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•$£! I f: XX C. F. C. B. Keokuk* VI HEE^a-' *WT'"2"' tlf sfr Hi* S THE DAILY GATE OITX *Sd Constitution-Democrat w&T* PUBLISHED BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY 1 N S S OATH CUTY—Established 1864. OONSTXTTJTIO-N—EatabliBheKl 1847 »,£€• DEaiOCRAT—BJBtablWwo Consolidated March. 26. 1888. CHIEF—Established in 1882. Consolidated September 22, i* GATE CITY and CONSTITOTlON-DBaiOCIt^T— Consolidated April 1JH- s«"u. •jssr.'s Warwick Entered at the postofflce at batter. )owa Keokuk as —oond-flls— SUBSCRIPTION RATB& Dally, by mall, outside city, year ..... bally. In Keokuk, per week Dally, except Sunday. There are people who Intend to do flood In the world and invariably do harm. They enter eagerly into the lives of others and put their fingers pressingiy upon deli cate machinery very often they destroy it, rhorc seldom, unfortunately they cut their own fingers.—Phyllis Bot tome. TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE OCTOBER TO IOWA. bear thee gifts Against the winter's waste of white My guest, the rain-bow, night by night, Adds rift to rifts Of splendor stolen from the stars Before the dawn its gate unbars. The ghoulish wind May sweep away the Bummer's flowers. For all my dream-enchanted hours A tryst yet find, To gambol with the golden sheaves And be the glee-men of the leaves. The stekle keen Of beared time may claim the grass, But where the bickering waters pass And mourn their green, I strike their heart with autumn's rod And they reflect the thoughts of God. For if we knew The maple and the ivied oak, The woods of Iowa Invoke, The One who drew Discontent is the want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. STORMS' MISREPRESENTATION. Separatist Candidate C. W. Storms, who is running for the office of representative from this district in the state legislature, has come to jtttf.tlie defense of his argument for the elimination v^of Keokuk as a factor in the transaction of county record business and the setting up ot Fort Madison as the sole point at which such business may be transacted. In a.communica tion to the West Point Bee, Storms makes an assault on facts that are upheld by the statutes of the state of Iowa and he shows lamentable ig norance in his view of conditions. He asks: "Why should Lee county have two sets of officials?" Lee county has not two sets of officials. Their number is designated by law, and even though there were hut one county station, the number would not be reduced. In fact, with the largely increasing amount of business the number might be augmented in order to set off the personality that would be required to sup plement a new court house, a building that will surely be in demand if a change is made from the present very satisfactory arrangement of two county stations. Now, whatever extra help is required must be paid for out of the pockets of the incumbent officials. Mr. Storms avers, in his statement, that his drive is in no way directed against the city of Keokuk, an outgiving that does not square with the candidate's utterances on the side. Then Mr. Storms gets down to a basic fact. "This is not a question of politics," he says, "but a question of vital importance to every voter in Lee county." Very true. And just because of the truthfulness of this observa tion Mr. Storms will bo defeated at the polls on the seventh of November. TALKING THROUGH HIS HAT. Secretary of War Baker in attempting to run to cover after criticism of bis Now Jersey Bpeech in which he declared that Washington's soldiers in the march to Valley Forge "were just as bad characters as the Mexicans," lias opened another hornet's nest in a statement that the wai* department has received definite Information that enemies of the government's policy toward Mexico, in co-operation with Villa or other bandits, had arranged for a spectacular attack on American troops on the border to be made before the election to create •entiment against the administration. Baker's statement is astounding. It is un believable, and, to the credit of the sense of the Atnerican people, it is not believed. The secretary of war is projecting through his .SUM October 28, 1016 His Gospel where He traced His hand. His Glory in the star and sand. —J. C. Saidmore. chapeau a statement that has no acquam with veracity. His announcement is altogetner too thin and" has all the earmarks of a concoc tion designed for campaign consumption, its ill effect will be reflected in the distress may cause the families of soldiers (and those of Keokuk are included) now on the border, families who are waiting at home and de prived of the wage-earning assistance ot tne men who answered the call to arms. It appears to The Gate City that the out giving of the secretary of war may well be placed in the category of wicked. &. DO YOUR DUTY Register. Register today. Register today to vote. If you do not register today, do so on Satur day, November fourth. That will be your last opportunity. But why delay? So— Register today. You may do so before nine 6'clock p. m. Four days at the most in two or four years are not many to give to the business of the gov ernment that stands over you. Four thousand Iowa boys have been giving half a year to their country on the Mexican bor der—you can afford to give enough time to vote and register. WE ARE AT WAR. The army thinks we are at war, whether the president believes so or not. The judge advo cate of the army, General Crowder, has so de cided in an opinion covering the status of the troops in Mexico. It is known that hundreds have fallen in tho [present operations in Mexico, that the entire available standing army and organized reserve of the United States, over and above a mini mum number imperatively needed at home, are in the field and have been for months that thousands of our troops hold several thousand square miles of Mexican territory by forcible occupation that American territory has been repeatedly invaded and that government revenues are being spent by hundreds of mil lions to maintain troops in the field, to pro tect our border and to hold the Mexican con quered territory. But all this, according to the officials in Washington, is not exactly war. If not exactly ™r, exactly What lation with the hostile leaders of northern Mexico? The only thing missing to make it war is a definite declaration of war. Such declarations are made to regularize proceed ings and to let all concerned know where thev stand. War has been brought about, hut the admin istration refuses to so denominate it. Thereby is caused such confusion in army administra tion as to oblige the army's judge advocate general to settle matters with a ruling. That official says war exists. So now officially and technically we have war, as we have long had the substance of war. THE PRESS AND THE CHURCH. Substantial recognition of the invaluable as sistance the newspaper press renders churches in their work has been given by action of the Episcopal general convention at St. Louis.The house of deputies adopted a resolution urging the establishment of a permanent church pub licity bureau because of the increased depend ency of the church upon the press." The report of the committee which recom mended this asserts that the church is under the greatest obligation to the press. "The newspaper is the greatest publicity medium," the reports avers "through the'press we can accomplish a great religious work in reaching the man outside the walls of our churches. Al truistic organizations of all kinds are depend ing more and more on the press for support of their work." The Gate City is pleased to exploit church news impartially as among the various denomi nations, esteeming it a contribution to the high er thought and the better impulses of readers, and regarding it as but a fair representation in news sevice of one of the vital factors for good in the community—the church and its work. The best class of American newspapers—the I most numerous class—have pleasure in giving freely of space for that which fosters churches, schools and homes. Secretary of State Lansing may not make any speeches in support of President Wilson's candidacy because he believes that "politics should stop at the water's edge," but it is pretty safe to assume that his eminent prede cessor would have got into a rowboat and gone right on. Tho Missouri convict who carried away a ball and chain from the state penitentiary was an incurable souvenir hunter. Greece furnishes an instance of installment plans as applied to international affairs. Register today. is our re- Back Pay for Men. [United Press Leased Wdre Service.] iDBNISON, Texas, Oct. 28.—Busi ness agents representing the five shop crafts announced today that 1, 500 men employed in the mechanical departments of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad had been granted an increase in pay and an adjustment of wage scales dating back to Axtg ust. The total annual increase will amount to more than $100,000 with back pay of over $10,000. Two Cabinet Members Here. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] DOS MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 28.— Secretary oC the Navy Daniels and Secretary of Labor Wilson will arrive in Des Moines tomorrow to be guests of Candidate Meredith. Both secre-. tarles will stump in Iowa the coming week, Wilson speaking at Cedar Rapids Monday evening and Daniels at Grinnell and Marehalltown Mon day. Daniels will speak Tuesday at Belle Plaine and Tuesday night at Tipton. Bandits Loot Bank. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] McPHERSON, Kan., Oct. 28.—The Little River State bank west of here, was looted of four thousand dollars last night by bandits, it was discov ered today. The bandits, who dyna mited the safe, first cut all tele graph wires leading to the town. *150. About $2,600 of the loot was In post age stamps. Six IVIonths In Jail. [United Press Leased Wire Service RED OAK, Iowa, Oct. 28.—Elva Patton of Villisca, who has been in the county jail here since his arrest two months ago for attempting t} burn his home, was sentenced by Judge J. B. Rockafellow to six phere on the bare chance Of surviving lying tore a hole in a solid wall of brick In order to got into that death trap, ob scessed by the sole idea of duty to savo if there was one chance in a million to succor the mon laying comatose there,—and they did not know who it was for whom life was being risked on the slimmest of chances. Firemen came ir. big red trucks with sounding gongs, took one look, and without an instant of hesita tion forgot about hose and noz zles and fires and smoke and dived into the hole where death grinned and grasped firmly every man who entered his lair one by one as they came. The chief fell unconscious. The assistant chief dropped as if shot AMUSEMENTS. Bess Gearhart Morrison Vaudeville Tomorrow Night at the Grand. Poshay & White—Odd comedy bits, general entertainers. Dolph and Susie Levino—Novel comedy act a sketch about hypnotism and domestic troubles, called "Ana- DO YOU FEEL BILIOUS? IS YOUR APPETITE POOR? IS YOUR DIGESTION WEAK =TRY= HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS POWDER Absolutely Pure' Hade fram Cream ef Tarfai NO ALUN-IQ PHOSPHATE months in tho county Jail and fined Broken Shoulder Blade. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 28.— J. H. T. Main, president of the Grin nell college, suffered a broken should er blade when a freight train collided with the rear of a south bound lu terurban car on the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City line at 7:30 a. m. today. RED BLOODED COURAGE [By G. Walter Barr.] courage in "Keokuk as along the Somme. American manhood is as vi rile today as it was in 1776, or in 1861. An hour at the gas works yesterday noon knocked columns of Wilson mol lycoddle speeches into paper pulp. In a cavern full of deadly gas lay two workmen overcome by the methy iic vapors. Their fellows worked their way one by one, and one a negro, past obstructions toward the prone victims. One by one every man attempting the rescue fell unconscious. Instantly another man went after the last man to fall. With obstructions of pipes and tanks in the way, they wriggled and wormed into the deadly atmas- There Is just as much red blooded only three feet from the leg of a man ahead of him for which he was already reaching forward. One by one, fire men fell and lay still in that dreadful lair of death, and were pulled out with ropes and pumped full of oxygeft with pulmotors. The unconscious lay on the ground, saved by ropes lr the pul motors held out, while one by one oth er men continued to enter the hole de termined to bring out some victim of the gas still inside, or Btay in there with him. In the end two men were carried out dead and the rest were saved by skillful work. That was a scene to make all Keo kuk proud of its virile men. It was something tonic to all symptoms of fear that the timea are becoming ef feminate and that America is losing its virility as a presage that it is follow ing Greece and Rome into a decline and fall. While Teutons and Francs and Brit alns and Slavs do wonders of vklor in the glare that lights up all Europe, the red badge of courage is to be pinned on the breasts covering the stout hearts full o. bright blood of the men in Keokuk who proved themselves heroes yesterday noon. When opportunity knocked Just cmce with a carmined hand, beckoning to ward danger and death, they spraa through that hole in the wall to her summons. It was one of those great, ttne things that a city sees generally but once in a generation. teur Psychology." Susie sings and Dolph is an artist at free hand draw ing. Frankle Siegal—Minstrel girl in a clever blackface monologue. Three Old Soldiers—Who sing, dance and perform on various musical instruments. Old time, appealing music. The first number of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. lecture course, with, Bess Gearhart Morrison, the reader,' with the opera house orchestra, at its as the entertainer, was given last• S'inday night at the Grand theatre. Ther» was a good audience present and the program was one of exceptional In terest and charm. Mrs. Morrison's repertoire was a large one and the range of her se lections great. Her readings bore three decisive characteristics, fitness, charm and exaltation. She expressed a vital personality in every movement and speech and her voice and won derful interpretative power convinced the audience that she was a rare artist. The Grand offers the above program. and Is Monday. There will be evening shows at 7:15 and 9 o'clock and a matinee Monday at 2:30. These acts are of high class Western association time, and popular prices will prevail, 10 and 15 cents at matinee and 10, 16 and 25 cents at night shows. Seats will be reserved for evening shows. You can make your choice now or at the box office at show time. —Advertisement. "Civilisation" A great drama t'\it Is pictured in Thomas H. Ince's "Civilization" soon to be seen at the C^ind, but which is secondary to the great spectacular story, is told by the most subtile sug gestion ever employed" on the screen. It is no other t!»n the great passion play that concerns the life, trial and death of Jesus Christ. "Civilization" tells the story of a count who dies in behalf of innocent women and children, and in whose body Jesus returns to stop the awful slaughter of humanity in a world war. The count is seen in the story proper as a human being, and the drama evolves about him as such but in '-he situations and the settings and the cir-' rumstances one can read, as it were, I.-etween the pictures the story of Jesus. The count is lead up on the mountain of hopes by the king and is tempted by the offer of a great posses sion. (the woman he loves.) if he will but serve an evil purpose. Later, when he preaches peace, the count is stoned by a mob, arrested and brought I before the king for trial. In the at titnde and the spirit shown the imagln 1 a tion permits a vision of Christ before Pilate. Then, on his way to prison, the count sinks beneath hiB wounds. Here the producer has aided the spec tator's imaginations by fading In a vision of Christ sinking beneath the burden of his cross. The count is lock ed in a dingy prison. The king comes there to see the count and finds the spirit fled. Then the Christ appears to him and leads him forth to see the awful havoc of war he has waged. This remarkable presentation of the passion play comes to the spectator in sober thotiKhts long after the great spectacle has been seen. The first view of the great cinema production strikes the visitor with the force of its magnitude. (the power ®f tie great battle scenes, it the wizardry of the photography and the thrilling sea scenes. It is, how ever, a picture that sticks in the mind and its magnitude incraoses with re flection. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 4.—Advertisement Big Crowds at Orpheum. The Dancing Chickletts Co., who have been playing a week's engage ment here will close tonight with one of their best bills, "Charlie Chaplin at the Races." This is one of those bills that will make you laugh from the start to the end and if you fcnjoy a good musical show this is one that will be just what you have been looking for, as this popular company has been pleasing large crowds every night with their songs and dances. Tonight a new feature will be Intro duced, this popular company will put on a Midnight Matinee. The bill for which is entitled "A Day at Monte Carlo." The doors will be opened at 10:45 p. m. and the show will start promptly at 11 o'clock and *111 be over by 12. Owing to the lateness of the hour children will not be admitted. Tomorrow that popular star Mary Pickford will be seen in one of her greatest successes "The Bishop's Car riage." Don't fail to come early to see this as the crowds will be so great that you may have to wait some time as Mary Pickford's popularity is unsur passed.—Advertisement. Neil O'Brien's Minstrels. Coming to the Grand tonight will be Neil O'Brien and his great Amer ican minstrels, now recognized as the leading organization of its kind in this country, with an entirely new production this year and with novel ties in every department. This will bo the fifth season of Mr. O'Brien with the organization which bears his name and both he and his manager, Mr. Oscar F. Hodge, promise that all previous efforts will be outdone. Among the new features is a danc ing act called "The Ebony Yacht Club," staged by James Gorman, the ereatest of minstrel stage directors, which enlists the services of ten ex pent dancers and which also Intro duces the Duropean female Imperson ator, George F. Peduzzl, remembered from last year, who will wear a num ber of new costumes to etartle the feminine eye. Then there will be a new sketch written, produced and played in by Mir. O'Brien himself, called "The Jitney Joy Bus," a satire on thin popular form of transporta tion. Mr. O'Brien will be assisted In the laugh making by numerous mem bers of the company.—Advertisement. Today's Football Scores. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] At Princeton, first quarter, Prince ton, 0 Dartmouth. 0. Watervllle Maine, first qunrter, Colby, 0 Maine, 0. At Eason, first quarter, Lebanon Valley, 7 Latfayette, 0. At Brunswick, Maine, first quarter, Bowdoin, 6 Pates, 0. At Pittsburgh, first quarter, Tech, 38 Thlel, 0. At Cambridge, first quarter. Har vard, 3 Cornell, 0. At New Haven, Conn., first quarter, Yale, 7 W. and J., 0. At New York, first quarter, Co um bia, 0 Williams, 0. Dally 8tock Letter. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] NEW YOHK, Oct. 28.—The New York Evening Sun financial review to day said: Although many sharp upward price movements were recorded in the coarse of today's stock market, trading really so hard to 3ave?P«nu" It has been said that "the first thousand dou l&rs are the hardest to save. As a matter of fact, the first few dollars are the hardest to! save. 1 Once you have begun, the tendency is to save] systematically. It becomes a habit to lay aside] a fixed sum each week. The first few dollatij in the bank "coax the others in." Start a savings account with the money y^l have in your pocket now. Save for your chilJ dren, if not for yourself. Save up an Educu tion Fund, a Business Fund, or a Travel Fundi for them in THE KEOKUK SAVINGS BANK E E E Tuesday October 31st is the last day to pay tho'premiums ILLINOIS BANKERS LIFE ASS'N MONMOUTH, ILL,! IOWA BANKERS LIFE, DES MOINES, IOWA. «1 MERCHANTS LIFE ASS'N, BURLINGTON, IOW^ ALL DUE A NO PAYABLE AT S| THE STATE CENTRAL SAVINGS BAffi CORNER OF SIXTH ANO MAIN 8TREETS KEOKUK NATIONAL RANK affords every facility for doing your banking busi ness that any bank can. 1 BEST LIVER« BOWEL LAXAW FOR FAMIL11 "CASCARETS" REGULATE W0M. EN, MEiN AND CHILDREN WITHOUT INJURY. 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Selling on the advance came rather good sources, especially in "j shares which recently had been P"m® market favorites. This W»s particular ly in evidence In the steel and coppe issues with lame offerings of copper on Its advance which carried Into new high ground. In the early trading Central moved to a new high while declae strength was reported In Internationa paper, Atlantic Gulf and West Indies, inspiration, Anaconda, Kennecott, Am erican Locomotive and American su gar. Pleasant Dreams. Pleasant dreams are refreshing and come tron restful sleep. If nerves are all on edge a good nights sleep Is almost impossible. tor quieting the nerves and inducing Blumber there Is nothing better than a hot bath before retiring. If y"0 have an "Ohio-M" Instantaneous Non Vent Pipe \vater Heater over your bath tub you can get your hot oatn water Instantly without waiting. Have your dealer In?tall on®.f^ thirty days' trial. Write for booklet and full particulars. 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