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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The papers are making a great deal
of fuss about $4,000 hen now on
exhibition. George Fitch suggests
that she must be the hen that lays
these sixty cents a dozen eggs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The Sioux City Tribune suggests
that it is almost time for Abe Ruef
to get" religion.
Prize fighters have some rights"
says a sporting writer "And lefts,
too adds the Burlington Gazette.
1t is remarked by the Waterloo
Courier that Roosevelt is no respecter
of persons, newspapers or congresses.
The Clinton Herald calls attention
to the fact that Jack Frost is taking
ais nips with impunity in Iowa tenn
perance towns
New York's forty-three-story sky
scraper will have descenders as we'll
as elevators Six stories will be un-
derground.
1t is remarked by the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that President Roose-
welt is making medicine" with his
old time assiduity.
Between the men who explain why
they wear green hats and those who
explain why they don't wear green
hats it occurs to the Chicago Post that
the country is getting surplus of
talk.
DO
over Des Moines,' observes the Mason
City Globe-Gazette, then doth some
duffer steal mailing list and the olive
branches develop into barbed spears
and harpoons."
Shall kissing be confined to the
lower classes?" asks the Baltimore
Sun. Not If the higher classes know
themselves, and they think they do, "
responds the Houston Post
According to Duncan Smith the girl
! who doesn't expect man to expect
4 that she knows much, but expects him
4 to expect that she expects him to know
! everything, makes a great hit.
Gas meters must go" declares an
exchange. The great trouble the Gin
ton Herald finds with both tae gas and
water meters is that they are always
on the go 1t says they are the near
est approach to perpetual motion yet
invented.
Unhappy couples in search of sepa
ration on short time residence mus
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
The observation of The Gate ci-

The observation of The Gate City
is directly in line with that of the
Springfield Register that how to buy
SIS worth of presents with small
but perfectly good So bill, is the prob
lem that is bothering some OF our love
fest people, much more than the ques-
tion Of tariff reform
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

1t seems to the Macomb Journal
that this is an age when more people
are playing to the gallery" than any
1t has any recollection of. 1t is read.
lily conceded that the Journal is a
close observer and wasn't born last
year but isn't it possible that the
Macomb paper is better acquainted
with the present age than with the
ages that have gone before? This
fact. if it be fact, may influence the
Journals judgment somewhat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The suggestion that Philander Knox
may become Tsfts premier is en-.
dorsed by the Mason City Globe-Ga-
zette as the best one to date. He has.
it says, and says truly, brains, diplom-
acy and integrity The judgment Of
the Globe-Gazette in this matter com
mends itself unqualifedly 10 this pa
per Senator Knox would be fitting
successor 10 John Hay and Elihu Root.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
The Return to Christmas Land.

The Return to Christmas Land.
Down the streets of the city a cynic
strolled
Weary of heart and mind distressed,
The chill of the night did his heart
enfold,
The cares of the day oppressed
He was snugly clad and his body was
Slowly he pushed his careless stroll,
But the swirling snow of the wintry
sorely encompassed his soul.
And he passed a wee child, who, scant-
lily clad,
To a bright show window had press
And, with wonder, he saw her heart
was glad
With radiant visions blessed.
He knew not the reason, but paused
and he spoke.
Surprised himself at his kindly
tone,
And the little waits eyes looked up
and smiled
Smiled into the strangers own.
And his mind harked back to the won
derful glow
Of childhood's days. His soul re-
To his mist-hlled eyes the gems of the
snow.
And the night, were glorified.
Through wida-1ung door showed a
vista bright
With log ablaze and mistletoe.
And even the white-bearded Santa
Claus
| That he doubted long ago.
And so real it was, and so glad was
his heart
He took the little one by the hand
And, joyous, they trod, the world apart
The pathways of Christmas land.
Perry C. Ellis in Quincy Wing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

"errand boy" of the district, but Mr..
Kennedy is not built that way. H
goes out of his way and makes spe
cial effort to ascertain the wishes
and needs of his constituents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

Talking with motor man On a
Cleveland street car the other day
John D. Rockefeller gave an admir-
able definition Of success. He said
that Il is simply doing something bet,
Ter than anyone else has been able
to DO II As practical working for
mula that would be difficult 10 excel
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Take this little
Tip, dear grille;
Do your Christmas
Shopping early.
Los Angeles Express.

Iowa farmers are taking care of
their own uplift,' says the Dubuque
Telegraph Herald. "Seventy-five per
cent of the students at the state uni
versity are Iowans, with every county
in the state represented and $50 of the
students are the sons of farmers"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

1t is remarked by the Waterloo
Courier that Roosevelt is no respecter
of persons, newspapers or congresses.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
AS Usual.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Iowa, as
usual, has taken the lions share of
the premiums on corn at the National
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

The Clinton Herald calls attention
to the fact that Jack Frost is taking
his nips with impunity in Iowa tenn
perance towns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The Sioux City Tribune suggests
that it is almost time for Abe Ruef
to get" religion.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

Prize fighters have some rights,
says a sporting writer And lefts,
too, adds the Burlington Gazette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

now make for either Nebraska, Idaho,
Nevada OF TEXAS. The less-than-a-
year bar has been put up in all the
other states.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

New York's forty-three-story sky
scraper will have descenders as we'll
as elevators. Six stories will be I'M
foreground
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

Unhappy couples in search of sepa-
ration on short time residence must
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-16

1t is remarked by the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil that President Roose-
welt is making medicine" with his
old time assiduity.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

1t has been discovered by a maga-
zine writer that an ambitious child
may secure a university education and
board at Valparaiso, Ind, for about 23
cents day. The northern Indiana
university has placed education on the
bargain counter. The poor boy can go
there and learn from the same books
used in the institutions where % cents
day wouldn't be start on spending
money. or course, says the Chicago
Daily News, it should be understood
by the ambitious that only plain table
board and unadorned knowledge go
for that sum. No young man need ex-
pect to be able to break a rib as
baseball hero for any amount like that
and neither can young woman bios
som out as a society queen with a few
studies as incidentals. AS there is
nothing doing but education it will
never be popular with the frivolous
rich.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

the
child graduated from any Of Schools public private of
others of his fellow graduates whether
his mmgaed the United States
the Mayfower.
indnguishabty great
hope blood previous flows in
they their children henceforth American.
the in the history of this country the
the of New York last year exceeded million. The
Der 1,124S44.
tide 100000 immigrant.
turned to Europe since last July.
probably
States last though have stated that that the number
No official figures hand just what the figure is for
the entire country but certainly than double the annual roll
arriving Aliens which would bring the
of babies than 100000 1t safe that the
Americans brought by the o the homes of the
very far above this number
Immigrants very fully the
State because of the hazardous which they find employ
They largely from country districts while here very
Of them huddd close the cities greatly the derment
of their health
Add the deaths the large of those who return their
land the residue great All is the baby
keeping in the vanguard.
every immigrant
type of country.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

Shut In.
A maiden aunt who had lost her
money was provided with home in a
well-to-do family. At once she identi.
fed herself with its interests, and be.
ing housekeeper born, was able to
serve them in many ways. AS occa-
sion arose. she played the parts Of
COOK, maid, nurse. seamstress, laun-
dress, gardener. social secretary and
night watchman. So faithful was she
to such duties that she never left
town, when others took vacations, and
for weeks at time did not stir be-
yond the gate. The family gave her
home" as they and she said Actu-
ally she earned her living three times
over In return for board, lodging
and clothing, she accomplished tasks
and bore responsibilities that few do
mestics would have been willing to
undertake at any price. Unlike the
domestics, she had no Thursday and
Sunday afternoons, and her social life
was limited to the everyday associa-
ton with self-absorbed and Indifferent
relatives. The "shut-ins" who are
confined by illness have society
through which they are ministered to
by many gracious influences, says the
Youths Companion. The shut-ins who
are too poor to maintain homes, and
whose kinsfolk are too proud to let
them seek the shelter of an institu-
tion, are unorganized and attract no
notice; but in many cases they are
equally deserving of sympathy True,
there is seldom intentional unkindness
behind the process by which a de-
pendent is turned into a drudge. If
the relatives had been unfeeling they
would have sent the old aunt or uncle
to the poorhouse. When we give a
home" we do a fine thing. But before
we plume ourselves unduly, it is well
to glance at the other side of the ac-
count, and see how much money is
saved and how many wearisome little
tasks are spared us by the old woman
who is 'able to help round,' or the old
man who lust does the chores"
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

Several Vassar college girls are act
Ing as probation officers for the city
court Of Poughkeepsie. They are
studying the truancy problem in this
practical way. and hope to learn why
boys are naughty. A special course In
this subject might profitably be intro
duced in all the women's colleges. II
the young women pursued it thorough.
ly there might be fewer truants in the
next generation OF boys.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

The treasurer of the Association
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor of New York recently received
two dollars from two small girls, with
a note saying that the authors had
saved the money from slang words" "
Every time they used bit of slang
they fined themselves, and every time
they heard others use any they re-
quested forfeit or a contribution.
This plan would make some young
people realize that silence is indeed
golden.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

That the preservation of the value
Of railroad investments is a matter of
widespread interest is illustrated by
the recent report of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, showing that there
are more than $4,000 shareholders in
the parent company and those con.
trolled by it, and that there has been
an increase of more than 10000 stock
holders in the past year.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
NEWS OF The WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tn.
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered From. all
Parts of the Wo-!l Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
Congressional.

congressional.
A bill to create bureau of harbors
and waterways under the department
OF commerce and labor has been intro
duced in the house.
Bills for public buildings at Mus
kogee, Ok. and Kansas City, Kan.
have been reported favorably to the
senate
A bill providing for the placing on
the free list all goods which are sold
in foreign countries cheaper than in
the United States has been introduced
in the house.
The house committee on banking
and currency has agreed to give hear
lngs on the Aldrich currency bill.
A bill providing for finance COM
mission to be composed of seven men,
bers appointed by the president with
out regard to their political affiliations,
has been introduced in the senate
Senator Overman of North Carolina
has introduced joint resolution in the
senate placing wood pulp and printing
paper on the free list
vThe agricultural appropriation bill
carrying $11. .50S,S06 has been passed
by the house after debate lasting
several days.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of David Jayne Hill as Amer
ican ambassador to Germany.
Speaker Cannon has introduced reso-
lutions in the house calling for all the
papers bearing on the investigation in
to the affairs Of the print paper trust.
Senator Warner of Missouri has
been made chairman of the senate
committee on the Mississippi river and
its tributaries.
The house has passed the bill APP
propriating $650OOO for naval sta
tion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The Sterling employers liability bill
making common carriers liable for
personal injuries to employees re-
ceived in the service of the companies
has passed the house with but one
vote against it.
On motion of Senator Gore of Okla
homa the senate has granted to that
state the first flag with 46 stars that
floats over the National capitol. 1t
will be preserved by the Oklahoma
Historical society,"
The army bill carrying an appropri-
alton of $1O0, 900 which has passed
the senate materially increases the
pay of the officers and men of the
army.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
Miscellaneous.

In the opinion of Secretary of State
Denton of Kansas. the Populist party
has no right under the laws of that
state to place on the official ballot
for the names of it's candidates as it
did not cast sufficient votes at the last
general election to entitle it to that
privilege.
A plan for the exchange of teachers
between schools of the United States
and Prussia under the supervision of
the Prussian imperial department of
instruction and the Carnegie founda-
tion for the advancement of teaching
is announced.
Major Reynolds. the government
agent on the Crow Indian reservation
in Montana, has testified before the
senate committee on Indian affairs
deying. the charges made by Mrs.
Helen Pierce Grey of ill-treatment of
the Indians.
Andrew Carnegie has added $5.000,-
900 to his foundation fund in order to
provide pensions for eligible profess
ors of state universities.
Dispatches from Paso Robes, Hot
Springs, Cal, state that the baths are
causing an improvement in the condi-
ton of Admiral Evans.
Out of 1,053,6 pieces of mail mat
ter received in the dead letter office
during the month of March, over GOO.-
900 were returned to the senders,
breaking all records for this division.
The corporation commissioner OF
ing all public utility corporations to
file detailed statement of all reve-
nues at the close of business on June
90.
The reichstag has passed bill max
ing the German language compulsory
in all public meetings throughout the
empire. This law affects 100000 non
German inhabitants.
The American car in the New York
to Paris race has been shipped from
Seattle to Valdez. Alaska.
The report that John d. Rockefel-
Ter would donate $5,O00,000 to a Bible
society of which his son would be the
head, has not been confirmed.
In wreck on the Burlington rail.
TOau neuT ol. I<ouIo, ~ n. FhsAhiteiiShs
stockman of Brookfield. Mo-, was
pinioned under the debris by one leg.
To save his life n preacher among the
passengers cut the leg off with dull
pocket knife at the order of the in.
jured man.
Marie Lehman. 2G years old. took
her own life in st. Louis, in order that
her invalid sister might have the
81 900 insurance on her life.
The trial of the four land fraud
cases transferred from California to
Washington has begun. Two hundred
witnesses from IA states are present.
y. the 1850 delegates to the Repub-
lican state convention elected at the
Massachusetts primaries. 901 are for
Taft for president.
At the Cudahy packing plant In
Omaha, ten men were overcome by es-
Gaping ammonia fumes. Several OF
the men were in serious condition.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

Enlistment in the peaceful army Of
postal clerks has heretofore been de.
MED to applicants under five feet four
and weighing less than 1875 pounds.
The authorities have recently dropped
the rule from the list of regulations. A
physical giant is not needed to sort
mail with speed and accuracy.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

London suffragettes are flying kites
with banners attached bearing the
motto, Votes for Women!" Is the
glorious cause of woman suffrage in
London up in the air?
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
Make
Laws for
Women
Workers
By Sophroaisba P. Breckenridge,
Universiiy oi Chicago.

most of the married before they reached the years.
Only within has accorded anything
her rights entering trades Society right legs-
a enactment protect especially married
that children being The legislature
law prohibiting the employment of for than eight
day.
One of protection for girls which
needed law compelling employers make public contracts which
they make with girls under IS years of IF the conditions under
which girls compelled work many Of factories
made public, such conditions would not be tolerated.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
A new species of hazing has started

new species of hazing has started
A college student in st. Louis was
taken to train by party of fellow.
stduents and sent home, with a warn
ing not to come back. His offense
was being n mollycoddle, which shows
how the young idea has been i'm.
pressed by the strenuous life.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
Alien
Menace
Perils of ImniRra-
ton Neutralized by
Children of Aliens
By ROBERT WATCHORN
of

will remain American however great the food of
immigration. There is offset to the influx of the alien
millions offset that than counerbaances for
eign influences immigration might plant upon this soil and
that renders institutions and national character sae
while remain refuge for the oppressed of all lands
The stork is busy in this country
The American babies far outnumber the arriving immi-
grants The schools turning out nothing but Americans
Fed from many nations their finished product in
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
Value
of
Starting
Right
By n. H. GROSS.
Special Agent U. S. Dept. oiAsrieuliure.

best they could 1t job they did understand and the
have been darous the roads have been little benefited hun
dred of millions have been wasted.
Within the last years has been discovered that the
public property and that their building and
body alone the that the of the
something the aid plan devised proved
right plan by which the respective townships decide for them
selves what roads shall be improved and when the improvement
made the state takes the matter hand and this
construction and the AS the half the
bill coepondng relieved has been found that
be built than supposed be possible
half
the work and property really small of the
list. Illinois, it is less than one-third.
The aid the only that has been found satisfactory
and effective, and state after
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Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09
Personal.

Rev. Charles A. Jacquith has re.
signed the pastorate of the First Con
gregational church at South Windsor
Conn, to become principal of Gates
academy at Neigh, Neb. He will en-.
Rear Admiral Evans has gone to
the hot springs at San Luis Obispo.
Cal, for treatment for rheumatism. He
hopes to rejoin the fleet at San Fran
cisco.
John Mitchell. former president of
has refused the position of special
commissioner to investigate labor con.
ditions in the Panama canal zone.
George Ellsworth Putnam of Ottawa,
Kan, student in the graduate de.
partment at Yale, has been appointed
to Rhoade's scholarship at Oxford.
John Mitchell, ex-president OF the
United Mine Workers OF America, is
to establish labor paper In Indian.
apolis.
William Scaife, OF the Illinois bureau
OF labor. has been appointed editor of
the United Mine Workers Journal,
published Mt indianapolis.
William II. Milton of Florida has
been sworn in as the successor OF the
late Senator William j. Bryan.
Joseph Howard, Jr.. one OF the most
prominent newspapermen in the coun-
try and former president of the In
ternational League OF Press Clubs. is
dead In New York.
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

The married woman is negligible guam
tity. She is also prone to gossip unless her
hands and her mind are occupied with work
For that reason it is essential that women
between the ages of 16 and 40 years should
have work to do.
The married woman has always been re-
garded as negligible quantity. The law
said that the husband and wife were one,
but there never was any question about who
was the one The position of the unmarried
woman was slightly different. If she was
over 21 years of age she might collect her
own wages, but in those unfortunate days
Gilpin observer., 1908-04-09

''Be sure you are right, then go ahead .
has passed into proverb. In the matter of
improving highways, for the last 300 years
we have been going ahead wrong, and as a
result, after all these years and the expen-
diture of hundreds of millions of dollars,
less than eight per cent of the highways Of
the United States are improved.
Road building requires engineering skill
to understand what ought to be done, and
experience to know how to do it. In han
ding the road question the farmers have be-
leved that the whole job was up to them,
so they have gone ahead and have done the
best they could. 1t was job they did not
have been disastrous the roads have been V