. chalk, starch
and a blue dye. Phosphoric cigar light
ers came from Vienna early in the fifties.
The chlorate, we may add. was, about
1885, replaced by lead oxide. which
Preshel (Vienna) mixed with nitric acid
and dried; strips Of red phosphorus paper
were manufactured by Bottger in 1913;
but they did not find favor until rein
troduced from Sweden.