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HOLDEN is APPREcIATlvE.

Prof. P. G.. Holden, who Is known
to almost every farmer in the State
OF Iowa. and who is also known to al
most every citizen of the common
wealth, has recently accepted a posi-
ton with the International Harvetef
Co. This paper made mention OF the
change ana in letter of apprecia-
ton to the editor. Mr.. Holden says:
81 sincerely appreciate the very
kindly mention which you have made
regarding my acceptance of position
at the head Of the Agricultural and
Educational Department of the Inter
national Harvester Company.
Before accepting this position,
spent some two months In careful
study OF this company; and found,
contrary to what | had oeen led to
suppose, that its capitalization did not
contain dollar OF watered stock or
inflated value; that its dividends have
not averaged percent upon this
stock, and have been as low as 3
percent. I found, too, that the charge
frequently made that the company
sold cheaper abroad than at home
was absolutely false. found, also,
that the American farmer is buying
his harvesting machinery in the
cheapest market In the world; that
in an era of high prices the COM
pany's prices have been held level,
and that at pound rate an ordinary
cast iron cook stove cost tie farmer
more than the complicated harvesting
machine.
II became, and I am thoroughly
lconvinced that the officers OF the
company are sincere in this move;
that they feel the company is, broad
lily speaking, a citizen OF the United
States, and that it should take an ac-
tive part in all things which will
make for progress and for better citi-
zenship, just as an individual feels 1t
to be his duty to take part in building
up schools, churches, roads and ev-
Ierything else which tends to uplift
and upbuilG the community in which
4 he lives and make it more worth liv.
ling In.
Those who know me. and know
my ambitions. will realize that after
spending some twenty years of my
life in helping TO make humanity
more efficient I certainly would not
accept at this time any position
which would in any way detrac'
from that reputation or diminish the
value Of my work. It is my desire te
make the next ten years of my life
of the greatest possible value to hu
mainly; and to this purpose have
consecrated 1t: and it is for this rea
son that I finally consented to &C
cept this position.
Il believe that this is one CT tn,
most important movements that an,
great company has ever inaugurated
and that others must follow the eS
ample set by the International Har
vester Company in its efforts-to b
simply a good citizen
! Thanking You for your courtesy,
I am, Sincerely yours,
e "P. G. HOLDEN"
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men accompanied the train. George
l.. Bishop, district agent, was one Oh
the most effective speakers as ne
raises 200 acres of kafir each year
and feeds the crop.
Special kafir corn literature was
printed for the train and distributed
as follows: John Fields 10000 copies;
Oklahoma City stock yards, $4,000;
Morris Packing Co. 10000: state
grain dealers, 1900. The U. 8. dem
onstration department and the Rock
Island lines distributed their kafir
literature.
The interest In kafir corn was In
tense. Business organizations IN
many parts of the state have arran-
ged TO follow up the train meetings
with a kafir corn campaign to con-
tinue until planting time and 1t is
hoped that the work will increase the
planting of kafir In 1918 in Oklahoma
at least one and half million acres
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
Is lnfantIle Paralysis coneagiDas7

Is Infantile Paralysis ConEagibus7
Chicago Inter-Ocean: After exhaus-
tive investigation and many tests DR..
NJ. J. Rosenau, professor of proven
tive medicine at Harvard; Charles T..
Brues, instructor in economic ento-
mology at the same university, and
DR.. Mark w. Richardson, secretary OF
the Massachusetts board of health,
have come to the conclusion infan-
tile paralysis is not contagious.
There has been considerable contro-
versy among physicians upon this
subject, and 1t Is hardly probable
that the announcement OF the emil
nent Harvard men will settle the
question. Here in Chicago, however,
tests made in several hospitals would
indicate that tfhe conclusion is cor
rect, as no contagion has been noted
where cases of the disease were
placed in the same hospital wards
with sufferers from other ailments.
If 1t be true that this disease Is not
transmitted by contact or carried by
third persons, which constitutes con-
stagion in the common sense, but is
only infectious, that is. communicate
ed directly by micro-organism, then
a source Of much fear will be remov-
ed in localities where cases of infan-
tile paralysis occur.
Although at the present time there
is no specific for the disease and nc
treatment known which will cure it.
the work that is being done in the
laboratories gives promise.
Cases of epidemic cerebro spinal
meningitis, through the researches Of
DR.. Simon Flexner OF the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, have
been cured.
Infantile paralysis. which, while moi
confined to children, Is most virulen'
with the young, may also soon be
come scotched snake" through the
work of the medical investigators.
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She Killed Moose.

EDMONTON, Alta, Dec. 16-Felra
tB. Plymate, 10 years Of age, who
came to Edmonton from central Iowa
three years ago, claims the distinc-
tion OF being the first girl to kill a
moose in the province of Alberta. She
brought the big animal down at "a
yards with a single shot from 1886
rifle while in the brush, rs miles
north OF Edmonton. The bali tore
through the jugular vein, thus depriv-
ing Miss Plymate OF the opportunity
OF using her sheath-knife. She was
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
SHORT CIRCUITS.

The flsrt cable was laid at Birming-
ham, England, in 1887.
More than half million people Wis.
tied the recent Boston electric show.
Wireless communication between
airships has been successfully tried
in Germany.
Perry, Kansas. town OF but 800
population, has twenty-four hour
electrical service.
An electric automobile waB recent
" run from Detroit to New Orleans,
a distance of 100 miles.
Ozone for the publication OF drink
Ing water has been successfully used
in several cities.
Work has been started for the erec-
ton OF the permanent hydro-electric
station at the spillway of Gatun dam
on the Panama Canal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
"THE HUMAN CHANCE,
Philosophy Which sustains Uncle Joe
Cannon In Defeat.

Washington Dispatch to the New
York World: There is one of two
things for man who loses ont to do:
Go to work at something else and try
to keep busy, or commit suicide.
Work for me. know too little
about where ] am going to commit
suicide.
! Now. II were given an insurance
contract that would guarantee that
would live out the 100 years that +
pm on, would not have +. Not that
/ do not want to live to be 100 years
old, but want to take my chance
instead OF having a cocksure thing.
II ! were guaranteed 10 years would
spend my time counting my days AS
1t is, may die tomorrow or the next
day, but whatever happens viii have
the chance that every human likes to
take. I have one chance out of s.
600 900, or perhaps 10000, 900, to live
to be 100.
"There Is something In every hu.
man animal that makes him like to
take chance.
II knew Phil Sheridan, and we Of
ten talked over the war. I told him
that did not understand how man
could make charge when he knew
that certain death awaited most OF
those in the charging party.
1T is the human chance thai
makes the man charge without fear,
said Sheridan, every fellow believes
that he will be he one that escapes.
My defeat is behind me- Like tn,
old negro that was UP In the tree
handing down chickens to his part
ner. have not time to discuss ina
question. but am looking forward.
Simon was in the tree, ga. herini
the poultry, when all OF sudden h
stopped and said to Rastus, who sliI
ped them in sack:
This here thing is wrong, Raj
tus.
It's a great moral question sal
Rastus, but give me another hem
1T is pretty bad that my peopi
8 were deceived into not sending m
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Married Beneath Him.

VIENNA, December 16.-Gossip in
court circles indicates the early TO
Mobilization of Archduke Ferdinand
Karl, who some months ago renoun-
ced titles, honors and high command
in the army. In order 20 marry pretty
Bertha Czuber, daughter Of Professor
Czuber of the Vienna high school.
The archduke, who took the name OF
Burg, It is said will be rehabilita-
ted by Emperor Franz Joseph througa
the intercession of Archduke Ferdi-
nand, heir to the throne. His wife
is to be ennobled and given the tile
of countess"
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about the head and finally flung him
half dead into an underground cell.
They were let off with sentences Of
twenty-one days imprisonment for
the inspector and seven days each
for the policemen.
Radical papers are contrasting this
leniency with the punishment of =
months Imprisonment recently pass
ed upon NJ. Garbunoff, the publisher
and his friend M. Boulanger, for the
crime of burying Madame Schmidt, a
follower OF Tolstoy, according to her
wishes, without church ceremonial
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
J Three Daughters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Femals|
statisticians pointed out today that
another precedent will be shattered
when President-elect Wilson comes To-
the white house after March A with
three pretty, accomplished and mar
riageable daughters but certain
sign of Ill omen was also cited when
it was said that the first to marry will
be the thirteenth white house BRIDE
Alice Roosevelt was the twelfth. The
very first white house bride was Lucy
Payne Washington. widow of a
nephew Of George Washington. She
was Mrs. Madison's sister and was
married in 1911.
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gambling devices and by petty form
of gambling illegally collect from boys
and girls thousands of dollars, for
which no return is made. therefore
request that all forms of gambling be
suppressed and that If offenders con-
tinue Illegal operations that the
county attorney cause them to be In
dicted by the grand Jury and that all
the paraphernalia be condemned, as
provided by law"
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sto mac b so bad i
thought I could not
live. Our doctor said
it was congestion Of
the stomach. would
goto bed perfectly
and wake up in the
night as bad as Icould
be and live. Our doc
tor said it would do
no good to give medi-
cine internally. n
had to inject medicine
in my arm. Since TAX
ing Chamberla in's
Tablets / can eat any
thing / want without
hurting me- This
form Of indigestion is
extremely painful and
often d dangerous. By
taking Chamb erlain' 8
Tablets after eating.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
accompanied by her father and broth

accompanied by her father and broth
er and two guides. The party killed
three moose and two deer. also sew
aeral hundred rabbits. The hunters
report seeing tracks OF bears, lynx,
wolves and coyotes, but did not sight
anything but moose and deer. The
party tramped about s5 miles during
the expedition, which occupied d
week.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

In Michigan, as elsewhere, 1t is the
foreign.born women who rear large
families, and they begin early. Recent
statistics show that 1895, or rs per
cent of the babies born last year, had
mothers under twenty years of age,
while women between twenty and
twenty-one had 300. OF 1874 women
with thirteen children, however. sew.
enty-two We're native born and only
eleven foreign born. Eighteen children
seems to be about the limit, though
Two women have rounded out the
score
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back, but that is passed, and they are
good people | will go back to them
when get through here
Mr.. Cannon is very happy with his
daughters and granddaughter, ana
great quantities OF cigars at his home,
1910 Vermont avenue.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

May Sutton is to marry Thomas
Bunday Miss Sutton used to be ten
Eis champion; Mr.. Bunday is the ten
MS champion. People have invented
whole novels with smaller plots than
this.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
Cruelty to Prisoners.

ST. PETERSBURG December g.
At the trial OF Police Inspector Maka.
ronka and three policemen at wilma
on the charge OF inhuman brutality to
an arrested peasant, i. was 9toven
that they had bound their victim hand
and foot with chains, laid him on the
ground, jumped on him, beat him
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

A Brooklyn husband, appalled, by his
wife's increasing list of Christmas
gifts, has felt compelled 70 advertise
notice that az he supplies her with
reasonable funds for all legitimate
purposes he cannot be responsible for
any debts she may contract at this
glad season.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

Fifty nillion dollars' worth OF
limousines roll around the theater
district Of New York nightly. A horse,
drawn carriage Is a rarity In that
section. Night life on Broadway Is a
moving picture Of auto searchlights,
so completely have motor cars cap.
tured the residents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16
THE FELLOW THAT MAKES US
LAUGH.

LAUGH.
We crown the great artists with
laurels
And sing to them paeans OF praise;
We banquet the makers Of cities
And lift them to fame in our lays.
But want to pay one little tribute
Less gaudy than earnest by half
And I want to end my wreasth OF
roses
To the fellow that makes us laugh!
You know how 1t is who have la
bored,
And worried and fretted al day.
To meet with, in person or paper,
The fellow who laughs it away;
Who takes us when least We expect
It
And turns US from sorrow to cheer,
With a twist of his thought that's SO
Our troubles at once disappear.
tell you, he's, worth all the ages
Can give him Of praise and of love,
Who has helped US to look out of
trouble
To the peace of the blue skies
above;
And to feel that no matter what hap
pens
Well do all we can to go on
With our hope and our faith on the
promise
OF better day surely to dawn.
He may not put pence In our purses
Nor help us grow wealthy ant
grand,
But he teaches us Ill our reverses
Are lessons that help us tc stand
In the face of the blight and the bat
tie
And go forth again to the fray
With a spirit of sunshine and laugh
ter
That will chase every trouble away
oh, here's to the king and the can
tain.
And here's to the soldiers in line.
And here's to the man in the paper
think can see his eyes shine
The actor, the artist, the genius.
Whoever he is, with his chaff-
want to send my wreath OF roses
To the fellow that makes us laugh
Baltimore Sun.
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Governor Hadley Of Missouri is nut.
ting on the maket superior article Of
bronze turkey at so each. They are
recommended as a particularly fetch.
ing centerpiece for harmony feasts.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

Denver women say after close in.
spection that Sir Thomas Upton
doesn't look bit. like the "proverbiaI
bachelor" Just what may be the dis
tinctive traits Of "proyerbial bache
lor' Denver women do not explain
Evidently he hasn't the red sporting
blood OF Sir Thomas.
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and especially when you have fitness
and weight in the stomach after eating,
the disease may be warded off and
avoided. Chamberlain 8 Tablets not only
aid digestion, but strengthen and invig-
crate the stomach.
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Message From King.

LONDON, Dec. 16.--King George
and Queen Mary paid glowing trib-
utes to English newspaper men in
congratulatory messages sent to ban
Iquet OF the institute of journalists.
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Latest In Shoes.

PARIS Dec. 16.-Narrow gold bands
on the heels Of milady's shoes is the
latest French fashion fad, the first
being seen at the closing day of the
1912 races at Au Teuil.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-16

Purity in food, lower cost Of living
these are the demands Of the day.
Pure food is health, and health is economy
itself We cannot have health without health
full food
The most healthful foods are the quickly
raised flour foods ~ biscuit, cake, mullins,
crusts and other pastry, when perfectly made
from wholesome ingredients.
DR., PRICES baking powder makes these
foods in specially attractive, appetizing and
wholesome form, and for both economic and
hyaienic reasons, such food should be more
largely substituted for meat in the daily diet.
But bear in mind that alum, or
zsnzvtOleSOnae baking ponder. .
can neUer make pure, whole.
some food.
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Attacks Of Indigestion.

~ believe Chamb erlain's Tablets have
sayed my life. writes Mrs. Maggie Coil,
Golden City, Mo. II had pains in my
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Good substitute.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-As an anti
dote to the grief caused by the loss of
her husband, Raymond Belmont, Mrs.
Lillian Belmont, twenty-four, has
bought $3.50 pekinese cat.
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TELEGRAPH. TABLoIDs ,
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{ United Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.--While r. G.,
Atkinson, mission worker, knelt be-
side a prospective convert at the
Pacific Garden Mission, some sinner
stole his coat.
Thieves and Scoundrels.
ZION CITY, Ill, Dec. 16. Prophet
Voliva enraged by the attempts OF
the authorities to discover why sick
zionists were not saved by prayer. at
public meeting charged that the
doctors are thieves, liars and blood
thirsty scoundrels."
She Is Captured.
JONTIAC, ILL.,, Dec. 16.-Miss Irma
Hill. who was famed as the only COM
missioned woman deputy sheriff In
Illinois, has been captured by Cupid
and is now Mrs. A. r. Vogel. of Kan
sas City
Cold Storage Nests.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Dec. 16.-An-
lticipating the rise in the price of eggs,
a hen belonging to Gilbert Brown laid
|seventy-two in an Ice house last sum-
mer Brown Is training hilS other
hens to use the cold storage Vest.
Danger In kissing.
| POTTSVILLE, Pa, Dec. 16.-While
kissing his sweetheart, Anthony Baron
was attacked by two rivals who cut
lcff his nose.
New Union.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-A union has
been formed by makers Of baby car
riages who say their business Is boom.
ing.
| Difficult Problem.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Louis B
Lain, Columbia University, says a
great number of high school students
cannot multiply one by one and one by
zero.
Good Substitute.
1 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-As an anti
dote to the grief caused by the loss OF
her husband, Raymond Belmont, Mrs
Lillian Belmont, twenty-four, hat
bought a $3.50 pekinese cat
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Difficult Problem.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Louis B.
Lain, Columbia University, says a
great number of high school students
cannot multiply one by one and one by
zero.
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q. Read The Daily Gate City.
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Cold storage Nests.
Danger In Kissing.

POTTSVILLE, Pa. Dec. 16.-While
his sweetheart, Anthony Baron
was attacked by two rivals who cut
IF his nose.
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New unlon.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.--A union has
been formed by makers OF baby car
riages who say their business is boom
ing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-31
FIRM IS GIVEN
UNION co. CONTRACT

Union county Is one of the first to
comply with the new state law re-
curing all counties to take care of
tuberculosis patients. One Of the
most complete sanatoriums in the
county has been erected on a noun
tain back of Plainf1eld and the insti-
tuition will be turned over by the
Board of Freeholders to a Board of
Governors November IS. This SAN
atorium has attracted wide attention
and has been visited by prominent
medical men from all sections of the
country.
Perth Amboy, as usual, figures in
all big things of this kind. Thomas
West and Company, furniture deal
ers, of Smith street, have secured the
contract for the general furnishings
Of the entire plant. amounting to
about $4,000. By bringing the con-
tract to this city, Thomas West ami
Company, have not only won credit
for themselves, but they are talking
Perth Amboy in the appropriate way.
All the news Tor 10 cents a week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-31

Miss Margaret Farrell, of Cliff wood
was entertained in this city by Miss
Jennie ~Lambertson, of Clifwood,
who Is a student in the local high
school.
Samuel Crane, of New Brunswick
avenue is spending the day in South
Amboy.
James Conway, of Railway, spent
yesterday in this city on business.
Brace Eggert, Of State street, was
a Woodbridge visitor yesterday after
noon.
Miss Harriet Arlington, of James
burg. was a local visitor this morn
ing.
William Hornsby. of State street,
visited friends in Matawan last night.
Lewyer Jacob Jacobson, of State
street, is a New Brunswick visitor
on business today.
Franklin X. Green Henry, Of
High street, spent last night with
friends In Woodbridge.
Miss Rose Greenwald, of Wood
bridge. spent yesterday shopping in
this city.
Miss Ella Weirup, of Market
street, has recovered from a short
Illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Quincy. OF
Market street, are spending the day
in New Brunswick.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-31
". H. BAWDEN
AGAIN CHOSEN
Secretary Of Young Peoples
Work in State.

Rev. William H. Bawden, pastor
of the FIRST Baptist church this city,
has been again chosen secretary OF
Young PEOPLES work of the New
Jersey Baptist convention for the en-
suing year. Mr.. Bawden like all
other officers were reelected at the
eighty-third anniversary convention
that came to a close in the Mt. Pleas
ant Baptist church in Newark yes
terday. At the morning session yes
terday Mr.. Bawden gave a survey or
young peoples work. Christian
spirit and activity are needed. he
said. What is desired is not some
large influential young people society
but increased activity among the
members of present societies and the
Sunday school, he said. Mr.. Bawden
made a plea that a man be selected
to give his entire time to the young
peoples work in the state and the
matter was left in the hands OF a
committee to decide. The conven-
ton closed yesterday with a dinner
given by the missionary pastors and
their wives. The dinner was in the
nature of a conference and matters
pertaining TO the next years conven-
ton were discussed.
The delegates from the First Bap-
fist church this city, with Mr.. Baw-
den were: Mrs. Bawden. Mrs. How
ard White, and Mrs. Wiles. These
from this city who attended the
Tuesday night session were Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Walker, Mrs. J. B. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Koch, Mrs.
White. Mrs. Wiles. John A. Mason.
Misses Hortence. Irene and Louise
Rock, Sue FRANKIE. Mabel Main.
Emily Green, Pearl Koch. Doris and
Gertrude Roberts. Virginia Miller.
Edith Marshall, Henrietta Benschel,
Mr.. and Mrs. George hammond. Mr..
and Mrs. Bawden, Frank Van Horn.
Edward Kinsev and Roy Renson.
The next convention will be held
In the Central Baptist church, Tren-
ton next October.