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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-18

district in the state today. LaFol-
lette's local managers claim that all
surface indications point to big vic
tory for their leader. They declare
that if sentiment in other sections is
anything like that exhibited where
LaFollette has spoken. he is certain
of a big victory. He has spoken to
about $4,000 people.
The Roosevelt campaigners con-
tinue confident and declare that while
many people have become excited over
the visit of LaFollette, the express
sions OF approval he received would
have been but as drop in the bucket
compared to the reception that would
have been extended to Roosevelt had
he come to North Dakota.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-18
! Spring hunnors

0HluS HulaeVS
Come to most people and cause many
troubles. -pimples hoils and other
eruptions, besides lossSot appetite. that
tired feeling, biliousness. indigestion
and headache.
better and the way to get rid Of them
and to build up the system is to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla
as shown by unequaled. radical and
permanent cures.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-18

Who have best teeth?
We Americans. Why?
If you say it is due to
Wrigley's H2zEz0z we will
admit we have helped some.
We want to help more. We'd
like to help you.
This mint leaf CONNECTION
brlghtens, cleanses and
preserves teeth - partly by
friction - partly by the mint
leaf juice.
Yes, it purifies breath -
sharpens appetite - aids
digestion. But we're talking
of teeth. 1t helps millions of
teeth every minute.
Help yourself your teeth
and enjoy the refreshing juice
of fresh mint leaves.
Buy it by the Box,
of any dealer. 1t costs less
Look for the spear The flavor lasts
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Evening star., 1912-11-07
Opening an Cid Corner Stone.

from Zion : Herald.
An interesting service took place a
few days ago at Portsmouth, y. H, in
connection with the opening of the re-
ceptacle that was in the cornerstone
of the old church, which was sold,
when il was voted to build new edi-
fee up town. Il was picture of three
quarters of a century ago that was
brought before the mind of the people
as they took out the articles one by one.
Among them was copy of lions
Herald dated October 25, 1926. There
was a quantity of British and Ameri-
can coin of that date and earlier, as
well as some from other countries. A
history of the church, records of
prominent families connected with the
its shipping, were found. One of the
oldest things taken out was paper
containing directions for making and
taking emetic" At first such docu-
ment strikes one as humorous, but
there is in it forceful commentary on
the wonderful changes that have taken
place in three quarters of century:
When il is realized that medical
knowledge was in such a state at that
time that directions of this kind We're
considered OF sufficient Importance to De
placed in the corner stone of a church
building the great progress of these years
is elouuentIy empha sized, Printed prayers
were evidently in much favor, for the re-
ceptable contained three prayers, two OF
them for the success of the church.
Another Sidelight on the change that the
years bring-this one in the ethical realm
lis furnished by a lottery ticket. 1t Is
one bearing the inscription: Union Canal
Lottery Ticket 141IJ0. Portsmouth, 1928 =
II is safe to say that there will be no
lottery ticket in the new corner stone!
Evening star., 1912-11-07
The Army Mule.
ON the Philadelphia Press.

From the Phlladelphla PreSS.
One of the most interesting features of
the late army maneuvers in Connecticut
was the experimental employment, on an
extensive SCALE of the motor truck. More
than 1000 tons of freight were handled
through the bases of supply during the
eight days of mimic war. Some of the
trucks were geared to run fast as
thirty miles an hour, and it was in the
work of conveying expedit:ously the bag
gage from the bases of supplies to the
secondary bases that ttesc trucks. ac-
cording to expert opinion, concluslVely
demonstrated that they had displaced lie
mule train in this field. The chief quar-
termaster. Col. Bellinger. is reported by
the Motor Age as saying: Il am firmly
convinced that the army truck has come
to stay" He added. however. these sig
nificant words: Where the roads are
suitable it cannot be superseded"
There's the rub. Who may say when
the roads shall be suitable in actual
warfare? 1t sounds we'll to speak of the
capacity of the mule wagon as only 300
pounds with a haul of but twenty miles
day, as against eighty miles for the
truck; and, after reference to the su-
preme Importance of speed in ambulance
service, to declare that the mule is likely
to be placed henceforth in the list of
obsolete army accessories. But We note
this saving clause: Only In the very
limited condition of impossible roads Is
it impractical to use the truck along the
actual battle 'front.'
That saves the mule. There is no
very limited condition about it. Such a
condition existed at Waterloo, through
out the Russian advance and disastrous
retreat; it existed through weeks in our
own Wilderness; and it is an ever-pres-
ent and most formidable problem con-
fronting any army anywhere. When
heavy rains have made the highways
bed Of yielding dough, which has been
Evening star., 1912-11-07
FARMERS MOTOR BOATS.
Gasoline Launch Aiding in the De-
velopment of Tidewater Maryland.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
In a section of the country SO inter
spersed by waterways that it is as neces-
sary for a man to own a boat as horse
and carriage, the greatest boon to the
people is a cheap and quick means OF
transportation over these liquid high
ways. Such is the case in Maryland,
where the Chesapeake bay and its many
estuaries penetrate into the state in every
direction, affording thousands of miles of
navigable water for shallow-draught
boats.
The gasoline-engined boat is truly the
''water-wagon" of the Chesapeake, and
few indeed are the farmers of tidewater
Maryland who do not own a motor boat
of some kind. These "waterwagons" have
been the means Of opening up the state
just as much as have been good roads in
other sections. The problem of every
farmer who treats farming as a business
is to get his produce to market.
II the old days when the steamboat
service was not what it is today, the
farmer had only sailing craft, which did
well enough for the carrying of grain and
such cargoes as would not be injured II
delayed in transit but sailing craft are
out of the question for the transportation
of highly perishable garden truck.
Those farmers on the main rivers or
close to the steamboat wharves were the
ones who reaped the advantages. and
while their farms fiourished, the more
distant farms were devoted almost en-
tirely to the raising of staple crops
wheat. corn and tobacco-but in limited
quantities, for the cost of hauling many
miles, with freight charges, made it un-
profitable to get even these commodities
to market.
But with the introduction of the power
''water-wagon" there came about a
change. The gasoline boat, not only ca
Evening star., 1912-11-07
Criminal Lives.
From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail.
One of the scarce books which are to
be sold in this city bears this fascinating
title: 1.-The Lives of the Most Remark
able Criminals, Who Have Been Con-
demned and Executed; for Murder, High
way, Housebreakers, Street Robberies.
Coming or Other Offenses; From 1870 to
the Present Time The present time
referred to in this title was only the year
1T35, SO that the whole period covered by
these thrilling and numerous criminal
lives was only fifteen years 1t must have
been a great time for criminals, for be-
tween the covers of this book are the
stories of Jack Sheppard Kennedy the
Pirate, Jonathan Wild, Mrs. Griffin. Ed
ward Burnworth, William Barwick and
several other quite celebrated criminals.
Cheer up! Those were worse times than
ours for criminality-and those We're the
days, too, when men and wo4en were
hanged for burglary, counterfeiting, sheep
stea ing, ard even poaching and smug-
CLING.
An odd thing about that time, too, was
that hundreds of books were printed
which contained full and narrowing de-
tails of murder and robbery, and that
almost everybody, including clergymen
and delicate ladies, reao these books
eagerly as fast as they came out. The
Oldest public libraries in New England
contain in the book collections which
were spread before the youth of the COM
munity, many such criminal lives.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
Motorists flags.

From the New York Press.
Crude though these banners are in col
or and harsh to the eye as they are
when strung along the windshield rods
and top stanchions in their discordances
of hue. yet they are the tokens of an en-
thusiasm that is human. kindly and
cheerful to the last degree.
Informative and satisfying. too. are
these signals of a touring party's prog
ress. Heretofore one saw the license tag
on Florida Illinois, Indiana or some 9TH
er state remote from ours with a flip of
interest as TO whether the party on the
car motored all the way from their home
state or simply had taken the less roman
tic way of coming to our corner of the
world by train with their motor in a
freight car behind them. But when the
bypasser on the city streets sees the flags
on such an automobile bearing the names
OF cities en- route between south and west
and the Atlantic seaboard, then he knows
the tourists have fallen under the spell of
the open road and theirs has been a pill
t,rim's progress in the modern way, with
visible emblems of the course of their
travel through some possible slough of
Gespond to the deectable country which
We call New York.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
CHEMICAL PRODUCTION OF LIFE
MYSTERIOUS Boundary Between Or.
ganic and Inorganic Worlds.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
Everything in nature is connected and
| in close relationship. The divisions es-
| tabIished by man in nature, and classlfed
| nv hin, as botanical, mineralogical and
geological exist in the mind rather than
| in fact All the formations OF animate or
| Inanimate matter, every manifestation ol
| the teeming life of earth from the rudi-
mentary alga, the tiny moth and the put
| terfiy to the lion and the eagle is link in
| the chain of life. In some cases 1T Is dlf-
hcult to distinguish the animal from the
vegetable: the difference is imperceptible
and so slight. so indistinctly marked that
| science hestates to draw the line. The
sea anernone and the sea chrysanthemum
| have all the grace and beauty or mowers
and all the animation and mobility of an
| imaJs: they look Ike flowers, but they are
| endowed with an organism which cannot
| be found in any form of vegetable growth.
! Human investigation has classlfled life.
but has not grasped all It's mysteries.
| Near the far-off frontiers of life the eX-
| plorer finds the enigmatical creatures
/ which lie sleeping between the organic
and the inorganic worlds. These are be
| ings so small that they seem TO be noth-
| ing but the moss upon the ground. crea-
! lures with transparent bodies lying like
| living lace on the tall grass and the rocks,
and still lower are the invisible but for
midable hordes of the PROTOCOL
| One member of the family of the vorti-
| cellidoc produces a million young in one
| day, which mature and attain old age
| sixty minutes after birth, and then rend
| themselves asunder, each part going Its
| individual way to produce family. Low
| er still in the vital scale is the first
known form of organic life, protoplasm-
a thing of no developed organs, mass of
living jelly. Protoplasm is the awaken
| ing Of life; below it all is inanimate. Pos
Evening star., 1912-11-07
sibly the beginning of life is purely chem

iCal
The future will show how the creations
of chemistry are related to living vegeta-
BILE FORMS There have been brought into
existence weeds like algae, chemical
mushrooms, and very pretty mowers ana
leaves and plants, with stems IKE the
stems of vegetable growth. II small
ball composed of sulphate of copper and
finely powdered sugar justly proportioned
is dipped in a liquid composed of water.
gelatin, ferrocyanide of potassium, ana
salt, at a certain temperature, the artl-
ficial seed soon gives signs of molecular
activity; 1t dilates, broadens and then
stretches upward to a height of thirty or
forty centimeters. If the liquid is very
much diluted the stem is shorter and less
rectlinear, but its branches are more
dwarf tree resembling growth of coral.
Vegetations produced by chemical COM
binations held in still more diluted liquid
end their branches in knots resembling
leaves or fruit. If diluted water is care
fully superposed directly on highly con-
centrated liquid of certain composition
exact counterparts Of the mushrooms Of
the forests appear The character of the
final result depends upon the chemical
to develop pointed examinations and
thorny stems; alkaline chlorides develop
growths shaped like worms and other
combinations give equally distinct re-
suits Greenish growths resembling tuft-
ed herbs or vines are produced by iron
sulphate in silicated solutions. Salts of
manganese. CELEBRATES. nitrates and sui
pilates give strange results One of the
plants chemically produced is mush-
room coffed with a yellow hat lined with
black. The hat hangs on a small white
column. In some solutions the seed de-
velops and springs upward in long sin
uous stems, and on the stems hang
strangely shaped growths resembling
fruit. All these productions are living:
they show all the characteristics of life.
They are born, they grow. reach their
maturity and die. they grow they in
crease in weight, many attaining a weight
hundreds of times the initial weight Of
the seed from which they sprang; and as
Evening star., 1912-11-07
The Political Poster Nuisance.

From the Chicago Post
The Municipal Art League asks that
political managers in this campaign re-
frain from disfgur!ng the city by ugly
and illegal billposting. 1t is progressive
and a conservative request, and it ought
to be complied with by all three parties.
The reasons for abolishing promiscu-
Gus billposting are forceful
1t is ineffective.
1t i a public nuisance.
II is against the law.
Suppose the billposters for three rival
candidates break the law and cover a
fence with forty pictures of each of their
heroes. Which one of the three gets the
most yotes2
suppose that the billposter for one cam
didate breaks the law and plasters the
trolley poles with his posters; and sup
pose again that billposters No. . and No
, come along afterward and paste their
layers of posters on top of those of No
j. What is the net gain?
suppose. too, that the voters whose
support is asked not unreasonably deter
mine that they will not support a man
who violates the ant-billposting ordi-
nance. Is billposting what conventional
old-style politics makes ii out as win
Eer of votes?
Evening star., 1912-11-07
The Traitors Tower.
From the Christian Herald.


In Beroea we saw {. huge tower In re-
cent ruin. Great blocks of stone lie
around in confusion and piles OF broken
brick, mortar and masonry. declaring
what a mighty structure must have once
existed there.
The intelligent and wealthy Greek gen.
tleman who kindly served as our guide
told US that this tower, which had been
sealed up by the Turks since the twelfth
century. had lately been destroyed by the
Young Turks. and that for a curious rea-
son. 1t seems that in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries Beroea was In the
height of it's power. 1t was city larger
and more important than Saloniki even,
but it was betrayed to the Turks by a
recreant Christian. and the punishment
of the traitor. according to tradition, was
that he must wander around the tower
night after night through all the GEN.
turtles until the Christians came again
and he should give the keys of the city
back to their former owners. This tradi-
tion. with the hope of future Christian
domination, so pervaded the city that the
Young Turks, it is said. destroyed the
Traitors tower. which contained a great
library, in order that the force Of the
superstition might be broken.
Evening star., 1912-11-07

stirred and whipped by artillery and
cavalry into mush and slush, where is
then the rushing truck? Stuck in the
mud, we fancy. waiting for the patient
mule to drag it from the mre.
We are disposed to think that the army
mule has by no means been displaced,
and are inclined to mourn the fate of the
future army that should engage in bat
tie without him. Yet even SO. he can al
ford to abide the issue: he is a fixture
his value steadily enhances. The automo-
bile. instead of diminishing the worth OF
horseflesh, as was feared it might, ad-
vanced it. and, when It comes to hard
work. span of good mules is far more
valuable today than team of draugnt
horses.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
Not So Bad as This.

From the st. Louis Times.
Now that the automobile show is at an
. end the annual horse exhibition is the
next large event on the social calendar
There was time when a horse show
was a gown show; and there is no reason
TO believe that the gowns will not be on
exhibition quite as much this year as
ever before The horse, however is be-
coming a real curiosity.
There was time when bobtalled nags
anI hishsteppers were common sights on
tGe bOuleNards and country roads. These
fne animals have practically disappeared
and the child Of today must go to the
Eorse show Just as he would go to a
monagerle. II lie would see this unusua
sight.
50, after al, the horse show will grow
in Importance as the automobile becomes
eommoner and the noble equine scarcer
Evening star., 1912-11-07

pable of threading the narrow and shall
low streams to the very doors of what
had been almost inland farms but also
sturdy enough TO run to Baltimore in
only a little more time than could be
made by the steamboats,, not only en-
couraged the raising of market produce,
but enhanced the value of land. 1t
brought into that section expert farmers
from the west who saw glowing possibili-
ties in the kindly soil and the nearness to
a receptive market. 1fdewater Maryland
has been regenerated, ard today it is a
garden spot.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
In Southern Mountains.

Hapsburg Liebe, the saw mill employe
OF Tennessee who surprised all his as
soelates by having a fine story in cur
prize story competition last year, con-
tributes The Bungalow to our next
Sunday Magazine-a tragic story of a
bridal couple and a bad man in the noun
tains or the south. Mr.. Liebe has sue
ceeded so well at writing fiction that he
has been able to leave the hard manual
labor he followed before. and promises to
become one of the high-class producers OF
short stories in this country.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
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Evening star., 1912-11-07
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their growth increases the liquid sur
rounding them diminishes.
Evening star., 1912-11-07

Within the past year 1896 marriage Ii
censes were issued at Frederick, Md,
and there were fifty-four applications for
divorce.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
u. S. Reluctant Participant.

In that case, however, the United
States was a participant reluctantly, by
virtue of the fact that it had been. a
party to the original treaty of 1880,
which dealt with Moroccan affairs. 1t
is pointed out that there exists no such
conventional obligation in the case OF
Turkey and the Balkan states.
1t has been suggested, however, that
Great Britain or some other of the great
powers might welcome the appearance OF
the United States in such a conference
as is proposed to be held, inspired by a
desire to have at least one power in the
conference without selfish interests at
stake, and capable of acting as an umpire
in case of serious dispute.
OF course, the extension of an invita-
ton of that kind would not involve neces-
sarily its acceptance by the United States.
As the missionary interests. representing
the most important American element in
Turkey at this moment, have not sought
so far to bring any pressure to bear on the
State Department to participate in any
way in the settlement of the Balkan ques-
tion, the officials are satisfied that there
will be no occasion for the United States
to do SO.
Evening star., 1912-11-07
m FRIDAYS Remnant Sale Prices Reach the Limit of Low Selling
mo j. s. INTERVENTION
| IN BALKAN HOST|L|T|ES
Peace Societies Are Informed
by Officials That No AC-
ton Is Justified.

Appeals from lovers of peace societies
and individuals are being received at the
White House and the State Department
looking to the intervention of the United
States in the Balkan war, not by force of
arms. but through the offer of good
offices.
These communications will all be prop
erly acknowledged where an answer is
invited, with an expression of regret that
conditions do not appear to justify any
action by the United States in the line
desired.
Realizing the probability, and almost
certainty, that an international congress
will be called in the immediate future
to deal with the Balkan situation, the
local gossips are speculating whether the
United States is likely to be drawn into
such a conference, somewhat as in the
case of the Algecras conference, which
undertook to settle the future of Mo-
rocco.