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he has been so long identified with the
treatment of the various types of epi-
lepsy he has a clearer insight into the
traits of these imposing personalities who
were its victims, and is in consequence,
perhaps. better qualified than is the mere
lay historian to interpret them to others,
since in some instances their peculiar
pathology, instead of being a hindranee,
had to do with much Of their brilliancy-
as, for example. the sublimity of Mo-
hammed's visions, as well as many of
the erratlc things In the life and poetry
of Byron, exhibiting as they do the ex-
tremes of virtue. -villifcaton and vice
The purchaser of this volume gets the
benefit of rare experience, extensive and
curious reading, compressed into small
bulk-a presentation indeed of the three
celebrities that could come only from
an intimate acquaintance with their va
ried accomplishments and marvellous mem
tai makeup.
AS mere literature these sketches are
fine examples of brief biography, com
manding personality described masterful-
ly and with variety of episode and in
cident not usually associated with such
comprehensive though concise delnea-
ton
They are embelished with rare por-
traits. and the account OF Byron in par
ticular with counterfeit presentments of
some of his numerous adorers
The sketch of Mohammed makes
clear many of the problems in the
mystic makeup of the prophet of Is
lam. Vilihed through the centuries
yet man who even a quarter of a
century ago had in round numbers
170,000,000 humanh beings believing in
him as a prophet of God. and willing
to die rather than abandon their faith
and whose commonse sense, matter of
fact middle aged wife was among his
earliest converts-surely Mohammed is
worth knowing. We may still ask
ourselves, why is 1t that his followers
are even away from Arabia as from
Christian Europe 100000 of its in
while with all our missionary labors
we cannot claim 100000 converts.
Not to know Caesar, Mohammed and
Lord Byron In the way presented by
these volumes Is to miss an unusual
opportunity of intimate acquaintance
with three of the greatest men of the
past.
In this book the picturesque life
of the great apostle Paul is made as
interesting as romance. He lives
again under the illumination of this
sympathetic study and is exhibited as
one of the most heroic characters Of
all history.
The author is evidently master of the
Pauline situation He completely dis
sipates the theory of so many inneld,
as well as not few orthodox believ-
ers. that the apostles thorn in the
flesh was epilepsy, and the conver-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
THE BOOK OF EVELYN.

By Geraldine Bonner. Illustrated by
William Arthur Brown. The Bobbs
Merrill Co., publishers Indianapolis
Geraldine Bonner has always seemed
to have sympathy, unusual in a wom-
an, for the dem-monde. Her heroine in
that very entertaining story. Rich Men s
Children" was woman of this walk of
life.
In her new novel, "The Book of Eve
lyn." Lizzie Harris, or Liza Bonaventura
as she chooses to call herself for her ca
reer III grand opera, Is not precisely that
type of woman, but in general ways she
belongs to the same order. She is, how
ever, lovable and in most ways admir-
able. In her Miss Bonner has created
a remarkably strong character, and
though she is not the heroine of the
story-for the heroine is the narrator
she is the moving spirit. Her one step
aside has been due entirely to a great
love, fused with an artists passion for
the development of her talent, a combi-
nation of forces too strong for her to
Withstand.
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sion on the way to Damascus but an
eptleptic convulsion, with characteris-
tic prodromata and sequelae. and in
doing this he evolves new theory OF
the "thorn"-novel yet so convincing
and consistent with PauPs subsequent
career that it would seem to be so
luton for all time of the question that
has puzzled theologians of every school
throughout past centuries.
The volume is powerfully written
presents all that is known of this per-
ennially interesting personality, and
Is so full of incidents and reflections
in connection with the history of his
supposed maladies endless Iabors,
blood-curdling adventures, and other
experiences as to appeal alike to
clergy and laity, physicians and pa
tient.
To know this great parsonage from
the remote past-Paul the Little, victo-
rious even in defeat, who has made
present-day civilization possible. fight
ing against odds for the benefit of
all humanity-you should read this re-
statement of his manifold character.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. GRE
VIEWS LATER
1.-THE MAXTMS OF NOAH" BY Golett
Burgess. With Illustrations and design
by Louis D. Fancher. Frederick A
Stokes & Co., publishers, New York
"SUSETTE" BY Dion CLAYTON Calthorp.
Frederick A. Stokes & Co., publishers,
New York.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
crosse OF THE GARDEN"

BY Katherine lyman. illustrated with
portraits. The Bobbs- Merrill company,
publishers, Indianapolis.
Rose of the Garden is a book which
justifies It's fragrant title. 1t is fresh,
sweet and feminine as chintZ-this
romance of Lady Sarah Lennox. Kath-
arine lyman has succeeded in writing q
new sort of historical novel-at least
nothing of the sort has been done so
successfully since Gertrude Atherton's
"The Conqueror."
This story will satisfy three groups
of readers-the inveterate but jaded
consumers of fiction who complain that
rbooks are no longer new, fresh and
good" second, those who delight in
careful construction of lot and the ease
of diction, and last, those who know
their Georgian periods in history and
letters.
To the last group 1t will come as a
surprise that no competent novelist has
seized on material so ready at hand.
For a numb erical statement of the case
would probably show that not to more
than one individual in million comes
the lot of actually living a romance
and Lady Sarah was the one in her mil
lion.
They will marvel that the niece of
Fox, who was the life of Holland
house; the girl who, had she wished,
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the romance of Fanny Burney, the first
Englishwoman to write a distinctively
popular novel. The reason for her
writing it, and how, through the con-
ventional ideal of womanhood of the
period, her own efforts defeated her
purpose forms an enthralling story.
1.-THE Cornhill (London) recently con-
tained an article by Sir Henry Lucy,
which will interest readers of Mr..
Moore's new novel.
Sir Henry, writing from Norbury
House, Surrey, where Fanny Burney
lived in 1884. tells of seeing the orig
inal manuscript of "Evelina." He says:
Perhaps most precious amongst the
miscellaneous relics closely connected
with the life and labors of Fanny Bur-
ney are the manuscripts of her novels
Eyeline' and Camilla They are jeal-
ously locked up in mahogany case
through whose glass top the outer
leaves of the musty, yellow-toned,
partly moth eaten pages may be
scanned. 1t is curious to note that in
this original manuscript, which served
the purpose of the printer, F my Bur-
ney's first novel is entitled 'Eveline,'
with the subtitle retained, A Memoir
of a Young Lady in a Series of Let
ters.'
"The story is written in now faded
ink on both sides of quarto sheets. Be
ing permitted to make closer inspec-
ton of them, one notes that whilst
'Evelina was fairly written out with
comparatively few emendations, Ca
milla is scored heavily with correct
ions not always involving improve
ment. This tendency marking PAINS
taking effort to improve a style orig
inally charming in its simplicity, end
ed, as we know, in the hopeless ped
| antry of literary manner that made
almost unreadable her biography of her
| father"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
Physician Gives Recipe
For Gray Hair
A WelI-Known Physician and Author
Gives simple Home Recipe That
VIII Darken Gray Hair

DR.. Stanton Burroughs, the we'll
known physician aud author, recently
made the following statement: Gray
hair oan be easily darkened by the
following simple recipe which you can
mix at home: To or OF water add
a small box OF Barbo Compound. l o.
bay rum and IA on. glycerine. Apply
It to the hair every other day until
the desired shade is obtained. 1t noe
only Is an excellent hair darkener but
at the same time removes dandruf1
and other ills of tho scalp. l use 10
myself and have no hesitanoy In
recommending 1t to my patients. These
ingredients can be bought at any drug
store at very little COST"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23

the body of girl was discovered, and
anatomists who examined it were able to
make out beyond all question that she
had suffered from appendicitis. so ex-
celently had the soft tissues remained =
In the course of the lecture by Mr.. G.
A. Wainwright many remarkable pic
lures were shown of the markings in the
tombs. and one thing brought out was
that thousands of years ago it was the
custom for the clerk to wear his pen be-
hind his ear.
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might have sat on the throne with
George III; who ran away with Lord
William Gordon-has not been the spoil
of many a teller of tales. In Katharine
lyman, Lady Sarah Lennox does not
fall into inexperienced or incompetent
hands, content with the easy task of
making her puppet, retraveling her
mercurial career.
Here Is the full flavor of the times
and Sir Joshua or a Gainsborougff
come to life. Sir Charles Bunbury, her
husband says of her, "She was a beauty,
wit bit of blue stocking, a Diana OF
the chase, a good comrade yet at home
in her own kitchen" Her brother says
that the Lennox women are the devil
for their romantic folly, and poor Sal
ly," was an example even among her
high strung family. Descended from
Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Sarah bore
her likeness-ravishing complexion,
masses of dusky hair, bewitching smile
and quicksilver temper, laid waste to all
the hearts of her time.
And what a life she led!
The romantic story OF her madcap
parents; the little girl running into
Kensington palace while the bells tolled
for her dead father and romping gaily
with the king; her debut at the court
when she was but 15; the alteration of
the young king George the Third
dances, peacockery, whispered gallan-
tries; her winning by Lord Gordo and
her marriage to Bunbury-and that
dramatic crisis in her life when God
gives poor Sally another chance" All
this Katharine lyman gives us, not as
facts with musty dates, but as action
alive-pulsating with vital forces, mer-
curial, gay, foolhappy, and the deep
feeling of one who pays the price. For
Lady Sarah pays in full.
Il gathered the roses from dead
summer" says poor Sally.
And with 1t all there twinkles in and
out an occasional letter of Sally's light
ing up the social scene with a charm
not only comparable to Pepys, but with
a vivacity which that gentleman would
have worshiped.
Il hope your Americans are a good
sort of people, but l don't like Pvesby-
terians-and L love- the English SOL
diers"-she writes to her family con-
Lee. But none the less this lady was
decidedly for America, and had she
been a man, would have been another
Fox.
Indeed, so commanding is her person.
ality that either side of the suffrage
discussion today could make a very
telling argument from her case. 1t is
this ultra modernity of Lady Sally
which Katharine lyman has cleverly
capitnezed in making a complete ap-
peal to our present day with this ma
terial from the Georgian period-while
transfusing romantic history and bril-
liant fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
I'm SPITE OF EPILEPSY"

BY Matthew Woods, M. D. The Cosmopol-
itan Press Publishers, New York.
'In Spite of Epilepsy was written by
Matthew Woods, M. D., for the encour-
agement of persons afflicted with the
classic disorder epilepsy. 1t enters into
the intimate life of three great epileptics
Julius Caesar. Mohammed, Lord Byron
who, despite their handicap. achieved tri-
umphs in at least four different lines OF
endeavor, namely: history, war, religion
and poetry.
The volume points out and empha sizes
the fact that uncompllcated epilepsy. or
even epilepsy complicated with other .neu-
roses, as was that of Mohammed, is not
necessarily inconsistent with a great ca :
reer ~
DR.. Woods seems to feel that because
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
"CONCESSI

BY Sydney Schiff. The John Lane COM
pany, publishers. New York.
A story original in theme and original
in treatment by the author is always a
welcome addition to literary offerings and
careful readers of current literature are
constantly on the lookout for just such
books.
In Confessions there is decided
treat in store for the readers.
There is spirit of sentiment through
out Mr.. Schiff's story which makes it a
singulary attractive book. The four CEN
tral figures of the story are those of ex-
ceptional people, and their respective
marital relations unfortunate rather than
miserable) supply the author with a theme
which he manipulates with great techni-
cal skill and remarkable skill and remark
able psychological insight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
Appendicitis in Egypt

Eding at lecture given at the Cam
Iub on some researches among the
1T Egyptian tombs, Capt. Fl. G..
!. #. r. S.. late director general of
Egyptian survey, said that some of
|dies in the tombs were wonderfully
wed, says the Pail Mall Gazette.
long ago, in a tomb at Assouan,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
Plausible

From the Chicago News.
1T looks plausible said the man who
occasionally let's out an audible thought.
what looks plausible?" queried the
party with the butt-in-habit. s
THAT goats milk should yield the
strongest butter,' exclaimed the noisy
thinker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
1.-THE DARK FLOWER"


By John Glasworthy. Charles Scribner's
Sons, publishers, New York.
A middle-aged hero or heroine is not
always alluring to the average reader
but in THE Dark Flower-The Love Life
of a Man" John GIasworthy, with one
stroke of his pen, has interested us in
man, not in the seer and yellow leaf but
certainly in the autumn of his life,
and he gives us a problem worth work
ing out in our minds as to the justifi-
cation of a love affair of such a man
with a girl young enough to be his
daughter.
Mark Lennon is a man who has had
varied life-certainly in love affairs
for in the spring of his manhood, at the
age of 10. he has one of the most des-
perate affairs with woman as old as
his mother whom he adores.
This love affair takes place when he
is at college and after a tumultuous and
stormy experience the youth comes out
unscarred and unhurt.
At 26, in the full summer of his life
Mark Lennon again falls in love. This
time there is still greater obstacle.
The woman whom he loves is married
but in defiance of all the laws of So
ciety and carried away by his passion, he
loves her. The swift retribution that
| always comes in such cases comes to
him and leaves him again sadder if
not a wiser man.
Then comes the most terrible and most
heart rending affair of his career
The third book, Autumn depicts our
hero as a man of 45, married-not un-
happily, but at least he is indifferently
mated.
Somehow, If there are children when.
ever married man married woman
oversteps the conventions, or rather,
start on the downward course, they ara
kept back by them
How like to a fire was a mans heart!
The first young, fitfu leapings; the long,
steady, sober burning, and then-that last
flaming up, that clutch back at its own
vanished youth-the final eager flight OF
fame before the ashes wintered it td
nothing!"
That's the summary In a NUTSHELL
In each case when Lennon loved first
the married woman and later when he
was married himself, there were no chill
Gren to be considered and nothing in the
way of a sensational love affair, accord
ing to the way those things go.
Mr.. Galsworthy has told the story in
the most wonderful manner.
He isn't an emotional writer-not at ALL
He never seethes and burns and riles
the reader UP to a fearful pitch, but
calmly and dispassionately evolves his
thesis.
Howard in "Autumn'-the last of the
ioVe AFFAIRS OF the Hero OF Inc Dark
Flower" Mr.. Galsworthy rises to heights
that are really splendid in the intensity
of emotional expression.
The conflict in the mind of middle-aged
Mark Lennon, between passion for the
young girl-young enough to be his own
child-and duty to the woman to whom
he is married, is depicted by the author
with sense of almost animal pain.
Mr.. Galsworthy is one of the world
famous noyelistS of the daV
Everywhere scholars as well as dill
letantes peruse his books.
He has never written a better story
than THE Dark Flower" which shouldn't
be missed for it is well worth reading
and a finer example of story telling is
seldom seen in such perfection as the au-
| thor gives In this novel,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-23
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"DISCOVERING EvELINA"
"THE STORY OF FANNY'S FIRST

By F. Frankfort Moore. George H.
Doran Co.. Publishers. New York
In F. Frankfort Moore's new book
discovering Evelina," we are intro
duced again to the fascinating circle
of great ones we met in Mr.. Moore's
"The Jessamy Bride" Sweeping to AMI
fro on the eighteenth century stage
pass the stately. witty be-powdered
figures of the days of Goldsmith. DR.
Johnson, Garrick, Mrs. Thrale Sir.
Joshua Reynolds, the charming Mrc.
Cholmondeley, all the figures that
made the period distinctive. touch here
and there, vividly characteristic, a love
story of great depth and beauty. 1t is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Rubber Workers.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
AKRON, Ohio. Feb. 19.-For the
first time In the history Of both or
carnations, the bitter feeling which
has existed between the American
Federation of Labor and the Indus.
trial Workers Of the World, was laid
aside today, and they are working
side by side in organizing the 10000
striking rubber workers here. The
decision to maintain amicable rela-
lions with the |. w. w. was reached
at a meeting of the Akron federation
last night.
The A. F. of l.. will start organic
ing at once but will in no way attempt
to influence the workers against the
rival organization.
1t was admitted that this arrange
ment greatly increased the chances of
the strikers fer victory, as the rubber
officials have been hoping that the
rival labor organizations would split
the workers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
MRS. BUELL. Died
EARLY TODAY
Rorn In Hancock, Ill, She Came to
keokuk About Three Years
Ago to. Re
side.
I'LL ABOUT TWO MONTHS
Died at 4:55 O'Clock This Morning
and Announcement Of the
Funeral VIII Be
Made Later.

Mrs. Margaret Buell., wife of David
H. Buell., died at local hospital this
morning at 4:55 o'clock, following a
surgical operation she underwent for
gall stones. She had been i'll for the
past two months but only recently
did the disease become alarming.
Mrs. Buell. before marriage was
Miss Margaret Lewallen and she was
born in Hancock county, ILL.,, July Ii,
1889, the family coming to Keokuk
about three years ago. She was a
member of the First Baptist church
and was a faithful and consistent
member. She reared an interesting
family OF four daughters and one son
who will sadly Miss from the family
circle good and devoted mother.
She was kind and obliging neighbor
and true friend. She had the earn
est regard of many friends and neigh
bors who held her in high esteem and
her death causes G feeling of sad re-
greet in the circle in which she asso-
ciated
She is survived by her husband and
the following daughters and sons:
Mrs. Emma Moore. and Misses Min
ME, Grace and Ava Buell., and one son,
Charles Buell., all CT Keokuk; also by
four brothers, William L., Thomas,
Charles and Benjamin Lewallen OF
Kansas City, Kan, and these sisters,
Mrs. Nan Mcknight and Mrs. Matte
Emerson, both of Kansas City, Kan,
Mrs. Susan Kendall of Wichita, Kan,
Mrs. Alethia Ewing of Higbee, ILL.,,
and four grandchildren, Hazel, Cephas,
Clarence and Elmer Moore.
Announcement Of the funeral will
be made later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
German Rattleshlp.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
BERLIN, Feb. LIT was learned
here that the German government has
decided to send a battieship to Mexi-
co unless the conflict in Mexico City
is brought to a speedy termination.
This move had been under consider
alton for some days, but the govern
ment did not wish to take any ac-
ton tending to tread on the toes Of
the Monroe doctrine. Reports re-
ceived from the German minister and
counsel in Mexico have aroused the
government to the dangers faced by
Germans in Mexico City and it has
determined to take means to protect
It's citizens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19

Sweet-voiced telephone girls don't
last longer than it takes some fellow,
to get them and make them Mrs.
Somebody,
There is always something to worry
about. AproEos OF the small snow
falls in Nauvoo this year the money
Invested in the sleigh business will
have to pass dividends this season.
No matter what happens there is al
ways something, more o. less, to feel
panicy about
number of Nauvoo winters have
finished pruning their vineyards and
are now looking for the little willow
for tieing purposes. Those winters
who did not prune their grape patch
es last fall and during the nice win.
ter weather will get at it as soon as
the spring weather permits.
Building good reads with your
mouth on street corners and CON
structing one through muddy roads
are two entirely different PROPOSE
tons. 1t takes money to make the
mud as well as the mare go.
Ernest Bursser of Eft. Madison was
abrief stopper in Nanvoo LAST Thurs.
day interviewing our liquor dealers.
1t would be nice If we could get
people to sign this pledge:sI hereby
solemnly promise not to. make any
reference from this time on, directly
or indirectly, to the ground hog.
The population of Nauyoo fell off
over three hundred since 1900. Too
much greed for money and good
lime and not enough attention to
children raising is the cause.
Announcement OF wedding dates
form one of the chief diversions of
Lent annually Already many Of the
announcements have been made in
Nauvoo and every week adds to its
quote.
G. Q. Starr of the Keokuk Daily
Gate City was a business visitor in
Nauvco last Tuesday. He came Up
by carriage route and succeeded In
adding mere names to the big sub
scription lis of the best paper on
earth The Keokuk Daily Gate City.
From the yelp some newspapers
are making, one would be led to
think the editors are holding a fourth
class postoffice. They ar9 extremely
anxious that the order President Taft
made. giving fourth-class postmas.ers
lifetime job, be kent in force. They
should save their whines for Presn
dent Wilson will rescind that order.
He is under no obligations to the
postmasters for his election.
Nauvoo citizen intends purchas-
Ing the e. Wallet lots on South Thir-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-19
Iowa Supreme Court peeIsIona.
Special to The Cate city,

Especial to The Gate City.l
DEs MONIES, Feb 19.-R. q. STEM
seel and Co., vs.. T. G. Greening, APP
pellants, Dallas county, affirmed.
G. A. Lint VS.. Sam Lint, ct al, ap.
pellants, Dalla scounty, affirmed.
Nettie Kramer, appellant VS.. Henry
Ricksmier, Franklin county, affirmed.
Jane e. Adams VS.. z. c. -unger, ap-
pellant, Monona county, reversed.
Henry Kicker VS.. T. E. Davis, ap-
pellant, Sioux county, affirmed
Lemuel G. Hatton, appellant, VS..
William M Wheaton, admr., Wapello
county, affirmed
Muscatine county, appellants, VS.. A.
J. Oliver, ct al, Muscatine county, re-
versed In part, affirmed in part.