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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18

Horace Whitehouse will give pro-
gram on 1.-THE Music of the Father
land"
ed by the executive board to investi-
gate the matter of a transition from a
federation of clubs to a federation OF
women, have drafted a constitution for
ably be organized as an outgrowth of
the federation, and this constitution
will be submitted at the next fedora
ton meeting which will take place
mended for it's acceptance The new
constitution is very similar to the con-
stitution of the federation
The sorosis club will meet satur-
day. November Is, with Mrs. W. r.
Stubs.
The Chandos club will meet Thurs
day of next week with Mrs D. T. Pax
ton, at her home on West Tenth street
The Nautilus club will have a so
cial meeting Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Paul Lovewell, at her home 1871
Mulvane street
The Thursday study club met
Thursday afternoon with mrs Harry
Forbes. The program Tor the after
noon was given to the study OF some
famous plays and players Miss Love
LA Hiltv read a paper on the play
EVERY Woman" which has recently
become popular in this country Round
table talk was brief notices of famous
actors seen by the different members
Thirty of the High School girls of
Hutchinson have organized literary
club which they call the McCarter So
ciety in compliment to Mrs. Margaret
Hill McCarter. The purpose OF the
club is to gain efficiency in debate and
public speaking and to engage in liter
arv St1IdV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18

The Sorosis club will meet Satur-
day. November 25, with Mrs. W. r.
Stubbs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18
McCandIass May Get In.

Some of the papers are boosting ". W.
McCandless, the present county attorney
of Lincoln county. Harry Gray, one of the
successful farmers of Osborne county.
may be induced to take whdrI at con-
gressionaI politics. and there is Fred
Robertson of Rawlins county, state SEN
ator from the Thirty-ninth district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18

the meetings are expecting a good
many people from eastern Kansas to
attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-18

ostun Cereal Company Limited, Battle Creek Michigan.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

Chancellor LLOYD George of the
British exchequer has made public
the outline of his proposed scheme of
government insurance against sick
ness and invalidity. which soon will
be introduced as bill in the COM
mons. The main provision Of the bill
is compulsory insurance against SER
ious sickness and incapacity for work
for the whole laboring population of
the country whose incomes are below
$500 year and within the age limits
of sixteen and seventy. At the latter
age the old-age system would begin
to apply. There is to be no selection
Of risks, but strong and weak alike
are to have this protection in case of
need, and there is to be no time limit
except the discontinuance OF incapac-
ity, the minimum allowance TO be
$120 a week and the maximum the
same amount. The premium to be
paid the government for this insur-
ance has not yet been worked out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
kAHokA, MO.
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julius F. Storms, of Keithsburg, H.,
was killed by Santa Fe train last
Friday morning The body was badly
mangled Coroner Reese was notified
and held an Inquest The parents of
the unfortunate young man reside at
West Fork, Ark. The body will be
inferred in Kakoka Wednesday. The
fatal accident occurred some three
miles west OF Medill.
Editor Melvin. of Lancaster, was a
Kahoka visitor Monday.
]. P. Scott has sold 40 acres OF his
Smith Consideration $4,000,
SiIas Fairbrother departed Tuesday
on business trip to Tennessee.
Stephen A. Douglass and Miss FL
dora Boeger, Of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
were united in marriage Saturday by
Rev. r. NJ. Houchens, of Kahoka.
Morgan Hanslow and wife arrived
Friday from Kansas and have gone to
housekeeping in the Duvall property.
Clarence Wade and daughter, of
Kirksville. were Kahoka visitors Fri
day to Sunday evening.
A telegram was received in Kahoka
Monday morning announcing the
death OF Martin o. Bogus, at Trim
idad, Colo. Deceased ID son of Mr..
and Mrs, r. M. Bogus, OF kahoka,
and was 81 years of age. He was
married in 1909 to Miss Francis MI.
1er of South Carolina, who, with the
parents and one brother, Grover, sur.
vive. The body is expected to arrive
in Kahoka Wednesday for interment
Elmer Cutting and family have
moved TO Atlantic, Mo.
Relatives here have received tele-
gram announcing the death at Los
Angeles, California, OF Mrs. David
Eakin, a former resident Of kahoka.
Deceased was aged SIS wears, and is
survived by her husband, two daugb.
tiers and one son. A sister, Mrs John
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
WHAT CONSTITUTES a GIVE

& :
Apropos the local campaign entered
upon with so much enthusiasm in the
interest of Greater Keokuk, it may
be of interest to inquire just how We
should regard community of people
living together in the infinitely COM
pick relationships of the modern mu-
nicipality. A writer in recent mum
Der of the Survey traces in an inter
esting manner the evolution of theory
regarding the real nature of city.
The city In its present form. ac
cording to this writer. is really very
new thing in modern life. A hundred
years ago about 81 per cent OF our
population was rural Only three per
cent was urban Now the conditions
are vastly changed In many of the
more thickly populated states the pro-
portion of urban population is SO per
cent, while for the country as whole
it is now about fifty per cent. The
recent census disclosed the fact that
while the population Of the entire
country increased 81 per cent, the
ratio of the increase in the cities OF
$4,000 and over was 81 per cent. IT
shows Enthusiastically that the drift
cityward is still on. and it warns us
also that the problems of the great
city are likely to become more stu
pendous and serious in the future.
The writer in the Survey mention
ed points out three distinct stages of
evolution in our ideals of city govern
ment. There was first the. period
when the city was regarded as rich
field for exploitation by the politician.
This tendency was conspicuous in the
period following the Civil War when
the city began to assume Importance
in our national life.
As reaction against this concep-
ton of the politician there followed
the ideal Of the city as big business
corporation. and the demand for the
administration of municipal affairs on
the business basis, Just as private
corporation would be managed with
view to the maximum of efficiency.
This is good as far as it goes, but
there Is still another step, which is be
ing urged now by students of affairs.
The city is great family to be guard
ed, guided, protected, controlled and
uplifted. The author says, "The true
conception of the city is that drawn.
not after the pattern of the business
office, but after the pattern of the
home This is long step forward.
but after all. why shouldn't it be ulti-
mately practical ideal?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

Hon. Robert G. Cousins has been
selected as the orator at the Dolliver
memorial exercises which the Iowa
general assembly will hold in the
early part of March The selection is
a most happy and fitting one. Dolli-
yer and Cousins were closely asso-
ciated in national legislation for a
long time and delivered many adj
dresses from the same platforms.
The gift of eloquence belonged in
common to both and they had many
tastes and aspirations in common.
Better. than any other man in Iowa
Mr.. Cousins is qualified to do honor
to the life aud labors of his departed
friend.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

The federal bureau, In a bulletin
Just issued. publishes the statistics of
coal mine accidents for the last TWEEN
ty years. In that period the number
of fatalities was 1929 and the rate
per thousand was 81, which is high
er than that of any other coal field
nation. The rate varies in different
sections markedly, that for the mid
die western states of the soft coal
belt being 2.25, while that of the far
west rose to ga in Colorado and sew
en- in Washington. In 1908 more than
100000 men were engaged in the
American coal industry. The most i'm
portant single cause of accidents is
fall of mine roof, accounting for 46
per cent of them, while explosions
comes second. accounting for % per
cent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

year that consumers pay to retailers
merely because the latter are In po-
sition to exact it.
One-tenth the expense of maintain
ing the American dining table is made
up of Just such itemsitems which
Justice would demand should MOI
exist.
1t is asserted by an economist that
true frugality and economy never can
come to the American people until
they learn to recognize the imports
ance of a sum less than fifty cents
until they realize that there exists
the humble penny. the nickel and
even the dime.
There is great deal in this matter
worthy of consideration, even if some
people will think their corns are being
trodden upon when the subject is
brought out into public view.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

When Canadian reciprocity is men
toned the senior Iowa senator rs like
a bound boy at a husking-he has
nothing to say. A Washington dis
patch under date of the Goth ult
pictured him as suffering from
aphasia, as follows.
Senator Cummins showed indica-
tons today of the loss of speech
when asked for expression of his
ideas on senatorial primaries and
Canadian reciprocity.
THE senator is credited here with
counting publicity on all questions at
all times. but just at present he is
exceedingly moderate. 1t is easier to
get an interview from Senators Lodge,
Aldrich and Hale now than it is to
induce Senator Cummins to talk on
senatorial primaries and Canadian
reciprocity or free trade on farm
products -
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
IRON BAROMETER RISING.

1t is an encouraging report of the
iron business which is made by the
Iron Trade Review in its current
number. 1t speaks of the advance of
a dollar ton in the price of all wire
products and the withdrawal of low
quotations on spikes. which repre-
sents an advance. The placing of New
York Central rail orders to the extent
of over $4,000 tons, the acceptance
OF the Pennsylvania Company's rail
orders and heavier speculations, with
more general inquiry for finished
steel products. These things are
spoken of as the principal develop
ments OF that market during the last
week
1 The Review says that while it is
generally believed that bookings in
January would be comparatively light
some report that orders entered dur
Ing the first % days of the month ex-
coed those OF the corresponding per
iod in December Now business is
bright and orders are coming from
greater number OF sources, that the
general advance in wire, though a sur
prise. is we'll received and expected TO
have good effect on market condi-
tons.
4 1t is generally understood that the
iron trade is very much of barome.
ter of the business record and is re.
garded as quite safe indicator OF
how market is moving. whether In /.
healthy way or backward one. SO
that this report must be regarded as
distinctly favorable for a wider range
Of business. The U. S. Steel COMPANY
has an uncommonly large proportion
of its mills out of blast and something
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Williford, of Kahoka, also survives,
Interment at Los Angeles.

lnterment at Los Angeles.
Sam Fulton, of Oklahoma, is the
guest of his parents in Kahoka.
Mrs. e. J. Beckwith has returned
from her Keoluk visit.
Monday night at 10 o'clock death
claimed another of Kahokas oldest
citizens. in the person of j. r. Shep-
herd. Deceased was aged so years,
and came to Missouri in 1855. The
wife and following children survive:
j. +. Shepherd, OF Revere; w. E,
Shepherd of Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mrs. ]. A Christy, Revere; Mrs. !.
r. Doran, Wichita, Kansas. Funeral
services conducted from the NJ. e.
church Wednesday. at 2 o'clock by
Rev. w. F. Laidley Interment In
Kahoka cemetery.
A large land deal was consummated
Monday whereby the Wormhoudt
brothers of Kahoka and Pella. Iowa,
become the owners of tho fine SOC
acre stock farm near Granger, Mo,
owned by the Miller brother,
Edwin Bourgeois has leased the
motion picture show In Kahoka.
Grandma Druse celebrated her saith
birthday on January a. She was Civ
en- post card shower and birthday
dinner at the home OF her daughter.
Mrs. VIM McNally.
John Daugherty. of near Wyaconda
liz reported TO have met death Mon.
day in peculiar manner. He was
cutting a tree when portion fell
and struck him in the face. breaking
his neck. Further particulars OF the
sad accident are not obtainable.
| Senator Carriers primary bill to
elect United States senators by direct
vote, met defeat in the Missouri leg.
islative committee room. Since Mis-.
souri, has shown disposition to 20
republican there is a noticeable fall
ing off in the clamor of Missouri
democrats for direct vote for this
Office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
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WARSAW, ILL.
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Miss Ethel Brinkman entertained a
party OF her young lady friends Mon
day afternoon
MIS- Alton, an aged lady who has
been in feeble health for some time
died on Sunday night last, at her
nome, corner of Fifth and Clay SITS
The remains We're taken to LaHarpe
Monday afternoon.
.. r, Marsh and wife arrived from
Montana Sunday, having been sum.
moned here because Of the serious ill
ness OF Mrs. Marsh's brother Gerard
Mayer. son Of supt. Mayer of Huis-
Ramps shoe factory. Gerard Is hold
Ing his own, but lie not yet out OF
danger.
Mrs. Kate Roth and Mrs. George
kisto are quite i'll.
Last evening the Epworth League
OF the German M. e. church gave
pleasant surprise to Miss Lulu Kiln
gel in honor of her birthday.
Warsaw is receiving inquiries as to
factory locations almost every day.
though she has not organized yet, nor
advertised. She intends to do both
and that, shortly.
Louis Schmidt is putting up the fix.
lures OF the new bank VIM. 0rtmann
has the contract for the painting.
Tons of buffalo and carp are being
taken out Of the river and sloughs be-
low town.
Warsaw will soon have another
lawyer. young st. Louis man; he
Will have Offices over the new bank.
1t Is currently report that the Keo-
kulS and Hamilton Water Power Co.
has bought the old distillery property
on the T. P. & w. about 1M miles
north OF Main street, and within the
city limits; it Is said the deal was
made last week
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Round Numbers In Prices.

Jacksonville Courier: Extravaganza
is a national sin in America and no.
where is it more in evidence than
among the common people-those with
just about enough income to tide over
from one months end to the next. And
1t Is not all the fault Of those who
spend the money, either. Those who
furnish our shoes, clothing, foodstuffs
and the Ike are responsible for con-
siderable OF It. Some critics might
regard 1t as extravaganza, but 1t is
thing thing of expanding money in
round numbers.
When one goes to purchase a pair
of shoes or hat, for instance, one
never in a modern and high class es-
tablishment hears Of either selling at
other than even dollars or half dol
Iars-even though the cost may be in
fractions of a cent. For example, q
hat selling at wholesale at s2s will re-
fail at SO, $3.50 or 81 And SO with
shoes and other furnishings One sell
dom hear OF necktie selling for 9TH
er prices than those which may be
built UP of quarters" or halves" So
with shirts and almost all mems wear
ables. It also runs likewise IN cloth
ing and almost all things which IT is
necessary for the consumer to pur-
chase OF course this may be the re-
suit Of our money being so handy
handled in such round sums. Again
II may be mere custom.
Only recently, because of the actor
of nations which export coffee largely
to the United States, the price of that
staple has been raised by the jobbef
possibly cent or two or even three
added to the price the retailer pays
for the stuff. Probably nine out OF
ten retailers the country over boost
the price five cents a pound, not being
willing to permit the consumer fd
merely pay the increased cost, bui
demanding or exacting an additional
cent or two or three.
On coffe alone this extra penny o.
/ two amounts to millions of dollars
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
The Dead PUSSY Cat.


You's as stiff an as cold as stone,
Little cat!
Dey's done frowed out, and left you
alone.
Little cat!
rs strokin' you's fur,
But you don't never purr,
Nor hump up anywhere,
Little cat
Wy is dat.
ID you purrin' and humpin' up done?
An wy fer is your little foot tied.
Little cat?
Did they pizen you's tummick inside,
Little cat?
Did dey pound you wifi bricks,
Or VIII big nasty sticks,
Or abuse you VIII kicks.
Little caty
Tell me dat
Did they holler w'enever you cwied?
Did It hurt very bad wen you died,
Little cat?
Oh wy didn't you wun off an hide,
Little cat?
! is wet In my eyes
Cause most always cwise
Wen a pussy cat dies,
Little cat?
Tink of dat.
An rs awfully solly besides.
Dest lay still dere down in de soft
gwoun,
Little cat,
While l tucks de gween gwass all
awoun,
Little cat,
Den can't hurt you no more,
Wen you's tired an so sore,
BEST sleep twiet you pore
Little cat,
Wifi a pat,
An fordet all de kicks of de town.
+. Author Unknown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

A California legislator has discov-
cred way to make all bad boys good.
He has introduced bill to hold faith
ers legally responsible for the mis-
chief of their boys. The idea, of
course, is to make fathers more at
tentive to their sons behavior, to
keep them from becoming nuisance
to other people. Fathers would be
expected to find their consolation in
passing the punishment ON to their
sons. Looks as If the arrangement
might work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

The Republicans of Iowa seem to
he rushing headlong into the Oregon
primary plan. The party leaders are
blind as bats to the result. The
clear-headed Iowa City Republican
says of the situation and the out
look:
Each faction realizes that under
the Oregon system. it can defeat the
candidate OF the opposing faction by
turning to the Democrats. but neither
realizes that the same tactics will be
used in return. Cummins is for the
bill. 1t will decapitate him polite
ally, but maybe he expects to be in
the presidential chair before the new
unlpary law would be effective"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
California Weather in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Gazette We wish
those people who went to California
to escape the alleged rigors of an
Iowa winter could have been in Iowa
this week. We have been having
California winter weather here. They
did not need to spend their money and
go SO far to see fogs. and slush, and
rain. and mud Most Iowa people
prefer the regular Iowa weather to
the kind they have on the coast. They
nrefer the snow and the cold. The
breezy cr.spness that gives a glow to
the cheek. elasticity to the step. and
a keenness to the appetite. TO be
sure. when the thermometer hovers
around twenty below and the wind
blows like Sam Patch, we feel little
digcomforted. But the number of
disagreeable days in Iowa in winter
time is not numerous.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

A bill, which will be introduced in
the next congress by Victor Berger,
the Socialist member from Milwau-
kee, proposes that the government
pension at the rate of s12 a month
every wage-worker over sixty years of
age. In a statement of his intention
Berger estimates that the total of
persons for whom this pension will
be available is about 100000, which
means that the law will cost about
s144, 900 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

Professor Elwood of the University
of Missouri says that men care more
for blondes than for brunettes, but the
twenty girls who are reported en-
gagged at Wellesley College disprove
his statement, and also that Of the
marriage license clerks OF Philadel-
phia, who have found the greater
number of brides to be blondes. Not
one of the twenty Wellesley girls is
3 distinct blonde.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Surgery has achieved the remark

Surgery has achieved the remark
able feat OF curing blindness by the
insertion of glass lense into the hui
man eye. DR.. William C. Winslow,
noted archaeologist of Boston, now
past seventy, is enabled TO resume
his studies after four years OF blind
ness by such an operation. When he
does not wear the lenses nothing but
white glare is seen, but with them
al objects are visible perfectly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

Hereafter the federal department of
justice will not make public the
names of persons paroled from feder-
al prisons, the idea being that public
ity works an Injustice to prisoners
who sincerely wish to reform and
make new start in life.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

The senate judiciary committee has
ordered a favorable report On the
nomination of Walter l. Smith for
circuit Judge of the Eighth district.
No opposition was made and 1t is con.
fidently expected he will be con-
firmed without serious opposition, at
an early date.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

It is said that in ,Servia the men
talk politics while the women work
in the fields. Such condition of af-
fairs is shame and a disgrace Why
don't the Seryians initiate the ex-
ample of enlightened America, where
the men talk politics while the wo
men work in the factories and stores I?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
BEYOND.

BEYONO.
Beyond the smiling and the weeping,
shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
] shall be soon.
Love, rest, and home.
Sweet home!
Lord, tarry not, but come!
Beyond the blooming and the fading,
shall he soon;
Beyond the shining and the shading,
Beyond the hoping and the dreading,
shall be soon.
Love, rest. and home:
Sweet home.
Lord, tarry not, but come!
Beyond the parting and the meeting.
shall be soon;
Beyond the farewell and the greeting,
Beyond the pulses fever beating,
/ shall be soon
Love, rest, and home!
Sweet home,
Lord, tarry not, but come.
Horatius Bonar
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

An upstate editor announces in
an advertisement In his newspaper
that his office has lately been equip.
ped with perfrator, punch and a
stabber Let the opposition beware.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

Tomorrow is grounding day. Thus
far the winter has been comparative
~ mild. Even il the little rodent
should do his worst the season as a
whole could hardly rank other than
as an average one.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Dit Checked RerI.Reri.

Some time, ago the rice supply be-
ing short, prisoners in Japanese jails
were fed largely on barley. The re-
suit WAS the immediate cessation of
new beri-beri cases.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY,

The successful man of today is the
man who has ideas: who does things
the average man does not think of.
The young man who does his level
hest. no matter how small his salary.
is the man who makes the greatest
success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01

1t seems to Abe Martin that. after
all. DIR. Cook isn't mucn worse than
the fellow just back from Chicago.