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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-06
DECLAMA1ORY
CONTEST DEC. IS
Tentative Date SGT for Annual High
School Event Given Under Aus
pices Of Keohi
Society.
ARE FIFTEEN ENTRANTS
Three Gold Medals to be Awarded In
Three Classes-Htgh School
Orchestra to
Play

The Keokuk high school is looking
forward now to the annual declama-
tory contest which Will be held, prob
ably on December 16 in the high
school auditorium under the auspices
Of the Keohi Declamato1y society Of
the school, which has staged several
successful contests in past years.
There are fifteen students entered
this year, the largest number since
this event was started and one OF the
most successful and interesting con-
tests that has ever been held, is
looked forward to.
December 10 was originally selected
as the day for the contest, but be-
cause of conflicting dates 1t was found
necessary to postpone this. 1t will
either be given on December 16 or II.
The students who have entered the
contest have been carefully drilled
during the last few weeks by Miss
Marie Kiedaisch, assistant in the Eng
lish department. There will be three
Judges, as formerly, but the awarding
Of the medals will be on a different
plan.
There will be three classes in the
contest, humorous, oratorical and dra-
matte. The winner in each class will
be presented with gold medal do
mated by the Keohi society. Last
year there were no divisions. there
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COLD WEATHER RHEUMATISM

Why should rheumatism, disease Of
the blood, be worse in cold weather than
In summer
The rheumatic poison In the blood Is
the predisposing cause of the disease. If
you have the faint in your blood you NAV
have rheumatism whenever the exciting
cause stirs it to action. Cold weather
and dampness are exciting causes of
rheumatism. They excite to action some
thing already in the blood, something
that you must get rid Of if you would be
free from rheumatism.
What this something is, nobody knows.
Not very long ago it was thought to be
uric acid. Many doctors now think it q
microscopic organism or specific bacil-
lus, but they cannot find the bacillus.
It 10 a known fact that in rheumatism
the blood becomes thin rapidly, that
building up the blood relieves the rheu-
matism and that there will be no return
OF the rheumatism as long as the condi-
ton of the blood is maintained. DR..
Williams' Pink Pills are recommended
for rheumatism because they keep the
blood rich and red and free from rheu-
matte poisons.
The free book, Building Up the Blood''
tells all about the treatment. Send for a
copy today to the DR.. Williams Medicine
Co., schenectady, N. Y. Your own
druggist sells DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
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prospective democratic candidate for

prospective democratic candidate for
governor.
Scoville goes from here to Emporia,
Kansas, where great preparations are
being made, it is said, for the meet
ing Among the hackers of the cam
paign In the Kansas town is William
Allen White, celebrated writer and
politician.
Nearly half Of Jefferson City's IT,
900 population has been turning out
to hear the revivalist each night The
total number of trail hitters to date
Is 3,2OS.
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thought. The speaker babe those
that had passed the meridian of life.
those that felt like quitting the battle
that some Of the greatest deeds have
been accomplished by men passed
middle life, and stated, it is far better
to die Of over work than microbes.
While we live, he said, let US live
hard The time now Is ripe for de-
cided energetic christian activity.
God does not wait for special years.
or times, or seasons, to harvest His
grain. This year, this season, God Is
looking to US, and with the crisis that
Keokuk is to pass through we must
pay the price Of self denying service
We should be willing to crack our
sinews over the hard problems of life
and be willing to share burdens any
where and everywhere
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A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks-Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
SAYS DR.. Edwards, a Well-Known
Ohio Physician

DR.. F, M. Edwards for II years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel all
nents. During these years he gave to MS
natients a prescription made of a few we'll
known vegetable ingredients mixed with
olive oil, naming them DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets, you will know them by their oiiVe
color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on the
liver and bowels, which cause a normal
action, carrying off the waste and poison
GUS matter that ones system collects
If you have palo face, sallow look, dull
eyes. pi,nples, coated tongue, headaches,
Iistiess, no-sood feeling, all out of sorts, in
active bowels, you take one Of DR.. Edward
Olive Tablets nightly for time and note
the pleasing results.
Thousands Of women as well as men,
take Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets now and
then Just to keep in the pink OF condition.
DR.. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the success
full substitute for calo2lel - 10c and zoe
per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet. Company, Columbus. O
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over Three Thousand Trail hitters In
Jefferson City. Missouri,
to Dats -Emporia
Next.
HAS HAD GREAT EFFECT
Many STAT. ofne'ar. converssd
Hall Of 'cItys Population Turned
out on Each
Night.
70 The Gate CITY.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. Dec. g.
Charles Reign Scoville. evangelist,
leaning far out over the edge OF a
hastily constructed platform in an Inn
promptu worship-shed or tabernacle,
rs it is called, closed service here
Sunday night that was one Of the
most fruitful of the series. Scoville
il nearing the close Of his evangelistio
campaign here. And when he has I'M
ished and left the capital Of the show
me" state, he will leave in his wake
different town. Church members,
moral citizens, saloon keepers and
all admit that
The evangelist has upset all the
dope socially in Jefferson City. He
has made such pastim es as dancing,
card playing and liquor drinking not
only decidedly unpopular, but has al
most succeeded in RELOCATING them to
the junk heap.
The inroads he has made over at
the state house have been such as to
convert the capital building, accord
ing to some of more cynical ones, into
cross between a prayer-meeting and
Sabbath school lie has brought Of
fetal after official and employee after
employee down the glory trail, while
ST. Louis and Kansas City papers
have crowed joyously and hoped for
some good government now.
Attorney General John T. Barker is
one prominent Office holder to line up.
olners are State Auditor John P. Cor
don. State Hotel Inspector John G.
billiard, Chief Justice A. NJ Woodson,
Charles G. Revelle, supreme court
Judge, State Representative A. T.
DUNN, former State Senator A. N.
Seaber and DR.. ]. A. B. Adcock, Sec
fetary to the state board of health.
And among the younger converts is
Elliott W. Major. son of the governor
The evangelist's tabernacle rang with
cheers the night young Major hit the
trail. He was accom- panied by Miss
Myrene Houchin, noted horsewoman
and daughter of James b. Houchih,
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DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD

Get small package Of Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks
call It, Hamburger Brust Thee" at any
pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful OF the
tea, put cup Of boiling water upon
It, pour through sieve and drink q
teacup full at any time during the
day or before retiring. 1t is the most
effective way to break = cold and cure
grip, as It opens the pores Of the skin,
relieving congestion. Also loosens the
bowels, thus driving . cold from tho
system.
Try 1t the next time you suffer from
4 cold or the grip. 1t is inexpensive
and entirely vegetable, therefore safe
and harmless.
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RUB BACKACHE AND
LUMBAG0 RIGHT OUT
Rub Pain and Stiffness away with
q small bottle Of old honest
St. Jaoobs OIL

When your back IL sore and lams
or lumbaeo, sciatica or rheumatism has
you stiffsned up, don't sufferl Get q
Is cent bottle Of old, honest "St.
Jacobs Oil' at any drug store, pour q
little in your hand and rub it right
into the pain or ache, and by the time
you count Atty, the soreness and lame
ness is gone
Don't stay crippled This soothing,
penetr ating oil needs to be used only
once. It takes the ache and pain right
out Of your back and ends tho misery.
It is magical, yet absolutely harmless
and doesn't burn the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica
and lame back misery 30 promptly!
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being a gold, silver and bronze medal
offered for first, second and third in
the whole field. The large number of
entries this year was responsible for
the change.
he Keokuk LIgh school orchestra
will play.
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Conc But Not Forgotten.
st. Joseph Gazette: And what has
become of the old fashioned boy who
wore red mtttens instead Of using Il
handkerchief?
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To Cure Z Cold In One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QU1NINE
Tablets. Druggists refund money II 1t
fails to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. &c.
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IneHective.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: ALI the
intuition that a man employed in a
horse trade doesn't seem available in
making deal for second hand auto
mobile.
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TAKES FAT
man FOR SUBJECT
Rev. F. B. MeAlilster Preache. on the
Subject "Nobody Loves
a Fat
Man."
POINTS TO EXAMPLES
Incidence and caiIousness In Chris
tlan Lives Must be Over
Come, 10 Preachers
Thought.

A large crowd listened to Rev. F. B.
McAllister last evening. when he
spoke on the popular subject of,
Nobody Loves Fat Man" Be-
fore the sermon, he announced
ne would give a series OF holt
day sermons beginning next sun
day evening. Rev. McA11ister stated
ne intended to deal with conditions
and problems in Keokuk and the
general subject of the series would
be: III Christ Came to Keokuk
Christmas" The subjects will be
questions based upon the supposition
that He might come, and IL so. what!
december -, Would You Set the
Alarm for the Sleeping Saints?" De.
cember 10, Would You Pull Down tho
Blinds or Put Out the Lights?" De-
cember 26, Would You Spray Disin-
fectants About Keokuks Foot and
Mouth Diseased Joints?'" January
2, Would You be Found Hanging
Over He'll on a Rotten Limb?" 4
IN the subject under consideration
Sunday evening, Rev. McAllister said
In part: The corpulent men have
been the most optimistic and large
hearted characters Of the world. Not
only have they made the world bright
by their good nature and CHEEKY dis.
position, but many of the famous men
OF our times and past generations
have been of robust build. The
Moody's and Tafts have served their
generation we'll. When Moses spoke
In Deuteronomy to the children OF
Israel he rebuked them for their in
dolence and lack Of initiative In tax.
Ing the land that had been marked
out for them: he said: Thou are
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou
are become sleek: then he forsook
God which made him, and lightly es-
teemed the rock OF his salvation"
The children Of Israel, because of
their wanderings and irregular life in
the wilderness, might have been very
lean Of body. but they had malady
that was far worse, they had become
fat headed, fat hearted. fat souled.
They had become fndolent. drowsy,
weary Of well doing, yes, lazy. They
had become morally and mentally fat
they had become Of no avail, they had
digged a rut and had blocked up both
ends, making their lives to exist in
living grave Servitude to donin-
eering taskmaster has morally de-
generated them SO that their plight,
for efficient progressive work and it's
was a serious one.
Today many have fallen into this woe
full condition. The man or woman
that is morally or mentally fat and
indolent, no one loves, they are a
kingdom.
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Not EXPECTING Much.

Kansas City Times: All the allies
hope from Greece is neutrality and
mighty little of that.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-06

The annual meeting of the members
of the Iowa State Insurance Co. will
be held at the Office Of the company
in the city of Keokuk, Lee county.
Iowa. at O'Clock P. m. on the sec
ond Monday In January, 1916.
G., C. TUCKER, Secretary.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN.
DR.. w. p. SHERLOCK.
1hyejcian and Suroeon.

Office, Masonic Temple. Residences
Alpha apartments.
Office Hours-10 to IL q. m, z TO
p. m: evenings. to 8: Sundays.
II to p. m. United States civil ser
vice examiner.
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Read The Gate City want column.
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Vision 10 Needed.

/ vision ID Needed.
In the first place. tho sluggish souls
needed and do need vision. That
Individual that tried to clear the
.stream for wholesome drink learned
,only too quickly that as long as the
hog was at the source Of the stream
above him, his drinking place would
not be clear. The sluggish needs to
see sin at the head waters Of our
lives. besmirching our lives, fill
ing them with bitterness and unclean-
ness. In some parts Of the east they
have rubbing posts for the animals
that have been bitten by insects and
scourged with disease; the afflicted
/ shepherds note the suffering sheep
rubbing posts of our times that are
clear indicators OF the lives of the
christians, and some there are that
need decidedly the vision of Jesus
Christ and the remedy He has given
! for the great hosts that are crying,
mo man careth for my soul" II they
! had gone to Mt. Nebo with Moses, If
they had caught glimpse OF that
promised land, their attitude would
have changed.
| When Jesus came from the hillside
to find His disciples perplexed with
their condition, Jesus said. ye were
I! not able to heal him because "This
kind is brought forth only by prayer"
They needed the vision that would
make it cIear that there was a price
to pay for moral alertness and spir-
itual ability.
Must Paw tho Price,
| AS the athlete must pay the price
in physical exertion for the condition
he maintains. so the christian to be
1.-THE and agile must too bleed Or he
will not bless. He who went the
farthest in saving the lost and. IN
whose footsteps every christian
should walk, "he fastened a mes
sage with a nail of his cross in the
path he trod and these are its words.
II any man would come after me, let
him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow me-" And again tina,
he that loveth his life shall lose i.
The Bible is full of such heroes, vet
Grams. alongside Of whom we should
be ashamed unless we have some
nail prints to show for our unselfish
service. Too frequently we have our
finger continually upon pulse for fear
exerticn in christian activity, and it
might be said of many, "They died of
too much self control"
Sar-i~o = tie thing that counts,
t. i-t.i, Gtor of our spiritual temper
ats Here the speaker gave some
fCrcib-e illustrations to bear home tho
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MANY MEN ACT LIKE THIS
Old Bill ShiftIess Has His Counter.
part In Many Localities Through
out the Country.

"Old Bill Shiftless dropped into
town last Saturday" the Osborne
Farmer reports. Bill went into one
Of the stores and asked for some crepe
tissue paper. His wife had asked him
to get some so she could make a few
little ornaments to improve the looks
Of the front room. She wanted two
colors and Bill found that he would
have to take two rolls, as the mer-
chant would not cut it. They cost 10
cents a roll. Bill refused to take 1t,
saying it was too darn much money
to pay for such useless stuff. He then
bought a dollars worth Of chewing to-
bacco and a half-dollar's worth Of CT
CARS and went out to see what the
chances were for chipping in on a
consignment Of Kansas City jug house
booze. Bill wants to go to the San
Francisco exposition, His trip to st.
Louis did him so much good that he
thinks he owes 1t to his health to take
this trip. Mrs. Shiftless would like to
go, but Bill says he can't see how she
a get away, as there would be no
at home to look after the stock
Kansas City Star.
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CHAPTER XI.
THE L

1t was long after 2 o'clock in the
morning when Eric. drenched by the
sea mists, stole across the lawn and let
himself into the darkened house on the
hill, through a window he had left un-
fastened at the time OF his stealthy de-
parture several hours before. He was
faint from h horrors of that mid
night excursion. His legs trembled be-
meath him Is he crept up the stair
case and down the long hall to his
room. An impulse, grewsome enough,
caused him to pause for an instant be-
fore the closed door Of Chetwynd's
room. He listened there for a moment
and then hurried on as If afraid that
the door would open in his face to re-
veal the figure of-Chetwynd himself.
The house was al still as death it
self. He knew that his uncle and aunt
were sleeping soundly In the big blue
room overlooking the street, in serene
ignorance of what the morning was to
bring to them. Somehow, he had the
uncanny feeling that his was the last
night on which they would sleep
soundly and in peace.
In his own room at last, he softly
opened the door leading to the smaller
one occupied by Mary. He could not
see her for the darkness, but In time
his heart beats subsidized so that his
ears could detect the soft, regular
breathing of the girl in the white bed
across the room,
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Where Aristoerats Shine.
From the Baltimore Sun.

Your aristocrat Is doubtless often a very
Objectionable person and in a democratic
ountry like this we affect to turn up our
noses at him and regard hin as a cum
berer of the earth. Yet II must be said for
him that worthless as he may be in peace.
and contrary as his claims of superiority
may be to all proper principles OF nat
ural equality, he rarely, almost never,
fails to give a good account OF himself
when his country needs him In a great
crisis. In the French revolution the old
nobility of France Shove the world that
they knew how to die II they did not
know how to live. n the casualty lists
which are being published In London now
prove once more that when II comes to
courage and patriotism the "aristocrat"
Is seldom found in the rear. At the rate
at which the aristocrats are being killed
at the front in France and Belgium there
will be no lords and gentlemen" left in
Great Britain IL the war lasts much long
err. If all the common people in Eng
land were doing as well, there would be
no criticism OF English patriotism. In spite
of their leanings to democracy, American
~ upathiZers with the allies in view
OF the prominence of the titled names on
the honor roll OF the dead, might almost
be inclined to wish that the entire British
nation was composed of aristocrsts today.
Can It be true after all that there is q
real significance In the old phrases-"bloot
will tell and ''noblesse obliGsf' .
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Cco-unued next week.
bob" Burdett's Resolutions.
From National Magazine.


Because l am born into a world Of
many imperfections and daily tempta-
tons; because l have many faults al
ready and am liable to acquire others, l
resolve that l will make my faults my
virtues.
/ win be proud-too proud-to think
a foul thought; too proud to do a vile
win hate 2 lie; I win despise a
deception; I will scorn a mean action.
I win fear temptations, and avoid them
II l can, but / win fight them II l must,
and win light them to the death, show
7 win siay my enemies by making
them my friends, which Is far better
than making them my brothers. For
friends are always better thai brothers.
l will be cruel to my faults, no mat
ter how pleasant they may seem to be
to me. ! will pluck out my right eye"
I will 'cut off my right hand should
Ii deal treacherously with me. Com
partnerships that lead me into. evil ways
1 will %renounce II I cannot transform
them into Righteousness.
I will fear to do wrong because Of the
misery i might cause myself and bring
upon others; ] will fear to go wrong,
ever so little . way. lest l might lose
SO I win make my pride. my hates,
my fears, my cruelties, my temptations
ali my faults and evil propensitissn
tured in fair, honorable, openly declared
war and straightforward battle. And ]
will compel them to bow down TO me
all ages have made life slave Of their
captives. Thus will ! strive to make II
come true in my life that best men
are nodded out Of faults"
18, 1914.
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SHE QUIT
But II Was a Hard Pull.

]. is hard to believe that coffee will
put a person in such a condition rs 1t
did an Ohio m She tells her
own story:
Il did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said liked it
SO well l would not, and could not,
quit drinking it, but | was a miserable
sufferer from heart trouble and nerv-
Gus prostration for four years.
Il was scarcely able to be around,
had no energy and did not are for
anything. Was enaciated and had a
constant pain around my heart until l
thought l could not endure 1t.
Frequently l had nervous chills
and the least excitement would drive
sleep away, and any little noise would
upset me terribly, l was gradually
getting worse unit; finally l asked my
self what's the use Of being sick all
the time and buying medicine so that
l could. indulge myself in coffee?
so l got some Postum to help me
quit. l made it strictly according to
directions and l want to tell you that
change was the greatest step in my
life. 1t was easy to quit coffee be-
cause I like Postum better than
the coffee.
"One by m the old troubles lett
until now 1 am in splendid health,
nerves steady, heart all right and the
pain all gone. Never have any more
nervous chills, don't take any medi-
cine, can do all my house work and
have done a great deal besides"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich. Read The Road 10
Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum come in two forms:
Postum Cereal-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and CSC pack
ages.
Instant Postum soluble powder
d~issolves quickly In a cup Of hot va
ter and, with cream and sugar, makes
g delicious beverage Instantly. soc
and soc tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's Q Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.