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in-a-puff." Love-in-a-puff is not as sen timental as it sounds. 1t is rapid growing annual climber, whose seed vessels are of great interest to children and aerial folk because they look like miniature balloons. There are few flowers. like the heliotrope. whose frag- rance alone is worth the toll of a gar den. There are other flowers that Ma cie is going to grow with which she has never had an acquaintance and about which she has an inexplicable curiosity. Curiosity is a much-maligned word. It does not get the credit 1t deserves for the vim it puts into the affairs of everyday life.
 Gathering seeds for the garden and the gardens of friends was a lovely old custom. May 1t come back into fash ion! For then the life of the annual
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lattice would be stronger, but this an- swers the purpose. A particularly con- venient feature has been the path dI- rect from the street to the playground, any speed and escape the drying yard and the wrath of the laundress.
 The yard is not large enough for all games but it is blest with swings and joggle board. Exercising rings hang from the crossbeams of the arbor. The arbor itself Is substantial, and provided with long, low seat. The children in tend converting the place into 6 little playhouse with a matched roof. The flower garden also belongs to the chill dren, each one of whom is owner of a bed. (Being in comparatively safe position, this could be reserved by the grown-ups for their use.)
 In front of the house the planting is of shrubs not easily injured, but the bit of lawn is not likely to suffer in- vasion and can be kept as trim as ii the owner were garden-1ovtng spin ster.
 The Planting List for This Plan. A-Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippo
 castanum) Il B-Dwarf Plum. Il C-Dwarf Cherry. .....................1 Il D-Yellowwood (Cladrastis tinctoria).. I E-Scotch Pine Pinus sylvestris) ....1
 Hedge of Hemlock GEO plants) or Snowball, Corchorus and Crimson Rambler Rose, two plants of each, six in all.
 SHRUBS.
 2-Bush Honeysuckle LOnicera Tata- r1ca) ........ .1 '3-Deutzia Oeutzia Pride of Roch-
 ester) Il +Cranberry bush (Viburnum opulus) 5-Forsythia (Forsythia FortuniD Il 6-Cornelian Cherry (Cornus Mas).....2 |7-Red Osier (Cornus stolonifera). II |8-Redroot; New Jersey Tea (Ceano-
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pinch of salt. Peel and mash the po- tatoes, warm the milk and melt the butter in 1t. Mix the potatoes, milk and butter, add the salt, and work in as much flour as the paste will take up. Roll it out very thinly: cut in rounds. and cook for about three minutes on each side. N H. NEIL.
 Apples for Future Use.
 IN Tor liking the old way of putting IN apple sauce up in jars. as it is
 so much trouble and scorches so
 easily after being strained, l tried this plan with great success. Pare and core apples and cut in eighths. Have about four quarts of water over the fire, boiling. Measure Enough ap- pies to fill two jars, drop them in the boiling water, let come to boil and can as peaches or berries are canned. Take the apples out first with a strain er-spoon until Jar is full, then put in enough of the water to cover. Sealed hot, in air.tight jars. have never had a Jar spoil They are very nice Tor dumplings and pies, and if apple sauce is wanted, they can be cooked as you wish 1t. By buying apples early in the saesOn when they are cheap, and can ming in this way, we have pies all win- ter which cannot be told from those made from fresh apples.
 Mrs. c. E. F.
 Apples In Cranberry Sauce.
 TWO or three apples pared, quar-
 tered, cored and added to each
 quart of cranberry sauce, will im- part delicious and jellylike ha- vor and will make the sauce go further when fruit prices are high. A few rais- ins cooked with cranberries is another tasty addition which saves sugar In sweetening the sauce. Mrs. l.. $.
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more nasturtium patterns among the printed linens and cottons. They would be charmingly refreshing for country house bedrooms upon cream-white background, with the blue green of their leaves or the blue of the corn flower for the wall color. If you rent a shingled seashore cottage this sum- mer that has no flower borders, there is your possibility for an intimate ac- quaintance with nasturtiums. Sur round the cottage with deep border of climbers and Tom Thumbs, not with just the usual yellow and orange colors, but also with the primrose, the creamy white, the salmon pink, carmine and all
 the shades. of red. They are so easy of culture even a beginner can make a
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half of 1t and some sweet milk make the other ingredients into a soft dough. Knead it little on a floured baking board, divide it into five pieces, make them smooth and roll out. not too thin ly; cut them into four small cakes. Lay them on a greased baking tin, brush them over with the egg, and bake them in g. hot oven for ten minutes. Two ounces of sultana raisins may be add ed. The dough should always be light ly handled.
 Potato Scenes (No f)
 HESE may be made with potatoes
 left over dinner, but they are
 much nicera prepared with pota-
 toes freshly boiled. Put potatoes. mashed, on a baking board, and add as much flour as potatoes will take in Then form in little rounds, pat lightly out with the hand; add little flour; bake on griddle. When cool roll up in a towel till wanted. These will not keep more than day, and can be used at once.
 Potato scones (No. 2. CK or eight potatoes, flour, salt, and
 little sugar. Peel and boil, the - potatoes, with salt in the water:
 steam and mash. Take out a large tablespoonful on the blackboard, and add to 1t half a teaspoonful of su- gar and one tablespoonful of four. Knead this until it feels firm; 1t will take up nearly all the flour; then sprinkle some flour on the board, roll 1t round and quite thin. Cut in quarters; prick all over with fork, and put the scones on 8 hot griddle for about five minutes. Serve hot
 Potato Scones (No. 3). ZANE pound of cold potatoes, one
 ounce of butter, one or two ~ tablespoonfuls of milk, about
 quarter pound of flour and a
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California poppies that bloom until frost. They make a pretty bouquet with cornfowers.
 Picking bouquets is the eliminating delight of the annual garden, for an- nua1 flowers are meant to be picked. A perennial border sometimes finds 1t hard to spare it's bloom. Of all the an- nuals, none enjoy picking more than the nasturtiums. Everybody knows nasturtiums. They are such busy flow CTS and, despite their brilliancy, so modest, it Is 8 question whether their decorative quality is fully appreciated. Have you ever looked at the climber from the artistic viewpoint of design CT? 1t has all the charm of graceful growth, of quaint and beautiful form, of varied brilliancy of color.
 It is surprising that there are not
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For the
 Children
How to Make a Garden That Cannot Be Destroyed by Young Rompers
By FRANCES DUNCAN

I VEN if man, has not his culver
 full of them, few children will
 send him from the city to the
 suburbs, and here. after the American fashion, he will like to adapt his grounds to the uses of his young sters, and the planting will be of the indestructible sort.
 In the accompanying plan, propor- tionately large space at the rear of the house was first set aside as a play ground. A high hemlock hedge at the back was thought of, since 1t would protect the place from the wind and be otherwise admirable. But on reflecting that the children would be grown be- fore the hemlocks, high board fence was substituted and shrubs trained against it-snowball, corchorus and crimson rambler rose. These took up little room, and, secured to the fence, were in a position of comparative safe ty. Chicken wire defends the drying yard and little flower. garden from the playground. and on it grow vines. A
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A HUNGARIAN DISH

nERHAPS paprika chicken will ap- D peal most to the average house wife who may want a native dish
 to spring upon her Hungarian nobleman next time he dimes with her Clean and truss fat chicken. StuA x with bread crumbs. onion and heeSe and bind together the stuffing with x7S yolks Of eggs. Tie on the breast s1tn&< of lemon and salt pork, then wrap III oiled paper. Add one whole onion, one clove and some chopped parsley and enough white stock to cover it. Cook tightly covered for an hour. Strain the sauce, add one cup hot cream, some butter, the yolk of an egg, little pars- ley and a liberal amount of paprika- enough to tint the sauce pink ands-tos taste strongly of the continent Pour over the chicken when done. and serya in a deep dish with a border Of well cooked rice.
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are needed for the effectiveness of the annual garden. While the usual holly hooks are perennials, Macie has learned of 8 new annual, ever-blooming holly hook, that is to be one of her experi- ments.
 In the blue and yellow corner there is to be the lemon-yellow. coreopsis. It ought to be a special favorite with Flemish oak dining rooms. on account of its strong color value, while floral ly it has the scantly lined effectiveness has to grow single and double cornflow- CT for Jacks boutonnieres. You would not recognize him in summer without this touch of grace. In this blue and yellow corner there are to be golden
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speciality of all the varieties. The nas- turtium is such familiar garden flow CT. To learn that it is a native of Peru may give it something of the charm of distant things. It's Latin name is picturesque. Tropeolum, de- rived from ''tropaion," a trophy, for the leaves have been said to resem ble a shield and the flowers helmet.
 For the September annual garden, Macie is going to SOW the center bed with China astefs. It was when she heard that asters are easily raised that table patch. She is not enough of a gardener to start seedlings in boxes She has more success if she waits until Jack has prepared the soil and made it as fine as ever it has to be for radishes or onions. Then she takes possession
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peas, fried sea bass in oil, German oo- tatoes hollandaise, cockscombs with cepes. French peas, French asparagus
 tips au gratin, goose liver with nuffles, French string beans. stuffed musl- rooms. artichoke bottom saute. cold French bullet with jelly. spaghetti ,Ita1- ian style. Macedoine salad with pearl onions, peaches Melba. gelee of mar rons and bigarreaux with raspberry sauce. stewed French prunes. marrons entire. Turkish rose leaves. Camembert cheese, bar le duo jelly, pumpernickel schwarzbrod and coffee. The feast Is described by those present as having been delicious and of extra quality throughout
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A UNIQUE DINNER

\ VERY unusual repast was served A recently in New York by a fam our concern, we'll known to our
 readers, the unique feature of the meal being the fact that everything on the menu, from the olives to the cof- fee, belonged to the products of the company. The dinner, which was served at the Waldorf-Astoria, began with olives and salted almonds, and included tstI.ny fish, anchoyies in oil, boneless and skinless sardines, consomme with
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Scotch
 Scenes Delightful Recipes from the Land O Cakes-TwO Sug- gestions for Apples
 By MARION HARRIS NEIL criddle Scenes.

V
 NNE pound of four, a quarter tea
 spoonful of salt, one tablespoon NJ full of butter, one teaspoonful of
 baking soda, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of su- gar. Rub the butter finely into the hour: add the other ingredients, then make quickly into a soft dough with butteru1ilk- Divide into four pieces, unske each piece smooth and round; roll cut, divide each piece into four small scones, and bake slowly on hot grid 1le. They ought not to be handled much or they will be tough.
 Oven 9cones.
 0UB two ounces of butter finely into one pound of flour, add one ounce IN of sugar. quarter of q teaspoon
 full of salt, enc teaspoonful of car bonate of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Beat up one egg, put half of 1t into . cup. then with one
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-08
LEON BOY SCOUTS
ARE IN KEOKUK
Ten Boys Make Nearly Two Hundred
Mile Hike Across Country TO see
the Water Power Works.

The Hound Patrol, of Troop I, Leon
Iowa, Boy Scouts OF America, finished
their long hike of ITO miles from
Leon to Keokuk yesterday afternoon
and Immediately went to view the dam
their object in making the trip. Ordi-
narily the scouts do not travel on Sun.
day, but reports saying that visitors
were to be excluded from the works
reached them and they decided to
travel yesterday In order to get in
before the order was given,
The scouts are in charge Of q M.
Bradshaw, OF Leon. as scoutmaster.
and Edgar Rowell as patrol leader.
Ten boys are In the party, including
Edgar Rowell, Ralph Stewart, John
Gates, Wayne Buchanan, Leai Buchan.
an, Frank Bradshaw, Forest Crimes.
Charles Vanwerden, Frederick Rush
and Harlan Andrews.
The boys left Leon last Monday at
4;30 o'clock and arrived in Keokuk
at four O'Clock last evening. Scout.
master Bradshaw declares that all Of
the members OF the patrol are in bet
ter shape now than they were at the
beginning of the hike. They will 20
INTO camp for three days at Cedar
Glen and then take the boat for Fort
Madison to begin their hike across
country to their home.
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plead guilty and was released on bis
promise to get out Of town and stay

plead guilty and was released on bis
promise to get out of town and stay
out.
Silas and Fannie bird were also ar.
raigned on charge OF vagrancy. but
they Indignantly denied the allegation
and entered plea of not guilty. Bond
was fixed at 500 each and they were
taken back to jail in default OF the
required sum. Silas says that he Is a
barber and has been here three
weeks looking for work, which he has
failed to find. The police say that he
has been living off the money that his
wife is gettine from other negroes
around town. She will also be charg
ed with larceny this afternoon. 1t ID
said that she enticed white man to
her room Saturday night and relieved
him of small sum of money. She will
be arraigned on this charge tomorrow
morning.
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Chicago, who was elected president at
the Boston meeting two years ago.
The Chicago teachers contend that
the Withdrawals which Shepard
speaks OF we're merely changes in the
classification from individual member
ships to school memberships.
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CITY NEWS.


Gate city want ads bring results
Some fly nets Those at Sher,
woods.
DR.. Pauline Bertram will be a,
her office from 9 till IL.
The Santa Fe will expend s25oooo
IN improvements at FIT Madison dur.
ing this year, in rebuilding the old
section OF the round house and new
additions. The round house section
Will be raised to a level three feet
higher than at present on account Of
the building of the water power dam.
Protect your horse with a fly mel
You can buy one for little money at
Sherwood's.
Judge George Edmunds, formerly
iof Carthage. who Is making his home
with his daughter. Mrs. T. J. Scofield
Iof Chicago. recently suffered stroke
OF paralysis, but the Gazette says he
has somewhat recovered from its eff
fects. He Is well up in years. Judge
Edmunds was at one time residen,
OF Nauvoo.
Smith Dodge, Burlington man
wanted for murder. was captured In
Quincy late Saturday afternoon. Dodge
| IS we'll known In Keokuk, where be
was found after he had Broken his
parole from the Fort Madison peni
Tertiary. Later he came back, bu,
was kited on out OF town. Dodge is q
one armed fellow and dangerous
man. and for some time has been
recognized as an undesirable citizen
| by the Burlington police.
Congressman and Mrs. w. p
Hepburn OF Clarinda, who make their
home part OF the time in Washing.
ton. D. c.. expect to start for Iowa the
latter part of this month and hope to
be able to visit Keokuk some time
during the summer and inspect the
big dam Colonel Hepburn SAYS he
rejoices over the rapid progress in
the construction OF the dam and ex-
presses great faith In the future. of
this city as a result OF the water
power.
Patents granted to Iowans for the
week ending July ?. 1912, as reported
from the office OF Clarence ]. Lotus.
patent attorney, Crocker building,
Des Moines: No. 1,031,232, metal
box car construction, W. p Betten-
dorf. deceased, Davenport; No. 1881
536. water gage, Joseph Dobias. Ced-
ar Rapids; No 1,o30,9e3, driving
mechanism, w. H. George, Dexter;
No. 1,o30.ss9. check printing machine.
Edward D. Huxford. Cherokee; No.
1881, 649, device for handling baking
pans, Richard Kallman, Davenport;
No. 1,o31,01s, packed joint, John M.
Mcdonald, Dubuque; No 1881 0S7,
check controlled apparatus, q. T. Poin-
ter, Beacon; No. 1,O31,293, acetylene
gas generator, E. Rowley and R. D.
Williams, Abba; No. 1,O31, 100, power
mechanism, W. H. voss, Davenport;
No. 1,031.67s. combined altitude gage
and thermometer, R. ]. Shank, Des
Moines.
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FAIRCHILD'S FEDORA
THROWN IN RING
Teachers Expect to Have a Lively
Time When Election Day
Comes Around.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, July S.-After caucus
that lasted until early this morning
fifty progressive" members of the
National Education Association toss
ed into the ring the fedora OF e. T.
Fairchild, Kansas state superintena.
ent of public instruction, their candi.
date for president of the organization
The entrance OF the Kansan into the
field, it was predicted today, wou.i
bring about hot contest for the of
fee between his following and the
teachers who have lined up for Miss
Grace c. Strachan, president of the
marlborough Women's Teachers AS
ISOLATION OF New York. Both candi-
dates are progressive, although 1t was
said today that Miss Strachan had
been offered votes from both progress
siye members and the "conserva.
tives."
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors OF the n. 2. A., a protest against
Secretary Erwin Shepard was antici-
pated today. In Shepard's annual re-
port. Chicago members of the associa.
ton see an attack upon the admins.
tration of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, of
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SPLENDID FOOD TOO SELDOM
SERVED

! In the average American household
Macaroni is far too seldom servedd
1t is such splendid food and on,
that Is SO we'll liked that 1t should be
served at one meal every day. Let
1T take the place of potatoes. Maca-
roni has as great food value as
potatoes and is ever SO much more
easily digested.
Faust Macaroni is made from richly
glutenous American-grown Durnm
wheat. 1t is every bit as finely flaw
ored and tenderly succulent as the
imported varieties and you can be
positive it is clean and pure--made
by Americans in spotless, sunshiny
kitchens.
Your grocer can supply you WIN
Faust Macaroni--in sealed packages
SC and 1oc. Write for free Book OF
Recipes.
MAULL BROS.
st. Louis, Mo.
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Woman loves clear, rosy complex.
ion. Burdock Blood Bitters purifes
the blood, clears the skin. restores
rudy. sound health.
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Everybody's friend-Dr. Thomas
Eclectic Oil. Cures toothache. core
throat. Heals cuts. bruises, scalds.
Stops any pain.
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PERSON AIS.

Mrs. Hugh l.. Cooper and two daugh.
ters left Saturday evening for an ex.
tended stay at Minnesota summer
resort.
Mrs. Robert G. Sheets OF Kansas
City spent Sunday with Miss Helen
Maxwell
Miss Eleanore Maxwell OF st. Louis
is the guest of relatives and friends
in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hewitt Maxwell
of Sioux City have been the guests for
several days of Mrs. Mary j. Maxwell,
SIG Franklin street. Mrs. Maxwell
returned to Sioux City Sunday evening.
Miss Alma Spring and Miss Amy
Richtman left Saturday for a two
weeks visit in Chicago and Burlington,
wis.
J. Smith, deputy OF the woodman
OF the World, is in the city and will
attend the meeting Tuesday night
Dr. Pauline Bertram has returned
from a trip % Chicago.
Frank and Herbert Kurz, of Quin-
CT, we're among the excursionists to
this city YESTERDAY
Dr. H L COPYRIGHT has returned
from 2 trip 70 Omaha
Mrs- H l. Courtright has returned
from Dea Moiaes where she has been
Waiting tOT 2 few dsya.
coEanzfssso1er Gray and City Clerk
sanbeTg vent 10 Park Bluff yester-
day. wEere tae7 spent the day.
o. e Beeks has returned from
business trip 70 ST. Louis.
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Three Are EIectrocuted.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
OSSINING, n. Y, July S.-Three
men, George Williams. a negro, Guis
eppi E. Carclli, and Santa Zansara
We're electrocuted in the death house
in Sing Sing prison today. CarclIi
strolled to the chair with a firm step
but the other two had to be assisted
to their death by guards.
Zanzara was one OF six men who
tortured, and murdered Mrs. Mary
Griffin last November. Williams
killed and robbed Charles Conklin,
station agent at Croton Falls on
April 8. 1911. Carclli stabbed fel.
low worker.
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CARD or THANKS.

We return our heartfelt thanks to
friends and neighbors for their kind
ness in our recent bereavement in
the illness and loss by death of wife
and mother.
]. w. RHODE AND FAMILY.
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Another aaIiroad Wreck.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
MARION, Ind, July s-Recovery is
considered doubtful today for Ave of
the twenty persons injured here yes
terday in headon collision between
two traction trains on the Marion,
Button and Eastern railroad. Four
persons we're killed outright. The
railroad commission commenced an in
vestigation today.
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Hicks capudine
Stops Headache

It's liquid--pleasant to take and QUICK
~ effective,
capudine removes cause Of headacne'
capudino helps you to think clearly
l0c, 25c, SOC at drug stores
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III Your Head Aches
You Can't Think Fast

To be alert, vigorous and think the rign.
thing at the right time, you must not 10.
headache become chronic, whether IRON
heat, cold, stomach or nervousness.
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Authors In.erested7

A new society has been organized
In France under the title The League
Against tho Lending of Books" 1t
is asserted that the movement is real
ly In the interest OF authors, as every
borrower may be considered as one
buyer less
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ICE CREAM
Is Still Sc at
Marchefke's
storbeck and stewart roniobt

NEW YORK, July S.-Another In
ternational heavyweight bout will be
staged this evening at Madison
Square Garden when Fred storbed1,
champion of Africa, meets Jim Stew.
art of Brooklyn, Young Jack O'Brien.
termed by Ad Wolgast the cleveresr
lightweight In the ring. will meet
Young Brown, who scored a knockout
on Matt Wells
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THREE CULPRITs
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Three Negroes Arralsned Before su.
perlor Judge Mcnamara This
Mornlngr-One Is Released.

Charles Moody, an aged negro, who
has been working at the Nagel camr
up the river for several months, was
arraigned in superior court this morn.
Ing on charge Of being drunk. He
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Licensed to Wed.
James samuels, Keokuk, age 2s'
and Georgia Davis, Montrose, age Is
Getting even.

Eels are the luxury of the East end,
and the fish shop stuck up proudly the
notice I'VE sell cells to the king"
From the opposite side Of the road the
rival salesman watched his customers
diverted to the shop that claimed to
supply the royal table with cells. And
then, after weeks reflection, ne put
up the rival notice: God save the
king!"-London Chronicle.