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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
Electric Light Convention

Asheville, N C.. September 23.-The convention of the southeastern section of the National Electric Light asso- citation in session here today heard papers by A A. Wilbur of Columbus, Ga, on 'an accounting subject and by H. H. Dewey of Birmingham on High Tension Systems" Other speakers were w. Rawson Collier of Atlanta and W. E. Mitchell of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
Receiving Ship Condemned

Norfolk. September 23.-The old re- ceiving ship Franklin, which has been in the service of the United States for a century. has been condemned and probably will be sold for junk. Tho Franklin. formerly used as quarters for about 1000 men, began to leak sev- eraI weeks ago. The receiving ship Cumberland. now at Portsmouth, N. H., will be sent here to take the Frank lin's place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
German Wireless Replaced

New York, September 23-American wireless equipment, manned by Amer ican operators, is to replace the Ger man-owned telefunken wireless appar- atus recently removed from 22 ships of the Standard oil company, it was announced here today by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company. All these ships, which formerly sailed under the zGerman flag, have been admitted to American registry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
Straight Progressive Ticket

NEW IOTk' oepteWUeT -o'--1aHeef o' all-day conference of progressives from 15 states at the party's head quarters here today, Victor MurdOck. chairman of the national committee. said:
 We are going to run a straight pro- gressive ticket next year. That was the wish of every man here today and is the prevailing sentiment among other leaders in the west with whom have talked recently
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
Az If Old

From the University of Nebraska Aw-
 gwan.
 Fond Mother-Bobbie. come here. I have something awfully nice to tell you.
 Robbie (age 6).-Aw, I don't care. I know what 1t is. Big brothers home from college.
 Fond Mofher-Why, Robbie, how could you guess? more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
The Obstacle

From Judge.
 mems gamer" insnuated a shifty-eyed casual acquaintance. "Naw!" grimly replied Sandstorm Smith of Rampage. Oklahoma, who is tempor- arily in our midst. Pm no gentleman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24
Bulgarians Depart

Geneva, September 23.-(via ParisD Three hundred Bulgarian officers and men will leave Switzerland on a spe- cial train for Sofia Friday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Lost on tho Desert.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
| LOS ANGELES, Calf, Aug. g.
While coyotes and vultures awaiting
the expected prey, lowered over them.
Attorney James H. Roche. stranded in
an auto in the desert with Attorney
John H. Welsh, debated whether to
end the days Of torture from hunger
and thirst by blowing out their brains.
WEIGH begged Roche to kill him.
Roche refused.
Finally Welsh became unconscious
and Roche took the revolver in his
hand to put his friend out Of misery.
The horrible thought Of the vul-
lures and coyotes feasting on human
flesh stayed Roche's hand Welsh was
dead an hour when rescuers finally
arrived.
Roche told the story today on ar
rivng here with the body Of Welsh
They with James G. Clark started
Monday from Mecca for Brawley
Their automobile became stalled
without water. Clark went in search
of help. continuing into the night.
Roche and Welsh awaited his return
for three days without water or food.
They were compelled to drink the
lubricating oil from the automobile.
Roche described the pangs Of thirst
and hunger until on the third day
Welsh begged to be shot Clark fin
ally returned with help.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT
BY S. w: sTRAUs
Pretident. Am<ritSn Soaey for THrIf

from one to three buildings each. Many
of them could get work only in the sum
mer.time or in the busy seasons at thu
factories. Thus their wages were un.
certain, but they saved little always and
acquired their property on the installment
plan.
One American, at least, took lesson
in thrift from our foreign-born citizens
few years ago He was of New England
ancestry and thought he had traditions to
keep up on his $50 a week. Therefore ne
had saved nothing when his thirty-eighth
birthday came around and he lost his posi-
ton. In trying to get another place he
found that from business point OF view
he was considered an old man. So he and
his wife decided to start life on new plan.
They sold their furniture for enough to pay
their debts, and rented fat for - week
in the Italian quarter of large city. He
Joined line of foreigners and got job
paying So week. Out of this they saved
fifty cents-but they did not buy steak.
He studied his foreign co-laborers and
decided to become contractor himself.
He learned everything he could about
every detail of the business and about the
men themselves. He learned Italian from
a friend and took course of masonry at
a night trade school. He was next made
fore man at SIS day.
The first year in the new life he and
his wife saved 5000. By the end of the
third year, having had other raises, they
with the help Of their boy, had saved
81, 100 which was invested. The man
watched his opportunity and became an
contractor. After that the
family moved back to New England and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06

out on that line--if it takes life time.
1t is always easy for the unthrifty to make
excuses, such as, "If Igot decent salary,
might save something. But the thrifty
person does not need to make excuses.
A canvass of the so-called poor districts
of Chicago recently brought to light some
splendid examples of thrift. The settle
ment worker who conducted the investi-
CATION discovered a whole block where
the eighty apartment buildings are owned
by peddlers, day laborers and scissors
grinders. They each own from one to
three brick buildings and each building
has from four to six apartments, renting
from - to $40 month.
A watchman earning two dollars q
night, cabman, an umbrella mender and
4 peddler of wash tubs were each found
to own building. Five day laborers
getting wage Of only $1.7s day each
own buildings in this block. Two factory
workers, two scissors grinders, junk
dealer. q blacksmith and barber all own
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
proor..stves Not Dead.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service1
ALBANY, N. Y. Aug. 6.-New
York states progressives apparently
gave their ultimatum to the republi-
cans here today A meeting of their
county chairmen and George w. Per-
kins, national chairman, developed
general opposition against return
to the republican party. The continr-
alton Of the progressive party and its
policy was approved and the republi-
canism declared to have sunk deep
er in the slough of reaction"
1.-TWO questions now affect this
country's people" Perkins said, ad-
dressing the progressives. Zone con-
Germs economic conditions and the
other centers about the European
war.
ION the economic question, which
affects business and industry the
progressive party in my judgment is
the only party which Is looking for
ward with a constructive program
for this country's prosperity. The
progressive leaders, too, are the ones
who are unqualifiedly and open for
national policy of preparedr sss in
connection with our military pro-
gram
Perkins attacked the Wilson tariff.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
CITY NEWS.

Born on Thursday, August 5, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Williams at
Fort Stockton, Texas, daughter,
Susan Olivia. Mrs. Williams before
her marriage was Miss Olive Strickler.
! William B. Barney. state DAIRY
and food commissioner Of Iowa, was
Wednesday elected president OF the
National Association OF Dairy ana
Food officials in their national mee.-
ing at Berkeley. Cal, according 10
word received at the department Oh
fees this morning. Mr.. Barney was
secretary of the association last year
The message announcing his election
declared that he was chosen for the
executive ability that has been EVIL
denced in his state work, especially
his dairy work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Some Leagues Gone Under.

President Justice mas received d
bulletin which gives some data which
shows at a glance that the present
year has been disastrous one for
baseball all over the country The
following leagues have d1sbanded:
South Michigan, Nebraska State, BIZ
state league, Middle Texas league
and the Central Texas league.
The South Atlantic league shorten
ed its season and quit July 70. The
Georgia State league shortened It's
season and quit July II.
The Central association will have
no trouble HI finishing the present
season, and. by next year 1t is ex-
pected that many Of the financial
troubles which beset individual clubs
will have been regulated and the
troubles Of this season will have all
been erased.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Fool Girls and Auto Washers.

The MaShalltOWn Tim es-Republ1-
can: Trouble at Sioux City with the
automobile masher, road houses and
the downfall Of foolish girls suggests
danger which is present in every
town. The police matron at Sioux
City says that so many girls are Just
crazy" to ride in an automobile that
they fall an easy prey to the libertine
who drives up and invites them to
ride. 1t seems that there are houses
on the outskirts of town to which
these parties go for amusement Lii
quor, license and ruined life follow
in quick succession.
Sioux City is not alone in its dam
ger to silly girls who will not realize
that they are being hunted as prey.
1t has been said in Marshalltown that
a young man has been known to in
vite girls to ride in his gaudy auto
mobile and then when far out in the
country give them the alternative of
submitting to insult or walk home
alone in the dark over strange roads.
Mothers and parents should warn
maidens Of the auto masher. People
generally witnessing suspicious CIR
cumstances should spread the alarm
Officials aware Of the masher should
not hesitate to warn him to expect
the limit of the law when caught in
his deviltry. In fact so many young
girls are fools that they should be
treated as such by society.
The auto masher is out to destroy
them. They should be kept out of
automobile parties unless the young
man is we'll known and thoroughly
trusted. Girls who pick uo with stran-
gers and go riding upon invitation
without the close acquaintance that
would Justify their acceptance invite
the man to attempt anything, because
men know that self-respecting girls
would not go with them. If girls
would only know that men look upon
them as fools or immoral when they
accept unwarranted advances, they
would realize that to ride with an auto
masher is the next thing to putting up
at hotel with a strange man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
KEoKUK IN FRONT
IN ELKS' PICTURE
4 IN WESTERN PAPER

. OF course Keokuk is right TO
. the front. Everyone realizes that,
. even the cartoonist for the Los
. Angeles Times who drew COM
. post picture for the Elks conven-
. ton which was held there last
. month. This picture shows the
. Elks at one side of the picture,
. and guess who leads the whole
= bunch--why, keokuk of course.
. The Elk with the Keokuk hat
= band and the Keokuk grin is
. the most prominent part of the
. picture. There are other things
. in the picture like lids being
. blown off, and red paint being
. spilled all over the town and
. other things like that, but the
. Keokuk Elks top the whole
. whole works, naturally.
. Harry Carey received q copy OF
. the Paper sent by Willis Worthen
. and C. j. Englehardt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
&'}llEE|
For Societv Editor
MOTHER.
For Society Editor
Call Black 666.

MOTHER.
AS we grow older and at last are left
Without the love that seemed so
much part
OF each days life that never had we
thought
OF it as love, but simply life itself.
What is it that comes back OF her
we miss
With tears more bitter because shed
so late?
Is it the loving counsels that throng
back,
The wisdom doubly priced as daily
proven?
Is it her beauty and her graciousness
That haunts me while ! wake, ana
comes in dreams?
No, no. All day and many nights and
days
My mind is filed with myriad little
things:
The way she kissed me when she TIED
my hood
And sent me off to school, little
girl;
The infinite pains she took to dress
my dolls
And make me parties" with real
things to eat"
And how she'd come dozen times at
night
To bring a drink, or comfort me,
afraid
My grown up years seem sudden blot
ted out
And all the day and in my dreams at
night
I see her doing all the little things
That she, when we were children,
used to do.
hear the little words she used to say
When had hurt myself, or some
one made me cry.
But now weep; she cannot comfort
me.
And bitterest are my tears that Its
to late
To say at do know now, how wonder
full you Were"
Alice L. Wood in Hampton's Maya
zine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Prince to be Rewarded.
by Carl w. Alderman, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENT

SCaIT correspondent
BERLIN, Aug. 6. (via The Haguel
Prince Leopold of Bavaria. who led
the final assault that led to the cap
ture Of Warsaw, in all probability.
will be named military governor of
the Polish capital. A Polish prince
probably will be named civil COVER
nor.
The Berlin Press today forecasted
Important results to follow the Ger
man victory. The Tagblatt was the
most enthusiastic.
The Germans are in Warsaw and
the Austrians in Ivangorod,' said the
Tageblatt. These facts mark not
only the milestones of this war, but
probably the beginning of new
period-a period that will be marked
by the retreat of the Russians from
Europe"
Unfortunately this Is not the end
OF our struggle" said the Lokal An
zefger, ''but 1t Is q new promise that
our just cause Ia making progress"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Blue Book Of Fox Trotters

Blue Book Of FOX Trotters.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-Forty women
members of Chicago's smart set are
quaking in their pumps today because
of the latest discovery of the police.
Neil McDougal's blue book Of fox
trotters.
McDougal is held here by the polio
on complaint OF Mrs. Mercedes Fuller
wider, who charges him with grabbing
$4,000 worth Of jewelry from her.
when he brought her home from a
cabaret. The police found McDoug-
ais blue book and it contained the
names Of forty women selected by
McDougal, according to police, for a
fate similar to that visited upon Mrs.
Fullenwider. What's worse, the Chi
cago papers are printing the names.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
DYNAMITE FOUND
ON BOARD SHIP
OFFICIALS Admit That an Attempt was
Made to Wreck the Steamer
Arabic.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Aug 6.-Omcials OF
the White Star line this afternoon con.
firmed the story that dynamite was
found aboard the White Star liner
Arabic before she sailed for Liver
pool, July %.
The dynamite is said to have been
discovered by stewardess, wrapped
In piece Of newspaper in the ladies'
room Of the steamship.
The explosive was between the hot
and cold water pipes and in such a
state Of deterioration that a slight jar
would have set 1t of.
Detectives have been working on
the case for several days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
1wen4x YEARS In Pen.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
IOWA CITY. Iowa, Aug. CIV. X.
Smith and ". G. Loomis. the two
men who robbed the North Liberty
hank. last month. of over $1,000, will
snend the next twenty years behind
the bars, Smith at Fort Madison and
I,oomis at Anaposa. AS soon as they
waived examination to the grand jury
Yesterday and were placed under $40 :
00o bonds. tho county attorney in thu
a bsence of the grand jury drew up an
indictment, the men were arrafgned
before the district judge, pleaded
eniJtv and received their sentence.
Their confession secured by Attorney
General Cosson's special agents. made
tbe ouick action possible.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
President Kept Advised.

United Press Leased Wire Service]
WINDSOR, VT, Aug. 6.-President
Wilson had his finger on the pulse OF
the Mexican situation today. Every
new development and angle touched
on In the conference at Washington,
was Immediately telephoned him
mere by SECRETARY OF State Lansing.
The president also received today
mass of papers bearing on British
shipping negotiations and the Aus
.rian arms embargo note. Today is
the anniversary of Mrs. Wilson's
death. There was no special observ-
aAce of 1t here, but the president
was advised and touched by the trib-
u.e paid her memory by Rome, Ga.
citizens.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Contradictory Stories.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LONDON, Aug. 6.-Contradictory
statements regarding the fate Of Novo
Georgiewsk. the Russian fortress
guarding Warsaw from the north,
came from Berlin and Petrograd this
afternoon.
A News Agency dispatch from Petro-
grad said the fortress was still in the
hands of the Russians when the last
dispatches were filed to the war Of
fee Berlin disnatchee reported that
the Russians have evacuated
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
checkmatIng the Censor.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.-The state
department having decided that it can
not prevent interference by the Brit
ish censors with American mail pass
ing through England to and from neu-
trail countries. postof1ice officials said
today they would checkmate the cen.
sorship as far as possible by routing
all the mail they could roundabout
the British Isles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Posse After Negro.

FoSO6 A1SoT NSV'O' ,
limited Press Leased Wire Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. Ga
posse with blood hounds was believed
at noon to be close upon the trail OF
negro who attacked the wife OF Ned
Stafford at her home near Liberty
yesterday. The dogs kept the tran
all night, closely followed by enraged
farmers.
The husband Of the victim, with a
shot gun, is the first man behind the
hounds and is commanding the man
hunt. The blacks life will be worth
little II the crowd overtakes MIN.
The dogs are headed for Kansas Guy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Our Lack of Thrift,

Lincoln Journal: Thrift is not a
popular word in the United States
The wastefulness of Americans is no.
torious. 1t is frequently declared that
enough good food goes into the gar
bage barrel of the average American
family to support another family This
is not true. but it is an. exa operation
Of a substantial truth How much
could we save If we would?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
A THRILLING Ride.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 6.-With
his feet caught in the parachute rope.
of balloon, Charles Rose, twenty. an
a resident Of Riverside. was carried
nearly a mile hanging head downward
at height OF 300 feet from the ground,
during the home coming celebration at
Riverside late yesterday. The aero
naut was able to bring the balloon
close to the ground and Rose dropped
OF with only slight injuries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Words and Action.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
BERLIN, Aug 6. (Via wireless to
Sayville. Awhile King George ami
President Poincaire of France ex-
changed telegraphic compliments, an
initiating Germany with words, the
Bavarian regiments under Prince Leo
pold. a seventy year old veteran OF
1866 and 1STu-71, stormed the outer
and inner forts of Warsaw" esid a
semi-ofIicial statement this afternoon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
saeona conferenee Held.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The sec
ond and probably the closing confer
ence of the Pan-American diplomatic
conference on Mexico convened at the
state department shortly before 3
o'clock today Diplomats attending
the conference were silent on their
Mans but Secretary Lansing was ex-
to make an announcement
later.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
PERSONALS.

Miss Sadie Mcclellan Is In Des
Mpines for short visit.
Mrs. Edward Wilson of Birmingham
Ala, is visiting her mother, Mrs. D.
G. Kiser.
Miss Frances Smith. of Kansas City,
Mo-, is the guest Of her friend Miss
Minnie Buell..
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
,.-..,+. Tennis Tournament.

r1r,ited press Leased Wire Service
eIOITx CITY, Iowa, Aug. 6.-South
DaLota Is having it all her own way
.ba interstate tennis tournament
- ~ John Barton of Mitchell and
po, pranson of Sioux Falls, will fight
=. s,,t for the championship this after
~ This morning Barton defeated
ry SteIlwagon of Minneapolis.
defeated It Tigen of Sioux
Fails In the semi-fnals-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Discount Rates,

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
!, WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The fol-
lowing discount rates were established
today by the federal reserve board:
Rediscount rates on trade accept
ance. Dallas Bank 3k percent up to
sixty days, 4 percent sixty to ninety
days
San Francisco, 3 percent up to sixty
days; 31h percent, sixty to ninety
days.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Permanent peace Conference.

Permanent Peace Conference.
[United Press Leased Wire Service
THE HAGUE, Aug. 6.-Announce-
ment was made at an anti-war confe :.
ence here today that several neutral
governments have contident1ally 1ndi-
Gated their willingness to cooperate
for the creation of a permanent peace
conference Of representative neutral
countries ..r
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
state Lose. First skIrmIsh.

Stdt0 C06e1 FtTet ONUHIs" :,
limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Aug. 6.-Attor'
ney Munro won the first skirmish In
the Fergus injunction suit In the cic-
cult court here today when the state
receded from its motions to dismiss as
to the omnibus and mileage suits.
Attorney Munro completed MS
arguments on the mileage declaration
shortly before noon. The state oner-
ed no objections which indicates that
II realizes the Illegally Of the appro-
priation.
Attorney Munro then took up the
omnibus appropriation which was ex-
pected to consume the entire after
noon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
A Fly In the Ointment.

1roquois Chief: Despite the magni-
ficent crop that South Dakota will
soon harvest. catastrophe overshad-
ows our people and all is not joy with
in the borders of this great common
wealth. The fly in the ointment is no
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
Civic LEAGUE Plans.

The program committee of the Civic
league has had preliminary meeting
and decided that the annual luncheon
shall be held this year In the last
week Of October. Two meetings will
be devoted to equal suffrage with out
OF town speakers. This Is in line
with the plans for Iowa federated
clubs. The full program has not been
com pleted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06

Complaint on Coal Rates.
TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.]
L WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The inter
state commerce commission today re-
ceived a complaint that coal rates
from the middle west to southern
California are unreasonable.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-06
General Tracy Is Dead,

United Press Leased Wire Service |
NEW YORK. Aug. General Benz.
F. Tracy. secretary Of the navy under
President Harrison, died this after
noon.