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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
INFANTRY JOURNAL
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Answers the Article Recently Appear
Ing In Harper's Weekly on "Thc
Honor Of the Army"

Infantry Journal" May-June, 1914:
In series Of articles entitled "The
Honor Of the Army" published In
Harper's Weekly. Charles Johnson
Post has endeavored to discredit the
regular army of the United States
through the presentation Of a number
OF alleged facts which he cites as In
dicative Of general condition.
Unfortunately the army is too little
known to our people. 1t is only in
time Of war, food, earthquake, or 9TH
er grave public emergency when the
nation calls and finds ready and will
ing. trained and disciplined force Of
soldiery, that there Is momentary
outburst Of pride and enthusiasm for
the American soldier developed under
the very system which these articles
attempt to belittle and condemn.
The chief claim to consideration
that can be accorded Mr.. Posts ,arti-
cles Is that they have found medium
of publicity and, therefore credence,
in journal with the inherited tradi-
lions Of Harper's Weekly. 1t is due to
this, and not to any inherent worth in
the articles themselves. that they are
noticed in the pages Of the Infantry
Journal; for in the minds of many Of
it's readers "Harper's" is still what it
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
CATHOLICS NUMBER
SIXTEEN MILLIONS
The Complete Census Of Church
Members in United States Shows
Astonishing Increase.

From the Literary Digest: The
official figures for the Catholic pop
ula:ion in the United States, from
the publishers Of the official Catho-
lie directory, show an astonishing in
crease Of 913,827 to the population OF
this church for 1918, accounted for
principally by the first authentic re-
ports from the Ruthenian Greek bish-
op. This is the frs. time all the
Ruthenian Catholics have been includ-
ed in the census. The editor OF the
directory places the total number OF
Catholics at 16,O67.9S5, and declares
that this is very conservative figure,
believing that 10 per cen. should be
added for floating population" The
church papers print this statement:
"The official Catholic directory for
1914 Is replete with interesting fig
ures. According to its summary there
are 1858 Catholic priests in the Unit
ed States, an increase Of 62a for the
year. Among these 1858 clergymen
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
MR.. CossON ANSWERS
DEMOCRATIC INQUIRY
Issues Statement Relative to Who
May Vote at the Democratic
Primary Monday, June I.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, May 14.-Iu
answer to the many inquiries that
have been made. the ofifce Of the at
Itorney general of Iowa has issued a
statement relative 20 who may vote at
the democratic primary to be held
Monday. June 1. Inquiries have flock
ed in because OF the statement OF the
two hundred thousand democrats in
Iowa but fifty-eight thousand voted at
the last primary. In view of this sit
uation and the keen party spirit that
is breaking forth afresh all over Iowa
the question has arisen generally as to
who is entitled to vote. In many
counties In the state the majority OF
the voters have paid no attention to
the primaries because of the lack Of
contests for nominations and many of
them have voted in the republican
primaries. In taking up this question,
the attorney general construes the
law as follows:
Any democrat who has heretofore
affiliated with the republican party,
by voting at the primary election as a
republican, mus, in order to vote as
a democrat at the primary June l,
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Mrs. Powell Almost Dead.

Dry Ridge, KY could hardly walk
across the room," says Mrs. Lydia
Powell. Of Dry Ridge. before / tried
Cardui. I was so poorly. was almost
dead. Now. 1 can walk four miles and
do my work with much more ease. /
praise Cardui for my wonderful cure.
Cardui is successful In benefting sick
women. because it is composed of in
gradients that act specifically on the
womanly constitution. relieving head
ache, backache, irregularity. misery
and distress. Only good medicine
could show such continual increase IN;
popularity as Cardui has, for the past
SO years. Try Cardui, the woman's
10 years. You ought to try t.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
HANCOCKa COUNTY
PIONEER IS DEAD
age Passes Away Monday
at His Home.

O. ]. Hall. the oldest resident of
Carthage and probably of Hancock
county, died at his home there Mon
day morning. aged 50 years and s
months. Mr. Hall has been in falling
health for some weeks and fall two
weeks ago in which his hip was frac-
tured fastened the end.
Mr.. Hall was born in Newstad, N
Y, December 8, 1913. When about
sister, Christiana. went to Iowa and
located near Montrose, where Mr..
Hall taught school. About year
later they crossed the river to Nau-
VOC. There later Christiana Hall was
married to Luke P. Prentice. Mrs.
Prentice died many years ago.
Mr.. Hall went to California in 1S49.
Returning in 1851, he was married the
same year to Miss Ellen A. Cordry, OF
Nauvoo, and they removed to the
farm four miles southeast of Nauvoo,
which remained their home until they
went to Carthage to reside in 1891.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall have for many
years made their home with their
daughter, Mrs. VIM. Gordon Of Garth
age. OF the seven children born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall. five are living
Wesley D.. OF Willow. CAL: Mrs.
AIDA Haa gsma OF Chicago: Mrs. Cor
don OF Carthage, and Oscar c., OF
Chicago. Mrs. Hall also survives. Mr..
Hall was an uncle of Mrs. Millard
Horton Of the east country.
Services were held this morning at
8 o'clock at the NJ. e. chuhch in
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there are 1884 priests of religious
orders.
"Ths new directory further shows
tina. 339 churches were established in
1918, the total number of Catholic
churches in this country being 1861
OF these 9,74O have resident pastors,
and 4,911 are churches attended from
neighboring parishes.
1.-The directory lists eighty-two
seminaries, 1862 seminarians, 230
colleges for boys, $50 academies for
girls and 5,4O3 parochial schools. In
these 5,4os parochial schools. 1,42s,-
$50 children are receiving an educa.
ton which will A: them for the world
and give them the religious instruc-
ton which Is so necessary under
present day conditions.
'It must not be overlooked that in
addition to these 1,52s,sb9 parochfal
men in colleges, academies and uni
versitfes, young women in boarding
schools and academies, girls and boys
in orphan asylums. Adding all these
+. will be found that 1,669,391 young
people are receiving Catholic instruc-
ton.
The 1914 edition of this directory
also shows that there are 4,224. 900
Catholics under the protection Of the
stars and stripes. This figure is de-
rived by adding the Catholics in Alas
ka, the canal zone, Guam, the Ha-
waiian Islands, Porto Rico and the
Philippines to the total number Of
Catholics in the United States prop
err"
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change his afflliation. by filing with
the county auditor Of his county on
or before the twenty-second day OF
May, change OF affiliation. All coun-
ty auditors have blanks for this pur-
pose and will furnish them on demand.
Any democrat who has not hereto
fore af1liated with the republican par
ty. although he has not attended the
primaries. may vote for his choice of
democratic candidates by simply de-
manding of the judges OF election a
democratic primary ticket, and of
course all democrats who have here
tofore been voting at the democratic
primaries have the right to continue
SO to do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14

"GETSIT." Corn freedom is yours at
last. not next week or next month, but
right now! "GETS-IT" goes after
corns as crow does corn. There
are no more thick plasters and
greasy salves that don't remove, no
more files, razors and jabbers that
make corns grow. Put few drops of
"GETS-IT" on and see every corn
and callus shriyel and vanish. That's
the new way. the painless, sure. safe.
quick way. Only "GETS-lT"s can do
it. Apply 1t In three seconds.
Every druggist in the land sells
"GETS-lT." Is cents bottle, or sent
direct by e. Lawrence & Co.. Chicago.
"GETS-IT" is sold in Keokuk by
Englehardt & Co.
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DEVIATION IS SLIGHT
Is Never Over one-Fourth Cycle
From Established Standard Of
Twenty-Five for Local
Generators.

The average reader generally stops
when he reads that certain Electric
generators are phase, 1000
volts and twenty-five cycles. But
really, that is not hard to understand
says a writer who. without any special
technical knowledge, has been asking
questions in the big power house In
the Mississippi river at Keokuk.
A three phase generator Is simply
one that sends out current through
three outlet wires, exactly like q
pump with three discharge pipes
pumps water.
Twenty-Five cycles means that an
alternating current alternates twenty
Ave times second. An alternating
current goes one way and then the
other like shuttle, and when it goes
both ways in one twenty fifth OF sec
ond Of time, or twenty-five round trips
per second, 1t is called twenty-five
cycle currents. Most generators make
either twenty-five cycle current or
sixty cycle current. nowadays. and
the former is becoming more popular
among electrical engineers especially
for large power plants. This twenty
Ave cycle current Is the kind general
ed in the big Keokuk water power
plant and transmitted from there to
the points of use in the power zone
along the Mississippi.
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situation for him, as far as he could
see.
Lincoln School Addition.
The building committee reported
plans for the Lincoln school addition,
and asked the board to adopt these
with some changes. This was done.
The plans call for two additional
rooms. one OF them to be kindergar-
ten room. 1t Is probable that a
plan to utilize space for wardrobes,
as found in some Of the Des Moines
schools will be used here. A rolling
partition blocks off the cloak rooms
from the main room. There is air
space left at the floor which allows
the clothes to dry in case of rainy
weather.
Member Lutz' suggestion that Keo-
kuk material be used in the construc-
ton of the buildings was accepted by
The board and the committee.
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No MIX and Honey.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
VICTOR, Colo, May 14-Business
streets OF Victor are now literally
paved with gold. They have been sur
faced with more than seven hundred
loads Of ore, crushed to a suitable
size, which runs as high as $40 ton
in gold The ore was used because
it was really cheaper than it would
have been to haul non-mineral rock
from greater distance.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
Most Prompt and EFfectuaI Cure for
Rad colda

Most Prompt and EFfeetuaI Cure FOR
Bad Colds.
When you have q bad cold you
want remedy that will not only give
relief, but effect !. prompt and perma-
nent cure, remedy that is pleasant
to take. remedy that contains moth
ing injurious. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy meets Ell these requirements.
1t acts on natures plan, relieves the
lungs, aids expectoration, opens the
secretions and restores the system to
a healthy condition. This remedy
has 8 world wide sale and use, and
can always be depended upon. Sold
by all dealers.-Advertise
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14

table Compound and have taken It and
Seel fine. A lady said one day, 'Oh, l
feel 50 tired all the time and have head
ache said, Take Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and she
did and feels fine now. Mrs. M. r.
KARsCHNICK, 1888 N. Paulina Street,
Chicago, Illinois.
The Other Case.
Dayton, Ohio. -" Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound relieved me of
pains in my side that l had for years
and which doctors medicines failed to
relieve. 1t has certainly saved me from
an operation will be glad to assist
you by personal letter to any woman
in the same condition. - Mrs. j. w.
SHERER. 126 Cass St, Dayton, Ohio.
IF you want special advice
write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med
ldine Co. (confidentiaD Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman,
and held in strict confidence.
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I wish to announce that I will be a
candidate for the nomination for audi
tor Of Lee county, subject to the &C
ton OF the republican primaries.
N. J. BEvER, FIT. Madison, Iowa.
advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
Two WOMEN
AVOID
OPERATIONS
By Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Chicago. 1ll.-'1 must thank you with
all my heart for Lydia E. Pinkham's

veg = IaOie NOm-
pound. / used to go
to my doctor for pills
and remedies and
they did not help me.
/ had headaches and
could not eat, and the
doctor claimed l had
female trouble and
must have an opera
ton. I read in the
paper about Lydia
~. Pinkhan's Vepe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14

I wish to announce to my friends
and the voters that 1 will be cam
didate for the nomin alton of clerk OF
tbs district court Of Lee county, sub
ject to the action OF the democratioi
primaries.
W. w. GwIN.
OF Keokuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN.

PHYSICIAN.
Or. w. p. SHERLOCK,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once, Is North Fifth street in the
Howell building.
ONCE HourS-10 to u .. m. to
3 p. M: evenings. to g.: Sundays.
IL to p. m. United States civil scr
vice examiner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-14

DR.. BRUCE 1. GIlFiLlAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Once. 621h Main street, over
Winger Eros. store. Bell phone 100.
Black.
Residence. 317 North Fourth street.
Bell phone 12s0-Red.
Hours-10-12 q. m; "a p. NJ; 7-S
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
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Difficult to Regulate.

O1InCutt 20 Regulate
1t is difficult to maintain the alter
nations Of current at exactly SO many
per second. If the alterations go to
twenty-six per second 1t means that
the big generator fields. twenty-five
feet in diameter. have speeded up SO
that they make revolution in four
hundredths Of a minute less time. At
Keokuk. that means that the whirling
mass OF turbine, shaft and field,
weighing 100000 pounds is going a
couple of seconds too fast.
One of the wonders of the plant is,
that with regulation like a watch this
900 900 pounds Of metal is kept run
ming so uniformly that its speed never
varies more than small fraction Of a
second for one revolution. The cycle
measurer never shows a deviation of
over one-fourth cycle from the es.
standard.
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steadiness 10 Marvel.

Prominent electrical engineers from
all over the world invariably exclaim
at the steadiness Of the current from
the big generators in the Mississippi
river when they see the instrument
which indicates exactly how many
cycles a second is being made and
sent out on the transmission lines.
The practical value of this is that the
great steadiness Of current makes
house lights burn better, and espe-
cially does it produce economy in
manufacturing plants all over the
power zone operated by motors driven
by this new power. In some cities,
the local company transforms the
Keokuk current to sixty-cycle, but in
Keokuk, Hamilton and Warsaw 1t is
used at twenty-five cycles with great
owing to its steadiness-
for this steadiness Is Of great import
ance in actual operation.
And all this nicely Of regulation is
really maintained in spite of the
mighty power of the Mississippi river
rushing with uncomfortable force
through the water wheels which make
the generators whirl on the power
house floor above.
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situation for him, as far as he could
see.
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Advertisement.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
Costly Junk.
Cleveland Plain Dealer. )

One thousand tons of useless print4 certain recesses of the national cap- itol. It cost the government-the tax. payers from sea to sca--many thou- sands of dollars 1t will bring it's worth as waste paper. 8
 The house committee on printing
 proposes to investigate this old abuse which is almost as familiar as tho pork in river and harbors bill. It will be questioned whether come nlittee has at last been organized with the courage required to tackle this dnuse and put an end to it. v
 As long as congress persists in will be demanded by hundreds at the most the capitol rubbish pile will con-' tinue to accumulate. In six years, it is stated, 6,050,000 copies of reports and pamphlets have been added to the wasteful collection. No one calls for them; if they arc mailed no one reads them. Vanity or sheer carelessness of public funds inspires this constant overproduction of useless documents. <
 1t is not a big issue, of course. Cons pared with some wastes of government patent to all observers, the saving tos be made by curtailng the peoples printing bill would probably be small.s But the leak is assdredly worth stop ping. The good wishes of payers ofs taxes everywhere belong to the house committee which proposes so greatly needed a reform.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
City Hen1s

Since January 1 1,347 documents have been recorded with the city clerk.
 The dancing class of MT. and Mrs Place will meet Wednesday instead of Tuesday evening this week. E
 Ladies' night, planned for Tuesday evening by the Holy Name society of St. Mary's church, has been indef- nitely postponed.
 The bi-weekly meeting of the Sum- shine society will be held at o'clock omorrow afternoon in the Y. w. c. A. parlors.
 The Swedish Temperance Fedora ton held mass meeting yesterday af- ternoon at the Swedish Lutheran church. Rev. G. w. Palmgren of Hartford gave an address and tire Bethany choir rendered selections.
 Constable Wrinkle has been given a writ of execution to serve on Abra- ham B. Chanovsky, of Lafayette street. The plaintiff in the case is David Feingold. The constable will auction off the goods on May 25.
 Philip Kerwin, the eleven year old son of Alderman M. T. Kerwin of the sixth ward, underwent an X-ray ex- animation in St. Francis hospital, Hartford, yesterday.
 William E. Curtin has sold land on Pennington avenue to Michael Ka- minski, ct al.
 The High School Debating club held a short meeting this morning for the purpose of electing a vice president and secretary for next year. Edward Ginsberg was chosen vice presid and Vincent Glynn, secretary. The election of an assistant business man. ager was put off until the next meet ing.
 Sale on trimmed hats. M. Seibert. -adVt.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
SINGERS BODY TO
 BE BROUGHT HOME
Madame Nordica, Who Died at Ba' tayia. Java Last Night, Will Be
 Buried in United States.

Batavia. Java, May 1.-The body
 of Madame Lillian Nordica. the Amer
 jean singer, who died here from pneu-
 monia last night, is to be sent to the
 United States. It will leave here on
 May Is.
 Lillian Nordica was an American
 singer of worldwide fame. Her ad-
 nirers ranged from the men of the
 Rowery section of New York, where she had sung at mission meetings, to the most critical box holders of grand opera houses in all of the world
 great musical centers. The purity of her voice, employed in many tongues. had delighted hundreds of thousands since the day, forty years ago, she
 first appeared in public as soprano soloist at Grace church in Boston. Nordica and Eames-although the
 latter was born of American parents in far off China-were of old New
 England stock, both claimed by the state of Maine, and they made up q
 notable American contribution to the operatic world A farm house built by the prima donna's great grand father on a hill just outside the vi!- lage of Pennington, Maine, was Nor-
 dicas birthplace, in 1859. Her true name was Lillian Norton. She changed it to the Italian, Nordica, ! twenty years later when she began to study in Italy for an operatic car eer
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
May Flowers.
Cleveland Plain Dealer. )


 May and flowers; here are two words which happily combine; ona brings a thought of the other. GR
 And yet May hereabouts is some- what of a transition month. Tho woodland blossoms which are distinc- lively the flowers of spring are of April rather than of May. Already the hepaticas have vanished and tfo bloodroot Dientra, dentaria, adder1 tongue. spring beauty and anemone may still be found, but they are not the characteristic flowers of May They are Aprirs left-oyers.
 These earlier flowers are without exception dainty and charming. They are the spring blossoms which have for countless years moved poets and poetasters to the scratching of manE quills and the expenditure of infinitA inF I
 No one has sung of the characteru istic flowers of May. They do not possess the same appeal as the yearSs flcral pioneers. Yet, in their waS4 they are almost as beautiful.
 Just now the characteristic forest flowers are .Solomon's seal, the falss Soiomon's seal, -in-the-pu1pit. n,aianthemum canadense .nd bellwcFts All these belong exclusively to Mag Their beauty in the woods is that cf foliage rather than of flower. The, blossoms are mostly inconspicuous but the leaves are glossy and handsorf1e1 The ground is as brilliantly green Asj are the boughs above. shining in the sunlight with their innumera bi6 shades and blendings of new verdures The real May adornments are nearly all lily-like in their smoothness and shapeliness. %Hs
 Two unassuming blossoms, the foam flower and the mitrewort, are distinckl tive features of the May woods abobfl Cleveland, and these are almost aloual in their likeness to the daintier wild flowers of earlier spring. A9.
 As summer ripens the flowers of May will be followed by a far more aggressive and confident sisterhood. So aggressive are the summer wild flowers that they are usually quite un- romantic and awaken no interest in, the casual fieldfarer. FF
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
STARK X co. ATTACH.
George Sperry's Charcoal Company
 Falls Victim to Clever Ruse.

Constable George A. Stark, assisted bS his son D. D. Stark, placed d small attachment against George Sperry of the New Britain Charcoal company. this afternoon. The articles attached consist of roll top desk, table and chair, all of which were removed from the building in Com mercial street through the window.
 When the constable and his assis- tant came sweeping down upon the establishment they used much strat. egy. As the minion of the law en- tered the front door his assistant, like true gumshoe artist, sneaked to the corner of the building where he could get a clear view of the back door in order that the villain might not escape. These preca cautionary measures were unnecessary, how ever, for MT. Sperry was not pres ent. The articles swere removed without any disturbance on the part of the owners.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
Mrs. Louise HuostrOln.

Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Hugstrom, the wife of Albert Hug strom of Andrews street who died at the hospital on Saturday night at the age of twenty years, were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the Err win Mortuary chapel in Fairview cem etery Rev. Otto Schreiber officiated and interment was in FairvieW ceme- tery Those who acted as pall- bearers were Rudey, Philip, Arthur and Eric Carlson, three brothers.
 Mrs. Hugstrom was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pfeifer and besides her parents and husband is survived by two sisters and three brothers, the Misses Lena and Freda and Charles, Fred and Henry Pfeifer.