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v*&jwggfFr- SUNDAY, '.AJPEIL 2, Wl* AMUSEMENTS WILL BE SERMON TOPIC Charles Reign ScovIHe Will Give Hli Justly Celebrated Serm«n on the Ten Plague* of America. SERVICES TODAY. 11:00 a. m., tabernacle, everybody, "Conservation of Church Forces." 3:00 p. m., tabernacle*, everybody, "The Ten Plagues of America." 7 15 p. m., tabernacle, everybody, "Prepare to Meet Thy God." Dr. Scovlllq will begin his farewell week In Keokuk with three auspicious Bermons. They are three of his best, according to members of his com pany. The morning discourse la di rected to church members, and mem bers of the church and Sunday school official staffs. The Sunday schools will march to the tabernacle in dele gations as has been the custom dur ing the campaign. This afternoon the famous and eagerly awaited address on amuse ments will occupy the boards at the tabernacle. The sermon was deferred last Sunday on aocount of the in clement weather. The song Bervice will start promptly at 3 o'clock with Maldor Lillenas In charge. Mrs. Sco ville, who returned yesterday from South Bend, Indiana, where she went to sing at the funeral of an old friend of herself and Dr. Scoville, will sing at today's services. Tonight the revivalist will preach one of his most dramatic sermons. The subject Is, "Prepare to Meet Thy God." The sermon has brought thou sands of persons down the "glory trail" in past years. The song service tonight will start at 7:15 o'clock. Every member of the chorus choir is requested to be in his or her place by that time. It will be necessary for the singers to be on band early. It was announced last night, in order to secure their places. The largest crowd of the campaign is expected—unless the afternoon throng proves to be the "prize winner" of the day. WOMEN DRESS TO E MEN STARE This Was Indictment Hurled by Evan gelist Scoville Who Censured Present Day Style of Dree*. U. 0. T. NIGHT AT TAB Delegation of Traveling Men fo rw"r£»r^,.i»vv?.v--.-. and Their Wilvea Are Present at Meeting Last Night. Charleo Reign Scoville landed last night on about every form of sin known to the modern world. He went after the "society sissies who gamble for cream pitohera In the boulevard," "men who try to drink themselves rich," "fools who try to follow Christ so far and then hang up the receiver and go chasing off after some new thought idea," and others "too num erous to mention." 'But it waa when epeaklng apropos of the mode of street dress in vogno among Keokuk women—'both young and old—that the revivalist got In Borne of his most pungent punches and laugh provoking linos. His Phraseology wouldn't have scored highly hi a rhetorical confab, but ho "put it over" with the crowd. "I'll tell yon right now," ho shouted, "you mothers ought to dress your daughters up to the neck and down to the ankles before you send them nut on the streets. I saw a girl on the street this afternoon. She ought have been wading in the Missis* slppi ilver up to her knees. I said to •v'r Lillenas, who was with me, 'now watch those two men coming there.' "And, sure enough. Just as I ex pected, they passed her, walked on a few feet and turned around and look ed. They walked a little further and turned around and looker again." The crowd was laughing but the evangelist, seemingly, was in a most serious frame of mind for ail the "Bohemian" characters of his remin ences. "And that's Just why she wore 'em that way." he yelled. "She wanted 'em to look! Don't blame the men." he &houted a« he shook his fist fi-t the crowd. "Uf you don't want them to lao(. take down your sign!" Twenty-three persons hit the trail, placing th£ total number of pentitents (Continued on pace 14) 1 .*V FAREWELL WEEK IN IS Soovllle Meetings Start on Their Last Lap and Will Come to the Finish Next Sunday. TO CROWD TABERNACLE GOING TO NEVADA NEXT It Is Expected That Building Will be Unable to Hold Crowd Which Will be on Hand This Afternoon. Announcement Was Made Last Night of Program for Oomlng Week— Advance Man to Leave. Evangelist Scoville today will begin the last week of his Keokuk campaign. The announcement was made late last night by the revivalist's publicity manager, although, he said, it had been agreed by the ministers and Dr. Scoville several days ago that the meetings should continue until next Sunday. There wa« some question in the mdnds of Dr. Scoville as to whether he would close the revival tonight or a week later. When the matter was hroached in a meeting of the Minister ial alliance at the Y. W. C. A. early last week, the local pastors were un animous ia their protests against clos ing tonight. They thought, said Mr. Williams, the publicity man, that the greatest work of the entire campaign will be dono this week. The last week, they pointed out, should be productive of unprecedented results, both from a standpoint of converts and general interest In the services. Every efTort will be put forth thiB week to make the closing days of the campaign the banner days of the series of services that have attracted attention for a hundred miles around Keokufe in the past six weeks. Last night clased the sixth week' of the meeting. Many go Last Week. Saturday night saw the total num ber of trail hitters pass the 3,000 mark. It has been the experience of Dr. Scoville, Mr. Williams said, that the last week sees nearly a third as many persons go forward as have re sponded to the invitations in all the previous weeks of the campaign. Fig uring upon this basis, the total num ber o£ trail hitters probably will pass 4,000. The total attendance in the cam paign to date is estimated at 158,'000. Dr. Scoville is delighted with the progress the meeting has made here and is hopeful of great results this week. Ministers' Prayer Meetings. A ministerial prayer meeting will be held every morning this week, be ginning tomorrow morning. A differ ent pastor will lead the devotional services each morning. The pastors are Koing after a regular, old time, "Pentecostal week," they said yester day. Dr. Scoville will preach a ser mon on the subject of "Pentecost" and the conversion of the 3,000 in Jerusa lem. In fact, say Dr. Scoville and the ministers, "Pentecost" will be the theme running through the entire week. The last of the business men's noon luncheons will be served at the Y. M. C. A. on Wednesday. Tho business girls will tako luncheon at the Odd Fellows hall with Mrs. Scoville for the last time on Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. Sabin will hold his farewell meet ings with the high school boys and Rev. W. T. MeCandless will wind up Us Bible class work on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The classes, it is said, may possibly continue after the meeting clones. Advance Man Is Going. One of the evangelist's advance men. 1 probably Dr. Thomas Penn Ullom, will go to Nevada, Missouri, this week to be in that city for next Sunday. The Nevada campaign will begin in the lattej- part of the week of April 9, it was said last night. Mr. Williams al ready has made a trip there and has thp. preparatory work well under way. The work of erecting the Nevada tab ernacle will begin tomorrow morning. The evangelist and Mrs. Scoville probably will spend three or four days at their home in Chicago resting after the close of the local campaign. The other members of the party will have I the wek intervening between the close of the local meeting and the opening of the next to themselves. rr. Waldraven. who lives in Kansas City, Mb., will visit for a couple of days' at his home. He is the father of a son an* two daughters. Miss Robinson and Mr. Williams both are natives of Missouri nnd their homes are in that state. Mr. Sabin yill go to Chicago as may Mr. Mc Flroy for a few days' visit with friends. The company will reassemble at Nevada late next week. John Jenkins, tabernacle man, will leave for Npvada this week to oversee the construction and completion of the tabernacle there. |_j»w Part Faulty. [United Press T.eased Wire Service.1 BLOOM INOTON, 111., April 1.— jndare Sain Wolty, of the Mcl^ean cir cuit court, today, declared the com munity high school law of Hlinois as unconstitutional in part. Worth the Price. Atchison Globe: The cost of living can never be so high that it won't seem worth it to most of us. .^r-.,^,, -rrt|jT^ •"-"tpywwifA." (Where .•••p^ Haldor Lillenas Was Born in Little Old City of Norway. In a very unostentatious manner came Haldor Lillenas, song-writer, preacher, chorus leader, bat pre-emi nently, song writer, into the world. And in a very unostentatious manner came he into the shadow of the statue of liberty a year or so after his birth. Thirty-one years ago tuts month, Mr. Lillenas—who (it might he said for the edification of any persons who have not met him at the Scoville tab ernacle) is conducting the Scoville ohorus for the remainder of the local No. 22. There was an air of romance and sentiment about the little Island, al though Mr. Lillenas didn't know it at the time and he left the scenes of his nativity too soon after his birth to find It out. But the air of the island, nev-1 ertheless, probably had worlds and worlds to do with his later life. For he became a writer of gospel hymns, revival songs, dreamy, happy songs. And in credit to him, let it be said, most of them were successful ones. The city of Bergen was partially destroyed by fire recently and many of the old landmarks so familiar to the elder IJllenas thirty years ago, were wiped out. But the atmosphere of the little Island in the North sea hfc brought with him to America, and the stories of it. narrated to his son in later years, have made their impres sion. Love* to Write Songs. Mr. Lillenas writes songs because, as he expressed it to a reporter yes terday afternoon, "it is the greatest part of his life." He loves It. He de pends upon "inspiration and perspira tion." "Especially the latter," he said, smiling. He requires from a half honr to two hours to write a song—both the words and the music. Some of the greatest songs he has written were composed in less than an hour. He wrote his first successful song nine years ago. Tho title was "He Set Me Free." The first stanza is as follows: Scovillegrams v* Tw"•-*» **•••£*"'. THE DAILY GATE CITY They Need No Sun", Written By the New Leader of Scoville Choir 9 WlMre Thay Need No Sun. 1. Who ly wm-tef Anl •fck-ttou VW' jprf "My BOUI is filled with joy and glad ness Since Jesus came to me His love has banished all my sadness. From sin I am set free." But there were others written be fore that. Many others—ibut thev failed to attract any great amount of attention from the publishers of the country. "I got started writing songs by an swering a fake advertisement for song poems in a newspaper," said Mr. Lillenas yesterday afternoon, and he smiled reminiscently. "I lost some money in helping 'put up' for the 'first editions.' That's all I got out of it— only," he added, seriously. "It started me writing." "Yes," he replied to a question, "I love to write them and erpect to write all my life. CX course they aj fa tbat borne mor-tal (okt I laU, 2. 0'«r the fltU* ofrad-lm fto-iy I ibillwia-dwwtth S. With tfcaoamrtlaa blood vuMbUBoo* I ihdl ling W-joad the With tha dum-faff of nl-ty to fill I dull ca taipto of For with udii«f tad with pain I (hall kedont) No m«r« Mr-nw, no mot*a Preto to Qod ud to "Th» Lamb (or ihuwn aUin At thatmdot m»-»y peatl to watk oa itretta el thta lag gold, la th*t dfc wbtro tbty bo para and bright, la th*t ctt vfaerv thty wa tutTM» -tri-mnph ant tone thiOriM. And r*»«raad thro'-ooft GuTi fc J5 fc CHOftUB. DMd so «oa. Ia 6sl dl«ywfemtfcajaMdtto rtnM«..#Wb*a vaal do raftku f- V~V—IT 1 7 campaign—was born on a little Island five miles off the coast of Bergen, Norway, in the North sea. tutsnMttk-lirzftca xa I ilull w« ay Scrlof't (set, Bar- won't all be good ones—successful— but some of them will. Wasn't it Kip ling who said "that only about a fifth of a man's work is good, anyhow?'" Lives at Qlivet. Mr. Lillenas lives at Olivet, 111., where Mrs. Lillenas and their two children, a girl four and a half years old and a boy one year old, are now. He has been with Dr. Scoville In three campaigns previous to this one. He has written the music for several poems which the evangelist penned. Mr. Lillenas has written songs on many different themes. For the greater part, however, his poems car ry a note of dreamy, Utopian optim ism. They make the heart glad. The music is of a light, dreamy character, too, distinctly different from the aver age "run" of religious songs. Perhaps "the little island in the North Sea" is having its day now. Who can tell? One of the most successful songs sung around the world and as popular today in Australia as it is In Ameri ca, Is "The City Where They Need no Sun." Both the words and the music are characteristic of the writ er and of the most of his songs. "When my earthly day Is waning And my mortal robe I fold, With the dawning of eternity begun: I shall enter gates of pearl To walk on streets of shining gold, In that city where they need no sun!" The song has been a favorite with Keokuk audiences and long before the local crowds had met the writer they had learned to love hiB "City Where They Need no Sun." leave any dinky cream pitchers on the sideboard that she gambled to get. You mothers ought to dress your!*™." You are. but you're leading to daughters up to the neck and down ward hell instead of toward heaven, to the ankles. saw a girl on the street today who ought to have been wading the Mississippi river up to her kneps. I said to Mr. Lillenas, who was with me. 'watch those two men coming there." Just as I had Imagined, they passed her, walked on a few feet and turned and looked. And that's why she was dressed that way. She wanted them to look. Don't blame the men. If you don't' want 'em to look, take down your, sign. Here's some man jumps up and says he has a "New Thot" Idea. I defy any old skunk, lizard, alligator, turkey-buzzard, crocodile, whatever you want to call him, this side of hell to show me a single new thought that isn't inculcated in the Bible. If you want the boys to cut out gambling in the dives and pool halls and saloons, let the society mothers cut it out in the boulevards. When my mother dies she won't rijp*-'*" -d Some of you think you are "lead- CREAM ALL HEBE SAID SOOVILLE As He Viewed Friday Night Audience Depleted by Rainy Weather— Was Informal Service. DAN MINISTERS SING-? Well They Did It en Friday Night All Right—Rev. Baoon 8h tries a* a Soloist. For a rainy night, the audience that turned out Friday night for tho tab ernable service was an exceptionally good one, although it did not come near filling the tabernacle, as on pre vious nights. The meeting was al most Informal in its tone, and Evan gelist Scoville gave what seemed to be a personal, heart to heart talk. "It's a rainy night," ho said, "and I am glad to BOO such a large num ber out. You will find that the peo ple who turn out for an old rainy Wednesday night prayer meeting are the ones who are really there to worship. "I don't know where the whey is, but I do know that the cream is all here." During part of the evening. Dr. Scoville gave his audience some inti mate glimpses into tho life of an evangelist. He told the hardships and also the great joys of the work. He concluded with a strong denuncia tion of splrituallatB, mediums, fortune tellers and all others who claim to be able to commune in any way with the other world. Bible Condemns Them. "Whenever the Bible speaks of these sort of people at all," he said, "it is to condemn them. It's a poor form of religion that has to turn off the light to soo the light." One of the features of the even ing was the singing of "He Surely Needs Me," by the ministers. Choir Leader Lillenas first asked a Sunday school clasB of small girlR to sing the song. Casting his eye for bigger game, he picked on the pastors and made them come up on tho platform and perform. Someone then called for Rev. Bacon and he was forced to sing a solo from the platform, not once, but many times, for he was called back for encore after encore. "Some one has asked me what was the happiest moment of my evange listic life," said Scoville, when he mounted the platform for the ser mon, "and I told him that it was the time when a girl or a boy or a man or a woman laid down their hymn book or wraps and started down tho aisle. "If we preachers and evangelists could tell of Jesus as ho really is, everyone of you would come to Christ. "No matter how successful one night is for an evangelist, the next night is the same old strain again. Praises Ladles' Aid. "Somebody once salrt, 'You can't run a church on the Ladie.fi' Aid and lemonade.' But who is it that puts a new carpet in the church, shingles the roof, pays the interest on the church debt and buys the hymn books? It's the Ladies' Aid and I thank God that they are on the Job in the church. "A woman isaid to mo the other day that tho pastors should not be paid during the campaign. I tell you, If she hung onto any ono of their .o-t "1W" for pnven dnvs of this cam paign, her tongue would be hanging out." Hammer After Bout. [United I'ress Leased Wire Service.] CHICAGO, April 1.—Ever Hammer, conqueror of Ad Wolgast, ex-light weight champion, is athirst here to night for a battle with Champion Freddie Welsh. Hammer thinks he has had enough of fighting rookies. "I don't put Wolgast in that clans, though.'' he said. "I want to fight, some of the guys who are on top. Wolgast is O. K„ but I want to beat a real champion. I'd like to fight Welsh." —Advertise In The Gate City. How Your Wants Are Pilled ::miniininiiiini»n»r«w*tt Do you know that the merchants in this town can fill every want of yours? €J Convince yourself. fj Read the home papers. You can get anything you need in this town and at a reasonable price. When You Buy a New PIANO or PLAYER First of all it sbonld be a good make. Your second consideration should be the reliability of the dealer from whom you purchase. Bo satisfied that he is permanently located, in the city and that his reputation for truth and veracity Is unquestioned. Wo can refer you to hundreds of satislled customers who have purchased lnstni mentis of us during th© past ten years. The Pianos we sell have oocnpled a posi tion at tho top of tho pinno world for over SO years. Our prices are absolutely the same as those aBlced at the manufacturers' wnrerooms. Our terms are liberal as aro consistent with gool business principles. Why not come in and Investigate. You will bo under no obligation to purchase of us unless you find it to your advantage to do so, and the courtesy of a caU will bo appreciated. Easy Terms If Desired F. W. Loewenstein PIANO COMPANY 625 Main Street Farewell Week Monday. Til ere win be no tabernacle service at Ihe tabernacle Monday night. 9nr eral outside meetings may bf held by various members of the Scoville party, however. Dr. Ullom, Mr. Wald raven and Mr. MclJlroy probably will lead the services in outlying churches. uesday. Rev. McCanrlless' Hible class will meet at the tabernacle at :j o'clock. Mr. Sabin wiU meet with tho boys at the Y. M. C. A. at 4 olock. Wednesday. The l.apt rain's luncheon of the campaign will be served at Wi Y. M. C. A. at noon. The business girls wi?' meet 1 a *h» Odd Fellow hp.II with Mr-*. Proville. Thursday. The farewell business girls' lunch PAGH8 THIRTEEN BARGAINS For Late Spring Buyers The Dnntley Vacuum and Carpet Cleaner Worth 11.50, Special price $5.00 Exceptional Values Are Being Shown In the Rocker and Chair Department Full Over Stuffed Leather Bookers Fumed Leather Seat Stickley Hookers Fine Quarter Sawed Oak Rockers Solid Mahogany Polished and Dull Rockers Sewing and Bedroom Rockers, any Finish Rattan and Hong Kong Rockers At Prices 20 per cent Below Present Prices LIBRARY TABLES Golden Oak, Fumed Jacobean, Birdseye Maple Circassian Walnut, Early English Mahogany, Dull and Polished Finish Several Special Period Designs We Sell the Coal 011 Cook Stove That Positively Satisfies QUICK. MEAL Is the Name for Quality and Service It Will be Well for You to Investigate Period Bed Room Suits Feriod! Dining Rootm Suite Every Depart ment of Our Store Is Overflowing With Bargains Buy Now and G-et Delivery Later Please Don't Forget It's Not So Much What You Pay, As It is What You Get for WhaA You Pay That Counts After All THE QUALITY STORE 518 to 524 Main Street KEOKUK IOWA LINQUIST BROS. WE PAY FREIGHT ON ALL $5.00 PURCHASES I 1 PIANOS EMERSON. 6IVMTH & A RIVE*. 60HMER. PLAYER PIANOS. SMITH & BARNESi. WCTROtA* and FINE STOCK CXF REC ORDS, eon will bo served at Odd Fellow halJ. Rev. MeCandless will meet with the Bible class at the tabernacle, 3 o'clock. Mr. Sabin will ten the boys good bye at the Y. M. C. A_ at 4 o'clook. The ScovlFfe campaign will close at the tabernacle on next Sunday night. Cubs Win at Last. [United Press Leased Wire Service,J NEV/ ORLEANS, La., -vpril 1.—The Cubs broke their long string of de feats today when they beat the New urb an* Pelicans here, 3 to 1. Jimmy Archer took clouting honors with two triples which scored the Cub's three ruin. r.uok Weaver—not of the White Sox—twirled himself into fame by holding the Cubs to one for live innings. Hard to Overtake. Perry Chief: The end has been near for Villa for some time, but the notorious bandit manages to keep a few jumps ahead of it. I :4 I