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Sheriff Mon Decision.

limited Press Leased. Wire Service1
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June Act
ing Sheriff Loose won decision
over Charley White, Chicago light
weight, in municipal court today when
White was arraigned on charge OF
speeding his auto thirty miles an hour
on the Chicago road. White was fined
s25. Loose arrested White who was
accompanied by his wife on Sunday
and the boxer was forced to remain
here until court convened today.
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rrawler Struck a Mine.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
SCARBOROUGH, England. June 1.
The steam trawler Condor struck a
miua and sunk six miles off this port
sunday. according to word brought
here tonight. 1t is feared her crew of
nine was lost.
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For Society Editor
f>.n DIAL, reg
! WHO ROCKS THE BOAT? 4
For Society Editor
Call Black -665.

as WHO ROCKS THE BOAT?
We are now on a stnrmrtossed, ugly
= sea, ....
With the war waves all around US.
With some who would like to blow
us up
And some who would like to ground
us.
But the flag is there and the nations
all right,
However some want to knock 1t;
There's splashing spray from the
waves, but, say,
Sit still in the boat! Don't rock It!
The Lord only knows where we're
going to land,
And thus far he hasn't told us,
But we are not sailing the seas for
blood,
And the strength OF our right will
hold us.
Still, none can deny that the water Is
rough, ,.-,s .....s.-
And nothing that's offered can block
ar7 it., 8..,. r,f.- ..,r. b..
The mad waves play round us, but
say,
Sit still in the boat! Don't rock It!
w. J, Hampton.
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U. p Wi, Not urlte.

toHItBu Press Leased Wire SerVlceT
LoVELAND, Colo. June Having
reused to unite with the churches
VI the Presbyterian and reformed
ssniiy,' the United Presbyterian gem
e,ai assembly was today approaching
C crose to its, annual sessions here.
a.eyeland, Ohio. is making a strong
M paisn for next years meeting.
Inc report OF the committee on bills
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aw is Invalid.

n;ted Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The SUI
nrema court today upheld the, Nebras-
ta law making land bequests to nou-
resident aliens invalid.
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Last Mothers, Club Meeting.

The Mothers club in connection
with the infant welfare work of the
Visiting Nurse association will meet
for the last time until October, tomor-
row afternoon at half past two O'Clock.
There will be short talk by one of
the physicians OF the city and two
musical numbers. Mrs. E. S. Baker
and Miss Younker of the v. N. A.
board will be hostesses: Miss Irwin
and Miss. Buck will assist in. serving.
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MISCELLANEOU

WOULD YOU LIKE to make SIS to
$40 weekly with part expenses?
Free outfit. Home territory. Write
for particulars. R. c. Holbrook. sales
manager, 73d and Summit aves.. West
Allis, Wis.
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NOTICE..

Dog license Is due June LIST. All
dogs found running at large after that
date will be taken UP and killed, or
information filed against owners.
~ JOHN NJ KENNEY.
City Marshal
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guns at Forts Flagler or1Worden. Tine
story was discredited and the opinion
expressed that If guards were strength.
ened, it must have been some routine
reason.
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No Spy News Received.

[ United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, June AT the
war department this afternoon it was
stated that nothing had been heard OF
spying upon or tampering with the
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missionary Society Proaram.

The Woman's Missionary society OF
the Second Presbyterian church will
meet tomorrow afternoon at three
o'clock in the chapel. A program of
interest has been prepared, and
large attendance is desired.
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FOR RENT-Five room furnished
house, rent reasonable. Phone Red
S9S.
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FOR RENT-Six room house, COS
South Second, seven room house 32o
North Second street. Phone 100 or
call 22S Johnson street.
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IN Honor OF Mrs. Finney,

The Amicitia club entertained at a
one O'Clock luncheon today at the
home of Mrs. G. j. Holbrook, s25
North Twelfth street in honor Of
Mrs. c. M. Finney who will leave for
her new home in indianapolis tonight.
Covers were laid for twelve. Follow
ing the luncheon an informal program
of toasts Was given. ,4,s .... RS.
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FOR RENT-Light housekeeping and
sleeping rooms; light and airy, mod
ern conveniences. 315 Blondeau.
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FOR RENT-Rooms for light house.
keeping; modern conveniences. Tel.
Red 33S
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.Swedjsh aides Aid

The Ladies Aid society of the. Swed-
ish NJ L. church will be entertained
on Wednesday afternoon at the: home
of Mrs. Albert Swanson, 1902 Main
street.
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FOR SALE-Five room partly modern
house, corner lot, with building site
in rear. Edith Miller. 400 North Fifth.
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MONEY TO LOAN-See William Tim
herman, 522 Main street.
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J. c. Hubinaer's pauahter Here.

Mrs. Marguerite Hubinger Doris
and three children Of Hendersonville,
Kentucky, are at Hotel Keokuk for a
few days. Mrs. Doris will be remem-
bered by many friends here. She is
the daughter Of the late J. c. sHubin-
ger and lived here as little girl.
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FOR SALE-Three room house, full
lot. on car line; $525. G. L. Laws,
524 Morgan.
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FOR SALE-One Ford touring car IN
excellent shape. Will demonstrate.
|J. w. Smith. 214 North Third.
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Needle Club Thursday.

Mrs. George Bunner, 1922 William
street. will entertain the members of
tho Needle club on Thursday after
noon. t
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FOR SALE

FOR SALEIFurnished or unfurnish-
ed, to close estate, the Walters
homestead. 1915 High st. See Miss
Maud Walters. 722 Concert st. Phone
Red 673.
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FOR RENT-Modern five room
Main street fat Inquire r. j. EweIs.
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FOR RENT-Furnished rooms, mod.
ern conveniences. Two blocks from
business center. Phone Il S99.
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Man Who Pleaded Guilty to Larceny
of Suits From c. & s. Es-
tablishment, 10 Sentenced
to Reformatory.
OTHER COURT MATTERS
Bar Docket is Called This Morning In
Endeavor to Secure Cases
for TriaI-W1ll is Opened
and Read.

Clinton RICHTER, alias Jack Lee, who
was arrested in Chicago and returned
to Keokuk, charged with the theft OF
clothes from the c & 8 cleaners about
two weeks ago. pleaded guilty to the
charge last Friday. He was sentenced
to five years in the reformatory by
Judge Bank in the district court this
morning.
RICHTER will be taken to Anamosa
tonight or in the morning,
That the robbery of the G. and s.
cleaners here was not the first work"
done by RICHTER is the belief of the
police following receipts of an inquiry
from the Clinton, Iowa, authorities
today. Chief Kenney believes that
RICHTER is the man wanted at Clinton
for the theft Of SIS from a restaurant
where RICHTER is believed to have
been employed, last December.
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Six room modern house
Enquire of Mrs. Thos. McManus,
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Other Court Matters,

In the district court this morning
the will of the late Lucretia M. Gil
christ was opened and read. 1t will
be probated next week.
A call of the docket was made
again this morning, in the endeavor
to secure cases which can be brought
to trial at once. ~ &.
The case of Walker VS.. Carss ct al
was to have come up this afternoon.
A motion for continuance was made
by the attorney for the surety, com.
pany.
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w ant Column
WANTED

WANTED-I.awn mowers and all
other kinds of tools to sharpen, IN
Guiding razors and scissors; razors
hollow ground gasoline stoves clean
ed. Will call for, sharpen and return.
J. Dumenil. Phone Red LOT.
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kina strana,s Rise and Fall.

A kingdom was once set up on Bea-
yer island, in northern Lake Michigan,
and flourished for some years. James
Jesse Strang. a prominent Mormon,
had quarreled with the leaders Of his
church and in 1916 withdrew with a
few followers to that island. Other
Mormons Joined the colony from time
to time, and by the winter of 1S4S they
were sufficiently numerous to threaten
control Of the island. On July 8, 1850
Strang was crowned king with elabo-
rate ceremonies. There was much con-
roversy between the Mormons and
the other inhabitants Of the island,
mostly fishermen. While on a visit to
Detroit President Fillmore heard Of
this little kingdom within the domain
Of the United States. He sent an armed
vessel to Beaver island, and King
Strang was captured and tried for trea-
son. He conducted his own defense
and made such an eloquent plea that
he was acquitted. In 1856 he was as
sassinated. and his kingdom fell with
him.
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soun without /. snoon.

Soup without a spoon seems even
harder to negotiate than meat without
fork, and we can sympathize with
the complaint recorded In the diary of
Felix Platter. young Swiss, who went
to Montpelier In 1862 in order to study
medicine. he lodged In the house Of
his professor. Catelan, one Of the
greatest doctors of his time, and yet,
writes Platter, I'VE were compelled to
eat our stew In the usual French fash
ion-that is to say, picking the meat
out with our fingers and then drinking
the broth. In vain we begged our
hostess to let US have spoons, but not
a single one was to be found in the
house, the only implement on the table
being large knife fastened with an
iron chain. No one here seems to have
ever heard of spoons, which we at
home find so useful" Montaigne was
astonished when he visited Switzer-
land In 1880 to find that "at all meals
they put on the table as many spoons
as there are people present
minister Gazette.
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No Invulnerable Forts.

1t will continue to be physically pos
sible no doubt to build a fort so strong
that no shell could penetrate it, wheth-
er fired directly at high angles or to
fall upon it vertically from the clouds.
1t would require merely to calculate
the force of explosives and the resist
ance of steel and concrete and make
the steel and concrete thick enough.
But it may have ceased to be worth
while. A fort would still be vulnera-
BILE from below ground. Its foundation
could not be laid so deep that an en-
envy might not drive tunnel under 1t,
and then it would be necessary only to
put enough high explosive there to
blow the fort away. So perhaps in the
future military strategy will adjust it
self to the idea that Notifications can
not be permanent, wherefore they had
better be even more impermanent
serving only as temporary bulwarks
against an oncoming enemy.-New York
Times.
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A Youthful SpecuIator.

Senator John Sherman made his first
speculation when he was a boy>of six.
teen. and it turned out badly. At the
age of fourteen he was working for the
Muskingum Improvement company al
S25 month and ut the age Of sixteen
was superintendent Of an important
part Of the work and had been adj
vanced to $40. During the winter he
was idle. as the canal was closed. II
was at this time that he attempted his
speculation. Salt was very low on the
Muskingum river and very high at Gin
cinnati So John bought a lot of salt,
loaded it on scow and started it down
the river. All went well until within
one days float of the Ohio river. when
the thermometer went down to zero,
and the scow remained right there for
two long months. Everybody had a
great laugh over the youthful specula-
tor. but he lived long enough to return
the laugh with interest = st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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Wonders of Naval GunnerX,

The fire of a naval gun Is directed
from the fire control station, a small
box on the masts. Here Is the range
finder, large telescope pointed at
right angles to its object. This tele-
scope consists of a series OF mirrors of
various sizes and curves, which catch
the ships all around and fix them be-
fore the eyes of the officer, who can set
his lenses so that he can gauge the cor
rect angle by small calculation and
can reckon almost the exact space sep
arating him from his opponent The
information is telephoned to the gun
ner, who directs the telescope sight at
tached to his gun on the desired object.
This sight magnifies the size Of the op-
ponent and brings its characteristics
close to the eye. In the meantime the
expert officers I'm the fire control watch
the fall of the shot. Should 1t miss
delicate instruments tell how far the
shell was off the target. The correc-
ton Is made. and the second shot, If
not on the spot, comes unpleasantly
near-Pearson's.
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The Oldest Sequoia.

The oldest sequOia is over $3.50 years
Of age. A family of five could have
picnicked under this tree when the
Greeks were building their wooden
horse under the walls of Troy and
Pharaoh and his army were being en-
quilted in the waters of the Red sea. 1t
has been the contemporary of every IA
nous man and event since the foggy
dawn Of history. While innumerable
multtudes of men and women fretted
their way through the dreadfully i'm
portant wink or two of time that they
called life this tree contented itself
with getting little thicker in the trunk
and wreathing its top in more majestic
foliage. Nowadays people who have
made their piles, possibly in the lumber
business, often motor down to look at
it, and their wives gaze up among its
awful branches and say, my, how
prettyr-San Francisco Bulletin.
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Two Ways to Put IL.

This is how Johnny wrote his COM
position In the public school class:
'The cow is good animal. She has
two horns and two eyes and gives
milk, which is good to drink. She has
four legs and eats grass and hay. Some
Of them are red, and they have long
tails"
And this is how the teacher says he
ought to have written it.:
The female of the bovine genus Is a
beneficent mammal This ruminant
quadruped is possessed of corneous
protuberances. projecting from the oc-
ciput. Her vision is binocular, and she
yields an edible and nutritious tactical
emulation. She is quadrupedal and
herbivorOus. assimilating her food in
both the succulent and exiccated states.
Some of them automatically correspond
to the seventh color of the spectrum,
and they are endowed with caudal ap-
pendages of exaggerated longitudinal
ity."-Pittsburgh Press.
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The Test of Education.

The test of a good education is the
degree Of mental culture which 1t i'm
parts, for education, so far as its object
is scientific. is the discipline of the
mind. The reader must not overlook
what is meant by the word mind when
used In reference to education. That
some dumb animals are possessed Of a
sort Of understanding is admitted, but
it has never been asserted that they
enjoy the use Of reason. Man, how
ever, has the faculty called reason In
addition to his understanding. Accord
ingly what we mean by saying that
the object of education is the cultiva-
ton Of our minds or that the goodness
Of an education varies with the de-
gree Of mental culture amounts simply
to this-that we better perform our
functions as rational creatures in pro-
portion as we carry further the dis
tinction between ourselves and the
brute creation-that is. in proportion as
we are better fitted for the discourse of
reason.-John William Donaldson.
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Sensitive Measurement.

Minute bendings of a steel bar three
feet long and three and one-half feet In
diameter are accurately measured by a
curious but very sensitive device of the
United States bureau of standards.
The bar, supported at each end, has a
small mirror fixed at its center, and
above this is a frame holding another
mirror partially silvered. As the light
Of a sodium burner is reflected in each
mirror the lower mirror shows a series
Of black and yellow concentric rings.
A very small weight, even that Of a
pin, defects the bar and causes the cir
cles to expand outward. Each circle
indicates a movement of one hundred
thousandth of an inch, the pressure Of
a finger, forming five or more new cir
cles, showing a bending Of one twenty
thousandth of an inch.
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Travel. Of a Chimney swirl. >

On June Z. ISL. an aGult chimney
swift sfuttered down a chimney into
the study of Ernest Harold Baynes I'm
Meriden, n. H. and was promptly
banded and releASed. The band was of
the old style and bore the number 6326,
AT o'clock p. m. on June ID, 1912, two
chimney swifts few from the chimney
into the same room of Mr.. Baynes,
house where the bird had been caught
a year and eight days before. And loi
when these birds We're taken In hand
and examined one of them proved to
be 1926. Remarkable as this may seem,
this diminutive creature. less than six
inches in length, had Travelled hundreds
Of miles to Central America or else
where In the tropics where he spent the
winter and then had made the long re-
turn journey at the approach Of sum-
mer and found again the chimney Of
his choice In village In faroff New
Hampshire. And throughout his jour.
neying the little aluminium ring had
Travelled with him and had produced
not the least effect on the birds leg.
One wonders If the swift lived al
ways In the same hollow tree in South
America.-New York Post.
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-RuYina Army DISCHARGES.

A discharge may be purchased by a
soldier who has served at least one
year in the army if he is stationed
within the confines Of the United
States. If he is serving in Alaska or
anywhere outside the continental linn
its of the United States or if his or.
ganization has been ordered to take
station outside the continental limits
he cannot obtain discharge.
The price at which a soldier may
purchase his discharge, as taken from
general orders No. 4, war department,
Washington, d. c., Jan. s, 1906, is as
follows: AFTER one years service,
S120; two years, 500; three years, 800;
four years, SS5; five years, $50; six
years, S65; seven years, $50; eight years,
$50; nine years, $40; ten years, S35;
eleven years, $780, Philadelphia Press.
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Floorwalkina and SPELLING.

The worst thing about the following
Is that it Is true and. what's more,
that 1t happened In one Of Pittsburgh's
stores.
The girl. stylishly attired.. stepped up
to the still more stylishly attired floor
walker and inquired where she would
find the chiffon. The fioorwalker con-
suited a notebook. Her surprise came
when he gravely told her that they did
not keep chiffon.
why" she gasped, you cannot pos
dbly mean thatr
In her eagerness she stepped closer
10 the styhshly atttred man than Flea.
nor Gale says q stylishly attired wo-
man should. and looked over his shoul
der at the notebook.
~Oh, I seer she said fiatiy a. she
moved or to ask for the girl ut tia
glove counter about the chiffonA The
man had been looking under the s'a-
Baltimore Star.
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Unappreciated Wit.

Sir Henry Wotton. for twenty years
England's ambassador to the court of
Venice. discovered. to his sorrow. that
it is not always wise to be witty, even
in so simple a matter as writing in an
autograph album. Once when visiting at
the house of friend his host brought
out the visitors book and requested
Sir Henry to inscribe his name in 1t,
together with some appropriate senti-
ment. Willing to Oblige and wishing
to say something at once neat, witty
and wise, he wrote the following and
appended his name to it: IAN ambas-
sador is an honest man, sent abroad to
lie for his country" But King James L.
did not appreciate the effort of his am
bassador. 1t was five long years be-
fore he received another appointment
at the royal hands.
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No Cause For Worry,

'Tts sure enough strange how mar
riage changes some men," commented
Washington heights dweller to q
friend who stood with him on a corner
Now, see that chap entering my
apartment house? He's been married
only two weeks. and yet-say, do you
see what he's carrying? Well, it's a
garbage pail for their new fiat. Why,
if any one had told him three months
ago that he'd carry a garbage pail
through the street he'd have been
ready to fight. never saw such az
"All right-all right" the friend in
terrupted. Tell me about him next
year."
"WhyT
Because he'll be changed back again
by that time. Don't worry about the
case. New. York Globe.
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"Curinav Married Couples.

If every wife who is trying to cure
her husband and every husband who
is trying to cure his wife would stop
the operation and all the husbands
would devote their energies to curing
themselves and all the wives devote
their energies TO curing themselves the
homes would be Il great deal happier
than they are today. There are scold-
ing wives who are lending all of their
energies TO the task of curing their
husbands of habits far less detrimental
to the happiness of the home than the
habit of scolding. There are husbands
who have set themselves the task of
curing their wives of imperfectiOns Of
so much less consequence than the in
firmities of character and temper pos
sessed by the husband himself.-Edin-
burgh Scotsman.
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Eliiahsn Altar


g Obadiah hid lone hundred Of the
Lords prophets In q cave" On the
west end of Carmel. below the monas-
terry, is a large cavern, partly artificial
where, to increase its sanctity, the holy
family are said to have reposed on
their return from Egypt. The place
OF Sacrifice" Is some eight miles In
land along the crest Of the mountain,
overlooking the Kishon, the whole
plain Of Esdraelon, Jezreel and the
mountains Of Galilee. Many churches
and nationalities, not to mention in
dividuals, have searched the slopes Of
Carmel for the exact spot where Elijah
repaired the altar OF the Lord" Sc
lecting twelve stones from the ruins
Of the neglected altar. At the urgent
request Of an English lady who
thought Of purchasing the site I once
made a careful study Of the location
suggested. While we may never know
the exact spot, there Is a lovely little
plateau not far from the summit which
would fulfill every necessity of the mar
rative and provide a matchless natural
theater for this matchless event In his
tory.-Christian Herald.
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The Horse Chestnut,

Why the horse chestnut is so called
is debatable point. but at least one
possible explanation of the name may
be found in a peculiar characteristic
of the tree. If, when it is mature, a
leaf be broken off Clearly at the point
where its stem joins the branch, it will
be discovered that the base of the
stem is the exact shape of a horses
hoof, and if one looks further one will
see plainly marked upon the "hoof''
the nail marks of the horses shoe. The
sfmilitude of hoof and nails is at least
remarkable. 1t might be supposed, in
reference to the name of this tree, that
horses were fond of the fruit. but one
believes that this is not the case.
nor does any other creature, except
perhaps the rat or mouse, attempt to
eat this natural and abundant product