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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
EIEcIRlclIY IN THE HONE.

One Of the most modern homes of
this progressive age is soon to be
completed at Lindsay, Cal. This up
to-date domicile will be thoroughly
equipped with every modern electrical
convenience for lighting, cooking,
heating and cooling.
Electric radiators in the mantels
will warm the various rooms. and by
this same SURGE Of energy the rooms
viii be kept cool during the hot days
of summer by a motor-driven refriger-
ating machine located in the base
ment which will circulate cool air
through the house In the kitchen the
electric range, supplemented by a
fireless cooker, will be used to prepare
the meals. Outlets viii be provided
in all the rooms for the use Of auxili-
airy electric heating devices. The wiz
ing will be most convenient. Conceal
ed switches will operate all or any OF
the lights from every convenient
place The porch light can be turned
on when entering the room and turned
OF from the bedside Master switches
viii illuminate the whole house and
light is always available whenever and
wherever wanted
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
ELIMINATE The AGE LIMIT.

A meeting has been called IN Chica-
90 to aid in eliminating the age limit
from applications for employment.
Among other facts set forth are the
following:
ITO adopt a rule barring those OF
a certain age from employment in
the productive industries OF mod
ern life is unjust, unreasonable,
illogical, barbarous and indefensible.
Unjust, because it drives a man
into the army of the unemployed
solely because he has lived to reach
the age limit arbitrarily established
and without any fault on his part.
Unreasonable. because man at As
is in the very meridian of his power
for useful effort, with disciplined
and trained mind
illogical, because the establish.
ment and enforcement OF such limi-
tation has a tendency to destroy
worthy ambition when life's period Of
productive industry is only half spent,
and the shadow of such limitation
disheartens and induces hopelessnesg
"Barbarous, because it ignores the
fact that most workers at that age are
the fathers of young, innocent and de.
pendent children, who are stricken
cruelty, without fault on their part
by the shutting off of the parents from
continued contribution to their needs
'Indefensible, from every point OF
view. These workers are so far the
creatures of circumstances over which
they have no control that they are
worked like beasts Of burden, without
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
IOWA

Matte Locke Macomber In Des
Moines Capital. A November day in
Iowa, out and across country by
train or car, thrills the soul
and charms the senses. Early in the
morning there is low hung curtain
OF suspended moisture that may de-
scend to bless our fields; but, no, the
rising sun breaks through and dispeis
the mist we look up and overhead is
the blue sky fecked with soft, white
clouds. AS we speed along, our eyes
are gieddened by pleasant land
scape: gently undulating ground
where farm follows farm up the slopes
and over the hills; where every acre
is under cultivation and made to adu
its quota to the riches of our state.
Why is it that in crossing Iowa
from north to south, from east to west,
one always has the Impression of great
wealth. 1t must be from knowledge;
knowledge that in each furrow lies
the potentially of a golden harvest;
knowledge that, here in Iowa, the reap
er follows the sower with unyarying
regularity Truly. old Mother Nature
was in mild, benefcent mood when
she fashioned our fair state. She fin
|ished laying out the land. raised high
her cornucopia and poured out grains,
and fruits, and flowers: then breathed
assurance of abundant rain.
The thought comes to me that No
yember is really the beginning of the
new year. In August. the forces of
nature are at their lowest ebb: in
September, there is slight stirring:
in October, little stronger. But We
are SO busy then, gathering in anu
garnering that we give little heed to
signs and tokens. But in November,
our eyes are opened and we feel the
first faint flutterings of the New Year.
Already the lilac buds. and fruit buds
have started, safe and warm in their
downy coverings and waxy coats: the
frass roots have taken firmer hold.
In spring Nature dons a cling
ing garment of changing greens;
Just now she has put on a
mantle of palest sepia. Everywhere
we see brown; tints and shades of
beautiful brown; even in the fall
pioughed fields that stretch away to-
ward the grey brown of the naked
trees that edge their borders, and the
same note of color is found in the
velvety shadows of the grove that
crowns each hillside.
In the spring and summer, we look
at trees and see the leaves; but in the
fall and winter we behold their struc.
tural beauty and observe their in
Idividual characteristics; the oak,
haughtily Indifferent; the elm, sway
ing and bending, is conciliatory; the
cottonwood, an upstart, staring boldly
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
NOTES AND COMMENT,

Presidential politics will be the
principal business before the coming
session of congress, says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil
The Leon Journal SAYS that no one
with good sense would accept Roose.
yelt's opinion on legal question in
preference to that OF the President.
with the horse, if it isn't flies, it's
apt to be the absence of blanket. Is
it any wonder that sometimes the
horse kicks?' asks the Sioux City
Journal.
Alex Miller complains that he is al
ways reading about wedding bells,
but he has waited patiently for forty
six years and has never heard any of
them.
IF Theodore Roosevelt should be
the Republican nominee for President
( he would be the worst beaten man
who ever ran for that Office" asserts
the Burlington Gazette.
1T is very. very hard for the lion
hunter to sit on the fence and watch
the procession file by" says the Jei
ferson Free Lance. IF he can't head
the procession he feels like throwing
stones at the bandwagon.''
Those who thought that Jane.
Wilson might be driven from the cabi
net with Collier abuse lid not know
the venerable scotchman," says the
Monticello Express. He might BIZ
reasoned with, bnt nobody ever drove
him.
W. J Barnes relates the following
in the Springfield Register: An oil
( colored man named London was yer,
religious, and very boastful Of VIVA
he would do when the Lord called him
When nah time comes he frequent
ly said, the Lord Is gBinter send hi
frey chariot straight for me and II
be ready when IT comes" Well, tn.
boys put up joke on the old man on
night and they went around 10 hi
cabin aud made a great noise witt
4 horns and lighted torches. When th,
old man heard them, he opened tn,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

NJ. Harnagel home in Pennington.
Monday.
Mrs. W. A. Switzerland is visiting
in our city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aug Hotop and chill
dren spent Sunday near yiele.
Miss Viola Best of Csntril Is visit
ing with Miss Edna Baust
E. H. Hennies was Keokuk visit
or Friday.
Mrs. Chas. Holdefer visited in West
Point and FIT Madison last week.
John Gompf, who has been serious
ly ill the past several weeks, seems to
be slowly improving.
The Misses Bank and Wagner OF
Keokuk are visiting at the VIM. Hen
MES home.
Rev. VIM. Kreis preached a very
interesting sermon at the G. E. church
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
DonhELLsoN.
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Rev. VIM. Kreis was Burlington
visitor the fore part OF last week.
Misses Leila Haggett and Elsie
Bode of Keokuk are visiting their
friend. Miss Beulah Meinhardt
Quite few from here attended the
pie social at No. 2 Saturday evening.
Herbert and Jake Renz have re-
turned home from their trip to North
Dakota.
Mrs. NJ. r. Helm was an over Sun
day visitor In Mt Pleasant.
There will be Thanksgiving SER
vice at the O. f. church Thnrsday
morning to which all are cordially in.
yited.
A. &C. Hurgchier was Burlington
visitor last Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. e. Barnes OF La.
Crew visited in Cantril Monday.
About SO friends Of Chris slicher
gathered at his homo last Thursday
evening TO help him celebrate his
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
GAS ON THE
STOMACH.
Distressing Symptom of a Form
of Stomach Trouble Which
DR.. Williams Pink Pills
VIII Cure

When the blood is poor and thin, and
the stomach in consequence is iInper-
fectly supplied with well-oxidized blood
and nerve force, the digestive process
becomes slow and fermentation of the
food goes on, with formation OF gas and
certain acids.
The pressure OF the gas causes pain
In the stomach; sometimes it affects the
heart. When the gas is belched out
through the mouth the patient is tenn
porarily relieved. The sour risings in
the throat and burning sensations in
the throat and stomach are caused by
the acids OF fermentation.
There are plenty of things 80 neutra-
lie these acids, or, "swecten the
stomach as it ia called, but they do
not cure the trouble. Pure rich blood
which VIII tone up the stomach is re-
CURED, as this case shows.
Mr. c. +. Randall, farmer, whose
address is Box SO, Cedar Junction, Kan. !,
says:
About twelve years ago / had a
severe attack Of stomach trouble which
followed general run -down condition
of my health / cannot describe the
severe pains / had across the pit Of my
stomach. 1t often seemed es though
there was heavy pressure there. Many
q time have sat up in bed with cramps
in the stomach which were 80 terrible
that could not get to sleep. After eat
ing would generally have sour stom-
ach and be troubled with gas.
had been sick for about year
or more when DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People we're recommended to
me. | started using them and felt bet
ter in short time / continued to use
the pills until ] was cured.
The vigor and strength which comes
from a healthy stomach and q perfect
digestion can only be obtained by keep
ing the blood pure and red. Sufferers
from top much gas or acid on the stoni-
| ach, heartburn, tenderness or pains
through the pit OF the stomach or any
form OF indigestion cannot do better
than to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
The pills are for saie by all druggists,
or will be cent, postpaid, upon recent
OF price, so cents per box; Elk boxes for
$3.50, by the Dr.. Williams Medicine
Company, Schenectady, n. Y. Send
for our free diet booklet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Cabeil declares that the double sys-
tenn of taxing oleomargarine- cents
per pound on the colored and one
fourth OF cent per pound on the IN
colored products corrupting groc-
ers and putting q premium on fraud.
Mr.. Cabell recommends that the oleo
tax be abolished in its present form
and that single standard tax be pro
yided, with an inhibition against sell
ing oleo In packages weighing more
than FIVE pounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The postoffce department is justly
praised by Philadelphia paper as
one of the greatest forces in the moral
uplift- Attention is directed to the
fact that pretty much everybody who
is doing any sort Of crooked business
can be held for fraudulent use OF the
mails, and the postal officials are SO
vigilant that anyone who tries to get
money from others by the absent
treatment is pretty sure to fall into
their hands
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

twenty-second birthday anniversary.
The evening was pleasantly passea IN
games and music. ice cream, cake,
home made candy and peanuts were
served. All departed for their homes
at late hour, having spent pleas
ant evening, wishing Chris many
happy returns and thanking Mr. and
Mrs. Slicher for their kind hospitality
Mrs. P. A. Wiegner accompanied by
her mother. Mrs. c. NJ. Esworthy,
and grandson, F1aising Nichols, OF
Brookfield, Mo-, were over Sunday Wis
itors in our city. They in company OF
Mrs. d. E. Wiegner visited at the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The postofhce department would
like to have Christmas packages sent
as soon as possible If desired such
packages may bear label saying, DO
not open until Christmas. Write the
address in full, county, street or num-
Der on the package. with ink or cray
on, as tags are frequently torn off and
lost. If charges are prepaid write
word Paid" also on the package wrap
per. Somewhere on the package
write your own address after the
word From and inclose card in
the package that ron may be notified
IL other address is lost Use strong
paper and tie with cords and write
word "perishable1 If necessary and
this will insure special attention and
prompt delivery.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The statesaided normal schools are
reported by Inspector Mahannah to be
making good progress and to be doing
excellent work. He has Just returned
from visit to number of these
high schools where the normal course
is in force and finds that the students
enrolled for the normal work are TAX.
Ing much interest in 1t and that the
instruction is excellent In nearly all
cases either the superintendent or the
principal OF the schools is giving the
special instruction in pedagogy.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
TIE PRICE,


Whatever of freedom we own,
Somebody has striven and tried for
it.
BY war through the years it has
grown,
BY strength of the men who have
died for it.
Each stone in the structure of truth
Some one has made ready and right
for it,
Some one has spent hearts blood and
youth,
Some one has been willing to fgh,
for it.
Not always has blood been the pay.
But always price has been paid
for it,
The worth of achievement today
is gagged by the struggle we've
made for it;
There need not be rancor or hate.
Nor bitterness. terror and blight for
IL,
But nothing is worthy or great
Unless you are willing to fight 70,
it.
You cannot buy progress with gold
(You can get but the emptiest shell
OF it,,
But to win it and earn it and hold
You must go through the heat and
the hell of 1t.
You must suffer the sweat and the
pain.
You must toll all the day and the
night for il,
For nothing worth while you can gain
Unless you are willing to fight for
it.
-Berton Braley.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

It should be generally known that
post cards with tinsel on them must
be enclosed in envelopes in order to
go through the mails. Furthermore,
that the postage stamp should be
placed on the envelopes and not on
the card. The envelope should be seal
ed and bear q two-cent stamp. Fail
ure TO observe these requirements re
suits in such cards being withdrawn
from the mails and destroyed
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Sunday evening, 1t being the fourth
anniversary of the Jugend verein.
The choir and society also sang some
fine selections They were accomp.
anied by an orchestra composed of
Mr. and Mrs. l.. E. Haffner. Mrs.
Peter Lang. Miss julia Roth, Hugh
Meinhardt and Irwin Sell.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
Coughing at Might

Means a loss 0. sleep which is bad
for everyone Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound stops the cough at
once. relieves the tickling and dry.
ness In the throat and heals the In
famed membranes. Prevents a cold
developing into bronchitis or pneu-
monia. Keep always In the house.
Refuse substitutes. Wilkinson & Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Andrew Carnegie was seventy-six
years of age last Friday and he has
given away three million dollars for
each year Of his age. Here's hoping
he will succeed in his efforts to die
poor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The question whether one man may
hold the Offices of mayor and justice
of the peace al the same time, under
our Iowa general Incorporation law.
has been decided in the affirmative by
the district court OF Winnebago coun-
II. The court held that the Offices
are not incompatible and the law does
not prevent the same person from
holding both
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Speaker Champ Clark says If the
Democrats hold their own and gain
eight hundred thousand votes they
can select President next year. Yes
IF. But as the Democrats didn't hold
their own in the recent fall elections
the outlook is far from encouraging tc
them.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Mr.. Hearst says Roosevelt was the
most boisterous, bombasting, disturb
Ing President" the United States has
ever had. 1t is apparent to the Peoria
Herald-Transcript from this that Mr.
Hearst thinks but little more of Mr.
Roosevelt than Mr. Roosevelt does OF
Mr.. Hearst.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The statement comes from Manila
that We can be ready on twenty four
hours notice to send $500 armed and
trained men to China to assist in the
protection of American interests there.
The fact is strong argument In favor
Of retaining the Philippines. We need
them TO safeguard onr extensive inter
ests in the Orient
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The Omaha Bee calls attention to
the fact that this is the first time
Mr.. Bryan was ever shipwrecked in
an "off" year. The incident is not
without value as showing that Mr..
Bryan, like death, has oil seasons for
his own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Terse statement of the situation by
the Sioux City Journal: Colonel
Roosevelt asks his friends not to
talk of him for President Otherwise
It's all right.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

even the hope OF q pension stipend Z
The presentment Is strong one
and entitled to thoughtful considera-
ton. It Is to be hoped that the move
ment against the age limit viii be
crowned with success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01
IHouahr EoR IHE DAY.

The ink of the wise is more yalu.
able than the blood of the martyrs
Ebert Hubbard.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Kin Hubbard calls attention to the
fact that there is always something
brewing in Milwaukee to stagger
humanity.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

door just little bit and said: who
dat out dar?" One of the boys yelled
back, De Lor' dun sem his frey char
lot for old Lunnon,' and then the old
man turned as pale as a colored man
can and screamed out at them: Drive
along, drive along. There amt no
such pusson heah. Dat ole niger
been daid three weeks.
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can says there isn't much doubt that
half the anti-La Follettes, most OF the
pro-La Follettes and one-third of the
Democrats would be tickled to death
were Roosevelt 10 shy his caster into
the ring.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The protest of turkey in America,
as well az that of Turkey in Europe,
Asia and Africa. came too late.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Poetry is defined by George Fitch
as the science of teaching thought to
shake its feet. Not bad, By any
means.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Kansas calls itself progressive, but
it hasn't got beyond tarring ana
feathering women school teachers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

This Chr.stmasy weather is still an
other reminder to do your holioa,
shopping early.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Good evening, How's your indiges-
ton by this time?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Iowa Dec. 1, 1911
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

With the horse, if it isn't flies, it's
apt to be the absence of blanket. Is
it any wonder that sometimes the
horse kicks?" asks the Sioux City
Journal
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Presidential politics will be the
principal business before the coming
session of congress, says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

The Leon Journal SAYS that no one
with good sense would accept Roose-
yelt's opinion on a legal question in
preference to that OF the President.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-01

Whatever Of freedom we own,
Somebody has striyen and trie
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-01
TEACHER SAYS WORLD
IS TOO EASY FOR BOYS
They Are Not Made To DO Household
Work, While Girls Are Handi-
capped by Home Duties.

LONDON. Jan. 31.-"oHme duties
are one of the most serious handicaps
that girls have to contend against"
said Mrs. Bryantfi head-mistress OF
North London Collegiate School for
Girls. In lecture at the College or
Preceptors.
She complained that boys were not
made to do them fair share OF house
hold work. but allowed to spend their
time in their own way. There was
always something for a girl to do In
the house, and her time for study was
seriously curtailed, but II was under
stood in most households that boy
should have everything done for him.
This was bad for the boy as well as
unfair TO his sister.
Even when the children were older
and working for the same examina-
ton, such as the matriculation, the
girl always had more outside duties
than the boy. A. boy Of seventeen or
eighteen was expected to be helpless
and to be unable to do anything for
himself, but there would have TO be
n revolution In the household before
anything could be done for the girl.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-01
MATRIMONIAL CAKE.

"Of course not; know the type.
that's all. You see an amending pro-
cession of them passing through the
divorce court"
Don't they ever draw the sweet
variety OF matrimonial plum?"
Il thought you would come to that"
said the Flirt, with superior air.
Nobody draws xf1e sweet variety; II
has to be made. Marriages are like
cakes: in the main the plans and
specifications of all are pretty much
alike. The fayoring determines the
final desirability OF the article. Two
cakes exactly alike In all respects, ex-
cept that one was favored with aloes
and one with vanilla, would taste as
different as IL they were never CON-
posed of the same ingredients"
why cant the girl who is crazy
to get married use vanilla In her
matrimonial cake-or some equally
agreeable fiavor?"
Because the agreeable fiavors are
rIade up of love and companionship;
the two things she ignores when she
becomes crazy to marry'--on general
principles"
But love and companionship don't
always come"
well. I'd rather do without cake
than to eat mine seasoned with
aioes"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-01
ALL AROUND THE HOME.

:, Before broiling a slice of ham rub
brown sugar on 1t. The ham will
have a delicious flavor.
Cut cold boiled sweet potatoes into
slices, sprinkle them with salt and
pepper; dot thickly with butter and
sprinkle thickly with sugar. Put them
into a baking tin in hot over to
brown.
To keep patent leather shoes look
ing well, rub them with olive oil on
taking them on the feet. Before wear
ing them again. rub well with clean
cloth.
Allow 2 level tablespoons OF baking
powder to each cup Of -four where no
eggs are used in the baking.
A wire dish-drainer placed on top
OF the stove makes a fine broadcast
err The bread will toast quickly with
out burning.
One OF the most invigorating OF
baths is obtained by the use OF the
following mixture. Upon half pound
each OF dried rosemary and dried
thyme pour quarts OF boiling water.
Then put in half pound OF bicar-
Donate of soda and let the mixture
stand for, half an hour. Strain 1t at
terward and add to II 1 pint OF rose
water. Use a quart OF this mixture 10