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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

forty In the state that failed to luiaf
ISL estimates for the certificatioh .s -,
the governor before the start OF w
work here. ~
Other boards in this section sa :
caught in the same way. 1t Is s's srls
that no advices declaring TINS snr
were sent here or If they we're u uaot
were probably overlooked In the si NO
rush of work. 1t is believed ina. AFT
state will pay the bills, however, los
all boards will have to file estin
at once. ,,oal
Secretary A. p. Meyer, of the AZ
board, declared that the estinls.r
the local board was sent in tou's
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Keokuk and arranged to take the
Keokuk men home in autom obiles..
The frst relay will be made to OF
tumwa. Other machines will pick up
the men and continue the journey
there.
Mixed chocolates and bon bons,
25c h.; candy canes, 1c and up.
Buffalo Candy Co.
For an easy start in the morn
ing when it's real cold. see that you
have RED Crown" gasoline in your
car.
--Keokuk lodge No. 10, /. ,. o. f.
meets regularly every Monday night.
al 8 o'clock. v. r. Mckay, N. G., F. M.
Pugh, recording secretary. Work in
the SECOND degree.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
Always ~Rusinesslike.

Anaconda Standard: What peeves
the kaiser is the discovery that when
the Americans, a people absorbed in
trade and commerce, 90 to the front
they mean business still
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
PosToFFIcE ANNOUNCEMENT.

Christmas day, Tuesday, December
%, 1917, there will be an early de-
livery and collection by carriers over
the entire city. General delivery and
carriers windows will be open from
IL a. m. to IL m. Delivery by car
riers on rural routes numbers one
and two. Evening business collection
as usual.
E. P. McMANUS, Postmaster.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

from Oklahoma City will be opened
Christmas day by Mrs. II. P. Bruner,
at Edgington. The postmaster for
got TO deliver last Christmas so she
kept it until this year.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
BOARD MAY
PAY EXPENSES
Lee Exemption Officials Failed to
Get Their Estimate Of Ac-
counts to Governor
on lime.

Unless a special dispensation is
granted, the Lee county exemption
board may be forced to pay the ex.
penses Of the work in the second
draft, the Fl. Madison Democrat says.
The Lee county board was one of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
PAINTERS NAME
NEW OFFICERS
Local Union Nc. 895 Elected Men t.
Serve During
the Coming
Year.

Local union No. 8S5 Of the painters
met in regular session Tuesday even
ing and elected the following officers
for the ensuing year:
President-Wm. G. Bowman.
Vice PRESIDENT. Hardy.
Recording secretary-Walter Butler
Financial secretary-Ed. Patterson.
Treasurer-William Vance.
Warden-Peter Miles.
Conductor-Charles Beckstrom.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
Trial Ended d
limited Pres

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
FORT SAM HOUSTON, SAN AN
TONIC, Texas, Dec. 22.-The trial Of
the fifteen negro soldiers who are
charged with murder and mutinous
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

and riotous conduct growing out of
the Houston riot, WIS expected to be
completed today, the defense having
closed late yesterday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
NO PAPER CHRISTMAS DAY.
There will be no issue Of The Daily
Gate City Observation-Disclosures day.
coal

We have some extra cars lump en-
route Keokuk for Keokuk and vicin.
ity. Coal dealers only.
d. E. REEVES & co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Pressing a lever at the driver ,nder
throws new an~ti-skidding cha'Hs
the rear wheel of an automopiie'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
Penny for Each Cuss Word.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec .22.-"Oh
hell said an employe of the Marx
Hat company here today, and an
other cent was tabled up for the
Red Cross. Employees lave agreed
,Mhpne pay a cent for every cuss word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23

When the ''bone-dry'' law goes into effect it is predicted that quart of whisky in Alabama will cost s5. A num- Der of quarts have already been sold at that price to thirsty travellers who were in hurry to get it and didn't care how much it cost.
 The secretary of the National Shoe Dealers association says women must bring their skirts down if the prices of shoes are to be reduced. Either that or they'll show considerably more stocking.
 Soldiers in Europe seem to think it quite a joke to extract the sting" from an un- exploded shell sent over by the enemy, but that's the kind of work the average per- son would rather leave to an expert.
 A bill to prohibit Sunday golf in North Carolina was killed in the lower house of the state legislature. Some of these days a bewhiskered solon is going to aim a bill at the Sunday dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
WAR coRREsPoNDENTs CARE

William G. Shepherd, in Everybodys.
 Ordinary street clothes are, as a usual thing, highly dangerous as trench garb. A German writer received word at his home one night that he would be taken with party on trip to the front next day. q am no war correspondent" said this gentleman. T am a litterateur and I am going to the front merely to write what I see. I shall wear my ordinary street clothes.'
 His wife laid out his big muffler his rubhers umbrella, and overcoat, and the next morning, thus accoutered and wear ing a derby hat, he went to the war office and was taken to the front.
 From the first appearance of the party in the battle zone they drew Russian fire The derby hat of the German litterateur served as 8 moving target on which. throughout the day, the enemy directed his utmost efforts and skill. Tn the trenches the black archlike profile Of the bowler hat skirted the trcnch-top and drew from time to time a. rattle of Russian rifle fire. The man in tho derby hat became an Ishmaelite a pariah, summed by all. and that night the mili- tary authorities tucked him into an auto mobile, derby, muffler, rubbers, umbrel- la, and all and sent him back home.
 'No one knows how many Germans have been killed today by fire drawn by that black costume" said an officer. Any time the enemy sees a man dressed like civilian it judges that he is some statesman who ought to be put out of the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
INV AIN HID TN PIGPEN

From the Washington Times.
 N EVERAL weeks ago Col. George
 M Harvey made most interesting IS address at the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary college. He did not touch on poli- tics and was at his best. For an hour or so he kept his brilliant audience on edge as he told about some of the lit erary lights he had known. The stories about Henry James and Mark Twain were particularly delicious.
 According to Harvey. MT. Clemens and MT. James despised each other. James did not know that the world was moving on; what had been was. He could not get it through his head that because letter postage in the United States was cents when he lived here if was only cents when he came back. after he had been living for years in England. Many changes had been made, but he would not ad- init it. His eyes could not see them, and his mind refused to accept other than the evidence of his eyes. But the most amusing experience of Harvey with these two high lights in the lit erary heavens was when they were both his guests at his country estate at the same time. He had some work to do, and thought it over to himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23

appreciates a natural demeanor on the stage is often led to believe that he need only "act natural" as in real life, to achieve on the stage the fine effect he so much admires. And yet how gauche the amateur when he steps behind tho foot lights and how much intuition is necessary -how much of what might be called ex- pert forgetfulness is needed-to achieve such naturalism as Nazimovas in in- stance. when she plays Nora and in a tantrum lies on a couch and kicks up her heels.
 It is the test of Mrs. Ffslxe's genius the Mrs. Fiske of many mannerisms and
 never fewer than as Becky Sharp--that she can create an astonishing illusion of
 real life in her fencing scenes with the Marquis of Steyne in the Thackeray play And yet, to see how the world and the stage differ. reverse this process and put'
 Mrs- Eiske in any drawing room with the dreadful marquis and her scene speedily becomes ridiculous.
 1 The stage today with what Clayton
 Hamilton calls 'the picture frame pros- cenium,' magnifes action almost as
 much as the closeup of the flms It gives the theatre heightened atmos- phere with subsequent change in the entire scale of values. This enlargement
 makes the stage manner increasingly absurd; 1t makes more and more neces- sary that stage folk learn not only how 1 to use the technique of their art. but also how to keep hidden the use of it when l they appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23

how he could get rid of both of them for brief space while he went to his workshop, and he conceived the bril- liant idea of sending them off togeth- CT in his car to see how the town had grown since their last visit.
 If it had worked out the idea would have been little short of genius; but it did not. Henry James was ready for the ride, but Mark Twain suddenly disappeared as if the earth had opened and swallowed him up. What had be- come of MT. Clemens? He could not be found upstairs or down, in the gar den or at the kennels, and MT James was getting more nervous every min ute. Ten minutes passed, fifteen min utes, and the whole place was upset while Mir. James fretted at the disap- pearance of the gentleman who had been wished on him for a ride which neither of them cared to take-at least in each others company. Having ex- hausted all the possible hiding places at tiie castle. further search was made for MT. Clemens in the adjacent grove, and one of the searching party in pass ing a pigpen was almost startled by some voice saying, Ssh, Ssh, s-h." Approaching the pen the searching party found MT. Clemens squatting in the corner of the pen and saying: S-h, s-h, don't tell anybody you saw me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
ENGLISH BARRIER SHOPS

Homer Croy in Everybody's.
 The sacred belief in sanitation has not yet swept the English barber
 As he slaves you he stops from time to time and wipes your face with a big, dirty, foul sponge. If there is anything in the world calculated to be civic cen ter for germs it is sponge The cli- mate is delightful. There is a balminess about it that makes them cheerful and healthy and that causes the children to mature at an early age.
 Each time the sponge is drawn across the fact of customer, whole families of germs are broken up. Children playing out of their mothers sight are swept off and deposited on strange gentlemans s features. But the children do not weep for long; they at once begin raising chill dren of their own, and soon proud col only has set up where once stood virgin wilderness of whiskers
 And along with the sponge the Eng fish barber has another institution that has done much to increase the birthrats of germs. It is round, two-handled TO- tary electrically driven brush. When he has finished cutting your hair, he says. Hard, soft or medium, sir?' And when you make your choice he takes down a brush and presses g. lever with his foot The brush begins to revolve, the germs flying off like hayseed from a timothy shredder. In the way of pure inventive genius there has never been anything perfected equal to a rotary hair brush for instantaneous distribution of germs. In America the brush would not be toler- ated, but in England it goes on with it's disastrous work generation after genera tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
EXILE OF ERIN

By Thomas Campbell.
 Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sighed. when at twi-
 light repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten
 hill. But the day star attracted his eyes sad
 devotion. For it rose o'er his own native isle of the
 ocean, Where once. in the fire of his youthful
 emotion, He sang tho bold anthem of Erin go
 bragh Sad is my fate! said tho heart-broken
 stranger; But I have no refuge from famine and
 danger, home and a country remain not to
 me. Never again in the green sunny bowers Where my forefathers lived shall spend
 the sweet hours. or cover my harp with the wild woven And strike to the numbers of Erin so
 bragh! Erin. my country! though sad and for
 saken, Tn dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten But. aiasl in far foreign land I awaken,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
FACE MANNERS

From the Kansas City Times.
 7T1 HERE are plenty of opportunities
 for actors to learn the conven-
 = tional manners of their profess sion. But now that the tradition of fine acting, lost in the superfcialities of the films and of a commonplace drama, re- cedes in the distance, few actors discover how to make their work an art.
 In the essays that George Henry Lewes wrote on Actors and the Art of Acting" he said, commenting on a performance in Barcelona: There was young ac- tress who played with so much spirit and feeling and with so little "'stage manner that had been Spanish man ager should have rescued and educated her, confident of her becoming an arr tist."
 That was written in the middle Sos, but the stage manner still fingers. Much as the tendency of playwriting has been to shed the aside, the soliloquy and all the artificial impediments of an earlier day, many actors still cling to the devices of style, to manner of externalities, of ''throaty voice." of giassy eye and set jaw in drama, to all the old buffooneries in farce and comedy: it is an attire for most of them which Is put on and taken off at will. seldom imaginatively conceived and made a part of actual expression It is easy to believe that the only req son for this is that to be everywhere rid of the "stage manner" would predicate actors as artists-and few are that
 Technique. which is dread thing, but in this case is the artince of stage pro- lection, must be well learned, it is trua before the actor can use his discretion Ill forgetting it. The amateur whose eye
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23

And sigh for the friends who can meet
 me no more! ,I o, cruel fate wilt thou never replace me In mansion of peace. where no perils
 can chase me? Never again shall my brothers embrace
 me?
 They died to defend me. or live to de-
 plore! Where is my cabin door, fast by the wild
 wood?
 Sisters and sire, did ye weep for it's
 fall? Where is the mother that looked on my
 childhood?
 And where is the bosom-friend. dearer
 than all? Q, my sad heart! long abandoned by
 pleasure. Why did it dots on 2 fast-fading treas
 ure? Tears, like the raindrop, may fall with
 out measure But rapture and beauty they cannot rs-
 call. Yet afl its sad recollections suppressing, One dying wish my lone bosom can
 draw Erin. an exile beaueaths thee his biessngl Land of my forefathers, Erin go bragh! Buried and cold, when my heart stills
 her motion, Green by thy fields, sweetest isle. of the
 oceani And thy sharp-striking bards sing aloqd
 with devotion Erin mavourneen. Erin 60 brash!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If you want to get into the lmelight by having an automobile accident and smearing your carcass all over the land scape have it on Monday or Thursday or some off day. The hoi polloi always has it's accidents on Sunday.
 Our idea of a good citizen is one who takes it for granted that the other fellow knows all about his own faults and doesn't need others to advertise them for him.
 Before she gets him she thinks that he is simply perfect. But after she gets him she discovers that he is perfectly simple,
 If some men didn't brag about what they are going to do, they wouldn't have anything to brag about.
 In every well regulated home the hus- band should bring up the coal while the wife is bringing up the children.
 Don't sit around and hopefully babble that some day you will meet with suc- cess. The only way to meet with suc- cess is to start out and overtake it.
 A lot of us would get along better if we worried as much earning our salaries as we do about getting them.
 A gossip develops . pair of imagi- native ears that hear a whole lot of things that arc never said, Nature made a great mistake when she equipped our mouths with self starters and forgot to equip them with muniers. As rule, hired girl isn't in the house more than a day before she gets ac- quainted with the family skeleton. Add up your talk and you will discover that two-thirds of what you say is of no consequcnce
 Few men manage to get through life without touching the buxz-saw at least
 once to ses if the blame thing is as sharp as other people claim 1t is, ! Some day when you have plenty oi ioafing time. just take an hour of and worry over a real puzzle: What was the | first thing Eve said?
 | The only reason why some wives buy pianos is because other people have pianOg.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
sOLoMoN,s TEMPLE

From the Kansas City Times
 The temple was the religious edifice of the Jews in Jerusalem. There were three buildings successively erected in the same spot, and named after their builders, the Temple of Solomon, the Temple of Zo- rubbabel, and the Temple of Herod. The first was built by Solomon and was de- stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar about 5ss B. c. The second was built by the Jews on their return from the captivity tabout 537 B. O., and was pillaged or partly destroyed several times, especially by Antiochus Epiphanes, Pompey and Herod The third, the largest and most magnifi- cent of the three, was begun by Herod the Great, and was completely destroyed at the capture of Jerusalem by the Ro- mans GA. D. 70). Various attempts have been made toward the restoration of the first and the third of these temples. but scholars are not agreed in respect to ar chitectural details.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
Does NIobiIe Intustice

The Travelogue is a credit to Alabama and is creditable to its producers, but |it places the people of Mobile in false light" said D. B. Grace yesterday. "In the picture the Mobilians are shown as jumping about like popcorn in a hot skill let, whereas it is well known that they move as slowly as molasses in cold weather.
 The Mobilians must feel greatly morti- fled to be pictured as having the agility of monkey and jumping out of an auto mobile like a Jack-in-the-box,' for it is repugnant to their sense of propriety and abhorrent to the traditions of their French and Spanish ancestors, whose motto was cumotium ct cum dignatate. The true aristocrat finds in repose and grace of bearing the poetry of motion and the flavor of aristocracy.
 Tt may be some palliation to the of fense for the Mobilians to know that this picture will be shown in the north and their alertness and quickness may gain for them the proud distinction of being called the Yankees of the South And they may reap some consolation in know ing that the Montgomerians are also shown as jumping in and out of automo- piles with rapidity that their reputa- ton does not warrant.
 The movie fans are so well pleased with the Travelogue of Alabama that they are talking of running Henry Walthall for governor. If the ladies could vote he would certainly be elected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
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TITLE TO ORDER

From Everybodys Magazine.
 A group of northerners at a hotel in Louisville were poking fun at. the par tiality of southerners for the titles of 'scolonel,' major" and judge"
 What is a colonel hereabouts:" asked one of the group, and there immediately followed discussion. Finally colored attendant was drawn in.
 Well. gents" said the negro. "dcre's lots of ways to answer dat question. ''Iss knowed folks what was born kunnels~-it jest run in de blood foh ginerations. An Ise knowed folks what was jest ap- p'inted to be kunnels. An yit others what was made kunnels by bein kind to nIggers. Foh instance, any man dat gives me dollah is kunnel to me heneafo'th foreveh.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
When Congress Laughed
 At Professor Langley


 At Professor Langley TIT HERE was time when the un- S fortunate s. P. Langley and his flying machine contributed to the gaiety of the nation. But the laugh has been turned. If Congress had been far-sighted enough to acquire the rights to his patents, which could have been bought for $50,00 or $10O,- 900, it would not have been compelled the other day to appropriate $1,000,- 900 for similar purpose.
 Langley has long since been vindi- cated. The clumsy airplane which created guffaws throughout the coun- try by Hopping into the Potomac river instead of flying, was the parent of the machines which are today play ing an important part in the world war and are considered indispensable to all military operations.
 It was in 1896 that Langley began his experiments at Quantico, Va. He was secretary of the Smithsonian in- stitution, and although one of the greatest scientists of his day, the misadventures he had with his flying machine exposed him to unmerciful ridicule. The man was regarded gen orally as crank.
 If there is communication between this world and the next, as Sir Oliver Lodge would have us to believe, on the transstygian shores the late Professor Langley doubtless wore grim smile when Congress recognized the utility of his invention by a million-dollar appropriation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-23
HOTEL LOBBIEs
To Have Strong Team

Alabama will be strong in football next season." said Coach Thomas Kelley Of the university, who was in Birmingham yesterday with the Alabama basketball squad. We will have number Of good men left over from last years team, in Icluding Capt. Ike Rogers. an all-southern tackle.
 The loss of Cecil Green was severe but we will have another good man to uncover next fall. He is fine drop kicker, can hit the line hard and is equal ly as good as Green on dodging. An abundance of new material is in line and see no reason why we should not have a winner.
 Baseball practice will start within a few days. Our outlook for winning nine is also good. Our basketball team did not uphold the standard but next year the team will be one of the best in the south. Our team is composed of four freshmen Things in the athletic line at the university are dragging now. but with the opening of the baseball sea son everything will enliven."