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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-11

feet and what ! did do was by great
effort. could not sleep at night and
Of course felt very bad in the morning,
and had q steady headache.
.'After taking the second bottle no
ticed that the headache was not SO bad,
] rested better, and my nerves were
stronger. ] continued its use until it
made new woman Of me, and now
can hardly realize that / am able to do
30 much as I do. Whenever know any
woman in need of good medicine I
highly praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound" Mrs. FRANK
CLARK, 3l46 N. Tulip St., Richmond, Pa.
Women Have Been Telling Women
for forty years how Lydia E. Pinkham'e
Vegetable Compound has restored their
health when suffering with female ills.
This accounts for the enormous demand
for it from coast to coast. If you are
troubled with any ailment peculiar to
women why don't you try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? It
will pay you to do 80. Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
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Big Outing Of ottumwa Packing Co.
to be Held in This City
Party to Arrive at
10000 a. N.
GAME IN AFTERNOON
Champion MorreIl Team to Play Lo-
cal ". M. c. A.-Ali.Stars
at Ball Park-vlsitors to
b SEQ the Dam.

It is expected that between 500 and
100 employees of the Morrell Packing
company OF Ottumwa will arrive In
Keokuk tomorrow for their big annual
outing. Seven hundred and fifty was
the estimate made on the number
when the committee on arrangements
was In the city sometime back, but
later reports are to the effect that the
party will not be quite that large.
The Morrells will leave Ottumwa on
the Rock Island railroad tomorrow
morning at Z o'clock and are expected
to arrive here at 10 o'clock or shortly
afterwards The Y, NJ. C. A. will be
the official station and 1t is expected
that the party will assemble there
after which the program OF the day,
will be observed.
Although the Morrells have a big
outing every year, It has been about
ten years since the party came to
Keokuk. The dam was one OF the at
fractions that was responsible for
Keokuk being chosen this year. 1t Is
probable that the morning will be
spent in going over the dam and
through the power house in body
and special water power guides have
been provided for the sight-seers.
In the afternoon the big ball game
between the Keokuk Y. M. G. A. team
and the Morrell aggregation will be
staged at the league ball park. A let
ter was received by the Y. NJ. G. A.
yesterday from the picnic committee
OF the Morrell company. making final
for the game. The Nor
rell team expects to add another. vic
tory to its already long string. The
Morrell team has not been beaten this
season. The Y. M. G. A. team that
will line up for the fray tomorrow
afternoon. will be composed OF the
following all-stars:
Roam, CT.
Belt, C..
Crown, p.
Anderson, 1b.
King, IS.
Anderson, sb. -
A. Crimmins, If.
Rea, 2b.
Joyce, RI.
The game will be called at o'clock
prompt. and there will be no admis-
sion fee.
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The game will be called at o'clock
prompt. and there will be no admis-
sion fee.
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loving patience now seemed almost
dear to him?
Apathetic, Ferdinand let all drop.
Then the German woman said sweet
thing of her angel rival: Was it prophe-
sled that you should be crowned chief OF
four kings Wait and see what GOO
will bring"
And Ferdinand accepted the reproof.
With a sigh of relief from labor ne
sank into the German arms.
X X
Great things have happened since.
Great things are happening daily.
Not four kings but eight kings knock
at Constantinople's gates.
OF which group is Ferdinand?
The Stampa of Turin declares that
"among the promises transmitted to
Ferdinand by Germany is included the
crown of Byzantium (antique name OF
Constantinople).' but that he finds II
difficult to credit"
Who can know the heart of Ferdi-
nand?
Is he resigned to be just one OF four
kings, so sure the awful prophecy must
be accomplished?
In the palace Eleonora trembles.
Eleonora tells herself: He dreams
again Is it l or the blonde ghost that
sits upon the throne of Theodora|
STERLING HELLO.
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flowing with imperial influence. In
October of the same year Ferdinand
was able to proclaim himself Gar
(king) of Bulgaria. The following
spring-six months after their wedding
all the powers had recognized them
car and cZarina.
The second wife!
She loved, and-now, I cannot guar
antee all this. 1t may be false. I
tell 1t as it Is told
In the palace at Sofia there was
locked room, and her husband kept
the key. The room contained no bullion
chest or diplomatic secrets. but only
full-length, seated portrait of a prin-
cess long departed. Sadly, the gentle
Marie Louise looked from the gilded
frame. And, although Ferdinand
seemed to pass the door neglectful.
there were days when he would lock
himself up with the portrait
Eleonora lived in a haunted palace.
She did not believe the superstitions Of
Bulgarian servants, of a presence wan
dering in the palace. ION such days"
they whispered. 1.-The car steals down
that his dear princess may pass In.
And he kneels there at the altar, walt
ing till she comes and whispers coun-
sci to his soul"
Nor did Eleonora believe the nurses
of little Princess Eudoxia, who, after
the child's long illness. attributed her
miraculous recovery to the prayers Of
her dead mother, seen in the chapel
nightly, always kneeling in the same
place.
Eleonora, all the same. grew wan at
Sofia. Her happiness would begin at
the chateau, paradise or fountains,
birds and flowers. No wife could have
a steadier husband. He took to work
ing with his secretaries at the little
monastery" a mere bungalow, Its walls
decorated with antique reliefs. Its
little park was full Of old GFeek cap aps
Roman ruins round about here" Ferdi-
nand explained.
Why did she hate them? Eleonora
had heard about them-how he and the
angel princess had found them on trips
that were poetic honeymoons. 1t be-
came Of somber interest that ''the
other" had designed the gardens.
twined the wistaria and sweet peas,
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Special Correspondence Of The star.
PARIS, October 5, 1915.
ON the capital of Bulgaria woman
loves, doubts and is torn by alter
natives of hope and anguish. She
q is the queen. She tells herself: He
dreams again. Is 1t l or the blonde
ghost that sits on the throne of Theo-
dora?"
1t is a story told in Europe I give 1t
as such. 1t Is a commonplace to say
that this or that love holds the secret
of the great war. All may be true.
Such is love, the victorious, the ruinous,
intermeddling in all But who can
know the heart of Ferdinand, inexpli-
cable figure in the family of kings? AS
car of Bulgaria his acts and motives
have been so mysterious that he is still
the enigma of Europe.
He amounted to nothing until he met
his French princess.
He was a gilded youth of Paris and
Vienna.
He was grandson of the last king of
the French. his mother being the cele-
brated Clementine. daughter of Louis
Philippe. She had married Prince Au-
gust Of Saxe-CoburgGotha while her
father still reigned over France. Fer
dinand grew UP half-French. half-Ger-
manic, but preferring Paris, as boule-
Warbler.
Tfis mother got him nominated reign
ing Prince Of Bulgaria. It was to
laugh. Why risk the agreeable life of
sparkling capitals to mix in the riots
of q alf-Turkish and poverty-strtcken
principally? The powers did not
recognise him. When bored he ran
back to Paris.
Then he met blonde angel-and all
changed IN a day.
She was the beautiful. amiable and
pious princess Marie Louise of Bour-
bon-Parma of the legitimate old line
Of French kings. daughter of Duke
Robert, owner Of lordly Chambord. This
grandest of historic French chateaux
came to the Bourbon-Parmas through
their childless uncle. the Comte de
Chambord, along with sixty millions of
the most romantic money in the world
tho accumulated private estates of
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.
She was the bride chosen for Ferdi-
nand by his wise old mother. Ferdinand
loved her at first sight-and he was
transformed. And the young couple
dreamed a dream upon their gold at
Chambord. 1t was no sordtd dream. but
noble beyond imagings Of modern
times. It was her dream. He absorbed
1t. And while she walked beside him.
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A Poor Excuse.

THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE. warden
u of Sing Sing, said at a luncheon In
Newport:
This laying Of all ones crimes and
transgressions at the door OF heredity
disgusts me. If we sin, we ourselves
are to blame. To blame heredity 10
false and foolish.
These heredity planners are like tho
chap who said to the dun:
1--we can't escape the domination OF
early-formed habits. In my infancy
my parents hired a young nursenaid
to wheel me about in a baby-coach.
And ever since that distant time. alas,
] have been pushed for money"
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Landlords Way.

nOHN BARRYMORE, the actor, was
~ talking about Germanys subma-
rine policy in New York.
when Germany told us we Ameri-
cans might cross the seas in safety
provided we used such ships as she
offered, I nearly died laughing, he
said.
II was frresistibly reminded Of the
poet who complained to his Landlords:
Landlord, I really must insist on
your repairing my doors and windows.
They close so badly that it interrupts
my work. 1t blows my hair all about
my face.
'Humph.' said the landlord. The
easiest way out of that difficulty 10 for
YOU to get your hair cut off,"
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advertisements I could not help but
admire the industry of the man who
had posted them.
In Chile the signs disappeared, and
they were not to be seen in Argentina
or Uruguay. but in Paraguay. in the
city of Asuncion in particular, the
streets were in full bloom with the pill
advertisements. The sign poster had
been particularly diligent here.
1t was my good fortune finally to
meet the man who had tackled up thas
pill signs. 1t was on the ship coming
home. He had boarded the vessel at
Buenos Aires. and I at Rio de Janeiro
four days later. He proved to be a
young chap, gangly-legged, red haired
and freckled faced. Except for the
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returned to Paris. Once again he be-
came a high roller.
True or false, the story is extraordi-
nary. 1t. alone. exnains the rapid rise
and sudden fall which make the career
of Ferdinand of Bulgaria an mex
plicable mystery to this day.
The Pope died. Ferdinand was apa-
thetic in Paris.
Plus x was elected Pope. And Ferdi-
nand was electrified. It struck him
like blow. when patriarch of
Venice shall sit in st. Peters seat
and here was Plus x, cardinal arch
bishop and patriarch of Venice-the
first such to be elected Pope since 1853
Intense faith revived in Ferdinand.
His princess had told him true, and
she would lead him from on high. He
went to work again with seif-contained
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goods which may be seen by the customer
before purchasing. Warehouses, Of course,
can only be maintained when the trade
is extensive, but it is almost always pos
sible for any manufacturer to send
samples Of his wares.
In addition, such agencies should see
to it that the catalogues OF its clients
are in the proper language-Portuguese
In Brazil and Spanish in the other repub-
lics-and also build up a sales force ac-
quainted with the market and the GUS
toners.
The alternative (and the moro de-
sirable) plan would be combinations in
the same industry for foreign trade. Be-
fore the United States Chamber Of Com
merce February 3, 1915, President Wood
row Wilson spoke Of the desirability OF
combinations for foreign trade, and Of
his hope that such combinations can be
legally formed in such way as not to
be exclusive. 1t may be noted hero that
the National City Bank Of New York,
with its fresh interest in South American
trade, has set its legal forces to work to
approval Of the Washington authorities.
Its conclusions will be interesting.
The longer an American stays in Chile
the more he hopes that the American
trade campaign will be especially sue
ton, now is poor. Her foreign trade
will grow as she gains wealth. That she
fs destined to become wealthy there can
be no question. The resources OF her
lands and the admirable spirit of her peo-
pie is guarantee enough for that OF all
the South American republics Chile is
the TOUGHEST" For that reason prin-
cipally. no doubt, our trade with her has
not been what it might be- But i'll feel
ing toward the United States has almost
vanished from Chile. and her attitude is
receptive. We should have great trade
future in Chile.
examined the market in Chile In
some detail. and for the purpose Of brew
ity I will merely set down some Of my
notes:
plate glass. French and Belgian man
ufacturers now have the trade. Ameri-
can manufacturers can compete success
fully.
Machine tools and shop machinery. A
promising field. The biggest single order
for machine tools in Chile this year-for
the new shops Of the National Railways
of Chile at Santiago-went to a New
York firm.
"Great possibilities for the develop
ment Of South American oil fields, max
ing field for sale of oil-fuel engines. Par
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they gone? So rose the legend that the
priests of st. Sophia had miracuiously
disappeared into the earth, ana thaI
when Constantinople should again DC
taken by Christians and -FOUR KINGS
hear the tie deum the floor OF St Sophla
will open and the old procession rise UP
with the holy objects in their HANDS.
when are these things to be-" asked
Ferdinand.
The legend Is Venetian" said Inc
princess. "All will happen when
patriarch of Venice sits in the chair OF
st. Peter. Let us do our best, and God
will put the patriarch there, when all
is ready. Ferdinand, be king, and draw
three kings around you.
So did the tender idealist start on her
high political career In Bulgaria: Hand
hand. she walked with the beloved
Ferdinand. Almost every educational:
charitable and technical Institution OF
the land owes its origin to them
They organized Bulgaria out OF ta ner
technicians. priests. sisters and con,
tractors We're constantly on the go. and
from the chateau of Rhodope. where the
happy couple made their bower.
The gardens were hers. She delight
ed in antique reliefs and broken CAPT.
tails She loved fountains. flowers and
birds-fn particular, swallows, whose
HeStS SHe WOulu mol permit " pS ~
turbed "She was an angel" say the
Bulgarian women to this day.
They accomplished great works for
understanding with Serbia. Montenegro
and Greece. Russia remained suspi-
cious. The birth of son gave them
chance of reconciliation, but could
Christian politics demand it? Marie
Louise was terrified at Russia's de.
mand that her baby Boris be baptized
orthodox. Six years she held out put
when the venerable Pope Leo XIII him
self advised her to yield Marie Louise
made her last sacrifice-she gave her
firstborn to the dream of the -FOUR
Kings at Constantinople.
Then she died.
They say that Ferdinand laughed
wildly.
Gone the dream of Christian glory!
Gone the conquest Of the Turks, tho
four kings and their princess leader!
Colby, with a dead heart, Ferdinand
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GEAR FERDINAND OF BULGARIA.

genius. Few saw him do anything
He was supposed to be pottering over
his roses. Few noticed the old pro-
cession of administrators. technicians,
diplomats. priests, contractors and mill
itary men had started UP again. Then.
suddenly. the world perceived that
Ferdinand had welded the Balkan
states together.
He spared himself nothing-not even
on the day when he was told he ought
to take a German wife. It shocked the
dream of a directing angel; yet, at
times, she seemed to beckon: Find q
mother for my little children"
She was Eleonora. princess of the
reigning and sovereign house of Reuss
He married Eleonora in February, a
handsome old maid with heart over
flowing with love-and q family over
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Chile Is Awaiting Trade With the United St

ca must vanquish her European COM
petitors in these classes of goods II
any foreign trade campaign Is to have
a signal success.
But this again Is a DEPRESSION from
patent medicines. This spring, 1915,
the most conspicuously advertised
American product in certain republics
of South America was not an auto
mobile, or a windmill, or any other
non-competitive article. but a certain
brand of pills manufactured in Phila-
delphia.
It's advertising signs were every
where in Peru and Bolivia. 1t was al
most impossible to photograph a street
scene without including one of these
signs in the composition of the picture.
without approving the advice of these
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MUNICIPAL rHEATER. SANTIAGO. CHILE.

SO forth. But our pill salesman failed
to recognize that he had done anything
extraordinary at all.
With a fairly well equipped pack train
he had started eastward from La Paz,
Bolivia, and Owed down the Andean slope
into the Amazon jungle AS the country
became more and more terrifying, his
guides and men deserted him. 1t was the
same region that so nearly took the life
of Theodore Roosevelt. who had strong
party.
This young pill chap was alone with
two donkeys. He ran into a famine ter
ritory and nearly starved to death, being
dependent upon the scant food supplies
of none too-friendly Indians. All he would
say about this part Of the journey was
that he was pretty hungry.
In spite of his hunger he kept on post
ing his signs in the villages and arrang-
ing for the sale of pills in this bleak will
derness. And he absolutely spoiled for
future exploration a dangerous and un-
known portion of the globe. Imagine the
future explorer after Drawing incredible
hardship, writing a book and truthfully
confessing that his trail was blazed by a
succession of signs carrying the doctrine
of Philadelphia pills to the benighted (and
some say cannbalistic, native tribes
From the standpoint of adventure the re-
gion is ruined
Then his employer sent him a message
1t was cabled to Buenos Aires, telegraphed
to Asuncion, again telegraphed far up the
Paraguay river. then relayed by Indian
runners. until finally /, reached the pill
salesman. 1t told him to report in Buenos
Aires two days later!
The young sign poster thought this was
a good joke. Upon his return to civiliza-
ton he intended to explain to his employ
er the geographical features of the Boliv-
ian-Paraguayan frontier. and explain how
impossible it was to comply with the sum
MONS
He pushed on with his donkeys. crossed
the dangerous "chaco" region, found the
outlying quebracho camps and navigation,
and eventually reached Asuncion. Para
quay There, finding he had week to
wait for a train, he busted himself post
ing the remainder of his signs. the ones
we had seen. And when, gaunt and shiv-
ering with malaria. he reached Buenos
Aires he found a cablegram discharglns
him because he had been so long about
reporting.
Fortunately American commercial
travellers in South America do not often
meet with such unappreciative treat
ment from the home office. The Phila-
delphia pill doctor did right in send
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ticularly true in Chile.
Textiles. Doubtful If Americans can
enter the market because of cheap labor
abroad and high duties imposed on ready
made clothing.
Market here for cheap safety razors
None sold now.
"Corsets. American manufacturers have
opportunity here. Should send demon
stratorS
Americans can sell more flour in Chile.
Not much chance for American coal.
Market is not extensive and specifications
are rigid.
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saint and bride, their dream had great
er power than Europes coalitions!

saint and bride, their dream had great
er power than Europe's coalitions!
Ferdinand was nominally Prince of
Bulgaria.
He must become prince in fact, and
drive the Turks from Europe. He must
get together four kings to reconquer
Constantinople for the Christian world.
Nearly $50 years had passed since Ma
homet II entered St Sophia, and the
Christian basiIica of Justinian became
a Turkish mosque.
The times seemed ripe to the un-
worldly princess.
To the rest of the world they seemed
just otherwise. Who saw clearest?
She had only legend to go on. st.
Sophia shall again become a Christian
basilica, when four kings sit beneath
its dome to hear tie deum of thanks
giving for their victory. The tradition
stantinople, when taken by the Turks,
united all the marvels of art, religion
and civilization that remained in the
world.
The pillage was incalculable, accumu-
lated riches of 1000 years, the COM
merce of the known globe, The Rus
sian Cardinal Isidore estimated at $780,,
100000 the coined gold found alone in
palaces and churches has never been
estimated. Precious carpets purple
robes, etc, served as bedding to the
Asiatic camels, and 100000 volumes
from the Libraries heated the baths of
the barbarians.
Now for the legend. When the Janis
saries burst into Constantinople the
city was so vast that the Turks were
pillaging palace and hippodrome before
the residential quarters knew the walls
had fallen. Those who could, rushed
with their women to the vast space Of
St. Sophia, where 100000 people barri-
caded themselves to the dome.
The battering in of the bronze doors
announced the arrival of the Turks.
The aspect Of the trembling multitude
made even the mercenaries OF Mahomet
hesitate. Already rich in ransoms, but
tempted by the proclamation that they
should possess their captives as slaves
they hesttated between carnage and
profit.
At that moment there appeared
great procession Of the priests of St.
Sophia. To solemn music, they placed
themselves between the people and the
barbarians. The rude hordes were i'm
pressed. A popular captain sheathed
his scinliter and laughed. The sound
and gesture were contagious. No muir
der soiled the floor of ST. Sophia. The
arms to the handouts of the Turks.
Women were tied with their wells and
driven out.
Their last look was for the priests
who had SO courageously interviewed.
Not one was visible. Now. where had
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THAT Country Mood Commerce With American Manufacturers
Philadelphia Pill Salesman and His Home
OePa Medicines Dental Preparations Samples Are NeceyNoes
Chilean Destined Become Very WRsouces of the
Landau Admirable Spirit of the People,.
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It seems that from Bolivia he had
struck across the continent, traversing
one of the most difficult stretches of
wilderness in the world. The explorer
who crosses South America midway
between the isthmus and cape usually
writes a book about it, and is decorated
and taken into honorable societies and