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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
SECRET TO
DARKEN GRAY HAIR
Bring Back its Color and Iustre
With Grandma's Sage
Tea Recipe.

Common garden sage brewed into a
heavy tea, with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and iuzuTi-
ant. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sui
phur recipe at home, though, is trou-
blesone. An easier way is TO get the
ready-to-use preparation improved by
the addition of other ingredients,
costing about so cents large bottle.
at drug stores, known as "Wyetn' s
Sage and Sulphur Compound. thus
avoiding a lot OF muss.
While gray, faded hair IS not sin
full. we all desire to retain our youth
full appearance and attractiyeness- BY
darkening your hair with Wyeth' s
Sage and Sulphur Compound, no one
can tell, because it does ii so natural
", so evenly. You just danpen
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
through your hair. taking one small
strand al a time; by morning all gray
hairs have disappeared. After anoth-
er application or two your hair be-
comes beautifully dark glossy, soft
and luxuriant and you appear years
younger. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound is a delightful toilet requi-
site. IL is not intended for the cure.
mitigation or prevention OF disease.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
.DR|NKM0RE WATER
# KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat Less Meat and Take Salts fol-
Backache or Bladder
Trouble.

Uric acid In meat excites the kid
neys, they become overworked; get
sluggish, urine becomes cloudy; the
bladder Is iTTi,ated, and !ou may De
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night. When the
kidneys clog you must help them
flush off the body's urinous waste or
you'll be q real sick person shortly.
At first you feel dull misery in the
kidney region. you suffer from back
ache, sick headache, dizziness, ston-
ach gets sour, tongue coated and you
feel rheumatic twinges when the
weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots OF water:
also get from any pharmacist four
ounces Of Jad Salts; take a table
spoonful in a glass OF water before
breakfast for a few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This IA
nous salts is made from the acid o.
grapes and lemon Juice. combined
with lithia- and has been used lot
generations to clean clogged hidneys
and stimulate them 10 normal actE'
itv. also 10 neutralize the acids in
urine. so it no longer is source OF
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive. cannot in
lure: makes a delightful eftervescent
Ii.hia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active Druggists
here say they sell lots OF Jad Salts
TO folks who believe in overcoming
kidney trouble while Il Is only t-ou-
Bile
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
At ONCE! STOPS
STOMACH MISERY
AND INDIGESTION
"PAPE'S DfAPEPSiN" MAKES
SICK, SOUR, Classy S1oM-
AchS FEEL FINE.

Do some foods you eat hit back
taste good, but work badly: fermeat
into stubborn Jumps and cause a sick.
sour. gassy stomach? Now, Mr. CT
Mrs. Dyspeptfc. Jot this down: Pape's
Diapepsin digests everything. leaving
nothing to sour and upset you. There
never was anything so safely quick.
so certainly effective. No difference
how badly your stomach Is disordered
you viii get happy relief in five min
utes, but what pleases you most Il
that 1t strengthens and regulates
your stomach so you can eat your
favorite foods without fear.
Most remedies give you relief some
times-they ere slow, but not sure.
"Pape's Diapepsin" Is quick, positive
and puts your stomach IN a healthy
condition SO the misery wont come
back.
You feel different IS soon as
"pac pes D;spePssa comes u coa:se:
with the stomach-distress Just van
ishes-your stomach gets sweet, no
gases, no belching, no eructatons OF
undigested food. your head clears and
you feel fine.
Go now, make the best Investment
you ever made, by getting a large
fifty-cent case Of Pape's Diapepsin
from any drug store. You realize in
five minutes how needless it is to
suffer from indigestion, dyspepsia or
any stomach disorder.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
KEEL LAID
OF BIG SHIP
First Rivets Hammered Into Place for
the Super Oreadnou0h,
California.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
MARE ISLAND NAVY YARDS.
Calf, Oct. 25.-In the presence OF
thousands Of wildly cheering Califor.
mans. the keel Of the super-dread-
nought California, the largest warship
ever put under construction on the
Pacific coast was laid here at noon to
day. U. S. Senator James D. Phelan
and officers of the navy yard repre-
scented the government while Con-
gresham Curry, Mayor James Roney,
of Vallejo and state and municipal Off
GERS formed the riyeting gang that
hammered the first rivets into place
and began actual work OF construc-
ton.
The ceremonies took place at noon.
after the battleship Oregon, famous
bull dog OF the navy. and itself q
product of a San Francisco Bay ship
yard, brought the party OF federal
state and city officials here 1t is the
intention to launch the California In
January. 1915 She will be com
pleted and ready for trial trip a
year later.
The super dreadnought will be ga
feet long, ninety-six feet in width
and forty-seven feet, two inches deep
At her mean draft of thirty feet
three inches. she will have a dis
placement of $4,000 tons. and will be
capable Of sustaining a speed Of
twenty-one knots an hour for twelve
continuous hours. Her principal bat
terry will be twelve. fourteen inch
fifty caltbre breech-loading rifles
These are to be Of an exceptionally
powerful new type. They will be
mounted In threes. in four center line
turrets, which will be heavily ar
mored. The remainder OF the anna
ment includes twenty-five five inch
rapid fire guns, four submerged tor
pedo tubes. four six Founders. foul
three inches anti-air craft guns. two
one FOUNDER guns for ships boats, q
three inch landing piece and severa
thirty calibre machine guns. The
California machinery is to be oper
ated by electricity This will be fur
nished by mammoth generators. driy
en- by oil burning turbines Wher
completed and fully manned, the
California will have complement OF
fifty-efght officers ana 1922 men,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
Jess Willard Says:
lake Nuxated Iron

If you want plenty Of stay
there strength and endurance
and health and muscles like
mine
Ordinary Nuxated Iron will
often increase strength and en-
durance of the delicate nervous
folks 200 per cent in two weeks
time.
SPECIAL NOTE-Dr E Sauer. a
well known physician, who has
studied widely in both this country
and Europe. has been specially en-
ployed to make q thorough investiga-
ton into the real secret OF the great
strength. power and endurance OF
Jess Willard. and the marvellous value
OF nuxated iron as strength builder.
NEW YORK-Upon being inter
viewed at his apartment in the Col
oniai Hotel. Mt. Willard said: Yes. L
have a chemist with me to study the
value Of different foods and products
as to their power to produce great
strength and endurance, both OF which
are so necessary in the prize ring
On his recommendation have often
taken nuxated iron and I have par
ticularly advocated the free use OF
iron by all those who wish to obtain
great physical and mental power.
! Without it am sure that I would new
er have been able to whip Jack John
son so completely and easily as / did,
and while training for my bout with
Frank Moran. / regularly took nuN-
ated iron and am certain that 1t
was q most important factor in my
winning so easily Continuing DR..
Sauer said, MIR Wizards case is
only one OF hundreds which / could
cite from my own personal expert
ence which proves conclusively the
astonishing power OF nuxated iron to
restore strength and vitality even in
most complicated chronic conditions
Not long ago q man came to me
who was nearly half a century old,
and asked me to give him prelimin-
airy examination for life insurance. /
was astonished to find him with the
blood pressure OF a boy OF 20 and as
full OF yigor, vim and vitality as a
young man: in fact a young man he
really was notwithstanding his age
The secret he said was taking iron
nuIated iron had filed him with re-
newed life. At 80 he was in bad
health: at 46 careworn and nearly all
in. Now at so q miracle OF vitality
and his face beaming with the buoy
ancy Of youth. AS 1 have said hum
dred times ever, iron Is the greatest
o. all strength builders II people
would only throw away patent medi-
cines and nauseous connections and
take simple nu1sted iron. I am con-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
Several keokuk Women Send In
Their Dimes and Write Chain
Letters to Get New
1917 Model.
UNCLE SAM TAKES HAND
Federal Agents Are Looking up Com
pany Promoting Idea and Finds
That Members Are
Absent.

Several well known Keokuk women
are short a dime as the result OF
their falling for a silk petticoat
chain letter scheme. It's not the loss
of a dime that is hurting them SO
badly however. as II is the fact their
friends have found out that they be
long to the class which Barnum said
like to be hum bugged- II they had
remembered that the postoffice de-
partment has ruling against chain
letters, and also that ten cents and
five letters Is mighty small amount
for a 1917 model petticoat, they
might be enjoying another movie
show.
But then they are not alone The
company which has been promoting
this scheme is being looked up by
Uncle Sans detectives. The com
pany, it might be said. is temporarily
absent from its offices. The govern
ment agents are finding some $4,000
letters with dimes in them, however.
The following despatch from Min.
neapolis gives the present status OF
the case, and 1t may be cold com
fort to these Keokuk women to read
about the efforts of the government
to get the concern behind the plan:
Thousands of letters, each contain
ing ten cents, are pouring into the
local postofice daily from women IN
various parts OF the country who
have joined in an endless chain
scheme promoted by the so-called Ma
tional Brokerage Exchange
Federal agents are searching for
officers of the exchange" who are
wanted for using the mails to de-
fraud A room in a local business
block, to which all the letters are
addressed. was suddenly vacated
three weeks ago. the authorities say.
To every woman who would SEND
ten cents in silver and write i've
friends urging them to join in the
chain the exchange" promised a
new 1917 model silk petticoat."
THE volume of mail for the 'ex-
change is rapidly growing" said
Postmaster E. A. Purdy. land we re-
ceived 25 900 letters, iuclosing $4,000
dimes
The letter which was sent out TO
secure the dimes, and which was to
be copied and sent to five friends Is
the following:
Dear Friend: You will surely be
interested in this extraordinary gift
offer now being made by the Mall
Order Brokerage Exchange building,
of Minneapolis, Mimi, to introduce
and advertise ready-towear goods IN
the least time.
We will give anyone complying
with the conditions stated herein, one
1916 model petticoat, retailing at
s475.
Give color end size desired Make
five COPIES of this letter and mail TO
FIVE lady acquaintance. Send ter
cents in silver to the National Mall
Order Exchange building, Mime
apolis. Mimi, with the names and the
addresses of the parties and you will
receive one o. the silk petticoats Is,
above described, without further ex
pense.
This offer is extended to all vino
receive the letters. Act now; do not
delay; and receive this remarkable
advertisement offer.
Write names and addresses plainly
Every skirt With our guarantee.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
ls%!(S[l{|,1|'|1|iS|9k|S
&yEyiEGSIl
kEEAPoiH. knE.

pcrtane things for the manufacturer
to consider. IL he is considering NOV
ing at all. is the spirit and progress
siyeness OF the people. I was raised
on a farm in New York state, and I've
been west of the Mississippi a good
deal, and l don't know OF anything
that will do more good to this coun-
try OUT here, than such community
movements as you have been discuss
ing. They will increase the value OF
every farm near them. and make the
nearby town more attractive for man
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
OUCH!LUMBAG0 PAIN
RUB BACKACRE AWAY
Instant Relief With a Small Trial
Bottle Of Old st. Jacobs Oil"

Kidneys cause Backache? No!
They have no nerves, therefore can
not cause pain. Listen. Your back
ache is caused by lumbago, scietica
or a strain, and the quickest relief is
soothing, penetrating st Jacob =
Oil" Rub it right on your painful
back. and Instantly the soreness, stiff
ness and laueness disappears. Don
stay crippled! Get small trial
bottle Of st Jacobs OIL from your
druggist and timber up. a moment
after il is applied You'll wonder what
became of the backache or lum baso
pain.
Rub old. honest st Jacobs Or
whenever you have sciatica, neural
gia. rheumatism or sprains, as Il is
absolutely harmless and doesn't burn
the skin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25

stand as to his whereabouts last eve
ming declaring that he never called
taxi. had never seen Badamo and was
so drunk he could not remember much
that occurred
Judge P. ". Reardon assessed fine
Of s35 and costs and Mitchell at once
got busy with the telephone and raised
the amount, which he paid. The case
was the only one in police court to-
fav. Mitchell said the liquor was for
his customers in keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
Will pay
for the
chance
to heal
Catdl'l'h

After m experience Of Is
years. during which time so
million Americans have used
Kondon'S Catarrhal Jelly, the
manufacturers of this remedy
feel so suIe that it viii relieve
catarrh that they offer to pay
for a chance to prove its benefit
to any catarrhal sufferer. They
announce that any resident of
this community can 60 to almost
any drug store and get a COM
plimentary trial can at the
expense of the manufacturers
If the druggist has no gratuitous
packages, the person may buy a
% cent tube with the unqualified
understanding that if that first
tube does not do that person
more than a dollars worth of
good, he or she can get their
quarter back from either the
druggist, or the kondon Com
pany at Minneapolis. Over
$500 druggists know Kondon's
Catarrhal Jelly is effective.
harmless clean and pleasant to
apply-and they know the
Kondon people win gladly live
up to this ofer-"quarter back
If not worth a dollar" Address
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
Bids on Batticshlps-

United Press Leased Wire SerVlce-I
WASHINGTON, Oct e5.-The
Newport News ship building and dry
dock company was the lowest OF four
bidders IN bids opened today By the
navy department on four battieships.
Its bid on one electric driven
battleship was s10.470.0oo and on two
electric driven battlsships- s1o.3I5. 600
each. On steam driven battleships
IT bid s1o.9eO, 600 for one and s1e.-
s90. 600 each on two.
The one battleship is to be com
pleted in thirty-nine months and
where two are bid for the second, Is
to be completed in forty-five months.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
To Raise $1,000, 900.

limited Press Leased Wire Servfce.l
CHICAGO, Get 25.-Workers today
began the gigantic task Of raising
So 600. COO 20 add to the fund Of ST.
900 600 already raised for the aid OF
superannuated and INDECENT ministers
.crd their dependents, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church The commit
tee net in Chicago today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25

WINGED that the lives Of thousands of
persons might be saved, who now die
every year from pneumonia, grippe.
consumption, kidney, liver and heart
trouble, etc. The real and true cause
which started their diseases was moth
ing more or less than a weakened
condition borught on by lack OF iron
in the blood Iron Is absolutely neces-
sary to enable your blood to change
food into living tissue. Without II, no
matter how much or what you eat.
your food merely passes through you
without doing you any good. You
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
Wages and Hours.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 25.-The Ques
ton of the wages and hours Of labor
will be the first thing taken up By
the Joint subcommittee OF congress
when it meets November "a to take
M its inquiry into the railway stu
alton. Senator Newlands. chairman
announced today
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25

Richard Jeffries: The first appear
ance OF q star is very beautiful; the
actual moment Of first contact as #
were, OF the ray with the eye is al
ways q surprise, however often you
may have enjoyed IL. and notwith-
standing that you are aware that It
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25

The volume and value OF exports
from Mexico into the United States
for the year 1856 were the largest
in the history OF the republic. I'm
uorts into Mexico for the same period
also showed q large increase.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25

will happen Where there was only
the indefinite violet before, the most
intense gaze into which could dis
cover nothing, suddenly, as If at that
moment born, the point Of light ar
rtyes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
To BUY Trae. CT Land.

1t IS intended to buy about twenty
acres of land and to build on it first a
large hall for an auditorium This
hall viii be used for all sorts of edu-
cational and social affairs. Lectures
interesting to and practical for farm
ers will be interspersed among SER
mons by ministers of all denomina-
tons. The hall will have a library,
reading room, game rooms. a gymnas-
ium, and the other appurtenances OF
modern community center. 1t will
he logical result, that consolidat-
ed school be built adjoining the COM
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

g. II. AYREs, cHiRoPaAcToR
Once 323 Blcldeau St
Phone 1i11-
once hours 9 to Il a. n, to q.
n, to s p. m
Other hours and Sunday by appoint
nent-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-25
BIG RESULTS ARE
SURE TO FOLLOW
another commun.ty Movement Is
planned From Donation Made
for the Sharon
Cemetery.
MEETINGS HELD THERE
Memorial Day, Independence Day
and other Such Times, Find
people Of Community Hold
ing Celebration.

Effects have resulted from the do
nation that made the Sharon GENE
tary out LaCrew way famous, which
the donor could not have imagined
to be a large increase in his benevo
ience. 7z7-5-e-=-s-
The community spirit at Argyle
and the success Of the entire cooper
alton of the People there to make
that community center Of the largest
benefit to its Inhabitants is spread
ing and already has done great good
elsewhere by fits influence.
These two lines have met, and
around Sharon cemetery is to be an
other strong. fine. useful, uplifting
community plant, If the plans of the
neon!e are carried ont as seems ce.
tain now.
The Sharon cemetery Is one Of the
most beautiful and perhaps the best
arranged IN It's architecture IN ths
middle west On account OF its being
logical pride to the people there
abouts, 1t has been the place where
the most important services are held
on Memorial day, Independence day
and the like, and occasionally it has
been the site of other large public
meetings An evolution from these
circumstances, and the example and
success OF Argyle people in establish
ing the community church, has result
ed in the determination to found a
large. strong and model community
movement at Sharon cemetery.
OF course the cemetery is not to
be the center of the new movement,
but the latter is to be founded ada
cent. close by and near to the former.
which has become natural center for
that part of the world. The plans for
the new community include all the
things being brought out at Argyle
and other model, demonstration com
munity stations in the west.
The sun., 1916-09-27
the leaders in The tight to get Seabury
nominated by the Frogressiyes.
Ac0uiescence Expected.

with the opposition having been
soundly whipped in the primaries. the
chances are. II was said yesterday. thai
the state committee will acdulesce in
the plan without much trouble The Re-
publican leaders. as a matter ~ fact.
have been assured that at least ~ per
cent. Of the Progressive committeeman
Will he in favor of the plan. II is even
regarded as unlikely that the OConncll
men will take til" trouble OF attending
the meeting.
The Progressive state committee 1t
is believed. will he called together inn
mediately after the Saratoga meeting OF
the Republicans. Should It approve of
the Republican electors. this will
virtually effect IN amalga nation OF the
two parties.
George W. Perkins expressed his full
approval Of the plan last nigh.. lie
said lie could not speak for the state
coumittec. not being a member of u,
but he hoped that II would indorsc the
plan. Mr.. Perkins. William II Hotch-
kiss and state Chairman Walter Brown
have been in the conferences at witch
the matter has been discussed. These
conferences caine to an end yesterday
afternoon. when the plan was fiuall'
settled upon. with the full consc1; OF
J G;ny. Whitman. II WAS SAID. After con
f"rrJng with the Governor I,cpuhlicai
Stat" Chairman Tanner. Senator Ogdci
I. Mills ard other Republicans lett las
evening for Saratoga.
Although there was every indication
last evening that the pan for a joint
ticket would go through. there were
nevertheless signs OF dissent IN SOM
quarters. Some OF the district leader
tax" the position that IN putting Pro
greSsives on their list Of delegates e
ihc conference the Republicans have
made concessions enough. one icadc,
said fatty that IL he were asked Il
withdraw his candidate In favor or ;
Progressive he wpuld refuse to do 90.
The sun., 1916-09-27
SEABURY CALLS ON
WILSON FOR MURPHY
Goes to Shadow Lawn to Har-
monte National and state
Campaigns.

Judge Seabury went to Shadow Lawn
yesterday to sec President Wilson. The
two candidates, II was said in Democratic
national headquarters. we're to have a
heart to heart talk on political conditions
In this state. They will he Joined IN
Shadow Lawn to-day by Vance G. Nc,
Cormick, the Presidents campaign man
ager.
Special Significance was attached In
Tammany gossip 10 Judge Seabury's call
on AFR. Wilson. Tammany mcn'said that
despite assertions to the contrary there
is bad blood between the state and ma
tionai campaigns and that the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor OF New
York is trying 10 promote a more har-
monious feeling. lie went to Shadow
Lawn. It was said. virtually as fhe enNo!
OF Charles +. Murphy and the Murph!
organization leaders In this State.
one question demanding settlement IL
the status Of cambridge Colby. Pro
gressive nominee for United States Sen
ator. Colby is supporting President VII
son. Murphy desires TO know whether
= OlDv IL 10 ne peTHIlt'cy' w opI"So 49,
lam r. McCombs. the Tammany candi'
date for Senator.
1t was suggested In national headpuar'
tors yesterday the problem might bt
solved by letting Colby make a passive
campaign for his own election without
seriously ~antagonizing McCombs: hi
! candidacy might he even helpful. to Nc
Combs. it was said. by keeping Progress
sive voters from gong over to Calde:'
tho Republican nominee.
!. Fred Talbot. vctcfan Democrat
membcr of Congress from Maryland
brought rcassuring REPORTS Of Wilson
strength In that state. Talbot said
Democratic majority IN the next Con
cress will ~reclect Champ Clark Speak,
~ the House.
Talk OF "A Wilson speech making tor.
In This and other States has been revived
The national ~chairman's opinion !
the President eventually will decide :
take the stump: he is being delus'd
Mccormick; said. With requests f.
speeches from all parts of I've %coun',:.
William j.. McCombs will address ~
outdoor meeting of the Woodrow Wt's"'
college Mems League which Will h
held to-day at Madison avenue ar
For;y-f1urth street.