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red and pink eoors There is also a
 red and green prophyry and sandstone of all colors The government has ap- propriated s200,0O to buy a certain kind of sandstone which exists in a variety of colors. for use in the legls- lative palace now building, and 1t will Use native marble In that construction. A company has been organized to de- Velop the green marble deposits, and a native firm with a capital of a half million dollars has constructed a cement factory to make a Portland cement, for which Uruguay has excellent materials The government itself has purcha sed the Minas Dolomite quarries. There are also some of the precious stones such as agates. amethysts, topazes and jas per in many colors. The country has roofing slate which is said to be good
 As to trees, Uruguay has but few eX cept along the banks of the streams, but trees will grow almost everywhere and the government is now stimulating rated an arbor day somewhat like that of the United States, and more than bo,000 trees were planted on that day of last year. The government is of fering prizes to encourage the plant ing of trees among the farmers, and Tn 1911 two landowners received $10,000 each for what they did along those lines A number of others received smaller prizes. As 1t Is now, more than 100000 trees have been planted In Is of the 19 states of the country.
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Der of model farms and experimental stations where they are testing new pants and seeds. The agricultural department Is working along some of the lines inaugurated by the United States, and steady improvement of farming conditions Is bound to go on. The present administration is progress sive and the President Is so much so that he Is charged with socialism and has thereby become very unpopular with large class of the people. In- deed. I am told that he really fears assassination; and for that reason spends but little of his time in Monte video, but lives In comparative seclu- sion out in the country.
 Among the other big things that are going on is the planting of trees, the the organization of statistical offices that will give crop reports and also in- formation as to industriais So far Uruguay has never been carefully pros pected. The land is known to have min erals and stones of great value, but nothing has been done to develop them Now two geologists have been brought here from the United States, and they have taken in hand a systematic geo. logical survey of the country. It has been found that there are coal and salt In certain sections and that there are great deposits of mica and graphite
 The stones are especially fine. More than 300 varities of marble are known to exist. and these include pure white,
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while recreation of debasive sort Is
 too insistent to be always avoided
 heai1zing this fact and knowing her own psychology, one young woman
 pays for dinners in advance at her
 boarding house so that when the un- desirable invitation to dine comes she Will have something besides an empty rurse and hungry body to back up her refusal. Unfortunately. such foresight Is rare, and the exposition atmosphere Of excitement and relaxation does not tend to increase 1t.
 Showing the Girls the Show 2 or course, in order to counteract loneliness and its dangers, the great est stress is laid upon the recreation al side of the work. Committees of the slrls have been formed In each of the palaces, With trained worker as a sort or silent partner, to arrange par ties and good times. Sometimes they are held in the association building sometimes on the beaches or parks Club women of the city have been in 'efested In the fact that many of the girls have never had time to see the exhibits outside the buildings in which they are employed and are taking sroups through the exposition. The ex- hibitors, themselves. fin the palace of education, are devoting their noon hours to explaining the work of the national child labor committee and the childrens bureau to employees
 With December In mind, the day the exposition closes, and few hun cred more women will be added to the unemployed. evening classes in stem o2raphy and salesmanship are held in the Y. w. c. A. building Preparations are also being made to have new jobs ready as soon as the old ones are gone ana to provide for the stranded by CO., operation with permanent agencies.
 The r. W. C. A. work on the expo- sition grounds has itself been an ef- exhibit. Wherever gaps have appeared 1t has been able to step for ward and fill them and whatever else the final recokning may show, 1t will have proven that highly centralized organization can adapt itself to local with elasticity and vigor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Some Experiences
 on a Sea Voyage

lnasmuch as we started on the 2d of July, when the 4th arrived we had becum so pre- occupied in our contest with the "rocking of the boat' that we weer not as full of patryotism as usual. The furst evening we talked it ovver and mapped out sum selle brasion. We fingered that we would get all the passengers togethur and have speeches. songs and danse in the cabbin Newer was theere gayer party than that furst nlte Everybody was as sosial as the an- nuel smoker of the K of P. lodge.
 But newer saw such a change in a bunch of reel mise folks in my life as oc- cured by the afturnoon of the next day. The yung man contimplating matrimonny ought to take his feeansay on a boat trip round Cape Hatterus, if he can raise the prise, before he is irrevocabuly stung. See sickness works marvelus change in the disposison of sum folks. A perfectly anu abull feemail who newer used harsh ex- presson in her life, can be totally trans formed in few breef hours on a ruff vov- age. She becums about as companionabuIl as the little honnest but hard working hor- net who has suffered the annoyanse of hay ing his dommisile maid the target of the small boy Moreover she gets extreemlv reckless about her apperanse. It was my pleasure to enjoy the acquaintance of couple of ladies for quite long time. who weer on that trip. To my sertain noledge it would have been easier to have indused the Alabama Legislature to fynanse
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Fly MARGARET T. HoDGEN


 (Exclusive Service the Survey Press
 Bureau)
 From the day the San Francisco fair opened in February, the national board of the Young Womens Christian asso- citation has been vigilantly engaged in two pieces of work for visiting women One--to offer information, rest and re- freshment to the stranger-was a matter of organization along more or less well beaten trails. The other ito discover fields of useful service to the lonely and unprotected women employees on the fairgrounds-taxed the imagination and initiative of the staff of secretaries in the associations own special building. And of all these the hardest task was with the girls of the joy zone, who both live and do their turns in an atmosphere of ob- vious hardship and temptation
 "Smile--It's Painless"
 The Joy zone Is street almost straight, about hree-quarters of A mile long where the crowds go of an evening for entertainment of a pecul- iarly light order. The person with adaptable enthusiasms can enjoy a trip In submarine. visit to the human freaks. visitor of creation, and hot waffle. all in a brief half hour. It is not without sifnificance that the zone Is situated at the oppo- site end of the fairgrounds from the palaces of fine arts and education, and that it's most ubiquitous sign is, Smile; it's painless"
 Girls are employed everywhere. Some are cashiers some dive for a living, some. dressed in Columbine costumes, sell candy and chewing gum, some are Egyptian princesses, some are dwarfs. Then there are waitresses, shooting gallery attendants. rough rider maj dens. living dolls and myriads of dancers of all kinds and descriptions. There are between 800 and 400 young women on the zone. ranging in age from 16 to 35. Some of them live in rough quarters built in back of the concessions. others live in rooms off the grounds. They get their meals at
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THE Y. w. c. A. ON THE JOY ZONE

the cheapest and most convenient
 counter. That overstrain. exploitation
 and temptation crowd every day of
 their lives is not an isolated criticism
 of an isolated amusement center It Is
 the constant accompaniment of com
 niercialized recreation and the expo
 sition merely lends glamor and in- tensity
 Clubhouse Under Scenic Railway
 Concessionaires were at first inclined to resent the Y. W. c. A. as "second rate boarding house and third rate prayer meeting" organized for sys- tematic intrusion. But by sincere ef- forts to see the employers side as we'll placed by a very practical sort of CO., operation. Upon invitation of the con cessionaires. a clubhouse was built un- der the tracks of the scenic railway for the exclusive use of the zone girls. There they can secure a 12-cent lunch and rest afterward. They can have hot baths; they can come of an after noon or evening to read or sew or just plain sit
 If the girls on the zone seemed to receive more attention than those in the palaces 1t was because of the pressing nature of the problems in the amusement section. The needs of the palace girls arc just as real though they wear conventional attire and work ordinary hours. They are re- cruited from every state in the union and work at jobs that require every degree of training and intelligence. They demonstrate processes of manu- lecture; they distribute literature and interest prospective buyers. they make overalls and try photograph records; they lecture in movie theatres and bake cakes. Every exhibitor has thought of some way to utilize the charm and ability of young woman.
 Attracted to San Francisco by tho prospect of change and high- pr wages. these girls, most of them rom distance. are scattered about he city in boarding houses, without friends or home influence. Opportuni- :ies for wholesome goodtimes are rare,
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the ocean and on the other bv tbe
 "aters or the Rio de Ia Plata The
 pay mas been dredged out at a cost Of
 many millions of dollars It has been
 walled with great docks and basins and
 It's shipping facilities are now of the
 best. All of the boats that 20 to and
 from the Strait of Magellan call bsra
 and this includes ships on the way to
 New Zealand and to the west coast
 There are some steamers that call only
 at montevideo and not Buenos Aires,
 put all Of the Buenos Aires steamers
 come to Montevideo This makes it so
 that you can get two. three or more
 steamers almost every day to Europe
 and frequent steamers to the west
 coast. There Is also a great shipping
 that goes into the interior and along
 the coast of Brazil I have travelled
 more than 2500 miles on the Parana
 system and I could have gone almost To the headwaters of the Amazon by
 ships, sailing from here
 At present there are something like 5ooo or 5000 vessels which call here every year. and their tonnage aggregates almost 1O- Wo,"O which is much in excess of what Will go through the Panama canal for sometime to come. Of this there is only one regular line of passenger vessels from New York, This Is the Iarport X Holt company, which has steamers every two weeks. The ships are of good size many or them being of 1900 tons They are well equipped and have all the comforts of the transatlantic liners They are general ly patronized by Americans although many of our travellers go by Europe on their way to Montevideo The trip is longer by the better part of week but the com petition is such that the rates of passage are about the same It costs s20O for a hrst-class passage from New York to the River Plate, the rate to Rio de Janeiro being Just $50 less. The time from New York to Montevideo is % days
 The Lamport & Holt steamers belong to an English company. and theer are no vessels that come to this part of the worl6 The Grace steamers pass here on their way to the Strait of Magellan but do not stop. Americans in business In Montevideo and Buenos Aires and our consuls and diplomats as we'll tell me that there is urgent need for a line or American steamers and for American banks in these two centers. Our trade with Argentina now amounts to about sl0.- ooOOO0 and upward year, and this con stitutes about one-tenth of the foreign commerce of the country, which is a total of more than sl00,000.0O0 per annum. We are shipping here all sorts of goods. in- 'luding great deal of machinery agricul- tural and otherwise. and we are taking Uruguay hides, wool and of late a great deal of chilled beef. This trade Is bound to increase and it seems a great pity to allow the British to take d toll from it. The same Is true as to banking Almost every dollar of American money that 'omes here has to go through an English bank. and the money sent back for our imports is transferred, by way of London, o our exporters in New York and other localities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01
Lemons and Eggs Uncongenial rom tho NNa ht,, rtA. Tas-


 If you put q lemon next to an egg In refrigerator it will be only a short time until the oil of the lemon has penetrat ted the egg and made 1t useless, except per- haps for cooking purposes" remarked F. A. Hamilton of Buffalo. N. Y. Eggs and tobacco are the most easily affected by the contfguity of other articles. Lemons now are selling for a lower price than for q long time. due, 1t is said. to the big supply that was held in cold storage houses to be disposed of this summer, par ticularly the Fourth of July. but there was not the big demand expected and the price has gone down.
 Some years ago a cold storage house In Buffalo laid In large supply of eggs and short time later also thousands of boxes of lemons. When 1t put in the storage house several came to take up the eggs for sale or shipment 1t was found that every egg in the place had been affected by the lemons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01


 ter.) 'AME from Argentina to Uru- quay in night. The two countries are separated by the Rio de la Plata and the Rio Uruguay, and they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

The stones are especially fine. More than 800 varities of marble are known to exist. and these include pure white.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-01

Now see where 1t lies! Uruguay is in sths heart of the great bread lands of the southern part of this continent. It is 8 pocket of rich soil at the lower end
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
SEVERAL DAYS
BEFORE RAISED
Submarine Boats Dead Crew May
Not Be Taken Out for Some
Time.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
I. HONOLULU, March 30.-Although
five days have elapsed since the sub
marine F-4 plunged to her grave on
the coral rocks with her crew OF
twenty-one, little progress toward
raising the Inflated vessel has been
made. With all hope Of saving lives
abandoned, Admiral Moore admitted
today that it might be several days
before the submarine can be raised,
even far enough to permit search BY
divers for the bodies of the victims.
The submarine is believed to be
tilted on the ocean floor at sharp
angle in from 43 to 60 fathoms about
$500 yards from Honolulu light, just
outside the harbor. Because of her
slanting position, the wrecking crews
are having great difficulty in prepar-
ing a cradle CT wire hawsers to hold
without slipping.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
DANISH SCROFULA
Hoods S'arsapariIla cleanses the
Blood, Skin Troubles Vanish.

Scrofula eruptions on the face and
body are both annoying and dis
figuring. Many complexion would
be perfect if they were not present.
This disease shows itself in other
ways, as punches in the neck, in
famed eyeltds, sore ears, wasting of
the muscles, form of dyspepsia,
and general debility.
Ask your druggist for Hoods Sar-
saparilla. This great medicine COM
pletely eradicates scrofula. 1t puri-
fies and eariches the blood, removes
humors, and builds up the whole
system. 1t has stood the test of
forty years, and has received thou
sands OF testimonials of the entire
satisfaction 1t has given.
Scrofula is either inherited or &C.
quired. Better be sure you are quite
free from it. Get Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and begin taking it today.
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
To Help Nature Shed
a Bad Complexion

Beauty devotees are enthusiastic
over the beautifying qualities Of mer-
colized wax. Perhaps nothing discov-
cred within recent years aCcomplishes
SO much, so quickly, without harm,
without OBTAINING one indoors, and
at such small expense. The principal
reason for it's wonderful merit is that
it works in harmony with physiologi.
cal laws. Instead of hiding, or ''cur.
ing" complexion defects, it removes
them. The wax actually takes off the
aged, faded, sallow or blotchy cuticle,
gently, gradually, causing no incon-
venience. 1t is Natures way of re-
newing compilations. When the nat
ural process is retarded because of
deficient circulation or nerve tone,
mercolized wax comes to the rescue
and hastens the skin shedding. The
new complexion which appears is a
natural one, youthful, healthy, exquis-
itely beautiful. If you've never tried
mercolized wax, get all ounce Of it at
the drug store, use at night like cold
cream, washing it off in the morning.
Another natural beautifying treat
mentor wrinkled, flabby SKINS to
battle the face in lotion made by
Gissolving an ounce of saxolite in a
half pint witch hazel. This is re-
markedly effective.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30

and most distinguished families. She
was married on the 2Sth of May,
1868, to William Charles, an English
man Of good birth and fine abilities,
who died in 1898 while in England on
business trip connected with i'm
portant railway affairs.
while in Quincy he was In the in
sllrance business and was for a time
Hampshire.
attractive woman of fine presence and
noble qualities. helpful, useful and de-
voted to the interests of family and
friends. When Mr.. and Mrs. Hayden
removed from Quincy to Keokuk sew
eral years ago, Mrs. Charles ac-
companied them and had since been a
member of their family, receiving from
them the tenderest care and atten.
ton.
Mrs. Emily Ralston Caldwell and
Mrs. Minnie Ralston Hayden are the
only surviving sisters of Mrs. Charles,
Mrs. Ida Ralston Morris and Miss
Theresa Ralston having passed away
many years ago. The funeral serS-
ices of Mrs. Charles will be held In
keokuk at the residence Of P. C. Hay.
den at 10 o'clock, Tuesday morning.
the nephews of the deceased, Ralston
hayden, Ralston Caldwell Of La.
Crosse, Wis, and P. G. Hayden be
ing among the pallbearers.
THE body will be brought to Quincy
on the afternoon train from Keokuk
and the burial will be in the family
lot at Woodland cemetery at o'clock
with Dean Cone to officiate at the
grave"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
LENTEN SERVICES
TO BEGIN TONIGHT
Rev. A. c. Ernst Of st. PauI's Evan
seIicaI Church, will Preach
This Week in English.

A series OF Lenten sermons will be
delivered by Rev. A. c. Ernst in the
st. PauTs Evangelical church this
week. The German Wednesday even
ing services during the past six weeks
were we'll attended, but it is expected
that the English services with all the
young people OF the church AID prac-
tically the entire Sunday school pres
ent will bring still larger attendance.
All members of the church and Wis
itors are cordially invited to attend.
1880 p. m. Subject, tonight, "a Non
Counterfeit Offering" Wednesday,
"The Real Lenten Question" Good
Friday, 1880 a. M. German, "The
Message from the Cross" Good Fri
day, 1880 p. M, English, "The Title
on the Cross"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
WOMEN IN VIENNA

VIENNA, Mar. 30.-Everybody does
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land. The poor woman on her way
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collection boxes. The rich women
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kitchens to the wounded officers and
soldiers. Not only do the women of
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The diseases which weaken and tor
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
Women Nav Be strono

and enjoy life whether in the home
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30
Out Of His Head.

rUnited Press Leased Wire Seryice.1
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 30
Henry B. Cohen, son Of Chas. J.
Cohen, president of the Philadelphia
Chamber of Commerce, shot and in
stantly killed his S5 year old grand
mother. Mrs. Clotilda F. Cohen, at
her home early today. He then sent
a bullet crashing into his own brain
and died at the Jefferson hospital.
Young Cohen unexpectedly returned
to his home last night from Chicago
sanftarium where he has been under
treatment for the past few months.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-30

Quincy after the brides father had
chased them over half county in an
automobile.
In letter to Mrs. Mckinney, the
bride says she and her husband are
visiting a friend in Shelbyville, Mo-,
and lodging two angry fathers, one
OF whom Is threatening trouble and
the other is threatening disinherit-
ance.
They will arrive in St Louis, Thurs
day for visit to the McKinneys. Be-
cause of his marriage, Smith will be
unable to return to West Point and
receive his commission as second liel-
tenant in the United States army.