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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
IOWA BABIES TO BE GRADED.

The latest proposition advanced by
the Iowa Mothers Congress is to
Judge and grade babies the same as
live stock. To this end it is planning
to introduce babies health contest
at each and every county fair in the
state as well as at the state fair
Under the plan outlined by the Moth
ers' congress. the state will be divid-
ed into districts, each district to be
under the supervision of a leading
physician, who, with local help, will
Judge in a scientific manner all en-
trants in the contest which must be
conducted according to the rules pro
vided by the central committee. Score
cards that have been approved will be
Used by the body, ana may be obtain
ed through the members thereof.
Records will be kept of all scores
and sent to physician whose name
will be printed in the rules governing
the contest These records will be
used for scientific purposes.
The object of this effort is to call
sharply the attention of the public to
the great need of child welfare work
with view to receiving the co-opera.
ton of the whole state in the better
ment OF child life, and just to raise
bigger, healthier. happier Iowa babies
Why shouldn't Iowa take more in
terest and greater pride in its babies
than in fat porkers and fine cattle?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
AN INDIAN CHIEFS PROTEST.

With his face turned toward the set
ting sun, his God, Chief Oghema
Niagara Crhunder Water spoke the
! last word which will probably ever be
heard there for the pagan faith of the
Indians at Table Rock on the Canadian
side at Niagara Falls last Sunday
after the Christian baptism of his
granddaughter, Princess Kaw-Paw-Qua
/ tMorning Beauty, daughter of Louis
Keokuk Palmer Cleveland.
The child's christening took place in
the Cave of the Winds, under the
Horseshoe falls. There in 1866 Chief
Thunder Water was named by his pa
rents, people of the Osnabee tribe of
| Kansas, while they were on their way
1 to pay visit to Indians near Mont
real. The ceremony last Sunday was
performed by the Rev. G. S. G. Hares
| of ST. Pauls church, Niagara Falls.
who sprinkled the infant of eleven
months with spray from the cataract.
Afterward, by way CT protest. Chief
Thunder Water, with a handful of his
people about him, made an address for
the pagan faith. Standing on the
western sweep OF the great falls, he
said:
The christian says that the pagan
is a fool. | was raised a pagan,
lived pagan and | shall be pagan.
II have seen the Catholic warning
against the Protestants; the Protest
ants warning among themselves, and
both warrinU against the Jew The
Indians never warred among them
selves about religion. This child is
Christened because she lives under
christian nation and will have to
obey christian laws, but she shall later
be named pagan. and when she is
old enough to decide for herself she
shall choose between Christ and
Manitou.'
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
HIGH COST NORMAL

In an address before the Corn Belt
Meat Producers association in Des
Moines Tuesday. Henry Wallace, edi-
tor OF Wallace's Farmer, declared that
the present high cost of living is only
the normal cost and that the cities of
the world will have to go through the
same thing that the farmers did be
tween 1870 and 1890. He added that
while the founding of the cattle in
dustry in South America is troubling
the cattle raiser of Iowa, it is the sal
walton of the cities of the world for 1t
will help them adjust thmselves to
the new conditions. The cattle rails
ers of this country can not afford to
allow the tariff to be reduced on
dressed beef or to allow free hides,
Continuing, he said
The farmers between 1870 and 1890
sold food below the cost of produc-
ton. at the expense of the fertility of
the soil and we are now buying back
that fertility at high cost. The
present standard of prices is normal
ana there will be permanence to what
are termed high prices, for the farm
ers nave found themselves and refuse
to sell their products for one-half the
cost of production as they did in the
past.
We have not begun to farm in
Iowa, yet, before we do we must learn
how to make one acre of ground sup.
4 port steer instead of two acres as
at present. We must take care of our
/ pastures and keep clover in the blue
] grass. Man is better than any of his
works and we must first improve the
/ Iowa farmer and then he will improve
the grade of live stock raised and i'm
I prove the conditions. You must i'm
\ prove the social life on the farm SO
that the boys will stay there, and il
you keep the boys there the girls will
stay with them The city has nothing
to offer the farm boy.
TO reduce the price of meats. YOU
3 must learn the lost art of pork pack
ing. You must learn how to feed ST
LACE and how to increase profits.
The people OF the cities must now
solve the SAME problem which the
farmers solved How they will &c
about it is up to the cities. Whether
the city dweller must find better
market for labor or demand more for
work performed is one of the phases
OF the problem, but the cost of living
VIII never be reduced The high
: prices are here TO stay
President SYKES in his annual ad
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14


With the full government majority
the British house of commons has
passed the third reading OF the Lloyd
George industrial insurance bill. This
is the measure which is to ensure 49,
100000 workers against sickness or
other disability, ard limited insur-
ance against unemployment for 2,5o0,-
900 craftsmen of the building and en-
cheering trades. For the health in,
surance every male laborer has de-
Quoted from his pay S cents week,
while every employer is obliged to con-
tribute 4 cents week to the fund of
each of his employees and the govern
ment at the same time gives 4 cents
a week. Women contribute 6 cents a
week During sickness, men will get
$3.50 week for three months and
s1-25 as long as they are disabled; wo-
men get s1.ST week for thirteen
weeks. Medical treatment is to be
free and consumptives taken care OF
in sanitarium. Wives of insured
workmen will get SIS at childbirth
and SIS more if they are themselves
insured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
keokuk, Iowa .......... Dec. H. 1911
DO your SHOPPING EARLY.

DO YOUR SHOPPING EARLY.
Twas the month before Christmas
and all through the store
The presents were piled from the
roof to the floor.
There were garments and jewels and
knicknacks and books,
The clerks were all happy, careless
and gay;
They waited with patience the whole
live-long day,
They had time to please all and to
please was their aim,
But wonder of wonders - not one
shopper came.
Twas the day before Christmas, and
through that same store
The people were rushing with Shrek
and with roar,
The aisles were jam and the jam
was a mob.
To get twenty-five presents was each
buyers Job.
The clerks were distracted and worn
out and sad;
The people were worried and wearied
and mad.
And each of them thought as she
pushed through the store:
my goodness! Why didn't do this
hefore?''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
JASPER BLINES, VIEWS
To the Editor of The Cate City:

t.
4 To the Editor of The Cate City:
The good old times have come
again. In 1872 the insurgents cried
aloud Anything to beat Grant" In
1912 the insurgents in one great Choir
Us will sing Anything to beat Taft"
The public should be a little extra
thankful this winter. The Missouri
legislature will not be in session, and
this is some compensation for poor
corn crop.
Literature and personal correspond
ence are being regularly received by
the writer who has publicly favored
the candidacy of Joseph w. Folk for
President. Patriotic and high-class
statesman. Mr.. Folk is the superior
candidate of his party ] have analysed
the Democratic elements of Missouri
and am qualified to place them in two
chief classes. These classes are. list.
The old-time southern spirited who
favor states, right supremacy, and in
Cline to hold on to the fragile edge of
that evil thing long known as the
Lost Cause. This Exhibit A" may be
traced along down the years through
such characters as Marmaduke, Stone
and this order of political leaders
with their host of very small asteroids
scattered all over the counties of the
state. They are quite numerous.
The second class, and the best one,
has its finest representative in the per-
son of Joseph W. Folk, real broad
minded, national statesman of tho
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln type
OF manhood. ability and patriotism.
AS chief executive he would be an
honest, safe and able commander of
the ship of state. If the Democratic
party were wise, it would select Mr..
FOLK for its candidate in 1912 AS
conditions are at present amazingly
complicated and uncertain, there is
pretty sure to be great fusion and
confusion in affairs politically next
year. There will be assertions in
Party lines and combining of isms
Rof ultra and extravagant factions. 1t
will be difficult for both old parties to
maintain their conference and identity.
The Saturday Evening Post gives a
good history of how the state of Kan.
sas cleared itself of an organized
band of thieves who had robbed the
people of millions Of dollars through
fraudulent claims of oil wells, irriga.
ton. mines and other properties
which We're to yield the investors
enormous per cents upon their mon
ley. 1t is wonderful how easily many
people are caught by these promises
from smooth strangers who canvass
the country and make fine showing of
their far away oil wells and rich de-
posits of gold and silver which exist
chiefly on paper and in the imagina-
ton of the schemers and their prison
ers. Within the recent dozen years
or SO Clark county has been infested
with that class of frauds and thous-
ands of dollars have been taken away.
Missouri needs to act like Kansas in
this subject and free itself of the land
pirates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

! Robert Ingersoll said that he had a
happy dream that the shadow Of the
gallows would not always fall upon
the land. The manner OF execution
has changed, and seven states now
employ electricity in place Of the gal
lows. This system is less barbaric,
and within few more years the 9TH
er states will adopt electricity. Public
executions are revolving and their in
/ fluence Is demoralizing.
/ Good. righteous citizens, good sys-
TENS of farming, good roads, improv
ed waterways, more justice, more
charity, these are the chief elements
in the formation of an abiding civiliz-
| ed nation.
Good protection should be given the
fruit trees and the bees. This Is
proper. and very humane. Wrappings
of cloth and paper and fine hay serve
well for apple, peach and other
classes of fruit trees. have enclosed
some young peach trees in soft hay as
a protection against severe freezing.
Bees left on their permanent stands
may be protected by wrapping in
heavy cloth, or by the use of soft hay.
bikes or wind breaks on the west and
north are of much value in aiding the
bees. The fact should be known that
tho better protection given bees the
less honey they will require during
the low temperature. The honey bees
are the most wonderful beings on a
farm or at any home. And the sweet
fluids which they combine in what is
called honey is the superior article
and the royal decoration of any table.
Time changes some definitions.
Those who fired on Fort Sumter In
1861 were called rebels, while those
who blew up the Los Angeles Times
building are now called Union. Well!
OF the many useful articles manr
factored for our convenience, think
the fancy colored matches are perfec-
ton itself. Some other kinds Of
matches are not SO perfect.
Liberty is doing fine service in
enlightening the world. and in year
or so the Keokuk and Hamilton enter.
prise will help to tighten the republic.
Alexandria, Wayland, Kahoka, Medill
and many other towns will be illum.
mated and shining like so many pref
ty diamonds strung on a golden
thread.
Slowly but steadfastly the human
race is throwing off those evils which
mar and destroy the moral and physi-
cal welfare OF the people For exam
pie, study the subject OF the senti-
ment which is steadily advancing
against what the great Dewitt Tai
mage termed the monstrous iniquity
of intemperance.
Among the political insurgents, Al
bert J. Beveridge possessed the ele-
ment OF common sense to not talk too
much. 1t is well for a pretty golden
vase to run over when it's full, but
stopping out shows weakness. Rebel
lion is quite distinct affair from true
reform.
Seven Pines. JASPER BL1NEs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

dress to the Corn Belt Meat Produc-
ers association called attention to the
things which have been accomplished
in behalf OF the farmer by this organ
ization in the past year, some OF these
being the return of the stockman's
pass to the shipper: improved running
time and service OF stock trains; a
reduction in Iowa rates on livestock
of 1917 per cent; a reduction in the
Iowa rates on feeding sheep 25 per
cent to so per cent; an Improvement
OF the conditions at the Chicago stock
yards; regrouping of freight rates
on livestock from Iowa to Chicago,
saving the Iowa farmer and stockman
100000 year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
TELEGRAPH SPARKS.
i, = $4,000 = . : = .

United Press Leased Wire Service. I,
NEW YORK Henry C. Frick, the
steel magnate, declared that recent
improvement in business would not
continue until the steel trade is back
again to its position of 1899" when
the greatest amount of material ever
produced in this country was turned
out.
PADUCAH, Ky.--Mrs. Lucy Griffith,
%. was indicted at Benton, KY. on a
charge of poisoning her husband. Ed
ward Griffith, prominent Paducah
merchant, last April Her trial will
take place next June. In the mean.
time Mrs. Griffith is free on heavy
bond- Griffith was poisoned by strych-
nine administered in a toddy which he
drank before breakfast.
WASHINGTON.-The president has
nominated Judson A. LaMoure, Jr., to
be collector of customs for the district
of North and South Dakota.
SHANGHAI Dr.. VIII Ting Fang
former minister TO Washington and
now secretary Of foreign affairs for
the rebel government, announced that
he believed the inapcrialists realized
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

That prohibition should have been
showed under an avalanche majority
of nearly sixty thousand at the recent
election in Los Angeles has been the
cause of much wonderment. Before
the elective franchise was conferred
upon women many regarded the max
ing of Los Angeles dry city among
the reasonable possibilities, but that
there should be such an Overwhelming
majority in favor of regulated traf-
fic, with the women voting, has oc-
casioned general surprise If the vote
cast on this question in Los Angeles
may be taken as criterion, the pro-
hibitionists have little to encourage
them in the enfranchisement of
women
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

The newspapers continue to talk Of
Wells NJ Irwin for public place and
official honors. The washington Press
SAYS:
Wells NJ. Irwin of Keokuk is being
mentioned as possible candidate for
congress. He was a standpatter the
last we knew, but recent evolutions
may have turned him over to La Fol-
lette. He is a man OF character and
force and would certainly stand for
something If nominated.
Wells NJ Irwin an insurgent! Not
while grass grows and water runs
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

state Superintendent Deyoe recent
y spent some time making investiga-
ton OF actual conditions where rural
schools have been consolidated and
are using the method of transporting
pupils from outlying districts. A Des
Moines correspondent reports that he
"as greatly pleased with what he
found. At Charlottesville, in Wash
frgton county, rich community. he
Went out over the hack routes, six in
number and travelled them with the
children, talking freely with teachers,
children and patrons. He failed to
find anywhere any complaint OF the
system and good many of the pa
irons confessed that whereas they
We're opposed to the system before il
was tried, now they would not advo
cate return TO the old system.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Canton, Me, excels as a fish market
and Kahoka in the same state is bid
ding for fame as turkey center. I'm
der the heading Turkeys Come to
Town the kahoka Free Press relates
the following in its current issue:
Sunday morning Messrs. Elwell &
kiFchner left Chambersburg for Ka-
hoka driving 32s fine. large turkeys.
On the way they sold one, On reach
ing the Ackland woods just north of
town night overlook them and they
camped for the night. ct early morn
citizens were startled to hear the
medley of gobbling and chirping of
this huge flock of birds as they enter
ed the city limite."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

quietly married to the Rev. A. H..
Hawkins. On July 8 the wedding
quests were at the church to attend
the ceremony that would unite Lady
Constance and the Rev. Hawkins, but
the bride failed to appear
1t was announced that she had left
the city. having decided that she did
not wish to marry.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

The School of Mothercraft is the
name of an institution opened in New
York last week where mothers may
learn all that it is necessary to know
about babies for the sum of from 81
to Sc week, while some instruction
will be given in the homes. DR. David
Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford Uni
versity made the opening speech the
other day, defining the object of the
school as the teaching of eugenics, the
art of bringing into the world desir-
able members and rearing them for
the best results. There is quite a
large faculty In connection with the
school, and everything that mothers
should know will be taught by experts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
LINCOLN sTEEEENs

Lincoln Steffens is a great big
brindle jass ack and we know it. He
wrote like fool about the Mcnamara
boys and in the language of Cyrenus
Cole Of the Cedar Rapids Republican,
Steffens is a fool. He wrote of them
as if they were heroes, calling them
heroes of labor" To hell with such
heroism.-W Washington Democrat.
"Them's" our sentiments!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Beet sugar production in the United
States has increased to 100000 tons,
a gain of $4,000 tons over 1910. The
agricultural department announces
that I'VE can make our sugar BY
doing it over s1oO,oO0,0O0 year
could be kept at home.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Next thing we know soliloauizes
the Iowa City Republican, they will
have shooting schools for the training
Of women who may want to shoot
their husbands. The need of such an
institution is not apparent Women
who want to shoot their husbands
Seem to be able to do SO without any
preliminary training.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Mrs. vermilya, the altered poisoner.
is reported to be recovering. The
Associated Press says she is regain
Ing the use of her voice" In the case
OF woman that is always good
sign. There is only one better desire
to sit UP and have her hair combed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

A movement is taking shape in Col
orado for the election OF Mrs. Sarah
Plat Decker to the United States SEN
ate to fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Senator Hughes The last
legislature failed to elect. What an
extra session would do remains to be
seen. but the solons are not subscrib-
ing to the Decker prospectus.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Has 1t ever occurred to Link Stef-
fens that he might poke his nose in
too far inquiries the Waterloo
TimesTribune.
The Burlington Gazette suggests
that it is about time to commence
saving UP the annual twenty-five
cents for fathers Christmas present.
The Dubuque Telgraph-Herald SAYS
that good many of the denunciations
of the McNamaras suggest condemna.
ton Of the confession rather than the
deed
According to the Washington Demo.
crat, church members chief dissi-
patton consists in going to a strange
church when his pastor is away from
home.
The Des Moines Tribune SAYS that
Mr.. Darrow will do well IL he comes
out of the Mcnamara trial without a
long question mark both as a citizen
and as a lawyer.
1T will take some hard thinking to
arrive at better remedy for trust
evils for the present. says the Wa.
terloo Courier, referring to President
Taft's recommendations
If an Objectionable postcard gets BY
"a postoffce substation superintendent
in Chicago ten demerit marks or one
point are marked against him Forty.
one points cuts a hole in his salary
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

Hon. Dan. Hamilton of sigourney
vas mentioned in these columns the
other day as a possible candidate for
the Democrats nomination for
governor. The Washington Democrat
does not think there is anything in the
report. 1t says he has quit the game,
out II he runs for governor the Demo
crat will be fur him.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

LONDoN.-Lady Constance Fol
jambe, half sister of the Earl OF Liver
pool, gave society another surprise
when 1t was announced she had been
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

warm in his praise for the seaman
ship of the commander Of the French
cruiser Priant, which rescued the pas
sengers of the Delhi.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14
the hopelessness of saving the
dynasty.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -Bloodhounds,
procured by the police in an attempt
to trace the murderer OF year old
Myrtle Vance refused to take any
trail either from the house or from the
place the child's body was found. The
actions of the dogs are not under
stood by the police and the latter are
entirely baffIed as they had relied on
the hounds to provide a clew. The
child was stabbed in the neck, appar-
entity with pocket knife and her skull
crushed in. Mrs. Vance had gene to
the spring for water and was not alb
sent fifteen minutes when she found
Myrtle dead a short distance from the
house. The mother and an uncle OF
the child, arrested ON suspicion, we're
released
SPRINGFIELD. II. The secretary
of state issued articles OF incorporation
to MISUNDERSTANDING Company, OF
Centralia. capital $4,000. The com
pany will do 2 general retail dry goods
business. The incorporators are:
Harry E. Whitaker, Cora Whitaker and
E 3 Mcfarland.
SPRINGFIELD. Ill.-The Gibson
Pharmacy ct Rockford was incorporate
ed with capital Of $500. The in
Icorporatcrs are: Joseph M. Gibson,
Martha E. Gibson and Mary e Demp-
sey..
LONDON.--Worn out by their thrill
ing experiences aboard the wrecked
steamer Delhi. the Duke and Duchess
tof Fife and their daughters, Alexan-
dra and Maud, were landed at light
house at Cape Shartel last evening.
They will be picked up this morning by
q British warship. The duke was
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

According to Alex Miller, about the
only excitement in country town on
Sunday is singing in the choir.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-14

The Omaha Bee has noticed that q
fast young man generally makes 9
slow old one.