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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-07

were the worlds leaders IN the
ideals Of democratic humanity.
This is the background Of his
tory, against which we lift UP the
question-"Can the South come
back?'" For since 1850 the South
has taken but small part in the
large affairs Of the nation, and
in contributions to human inter
ests that are world wide. The
great glory Of the former day was
arrested and the South in this
broad sense of influence and pow
er went into an eclipse which has
lasted for more than a half CEN
fury.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Portland's Police.

PORTLAND, Oregon, May %
Portland today Is probably policed
more efficiently than any other city
In the nation perhaps in the worlo.
On the same theory that it takes one
rogue to catch another rogue the city
OF Portland conceived the idea that it
takes small boy to keep another
small boy in order Hence the Jun
Tor police force" OF Portland compris-
ed OF 1000 proud young wearers OF
special stars" and important mien,
who are today stalking down school,
truants, window breakers and cat
chasers. The boys of the Junior
force today received their assign.
ments for police" duty. The idea
originated at conference between
Juvenile Judge Galens and Chief of
Polyice Slower some weeks ago, The
boy policemen have a central CHEZ
elected by themselves and each pre-
cinct has its captain, lieutenant and
sergeants. The miniature policemen
are especially on the lookout for
street corner habitues who smoke
cigarettes, throw stones. and indulge
In boyish FRANKS which do not justify
actual arrest by the city police.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
kAHokA, MO.
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Mrs. F. M. Dewey died at her home
in Kahoka Monday evening, aged 81
years. 2 months and 2 days. Funeral
services were held from the M. P.
church in Kahoka Wednesday after
noon at 80 conducted by Rev. D. M.
Hoachens. Interment in Kahoka GENE
terry. Mrs. Dewey was born in Luray.
+ She Is survived by her husband, two
/ sisters and four brothers The bereft
i husband received word a few hours
before the death of his wife of the
death of brother. F. M. Dewey, at
Fort Madison, Iowa
j. M. Schnebly, on behalf of the
J American steei G Wire Co, entertain
ed at luncheon and smoker to
large number of farmers last Satur-
day. After the dinner lecture was
given by an agent of the company.
| George Haywood has purchased the
c. A. Pryor residence one block north
of the court house. Consideration
$1,000.
! A. D. Kerr has disposed OF the
Model bakery to Joe Curtis, proprietor
Iof the Owl restaurant Mr.. Curtis
will run both businesses.
Mrs. H. Wormhoudt returned Mon
day to her home at Pella, Iowa after
few days visit with her son Ed
Wormhoudt in Kahoka.
DR.. l.. M. Coffey, of Keokuk, was a
guest Tuesday with Kahoka relatives.
Jesse Nichols and family have
moved from Keokuk back to Kahoka.
A big protracted meeting will be-
gin at the Christian church next Sun
day,
| Mrs. l.. W. Hummel, OF Browning,
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. S. Sloan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lang are In Elk
eelstor Springs this week attending
the l. o. O. F. and Rebekah grand
lodges.
May, the two-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Webster, colored
died at the family home in Kahoka,
Monday. Interment Tuesday.
e. D. Ritchey accompanied by his
wife and NJ. L. Penn and DIR. A. w.
Teel was taken last Saturday to the
/ private sanitarium of DR.. G. R. Wood.
son. He is reported as getting along
nicely.
Kahoka public schools will close
Friday
Miss H. Jess Watson entertained
Monday evening in honor of Miss
Fern Alison
Thomas B. Winston died at his
home near Chambersburg 'ast Friday
at the age or Sc years. Interment Sat.
urday In the family cemetery. Funer.
al services were conducted by Rev
| e. NJ. Houchens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
HUSBAND
TIRED OF SEEING
her SUFFER
Procured Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound,
which made His Wife
a Well Woman.

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backache and such awful bearing down
pains that could not be on my feet at
times and / had organic inflammation so
badly that was not able to do my work.
] could not get good meal for my hus-
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My husband got tired Of seeing me
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EMMA EsPENsHADE, 219 East Main St.,
Middletown, Pa.
The Pinkham record Is proud dhon-
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22

outlook does he have on life? But the
interview proved a dream. Here's
why.
Monsieur de Paris is not the
executioners real name; it is Ana
toie Joseph Francois Deibfer. Scarce.
ly dozen people in all Paris know
where he lives. His name is not in
any directory. He refuses to live in
an apartment house and has home
apart. No one seeing him at an execu-
ton would recognize him on the
street. The shaggy beard is false.
He wears 1t only when there are
heads to cut off. He is as sensitive
as girl. He lives with his wife and
his two children in Avenue de Yer
sailles, at Ateuil, Just outside Paris
He has maid who knows his every
friend. She refuses to pass In the
card of anyone else. Every day for
| two weeks after the execution made
an attempt to get an interview with
this man of mystery but it was not
until nearly a whole month had
passed that his vigilance relaxed suf-
! ficiently to even enable me to get a
glimpse of him at his home.
Deibler is one Of the meekest-look-
| Ing OF men. He wears tiny beard
and small mustaches which are really
artistic looking Entering his house,
Monsieur de Paris" went right on
through and out the back door into
Is; WI 40 uro11
saw him make for his carpenter shop
at the back of the lot where he loves
to potter at making things. BY trade
he would have been carpenter had
he not. succeeded his father as execu-
toner. At the door of the chop, Deib-
Ter paused, and got down on his
knees. With gentle finger he re-
moved a clod of dirt rom the leaf OF
some white violets growing as
hedge for some roses.
You might as well try to interview
the sphinx" said the proprietor OF the
cafe where Deibler has his coffee and
plays his nightly game of dominoes.
He won't let his closest friends
mention his work. The other night he
was learning to play bridge and his
best friend in slicing the cards said,
Il cut like Deibler and laughed. Mon.
sieur got up without a word and left
the cafe. That is the only tine ever
saw Monsieur ruffled. Nobody in the
cafe ever saw him put out. could
serve him anything and he would not
complain l never saw such gentle
man. He spends much OF his time
| fishing. Then he has his carpenter
shop and his flowers"
Deibler gets his title from the old
days when every city had its own
executioner and they were known as
Monsieur de Marseilles," or Mon
sieur de Paris" etc. His father was
Monsieur de Paris" when France re
duced her executioners to one, giving
Paris the monopoly. The pay is s10C
month plus 500 for every head he
cuts off He pays his aides himself.
"Deibler has given his existence to
his country" his friends say. Really
he has no personal existence. Wher
ever he goes he lives in eternal dread
of being recognized and pointed ou'
as the terrible Monsieur de Paris"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Monsieur de Paris Who Pesldes at
Executions Inherited the Crew.
some Position From His
Father.
IS A PECULIAR MAN
Never Mentions His Work and WIN
Flee to His Home II the Topic
Is Ever Brought Be-
fore Him.

[By Willi~m Philip Simms. Paris Cor
respondent of the United Press.]
PARIS, May 22.-Past midnight.
Startled | sat up in bed, wondering
what thu noise could have been. Again
it came. 1t was the telephone. but
sounding, 1t seemed. frightfully loud.
Nervously l stumbled through the
dark found the instrument and shout
ed Hello" A small voice, excited
and uncanny, replied The execution
will be at sunrise. The project has
played trick to hoodwfnk the
crowd" With shaking hands dressed.
Down in the Boulevard Arago. At
our backs the walls of the Sante
prison. A cold, ciammy drizzle which
had set In at midnight, was falling.
From the distance came the murmur
of mob-not fooled after all! Near
| er, nothing but soldiers. In the CEN
ter, the guillotine, active. The heads
of three auto bandits we're falling.
BY the side of the sinister machine,
cool. sinister, stood the executioner.
Needless of the rain he had been busy
all night setting up his knife, adjust
| ing it, oiling 1t. caressing it. Mon
sieur de Paris" he Is called officially,
Executor of the High Works OF the
! Third Republic" But magnified by
the fog. great, ferocious black
/ hea RI hanging hall; hall #say eaee#wffH to his
waist, he loked like creature from
another world, a new kind Of Blue
beard disporting himself cutting Oft
peoples heads.
i The triangular blade had fallen
once, with its indescribable crunch
i you've heard the butchers axe cutting
4 through a hock-and young Soudy's
head had dropped into the willow bas-
ket 1t was now Callemins turn, but
Monier appeared in the doorway Of
the tuInbrill. Hold on there came a
voice from the inside. She's mine
1t was Cailemin speaking, Callemin
!. the boy bandit, and by She he meant
the guillotine. He would not be done
out of his turn. Pulling Monier back
top of the vehicle steps. He paused
and looked around at the crowd, an ex-
preston of utter contempt on his face.
. 4 "IHow beautiful" he exclaimed. his
voice full of bitter scarcasm. How
beautiful 1t must be to witness the
agony of man. He shot the rebuke
into the crowd and the crowd WINGED.
Monsieur de Paris" worked on like
a machine, emotionless as stone. His
aides threw Callemin upon the bal
ance, 1t tipped; the head fell short
the fraction of an inch and was pulled
!. into place by the shaggy hair
Crunch With soft thud the head
of Callemin. the curl of disdain still
upon his lips, fell into the basket
! Next" Calm and modulated the
voice of Monsieur de Paris" was ask
ing for Monier. And Monier's head
fell. The whole thing was done in a
} fraction less than three seconds.
wanted an interview with this
man. / wanted to talk to Monsieur
de Paris" the terrible, cool, man-devil
who could cut off human heads with.
out flinching and watch the blood
squirt sans trernor What sort Of an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
A Human Foot.

UNITED Press Leased Wire servi.e ]
PORTLAND. Oregon. May PA
dog dragging human foot about the
streets threw the police into a frenzy
of activity which did not subside I'm.
til it was found that the grewsome
relic had been preserved.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
wooDMEN OF THE WORLD

Gate City Camp No. 81. Woodmen
OF the World, meets first and third
Thursdays of each month at Hawkes.
hall, corner Eighth and Main Visit
Ing sovereigns cordially invited. Al.
bert Kiefer, consul commander; A. ].
Anderson, clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Familiar Talk

Omaha Bee: 1t is proclaimed by the
bosses of the new progressive party
that they will never, never, never
merge or fuse with any other political
party. We used to hear sometime.
strikingly similar every little while IN
the good old populist days
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22

KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF sECUR.
ITY KEoKUK COUNCIL, NO. 1o4s
meets the first and third Monday of
each month at A o. U. W. hail, at 8
O'Clock. DR.. G. A. Jenkins, president;
Ernest Best, financier; Mayme s.
Schenk, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Milwaukee,s Specials.

The Milwaukee will run a specia.
from Cedar Rapids, picking up two
cars at Cedar Rapids, one at Marion.
one at Monticello. one at Calmar, one
at Maquoketa, one at Anamosa and
one each at Perry and Spencer. The
train will carry diner and buffet.
library car. These cars will be taken
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Alarm a. the Hub.

Boston Globe: According to the
skirt manufacturers, who have been
In convention in Toledo, the new
skirts will be narrowed at the hem
and slashed, and fashion authority
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

Keokuk Lodge, No. 7o4, meets ev.
cry Tuesday night at p. m. in Moose
hall, corner of Sixth and Main. Visit.
ing brothers cordially invited. L. l..
Lauhersheimer, dictator Ed S. Lotion
secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
B. P. o. Elks

FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Keokuk Aerie, No. 6S3, meets first
and third Wednesday of each month
at Eagles hall, 523 Main street. Visit.
ing brothers cordially invited. James
Tickle. w. President; c. A. Noakes.
secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
I. b y. w

Local No. 400 /. B. E. w. meet frst
Tuesday and third Wednesday at 500
o'clock AT Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, hail, Tenth and Johnson streets.
Visiting brothers cordially invited e.
H. Shilling, F. s.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22

MUTUAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
Acorn Council No. 1915, NJ P. L..
meets first Tuesday of each month,
1870 p. M, A. o, U. W. hall, Fifth and
Main. A. L. Hemenway, president:
Lena NJ. Sansone, secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
A. o. U. w.

a. ". v. w.
Keokuk lodge, No. 25G, meets every
Thursday night at 1880 o'clock at hall
over Keokuk Savings bank, corner
Fifth and Main streets. Visiting
brethren cordially invitet C. H..
Griffith, M. W.; J. A. Branson, record
err.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
ROYAL ARcAN1rM

Keokuk Council No. 536 meets third
Friday each month, Hawkes. hall.
Eighth and Main. Visiting brethren
fraternaily invited to attend. ]. M.
Fulton, regent; ]. 1. Annable, secre-
tary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22

in New York says that the slit In the
skirt will reach up to the knee. The
time may come when this country will
be no place for modest man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
<. OF P.

Morning Star lodge No. 5, meets al
Fifth and Blondeau, X. Of P. building,
Tuesday at 1880, John P. sIornish,
chancellor commander; j. A. Burgess
K. of R. and s. Visiting knights fra.
ternally invited.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
over by the Rock Island at Omaha

over by the Rock Island at Omaha
and made into new trains.
The Illinois Central will start a
special at Dubuque with two s,eepers,
picking UP one sleeper each at MAN.
chester, independence, three at War
erloo and one each at Iowa Falls ant
Fort Dodge. 1t will have diner ana
library car and be turned over to
the Rock Island at Omaha.
The Great Western will pick up a
car each at Hampton. Mason City,
Clarion and other points. This train
will be united with a Northwestern
train which will pick up two cars at
Marshalltown and such cars as are
to be delivered to the Rock Island by
the Burlington,
This makes five thirteen-car trains
already engaged and 1t is expected
that seyensor more trains. will be- IN
the feet when it starts.
Run Twenty Minutes Apart.
It will be the biggest battery o1
specials which a western road has at.
tempted to move out of one city at
practically the same time. The trains
will run block apart, about twenty
minutes intervening between the
movement of each train for safety's
sake, One train will follow the other
into Denver, where most of the cars
will be parked convenient to street
car lines for the convenience of those
who may wish to sleep on the train
during their stay in the convention
city The side trips In Colorado In.
clude everything from the ascent of
Pixies peak to visits to the Garden OF
the Gods. The city itself will be bril-
liant with social entertainments OF
every description during the conyen-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
A. O. H.

Hall No. % North Sixth street.
meets the frst ard third Thursdays
of each month. Visiting brothers wei
come. Jas. Fallon, president: Ed G.
Vaughan, secretary
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
ICinton's Storage
1inton's Transfer

Merchandise, Machinery, Furniture,
etoves, Musical Instruments, Pictures
and everything In the storage lns.
Large, clean, safe warehouses. Prices
reasonable, Including insurance.
TRANSFER LINE IN CONNECTION
ofi'cs s2s Blondeau. Both phones ~
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22
Specials to Carry Iowa Lodsemen to
the Denver conclave In August
Announced by tho
Railroad.
PLAN GREAT DISPLAY
VIII be the Longest Line Of Special
Trains That Ever
Left tho
State.

Dds MONIES, Ia. May ga heetl
of seven solid Rock Island trains,
moving across the continent simulta-
neoosly, will start for Denver on Aug !.
with 1000 Iowa knights TempIa,,
the most imposing display of swords
and plumes that 1t is claimed has ever
left the state to attend triennial con-
clave.
The last triennial conclave held at
Denver was twenty years ago. The
knights have not forgotten that event.
Denver has grown In population since
then and its points OF interest hav-
multiplied Therefore the Masonic
body anticipates that the rounds or
pleasure upon the occasion of the
coming visit will be planned upon
larger sale.
These anticipations have been in a
measure Justified by the actions Of
the public committees In the metropo-
lis of the Rockies. They have allow
ed the impression to get abroad that
the field OF entertainment is not cir
cumscribed by ordinary human limits.
Arrangements for the movement of
the Iowa knights have Just been COM
pleted by the Rock Island officials.
Hal S. Ray. assistant general passen-
ger agent, returned yesterday from
the east where he has been in consul
tation with the officials of other Iowa
lines which are to act In concert with
the Rock Island in the operation or
the specials that will serve in the
pilgrimage to the Rockies.
Trains Made Up at Omaha.
All the trains will be made up at
Omaha for the final run and will
move across Nebraska over the Rock
Island. one block apart. The grand
commandery will occupy the LAST
train When this train pulls into Den
yer on Aug. 10, the grand commander
will be met by the most impressive
body of Iowa knights that has been
massed together at one time in years.
Fischer's band of sixty pieces of Bur
lington will be the Official musical or
ganization of the Iowa grand COM
mandery With the arrival of the
last train. the festivities to be held
one mile above the sea level in the
heart Of the Rockies will start
The grand commanders special viii
consist of two sleepers from Daven-
port and will pick up a car at Mus.
catine. to be operated via Wilton.
One car from Estherville and one
from Stuart will be picked up in Des
Moines.
The Des Molnes Valley special will
have two sleepers from Keokuk. one
from Keosauqua, one from Center
Vile. three from Oskaloosa, two from
Washington and one from Knoxville
MilWaukee's Specials.
The Milwaukee will run specia
from Cedar Rapids, picking up tive
cars at Cedar Rapids, one at Marion
one at Monticello. one at Calmar, one
at Maquoketa, one at Anamosa and
one each at Perry and Spencer. The
train will dipor apd h,ffa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-22

Puckechetuck Lodge No. 81, meets
every Friday evening at o'clock.
Fred Schneider, N. g.; George w.
Immegart, permanent secretary.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-05-08
BaGdit Makes Confession in Jail of
Episode Which Occurred at
vergennes, III.
HAPPENED SEVEN YEARS AGO
Statement Tells Of Killing Of By
standing During, Progress of
Rilfering Nearby Bank.

= ~
Murgllysboro, ILL.,, May THE
slgned5 confession in the county
jail here today of Joe Swan, cleared
up the seven years mysterious rob-
berry of the bank in the Floyd store
at vergennes, Ill, and the Staying
of b. E. Kimmel Swan was recent
ny arrested in Oklahoma City. He
Tado admission of his part in the
robbery and the shooting after join
ing the salvation army.
ISimmel lived across tne alley
from the bank in Vergennes. On
the night of Oct. %, 1906, hearing
unusual noises he stepped out into
the alley and saw band of robbers,
who had ridden In on horseback, at
work IN the bank. The party es-
capped after robbing the bank and
fatally shooting Kimmel.
Swan in his confession today ad-
mitted he fired the shot that killed
Kimmel. X is now thought that
other members of the band will be
arrested and brought to justice as
the result of Swans detailed con-
fession. W,,A,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-05-08
JAPANS EYES
ON CALIFORNIA
The Mikado is Taking Personal
Interest in the Most CON-
plex Situation.

San Francisco, Cal, May THE
japanese Emperor Is taking a per-
sonal interest in the situation in
California and granted an audience
yesterday to Baron X. Kaneko, who
headed the commission sent to San
Francisco to select a site for the
Japanese building at the Panama
Pacific Exposition, according to a
cablegram to the New World, a
japanese newspaper here. The
Emperor asked many questions
about the feeling toward the Japs in
California.
Reporting editorial comment in
Toxic. the correspondent says the
press in general holds the California
bill to be in violation Of the most
favored nation" stipulation of the
existing treaty between the United
States and Japan.
Baron Juichi Seyeda, who has
been delegated by the Japanese
American Association OF Japan TO
visit the United States and investi-
gate conditions with view of learn
ing the exact California viewpoint
relative to the exclusion of Japan
from land ownership, will sail for
San Francisco May 10.