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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
The wrong Number Nuisance.

Complaint is general among tele-
phone users in Keokuk that they are
constantly summoned to the phone
only to be told that some other NUM-
Der Is wanted. or, when asking for
one number, are given another. This
Is vexatious, and to most persons an
unnecessary defect. 1t involves double
waste of the users time and patience
and double burden on the service
Keokuk Gate City.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The re-
sponsibility lies largely with the
public. Telephone operators, as rule,
speak plainly and can easily be
heard but many patrons do not. They
talk too fast clip their words, hold
the transmitter too near or too far
away from the mouth and many OF
them have not got good voice for
telephone talk They often realize this
fact themselves when trying to hea.
each other in conversation over the
wire. 1t is not always the fault Of the
operator that the wrong number is
switched on. Call the number wante j
slow, and in clear, distinct tone.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
NOT A POLITICAL QUESTION.

In reply to the formal inquiry from
Rev Thomas Shannon, head of the
New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, as to
his attitude on the local option ques-
ton, Governor Wilson explained that
while he was a believer in the princi-
pie of local option, the questions in
volved are social and moral, and as
such could not be made parts of a
party program. Wherever that had
been done, he added. it had confused
political action in other fields and
made constructive party action Inn
possible for long years together" He
therefore had reached this conclus-
ion $50 far as l myself am concern
ed, therefore. can never consent to
have the question of local option
made an issue between political par
ties in this state"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
keokuk, Iowa May IA, 1911
is 1T WORTH WHILE?

Is IT WORTH WHILE?
ID it worth while that we jostle a
brother,
Bearing his load on the rough side
OF life:
Is it worth while that we jeer at each
other,
In blackness of heart-that we
war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife!
God pity us all as we jostle each 9th
er;
God pardon us all for the triumphs
we feel
When a fellow goes down. poor, heart
broken brother,
Pierced to the heart-words are
keener than steel,
And mighter far for woe or for veal.
Were it not well in this brief little
journey,
On over the isthmus, down into the
tide,
We give him fish instead of a SER
Ere folding the hands, to be and
abide,
For ever and aye, in dust at his
side!
Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at the herds all at peace on
the plain;
Man, and man only, makes war on his
brother,
And does in his heart on his peril and
pain,
Shamed by the brutes that go down
on the plain.
Is it worth while that We battle to
humble
Some poor fellow traveller down into
the dust?
Good pity US all. Time too soon will
us tumble,
All men together like leaves on
gust;
All of US humbled down into the
dust.
Joaquin Miller.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
.AcAlN in Qua MIDST. J,

q
In a characteristic article In the
Des Moines Capital LATE Young vel
comes the return OF Gilbert N. Hau-
gen, the Fourth district congressman,
to the Republican party. Prior to
two years ago Mr.. Haugen was re-
garded as a half-breed standpatter.
Since then he has done a good deal of
faultflnding with the tariff, Last
August he was in full harmony with
the state convention which demanded
renewal of the fight on protection.
During the sessions of congress when
Joe Cannon was made an issue Mr.
Haugen was pronouncedly anti-Can
non. Mr.. Young tells Of sitting in the
gallery of the house at Washington
and seeing Mr.. Haugen hobnobbing
with Champ Clark, Underwood and
several leading Democrats of the
house. He seemed to be taking their
advice. He was generally accompan.
led by Representative Hubbard Of the
Eleventh Iowa district. 1T was
spectacle for gods and men" says Mr..
Young. ut made Republicans hang
their heads to see men who were
elected as Republicans going to their
opponents for advice. Messrs. Hau-
gen and Hubbard, along with ma
jority of the Iowa delegation, voted
with the Democrats at that time"
The outcome of this dallying with the
Young in these words:
Then Representative Haugen went
before the people and was almost de-
feated by Democrat. The supposi-
ton is that he will lose his seat
toward the close of the present SEES
sion. He is not now going to the
Democrats for advice. Neither is he
going to them for support. A dis
tinguished Democrat by the name of
Murphy will probably get Mr.. Hau-
gems seat.
Mr.. Haugen is learning a bitter
lesson and it seems to be doing him
some good. On all the propositions IN
the present congress he has been
voting with Joe Cannon, Jim Mann
and the other Republicans. Mr..
Haugen has voted against the Can
adam free trade contract. He voted
against the free trade bill offered by
the Democrats, known as the farmers
free list
In his article in the Capital Mr..
Young voices the hope that the Fourth
district congressman has been broken
of sucking eggs, and anticipates that
he will stay On the Republican side
for the brief time which the Demo
Gratis intend to permit him to remain
in the house. The moral drawn from
Mr.. Haugen's experience is that
Tariff ripping is losing its charm.
1t is losing its charm because the men
who have been advocating it have
admitted by their conduct
that they have simply been playing a
game of politics. They have been
giving the people chaff. They have
been doing their work in the name Of
reform. When they come up to their
own reforms they shy and take to the
woods
The Gate City joins with Mr.,
Young and the Capital in welcoming
Mr.. Haugen back into the Republican
party.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
EQUALITY OF TEACHERS, PAY

Controversy has long ranged around
.he subject of equal pay to teachers,
men ord women, where equal work is
done, but the question is apparently
as far from being satisfactorily set
tied as in the beginning. Men of dis
tinctio1 as educators admit their In
ability to solve it. DR.. Elmer
E. Brown, United States COM
missioner of education and soon
to become chancellor of the New
York university. recently addressed a
letter on the subject to the secretary
of the commission on teachers salaries,
which is of special interest, not be-
cause it offers solution of the mooted
question. but for the side-light it
throws on it. In the letter the doctor
says:
There are two aspects of teaching
which must. in measure, be con-
sidered separately. Teaching is a
means OF bringing pupils to mastery
of certain definite forms of knowledge
and skill it is also means of in
iuencing their sentiments, personal
habits and views of life.
SO far as the frst OF these forms
of teaching is concerned there is little
need to raise the question whether
men or women should be employed in
the schools. Indeed. at such time
as this, when opportunities of profit
able employment for men are unusual
lly abundant, it will generally be
found that for given expenditure a
better grade of teaching on this side
can be had by the employment of
women than by any general employ
ment of men. It is on the other side
/ that it becomes necessary to consider
the question which your commission
! is considering
mo one, think, seriously questions
that the teaching of the earlier grades
may safely be left for women exclus-
lively. From the fifth or sixth grade
on the problem is different For both
boys and girls but especially for boys,
there is need in these grammar grades
and in the High school of positive in
fluences which are distinctiyeiy mas
culine in character. as well as of pos
I tive influences which are distinctive
w feminine. These two moods of in
f1uence must, I think, be regarded as
incommensurable, Their difference is
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
THE PREVENTION OF INSANITY

Homer Folks, writing on The Pre-
vention of Insanity in the current
Review of Reviews, makes some state.
ments which ought to be printed in
every newspaper in the United States,
The subject is one which has been
tabooed too long by false modesty.
The fact that insanity has doubled in
the United States in ten years should
prompt frank presentation of the
statements made by this writer.
Mr.. Folks calls attention to the
fact that one of the most dreadful of
all forms of insanity is that which is
popularity known as "softening OF the
BRAIN and Is known scientifically as
paresis or general paralysis. This
particular form of insanity is abso-
lutely incurable by any means now
known to the medical profession
Those afflicted with it suffer gradual
but complete mental and physical de-
cay. The very substance of the brain
and its appearance become changed.
These unfortunates live but few
years During the last year, 600 men
were admitted to state hospitals for
the insane in the state Of New York,
suffering from this dfsease,-17 per
cent of all the men who We're admit
ted: and 263 women. or per. cent of
all the women admitted. In view OF
these things Mr. Folks does well to
say:
1.-The medical profession knows tnat
of which, to the present time, the
average layman has had no intima-
ton whatever, that this disease is in
substantially every case, IL not In
every case, caused by an earlier dis
ease which until just now it has been
| thought improper to mention in po
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14


lite society and which most newspa-
pers will not refer to, syphilis.
Syphilis is q germ disease. 1t is
usually acquired In the course Of i'm
moral habits, though one may get 1t
innocently. Every man and boy
should know that by yielding to the
temptation which comes sooner or
later to almost every man and boy, to
go with immoral women. he is expos
ing himself to the probability Of get
ting this disease, which may result
years after In incurable insanity.
Over the door OF immoral resort
might truthfully be hung, Incurable
insanity may be contracted here If
self-respect, the desire for the good
opinion OF others, ,le influence Of re-
aigious training, and the attractions
of home life are not SUFFICIENT to pre-
vent this kind Of wrong-doing, the
danger Of contracting disease which
may result in incurable insanity
should be sufficient. Who can doubt
that If these facts were generally
known to the public, as they are
known to physicians familiar with
mental diseases, they would have a
profound effect upon the conduct of
the average man."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

A Word of Praise for Keokuk.
I'm not living at Keokuk, but far from
there
Near Iowa's western gate;
I'm not in business anywhere;
| daub not in real estate;
And speak word in It's praise.
Rejoicing over the fact that the dam
Is booming the old, dear place
In days long, long buried in memory s
grave,
But treasured through struggle and
strife,
1t opened its gates to a poor little
And gave me the time OF my life.
That's why l boost the old town
wherever / am
And speak word in It's praise;
Rejoicing over the fact that the dam
Is booming the old, dear place.
I'm not living at Keokuk, but my
wife halls from there,
The old city's choicest gift;
A wonder of love, OF motherly care,
A marvel in beauty and thrift
And I boost the old town for the
sake Of it's girls,
The girls of today and OF yore.
Rejoicing to see that 1T proudly UNI
furls
Prosperity's banner once more
KARL FAUTH.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
Learn TO Keen House.

Beautiful maiden, pause ere you we'd
Learn to boil coffee, learn to bake
bread;
Learn, oh, sweet girl, the one road
to mans heart
Lies through his stomach--they are
not far apart.
He loves your sweet face. he praises
your eyes,
Has tooth for your puddings, dotes
on your pies.
Then, beautiful maiden. be sure ere
you wed
That you learn to make coffee, Learn
to bake bread. Selected.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
But.


When old man Noah built his ark
They thought he was bloomin' mark
They laughed at him and called him
mutt"
And in their sleeves they chortled,
but
When Fulton built his queer old tub
Men laughed and said he was dub
They said. This fellows off his nut
He was a joke in those days, but
When Wilbur Wright said: ~ can fly,
Men smiled and winked the other eye
They kidded him and said, Tut, tut; :
They thought that he was daffy, but
So. gentle readers. do not leer
When some damphooI does something
queer,
A genius is a funny nut,
His actions are peculiar, but
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
NOTES AND COMMENT.

NOTES AND COMMENT.
Every week should be cleanup
week, suggests the Sioux City Jour
nal
A Chicago copy reader perpetrates
this: IF Macmillan died as a hero,
what will Porfirio Diaz?
According to George Fitch, all that
is needed to make this world perfect
is for everyone to agree with you.
The first Republican club formed to
boom President Taft for renomina-
ton has just been launched in New
Jersey.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes
that Madero's capital is still within
convenient walking distance of the
American side.
The Washington Post says the wo-
men have Tefrained from taking sides
in this whiskers debate, knowing II
is ticklish subject.
The Des Moines Register and
Leader calls attention to the fact that
the Detroit team now has long lead
on the liveliest jinx in the queerins
business.
The towns decision to abolish
the open saloon appears to have had
no effect on the community's thirst,
says the Dubuque Times-Journal, COM
menting on the seizure of thirty-three
barrels of Dubuque beer at Mason City
dry town, by the city marshal.
The Baptist ladies in Cedar Rapids
are advertising Dutch lunch" to be
given in the church parlors. Without
wishing to knock on the ladies' enter
prise. the Waterloo Reporter says 1t
will wager that the sirst essential Of
such feast will not be found on the
menu at all.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

The Mt. Pleasant Journal reports
that Stanley Miller, the militant edi-
tor of the Free Press of that place, is
back from the front bronzed and
healthy looking as though the Texas
"gumbo' agreed with him. He is
loyal to Iowa, though, and is quoted
as saying that it is mighty good to
be back in Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

Everybody has had hand in trying
to interpret the letters P. E. o. The
Waterloo Reporter says that the state
convention of the order held at Sioux
City brought out the real thing. 1t is
Protect Each Other"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
TO DISCOURAGE THE DANDELIoN.
The Chicago Tribune gives this

TO DISCOURAGE THE DANDELIoN.
The Chicago Tribune gives this
prescription:
ITO discourage a dandelion. grasp
it firmly at the point where it
energies from the ground, offer a
silent prayer, and pull steadily up
ward. Should it break off five or six
inches down, leaving half of the root
in the ground, as it probably will
wait patiently day or two and you
will have a chance to tackle it again
Continue this process until the de-
sired result Is achieved, il it takes all
summer. A dandelion is persistent
but it yields finally"
The Tribune's optimism is admir-
able, but the efficiency of the treat
ment it suggests is open to question.
1t isn't possible to discourage a
dandelion without removing every
vestige of it, and it cannot be COM
pletely removed except by digging 1t
out by the roots. Simply pulling it
steadily upward" even after offering
silent prayer, will not do the bust
ness. as anyone will discover who fol.
lows the Tribune's well-meant but
mistaken advice.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

Iowa miners nave voted to erect n
permanent labor temple in some Iowa
city. The location of the headquarters
must be submitted for second vote,
no city having received majority.
Des Moines leads, Abba second, Oska.
loosa third, and Ottumwa fourth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

After the fire at Bangor, Me, the
mayor ordered all the saloons closed,
which prompts the st. Louis Globe
Democrat to remark that 1t takes a
confagration like that to close sa-
looms in prohibition state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
MORE FUNDS FOR INSTITUTIONS

MORE FUNDS FOR INSTITUTIONS.
The new laws OF the state increas-
ing the support funds OF the various
state institutions have just gone into
effect. BY reason of these laws the
sums available for support Of the In
stitutions have been increased by
about s164,0o0~a year. The support
for the hospitals was increased from
$12 month to $14 for the two in
southern Iowa and SIS each for the
two in northern Iowa. and as there
are about 1000 patients this makes an
increase of $4,000 year for the
hospitals. Then there is an increase
of at least $4,000 a year at other in.
stitutions. The legislature fixed
minimum of $4,000 for the college for
the blind. raised the minimum at
MitchellviIle from $4,000 to $4,000 and
raised the minimum at Eldora from
$500 to $500.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

The Fort Madison Democrat agrees
with The Gate City's estimate of the
number of visitors to Keokuk this
summer. In an editorial paragraph it
says.
1.-THE Keokuk Gate City figures that
half million people will visit that
city during the excursion season
about to begin. We do not believe
that 1t places the figures any too
high. The great dam is powerful
magnet"
Poet DINNER of this city, author
of "Keokul Will be a Town Like a
Jewel wrote to the Chicago Tribune
to ask if it pays any prices for
pieces which are worthy" B. t. l..
replied in his Line-o-Type column as
follows Certainly not. But we
keep all stamps inclosed." Thus is
full-blown genius rebuffed in quarters
where 1t has right to look for recog-
milton and reward. This is cruel,
unfeeling world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

The rebel army in Mexico doesn't
seem to be quite as much of joke
as it did few days ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

Many men owe the grandeur oil
their lives to their tremendous diff
culties.- Sturgeon
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

THE iron hand OF Diaz" seems t
be largely clay.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14

Meanwhile, pending the appearance
of the fly, swat the dandelion
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
not quantitive but qualitative =

not quant1tlve but qualitative.
DR.. Brown declines to say what
bearing this consideration may have
upon equality of pay for men ana
women teachers, and the matter rests
for the present as far from solution as
before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
DAILY By NAH.

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-19
For Laerippe, Coughs and stu.fy Colds
BLOUNTSTOWN.
Special to The Journal.

Blountstown, Jan. 1s.-Miss Lois
Thompson, accompanied by her sis
ter, Miss Ivalee, have returned tc
Blountstown, after spending the holi
days with home folks in Atlanta. Ga.
Miss Mary Wood, Of Tampa, Fla, is
the guest Of Mrs. T. A. Horne this
week
Mrs. B. v. Elmore returned from
Georgia few days ago, where she
has been visiting home folks.
Prof. r. G. Pittman and wife made
a trip to Cypress Saturday, visitlns
relatives and friends.
DR.. CroZier and wife returned Satur
day from Cedar Springs, Ga, where
they had been visiting friends for the
past two weeks.
DR.. Charles Harpen returned las
week to college in Augusta, Ga.
Mr.. G. L. Hobbs made bushes.
| trip to Pensacola Saturday.
| Mrs. T. A Horne was the cues. O
her sister, Mrs. Revell, of Bristol, the
past week.
Mrs. J. c. Gum, Of Abel, Ga, ha,
been the guest of her daughter, Mrs
]. c. Thomas, for the past two weeks
Mr.. Charlie Clark made a busines,
trip to Jacksonville Friday.
Miss Dora Horne, who is nov
teaching school at Frink, Fla, visites
home folks Friday and Saturday.
R. c. Campbell, of Mariana, was
business visitor here Thursday.
Mr.. Henslee Alsobrook left TO
Mariana Saturday to spend Sunda,
with home folks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-19

Washington, Jan. 1S.-The new Sem
ator Elkins is an example of a rich
mans son who has not been spoiled
by wealth. He took special civil en-
cheering course at Harvard to fit him
for the management Of his father
great coal and railway properties.
When he was about twenty five he be-
gan to take hand in the management
Of his fathers business, and the father,
having a high opinion of his son's
executive capacity, at once began to
place large responsibilities on him.
He put him in as director and man
ager of the Morgantown and Kingwood
Railway Company; a line about fifty
miles long occupying a most import
ant strategic position in the West Vir-
ginia coal field. Senator Davis Elkins
is president of this company. He Is
also president of the Elkins Coal Com
pany, which operates six large mines
and nearly 1000 coke ovens and has
$4,000 acres of coal alnd. He was vice
president of the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank of MorgantoWn, presi-
dent Of the Union Utilities Company,
director of the American National bank
of Washington and is prominent in the
affairs of the Davis Trust company at
Elkins, w. Va. In the Spanish war
he had valuable military experience as
captain on the staff of General Schwan
in Porto Rico. The appointment of the
senatorship was not sought by Davis
Elkins. A number of his friends with>
out any suggestion or solicitation from
him went to Governor GlaSscock and
S1rgpeStad IL would he a fitting honor
to his father and a fitting recognition
of the young mans power and ability
If he were appointed senator. And the
governor did it Immediately. Senator
Elkins is thirty five years old.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-19
WARDS BASIN,
Special to The Journal.

Special to The journal.
Ward Basin, Jan 1S.-The dance
given at the "Maltezo" home was a
brilliant affair and all who attended
report having had a jolly good time
Misses Inez Maltezo and Stella Cox
were Milton visitors Thursday.
Misses Julia and Nicie Peterson
and Miss Portee was the guests OF
Miss Maltezo Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Eliza Busbee is quite sick al
this writing. much to the regret OF
her many friends
Mr. John Ma1teZo went to Pensacola
Friday on the launch "Amick."
Mrs. Chas. Powell Of Pace, is visit,
ing her sister, Mrs. Calvin Morris
Mrs. A. P. Weekley has returned
home after pleasant visit with her
daughter Mrs. Maltezo.
Messrs. c. Liberies. D. N. Po!ezo
and S. Maltezo, of Pensacola were
the guests of Mr.. John Maltezo Sun,
day.
Miss Doshia Morris, of Pace, is a
charming Ward Basin visitor.
Misses Celest Jordan and Jaunita