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The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
BIRDS TROUBLE AT AN END
faneier's Pet, Anticipated Winner Of
Many Prizes, Most Efectually
"Isc.ated."

Here is a poultry story which
comes from the country. While away
on a holiday a fancier who owns some
valuable specimens instructed a serv-
ant-a rather new country grim
the feeding of the birds, and gave
strict directions that she was to COM
municate with him Immediately in the
event of any of them showing signs
of ailment
One day he received a letter stating
that a bird of which he had had great
expectations as a prize minner was
unwell, and from the symptoms de-
scribed the fancier concluded that it
was a case of roup-a very infectious
trouble. Accordingly he wired to the
girl:
Isolate bird at once Important.
Home this evening"
Where did you put the bird, Nary
he asked as soon as he arrived
Its in the coal ole" said she.
you isolated it at once, of course?''
he added
We'll, didn't" replied the girl
simply. 81 got Jim to do it. e just
gle it one whack wi the broomstock
an it was all over in a twinkling!"-
London Tit-Bits.
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
COULD POINT TO ONE VIRTUE
Husbands Comparison Of Wlfe's ciea-
rette With Himself Gave Her
Opportunity for "Shot."

President A. Lawrence Lowell Of
Harvard said at dinner in his honor
in Chicago:
Early marriages are the best. 1t
is neither good for the man nor for
the community that he should wait
until he is twenty-eight years old be
fore marrying"
President Lowell paused a moment
and then. smiling, he continued;
Another trouble about late mar
riages is that the mans habits-his
bad habits-are formed, and it's hard
to break him of them. You know,
perhaps, the story of the cigarette?
"A man of the old-fashioned manly
man type-the soft, full-stomached
type that drinks too much, belongs
TO too many lodges, and must be SUI
perior to woman in everything-this
'man took umbrage over his wife's
cigarette, the one modest cigarette
that she took after dinner, though he,
Iof course, smoked like a chimney all
day long. And SO he said one eve
ming:
81 believe you think more OF that
nasty, poisonous cigarette than you do
of me, your husband
"'Well, dear, his wife replied, smil-
ing and blowing a cloud, 1 can keep
my cigarette. you know, from going
out ."
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
AIa.. That Poor Foo.

Waiter" From the table by the
window the voice of an elderly gentle
man rose in aocNnts wrathful. Wait
er!"
Yes, sir" replied the much ha'
raised one, Fastening forward.
The elder gentleman, overcome by
his emotions, made several vain eff
forts at articulate utterances. Then:
Take this egg away" he roared
Take it away"
Yes, sir" said the waiter obliging
ly, as he glanced wistfully at the Of
Tending article. "And-and what shall
| do with it, sir?"
DO with it?" The outraged Gus
toner rose menacingly from his chair
DO with it?" he beloved fiercely
why, wiring its neck!"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
Trouble Easily Got over.

Zeuxis. the celebrated artist, Of an
cient Greece had painted the cherries
so true to life that the birds came
and pecked at them
OF course, the rich pork packer who
had paid 100000 for the canvas
couldn't stand for that.
Paint in n scraecrow!" he com
manded. with an air of one accustom-
ed to meet emergencies.-Puck
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07

There are six Lombardy pop
lars, remnant of the hun
dreds sent by Louis XVI. At
headquarters, a large house
with Georgian front and high
ceilinged, roomy Offices, the
affairs of the island are man
aged. Here Lieutenant-Col-
onel Ham, in command dur
ing General Barry's absence,
receives the reporter and
gives some OF the informa-
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
What TheN Told Her.

A group of old ladies was talking
and knitting. Each one was telling
how much or how little she weighed
at birth.
One said: well, weighed just
three and a half pounds"
The others gasped and one OF them
asked: And did you live?"
She answered: They say | did and
done we'll"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
Motors DispIace Handcars.

Motor cars for laborers have almost
entirely displaced handcars on rail-
roads. They are economical because
they deliver the men at the place of
oDeratiOn in good condition.
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
More Latitude.

Say. Pete, why don't you leave
your church and join mine?"
What would be the advantage in
that?'
Il can swear all I durn please, and
you can't"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
lust Like All the Rest.

"But, Doctor" she said, Il want to
raise my baby with all the modern
improvements"
81 don't see a single modern i'm
provement about him, "the prosaic
old man replied.
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
OCCUPATION.

Il haven't anything TO do" complained Cholly.
"A feah gets tired of Just twirng his cane,
don't you know"
"Of course" assented Algy. "Why don't you
get a dog 10 lead. old chap"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
the WORST OF IT.

so you went out motoring with that ill.tem.
pered Jaggers. Did his temper explode?"
Yes. but wouldn't have minded that. IL his
tires hadn't toe"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
Its Nature.

Would you put any reliance on an
opinion that it is healthy to eat
candy?"
"Well, it may not be a true opin-
ion, but it's certainly a candied one"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
One Definition.

Pop what's a sure up?'
ut is something, my son, you are
sure to lose money on"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07

Red Cross Ball Blue. all blue, best bluing
value in the whole world. makes the laun-
dress smile. Adv.
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07

north shore where is situated the arsenal of the
ordnance corps the commissary buildings, battered
and gray seasoned veterans, the green turf,
marked off here and there with huge cannon balls,
but the general atmosphere is peaceful that If 1t
not for the skyline of minarets and towers,
seen through purpsh smoke whenever you make
turn, you could not believe yourself near the nos-
fest city in the world
Governors Island is the headquarters OF the de-
partment Of the east On this small plot of ground,
which of the STAFF described being two miles
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07
Goinq Away.

you seem sad. Family going
away for the summer"
mo; the cook"
The Yale expositor., 1913-08-07

OVERNORS ISLAND" says one of its
chronclers, using the Indian name Pag-
ganck, lies like an emerald gem pendent
on the green chain of Long Island
Certainly it never deserved such a pic
turesqUe description more than it does
this spring.
1t suggests among other things fit
ting place for future peace conferences.
1t is true that there are warlike touches
Fort Jay, the one time Fort Columbus,
and Castle William, the six acres on the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
JACK JOHNSON
PAYS HIS FINE
Costs in the Case Amounted to
Almost as Much as
the Fine.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service I
CHICAGO, April 25.-Uncle Sam
had the big laugh today and the open
mouthed smile that once adorned the
eountenance of Jack Johnson, black
pugilist, was missing. Johnson, after
twenty-four hours delay and some
protest. paid into the federal treasury
s1,F4o fine and costs in the smuggling
charge on which he was tried before
Judge Carpenter.
The big negro flashed check for
$1,000, the amount of his fine, when
he first appeared at the federal build
ing
Seven hundred and forty dollars
more" said the clerk.
What for?' demanded the negro,
the judge said only a thousand
Costs" was the answer.
Johnson tucked the $1,000 check
back in his pocket and told the clerk
he was going to see if he couldn't
compromise with the government. To.
day he came across"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Miss Borden Is Not at the Sanitarium
and Police Are Looking High
and Low For
Her.
FATHER is WORRIED
He Thinks She is in New York and
Intends to Prosecute Whoever
Spirited Her
Away.

lUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, April 25.-The mys.
terry of the millionaire milkman $
missing 17-year old daughter, Ramona
Borden, was no nearer solution today
than when she disappeared from a
sanitarium at Pompton Lake, N j.,
Wednesday. The police of several
cities and private detective agencies
We're enlisted in the search today by
Gail Borden, the young girls father.
Borden said today that he was con-
fldent his daughter was with Mrs.
VIM. J. White, the wife of William j,
White of Niagara Falls, the Chewing
gum" magnate. 1t was with Mrs.
White and two Of Mrs. Whites nieces
the Misses Violet and Gladys Sheldon,
that Miss Borden visited Washington
last month. She was brought from
Washington to the New Jersey sani-
tarium by her father.
The detectives were following sew
eral different clues today, one indicat.
ing that the missing girl might have
sailed yesterday on the steamer Gin,
cinnati; another that she was in At
lantic City with Mrs. White and still
another that she was In hiding in ;.
New York apartment house. Borden
when seen at the Manhattan hotei,
showed traces of sleepless night
and appeared greatly worried over
the mystery.
Il intend to get my daughter back,
he said, mo matter what part of the
world she may have fled to. believe
she is in this city right now My first
concern is to recover her. ] will then
proceed at law against whoever was
responsible for her being taken out
of my custody"
The New York police were day
late in getting a start in the search,
owing to the fact that the officials OF
the Pompton Lake sanitarium yester-
day insisted that the girl had re-
turned.
The missing girl is described as
pretty but extremely slender She
has always been allowed to spend
large sum of money, her friends say
and her allowance in recent years is
said to have been s25,ooo annually.
A report was circulated this after
noon from the private detective agen
cy working on the case that Miss Bor
den had been located in this city and
her whereabouts made known to her
father. According to the report the
girl, accompanied by two young and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
EACH HhMMER
WAS NUMBERED
Good Clue to Dietz Murder is
Furnished by Weapon
Used.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, April 25.- Three detec-
tives-one in Omaha. one in Milwau-
kee. and one in Michigan city, the
name Of which Coroner Hoffman will
not make public-are today trailing
clues that may uncover the murderer
of George Dietz, wealthy tailor, who
was beaten to death with a black
smiths hammer on the morning Of
April Ia.
The detectives are trying to find
the man who bought the hammer
used to crush the tailor's skull.
can arrest may be made in Me-
braska at any minute" said Coroner
Hoffman. The detective who was sent
there is hard at work on clue that
may develop an arrest before night
fall
The police learned today that the
hammer used to murder Dietz was OF
a peculiar design; that but 142 Of
them were manufactured and that
each was numbered II is this fact
that leads them to believe they are
near possible solution of the mys,
terry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Refuses to Bulge From scutari in
Spite of Threats But Might do
So For Some Hard
Cash.
THE POWERS ISSUE Def
All Of Them S : That Montenegro
Must 8 up the city and
Use Force to
Push It.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Sea~..e.l ]
| VIENNA, April 25.--King Nicholas
OF Montenegro today was still the
headliner at the concert of the pow
ers. and what the doughty monarch
intends to do is what every ministry
of Europe wants to know.
There is no change in the program
OF the great powers, to make Scutari
! the capital of Albania, and the big ma
tlons say unanimously that Montene-
/ gro must give up the captured city.
The ambassadors will meet again
this afternoon to consider the problem
and take under advisement the note
in which Austria-Hungary virtually
said that if the other powers do not
| oust Montenegro the dual monarchy
will do it alone
Dispatches from Cettinje quoted
King Nicholas as telling his jubilant
people that Montenegro will hold Scu-
tari against all comers In spite OF
his boastful declarations, though, it is
believed in diplomatic circfs that the
KING can be persuaded to evacute the
city.
King Nicholas professed to have his
heart set on emulating the examples
of Gar Ferdinand and the late King
George, in triumphanty entering a
captive city. He has had that expert
ence now, and it is believed that the
king, for consideration, might be
persuaded to give up Scutari without
coercion.
| From Rome, the Cettinje govern.
ment has been automatically inform
ed that Montenegro must give up
Scutari and that such a demand by
the powers is not discriminating by
any means 1t was pointed out that
/ Bulgaria, at the instance OF the pow.
ers, desisted in her march to Constan
tinople; Servia agreed to evacuate
Duazzo and the Greeks were persuad
/ ed not to attack Valona.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Pope Is Depressed.

ROME, April 25.-Pope Plus. though
his convalescence is said to be pro-
crossing rapidly, was depressed today
because his physicians We're firm in
their refusal to allow him to resume
any part of his routine
The pontiff was DESTROYS of receiv-
ing in audience the American pill
grims, who arrived in Rome for the
Constantine year celebration, and he
begged Professor Marchiafava to al
low him to hold an audience lasting
but few minutes. The doctor flatly
refused and told his holiness that he
could not hold audiences for many
weeks and that If he did not obey the
doctors orders to the letter, he would
not get well at all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
SCHOCL STRIKE ENDED
BY FEAR OF 81 FINE

would be taken before aldermen and
fined two dollars for each days abb
sence OF each child.
Six of the seven men appointed by
the school board to investigate the
moral actions" of Superintendent s,
+. Heeter accepted appointment to-
day. on condition that they be allow
ed to suppress names of certain Wit
nesses, all young girls, who would be
heard. Bishop j. Regis Caneyin, OF
the Roman Catholi cdiocese of Pitts
burgh, declined to serve 1t is re.
ported that investigation will extend
to ST Paul. where Heeter was super
intendent of schools before coming 70
Pittsburgh.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Continued on page 81
To Men Who Are
Still Thinking
About
Spring Clothes.

It's high time to take action
on the problem of new spring
clothes suits, hats, shoes, hab-
erdashery.
The stores that cater par
ticularly to mems needs have
been thinking about these
things for months, and now
they are all ready for you, with
plenty Of fresh, new stock.
Take few minutes today
and read the advertisements of
mems wear in THE GATE
CITY. Manufacturers tell you
the shops that handle this
brand or that, and most of the
stores are showing some re-
markable lines of their own.
You are bound to find an inter.
esting lead" in some advertise,
ment Of a reliable house. Then
you can get what you want at
the price that suits you.
Advertisements start you on
your way to the things you
want
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Advice to suffrasettes to Cult Burn
Ing Property and Make the Ian
of the House Do Some
Work.
rs GUARANTEED REMEDY
Let Hubby Get the Meals and Dress
the Children for Few Days
and He viii Come
Around.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, April 25.-"A burned
dinner has far more value for con-
vincing Englishmen that something is
wrong, than merely a burned villa"
says letter from Frau Duerr!n, a
prominent German suffragist, Of Nur-
emberg, advising tho British mill
tants to adopt the household boy
colt, which was made public today by
the Womens' Social and Political
union.
"The household boycott means re-
fusal by the women to perform house
hold duties,' Frau Duerrin explain
ed. you English women should drop
militancy and adopt this plan. 1t
7'ould be ia more effeave. would
even neglect IL o chill .ren to make the
men dress them themselves.
"By household boycott you would
enforce on men that division Of labor
between the sexes which we hear SO
much about Men tell us that women
should not meddle in politics, because
politics is mems affair and women s
affair is at home. Yet every husband.
while keeping his wife out OF poll
/ tics, NEEDLES In home affairs and
thereby rejects his own principle
Let the men get their own meals,
4 look after the children, attend to
their own clothes, and in few days
men would yearn after their old half
authority in the home and be more
than willing to give the women halt
authority in politics"
The police today believed that the
suffragette bomb exploded in the
Manchester free trade hall night be.
! fore last was Intended for John Burns
president of the board OF trade. Burns
was to have spoken few minutes
/ after the bomb shattered big win
dow
Home Secretary McKenna's "cat
and mouse" bill, providing for the
| temporary release from prison OF
1 hunger strikers was expected to
obtain the royal APPROVAL and become
a law today Following it's passage
1 by the house of commons Wednesday
it was rushed through the house OF
4 lords late yesterday.
Scotland Yard detectives allege that
they have discovered a plot on the
part of suffragettes to kidnap the son
i of Justine Sir Charles Lush, who
sentenced Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
to three years in jail, and also to burn
several buildings at Harrow.
An unidentified man today appeared
at Bow street police court and paid
the fines yesterday imposed on Mrs
/ Despard, Miss Boyle and Mrs. Wood
suffragettes arrested at Nelson monu
ment In Trafalgar square. Despite
their protests the three were released
from jail
Dynamite Bomb.
CARDIFF, April 25.-A ten inch
4 canister, filled with dynamite, the
i fuse Of which had been burned tc
within half an inch Of the explosive
was found early today on the steps
\ of Lloyd's bank.
"votes for women was inscribed
on the side of the cylinder, but the
kpolice were In doubt whether the
bomb was the work of militant suffra
\ gettes, or OF anti-suffragists, seekins
to discredit the women.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
ne Uses It However and Appears Con.
tented With the Way
Vice Is Not
curbed.
N BAD SPRINGFIELD
Cheap Hotels Where There Are Many
Girls Were Investigated
by the Com
mission.

Limited Press Leased Wire Service.
What Mayor schnepp and Chief I'm
derwood did not Know About
Springfield.
The bounds of the vice district.
The number Of immoral houses
The number of prostitute inmates.
Whether beer was sold in the
houses.
we have rule against it,
whether the "call system evistee
I've heard rumors of it,, Chief I'm
derwood.
The chiefs answer to "why don't
you clean up?'
The law is such that the courts
won't convict on evidence we can get.'
He then took pinch of snuff, which
he used freely.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 25.-Citi-
zens of the capital realized today. fol-
lowing the first session of the Illinois
senate vice commission, that vice of
unsounded depth existed here and that
to cope with it they had mayor and
chief of police who did not know its
extent and admitted they knew not
how to fight it.
Before he became mayor, John
Schnepp was real estate dealer.
John Underwood was farmer before
he became chief of police.
Evidence Of woman detective sent
here in advance of the commission
to investigate cheap hotels was that
number of rooming houses had work
ed together to establish call sys-
tem," whereby girls We're listed by
telephone numbers in order that they
might be called quickly in case a
customer appeared.
Lillian, call this little girl if you
want any one, for she's all o. X
That note, written on card, was
given the detective who had posed as
"call girl She had presented it to
Lillian" in another hotel, had given
her telephone number, and had been
ioyfully received
''We never have empty beds. Only
one night last week we couldn't find
a girl. You know, some times they in
sist en- chasing the cafes" she was
told BY the proprietress of the Victor
hotel, designated last night as the
cheapest hotel in town.
Il was warned not to go to the
Victor" the girl said "They said it
was cheap. l found that prices in
Springfield ranged from 50 to SO and
up to s5. Rarely $40 was paid"
Well manicured and fashionahly
dressed young women who said they
worked in these hotels as chamber
maids proved battling to the commits
sion. They were asked how they
could afford TO dress SO well on Sc a
week and board
eve we're told to tell the truth,
that's ALL" several said.
"Why should you have been told
that? Isn't your reputation good9"
4 Senator JUL asked.
The commission was interrupted by
Representative O'Rourke. who asked
/ whether they thought it right that
boys of fourteen and sixteen years
should be present.
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara answer
ed that the hearings had been and
would continue to be open to all citi-
zens of the state.
At the close of the hearing. DR.. G.
Continued on page
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-25
Parents Liable Under State
Law When Pupils Are Tru-
ants Without Cause.

'unlled n Press Leased Wire Service !
y, ISBuRGH, April 25.-A Penn
e ANA law providing that parents
A. auant school chilarcn may be
= Two dollares day for absence
saa '"s'r children without cause may
cl,,, lne school strike. Hundreds Of
,a s'uien returned TO school when a
~ was spread that their parents