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MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917 British Auxiliary Officers. Jerusalem Likely To Be Wrested From Turks From Egypt Are Only Feu) Miles From City Walls and Sultan's Power is on the Decline Readers of The Gate City, who are watching the progress of the British expeditionary force up the Tigris vAi ibv in Mesopotamia, the cor-relatlng movement of the Russians through Persia and another column of British from Bgypt toward Palestine and also lhe Russia* advance along the south shore of the Black, sea, are impresseJ with the conviction that the converg ing columns will soon drive the Turks out of Jerusalem, the most ancient of oriental capitals. The campaign in Syria is bringing English troops close to the walls of Jerusalem says the National Geographic society. This Involves the possibility that another race may write its name In the long liat of those who have held possession of the Holy City, whose history, cov ering, as authenticated, nearly thirty five centuries, has recorded so many changes of sovereignty in which the Israelite, the Assyrian, the Persian, the Egyptian, the Roman, the Greek, the Moselm, and the Frank have had tjieir place. Jew, Pagan, Christian and Ottoman have In turn played the part of besieged and besieger and it is now exactly four centuries since the oJd walls were last threatened, for it was in 1517 that the Egyptian eultans were driven out by the Otto man Turks, who then captured the city. It is douotrai ii any city of like or even comparative importance, has passed the period since the in vention of gunpowder (1354) amid such immunity from the roar of hos tile guns. Series of Three Walls. "The defenses of the city, designed of course, for earlier methods of war fare, comprise the ancient walls, a geries three in number, and none, it ig evident, capable of resistance to modern weapons. The last of these defenses, constructed by Agrippa about ten years after the crucifixion, is hardly better defined than either of Its predecessors and none of them can afford more than a strategic line 'to be strengthened by earthworks for the emplacement of howitzers or other heavy guns, if it be assumed that the Turks possess such weapons and have them at hand. "Topographically, however, Jerusa lem should be capable of being put into condition for prolonged defense. The city possesses five notable hills •within its limits, it is surrounded on Cmil Black 619 for Society' Editor. I DO NOT LOVE THE PEACE THAT TYRANTS MAKE. The beat guide from old to new is Peace— Yet, Freedom, tJou canst sanctify the sword! Bravely to do wbate'er the time de mands. Whether with pen or sword, and hot to flinch, This is the task that fits heroic hands So are Truth's boundaries widened inch By inch. I do not love the Peace which ty rants make The calm she breeds let the sword's lightning break! it 1B the tyrants who have beaten out Plowshares and pruning hooks to spears and swords. And s*sr\U I pause and moralize and doubt? Whose veins run water let him mete his words! —James Russelk Lowell—1848. The Students Auxiliary of the Mon day Music club at its annual meeting at which Donald Strickler presided, elected the following officers for tho next year:' President—Esther Weyer. Vice president—'Margaret Dorsey. Secretary—Helen Reeves. Treasurer—Albert -Hides. Five Hundred Club Meets. The Five Hundred club will be en tertained Thursday evening by Mrs. Edward Finigan, HOC Bank street. South Side High Five. Mrs. Joseph Greaves Sr., will en tertain the South Side High Five club Thursday evening at her home on South Fourteenth street. Sewing Society Meets. .The Sewing society of the First Westminster Presbyterian church, *111 meet to sew on Friday afternoon the chapel. Ii Visited In Keokuk. Miss Ora TJelle Cole, accompanied OS" Miss Katherine Smith of Middleton "ass., spent last week with her par ents Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cole. Both the young women are teachers in Chicago schools. iu Keokuk Man Mentioned. '*ne of the new books Which the ®u.Can situation has inspired. Is •mi ky the wife of the American »ht ador to Me^co, the title of ,s A diplomat's Wife In Mexico, book contains a mention of Lleu C. Townsend who is the sS »„Mr" 11113 Wts- mILv1 J- W. .Townsend, Btreet- Mrs- aT® k* SBaughnessy °f the courtesies extended the .m™ -r American naval officers, ,n a specla.1 way of Lieuten- Townsend's kindness to them. every hand by fairly deep valleye, the most noteworthy being the valley of Kedron which lies between the city precincts and the Mount of Olives, lying to the east, and from whicn descends the road to Bethany. "The heights of the 'Mount of Olives only slightly exceed in elevation those of the five hills within the city, the highest of which is Mount Zion, stand ing at 2,529 feet above the sea level and overtopping the surrounding val ley of- Hinnom by exactly five hun-, dred feet, while Mount Moriah, a lit tle farther to the east, rises nearly three hundred feet above the valley of Jehosaphat. "The most practical of all the en deavors to modernize and ameliorate the conditions of life in Jerusalem are those projected and financed un der the leadership of a philanthropic American, Nathan StrauB, whose en terprises embraced not only the es tablishment of beneficent charities but also undertook the development of Industrial activity suitable to the environment. Modern Jerusalem.* "Modern Jerusalem lies substan tially within the lines of the old wall3, although an extra-mural community has developed in whioh are to be found the homes of the more affluent of the city's population, the foreign consulates, the more Important of the monasteries, schools and hotel 3. Neither here nor within the walls, however, oan modern conditions of city life be found, due chiefly, of course, to the fact that Jerusalem is without any natural water supply, the principal dependence in this re gard being upon the rainfall, which ID liucuatiueu LU CiitGru5 tuC uual«Cr of which for private use have increas ed so greatly that the public pools are left with but Scant supply and are used only in case of necessity by the poorest of the people. "Railway connection is had with the sAport of Jaffa, but there are none but the most primitive means of communication within the town, where only a few streets are suitable for wheeled conveyance of any kind. The population is about 85,000, the majority of whom are Jews, while the Moslems and the christians of var ious sects number about 9,000 in each group. There fs little love lost among the christian sectaries, it must be said, and their jealousies, especially as regards their privileges at the Church of the Sepulchre, have long been a jest to the Mohammedan ruler, who has seen at tl}e ^Savior's tomb a striking example of the envies and ambitions which so loilg have enabled the Turkish conqueror to hold in sub jection the masses of christian peo ples in the near east whom he has been able to 'divide and rule.'" Regret at Departure. The greatest regret is expressed in Keokuk because of Dr. and Mrs. Beardsley leaving the city. Both have nlade many friends outside as well as in the churcih. Dr. Beardsley has been prominently identifld^ with the Masonic order and Mrs. Beardsley who is a P. E. O. will be greatly missed in the local chapter. Both are delightful people socially and the very best wishes, will go with them to their new home in Aurora. Suffrage Association Atds. The local Equal Suffrage associa tion was asked by the Y. M- C. A. to aid in the Keokuk tihrlft campaign. The-Iowa Equal Suffrage association has outlined a plan to conserve the food supply, by- economy In tho homes and by increasing the food' supply in, all ways possible. At the Equal Suf frage meeting which is to be held Friday afternoon of this week at the home of Miss May Tumelty, the members are asked to bring economic recipes for cooking food and to bring also thrift suggestions. The recipes will in some way be given to the} women of the community. Ladies Aid 8ociety. The Ladles Aid society of the Sec ond Presbyterian church will meet In the chapel on Wednesday afternoon with the following hostesses: Mrs. Samuel McQuade, Mrs. Landman, Mrs. Eckland and Mrs. Ed Patterson. ASKING AUTOS TO KEEP OFF Mayor and Commissioner Hilpert Re quest That Main Street be Kept Clear During Parade. Because of the numerous requests received on all sides, the mayor and Commissioner Hilpert are requesting the automobile drivers not to park on Main street tonight, during the Loyalty day parade, nor to follow ther parade in their cars. There is extreme danger of cutting the line In two, or striking some marcher if the autos are following the procession, and the requ^-^t is "made that all ma chines be kept ofT of Main street be tween 7 and 8 o'clock. GUARD IS IN POOR SHAPE Second and Third Regiments Disrupt ed by Refusal of Many Men to Take the New Oath. fUnlted Prwv: Leased Wire Service.] DES MOINES, Iowa, April 9.—The Iowa national gu&rd organization Is seething with forced resignations of officers in the Second and Third in fantry regiments. Fourteen captains and lieutenants «n the Second and nine in the Third Poor little baby! He had to go to school the first day he got here. H6 had to begin his lessons at once. Got praised when he learned them. Got punished when he missed them. Bit his own toes and cried when he learned there was pain in this world. Studied the subject forty years before he learned in how many ways suffering can be self-in flicted. Reached for the moon and cried because he couldn't get It. Reached are said to have been asked to re sign. Adjutant General Guy Ixgan today admitted that Colonel Hyatt of the Second and Colonel Bennett, of the Third, were authorized to put their regiments into efficient shape. But Logan said he knew of only two offi cers In the Second and one in the Third regiment who had resigned. The First Infantry, according to Logan has not been affected in the present reorganization movement. "But I know of officers In the Sec ond and Third who ought to be asked to resign," said Logan. He denied any "politics" in the movement and protested that efficien cy was the only motive. rt The Iowa national guard has admit tedly been badly disrupted in numbers CARD OF THiAWKS. THE BEGINNING AND THE END X'ussiuiy ue una iieVoi' eiiicuoiuou any conception of the world into whose citizenship he' was now re ceived, but evidently he did not- like it. The noises of it were harsh to his sensitive nerves. There was a man's voice—the doctor's, strong and reassuring. There "tfas a woman's voice, soothing' and comforting—the voice of the nurse. And one was a mother's voice. There is none other lik£ it. It was the first mubic he had heard in this world. And the sweetest. By-anH-by somebody laughed softly and said in coaxing tones: "There—there—there—give him his dinner." His face was laid close against the fount of life, warm and white and tender. Nobody told him what to do. Nobody taught him. He knew. Placed suddenly on the guest-list of this changing old caravansary, be knew his way at once to two places in it—his bedroom and the dining-room. Wherever he came from he must have made a long journey, for he was 1 What Mother Can Read This Prose Poem, by Robert J. Burdette, Without a Heart-clutch? ALPHA. Night. 91{ence. A struggle for the light. An/1 he did not know what light was. An effort to cry. And he did not know that he bad a voice. He opened his eyes "and there was light." He had never used his eyes before, but he could see with tjiem. He parted his Hps and hailed this wtrld with a cry for help. A tiny craft in sight of new shores He wanted his latitude and longitude. He could not tell from what port he had 'cleared he did not know where he was he had no reckoning no chart, no pilot. He did not know the language of the inhabitants of the planet upon which providence had cast him. So he saluted them in the one universal speech dt God's creatures—a cry. Everybody—every one of God's chil dren, understands that. Nobody knew whence he came. Some one said, "He came from heaven." They did not even know the name of the little life that came throbbing out of darkness into the light. They had only said, "If it should be a boy," and "If it should be a girl." They did not know. And the baby himself knew as little about It as the learned people gathered to welcome him. He heard them speak. He had never used his ears until now, but he could hear them. "A good cry," some one said. He did not understand the words, but kept on crying. tired and hungry when he reached here. Wanted something to eat right away. When he got it he went to sleep. Slept a great deal. When hei awoke he clamored again, in the universal volapuk for refresh ment. Had It and went to sleep again. .When he grew older the wise men told him the worst thing in the world, of many good and bad thingB that he could do, was to eat just before going to sleep. But the baby, not having learned the lan guage of the wise men, did this very worst o.f all bad things, and, having no fear of the wise men, defiantly throve upon it. He looked voung, but made him self at home with the easy assur ance of an old traveler. Knew the best room in the. house, demanded it, and got it. Nestled into his mother's arms as though he had been measured for them. Found that "gracious hollow that God made" in his mother's shoulder that fltted his head as pillows of down never could- Cried when they took him awry from it, when lie was a tiny baby "with no language but a cry." Cried once again, twenty-five or thirty years after ward, when God took It away from him. All the languages he had learned, and all the eloquent phras ing the colleges had taught him, could not then voice the sorrow of his heart so well as the tears he tried to check. I Meeting Place Chained. The meeting of the Daughters of the King which was announced for Tuesday evening, has been changed to Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. W. C. Bonney. We wish to thank neighbors ami friends for their .kindness, also for beautiful floral offerings during our recent bereavement. j" MILES ARNOLD AND FAMILY. .J*'"? *. A .V.1 w. THE DAILY GATJfi UlTr for the candle and cried because he could. First lessons in mensuration. Took him fifty ,or sixty years ot hard reading to learn why God put so many beautiful things out or our longing reach. Made everybody laugh before he could laugh himself, by going into a temper because his clothes didn't fit him or his dinner wasn't served promptly. "Just like a man," the nurse said. Nobody in the family could tell where he got his temper. Either he brought it with him, or found it wrapped and addressed to his room when he got there. At any rate, he began to use it very shortly after his arrival. Always said he lost his temper, when moat certainly he had it and was using It. Played so hard some times that It made him cry. Took him a great many years to learn that too much play is apt to make anybody cry. By-and-by he learn to laugh. That came later than some of the other things—much later than crying. It Is a higher accomplishment. It is much harder to learn and very much harder to do. He never cried unless he wished and felt just like It. But he learned to laugh many, many times when he wanted to cry. Grew so that he could laugh with a heart so full of tears they glist ened in his eyes. The people praised his laughter the most—"It was in his very eyes," they said. Laughed, one baby day, tp see the motes dance in the sunshine. Laughed at them once astuit, luuugli not quite so cheerily, many years later, when he discovered they were only motes. Cried, one baby day, when he was tired of play and wanted to be lifted in the mother arms and sung to sleep. Cried again one day when his hair was white because he was tired of work, and wanted to be lifted In the aims of God and hushed to rest. Wished half his life that he was a man. Then turned around and wished all the rest of it that he was a boy. Seeing, hearing, playing, working, believing, suffering and loving, all his life long he kept on learning the same things lie began to study when he was a baby. OMEGA. Until at last, when he had learn ed all bis lessons and school was out, somebody lifted him, just as they had done at the first. Dark ened was the room," and quiet now, as lt had been then. Other people stood about him, very like the people who stood there at that other time. There was a doctor now, as then only this doctor wore a graver look and carried a Book in his hand. There. was a man's voice—the doc tor's, strong and reassuring. There was a woman's voice, low and com forting. The mother-voice had passed into silence. But that was yet the one he could most distinctly hear. The others he heard, as he heard voices like them years ago. He could not .then understand what they said he did not understand them now. He parted his lips again, but all his school-acquired wealth of many syllabled eloquence, all his clear, lucid phrasing had gone back to the old inarticulate cry. Somebody at his bedside wept. Tears now, as then. But now they wer.e not tears from Ills eyes. Then, some one bending over him had said, "He came from heaven." Now, soiree one stooping above him said, "He has gone to heaven." The blessed, unfaltering faith that wel comed him, now bade him Godspeed, just as loving and trusting as ever, one unchanging, thing in this world of change. So the baby had walke1 In a little circle, after all, as all men, lost in a great wilderness, are said always to db. As it was written thousands of vears ago—"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, so she re turned unto him in the ark." He felt weary now, as he was tired then. Bv-and-by, having then for the first time opened his eyes, now for the last time he closed them. And so, as one who in the gathering darkness retraces hi? steps by a half-remembered path, much in the same way as he had come Into this world he went out of it. Silence. Light. by the refusal of men to take the new federal oath. SHOCK IS FELT THIS AFTERNOON Either an Earthquake or an Explo sion Occurred Somewhere Niar Keokuk About 3 O'clock. Earthquake shocks or an explosion were felt 'n Keokuk this afternoon shortly before 3 o'clock. It was felt most distinctly along Grand avenue, and residents there said that the shock, whatever it was, came at 2:55 o'clock. The shock knocked over a heavy jardinler in one house and tore down plastering from an upstairs room, and knocked pictures on the wall awry. The shock was felt in several parts of the city. In Missouri. [United Press leased Wire Service.] ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 9.—North eastern Missouri was shaken by a severe shock shortly before three o'clock this afternoon. In St. Louis the shock '••as heavy enough to -aft* dtvk--* For the best reason (in 50 words or less) for using a cof fee percolator, a $3.50 import ed enameled teaball teapot. Formerly Peterson Bros. cause interruption to telephone com munication in some sections. Mober ly, Mexico and Kirksville reported buildings were rocked. Felt In Illinois. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 9.—Bulld- 1 CITY NEWS. sued to Willis Clifford Marks and Pearl Louise Mauer, both of Burn ham, Iowa Odie G. Sackman and Ed Universal Kitchen Efficiency Contest ALL THIS WEEK UNTIL SATURDAY AT 4 P. M. This contest is open to every housewife in Keokuk and vicinity. It costs nothing to enter, simply call at store for entry slip. Valu able prizes will be awarded to the winners as follows: For the best loaf of bread, an $8.50 coffee machine. The bread will be judged by three competent judges choa en from the city. The loaves of bread may be left at the store any time during the week until 4 p, m. Saturday, after which time the judging will take place. The Percolator and Food Chopper Recipes should be written on entry slips which may be had at our store for the asking, as they must be sent to the manufacturers of Universal Kitchen Utensils and the prizes will be awarded by them. Schell-Demple Furniture Co. 613-615 Main Street. Why Did We Choose Kirschbaum Clothes For Our New Men's Store? That's a question we will answer in a few words. Nearly every line of men's clothing was brought to our attention when we planned this ilEN'S STORE KIRCH BAUM CLOTHES answered all the tests we put them througl. to our entire satisfac tion. HERE'S THE TESTS Must be 100 percent pure wool always. Must have the latest style features. Must be hand tailored. Must be made in sanitary daylight shops. Must be guaranteed by the factory like customers. (Our Guarantee) If a Kirschbaum suit does not give satisfac tory wear and service for any reason, we will give the purchaser a new suit free of charge. DON'T YOU THINK A GARMENT THAT WILL PASS THOSE TESTS IS THE GAR MENT FOR YOU TO BUY? JUSTICE-HOAR CO. —Marriage licensee have been is- morning as well as In the evening 602-604 Main St. B. Johnson of Belfast and Neva I. Cappleman, Farmington Harry H.I Zugg and Mary E. Burnett of Lan-1 caster. —^Raymond Keefe, the two months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Win. P. Keefe, 301? South Second street, died at the home Sunday from leakage of ings and homes In central Illinois heart. Raymond was born here were rocked by an earthquake shock. shortly after three o'clock this after- noon. The shock was distinctly felt at Springfield. Jacksonville reported a slight tremor and Carllnville advices said the buildings rocked, but no dam age was done. The tremor lasted forty seconds. It was first believed to be an explosion at the powder works here, but telephone calls showed no accident occurred there. February 19, of this year. —The funeral of Charles William Brlce, the fourteen months old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Brlce was held from the home, f»17 High street at 10 o'clock this morning. Rev. F. C. Ed-! wards of Trinity M. B. church offl-1 dated and there were special sinrers services. It was well presented for there was to be found in it a nobility, grandeur, inspired loftiness of n& E. L. Bentley of Keokuk Wayne thought, and an etherl&l beauty which y^T 'V :t E$? W:.!?0 For the best original food chopper recipe, a $3.50 stag Jiandle, :2 piece carving set. we guarantee to our 1 appeals to the best in one, and whicb gives such music a most important part in the uplifting influence of re ligion. The choir consists of fourteen members. F. E. l^uedtke is the organ ist and director. —Edward youth, colored. 1514 Ridge street, was injured about the head, chest and shoulders when he fell from a wagon he was driving on Concert street, between Fourth and Fifth Saturday evening at 6:30: o'clock. His Injuries were dressed by Dr. W. Frank Brown. —MTS. it PAGE NINE 'i A. Jane Ohilders. 76 years old. and widow of Noah Chilers, for merly of Keokuk, dfed at the soldiers' home at Marshalltown, Iowa yesterday afternoon from valvular disease of the heart. She had been at. the home six years. A niece, Mrs. Ida Ashley lives here. The body will sent to Alex andria, ZWissouri, tonight for burial. —Edward H. Luke, 2106 Mala street, sustained a broken right wrist when 'ie was struck by the crank of his automobile while he was cranking the machine Saturday night about 10 o'clock. 1 from the church. Interment was: made In Oakland -cemetery. —The musical part of the Easter' services of St. Paul's German Evan-1 geiical church deserves to be men tloned, especially the numbers render ed by the regular church choir In the) I1 V: jya. k.