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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
CAPTAIN HuLL,s VIEWS.

Congressman j. A. T. Hull has re-
turned to Des Moines for the holiday
recess and brought with him the word
that the insurgents at the national
capital are losing ground. He told 9
representative of the Register and
Leader that they are not so much IN
evidence as press dispatches would
have it seem. To use Mr.. Hull's own
words, They are about petered out"
1T seems that cold water was. thrown
on the movement when Gardner OF
Massachusetts quit the insurgent
ranks at the opening of the session
He was one of their leaders and his
action damaged the movement.
Captain Hull gave it as his opinion
that the tariff will not be meddlee
with for four years at least. He de-
MED the statement credited to him by
La Des Moines paper which quoted him
as saying. No man has the slightest
idea what the tariff will be in four
years. Captain Hull said that what
he did say was that it is the general
belief that the tariff will not be med
died with for four years. He does
not believe the insurgents really want
it changed.
According to Captain Hull the
prospects of favorable report
on the survey OF the Des Moines
river are good. The matter is now in
the hands of the engineers, and he
anticipates favorable report from
them. 1t goes from the engineers to
the reviewing board, and by them Will
be transmitted to the committee on
rivers and harbors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
WAGES HERE AND IN ENGLAND

Mr.. j. +. Slre6L Is one VI d eohii
sion of three which has been investi-
eating the labor conditions in this
country, upon the appointment OF
King Edward In Chicago. the other
day Mr.. Street made the following
statements:
wages in Germany are about ID
per cent less than in England. and in
France approximately % per cent less
than in England. In the United States
the wage given is much higher than
in either of the European nations, es-
pecially the wage for unskiiled la
Dor. In America the unskilled labor
! err is given from SIPS to s175 per
day for mis- work, while in England
I the same service is rewarded with a
/ pay of from sixty-fiye to seventy-fve
cents per day"
Writing in the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican Editor Cyrenus Cole properly
finds fault with these figures on the
ground that the wage of the so-called
common laborer in this cuunt-y is
given too low. There are very few
such laborers now working for SIPS.
Mr.. Cole says:
In Cedar Rapids this year they
have been getting from s1.75 to s2.25
and it should be taken into account
that that is for an eight hour day.
while the English working day for
such labor is still either ten or nine
hours. The common laborers there
fore get about three times as much
as in England, and the English wage
scale is higher than that Of Germany,
according TO Mr. Street"
Mr. Street thinks that some things
are cheaper in England than in Amer
lea. He named meat and bread. Some
meats may be cheaper in England. but
it is not corn fed beef nor good pork
Mr. Cole says that he personally
priced such articles in London few
years ago and that he found them
much higher than in America How
ever
Many kinds of fish were very
cheap. Rabbits also were cheap ant
) they were consumed in large quaint
/ ties, especially in the poorer quarter;
, of the city, Judging by the number o
them on display and in the shops
These rabbits come, we believe. il
cold storage from Australia. where tht
| rabbit pest is one Of the nationa
calamities. But rabbit meat while I
, may be nutritious after way has NJ
sustaining powers like the meat tina
!, comes from corn-fed steer. TIL,
amount of fish consumed in som,
parts of London also seemed aston
ishing''
/, AS for bread. Mr.. Street thinks tina
the English habit of selling it b.
weight. instead OF by the loaf. result
3 in the British consumer getting NOR
e for his money. But MIR. Cole suggest
t that If bread is cheaper in Londot
I than in America il win be found tina
e it is the result OF cheaper labor II
E yolved in the making OF the bread an
I in the distributing OF it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
PENSIONS FOR ROCK ISLAND.

Official announc ement has been
made of the Inauguration on January
/, of a pension system, which shall in
clude all of the officers and employees
of the Rock Island road. The system
will be under the management of the
board. In connection with the system,
the Rock Island has established an
age limit, which shall govern original
employment on the Rock Island.
Under the new rule no inexperienced
person over thirty-fve years OF
age, and no experienced person of
over forty-fve years of age, will be
taken into the service of the company
All officers and employees who have
reached the age of seventy-five years
must retire, and the employees who
are in the operating service may be
retired at sixy-five years OF age. In
order to be entitled to pension, an
employee must have been continuously
4 in service for twenty years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
The Personality Question

Wayland News: It is Alex Miller's
personality which has made, is max
ing and will. as long as he is connected
with it, make the Democrat. 1t was
H A. Burrelfs personality which
made the Washington Press known
through the length and breadth Of the
state AZ @Burrell's Press Howard
Burrell. who can impress more person
Atty into little item that Anna An
derson has weaned her baby b'gosh
tan those Auxiliary writer's put into a
two column article. Personality gone
Why, son just you wander out thi:
way already onct, as the Germans put
I, and bump up against Alex Miller
and Howard Burrell and Old Casey
and Bailey OF Britt and a few others
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The Cedar Rapids Republican calls
attention to the fact that one has to
remain in Iowa to find papers that
have the most abuse for President Taft.
Thereupon the Republican proceeds to
score the Presidents critics thus I'M
mercifulIy but deservedly::
Some so-calIed Republican papers
in this state are referring IL the Presi
dent as q sort of q fat fraud, Think
OF little editor on the prairies usins
such language OF the man who was
elected the chief ruler of this nation.
1t is, TO say the least, presumption.
TIE fly on the horn of the OK was large
in proportion
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
The Grief Requisite.

Boston Globe: Richard Watson
Glider had dry wit of his own. He
once received g cali from a young
woman who wished 10 secure material
for an article of 1000 words on Young
Women in Literature,
1T was fetching subject. full of
meat" explained the young woman
afterward, "and saw not only 1900
words IN the story. but at least 5000.
Bnt | never got any further than the
first question Mr. elders angwer
took the very life out OF me. I asked
him: Now, Mfr Glider. what would
you say was the first the chief, the
ali-essential requisite for a young
woman entering the literary felds'
Il waited with hated breath. when
he answered: Postage stamps
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
in the negative. This is majority in
favor of central bank of almost two
to one.

The Gate City is willing to rest its
reputation as a prophet on the predic,
ton that the present postmaster gen
eral. Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock, will
demonstrate conelusively that he is
the best official in that capacity this
country has ever had He is thorough
~ acquainted with the postal service
from a to z, is enthusiastic for its bet
terment and knows how to adapt
means to ends. Progress along right
lines was never so great as at the
present time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
.rhe Growth Of insanity.

Statistics serve to show a stea
increase In the number OF the inssn ).
The most reliable statistics known y
us. those taken In Massacnnse..s'
show that in that state the nunlps,
o. insane in the asylums is increasihs
from $50 to 300 year. when =
much larger .proportionate incFes,s
than that OF the sane population. ~
ports from other states show simli I'M
resnlts. some OF the more generaiu
accepted causes of the increase o. .. y.
sanity are given as follows; The over.
tension OF modern life, brought -
~ the keen struggle for life; the cou'
gestion and excitement OF CITY M ~,
and the fact that insanity Is becolni''
more and more an incurable disease
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
Country Editor VIII sJine..

Columbus Junction Safeguard: The
editor of this one-horse moral and re-
ligious weekly dissemination of news of
local and statewide interest has been
invited TO join the Press club OF Des
Moines, an organization composed of
not only the prominent newspaper
men of Des Moines. but which
claims as honorary members such
distinguished statesmen as Senators
Cummins and Dolliver, Congressman
Hull, ct al, We are at loss
TO know whether it is the paltry
fee connected with the initiation th5y
wish or whether ii is our company
they desire. Anyway, we appreciate
the invitation and we may decide to
"jine" it, But what business has a
country editor, who eats pie with a
knife and spears napkin into his
shirt front with a fork, got joining a
club that makes business of ban
quoting the kid-gloved nabobs Of the
land? They have intiuaated to us that
they are planning to have society
circus. in the early spring and we sus.
pect they have their eyes on us as a
fit subject for the Gagged animal de
partment. Anyway, we would fee
about as agreeable and present about
as slightly appearance rugged up as ar
African swine or hyena imported
from the wilds of Asia as we would
uasquersding in spike-tailed dres;
suit at ore Of their high falutin' ban
quets and we may decide TO go IL
on the circus stunt.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

II statistics count for anything, a
majority OF Iowa bankers favor a
central bank. As already noted in
these columns. the Banking Law Jour
nal sent out letters to each national
and state bank and trust company
in the United States. asking this ques-
ton: do you favor a central bank,
If not controlled by Wall street or
monopolistic interest From all over
the country there We're received 5,613
replies. OF these SO 1-3 per cent Were
in the affirmative and 81 per cent
in the negative. with Z per cent I'M
decided. From Iowa PSI replies We're
received. OF these 6s per cent were
in the affirmative and 81 per cent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The number of people who wrote it
Xmas. it is gratifying to note, is on
the decrease. This is further evil
dence that intelligence is becoming
more general and the world getting
better right along.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

1t was twenty-five degrees below
zero at Devils Lake the other day.
With such temperature at the Lake
it can't be as hot in all parts of
Satans domain as some of the preach
ers would have us believe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The debt of the city of New York
exceeds the total interest bearing
obligation OF the United States. The
city was well named Greater New
York.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

A state contemporary notes that
dollar rhymes with Mergenthaler in
the country print shop. So it does.
but it has to be multiplied 5000 times
to make the lines of the same length.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The incorporation last week of the
United Drug Stores Company under
the laws OF Delaware. with capitali-
cation of sl,0O0.oOO marked the first
step toward a drug store trust 1t is
said the concern is backed by the
United Cigars Stores Company. The
initial store Of the combine will be
opened at Wilmington, Del. and retail
stores all over the country viii be
bought UP by the trust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

An exchange says that dancing
makes girls feet large. 1t also says
that ice cream produces freckles. The
prudent young man will cut out this
item and show it to her at the first
opportunity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The women of Easton, Nd want the
right of suffrage for those of their sex
who own $500 or more of property.
Men and women united in asking at a
recent meeting that the charter be so
amended that women with such proper
ty qualifications should vote at the
municipal and council elections.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

There is disposition in some quar-
tiers to construe Postmaster General
Hitchcock's decision that congressman
cannot frank baby carriages as a
blow at one of the Roosevelt policies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

A near-philosopher explains that a
scientist is always eminent for the
same reason that a citizen is always
prominent when he is dead. This
probably accounts also for girl al
ways being beautiful when she is a
bride.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The supreme court has decided that
city councils may regulate the size
and price of loaves of bread. Why
not also the price of beef and pork
and the amount of foam on a glass
of beer?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

According to a Philadelphia paper
a midshipman at Annapolis, ident-
ity unknown. threw an alarm clock at
an officer and it awakened the whole
navy department.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The wreck germ of the rail disease
remains to be discovered. 1t is known,
however, to be most active in cold
weather.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

LATE Young, Jr.. is talked of for
mayor of Des Moines. He would make
a cracker-iack official, but what would
the Capital do without him?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
What's the User

Washington Herald: There is no
use being impatient concerning the
Brooklyn Doctors whereabouts. Il
neyer mas been determined exactly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
DAILY BIZ MAIL.

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giving notice of the fact.
Address all communications to
THE GATE CITY COMPAN I.
No. is North Sixth ST.. Keokuk, Iowa
THE GATE CITY Is on sale at the ios-
lowing news stands:
Hotel Keokuk. cor. Third and Johnson
C. H Rollins & Co, 6sS Main streee
Ward Bros SO Main street.
Depot News Stand
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

When cattle on the plains become
restless the cowboys sing them TO
s'eep. often preventing stampedes
They say the steers are especially
fond OF Ny Bonnie, 'Lorena" and
The Cowboys Lament It has been
suggested that perhaps having to hire
r. csc operate cowpunchers is what
makes beef so high.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The papers tell of an amateur violin
list at Newark, n, j., who was so de-
termined to do something to please his
audience that ne shot himself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The difficulty in locating DR.. Cock
after the explosion indicates to the
st. Louis Globe Democrat that there
are no remains
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

boys. pointed it at the ceiling anu
pulled the hammer.
There was no report; the old oiuf
derbuss was empty"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The newspapers say that Gen. ]. B.
Weaver has embraced the Emanuel
movement of healing the sick and has
been active in working what he
claims to be wonderful cures by pray
er sLd annoint ,ng. The Knoxville Elk.
press recalls that the general used to
be quite handy in healing political Ills
with hot air, and it suggests chat the
experience gained in that field may
come handy now
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The Jacksonville Courier notes that
John R. Walsh was out for the money
and now he is in for it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27
NOTES AND COMMENT.

1t seems to the Omaha Bee that
the battleship Utah ought to take we'll
to salt water
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The Mason City Globe-Gazette de-
ciares that ten dollars per week wage,
with rent, fuel and food for family
of eight is short division not found
in any Christian arithmetic.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

keokuk Iowa ~. December 81, 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The Des Moines Capital says the
Hitchcock idea seems to be that one
good term as postmaster deserves an,
other-even though some ambitions in
surgent brother may want the job
powerful bad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The supreme court of the District
of Columbia is TO be called upon to
decide who owns the wedding pres
ents. The woman AYERS that all the
presents came TO her home addressed
in her name. and yet when she and
her husband separated he objected to
her taking the presents, entering a
suit to gain possession.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

81 like to lie among the leaves,
The bold muck raker cried;
THE pages of your latest book
Show that" his foe replied.
st. Louis Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The oskaloosa Herald gives it out
cold and fiat that the sooner the Re
publicans of Iowa quit wrangling over
Uncle Joe Cannon and trying to swal-
iow the slush sent out by certain
Washington correspondents the better
it viii be for the Republican party.
1t says We have no votes to lose, es-
pecially in that part of the state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

According to the near-philosopher of
the Sioux City Tribune, some men are
deluded into paying the preacher a
big marriage fee under the mistaken
impression that they are being &C
cepted at their own valuation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-12-27

The Sioux City Tribune concludes
that when a man thinks that he has
left his watch at home and takes it
out of his pocket to see whether he
has tune to go back and get it. he is
not likely to make good errand boy
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT
At PARTY MONDAY

At a party given at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy G. Barley, of
N. Calhoun street, Monday even
ing, the engagement of Edgar D.
Lee and Miss Bennetta Barley was
announced. Mr.. Lee and Miss Bark
ley were school-mates at the Mis-
souri, State University,
Miss Barley is a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Barley, of this
city, and is a young lady of many
accomplishments. She is a graduate
of the Mexico High School and the
University, having graduated at that
institution in 1909, taking the degree
of A. B. and B. S. She was a
member of the Phi Beta Kappa So
rority. She is nov teacher Of Ger
man and History at Norborne, Mo-,
, where she is meeting with much
success.
Mr.. Lee is a son of R. H. Lee, of
this city, and is an excellent young
man. He took his A. B. degree at
the University in 1908 and A. M. de-
gree in 1909. He was a member OF
the NJ Rho Beta, an honorary fra.
ternity of the Teachers College. He
is superintendent of the New Lon
don public schools and is conduct
ing that school in a most satisfae'
tory way.
The Ledger joins the many
friends of both young people in ex.
tending congratulations in advance.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30
MEXICO MEN MAY Be
IN ON RAD|UM FIND
IN JOPLIN ORE MINES
COL. GREEN CLAY AND OTHERS.
OF THIS CITY WHO OWN
LARGE ORE HOLDING THERE
MAY HAVE RADluM ON THEIR
PROPERTIES.
Uranium Also Found In Quanti-
ties - Colorado Millionaire Behind
the Movement to Discover New
Substance in Mines of Country.

The recent discovery Of DR.. Vic
tor Clifford Anderson, president of
the Colorado School of Mines, that
there is radium and uranium in the
pitch blende found in the ore mines
of Joplin may result in an added
income for several Mexico men who
own large mine holdings there. Col,
Green Clay, w. w. Fry, w. ].
Bolts and DR.. ]. C. Parrish are own
ers of some Of the best paying mines
in the Joplin district.
Samples of the remarkable pitch
blende we're sent him by H.. Mac
Dougal, of Galena, Kan, who is
mining on the Weymann land, south
east of Joplin. The pitch blende is
found from the surface down. Thos.
F. Walsh, the millionaire mine own
er, is behind the movement to dis.
cover substances from which radium
can be produced.
Five thousand dollars has been ex'
pended in search for samples Of
ore containing radium, and that
sent by MacDougal is the first tc
give encouragement to the seek
ers.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30

across the table, and a new, strange
expression crossed his features that
Hargraves did not, could not, under.
stand.
Then they started In to play.
Twenty minutes later Pemmican
rushed pellmell into Room A.
There was a row on between the
men who occupied Room A.
You've lost, l tell you'll" one of the
men exclaimed. The other laughed
boisterously.
IF I've lost. SO have you'll" be an.
swered.
what followed happened 10 an in.
slant and before Pemmican had beer
In Room A thirty seconds, for suddenly
one Of the men there had whipped
from his coat pocket a weapon thai
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30
XMAS CAROLS

Pass the minstrel throngs;
/ hear along the street
Hank, they play so sweet
On their hautboys, Christmas
songs.
Let us by the fire
Ever higher
Sing them till the night expire. -
-Longfellow.
When Pope Gregory sent Augustine
to England, he directed him to permit
the celebration of the pagan feasts
as far as was possible with the
spirit of the Christian faith. The
songs Of Yu'e feast he advocated,
while prohibiting the dancing.
Among the Oldest OF Christmas car
OILS is:
God rest you, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ Savior
Was born upon this day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray.
O tidings Of comfort and joy.
For Jesus Christ, our Savior, Yves
born ON Christmas Day.
Another popular carol was;
Tie holly and the ivy
Now both are full well grown;
OF all the trees that spring in the
wood.
The holly bears a blossom
As white as a lily flower;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ
To be our sweet Saviour.
Merriment, unrestrained, whoie
souled merriment, ringing i'm song tha'
made the streets echo and thrilled
one-tbis was the spirit Of the ole
celebrations of merry England
Temperance there should be, bu'
wine should flow and
should forget their sorrows. Guest.
unwilling to participate in the revel
ries were not regarded with good ia
vor. as may be Judged from a caro-
bv George Wither, printed in 1917
the first stanza of which runs;
So. now is come our joyful feast
e. Let every men be Jolly;
Each room with ivy leaves is dreS''
And every post with holly
Though some chur's at our mirth re
1T pine,
Round you foreheads garland
. Irvine;
lie n,oun sorrow in a cup of wine
It. And let US all be merry