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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
List Discovered by Western Profess
sor 10 Given TO Local Pupils ana
Few Spell All
Correctly.
GENERAL AVERAGE GOOD
keokuk Has Some Good Spoilers in
Schools, Test viii Show-one
Fifth Grader Missed Six
ty-five of Them.

There are eight champion spoilers
in Keokuk. They are students OF the
sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
Two are from the sixth and two from
the eighth with four from the seventh.
These eight pupils spelled correctly
the one hundred demon words" as
they are known, which recently have
been tried out on the school children
OF the state0
These demon words were discover
ed by professor in western col
lege. Superintendent William Aldrich
gave them to the pupils of Keokuk.
These words were given from the
fourth to the eighth grade. One pupil
in the fifth grade managed to mis-
spell sixty-flve words. A general sur
vey of the number of pupils who took
the test, and Of their percentage,
show that there are, on an average, a
goodly number of good spoilers in the
keokuk schools.
Following are the hundred demon
words:
Always, among, any, again, ache,
answer, business, been, built. busy, be-
lieye, beginning. blue, break, buy,
can't. could, country, color, choose,
coming, cough, don't, done, does, dear,
doctor. every. easy, early, enough,
friend, February, forty, grammar,
guess, hoarse, half, having, hour,
heard, here, hear. instead. just knew,
know. laid, lose, loose, many, meant,
making, minute, much, none, once,
often, piece, ready. raise, road,
straight, sugar, shoes, said, says, sure,
since, some, seems, separate, their,
there, Tuesday, two. too, trouble, tear.
tired, though, through, they, tonight,
used, very, which, where, women.
write, writing, would, Wednesday,
wear, whether, whole, won't, wrote.
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
An Author at Work.

Being an author actually at work,
and not an author being photographed
at work by lady admirer, he did not
gaze large-eyed at poppy in crystal
vase, one hand lightly touching his
forehead the other tossing off page
after page in high godlike frenzy. On
the contrary, the young man at the
table yawned, lolled. sighed, scratch
ed his ear, read snatches Of Virginia
Carriers Letters to My Girl Friends"
in the mornings Post" read snatches
of any printed matter that happened
to be about, and even groaned. When
he gazed. it was at no flower. but
more probably at his clock, a stout
well known to the trade
as big Bill" and the clock gazed
back, since there was matter be-
tween them this evening, and seemed
to say, well, are you going to the
club, or are you 1ot?-
From "Angela's Business by Henry
Sydror Harrison. Published by
Mifflin Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
YEAR IN COUNTY 49,
JAIL FOR NEGROES
Ward and Smith Received Sentence
This Morning, After Plea Of
Guilty on Larceny Charge.

One year in the Lee county jail
was the sentence imposed on vii
liam Smith and John Ward, the two
negroes who pleaded guilty to the lar.
ceny of big trammel net. Judge
Bank sentenced the men this morning,
following their plea Of guilty On Mon
day.
The wheels OF justice turned quick
ly for these two men. They were ar
rested, waived preliminary hearing
and were sent to the district court
where informations were filed against
them, charging larceny. They pleaded
guilty to the charge.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
Hard on the Governor.

Webster City Freeman-Tribune: u
was not many years ago that Horacs
Boies was elected governor upon the
democratic ticket at the close OF a
campaign waged against prohibition
Now the democratic party Is as much
prohibition as it is for the saloon.
and it Is a question which faction Is
the stronger Twenty years ago the
party was a unit against prohibition.
and the fact that 1t is now split in
the middle on this question furnishes
some evidence Of the growing sentt-
ment against the legalized grogshop.
And Horace Boies has lived to see
this transformation. He left the re-
publican party on account Of prohibit
ton, and II he still feels as he did
then he may have to leave the demo-
cratic party for the same reason.
-Peed The Gate CITY Want column.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
German Retaliation.

limited Press, Leased Wire Service.]
PETROGRAD, March 2G.-1n furth-
er retaliation for the Russian invasion
of east Prussia, German dirig1ole
dropped fourteen bombs upon the
Polish city, of Lomza, wounding nine
civilians. according to dispatches re-
cefyed here today. A Grodno dis
patch said that the Germans. after
burning the government buildings at
Suwalki, set fire to number Of other
buildings. 10
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
STILL THINKING
UP NEW LAWS
Iowa Legislature Discussing Measures
Of Various Character at
Present Session.

Hunted Press Leased Wire Service.l
DES MONIES, Iowa, March 20
Taking pity on the saloon men in
Dubuque and Davenport and other
cities where there are more saloons
than the law allows, the house today
passed the Kane-Kimberly bill which
makes It, unnecessary for these cities
to cut down the number Of saloons
July because they all have to close
january /, anyway. About forty sa-
Blooms are affected.
There is hard fight on In the
house over the Jones bill to give the
state railway commission control over
the telephone and telegraph COM
panies. Enemies Of the bill say 1t
gives tho Iowa Telephone company a
monopoly OF the business and also
gives them indeterminate franchises
in many cities where they now have
none
The house passed the bill creating
the Office of editor OF code at salary
of $4,000 year, doing away with the
code commission. The same bill Was
before the senate for action at noon,
More than 100 bills In the house, In
Guiding the twelve bills which have
passed the senate, known as the "pro-
hibition enforcement measures went
to the sitting committee of the house
today and no one knows when they
Will come out.
The Parker Brammer BILL creating
municipal courts in Iowa cities with
more than 10000 population was pass
ed by the senate by q vote Of 80 to
l after FAIR OF woodbury., had at.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
BREAK Up COUGHS, Group AND
COLDS PROMPTLY

with Schiffmann's Concentrated TX
pectorant. Guaranteed to give instant
relief, and II not found the very pest
medicine, money will be returned by
any Druggist s ~
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
Neutrality Violated.

limited Press Leased Wire Service /
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 26.-The
Chilean government today addressed
protests to both Germany and ENGLAND
against alleged violation OF Chilean
neutrality, particularly in the engage
ment at Juan Fernandez island.
The German cruiser Dresden stayed
four days at Juan Fernandez not
withstanding notice to leave before
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

she was sunk by British warships.
the government asserted, and was at
anchor in Chilean waters when she
was attacked. Previously Germany
violated Chilean neutrality on several
occasions, the government asserted,
without noting specific instances.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
A a,nat the Morbid.

pau,lina Times: We like the pro-
nosed law offered by one representa-
tive, a minister. too. that "ouiu pr IT.
hibit the exposing OF corpses " Tue
public gaze at funerals.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
Take q
!. 3enaQR 9tde1Qe !
Tonight
Il will act as a laxative In the
morning
McGrath Bros. Drug Co.
Mechanical upkeep, repairs, etc Z
McGrath Bros. Drug Co.

Daily cost .................. 1923
'If you start with new bus car"
says Marshall "one which costs ap-
proximately $500, you must take in
1923 a day or subtract the difference
from your wages, 500 month This
Is little enough for driving a jitney
$50 miles a day If your car is sec
ond hand, or cost more than $500
when new, or is heavier than 5000
car, you must, OF course, estimate
higher daily cost figures"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

Matteawan now, would be vfolaAon
by New York of good faith with New
Hampshire. ..-H7 ..F- .sgln-,zs ~.
Deputy Attorney, General Franklia
Kennedy told the app ellate Judges
that despite Thaw's acqu1ttal, New
York state can return him to Mattea-
wan under the Bowling commitment
declaring him Insane. -..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

sTrain 473-Leaves Keokuk.. 7:40am
.Train, 741-Leaves keokuk!. s:aOpm
sTrain 472-Arrives Keokuk. 7:25pm
sTrain 47O-Arrives Keokuk. 1:O6pm
xsTratn s6-Arrives Keokuk IL: 46am
xsTrain S5-Leaves Keokuk. 1:30ppa
xLocal Freight Trains.
'DBIly except sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
Figures on Cost Of Jitney 1us.
GAM IyI9 hrfSY0|yn Morpk ga

4 SAN FRANCISCO. March 28.-It
costs 1923 cents a day on an aver.
age to run jitney bus, according to
figures today Of Pierrepont " Mar.
shall, principal Of the Y. NJ. G. A.
automobile school here. He has 1t
figured down to nicely. He est.
mated that the cost Of operating for
800 days a year, l21s hours a day, a
jitney bus costing not more than $500
when 1t was new, will be about as fol
lows:
Civ norcapf fpfarocf IN .-'-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

FOR RENT-Three rooms furnished.
for light housekeeping: gas, bath:
north side. Phone Red-1158.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

Trains leave from the Union depot.
6,.ths and tickets, Fifth and Johnson
streets.
SOUTHBOUND.
xNo. IL, st. Louis, south and
west, leaves .-.~.. 9:05am
xNo. 8. st. Louis west and
south, leaves ............ 12:45am
mo. 40, X. q W., leaves -. 8:60am
xNo. 4. st. Louis, west and
south, leaves .......,,.,.. 1:22pm
mo. 10. Quincy, Hannibal.
Kansas City. st. Louis. 4
leaves .................... s:4opm
mo. 8. X. & W., leaves ...... 9:10pm
NoRTHBoUND.
xNo. Z, st. Paul and points
west. leaves ............... 2:35am
xNo. 10. Chicago. st. Paul.
Burlington and points west,
leaves ................... 7:4spm
mo. 3, Burlington. Chicago
and east, leaves .......... 1:66pm
emo. 81. Mt. Pleasant branch
leaves -. s:sopm
No. s. X. 4 W., Sundays only,
leaves ...... 7:s5pm
'No. {. from X. & W., arrives 1:15pm
'No. so. from Mt. Pleasant
branch. arrives ........... 11:45am
mo. 2, from X. & W., arrives 9: 10pm
No. 8. from X. 4 W., Sundays aai
only, arrives ......... ~. n:66am
xDaily. sDaily except Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

Cars leave Hamilton City 10 min.
utes before arrival and departure OF
NIL steam and electric trains at Ham.
ilton Junction.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

Read The Gate City Want column.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26
c., 3. e. I. RAILWAY co.

Trains leave from the Union depot.
s'-ths and tickets, Fifth and Johnson
streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-26

Yearly fixed charges . 81 $40 per year
Average for 300 days per year. 1923
Oil, gasoline, grease, etc. 1.e0
Tires (150 miles at 1ac) ......... rs
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
FACES CHANGE WITH FASHION
Remarkable Transformation to Be
Noted as the Styles Of the
Seasons Vary.

Have you noticed how fashions in
clothes and fashions in faces go hand
in hand?
For instance, year before last.
think it was, when the vampire face
was rampant, the mysteriously pulled
down hat completely shadowing the
eyes came in vogue. At this time the
slim, slit, seductive clothes were worn.
and a stranger walking along one of
our principal streets must have had
the impression that some dread dis
ease had taken hold of nearly all of
our young girls.
Next year, a transformation! The
vampire shed her slinky garments and
sophistication and became the sweet
est little chocolate-eating doll with an
"oh-what-a-wicked-world!" expression
on her pretty little pink-cheeked face.
And If you remember rightly it was at
this season that the youthful short
wasted dresses, dainty slippers and
all sorts of fluffy things appeared.
We seem to have reached a normal
condition this season. | have seen
more cleareyed, red-cheeked, healthy
looking girls in the very sanest
clothes imaginable. than can remem-
Der seeing for a long, long time. II
we could only make the health fad a
habit! The clothes are awfully pref
ty this year, and they cry for good
healthy body and fine carriage to fit
them.
If we initiate thing long and hard
enough we must eventually either be-
come that thing or something very
near to it Hence. If we assume a
wholesome, normal expression Of face
and body-don't you see what | mean?
And doesn't it make you creep to
think of the consequences of having
any but the health fad become in
growing?
But l can't decide whether the
clothes make the faces or the faces
influence the clothes. think it's only
another case of the chicken and the
egg.-New York Times.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
VALUE OF The GARDEN
Usefulness Cannot Be Measured
in Money Alone.
Farmer Will Find II Profitable to De-
vote Small Patch of Land to veee-
tables-Location Should Be
Near the Home.

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
II the value of the homo garden
were to be estimated in money alone
it is safe to say that the returns from
4 small plot of land devoted to this
purpose would be from eight to ten
times greater than the value OF the
cotton which could be raised on the
same area. Many southern farmers
will refuse to believe this. 1t is, how
ever. a fact that experts in agriculture
have thoroughly demonstrated. For
several years past, canning-club girls
have made annual net profits OF from
twenty to fifty dollars on gardens
only one-tenth of an acre in extent,
and in Alabama this year products
worth 500 were raised on seven-tenths
of an acre The usefulness of the gar
den, however, cannot be measured in
money alone, and no man can afford to
ignore the important part that an ade-
quate supply of fresh vegetables plays
in preserving the health of his FAM
lily.
It is obvious that when a man buys
vegetables he not only pays for the
cost Of production, but for the cost
of transportation and marketing. He
obtains, however, an inferior article.
Many vegetables lose their character
istic flavor within a few hours. and
none are so free from the danger of
infection or so palatable as those
which are grown at home. In practice,
however, If the farmer does not grow
his own vegetables 1t means that in a
great majority of cases his family gets
no vegetables at all. One result OF
this is a demand for tonics and other
medicines in the spring, for 1t Is a
well-known fact that vegetables and
fruits furnish many ingredients abso-
lutely essential to human health.
Where a monotonous winter diet fails
to supply these ingredients. the hui
man system suffers and recourse Is
had to medicine.
For reasons both Of health and
money, therefore, the farmer will find
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
FULL SKIRT HAS WON PLACE
Not az Yet Fully Adopted, but Many
Of the Smart Dressers Have
Taken II Up.

With the short coat and its military
collar the skirt varies, but the full
skirt without a tunic claims prece-
dence In the very smartest models
and is gradually making itself more
and more felt, though for the great
mass of winter frocks and suits the
long tunic in one form or another will
hold good. Paris sponsored the plain
full skirt early in the season and the
later models emphasize the idea, but
the earliest showing here leaned
rather to the tunic models, and Amer
lean women are slow in accepting the
newer skirt.
And yet one sees 1t worn here and
there wherever smartly dressed wom-
en- congfegate, and 1t is featured more
and more prominently in shops of the
better class. One afternoon during
the American fashion show at the
Ritz Carlton, in New York, group
Of five well-known actresses happened
to foregather on the stairway. and
each of the five was wearing a version
Of the plain full skirt
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

intervals Oh zen days or two weeks,
until the hot weather sets in. Cab
bage is also desirable, because 1t is
economical in the use of land and may
be sown through a large part Of the
year. For spring and early summer.
good varieties are the Jersey Wake
field, Charleston Wakefield, All Head
Early and Succession. In most sec.
lions OF the South 1t will hardly pay
to attempt to grow cabbage during
midsummer but fall crop as we'll as
a spring crop should be grown. Cauli-
flower is generally regarded as a
greater delicacy. but 1t is not so hardy
as cabbage. For further information
on these and similar vegetables such
as celery, lettuce, cucumbers, egg
plant, ETC., the prospective gardener
should apply to his state experiment
station or to the division of publica'
tions Of the U. s. department of agri-
culture for the various farmers bull
letins on these subjects.
Although, as has already been said,
the choice Of vegetables to be grown
in the garden must be determined by
individual tastes and circumstances.
spinach shorfld not be omitted. This
can be grown in the open throughout
the fall and winter all along the coast
south from Norfolk, Va, and inland
through the lower tier of southern
states. In the colder regions, little
protection may be necessary during
the severest weather, but two or three
inches of hay, straw or leaves will usu-
ally be found sufficient Seed planted
in the autumn will furnish green's
throughout the winter and early
spring. Spinach should be sown in
drills twelve to fifteen inches apart.
at the rate of one ounce to 100 feet
Of row. For the average family, three
or four ounces Of seed will be found
sufficient.
In an article of this kind. however,
1t is obviously impossible even to
name all the products that garden
may be made to yield. The farmer
who has hitherto neglected the posi-
bilities Of half acre or so devoted
to the purpose should begin with the
simpler and most useful vegetables
and gradually increase the variety in
his garden as his experience and
knowledge of vegetable growing
grows.
No mention has been made in this
article Of potatoes. for their impor-
lance in the family diet entities them
to an article to themselves. which will
follow shortly.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

1t profitable to devote to his home
garden the small amount of land and
the small amount of labor that 1t re-
Quires. The amount of land depends,
of course, upon the size of the family.
In a majority of cases, however, from
one-fourth to one-half of an acre will
be found sufficient to produce an ade
quate supply of vegetables throughout
the entire year. Close attention must,
of course, be paid to the rotation and
succession of crops, the planting
planned with forethought, and the cul-
tivation done as carefully as that of
any field crop. No specific arrange
ment can be laid down that would suit
all requirements, and each grower
must devise plans to meet his own
conditions. In this he is strongly
urged to seek the assistance which
county agents, state agricultural ex-
pertinent stations, and the federal de-
partment Of agriculture can give him.
There are, however, certain funda-
mental principles which apply equally
to all gardens. The garden should al
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

der to make cultivation with ordinary
horse implements possible. A slope
to the south or southeast is desirable,
because the ground warns easily in
the spring and early planting is thus
made possible. Good drainage is,
however, a factor of greater import
ance. The land should have sufficient
fall to drain off surplus water, but not
sufficient to wash the soil. If all the
ground around the house is level and
artificial drainage by open bitches or
tile drains is not resorted to. planting
should be done on ridges or beds to
prevent the drowning of the crops dur
ing wet weather.
Thorough preparation of the soil ~
blowing. narrowing, rolling or drag.
ging will ultimately prove a saving
Of labor by lessening the work of cul-
tivaticn. A deep soil is desirable. but
the depth should be increased gradu-
ally. Barnyard or, stable manure is
the best fertilizer. because 1t furnishes
both plant food and humus 1t should
be applied far enough in advance Of
planting time to allow il to decay. If
it is available, twenty to thirty tons Of
manure to an acre will prove very
satisfactory. If this cannot be Sc
cured. some leguminous crop such as
cowpeas, soy beans. Nor crimson clover
should be turned under to supply hui
mus and part of the necessary nitro
gen.
Finally, additional fertilizing ele
ments can be applied in the form OF
commercial fertilizers. These, how
ever, are expensive and it is one OBJ
ject of diversified farming to enable
the farmer to economic in their use
On farms which maintain an adequate
supply of live stock, and where atten
ton is paid to the enriching of the
soil by leguminous crops, this should
not be needed, at least in large guam
titles.
The vegetables that the farmer viii
grow in his garden depend naturally
upon local conditions and the family's
own preference, Asparagus. however
should be included wherever it viii
thrive. This is one of the earliest
vegetables and will prove a valuable
addition to the spring diet. The roots
may be planted in the fall or early
spring. After the bed is we'll estab
lished, it should last indefinitely. and
for this reason the location of the bed
should be very carefully considered
beforehand.
Beans are another vegetable which
should always be included. The first
planting should be made as soon as
the ground is reasonably warm, and
this should be followed by others al
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06
Furs for the Young Girl.

Although dark sets are now in
vogue. misses neckpieces and mutfs
show many lighter colored furs than
the pelts chosen for the more mature
women. says the Dry Goods Econo-
mist Among the furs most featured
are dyed blue fox, red fox, silver bea.
yer, raccoon. Kolinsky. civet cat and
fitch.
In more conservative fur sets for
holiday selling are found skunk. Hud.
son seal, caracul. black, gray and
pointed fox. lynx. fisher and mole.
The sets made up of two varieties OF
pelts are particularly smart in the
darker furs and. furthermore, are very
practical. as they will match suits OF
wraps trimmed with either kinds Of
pelt
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-02-06

Trimming Make a Lovely Blouse.
to the breezes and one may wine and
dine and breathe in comfort, but be-
ware of the inevitable uprising (lit-
erally) which will soon follow, for
tickle Fashion is never long satisfied
with what she creates.
Undoubtedly the so-called radical
changes in blouse styles are pretty
generally confined to some new fash
ioning of collar or sleeves, for the
actual Llouse often remains unchanged
from year to year, but let an odd
twist or turn be introduced In neck
or sleeves, and 10! we have something
novel In blouses.
You will find that the model here
illustrated will work up exceedingly
well in georgette crepe. pussy willow
silk. chiffon or crepe de chine, and the
arrangement of the collar can be
guaranteed as a real novelty. We are
gradually getting back to "chokers."
but before they completely envelop US.
we are allowed deep breath of free
dom in such broad, loose collars as
this, which is particularly modish at
the moment
The blouse itself, Of any of the ma
terials mentioned above. shows hort
zontal slash across the front at the
bust line, between the edges of which
is hung a ruffle of self material with
, the outside corners hanging in noints
below the belt. The front edges are
laced with silver cord, as are also the
outside edges Of the deep fitted cuffs.
The front corners of the taffeta collar
are trimmed with a silver soutache
braiding, and the taffeta belt Is solidly
braided with the same.
White. cloud pink. maize or mauve
will all be lovely for this dainty
blouse.