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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
A NEEDED REFORM

Strengthening the family ties and
weakening divorce temptations is the
primary purpose of a nationwide
movement launched in Spokane by the
formation of a Stay-at- Home club for
married men.
The national organization Is to be
known as the ay-at-Home-League of
America. E. Potter Hall, formerly an
English clergyman, now member of
the editorial staff of the Spokesman
Review, who originated the idea, says
the only obligation of the members
will be to stay at home with their
families at least three nights a week.
George A. Forbes, secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Spokane, declared in an interview
that no more important work can be
undertaken at this time when engage
ments and amusements taking men
from their homes are SO varied and at
tractive, than by every means
Strengthening the home ties.
Home loving and home keeping men
are not those who become candidates
for divorce, Mr. Forbes said, adding
81 think a league on these lines will
do good and help to bring back these
sanctities of the American home which
obtained in the earlier and simpler
times of the nation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
CARTHAGE, ILL.
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:
Earl Wood of Hamilton, attended
the first state convention of the fed
Grafton of commercial clubs at Spring
field last week. He spent the day with
homefolks in this city enroute home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. M. Johnson spent
several days the past week with the
lady's sister, Mrs. D. w. Owen, OF
Herseman
Misses Lucy and Bessie White Of
Blandinsville are visiting their cousin
Mrs. Oscar O'Dell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Mckee departed
Wednesday for Chicago. for an ex
tended visit with their daughter.
Attorney Geo. v. Helfrich, was 6
business visitor to Chicago last week
Hugh Asher, of Blackwell, Okla, is
visiting at the l. r. Bray home.
Miss Adele Buschling of Warsaw
and Albert Buschling of Quincy. have
been visiting Mrs. E. q. McAdams.
Mrs. Mary Gill will spend the win
ter with the family of her son, T. E
Gill, at Pueblo, Colo.
Samuel Ireland returned to his
home in Temperanceyille, Canada
Monday, after a visit with relatives in
this city.
Mrs. ]. F. Scott, daughters Gene
and Betty, and son. Frank, departed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

balance of good, is his, and we wrong
him by forgetting 1t.
Poets, preachers. teachers, delight
to tell that character is q mighty
structure. put together block by
block, which may be ruined In an In
slant, fall into the dust and chaos by
one evil deed. It ia not so; this Is
cruelty unjust. untrue. Character can
not be killed In an instant; it is only
reputation that can be slain by one
act. Great single deeds do not make
character; large single evil acts can
not ruin 1t.
Character is built Of trifles. The
real test is the equity-the bal
ance Of the good over the evil.
And love to think that the Infinite
will finally so Judge US; that He will
regard no single black act as being
our whole life; that He will Judge US
by our equity, letting good impulses,
high motives, faithfulness in little
things, true unselflshness, brotherly
love, kindness, and exalted ideals, bal
ance, offset and neutralize many of
the ACTS of our human weakness, as
we, in our poor human recognition OF
Justice, permit a payment on account
to cancel part of our Indebtedness.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Wednesday for Altus, Okla, to spend
the winter with Mr.. Scott.
DR.. Frank P Norbury, head Of the
state board of administration, visited
with DIR. VIM. Blender last week.
Miss Helen Bardens, OF Warsaw,
visited over Sunday with Miss Eliza
beth Cherrill.
Alfred Logan who has been visiting
his sister, Mrs. Phoebe Noble. left
last week for his home in Glenwood,
Mo.
Mrs. Shelton Jackson, Of Creston,
Iowa is visiting her mother. Mrs.
Attorney C. ]. Scofield was a bust
ness visitor to Monmouth last week.
Mrs. Lou Walls, of Appleton City,
Mo, visited her uncle, Jos. Ritchey,
the past week.
Palmer Bertschi, Of Mankato, Mimi,
has been visiting friends in the city.
Herman Harper departed Tuesday
for St. Joseph Mo- His son, Watson,
accompanied him.
Hon. and Mrs. A. w. O'Harra have
issued invitations for a reception on
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
SHOP EARLY.

The stores almost without excep
ton are ready for the Christmas
trade and prospective customers
would do we'll to make their pur.
chases at once. Those who buy first
will have larger choice and better
service and can make their selections
more deliberately and with more sat.
isfactory results. Those who delay
until later date will have to be sat
isfied with the leavings OF the earlier
and more systematic buyers.
There is an altruistic as well as a
selfish side to the matter. At the
holiday season the clerks in the
stores are sadly overworked because
of the rush. Much can be done to
alleviate them by making purchases
early. Both self-interest and a prop
er regard for the rights and interests
of others emphasize the wisdom OF
early holiday shopping.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
WESTERN RIVERS
ARE ON RAMPAGE
Boats Plying In Streets and Railroad.
Are Put Out Of
Business.

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Nov. 20--Ac
cording to late reports from Burling.
ton the railroads have ceased what
they have found to be the hopeless
task Of trying to cope with the floods
from the Stilaguamish and Ekagit
rivers.
Several miles of track on sections
from the roads have been waslhed
away and mail and freight have been
cut off for twenty-four hours. The
Northern Pacific from Everett to Sed-
roh-Woolley and the Great Northern
from Stanwood down have been use.
less. The floods at Stanwood have
assumed such alarming proportions
that the telephone offices have been
deserted and all means OF communica.
ton is sthut off. Boats are plying in
the streets in the vicinity Of the de.
pot and at the present time there are
no indications that the waters will
subside before morning.
So far the damage has been confin.
ed to the stoppage of business. Fear
is felt, however, that the big bridge
of the Great Northern at Silvana may
have one of its ends swept away by
the rush of the current.
The Snohomish is displaying I'M
mistakable signs of going on a ram
page and should this occur results
are likely to be Of a serious nature.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
PimpIy? Well, Don't Be!
People Notice 1t. Drive Them Of
With Olive Tablets.

A pimply face will not embarrass
you much longer if you get package
of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. The
pimples will vanish after you have
taken the tablets few nights.
Nothing ever cleansed the blood,
the bowels and the liver like Olive
Tablets.
Olive Tablets are the only success
FIJI! substitute for calomel; there's
never any sickness or pain after tax
ing them.
Olive Tablets do all that calomel
does and just as effectively, but their
action is gentle and safe instead Of
severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste. .
ia bad breath, a dull, listless, mo
good" feeling, constipation. torpid liv-
er, bad disposition or pimply face.
Olive TABLETS are made OF pure
vegetable compounds mixed with olive
oil
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Try them. Take enc nightly for a
week. Then look at yourself In the
glass and see how you feel.
Every little Olive tablet has a
movement all its own
At all druggists in neat pocket
packages at 10,c and ?5c.
| Made by the Olive Tablet Company
lcf Portsmouth. Ohio. or Columbus,
Ohio. DR.. F. NJ. Edwards President.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

a summer picnic; it is strug
gle; battle. 1t is problem
given to the individual for his in,
dividual solution. His living is his an.
swer Happiness is not handed round
to us on a golden platter garnished
with rosebuds. If we want it we must
make it. If we want any of the really
great things OF; life, we must fight t.
win them, fight to hold them. This is
what makes keen and clear the moral
eye, toughens the moral sinews, puts
red corpuscles into the soul of pur-
pose and backbone into character
Life is not easy, but we can make 1t
easier. We often make it harder
cruelty, unnecessarily, bitterly hard
er-for ourselves and Others We for.
get the equity
Under the seeming injustice of life
Nature is constantly seeking equaliz
! ing, balance, justice. Nature keeps
/ books with the Individual Her JUS
/ tice consists neither in the debit or
| the credit side of her ledger, but in
| the difference-the net, the balance,
the equity. What seems to us injus
tice is often really only our concen-
/ tration on one side of the account to
! the exclusion of the other. We ex.
aggerate our sorrows so that they
| eclipse our joys; we are unjust to
what We have in hungering for what
we have not; we make our unsatisGed
I
of happiness.
We may envy the fame, fortune, or
prosperity of another, unknowing the
| mortgages of care, responsibility, op-
position and worry that reduces the
realness of what he has His net
happiness may be really less than
ours with but tenth of his posses
sions.
Equity is the net value of property
over mortgages and other claims
against it. 1t is the balance that re.
mains to our credit in an account
i when the debts are subtracted
i Sometimes, with sigh on our lips
and sob creeping in our throat, we
face our life in numb rebellion. We
are SO wildly conscious of what we
have to bear that We may forget our
reason for happiness. Our sorrows
seen through the magnifying glass OF
encouragement, loom large before us,
our joys through the reducing glass OF
unsatisfied desire minify into almost
nothingness. We let what we lack
poison the waters of what we have
We forget the equity. We forget the
big, broad, clear sweep of net happi
ness still remaining to us; the mort
gage of care, sorrow and responsible
ity blinds US to the realness of oul
4 possessions.
If we have really much to bear, oul
attitude is making the bearing harder
it is making our power over condi
tons less, their power over us more
. Let fresh, clear, bracing breeze o
optimism and new courage blow
through the soul. Let us forget ouI
sorrows in remembering our joys les
sen our pain in realization that on
imagination is increasing it. Let III
forget our self pity in sympathizin.
with others. Let us remember tn,
equity, the great possibilities, powers
and possessions, for good to our
selves and the world still left to us. ]
even then it seems little, throw il
, great handsful of hope, optimism, dc
, termination, and courage, to make i
/ seem greater until 1t really become
J greater We complain of the schem
of the Universe when it is we oul
selves, those around us, or society i
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

THE MAN WHO FEELS.

THE MAN WHO FEELS.
The man who feels is happier wight
Than the man who is callous ana
cold,
For if he weeps in the gloom Of night,
He laughs in the sunbeams' gold !;
And if the tide of his life runs low,
1t reaches the sunmmits of cheer;
He knows the heights, as the depths
below,
And he smiles through a plying
tear.
And after it all, when all is done
The world has most Of the glad
dening sun.
Il For the twilight fingers when
day is done,
And the suns benedlction Is dear.
The man who feels is happier far
l say 1t again and again
Than ever can be, or ever are,
The pitiless sons of men;
For il he signs for his own gray
woes,
He signs for another's too;
If the plant of pain in his bosom
grows,
1t is covered by sympathy's dew.
And after all, when all is said,
Still pity and love forever are
wed;
That the heart unfeeling is chill
and dead
Is true, and forever Is true.
The man who feels is a dear Gods
gift
To sorrowful, Travelling world;
BY the hands that the burdens of
life uplift
Is the flag of our peace unfurled.
We need not the souls that are cal
lous as Fate,
And selfish and welded to greed.
But the plying tear for our fallen
estate
We need and we ever shall
need.
And after it ali, when all is past,
lis the deed of love that alone
may last,
And the rest is chaff in the win
moving blast;
In the garden of life, weed.
Alfred ]. Waterhouse in K. of P,
News.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Rev. George Stewart. Tennessee
clergyman, doesn't like the dress OF
the modern woman. He complains that
the women have cut their dresses of
at the bottom for a walking skirt and
cut them off at the top for bal!
gown and they have slit them UP the
side and hobbled them and made
pants OF them until it is a serious
matter" Rev. Mr.. Stewart wouldn't
have them laughing matter, would
he?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Merited rebuke is administered
Champ Clark by the Chicago Tribune,
which says that the American people
are not at all likely to put the tremend-
Gus responsibility of the presidency
upon a man whose tongue is swung in
the middle. 'If Mr.. Clark is silly
enough to believe what he says" adds
the Tribune, ''he at least ought not to
be silly enough to say it. In a deli.
cate international complication, Coo
save the republic from Champ
Clark!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
AeAINsT THE COMIC SUPPLE.
MENT

The Illinois Federation of woman's
clubs in session at Galesburg last
week gave new impetus to the cam
paign against the comic supplement
by resolving that it should be abolish
ed. Thorough study of the mischiev-
GUS pranRs exploited in the comic sup.
plement has convinced this great body
of intelligent Illinois women that
such pictures exert a harmful infiu
ence upon children. The conclusion
is one in which thoughtful people
generally concur. 1t Is to be hoped
the movement to rid the papers of this
Objectionable feature will be success.
full. And the sooner the better.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Mr.. E. John Richards, who for sew
eral years has been the lessee and
publisher of the Mt Pleasant Journal,
has given up his lease and proprietor
ship and severed his relations with
that property, and has accepted a
position with the Mt. Pleasant New,
beginning today. He will look after
advertising and subscriptions and
has the best wishes of host Of
friends in his new business relations
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

The Democratic and insurgent pa
pers are having a good deal to say
about the mistakes of Taft" There's
reason. Tafts mistakes" so-calied,
are certain to cost the Democratic
party and insurgent Republicans "a
whole lot of trouble.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
Wall coIors and Llaht.

In painting or papering the walls Of
room the question often arises what
color reflects the most and what the
least light? Recent experiments in
Germany gave the following results:
Dark blue reflects Ga per cent OF the
light falling upon it; dark green,
about 10 per cent: pale red. a little
more than 10 per cent; dark yellow,
20 per cent: pale blue. 80 per cent;
pale yellow. 40 per cent, pale green,
46H per cent; pale orange. nearly IS
per cent; pale white. 70 per cent.
Clossiness and yarnish increase the
amount OF light refiacted.- Harpers
Weekly
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

A Chicago pape- makes the just
complaint that men Of great wealth In
leaving requests for the aid of human
ity seldom consider the needs of the
tween men and women and the long
tooth of want and the sharp claws of
distress. Most of their requests are
for educational institutions and librar-
les for people who are well fed and
have grip on life
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

The Carthage Republican, high
minded paper ordinarily friendly to
Keokuk. complains that this city is
cold" toward the Quincy Niota inter
urban project. The Republican will
readily concede that Keokuk owes it
to itself to do what is best for itself.
1t only remains to add that there
are likely to be interurban projects of
greater value to Keokuk than. the one
named above and that they will be on
a more substantial basis than any yet
brought to public notice locally. II
this be treason make the most of it!
Keokuk is not asleep. It is only
possessing its soul in patience until
the right project presents itself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

The Republican party in Illinois is
in g bad way. The majorities in the
two houses of the legislature are at
loggerheads over adjournment and the
governor has broken leg And there
you are!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

The Chinese religion is a worship of
dead ancestors, whence the pertinency
OF the observation of the Sioux City
Tribune that they are having a re-
vival over there-making lots Of dead
ancestors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

The Gate City repeats and proposes
to keep on repeating that every arti
Gle Of local manufacture should be
labeled made in Keokuk.' Such an
inscription would serve a double pur-
pose. 1t would advertise Keokuk far
and wide and 1t would be guaranty
that the article was first-class in
quality. What local manufacturer
will take the initiative in this matter?
The Gate City is anxious to print his
name in capital letters in gothic type.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

A New York woman has filed suit
for divorce because her husband in
sisted upon reading his poems to her.
Clear case of cruel and inhuman
treatment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

DR.. Wiley, the great food expert,
has the right idea. He says that
American women should play the cook
stove more and the piano less.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
THE DAILY GATE CITY

co per cent in the last three months.
That which was selling at ten pounds
for quarter is now selling nine
pounds for quarter and the quantity
will be reduced to eight pounds in a
day or two.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Now that letters are being trans
ported by aeroplane the expression
dropping a line" is no longer a
figure of speech.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
THOUGHT For The DAY.

No complaint, no growl at ones
troubles, ever accomplished one-half
as much in making things better as
good, hard work does.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

A woman who had never been kiss
ed recently died at the ripe age of
100 years. What an awful price to
pay for longevity!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Regulates the bowels. promotes
easy natural movements, cures consti.
pation-Doan's Regulets Ask your
druggist for them. Csc box.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
DAILY BY MAIL. !.

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All subscription orders should give .no
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Abe Martin has noticed that the
girls who violate all the rules on the
woman's page seem to look the swell
est
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

What's the matter with Kansas?
Well, tarring women school teachers
is one thing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Friday evening Nov oath. to meet
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. O'Harra.
Mrs. w. T.. Booth is visiting her
daughter, in Camp Point.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

A holy war; is threatened in
Tripoli. A holy war is holy ter
ror
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
that any information will be gained
in the matter except as the result of
a strenuous fight.

that any information will be gained
In the matter except as the result OF
a strenuous fight.
The Underwood for President
boom probably will be heard from
during the week In Birmingham a
big banquet Is to be given Thursday
night in honor of the minority lead
er in the house. The affair has been
arranged by the Democrats of Ala
bama and will be attended by promi-
nent party leaders from all over the
South.
The annuaL-football game between
the elevens Of the West Point and
Annapolis academies will be played
in Philadelphia Saturday and will be
made an occasion for the usual large
and brilliant gathering of army and
navy officials and society folk.
Currency reform will be the allah
sorbing topic of discussion at the an
nual convention of the American
Bankers association, which will as
semble in New Orleans tomorrow and
continue in session through the great
er part Of the. week.
Other conventions of the week will
include the National Road Congress
in Richmond, Va, and tie annual
meeting OF the ppi-to-Atlantic
Inland Waterway association, in Mont
gomery, Ala.
A number OF notable men and wo-
men are to observe their birthday an
niversaries during the week. Sir Will
fried Laurier's SEVENTEEN birthday,
today, will be fittingly marked by
the Liberal members of the. Domin-
ion parliament. Hetty Green, the
worlds richest woman" will attain
her seventy-sixth year tomorrow and
four days later Andrew Carnegie, who
has just given further evidence of his
desire to die poor by donating an adj
ditional s25,0o0.OoO for educational
purposes will enter upon his seventy
fifth year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20

Interest in the work Of the inter
state commerce commission is ex-
pected to center in the proposed in
vestigation into the business of the
express companies. The first hearing
is to be held in New York Wednes-
day. The express companies have
shown some disposition to oppose the
investigation and it is not expected
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-20
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The so-called steel trust investiga-
ing committee of the house of repre-
sentatives is to resume its hearing
in Washington today. 1t is expected
the first inquiry will be directed to-
ward rates charged for the transpor-
tation of ore by the steel trust roads
of Minnesota. j. Pierpont Morgan
and Andrew Carnegie are scheduled
to appear before the committee and
their testimony Is awaited with keen
anticipation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-06-21
THINGS Are Changed Now.

The Fourth OF Juiv, the day oi our
arrival at Albany, was the annivers.
airy of the Declaration of Independ.
ence, and on our arrival we were told
that great preparations were making
for its celebration.
Our landlord, as soon as he found
out who we were. Immediately came
to US to request that we would excuse
the confused state in which his house
was, as this was the anniversary day
of American independence" or, as
some indeed more properly call it
American repentance" We were all
of us not little surprised at this ad'
dress, and from such person. In
stances, however, are not wanting of
people openly declaring that they have
never enjoyed 80 much quiet and hap
\piness in their own homes since the
revolution as they did when the states
we're the colonies of Great Britain.
Among the planters of Virginia l have
heard language of this sort more than
oace.-From Travels Through the
States of North America" by Isaac
Weld, Jr, 1895.