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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
JAPAN WANTS PEACE

DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of
the Stanford university, recently came
pack from tour of Japan and Corea.
In Japan he addressed sixty-four gath.
erings, talked with numerous officials,
asked questions and kept his eyes and
ears in action during a tour of six
weeks. His opinions on Japan az a
War menace should carry weight with
Americans who are not hopelessly
Hobsonized In the course of a re-
cent interview in New York he said
In regard to Japan, l found the at
utude OF THE people very much the
same as here or in France, except that
Japan has lately had a hard war and
the people realize the strain produced
and left BY war as no other nation
does True, they achieved victory.
Tut that has not made their burden
any less. Taxation is very heavy. The
total estimated value of property ia
sI.0OO,DG0.e GOO and the taxes amount to
about $1c6,000,000, of which the inter
est on the war debt amounts oe SIT
100000. There is a very high income
TAX; the government has monopolies
on salt, tobacco and camphor and
owns the railways and besides there ia
a very high protective tariff. This last
tends TO interfere with rather than
dement, the Japanese manufacturers.
Tor the reason that it makes difficult
the making OF goods for the Chinese
market, which demands cheapness.
The Salongi ministry, which went in
last summer pledged to greater econ.
omies than the Katsura people were
and has cut down the military and
naval estimate, which makes Japan
the first country in the world in which
such expenditures have had any real
check
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
PELLAeRA STILL A MYSTERY

After many months of investigation,
of pellagra in the southern states. the
scientists of the public health and
marine hospital service are in as
much doubt as ever as to the cause of
the scourge. Meanwhile the disease
seems TO be gaining and it has been
reported that nearly every physician
in South Carolina has from five to
fifteen in his private practice.
Assistant Surgeon General John d.
Long says it has been demonstrated
that cures can be effected even up to
the fifth attack, but that there is little
hope when the patient has reached
the stage Of insanity.
Pellaera has been found to be a
seasonal disease, and It is thought
that the greatly varying Temperature
of South Carolina may be partly re-
sponsible for its prevalence there. The
Investigators have found that the
greatest number of cases develop dur
ing the spring and autumn months
when there are sudden and marked
changes in the weather.
Comparison of DeIlagra in the Unit.
ed States with pellagra in Italy,
where the disease is common. has
proved that the attack is much more
severe In this country. Children If
has been found, respond to treatment
much more satisfactorily than do
adults, and show the greatest percent
age OF recoveries. When the disease
reaches the point of producing insan-
| ity suicidal tendency develops and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
THE SHERWOOD BILL

The spectacle of a Democratic ma
lcfity in congress making a speciality
or pension legislation is distinct con-
tribution to the gayety of nations.
There is no enc SO dense as to be I'm
able to see in it an attempt to play
small politics-to make campaign cap
ital Everybody knows that pension
legislation is very far from being
Democratic specially, as the whole
record of the party goes to show. The
purpose, OF course, is to put President
TAFT in the hole" by making it neces-
sary for him to veto a bill ostensibly
in the interest of the veterans of the
civil war, on the eve of a presidential
election. The measure involves the
expenditure of from thirty to seventy
millions of dollars annually and is in
direct opposition to the much-adyer-
tised Democratic program of economy
and reform. As to this the Springfield
Republican, an independent paper. well
says:
he intimation that President Taft
will not sign the Sherwood .doIlar-a-
Gay pension bill, IT it reaches him.
reminds one that the present long ses-
sion of congress may afford him num-
erous opportunities to take advantage
i OF the mistakes of the Democratic
house. The Sherwood bill is the first
gun of the Democratic leaders, and it
bores hole mile wide in their
boosted economy program. Messrs.
Clark and Underwood made a phe-
nomenal reputation for shrewd leader
ship at the special session, but they
have begun very badly this winter.
Mr.. Underwood was again run over
yesterday, when public buildings bill
was favorably reported. Is there to
be no control whatever of the Demo
cratic members whose chief aim is to
raid the treasury? Some stiff economy
vetoes by the President may. prove to
he feature of the session, and they
would be killing to certain Democratic
ipretensions. pr Z
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
AS a Festival of the Heart.

For Christmas is the love-story of
the ages. God SO loved that He gave.
The heart also hath its reasons. and
oft-times itsoverleaps the mind in its
discovery of the truth New emotions
are stirred with each return of Christ
mas. A new tenderness takes us.
There is a new happiness in the air.
A new reverence for babyhood is here
and new generation for motherhood.
The halo comes back upon the home.
And beyond this there is new
sense of kinship We remember that
the angel-soloist said it was good
news for all the people. The benig-
nant sun of Christmas melts us into
unity. We have no enemies and no
bitterness of soul. We forgive unto
seventy times seven. We are grow
ing kinder. We are growing kind be-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
THAWINe FROZEN WATER PIPES.

-
The great winter problem for those
OF us who live in the northland is the
thawing of frozen water pipes. Try as
we will every now and then old Jack
Frost will steal march on us and
when we wake up in the morning the
water pipes will be frozen tight.
Applications of hot water may re-
move the ice in the pipe If it happens
TO be located in a place where the wa
ter can be applied without removing
the plaster and spelling the woodwork.
Once in while a hot flatiron will do
the trick but, often enough, the frost
will have grip on the pipe in a
place where fiatirons cannot be an
piled. Holding a lighted lamp under
the frozen part has been known to
work but it is just as apt to set the
house afire.
1t remained for an electrical Genius
to rig up small portable transform.
er for thawing frozen water pipes
This little device is connected to the
afflicted pipe and the current turned
on In few minutes the pipe begin.
to get exceedingly warm and the ice
melts away. The device will work no
matter where the pipes are frozen
even if the trouble is located far
under the ground. Many central sta
tons for the sale and distribution OF
electricity now have one or more of
the pipe thawers on hand and they
viii apply the electrical remedy to
any frozen pipe for nominal sum
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
LET US KEEP CHRISTMAS!

cause We are kind. We are kin OF
(. His who sent the babe to be the light
revealer for all men So we are
touched with the feelings of the
poor. and we are bearing the burden
of the sick, and I'VE are walking in
the shadow with the bereayed, and we
are having festival with them that
rejoice. The heart-touch it is that In
dicates we are at the spring of the
day! Let us, then. lift up our hearts
on Christmas day, and let us have
festival together as we realize afresn
the message .of the shepherds to the
hearts of mankind!
As Festival OF the Hand.
For Christmas is a Day of Deeds.
The hand practices the love the
heart suggests. 1t translates Love in
to Action His hand touched eyes in
to seeing. and rested benignantly up
on the child's head. Let us also
translate love into divine deed Lei
us strew the path of childhood with
happiness. Let US divide our spoil
with the needy. Let us share our
loaf with our brother. Let us give in
running-oyer measure to the poor.
Let us buy stamp that the shadow
of sickness may pass. Let us pack a
basket that we may know the JOY of
the coronal qualities Let us write a
letter with the golden pen of the
Christian. His life was full of hard
ship, but never did find happier
man. So it is. written OF one now
living. And here is the key that fits
that lock: For he had found the Sc
cret of all noble living; the life of
service" Those who keep Christ
mas as Festival of the Hand are
true members of the Society of Jesus,
the "doer of deeds divine, They are
the Apostles of New Age They
constitute the Divine Order of Human
Lovers, and the King of the Order or
is Christ. To them it is given to share
the dawning of the worlds morning.
They are the jewellers in Neverlosti
Land. For they acquire the peace
that cannot be taken away, and they
wear the jewels thief cannot pilfer,
and they have treasure that neither
moth nor rust can corrupt. The reii- |
gion of love is theirs who have re-
ligion of the hand! Let us, then, open |
our hand on Christmas day, as We
Join our fellows in translating love
into action, pity into deed.
AS Festival of the Mind AS al
Festival of the Heart-As a Festival
Of the Hand
LET Us KEEP CHRISTMAS.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Christmas In Country p,.,..

Christmas in the country places
There you see the rosy faces,
There the JOY, the world entrancin
JOY that sets the world a-dancin,,
Fine an free the Likelihood races
Christmas in the country places,
Glad enough to hear 1t hummin'
Waited long to see 1t comm
Knows the place where we're a-stayin,
Fine to spend a holiday in.
There IS where amazin' grace is
Christmas in the country places.
City has the coed time, too,
Yet the country calls to Won
There it is you want to roam
In the frosty fields Of home
Hearty handshake, friendly faces
Christmas in the country places.
Pile the ample oak logs higher.
Room for one more at the Are.
same old tales of long ago
Tell EN-, for we love, em 30
All the life's trouble JOY effaces-
ehrlslnas In the country places,
Atlanta Constitution.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

The political sensation of the day
is an alleged interview given by Viii
liam Barnes. Jr., the longtime Re
publican boss of Albany and. now
state chairman of New York. 1t was
to the effect that he believed Roose-
welt was scheming to become a
dictator and might succeed yet, that
the trust policy of the administration
is destructive and that he, Barnes, is
about ready to get out and join a
third party He later gave out cor
rected interview in which he urged
the country to beware OF pure Democ-
racy and the Republican party to re-
sist the attacks of the progressives
on business. He thought the condi-
ton in both parties was tending to-
ward condition that might bring
anarchy within two OF three years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
AS a Festival Of the Mind.

Stuart NJ. Campbell in Galesburg
Republican-Register: For the mes
sage in the sky-song that first Christ
mas night was a message to the rest
less mind of man. 1t was the an
nouncement of an event in history.
Ten thousand events have since oc-
Cured, but across the ages this takes
precedence of them all. 1t was the
changins-point in human history. Time
turned on its hinges that night, and
the race began its climb to the
heights. We may be as bewildered as
the shepherds about the meaning or
the babes appearance, but like them
We may return to our tasks glorify-
ing and praising God. For the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us,
and the babe grown to manhood be
came the speech of God. The mind
strains at the thought, while yet it
reposes upon it. Year by year its
import is more clearly defined With
intelligent response We answer the
event, fastening to achieve peace on
earth and goodwill among men. AS
He was messenger to them that sit
in darkness and the shadow of death,
SO must we be ministrants of relief
and filters of shadows. Fear must 60,
the gross darkness must melt before
the dawning light, the shadow-haunt-
ed world must disappear. We must
ring in the Christ that is to be. Let
us, then. lift up our minds on Christ
mas Day. and let us have festival to-
gether as we realize afresh the re
least that has come to the race since
the glory of the Lord shone round
about the shepherds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

CHRISTMAS TIME.

Gittin' jes bout Christmas time.
Hear the silvery sleigh bells chime?
Do you think it any crime,
When the little boys an girls,
With their smiles an golden curls,
An their teeth as white as pearls
Climbin' on their papa's knee,
Jes as good as good can be,
Askin' mamma fer a dime?
Gittin' jes bout Christmas time.
Gittin' jes bout Christmas time,
All the children feelin' fine;
Far away in every cline,
Little girls an little boys,
Maxim lots an lots o. noise.
Harmless sports an childish joys,
Myrtle, frankincense an holly,
Fir an hemlock, games of folly,
Laughin', shoutin', amt they Jolly?
More than can put in rhyme,
Gittin' jes bout Christmas time.
Gittin' jes bout Christmas time.
Ny. but how the boys'll climb,
Nearly knockin' loose the lime
Round the fire place, when they find
Santa Claus has been SO kind.
Stcckin's filed with candy sweet,
TOYS all strcwed about their feet.
Well, you boys it's hard to beat,
Dolls an drums an toy dogs big,
All the JOY that you could swig.
Peanuts rich and bells that jingle
Each thing brought by oil Kris
Kringle.
Say but how yer cheek'll Jingle,
When ole Santa sneaks away,
Renders swift an feety sleigh,
ass afore the peek o. day.
Lock GU, children. you an I'm
GiTtin les bort Christmas time.
Jacob Irving Hess, Connellsviile.
Mo.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

At mass meeting in Washington
held under the auspices of the Amer
lean Peace Society, President Taft
urged the Senate's ratification OF the
arbitration treaties and replied to
Colonel Roosevelt's objections to put
ting he national honor in jeopardy
Said the President:
The question of honor gives me
less concern than any other. We
have lived down the barbarous ways
of settling disputes. To say that we
can not satisfy questions of honor
except by the shedding of blood is to
60 back tc the dark ages. Are we go
ing to halt this movement because
some one may have found constitu-
tional objections? What is the use OF
discovering something that is of no
use?"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

Springfield, ILL.,, voted last Thursday
on some ordinances that were referred
to the people-four of them. 1. Ii.
censing bartenders. 2. Increasing the
saloon license to 81 coo 3. To remove
saloon screens. a. To close saloons on
Sunday. All four were defeated by a
two to one vote. It will be recalled
that Springfield is one of the cities
In which Billy Sunday did things" by
Wholesale few years ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

With the Coming Of Middle Age
There Is a letting down in the physi-
cal forces often shown In annoying
and painful kidney and bladder all.
ments and urinary Irregularities. Fo.
icy Kidney Pills are splendid regulat-
Ing and strengthening medicine at
such a time. Try them. Wilkinson
& Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

Each succeeding monthly statement
OF the treasury department at Wash
ingfon continues to reflect further
substantial expansion in the amount
OF money circulating throughout the
United states, the total rising an
additional s15,6oo,ooo during Novem-
per 10 no less than 1920, 1853 on
december which compares with
lsz,olS,Sl4 on the same date of 1910.
Theoretically, the per capita allow.
ance for each of the countrys "a GRO
Geo inhabitants was ss454 or a,ars.
cents above the allotment in the pre-.
yious month - g
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

Total bank exchanges for the month
of November ct all leading cities of
the United States, according to the
statement compiled by R. G. Dun 4
Co, for Dun's Review. which includes
returns from liz centers, aggregate
S13,946,T01, sos. an increase of SO per
cent as compared with the same month
last year, but loss of So per cent
as compared with the corresponding
month in 1909. AT New FORK there is
a gain of S.s per cent over last year,
which is notably better showing than
was made in the preceding month.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

nearly all pellagra victims choose
drowning.
Cotton-seed oil, Indian corn. certain
classes of vegetables and a recently
discovered gnat are among the sup
posed causes. but the disease still is
a mystery to the scientists.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
GRANDMOTHER at "a.

CANTON, ILL.,, Dec. 20. Mrs. VIM.
Golden, of Norris, 80. became a gran
mother today. Her Is year old daugh-
ter was the mother Mrs Golden also
has the distinction OF being sister-in-
law of her own daughter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Jackrabbit Pie.

PITTsBURG Pa. Dec. 2o.Six
thousand jackrabbits properly iced and
Grated and ready for the pots and pans
OF Pittsbnrgers will arrive here to-
morrow morning in charge Of a local
shipping firm, from Jerome, Idaho.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

The patriarohal Bishop futile of
St Louis names seven lines along
which human activities project them
selves. They are the home, the school,
society, the church, business, govern
ment and war Look at these seven,
adds the bishop, and see in how many
OF them woman is predominant. He
wants to leave men something to do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Painted at Proper lime.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20. Joseph Sautro
was so frightened that he tainted away
when some one noked gun in. his
face and thereby escaped death, as the
assailant pulled the trigger as Sautro
was falling. Three innocent bystand-
ers were wounded.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

The Fort Dodge city council invest
ed $40 in water witch services, and
some of the people there are kicking
at the expenditure. We have known
city councils to do worse than that
and get less for their money.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

DR. Sun Vat Sen is mentioned in
connection with the presidency of the
proposed Chinese republic. He is said
to be the Sunny Jim of the celestial
empire
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Ready for saint Nick.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20The city has
taken official cognizance OF the APP
proach of Santa Claus. Building Com
missioner Ericsson has ordered that all
chimneys be repaired.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

The promise is for white Christ
mas, which according to the old say
ing, means lean graveyard. Wheth-
er there is anything in the ancient
saw OR not, snow at Christmas time
seems especially appropriate.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

Sheep growers in their annual con-
vention claimed that the farmers of
this country who raised sheep in the
year l910-191l lost fifty millions Of
dollars by it. This they attributed
to the scare created by talk of re
ducing the duty ON wool. Ii may be
that the duty on wool is too high.
But if just talk of reducing that duty
brings loss of fifty millions year
to the sheep raisers, what will actual
reduction do to them? The inquiry
should give the tariff rippers pause
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

The Iowa City Republican commits
les majesty to the extent of declar
ing that the most dangerous thing in
public men is egotism, and the three
crack cyclists of the United States
are Roosevelt Cummins and LaFol-
lette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
"ouant. srNv Ao,in

Houston Post q Tennessee lady
writes that she would like to have our
recipe for Houston nincc pie provid.
ea y does MOI require neavy quantity
OF brandy We arc glad 10 infcrm her
that y does not reauiga a hes,s.y c,.an.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
ROOSEVELT MESSAGE
COMES NEXT WEEK
Pinchot viii Speak In Ohio and Give
the Colonel's Views On
Politics.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 2O.--Gifford
Pinchot will come to Ohio next week
On speech tour with direct mes.
cage from Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Santa Claus 10 Real.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20.-As Christ
gift, the 1000 employees of the Inter
national Harvester Company, will have
100000 divided among them-theii-
share In the firms profits during the
year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
a Rird Of : Present.

YoNKEKs. Il. Y. Dec. 81. Among
the hundreds Of CHI. .stmas presents
sent to Clara Morris, retired actress,
were 20 tiny strawberry finches. the
gift of Baron Uchida, former Japanese
minister to America.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
PUBLICITY FOR STUCK ISSUES.

: -
Congress has now before it the re-
port of the Stock and Bond commits
sion, headed by President Hadley of
Yale, which was appointed by Presi-
dent Taft under authority of the rail-
road act OF 1910 for the purpose of in
yestigating the question of federal
control of railroad securities The
President indorses the recommends
tions Of the commission which are
mainly against federal interference
with the status quo except that in
future congress should consider the
preparation Of permissive federal
incorporation law for interstate rail-
roads.
What the commission lays greatest
stress on is that the railroads De re-
quired to make public all facts relat-
ing to securities The commission
believes that with this information at
hand the public may be trusted to use
its intelligence and that water will
not creep into stocks AS part of the
publicity scheme, it is urged that the
| interstate commerce commission be
empowered to make a physical valua-
/ ton of railroad when questions at
issue justify it. The report condemns
emphatically the intercorporate rela
tionship of stock Or the control OF
many lines by a holding company. II
lis against forcing stock to issue only
at par and against government con
troll of stock issues. 1t would elimi-
nate the idea of a par value altogeth-
er--this new idea-by making stock
merely a certificate of participation
in the property and profits, but in no
wise obligating company to pay
dividends on an arbitrary valuation.
| The report denies that American rail
roads are making enormous profits,
estimating that the interest on bonds
and dividends on stock on par valu-
alton average about 4 " per cent each,
while banks are making 6la per cent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

A town in Idaho has been named
Tomorrow. That is one way of set
ting town ahead, but how's one ever
TO get there2
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Hard on GEORGE

NEW YORK, Dec. 90 When George
Hard, hearse driver, went to the home
of Mrs. Stephen Green to bury her
son, he found she was his divorced
wife and the dead boy was his own
son.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

bearing on the republican presidential
nomination, according to John d.
Fackler, head of the Ohio progressive
laagre.
In letter from Walter L. Houser.
campaign manager for Senator La
Toilette, Fackler stated that he was
advised Pinchot would be authorized
to express the coloncl,s attitude In
regard to reports that he is receptive
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation.
Fackler said Houser outlined to him
briefly what Pinchot would say, but
said he could not make 1t public.
Fackler expressed himself as highly
pleased.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20

II has been noticed that discus
sion never lasts very long in the
presence of man who really knows.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-20
Weddlnq Graft.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2o.-A beautiful
girl and smartly dressed man have
been married IS times in two weeks,
each time rendering the officiating min
lister bogus check for $40 as his fee,
and getting $40 in good money