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The Washington times., 1915-12-26
SEER'S WORLD FORECAST

War probably will continue until 1918 although March 1916 may
bring strong hopes of peace
AS the subcyce of Mars continues until 1914 this will be the
last conflict of the nations of the world
March June will be memorable months in the United
because of internal troubles well external dangers
Germany may suffer adverse conditions January and March
Death of person of rank, possibly member of the royal
family, is indicated.
England should expect peril raids from February
Personal danger for the King of his in March
victories reverses Trouble
for member of the cabinet in May.
Belgium has little hope of escaping from its overshadowng cloud
Of calamites until 1918 or 1919.
France March and April followed by heavy
losses July and August President Poncare should safe
guard his life.
Russia will long train of treahe Personal injury
the Gar probable. April will be unlucky with adverse
direction until August
Holland forecast much trouble possible INVASION
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
INDUSTRIAL UNREST AND CASUALTIES

In trouble strikes and riots manv
catasrophes Indicated Railroad explosions
probable in the Middle West There may trouble
in the Southeast posby Virginia. which stir the
country
Fires and disturbances probable Washington D. c.
the National Capital New York city an
adverse July figure is threatening
for the safety railroads may strikes
ongshoremen and railway employees tragedy the
water forecast late in May This planets NAV
tend to produce sudden when to
promise and prosperity catastrophe long
told to the principal city the United may before
November.
The year may add a long of deaths among
artists musicians, and who attained high
place The clos" of brilliant will the beginning
of schools n ali lines OF artistic The YEAR 1916
will be a time which "old things shall pass away"
Throat and troubles likely prevalent cspeci
ally in March, stomach and malades more
numerous than usual.
The political forecast for 1916 gives warning of personal
disSensions splits and SOrSanzng
Dental campaign likely and hardest
fought in history if the rnP of believed
Civil postal affairs, the the
tribute complications 10 the usual problems confront can
didates.
o powerful leader is Indicated
New figures will appear in The political arena
will be injected into public Personalities will in
troduced into for Office and scandals
cd Both editors will a rule that in
cnes toward vrtuperaon and The
that make for cruelty the will be work in the political
contest.
President Wilson's horoscope reveals many great forces at
work him. He will have tremendous responsibitv
the Zenith of his power and will gain great
There is sign read Indicative that political plots laid
December will be revealed in late January and
against possible rachery part
friends. March tire when he should take mis-
ana himself against cverwork and He should
beware of accidents this mont and in the first weeks in
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
NATURE IN SAVAGE MOOD.

Floods the northwestern coast of the United
prognosticated Seattle suffer damage Disasters
ground be Mining has unlucky sign read as
indicating accidents from explosions Santa Fe Ell
Paso, Bismarck and Leadvile have ill omen
High tides and floods likely losses Eastern
and Atlantic and Seaboard States
The ecpses of the tend to high
empests The Panama canal be severay damaged the
last week of January and TIE first February The last
of July and the first of August the
unfortunate times which damage that looked
for.
Earthquakes may be and more widely ex-
peenced than in previous The Middle Central
America be disturbed by shocks January ST.
Canada and the central of the Atlantic States to
which time will also be dangerous for the and the
Panama canal. These seismic phenomena may especially
at and In America and Central
India these upheavas of nature take andsds
dates read for these catacyms follows: Wnnipep to
Galveston Vera Cruz and Guatemala January February
j. Dawson to Tahiti and Manila February Pennsvva
na Charleston the Island of jamaica Bahamas
and Peru February l3 In the the dates are
probable: Winnipeg to Galveston America the
Sonora Lower California Arizona and Nevada
Helene and Butte Mont July 13 and disasters
the arposby heat and hundersorms are nd
North Atlantic July 26 when Jamaica
Porto Rico Haiti Sano Domingo and the canal are
severely There is tendency fire. ERUPTION or
the Yukon district July influence
likely to affect Australia
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
BENIGN TOWARD MOVIES.

The winter solstice and the venal equinox not alto
geher encouraging for theatrical affairs although they indicate
which will be beneficial the future
During motion pictures will under
direction the planets. There lucky sign
for the introduction of color the drama of the
and for advertising through the
For the legitimate drama and surprising evolution
in the taste of theategoers presaged Success for
plays the merely frivolous predicted tragedy
foreshadowed the big producers partnership of
6Sst importance will be broken either by by quarrel
The Washington times., 1915-12-26

Producers who have investments sudden
and unexpected events which ac four hm and there
danger of serious bodily injury to of the
who has made great personal success
Owners and managers of theaers forewaned a
catastrophe possibly between May and May This is
likely be somewhere the South period
the end of June unucky there be loss
bankruptcy for theatrical There also read
indicating demonstration riot place
prominent die or be assassinaed The
bring ill luck for actors especially those who
the moving pictures Accidents the
probable wreck where many be lost foreod for
extraordinary scandal many prominent per-
is prognosticated.
Woman suffrage is likely to many obstacles 1916,
conditions affecting the political equality
sensational setback active reachery the
politicians probably will scandal which will produce
libel against prominent writer Changes
leadership and in campaign methods likely
Hospitals and charities should greatly The
will bring demands all phIanhropc organizations
Churches will engage humanitarian movements
there will be tendency toward the living
and the harmonzng of science and religion.
Reforms will include the reorganization procedure
legal world improvements of courts and the speeding
forms of litigation Prisons will occupy much attention.
treatment of convicts will be radically improved
With the awakening knowledge and
the occult world and interest psyche
logical and submnal conditions, there will be extraordinary
imaginative work and literature coming
the superman and superwoman will be heraded.
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
Wins Wine Dinner for 4
By Taking Plunge in Sea

ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. 26-watson
Herbert. Chicago visitor. won a wine
dinner for himself and three others py
taking an ocean dip.
He made a bet with Thomas Herbert,
cousin. that he would take a five
minute plunge, and the wager was aC-
Cepted. Herbert was in the water eight
minutes and showed no i'll effects.
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
PERIL FOR RUSSIAN BEAR.


the January and February should chain of
conspiracy extending back to June 1915 For the Gar serious
possible injury oreshadowed April adverse
month"; and he little good until after August If he
survives next December will bring gain to him.
Austria has little promise of great change The aged En-
peror may die in early spring summer.
Holland has sinister augury. Events having their origin
in 1915 will reach climax in july Personal danger to the
realm expected There is ill January
March, when dangers and land forecast possibly
invasion by hostile Sudden and catastrophe
are probable.
Norway shows ntrigues and conspacies from January
June In March conditions involving naval activities fore
told. From April to November the outlook is serious
Sweden have threatening time in January and again
in June. crisis international affairs may be postponed
until December.
Although the United States begins the new year more
blessed than country in the world the the
people that they should for of startling
Business conditions probably will be much affected the
element of surprise prominent in all public affairs Men and
of class couneed to be conservative in
their expenditures The will be time for safeguarding
money and property.
Those who speculate extraordinary fuctua-
tion the stock market These will be followed scandals
caused by failures and embezzlements The sudden
of prominence in banking affairs prognostcated
fnancers will end life, January July Foreign
loans will be much discussed Brokers and spectators should
be especially careful in the September
and the first Of November under sinister coming
summer, July to 49, is under unfavorabe
planets Bankers forewaed that public mind will
readily entertain fear They should possible
banks and failures stock exchanges New
and Philadelphia under direction that indicates
foreign credit.
Farmers will reap large crops unsats
factory conditions may losses Cold
ndcated storms of unusual violence heavy
large profit but they should take precautions against spread
Of contagious disease.
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
No Attempt at This Session to
Establish a Budget Sys-
tenn.
METHOD NOW HAPHAZARD
Half Dozen Committees Max
ing Up the Annual Supply
Measures.

| There will be no attempt at this ses-
| sion OF Congress to establish "bud-
get system" Of appropriation although
! tho leaders Of both parties regard the
present method OF handling the annual
supply bills as unsystematic and hap
hazard. Plans for the creation OF a
budget system however. have been
practically abandoned. and the special
committee named by the Democratic
caucus to devise n system regards 1t as
! impossible to make the change at this
| time
The special committee named to re-
| port on budget system at this session
| comprises Speaker Clark. Majority
Leader Kitchn. and Congressman Hay.
| Fitzgerald, Garner, Stout, and Sherley.
The committee. after an investigation
of the subject. has decided that there
is so much work ahead of the present
Congress that the appropria ton bills
| must be handled in the old way.
Half Dozen Committees.
Under the present system appropria-
| tion bills in the House are handled by
! more than a half dozen committees.
| The economies OF one committee may
| be offset by the extravagances of an
| other. and there Is no centralized au-
| thority for keeping down the appropria-
tion totals.
No Change Possible.
| Chairman Fitzgerald and COngrcsSman
Shcrlev. tie two ranking Democrats on
the Appropriations Committee. are
strong advocates of a change. They are
convinced that the annual anprop"ia-
| tion bills of Congress are handled in n
| way that would not be Countcnanced
| hv an" great industrial establishment
where system and centralized authority
| Is essential. The special committee
| however. has been forced 10 the conclu-
! sion that II would he impossible to put
through a law for the creation Of a
budget committee" at this session. and
! tn" several appropriations committees
| ar" going ahead with the making up Of
| tn" annual supply measures.
The tentative program considered by
! the caucus investigating committee was
| IN" creation Of big COMMITTEES, Il
fCriN or more members. to take vearly.
account Of the probable EXPENSES and
! tn" revenues of the Government This
! limiting the Appropriations for each
Hranch of the Government service-leg-
iSiAtive. executive. judicial, sundry civil
| militar", naval. and public improve
| m"ntS. The appropriating committee
| then would be required to leep within
! IN" llnIit or appropriations set. and no
committee would D." authorized 10 exceed
! It's particular allowance.
| ItONSC leaders Vet hope 10 work out a
! pier for aDoliShin: the present. system
| nut l. was admitted today that the
'h"n%c cannot b" mad" al this session.
The Washington times., 1915-12-26
Seer Sees Startling
Epents For Capital
In the Coming Year
Continued from. Page One.)

February catastrophe the While the gain
June losses likely the middle of the month Trouble
!oars presaged for the September brings
crisis followed upward for the better December
Italy expect victories rapid
Riots food and credit probable Conditions should i'm
May but member of the cabinet will be in trouble
From September 1916, to May 1917 lost ground should be
seganed the King danger from the late spring
midsummer
Belgium has little hope of better times until 1918 1919
Peril and losses threaten King Albert February Women and
children may suffer additional horrors More public buildings
may be destroyed.
should find its financial condition improved during
the of the The suffer sebacks in March
and April followed by heavy losses July and August Gains
for early April June In November
December treachy uncovered and the end of this
year 1916 probably will be crucial time There is
life President Ponare March and April and again
In July and August
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
PERSONALS.

Mrs B. r. Lotion visited yesterday
at LAGRANGE with the families of her
cousins, John and Henry Hipkins
Quincy Herald, Sept. %: Albert
Give of Keokuk was in the city a
few days visiting friends. Sixteen
years ago Mr.. Give worked as tailor
for Sterns.' Since that time he has
-esided in Keokuk.
Nauvoo Independent: Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward McManus, Jr.. and Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Kenny Of Keokuk were
guests OF Mrs. L. Kenny last Sunday.
]. w. Maxey, advertising agent for
the c., B. & O., was in the city Mon
day in company with Mr.. Hungerford,
a magazine writer, who is gathering
data for a series of articles dealing
with events along the Mississippi
river.
Fort Madison Democrat. Sept. %:
Attorney ]. B. Angle of Keokuk was
in the city Tuesday on business Mr..
Angle is connected with the Keokuk
Trust company. e. c.. Weber
and Geo. B. Stewart, attorneys, spent
the day at Keokuk on professional
business.
Charles H. Forman Is in Farming.
ton today attending the reunion of the
Third Iowa cavalry.
Mrs. Louisa Coyington OF New York
City, will arrive this evening to visit
her sister, Mrs. T. N. Pond.
Miss Martha Baldwin, Mrs. Baldwin,
Mrs. Geo. Deleplaine, Miss Bessie
Collier and Miss Mary I. Cox OF Evan
lston, Ill. motored to Nauvoo yester.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Langston Of Chicago
are visiting in the city. Mr.. Lang
!ston was connected with The Gate
City thirty years ago.
Mrs Frank r. Fry. who has been
seriously i'll in st. Louis for the past
week, is reported as very much be:-
ter. and hopes are entertained for her
speedy recovery.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23

Iowa Supreme Court Decisions.
Especial to The Gate City.1
DES MONIES. Sept. Estate VS..
Will, appellant, Story county; re-
versed and remanded.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
Eord vI.Ited Many Yards.

EUnited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.--Henry Ford.
multi-millionaire automobile manufac-
turer, inspected the Brooklyn navy
yard and the government submarines
here today, but did not go down IN
any Of the under sea craft as had been
planned.
With his son, Edse1, and one Of his
local managers, Ford reached the navy
yard shortly before IL o'clock and es-
corted by naval attaches made an in
spection of the laboratories and went
from there to where the submarines
we're locked. Ee boarded the XII
and KS.
Il just wanted to see what kind OF
a conglomeration of machinery 4 sub
marine was" said Ford, as he came
out. He did not vouchsafe any opin-
ion as to whether the submarines
were sixteen times too large" as he
was reported to have said some time
ago.
After his inspection. Ford was clos
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
CITY NEWS.

See Bridge Co.'s advertisement.
-Ferndell yellowmeal 1mmegart's.
Buy Sealship oysters and choice
fresh catfish at JOS. Haubert's, TOP
Main street.
III. d. Ecker has gone to Dubuque
to attend the meeting OF the Building
and Loan associations OF the state.
The Electric Studio-403 Main, Is
now under new management. Postal
photos 3 for CSC A. Van Dorm, Mgr.
-E G. Brownlee has conveyed to
Roy B. Miller lot &c in block. 2, Bel
KNAPP Place The consideration named
in the deed was $500.
I Charles A. Shafer has sold to Ed
ward F. vinson. lot / in Floral Hill
addition. The consideration. accord
ing to the deed is $1,000.
Edward Hamilton and Minnie
Alice Turner, couple from Keokuk,
were married yesterday afternoon by
James s. Burrows, Justice of the peace.
&C. ]. Bode and wife have convey
ed to Claude G.. Erdman lot IL in
block II in Kiloourne's addition. ac-
cording to warranty deed filed today.
-Ferndell pancake flour. Imme-
CARTS.
MIS-. LuTd IliOAipSOi - " 80 -
Carthage, was reelected president OF
the Illinois Christian Woman's Board
of Missions at the convention OF tire
society Yesterday afternoon. The
convention is being held in Blooming
ton in connection with the state con-
ventfon OF the Christian church OF
which the society is a part
FIT. Madison Gem Citv: r. II. Kea-
tor, engineer for the Water Power
company came to this city today from
Keokuk to confer on several matters
existaut between the Power company
and the city. as to conditions caused
by the backing up OF the water from
the dam and the laying OF sewers
here. City Engineer Lewis was ap-
pointed to confer with the visitor.
-Nauyoo Independent: The matter
of acceptance of the river boulevard
by the Sonora commissioners, which
has been changing fire" for long
time, was finally. setteld last week.
The commissioners agreed to accept
the road and the water power COM
pany exempts the township from the
payment of the $1,000 it was sup
posed to pay toward the building OF
tie road, and besides gives the town
ship the sum Of 1900, which is SUD
posed to be used for repairing the
road The acceptance OF the road by
the commissioners makes the town
ship responsible for the upkeep of the
road in the future. On account OF the
commissioners so-called stubbornness
the township is now $1,000 better off.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
SECURITY LEAGUE
Meeting TUESDAY.
Call Has Been Issued for Members 70
Hear William Mather Lewis,
Navy League
Expert
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
Needs lof the y. s. Navy viii be His
Subject and viii be illus
trated With stereoptI-
con Slides.

A meeting of the Keokuk branch OF
the National Security league will be
held Tuesday evening, September %,
lat 1880 o'clock in the assembly rooln
OF Keokuk high school. The admisi
sion to the meeting is free, aud the
lecture OF the evening will be an IL
lustrated one. William Mather Lewis,
who is a speaker of considerable note.
and who comes with the Endorsement
of the navy league OF the United
States, will be the speaker.
Mr Lewis subject will be on tho
needs for the United States navy. He
Will speak with considerable author
ity as he is very familiar with the re-
quirements OF the naval department
OF Uncle Sans scheme Of defenses,
and his lecture will be well worth
hearing.
The stereopticon slides which Mr..
Lewis carries are Of the best and will
be exceedingly interesting aside from
anything which he may have to say
on the needs OF the department.
The National Security league was
organized about month ago, and this
is the second meeting. Keokuk is to
be congratulated on securing Mr..
Lewis, as his time is in great de-
mand. 1t Is hoped that he will be
greeted with large assemblage next
Tuesday, as his message will be worth
hearing.
1t is planned to call meeting OF
the committee In the meantime and to
elect the permanent officers for the
league. This was in the hands OF the
committee OF twenty which will be
the executive committee. Capt. F. G.
Overton is temporary secretary and
Major D. B. Hamill. temporary chair
man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23

eted more than an hour with Rear
Admiral Usher.
Read The Daily Gate City ~
cents per week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
Will Chance HIa plans.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-The new
war tax of 33 1-3 per cent on automo-
biles imposed by the British govern
ment, probably will force the Ford
Motor Car company to build the en-
tire machine sold In England in its
English branch, Ford said here today
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
BODY Not Identified,

[ United Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-Charles Bur-
an undertaken of Winslow,
Illinois, today looked at the body Of
Jack HILL who killed himself in a
west side rooming house yesterday,
and said 1t is. not that of Bradley
Fuller. missing banker of Winslow, as
had been believed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
Good-bye Summer

WASHINGTON, Sept 23.-Today
was the last day Of summer. with fall
beginning exactly at APO this after
noon.
Today should be exactly half sun
shine and half shadow, the sun being
twelve hours above the horizon and
twelve below.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
Troubles for Teacher.

Washington Star: The schoo1boy
who wants to know about conditions
in Europe. their causes and effect, is
going to be a source of some anxiety
to the teacher this year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-23
70 WHOM Ir NAY CONCERN:

Notice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween J. E. Harsch. and Louis Cor
BELLE, doing business under the name
OF National vulcanizing company, has
been dissolved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-22
ENTERTAINING PRISONERS THEN?

One reads with mixed feeling of the unusual event
at the Walla Waa pententary the other day when
Broadway company in its entirety appeared before
100 prisoners and gave the full performance OF
"Twin Beds" star production which later was
staged at the Tacoma theater Akin to this event is
the proposed football game in public athletic field
In Seattle on Thanksgiving day by inmates of the
county Jail.
These entertainments for violators of the law are
to be regarded in two ways. Some people denounce
them as perverted and misplaced "petting Of Grim
inals, enemies of society On the other hand there
are many others who are delighted by the humane
note sounded by such entertainments. These de-
dare that prisons are longer to be regarded in
situations for punishment but rather for correction
There is merit in both contentious. Prisons no
longer instruments for torture-and should not be.
STILL is it very likely to bring about reform and cor
rection among offenders against the laws of the
state-and most of the offenders burglars thieves
and robbers = by furnishing them an amusement
feature now and then, and ACTING HUMANE TO
WARD THEM MERELY WHILE IN PRISON?
Without in the least decryng these efforts at en-
tertainment for human derelcts who, Heaven knows,
need every chance to tighten their hearts, one
well question if substantial reform is thus to be
gained. 1t isn't lack of amusement as much as lack
Of bread which sends many people to the peniten-
tiary.
Give every man and woman who is willing to work
chance to work, give every worker decent living
wage prevent exorbitant profits that make for star
walton salaries, do not permit conditions where
mothers must slave for Others to it that all chill
dren are properly nourished and mothered, and the
human race won't need many penitentiaries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-22
By Blosser

The story is visionary one,
based on the theme of Americas
power or lack of power to resist
an invading nation. 1t told the
whole story, showing great armies
In action, battleships charging
after each other, cities being
RACED by gunfire, submarines
splitting out torpedoes and dart
ing under water again.
Shows Great Panic.
Some of the most admirable
and exciting of the scenes show.
ed localities in New York, at
first clam In the sense of secur-
ity, and then in panic while a
fierce bombardment was going
on. The actual destruction IN
making the films must have been
prodigious, for great buildings
were totally demolished either by
bursting shells or, fire. The Inn
preston the pictures gave Of
panic among the people was also
remarkable.