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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04
BIG REVIVAL OF TURF GAME
Trottlns Has Been Rssalnlne To Los.
PepularIty-eoom Predicted for
This season.

There promises to be q big revival
OF the turf game during the year. In
many Of the states where racing was
abolished few years ago. there 10 Q
concerted movement on foot to bring
about revival. In those states where
racing 10 permitted the meets promise
to be much classier in 1915, owing to
the fact that there have been imported
many of the greatest ponies that used
to run on the European tracks.
The trotting game has been regain.
ing its lost popularity during the past
few years and 1915 Is freighted with
the promise of even greater success In
the grand circuit affairs and also on
the little tracks, than were the 1914
and 1916 seasons.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04
HUB PERDUE HAS GONE
Passing Of Baseball comeulan
and Pitcher ls Regretted.
True Son Of Dixie and Born 10 eask In
Warmth Of enthusiastically
Worst Batter In Game and the
eest story Teller.

The passing Of Hub Perdue, who
has forsaken the baseball arena to
assume charge Of his property in
Texas Is regretted by fan and player
alike. Hub IL true son Of Dixie, born
to bask in the warmth Of the sun.
shine, and It was the great misfor.
tune Of his life that he was forced to
spend the greater portion of his major
league career as member Of the
Braves in cold, bleak Boston.
Hub is no less famous for his ability
to tell good story than he is for his
strength in the pitchers box or his
ludicrous weakness at the plate. Per.
due was probably the worst batter in
the history of baseball, and the best
story teller. Here Is q yarn spun by
Hub at the time Of his transfer from
the Braves, then Joke aggregation
to the st. Louis Cards.
"Sah, I done heard a gentleman re.
mark as how these we're Braves were
a fighting team. Huh! Why the only
thing I ever saw um fight was the
ball. Vas. sab. dat's SO. I'm JUS a..
gwine to tell you all that they was fe.
rocious like an oyster. Suttenly they
was the perlitest lot Of ball players l
ever see.
One day down yonder in Pittsburgh
I was a'.pitching my head off and the
SEQ was to 2 agin us. Come our half
of the seventh and the fust three bat.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04

pitching mound
did
and will a
little Rudolph worlds
No could Kroy
Ghth
Pittsburgh Pirate
he throw ball with the speed
parts
Maanve Liebod lot Tommy Leach
considered when placed
outfed little much big fellow Eddie
Collins small in stature but he looks mighty large in figures
Red Eddie Collins the hardest
his He stands
and then he will
hawk.
Little
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04
Brown 10 Elected President.

Innis Brown, sporting editor Of the
Atlanta Journal, has been elected
president OF the Georgia-Alabama
league, succeeding G. L. Bruner.
Brown formerly star football player
at Vanderbilt university. 10 well In
formed on all matters pertaining to-
sport, and should make the circuit Q
good executive ofncey.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04
Percy 10 Harvard's Strong Man.

George A, Percy, the hockey star
who holds the Harvard university
strongest man honor. weighs only 100
pounds and Ia about five feet ten
inches tall. Percy won the honor by
his skill In Ginning and dipping on
the parallel bars. Percy chinned him.
self 81 times and dipped 81 times,
thereby registering q new record In
the college for these feats. His total
points was 1,442.4.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04

ters get on. II was my turn to hit,
and figures I'm due cause amt had
no hit since the spring befo'. went
a'.running To- my bat and, man alive,
I spe'ct Id JUS bout make q home run
and be q hero. I gifts my war club
and starts TO the plate when detects
the Pittsburgh players Gaming In, an
all a.laughin.
"Yas, sab. Dog my cats II ever one
Of those base runners hadn't done
gone and let those Pittsburgh fellows
push 'um often the bags and tag 'um
out. And worser still, everyone that
was ketched was 'pologizing for bein'
In the way an interfering"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04

runners capable Of running closer to
him than we now have"
Bonhag saw Joie Ray. the sturdy
Chicagoan, run for the first time at
the New York Athletic club games
and he was greatly struck with the
national mile champions ability. III
that boy ever learns to Judge his pace
properly 4 minutes and 10 seconds will
be possible for him." was Bonhag's
comment. Recently Ray ran his first
220 yards around 20 seconds, after
which he slowed down. finishing with
. terrific quarter sprint ct the end.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-04

!! II jJ S!{E'P!
Ed Geers has given marks to forty.
eight $40 trotters. which 10 the rec.
ord.
George F. Slosson has accepted .
position as billiard instructor at the
City club, Boston.
Walter Cox drove In 1872 races over
various courses in light harness cir.
cults last season.
Rube Oldring. who announced his
retirement last fall, has signed 1916
contract with C. Mack.
The Southern intercollegiate Ath.
letic association embraces In its men,
bership thirty institutions.
what Is the lightweight limit" q
fan asked the st. Louis Post. Dispatch.
Freddy Welsh" was the answer.
Canadian sportsmen who enlisted In
the war have been gazetted as the
One Hundred and Eightieth battalion.
DR.. w. G. Kendall has been elected
president of the Boston Bicycle club
for the twenty.eighth consecutive
year.
Connie Mack has eighteen pitchers,
five catchers, ten intielders and six
outfielders with which to construct q
winning team this season.
Fred TOney, pitcher, says he will
win twenty-five games next season.
Evidently he does not expect to pitch
for the Cincinnati Reds again.
Charley White, the Chicago light.
weight boxer, has registered sixteen
knockOuts In his last 30 contests, ex.
tending over q period Of over two
years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
ChaIrnen Of State Committees Ask
For an Opinion From Attorney
General on County
Conventions.
TO FOLLOW Urinary?
If Choice Is Made at Presidential Pri-
mary, Why Should County and
State Meetings Be
Asked For?

The question as to whether or not
county convention and a state con
vention shall be held following the
presidential preference primary Is
still puzxling state officials. Charles
A. Rawson, chairman of the republic
can state central committee, and DR..
J. W. Reynolds of Creston, chairman
OF the democratic state central com.
mIttee, have asked the attorney gen
eral for a ruling. The subject has
not yet been passed on by the at
torney general.
The law on this presidential prefer
enoe primary says that Gin the years
in which a president and ~vice-presi-
dent of the United States are to be
eltcted there shah be held a primary
election for the election Of delegates
and alternate delegates to the ma
parties at which candidates for presi-
dent and v~ice-president are to be
nominated, for lne election of a party
national committeeman for each
party, and for the election Of dele
gates to county conventions which
shah choose delegates to the state
convention" This primary election
is to be held on the second Monday in
April.
But why hold a county convention
and a subsequent state convention. is
asked. There is absolutely nothing
for such county conventions to do,
the leaders here say, insofar as they
can find out. The voters at the pri-
mary do all that Is intended to be
done when they express their prefer
ence for a president and vice-presi-
dent and vote on party national COM
mitteeman, delegates at large to the
national convention, district delegates
to the national convention. alternate
delegates at large and alternate dis
trict. delegates to the national con-
yention.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
IF BACK HURTS USE
FOR KIDNEYS
Eat Less Meat IF kineys Feel Like
Lead or Bladder
Bothers.

Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and CLOG
sed and need q flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dull mis-
erv IN the kidney region, severe head
aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver,
acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in h kidney
repion. get about four ounces or Jad
salts from any good drug store here
toke , tablespoonful in a glass of wat
.- before breakfast for a few days
and YOUR kidneys will then act q
This famous salts is made from inc
ocid of grapes and lemon juices, COM
hined with l-hia. and is harmless to
ausb c]oeged kidneys and stimulate
them TO normal activity. 1t also e
tr.li7es the acids in the urine SO 1t
~ longer irritates, thus ending dad
der disorders.
lad Salts is harmless; expense
r,,Ees a delightful effervescent Hthia.
Ter drink which everybody should
t,le now a1d then to keep their kln
navs clean. thus avoiding serious com
A we'll known local druggist says nc
..1ls lots of Jad Salts to folks VINO
he,;eve in overcoming kidney trouple
while it is only trouble
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
PALE WIVES AND MOTHERS

Many women who had q good color in
their girlhood grow pale and colorless
when they become wives and mothers.
When the fading color in cheeks and
lips is accompanied by a loss OF bright
ness in the eyes and an increasing heavi-
ness in the step, the cause is to be sought
in the state of the blood.
A hundred causes may contribute to
the condition of thin blood that's known
as anemia. Overwork, lack OF outdoor
exercise, insufficient rest and sleep, i'm
proper diet, these are q few Of them.
The important thing Is to restore the
blood to normal, to build it up so that
the color will return to cheeks and lips,
the brightness to the eyes and lightness
to the step.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are the great
blood builder and invigorator. They be-
gin at once to increase the red corpnscles
In the blood and the new blood carries
strength and health to every part of the
body. Appetite increases, digestion be-
comes more perfect, energy and ambition
return.
A pamphlet, "Building Upthe Blood"
will be sent free on request by the DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.
Y. if you mention this paper. Yourown
druggist sells DR.. Williams Pink Pills or
they will be sent by mail on receipt Of
price, SO cents per box, SIX boxes, $3.50.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

three children and could not raise any Of
them. but since I have taken the COM
pound 1 have a bright baby boy. !
advise every suffering woman to try it
and get relief. It has lone wonders for
r1e.'-Mrs. CATHAEINE GooDLING, 1873
E. King Street, York, Pa
When a medicine has been successful
in bringing health to so many, 40
woman has a right to say without try
ing it, 81 do not believe it will help
me-" There must be more than a hun
dred thousand women in this country
who, like Mrs. Goodling, have proven
what wonders Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound can do for weak and
ailing women. Try it and see for
yourself.
IF there are any complications
you don't understand, write
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.
tconfidential), Lynn, Mass.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
SAYS CIVILIZATION
MAY BE WRECKED
Dark Picture Drawn by HfstoriAn Of
possfblo Result Of European
war.

[By Charles P. Stewart, United Press
Staff Correspondent
LONDON. Feb. 16. (By ma1l.)-
"This is not an ordinary war. This
war is a new outpouring OF barbarism
from the north, a recurrent factor
older than written history These ars
the migratory hosts with science as
their handmade"
The view ii Lovat Fraser's, the his.
torical and International political writ
err. The picture he draws is a dark
one.
IF we could only get 1t into u
heads" he says in a recent article for
the London Daily Mail. that We are
dealing with one Of the most tremend-
Gus recurrent factors in human his
tory, rather than with the personal
ambitions Of the kaiser or the German
general staff. we should cease to spec
ulate any more about the end Of the
war
I'VE should recognize that we are
perhaps at the beginning Of another
of those great migratory epochs dur
ing which civilization after civilization
has been overthrown.
This particular .outburst was Ion
overdue. IT was checked for centuries
by the discovery of the new world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
First Big Afternoon Rally for Women
Only Was Hold Yesterday
in Trinity Church
Auditorium.
CENSURE FOR MOVIES
Assistant to ScoviiIe Finds Lots to
Criticize In His "kItchen
Talk" as He
Called 1t.

The Trinity M. &. church was filed
with on Sunday afternoon
from the front door to the farthest
row in the balcony at the first meet
Ing for women held in connection with
the Scoville campaign. The women
had interested faces and were respons!
I've to every phase Of the service, for
all women are Interested in religion
there are no exceptions. Here and
there in the audience was a real re-
v1val face, nowadays they call them
evangelistic campaigns, but they are
the same thing. Many Of the younger
women didn't know what it was all
about; they will know before the six
weeks are gone, but these occasional
older women with the rapt, tense ex.
preston, could have risen and given
a Testimony" for they'd been there
before.
The song service was led by Mr..
Stewart, who sang all the changes
which keeps an audience interested
and singing. THE favorites were
"Whosoever WIFI and Shall We
Gather at the River" songs that every
body knew. The opening prayer was
offered by the Few. F. C. Edwards,
pastor Of Trinity church. The scrip
ture lesson, as Dr.. U1lom said, was
from the audience" Twelve or fifteen
women, each gave a verse Of scrip.
ture. Then Mrs. Scovile sang. She
has a cultivated voice OF unusuel
sweetness. She Is a very handsome
woman, always beautifully gowned,
and with a digniied earnest manner
which is very pleasing. She sang a
song which had for a refrain:
THE bells Of your conscience arc
ringing,
Saying, Oh sinner, come home" .
It was quite worth going to the
meeting yesterday to hear Mrs. SEQ
vile sing.
DR.. Ullom took for a text, "Is It Well
With Thee? Is it Well With Thy
Husband? Is it Well With Thy
Child?" He followed the custom of
after dinner speakers Of leaving his
text severely alone. He read the text
and said, 81 am going to give you a
kitchen talk" and he did for an hour
He expressed his opinion OF the movies
in no uncertain terms. He said that
unless a moving picture show taught
some sociological lesson or portrayed
some historic fact, they provide
mighty poor food for your mind
He said also, I'VE are as a. nation.
going pleasure mad, and I believe It's
only the women who can stop it."+a&s
where do you get your fashions?
You get them from the city with the
greatest red light district In the
world"
why is It that Germany is able to
put up such a solid front in this
world war? It's because Germany has
such irreproachable motherhood
THE two saddest things in the
world are a homeless child and a
childless home"
Americas greatest need is a pas
sion for motherhood "
"A boy or girl with a we'll nour1sh-
ed body Is able to Withstand tempta-
ton. under which a child with a poor
ly nourished body would fall
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

which diverted mems energies In,
fresh directions. When the new world
began to fill UP, the old volcano In
northern Europe burst forth afresh.
Let us ponder over these things,
and talk no more Of the end Of a war
which. IL history is any guide. may be-
only just beginning, and perhaps has
far vaster and more tragic episodes in
store.
Can We save OUT civilization?
Il think We can and firmly bellows
we Will: but we shall only do so by
first transforming our whole habit OF
thought regarding this war.
I'VE must make up our minds that
It may go on indefinitely, that 1t may
bring far more tremendous disasters
IN its train, and that before very long
all the great nations may have to 40
cept a lower standard of living for
many generations to come.
I'VE have to fight on without ceas-
ing, not until Germany is destroyed.
for that is impossible, but until the
unity of Germany is broken. Z
The key to the whole problem IL
Prussia and the universally hated
Prussians are not Germans at all, but
Finno-Slavs. $50
Not for nothing did MT. Asquith
say that we have t. go ON fighting un-
til Prussian militarisn is wholly and
finally destroyed.
Il would add, as an alternative,
isolated. It nay take years, It may
involve all that We possess civflizar
ton may be uprooted IN the process,
but until it is accomplished, the world
will never again know peace"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

AZ A11A4 ~ w w ~
say it is. was so
sick that I could not
stand at my sink to
wash dishes and I
could not sit without
a pillow under me.
I a d tn doctor
every few days but
since I have taken
the ompound 7
don't have to send
for him. have had
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

you could say you had never sold a
can Of milk that you wouldn't be will
ing to meet in heaven?
IF there's a man here so low that
he has to reach up to touch bottom
so dirty that his life would make
a black mark on a lump of coal-God
can save him"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
Christianity Marking Time.

Lincoln Journal: They were dis
cussing in the British parliament the
other day the question of applying
the CONSUMPTION act to minister's. OF
all people, the preachers should be
most free to enlist, a member re-
marked, "since there is nothing doing
in christianity al present." Can that
be possible?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
conscription Unnecessary,

! Yankton Herald: Since the republi-
can statesmen became imbued with
the idea that the ~gubernatorial mantle
falls on the shoulders Of the lieuten-
ant governor it has not been neces-
sary to secure candidates for the Of
flee by CONSUMPTION.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
Anv other Remarks?

MarshalItown Times = Republican:
The Mason City Times hopes that the
next time a president comes to Iowa
he will pass through the best part OF
the state. Thanks muchly. It Is a
pleasant thing when a Mason City
paper boosts for Marshalltown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
Absolutely Unyielding.

Grinnell Register: Old FATTY.
Bailey Of Britt, is the meanest stand
patter in the state. He v gave an
inch in compromise. He has always
been "agin" Albert B.. and ever shall
he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
All In Kansas.

Washing ton Post: 1t may not have
escaped notice that the extreme jubi'
over Kansas having been fifty
years in the union is confined exclus-
lively to Kansas. "i@ ..''H
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

If I had a son who grew up to
be a dancing master I'd take a club,
break his back, get a bottle and put
him. in a cradle. I'd try to raise him
over with the hope Of beating some
sense into his head.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
SfDELt0HTS

. SiDELtoHTS
= There will be no meeting at
. the tabernacle tonight. The next
= regular service will be held
= Tuesday night.
q The first business mems lunch.
q con Of the campaign will be held
. at the Y. M. G. A. Wednesday
= noon OF this week. The lunch
. cons will be held every Wednes-
. day noon thereafter. Dinner thir-
= ty cents.
. open house" Will be held at
. the Y. M. c. A. tonight. beginning
= at Z o'clock. A program will be
. staged from 7 to s o'clock. The
= evening Is especially for the
= young men. Mr.. Sabin, Of the
. Scovflle party will be present.
= All the young peoples societies
q Of the churches participating in
= the campaign will attend the
. Tuesday night service in a dele
. cation.
. Wednesday night the young
y mt Oh inc CITY WILL attend Ill d
. delegation. Meet at 7 O'Clock
y at the Y. NJ. G. A.
. The children will meet with
. the Stewards for the Bible drill
y at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Next
o Saturday night the children will
. present a program Of their WI
. during the preliminary song serv-
. ice.
" The city has been divided into
. four sections for the revival and
. a contest will be held this week.
. Those who reside In the section
. south Of Main street and west Of
. Tenth street will meet at tbs
. o'clock at the Methodist Pro
= testant church, Twelfth and Elk
y change streets and march from
. there to the tabernacle. Another
. section will meet tomorrow night
. and SO on through the week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

What good is your property when
your daughter has gone to the devil?
What good is your success II your
son has gone to hell?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28
EXTREME WEAKNESS
and SUFFERING
Read How Mrs. Cooling got
Relief and Strength.

York, Pal have used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

A man says I don't dance just to
get to hug somebody. I know bet
ter. You can't get a bunch of old
ROSTERS to hop around together.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

l defy the town to show me a man
who Is knocking this campaign who
Is not rotten somewhere.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

NSSA W IL
n biggest fool on earth, in my
opinion, is the fellow who will 70
o and hire a hall and fddlers
and then watch some other geezer
hoppity skip around through the at
mosphere with his wife, I'd like to
see some fellow hugginS my wife.
What business did old Herod have
living with his brothers wife? Just
as much as some of you old alligators
in Keokuk have living with the
woman you are living with tonight.
defy the town to show me a man
who Is knocking this campaign who
Is not rotten somewhere.
The dance that was pulled off to
get John the Baptist was pulled for
a purpose. Before l leave this town
therel be others pulled off the same
way.
If I had a son who grew up to
be a dancing master I'd take q club,
break his back, get a bottle and put
him. in a cradle. I'd try to raise him
over with the hope of beating some
sense into his head.
What good is your property when
your daughter has gone to the devil?
What good is your success II your
son has gone to hell?
A man says I don't dance just to
get to hug somebody. 1 know bet
taN. VnS oarf 0nf n HrSroH - ~1I
ROSTERS to hop around together.
Instead of sending your daughters
to Sunday school you are sending
them down to the dance hall to marry
n of those grasshoppers. You send
your sons down to get a Katy-did.
When old Herod said he'd give that
writhing, twisting dancing girl any
thing she wanted, even to the half
of his kingdom, she clapped her
French heels down on the floor,
slipped over and said Give me the
pate Of John the, Baptist And she
got it.
I'd rather go to the block with old
John than to belong to your damn
able gangs that are rotten with hell
ishness and calling yourselves chris
tians. God pity the man who calls
himself a christian and sends his girl
to a dancing teacher.
You're going to have our choice
in this campaign. Either you can
line up for Jesus Christ OF stay over
on the DEVILS side. You'll have plenty
of company in hell If o want to
stay with the devil.
I'm not afraid Of all the men in
Keokuk, but when one old woman gets
after you, my brother, you'd better
dust It. 1 don't blame Elijah for
beating it to the juniper tree.
IF a man starts fooling with a bad
woman h may as well make up his
mind that he's gone to hell and be
done with it.
If there is any hell deeper than the
rest it is for the man who sneaks
in, breaks up a pure, sweet home
and scatters children everywhere.
Why don't you say amen to that
You're afraid to. This old town is
full enough Of that kind Of dope to
blow the dam out Of b 70 Mississippi
liver.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-28

There will be no meeting at
the tabernacle tonight. The next
regular service will be held
Tuesday night.